The Greensboro patriot [June 22, 1914]

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LSTABL!SHED 1821 GREENSBORO, N. C, MONDAY, JUNE 22, 1914 VOL. 93—NO. 50
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books.
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and industrial
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Hedrick and
led to the
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in Greensboro,
o Caswell coun-
'nd captured a block-rable
capacity.
■ ition w hen the
the men who
• heir escape.
Of Graham.
I,. ■:■ at the home
on North Cedar
in Greensboro
taking treatment
» Of kidney trouble
:' growing steadily
The body was
Saturday morning
V special car was attached to
southbound train No. 11 in this
city this morning for the accommo-dation
of a number of the North
I drolina delegates to the Interna-tional
Sunday School Convention,
which is to meet in Chicago tomor-row
night. The delegation from this
Btate is in charge of Rev. J. Waiter
Long, of this city, secretary of the
North Carolina Sunday School Asso-ciation.
laited state- beputy Marshal
Kennett vent to Morganton Friday
and served a summons on Richard
Williams, who is ordered to appear
in United States District court here
Thursday and .-Mow cause why he
should not be attached for contempt.
The case trows out of the action of
Williams ia asserting claim to land
in Burke county to which the court
decided a few years ago that he had
no title.
The congressional convention of
the Progressive party in the fifth
di-trict will be held in Greensboro
on Saturday, July 4. to nominate a
candidate for Congress, elect a con-gressional
committee and transact
such other business as niaj come be-fore
the convention. The call is
signed by James N. Williamson, Jr..
of Burlington, chairman, and Hiram
B. Worth, of this city, secretarj of
the executive committee.
Mr. Charles I!. vKendall has pur-
Chased the interest of his partner.
Mr. W. H. Usher, in the printing
business of Kendall <v: Fisher. Mr.
Kendall will continue the business
at the present location on South K'.m
street and Air. Fisher will take
charge of the Daily Record's job
printing department July 1. Mr.
George i'. Phillips, who has been
operating the Record's job office, Is
preparing to move to his farm in
Moore county.
Mr. C. A. Mines went to Roxboro
Saturday to attend the funeral yes
terdaj of ..i.- brother-in-law, Mr.
Claud O. Winstead. who died Fri-day
afternoon at a sanitarium in
Asheviile where he bad been re-ceiving
treatment for some time for
is. Mr. Winstead was a
ton of the late S. B. Winstead, a
i itlzen of Roxboro. and is
.i.- w idow and t h i ■
mother, t «n brothers
and t •• iters.
The Patriot ,v-i- pleased to receive
a call Saturday from Squire W. A.
Bo ..in. of Libert}. one of Gull-ford's
Democratic nominees for the
legislature. He had with him a
package of paints he had purchased
at one of Greensboro's hardware
-tor---, hut he assured us that he did
not Intend to paint anything a lurid
: tie during the campaign. However
that may he. the Guilford Democrats
that they have a fine and win-ning
candidate In the person of
Squire Bowman, who is one of the
county's best and most representa-tive
cii izens.
">d interment. Mr.
^blhi ' 'H''rS "ld an(l ls 3Ur-
Wldoa and several chil-
Convlrted <>f Harder,
Deputy J. H. Shav . n ho return-ed
Friday from Summerville. W.
V'a., v here he appeared as a witness
for the itate In a case charging L.
A. McClung and two sons, Alvin and
Tollie McClung, with the murder of
W. II. McClung, tin orother and un-
: the defendants, last night re-ceived
a message stating that they
had been convicted of murder in the
e. ond degree. Tl e elder McClung
entenced to the penitentiary for
!- years and each of his sons was
given a sentence of five years. Tol-lie
McClung had resided in Greens-boro
for some time prior to his ar-rest
and was well liked by the peal
pie » ho knew him here.
■lames s. Robinson Dead.
Mr. James S. Robinson. for a
number of years a well known loco-motive
engineer on the Southern
Railway, died Friday afternoon at
his home on Walker avenue. He
had been in declining health for
some time and seriously ill for sev-eral
weeks. He is survived by his
widow, two daughters and a son.
The funeral was held at West Mar-ket
Street Methodist church yester-day
afternoon at 3 o'clock and was
conducted by the pastor. Rev. Dr. ('.
W. Byrd, Interment was made in
Greene Hill cemetery.
At the office of the secretary of
state it ia said that the applications
for automobile licenses, which have
to he issued for every machine in the
state July 1 are coming in very slow-ly.
There are about 12,000 automo-biles
in the state subject to the li-cense
tax, which ranges from $7 to
in), according to the horsepower of
the machine,
HAYE AHOTBBR PEACE PLAN
NKW COURSE Of1 ACTION THAT
MAX SOLVE PROBLEM Of
MEDIATORS.
Niagara Fails. Ont., June 21.—
The South American mediators to-day
proposed a new course of action
which not only will prolong media-tion
proceedings hut eventually may
work out a solution of the Mexican
problem. Tiie nature of the plan,
designed to prevent the deadlock be-tween
the American and Mexican
delegates from abruptly ending the
conference, has been more closely-guarded
than anything that has
transpired at tiie conferences.
It became known, however. that
another effort was being made to
bring the constitutionalists into
close touch with the purposes of
mediation without formally admit-ting
them. The suggestion contem-plates
separate conferences between
the American delegates and repre-sentatives
of the constitutionalists.
Justice Lamar and Frederick W.
Lehman would continue their deal-ings
with Huerta delegates through
the mediation board.
In this way all the elements in
the Mexican situation would be
drawn together and there would be-no
necesity for the declaration of
an armistice until some agreement
was reached and approved by the
constitutionalist.-.
W. W. GILtt ARRKSTED
ON SF.RIOUS CHARGE.
W. W. Giles, who has resided for
STATK NKWS ITEMS,
The North Carolina Pharmaceuti-cal
Association, which met last week
several years on a farm near Lees I in Hendersonville. adjourned Friday
chapel, a tew miles north of Greens-! afternoon to meet next year in Dur-boro,
was arrested several days ago I ham.
on a warrant sent to Guilford from ! Reports from Stokes countv state
Harnett county charging hlra with I that the wheat crop there is the
adultery. A deputy sheriff from j best in many years. The tobacco
Harnett came for him and carried "crop has been cut off 20 per cent or
him to LilUngton to await trial in more by the dry weather.
Superior court this week. The Asheville Citizen tells of the
Mrs. Victoria Brown, said to be ! death of Mrs. Sarah Priscilla Hale,
the owner of the farm on which la sister of the late Senator Zebulon
Giles resided, was arrested as a wit- j B. Vance, which occurred in Ashe-ness
against him and h»ld under a ville Tuesday. Mrs. Hale was 7 7
bond of $500 for her appearance in \ years old and had been an invalid
Harnett Superior court tomorrow. : for several years.
Burlington News: Senator W. R.
Webb, of Tennessee, well known to
our older citizens, was in Burling-ton
last week with his brother, (apt.
S. li. Webb. Senator Webb spent
several days visiting his brother and
relatives in this county.
At Goldsboro Officer Ward at-tempted
to arrest Arthur DeKeizier.
GENERAL NEWS_PARAGRAPHS
; SUMMARY OF EVENTS THAT GO
TO MAKE UP THE WORLD'S
NEWS OF THE DAY.
The Democratic leaders In Con-gress
are having their troubles try-ing
to keep a quorum at work clear-ing
the way for an early end of the
The warrant on which Giles was
arrested was sworn out by his wife,
who. it is undersiood. resides in
LilUngton. It is said that Giles
and his wife have not lived togeth-er
for some years, and when Mrs.
Giles returned to Lillington from
Washington recently, she ascertain-ed
that her husband was living in
Guilford county and proceeded to , who resisted, and Ward summoned
swear out the warrant for his ar-rest.
The arrest created quite a
Constable Fulghum to his aid. When
the constable appeared DeKeizier
sensation in the Lee's chapel com* leveled his pistol on him and Ful-muntty.
I ghunt shot him dead. The constable
During his residence in Guilford ! was exonerated,
county Giles has been an active dis- The annual meeting of the North
ciple of Pastor Russell's
doctrines.
religious
The I nne,I Slate- Itlame.I.
The Huerta delegation to the me-diation
conference issued a state-ment
Thursday charging that the in-sistence
by the United Slates on a
constitutionalist for the preMdency
as opposed to "neutral'' was "tan-tamount
to abetting, and even exact-ing,
fraud ami violence at the elec-tions."
The publication of this statement
was unexpected bj the American del-egates.
When they learned of It
their attitude was that the Huerta
delegates were acting entirely within
their rigiits when they criticised the
American plan for the establishment
of a provisional government in a
communication addressed to the
Americans themselves, but they were
greatly surprised by the Mexican
delegate..' action in giving it out
The Mexican statement outlines
the substance Of B memorandum
dated June 12. which the Huerta
delegates gave to the American del-egation,
and to which the latter have
-ince replied.
Plaintiff Wins Libel Suit.
The libel suit brought by State
Senator A. D. [vie, of Rockingham
county, against D. K. King, a
wealthy citizen of heaksville, was
Carolina Retail Merchants' Associa-tion
adjourned in Durham Thursday
afternoon to meet next year in Ashe-ville.
The association went on re-cord
as favoring the amendment of
the present homestead exemption
law in such a way as to make it im-possible
for a dishonest man to hide
tried in the Superior court of Rock- behind the law to avoid paying his
ingham county last week and ended debts.
in a verdict for the plaintiff for The grand jury of New Hanover
damages to the amount of $1,500. ! county last week investigated
The suit resulted from strictures charges concerning the whipping of
made by Mr. King in a published ar- convicts by guards at the camps and
tide concerning Mr. Ivie. Mr. C. O.
McMirhael and Mr. A. L. Brooks.
who had appeared as attorneys in a
suit in which Mr. King was interest-ed
and which was decided against
him.
found that it was a necessary form
of punishment for unruly criminals
and that no blame attached to those
intauthority. The investigation was
made as the result of an agitation
by Rev. Sidney hove, of Raleigh.
The three lawyers instituted suit 1 aecretary of the North Carolina
against ..Ti. Kine for (86,090 dam-ages
for alleged libel. Mr. Mr-
Michael's ca-e is set for trial at the
next term of Rockingham Superior
Prison Reform Society,
Sid Finger, colored, who killed
Preston l.yerly and afterward burn-ed
his body in a store at Barber's
court, while the suit of Mr. Brooks I Junction recently, was electrocuted
has been continued until the August ;'» "lp state penitentiary at Raleigh
term of Guilford Superior court.
Derailment on Southern Railway.
Two Pullman cars on Southern
Railway train No. ::«. which leaves
Greensboro at l.SO P. M.. were de-railed
25 miles north of Danville.
Friday afternoon just as No. 36 was
passing southbound train No. 35 on
a double track. The Pullmans side-swiped
the whole length of the other
train, but steel coaches saved it from
serious injury Ticket Collector
Charles A. Douglas, of train No. 35,
suffered a severe cut on the face, but
no one else was injured mentiou-ably.
A broken brake-rigging
caused the accident. The accident
delayed traffic about an hour.
Friday. He said he killed Lyerly
because the latter had sold a suit of
clothes he had pawned to him and
then burned the body to hide the
evidence of bis crime. The execution
was witnessed by the dead man's
father and two brothers.
Death of Mrs. Walter W. king.
Mrs. Nellie King, widow of the
late Walter W. King, died Friday
morning at her home in Danbury.
following a long period of Illness,
The funeral was held at the Presbv- _ ., ...
, , . superior < ourt Adjourns.
; terian church in Danbury Saturday . „ . , .. . .... ...
, 1 he June civil term of Guiltord
afternoon at 2 o clock. Mrs. K'ng , „ , . . .
Superior court, which convened on
1 was about h., years old. and vprior t.he N.,_th, inst.. ad.j,ourned. S_ a.turday
to her marriage, was Miss Nelli.
MiCanless. a member of a promt-1
nent Salisbury family. She is sur-vived
by four sons- Mr. Roy King.
of Danbury, and Metro. John w..
Everett B. and Walter W. King, Of
Greensboro.
Following the death of her hus-band
last October. Mrs. King came
to Greensboro and .-pent some time
at the home of her son. Mr. John
\\. King. She became ill and re-turned
to Danbun Beveral reeks
! ago.
A Guilford Prisoner Escapes.
Sheriff Stafford this morning re-ceived
a notice of the escape of K(l.
Claw-on. colored, WHO was convict-ed
HI second degree murder in Guil-ford
Superior court last September
and sentenced to the penitentiary
for 25 years. He was employed in
railroad construction work near El-kin
and escaped from the camp Fri-day,
along with three other prison-ers.
The state Offers a reward of
$26 for his capture.
Clawson killed Jim Jeffreys, col-ored,
in the noxious "Bull Pen"
section of the city early one Sun-day
morning last summer.
fa.
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afternoon. The last case tried was
ia suit brought by M. T. Barber and
wife, of High Point, against the Car-olina
and Yadkin Railway Company
for damages the plaintiffs alleged to
have suffered in having their real es-tate
condemned for use by the rail-road.
The jury returned a verdict
for $2,500 and 111 defendant gave
notice of an appeal.
J. II. Riddle, of High Point, was
allowed $500 in a suit for damages
he brought against the Southern
Chair Company for alleged per-sonal
Injuries.
Judge W. A. Devin, of Oxford,
will preside over the courts of Guil-ford
.luring the fall term, the first
Residences Burned This Morn-ing.
lire that made it- appearance
this morning about live o'clock com- ,.(,ur, t„ i)e neic| in Angus;.
Iplelely destroyed the residences 01 ^^^_^_________
Messrs. Mans Schroeder and Will
Wharton. on Chestnut street. The
blaze appeared in Mr. Schroeder-home
and soon spread to the adjoin-ing
residence of Mr. Wharton. The
-niture and household effects were
u>en from Mr. Wharton's
W. H. Clayton Dull Yesterday.
Mr. W. II. Clayton, a good citizen
of northern Guilford. died yesterday
afternoon from a stroke of paraly-sis.
The news of his death conies as
a surprise to the public and is a
shock to his numerous friends. Mr.
Clayton was a prominent farmer and
an upright citizen. He is survived
by his widow, three daughters and
four sons. The children are: Mrs.
J. R. Davenport, Mrs. J. R. Painter,
Miss Sue Clayton, Messrs. W. D., G.
D.. T. J. and Thaddeus Clayton. The
funeral and interment will take
place this after.ioon.
Dr. Clark Declines (nil.
Rev. Dr. Melton Clark, pastor of
the Fir.-t Presbyterian church of this
city, has declined the call reeentb
extended to him to become pastor of
house. I the First Presbyterian church of
but nothing was saved from Mr.IKnoxvllle, Venn. Dr. Clark spent
Schroede.-'s residence. | the second Sunday in June in Knox-
Mr. Schroeder is employed as a 1 ville. preaching for the congregation
bookkeeper for the Dixie Fire In- , that desired him as pastor, and af-surance
Company and Mr. Wharton 1 ter returning home and considering
is the mail carier on R. F. D. route
five.
President and Mrs. Wilson will
celebrate the twenty-ninth anniver-sary
of their marriage at the White
House Wednesday.
Raleigh Concern in Trouble.
The charge of using the mails for
fraudulent purposes is brought by
the United States government
against the National Service Bureau,
I having its office in Raleigh, and rep-resenting
its business as being that
ot co-operation with truckers and
others farmers in the marketing
of produce. The officers of the com-pany—
A. S. Thomas, president; J.
L. Securest, treasurer, and R. D.
Stephens, general manager—have
been required by United States Com-missioner
John Nichols to give bond
for their appearance at the Novem-ber
term of Federal court in Ral-eigh.
the matter fully, wrote a letter Fri-day
declining the call. This is good
news to the members of the First
church in this city and Dr. Clark's
numerous other friends in Greens-boro.
Lexington. \'a.. has conferred tae
; honorary degree of doctor of Iltera-
Iture :>-.i Josephus Daniels, secretary
lie navy.
The will of Hon. Adlai K. Steven-
|sjn. former vice president, who died
; in Chicago the 13th inst.. leaves his
estate, which is valued at $100,000.
to his three children.
Seven men were burned :<> death
and 20 seriously injured when M
; person- were trapped In a burning
Armenian lodging housV at Milford.
Mass., Tuesday morning
The will of the late Harris C.
Fahnestock. banker, of New York,
gives approximately $540,000 to
public institutions—nearly all of it
to charitable institutions.
The South Carolina primary cam-paign
opened at Sumter Wednesday
and Senator Smith and Governor
Please, chief opposiqg candidates
for the senate, "came near to
blows" the first day.
Co-operative dairies, farmers' mu-tual
fire insurance companies and
other similar co-operative institu-tions
are subject to the income tax.
A ruling to that effect has bee 1
i made by the treasury department.
L. C. Dyer, of St. Louis. Repub-lican,
representing the twelfth Mis-souri
district, was unseated by the
house of representatives Friday by
a vote of 147 to 98. His electiou
was contested by Michael J. Gill.
Democrat.
Church property suffered very se-verely
during the riots accompany-ing
the recent general strike in Italy,
according to reports presented to
the Pope of Rome. These show that
14 churches were burned and id
damaged, while 13 others were loot-ed.
Charges that the United States
kept its marine.- in Nicaragua to in-fluence
the recent presidential ele.
tion and that the state department
has been acting in the interest 1 I
American bankers aie contained In
a resolution introduced in the .-•
by Senator Smith, of Michigan.
By order of the commissioners of
Kaston. Pa., a "jag list" is to be
prepared by the police department
and published in the newspapers,
and saloon keepers will be notified
that they will lose their license if
they seil liquor to any person ou
the list.
Mrs. Martha Medley. 25 years oid.
was crushed to death by a CheM
peake & Ohio passenger train ni'j'
Ceredo, W. Va.. Friday alter
had thrown herself in the train *
path and pushed her four-yearn
daughter to safety. Three other
children witnessed their mothers
death.
Loonburg, Va., aero— the Potomac
river from Brunswick, i- stirred
its depths over a sensational trial ; 1
which John T. Bellison and Mr-.
Nona Grubbs, ■■ Ife o, u Ubur '1.
Grubbs, of Brunswick, are charged
with kidnapping the letter's c
year-old son from the home ot I
aunt ami uncle. Mr. anti
Charles O. Grubbs. of Leeabarg,
where the child was placed bj
father.
N.gro farmer.- own or control
11111.111 >u acre- of lmul in the state of
Alabama alone, or 364,000 UIOI I
acre- than they controlled in 1 •
The negro farmers of that state have
under their control 3.56:1.000 acres
of improved land, and at present
they are farming 500,000 more acre-of
improved land than they were
cultivating in 1900. In ten j>ar,
the number of negro farmers in-creased
IT.3 per cent and now they
own or control one-fourth of all the
farm property in Alabama.
Nen Paper Money Coming.
Million of dollars' worth of paper
money of a new type will be put
into circulation upon the establish-ment
of the federal reserve banks.
Under the federal reserve bank act
each of the 12 reserve banks will re-ceive
advances from the federal re-serve
board in the form of reserve
notes, a distinctly new sort of pa-per
money. Commercial paper will
be collateral advanced by the vari-ous
banks as security for these
notes.
To Hire Out State Convicts.
Governor Craig announces that a',
the approaching session of the gen-eral
assembly he will recommend
that all state convicts be taken from
highways and railroads and be leas-ed
for road-building purposes to
those counties which are willing to
pay reasonably for their services.
Governor Craig says that a thorough
study of the question has convinced
him that it will be best to discon-tinue
putting convicts on state high-ways
gratuitously, allowing them to
work the roads of those counties
that are willing to pay for them.