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Battle pf Kings Mom
Grand Monument
and Pal
King's Mountain Battle Grou
SpeciaL-Thousands of people jo
neyed Thursday on a patriotic ]
grimage. The battleground of Kin
Mountain was the shrine of th
seeking. Here in the presence of
official heads of North and Soi
Carolina two United States Se:
tors and two Representatives in C
gress-besides others prominent
the officialdom of two States, offic
dedication was accorded the Kin;
Mountain monument-a signal rec
nition by the Congress of the Unii
States- of the valorous part played
the war Of independence by the s
di ers of the south.
It was a day of many features. P
. aided over by Gov. Marin F*. Ansel
South Carolina, the exercises of 1
morning which were prolonged ii
the afternoon were entirely intere
mg. Undoubtedly they were to 1
audience gathered from a vast >
panse of many counties in two
more Commonwealths. For never 1
fore did such an audience, of wh<
the majority stood the entire tin
listen for three hours and a half
constant making of speeches withe
the slightest exhibition of restles
mess.
Never had lonesome Kings Mot
tain been host to such a concoun
For a day or two in advance stra?
glers had been coming in wagon
harbingers of the hosts to follow
From Gaston, from Cleveland, frc
York, from Chester, from Sparta
burg, from Mecklenburg, from M
Dowell,* from Cabarrus, from La
?aster, from Union, even from Bu
combe they had come, the earliest a
rivals pitching camp by the roadsii
?nd in the woods in true pione
fashion.
Before dawn an endless stream
carriages and buggies and wagor
! were rattling and rumbling along tl
winding ways. Three roads, tb
from Kings Mountain, that froi
Clroyer and that from Yorkville hi
been put in excellent condition t
publie appropriations and priva
ira- subscriptions inspired by. civic prid
Contributing most brightly to tl
Wk animation of the occasion was tl
delegation of Daughters of the Amer
. can Revolution from Charlotte, fro:
?Yorville and other places. Tl
Charlotte delegation, of 1 course, ii
eluded the delegates who'were thei
attending the North Caroling Coi
gress of that organization. It
doubtfull if ever before so many-re?
xesentatives of feminine culture, i<
finement and loyal patriotism climl
I ed' breathlessly the cliff which tb
plateau overtops.
Seven companies of the natani
guard of North and South Carolin
wera present. Friday they reproduce
. the. battle of Kings Mountain wit<
the deathless cartridges. One c
these companies is from North Care
lina, the Dallas company, under th
?command of Capt. A. L. Bullwinkh
The others are respectively froi
Bock Hill, Fort Mill, Columbia, Corr
wall, Yorkville and Spartanburg. I
command of these provisional troon
DRIFTED BY THE STORrV
Port Arthur, Tex., Special.-Water
logged, dismantled and with the deck
barely above the water, as she wa
being towed by the Guffey Compan;
jj steamer Winifred) the Kate Flore
Capt. Whitney, from Mobile to Cubai
ports, limped into port Friday wit!
what was left of the crew in tb
throes of starvation. Of the crew o
. seven which sailed from Mobile, Fri
?day night five are in the hospita
THE GEOGRAPHICAL SO
Washington, Sp?cial.-The follow
ing resolution was adopted at th<
meeting of the board of managers oi
the National Geographical Society
. held at Hubbard Memorial Hall a<
an introduction to the reports of Dr
F. A. Cook and Commander R. E,
Peary, to be printed in the magazine
of the society :
"We print herewith the reports
of Dr. F. A. Cook and Commander R.
E. Peary announcing the discovery ol
V the North Pole April 21, 1908, and
April 6, 1909. Before the society can,
WESTERN TRAINS COLLI
Topeka, Kan.. Special.-Seventeen
persons were killed and ten severely
injured in a collision between a
freight train and a construction train
on the At.chison, Topeka & Santa Fe
railroad near here Friday. The dead
are eleven Mexicans, four section
foremen and two brakemen. It is be
lieved some of the injured are fatally
injured. The work train was backing
into Topeka with fifty Mexicans rid
ing on the flat cars. As the train was
THE COTTON MANUFACTUI
At a recent meeting of the Ameri
can Cotton Manufacturing Associa
tion in Charlotte Friday the following
resolutions were passed:
"Resolved, That in view of the
disparity now existing between the
price of cotton and cotton goods, we
resolve:'
"L That a committee of five be
appointed to formulate a curtailment
agreement. '
"2. That we recommend to every
ff
tin Commemorated With
ay of Speech-Makin?l
Dtic Pride.
waa CoL W. W,. Lewis of the First
Infantry. In general charge of the
whole exercises was Col. J. C. Boyd
of Colnmbia.. S. C., Adjutant General.
The monument is the third erected
in honor of the heroes of this turning
point of the revolutionary straggle.
Col. Asbury Coward, chairman of
the executive committee, in present
ing Gov. Ansel to. preside over the
meeting said:
"This beautiful day ushers in a
day renaered glorious for the deed
accomplished on October 8, 1780. It
is the most notable that can be found
in all our annals.
- "It is peculiarly a matter of com
pelling pride because the result of the
battle was due to the spontaneous ini
tiative of the plain people of that
whole section and others contribut
ing of their-men to the American
forces on that occasion. It was here
on this lonely spot that the represen
tative of a foreign power was over
thrown and a triumph achieved which
laid the foundation for the realiza
tion of the Declaration of Indepen
dence and the existence of the con
stitution of the United States-the
repository of all our liberties.
"The dead wera left unburied after
the battle and the place was avoided
as haunted territory. Then, about 30
years later, the neighbors came again,
buried them at the foot of a stone
which recorded their deeds in simple
language. In 1855 the counties recog
nized the significance of what had
happened and gathered to. give ex
pression to appreciation. Men like
John S. Preston and the great his
torian Bancroft, spoke with eloquence
of the part played by the men at
Kings Mountain. Later came the
other monument. And so the recog
nition has spread. First the neigh
bors then the counties, then the State
and now the United States has placed
its seal of approval and appprecia
tion."
The monument first erected is a
simple soapstone slab. The second
is much more pretentious in monu
mental form, and is quite creditable.
The third for which Congress ap
propriated $30,000, is a granite shaft
831-2 feet high, with inscriptions as
follows :
On the north and front face:
Erected by the
Government of the United States of
Am?rica,
to :he establishment of which the
heriosm and patriotism of those
who participated in' this battle
so largely contributed.
West- face:
To commemorate the victory, of
King's1 Mountain, October 7, 1780.
On the east face the names of .the
killed, the-:mortally wounded and the
less seriously wounded are inscribed.
President Snydor of Wofford Col
lege was the orator of the day. He
was measurably brief but eloquent
and historic to the delight of the vast
assembly.
Senator Overman and Gov. Kitchin
of North Carolina, Senator Smith and
Congressman D. E. Finley of South
Carolina each addressed the enthusi
astic audience. Congressman "Webb
was detained at home by sickness of
his son and his address was read by
Congressman Page, his colleague in
Congress.
The whole occasion was the exe
cution of a program most inspiring
to young patriots and pride insipiring
to the descendants of the heroes
whose noble deeds the handsome shaft
stands as a perpetual memorial.
THEY WERE PERISHING
with slight chances of recovery, while
another was washed overboard in the
recent hurricane, and a second died
of starvation shortly before and came
to the helpless vessel, washed hun
dreds of miles out of her course.
The Kate Flore sailed from Mobile
about September 12, with a cargo of
lumber for Cuban ports. Encounter
ing the hurricane, the boat was strip
, ped to the decks and waterlogged.
JlETY IS STILL DUBIOUS
however, accept the conclusions of
either Commander Peary or Dr. Cook
that the North Pole has been attain
ed it will be necessary that the scien
tific records and data of each explor
er be carefully examined by its
committee on'research or by some
body or commission acceptable to the
board.
"The society takes this position,
not from any distrust of the personal
integrity of either explorer, but be
cause of the many calculations that
enter into th? determination of the
PQhy"_,
DE AND KILL SEVENTEEN
rounding a curve the northbound
freight crashed into' it.
Engineer Edward. Ash and Fire
man Jospeh Correy on the freight
train jumped as soon as the air brakes
could be set. The engine on the
freight ran over the four flat cars
comprising the wreck train and almost
a score of men'were pinned down and
it was several hours before they were
extricated. It is said the wreck was
caused by crew disregarding orders.
*ERS RESOLVE TO CURT?il
mill which is in ? position to do so to
sign this agreement and enter upon
a general curtailment until the price
of goods becomes on a parity with the
price of cotton."
The committee formulated the fol
lowing:
. ' We, the undersigned, agree to .cur
tail operations of our mills one day
or more each week until goods ad
vance to a parity with the price of
cotton. .
COTTON CROPNOTSO GOOD
Most Unfavorable Report Issued by
the' Department pi Agriculture at
This Season of thc Year in Many'
Years.
Washington, Special.-The most
unfavorable report on the condition
of the cotton crop issued by the
Department of Agriculture at' this
season of the year for many years
has just been made public. Financial
and weather conditions combined to
make the report unfavorable.
The official report indicates that
on September 25 the condition of the
cotton crop was only 58.5 per cent,
of normal, as compared with 63.7 per
cent, on August 25, 1909; 69.7 on
September 25, 1908, 67.7 on Sep
tember 25, 1907, and 67 per cent,
on that average for ten years o? Au
gust 25, 1909.
After the announcement by the
Department of Agriculture of the
figures recording the average for this
month, Dr. S. A. Knapp, chief of thc
co-operative demonstration work for
the Department of Agriculture in the
south, after the conference with Sec
retary Wilson, said that the serious
falling off in the figures, especially
for Louisiana and Mississippi, were
due. to two conditions- One was the
excessive rainfall in the early part
of the cotton crop season, followed
by a serious drought and the second
was the failure of cotton planters to
obtain advances on their crops from
bankers. The latter r?ason forced
the planters to dismhis a, consider
able part of their labor sit a time
when the boll weevil was a most seri
ous pest.
Dr. Knapp Gives Reasons.
Dr. Knapp stated that another rea
son which induced a falling off in the
general average of louisiana, w?p
that there was practically 30 per cent,
less of acreage in cotton than in pre
vious years.
The boll weevil did serious damage
during the past year in the southwes
[ tern quarter of Mississippi,
j "In my judgment," said Knapp,
? "the really serious trouble, which
' applies to all of the cotton States,
was brought about by the excessive
rainfall in the early part of the sea
son and the excessive drought in the
latter part. In some of the States
planters scarcely could obtain water
enough for their live stock. This
was particularly true of Texas and
Oklahoma. What is known as the
New Orleans storm, which passed up
through portions of Louisiana and
western Mississippi, blew out im
mense quantities of cotton and served
seriously to detract from the excel
lence of the crop."
Secretary Wilson declined to make
any statement regarding the figures
given i out by his department. He
said that he could talk about the
wheat crop, about the condition of
cattle in the west and about almost
anything else but cotton He said
that Dr. Knapp knew more about the
cotton crop from practkal observance
of conditions in the soath than any
other man in the department, and he
had: nothing to 'add to ihe statement
made by' him.
Comparisons of conditions by
States on September 25 and the 10
year ?vorag? follow:
10-yr.
13?9 1908 Av.
Virginia.....71 78 75
North Carolina .. ..70 69 70
South Carolina .. ..7C 68 69
Georgia.71 68 69
Florida.67 72 71
Alabama.62 70 67
Mississippi.53 70 68
Louisiana .39 55 67
Texas.52 71 63
Arkansas.54 70 67
Tennessee.68 78 72
Missouri.72 70 74
Oklahoma.55 70 69
United States.585 69.7 67
Four Persons Burn to Death.
Nashville, Tenn., Special.-Fire
broke out here Friday morning while
occupants of the house were asleep,
over a store. Four of the fire com
panies arrived on the scene, but in
spite of heroic efforts to enter their
apartment in the face of flames burst
ing from the windows, every member
of the Fishman family but one perish
ed. Miss Rachael Marke-son, the oth
er victim, lived in same apartment.
Cnrtiss Makes a / light.
St. Louis, Mo., Special.-Under ad
verse conditions, Glenn E. Curtiss, by
a flight in his bi-plane late Friday
afternoon in Forest park, received the
applause and cheers of the 'many
thousands of persons who had waited
for hours for the wind to slacken.
George Francois Ozmonr. and Hugh
Robinson of St. Louis attempted to .
make their machine fly but failed.
Ozmont, after Curtiss hud made his
successful flight, ti'?d a second time
and his machine was damaged by
striking the ground, but he was un
injured.
Fatal Pistol Duel.
Jacksonville, Fla., Special.-In a
pistol duel at Lake Butler late Friday
afternoon C. A. Rich and John Parker
were both killed, Parker dying on the
train en route to this city for medical
attention. Both left the store where
they had r uarreled, but met at the
railroad station later and commenced
to fire at each other. Rich was in
stantly killed and Parker received a j
bullet wound in the breast which
caused his death half an. hour later.
One Killed in Accident on T. & N. 0.
Railroad.
Knoxville, Tenn., Special.-Three
coaches of a passenger'train on the
Tennessee & North Carolina railroad
left the rails at a point ten miles south
of Maryville late Friday and rolled
down an embankment, seriously in
juring two and bruising all of the re
maining twenty passengers. David
Ridge, a Blount county farmer, died
as a result of his injuries. All mem
bers of the train crew except the en
gineer and fireman were in i ur cd.
Items Gaihere^and?olld While
You Not? Your Breath.
SOME EVERY BAY HAPPENINGS
Lively voA Crisp as They Are Gar
nered From th? Fields o? Action
Aft Home and Abroad.
Dr. Cook says he will acquesce in
a ?quest by the American Geograph
ic societies in requesting the Copen
hagen University to waive its claim
to prior examination of his records.
In doing so it was to meeti the de
mand in America for a scientific test
of the claims both of Cook and Peary.
Copenhagen does not take well to it
but Dr. Cook hopes to make it right
and let the examination go on.
Samuel E. Herman fell overboard
a gun boat and was drowned and H.
Daniels and E. Hermaine were aspyx
ated with gas in a room as naval
casualties last week amid the great
Hudson-Fulton celebration.
Sheriff- H J. Pope, of Taylor coun
ty) Ga., was terribly if not fatally
wounded, being shot three times by
J. R. Brown, whom he was attempt
ing to arrest Saturday night.
President Taft was moved to tears
Saturday at Portland, Oregon, by
School children in drill. They spell
ed Taft by rising with flags in form
to make each letter and then in-one
burst pronounced the word.
Two men were killed and a number
of other street car passengers in
Pittsburg, Pa., were injured Sunday
by the breaking of an axle which
caused the car to tumble over.
Arthur Wright was arrested Sat
urday at Portland, Oregon, as he
pressed too hard to get near Presi
dent Taft with a camera. He was
found to have a revolver 3f heavy
calibre with a pocket full of cart
ridges. Upon further examination it
is now believed that he really had no
bad intentions toward the President.
Albert Pulitzer, brother of Joseph
Pulitzer, the phenomenal genius of
the New York World, committed
suicide - at Vienna Sunday evening.
He had been a great sufferer from
nervous breakdown.
Tho difficulties of Spain, with the
Moors in Africa, in which Morocco
is about to be involved, is assuming
the attitude of a holy war and the
tribes;'seem frantic.
. Charles A. Gordon,1 who, by con
fession of the woman was criminal
ly intimate with Mrs. Wm. ?. Faull
ing and killed him on account of
these conditions, was sentenced ito
life imprisonment at Walthourville,.
Ga., last, week, . and- Mrs..; Faulling
was banished ?rom ithe: State.
Mr. and fMrs.- Cnarl?s: Johnson, of .
Duncannon, Pa., haire"ia living child
weighing less' than two: pounds and
that could be put into a quart cup.
In ]?rance recently a man was tried
for killing his wife... He explained
that he did it as an act .of mercy at
the request of his 'wife, who was a
prolonged and intense sufferer. The
jury pronounced him not guilty.
St. Louis, Mo., is celebrating the
city's centennial in a jubilee of a
week. It began on Sunday by 15,000
children in exercises.
A farmer named Vostburg, near
Lake Champlain, N. Y., recently
plowed up stome gold coins. He went
to digging out till he had more of
the coins' than he could carry, prob
ably $50,000. It is believed that the
money was put there by some thief in
the Burgoyne campaign, who never
lived to make use of it.
James E. Martin, Jr., is a baby
living on Long Island, N. Y., and is
heir to $500,000. 'His widowed moth
er asked the court for an annual al
lowance for his rearing and here are
the items as allowed: For a home,
$4,000; for maintaining same, $7,500;
for an automobile and its keep. $3,
000; for entertaining, recrations, and
exercise, $1,300 ; for > medical atten
tion and medicines, $200; for cloth
ing. $750; total, $15,750.
Captain C. E. Bo'rehgrevink, the
antartic explorer, opposes the propos
ed submission of Dr. Cook's records
to the university at Copenhagen and
to the committee of .the American Geo
graphical Society. He declares that
this would not prove satisfactory,
both bodies being, he thinks, prej
udiced in favor of Dr. .Cook. Cap
tain Borchgrevink suggests that the
Geographical Society of Genoa, as
an unprejudiced body, should be ask
ed to settle the matter.
The little son of Congressman E.
Y. Webb, being critically ill, Mr.
Webb could not attend the King's
Mountain celebration on Thursday
and Friday.
The Rhode Island monument wa_
unveiled at New Bern, N. C., on Wed
nesday in the National Cemetery.
President Taft discarded his car
Thursday and took a 30 mile auto
mobile ride, viewing Yosemite Val
ley and other scenes, making it the
best day of the trip.
Sellers of near beer are liable to a
tax of $1,500 annually divided" equal
ly among the State, the county and ?
the municipality in the State of Ten
nessee.
A granite monument 831-2 feel
high and costing $30,000, has been
erected by the National Government
commemorating the King's Moun
tain battle. The ceremonies took
place on Thursday and Friday, thc
129 anniversary of the battle.
Abbott Lawrence Lowell was inaug
urated president of'Harvard Univer
sity Wednesday, the successors of
Charles William Eliot.
C. A. Rich and Joha Parker fougut
a pistol duel at Jacksonville, Fla.,
Friday and both were killed.
PRESIDENTJAF?'S
Enthusiastic Thousands Greet
On His Western Trip.
After making one of the long
.jumps of his trip and traveling
'/twenty-five hours through Oregon
the northern half of California, Pres
ident Taft arrived at Sacramento
Cal., Monday night at 7:10 o'clock
' The President was entertained at din
I ner, was taken for an automobile
through the city and made an address
in the State Capitol grounds.
He selected for- the ?j principal
feature of his speech the. conserva
tion of natural resources, in which he
declared anew that before many
the Roosevelt policies of conservation
can be carried into effect, confirma
tory and enabling legislation must be
secured and he pledged himself to use
all his power to induce Congress to
pass the laws necessary. "
As he was crossing from thc'-Oak
land to San Francisco the army
transport Thomas was setting sail for
the Philippines and by-"the Presi
dent's request the revenue cutter
Golden Gate, on which he was a pas
senger, was drawn up alongside the
big vessel, the sides of which were
.lines with soldiers and the families of
officers.
On the bridge of the transport the
Philippine constabulary band was
drawn up and was playing, "Hail to
the Chief' as the President shouted
across the water to khaki-clad sol
diers: ' *J
"Good-bye, boys; I wish you a
pleasant voyage." ? ?
Answering cheers came back, to the
President.
"Does it make you feel homesick
Mr. President?" asked a member of
the President's party.
"Indeed, it does," replied Mr
Taft, "and I would give anything if
I were going with them."
One of the most, pathetic incidents
of the President's trip marked his
stay in Berkley. He passed in re
view of the pupils of an institution
for the deaf, dumb and blind. The
tribute of flags waved with unseeing
eyes, of silent nods of the dumb, and
cheers from the blind deeply impress
ed the President.
An all-day stage ride over thirty
four miles of mountain road brought
President Taft Thursday night to this
little sierra retreat, eight miles from
the entrance to the Mariposa grove of
big trees, whither the Chief Executive
started at sunrise Friday.
News that mountain lions were in
festing the park held out hope of ad
venture for a time, but not even the
tracks of one were seen on the road
The President declared that Thursday
was one of the most enjoyable days
of his life. It was the first glimpse of
the Yosemite and the impressive sur
roundings, the bracing mountain air
the freedom from speech-making all
contributed to the pleasure of the first
day of roughing it in the Sierras.
His constant coa<lh companion was
John Muir, the noted naturalist and
explorer. . ?? ;
He alighted from the stage dtiring a
portion of the trip and walked a mile
or more up the mountain road. It
gave him a splendid appetitie for the
picnic luncheon of fried chicken, pota
toes, fruit and jelly served in the
Grouse creek pine forest.
The President arrived at Glacier
Point Friday evening. The drive from
Wawona, where he spent the. forenoon
visiting the Mariposa big tree groves,
was over twenty miles of mountain
road and the President was ready for
bed immediately after dinner. He
arose before dawn and started for the
sequoia trees in a dense fog, which
quickly cleared, however. He was
deeply impressed with the immense
trees, especially in the upper groves.
He was photographed at the base of
the "Grizzly Grant," the biggest and
oldest tree in the world; and he was
snapped in the stage as it passed
through the trunk of the Wawona,
one of the largest of the forest mon
archs.
The President's speech at Fresno,
.Ca., Sunday was in reality another
Sunday sermon, the third he has
preached since his trip began.
His text, quoted from memory, was
"He Who Conquereth Himself is
Greater Than He Who Taketh a
City," and from it the President drew
the lesson that popular government
must always be a failure unless it. is
based upon sound common sense and
the self-restraint that goes to make
the good loser. He drew an anology
between the American people in -this
respect and those people who in their
attempts at self-government follow
an election with & revolution.-, .
On his way here President Taft at
tended morning service at the Presby
terian church at Merced.
A feature of the President's visit
to Fresno was the presentation of
good will from the Japanese residents.
"Wc hail you, sir, as the honored
Chief of a great nation which we
are glad is on the friendliest terms
with ours," they said, "and we also
rejoice that our beloved country,
Japan, has the honor and great priv
ilege of reciprocating such fraternal
regard. ' '
After an all-day stay at El Paso
Sunday he President starts on anoth
er long jump, San Antonio being his
nevt stop, and there he is to accept
on behalf of thc United States army
a magnificent chapel and library
building, the gift of San Antoninus,
as ah appreciation of the American
soldier.
Seminole-Southern Life Case.
Asheville, Special.-In the case of
Seminole Securties Company by its
receivers against the Southern Life
Insurance Company, Judge Pritchard
issued an order Saturday directing
Julian S. Carr, J. G. Patterson and G.
W. Hudgins to show cause here Octo
ber 21 why they should not be en
joined from prosecuting suits in the
superior court of Durham county in
volving the property now in charge of
the Federal court.
t
COTTON MILLS TO CURTAIL
Cotton Too High or Goods Too Low to
Encourage Manufacture.
Boston, Mass., Special.-A gigan
tic movement, born of unrest of. long
standing, is in progress throughout
the leading cotton textile districts of
#he worlds looking towards a general
Curtailment of production during the
remaining months of this year and
in 1910. The principal reasons ad
vanced for the movement are the
gradual increase in the cost jf raw
material and the failure of the dry
goods markets to respond in a way
which would assure continued profit
to manufacturers during the next
twelve months.
In Lancashire the yarn spinners
have been running their mills on short
time for two months, and recently
many other English mill owners voted
to shut down two days each week un
til, November 8.
On September 15 the Arkwright
Club, of Moston, representing 14,000,
000 out of 17,000,000 spindles in New
England, sent out to all the cotton
mills in this district, which is second
in the industry to Lancashire, forms
of an agreement for signatures for a
curtailment. The investigations of
the executive committee of this club
convinced it that no difficulty would
be experienced ,in securing the signa
ture representing seven million spin
dles.
CURTISS PLEASES ST. LOUIS."
Makes Spectacular Flight Against
Adverse Circumstances.
St. Louis, Special.-Under the arch
of a brilliant rainbow, Glenn H. Cur
tiss thrilled thousands of rain-soaked
spectators here late Saturday by an
aeroplane flight of more than a mile
over the tree tops of Forest park .
Curtiss was in the air one minute
and forty-nine seconds, and in that
brief time he covered close to nine
furloughs. At first rising to a height
of forty feet he dipped, then rose
gracefully over the tree tops as he
turned in a great arc and came back
to the starting point. The landing
was on rough, soggy ground, but it
was so skillfully executed that no jar
was noticeable.
Curtiss literally risked his neck and
his machine in the flight. Previous
trials had shown that the aviation
field under the shadow.of Art hill, in '
Forst park, was too carmped for se
curing manipulation of the delicately
poised aeroplanes. A group of trees
50 yards from the starting point was
an obstacle which George Osmont,
operator of the- Curzon-Farman bi
plane had tried in vain to overcome
during the week and was the indirect
cause of his accident Friday.
But Curtiss*, flying in the face of a
fitful breeze, the remains of a gusty
wind that had raged all day, rose over
the tree tops, and although his bi
plane tipped as he turned1, he calmly
righted it. The exercises in connec
tion with centennial week closed
Saturday.
Asylum Building Burns.
Cleveland, O., Special.-Fire de
stroyed "the men's convalescent cot
tage Of the Cleveland State hospital
for the insane at Newburg, a suburb
of Cleveland, Saturday night. Fifty
in?ane invalids, awakened from their
sleep by the flames, fled to the street
in paroxysms of fright, or, huudled in
corners, resisted the urging of atten
dants who besought them to leave. A
hasty roll call when the building was
evacuated showed that all had escap
ed. The fire broke out beneath the
roof of the building. It spread rap
idly and in a few moments after its
discovery the entire building appear
ed to be in flames'. Efforts of the fire
men were hampered by the necessity
of caring for the escape of the pa
tients and the upper portion of the
building was completely gutted be
fore the fire was brought under con
trol. The structure is regarded as a
total wreck.
Freight Collides Wtili Passenger.
Troy, Tex., Special.-Running at a
high rate of speed, Missouri, Kansas
& Texas passenger train No. 3 col
lided head-on with a fast freight train
on a curve near Troy late Sunday
afternoon. Three of the crew of the I
passenger train were injured, but the
passengers escaped unhurt. The de
livery of a wrong order by a tele
graph operator is said to have caused
the collision.
Will Test Corporation Tax.
Cincinnati, 0., Special.-P. D. Gold
of Raleigh, N. C., was Saturday elect
ed a member of the executive com
mittee of the American Life Insur
ance Association, which closed its
three-day convention here. The meet
ing adopted resolutions declaring
that the convention would contest tho
con?tutionality of the corporation tax
in the courts, that a tax over one per
cent is confiscating for insurance com
panies, and that all States should
have the same tax on insurance busi
ness.
There seems to be a growing pre
judice against the surgical contre
temps manifest in sewing sponges,
forceps, scalpels and what-not imo
patients. The loss of the material
may De a trifle, admits the Philadel
phia Ledger, but several subjects of
operation have objected to being load
ed with junk, and made a real fuss
abcut lt.
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Before insuring elsewhere
Old Line Companies.
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i! WASHINGTON NOTES J!
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Washington will soon be in the fall
.wing of governmental work under
the direction of the heads of the de?
partments. Two members of the Pres*
ident's Cabinet-Secretary of thc
Navy Meyer and Secretary of Agri
culture Wilson-are "sitting on the
lid" of the government and twa
others-Attorney G?n?ral Wicker
sham and Secretary of Commerce and
Labor Nagel-are also on hand.
The crop reporting board of the
bnreau of statistics, Department of
Agriculture, estimated the cotton
crop on September 25 at 58.5 per
cent of normal, compared with 63.7
August 25, and 69.7 September 25
last year.
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
Keynolds will retire from his office
on November 1," for a longer period
?'ian any of his predecessors for some
regimes back. Mr. Reynolds has held
that office, much of the time as act
ing head of the department, but Wed
nesday he will go away on vacation
and when he returns at the end of
the month he will .devote himself to
the work of the tariff board of which
he is a member.
"This is the home of the Ameri
. can flag which you carried to th?
North Pole," was the hearty expres
sion given Dr. Frederick A. Cook by
H. B. F. McFarland, president of the
District board of commissioners, in
officially welcoming the explorer at
the municipal building Monday morn
ing, in the presence of a crowd thal
taxed its capacity. .
Approval has been given by the
navy department to the findings of
the court-martial in the case of Frank
R. Bitter, chief boatswain's mate,
who, with four other enlisted men,
were tried as the result of the cap
sizing of the tug Nezinscott off Hali
but Point, Mass., August 11th. Bitter
was found guilty on the charge of
inefficient performance of duty and
was sentenced to six months confiner '
ment and discharged from the navy.
The relief work of the Mexican
flood victims is being continued unr
der the direction of American con
suls, according to a dispatch received
at the State Department Sunday
from Consul General Hanna, at Mon
terey. Frost has made it appearance
?in all of the stricken districts and
has injured the corn crops, which
have been reduced fifty per cent by
it, says the telegram, and many of
the rural district* will need outside
assistance until new crops can be
raised.
If he finds time, Secretary of the
Navy Meyer will make a visit to Char
leston, S. C., early in November at
the time- President Taft reaches that
section on his journey homeward. The
secretary was cordially invited te
come to Charleston by Mayor K.
Goodwin Rhett and J. Adger Smyth,
president of the Chamber of Com
merce. If he goes Mr. Meyer will1
make a tour of inspection of the Char
leston navy yard and also will look
into the workings of the marine^school
of application at Port Royal.
Lee McClung, treasurer of Yale
University, who has been appointed
United States Treasurer to succeed
Charles H. Treat, was at the Treasury
Department Friday and met many of
the officials whom he will be-associat
if with. Mr. McClung will leave Fri
day but will return in time to assume
office on November 1st.
With the removal from Fort
Myer, Va., Wednesday of the
Wright aeroplane owned by the gov
ernment to the new aerodrome at
Yoi lege Park, Md., the work of
teaching the signal corps officers of
the army was begun in earnest,
Wilburg Wrig-at is the instructor.
The Panama Canal Commission
Friday forwarded an estimate of $43,
063,000 as necessary to continue the
construction of the canal in the fiscal
year of 1911. This estimate is $10,
000,000 more than 1910 and $15,000,
000 more than 1909. Fifteen and a
half million is for labor; $20,000,000
for supplies and the remainder for
general expenses. Two hundred and
ten million dollars has been appro
priated for the canal to date.'
President Tait and his party on
their return from the around-th
continent trip will be taken on a
cruise of the Cape Fear river.? The
revenue cutter Seminole has been de
tailed to take the Presidential party /;
at Wilmington, N. C., on November .
9 on a short trip down the river, when
the local reception committee will
show the President the conditions
along the stream. The people of Wil
mington are planning the decorations
of the wrater front and a great nar
rine parade in connection with the
visit.
The sentiment of Kipling's recent
poem has attracted so much attention
that little has been bestowed on Ita
splendid craftsmanship. Possibly the
author is weak on prophesy, ob
serves the Philadelphia Ledger, but
he still is albie to marshal words in
an orderly manner and cause them
to say things.
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