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ONE SECTION.
OL 2. NO. 25
CHARLOTTE, N. C.. SUNDAY MORNING, JULY 23. 1911
PRICE 5 CENTS
Gwernor Kitchin
Replies To Thee
Of His Clitics
; Charges That He
Cooled Down on 7rust
:wn Since Election, He
s Darnels to Review his
fd.
'MOTHER AND BABE
KILLED BY LIGHTNING.
G
P'Sitw’ly Several State
:s Made by^ Critics in
. and Observer And De-
he Has Done All
:nt 1 rusts That he Could
t^unda> News.
N. r , July 22.—Governor
It'day his expected re-
aM;icks made on him in
*norning paper through the
'“iieimer-J. A. LockharJ let-
• editorial of Editor Jose-
impeaching the sincerity
i!>*r in his anti-trust pro-
. c‘!n'radicted by his course
if been governor.
’y comprises eight typewrit-
- a number of quotations
".augural address and messa-
. legislature being lined. The
..ays:
His Statement.
this to say In reply to the
a U of yourself and Messrs.
■-liier and Lockhart, which is
: ttith other unfair attacks on
Decatur, Ala.,* July 22.—A
Mrs. Harmon and her year-old
baby were killed by lightning
this morning at Pleasant Hill,
a village ntar here. J. H. Holm
es was badly shocked. Seven 1
head of stock were killed.
or
IS RECOVERED
FROM MtlNE
Havana. July 22.—A mass of bones,
supposed to rerresent six or seven
members of the crew of the battle
ship Maine, were found today beneath
the wreckage on the central super
structure near the inverted conning
tower. The bones bore evidence of
fire. Still other bones ar in sight and
thy will probably be taken out Mon
day. The total bodies thus far recover-
er is now placed at eleven. The bones
rocevered today are believed to be
those of men sleeping on the starboard
main deck, the night of the disaster
being, it is recalled, excessively hot
L'. the legislature of 1909 met I
'peful that a thorough anti-
./ill would pass. After learn-
■ sentiment of the senate, 1 be-
>roughly satisfied that it was
rile to get. an} trust measure
the senate beyond the require-
of the platform. On the night
. ruary 1. 1909, one of the best
'..cd gentlemen of the senate said
thai when the Lockhart hill
irom the committee, after his
. A motion to lay the bill on the
Hculd be made and carried, and
■vould end the trust legislation
'hat session. A srnator present
red that opinion. 1 promptly re-
that that would never do and
.tl the platff-n.i, tojJ^qi.jLnd declar-
■ iMt requirements must be per-
rmed They both agreed with
.e The LiOCkhart bill had been
Time prior thereto introduced.
Confers With Lockhart.
A -hort lime thereafter. Senator
i..-'khart. upon mv request, came to
• A me with Senator Nimocks to talk
rv the situation—the only confer-
^ I ever had with these two gen-
:uen Our conference was full, frank,
i unreserved, all of us agreeing on
"Ughf to be done and all doubt-
ho'her anything could be done.
! iiH'. M a cop\ of a letter written
I.. .vitnin 30 dajs af-
■..t' legislature adjourned, which
■ ir’led me then to recall that con-
^ and I remember much of it.
Senator ix)ckhart what were
-;ncei- of his bill passing the
He rt, "^d ha', counting all
; ’'»ful men. hp could muster
'•'‘natO!> in its support. 1
fr-Mi' mi talk with various
; had al'ii concluded that we
• sef ure the passage of his
.1 ‘iu'’il> lememlier repeating
lie conver.-a'iion whiih oc
,i in. ptfice on the night of
m* niioned. After
,11 khan, hSenator Nimocks
■ I'.*’'! oar’assed the situa-
iet!!’ rec>'ll‘' !Ion is that It
- PimoU' opinion that a cfim-
n ■1-1 could not j.ass. 1 stat-
■ ’ le legi-lature did noi enact
uu»:e 01 cur prate platform
■ar! would probably be de-
r-;o ncxi camnaign. To this
■ i^'eu. 1' V Hs finally under-*
a' .-jencitor Lockhart would
• ■ hi^- *ili pans which
. ad’, thr law, he having sub-
. !'ied »he oris^inal Reid-Jut-
and w>» \%ouUi strive at
ha\p the ..laeform declara-
um 1 »hen st n*eU 1 had been
"’T I _ ; »'u-ii:'., a >.pef ial nies-
■ ic^islaturp on the ^^^^ubject.
! r-cna''ot' L'X'khart if he
r-. 'iivlnation?^ mentioned,
ir-^m a perial message ne-
replied. “Yc-.-. and a.s hot
make it. lor it would be
'he Tt'n t'ommandmcuts
• -enate."
i foove tho ronference w-as
■ ;.rp::?=p of accomplishing
trusts. 1 recall no
it*iwef*n Senators Lock-
■';,nd my=elf, the ques
- . iK'thpr we should contend
. ru. iilar bill and accomplish
‘ry to accomplish the best
- k! lation, and when our con-
■di"!irnc'd I was not aware
; :fcreii up'^n the latter policy
Brands Statement Untrue.
‘*f'nicnt 'if Mr. lA)ckhart that
' :-n‘' linif' said that 1 hoped
,i‘u- v.tiuld be (lone is untrue
sHf^ary to my inaugural ad
;nt'i-w P.1V hj>ecial mes-
'• d and »h*.-vcry i)urpose
•- nc rh«- remark of the
: in D.irhani was made in
* 7 two years prior to the con-
lid wa>- to show the kind ol
o b « xppcted In the con
■ :M-trust legislation. Senator
t know that I did not on
i. ^ .tatement for I added that
" told the contleman thai if
n hid |ias.~ed in inO and
t in iJiirhani had been for
= ■ ^'!!tr; »m t lie dollar, 1 would
d ever> dollar I could to
tinned on Page Four,
KILLS SEir
Special to Sunday News.
Durham, N. C., July 23.—John Alex
ander Vickers, a member of a well
known Durham family, committed sui
cid* this afternoon by cutting his
throat with a rozor.
Vickers was with his family and
walked out to a tield some distance
fro mthe house. In a short time he
was found with his wind-pipe severed
and in a dying condition.
Physicians were summonde But he
died before he could be reached.
He leaves a wife and three children
one brother and two sisters.
The Vickers family can assign no
couse for his action as he had shown
no abnormal state of mind.
He seems to have had melancholiy
some time, though, and without any
apparent cause. He was about 35
years of age.
CONDITION OF JOHN W. GATES.
A Two To
VIctory
One
Achieved
Foi Reciprocity
IREIlTy SOON
Washington, July 2S.—President
Taft announced to that the signing
of the important pact would be delayed
owing to the absence from Washing
ton of the British and French ambas
sadors, but tlie president has arranged
the matter so that Ambassador Jus-
serand may sign the French treaty in
Paris and Ambassador Bryce Avill prob
ably affix his signature to the English
copy at his summer home in Maine.
Secretary Knox will sign the treaties
nWashington. If the signing and ex
change of treaties can be accomplish
ed before the present session of con
gress, both treaties will be laid before
the senate for ratification.
The president declined today to an
nounce the other three countries he
expects to come in on the new treaty,
but the impression is that they are
Germany, Holland and Sweden.
Simmons, Bailey, LaFollette
And Other Amendment Of-
jerers Swamped Beneath a
Tower oj Opposing Votes—
Treaty Passed Unhobbled,
•i -f.
.
John Temple Graven, The
Erstwhile **Sweet Singer** oj
Dixie Eloquently Pictures
the Dramatic Scenes Precede
ing Final 2 riumph.
(BY JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES.)
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BRING HIM IN
Coroner’s Jury Holds
Henry C. Beattie, Jr.
For Wife Murder
Great Excitement
Follows Announce
ment of This Verdict
Paris, July 22.—The oppressive heat
of the past few days, together with the
rumbling noise from the trains in the
underground railway which runs
the hotel Maurice, have deprived
John W. Gates, the American million
aire, of much needed sleep and have
not tended to the bettering or his gen
eral condition. Mr. Gates is at times
much agitated and nervous and his
sitting up so frequently is a result of
this nervousness and does not denote
improvement. While the Gates’ fam
ily is optomistic over the outcome of
the case, the physicians are not so
confident. They say tonight that he
could not be pronounced out of danger
for several days.
Police Do all in Their Power to
Forestall Any Attempt at
Mob Violence—Miss Binjord
And Paul Beattie Also Sent
to Jail,
Wall Paper Men
Plead Not Guilty
Cleveland. O.. July 22.—J. B. Pearce
of this citv, president of the J. B.
Pearce Wall Paper Company; Norton
Newcomb, of St. l..ouis. president of
the Newcomb Brothers’ Wall Paper
Company, and E. E. Maxwell, of Chica-
ceneral manager of S. A Maxwell
Si Co., charged by the government
with maintaining a wall paped trust,
appeared in the United States distr ct
court today and pleaded
The cases were set for the October
term of the court.
L THEfiES
Detective Bmus
Reaches Indianapolis
J.
Indianapolis, Ind., July 2_. W.
Burns, returned here from Europe to-
dav and appeared in court to answer
to'four grand jury indictments on
charges of kidnappinc John J. Mc
Namara. Burns waved arraigiiment on
plea of not guilty and gave bond by a
surety company for 2,o00 °
dictment. Judge Markey said he wou.d
set the case for trial In September oi
October.
ENGAGEMENT ANNOUNCED.
St. l>ouis, July^ 22.-Charles J-
Dolan, the .voung Irish
and philanthropist. Journej ed to
tZls from Dublin to study the shoe
manufacturing bu&iness,
gained, in addition,
!,ouise Kenney,
Alice M- Kenney.
** Woman in the Case** Faints
When She Hears Verdict—
Her Sensational Testimony--
Alleged Wife Slayer is Coal
Throughout Inquest,
Richmond, Va., July 22.—At 3:35
o’clock this afternoon the coroner’s
jury returned a verdict holding Henry
C. Beattie, Jr.. responsible for the
death of hise wife, Mrs. Louise Owen
Beattie, who was murdered on the Mid
lothian turnpike last Tuesday night
about 11 o’clock.
The greatest excitement prevailed
after the verdict was returned and
every effort made by the detectives and
police to prevent the least outbreak
of disorder or attempt at mob viol
ence.
The Jury's Verdict.
The coroner’s jury verdict follows:
"We, the gentlemen of the jury, se
lected by the coroner on July 19, 1911,
and duly sworn on view of the body
of Mrs. Louise Owen B. Beattie, to
inquire when, where and by what
means the said Louise Owen B. Beattie
came to her death on the night of
July IS, 1911, between 1:45 and 11
o’clock on the Midlothian turnpike at
a point about three miles west of
Richmond and one fourth of a mile
west of the colored church, as a re
suit of a gunshot w'ound, the same be
ing flred by her husband, Henry Clay
Beattie, Jr.
“Given under our hand, this 22d.
day of July, 1911.
(Signed)
“J. G. Loving, Coroner.
“J. G. Robertson, Foreman.
“J. T. Cousins,
“W. A. Jacobs.
“John A. Morton,
“Clayton Yerby,
“P. C. Yerby, Ji'.”
xne jurv met at noon at the Lov
ing home in Chesterfield county and
several witnesses were examined,
among fhem Paiil Douglas Beattie,
cousin of the accused man.
who
but he
Miss Katherine
daughter of Mrs.
Formal announce
ment of tbe
today.
engagement
was made
his wife, Louise Owen Seattle, w'ent
for an automobile ride on the Midlo
thian turnpike, last Tuesday night, dnd
that Mrs. Beattie was shot to death, a
load of shot passing through her
head. The gun used by the assassin, a
single-barreled, breech-loader, was
found the next morning by the road
side, by Mandy Alexander, a colored
woman.
Paul Douglas Beattie, a cousin of
Henry C. Beattie, Jr., purchased the
gun from J\j:. Weinstein and gave it to
Henry. The weapon was identified to
day by Mandy Alexander, Paul Beat
tie and Mr. Weinstein, the latter hav
ing returiied from Newport News, Va.,
in order to attend today’s session of
the inquiry and give his testimony re
lative to the sale of the gun.
Who Used The Gun?
H. M. Smith, the attorney for the de
fendant, indicated very plainly in his
examination of Paul Beattie this after
noon that an effort will be made to
prove that Paul, and not Henry
Beattie, used the gun on the nigni of
the murder.
Paul Beattie was asked if he had
not charged Henry Beattie, a week be
fore, with dealing unfairly with him,
and his brother in a settlement of
Paul’s father’s estate; if he had not
become alarmed when he realized that
the gim would be traced to him and
tried to put the crime on his cousin
and if he had not made the confes
sion of the purchase of the gun to
save himself.
The witness denied the allegations
He said that he and his cousin had al
ways been on good terms, despite the
fact that Henry Beattie rarely visited
his home.
Paul Beattie Very Weak.
The moment that Paul Beattie clos
ed his statement he became faint and
was escorted to a bed where he rest
ed for several minutes, and chen re
turned to the porch, where the in
quest was held, and resumed his tes
timony. Although very w'eak and ex
tremeiy nervous the young man did
not change his original story under
the vigorous examination of Henr;
Beattie’s attorney.
As the jury made its way to a rootn
to deliberate on the verdict, a crow’
of several hundred people, held in re
straint by ropes wi.ich kept them a
certain distance from the house, brok
through the ropes, some going near
the house, and others dispersing.
When Dr. Loving appeared a few
minutes later and announced that the
jury had voted unanimously to charge
the husband of the slaim woman with
the crowd dispersed quiet
possed person in the circle on the
porch where the evidence was heard
w'as the one accused. His composure
was the feature of the entire examina
tloB’aiftd-eaHeed'^n'Stderable comment
After hearing the verdict read the
crowd dispersed in every direction to
carry the news to their friends. In
terest in the case was intense but no
one appeared to b; wrought up. The
outcome of the case Lefore the coroner
seems to be perfectly satisfactory with
those who had followed the evidence,
and no surprise was occasioned.
The excitement of the past several
days has subsided and there is no
danger of mob violence.
Three Put In Jail.
Henry Clay Beattie was remanded
to the Henrico county jail to await
trial. And Paul Beattie and Miss Beu
lah'Binford were held as witnesses.
Chief-of-Police Werner and his assist
ants believe that they have found in
Henry Clay Beattie the murderer of
Mrs. Louise Ow^en Beattie, who was
a very popular young matron of Man-
CtlGSt©!*
The return of the handsome Beuiah
Binford, a blonde of 19 years, to this
city, is given as one motive for the
crime. Young Beattie w'as know'n to
the police as a sport and spendthrift,
and it was common talk that he pre
ferred the Binford woman to his quiet,
modest little wife.
Miss Binford Faints.
When Beulah Binford was told of
this decision she fainted. She was tak
en, with Paul Meattie, to Henrico coun
ty jail for safe keeping.
Miss Binford, unable to give $1,000,
and Paul Beattie, unable to give $5,000,
en. with Paul Beattie, to Henrico coun
jail.
Miss Binford’s Testimony.
In her testimony before the coroner’s
jury Beulah Binford, the “other woman
in "the case,” contradicted Beattie in
particulars as to the latter’s
Claus, A, Spreckels, Head of
Federal Refining Company oj
Yonkers, Testifies Before In
vestigating Committee on the
Great **Sugar Trust,**
Delivers Stumming Blows to
The Tariff on Sugar—Gives
Interesting Figures—Takes a
Rap at Louisiana
Growers,
Sugar
made oath that he purchased a gun j the crime,
,T r'lo,- Tlon + tif> last Satur-> 1> • . , X
Henry Clay Beattie, without any
sign of emotion, heard the jury’s
charge. Before the last word was out
for Henry Clay Beattie last
dfiv. *
The jury was out but ten minutes
when it came to an unanimous agree
ment.
Thft Evidence.
Evidence w'as produced to show the
following facts:
That Henrv f!lav Beattie
Jr.. and
many
New York. July 22.—“The sugar
bounty caused revolution In Hawaii
that resulted in the downfall of the
monarchy there. Wherever there is
sugar there is trouble.”
Claus A. Sprekels, head of the Fed
eral Refining Company of Yonkers,
the biggest, if not the only remaining,
competitor of the sugar trust now un
der investigation by a special commit
tee of the national house of represen
tatives, told the investigators this to-'
day Mr. Spreckels has fought the
giant combine at every turn since his
father, who laid the foundation for the
families great fortune as a sugar re
finer on the Pacific coast, was induced
by Henry O. Havemeyer and John E.
Searles to pool his interests with the
trust a few years after that, organiza
tion was launched in 1SS7, in pursuing
ruggedly his own course he has even
broken off business relations with his
brother, John D. Spreckles, whom he
now charges with being allied with the
trust in California.
During the course of his examina
tion, which consumed the entire ses
sion of the committee, Mr. Speckles
delivered stunning blows to the tariff
on sugar, which he declared was cost
ing the people of the United States
Washington, July 22.—Every ele
ment of nature 'and of grace smiled
today upon the final passage of reci
procity.
After the storms of yesterday, fierce
and vivid as the debates upon the ’ill
followed the calm of the tranquil morn
of consumation. The breeze came from
the north—Canada-ward. The atmos
phere was glowing as with the warmth
of international good will, and the
sky, so recently overcast with clouds,
was as clear and as tender a blue as
ever the sunshine of prosperity came
shimmering through.
It was 10:58 by the post-office clock,
10:59 by the clock in the Press gal
lery, and 11 o’clock sharp by the piece
of machinery facing the vice president,
when James Sherman called the sen
ate to order.
First Amendment Killed.
A
At 11:20 a demand for a quorum
mustered 78 lagging senators to their
seats. At 11:25 McCumber, the blonde
giant of North Dakota, offered his
first—a free list amendment. And at
11:30 McCumber had been voted down
by 64 to 16. At 11:31 Knute Nelson,
ol Minnesota, marched into the open
amendment field for gains and farm
produce, and at 11:40. 58 senators had
assisted in the oosequies of Senator
Nelson.
Little Simmons, of North Carolina,
with a side glance at Bailey, sailed in
with his plea for fresh meats and flour
and cereals at 11:42. We buried lit
tle Simmons softly at 11:50 by the
usual organ chant, of 16 to C4.
Then Cummins smilingly presented
an amendment on iron and steel and
another on oil cloth and lineoleum.
Somebody in the senate gave Cummins
an extra vote for his winning smile,
but the usual epitaph of 17 to 64 was
written upon the great insurgent's
smile.
Many Others Killed.
Then LaFollette, the leviathian of
anti-reciprocity, with a dramatic in
tensity of quiet sent forward those far
farem amendments on the wool sched
ule and the cotton schedule for which
the senate has waited and the people
have wilted for weeks. And with un
ruffled serenity the senate sat upon
him, 64 to 15 and 53 to 15.
LaFollette then offered a strange
and apparently propitiatory am.end-
ment making wood pulp and print
paper free with all the world. But the
time was not rip for this tender com-
cession and it won only 11 votes.
Now Bailey, with his amendments
marshalled, like his oratory always to
a climax, offered the free list as a
handicap to the bill. Fifteen to 63 was
the answer.
Then Bailey with a dramatic defi
ance to his democratic colleague of the
cotton states played his master stroke. ^
“I offer as an amendment to put cot-
the freel
H
simpler arithmetical proposition, he
said that the last available statistics
^ show that the per capita consumption
movements during the past few w'eeks sugar in this country annually is
and laid bare the details of her rela- gjgj^ty.oj;ie pounds; the tariff is two
tions with the accused husband. She j cents a pound. The refiner charges the
said she went motoring with Beattie j ^^riff against the consumer. Hence,
every man, woman and child in the
United States is taxed $1.62 a year by
the sugar trust.
“The sugar industry in the United
States does not need protection,” as
serted Mr. Spreckels with great em
phasis. “It is one of the most prosper-
the night before the murder and was
with him until midnight. She had met
him four times in two weeks at resorts,
she said. ,
The girl told of meeting Beattie fou*
years ago when she was only thirteen
years old and of his sending her to St.
Mary's academy, at Alexandria. After industries in the country. The cost
being at school one month, she con-1 production here is cheaper than It
tijiued, she got ’ionesome and retui ti
ed home. She told of the birth of a
child at Raleigh, N. C., in 1909. The
baby, which had been put in the care
of a family here, died the following
year and the girl said she understood
Beattie paid the funeral expenses.
The witness declared that her re
lations with Battie were broken off en
tirely before his marriage, but that
she 'met him in Norfolk tw^o months
ago and followed him to Richm.ond de
spite his protests. Since her arrival,
he had seen her frequently, she. said,
and had sent her money with which to
buy furniture for a home. The re-direct
examination brought no direct light on
the murder.
CHOLERA CASE REPORTED
New York, July 22.—Manuel Ber-
mudes, a Spanish sailor, who arrived
here July 1. on a tramp steamer, was
found todaj
to be suffering from
is “r.*ed‘« ISn^"u*.ne“Ct ttt hlv^
^^Undmibtp.dlv* the coolest. moRt. aftlf
bpen no new cases.
one hundred and fifty million dollars , Jon J3a^ing and ties
a year. Reducing his statement to a M .
democrats of Dixie. J
The Solid South Solid Still.
There was a nervous stir among ih©
senators who represent the realm
where cotton is king. But the line nev
er wavered. The ranks were firm. Only
Johnson, of Alabama, fell in with Bail-
cv giving him 17 votes to 62. The sol
id south was solid still for reciproci
ty.
One dramatic incident of the Bailey?
amendments was significant. WTien the
roll was called Dillingham, of Ver
mont, rose to explain that he was pair
ed with the senior senator from
South Carolina, who if he were pres
ent, would vote no. W’ith almost a
suggestion of pain in his wonderful
voice Bailey demanded, “May I ask
through what source the senator from
Vermont was authorized to make that
statement?”
To which Dillingham responded:
“Through Senator Bacon of Georgia to
whom Senator Tillman referred me.”
Which means to those who know'
that the brave old radical from South
Carolina, who, in his broken health of
mind and body, followed Bailey almost
blindly in his last attendance of the
former session, has recovered at home
some of the splendid incredulity of
his progressive democracy and comes
back to his own place in the ranks
of the party.
There w^ere more amendments by
McCumber, tw'o amendments by Bris
tow on type and type metal and on
rubber products, and a minor amend
ment by Crawford—making 23 in all—
the last going to the grave by the
viva voce method of rebuke. Ever^
other amendment had been given the
yeas and nays.
Then at 1:28 the gadflies of amend-
Continued on Page Four.
is abroad. And yet the people of the
United States pay about two cents a
pound more than do the people of Eng
land, for example. Remove the tariff
and I would almost be willing to guar
antee that the people would not have
to pay any more for their sugar here
than do the people in England. We do
not need the tariff. We could compete
with the wwld and outsell it on a free
trade basis. If you do not think it ad
visable wholly to abolish the tariff,
then cut it in two, and you will see the
price to the consumer drop one cent a
pound.”
Now the war between the Spreckles
interests and the American Sugar Re
fining Company was settled and how in
the deal the Havemeyers and John E.
Searless made an enormous profit, was
told by Claus Augustus Spreckles.
Mr. Spreckles testified that he had
been unable to purchase sugar in
Ijouisiana although he offered more
than the American. He said that in
his opinion of the removal of big reduc
tion of the tariff on sugar would de
crease the price oi refined sugar in
this country two cents a hundred.
(Continued on page five.)
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