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NO. 18 HICKORY, N. WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 17, 1910 ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR HON. JOHN MOREHEAD jiantly and untiringly for the FARM NOTES.

State Nws. Daily Newg Raleigh, Aug. 10. Charles W. Young, a known broker here, committed suicide tonight by banging himself from the door facing of his room at his home on Polk street.

He wa found about ten o'clock already dead. Young had been drinking heavily and wag despondent. He was Go years old, and leaves a widow and three children, Chrleg W.Young, Mrs Nor-fieet Stroua and Miss Ethel Young, of thiscty. MAYOR OF NEW YORK IS SHOT Discharged City Employee Fires Pullet into Back of William J. Gaynor's Head WAS PREPARING TO SIL '( York, Aug.

9. Willihm Viayiii-r, Mayor of New York (My. in ne head and today as he on the promenade deck ol steamship Kaiser Wilhelm der pact of h- bnliet. did even (Jrue by James J. Gallagher, a tniW from feet but he discharged hiii disgruntled city rai setl hig mmU to eafg employee.

Gallagher was al- with his fuce wt It pin ii.stuntlv overpowered and he 8taggered in a daze and ej impy across the rui' The hot was fired at 9:45 antiI Adamson came to his assi this morning, fifteen mm- tauce Then someone- drew- a utt.s before the steamship was steamer chair lo his side and indue to lea ve her pier to Hoboken, to this the mayor sank with um I th mayor was receiv- A few minuteB later he Godspeed from a group of was removed lo a 6tate room iriend preparatory to a vacation where the ship's surgeons terri-tripto Europe. The bullet struck poraiily jaudaged the wound, him behind the right ear and preparatory to his removal to ranged downward inflating a St. Mary's hospital. He was ta-danger-us. though not necessari- ken there in a special automo-ly fatal wound.

And unlets le. Llooi poison drvelops, surgeons Jl 1 i MRS. GAYNOR NOTIFIED an hopef ul of the mayor's recov- although at his age-59 years Rujus Gaynor a son, was the a wound is essentially onl member of the mayor's family present when he was shot. Ilis wife and other child- KKfoKTS ARK HOPEFUL. ren were afc the Qaynor country biiiiht the mayor is at St.

Ma- plac? at St. James. L. I. When ry' hospital, lloboken, surround- Mrs.

Gaynor was notified by tel- ed hy Iiis specialists, with mem- ephone of the tragedy she made h.rsnf his famiiy gathered near, a spectacular run by automobile, awaiting the outcome with anx- accompanied by her son Norman, iety. All early reports from the crossed the Queen's borough huspital were hopeful in tone and bridge to Manhattan, sped across tUir evening six x-ray negatives the Island to the Hudson riv3r the wound were taken to fa- and was taken to Hoboken in a Wtate an operation for the re- police patrol boat. She was al- mnval of the bullet. Gallagher, most overcome when 8he reached the would he assassin is locked St. Mary's Hospital, and was in a cell at Jersey City, held permitted to see her husband for without bond.

lb expresses no but a moment. She was joined remorse. there shortly by Mrs. Ethel Vin- The hig liner was guy with flags guta, a daughter, -recently nur- u-ml ringing'with shouted good- ned, and they, began their vigil hyes'when tin tragedy occurred, near the bedside. Most of those who had been a- Karely has a wounded man iK.ard the ship to say good-bye evidenced more fortitude and frhuids or relatives had gone a- cheerfulness than did William shore, hut a little group remain- J.

Gaynor today. He evidently 1 to talk with the mayor. They thought as he was oeing carried were standing on the port side ol down the rompanion-way from the vessel near the promenade the ship on a stretcher that his deck forward and were in the act w.iiind was fatal, for he smiled posing for a group photograph faintly and" said to those near Gosse today with the expressed purpose of murdering the man whom he charges with having robbed him of his bread and butter. "You took the bread and butter oat of my mouth," he shouted as he approached tne mayor, then lie leveled trie revolver and fired. The struggle alxut the deck ensued almost instantly.

As he granpled with the man Commissioner Edwards was heard shouting; "I've got him, I've got him." and as he pinned Gallagher to the floor he beseeched those around him to bring a pair of handcuii. It was then that Heury Geering, a special officer of he North German Lloyd line brought the nippers and Gtllag-her was pinioned with hteel. GALLAGHER 'STATEMENT 4I came orer to Hoboken at 9:20 this morning. I went to the stean.er Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse. I met a clergyman on boarjd the steamer and I asked him to point out Mayor Gaynor to me.

"He did so and shortly after I fired a shot at the mayor. I do not know if I tired more than one shot or not Knowing that Mayor Gaynor was going to Europe this morning to enjoy himself after depriving me of my bread and butter, not porterhouse steak, I was irritated to he point of committing the act. "The revolver you show me is the revolver that I done the shooting at the mayor with. I know how many shots were in the revolver when I used it. I have had this revolver a long tine in mr session.

I carried it when I was in the employ of the city." Gallagher seemed remarkably cool while making ihis statement to which he affixed his signature. Good Rjads In Iredell. The Murcury's local editor spent sometime down in Iredell recently was so sick and sore in body that mind and toul were in the 6ame condition. They know how to treat folks in that fix, especially with as kind and cheerful a physician as Dr. M.

R. Adams to help. As soon as it could be a comfortable turnout came for the invalid, and away we went, through the sub-erbs of Statesville, by well-known woods and streams. After months of town streets, the country air, the scent of earth was life-giving; and when, in the pleasant eveniug, we saw the green lawns, the fiower-beds, the terraced garden, the white walls and balconies, the old home had never looked so beautiful. The most surprising thing a- bout the trip was that we were so little fatigued by the twenty- mile trip.

There was a reason for this, Iredell has macada mized her roads leading out of the county seat for s.x miles, each wayon the way to Harmony, the intention is to macadamize twelve miles. The last time the writer passed over these r.adf in 1905, the mud was to the hub of the wheels and two strong horses could scarcely draw the vehicle. Now it is a real pleas ure to drive over this fine road A better odject-leson as to the value of work expended on roads could n-jt be given. If Hickory culd follow this example, it would be the best thingCatawba as done these days. In huvinp- a couzh medicide.

don't be afraid to get Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. There is no danger from it. a r. tsoliaf i anno trt frtllrtur. rwf i a 1 recommended for coughs, cold and whooping cough.

Sold by MOSER L.UTZ, Druggists. Baltimore, Aug 10 Joe Gans, the former lightweight champion pugilist, di-ed this morning of consumption. If your liver sluggish and out of tone and you fell dull, billious, con-tinatHt. nakp u. dose of Chamber lain and Uver Tablets to night before retiring and you will feel all rle-ht in the moraine.

Sold by Moszn Sc L.CTZ, Druggist. continued a hitter struggle about the deck, Edwards crying mid shouting in his anger and xcifernent and Gallagher pant-ng as exhaustion hegan to grip his lim's. When completely subdued Gallagher was handcuffed by a epeial nihrer aloard the ship and he was rushed through a hooting and threatening crowd oil' the vessel into an automobile and arraigned before Rt'i-onler MrGovorn of Hoboken. During lit- tiuggl with tlie man who hud attempted to take hisiilV, Mayor Gaynor, though badly wounded and bleeding from the mouth and nose, did nit 'o-ti- consciousness. Tlie im- him: "Tell the people good-bye.

To his wife and; son llufus, he said at the hospital later: "It is very strange, very strange. I wonder why he did it." But at no time did he ex- press ill-feeling toward the man who would have killed him. And that he looked calmly on the ever present prospect of assas- sinatbn, is indicated in the tone of a recent letter to a citizen who ha 1 warned him of the dan- or of going in the subway with- out an escort. To this solicitious friend, Charles "Weinbath, a lawyer, he wrote on March 22 last: "I thank you much for your letter but I have no fear itout going out alone. I do not think any one would do me any harm unless he was a lunatic, and it is hard to guard against lunatics." NOT A LUNATIC Gal agher, judging by appear ance and actions, is not a luna tic.

His mind is apparently af vumd as any man's of tifty-odd years, hut he has nourished in his heart hatied for Mayor Gaynor ever sim he Svas dis charged as a night watchman in depar; ineut of dockj and ferries in July la6t for incompe- teney. sinre men ne nas re peatedly written to the mayor, I anonymously and otherwise harping on an obsession that he had been persecuted, and de mandiug redress. He has even written a letter to the Governor, so it known 'tonight, aud he vve.it on board the Kaiser Wilheim der IS STATE CHAIRMAN. The Republicans Nominated John M. Morehead for State Chairman at Greensboro.

The Republican State Omven-tion yesterday afternoon named Congressman John Motley Morehead as chairman of the state executive committee by unanimous acclaim, the other candidates, E. Carl Dun can and Maj. J. Ei Alexander, having withdrawn from the contest after their names Ijad been placed befit the onvtaliou." It wae u4iagwf a contest which, at one time, bore evidence of having in it the germ of serious pirty disruption. Mr.

Morehead 's speech of ac ceptance breathed an intensely and eminently fair spirit. The keynote of his campaign has the abolition of the former referee system under which the Kepublicau party has been operated with reference to federal appointments, 7and that idea was emphasized in his t-peech of acceptanee. The convention also endorsed and heartily commended he administration of the retiiing state chairman, Ex-Judge Spencer B. Adams, a ringing resolution of thanks for his faithfuluess aud fairness and eminent services unanimously adopted. Thrf convention was organized for business by the election at Hon.

Tnomas Settle, of Ashe-vi lie, as permanent chairman. He received 737 votes to 378 for Hon. H. G. Ewart, of Henderson county, and the election was made unanimous.

T. J. Har kins, of Asheville, wa elected permanent secretary. The convention was called to order 12 :35 o'clock yesterday by chairman Adams, and prajerj was offered by Rev. E.

K. Mc-! Larty, of this city. When the call for the convention had been read by secretary Harkins, Chairman Adams addressed the convention. SYNOPSIS OF SPEACH. Mr.

Adams' speech was a ringing appeal to all that was best in the hearts and minds of his hearers. Its keynote was "patriotism before partisanship." He broke out into a passionate declaration of his love for the Old North State and the South. Southern Republicans, he said, had no cringing appeals to make to the party at the North: they ask nothing but the justice due to their labor for the party. Republicanism ia Carolina staads on as high a place pi i Massachusetts. Above all, tl speaker pled for harmony in the party and concord in their councils.

FOR STATE CHAIRMAN. Frank Linney nominated John Motley Morehead, H. F. Seawell Nominated E. Carl Duncan and A.

T. Grant nominated Jas. Alexander, "the speeches were all gems of oratory, and breath ed a desire to do the best thing for the success of the party. There were a number of seconding speeches when, jut as the chairman was about to order a roll- call. J.

J. Britt asked to be heard. WITHDRAWS DUNCAN'S NAME. Mr. Britt said he was the bear er of a message from one of the gentlemen whose names had been presented.

Sit dowr.1 sit down," veiled a hundred voices and the chairman apin-al- ed to the convention lo preserve order and hear the ereakr. (Tontimiinrr Mr. Britt said the man ho referred to was a true and loyal a Republican and as honorable a man as there is on earth, a man who ha been irue to his trust and who has Urne all the slander sud calumny that could be written, spoken or heaped upon him, and had borne it silently and uncomplainingly and had continued work rl- wth and succes of the party. He does not believe he no any her Republican should become a candidate for this office. He has asked me to'sav that during years he has tried to manage he affairs of the party that hare entrusted to him, he has done the best he could.

In his withdrawal he will not stop work, a nan with the spirit of Oarl Dun-van cannot stop. He loves his party and has no resentment. If you choose those who have tried to destroy him, he will still work for the party. He thaike his friends for their loyalty and devotion. No man cab ever truthfully say Aat E.

0. Dancan hat bn tiisloyal or ufithNl to Rephlia partf. He wants peaee through jusrUw and fairnessnot through deceit. After the first interruption Mr. Britt was heard eagerly, and the convention seemed to hang ou his words.

It was a tribute from the heart of a friend to a friend and made a profound impression. When Mr. Britt had finished Dr. H. 0, Sapp, of Forsythe, a-rose and simply said "I have been authorized by Maj.

Alexander to witadraw his namej frow the contest." Several motions wore made at once to nominate John Motley Morehead by acclamation, and thai action was carried by a rising vote, the waving of hats and handkerchiefs and with loud applause. The chairman appointed Frank Linncy, H. O. Sapp and J. J.

Britt to ewsort Mr. Morehead to the convention and to the platform. Mr. Merehtad in his speech pledged the party fully to support of those policies which have won all ite successes in the past. He especially alluded to the necessity for liberal support of state education so that every child in North Carolina may re ceive an education which will fit it for the oriudinary emergen cies of life; also all beuevolent institutions will receive the support needed, and our Confed erate veterans will be cared for.

Mr. Morehead advises liberality towards suuu citizens and such enterprises as will aid in devel- eping our state. lie spose strongly against the referee system, as being subversive of justice, in many cases, and oppres sive to the minority. Following are the names certain nominees: RXPDHLICAX NOMINEES Supreiae Court Chief Justice T. T.

Hicks, of Yaaca. Associate Justices X. TT. Tianberlake, ef Wake, aad Har ry Skinner, of Pitt. Corporation Commission James H.

White, of Madison. G. M. Hoover, of Davidson. Following a recess from 7 to 9 oVleck laatniht.

the convention reassembled. Members of the state executive committee were elected, one from each congress ional district, a follows: First I. M. Meekins. Second D.

W. Patrick. Third George Built. Fourth J. J.

Jenkins. Fifth B. F. Robertsou Sixth S. A.

Edmunds. Seventh Frank W. Hayes. Eighth Charles H. Cowles.

Ninth Charles Green. Tenth F. A. Fanning. Remember it isn't too late to plant an early variety of sweet corn and have plenty of roasting tars right up till frost, and later if you cut the corn whem frost threatens m.d set it np in ltose shocks so that it will not mould.

Chicago, Aug. 10. Mrs. Mary B. Train.

70 years eld of Sn Diego, Cal. wealthy, today mar ried James a New York Assyrian liren salesman, SB years of age. Clippies From The lUleurh (N. Progressive Farmerand Gazette. THK HOKE Or PLEASANT MEM 0R1 KM.

A little pen picture of a charm ing home such as nearly -all of us maylhavft. To all of us who knew it, it seemed almost the ideal home the cne to which we always ac cepted invitations with glad ness, and the home to which, if we had had to leave our on would most willingly have It wssn't a fine place, at all just a little white cottage with a neat and ample lawn in front of it big tree or two to shad ow and guard it; on one side an (lid-fashioned hedge of uVweiing shrubbery, andclainboringroes. and stately hollyhocks and lilies. and back of these bright and fragrant beds of pansies tni vio- lets and snandrognng and sweet williams and old-time pinks and all the hardy flowers that de light blossom in an ihfi.rmil garden. Inside, too, it wsall very sim ple and unpretentious with no fussiness or show, but it was always neat and freh and homo-like.

There was ever a blazing fire on cold winter evenings, and even an air of shadowy coolness ou hot summer days On the walls were one or two tasteful pictures that had stories to tell pictures that didn't grow old; one side of the little sitting-room was lined with books, not gaudy volumes left by wandering agnts, butwell-selected editions of Dickens and Scott and Shakespeare aud other masters; a piano, such as no home is quite complete without, filled anotheJ corner. And something in the spirit of the pi ace made one just snuggle down, as it were, into his little nook, and enjoy the book or the game or the song. Perhaps it was the keeper of the home gave it this atmos phere; for she seemed a part of, so like herself had she made it. With all her household duties she found time to enjoy life and make others enjoy it. One mar veled how she did so much pos sibly it was because she had earned how to save labor, ami because, humble as the home was, it was convenient and equipped with the definite idea of mak- ok her work easy.

I would rather spend money for comfort and leisure than for display," she said. So she found enough leisure to fill her home with comfort, aud to make it a place to which one tired or discern aged could always tarn and find rest or inspiration. And the best part of the story is that nearly all of us, if we on- ly try, may have such homes as this for our own. In not the re sult wr.rth the effort? "Everywhere that sand and clay are said ft. thoughtfnl man the other day, the farmers ought to start a campaign this summer in be half of sand-clay roads.

In all juch communities no cheaper way of bettering the highways can be found. Last year I went through a country where the roads had not Uen improved. This year 1 went hack and found that eand-clay roads had been made, and I could hardly realize that I was in the same coram unity' The canning season for many vegetables is just now at it height. now on until oold weather, tomatoes, corns, beans, okra. to say nothing of apples, peaches, and other fruits, should be put up in abundant supply.

Canned sweet potatoes, too, are good, and most people like canned pumpkin. Re-read the directions we have published this summer for canning various vegetables and write to the Secretary of Agriculture, Washington, D. for Farmers' Bulletin 859. Subscribe for he Mercury. Asheville, Aug.

10. In the presence of nearly a thousand cpeot tors, James B. Allison was enreate4 to death by Judge Council in the Superior court this morning for the murder of Floyd McGee, July 5. The rourt decreed that Allison should be eltotrocated in the death chamber of the Sate penitentiary at Raleigh, Feb. 24, 1911.

The usual motions fur a new trinl were made by the council for the ac cuned and were overrule I. Allison appeared to be the calmest man in the courtroom when sentence was pronounced, and he eat unmoved and indifferent after the judge had concluded with the customary recommendation of the prisoner's soul to divine mercy. Daily News. East Greenwich, R. Aug.

10. Three boys, all sons of John H. Straight, of Cowesett, were killed and a fourth boy, a brother of the others, was seriously injured today when a New York bouad Portland express on the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad, traveling at the rate of CO miles an hour a-ronnd a sharp curve, ran into the little group. The boys agesrn ged from 0 to 16 years. The boyg were taking a shortcut by the railroad and were in sight of home, when a heavy reight train came in view.

They were standing on the exprass rack watching the passing of the freight when they were struck, a curve preventing the engineer from seeing them in ime to stop the express. Her bert Straight, who escaped with severe scratches, ran home with blood flowing from wounds in foe head body and it was he vho broke the news of the death of the thiee boys to the mother. Daily News- A Deadly Menace The magazines of the day have made us all too familiar with the irreligion encouraged and fos tered by the instructors in our leading colleges of the Northand West. Fearful to contemplate is the tact that the colleges for women etent to be out-Heroding those for men in their blasphe mous utterances, their denied of the divinity of Christ, their higher criticism. A woman without religious sense? As well think of a rose without perfume.

But how many of ns know that the danger has crept close, that it lurks at our very doors? Yet it is with us. But the other day your correspondent was informed, on most reliable authority, that the leader in public education, in one of our most thriving towns, had instructed his pupils that the Bible stories of Ruth, Esther, the childoood of Samuel, were to be regarded merely as beautiful idylls, original tales. on a level with those of Adersen aud GrimrjL One poor father said: "He undermined my boys faith: he ruined him for." Said the good man who told the writ er cf these thiugs: "I would ra ther send my son into a den of rattlesnakes than into a school room where this man teaches." "Fear ye not them which destroy the body." It is the soul of the child the btate strives to save first And yet this pervert er of childish hearts high in the educational circles of the South. Look well, county superintendents, committeemen, heads of graded schools, into the faith of those to whom yon commit the care of our children. Denomi national belief is free of all questioning: but belief in the God of our fathers is another thing.

when GLllagher, unnoticed, push- e.l his way almost to the roayorV bid- and thed point blank at his heid. lie used a HS'calibre revolver and an examit ation later dis- closed that the first cartridge had mij-sed tire. This probably saved the mayor's. life for Gallagher, when he tirst pulled the trigger, wus les than two feet away, bVking away slightly in his ex- fitement he pulled the trigger a second time and sent a bullet crushing into the mayor's neck Mnw the car. WilliunMI.

Edwards, com mis- of street cleauiug and tin former Princeton fiotball star, lunged forward with his pound just as Robert Adamson. the mayor's secretaiy, struck Gallagher's arm. As he did so a seoo; shot pierced sleeve, inflicting a slight flesh wound on the commissioners right arm, which remained un slipcovered for hours because ol tlie excitemtnt. Unmindful ol lus wound'Edwards hit the mat crashing blow in the face ant they crsh to the deck togeth er, Gallagher struggling with the strength of desp ration and pull mg viciouslv at the trigger in an attempt to tire another A DESPERATE STRUGGLE. But Edwards was too much for him.

He rained blow after blow in icranugner now bleeding face while Adamson and Archibald x. Watson corporation uincil for the city flung themselves on the struggling two in an attempt to grasp the weapon. When Mr- Watson had obtained possession of it? Edwards and Gallagher.