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GOVERNOR HUGHES Of New York Appointed As- sociate Justice a S. SUPREME COURT RENCH. News Had Been Kept Secret —Presi- dent Taft Pleased —People in Wash ington City Satisfied Succeeds Justice Brewer. Washington, Special. President Taft Monday issued the following statement: "The President by letter of April 22 tendered .the apj>ointment to the supreme bench to succeed Jus tice Brewer to Governor Charles E. Hughes of New York. By letter of April 24, Governor Hughes accepted. In the President's letter to Governor Hughes he told him that as the Su preme Court would adjourn its hear ings this week the person appointed would not be called upon to discharge any judicial functions until the open ing of the October term on the sec ond Monday in October, and that therefore if Governor Hughes coilld accept he might continue to discharge his duties as Governor until his quali fications on the day of the opening of the court in October next. This was a material factor in Governor Hughes' acceptance. Accordingly, if the nomination is confirmed, as there is every reason to believe it will be, Governor Hughes' qualification will not take place until October. "I am very much delighted to se cure Governor Hughes for the bench. He is a man of wide experience and marked ability and it is a mighty valuable thing to have on the great bench of the Supreme Court. a man of affairs. Governor Hughes is forty eight years of age, I think, and even if he should retire at seventy, he will have had twenty-two years of solid usefulness on the beneii." ' The offer and acceptance comes as n surprise to the nation. The nego tiations have been carefully guarded. The appointment of Governor Hughes was received throughout Washington with the greatest satis fact ion. King Cotton Cause of It All. Washington, Special.—No alarm is being caused in the Department of Justice by the stirring tales from New York of the possible disastrous re sults of the investigation of the cot ton pools. They are attributed to a press bureau. • Berlin, Ry Cable.—The cotton fail ure in Alabama lias caused anxiety and consternation in Bremen banking and commercial ni roles. Bremen houses will suffer heavily, though per haps not to the extent ns those in Liverpool and Havre. . Liverpool, By Cable. —The direc tors of the Cotton Association ex presses the belief that if there are 110 more bills of Jading frauds by American shippers and no further shortages in the shipments now eu route, Liverpool firms will be able to weather the $2,000,000 loss resulting from the Knight, Yancey & Co., fail ure in Decatur, Ala. Atlanta, Special.--Agents for - a dozen foreign cotton houses in At lanta all agree that under the present system of doing business in cotton, great losses are possible and even easy. The local cotton men are inclined to rejoice at the news that Liverpool cotton brokers are the heavy losers. They say that the Liverpool men, counting on receiving from . America cotton bought at a very low figure, have shipped hack to America large quantities of cotton at an advancing price to break the American market. If the Liverpool men have been de ceived by forged bills of lading, the local men claim the shortage of cot ton in Kn gland will cause the shut down of mills there. Southern Increases Pay Roll. Washington, Speeiat.—lncreases of 311-2 cents a day have been granted by the Southern Railway *o its 1,- 200 carmen. The' yearly sum of the increased wages aggregates $113,400. The Southern also allows increases in pay to its machinists, which will be substantially the same as the men asked for and practically the same as are being demanded by the ma chinists' unions of other railroads. New Orleans Market Nervous. New Orleans, Special—With the more or less general understanding in the cotton future market at the close Saturday that the weather would prove a big factor in the market this week, futures opened here Monday 14 to 34 above last week's close and exhibited a marked tendency to seek high levels from the very start. Another Leave for Peary. Washington, Special.—Robert E. Peary, the arctic explorer, lias been granted six months' leave of absence by the Navy Department, wi'.li per mission to go abrend Four Atlanta Highwaymen Caught. Atlanta, Ga., Special.-»-In a mo ment of consciousness Monday Con ductor W. H. Bryson, one of the victims of- the three negro highway men who Saturday night held up and robbed a street car in an Atlanta su burb, identified one of the negroes caught in the police dragnet as prob- one of the guilty trio. PORK TAKES A BIG DROP Forty Per Cent Off Account Lessened Consumption Pittsburg, Special.—A drop of 40 cents a biyidredweight in the price of live hogs at the Union Stock Yards was an incident in the course of the market, which has been falling for several weeks. The high record made less than a month ago was $11.85, and Thurs day's best price was $9.40. The fall in the price is said to be due to lessened consumption. Banks Increase Capital. North Carolina. —Apex, People's Bank, $25,000; Raleigh, Commercial National Bank will increase capitai from SIOO,OOO to $.100,000; Raleigh, Raleigh Savings Bank and Trust Co., $50,000. South Carolina. —Aiken, Aiken Sav ings Bank and Trust Company, $50,- 000; Greenwood, People's Bank, $-»0,- 000; Hartsville, People's Bank, $25,- 000; Laurens, Home Trust Company, $50,000; Newberry, Farmers' Bank, $100,000; Orangeburg, Fanners' Un ion Trust Company, $100,000; Wag ner, Bank of Wagner has increased capital tw $25,000. Virginia.—Castlewood, Merchants' and Farmers' Bank, $25,000; Dan ville, Virginia State Bank, $50,000; Emporia, Planters' National Batik, $25,000; Hoathsville, Bank of North Cumberland, $25,000; Richmond, American National Bank, capital in creased from $400,000 to $500,000. Charge Appointments to States. Washington, Special.—All appoint ments authorized by executive order, act of Congress or otherwise without examination to positions in the com petitive classified civil service iu Washington in the future will be charged to the apportionment requir ed by the Civil Service act among the various States and Territories. This decision lias been reached by the Civil Service Commission and places such appointees, as far as apportion ment is concerned, on the same plane as those who enter the service through examination. Meeting Board Church Extension. Louisville, Special.—The annual meeting of the Board of Church Ex tension of the Methodist Church, South, was called to order here Wed nesday morning with many of the highest officials of this denomination present. Every bishop of the South ern Methodist Church was expected to be in attendance for the meetings, which are both deliberative and ex ecutive, and which will determine the appropriations for the coming year. The board will have $220,000 to ap* propriate among 200 churches. Negro Highwaymen Rob Car. Atlanta, (la., Special. — At the end of the Druid Hill Street ear line, a lonely spot in the outlying section of one of Atlanta's residential suburbs, three negro highwaymen Saturday night shot and killed Motornian S. T. Brown and after robbing Conductor W. H. Mrvson of s3f>, fatally shot him in the back and made their es cape into the nearby woods. Fire Wreaks Sorrow and Distress. Lake Charles, La., ned by a high wind, a tire which broke out here Saturday afternoon, swept over twenty or more blocks of the city, destroying several hundred buildings and resulting in, a property loss estimated at about $3,000,000. Two thousand persons have been ren dered homeless. Arbitrators Disagree on Member. Washington, Special. —J. S. B. Thompson and J. J. Dermody, the ar bitrators respectively for the South ern Railway and the Order of Rail road Telegraphers, have notified Chairman Knapp and Dr. Neill, me diators under the Erdmau Act, that they are unable to agree upon the third arbitrator of the controversy. The mediators will select the third member. Spanish Dancer Charmed Council. Tampn, Fla., Special.—Following a scathing denunciation of Mayor F. L. Wing and the chief of police at last regular session of council for permit ting women to disport themselves in dance halls in Ybor City in the nude, a special meeting at which the mayor and police chief were both Bcathingly arraigned. Resolutions characterizing their service as incom petent and dereliction of duty were passed. The particular case OOHN plained of was that of a Spanish dan oer whose performances were wit nessed by members of the oouncil. Parisians Welcome Great American. Paris, By Cable. —No signing sov ereign ever received a more enthusi astic welcome to Paris than did Theo dore Roosevelt. He was greeted by the representatives of the President of the republic and the Cubitrwt, American Ambassador Bacon, M. Jusserand, the French ambassador at Washington, and a great concourse of peopl* which the cordon of troopa surrounding the railway train had difficulty in holding in check. SNOW SWEPT SOUTH Young Cotton Ruined And Fruit Badly Damaged A SCARCITY OF COTTON SEED Oil Mills to the Rescue—Fanners Will Replant Crop—Fruit Injured Everywhere Except Florida—Cotton Fntnrcs Go Jumping. Atlanta, Ga., Special.—With mil lions of acres of young cotton destroy ed by the cold weather which Monday overspread the entire cotton belt with the unusual April accompniment in many sections of snow and sleet, the South has suffered its most disastrous financial set-back perhaps since the civil war. Besides cotton, young veg etation of every description suffered from the freezing temperatures and fruit was more or less damaged in every Southern State except Florida. At Columbus, Ga., one cotton seed oil mill announces that their entire supply was at the command ©f the planters and would be sold for $1 per bushel. Monday a carload of seed was shipped from that point to the Mississippi delta and many tele grams were receiverf from all sections of the South asking for an allotment of seed supplies. Atlanta, Ga., Special.—For the first time in the history of Atlanta an April snow fell early Monday. A cold mid-winter rain turned into snow. Birmingham, Ala., Special.—A snow and sleet storm struek North Ala bama Sunday night and Monday morning and according to the weather bureau in Birmingham, extreme cold weather is general throughout this section of the State. All the fruit, most of the vegeta blcs and a large per cent of the cotioi will be killed. Cotton seed is higl and scarce, and it will be difficult t find enough for replanting. Tlx money loss will be enormous. A special from Adanisville, Ky., Te> ports a snow fall of six inches then Sunday night. Augusta, Oa., Special—The cotton crop in thin vicinity lias not been damaged by the cold weather so far and even a freezing temperature or heavy frost would do but little harn Jackson, Miss., Special.—Accord ing to reports received here from more than 20 counties the cold wave has played havoc with the young j'ot ton crop and wrought irreparable in jury to early corn. Kansas City, Special.—-A sirow storm ,remarkable for the season of the year, prevailed all over Missouri, Northeastern Arkansas and Eastern Arkansas and lowa. New Orleans, La., Special—Frost generally throughout Louisiana and sle.et as far south as Tangilhasoa par ish were reported, lee l'ormed on small streams in Louisiana as far south as the eentral portion of the State. 'New York, Special.—Reports of disastrous weather in Southern States cause great excitement on New York Cotton Exchange. Humors are cir culated that the bull campaign will be carried on to the end of the current season as was the ease in the season of 1902-03 after Sully's big deal. Not a sulllcient supply of seed can be had to replant damaged crop. October cotton sold at 12.94 or 57 points above the closing price of last Saturday. A. M. E. Church Raises $200,000; Washington, Spertal.—Nearly $200,- 000, was raised for (he work of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in the fiscal year just ended accord ing to a report tnade to the financial board at their s'vsn.n here. Young Roosevelt a D;:y Laborer. Hartford, Conn., Speciai.—Theodora Roosevelt, Jr., will leave his work in the carpet factory at Thornpsonville, on June 1 to prepare for his marriage to Miss Eleanor Alexander in New York city on June 20. Young Roose velt is now doing executive work in the main office of the factory. Fol lowing his marriage he will become district manager of the company at its San Francisco headquarters. Negroes' Intentions Peaceful. Havana, By Cable. —The govern ment's denials of race troubles were rendered absurd Saturday nighty when "Gen." Estenoz, the colored agitator, and many other negroes were for sedition. The gov ernment's dispatch of troops to the provinces is disconcerting the plans of the negro leaders, anil 1 it frighten ed Estenoz, who visited- Mr. Jackson, the American minister, and reiterat ed to him his peaceful intentions. He declared that the negroes were simply organising for the purpose of winning at the polls in order to sc cure proper recognition. "Buffalo Bill" a Pensioner. Washington, Special. "Buffalo Bill' is a pensioner of the United States and draws from the Govern ment sl2 a month in recognition of his services as a private soldier., in the Union Army during the Civil War. After the war William F. Cody, as the Pension Office records have his name, became an Indian scout. Ap plication for pension ww made De cember 10, 1008. EVENTS TOLD TERSELY. News From Everywhere Printed b Short Paragraphs. Hailstones as big as baseballs went through a street car at Hillsboro, 111., and injured passengers, broke almost all windows on the west side of build ings in the city, smashed every plate glass window on the west side of the main business street, forced drivers to lead horses into stores, stripped fruit and other trees of all their foliage and covered the streets with leaves three inches deep in places. Suffering from what is believed to be leprosy in its advanced stage, a woman cuddling an 8-months-old baby to her breast, has been found by Dr. Trask, of Bellevue hospital, New York, in a squalid east side structure that fairly swarmed with lodgers. Harry K. Thaw is mourning be cause his wife is growing stout. "Your poetic figure has passed away," he said to her the moment he saw the former model when she visited at Matteawan Saturday after noon. "But you're still beautiful," he made haste to add. Dr. L. C. 11. E. Zeigler by an Illinois Supreme Court decision is entitled to SIOO,OOO from the estate of Mrs. J. 11. McVicker, as provided by the contract he held, to render her medical attendance during her life. In New York a friendless and pen niless negro, Victor Nelson, charged with murder, will have in his trial the legal services of W. Bourke Cock ran. The judge appoints leading members of the bar to defend those who have no lawyers. William H. Hardy, a policeman, of Pittsburg, is patrolling his beat, not withstanding the fact that he receiv ed notice that he was the sole heir to a fortune in Yorkshire, timated at $3,000,000. Hard/ de clares he will continue to patrol his beat for at least two years. Frank M. Young, of Hopkinsville, who stands 3 t'pet 7 inches and is said to be the tallest man in western Kentucky, was rejected by the local recruiting station on account of his height, it being claimed he was over sized for effective army service. In Paris there are 1,362 wives who have left their husbands for others, and 12,.'171 husbands who have run away from their wives; 4,120 couples have separated amicably, while no fewer than 191,023 "menages" live at warfare under the same roof. On the theory that a woman's crowning beauty is her hair, a jury in the New York Court awarded $5,500 to Amelia Kirwin, whose hair was torn out in an accident at the American Lithograph plant three years ago. , The general percentage of the post office increase for March was 14.70 per cent. The total gross receipts amounted to more than $10,700,000, an expansion of nearly $1,500,000. An action to recover a hoard bill for $1,(100 which' Mrs. W. Gould Brokaw ran up in a Manhattan hotel during her stay for six weeks there was brought to trial in the Supreme Court at Mineola, Long Island. The "lady hobo" will be welcomed in Chicago. She will And every preparation made for her entertain ment, with free lodging, free bath, and, if the city's hospitality is car ried to the logical conclusion, free powder box and puff, free hairpins and other accessories of the feminine toilet. The* next annual sessiop of the North Carolina Teachers'] Assembly will be held in Ashe.ville, June 14-17, 1910. It will be the twenty-seventh annual session of that organization. Mary Jenkins, the "Spider Girl" with the "Big Otto" circus, which arrived in Washington Sunday night, was found dead in her bed in a cheap lodging house. Her home is ,in Florida. Governor Harmon, of Ohio, vetoed the Anderson Sunday baseball bill, on the ground that it is unconstitu tional. The bill provided that vil lages and cities shall have the right to vote on the question of baseball on Sunday. The Governor favored the bill, but thought tlfat it is un constitutional. William J. Bryan will speak in Missouri in support of the movement for statewide orohibition. At Vienna an old woman living near the Bohemian-Saxon frontier, has been condemned to a fine 6f $2lO or two months' imprisonment for bringing into Austria an old pack of cards which had been given to her for her grandchildren to play with, and which she failed to declare at the Austrian Custom House. The Illinois Supreme Court has de clared the law prohibiting the employ ment of women in factories and Btores more than 10 hours a day con stitutional. At Huntington, W. Va., hundreds of people attended the funeral of a dog. The dog had the reputation of never missing a ball game. The Federal grand jury of th« criminal branch of the United States Circuit court, at New York, has re turned two indictments, which it is understood charge the defrauding of the Government out of customs duties on importations of-cheese and figs at less thnn their true weight. In the face of rough weather and high seas, the Atlantic fleet spent Monday night in target practice by searchlight, making scores surpass ing expectation, 70 miles off the Vir ginia capes. DOWN IN DIXIE LAND The Brave Old Veterans Take Their Stand. CONFEDERATE REUNION OPENS. Mobile in the Grip of the Grizzly Warriors and Their Bona—Soldier* Go Mad When "Dixie" Song is Sung— GOT. Comer's Welcome. Mobile, Ala., Special.—A slender, black-clad, frightened girl stood on a raised platform Tuesday and while six thousand Confederate veterans cheered and while the bands played "Dixie," a score or more gray-head ed Confederate general officers passed in review before her and with un covered heads, kissed her hand. The young girl was Miss Lucy White Hayes, granddaughter of the only president of the Confederacy. The incident was the climax of the first day's session of the United Confed erate Veterans. The big tent, which is said to seat comfortably six thou sand people, was packed to its top most tier of seats. The sides had been raised and the throngs outside had pressed in. When the new "Daughter of the Confederacy" was being presented to the convention the old veterans went mad. But when Mrs. Edwards signaled her choir to rise and faee tjie audi ence, her slender figure almost shrouded in a huge silk Confederate flag, there was a roar that outclassed even the greeting to the command ing general, Gen. Clehient A. Evans. Her clear soprano voice filled the tent. When the stirring song was over there was another demonstration. Miss Vera Williams, one of Mobile's prettiest women, recited an original poem and Governor Comer, of Ala bama, in welcoming the veterans, took occasion to criticise Attorney General Wickersham «for instituting proceedings against the leaders of the bull cotton pool. The sons of .United Confederate Veterans are in session. The address of R. W. Bingham, of Louisville, Ky., on "Justice to the South," was an event. All of the old officers were re elected. Commander-in-Chief Clar ence J. Owens, Abbeville, La., by a unanimous vote. The Sons decided to make per manent headquarters at Memphis and voted SI,OOO for propaganda work. Drinking More Genuine Beer. Washington, Special.—Nearly a million more barrels of beer were con sumed by the people of the United States last month than in March, 1900. This is shown by the state ment of the internal revenue receipts for March, made public Tuesday. The total consumption of beer during the month amounted to 4,993,793 bar rels. Every item of collection of any consequence shows an increase over the previous year. There was an in crease of $1,071,144 in the taxes for spirits and of $130,000 from cigar ettes. Corporation taxes paid during the month amounted to $54,205. The total collection during March was $22,311,182, as against $19,927,554 the previous March. Heceipts for the year 1909 to March ill w5200,- 090,.'120 compared with $184,911,389 for the corresponding period of the preceding year. United States Seizes Cotton. Mobile, Ala., Special.—The first seizure of cotton shipped under bills of lading i»sued by Knight, Yancey and company was made in Mobile Sutplay when Deputy United States Marshal White served an injunction on Capt. Arthur Parker, ol' the British steamship Meltonian. restrain ing the movement of 4,200 bales of cotton loaded in the tseamship and consigned to Havre, France. Richest Woman Will Retire. New York, Special.—Mrs. Hetty Green, celebrated for years as the richest and shrewdest business woman in the world, will soon retire from ac tive business life and will turn over the handling of her immense fortune, estimated at $50,000,000 to her daugh ter, Sylvia, now Mrs. Matthew Astor Wilkes. Atlanta Negro Highwaymen Amated. Atlanta, Ga., Special.—ln the three negroes brought here from Griffin, Ga., Monday night, the police belike they have the threes negro highway men who after holding up a street car here Saturday night shot and killed Motorman S. T. John and fatally wounded conductor W. H. Brison. The negroes were arrested at Grif fin Sunday., They had in their posses sion a number of nickels and dimes and this coupled with the fact that they had just came from Atlanta led to their arrest. All three told con flicting stories of their whereabouts at the time the erime was committed. Mexican . Outlaw Killed. Washington, Special. A Mex ican who was smuggling four Chinese across the Mexican border near Santa Anna, was killed on April 21 by officers of the immigration ser vice patrolling the border, accord ing to information received here. The Chinamen were caught. Two officers were engaged in the capture, and the coronet's jury which investigated the affair exonerated the one s*id t$ be responsible for killing. 0* ... *1 'UNCLE SAM PAYS INDIANS Eight Hundred "Braves" Draw s76,ooo—More Coming. Asheville, N. C., Special. —Eight hundred "braves" of the Cherokee reservation near Whittier, this State, lined up in a driving snowstorm on Monday to receive from Special Agent Frank Kytelka, of the Chero kee Indian school, the second install ment of the so-called "timber money," same being a part of the proceeds of the sale of land known as the Love Tract. This payment is a partial settle ment of long pending claims due from the government to the Cherokee Indians. The distribution amounted to $76,000 and there remains $400,- 000 to be distibuted this week. Those present Monday received a per capita dhare of S4O. The claims now being settled grow out of the site of the India#* lands made by the government about the middle of the last century when it un dertook to move the C'herokees to In dian territory. Among thoac who de livered addresses was Lockwood of Washington, the famous woman lawyer. She caution ed the Indians about sending their money away for-"fire water." She advised them to bank their money and qualify as voters of the community. Valuable Cargo Tossed From Ship. Hugh Town, St. Marys, Sicily Is lands, By Cable.—The inhabitants of the rocky Sicilly islands will for ever remember this as the greatest clay in their hitsory. The Atlantic transport liner Minnehaha, which ran ashore here, disgorged part of her 17,000 tons of valuable cargo, cast ing it upon the waters all day long! to be gathered up by those who cared to take the trouble. Huge cases containing automobiles and pianolas followed one another over the side, striking the water with a great splash. Sewing machines and clocks went with them, while Michi gan furniture floated everywhere. Many hales of cigarettes covered the face of the water and tons of cheap American novels drifted to the near by shore of Bryhor, where they were piled like seaweed. Big Fraud in Alabama. Mobile, Ala., Special.—Details of what is alleged to be one of the big gest frauds unearthed in the South in years were made public Monday with the simultaneous arrpst, on war rants charging conspiracy to defraud the government, of Jesse H. and Daniel |H. ! Shreve, at San Antonio, Tex.; A C. Shreve at Tuskaloosa, Ala.; R. T. Shreve, James E. Shreve, Hilliard Shreve, George H. Shreve, * John Johnson and William Franklin at Montgomery and Sam Copeland at Scottsboro, Ala. Johnson and Frank lin are negroes. The men arrested are charged with withholding from the Federal refereee in bankruptcy for this district assets of the City Jewelry Company of Montgomery, Ala., wilfully knowing of their whereabouts at the time. "Nothing Doing"—Not a Thing. Liverpool, By Cable.—The creditors of the Alabama cotton firm of Knight Yancey & Co., are enlisting the aid of Liverpool banks in obtaining re dress from American banks, because of losses sustained through what are alieged to have been unsatisfied bills of lading. Treasure in Old Stove. Newark, New Jersey, Special.— After she had sold an old stove for 30 cents, Miss Norah Sullivan, aged 70 years, of Newark, N. J., learned that it was really worth S6OO. A package which dropped from the stove unnoticed by the pur chaser, was picked up by two boys and found to contain GO $lO gold pieces. Investigate Notorious "3d Degree." Washington, Special.—The Senate Committee on Judiciary voted Monday to conduct a thorough examination into what is known as "third de gree" methods of extorting confes sions from persons charged with crime; also the practice of employing persons in the espionage of jurors. Railroads Awful B«cord. Washington, D. C., Special.—A large increase in the number of cas ualties on American railroads is shown by the report for the quarter ended December 31, 1909, as com pared with the corresponding quarter of the previous year. A bulletin is sued by the Interstate Commerce Commission shows an increase in the number of persons killed-of 301, and in the number injured of 5,045, as compared with the corresponding quarter of 1908. The total number of persons killed was 1,099 and the total number injured 22,491. Another Appeal for Arbitration. Washington, Special.—Two more railways and their telegraphers have appealed to Dr. C. P. Neill, commis sioner of labor, and Chairman Knapp of the interstate commerce commis sion, the mediators under the Erdman act, to interpose in an effort to settle their differences. The roads involved are the Seaboard Air lane and the Southern Pacific and the controversies relate to wages and working condi tions. It is expected that the medi ators will take up the matter shortly.
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