The Weekly High Point Enterprise from High Point, North Carolina • Page 10

From Our Wide-AwaKe Correspondent Andrew Joyner. Greensboro, Nov. States District Judge James Boyd, Marshal. J. M.

Milikan, Deputy Marshals Chandly Bailey left on the noon train terday for Wikesboro, where regular November term of al court opens this morning. Boyd this morning accepted resignation of Col. W. S. son, of Morganton, as referee bankruptcy, and appointed W.

C. Ervin, of Morganton, fill the vacancy. In the United States Court, Fred M. Hood, a merchant, of Greensboro, was adjudicated bankrupt and the matter was ferred to J. E.

Alexander, in 1 bankruptcy, and his liabilities were given at $2,300 and his sets at $2,000. Ralph Austin, a wel known gro landscape worker, here, suddenly insane this morning, and became so violent that a liceman had to lock him up prevent his doing injury to self and others. He is a man and of good habits, and sad condition creates sympathy all who know him. Late Saturday afternoon at home of Mr. Dallas Edmondson, who lives near Guilford College, distressing accident occurred the death of his 17 year-old daughter, Annie she was dently shot and instantly killed, a gun in the hands.of her ther James Edmundson.

young man had carried out to shoot a chicken and returning it to the house when accident occurred. While returning to their homes Sunday afternoon from the burial Miss Annie Edmundson, accidently killed by her broSaturday afternoon, white men riding in a buggy were stopped in the road by a party durnken negroes who refused get out of the way. A fight sulted in which one of the white was badly cut by one of negroes, who used a razor as weapon. The fight occurred about miles from the city, and officers are out there trying to the parties. It has been impossible to get accurate details difficulty or the names of parties.

The congregation of the First Baptist Church will worship first time in the handsome church edifice on West Marstreet next Sunday. This general satisfaction at knowing the new church can be used the Baptist State Convention which meets here 011 December The preliminary trial of MinOsborne, and John Wood, the woman and negro man charged with arson, which was continued Saturday until again postponed until afternoon. Mr. W. A.

Scott, of the State Insurance Department arrived on Saturday and is out in Sumner township where the burning was investigating matters. Mr. Leonard, whose barn and horses cattle were burned, has employed Col. J. A.

Barringer to asin the prosecution, while the accused man and woman have employed Mr. G. S. Bradshaw to defend them. When the accused woman was brought in from the jail, her sisMrs.

Leonard, was sitting Justice of the Peace Collins. immediately walked up to and placing her arms around neck, and burst into a fit of weeping and assertions of innodeclaring that she never thought of such a thing as burnthe barn. Mrs. Leonard rewith tears in her eyes, "SisI cannot help what you say, law has taken you and put in jail, not me, and the law stand. I cannot help it.

know how many things you done, and you never would to men An officer took sisters apart, and after the was postponed took Minnie the repulsive negro man back jail. The woman was neatly in a black serge, her and face indicating considrefinement. FROM GREENSBRO card, whose wife is a sister of E. woman defendant. Justices and M.

Wolf and D. H. Collins and sided. The prosecution was yes- resented by Col. J.

A. Barringer, the the defendants by G. S. Feder- shaw.After a long trial, the Judge fense introducing no testimony, the and speeches from the lawyers, Pear- the defendants were bound in to the next term of the court. Mr.

woman gave bond, and failing to give bond, the man was sent to jail. Circuit A statement apparently authorlized by Congressman Blackburn, a which was sent out from Washre- ington last week has caused some referee additional comment on him, some of the anti-Blackburn as- publicans here. Blackburn was represented as having discovered ne- that parties holding stock in went organization organ, the Industrial News, were trying to buy up po- majority of the stock of his paper, to the Tar Heel, whereupon he broke him- up their little game by buying good controlling interest himself, and his would in future have complete control of the Tar Heel.Speaking of this, a man who knows, said the this morning, that Blackburn had repeatedly tried to sell the Tar Heel equipment to the Industrial News, to be run by this corporation as a weekly attachment to their daily, but it had been argued that when the News desired to bro- run a weekly, it had all the The mentt hat it needed and did not equip the wish to buy it at any price. This was gentleman declared that this offer the was made soon after the State I convention, and was again made on the afternoon preceding the night before last, when the Tar who Heel directors held their last meeting, which the Washington correspondent represented the Congressman as stating, he had of scooped in the stock and checkmated the Industrial News. Anre- other item of interest bearing on this and calculated to impeach the the a Congressman's veracity, was that he bought what stock he did buy because ex-Postmaster Geo.

Patthe terson and others, threatened lo- that unless somebody took their of stock off their hands at par, they would apply for a receiver and the have an accounting. And so it goes. The organization crowd say the Congressman goes out of that for his way and lies awake of nights to study up some new cause of quarrel, and all they can do to satis isfy him that they want peace, has no moral effect on him. But they seem inclined to talk back, in this last instance. This correspondent only records a small portion of the latest irritating gossip, only vouchasfing the comment, that if latest statement is true, the made some wild and unjustifiable Congressman assertions about the in situation, the last time he talked newspaper Washington for publication.

Greensboro, Deca. term of the Federal Court for the purpose of passing judgment on officers' and distillers who have been convicted after trial or plead led guilty, under indictments charging fraud in some form or other, and commonly known as the "Rev enue Officers' Cases," convened here this morning at 10 o'clock, but there was nothing done, the court taking a recess until the afternoon' awaiting the arrivals of trains from the West and Wilkesboro. There are no jurors. or witnesses present, this term being called after the adjournment of the September term, for the purpose of passing sentence. The memorial service held here in the Opera House yesterday ternoon, was very beautiful an impressive.

The Lodge of Sorrow had to mourn four brothers departed during the year. Prof. C. R. Brown, Thos.

A. Sharpe, Wm. T. Powe and Alexander Perrow, all excellent men, worthy Elks and fine citizens. Eulogies on the departed were prouounced by Messrs.

E. D. Broadhurst, Jno. N. Wilson, G.

S. Bradshaw, and Z. V. Taylor. Special music by two quartettes was a sweet feature of the service.

The formal address was delivered by Senator John W. Daniel, of Virginia, who taking as his subject Charity, mad an court house was nearly filled yes- eloquent and terday afternoon to hear the trial Opera House of Minnie Osborne, a white WO- the ceremonies and ohn Wood, a negro sive. man, The fact that man, accused of burning the barn Southern Ralway and live stock of Newton Leon-ring the country erator C. D. Maddux, who is charged with the responsibility for the wreck of the train in which President Samuel Spencer and seven others were killed, would appear that an effort would be made to prosecute him for criminal negligence, if the law of Virginia will permit of such.

The first and only case of that kind in North Carolina was the prosecution in Guilford Court last April of C. Turner Welker, of Greensboro, on the charge of being criminally responsible for the fatal wreck of the Southern's fast train, No. 34, on the Pomona yards some time in last February, in which five lives were lost. Welker was at that time switchman for the Company. Welker was convicted of manslaughter.

Judge Ferguson, before whom the case was tried sentenced Welker to two years on the county roads. Mr. G. X. Bradshaw was attornney for Welker, and he gave notice of appeal to the Supreme Court, and Welker's bond was placed at $1.000.

It appears Welker failed to supply his attorney with the necessary money to attend the supreme Court in his behalf and showed no inclination to do so. the case on appeal going by default. Welker's bondsmen began search for him a week ago. Last night he was arrested and delivered up to the sheriff, who placed him in jail.At the December term of court he will probably be resentenced and sent to the tiary to serve out his sentence of two years. The clerk of the Superor court of Guilford had issued up to December Ist 74, non-resident' hunt ers' license, which at $10.50 each makes a fund of $777.50 for the department of game protection.

Notable Tribute Paid; Distinguished Railroad Magnet by Associates, Statesmen and Men Eminent in All Walks of Life. Washington, Dec. that is mortal of Samuel Spencer, late president of the Southern Railway, whose tragic death on his own railroad on the morning of Thanksgiving Day shocked the peoples of two hemispheres, were laid to rest Sunday afternoon in the receiving vault at Oak Hill Cemetery, there to await final disposition. A notable tribute was paid to the memory of the distinguished railroad magnate by his associates, by statesmen and meneminent in all the walks of public life. The funeral was held in historic St.

John's Protestant Episcopal Church, and were attended by rail road officials, financiers, and public men from all parts of the country. Many of them were lifelong associates. Hundreds of friends came from the South. Shortly before 1:30 P. the officers and employees of the Southern Railway, 319 in number, assembled at the general offices of the company here, and proceeded as a body to St.

John's church. There they were headed the four general superintendents of the company, Messrs. Foraker, Loy all, Richtie and and including general passenger traffic manager Hardwick, general passenger agent Tayloe, and assistant general passenger agent Carey. Practically all throughout the its officers of the system of nearly 5,000 miles were in attendjance upon the services. Joining their friends of the Southern Railway in paying respects to President Spencer were representatives of the Mobile Ohio, Georgia, Southern and Florida, Cincinnati, New Orleans Texas; New Orleans Northeastern; Central of Georgia; Atlantic Coast Line; Seaboard Air Line; Pennsylvania, and Norfolk Western Just at 2 o'clock the soft strains of Chopin's beautiful funeral march pealed through the church from the organ.

It was rendered by Prof. H.H. Freeman the orI ganist of St. John's. At the same instant, throughout the system of railroads lately presided over by Mr.

Spencer, every train came to a deep stop, every wheel ceased Ito turn every employee put aside his work. For five minutes over the thousands of miles of railway every employe paid silent respect to the dead president. To the strains of the funeral march, the surpliced choir of 40 male voices silently entered the church and ranged itself on each side of the altar. The choir was followed by the Right Rev. Henry Y.

Satterlee, Bishop of Washington Rev. Dr. Roland Cotton Smith, rector of St. John's and the assistant rector of the church. The funeral was attended by number of North Carolinians, prominent in the life walks of the State and in commercial lines as well.

In fact the State sent a finer representative than did any other state. SURRENDERED HIM. Welker Must Serve Term for his Carelessnes at the Switch, As he had shown no disposition to endeavro to have the Supreme Court of North Carolina to grant him a new trial, C. Turney Welker's bondsmen, Messrs. J.

N. Longest and J. W. Scott turned the young man over to the she riff and he is again languishing behind the prison bars. Welker, it will be remembered, was tried and convicted at the April term of Guilford County Superior Court on the charge of (being criminally responsible for the tatal wrec kof the Southern's fast train No.

34, on the Pomona yards some time in last February, in which five lives were lost. Welker was at that time switchman for the company. Judge Ferguson, before whom the case was tried, sentenced Welker to two years on the county roads. Mr. G.

S. Bradshaw was attorney for Welker, and he gave notice of an appeal to the Supreme Court, and bond was placed at 1,000. For several weeks afterwards Welker remained in the county jadil, because on one would go on his bond. Finally Messrs. (and Longest went on the bond of the young man and he was released from oustody.

California Will Not be Taken by The Japanese. Washington, Dec. States Representative Hayes, of California, leader of the proposition to restrict Japanese and Korean emigrants, and authority on Japanese peril, arrived here today, fully determined to push the anti-Japanese propaganda, and said that when the left here there was no disposition on the part of the Californians to recede from the position. California is our home and we will not sit quietly and see foreigners Orientalize California. We are ready to fight commercial invasion which will 1 not be any more easily accepted than if Japan should come with arms.

Husband Kills Wife While Under the Influence of Whiskey. Atlanta, Dec. a fight with her drunken husband, in which she used a hatchet and a 32-calibre revolver Mrs. John F. Cooper was hacked nearly to at her home, and her husband is dead from self-.

inflicted wounds, after the thought his wife's life was extinct. There were no eye witnesses to the fight. The cause is unknown. The wounds on the woman indicate that she was attacked from behind. Blood on her hands indicate a fight for life.

Both of the bodies were found on the bed by the children returning home. Negro Convicted. Atlanta, Dec. Johnson was positively identified by Mrs. J.

M. Hambree and Mrs. J. Camp, as the negro who attacked and criminally assaulted them lin June, and again in October, was today convicted by the jury and sentenced to ibe hanged January 4.Johnson was arrested on the first day of the trial of Joe Glenn, the negro who was first charged with the crime. Glenn (was identified as the assailant and would have been convicted but for Johnson's capture.

Winston Negro Held for Murder in New York. New York, Dec. 3.In the arrest of Graham Farrar, a negro police of White Plains, N. the authorities belieev they have the murderer who fled from Winston, N. C.

Farrar is said to have made a confession to the police of having killed a man in in a dance hall. The Winston police will come for Farrar. First Service in New Pastorate Daily Enterprise, 3rd. Rev. Alexander Galt, of Oliver, yesterday preached two sermons, morning and evening, and administered the Holy Communion at the morning services, in St.

Mary's Episcopal church in this city, where he some months ago accepted an urgent call to the pastorate. Mr. Galt is a consecrated minister who is strong in his thought and personality, and greatly pleased two large congregations in his sermons yesterday. In the sermon of the morning he devoted his attention to the meaning the teaching of Advent as a specific period in the observance the Episcopal church, and as it had such sacred import with the Christian's celebration leading up to the successiveness of Christmas. Hereafter the services of the Episcopal church will be observed morning and evening with regularity.

Appropriately to mark the death ing and burial of President Samuel cows Spencer, of the Southern Railway wheat, Company, the High Point stationing and and baggage rooms are testefully horse bannered with the pall cloths of kitchen death, a quantity of bunting being Terms so employed about the doors and windows. for the Ten Convicts Saw Their way to Freedom New York, Nov. convicts in Queens county jail sawed their way out today at Long Island City. A reward of $1,000 has been offered for their capture. The 'saw is supposed to have been carried into the men by an Italian who visited his fellow countryman, one of the party that escaped.

SHOWING BY SCHOOL CENSUS. Report Gives Some Interesting Figures in Detail- High Point Has 37 "Sets" of Twins. Mr. John W. Wilborn has just completed a census of the school children of the city which shows some most- interesting figures in many respects.

Our own people will be surprised to learn that there are within the city limits 2,719 people of the general school age, that is between six and 21 years of age. Of this number only 600 are negroes, which shows 2,110 whites, and a fine predominance. It is shown that there are with-, 111 the same bounds 37 "pairs" of twins, and in one home there were found three of these same doubies. Mr. Wilborn reports that he found on one street, side by side.

four families in which the husbands and wives are under 21 years of age. The throwing is an entirely good ore for the city, and it adds encouragement to those in authority, and who are striving all the time for the betterment of local and community conditions. Old Time Corn Shucking. Daily Enterprise, 28th. Mr.

and Mrs. J. E. Kirkman have 'sue 'r vivations to an old time corn shucking. which will ente: tan a of their friends tris evening between the hos of 8 and it.

The affair is prot ising of much enjoyment in sugions of the olden days in the South. WILL INCREASE STOCK Commercial National Bank Will Probably Double Capital Stock. It has been rumored for a few days in business circles that about the first of January the Commercial National Bank will double its capital stock, making it $100,000. The Enterprise interviewed some of the officers of the bank this morning and learned that there is some ground for the report. The.

stockholders meeting will be held the second Tuesday in January when the matter will be decided, but there is little doubt but that the action will be taken, as some of the leading stock holders and officials fare strongly considering it. The capital stock of the bank is now $50,000. It has a surplus of over $50,000 and deposits of nearly $500,000 as shown by the last report to the of the Currency. The last stock sold in this bank brought $210 per share. In case the stock is increased the surplus, which is now equal to the present capital, stock wil not be disturbed.

The progress of this bank has been in keeping with the larger financial institutions of the South and has had wonderful growth. With increased capital stock the usefulness of the institution will be greatly widened and prove benegcial both to the shareholder and the community. PROGRESS IN: VANCE. Citizens Will Meet to Tell the Legislature What They Want. Henderson, N.

Nov. mass meeting of the citizens of Vance county has been called to meet in December. The meeting is called for the purpose of considering needed legislation. Better roads, a good vagrancy law, and other matters of public inwill be considered and the members of the legislature will be told what the people want in the way of local legislation. The holding of such a meeting is a good idea.

The representatives of Vance county will know what is expected of them if the people turn out to the mass meeting and speak their sentiments. Auction Sale Personal Property. The personal property of the uate Elihu E. Mendenhall will be sold at Public auction Wednesday, Dec. 12, at 10 A.

M. on the premises near Mendenhall's Tanyard, consisting of farm implements, horses, wagons, and hogs, farm products, and hay, threshmowing machine, reaper, power. Household and furniture: sale cash. C. MENDENHALL, heirs.

Nov. 20, 1906. ANOTHER PROSPEROUS MERCHANT. A High Point Grocer Who Carries Success With a Fine Stock -The Clean Climb of Only Few Years. In the list of successful and en ergetic merchants in High Point, the Daily Enterprise presents M.

D. Stout, the popular and clever North Main street grocer, whose demonstration of application and will stands out -in fine recognition. From a start in a very small way three years ago, lacking just one month, he has accomplished the establishment of one of the most satisfactory retail grocery establishments in this section of the State. M. D.

Stout is a son of Mr. Har mon Stout and Mrs. Micajah Cox Stout, and was born 29 years ago at Cedar Falls, in Randolph count. He began early to apply of a in by gun of was ther half to men five cate the the new ket that by fifth. nie white day, this done, and sist ter, near She her, her cence, ing plied ter, the you must You have listen the trial and to dressed hands erable Greensboro, Nov.

28. The himself to business, and was married before he had attained his majority, two bright and attractive children being the result of this union.Mrs. Stout is a daughter of Mr. S. Henry Ferree, of Cedar Falls.

On first removing to High Point, Stout was engaged in business with the Siceloff Hardware Grocery Company, where re held a lucrative clerkship, and in which position of trust was demonstrated his fitness for the conduct of an individual bus-. iness of the same character. Embarking with his own name and with the assurance of the innate powers of merchandising. Mr. Stout has studied his work and has added to it monthly until the limits to its growth have been scarcely bounded and even the man who has given his time and talents undividedly to it many times wonders over his successe There will be a special meeting of the furniture manufacturers of the entire south in the Zinzendorf Hotel, on Dec.

5. The heads of the various plants will confer in many ways to the best interest to be subserved and impetus will be given to the handling of their general products. Manufacturers in the various lines of furniture and wood working will be present from this city--a prime leader by force of fact the entire State, and from. Virginia, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina, I WEAK SPOT. The horrible wreck at Lawyers, in which President Spencer lost his life, emphasizes the necessity of older and better paid men at the telegraph key.

If reports are true these positions, which are the most important in the radlroad service, are filled in many cases by boys and young men whose salaries range from $40 to $55 per month. Much depends on a careful engineer and it is just and might that the best men are selected at high wages from $135 to $250 per month. The position of operator is more important than that of engineer because the engineer's safety and the welfare of the passengers depends upon the telegraph operator.It this is true, and we think the situation will bear It out, where is the wisdom and juatice in filling these positions with cheap many times inexperienced labor. As rule ratiroad men pre quick strengthen places but in the telegraph service it seems that they have been lax. There are many competent men the railway telegraph service, but there are many too young and inex perienced to realize their lity.

All of them are poorly considering the nature of the work Burial of Mrs. Riggans. Southern Railway Station Draped inspiring talk. The was crowded and were truly impresofficials of the have been scouin search of Op- The remains of Mrs. Elizabeth Riggans, were today at clock.

interred at Spring Hill, 1 York officiating. Mts. Riggans died of a cancerous affection at the age of 70. years. She is sur.

vived by three children who are Mrs. John Cecil and Wisdom Riggins, of High Point, and Miss Frances Riggans, of Greensboro.