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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-10-06

flight. Three of the four walls of the
building were blown out. Great gaps
were rent in them from top to bottom,
pulling the roof down with them, and un-
derneath that mass of brick, mortar,
beams and twisted machinery lies the
mangled corpse of John Wilson which
may not be taken out for day or two.
Nobody has a clear idea of how the ac-
cident occurred. All that can be said is
that an explosion occurred or that the
cooker gave way.
The damage to the buildings and ma
chinery was estimated by Manager Casey
at about 100000. 1t will be three months
before the plant will be in operation
again. The distillery is an independent
concern, owned by the Cornings and has
been in operation less than two years.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-10-06
TO COME To REUNION
Tar Heels in Philadelphia Or
ganize to Send Natives
to Greensboro.
Especial to News and observer.) }

Philadelphia, Pa, Oct. 5.-North Caro-
linians living in this city today held a
big meeting and organized a Society of
meeting was largely attended and most
enthusiastic. Delegates were appointed
to attend a great reunion of non-resi-
dent North Carolinians to be held at
Greensboro, October II and 13. A perma-
nent organization was perfected. There
will be a large number of Carolinians to
go from this and other Pennsylvania
cities to the reunion next week
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-10-06
LIKE MIGHTY BOMB A HUGE COPPER
CYLINDER ROSE IN A RED GLARE OF RUIN
Cornings Disey
MenW w ae the Severely

(By the Associated Press.)

(By Ine Associated PfeSS.)
JAMES O'KEEFE, laborer.
ED. SCHAEFS, water boy.
GEORGE G. GEORGE, meal man.
GUY BRENNAN, yeast-maker.
JOHN WILSON, United States store
keeper.
The injured: James Welch, United
States gauger, face and body badly scald.
ed Daniel Sachen, laborer, right leg broll-
en- at knee, Charles Lane, laborer, badly
cut and scalded
The great cylinder of copper crashed
through the east wall of the cooker room
and on through the mill as if the bricks
and mortar had been tissue paper; shot in
an oblique and downward course through
the air; cut down a large tree in its flight,
scattered a pile of lumber as if beams and
timbers had been so many straws and land
ed ESQ, feet away from the start of its
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-10-06
Leads all North Carolina Dailies i'm News AND Circulation
IS He IN GOLDSBORO2
Rumors Reach New Bern That
Cashier Dewey Will
Return Today.

:. Especial to News and Observer.) 4
=. New Bern, N c., Oct. 5.-Reports <
4 come from Goldsboro that Mr. Thos \
i W. Dewey. the defaulting cashier of \
4 the Farmers and Merchants Bank <
X of this city, was in Goldsboro, and !
X would be in New Bern today to face i
X the music. This report caused in I
- tense excitement in our city. Many <
+ and various comments were made. \
< May be he will show up and may be +
\ he won't. <
;: =.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-10-06
Southern Pacific TO Pay Tax.
(By me Associated Press.)

Louisville, KY, Oct. 5.-The million
dollar back tax suit of the State and
county against the Southern Pacific Com
pany has been compromised and orders
were entered in the counter court today
dismissng the case.
BY the terms of the compromise the
Southern Pacific Company IS to continue
to pay the State franchise tax of $4,000
year, and will pay State and county
taxes in Jefferson county on valuation
Of $275,O0O
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-10-06
The Commoner for Sale.
(By the Associated Press

NDJ V1IC <AoSOOIu0CU T INN-S'J
Nashville, Tenn, Oct. 5.-The thorough
breds are being loaded at Belle Meade, fd
shipment to New York, where the dis
posal sale OF this great stud will take
place October IA. 1t will require six
palace horse cars to transport the stock
and the train will be run through as a spe-
oial.
The stations to be shipped include The
Commoner Imp Loyalist, Mont Dor,
Pudon and Inspector B. There were SO
highly bred brood mares.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-10-06
Fire Truck and Street Car Collide.
(By the Associated Press. J

St. Louis, Mo-, Oct. 5.--While running
at full speed in response to an alarm OF
fire fire truck containing six firemen
collided with swiftly moving street car
this morning and all the fremen were
hurt, one probably fatally.
The street car was thrown from the
track by the impact, but the few persons
on board were not hurt.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-10-06
DR.. Matt Moore bead.

Especial to News and Observer)
Warsaw, N. c., Oct. 5.-Dr. Matt Moore
died suddenly early this morning at his
home four miles from Warsaw in his
seventy second year. He was father-in-
law of Judge O. H. and w. r Allen
and was well known and influential man
of this section.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-10-06
Hon Graham Clsytor Dead.
(By the Associated Press J

(By the Associated Press)
Roanoke, Va. Oct. 5.-Hon. Graham
Clayton, State Senator from Bedford
county, and a brother of M. H. Clayton,
proprietor of the Roanoke Times, died
suddenly of heart failure at his home in
Bedford City today. aged so years. He
was a prominent lawyer.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-10-06
Championship Game Postponed.
(By the Associated Press.)

Pittsburg. Pa. Oct. 5.-The opening
game in this city between the Pittsburg
and Boston baseball teams for the world s
championship series, was postponed today
on account of rain and wet grounds. If
the weather permits, the first game will
be played tomorrow.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-10-06
Five Prisoners Escape

(By the Associated Press.)
Chattanooga, Tenn, Oct. 5.-Five white
prisoners sawed their way out of the coun-
ty work house at an early hour this morn
In.
They were long term men and rewards
have been offered for their capture.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-10-06
THREE KILLED, TWO INJURED.
Boiler Explodes and Deals Ont Death to eli in
Reach.
(By the Associated Press.)

(By the Associated Press)
Mobile, Ala, Oct 5.-By the explosion
of boiler this morning in the saw mill
at Thomas Metcalf, seven miles, south of
Mobile three men lost their lives, two
were injured. The dead are:
THOMAS METCALF, proprietor.
CHARLES CROCKETT, a negro, en-
ploye
TIM DAVID, negro employe.
The injured are: Ben Norwood and a
bay named Davis
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-10-06
Baseball.

Chicago, Oct. 5.-National 3; Ameri-
can 4.
Philadelphia, Oct. o.-National /;
American s.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-10-06

woman can get up as much sorrow
over the death of relative she never
saw as man can over the loss of the last
jackpot.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-10-06
Cotton Cargo Bfre.
(By the Associated Press.l


Norfolk, Va, Oct. 5.-The German
steamer Erica from Galveston and Will
mington to Liverpool with cotton. is in
port with cargo afire. One badly injured.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-10-06
BIG MILL AT MARSHALL
W. J, McLendon, of Wadesboro. Organized Big
Company at Knoxville
(By the Associated Press. }

(By the Associated Press.J
Knoxville, Tenn, Oct. 5.-W. j. McLen-
don, of Wadesboro, N c., has organized
a stock company, with 100000 capital to
build large cotton mill at Marshall, N.
C. The power will be obtained from the
French Broad river.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-09-18

close at hand The very existence of numbering of m
and numbering is the fourth great industry of bo m
States-depends upon the success of work AS a ea
putting practical forestry into effective operation ~
AS it is with mining and numbering so It is in ~
less degree with transportation, manufactures COM
in general The relation of all Of these industries
estry Of the most intimate and dependent kind "a wi
matter for congratulation that many of these vr
dustrles waking up to this fact; the ra,r @
especially, managed as they are by who are M '
PEELED to look ahead who obliged by the nature ~ @
profession to possess keen insight into the fuuro
awakened to clearer realization Of the vast mnor+
of the economic both Of timber and of forests
The forest of country are already sar
depleted. They be renewed and maintained on,r ~
the cooperation of the forester with the practical ms
business in all his types but, above ALL with the umh
And the most striking and encouraging fact in ~
forest situation is that umbermen realizing that n
tical numbering and practical forestry allies NOT m
miles, and that the future Of each depends upon the ob
The United States is exhausting it's forest supplIes q,
more rapidly than they being produced The siuat
is grave, and there only remedy That remedy j.
the introduction of practical forestry large scale ma
of course that is impossible without trained mon ,oa
trained in the closet and also by actual field work und
practical conditions.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-09-18

with wholly unnecessary Inconvenience to ourselves.
Ohna any rate China and Russia combined, hold
position in Asia commanding than that OF the
United States the three Americas In both cases the gov
ernments are as absolutely committed to the despoc as
republican dea and there obvious proof
that the overwhelming majority of their people do not be-
of people believe in Suppose China or China
and Russia together had taken ground that the Asatc con-
tinentbeng entirely occupied by the existing govern
ments which mostly in form and principle like thel
own-was longer field for colonization conquest by
American power and that ground at the outbreak OF
the Spanish American had warned US off Manila and
the Philippines
If foreign Interference arises suddenly to affect the
national Judgment it is least among the possibilities that
may find two changes taking place in the national view
Of the ideas grouped under the popular term Of the Monroe
doctrine. We may a considerable increase Ill the
srngency of their application where interest clearly
calls for them within the natural sphere of influence
We may them slowly moderated to remote countries
which under changed modern conditions longer
cusvely within that sphere. ,
Toward the of the American continent beyond the
Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea- may day
railroad through the three Americas will draw
closely together The currents of trade will change The
legitimate sphere Of influence will thus widen through
out those nations with the years. and might be increased
rather than diminished by a moderation of extreme
claim to interfere with exercise of their
ereignty to territory otherwise which
their calm judgment Of their best may bring
them.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-09-18

1t can be seen in operation on the Cap
itol grounds in Washington. When it
is produced at popular price, the
suburbanite, of whom the comic pa
pers make so much sport, may take IL
few turns about his lawn every morn
ing, and then head the mower toward
the railroad station to take his train
for town. On his return in the after
noon he may finish the job of moving
the lawn, while he keeps the grass
along the roadside cut and rolled by
his daily trips. Then on Sundays he
may give his baby ride up and down
the road in it's horseless carriage, that
it may understand what the modern
inventor can do.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-09-18
EXPLORING A NEW RIVER.
Another White Space on Congo Man
BEING lille ,xitI, IlotaiI


Being FiIiel with Detail.
More than twenty years ago Savor-
gnan de Brazza carried little steam
launch overland between the head
waters of the large Ogowe river and
the upper part of river on the other
side of the divide, few miles away.
The natives called this stream the ALI
ma, and De Brazza believed it was Il
tributary to the Congo and that he
might steam down the Alma to the
upper Congo far above Stanley pool.
His experiment was a great success.
He descended the Alma about 400
miles and finally entered the Congo
where the great river Is several miles
in width. Then he floated down that
river TO Stanley pool, says the New
York Sun.
Meanwhile, Stanley had been labor
iously ascending the Congo, dragging
his supplies around 23J miles of
rapids; and when he reached Stanley
pool he was much surprised to find
the French flag floating on its north.
ern bank. De Brazza had arrived be-
fore him and was founding the station
of Brazzaville. Ever since that day
large white space has existed on
the map between the Alma and the
Congo. Explorers were too busy else
where to trace the rivers in the region.
At last the Pama river, supposed to be
the largest tributary of the Alma. has
been partly explored and a portion of
the blank space an the mop has been
filed.
Captain Scheerlinck, agent of the
Commercial and Agricultural Society
of the Alma, has ascended its Pama
tributary for distance of about
eighty miles. The upper part of the
river has also been explored, but no
one has visited the middle portion.
The river is about 200 miles in length.
and Captain Scherrlinck found that
for a part of the way ii flows through
wooded region in which are numer.
Gus herds of elephants and buffaloes.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-09-18

and the honeymoon begins the test Any happily married
couple Of dozen years standing will doubtless acknow
edge that the first weeks of their welded life were hos
which most uncomfortable The man realizes that
he is bound for good and ALL while bride cut adrft
from her old fe is and shy with sensations
Of cat in strange garrett plentiful Of good
humor Is an excellent part of the equipment for wed
ding journey. Annoyances vanish at laugh and II one
make merry mishap it ceases to be SUCH Men
humor has an immense advantage one who is less
gifted AS rule abhor tears; they either distress
them beyond measure, they make them angry and
neither phase of feeling pleasant for themselves or 9TH
When the matrimonial barometer sets for rain most
men bolt, If possible
The honeymoon must inevitably disclose many hitherto
unsupported phases of character The has
free handed to degree change into the husband who
hagges hotel bills and begrudges his wife fire in
her upon damp chilly day. The girl who has been
dainty rosebud may be careless untidy when
forced to depend entirely upon herself The man who has
not appeared to care what ne eats may be the
rates the waiter and scowls at his wife when dinner
is not to his taste
The true secret Of happiness in marriage as in most
relations of e is unseshness To be eectual this must
be mutual but when is all on one side it enables its
possessor to keep peace which is much and besides
comfort when one has not ones self to blame The love
which seeketh her own only scarcely considered
genuine affection and the golden young married
par Is in honor preferring another"
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-09-18

men subject, and mad the courage Of
his convictions. He took an active part
in several plans for helping the black
men, and in 1885 formed q compact
with Benjamin Lundy for the estab-
lishment of an escaped slave colony
in Mexico.
The men owned a small vessel, and
with it they assisted the slaves to get
away to the place of refuge. They fol-
lowed this practice for some years,
and Walker had many narrowing ed
ventures during the time. He was
finally captured in July. 1914, and tried
before a court at Key West. He was
convicted of slave stealing, and the
Judge sentenced him to pay fine Of
S4,2OO, suffer seven years in prison,
stand in the pillory for one hour and
to have the letters S. S. burned on
the palm of his right hand.
Walker paid the fine, stood in the
pillory, the branding part of the SEN
tence was carried out. and the suffer
ing man confined in jail. There he re-
NAMED for nearly year until re-
leased. He Immediately came North
ana took to the lecture platform,
where he remained for several years,
telling details of the slavery question.
In 1863 he settled in Muskegon Coun-
", Mich., and there died in 1878. The
Following year monument was erect
ed to him.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-09-18

Modern manners, like those of all
other ages, consist mostly Of meaning
less conventionalitles, acquired no one
knows how and for purposes that no
one knows or seems to care about.
Much that we regard as essential Is
merely a matter of habit that might
just as well become habitual in the
opposite direction. There are lots of
people-good, worthy people, uoo-who
look upon man who declines to sit
down at dinner table without his Goa t
on as shallow dude. Plenty of peo-
pie see no impropriety In shoveling
food into the mouth with knife.
Nor can there be any improperly in
1t among people who so regard it. 1t
Is only among those who are not ac-
customed to it that sitting in ones
Shirt sleeves and eating with ones
knife can be called i'll hammered. 1t
more uniE-., .,cmfwy cmfwyp
would seem that nothing would be
more universally established as correct
custom than that man should take off
private house and in the presence of
women. Yet this, too, is only habit.
This, like all the rest Of the conven-
tionalities which we call manners, is
only custom Of the time. The first
gentlemen Of England, two centuries
ago. habitually wore their hats at
meals. Then it was ill-mannered to
sit at table with head uncovered.
Nor Is 1t known when or how or why
the custom changed. Lord Clarendon,
who died in 1914, has left an essay
on the decay OF respect paid to old
age, on which he says that in his
younger days he never kept his hat on
before those older than himself. ex-
cept at dinner That the English men,
bers Of parliament still sit with their
hats on during the sessions Is well
known, and 1t is equally we'll known
that the same practice prevailed at the
early town meetings in New England.
But the uninitiated visitor In the gal
lery of the United States Senate cham
ber to-day, who permits his hat to be
visible or allows even the remotest sug-
gestion that he possesses such an ar
ticle of apparel. is peremptorily cor
rected by the sergeant-at-arms. The
| presence or absence of the hat is
therefore simply Il conventionaliy. and
so 1t is with thousand and one prac-
tices which are held, so long as they
exist, TO he the most absolutely correct,
matter-of-course and Interchangeable az
fairs. The next generation will have
many hearty laughs at our customs,
rs we have at those of the "old fogies''
who have gone before.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-09-18

memorated in verse by John Greenleaf
winter risked his all for the black
slave and went to his grave with the
letters IS. S."-slave stealer-brordoa
on his right hand, a grim reminder Of
the sentence of Judge.
He was born at Harwich. Mass in
1I99' and became sailor at an early
age. He remained on the ocean throngh
his young manhood. and soon took q
great interest in the slavery question
lie believed that it was wrong to keen
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-09-18

The educational test of immigrants
shows illiteracy among the Scotch,
Swedes and Norwegians to be / per
cent; among the English, Firms and
Moravians, = per cent; German, Swiss
and French, 4 per cent; Japanese, )
per cent: Dutch, 6 per cent. The
range of illlteracy among those coming
from southern Europe is from II per
cent among the Magyars to 40 per cent
among the Italians. The widespread
impression that German schools are
the most efficient seem TO be ground
less.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-09-18

1t was at II certain Michigan resort
A herd of degenerate youngsters
breed of cattle always travels in herds
made custom Of rounding up at a
certain corner of the town. These
young loafers-you know the type
made pastime of smoking cigarettes
and aiming ribald jests at lady pedes-
trians who were compelled to pass that
way. One evening these fellows made
mistake. One of them fred an i'll
suit at the wrong woman. She was
athletic. You could tell that by the
way her shoulders were set. She
walked with the air Of one who knows
her exercises. 1t was this woman of
the gymnasium who became the tar.
get of the indecent observation
Whereat-. There was something do
ing. She grasped the particular downy
youth Of the foul tongue by the throat
She shook him as your rat terrier
would shake rodent. And then she
gave him such "a beating as his father
was never able, in his palmiest prime
to administer. The program was not
long but it was lively right from the
opening number. The sequel? The
herd gathers occasionally. 1t ventures
cigarettes. There are no more scin.
tillatiOns of coarseness. If need were
any woman could stampede the entire
common herd by saying ''scat!' Good
for the athletic woman! May her tribe
increase.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-09-18

A French apiculturlst has been ex-
perimenting with bees as messengers.
He has discovered that they will re-
turn to their hives from a distance of
four miles in about twenty minutes,
bearing dispatches, after the manner
of homing pigeons. The pigeons will
retrace a distance of five hundred or
even thousand miles, and are in lit
tie danger of being driven out of busi-
ness.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-09-18
Rent as an Index TO Income.

In establishing basis of taxation in
view Of the introduction of the in
come tax in France. revenue official
of the city of Paris has drawn up the
following estimate: Those who pay Il
rent Of 5000 are considered to be in re-
ceipt of an income Of $1,000; those pay
ing $1,000 are supposed to have $4,000,
and those that pay $4,000 will have to
pay tax on an income of $4,000.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-09-18
The Trees We Rcnl.

Nine successful novels recently pub
lished in the United States had total
sale of over 100000 copies says the
Chicago Daily News. Since the aver
age weight of each book sold was prob
ably twenty ounces, little calcula ton
will prove that these 100000 books
contained approximately 100000
pounds of paper. A manufactures of
papers asserts that the average spruce
tree yields little less than half a
cord of wood, which is equivalent to
about 500 pounds of paper. In other
words, these nine novels swept away
1000 trees, and they form but small
part of the fiction so eagerly read by
the American public.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-09-18

The young gentleman who has ac-
quired some publicity by numbering
his stepmother and uncle explains that
he was driven TO the deed because Il
school-teacher once boxed his ears
with Il spelling book. If the pedagogue
had gone to the length of giving him
regular thrashing with a hickory
switch it is to be inferred that the
youths sense of his wrongs would
have led him to wipe out the whole
community. 1t is these acutely sensi-
tive souls who keep humanity awake
10 its responsibilities.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-09-18

Files are more deteStable than mos
quitoes. They mar whatever they
touch and do not possess the merit of
being sweet singers. \ mosquito or
chestra is not bad when one appre-
ciates it. The desire of Mr. Fly to
settle upon the whitest things In the
house is his worst fault. In fly com.
munties white shades are converted
into dark blue or bottle green ones be-
fore spring is half over. The fly Is the
only universal beast. 1t is the unwel-
come companion of man in every quar-,
ter of the globe and is equally at home
in Alaska and the great desert. Aship
may leave port without one on, board
yet In midocean an mclean fspot on
deck Will attract Il swarm. The fly
seems TO be born for the occasion.