BHBsBsMBsmHsmBMMi Three Cents the Copy. INDEPENDENCE IN ALL THINGS. Subscription Price, $1.00 Per Year in Advance. VOL XV. COLUMBUb, POLK COUNTY, N. C, THURSDAY, AUGUST 26,1909. NO. 16 IB SPEED I KB 7 W T ns Indianapolis Automobile Racing Brings Des truction And Sorrow-Frenzied Speed And Its Results. B5 in II. (' tti' of c;ii Ch lOs By a strange freak of fortune Merz escaped from the terrilile wieck with hardly a scratch. He lell under the car when it 'turned a somersault through the air and down into a pul ley near the side of the track. He was in imminent danger of being burned to death but by extraordinary luck he was able to shut off the en gine and thus save himself from a horrible death. Kellum was hurled out of the car and landed in the gulley some dis tance from the twisted mass of steel and iron that once had been a speed machine. The three deaths raises the toll of the speedway to seven lives this week. William A. Pourpue and his mechanician, Harry Holcorr.be, of the Knox racing team. Werjl killed in an accident in the 250-mile race Thurs day. Cliff Litteral, a Stoddard-Day-ton mechanician, was killed by being hit by a big racing machine while on the way out to the speedway. On Thursday Elmer Grampton, a 6-year-old boy, was killed by the automobile of Dr. Clark E. Day, of this city, while the latter was on his way to the speedway for the first day's race. ficials decided to call off the 300-mile! A pall of grief hangs over the city race when the leading car a Jack- liaiiapolis, lud.. Special. Three lives were sacrificed Saturday e mad speed carnival which has Mir. ited the great Indianapolis r speedway. One mechanician i wo spectators paid the penalty icir lives to satisfy the extreme t for speed. The fatal accident when a National ear, driven by . les Mrz in the 300-mile race, a tire and crashed through a ft- into a group of spectators, gi ding death and destruction in the wake of its wild plunge. The dead: Claude Kellum, of In 3 apolis, mechanician in the Nat ional oar; Ora Jolleffe, Trafalgar. Intl.; an unidentified' man. Resides the three deaths, two serious injuries resulted during the day, Henry Tapking, of Indianap olis, was seriously injured in the fatal wreck, sustaining a compound frac ture of his right arm, a broken nose and several scalp wounds. Bruce Kei ie, the driver of a Marmon car in the same race, crashed into a post shortly after the National wreck and was badly cut about the neck and head. After the second accident the of- TUFT DISMISSES SEVEN WEST POINT HAZERS Cadets Punished Because Ro lando Sutton Was Hurt TWO YOUNG BATHERS DROWN Virginia Paul Tries to Rescue W. B. Lessig. VICTIM WAS SERIOUSLY INJURED son with Lee Lynch at the wheel had covered 235 miles. Ralph de Palma, in a Fiat, was second and Stillmertt in a Marmon was third. The race will be declared no contest and the great Indianapolos motor speed way trophy will be raced for again. and the more reckless automobilists drive more carefully through the streets tnan they did earlier in the week. The frightful penalty paid for a few broken speed records is greater than was bargained when Indianapo lis threw doAvn the gates of its " great est speedwav in the wofld." Both Victims Were Prominent in the Fashionable Circles of Philadelphia They Were Expert Swimmers. TROOPS FIRE ON STIKERS AT PITTSBURG KILLING THREE Over a score of persons received more or less serious injuries. The Pittsburg, Special. One State trooper and one deputy sheriff and three foreigners were shot and killed Sunday night in wild riot at the Pressed Steel Car plant in Sehoen ville, whose employes are now on strike. At least a score of persons were seriously wounded, ten fatally. The rioting followed a day of quiet and broke without warning. At mid night the following partial list of riot scene Avas practically indescrib able. Mounted State troopers gallop ed indiscriminately through the streets with riot maces drawn, crack ing the heads of all persons loitering in the vicinity of the mill. Deputy sheriffs and troopers broke in the doors of houses suspected of being the retreat of strikers, and whole- dead and injured was made up from sale arrests were made. From 9:30 to 11.30 scores ot persons were ar rested and placed in box cars, as a jail, in the yards. During the early stages of the riot ing women were conspicuous. Some of them were armed, others effective ly used clubs and stones. These women, all foreigners, insane with rage, were mainly responsible for in citing the men to extreme measures. At midnight quiet "reigned in the strike zone. reports received from the morgue, hospitals and several physicians' of fices: The dead; John L. Wilson, State trooper: Harry Exler, deputy sheriff; three foreigners. Fatally injured: John C. Smith, State trooper; Lucelian Jones, State trooper; seven foreigners. George Kit ch and John O'Donnell, State troopers, were seriously injured and one woman was shot in the neck. SEVEN CADETS DISMISSED AT WEST POINT FOR HAZING Wheeling, W. Va., third class; Gor don Lefebvre, Richmond, Va., third class; Albert E. Crane. Hawarden, Iowa, third class; Jacob S. Fortner,. Doton, Ala., third class. The action of President Taft and Secretary Dickinson in directing the dismissal of the cadets is accepted by the officers of the array and the civil officials of that department, as a clear indication of the purpose of the administration to fully support Col onel Scott, the superintendent of the United States Military Academy, in his effort to eradicate the practice of hazing in all its phases from student life at the academy. West Point, S. Y., Special. For being involved in the hazing of Ro lando Sutton, a brother of Lieut. James X. Sutton, Jr., United States marine corps, whose death at Anna polis two years ago has just been investigated, seven West '"Point ca dets were dismissed from the, United States -Military Acedemy Thursday by direction of President Taft. ; The cadets ordered to be dismissed nr.- John H. Booker, Jr., of West Point, Ga., first class; Richard W. Hooker, Kansas City, Mo., third class; Earle W. Dunmore, Utica, N. T., third class; Chauncey C. Devore, attacked While Doing Sentry Duty He Defended Himself ami Cap tured Two Assailants He Was Then Disabled With Tent Poles West Point, N. Y. An order from President Taft dismissing seven ca dets from the United States Military Academy was announced when the cadets were assembled on parade. The cadets were concerned in the hazing of Cadet Rolando Sutton, a brother of Lieutenant James N. Sut ton, of the Marine Corps at Annapo lis, a second investigation into whose death resulted in the finding that Lieutenant Sutton killed himself either by accident or design. The cadets dismissed are: John H. Booker, Jr., of West Point, Ga., first class; Richard. W. Hocker, Kansas City, Mo., third class; Earle W. Dun more, Utica, N. Y., third class; Chaun cey C. Devore, Wheeling, W. Va., third class; Gordon Lefebvre, Rich mond, Va., third class; Albert E. Crane, Hawarden, Iowa, third class; Jacob S. Fortner, Dothan, Ala., third class. The action of the President upholds the action of the board which investi gated hazing at West Point, and of Colonel Hugh L. Scott, Superintend ent of the Academy. On the morning of June 14 last, Ca det Rolando Sutton, of the fourth or "plebe" class, reported sick, and was ordered to the hospital badly bruised and suffering great pain. He did not report for duty again until twenty three days later, and his case imme diately became a matter of concern 4to the upper classmen, when It was seen that the authorities proposed to dig to the bottom of it. Before the board of investigation which was immediately ordered, Sut ton, true to the unwritten code of the corps, proved a reticent witness. Sut ton gave a comolete narrative of his adventures on the night of June 13, but professed to have been unable to recognize any of his assailants. Tbe board, whose report led to the dismissal of the cadets, was presided over by Lieutenant-Colonel Sibley, with Captain Oscar J. Charles, of the Seventeenth Infantry, an.d Cantain M. F. Smith, of the Twentieth Infantry, as members. It was in session al most daily for over a month. During this period 135 cadets were examined under oath as to hazing conditions at West Point this year. On the night of the attack, for which the cadets have been dismissed, Cadet Sutton was walking on a lonely post when a number of third class men, dressed in white sheets, sudden ly ran out of the woods and attacked him with tent poles. Sutton, who is an athlete, was on the alert, and cucceeded in capturing two of his assailants, but he was dis abled by a blow from a tent pole af ter he had beaten off three attaoks. He was injured so seriously that he was three weeks in the hospital. Wildwood, N. J. W. Brook Lessig, a prominent lawyer of Philadelphia, and Miss Virginia Paul, one of the leaders of the younger set in Quaker Cifcsi society, were drowned near Wild- ' 1 4. 1.1 T 1 1 "U m t'TOraty-onjB years old and an expert NEWSY GLEANINGS. It was reported in London that the Cretans had agreed to remove the Greek flag. Excessive heat was reported in the Middle West, the temperature reach ing 110 in Muskogee, Okla. Ibuki-yama, one of the "Seven High Mountains" of Central Japan, collapsed in the earthquake. Japanese troops attacked Chinese gendarmes in Hsientad ana pursued the commandant to his yamen. China has practically withdrawn her objection to Japan's reconstruc tion of the An-Tung and Moukden Railway. General Marina issued an address to Spanish soldiers urging them to great exertions in the campaign against the Moors. Under cover of a heavy fog, the PROMINENT PEOPLE. swiMmer, lost ner life in tne swut and treacherous ocean current in an Pressed Steel Car Company landed I two cars of s nice breakers at tne McKee's Rocks plant effort to save her companion Lessig and the young woman came over from Philadelphia and were guests in the household of Morton Z. Paul in his summer home in Wild wood Crest. The pair, accompanied by several of their mutual friends, walked along, just before sundown, until they reached a point some distance below the regular bathing grounds. The life guards had gone off duty, but that gave them no concern, because both were strong and daring swim mers. Entering the surf, both were soon beyond the breakers. "He's only making believe, " said one of the little group on the shore, when Lessig threw up his hands. There were cries of alarm when Les- I sig disappeared from, view with a despairing shout borne but faintly, to shore. With breathless suspense their friends watched Miss Paul approach Lessig. She was seen to reach him, and the two appeared to the watchers to be working slowly toward shore, but in a moment or two they were submerged by a huge wave. When they came up again into vision they had drifted still further out. The life savers launched a boat and rowed with all their strength toward the drowning pair. They had hardly gone half way when Lessig disappeared fQr the last time. Miss Paul continued her unequal battle in the rough water, but before the boat reached her she, too, was swallowed up by the ocean. Mias Paul was a stepdaughter of Clarence Jeffries, a Pennsylvania Railroad official. She lived in Swarthmore, Pa., a suburb of Phila delphia. WEALTHY W05IAN MURDERED. Donald L. Persch and A. D. S. Ad--ms were indicted in connection with the $110,000 copper stock transac tion, in New York City. President Taft, at Beverly, meta phorically "cut the wires" connecting him with official matters and ran off to Gloucester for a luncheon. The story of William E. Bancker, long out of work, who robbed a butcher shop for the sake of his ill and starving wife, moved a courts room to tears, in New York City. Killing of a black cat by one of the crew was blamed by Captain Skju listad for the misfortunes attending the Norwegian bark Gartha in hei 140 days' voyage from Padang to Nev York. Attorneys for Governor Haskell and the other defendants in the alleged Muskogee land fraud cases, filed a motion to quash the indictments, al leging that they had been obtained coercion. FALL OF FRANKFURTER. Senator Timothy D. Sullivan re turned from Eu-ope to New Yorit City. Prince Lvofi arrived ?n America on a confidential mission for the Czar of RuiV H Theodore Rootcvelt laid tne cor nerstone of a new lnisrion church at Kijabe, East Atrica. Reports tha: the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough have become recon ciled were rife in London. The American Association of Park Superintendents his elected as presi dent W. S. Manning, of Baltimore. Mr. Taft, by deciding to play golf on rival courses alternately, brought peace to the clubs in Beverly, Mass. Emperor William bestowed decora tions on Charles W. Eliot, Sir Purdon Clarke, Hugo Reisinger and Edward Robinson. Governor Hughes scaled Sulphur Mountain, Alberta, quicker than any Alpine climber who ever attempted the ascent. Jules S. Bache, returning from Europe, said the boom in stocks wea the result of prospciity and the fail ure of crops abroad. Judge Knapp, chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission, ex pects American railroads to break the record for business this year. , Justice Mills allowed Harry K. Thaw to stay for five days in the White Plains jail to attend to busi ness affairs before returning to Mat teawan. William Ingersoll, vice-president of the New York Life Insurance Com pany and a member of the American colony in Paris, died at Houlgate, France. Governor Pothier, of Rhode Island, and Mayor Boyle, of Newport, ac cepted invitations to preside at the woman suffrage meetings at Marble House, Newport, R. I. Dragged From Lonely H.mc Beaten to Death. and DEATH IN AUTO RACES. GEORGIA WOMAN SHOOTS MAN WHOM SHE ADORED . Au,usta1Ga.,Special.-In a fit of, jealousy Thursday atternoon jcivia Todd, a voung white woman about 22 pears of age, entered the office of the C tral of Georgia freight depot and probably fatally shot Cashier D. Ri hard Wilson. The young woman claims that she ba- for the past seven years been inl aated with Watson, who is a ' man. She claims that he held out a ray of hope for her until a few ( ago, when he -" threw her over. ' ' turn . wnere ne was kivch smai i tention, and the unfortunate girl put under arrest. When she was arrested she said: "I love the ground Dick walks up on, but I will not let him marry an other woman. I hope I have killed Driver Bourque and Mechanician Hol combe Killed at Lndianapolis. Indianapolis, Ind. Wm. Bourque, driver, and Harry Holcombe, his me chanician, were killed at the opening of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway when their automobile, going at the rate of seventy-five miles an hour, was ditched. Holcombe's neck was broken and he died instantly. Bourque lived ten minutes after reaching the hospital. A sudden veering, a skid, and the car( was in the ditch with its occu pants, who were in the Presto-Lite contest of 250 miles. The tragedy oc curred on the fifty-fourth lap, when Bouraue, hurling the car through space at the rate of seventy-five miles an hour, had fought his way to fourth Broxton, Ga. Miss Mattie Gra ham, one of two maiden sisters, was murdered near Hokesbury, Coffee County. She was dragged from her home half a mile, where it is evident there was a desperate struggle. The body was beaten and the skull crushed. The motive was robbery. Miss Gra ham was a wealthy woman. Her sis ter was away from home at the time of the murder. Sheriff Rlcketson arrested William McLeod, a youth employed on the Graham farm. He confessed know ing where the body had been hidden, although he denied having murdered the woman. A. B. Carter, another tenant, also was arrested. $100,000 BABY DEAD IN 3 WEEKS. NEVER-FAILING SUPPLY. mv,, tnA ViiichunH was seeine his French Scientists Discover that Ger- Qff children for their man meai is iauiM.. . . ... ac aho gnr vacaxion in lug into the train, he said, "But, my dear, won't you take some fiction to read?" "Oh, no! she responded weetly. "I shall depend upon your letters from home." London Tatler. BeCcire rejoicing over a neighbor's shortcomings, it is well to examine one's own skeleton closet for peep holes. Snug reprobation of American meat and all other cis-Atlantic prod ucts and methods was the attitude of Germany after the exposure of the Chicago evils, now corrected. But tne Teutonic complacency was short lived. -France has its muck-rakers, and the "revanche" arrives at last. German canned goods partly sup planted the American manufactures in Parisian favor. But these have been examined at the municipal laboratory in Paris and, in every instance, a notable proportion of harmful preser vatives was found. Germany must look at home here after before maligning the American hog. The frankfurter no longer can stand in conscious rectitude. Its rud diness is known now to be the blush of guilt. The American packer was never a monopolist in sin. The bouseclean ing that has been accomplished in this country is needed everywhere. English investigators have exposed the Londbn butchers. South Europe's olive oil comes from our cotton fields. French wines are mostly frauds. And now we know the worst of the worst Her Birth Saved to Parents a Farm Near Frankfort, Ky. Frankfort, Ky. The three weeks' old daughter of J. F. and Clementine Deshon, the "$100,000 baby," died in their home in the country. It was the birth of this child which saved to Mrs. Deshon and Mrs. Clark, nieces of James A. Holt, the $100, 000 farm in the county, which was to go to the Clark Masonic Lodge, of Jeffersonville, Ind., if they died with out issue. - Lawyers here say the lodge has no claim upon the property. When a young man in public life is regarded as a coming man, warns the Philadelphia Reecrd, he should be careful not to get side-tracked. i Necessity e Country Home. i 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 lie in agony for hours while he drives to town for the doctor. Tel-1 ephone and save half the suffering. Our Free Book tells how to or ganize, build and operate tele phone lines and systems. Instruments sold on thirty days' trial to responsible parties. THE CADIZ ELECTRIC CO., 201 CCC Building, Cadiz, Ohio. WOMAN PROFESSOR APPOINTED. i . u' J-8iui k;i ! place in a field representing the great She is beins held without bail, v ... . nnvrttrM snp Young Watson's condition is consid ered very critical by the hospital surgeons. ILLINOIS RIVER. STEAMER BURNS TO WATER'S EDGE which the steamer was bound when it caught fire. Peoria, 111., Special. The steamer Fred Swain, Capt. Verne Swain, of tl Peoria & LaSalle Packet Com pauy, with 25 passengers and 15 sail or, aboard, burned to the water's Friday after the flaming craft b: heerr piloted into four feet of wa ter and the occupants had aseaped to Lank of the Illinois Tiver, up No lives were lost but Joseph Case- rider, the-engineer, was burned about the face and body and Charles Reich eberger, of Peoria, suffered a broken arm. The loss is $35,000. Several of the passengers lost their belong- est pilots and most powerful speed machines in America. Bourque was the Springfield (Mass.) man who finished second to Chevrolet in the Cobe race at Crown Point. Holcombe was twenty-two years of age and a native of Grand ville, Mass. mgs. GEORGIA WOMAN MURDERED BY LOVE-SICK SWAIN Both started back towards the house side by side. Coming to a branch near the house he let her pre- tl ,gles, Ga., Special. Declaring ie had rather see her dead than d to another, William McLeod, in hand, Friday confessed to S Rieketson that he murdered Mattie Graham, a wealthy and a young woman whose body was ered in a swamp near her home okesboro, Coffee county. in$ into every detail, his state is that he left his work and ,,) the htruse before dinner. Not her he asked for Miss Mattie ICing infriTmnl fVisif aha hftf 61 to hp,. ti,.A J 1 i "cm iur a meion, ue jliu- uri iound her. Bh ri Hiss ri e disco at li Go Jttent a: Ic ed cede him. When at ner DacK ne caught her by the left arm and cut one side of her throat. She turned and looked him m the face and exclaimed: "Lord have mercy!" the only words she ever spoke after the attack. Then he finished cutting her throat and cut her in the side as she fell. wi.il h lnved her he had never told her and if she was now alive no duiQn in tne sme tlme shows a net motive could induce him to narm J ghrinkage of 35,120,472,6 gaiiona His only fear is of being lynched. 7,500,000,000 DRINKS MISSED. Prohibition Statisticians Say That Means 1,408,098 Men Went Dry. Chicago, 111. Drinkers in the United States have "gone shy" 7,500, 000,000 drinks in the last two years. That is the gist of statistics issued from Prohibition national headquar- In the same period, the statisticians assert, 1,408,098 men who were ac customed to take an average of four drinks of grog each day have become total abstainers. If the T,500,000, 000 drinks that were missed had gone across the bar for consumption they would have cost $464,449,997.15 at the regular prices, and if tney naa been poured, into a tank of sufficient capacity they would have floated a fleet of battleships. Of this enormous shrinkage from expected figures of increase of liquor production, the whisky total is 37,- 882,607 gallons, wmie me ueei Miss Smith Takes Chair of Mathe matics in California. Boone, Iowa. Miss Adelaide Smith, a native of this city, has been elected to the chair of mathematics in the University of California. Miss Smith is regarded as a brilliant stu dent and an accomplished pianist. She left Boone for Chicago, where her parents now live, several years ago. From there she went to Johannes burg, South Africa, to take the chair of mathematics in the university there. Safe Bobber Shot Through Head. Two men made an unsuccessful at tempt to rob the safe in the office of the Cliffe House, at Manitou, Col. James Morrow, the day clerk, shot one of the men, Edward Clark, through the head, fatally wounding him, and received a bullet Jurough his own clothing. The other robber escaped, but was captured. Addicks Property Sold at Newport. 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