North Carolina Newspapers

■^^fwELVE PAOES. THE Lat^t Edition TWELVE PAGES. VOL. 45. NO. 8084 CHARLOTTE N. C., WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 15 191 I P'DTf^'PlIn Cbarlott« 3 Cents a Copy Dally—8 C«nts Sunflay. * »Outside Charlotte 5 Cents a Copy Iwly and Sun^ay. gen? y Clay Beattie Jr. Doomed To Die In Electric Chav Sis LMSt Hope Was Dashed GovemOT Smith Jhis Morning When Gover- r,ot Mann Refused to Inter- With Decision of Court. Resigns To-day By Associated Press, j Atlanta, Nov. 15.—(Jovernor Hofce I Smith, recently -elected United States I Senator from Georgia will formally . « 'Ths Flprfri? Chair \ tender his resignation as chief exec * I utive of this state today. The official 24th— 1 Jiction of relinquishing the office will on ^ ^ mvernoet | until late this after i • nnvicted or Murdering noon in order to give the governor AflS J ^ opportunity of winding up ali bus iness before him. Tomorrow morning Hon. John SJa ton, president of the state senate will take the oath of office as gov ernor pro tem to serve until Gover nor Smith’s successor is chosen m a special election. 5b roanj Wije. ] I’resp n . Nov. 15.—Governor I lined to interfere in . i’la> Beattie. Jr., and - murderer’s last hope of irif' chair on Friday, • away. i.tnrne » Hold Last Conferenc*. r'rrnp !> -pi* condemned man . conference with the - . — the morning and Just 1 1 p latter announced his Senator Owin Created Sensation ON MIII- TERS REUTING TO BIE BDSINESS By Associated Press., Washington;^ Nov. -15.—The senate committee on interstate commerce today entered upon a series of hear ings which are expected to have an impor'^nt bearing upon future legis lation relating to '‘big business" and commerce between the states. Senator Newlands, of Nevada, was the first witness on the list. Hia tes timony was expected to deal exclu sively with his bill providing for an interstate trade commission. The committee is authorized to en ter upon the broadest scope of in quiry, covering the #'ntire subject ot interstate commerr The authoriza tion had its ince '^.a largely in the supreme court’ O declsior^ in the Standard Oil which had the et- fect of read’%^ the word “reasonable’’ into th^ trvtet law. The was that the meaning of the ' should be set forth clear ly ir .e statute itself and not lett deiv -rent upon an interpretation by the court. There are many bills be fore the committee and it is under stood others will be presented, so that it may be expected that the en tire range of legislation will be cover ed. By Associated Press. Kansas City, Mo., Nov. 15.—United States Senator Robert L. Owen, of Ok- «ov lahoma, created a sensation at today’s not to interfere in > session of the trans-Mississippi Com- ri»tv =‘e of the Chesterfield naercial Congress when he declared he -t \\hich was sustained by had every reason to believe that the take the place of the same people who fought Dr. Harvey t ^ W* Wiley, chief of the bureau of chem- had been preseniea | furnishing money to * respite! oppose the movement looking to the establishment of a national depart ment of health. ,,-ir iiraylng for days for spritiual pre- Governor the i a *;.*ned statement "n --z'i **'' par^- . I ion. ed this case during - a* 't.« horrible facts were de- ^ ; --r-ted that a crime so mnliriou? should have oc- ;n the confines of this ’•ed -.ate in the decision of every question CHARGE UNLAWFUL RATES. By Associated Press. Washington, D. C., Nov. 15.-Charges are made in a petition filed today with the interstate commerce commission by the New* Roads Oil Mill and Man- .... A ufacturing Company, of New Roads, ,,. s»'nted to the able and railways of Texas make vho presided at the j freight rates that unlawfully discrimi- .( V.' wss rareful to give the benefit n reasonable doubt to the pris- fh-t he did not err Is shown In r‘fu*al of the supreme court of li to grant a t^tIi of error. -r Rr-'tie is Ruilty of the wilful, nr cniel murder of his I have not the slightest - it insisted that there shall , er relief afforded than .. . ion of his sentence to for life. —- >t Ink * he affidavits of Paul ieri in «he papers, or any inence or consideration n m attention sufficient for •e * a respite In so plain a d be to set a precedent. nate against other states in favor of Texas. APPEHl MAY JEUyi TRyST'S PUN intn effect without inter ne.” By Associated Press. Washington, Nov. 15.—Investigation rize with the law'of the trust problem by the senate iirour _:e appeals to the su- committee on interstate commerce be >ir . i'h the nle purpose of'gan this morning. Senator Newlands • le. 1 believe the best way | of Nevada, was the only witness to ut Btich crimes as this is tojjjuy. He asked the committee to re- r-- adequately, certainly. I commend as a tentative measure the T -efore the judgment of {passage of his federal incorporation ii iiii curt of Chesterfield will leaving the changes in the Sher man anti-trust law to be made after the committee’s hearings are conclu ded. Among the witnesses expected to ap pear Thursday is Bernard Sutler, of Atlanta. New York, Nov. 15.—Appeal from the tobacco trust disintegration plan to the federal supreme court, whlcn appears certain today by the filing of the independents petition to inter vene in the government’s dissolution suit, may delay execution for the plan to which the United States cir cuit has agreed. Should the lower court grant the Independnts’ petition, the case will go to the supreme court and the protest- ants will then become parties to the suit, according to declarations ot their 'counsel. At any rate, it was said the independents . intend to carry the settlement plan to the highest court. The petition filed today is signed by the National Cigar Leaf Tobac co Aaasociation and the Cigar Manu facturers Associatiion of America. The petition declares the dissolution plan will not conform to the opin ion and decree of tjie federal su preme court dissolving the trust. SUPREME COURT MUST SEITLE PUCKERS SUIT By Associated Press. v Chicago, Nov. 15.—Counsel for the government and for the packers under indictment for criminal violation of the Sherman anti-trust' law who yesterday surrendered themselves to the federal authorities and then obtained an order for habeas corpus, prepared today ar guments they will present when the habeas corpus case is called tomorrow before Judge Kohlsaat in federal court. Although Judge Kohlsaat's action on the writ will be awaited with keen in terest, it was the general opinion to day that whatever the ruling of the court may be, the whole affair will be delayed for a long time. Whichever side wins, it is certain the loser will carry the cases to the higher court. Judge Kohlsaat today said: . “This is one metliad law question” alone before the supreme court without its being mixed with a question of fact. It is done, as I un derstand it, for the purpose of getting a construction of the Sherman anti trust law as it affects the question in volved in this case. “Interpretation of the criminal pros- ecjjtion section of the anti-trust law should be secured as soon as possible to make the situation clear to the bu siness of the country.” American Bankets Association to Meet In New Orleans Aviator Fell 2o His Death By Associated Press. Berlin, Nov. 15.—Her Pletschkter, an aviator, fell while making a flight over the Johannisthal field today and was killed. His neck was broken. Pletschkter took part in the Berlin aviation meeting in September, usmg an Albatross bi-plane. He made some good exhibitions and on several occa sions developed a speed exceeding sixty miles an hojir. GOVERNMENT WILL APPEAL CASE. Special 2 rains are Carrying Many Bankers to Meeting Place From All Parts oj the North and West For Gieat Gathering, By Associated Press. Washington, Nov. 15.—The govern ment will immediately appeal to the Uriited States supreme court from the “long and short haul” decision of the commerce court granting temporary ia- junctions of the orders of the Inter state Commerce Commtssion in the trans-continental freight rate cases. It is not the purpose of the govern ment’s counsel to await final action by the' commerce court before taking the appeal to the highest judicial tribunal. Under the law an appeal may be taken from a temporary injunction. NEW YORK GARBAGE STRIKE. Photograph showing the strike breakers manning the carts of the New York street cleaning departnnent being escorted by a detachment of police and a crowd of strike sympathizers bing kept at a distance by the'gur.rclans of the law. The strike has been characterized by a great deal of mob vio lence, from which a few deaths hav e resulted. ' Govemol 0/ Idaho Severely Criticises President Taft And Government Pros ec u t 0 7 s and weakened thee ourts in the esti mation of our people. For more than foru years in every important case in which the United States was in terested in the regular prosecuting L'ceUr^ ^nd JAese ■ • * ^ - ^special assi^nts to the attorney given full con- :'ORTH GEORGIA CONFERENCE IN 45TH ANNUAL SESSION. ■ ated Pres?. t > -ia. Nov. 15.—The 45th ' m n' the North Georgia = the Methodist Episco- South, opened at Ht. 1?! : h here this morning. ^ N. Wilson, of Baltimore, ! 4'- r the c.onvenmg of tne ^ •> £iiy liiiiard. of Marl in’*' roll. A short address ■:;« made by Mayor ' -et', in behalf of the ’ K Barton welcomed " ' X delegates in behalf '.•: >t8 of Augusta and Mr. . ui h «ei:-onied them on be- ’ ►'• hurch. Bishop Wilson 1 I"” the delegates. The f. -r- - .p ^.ji] session until " - . no- . when the assignments n" will he read out. The ^‘11 be entertained with ' ririPE and other enter- ^ ”*■ being planned tor fiOVS FO i\d dead NEAR ‘VANNAH ARE IDENTIFIED. i Press. . .Nov. \o. ■f‘ doubt of the identity of ha who were killed last .'>pahnard .\ir I^ine train lieside the tracks near having l)een established, f'itions furnished it is be- r. s were Paul Keely and ’'1 '"l/aughlin, both of Phila- Thfv came to Savannah on lal weeks ago and re- - me time. They went in local vaudeville hou -ePBed of considerable :*'peR found in the pock- dr-ad boys’ correspond with - by the young men and in had his initials tatooed on Shortage of Transports By Associated Press. Chicago, Nov. 15.—It would be an Thnri, Impossibility to furnish the transports for soldiers should the United States become Involved in war at the.pres ent time was the opinion yesterday expressed by Mayor W. H. Wilkins, U. S A., in an address before the Hawkeye Fellowship Club on the -Causes of the Turko-Italian War. In case of war the United States would find itself in the samie posi tion as Turkey is in today, said, ume. 1 ney went i "We have spent all our time Theyltajtlertlps^and^ha^^^ rlne.” AGED LADY BURNED TO DEATH. ivs DIED '^■ated Press, i'lp. Tenn. Nov. Atlanta. G*.. Nov. 16.-Mr«. Nannie E. Pursley, aged 70 and an invalid, was burned to death in her ^ ilhis city today, when her clothing from injuries, ^‘aught fire while she was seated I a chair The aged woman was unable to call for help. Her daughter, Mrs.^ ^ , ' ' agPd 28. was shot on! Walraven, discovered the , in a moving picture I body when her attention was drawn t ^>y -Mrs. Karl Samuel, died [the room by the odor of burning fieso* .t i i.ty afternoon. At time She was badly burned in at^mpting to ..r .p. ''Oman was shot she was put out the flames which had aim - lu ' " performance with Mr. j Incinerated her mother. ' f known young grain I Mrs, Pursley was the mother-in-ia . " la said to have of Rev. Madison M. Welraven, paswr ■ K ® ^ husband of St. Luke’s Methodist church, who brought suit now Is In Augusta attending tne Methodist conference In iession there. By Associated Press. f Boise, , Idaho, Nov. 15.-—Governor James H. Hadley today gave out a si©aeid statement addressed to the people of. id^ho in which he con- granira^^aT^ pardon V^terday Claraence W, Robnett. bookkeeper in the Lewiston National Bank of Lewiston, Idaho. He was convicted of embezzlii^ funds of the ^ bank and sentenced in the federal court at Idatho Springs to ten years imprisonment. He liever entered upon service ot his sentence. “I feel that the pardon of Rol?- nett is a 'itting sequel to the pro ceedings in the United-. States court during thel ast four years .while the special assistants to the United States attorney general have been usurping the functions of. the United States attorney and his assistants and have been running the cases m which the United States, has been in terested with a high hand regardless of justice or decency,” the state ment sets forth. “I am not surprised at this par don. In fact, no act ever, done in connection with the courts of Idaho has brought justice into disrepute Standard Oil Dividend. By Associated Press. New York, Nov. 15.—The Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey; declared a divl dend for the last quarter of the year of ^7 a share. This is the last divi dend to be declared before the com^ pany • dissolves under tlie mandate of the supreme court. The.Standard Oil Co. of New York, also declared a dividend of $20 dollars a share which is equivalent to a divi dend of $3.05 a share on the stock of the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey The regular Standard Oil Co, of New Jersey dividend for last quarter of the year has been $10 a share. Since the Standard Oil was given corporate form in 1882 it has distribu ted about $751,000,000 in dividends. general have been trol. /“Without the slightest interest in out state, caring nothing for our people simply desirous of establish ing , a * reputation in the department of justice, these special prosecutors have done more to injure Idaho and} retard its development since the fall| of 1907 than all other causes com bined. “The injustice of this action or President Taft, inspired without doubt by the special prosecutors, will long rankle in the minds of our citizens and will inspire them with a whole some contempt for such disgraceful methods. “It is probably unfair to severe ly blame President Taft directly for this unspeakable action as he un doubtedly acted at the request ot Attorney General Wickersham who evidently liad been in collusion with his as^ciates in charge of this pros * ecution.” UEGONSyiS By Associated Press. Columbia, S. C.,* nouncement By Associated Press. Amoy, China, Nov. 15.—The republi- ‘cans who took formal possession of the Nov.. ' 16-—An-1 issued an address made today of aL „ fnreicn consuls in. which the movement,‘ led by students Of tne University ot South Carolina and the University of Virginia, to form a na tional organization, called “The Woodrow Wilson League' of College 1 Men.” The slogan adopted is "We ,,ant Wilson,” and.the league’s pur pose is to forward the candidacy of Governor Wilson fpr presidenL The necleus of a ceiitral organization h^s been formed. William H. Scott, of the University of South Carolina, is president. ’OPOSSUMS RAID CHICKEN ROOSTS. By Asociated Press. Columbia, S. C., Nov. 15.-^Because fro.st was late in coming, to ripen the persimmons, o’pMSums have been raiding chicken houses in the city and several* fat specimens .have been caught by hftuse-holders. But the fat test is the one caught nosing about the state house last niglit by a night clerk at the postofl5ce. . NEGRO’^ CRIME MAY CAUSE A LYNCHING. NOTED SOCIALISTS. The Rev. Dr. George R. Lunt\ (above) pastor of the Congregational church and socialist leader who was elected mayor of Schenectady, N. Y., and be low the new socialist assemblyman, the flret In the state of New York, Her bert M. Merrill, to sit in the Entplre State legislature. Dr. Lunn sayf that he will give the city over which he will preside a business rule, promlalny to save immense sums. Bv Associated Press. - Tylertown, Miss., Nov. 15.—Armed with two revolvers and firing them al ternately, Jim Thompson, , a negro employe, fired ten bullets into the body of E. T. Groom, bookkeeper ot a tiirpentine plant 12 miles southwest of this place, yesterday, inflicting wounds thought to be fataL Groom is from Bowling Green, Fla. A lynching in fAared. neutrality of the latter is requested and assurances ♦liven *.hat their prop erty, including the churches, will be The city remained quiet today. The American cruiser' Saratoga and the gunboat Quiros will sSril for the north. The British cruiser Monmouth is re- liigving “the .British sloop. Rosario. Hai .Cheng on the mainland soutti- West of Amoy, has gone over to the revolutionists. The city magwtrate has been made a prisoner. Chang Chow, 24 miles west of here, reports fighting there. Word comes from Esuan Chow, a seaport 50 miles northeast of Amoy, that the local officials have fled and the rough element is in control. Premier Thanks Throne. Peking, China, Nov. 15.—8:10 p. m. The most important deyelppment at the capital today was the publication in tlie Official Gazette of . Yuan Kais expression of thanks tp the throne for its appointment of , him as ptemier. l^is is regarded as tantamount to his acceptance of the offl^. CAi^L MORRIS VS. COmFsKEY. By Associated Press. Chicago, 111., Nov. 15.-Chicago pro moters have matched Carl Morris, pf C^lahoma and Con Comlslcey, of Chi- ciE^gD. The fl^t probably will take place in Kansas €ity on November 28th. „ Morris has not agreed to all the [tenhs of the articled but he is expected ^to.»fam today.- Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 15.—Labor lead ers are making a strenuous effort to prevent the introduction into the con vention of the American Federation of Labor now in session here, a res olution framed by the California del egation appropriating $50,0000 tor the defense of the McNamara broth ers. A large sum already has been rais ed for this purpose by private sub scription and the leaders contend, it is said, tnat whatever money is needed for the McNamara defense can be obtained in this manner with out drawing upon the funds in the none too well stocked treasury of the federation. Proponents of the resolu tion assert that he leaders are fearful lest it precipitate a fight on the floor since some of the delegates are known to be opposed to such an ap propriation. Thee onvention has already placed itself on record pledging continued “moral and financial support” to the McNamaras in a telegram sent yes terday by President Gompers by di rection of thee onvention. Delegates have but one more day Within which to present resolutions, so the Califor nians must decide shortly what they intend to do, A stormy conference at labor headquarters last night ended without any decision being reached Two brief sessions were held by the convention today but practically no business was transacted. This at ternoon the visiting delegates were the guests of the local federation at an oyster roast. Afterward the va rious committees will get together and begin work on the mass of reso lutions already presented. One of the biggest fights of the convention probably will be directed against the .building trades depart ment, which was organized at the Norfolk convention in 1907. Last year at St. Louis the carpenters were sus pended from the department because they refused to abide by its decis ion in a jurisdictional dispute with the sheet metal workers aa to which craft should place metal work doors The department then appealed to the Federation to revoke the charter oi the offending union. The executive council of the fed eration replied that it had no power Many Noted Men Scheduled to Ikliver Addresses Detec tive Burns on Progam Fora Speech—Five Hundred Men From Chicago. By Associated Pi^ess. New Orleans, Nov. 15.—Three spe cial trains with 500 Chicago delegates to the annual convention of the Amer ican Bankers’ Association are sched uled to arrive in this city on the even ing of Nov. 18. The New York finan ciers, traveling in two sections bring ing 215 delegates, are expected to ar rive on the morning of the same day. One hundred bankers from Boston will arrive in special trains, on the morn ing of the 20th, and 85 deleg^es from Kansas are scheduled to come in. with 110 Missouri bankers on the 19th. The first special train carrying New York bankers will stop over at Vicks burg, Miss., to allow the visitors to in spect the National Park Cemetery at. that place. The convention of bankers opens in this city on the morning of Nov. 21. W. J. Bums, the detective, will de liver an address at the state secretar ies section business meeting Nov. 23. His subject will be “Modern Methods of Protecting Banks.” Raymond B. Cox, of Baltimore, president of the American Institute of Banking, will ad dress the secretaries on the subject of “The Development of Mutual Inter ests.” Preston S. Playback, of Dan- ver, secretary of the Colorado Bank ers’ Association, will speak about “The Organization Possibilities,” and will be followed by Mrs. Helen M. Brown on “The Observations of a Secretary.” Mrs. Brown is from Detroit and is sec retary'of the Michigan Bankers’ Asso ciation. Other speakers and their sub jects are: McLane Tilton, Jr., of . PfiU.- City. “How to Secuire Bank Legislation,” Mr. Tilton js secretary of the Alabama Bankers’ Association. W. W. Bowman, Topeka, secretary of the Kansas Bankers’ Association, “Wo men’s Meetings at the State Conven tions;” L. P. Hillyer,. Macon, Ga., sec tary of the Georgia Bankers’ Associa tion, “Registration Lists for State Meetings;” W. B. Harrison, Enid, Okla secretary of the OklahtHna Bankers’ Association, “Resources.” Charles Godchaux, vice-president of the local clearing house association, will deliver an addfress of welcome to this section at its meeting Nov. 23. The response will be made by Col. Robt. J., Lowry, president of the Lowry Banking Co. of Atlanta. NEW YURK CITY WINS JN EICliT By Associated Press. New York, NoVi 15.—No doubt re mains that the city has won its fight with the municipal ash and garbage men, emerging victorious from its first serious strike and establishing its right to dictate hours* of labor to its many thousands employes. Night work, to avoid which the dri vers struck, will he resumed as soon as the department can get its force of green men going smoothly. The danger of a general teamsters strike remains but judging from the action of the union it is remote, though the greater New York district council of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters voted last night In favor of an assessment to support the striking drivers. As rapidly as possible the street cleaning department will fill the places of the Imported strike breakers with recruits from the civil service list. Steinie Murder Case. By Associated Press, Nashville, I'enn., Nov. 15.—The ot- fering of the state’s testimony in the Steinie murder case began this morn ing in ttfe Davidson county criminal court Last summer near the Steinie home on Paradise Ridge, the dead body of Tilda Steinie was found witii the neck broken and a wound on the head. Henry Steinie, a half brother, is charged with her murder and Steve Steinie, her father, and Mrs. Lizzie Steinie, her step mother, are to**r^oke the carpenters’ charter and i accused of being accessori^. A jury argued that revocation of charters J was obtained yesterday afternoon, were not calculated to hatmonize ex-, ~ isting differences. Reinstatement ot the carpenters therefore was advised. The forces arep retty well divided but at lea^ eight prominent mem bers of theb uilding trades depart ment have declared their intention of repudiating the former action of the department. It is almost certain that thed epartment will be re-organ^ ized at the meeting to -be held dur ing the last week of this month and some of the delegates predict that this controversy will result in the abolishment of the department. ^ NANKING CAPTURED A BY REVOLUTIONISTS. ♦ By Associated Preas. ♦ ♦ San Francisco, Call, Nov. 16. ♦ ^ —A Hong Kong cable to a ^ ♦ Chinese paper here today say* ♦ ♦ Nanking has been captured by^ ^ the revolutionists. ^