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TOLLS BATTLE NEARING CLOSE sir dministration Leaders, More Confident of Repeal, Pre dict Majority of at Least 75 Votes. LAN TO SECURE VOTE BEFORE ADJOURNMENT pponents Have Framed Mo tion to Recommit Bill to Committee in in Effort To Amend Measure. Washington, March 31. As the our neared for closing debate and tking the final vote upon the Sims 111 for repeal of the provision of the anama canal act exempting Ameri- in coastwise vessels trom payment of ctory. The declared every indloa bn tended to show the bill would ass by a majority of at least 75 jtes. Speculation over what Speaker lark would say when he took the oor in a final attempt to defeat the ?peal added to an already tense situ tion. Administration leaders planned t cure a vote on the hill before ad mrnment tonight. Opponents of the 111 prepared to make the most of icir single opportunity to amend it carefully drawn motion to re-eoni-ilt the bill to the interstate and for ign commerce committee with in ductions to report it back anrended as framed. Representative Doremds of Mlchl a.n, leading the democrats opposed to le bill, was to present the motion. ius overcoming scruples of demo rats who might object to supporting proposition advanced from the re SUSP END ON INDUSTRIALS Interstate Commission Sus pends All Except In Case Of Steel Co's. Roads. DOMINATED BY Wlfi'S WILL Witness Tells Extraordinary Story of Mental Subjection To Lawyer Convicted For Grand Larceny. . AN AUTOMATON UNDER MASTER'S INFLUENCE RETRENCHMENT BY iUKELY TO BUILD ERIE RAILROAD GO. CRAIN OF HOTELS Reduction in Force, Wage Chicago Financier Interested Cuts Ten Trains Taken ! In Tourist Development 7 J Off Pennsylvania. Of This Section. Washington, March 31. All new tariffs filed by railroads eliminating allowances to industrial railroads were suspended today by the inter state commerce commission until July 30 with the exception of those aflecting the TInited States Steel cor poration and other Iron and steel companies, which were permitted to stand. Approximately 4,000 tariffs were suspended. They were submitted in m im n li anna u u . , . i SSTS " -Y""'-o!Saitta, a lawyer. ".a mc muuHirmi railways case in which it was held that allow ances and divisions of rates made by trunk lines with certain industrial railways operated by Iron and steel companies in eastern territory were ,ln effect, rebates and should be discontinued. No tariffs affecting the Industrial railways covered by the decision In the industrial railways case were suspended. Only those in dustrial railways that have not had "their day In court." are granted a suspension of the. tariffs affecting them. Elimination of allowances and divi sions with the industrial roads oper ated by the United States Steel cor poration and other iron and steel companies in the east were permitted to stand. That will mean that, unless the courts enjoin the trunk lines from discontinuing the allowances or the commission should give a rehearing of the Industrial railways case the tar iffs will he effective against the steel I Corporation's roads and against those I Of other iron and steel companies. It e com m la- WitneSS Says He Felt Irresist able Compulsion to do Whatever Act He Was Bidden to Do. AT WAYNESVILLE i lluns Probably Will Ho Made For Erection of Building There To Be High (lass. ORREON FIGHT TO THE DEATH New York, March 31. In the con viction for grand larceny of Philip S. Judge Swann and the jury listened, fascinated today by the evidence which revealed an extra ordinary psychological study of the subjection of one man to the domina tion of another; of a man named Sal- ivator F. Gatto, who blindly followed Saitta's dictation. So convincingly was New York, March 31. The Erie INTEREST CENTERS railroad, through J. Stone, general manager, today antijBunced the en forcement of a gMeral retrenchment order including a. reduction in the clerical force, wag' cuts and lessening i of working hours to aid, according, to the statement, it, offsetting declining revenues. About 8. moo men have been laid off since December. "Usually at this time of the year we increase our maintenance truces Braouany until we gel to me ' maxi- A prominent Chicago financier will mum in the middle of the summer, I be ln Aahevile and western North out we will not ,io that this year, (-arollna within the next week or ten Mr. Stone said. "We now have about !days t0 investigate the possibilities of is.uuu rewer men at worx loan ai i buiIding a cnain of notf!i in the see the height of our maintenance Work i Uon Thls man l8 now ending the last summer. Our retrenchment is;seaBon m Florida and has become In shown better by the facWthat we are i terested in the possibilities of this putting on less men trran in laying j section as a tourist resort through MYSTERIOUS CARGO BF RIFLES HAS DISAPPEARED Supposed to Have Been Intend ed For Ireland Had Em bargo on Them. Bloody Fighting Continues But Few Details Received Rebels Have Gained Supremacy, Is Claim. FEDERALS MAKE LAST STAND, REPORTS SAT them off. While we are anxiously ; hoping for an increase in rates, the I retrenchment in progress is due to quiet business." Further Iletmicliment on l'cnn. Pittsburgh, Pa., March 31. Re trenchment on the. Pennsylvania lines nKliitnri uiHo l'vnvl ui , i ti .,1 lln. rtm , t ,.mmw r r.rofmw k..,i I is estimated by experts of Will hn . . I I , , . 1 , . ; . . ..I 1.1. .1 ..... niu i i i ; t " m i ifl fKiu.it lict.V monts would mWr.-amWl loss to $9,000,000. FIRE LOSS IN MARCH AT LGCUSED WIFE KILLER IS BADLY CUT BY Loss During Month is Four Times Larger Than For Last Year. ;crct. T.II.M I III ill ill, ,1.1 A tremendous crowd the' greatest eAlTjA corPorution alone of about ic house has seen in recent years, immed the galleries today to hear nal debate over the repeal of Panama )lls exemption. People had been 'siting in line for hours. Just after daybreak when Janitors 'ere cleaning up the galleries they 'ere amazed to find two women and a lan seated for a long wait until noon. "You'll have to get out of here ow," they said, "or we will have to ck you in until the galleries are r, ;r larly opened at 10 o'clock." "Lock us in," said the waiting ones nd locked in they were, so kept their laces of vantage. During the waiting hours the crowd mde itself at home. Home brought ewspapers and books. One gray aired woman brought her knitting. ,uneh boxes, milk bottles and pop ottleswere piled on the gallery rail, n Imminent danger to legislators be iw, until doorkeepers forced their re loval. Humphrey at Bat. Representative Humphrey of Wash igton, republican denounced the dem cratic position as "more contemptl le than the English language can xpress" and declared that the condl lon had been brought about by the egotistical blundering" of the admln tration ln the Mexican situation, "he administration, Representative iumphrey declared, had been Im msed upon "to carry out the interna lonal confidence game by which Jap n and England hope to secure use of he canal without competition." the story told that Gatto told of his! career as Saitta's slave that after the jury had rendered its verdict Judge j Swann said: "Gatto palpably had become an au- j tomaton under the influence of a master mind. Unquestionably he has leit me irresumn compulsion to per form whatever act he was bidden to perform. The case developed an in stance in real life of one person being 'Svengalied' by the influence of a su perior mind." Saitta was on trial for having duped Italian lemon growers Into sending consignments of fruit to a dummy firm, using the name of Gatto and leading the exporters to believe it to be the old and well known com-1 mission house of Ferdinand Gatto of this city. . Saitta made Gatto sign for the con signments and then turn them over to him. "Once he struck me," Gatto testi fied. "I started to cry and lie drove i nie out of his office. That same day' he made me pawn my watch for $130 j and bring him the money. He could make me do anything he wanted, t j might know it was wrong but I'd do i it just the same." When the verdict was announced Gatto slunk out of the court room obblng. conversations with Colonel Sanfoid H. Cohen, manager of the Greater West ern North Carolina association, who has been at work In Florida for the past month. . Col. Cohen was in tpe city today for a few hours, having arrived from i Jacksonville last niuht. and he states nassenirer trains .i,.. .ui.. nvi s.. i.. i ,. " . i mill wue V mi mm muif ic ut;r:ji,v 111- were to be tak n off the Pittsburgh, terested in west, rn North Carolina. Fort Wayne and Chicago railroad Thi intn,-,.i nt,.r, euiiniiv in west was extended today with the an- And the Fighting Is Now Carried From Building . To Building, Copenhagen. Denmark, March 3i. jgoth Sides Terribly Weakened rifles supposed to be intended for Ireland, disappeared from the vicinity of the Danish island of Langeland during lust night after an embargo had been placed on It by the authori ties. The rifles were brought to Lange land from Hamburg on board a lighter which anchored oft the is-J land. A short time afterward the Norwegian steamer Fanny drew up alongside and proceeds to take the arms on board. Danish authorities then seized the papers of the lighter and the steam er commanders were ordered to awaint further instructions. Today the tow vessels had vanished. nouncement that 10 next Sunday, fix of them suburban trains. Shop forces also ar being re duced. ' JURORS DRAWN FOR A T TERM Waynesville and that town will be one of the first that he will visit upon his arrival here. It is likely that he will,, make plans Immediately for the erection of a hostelry there and that tentative plans will tie made for others at other points over the sec tion. This announcement will bo received with interest all over western North NOTED ENGINEER BORN IN ENGLAND DEAD New York. March 31. William Churchill Oastler, noted as an en gineer and a collector and connois seur of Japanese and Chinese porce lain, died yesterday of heart disease at his home here. Mr. OaBtler was born in Birming ham, England, 84 years ago and came to this county at the age of 40 List Compiled Yesterday For Civil Court Term of Tkee Weeks. Carolina, since the tourist business in; years. It was tnrongn nis etiorts tnai glowing so rapidly that hotel no-; steel rails wore ursi iniroourai arm commodatlons at times are inadc-! from Kngiaiui, supplanting me oiu quale for the crowds coming Here cast iron rails. from every section of the country. The hotels proposed by (his Chicago man, too, are to be of a high class and will prove valuable essels if realized. NEGRESS LYNCHED WHO MURDERED WHITE MAN WRITER OF GAMBLING IS Ldolfo Padilla Taken From Jail and Stabbed Repeat ftdjy by Maourt Mm. Banta Pe, N. M., March 31. Twenty naiked men took Adolfo Padilla, iharged with murderlnf his wife from he Same Fa county Jail to the nearest 'orner today and stabbed him repeat idly. He probably will die. The party . r powered the Jailer and taking hli teya opened Padllla'i cell and dragged llm out. The mob quietly dlaperaed leaving Padilla near dead ln the street, tteia Ivea of his wife found her dying at he homo of her mother last Saturday H'r throat had been slashed with a razor and both wrist out During the month of March, up to noon today, the local tiro department has answered nine alarms and the amount of property lost Is estimated at $2K,f12. which is four times larger than all of the loss of last year, of this large amount of property lost during this month, only about $10,000 of II was Insured. Two large lires have occurred dur ing this month, the destruction of Sunnyslde cottage on Surfset moun tain on the night of the second with a loss of about $11,500; with insur ance of $5000: and the tire at th. stables of the Ashevllle Dray, Fuel ,v Construction company on Depot and Roberts streets last Wednesday night at 8:35 o'clock. This loss is estimat ed at $22,000 with less than $4,000 In Insurance. The other seven lires were very small and the total damage done In all seven Is placed at $21. There have been 28 lires In this city since January 1, last, with a loss estimated at $60,000, which is the largest fire loss since 1908, when dur ing the whole year the lo?s was $91,680. The loss of 1908 was the heaviest In the 20 years that a rec ord has been kept ol the fires In this city. Already three months of the present year has experienced a loss Ibat comes third to all the large loss es during the last twenty year.. Mi . loss from fire hae happen ed In this city during the last three months than during the last three years. Iit year's lire loss was le than $7,600 and no large building were destroyed While the (Ire have been very neavy and several very erlou one have occurred during thl month, everyone who ha seen the local mem ber of the department work at them have only the lronet word of comirremlatlon for the ladle. In nearly avery lntanc of a large fire during the last three month, the fire had gained great headway be fore an alarm wa turned In and the ladle had to fight at great disadvantage. Those Implicated in Chapel Hill Gambling Story Are Aroused. Jurors for the three weeks' term of Superior court for the trial of civil cases, which will convene next Mon day, wero.diawn yesterday al'lernoon. Kor ihe first week of court the fol lowing men will be summoned: R, L. Jones. J. T. McCarson. T. C. FoRter, J5. M, Uvtlo, B. fit. Harris, William A. .Reynolds. A. J. Clouse, C. L. Nsbitt, M. M. Owenby, John H. Jenkins,. Vance Smith, 10. B. Bridges,. J. .B. Krady, It. I". Monday, I). G. Swann. W. M. Whltaker, T. J. Ingle. Dock llice, G. W. Nesbltt, .1 . F. Sheiton, W- D. Miller, J. It. Clements, J. R, Jarrett, W. S. Rob inson. Second week, beginning April 1,3: T S. Tlillliie-bani. S. P. ljinoe. .T . T Knwv. r C M. Justice. Heorire I tate consideration Bates, Sam Whltaker. M . Merrill, A . II. Brysnn, C, M. Buckner, W. H. Zimmerman, J. B. Heed. D. G. Worllck,. W. ji. Sluder, L. R. Clark, W. A. Arrowood, F. A. I'cnland, F. M . Stevens, G . C. Glenn. M. V. Moore, W. D. Halo, S. O. Bradley, A. 1.. Bright, S. N. Nesbltt, O. M. Cotton. TO EXPEDITE RAILROAD FREIGHT RATE HEARING The Concluding Testimony of Roads to be Heard Today Tomorrow, Thursday. :'M-OBVnik:i., Hard) ZI-- -Marie Scott, a negro woman who killed Lemuel Peace, a young whito man Sunday by driving a knife into his heart, was taken out of the Wagoner county jail early today and hanged to a telephone pole. The mob overpow ered the jailer, threw a rope over the woman's head and dragged her out of the jail. Inquires Into Sugar Hrt't Industry Washington, Special to The Gazette-News. Chapel Hill, March S. An out break of mob-like spirit, crystallzed by the parties Implicated in the gam bling raid and their student gym pa thisera, was the reception which met the news story In Sunday morning's News of Greensboro, exploiting the gambling operations at Chapel Hill. Floyd Booker, whose name was in cluded In the list of professional gam- STRIKERS RIOT ALONG PENNSYLVANIA LINE Pittsburgh, Pa., March 31. Re ports of disorder last night along the Monongfthela division of the Pennsyl vania railroad where trulnmen and conductors are on strike reached otll cials here today. A fusillade of shots March 31. To faclli- f the advance rate case Chairman Harlan announced to day that the interstate commerce commission bad decided to grant the request of the railroads to hear their concluding testimony today, tomorrow ! and Thursday. Tho request was made by Vice I'res I ldent Brownell of the Frie. who point ed out that what he declared was the serious financial condition of the car riers warranted them and the commis sion to expedite the hearings in every way. The commission concluded that it would be better to heltr the Until testi mony of the roads now than to wait until the latter part of April. Washington, March 31. Investiga tion of the sugar beet industry In the United States has' been begwn by the bureau of corporations to de termine whether the industry has been injured by the new tariff. Investigators expect to finish their work in about two weeks. Juarez, Mex., March 31. Fighting continues at Torreon, according to in formation given by rebel officers at Juarez today. No details wero re-, celved. Rebel leaders contend that the main battle for supremacy was fought last week at Gomez Palaclo where soldiers of both sides fell by hundreds in the desperate . conflict. Losses at Gomez Palaclo were so heavy, it was said, that neither side was now acapable of repeating so de termined a battle. In Torreon the fighting is said to be from building to building without any open charges or concentrated assaults. Gomez Palaclo was taken by storm after three sanguinary assaults, ac cording to the brief reports thus far received. A report that reached Jua rez last night when some correspond ents arrived from the front indicated that the federals might have driven Villa's army back in confusion it they had known how to follow up their ad vantage. Confidence Restored Juarez, Mex. March 31. Confi dence In General Villa's ultimate vic tory was restored among constitu tionalist sympathizers here today by i nc, ipt of various semi-official re ports thai the rebel loader bad fore- . ed General Velascn's federal army to its last stand in the general barrack at Torreon. Opinions were expressed, even by army officers here, that fight ing cannot last much longer and that it has continued thus far and strenu ously because it really Is a battle to the death. General Villa, It is suggested, thor oughly understands the hazard ha would run in withdrawing his forces toward chihuahua subject to at tack in the rear from tho federal. General Velasco's army Is in as bad a plight if not worse. It would hava to cross an uninhalited desert de void of natural defense to reach suc cor. Driven from the barracqs in Torreon the federals would be ub (Continued on Page Eleven). biers and whom the town has recog- threatened a freight train manned by KIYOURA AGREES TO FORM NEW CABINET Toklo, March II. Vtooount Kelgo Kiyoura, former mlnlatar of education oday accepted the task of forming a ew cabinet to take the place of that Wder the premiership of Count Ya "amoto which resigned office owing the naval scandal. KOETTERS CONVICTED OF KRAFT MURDER Chicago, March SI John B. Koet ter today wa fouHd anility of murder i.. Mr. Kmm Kraft of Cincinnati and hi punishment fixed at life Im prisonment. Koetters killed Mr. Kraft In a Chicago nnei won - n... mer after obtaining possesion of htr money. nlzed under the bond of $25 for hlj appearunce at court. It Is alleged. It. cited his cohorts to make a personal attack on the writer of the article. Floyd Booker, J. D Kernodle, a member of the freshman class, and Ralph Andrews, a member of the freshman class, gathered at the post office. It Is said, to attack the writer. Rooker was overheard to say "I am going to heat h out of him.'' :ind the other members Of the party mentioned stationed themselves just outside the postolflcc door. They laid their "trap for the au thor of the news story, waiting his departuro from tho postolllcn. Friends advised the correspondent not to leave the postotnee lobby, other than by the back door, that the fellow had threatened they would beat him Into a Jelly. The threatening of Booker and his cohort were met with a hear ty reception by a few tudcnt sympa thisers. They, too, had sworn alle giance to members of their clan and kind. In the meantime J. D. Kernodle, of Graham, a member of Carolina's foot ball squad, had made his way into the postolflce lobby and pounced on the writer of the article. "Why In the h did you write the article?" wa hi queitlon. Immediately the crowd that had gathered In the lobby Interfered. In tho Interim ome tudentH went In search of a policeman, anticipating further trouble outside th door where Booker and other were. The faculty of th university and ths authorltlue of Chapel Hill are on a campaign to break up gambling at th university and in the town. The chief of police of Chgpel Mill In a statement tonight say that with what evidence In hand ne win tw aoie to round up the ringleaders In gambling In the university. strikebreakers as it entertulned Stock daleton but no one was hurt. Air hose was cut and cars uncoupled and a number of switches thrown. Bridges are being guarded by railroad officers. PassenRcr Iraffic continued to move without Interruption. WIRELESS SEARCH FOR MISSING YOUNG MEN TO BE NO SUSPENSION OF MANCHESTER MILLS Manchester, Kng.. March .1 1. Gen eral suspension during Faster week of mills In this district spinning Ameri can cotton decided on last week by the employers was abandoned today owing to strong objection raised by the workers. The condition of tbo cot ton trade had lea me employers io arrange a cessation of production, but tin- Master Spinners association has resolved to leave Individual firm to act according to their own desires. 6000 COAL MINERS IN OHIO HAVE QUIT WORK Martin Ferry. O.. March 81. Be caua coal operator of thl section refused to sign a new scale based on the run of mine law which becomes operative May 20, 8,000 minors quit work today. Operators nay tney win not pay for mining on th new basis until compelled hy law. New York, March 31, Wireless stations at Sea Gate, the Brooklyn navy yard and the Bush terminal in South Brooklyn got in touch today with all the big ships at sea which they could reach In an effort to find a trace of two young men Thomas .Ionian, 1 years of irge, and ClarehCf Brown, II, who left their club on Qraveeend bay at noon Sunday In an is-foot canoe, Report came hack that no trace of the canoe had been found. Search of all the waters in that re gion wa futile and It was decided to ask the wireless stations to enlist steamships in tho hunt. Scarlet F. vcr F.plilcmlo BELIEVE LITTLE BOY IS LOCKED IN A CAR Pensacola. Fla., March 31. Rome where north of this city, locked In i box car. Salvatore Iabrattel, five years old. Is believed to be an un willing travelcr. probably suffering from fright and privation, Workmen iv him enti'r a Gulf, Florid and Alabama car here Sunday afternoon Ho ha not been seen since. 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