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The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-08-22
LOOKING To-WoRLD PEACE

Resolution Proposed BY Sir Edward
Fry, Of Great Britain, C~onfrming
That Of 1899, Unanimously Adopted
By Peace Conference Amendment
Regarding Laws and Customs. of
Throwing Of Explosives From Bal
looms and Bombardment of Unde-
Tended Towns Adopted.
The Hague, By Cable.-At the
plenary sitting of the Peace Confer
ence a resolution proposed by Sir
Edward Fry British, was adopted
unanimously as follows:
f'This conference confirms the reso-
luton adopted by the conference of
1899 regarding the limitation of mill
tary burdens and as military burdens
have been considerably augmented in
almost all countries since 1890, it de-
clares it is highly desirable to see the
governments earnestly represent the
study Of this question"
Amendments of the convention of
1899 regarding the laws and customs
Of land war and the prohibition Of
throwing of explosives from balloons
and the convention regarding the
bcmbardment of u~nderfended towns.
etc., were unanimously adopted.
Sir Edward Fry and M. Baingeois
heads Of the British and French dele
cations, made addresses in support of
TIE resolutions gwen above. After
the disarmament treaty between Ar
g~cr.inc and CE1ie had been read the
whole conference enthusiastically ap-
plauded Senols Drago and Concha,
who we're chiefly instrumental IN
drawing up that t.eay.
n. Nelidof, Of J.. STA, closed a brli-
liant speech by saying the conference
is as unrreparcd to face the question
CT armament Inn .ation as in 1899 and
any discussion now w,.uld iniure lie
cause of peace. Fl: a~pplauded tire
British initiative and recommended
adoption of the resolution as ''the
only guaranty Of futtncr progress of
the question, while Is would be all
honor of the present conference to
have contributed - i an immediate
vote.
~ letter. was read from Joseph Fl.
Clloate supporting in The name of the
United States, tie Ilitish resolution
and expressing En rrican sympathy
with the terms.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-08-22
FROM MURPHY TO MAN to
A Batch of Newsy Items From Noun
tain to Seashore.

Governor Glenn has granted a par
don to William Simms, an aged negro
of Raleigh, who had been sentenced
to the roads six months for assault
and resisting an officer.
The State Superintendent of Public
Instruction is notified by County SUP
srintendent E. T. Atkinson, of Wayne
that Woodland school district has jusr
voted a special tax for the improve
mcns Of schools without a dissenting
vote ard without having had a single
public. meeting OF. speech for the cleo
ton. A letter from County Superin-
,tendent C. S. Wright, of Wilkes, is Il"
the effect that Elkville, in that county
las voted a s~~ecial tax.
In addition to the extension of the
stceet car Ines in Raleigh (more than
three and Il lslf miles Of new line to
be built tie Raleigh Electric Com
pauy is getting under way other i'm
portaGt improvements. A new 500
kilowatt steam turbine generator
from the General Electric Company is
already there to be placed in position
at the power house. The power house
and car sheds are being remodeled
and Practically rebuilt, the construc-
ton being of brick and steel with con
crete foundations. A new 440-horse
power boiler is to be added to the
number row III use, all these being In
addition to the fine w~ater-power plant
of the company at the fall of the
Neuse where the greater part of the
current is generated. There is con
siderable double-tracking under way
on Hillsboro street running out TO
the State fair ground. This will be
completed in time for the State fair.
The North Carolina Patriotic Sc
ciety, P. C. Enniss, secretary, is doing
much to awaken interest in the North
Carolina flag; so much so that it Is
hard now to supply the demands for
these flags, the orders for them COM
ing in for all sizes and grades of fab
ric. The flags are now waiting over
practically all the State and county
buildings in compliance with the act
of the last Legislature. More than
five hundred State flags were shipped
the past two weeks to the jamestown
Exposition in preparation for North
Carolina week events. The society
has just furnished two very hand
some State .regimental flags for the
three regiments of the North Carolina
National Guard that will spend the
week in camp at jamestown. They
are of the finest field flag silk, with
gold bullion and other regulation
trimmings.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-08-22
Receiver Asked For Big Shirt Man
ufacturing Company.

Utica, N. Y, Special-Application
was made before United States Court
Judge Ray at Norwich for the APP.
polntment of a receiver for Curtiss
Leggett & Co., manufacturers Of
shirts, collars and cuffs, Troy. A pc
tition is filed by three Troy creditors
who allege that the firm is insolvent
The Liabilities are placed at $1,100,-
O00 while the assets are said to be
nominally $2,000,000. It is said the
S~stringency of the money market has
cramped the company. The company.
employs about I4O0 operatives.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-08-22
Tuberculosis Discovered in MOrgan's
Fine Dairy Herd.

Highland Falls, N. Y, Special
Tuberculosis has been discovered in
the fine diary heard owned by J. Pier
pont Morgan and six Of his nineteen
high breed mich COWS have been kill
ed oneorders cabled by Mr.. Morgan
The herd was composed entirely of
cows of notable pedigrees and they
were kept, with the greatest care-in
stables Of the most modern sort, the
most attention being paid to proper
ventilation and to all the sanitary
conditions that are supposed to pro-
tect cows from tuberculosis.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-08-22
Took a Few Drinks and Died

San Francisco, Special.-An auto
mobile containing two men a young
woman and the body of a girl who
had been a companion on a round of
visits to Beach resorts, arrived at the
Park Hospital. The three were ar
rested an dwill be held until the cause
of the gorl's death is fully explained.
The dead girl was Francis Ear, No.
AL, Golden Gate Avenue, San Fran
cisco. Her companions were George
W. Ford, Harry McHenry and Pearl
Shelton. The men stated that the
girl had taken several drinks, tainted
and soon expired.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-08-22
Tar Heel Breyities.

Prof. Darius Eatman has resigned
the chair of pedagogy at Wake For
est College to take a course in that
study at Columbia University, having
obtained 9 scholarship there.
Numa ". Sewers, a boy of seven
teen, vas bound over to court at Sal
isbury on the charge of seduction with
promise of marriage and giving drugs
with criminal intent.
The alliance adopted resolutions
opposing immigration from foreign
countries by solicitation or appropria-
ton of State or department funds for
that purpose; favoring State prohi-
bition; reduction of passenger rates
and more equitable freight rates; az
r%icultural high schools in each con-
gressional district; building farmers
Institutes under the county alliances ;
establishing an agricultural school at
HlIsboro; cooperation in securing
the substitution of cotton for iute
bagglng. A resolution endorsing the
action of the United States Depart
ment of Justice In proceeding against
the American Tobacco Company was
also passed.
The North Carolina Farmers ALI
IN annual sessien~at Hillsbora
The past week elected the following
officers for the next year: President,
j. 3. Peterson, Goldsboro: vice presi-
dent, J. A. McAllister, Lumberton
secretary-treasurer, George F. Par
rOtt, Kingston lecturer, III. M. Gates,
S~wepbane; steward, j. C. Balm,
Wade; sergeant-at-arms, George {.
lane, Aurora; State business agent
George F. Parrot, Kinston; trustee
7. A. fund, w. A. Graham, Mac.
pelah.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-08-22
Two Lives Lost in Fire.

Old Orchard, Me-, Special.-TWo
lives were lost and five persons were
injured, three seriously, as a result
Of the fire which swept through TINS
seashore resort causing a loss est[
mated at 100000. The dead: PM
lip Partridge, a years old OF P1tEs.
burg, Pa, struck by Boston & MaiIe
train at Kennebunk and killed while
on way to the fire. Unidentified man,
killed by explosion Of soda tank nea'
blown of.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-08-22

State News Items.

AS the result of a special ordinance
passed some time ago by the aldermen
the Southern has made Lexington y
flag station for No. "a. The people of
the town are pleased with this change.
The Shaw Cotton Mill, Of Weldon.
was granted a charter, the capital
being 100000, authorized and S25.-
600 subscribed by W. 7. Shaw, W. A.
Pierce and others.
Insurance Commissioner James R.
Young paid into the State Treasury,
yesterday 1924 representing the
receipts of the department for July.
This is an especially good month 8
business. The commissioner also paid
into the treasury $28O.41, represent.
ing a part of the insurance that<was
carried on the dissecting hall recent
ly burned at the State University.
In the work of compiling and audi
ting the roll of Confederate pension
ers as just approved by the pension
board it is discovered In the State
Treasury that one u. S. Dollar is
a p%ensioner in Ashe county.
George F. Parrot, who becomes
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES and State bust
ness agent will establish. his general
office at Hillsboro.
w. J. Paythress, a welI-appearing
white man was arrested in Graham,
his home by Sheriff Pinnix of Reds
vile, Tuesday afternoon and taken 10
Wentworth. The warrant for his ar
rest was sworn out by Mr.. C. K. Nolen
cashier of the Bank of Reidsville. and
1t charges that Paythress forged a
cheek for $3.50 on the said bank.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-08-22
Several Hundred Out Of WORK.

New York, Special.-Several hum
dred employees were thrown out of
work by a fire which destroyed a four
story warehouse and factory building
in Furman street, Brooklyn. The loss
will reach 100000. The fire broke
ont on the third floor and the build
ing which occupied nearly an entire
block, was a mass of flames when the
fremen arrived Four fremen were
overcome BY illuminating gas while
fighting the fire. The building was
occupied by the New York & Balti-
more Coffee Company and several
manufacturing firms.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-08-22
Commissioner NELL at Home.

Washington, Special-Comm6sion-
er of Labor Charles P. Neill arrived
home from Chicago where he went OF
a vain effort to effect a settlement of
the telegraphers' strike. He decided
not to see visitors and as soon
as he reached the city went to his
hime. For the present he is taking
no part in the telegraph strike situa-
ton, but says he is ready to act as
mediator if called upon.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-08-22
Eighteen Perish in Wreck

Buenos Ayres, Special-Details re-
ceived here of the wreck in Flinders
bay Of the American bark Prussia
from Norfolk, March 20 for Port
Townsend announced from Punta
Arenas, Straits of Magellan, say that
the captain committed suicide when
the vessel ran ashore and that four
teen passengers, In addition to four
sailors lost their lives.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-08-22
No Douht Ahont the pnaa

Mount Airy, Speeial4The building
of the Statesville Air Line Rrailwav
from Statesville to Radford, Va, now
seems as much of a certainty as any
thing that has been proposed in a
long time, and capitalists now so re-
gard it. A meeting was held here a
few nights ago and $4,000 subscribed
to give the work a start. The survey
from Radford to the North Carolina
line will begin at once; the SURVEYING
forces are now pushing this way
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-08-22
News in Brief.

The Peace Congress adopted tie
proposal prohibiting the throwing of
p~rojectiles from balloons, and the
Belgian delegate left for home with
the feeling that the permanent arbi-
tration court plan is lost.
It is again reported that the En-
press DoWager of China viii abdi-
cate.
zionists opened their congress al
The Hague.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-08-22
Arrested for Burning His Own Store

Carthage, Special.-George w. Hor.
ner, a conspicuous politician
of this county, was arrested here
Friday under a warrant charging the
burning of his store some time ago
for the purpose of securing the insur-
ance money. He is also charged with
removing goods from his store before
the fire occurred. Mr.. Horner is 9
well-to-do citizen of this county and
is postmaster at Hamp. He is under
bond OF $1,000 for his appearance
mere next Wednesday at a preliminars
hearing before H. A. Foote, ESQ.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-08-22
Blood Flows at Chattanooga.

Chattanooga, Special. - A negro
cabin in the rear of 23O Oak street
was the seene of a sa~nguinary con-
fict between two dusky lovers. And
after the entire neighborhood had
been aroused Wilson Pye was led off,
bleeding and apparently half dying,
and Mamie Foster,a negress, was I'M
der arrest.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-08-22
Passengers on Steamer Asia.

San Francisco, Special Among
the passengers on the steamer Asia,
which arrived from Honolulu was Oc-
car S. Straus, Secretary of Commerce
and Labor. K. Ishi VI, Secretary of
the commerce bureau of the Japan
csc foreign office, who will visit the
principle cities Of this country, before
returning to the Orient, was also a
passenger on the Asia.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-08-22
Falling scsfold Kills Two.

New York, Special.-Two workmen
were killed and ten others injured,
one, of them seriously by the collapse
of a seafold surrounding a gas tank
in course of construction for the
Brooklyn Union Gas Company in
Williamsburg. The men fell 80 feet.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-08-22
shoots wife and Kirls Himself.

New York, Special.-Angered over
a family difference, Valentine Hess, d
barber, fred two shots at his wife
and then killed himself at his home
In Sea Cliff, Long Island. Physicians
say that Mrs. Hess will die.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-08-22
News in Brief.

Seven men were badly burned by a
gas explosion in South Boston.
The taking of testimony in the
Southern's suits against the State of
North Carolina was begun.
A settlement of the Chicago Ter
minal controversy was effected be-
tween the Baltimore and Ohio and
IHill-Morgan group.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-08-22
Arrested For Accepting Rrihe.

Boston, lSpecial,-Building Inspec-
tor John p. Clarke Of this city was
arrested here charged with accepting
a brfbe from a contractor. The ar
rest was made by inspectors who, it
is alleged, witnessed the payment of
$40 to- Clarke by the contractor.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-08-22
Deaths Reported from San
francisco
DISEASE WELL UNDER CONTROL
But One of the Reported Sufferers
Has Survived-With One Excep-
ton, q Foreigner Prom q Coastwise
Steamer, the Patents Were Of the
Poorer Glass, Dwelling in the
Neighborhood of Chinatown.

San Francisco, Speculative cases
of bubonic plague, four of which have
resulted in death, have been reported
to the health department.. The pa
tients with one exception were of
the poorer class Of foreigners dwell
ing in the neighborhood of China
town. The exception was a foreign
sailor from a eoastwise steamer.
Prompt measures were taken by the
city, State and Federal officers, and
a spread of the disease is not feared.
President Jules A. Samon, of the
city health board, and Health officer
Watkins said that the situation was
well In hand and no occasion existed
for alarm.
The infected steamer was ordered
into quarantine with her passengers
and will remain secluded until releas-
ed by the health department. The
two shacks inhabited by the other
patients were fumigated,S locked up
and sealed. The bodies of the two
Mexicans, an Italian and q Russian
Pole, who succumbed, were destroyed
in quick lime.
Report Sent to Washington.
Washington, Specia1.-The first in
timation of the pleague at San Fran
cisco was received Thursday by the
Marine Hospital Service. The tele-
gram read:
"Three cases and death, plague San
Francisco. Diagnosis made zclinicaily
and by strained smears from spleen
and glands. No reasonable doubt as
to certainty of diagnosis of cases seen
and verified by long continuation with
health officials. Cases found within
two blocks of old Chinatown"
On receipt of the information in
structions were sent to Surgeon Aus
tin to confer with the State and To-
cal authorities and make full report
on the measures adopted for eradi-
cation.
Surgeon Austin telegraphed that
two foci had been discovered that the
local board had d~isinfected known in
fected buildings and proposed to in
stitute a campaign against rats. He.
said deaths in the city had been veri-
fed and that a general disinfection of
suspected districts would begin. He
asked for the assistance of two off,
GERS as medical inspectors and orc
as a bacteriologist in the State lab
oratory.
1t is stated here hat Assistant Sur
geon Long is a trained bacteriolo-
gist and thoroughly competent to
handle the situation that has devel-
oped.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-08-22
An Entire Village Almost Wiped Out
By Fire.

Hancock, Mich, Specialize viz
lage of Hubbel, 10 miles from here
was nearly wiped out by fire. Twen-t
tyjwo dwellings, four stores, a hotel,
the p~ostofice and the coal sheds, tres
ties and coal piles of the Calumet and
Hecla Mine were burned. The loss
exceeds 100000.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-08-22
Sixteen Deaths Ranorted.

Hardin, Manchuria, By Cable.-The
bubonic plague has broken out in
South Manchuria and sixteen deaths
have been reported. Travellers pro-
ceeding into North Manchuria are
being medically examined at Kwang
Ching Tsu. !
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-08-22
PLAN TO ROB ALL PUBLISHERS
international Paper Company Behind
i Print Paper Merger.

Appleton, Wis, Specialize In
ternational Paper Company is said to
be behindrthe print paper merger now
being brought to a successful close.
1t is said that within II months the
international Paper Company, which
was incorporated in New York IN
February, 1893, with an authorized
capital Of $11S,00O,OO0, will control
the. print paper market of the United
States. TO do this the company will
ekpend from $3O,0O0,0O0 to $50,000,-
900 In buying up the plants in the
middle West.
The National tribune., 1907-11-14
THURSDAY NOVEMBER a. 1907

lost to our view. When the man of iron
nerve had reached one-third of the way
across the bridge one of the scouts
cooked his gun, stepped to the front
and addressed Lieut.. Lostutter in the
following language, THAT man is a reb-
ell, and l am going to kill him." where
upon Lostutter made use of very en-
phatic language In defense of McDow-
ellis Chief of Staff, and told the would
be shootist that he was a - fool
and could consider himself under ar
rest. which quieted things at our end
of the bridge for the time being. After
this ! took up a position to overlook
the wagon train, as it was closely parked
on the other side of the river, and
had not long to wait until l saw the
chestnut sorrel horse and his cool rider
making his way toward the top of the
hill by zigzagging his way among the
wagons.
at once called Lieut.. Lostutter, and
told him in as sarcastic a manner as /
knew how that McDowelIs Chief of
Staff was getting into bad company,
whereupon he turned as white as a
sheet, and asked me If could kill him.
He was now nearly half mile away
and urging his horse to his best speed,
and, of course, l knew l could not hit
him, and told him / had no ammuni-
ton to waste on one of our own men.
Lostutter next ordered us to get fire
started again in the bridge at once, and
while vainly attempting the difficult
task of starting fire in a wet bridge,
without kindling of any kind, as the
turpentine balls had all been used to
make sure of the first fire and the pick
ct fence all thrown in the river. Our
task was hopeless one, and in less time
The National tribune., 1907-11-14
The nth Pa. Reserves.

Editor National Tribune: In McEl-
roy's treatment of the battle of Mechan-
icsville, in his "Peninsular Campaign"
he designates the 18th Pa. Reserves as
the 11th Pa, which Is an error. The
l1th Pa was first three months"
regiment, whose Lieutenant-Colonel,
Dick Coulter, was commissioned by Gov.
Curtin to reorganize 1t on q three-years
basis, and thereafter. in common par
lance, 1t was known as the "Old 11th.
to distinguish it from the 18th Reserves.
The numbers of the Is regiments of
the Pennsylvania Reserve Corps were
from one to Is inclusive in the Reserve
line, and from 80 to A inclusive in the
State line, SO that The 11th Reserves
was the 10th Pa. It Is desired that in
his copy for book form the author will
observe this difference, and apply it to
all the regiments of that corps, and
designate them as Pennsylvania Re-
serves-G. L. Baldwin. Co. X, 7th Pa.
Reserves. Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
The National tribune., 1907-11-14
THE 10TH PA. AT FAIR OAKS
The Veteran General Davis COmmends
The National Tribunc's Narrative.

Comrade J. w. Conard, of Washing
ton, d. c., sent to the venerable Gem
eral w. w. H. Davis, The National
Tribune, containing the account of the
fight at Fair Oaks, and the part of the
I04th Pa. therein. Gen. Davis, who is
and lively. He is President of the Bucks
County Historical Society. He served
in the Mexican War on Gen. Cushing s
staff, and after being wounded at Fair
Oaks received another wound at POGO
taligo, where a shell carried away the
fingers of his right hand. Gen. Davis
writes:
Il am in receipt of The National
Tribune containing Col. McElroy's in
teresting account Of the battle of Fair
Oaks. 1t is much more complete than
have seen elsewhere Take it, all in
all, it is, / think, the most correct ever
given to the public. The 104th Pa. did
its full share of the work, and 1 am
pleased that it received its full share
of credit. / stopped two bullets on
their way, one rifle, the other musk
ct ball. The first hit me in the left
elbow joint and the other on my left
breast, but as il was spent only. knocked
me down, and l soon recovered. De-
spite the seriousness of the work, lit
tie fun broke out now and then. While
my regiment for battle 1 had
OCCASION 10 Wdik Twice peiiHu inc rear
rank from right to left. On one occa-
sion, about the middle of the line. a
large fellow turned quickly to me and
said, See here, ColoneI, what these fell
lows have done to me- Believing that
he was badly hurt, 1 inquired what was
the matter, to which he replied, One of
them Johnnies has gone and shot a bull
let thru my canteen, and all the water
is running out ] Immediately called
his attention to his duty. and looked
after mine. The Rescue of the Colors,
Illustrated by Trego's great picture. was
an interesting episode of the battle of
Fair Oaks, and will long be remem-
bered by those who had hand in it.
1t now ornaments the library of the
Bucks County Historical Society. 1 am
very much obliged to you for sending
ne the newspaper. 1t gave such a full
account Of the Peninsular campaign"