Hickory Democrat (Hickory, N.C.) 1906-08-16 [p ]Wadesboro, Aug. 14.?Mr. B. A. Horae, the popular...
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A Low Grade Double Track Roadwill be Built by Foreign Bank-ers Associated with Joseph Ram-say Between those Two Citiesto Cost $150,000,000. <
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Will Use Electricity as MotivePower from the BeginningWork of Construction. Will Be-gin next Spring. Will Consider-ably Shorten Distance.
Pittsburg, Aug 14.?Papers of con-solidation of three railroads in differ-ent parts of Pennsylvania will be filedat Harrisburg this week, which willconstitute the formal announcement of
the ijroject of prominent .foreign bank-ers, associated with Joseph, Ramsey,Jr., former president of the WabashRailroad, to build a low grade; double
track railroad from New York to Chic-ago byway of Pittsburg, which will
cost about (150,000,000.Surveys have already been made
and' it' IB expected that it Will requirethree years to construct the road.
It is contemplated to opperate itfrom the beginning with electric loco-motives.
It will be known as New York, Pitts-burg, and Chicago Line, and will besixty-five miles shorter to New Yorkthan the Pennsylvania and 108 milesshorter than the shortest line betweenNew York and Chicago.
MR. BRYAN'S PLANS.
Expects to Visit Australia Immediate-ly After November Elections.
Paris, Aug. 14.?Mr. Bryan con-firms the statement from Melbournthat he intends to vl3it Australia.He says he will start immediately af-ter the November election, sailingfrom San Francisco and making thetour of-New-Beaiand' as welfUS "Aus-tralia.
He will be gone ten weeks andtravel alone. His itlnery is not yetdefinitely decided upon.
Regrets Expressed.It was expected that Mr. Bryan
would see President Fallieres today,but the foreign office sent -him a mostcourteous tiote saying the Presidentdeeply regretted the fact that Mr.Bryan's stay in Paris was so short itdid not permit time for President Fal-lieres to return fromorder tA receive such a distinguishedcitizen.
BARN BURNED.
Loss About S4OO, with SIOO Insur-ance.
Wadesboro, Aug. 14.?Mr. B. A.Horae, the popular sheriff of Unioncounty arrived here last evening about6:30 o'clock, from. Chesterfield wherehe arrested Tom Curtis, who is wantedin Union for larceny.
Last night about 8:30 o'clock a bigfire was seen in the direction of Liles-ville, but the correspondent was unableto find out whether it was a houseor an old field burning. But this morn-ing he phoned to Lilesville. and foundthat it was the barn of Mr. E. P. Liles.At the time no one was at home,. Mr.Liles.being at his store. He could notget there in time to save anythingexcept his stock. A large quantity offodder and pea vines were burned andit is thought that the total lossamounts to about S4OO with SIOO In-surance on stock and building.
SPRECKLES TO REBUILD HOME
New York Architects to Put up NewSan Francisco Residence for $300,000San Francisco, Aug. 14.?Last week
New York papers announced thatClaus Spreckles had purchased a res-idence In Fifth Avenue and wouldmake New York his home.
The Spreckles tnansion, at Van NessAvenue and Ciay Street, here, was thecostliest in the city, the interior finishrepresenting more than $500,000 andpictures and ot)ier works an equal sum.Fire destroyed all this in an hour.
Just afted the fire it was reportedthat Mr. Spreckles had leased hisruined home to a dry goods firm, butnow it is announced that the home willbe restored by Reid Bros., New Yorkarchitects, at a cost of SBOO,OOO.
Mrs. Spreckles this week visited theruined home and decided to have itrestored.
Injured in Collision.-Sebalia, Missouri, Aug. 14. ?Seven
occupants of a chair car on the Miss-ouri, Kansas and Texas train wereinjured by a switch engine of the'Frisco road crashing into it, while thetrain stopped at Fort Scott Junction,none fatally.
A BIG ROBBERY.
Jewelry Valued at $35,000 Stolen FromCase. ?
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London, Aug. 14.?Jewelry valuedat stolen from the case belong-ing to Viennes merchants at the Earlscourt exhibitions The robbery was com-mitted in>flay-light;
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FRIENDS MEETING CLOBES.
The Last of the Sessions Were HeldYesterday. ?Some Personal Notes.Guilford College, Aug. 14. The
great North Carolina Yearly Meetingof Friends for 1906 has become a partof history.
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favored to be present at this greatgathering will never forget the greatspiritual benefit they have received aswell as great encouragement from tipsplendid reports submitted by everydepartment.
The business was all finished yester-day morning, including a splendidpaper on .the development of SpiritualGifts, which was read by Mrs. Mary M.Hobbs.
The meeting expressed its approvaldt the paper and ordered that it beincorporated in the minutes and alsothat a number sf reprints be struckoff and bound separately and also thatit be published in the American Friendand the Friends' Message.
The following is the final minute ofthe Yearly Meeting:
"Having been favored to transactthe business claiming our attention ingreat harmony and love with Thanks-giving to our Heavenly Father for- ftiscontinued care and guidance the meet-iing concluded to meet at Guilford Col-'lege next year if the Lord permit."
Dr. Geo. A Barton's labors havebeen very acceptable. He came toNorth Carolina with a splendid min-ute from New England Yearly Meetingand his words and works have fullyjustified every word of the minute.Wherever Dr. Barton may go amongFriends in our state he will be receiv-ed with opSa/m. P Jones fjf i'C- lANS
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STATE NEWS.
Dr. Lewis issues Special Bulletin?Dr.Butler Away.
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Raleigh, N. C., Aug. 14.?Commis-sioner of Agriculture S. L. Patersonannounced today the appointment ofMr. D. G. Conn of this city as bulletinclerk in the department, a positionmade vacant by the death of T. H.Cherry, of Edegcomb county about amonth ago. Mr..Conn will take up theduties of the office August 18.
Mr. John C. Nail, formerly an assis-tant In the botonical laboratory atHarvard University, has arrived hereto accept a position as assistant in thedepartment of plant diseases in theexperiment station here in connectionwith the A. & M. College.
Dr. R. H. Lewis, as secretary of theNorth Carolina State Board of Healthissues a special bulletin on the causeand prevention of consumption, whichthe board has prepared for general dis-tribution. Tlie\bulletin gives the re-sult of scientific and medical discov-eries as to the cause and preventionof the disease. Along with the bulle-tin are sent leaflets treating the pre-vention of typhoid and malarial le-ver.' The three WITI be sent Tr»
J toany citizen of the state on applicationto Dr. Lew^s.
Dr. Tate Butler, state veterinarian,left this afternoon for Illinois andConnecticut. While away he will at-tend the session of the American Vet-erinary Association at New Haven,Conn.
Judge Purnell of the federal courthas set Saturday August IS as the datefor hearing counsel on a motion for theimmediate sale of the Cape Fear Pow-er Co'a. plant for generating electricity'for Fayetteville" manufactories. Coun-sel for the company want receiver's*certificates issued for the completionof the plant in order that It can besold for a better price.
The Tabernacle Baptist Sundayschool announce their annual excur-sion this year to go over the RaleighA- South port and the Atlantic CoastLine via Fayetteville to Wilmingtonand Wrightville Beach. This will bethe first excursion to be run over thisnew roftd to Fayetteville and throughto Wilmington.
Court Librarian and Mar-shal R. H. Bradley who underwent asecond serious operation a few daysago is reported to getting along aswell as could be expected. -He Is
grand tiler of the North CarolinaGfand Lodse o? Masons.
SAVES PRESIDENT'S COUSIN.
Mad* Dog Killed While Attacking W.
Emlen Roosevelt.Oyster Bay, N. Y.. Aug. 14. W.
Emlen Roosevelt, the President'scousin, was saved from a mad dog bythe cool nerve and straight shootingof a Secret Service
- agent, JamesSloane.
Mr. Roosevelt was walking along
th? edge of a pond on his propertynear Sagamore Hill when attacked.He had with him a pet dog, which
at first attacked the rabid animal, butsoon turned tail and fled.
Mr. Roosevelt ran out into the roadand was trying to beat off the beastwhen Sloane drove up on his way to
duty at Sagamore Hill. Just asSlOane came in sight, the mad dogmade a vicious lunge for Mr. Roose-velt's throat, but fell short. The dogmade a second leap and burled his'teeth in Mr. Roosevelt's coat.
Sloane jumped from the carriageand opened fire with an automaticpistol. At the first shot tho dogtuined on the Secret Service man.Its took two more shots to stop th§beast, and then Sloane fired two moreshots to make sure the bullets tookeffect.
The dog was a large mongrel. Hehad been seen about the Village forseveral days acting strangely andsnapping at other dogs. Yesterday hefollowed a' carriage to v the President's
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Agent has Arrived in San Fran-cisco in the Interests of CottonMerchants. Predicts . GreatIncrease in the Use ot Ameri-can Cotton.
San Francisco, Aug. 14.?Yosbuchi N
Sakuri has arrived from Japan in theinterest of cotton merchants.
' Speaking Of the' trade of the UnitedStates with Japan, he says that in thenext ten years Japan will get overthree-fourths of her cotton from theUnited States.
I "Last year," he said "Japan usedI over a million- bales of cotton, andonly one-fourth was from the UnitedStates. The resfc*a»je from thecofeonHerds of India and Asia. This cotlonisveryy inferior to that which comes toJapan from the Southern States, andall fine work is made with cottonfrom the United States. The other isfound to be much coarser, and rotseasier. Japanese realizes the superior-'ity of the American article, and ailfirst class cotton weavers are comingto use it. The export of cotton fromthe United States to Japan is bound toincrease enormously in the next fewyears." /
NEGRO RIOTERS CAPTURED.
Mob of Tunnel Employes Gave Otls-ville, N. Y., an Exciting Night.
Middletown,. N. Y., Aug. 14. ?Afteran exciting night, the mob of negrotunnel employes who had taken pos-session of the village of Otisville,eight miles from here, were roundedup at their camp near the village byv. posse of twenty-five deputy sher-iffs-, sworn in for the occasion. Fivenegroes had been shot, one seriously.No whites were injujred. Physicianswere summoned from this city to caretor the injured.
The ringleader in the riotsnight was Daniel Templeton, who,with a repeating rifle and revolvers,held 100 /negroes and officers at bayand then fled to the new Erie tunnel.An officer went intp the tunnel andcornered the negro, but was held offwith a shotgun. He finally surrender-ed and was landed in jail. The oth-ers "implicated in the riot have notbeen captured.
FREEDOM OF CONSCIENCE.
Since' Publication of Decree 220,000° Persons Have Embraced Catholic-
ism.Mohilev, Aug. 14.?Since the pub-
licatibn of the decree granting thefreedom of conscience almost 220,-*
1000 members of the orthodox church,the majority of whom are peasants,have embraced the Catholic religionin this bishopric.
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WILMINGTON NeWS-Politics the Chief Topic of the Day?-i Other News.
Wilmington, Aug. 14.?Mr. Chas.Dushan, general secretary of the localY. M. C. A. left Saturday to spend tendays with the First Regiment of /theN. C. N. G. as the guest of the StateSecretary, who will have charge ofthe Y. M. C. A. tent at Morehead dur-ing the encampment. J
Mr. E. P. Jackson has been appointeda traveling auditor of the A. C. L..p. R. to succeed Mr. O. T. Ewards,who resigned to accept a position asaccountant in the freight agency atJacksonville, Fla.
The Standard Oil Co's. tug "Astral"was .In port. Saturday with one of thecompany's oil barges in tow. * Thebarge has a cargo of oil for the S. O.Co's plant in this city.
biases Charlotte Fleet and BesiseWilliams have gone to Wadesboro tospend som