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1 - n jt mm 1 Throe Conta tho Copy. INDEPENDENCE IN ALL THINGS. Subscription Prico, $1.00 Per Year in Advance VOL XV. Latest Rews. BY WIRE. Senate Food Inquiry. Washington. D. C - Vice-President Sherman appointed as the select com-" mittee to investigate the increased tost of living Senators Lodge chair man; Gailinger,, McCumber, Smoot. Crawfcn!, Simmons and Clarke, of Arkansas. . ". - r .. ... . Fifty 111 From Doughnuts. Laurel. Md. Fifty nersntis wirft; made violently ill by. eating dough nuts cooked in machine oil, and sev eral of them narrowly escaped death. The Inker had ordered a barrel of rookin? oil and a hardware dealer had ordered a barrel of machine oil, and each. got the other's barrel in the delivery. Court Kebukes Rickert. San Francisco. Cah DeelnHne that District Attorney Rickert had not shown a dlsriosltlnn tn nrnconta the trial of Patrick fnlhnim in tmnA tr - -w v UkJ V VUkU faith. .Tudee Lawlpr intimnto tn court tnaiu tne rase rnicht vo Vn j a . - ouc oi ine nan as or tni rnstvif a 4 '.:' 'Xight Letter Service., New York City. Plans are belne made nV trie WPstPrn TTn nn Toln ' graph Company for a "nieht letter service Wnicn W nerm t snv nnrt to sendJ fifty words at nis?hr for the price oi ten woras sent in the day. Takes Medicine. Falls Dead. Jersey Shore, Pa.- After taklne a dose of medicine Alfred Coffman. aged sixty-five, of Pine Station. Pa.. fell over dead. Beinz a sufferer from ;oitrc, it is thought he strangled. Miss ElLins a Suicide. -Kansas City, Mo. Miss Aenes El kin?, niece of United States Senator Elkins. of West Virginia, who shot herself at a local hotel, died after. lin gering several days. , ' flecord Price in Hogs. Chicago. Live hogs at the stock yards touched a price unequalled cince 1870, selling at $9.40 a hun dredweight. Continued light receipts and the scarcity of hogs on the farms called out prophesies that the ; $10 mark touched in 1870 may soon be reached. Wartime prices for hogs in 1S65 were $13.25. Will Test Bread Laws. 'Louisville, Ky.. The National As sociation of Master Bakers decided to tarry to the Supreme Court of the United States a case to test laws lim iting the price charged for a loaf of pread. . . Did Man Dead After Fight. Wilmington, Del. As the result of a fight between Benjamin White, aged ninety-four, and Thomas McCann, aped eighty-five, inmates of the Lay ton Home For Aged Colored People, White died. .r 'Trincc Ruelens" Weds. X'?-' I Meridian. Miss. Prince Ruelens victor Ruelens, of Paris and London, and Mrs. Lillian Ida Hess Setter, of Philadelphia, were married here, fhey departed after the ceremony for New Orleans on their honeymoon. iliss Draper Gets Fortune. Milford: Mass.--Wlien Miss Margav ret Preston Draper, daughter of the late General W. F. Draper, is twenty Bve years old her share of the estate of more than $12,000,000 will be one half. The four children of General Draper's first wife get the rest. BY Greece Denies Hostilities. ';- Athens. Greece.- Former Minister General Tsamados has been elected president of the Chamber of Depu; ties. An official statement denies the stories published abroad tfiat prepar ations were.' being made for hostilities between the army" and navy, and the reports that foreign warships contem plated bombarding Piraeus. Wore Money For Flood Victims. Paris. Minister- of Finance Coo heery received a contribution to the flood relief fund of $2000 from the r Tench rnlniiv at Montreal, and $4027.03" from readers of a; French daily paper of New York City. Prepared For War. s Lima, Peru. Preparations for war continue on the part of both Peru and Ecuador. The trouble grows out of the boundary dispute between the two countries. The only hope offor igr. merchants Is that the United States will intervene and prevent hos ti'Uies. which would mean the abso lute ruin of both Peru and Ecuador. Saved From a Wreck V ' Ancud, Chile.The Chilean cruiser inistro Zenteno rescued the eighty ht persons whom the Hatumet was Jbiisod to leave on board the steamer 'Liiia, which was wrecked In the : of Magellan.' . . . - ;. ; . l abor larty Dissatisfied. .onrlon. The Labor party wil 'ithfiiaw its support from the Liber als it the veto bill is held back. The 8llnporters. of the Government ex i'ress confidence that it will remain in wer at least until April. 1 COl.UMBl'S, 18 II YET .' NHL Senator Tillman's Condition is Improvecl Say Physicians. HIS AFFLICTION REGRETTED. For the Past 15 Years He Has Been a Dominant Figure in National Life. Washington, D. C, Special. The condition of Benjamin' Ryan Till man from South Carolina, who was taken suddenly ill here last Thursday with paralysis and aphasia, is a little more encouraeging, says Drs.; Babcock and Pickf ord, his at tending physicians Saturday. His case is extremely grave, but chances for recovery is better than ever. It will be several days before the crisis is passed5 through, though. He may recover from the paralysis and regain the use of limhl but, it is said, aphasia will likely liave him the saddest token of his illness. It is almost impossible for him to artic ulate at the present time and it is feared that the power of speech may never fully return. If this bo the case, his forceful tongue will never again find its echo in the halls of Congress. v The Senator is surrounded by his entire immediate family. Henry C. and Sallie May Tillman, his son and daughter, reached the bedside of their father early Saturday from Greenwood, S. C. His wife, their eldest son', Benjamin R. Tillman, Jr., and two daughters, Lona and Sophia, have been with him since the L incep tion of his illness. Messages of sympathy continue to pour in upon his family ; and since the seriousness of his condition, be came generally known, his apart ments have been besieged by inquir ies, delivered in person, by telegram ani by telephone, denoting the ad miration and" higir regard in" "which" the ill Senator is popularly held. Sunday his physicians stated that the symptoms which caused partial paralysis had disappeared and im provement has commenced. The Senator spoke to one of his physi cians. The heavy affliction that has be fallen Senator Benjamin R. Tillman, of South Carolina, is cuse ' for grief throughout the South and for sin cere regret all over the nation. , For the past fifteen years Senator Tllman has been a dominant and picturesque figure in our national life. Few men have ever matched sujih powerful impulses with such a keen and accurate intellect. It is this rare blend of temperament that has distinguished him. Senator Tillman spent the first thirty-nine years of his life on the farm, with the exception of a brief month or so in 'sixty-f our, whe he joined the Confederate army as a boy of seventeen and was forced through a critical illness to retire. At a time of life when most political leaders are nearing their zenith, he was just " beginning his public ca reer. In South Carolina, as gover nor, he opened a new chapter in the history of that State. When he first entered the United States Senate, there was a rather general expecta tion that he would prove disappoint ing. But swiftly and steadily he won the respect of his colleages. i He proved himself more than a match, for those who met him in debate -and, more than this, he proved himself a statesman rich in constructive thought and purpose. Food Trust Must Answer. . New York, Special.-The grand jury of Hudson : county, New J ersey, Friday of last week, instructed Pros ecutor Garvin to indict the National Packing Co. and its -directors; Pro ducts have been kept in cold storage for several years in some instance, says the grand, jury. , Must Line-Up Congressmen. ' Washington, D. C, Special. President Charles S. Barrett, of the Farmers' Union, who has ' been here for several weeks, has issued an open letter to all State divisions of the as sociation of Southern planters, call ing upon them" to get in behind Con gress in behalf of specified legisla tion which the union is working for before Congress. He asks j that each member write their Congressmen and representatives a letter at once con cerning: the legislative needs. , 1'OLK GOIi.NTV, N. C. THi;KSJ)AY. FRBRPARY 24,1910. ... -. -, .... lift I HI MIUS. ' ' - I it'"- Winslow, of South Carolina" Answers Attack of Northern Press. Columbia, S. C., Special.--A. S. Winslow, a well known mill superin tendent of this State speaking before the Southern Textile Association last Saturday , scored the writers on child labor conditions who attempt to draw unreal 'pictures of conditions in the Southern Textile plants. The "subject of this paper was "Benefits and Opportunities of Southern Mill Life.' ' The speaker drew strong comparisons , between life" on a small farm and life in a modern cotton mill. He dealt-fully with the lack of the modern conveniences educational facilities in the past "and those of the present. He also discussed at length the financial improvement which the people had secured by go-r ing to work in the cotton 'mills.'. The paper was the strongest paper ever read on Southern mill life. Over 300 delegates from all. sec tions of j the South attended the ses sions and it was agreed that the next session of the association would be held in Augusta, Ga., in July. W. P. jHamrick, superintendent of the Olympia mills of Columbia, is the first vice president of the associa tion, the other officers being as fol lows: C. F. McCall, president, Greenville; J. H. Bagwell, Charlotte, second vice president; W. J. Mc Donald, Monroe, Ga., third vice president ; V. P. Bogan, Spartanburg, fourth vice president; E. E. Brown, Rockingham, N. C, secretary; G. E. Escott, Charlotte, assistant secre tary; David Clark, Charlotte, treas urer. The board of governors is composed of the following: T. M. McTntyre, Gastonia, N. C; H. H. Boyd, Charlotte, N. C; A. M. Ham ilton, Spartanburg; Z..B. Mangum, Gibsonville, ""N. C; J. M. Davis, New berry; N. T. Brown, Raleigh; W. W. Becknell, Florence, Ala.; M. G. btone, Spartanburg; T. F. Cuddy, Clio; J. S. Osteen, Greenville; J. S. Drake, Lancaster;. B. J. Dobbins Uaroleen, N. C. STREET CARMEN STRIKE. Serious Disorder Follow in Phila delphia Saturday and Sunday. Philadelphia, Pa., Special. Sud denly Saturday a strike was de clared in this city on the Philadel phia Rapid Transit Company lines by the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employ es, which resultjed in serious disorder among the striking carmen and po lice and j firemen. Two cars were burned, and a score more attacked. The crews manning the oars were forced to abandon them. Except in 1.1. A A tt ine cenirai pari oi tne city, cars were at j a standstill, those running were heavily protected. TheL car company! dismissed about 200 of the men, and this seems to be the cause for the strike. Sunday rioting in every section of the city followed the attempt to run cafsT Passengers and crews were drove from the cars and cars burned by strike sympathizers. Finally all cars were withdrawn. The mayor of the city will enforce the riot act. NEW PROGRAM. President Taft Demand Only Four Measures at This Congress. Washington, Special. The an nouncement from the White House Saturday that President Taft had by his own motion cut down to four the number of administration measures he would demand at the present ses sion of Congress is received by lead ers with unmixed feeling of relief. . A schedule, including ; . only the bills to amend the interstate com merce laws, provide for the regula tion of the issuance of injunctions, start Arizona and New Mexico on the road! to Statehood, and to vali date the withdrawels : of public lands for conservation! purposes, is regarded as quite possible . of attain- ment. Most of these measures, it is believed, Senate. can be put through the To Be a Coal Center. Spartanburg, S. Cv Special. The Clinchfield Coal Corporation is to establish general offices here March 1st. 'This means that this city will be made the distributing point for this big fuel company in the future for the large territory it embraces. Twelve families or more will move from Charlotte, N. C, and Roanoke, Va., on account of the change. The Charlotte and Atlanta offices will be closed. Charleston will be the ex porting port, while Spartanburg will sell the entire prodnet, of the mines. - -.M"--- " TAR HEEL CHRONICLES News Notes Gathered From AD : Farts pf the 01d North State. - ; l Report cn Soldiers Home. That 161 indigent Confederate vet erans were enrolled duriner the Dast year, and ' that fthere .have been an average of twentjf-seven veterans con stantly in the hspital building were features of the Annual report of the North Carolina poldiers' Home, pre sented to the directors in annual ses sion in Raleigh last week. The re port was submitted by Major B. F. Drsn, State Auditor, who is chair man of the board, and who devotes much attention to the details of the management, of jhe institution. The report showed Ihirty-two admitted during the year jand thirty-four died. The directors hate had the home con nected with city water during the year at accost of $2,500. The cost of maintaining he old soldiers per capita for the jear was $114. The home receives an appropriation of $20,000 annually' from the State. To Fix Next State Convention. State Chairman A. H. Eller last week gave the printers the manu script of the revised plan of the Democratic organization in this State, the same being the report of the committee which met in Raleigh recently. Copies, will be forwarded to , the members of the State ex ecutive central and advisory com mittees when printed and these will meet early in March to fix the date and place for holding the next Demo cratic State convention. Shipping Cowpeas to Cuba. I Hickory is ; notj to be outdone by the neighboring :; towns in the mat ter of doing an! original business along seed lines.) Although no re cent shipment th Jerusalem- have been made, the Hickory Seed Com pany recently! booked an order for $3,600 worth of cowpeas to be export ed to Cuba. This is probably the largest shipment of cowpeas that ever left the United States for export. u Dentists Elect New Officers. The Cleveland District Dental So ciety in " session f at CharlottJ last Friday elected the following officers: President, Dr. Pj R. Falls, of Gas tonia; vice president, Dr. R. O. Apple, of Winston-Salenf ; secretary, Dr. J. Ri Osborne, of Shelby ; treasurer. Dr. Ai J. Whistnant of Rutherfordton. Shelby wasihosefi as the next meet ing place. $ Winston Churches Give to Missions. The local churches have pledged $14,212.75 to foreign missions as a result of the laymen 's convention at Greensboro. The! amounts are as follows: Methodist , $3,488.05; Bap tist, $1,435; Christian, $225; Episco pal, $380; Lutheran, $158.90; Meth odist Protestant, f 200 ; Moravian, $3,125.80, and Presbyterian, 5,200. Ex-Judge Womack Dead. Ex-Judge T. B. Womack, one of the most honored members of the Raleigh bar, died at Rex Hospital last Friday morning, f He had been in failing health fori more than a year from diabetes and complications. He was born in Chatham county in 1855.- He was buried at Pittsboro. p3 Interested in Esperanto. Dr. A. Rudy, tne head of the de partment of modern languages of the A. and M. College, has issued a pamphlet settirig forth the value of esperanto as an international , lan guage. He is trying to interest the people generally, so that he can form a State esperanto association. A Page in D. A. R. Congress. Miss Janet Quinn, of Salisbury, has been appointed by the ' National Board of D. A. R., as a page in the National Congress of that body which meets in Washirjjton at ' an early date. I Votes Money for ' Railroad, j The election subscribing $65,000 to the Statesville Air line Railroad by Mount Airy township carried last week! by a large majority with heavy registration. . f New Line Into Weldon. The Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company began . work last week at Garysburg on its" aew line into Wel don. ! I : i . - j Tar DrlPPi11?8 The consolidatiop of Winston and Salem into one nfunicipality is the principal theme of conversation in the Twin cities just now. ; ; ; ; Salisbury is to Save a $45,000 oil company." , "'I . The Southern Pure Food Company 5 has purchased the Christian 's mill site at Durham ard will begin soon its ; development a a manufacturer of meal, a squab firm, fish farm and a natatorium withfpark features." Over $32,000 has been subscribed for the "Methodist; children's home at Winston-Salem,1 which began ac tive operations recently. , By a vote of ten to one Whiteville last Thursday carried an election for a $25,000 bond issue for better streets and a greater Whiteville. Wilmington is making ready for a series of evangelistic meetings by the great Evangelist Torrey in the Champion Cotton Compress,- begin ning Marcel 6th. . Tifton, Ga., Special. David a Hines of Lincolnton, N. C, who was found in the woods near here robbed and with his skull crushed, died last Wednesday. 1 Albemarle is to have installed an electric plant for street lighting, etc. A charter is granted the Isothermal Traction Company, with authority to build an electric railway from Ruth erfordton to Gastonia, not over fifty miles; the amount of capital stock being $100,000. The Methodist orphanage at Raleigh has received a bequest of $2,080 to be known as the Joykinj L. Finch fund. The total amount of bequests made to the orphanage so far approximate $20,000. A Fearful Deed. Birmingham, Ala., Special. Geo. Stephens, aged 38, engineer on the L. & N. Railroad, last Saturday, while in a fit of insanity, shot his baby through the brain, then killed two other of, his children; also shot an old negro nurse, then blew his brains out. The! death of his wife ,several months ago affected his mind. He let a note saying: "I'm the blame for it all.'' I The Delaware Delivered. The battleship Delaware, the first of the American type of Dread noughts to 'be completed, was formal ly delivered to the Government upon her arrival at the Norfolk Navy Yard last j week from the yards o her builders, the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company. Following minor alterations to be made 4to the ship the Deleware will be placed in commission at Norfolk in the early spring. Government Wins Suit. JWilmingtbn, N.C Special. In the United States circuit court for " the eastern district of North Carolina, before Judge H. G. Connor, here Saturday, jury returned a verdict for the government m the suit of T. M. Thompson and others of Southport against M. F. Harmon, in which the plaintiff sought to recover from the United States a part of the reserva tion upon which Fort Caswell is sit uated at the mouth of the Qape Fear river. ! Punished For Selling Cocaine. Savannah, Ga., Special. Dr. H. B. Stanley, formerly coroner of Chat ham county has been fined $1,000 with the alternative of 12 months on the chaingang for violating the State law in regard to the sale of cocaine. Becomes Land Agent. Augusta, Ga., Special. W. L. Glessner has been appointed land and industrial agent of the Georgia & Florida railroad, with headquar ters at Augusta, to BEJLOW any other or on.. iy kind of terms, until IOfD.1 illustrating ana r i r n c hi mm bicycles, old patterns and latest models, and learn of our remarkable LOW PRICES and wonderful new offers made possible by selling from factory direct to rider with no middlemen's profits. WE SHIP OH APPROVAL without a cent deposit. Pay the Freight and allow lO Days Free Trial and make other liberal terms which no other bouse in the world will do. You will learn everything and get much valu able information by simply writing us a postal. We need a Rfdmr Atrent in every town and can offer an opportunity to make money to suitable W80. cn DisnnTimp.Esnnnc Tines o nly Ro&ijlap PrSoo $ 80 To introduco wo wui sou KAILS, TACKS You a Samaio Pair for Only OH GLASS WONT LET OUT THE AIR O (CASH WITH ORDER $4.65; NO BORE TROUBLE FROM PUNCTURES. Result of is years experience in tire mi nil making. No danger from THORNS, CAC TUS. PINS. NAILS. TACKS or GLASS. tierious punctures, like intentional knife cuts. un be vulcanized like an other tire. ft Two Hundred Thousand pairs now in actual use. Over Seventy-five Thousand pairs sold last year. nrrCSSIPTtOUr Made in all sizes. It is lively and easy ridinsr. verv durable and lined .mir with a special quality of rubber, which never becomes porous and which closes up small punctur without allowing the air to escape. We have hundreds of letters ftotn satisfied customers statin., that their tires have only been pumped up once or twice in r whole season. They weigh no more than an ordinary tire, the puncture resisting qualities being- given by several layers of thin, specially 'prepared fabric on the tread. That "Holding Back' sensation commonly felt when riding on asps-all or soft roads is overcome by the patent "Basket Weave" tread which prevents all air from bring squeezed out between the tire and the road thus overcoming all action. The regular price of tkes ' tires is $8.50 per pair, bet for advertising purposes we are making a specul factory price to the ridel of only I4.S0 per pf.ir; All orders shipped same day letter is received. We ship CO.D. on approval Yon do not pay a cent nntil you have examined and found them stiictly as represented. "WewillallowaoashdAsoountof 5 per cent (thereby making the price S4.S5 per pair) if you send FULL CASH WITH ORDER and enclose this kJvertisement. We will also send one nickel plated brsss hand pump and two Sampson metal puncture closers on full paid orders (these nets! puncture closers to be used in case of intentional knife cuts or heavy gtuhes). Tires to be returned at OOB, expense if for any reason they are not satisfactory 02 examination. - . . . 1 We are perfectly reliable and money sent to' us is as safe as in a bank. Ask your Postmaster Banker, Express or Freight Agent or the Editor of v this paper about "S. 'If you order a pair; these tires, you will find that they will ride easier.Vun faster, wear better, last longer and loot finer than any tire you have ever used or seen at any price., TTe know that you will be so well pleased that when you want a bicycle vou will-give as "Tour order. We want you to send us a small trial ' order at once, hence this remarkable tire offer. . x H . . ,, tffmtn m trrr'T9 rnZM?C aoilt-up-wheela, saddles, psdals, rxx. a and repairs. And tco M re'ni& aabf everj-uimg nrices charsred tV leaiers api repair men. i-wriie nrt .,nr rnr.rr wt write us a postal today. DO NOl THhVK OF BUYING LtU 43m StwM38 bicycle or a pa? of tires from anyone until you know the new and wonderful oilers we are making. It only cots a postal to learn-everythtag. Write it JTOW. CEflC0YCLE . COZPfi!lD:pt. 4' L" OUIOQCi? lit, NO. 41. NEWSY GLEANINGS. The Eennet "white slave" bill wafl passed I,y the Senate at Washington, 1 C. Mayor Gaynor signed the bill for a new County Court House on City Hall Park, New York.' '; ; Leader J. J. iiagan launched ; a Presidential Doom for Mayor Gaynor,, of New Yorlr City. ; The jury in the case Of ex-Congressman Binger Hermann, charged with land frauds; disagreed at Portland, Ore. . . ' Eight persons were killed" and thirty others injured in a, disastrous wreck of the London-Brighton ex press in England. ;".! Premier Sonnino announced that the government would introduce measures devoting $G,OCO,000 to sub sidize Italian shipping. I An English court granted a decree of divorce to Major C. S. Hall, whdse wife had obtained an American di vorce in 1D0S and had married again. 5r. Jean Charcot's French Antarc tic expedition reached latitude sev enty degrees south and discovered new land west and south of Alexander Island. !,.'.! Reports were received at Washing ton, D. C, that Americans had been impressed into the Nicaraguan army and an American-owned plantation looted. i China regards as unimportant the report that the British government holds that Russia should have been consulted with regard to the Chin-chow-fu. Railroad train. V United States Judge Martin, in New York City, refused vto grant immunity." to Charles R. Heike, of the Sugar Trust, who had testified in the antl-j trust proceedings against his com-; pany. - . i OOULDN'TOVERLOOK THAT. "Bo you are going to launch a new i religion?" we ask of the long-whiskered philosopher. i "Yes. I have evolved the true sys tem of life," he acknowledges. "And is it different from present systems of religion?" "It will abandon "all their features except the collection." Chicago, Post. Necessity 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 familv to lie in agony for hours while he! anves to town lor the doctor. Tel ephone and save half the sufferinEr. Our Free Book tells how to or-, ganize, build and. operate tele- pnone lines ana systems. Instruments sold on thirty davs' trial to responsible parties. 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