folk Three Cents the Copy. INDEPENDENCE IN ALL THINGS. Subscription Price. $1.00 Per Year in Advance. $o n n to VOL XV. i wm FEUDISTS sun Xtisy Were Fighting Fcsse to Allow i1en to Escape. (tfofHcr and Daughter Sacrifice Their es in the West Virginia Feud of Christians and Danielses. Williamson, West Vs.. Firing fFom i lie doorway of their home on a Sheriff's posse to give the men of . the imily opportunity to escape, Mrs. Charles Daniels and her sintean-year- ! daughter were r-hot to death near ton, Mingo County, by the officers. The shootins grew cut of a family feud between the Christians and Dan es on tho borders cf Kentucky and West Virginia. The Christians lived in Mingo County. West Va.. and the Danielses in Pike County. Ky. About three waeks aso George Christian ventured to the Kentucky eide and was -slain by Jim Daniels. Christian and Daniels were brothers-in-law, and had formerly been allies. After the killing or Christian the two families and their friends became in volved. The Christians got warrants for Jim Daniels and his brother, Charles, and led a posse of Pike County officers to the home of the Danielses. When the officers ap i roached within a few feet of the Louse Mrs. Daniels and her daughter opened fire with rifles. Mose Christian was wounded in the' l ead and one other member of the posse was shot in the arm. The Christians and the officers pelted fire.- "Mrs. Daniels was shot v. n in the doorway. Her daughter stood over her and fired upon the posse until she dropped dead across her mother, struck by three bullets. The officers closed in, but by for feiting their own lives the mother and daughter had enabled the men to FIVE DEAD IN AFTO WRECK. Family All But Wiped Out by Electric Car's Crash. Los Angeles, Cal. Nicholas Ja cobs, a real estate dealer, his two daughters and his two sons are dead, and Mrs. Jacobs and her two months' Id baby are dying as the result of a collision between an automobile they were riding in and a trolley car on the Los Angeles and Santa Ana line, six miles from Los Angeles. Two other sons of Jacobs, Peter and John, and Miss Josephine Solon, nineteen years old, jumped from the automobile and escaped with slight injuries. While an electric ear in which the injured persons and the bodies of those killed had been placed was coming to Lcs Angeles it collided : h a car on the Central avenue line : t Seventh and Central avenues in Los Angeles and eight other persons were injured, some seriously. COURT ENJOINS STRIKERS. Cestrains Picketing and Other Activ ities in Indiana Dispute. Bedford, Ind. A temporary re- training order was issued by Judge Wilson, of the Circuit Court here, against the striking employes of the Bedford stone mills. The order was granted upon a plea by the operators asking for an in junction preventing the strikers from picketing the stone mills or railway stations, gathering on the streets, in timidating workmen, visiting the stone mills or interfering with the workmen in any way. More than 100 defendants are named. HOOKWORM IN DIVORCE CASE. Fudge Grants California Wife Decree on That Diagnosis. San Francisco, Cal. Judge Graham fas divorced Anita Coover from Da vid R. Coover. The hookworm was the cause. "My husband was dull, stupid, lazy, languid, slow," said Mrs. Coover. "He must have been a victim of the hookworm," said the Court. Mrs'. Coover expressed some doubt 3 to this diagonals', but Judge Graham tuck to his opinion and granted the cree. FIG ITT EXCITEMENT KILLS. :;!!hy Farmer Dies While Trying to Save Own Canine. Woodstock, Va. To the escite of trying to separate fighting as attributed the sudden death ' ri T. Painter, a wealthy farm g '.orth of this city. A strange deg entered Painter's M and attacked his dog. Painter to the rescue and hardly had I i the animals before he fell un- J ms, dying in a few minutes, was fifty-six year., old and a Widow, two sons and three U.S WOMAN DY MISTAKE. tor Then Fires Again, Slaying gro in Fight Over Transfer. aaphis, Tenn. In a dispute here a street car transfer. Conductor Lowry shot and killed two ne- he car was crowded with passen 3 when Lowry drew a revolver and at a negro with whom he was m;,. ins aim wqc nnrt nnri rns w- - - as uuvi -iiv struck a negro woman, killing he us second shot killed the negro COLUMBUS, DR. CGOi; CANNOT G FOUND Brother Quiets the Exasperations By Saying the Dcctor is Near New York Taking a Rest. New York, Special. Dr. Freder ick A. Cook dropped completely from public view Sunday. Not even John R. Bradley, whose money was behind his polar explorations, knows where he is. Confiding his secret to only one man and perhaps to his wife, the Brooklyn explorer slipped quietly and mysteriously away, leaving be hind a string of puzzled and exasper ated friends, and a debate more acri monious" than that which followed his announcement of September last that he had discovered the North Pole on April 21, 1908. Charles Wake, an insurance man of this city, appears to be the only one who knows the mystery of Dr. Cook's whereabouts. And Wake is firm in his resolve to keep his lips sealed un til Cook himself sees fit to take the public into his confidence. A New York dispatch says that they found Dr. Frederick A. Cook Sunday night, that is, an authorita tive statement was issued by his brother, W. L. Cook, saying that the explorer, who mysteriously dropped from public view Saturday, was still in the vicinity of New York, recu perating. He was on the verge of a nervous breakdown and his retire ment was absolutely necessary. The statement, as issued by Mr. Cook follows: "Dr. Cook is in the vicinity of New York trying to get a much needed rest. If he decides to go to Europe there will be no secret con cerning his departure. I think that his. friends and critics alike should be charitable enough to allow him to rest until his health is fully restored. He has not been reading the news papers in the last few days and is not responsible for the statements that have been issued by those who were acting as his spokesmen. "In sending his data to Copen hagen, Dr. Cook has fulfilled his ob ligations to the public." WALTER WELLMAN SPEAKS. Takes Strong Ground Against the Claims of Dr. Cook Believes Him an Impostor. Washington, Special. Walter Wellman, whose preparations for a conquest of the North Pole in an airship were abandoned upon the an nouncement of the claims of Dr. Frederick A. Cook and Commander Robert E. Peary issued here Sunday night a long statement in which he analyzes the narrative of the two ex plorers, declaring that of Peary "preicse, workmanlike, consistent, credible in every patricular, " and de nouncing that of Dr. Cook as a self: evident and even deliberate impos4 ture. " "Cook's story is suspicious both in what it does tell and what it does not tell," Mr. Wellman declares. "He is generally vague and indefi nite but, like most men of his class, altogether too precise at the wrong place. Nowhere does the story ring true. It was always an approxima tion of reality itself. This is true of his figures, his description, every thing. "Those of us who have had a share in Arctic work," say Wellman, in considering his analysis, "and who have felt anxiety that no blot of fraud should stain the proud record of effort and sacrifice, had a first hope that Dr. Cook would be able to demonstrate his good faith. This was disolved in the analysis of his own story. A second hope that he was the. victim of some hallucination of mental illness and himself believ ed he had been to the Pole though of course he has not, vanishes in the light of earlier and subsequent events. There remains, though one says it with keenest alternative that the journey which he did make, and the report which he gave of it, were deliberately planned from the outset." The gist of Mr. Willman's finding is that with his meager party and equipment Dr. Cook could not pos sibly have atomplishcd the feat for which he claims credit, that his as tronomical data are too minutely pre cise to have been made under the claimed conditions in the field, and that the explorer's dash for the lec ture platform and his acceptance of "crowns of flowers placed upon his head by innocent women and chil dren" before submitting his field rec ords to scientific examination all con spire to his discredit. Triple Murder and Assault. Frontenac, Kan., Special A triple murder and an assault on a woman was enacted on a lonely road a mile north of here some time Friday night. Ths dead arc Mr1, and Mrs. William Bork, Germans, of Frontenac, and their son, who was 2 1-2 years old. Mr. Bork was presumably killed while trying to defend his wife. The child probably was slain because the mur derer wished to silence him. The Borks were Friday night, when they started to drive home to Frontenac from the home of Mrs. Bork's mother two miles out in the country. POLK COUNTY, N. DEATH BY EXPLOSION i Boiler Explodies, One Killed and An other Scalded. v Tarboro, Special. Tuesday morn ing a boiler on the farm of J. P. McDowell exploded with terrible force. Joe Sessums, a colored man, was killed and Nathaniel Whitfield was severely scalded. The engine was wrecked and the gin house blown down. Steam pressure is supposed to be the cause of the explosion. The i boiler was of 30-horse-power, but . was made to run a 50-horse-power ; Good Prospect For a Tobacco Fair at Durham. Durham, Special. A commite of the mercants Wednesday afternoon took up the matter of a tobacco fair in Durham with the result that a men composing it were President P. bring it her as soon as possible. The hearty recommendation was made to W. Vaughan, who is accerdited with having more to do with the new Er win cotton mill than any other man, Messrs. W. A. Barbee, A. E. Lloyd, B. F. Kronheimer and T. J. Lambe and they are to confer with the board of tobacco trade as well as the manufacturers. The prizes for the best tobacco would be raised from individual and organization sources and it is hoped that theer could be as much as $2,000 given in prizes for the various tobaccos displayed. S. H. Kress & Co. to Erect a Build ing at Fayeteville. Fayettevile, Special. Mr. Sey mou Burrell of New York, chief architect of S. H. Kress & Co., own ers of the many 5- and 10-cent stores bearing that name throughout the country, has arived in this city to inspect the site recently purchas ed by Kress for the purpose of erecting a store here. After going over the matter thoroughlv with Mr. T. H. Sutton, Ji, of T. H. Sutton, Jr., & Co., local real estate dealers, Mr. Burrell declared that a four story building may be ercted, the two upper stories consisting of offi ces. Work will be begun early in the spring. An additonal strip of land has been purchased1 from Led better Bros, for $750. Bad Fire at Durham. Durham, Special. A fire that burned the Imperial Tobacco Coni panq's cooper shop, caught the fac tory, burned a Norfolk & Western coal shute, partly destroved the T. B. Tally wood and coal yard, broke out Friday morning about 4:45 and was was cheeked an hour later. When discovered, the blaze had enveloped the cooper shop,filled with the driest and most inflammable woods. The inhabitants of that district were un acquainted with the alarm system and the fire had gained such propor tions that when the companies re sponded it was so hot that it was imposible to show water on the burn ing center. Houses all about began to smoke and fences conducted a blaze all over the residence district. When the fighters teurned the host on the houses they saved all of them ready to ignite and confined suffered a loss of $3,000 covered by insurance. Aged Man Victim of Assault. Rockingham, Special. F. G. Puncke, an old German who runs a restaurant and bakery in this city, was found lying unconscious under a stove in the rear of his shop Thurs day afternoon with two big gashes in his head. Charged with the deed, Elmore Maner and Alec Covington, two young white men, are being held in the county jail without bail. The injured man is still uncon scious and will probably die. There were no eye-witnesses to the affair and the motive of the old man's as sailants is unknown. Maner and Covington were seen running from the restaurant about the time the assault is thought to have been commited. Ashworth Acquitted of Killing Jones. Fayetteville, Special The trial of W. A. Ashworth for the accidental killing of Daniel Jones has been decid ed, Ashworth being acquitted after a ten minutes' session of the jury. In August last Ashworth shot and kill ed Jones in a playful scuffle. The State was ably represented by Mr. Mclntyre, of Mclntyre & Law rence, Lumberton, Mr. J. G. Shaw. Mr. A. S. Hall, Cook & Lewis and the solicitor. Dr. Battle Appointed Sergeon General Raleigh, Special. Dr. Robert S. Young, of Concord, the Surgeon General of the North Carolina Nat ional Guard, has resigned and as his successor Governor W. W. Kitchin has appointed Dr. S. Westray Battle of Asheville, the assistant seurgeon. Col. Young has for over twenty years, been an officer of the State Guard, and under the law his resig nation makes him Brigadier General, as he advances one rank. rare Is safe fr' m cholera, H ? to deadlier! to oetroea. C, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1909. TAR HjEEL CHRONICLES i News Not?s Gathered From All Parts of the Old North State. 1 N. C. Boys Victorious. Ashland, Va., Special. Thursday night in the college chapel in the enemies' territory Wake Forest up held her record in oratory and de bate in having never lost a series to any institution since she began to debate in 1897, in defeating Randolph-Macon College for the second consecutive time, the decision of the judges was unanimous. The question was: "Resolved. That the Federal government should se. cure its entire revenue from internal taxation rather than from custom duties." Randolph-Macon had the affirmat .Ve and had her opponents at a disadvantage in having the opening and closing speeches. However, this disadvantage was overcome by tin imaginative minds of the Tar Heel speakers who had broken several miscroscopes before they left Wakj Forest in studying the actions of the amoeba before he was hatched out. It was a spirited contest and eaeh team fought its opponent un til the fall of he gravel, contesting every point and conceding no man at) an authority. Little Boy Bums to Death. Statesville, Special. A distressing accident occurred at Monbo, Catawba county, Sunday about noon when a little son of Mr. Jacob Oren was burn'd to death in the barn on his father's premises. Mr. Oren's fam ily are employed in the cotton mill of the Monbo Manufacturing Com pany and live on the land of the com pany. Sunday about the hour named the little boy, who was just 4 years old. got hold of some matches and went to a small barn on the premises. It is supposed he struck the matches, anyway, when the barn was found tc be on fire the building was so en veloped in flames that the boy could not be rescued. His charred remains were found in the ashes of the build ing and were buried Tuesday. The barn was a small building and con tained only a small quantity of feed Mrs. Lipscombe of Durham Cuts Hei Throat With Razor. Durham, Special. Mrs. Susan E Lipscombe, one of Durham's promi nent women, committed suicide Thurs day afternoon at the home of hei daughter, Mrs. T. G. Sexton witt whom she was temporarily living. The deed was executed with won derful nerve for a woman. Friends and the family had just eaten dinnei when Mrs. Lipscombe went for hei afternoon nap. One of the ladies wanted her to come down and plai an old melodeon for amusement and going to her room found her lying in her own blood with her head cut hall off, the windpipe and carotid arteries severed completely and death un doubtedly instantaneous. General Carr to Speak. Durham, Special. General Juliac S. Carr has been invited by the grea' commercial congress which meets ir Washington Decemger 6 and 7 t make an address upon the subject "Opportunities for manufacturing in the South." This is the only subject assigned tc a North Carolinian. It is the favorit of the general who has been all hi: life a manufacturer and has wroughl wonders in Durham. He will discus.' the subject from the standpoint ol retrospect and prospect. He is al work on his figures now and taking .North Carolina and Durham as th object lesson, there will be as de Hghtful a piece of history as the vis itors have ever listened to. May Gets Three Years. Yorkville, Special. Charlie S. May, former treasurer of the city of Rock Hill, who was indicted, by the Yori county grand jury this week foi breach of trust with fradulent intenl plead guilty to the charge and was Wednesday sentenced by Special Judge Moore to 3 years' imprison ment in the county jail. He tence commenced at once. to serve his sen- Fanner Slain by Son-in-Law. Goldsboro, Special. Inflamed bj liquor, Owen Ginn, a wealthy farmer of Snowhill, Wayne County, entered the home of his son-in-law, Samuel Joyner, late Monday night and open ed fire upon Joyner as the latter lay abed. Escaping the first few shots Joyner managed to reach his pistol and returning the fire, killed Ginn instantly with the first bullet. Earlier in the day Ginn made an attack upon his wife' and shot and painfully wounded his young son, who was mak ing a valiant defense of his mother, and who finally worsted his father. ALABAMA VOTES AGAINST Prohibition Amendment to Constitu is Lost by Majority of 1,800 or 2q,000. Birmingham, Ala., Special. All in dications point to a majority of be tween 18,000 and 20,000 in Alabama against the prohibition constitutional amendment Monday. Chairmali J. Lee Long, who has been in charge of the fight against the ' amendment, claims that the majority against the amendment will be fully 20,000 Jefferson county, in which Bir mingham, the largest city in the State, in spite of the fact that the fight gave has been concentrated here, a majority of over 1,000 asrainst the amendment. Mobile. Montoni ery and Cullman counties show the largest majorities on the victorious side and it appears the amendment has carried in but three, counties, Talladega, Macon and Sumter, with Lee in doubt. Monday's election being the first time the State has ever had an op portunity to pass on the prohibition question, is regarded as especially significant. Still it cannot be regard ed as a straight anti-prohibition vic tory because of the personal politics that has been injected into the issue. Its association with the administra tion of Governor B. B. Comer and his reputed ability to name a suc cessor to the governorship in Judge S. D. , Weakley, author of the prohi bition bills, have figured prominently in the result. A significant feature of the result is the fact that sentiment against the amendment is so widespread. Rural precincts, small towns and cities alike are, for the most part, returning substantial majorities on the winning side. There has never been seen here anything like the enthusiasm shown in Birmingham over the result. The result everywhere is regarded as a distinct repudiation of the present State administration which has been particularly radical in its so-called reform program. Kills Sweetheart's Father. Camilla, Ga., Special. Pursuing his eloping daughter who had run away from home with Columbus Huey, T. J. Sellers, cue of the wealtheist farmers of Mitchell coun ty, was shot to death in the public road 10 miles southwest of here Sat urday afternoon, when he caught the fleeing couple. 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