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■\ .Y Vanted, For Sale, For Rent, Lost and Foil Itoirdef of Rodtn^^^^p^e fiigtit " '/- ■ i-jt ...[ ^ 1 • * •- " - - - - -' -—•' -- - — ' ilh »M {'\ uir. ^rust atest Edition T^TTT^ 1 B ■ M ^ Lafest Edition VOL. 45. NO. 8076 CHARLOTTE N. C., SATURDAY EVENING, NOVtMBER. 4, 191 I Id Bill aught r \j Minoi At Last m Deiet mined Posse ' 'I' 1 "pT, Co. \h. Old Train Robber As Be Slumbered in a Railway Freight Car m to Waynesboro jor leping. Wake Forest Meets U. Of Va. To-day Special to The News. Wake Forest, Nov. 4.—After a TRIIIL FlIfiHT OF eillNTDIR- eiBLE HIRSHIP By Associatea Press. Atlantic City, N. J., Nov. 4.—The air* ship Akron, under command of Melvin Vaniman, left the hangar at 9:50 a. ra. today for a trial flight over the city and ocean. Following the airship through the streets were many automobiles. ^animan was at the hangar tinker- weck’s rest and with hard practice « uj u « j » during the past week the Wake ^ with the airship before daylight. • ‘ ^ The morning was misty and there was »rid- or two nMMjT , nst football team left this mo^ , for Charlottesville, where the^^i -it nfld For a Long [the university of Virginia orA 'iron Saturday. CrtmiS All Over\ with the exception o'y- ^Timzd ! men the team is fti r . condition rii Record For but Coach Thompson d upon leav- ^ inp that it was doubtiul whether he Imost Equals would use his best men all through the game as he wished to save them for the game with Davidson in Greensboro the following Saturday. Since the last game though with Washington and I^e, two strong ad ditions have been made to the team in the persJhs of Huntley and Mar tin. Both men havep layed on teams w hile in school and both will make id. ■A special to jville says: ■tix car at St. ibcrp o£ Old ). ftTTi^e strong, heady players. They will both . portw oa the i be used in the back field. 1-oRd ouL I Huntley, who hails from Chaxlotte, 1-oad «mrtouL|^ .^^ be remembered for his work Davidson in Charlotte last 'o 'he seate^ers ■ut for the two ii:nrning, and J. W. •' V, and wjrr^nd* against . . 1 hanksgiving. At no time during the ijame were the Davidson boys able lo stop him and he is looked forward to as one of the stars of thep resent i'Ciua loid to ne :o iil. i sea^'On. , rva.i iMide for; Martin is manager of this years Olfi Bill jl*ine| earn and a member of the team of it*u? He will also be used in the l.iicKfield and will undoubtedly make a regular place. So far this season Wake Foreet has secured 122 points to their oppon ents oO. The team left here confident and a close game is looked forward to. Basketball. The basketball team is given d^ly workouts under Coach Crozier an«r a much stronger team than the put out last year is expected. A squad of 30 men report for practice daily and are fast rounding into 8hai>p. Wake Forest was fortanatp in having all of last year’s team back and all are familiar with the record made by them. The class games start the 1 Ith while the game between the L;i\\yers and the Meds will be play ed Saturday nighi. This is an annual gauic and one that a great deal of interePt is centered in. LasI iear tre .lawyers won a.nd the Medt> are goiug in for revenge CIRCULARS ON FREIGHT CLAIMS. OLD BILL MINOR. ' Sneclal to The News, his hands, he put up one, Ga., Nov. 4.-With the lauda- ’^fid the other one oil his R'ln.j^ig object in view of trying to teach • ne pistol which he reluc-jthe great American public something - hr pockei and put up about freight claims and how to col- . j hprt them the Freight Claim Assocta- n.l. Moore showod fi^bt million circulars . in the f.u-e l)y one of theLj^^^.j^g subject, chote svcrr flrofi, one by Each freight claim agent in the ' ' r>» him. Karlv this morn-, I’nited States will send a copy to every s Toucht to Waynes- consigne and shipper along his line. ^Thousands of them are now being sent vM.ins: and when through the railroad offices in 'n t=ip .--hcvifT's ofRc'e Georgia. ■:od 't to cot a look and With the circulars go “Railway Bus- ramons old train robber i for escapes, almost equal ' rrirne. He thanked Com- rnew*r*. ' / f-u t . *3^ C V Co. - - 3 ■!. •’•tun ine&s Association Circular No. 8,” on the revolution in freight claims, telling how the co-operation between the ship- , pers. the railways and the government .'im ('»• some favor done!has transformed a national grouch in- n ppputy Sheriff Sam to a spirit of fast-spreading satisfac- - ; ' hargc of him, told tion ’’ifi looUinR for him all ’’ '• plied »iiat he was at ^ • he rorae in. He says . mps. Minor was in 8 and talked as if nod. Ho bays he will the opportunity pre- ' n questioned as to A . 1 opn .^pending their ape rrom Milledge- r -i) days , most of the I n \ugiista. ^ w i3 with Minor and, ■ t'isting arrest, was n the penitentiary o*bpr. Moore was in that he consid- OFFICERS UNIIBLF TO GFT ElENCI IN POISONINe CKSE some delay in starting. Finally shortly after 9 o'clock he held a consultation with the crew. “Boys, if you are with me, lil try it,” said Vaniman. “We are with you,’* came the reply In chorus and then the final prepara tions were completed. City firemen and policemen were sent for to help get the balky airship out of the hangar. When they arrived each was instructed to hold fast to long thin ropes attached to the gas bag and the great canvass front of the hangar was drawn aside like a curtain and the crowd cheered. In the meantime the crew had climb ed aboard. The first “member” of the crew placed In the ship was “Trent,” the Maltese cat which went up with the Amerika from here last year and was rescued along with the drew by the steamer Trent. The airship went up without her life boat or the hydro-elevator, w'hich will take the place of the . equilibrator which was a feature of the Amerika. Only a small supply of gasoline was in the tank for the flight. The Akron car Tied two pairs of propellers but on the long flight across the ocean she will carry three pairs. The gas bag is 258 feet long or about thirty feet longer than that of the Amerika. After leaving the beach at a forty mile an hour speed, the airship swoop ed over the city hall and later darted back toward the Inlet. The big craft hovered in the vicinity of the hangar for a few minutes, then went across the meadows where it gave the main land a treat, sailing as far as Absecon w^here it maneuvered for some minutes then proceeded to a point over Pleas- antvllle. five miles from Atlantic City where It landed. The big dirigible, which has been specially built for a flight across the Atlantic to Europe, rose about .300 feet as it left the hangar aqd sailed out over Absecon inlet at the upper end of Atlantic City in a northeasterly 4i rection. Vaniman appeared to have perfect control of the Akron. For a few minutes the great gas bag, circled aroun'd over the inlet. It appeared to obeervers to be traveling at express train speed. After satisfy ing himself that his machinery was in good working order, Vaniman essayed a “dip”. It was seen that he had the same control that the' operator of an aeroplane exercises. As soon as the balloon was over the water “Jack” Ir win, the wireless operator on board, lowered his ground wire into the break ers and sent his first message. It read; “It’s cold but things are go ing great.” Leaving the inlet the airship shap ed her course down the beach and af ter sailing along smoothly at a height of about 300 feet for.a mile, Vaniman turned the tircraft inland and floated over the city. Notice that Vaniman would make a flight at the earliest possible moment today had bee» announced last evening and people began to gather at thehang- ar at daybreak. This crowd grew to several thmousand at 9:50 when the ascent was made. Business in Atlantic City was practi cally suspended while the craft was in the air. The siren of a nearby ice plant announced the departure from the hangar and this brought everybody Into the streets. There was much enthusi asm as the Akron sailed majestically over the high buildings. Whistles were blown and the crowds cheered. After remaining on the ground at Pleasantville a short time the air ship again rose and headed for this city. , Something Went Wrong. The airship maneuvered Over#the meadows for some time came down twice. It is on tlie ^ the meadows about four miles from the inlet and something appears to be wrong. PRICEIJw" » Comr I>ally^ Cwita Sunday. I Outside Charlotte 5 Cents a^Copy Dally and Sunday. > • ■ Flames ihteaten, Total Destruction Of Native Hankow New Venire In McNamara Lose By Associated Press. Los Angeles, Cal„ Nov. 4.—The fourth venire in the McNamara mu;"- der trial appeared today before Judge Walter Bordwell to undergo a fast preliminary examination by which the court winnows out all those who for personal reasons are disqualified for jury service or should be excused from it. By chance, the big red Jury wheel turned out in this drawing of forty men the name of Harry Chand ler, son-in-law of General Harrison Gray Otis, proprietor of the Los An gelos Time and himself vice-president of the company which publishes .the PRrper. . ' Aside from the examination of ve niremen by the judge, no session of WALLS ARpUND CANTON, CHINA TNs jtoite vyalls surrounding the Chinese city of Canton. Canton was mi«t» of the general revolutionary uprising, now spread over the en- mm • A I CSa*«v%_ Wesleyan Mission Cut Off by FlameS'-City Fired by In- flaAtmahk Shells From Gov- emnnent Ship—Foreign Con suls Rejusi Interfere. y New lU9€^utionary Government (U in Elective Of Situation-’ArsaU’ €d Btmg Operated to its Full Capacity, By Associated Press. Hankow, Nov. 4.—(Via. Wu Hu)— . ... I. f Almost the whole of the native city of court was held, some members of i ... ^ . counsel for the defense wishing to • and it is have Saturday in which to deaf up feared that the Wesleyan mission near private business. ^ ^ I Han river in which are fifty blind bdy» With eleven talesmen accepted as | and 150 wounded persons who with to cause, there is hope that Monday i i 4. 4.* i wih see the twelfth qualified and the mission make up a total beginning of the peremptory challen- ! persons, was destroyed. Dr. ges. These probably will reduce the | Booth, the head of the mission, asked number of talesmen in the I thfe imperialists to grant an armistic of two hours to permit or removal from the mision but the firing ceased for only a half hour. A Red Cross steamer which attempt ed to fescue the inmates of the mis- tire ChittiHfEmpire. An Imperial cdiot declaring for the military and finan cial independence of the Province, has been accepted by the revolutionists, and the Imperial fiafl again floats over the city. about three afid 'the work of filling it up will be resumed. New Years day, 1912, will see a full jury box, in the opinion of counsel. As has been the case with preced ing venires, the forty men summoned today desv^oped a large majority gio^ driven back by the fire from CoIoiMm Government Decrees Bit^Mc0ed of United States 0M Be Taught in Schools By Asaociawd^ Press. New^Qrle^8> La., Nov. 4.-^An inter esting, v^hajrter- ' Hi; _ t%e. controrersy w'hiei^-^^i o'^xir*pie acquisition by the t^ffucd-'^ates of^e Panama canal zone is contained in an o^ial docu ment of the '^''olombian gOTemmenl, a copy, ot v; hi%h wa& recmVed hei'e to day. In an offiical decree designed to instill into the youth of Colombia a bitter hatred of the United States and Panama through public instructioa, Jorge WilliS PrSidilla, director‘general of public, instructions of the depart ment of Boyax:a declares that former President. Roosevelt “w^as the soul of the conspiracy” which resulted in wresting Panama from the parent re public. ^ ^ : r- The decree gives thei iMguage' in which'the history of the Panama rebel lion shall b€ taught in al public schools and colleges of the department. After .giving* the names of the lead ers of the rebellion, all of \vhom it is declared were ‘‘surborned by Yankee golf,” the decreed history continues: m the preparation and realization of their criminal intent they were effi ciently aided by adventurers of the worst stripe such as Manuel Amadair Cuerrero, a native of the city of Car- togona; Frederico Boyd, an American and the Frenchman Felii)e'Buneau- Varilla, for whom the operation of the sale of the canal -enterprise to the United States had to produce filthy lucre. The United States, whoee president, Theodore Roosevelt, was the «oul of the conspiracy, hastened to recognize the pseudo republic of Panama and to snatch ,th% zone for the canal, dividing to the traitors the sums agreed upon. Availing itself of its influence, it fol lowed that many; ijuropean and Ameri- cau states equ;«ly recogh’zcd .the re public pf Panama; and, abusing its material power and violating the pub lie faith pledged in solemn treaties, as that celebrated with neW Canada in 1846, by which it bojand itself forever to maintain the sovereignty of Colom bia upon the Isthmus of Panama in ex change .for invaluable concessions prevented ^he Colombian nation from submitting to force those traitors with By Associated Pres* Chicago, Nov. 4.—The police admit s rase and was!ted today they had practically reached : |> y. Moore had j-ope in their investi- iista a.rtin • some ‘nsuj-l j ^ Patrolman n ..ho earned the policy!'’ ^ ..u j hor’p iifp and he has had, Arthur Bissonette and the deaths of 4 a!s viMi it. It v>as lorjelght others, all of whom had been • hp V. - sraKhing for pa-Lioge associates of Mrs. Louise Ver- ■ pal were 8ur-\ Although Cornoner Hoffman has -.pen ‘'i>o"^asJ'at somrtif- satisfied himself that Bissonette died' The News Moorr was a young man!by arsenic poisoning and a warrant Atlanta, Ga., Nov • • of nzc and his chances i charging murder has been issued for ion "vrc uood and he had,*u_ fho oviHonra arainst her *y£LEPHONE PIONEERS OF AMERICA” ELECT SOUTHERNER charging murder >n " vrc Rood and he had.^j^^ woman, the evidence against circumstantial. .'tor Is ahotit f»0 years old, ■lu kian He went to Call- n lilt foot inches high, ^ j ,.■> pounds and has gray " ’ eyes. He if. so well pre- • ravages of time has ' ^ him. Fie will l»e kept n .l the stale authorities Against Auto Drivet }0. p rtr-.iertf* uMirainC Tr' Suit was in.=ititut- ’:-ir court today by "- on against Henry ' Tar boro, for in- r • '.o t^inma Hamilton, '■ c,i 1 severely injured ■ I will be asked. ' not been filed ‘ ■ ' t.iiat Mr. LJridgers R u.iver and that af- iiiiuiiTested no iuter *’T(,) ' hiid, who has rc^ 4.—The “Tele an asso The coroner, the state attorney and the police department all have had de tectives looking up every possible con nection of Mrs. Vermilya for the last week ever since it was suspected that the patrolman's death was not natural. Arthur Bissonette, sr., father of the dead policeman, described Mrs. Ver- milya’B efforts to obtain his son’s body for burial after his death. “An undertaker named C. C. Boyson was making ready to move the body five minutes after death,” he said. I protested at the hurry and she insist ed that it would be better to move the body at once. I finally forbade them to touch it.” , , The contents of nine bottles of mefli- cine taken from Mrs. Vermilya’s home by the coroner are being analyzed. The police decided not to Mrs. Vermilya because of her illness but will keep a poUce guard at her home until she ii ttrong enough to be locked up. ^ , Coroner Hoffman left ? North Henderson, Ills., where Ricn- ard T. Smith, the conductor who dlw at M«, Vermilya’i home, was buried. This was In accord with the announcement that he wotild haw Smith’s body exhumed. phone Pioneers of elation now in session elected a Sfluthern man, W. T. Gentry president of the Southern Bell, as vice president of their orgamzation^ Mr. Gentry was one of tbe first men to recognize the commercial value of the telephone, and has of the foremost workers in extending the system in the South. Mammoth Shipment of Lumber. Special to The News. Wilmington, Nov. 4.—A mammot shipment of lumber left this J? terdav billed to New York. Cargoes S the capaciuc. of ‘he scnoone™ Baird, Scribner Sji- dtv consigned trom partie. to lumbermen In con- records for many years. ^ ^Thre# Peraona Found Dead. By Aaaociated Preis. Chicaso, Nov. 4.—Mr. and Henry Letch and their son ^ y “STlbnna d»d to ,thjlr home, to Ir- vinf Pwk, aR art ol ^ied P^clana declared _^ey had died ] fiv>m nuBhr^iu ppiaoiiing. with reasons to present why they should not serve. Under the law all these drawn for jury service must be shown by the county assessment roll to be tax payers. First Car on New Line Tomotrow The first car ovir the Charlotte^ Rap id Transit Compwiy’s new line to the country club will be operated tomor row morning al^8 o’clock. The fii^t car Avill leave the junction of the Elizabeth car line al 8 o’clock. The junction of the Rapid Traliadf Line and the present line is at the* corner of Fifth street and Hawthorne i^ne, or the north corner of the Eliz abeth College grounds. The cars will leave each hour after 8 o’clock until 11 o’clock p. m. One fare of 5 cents is good on the Elizabeth car and out to the Country Club. A transfer can whom the United tSates "has commit ted one of the greatest acts of perfidy, J junction of the two lines. ^^®!The fare and same rules obtain on re turning from the club. annals of the history of nations. Colombia has not recognized the existeince of the republic of Panama, reserving that in order to make valua ble its rights in better time. “All pupils without any exception shall learn from memory the foregoing acount.’’ Abattoir Cae Now Befoie RecQider The case of overshadowing import ance in recorder’s court this morn ing was the case of the city against the Union Stock .Yard & Abattoir Compah. The case w^as called at 10 o*clock after .several minor cases were disposed of and after a sharp ar gument betw^een counsel for the city and counsel for the Abattoir Company as to whether the case' should be beard today, November . 14th having been decided on at first as the date of hearing. Solicitor Parker had agreed to call the case this morn ing on condition that he could get ready by the time court was called his morning. . xi. ^ He stated -to the court that Mr. Henry Hayman was-out of the city and other important witnesses were absent and that therefore be would like to postpone the case till they could be teecured. The recorder said the case came up before him this morning properly docketed and. that he was disposed to hear it. He said further however, that He would not l)ass on’ the case «ntll he had heard the evidence of Mr. Hayman , and several other witnesses wanted ny the citv. With this understanding the case was called and consumed ^e entire time of the court uprto 1:30 o clock and was n‘ot then ended: Mr. Plum mer ■ Stewart appeared for t!^ Abat toir. Company. City At^torney Brenizer assisted Mr. Parker for the city, while Mr. Cameron Morrison also as sisted in the prosecution and counsel for Mr. A. W. Whittaker. The distance out to the Country Club over the new line and back is four miles. The new type of storage bat tery car is the one ^that will be used. A regular sched^e 6f 30 minutes will be inaugurated i?i the next 30 days. Mysterious DiUppearanca of Young Man. ■ Special to The News-. Wilmington, Nov. 4.—The police here have been notified of the dis appearance from home of young Toin Breen, the son of Mr. P. J. Breen, an upholsterer of this city. The young man disappeared last Tues day but nothing was said of the mat ter. as the family thought th'a,t he might return. But upon his continued abstence, steps were taken to dis cover his whereabouts. It is not knov/n whether 'he has run away or that he has met with foul play. he mother is extremely apprehen sive as to the safety of her son. the rebel fort. One shell riddled the steamer’s deckhouse. When the vessel was compelled to turn bac.k the mission was still stand ing but its position was hopeless, the flames being within 200 yards of the building. The fires in the town were started by the imperialists who threw inflama- hie shells into the place. A strong wind carried the flames across the river to Han Yang and a strip of thdt city on the water front a mile long was de stroyed and the fire is still burning A few hundred rebels againW whom the imperialists are preparing to ad vance, occupy the unbumed parts of Hankow. wll'-en the steamer left, an artillery dum * was."^ place between the ■b'attei-les of the imperialists, I wtileJi were planted bacfe of the British con- ceasiiin afhd Wu Chang and Han Yang forts. Several rebel shells landed in the foreign cbncessions, piercing the walla of hous#. The imperialists occupy the distnct westward of the railway station almost to the Han river. The chamber of com merce asked the foreign consuls to .protect against the burning of the city but the consuls declined to do so. property of the Mission. London, Nov. 4.—The property of the Wesleyan missionary societj which appears to have been threat ened, if not destroyed m the t>urning of Hankow, consists of the David Hill memorial school for the blind, a « * ^^^ M Tirrtinan fl nnSDlt** men’s hospil^l and a ® Pu . ^\, while across the road school for the blind is the mission as prince TSAI TAO Price Tsai Tao, v»ho is the uncle of the Emoeror of China and who is reported as willing to lead the Man- chul In a massacre of revenge. T^ Prince was a vl,sitor to the United Stites In May, 1910. .'>£■■■ BABV CARfllAGES MUST CARRY LIGHTS "By Associated Press. St. Paul,'Minn., Nov. 4.—front and rear lights are required, on baby car riages which are pushed along the streets of Minnesota cities and towns after dark, according to an opinion just handed down by Attorney Gener al Simpson. The law as framed was designed to aid motorists by compelling farmers and other sjisers of ^.wheeled vehicles to maintain lights. ‘ The catch comes in “other users of wheeled vehicles. Baby c&rriages are not exempt from the provisions of the act, according to the attorney general, jj^eijiher are wheelbarrows or any other form of vehicle pAvinz wheels. contest for ocholarships. Special to The News. Atlanta, Nov, 4.—Contests are be ing held in various cities throughout Georgia for scholarships at Breneau College and Riverside Academy. The authorities of those institutions have decided to give scholarships to the young woman and young man in Georgia who shall excell in oratorical work. ' ' , 1 Later a contest will be held in which the contestants chosen from different parts of the state will compete for the prizes. j • Great interest Is also manifested m educational circles in the campaign un dertaken by Breneau college to raise $50,000 to be held in trust in per petuity, the interest to be used to help obtain educations for ambitious Geor gia girls who could not otherwise ob- tais means to attend college. Engine Trouble. By Associated Press. Imperial Junction, Cal., Nov. 4.^— Rodgers essayed a flight at to o’clock but was forced to come down again two minutes later by motor trouble. If he can make his engine work propjerly he expects to reach Pa sadena this afternoon. THE WEATHER. ^ By Associated Press. ♦ . ' . ♦ Washington, Nov. 4.—Fore- ^ cast: ♦ North and South Carolina, ♦ Georgia, Alabama and Missis- ♦ sippi—Unsettled tonight and ♦ Sunday; moderate northeast ♦ winds. compoimd made up of houses, a church and a school. Dr. Booth is at the head of the Wesley medical miS Sion there. Rebel Government Effective. Shanghai, Nov. 4.—The new revolu tionary government which Is ly impersonal, nevertheless effectivel controlled the situation m Shanghai and on the Yang Tse delta today Since morning the rebel cause ha. been strengthened by the arming of all those who applied for rifles an ammunition. The rebels obtained not onlv the arsenal but the powder fac torv, gunboats and an enormous sup- nly”^ of new and first class Mauser rifles. Not less than 10,000 rifles were given indiscriminately to applicants this evening. ^orts Offer No Resistance. The forts at Wu Sang went over te the rebels without resistance and tn« other upriver forts* hoisted the flag as through a previous understana- ing with the rebel commander. . The revolutionists can hardly said to have “seized” Shanghai, Wu Chang and other upriver forts » wafe simply a change of control to which practic^illy every one a^ui- esced. About three people were'Kill ed and twenty others injured but most of the casualties were accidental, due to the explosion of dynamite used to. open the gates of the cities, which had been perfunctorily closed. Arsenal Operated. the arsenal at Shanghai has a ca pacity for a great output and is now completely manned and is being op erated. It can manufacture 50,000 cai- tridges daily. The powder factory, which is the largest m China, is well stocked. Admiral Sah’s squadron has defended entirely upon this arsenal and powder factory for his supplies. Up to 6 o’clock tonight therte had not heen a single case of disturbance within the foreign settlement. Many foreigners visited the arsenal, every- w;hre they were treated with the ut most courtesy. “ ■* . . , . . The fQreign troops which had been guarding the railway station of the Nanking-Shanghai railway continued on duty there tpday upon the order or the British c(»sal. There if not the slightest reason for anticipating trouble in Shanghai and the neighborhood so far as foreigners are concerned. American Marines Landed. Rear Admiral, Murdock, commander oivthe American Asiatic fleet, lan^d 200 marines today and marchM them through the main streets of the tsettlement. >