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VOL X VI.
COLUMBUh, POLK COUNTY, N. C, THURSDAY, JULY 14,1910.
NO. 9.
LYNCHING IN OHIO. I bleached flour case.
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NORTH CAROLINA EVENTS
THE NEWS MINUTELY TOLD
CAPITAL FACTS.
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fate- of Anti-Saloon League
Detective at Hands of Tigers.
A WHITE LAD 22 YEARS OLD.
petective Shot , Blind Tiger Keeper
and Friends of Dead Man Storm
Jail, Take Prisoner Out and Swing
Him With Rope" in Presence of
Hundreds, Including Women and
Children Troops Ordered to Scene.
Newark, O., Special. Carl Ether
ington, 22 years old, employed by the'
State Anti--Saloon League as a blind
tiger raider, was lynched here at 10:35
Friday night, following a day of al
most continuous rioting. The heavy
doors of the Licking, county jail were
battered down and Etheringtpn was
dragged from his cell. ' He was shot,
kicked and bruised before the stSreet
was reached and the finish followed,
quickly.
Etherington, early hi the evening,
confessed he killed William Howard,
proprietor of the " Last Chance" res
taurant, and former chief of police,
in a raiding oi auegea speaK
easies," in a' raiding- scuffle Friday
afternoon and narrowly escaped
lynching at that time. When news
from the hospital that Howard had
died passed over the city the fury
of the mob took definite form. Large
battering rams were directed upon
the doors of the Lieldng count?
jail, and the deputies were powerless.
The doors fell after nearly an hour's
attack.
CrrinS pitcously, - Etherington, a
curlyheaded Kentuckian, who- has
been serving as a strikebreaker since
he was released from marine service
three months ago, was dragged forth.
"I didn't mean to do it," he wailed
His cries fell upon deaf ears.
Fearing that -the mob spirit would
not be satisfied by .one victim, Sheriff
Linke immediately asked 'Adjutant
General Weybrecht for troops to pro
ject six other" dry raiders" held at
the city prison, in another section of
the town. A hurried guard . was
thrown out in their defense.
Etherington V last moments' whilfe
he heard the mob battering down the
doors, were spent in praying and writ
ing a note to his parents, farmers re
siding near Willisburg, Ky.
nnai will mouier say wnen sue
hears of thist" he kept moaning to
the jailor.
Howard, it is charged, did not re
sist the detectives when they entered
his place on the outskirts of Newark.
He, it is said, however, put his arms
about Etherington, as if to hold him.
whereupon the officer fired a bullet
into Howard's head.
Striking Baltimore & Ohio Railway
employes declare that Etherington re
cently came to Newark as a strike
breaker,' and the ill-feeling growing
out of the strike was intensified by
the slaying Friday.
ihe detectives arrived Friday morn
mg with search and seizure warrants ;
piocured from the mayor of Granville,
a nearby village. One of the fist sa
loons visited was that of Louis Bolton,
where a bartender, Edward McKenna,
was hit over the head with brass
knuckles. The detective who hit him
was pursued by a crowd that quickly
assembled. The detective was rescued
, by the police with difficulty. The of
ficers with their prisoner were follow
ed by the mob to the jail. 1
Licking county, of which Newark
is the county seat, is dry under the
Rose local option law but. Anti
Saloon League officials declare - that
the law is not enforced. Wayne B.
Wheeler, State superintendent of thi
league, at Columbus, 'declared thai
I'ridav's situation was brought about
by alleged negligence on the part oi
Ma-vor Atherton of Newark in not up
holding the law. Wheeler said thai
the detectives sent to Newark were
from Cleveland.
While the mob was battering down
the doors, Etherington was in hi?
fell. In an attempt to commit suicide
hs smothered hiV head in his cot and
ttet fire to it, " lie was caught in time.
As Etherington mounted- the block '
ready for the swjng he was asked ic
make a speech.
"I want to warn all young fellows
not to try to make a living the way
1 have done by strike-breaking and
taking jobs like this," he declared.
"I had- better have worked and I
wouldn't be here now."
The swing of the rope cut him
s- ort. He hung there for an hour,
-while the crowd quietly left. After
the first excitement there was no di9'
order. - At the finish there were hun
dreds of women and little children
. l' the crowd, all eager, to accomplish
i'la death. No member , of the mob
as masked and no attempt was mad
to conceal their identity.
Jury Finds That Flour Was Adulter
ated and Misbranded Victory For
G-evernment Peroxide of Nitro-
N gen Used in Bleaching
Wail of the Millers.
Process-
Kansas City, Mo., Special. The
jury in the bleached flour case hand
ed in a verdict that the flour 'Seized
was adulterated and misbranded, as
charged by the Government.
The verdict was returned in the
Federal Court after ssvenv hours' de
liberation by the jury which for more
than five weeks had listened to testi
mony for and against the charge of
the Government that 625 sacks of
flour, bleached and sold by the Lex
ing Mill and Elevator Company, of
Lexington, Neb., and seized while in
the possession of the purchaser, a
grocer at Casel, Mo., were adulterated
.tnd misbranded.
The outcome is a complete victory
for the Government, which prosecuted
the suit under the Pure Food and
Drug act. The Government charged
that the fjbur was aduhVrated in
that it was bleached by the Alsop
process, which makes use of nitrogen
peroxide. Misbranding was charged
in that the flour was labeled a fancy
patent, whereas it was not made of
first grade, hard winter wheat.
Millers say the bleached flour de
cision will handicap farmers of the
Southwest to the extent of $16,000,
000 a year. They say the old differen
tial of 5 cents a bushel in vogue in
Chicago and St. Louis markets be
fore bleached flour came in will soon
reappear, and that5 farmers of Mis
souri, Kansas, Oklahoma and Ne
braska will lose 5 cents a bushel on
their present crop, while flour made
from hard winter wheat soon will be
selling at 25 cents a bushel less than
t-t present.
Millers have under consideration
the establishment of bleaching sta
tions in States where the use of
bleached flour is not prohibited. Thus
they say they may avoid the Inter-
.StateuCommercfcdaw . - - --
The "Cotton King" Hit by Pine.
White Plains, N. Y., Special. Dan
iel Sully, known as the "cotton
king," was declared in contempt of
court Friday by Justice Mills of the
State supreme court and ordered to
pay a fine of $3,800 and $40 costs.
The case grew out of Sully's fail
ure several years ago, when William
Marmon Black, a judgment -creditor,
. , nrt nr1pr restrainin?
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Sully from paying out any money un
til the suit of Black had been settled.
Black contended that Sully had com
mitted contempt in paying $4,600 to
Mrs. Sully after the order had been
issued. Sully said the payment rep
resented his salary of $400 a month
for a little less than a year.
: Bids on Porto Bican Bonds.
Washington, Special. The Nation
al City bank of New York and the
Royal Bank of Canada jointly bid
$100,626 for the $425,000 4 per cent
ffold bonds of the government of
TVTf n T? l on
The joint bid was the
except that for only one bond
submitted by Edward B. Folset, of
Oak Ridge, La., at 1031-8.
round Cook's Tube on Mt. McKinley.
. Colorado Springs, Colo., Special.
P. J. Carrigan, an able seaman and
placer miner whb arrived In Col
orado Springs a few days ago, says
that he had climbed Mount McKinley
and found the copper tube and re
cords left by Dr. Cook to establish
th latter's claim of having first
ascendd the mountain.
Carrisan 's story is regarded by
John R. Bradley, Dr. Cook's former
backer, ,as sufficiently plausible to
warrant careful investigation.
To Treat Topers, c
Columbians. C. Special. Topers
arraigned before the city recorder
hereafter will be put through a course
of treatment to cure the liquor habit, j
-The city commission contracted
with one of the liquor cure institu
tions to treat at the city's expense,
prisoners assigned by the recorder to
a 'special ward for -'-inebriates, which,
is being fitted up nt headquarter
Oil Company Fined Heavily.
Enid, Oklav Special. The signing
of a stipulation by which the Waters
Pierce Oil Company is to pay, a fine
of $75,000 and be restrained from en
tering into any contract in restraint
of trade resulted " in the", dismissal
of the quo warranto suit brought
by Attorney General West against the
.company. , . . '
.- The fine is to be payable' as fol
lows: $25,000 in sixty days; $5,uuu
in 6 months ana o,uu in v immius.
It was agreed that the defendant
company should mainta: uniform
prices uponVpetrokum products in
Oklahoma. '
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Published For the Quick Perusal of
Our Patron.
Increased Pay for Southern Employes.
In the matter of the controversy
which has been pending betweGn the
Southern Railway conductors and the
trainmen on the same road j and, the
Southern Railway Company; the fol
lowing settlement , of the various
articles in the proposals were agreed
upon in Washington with ! the of
ficials of the Southern Railway Com
pany, y !
On runs of 155 miles or over a
day the following rates, went into
effect July 1, 1910: Passenger con
ductors, 21-2 cents a mile ;; baggage
men, 1.35 a mile; flagmen andibrake
men, 1.325 a mile. On and after
April 1, 1911, the rate shall be: con
ductors, 2.75 cents a mile ; baggage
men, 1.55 cents a mile; flagmen and
brakemen, ' 1.50 cents a mile.
On runs of less than 155 miles per
day the following rates will be paid
oh and after July 1, 1910: Passenger
conductors, $3.75 a day; baggagemen,
$2.30, a day; flagmen and brakemen,
$2.20 a day. On and after April 1,
1911, the rate shall be: For, passenger
and brakemen, $2.55 a day.
. Overtime in passenger service to
be allowed - pro rata rates computed
on speed basis or other basis stipu
lated in the individual schedule as of
December 1, 1909.
All regularly assigned passenger
crews will on and after July 1, 1910,
be guaranteed the following monthly
pay: Conductors $115; baggagemen,
$65; flagmen and brakemen, $62. On
and aftffr April 1, 1911, these amounts
will be increased to $125 a month for
conductors,. $.25 a day;y baggage
men, $2.75 a day; flagmen and brake-
men, $2.55 a day.
On and after July 1, 1910, the rates
of pay for through freight and mixed
trsin service to be as followrs: Con
ductors, 3.55 cents a mile; flagmen
and brakemen, 2.35 cents a mile. On
and after April 1, 1911,' these rates
jvill be: for conductors, 3.75 cnt& a'
mile; flagmen and brakemen, 2.50
cents a mile.
Runs of 100 miles or less either
straight away or turn around to be
paid for as 100 miles. ;
Employes in yard service will re
ceive a still greater., raise, the aver
age increase being about forty per
cent above the wages now paid.
Members of the Order of Railway
Conductors are free to express their
high appreciation of the increase,
which is said to be entirely satis
factory and is declared to be the best
increase ever' granted the employes
i the rqad service. The men who
run in and out of Spencer in large
numbers are frank to admit that
they feel more inclined than ever be
fore to render the very j best service
possible.
Small Strike of Section Hands.
... The strike along the Greensboro-.
Goldsboro line of the Southern,' in
which the section hands want a raise
of 50 cents daily, has apparently
not hurt the traffic and the work on
the roadbed has gone on j uninterrupt
ed. The strike really J began last
week, but- was kept a great secret
somehow and as it has amounted tb
so little there is no scare. Some of
the strikers declare that there are
several hundred hands involved in it
and though there is demand for $1.50
daily, the (strikers would undoubtedly
not cry if their demands were . met
with less. Increased cost of living
is put up as the chief cause of the
complaint -
Disputed Boundary Case Contines.
The taking of testimony in the dis
puted boundary between North Car
olina and Tennessee ' has been re
moved to I Asheville.
Women to Have Fanners' Institute.
Three farmers' institutes under the
direction lof the State Board of Agri
culture are to be held in Anson
county this month. These institutes
will be at Morven, Wadesboro and
Peaehlani, July 19, 20 and 21. There
will be hed in connection with the
institutes! , a .women 's institute pre
sided over bff Mrs. HollowelL
Record "Yields of Wheat. '
Davidson, which taken as a whole
is one of the State's. best wheat sec
tions, comes forward with a crop f rm
one farm 'that must rank with the big
gest yields of the State and perhaps
is the very largest produced by a
single farm in North Carolina. This
is the Holt farm at Linwood, in the
far-famed Jersey settlement., It is
now owned by Messrs. W. G. Penry
and J. F. Hargrave, of Lexington,
and they Imade this year 4,021 bushels
of first-class wheat, from 130 acres.
The average yeld per acre is 31
bushels. , The highest average was on
a field .of 22 acres, where 43 3-4
bushels were made. ' ;
Life in the Land of the Long
Leaf Pine
Judge Pritchard's Advice to Negroes.
Advocating the industrial education
of the negro in the belief it would
prove of infinite value to the morals
of the colored race and the return of
the negro to the farm as a solution
largely of the question of the present
high I'ost of livings United States
Judge Jeter C. Prit chard, of Ashe
ville, made the opening address' of
the summer course of the National
Religious Training School and
Chautauqua for the colored race at
Durham. Stating that this school
filled a much-needed want, Judge
Pritchard declared that the colored
teacher was essentially the leader of
his race, and it was through him that
his people might most effectively be
reached. Only full justice here and
elsewhere, he said, could be done the
negro by remembering that he had
come fresh from slavery, where de
pendence upon masters had rendered
him ambitionless without education
' The colored mau is a citizen of
the country," he r continued, "and
while he enjoys all the rights and
immunities of citizenship, he must
rely; upon himself if he would ac
complish the best things in our cit
izenship. I am thankful to say that
there has never been a time since
emancipation when a majority of the
white people of the South were not
friendly to the negro, so far as. his
welfare as a citizen is concerned. ' '
Judge Pritchard advised the colored
people to seek the farms, where, he
said, one found less racial antagon
ism in the rural districts. His con
fident belief was that no class of
men was being better treated than
the farmers and he declared if they
would go back to the farm they would
eliminate, much of the criminal ele
lent that cursed the entire race.
Noble and Lasting Nye Memorial.
The Bill Nye memorial commit-tea
ppointed at the recent meeting of the
forth Carolina Press Association to
formulate plans f or a State memorial
to the humorist, met at Salisbury
and decided that the proposed mem
orial shall take the form of a build
ing, at the Stonewall Jackson train
ing school to be known as the Bill
Nye building. The building shall
cost, when furnished and equipped,
not less than $5,000 and shall be
turned over to the trustees of the in
stitution as a permanent monument
to the lamented humorist.
i The committee elected John M
Julian, editor of The Salisbury Post,
treasurer and added Col. A. H. Boy
den of Salisbury to its personnel. The
committee also designated the fol
lowing North Carolina dailies to re
ceive subscriptions to the fund for
the memorial: Charlotte Observer,
Asheville Citizen, Salisbury Post,
Raleigh News and Observer and
Wilmington Star. An earnest and
active campaign for raising funds to
erect the memorial will be begun at
once. . 1
Members of the cbmmitte pres
ent were: James H. Caine, Asheville
Citizen, chairman; John M. Julian,
Salisbury Post; R. M Phillips,
Greensboro News; Col. A. H. Boyden,
Salisbury, and R. W. Vincent, Char
lotte Observer. .
Seduces Freight Kates.
; The interstate commerce commis
sion has ordered a reduction in
through' freight rates to Winston
alem and Durham, from Roanoke
nd Lynchburg, Va. , It amounts to
.bout d cents per 100 pounds on class
freight, and from 4 to 8 cents a hun
Jred pounds on hay, grain and pack
ing house products.
New Bank.
, The Clay County bank has recent
ly been opened at Hayesville with
CapY.-'Alden P. Howell of Waynes
ville as caskier.
Wilson Solicitor For Twelfth District
The twelfth judicial convention at
Gastonia nominated George W. Wil
son of Gaston county for the solicitor-
ship over tHe three other candidates,
Smith and Shannonhouse of-Mecklen
burg, and.Childs of Lincoln. The
deadlock was broken on the 840th
ballot, when Cleveland and Lincoln
eounties combined.
Park at Old Boone 4 Homestead.
There-is every probability that the
Boone Memorial Association will es
tablish a big and permanent park at
the old Boone homestead in Davidson
county, where the recent big celebra
tion was held and where the monu
ment to Daniel Boone was unveiled.
Mr. H. Clay Grubb has proffered a
valuable tract of land adjoining the
Boone Association's tract to the asso
ciation and other lands will be ten
dered for the purpose of converting
the place into a great Boone '. park
that will command national atten
tion. '-
The Heart xof Happenings Carre j
From the Whole Country.
Shipbuilding in the LJnited States
increased during the fiscal year just
ended, 1 1)502 merchant vessels of
347,025 gross tons being built, as
compared with 1,362 vessels of 232,
816 gross tons the year before.
Peter Smith, a husky young tan
nery worker in Newark, N. J., drank
17 jiggers of whiskey in succession,
thereby winning a bet of $1. As he
pocketed the money, he fell ttJ the
floor unconscious and died soon after
in a hospital.
Glenn H. Curtiss made an eight
minute; flight directly over the ocean
at Atlantic City. The flight was en
tirely i successful, his trip including
a flight along the entire front of
the city about a mile off shore and
1,500 feet above the ocean.
Mrs. Henry Mulsaw, of Chicago,
goaded to desperation by the alleged
brutality and unfaithfulness of her
husband, a street car conductor, shot
and fatally wounded the latter and
their 3-year-old daughter and then
killed herself by taking carbolic acid.
By an overwhelming majority,
Governor Jared Young Sanders was
declared the choice of both houses of
the Louisiana General Assembly for
the seat in the United States Senate
left vacant by the recent death of
Senator Samuel Douglas McEnery.
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Unique m the history of surgery
was an operation performed at the
Philadelphia Pennsylvania Hospital
when surgeons replaced the entire
scalp of William Jermond, 41 years
old. He will recover.
A son was born to George Hedgelon
and wife, living at Scotch Hill
Church, Pa., just over the line in
Mercer county. The father is seventy-
five years of age, and this is his
twenty-eighth child. The mother is
his second wife.
'The incorporation of the Universal
Aerial Navigation Company, of St.
Louis, has revealed plans for a com
mercial passenger airship which will
carry , up to a hundred passengers in
a 60-mile wind and at a speed of
100 miles an hour.
Grieving over the death of another
bird, 'which had been its singing mate
for over two years, a canary owned
by Mrs. Martin Hammond, who lives
near Seaford, Del., committed sui
cide by hanging itself in the top of
his cage.
An empty jail, resulting in an
empty pocketbook to him, led J. A.
Turner, who has the contract to feed
the prisoners in the Bluefield, W.
Va., lockup, to ask the city authori
ties to lodge his sixteen-year-old son
behind the bars without any charge
against him, iii order to get money
for feeding him. The request .was
refused. j
William Boland, a boyish crook,
credited by police with being one of
the cleverest forgers in ihe East, was
sentenced at New York to a term of
not more than ten years nor less
than five years in Sing Sing prison.
Though only twenty-two years old,
Boland was leader of a band -which
operated not only in iTew York, but
in Chicago, Boston, New Haven, Prov
idence, Syracuse and other cities.
With the air full of aeroplanes,
two accidents from collissions oc
curred during the meet at Rheim
France. At one time 22 machines
w,re dodging and swooping over the
Bethany, plain. The aircraft gave the
appearance of a flock of giant birdr.
'sweeping down on the field.
A toy balloon, which had been 17
days in the air and had traveled
all the way from Cincinnati, about
six hundred miles, was picked up on
a farm near Three Bridges, N. J..
by Abram Shonek. - He found pinned
to the frail craft the carpi of Miss
Zeba Goldstein, of 241 Shielto street,
Cincinnati, and he wrote her a letter.
She replied, and he got her missive.
"Uncle Joe" Cannon will take an
automobile and make a house to house
canvass in his district: He insists
that there is not any danger that' he
will not be renominated and re
elected. The speaker was asked if he
would be a candidate again for the
speakership. His eyes .twinkled as
he recalled the famous recipe for
'rabbit pot pie first catch your rab
bit. In other words, the house mus
!-.e Republican.
A record breaking baseball game I
was played at San Antonio, e,Tex., be
tween San Antonio and Waco, of the
Texas League. The game started at
2:30 pm., and was called at 7 p. m.
on--account of darkness, with the
score 1 to 1, after playing twenty
three innings. j
I Judge Joseph G. Leffler, of the Cir
cuit Court, at Muncie, Ind. must
decide whether the fact that a hus
band failed to take a bath in eight
years is sufficient cause for a divorce.
Mrs. Mary Shull, wife of Malen Shul
makes this allegation ', iu her suit, in
which she also, asks the custody of
their twe ehilden.-
Interesting News Gathered in
the District of Columbia.
THE AMERICAN .CONGRESS,
Personal Incidents and Important
Happenings of National Import
Published for the Pleasure and In
formation of Newspaper Readers.
Labor-Saving Devices Economical.
Installation of labor saving devices
in the Auditor's office of the Treas
ury having proven satisfactory, the
final adjustment of the department's
personnel has been accomplished.
It means that 196 salaries were cut
from the appropriations for the fiscal
year which began July 1. This ia
an ; estimated saving of more than
$200,000 annually.
Out of the 196 names, however,
only six will be dropped from the pay
roll, the remainder to be put in vacan
cies that have occurred since Novem
ber from deaths or resignations. The,
statement has been given out that a
few of the older clerks have been
donated about $200 a year to conform
with the general readjustment plan.
oeverai promotions mat were to ub
made been withheW.
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In the office of the Auditor of the
Postoffice, seventv-seven salaries were
eliminated, owing to the fact that ma-'
chines for the auditing of money or
ders had been installed. A sum of
$106,000 will be saved annually by a
machine that prints both the seal and
serial number on bills, a work that
has heretofore been performed by
hand.
Big Sum Saved in Printing.
; In their report to Congress the
printing investigation commission de
clared the reason f or abases in public
printing is lax. and antiquated laws,- -but
lhaf$lT(f,(500 had been saved
Uirele Sam through the Congressional
probing.
The commission, through Senator
Smoot, of Utah, chairman, reported
that $38,348.24 haxT been saved in
one year by abolishing the printing
offices in the Treasury, Interior and;
Agricultural departments.' '
It advised that the printing estab
lishments in the State, War, and
Navy departments be done away
with. The investigators asserted the
government would save $30,847.60 a
year by it. '
Pensioners Dying 32,000 a Year.
Dying at the rate of 32,000, a year,
the total number of pensioners oh the
roll of the Government is expected to
show a big decrease when Director
Duraud,, of the census, concludes his
work in the near future. There was
no tabulation of pensioners in the
last census, but the one now undez
way makes such provision.
Amount of Money Coined at Mints.
At the mints of the United States
daring the fiscal year just . closed
the Government made 188,006,668
coins, valued at $54,215,319. Of this
amount 47,578,875 worth was in
gold, $4,297,567 in silver and $2,338,-.
877 ia minor coinage. There were'
also 7,574,758 pieces of Philippine
coins issued, including1 5,276,559 pesos
and 1,500,000 one centavos.
Count Money Paper Once.
Another move toward greater econ
omy of administration in the Treasury
Department is under consideration.
The sheets of paper used in the print
ing of money are now counted three
times before they touch the printing
presses. A considerable saving in of
ffice force may be made if they are
counted only once.
Tariff Board at Work.
With ample funds assured for the
prosecution of its work, the govern
ment tariff board is going systemat
ically into the work of studying the
various industries of the country for
the purpose of obtaining informa- '
tion to compile the encyclopaedia or
glossary of the American tariff which
President Taf t is anxious to have pre
pared. .
Home-Guard to Learn Something.
, The State militiamen are to - be
taught something of actual seaman
ship this summer. Plans are now be- '
ing made by the Navy Department to
carry out these naval maneuvers. The
New England and" Middle States
militia will be taken out' to sea in the.
battleships of the Atlantic fleet, prob--bably
during the latter part of this , -month,
and arrangements are being' -V
made for other organizations through-,
out the country to take part in the
practice cruises. -
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