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''X- , i.."',-1 v -'- .V'1.".' "' (V - I, ' v felts mm Three Cents the Copy. INDEPENDENCE IN ALL THINGS. Subscription Price, $1.00 Per Year in Advance. VOL X VI. COLTJMBUb, POLK COUNTY, N. C, THURSDAY, JULY 7,1910. NO. 8. pi - t cor. pjtK; arrb. I "LAME LION OF PASSES ienator Daniel Succumbs to Cerebral Hemorrhage. k OF SOUTH'S BRAYEST SONS. hlhess Began Last October in Phila delphiaRecent Paralysis Weaken ed His Condition His Death , a National Loss. Lynchburg, Special. John W. Dan- el. senior Senator from Virginia and for more than 30 -years Virginia's fa- tonte son, died, here Wednes- ay night, his death being due to a re- jarrence of paralysis. The immediate lause of " his death "was a cerebral lemorrhage. which occurred at noon Wednesday in the right portion of lis brain, involving right side. rThas cvas in addition to the paralysis of the left side, -which was sustained last kinter, while in Florida for his wealth. . , I The statesman's illness began with i slight attack of apoplexy in Phila- elphia last October, this keeping him 'rem being in his seat at the opening f Congress last December. Only once ce that time had he appeared be- ore an audience and that was for an brmal talk in January. - John Warwick Daniel. John Warwick Daniel, was the only son of "William Daniel, Jr., and Sarah Ann Warwick Daniel. He was born Lynebburg on September 5, 1842, nl .was, therefore, in his 68th year 'hen death ensued. His only sister is Irs. Don P. Halsev of Washington, P. C He was married November 23, 69, to Julia Elizabeth Murrell. JaugLter of Dr. Edward H. Murrell, of 'VDchUurg. -laior Daniel Was from a lone line W lawyers, for tis father was a note? unst. having been a member of the riai a Supreme Court of Appeals toih 1846 to 1865, and his paternal grandfather,- William Daniel, Sr., was ne second udge of the superior court fl chancery of Lynchburg. hen the war between the. States Fke out Major Daniel entered the '"LVi.V of the Confederacy as a second .utenant in company A of the 11th ririnia Infantrv. He was soon fad first lieutenant and then adju re ct his regiment and still latef called to the rank of major and of the staff of General Jubal A, Hr'y. He was four times wounded, " last wound in the battle of the J-derness in 1864 incaDacitatine him 0r further service. This wound ame near causino' death fnr' rpvp.! Fines' were severed, but his 'com- laired that Major Daniel received s .'Wound nffpr i i n o- koiibJ I'll T '' iV"3VUC.t VJICAi- 4ai Lee from a serinns nnMnn TViia 0und shatter hi lf- hir, C'Sif i ' ' " v"g,i, -lie W5.C marynnaA m:n. iin ntimp.ftB x: . it i ' kid a 4UUO i"is lor gaiianiry Kn .Pke of him as " th .brave brulivit Daniel." Later Har- i mMir' "pf- v. r . " fJ I itr JOHN WARWICK DANIEL. i LYNCHBURG" AWAY PEACEFULLY. perjs Weekly wrote of himj f 'He is ricn . in influence in the Senate but poor in purse," and a few years ago Dr., E. A; Alderman, president of the University of Virginia, referred to him as "That Spartan man of integ- nty." House of Delegates from 1869 to 1872. He was in the State Senate from 1875 to 1881, being a member of the State Senate when he was nomi nated for Governor upon the Demo cratic ticket in 1881. He was defeat ed by William E.' Cameron. In 1984 he was elected to the House of Rep resent atives, sForty-ninth Congress. Before expiration of this term he de feated the late John S. Barbour for the seat in the Federal enate; to suc ceed Gen. William Mahone upon the term beginning March 5, 1887. In De cember, 1891, he was unanimously elected to sitaceed himself. Six years jlater for the third term he had no opposition and in January there was no opposition in his party for his re-, election, for the term which would have, ebgun March 4, 1911, . had he lived. - Major Daniel was a Democratic elector at large in 1876 and delegate at large to Democratic national con vention of 18S0, 1888, 1892, 1896, 1900 and 1908. There is one interesting chapter in the -life of Senator Daniel with which the public was never familiar. His father, a man of prominence and wealth, although his fortune consider ably impaired by war, still had a good practice. He was one of those who foresaw the great commercial develop ment of the country and he interested himself in numerous speculative enter prises. He was sanguine to the point of visionary. Everything seemed to him to be promisfng and he subscribe liberally to tsock in concerns, the fu ture of which seemed to be bright. In 1873, when death came, it was dis covered his estate was insolvent. There were claims over and above the assets which .amounted to more than $100, 000. These claims were assumed -by Major Daniel. He had been with his father in the practice of law but there was no legal or moral obligation upon him to settle these accounts. He could have left them unpaid, but that' was not John Warwick Daniel. ' He chose otherwise and his decision was to pay. To him it seemed the only honorable course, even if . it took a lifetime. Accordingly he notified the creditors and he began upon the task of paying principal as well as inter est. That was thirty-five years ago. During these thirty-five years be lived upon the smaller portion of his' in come, the major portion of it going to the creditors of his father and at the age of 65 years he had the satisfaction of discharging the last of his father's old obligations in full. Major Daniel was a loyal advocate of the ' Lost Cause ' ' and his last public talk, for it was a. talk and not an address, was on the anniversary of H the birthday of Gen. Robert E. Lee, whose life he saved in 1864, this year, when it was observed by Garland-' Rodes Camp. Living in Campbell county, Major Daniel was a member of Dearing Camp, of Rustburg, having been the first . and only -commander of . this camp. None felt that he was too humble to be noticed by the man who had been horored by; a nation and it was never hard to get his at- tention. - ODR BIG EXPOSITO. Thousands Will Attend Great Appa- lachian Show Sept. 12-Oct. 12. Knoxville, Tenn., Special For the Appalachian Exposition, to be held in Knoxville, September' 12 to OctobesJ 12, the railroads of the southeastern. territory halve granted extremely low rates which insure the suecess of the enterprise making possible the at tendence of thousands. The exposi tion being especially designed for the states of the Appalachian region, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, NorthlCarolina, South Carolina, Geor gia, Alabama and Kentucky, there is uref to be a large patronage of the coach excursions to be run on Tues days and Thursdays during the ex position period, for which ths rate will j be approximately one cent pei mile! traveled. Tickets sold for these excursions will be good only in coaches. Tickets at approximately one and o'ne-hal cents per mile traveled will be on sale during the exposition. These will be good in Pullman sleep ers and will allow a ten days' stay in Knoxville. Itj is expected that at least 350,000 persons will visit the exposition. One of its most enthusiastic boomers is Passenger Traffic Manager S. H. Hardwick, of the Southern Railway Company which has several lines con verging at Knoxville. The Southern is vjsry much interested in the suc cess; of the exposition-, as has been its uniform policy with such enter prises in the South, and is co-operating yith its management to the fullest extent. Carolinians Graduate at Harvard. Cambridge, Mass., Special. Nearly a thousand degrees were conferred npon; graduating students and dis tinguished citizens Wednesday in the most enthusiastic and best attended commencement Harvard University has fever Held. Col. Theodore Roose velt was present and received an ovation which continued throughout the day and well into the evening. J.. Pierpont Morgan and Governor Hughes of New York, were the prin cipal recipientsof honor degrees. The Carolina degree winners were: Master of Arts Daniel Huger Bacot, sJr., Charleston, S. C; Charles A Cornelson, Orangeburg, S. C. ; Both well 1 Graham, Jr., Clinton, S. C; waxier l. iu.uure, xoritvuie, o. V.j Ausriistine T. Smythe, Jr., Charleston, S. C. Doctor of Philosophy, Sidney Swain Robins, Asheboro, N. C; (A. B. Uni versity of ! North Carolina, A. M. and St. B. Harvard.) Doc-tor of Medicine, Yates W. Fai son, Charlotte, N. C. Doctor of Laws, John Wadswortl Hutchison, Charlotte, (Graduate Trinity College, A. B.) Gilbert Thomas Stephenson, Pend leton, N. C, (Graduate Wake Fores! College and Harvard.) Mr. Robins, who received the philosophy degree, has taken a spec ial course in the history of philosophy in the Harvard graduate school of arts' and scenes. The thesis which won for him the philosophy degree i3 entitled "Hesreli Pragmatism." j Osier on Christian Science. London, By Cable. The first days of this week will be marked by the announcement of the publication of a volume embracing the results of two years' inquiry by prominent church men, physicians and scientists . into "Christian Science and other forms of faith healing." The former cult is emphatically re jected as false and dangerous. It is held, that "Christian Science" may quiet sufferers from nervousness, but that it has killed far more than it has cured. It is asserted that its aim is profit for the promoters and the inner few. Dr. William Osier is among the con tributors to the volume. General' Average for Cotton 82.3. Memphis, Tenn., Special.The ' re port of the National Ginners' associa tion issued Wednesday gives the con dition of cotton up to June 25 at 82.3 per cent. The report by States follows: Alabama 81; Arkansas, 77; Florida, 80; Georgia 80; Louisiana, 80; Mississippi, 84; Missouri, 83; North Carolina, 77; Oklahoma, 90; South Carolina, 77; Tennessee, 86; Texas, 85; general average 82.3. - Roosevelt and Abernethy Boys New York Special. The Abernethy boyjL aged 9 and6 - years old, re spectively, who rode horseback alone across the continent to welcome Col. Roosevelt, talked with Roosevelt an hour in The Outlook office in New York. Taking the . youngest boy on his knee, he said: ' " "Did anybody refuse you a stop ping placet" asked the eminent edi tor.! : ' "Only twice." "Where was that f" - "." "In Missouri" ' " Col. Roosevelt drew his lips tensely swrar Via tAfttb .And exclaime!fL - 'I'd like j to know who they were." ; -: i TOE NEWS MINUTELY TOLD The Heart of Happenings Carrei From the Whole Country. i The dry dock Dewey at Manilla has been rased. It; is now restored to its normal bouyaricy and apparent ly is not very: seriously damaged. GeoBge R. Putnam, of Davenport, Iowa, has been appointed commis sioner of lighthouses at $5,000 per annum, and Arthur V. Canover, of Passaic, N. Ji, deputy tender at $4, 000. These ippointments mark the first mprovement of the reorganiza tion in the lijghthouse service. A bill intended to knock out prize fights and glove contests of any kind in Georgia, has been introduced in the upper branch of the General As sembly. Boxing contests at present are staged in Atlanta, Savannah and Macon. .! The President has? signed an order abolishing the Bureau of Equipment in! the Navy? Department and' dis tributing its functions among the other bureaii$ of the; department, in accordance "With the recommenda tions of the jSwift board. The uoper branch of the Louisiana legislature has not only gone on re cord as oppdsed to woman suffrage, but refused tb allow! women to act as members of jjoard of an educational or j charitable j nature, even though ap pointed to siich boards by men. By failing jto act on the joint reso lution providing for the reinstate ment of the jWest Point Cadets who were dimissed for j; the hazing of young Sutton last summer, the House Committee op. Military Affairs has knocked out he chances of the cadets in question for reinstatement at the coming session of the Military Aca demy, j t One man jis dead; one is fatally wounded and seven other persons are in a hospital) with more or less seri ous wounds jas the ' result of a duel fought on one of Cleveland's most crowded thoroughfares Thursday. The trouble startjsd in a quarrel between Frank Viena and Antoine Mejfeurio, overthe alleged treatment of Mer curio of his wife, Viena 's sister. Though it had first! decided to meet in Mobile, Ala., the j Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen, in annual session in .St. Paul, Minn., has reversed! its decision and selected Washington (for the 1911 convention. W. C. Ritldick, a telegrapher of West Virginia, and Miss Thelma Smith, of Americus, pa., met at Bris tol, Va., after a correspondence of a year, and were married by Rev. H. Wi. Leslie. They were well pleased when they met, and neither favored a postponement of the marriage.. Word was) received at Des Moines, Iowa, from Chicago, 'that Rudolph J. Faas, drivinjg a car'; in the Glidden tour, has fallen heir to a fortune of $1,500,000 tlirough the death of his grandfather, Rudolph A. Faas, of ' WurtembergL Germany. The news found no more surprised man than Faas himself. i , The one bright thing about the exodus of congress this year is the absence of typewriters ' and other freight matter going through the mails with j a Congressional frank siuck on. fine great moral wave which has been riding the country from four directions has had its ef fect. !;!; The college trained lawyer will solve the great legal and economic questions of government of this and the next genfration,j declared .Attorney General Wiekershami, who was the princpal speaker before the law school graduates at Harvard commence ment exercises Tuesday. Five men were killed and eleven injured, two of them probably fatally, by an explosion which first wrecked and then set fire to the saloon of Edward Bushay, five miles north of Minneapolis,! Thursday. ! Charged with poisoning the chick ens of John! Conde by feeding them macaroni mixed with soaked-match heads, Dominic Maturo, a lamp-lighter, was fined $4 and costs by Justice Cramer at Derby, Pa. i United States I Senator Samuel Douglas McEnery of Louisiana, died at New Orleans. (Senator McEnery arrived f rokn Washington Tuesday suffering from an attack of indiges tion. - il)..' 'Armed with knives, and keeping their word to meet! fat sunrise in the woods near Macfarland Park, in West Tampa, Fla., Mario Adalo and another Cuban, whose identity has not yet been established, fought until both fell from lobs of blood. Adalo died within a few minutes. The un known man Mrs. Jas. escaped. " S. Sherman, wife of the Vice President, who is a patient at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, ,was Thursday reported in an improved condition. Though all information as to her ailment . Is refused at .the hospital and by bet physicians, it is Understood that she is suffering from a nervous breakdown. ' ' - ' BIG RAIS! FOR R. R. MEN. a' j ' Through Mediators All Employees Granted Increases in Wages. Washington, 4 Special. Official an nouncement was v made j by the mediators Saturday that an amicable adjustment of the controversy be tween the railroads in the South eastern territory and their conductors and trainmen had been j reached. The agreement signed provides for a substantial increase in wages of the employes and improved conditions and hours of labor. The adjustment also will avert a threatened strike of 110,000 men, which would have Invb'ved approximately 40,000 others The! settlement reached is regarded as a distinct victory for the em ployers, although concessions were made by both sides. The men have been granted an in crease of wages ranging from 10 per cent to 40 per cent. I Some of the men receive a per diem wage, others receive pay in ac cordance with the number of miles they cover each day and yet others are Ipaid according to the; distance they travel and the speed made by their trains. When the controversy was sub mitted to the mediators, Chairman Martin A. Knapp, of the interstate Commerce Commission, and Dr. Charles P. Neill, Commissioner of Labor, 20 days ago, 13 separate de mands were made upon the railways by their employes. Of these 13 de mands, the representatives j of the employes have scored a victory on practically all. Meeting Southern Textile Association. Aligusta,- Ga., Special. The South ern Textile association just before ad journing Saturday elected the follow ing Officers: President, W. P. Ham rick, superintendent Olympia mills, Columbia, . S. C. ; first vice president, Arthur T; Smith, superintendent Langley Manufacturing company, Langlejr, S. C; second vice president, E. E. Brown, overseer,; Great Falls Manufacturing company, ; Rocking ham N. C; third vice president, F. N. JMclntyre, superintendent Loray mill, Gastonia,, N. C; fourth vice president, M. E. Stevens, ! superin tendent Columbus Manufacturing company, Columbus, Ga.; chairman board of governors, M. G. Stone, gen eral! superntendent - Pacolet Manu facturing company, Spartanburg, S. C; members of board, S. B. Rhea, master mechanic Monaghan mills, Greenville, S. C; G. T. Lynch, su perintendent Enterprise mill, Augus ta, Ga.; W. P. Hardeman, overseer weaving, Newberry cotton mills, New berry S. C.; secretary, G. S. Escott, editor Mill News, Charlotte, N. C; treasurer, David Clarke, editor Tex tile! Manufacturer, Charlotte, N. C. On motion of G. S. Escott, it was decided that an future there shall hi only two instead of three" meetings of I the association each year to b held -on the Saturday after Thanks giving day and the nearest Saturdaj to the Fourth of July. On invitation of the Greater Char lotte club, it was decided that the next meeting will be held at Char lotte, N. C. I Three Killed at Bull Fight. 'Pueblo, Max., Special. MissXouise Duran, Louis Ruiz and Louis Florez were killed during a bul fight in the Sah Antonio Tezoyo Hachienda Sun day. Ruiz was manager of the Hacienda and Florez was a cowboy. The fight was an amateur affair, par ticipated in by people on the Haci enda. Miss Duran was in ; imminent peril during one stage of the fight and Ruiz and Florez .rushed to her aid. The infuriated bull gored the woman and the two mea. Direct Primary Bill Defeated. Albany, N. Y., Special. -The com bined influence of President Taft, Theodore Roosevelt and ! Governor Hughes failed to save he JCobb direct nominations bill from defeat in the Assembly. The House voted 80 jto 62 to endorse the action of the Assembly judiciary committee, which reported the measure adversely. Why Did Price Escape? New York, Special. On motion of United States District j Attorney Wise, under instructions of Attorney General Wickersbam, indictments found in 1908 against Theodore "H. Price, the cotton operator, Moses Haas, Frederick A. Peckham and Ed win S. Holmes, Jr.j for conspiracy in connection with the cotton report leak were quashed ; by Judge Hand in the United States circuit court. ' Holmes, Haas and Beckham plead ed guilty to similar indictments in Washington . last week - and Holmes and Peckham .i paid . fines of $5,030 each and Haas ; one of $6,000. - HIGH COST REASONS1 v- ' j . i i j Investigating Committee Disa gree as to Causes. REPORT AN EXHAUSTIVE ONE Senate Refused to Give $65,000 More to Extend Work of the Committee of Inquiry Into the High Cost of Living In Nine Years the Whole sale Price Level Advanced 14.5. Washington, Special. Republicans and Democrats do not agree as to 'the causes for the great increase in the cost of living between 100 and 1910. The majority report of the special Senate committee which has investi gated these questions' is an exhaus tive one, compiled from testimony given by forty-one witnesses, repbrta received from consuls and from for eign governments. It contains a large number of tables giving the range of prices over the last decade. The ma jority charges that its work was re stricted by reason, of the. refusal of the Senate to appropriate the $65, 000 asked for by the committee, which would have been used to .employ agents in the field. . ; The majority of the committee found that of the many causes con tributing to the advance in prices the following were most marked Increased cost of production of farm products, by reason of higher land values and higher wages. Increased demand for farm pro ducts and food. Shifting of population from food- producing to food-consuming occupa tions and localities. Immigration of food-consuming lo calities. . Reduced fertility of land resulting in lower average production or in increased expenditures for fertiliza tion. Increased banking facilities in-ag- ficultural localities, which enabled farmers to hold their crops and mar" ket them to the best advantage. It .;was -found that this not only steadied prices, but had a tendency to 'increase them. ' '; Reduced ; supply convenient to s transportation facilities of such com modities as timber. Cold storage plants, which result in preventing extreme fluctuations of" prices of certain commodities with the seasons, but by enabling the wholesalers to buy and sell at the best possible advantage tend to ad vance prices. ! Increased cost of distribution t Industrial combination. ' Organization of producers or of dealers. ! Increased money supply. Over capitalization. Higher standard of living. The foregoing findings were gath ered by measuring the prices of . 257 commodities included in the price in dex number of the Bureau of Labor. These commodities were grouped and the advance ! noted for the different groups during the period from 1900, to 1909, inclusive. The general whole sale price level in the United States advanced during that period 14.5. Spelling Some. McAlester, Oklahoma, ! Special. In -the Oklahoma State "spelling bee" at Oklahoma City, Miss Bessie Oliver fourteen years, old, of j McAlester, was declared the champion 'when her remaining opponent spelled "laud anum" the 2,021st word, incorrect and 6he correctly. A list of 2,000 words first was given to the scores of contestants. Miss Oliver and one. other girl spelled all of them. Twenty Other jwords then were given to these two, one at a time, and both spelled all of them. On the next word Miss Oliver's opponent "missed." The winner will represent the State in the spelling contest at the annual meeting of the National Educational Association. Total Appropriations by Congress. ! Washington, Special, The appro priations made by the sessions of Cogress just closed amounted to $1, 027,13346. President Taft at Beverly. ' Washington, Special. President. Taft last Tuesday to spend the next three or four, months at Beverly. Louisiana Objects to Imported Babies ; Baton Rouge, La Special. The importation of babies into Louisiana from orphan institutions in other -States was severely condemned by the Louisiana Parish and Municipal Healthy Officers'-Association here. In discussing the question, Superinten dent Pierson, of the State Insane Asylum at Jackson, declared: "The deposit of these helpless lit tle creatures coming possibly un known from tainted progenitors into our midst is simply-planting the seed of Greater degeneration, more defect- -ivw, idiets, isisscjlss and alcohoic3., ' Hi ..V'. 4 l f: 4 1 I.t , I i1,! Mi V :i ' 1. t. I '4 '4 4 - 4 - v ; - '? .' i. -! 1 ) ' .Vt! ' V , Ji. . 1 3 . S i' 7. .-I'M .i '. Kt -! . -.; -1 - " i t ! : : i . j .. . i ' M'l - ' ti ' if