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Al A $1.00 a Year, In Advane. "FOR GOD, FOR COUNTRY AND FOR TRUTH. VOLXXIV. PLYMOUTH, N. C:, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1913. NO.' 16. ft 8. r HDBSON CLASHES WITH UNDERWOOD RIVAL CANDIDATES ENGAGE IN BITTER DEBATE ON FLOOR OF HOUSE. CHARGES ARfc ANSWERED Majority Leader Underwood Chal lenges Proof That He Is Tool of Wall Street or Backed By Liquor Interests or Other Interests. Washington. -Representative Rich mond Pearson Hobson of Alabama and. Ms colleague, Majority Leader Underwood, engaged in a bitter de bate on the floor of the House over the senatorial contest in their state, 'in which, 'they are rival candidates. The oratorical duel was precipitated by Mr., Hobson reiterating utterances he made recently in a speech in Ala bama, intimating that Mr. Underwood was "the tool of Wall Street and the liquor interests" and charging that he !had gained Alabamas support in the. tlast presidential campaign under false pretenses. Cheers from ' ' Democrats and Republicans greeted Mr. Under wood as :heros3 to reply and later when Mr. Hobson tried to interrupt there were loud cries of "sit down, sit down," you've 'had your time." The climax of the dramatic scene came when the majority leader, facing about in his place, asked: "Is there any other man in this chamber who believes the charge that I am or ever have been the tool, of Wall Street?" " He was answered by shouts of "no, no" from both sides of the House. Speaking to a" question of personal privilege in answer to a charge of "ab senteeism" made against him last week by " Representative Donovan of Connecticut, Mr. Hobson had devoted an hour to an explanation of his rec ord -ii tjongiesd. Then he declared that in the campaign for the Senate the liquor interests were behind every effort to defeat Mm. Discussing his recent speech and the comment since then, that he was a supporter of Un derwood for the Democratic presiden tial nomination, Representative Hob son asserted he did not know at the time that Thomas' Fortune Ryan had contributed $35,000 to the Underwood campaign and that the people of Ala bama did not know it. Germany Sends Ships to Mexico. Washington. Germany's decision to despatch a warship to Mexican wat ers attracted wide attention in official circles. No intimation bad been re ceived here of Germany's intention and' President Wilson was informed only by press dispatches of the action. No formal comment was made on the incident but it was apparent that the Washington Government was not dis pleased. The sending of a German warship is in line with the policy of other European Governments, which hal vessels cruising off the Mexican coasts from time to time during crit ical moments of Mexico's internal strife. Significance was attached to the action by - official Washington, however, because it was accepted as indicating . that European - Powers, who previously had recognized the Huerta Government. Judge Prouty to Retire. Washington. Charles A. Prouty "V -MllN retire in the near iuture as a member ..of the interstate commerce commission, to become director of the physical valuation of railways. No formal "announcement lias been made hut arrangements for the change have been completed with the inter state commerce commission. Jack Johnson to Forfeit Bond. Chicago. Forfeiture of Jack John ' son's personal bond of $30,000 was ordered by Judge Carpenter, effective .next April if the negro prize fighter, -"-who is reported to have taken out citizenship papers in France does not , appear fo trial under the Mann white - slave act. ' Push Currency Bill. . Washington. Conferences between President Wilson and senators dis closed a sentiment agalnts any recess of congress while the currency bill is pending. "I think it would be a political blunder equal to a crime," said Senator Stone of Missouri, at the "conference with the president, "if we do not pass a currency bill during the present session. We cannot let it go over until December." Senator Sim mons ijaid Democratic leaders would centinue to work for an early con sideration of the Mil. NEWS OF NORTH CAROLINA Latest News of Genera! interest That Has Been Collected From Many '"-.'. Towns and Counties. KInston. A half million pounds o! tobacco has been sold here this week an average of about 100,000 a day, and the season'B standard of prices 'has .been maintained. Raleigh. Solicitor H. E. Norris re cently nol prossed the cases against Supt. W. L. Wiggs, S. L. Lee and R. Li. Watkins, of the county road force, end they will not be -prosecuted. Asheviile. Pickpockets were active here during the time of the Western North Carolina fair. The members of the police department received ' notices1 of the , loss of about $1,000 by persons who were touched by the light-fingered gentry. Fayetteville. Lieut. Alton. G. Mur c 'son of Company F. N. C. X. G., who a week ago turned in his resigna tion as third officer, has been elected captain of the command, to succeed Captain Paul Watson, who retired with the rank of major coincident with Lieut. Murchison's resignation. Greensboro. The annual meeting of the Y. W. C. A. of Greensboro was held recently which Miss Florence Cain, general secretary, made her annual report. This showed that as sociation had more than 700 members, the largest membership in its history and had done a splendid year's work. Asheviile. Lieutenant E R. W. McCabe, of Louisville, Ky., United States inspector of cavalry troops for the division south of the Mason and Dixon line and east of the Mississippi river arrived here recently to make an inspection of the government prop erty belonging to Troop B, Cavalry of the North Carolina National Guard. Washington. Senator Ov rinan and Representative Webb saw Secretary McAdoo and asked him to have the government give to the city of Char lotte eight feet of the postoffice lot for the purpose of widening Mint otreet. "I think the Secretary is go ing to grant our request," said - Mr. Webb. Newton. The Baptist congregation of this city is preparing to build a $6,000 church during the coming year. This is a heroic undertaking for this congregation, but they will succeed under the leadership of their pastor, Rev. M. A. Adams, who came to them last winter. The church has grown wonderfully, under his supervision. This is indeed a working congrega tion. Mebane. A small blaze occurred in the machine department of the large plant of the White Furniture Company here recently while the factory was running. The blaze doubtless started along the line shaft, from spontaneous combustion and rapidly spread, the smoke 'being very dense. The auto matic sprinkler equipment worked (beautifully and in a short while the fire was all out. Asheviile. James Caldwell, who shot and killed his wife and probably fatally wounded her uncle, Asbury Moody at Hamphill, near Waynes ville, about ten days ago, was brought to the Buncombe county jail for safe keeping. It was feared' that if Cald well was kept in the Waynes vllle jail, that friends and relatives of the mur dered woman would lynch him, as feeling against the prisoner is strong In the Hemphill, section. Klnston. Josiah Wells, the vena ble chief of LaGrange, is to be tried before a magistrate here on the charge of perjury. He is alleged in a warrant sworn at the instance of John S. Taylor, of thai town, to have sworn as 'a witness in court against Taylor that the latter sold whiskey to a negro. Taylor says the evidence was false. The warrant has not been returned to Kinston and the date for the trial is not set. Chapel Hill. Clear, concise and marked"-by the simple dignity of forceful simplicity growing out of a complete understanding of the subject under discussion, the exposition of the life and aims of the University of North Carolina student at work and at play on the campus which was the report of Acting President Gra ham to the state was the outstand ing feature of the University Day cel ebration here in Memorial Hall re cently. Salisbury. A. B. Saleeby has re ceived letters from Secretary Bryan and Senator Lee S. Overman asking him to be in Washington January 14 to 19 for the purpose of considering the appointment as ambassador to Asyrta for which place Mr. Saleeby recently became an applicant. Tarboro. Mr. W. J. Martin, form erly county superintendent of road3, has accepted a position as superinten dent of roads cf Columbus county, , and with his family has move:! to Cbadbourn. Mr. T. Perry Jenkms has succeeded Mr. Martin as super intendent of road3 for Edgecombe. GOUP BY HUERTA IY SPLIT ARMY WIVES OF ARRESTED SOLONS BE SIEGE U. S. REPRESENTA TIVE. THE SITUATION IS TENSE Startling Developments Expected to Follow Arrest of the Mexican Congressmen. Mexico City. There has been end less speculation here regarding the ef feet of Provisional President Huerta's coup d'etat. Many appear to believe that the logical result will be a split in the army, which they assert has been held together only by the force of General Huerta's personality. They argue that there has been dissatisfac tion over Huerta's course in general, and that this will test loyalty to the danger point. They look for startling developments in the near future. On the other hand, there is a large element which believes President Huerta took the only possible course, and expressei wonder that he had not taken the step long ago. Huerta's friends say it is no secret that had the deputies believed any substantial part of the army would stand with them they would have overridden Huerta and taken the reins of government en tirely In their hands. Minister of the Interior Manuel Gar za Aldape made the followinfg an nouncement: "The deputies who have been ar rested-and Imprisoned cannot be re leased on any writ. They will be tried for the various offenses of which they are accused. Not one of them has been released by the government to date. They will be treated well while in confinement. "The dissolution" of ' congress will not affect the holding of elections in the least. The ballots will be cast In October. The only change in the elec tion program will be that new sena tors and deputies will be elected to replace these put out of office by the coup d'etat. - "The governors, civil and military, of all the states have been notified of the dissolution of congress, and all have responded accepting the govern ment's course of action! President Huerta's defense of his ac tion in causing the arrest of 110 mem bers of the cabinet is that the depu ties were Revolutionists. It is his be-lief-that they represented the Carran za sentiment in the capital. In a proclamation dissolving the chamber, it is frankly stated that the deputies' threat to remove themselves from the capital and hold sessions where they would enjoy the protection which' they alleged was denied them here meant that they would transfer their sessions to territory controlled by the rebels. TIMOTHY WOODRUFF DEAD former Lieutenant Governor of New York Stricken in New York City. New York. Timothy L. Woodruff, former lieutenant governor of New York tate, died here. He had lain in a critical condition for nearly two weeks after having been stricken with paralysis while addressing a Progres sive party rally in this city. He was 55 years old. . Mr,., Woodruff rallied for a time from his first attack and hopes were entertained for his recovery. Howev er, his condition again became alarm ing, and he lapsed into unconscious ness, from which he emerged only once for a brief interval. During the night the use of stimulants and oxy gen was resorted to, and this, togeth er with his great vitality, kept him alive through the day. Wlfh him as he died were Mrs. Woodruff, Mrs. Rod ney Ward, his only sister, and Mrs. Ward, and John E. Woodruff, his son, and the latter's wife. Born In New Haven, Conn., 55 years ago and graduated from Yale In the class of 1S79, Mr. Woodruff shortly afterward entered a business career in New York, and soon began to take an active interest in politics. As a Republican he was an active po litical figure in New York state for nearly thirty years, and until a year ago, when he left that party and join ed the Progressives, Cut Off His Hand and Hanged Self. Savannah, Ga. Paul Meinig, a 34-year-old white man, with a family of three small children, committed sui cide here in a most unusual manner, lie first severed the artery in his right foot with a razor, and then crawl el under the house to die. Uncon sciousness did not come as quickly as he desired, and then he limped back out into the yard and cut his right and from his wrist The suffer ing was evidently intense and death still refused to come, so he tied a rope o.:cuntl his neck and hanged himself. STEAMSHIP VULTUHNG BURNS AT SEi A WIRELESS MESSAGE SAYS A VESSEL BOUND FROM ROTTER DAM .TO NEW YORK WAS ABANDONED AFIRE JN MID-ATLANTIC. ONE HUNDRED" AND THIRTY-SIX PERSONS PERISH Ten Steamers Responded to the Volturno's Wireless Calls for Help, But Were Unable to Be of Any Assistance Because of a Raging Gale. London. The latest accounts of the disaster to the steamship Voltur no, burned and abandoned in mid-ocean, confirm that the loss of life will be limited to about one hundred and thlrty-slx. The CarmamW first of the rescuing ships to reach the burning steamer, carried off Queenstown, but, owing to the gale, proceeded direct , to Fishguard., , A graphic story by the solitary survivor aboard the. Carmania was re ceived by wireless and presents a terrible picture of the horror, the panic and confusion aboard the burning liner. Walter Trlntepohl, a German, who tells the story, however, is clearly suffering from the stress of Ill ness and his awful experience, and his story Is too incoherent to be ac cepted In every detail. Most important, if true, is his denial that two boats got away from the , voiiurno. According to other acccounts, Captain- Inch was; the last to leave his vessel, which was still burning and was a danger to naviga tion. ' ' : Forty of the one hundred and thlrty-slx persons lost from the steamship Volturno In mid-Atlantic were in the two boats which succeeded in,, get-, ting away from the burning vessel and which, without doubt, were swamp ed. The majority of the other persons who lost their lives "were in four -other boats which were smashed against the steamer's side in attempts to launch them. , , Ten steamers responded to the wireless calls fo help and fought for hours during a raging gale to save the passengers and crew of the' burn ing steamer, which eventually wn. abandoned. w Occupants of six lifeboats were thrown into the sea when the boats wero smashed against the steamer's side and probably drowned. The Volturno caught lire in mid-Atlantic and that the flames raged so , furiously in the gale that the steamer was abandoned. - A gallant fight was made by the crews of ten Atlantic steamers who' responded to the Volturno's call. The Volturno sailed from Rotterdam on October 2 for New York by , way of Halifax. . . .;' Captain Barr, of the Carmania, received the distress call of the Voltur no when" 78 miles distant, in latitude 48.25 north, longitude ' 34.32 west. The Carmania crowded on full steam and with extra stokers made over twenty knots an hour in the teeth of the gale. When tjie Carmania reached the. vicinity of the Volturno she found the forward end of the distressed vesseel burning fiercely. The flaming ship was at the same time rolling heavily, while her propellers were fouled with boat tacke used in lowering ber six lifeboats. -, ' -. It was learned by the captain of the Carmania that two only out of six . lifeboats had succeeded in getting safely away from the Volturno. The other four crowded from stem to stern with passengers and members of the crew, had been smashed against the side of the vessel and all theiroc cupants thrown into the sea end drowned. , , In spite of the terrific gale raging when his vessel arrived near the Vol turno, the captain of the Carmania had one of, his lifeboats lowered to proceed to the Volturna to t help in the rescue. The boat was launched 'with much difficulty, for even on the lee side of the Carmania the seas -were terribly rough and it was only' by extraordinary efforts ' that the small craft was' prevented from being smashed or capsizedas-she left the side of the ship. ' " ' - : "; The Carmania's life boat In charge First Officer Gardiner, made a. gal lant but futile attempt to get 'alongside the doomed Volturno. After two hours' battle with the waves during which the lifeboat lost all but three H of her oars, the rest being broken cr torn from the hands of the crew, First Officer Gardiner returned to the Carmania." . Captain Barr, of the Carmania, then maneuvered Ms big vessel rery -close to the Volturnao and finally got the Carmania's bow within a" hun- . dred feet of the Volturno's stern. - '" . ' ' It was found impossible, however, to cast a, line on board the Volturno or to get anybody off her. - Jt was a terrifying sight for passengers and crew of the Carmania to see so close to them the hundreds of passengers, including women and chil dren in horror-stricken fear on the decks of the Volturno and yet be un able to help them. Captain, of the-" Carmania, in the meanwhile kept, his wireless apparatus at work communicating with all the vessels, within the rad ius of his Instruments." ' - FOREIGNERSJFIGHT TARIFF GERMANY, FRANCE AND SPAIN CLAIM THEY ARE DISCRIMI NATED AGAINST. The 5 Per Cent Rebate Clause Will ' Be Repealed Owing to Pro tests From Abroad. Washington. If the consent of Rep resentative Underwood and other house leaders can be secured, a joint resolution will be passed through con gress, repealing that portion of the new tariff law authorizing a five per cent, tariff rehate on goods brought to this country in American-owned ships. The decision to ask for the repeal of the clause was reached by adminis tration officials after experts of the state and treasury departments had decided that to carry out its exact terms would mean a reduction of five per cent. In tariff on goods from prac tically all of the chief exporting coun tries except Brazil, France and Rus sia. Foreign countries, including Ger many, France and Spain, which claim thev would be severely discriminated against by the shipping clause, Wants $35,000,000 From United States St. Petersburg. A claim of 70,000,- 000 rubles will soon be Instituted against the United States government by Laska Burdzinsky of Petrokov, Rus sian Poland. Burdzinsky claims to be a direct descendant of Puiaski, the Polish soldier, who so materially as sisted General Washington' in freeing the American colonies from British rule. He bases his claims on the ac cumulated receipts accruing from the sale of real estate in Chicago, which land was granted to Gaeral Pulaski for his services. MEXICAN REBELS ROUTED - ' HUERTA'S MEN CAPTURE PIED RAS NEGRAS- WITHOUT FIRING SHOT." ' Thousand of Mexicans Flee .to the United States for Protection and Refuge. Piedras Negras, Mexfco.-r-Without firing a shot Federal soldiers took pos session of Piedras Negras, erstwhile provisional capital cf the Constitution alists, culminating " the victorious march of the. government army un der General Maas through the state of Coahuila, the home of Venustiano Carranza, Revolutionary commander-in-chief. '- .With the exception of four strag glers, who were cut down by ' Federal cavalry' while attempting to escape across the border, all of the Cdnstitu tiojialist troops in Piedras . Negras marched away with the apppoach of the government army They were not pursued, the victorious troops content ing themselves with a search of the city for rebels who might' be in hid ing. The city is policed by troops, and so far there has, been no loot ing. '. ' ' Reforms Proposed by Exchanges. New York. That the New York cot ton exchange ls considering some ac tion with reference to the grades and contract methods which figured so prominently in recent proposed legis lation at Washington, was made appar ent through the publication of reso lutions passed by the board of mana gers. The resolutions provide for the appointment of a committee of seven by the president to consider the ques tion of charging the existing type stan dards, tho question of making such changes In the contracts. WILSON DYNAMITES LAST PANAMA DAr,' PRESIDENT PUSHES BUTTON AND DIKE, 4,000 MILES AWAY, IS . DEMOLISHED. . THOUSANDS SEE EXPLOSION Only a Little Work Now Remains Be fore Waters of Atlantic and Pa - cific Are United. Panama. The Gamboa dike,' the la.si artificial barrier to actual communica tion between the Atlantic and Pa cific oceans by way of t'ffe Panama canal, was rent in twain by the hand of President Woodrow Wilson. . Be tween., three thousand and four thou sand persons from Panama and Colon cities and various sections of the Ca nal Zone journeyed to the scene to witness the demolition of the barrier, and while the event of destroying the dike was spectacular to a degree and successful in its every detail, some, disappointment was evinced because the entire dike was not destroyed. Utter demolition was not carried out because of the fear that the concussion might damage the railroad trestle crossing the cut near San 'Miguel locks. The two remaining sections will be dynamited at some future date. The spectators lined the banks of the cut, outside the danger zone occupy ing every available vantage point. As the hour approached when the event was to happen expectancy fell over all. When the minute hand of watches passed the hour of two o'clock, the suspense became still greater and the ensuing two minutes seemed like as many hours ' Then suddenly came tft muffled roar of the discharge of 1,600 pounds of dynamite which sent a shower of water and rock . high into the air, spreading out as it went- upward the whole heavily veiled in a cloud of smoke. It was considered among local dynamite experts as a remarkably clean explosion. A section of the dike sixty feet wide was lifted bodily from its bed and its component parts scat tered far and wide. ' As water began to pour through the rent made by the explosion whistles were tied down and the -crowd sent up a great cheer. Not an obstruction was. left in the opening except some iron pipes which stuck up here and there. ' There was only one accident, a wom an spectator was struck on the head by ( a rock which was dislodged ' by others from the hillside where she was watching the explosion. Her injury is not serious. All the heads of the ca nal departments were present for the epoch-making event, as also were all the members of the cabinet of Presi dent Perras. TROOPS DESERT GENERALS Soldiers Under General Aubert and General AliVrez Flee at Danger."' Mexico City.-The failure of General Trucy Aubert to get to the city of Torreon in time to relieve It a mis sion upon which he set out from Sul tlllo nearly a month ago with a large force of Federal troops is explained by the fact that the greater part of his 5,000 nien deserted him before he had completed half of his journey. He had reached Madero, 25. mile. east of ' Torreon, when new s of tho evacuation of the city reached him. As soon as the vanguard of the re treating Federal troops came into view General Aubert's men fled with all their arms and ammunition! General Alvirez, who, started with 1,000 men, two siege guns and a num ber of pieces of light artillery to re take the city of Durango from the rebels and whoae defeat caused th evacuation of Torreon, fell into an ambuscade at La Loma, 30 miles to the southwest of Torreon. Relying on Information that the rebels had left the vicinity, he moved forward. Sud denly he found both his advance and his retreat cut off . in a canyon by heavy forces of rebels, who poured in a sharp fire from both sides of the pass. General Alvirez made a stout resistance and managed to get word back to Torreon asking for reinforce ments. Crew of Schooner Rescued. Norfolk, Va. - The British steam ship Kilnsea, Captain Husband, from Galveston, Texas, to Hamburg, via Norfolk, landed here, the master and ten members of the crew of the four masted schooner John Twohy of Bos ton, from Jacksonville, Fku to New York, lumber laden. The Kilnsea dis covered the Twohy In distress sixty miles souti of Fryln Pan Shoals Oc tober ". A first effort to take the Twohy's crew from the schooner fail ed, and one man from the Kilneca v. rescued after beinc thrown in thaea. .