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I mm state iitwsr 1 Items of State- Interest Gathered and Told In Brief. COlTCil GOIhG HIGH. Ett.t to Twenty-five Points Advance bvt Eased of three to four Points. Uzws Slcnn Center of. The Two Women andAr.cth-er Will Die.

t. iiq; The marking of the graves of the Confederate dead I who died in Northern prisons probably' will occupy all of next year, and Secretary of War Dickinson Monday, asked for an extension of time for performing this work after February 26, when the legislative; authority will expire. Gen. William Gates is the commissioner charged with, "the duty of marking these graves and Secretary Dickinson says that while Gen. Oatea has been diligently at wcrk the task is still incomplete.

He thinks, how--ever, that it can be finished within the next calendar year. The crop reporting board Tuesday estimated that the newly seeded area of winterwheat is 7.9 per cent, great-, er than revised estimated' area shown in the fall of 1908, equivalent to an increase of acres, the indi- CcrpzrczTSV.icJ.l hz forced to Report. SECRETARY tfAGAL'SY REPORT. T. A Federal System of Statutory Ptib-' licity, the Secretary Believes, ia the 1 Prime Need Jl Washington, Special.

Legislation to create a department of the government which would do for the whole country what the bureau of corpora tfaw! has been doing in specific instances, arid compel complete publicity in the management- of interstate corporations, is one of the leading recommendations contained in the annual report of the Secretary of Commerce and Labor made public Sunday, Newer and tighter laws to stamp out the 1 white slave trade, whicl the secretary says is. an organized and extensive business, is the other. The secretary recommends the further development of the bureau of corporations. At the end of this fiscal year, the department still has on i. hand investigations of the lumber and steel industries, the International Company, concent tration of waterpowei ownership, transportation by water in the United States.

It was still continuing its investigations of the tobacco industry, the operation of cotton exchanges and State systems of corporote tax ation. On the subject of government control of the fiscal and industrial forces, Secretary Nagel says some terse things and makes some important recommendations. The prime need of two things is emphasized. First, re liable information upon which the government may take legislative and administrative action and second, reliable information in a concise and available form to serve for the basis of public opinion. The first step to be taken he says is an advance toward a complete system for obtaining and making public-, this information.

The bureau of corporations has demonstrated the value of this beyond doubt, in i the limited way which its force and 'money available would al-law. NINE FROZEN TO DEATH. 'v'. Fish Boat Commodore Perry Picks I Up Yawl Containing Nine Dead and Frozen Bodies of the Crew, of the Bessemer and Marquette Ferry i No. 2, Which Left Port Tuesday.

Morning. Erie, Special. With her flag at half-mast the State fiisheries boat Commodore commanding, brought to this port late Sunday the dead and frozen bodies of nine of the crew of the Bessemer and Marquette ferry No. 2, which left Coneaut, Tuesday morning, carying 32 men and which probably foundered in the middle of Lake Erie. For the past 48 hours the Commo dore Perry has been scouring the wa-ters of eastern Lake Erie for the traces of the car ferry but until a tiny 1 ten-man yawl i was slighted 15 miles off this port at 11 o'clock Sunday had almost given up hope of being able to ever tell a portion of, the 'story of the fate of the big car ferry, i As the Perry came abreast of the drifting and half water-logged -yawl the men gathered at the side of the fish boat saw that they had arived too late.

I he nine occupants ot the boat, which was marked Bessemer and Marquette No. were frozen stiff in death. Taking the yawl in tow the Perry made all steam Vor this port. Ellis Pleads Guilty. Little Rock" Special.

W. Y. Ellis of Pine Bluff, whose trial on a charge of murder in connection with the killing of N. P. Willis of In dianapolis, resulted in a late Saturday afternoon entered a plea of guilty of voluntary manslaughter, -appealing to the mercy of the court for a minimum prison term.

The case was reopened before Judge i il i uea in circuit court at me lusiance of the attorneys for Ellis i Sues Father-in-Law For- $50,000. Charlotte, Special. Sum monses have been issued by Mr. Stenerson against his father-in-law, a weathey citizen of Baltimore, and it is understood that in the civil suit which will follow in the courts of Mecklenburg the, plaintiff will seek damges in the sum of $50,000, alleging the alienation of his wife 's af fections, she being a daughter of the defendant, Mr. Stenerson has employ ed Mr.

T. C. Guthrie, and is determined to have his case properly presented to the courts. Should Not Hurry Home. Washington, Special.

Appropria tion legislation will be undertaken by Congress before the adjournment for the holidays. There has been a gen-eral supposition that all measures of any charcater would be postponed until after-the first of January. Chairman" Tawney of the committee on appropriations has upset this scheme by declaring that an appropriation bill could be prepared and passed before the Christmas aijourn- mrrt as ra as not. Day. VARYING ESTIMATES SITUTION News That Zelaya Would 'Avoid" an Engagement at Rama and, Making a Detour, Would Strike Bluefields, Washington, Special.1 Disquiting hnews received from- Nicaragua at the State Department trom omciai and unofficial.

sources to the effoct that there is danger of an attack by President Zelaya 's forces being made on Bluefields; where there are 150 Americans, resulted in orders being sent 1 by wirless to the protected cruiser Tacoma with ten "guns on board and a full complement of blue jackets, to proceed under, full steam to Bluefields, there to join the Des Moines and await further orders. The Prariej now at Philadelphia, has been, ordered 1 to take on board seven hundred marines under the commands of Colonel' Biddle and steam as soon as possible to Colon. The importance and significance of these orders are minimized at the State Department, i where it is said the Tacoma has been instructed to look out for American interests at Bluefields. A dispatch of Saturday says: This city of Bluefields, the headquar- teers oi tne provmioum guvenuueuu, has been thrown into alarm by a sudden realization of the strength of the government army against which General Estrada; the leader of the insurgents, had been supposed to have been making irresistible headway, Estrada apparently has been hoodwinked by -Zelaya and no one would be surprised if the latter's troops should appear before the city at any hour. Estrada is hoping', for timely aid from the United States; A staff correspondent of The As-socated Press who recently arrived here has canvassed the situation and finds it less hopeful for- the insurgents, than has been believed.

A very recent dispatch, however says, it is the opinion of Panamans that President Zelaya of Nicaragua is riding tfor a fall, that he is. deliberately working to bring about in tervention by the United States, having chosen this form of humiliation in preference to the great one of suffering defeat at the hands of revo lutionists. ''rr For the past; sixteen years, during which time Zelaya has been in power, according to the statements of men now on the isthmus who are conversant with" affairs in that republic, Nicaragua has been ruled by a group of eight daringclever and conscence- less who have looked upon the country as their own personal property; -1 'y This group has grown enormously rich by a systematized pillage of the revenues of the States 'and of individuals. It ds estimated that Zelaya is worth about $20,000,000 gold, most of which he has invested in -Brussels and London. It is said that when these men a piece of property they: offered i about i one tenth of its value and forced them to take their! offer by threats Of charge of treason before packed courts and juries and had them shot as traitors: A' break -was madd when Zelaya refused to be fair the distribution of the Citizenship For Porto Bicans.

Washington, Special. Citizen ship, without serious inconvenience to the' should be extended to those who desire it in Porto Rico, according to General Clarence K. Ed wards, chief of the bureau of insular affairs, in his annual report 1 Sunday to the Secretary of War. As to whether this is to be done as a whole or by individual merit is a matter -of detaiL V' Trees For. the Yuletide.

Washington, Special. Does the Yuletide with its demand for Christ mas trees prove a menace to the American forests This question is asked of the United "States -forestry service. The subject has received the serious consideration of the forestry bureau and the reply has been sent out that there need be-no danger of destruction if the cutting of young evergreens for Christmas trees is done with discrimination. Mrs. Reids Cause Advocated.

Washington, Specials The Bilt-more postoffiee affair has evidenly reached the White House and made some sort of an impression on the President. The appointment of Luther, Representative Grant's man, should have been sent to the' Senate Monday, but it did not appear. Evidently somebody at Asheville is putting up a bitter fight for Mrs. Reid, the wljoman who held the job. Senator Overman will hold up the confirmation should the name go in, until the real state of affairs can he Sets Hi3 Sister on Fire.

Luray, Special. Miss Lillie Goche-nour, 17-year-old daughter of Mr. Daniel Gocheuour, of this county, was horribly burned all over her body Tuesday morning The Goehenour family arose early and the young girl wna assisting her mother in the preparation of the morning meal. A little brother playfully remarked: "I'll burn you up," and, suiting the action to the word, erpiicd a l-rhted match to the lower part of BAPTIST ADJOURN, T7iU Uee at Hendersonville Next Year. Wadesboro The closing service the' seventy-ninth annual session 'was given over to a mass meeting Friday night-on the subject evangelism; The speakers were Rev.

Baylus Cade of Shelby, Rev. J. D. Prestridge, D.1 of Louisville Ky, and Mr. N.

B. Broughton of Raleigh Itt the closing hour of the session manv delegates spoke words of praise for the hospitality of the Wadesboro people and the pert ect arrangements made for tho convention by the pastor, Rev. Chambliss: The president requested Rev; J. D. Huf ham- to make the closing address of the ses- sion.

In his remarks, Huf ham said that this had been the best ses sion of tho convention in seventy nine years. After the closing song and prayer the convention -adjourned sine die. The convention will meet at Hen. dersonviile next year." Cora-Growing Raleigh, careful sun mary of the returns made by the contestants in the boys'; corn-growing contest in this State shows that the 'average yield of the whole number reported was 50 bushels and 12 pounds of shelled corn per acre, which is regarded as exceptionally fine shotos the possibilities of North Carolina soils when intelligently, The, boy who made 135 bushels of corn on an acre, Charles F. Phillips, is the son of C.

H. Phil- lips of Randolph county and his father said the land would not have made 35 bushels -x under the former methods of cultivation and without fertilizer The boy used 8-3-3 fertilizer and 1,000 pounds of lime and the total cost ot cultivation, tertil lizers, was $26.50. Next year the State will be divided into ten dis tricts and three prizes will be offer- W. C. Pearson, the district supervisor of thfti iinn for this" district is here, and opens his office Thursday in the Masonic temple.

He will have threo persons in his office force and there will be 133 census takers in the district, who in the country are al lowed JO days and in places over 5,000 two weeks. The work begins April 15. Last Man to be Hanged. Probably the last hanging in North Carolina will take place in Bladen County Friday, January when Henry E. Spivey will pay the death penalty for tho murder of his father-in-law.

Tho ciime was committted before the act of the Legislature of 1909 which makes electrocution the legal mode of execution of the death sentence in North Carolina. Spivey appealed to the Supreme Court, but tho verdict of the lower court was upheld and the instructions of the judge to; the jury The court charged the jury that they could only find the defendant guilty of murder in the. first degree or not' guilty, they, not being permitted to find murder in the second degree or manslaughter. Four Bitten by Rabid Cat-Raleigh, 1 Thursday-four people arrived here from Green Hill, near Littleton, to be treated for the' bite of a mad cat; The State expert says that more than a dozen persons have been treated for cat bites, these animals having first been bitten by dogs. St.

Matthew's Woman Hurt. St. Matthew's Special. Mistaking a loaded army cartridge for a curling tongs, Misa Athleen King, a young woman of this town, was painfully injured here on Monday night. While-making her toilet she picked up the cartridge instead of the tongs and placed it over the lamp to heat; An explosion ensured and Mrs.

King entered the room to find her daughter lying on the covered with blood. Rockingham White Girl of 17 Charj-' ed With Infanticide, Reidsville, SpeciaL Sallie Reid, a white girl about 17 years of age, who lives in the -New Bethel section, was arrested Tuesday charged with the murder' of an infant. The ehild, supposed to have been born was found in a ptnni Tho gill, was placed under arrest rjul u.aoiv under guard pendingbcr preliminary examination. A young man from the same community is also- under surveillance, suspected of being implicated in the crime Durham Carpenter Dies Suddenly Durham, Special. TV.

W. Douglass, ged 50, a curpente" and contractor, died Tuesday on the top of the Duke factory where he was sit work with several men. So far as is known, Mr. had been in perfect health and ten minutes before his death tLere had Ijpou no intimation of such an illness. II as talking with the i and turned suddenly to a Mr.

Y. 1 and said: "Send for a doc-i He sat down and wa3 desd ia SAVANNAH IS EXASPERATED $1,000 Reward by Mayor For Arrest With Evidence to Convict the Fer-f petrator of the Revolting Deed. i Savannahj Special. Victims of a revolting crime, Mrs. Eliza Grib- ble, aged 70 years, and her daughter, Mrs.

Carrie Ohlander, were found dead in heir home, No. 401. Perry street; west, here Friday, while a third i Mrs. Maggie. Hunter found just inside tho front door of the house, is at the Savannah hospital dying.

1 1 Physicians state that Mrs. was the victim of a criminal as-J sault just before she was it Police believe "that; the murder us-ring an axe taken from the woodshed in the rear of the Gribhle home, beat jMrs. Gribble to death, struck down Mr. Hunter and, after assaulting Mrs. Ohlander in the wide, long hall-: way where the bodies were found, finished his terrible work by beating in her skull with the weapon, i ATrs Grihhln evideiltlv was attack- from behind as she sat in an easy chair reading.

On the floor beside her body were found the newspaper Bhe was reading and her spectacles. j. One or possibly two blows were dealt her. Her frey hair, blood mat-" ted, shows the imprint of the blunt axe.1 It is probable that Mrs. Hunter was the first to bo struck down; that she met the murderer at the door U9 he entered and was struck before she could escape.

Then the murderer, stealthily approaching aged Mrs." Gribble, killed her. It is believed that Mrs. attacked as she left her room to enter, the hallway, was assaulted and Mrs. Hunter's skull was crushed in and death is a mattei of but a few hours. Other: theories are entertained bv searchers fox the murderer but the police ar proceeding on the theory that a ni man is sruiltv.

Manv en tertain this theory and feeling is in- tanofl hoiii hoflbnaA nf i 1 Friday night Mayor Tiedeman of Bavannanouerea a reward for the capture with evidence: to convict the slayer of these women. It is now almost, cetrainly known that a negro, the negro who was at first suspected, is the guilty, man. Persons have been found who. state that this negro was seen entering the Gribble home with the fatal axe in his and was seen closing the shut" ters to the windows of the house, and to leave the premises, all at the hour when it is believed the murders were committed. This negro's description has been printed, on hand bills and scattereed broadcast over the city and county with the reward offeiy and all nearby towns have been notified nd aw on the outlook.

Police officers in automobiles have- covered all the roads foi miles surrounding i the city while posses on foot have scoured the places 1 where automobiles could not v. 15 Keeping; Sectionalism Alive. I Special. As a part of the fight being made against the acceptance by- the government of the statue of Robert Lee as a perma nent addition to the Hall of Fame in the Capitol building, the Vice President Friday laid before the Senate a resolution adopted by the Michigan commandry of he' Loyal Legion on November 4 This resolution characterizes as an insult to the nation the suggestion that if the statue of Let be rejected by Congress Virginia win withdraw the bronze statue of George Murder of Captain. Rankin; Union City, SpeciaL--In all of its brutal and bloodyv details, tht story of the murder of Captain Quen.

tin Rankin at Walnut Log, on Reel- foot lake, by band of masked and armed night riders, was retold to jury in the circuit court here Friday. Col. Z. Taylor, Captain Rankin 't companion on the night of the murder was 'the; chief witness Dispute Over pivision of Game Endf Pensacola, Fla SpciaL 'Aftei spending a day in the woods on -1 hunt Thursday, Henry Williams and Seaborn Critehfield, well-knows planters of near Bonifay, became engaged in a quarrel in which the latter was instantly killed. They started a fight over the division, of the game.

Critehfield drew a knife and lunged at Williams, it is. said, where upon the latter drew his revolver and his adversary. Williamj was exonorated by a coroner's jury. For Highway Improvement. St.

Augustine, Special. The executive committee of the Interna tional League for Highway Improve ment, at a meeting here Inday night decided to hold the first annual con vention of the league at St. Augus tine January 26 next. The United States, Canada and Mexico will invited to participate in the convention, as well as the Governors ot States and the various tl tr.e ccutstrv. FUTURES AEOYE FIFTEEN CENTS.

liverpool Report Make Activity in Market But Heavy Realizing Holds a Check and Closing; is a Little Off. New Special. The cotton market opened, steady at an advance of 8 to 25 points which was no better than due on the strength of Liverpool and ruled very; active during the early There was a continuation of big outside buying, but the advancing tendency was held i in cheek by tremendous realizing and after the active months had sold 17 to 18 points net, higher, establishing nw high records for the season, prices eased off 3 or 4 points during the middle of the morning Saturday, The market closd easy with prices net 6 pointa lower to 23 points higher. Receipts at the ports Saturday bales, against 23,471 last week and 55,978 last year. For the week 200,000 bales, against 189,386 last week and 411,472 last year.

Saturday's receipts at New Orleans 6,562 bales, against' 10,011 last year and at Houston 8.031 bales, against 15,004 last year. Spot closed quiet; middling up- tnnrla l.fl- TniHrHinw (nilf 15.45 nf 0 i sales. Open. High Low Clos. Dec.

15.04 15.o9 14.91' 14.93 Jan .15.15 15.17 14.94 14.94 Jeb 15.27- 15.18 Mar. 15.50 15.56 15.35 15.35' Apr 15.C8xl5.68 15.68 15.42 May ..15.80 15.85 15.65 15.65- June "15.68 15.56 July .15.79 15.90 15.70 15.70 Aug. 15.50 15.75 15.50 15.56 Sept. 13.95 14.00 13.88 13.88 Oct. ..13.40 13.43 13.30 13.31 bid; correct.

RAYNER FLAYS ZELAYA. Declares That Nicaraguan President is a Highwayman, a Tyrant, a Usurper and an Assassin and Probably the Most Despicable Figure That Has Ever Risen in Central America. Washington, Special. denouncing President Zelaya for havT ing murdered Cannon and Groce, officers of the revolutionary army, Senator Rayner of Maryland advocat- ed the passage of his resolution authorizing: the President of the United States to apprehend and try; the President of Nicaragua for his crime against these two American citizens. The private life of Zelaya, almost unspeakable in its.

enormity, said Mr. Rayner, should be made public by the State Department in order that the people of the United States might know the kind of man Zelaya was. Mr. Rayner insisted that there was ample authority in international law for the course he advocated to bring: Zelaya to the bar of justice; In moving that the resolution be referred to the committee von foreign relations, Senator Lodge said he was glad to know, that the Senator from Maryland so thoroughly approved the course taken by the administration, as he himself heartily approved it. Senator Cullom, chairman of the committee on foreign relations, added that he would have something to say about the resolution when it was.

reported by his committee back- to the Senate, a remark which was' interpreted as meaning that he expected it to be favorably, reported. Steerage Conditions Appalling. Special. A report on. steerage conditions based on information obtained by special agents of the immigration commission traveling as steerage passengers on different trans-Atlantic steamers was made public Monday through presentation to the Senate with recommendations for1 legislation to better conditions.

A Victim of Savannah, Ga Special. Death removed probably the only case of leprosy in the United States army Monday, when First' Sergeant. of the Seventy-Second i Company, Coast Artillery, died in his lonely cottage on the Fort Screven' reservation. The body will be buried with full military honors in the 'national cemetery, in accordance with the last request of the dead soldier. Mix: Charged Her Husband.

With Triple: Savannah, Special. Developments Monday in the aftermath of the- triple murder of last1 Friaay afternoon gave birth to, the startling-theory that not a single- murderer but two or possibly three were engaged, ic tho commission of the terrible crimes. County officers Monday-night declare that of these J. C. Hunter, husband' of Mrs.

Maggie Hunter, whos- death Monday added a third to the number of murdered women, is certainly one. Judge Horace Lurton Lands. Washington, Social. The nomination of Judge Horace II. Lurton of" Tennessee to be associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States in suecesion of late Justice, Peekham, was sent to the Senate-Monday by President Taft.

Judga Lurton is a Tennessee man and was appointed judge of the sixth circuit bv IVe'sidcnt 1 March '27, lie was a ti rat 1:1 cated total area being acres. The condition of winter wheat on December was 95.8 against 85.3 on that day last year. total resources of $50.19 per capita of population, the banking in stitutions of the Eastern or- Middle Atlantic States lead the The New England States come next with $433.60 per capita; the Pacific States are third with the' Middle Western fourth with $190.65 the Far Western fifth: with the Sou thern sixths with $71.19,1 and island possessions tail off with $5.22 per capita. The United btates as a whole shows banking resources- per capita of $237.24, with the island posses sions included the rate i3 lowered to $215.37. There will bo introduced in the Senate early iii the present session a bill to place Chinese immigrants upon the same basis as other immi grants: to the United States.

It is now being prepared by Senator Dillingham, of Vermont, chairman of the Immigration Commission. The measure will not give to Chinese tne right 1 of naturalization, Under the Chinese Exclusion act coolie labor is not admitted to the United States from China; students, teachers, for information or pleasure ar exempt trom this law. It is the plan of the new measure to practically repeal the provisions of the' exclusion act. Puzzling as ever is the problem eonlronting the local authorities relative" to the case of John Early; the alleged lepers now detained here on the charge of going about in public while afflicted, with a- contagious disease and the complications in this now famous case "to mul tiply. Early wants to go on; the stand at the, trial.

This the court will not allow unless at is shown that Early has not a contagious disease. He may be kept indefinitely. 1 In caucus Thursday afternoon the Democratic Senators elected Senator H. D. Money of Mississippi as minor ity leader ot the benate to succeed Senator Culberson of Texas i.

whose resignation was 'presented last week. The Supreme Court of 'the United States Monday granted the petition for the writ of certiorari in the con tempt cases of Samuer: Gompers, Frank Morrison and John Mitchell, officers of the American Federation The effect of the decision will be to bring the entire record in the Buck's stove and range case against these men i to the Supreme Court for review. Senator Rayner, of Maryland, will in all probability introduce a resolu tion in the Senate during the coming week. with reference to the Nicara-guan controversy and will address the Senate upon it. His point will be the apprehension and; trial I of Zelaya, the dictatorid Presidents of Nicaragua, whose rule is drawing to an i end rapidlv, tor what benator Ravner considers the murder of two American citizens, soldiers in the revolutionary army of Estrada.

At the first conference of the Dem ocratic members of the Senate in the coming session of Congress, Senator Culberson sumitted his resignation a3 chairman of the Democratic caucus. This determination on the part of the Texan has been reached because of his- serious which probably will prevent him from attending the sessions of the benate for at least two or three weeks. The Central American junta, com posed of diplomats and patriots from the five turbulent little republics on the neck of land between Yucatan and South America, is one of the lat est acquisitions of the Capital of the United i States. It is unofficial, but vociferous, and its-sessions are held in. the cafe of a leading hotel The junta is the clearing house for all the lntormation that leaks unofficially from revolution-torn Nicaragua while the diplomats have framed up a half-dozen new alignments of the five republics, each with a view to the equitable distribution of the "balance of power." A blizzard prevailed about Chicago Thursday that interfered with traffic and communication and numbered human fatalities and great suffering in its results.

President Taft, the members of the Cabinet, the Governors of five States, members of Congress and other men prominent in national i-life attended the National Rivers and Ilarhnrs Congress, which' brrn a thre-days scssic-n ia this city Wednesday..