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0 ' r -J' c f PX i i ' f x' . ' I V5 ,V7N I : GUESCRITTION PRICE r $3.00 Pq: Year. ;V fl r ; ; CHARLOTTE, N. C, BATURHAY MORNING OCTOBER 61?W 1 ' ' ' PRICEliTVE CENTS. Vv. s i WILL BE LAUNCHED TO-DAY IN READINESS X)R DIQ EVENT ''i, ti'iii u(inn Launching I tl of Big New Cruiser North r TJil tarollna at Newport " . V4"l' Morning Work Suspended in I hlpysurds All 1 Bendy for the V . , . . - '.In.ln Mini , '" iariv iiannuated at Hotel War wick Six , ThOusind . , Regular . Troone F.n Route .to Cuba Lend to : Gayety of tho Par.. s . "f;; Special to The Observer.' V ' .';. Newport New. : Va.. Oct' B.Gov ernor Glenn, of Korth Carolina, and . .. the members of. hi party aw mm- . thing of Norfolk and. tne Jamestown : " Exposition ground thU -morning. 'V With a number of Norfolk .cltlxens ; .the Governor wu' taken sight-seeing ; .In an automobile shortly after, - his , - arrival, and later wee escortad to the site of the exposition on Seawall's , Point, Late In - the afternoon, ac companied by hie party,, he came to fewport New ond reported, at the ; Hotel Warwick; r : 4 !;C- i - The Governor party, . upon ar .'riving In Portsmouth. by special ear . over the Seaboard Air Line, pro ceeded afoot to the Norfolk ferry and. - upon arrlvlnr on this side of Abe liver, walked to the Montlcello Hotel. where they had breakfast. Governor Glenn wae Immediately Joined at the ' hotel by Mrs. Glenn and hls.daugh ,' ter, -Mine Rebeckah Williams! Glenn, '- who had ' arrived laet, nlf ht r from Jonesboro. Ten n, where they have been visiting relative. : - "". NO 8TATB OFFICIALS PRESENT. The Governor expressed rerret that ; :' none of the North Carolina .Bute officials had come to the launch In. He said that others than those In his party might arrive by to-mor , row. but ' as to this he could ' not speak 'With ' -certainty,- except as to . CoL.F. O. James, .of Greenville; Col, I'TK t Ward, of Newborns' CoU West " . eott Bobereon. of Hlrh Point and ; Capt Charles E. : Johnson, members ; of kis statT, who would get In this ;; eveninr. Those .In the Governor's . " staff here to-day are Adjt Genl. T. R. :. Robertson, CoL A. H. , Arrlnfton, 1 .j. Capt H. M, Tucker, staff officers; C A. Hant Jr, of Lexington; . 1 Dr. :, y Tucker, of,. Raleigh; Miss . - Lilian ; 4 Thompson,..-Mrs. A.H,' Arlington, "Mrs. a H. Gattls, Mrs. T. R. Robert- BANQUET AT HOTEL WARWICK. To-aight Governor Glenn was - a ; ruest at . the - banquet tendered the ' . Xeagne of Virginia Hunldpelltles, in session here and the visiting. North V , Carolinians by the local chamber of commerce; '. The banquet was given , In the dining hall of the Hotel War i wrick and covers were laid for four . " hundred. The banquet' hall, was a :T dream- of beauty and the 1 visiting i-ar Heeia greatly enjoysa t, them , '' selves. Quite a . number of - native North Carolinians no w Pttrxtrmr'er , . this progressive community, among them Mayor & R. Buxton, t formerly -k of Jackson.. N. C, and Assistant Na. f Ta Constructor Ferguson, formerly or Tvaynesviue, were present to wel- come the Governor.' - '-i.v , . ,j To the North Carolina "Executive wras assigned the toast, "Our Native ' Land, Virginia,' to which . the Oov ' ernor responded gracefully.' and the s- companion toast "Our Dearest Neigh bor, North Carolina," was spoken to ,by J. Alston Caboll, one of Virginia's . . finest orators, the personal repre aentatlve of Governor Swanson, who .was prevented from attending by pressor or omciai Ouuea , EVERTTHTNG IN READINESS . .. -.,-sFOR BIG EVENT. . . Everything , at the shipyard hi In . readiness for . the launching of the . North Carolina, which ocurs to-mor-row morning t li:lt o'clock. ; This afternoon the men were paid off and. . following the usual custom at the it Tarda on the occasion of an event of ; this magnitude, v work will be sua- pended for . one day. To-morrow Is ... expected to be one, of the biggest days in the history of Newport New. Front' all sections. of North Caro - Una are coming excursions, the rail roads, haying reduced fares and pnt ". on special trains. Thousands of Vir ginians will also be on. .hand. .pre ., pared -to extend the hand - of good' fellowship to their neighbor i Bute , and assist in the funotion. ; To add to the gayety of the hJ Casion. the streets are alive with the ,slx thousand and more United States . ; regulars, who are mobllUlng here preparatory to embarkation to Cuba. General WinV In - charge of - the troops, was a special guest at the banquet to-night R. W. V. s WORKED IN GASTOXIA. ' English Clrl Held by Washington Au. thoritlrs Says She Started to New i York With Male Companion Who ' i Deserted Her at Charlotte, , " f f Special to The Observer. ? j 1 Washington, Oct. .-Hilda' Barnes, th English girl who came to Wash f lngton a day -or two ago from Char ' . , lotto, N. C, claiming that she- had i ,r , . gone there from Gastonla In company with a male, companion, he agreeing to take her to New Tork and desert ing her wften that city, was reached, Is still being held In the house of de tention : here, though no sped no , charges, have been preferred against I&IZ her. ; ' . t, . : , 'W-.1 - Whn ThaYlhBAnmr'a nirM.iuuiul i Investigated the matter, to-day he was , Informed by the police officials of the District that nothing was known here officially to the effect that she was said to be wanted In , Charlotte .for having taken- IZJ from a woman named Suggs. It how appears that v the woman landed In the - United ' States a short time sgo from England, r from, which country she holds a certif icate of citizenship. After landing In ' New Tork she went to Gastonla, N. C, where, she ha a sister named Annie Good .working la one of the cotton . mills. She was employed also in a mill up to the time she left there In . . company with , her male companion ' for New Tork. It Is the purpose' of the woman to leave this country for KnKlind.lf she can . get assistance to do so, ' . ' ; - '.. ' nesult of Georgia 'Judicial Primary. . Atlanta, Ga.. Oct. 8. Sufficient re turns ore In from VVednnsday's Demn crstlo primary to show that Judg:e Plchard D.' Russell, Jude A. O. Pow ell ami Ja1re U. H. Hill were nomi nated as Judges for the State Court "of Appeals, these three having plu r lilies over the other II candidates. Th Cfnitltutlonal amendment for the Court of Appeuls trua ratified by a tuJtrry of at len t 25.00Q. . , ,. EIGHT DIE IN QUAKER CITJ LEAKY ,GAS PIPK IN SVBWAt Nearly Two Score Others Injnrc! and . Over 9300,000 Danutge Iono by e-x v tiloston ef lllumliuuliiic as In Mar ket Street ftnbway, Now I'iuIct Con 1 struct Ion Deatli Lint Composed of Si Workmen, Ouo Gas Company lnployo Who W'aa ' Looking for ; Ijeak, and Passer-by High .'Uulidtngs -Sliaken'and ' Windows . Sliattered for Two Blocks. ; Philadelphia, Oct l.--Elght men Were killed and nearly two -score of persons wete Injured to-day by i the explosion.' of Illuminating ga In the Market street subway at Sixth street High' buildings were shaken by the force of the explosion and for a block on either side of the. scene of the ex plosion nearly every window was shat teredi The street ? caved In, halting traffic and resulting in a suspension of busfneas. Flro v.- followed ; the ex plosion, but It did no damage to neigh boring 'buildings.-' The loss-It Is be lieved, will, exceed U00,0.f ' The dead: - . ' JOHN -LAWLESS,, aged IS. timber foreman. , ..vvt.'-' ? - FRANK LEANS, 8. . employed, by the United Gas Improvement ; Com pony.. l. '-.U'-; OATO 'BSNIGNO, It, ; of Pittsburg, laoorer. .1 1 ; , - JOHN SCOTT. laborer. . ' FRANK BEIDLEMAN, 41 a Ullor, 'FRANK CROLLER, laborer. ' v R. CAPERO, laborer, i. t .; , JOHN PACT. . carpenter. J. i Beidleman - was passing when the explosion occurred and was killed by flying debris. ; Leans and Bentgno OiM in a hospital. Croller'a body was re covered from ' tae ' excavation . , oy searchers late this afternoon. The subway is in course of construc tion by the Millard Construction Com pany.- for the .PbHadeip&ie Bapia Transit Company, r The exact cause ef the explosion ha not yet been oe- termlned Yesterday workmen la the excavation discerned the-odor -of ga and the United ' Ga Improvement Company, whose conduit run-through the tunnel, waa notified. Leans , was sent by the company . to-day to find the leak and repair It It was while he was making his Investigation, that the explosion occurred. . -. ; . There were-comparatively few peo ple In the neighborhood, owing to tne early ' hour. Trolley ear passenger and pedestrians were among the in jured. , .v: , ,' v ' HOT TO ATTEND LATJNCHprG. j NHther Secretary Bonaparte Nor Any Other Omciai WUI AUend Oreroo nlee at Newport New .To-Day. : .: special to Tne unserve r.: Cv Washington, Oct, ' I. Secretary Bonaparte, Assistant Secretary New berry, or other official of the Navy Department will - not attend the lausjobtnA the cruiser North Caro lina at Newport News to-morrow. It waa thought to be practically settled some days ago 'that Secretary -Bonaparte would attend the launching and that If. for any reason, he could not do so, tne Assistant secretary , snouia take his place. ' : So far as could be ascertained to day at the Navy Department no offi cials will attend the launching, Secre tary Bonaparte being scheduled for a political speech at Atlantic City .to morrow and Mr." Newberry being un willing t to ' leave 'tha Department on account of the Cuban trouble. . Inquiry 'was ales made at the bu reau of construction and repair, and Captain Zahm, on duty .there, said that Admiral Kapps would be unable to attend the . launching because he had. but recently returned from' a long vacation, v What other persons will attend J the ceremonies from Washington cannot now- b learned. and nothing has been said concerning the sending down of a special boat which Is ordinarily done to accommo date naval officials and, other attend ing similar ceremonies. - ', - ; t . "LILY WHITES- RULED ..OCT. . Alabama 1 Attorney - General ; ' Hold .The independents Cannot TJse Re . publican ' Party Emblem Against Opposition of "BlackeeUns." . ! Montgomery, Ala.. Oct . Attor ney Oenerai WlUon to-day rendered an opinion that the Independent' or "lily whats" faction of the Repub lican party la Alabama could not use the party emblem In the - November election.-. Some time ago the regular Republican organisation. known as the "blackestans," decided not to nominate a ticket against tha Demo- cratio nomlpees.1 and the independ- en is sougnt io use tne party em Diem In the coming election and nominate a ticket The regular. 'Organisation contested this on the ground that the "illy-white" ticket was not aano tloned by the regular Republican or ganisation, v This contention was up held by the Attorney General to-day. ' " ; TORNADO NORTH OF MOBILE. Swath 106 Pnrt Wldr Cut fat Thinly Popnlatod Region VVithont, so tar a Known, Any Looa of life. ' ' Mobile. ' Ala.,' Oct ' ' l-A -tornado passed to-day near Koshle,' a. station on the Mobile- Ohio Railroad, about II miles north of Mobile. No loss of life ha been reported and owing to ths thinly populated -country. It w hardly probable there will ' b any. The tornado cut a swath 100 feet wide and felled much timber. ,Tne west ern Union Telegraph Company not only lost their wires along the Mobile Ohio Railroad route, but also lost those along the Louisville Nashville and Southern Railway. Tn. wires went down simultaneously.- -; : w ? ' ' Mobile felt no effects of the tornado and there wa toot he slightest ex citement here.''" --A '"v.v-, ,vi.. DUTharn ; Commleeloviers May : be En- .... : ;") JOIIK-a. i I Spwlsl to The Observer.. ; . , Durham, Oct. . There Is a proba bility that the recent trouble among the county commissioners relative to taking up additional road work, may get Into ths court In an Injunction proceeding. Some of the commission ers wanted to let by contract the grad ing of some eight or ten mites on the Roxboro, road. Other commissioners objected to letting this contract , in the far of the election, only one of the old board being nominated to suc ceed himself. These who favored let ting the contract had the majority and the contrnct was ordered let ss soon a th lll can be received. Now there U talk of getting sn Injunction to hold op the work until the present board out ft power, STORMS II1T xNETOfiLEA-NS to FATALITIES $1,0019,000 ?IOSS '" '!:". i: , ''" ' Cyclonic Dbif tirbaucrs, pt Least Tbreo of Tbcm TornadocNv Rage ' Around . Oewvnt City, the Ttilrd fctrlkliiff Uio Uty Bqnareir, Dnmaclng s00 Uulkl- lngi ad injuring About 50 Persona Nix Killed and Nine Fatally In- iurrd In Neurlihoiiiig Prinhes - City of llaton Rouge hllghtiy Dam- i aged List of Uio Victims. : . ..- New . Orleans, Oct 8; rThls region was to-day the center of cyclonic dis turbances,, at "least three of which were , tornadoes and caused the loss of six lives, with nlqe persons fatally Injured. ' About ; daylight ' j heavy storms broke throughout the country within 100 miles west, north, and east of New Orleans.; To-night report of sugar cane" and 'cotton crops blown down or sugar mill demolished .are coming in from this entire, section, while damage, Including that .done. In New , Orleans . Uf placed, at over -1 1. vw.QOOC- -The worst tornado was north of New Orleans, where it de vested portions of - three narlahes. New Orleans was visited by another tornado,- and another' passed' north ward or Blloxl. on the Gulf coast'.; The first, tornado struck west of Baton Itonge parish about 0 o'clock, killing : Mrs. , Theo. Forest and her daughter, Mrs. - White, ' Mrs. - Forest's body waa found in a. field near, her demolished house. Two children In Mrs." Forest' house were fatalv In ured and five men were Injured in the -ollapse of a sugar refinery . on the St Delphlne plantation.. The city of Baton Rouge - wu allghtlyi dam aged.. In St Jamea. parish ; oneN vih man Whose name has not been learn ed, waa killed.- while Mrs. H. . H. Webber and daughter and Mrs. John Meyer, and also a negro, were report ed fatally Injured. Fifteen buildings were, blown down In this parlsh.At Ponchatoula, r which the tornado reached about f O'clock. - George Hawea and son- were killed ln the collapse of their house and the two ether - children . of Mr. . Hawes were fatally injured. - A dosen other per sons were injured mere. -. - ...: ; Another tornado struck New Or. leans about 'clock. . While no Uvea were lost here, , property , .damage reacnea iDou.goe, ana stxrut 50 peri sons were injured. Fully (09 build ings were damaged, about 76 of watch, were blown, flat , .. . t Ths tornado hers appeared at a dis tance as a cloud sweeping along the surface of tha-earth. 'It course waa undulating, om buildings being sxippea enureiy as it bounded sky. ward. - Frequently It demolished ve randas and fences on on side of the street while not an object on the other was disturbed, v Tfte cloud occupied several minute in crossing tha city and hundred of persons who saw and heard It approaching had time to run put of it pathway. -i v;.-h-, Ths saving of the. charity hospital from more than nominal damage was attributed to a big gas tank . which stood between the hospital and the tor- Mao, ivnuuv wruvK kuii msx the tank, which withstood ths shock although Its Iron aides were dented by flying timbers. '? ' MINE'S DEAD NOW PUT AT TO. Twenty-nine Bodies Have Bern ' Re covered ag Pocahontas, Bat Notb ing Aathesitio as to Whole Number Who Perished m Wednesday's Ex plosion Is to be Learned Crowd From All Over Coalfields. ? . -Bluefleld,'W. Va., Oct 1 Twenty- nine bodies have been recovered front the West fork mine of the Pocahontas ColHerle Company, at. Pocahontas, V., and a conservative estimate to night places the total number of dead at 10. The rescuing party; reached the scene -of, the explosion, but ths Immense amount of debris and wrevk- ag saa hampered trie search for bod ies. - There Is no svidenos thus far of flrs.v.--. .;.?v .... ...-i,c'.." .v Thera Is nattiin ' anthuttlA tA K teamed from any source a; to the actual number of men who perished 4a the' disaster.. -f Usually the . mine would nave la the neighborhood Of 100 miners In ths section effected by the explosion, exclusive of the drivers. trappers, prop setter and track men. The only way to (ell l ow many are missing would be o make a com plete canvass of the company em- employes.' but tha excitement Is so intense In Pocahontas that this can not ba don,' " ; :... ;;: .vv.a.i-V "'!; It was learned from an . official sources to-night that tha manage ment give the figure a 17 already recovered and tO 'missing and be lieved, to bs dead.' . . . ' ' , . At ths Improvlahed morgue Hun- garians, Italians and negroeerthrong ed to IdenUfy tha dead, and as fast s this was dona,, the bodies were placed In coffin and removed to their homes. : Enormous crowd gath ered here from all over ths vast coal field, and all the saloons of ths little town were closed. ' This . prevented any trouble. ? " v :Vi,.., , '. . ? Ths mine to-night is reported ires from, gases and aaX for . Ui . relief partlca to,work to...'; .''v'.'i'.'i.'V:, Jj . L, - : f . OmssaawasBS ' V ,t -, i It DEAD IX NEW MEXICO MINE. Fatal Explosion to " Whlcb AU ths - Might tsliirt Are Sapposed to Have ' Lost Tbcir Lives. ; ; - j ( Raton, N. M Oct l-Flfteen men are supposed to have lost their live In an explosion to-day In the . Dutch man Coal Mine, at Blossburg, a small camp five miles from Raton. "Three bodies have been recovered. .. . ' ; Ths' cause of ths explosion I not known. .The mine Is owned and op rated by the St Lout, Rocky Moun tain St Pacific Company and well equipped with all modsrn electrical appliances. '. ' Ths night shift of II men wa working .when the explosion occurred. FOES PLUNGE DEATH WARD. Two Clerk In Chicago Office, While) ! F.ngaged In - Altercation, do to Icatli From Fosrtbj btory Window, ( Cleveland, O Oct 1 Clutched In each other's arm, two young men fell from the. fourth story of th Lake Shore Railroad office .building and wtrs Jiorled to their death on the pavement ' below, at I o'clock this venlng. " .' .'. 1 The'desd men are J. W. Hunts, iged 10, and Harry Wilfred, a fed 17 yesrs, both of whom were clerks In the of fice of (the superintendent of motive poWer Vf the Lske f hore Ilalrad. Hunts was killed Instantly and Wilfred died In an ambulance while bolog taken to, a honyUaU . . AFTER "MUBDl;R liOCTOBS' - e. "ti ITALIAN WOMEN MOW SCHOOLS In the Belief Tltat the Health Pbyst v iaun Were Cutting tlie Throats of - Tlielr ClilWrcn. 1,600 Women Olre " Ona of llioee Dlxplay of Incredible , Ignorance ' Sometime . Wltneseed f Among - ' Foreign ". Element - ; ,of - MetroiN)ll-tjrrU'Iied i Face of ' lollcfMien and Pnt TlMm to Rout . Injuring Several Kertosnly, Before ' UHng ... DUpcrsed Tliree Other ;Jsvbool Attacked. 4. :-'v -'1 y NeWj TorkiOet- 8,-i-rBolleyIng 'that the "tpurder doctor" aav they- called the board of health physicians, were cutting the.' throat , pf . their children In a pvbllo school In the urilllamsburg section of Brooklyn,. L600 .Women, nearly all of them Italians," stormed the school building In a mad effort to reach the little one (o-day.'' 'Be fore the. riot had been quelled several policemen had been-seriously Injured by" the Infuriated women' and ono'of ths rioters had been arrested. '? 'v'"" ", A cpntagioua, affection of the eyes bad spread from the homes of the Italians In the vicinity of ths school, and the doctors were . -directed to make an Investigation to learn - the cause and to exterminate the disease. Many of. the pupils upon,, going to their homes told their parents that ths "murder doctor" wanted to cut their throat and to-day the mother decided ; to make an Investigation In a -body end marched to, the . school building ,- 1.S0O strong. - Teachers, who were warned of the approaching trobule, locked th doors and win dows of the building and sent a' call for assistance to a near-by police station. Before ' the police had ar rived the women rushed . toward ' the main entrance of the school building, and finding ths way barred against them; made frantic and - determined efforts to- batter down the door, One panel bad been smashed when the van sruard . of the police squad appeared upon- the seen and sought to put a sudden ena to; tne trouble. The women turned upon the police men, tore their - clothes, scratched their faces and put them to rout be fore . a detail of II more officers reached the scene. When the re-en forcements came, nearly one hour was required to drive - the rioters from the square. - Three other school In the earn district also were stormed by women who .had, wrought .themselves Into frensy jipon hearing of the so-called 'murder dbctors," In "One case It was found Impossible to quiet the riuiers uum uio pupils) vcio uinuih' eL r ; ;. 'r - - - . jjp- i - WONT REACH MOBILE ALIVE. Negroes Charged With T Assault ' Are Htarted (lark: to Hcens oi sjnms ' From Birmingham by Sheriff, Who - escapes jaoD on toe way. Birmingham.' Ala., Oct I.- John F. Powers, of Mobile county, aocom panted by - Deputy Sheriff . Charles Green and O. J. Flourny, a Mobile newspaper maav 'arrived 3iereto-dJC to take pack to moduo wiu xnomp- son and Cornelius Robinson, two ne groes, who-have been held for ears keeping to answer charges of assault Ins whit girls In Mobile, i Robinson is the negro whose crime caused a mob to storm ths modus jau a tew night ago Mn ; which one man was killed and another wounded. Sheriff Powers left with his men to-night. He fears they will never reach Mobile alive. . - v . ;. j Sheriff -Powers said: . ' "Even If we reach Mobile,' Judge Semmes has declared he will not hold court under military protection and with the people feeling as they do it is absolutely impossiDie lor mm to bold court In any other way." THREATENED 'LYNCHING. Negro Attacks '10-Year-Old Child at Myrtle, Near Suffolk, But la Ttglit- ' cned Otf Lyntchmg lpeeted - to ;. Follow Capture.' - . . The Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch from Suffolk, va., to-oay aaya; . -, - Thsrs are threats of lynching at Myrtle, . Va.' ThU morning -a negro by the name of Underwood attacked 10-vsar-old Lois Langford. daughter of W. J. Langford. The negro- told her l( she screamed he would ' kill her. , She screamed, , nevertheless, Her cries frightened ths negro, - who ran. Ths attack waa made back of th little glrrs home. Th negro es caped Into th near-by woods. . If ths negro' I captured- . It la thought bs will be lynched. , j j TOrPPHEgS CTUME. .. Mas Meeting as Tar boro' Appoint ' Committee of Twenty-live to co- Operats With Similar Body or Best Ncgroea to Ran Down And Punish Black Beasts. " ' -:t , Special ,to Th Observer. . ,.; , , , Tarboro, Oct . I. Laat night the court house was filled with cltlsena, who assembled to take action with re spect to the recent crime that hay been committed In thl county. Rev. R. c. Craven presided and mad an effective and admirable speech. : H was followed by Captain W, H. Pow ell.: Rr. R. B. John, . Captain Wat- on, . Qaneral Cotten, Dr. Phillips, Messra 8. S. Nash, H. A. Gilliam. Jam B.. Lloyd and Prof. F. A Wil kinson. All of the speeches -were conservative and temperate to tone, yet evincing a firm determination to suppress lawlessness and bring Jio Jus tice the criminal., . - . ' -. . I x- A motion prevailed that a good government eoramltte of .11 member bs Organised to co-operate with a Ilk clu organised by th best element of negroes to aid In bringing about better conditions . ia this community. Th negroes pledg themselves to do all . In their power, with ths. aid of th whits peopi, to rerret out th hegro wretches who have been guilty of recent crime and to rid the com munity of .such characters, t Thl meeting and subsequent meeting will no doubt do mucn good toward es tablishing, law and order on a firm basis here. Passenger Injured by Flying " HiM-k. Special to Th Observer. . . . Spartanburg.' S. C, Oct . I. Last night while passenger train NO. 40 was speeding along a few miles north of Greenville, passengers snd train men were thrown Into, considerable excitement by a hall pf rocks and ton' which smashed window glasses In the Pullman roaches and. dsy coaches. Una. of those riding; In one of the latter was Engineer Tom Hunt er. He was struck on the army by fylnf glass and the. member wn iitrdtilly rut. . Other ,i panger were frightened end several had par row escapes from being hit by the CyU g miatfllos. , BLOW; TO TARIFF BEYISION REPUBUCANS MEET IN BOSTON Stand-Patters Completely ' Control ,m Massmchusetta- Convention' and Ke- .-' cure the , Adoption, . WlUiooi iie i, monatramw, .of a Platform Refer i ring Chans to the IndeflSlto Fu- jturoMeJMte Ttcke Headed by Gov. , usiia ana is. urn h. ursper iwnuuii-,-, nated by Acclamation A nU-Soutb-ern Iiank luwrteoV-rHNis Agrees Not to luii as Independent Candl ' . data for Uovernor. , . :' -km-'p Boston, ' Mass., 'Oct .A blow to Immediate, tariff revision, fnd tto the champions of v increased reciprocal trade schedule, , led by Eugene N. Foe,rwas delivered to-dsy.. at, th Maseacliuaett', Republican conven tion," a-h'lch adopted without remon stranc a platform calling ; for , uch tariff, changes'. ss " might ; bo, found necessary . from time to Jlme. - with the 'understanding that they be ap plied 'to; all .sections of the country and to all Industries. Harmony pre vailed at the convention, which re nominated by acclamation a 8tat ttcket composed entirely of men now In office,, headed by Curtis Guild, Jr., for Governor, and Eben & Draper for Lieutenant Governor. , The convention Cheered Attorney General William H. Moody repeat edly. . ;:,'y'-i . ;.;v. ',. ; Th platform expressed especial commendation of a President Roose velt, i. -'v,.., .. Ths"" pnbllo ownership of railroads was opposed, -. Sympathy wa ex pressed with the 'suffering and out raged -Jews In Poland and Russia." The platform also, in dealmg with the disfranchisement of ths negroes In the South, urged enforcement of Che fifteenth, amendment to the constitu tion." a sacred duty to the na tion. - . ; i , The tariff plank was less favorable to pronounced tariff ohanges than that accepted at last year'a conven tion. - .. u i: . ..... ' After ths convention Mr. Fobs said he would not run as an IndeDendent candidate for Governor against Oov- oor Guild, t It had been suggested be fore the convention that he might do so. "V . .'- NOW 1,001 MARINES IN CUBA. Secretary Bonaparte Display Map II Instratlng situation to Cabinet Mcrt,- , ing eteamer Kanawha Engaged as Traiuport for Horses and Mules . BatUcshlp Texas a SnaiL Washington. Oct' I. At the cabinet meeting to-day Secretary Bonaparte presented a map showing the dispo sition of the naval ships and marine In Cuba and Cuban waters, by which It appears that there are now 1 4 ves sels of the navy on duty, seven of them being In Havana harbor, and 1, 001 marines are distributed at dif ferent points In the Island. There are ISO marines on the way. One hun drsd..and forty blue Jackets also hays been landed and are guarding various places. It Is expected by the Secretary that soma of the vessels can be re lieved at an early day. All of the transports Intended to convey the first expeditionary brigade to Cuba either will have arrived at Newport New by to-morrow morning or will be en route to that port. It Is not known yet what transport will leave Newport News first for Havana, but It Is not unlikely that one of them may sail to-morrow. Quartermaster General Humphrey 1 negotiating for the steamer, Kanawha, which now It at Newport' New. She ha been en gaged In the cattle trade and It Is de sired to use her as a transport for horse and mules ' Some difficulty has been experienced by the quartermas ter general' department in cnaracter Ins animal transports which can be gotten to Newport News In time for service." but th chartering of the Kanawha, which probably will be con cluded to-morrow morning, will avoid any possibility of delay of the forces at Newport News. Th captain of the battleship Texas, which put In at Charleston, & C, for coal to-day. Informed the Navy De partment that the ship was making but seven knot n hour and burning 10 tons of coal a day. Before the Texas wa placed In reserve she had a speed of II knot. Captain Clark inferred that h w stocked with poor coal and Intended to get a better supply at Charleston. One trouble the Tex experlencea was in against th Gulf stream, wmm . time of year move t about four miles an hour. . She has not been docked for nearly two years and ha a vary foul bottom. OVER 1,000 AT NEWPORT NEWS. Encampment of Troop Awaiting Tra importation io tsos iwtw ,1 Large Additions Transport Tampa Arrive. ;'.s,' ',".," ' ' -',';' ." , V Newport New. Vs.. Oct f . Mor than 1.000 troop re now encamped above th city awaiting transports to take them to Cuba. The first trans port th Tampa, arrived to-night and Is expected to sail to-morrow morn ing with the Washington hospital corps and other troops. Several oth er ahlp ar due to-morrow, The Treasury v- Department to-day . aent her by express $27,000 In gold to be used In paying on ; in men. ' to troon arriving to-day ar the head quarters band and two battalion of th Seventeenth inraniry, irom i on MePherson. Oeorgia, on two special train, the headquarter and two bat talions of th Twenty-eighth Infantry from Fort Snelllng, Minn., and a de tachment of 10 men and on omcer of ths- signal corps front Fort Wood, STORM GRAZES NEW ORLEANS.' Hurrlcsne Dors 1800.600 Damage In City anq kuis uigiit rrrson ' in Vicinity. ; ' New ortesns. ' Oct t Seven pennnt wers killed to-dy In a hurricane;' so- cerdln (to report which reached here lute today from the country about- New Orleans. Deaths are reported by both Ht. James ana west union Rouge parishes, in New Orleans, tK),000 damag to property is reported. - . , . .1 -' findKllde on Murphy Branch, BpeelHl t The Obwrver. , Ashevtlle, Oct. . Trsln . No. i li from Murphy to Aslievllle . was delnyed mre than tlx hours lait night on account of a lid at ll-mll post or nne niliiv wntt of IMlUhoro. A lrg qhnntlty of rnrk and dirt went on the track st that point some time yeaterdsr erternoon.- Ths elMtmo-i tlnn was removed with all due ha.ts but not without much dirilnulty, - I'nolTlcliilly it whs r.jHrte.l that a mall wa.h out occurred on the Tukswhy Una of the Aihevllt division but U.a trouble was euon tspalrsd, - LAYTON HELD. FOfi MUBDEB SLEW HIS VICTIM WITH SHOVEL At Preliminary . Hearing Br fore a ; Raleigh. Slagbttrato Charles Layton (- as uonnd. to . Wake Superior Oourt - on Marder Charge. lUlrtgh 1 Klsc- '. trio Company Buys Its IUvsl's plant and Now Controls the Kltua v Hon 050.000 Ire Factory Clmrtrr- ed. for Gastonla Matters Quiet Again at the A. at M. College Hal- ' eigit News Notes.' .-, '-' .v-.- --v, '.; .n...- i . J Observer Bureau, ' ; ' The Hallaman Building, ' A tWJ",'?.; :,. Raleigh, Oct ? f The preliminary" hearing- before i mbrlatrate to the case of Charles Lay ton.: charred ; with. killing: Charles Mooneyham at at a dairy near here, resulted n ;h folding W Layton . to appear-at, the January term of Wake Superior Court Th '" 'solicitor con tended : that ths offence: was. a mis demeanor, 'p Layton , t wor ) that', h killed ; Mooneyham ' m, ":, self-defence. Mooneyhan's wldoW wa Present, She say. Layton attacked her after he struck .'her husband a mortal blow wKh a shovel. Her eye amd face are badly dlsdgured. -Layton says she ad vanced to strlfls him ' with a tick. thai be pushed her and she fell on her face.- . & .',.' v '.',- C. U Rlggsbee.5o Durham. rail wav contractor In bankruntf V.' offer io compound hi debt A majority are willing to accept tha offer, r. v r , xne . Raleigh Electric - company, which operate ' the street railway and light - the city has bought the electric light plant of the Standard Gas A Eleotrlo Co. and now entirely control electric lighting here.' The Kalolgh .Electric Company will. H i Id, build a belt trolley line passing from Pullen Park in the rear of th insane asylum and by the Caraletgh Mills, connecting the park line with the Fayettevllle street line In the ex treme southern part of the city. . Stats Superintendent of Public Instruction Joyner went to Greens boro to-day to arrange th pro gramme for ths Mclver memorial exercise which are to be held next month, A prominent educator wrote to the committee at Greensboro ' to day suggesting that at th same time exercises be held In all tha public schools In cities and towns and ths country which may dealre to ob serve the day. OA8TONIA CONCERN CHAR TERED. , A charter Is granted the Arctic Ice A Fuel Co., st Gastonla, to manu facture Ice, store meats, etc., capital stock 150,000, Z. B. Harry and others stockholders. G. D. Elsworth.. of the United States Treasury Department, Is hers on matters connected with th selec tion of alte for government build ings st seven places in ths Stats. Fayettevllle la th. flrat place ha visits. Th government will put up a t (0.000 building there. . An election on th Question of the issue . oL. road bonds amounting ' to lioo.ooo by this county l or da red. Th county will bs thoroughly can vassed In order to convince tb peo ple of the necessity of thl step. -.. Chief Marshal J. V. Blades, of Newborn. Js here arranging for vari ous matters connected with ths State fair. There will bs mor than 100 assistant marshal from all . part of the State. 1 State Librarian Sherrlll . says . there ha been a very good gain to the number of new book thl year and that many about North Carolina or written by. North Carollnlano hv been purchased. ' ' It - Is found extremely hard to se cure laborers to do work on . tne athletlo field at the Agricultural A- Mechanlcal College. A gam of foot ball la scheduled three daya before the State fair, and unless this Held can be mad ready It will bav to be plaved Inside of th rac course at the fair ground. . : Your correspondent' had a talk with Mr. Shtpman. assistant Stat labor commissioner, and tha latter stated that about B0 cotton mill hav o far failed to make report. Com missioner Varner la now In the-fleld getting Information from the de linquents, Mr. Shlpman says .that j there la a" great gain thl year - In spindle and looms. Last year South Carolina led th South In thl re spect, but he hope to sea North Carolina lead thl time.--' - -Three new brick-making - plants have begun business here- this month. The demand f or brick. not only, In Raleigh, but all through thl section, I bo greet that It cannot be met The failure to obtain brick haa con siderably delayed work on a number of buildings. V ' ;' ;- , .Matters are very quiet at tha Agri cultural A Mechanical College, It , Is learned, th very swift -end post tlvs action by , ths faculty in . dis missing sbout eight student sine th term began having been most salu tary. At ths other colleges In i. ths Stata baser . .. have- found their amusements' mads very unprofitable, FIRST ATLANTA RIOT .ARREST. Butcher Jailed on Indictment Charging Murder of Negro WlUle- Latter Was . ; Fleeing From Mob Other Arrests . Promised,'-., f)f - vv 't r Atlanta, Ga., Oct 6. Th first ar rest In connection with th riot of Saturday, Sept tt, which resulted In th death of II negroe and en whit man, was mad to-day when Walter - Edmonds, a butcher, wa placed In jail on a grand jury Indict ment charging murder., Edmonds I charged with having killed Frank Smith," sf negro messenger, while th latter wa running across ths Forsyth street viaduct pursued by a mob. The police say they, expect to make other arrests shortly. ... In one true bill found by the Ful ton county grand Jury to-day after an Investigation of the killing of County policeman vlteard at Brownsville, on Sept lid, In connection with the re cent riots, 10 negroe suspected of be ing Implicated were Indicted on the charge of murder.f In all ths grand Jury to-day returned 10 true bills, sev er! of which it i understood are against white men charging rioting.; American Tobacco Company Raises i 1 1, . Wsgcs of Fjnplojcs. .., Special to Th Observer. , J Durham. Oct. -The American To. bacco Company in thle city has made a sweeping raise In all of the works and throughout oil departim-nt In this raise the foremen, operatives an l all th employes are given about a ten per rent. lncr-e over the oil -es. The -new he i! of irl--a alreaay gone l-ito ;..:,. HUGE OBE DEAL COMPLETE TRUST. GETS 80 , YEARS'', SUPPLY fJ.y.( i;. . . . . ,. , - . .. .. . Clialrmari of Directors Gary Makes .-, Announcement Tlwt Companies Controlled by faulted States . Corpratlon Have Acquired Jauie ' J.; iUll Properties to V NorUiweat. Second Only to r-lsike i (Superior J. Mines Terms Baoed oa System of y Royalties, Price , to bo $!. Ver , Ton With Increase of Three-Quart- era Cent Ksch , Year Practically ..Perpetual. v,, ..:"':.,.. 1 . f, New; .-York, Oct;' p. E. H. " Gary,'; chairman, of the board of -directors of " the United States " Steel"' Corporation;. j . iuiiuuaL-eu inai v companies controlled by that corporation, have acquired the Hill Jore! land In the Northwest Judge Gary' - announce ment' waa' aa , 'follows; ''S-i Is - 'After long negotiation a contract , has been stgned for the, acqulsiUon ' on a. royalty, basis of tb Hill ore , pruperues, so-caiiea, oy" companies controlled by the United States steel ; Corporation. The quantity of ore nas not been accurately determined.- ) but it I a large body. The price to h. n.lil I st . I . j ti . . the upper lake docks,, with an in- vi i-curm ui innequntr eenis per-ton ...u.utii, ;.i . . ii minimum ; agreed to be mined Is 70,000 toss year until It reaches . 160,000 tons, ' and thereafter continue - on that . basis. . . f. y "It la hellcviul thSf ths MnnUM . of thl agreement will result In great ' "-- ,w iA,m www. . tu irme i .. the ore properties la practically per- ., petual.' since It holds until the or has v Ths - final ..aarraement htMn th. fWintMilllM In. . t . V- .Til. .- - iui,mti in ins nui gr, lands anjl h fif al rnntAMtu. . -" - wwmm PAH h mA In it.. ..fftAm T T. k t . H ... a.v v.mw v, W. . MUltH A Co. late this afternoon. . Those present at the conference were J. J..' Hill, J. P. Morgan. ; Charles Steele, " George W. Perklna, Chairman Gary. ' of ths United States Steel Corpora- . nun. ana mi lerai renreaentativM r nm i ww in.ereaia, Mr, Jim lert lor the West Immediately after the pa-. r" w ore ueai wers signeo. . . The -terms are based on a system -of royalties and give no Indication of the amount of th ore to be taken " out of the land excent to show that , it 1 expected to be many millions of ' tons. '-. ... , The magnitude of this transaction and Its effect on the properties con- cerned as well as upon th iron and : steel trsds of the country Is Indicat ed by the fact that the Kill proper ties have been estimated to i contain frnm 4AA AAA AAA ... .AA AAA aa . " - , ww, wvv, www i ivv,vvv,vvv .one of ore. The properties included In . this transaction are said to be second In Importance and extent only to the Lake Superior iron mines, . already controlled by' the United States Steel , Corporation, and it la mirt that thi. deal wilt furnish ths Steel Corpora tion with a supply of ore for th oa, years. -.. ;-;-. t. ' i -: ' ! ! POU LOCKS HORNS WITH BUTLER Dernocratio Congressman, ' in. Debate , "iw rormer ropullst Leader and , Senator, Scathingly Denoances the , Latter for ' , His Connection with ; South Dakota Bond Suits Big ' , Crowd at Smithfleld. . " . , . s SpecJal to The Observerr - - i v. , Selma, Oct I. Three thousand peo- ,' pie, eventy-flv per cent of them Re publican, gathered at Smithfleld to- day from . Johnston. Harnett ' anrt , Sampson counties to hear the Joint de bats between ex-Senator Marlon Sut ler ana congressman fc. w. pou. Es pecial Interest attached tO' this occa- . wwB Hae . as ssasr a) wv sses ,SSW II B V Jsy inn inn aim nrn at st vsu si Hast ,.. in tna present camDairn that .anv Democrat ha met Mr. Butler on th stump. Efforts had been made to get " ex-Governor Aycock to reply to Mr. Butler but thl could not be srrsnged and only yesterday was It announced that Mr. Pnit wenld 1lviits tlinA with the former Senator In th discussion of national and Stat Issue. - Mr. Pou '. lead off with a speech of an hour and fifteen minutes and wa followed by Mr., Butler. Mr. Pou replied Id a ' speech of fifteen minute and wa fol lowed by Mr. Butler In a spaed! of thirty minutes, : t . ' Mr. rou connnsa ni remaras to . national Issues la his first speech, State Issues wers sprung' by Mr. But- : ler.ln his first ' speech, In his re- Joinder Mr. Pou scathingly denounced . , Butler for his connection with tne . South Dakota bond suits snd asked ' ths former Populist lesder for sn ex- ' pianation as to in is pur. nncier, in hla r-nlv. aald that h did onlv what any other honest lawyer , would hav aone - jine inmviTiuu, -yi"i ..... Interrupted him to sa that no loyal ; North Carolina? lawyer would hav don a Mr. Butler did In this case. . ' Mr. Pou read a number of editorials which appeared in The Caucasian un der th Butler regime, contrasting the statements therein - wKh statement made- by Mr. Butler In more recent speeches, hi object being to show Butler up as V turn-coat Mr. Butler evaded the lssu a to whether ths ed- H Itortils were Inspired by hlmseif. 4 Both made good speeches and tb crowd waa well entertained.. League of Virginia Cities Elects Offl-' ,:' '. h : err, ' '.- -' . Norfolk. Vwv Oct. I. Th 'Munlcl- . . pal League of Virginia Cities, in an- . nual session - st Newport , News to day. ' elected these officers: Joel H. .U.-WI - -lAMnVA HM.llf.Mtl A...-!-. VfUlVMIll, v- - . W - - -, . ' ton McCarty, Richmond, , first vice president; Alden Beil, Culpepper, sec ond vie president. J. Davis Reed, of Portsmouth, third vie president. Mayor 8. R. Buxton, of Newport News, who I th retiring 'president, as elected secretary and treasurer. ' i I,,-1 - ' Favor VnlTersal Penny (S-Ccnt) Pot. "-r'J.'- , fo, i.,; . ,. ' Milan, Italy, Oct (.The Interna tional congress of the chambers of commerce. In session here to-day. vot ed nearly unanimously In favor of uni versal penny postage, after an aldr. by John II. Heaton, M. P.. who rarrio J the Imperial penny postage echm through the British House Of Com mons, In Hit. i i 080th Ballot St Savsniintt. Savannah. Ga., Oct. $. Ten i ballots, running th total humtfr i , 010, were taken, by the !!, r convention of the tlrst congr i district, but each resulted In II fr J. A. Itrannen an.l 1 9 r tar W, Bheppard. The conv,--asombled here to-.lv. 'I ballot ting will be r .!'.!. i . IVll to to r n U t ratri.lniHn IlnM. v 1 hy Chi- f Irwin cit bit It t i win k ' Iimiit s.'- fed I'' ' 1 t ! ' 1 t f. in i i
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