. SJ- . M . V FIENC1 MEMS LEADING NEWSPAPER AND BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM IN MADISON COUNTY. VOL. II. MARSHALL, MADISON COUNTY, N. C.; THURSDAY,. FEBRUARY 11, 1909. -'NO. 40. BRIEF CULLINGS Of NORTH STATE NEWS News of Interest Gleaned From All Sections of the State and Arranged For Busy Readers MORE TROUBLE AHEAD. Tie Seminole Receivers Enter Suit Afainst the Southern Life for ? 326,000. - Alleging that the transaction was t conceived any consummated in fraud of rights and interests of the stock holders in the Seminole Securities Company and that the officers of the Southern Life Insurance Company and its agents in the transaction had N knowledge of fraud and participated and benefited by it, conspiring and colluding with the officers and agents of the Seminole Securities Company, and do damtfge to the irreparable hurt, and injury of the Seminole Se curities Company, F. O. Tbompkims and others as receivers of the Sem inole Company have instituted suit in the United States Court here ask- ing that the whole transaction be tween the Seminole Company and the Southern Life Insurance Company fce annulled and the Seminole Company reimbursed the $325,000 paid to the Southern Life by the Seminole officers in the deal that has stirred sensa tion after sensation in North and . South Carolina, the home of the Sem inole corporation for the past few -months. - Tor Increase of School Term. Representative Garris in the Legis lature received a good bit of . : aideration on Wednesday. Mr. Garris explained that his till provided that if onyichool -with a term ol 20 weeks ; r less eonld through its friends, patrons or trus tees, raise an amount equal to one month's salary paid tho teacher, a - like amonnt would be. given oy the State. The nm of $25,000 was nak ed for. The bill reads as follows : - s - -"Section 1., That any public eebocl -n'.U. -Siaie whiilh has ' not ? money , enough from' the regular school funds .. to continue the session longer:- than Ave months may- have the term ex tended ' in . the ' following manner: : Whenever the patrons raise sufficient : funds by private - subscription or local taxation to extend the term : one montn. saw scbool shall receive sufficient aid to( extend the term for ; another additional month : Provided, That no one school shall receive more , than $80 under the provisions of this act in any one year. "Sec. 2. No application shall be considered unless approved by the district trustees of such school and -.- 'the county superintendent .of educa tion of the county in which said dis- tnct is located; and no funds shall oe paid out oy the Btate supenn- . tendent of education nntil the amount raised in the said school district shall , have been deposited with the eoun ' ty treasurer of -such countv to the credit of the said school in the said " scnooi district ; Provided, That no . school shall receive more than $30 tinder the term of this act. : "Sec. 3. That the sum of $25,000 if so much be necessary, is hereby appropriated for the purpose of this net " , - Killed by Accident. Charleston, Special. Mr. D. B. Feunfoy of Walterboro met his . death Tuesday .afternoon while hunt - ing birds. Alarmed at his failure , to appear for supper, his sons, J. B. Penrifoy and D. B. Penrifoy, Jr., -. went in search of him and found Lira at the steps of the target gallery .- with the top of his head blown off. The left barrel of his iron was emotv. It is supposed that he was resting and oad moved the gun accidentally - discharging iW ' Want : Uniform Weight Corn. . . Columbia, Special. At the meet ing of the Richland delegation Tues- day representatives from? the upper part of the county asked that a law be passed requiring a uniform weight in eorn. ! At present, it is stated, the -.weight and the measures do. not agree and it is desired to change this for ' the benefit of the fanner. The dele .... gallon bas-it nnder consideration. - Three Men Instantly Kflh ! Abbeville,; ; Special. Three men! were instantly killed when Seaboard! ..: Air Line freight trains Nos. 20 and 29 collided: headon six miles north ' of here early Wednesday morning. - The dead r Engineer' Clyde Moore, ' FiremaaL. H.-Niekles and a colored - brakeman. - ; The trains" "were running at high speed when they met on a long tres tle at 1:30 Wednesday morning and . both locomotives and ten cars were totally demolished. . FOB SOUTH CAROLINA WATERWAY. Mr. EUerbe's Request Meets With Favor. All of the projects for surveys of rivers and harbors in South Caro lina asked for by the various mem bers and advocated in the committee by Representative Ellerbe have pas sed the rivers and harbors committee. The bill as made up Tuesday contains the items for survey mentioned a few days ago and one important one be sides an authorization of a survey of an inland water route from Beau fort, N. C, on down to Georgetown through the Waccamaw river. Ves sels which would come down the cor.st by the inland water route from Bos ton as far as Georgetown would be ahle to take to the ocean again after having passed the dangerous Hatteras coast. The South Carolina end of the general project has been particularly championed by Mr. Ellerbe. There is a provision in the bill also for Mingo creek and for the Cooper river, Char leston. In a former dispatch Cooper sltonld have been mentioned instead of "Coosaw" for which there is no appropriation. Charged With Killing His Wife. Union, Special. The celebrated ease of W. T. Jones, charged with the mnrder of his wife, Mrs. Marion Jones, has been begun. - Shortly after 10 o'clock the calling of witnesses in the Jones case, be gan, and at 10:40 Jones, in the ens tody of Dcpnty Sheriff J, Gk Long, Jr., and accompanied by his ; son, Harry Jones, was brought into court. He appeared to he quite at ease and m the best of health and at intervals while his 1 Counsel . were -. conferring, read the daily papers. On account of the large array of witnesses," but few-spectators have hetq allowed inWourty -Uur judge had riven orders that the aisles mnst no kept cleared,' which - order was welf enforced bv Sheriff J. G. Long. At about 11:20 the calling of the witnesses- for the defense was - eon eluded by Mr. V.. E. DcPass, who is now associated with the counsel for the defense, which as at present is Mr. James Munro, Townsend & Town send and Col. George Johnstone of Newberry. Five minutes later eoun. sel for both sides held a joint con sulfation. In a few minutes the State counsel came out and then Jones had n conference with his at torneys, while the other side had conference with the family connec tions of the deceased woman.. It was shortly after 1 o'clock when Col. Geo. Johnstone made the motion to quash the indictment becanse it did not specify the kind of poison administered or the nature of the braises alleged to have been on Mrs. Jones' person. This motion, which was perhaps the feature of the morn. ing session, and the preliminary skirmish in this great legal battle, was overruled by Judge Memmmger. Dr. Jeter was the principal witness. He testified that Mrs. Jones came by her death from strychnine poison. Locating Post Office. Darlington, Special. Maj. Fred Brackett, superintendent of the site division of the treasury department, spent Monday in Darlington looking at the proposed sites for the new post office building, winch the town is to have, and gathering the neces sary information on which to base his recommendations. There are several of these lots in different ' localities and 'private interests in and around them have been putting forth stren uous efforts in their favor, and await with interest the results. New Government of Aiken. Aiken, Special. Tuesday the new board of county commissioners took their office and the new county gov ernment went into effect. Instead of being governed by a supervisor, and two commissioners at heretofore,- ths affairs of the county will be in charge of a chief commissioner and four dis trict commissioners, r v ; Forest Fire Near Aiken. i; Aiken, Special A forest fire of large extent has been raging north of Aiken. It is stated, several inousaua cores of valuable timber lands have been burned over. The damage is not known, but will probably reach many thousand dollars. The fire originated cr Saturday, when the ' wind was blowing a fierce gale, and soon got beyond all control. It is still burn ing, but not with such Inry as Sat urday and Sunday. - The fire is said to have originated through the care lessness of some unknown banters. Four small houses aft been burned. DOINGS OF THE LAWMAKERS Doings of the State Legislature Con densedInteresting items from Day to Day. ''ft: -'?.;' In the House Mr. Coxe, of Anson, introduced by consent out of order a bill to establish the Morvcn High School. . . witwv .-v. The following : bills passed third reading: . Resolution to pay the expenses of the committee on Deaf and Dumb in visiting Morganlou. - : 'I- Amend charter of the . Western Carolina. Power cud Transportation Company. . Incorporate Carolina-Tennessee Power Company . . : . -v ; Incorporate Asheville & East Ten nessee Railroad, 60-mile branch v of the C. C. & O. from Muntdale, in Yancey county, to Asheville. The bill to amend Revisal 2634 so penalties for unreasonably delayed freight might be sued for by any par ty damaged as well as the consignee was, on motion of Mr. Coxe, of Wake, re-referred to the judicial' committee No. 1, as several parties had notified the committee that they desired to be heard. Mr. Gavin explained that the present law allowed only tho con signee to sue for the penalty. The usual routine' of business in volved acts of merely local interests. In the Senate Wednesday not with out a long debate the Senate passed finally the Emple game bill, prohibit ing the sale of quail and mountain pheasants in North Carolina for two years, with an amendment by Senator Peele limiting the killing by a hun ter to fifteen birds on a single day. The Senate passed the State drain age bill for reclaiming swamp and overflowed lands. No oppositon was manifested. ,. There was some discussion of Sena-. tor Gay's bill to punish public drunk enness in the State, but it was not deemed necessary in view of the pro hibition law and was voted down. Senator Pharr and Representative Cox," of Wake,, both introduced bUls looking to an adequate forestry 4n- rean for the State, with several ai sietant foresters- to travel rrer t State, anil Ujok , .ontJSo.5ac things to be done to preserve and pepetuate the forests. An appropria tion of five thousand dollars is asked. i A new bill by Mr. Dpwd in the House restores to heads of State in stitutions the nominating power in selecting employes taken from them two years ago and prevents the em. ploymcnt of relatives of superinten dents or directors. A reformatory and amnnal train ing school for negro criminal youth is embraced in a bill introduced by Mr. Murphy, of Guilford. Many colored citiens have contribsted sums for the purpose, one woman having given eight hundred dollars. The object of the bill is simply to incor porate the school so that contribu tions may be properly received and handled. Senator Doughton by request sent forward, out of order, a bill to create the new County of Avery out of por tions of Mitchell and Watauga. After an animated, lengthy hear ing the House committee on manu factures and labor voted to report unfavorably the Hinsdale bill. The feature of Thursday was Gov ernor Kitchin's message transmitting Superintendent Mann s letter as .to the finances of the State, prison, and recommending that some $63,000 be paid back to the penitentiary from the prison Kinds in the hands of the State Treasury, being the .' money turned over for the liquidation of the prison bonds, and that the tSate pro vide other means for sottlling-the bond issue. The message was plac ed in the hands f live committees of Senate and House on penal insti tutions. , : - . In the Senate matters of general interest were in part: --f Render secure from . damage . by fires such woodlands ash' are above the 2,000 feet .contour line in North Carolina by authorizing the Covers- or to appoint fire wardens to be paid by the landowners. ; '- House bill to amend the Kevisai as to the time for advertising or pub lishing, notices-in- cases .- of caveat, making this fenr instead of . six weeks!, .:': Amend the law as to standard keepers, inserting a new section in the Revisal. - Amend the Revisal by allowing sheriffs fees of $25 for illicit distil leries seized, this fee to be payable to other police officers seizing distiller ies, v .,;-.' '.. .-. '',."'': - . "YV'-';' r Incorporate the John Charles Mc Neill Memorial Society. House bill to fix liability of banks to depositors for paying raised or forged checks- (six ' months limitation.);.-:' i-'.'':'''C";'.:T.:.'.'A'-;-i.. : The following are among the new bills introduced in the House: V ";' Grant: Amend 806. Revisal, as to issuing of injunctions by preventing an injunction stopping a sale nnder execution. '; .-. -,7 Dowd: Prevent working on the Sebath. Corrects apparent error in present law and makes violation as misdemeanor instead of punishable by s line of $1. .': Weaver: Authorize appointment of women as notaries public. Mr. Wlaver suggested, in .order that his bill might be sure of a favorable ie port, that it be referred to a special committee composed of the gentle man from Caldwell. Mr. Harshawj Uk( .gentleman from Caswell, Mr. Henderson, and the gentleman from Sttrry, Mr. llayniore. ;-Xinney: Except brandy from th( operation of the prohibition law. Al lows citizens of Alexander county to sell brandy made from fruit grown on; their own land. ' i The following bills were among those passed on third reading: Incorporate Asheville & East Ten nessee Railroad Company. fFor relief of Mrs. Emma Alice Howard, widow of ex-Slierifl Eugene S Howard, of Granville, allowing t to collect back taxes. . "n the Senate on Friday eertaii bills and resolutions were introduce! as follows: '--.Manning: Petition from certain Confederate soldiers for increased pensions. Long, of Person: Amend Chap. 224, Public Laws of 1907, relative to working prisoners on the roads at their own request. - West: Petition from citizens of Macon county with request for Con federate monument. ;.vNew bills introduced out of order were as follows: 'i Barringer: Allow cleaning estab lishments a lien on articles cleaned until the bill for the work is paid. ."Dawes: Return to the State peni tentiary $68,356.70 from the State Treasury, this being desired for use in maintenance of the prison. The bill had been prepared by the joint committee on penal institution' and Senator Dawes asked its imv -diate passage. This was done an'" the bill. wa sent to the - House lor action there. Elliott: Incorporate the Denver & laralnton Railroad Company. II yi kui,J Will!' Pnl bflnth.-- rnneer: 1'rovido- for the main tenance and support of the A. & M. College fo rthe colored .race. In the House there was a flood of bills among which are the following Hanes: Allow defendants in civil actions on appeal to make the same plea or defense in the Superior Court as they, would have been entitled to hud they been present at the former tnal.f Weaver: Authorize tho creation of railroad companies for the trans- portation of certain classes of freight by relieving them of the obligations of common earners. Foy: Relief of Pender county flood suffers.- ' - The following bills passed third reading: -vw; Permit Seaboard Air Line Railway to condemn part of Brunswick street in Wilmington for terminal purposes. Senate bill to render secure f rem fire forests lyinf 2,000 flud more feet above sea level. . Senate bill directing State Treas urer to return. to the State prison a sufficient sum from its earnings for 1908 "to support it for 1909. Provide for compensation of judges holding special terms of court, at rate of $100 a week. Amend slot machine act of 1907 so as to exempt from tax those dispen sing 'drinking water only. "i : In the the Senate Saturday among the number of bills of local interest was ne .by Mr, Holdcn to expedite the mat of causes both civil and criminal, and relative to challenges. At tho request of Chairman Dough- ton, pt the committee of agriculurc, the bill to regulate the registration of stock and poultry feed was re-re ferred to that committee in order that there imay be a further hearing as to its provisions February 15th. The substitute for the Bcrham and Starbuck bills to equalize peremptory challenges in tbe trial of capital cases and abolish-the practice of the State in standing aside jurors to the end of the panel, providing that the State have twelve and the defendant eigh teen -eluillcnges, passed its third read ing -v-v: v:- - House bill to allow the board of agriculture to sell test farms and give titles. ;,',;.f";f ;:, .?:'-.:;:. - Amend Revisal relating to fees of cornets so as to allow fees of $3 in ease bo foul play is found and a jury not nscessary. . ; .Tee-bill to provide better protec tion for the employes of railroads do inf interstate business and assuring thtm the rights of personal property exemption came np with favorable re port from the. committee. , It - was Senator Bassett's bill..; Senator Fry spoke' in opposition ' to the - bill and Senators Bassett and Barringer for it Tie bill passed final reading. ,. iA resolution by Senator Lee rela tive to tbe death of Representative; Hayes 'providing that when the Sen-' ate adjourn for the dav it do so in his memoiy, was adopted. - In the House Mr. Harsh aw offered a resolution in memory of Thomas N. Hayes, member from Wilkes, news of whose death had reached the House. The resolution expressed tbe grief and sympathy of th House of Representa tives, a provision that it be spread upon the journal, and that the House adjourn at 12 o'clock in his memory. Adopted at once unanimously. On motion the Speaker appointed Mr. Caudill. the colleague of the de ceased member, and Messrs.' Grump ier, Career, Buck and Tojplin a spec ial commitee to represent the House at the funeral at Purlear. in Wilkes county, the home of the Representa tive whose vacant seat is now draped in mourning and garlanded with a wreath. A joint resolution offered, by Mr. Morton was adopted unanimously to the effect that the State pay the funeral expenses. The following new bills offered: Taylor: Amend Revisal 370, rela tive to bringing new actions after non-suit . Foy: Joint resolution to pay expen ses ef sub-commit ree visiting insane asylums. Connor: Repeal Revisal 4792 and require assessment insurance compan ies doing business in North Carolina to make deposit with the State Treas ure . Perry: For greater protection and comfort of the traveling public. (Substitute for similar bill which was mislaid). Provides for screens to windows of hotels and boarding houses and railroad ears. Livingston : Reouire attendance on public schools in Tryon white graded school district. Polk county. Gordon: Amend Revisal relating to public health. (Enlarges powers of State board of health and increas es appropriation from $2,000 to $10. 000, putting secretary in the field, providing for assistants and active work). Tho Rico Supply Estimated. Houston, Tex., Special. A. E. Groves, secretary of the Texas-Louisi ana Farmers' Association, has given out an estimate of the rice now held In fanners ond, by mills. According to his fijriirrs there are 800,000 -sacks of d.r.n and ion?li rice in Louisiana and 917,003 in Texas, of which latter .rl (1,900 is rcush. Mr. Groves esti-t?at-i that 300,000 socks will be need ed fr seed, leaving a total oavihiblc supply f 1.417.500 sacks. Haskell Memorial Home Burned; Three Missing. Battle Creek. Mich., Special. The Haskell Memorial Home was destroy ed by tire Friday morning. Three of the thirty-seven members of the or phanage are missing. Seven little girls jumped from a third story win dow, but it is not thoujrht any of them are fatally lnrt. j;es Arm strong, 12 years old, standing on a shed under the window from which the girls had to jump, directed them how to make their fall as easy as possible and caught two of the small er girls in his aims. Dies Protesting Innccence. Spartanburg. S. C. Rneeinl. Will Foster, colored, who was twice con victed on the chaise of mnrederiu" John Young, a well-known white man of the country, in November. 1007, was hanged in the county jail Friday morning. Foster went to his death declaring his iniiocincr. After the black cap had been adjusted he was asked if he desired to make anv state ment, and he replied that r.ll he had to say was that he was innocent. General Items Condensed. The very latest says n man has been dug out of the ruins of Messina conscious and with chances 'of life after being shut up there 3 days. The town of Yehama (says a Chi cago dispatch of the -4th) is 13 feet deep in water. Pittsburg, Pa., has been the victim of many negro depredations and to suppress it many of them have been arrested. This lias brought- that his toric city al-.nost face to face with a rate war. Woman Brutally Mardered. Winston-Salem; Special. Chai Irs Ferrell, a negro about 34 years old, brutally murdered his wife, Chrissie, Friday Afternoon as sbe sat in her home on Highland avenue. J Ho lired four shots from a revolver, kill:ng ber instantly. An eye-witness savs Ferrell began firing after his 'wife told him sbe vas afraid to live with him longer, she having left bim after a, light Christmas week, . . r TAIXOW IS FATTENING. It is said that beef or mutton tal low Is most excellent fattening food for peultry and "may be fed at the rate ot -one ounce to each bird per day with profit, provided It dioee not cost in exoess of six cents per pound. Farmers' Home Journal. - ; Korea's average annual rice crop Is placed at 2,560,000.000 Bounds. HOW TO CURE RHEUMATISM. It It An Internnl Disease and Re quires An Internal Remedy. The cause of Rheumatism and kindred diseases is an excess of uric acid in the blood. To cure this terrible disease this acid must be expelled and the system so regulated that no more acid will be formed in excessive quantities. Rheumatism is an intern til disease and requires an internal remedy. Itubhing with Oils and Liniments) will not cure, affords only temporary relief at best, causes you to delay the proper treatment, and allows the malady to get m firmer hold on you. Liniments may ease the pain, but they will no more cure Khesv matism than paint will change the bbre of rotten wood. Science has at last discovered a per fect and complete t-ure, which is called 'Kheumacide. ' Tested in hundreds of cases, it has effected the most marvelous cures; we believe it will cure you. Ubeu macidc "nets nt the joints from the in side," sweeps the poisons out of the sys tem, tones up the stomach, regulates th liver and kidneys and makes you well all over. Rheumacide "strikes the roots of the disease and removes its cause." This splendid remedy is sold by drujrgists and dealers generally nt 5Cc. and $1 a bottle. In Tablet form at 23c. and 50c. a package. Get a bottle to-day. Booklet free if yoia write to liobbitt" Chemical Co., Balti- Inhuman Eevengc. At Amite City, La., as a result of an ambuscade growing out of a ram ily feud, two women and a man were killed, one of the alleged assasins is being held under a heavy guard and the country for miles around is being searched for another man a!lccd to" be implicated in the murders, which occurred recently. It is alleged that as Benjamin Rreland, his wife and Mrs. Joseph Everitt. the latter carry ing an infant in her arms, were mak ing their way homeward along one of the parish roads, Avery Blount and Garfield Kinchen fired on them from the side of the road with shotguns. Mrs. Averitt fell with her baby into the road, her head blown almost off. Mrs. Breland's breast was torn off by one of the volleys and Breland himself fell nt the first fire. Young people driving home from a party found the baby crawling about among; the bodies. Breland was still living" . miu was auic iu luuimui tun iwu - Kincben before he died.. Avery Blunt was captured after an all-night neareh nnd fiTii thiJip'nrit- 'UMtlonil Vitif will nAt cav n,Yin triTIoT the woman. Mrs. Everitt 's hnsbandf was killed by Ben Kinchen, a brothet of Garfield, several days ago, and tber widow and her baby were making their hoine with the Brelands. Bad feeling bas existed among the lami Jiej for a number of years:, - A YARlf. Chicago News. "Two can live as cheap as one," Yes, they can! They can, like fun! You ask any one who's tried it; See just what ho '11 say. Most of them are satisfied it Goes the other Way. Toughest yam was ever spun. "Two can live as cheap as one." "Two can live as cheap as one." No one ever saw it done. No one in his sober senses Has this slightest doubt If he figures on expenses How that's coming out. When uphill the water run "Two can live as cheap as one." Fifteen hundred make a ton. Woman never 's money spending Does not care for dress? -So if marriage you're intending Living might cost less"." .' , No, don't swallow that, my son. Tv.-o can't live as cheap as one;' NO MKIMC1XB Cut a Change of Food Gave Relief. Many persons are learning that drugs are not the thing to rebuild worn out nerves, but proper food tm required. . - Ihere Is a certain element in the cereals, wheat, barley, ete, which is grown th?re by nature for food to brain and nerve tissue. This Is th phosphate of potash, of which Grape Nuts food contains a large proportion. In making thla food all the food elements in the two cereals, wheat and barley, are retained. That Is whr so many heretofore nervous and run down people find In Grape-Nnts m true nerve and brain food. ' ' "I can. say that Grape-Nuts food has done much forme as a nerve re newer." writes a Wis.- bride. "A tew years ago, before my mar riage, I was a bookkeeper In a larg ' firm. I became so nervous toward the end of each week that It seemed 1 must 'give np my position, which I ; could not afford to do. v ,,;A, ' "Mother purchased . tome Grape NuU. aid we found It not only deli cloas, but 1 noticed from day to day that I was Improving arilll I finally realised I was not nervous any more. - v. I nave recommended It to friends as a brain and nerve food, never hav ing found Its equal. I owe much to Grspe-Nuta, as It saved me from m nervous collapse, and enabled me to retain my position." " , ,- Name given by Postum Co.. Battle Creek, Mich. Read, "The Road to Wellvme." in pkgs. "There's a Reason."-, v Ever read the above letter? A irn one appears from time to time. They -are genaine, (roe, and full of humus' interest. v . 1 i y