North State Happenings Taylorsville Train Wreck
A mixed passenger and freight train from Taylorsville wrecked near Hid enite, south of Statesville, injuring no one. Several cars left the track, engine remained on rails, passengers moved to a box car Pullman. Schedule adjustments followed. Taylorsville and Charlotte trains annulled.
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Taylorsville
Statesville
Hidenite
Stony Point
Rowland
Charlotte
Patton
Eye Removed After Spencer Explosion Injury
Fred Loftin of Salisbury underwent an operation Wednesday to remove one eye after a powder magazine explosion at the Southern Railway shops in Spencer last October. A steel fragment was found behind the eye and the other eye is severely injured. Loftin is the last victim to be discharged from the hospital here.
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Salisbury
Southern Railway
Spencer
Fred Loftin
Loftir
Governor Kitchinson Receives Appointments Requests
Raleigh reports Governor Kitchinson says many citizens across North Carolina seek inspector posts for illuminating oils under the new act. Ten inspectors will be appointed by the State Department of Agriculture, each earning up to 1000 dollars annually. The act takes effect July 1, requiring testing and an inspector’s tag on every retail oil package.
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Raleigh
Special C
Kitchin
North
Aarolina
State Department of Agriculture
Pasteur treatment success reaches home in Statesville
Fred Abernathy, bitten by a rabid dog weeks ago, finished Pasteur treatment in Raleigh and passed through Statesville en route to Oak Forest. Doctors say he now faces no further illness from hydrophobia. Raleigh township votes 15 cent tax per 1000 and 45 cent per poll to fund nine month schools, eight hundred votes ahead.
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Statesville
Fred Abernathy
Raleigh
Pasteur
Oak Forest
Raleigh Township
West Virginia
Colorado
Maryland
Pennsylvania
Tennessee
California
South Dakota
Washington
Seattle
Wounded Negro Dies After Shot During Arrest Clash
Fayetteville report says Special-Robinson Elliott died Tuesday night from injuries after a Sunday shooting in a resistance arrest incident with Deputy Sheriff Godwin. Elliott suffered a leg amputation and died following a coroner jury verdict of self defense.
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Fayetteville
Robinson Elliott
Sherif Godwin
Elliott
Bee
Census Bureau reports February cotton stocks and usage
The Census Bureau announces on February’s close U S cotton stocks totaling 5 252 663 bales with consumption at 2 521 436 bales The six month total supply including net imports is 14 340 670 and 98 000 bales respectively Distribution shows manufacturers producers warehouses and compresses transport firms and other holders The report notes foreign growth cotton totaling 55 629 bales and regional holdings with 3 721 971 bales in cotton growing states and 1 530 692 bales elsewhere.
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Washington, Special
Census Bureau
United States
Congress
Feudists Shot From Ambush near Harts Creek
Huntington West Virginia dispatch says Frank Flemming was killed and John Flemming seriously wounded in an ambush Monday evening. The men, alleged feud gang members from Harts Creek Lincoln County, had just learned his wife married John McCoy, an enemy. John Flemming had just been released from prison after two years for conspiracy to defraud the government. They were en route to McCoy’s home when attacked.
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Huntington
W. Va
John
Frank Flemming
Harts Creek
Incoln County
Frank
John Flemming
John McCoy
Flemming Brothers
McCoy
Five Die in Sunnyside Mine Explosion Near Evansville
Evansville Indiana reports five men killed and a score injured in a Sunnyside coal mine blast Saturday afternoon. The explosion followed a windy shot from an overcharged powder placed by John Petit. Petit severely burned and likely to die. Sulphuric fumes swept the mine. twenty nine men were in the west shaft at the time.
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Evansville
Ind
Sunnyside
John Petit
Petit
Wild Train Plunges Into Montreal Station Tragedy
A Canadian Pacific Boston express derailed in Montreal after a wash pipe blew on the locomotive. Four people died and about thirty were seriously injured as scalding steam filled the cab forcing the engineer and fireman to jump. The train barreled into Windsor station smashing through the granite wall and impacting the waiting room and rotunda.
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Montreal
Boston Express
Canadian Pacific Railway
Windsor Street
Southern classification committee adjourns to meet in Atlantic City
The Southern classification committee adjourned to meet in Atlantic City in July. It focused on correcting packing errors to reduce damage claims and ordered that fibre boxes be waterproof.
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Mobile
Ala
Southern Classification Committee
Atlantic City
Shortest Bill on Record in Congress
Washington Special Representative Coudrey of Missouri introduces a bill described as the shortest of the session. The text requires all corporations to pay a license tax of 1 1 0 of 1 percent on their capital starting from passage.
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Washington
Coudrey
Missouri
General Interest News Briefs and Legal Note
Smallpox reportedly raging in Guatemala with Mexico enforcing strict quarantine. Eastern prospects favor peace as Servian government yields to Austria’s terms. Georgia high court ruling holds that calling a Georgian a liar amounts to assault and may provoke a fight.
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Guatemala
Mexico
Austria
Georgia
World items mix fire losses and dances of power
Fire hits New York apartment store causing estimated 500000 dollars in damage and 21 injured while jewel valuables are reported ruined. Other briefs cover Kernersville Mills blaze, acquittal in Carmack case, Taft and Roosevelt church visit, and various international tensions.
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New York
Kernersville Woolen Mills
Kernesville
N. C
John B. Sharp
E. W. Carmack
Nashville
Philadelphia
Jack Johnson
Galveston
Texas
New York City
Vinsenes
Ind
New Haven
Chicago
Cleveland
Bernard Solomon
Montecello
N. Y
Speaker Cannon Re elected as House Leader
Washington Affairs reports Hon. Joseph Cannon won the Speakership again last Monday. The amended House rules trim the presiding officer powers. Analysts say the Payne tariff bill may raise revenue alongside the Dingley tariff.
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Washington
Joseph Cannon
House of Representatives
Copper Prices Drop to Yearly Low in Market News
Copper metal slumped to its lowest level in about a year. Other notes include Guatemala to teach English in public schools and Japanese cadets touring San Francisco on Pacific ports. An Italian immigration probe questions criminal migration patterns. Mrs. Morse sells jewels to aid her husband at the Tombs. Coffee pricing shifts from a five cent duty. Diamond Match Company reports 1908 profits on par with 1907. Autopsy shows Lieu tenant Petrosino shot from behind, unarmed. NYPD dismisses Lt. Berry from District Attorney staff. Canada’s Sir James Grant cites sewage use as key issue in North America following Japan.
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Guatemala
San Francisco
Pacific Coast
Charles W. Morse
Tombs
New York City
Diamond Match Company
Joseph Petrosino
Palermo
Sicily
Peter W. Berry
Jerome
Bingham
Children’s Court
James Grant
Canada
North America
Japan
Banana Fiber Used To Make Muslin In History
A historical note reports muslin weaving using banana tree fiber as a textile source. The text highlights an early fiber extraction method and its application in cloth production.
House Debates Payne Tariff Bill Amid Dull Session
Washington notes describe a four hour House session as the dullest in years. Democratic critics call the Payne tariff bill crude and prohibitive, attacking its countervailing duties and Cuba provisions while urging spending cuts instead of new debt. Payne defends the Dingley lineage and cites revenue gains and Panama Canal funding as evidence of the tax policy’s merit.
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House of Representatives
Senate
House
Committee On
Ways and Means Committee
Champ Clark
Rai
Ile
Payne
New York
Committee On Ways and Means
Panama
Aquarium Visit Recalls Family Fun and Marine Wonders
Frances Wilcox recalls a trip to the Aquarium near the subway, describing seals that swim like kittens, a striped green and gold fish, a spiny lobster, and the joy of seeing the biggest turtle. The writer notes the exhibit’s beauty and promise of a second visit.
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Aquari
Aquarium
Frances Wilcox
New York Tribune
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Whitney
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