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..Hill ..III i|j. 1 m u yVanted, For Rent, For Sale Lost, Found, Stolen—Use The News’ “Want Ads”—One Cent a Word JO Pages SECTION. THE CHARLOTTE NEWS. ?»?*• OL 1. NO. 50 CHARLOTFE. N.C.. SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 29. 191 1 PRICE 5 CENTS n ■ ti; i' Schenk Gets Whijf Of The Air Of Freedom Again , Had She Regained her u on Heavy Bond Be- rocess Server Appear- inouncing Suit For V Filed. ' 7 Demand Adequate ]y—No More Slaving flir Lord And Master— Despises Wit ness 'VS. \^. Va.. Jan. 2S — lor o^vn recognizance. ; arnworth Schcuk left her fM-.-! (if the ja’l here ii.Ll t'n.i-iyetl the open ■ tim;' since Novem- i e anvsted on the t.nifi poisoned her inil- . :'l. .I 'hn O. Schenk. ■ ’ 0‘uji’''''nient of ont- vev> yhort. for just i‘ -lit to - Tei» into the lier 'awyot. .losopli 0.--- vo;-\er stepped np -t’.'vod int«* her hand : .115 her in a stiit for ■ ■ e, in which her lius- :i- corresondent Dan tiuiig society blood’ rl-, n -al whii h jiift 'oi thai he and she 1 induct on mid- while the hus-baiid K'11'ope. will lie heard, it >^-l"’e the echoes of in which the jury ' o 1 for acquittal. ' ii\ Mrs. Schenk un- ' ' n:ake a big tight for ?t Provide Funds. i, til bp separated from if ihat man. The cul • *,.is charge of attenipt- . lit h liis family brought '•c.iMse they hate me. .. .iven, a Jury has prac- ■t- il me of that, and I ii I am ever tried ■ ine charge 1 will be aU in a few minutes.” IV -y O’Btien told of plans 'I further enliven the iiM'tix ersy. 'er Attorney Talks. O Schenk doesn't make n'ony provision for his the lawyer, “there will . ■ I suit filed, in which le more than one cores- have discovered certain many European cities, n ;i hulf dozen in Paris • H.-rtimmer.gau. where he 'he Passion Play." r: hurried from the pns- 'Uie on Wheeling Is- f iuiing it closed, went ir-nce of Mrs. William and elderly neighbor ' * pretty little scene by the court room one 'h« recent trial, audeville Offer. . . ^• hen seen by the re lief arri\al at the l^'ighingly admitted that fd several offers of ' I appear In vaudeville f her experiences. But ;>•' ppt any of them, rrm is now largely in general hope is that ! bf t’ied again (or will TARIFF BDARD LEEISUIT10 N EXPECTED SOON Washington. Jan. 28.—The house will pass on Monday the tariff board legislation urged by President Taft. Responsibility for its defeat will be passed along to the senate. A rule was adopted today by the house comittee on rules under wliich the bill is to'be taken up as a spe cial order on Monday, considered and ptit to a vote. There will be op position to the passage of the bill from both republican and democratic sources, but a majority for the mea sure in the house is aisured by the support of Sereno E. Payne and Champ Clark, republican and demo cratic leaders. respectivel;v. Representative Fitzgerald, of New York, a member of the committee on rules, today announced his Op position to the bill and his intention to fight its passage. It is understood Representative A. Mitchell Palmer, of Pennsylvania, also a democrat, will attack the bill. The measure, as it is to be brought into the house. is a compromis ))roposition, built up of the features of the Longworth and Dalzell plans. It is to remain an advisory board to the president, and is not to report to congress the result of its in.estigations oi tarift matters unless asked to do &o by the senate o! the house. In this way Consress hopes to keep control of tariff legis lation and tariff matters. A notev,orthy feature in connec tion with (his measure is the man ner in which Champ Clark, next speaker of the house, has swung his influence in favor of the tariff He has been pla.'ing presidential politics again on a large scole. Clark is opposed to tariff boards or commis- sit ns on principle. He does not be lieve such a body could get any more accurate information on the tari^ tiian ."^n.v' individual congressman anxious to ascertain the facts. Indeed, Clark believes a tariff commission, besides being unconsti tutional, is les.s likely to get accurate information than an individual con gressman seeking the light, for the reason (hat the fact of the board of commission being puulicly known to be after information bv that means scares away the men from whom information could be secured. But Clark knows, also, that the great body of the people want a tariff bo-ird, and w'ant the taritf, as far as possible, taken out of pol itics. Clark knows, also, that over in the senate Senator Bailey, of Tex as, is opposed to a tariff board, and has s.'rv^d notice of his intention to do all he can to defeat the tariff board legislation a( this session. Bailey is credited with being a Har mon man. The line of thought may he easi ly followed. Clark is content to al low the tarift board bill to go through the house without protest from him, because it would pass any how'. But he thereby evades run ning counter to the wishes of the people and sees the bill go to the senate and into the clutches of Bail ey. who, with his presidential fa vorite. Harmon, suffers all the dis- for obstructing the popular WITNESSES IN SCHENK ♦ TRIAL. ^ ♦ Prominent witnesses who testified in the trial of Mrs. Laura Farnsworth Schenk which was finished Thursday in Wheeling, W. Va. It will be re membered that Mrs. Schenk was charged with attempting to poison her millionaire husband, John O. Schenk and that the jury disagreed and a new trial will be had in the case. The sketch is that of Eleanor Kline, who, as a detective nurse, swore that she had been offered $1,000 to poison Schenk. Below is. shown Dan Phil lips, who testified to spending much time with the defendant and accepting presents from her, and Allen Evans, one of the nurses who testified against Mrs. Schenk on joy rides.. The testi mony of Miss Kline was the most dam aging to Mrs. Schenk. she ‘^aid this | board ?t the last minute .1 ning her m a suit tor he loss of my tvo He will liave to do if he di\;)rces me hen we were living tu- his mi’lions," she weni all he gave me to keep on Wht-eling Island and ;h \'irgiiiia and Robert, ;>)nth. Duvinu our ma;'- Uvays refused to keep 1 iiad tu do even the "uce a week he con- o a girl to come in ' . house. That was my what I have gone 'i‘ fourteen years from Ohio Capitalist In The City Three Days Looking Foi a Site THE WEATHER. AVashington, .Tanfl 28.—Fore ♦ cast for Sunday and Monday: ♦ North Carolina and South ♦ Carolina, generally fair Sunday ^ and Monday: moderate temper ♦ ature: liglit variable winds. ♦ ♦ Councilman And Financier of East Liveipool Anxious to Secure Location For Whole- sale Pottery Plant in or Neat 7he Queen City. Great Granddaughter of Martha Washington Dead Washington. 1). C.. ,lan. 2S.—.Mrs. Britannia Wellington Kennou, great granddaughter of Martha Washington, 90 years old. died here this morning at her home. "I'udor Place.” Mrs. Kennou was one of the grand old women of Washington society %ind the oldest living student of (George town Convent. When Lafayette visit ed this countiy in 1824 he stopi>ed with her .grandfather. Robert Peter, the first mayor of Georgetown. Mrs. Ken- ;ion was only nine years old ai the time and alwavs claimed that f»he could remember tlie gallant French man dandling her on his knee. In her girlhood Mrs. Kennon was re garded as very beautiful and she was (me of the most notable of the famou;; capital belles, .ianuary tith. 184:?. slie married Coinniodorf> Beverly Kennon. personal friend of President Tyler who was aflerv.ard killed by the explo sion of the big gun “I’eacernaker” Vvhlle it was lieing tested on board the warship Princeton. The funeral ser vices were held in the vhite house. Three Fat ms Bought By Mr. Geo. Stephens Yesterday Afternoon Wakefield Farm, Shakespeare ♦ Harris Land, And the J. j J Foard Farm East of City Purchased, WHAT CONGRESS DID SATURDAY. credit will. Bnt StC'T TO FBEnT . New Haven, Conn., Jan. 28.—It was she i«;> and that she] stated tonight on excellent authority i.eral alimony. When she that the visit of Charles A. Goodwm, II nial it was popularly {of Hartford, to Washington, was caus- ho vouJd be convicted. 1 ed hy an offer he has received to oe- ■ if p5vschology is re-) come secretary to President Taft, it the .shift of feeling. It'is admittted at Goodwins ^ Dan Phillips took he has been invited to the White House by the president to be ten dered a federal appointment but the exact ofnee is not disclosed. Repub lican politicians say that they regaid it certatin that he has been offered the executive secretaryship which is soon to become vacant. Goodwin ran for governor on the republican ticket the past fall and was defeated by about 3,500 votes. He was secretary to Governor Frank Weeks who retired from office Jan uary 1. He is a nephew of J. Pierpont m and contempt ; Morgan and Is atout 3^6 years ■ artous wavs Tor ?raluated from Yale m the class : of ^98. • :lnst her ' t he lie like a gentle- .ands Gallant Wheeling. . fter she had showered r him and openly man- !o\.e for him? He had sp since all the joy taken in Ohio and he* ' e been prosecuted in Lse For Phillips. ' ' 'nrnent of Phillips' fii’st mpathy was entirely I the jurors admitted I r>,-r>i-»eKi r\c f're disgusted with Phil- PROMINEN DURHAM ■il "f the women, and that i nf figured partially, at ■ tl'iencing eleven of them '» acfiulttal. DEAD. Special to The Sunday News. Durham, N. C., Jan. 28. ^^The death of Dr. M. P. W”ard, who lived . seven miles in the country ^9 . - Hang for Wife Murder. j this morning one of the countie s Term., .Ian. 28.—In the most prominent men. He had a wue f "!i t here today Napper I and four children and until a vlc- •hite man, was sentenced 1 tim of brights disease actively prac- ■ i. fi here on March 15 fonticed medicine. He was 50 years ot ^ -T of his wife. The murder j age. and married twice. The funeral ;n Wilson county. ' services will be held tomorrow. Trade Represents $40,000 or More-Options Given Fou\ Weeks Ago Closed Yester day Afternoon. And the end is not yet. The week began with the purchase, by Mr. E. D. Latta, of several blocks of South Tryon street property, which purchase electrified the real estate world of Charlotte, and closed last night with a deal representing an in vestment of many thousands more. After having options on three tracts of land east of the city for four weeks, Mr. George Stephens yesterday after noon closed the trades, therieby tak ing over the Shakespeare Harris farm of 200 or 300 acres, the J. D. Foard place of 9 acres and Dr. W. H. Wake field's truck farm of 20 acres. For the W’akefield faim the sum of $11,000 was paid. The Fofc”d place brought $10,000. The Harris place was reported to have brought in the neighborhood of $300 an acre. The latter figure could not be veri-. fied last night. The three properties are contig uous. They are on, or near, the Belt road leading from Dilworth to Provi dence township, and lying beyond Mvers’ Park. On the Wakefield farm are several buildings and trucking appliances which were not included in the sale. These Dr. Wakefield will have moved to his home place. The Harris place is mostly wood land. It is further east than any of the places. The Foard property is under culti vation. It joins Dr. Wakefield’s place on one. side. On the Foard place is a six-room house. Mr. Stephens’ purpose, as under stood, in buying so much land on the east, is to develop for residential purposes. The property is located one one of the best highways of the county, and will with the extension of the car lines be one of the most delightful suburban section. It is not in Charlotte city property alone that the business men of the city have confidence, but in the coun try contiguous to and surrounding Charlotte In every direction. With Mr. Latta to extend the busi ness of Charlotte down South Tryon street to the railroad, and Mr. Ste phens and associates to adorn the su burbs with beautiful homes for the in coming population, the Queen City will grow proudly on to a greater Charlotte —as great as was pictured by the speakers at the interurban meeting week before last. Washington, Jan. 28.—In the House —Deate resumed on District of Colum bia apporpriation bill. Naval appropriation bill reported, .. carrying $125,421,538. Provides for two] vault at Mr. McClean’s residence. Dreadnoughts, four submarines, eight Bought the Diartiond of Romance And Tragedy Washington, Jan. 28.—For $300,000 spot cash, Edward B. McClean, of Washington, today became the full owner of the famous Hope diamond of romance and tragedy. The glittering gem weighed 44 1-2 carrats, was delivered over to Mr. McClean tonight by Mr. Pierre Cartier, the New- York and Paris jeweler and is now' locked up in the destroyers and two colliers. Wilson, of Pennsylvania, introduced resolution asking state department to report to the house the number of in stances where Mexican government has persecuted political refugees in this country. Senate not in session today. Committee: House rules committee decided to report special rule Monday, providing for immediate consideration I^ngwoith-Dalzell tariff board bill. Combmittee had exciting session over delay in presenting Ballinger-Pinchot reports. Asher Hinds was accused of delaying report. Senate committee on public lands authorized report on Nelson bill pro viding for Alaska coal land leases. Denies Report of Estrangement. Washington, Jan. 28.—The atten tion of the Spanish legation having been attracted by publications to the effect that domesiic infelicity has brought about an estrangement betwen King Alfonso and Queen Victoria, minister Riene today enter ed an emphatic denial. Morse Suit Dropped. New York. Jan. 28.—Judge Lam- combe in the United States circuit court this afternoon signed an order dismissing the suit of John Mc Kinnon, as agent of the sharehold ers of the National Bank, of North America, against Charles W. Morse and the directors of the institution for the recover.v of $750,000 for losses through Morse’s alleged speculation. It is said that the suit has been compromised. SOME MORE EVIDENCE Mr. T. W. Lattimore, who lives at 404 South Church street, placed the following ad last Thursday: FOR SALE—Barred Rocks, eight bens and tw-o cockerels. ’Phone 1616-J. Th ad was ordered to run five days. Before ten o’clock Friday morning the chickens were sold and the ad ordered stopped—only one insertion ne cessary at a cost of only 11 cents. How' about your ad? Call up 115 and ask for the ad man. (See Want Ad Page 8.) Tried to Hide Disgrace. Dallas, Texas. Jan. 28.—To conceal from his family the fact that he was tried here for vagrancy, Arthur Herndon, who committed suicide in a local jail, had arranged to be buried under an assumed name and his iden tity was not discovered until just before his funeral today. He leaves relatives in Terre Haute and Jason- ville, Ind. Want To Break The Deadlock New York. .Ian. 28.—1. N. S. reporter v.as told todav by two le- 1'ublicpu;^. \vho liecline-i to be qu'st- to. tha^ a rj’o’emeiil is on loot t i break the senatorial deadlocii. nt Albanq through a ccmibinatioi; of democratic iiisur'ents and rtp'.:bl- cans, the object being u eiect "i'l.y decent democrat ’ that micht !e r.^rc^ed o; rn by the in.- ';-gents William pEints, :ir., of Alban/, re- c.^iily elected cl-airmun >t thi"! re- I'.ul.lican tir,le committee, w.ts crcfi- iiod w;lh enginer”ing th? moven'ei;*, which, it was said, would #^nd the deadlocK. In no circums'ances, U wa.s said, would Barnes consent to the repu’oii- cans throw'inug their suj)port to Wil liam F. Sheenan. Those moiit favor ed for the compromise candifbiip are Justice James W. Gerard, Martin !1 Glynn and Seymour Van S!int\oor-i. DIED DF ra Church Celebration. Charleston, S. C., .Ian. 28. St. Michaels Episcopal church will to morrow celebrate the hundredth and fiftieth anniversary of its opening to divine service, the first service hav ing been held on February 1, 1761. Thr%e interesting services will mark the occasion, Bishop Guerry and other prominent churchmen taking part. The mayor and aldermen will attend in a body. During the siege of Charleston the tall steeple was a favorite target for federal gunners, four shells striking the masonry. The earthquake of J886 seriously damag ed the edifice. New' York, Jan. 28.—Carleton S. Car penter, the young engineer of White Plains, who died in St. Luke s hospital on December 19th, and whose malady had puzzled the best physicians in the East, w’as a victim of Hodgkinson’s disease, an Oriental fever similar to typhoid, except that it effects the spleen and its outward appearance is similar to that of tuberculosis. When Carpenter died, the autopsy gave no clue to the cause of death. It is said, however, that the man’s spleen was retained at the request of Dr. Theodore C. Janeway, and that subsequent laboratory tests proved that Dr. Janeway’s first suspicion was correct and that the man actually died of a disease little known in this coun try but common In the Orient. How Carpenter contracted Hodgkin son’s disease will probably never be known. He was 31 years and s>tood six feet five inches in his stocking feet—a wonderful physical specimen. He was a graduate of New York Uni versity. AMENDMENT TO THE TENNESSEE CONSTITUTION. Nashville, Tenn., Jan. 28.—The amendment to the constitution pend ing in the legislature provides for the election of all state officers on the same day; makes the state comp troller and treasurer-elected by the people: makes the secretary of state elected by the people; makes the attorney general of the state elected bv the people and makes the gover nors term four instead of two years, he to be ineligible to succeed him self.- IIEID DEEB LED ID FEIDFDL THUED1 Special to The Sunday News. Durham, N. C., .Ian. 28.—A fatal fight between G. H. Dove and .Toe Roycroft, near Benehan last night, led to the arrest this morning of Dove and his binding to court without bail this afternoon on charge of mtirder. Near-beer can claim the credit. In a little shant.v eight by ten. the men quarrelled last night and Dove With a Copy of The News in His Pocket The Visitor Criti cally Viewed Charlotte—Is Enthusiastic Anent City^s Possibilities, With a copy of The News in his pocket. Mr. E. E. Chambers, capital ist and city official of East Liver pool, Ohio, has been viewing Char- loMe from an unbiased and an* ex tremely critical standpoint since his arrival here 'I'huisday. lie will leave thc» Qneen (Mty next Tuesday for .lacksonville. b'la., and other points in the south, ar.d unless he becomes acquainted with men wiio offer him greater indiicemeuis, will return to (MiarlottP within tiiirty days and op en negotiation wiili some real estate firm for the ])iircliase of a site that wiil be suitable ofi a wholesale and retail poltery industry. "I bough( a copy if The News of Friday.' said .Mr. (Miambers, the city father of the city made famous throughout the rnion because of its poltery plants, “and am forcibly imiiressed with the article that tells of prol)al)le oiganization of an association of business men whoi-e »)bject will be to invite new indus- iiics. 'riiroiigh some mistake this paper was lost in my room and 1 want a dozen or so copies to send lo niv business associates and the city oflicit'ls of Fast Liverpool. While I will not. I tliink, need any financial backing to start a pottery stf're hvre, I do want the moral sup port of the people. 1 am sorry I have not been able to meet more of your business men and talk the mat ter over with them. When i return I shall anriciitate with luf'asurf^ n:i introduction to those most activel.v (•ngaged 'u liie upbuildius of th® city and the state." It is strikinply Mignificvin*' of the enterprise of The New.s that three inquiries from ))rospective capitalists were received this week. ^Jac h in quiry was turned over to a real estate dealer who immedia!e1y cot into coTpmunication with men who are to kx-ate in the south and who l)ipfer Charlotte becan.s^ of their un derstanding that it is the central sta tion between the north and the south, the pivot aroimd which will swing I he industry of the southeastern sec tion. Hut reverting to the original sub ject, it is well to state that Mr. (Chamber:-; is pleased with Char lotte, notwithstanding the fact that he has seen if unaccompanied. “Mf brother and I want tc locate sume- where in North Carolina or ia T'lorida and I stopped over in Char lotte to take a look." exclaimed Mr. Chambers, "I have been reading of your real estate deals and in fact have been a very close ^liserver of conditions of all kinds since I ar rived. I am impressed with the city and believe that It is destined to be the gateway for capital within the very neai future. With such a paper .is The News to infrom the public firsthand of the live news of the day any city must perforce ex pand in ever.v wa>'. While I have lieen, anJ am yet, loyal to East Liverpool, I must admit Ihat my iM'cr gone about the matter of l)ringing new industries to the place in the systematic man ner that you of the New South have. I am proud of your enthusiasm and I want to be one of you. Have you a business men’s club? They must be the best of men to furnish the newspai)ers with information that tends to help the city. Why, if «« had a paper in my home that a4l9* cated such measures, T firmly lieve we would enlarge the plant there and save the expense of com ing this way.” In fairness, however, to the mem bers of the Greater Charlotte club and to the business men of the city it must be said that Mr. Chambers did not make his business here known until Saturday morning when he con versed with a representative of The over a triviality ....... ^ v. Shoved Roycroft to the floor. As he News. Having read The News he came up both men drew knives, but Dove was too quick. They shook hands and drank to peace, Dove paying for Roycroft’s bottle of beer. As Dove turned to walk out. Roy croft struck him with a beer bot tle and severei.v injured him. Dove called for a doctor and remarked that Roycroft was walking across the fields. He was, but he was stag gering to his deatii. The dead nan presented a hor rible picture of dying desperation. He had sef*ed his severed juglar vein and apparently tried to stop the flow of blood. One witness tes tified t'nat he cried murder and ac cused Dove. The disappearance of William Lewis today lends Ic "he suspicion that Levxis actuallv stab bed Roycroft as the wound was on the right aide and Lewis is reputed to be left handed. The near-beer establishment had been licensed, but one week. It doubtless caused the fight of two long time friends. There is consider able interest in Granville because both were men of means, Roycroft having a large • family besides. was anxious for others to read it and therefore came to the office to order copies sent to his home. He was told of the interurban line, of the proposed organization of an underwriters’ association, of the general upbuilding of Charlotte and of the great posF>ibilities within reach of the capitalist. Also wm he informed of the conditions as the'* now exist, of the assistance that would be given him by the construc tive business men here who wrjuld lend him aid in his enterprise. And his parting words \rere: “I will not decide until I have made a more thorough inspection »C Charlotte. Your enthusiasm Is 1nfe^ tious. You make me want to locate here. For after all, if I lose what money I invest in an establishment here," I believe I will have been the gainer because of having met such pleasant people.” Mr. Chambers intends to purchase a building for a pottery plant, or in the event that he can not find a suitable place, to buy a lot and build. He is stopping at the Stone- I wall hotel.