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. ' .. . ' 'l Ml' THE WEATHER. Fair weather and mild tem perature Friday and Saturday; . lignt variame wmas." WTXITOGTON, K. C. FKIDAY MOBTOO, MACII 4, 1910.; .WHOIiE KTJMBEI113,J3;J. , . - ' PERSISTENCY. r J' II ROCKEFELLER FUND Take Place Among Charities, Oil Trust is Among -. Corporations. YOUNG ROCKEFELLER AT HEAD Will Assumd Management of His Fa ther's Benefactions Leaves Direc torate of Standard Received In Wall Street. New York, McU. 3. Among chari ties the new Rockefeller foundation is to become what the Standard Oi Company has long been .among cor porations, and,, J. D. Rockefeller, Jr.. as its head, will in another sphere of influence perpetuate th.e domination bo long maintained in the world of in tlustry by John D. Rockefeller, Sr., as president of the Standard. The younger Rockefeller announced today that he had recently retired from the directorate of the Standard to assume the management of bis fa ther's benefactions of. which hethus becomes almoner in chief. No uc cessor has been named to fulfill . his place in the oil company, and from 15 the board has been, cut to 14. The announcement was taken in Wall street to mean two things that all past estimates of young Rockefel ler's future must now be rerised, and that hereafter the Rockefeller mil lions will no longer be a market fac tor. Instead,, it is assumed they will pass wholly into conservative securi ties, such as It is proper for truat funds, savings banks and insurance companies to. acquire. ., John D. Rockefeller, Jr., is now 33 years old. Greeted on his graduation from Brown University" some years ago, as in prospect the richest young man of the world, he now leaves the field to J. Pierpon Morgan, Jr., three years his elder. Mr. Morgan senior and Mr, Rockefeller senior are both very nearly the same age. -The for. mer was 70 last- Jury, and the latter was 73 ; some" months ago. . Both are Ha- igorquil $$&jiu&"'---'-r-- t Keen in retrospect, young Rockeiel ler'b retirement from the Standard Oil board, which actually took place ;on January llthi, assumes a deeper coa sistency with the gradual narrowing in recent years of his financial activ ities a phenomenon not heretofore understood, as he showed no inclina tion to play the country gentleman or the sporting man, as have other sons ' of millionaires, such, for in stance, as Alfred Vanderbilt and Fox hall Keene. He is still on the direc torate of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad Company and of the American Linseed Oil Compny, but it Is known, that It is his inten tion to withdraw from these corpora tions also as soon as practicable. His relations with corporate finance in the future, it is understood, wiU chiefly consist in conserving the huge fortune amassed by his father, re investing the Income and distributing such part of it as may seem wise. It is not thought likely the new foundation for philanthropy as repos ed by the bill introduced In the Unit ed States Senate yesterday will as sume settled policies for years td come, but in this connection Freder ick T. Gates, one of the incorporators of the foundation, said today that two main points had been missed. "In the first place," indicated Mr. Gates, "every other elemosynary institution has been organized for some specific object, and thus limited in its sphere of helpfulness, For instance, in cases of grave disaster, such as the Paris floods, they have been powerless to aid. This is not so of the new foun dation. . ' . "Another thing there are no secta rian boundary lines in the charter of the new foundation; and nothing to prevent It from absorbing the work of other organizations which have out lived their usefulness ' under present conditions." ; ' :' Mr. Gates was understood to mean that there will be a gradual merger along familiar linea of the Rockefeller charities. Nobody yet ventures to name the amount for which the foun dation will be endowed, but the gen eral understanding among those in the confidence of the family coincides with hat of Senator Gallinger, who intro duced the bill to Incorporate the foun dation, when he said that he believed ultimately the bulk of the Rockefeller fortune would be devoted to the work. John D. Rockefeller's influence In she stnrV market, was a notent one luring the 1907 panic when he help d out many financial institutions as well as being a Tieavy -buyer oi secur ities at that time. Presumably his fortune will continue to be. of much influence at similar times In the fu ' ture, but it is said that ordinarily it is likely to b felt,. In the stock mar ket only through purchase of securi ties for the purpose of investing ac 'rued income. : LOSS OF TARGETS. Ships of Navy to Return From Guart tanamo Grounds. " Washington. March 3. The loss 'of targets has abridged the time the At lantic fleet can devote to big gun prac tice flt nnantatiamft a ttia voaacll will Hampton Roads about March, 30th. Thov mi ii 1.1 ' "w niu i.uai luett). auu loieu twu- tinue tho nraMina nn.tiia Qinf Viom grounds off the Chesapeake Capes with new targets. MINORITY REPORT ON THE . Washington, Mch. 3.H;Senators Cummins and Clapp,' as members of the Interstate Commerce Committee, in submitting today a minority report on the administration railroad bill de clare that the effect of the measure would be. not to further restrain the power of the common carriers, but se riously to Impair the efficiency of ex isting statutes. The creation of a court of commerce and the expendi ture it would involve are held to be "wholly unnecessary." . .Reminding the Senate of "the tre mendous Influence that .will inevitably surround the selection of such a trib unal," they assert that it seems - to them fundamentally wrong to create a court whose sole work will be the trial of railway cases. During the past three and a half years, they con tend, there have been 26 cases in which such a court would have had jurisdiction. " Further objection is found in the fact that the bill in its present form would give the court greater power to review an order of the Interstate Commerce Commission than is no-v held by circuit courts and would ex tend . that power to a practical re trial upon the merits of the order. The opinion is expressed that under the sections adding to the existing law & plan for the regulation of the capitalization of railroad corporations, the abuse of over -capitalization could be legally continued. To accomplish the purpose of the proposed law, the two Senators -.contend that all . that is required is a plain statement, that capital stock issued by corporations shall be paid at par and if paid for in property or services the reasonable value thereof shall be fixed by the Commission;, and that capitalization of carriers represented by bonds would be sufficiently guarded If the purpose for ; which the bonds could be used were carefully prescribed and penal ties for misuse of proceeds imposed. Pointing out some of the things which they think renders the whole plan' ineffective, the Senators declare it should include all corporation com mon carriers, that there is nothing to prevent" a holding corporation from issuing all the . stocks and bonds It pleases, that . the privileges extended in ' reorganization' and : consolidation have practically , no; limit, that : there is no ; regulation - concerning 'the ' capb tattatkH-of increasing .Value rtx4 isting property or. or earnings expend ed In extending or improving property and that It . expressly provides ' mat although every provision of law be violated in the issuance of stocks and bonds, they nevertheless shall be val id in the hands of innocent purchas ers. "What is termed the "most objec tionable and harmful feature" of the WOULD CRUSH SUGAR TRUST Government Still Waging a ngnx Against the Corporation-Pre-sentment of Contempt Want Papers. New York, March 3. Not satisfied with the millions received in payment of duty evaded . by short-weights, in volving the Indictment of the compa ny's secretary, Charles R. Heidke, and the conviction of Minor Epes, the Unit ed States government is still fighting hard to crush the American Sugar Re fining Company under provisions of the Shermari"anti-trust act. Such action was contemplated when the' company was indicted for putting the Pennsylvania Sugar Refining Com pany out of business, but the settle ment of that suit out of court and the interference of the statute of limita tions necessitated another legal tack and the matter was laid before the Fed eral grand jury In New YorK eariy in January. . Not until today, nowever, am uie scope of the inquiry become public when the grand Jury handed up a pre sentment for contempt against the company for the tatter's failure to produce certain, dooks ana papers m response to subpoenae. . This presentment in itself is' but a mnvA of the government to ascertain its rights to the dooks in quesuonn but its handing up inciaeniauy mo closed the nature of the papers de manded . and afforded a key to ' the broadness $f the government's pro cedure. '. . . - It has " been alleged that the Ameri can; Sugar Refining Company controls 90 per cent.bf the sugar business in this country,'and a hint of its intricate relations with-various subsidiary cor porations is given in the subpoena. It demands, among other things, the pro duction., of all agreements and other instruments "made by or to the Amer ican Sugar Refining Company, or any officer thereof , with any other person or corporation in an about the pur chase by said company of. stock In 44 companies." - . : " The contracts and agreements be American Refining Compa ny and the 44 companies demanded are thus" set forth in the presentment! Ta u-rtpr to show cause why the "trust", should not be adjudged in con tempt will be signea nexw.wcc-.. - , James M. Beck, counsel for the com pany. Issued a statement tonight ex- attitude "My client has tno Intention to. ODr I jinmiirv now - .before tu& ouuvt , . I trrnni iiirv.'. savs the statement. - i ne i United States attorney caused a ub- (Continued on Page 2.) RAILROAD BILL railroad bill isX the proposed depar ture from -the existing r method of de s brought by carriers ; to I make inoperative orders, of the Com mission. The defense would be plac ed wholly in the hands of the Attor ney General and the Commission and -shippers'' interested would' be forbid' den to take any part in it. If the De partment of Justice thought the. Com mission was wrong in the order it could allow a judgment- for the car riers by default. Should the case go to trial, however, "the defense would be entrusted to a. lawyer unfamiliar with It: - . . - If the section designed to prevent the consolidation of railway line3 which "directly or substantially" com pete with each other, should he en acted . the opinion is expressed that combinations could be lawfully ef fected that were now forbidden. The senators declare, - It would permit water-and-rail routes to consolidate; a railroad corporation to buy all com petitlve steamship lines; any railway company operated by electric power to purchase all the railways in the United States and combine them in a single corporation; any railway oper ated by steam , to extinguish all com petition of electric ' railways by pur chase, lease or combination; a rail road company that has acquired be fore the act goes into effect, 50 per cent, of the capital stock of a. com peting line, to purchase and hold the remainder. The proposal to confer upon the court of commerce jurisdiction to de cide cases before the transactions out of which they arise is strongly con demned. "We know of no good rea son why a court . should attempt to declare in advance the legality of a proposed railway merger, any more than it should attempt to determine for an individual what he may. law fully do in his business," declare the two senators. . . .. Objection also is found to the sec tion repealing the anti trust law with respect to rate- agreements between common carriers, and expressly ' le galizing such agreements: They con tend that the inevitable consequence must .be an increase In rates ana therefore propose an amendment mak ing such agreements subject to the approval of the Commission. It .13 claimed; that the section imposing a penalty, upon carriers giying. errone- Att;$urmatiott to:- to " rates, Is defective because ; it Is confined to railroad corporations. Senators Cummins, and Clapp further amend the existing law so is to-maike holding corporations coma within the jurisdiction of the Inter state Commerce Commission making the term "common carrier" embrace all corporations haying a controlling interest in a common carrier. EIGHTY-SIX IH THE WRECK Fearful Loss of Life, in Destruction of Trains by Avalanche Death List "Growing Believed Missing Are All Dead. Wellington, Wash., Mch. 3. Eighty six names are now on the list of dead and missing passengers, railroad and postal emplayes, who were carried down by the avalanche that destroyed two Great Northern trains Tuesday morning. Statements of the number of laborers fighting the snow, ' who were sleeping on the ill fated trains vary from 20. to 30. An estimate oi 100 dead is conservative, it is said, tonight.- All the dead were residents of the Northwest. No one who has seen the wreckage has the slightest hope of finding any of the missing alive. The explorations have uncovered none liv ing, and some of the bodies are shock ingly mangled. An avalanche of dry snow might have covered its victims alive, but the gorge at Wellington Is packed tight with wet snow, ice, huge ' trees and glacial boulders of enormous weight.- Two of the bodies recovered were those of electricians who were living in a cabin at the edge of Wel lington and who were carried 300 feef. down the slope. 4A day a stream of men, packs strap ped to their hacks, wound about the mountain path from Skykomish to Scenic, and Wellington carrying food and supplies for the injured. Some are digging for ,the bodies of friends or relatives. . A laborer was caught taking trink ets from a woman's body and he was compelled to start tlown the trail at once.,'" " " . . . One -hundred and fifty men dug for bodies in the avalanche debris all day. Among the. bodies fpund today were those, of former Prosecuting Attorney R.; Barnhart, of Spokane, Conduc tor J. L. Pettlt, who after-a trip, on foot to Siky-komish went back . to his post and Mrs." M. ' A.. Covington,, of Olympia, who left Spokane to celebrate her golden wedding in Seattle today. ; If the searchers find, the Pullman cars 'intact they may take out many bodies in a short time, but it Is like ly, that the dead .are strewn through .acres. of debris. At the present rate of progress.- it will : take, weeks to re cover all the bodies. ..After the track is opened engines and tackle will Jift the ' huge trees and boulders. , " Soow" , plows and- wrecking'-trains working from Skykomish made ' good progress today,: Supt. O'Neill,, of the Great - Northern, .said tonight -he ex pepted - the road to be in operation about' April 1st. v : .. .;- : v-- Slit .. .";"' : ; i TV Victim Tossed From, Window to Angry Mob and Hang ; ed to Street. Arch. RIOTING A DALLAS, TEXAS Accused of Assaulting A Two-Year-Old White ChildtMob Overpowered Officers offeourt Exciting Scenes. Dallas, Texas,! March 3. From the very grasp of te law, Allen Brooks, an aged negro, charged with criminal ly assaulting a 1-year-old white child, was taken by 100 determined mem bers of an angrymob today and hang ed for his crime! V Brooks was seized in the court roon where he was to re- . - celve the law's judgment, tossed through a window to the main body of the mob which .waited like a pack of raving 1 wolves for their prey-in the street below.. His broken body was dragged .through the streets and he was hanged to the-Elks' Arch high above the street by the 'avenging citi- zens. Tpe mob was led by. an old ne gro. .-4 . With it all hardly a loud ; word was spoken, not a shot was fired and above th6 Hluir murmurings of . the "mob could be -heard the aged negro's' trembling shrieks for'mercyv After Brooks was hanged for nearly three hours, Dallas was in the hands 'of the mob; . The jail was stormed and. death . was. threaten ed to three other negroes held, on charges of murder. They had been spirited away, however, t and after searching for thtm in vain the mob dispersed." f" : ; The crime f on .which Brooks naid the penalty today, Vas one. of the most brutal In 1 the history : of this" county. His alleged victim is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. x' Buven Immediate- Ite r;WAvSir vlaskvhft Jxw gru was ihkku oui .or-.uie ciiy lor suie keeping. ; Hewas returned early this morning and taken to the court house at daylight to await the calling of his case in the criminal court. A great crowd gathered early and when attor neys for the defendant, who had been appointed by the court, began argu ments in favor of a postponement of the trial until tomorrow rumors start ed (through the crowd that a change of venue had been granted. This statement caused one of the greatest demonstrations' ever seen in Dallas county, and the court house was charged by the - mob. - Scores of officers hastily summoned were over powered, the locked doors of the court room were wrecked and the negro, crouching in a corner praying, was seized by the leaders of the mob. This was in the second story of the building. Outside the main -body the angry- crowd was waiting.- A rope with a hang man's noose was ready and when it was announced from the window, that the negro had been taken, the rope was thrown into the room. The noose was placed- about the pris oner's neck -and he was pulled and thrown to the ground,, fighting like a tiger for. his life. He struck on- the pavement on his forehead, and it is be lieved fractured his skull in the fall. Instantly dozens of men jumped onj him with their feet and his. face was kicked into a pulp and he was bruised all over, probably dying within a few minutes. A score of men seized the rope, and at the head : of the mob, dragged the negro's body 12 blocks up Main street to the Elks,'-Arch, where it was suspended to a supporting tele phone pole. , The. police cut the body down In about five minutes. It was taken to the city hall and later turned over to an undertaker. After the lynching there were cries to the effect that other negro prisoners (Continued on Eighth Page.) . OUTLINES. ' John D. 'Rockefeller, Jr., will as sume control of the Rockefeller foun dation, which among . charities ! wlH become what the Standard Oil Com pany is among corporations ; A. ne gro, accused of assaulting two-year-old white girl, was seized In court yesterday at Dallas, Texas, and tossed from the window to a mob, vsho lynch ed' him The city councils- of ' Phil adelphia held a secret session yes terday and completely v ignored the strike situation. - The first, steps for a board of arbitration were taken last night hy the: car men No vote was taik'n in the; Senate yesterday on the Postal Savings Bank bill.: The meas ure was sharply criticised by several senators -The Old Dominion Liner Jamestown rammed M a schooner In Chesapeake , Bay in thick weather yes terday' morning : Dr. Geo. Frick was found guilty yesterday at Detroit MHeh., in connection with the death-of Mable Millman.- , - - ... New York markets: Money on call easy 2 3-4 to 3 per cent, ruling rate 2 3-4, closing bid 2 7-8, offered at 3; spot cotton closed quiet 10 points low er, middling uplands 14.90, middling gulf . 15.15 ; flour dull and lower to sell; ' wheat spot weak, No. 2 Jed 1.28 bid elevator, domestic and nomi nal f. o. b. afloat; corn . spot, weak, steamer 67. and. No. 4 03 In elevator export basis. No. 2 67 nominal f. o. b. afloat; oats easy,' mixed -nominal; ros in and. turpentiad steady; - r SHORT MftiGtiT ft TABOOED (Special Star Correspondence.)' Raleigh, N. C, March 3 The State Department of Agriculture having for bidden the sale of quantities of flour shipped into this State by a Chicago manufacturer in 140 pound sacks be cause the State law, Chapter 955, Laws of 1909, requires that all sacks of flour offered for sale in this State shall weigh 12, 24, 48, 98 and 196 pounds, the Chicago firm raised the is sue that such an order was In viola tion of interstate commerce regular tions and Commisioner Graham called on Attorney General Bickett for a rul ing. . In the course of a comnrehensive opinion Mr. Bickett says: "The sta tute does not prescribe the weight of packages that may be shipped into this State but confines Itself to 'pack ages sold or offered for sale' in this State. Therefore, the sale which is regulated is essentially domestic, and the domain of interstate commerce is not entered at all. It is a police regu lation "made for the protection' of our people from fraud and imposition and the .rights of the States to enact such laws in regard to weights and meas ures is universally recognized. The manifest purpose of our statute is to protect-the people from uncertain weights and measures. An illiterate man might not be able to tell how many pounds were stamped on the! sack, a careless man might not notice the number but when the law requires flour to be sold in packages contain ing 12, 24, 48, 98 and 196 pounds, the citizen will always know from . the size of the sack just what he is get ting and there is no room left for fraud Or mistake . Numerous citations are made as to the constitutionality of the act ? Superintendent Jt. A. McLeod. of the Moore county public - schools. writes the State department of edu-' cation- that- he has just . succeeded in j carrying an entire township of the county, Mineral Springs, for. local tax ation to improve the schools. This makes two of the nine townships of the county that have local taxation and the county : superintendent de-; clares his purpose to keep up the fight until every one of the townships has fallen into the progressive line of lo cal taxation. -. , '. The Elizabeth City. Hosiery" Co., D. B. Bradford presidents files an amend ment to its charter authorizing aa in crease f-rkmgcapttaii to rtSO.OOO with power to further, increase to 1150,000 when - the : directors wish to do so. - With the approval of Governor Kit- chin an exchange of courts is effected between Judge E. B. Jones and Judge JL- Webb, by which Judge Webb is to hold Mecklenburg court and Judge Jones Wilkes court both convening March 14th, for two weeks terms. Arrangements are making for a Baptist State Sunday School assembly to be held, at Wake Forest during the second week in August The college dormitories and the homes of the peo ple of the town will be thrown open ESTRADA LOSER IN NICARAGUA Government Has Won Victory Over the Insurgents Estrada Still Hopes That United States Will Intervene Situation. Bluefield Nicaragua, March ' 3. The nsurrectionary movement headed, by General Estrada against the "Nicara guian government has been practically crushed: The insurgent campaign in the west has petered out and nothing is1 left to the provisionals, but a re sort to a guerrilla warfare, -encouraged by the desperate hope that the. Unit ed States may yet intervene in a "wish to put an' end to the disturbed situa tion in the republic. For the first . time today the corre spondents and the more prominent personages of this city were told the true situation, which however, had been suspected for a week. The pub lic generally is still in the dark' and pinning its faith to the false reports circulated of insurgents success.' These reports have been sent broadcast with the deliberate purpose Of influencing opinion in the United States and else where of attracting recruits from the government's, forees. It is now admit ted that General Chamorro's campaign was a failure. - ; - '.. . There is still talk of a new republic omprising the eastern half of Nicara gua. - General Estrada , may proclaim such, a republic and appeal to the United States to protect the new re public from invasion by the -Madriz government. Additional supplies of ammunition are expected -, here,'.' and these will be used to further a guerril la warfare, . ' ' , - s - The destruction blow-fell at TJsma on - February 22nd when General Cha morro was whipped to a standstill. 1 In killed, wounded and captured, .the in surant general lost 800 men. Chamor ro himself barely escaped, - and . with 100 or 200 men fled to San Vincente. where General Mena was entrenched.! Godfrey -Fowler, the j American,', who was in charge of the insurgent artil lery, under Chamorro, was wounded in the leg and left at a plantation near Tlsma. -'-v ? ' . t General Chamorro is- said to have reached San Vincente, Sunday and, to have wired his report yesterday. He estimated the enemy's loss at 1,000 men and explains . his - defeat -: by. . the exhaustion of his cartridge supply.' ,". . Disquieting rumors Lad been In cir culation here for a week but not until C (Continued on Page Eight) Z . r IN THE STATE to accommodate the Sunday School workers that will gather there. The programme is now in process of evo lution, Editor Hight C. . Moore being one of the principal members oft the committee. ' 'General Order iNo. 5, from head quarters of the North Carolina Na- tional Guard, just Issued, prescribes the rules under which, the companies of the Guard shall compete for the Du pont loving cup trophy for the best record each year In gallery rifle prac tice. The order prescribes that each company shall offer a team to com pete, comprising five officers and nine men; each man to have seven shots standing and prone, two of the shots standing can be sighted ' but none sighted while prone; contests to be held annually prior to May 1 and the team making the highest aggregate score to be awarded the cup, and the first competitive practice to be held in the home armories April 11th under tne supervision of the company com mander. President Henry E. Fries, of the Winston-Salem Southbound Railroad, has, filed with the Corporation Com mission the answer of his company to the petition of citizens of Ansonville asking that the railroad company be required to locate the passenger and freight station of the company for that town within the corporate limits. Pres ident Fries insists that the location se lected outside the corporate-limits is much more desirable on account of grades and other conditions in addi tion to relieving what would be con gested environments within the town. J. A. Lockhart is representing the citi zens in the fight for the petition. He was heretoday and discussed infor mally with the commission and Mr. Fries the situation. There will be a formal hearing later, the date. not yet being agreed upon. It will be several months yet before the construction forces of the railroad will reach An sonvilje for the purpose of actually erecting a depot but in the mean time both the railroad company and the people of the town want the ques tion of the location finally settled. The Southern Bell Telephone Co.. has completed negotiations with . the town authorities of Zebulon, this coun ty, for the installation of a local tele phone exchange that will 'connect with rural lines in all that-section and also directly with the Raleigh exchange and getiTai; long distance linesv The exchange is to vbe installed -at once. State Treasurer Lacy appoints. Col. A. H. Arrington; institutional clerk to succeed the late H. M. Reece, and he assumes his new duties March 11th. Col. Arrington held this position in the State Treasury when appointed by Governor Glenn, private secretary, and at the close' of Glenn's administration took a position with the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., Winston-Salem. A few months ago he returned from Raleigh and secured a position with the . Mer chants' National Bank, resigning this position to re-enter the State Treasu ry. ." AHQTHE8 REPRIEVE FOR SPIIE! Bladen County Murderer Will Not Hang at Elizabethtown Today Granted a Week Two Oiier Cases. Raleigh, N. C, Mch. 3. Another re prieve is granted Henry Spivey, sched uled to . be hanged at Elizabethtown tomorrow. He is reprieved to March 11th. Gov. Kitchin makes this state ment in regard to the matter "Telegrams are received from Mc Intyre, Lawrence & Proctor and Mc Lean, McLean' & Snow, counsel for tSipivey, saying that the trial judge had promised to hear them and asking a reprieve of sufficient time to have such a hearing. I have declined to commute Spivey's sentence, stating among other things that neither the judge, the jury, nor the solicitor rec ommended clemency, to whose rec ommendation I would give greac weight in such a matter, and deeming it a matter of sufficient importance to extend additional , opportunity to the prisoner to get expressions from them, I reprieve Spivey to Friday. March 11th." In the case of two prisoners, Wal ter Morrison, Robeson county, and John Atkinson, Johnson county, under sentence to electrocution in the State's prison March 18th, applications are filed today for a commutation, to life imprisonment, clemency to Morrison being asked because he has suffered from five different dates set for his execution, postponement ; each time being because of delay In equipping the electric chair, and Atkinson's ap peal - being on the ground that theYe are extenuating circumstances, in that the man killed had ruined Atkinson's home life. Rulings In both cases are expected before the day of execution. LABOR TROUBLE THREATENS Employes In Shops at Richmond De; , mand Nine Hours and Increase. Richmond, Va.; March 3. There is threat of labor difficulties for the Rich mond, r Fredericksburg ' & Potomac Railway, it appears. The, 300 employ es of the railroad, shops here are said to have made, through Shop Superin tendent' Capp, formal demand, for a nine-hour, day. and a 10, per cent In-, crease in wages, the action being pre cipitated at. this time by a report that an order . is about to be issued placing the shops for an indefinite period on an eight-hour basis - at-the- existing rate of pay, which means less money per diem, . v. .. '. ., , - ' C I LS STRIKE SITUATION IGNORE -conaition Acute in rhiladel : phia and General Strike ' '" I f 1 ... mm mm . ! I'm- RFYRIIRU Will Mm lUTPBtCPC ' 1' iikiuwilll lllkU llll I III I LIU MIL. Citizens Depended Upon Councils to Take Action to Settle Grievan- . ces Two Labor Leaders Are Indicted. Philadelphia, March 3. For the first time in five years the citizens were excluded from the sessions ot their chosen representatives this af ternoon. An hour before the time of convening the select and common. councils, a vast crowd had gathered on the fourth floor of "the city hall, but several stalwart nnlip.emen kent all save the councilmen, reporters and v.- . ? tfj? a iew pnvuegea persons outside tne L - f- iron gate which leads to the council J. :'flV' chambers. The strike was practically ignored by both, bodies. A message from May or - Reyburn reviewed the situation briefly and stated his policy of non- . interference In these words: . , "It is not the city's duty, nor yours or -mine, to interfere between the Phil adelphia Rapid Transit Company and its employes. The Courts of Jaw are available for the redress of any real grievances which either may have against the other. No reason exists, nor can exist in proper cases, .why. they and all other disputants should not submit their differences- to the courts or adjust their ' disputes be tween themselves. "Any attempt, however honest it may be which - tends to draw . away from the-parties themselves,- or from the judiciary, the determination of dis putes which under the constitution and laws of the commonwealth are entrusted , to them, necessarily weak-ens-rand impairs- piir f orn':6l govern-" ment and.ln the present case would but tend to prolong, the agitation that will, delay the restoration of full ser vice by the transit colnpany. This the public is entitled to have, and I -confidently believe, by the continuance of present peaceful conditions, v It will soon be fully restored. In bringing . about peace and good order I rely oa the co-operation and aid of councils and the support of all law-abiding ctt- . lzens." That the councils were entirely in' accord with the views of the Mayor In the foregoing, was made evident by , the absence of any action or discus-' sion relative to the crisis. Several pe- titions from the Business Men's As- ' sociations and trade organizations,' bearing on the strike were heard with out comment. A resolution from the : Central Labor Union, requesting arbi tration, was introduced in the common council, but it was referred to the law committee. In select council, Thomas MacFar land presented a resolution instruct ing Mayor Reyburn, Wiliam H. Car penter and George H. Earle, the city's representatives on the Philadelphia, Rapid Transit Company's board of di rectors, to demand a submission of the company to arbitration and direct ing, In the event of their refusal to obey these Instructions, that they be f asked to resign. Councilman Henry J. Trainer, fore stalled debate upon the resolution by . Immediately maving that it be tabled. The motion to tahle was carried with only a few dissenting voices. MacFarland twice attempted there after to gain the privilege of the floor in order to present another resolution, but President Hazlett refused to rec ognize him. This resolution satirical ly called upon our peerless leader. Contractor James P. McNicholl, who is now soiournlng in sunny Forlda un-- der the sheltering palms, In company with certain influential Republicans, Democratic members-of councils and ' the founders of the Working Men's League party, to immediately return and issue the necessary orders to Rey burn and Clay to change their bellige-; rent attitude." Director of Public Safety Clay today wrote the president of the Builders Exchange directing that all building material near the places In course or . erection be removed from the streets ; by tomorrow night. -This is to prevent riotous persons from securing.missiles for use ' against the police and street cars.1- ; . The director also Issued an. official notice to Industrial establishments1 throughout the city calling attention to the "duty of preventing the streets j from being filled with t great crowds, , which may Influence acts of disorder . and lawlessness by irresponsible perr sons." ' ! ' How determined is -the attitude of the Rapid Transit. Company against any compromise measure in the pres ent controversy, was set forth by Wil liam H. Shelmerdine, a director of the corporation today. He said: - f "It is evident-that it would be the , easy and cheap course for the compa ny to compromise now. ..But It would' - also.be the unwise and cowardly. thing to do, and the board to. a man is op posed to any 'settlement that does not insure peace for the future on a basis that embodies recognition of the fundamental rights of the public and " the company." . ; ', . indictments Against Labor Men. ' . . That the city authorities intend to ST i' r; i-i m w i !4mi , .V IT n A' ;:.iJ ..-' t . s . J