Madison County Record from Marshall, North Carolina • Page 8

TWO RECEIVERS NAMED THE SISK CASE HEARD RECM ASKED FOR Creditors of the Seaboard Air Line Take Action Items Gathered From All Sections of the State Jr In 'Brief MINOR MATTERS OF INTEREST Editor Maximilian was convjeted of libelling Count Kuno vonMoltko and sentenced to four months in prison. Secretary Metcalf and Surgeon-General Rixley held, a conference regard to the complaint of Dr. Rix-ey's criticism of Admiral Brownson. Col. Mederem Crawford, formerly in command of Fort McHenry, Baltimore, is made a brigadier general.

Tho report that Judge Rhea will succeed' Mr. Henry C. Stuart as a member of tho Virginia Corporation. Commission is confirmed. John Bartaam, Mayor of Fort Gay, W.

Va.4 was shot and mortally wounded by Samuel Kenser, who fled kito Kentucky. The Caleb Powers jury disagreed, but was sent back for further deliberation by the Court. The woman found murdered in' a pool near Harrison, N. was identi fied as Mrs. Helena Salter Whitmore, of Brooklyn, and her husband Oaa held.

Senator ForakerNis out with a pro- test against the call for a State convention by the Ohio committee controlled by the Taft forces. Seven sailors from the Norwegian bark Germanic, 'which sank in mid-ocean, were landed in New York, while eight others and the captain were lost. The Druce contest for the estates- and title of trieJ Duke of Portland is td go on. Prince flelie de Sagan has decided to sue Count Boni de Castellane for 20 cents damages, charging assault. The boilers bf a steamer blew up and she foundered, but the crew was saved.

Many persons were hurt in rent riots on the East Side of New York. Col. Charles Edmondston Thorn- burn, a New York broker, who will celebrate his golden wedding, was with Commodpre Perry in Japan and with Jefferson Davis. Catholic clergymen in the Pitts- burg diocese will soon be ordered to refuse to marry any persons outside of their own parishes. In Trenton, N.

a Catholic priest will perform the marriage ceremony of his son. Adherents of Senator Knox say he has more delegates pledged to him than any other presidential candi date. Albert Edward Tower, a million aire, whose first wifo killed herself tjf Ciarltiea Meets. WinatMSalcB), Special The quarterly Btttheg of the State board of Fbldjfe Charities convened in the di-xeetora nxtm of the People's Rational Bad at 8:30 Veloek Wednesday night. Tfc meetiug was presided overJy Col.

William. A. Blair, thv hairmaA who lias been a member of the btar2 for the past fifteen years. The othor raemburs of the bua'rd are Mira Daisy Denson, secretary; Mr. Gatjy J.

Hunter, jf Raleigh; Col. J. C. JtfrAIister, of Asljeboro Mr. E.

Hagftten, Joiiesboro, all of whom wen; jirwrrt at the mecrting. The boartl wts in session again in tht aftai-piran the members visited the comiitj jnilcjDhvii't cam) and county borne and will visit similar institution. ja neighboring? (owns. The boantJ'kjs charge of all the charitable, and penal institutions in the Stated At rfcgfet rvports were received from the ijite iniiane ib1htos at "Morg-aji-ton, Ifctgn and GoldsGoro, and of tbe fkQif. and of MiJtgaiiton and RaJeigft.

trflbrts were also reecived Ifram tht: nine orphanages and sani-tarianKV, county phonies, county citvnps and" jails, the State fMftiiteimary, States, farm and all hos-pi fcii.s;. The board went over the list of tbc bward of county visitors foV tJiv? different noun Lira of tile State, Pb Xrtnild in Rutherfordton. Special. A special meptinr of. the commissioners of HntlicrfonJ county was hold in Ruth-erfo-rtttoa- The entire board Mas preanfit." Tn motion it was urtani-xoonsly, (ordered by the board that the enit jR-hieb was destroyed by lire "24tli, 1907, be located and rehailt at Rntherfonltoif; as soon as pssbkt and It was alio ortWd that the matter of cm-ploying; an arvhitprt and providing other things in connection wirii tlie! building- of the court house be left i ojwi uttl the next "regular meeting' of th-A Ird.

Tlie architects present at tlv" mating were Mr. Frank P. iHjibant, of Washington, I), Mr. i K. S.

Asheviile. and. Mr. O.I T. HttchVotk, representing the Fad City Oinutruuliou Company: de- finite pJaa.r were decided on'as to the thusc nht are interested 'n the iui-1 prove-mnf, of tl1( old 'county seat want 'tie court house moveji about JUW reet-anrth ot the present site what liiwwn as the old Iso-T tnown as the old Iso-1 Iicrmn.

a 81,1,1 1 is and is tlie mobi devateil lot on Main street. Johi-Hill Reported Taken. iWrnitn-Snlem, Xews was rwicived here to; 1 he effect that Jolin of the notorious Smith-town sVtlmentf alleged 1o be in the killing of Ilevonue Olli-ccr J- W. Hendricks at Smith town a Hierw Aay ago, for' whose arrest the -TJiaUtd States government offered a rr.warI of $500, was captured about 9 oTefc-3f in the morning at his home, the. arrest being made Messrs.

I Barkmlr ond Walker, of I I i Judge Pritchard Grants Prayer For Receivership For the Seaboard Air Line System and Appoints 8. Da- vies Warfleld R. Lancaster Wil liams to Take Immediate Posses ion of the Railroad. Richmond, Special. Judge Pritchard, judge of the United States Circuit Court, entered a decree nam ing S.

Davies Warfleld, or Baltimore, and R. LancasterVWilliams, of Rich mond, as receivers to take immediate possession of the property of the Sea board 'Air Line Railroad. The bond of each" was fixed at $50,000. ijy tne decree tne receivers are empowered to borrow money if need ful to pay such rental as may become due, purchase cars, and pay for labor and supplies but not for any other purpose without an order of the court having primary jurisdiction. They are ordered to pay forthwith allfinstallments and interest that was due and payable January 1, 1908, notes or trust equipment certificates and all coupons and interest matur ing January 1, 1908, on thq first mort gage bonds of the Seaboard Air Lino and embraced roads such as the Ral- eign and Gaston, Raleigh and Augus ta Air Line, the Georgia Carolina and the consolidated mortgage bonds of the Carolina Central.

Burglar Got a Surpise. Riolimond, Special. Effecting en- tranoe through a front window in the residence of Mr. R. I.

Barnes, at Sherwood Park and Brook avenue, at an early hour Thursday morning, someone, evidently a burglar of the professional species, Walked through the parlor, crossed the hall and walked into the room in which, was lying the body of Mrs. F. Herdy, Mrs. Barnes' mother. He was so badly frightened that for a second he was afraid to run.

a word, he turned and fled the way he had come, diving through a window, taking with him the major portion of the lace curtains and landing on tho porch, from 'he jumped to the ground. It all happended so suddenly that thp persons sitting up with the body were unable to tell whether the intruder was white or black. They saw a tall, slender man, wearing a gray overcoat and a slouch hat, and that was all. Examination of the premises showed that the burglar had pried open the. blinds, carefully raised the window and as carefully lifted the screen on inner side.

He left everything open behind him, and his escape was accomplished with such celerity, that he was gone almost as soon as seen. Mr. Barnes' daughter was asleep in the room above the parlor and was awakened-by the noise of the entrance. Knowing- that persons were up and moving about, however, she thought nothing of the disturbance and went baek to sleep. But the whole household "was aroused- when the intruder made his sensational dive through the wipdow.

Rev. Mr. Templeman and the others sitting up with the. corpse were too dazed to move when they saw the door slowly open and then a man's form slouch upon the threshold. But the vision was as much astonished as they, and be did stand upon the order of bis going but went.

Texas Editor Killed by His Wife, Halletsville, Tex.p Special.ThurSi day afternoon as he was entering his office, W. R. Beaumier, editor of the Halletsville Herald was shot and killed by his wife. She was arrested and placed under $2,000 bail. Domestic troubles are said to be the cause of the killing, Official Report of Alabama Mine Disaster Filed.

i Birmingham, Special. State Mine Inspectors J. M. Gray, James Hillhouse and Edward Flynn has filed with Governor Comer a full re- Jport of the "explosion which took place- in. the Yolande mines last in which 56 men" were killed.

Chief Inspector Grab's opinion is that a miner allowed some dynamite to go off and that this dust. Tne assistant inspectors express -the opinion that there was a gas explosion followed by a dust explosion, ,5 i Cfc: British Minister Will VlflH Sondurai 1 Mexico 4t5ty, Mex' SpecIftfKeg-' inald Tower, British'ministcr toMeX-ieoj will sail from Vera Crus n-f an-. nary 10th on board the warship BrU-1 liantor Belize to pay a vkit to CbK oncl Swayne, the Governor of British Honduras. The Brilliart will visit several Mexican ports en route. Mr.

Tower will be absent about four weeks. ir: He la Bound Over to United States Court Tor Being Placed at $3,500 Every Seat' in Court Boom- Filled-Deputy fol Jeotor Stancill and Deputy Marshal MiUlkan Testify. Greensboro, Special. At a preliminary, hearing before United tSates Commissioner J. W.

Woffe Monday aflwnon Oscar Sisk was bound over to the next term "of Federal Court here in a $3- on the charge" of illicit dint Sisir ia accused of beinir implicated in the killine' of Reelme Ofticer J. W. Hendricks 'af Sisk's Uume at county, on tlie morning of. December 20th. A reward of JjoOO' was offered for hint and he was arrested at Smithtown and, brought here last week.

A like, amount has been offered for Jim There wasja. reward of $500 for John Hill, also of Smith- town, and- he was eapttired at his home last week and-is in jail1 here in default of a $2,500.. bond. Smith- hen not yet been apprehended. The Sisk hefering was; attended an immense throng, filling every seal in the United States Court room.

prosecution was conducted' ljy; District Atjorjiey A. E. while Col. John A. Bar-ringen represented Sisk.

The first witness was Deputy Col lector W- A. Stancill, whotesified. that he-was a member ot the raiding together with Deputy Marshal J. Ti MiUikaiy Deputy Collector Downing and Special Goveriiment J.Smploye C. F.

Blavlock, and DeRuty. Collector J. W. Hen.arick,'(whq -as the captain. They visited Smithtowri about 8 o'clock on the morning 'of 20th and when within.

400 yards 'of Risk's home they saw a man having a pin under his ram comiug towards them, but when he saw thff officers he turned and disappearedlin a elirmp of The officers gave chase and 'became a little separated and the next time witness' saw-Officer Hendricks he was lying yards frofn' Sisk.V home. About, 10 yards away they 'found the destroyed an illicit distillery and poured out a a quantity of, beer, whiskey, 'etc' The still appeared to have been in operation recently and. evidences were-very plain that it had ben in use a long time. The still was hot when the officers arrived. --Witness did not again tiee the man with the gun.

Mr. StancitJ was searcbingly cross-examined by Colonel Barrmger, but his direct testimony was not weakened. Witness 'had heard that the still belonged to Jiin Smith. The officers left Sisk's house about noon, taking with them Hie body of Mr, Hendricks. Tlie next witness was De'pnty Marshal J.

T. Millikan. who corroborated- Mr. Stancill's testimony, bnt' added that the man he. saw with the in the path was Sisk and he i-ould easily recognize him in a thousand.

At the conclusion of Mr. Millikan 's testimony the government rested; and the defense introduced no testimony. Tlie case argued by Mr. Holton and Colonel Barringer arid Commissioner Wolfe bound Sisk over' a3 stated. Stole Frcm the Dead Washington, N.

Special News has reached this city of- the work of ghouls near.Baydj's miles front this city, last Monday night, when the private burying ground of the White family residing near was entered and the grave of Susan White opened and several-pieces of old jewelry were sojen-from the coffin, which it is estirifated wtrre worth a considerable sum of It seems that this was a very old graye and. the sfecret of the jewels that it. contained was known only to a few. grave was found tho nexj morning with the dust of the" planks that formed the coffin bones of tho body in a hefip Jn pf the grave, wkjij the Jewels missing. The local jewelers hays been notified; (6 be on thd Jbokout for any old.

jewetfy that may be brought in for sale and they hope in this way somevirace of 4he giulty par- titsT v-' Three-Day-Old Child Left on -His Porch, rL.niaberton, Special. Early. "morning Mr. Marvin Bullard, of this place, discovered a bundle of. jsome kind on his porch, which "had oeen leu mere aunng me nigni.

investigation" revealed the facOhat it was a male chiUJ'pronounced not three 'aysi-ojjd pTiysTcJaff, -whoH was, finding of the Ufc tie, one" tfiere is a mystery," there 1e-ing bo clew as to wholeft itvMr. Bullard will keep the child. Life Barely Saved. Special Monday-vnigbl shortly ter dark' ther wa4" fight at Which is-fiix est from Lexington, in which Moselcy ha4 very close call, and his wife was sev-ed only by his' presence of mind, having knocked 'the, shotgun of iBob BTendrick so that the load whoch was rntended for his (Moseley's) breast passed over bis State News in Brief. There is much feeling against tht Atlantic Coast Line railway people for their refusal to consider the con promise of the rate matter offered by the State.

Charlotte will soon- have new bank with a capital of one million dollars. stock has all been sub-Scribed and the charterapplied for. A fine new building will be erected as a permanent home for the bank. The increase in assessed value of the property. the State under the assessment of 1907 did not pan out nearly so much as many peo ple thought, being about, ninetytwo million dollars.

Some had figured that it would approximate two hundred million dollars. The Council of State has decided to go ahead with' the work on the railway in Hyde county, which is being Aihetriicted under a special act of the last Legislature. The directors of tlie. road desire, the State permit them to substitute a bond deposited, but 'this the' Council of State declines to do. Of the.

ro.a.d: "eighteen miles- have been built, leading twenty-five yet to It is expected that the road -iwill b3. completed oy July or August. inc penitentiary will carry the road's certificates. This' matter was very fully discussed at "Thursday conference. Operations Again Resumed at Whitney.

Salisbury, comes from the Whitney plant that which have been suspended during the holidays, have been re- sumed. and 'that 'the. work is to be prosecuted on a big scale. The tire' big power honse will begin in a short while, the excavating for theiower liouijfiis. completed and nothing' is expected to prevenj jtlie Whitney people 'front turning on pow er July 1st, the date set for uessing the.

nut ton. Fayetteville Connected With Bnckhorn Power. -V Special. The powci of- the Cape Fear Electric Company at P.uekliorn Falls cominir into Fav- experimental connection is bein; made from the sub-station with the electric light plant, mills, etc. The work will be in full blast in a few days.

The distance of transmission to Fayetteville is 32 miles. Thcplanl which cost now "generates 4.000 horse-power, 3.000 of 'which is of the first class power. Righ Point Doctor Tries Snicide at Greenville, S. 0. Greenville, S.

Special A. man giving his name 'as Dr. B. Ramsey, jtt High Point, N. attempted suicide at the Blue Ridge Hotel, of this city, drinking the contents of a botth of laudanum.

Thfe attempt-will prob uuiv piuvc luiauwcssiuij iui ulci working for several hours the attending physicians succeeded in reviving' the, old man, and it was announced that he will probably recover. He appears to be about 65 years of are; It is thought that despondency oyer his finacial condition was the cause of the attempt at suicide. Heavy Loss By Pire. Burlington, Special. The Ossipee Gotton Mills Company, eight miles Uorth of Burlington, snffefed a heavy 9 ty honses' having fire originated ii ben in an names aInxders at His Door.

Wilmington, Special. A jury ot inquest empaneled by the coroner fa inquire in ta a jfl0ubl Murder which occurred at of ojtte JosJ-1 a a point oi a pistol in tne, nanasji, oi a. jeajous riy Will Richardson, co ored. 'returned a verdict placing the double murder upon Richardson, who probably made hisescape on the early morning Sea- (board' train. Freight Train Wrecked an Atlantic ft Tadkin' Railroad.

Tsyetteville, Special. A freht train on. the Atlantic it Railroad was "wrecked four mile above this eity, several" ears being turned over and the track badly torn up. Passengers on the westbound were sent aronod by. Selma.

Eastbonnd train from Greensboro to Wilming- ton np to this hour has not been able TAKEN BEFORE FEDERAL JUDGE Counsel for Seaboard Railway Company and Creditors of Company Apply" to Jndge Waddill For Appointment of Receivers and Subsequently Agree to Slake Application to Judge Pritdhard. Richmond, Special. Counsel for the Seaboard Air Line Railway Company aud creditors of the com pany applied Wednesday afternoon to United States District Judge Waddill for the 'appointment of receivers and subsequently agreed to make application ttf-Judge Pritcbard, of the United States Circuit Court, and thereby obviate "th'e necessity of securing- an-cilliary decrees in each of the court districts through which the lines of the company operate. With this end in view Judge Leigh-R. Watts, general counsel of the Seaboard, with other attorneys, left for Danville at 6:10 clock on- a special train to meet Judge-Prjtchard at that point, it having 6een learned that he was on his way to Richmond to consider the matter.

Judge Waddill 'announced that he would appoint the receivers on certain conditions but it was thought to. go to a court with larger Jurisdiction. The Times-Dispatch has just learn ed over the Jong distance telephone that Judge Pritcbard and the counsel for the Seaboard are in conference at the Southern "Rarlwa'y station in Dan ville. They decline to. give out any thing for publication until the enlire matter is settled.

Lynchburg, Special. A representative of The News talked over long distance 'phone with a reporter The Danville Register, and learned that Samuel Untermcyer, for the Seaboard Air had jnade the following statement: "Learning that judge Pritchard was in Danville we came -down here on the bare chance that-he might be able to give us a hearing on a matter of business we have before him thtit is all there is to it." Pritchard Joins Party at Danville. Danville, Special.The private car containing the Seaboard Air. Line counsel, headed by Samuel. Uiter-.

meyer, of New York, Judge Leigh R. Watts, of Portsmouth, general counsel- for'the Seaboard Air Line Railroad, and Epha Hunton, of Richmond, reached here at. 11:30 o'clock. There were aboard the car about 15 or 20 men, mostly lawyers, but among the number Clerk of the Lnited States Court Brady and Court Stenographer Raymond. Brown.

The "names of thp other gentlemen could not be learned, as they refused to give them and would not talk. Mr. Untermeyer was questioned by an Associated Press correspondent, and stated that no application had been madefor. a receivership. He would not say -whether, an, application would be made.

He would say nothing further, but said that a full -statement would probably be 'given out on the arrival of the party in Richmond-. Judge Pritchard reached the city about 12:15 o'clock and was at once taken to the 'Seaboard private car. He would' say nothing regarding the object -of his trip to Richmond. He. left at 2 o'clock withsthe jSea-board counsel and with Clerk Brady and- Stenographer BroWn and will probably hold a hearing en route to Richmond.

For Furnace Company. Ala, Special, Wt. P. Lay was appointed receiver for the Quinn Furnace Company, the ap pointment being made at tne instigation of local creditors, whose claim amounts to between $0,000 and It is stated hat New York "bondholders will be consulted before if is; decided to file a petition in bank--ruptey. at White House.

Washington, Special. President RopsjffeU: rdceived at the White Houetyie sevetil tinje. a New of well-kiteeipi which was threa hi and the member 'a'nd' ladies of the Cabinet were his assistants." Though 'curtailed in 'number, 5,645, by more thana -thdusand over the preceding New Year's Day, the reception was resplendentfTn "fell -the Incidents of. tradition" which have accumulated to its interest for more Uun a hundred years. -'s Y- Enter pffces Show- Hew Orleans, Special.

-Divi-dend. payments if -4kont JlS.OfO.OOO will, be made in New Orleans this month. These, payments show no decrease under the dividends paid a rates have been--reduced in many, eases, a large increase in capital invested makes np the defiicit which otherwise there would and their son, and who married telephone girl, is bping sued for dir Miss Mary D. Poulson, who boast- ed she had never been north of Ma son and Dixon's line, died in Onan- cocK. Rev.

W. H. Palmer, of Now Orleans was called to the Lynchburg Presbyterian church. President Roibsevelt attacks Rear; Admiral Brownson and characterize? his conduct in resigning as "child-ish" and due to "wounded vanity. In a communication to Secretary Dobson, Sorry conirty, is also re-iby Metcalf President Roosevelt severe! condemns the action of Admiral -Brownson in resigning, and charac terizes his conduct as childish.

More trouble, is feared in Kentuckj 1 over the tobacco war whieh has bees on for some time. Monday witnessed the opening oi started Hill wasvv" carried It; -GreeaibOTaand turned over to the federal aclhorrtiefc. Oscar Sisk, one of the trion.eged,.Jto be respjonsiblo -for fie lulling of the 'revenue officer, -was taken a few dayiT'ago. There is only ot more arrest the iwwnaat faas offered a reward, Jim Santa, Car whom there is a reward of hr Bis Sister-in-Law in West Virginia. ofoast Airy, Special: Mcr CjrTbmO, shot and Ttilled at GawdwilL W.

Saturday by his ,5 The remains of Mc- aistnca-lsw. arflsmd Tracheal thip. place Thursday unoccupied and completely de-ewiras and were buried at colored 8troyed three adjoining houses. oaaefery aere. The deceasned' was a pthers were partly bumedarid torn am rf of tlowli w'rheck'the spread of the JaWBBW Airy -a oia-nme aarKies.

Attenpt Mada by Negro Boy to I 'Voziaae, Special-r-Late Thursday i negro a bold to rob the store of W. 'R. tliftvjEsastern Pigford, colored, in which "she the second trial of Harry K. Thaw for the murder of Stanford White. A special bulletin, with photo- graphs, accompanies a War Depart mont appeal to Congress to providi for better horsemanship in the; army4- Mr.

Harry St. George Tuckejr an-nounced at Staunton that he would' make a contest for the. Virginia Gub ernatorial nomination. J. W.

Kates, one the most notes" telegraphers in the. South, died is -Richmond. v- Lumbervconcerns in Wes JVifginir employing thousands of men will 're. suirie operations while the Norfolk Western, and Virginian; and South--VS western railways ordered reduction! in their' forces. Governor Guild when 'inauguratee in Massachusetts for his.

third term announced a policy favoring bettei control of raUroadsf ny' the An organization in the interest ol Gov, Hughes for President was form- ed at Nyi-viACS'-v Nine persons" were biirf iia notrii following the Munice Ind.J street car. strike Georg M. Gable, as de'ai for 17 years, appeared, in -Lancaster PaJ, -in time to get 12,000 from ar A chool conference to range for uniform b'egur'" fn with 155,000.. schools rep 1 Captain Winslow is said to fcav called the attention of Secretary Met calf to. the fact that Surgeon-Generai -t Rixcy violated the naval regulations in eriicising Admiral Brownson.

cxty. Mr-" Broyn was. but ahdhisand her paramour, Slocum Williams, arie was looking, afie the -store-also colored1, -lost their lives at the w3. poy entcrea ana aiier a i i i Oi 1 far. something to eat darted tiis 'eounte and tried to'get- lie war nearly grown.

Thtf ef-Mrs. and others Km, to" fun and he made hii Bulled at Gastonla.by No. CSaslnua, Special. Lewis Franklin as acal white man, who came. Ga- lew davs ago- with his family county to work in a auTL struck and- instantly ISlZxd ay 17a.

30 in the yards here. XTs bady -was horribly mutilated. ITranTJIa was aid and deaf and did. -not If aor sea the train approach- to dear the wreckage..