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i.o i“E: the charlotte news. 43. NO. 6925 ■day to ay In Be Great Tennessee Senatorial Fight er 1^1 r i.ii. 1 J.—-'I'lH’sday pi artically PV4M-y in th> siMKitorial :i'. it is the 1. 1 fmht will 1)0 Mf h'as) fr(MU . .r halldi will ^;iIiuh1. For a !■> .11 wapod wiih i:i\ and no groat t oithor ranili- , t a>’‘i I’oii- i nt \t ut'i'k. .\t- ■~il)lo ill.'uality u cut of thf way. I liiM have had T. niith and thflr ’ ."I the (I'l'.or and • fiid (»imht ti) at all sure. Now red info the fight i would in thai. • -itnation ho- u;d a still tighter , r.datt In the Iriold, one must win by Tuesday or two j will more than likely be eliminated— picMillan and either Frazier or Fitz- Ihugh. ! The ballotting this week has shown : no real gain by any man. McMillin led on cach ballot, getting almost the I solid regular strength on the first bal lot. (')n the second he concentrated all scattered votes, since which time lie has held the full GO. The leaders of the fnsionisls- got actively into the fight only yesterday. I'p to that time Fitzhugh was play ing a lone hand, but help came It) him yesterday and a strong effort will be made to land him early next Aveek. Hooper talk grows and it was even rumored y-^sterday that he had recon sidered bis former position and \vould accept the nomination for the senate if elected through the efforts of the regulars or republicans. Mr. Hooper would say nothing for publication yes terday. merely saying that the rumor was too absurd to pay any attention to. *tLOTrE‘, N, C.. SATUHDA\, JANUARY 14. 1911 PRICE 5 CENTb I '.1 ore axxoBrrsx'WSS* i. 0 r”meEEuHi me SH 151 CO. OIMI IF mi I . ,l:in. 14 - Spar- :r'':liiy will soon II’. to"iu oi’ city ■ .'dv in the city : :in;i('iiia! change tlu* qiH'Stion is • >!; at the polls. iJ. wnnl H. Tarlisle ■ : it: tho senate ■n to he hold while ■ ill be introduced '.:.'pr*'sentative Hen- - not thought tliat :!';cu'ty in getting .ch the state log- of the move- \. rt every energy ■ bv the peo- ■;a] citizens ar> .. aud who do not a more compre- v. Vat it will moan tv^'d largest city r> The press of • re the most en- '• of the commis- r iicnr and the ' ration has put being a warm ARREST II HIS WIFE Hy A.'Soclated Columbia, S. to the Record that Mr. and Press. C., Jan. 14.—A special from Newberry, says Mrs. .1. S. Roberts, are in jail on a warrant from Bul lock county, Georgia. Tbo couple insistently deny their guilt and say that they have bi‘en imposed upcm. Mrs. Roberts, who is from Pennsyl vania, is an unusually pretty yotmg woman and the Newberry sheriff is loath lo keep so pretty a f^^male in jail. Roberts is originallv from Ken- lucky. M'v and Mrs. Roberts came to Newberry a few days ago for the purpose of opening a moving picture shovv'. TEUl- MY MCfTHEJV 1 DlElJ happy V/INTER SPRING g) AUTUm TWE.Y/EWHER-MAl HAS t=AU-EN OFF THE WAimWAG=ON CHARACTER. STUDY OF TTIE MAH VMO MAY &ET THE TOB OF eLECnN&- U.S. SENATOKS Petition Against Sabbath Desecration Was Intioduced AGAINST SABBATH DESECRATION. Special to The New's. Raleigh, N. C., Jan. 14.— Representative Grier, of Meck lenburg, presented in the house a petition from the ministers of Charlotte against Sabbath dese cration and the sale of liquor by clubs. Special to The New's. Raleigh, N. C., Jan. 14.—An agree ment w'as reached by the joint legisla tive committee on public buildings and grounds for fire proof state admin istration building to occupy the squaro where the supreme court and agricul- •«tural buildings now are. > I The co&t of $1,000,000 is to be pro- ’, vided by a bond Issue. ’ 1 The house passed a bill for a com- ' mission form of government for * Greensboro, to authorize commlssion- ' ers to counties to make appropriations ' for farm demonstration w'ork, to pro- * vide bonds for Hickory and concern* ‘ ing Rutherfordton’s bonded debt. The senate devoted the day to purely local bills. It w'as decided to retain the Graham bill to require an extra train between Greensboro and Raleigh on the cal endar until the Southern fulfills th® promise to put on the train. ACCO«DING TO REPORTS. Crowds Gather Early To Gain Entrance To Schenk Tnal L (1 to bp a city a I which titne a f!'rin* n will be I •(! iiave the coni- -••1 and there may fildi'ima nelected n tlu* future there :;ii.'sloners chosen • • various wards. ’•V administration ' aordinarily ex- • . ii*:)ple’s money .■ •i! the actual ‘jf tlie city over .(■ing used as a ■h*‘ rhange. Many •ifisfled with the ; i there is little will materially ' the election. ada New oi Ecuadoi Aviation Training School. By Associated Press. Augusta, Ga., .Ian. 14.—P'rank Cof- fyn, Wright aviator, is In Augusta, un- i ''here, on Monday, he will start an aviation training school. There will be t wo ])upils- next week. One is Robert Collier, of New York, and the other is J. Starling Burgess, of Boston, both of whom have purchased Wright aero planes. ('offyn has chosen an ideal lo cation for his training camp, it being situated on a level plateau several hun dred feet above the city and w’bere in ISOS and 181)9 there Avere 8.000 gov ernment troops encamped. There be several exhibition flights given by Coffyn in the near future. Allan Ryan, of New York, is expected here during the winter to learn how to operate an aeroplane. The training school will continue for several months. By Associated Press. Wheeling, W. Va., ,lan. 14.—As early as G o'clock this morning crowds were waiting anxiously to gain admission to the Schenk trial. Those who looked for a continimnce of such testimony as Daniel Phillips, a local piano salesman, gave yester day in admitting that he and Mrs. Schenk bad been taking night rides in her limousine for the past year or more, were to meet, however, with a less ittteresting chapter. The effort of Prosecuting Attor ney J. B. Hanlan to prove that Mrs. Schenk attempted to poison her husr band last fall, is taking the form of a hypothetical question covering the facts in the case so far as they have developed. This question began yesterday while Dr. J. T. Thornton, who was called to attend Schenk Manufacturers Plan Cuitailment To Sell Estate of Count Tolstoi during his illness was on the stand. Dr. Thornton concluded yesterday with the admission on cross exami nation that the symptoms of poison ing in,, Schenk’s case might baye been due to “serious stomach dis orders.” In his direct questioning he had stated that certain symptoms indicated lead poisoning and others &rs©nic. It was said that the continuation of this more technical phase of the testimony was expected to occupy the attention of the court until the noon recess, but the crowd stuck tenaciously to the court room, be lieving that the tedious technicalities would be relieved by the calling of more witnesses to show that the love of another man might have been a motive for the crime with Mrs. Schenk is charged. —General Emi- ■ :uHt been elected ■r, is expected to •*s of the adminls- •Ml’aro, who now ivM chair, accord- \'-d by the state ■line: by the con- ’ . was nf)t a can- N lio will be suc- i; frada on August 'II ; >rf given the • I; : nuia l»y Gen- :;r ti :itur(> of the '• 'hat the only ' 5-uf'fessful con- d iitial office was " a nephew of ‘ strongly back- II tK c. LED IN DERIO T 'I .Inn. 14.—Meagre 'Ml I’.cnton. Ark., to- s are dead and a irf'd as a result of a The nep;ro''« are said 'nil»ers of a theatrical Company To Dram Big Lake Special to The News. Raleigh, Jan. 14.—The Southern Land Reclammation Company, of Swan Quarter, was chCrtered with $.■30,000 capital authorized and $2.5.000 subscribed by D. N. Graves, a capital ist of Boston; W'. T. Mason. J. P. Kerr, and C. A. Webb, of Asheville, to pur chase the state’s interest in the Mat- tamuskeet lake bed and assume the state’s obligation in drainage. The state board of education is in session this afternoon to consummate the state’s interest which includes the guarantee on the drainage, all opiiosi- tion to drainage plans being with- draw’n. Final Grind in Six Day Race Ry Associated Press. Buffalo, N. Y., Jan. 14.—The final nine-hour grind in the six-day bicycle race at the Broadway arsenal in this city began today with every indica- tif)n of a fascinating, hard-fought cli max. The total scores when the riders took the track showed three team.s tied at 1,0.52 miles, 8 laps; two teams a lap behind the leaders and four teams another lap away as follows. Hehir-Goulette, l,0r>2.8. Law’son-Root, 1,052.8. Clarke-Pye, 1,052.8. Wiley-Mltten, 1,052.7. Walthour-Walker, 1,052.7. Galvin-We»t, 1,052.0. Krebs-Thomas, 1,052.6. Lawrence-Drobach, 1,052.6. Hill-Fogler, 1,052.6. To Invite Settlers. Special to The New’s. Spartanburg, S. C.. Jan. 14. The Cllnchfleld Immigration Society or w'hlch E. B. Jjemmond of this city is president held a business meeting in this city which was attended by a number of members including some from Johnson City, Marion and other points along the Carolina, Clinchfiela and Ohio railway. The purpose of this organization is to get in touch with persons who formerly resided in this, section of the country and w'ho have since moved aw'ay from the South and more particularly with thoso who have moved to the western states. STORM TIES UP ROADS IN WEST By Associated Pre-ss. Sacramento, Cal., Jan. 14.—With hundreds of men battling with the snow choked passages of the Sierras in an effort lo keep the railroad lines clear and bring relief to the stalled passenger and mail trains, all the gigantic resources of the South ern Pacific and Western Pacifict com panies are being brought to bear in fighting the worst snow storm in the mountain districts in the last 20 years. Realizing the impossibility of forc ing through snow' drifts of six and eight feet depth, the Western Pa cific Railroad officials last night or dered its stalled east bound over land trains at Bolden and Oroville to return to San Francisco, and an nulled the Overland, which was ready to depart for the East. I C.T By Associated Press. Boston, Jan. 14.—The cotton manu facturers of the coimtry are consid ering the advisability of adopting a serious curtailment policy, wWch many maintain is necessary becausfe of expensive raw material and an indifferent goods market. During the next ten days the question will be settled at meetings of the manufac turers in Boston, Fall Riv'^i* and several of the Southern States. The Fall River cotton manufac turers’ Association had the curtail ment problem under consideration at a special meeting called for yester day afternoon and the situation in general will be discussed in Boston next w^eek at a meeting o^ the Ark- w'right Club. The executive commit tee of the South Carolina Cotton Manufacturers’ Associ|ition has called a meeting to be held in Spartanburg to consider curtailment. Fall River Meeting. Fill Rivpr, Mass., .Tan. 14.—At the conclusion of a meeting of the Fall River Cotton Manufacturers’ Asso elation yesterday at w’hich sixteen treasurers were present. President Hills said that no action had been taken but that the discussion show ed that the Fall River manufacturers were strongly in favor of a general curtailment throughout the and would support such a movement. He said that they did not propose, how'ever, to start the movement in this city. ” TO POOL CROPS By Associated Press. Winston-Salem, Jan. 14. Nearly every tobacco growing county in the state was represented at an execu tive meeting here yesterday of the Farmers’ Educational & Co-operative Union. Following the conference, which was held behind closed doors, it was stated the object of the con ference was to inaugurate a move ment for the tobacco farmers to pool their crops upon the Kentucky plan. It was stated that several meetings probably would be htyi before the co-oper»tive plan would be made ef fective. Two Merchants Were Anested He Proposed 21 Times Without Avail By Associated Press. New York, Jan. 14.—Genardo Bi- ondi. is waiting in jail here for an opportunity to make his twentj-sec ond proposal of marriage to Nunzi- ata Cesarana. He made his twenty- first proposal yesterday and did it in open court. The all important question and the gir^s refusal stand upon the court records. It was the only question Blondi asked after listening to the girl’s recital of the twentieth proposal. At that time she said Biondi attempted to cut her throat when she refused. She dis played a long scar on her neck to support her charge. The magistrate informed the pris oner that he might ask any questio of the witness he pleased. “I want lo ask her to be my wife, said Biondi, hopefully. The girl shook her head and Bion di lost interest in the proceedings. He was hold in $2,000 bond for trial on a charge of attempted murder. Death List Reaches Six.' By Associated Press. By Associated Press. San Francisco. Jan. 14.—Serious charges of attempting to defraud the United States customs by undervalu ations of imports occasioned the. ar rest last night of tw’o prominent merch ants handling Oriental goods in this city. The prisoners are Carl J. Cutting, who has a store in this city and W. A. Milson, of Oahland, who operates be tween this port and Yokohama as an importer of tea. A secret agent sent to Japan by the customs department last year is said to have laid tUe foundation of the prosecution. Upon his advice that im ports were being marked far below their value, shipments of Oriental art goods to Cutting’s store were held at the local customs house. Shipments valued by the importer at $20,000 are involved in the present proceedings but customs ofilcials ex press the belief that wholesale frauds have been perpetrated in the last few years. They estimate the govern ment’s loss by these operations at $200,000 a year. SHORT TOE NAILS INDICATE EGG-LAYING ABfLITY. By Associated Press Columbia. Missouri, Jan. 14.—“Chick ens with short toe nails are the best egg layers,” said Professor J. E. Rice poultry expert for Cornell University who is visiting the agricultural college of the University of Missouri here. “These chickens have short toe Batavia, N. Y., Jan. 14.—P. H. Cade, of 6211 I^xington avenue. Chicago, rH/sH at the hospital here this morning. fmm in iiHos received in yesterday’s nails.” he said, “from continuous fiom in.iuries «;rrfltchine for food, and a chicken By Associated Press. New York, Jan. 14.—Michael Kius- minsky, nephew of the late Count Tolstoi, who came here from Russia ten days ago to sell his uncle’s es tate to Andrew Carnegie, announces that a group of United States bank ers and manufacturers have offered to take the property under certain conditions. Mr. Carnegie declined to buy the estate on the ground that Russia was a long way from New York and that all his time was taken up by other philanthropic schemes. The estate includes about 750 acres of rich agricultural land and is valued at about .$1,500,000. The American cap italists, wiiose names are not divulged, agree to purchase the estate on con dition that the 150 acres which the Tolstoi heirs desire to devote to a memorial settlement and school of ;ig- riculture, should- be paid for by an international subscription fund, to which admirers of the late count might send donations. On the remaining six hundred acres they purpose to erect a permanent exhibition of American agricultural machinery and cultivate the surrounding land by modern meth ods, to demonstrate to the Russian farmers how’ they can produce twice the amount of crops on their fertile lands and save labor and expense. Continued on page ten. OEftTH OF COL. R J. HICKS IS MASS MEETINGS BEING HELD IN KENTUCK ABOUT TOBACCO Special to The News. Raleigh. Jan. 14.—New'S w'as receiv ed here of the death of Col. W. J. Hicks, superintendent of the Masonic Orphanage, at Oxford for 13 years. The death occurred at the orphanaga at 3 o’clock this morning. Col. Hicks retired from the superin- tendency some time ago, but was still there serving as a “Labor of Love”, ag the Masons exi)ressed it. He was 83 years old, and had been in feeble health for quite a while. He leaves tw'o sons, John Hicks, chief auditor for the American Tobac co Company of New York, and W. D. Hicks, lumberman of Biscoe, and two daughters. Mrs. W. A. .Johns, of Pitts burg, Pa, and Mrs. Clyde Turner, of Greensboro. No funeral arrangements are an nounced yet. The funeral will be held in Raleigli with Grand Ix)dge ceremonies. MYSTERIOUS TRAGEDY IS ENACTED IN PHILADELPHIA. By Associated Press. Lexington, Ka., Jan. 14.—Mass meetings are l.tvs held today in forty counties of Kentucky in which white burley tobacco is produced, to vote on the question as to w'hether 1911 crc p shall be eliminated, as " provided for in resolutions adopted by the burley tobacco union at the time of its organization here last w^eek. One Death From Bubonic Plague By Associated Press. Peking, Jan. 14.—One death from bubonic plague in this city was re ported to the officials today. The government is being urged to institute a five days quarantine of first class passengers at the great wall until observation camps can be estab lished at Harbin, Muckden and Shan Hikwan and to prohibit second and third class passenger traffic from Man churia. Precautionary measures are being adopted here. John Jones Convicted. By Associated Press. Orangeburg, S .C., Jan. 14.—-Guilty of manslaughter was the verdict re turned at 9:15 o’clock last night against John J. Jopes, a law’yer of Branchville, this county, charged with killing Abe Pearlstine, a prominent merchant of the same tow^n on De cember 15 last. The jury was out about one hour. Census Figures. By Associated Press. Washington, Jan. 14.—Corrected figures announced by the census bu reau today give the population of Cincinnati as 363,591 instead of 364,- 463 as given out some tilhe ago. The previous announcement included Del hi village, v/hich was not formally annexed to Cincinnati until January 13, 1910. By Associated Press. Pliiladelphia, .Tan. 14.—Found nn- fronscious today in a bedroom of their home in the northern section of this city with gas escaping from the open burners, John Ernest and his wife Lillie are in a hospital where they will die, the physicians say. The tragedy, which follov/ed a quarrel between the couple, is enveloped in mystery. Extend Car Lines. Special to The News. Spartanburg, S. C., Jan. 14.—The street railway company of this city, highly pleased with the enormous in crease recently shown on all lines op erated by them, have, it is learned, made plans for the extensive exten sion of several of their suburban lines. Train Robbers Arrested. By Associated Press. Ogden, Utah, .Tan. 14.—The train robbers who held up the Overland Lim ited on the Southern Pacific a week ago, were arrested today in this city. The Canadian Naval College. By Associated Press. Halifax, N. S.. Jan. 14.—The Can adian naval college will on January 19 begin the instruction of future officers of the Dominion’s navy. The first class in the new school has enrolled with a membership of 21 midshipmen. The navy building in the dock yard has been temporarily fitted with lecture rooms for the use of the students. Monument to Confederate Veteians Is Ptoposed Today The regular monthly meeting of the Nnited Confederate Veterans w'ag held this morning at 11 o’clock in the city hall, with Capt. W. M. Smith, com mander, presiding, Mr. S. B. Duck worth, adjutant, and Mr. I^. AI. Davis, treasurer being in their respective chairs. Capt. S. B. Alexander, as chair man of 'his committee reported that they had draw'n up a bill, embodying a series of articles, to be presented to the members of the legislature from this county for the introduction of an act empowerng the camp here to establish a home for aged women, most especially those connected with Con federate Veterans. The bill provides for a total sum of $25,000.00 to be issued in Ijonds bearing 6 per cent the regulation of the affairs of the home to be in charge of a board of trustees composed of six men and three women. The report of the com mittee was accepted and they were duly discharged. Mrs. I. W. Faison for the Stonewall Chapter of the U. D. C. asked the camp at large to express themselves as to the advisability of the erection a monument on the court house square to commemorate the Confederate Vet erans of Mecklenburg. Every one of them heartily endorsed the idea, say ing that they would like to 'go on record as having favored the move ment. Veteran Sikes then presented to the M H III noiiDiiiiiis By Associated Press. New Orleans, Jan. i4. A special cable to the Picayune from Mana gua, Nicaragua, this morning, says; “Advices from the frontier of Hon duras are that General Duron has captured practically the entire pro vince of Choluteca, in the name of Manuel Bonilla, revolutionary presi- ^ , r dent of Honduras. Duron’s army is camp the pictures of Gyeral L«ng- marchine on Tegucigalpa, the capi- 1 street which he had been instructed to \ purchase. It is quite a handsome por trait of this famous general, and will add greatly to the list already owned by the camp. The Stonew'all Chapter of the U. D. C. will hold their usual Jackson Cene- bration next Thursday at 12 o’clock at the Y. M. C. A. at which time they will j)resent crosses to the veterans as shown below. The Stonewall Chapter of the I’^. D. C. will at the meeting the first Saturday in February in the Trust Building decide definitely whether they will erect the Mecklen burg Confederate Veterans Memorial Monument and urge every woman in terested in the movement to be pres ent. The U. C. V. will have a commit tee there at the time to represent them. Crosses of Honor. The Southern Crosses of Honor will be presented January 19, 1911, by the LTnited Daughters of the Confederacy to the United Confederate Veterans. List of veterans receiving crosses at this time; T. P. Alexander, C. E. Bost, A. J. Funderburk, Wm. Humphrey, A. J. Lit tle, R. H. Morse, H. B. Walters, J. B. Hollingsw'orth, G. S. Pool, W. I. Blake ly, John Herron, P. R. Rich. W’^ldows of the following veterans will be given crosses: Wm. Hunney- sucker, J. A. Younts, W. J. Ross, J. A. Cathey, W. H. Tiser. Seventeen crosses will be presented by Mrs. Stonewall Jackson on the night of January 19th, at 8 p. m., at the Y. M. C. A. hall. VIOLET ALEXANDER, Recorder of Crosses for U. D. C» V V
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