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The Wilson times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1896-19??, 1911-02-21
Awful Tragedy At High Point

High Point, N. c., Feb. 2O.-Mose
Speaks, resident of Cloverdale,
suburb south Of this city, committed
Saturday morning what is considered
the most dastardly crime in the his
tory OF High Point. About 5 O'Clock
he arose, went to the home of his
son-in-law, Will Miller, about three
block away, awoke him and told him
that be. Speaks had a letter for Mill
er. While Miller was dressing and
in the position of putting on his
shoes, Speaks sprang upon him with a
large butcher knife and stabbed him
number of times, once between the
eighth rib, once on the right hip and
severed the left half of the lung and
will probably cause his death
From Mil1er's home, Speaks went
directly to his own house, enacted the
same, where his wife and one son were
eating breakfast, sprang up his wife
an stabbed her three times in the
right breast. killing her alomst in
stantly. The son, who was in the
room with his mother at the time,
was so completely shocked at the
crime that he made no attempt to
overpower his father, who made good
his escape.
Leaving the house, he was heard to
say he was going over to the silk
mill, where one of his daughters was
at work, to kill her. 1t is said Speaks
went to the silk mill and called for
his daughter, but was not permitted
to see her. By the time the officers
could be notified and get to the scene,
Speaks had made good his escape and
has not yet been located A thorough
search is being made and no effort
will be left undOne to locate the
criminal.
The Wilson times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1896-19??, 1911-02-21
GRIDIRON CLUB DIMES.
Famous Newspaper Organization
Makes Merry At Banquet.

Washington, Feb. 20.-That unique
organization of newspaper men, the
Gridiron Club, entertainment it's friends
at dinner Saturday night, and it would
be hard to tell which got the most
fun out of the varied melange of wit
and humor, the sense and nonsense,
that was poured forth-the guests or
the hosts. There were many men of
high degree among the former; men
of stern visage with faces lined with
the burdens of great public charges
and responsibilities yet they laughed
chortled with mirth at the merry
quips and jests of the scribes that un-
failingly played upon the foibles OF
some of their own number or hit off
in a roaring skit some fatal weak
ness in the party policies.
And the hosts had that keen sense
of enjoyment that comes from a
knowledge that one has purveyed sue.
cessfully to the utmost demands of
| mind and batter and has supplement-
ed a repast of the most exquisite
viands with a feast of mingled hui
NOR and satire calculated to add in
finite zest to the entertainment.
Gridiron diners differ from most
other formal affairs of the table in
the fact that a guest does not wade
| drearily through a heavy course din
| ner clear down to the coffee and
| cigars and only then, with brain more
| or less dul1ed, have an opportunity
| to listen to floods of oratory. No; al
one of these banquets the fun begins
| with the very seating of the guests
and sparkles and crack1es through
the dinner, and interrupts courses in
"a. fashion calculated to drive a well
meaning chef to distraction.
The Wilson times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1896-19??, 1911-02-21
MAIL
IS HELD UP
$500 STOLEN $4,000 LEFT In
ANOTHER SAFE..POSSES In
PURSUIT
FIVE men In THE PARTY

Gainesville, Ca, Feb. 2O-Southern
Railway train No. SO, the United
States fast mail, bound from New Or
leans TO New York, was held I'D by
five masked men at White Sulphur
Springs, four miles from here, at 3:15
o'clock Saturday morning. The ex-
press car safe was dynamited and the
contents stolen. First reports said
more than 100000 was taken, but
Southern Railway officials declare the
amount was $500. None of the pas
sengers were molested.
Nearby was a large safe but this
was not hurt. 1t was too big and
strong for the yeggmen to handle and
SO they did not make serious attempt
to dynamite it. In this safe was a
sum estimated at 900.
The robbers escaped in an automo-
bile and are now thought to be in
Hall county, probably bound for
north Georgia, where pursuit would
be difficult
The robbers broke down the doors
of the railroad station at White Sui
phur, bound the night agent and set
the signal for the train to stop. AS
the locomotive slowed up one of the
men entered the cab and ordered the
engineer to proceed to Luta, small
station several miles away After a
stop was made members of the gang
entered the express car and while
one held the conductor and express
messenger at the point of a gun, the
others blew open the door of the safe
containing the money Agent Terrill,
of the Southern Express Company, De
putty United States Marshall Landers,
Detective Hauce of the Southern
Railway, and Deputy Sheriff Little
went with the posse with bloodhounds
in pursuit. Posses returning Satur-
udy HlSHC from the country surround
ing the scene of the hold-up report no
trace Of the robbers The man hunt
will be taken up again and will be in
charge Of detectives of the Southern
Railway. Southern Express Company
and county officials.
Description of the robbers secured
here indicate that one of the men
was rather tall and stoop shou1dered
with stubby mustache and apparently
about 40 years old Another is de-
scribed as looking and acting like a
country man. All the men wore
| masks.
| Members of the main posse which
started in pursuit of the bandits state
that the bandits evidently were pre-
pared to throw dogs off their scent.
for red pepper, had been washed over
the trail at intervals.
The Wilson times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1896-19??, 1911-02-21
Lewis Vests Mother Dies With a
Broken Heart.

Fayetteville, N c., Feb. 20.-Fannie
West, mother of Lewis West, the no
torious outlaw and desperate, who is
to be tried at a special term of court
March 18th for the murder of Deputy
Sheriff Mumford, is dead at her home
in the outskirts of this city of
broken heart and the shock of her
sons misdeeds. She was an estimable
negro and highly regarded by her
white friends.
The Wilson times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1896-19??, 1911-02-21
ANOTHER
SESSION
CONGRESS WILL HARDLY DISPOSE
OF PENDING LEGISLATION BY
MARCH FOURTH
DEMOCRATS HAVE House

Washington, Feb. 2O.-There are
plenty of real peevish people in
Washington now. Some of them have
had themselves booked for passage
abroad, others want to return to their
respective homes, but fear of an extra
session hangs over them. Some Of
the Republican leaders in the Senate,
who never take extra session talk Sc
| riously until it becomes really seious,
are now admitting that it will be very
difficult to dispose of all BUSINESS now
pending. Democrats, on the other
hand, have been heard to declare the
belief that a Republican President
will never commit himself and his po-
litical welfare to their tender merces.
The Finance Committee will hold
hearings today and Tuesday on the
Canadian reciprocity treaty, and Sena-
| tor Simmons, member of the commit
tee, expressed the opinion that per-
sons identified with mica and other
interests in the State would like to
come here and be heard
AS for the Scott anti-opition bill,
| which has stirred cotton mill interests
of the South to&open hostility, it is
proposed by one of the Senate lead
ers, that, in the event the bill should
pass the Senate, it would somehow
die in conference.
Extra session talk was revived al
both ends of the Capitol Saturday
| when Mann, of Illinois, continued his
| filibuster against the omnibus war
claims bill, in which SO many North
Carolina people are interested. Some
churches and for North Carolina
alone there is an aggregate Of $25, 900.
While this parliamentary battle was
raging most every Southern member
stuck to his seat. Congressman More
| head, however who has returned from
New York, or somewhere, did some
scouting about town on patronage
mission He visited he White House
| again to make some recommendations.
Senator Simmons had long talk
Saturday with Mr.. Page, head of the
good roads bureau of the Department
of Agriculture. The North Carolina
| Senator is actively supporting the
Bankhead bill, which appropriates
100000 or more for the purpose OF
experimenting further in the construc
ton of good roads, especially on free
rural delivery routes. Mr.. Page sup
piled additional data and Mr.. Sim
mons expects to address the Sena+e
on the subject next week, when
friends of the measure are entertain
ing lively hope of it's passage.
The Wilson times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1896-19??, 1911-02-21
LOCAL OPTION FAVORED
Bill Passed by Alabama Senate Last
waak

Bill Passed by Alabama Senate Last
Week.
Montgomery, Ala, Feb. 20.-By a
vote of 21 to IL the Alabama Senate
Friday passed the Parks local option
bill.
When Governor O'Neil signs the bill
every prohibition law on the books
will be repealed, and peculiar situa-
ton will arise. There will be no law
prohibiting the sale of liquor on the
statute books, and none allowing it.
The Parks bill does not become effec-
tive until bills are passed regulating
the sale Of liquor, and no wet or dry
election can be held until these regu-
latlon statutes are enacted.
The Wilson times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1896-19??, 1911-02-21
Hearing On Question of Additional
Train For Goldsboro.

Goldsboro, N. c., Feb. 20.-The
North Carolina Corporation Commis-
sion met here today at II o'clock in
the court house to hear the question
of an additional train for Goldsboro,
arriving here in the morning from the
south. This is the train that has so
long been advocated by the Goldsboro
merchants and by the public living
along the line of the Atlantic Coast
Line between here and Wilmington.
The Wilson times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1896-19??, 1911-02-21
Grand Lecturer of Masons in This
State Passes Away.

Winston-Salem, N. c., Feb. 20
captain Charles Bahnson, veteran
OF the Civil War and a Grand Lectur-
er OF the Grand Lodge of Masons, died
at his home in Mocksville Thursday
night as the result of stroke OF
paralysis which occurred in Decem,
Der.
Captain Bahnson was 20 years old
and was well known and prominently
connected throughout the State.
The Wilson times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1896-19??, 1911-02-21
GreenviIIe's Mayor Ill.
(Greenville Reflector.)

IGreenV1IIo ReIIeCtOT.J
It is the cause of much regret
among his host of friends that the
health of Mayor F. M. Wooten has be-
come such as to necessitate his going
to "a hospital for treatment. He went
to Baltimore a few days ago for that
purpose. Every one hopes that his
restoration to health may be speedy
and permanent.
The Wilson times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1896-19??, 1911-02-21
THE WEATHER

Washington, D. c., Feb. 2o.-For
North Carolina: Fair and much cold
er tonight, temperature below freez-
ing in, the interior and near freezing
ON the coast. Tuesday fair, colder in
the east portion. Brisk west and
northwest winds.
The Wilson times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1896-19??, 1911-02-21

If man knew as much about his
business as his wife does about their
efrigerator, he'd be a big success.
The Wilson times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1896-19??, 1911-02-21

Greenville, S. c., Feb. Saturday
morning at o'clock, when Ed. Fol
ger, assistant postmaster at Easley,
II miles from here, opened the door
@ the postoffice, a yeggman flashed a
gun upon him. Mr.. Folger retreated
and the man made his escape by the
back door, Nothing was stolen.
The Wilson times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1896-19??, 1911-02-21

A girl likes TO have proposals, so
she won't have to fib SO much about
having them anyhow.
The Wilson times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1896-19??, 1911-02-21

Washington, D. c., Feb. Ex-senator
Lorimer gave notice that he would ad-
dress the Senate next Wednesday on
the question involved in the charges
of bribery in connection with his
election.
The Wilson times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1896-19??, 1911-02-21
news items Of
GENERAL INTEREST

Rome, Feb. 2O.-Pope Plus is prac-
tically well of his attack of influenza,
states his private physician, DR..
Petacci.
The Wilson times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1896-19??, 1911-02-21

Concord, N. c., Feb. 20.-The South
ern's New York and New Orleans
limited, No. 38, ran ninto switch
engine one mile from the depot here
Saturday night, crushing the pilot OF
the switch engine, but no one was in
jured.
The Wilson times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1896-19??, 1911-02-21

Washington, Feb. 2O.-Taking ad-
vantage of the permission given by
the House rules, Representative Ben
nett of New York has had both of
his resolutions directed toward Cana
dian annexation placed upon the cal
endar OF the House, where they Will
be reached in regular order.
The Wilson times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1896-19??, 1911-02-21

Grand Rapids, Mich, Feb. 20
Adelph (Ad) Wolgast, champion
lightweight pugilist, was quietly mar
ried here Saturday to Miss Mildred
Ensign, aged 10 years. The ceremony
was performed by Rev. S. G. Str1ck-
land at his home. There were no
witnesses. The bride was childhood
schoolmate of Wolgast.
,ssBill Nye Day" is next Wednesday,
February 22nd, Washington's birth
day. The day is to be made memor-
able in North Carolina by exercises
in the public schools of the State, at
which Bill Nye, his life and works,
will be told of, so that there may be
known more of this noted humorist,
who made North Carolina his home
for so many years.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-03-13

FOR SALE-A cottage house Of six rooms.
with an extra lot for another house or a garden;
also a small barn; all 10 hrst.class rel air. Lo-
ca ted on Berlin street, The p ace is cheap nc
S20g0 but for quick sale we will sell for $3.50.
Inquire at the h. H. Cate Real Estate Agency,
Barre, VT. gS9tf
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-03-13
BOOM NORWICH UNIVERSITY.
Boston Alumni Meet at Hotel Westmin-
ster and Listen to Reports.

Boston. March l3-Boston alumni OF
Norwich university, in Vermont, to the
number Of about 40, who gathered at
hotel Westminster Saturday evening for
their annual meeting and banquet, heard
some pleasant things said about their
school its alumni and its students.
President Charles II. Spooner, Col, 10
siah H. Benton, trustee of the school,
and Capt. Frank Tompkins, L. 5. A.,
military instructor, were the speakers.
President Spooner praised the charac-
ter of the graduates and said that by
the showing which you are making in
your professional and business life Nor
wieh is becoming recognized and appre-
ciated."
Col Benton spoke of the vicisstudes
through which the university has passed,
how it had been moved from place to
place. and how its attendance had
dropped as low as f. Then he praised
the military drill performed by the stu
dents, saying:
II certainly do not believe that any
where, even at West Point, battalion
drill is conducted with more accuracy
or vigor or precision than by these same
Norwich university students"
He urged the students to come to Bos-
ton. promising a pleasant reception for
them on their visit, and added And
believe that after our troops have seen
You drill they will Turkish mp their arms
and do better than they do now
Capt Frank Tompkins, e. S. A., com
mandant of cadets. said "In my opiu-
ion, Norwich university, outside Of West
Point and Annapolis, is the best military
college in the United States. In the six
months I have been at Norwich, | have
found that have been serving with sol
diers The spirit is very much like that
at an army post"
The military instructor told Of what is
being done at the school in breeding
Morgan horses for use as cavalry mounts
and OF his hopes OF having the United
States war department. establish sta
ton there for raising and training cav
airy horses. II that is done, he expects
that the government viii establish rid
ing school there for the use OF the stu
dents
The other speakers included Capt Fl.
G. Keene. L. S. A., retired Charles II.
Bradley and Nelson II sheldon, the
who was Saturday even
ing reelected president Of the associa
ton
T.. w. Gayuor was elected secretary
treasurer and c. H. Cheney, +. H. Clark
and J. A. Holmes members Of the exec
utiye committee.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-03-13
FRED A. ALLISON DEAD.
ST. JOhnsbury Man succumbs After
Weeks Illness.

Sc, Johnsbury. March 49, Fred A.
Allison Of the firm OF Allison & Roy
died saturday following weeks illness
OF erysipelas. The brain was finally
affected and he passed away at six
o'clock.
All Of his life. with the exception Of
about year, has been spent in St.
Johnsbury. where he was born Sept.
6, 1866, to William Freeman and Sarah
Allison. Before lie was q years old
he went into the restaurant business,
in which he was very successful, and
during the years he followed that bus
mess he formed very wide acquain-
tance. About two years ago he sold
his restaurant and went for year to
Rockville, Conn, but last September
he returned to St Johnsbury and in
December in company with Alyr Roy
opened q second hand furniture store in
Pythian building.
On june 200, 1856, he married Miss
Helen Davie OF ST. Johnsbury, who
survives him with two sons, Arthur and
Robert. He was a member of Green
Mountain lodge, \. L. o. p, The fu-
neral was held at the house this after
noon and Rev. Peter Black OF Grace
Methodist church win ofiiciate.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-03-13
FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE

H. A. Phelps has the following property for
sale or exchange
House on Franklin street. modern improve
ments $4,000.
Double house on Maple avenue, S2000O0.
Double house on Foster street, S40d0O0.
Double house on Branch street. s3DJ0G0.
Double house on Branch street, s20000.
Double house on B1ckley Court, 10000.
Cottage house On George street, $4,000
Cottage house on Perry street, $4,000.
Cottage house on Hin street 4l500.00.
Cottage in Wehsterville, $4,000.
Farm Of fifty acres near Plainfield $4,000.
40-acre farm in Willamstown, 100000.
75-acre farm IN Williamstown, si501,O0,
l0o-acre farm in Chelsea, S2000.00
l0-acre farm in Williamstown, $4,000.
FOR RENT
Tenement house, feckley Court, $500.
Cottage house on Hin street $1,000.
Fight-roOm tenement, Branch street. $500
Eight room tenement, Branch street S120}.
-Four room tenement. Foster street $500.
House, with all modern improvements $4,000
Cottage in Wehsterville, 500.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-03-13
NEW KIND OF TRADE UNION.
Women Ushers in Paris Who Have
Formed Pirate Band.

They have new trade union in
Paris composed of the ouvreuses, or
openers Of boxes in the theatres and
ushers to seats. The ouvrense is gem
orally verging on the ffties, very plain,
dressed in dowdy black gown. her
badge of Office being faded red or
blue ribbon stuck in her hair, general
~ over the left ear These women tell
you in. what row of the stalls your seat
is and are supposed to add to your com
fort IN every possible way.
These, | say, are supposed to be
their functions" writes Paris corre
spondent, "but they seem to have an
altogether different conception Of their
duties. Nine times out of ten the ouv-
reuse makes mistake, and conducts
you to the wrong seat, whence after a
while you are ousted by the rightful
owner You have only just recovered
from the peregrination when all Of a
sudden something hard is knocked
against one of your ankles.
You cast down a frightened glance
and perceive an ouvreuse who has
brought you a petit banc foostool
a
kick it away with an indignant ex-
clamation, but no matter, your tormen-
tor with the red or blue bow will pay
you a friendly visit, and holding out
her hand will remain in that posture
until you have rewarded her for the
great services she thinks she has rem
dered you.
you assume severe air and you
shake your head as a proof that you
do not desire to hold further commune
cation with her Ii IL useless to at
tempt it. for that hand viii remain
within few inches OF your nose until
you have satisfied her demands There
is no way out of it, and you have not
even the comfort Of knowing that You
have now done with the ouvreuse.
You will find her again in the cloak
room, when she will help you on with
jacket belonging to someone else, and
having misiaid your hat, at last after
a long search win discover it behind
a cupboard where il was accidentally
dropped She will blow off the dust,
knock the hat bit straight, hand it
to you with a smile and once more hold
out her hand for a reward.
You may well imagine that under
these conditions box keepers are not
very popular among Parisians, who be-
gin to find out that an evening at
theatre is becoming a rathr expensive
entertainment. Having so to say, the
playgoing public against them, the box
keepers have come to the conclusion
that they can only look to each other
for support aud have now formed
corporation, union, with medical
man and q lawyer attached to assist
those members in need Of medical or
legal aid.
They were formally constituted
few by a banquet to which they in
vted some public men and also half a
dozen journalists. AS these ladies have
to be at their respective houses very
early, the banquet took the form Of a
luncheon so that the guests could par.
take Of their coffee in peace and listen
to the speeches From the Gentlewom-
an
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-03-13
EsrArE oF rHoMAs cARLE.

STATE or VERMONT, The Honorable
Dis triet of Washington, IS Probate Court for
the District aforesaid; 70 all persons inter.
ested in the estate OF Thomas Cable late OF
the CITY Of Barre, in said District deceased,
Greeting;
Whereas, said Court has assigned the Goth day
o. March next for examining and allowing
the account Of the ExecutrtX OF the last will aud
testament of said deceased and for decree OF
the residue Of said estate to the lawful claim
ants Of the sam. and ordered that public
notice thereof be given 20 all persons interested
In said estate ny publishing this order three
weeks SUCCESSFULLY previous TO the day assigned.
in the Barre Esily Times, a newspaper pu blished
as the City OF Barre IN said District
Therefore, you are hereby notified 10 appear
at the Probate once In Montpelier In said
District, on the day assigned. then and there
Co contest the allowance of said account II You
see oause. and to establish your right as heirs
iegatees and lawful claimants to said residue.
Given under my hand, this 4th day OF March,
1911
FRANK J. MARTIN. Judge
mar G. 1920
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-03-13
UPLIFT WORK PROMISED.
Frank Dyer Of Chicago to Open Meet
ings at Brattleboro


Brattleboro, March 10. This town is
promised unique feature in the way
Of uplift BY Frank Dyer Of Chicago,
national secretary of the Congrega-
tional brotherhood Mr. Dyer has Of
fered to come to Brattleboro and carry
out the work which he has evolved
II is his plan to inaugirate a Bet
ter Brattleboro" campaign, and com.
mittee of $50 composed Of many sub
committees will engineer the campaign,
which Is to be in the form Of series
Of meetings extending throughout
week. The meetings viii be held in the
aud itorium.
The proposition of monster popular
priced banquet has been discussed. but
there are not large enough quarters
available II is the plan Of the man
ayers of the campaign to make IL of
the strenuous kind and there viii be
meetings held daily from April 2 to 9.
The auditorium has been hired for those
dates.
Mr.. DYER. who was recently a guest
of the Congregational brotherhood Of
Rrattiehoro. aud who was the guest Of
honor at a banquet rendered the broth
erhood bv George T.. Dunham, j.
speaker with a magnetic personality.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-03-13
FOR SALE.

FOR SALE CHEAP-Two second hand safes.
as good as new. Must he sold az once. For
particulars, inquire OF James Marion. 81 Barre
street, hontpelier, VT 903tf
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-03-13
The D, A. Perry Real Estate Agency
Rooms z and 3, HOsland.CaYs Building
BARRE. VERMONT
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