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AMERIGAM CHILD KILLED f - BY CHINESE Legation Pears Ransom Alone Can Save Uvea of Missionaries - Held. . Captive Troops Move on ,'Tsao YangForelgnera are. Being Mal .. treated. ; '- ..- ' . ' ' "' , . , Peking i Oct :2 The American -Legation here received 'a report to day from J. Paul Jameson, Vice Con sul General at Shanghai, saying an ..American child had been killed and other foreigners-, were being mal : treated by Chinese brigands' at Tsao Yang. . ' . p: The txgation feara the Chinese :. Government troops cannot aeoom l plish the release of lAmertcan : and i Norwogian missionaries in the hands bt the bandits at Tsao Yang and that ransom, alone can save the lives of i Thrnuirh efforts of the American Legation and Consulates the jnis sionariea ha've .been kept out of un safe " districtt during-, me pasi iwo years. I- They were not 'restricted 'from the Province, of Hu Pen,1 which ; hitherto had not been considered dangerous, !. ' , ' V Nearly 8,000 Chinese' troops . are . m v... advancing on me town 01 i u v'A communication to the, American Consulate had reported that the mis- O aionaries. Revs. S. C. Stokstad and Johnson,,; were proceeding-- to Tsao V Yang from Sian Yang Fu, but their - expedition evidently failed,' as stOK- stad telegraphed . today a; follows: , "The robbers still . holding Tsao ' Yang. The little son of Rev. Harmon rFauske, attached to the mission bt the Lutheran Brethren, ha been kill. ed. A foreign rescuing party agam ' JMINT - COLA" AUTO TRUCK. Chase Delivery Received for the New ! Bottling Plant Be Operated by Mr. L. D. Peeler. - A' new and ; handsome Chase auto truck has. been received here and will be psed by Mr L." D. Peeler for the -delivery, pt bottled ."Mmt Cola" as soon; as he gets his new planj in op eration." The trock i was : purchased through, lh Chartotte !Agency of the Chase Motor Company and was driven through' the country, yesterday after noon by Mr. CJ. Washam, who is with ' t)u Chase Deople in Charlotte. If is a beauty; .'with grey body and decorated with the "Mint .Cola" "trade marks and will, add materially to the business traffic of the city. NEW RATE ON TOBACCO Inter-State Commission Granted the - t Seaboard Permission to Make New Tobacco Rate Other Grants ' ,. Vhich Affect Wilmington arid New f iff: Bern, . '' - '(By Geo H. 'Manning.') ' Washington, bet" 2.-The leaf to ' bacco dealers pf the Durham dis, i triqtywere granted an advantage in competing V. with producing , points : further, aouth in their trade with New : Orleans .when the Interstate Com- mere Commission today granted the Application of the Seabord ; Air Line to establish a "fate of 60 cents per ? hundred pounds on tobacco, leaf, ui i manufactured in : hogshead, arload. , minimum - weight 20,000 ( pounds, from DurhanTto'New Orleans for six jnonths pending an; investigation, hrovided no higher fates are mam ' taine'd trim iany;, irilrwedUte points. , L Washington N. Ci wa also grant cd an advantage n competing with New Bern, when the . Commission granted authority, to the Seaboard Air Line, Norfolk and Western,' and Norfolk Southern' Railways and con necting lines to .establish the same i' es on special iron articles, car !. and less, to Washingtoni N C, from points on the . Pennsylvania, Baltimore and Ohio, as' are granted to New Bern, pending investigation. FLOODS IN TEXAS.: Austin, Tex, Oct 8.-With twelve dead and property and crop losses es timated at six million dollars South Texas is suffering the, severest re sults from floods ever Jn this State. Et-ports today indicate the tains have ceased in some sections and that many s nail streams are falling. Rice, lum t r, cotton and industries all suffered. WILL SIGN THE TARIFF BILL AT T DUPLICATE BILLS INTRODUCED IN BOTH BRANCHES OF . LEGISLATURE. " I NINE 0N1GHT nnTTnil niTlinm miTl-Tr I T "M the United States Army reached ve. yesterday adopted two of the; I I N Mil lltr- II II and th whoUv W" tbrown int! Washington City this morninir b amendmenU to the constitution pro UUI IUI1 lUIUlALO UUI . Pnic by Father Han. Schmidt TZJ&iTS the y the Special Commission and' Senate and House Today Discussing the Constitutional -Amendments flavin Voted Down the One Rela tive' to Reading the -Bible Is the SchoolsCaucus "n Rate Matter j Monday Washington, Oct. X Presi dent Wilson announced, that he . would sIrb thev tariff bill be fore a party of Coneressionsl leaders and officials at 9 o'clock" tonighL ' n ' Washington, Oct. 2. The Demo- j eratic tariff revision bill probably will bein:the, hand, V of President)", Wilsonfpr his signature by tomorrow J night. . the senate passed the fernnce . renort at 8:M . n'cW.k con-, to. ' night by a Vote' of 16 to 17, only four ' - . more than the necessiry .pjopim of the senate. . , r- Senators LaFoIIctter Republican, and ' Poindexter, Progressive, voted j .u. -.-fc : ' ,'. v. va u 'torney the murderer's' counsel object- d,d for the hill on its passage, andjed ,,t is under8tood that the Senators .Ransdell and Thomston j tist, examined Schmidt agree Democrats, of Louisiana, voted (that he ,bnorma but not lnMne against it, they did against the i in th accepte, Mnge the Urm bill.v: Otherwise it waKtrict party L vote. Immediately k after the- passage of 1 the confe.'enee report, acting on mb-j loiu.oy, wnairmao oimiuoiis, 01 me finance cbmmitteev' the senate reject - j ed the Smith-Levif compromise cot-j ton futures tax amendment passed by ( the house. Tuesday, and then receded from its 'own amendment, known as ; the Clarke cotton futures tax plan. - The cotton futut-es question therefore ; is out of the tariff bill so far as thej senate is concerned. ' ; . . - . jon XMOvemDer ran, tne examinations f The bill wil( be Y, returned to the, being for the filling of vacancies as house early tomorrow. Vxj V, i ? J they may occur In positions requiring Chairman XJnderwood and Speaker j the qualifications of Renography, type- Clark todav deciaea tne-nouse snouia take format action tomorrow to re cede -.from its r cotton futures tax amendmetit before the bill goes to the 'resident. It was ' thought " at the capitol tonight that the bill would) becomw a law Saturday. The eight and one-half hours 0f ; deoate in tne senate tonay pruuuceu little real criticism of the bill othe eonference agreement. nierence - , , A ine pr.ncV, m ence commuvee came uwu ; pj,jg gectioil.' ' ' v ' Pomerene, Ohio, and Senator Borah, I Lewig M a weU who had. offered , amendments iM,farmeP Mni appe wer of Hidden, were defeated . - lte, Alexander county-was in the ; Senator , Pomerene v said he ac- city wilh a loa4 6f appjeSt which quiesced in the decision of the con- h Uy disposed qt ; He says Salis ferees because he knew senate menw . ig j this bers had teen compelled to drop W section, surpassing all other i-, towns wine &x amendmeYiU; Senator Borah. mnd cities, even Charlotte', and that H declared 4he opposition to his child I j, A good Wrket for other pro-labor- amendment had been fostered i ducts of the. farm and orchard. .. He and stirred iip by. importers and aided ' says? however, that the 'apple crop is by "sinister influence," In this coun-1 very short in his section, and that fin try that were opposed to; restrictions the counties farther west the crop1 has against "cniM, .Ibor,;-:)f 4-v--l-l ' 9.' almostcompleU 'failure. He MAYrPARDONlMRSEDWARDS ' Woman Has Been Under Death Sen tf.rVf tenc ior lrTra.V :"! ; Harrisburg,'Pa,' Oct 8.The State Board of; Pardons was, asked today to grant i pardon for, Mrs. Kate Ed wards," the Reading murderess : who has been in prison for; more than a dozen years and whose death warrant bas been unsigned in-the administra tion of three governors. , Mr?-" Edwards was convicted Sep tember 14, 1901, and sentenced to be hanged in March of .the following year. Jn 1903 commutation was re fused.' The reasonfor the pardon al leges that she had been debased by brutal treatment and had she told the truth at the trial she would not have been convicted of first-degree mur der. C ' s : :V' Mrs. Edwards is now 43 years old; and it is said that her reformation is complete. The case will be heard Oo tober 15.' ' VIOLENT IN . COURT! i Ex-Catholic Priest When Told That Some One Would Have to Pay Ex-' penses of a Burial for Anna Amu- eller or She Would Go to Potters' rieia u rew violent and caused a Scene in the Coroner's Court Room. New York, Oct 3 The court room . . ... . j i ., L , :. - in held by the Porner the death of .Anna AumeUer Schmidt - , mn.wuu. w . ., Fort Mvi- lBr thew tn hM k U rAn.. iLi.. t-i(CK w ron jnyer, wnere tney will jumped to his feet and yelled inco herently, threw a rosary and a crum- pled two dollar bill ; in the face of Coroner Feinberff, For tne time It vi rwr r oi.i.icrKf r ur ine urn n seemed that he was about to attack somebjdy, anybody, but was ,nna,. Icalmedjlown, The outbreak was oe- t caoned apparently by the announce- iment by the coroner that fragments i lure ucnu urn uwijr wouia ue in-. ; terred in the Potters' field unless some one paid for a burial elsewhere. The murderer wss a pitiful spectacle and Jl apparently suffering horrible mental , strain. , ; , ', - ; ' "5 getting Schmidt Jury. . ) New York, Oct. 3AWith a jury of millionaire to determine the cause death the death the preliminaries to send him to the death cha.r or to asylum s begun. Seventy men were called to the office ' f w"" Fnberg and from these 'the jury is being selected. : Theodore ( Shonts the railroail . Uen ,' selectedj as foreman? The coroner j wanted to, tall Schmidt and have him P81 onuy tm aetaus ot tuff written j confession, but both the district at- Wl! q Held Salisbury November! 15th for Stenographer, and Type-', - writer. V ' . m The U. S. Civil Service Commission j , announces that examination! will be! , held at a number of cities throughout ! the State,' Salisbury included, on Nik i vember 15th and all applicants fori. examination must file their applica-1 , tions by the. hour of closing business , otiiii ,ra,. writing in the Federal classified civil j service in the vicinity of the places of j ' examination. Both men and women will be admitted to examination, the lira limit hftina IS vearn'or over. Full v information can 1 be obtained at the Salisbury postofflce FINE APPLE MARKET. Salisbury Takes the Lead la This Re. , Bpeet Amdng All of the Cities inlVa early this morning Edgar D. comes to this city every , year; or so and aays he always notices a remark- abler growth on each visit. He , left this 'afternoon for home. His son was with him on the trip. ' ''. ' " .,, ! : CROWLEY IS IN HOSPITAL. Former Priest Who Lectured Here Forced to Give Up Lecture on Ac count of Throat Trouble. It is learned here that Jeremiah J. Crowley, who created somewhat of a stir in Charlotte and this city by his anti-Catholic lectures,' has been forced to cancel his future dates and has entered a hospital for treat ment for an affection of the throat that organ having" failed him tem porarily. It was seen when he ap pea red here that . the speaker was suffering with , his throat and many wondered how he could keep up at the pace he was going at the time, giv ing from one to three lectures a day and talking several hours at each lecture, U. S. TROOPS MARCH ' ON WASHINGTON CITY Three : Thousand Cavalrymen Pass Through Streets of the Capitol City on Their Way te Fort My er The Largest Body f Heraemee Soldiers in Washington In Many Years, h ... ii aaniiiuurii. Washington. D. C, Oct. -Three i , ,;..,, MIUMB4IIU - va. , ; MIVKIIVIIICIIV .1 third. First, the proposed , . mew section to Article II of the con- dent will review the cavalrymen next Thursday. -VV'.v - The cavalrymen came here- from I Winchester, Va. They camped W0(ln8da V hioht near Lehanr ' Va ".!' ,ZZT wa,Uk.n without great .mount Fot M J !0 .JJ! of, opposition, though it was strenu-! kU - , , tously - opposed by ; Representative i -iuk-i .v. cavalrymen the task of experimenting on a set of proposed drill regulations, of which the most important is what la known as the 'double rahk"for-1 maUoh. .These troops have been try. ing out the formation, and are the only, ones capable of demonstrating hs oeairaomty.--,:-frJ. ; ,;Arj :: v The 3,000 men represent the entire ; Eleventh Regiment, composed of white com d of co,oped me . Jd rtljT, -M - - meni With the first squadron of the Fifteenth Cavalry, how at Fort Myer, the troops will make up what prob ably is he largest body of cavalry-J men that.has been here for at least J5! The colored troopers of the- Tenth Cavalry are caid to be expert in drill ing. Their work at Winchester caus ed them to be highly complimented. : It was said last night at the War Department that the decision as to the practicability of the tentative drill regulations will rest largely on the JAPAN WILL RECOGNIZE CHLNA. ' Tokio, Oct. 3. The Foreign office officially announced that Japan, would formally recof niie the Chinese Republic be-: forf October 1 0th, the date of the inauguration of the Presi dent. -1 . CHILDREN KILLED BY TRAIN NEAR ROANOKE Banker's Son and an Orphan tjtrl Meet ueath Nnder jvorroia west- em Trsln at Dublin Were Cross - Ing Track in a Buggy, Roanoke, Va, Oct 2. At Dublin, Withrow, Jr.," the 10-year-old son of . D. jWithroW, president of the Dub lin bank,' and Madge Lowman, 15, an orphan, weer run over by, a Norfolk and Western freight train while at tempting to pass over a road crossing m a buggy, both dying several hours later. ' The Withrow - boy, had both legs severed by the. wheels of the train. He was brought to a Raonokej hospital and underwent ah operation, He succumbed , at ?:3U o'cioclt tnis afternooru The little girl was taken te .the home of Mr. Withrow, her fos ter , father, whert she, too, died af 1 1 :30, o'clock. The; cWldren'Vere on their1 way its' school, when the accident occurred, "f . THE NEW HERALD. The first issue of the Yad kii Valley Herald tame front, the press today, and was mail-' ed to 2000 regular subscribers coming to it from 'the Semi-. Weekly post and to five or six hundred more whom we hope, soon to have on its regular list. In addition to the regular subscribers " several ' hundred sample copies will, be mailed out every week. The Herald circulates among the very best of the good people , of this county and local business men 'lose an opportunity ' by- not talking to these folks every week. The Herald is a good advertising proposition. v , -a t . t-' - HOUSE ADOPTS Tl NEW AMENDMENTS: In Committee of the Whole the House t Passes on ContKullonal f Amend . mental-One Restricting luteal Leg-t islation, Also Fixing Date for In. ., auguratien of Governor. ' j Raleigh, Oct 3. In ceynmrnittee of 1 ithe whole, the House of Represents- . . . ibcksu a iracvion m one vote 01 . ) , J new section to Article II of the con stitution, restricting local, private, i Assembly, was ; adopted as amended by the two judiciary committees of the W lw0 JMy mmitteea of Ul House Wednesday nlek Thi. wtion? Bowie '-of AshtV'Thcn the proposed tendment to Article HI, Section 1, ff th wnattwUon,- fixing the day of the governor, was doPted w,thcnt M PIitlon. This j "ndment , would simply tnaka the, fcus!tom of ,0,d,nK uginl . TIVIBV VII MIO BCWIIU VT VUIIVRUS ir the first Monday in January. After considerable discussion for and against, the proposed amendment to limit rotation ' of Superior Court judges, and after several amendments had been voted down, the committee of the whole was divided on roll call vote, 62 for and 42 against' Under the rule adopted by the committee, ttwMth of the vote cast Is neces sary to report an amendment favor ably to the House. It was announced therefore that this amendment was lost by a fraction of a vote. It will be brought up age in on the floor of the House,. At this juncture the com mittee "of ! the whole House "arose" and reported' progress' and' soon the House adjourned until 10 o'clock to dav. It waa then 1 :40 n. m. and an hour and forty minutes had been j spent on consideration of the amend ments. TWO FIRES TODAY. f ; Small Blase In North Ward and Barn , j - Outside City Limits. , . 4 f An alarm of fire shortly after noon '' today, called the department to 411 , 'North Jackson street, whera a blaze I'm one of the houses known as the At 'well row, partially burned the roof, j The blaze was extinguished with t slight damage., ' , , 1 A second alarm about three o'clock called the firemen out again, this time the alarm, cante in from the box at the corner of Main 'and Henderson streets, and as this vicinity is thickly dotted iwith splendid residences'- a lr(fe crowd hurried to the scene aad many, others started but turned back ;0n learning that the blase was in a barn near the North Main street ex tension and out of the city , limits. Here also the damage did not amount to a great deaL ' . "DEAD LETTER- SALE v, IS DISAPPOINTING Few "Bargain" are Found by Those Who Attended Auction in Quest of " Them. ' ' r, , ' Watrhintrton. D. C. Oct 2.--Shatter. d hones and disppointment were the principal "bargains taken away from ! Uncle Sam's 'dead. letter : auction tgaie held at Sloan's auction rooms tes terday. She who went with the hope of taking home $10 worth of some thing for "two bits" didn't get what she went for she : paid" something like $9.99 for something she subse quently' discovered was worth just a penny or. so less. The misanthropic creatures of penury who, annually in fest the sale and daily visit auction rooms "and bargain counters of shop and store put in an early appearance, and, not being able to discover, any bargain "cheap enough," took up for the rest of the day good space that ,' might otherwise have harbored bona . Four '. Philadelphia second-hand dealers they were suspected of com ing from the Quaker City because ot the "fabulous" prices, they offered for i articles held the stage at the sale throughout the day. , It isestimated that these dealers bought about 60 per cent of the goods sold. . . Mr. D. H. Mahaley leaves tomorrow for Richmond, Va., to visit his son, Mr. R. Lee Mahaley and take in the Virginia State Fair. !J0 CREATE NEW PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION, PRESIDENT WOODROW i ANNOUNCED ,THIS ! r ' TODAY.- ,' WILSON FACT Tl I Senate "After Refusing the House Amendment Si't Hsld Its Own Cotton Future Tax and This Willi Be Left Out of the Tariff Bill Al-j together The Bill Will be la EM feet by Tomorrow, ;; Raleigh, Oct, 8. Senator Hobgood Introduced. a bill in the Senate and Woodard in the House in duplicate for the creation of a Public Service Commission for ; North Carolina to take over the rates making duties from the corporation commission as to . railroads, telephones, telegraph and the like public service corpora tions, The bill Was prepared by the 4flkers. of the Just Freight Rate" As sociation and backed by thai associa tion on the grounds that for the next two years especially the state will need expert commission to devote Its entire time to rate matters, leaving the corporation commission to deal with and supervise state banks and state taxes. ' A resolution by Gold would name a joint committee to investigate the needs of the school for the' feeble minded at Kinston. It is reported that $24,608 Is needed for the com pletion of the building and the; re mainder of $68,934 for maintenance until the next session of the legisla ture. ,."''!, ' The Senate and the' House this af ternoon went, Into committee of the whole to consider the amendments for - the ' constitution, ' the Senate adopted without discussion the sec tion' which proposes to change the word Insurrection and "Rebellion" to war between the states. .. The amendment relative to the Bi ble in the public schools was defeated The ; House adopted a proposal for eight iiw emergency judges. , Thom as' resolution for a commission to revise the judicial procedure came In for a lengthy discussion in the House and . was '"- finally passed with the - amendment that the xepense be lim ited to five hundred dollars. A call was issued today for a secret Dem-' ocratic caucus for Monday night to consider rate matter and map out a policy to pursue. . t ' , CHILD DIES SUDDENLY. Two Manths Old Infant of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd of Spencer Found Dead . In Bed. . v , : The Infant child, about months old, of Mr, and Mrs. Claud Lloyd, of Spencer, was found dead in bed early this morning having died some time previous to the discovery and all un known to the grief stricken parents. It is believed that , the little child was strangled to death. The little body' will be buried tomorrow morn ing in ; Chestnut; Hill : cemetery, the funeral taking place from the home of the bereaved parents and will be conducted by Rev, J.. U Vipperman of the Spencer Baptist church, IN THE COUNTY COURT. Row at Carnival Brings a Number of Spectators to Hear the Case. v There was quite a number of spec tators in the county court this morn ing, being present to hear the trial o fa party of young men who engaged in an affray at the carnival last night What at first , gave promise of being a big trial simmered down to a simple affray. ' Three ; young men were on triul, named. Brown Hess, and Meixel. Brown plead guilty, Hess was -acquitted and Meixel was found guilty. The two guilty parties were fined $10 each and costs. Several defendants ,' in other cases were found not guilty. : , Wilson's Southern Trip. Washington, Oct S. Unless unex pected developments should prevent President Wilson, it was announced today, will leave on the evening of October 25 for Motile, Ala, .to at tend the rou?ern Commercial Con gress, I-'o' .'.e, Ala, October 27. KILLS BIBLE AMEND WEN PAWN SHOP OF Some One Entered the Store Through . a Rear Window and Carried Off a Nnmber of Ankles Robbery Dis' covered Late Yesterday Afternoon , f , hy Mr, Urbansky. ! Some one entered the Salisbury I Pawn Shop, William Urbansky pro-. prietor, yesterdajr morning about one o'clock,-? effecting an entrance mrougn a rear wmaow . wnere tney; M prised the bars loose and then bent one back and pushed it down eurtl- ; c'eiHly to make a hole big enough to crawl through, - The exit was madoi through the rear door which was left standing wide open. The robbery ' wa not' discovered until after six" o'clock yesterday af terifoon owlntf to ' the fact that the place was closed all day yesterday,' serving the Jewish New Year. Wher.. he opened his doors hs at once dis covered that things, about the plac had been tampered with and soon learned that the store had been en- e-ed by the rear way. . Occupants f the Southern hotel, In which block the pawn shop is located, heard un usual knocking about one o'clock vesterday morning but did not know et the time that the (tore below was being entered. . ' Mr. Urbansky does not khow what all was taken but so far has mUtied a pistol, two flash lights, a half dozen pocket knives, about twenty water fobs, a card or two, of stick pins, a titimKavit Af uAtii nf ruff tinftnntt an.t other jewelry. The thief did not top at this but undressed and atired him self in a brand new suit of clolhcx ind a new hat leuv'ng his old ones on the floor in the store. He alxo left a razor, and it 11 the same wea pon a negro woman endeavored to pawn at this shop the day before MvUrbsnsky Is certain a .ckio who was in the store Wednesday after noon is the man who entered it yes terday morning, basing his belief on the clothes worn by the psrty at that time and the clothes left In the store. H" has offered a reward of $125 fo -the arrest and conviction of the guilty party or parties, being a mem ber of an association that pays ?!.. in such cases and augments this with an Individual $25. There was a liht In t the store and thfs , was turned out by the robber. v ' Some fellows, say "Here's looUnir ayou," until they cah't see straight. Tl'0.iiSOER KL Two' Men Who Served on the Frank ; Jury Said Now to Have Entered the Box ' Prejudice Against the r Man Motioa for New Trial Set , for Saturday. Atlanta, Oct. 8. Although the hearing of motion for new trial in the Frank case is set for tomorrow before Judge Roan, it is , not co" sidered possible today that It will come up. 'A postponement is deemed Inevitable, and will be formally ap plied for by Solicitor General Hugh rsey. Although . Mr. Dorsey has dropped all other work and is spend ing twelve hours a day on the state's answer, he contends that the time given him since the filing of the nu- j tion has been all too short Even though a delay of a couple of weeks occurs It seems almost sure that Judge L. S. Roan, who heurd ti e original trial, will hear the motion. U is understood that Jud-e Ton II. .1 will hold his resignation f :om the ap pellate bench until Jut'. e T. an las finished hearing this n . lion in the lower court and is r i !y to a, ; t the new appeintment. The two jurors, whom the motion of defense attacks on aliened ground of prejudice, are angrily dwnyii;,; the charge. Juror Johenniii is quoted as saying: "The allegations about my bc-irt prejudiced are absolud'y f ,' . I have no idea who nuu'j the s. but whoever it was u a 1' want to serve on the Frai I would have 1 en only ful if 1 could 1 e ens the questions in sikh would have excur-J 1 to be atta ked for a t' throo-h with purely f. ' c! y." ' The o-"r j "'- in t' ! i. I t ) this ! c-' rrt,i
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