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ThE CHATHAM RECORD H A. LONDON, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR Terms of Subscription $1.50 Per Year; Strictly in Advance THE CHATHAM RECORD Rates of Advertising One Square, one insertion $L,00 One Square, two msertioaa fLSO One Square, one raootli $250 " For . Larger Advertisements Liberal Contrasts will bo made. -KKV VOL. XXXV HTTSBOrtO, CHATHAM COUNTY, fL G., NOVEMBER 6. 1912. NO. 13. (f ill : lUvQv jjhjggy vy ' -p- VJjjr BRIEF NEWS NOTES FOR THE BUSY. IN MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK TOLD IN CONDENSED FORM. WORLD'S NEWS EPITOMIZED Complete Review of Happenings of Greatest Interest From All Parts, of World. Southern. William W. Harkns, 33 years old, , i . , nnllootnp fnr the a uepuiy revenue unm Asheville (N. C) district, was shot and fatally wounded by C. B. Boyd, 24 a Southern railway brakeman at an' Ashevile, N. C, club The men became involved in a quarrel over a game of cards. Detective Frank Childress is dying and a negro said to be Will Smith is dead, rifled with bullets as the result of a tragedy in Bessemer, Ala. The negro was trying to pawn a watch just after after Childress had been asking him some questions, and the shooting followed as the result of a dispute. In an attempt to beat a fast 102-ton Central of Georgia engine, thunder ing over the tracks drawing hundreds of passengers to Atlanta, to a cross ing near Jonesboro, R. Vincent of At lanta made a daring dash across the tracks. He raced his high speed mo tor directly in the path of the plung ing train, and was dashed to death before his machine was halfway across. Floyd and Claude Swanson Allen are in the Virginia state pentitentiary. The heavy steel gates are closed be hind them and shut out forever their view of aught but prison walls. They will die in the electric chair Novem ber 22. Floyd Allen was on crtuches the effect of a shot in the left leg on the day the Aliens shot up the Car roll county court. "Women members of the family of Ed Callahan identified two of the fif teen defendants presented at the hearing of the bail motion before Judge Benton as having been in the band on the hillside that shot Calla han to death in Winchester, Ky., ear ly last spring. General. The silence of Sofia concerning the great battle in Thrace has at last been broken by a brief dispatch an nouncing a Bulgarian victory and the capture of the town of Luleburgas. Adrianople is now completely sur rounded by the Bulgarians whose at tacks are meeting with great suc cess, according to the minister. The position of the Turks is critical. There are persistent rumors that the Bulgarian cavalry has reached Re dosto, where the Turks have been landing troops brought from Asia " Minor. , j Three masked men, little more than i boys, held up and robbed southbound j Missouri, Kansas and Texas train No. ' 9 at Kirth, Okla., six miles south of Eufaula. The bandits flagged down the train as it rounded a curve onto a small trestle which they had set on fire. Uncoupling the engine, ex press car and baggage car from the j other coaches, they ordered the en gineer to run a half mile farther south, where the express safe was blown open and ransacked. Express officials declared that they could not tell the amount of loot, but expressed the belief that it will amount to sev eral thousand dollars. Money lenders in New York City do an annual business of twenty mil lion dollars; more than one hundred thousand persons, including 30,000 municipal employees are in their clutches and state courts are the un witting instruments through which usury is collected, according to a re port made public by investigators for District Attorney Whitman. Other facts set forth in the report are that "loan sharks" have been' responsible for a great many suicides, defalca tions and petty thefts. John Bernauer, the youthful Bava rian who robbed the residence of J. P. Morgan, Jr., in New York City, and other wealthy persons of thousands of dollars' worth of jewelry, freely re lated in court the story of his bur glaries, but declared he was under the hypnotic spell of an old pal at the time. Bernauer entered a plea of guilty, however, and was sentenc ed to from five to ten years in Sing Sing prison. He boasted in court of how he stole into the very room where Mr. Morgan was asleep and ransacked the financier's dresser. Jennie Cavaglieri, murdered ir Bridgeport, Conn., was a government spy and was slain in revenge for her disclosures and to prevent more of them, according to disclosures by a ci-ral officer. Herman Grau, for forty years a widely known operatic manager, Is dead in New York City, aged 87 years. Alonzo Fielder, 28 years of age and a local cotton oil mill superin tendent of Macon, Ga., killed himself ii'le temporarily deranged as the re salt cf excessive smoking of cigar-fJftf-s. He was a prominent man in middle Georgia. : ' '- President Madero refused to par don Gen. Felix Diaz, the insurgent leader, who was captured by General Beltram's Federals at Vera Cruz and sentenced him to death by court-martial. Six children in a little over thirteen months is the birth, .record of the family of Stephen Nageotte of the city ofx Frenchtown, Pa. , Mrs. Nageotte has borne 15 children in 12 years and 13 of them are living. The election of Gen. Mario Meno cal and Enrique Jose Varona, respect ively, candidates for the presidency and vice presidency of the Cuban re public on the . Conservative ticket, and of all the other candidates put for ward by the Conservatives appears to be practically asssured. The seaport of Acapulco on the Pa cific coast of Mexico was virtually de stroyed by a severe hurricane, accord ing to wireless dispatches received in Nicaragua. Four fifths of the town was shattered and the American con sulate was unroofed. 'No lives were lost. ' , The .steel schooner Osprey and her entire crew of six men were lost at the entrance of the port of Marshfield, Oregon, when the vessel crashed into the jetty in a heavy sea. Utica paid tribute to the memory of the late vice president, James S. Sherman. More than twenty-five thou sand persons filed silently through the Oneida county courthouse and gazed for the last time upon the face of the vice president. President Taft caled at the Sherman home before the funeral. Former Police Lieut. Charles Beck er is in the death house at Sing Sing, N. Y., prison, under sentence to- die in the electric chair, during the week of December 9. He was convicted of the murder of Herman Rosenthal. He was taken there from New York im mediately after sentenced was pro nounced upon him. The superdreadnaught, New York, greatest of the world's sea fighters, has been launched at the New York navy yard, Brooklyn. Announcement is made of the en gagement of Mrs. Grover Cleveland to Prof. Thomas Joseph Preston of Wells college. The date of the mar riage has not yet been determined. The sum of $60,000 was spent by the National Association of Audubon societies this year for bird protection. It is announced that Mrs. Margaret Sage has renewed her pledge of $5,000 ; a year for three years for the protec tion of the rovin in the Southern states. ; When the sultan of Turkey went to war with Bulgaria he sent a sack of : millet with a letter stating that "there ! are as many soldiers in Turkey as there are grains of millet in this sack." The czar replied, in kind, with a smaller sack, filled with tiny grains of red pepper, that "be sure if you stick your nose into our affairs it is like sticking it into our national condiment. Try it and see." When the American marines on Oc tober 4 charged up and captured Coy atepe hill near Masaya, Nicaragua, after having raked the insurgent po sition with their batteries of rapid firing guns lying around the dead rebels was a Nicaraguan woman, a modern Molly Pitcher. Clutched in her hands was a one-pound shell which she was trying to load into a rebel fieldpiece when a bullet from " the American forces struck her, and she fell death beneath the gun. After wheeling his invalid chair to the railing surrounding the fourth floor veranda of the Montefiore Home for Incurables, Max Snodowsky, an in mate, drew himself up to the edge and toppled over into the courtyard, 40 feet below. He was dead when car ried into the home, in New York City. After the bombardment of Adrian ople, Czar Ferdinand's Bulgarian army has moved forward, capturing three forts at Marasch, with 1,800 prison ers. The southwestern part of the city was burned, having been fired by the Bulgarian batteries. Washington. Secretary of the Treasury Mac Veagh, with one swoop, abolished the time-honored drinking cup from rail road cars, vessels and other convey ances operated in interstate traffic, and from depots and waiting rooms of common carriers. Asystem of graft in the navy com missary department which may reach every ship in the Atlantic fleet has been revealed by a secret investiga tion. At proper intervals for the next six weeks 125 enlisted men in the New York City navy yard will be chewing forty kinds of tobacco to decide the brand to be bought for navy use. Bids have been opened in Washing ton, D. C, from fifteen dealers, who want to furnish 20,000 pounds, about a year's supply for he American navy. Prices ranged from 32 to 42 cents for various grades. The contract may not, go to the lowest bidder. Chemical tests will be made and the men's de cision will be the ultimate choice. Are you a potato doctor? If so, you may be eligible to a permanent job in the national department of ag riculture, where there will be ffo scarcity of patientu. Incidentally, the position pays $2 240 a year. Appli cants must be at least 30 years old and under 45. Crackling and sputtering with life, the navy's new wireless station at Arlington, Va., across the Potomac from Washington, D. C, the most powerful in the world, flung from its lofty aerials the first message which signalized the completion of an im portant step in the building of a globe girdling wireless system which will keep every ship of the United States navy and every insular possession within instant communication with the capitol at Washington. The radius of the new plant will be three thous and miles, but will be weeks before the big instrument is "tuned up.-' ilSMISS STUDENTS FOREST FOR PARTICIPATION IN HAZING IN WHICH POWERS WAS -SHOT BY FRESHMAN. INVESTIGATION BEING MADE R. W. Wilkinson, Jr., and Clyde Can nady, Who Took Part In the Rhodes' Affair at Wake Forest Were Expell ed by the Committee. Wake Forest. The climax to the hazing situation which, caused the shooting of Frank Powers here re cently was reached when the senate committee, which has charge of all hazing cases, decided to expel from the college R. W .Wilkinson, Jr., of Wake Forest and Clyde Cannady of Oxfprd for participating in the hazing as a result of which Powers was shot by Freshman Gordon Rhodes of Kin ston while the crowd was attempting to haze him. Prowers' condition is critical. He is at the college hospital and advices from his attending physi cians are that he has only a fight ing chance of recovery. The wounded man himself made a confession to his brothers, Dr. J. B. Powers and L. B. lowers, which im plicated Wilkinson and Cannady. On the statement of these men, them selves, before the senate committee, they were expelled from the school. The results of the committee's action will be read before the student body at chapel by Dr. C. E. Brewer, dean of the college. Freshman Gordon Rhodes fired two pistol shots into the body of Frank Powers, a resident of Wake Forest, and an associate of the college boys though no student when he said that Powers and another man were mask ed and attacked him suddenly. Rhodes said that on account of threats which had been made against him he carried .a pistol for protection. The expelled students do not deny that they were in the crowd with Powers, but deny that they were masked and say that their intention was only to frighten Rhodes by jump ing at him and running him to his room, and that further, as soon as Powers arose from the ground where he was crouching, that Rhodes shot twice in quick succession. Richest Farm Land in World. Declaring that North Carolina has the richest farming lands' that his party has ever seen, one of the re cent Delaware junket to Eastern North Carolina, W. H. Woodw.orth, writes Elias Carr, of the department of agriculture, that this state offers opportunity to the small investor with willingness to work. "We think that we saw thousands of acres of the richest land in the world, which having been drained by modern ma chinery successfully, is producing enormous yields of corn, cotton, pota toes and other crops. Accused of Setting Fire to Stable. Charged with setting fire to the liv ery stable of J. H. Creasman several days ago, Will Moody, a young white man formerly employed by Creasman, was arrested in Asheville and in de fault of $1,000 bond was lodged in jail to await his preliminary hearing. The case against Moody was worked up by Deputy Insurance Commissioner Frank Jordan. Mr. Jordan says that he has found where Moody talked to at least one person concerning the fire before he was even accused. The Board of Equilization corn Meeting of Equalization Board. posed of the board of Mecklenburg county commissioners and Mr. J. Ar thur Henderson, the county tax as sessor, met at the court house in Charlotte to hear the tax dispute on between the city and the Southern Railway in regard to property of the road that is alleged to have not been properly listed for taxation. This is part of the effort of the ctiy to collect taxes on several hundred thousand dollars worth of property. Complain About Quail Shooters. The farmers of Durham county are making a great many complaints to the officers of the county about quail shooters, who have begun to hunt, when the law does not expire till No vember -5. The farmers have been making these complaints for several days, but the county officers have as yet been unable to land any of the violators. The people of the country say that the birds are being killed by the score, and that if something is not done before the law is raised there will be very few birds left. Dead Man Found Near Washington. News has just reached Washington of the finding of a dead body on the road near Blounts Creek Station, this county, about 18 miles from this city several days ago. The dead man is supposed to be Mr. Fred Wolfenden ofg Chocoinity township and one of Beaufort county's most prominent farmers. The facts in the case are meager and nothing absolutely defi nite can be learn and a horse and buggy were found on the road with the driver missing. A search was started and the dead man found. V FROM 1 MUST SERVE SENTENCES Supreme Court Delivers Final Opinion in Asheville Bank Case. Has Been on Hand 15 Years. Raleigh A special from Washing ton states that it looks as if William S. Breese and Joseph E. Dickerson, convicted 15 years ago upon a charge of embezzlement, would have to serve out their sentences in prison. They fought from 1897 to get to the su preme court of the United". States. It was decided that their, conviction should stand. Some days ago when the case was argued here, Mr. Dickerson was in the court room: The defendants Wil liam E. Breese of Brevard and Joseph E. Dickerson of Asheville were offi cials of a national bank at Asheville and were indicted in 1897 for al leged conspiracy and ' embezzlement in violation of the national bafaking acts. WThen the case was finally tried they were convicted' and pendin an appeal were released on bail. The case has had a long and com plicated history in the lower courts It was argued before the supreme : court October 15 the second day of the present term, one of the attor neys being Thomas Ruffin of North Carolina. Justice Holmes handed down the decision several days ago. He denied the contention of the de fense that the case should be thrown out because the -original indictment j was returned to the court room by j the foreman of the grand jury with out the presence of the other grand ' jurors and sustained the contention of . the attorney general's assistant that the certificate accompanying the case should be regarded as sufficient by the supreme court. The defendants at the original trial were sentenced to 10 years' impris onment in the Federal penitentiary. North Carolina New Enterprises. The Guiford Mantle & .Tile Co., of Greensboro was chartered with $25, 000 capital authorized and $2,000 sub scried by Austin Smith, Sr., R. S. McClamrock and Mrs. Cora McClam rock, for a general mantle and tile business. The Burton Audit Com pany of Wmston-Salem is chartered with $25,000 capital authorized and $370 subscribed by A. M. Burton, W. H. Holcombe and J. F. Oyler. Other charters are for Ihe People's Realty and Insurance Co., of Salisbury, cap ital $25,000 authorized and $5,000 subscribed by Henry Clay Grubb, J. M. Maupin and others; the Jones Fix ture Company of Lincolnton, capital $5,000, for handling mantles, show cases and other lines and the Peo ple's Transportation Company, Inc., Lake Landing, capital $5,000, by T. H. Jennette and others. Special Terms of Court Ordered. - . Governor Kitchin has ordered some special terms of court and announced that Judges Peebles, WThedbee and Carter would try the several dockets. Judge R. B. Peebles will hold a term of one week in Scotland county, No vember 25. Criminal cases only will be tried. Scotland is a new county and Laurinburg is the capital. Begin ning December 30, Judge H. W. Whed bee will try the civil docket of Per quimans, the terms lasting two weeks. Judge Frank Carter i3 assigned to Onslow court December 16. This will go one week. There is an intermis sion for Christmas and December 30 a second week will be held. Judge Carter has both. Geo. Thompson Killed at Greensboro. Geo B. Thompson, division freight agent of the Southern Railroad, with headquarters at Greensboro and wide ly known and connected in the South, was shot and killed by William F. Blair, chief clerk in his office. An effort by Blair to end his own life, when advised by a physician that Thompson was dying was frustrated by the phyiscian, who wrenchedfrom his hands a 32 caliber revolver fresh ly loaded. When carried to jail he muttered in broken sentences re greting his action and declared he had killed his best friend. Charged With Robbing Mail Boxes. Amos Gregory, a young negro, was arrested in the postoffice at Salis bury on a charge of robbing rural mail boxes in Iredell county. The negro will be given a hearing before United States Commissioner Cowles. Platform of County Legislation. The paltform of the Forsyth county legislative ticket has been issued and will be mailed broadcast over the country. The nominees favor a non- j partisan county board of education and a non-partisan board controlling the building of roads. They also fa vor ah auditor for the city and coun ty combined. They also stand for an amendment whereby the Bell Tele phone Company will be compelled to make physical connection with the local, telephone companies upon just and equitable terms. Set Mastpoles for Electric Line. The w.ork of setting iron mastpoles for an electric . signal line between Spencer and Charlotte will be complet ed at an early date. Poles for the lines svill be set as soon as the mate rial arrives and the , electric block system for the operating of trains by the Southern on its, main line will be extended from Spencer south, as soon as the work can be done by the con struction force. The line has been completed between Spencer and Greensboro with the exception of a sub-power station, at Thomasville. INDUSTRY BECOMES MOST PARALYZED SHORT OF FREIGHT CARS AND MENACE' OF COAL FAMINE NOW SERIOUS. THE ORDERS ARE DRASTIC Interstate Commerce Commission Has Made DemandsUpon Shippers and Railroads .to Remedy This Matter Much Interest Being Shown. Washington. Shortage of freight cars, the menace of a coal famine and industrial paralysis in some parts of the country has become so serious that the Interstate Commerce Com mission proposed to shippers and rail roads drastic recommendations for its relief, with a thingly veiled intimation that should they fall to remedy the situation the commission itself would find a way to do so. "The condition is acute," declared Commissioner Franklin K. Lane, who for several weeks has been conduct ing an inquiry. "Great institutions of the country are practically out of fuel and cannot get it because there are no cars for its transportation. If an immediate remedy is not found people in parts of this country will be freezing to death because of their in ability to get coal." The car shortage is said to have been found to be due in part to delay in unloading ars and the slow move ment of freight cars and failure of railroads to return cars to the lines owning them. In the latter case it is said railroads hold cars, paying a nominal charge for their use. This the commission denounces as "noth ing less than theft." The investiga tion of slow movement of freights de veloped that a freight car averaged about 20 miles a day and that while one was moving 13 were standing still. The commission makes several sug gestions for relief of the car short age: "That a higher per diem rate shall be made to apply for the use of cars as between the carriers. "That an inspection service be at once instituted which shall report to the commission violations cf the rules existing which are intended to insure the return of equipment to the home line. Austrians Block the Way. Paris. Austrians suspicious still block the way to an accord of the powers on the proposal of France, Russia and Great Britian for a decla ration of "territorial disinterested ness. The French ambassador at Vienna has given the Austrian for eign Count Von Berchthold, definite assurances that the three powers have no intention of asking Austria to deny herself the right to protect her eco nomic interest and that the only de sire is to be able to indicate to the belligerants that in offering media tion the great powers are determin ed to make no demands of territorial compensation. More -Sacrifices For Woman. Gary Ind. Three more men, her father, brother and sweetheart gave up 50 square inches of skin for the burned body of Miss Ethel Smith, for whom Billy Rugh, the crippled newsboy gave his life, allowing a use less limb amputated for skin. The operation was performed at a local hospital. Charles Smith, the father, Ray Smith, 21 years old her brother and Roy Roberts, 21 years old, her sweetheart, gave the skin. When Fugh gave his limb not enough skin was obtained. Wilson .Hurt in Motor Car Mishap. Princeton, N. J.; Governor Wilson wears a narrow strip of collodion across the top of his head, covering a scalp wound three inches long, which he received in a motor car mishap on the way home from Red Bank, N. J. His automobile struck a mound in the road and jolted him against a steel rib in the roof of the limousine car. The wound is not serious. Armies Resting on Field of Battle. London. After the four days deci sive battle of the war theer is calm for a few hours, and no news comes from the field of the recent fighting. Constantinople officials still refuse to permit messages dealing with the Turkish defeat to be sent out" of the capital. How. far the Ottoman army will be able to pull itself together, and whether it will make a stand . in the forts outside of Constantinople, are questions unanswered. The Ser vian advance toward Salonki con tinues. Election in Nicaragua. Managua. Elections for president, vice president and members of the assembly were held throughout Nica ragua. There was only one ticket in the field for the presidency and ,vice presidency, that of the Conservative party, the leaders of which agreed upon the candidacy of the provisional president, Adolf Diaz and Fernando Solorzano, who was elected vice pres ident by the national assembly. Gen. Chamorro issued an open letter to the Conservatives urging them to sup por this ticket. NEWS OF-NORTH CAROLINA Short Paragraphs of State News That Have Been Condensed For the People of the State. Gastonia. Gaston county sent as its contribution to the Wilson-Marshal campaign fund the sum of $335.50. In the list of contributors are nearly 200 loyal Democrats of the county. Thomas L. Craig, mayor of Gastonia, and chairman of the county executive committee, heads the list with a $50 contribution. . ' Washington. District Atorney A. E. Holton of Winston-Salem conferred with Commissioner of Internal Reve nue Cabell on the N. Glenn Williams case.. He was here on that, and other legal business with the treasury de partment and spent several hours go ing over the evidence in the Wil liams case. Louisburg. The tobacco sales have been the centre of interest in Louis burg for some time. The sales of last Friday was the largest seen here since 1902 the big tobacco year. Prices have gone as high as 86 cents per pound during the past two weeks and everything in connection with the market has been alive. Spencer. The Democratic candi dates in Roan played Santa Claus in East Spencer recently by enter taining one7 of the largest gatherings of the year. Speeches were made by Sheriff J. H. ' McKenzie, candidate for re-election; P. S. Carlton, for the house, and R. Lee Wright, Esq., who spoke for Democracy on general prin ciples. vWrastpn-Salem. The local leaf tobacco market is still firm, and sta tistics show that a total of 7,500,000 pounds has been sold here since the beginning of the present tobacco year, August 1. Tobacco has brought an average of about $14.75 a hundred, which means that $1,105,250 has been paid out to the farmers of this sec tion thus far this year. Henderson. Gov. W. W. Kitchin spoke to Harriet Council of the Junior Order of United American! Mechanics choosing "God. and Our Country" for his subject. The governor did not re fer to his senatorial candidacy and made a fraternal address purely. He came to speak to a lodge organized about two months ago, one that has secured a membership of 100 in that short time. Raleigh. Insurance Commissioner James R. Young is making a special effort to stir the interest of the farm ers of the state in the matter of de creasing the fire losses on farm prop erty by greater attention' to flues and the general condition of buildings. He is pushing a campaign among the people of the cities and the country districts on the slogan that "Prevent able fires must go." Greensboro. Considerable excite ment was created in the Brown Sum mit section of Guilford county several days ago when it was reported that two negroes w.ere prowling around the Hardie plantation; that one of them threatened a woman and that the negroes tallied with descriptions of the two negroes who are charged with murdering another negro In Rockingham county. Kings Mountain. The people of Kings Mountain had an opportunity of hearing two political speeches here recently. Mr. JohnNj. Carpenter of Gastonia had an appointment here under the direction of the State Dem ocratic executive committee and came here to fill it. When the time arriv ed for the speaking it was found that John A; Smith of Bessemer City had rented the opera house for the even ing and announced that he proposed to speak there. Raleigh. Hon. Chas. A. Webb In reply to a letter written him by a Democrat who is to be a pollholder at Thomasville in the senatorial pri mary, and, who says that there is con fusion in his vicinity as to the reso lution by the Democratic state com mittee as to the qualifications of vots ers. In his reply Chairman Webb goes Into full details and declares that the voter in the senatorial primary box must vote the Democratic ticket, sub stantially, and gives the other quali fication. , Asheboro Hon. Robert N Page made a most excellent speech in the court house to a good crowd. It was one of the best made here this sea son, and showed the advantages to be derived from a Democratic victory, both in state and nation. He was fre quently applauded. Salisbury. In a published state ment N. A. Trexler, nominated by the Rowan Republican,, declines to serve. - He has withdrawn his name from the list of candidates. He was nominated for surveyor and his with drawal makes the second to come down from the ticket named. Statesville. R. D. Trent is serious ly injured as the result of an- acci dent, while out possum hunting. Mr. Trent climbed a tree to get a pos sum and fell from the tree to the ground, a. distance of several feet. His breast bone was broken and other in juries inflicted. Durham. -The executive committee of the Durham county Progressive party held a meeting in the office of Chairman N. Underwood several days ago and after a lengthy session, de cided to have their candidates make a. canvass of a number of the voting precincts of the county. NATION PADSES TO PAY TRIBUTE TO SHERf? President, Cabinet and CorH gress Attend Simple Funeral of Vice-President at Utica GOVERNMENT OFFICES ; AND EXCHANGES CLOSE Utica Bares Hekd at Sherman's Bier, 25,000 Persons View the Vice-Pres-" ident's Body Lying In State. Private Services at House. Utica, N. Y. The funeral of Vice President James Schoolcraft Sherman, while simple in form, brought to gether a distinguished gathering of mourners. President Taft, members of his Cabinet, almost ever member of the Senate and a large delegation from the House and members of the Supreme Court were In attendance. Distinguished citizens of New York State and city also" were present. A detail of 30 members from each of the two National Guard companies in Utica preceded the funeral cortege. The private services in the house for the members of the family were conducted by Dr. Holden of the Dutch Reformed Church, of which Mr. Sher man was for many years the treas urer and active supporter. The services in the First Presby terian Church began at 2 o'clock p. m., and were in charge of the Rev. M. W. Stryker, president of Hamilton Coli lege. Dr. Stryker was assisted by the Rev. Dr. Holden. The services opened with song by an augmented choir of the church, and after reading of the Scriptures by Dr. Holden, Dr. Stryker delivered a brief eulogy of the Vice President. Dr. Holden pronounced the benediction. President Taft occupied the first pew to the left centre aisle. With him were his military aides and other members of his party. To the left of the nation's ' Chief Executive were seated the honorary bearers, and across the aisle were the active bear ers. The block of pews back of the one occupied by the President was re served for Senators, Congressmen, Cabinet officers, dignitaries and mem bers of the Utica organizations repre sented at the funeral. On the right side of the center aisle the pews from the front to the rear of the church were reserved for the members of the Sherman family and their friends. The casket was placed on a dais in front of the pulpit which was flanked by members of the Conkling Uncondi tional, a politcal club of Utica. On the day before the funeral thou sands of Utica citizens walked through the heavy rain to pay their last trib ute of respect to the dead Vice President, whose body lay in state from 3 to 9 o'clock In the rotunda 'bf the Oneida County Courthouse. There was no display of . pomp, and the cortege was escorted from the Sherman residence to the courthouse by 2,000 citizens without band or music. Members of the Chamber of Commerce, the Elks and Royal Ar canum, of which Mr. Sherman was a ' member, were in the escort. NATION'S BUSINESS PAYS ITS TRIBUTE TO SHERMAN. The United States Government, finance and business co-operated in honoring the dead Vice-President James S. Sherman, whose funeral was held at 2 o'clock in Utica. , In New New York the financial dis trict was closed all day. Action to ward this by the Stock Exchange was unexpected as it was the general sup position that if Wall Steet halted to pay its tribute, it would be only dur ' ing the hours set for the funeral. The i stock Exchange governors' action in j voting to close all day was followed i quickly by' the Coffee, Produce, Cot ton, Consolidated and practically all other commercial institutions in the city. Stock and commercial exchanges throughout the country suspended operations, either all day or during the funeral hours. Orders for the closing of customs houses, internal revenue offices and other government depart ments and offices for the day came from Washington. Similar orders were issued by the Postoffice Department. Salutes In honor of the dead Vice-President echoed around the world as all United States war vessels and revenue cutters, wherever stationed, were or dered to fire the regulation 19 guns at the funeral hour. The flags are at half mast on all navy vessels and at half staff on all army posts and gov ernment offices. Flags are at half staff all over the United States. Governor Dix in a proclamation, or dered similar action on all state build ings and armories. Orders were is sued by Mayor Gaynor of New York for the flags on all city buildings to bo flown at half staff. Governor Wilson called off the Democratic parade scheduled in New York. Albany. Governor Dix in a procla mation issued ordered the flags on all Qtota VinilHinp-a ho Hio'nla-u-orl of Volf mast until after the funeral of Vice President Sherman, and requested the citizens of the State to unite in appro priate tokens of respect. A!
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