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1 THE WEATHER. Fair and colder Wednesday; Thurs- I j day fair. VOL.. XC-NO. 10. WILMINGTON, N. C, WEDNESDAY MORNESTG, APRIL 3, 1912. WHOLE NTJMBEB 13,866. CONGRESS HELPS SIMMONS ANSWERS COLLIERS 1:1 LAFOLLETTE COtlFESSESTO 'AXE' MURDERS ESS HAS NO mE s mm' f- v 1 Ai GONGR COTTON MILL MEN HOLD CONVENTION FLOOD SUFFERERS Taf t Asked For $500,000 In Claims Article in the Weekly Was In spired py Hi North Carolina Enemies Replies to Charg es Against Him. Young Negress Tells -Police She Help ed Murder Seventeen Persons They Look forpCorrobora tive Information T Tfl DIIT UP Two Persons Fata"y Injured and I III nisi Ml Thousands of Dollars Property I U . UU I 111 Damaoe Caused h ta: fic Wind Storm.1 WILSON VICTORS IGH Message and $350,000 Was Granted TO STRENGTHEN THE LEVEES Appeal of the Flood Stricken District Was Answered in Record Break ing Time Many Towns in Great Danger. Washington. April 2. President Tat't sent a message to Congress today asking that $500,000 be appropriated for strengthening levees and building new dikes -in the flood districts along the Mississippi, Missouri and Ohio rivers and within 15 minutes after it w as read in the House that body pass ed a bill making $350,000 available for the purpose. The bill was rushed over to the Senate, where It also was pass ed and was sent to the President for his signature. ' ThePresident sent his message of appeal to Congress' after "Senators Foster and Thornton and virtually the entire Louisiana delegation in the House had .called upon him and pictur ed the destruction being worked by the floods. The message follows: I am advised by the Secretary of War, whose report I transmit here with, that the flood in the Mississippi valley, by reason of the rise in all the rivers tributary to the Mississippi . . 4u. i .l. i is iiKeiy iu me luwtjr pari ot me vai- ley-that is Missouri, Kentucky, Ar- kansas, Tennessee, Mississippi and Louisiana-to reach a higher point along the levees than it has ever ? , -XL. i j reacnea wumn recent memories, anu 4 j ..... Hint mei e veijr giavc uaugtii iuai the levees may give way under this .,n,,B.,s.i nraunrA and tht trreat dam- age may be done to property in the . a. i j i I prompt action is 'taken, great future outlay in preserving the proper nav: gation of the stream. "These leveeacontrttute not' only to the safety of fire adjoining -agricultural land and settlements, but are also part cf the great governmental project for the maintenance , of navi gation in the lower waters of the Mississippi. '"It seems proper, therefore, that the government take immediate ac tion to nke the loss impending as lit tle as possible. In view of the charac: ter of the emergency and the safe guards surrounding the expenditures made , under the corps of engineers I have no hesitation in asking for an appropriation ofr $500,000 as recom mended by the Secretary of War. "I urgently recommend an immedi ate appropriation so that no time may l.e lost in taking the necessary steps to prevent what, but for governmental action, may be a loss not only of many millions, but of lives as well." After being read in the Senate, the message was referred to the commit tee on appropriations. The House Rivers and Harbors Committee, just before the President's message was received, decided to re port favorably the bill of Representa tive Ransdell, of Louisiana, providing for an emergency fund of $350,000 foe the strengthening and construction of government levees along the Missis sippi, Missouri and Ohio rivers wher ever it is deemed necessary. The bill later was unanimously passed by the House. The amount is to be available im mediately and is to be expended un der the supervision of the army engi neers in constructing restraining dikes wherever needed and in repairing the inroads made by the high water in ex isting levees. This amount may be increased on the floor of the House. Greatest Flood Predicted. Washington, April 2. In a special forecast late today the Weather Bu reau experts have predicted the floods in the lower Mississippi valley would be the greatest in history if the levees along the banks held. Very heavy rains on the Tennessee, Cumberland and lower Ohio watersheds have caus ed the Mississippi to rise rapidly. At Cairo, 111., a stage of 54.5 feet is pre dicted for Wednesday, with a possi bility of 56 feet in four or five days. At Memphis a stage of 44 feet is predicted in five or six days, with pos sibly a higher stage if the levees hold. Situation at Hickman, Ky. Hickman, Ky., April 2.--With the Mississippi river levees broken on both the Kentucky and Missouri shores, the stores here flooded, facto ries inundated. 2,000- persons homeless nd railroad service stopped, the question of shelter and food are be eoming serious here. Owing to the lack of train service here and at Co lumbus, tents sent by State authori ties did not arrive today and County Ju'lge Naylor has notified Governor Mr-Creary that provisions for the refu gees will be short in a few days. The break in the railroad levee at West Hickman tonight was a hundred eet long and water wmcn nas uui reached its maximum is already up.. to the second story of some. dwellings in the lowlands Li.te last night the levee on the Mis- ouri side opposite Hickman gave -ay, but the farmers had been warned in time and escaped to a church wmcn stands on a hill. There they were ti scovered this morning and rescuea s mormuK auu icokuv- in launches. Nona White, a crippled iii-1. was parried on the shoulders oi (Continued on Page Eight) - I (Special Star Telegram.) Washington, D. C, April ,2. Senator Simmons gave out the following statement tonight: "My attention has been cailed to the publication in certain North Caro lina newspapers of an article attack ing me which recently appeared in Collier's Weekly, a sensational muck raking publication of New York. 1 am told, although I have not read it. that this same article is quoted by Governor Kitchin in his speech against in , ueuvereu recenuy in ijreensDort-'. "Collier's Weeklv is t.h samp maga zine that nublished a. misleading state ment with reference to certain votes of Southern Senators on ' the Payne- Aiancn oiu. it enumerated tne times these Uflmoc.ratif! Senators hart voted as Senator Aldrieh. intending thereby to create the false impression that be- these Democrats did. for such thines as the income tax and aeainst W duty of 10 cents a pound on tea eub., that their votes were un-Iemocra tic. "Collier's Weekly is the sheet that, as I am told, a few years ago gave ut terance to the same slander of Southern women that caused the peo ple of Wilmington in their fury to drive the negro editor, Manley. -from the State. "Such is the character of the maga zine whose attack upon me Governor Kitchin quotes and adopts as his own in his campaign for the Senate, in which, apparently, he bases his nope of nomination uDon the success of hia efforts to undermine and discredit me with the Democratic people of the State. I have it from a reliable au thority that -the article from Collier's which the Governor Quotes, was m - r : - - , . , , sp red at a conference held in the Wiilard Hotel at W ashington at which was present a certain North Carolinian ft Washington who is known to be a hitt-or and relentless ODDonent Of - , , , . m nn nd was intended for use against . " . . , . . e in North Carol ma This is i jrt the first article that has been gotten UP Wahl "SB W ?Ry 0mty otiathIps and nublished in papers out- side of the State to -be used in the State asrainst me. . "The facts speak for themselves and I refrain from comment. "Now for" the animus of Collier s Weekly, it wanted cheap print paper for itself and cheaper food products and raw materials for the people of the big cities and for the manufactur ers of New England and the North and it is milignant towards these Southern Senators who could not be hoodwinked, cajoled or bullied into lending themselves to these selfish schemes to make hewers of wood and drawers of water of the people of the South. "As a Southern man I am utterly opposed to aiding New England and the North in so using the tariff as to put down the price of the things they buy from us, whether they be the pro d nets of cur farms or forests, and to put up the price of the things we buy from them. "Denunciation and opposition of me for assuming this attitude, I regard as a badge of honor." BASEBALL AT GREENSBORO Will Meet; New York Giants Thursday Some of the Players (Special Star Correspondence.) Greensboro, N. C, April 2. Rainy weather has interferred considerable with the beginning of practice by Man ager Frank Doyle and nineteen men v,quo ronnrted for trv-outs pre- TV 11V w - " - - liminary to the selection of a baseball team to represent ureensooru m Garolina League. The first opportun ity to see the men in action will come Thursday, when the Yannigan section of the New York Giants will come here. The team which will represent p.msTiehnm will be somewhat raw, having but little practice, but never theless the event will give opportun ity to see how they handle them selves Local fans are much pleased in th3 announcement of Charley Clapp that he has again undergone a change of mind, this time deciding to give up merchandising in Roanoke. He wires that he will report Wednesday. Joe Fuller, however, is-still determined to keep at work- in Wilmington. Of the nineteen men who have reT ported six are Tar Heel boys, the list including Lentz, of Salisbury; Grimes, of High Point; Towers, of Henderson; Hodgin and Clark, of Jamestown. AIL of these have done good work on thei respective town lots, and Doyle is giA ing to give them a chance. INVESTIGATION BEGUN. Custom Inspectors Will Look Into Sinking of Schooner Maxwell. Baltimore, Md., April 2. An inves tigation into the sinking of the schoon er Herbert D. Maxwell by the Mer chants and Miners' steamer Glouces ter on March 16th, in the Chesapeake was begun yesterday in the Customs House before Messrs. Wright and White, the local Inspectors. Testimo ny was heard on both sides and it was conducted so that witnesses n one side did not hear that of those on the other side Poundstone. inspector of the Fifth lighthouse district, has been authorized to place a gas buoy over the wreck or tne maxweu uu Tolley's Point, which he expects to nave, m position nw rnv Trio rrw-m cx ciaa Oenerator. the i i- ' . great fuel and labor saver, now pern d&nionstratea at xno. iv umi a j mm Ladies are invited. In EACH HAS A LARGE MAJORITY The Wisconsin Senator Gets 23 Out of 26 Delegates to National Con vention Wilson's Lead as Great. Milwaukee, Wis., April 2. United States Senator Robert M. LaFcllette, of Wisconsin, according to incomplete returns at hand tonight. defeated President Taft on the Republican ticket and Woodrow Wilson defeated Speaker Champ Clark on the Demo cratic ticket in the State's Presidential preference primary held today. Although available returr were scattered, E. Li. Phillip, manager of President Tart's primary campaign in this State, conceded to Senatcr LaFol- lette 23 out of 26 delegates to the Re- publican National Convention. In Su - perior. LaFollette defeated Taft by a vote of 1.487 to 278. At Oshkosh and throughout the county LaFollette defeated Taft by a two to cue vote. Similar returns were received from Eau Claire, Appleton, LaCross, ita cine, Madison and a number of cthe large cities xt the State. Governor Woodrow Wilson's lead on the Democratic ticket apparently equalled that of Senator LaFcllette cn the Republican ticket. Colonel Roosevelt's napie did not figure to any extent in the Presidential- preferential primary as his sup porters did not have his name printed on th? ballot. Although Roosevelt's name was written on the ballots by some of the voters, the majority of the counties show no considerable vote fpr him. No other presidential candidate, . other- than thoso printed on ballots, received any support. LaCrosse, - Wis., April 2.-r-Repprts from-scatterlng precincts in seven of the 11 Congressional districts of Wis consin indicate a victory for1 LaFol lette over Taft in the Republican pri mary. Milwaukee, Wis., April 2. E. S. Philipp,, manager of President Taft's primary campaign in Wisconsin, con cedes to LaFollette 23 out of 26 dele gates to the Republican National con vention as a result of today's primary. Monroe, the first of the 71 counties in the State to report, gave LaFollette a large plurality. Reports from several counties in the northern part of the State show LaFollette and Woodrow Wilson lead ing in the preference primary. Socialists Defeated In Milwaukee Milwaukee, Wis., April 2. With a flood of non-partisan ballots, Milwau kee voters today swept from office the city's Socialist administration, in stalled a non-partisan mayor, board of aldermen and county board of super visors and probably eliminated every National political party from partici pation in future municipal elections in the State of Wisconsin, because as a result of the non-partisan victory in Milwaukee, the State Legislature at a special session soon to be con vened, is expected to pass a distinct ly non-partisan city election statute. The Socialists defeated such a meas ure at the last session of the Legisla ture, but today's rout was said prac tically to have ikilled Socialist strength in the State General Assembly. Near ly complete returns from the 146 pre cincts in the city show that Dr. Ger hard A. Bading, non-partisan candi date for mayor, defeated. Mayor Emil Seidel, Socialist incumbent, by a ma jority of about 17,000. From the head of the ticket down through the com mon council and county board of su pervisors, the voters piled up equally large totals for candidates on the not partisan ticket,. At a late hour tonight the totals at hand indicated that the next council will be composed of 28 non-partisan aldermen and nine Socialist aldermen The present council is composed of 20 Socialists and 14 non-partisan mem bers. The next council will be larger through a recent proportlonment ant' the creation of two new wards in the city. The widespread interest in the fight to unseat the Socialist adminis tration was indicated by the heavy total vote of 80,000. The highest to tal votes in a municipal election here tofore was 59,484 at the time Mayor Seidel was elected two years ago. DUMMY DROPPED 24 FLOORS. April Foot Prank Excites New York Financial District. New York, April 1. Hundreds of pe destrians crowded in narrow Nassau street, in the financial district shrank back in terror this afternoon when the form of a man came hurtling down from the 24th story of the Liberty Tower Building. Several stenogra phers in windows on the opposite side of the treet fainted, and some one turned in an ambulance call. Police officers rushed to the spot where the figure fell and found it "to be a dummy stuffed with hay, with a broomstick for a backbone and a false face to make it realistic. The ambulance surgeon did not ap preciate the April fools' day comedy and drove away, leaving a street cleaner to gather up the debris. Defeated Taft and Clark Wisconsin Presiden tial Primaries LaFayette, La., April 2. Official! in LaFayette and three other Louis iana towns tonight are searching for evidence corroborative of the sensa tional .confession mad today by the young negress, Clementine Barnabet, of participation in thWrwhoIesale "axe" murders, which have startled the sec tion, even negro families, a total of 35 persons, have inet-death by mys terious midnight assassins, in each case armed with an axe, in Southwest Louisiana towns and in Texas within the past 14 months; . Clementine Bar nabet, 19 years ptd, today confessed that she was tne principal hi annihilat ing four of the families, with a total of 17 persons. She said, other families had been marked for death and would "pay the sacrifice." ' The grand jury. Is In session, but it s not expected to return indictments in the axe murder cases until after the authorities hate had' opportunity to investigate details of the girl's story. By some of the" officials her confession is discredited and regarded as the va porings of a demented person. There : were five .members of the gang, ' two other women and two men, according- to the girl's story. She gave the names of the two other wo men, but declined to tell who the male members of the gang were.The .names 0f the two women ar& unknown tn the lo:al authorities, but a systematic search i3 to be made in the towns where the murders occurred. PRELIMINARY INQUEST HELD No Doubt But That Mrs. Lorillard Committed Suicide New York, April 2. A preliminary inquest into the death of Mrs. Beech man Lorillard, the wealthy young so ciety woman whose body was found hanging in the Holland House on Fifth avenue on March 16th, was held by Coroner Feinburg today. Mr. Lor illard was not present. The coroner said tonight that there was no doubt in his mind that Mrs. Lorillard hang ed herself. This was his announced belief at the time of the tragedy. The only new develdpment today regarding the .circumstances of Mrs TrlllQrH'e xxroa th, looHmnnr i .j . . . - - ot ntJiei main inT. tiw-wi? '.nsr4 the tragedy she found a note under neath the bath tub in the Lorillard rooms apparently written by Mrs. Ixmllard. It was on the inside of an envelope bearing the postmark "'Sid ney, Australia," and addressed to h?r. The note, according to Coroner Fein burg, she asked that no one but her self bo blamed for the act and stated that she was "tired of it all." The coroner said he would obtain deposi tions from Mr. Lorillard and Mrs. Louis Lorillard, his mother, who reached the Holland House shortly after her daughter-in-law's death ALABAMA PRIMARIES Contest Over Congressman-at-Large Requires Official Returns Montgomery, Ala., April 2. An of ficial count probably will be required to determine whether John W. Aber crombie or V. B. Atkins was nominat ed as Congressman-at-Large in the State Democratic primary held yester day. Returns from several of the ru ral counties still are incomplete, but it is believed that the following re sults will remain unchanged: In the three district Congressional contests the incumbents, Dent, in the second; Hobson. in the Sixth, and Richardson, in the Eighth, have out distanced their opponents. Six Congressmen were nominated without opposition as follows: Taylor, of the First; Clayton, of (he Third; Blackman, of the Fourth; Hef lin, of the Fifth; Burnett, of the Sev enth, and Underwood, of the Ninth. O UT LINES In the annual convention of the American Cotton Manufacturers' Asso ciation at Washington yesterday oppo sition was voiced to any sudden change in the cotton tariff schedule. President Taft sent a "special mes sage to Congress yesterday asking for an appropriation of $500,000 to relieve conditions in the flood stricken Mis sissippi valley, his .appeal being an swered by the granting of $350,000. A young negress confessed to the police at LaFayette, La., . yesterday that she had taken part in the sen sational "axe" murders which had been committed throughout the State for the past several months. Detectives trailing Sidna Allen and Wesley Edwards, the Virginia outlaws yesterday returned to Hillsville emp ty handed and will make another start today. Senator Simmons gave out an Inter view -in Washington yesterday in which he replied to charges against him in Collier's Weekly and declared the attack was inspired by his North Carolina enemies - X vyiuu swim ui v.j;iuuit t;iuviij, which struck Camden, Pa., ye'sterday, fatally injured two persons and caus ed great property damage. LaFollette defeated Taft on the Republican ticket and Wilson defeated Clark on the Democratic ticket in the Presidential preference primary in Wisconsin yesterday. New York markets: Money on call steady. 2 1-4 to 3 per cent. Spot cot ton quiet. Flour quiet. Wheat, spot steady; No. 2 red 1.05 1-2 elevator, export basis and 1.07 3-4 f.o.b. afloat. Corn, spot steady; export 79 1-2 nomi nal f.o.b. afloat. Rosin steady. "Tur pentine easy. Majority Report on Senate Judiciary Committee's Adverse Action INDEPENDENTS CAN'T APPEAL Majority and Minority Reports on Bill to Give Tobacco Companies the Right of Intervention Made Public. Washngton, April 2 Maloritv and Majority and minority reports on the adverse ac tion taken by the Senate Judiciary Committee upon the Cummins bill to give independent tobacco comnanies -i.i. . . usuu oi intervention ana appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States from the Federal decree, ap- proving the reorganization of the American Tobacco Company, were mauepuoiic toaay. xne majority con- tends that Congress has no riglit to in- tervene from the decree of approval by the Circuit Court for the Southern district of New York, which approved the reorganization plan, as it would reverse, the court's action; would di rect the court to enter an order allow ing an intervention already denied ttuu wuuiu reverse previous decisions of the Snnreme f!nnrt nf th TTnttof? (-,.. 1C j. cZ AT states ana tnat estate attorneys prener- yiivie yeibuus t-ouiu not ue po.iLieB w au auu-irust sun. it point- eu "Ul- lua- bucii legislation wouua create a new right of action, present- "s au "reiy umerent case or con- troversy and give the highest tribunal an original jurisdiction wmcn congress cannot confer upon it. It contended that no proceedings now could reach the new corporations resulting from the dissolution, except under certain uummstjucies, anu mat tne proposed 5ueiai legisiatiuu w vuiu ue ineuec- tlV. The minority report, in which Sena- tor Borah, Culberson, Nelson and I oi UW11 JU1I1U W1UU OCUaior (jUlHUUnS, I neelaren tnat rns wnnia Tuismps? tnr. rr-- - 7. rr.i. - , ,j . " J . iuB Aiuenusu ruuacco company is on tne Barber Rnotter. Messrs. Ay now under the Control of the same per- n0ek Winston are renresentintr the sons wno tnen controlled tnat corpo- ration and in the same proportion." It charges that some of the corpora- tious found to be violating the law nave oeen leit wuncui any cnange and tne court wmcn approved tne dis solution plan is criticised. The minority added If the Circuit Court decree were to be accepted fi nally, Congress must amend the anti trust law so that it would accomplish its purpose more enectiveiy. AMHERST 5; CAROLINA 3 Lee Went Down In Defeat In Fir6t Game He Has Lost (Special tar Telegram.) cnapel mil, n. u., April j. une bad mning m which were coupled two wild throws witn tnree singles, caus- ed Raymond Lee to lose to Amherst today, 5 to 3. It was the first game Lee has lost in two year's pitching for Carolina. Up until tne eigntn inning ne nao nem tne Northern team to two scattered hits. but in the eighth two hits, a wild throw to first, a hit and another wild throw gave tnem tour more and tne game. Because of recent rains tne. diamond was in poor shape and in aa dition a high wind blew throughou. the game and made fast fielding dif ficult. Amherst's infield, however, was not prevented from doing some classy work. Vernon, in addition to pitching a steady game, fielded his po- sition well. Burt, at first, and Wil- liamson at short, did good work. In the fourth, with one on, Hanes made pl. one-hand catch of Partenheimer's drive, threw to first and completed a fast double. A three-base hit. followed by a sac- rifice. scored one for Amherst in the first. In the second Carolina put one nvor on a hit. a sa,rrificp and an error of Williamson. In the seventh Lee got on by Swasey's muff of his high fly. Whitaker forced Lee at second and snored a moment later on Bailey's hit. In the eighth Williamson singled. Swasey singled, Strahen bunted and on Lee's wild throw to first was safe. np.astro singled, scoring Williamson or, cwouv TCimhnii hunted and on Lse's wild throw Straham and DeCas- tro scored. In Carolina's half of the eighth Trby was safe on Burt's error; C3w5v AijA Pqo-a host rmt hnnf rnv scored on Lee's sacrifice fly. Carolina missed several other chances to score hv navintr mn ffo to sleen on bases 1 I and by inability to hit Vernon at the nroner moment, Bailey, for Carolina, led the hitting with three singles The score Carolina 3 7 Amherst -5 8 FIRST WOMAN STAGE DRIVER. Girl Makea Daily Trip of 30 M lies in Colorado. TVTWr. fnln A nril 9. ATlSS MflV T5Kr.!T! 91 -iroars id said tA he the first woman stage driver in the United ry was stooping over, when his com oo ov hctran her dnilv run be-lDahion brought hoe "down (to furtn- tween Meeker and Bufford, a distance of 30 miles. contract to operate the stage line between Meek- T3pr.d whfnh will take her ei auu ..... 1 over an extremely dangerous and lonesome mountain road. . The stage will carry passengers analtnis arternoon, ano we are giau to ,sty mof! 1 Philadelphia April 2. Two women were fatally injured, scores of houses unroofed and more than 25 were com pletely demolished by a windstorm of cyclonic velocity which passed over that portion of Camden known as Cooper's Point and swept down the Delaware river to the center of this city, doing thousands of dollars worth of PrPerty damage I TVS . I 1 i. -i xonignt Camden is in utter dark ness, all the electric lights having been-turned off and the streets in the northern section of that city are pil ed high with debris and telegraph poles. 11 B' AUI" bleary, or uamaen, ana MJss Ann- Behrend of Philadelpnla Mrs. Annie Cleary, of Camden, and wno were riding in a street car in Camdan, were caught beneath a build- inS which was demolished by the st.crni and both were so badly crush- I ea tnat neither can recover, In the section of Camden where the storm was most severe entire blocks of dwellings were unroofed and the OC?,fniVriVen t0. e sfeeJ' did not reacn this cityj considerable damage was done here, the wind reaching a velocity of more than 40 miles an hour. BANK EXAMINER RESIGNS. Will Become Cashier of Bank of Lum berton Other Raleigh Items. (Special Star Correspondence.) Rnloifh TSJ P Anril 9 Phoo XT Rmwn nf pw tvt, o,r . j n... AA , siBueu uis pusiura as etate anK nix ner Qf the Bank of Lumberton. Mr. Brown was elected by the Corporation Comm ssinn last Rpntpmhor hointr promoted from assistant, and made a splendid examiner. Samuel A. Hub hard, of ReiHavin nnw assiatant - Judee H. G. Connor, of the Federal Court, heard at considerable length Monday the presentation of evidence a-nii armimt in tho raOQ o.f Rorimr. Coleman Co., vs. Byrd Manufacturing Co., involving infringement of patent allefren" hv the nla nfiff. Hnth are I rno nnf ntiirarc rf 'Itt rckrci19 r n f nr tori devices for tieiris- enrts nf. threads in nneratintr enttnn mill anindles There I i a tho RnrKer TCf,rxtt0f and the Rvrd I n t- i i m.u -i. l iuiouw, iws oji uotietvu.uins .tiu- r eu i w an- liiiruigeuieut o uuepateiit nlaintiffs and Guthrie &. Guthrie and t s. Manning the. defendants. There are aiso a numher of lattoTnevs here from New York and Chicago in con- nection with the case, which is devel oping into a hard fought legal contest. Judge Connor will hear the matter at this time and deliver his ruling later. News came to State Commissioner of Insurance James R. Young today from Deputy Commissioner .Jordan that he has just sworn out a warrant in Union county for W. T. Brooks, of that county, on the charge of burning his house in the countrv to eet the in- snrnnre Thw snsnieinus fires are nhareed un to Brooks. Denutv Jordan has been in Union county several days workina- un this and other cases. Master Ormond Markham, the 12- vpar-id iad wh0 had his foot ground off under the wheels of a Seaboard Air T,ine freieht train Sunday afternoon, is recovering: very satisfactorily from the amputation that was made Sunday evening at Rex Hospital. The boy with several companions, was playing on the railroad track near the peniten- tiary and he jumped on a passing freight train, lost his hold and fell un der the wheels 2 DEAD, 3 HURT IN EXPLOSION Powder Mill Buildings in New Jersey Blow Up Paterson, N. J., April 2. An explo- sion in the finishing room of the pow- der mills at Wayne, about nve miles west of the city, today killed two work- men and maimed three others. Tne exDlosion was felt over a radius of 50 miles and started reports all through the metropolitan district ot a great disaster. The dead are Charles Stultz, super- intendent of the mill, and Charles Rys deck, a workman. William spernow, anotner powuei worker, had Dotn arms mown on anu may die. .... The mills formerly belonged to tne Laflin & Rand Powder Company, but recently were taxen over Dy tne 1 DuPont deNemours Company, There were three explosions in rap id Successions. The small buildin where the original explosion occurred was wiped on tne landscape. iue i-wu "corning" mills near by went up im- meuiaieiy aiieiwaiu. xue icdi m. -" JS Inn-Avk KniMiti nrf r - o i onon group in u uuz.cu uunume over.seceral acres escaped, Jhe cau.se of the explosion has not been ascertained. INJURED BY PL&YMATE Fayetteville Lad's Skull Fractured Accidentally Hit With Hoe Favetteville, N. C, .pril .2. Lf tie Henry 'Fleishman, the three-year old son of .Mr. and ' Mrs . B . Fleishman. of this city," met with a very serious auuiueui 1.111s mui-mns,- 110 t,u..- 1HK WltU niS little COUS1D. Wno WU3 dieting holes with a garden hoe. Hen- er complete the hole tie wai working onJ and struck Henry squarely on ton of the head, inflicting a deep cut and fracturing the skuii. The Iittie fellow was taken by Dr. J. V. Mc- Gougan to Hignsmiin npsp.Mi, wnere - . . . , . . . , , a trepnme operation was yermnueu mat iittie nenrjr is uuiu$ unwj. Southern Man Voices Oppo sition to Sudden Change In Tariff. DEPARTMENTAL HEADS SPOKE President Smith, of Greenville, C, Declared Their Interests Would Be Impaired by Radi cal Measure S. Washington, April 2. Opposition to any radical or sudden change in the cotton schedule of the tariff law was voiced by Ellyson A. Smith, of Greenville, S. C, president of Ameri can Cotton Manufacturing Associa tion in his annual address at the open ing session here today of the associa tion's sixteenth annual convention. "I do not pretend," he Said, "that the tariff should not ,be changed in some respects, but I do claim that it should be changed only after thorough investigation. Th, majority of the cotton manufacturers of this country,, I believe, were gratified when Presi dent Taft vetoed the crudely prepared cotton goods tariff bill which had passed the last session of Congress. "Southern manufacturers have been instrumental in securing investments of millions of dollars in Southern cot ton mills, under existing conditions and present costs, which investments would be sadly jeopardized and im paired by radical -and sudden changes' in the tariff." President Smith recommended the appointment of a committee on rules for cotton buying,, seeking some uni formity of action with manufacturers. North and South, and established rules that will be uniform, generally observed and alike fair to buyer and seller, ' and providing for the settle- ' ment of disputes without recourse to the. courts. Secretary of Commerce and Labor . Nagel spoke at today's session.on the work xf the Bureau -of Manufactures, particularly as . It related to the cot- ton mills; and he urged them to take : part in the National Business Men's Congress to be held hers the latter part of this month. In spite of the fac.t that the boll weevil doubtless will continue to spread in this country, W. D. Hun ter, in charge of the boll weevil work for the Department of Agriculture, de clared that he saw no reason why the United States should not continue to maintain its supremacy in cotton pro duction. He said that I the actual loss inflicted by the pest !has been aug mented by panics thati in many cases have been entirely unjustified. David R. Coker, of Hartsville, S. C, e-xpressed the opinion that, every desirable feature of the cotton plant cculd be greatly improved to the im mense benefit of the industry by cot ton breeding. Ha recommended earnest co-operative effor and spoke of what had been done along this lino at certain jpoyits in the South. . To Reduce Waste In Cotton Washington, April 2. Efforts to save more than $25,000,000 a year now being lost by Southern cotton . growers through tare charges are be ing made by the Department of Agri culture. Secretary Wilson has writ ten to the Liverpool 'and other foreign cotton exchanges for suggestions as to how these tare charges might be reduced and has received replies from all of them. "If cotton could be baled in better shape," says the Ltrerpool exchange, in its reply, "there is no doubt that the European exchanges would be willing to pass by-laws for such cot ton to be sold 'actual tare,' provided uniform length and weight of canva3 be adopted for every bale." This exchange lays he whole blame for the loss on the American exp'ort merchant and planter. "There is no article of similar value which is so wastefully packed and of which so little care is taken in transit as American cotton," continues the letter. "If the cotton were baled in. the same manner as the growths of India and Egypt, freights and insur ance premiums would he lower." Dr. B. T. Galloway, chief of the Bureau of Plant Industry, said that in his opinion the problem would be practically solved after the commun ity system of cotton growing had once been established. BOY KILLED AGED NEGRO Angered Because Old Man Wouici Not Pay Nickle He Claimed Due Hint (Special Star Telegram "; Goldsboro, N. C, April 2. Decau.se he had not paid a nickle that 14-year-old boy claimed was due him by an old negro, Ned Joies, living in Georgetown, about one-iuarter of mile from this city, was shot and instantly killed about 2:30 this afternoon by James Hill. The boy stood at the cor ner of his own home, about three hundred yards distant, aril using a small 22-calfbre rifle. fired two shots at the old negro, who was seated 011 a porch talkmgto a negro woman. Tne second shot took effect t'nd the boy threw down the gun .and ran, being caurfft about one mile from the scene of the murderi. The jurs empanelled by Coroner C E. Stanley, nxed the crime on Hill and a negro boy of 11 years, Jim Evans, whj wa3 with him at the time. Both wera placed m jan.- 1, 4i '10 . .IV I 5 ' j9 I- I fct 'I A: 1 v. Hi. 1 . 1 1 in i'i 1: i i A .1 V I I , 5 t I 1
Wilmington Morning Star (Wilmington, N.C.)
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