if Three Cents the Copy. INDEPENDEHCE IN ALL THINGS. Subscription Price, $I.OO Per Year in Advance. VOL X V. COLUMBUS, POLK COUNTY, N. C, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1909. NO. 26. Latest News. BY WIRE Held For Tiverton Mulder. Fall River Mass. Professor" Frank rlill, the herb doctor, of this city, was held without bail tor the Grand Jury tor the murder of Miss Amelia St. Jean, of Woonsocket, R. L. -whose dismembered body was found In sections along the Bulgarmarsh road in the adjoining town of Tiver ton, R. I., recently. U. S. Gun Contract Awarded. Washington, D. C A contract, tor the manufacture ot four twelve-inch gun carriages has been awarded by the Navy Department to the Beth lehem Steel Company, of South Beth lehem, Pa., at a total of 209,428. Woolen Efert Named. . , Washington D. G. E. Dana tu rand, Director of the Census, an nounced the appointment of W. J. Battison, of Boston, as the consulting expert of the census with respect to the census of woolen manufacturers. Drunken Motorist Fined. Chicago. On a charge of operating an automobile while intoxicated, E. M. Haaker was lined $100 In the Municipal Court. , . $1,000,000 For Famine Sufferers. Mexico City. The Government will advance $1,000,000 to alleviate the suffering caused by the corn famine among the poorer classes. Half of this sum will be put to immediate use by a special junta. Astor Divorce Ajrrecment. New York City. As-a sequel of the divorce suit of Mrs. J. J. Astor, in which it is said only one co-respondent was named and only one witness heard, an attache of the household, Mrs. Astor, formerly Miss WiTling, ot Philadelphia, will have custody of the daughter and Colonel Astor custody of the son. In lieu of alimony, it is said, the estate will ba divided. k.M sr T.P Lar.ston Co. Increases Capital. Alexandria, V a. The annual meet ing of the Lanston Monotype Machine Company, held here, decided to in crease the capital stock from $5,000, 000 to $10,000,000. and to increase the par value of stock from $20 to $100 per share. Both measures were passed unanimously. Boycotting Walter Fined. Cincinnati, Ohio. Joseph Hirsch feldt, a waiter who had been dis charged from a restaurant, stationed himself at the door of the restaurant and stopped every patron who en tered. Judge Bode fined him $25 and COStS; Pullman Company Earnings. Chicago. The annual report of the Pullman Company for the fiscal yean ended on July 31 show gross earn ings of $33,801,155. The net earn ings ware $10,94S,201. or 10.94 per cent, on the capital stock. Racing Motorcyclist Killed. Dallas, Texas. While speeding n practice mile, Eugene J. Marsh, an amateur, of this city, was throwji from his 1 motocycle and instantly killed at the State fair grounds "race course.. Marsh was riding fifty miles an hour when a tire burst and the rider was thrown against a fence. . Parsons, Kan., Commission City. Parsons. Kan. At a soecial elec tion this city decided to adopt a com mission form of government by a vote of 75 to 209. The present Mnyor and polltoa plan. ouiCiais ooposea .me new , Chicago Hotel Fojr Chinese. Chicago.- Chicago will oe the pos sessor of the finest hotel for Chinese in the United States. The new build ing, as planned, will :besix stories, and much of the work wiH be done by Orientals. . The decorations will be iXclusiveVy. Chinese. t BY CABLE. England's Newest Warship. vonport, England. The new In- o ba cli Be ty it;able, a larger and improved i .Sh I l.-rrtt l aar nf tVio In Vinethla . was launched here. This ves will complete the quartet of twen seven-knot cruisers. Liverpool Cotton Brokers Pail. Liverpool, England. Notice was posted on the Cotton 'Exchange that J-be 'brokerage firm' of Johnson & gorburn much regretted that they Sre vnabler to keep tteif engage a: the day's cleanings. toierican Hospital Opened. , P .r ? The American Hospital at gyHy, built and equipped through J1 seneroslty of the American col aton.yi Paris has beea formally whi c'u already baveiiefen en Anna Gould', Children. 4. court which had un- fe the case of Count J; "astellaue against his for- ttetw". f':e Princess de Sagan, for tw i Gould. decided that the cho0j st pons should be sent to $ar&U. d incidenUlly rebuked both GUILT NOT ESTABLISHED Peculiar and Knotty. Case With Jury i. Five Hours. ' Beaufort, Special. Court convened at 9:30 Saturday morning. Solicitor C. L. Abernethy consumed 4 1-2 hours in going over the evidence" for the State. He placed special stress on the evidence of C. E. Herrington. Judge Guion made a lengthy charge, paying special attention to every part of the evidence that could in any way assist the jury in giving its verdict. At 3:30 the jury took the case for consideration. At 8:30 the jury sent for the judge and after court conven ed the jury was called and polled and a verdict of "not guilty" was given. Wayne County Still Destroyed Revenue Officers. by Goldsboro, Special. Revenue of ficers arrived in this city Friday from Fork township bringing with them a still which they captured over in that section. When the officers approach ed the still and demanded of the moonshiners to surrender, they were greeted with silence, and upon inves tigation it was found that the juice makers bad-been too sharp to be caught napping, but in their hurry to get away they had to leave most of the whiskey, which proved to be quite a large quantity. The still haa been stored until the case can more definitely be worked out. Two-Year-Old Child Burned to Death. Lenoir, Special. Lale Wednesday evening the 2-year-old child of Mr. Forney Lackey of this place was burned to death. It seems the mother went out of the house for a bucket of water telling the child to siay in until she came back. On returning she found the child screaming 'with its eyes burned out. Having gone too close to the fire its clothes became ig nited by the lames which enveloped and burned the little fellow so badly that he died before the doctor arrived. Wife Shoots Husband, Mistaking Him For a Burglar. Wilmington, Special Returning to his home on a late train. Thursday night, Frank Lahna, a well-known traveling man, upon entering his house was mistaken by, Mrs. Lahna for a burglar, and shooting through the door she wounded him in the hip. Mr. Lahna cried out at the crack of pistol and his wife recognizing his voice desisted .from further shooting. Mr. Lahna is painfully but not ser- ously wounded. Hand Torn Off by Corn Shredder. Concord, Special Ernest. Untz, the young son of Mr. G. J. Untz, of No. 2 townshiD. sustained a serious m- jury Thursday afternoon while feed ing a corn shredder. He was passing up the stalks when his right arm was caught in the machine, and before re lief could be iriven him four finger and the major portion of his hand were torn off. It is quite probable that his hand will have to be taken off entirely as. the bones were pretty badly shattered. Insanity Dodge Fails. Wilson, Special: An interesting case was tried in superior court here Saturday. On Christmas Eve, 1907, Roy Goshea went to the home of Sa rah Armstrong in this eity and killed her witha butcher kmfe. Goshea "then was pronounced insane and sent to the -asylutin- Recently authorities there pronounced him sane, and he was returned here for trial. His de fense was insanity, but fife was con victed and given ten yearsin the pen itentiary. . f Four Women Sent to Roads on Charge of Vagrancy. Durham, Special. Justice Pegram sent four women to the roads Friday morning on charges of vagrancy with allegations of a worse - nature. They take terms of 30 days. The city court has been much worried by a growing class of workless women and has de cided to put them where they can serve the county. Contra Ldt For Double Trackin Into Concord. Concord, Special.--Assistant Chief Engineer Durham of the Southern Railway was iu the eity Friday and stated that contracts had aiready heen let for the double-tracking of the Southern's line to this city from Kannapolis Work on this link will begin this week, and the crew that is now located at Landis will be trans ferred to the Phifer place, one mile above the city, where a camp will be pitched. TAR HEEL CHRONICLES News Notes Gathered From All Parts of the Old North State. TRIPLE MURDER NEAR MURPHY Three Hen Killed in a Lumber damp Following a Dispute Over a Sunday trame of Cards. Asheville, Special. A special re ceived here Wednesdav afternoon from Murphy tells of a triple murder eommittftd nMr tW Sr, The special says "A triple murder occurred Sunday night at a lumber camp near Jellico Plain, Tenn., over a game of cards. The dead bodies of Archie and Harvey Bateman, brothers, were brought here Monday over the L. & N. The dead body of Henry Fair arrived Tuesday. day. 'tv. j. -ri i it .me uuuicb ui i wu oaieman orovc ers were shipped to Kyle, Macon county, their home; the body of Farr to Graham county. Pat Lovin, Jim Nelson and J. S. Cable are now charged with the killing, and a re ward of $150 for their capture has been offered by the sheriff of Monroe county, Tenn. Nelson boarded the Southern Railway train here Monday morning before the telegram frbpi the Tennessee authorities was re ceived. He said that Pat Lovin killed the Bateman brothers in self-defense. Watkins Tells Why He Shot. Asheville, Special The State v. Watkins rested about the middle of Tuesday afternoon and the defendant gave in his direct testimony and was being cross-examined when court ad journed in the Watkins case. In his statement, which was impressive, Watkins said: "I shot the mew because they were vicious. I had never seen them be fore and when I told them that I would arrest them they did not de sist their misconduct; they asked, 'Who in the hell are you? and when I told them that I was an officer they swore that they would take care of me. One of them shut the door and the other grabbed me, catching me by the neck and bringing me to ray knees. Bunting lifted his pillow and run his hand where it had been while Collins forced me back between the bureau and washstand, and was try ing to take my pistol." Woman Stole Cloth From Mill. Rockingham, Special. Tuesday af ternoon Mrs. Mary Alexander, wa arrested at Roberdel Mill No. 2, on the charge of stealing cloth. A search warrant was procured and the horns of the woman was searched. In the bottom of her trunk was found near ly 400 yards of cloth, both the wo man and her husband were operatives at Roberdel No. 2. They have one child, about 4 years old. At six o'clock the woman had been unable to give bond. The woman's arrest was brought about by a firm in South Carolina to whom she had tried to sell goods. Their letter of inquiry to local mill men led to an investigation with the results above mentioned. It is kiipwn that the woman made several trios to South Carolina and to points in this State, carrying a heavy trunk with hex each time. It is supposed that the stealing has been going on for sometime. Erwin Mills Reduce Time. Durham, Special. The Erwin Cot ton Mills agree to cut one day, from each working week until August next to assist the mill men in getting rid of their fabrics, which are" now ex ceedingly low as compared with raw cotton. Gattis Appointed Solicitor. Raleigh, Special. Gov. Kitchin is sued a commission Wednesday after noon to S. M. Gattis, of Hillsboro, as solicitor for the Ninth judicial dis trict, succeeding Jones Fuller, who resigned to become counsel for the Rexall Company of Boston. Mr. Gattis is ex-speaker of the lower house of the State legislature and is grand master of the North Carolina grand lodge of masons. Forest Fires Do Damage. Tarboro, Special. A locomotive of the A. C. L. set fire to the woods of Mrs. J. C. Powell, near MacNairV Crossing Tuesday. A high wind pre vailed and the flames spread rapidly.: 390 acres were swept before the fire could be checked. All the under growth and young trees were killed and and the young trees were killed and the larger ones badly damaged. The loss is estimated at $1,500 or $2,000. The same evening sparks from an engine fired the woods near Harts boro, were there is a public gin. AUTOMOBILES THROUGH N. C. End the First Week With Increasing . ly Enthusiastic Receptions Speed Excels Schedule Time North Caro lina Wild With Joy. Charlotte, N. C, SpeciaLWith the Stars and Stripes afloat on ceaseless breezes, emblem of the common nat ionality of the North and the South which their tour is destined to bind with 1 ndinp- a cioc' t O ""JO JVU1HOJ Ui IUU1C than 600 miles from the metropolis of ""u" fcuiuewnai, weary ana worn fk. i -i 4 stopped Saturday evening in the me- tropohs of North Carolina. The sheers of thousands of watching peo ple and the glad hand of hundreds more bade the participants in The New York Herald-Atlanta Journal goad roads tour, en route from New York to Atlanta, welcome to Char lotte and to Dixie. In the language of Mr. W. T. Wa ters of the staff of The Atlanta Jour nal in the story which he Sunday night wired his paper: "If the good roads tour of The At lanta Journal and The New York Herald has been met with ovations growing more enthusiastic with each mile of southward progress until Sat urday, the receptions which were ac corded it on Saturday defy descrip tion. Nothing even half so cordial bad been anticipated. Its movement on Saturday from Winston-Salem to Charlotte, 138 miles, has stirred the whole western half of North Carolina. Its progress has been attended by such widespread and intense welcome that it seems as if nothing could equal it. Yet so it seemed on Friday. On Thursday it looked as though the high-water mark of enthusiasm had been reached. "Winston-Salem bade the tourists a rousing farewell, and passed them on through Greensboro to High Point, where all business was supended while the whole city did honor to the dusty visitors. Thoroasville indus tries and chair manufacturies gave ail their employes holiday while the tour ists were passing. Lexington feasted them upon barbecue and flattered .them with an ovation that represent ed not only the eitv itself but the whole county of Davidson. Automo biles from Winston-Salem, thirty-two in number, met them again in Lexing ton. Other automobiles gathered at Lexington from High Point and Greensboro. The way of the tour to Salisbury was preceded and followed by a flying squadron of automobile escorts, and still on through Salis bury to Charlotte, where many of the unofficial visitors are remaining over Saturday night. Salisbury begged the tour to stop a few moments and par take of refreshments and finally com promised by putting the refreshments in the cars. Salisbury had already extended the courtesies of the toil bridge over the Yadkin river to th:j tourists, every official car being pass ed with a cheer by the toll keepers. China Grove, Landis, Kannapolis, Concord and Newell suspended every thing to give rousing acclaim to the passing tourists. Charlotte turned out as never before and gave the good roads army royal' welcome. " To the Maxwell Toy Tonneau of Marietta, Ga., belongs the distinction of achieving the best speed of the day Saturday. It accomplished the allot ted distance in 6 hours and 33 miuues, or in 1 hour a"bd 37 minutes less than the time in which it was "scheduled to cover it. A close second was fur nished by Mr. Jacques Futrelle, the well-known writer of Scituate, Mass., who is driving his own car and is accompanied by his wife and two children. He made the distance in 6 hours and 46 minutes a differ ence of 16 minutes. Refreshed by the first day's rest afforded by their long itinerary and, judging from their freely expressed comments, entirely delighted with Charlotte and the entertainment of forded them here, approximately 150 automobilists journeying in 37 cars form the nation's New York to the New York of Dixie early Monday morning glided out across several leagues Of the finest roads they have experiem-ed since they' left the valley of the Shenandoah. For more than 36 hours they have been in a very real and manifest sense the guests of the city of Charlotte and for not one single moment has that fact been al lowed td slip from their minds. Two Dead in Duel Following a Wed ding Frolic. Gonzales, Tex., Special. In a duel following a wedding frolic in the Mex ican quarter on the Henry Cardweil farm two miles north of Wrightsboro, two men met death early Sunday. There were no witnesses to the quar rl t,iv frt ih fioVif Th mpn want in whieh the dance was held and be gan firing at each other. Erroyo was instantly killed and his body fell across Moriale's. The latter lived for about an hone NEW ORLEANS GREETS TAFT. Spends Saturday and Sunday in Strenuous Program and is Tired Out at Seeing the Sights and En joying His Glad Reception. A New Orleans, SpecialPresident Taft arrived in New Orleans Satur day to renew bid acquaintances and to enjoy two days of the hospitality hich he declared a few days ago he the moment of his arrival at 12:30 p. m., on the lighthouse tender Olean der; whichrleoV a long trailing fleet of river packets into port, the President was kept on the go until past mid night Saturday night. He ended his river trip with an ad dress before the waterways conven tion in the afternoon in which ho re iterated what be said before, that he favors the issuance of bonds to carry forward every deep waterway pro ject which shall be approved by a competent board of engineers as prac ticable and can be shown to be neces sary to take care of the growing com merce of the sections. This address concluded, the Presi dent became the guest of the city. He lunched with Archbishop Blenk at the latter 's palace, attended two J foot ball games, had a dinner given in his honor at the Pickwick Club Saturday night and went direct from there to I gala performance of "Les Hugenots at the French opera house. A little supper at a famous French restau rant after the opera brought tfie Chief Executive's busy day to a close. He thoroughly enjoyed his four and a half nights and five days on the Mississippi river. 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