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FASTEST GROWING NEWSPAPER IN NO ETH CAROLINA N I GHT EDITION Price: Daily 2c; Sunday 5c. 1 fsiii . ' " M ! p4Gl3 TODAY "Greater C Si a r I o t t e J s H o m e N e w s p a p e r 99 rr; ,. .. n.iiv, ISSS-Sundav 1910.. CHARLOTTE, N. C, MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 2, 1914. . i." 4--.nl' Ft fr-'is iJ.i ji; S lb Dui n Since Hen v Fa. mmm -uu n u m v in i niiHh i in vi i- , i i a n nr mot Carranza Holds Up Examination Of Of Benton Body sons Daid In rkCitv-Storm zn Mam Fears Wsreiess Sta C Mission: Tcle- Down: Streets nassahlc: Wireless The Stations Put mission. Out of Corn- wire- RELIEF PROMISED FROM COLD TOMO R ROW The South and. Middle Atlantic States are Promised Re lief from the Intense Cold Tomorrow by Weather Bu reau Officials. eatcned: Ships to Pieces. storm put nearly every vtiou along the coast here-j !UI ill1 a bouts our of commission and after ti! if). in, ,. , . j4.s .:.u t ships a- sea was impossible. Aerials btorm vvarnmas are uismaveci GREE 32-MILE Wl TOE COLOEST i :R CITIES r uit u ft d n il mi nnnu BT BUZZM dren were burned to death in a fire n 1. ; .u ,i -.......- j j ,i 1 1 j i ! jujujjj ucsuuveu mjf uweiuuijjS nme ! today. Cold at Nashville. Nashville, Tonn,, March 2. Thi j was the coldest March day in Nash-J viae, since rjo. tue thermometer re? Pterins 10 degrees above zero. He is the Chief, and Not Villa.' and he Demands That Uncle Sam Consult Him in the Mat-J ter Would Treat With Eng land Directly. r'ciwc oiurni w 11 Virginia vUcldl, i j. - Norfolk. Va.. March 2. High nortU-' Next- tep MUSt Come From A temperature of 1! degiees this' and wind that ri; of the Story io Property and o People Worst That of 1388 Adds to Trou- Today Along the Coast from Hatteas to Eastport Business Conditions in the East are Demoralized Today. ing. the menacing '.-iitu- u tar i o'Hli as i wind, ;;! in snow r.-. ! uver the N'. v Jersty, iay and were Xew York, a lia between nyei;? oi a overeu t'tiei iii iailin aad sreater 'Npeiieneed of the stations were so crippled with tfieet and snow as to render them ise- less, it was reported. In New .Jersey, where the force of I the stnrin was most severe, many towns inciudins Trenton. Newark, Jer-, sey uuy. nouoKen were in .aarKness i last niyht liecause feed wires broke 'By Associated Press, under weight of snow. ; Washington. M'arch 2 i Liners in tne outer haroor were neld 'nn all night. Two barges sank oft ; Governor's It-land. LtoiU iiad been torn ;from their moorings by the gale. I The four-masted schooner Jacob S. 'cold ii : j . i i t . -. i T1 : .3 -v : iiisiu w. uiniDer laueu, tor rru lutuce from Fernandina. went ashore on Block Island. Her crew of nine was brought, ashore by life savers but one i man returned to the shin and was drowned. A tug lost four of her tow of barges, in Long Island Sound be tween Bridgeport and New Haven and eight persons aboard them were saved with difficulty. An unidentified schooner is wound- While shift- gales continued alone Atlantic eoasV from Savannah to Maine today, leaving in their wake a wave that reached as far south as Florida, yet relief was promised tomorrow in the South and Middle At lantic States. Lowest March tempera tures in weather bureau recordsmade T., . . 1 .T. 1 . . . ' Philadelphia. Baltimore and Various Other Cities Report Traffic Tied Up and Much Damage Done From Storm and Fires, mornni4 at S o cioct went careering along at the rate oi" 32 miles an hour gave Charlotte the coldest day it ba- had during the pres ent winter. Although the temperature on Friday the 13th of February at. S a. m. the day it sleeted all day the thermometer registered 17 degrees there was no disagreeable wind blow ing. It was the remark of every one on the streets that this morniii.j, v.-as the coldest of the winter. The wind reached its higha&t ve locity here yesterday about rioon, when it was blowing '-U miles an hour. ! night it ';ept up a. pace ot io .J 2 i miles an hour, xne -kiihi eiocu OL many years. Suburbanites were obliged the coast of Cape Hatteras last night, to dig through snow banks drifted according -to information received at! fence-high and traffic on most of the the local weather bureau this mom near crew iug to pieces on Thimble Island New Loudon. It is fer.reu her ! (rishffi. Heavy Snowfall. ' u velocity jino, which had ceased for & f?w : mile, an hours duriug the night began failing : reported again v-arly today. The gale former, by drifts in the country and added to trott torm bles of the railroads. Many committers s-.une cases failed to reach the city this morning jowing to crippled train service from .toies in New i nearby Xew York and New Jersey i'.'iui ,-yivania i twns. Many New Jersey trains were ) y i' - thou-1 cancelled. wfiruj Fire alai-m circuits in all the out Xfw .Jer-'iyiug districts of New York city were ere from one! demoralized. ! The Western Union Telegraph Com Voi'k andjpany reported that only five of its out inu irout cue I of-town wires were up. The w orst of i '-is history. ; the storm is between New York and H( ;-o far jAIuan v. according to wire officials. :-w-.r.- urii 1 Va-.it-I.- ..i linvt iir-'t itcft wirrt Vi l It, -I ill . X IV IJ I , 1 1. L Ul. - ' " , 'Jh crippled, suited in a fire which ate a bad hole! . covered in the stands of the International 'iltiicult and League ball park. The fire probably ratnc is al- v.-0uld have destroyed the entire strwe- :a.!i are ieav- ture had not the benches neen pu.eu limin trunk high with snow. i juih ana street Mi k Trams Delayed. iu the city andi No milk trains reached the city' during the forenoon. Of 25 vessels due at the port of New- York today ont.lv one. the Delaware, from Phila riPinbia.. had reported before noon. .vlacon and Charleston and other Southeastern places imcomf enable. The storm's center in the east, had moved little since last night and to day it hovered over Southern New England. Business conditions in the east were demoralized: train and wire service was seriously crippled and more snow was threatened in the At lantic States north of Virginia this af ternoon and tonight. Storm wi-Tnicfetf today' were flutter ing from coast stations from Hatteras to Easport. A Forecast: Washington. March 2. Tennessee-, Kentucky, fair and not quite so cold tonight; Tuesday increasing cloudi ness and warmer, probably followed by rain west portion. Mississippi, cloudy and warmer to night, Tuesday, rain and warmer, mod erate variable winds. Heavy Snowstorms and High Winds Cause Much Suffer ing Shipping Paralyzed Many Trains Annulled Re ports from Various Cities. By Associated Press. Philadelphia, Pa., March - Phila-de-ipbiaus, arose today io find their city fast by oue of the worst bliz zards that, has struck this section in ing, was GO mi-es per hour. The storni was central over the Cape Hatteras territory yesterday and has moved up the coast until it is central over New York today. Greater New Yor::, ac cording to information brought over the wires to the local bureau this morning, was experiencing the ' same surface car lines w-as suspended. Con ditions on steam roads to outlying sec tions were little better, and thou sands of persons -ere late reaching, their places oi employment while' others did not get to the city at all. Railroad traffic between here and New York, which was completely tied up the greater part of last night, was resumed early today but. there v." as? no J. i..., rM, ,-. ,1 nl V .1 Til un:.iuu v"tt;'rr attempt to maintain schedules naiuei, j. utgiees, uui iuc yi-. ter pressure was dowu to 28:86 and a cold northwest wind was peppering the city wit): snow. Washington had this morning at 8 o'clock a temperature of 20 degrees, NEGRO FOUND FROZEN TO DEATH ON NORTH the city and ii'.- instances Hazard of lioint to as story, has a in -o much in.i srnrni in Feared. '? feared to-i- r.-n.-ied train '!!'! Xew York - of snow : i1 stopped a r tmperature zing slush i 'h- streets. ta irom two " '.i.t'.t priuei- .-"Mju depart- today. 1U- u -!."'.! in "j -;"'.s were'uu- f hi i,rob- : 1 1 . ' d rii'ied high ''i i;.' railroad :! train out ' '"f N last night i .!! ihe west : v u i; e'eveu :;-t!Uc City ar morning. :''-!!-'-- !a!e. The -' '--T in ' ;i.s Still -mi; !;;:it the f:''J .'.a'uon f") oi) the vere 800 i.o:ii slept y 'ero not i'tiioits. Tn !ii.ireds of .'M'tiou of falling temperature rails with ice. Twelve platform, or porch, that projects out in front of the store, very much as it the unfortunate man had sat down on the porch, frozen and then toppled over into the street. i-.eH Central Points hy wire -outs of Among Tweu- en Pt-eks-1 ! 1 inches oii-s arc out 'yh f'en. - were Y, tci.l V. -Qmjc in Plinrlnttp nnlv All trains to and from the West and terday from Rock Hill, his home. South w-ere subject to mneumtt There were no marks or scars on lay. Commutation trains came m la-the bQd tQ indicate that he had met boriously. On the Pennsjdvania oe- j with foul plaJ It is i)keiJ how ever, tween here and Philadelphia more- that Coroner Hovis, will investigate than 200 telegraph and telephone, tbfi case fuUy before the day isi over. poles were down and many slgnal;The bodv was lying just in the edge bridges had been prostrateu. Laboi-,of the bveet at iie base of tne jow ers, working to keep switcnes open, were frtustrated by drifting snow ana which crustea trains, which left New York yesterday -afternoon were stalled on the New. York divis ion. The Pennsylvania station was crowded with travelers. -At 10: 45 offi cers of the road saia cuuuiuuu, would not improve until the storm bated. Several way trains were started south from Jersey City un der orders to make what progress tnev could. Announcement was made at noon that all trains on the Central Rail road of New Jersey and the Balti more & Ohio Railroads between New York and Philadelphia and Washing ion had been abandoned until further notice. In the city cars, wagons and auto mobiles were stalled everywhere, de serted bv their drivers. Suburban towns were without electric lights last night and will be again tonight. Manv schools in the suburbs were closed' today and hundreds of facto ries were idle. Three laborers, trying to clear the tracks of the Long Island Railroad, were killed. Traffic on surface lines , through Greater New York was halted. In Brooklvn automobiles were left in snow" banks. Horses were re moved from trucks and wagons. Wire service out of New York, through New Jersey and west of Al bany remained badly crippled. with a ofi-raile wind, the highest ve locity the wind attained at the Capital city being ti miles au hour last nighc. Charleston, S. C, had the lowest tem perature this morning at S o'closck that the city ever had in March, ac cording to the weather records, 24 degrees. Wilmington bad 22 degrees this morning; Ashe vHl e degrees; At lanta 16 degrees and Louisville and Cincinnati the same. The cold area ; covers the Ohio valley and the North j Central states today. InlUiM Ol., tAltiilUtUj west Canadian provinces Saturday j morning aud crept southeastward over Lewis. Stevenson, a mulatto negro. tue Rocky Mountains, but it gave no about 35 years old. wa found dead j indication at that time of reaching this morning in front of Little's store hp,.B in h slorra nrooortions that it finally developed. It came on the map of the United States as a wind from the Atlantic southeast coast. It sent the thermometer from 39 degrees yesterday at 1:30 to 18 this morning. According to the ancient saying, if March comes in like a lion it will go out like a lamb it must go out this year with marked gentleness and lamblikeness, if it is not to smash the tradition. on North Try on street just beyond Liddell, apparently frozeu to death. He was identified by a bank deposit book aiu. several post cards, which had bis name on them and were ad dressed to him at Rock Hill. He was late identified at. Sid Coles' undertak ing establishment by several colored people who knew him well and wno ves- MAJOR B. B. RAY LOST HIS APPEAL MEN CLEMENT SUCCEEDS HUMMER Secial to The News. Raleigh, March 2. A commission was issued Mr. Hayden Clement of Salisbury by Governor Craig as solic itor of the fifteenth judicial district to succeed W. C. Hammer. Mr. Clement served as assistant attorney general of North Carolina during the term of R. D. Gilmer and made a popular and capable ollicial. THE WEATHER -? . Forecast for North Carolina: " & f "?? i Fair and continued cold to- night: Tuesday, . fair with rising -i? temperatures. Northwest gales w diminishing. "? MATHEWSOM GETS BIG OFFER. By Associated Press. -7? Chicago, March 2. A Hat of- ?? fer of $63,000 for three season's t't i'$ work as manager of a Federal -!? League team was wired today to & Christy Mathewson by President X Gilmore, of the Federal League. i'$ Marlin, Tex.. March 2. Christy By Associated Press. Mathewson toaay signeu wim rne Washington, March 2. Major New York isationai league team, w Hwhr 15 Hay, an army paymaster,! executing his contract with Presi- today lost his appeal in the courts dent Hempstead of the New York here to compel President Wilson toj;:- club. nominate him for promotion to colonel v (t,,Jt. .,jf liFcantp of his seniority. !Y&?l&'p,y.,?i.iv.?-- v.fsf-k" This is the total number of Want Ads printed in THE NEWS since the New Year 2651 in Jan uary and 2553 in Febru ary. Of this total more than 90 per cent of them were local and -came from every section of Greate r Charlotte.. Showing that to reach the people of Charlotte Charlotte people "Use the News' Want Ad Way." 'Nuf 'Ced. One -cent- a- word Page Eight. Several trains which had been "missing" between here and New York last night reached the city after day break, and it was believed that by midday service would b' practically normal. Paralyzed wire service and broken semaphor arms were given as tlie principal reasons for the delay. Telegraph and telephone companies sent men out when the storm, was at its height last night to repair the broken wires and other damage but wire communication with New York remained badly crippled today and it was not expected that normal service could be resumed for several days. Damage in this city and the sur rounding country was heavy. Shipping on the Delaware river which had been almost completely tied up since last night, was resumed today. At day break snow continued but the j roofed by high winds, velocity of the wind had decreased. Cold at Atlanta The temperature was 15 above zero. At Ianta, Ga., March 2. wecteiiy winds with the thermometer far below freezing swept this coast: last night and today, ihe icy blasts! reaching a velocity on the coast of j neany ntty muvs an nour. tne wina , blowing from the northwest caused high seas but no marine disasters have been reported. The high off-shore winds caused a, very low 1ide and made Hie final work of floating the stranded Brit ish steamship Riversdale at uittle Island, south of Cape Henry, quite difficult. The wrecking tug Rescue was today still pulling on the Hivers aale but it was feared that there would have to h a shift of winds with higher tides before she can be finally freed. Ba!timnri H.-jrH Hit ) Baltimore. Md., March 2. The ter rific gale that swept over Baltimore last night continued this morning but slowly diminishing strength. Reports of property damage cain ' from ail quarters. The steeple of the Mount Calvary ; Protestant Episcopal church was torn away and hurled into Kuiav street. Windows in houses on Ihunilton Ter race, on the opposite side of Ku taw street, were broken and the roof of the rectory, adjoining the church, was torn off. Roofs and signs were blown down all over the city and thousands of pane of glass were broken. At th storm's height the .Lutneran church of the Reformation caught fire and was destroyed. The church was in the center of a thickly populated section and many residents fled to storm swept streets in scant clothing. Three thousand barrels ot whiskey were destroyed when two big ware houses of the Canton distilleries com pany at Canton, a suburg, were burn ed today. The loss was estimated at $100,000. Wind Blew 70 Miles An Hour. At times the wind blew 70 miles on Chesapeake- Bay were the wot'et an hour in exposed places. Conditions i for many years. Numerous small craft were in collision or drizen ashore. The tug Resolute sank at her dock but -her crewr escaped. The big Merchants' & Miners' liner Howard from Boston was obliged to remain at anchor off Seven Foot Knoll until a tug could help her to port. At Winchester, Va. Winchester, Va., March 2. With pow-er wires put. out of commission by the gale that lashed northern Virginia last night, mills in Winchester were closed today. Several houses were blown over and many buildings un- London, Says President Wil son, Who Counsels Patience Discourage Talk of Inter vention Demands Made on Carranza. By Associated Press. READY TO ESCORT. PARTY. P.y Associated Press. El Paso. Texas, March l. -:r-X Marion Letcher, American consul X 'r at Chihuahua, arrived here on a special train today for the pur- s pose of conducting the Benton -.I- investigation commission to Chi- ;: :X'- huahua. When he will return is not certain. ' Blizzard Abates. The blizzard abated today. Rail roads appeared to be the worst suffer ers, being more completely tied up than in any storms for years. Four deaths were reported in this city di rectly due to the storm. According to the weather bureau only five inches of snow fell, but a 13-mile wind drift ed it badly. Railroad traffic on both the Penn sylvania and Reading lines were prac tically at a standstill in the early part of the day. No trains hau arrived here from New York since last night and in the forenoon no attempt was made to send trains out to that city. The Pennsylvania Railroad an nounced that 21 trains were stalled i between Philadelphia and New- York, j some of which were lost" oecause the operating officials were unable to communicate with them. j Trains from Washington to New York and the east were not being sent out of the capital. The Pennsylvania is suffering from a scarcity of men to shovel snow. . Trains from the west were three and four hour? late. All trains be tween Philadelphia and seashore points were annulled. . The blizzard paralyzed n-alroad traf fic throughout eastern Pennsylvania. An excursion train on the Jersey Cen tral due to arrive at Easton, Pa., last night from ' New York, had not been heard from up to 11 a. m. Two Deaths. Two deaths were reported at Scran ton due to the storm. Nearly fifteen hundred persons were marooned all night in the Sunday tabernacle at Scranton unable to get home. Blizzard Chilis Cleveland. Cleveland, O.,1 March 2. Cleveland was staggered , by another blizzard to day by which traffic was greatly de layed and which caused much suffer ing among the poor. A northeast gale from off the lake raged all day Sun day and continued today. It was ac companied by snowfall and the tem perature this morning was 12 degrees above zero. All trains on trunk rail roads were late. Record Breaker at Charleston. Charleston, S. C, March 2. All e cords of low temperature here for March, so far as the weather bureau figures show, w-ere broken during the night when the temperature read 23.9 v degrees. The former lowest March reading here was 24 degrees. X, great many water pipes froze and high winds made the cold acute. Two Children Burned to Death. Pittsburg, Pa., March 2. Two chil- Tlie tem perature here early today fell to 15.2 degrees above zero, the lowest in .more than two years. Cardinal Kopp Dying. By Associated Press. Breslau, Germany, March 2. Cardi nal Gorge Kopp, highest dignitary of the Romaii Catholic church in Ger many, is dying of acute meningitis at Troppau, Austrian Silesia. He is 77 years old, 1 ILLA INTIMATES THAT BAUGH HAS BEEN KILLED By Associated Press. Chihuahua, March 2. General Villa today indicated his belief that Gustav Bauch was dead wben he said that Baucb. an. American, was liberated at Juarez and "doubtless was assassina ted by some of his enemies." Villa said Baud:, bad many enemies and added "of 'course I can't be held to blame' for ; that." Thinks Bauch Was Executed. El Paso, Tex., March 3. That Gen eral Villa expressed the belief that Gustav Bauch, arrested at Juarez as a spy two weeks ago, w-as the victim of an assassin, occasioned no sur prise here, where the German-American's sister, Mrs. J. M. Patterson, and others interested in the case, have been resigned to the conclusion that Bauch was slain at Juarez a week ago last Friday. They scout the personal enemy theory, however. Repeated assertions have been made by certain Juarez rebels, talking con fidentially to friends on this side of the border, that Bauch was executed, and the stories all agreed on. the date of the execution, which was the day that General Villa departed for Chi huahua. For a week official Juarez maintain ed that Bauch was in Chihuahua, but Chihuahua declared and informally proved the contrary. Mrs. Patterson asserted that her brother, a locomotive engineer, had ho enemies. His statement before the alleged court martial that he went to Juarez "to get drunk" was accepted by- Mrs. Patterson as thv truth. Washington. March 2. Fresh re Ports indicating that Gustav Bauch. an American citizen, was killed at Juarez, coming close on complications of the Benton case, surrounded the Mexican situation today with further complex- I rues. f'ai-ranza. as hea,i of the constitu tionalists, has been called upon for a satisfactory explanation of Bavuh's disappoaiauce, and it will be pointed out to the rebel chieftain that failure to protect, all foreigners will be like ly io lead to grave complications. Further representations for a speedy clearing up of the Benton killing j have gone- forward. Although, deferr ! iilli to Cari'HliTs wih til lt winunllin! directly in diplomatic affairs, it wa being impressed upon ..the, rebel. chief . today that formalities must not be per mitted to stand in the way of com plete protection to foreigners. Washington, March 2. That General Villa, has acknowledged the authority of Genereal Carranza as his chief arid will not permit the American commis sion to examine the body of William S. Benton until the Washington gov ernment has consulted Carranza was the explanation made by President Wilson today of the latest phase of tb Mexican situation. The president told callers that the desire of the commissioners to get further instructions from Washington as well as orders from General Villa himself, had necessitated a postpone meat but Mr. Wilson takes it for grant ed that the commissioners will start in a few days. As to Changed Policy. Asked whether in view of the new developments, a change of policy was intended by the United States imme diately, the president pointed out that a country having the power of ths United States could afford to Trait as long as it pleased in the situation, that there was no doubt that Huerta woultf ultimately have to retire and that there need be no hesitation on tbc part of the American peope or doubt that a solution would be accomplish' ed eventually. Counsels Patience. The president conunselled patience; emphasizing that those who wanted things done immediately must realize that they might have to contribute their brothers and sons to accomplish results at once, whereas if they were willing to wait, that might not be nec essary. The president was referring, it was t presumed to speeches in cougress de manding radical action of some kind, or armed intervention, which he seem ed to deplore, Carranza Offended. That Carranza's personal dignity had been offended . because first repreaeu tations were not made directly to him, wras the White House view of tht two notes sent here, and it was clearly mdicated that the president felt con fident of an adjustment of the situation as soon as arrangements had beer made with Carranza. . It is being assumed here that Car ranza does not intend to prevent ini partial judges such as the commissiot. comprises from examining Benton'e body for evidence of whether he was killed in a brawl or after a court mar tial. The White House realizes that Car ranza. might insist on being dealt vitb by Great Britain in the Benton cast and that except for an understanding that hag developed out of the Monroe doctrines and American foreign poli cy, there is no strictly definite right of international law by which tbe American government could insist on acting for Great Britain in this case London Must Act. The president made it clear that the next steps in this direction very likely would have to come from London, that" some indication from England as to whether she expected the United States to press for the desired informa tion &h nearest friend and neighbor of Mexico would seem to be the next development in the situation. It is tak en into consideration by the president that England has already recognized the Huerta .government, and to deal with Carranza would be tantamount Io foreign, onico, made this announcement in. the house of commons today. He ('Continue l or. Pas1 Nine.)
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