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VOL. VI. KENANS VEjlUFtm COUNTY; N. AUGUST KM910. NO.i.

J. CHINA FOR THE CHINESE" Boycott Proclaimed Against Ameri-. can Goods by- Chinamen. Canton, China, By Cable. A boycott -of American goods and- merchants, on similar lines to the one -which several years ago caused millions of dollars' damage to American trade in China, has been proclaimed here in response to complaints of the treatment of Chinese in America.

Thejepecific cause of complaint this time is the objection of the Chinese of. San Francisco to the detention sheds on Angle Island in San Francisco Bay. They have been endeavoring for some time to' have them removed to San Francisco proper in order to secure better treatment for arriving i The boycott is proclaimed by the Chinese self-government society of Canton, an. organization conducting a propaganda of "China for the Chinese," and for governmental reform to which Chinese in San Francisco appealed by letter. An appeal has been issued to Chinese abroad asking them to cooperate in the boycott.

Virginia Mayor Killed Himself. Roanoke, Special. A special from Ridgeway, says Detective Joseph Funk of the Baldwin Detective Agency of Roanoke, 'who has been investigating the dynamite explosion which caused the 4eath of-Mayor A. H. Bousraan of Ridgeway on the night of July 24, is satisr fied that he has solved the mystery.

His inquiries have convinced him that the ease was a peculiarly horrible one of self-destruction. He has so reported to the town council of Ridgeway and the report has been accepted officially and is universally believed to" be correct even by Bous-man's closest friends. Mr. Bousman was deeply in debt SLUMP IN THE AUTO BUSINESS. Bottom Seems to Have Dropped Out Notwithstanding Boosting Efforts of Manufacturers.

New York, Special. Indications point tip the bottom having fallen out of the automobile business. The manufacturers, it is reported in trade cireles, are making strenuous efforts to keep up a show of continued prosperity, but it is also said that they are not selling their; product, but are storing machines throughout the -country at their various agencies to prevent he public -realizing the true conditions of the market. Several large coneerns are laying off men and giving all sorts of reasons for so doing except the statement that they are overstocked. Two or three of the largest factories recently closed entirely, ostensibly for the purpose of taking inventory, but the workmen were not given any definite time at which to again report for work, and it i3 not expected that these factories will again be in operation this year.

A well-known automobile agent of this city said Friday that all cars would undoubtedly be selling at from 25 per cent to 50 per cent less than present list prices within the next two or three months. He added: "The trouble with the automobile business is that, the farmers and people of the smaller cities and tons have not taken as kindly to the idea as was anticipated. The farmers find that the cost of keeping them in repair and operation is more than the eost of -keeping horses to perform the same work, and while there was, for a time, a tendency among the farmers to invest in the machines, the demand for ears from this class of buyers has practically stopped, and I venture to say we will not again sell to the farmers to any extent until prices are materially reduced." Ohio Lawyer Assassinated. Cleveland, 0., SpeciaL A body identified as that of William L. Rice, one of the wealthiest and most conspicuous attorneys in "Cleveland, was found in the street "near the Rice mansion on 'Euclid Heights shortly after midnight Friday.

There were two bullet wounds in the head and the right hand was shot off. A hasty police examination led to a belief that he had been murdered. Congress for Deaf Mutes. Washington, Special. A congress of deaf-mutes which is soon to be held in Kansas City has invited most of the diplomatic representatives of foreign, governments in Washington to address them, Among the invitations received wasf one at the Chinese Legation here.

It is said in diplomatic circles that China would probably not be represented, as the legation was finding it difficult to secure an interpreter who could turn Chinese into signs which the congress might understand. Tramps in Big Battle. SpeciaL An abandonedcoat mine on thebutskirts of Fairmont was the scene of a fierce battle between two, factions of a score or mpre ofhtramps, whohave been making the plaCe their abiding place. One man, who gives his name as James Hines and says he comes from Charleston W. died at the Miners' HospitaL and it is believed another tramp, '-Jim Sullivan, was shot to death and that his bodis in the woods the mine.

Woman Wants Wendling Reward. Louisville, Ky Special-Mrs. C. A. Muena, of Hume, Mo, from whom, it is understood.

Chief of Detectives Carney learned the (address of Joseph Wendling," has put in a claim for the rewards offered for the arrest and conviction of Mrs. Muena, in her letter, says that she-is "wear-ied "tout --with telephone- ealis and newspaper reporters," and claims her 1.ni TTnwiA' lino linrw 4nfriAJ? THE NEWS MINUTELY TOLD The Heart of Happenings Carvel From the Whole Uonntry. The Mississippi river at Iowar has touched the low water mark established in 1804. Louis Sehishe, in his day known as one of the world's greatest cornetists, died at Los Angeles, 83 years old. "Negotiations with theirTeinployes looking to a settlement of the strike of cloak makers has been declared off.

Old Confederate Soldiers of South Carolina will assemble at Spartanburg, August 17 and 18. The pass book system, used in ordinary savings institutions, will be adopted for the proposed postal savings banks. The commissioner of police of sTew York wants farmer boys on the force. Accordingly what is known as the mental test of policemen, will be made less, severe. Real estate transfers recorded in Atlanta during July of 1909 amounted $1,567,439.

The increase is This year the first Georgia bale of cotton was raised by M. A. Rainey, of Baker County, and was sold for 30 cents per pound. The bale weighed 412 pounds, and was graded middling. It was rushed to Savannah, where it was sold at auction for 27 cents the pound.

One of the new Dreadnanght's authorized by the last Congress will be built in the New York Navy Yard. It is possible that the other ship also may be built by the Government. The new ships will be of 27,000 tons displacement, and larger than the Wyoming or Arkansas, now building. Notices have been posted in the seven cotton mills of the Ainoskeag Corporation, Manchester, N. IL, announcing the entire plant will oe shut dffwn on-August 26 and reopen September 12.

The company, in connection with other cotton concerns, has been curtailing the output since spring. The closing will affect operatives. Cincinnati, Ohio, has a population of 364,463, according to figures made public by Census Director Durand. This is an increase of 38,561, or 11.8 per cent, as compared with the population in "1900. The population of Bonham, is 4,844, as compared with 5,042 in 1900.

Sultan Mulai Hafid's atrocities have stirred up European nations, and his answer to a note of pretest was-to invent a new form -of barbarity for a woman captive. The entire police force of the town of Gutteirburg, N. with the exception of the Chief, has gone on a strike. The men object to doing duty on Sunday, unless they are granted some other day. of the week off as compensation.

The force consists of eight men. J. O. V. Wise, ja, California farmer, claims all records for a grasshopper harvest.

In three- days he garnered 125 bushels of hoppers. He ised oil to kill them. Wise says he wilK dry the grasshoppers and feed thorn to his chickens next winter, The Newburgh, N. Fabrikord Works," reputed to be the largest artificial leather plant in the world, has 'been sold to the E. I.

Du Pont de Nemours Powder Company, of Wilmington a concern whose assets aggregate approximately Jhe priee paid was Hugging a pretty saleswoman of -a Boardwalk at Atlantic City, N. in spite of her protests, is a serious offense in the estimation of City Judge Keffer, who committed Pietro Conide, a love-smitten youth to jail for 90 days. Mr. and Mrs. Waltej- S.

Jarhoe, of Kansas City, occupied ceKs at the Joilet, 111., police station because the woman masqueraded with her hus-band in male attire. They have been "ho'boing" since their marriaga a month ago, just for fun, A bill making it a misdemeanor for any company to em.pl oy messenger boys under 16 years of age between: the hours of 9 p. and 6 a. was passed by the lower house of the Georgia legislature. Esperantists will be invited to hold their world's conTcntion in 1915 ia New Orleans.

During the congress at Washington a lecture will be given on New Orleans as the "logical point for the Panama exposition. Thousands of acres of unappropriated lands which were eliminated from the national forests and restored to the public domain- by recent proclamation of President Taft will be thrown open to homestead settlement and entry this fall, accord- tl A i-1 0nJb. ing to orders issued oy avu-u rc- jry pierce of the Interior Depart- ment The lands are located in Colorado: Ne.w Mexico. Washington, Ore gon, Utah, Idaho and Wyoming. The secretary also has restoied to settlement on October 22 and to entry on November 21 about 9,220 "acres in the Great Falls, land district formerly withdrawn.

lb is estimated that nearly 200 Christians and Mussulmans have been massacred in the Hauran district," Constantinople, in the last few days. The Treasury' Department has dis continued coining $2.50: gold pieces. There is an accumulation of approximately $2000,000 "worth of them in the Treasury vaults at present. Altogether about $36,000,000 have been coined. There appears to be little or no demand for these pieces.

rPostmastor-General -Hitchcock wa gratified when he returned home from Europe to learn of the fulfillment of his" prediction of a' $10,000,000 reduction in the yearly postal deficit. As a. result of the failure of Gov. Harmon's endeavors" to settle tho street oar strike, retail merchants whose business has-been seriously affected, are seeking to get before the disputants a of settlement. There has" been no rioting this" week U.S.

P.O. INSPECTORS Guard and Protect Interests of American People. CAUGHT MANYC CROOKS IN 1909. Gigantic Swindles Uncovered by -Uncle -Sam's Sleuth-Hounds PoBt-v office Detectives on the Alert. Washington SpeciaL If the, inspector's division of the Postoffice Department keeps-up tha good work it bas'done this year in smothering the operations and bringing to justice of the crooks who use-jthe mails as a convenient to fleece the guileless, 1910 will be a banner year for it.

From small beginnings of several years this arm of the. postal s.er-"viee has grown to be one of the most important in the government. "Here-" "tofpre i its- operations have been confined -for-the most-part to. the suppression of the small swindler, but in recent, months it ha3 turned its energies to bigger game." Last spring it unearthed the big frauds in the United Wireless Telegraph Company, through which hundreds were feeing swindled, and biought the offenders into camp. Last week it opened its batteries on the firm ofjSteele, Miller a concern conducting a.gigantie fraud in the cotton business with headquarters at Corinth, and branch offices in various parts of the Southland Europe, and is rapidly gathering in the crooks how much these gentlemen have realized from pieir operations it is at present impossible to say, but their loot will run into the millions.

CoL Roosevelt "Among Poor People. Wilkesbarre, Par, Special. Theodore Roosevelt traveled for 150 miles Wednesday among the mining villages in the Wyoming valley. He mingled with people in all stations of life. The colonel had the same smile for them all.

He said his chief delight, however, was in-meeting the wage-earners. An incident which was typical of tberday's happenings -occurred at Wyoming, a mining hamlet, a few miles above Wilkesbarre. An old Irish woman stepped up to him and thrusting out her hand, exclaimed, "Hello, Teddy. You're, looking foinc." The -former President grinned with delight and said he was glad to see her. "You're looking" fine, too," he said.

"Yes, indeed," said she. "I'm strong as ye are and you're a foine lump." Standard Cotton' Samples. Washington, Special. Sample boxes of Government standard cotton samples, whieh comprise" nine grades, are being sent out- by the department of agriculture. The standards have been adopted by the Memphis Cotton Exchange and have been approved and probably will be adopted vby the New York and New Orleans exchanges.

The trade recognized a grade between each of those adopted by the Government and three grades above and three below the Government scale. The standard samples have been placed by the department of, agriculture in vacuum tubes, so that they neither deteriorate or change color. Meeting American Bar Association. Chattanooga, Special. The 33d annual meeting of the American Bar Association will be held here on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, August 30 and 31, and September 1, 1910.

80, She Whitewashed Barn Rising Sun, Special Cecil county is proud of two old "young" women Mrs. Sarah Tice, of Lum-bard. who is 80 years old and who has just completed the whitewashing of her barn, and who can pick potatoes with any man, and Mrs. Amelia Ann Fulton, of Oakwood, whi is two years older and who, without the aid of the making of a bed comfort a month. Iowa Insurgents in ControL Des Moines, -SpeciaL Republican Iowa wrote herself vigorously tprogressive Wednesday at a convention which was in uproar most of the time.

Senators Cummins and Dolliver and the insurgent delegation at Washington was enthusiastically endorsed. The new tariff law was branded as a failure in the light of the party pledge of 1909. President Taft received only a luke warm endorsement. The progressive majority ranged close to 300 on: every question. Great Interest in Postal Banks.

Washington, Special. The First National bank of Tarboro. N. applied to the Postmaster General Saturday, to be made a depotiory funds, under; the recent postal savings act. Thus far there have been applications from 923 banks" throughout the country to be made depositaries of these -postal savings funds and requests from .390 postmasters for the establishment" of savings departments at their -offices, Arranges Funeral Before Death, LaFayette, Special.

Lying on his death bed at his cottage on Battle Ground camp" meeting grounds, the Rev. D. Wood, -one of the best known ministers pf the: Methodist Episcopal- church in Indiana, has completed arrangements for funeral. He has selected his -pallbearers, even the hymns hr. wishes sung, -the text for thTfuneral sermon and the clergymen he desires 1JJ conduct the services.

MrV Wood has been- critically ill for several days and 'realizes SCANDAL IN SENATE Congressional Investigation of Charges by Senator Gore, MR. VICE PRESIDENT SHERMAN Accused of Being "Interested" in Unholy Conspiracy to Defraud the Indians Out of Many Thousands. Mu-ko-eo. Special. What in the private office of V-iited Stales Senator P.

(lore at Washington, at noon last May t'. formeil the basis of sensational involving the names of Vice' 'President Sherman, Senator. Ciarl MH'ruirf of Oklahoma and ether-', in hearing before a special' investigating Commit-tee here Tlmrsday. During the thirty, or minutes of a conference held in that office, Senator Gore testified rtat he had been approached by Jake llanoii. former chairman of the Okla'; territorial Republican eom-mirtoe and also former chairman of the Oklahoma State Republican com-mittce and chat he had been offered a bribe of or $50,000 to remove certain legislaiton pending in Congress so that $3,900,000 might be paid to J.

F. MeMurray an attorney at McAlester, and his associates. The money was to represent tees" of 10 per cent of '0 which vas to be secured from a New Yosk syndicate for at-res of coa and asphaK lands now owned by tfte Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians in this State. Vice President Sherman's name was mentioned by Mr. Ham on, Senator (Jore testified as being interested in the land deal to the extent of favoring the approval by Congress of what are known as the MoMnrray contracts with the Indians.

Congressman Greager supplemented the testimony of Senator Gore. Congressman B. S. McGuire is brought into scandal. The committee headed by Congressman Charles H.

Burke, of South Dakota, chairman, is composed of Congressman Phillip C. Campbell, of Kansas. Charles B. Miller, of Minnesota. John H.

Stevens of Texas and E. W. Saunders of Virginia. Senator Gore further testified: That Hamon told him Senator "Curtis of Kansas was interested in the deal. That Hamon told him Congressman-McGuire of Oklahoma was "interested" in the deal.

That Hamon told him an employe" of the Detriment of Justiee was ''interested" in the that he (Senat or (lore) knew the name of the employe would not divulge his name or the name of his informant because the latter would lose his position. That former Senator Long, of Kansas, art in? as counsel for MeMurray, had to President Taft on Apirl 28 tn urate the approval of the contract but that the President had said "It would take a good deal of argument to convince him that -the MeMurray claim was justified." kce-Presidenti Sherman -Senator Ctirris and Congressman -McGuire haw indignantly denied the eharges of Senator Gore. To Pay $5,000 For Lynching. Springfield, SpeciaL George Bohon. of Harrodsburg, has qualified here as of Carl Ether-imrton.

the young man banged by nti.) Newark, Ohio, on Jnly 8. He executed bond for $5,000. This is the firt eal step toward the recovery of the indemnity for which conn-tie? in Ohio are liable for every person lvnched in their counties. The administrator will at once proceed to collect the claim. Eryan'sEditor Withdraws.

Omaha. Special. W. R. Patrick, of Omaha, has announced that he has forwarded to the Secretary of Stat.

withdrawal from the race for Gubernatorial nomination by the party. Mr. Patriek is an avow el advocate of county option i and has br-en supposed to have tlhe backing of William J. Bryan. Postal Bank Scheme Developing.

Washington. D. Special. A centra; i. aringr house in each State is a feature of the Postal Savings Bank adopted by the committee of otliohils that will make to the board of trustees.

"For a i' ti- time the committee faced the necessity of providing some method for settlement of accounts in the postal banks that wotiM avoid delay incident fp; the tra: of ail such matters to tv. The idea of having State centra i clearing houses was length and has been adopted as best solution of that problem. Swindlers Will be Punished. lork, Special. Seven officers of il United Wireless Telegraph Company, most of whom had pre-viouv'v been arrested, were indicted bv ic Federal grand jury Thursday on counts one charging conspiracy to defraud by the use of the States mails, the other chargt mur (onspiracy in devising a scheme if induce investors to buy -worthless stock.

Pamily of Three Murdered. Santa Rosa, CaL, SpeeiaL A general alarm was sent out Thursday the apprehension of a Japanese Henry Yamagaehi, in. the hope or "otaining a key to a gruesome tr'i murder enaeted on a lonely ranch. The crime was revealed when officers investigating the dis-ai; a ranee of a family" of three dis- i the charred bones of Enoeh '-iail. Mrs.

Ura Kendall, his wife 3ii 1 Thoma3 Kendall, their son, in thp vard of their canon home north nr PATTERSON" MEN LOSE. Patterson'a Men Defeated- by Independent TicketQntiookGlooiBy. "Nashville, Special. The Independents elected it theirSudicial tickets in Tennessee Thursday in one. oi tne most exciting and hard-fought political contests ever known in the State.

Independents represent in'' a large measure the State-wide-prohibition element of- the Democratic party 'which has been vigorously opposing Gov, Patterson since his mem rabie campaign with the late ex-Senator EW. Carmaek for the guber-national nomination. It took joiT added strength when, the State committee ordered a- blanket primary for. nomination; of both judicial and State These inem-hers of the supreme court, Chief Justice Beard and Justices Neal and Shields, and Judges Wilson- and Taylor of the court of civil appeals re-frjxl -Jo enter the primary nd the mdependent movement was Judges-McAiister and Bell of the supreme court entered the primary and were on the regular ticket. Judge' Barton of the court of eivil appeals was also a nominee-for supreme court.

Gov. Patterson entered the lists for the regular ticket and-stumped the State for. it. His enemies lined up solidly with the Independents. The indorsement by the Republican committee of the Independents was followed by a break in Republican- ranks and the negro vote, it was alleged, was solidly for the regular ticket.

Negroes were registered-more freely than ever before and they paid their pofll taxes. The revolt in the Republican Tanks was led by Jesse Littleton and" many of the blacks followed bins but it seems -not in the numbers that have been pre- dieted. Enemies of Gov. Patterson claim that the result Thursday will have disastrous effect on hi apolitical tK He is a candidate for reelection but as yet the opposition has not shown its hand as to what steps will be taken in putting out a tieket against him. In Democratic congressional primaries in four districts incumbents were renominated.

Savannah Sunday Almost Blotted Oat Sanvannah, Gan SpeciaL Rev. W. L. Pickard, pastor of the First Baptist Church, has written Adjutant General Scott protesting against the use of Rose Dhue rifle range, the new military range near Savannah, oh Sun-days. He says Savannah Las pandered to "foreigners" so much that she has almost blotted out the Sabbath.

The adjutant general has sent the minister's letter to the Savannah military officers asking that they be governed as they think best about it. New Orleans Firms Complain. Washington, SpeciaL Several New Orleans trading companies have com-, plainei to the State Department that, because of the apparently indefinite policy of this government in Nicara-guan affairs, steamship companies were adding 2 per cent to all charters as a war risk The trading companies complained that the extra charge interfered seriously with their commerce with eastern Nicaragua. The State Department has replied to the companies that it ean do nothing for them and reiterates its previous assurances that the United Stat-iS will protect American ships and American cargoes against depredations in Niearaguan waters. Uncle Sam Will Pay "Tips." Washington, Special.

Government officials and employes who pay tips to waiters oh shipboard as well as gratu-ities'to other servants on boats may charge tfce expense up to the government under a ruling of the Comptroller of the Treasury. "All Boys Thieves at Certain Age." Amherst, SpeciaL That morality in country places is higher than ever before is the decision reached by the National Conference of Cunty Clergymen, which was in session here. Ae report of an epidemie of thieving among boys in Cape Cod, given by one of the "clergymen, led Dr. Wilson to declare ffiat "all boys are thieves at a certain age." Necessaries of Life Decreasing. Washington, Considerable shrinkage in the commercial supply of some of the prime necessaries of life is indicated by the movements of live stock and meat products in the United States during the first half of the present year.

This decline was shown both in domestic and in foreign- commerce. iThe shortage in the commercial supply of live stock is best shown by a comparison of the half yearly figures, whieh totalled 16,463,756 head for the Jirst six months of 1910, as comparedLwith more, than 20,000,000 in the same "period last year Public Drinking Cups Dangerous. At lan Georgia, Special. Having for -its purpose prevention of the spreading of disease through the use of common drinking cups, a bill was introduced in the Georgia: House making it unlawful for railroad' companies, proprietors of hotels, office buildings, factories, stores, to furnish common drink-, ing cups for the "use of passengers, patrons or the public generally. Punishment for violation-is provided, for as in cases of misdemeanor.

Great Parade Knights of Pythias. Milwaukee, -Wisconsin, SpeciaL At Milwaukee twenty brigades of Knights of Pythias paraded the principal streets, the feature of the second day of the grand encampment of the Uniform Rank, At night a Pythian recaption, for the- Supreme Lodge, the Supreme Temple, the Sisters and all members was given at White Fish Bay. The following day there 'jvas more competitive drills and another big parade, mada up of subordinate- lodges and Uhe EXPRESS IB QUERY; Commercial Organisations Want Eev-ennes and Charges InvestigatecL a petition, -with 'the interstate commission aty Washington; Saturday asking that body to investigate the charges and net fevejraesof express companies, disclosed Ttelf planned fight to be waged by" commercial or ganizations throughout the country. The" petition is' signed by-124 associations commerce rand commercial who -want al considerable re- rduction in express rates.aji the tact- on the express chf rges hits at railroad revenues as portion of Complaint based upon theeontraxts entered to between: the railroads, and- the express- eompanieadoingisbusiness over their lines. This "movement, against the express companies was started by the Chicago Association of -Commerce and- the New York Merchants' association.

Dr. Crippen Has Friends. Quebec, HawJej H. Crippen has friends, in London who believe he did not jlay bis wife, Bella Elmore, and they "are willing to pay for a lawyer to defend him when he is tried there for murder. He receiy ed proof of this when hir; jailer handed him the following cablegram from a London solicitor 1 Dr.

H. H. Crippen, care of Inspector Dew, Quebec. "Your friends desire me to defend you and' 'will pay all necessary expenses. Will undertake your Mft? fense, but you must promise to keep absolutely silent and answer no questions and don 't resist extradition.

7 Signed) 'Arthur Newton, Solicitor, London-'? As the case now stands the only evidence in the hands of the police 'that may be construed as hostile to Crippen is the discovery of the diamond rings and the brooch the police took from him on the steamer. These they say belonged to his wife. Insurgents Big Victory in Kansas. Topeka, SpeciaL Cannon policies and Stand pattism" were repudiated by the Republicans of Kansas Wednesday. "The significance of the overwhelming victory is two-fold.

"First: It is a complete repudiation of both Cannon and the system by whieh he has robbed the people of free government in the House. Scott. Miller-and Seeder were chairmen of important House committees, while Calderhead was on the ways and means committee. All were beaten because they subscribed to the Cannon system. "Sdi-ThiKansas insurgent effort by the Republicans of Kansas to say-with emphasis, to the nation that the Republican party of Kansas, by endorsing Governor Stubbs and the Kansas insurgents' in Congress, stands for immediate and effective legislation framed to drive special and selfish interests out of control in American politics." Esperanto at Baseball.

Washington, SpeciaL "Tri Frap-umo" is the cry that will ring out from La baseball umpire's lips for the first time the history of the American national game on the afternoon of Thursday, August 18, when the Washington and Cleveland American League teams meet here. The words are Esperanto for strikes." They will be used to indicate "batter out" on the afternoon in question because the 1,000 or more delegates to the International Esperanto Congress in session here that week will be present at the game. For many of the foreign delegates, it will be the first time they ever witnessed a baseball match. Congressmen "Small Potatoes." Ironton, 0., SpeciaL Declaring his disguest because it was necessary to bow and scrape to all the powers, up to the President," to obtain the slightest concession at Washington, Congressman A. R.Johnson has reiterated his intention to quit Congress.

JohnsoiT'has served one term and was recently nominated for a second. Life-Term Convict Wins Freedom. St. PauL Special. Charles Price, serving a life sentence in the Minnesota penitentiary for murder, has been released on account of his horticultural achievements.

In the gardens of the penitentiary he succeeded in producing a lemon weighing forty ounces Now Jie has a dozen others, that are ready for picking and which wiFl weigh about three pounds each. He has been paroled under condition that he remain in tie State seven years. Price had served twenty years for killing a fellow-Jramp. Oldest Operator Dead. J.

B. Watt, aged 62 years, died at his home here Thursday. Mr. Watt was one of the oldest telegraph in point of service in the served over 45-years in the business. He had the distinction oJ.hav-? ing taken the messages announcing the assassination of Lincoln, Garfield and MeKiniey.

For many years lie was Associated-Press operator, in the Banner office, this city, but several months ago iwas retired on r-ensipn. Peeping Tom" Got His, Chicago, Special. During a special trip from-Dulutb to Gary, with five young women relatives of officers of the United States Steel Corporation on boardC.the crew of Jthe ore steamer Douglas Houghton mutinied Friday off the Chicago harbor, and it took Captain John Parke one hour with a revolver: to quell i the mutineers. It is said that Abe-mutiny started, because a deck, hand had. been locked in the ship's brig' for peeping through cabia window women passengers.

A AUTOMOBILE WRECK fast Southern Passenger Train Smashes Machine. rWO KILLED -OTHERS INJURED, Auto Passenger Car With Eleven Persons Aboard Caught in a Deep Cat by a Southern Passenger Flyer. "Birmingham, Special. Two were killed outright, three fatally injured and two others may die as the -result of an -accident, in which, a Southern Railway passenger train near Westlake erashed into a large automobile below Bessemer Sunday afternoon. The automobile maintains a regular passenger schedule between Bessemer and Westlake and it was carrying eleven passengers Sunday to the.

lake Sunday afternoon. The machine was struck, by the fast passenger train shortly after 4 'clock and was almost" completely demolished There is a steep grade leading down to the Southern tracks jusjt before Westlake is reached and as the highway is in a cut itVas impossible for the chauffeur to see the -train or for the engineer to see the automobile. Those of the automobile escaped, with injuries state that the locomotive whistle was not blown for the crossing. The front wheels of the large automobile had just run on to the railroad tracks when the engine struck it. The passenger train was running at a high rate of speed and ploughed its way through the forward end of the machine.

As it was but one and one-half miles from Bessemer ambulances and physicians quickly summoned from that city. The all taken to the Robinson hospital in Bessemer. "Down With thaTope." San Sebastian, By Cable. The government's rigorous measures and the formal renunciation by the clerical junta of the threatened demonstration in this city insured comparative tranquility Sunday, and a largely attended bull fight was the chief incident of the day. From daybreak the streets were patrolled by cavalry, infantry and gendarmes, whileheavy bodies of troops were held in readi ness in the barracks at Miramar palace, where the queen mother and the royal children are in residence.

The gravest incident occurred las! evening when groups of clericals as sembled shouting "Death to Spain! Long live the Pope!" Thousands of indignant people rushed towards the manifestants and only the personal intervention of the Governor at the head of a platoon of police prevented an attack. Nearlv one hundred and fifty arrests were made. Many amusing scenes were witnessed. Priests leading trudging bands of peasants took to their heels when they found the city in the pos session of the military. The peasants, all their courage gone, were disarmed and easily persuaded to re turn to their homes.

In some cases the soldiers were compelled to supply with food the poor people who had come into the city to rail at the government. The local authorities are convinced that the clerical demonstration masked a Carlist plot. Clericals are extremely indignant at the 'govern ment repressive measures. Mother of Twins at Ten. Jacksonville, Fla Special Tishie Drfancy, a negro girl, ten and a half years of age and an inmate of an orp- banaiget gave birth Friday night to twin girls, according to a birth certifl- cate filed with the board of health here Saturday.

Both of the children will live, it is said. Great Monument in Memory Pilgrims. Beverly, Special. President Taft 's visit to Provincetowri Friday to assist in the dedication of a towering monument of granite erected in memory of the Pilgrims was made notable by an impressive naval review in the land-sheltered harbor behind the hook of Cape Cod. Boy's Marble Swapped for Atlanta, Special.

-What is said to be' the cheapest price on record for adiamond ring was turned up here by Detective Cowan of the local police force. The price was one small marble, dingy white and with nicks all. over it. The! purchaser was a small negro boy and the seller an- other i urchin' of the same race for whom the police, are now searching. There is no clue to the-, original owner of the gem nor as to how' it eame into possession of the small party of -the first part in the swapping trans- action.

The-value of the stone 'is under First Parole Board in AJanta, SpeciaL The first -parole board to be formed at any of the United States prisons, in conformity with the laws passed at the last session of Congress, has just been organized at the Atlanta prison by V. Ladow, of federal prison. Prisoners who have served one-third of their terms are eligible to parole. Of the 800 inmates of the Federal prison here, 200 are on thia eligible list. Destructive Forest Fires in Northwest.

Request has been -made for troops to protect national forests in Mon- tanaand. Idaho from forest fires and to assist in extinguishing the flames. The most serious situation exists in Mnnt.mi ni1 Tdaho. 'The. forest ser-.

tflce is in close-touch withthe district officials in these States jwhere the flames have swept over nearly 200,000 acres, entailing losses -which it is tnnvn ftlreailv have reached nearlv jAno nOO and which mav amount. tO I millions when the damage can be more clearly estimated. NORTH CAROLINA EVENTS Life1 in the Land of the Long Leaf Pine literary and Historical Association. The Literary and Historical Asso4 nation, it is expected, will hold its iext session in January, i connection with the -unveiling cf the Ransom bustjy the Historical Commission. This' is the" announcement given aut after a meeting of Execa-tive Committee at Raleigh.

The object in postponing the meeting sixty days beyond the date" of last year's meeting is twofold firsfy "to have the members present at the 'presentation of the Ransom bust and, secondly, to bring to a olimax the Association's long fight for a fireproof library and hall of recordss. -It is earnestly hoped by the Association that this will be achieved before the next Legislature adjourns. Fanners' Annual State Meeting The ami nal meeting of th farmers of North Carolina will tak place in Raleigh on August thirty and thirty-one, arid September first. For three days the fanners wiL have a convcutdon at the A. and College in which all the talks, remarks and addresses will be along ih lines of fanning, and the varioui divisions of farm work, it is to a meeting in watch ti praclicad sldt of modern farm life i carefully and fully presented.

For six years these annual Farmers' Conventions have been held, and they have, proven of the greatest value. -Last years, the attftndanco was in the neighborhood of 300, and it it expected to exceed that number thii year. It is hoped to have railroad excursions the convention, wltl' specially low rates and if this is done the attendance will beU ere attest in 1h history of the convention, i Invitations are now being sent out to various parties to participate in the convention. Among the speakers wif be Dr. S.

A. Knapp, head of the denv onstration work of the United Status Department of Agriculture, and Dr. W. J. Spillman, of the Unitrd State Bureau of Plaot Industry.

The mail speakers at the convention will from Jhe Department of Ariiltur and from the A. and M. College, al' the addresses to bear directly oa farm life and work. Record Broken foi Tourist Travel From all parts of tie S-uth visitor, are pouring into Aseville in gral numiliers, while the surroundg resorts are filling at an- equal i ft nol greater rate than Ashevi. Hender- sonvUle, Waynesville, Black Moun-! tain, Montreat and Blue Mount, Hot Springs, Balsam, Canton, Bxeyard.

Lake Toxaway and numerous intermediate places all along the route of the Southern report great crowds The tide of tourist travel reaches the high water mark "during August and it now looks as if this month wil! surpass previous Augusts in the crowds. It is stated that at least 100 trunks were unloaded at Black Mountain Saturday for people arriving for the Black Mountain and Montreal resorts. Travel along the Murphy division of the Southern is particularly heavy. Jewelry Robbers Abroad. The loss of nearly $1,000 in jewelry resulted as a result of the robbery ol J.

O. Rhode's store Wednesday nighi at Hickory. The rear window had been prized open with a crowbar. While the bulk of the jewelry in the store was. in the safe, there were $500 worth" of rings in trays in.

the showcase and these were taken in the trays, as well as some other jewelr and silverware in the show window. Mr. Rhodes offers a reward of $100 for recovery of the itolen property and $50 for the capture of the thief. There -was a jewelry robbery at Asheville a few days ago and' it ii thought that the same thief may be working this way. Confederate Monument at Cornelius A handsome Confederate monu ment standing 27 feet above the country round about and bearing at tbe top a life-sized figure of a Confederate soldier, was unveiled Thursday at Cornelius, 18 miles from Charlotte, by the Monument Association of the survivors of K.

56tb North Carolina Regiment, and the. Reunion Association, organized 26 years ago. Third Continuance for Watkins. Upon the grounds that Lock Craig, eliief counsel-for C. Watkins, the Black 'Mountain constable, charged with killing John H.

Bunting, a Wilmington man, at 'Black Mountain, about a year ago, was too uawell to conduct the case at-this time, Judge Council granted a contirfoance of the case until November term Jf court. The State agreed to a eontinuahce. Tihis makes the third continuance. the defense and prosecution eaclfhav-iflg one on account of knubility to get witnesses at Asheville. The case re suited in a mistrial -last October.

Kills Sister Accidentally. Befieving that Vshotgun was un loaded, the six years old son of Cdun-tv I. D. Harrelson" of Funston, while playing1 with three other children in hi. father's home, picked up the -weapon, pointed at his little sister, aged 4 pulled the trigger, and killed the child instantly, the entire -left side being caried An Editor With Money.

August 23 Editor Clarence Poe of The. Progressive Farmer will sail from San Francisco for a tour around the world, during which he JBays he expects to have bis eyes espeeially open for every lesson the Soath ean" learnt from distant countries in matters of agriculture, manufacturing, race and political problems, oonserva-- tion, religious unrest and commercial opportunities. will visitjespecial-iy Japan, China, the Philippines, In-' dia the Holy Land, and Egypt. He expects to reach Raleigh on the return-some time in s. 1 1 4 Vi (' such an extent that she will have to move to some other place.

w-i it is possible that-within a few 'days all the. trcops- will be removed trm the titj, c'.