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' - - 'T '''-; " .'v THE WEATHER. Pair and warmer Saturday; Sunday fail.; light to moderate variable winds. - W . , . : . v J. - r, i . ,. . - DO YOU ADVERTISE? If not, why not? Perhaps there's a reason. A request to this office will bring a man to talk It over with you. iFOUfJDE V0L.LXXXVmKO. WILMUNUTON, N. C, SATURDAY MOKNINGr, JUNE 10, 1911. WHOLE NUMBER 13,6tfl. i-t-v fi csja.m w ah.muj fcTxcjT-'-cr i-a i t it yr 1 -i'rm " r rn ...hi m nmiiiin miiV'i PU Mil 1 1 h IVI n N 1 1 I1IU fiJk in lh luuLiiinnu A BEG INDEMNITY Six Millions in Gold From Mexico for Slaughter of 303 Chinamen. UP BY A CRUISER Trouble Occurred During Mexican Re voltClaim That Ivtany of the Chinese Were Slain in Most Inhuman Manner. Mexico City, June 9. An indemnity of $6,imm,(ioo gold will be demanded of Mexico by the Chinese government for . the slaughter of 303 Chinese subjects and the destruction of their property in Torreon, it was asserted today. The , demand will be backed up by a cruiser which is already on, the way to Mexl ; can west coast ports. Three investigators returned today from Torreon and placed "in the hands of Sluing Hai Sun of the Chinese lega tion, a detailed report of the carnage. Tliis report shows that many of the Chinese were slain in a most inhuman manner and that besides a Chinese bank and club house, 89 places of busi ness were sacked. s - In addition to the indemnity,4 an apology tor insult to, the Chinese flag will be demanded; also that aid be extended to destitute families of the victims, that the guilty be punished and the constitutional guarantees of protection to Chinese lives and prop erty be made effective. Of the 12,000,000 pesos indemnity to be asked, two, million is for property damage and the remainder for the loss of lives. "1 am friendly, as Is my nation, to the Mexican people and to the revo lutionary cause," said Mr. Shung. "I fill first present my case to the Mexi can government for Its decision, which, if favorable, will settle the case amicably. If it is not accepted t detailed report of the crimes will be giren. to the worlds A cruiser has been sent by the Chinese, government to Mexican points, carrying persons ibo will continue the investigation- of tie treatment of Chinese throughout tie Republic, and who will also assist in pacifying the Chinese residents in tie country. The report made by the investigate ors goes back to the anti-foreign ex citement starting on September 16th, Mexico's centennial, when at a public meeting in Torreon the "killing of the Spaniards first and then the Chinese was advocated by a speaker. Gen. Reyes Arrives. Mexico City, June 9. "Down with Reyes," "Viva Madero," Such was the first greeting extended to. Gen. Ber nardo Reyes when he arrived in the capital this afternoon. A few. houses and residents were at the station.but the Madcroistas were the first to ac knowledge their .presence. There were no troon formations. Gen. Reyes was not formally re- reived with the honors to which an officer of his rank is entitled. His re- ception was such . as any civilian might receive. The general was taken to the home of Rodolfo Reyes, his son. Gen. Reyes in response to the demand of. the crowds, appeared at an upper window and delivered a speech in one sen tence. in the democratic ' contest upon which we are entering," said he, will always be found, as I have been in the past, loyal to the people of Mex ico. Francisco I. Madero expects to meet Gen. Reyes tomorrow. - CORONATION CEREMONIES. Rehearsals Now in Progress for Eng land's Big Celebration. London, June 9. The coronation ceremony was rehearsed today in the Abbey church of St. Peter,. Westmin s,cr, many of the principal partici pants hdng coached in the roles "hirh they will have to fill June 22nd, the tiny on which King George will be "owned. The entry into the Abbey, the pro fusion up to the altar and the religi ons services all were rehearsed, the Archbishop of Canterbury at appro priate moments performing the ac ti'ins of crowning and annointing with oil tboso representing King George and Queen Mary. The crowns on this occasion wore circular pieces of paste board. The Canadian contingent of sol (h',rs who huve come over to attend ,h(; coronation, received, a stirring I'oaK. on landing today at Liver H'"i The Lord Mayor of Liverpool ln,,t the Canadians and the streets which they marched u"on.d with citizens. were HONOR FOR GEN. EVANS. Wil Become Adjutant General of ... State of Georgia.. A tfi ' ox-commander-in-chief Of i nit 'i Confederate .Veterans, "IVI a inc.. ".,., i ine Slatfi nr son com- sitioSn""'f W,i'- has been offered the po- nyssi hv r " "'"rtiu general or Georgia bounce, 1"?? fmul t0 "'ice.,! ; : ",nanVe- -w " acceptance. who h )h,' V J 111 ueerai A. J. Scott, IJI.p qt .h- , J . ,1.. OtAl. for several years fill) AERO MISHAP German Aviator and His Mechanic Me With Fatal Accident Yvnlle Trying for Altitude Record Bady Mangled. , Johannisthal, Germany, June 9. Herr Schendel, who on Tuesday estab lished a German altitude record of 6, 594 feet in an aeroplane, fell this ev ening with his mechanic, oss, and both were instantly killed. Schendel was trying to eclipse the world's alti tude record with a passenger. The. aviator, who was practically a beginner, arose this evening in a Dor ner monoplane and had reached a height of 6,560 feet when the mono plane was seen to assume a vertical position, and it is believed that Schen del was trying to glide to earth with his motor shut off. Once for a brief period, he-seemed to have righted the machine, but almost immediately again lost control of the monoplane and shot to earth with terrific speed, landing just outside the aviation field. So great was .ne velocity of the fall that tne prow of the machine was buried in the earth. The bodies oi Schendel and Voss were frightfully mangled. STANDARD WORKING HOURS. Address of Miss Josephine Goldmark in Boston Yesterday. Boston, June 9. Fatigue in men and women is not a philanthropic or sentimental fiction, it is a chemical fact, according to Miss Josephine Gold- mark, publication secretary of the National Consumers' League, who ad dressed the National Conference of Cnarities and Correction this morning on "Standard Working Hours." "In the lives of working people," said Miss Goldmark,, "no single factor counts as mixh for good or ill as the length and regularity of their working hours. Even such important matters as wages, housing and insurance are subordinate. No reform, no better ment, is as important as the adjust ment of work to human effort. All the possibilities of life, the workers' whole plane of existence, rises and falls with his scale of time expendi ture. . "For the past half century scien tists have been studying the intricate problems of fatigue and learning its laws, in the seclusion of the labora tory." During the same period, work ing people and their friends have been seeking againsf the most power ful opposition, protection from indus trial overfatigue and exhaustion. Be tween the two groups there has been an unbridged ebyss. Those who have sought legislation year after year, sen oiten in vain, have not even known that there were laws of fatigue, the scientific and demonstrable basis for their claims. On the other hand, sci entists and physician? have studied muscle and nerve, frog jerk and pig' eon flight in infinite detail, without as yet applying the laws and facts so acquired to the phenomena of fatigue in the largest classes of our popula tion, the wage earners. "The United States Supreme Court finally decided that it is within the province of State legislators to limit the hours of working women. That wa? in 1908. Within the next two years the Supreme Courts of Illinois, Michigan and Louisiana followed suit The effect of these decisions has been electrical. During the first three months of 1911, three States Califor nia, Washington and Colorado pass ed laws limiting women's work in the industries to eight hours per day. Two ?tates Missouri and Utah passed nine-hour laws, and Delaware passed a ten-hour law which failed to re ceive the Governor's signature. None of these laws permit any oVertime work, which is one of the most im portanj testsi of effectiveness of this l;ind of legislation, for it does not leave a loophole to deprive women of protection at the very time when most urgently needed. Miss Goldmark made a special plea for' more definite laws in the other States and especially la.ws which will protect workers In such occupations as laundries, .telephone exchanges, canneries, restaurants, candy stores, ice cream saloons and department stores. LISTLESS COTTON PLANT. Government Expert Claims to Have Achieved Important Success. Bullochsville. Ga., June 9. J. J. Stranahan, superintendent of the Cold Springs Station of the United States Department of Fisheries at this place has perfected, he says, through ex periments carried on for the past four years, a Draetically lintless cotton plant. The purpose of his experiments in this line is to secure a larger plant bearing bolls filled with larger seed which will be much richer in oil than the regular, plant. . ' In the course of ten years' Mr. Sta nahan exnects to Droduce a cotton plant that will yield 100 bushels of clean sped to the acre. i Atlanta, Ga., June 9: Ten thousand dollars was the value placed on a hos by a jury in the Superior Court, here today in the case of J. D. DeBow, of Nashville, Tenn., against the vicks burg, Shreveport & Pacific xwailroad The hog in question was '.'Premier Longfellow's Rival," a pedigreed pork er who was killed in - a railroad acci dent and on which Mr. DeBow ad such a valuation of $20,000. The ani mal was nine feet long, three feet high and weighed more than 1,000 PLEA FOR HIGHER TAX ONJOBAGGO Government Losing Millions That Could be Collected Say 8 Congressman. WOOL TARIFF UNDER ATTACK Against High Duties on Woolen Goods Newly Elected Republican From Washington Held the Floor Features. Washington, June 9. Itepresenta-; tive Warburton, of Washington, a newly elected Republican Insurgent in the House of Representatives, charged Congress today with letting millions of dollars go to waste that it might collect in internal revenue taxes on tobacco. He attacked the pending wool tariff revision offered by the Democrats, declaring that their plea of needing revenue for the gov ernment treasury was not a serious argument for keeping hig duties on woolen, goods. "If the government would put a rea sonable tax on tobacco, w.hich may be 'Considered a luxury,"said Mr. Warburton, "it could let in woolen good?, cotton goods and sugar with out any tariff whatever. If this coun try taxed tobacco as England or France does, we could Close the doors of all the customs houses, except as to the importations of liquors and to baccos." Mr. Warburton said the Democrats had been afraid to reduc the duties on wool any further,' for fear of the consequences at the next election if the woolen industry was prostrated by the removal of protection. He said the Democrats had been compelled to adopt the Republican doctrine of pro tection, and excused themselves on the ground of needing revenue. And in the meantime," said Mr. Wlarburton, "American ' people are paying els times as -nrach tax to the government on sugar as they are on five cent cigars; twelve times as much on sugar as on ten cent cigars; 30 times as much on sugar as on 25 cent cigars and 60 times as much on sugar as on 50 cent cigars. The rich man who smokes a 35 cent cigar pays one and two-tenths cents tax on each dol lar's worth of them; waile his gard- ner who smokes five cent cigars pays C cents tax on his dollar's worth; and his washer woman who buys a dol lar's worth of sugar pays 36 cents tax on it. Representative Peters, of Massa chutetts, a Democratic member of tuo Ways and Means Committee which framed the wool bill, said wool and v'oolen goods would have been made free, but for the necessity of raising revenue. He said the duties uad been placed as low as was consistent with securing enough tariff revenue to run the government- NOT "RICH MAN'S COLLEGE." President Lowell, of Harvard, Spoke at Convention. Minneapolis, Minn., June 9. Har vard University is not a "rich man's college" and does not abet dissipation, according to an address made today by President Lawrence Lowell, of Harvard, before the Associated Har vard Club's convention. "Harvard is not run for the fast man in college," said President Low ell. "I speak with authority when I say this, for I know the leaders in the various classes in the college and uni versity. They are not dissipated The"re are some dissipated men in the University, but that is natural in any large institution. They are not the men who give the tone to the college Every man in the University has an equal chance and this condition has been brought about by the initiative of the students. It is well known that Harvard is full of poor men, and the students nave abolished anything like a breach between the rich and poor." FIRE IN OIL PLANT. Smouldering Blaze Gives Raleigh Fire men Bay Day's Work. Raleigh, N. C, June 9. The Ra leigh fire department, has been fight ing a slow smouldering fire in tne plant of the North Carolina Cotton Oil Co., here all the forenoon and have as yet failed to reach the real seat of fire. - Practically no flames have devel oped but at times .volumes of smoke oour from places. Just now the nre men are unroofing a section of a build ing m expectation of reaching the Are between the rafters and joists. A big bed of smouldering fire was found and extinguished in the base ment close by the engine room. There seems now to be little prospects of the fire , breaking out seriously , again unless it-eats its way to some of the oil tanks..- ' ' V -' ". Lovers of Music. Don't mlsfl the concerts-at Lumlna tofflorrdw. Both afternoon and night concerts will be very fine. Among the numbers to be rendered are: GTand March from "Aida," selections from ."Bohemian Girl," 'Faust" sel ections, VLove song of olden days," etc4:M..v'- ',: -: ' ' ' ' '' COTTON HAS A 'VARIED WEEK Sharp Advance Followed by Set Back on Heavy and Persistent Liquid ation Dullness ' in South General Conditions. New York, June 9. Cotton advanc ed sharply for a time on hot dry weather at the South, coverings of shorts and bullish manipulation. Then came' a set back on heavy andpersis tent liquidation of July attributed to leading New York and New Orleans bulls and their following. Also bene ficial rains were reported in the Car- olinas, Georgia and Alabama. Still on Friday, prices advanced again on dry hot weather in Texas and elsewhere. Liverpool's spot trade has contin ued small and at the South the de mand for the actual cotton is said to have fallen off so noticeably that the dullness neutralizes the effect of a strong statistical situation. More over, many believe that despite the recent hot dry weather the crop is doing welL that it needed a period of high temperatures after the cold weather of May, and dry weather has thus far done no widespread harm. The cotton goods trade, too, is still unsatisfactory. Curtailment contin ues, speculation in iuiures nas Deen as a rule on a small scale. It is large ly a professional market subject to manipulation, a market which dis concerts some of the most experienced members of the trade. On the otner hand, if big bun operators have been throwing July over board they are credited with buying October and De cember and January on a liberal scale. A well known Texas operator, who has been here for about two years, is understood to be very bullish on tne new crop months at the prevailing discounts. There can be no certainty as to what the size of the crop is to be. The acreage is unprecedentedly large and the recent government re port thought favorable, merely 'recalls to bulls the fact that there has been in the past a falling off from the June condition by October of no less than 37 per cenL riuey add that a "bum per" crop is absolutely necessary to replenish the world's supplies, and, failing that, prices must go very muchJ higher, un jmaay coniinuea not, ary weather and aggressive buying by ap- erators, who have bee very success ful this season in the old wop months caused a sharp advance despite the fact that the Carolinas, Georgia and Alabama of late have -ad beneficial rains. Attention is fixed on Texas which is dry. HOT WAVE IN MIDDLEWEST. Temperature Reached 100 at Omaha Still Warm in South. Washington, June 9. Stealing east ward from a sizzling belt that today stretched over the middlewest is a hot wave that threatens to make tem peratures soar all along the line as far as New England tomorrow. It kept Weather Bureau Forecaster Frankenfield busy tonight hanging re cord scores. At Keokuk, 11, was high water mark for the season. So was 100 at Omaha and the same report rolled in from points in ninois. All through an area that embraced Iowa, Illinois, Nebraska, Missouri and Kan sas the temperature touched or broke records with temperatures from 0 to 100, including 98 at Chicago, official, and the official figures are much more comfortable than the thermometer in the downtown streets of sweltering cities. In the South the heat contm ued today and is warming up in the East, states in this section marking up 84 and upwards today with ad vancement promised tomorrow. CHAMP CLARK I..VITED. Speaker of House Wanted at Guilford Battle Ground. . (Special Star Telegram.) Washington, D. C, June 9. At the instance of Paul Schenck, of Greens boro, Senator Overman invited Champ Clark to speak at Guilford Battle Ground July 4th, but tne Invitation was declined for the reason that Mr. Clark had made a previous engage ment. , H. E. C. B. OUTLINES. The first clash between the House Committee investigating the steel trust and attorneys for the corpora tion resulted during the taking of tes timony yesterday Congressman Warburton, of Washington, declared in the House yesterday that millions of dollars are going to waste that could be collected in internal revenue in taxes on tobacco. He made an at tack on the wool tariff Yesterday was the" hottest day in 40 years in Chicago. The heat wave which has recently spread over various sections of the country was felt in the Mid dlewest, where the themometer went as high as 100 degrees Herr Schendel, well known German aviator and his mechanic, were both killed yesterday, when an accident occurred to the macuine while they were try ing for an altitude record New York markets: Money on call steady 2, 1-4 to 21-2 per cent., ruling rate 2 1-4, closing bid 2 3-8, offered at 2-1-2; spot cotton closed quiet five points higher, middling uplands 15.90, mid dling gulf 16.15; flour was quiet with pmces steady and without change; wheat irregular. No. 2 red 7 3-4-elfr. vator'and 98 3-4 fob afloat; corn spot firmer, export new No. 2, G2 1-2 fob afloat;, oats firmer, standard white 44 1-2; turpentine easy. THE FIRST CLASH AT STEEL E House Committee and At torneys for Corporation Having Warm Time. SOME INQUIRY AS TO MORGAN 'Gary Dinners" Also a Feature for In vestigation Roberts and Gay ley Under Fire Through out Sessions. Washington, June 9 Tke first clash between the House Committee of In quiry into the United States' Steel Corporation affairs and counsel for that combination, R. V. Lindabury, occurred today when Percival Rob erts, Jr., a director, was under exam ination. Mr. Roberts and former Vice President James Gayley, of the corpo ration, were today's witnesses, both testifying that agreements as to par celing of the output were made be tween steel manufacturers before the steel corporation was formed. The committee today sought to show that through the "Gary dinners" the price of steel products were main tained and competition curtailed as effectively as they were prior to the steel corporation formation by gen tlemen's agreements made despite the Sherman anti-trust law. "Was it the same spirit of philan thropy that guided independent steel manufacturers to make agreements before the organization of the United States Steel Corporation?" Represen tative Raell, of Texas, asked Director Roberts, "as prompted the steel cor poration to save the nation in 1907 by taking over the Tennessee Coal" & Iron Company?" Mr. Roberts was replying that he did not believe philanthropy entered into business when Attorney Linda bury protested against the question "I submit," said Mr. Lindabury, that arguments between .tbe " ques tioner and the witness are unseemly." The former question was modified and Mr. Roberts answered that since the formation of the steel Corporation business men in this country had new ideals which governed them to avert destructive competition. "I believe," he said, "that through the Gary dinners men In the steel bus iness have accomplished great results for the benefit of all by the applica tion of good common American sense, Example has a great deal to do with the affairs of this world." Had Morgan in Mind. With J. Pierpont Morgan in mind, though not mentioning him by name, Chairman Stanley asked: "Is there in the financial world to day a man of infinite power and vast interests whose example is regarded in a way as the law by big business men?" "No," replied Mr. Roberts. "I think there are certain new ideals of co-op eration which govern us all, ideals that may be personified in certain in dividuals." "Is there such an individual in America?" asked Mr, Stanley. "Yes, I think so." "Where does he reside?" "I think his name is legion. At least that is the hope for the future of this country. .If we destroy indl vidualism we surely will get into trou ble." "Who is the example in the steel in dustry?" "I think no one man particularly." ' "Is there not . one man," Mr. Stan ley continued, "whose example busi ness men of the nation follow, on ac count of his- immense grasp of mod ern conditions, his touch which poten tiates the railroads of the nation, the steel manufacturing business, the es tablishment of banks and extends to all the multifarious ramifications of business of the country, who cannot only frame business conditions, but change them by the mere press of a button?" "I suppose I have in mind who ypu mean," Mr. Roberts atiswered Bmll ingly, "whatever he may accomplish for the good of the government and upholding the business interests of the country he does by reason of his quat ities and his ideals. It is not because of his personality and name. It is the ideal which he represents that makes the country what it is." The committee will resume its inquiry next Tuesday. May Summon Morgan! Many inquiries are reaching the committee as to when Mr. Morgan Is to be summoned as a witness. Chair man Stanley and other members de clined to commit themselves, but - it is reported Mr. Morgan wlll.be sub poenaed and asked many questions re lating to his interests in tne steel ana railroad business, his banking connec tions and influences and his part In the organization of "the United States Steel Corporation and its absorption of the Tennessee Coal & Iron Uompa ny during the 1907 panic. Decatur. Ala., June 9. Incensed 'by the alleged unfair decisions of Urn- Dire Sorber in the game with Belma of the Southeastern League today, a mob of several hundred fans attempt ed to lynch Sorber. Cooler heads pre vented the umpire'-s, death. - - FIRST VIOLENCE OF STRIKE One Man Shot and Others Injured Dur ing Rioting in Cleveland Yester day Trouble With the Gar- ment Workers. ' Cleveland, Ohio, Jnne 9. One hun dred policemen summoned to the scene of a riot between striking gar ment workers and sympathizers and non-union workmen late today, charg ed on the rioters and in the fight that followed one man was shot and at least a half a dozen seriously Injur ed. Scores suffered battered heads and body bruises. It was the first violence of the strike. About 600 men and women gathered in front of Printz Biederman & Company's branch factory on West 25th street, as the non-union workmen were about to leave the huilding. A brick hurled into the crowd toy an unknown person started the riot. When the police arrived the strikers and non-union men were hurling bricks, clubs and stones. Windows in nearby stores were smashed. When the police charged, the mob resisted. Patrolman John Beoker was struck on the head and he drew his revelver and shot Roselli Doloungo, a striker, in the thigh. Among the serious hurt .were Patrolman John Sammar and Isaac Cohen and Isadore Benjamin, wno were, beaten by the policemen. Another man received a gash in the throat. Doloungo was placed under arrest after being taken to a hosDit- al. STATE TEXT BOOKS. Rules That Govern Hearing Before Commission at Raleigh. (Special Star Correspondence.) Raleigh, N. C, June 9. The hear ing of the book men on the merits of the books they offer for adoption is in full swing now before the State text book commission and sub-com mission, the hours daily being 10 A. M. to 2 P. M., Saturday excepted, un til all are heard. The commission has prescribed the orcer of subjects to be heard and the time allowed to representatives of each publisher on each text book subject, but leaves to the book men the settlement by lot of the order in which they appear before the commission. An iron clad regulation is adopt ed that there shall be no personal communication upon the subjects of text books between any bidder or his representative or any person inter ested in text book adoption and any member of the text book commission or sub-commission. Each bidder is to file with the commission an affidavit setting forth the names of the per sons in this State representing the concern directly or indirectly. Prop er communications In the form of briefs and testimonials from bidders can be communicated to the commis sion through the secretary of the sub commission before July 1st, 13 copies to be submitted. The members of the commission and sub-commission are obligated not to express an opin ion concerning the merits, demerits or adoption of any text book offered for adoption to any one other than to members of the compi'sslon and sub- commission until after the adoption has been made, this to be August 3rd The sub-text book commission has organized for its work by the elec tion of N. W. Walker chairman and Z. V. Judd secretary. All representa tives of book publishers are to meet with the sub-commission Saturday morning to decide by lot the order in which they shall appear before the commission to present the merits of their books offered for adoption. FEW APPLICANTS FOR NAVY. War Department Distressed Over Va cancies in Many Districts. Washington, June 9. With the spe cial examination of candidates for ap pointment this year to the United States Military- Academy less than a month distant, the War Department is distressed over the absence of any applicants for 40 vacancies in Con gressional and Senatorial districts. In addition there are nearly 100 vacan cies with no applicants in the class to enter in 1912, The examination for this year's ap pointments will be held July 5th and the War Department today made pub lic the following list of congressional and senatorial districts for whom no candidates have been named: Alabama 3rd; Arkansas 2r?d, 3rd 7th; Louisiana, 3rd, 4th, 7th; North Carolina 2nd, 5th, 7th; Mississippi Senator Percy, 1st, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th 8th; Tennessee 1st; Texas. 2nd. MATTAMUSKEET ROAD. New York Capitalists Will Complete Line to Washington, N. C. Raleigh, N. C, June 9. Mr. Gilbert L. Gilbert, of New York, representing New York capitalists, today made an offer to the State to build the Matta muskeet Railroad to extend 105 miles from Lake' Mattamuskeet, in Hyde coynty, to Washington, N. C. The State owns a controlling interest, part of the road being already graded and the proposition was accepted subject to rights of way, terminals and dock facilities being secured by the people along the route. Ada, Ohio, June 9. Henry Clews, the New York banker, has been hon ored by Ohio Northern. University with a degree of doctor of philosophy. For the Children. "Advertising for Mamma," great plcfure for children Grand Theatre today. , K NATION DIES AFTER All ILLNESS Kansas Saloon Smasher Pass es Awayin Leavenworth Sanitarium. FOUGHT BOLDLY 10 THE END Worry Over Law Suits Caused Her Breakdown Noted for Her Deeds of Bravery In Fight ( ing Whiskey. , t Leavenworth, Kans., June 9. Car rie Nation, the Kansas saloon smash er, died here tonight. Paresis was the cause of her death. For several months Mrs. Nation had suffered of nervous disorders, and on January 22nd she entered the sanita rium in which she died. Carrie Moore was born In Kentucky in 1846. In early life she married a man addicted to intoxicants. This created in her an intense aversion to saloons. When he died she determin ed to devote her life to the suppres sion of bar rooms. Later she removed1 to Kansas and, married David Nation, wno sympathized with her temperance principles. After considerable peace- ful labor to stop drinking of alcoholic beverages she decided to become mili tant. Mrs. Nation's first saloon smashing was done in the bar room of the Carey Hotel at Wichita, Kans., December 27th, 1900. She remained in jail sev eral days as a result. On January 21, 1907, armed with her favorite weapon, a hatchet, Mrs. Nation made another attack in Wichita. This time she smashed two saloons. During the next three months Mrs. Nation surprised liquor sellers In var-, ious Kansas towns, appearing unher alded and leaving a trail of ruined bar room fixtures wherever she went. Few saloonists used violence in resisting Mrs. Nation, although she was assault ed and hurt while wrecking a place at" Enterprise, Kans. r Aroused by the acts of the dauntless woman, the people of Kansas ' began' to demand that all saloons be closed. c Smashing parties were' brganized "all over the State. As a result of agita tion, bills were passed by the Legisla-' ture strengthening the prohibitory law. Mrs. Nation, after her activities in Kansas, became a lecturer and the -editor of a paper' called the - Smash ers.' Mail. She did little smashing out side of Kansas. While lecturing in New York City she created excitement by appearing at a horse show in Madi son Square Garden demanding that the occupants of the Vanderbllt con tribute money for a home for drunk ards' wives, founded by her in' Kan sas City, Kans. Mrs. Nation made herself conspicu ous in many cities by entering sa loons and resorts and delivering talks on the evils of drinking. The physician at the sanitarium in formed Mrs. Nation several days ago that the end was near. She said noth ing but smiled. She became unconsci ous at noon today, and did not revive. Relatives had been telegraphed for, but only the doctor and a nurse were at her bedside when she died. Worry over law suits, which she brought against a lecture bureau for failure to pay for services,- is said to have caused her breakdown. The last five months of Mrs. Na tion's life was in marked contrast to her former activity. Once she saw a physician at . the sanitarium smoking a cigarette. She made no remon strance, merely saying that she had done what she could to "eradicate the evil." The body will be sent to Kansas City, where a nephew lives. Funeral services will be held there probably onr Sunday. CHICAGO FEELS HEAT. Hottest June Day In 40 Years Almost Reached 100. Chicago, June 9. There has never . before been a June day in Chicago as hot as "today in the 40 years -during which a temperature record has been kept. The hot wave arrived about 10 o'clock today, after a cool night, and the temeprature rose steadily until 4 : 30, when 98.5 degrees were register ed by the official thermometer on the tower of the Federal building. The government street thermome ter registered three degrees- higher, making the street temperature well over 100 degrees. Th mercury hovered , at its high point for half an hour, and then began to drop and by 8 o'clock at night stood at 93 degrees. , The heated area ex tended over-the territory 500 miles south and west of Chicago. Numerous prostrations were report ed in Chicago, but the police received no reports of death due to heat. Mrs. Susan Miller, wife of an attorney, was drowned in Lake Michigan while seek ing relief from the heat. Even warmer weather Is predicted by the government bureau lor tomor row. ' The Hague, June- 9.- Andrew Car negie, it was announced here today, had donated 500,000 florins (about $205,000) for the establishment of a hero fund in Holland. V v ' v., T-.'f. i. ' pounds. : ,. " ' .' -v I -"
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