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-INDEPENDENCE IM ALL THINGS. ; Sttbiii V0XY1- COLUMBUb, POLK COUNTY, THURSDAY. JUNE 2,1910. ' ! m7 f DISTRESSED. Expenses of President :RDREW $25,000 ALLOWANCE ply Grieved by Suggested Eiec- Jcratic Congressmen Object to New ippropriation For Expenses Becom U immediately Available. tashington, Special. President rt's traveling expenses and the that he had overdrawn his al- knee of $25,000 a yeajf voted by jiress iea to acrimonious deoate the bouse Thursday and a Vefusal permit him to use the next year's Uance to meet the deficiency. Ms reported" from the house com hee on appropriations the items of j,00O for the fiscal year beginning v 1. next, -would have become "im diately available 1 1 except for the wests of Democratic members. The rds "immediately available,, -were Lily stricken out by the action of Mann (111.), the occupant of the jsir, in sustaining a point of order lie by Mr. Macon (Ark), a Demo- It was the Western and South- trip made last fall that exhausted je White House traveling fund. Dur- the debate ChairmanTawney, in ianre of the bill, criticised Southern Uocrats for their attitude in object- b to an appropriation to defray the pease oi a trip on which thev had n the president 's guests. Mr. Hard iek (Qa), drew from Mr. Tawney the Bmissioii that becretary Carpenter id furnished him a list of names of emocrats who had accepted the resident's hospitality. . In connection with the use of such tsies. jir. Dunieii iua.ir cnargea at "the Dreident has violated both rules of hospitality and of decent induct." - I The president, Mr. Tawney said Id made his trip through, the West A South at the 'invitation" of senaf governors of States and civic animations. " This trip' Mr. Tawney said, as not made for his own pleasure. pngress was m session when.delega m after delegation from the house, fcm the senate and from the differ it States visited him urging him to pe this trip." pit that time, Mr. Tawney said, pre was no appropriation to meet b traveling exDenses. X Washington, Special." In all my penence, and I have enjoyed - the Ispitality of many ' sections and untnes of the world, I never had a pre cordial, cenerous or ooen and fish welcome than I had in - the fukhern States durinir mv trir7 and P slightest hint that puts me. in the ftude of a critic of that hospitality FeS HIP Proof nnir, This in part is the manner in uch President Taft Friday in a lter to Chairman Tawney of the wise committee on appropriations eply resented criticisms passed by ?nxcrats in the debate in the House mrsday upon the traveling expenses the President. lie President savs he is esneciallv Nssed by "suggested reflection on Mern hospitality." ' Jmon Veteran "Sat Down On." Report, 111., Special. At an ex ?ve session of the department of ln,01s, G. A. R., here Thursday, a potion of Col. Jasper P. Darling lumbia post, Chicago, calling upon J President to take such steps as J seem best to remove the statue wn. Robert E. Lee from the na- jjs hall of fame at Washington P return it to the care and cttf- f f the State of Virginia UTl tka Ul 111 1 " J vUV vaujrC aa lii-aavisea. Prisoners Get in Style. r Prisoners, from murderers to ,0 Penitenti use thev thniie-ht- tK thhv to Of a fif Ied condemned meat. ----v.i o w ctr; uiocea m solitary anient. ' - . .., . Officials Atmxr fhn.f iKa rv C hpinnr J j . 'York, Special.--01iver Spitzer j .r supenntendent of docks oj -nv feriau -Sli?ar Refining Con io V ilHamsburg, (Brooklyn ) niWr y Poned. from rihc Ct7 by President Taft, ex .lbday why he did not con the trial nich ended- lasi v.,! ti his being senteaced t( I fle (1 rr ci J v . " i a con Km carried, him to a ceme-fl "vv5u, uii me sianu iaer words, ' he would- eu a dead man Henrj late head of the Sugai BY THIS SIGN CONQUER.1 Sunday School Children in Uni. form Parade and Sing. Wtshingtoo, Special. Children leok the. principal part r in,. the closing ses Hon of the sixth Convention of the World's Sunday-school Association. Dressed in costumes of most of the nations of the world, and carrying the flags of those countries, preceded by the conquest flag,' which bears a cross and the words "by this sign conquer,' ' a long line of them filled the front of the big platform and later inarched through the aisles" oi the immense hall singing. The next Convention will meet in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1913. The month and date will be determined later by the executive committee. The committee on resolutions pre sented a report, which", was unani mously adopted by the Convention, declaring for a campaign of evangeli sation in the BOman Catholic coun tries; for civic purity; for universal peace and expressins: the .conviction that Sunday-school influences are re sponsible for the wave of prohibition which has swept some sections of the country, . . , Boys Lost to Church. Washington, Special. Seventyvi per eent. of all the boys over 13 years in the Protestant Sunday schools oi the United States are lost to th church and never make professions of faith. Such a statement, spoken by Eugene, Foster of Detroit, in one of the workers ' conf erences which followed the World's Sunday School convention, astonished San day school workers from all parts oi the earth. Killed When Looking at Comet. Princeton, Ky., Special. Lincoln Oliver, a well-known farmer, of .Cald well county, was shot and seriously wounded while standing in his yard looking at the comet. Oliver was a leader in the Dark Tobacco association and was concern ed in the suits recently filed ,at Pa- duealir- HwaS also-a witness, againsf iuc auegwi mgfli naers, mea a lew weeks ago at Hopkinsville. Will That Stop the Girls? Washington, Special. After con sidering all sides of the controversy which has arisen over the use oi shellac and other gums for coating chocolates, the board of food and drug inspection of the Department oi f Agriculture has decided that the us of shellac is not a proper proceedinf under the food and drug acts. Good . Man Falls. ; Cleveland,. Ohio, Specialj-hief pi Poliee - P ederick ; Kohler. known throughout the country as the "goldea rule" chief, and lauded by Presidenl Roosevelt as the best chief of polic in the country, was suspended by Mavor Baehr on charges of gross im. morality, habitual drunkenness anc disobedience'" of orders. Aged Veterans Meet. Houston, Texas, Special. Texan Mexican War veterans Wednesday met in reunion, with an attendance of fourteen. Thursday will be spenl on the field of San Jacinto, when (jwreral Sam Houston crushed Gen eral Santa Anna, winning . the in dependence of Texas in 1836. Alonzc Steel, sole survivor of the battle, anc ninety-three years old, is among thosj in attendance. Each Claimed Blackest Husband. , Valdosta, Ga., ' Special. Sallii 1 Washington, colored, who cut hei neighbor, Letha King, to death witl a razor following an argument ix which' each contended that her hu band was the "blackest" was-convicted of murder, the verdict earryinf a life sentence. Ifo Law Against Buying Vote. Chicago, Special. Declaring then is no Illinois statute regulating thi election of United States Senator! and arguing therefore, that there wai no law violation if Lee O 'Neal Browne as is charged, paid Representativ White to vote for Wm. Lorimer, At torney W. S. Forest continued efforti here to have the bribery indietmenU against Browne quashed. Compared .Lee to Benedict Arnold. Freeport, III, Special. inveighing against the placing of the statue of Gn. Robert E. Lee in the hall of fame in Washington, Col. Jasper T. Darling, past conimander of Colum bia post, G A. R., Chicago, address ed the initial campfire of the State encampment of the Illinois G. A. R. He com Dared Robert E. Lee 16 Bene dict Arnold , and prophesied that tha acceptance of the statute of the Con federate leader would be a step to- 4 wards pensioning Coqfeo!erate soldierB vand opening the way to the federal government anramin? -the - burdeo.. f Confederate - war bead. - -: & : ' j TO RESCUE Augusta Business Men Come to Aid of Taft . .. OFFER TO PAY THE OVERDRAFT Of $5,000 of the President's Traveling Expenses Made by Southerners Taft Pleased at Evidence of Friend i liness Cannot Accept Offer. Washington, Special. A protest against the action of certain Demo cratic members of the Congress in opposing the appropriation of $25, 000 for the President's traveling ex penses, covering the President 's last Southern trip and an offer to make up the deficiency, was telegraphed ' to Speaker Cannon Saturday by the Au gusta (Ga.); Chamber of Commerce and Cotton ! Exchange and Georgia Carolina Fair Association. ; The tele gram announced that at a called meet ing of the three organizations the fol lowing memorial was ordered sent to the Speaker, to be presented to the House and toi President Taft: "Augusta, the winter home of President Taft, stands indignant and mortified-at the action of certain Democratic members of Congress in defeating by technical objection the proposition to make retroactive, so as to cover all the expenses of his last Southern trip, the appropriation of $25,000 for the President 's traveling expenses. "At a joint meeting of the Cham ber of Commerce, the Merchants ' and Mamif acturers ' Association, Cotton Exchange and Board of Trade, and the Georgia-Carolina" Fair Associa tion held this day, it was unanimous ly agreed that we respectfully tender through you, to the government of the United States the $5,000 necessary to meet the deficiency of the Presi dent's recent trans-continental trip which did so much to cement the ties between the different sections and bring nation and the nation's Chief Executive in closer touch and sympathy- with" feaeh otherr1 - - -f w The President could not possibly accept the offer of the patriotic Geor gians. He intends to pay out of his own pocket his traveling expenses for the remainder of the fiscal yean These will amount to. about $7,000 or $8,000, as the President proposes to make all the visits planned by him be tween now and the end of the year. Two Brave American Boys. Washington, Special. After riding on horseback-most of the way across the continent) to meet Colonel Roose- velt on his arrival in New Tork. Louie and Temple Abernathy, aged 9 and 6, respectively, sons of Jack Ab ernathy, the Volf catcher" and friend of the former President, arrived here Saturday night. They rode from Frederick, Md., Saturday, a distance of 57 miles. (Temple dropped off to sleep the minute his head touched the pillow. While the little fellow was curled up restfully under the white covers, Louie talked of their ! trip. "Temple and I," he said, "wanted to see some of the animals sent from Africa and we will go over to the Smithsonian Institution to see if we can have ,& look at some, of them." When ' asked what he intended to say to Mr. Roosevelt when he met him in New York, Louie replied that "it woulcKdepend on what Mr. Roose vel said to them" and that he "could not cross that fence until he came to it." !. .President Taft received the Kttle travelers; two Virfinia Urged to Welcome Roosevelt. Representative C. B. Slemp, of the Ninth Virginia District, and Republi can State Chairman; is urging that Virginia be represented in New York City on June 18, when Colonel Theo dore Roosevelt is to be welcomed home. ; What Difference i3 There ? Rockford, 111., Special. After be ing "dry" for a year, 40 "model" ialoons have v been licensed to begin business in Rockford. The new ordi aance regulating the traffic contains leveral novel features, including the prohibition of treating. It is also unlawful for a saloon keeper to have a chair or a free lunch sounter. in his -place. v t The High Cost of VotL Springfield, Hi., Special.--8enjw D. W. Holslaw, Saturday ci iifessef to State's attorney, Burke, and - latei to the grand jury that he voted foi William Lorimer for United; States Senator and was paid therefor $2, 500 by State Senator;, John,-Brodeav ick of Chicago . j , - Don't Strike Uncle Sam's Boys. Memphis,fTenn., Special. A hun dred and twonty-fivo dollars a punei is what it eosts to strike a mail-carrier in Memphis. At this ratio, J. W. Fleeoe, a local business man s was fined $250 by Judge McCall in the Uoited 'States district court - of an eesault cocnoilted- several monthr ago. FRIENDS .1-. i- .v , "' " J 1 SAVANNAH MURDER CASE Aged White Man Guilty of Kill ! ing Three Women Savannah, Ga, Special. Guilty of ie atrocious 'murder of .his .wife, Jtlrs. Eliza Gribble and her daughter, Urs.; Carrie Ohlander, here last De cember, was the verdict returned igainst J. C. Hunter, in Chatham Superior Court. . - With -the court room's silence broken only by the sound of the voice f Judge Charlton, the; sentence of ieath was pronounced 1 .and unless laved by legal formalities the aged prisoner will dieon the", gallows June 10th. 1 : Looking steadily at the Judge with iis one remaining eye, Hunter, ihrivelled with age and hard usage, lind after the ordeal of jhe trial, ap parently was as calm as any one else in the court room. The murders for which Hunter is under death sentence were committed in the early afternoon of December 12, in a small frame two-story house n Perry street. Mrs. Gribble 's skull jras crushed in with blows of a blunt instrument. She was very old. Her Jaughter, too, met death almost in stant lv from blows over the head. Mrs. Hunter, the wife of the convict td man, was not dead when a patrol man pushed open the door of the house on the terrible scene, but died several days later in a hospital with out regaining consciousness sufficient ly to , tell who struck her She bab bled of a "white man" who attacked ier.: ' i . ! W. H. Walls, a white man, Mrs. Hunter's alleged lover? and John Dooker, a negro, who are charged leith aiding Hunter, are 1 prisoners. A second negro who confessed the crime pas not "held, his story being proven intrue. 1 Bribery Charges Stirs Senator Washington, Special! For iust rwo hours Saturday Senator IjO rimer )f Dlinois stood in thes Senate and liscussed the charges of bribery aaade - against- him in connection with ins election to the Senate. . He madei smphatic denial of all the allegations ind sought to turn the accusation of wrong-doing upon The ' Chicago Tri bune, in which paper the charges (Fere first printed. Senator Lorimer declared that all Df the power of . the ity, county, State and Federal administrations ander the leadership of Senator Hop kins, Governor Deenen and Mayor Busse, assembled into a misfit organ ization, combined to desfroy the or ganization controlled by Lorimer. with intent to give control to The Tribune. -I f Are There Othejps ? Washington, Special.--Publication Df the information that Congress might pay the claims of heirs of Geo. Washington, who contend that $305, 000 worth of land was taken from them without warrant of law, has brought out a new claiinant to dis pute their rights. George M. Roberts, o Wellsville. Ohio, has written the fallowing let ter to , the chairman of? the House Committee on Private Land Claims: "Observing that your Committee is about to award the $305,000 to the sup posed 'heirs of George .Washington 1 forbid any such proceedings, for 1 am the only heir to that land, and 1 will prove it when I get ithe original nars'Irom England, thej papers that John Paul Jones took in he river on his first trip, I write thi as a warn Ingso. that you will no spend the people's money unnecessarily." - : i ; Thanks. J' k New xYork, SpeciaI.-rAppropria-tions for more than $700,000 hav been made by the General Education Board for the endowment! of work i rarious' colleges and for agricultural work in the South. I Sub-Marine Boat Stays Down. Calais, France, By Cable. Another French sub-marine, the Pluviose, with all her crew aboard in thirty fathoms of water, was senf to the bot tom of the English channel Thurs day afternoon by the cfoss-channel steamer Pas Ne Calais, which, crowd ed with passengers bound) for Dover, struck the partly submerged Pluviose when about two miles from harbor Ought to-Liv8 Like Editors. Chicago, Special. On $70 a month von cannot save money jjif you are harried; you cannot bay joy rides; you cannot go to theatres nd you can barely exist. Testimony to this ef fect was given by witnesses , before ther Federal Board of Arbitration, be fore which the locomotive sfiremen and snginemen employed , on 47, railroadi re fightiiig for an increase of salary Bacteriologist Dead. j Baden Baden, Special.-fProf. Rob irt Koch, the "famous basteriologist iied here from a disease Of the heart He was born at Klausthal. Hanover. t December. llx 1843. ; -1 ' - - THE NEWS MINUTELY TOLD Tit Heart of Happenings Carvef From the Whole Gountry. The intense hatred of proselytes from the native religions is shown in the more, than ordinary Chinese in genuity employed in torturing them. Cn some instances victims' tongues have been torn i out by the roots, xnd they have been mockingly told to preach the new creed. Bound till they could scarcely move , a muscle, Dthers have been tjckled continually till their brains gave way. The water torture the steady dropping of water on one spot of the body has been frequently employed. The oldest theological student ever graduated from the Union Theological seminary, New York, is the E-ev. Hareatune Jinishian, who has just re ceived his diploma, Mr. Jinishian will be 70 years old in a few months. His wife and children witnessed the graduation exercises. He is an Armenian and is older than any of the professors who taught him during his work in the seminary, where he has been a student for six years. After a delay of 32 years, Charles Dana Burrage, a wealthy attorney of Boston, was graduated Wednesday from the University of California with the k degree of bachelor of arts. "Charles" Burrage we denied a diploma because of a snake, an owl and a pair of lizards which appeared in Professor Palda's French class back in '78. But his classmates have labored incessantly in his behalf. And now the faculty has relented and Burrage was given his degree. Mrs. Alfred Gillison, was nearly pulled overboard by a shark, which grabbed her line while she was fish ing, with her husband, off South At lantic City. The! woman pluckily held oil to the line juntil her husband reached her and pulled in the fish. The shark was over five feet and weighed 50 j pounds. 1 long, Glenn H. Curtis decided not ' to make the trip from Albany last week in an aeroplane in an attempt to reach New York' and win the $10,000 prize offered by he.New, York World. The 9-months-old child of Mrs. Anna Blakely was found suffocated in oed at Chicago,! presumably by the house cat, which previously had been lying across the child's neck- Mrs. Tabitha King, who died at London, Ky., at the age of 94 years, leaves 05 livings grandchildren. She was the mother of 12 sons and daugh ters. Benjamin Boyce, accused by Chi cago Blacks tone Hot el officials of dis orderly conduct in assailing his father, W. D. Boyce, the millionaire publish er, pleaded guilty in the Municipal Court and paid a fine of $5. He ob jected to his divorced father remarry ing. Champ Clark, minority leader of the House, sees a long and hot' road ahead of Congress before it finishes the work of this session. - Two officers are out of the National Guard of Georgia as a result of their failure to-attend school for officers at Fort McPherson. Capt. George W. Ruggles, inventor of the rotary snow plow and of nation-wide fame as a canoe builder, is dead at his home near Rochester. N, Y. Net profits of $110,000 were realiz ed for the Actor's Fund, devoted to the care of aged and needy stag followers, by the recent .fair held In New York city, according to the state ment of President Daniel Frohman, of New York. Alfred H. Marshall, on trial for murder, at Savannah, Ga.. growing Lout of the killing of two negroes witu his automobile on April 1, was acquitted after the jury had been out but a few minutes. Uriah Stevens; who pleaded guilty to having shot j two blacjirds at Allentown, Pajwas fined'. $20 and costs by Alderman Reninger. The prosecution was ! brought by Game Warden Milton H. Weiss. Jfriends of Miss Elinor Wickham, of St. Louis, are authority for the r statement that ihe father of her fiance, Joseph Pultizer, Jr., has pre sented her with j a solid gold dinner service for a wedding gift, costing $50,000. A bill has been passed by the Sen ate appropriating $250,000 for' the purchase of a site and the erection of buildings fori an immigrant star tion at Seattle,. Wash. ' ' V- ' i It would be unlawful for the Post office Department to print the, name or address of a business firnxv. ion stamped envelopes after June 30, xvxx, ii a dui mtrpauceu by Kepre sentative Ton VelleT of Ohio, and re ported favorably from the -House Unnmittee on Fcstoffiees and Post Uoads is passed. : ' ' . ; Jn the last nine years the price of . mule-power has gone up more: than one hundred per cent. 'In 1901 a first class mule could be bought for $145, in 1907 the price had risen to $210. ana, u is now aDout $jw. polo and tandem pony Punch is dead ti the age of 45 years. LUTHERAN COLLEGES Proposition Made to ConsoIK date Lenoir and Mt Pleasant SENTIMENT STRONG FOR CHANGE If Effected May Have a Far-Re aching - Influence in Wcrk of Lutheran Church Tennessee Synod Meets i 'i - f October 1st Extra Session ' N. C. i ;, 'i - -Synod Probable. flickory, N. C., Special. In swer to the broad pfoposition consolidation of I Lenoir College an for and Mount Pleasant! Collegiate Institute made Tuesday night by the commis sion of the North Carolina Lutheran Synod, the officers of the. Tennesseo Synod and the committee of-the board of j trustees of J Lenoir College met Wednesday morning and drew up a proposition and j submitted it to the commission of the North Carolina Synod. It was', first submitted to the full board of trustees of Lenoiir College which adopted it unanimously and then adjourned sine die: This proposition, in whatever form it leaves th joint conference, is to be submitted to the respective synods fori final consideration. , There is. a small indebtedness of about $12,000 on Lenoir College and under the resolution the North Caro lina' Synod would assume half of this debt. It is understood that the in debtedness of jthe North Carolina" Synod on its Mount Pleasant prop erties is small and therefore there is nothing burdensome in the terms of the j resolution that the Tennessee Synod is to be free from any .respon sibility for indebtedness at Molm Pleasant. j Lenoir College has a magnificent, property with aj fine main building whose towering dome overlooks the town. In it are: class-rooms. There are two .toatevdoTnrltoriesie. for. boys and one for girls, two stories and spacious. There are professors' bouseaaround .the beautiful wood-, ed 20-acre campus. -The property is easily worth $100,000.- The old North Carolina College property is estimat ed by some to be worth $40,000, bui probably $30,000 would be too liberal an estimate, and at auction it would not i bring that, j ' ' -.. There Is a strong sentiment for ' consolidation, and both synods seero Jo be convinced that this is the pro pitious time for jit. If it is effected . it may have a far-reaching effect inv; the work of the Lutheran Church and it. is hard, to estimate all .theposst . omues mat are wrappea up in it. It is possible that there may be a called meeting of the North Caro- una; synod to consider :nis propo sition. The Tennessee Synod's regular' meeting is October 1 at Lincolnton, and j strangely enough it is to be int the same church where the separa- . tion from the 'North Carolina Synod waseffected in the year 1820, and the main thing at this next meeting will be the consolidation proposition a plan 'for co-operation that has possi bilities of extension in it. I Woman Hit by Lightning. ; -Wilmington, Nl C., Special. dur ing a severe electric storm Thursday; Miss Caledonia Rodderiok was struek by lightning and; her right shoe torn to shreds. She was knocked uncon scious, but examined later by a phy sician showed that no injury resulted other than the,. severe shock I and- a slight burn on her. right foot.; Seyler Not Guilty of Murder. Mays Landing, ;N. J., Special. -Wit . Ham Seyler, charged with the murdei of Jane Adams on the Million Dollar pierj at Atlantic City last February, was was Thursday acquitted. , Tle jury out a little more than five hours. Sizring Language, i Washington, Special. "An igno rant' ass, an unprincipled demagogue or the paid hireling of baleful in- . fluence" is the way William P. Hack ney of Winfield, Kan., who testified Monday before the house ship subsidy inveftigatiori committee, tharaeterises every man in the United States who opposes the principle of ship sub- sid- ' ,- - GiftsRemam' Presbyterian Forever. , ,' LewiSburg, W. j Va., Special. Des pite jthe protest that the action might hinder union with' some otherXJhureh, -the Southern Presbyterian Church in General Assembly here Monday, adopted an optional form of "convey ance whereby future donors may be assured , that their lrifts will remain forever Jn- that organization. ; "r ; Loeb Gets More Weighers. ; Washington, S'SpeciaL Authority was irivn TTol!i T so .i,. I Treasury Denartment. tn him ianr. for the New York custom-house Tha force will b increased at cacs. , ' :3 -31 ft iiit J i'ji; ;!! 1 a; " 1 i rr 1:5 ft. 1 iVV. 'i. r 'vi i ',,3 n ;J ft 4 . 1 :t-t 1 i vA . .13.1 I.M ?1 i r