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- ' . LEADING NEWSPAPER AND BEST ADVERTISING KEDlUM IN MADISON COUNTY. VOL. 1. MARSHALL, MADISON COUNTY, N. CM THURSDAY, JULY 14, 1910. NO. 10. , IIHIFF JIISTIHF FIIIIFR DIES AT SORBEHTO, ME Head of Supreme Court Expires Suddenly at Summer Home. HUGHES MAY SUCCEED HIM Most Important Event Since Election of President Taft Owing to Ques tions Pending Before V. S. Su preme Court at Washington. Chief Justice Left Estate of $1,500,000. Chicago. Chief Justice Ful ler died possessed of a con wider able fortune, much of which is in the form of Chicago real es tate. This the jurist acquired forty years ago, and it is now valued at (01,500,000. Sorrento, lie. In fulfilment of an oft eipressed wish that he might end his long life in the very room where tils wife breathed her last six years : ago, Melville Weston Fuller, eighth Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, died suddenly here from heart disease. Chief Justice Fuller was seventy-seven years old. With him when he died were his daughter, Mrs. Nathaniel Francis, of LATE CHIEF JUSTICE Washington; his granddaughter. Miss Aubrey Francis, and the Rev. James E. Freeman, of Minneapolis, a neigh- tw and frfpnri nf th famllv. Chief Justice Fuller had shown no symptoms of Illness. He retired about ' the usual time, and, to all appear- 'Francis was awakened about 5.45 o'clock a. m. by a feeble cry from her father. On looking at him and hear ing bis words, "I am feeling very ill," 1. - 1 that ka wast In a urlnnq condition. Summoning Mr. Freeman . hurriedly, Mrs. Francis sent him for a " physician, but when the physician ar- .Tiveu ine JUBllce wkb wjuuu ansiai- ance. Death came very peacefully, m n rl ha VofBiniUI nil FflrniTlPH 11 II 1 1 1 inn nil .a.nnti I Iti o- thnM Ahnnt him. Ha made no statement. ' All oi nis nve aaugnierg, except ' one, who lives In Tacoma, Wash., are i expected to attend the funeral. The ghters are Mrs. riogn wanace. oi coma; Mrs. W. H. White, ot cni- rof Mrs. T. 8. Beecher, of Tarry- town, N. T.; Mrs. R. F. Mason and sirs. L. Nathaniel Francis, ot Wash ington. There are no sons. ' ' The late jurist was a down East ; Yankee by birth, education and tradi tion. On February 11, 1833. a biting winter's day, he was born at his f ath , er's home in Augusta, the centre and capital, of Maine. His father was-a lawyer in that city, and he had an un cle who was a lawyer In the neighbor ing city of Bangor, v. , HUGHES SUGGESTED FOR CHIEF JUSTTCK. Washington. D. C. The death of Chief Justice Fuller Is regarded here In a national sense as the most impor tant happening since the election of President Taft. Fuller's death practi cally means the reconstruction ot the Supreme Court of the United States. With questions pending before the court that are of the widest political Importance, President Taft has thrust upon him a responsibility that has not fallen to any other President in a generation past. , , Beverly, Mass. While President Taft declines deflnltelytocommit him if in any way, it is regarded here a) , practically certain that GovernorJ Charles E. Hughes of New York wffi 1 be the next cniel justice oi tne uni ted States. Governor Hughes already has accepted appointment as' an Asso ciate Justice, and his nomination to that place has been conQmed by the -Senate- - ' ,.: ffflff gf""-" . - ' X L. a A J v II w m 4 . I - J . l . ... . XT- . f -WmJ " ' 1 ' 1 1 ' ''"' ""lT"" 'V 1 1 r ' T ' " JwbUc Land Withdrawn. Beverly,- Mass. President Taft. acting under tbe law recently passed :?, Congress, withdrew more than 8, VoO.vOO acres of valuable land as the rst act In his own conservation pol y and appointed a board of five en neers to -carry out reclamation rojects under way." ' Charged With $38,000 Theft. T Mladelphla, Pa. Paul Weber, i with stealing $38,000 from n Cairo, Egypt, was arrested elph'.a. ;:, ?0 KILLED IN TRAIN WRECK Eighteen Passengers Lose Lives in a Collision on the C, H. & D. Mlddletown, Ohio. The Cincin nati section of the Twentieth Century Limited from New York to Cincinnati making a detour over the tracks of the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railroad to avoid a blocked track at Genoa on the "Big Four," wa wrecked at 1.30 p. m. in a frightful head-on collision with a north-bound freight train. Twenty persons, in cluding three women, were killed out right, three others were probably fa tally hurt and twenty-two were seri ously injured. All but four of the dead have been identified, and the identified are all from Ohio. It is belieted that the four unidentified dead, one of whom is a woman, are also from this State. A misunderstanding of orders it said to be responsible for the disaster, one of the worst In the history of modern limited trains, but from what can be learned the passenger train appears to have been traveling wild at the rate or r;fty miles an hour, on the supposition that a clear track was ahead. Of the killed eighteen were passen gers, the other victims being members of the passenger train crew. The dead are: S. P. Baker, Cincinnati; H. A. Smith, J. Smith Kirk, George Frohle, Dayton, Ohio; Frank Golden, passen ger train brakeman; John W. Cooler, MELVILLE FULLER. McCutcheonville, Ohio; Miss Fay H. Daubenmire, Pleasantvllle, Ohio; Ray B. Snyder, London, Ohio; A. S. Garri gus, Columbus, Ohio; Richard Van Horn, Dayton, Ohio; Charles H. MouU ton, Youngstown, Ohio; Mrs. Jesse D. Bodey, William Dunleavy, Dayton. Ohio; King Yen Lun, Columbus, Ohio; C. B. Grant, Springfield, Ohio; un identified woman about forty years; unidentified man, initials "W. A.," on clothing; two unidentified men; sup posed to be from Dayton. TWO GIRLS IX AUTO KILLED. Their Father, Andrew Crawford, and Driver Hurt. Valley Stream, L. I. Charlotte M. Crawford, nineteen years old, and her sister, Janet P. Crawford, seventeen, daughters of Andrew Crawford, ot the Riverdale section of the Bronx, were hurled from an automobile and killed by a Long Island railroad train at the Merrick road crossing near here. Their father and Charles Menge bauer, a cloakmaker ot New York City, chauffeur, were Injured, but not mortally. When Crawford saw the lifeless bodies of his daughters fifty feet away with their heads crushed in he be came frantic from grief. He was taking them to Long Beach to pass the afternoon and evening and have dinner in one ot the hotels. QUARTER MILLION ON FIGHT. Much Money Won and Lost ' When Johnson Wins Title. Reno, Nev. It is estimated that over a quarter of a million of dollars was won and lost In Reno alone on the outcome ot the fight. Betting Commissioner Corbett announced that three wagers of $10,000 each and several approximating $5000 were entrusted to, him at the ringside by men of national prominence. The part-mutuels paid 120.90 to ft on Johnson to win in from fourteen to nineteen reunds. , . -v ' ' Train Kills Brother Ambrose. Morristown, Pa. Brother' Ambrose, rector of the Catholic Boys' Protec tory ami a prominent Catholic editor, was struck by a train and instantly killed when he attempted to cross railroad track near the school. . He was sixty-eight years old. ;: Motor Cyclist Killed at Denver. Denver, Col. "If I'd killed win my wife in Fresno," laughed W. W Thorpe, a motor cycle racer when can tioned against reckless riding at ai amusement park here. In five min utes he was dead. Thorpe was warm ing himself up before a race when hi took ths chance which proved fatal., '. French Aviator -Killed. ' , Rheims, France. Aviator WacTt ter, was killed here, his monopjant collapsing high in the air after an ox pl&a'.on. . SLAYS SELFAFTER FARM SALE Man of 73 Despondent Over Leaving Lifetime Home Aged Man and Wife Itotli lined Step and Wanted to Iluy Hock Their ' Old Place. Butler, N. J. Despondency at the prospect of giving up the humble companionship of his horses, cattle, pigs and poultry, to which he was de voted, caused James Harrison Vree land, of Bloomingdale, seventy-three years old, and oce of the best known farmers in Northern Pas3aic County, to kill himself. The news of the trag edy was kept from the widow, who scarcely was less devoted than her husband to the rural occupation which had engaged all their time for more than half a century and had made the couple well to do. Vreeland like many others of his kind when they Krow old thought it would be a good thing for him to sell out and settle in town.' He and his wife were too feeble to faun it, and their sit children having grown up and moved away it seemed to him the only thing to do was to retire. Ac cordingly he sold the place with all the stock on it. Vnder the contract he was to give possession In a few days. The old man found out when it was too late that the farm, with its live stock, its chores and its lonely, but familiar routine of work, had become absolutely a part of his life. It broke his heart to part with lWs pets, Nancy and Bossy, and the pair of horses he had driven so long and the colts and calves. Even the chickens and ducks ad geese and turkeys appealed to him as they never had before. He wandered around disconsolate In and out of the barn, and the house, and the stable, and up into the high Held where he could look so far away on other farms and distant hills he might never see again. He tried to buy back the farm, but couldn't. Then the situation got on his news 30 badly he blew out bis brains. He was long the Constable for the Pas saic County Grand Jury, and k.:ew everybody around and about. SHOOTS HIS DAUGHTER DEAD. Persian Consul's Superintendent Was Gunning For Crows. , Morristown, N. J. While gunning tor crows Herman Tabibyian shot and killed his daughter. Mabel fTabibyian, Mi years oia. r -w : The man In emDlove lis, suiter atnn Cnnmil. deneral to the United States. For the last few days crows have been raiding the cornfields on the place, and Tabibyian started gunning for them. He was walking through a Held with his shotgun under his arm. the muzzle to the rear, when a twig caught in the trigger and discharged the firearm. The little girl was only a few steps behind her fatherland the-charge tore the top of , her "bead completely off. BLEACHED FLOUR WAS. IMPURE. Jury Brings Verdict in Fnvor ot the Government. Kansas City, Mo. The Jury in the bleached flour case returned a verdict that the flour seized was adulterated and mlsbranded, as charged by tbe Government. The verdict was returned In the Federal Court after seven hours' de liberation by the jury that for more than five weeks had listened to testi mony for and against the charge ot the Government that 625 sacks of flour, bleached and sold by the Lex ington Mill and Elevator Company, ot Lexington, Neb., and seized by the Government while in the possession of the purchaser, a grocer in Castle, Mo., were adulterated and mis branded. AUTO RACER KILLED ON TRACK. Thomas Klncado Drives Car Through Fence on Indianapolis Speedway. Indianapolis, Ind. Thomas Kin cade, a racing driver for the National Motor Vehicle Company, was killed In an accident at the Indianapolis speed way. - He was alone In his car, the Nation al No. 6, In which he has appeared in so many races, and no one knows how the accident happened. Shnt Out Religious Orders. Madrid, Spain. Premier Canalejas decided to submit t.o the King a bill forbidding further religious orders to enter Spain until the pending negotia tions with the Vatican for the revision ot the Concordat are ended. BASEBALL FIGHT IN THREE LEAGUES. ii i NATIONAL LIAGUS 8TAKDISQ. W. L. P. C. W. L. P. O Chicago.... 42 iS .64Phila......83 83 .414 New York. 40 34 .023 St. Louis. .SO 89 .iS Pittsburg. .84 DO .SSljBrooklyn. 7 87 .4M Cincinnati. 83 83 ,522iBcslon . , . .S4 40 .348 AMERICAS' LIAGUB STAHMItO. W. I. P. C.l ' W. L. p. a Phils...... 48 M .618 Cleveland. 2 8i .478 New York. 89 S7 .61)1 Chicago... 80 88 .468 Detroit.... 41 81 .Mtt Wabin'n2S 4d .808 Boston.,... 80 80 .S453t: Louis.. 31 48 .818 :'" XASTSBS LIAOVI 8TAX01HO. W. fc. P. c. W. L. P. O. Provid'c..83 81 .80S Newark... 44 27 .0 Toronto... 8t 80 .B-W Rochester . 35 K0 .53$ Buffalo... 80 3d .448 JervCitv28 88 .4'i4 Baltimore. .88 38 .53U Mnnt.al..23 39 .881 DIPLOMAT SHOT FOR MURDER. Beckerf, ex-Chancellor ot German Le gation In Chile, Executed. r Santiago, Chile. Wllhelm Beckert, ex-Chancellor of the German Legation here, was shot for the murder of a Chilean messenger of tbe Legation In February 6, 1S09. , Beckert embezzled funds ot the Le gation and attempted to cover up his crime by making It appear that he naa necn uurnea to aaaiu. MOB LYNCHES A DETECTIVE Anti-Saloon Worker in Newark 0, Had Killed a Bar Keeper. Temperance League Officials Blnmeincreased Fay for Southern Employes. the Mayor of Newark For Hot Enforcing the Excise Law. Newark, Ohio.-As a result of the beer riots here' Charles Etherlcgton, a detective, of Cleveland, employed by the State Anti-Saloon League, was lynched by a mob ot 6000 men at 10.30' o'clock p. m., following the an nouncement of the death of William, Howard, a saloon keeper and former policeman, who was shot a few hours before by Etherington. - - The mob stormed the Jail, battered down the doors, and seizing Ethering ton dragged him across the street anc strung him up to a telegraph pole, a Sheriff LInck appealed to uovernor Harmon for State troops., as the city was absolutely in the nanus oi . tnorrrakelIien 50 C(Mts n niie mob, which paraded tne streets sees-v lng the companions of Etherington. The police were powerless and furth - er lynchings and great property dam - age were feared. ', Etherington was beaten almost w;3o a death before he was strungup. Mayor Lehrer and Sheriff Linck appealed toi the crowd and tried to pacify the rlng-3 leaders when news of Howard's death became known. i 'v'- The riots and the lynching wtfe the result of raids upon a nunj'if sa loons by nearly a score otjfyXei, .1.. . rtlnwA'.on A W fclf the State Anti-Saloon Lea( " Newark is a "dry city oi is.uuu inhabitants and the Anti-Saloon League started a crusade to closerthe "speakeasies" that have been in op eration since ther town was;v6ted "dry." The detectives raided three places, the trouble starting at William Schlagel'a near-beer saloon. ..AxavO of 2000 gathered and threatened th3 detectives. With revolvers drawn the latter escaped to a hotel, where .the police arrested eight of them.; f . ? The remaining twelve broke -away and ran, pursued by tbe mob,. Half of them were caught and beaten, but were rescued by the police. Btherr ington stumbled and tell and in. second the crowd was upon bira. - He drew a revolver 'and shot Howard : Mowarn. m, " '"'1 - 1 The crowd started to kill-him police rescued and arrested arrested y sfetsf? All the vest of the suspended and tbe s weapons an,a tl" Vvhcn;JVbecsy Etherington were MrUed v town. -.. '.-., J . w While' the mob was batterlhg dowh tho doors Etherington was in his cell. In an attempt to commit suicide he smothered his head in his coat, and set fire to it. He was caught in time. In the melee as ..the mob was leav ing the jail eight prisoners,' held tot petty offenses, escaped. One refused to leave. - -; - As Etherington mounted the block rcidy for the swing be was asked ,to make a speech. i " I -want to warn all young fel lows not to try to make a living the way I have done by strike breaking and taking jobs like this," he de clared. "I had better have worted and I would not bo here now." v Etherington' last moments, while he heard the mob battering down the doors, were spent in praying and writing a note to his parents, residing In a farm rear Wllllsburg, Ky. What will my mother say when she hears of this?" he keptjnpajrtnjjj JUSTICE FVLLEK'S 'FUKERAIt, Services Held in Chicago and Body In i terred in Graceland. ; ;.- Chicago. Funeral services for Chief Justice Melville Weston Fuller were held in St. James' Episcopal Ch .-cb, the Kev. James E. Freeman officiating. - ? Dlsttnguibhed members ot the bench and the bar, including five Justices of the Supreme Court, Gov. Hughes, of New York, and eminent jurists of Chicago and other cities listened reverently to the high tribute paid by the rector to the life and work of the deceased. Seventeen minute guns, fired by order ot Major-General Frederick Dent Grant, boomed a nation's tribute to the dead. ' The interment was at Graceland Cemetery, where members of Justice Fuller's family are burled. ' FIVE ALPINISTS KILLED. , T n o Women Among Them - Scrend - Injured in the Jungran. - Grlcdenwald, Switzerland. An av alanche overwhelmed two parties of Alpinists near the Bergll hut. Seven people, Including three guides, were rescued. .They are seri ously hurt. , , Five others were killed. Two Ot these were Germans. ' i? It is stated that the missing include two women. The disaster happened on the Jungfrau glacier. -.y Lumber Worth Millions Burned. Montreal, Canada. A special from Arnprlor, Ontario, says fire destroyed, lumber worth from 83,000,000 to J5,. 000,000 in the Gillies lumber yards. The burned area covers half a square mile. The mills were saved aiier hard Cgat. , : EXGLISH LORD'S RAILWAY JOB. Lord Sholto Douglas Gets Work at 93 a Day on the C. P. R. Spokane, Wash. Declaring he has spent his fortune on his wife, Lord Sholto Douglas left Spokane to work with a Canadian Pacific Railway sur veying crew for three months at $2 a day. Lord Sholto is a brother of thu present Marquis of Queensbury. Lord Sholto married Miss Margaret Mooney, known on the variety s as Loretia Addis. - FROM COUNTY TO COUNTY prth Jarolina News Prepared and Published For the Quick Perusal of ur Patrani. J in tlie matter or tne controversy as Deen pending ueiwec-u mc southern Railway conductors and the "iMiiiint'D on'thel same road and the Southern Railway Company the fol- Jpwinx settlement of the various (articles in the proposals were agreed . tr t-,U uj'imi 'i it asuiiifiuu .vvim mc "J ificials t f the Southerh' Railway Com- jpauy. , v-- - I On runs of 155 'Miles, or over a day the following rates went into effect July 1910: Passenger con ductors, 2 1-2 cents a mile ; basRane men, 1.35 a mile; flagmen and brake men, 1.325 a mile. 'On and after April 1, 1911, the rate shall h: con ductors, 2.75 cents a mile; basrjraue men,' 1.55 cents a mile; flagmen and n iun rilns t7y the ii 1 1 and aft Iiductors !r.-s I haii 15.") miles per . iiiir inti s will be paid ! ly 1. If) 1 0 : Passenger .75 a day ; baggagemen, llairini'ii and brakemen, On and after April 1. $2.20 a day. 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 )JJcember 1 1909. , AJl regularly assigned passenger crews will u and after July 1, 1910, be guaranteed the following monthly pay: Conductors $115; baggagemen, $65; flagmen and brakemen, $62. On and after April 1, 1911, these amounts Will be increased to $125 a month for conductors, $.25 a day; 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 train service to be as follows: Con ductors, 3.55 cents a mile; flagmen and brakemen, 2.35 cents a mile. On arid after April 1, 1911, these rates will be: for conductors, 3.75 cents a milu; flagmen and brakemen, 2.50 cents a mile. . ' Pima 100 mtlna r,. loos aillin "-.raight 'away or turn around to be for as 100 miles.- ' . rt ViplfffWin' ivard service Will re- e increifc . bl ' bout fortv ber csnt above the wonow paid. -' Members' of th&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 in the road service. The men who run in and out of Spencer in large numbers are frank to admit that thoyfeel more inclined than ever be fore to render the very 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 Dot hurt the traffic and the wofk on the roadbed has gone on uninterrupt ed. The strike really began last week, but was kept a great secret somehow and as it has amounted tb so little there is no scare. Some of tbe strikers declare that there are several hundred hands involved in it and though there is demand for $-.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 Confines. ' The taking of testimony in the dis puted boundary between North Car olina and Tennessee has been re moved to Asheville. Women to Have Fanners' Institute. Three farmers' institutes under the direction of the State Board of Agri culture are to be held in Anson county this month. These institutes will lie at Morven, Wadesboro anfl Peaehland, July 19, 20 and 21. There will be held in connection with the institutes a women's institute pre sided over by Mrs. Hollowell. -' Eecord Yields of Wheat. Davidson, whioh taken as a whole is one. of the State's best wheat sec tions, comes forward with a crop from one farm that must rank with the big gest yields of the State and perhaps is tbe very largest produced by a single -farm in North Carolina. This is the Holt farm at Liuwood, in the far-famed Jersey settlement. It is now owned by Messrs.- W. G. Penry and J. F.' Hargrave, of Lexington, and they made this year 4,021 bushels f first-clas wheat, from 130 acres. TSfverage yield per acre , is 31 bushels. , The highest average was on a field of 22 acres, where 43 3-4 bushels were made. . Oldert Temperance Organization. The- Pleasant Hill Temperance So ciety, the oldest temperance organiza tion of continuous life in North Car olina, held its tegular annual meeting July 4 at Pleasant Hill church in the southern part of Alamance .county. This temperance society has held its annual meeting at that church on the 4th of July every year sines that date, and its semi-annual ffieet i i cm" Christinas day every yetr at I'y.'.c Crc'k church, a fcw miles away. MS NEWS Of NORTH STATE. Late Important Events and Facts of State-Wide Interest Printed Hers for Public Benefit. . Farmers, Look Out! If you are a farmer or a dairyman and some stranger tries to sell you a machine that will make two pounds of "butter" out of one, you'd bet ter watch out for the internal rev enue officers. Close watch is being kept on the "butter-blending" machine, and op erators and purveyors are liable to ar rest under the pure-food law. Ac cording to the revenue men, the "butter" is made in a machine and requires one pound of butter, a quart of milk, and some lubricant to double the quantity. It is allowed t us the blended butter, provided the product is con sumed within the family of the manu facturer. Any attempt to sell thp product outside means trouble units? a special tax is paid. Clay County Wants Railroad. Clay county in Xorth Carnliiia and White Towns and Union counties is (Jeorgia, are untouched by a railroad, but a survey has been made for a road from Blue liidge. Ga.. through Cnion county via Blairsville, the county seat, and within six miles of Hayesville and to Hiawassee, the county seat of Towns county, with the probability of the road being ex tended from Hiawassee across the Blue Ridge to intersect with the main line of the Southern Railway at Clarksville or some point near there. Towns and Union counties have rais ed over $20,000 to aid in the construc tion of this road, which will be built by an independent company provided the plans are perfected. North Carolina Will Be There. North Carolina is to have an elab orate exhibit next September in the Ohio Valley Exposition that is being organized just now on an elaborate scale to be held in Cincinnati. The State Department of Agriculture has just decided to undertake such an exhibit and the purpose is expressed to make it thoroughly representative of the advantages and resources of tbe State with special attention to agricultural and manufacturing fea tures and attractions. ' It will be too v arly- in ttbe-seasi.'h f or erolp ex'Eit$ oi corn tor this year, but as muett a. possible of tbe very fine corn exhibits made by the State last fall will be ((assembled for this South Atlantic ex position. Rode 400 Miles on Bicycle. Rene Burtner and George Prince, 17 years old, rode on their bicycles from Greensboro to Keedsville, Wash ington county, Md., 400 miles, in four days, and are visiting Mr. Burtner 's grandmother, Mrs. Sarah E. Burtner. Mr. Prince will spend the summer with his grandmother at York, Pa. Later the youths will return to Greensboro on their wheels. Three Dredgers on Cape Fear. At the present time four dredgers are at work on the channel of the Cape Fear river, three of tbe number being used for dredging the mooring basil in the Wilmington harbor. This work will be completed within the next three months and will enable the largest vessels coming to this port to swing with the tide without danger of grounding. Rowan Wheat Raisers. As a wheat raiser Mr. C. A. Gib bons of Unity township, Rowan coun ty, holds the championship to date. He sowed 2 1-8 acres and last week threshed from this one hundred bushels. Another fine wheat raiser in Rowan is Mr. J. Locke Thompson, who threshed from one acre forty bushels. Convention Must Settle It The contest for a place on the Su preme Court bench between Associate Justice Manning, of Durham, to suc ceed himself, and Judge W. R. Allen, of Goldsboro, will have to be settled in the State convention, because of Uninstructed counties and fractions of votes. Both managers confidently claim the election for their candi date!, and the friends of each are con fident. x Adams Looking For Lightning. The nomination of ex-Judge Spen cer B. Adams as United States Dis trict Attorney in .', Western' North Carolina to succeed Eugene A. Hol ton, may be expected shortly. This information was given out at Wash ington by a friend of the Republican State Chairman, who says that the ap pointment will shortly be announced from Beverley, the summer home of the President, in compliance with a promise made by' Mr. Taft early n the winter. - ' " Charlotte Boys Do a Weston Stunt - Messrs. R. O. . Colt end George Brown, two of the trio of Charlotte young men who started, from the Queen City June 29, to walk to Wil mington, in seven days, on - a $150 wager, arrived Sunday morning at 7:35 o'clock. They left Charlotte with 50 cents in their pockets and arrived there with $2,. having been given a "lift" by the , Laurinburg baseball players. - They arrived in good shape.' The third wan gave -out at Vineato.K. , NORTH CAROLINA EYENTS Life in the Land of the Loflff Leaf Pine Judge Pritchard's Advice to Negro Advocating the industrial education if the negro in the belief it would prove of infinite value to the mrala if the colored race and the return of the negro to the farm as a solution largely of the question of the present high cost of living. United States Judge Jeter C. Pritchard, 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 611ed a much-needed want, Judge Pritchard declared that the colored teacher was essentially ths leader of his ra".. and it was through him that Lis 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 iiim anibitirmless without education "The colored man is a citizen ef the country," he continued, "and while ho enjoys all the rights and immunities of citizenship, he must rely iiKn himself if he would ac complish the best things in our eit fc&enship. 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 ment that cursed the entire race. Noble and Lasting Nye Memorial. The Bill Nye memorial committee appointed at the recent meeting of the North Carolina Press Association to formulate plans for 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 andequipped, not ' iess ,than-.?5,000: aotf. libali b. turned over to the trustees of the ' stitution as a permanent monument: to the lamented humorist. ; The committee elected John It Julian, editor of Tbe 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 fnnd for tbe memorial : Charlotte Observer, Asheville Citizen, Salisbury Post, Raleigh News and Observer and Wilmington Star. An earnest and active campaign for raising funds t erect the memorial will be begun at once. Members of the committe pres ent were : James H. Caine,' AsheviH Citizen, chairman; John M. Julian, Salisbury Post; R, M. Phillips, Greensboro News; Col. A. H. Boyd en, Salisbury, and R. W. Vincent, Char lotte Observer; Reduces Freight Rates. The interstate commerce commis sion has ordered a reduction in through freight rates to Winston Salem and Durham, from Roan oka and Lynchburg, Va. It amounts to about 9 cents per 100 pounds on class freight, and from 4 to 8 cents a hun dred pounds on hay, grain and pack ing house products. New Bank. The Clay County bank has recent- ly been opened at Hayesville with Capt. Alden P. Howell of Waynea ville as cashier. Wilson Solicitor For Twelfth District The twelfth judicial convention at Gastonia nominated George W. Wil son of Gaston county for tbe solicitor ship over the three other candidates. Smith and Shannonhouse of Mecklen burg, and Childs of Lincoln. Thai deadlock was broken on the 840th; ballot, when Cleveland and lincolnt counties combined. i Park at Old Boone Homestead. There is every probability that thev Boone Memorial Association will es- tablish a big add permanent park at the old Boone homestead in Davidsm county, where the recent big celebra tion was held and where the nxmn 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; A Bloody Murderer. , -. Stealthily approaching his victim from the rear, J. B. Allison, aged 4 ), a former janitor at the. city hall, fired five shots into the body of F. XL McGbee, driver of the patrol wn ;ri tot Asheville, every bullet takini fi fed. After bis victim had l.n' n, Allison beat out the former's hruh with a ten-pound hanmmer. A'li i surrendered. lie hits a previous r,; eord of having killed two worm i.