I i Jii 1 i3iNG medium in madison county. MARSHALL, MADICO I Cm THURSDAY, APRIL 29, 1909. NO. 51. r;. : in th; 1 ;:i Hill C 3 Sublet 'to ..-..i;.;t IVhsn II is Tefccn Up Kdhday& 'r.d ths v;hcb CJH la Thus Cubject ; A" toReviiionDifcra Pax$Ini--'Vrx:lf--,y-;:' Washington,' Special. The ; first reading of the trail! bill for eonsid erationof committee amendments was concluded when the Senate adjourned Frday. .According to . an agreement made when the reading .: was : begun every paragraph or the entire bill will be subjeet to amendment when it is -tnken tip for final consideration on each4 paragraph Monday. While the whole measure is thus subject to fur ther revision, all conceded that sub stantial progresj!isa been - made. There' will be no return to many of the schedules. ". . ' ; - :..- ' There was comparatively little aV bate od the measure, Fridayae Sena- xor AWnch postpoued . replying - to many questions asked of him in order to hasten tho eondusicTTof the read ing of. the measure, sajfng he would make full explanations when ' the various amendments receive final con sideration. Many provisions, includ ing the wood pulp and wool schedules, were Friday passed over, on specific c: '.mn. '-:, - ..''.. .. Lurir? tb reading of ' th tariff r!'l, uuuieroue requests were made on t e part of both Republicans and democrats for the passing over of various schedules, althongh an agree ment had previously been made, that such action wss not necessary in or der to permit a Senator to enter aitl obtain a vote on any amendment..; .' Senators McCnmber and Simmons sufgostcd that the lumber schedule be psssod over aud Senator Beveridgc wade lie same request in respect to t'.e tobacco eeliedules. . i ;TC,: ALDHICH FIGURES SURPLUS Al.hich estimates that tho Aldrich bill will produce $399,052,-' c: i: 107. K.ee!pts. . .$ 5li7,240,S51.S9 '.. 537,035,337.53 .. 502,473 2 13 21 ; . 500,300,674.40 ,-. 540,631,740.40 ,'. 544,274,684.85 594,454,121.67 :.; , 603,140,334 05 ',,601,120,113 53 1000.. .. 1001.. 1902.. .. 1903.. .. 1904.. ., 1905... ., 1906.-; , , 1907,. , I 1903.... .. Deficit, , Estimatcij receipts and disbursements for fiscal years 1909 to JQU, Jncjuiivej . . r v : : ' . Fiscal Tear. 3010.. ., t '.":-,f Receipts. .$ 605,047,230.00 ,. 653,000 000.00 CQ3,QQ9,000.00 Actual receipts, nlno and one-half mon!hs, 1009. . ,, DUburiementi, nine and'ene-half months, 1000,; .; Deficit, nine and one-half months, 190077 . , ,, ,, ,, KIDNAPERS If! JiS. Mercer,- Fa., JSpeoial. Indictments i were returned here Friday night by Morcer grand jury against James H. Boyla and bis wife in connection with the abduetion of Willio Whitla, of Sharon, Pa., on March 13. A true bill was found against Boyle, charg ing kidnaping. : The maximum sen tence is jlife . imprisonment.' In the ease of the woman, the same bill was loo returned, with' an extra count fharging her with aldin?. assistinsr SIX PERCOflS iriJURED . Fort ' Oaiucs, " Oa., ; Special. Six persons were injured aud thousands pt dollars' worth of property ;. de atroyed iir a cyclone that . pwept through Clay county Fnday mornlnj. Till approach of the storai threw this place into a rinio, the rorri:j; cf the dementi cau,; woman and c'.il.'j.-n to run abot the stroe!s c . ' Alt. traatodly. - V'i";!a a . f, v "hiir.ilrsd yards of Fort Guinea tie s:c: 1 end- taylcco'5 rAr.rc. Frankfort, Ky, r-ccial. C Willson Friday cleared (lie II court records of rll ' ;; s r out o fthe murder ii; 1'.' ' ), of Cocbel, exceptth.'-e 1.. B'ifijpsts in t! e ! i ly r ' '- i r x:. s .1,: ' -r au.i r .. c r;r , v:,o i-v- f:n , f 1.. ' 1 ( .. 4 , IT Hi 11 H r i ; i j Senator McLaurin, of Mississippi, requesting that various schedules un der the head of agriculture be pass ed over, Senator Aldrich asked whether he did not wish to make a similiar request in respect to rico, the duty on which the flnace committee had allowed to stand at 2 cents per Jound as passed by i he House. v v "Ihere is nothing under the agri cultural schedules that, is so high as the duty on rioe,!' , . suggested Mr. Aldrich. '- ... ' ; - - .. .. -"Still r wo : might amend - the sohedule," aid Mr. McCumber, smil ing. ::;;;:...J;V;.'f-...,;.::; "Let ? it be ' passed,' ' interposed Senator Gallinecr with a significant glance toward the Democratic side. - The Phillipino sugar schedule call ed forth a vigorous criticism ort the part of Senators Clay and Bacon, of the policy of admitting sugar from the Philippine islands to the United States free of duty. They declared (bat the free admission of 225,000 tons of sugar from, Porto Rico and j 400,000 tons from', the Hawaiian is lands bad not affected the price of re fined sugar and added- that whilo granulated sugar intbe United States sells for 4.06 cents per pound, it is sold for 2.70 cents a pound in Lon don. Mr. Bacon insisted . that "the ilitroductiott of free Philippine sugar would, by replacing an equal amount of dutiable sugar, reduce the reve nues without any benefit to the peo ple of this country. .'Yli.:'.'r' " ' Tho paragraph was passed - over under objection by . Senators Poster and Newlands.1 ; r DSis or ine importations of 1907, as against $329, i t V n AMwb b:ll will raise $9,934,420 more in 1910 1 will r,V t 51.13,512,533 ' ie nc( s."'itii'9. " . , 'j.iiiiiis showin?' 'the rorv' 1' t'.e Ti iry i,.r t!;) i: . , from lux- ls and di- "'0 i o of 1 Disl'.!i"!! menfs. $437.713.701.71 ' 509,9C7,253.15 471,190,857.64 506,039,022.04 i. 532,237.821.31 563,300,093.62 649,405,425.35 551,7Cfl,,129 04 621,102,390.64: a Ciinal for fia- Surplus. $ 79.527,000.13 77,717,984.33 91,237,375.57 : 54,307,652.38 8,393,928.09 19,085,403.77 45,043,696.32 111,435,205.01 19,976,273.11 "Disbursements, $G74,509,630.0(J 700,000,000.00 CW,0QQ,0Q0.oo Surplus. 69,462,430.00 .:, 43,000,000.00 30,000,000.00 ; .$483,042,873.23 -., 633,938,315.83 -.. 65,943,043.60 MESHES OF THE LAW and abetting in the kidnaping. The indictment against Mrs. Bovle. identi fies her as follows: Mary Doe, alias Helen . - Anna vMoDermott, Parker, Miner, Torka and Boyle. The trial of the abductors will begin next Fri day, April 30." The grand jury )n ported that Sheriff Chess lad. been instructed by them to place Boyie in a bnrglar-prcof cell because of. recent attempts to liberate him by 'parties OH. thO Qfcgd V-.r '- 1ft GEORGIA CYCLONE denly swerved and tooS away onlj a corner of the town, demolishing a nnmbep of negro romei, wrecking thl eourtry homes of B. F. Grimssy and. J. Sutton. I'J. Grimiey, Mra. West, two ncjrc-"children and .tw farm hand of JJr. Gdmiey wire lat jusod. A Centnil of Georgia train escaped by tbe7 narrow margin ci thirty setond, having -passed that far ahead' 0 the oyclone, cc;::l'5 riT.DqruvENGjy) is, cf Lo-hsville, and Zach Steele, r.-'I county. a cvtr v liom indictments' sirs nie Wnltc 11 Golden, ol "v i:r Colorado j Frank county,- now a railroad . I.ouis, nnd 'William I J x (,., -.1. f 1 . - ire i '' , 'L !; W county, Said to H ' ' 1 i 1 '. Wet 'recently. j li t' 0 ri-sible ex - Ct.;. win b r.v '. Youfsey, ii t!u LEAOISb fl SORTIE H. ft Baskerville Attempts to Get : ,. Food Into Tabriz, , PERSIAN CiTY IS BELEAGUERED Hungry Mobs at Consulates For the Provisions Permitted to Foreign - Representatives English Real. . .. dents Appeal to London For Aid. Tabrls, Persia. An American, H. C. Baskerville, until . recently . teacher , in the Presbyterian school here, was killed . outside . of Tabriz while leading a sortie of Nationalists from the city. ' The object of the ex pedition was to open a way tor the bringing In of provisions, of whlcb the city stands greatly; in need. It was not successful. - ' ' , -- -':. .The situation-here Was desperate. The'Chrlstians of Tabriz armed them selves to put up a strong defense dur ing the bloody disorders. - The Eng lish residents sent a telegram to -Foreign Secretary Grey 4a London, ap pealing for , immediate help.' . The Russians took refuge in their consul ate. - 1 , : To add to the terrors of tho sulfa tion iu the besieged city, th&tforeiga. consulates were : threatened by a starving mob. The consuls are-per-mlttSd to receive necessary jing supplies, which in the present zWior able condition of the people ; make them an object of jealousy, v ; As a result of the otrono; represen tations made by the British and Rus sian Ministers in Teheran the Shah consented to a six-day . armistice, a measure which will enable the ob taining of provisions for the thou sands of women and children in Ta briz clauorlng for bread. ' : --Washington, D. C An American named Baskerville, a teacher in the Presbyterian Boys' School at Tabriz, wtjo had been accused of complicity in revolutionary movements, was killed in battle according to a dis pjrtch from Consul Doty at Tabrlr . Baskerville-was active in as3JllnS the Persian revolutionists , "Sa'nst the Government. Possible .-ompllca-tions were avoided by t&,,,romPt "is avowal by -the Pres').';''-erla.nI mission at Tabriz of all of F8 rT C' The mission garrc"6.1113,0- he either refrain t? , ln?rferln2, la Persian politics of resiSn his position, which he did. :I " St Paul vr-n. Homer C. Bas kerville wa37eat'-(fo' ie od acordlne f hIa mother, wbo, with the Crfr fh". the Rev H. r' -rvllle. resides at lioyelton-i Mo.. Where the latter IS pastor or the Presbyterian churcft. i! . : Mrs. Baskerville taid the . young man had always been of an adven turous disposition and had gone into the missionary service about eleven months ago. The mother had heard nothing of his fate until the cable dispatch was read to lier. ' -. -i AMERICAN CntlSEHS TO TVKKES" orth Carolina and Montana to Sal) v .-For AJexandretta From Cabfc Washington, D. C To afford U protection posslblo to Amsrlcan-clti-sens and their Interests In Turkey, the Administration has decided to dispatch a special Bruiser equadroh tq (that country. . :v - : . : '-. It was explained that this action was taken not because of any particu larly alarming news that had been received, but simply aa a precaution ary msasure. . .. - The squadron will consist of tht armored cruisers North Carolina and Montana, now at Ouantanamo, Cuba, under command ot Captains Marshall and Reynolds respectively. Their 1m mediate objective point will be Alex andretta on the Mediterranean cohst of Turkey, which la in close proxim ity tq Tarsus and Adana. where se rious trouble has occurred.' " ; s- ; . ' METHODISTS RAP PATTEN, Cincinnati' Minister Adopt Resolu tions on the Wheat Corner, - -Cincinnati, Ohio. Despite the fact that J. A, Patten, the wheat king, is building a gymnasium costing $150,. 000 tor the Northwestern University, a Methodist institution of Evanston, 111., the Cincinnati Methodist mlnta ters .passert resolutions condemning "the action which cornered wheat in Chicago." . : a Chicago. -Mr. Fatten expressed a feeling of weariness when informed that Methodist ministers of Cincin nati bad condemned -'the action Which cornered wheat in Chlcsgo.'' -'What's tht uis of talking? Every, body who knows anything about cant dltloni knows that IhDVin't cornered wheat, ' Nobody has cornered It. Priest are high and they want a scapegoat, ' I'm the man chosen, If 1 sold every grain of wheat I bare tht price wouldn't drop," TU I. M1UTIA WIPED on.' Hhode Island General Anib:y Will - ' - - Have to Remedy l.rror. " Providence, R, I. Every military and naval organization in the State, including the State militia, the Gov ernor's personal staff and a dozen In dependent chartered companies, has just been wiped out "of exislenco by the Rhode Island General Assembly through an error. In an attempt to amend the militia law the entire act was revealed In stead. The Assembly mus t remedy the mistake by a sain enacting la pro per form a militia bill. . , 1- i'-- 38 kLi.lll Lasts Fiva f.'. , Mils Six and I.,-.-. 1 'ty STREWS CITY !H WRECKS Olie Storm Erolto V.lyut Warning 'With Suvli Vli - n as to Wreck 1 ; Churches, Overtlirow Smoke " stacks Bind Demolish Factories. -i. -. ' Cleveland, Ohla. 3 From six to twenty persons are drJL at least nine are latally injured, flt.y or more are seriously hurt, and property haaeen damaged to the-valuaiof $1,000,000, as the result, of a tornado lasting only five minutca, which hii Cleveland cX noon. . - 'j. . ).' '.f ;;.,.. ,! The storm bro'e with hardly n minute's warning, e-:1 go vlolant wa3 lie wind that roofs v. ere blown away, small hous?, ba. v.'and strongly braced smokentack3 Uemollshed, tele phone and telegraph poles uprooted or snapped off, and1 wlreB blown across streets in all ports ot the city. The known dead are: v Jasper Cromwell, Ijlown from a train at Clevaland Furnaco Company plant; Mrs. Oliva Fhalen, nurse at State Hospital, skull crushed by stone blown from build In g unidentified woman blown Into a pond at Wade Park and drowned; .Tosoph V3la, killed by falling smokestack at Creve land Frog and Croaslag A' arks; Louis Petro, crushed by falang roof, died at hospital; Joseph Slatek, struck on head by flying timber, died at hos pital. W- " - The fatally Injured are: John Niei balskl, boy, injured byifv:ng steeple at St Stanislaus ChtircU; I iubysky, crushed by flving t lhe- Louis Pe tro, crushed by fa!i 4 roof; Gladys May, injured by tuning-h;d; Mrs. O. J.-Herig, fell In lic; :loi ho L water when roof eoilapas'; Cli iii'S Traut man. blown oft i irio.e and Ohio elght train 1,. t both legs, roll. - under whelsj. r sAes Heder. six. teen years old, str. bHy Uglit. ni;; msid Young, .-body crushed T i.en wind overturned his jwagoii. Harry Bender, head erushed Icauaiit under buggy overturned by vfnd! Fred Gru gel, committsd sulci, durlnr . ths height of the ftorm hecause he was afraid he w t tells killed.. He rushed into a 1 and drani; c '. note e ' Tho ; east, ( cut of' the rain Id. He loft a Vi. a the north tie blowing at V In Its wake ' n and ; hall sixty-s : followe 1 e. ! wMrt' ,11 v : were blown off t! . t t.nd hui 4 against buildings. - wilule In- ii: ay cases they were struck down by fly ing bricks end timbers which tilled the air, ' Porche3 were stripped off houses, and, in some nuances, roofs were carried 800 feet.j t uylights and windows were crushed-and many per sons were injured by flying glass. . ' Twelve echool building were dam. aged and many pupils ba J remarkablo escapes, but none waa-seriously hurt. The largest single i : damage ' was done te St. Stanislaus Church, East Blxty-flfth street and FOrmao avenue, ThV wind almost deiiiotished the structure, The loss 13 estimated at 1125,000, - - At Cedar avenue and East 107th street the plant of the Kinsman Ice Cream Company -and ..tho Salvation Army Post Hall were wr'ted by the wind. A barn owned by c les Brotht art was lifted In tht air e id deposited ttty feet In tht rear tf Us former site, - It Wt twisted t d the root burst from. It as it lane 1, but tour torses Inside tht barn 1 9 not hurt, ' Karl Grant, sixteen, eon f Mrs. Wla (Jrant Wilson, florint in South Fourteenth street, was burled In the debris of tho greenhon -s-s when a, fifty-foot smokestack ere ed through the glass building. . He was uncon scious when removed, end suffered serious Injuries. ' Four 600-ooupoT. c'orr of ZIon Lutheran' Church, 1 ..h' avenue and WestFnurteenth t ..rest, were ripped from the buildi, -, one strlk Inc John Carter, labn r. Twenty children at play in tiii churchyard ran . panlcatrlckOn into 1. a pastor's house, but escaped injm y, - ; GOVERNOR LILLT jjjacenmbs Alter Long ' test Campaign Jn C - "Hertford, Conn. L. Lllley'dled at the 1 eioa and fire hills to'.r. 1 or'a ase, fortj-nlne yer ly after tho culclal en tht death. Governor Lllley wtu tall after on ot tht . palgni the 6'att had r years. After bis eleetii attempted to havo his dared void on the gr; Corrupt Practices Act ! lated, in that money 1 In Mi Interests. - 1 failed. - Before le was eleclr served as Representar Canjrress.' A year aeo pational charges that hind a BubraariDe bo:r ln;; Congress and end millions for on obsoii marine. Tha charpes tton and brniiant (nv (he hntr;l of many of He failed to prova t names v( p spj.li' -d floor cf tft !'! find Hots '.:ut,. ' " Oeorge i manr 1 t overn Jiatei unt o( 1 last 1 cam m many : ' T.leS a de. t the 1 vlo- 1 used t ' arses r he -9 in i sen i be 11 pt ) pet iub I, ,1 .-' . TAYLOR m FINLEY Willson, cf Kentucky, Dismissst ' Csses Against Six Men, YCUTSEY ALCHE WAS PUNISHED After Xlnc years in Exile Accused ot Complicity in Murder ot Gov - cmor Can Return to His Nutlvo (State. ' Franlifort, Kjv W..- 3. Taylor, de posed as Governor ot Kentucky In January, 1900; Charles Flnley, who held the dace of Bearatary of Slate; John h. - Powers,-. John W. Davis, "Zach" Steele, and Hai'lan Whltta ker, all of whom Were Indicted for the murder of AVilllam Coebel, have been pardoned before trial by Gov ernor Augustus E. WillEon. Governor Willson has thus dis posed of the famous Goebel case, which has played a. prominent part iu politics since tho assassination at Frankfort more than nine years ago. He gave pardons several months ago to Caleb Powers and James Howard, both of whom bad been convicted of the murder of Coebal. Henry E. Youtsey 3 serving a life sentence for the crime, but Governor Willson da-1 ciares ne is airecuy guuij. . Taylo'r apd Flnley are now In In diana, where they fled immediately after . Goobel. died. ? John Powers, who is a brother of Caleb Powers, also left the State, aud 13 believed to be in Honduras! ( ir " , ' - Governor Willson: reiterates the belief he expressed when he par doned Caleb Powers and James D. Howard, that 110 : one but - Youtsey had part in tha murder, and that it was not a conspiracy, as thev Com monwealthharged. . - Governor Willson slates that no demand has been made on him by the Commonwealth .lor reaulsltlon to bring the fugitives, back to Ken tucky, and it Js jevldent that no.at tempt, will bo ' made to prosecute ttem. .' 5 ' -V ''-' '-' " at-)ele, Davis and Whlltaker never left tho- 4ia. and although they were In. custody tor soma time, they were not brought trial. Not one ot those pardoned avhtt time bat ever been tried oa th jndletmsnt touhd against him. 1 Atu.r Taylor and Flnley fled to Indiana 4K, Gov ernor of that State declined 4o -rani a requisitioa forvtheir- return, .d sucoeeding Govarnors followed his e.-Bmple.,i'V'"'Sv'?;-'":ii''')i-';i;'''i'?'::' . , These pardons ends one Ot the most remarkable murder c-Rses in the his-Xi'-ni .thnjKQui.li WiUJam Goebel, a Democrat, was asiastiiimted In front of the Kentucky State Capitol, while he was contesting the election- of W. S., Taylor to the Governorship.:- The contest had caused great excitement, and thousands bf men were armed, ready for trouble.' - The Legislature deposed Taylor, and ho and Flnley were Indicted on a charge of com plicity In the murder. ; They both fled across the Ohio River Into Indiana) Caleb Powers, then Assistant Secre tary, of State, was arrested and charged directly with the murder; He was- convicted twice for first degree murder, but Governor. Willson spar doned him. He is now on a lecturing tour through the country, -;; Requisitions for Taylor and Flnley by three Democratic Governors ot Kentucky were refused by three Re publican executives in Indiana. When Governor Willson, who is a Republi can, was elected it was forecast that an end would be put to the wholt CAst, Ons oi hit first sets was tht pardoning ot Caleb Po .vers, -, ..' i TROMIXEXT HEX DEAD, Senatoi' Stewart, Ciilonel' llartlctt and Editor Collier All Pass Away, ' ; Washington,. D. C. Former United States Senator William M. Stewart, ot Nevada, ' died in the Georgetown Hospital here, following an operation. Mr.' Stewart was eigbty-two years old and for twenty-eight years altogether he represented Nevada In the Senate, a lapse between 173 and 188? Inter vening to prevent a continuous ser vice record from 1S85 to 1905. New York City. Colonel Franklin Bartlett, lawyer, commander of tht Twenty-second Regiment, secretary o( . the Sun Printing t.nd publishing As sociation, died from carcinoma of tho liver la his home, No, 28 West Twentieth street, y -' Colonel Bartlett, wbo won unusual tuccess at the bar, was born in Won cester County, Mass in" 1847. New York City. Peter F, -Collie! publisher. ot Colller't Weekly, dleij suddenly of apoplexy, ; lit wtt bora In County Carlo, Ireland. Ht wai tht founder ot Collier's Wekly, o which bil sou, Robert J, ColUev, ll tdlto?, 4 .:'"': V'-.:.r;' ...'5-. ';;- I AUTO STRUCK FARM WAGON, Harvard Student Killed Furmct-'i Vt'tik'Ie .Not Damaged. .-. Boston, Mass. Joseph Brewer, Jr.; twenty years old, a student at Har vard University, aud son of Joseph Brewer, of Milton, of the firm of Charles Brewer & Co., of this city, was Instantly killed iu an automobile accident at Jamaica Plain. Mr. Brewer was driving his Car along Walk Hill street when he ran Into a farm waon. The automobile was overturned, Mr. Brewer being crushed beneath it. The wiigon was not damaged, - . -nr. j 43 v: I 1 ' BRIEF CULUNGS OF NORTH STATE IitV.5 News of Interest Gleaned from All Sections of the State end Arranged For Busy Readers Sleeping Cor oaJSamlet Train. Vilmington, Special. In connec tion with the change in schedule .on the Seaboard Air Line May 2, Dis trict - Passenger Agent Qattit an nounces that for the train leaving Wilmington at 3 a. m there will be a local v sleeper between Wilmington and Hamlet to be opened at Wilming ton for occu--mcy of passengers at 9 p. m., returning from Hamlet and open for occupancy at 8 p. m., pas scngeis being allowed to remain in same affcr arrival in Wilmington un M,8 0. n., berth in either direction being $1.80. This will be a great ac commodation to the traveling public cp account of tho unseemly hours at which the train will arrive and depart from Wilmington. ' Two Stills Destroyed in Wilkes. Statesvillc, Special. Deputy Davis has been doing considerable business the past few days. Last Thursday he and Sheriff Adams of Alexander county, went over into Wilkes and destroyed two blockade plants. ' Que of these was a very large plant locat ed on a branch in a valley between two mountains, and had been in bus iness but a short time, all of tho fix tures being practically new. When the officers reached the summif of one of the mountains overlooking the distillery they could see two negro men at work at the plant. - As the of ficers went down the side of - this mountain, howefer, the negroes hur ried up the mountain on the other side of the valley and escaped. About 1,800 gallons of beer and a lot of meal at the still for the onrnose was destroyed along with the plant by the ' orucers. . , Death of Mrs, T. F. Klutta. Salisbury.' Spccial.T-Mrs? Theodore Franklin Klutts, wife of ex-Congressman Theo. F. Kluttay of Salisbury, died at a hospital in this city, where she' had -been under treatment : for several days,- The end came sudden ly, however, and was a great shojpk to this section of North Carolina, Tivhere she was well Vnown; She wa sixty years old and is" .survived by a sister, tavs Jennie Caldwell, and one broth- 'w xi alnrnll 1 iKwwj'OTiriiiwTTwiis, -;. V.'.!:"'. i' . iviuttz, jr., ana Mate benatoi white head Kluttx. : .-: ; v ; 'r ; Freight Train Wrecked and; Trade '. -.V: k; Delayed. . . :. iflickory, Special Southern freight Np. 74 was derailed three miles east of Hickory Thursday morning. Four teen freight cars were thrown from track, some of them forty or fifty feet, away, and many smashed into the track, some of them forty or fifty ws torn up and teveral telegraph pplee leveled. ' Strange to relate no one wat hurt. The engine and ca boose remained on the track, The' cause it ascribed to a broken flange, i Passenger traioa were delayed tever-J I hours while a wrecking crew from Ainevme removed tot debris and built a new track, : ... : . Sendargon Boaati ef Zti freiks. ' Hendersonrille, Special. . Tht French Broad Hustle ot- tbit week authoritatively notet the fact rthat twenty-nine sets cf twina have been bom in Henderson county during the last twelve months, and on another page states that on Monday last tbe Balfour: cow gave birth to twin elea.' In addition to tl.it a child bas just been born here with five flu gert and a thumb on each band; one suDscriber finds a four-legged chicken infats barn, and anotht ; hat- hen wnich spoils tbt scenery by laying all her eggs from the height of the roost. ' Prevents Dogi Going Mad.' ! , Kaahvijle, Specie L Thert it a man in Nash POIintT vrhn .l.in. u.t 1.. can worm doga and guaranttt that v wm not run tned. Tht tame, M he atatet, it a worm ; tinder the QOff'S tonmis. and h ba. .1.. will correspond with any ona wlio wiahta hi aervkes. .-.', "'-"'';' ' " Pariloned Eut Unpenitent ' Greenville. SDecial. A list of pardont issued by Governor Kitcliin on the 12th was the name of Allen Gray, a colored man of Pitt county,' who was serving sentence of 'two years n the road. He pi e tended to want to buy "some c!ol, Saturday night ami 'w!.:!e the r . . thant was servir ' t ,r ci Gray gathered hp 1 5 s ( ; ; three coats, a re t n ,i ! ; ' i ped out the bn i' - , C.Ticera were t' i -sown bad hira I ' 23 C t " Sa'isburjr Tljcr Sent Up. ? Salisbury, Special. In the Rowan County Court, Judge. B. B. Mil- ' ler, presiding, - Fayette Allman, wbo wat found guilty in seven indict ments Friday for retailing whiskey, wat fined $100 in each case, a total cf $700. For failure to pay this floo tho defendant is to serve 12 months . on the roads. The case sgainst Char les Allman came up and ho was ad-" judged guilty in one case and a line of $100 or six months on the roads -was imposed; An appeal was taken in, each and these cases will be fonglit cut in the May term of Rowan Su perior Court, ; -T , Clevcflacd Hues Frcei Tt-l.:, :it - . .1 J-.t... - itmtevuu', ipeeiri. Lievriaua Enss, on trial since Thr.rsday of last week, ' was acquitted Tuesday after noon in tho Snpcrior Court, here of f , iLc ncurdcr of Jerry Bitiford, a young , farmer and storekeeper; -. who wat found dead in his home on the morn : ing of March 24th, last.. The jury UWlwvtni,l Ulll a. oUVlk fcXIUV. Iftur oitsy was cssigncd as the motive for (he crime in that it was alleged that Kieford was encased to have married - a Miss Squires, nf Bladen county, for whsse bond the prisoner wat a rival tuitor. ; .: ; v ; " ' ; - j Dr. 242ms Resijna. , ' w- .; Durham,- Special. The informa- tion came out .last week that Dr. Ed win Mims, professor of English-1' in ' Trinity College for many years, bad " tendered his resignation to the pres- ident and boardof trustees of Trin ity, to take effect in June, and thirt be would go abroad this summer Or a cultured travrl:ng tour. .It is also stated that Dr. Mims has been called to the State University to head the English department, filled by Dr.'CL Alphonso Smith, wbo goes to tbe Uni versity cf Virginia. - . Rich Lsd Ayallable. r : Kaleigh,- SpeciaL Tho State Board of Education last week received from Engineer W E. Hearu, of the Bureau . Soil Surveys United States Depart ment of Agriculture, a ve r.l report of the soil purvey vt I' "keet. Lake, in Hyro onntv. for t' e lraiu-. and acres of., land are under waler and 80,000 acres can be reclaimed for cultivation through the success l'al drainage of the lake. Expert opinion is that the lands available will be the most fertile in America. Large Still Destroyed Saturday. ;:Statesville, Special. Deputy Col lector J. M. Davis and Deputy Sheriff Ward found end rie.qtrnvAil a luron illicit distillery plant In Eaglo Mills lownsnip eaturaay. The plant show ed evidence that it had been in uso for seme time and the 150-gallon still end all other flxtnrei wer in theiv places when tht efllpcrs anived. Tha omcors also destroyed 000 gallon t of beer, about 30 gallons of low wines. and A lot of meal which wora fnunil at tbt plant, Ko one wat on tbt Pitmisei when tbt offloert arrived, Alleged Elockoder Arreatod. . Stotetvillo, Special. Charlie Sum-' meit, a notorious character o Sharpesburg township who bat been wanted for some time to answer char ges ef blockading and retailing in a number of roses, wat arrested about sun-up Sunday morning by Sheriff Deaton and Deputy Brown, at hit homo, tud was brought to Statcsvillo and lodged in jail without trouble. Friends nnd relatives came in Mon day afternoon, and put np bond in tho sum of 1,000 and Summers was ;ain released. " :- . t) Caw of Strawberries. Wilmington, gpecial. Strawberry thipmeptt Monday wevt 20 cars from tht Chadbourn belt, and two car loads; from tht Wilmington and r Weldon, tectiopi, tbit exclusive of Jnr; oenti by express from tho Vi: -ten and Wcldon ttrritory. T. ' y'g IcnJirg cf bavi'Icg renohcj 3 cm, Cr.i r:u Trv-1 ri-mhcd ty rv.' .? AVi.s -iton-f iilem, Special Z' 1 afternoon ; cr L.o prints vl.'t tevn-s a,k ' wo'.I an'! s-uiir-'el s tl;at t'.e Di.l.rs. iv! , 8!-e i 1 ,- ; ' tie A ' ori.aa 7 ' -1 . I-lai-.!-: . T to I' 1 n i:'i:-i i 1 IS' I .:.'.,

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