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1lIZ independence iOlXhIn VOL A v. 1 1 M io ii i Disaster in Coal Mine. Illinois COLUMBUS, POLK COUNTY, N. C, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1909. WANTONLY SHOT BY NEGROES NO. 28. it the ? irtLL FIRE IS THE CAUSE. par.; Gre; Mir- St. Paul Coal Coni ne May Prove One of the .rcrs juiue are i have wen1 Young Man Fares Roughly Hands of Negro Boys. Asheville, Special. Dock Atkins, a young white jpan of the town 23 rs of age, is at the Mission hos pital seriously hurt as a result of an attack made on him Saturday night a little after 11 o'clock by -two negro boys at the corner of Southside ave nue and South Main street. It an- rageclies m the List of t . Alutu atemeuts oi witnesses i fiat the attack was unprovoked; that At Kin in passing simply spoke to the ii".uro boys when one of them with an oath whipped out a revolver and say ing something about ''Don't eone on me,' began shooting. At kin was shot in the breast and while at first his wound was not thought serious later there were symptoms that be came alarming and Sunday the young man was removed to' the hospital for treatment. After firing the .shots tho negroes tied and although the officers forked all night in an effort to lo cate them their efforts thus far are without result. 80OI1 gftei an1 i i .!!!.. Special. Many o3i- St. Paul Coal Company an explosion occurred -ay that four hundred men li e mine. Twelve bodies taken out. Six of these - not employed in the mine, heir lives in a furtile ei e the imprisoned workers Superintendent James Steele tve' hours after the explosion was almost impossible that i the miners still imprisoned ' scape death. mine had a day shift of 4S4 Of these fifty left the mine at fwenty-five or more escaped tire broke out. The others lieved to be dead. The entrance to the mine has been up in the hope of checking the 8a -. The building above the pit enfrance was blown up to permit. this Despite the frantic efforts of the of ficials and the scores of volunteer as sistants in the little town of Cherry it se ed assured at 6 o'clock that only bodies of the dead would be taken from the mine. Until Sundav morn- ing when the covering will be remov ed and rescuers endeavor to pene trate the smoke and gas choked shaft and veins the fate of the inmates cannot be learned. The tire causing the explosion which may pove one of the greatest tragedies in the list of mine horrors, had an origin almost trival. A pile of hay allowed to smoulder too Ions; and before the workers realized their danger the mine was filled with smoke, gases and flames and all exit were impossible. Heroism such as is rarely exhibited was shown by officials of the mine and residents of the town of Cherry. Those men, who were outside the mine when the fire originated, con tributed five to the list of twelve known dead. TAR HEEL CHRONICLES Ne-ws Notes Gathered From All Parts of tho Old North State. TERRIBLE OCEAN CALAMITY. Boats Aflame and 100 Go Down 61 Rescued With Great Peril. Singapore,, By Caple. The mail stearner La Seyne of the Messageries maritime service, running between Java and Singapore, and on her way port to Su On sar roi Ml) j 1 In was in collision early Our Orphanages at Thanksgiving. The Orphanages of North Carolina are performing a valuable service. They deserve our interest and sup port. Many of our people generously contribute to the maintenance and ex tension of the work of institutions so worthy. Thanksgiving Day is special "Orphans' Day " in our "State. At this season a people greatly blessed and grateful to God for His mercies express their thanks in a fitting, prac tical way by offerings to aid the work for needy, homeless little ones, a work for the kingdom of God.' At the Thanksgiving season, which is ap proaching, may even a larger number of our people unite to do greater things for this cause than ever be fore. The demands unon our Or phanages have increased. The cost of living has advanced. These insti tutions are endeavoring constantly to do a more efficient work. Their needs are greater. Father Charged With Murdering Son Greensboro, Special. Simpson H. Coble, the Greene township farmer who was found lying in a gully near the roadside mortally founded Wed nesday, died Thursday morning at his home 18 miles south of this city. His father, Dan "Foot" Coble, and his brother-in-law, Hiram Elliot, are in Guilford county jail charged with the murder. A third prisoner is H. M. Holt, who was operating a block ade distillery in the neighborhood near the scene of the crime. The father and the brother-in-law of the dead man were arrested Thursday morning by Deputy Sheriffs John Weatherly and George Crutch field, who went to Greene town&aip Wednesday night immediately upon receipt of information of the crime. Holt, who came to Greensboro in company with a neighbor to notify the officers of the murderous assault on Simpson Coble, was arrested Thursday morning by Deputy Sheriff Shaw upon receipt of a telephone communication that his blockade dis tillery had been captured by Depu ties Weatherly and Shaw. Holt was in the sheriff's office when the ar rest was made and did not appear to be surprised when he found him self in custody. KILLS BANK CASHIER, WOUNDS PRESIDE! n PROMINENT PEOPLE. his Youth Who Holds Up Indiana fa stitution Saved From Lynching. TRIES TO ESCAPE IN SKIFF NEWSY GLEANINGS. To Extend Railway Lines. Asheville. Special. The pleasing news was given out Wednesday that the Asheville & East Tennesee Rail road Company, the company that built and is now operating the inter urban electric line from Asheville to Wearerville. is making rapid prepar ation for an extension- of the line on io what is known as the Forks of Ivy, a distance of a little more than seven miles beyond Weaverville and a total distance of about sixteen miles from Asheville. It is understood that the surveys are all complete; that rights-of-way have been given the company for quite. a distance toard the Forks of Ivy and that probably the contract for the extension work will be let this fall or inter with actual construction of the line undetaken early in tho spring. Mr. Jeff Fisher Killed by a Man Named Bufkin. Whiteville, Special. Mr. Jeff Fisher was killed near here by a man named Bufkin. The tragedy oc curred at the home of Mr. R. V. T. Duncan. Bufkin fired through a window at Mr. Duncan and killed Mr. Fisher. Mr. Duncan ran from the house and Bufkin fired again, wounding him slightly. The mur derer made his escape. Before the killing Messrs. Duncan and Fisher were driving in a buggy and were halted in the road by Buf kin, who renewed an old quarrel with Duncan, cursiner both men in the vehicle while he held the mule by the bridle. They whipped up and left. But kin. but he made a swine with a knife as they passed, and cut Mr Duncan on the hand. Bufkin, who lived in the same neighborhood, went home, secured a gun and proceeded to tho home of Duncan and com mitted the fearful crime. tra in 'lav morning, witn the steamer i of the British-India line, and within two minutes. Seven Eu an passengers, including Baron Baroness Beniczky, the captain .a Seyne, five European officers 88 i. tiiers comprising native pas- gers and members of the crew, re drowned. Flie tesciie of 61 persons, practi ly from the jaws of shoals of irks, formed a thrilling incident of ! wreck. Phe accident occurred at 4 o'clock the morning in a thick haze. The Is were steaming at good speed i the La Seyene was cut almost in Phe majority of those in board re caught in their berths and ear ldown with the vessel, file fence of the collision brought Onda to almost a dead stop and engines were at once slowed and its lowered. The rescue work rd thrilling, for not only were rescuing parties impeded by the rk, but schools of sharks were al dy a"! tacking those clinging to 05 of wreckage in the water, ty-one persons from the ill-fated ' wore finally .dragged into the nts and brought by the Onada to port. Many of them had been " n by sharks and several are se-injured. Oyster Crop Very Low Owing to Dry Weather and Low Water. Newbern, Special. The supply of oysters in this market is pretty good but the quality very inferior. Few fat oysters have been brought here so far. Most of them are very poor and watery and the price is around 50 cents a tub at times 75 cents and as low as 35 cents. The past few days has seen the price drop consid erably as they can now be bought on the streets for 15 cents a quart and the best for not over 25 cents a quart. It is said that so much dry weather and low water is responsible for the poor quality of the bivalves. Dread Pellagra Claims a Victim at Wilmington. Wilmington, Special Mrs. Leah R. Duke, aged 32 years died at the James Walker Memorial hospital Friday after a long illness of pella gra. She is survived by her husband and one child. mob fead; ,.a, suffer; result 1'olisl front out a: ere teotis M , to Three Die in a Fire. irg, Pa., Special. Three un men, all foreigners, are others are seriously injur : I welve men and women are r from bruises and shock, the an early morning fire in a lodging house on the river iday. When the fire broke "Mock, about thirty persons '" in the building. Firemen ! the occupants of the place tried the women and children itv. Would Mob Motorman. nrepnville. Snecial. A small of nearly a hundred people held a street car Sunday afternoon just out side of the city limits and some threats were made against the motor man, who had run over a girl about 16 montbs old. The girl was not se'riously injured by the mob spirit seemed rising and county officers were sent for to quiet the crowd. There were no arrests made. Lightning Fires Barn and Stock is Burned. Taylorsville, Special. Tuesday right about 8 o'ejock during a thunder storm which passed over till: MM t ion, lightning svuek and set fire to the barn of Mr A!. Wilson in the eastern part of town near Connefelv Teague's veneer mill. The barn loft was filled with dry feed and in al most an instant the whole structure was in a blaze and soon reduced to ashes. Two horses and a cow were within. The latter was saved by quick work. One horse was isntantly killed and the other burned to death. About one hundred and fifty bushels of corn, a wagon, drill and other farming implements were destroyed. Several parties who were in the central office of the Bell Telephone Company received slight shocks. A plug was blown across the room with terrible force and all lights ex tinguished. It was several minutes before the parties could move or speak. . Killed in van Explosion. Salisbury, Special. A white man named McLean, from the Richfield section of Stanly county, who was employed by Contractor Rose on the Southbound Railroad in this county, was instantly killed Thursday in an explosion of dynamite. The par ticulars of the accident could not be learned. Valuable Old Furniture Destroyed in Buncombe County by Fire. Asheville, Special. It is learned here that as a result of a fire in Lime stone township Thursday night which destroyed the residence of Miss Delia Yeaton many valuable heirlooms and much old and rare mahogany furni ture were burned. It, seems that the origin of the fire is unknown; thai Miss Yeaton spent the night with a nearby friend leaving a boy in charge that when the fire was discovered it had gained such headway that ven little was saved from the structure The loss of the furniture is irreparable. Tobacco Brought $50 Per Hundred. Raleigh, Special. Sheriff Seares came in Wednesday afternoon from the thriving little city of Apex. Dur ing the day, he said, there had been a big tobacco sale there, the best brands of the weed bringing $40, $45 .and $50 per hundred pounds. Sheriff Seares agrees with Hon. Percy J. Olive, who always greets one with the happy words "Apex still growing." Enters Building by Rear Door With Two Pistols, Orders All Em ployes Into the Vault and Begins Shooting. New Albany, Ind. In an attempt at bank robbery a seventeen-year-old boy, Thomas Jefferson Hall, of Louis vftyii ISy., entered the Merchants' Nafvonal Bank here shortly before noon and killed J. Hangary Fawcett, cashier of the bank; seriously wound ed John K. Woodward, president of the bank, and wounded James R. Tucker, a negro chauffeur, fatally. According to William J. Hall, the boy's father, who has a furniture store at No. 802 South Preston street, Louisville, young Hall has been "a household tyrant." He denies that the lad is insane. 8 "He is simply mean," said the fath er. The family is formerly of Knox ville, Tenn. Among young Hall's effects was found a strongly made cabinet, lined and outfitted like a room. It is be lieved that the boy expected to escape with his loot, crawling into the hot, which was consigned to "R. J. Smith, Knoxville, Tenn.," and escape as freight. Hall came to New Albany in an au tomobile, the property of Mrs. Walter Escott, a resident of one of the most fashionable districts of Louisville. The chauffeur. James R. Tucker, a negro, tcld the police that the youth took possession of the automobile in front of Mrs. Escott's home and forced him, at the muzzle of a revol ver, to drive him to New Albany. Hall entered the bank by a rear dcor, a revolver in each hand. He gave the command, "Hands up, everybody; get into the vault!" President Woodward advanced to ward the robber and attempted to talk to him. Hall's response to Mr. Woodward's question as to what was wanted was two shots, which struck the official in the arm and the stom ach. Inflicting dangerous wounds. Fawcett then rushed forward, but before he could reach the fallen presi dent was shot in the neck and breast, dying a short time afterward. Hall, still without speaking a word, walked out the front door, dropping one of his revolvers just outside the building. Turning the corner to where the automobile stood, he jumped into the rear seat, with the command to the negro, "Get out of this as fast as you can." But the automobile stood still, the negro, thoroughly fright ened, being unable to move. Hall jumped to the ground, drew a revol ver and sent a bullet into the negro's back. An instant later the assassin was running at top speed down the bank to the Ohio, where he jumped into a Bkiff. He had pulled out some distance into the stream before the astonished citizens of the town and the river bank knew what had happened. One old sailor on a dredge, seeing the youth rowing for the Kentucky shore, gave the alarm through a megaphone. Owners of river craft then engaged in a race for the desperado. The po lice, however, in a motor boat, dis tanced all followers, and in a short time had Hall at bay on an island just south of the big bridge connect ing New Albany with West Louisville. They covered him with revolvers and th arrest was made without a fight. The prisoner was taken to New Al bany. There the police were sur prised to find 200 men who wanted to take the prisoner. Only by a piece of strategy was the latter's life saved, as a chorus of "Hang him! Lynch him! He killed Fawcett!" greeted the police. Woodward, the wounded president, is fifty years old, and is a son of J. K. Woodward, a wealthy merchant, who died a few years ago. He has been president of the bank for fifteen years. Fawcett, the dead cashier, was forty-one years old, and leaves a widow, formerly Miss Elsie McDon ald, a society girl of Louisville, Ky.. to whom he was married two years ago. He also leaves a son, Charles Fawcett, by a former marriage. He was a son of Charles H. Fawcett, a retired business man and director in the Merchants' National Bank. The Duke of Aosta dislocated kneecap while riding near Naples. Sir Morgan Crofton and his wife, whom he found in New York, re turned to London. i Prince Ito was buried in a mauso leum on his estate, near Tokio, after imposing ceremonies. The Tarrytown annual flower show closed. William Rockefeller being prominent as a prize winner. Henryk Sienkiewicz, author of "Quo Vadis,"' says he can write to his satisfaction only when he uses scarlet ink. . Ambassador and Mrs. Henry White were passengers - on the steamer George Washington, sailing for New York from France. Statues in honor of General Jose de San Martin, the South American liberator, were unveiled at Eoulogne and Santiago de Chili. President Taft at New Orleans paid a tribute to the memory of Lieutenant Aiken, of that city, who was killed by an explosion on the battleship North Carolina. Senora Arcadia Yarnell Calderon.' wife of Senor Ignacia Calderon, the Minister of Bolivia in Washington, D. C. died at the Bolivian Legation, aged Cambridge, Mass. o i -v i r f c o v r Senator Aldrichmadetwo addresses in St. Louis on monetary reform. Colonel G. R. Colton Avas inaugu rated at San Juan, Porto Rico, as Governor of the island. President Taft on his way back to Washington, D. C. spoke at the Georgia-Carolina Fair, in Augusta, Ga. It was agreed between the United States and Chile to submit the Alsop claim to The Hague court for arbitra tion. The new British Dreadnoughts of the Lion type will have tonnage of 2 6,350 and speed of twenty-eight knots. Vice-President Harris, of the New York Central, placed the shortage of Treasurer Warriner, of Cincinnati, at ?643,000. The newspapers at Berlin attacked the Government for the defalcations at the Kiel navy yards, which reach several millions. . Count von Bernstorff, German Am bassador, declared in a speech at Phil adelphia that Germany seeks no terri torial expansion. It was announced at Boston that the trustees of Andover Theological Seminary haa purchased a ste in sixty years. F. A. Souhart, French Minister to Colombia, has been appointed Minis ter to Cuba in place of the late M. Bonnardet, formerly counselor of the embassy at Eerne. Dr. Charles W. Eliot, as chairman of the National Conservation Associa tion, issued a statement on the dan ger of monopolistic control of th country's power sources. James A. Patten, "King of the Wheat Pit," made $4,000,000 in one day by a sudden rise in cotton based on crop shortage, which made his es timated market winnings for the year 812,000,000. Senator Cummins, of Iowa, at tacked Speaker Cannon and defended the "insurgents" in Congress in a speech at Chicago. Experts decided that the Criminal Courts Building, New York City, could be repaired at a cost of $12,000 for occupancy within two weeks. Again risking arrest for contempt of court, President Gompers at the Toronto convention of the American Federation of Labor denounced Judg Wright, of Washington, D. C, who sentenced the lubor leaders to jail. Death From Football. Washington, Special Football has claimed another victim in Archer Christian, the 18-year-old left-halfback of the University of Virginia team whose injury in the game with Georgetown University Saturday af ternoon was followed by his death at Georgetown University hospital Sun day morning. The body was taken to Richmond Sunday afternoon for burial. OR THE CONSEQUENCES WERE. Quirk They say that love is a dis ease. Do you believe it? Quickwed I do. In my case it turned out to be a sort of rash. Boston Transcript. Mme. Steinheil Not Guilty. Paris, By Cable. Mme. Maigher- ita Steinheil was acquitted by a jury at an early hour Sunday morning of the murder of her husband, Adolphe Kteinheil, a noted painter, and her ilepmother, Mm?. Japy. The verdict was jendered at 12:55 a. m. after 2 1-9 hours' dp.li'v-ration, diirins' whh h the jury thrice summoned the presi dent of the court for explanation.-, thus proving that the original ma or.ty was for conviction. Will Meet in Wilmington. Newbern, Special. The North Car olina Drainage Association held its second day's meeting on the revenue cutter Pamlico while taking a trip down the Neuse Friday. The busi ness session resulted in the election of J. A. Bron of Chadbourn, presi dent; Joseph Hyde Pratt, secretary and treasurer, and a vice president was elected from each county which was represented. New Yorkers drink tea as well as other things, and it is estimated that one pound of the herb is consumed by each inhabitant yearly. BPlllts 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 map has a riht to comoel one of the familv ip - - L . j i to lie in agony for hours while hei drives to town for the doctor. Tel-j 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. 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We need a RIUrp Agent in every town and can offer an opportunity to make money to suitable young men who apply at once. .SO MOUM-PHSHF TIRES S N kZ I .80 PER PAlP Mt. Pleasant Boy Torn to Pieces. Concord, Special. A twelve-year-old son of R. L. Overcash, of this county, met a horrible death at the ginnery of the Kindley Mill, at Mount Pleasant, nine miles from here, at nine o'clock Tuesday morn incr While his father's cotton was being unloaded the boy was playing ueyg about the gin and was cauut he shafting and literally torn to neces. The body was severed com oletely at the waist line and one 'imb torn from the body. The boy s ody was gathered by pieces from the floor. WOMAN COLLAPSES ON T&IAL. Mrs. Read, Accused of Blackmailing Mrs. G. C. Phipps, Near Death. Denver, Col. Violent convulsions seized Mrs. Allen F. Read in the course of her trial on the charge of i attempting to extort $100,000 from Mrs. Genevieve Chandler Phipps on the threat of death by dynamite. 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