1 Ji SEMSlfi
Motion of the Fiva iVlon Convictcd of Violaiing the
Sharman Anti-Trust Law, for an Arrsst of
Judgment Rsfused—Shottsr and
fi/iyers Sentenced to Jail.
I be was a witness boi'ore the jfiand
A Savannah dispatch of F:\riav I Ar n j
g^yg. ■ Aioiler s sentence was made
' _ heavy becar.sij of his connection with
UverruUn" tae motion in arrest of] the terminal yards in Jacksonville,
judgmeut, offered by the defense, Ire-?i‘adin^ and re-gaugins
JuJg^ William Sheppard Friday
I WMtllNCTON
Kazors were a;^ain used Monday in
a hostile attack uf)on the rates of the
Aldrich bill pending- before the Seu-j
ate. ri'io (Oiijniitlce on ilnan^vi had'
increased the rates cn rr.zois in roir;- |
men use from about 55 to li)0 per
I cent adviilorera, and as soon as '.he I
CrtTTn ) r* c- ■ 1 fri 1 *1 t -I* . I look up the ciitierv schedrde,
Favanna^, Ga„ .-ocal.-The hotly j |,ulVr. At rr.,t Judoe Emory amendments rferH bv ’,Ir Sinrao.-"
contested suit ogainst v\hat is knowji i who was presiilm;;. stated that i’M' • •
as the Terpentine Ti-ust ended last j *‘7'” 'V "'oi'l.i be imix)sed, I
Saturday night by findms I be.,, :l.ue^7mn Se^at.a' Sto,re ofer"l
teuds of the combined infi'us'.s n'omer cooasicn, when Ihs ,^and jury tb- rjalies cn
guilty cf violafins the Sheruiau anti-j‘etui-ned a “i;o bill” against him, as
trust law.
NORTH STATE f^EWS NOTES
Items oi‘ Slate Interest Gathered from Jitwc aa»d There and
Told Briefly for Busy Rea-dera.
THE WEATHER BUREAU AND
Its latest caiiic.
afternoon, sentenced the five men
found gTiilty of violating the Slier-
maa anti-trust law, and lor the tlrst
time, so far as is known, jail sen
tences, in two cases, were imposed.
The sentences follow:
Spencer P. Shotter, chairman of
the directors of the American Xaval;
Stores Company,’ three months in jail
and a fice of $5,000.
Edmund S. Nafh, president of the
weer alleg-ed to have taken place.
The ca.se will bo appealed to the
United Slates Court of Appeals, just
as soon as the bill of exceptions can
be prepared, and certiiied to by the
eouft. In the meantime, a motion for
a new trial will' not be made before
Judn'e .Sheppard. A writ of error
citino; tifty-tliree grounds were filed
by the defense immediately after sen
tence Was passed. Councel attack
nearly everything the court permitted
to come before the jurj', to which
the defense entered protest. It be
gins with the court’s failure to sus-
D.n:4ky
comply, 13.000 the ^demurre^tc; Ihe i;;di;;im;:t
J. Cooper Al.yers, vice prrsideat i and ends with an exception to the
of the American company and pres- Jni-y’s verdict.
ident of the National Transportation , in the sum of $20,000 was
and Terminal Comp.iny, three months P'"'" defendants joint-
; • Ii-oiitiis 1 jjj discharged, pend-
.n jai: and r. hne of $2,500, l„,g the determination of thfir ap^p"al.
Qeorge ile.-id Bom-draan, of New
5Toik, treasurer of tho American Na-
t-ul Stores Compnay, $2,000 fine.
Carl MoUer, of .Taeksouville, Fla.,
•gent of the Ami'rieau .Tnd general
manager of the National Transporta
tion and Terminal Company in Jack
sonville, $5,0l.'0 tine.
Ml. Shotter and Mr. ,'vlyers were
sentenced to terms in the Chatham
county jail. Judge Sheppard impos
ing the punisljment upon them, be
cause they had been before the court
two yeai s ago, entering pleas of
The costs they must pay, if the con
viction and sentemyps stand, will, it
is said, reach $17,000, which will, in
the event the sentences stand, be ap
portioned among the five comacted
men. The defendants Avere sentenced
separately. ,Jr.dge Sheppard made
no long address, but merel.v gave them
;in opportunity to say why sentence
should not be pronounced, a prinlege
of which they took but small advan-
tage, and then passed the sentences.
Mr. Shotter was the last to be sen
tenced. Judge Sheppard made his
longest speech then, probably a hun
dred words.
razors to the latLS of
bill.
The judiciary committee of tho
Senate referred the Connoj' ajjpoiut-
B:ent to a sub-committee composed
of iJorah, of Idaho; Brandegee. of
Connecticut, jind Overman, of North
Carolina. This oonimitt-'e will con
sider the matter within the ue-':t fow
days.
Senator Dixon, of Montana, says
that he is getting a number of letters
from North Carolina Republicans
protesting against Ihe confirmation
of Connor on the ground that his ap
pointment is a political mi.,take. as
they see it.
Jama'S T. Williams. Jr., who was
appointed civil service commissioner
by Pre.sident Taft, has tendered his
resignation and will go to New Mexi
co for liis health. He has disejvered
within the last week that he has tu
berculosis. Thi.s eomos as a severe
blow to Air. Williams and his friends.
Although he is under 30 years of age
be has made an enviable record here.
THE DAVIS EROTHERS CHARGED WITH MUCH WRONG
C.'brothers with forgery and false pre-
X, I tenses.
■lip I The embezzlement charges go far
i32.ilOA. 'liii,!!
\Ya.shington, Special.—John
Davis ann his brother., Martin
c 1 n iniWe
la
I _ — —oo*In
j addition he knows of & case where
bezdem7rr“:n'V"‘'‘“‘"“'“ from a person,
rast S™ms of T complaint up to
auLr “ of tre claimants, it is ex"
.- f the foiged papers and peeted, desiring to avoid publicity,
fi-y AleJiili'
were indicted by the’grand ,iW
Ihnrsdsy. The indictments char^
’ *'■’*nd other^ citie.s j h)s attention aggregate $150,000
Crtino TnT*v It—_ _ a
false pretenses.
Five true bills, charging embezzle-
flient and two charging forgery and
utterance, weie returned again?; .John
C. Davis. Embezzlement from the
Potomac Building and Loan Associs
have not m.ade complaint.
Including these rlaims, United
States^ Attorrey Baker estimated al
•f'lSOjOCO, the total amount secured by
John Damn's from investors.
Mr. Baker Thursday made a state-
tion 1,; lur. naKer ’Jbursday made i
tr“ak,rerr S for^^Ir^ Tl “"1 Thomas A. Owen
again^^t Martin T Bavis Tn arrested on a charpe of con-
After several houis spent in the
Senate ednesday in discus.sing the
windovv' glass sclierluie of the tr.riti'
bill. Senator Aldrich asked that that
paragraph be passed ovrn-. Some oth
er seel ions relating to gl.iss manufac
tured articles, that previously had
been passe dover, were agreed to.
The Senate proceeded to the consid
eration of parsed over sections until
Ihe iron ore paragraph wes reached,
when Senator Crawford spoke at
length upon the lack of wi^om of
any tariff that encouraged the ex
haustion of natural n-.sonrees. which
could not readily be reproduced. Pie
insisted that there should be no taritl
On iron ore, oil, lumber and coal.
Early in tho session, Senator Payn-
ter spoke at length iu favor of thn
remova'I of the duty of six cents a
pound upon ;eaf robacco o'” '* means
for freeing the tobacco g s from
lo'> Ihosa siiwrL'Sted by c.t-:iaor C;iiJ?f
mnis in his amendment to the same I
paragraph Tuesday.
“The rates proposed bv you are the
rates of the Wilson bill, are they
not'!” inquired Mr. Aldrich, address
ing the Senator from North Carolina.
replied Mr. Simmons,
smiling and hesitating, “that .should
not he an arg iment against them. I
think if that is the case it would
rather be a commendation ”
SERIES OF tornadoes SWEEP THE SOUTH
Kansas City, Mo., Special.—A ser-
’’’ Kensas, Missori
and Oklahoma late Friday killed a
dozen persons, injured about 100, de-
vastated Hollis, Kan., wrecked a train
and did^ great damage to property.
Twenty-live were injured in suburbs
31 Kansas City.
At Hollis three men were killed
and ten seriously injured. The Eck-
strom family of five persons is miss
ing and may bo dead in the ruins of
the home.
Near Gre.it Bend, a tornado killed
two and injured 20. All wireS are
down in that vicinity and it is feared
that the death list may be greater.
William Ackerly, a Saute Fe en
gineer, was killed while working with
a bri.lgfl sang between Great BeiW
8nd Kinsley. Frank Vichwlson, a
conductor, was also killed.
The storm spread over a widt
farming area and laid waste man>
farm houses and barns. An estimati
of the rtral cafulties could cot be ob
tained.
At Hoisington, Ka.i., a tornado in-
.lured a number of persons and greatly
damaged farm property.
At Pond Creek, Okln., a seve'*^
wind storm injured four persons and
iHiroofed several houses.
^ Man.v wa.shouts interrupted trafRc
Electrical disturbanees crippled tele
graph and telephone wires.
KILLED WM?LE TRVIMO TO SHOOT ANOTHER
Roanoke, Va., Special-William
Bailpy and t-J. M. Young, two young
men of promir-eni families oif Lc-e
county, (his State, shot and killed
ftach other while trying to kill an
other man Thursday night at a .school
entertainment at Dryden. Young
Bailey had an altercation with
William Jesse over the matter of
tickets 01 aaniission. Youn^ and I tainmeni was
Bailey abused Jesse and the lattei
struck one of tliem, Jesst and Young
clinch*d and Bailey, in an effort to
shoot Jesse, shot Yonu?, As Youno
^’as failing he fired aimlessly, th
ball killinjr his friend, Bailev.' Jesse
was shot in the side and another^nan
^vas slightly wounded. Pandemonium
lei^ed in the ball where the enter-
hcld.
STRICT PARTY LINES ARE BROKEN ON THE TAR.IFF
Washington, Speoial;—After
day
devoted to discussing the dut.v on
iron ore, tha Senate, just before ad
journment Thnrs.lay adopted by a
vote of 61 to 24, the recommendation
of the committee on tiaance for ."i duty
of 2f) cents per ton on. iron ore. The-
House had placed that aitiole on ihe
free list while tho pivscnt law » vies
a duty on it of 40 cents per ton. In
this vote pa.f.y iines were annhilat-
ed, .IS fisventoMi Deinocn'.ts voted
‘aye” with the Itepublicons and
Substantial progress ivas made in
the consideration of the' tariff Tues
day, tl'.e amendments of the tcm-
mittee on finaaea being upheld by the
Senate b.v sub.-itantial majorities.
A feature of the day’s session was
a g'eneral discussion concerning the
great disparity between wholesale
and retail priees of commodities. Re
publican Senalors declared that this
difference was so great as to demon
strate that the duty levied by a pro
tective tariff had small effect on the
price paid by ;ne consumer.
On motion of Mr. Aldrich the sec
tion relating to -^oap was .-'mended so
to place a duty of 50 per cent ad
xalorem on perfumed soap.
The House provision on sulphur
was further nmonded so as to place
crude sulphur on ihe free list and to
provide for a duty of $-1 a ton on re
fined sulphur.
Speaking in favor of a reduction of
the duties on stone and earthenware
as a means of giving the people gen
erally cheaper goods of that kind,
Jfr. Bacon offered an amendment re
ducing the rate from 60 to 35 per
cent ad valorem.
Mr. Bacon 's amendment was de
feated by a vote of 25 to 54, Senator
LaFollette being the only Kepublican
who voted in the afErmative with the
Democrats.
Raleigh, Special.—The work that
is being done by the U. S. Weathei
Bureau is perhaps bi'tler known lo
Ihe majority cf clti;:ei:s than that
of any olhor E-uiean of the Goverii-
m}nt, and i! htrdly seems necessai'^-^
to defend it from such attacks as for
initajice that v.hich appeared iu Ev-1
erybody’s Magazine for ilay. This'
attack was ivritTer. by >tr. Kmerson j
Houg'h, who makes specific charji^es, j
and these charges will be reviewed'
and ansvored in order. .
First, he charsfos that the Weather!
Bureau is unduly expensive, but does!
not e^lain t]^at iho appropriation >
tor this sei-vice is examined critical-'
l.y, item by item by a committc.e of
Congress, and that tliis committee
vojuntai-ily increased the appropria
tion asked for by $133,200.00, and
that last year more than $50,000.00
was returned to the U. S. Treasury.
The Honorable Ja.i. R. Mann said
that this seiTice is the most economi
cally administered service, with tLe
work that has been done, in the Gov
ernment servic-'j anywhere.
Second, that it doe-s not progres-s.
It would seem that progress is being
tnade from the fact that representa
tives of weather organizations of
Europe have visited this country for
the ex]jress purpose of studying meth
ods and forecasting under’the Chief
of the U. S. Weather Bur.eau. Re
searches of great value to the science
of meteorology are being cai'ried on
by this Bureau, and the world’s re
cord for tl:.;> i^'reatest height reaohed
by a kite carrying a meteorological
instrument was attained by this Bu-
rciiu. gt Mt. W'.eather, , Va.. the . re
search observatorv.
Third, that it is excessively explan
atory. This is rather a virtu-e than
a fault. The W^eather Bureau has
notning that it wishes to keep secret.
Its tcethods and results, however,
must be made known, or the public
would not. hav* that sympathetic re
lation with this Bureau that it now
holds.
Fourth, that the senice is general
and not specific. A kimwledge of the
nr/ib*e,Tis iMifolvtd in -'■i--' •r 8pr>'iSg
.. V 'V..#
' are lutuiAW as file
i.no>,ledge of the conditions will war
rant.
Fifth, that it is ev.isivo and inten-
tioiialiy ambiguous. TIm forecasts
are formulated W’ith great care, and
cannot have not in anv sense a Del
phic interpretation. They are made
to cover a definite period and all fore
casts are carefully examined to ascer
tain the percentage of accuracy which
varies fi-om 80 to So per cent.
Sixth, that it off»rs no w.^ll-found-
ed hope of impiovemeut in local fore
casting. On the contrary every in
ducement is made to officials in the
Weather Bureau to exc.;l in local fore
casting, and the practical test of
merit of ail experiments and al!
theoretical work is the measure of
how much it will improve the for-s-
casting of the weather. j
In the cases of the Galveston
storm and the storm in which the
steam.ship Portland was wrecked, I
which Mr. Hough claims the Bureau |
failed to fon^cast. the records ofi
marine associations, of the local press, I
and of the ^veatJier Bureau bear un-1
im{Hiachable testimony to the ftct|
that the Bureau gave aiapk warning!
of the coming of the Galveston storm
that the Gulf was praeticolly clear-!
ed of Vessels of commerce and no loss 1
of property occurred in tiie open sea, j
and that the luorniiig before the pas-1
sage of the slorin hurricane signals 1
vrere ordered and other
Gtdf ports. ■ - ■ -■
la regard to ehn j f the Port-
jland the New ' es of Dec.
j 1, 1S96 said; '
I “In lea\;ng Boston Saturday ligtit
th! captain of the Portl.ind took
chances whicii no man m. his posi
tion had a right to take. Fi'om a
source that warranted ;>,?plicit be
lief, he, like every otiier „aptain on
Ibe Atlr.ntic coast, had received wai'n-
ing that a stcnn of e:;eeptional sever
ity would strik.3 him as soon as he
I lecc-jed open water, and that he knew
I that Ilia steamer, though well baiit
and comparatively new, was of a
type much better designed for ent»r-
J ing shallow haibors than for eucoun-
! taring winter gales on as dangerous
I a cort as theie is in the world. D?-
j spite all this and according to his
i employer, iu defiance of implTcit or-
cleit, ho steamed out into the gather
ing tempest. Why? Perhaps he be-
lo.iged to the class, once large, but
now small and rapidly disappearing,
the members of w'hich sneer at the
Government Weather Bur/'au, and
prefer to rely upon old ‘‘sji.-ns” in
stead of on new scienc.i as the basis
of m.eteorological prcjjhecy. Per
haps a score of thing;. Oni.y this is
certain, he should not hav.j sailed,
and he should not have been allowed
to sail.”
Odt PcUowE Meet in Charlotte.
Charlotte, N. C., Spe«'ial.—Char
lotte was the property of the Odd
Fellows of North Carolina Tuesday.
Delegates to the meeting of the Grand
Lodge were hero by the hundreds and
the streets ot; the City were aswarm
with uniformed officers, representa
tives of every town iu the State in
which is located a lodge of this great
order. Others arrivec*d latei. Ar
rangements were made by tiie IoclI
entertainment committee to care for
not less than 500 visitors. The vjrr-
ious lodges of the State sent not less
than 300 accredited delegates and
many more were present for the pur
pose of attending the meeting of the
Grand Lodge, which occupied three
days.
Indian Badly Wotwded.
Asheville,^ _ Speciu' — A ,sej*io»3»
; shfj-'t.-sV .o^ctrf, e-.. !‘'rif1:!y Att.'tnoi.ar >'
'' ( 'p -i.., !r, 'what WBS %i‘,
aUjgl!:, Mown 'H3 tie H-yaiher
“soft drink” place on south Lexing-
t« avenue, -R+en it is alleged that
W ade VYilsou shot an Indian nam-ed
"Whippoorwill. Whippoorwill was
drunk or near drunk and doesn’t
know much about it. At first lie said
that the shooting was au accident and
later that he was ordered out of the
place and that the shooting followed.
The Indian was taken to th/;- City
Hall, his woiieds dressed and lie was
then sent to a hospital. He was shot
through the arm and the breast and
is said to be bleeding internally.
Thxongh Truck Train to New York.
I Newbem, Special.—Monday at a
j meeting of the truckere, Superiten-
I dent Foster, of the Norfolk & South
ern, and Superintendent Fountain,
held here, it was decided for the new
through truck train to leave here at
II a. m., for Goldsboro, where it wii!
be made a through train for New
York on the Atlautic Coast Line. The
train will at prcsci/v run on Tuesdays,
Thursdays and Saturdays and the
Atlantic Coast Line will furnish as
far as possible ventilated cars for fie
service. The sehedule is satisfactory
to all and means bettor piitf^s for tho
truckers as the goods will r''ach the
markets earlier and in belter condi
tion than as is the case with
present schedule.
the
the Democrats. During the day Sen
ator Baile.y, iu aanotinciug that hf
proposed tn vote for tho duty on iron
ore as a revenue measure, declared
that such action did not affect the
prosperity of the United States Steel
Corporation, .n:d added that even if
It did there w»b a befter way to deal ihx ocii.n-
vvith that organization, wliich was) "’bo had complained of the fail-
of the anti-tnist law '"■» that committee to provide more
Almost the entire session of the
Senate Friday was given up to a de
bate on the profits of tbe United
States Steel Coiporatien and toward
the end of tho day, pei-sonalities were
freely indulged in by Senators. This
occurred after Senator Root had
spoken in defense of the finance
committee .ind in criticism of Sen.i
an enforcement of the anti-tnist law
against it. He declar‘d that he ex
pected to see this law enforced and
he e.\presscd confidence that eventu
ally the cfTiceis of the steel eorpara-
tion wojld cither bo in the peniten-
twelve Kepubjicans voted “no” ;tir.ry or fugitives from justice.
J
luiiple infonuatiou concerning various
schedules. Mr. Money resented what
he characterized as a lecture to the
Senate, by Senator Root, and said
if he desired less speaking iu the body
“he should do less of it himself.”
Times Mercury Chs.ages Hacds.
Hickory^, Special.—A stock com
pany, with J. Kiilian as president,
and R. G. Maco as business manager,
has bought the Times-Mei^Mtry. and
will continue its publication, but as
a strictly Republican paper. Mr.
Click is no longer ccinnected with the
paper, but ivill devote his time to
tho Nutshell, a semi-monthly, which
he began publishing a few months'
Ex-Sheriff Urcps Dead.
Salisbury, Special. — J. Hodg«
Krider, former sherilV of fiowan coun
ty, dropped dead at his home in Salis
bury Friday from heart failure. He
I was called for breakfast, and when he
I foiled lo appear was found dead in
I ins bed. If.-.' was 52 yeai-s old, a well
I known olticei, and is s:urvived by one
I son, seven d.-aishters, two brothers
and a sister. The funeral takes plaoe
with Mastonic honors.
Dr. E, Y. yates Dies Suddenly.
Durham, Special.—Dr. E. Y. Yates,
veten-an minister of the Methodist
church, and for nearly niue years I
lecturer in the department of Biblical
Literature at Trinity College, died
sittii.g in a chair at'his hotel Friday
afternoon. Ho had been ailiug since
Sunday with a dft-jp cold, but was up
the street I'lis morning. After eat-
i’^'g his mid-day lunch, he wont *o the
fnmt porch and was sitting reading
the paper when bis her.d dropped for-
w.-ird and he was dead in a faw min
utes. H--.‘srt trouble, with which he
hod been afflic-tod for several years,
was the cause of liis death.
Bandits Hold Tip Train.
Spokane, Wash.. Special.—Follow
ing the hold-up of the Great ^Nolth
em passenger train by six bandits
between Colbert and .Mead Saturday
night, 12 persons were injured when
tho locomotive and the raait car?, cut
off from the rest of the trr.in, were
rtiii back wild bv thr bandits, afttT
they had rifled Ihe rest of the train.
The conductor saw th.? wild cars
coming back -at 25 miles an hour. Ha
and another trainman placed a tie on
the track, but the cars, though part
ly Siopped, plunged into ihe coaches,
throwing passengera from their seats,
cuttir.,; them with broken