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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-01-03

The 1906 books have been closed
The balances make such a favorablt
showing on the right side of the led
ger that the year goes down in COM
mercial history as the best the Unit
ed States has ever enjoyed The to-
tails have disheartened the pessimist
and made the optimist wonder AT
the dawning OK the new year conser-
vative business leaders can not con-
ceal their aniazement and the belief
that 1907 is to be good business
wear seems general.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-01-03

Metsker says Hendricks was eff
fectively disposed of by Chairman
earn before election" How about
that speech being so effectively dis
posed of before it was delivered at
the Democratic Congressional con-
yention at Plymouth on August 30,
1906, and that Prince Albert suit OF
clothes that never was wcrn = de-
liver said speech all in the city OF
Plymouth on the day and date afore-
said.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-01-03

John d. Rockefeller's Christmas
gift to the Chicago University was
s., 900, 900 making twenty millions
which he has contributed since the
university was founded About s4O.-
900, of this amount was given by
Mr.. Rockefeller to increase the salar-
les of teachers for the year 1907.
There is no danger OF teachers in
that university suffering for want OF
the necessities of life while Rookie
Teller lives.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-01-03

The London Saturday Review
thinks the United States would be
whipped in a war with japan. This
British periodical was never known
to guess right on an American topic,
in addition to which no such war can
be stirred up by grapevine promoters.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-01-03

The treasury department has a
large bulge in its Christmas stocking
in the form of surplus of oves $22.-
100000 for the current fiscal. year.
The first six months of the fiscal
year will soon be over, and all the
indications are that the surplus for
that period will be healthy one-in
the. region of S25. 900 600.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-01-03

The Indianapolis News says the
school fund of Indiana has been rob-
bed OF hundreds of thousands of dol
lars through the practice of remit
ting fines The fines belong to the
school fund and prosecuting attor-
neys have no right to bargain them
away.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-01-03

1t is suggested that the govern
ment cash balance is so large that
s117. 100000 of the public debt matur-
ing next year can be paid off in a
lump without inconvenience Here is
the first ammunition for the Demo
Gratis in the next campaign. They
have always regarded surplus as a
SYNONYM for superf1uity.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-01-03

For the coming year nothing bet
ter can be wished for the people oil
the United States than that they
shall continue to overtax the facil-
tiles of labor and capital and be able
to duplicate the record of 1906, which
Secretary Shaw pictures as grow
ing more crops than we can harvest
and harvesting more than we can
haul to market"
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-08-15
PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOL FUNDS
New High School Law Going Into
Force in the Several Counties.

Raleigh, Specialize State board
Of education has appropriated about
$4,000 Of the $4,000 set apart by the
last Legislature for high schools in
the various counties under the new
system, now being inaugurated. The
law gives $500 to a county with the
one representative, $3.50 to one with
two and $1,000 to. one with three. The
apportionment is made by the board
Of the counties which have complied
with the law and the requirements.
The following counties each get an
allowance for one school: Alamance;
Anderson, Beaufort, Currituck, Dup
lin, Durham, Granville, Jackson, Me
Dowell, Onslow, Person, Richmond,
Scotland, Sampson, Surry, Swain, I'm
ion, Wilkes, Yadkin. The following
get allowances for two schools: Cho-
wan, Cabarrus, Catwba, Cleveland,
Caldwell, Davie, Guilford, Harnett.
Lincoln, Macon, Martin, Nash, Fender
Pitt, Pennsylvania, Vance, Warren,
Washington, Wilson. The following
| get three schools: Cumberland, For
syth, Rockingham, Rowan and. Gas
ton. The counties of Robson and
Wake gets four each. Wake gets the
largest allowance, $1,000. There were
no applications from Mecklenburg
and New Hanover.
The State board of education grant
~ ~five-year certificates in various
sections of the State and within the
next few days will grant certificates
to the teachers in the new high
schools.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-08-15
Awful Double Tragedy.

Asheville, Special. "A terrible ira
gedy was enacted here Wednesday
morning shortly after 10 O'Clock,
when Robert Murdoch, a white man
As years Of age, with q wife and sew
eral children, shot to death Mrs.
Laura Ray, proprietress of the "Suc-
cess Inn" a large boarding house of
this city, and then turned the weapon
on himself and sent three bullets into
his heart. The only motive that can DC
assigned for the murderer's fearful
act was a debt due him by Mrs. Ray
and temporary insanity from the
effects of drink. The double tragedy
was committed in Mrs. Rays room in
the Success Inn. Murdoch fred eight
shots in all, taking time after send
ing four bullets into Mrs. Ray q
break the pistob reload and fire four
additional shots, three of which
went into the madman's own body,
The wounds made by the three shots
that Murdoch fired at himself could
almost be covered by a postage stamp
Mrs. Ray was shot twice through the
arm and three times through the
body. The attending physicians
stated that Mrs. Murdoch widow 81
the murderer and suicide was in 8
very serious condition as a result OF
shock incident to the horrible affair
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-08-15
Decide for Pilots.

Wilmington, Special. Judge J.
Crawford Biggs, who presided at the
late term of New Hanover Superior
court, and who, the past week, heard
the suit to test the constitutionahty
of the compulsory pilotage law, APP
plying to the Cape Fear bar, which
law was recently passed by the Gen
eral Assembly after q fight on the
floor of both houses, on Saturday rem
dered his decision, holding the law
constitutional and valid This decis-
ion of course is in favor of the pilots
and will be appealed to the Supreme
court of the State, and perhaps later
to the Supreme Court of the United
States. The findings of Judge Biggs
are brief and are written after mature
d~eliberation, knowing that in either
event they would be reviewed by the
highest court in the land. On every
point the law is construed in favor
of the pilots.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-08-15
A Timber Road.

Raleigh, Special.-In an interview
with Mr.. William Moncure, so well
known in railway circles and partic-
ularly for the last few years as a
builder of roads, he said that Henry
E. Lichford, of Raleigh; John G.
Shaw of Rockingham; D. E. McIyer
and C. L. Chisholm of Sanford; him
self and others are now arranging t.
build the Bladenl& Northern Railway
from Stedman on the Atlantic Coast
Line a distance of 20 miles. He says
that it is to be a road to get at timber
and that it will reach what is perhaps
the finest body of standing pines now
in North Carolina-about 100000
feet of which this company ownes
81 ,O00,0 900. Much of it IS long-leat
and considerable of it is short-leaf
The road is to be 20 miles long and
work will be in progress within &C
days from this date. The road viii
be standard guage and will handle
passengers.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-08-15

Washington, Special.-Naval cir
cles are agitated over a report which
reaches Washington that the British
admiralty is about to lay down the
keel for a giant ship that will be SO
per cent greater in tonnage than the
redoubtable "Dreadnought." 1t is
difficult to secure any information
respecting the plans for this ship, AMI
it is said that the British govern
ment s agian proceeding, as it did In
the case of the Dreadnought, to build
the vessel behind closed gates. Even
tually, of course, the man character
istics of war vessels built under these
conditions become known, but the
British government feels that it IS
amply repaid for the trouble it takes
to build the ship secretly, by the
fact that the British navy is thereby
kept at least two years ahead of
any other navy in point Of design,
a most valuable consideration in
these days, when a battleship is fire.
quently obsolete In the course of five
years after going into commission.
It is understood that the new ship
is to be of no less than $4,000 tons
displacement, against 10000 tons OF
the Dreadnought, but aside from the
mere matter of superior size, the de
! sign is believed to include many 10Y
elites some based on the experience
of the Dreadnought. Such a one, fol
instance, is understood to be the con
templated assembling of three guns
in each turret, so that if the new shii
is equalled with the six turrets, sht
will carry no less than Is guns IL
her main battery. The calibre of til;
| guns, however, will, it is believed, re
main at u inches, the present stand
ard.
The report of the British plan ha'
caused some of the holder designer
to proceed to greater length and t.
propose the laying down of a battle
ship of 10000 tons displacement
placing the American navy clearly il
the lead. Naval designers are be
lieved to be willing to undertake til
construction of such a ship. It woui,
cost no less than $20jOOO,0OO, but il
view of the predaminance it woui,
give to America as a naval power j
is argued by the advocates of tn
proposition that such a ship woul,
be an economical investment by tend
ing to ensure peace.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-08-15
Shot wife in Cold Blood.

Selma, Special. Ransom Goodwin
a well-to-do white farmer, 65 years
old at his home five miles west Of
Kenly a small and remote place In
Johnston County, shot and killed his
wife without any real cause for the
deed, so those who know the family
say. She was his third wife he hav-
ing married her about four years ago.
From the union two children survive
their mother. Mrs. Goodwin was 50
years of age. Shortly after the mar
riage of the couple the husband began
to drink and kept it up till his treat
ment of his wife became extremely
cruel. Tuesday night he came home
drunk and beat Mrs. Goodwin with
a stick till she was nearly unconscious
Wednesday night he came home again
in the same condition. When he
reached the house he called his wife
to come to the door and just as she
stepped into the light where he could
get a plain view of her he shot. hel
down in cold blood.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-08-15
Farmers Alliance.

Tho annual meeting of the North
co.oIina Farmers Alliance will be
SoId Of Hillsboro next Tuesday and
Wednesday. Reports of officers will
now a good years work and pro-
rrpss along all lines.
IN a letter to the Progressive Farm
~ referring to the approaching State
~apting, Mr.. George F. Parrott, OF
T;nston, president of the organiza-
ton says:
HVith no little pleasure we look
e,rrard to next Tuesday, August
10Th, the annual meeting day for the
ctate Alliance. We hope that every
county in which there is an organiza-
RON will be fully represented and that
Zach delegate will have something TO
SUGGEST for the good of the order
and for the good of mankind.
~No well informed man who has
tho nroper regard for truth will de-
oIare that the Alliance stands for any
fling other than for the scattering of
npace and prosperity all over this
land Of ours. Our purpose is to build
m, not to destroy; we antagonize
noyertv and strife among men; moth
ing more.
9"Our meeting will be a very i'm
nortant one. We will probably dis
cuss with a view to some action the
buying of wrapping for our next cot
ton crop; also the marketing of our
cotton as we'll as the attitude of the
American Tobacco Company toward
cultivation Of tobacco.
"Let delegates at their leisure
note lust what suggestions they wisf
to offer, also any specific matter which
thew are instructed by their County
Alliance to bring before the Stas'
meeting.
"Again let me urge delegates to b.
on hand land should anything occul
50 that the principal cannot attend
then let your alternate know in TIM
for him to report at headquarters a
HiIlsboro at 1900 NJ. on Angus
18Th"
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-08-15
100 Additional Union Mechanics Join
Building Trades Strike.

Washington, Special-Acting on
orders from the executive officers of
their unions 100 more union mechan-
les Joined the building trades strike
here Saturday. According to the la
Dor leaders every building under con-
struction, where non-union mechanics
we're employed, is now tied up and
nearly 800 men have quit work. The
employers association CLAIMS that
that it has been able to fill the places
of all the strikers with the exception
of bricklayers. The union men de-
clare that the strike will be extended
next Monday.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-08-15
Officers Raid eounteraeter'g Den.

Uniontown, Pa, SpeciaL-In a raid
on an alleged co~unterfeiter's den at
Smithfleld, several men were arrested
a large number of moulds captured
and a big quantity of spurious coins
found concealed about the place. The
men were all foreigners. It is claim
ed that the plant has been in opera
ton several weeks, as the neighbo..-
bee non a still hunt for the counter
felt money. The authorities have
been on a still hunt 70 rthe counter
letters for some time and believe all
implicated have been captured.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-08-15
Bitten By a copperhead.

New Bern, Special. The three
year-old child, a little boy, of Mr..
Morrison Rowe, who lives nine miles
from New Bern in the second town
ship, was bitten by a snake Sunday
morning. The snake was what is To-
cally known as a copper head mecca
sin, and is one of the most dreaded
and poisonous reptiles in this sections.
DIR. Cation rendered medical aid, and
the tender age Of the child made tbs
ease very serious and its condition
was considered critical at last ae.
counts
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-08-15

ditions the-number amounts to 1850
We are in this fight to stay, and Wa
must have recognition, or our union
might as well 60 out of business"
The developments Sunday in the
great strike of the telegraphers were
not such as to warrant optimism.
Practically all union commercial oper-
ators are now out, and all the large
cities are crippled. The special wire
men and the press operators are pre-
pairing to join in the walkout, and
the tie up will likely be complete.
Nothing seems to point to any settle
ment.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-08-15
Pinned Beneath locomotive.

New York, Special.-Pinned be-
meath a locomotive, Charles S. Hud-
ley, a brakeman on the New York
New Haven & Hartford Railroad suf-
fered the amputation of a leg before
he could be extricated from under
the engine, which had run over him
in the railroad yards in the Bronx.
The operation was performed by an
ambulance surgeon without the use OF
ahaesthetics and frequently Hudley
gave suggestions to the surgeons dur
ing the operation. It is said he may
recover.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-08-15
FLYER KILLS FOUR
Crowd of Summer Residents Wit 81
ness Tragedy at A~Ilenhurst NJ.
Mangled Bodies Tossed Into Fash.
ionabIe Platform Crowd-No
Safety Gates at Scene.

Allenhurst, n. Three girls and 8
a man, hurled from a ~brougham by ~
the impact of the Bankers Special"
running sixty miles an hour. were
instantly killed near the Auenhurst
station of the Pennsylvania Railroad,
at dusk. Two hundred society wom-.
en- of that exclusive resort watched
the tragedy from the depot platforms
and either tainted or ran away s
screaming in horror. The dead aEe
Thomas Edwards, aged thirty, of
A~llenhprst; employed as driver by
the Norwood Hotel. =
Loretta Grace, aged twenty, ofbfls.
New York. se54sE 49,
Jennie Mcdonald, aged twenty-one,
Of New York.
Hannah Murphy. aged twenty, of
New York. 9a4.f N 6aAa as4aY s..
Hurrying on their way from their
homes in New York to serve at a big
banquet in the Norwood 1.-THE three "
girls were being driven by Edwards
to the hotel. AS he reached the fail-eSse
road crossing the drives, already half sfts
an hour late, pulled up tmpat1ently
when an empty excursion train E1s#
passed. @ tesas18 4. s.5a
There was no gate and only a flag
man to give warning, and as the lastFet1
coach swept past Edwards whipped
up his team and started to gall0p
over the tracks. 3& f0I4Af155I ags
The Bankers Special" carrying
a hundred Wall Street men from New
York to their summef homes, dashHdi 81
out of the darkness, n the lOcomo-
tive hit the carriage before of its
occupants could jump39 .8hasa~as4
The carriage was crushed to sPlin-
tiers and the horse, flung fifty yardsby
the cow-catcher, fell dead in a field
The three girls were hurled twenty.
feet straight up into the air and fell
instantly killed and mangled within
| a stones throw of the Mortified wom-
en- on the depot platform.
Edwards was shot froml his SHAFT esf
tered seat and struck with a fearful
thud against the side of the dagman7S
shanty near the track. Every bone
in his body was broken.
When the train had been stopped
in front of the station many of the,
Wall Street men hurried off to find
their wives or daughters fainting or
shrieking in Mysteries. Others rushed
back in the hope that at least one OF
the victims had escaped instant death. III
Ambulance. doctors said death had
been instantaneous in every case, and
the bodies were picked up, almost un@ II
recognizable, and carried to. under--f
takers shops.
AS a result of the frightful acci-
dent, tho banquet at the Norwood
was abandoned. Many of the hotel
guests combined in a subscription to
buy flowers, and if need be, caskets,
for the victims. SE
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-08-15
Street Railway Franchise.

Salisbury, Special. The Board OF
Aldermen have granted a franchise
to the Piedmont Carolina Railway
Company, a Salisbury organization to
operate a belt line railway starting
at Newton Heights,in Spencer, thence
through East Spencer and up Long
street to Inniss street in this city.
thence through Inniss street to the
western outskirts of the city, termi-
mating at the new fair grounds.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-08-15
Broke Bows Head.

Wadesboro, Special. Julius the s.
vear-old son Of Mr.. and Mrs. L. j.
Pinston, was Kicked in the forehead
BY a horse Saturday afternoon. The
little fellow in company with one Of
Mr.. P. T. Rhymes sons was playing
in the lot near the horses when one
Of them suddenly became vicious and
kicked the children. The other boy
was hurt, but Julius received very
serious injuries. His nos was broken
and his skull fractured by the blow,
While he is in a very critical eondi-
ton, unless some complications set In.
he will recover. DR.. Bennett dressed
his yoNnAs,~
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-08-15
4 DEAD; a5 HURT IN WRECK.
Pennsylvania Train Hits Coal Com
doIa and Cars Are Crushed.

Pittsburg.-Four persons yer
killed and twenty-five injured in a
railroad wreck on the Buffalo & Ale
gheny Division of the Pennsylvania
Railroad at Kelly, thirty-fVe miles
from this city. The wrecked train
was the Titusville Express; At 1870
a. M, while passing through Kelly
the train was side-swiped by a gon-
dola coal car, and the engine, ten
der, baggage, and express ears, with
the three day coaches, we're derailed.
The dead are:
George Cochran, of Rimesburg.
Penn. ~
Mrs. Alonzo Huff and male infant.
Of Johnstown, Penn. fg sfa9Iafp &.
M. B. Irwin, of Oakmont, Penn.
engineer of the passenger train.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-08-15
PardOpg Granted and Refused.

Raleigh, Special. Governor Glenn
last week granted pardons of three
who had made application and refus-
ed the application of six, among these
six being two negroes who r under
sentence of death. These negroes are
Will Banks, of Ashe county, and
James Rucker, of Buncombe county
and the date set for their hanging is
the twentieth Of August Fuckers
crime was the atrocious one of rape
upon his six-year-old step-daughter,
while Banks had deliberately killed
another negro. The Governor sets
out his reasons for the pardons grant
ed and those refused.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-08-15
sprucing up Spoke Factory.

Lynnville, Special-Extensive new
and up-to-date improvements have
just been completed at the YokelJ
spoke and handle factory, several
miles west of this place. A huge mil
was put in. A rim strip mill was adj.
ded in addition to other modern i'm
proyements. The concern is IL
connection with a large factory a,
Munsey, Ind. 1t has a huge capacity
and is a great industry for the Yokely
section, and furnishes employment
for many hands.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-08-15
New Court House Plans.

Salisbury, Special. "A movement
Is on foot looking to the erection Of
a new court house for Rowan county
70 take the place of the old one which
naS been In constant use for nearly
nan a century. Plans for a hand
some structure have been submitted
20 The County Commissioners, who
are considering the expenditure of
PSo,!OUO to provide a suitable temple
VI justice for this county.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-08-15
Mouey in Ola Shoe.

Salisbury, Special. While tearing
down an old log house on the lands
recently purchased by Mr. L. A. Cline
the st. Paul neighborhood, three miles
from this city, workmen found $50
hid in a ehild's shoe underneath the
large hearthstone. There were six ten
dollar bills. How long the money had
been there no one knows. The house
is known to have been built more than
sixty years ago.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-08-15
a New industry.

Greensboro, Special = The Acme
Match Company, with authorized cap
ital Of $1O0, 900 and $4,000 subscrib-
ed has been chartered to manufacture
matches here. A site for the factory
has been selected near the city limits
and work will begin within 30 days
The incorporators are all from Win
ston-Salem and are J.. Palmer, presi-
dent Gus Palmer, vice president; L.
A, Wade, secretary-treasurer.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-08-15
Martin A. Knapp WEEDS Miss Nellie
Maynard Gardner.

New York, Special. Martin A.
Knapp, chairman of the interstate
commerce commission and Mrs. Mel
lie Maynard Gardner, daughter of the
late George L. Maynard, of Syracuse,
were married at the Hotel Manhattan,
In this city In the presence of a few
family friends by Bishop Edward C.
Andrews, of the Methodist Church.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-08-15
G. ". DELAMATEB A SUICIDE.
defeated Candidate For Governor Of
Pennsylvania Ends Life. N.ffs.'

Pittsburg.4After taking his life
insurance policies from the safe and
stacking them on a desk George Wal
lace Delamater, formerly StatesSena-
tor and a defeated Republican candi-
date for Governor, put a revolver to
his head and shot himself dead. e
friends of the family ascribe the
act to grief caused by the. death Of
his father, George b. Delanlater, aud
his son. James, within the last two
months. His son-in-law, Shirley p.
Austin, admitted that business rer
verses added to the motive for sui
eide. He was-born in 1S49.