I Three Cento the VOL XIV. MET CULLINGS Of fltws of Interest Gleaned From AH Sections of the State and Arranged for Busy Readers JOBACCO FARMERS IN jie crop this Year is Very flood and tte Prices Exceptionally High Great Breaks on Warehouse Floors cf Twin City. Winston-Salem, Special. Hond as of farmers in thir schooner wagons, loaded to capacity, were in the city last week, the tobacco ware looses "being filled long before day Ijgbt, so that hundreds of wagons actually filled the streets in the vicin ity for many blocks. It looks cer tain that the local market will see teeords smashed this week. Prices ruled high and firm, the foyers of the many firms showing argerness to swell the volume of big itocks that they have been already toying. The leaf offered ranged from ordinary to good, as a rule. The to kutco has been brought from several adjoining counties besides Forsyth, among them being Surry, Stokes, Bockingham and Yadkin. The good tone at which the local market has held since the season started is making- the farmers rush their crops to the buyers as fast as they can strip the weed. A tremen dous crop is reported throughout this teetion. yet many of the best-posted cn maintain that good prices will prevail right along till next spring. The panic did not effect the eon nurp'icn of tobacco, except to in crease it, manufacturers say, for a van may economize on other things hut rot cn the weed. In consequence, the big manufacturers here are look ing for the biggest sales in their his-, torv: in fact, they have been doing a big business all along already.' "Whatever hardship may have been felt from the panic, the tobacco farm ers of this section are free of such. They are in better condition, finan cially, than ever, it is said by men in a position to know. Verdict For $20,000 Against A. O. L. Cicldsboro, Special. In Superior Court the jury returned a verdict for $20,000 damages to John E. Walker, of Mount Olive, against the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad for the loss of both aims in an accident occurring in the company's yards at Rocky Mon t. The amount sued for was $60,000. The plaintiff was represent ed by Aycock & Daniels, W. T; Dortch and J. D. Langston. Durham Lady Found Dead in Bed. -Durham, Special. Mrs. Cornelia "Evans was found dead in bed at the Jnty home. The night watchman built the fires as usual in the morning and one of the inmates reported to him the death of Mrs. Evans. She har1 been entirely well all day and death was unexpected. She had been n the county home fourteen years nd never gave trouble though afflict ed with a mental trouble. Robbed by Negro Youth. Charlotte, Special. D. M. Bealtie. Imng twelve miles west -of the city ?? knocked down bv a fifteen-year-d colored boy, Jim" Boulware, near weBattie home, Thursday afternoon n! robbed of about twenty-five ol-.ars- The negro was later arrested J Charlotte. Ha, is absolutely in different about his apprehension and -ndmits taking the money. Looks Like Patricide. Kin ton, Special. Thursday morn nar Abe Mason, a youngr negro msn ci e in a drunken condition slipped P behind his aged father and struck "jw a vsolent blow with a brick. The man fell unconscious and has not yet recovered sufficiently to give -any 2Pount f the difficulty. Young a::0n was caught by the poliee. e Carried Off and Blown Open. "rlington, Special. Thieves en- "i the store of L. C. Crater, color s' ln ,f suburbs of Burlington last eck and removed from the build lnS a small iron safe, taking it to a Nearby field, where they knocked out ''ilom and escaped with the con s. which, acording to Crater's Foment, was $300. Found Man's Bcdy. ' nrday night, while out possum a,v,i:!-' "ear King Creek, Caldwell nn a party of men found the W if i3 man nanied Bnnk Saunders, j, 'u. been missing several $avs. 'leased had had a slight t&oke an'-T -S1S and PaUy recovered atti ' s supposed he had another oo? out walkinK alone fc the and' S ,, was abmt 45 yeafi eld tun,, i lie coroner's oury re- a verdict to effect tlJfet the cte- ' nme to his death from t- W 1 -nsea. t be folk fmrntu, ffoto& Py' INDEPENDEHCE IN ALL THINGS. Subscription, Price. SLOP Per Year in Adwa" NORTH STATE NEWS I Tha Festivities jut Over. -Greensboro, Special. The Greens boro centennial and home-coming fes tivities are over they closed Friday night; Thus does Greensboro step from one great event to another. The week has . been one of gayety, good cheer and mirth. Saturday was a day of politics.- A large crowd gathered here to see the leader of the Repub lican forces and hear him speak. For six days Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday the celebration of the one" hundredth anniversay of the birth of the historic old town continued. For more than a week the glad hand was extended and the latch string left hanging out, in easy reach of all who would take it. Everywhere and all the while it was "Howdy-do, we're glad to see you. Make yourself at home and stay as long as you like." The crowds were large, sober and or derly, but spirited and fatally bent on taking chances chances on. .the street cars, chances with the fakirs and chances at the race track. One accident a fearful one came to mar the merriment of the occasion. Thomas Dal ton, the younger son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Dalton, was dash ed headforemost against a stone curbing and perhaps fatally injured. Young Dalton, just coming to man hood, was a handsome, vivacious, gallant boy, lovable, promising and the darling of his parents. Barring this sad accident all went well. Two of the best parades and one of the best fairs ever seen in the State were given during the week. Everything, even the elements, com bined to make the days glorious. There were receptions and receptions but it was almost impossible to get about unless yon happened to own an automobile or a carriage. The girls of the Greensboro Female Col lege were at home for several hours in their respective reception rooms and the Merchants and Manufactur ers club played host. It was a gay night socially. The men in silk bats and dress suits and the ladies in even ing gowns were flitting about until 1 o'clock. The marshals' ball, in Neese Hall, closed the- celebration. The 'morning was devoted to the City of Greensboro and the old vet erans. Marchants' and manufactur ers' floats and Confederate soldiers formed a long and spectacular proces sion and paraded through the streets. Bis Shipment of Tobacco From Surry Elkin, Special. This has been the greatest week for shipping tobacco from this section ever known. Twenty-four solid carloads of leaf tobacco have been shipped from here and points this side of Dorinaha to Win ston this week.- Monday there wre, ninety-seven tierces weighing up wards of 50,000 pounds packed and shipped from this place. The crop is unusually good this year and the farmers are getting good prices. Sheriff Howard Dead. Oxford. Special. E. K. Howard, sheriff of Granville county, died at his home in Oxford Wednesday night. He was buried at Elmwood cemetery Oxford. He had been in feeble health for several months and his death was not unexpected. He left a widow and six children. ,v Mother of Editor Stevens Dies. Wilmington, Special. Mrs. E. E. Stevens, mother of Editor C. L. Stevens, of Newbern, died suddenly at the family home at Southport, aged 74 years. She is survived by her husband, five sons and two daughters. North Carolina State Items. . . i t. - l ; ;,.,j tha Knmoc I & Western Railroad Company, prm In- cipal office Causey, Chatham county, to extend fourteen miles through Chatham and Randolph counties to a point on Deep River. The capital is $150,000 and the incorporators C C. Burns, J. H. Dunlap, W. T. Brooks, C. M. Afidrew-s and others. Japanses Held Without Bail. Charlotte, Special. Henry Yama trnchi. the Japanese acrobat and man ager of Haw Bros, London show who murdered a reuow countryman ai Newton, this State, confessed his crime to the authorities, declaring that he killed Kitsuchi because the latter had mistreated two litle Japan ese girls connected with the show and for whose safety he was respon sible. After shooting his victim five times he beat his head into a jelly with a stone. Following a preliminary i ;r. VomcKmi wnc lipid without UCitllUg luiigvu. ' -T bond for the next term at Catewba superior court. COLUMBUS, N. C, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, ROOStYEU'S FUTURE PLANS The London Times Learns That th President WiU Lecture at Oxford and Receive a Degree After Hi African Trip Will Also Visit Paris. London, By Cable-The Times is in formed that President Roosevelt will visit England after his African trip early in 1910. He will deliver the Romanes lecture at Oxford, and, on the ocasion of the university com memoration, will receive the honorafy degree of D. C. L., which Oxford already has bestowed upon Emperor William. According to The Times President Roosevelt also will visit Paris and deliver an address at the Sorboune. Neither the dates nor the subjects of the lectures are yet known. The Times further states that ae cording to the present plans Mrs. Roosevelt will join the President at Khartoum on the journey north ward. Alleged Lynchers Dismissed. Washington, Special. Off motion of Solicitor General Hoyt the Su preme Court of the United States ordered the discharge from custody of seventeen of the twenty-seven de fendants in the proceeding charging Sheriff James F. Shipp, of Hamil ton county, Tennessee, and twenty six others with contempt of the Su preme Court because of the lynch ing in 1905 of a negro named Ed Johnson after the court had taken cognizance of his case." Most of the dismissals were based on the failure of the" testimony to identify the de fendants with the crime. Following are the names of those who profit by the court's order: Paul Prl, T. B. Taylor, William Beeler, John Jones, Marion Perkins, C. A. Baker, Claude Powell, Charles J. Powell, A. J. Cart wright, R. F. Cartwright, John Yar nell, Joseph Clark, Fred Fraulcy, Paul or "Sheenie" Warner, Alfred Hammond, William Marquette and George Brown. In the ease of Pool it was stated that he bad disappeared from Chattanooga immediately after the lynching and had never since been heard of. The court also order ed the publication of the testimony in the case taken by Commissioner Maher. Status of Foreign Missions Shown in American Board's Meeting. New York. Special. Reading of reports showing the work done .at home and abroad during the year and the appointment of committees and nominations and business, took up the first dav of the ninety-ninth annual convention of the American board of commissioners for foreign missions in Brooklyn. Frank H. Wiggins, treasurer of the board, submitted a report showing the financial condition at the close of the fiscal year. The general mainte nance of missions, it appears from the report, involved an expenditure of $S81,254, or $2,075 more than during the previous year. The income of the board -dnring the same period was $337,999. Mr. Wig gins' figures showed that the indebt edness was $79391. Declines Call to Washington. Washington, Special. Giving as a controlling reasons that bis work in Boston, Mass., is unfinished. Rev. Dr. Alexander Mann, rector of Trinity Episcopal ehurch, of that city, has de clined the position of bishop of Wash ington to, succeed the late Rt. Rev. Henry Y. Satterlee. Dr. Mann's de clination was communicated in a let ter received from him. Another con- j of the policy insisted upon by the Rc vention will be called to fill the va-: publican party in respect to the tar- vent cancy. Gets Life Sentence for" Killing Wo man, ! ' K . . . . - i I in the trial ot uniana t,uipepppr, chareed with the murder of Marv El vin Hader, who was shot and killed near Phoenix --Gity several weeks ago, by a bullet believed to have been in tended for her father, returned a ver dict of guilty. Clnpepper was sen tenced to life imprisonment. Wed at 102; Died at 110. Seneca Falls, N. Y., Special Mrs. Charlotte Decker is dead here. She was 110 years old. Her father, God frey Reals, was a volunteer in the Colonial army and served until the colonies were free. SheTemenibered the year 1813, when no grain could be raised and it was sold for $5 a bushel. In June 1900, Mrs. Brainard was married to Samuel Decker her l third husband, the other two being . dead He was thien 62 and Mrs l -1 T Decker 102. She had but one child, J which died in infancy. TIFI TOIOII HEELS Republican Nominee Makes a Number of Speeches MEETS A CORDIAL RECEPTION Hon. Willian H. Taft Makes Political Campaign in North Carolina and ! Virginia Greeted bfr Enthusiastic Crowds at Statesville, Salisbury, Lexington, High Point and Reids ville, Ending Southern Tour at Richmond. Greensboro, N. C, Special. Hon. William Howard Taft, Republican candidate for President, closed his tour of North Carolina here Satur day. He was cordially received at all points where he spoke and his speeches were attentively- listened to by Republicans and Democrats. First Stop at Statesville. Mr. Taft was up bright and early oaturaay morning. His first speech cat S,tatf Sf lle ' 7 O ClOCK. beveral hunrirpH rwnnlo heard him there. Being presented by Mr. J. Elwood Cox, he said: Ladies and Gentleman : I am glad to come into the State Jof North Car olina this beautiful October morn ing and to receive this cordial recep tion. Complaint is very often heard on the part of your people that North Carolina is not given bier part in the administration of the government. She is not. She has able men, but as long as you are going to vote for the Democratic ticket and the Republi can party, is in power, I don't see how these gentlemen who do the vot ing can expect to share in the power wIn other words, let them vote as they think and then we will wipe out sec tional lines. It is a great .pleasure for sae to come here because I think ".sm the first RepuWfcan candidate for President that ever came into North Carolina on a campaign foi the prea;dency, and I am here for the purpose of testifying to the South my interest in that section, my earnest desire to unite it with the North, and my hope that the Republican party will be built up in North Carolina, so that it may well have its full repre sentation in the executive councils of the nation. I thank you for your kindness in coming here and I ap preciate your Southern counrtesy." At Salisbury and Greensboro Mr. Taft said in -part: "it is a great pleasure to come in to North Carolina. I have studied the statistics of Norths Carolina and her marvelous growth with intense interest. I know a good many of your North Carolinians, and every time a man from North Carolina came into my office in Washington when I Was Secretary of War, he had not been there more than five minutes be fore htf put his hand in his pocket, pulled out a paper and began to read and what he read was ' the statistics of the growth of business of North Carolina, so that it impressed itself upon mo. For instance, your factory products in 1900 were 85.000,00(). In five years they had increased, in 1905 to $152,000,000. In J05 you- had employed 36,000 persons in ;'our cot ton, mills. Your cotton; manufactures had increased from $9,000,000 in 1890 to $28,000,000 in 1900, ko $47,000,000 in 1905; also that you are second in rank of manufacture of tobacco ; you are third in the rank of manufactur ers of lumber and timber products. Yon make in one of your cities in this State nearly as much as they make in Grand Rapids, Mich., in furniture. I am giving you these figures merely to point out that unless we continue to have a protective tariff, most of these industries will be 'destroyed and the wealth that you jhave accumu lated has been accumulated by reason iftl And yet how manv electol; votes have yon cast in North Carolina for the Republican party ? Somebody raey have a better memory than I have, but I don't recall a single one. I ask you, my frieds, whether there is any reason under trie existing cir cumstances why, if you believe i.i Republican policies, yon onght no. to vote the Republican ticket? You have a "State ticket end a congressional ticket that, is unexceptional. 1 am L.ot going to speak about the national i ticket because I cave a personal re lation to it. But the national ticket is a Republican ticket and pledged to carry out Republican policies 1 submit to those who have stood in the Democratic party in North Caro lina that there is absolutely no rea son now why if they favor Republi can policies in the nation they should not vote as they think. Now it is a w it is a I me to bei te for the I to Vhl great pleasure and honor to the first Republican candidate -vrflsidpnev who has Corae Carolina in a campaign tor mat greai office. I have come ere because I deeply sympathize with the South. 3 am anxious that it should take its place at the council board of UKUfiajj Subscription Price. $1.00 Per Year in A 08, tion. I am anxious that you should exercise the influence through your able and great men, owbom vou have many, in the same way that Ohio and Indiana and New York and Massa chusetts do. But, my dear friends, if you are gorny simply from historic tradition to keep voting the Demo cratic ticket because you think that t jour fathers voted thatrway, then you are bound to stay on the outside and look in at others enjoying the power in the executive councils of the na tion. It is not possible otherwise. Human wature and party politics are such as to make that necessary, and I appreciate the homogeniety of the Southern people. 1 know their fam ily tradition. I know their conser vatism, and their adherence to some thing just out of respect to their an cestors; but on the other hand they are enterprising, progressive, cour ageous people in everythingjut pol itics, and I think it is time that they began in politics to show the same en terprise that they do in manufactur ing furniture and in reaching out to develop the enormous wealth of North Carolina. Bids for Savannah City Bonds Opened. Hannah, Ga., SpecialBids were opened for $2,610,000 of city of Sa vannah bonds, bearing interest at 4 1-2 per cent, and maturing in 1959. Thirty-four bidders subscribed for $27,269,000 worth of bonds. The award of the issues will be made this week. The Mutual life, Insurance Company of' New York will probably get $1,000,000 of the bonds. Reforms in Cotton Futures. New Orleans La., SpeciaJ-With instructions to make reforms in the cotton futures contract of "the New Orleans cotton exchange, a committee was appointed b ymembers of the exchange. The committee will confer with farmers, brokers . and cotton spinners throughout the South and will also investigate the action ol directors of the exchange in elimi nating stained cotton below middling as tenderable grades on future con tracts. Southern Aeroplanist Falls With Ma chine, But Escapes Injury. Chattanooga, Tenn Special. rln an attempt at flight in an aeroplane Fri day, G. M. Mallory, of this city, the inventor fell fifty feet with his ma chine ,but escaped with a few slight bruises. Mallory 's aeroplane was partially wrecked. The inventor an nounced that he would rebuild his machine and try it again. This is the first attempt at aerial flight in the South. (FRENCH CHALK FOR SPOTS. If a girl is away from a cleaner's and she finds one of her best frocks spotted with grease, she can try the simple remedy of French chalk and a hot iron. The chalk is spread thickly over the spot until all the grease is absorbed. Then a piece of blotting paper is put over it, and a warm, not hot, iron is held over it to draw the grease into the paper. Rul off the chalk with a soft silk or- mus lin rag and the spot will probaihlj have disappeared.-Public Ledger. 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The Cretan Parliament vote union with Greece. Mme. Nord Alexis, wife of tbe President of Haiti, died, in Port a Prince. The Montenegrin Assembly vote a credit of $3,200,000 to the Minis try of War. In London a noise crusade is being directed against the motor bus is the business district. Servians in New York held a meet ing and pledged their support tor Servia in the event of war. Instances of harrowing cruelty against children ln Illinois were it ported by a State charity agent. An arbitration treaty with Chin was signed at the State Department by Secretary Root and Minister Wa. A popular movement to boycott Austrian, Bulgarian and German products has been started in Con stantinople. British and Dutch delegates from South African colonies met at Dur ban to draft a constitution uniting all the States. . The Lackawanna Railroad is sal to have issued an order prohibiting the throwing of rice at newly weds traveling on its lines. Herman Ridder, of New York City was appointed treasurer of the Dem ocratic National Committee to sue fceed Governor Haskell, of Oklahoma, A wonderfully intelligent ape from Java was received at the Bronx Zoo logical Park, New York City, pos sessing many characteristics of the long-sought "missing link." M. A. Augustin Rey, of Paris, in an address declared that skyscraper were a menace to New York an that public opinion would force av lowering in height. NOP IT WAS. "Do you go to Sunday School, little tooyr "Nope." "Don't say Nope,' that isnt rlgt, "Well, if I said 'Yep,' I'd be tellisf yer a ttSw Boston Transcript TELEPHONES Are a Necessity in the Country Home. The farther you are removed from town to railroad station, the more the telephone will save in time and horse flesh. No man has a right to compel one of the family to he in agony for hours while he drives to town for the doctor. Tel ephone and save half the suffering. 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