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\Umnnre School.—The closing
eserctees of the Alamance public
w 100! will be held next Saturday.
winning at 10 o'clock. An attrac-
: [ve program will be rendered and
! •-.. public is invited to attend.
Died yesterday.—Mr. W. H. Mur-r8v,
who was a brother of Messrs. T.
p. Thomas R.. J. B-. W. R. and N.
\ Murray, of this city, died yester-
•; > afternoon at his home at Grid-
-:•)!. He leaves ;•. widow and four
, •ms children.
I.itisants KtRht.—Dr. J. T. J. Bat-jl,
and Mr. W. D. Meyer, the prin-cipals
iu a lawsuit tried in the Su-i.
l-ior court Thursday, engaged in a
personal encounter just after the ad-
, arnment of court at 1 o'clock.
T.e two men went together in the
lawyers' room just back of the court
room, but were separated before any
rr.niage was done.
Death at Hohpital.—Sister Hilda,
i member of trie staff of St. Leo's
Hospital, died late Thursday after-noon.
She had been ill for some
• ime and suffered from pleurisy.
T.-,e funeral was held from St. Ben-
'iicts Catholic church Saturday
-, >rning and Interment made in
.;reene Hill cemetery. Rev. Father
Vincent conducted the serrices.
Deatli of Girl.—Miss Ruth Myrtle
Jcies. the 17-year-old daughter of
Mr. R. J. Jones, died Friday eve" •
,C3 at the family home on Hanner
>vinne, following a brief illness.
.ST.e is survived by her father, two
Miters and a brother. The body
*BS carried to Reidsville yesterday
m irning and interred at Wolf Island
<rurch.
Prohibition Speeches.—Rev. R. '..
in vis. of Raleigh, superintendent of
:ii^ North Carolina Anti-Salooa
League, will deliver au address or.
cae work in which he is engaged in
The Methodist church at Oibsonville
on the fourth Sunday in March at
: o'clock A. M. He will speak at
th« -Methodist church at Whitselt in
the afternoon and at Klon Collere at
nirbt.
Millers Meet.—A meeting of the
V rth Carolina Millers' Association
va.« heH in the rooms of the Cham-
><;■ of Commerce Thursday after-a<
v>a and was presided over by Capt.
I. I). M"Neil!, of FayetU ville, presi-l*
at of the association. Another
?..- cling is to be held here May 25,
> .in it is expected that millers frjm
.-•• ry section of the state will be in
attendance.
i liar«ed With Robbery'.—Hazel
H-adeu. a yours negro about 25
years old. is in jail here on the
■:.;:rso of stealing a mail sack in
Richmond,' V'a. lie was arrested by
•!..• local police at the instance of
"'.•• Richmond authorities and turn-eil
over to the government officers.
H« is to be given a preliminary hear-ing
tomorrow before United States
v' :nmissioner Collins.
Dentil at GibwrnviUe.—Mrs. J. Ed.
Shepherd, a well known and btsloved
young woman of Gibsonville, died
Thursday night. She had been ill
about three weeks and ber death
came as a great shock to her ioved
-U--S and friends. The funeral took
I'lace at Sharon Lutheran church
Saturday at 12.30 o'clock. In adcii-
<"i'".i to her husband and a little
daughter, Mrs. Shepherd is survived
'•'." her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. R.
Zimmerman, and a sister, Mrs. L. T.
Smith, of Liberty.
Dr. ("lark's Decision.—At the so-licitation
of the session of the First
Presbyterian church, Rev. Dr. Mel-fon
Clark lias consented to defer un-
:il next Sunday evening . the an-nouncement
of his decision as to the
acceptance of the call recently ex-
:ended to him to become pastor of
'•'><■ Second Presbyterian church of
Charleston, S. C. It is pretty gen-
*":'-lly understood that Dr. Clark will
■■ • ept the call, though strong pres-
- re is being brought to have him re-main
in Greensboro.
Counly Convention.—Mr. Charles
A. Hines, chairman of the Guilford
• '>':nty Democratic executive com-
:~iuee, has issued a call for the
county convention to meet in the
onuri house in Greensboro on Sat-irday.
\pril 22. The convention will
?lect delegates to the state, congres-sional
and judicial conventions, elect
precinct and county executive com-mittees
and transact sue'; other busi-ness
as may come before it. Every
Democratic voter in the county is in-vited
to attend and participate in 'he
convention.
f Gaol's "Holy Ctty."—A. chorus of
182 voices of the State Normal and
Industrial College, augmented by 50
voices from Guilford College, gave a
splendid performance of Gaul's
"The Holy City" in the Normal Col-lege
auditorium yesterday afternoon
before an audience of 1,100 people.
The' crowd would have been much
larger but for the limited seating ca-pacity
of the auditorium.
Jim West a Bankrupt.—James H.
West, who has been engaged in the
fruit and confectionery business in
Greensboro for about a quarter of a
century, has filed a voluntary peti-tion
in bankruptcy in the United
States court and A. E. Lewis has
been appointed temporary receiver
of the business. The bankrupt sched-ules
his liabilities at about $6,000,
with assets amounting to approxi-mately
$5,000.
The First Candidate.—Mr. Carter
Dalton, of High Point, is the first
man in Guilford county to announce
his candidacy for political office this
year. He wants to go to the legisla-ture
and will seek the nomination at
the hands of the Democratic party
in the June primary. It is under-stood
that Mr. Robert Brockett, of
High Point, one of Guilford's repre-sentatives
in the last legislature, will
seek a renominatiou.
Young Man Dead.—Mr. Archie
Lee Parrish. a son of Mr. and Mrs.
M. M. Parrish, died Thursday morn-ing
at his home about six miles east
of the city, following an illness of
pneumonia. He was 30 years old,
and in addition to his parents, is
survived by four sisters and a broth-er.
The funeral and interment took
place Friday afternoon at Holt's
chapel, the services being conduct-ed
by Rev. J. E. Woosley. the pas-tor.
G. W. Brewer Dead.—Mr. George
W. Brewer, a well known citizen of
northern Guilford, died Saturday-morning
at his home in Monroe
township. The funeral and inter-ment
took place yesterday afternoon
at Lee's chapel, the services being
conducted by Rev. T. B. Johnson.
Mr. Brewer was 65 years old and is
survived by two sons and two daugh-ters—
Messrs. David and Eli Brewer.
Mrs. William Clymer and Mrs. J. E.
Robinson.
School Closing.—The Tabernacle
public school will close on Saturday.
March 25, with appropriate exercises
consisting of songs, recitations, dia-logues,
etc Dr. J. L. Mann, super-intendent
of the Greensboro graded
schools, has accepted an invitation to
be present and deliver an address.
An invitation is extended to the pub-lic
to attend. The school, which is
taught by Misses Estelle Fentress
and Joanna Hardin, has had a suc-cessful
year.,
Xo Action in Will Case.—No defi-nite
action has yet been taken by
Clerk of the Court Gant in regard to
probating the second will of Miss
Mary Foust, concerning which there
was an article in Thursday's paper.
The delay is occasioned by time
granted the attorneys for Dr. W. T.
Whitsett, who was named as execu-tor
undr.r the first will, to look up
the lav bearing ou the case. It is
understood around the court house
that the will will be probated.
Prepares For Trouble With Mexicans.
Los Angeles, March 17.—Quiet
preparations to meet possible trouble
by the thousands of Mexicans in and
around Los Angeles were made here
today and tonight.
A provision in an ordinance which
limited special policemen to 300 in
number was replaced without publi-city
by the city council tonight at the
request of Chief of Police C. E.
Snively. He said perhaps 500 would
be added to the list of available
emergency men.
Fifty rifles and riot guns were
gathered in the office of Sheriff
John Cline.
Mexicans accustomed to address
crowds in the old "Plaza" were put
under more strict regulations im-mediately
after the Columbus raid
last week, and every effort was made.
Chief Snively said, to prevent any
demonstration.
Requests for permission to swear
in as special officers and employ as
guards many of their employes were
made. Chief Snively said, by public
service corporations whose lines run
through or near large Mexican settle-ments.
QKE KILLED; MAHY INJURED
PASSENGER TRAIN WRECKED
AT JAMESTOWN LA8T NIGHT
BY DERAILED CARS.
Mrs. R. O. Holt Dead.—Mrs. R. O.
Holt, who was a sister-in-law of the
late J. Allen Holt and Martin Holt,
of Oak Ridge, died a few days ago
at her home in Washington.
More than 20 passengers on South-ern
Railway train No. 43 were in-jured
in a wreck at Jamestown last
night, the injuries of one. resulting
in death about an hour after the ac-cident.
The condition of several
others is critical. The accident oc-curred
a few minutes before 8
o'clock, just as the passenger train
was pulling away from the station at
Jamestown. Several cars of north-bound
freight train No. 74, which
was passing on a parallel track, were
derailed and struck the passenger
train with great force, overturning
the mall car and two passenger cars.
The more seriously injured of the
passengers were rushed to the hos-pital
in High Point, while others re-turned
to Greensboro. Mrs. M. S.
Hiatt. of High Point, wife of a rural
mail carrier, died soon after reach-ing
the hospital.
A list of the injured follows:
Miss Caroline Biggers, Thomas-ville;
compound comminuted frac-ture
of the right leg and cuts about
body.
Miss Mary Green, Thomasville;
skull fractured, leg fractured and
severe cuts about head and face.
A. M. Amkeeter, Charlotte; cut
over left eye.
P. H. Carroll, Oak Hill, Va.; com-pound
comminuted fracture of the
left leg, fracture of the right arm,
severe scalp injury.
Frank Norris, Spencer; bead and
knee injured.
E. L. Stout. Greensboro; left leg
fractured, fingers on both hands in-jured.
Miss Mae Criddlebaugh, High
Point; fracture of the rteht leg.
Miss Ethel Johnson, High Point;
face injured.
B. G. Wiesner, Winston-Salf m;
slight cut on right hand and bruise
on left leg. Returned to Wlnsun-
Salen..
J. T. Cmohundro, Greensboro;
bruised face and general shake-up.
Returned to Greensboro.
L. A. Spaugh. Greensboro; back
hurt. Returned to Greensboro.
Mrs. W. T Robinson, Spencer: in-jury
to left arm. Returned to Greens-boro.
Jim Milliner, Greensboro: cut on
hand. Returned to -.•;ensboro.
O. V. Lowell, Greensboro; out on
hand. Returned to Greensboro.
Jack Harvev. Lexington; cut on
face. Returned to Greensboro.
F. M. Ellelt, Jr., Greensboro: in-jury
to ankle. Returned to Greens-boro.
Eugene McCoy, negro. Waynes-ville;
cut on left ear. Continued on
trip.
Henry Savage. Union Hill, Ga.;
slightly cut on shin. Continued on
journey.
Ed Barrett. Carthage; back and
knee wrenched. In hospital in
Greensboro.
Robert McGuire, Lexington; gen-eral
shake-up. Returned to Greens-boro.
Several passengers were slightly
injured by scratches, bruises, etc.
Story of the Accident.
It was stated by passengers on No.
43 that the freight was proceeding
at a fast rate of speed when the ac-cident
occurred and the passenger
train was just pulling out from the
station when it was struck by the
passing cars. The main coach of No.
43 was turned over on its side and
partly demolished, while the colored
coach was tilted, as was the coach
containing white people directly be-hind.
The cars smashed into the
passenger contained lumber, and
fragments of the lumber hurled
through the windows of the coaches
were mainly the cause of most of
the serious injuries.
A wrecking crew and several mil-road
officials went to Jamestown
from Greensboro, while physicians
from Greensboro and High Joint
hurried to the scene of the wreck.
The baggage coach of the train
was hurriedly fixed up into an emer-gency
car and the wounded were
placed in it and taken to High Point,
where medical aid was given.
The two cars injured carried m ire
than the usual amount of passengers
on this trip and officials on the road
declare that <the only reason the
wreck did not prove more serious to
a larger number was the fact that
both coaches were constructed of
steel.
Among the passengers on the train
were several Greensboro people who
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TOBACCO PRKES_MAY BE LOW
FARMERS WILL FEEL EFFECT
OF DECREASED EXPORTS TO
GREAT BRITAIN. ' .
It looks now as if the order-issued,
by the British government February
16 is going to affect seriously" the:tp^.
bacco farmers of North Carolina.
The order restricts the importation,
of a number' of products, classed as
luxuries, and tobacco, ia included'
The Britishers have not stated just
how big a cut will be made' in the
importation of tobacco. but-Jn' the
case of paper, and materials for the
manufacture of paper, it, has been
Officially stated that licenses are to
be Issued for the importation of a
Quantity amounting to two-thirds of
the normal imports,, and it- is. re-ported
on good authority that' the
same rule will hold as to tobacco and
other products.
That this will affect North Caro-lina
tobacco farmers ia readily seen
when one considers that the greatest
tobacco customer of the United
States is Great Britain. DuriOg the
calendar year of 1914 the amount of
unmanufactured tobacco imported
into Great Britain from the United
States was 138,985,243 pounds, val-ued
at 5,484,336 pounds sterling, or
more than $20,000,000. The British
do not purchase any large quantities
of manufactured tobacc > from the
United States, the total cigarette
imports for 1914, for instance, being
valued nt just a little more than
$10,000. They take an immense
quantity of flue-cured -~acco, such
as Is grown in North Carolina, and
a decrease of one-third in exports
will pull down prices sharply. There
has been a decided tendency toward
over-production in Hue-cured tobac-co
in the last two years, and the
United States department of com-merce
and labor is of the opinion
that our domestic manufacturers are
lly stocked.
ft 1B possible that the cut may be
bigger than above stated. The de-partment
of commerce and labor
sees only one ray of hope and that
is that the restriction of imports will
not seriously affect the consumption
of tobacco in England and that the
effect will be to deplete British
stocks, thus creating a demand for
new supplies from this country. The
British importers may prepare for
this demand by making purchases
in this country for future, delivery.
The United States department' of
GlIUORD'S FIRST RURAL
CREDITS ASSOCIATION-.
A number of farmers of the Pleas-ant
Garden section who have inter-ested
themselves in this organisa-tion
of a rural credits association
Mid a meeting at Pleasant Garden
Thursday night and elected direc-tors
and the necessary committees
to get the organization under way.
Another meeting will be held Thurs-day
night, March 30, to open the as-sociation
for business.
The following were chosen as
members of the board ->f directors:
W. B. Hdrdin, Charles T. Weatherly.
A. L. Teachey, J. A. Kennett, W.
Charles Ktrkman and O. F. Ross.
Two committees were appointed as
follows; Banking—Charles T.
Weatherly, J. C. Kennett and E. H.
Anderson; supervising—J. F. Ross,
Rev. C. F. Sherrill and W. A. Kirk-man.
. Stock will be sold at the par value
of $10 a share and the books will be
open to subscribers in Fentress,
Clay and Sumner townships.
This is the first rural credits asso-ciation
attempted in Gu.lford coun-ty
and its course will be watched
with much interest. It is planned
to make loans to members who may-need
money to aid thim in their
farming operations and whose col-lateral,
while safe, is MM such as
the banks wonld accept as security
for loans.
Rev. Dr. Edmund Harrison Dead.
Rev. Edmund Harrison. LL. D.,
who had been ill for a long time,
died yesterday morning at the home
of his son, Mr. Roger W. Harrison,
on Odell place. He was a native of
Amelia county, Va.. and spent the
greater part of his life in the teach-ing
profession. . For about 30 years
he was a professor in Richmond Col-lege.
Richmond, Va., and later was
president of Bethel Female College,
Hopkinsville, Ky. Age and failing
fully stocked. health caused him to retire from the
latter a few years'age, .since which
time he had resided in Greensboro.
Dr. Harrison was also a minister
of the Baptist denomination. He
was a gallant soldier of the Confed-erate
army and was a major in the
army of Northern Virginia at the
close of the war. Dr. Harrison is
survived by his widow and eight
children, two of whom—Dr. Edmund
Harrison and Mr. Roger W. Harri-son—
reside in Greensboro.
The body was carried to Richmond
today and the funeral and interment
state is understood to be conducting j will take place in that city tomor-negotiations
with the British govern-1 row.
ment with a view to obtaining some ■ -——————— —
modifications of the provisions of the
order in council.
Says Fools Shajue Anicriru.
New York. March 17.—Europeans
look upon Aenirica as the typifica-tion
of justice and honor. Henry
Morgenthau, United States ambassa-dor
to Turkey, declared in an ad-dress
at a reception given in his
honor today by Manhattan borough
officials.
"It is a pity." Mr. Morgenthau
added, "that a few lunatics in this
country have acted so that their do-ings
got into the press, giving the
impression abroad that this is not a
united country, and that it is not
sane and sober.
"America is the only nation pow-erful
and resourceful enough." con-tinued
Mr. Morgenthau. "to rear-range
the machinery of civilization,
which has been entirely upset by the
war that is now devastating Europe.
Only America can stop this war be-fore
it runs its full course."
were more or less Injured, some by
the flying splinters and glass from
the cars. Passengers in the two
coaches kicked out windows and
made t!:eir escape fron: the wreck,
many of them returning to the
smashed cars-to give aid to those
who were pinned under their seats.
The passenger train was in charge
of Conductor Finch, with Engineer
Rowzie at the throttle. Neither was
injured, but the baggageman in she
overturned baggage car received
serious injuries. The news butcher
on the train was also badly cut about
the face, in addition to receiving sev-eral
serious stabs from flying splin-ters
in the back.
The track at Jamestown was com-pletely
covered with the debris from
Scope of Investigation Extended.
The interstate commerce commis-sion
has extended the scope of its
investigation into the rates and prac-tices
involved in the transportation
of fresh meats, live stock and pack-ing
house products so as to include
all the railroads in the United States.
Under the first order issued last
November the commission announc-ed
its intention to investigate rates
west of the Mississippi.
Today's order brought the roads
In the southeast and east of the Mis-sissippi
and north or tne Ohio and
Potomac rivers into the investiga-tion.
The investigation grew out of the
socalled western advance rate case, i
in which railroads asked for in-creases
on live stock, fresh meats
and packing house products but fail-ed
to get the commission's approval.
The present investigation dealing
with these rates alone will be exten-sive
and thorough, and the question
if it could increase rates will be de-cided
in relation to this one indus-try
alone.
MURDERED B HEART OF CITY
J. W. BRADY ASSAULTED Off WAY
TO HIS HOME AND FOCXD IN
DYING CONDITION.
Returns After Eight Years.
Keith E. Dalrymple. heir to a for-tune
of $400,000, who has been miss-ing
for eight years and for whom a
nation-wide search was made, re-turned
to his former home in Port
Alleghany, Pa., a few days ago. He
refused to go into details regarding
his wanderings, except to say that
during that time he had visited vari-ous
parts of the country, making his
living by doing odd jobs. Dalrymple
dissapeared at the age of 15 years.
The young heir was found in a
Missouri state hospital following the
receipt of a letter saying he was sick
and asking that some one come and
While returning to hfs home •&
Blandwood avenue shortly before 13
o'clock Thursday night-Mr. J. W.
Brady, who.had been engaged in the
hotel business in Greensboro for a
number of years, was murderously
assaulted and died about fire and a
half hours later. A gaping wound
was inflicted across his throat by a
razor, and when found shortly after
the commission of the crime Mr.
Brady was lying in a pool of his own
blood, in a semi-conscious condition.
The police officers arrested four
negroes as suspects, but one of them
was released Saturday, and It is un-derstood
that there is little or no evi-dence
to connect the other three with
the crime.
Th crime was commlteed on He-
Gee rtreet, between Eugene street
and Blandwood avenue, at a point
where an alley runs out of McGee
street. Mr. Brady, who had recent-ly
taken charge of the Stag hotel, on
the corner of Walker avenue and
Ashe street, left his place of busi-ness
about 11.30 o'clock, and after
talking a few minutes with Police-man
Jones at the Southern passenger
station, started to his home.
Mr. J. P. Fuller, a brakeman on
the Southern, quit work at midnight
and while going to his home a few
minutes later heard th? groans of
the dying man. He turned out of
Walker avenue and hastened to she
spot from which the sounds came.
He was followed quickly by Dr. E. L.
Stamey and Mr. Charles D. Cun-ningham,
of the Keeley Institute,
who had been aroused by Mr. Brady's
groans. A superficial examination
by Dr. Stanif-y showed that she
wounded man was in a desperate
condition, and after rendering such
aid as was-in hi* power jn. an effort
to stop the flew of Mood, the physl. ■
cian hai him removed to St.- Leo's
hospital.
Mr. Brady was able to teil Police-man
Bob Skeens, who reached the
scene in a few 'ninutec in response
to a telephone call to police head-quarters,
that he had been assaulted
by two negroes, but he was unable
to give a description of then-.. In
response to a question from the offi-ver,
he jaid, "There were two ne-groes."
Mr. Brady soon lapsed into
unconsciousness and remained in
that condition until he iied at 5.30
o'clock Friday morning.
The generally accepted theory is
that robbery' was the object of tho
murderers, who probably thought
that Mr. Brady would have on his
person the money he had taker, in at
the hotel during the day. How-ever,
he had left his money in a safe
at his place of business. In examin-ing
the wounded man Dr. Stamey
noticed that the pockets of his trous-ers
had been turned out, this indi-cating
that his assailants had gone
through his pockets. Mr. Brady's
keys were found lying on the ground
near his body.
A blood-stained razor was found
near the spot and a few yards-away
the case from which the razor had
evidently been taken was picked up.
The case also was stained with blood.
The razor and the case constitute al-most
the sole clue the officers have to
work upon.
Mr. Brady had been a resident of
Greensboro for a number of years
and until some lime ago conducted
the Brady house, on South Elm
street. He is survived by his widow
and three daughters.
The funeral took place at Centen-ary
Methodist church Sunday after-noon
at 3 o'clock and was attended
by a large crowd. Interment was
made in Greene Hill cemetery. Rev.
I J. H. Bennett, pastor of Centenary
] church, conducted the services. Mr.
| Brady was a member of the Wood-
I men of the World and the Jr. O. U.
. A. M. apd members of these orders,
attended the funeral in a body.
get him. Since he disappeared hun-the
wreck, and passeng. rs en route j dreds of messages and letters have
to Salisbury and orher points were
brought back to Greensboro and
routed by way of Winston-Salem and
Barber's Junction to their destina-tions.
been received from persons claiming
to be the missing heir. Legal pro*'
ceedings brought to' have him declar-ed
legally dead were to have been:
l-.eard on April 6.
Commencement Speakers.—The
commencement exercises of Greens-boro
College for Women will be held
May 14-16. The baccalaureate ser-mon
will be preached in West Mar-ket
Street Methodist church Sunday
morning. May 14, by Rev. Dr. T. N.
Ivey. of Nashville, Tenn. editor of
the Christian Advocate. Dr. H. N.
Snider, president of Woffprd College,
Spartanburg, S. C, will deliver the
annual address following the grad-uating
exercises on Tuesday, May If.
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