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VOL XV.
ANNOUNCES SUICIDE
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Thomas K. Lauchlin Ends Life
in Pittsburg.
PRESIDENT TAFT AT FUNERAL.
Coroner Says That Laughlin Came to
D eath by His Own Hands. '
l'ittsboro, Pa.' SpecialJ Thomas
,K. Laughlin, brotiier-ia-hiw of Prea
utent Taft, assistant treasurer of the
reat Jone and "Laughlin steel in
terest and AVorth $20,01)0,000, is a sui
cide. He seiit a bitllet into his brain
Mime time during Thursday night in
his mansion on Woodlawn road.
Ktforis by wealthy . relatives to sup
press the facts were successful until
Saturday, when Coroner y Samuel
Jamison, after forcing an investiga-
lion, made the public announcement.
" The Laughlin case is one of suicide.
He blew out his grains.' '
Persistent calls for information
from the coroner caused htm to in
vestigate the case, and after a visit
io the Laughlin home he said that
i lie physician's return was technical
ly correct, although , the . cerebral
hemorrhage had been caused by a
bullet. The Physician's certificate of
death stated the cause as cerebral ap
j oplexy and was signed by Dr. T. M.
Ken n a.
President : Taft left for Pittsburg
Ahere at 3 o'clock Sunday, he will
jittend the funeral of Mr. Laughlin.
The President left Pittsburg Sunday
ni;.rlit and reached Washington Mon
day. On account of the, death of
-Mr.- Laughlin the President has can-
oeled his trip to New York, which
lie had planned to attend the opera,
and instead will begin" his weeks
trip by going direct to Chicago,
where he has an engagement on
March 17.
To Issue $200,000,000 Stock.
New York, Special. A recommen
dation that the capital stock of the
American Telephone and Telegraph
Tompanv, the ) socailedv telephone
trust, be increased to; $500,000,000 -is
contained in the" company's annual
report, but other, than to say that
the company desired to be 'fore
handed" no reason is given for the
requested- increase of . $200,000,000.
Wall street believes the company
purposes still greater expansion,:
though the report states "that none
f the current year for ordinary cap
ital expenditures.' 1
The ( report shows that the num
ber of telephone stations in the Bell
system -was increased to more' than
5.000,000,' including 1,500,000 operat
ed -by connecting companies. The
wire mileage is shown to be in ex
jess of 10,000,000 miles, and the
.'traffic has increased to nearly 20,
00.000 connections a day, or about
0.500.000,000 connections a year. ..
The company had a net revenue
for 1909 of more than $30,000,000.,
;md the system earned gross $149,
914.700, an increase of . $11,770,400
over last year. Net earnings were
$48,367,500, out of which $23,910,
000 was paid in dividends. $10,221,
400 paid in interest and $14,235,500
placed in the surplus. Out of the.
'jtoss earnings nearly $45,000,000
"was charged to depreciation and
maintenance.
Aeed Distiller' Gives Himself Up. :
Paltimore, Special. George T.
Hambrell, the aged, president of the
Koxbury Distillery company, want-
d by the police on charges of fradn
bntlv issuing whiskey certificates up
"i Avldch he was alleged to have ob
tained" loans amounting from $200.
fft0 to $300,000 surrendered himself,
10 the authorities hererT" He was
later released in $20,000 bail. Gam
brell, who had been missing since
February 24, returned fromxEnsley,
-a. His distilling company is in the
i-aiuis of
receivers.
S3
ympathetic Strikes Unlawful. -
I'i !iriiond, Ya., ' Special. Sympa--li(tic
strikes are unlawful, accord-
a decision handed down by the
1 '-uted States circuit court of ap
V'fls iii uliich it sustained a recent
of Judge Dayton, of West
'V. -Mnia. The case was that of the
11;
l',(,'tua!i Coal
and Coke Company
Mine workers v of
s- ih(' I'nited
Confesses Murder.
iA iaso, Tex., Special. Declaring
l!al le hail -killed' an intruder who
attempted to rob him, Charles
1 "lUlDS. 11 Y- A 1
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l"'li-e here. y ' ; y y
ChurgeA With Shanghaiing,
(. . ;i-ua'o, n. Y., Special. The Lake
ssociation. which controls
1!
percentage of shipping on
Fi ',!rrat Lakos' was indicted by 'the
'9 (It
' si ? JU UPre on a cnarge
anghaung. The indictments are
vlii orPoration, the officials
tmust aPPear before Judge
"t-1 next week to plead.,
COLUMPPS, POLK 00 UNTY, N,
NORTH STATE NEWS
r
Items of State Interest Gathered
and Told in Brief!
; Spivey Pays Penalty.
At 12 :09 Friday Sheriff J. M. Clafk
at Elizabethtown pulled the - fatal
fever and Henry E. Spivey passed in
to anotner world. Spirey was con-
ACU me March term, 1909, su-
penor court of Bladen county of the
murder of his father-in-law", Frank
Shaw. The evidence against him
was overwhelming and the jury reach
ed a unanimous veridct after' a short
deliberation. An appeal was taken
to the Supreme Court and. the lower
court was affirmed. The Governor is
sued to the sheriff of Bladen a war
rant directing the hanging of Spivey
January 11. The lawyer represent
ing the prisoner became active in
seeking a commutation of sentence,
and in order to give a hearing Spivey
was reprieved until March 4, and
later- until March 11th. . The judge
and Solicitor refusing to recommend
a commutation to life imprisonment.
Prisoners Burned the Jail
The Camden county jail was fired
by negro prisoners and badly dam
aged - before the flames were extin
guished,' The four prisoners therein
were removed to the court house for
the night. One of the, guards laid
down his gun and Fred Johnson, a
negro prisoner, seized it, fired at
ilose range at Deputy Sheriff Cart
wright. The load tore his hat to
pieces. Cartwright returned the
fire shattering the aegro's arm.
Negro Slashes White Man.
Ill-feeling, engendered some months
ago in an attempt, of white residents
of Seney street, Asheville, to obtain
the removal of negro residents, coup
led with alleged imprudence, and vile
language by a negro, Pat Morgan,
to Mrs. S. I. Bean, led to 'an affray
between Pat Morgan and S. I. Bean,
in which the negro seriously cut Mr.
Bean baek of his neck. The wounds
were gashes, five separate cuts being
made, besides frightful laceration of
his right ear. - - - yy .
Blood Poison Contracted From
Corpse.
As a results of blood poison con
tracted in the preparation of a
corpse for burial, Undertaker RiL
Davis, of Salisbury, lies dangerously
ill at the Whitehead-Stokes Sani
tarium where he was taken several
days ago for treatment. So serious
is his condition that it became neces
sary to amputate one arm -with a
hope of saving his life; His con
dition is still critical and grave fears
are entertained.
Scotchmen Locate in North Carolina.
Four young Scotchmen, John Toone
and James Mitchell of Edinburg,
James Campbell of Walkertown,
Peeblesliire, and John Robertson of
South "Queen's Ferry went to Fay-
ettecville with the purpose of locat
ing in Cumberland county. The
young men are of a class of immi
grants greatly desired in North Caro
lina. Lightning Kills Stock.
During a severe electrical storm,
lightning killed two, mules, two hogs
and one cow belonging to Mr. Robert
Newnan, who resides two miles east
of Madison. Mr. Newnan and family
who were in the house, knew noth
ing about the deplorable happening
until Mr. Newnan went down to the
stable ; Sunday morning to feed his
stocky
Ten Negroes Bum to .Death.
Seven miles northwest of Roxboro,
on the farm of W. E. Farlev.f ten
negroes met horrible death early Fri
day. , John Wasrstaff, his wife and
eight children being burned to ashes
in their home. Not one was left to
tell the gruesome tale and the only
evidence of their death was the char
red bones from which all flesh was
burned.
To Resume Work on Car Line.
Work will be resumed this week
on the car, lines in Concord. It is
hoped to have - cars running in four
months. .
' ' Fire in Durham. 1
V A fire without the firemen's
realm destroyed four buildings near
Lakewood park in Durham.;
' SeawclL Enters Ofiicc.
The official transfer of the United
States district attorney of the east
ern district in Raleigh, has V been
made from Col. Harry Skinner, re
tiring district attorney, to 1.1?.
Seawell, recently appointed by Presi
dent Taft and confirmed by the bmt
ed States- senate.
Demands Return of License.
'. -w i . T2 ' iU at AC V ,
Before Judge uig. '"",co
Thomas, druggist oi living
appeared asking mandamus proceed
ings against the North Carolina board
of pharmacy to force that organiza
tion give-him license. - -.
iu. A m m ewr f i em
RY. MEN ARE OUT
Railroad Managers Are Asked to
State Their Position on Union's
Demands.
Chicago, Special. Admissions have
been made on both sides that the con
troversy between 30,000 firemen op
erating on 150,000 miles of railroads
west, northwest and southwest of
Chicago and the managers had : be-
come critical and that the question
of a strike, , tying up practically all
systems between here and the Faiifte
coast, would be settled in a few days..
President W. S. Carter, of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
and Enginemen, on behalf of the
firemen, has sent to the general man
ager of the committee of the rail
roads a request for a clear 'state
ment of the employers' position. Tb
brotherhood asked for information
on three points in their i demands.
In previous negotiations the
brotherhood said they were willing
to submit the wage question to arbi
tration under the Erdman act pro
vided the other two points were
settled without the aid ! of a third
party., . ;: :
It was announced by the general
managers' committee that an answer
was directed sent to President Carter
denying this . request and leaving it
to the union, despite their "strike
vote" to take what future course
they think best.-
Negotiations have been on for six
weeks. About forty-nine Western
railroads are involved. If a strike
were called, it is said 25,000 other
emploves would be thrown out. At
the last meeting ten general man
agers were present.
Begins Burglary Sentence at 76.
New York, Special. Although he
is 76 years of age, and very feeble,
Philip Render, of Long Island City,
will be taken to Sing Sing prison
next week to serve a term of four
years and nine months for burglary.
He ! will be the oldest convict in' the
prison. He finished a seven-year sen-
ago. ne was arrested a rew days
later, on a charge, but waa saved from
prosecution . by a Lohg Island farm
er, ; who took him t6 his farm and
ajreed to care for him. Render re
paid this kindness by stealing every
thing he rbuld, and disappeared. He
was arrested in a neighboring town
some time afterwards.
Disclose Whereabuts of $173,000.
Chicago, Special. The mystery
surrounding the disappearance of the
$173,000' from the United States
sub-treasury threes years ago is solv
ed, according to a declaration in
Judge Bretano's court by Attorney
James J." Barbour. He is represent
ing one of the defendants in the
suit for $50,0000 for malicious pros
ecution brought by George W. Fitz
gerald, former teller in the United
States sub-treasury, against William
Boldenweck. sub-treasurer; Herbert
Young, and others, which ;was dis
missed on motion of Fitzgerald last
week. . ;
'fYour honor we have the evidence
as io how the $173,000 was stolen and
we :wish to make use of this informa
tion even if we have to proclaim it
at a town meeting," said Attorney
Barbour.'
Nurse Get3 $58,000.
New York, Special. The judgment
of the lower court giving to Miss
Addie M. - Hunt, a trained nurse,
$58,000 for the loss of her legs in
a railway accident at Great Neck, L.
I., in June, 1905, has been affirmed
by the appellate division. 1 When her
suit against the. Long Jsland railway
was first tried she got a verdict for
$25,000, which was set aside as in- J
sufficient. In the second trial the
award was $58,000 and the railroad
company appealed.
Confederate Coin Brings Good Price.
New YorkL Special. One of : the .
original Confederate j half-dollrs
struck oft at the United States mint
in New Orleans in 1861, after it fell
into the hands of the Confederate
ogvernment, was sold by a local coin
dealer for $3,750. The buyer was . a
wealthy New York collector, whose
name is withheld. i
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Statue of Newspaper Man.
Washington, Special.-pA newspa
per man may have a statue erected in
his honor at the national Capitol, a
bill ; having been introduced by Rep
resentative Douglas of ; Ohio. p
propriating $20,000 for that purpo-e..
The ' man was Januarins Aloystus
Macgahan, whose descriptions of the
ntrniities Dracticed upon the Bui-
bv the Turks attracted the
. " ... n TTTM1 ' Jll" J -4- - ,
attention , oi vviinam uiauiuue. re
suited in English recognition of BJ-
gana s
freedom, and won for their
authokthe title of:" the liberator of
the Bulgarians.,, , . . .
C, THURSDAY, MARCH 17, 1910.
TAR HEEL CHRONICLES
flews Note Gathered From All
Parts of tho Old North State.
I
Many Edncators Will be Present.
. A number ' of teachers and other
educational workers of national rep
utation are- being secured by Secre
fary R. D. Wl Connor, of the North
Carolina Teachera' Assembly for the
iwenty-seventh annual session at
Asheville July 14-17, 1910. Among '.
those already, (assured are Dr. L. D. Elections for the j Colombian j Con-Harvey,-
president of Stout Institute- stituent Assembly have been set for.
Wisconsin, and former resident of L
the National I Educational Assosica-
tion; Miss Jessie Field, Rural School
Supervisor of national j reputation, ,
who is prominently mentioned at
this time for superintendent of rjub-
fie instruction! of Iowa; Hon. W. J.
opiuman, united states Department
of Agriculture, specialist in the
problem of bringing rural schools
info closer tojnch with farm life;
Hon.. O. B. Martin, for a long while
superintendent! of public instruction
for South Carolina, and now associat
ed with Dr. S. A. Knapp, of the
United States Department of Agri
culture in farm demonstration work
1 Quite a I number of prominent
North Carolina educators have al
ready been assigned to important
prts in the program of the As
sembly. : 1
, Burns rptiU Becovered.
'.There was great rejoicing at the
State museumover the finding of the
historic old "lobert Burns" whiskey
still stolen under remarkable cir
cumstances from the hall Friday. It
was found in a remote part of a big
stable yard six squares from the
museum building, uninjured, except
foj; a dent frojn being dropped out of
a third story window of; the museum
building. However, the worm that
was attached to the still is missing
yet. This still was once seized and
cut up by Robert Burns ; when a rev
enue officer in Scotland.; It was re
stored and'' brought to Cumberland
county and used in making brandy
tor Confederate hospitals. It then
drifted into blockade service, many
l! : ---i .f . .
times cut upnoy raiders, captured
r , , ZZi V 1 -17 r ,, 7
land and sent by him to the Hall of
History.
Hogs Are Condemned.
Full of ulcers and running sores
were me two ? nogs tnat were con
demned in the city market, Raleigh,
by Inspector J. N. McRary Satur
day. The goods were put out by
Swift & Co., whose agent in Raleigh
is Mr. W. D. Vaughan, and they
bore the label of the United States
Inspector at Forth Worth, Tex., be
ing stamped "No.3F." To verify
the condition of the meat in question
Mr. McKary called State Veteri
nanan W. C. Chnsman . and Dr. G.
A. Roberts, bpth of whom said that
he bad acted, right in condemning the
hogs, as ttoey were entirely unfit for
tood and dangerous to health.
Congressman E. Yates Webb has
introduced in Congress a bill provid
ing for a government appropriation
of $800,000 to be applied to the erec
tion of a handsome Federal build
ing in Charlotte for use as a post
omce and a court house, i This action
on the part of Representative Webh
comes as a result of an agitation of
years looking ito a decided improve
ment and enlargement. ,
Three Brothers Given Seventy Years
in Prison.
At Smithfield, Johnson County,
three Pearce "brothers were sentenc
ed to seventy years in the State pen
ltentiary for, the murder of Frank
Staricil last month at Princeton, N.
C. After killing the victim, the men i"
hauled thecotpse -several miles,; and
-placed it on a railroad track to con
ceal their crinie. The State accepted
a plea of second degree murder. Two
were sentenced to thirtyi years each, I
ouuiuc uiiin iu ten ycara. xucj
operated an illicit hauor ditillerv.
Illicit DistUler,Canght.
tit i. j iU
Wanted fori the operating of an
illicit distillery and being one of
thw W vchA y,of-
. .t , .
fVt11 aleK ti
J. B. Vick and family, Mr. Berry
Carpenter, a farmer of j the Cooper
township section, of Nash county,
was taken bv ! Sheriff C. L. Johnson
and Denutv" Barnes after a livelv
Chase. I-
Will be Electrocuted.
Walter Morrison will be the first
man to : die in the electric chair,
which has already been ; installed at
the State's prison. It is said thai
when Morrison saw his attorneys he
fell upon his lnees and begged them
to. save , his life. Already the pris
oner 'has been reprieved , several
times, but it now looks like he will
go to the chair next Friday, March
18, as Governor Kitchin does not
k -2" yu:
UUU iUC l(tCl$ 111 HIS Ca9C ' BUlllCiCUb
to justify furtter executive elemencyj
NEWSY GLEANINGS.
The Filipinos are invited to mak
common cause with Japan against the
United States. v '
King George decided to read the
decree calling for a revisionary As
sembly at Athens, j , !
. John . Jacob Astor readjusted tht
titles to $10,000,000 of th cbalcesC
of his real estate holdings in New
York City. !
Indictments against Di. B. C. Hyde
for attempting. to poison members of
the Swone family were returned in
Kansas City. j
April 3; there Is great political kex-
citement in Bogota.
Jewelers were told by the United
States Secret Service men that coins
must not be defaced in making
bangles for ornaments.
An attempt, was made to poison the
Rev. A. J. Voeglin,' of Trenton. N. J.,
by means of arsenic sprinkled on
biscuits left at his door. . I
"Night letters" were sent for the
first time, and thia new scheme of the
telegraph companies promises to
prove extremely popular.
The Consul-General at Canton,
China, has demanded protection for
American tourists on the steamship
Cleveland, visiting that city.
Mayor Gaynor invited 100 men to
serve on tne citizens' committee
which is to greet Colonel Roosevelt
on his arrival from Africa in June.
Another general ! election is ex
pected in London in a few months;
the Conservatives are raising strong
campaign issues, while the Liberals
seem to be losing ground.
Several of the large tobacco hbuse3
of New York City, Chicago and Flor
ida are in a merger, the new jeem
pany to be known as the American
Sumatra Tobacco Company and to
have a capitalization of $8,000,000.
Langhs When Told He is Dead.
Rome, By Cable. J. Pierpont Mor
gan enjoyed a hearty laugh when he
aeard for the first time of the rumor
.hat he was dead. "I am accustom
ed to such tricks. I have never felt
as well as I do now." j
uonpie x orm omuue
Philadelphia, Pa., Special. beated :
jpposite each other at the beautiful
table in their apartments here Dr.
fjharlee Cf Bensonr3- yars -of- e,
md his wife, Isabelle, 67, drained
;wo glasses containing- poison,'.
Pushes Money Aside.
San Francisco, Special. Andrew
Carnegie arrived here from Del
monte. In the course of an interview'
he said: "During the panic in! New
York I could1 have made $50,000,000
without difficulty. I had the cash,
and the opportunity was ripe, but I
felt that it was better to let con-,
ditions readjust themselves natural
ly. I have made up my mind not
to make any more if I can help it."
Pleaded to he Taxed.
Washinston, Special. The novel
spectacle of a corporation pleading
with the Supreme Court of the jUnit
ed States to be allowed to be tated
was presented when counsel for the
Coney Island and Brooklyn Railroad
Company asked the; court to uphold
the constitutionality of the corpora
tion tax. A brief on behalf of the
company was
Dikeman and
filed I by William N.
Arthur E. Goddard.
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CHflC3YCLE.. Q1C?ENPlZ& W ODIOflCL? Ill
NO. 44.
NUBS OP NEWS.'
The combined forces of G?nerals
Estrada and Chamorro were reduced
to 300. ' -
The trial of Nicholas Tschalkorsky ,
In Sti Petersburg was expected ta
convict him. v
' The old ageworklnman's pension .
bill wU add 8100,000,000 to France's
annual expenditure. i
It was announced that 500 chest-"
nut trees in Van Cortlandt Park, N.
Y., must be cut down. ,1-
The gift of $350,000 for a building "
for the department of philosophy at
Columbia was announced. .
Half of the subjects of the Prineo
of Monaco marched to the palaqe and .
demanded a - constitution. . : .... -
The- steamer Manhattan, of ' the? .
Maine SteamshipComnany, was de
stroyed by fire at Portland, Me.
A Canadian Pacific train won a race
against a snowslide by a few feet on
the Western slope of the Rockies. .
Two Clericals were killed . and
seven j were wounded by the explosion
of two bombs in a dining hall at Lis
bon. The Aero Club governors selected ,
St. Louis as the starting point for the
international balloon race of 1910, to'
be held October 17. ( j".
King Edward,, on his arrival at
Biarritz, was expected to announce
the engagement cf Princess Patricia
of Connaught to King Manuel of Por
tugal .j ; . y; M '---j--"
The Supreme Court of the United
States in two decisions rebuked the
Interstate Commerce Commission for
Issuing orders in excess of its an- '
thority. v , j
Commander Peary, in a statement
to thej sub-committee on naval affairs
of the House of Representatives, at
Washington, D. C. said he could not
furnish proofs that he had. reached
the North Pole, as he bad contracted
to give them to his publisher alone. .
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