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vrew "*orS, Jan. 4. ? A cold wave swooped down upon the east from the extre northwest shortly after midnight. All along the Atlantic sea board in the north the mefeury | dropped fast. I|i Kew York falling from IS degree* at midnight to It at 9 a. in. Then It was still going down. Two deaths had been reported at that -time. Thf weather bureau officials here today said they djd not believe the cold snap would affect the south as did the last one. Suffering in New York was in tense. Seventee women and 326 men and * child, ail homeless, took refuge In the municipal . lodging house, where one man died on hia ar rival and another collapsed and Is In a.critlcal condition. Every other 9 heritable dormitory fo the city waB thronged and early today relief work was taken up In all parts of the city. The situation was made worse oy sharp winds blowing with the force of a gale. Yesterday's rain turned most of, the snow left over from the recent bllsuurd - Into slush and then , the cold and Wind came along in time to turn the water itno ice. Scores of miles of the city's streets today bore thin sheetings of' loe. * ? There is ho sign of Immediate re lief- v %stta4fBlR -north alon* the Atlantic coast from the Delaware capes, ap-v * ? ' parentiy' centered on Boston today. JWith a shjirp wind blowing the ther mometer dropped 18 degrees In six this morning, going to 4 df-, ahoxe xero. This was almost i cold aa the, weather. AL_the time of , the Christmas blizzard and tta after [ math. 8iflterlng was intense and hundreds of the homeless were driv en toiBlyMrfty. Columbus, O., Jan. 4. ? At ? a. m. the official Indicator at the local weather bureau registered 8 decrees above, the minimum, and at 9 o'clock Klaht&n Above at Philadelphia. Philadelphia. Ja? {^Philadelphia Is again In the grip oPa cold ware. At 8 o'clock the official temperature wss 19, a drop, of 17 degrees under yesterday's maximum of 46. In the suburbs temperatures ss low a a 14 were reported today. The thaw of yesterday was suddenly checked, cov ering stroets and pavements with Ice and many accidents due to this condl Ithaca, N. Y., Jan. 4 ? Zero weath- 1 er and three ihches of snow were Tompkins county's share northwest blissard. The gale reached | IS miles an hour. Trains are < Isyed. The morning' was the co est of the winter here by 5 degrees. \ . Cold at India? nolle. Indianapolis, Ind., Jan. 4. ? This city snd vicinity Is experiencing a second cold ware. The temperature at 7 o'clock was 9 above *ero, this1 being a drop of more than 20 degrftee during ths previous 24 hours. v Zeror at Buffalo. : Buffalo, N. Y-, Jan. 4? At 7 a. m. the nfercury was at cero. This wss a drop of about 30 degrees in 24 hours. LATE LUNCRRON. , ' Miss Tlllle Morton gave a lite luncheon st her home last night aftar the dance to a few of her friend.v Covers were laid for eleven. The fol lowing were present: Misses Bessie Conoly, Matilda Haughton. Claudia McCullers. Tlllle Morton and Mrs. D. B. Packard; Messrs. Herbert Bonner. Llndsey Warren, N. L. 8lmmons. Ed mund Harding. Dr. John William* .and Mr. Roberts. Miss Morton proved, .o tie a most charming koeteso. i aiarr jjjp Six Months to Live | An Ohio Mm for Whom No Hope Was. Entertained bj Doctor, Trie? Unique Method of Cfceat in* Death. SO FAR HE IS SUCCESSFUL Cincinnati, i ? Camp Alort la the name of a treetop home Id ampalgn county, Ohio, in which D. O. Btetnbergsjxhas lived for three years. When he took thus to the woods he was supposed to bo in the laat stages of consumption. Physi cians save him six months to live. He weighed only one hundred pounds and when he crawled out to Colorado the doctors there sent htm home so that he wouldn't die on their hands and swell the death Tate. So Mr. Stelnherger. who had been an artist before he became a consumptive, got back to Ohio and took his o-jrn cawj In hand. He picked out a likely) white oak and eetablished^hls resi dence In Its upper branches seventy [feet from the (found. 1 There through summer and winter j he has slept on a bed of b^ghs. done imneh of his owrf Work, received his friends and' breathed the pure^lr, which has brought back complete health, sf j -V -fe. - * There are two means of ascent to the top of the tree. By one a spur ladder runs -up a neighboring tree, from which a horizontal bridge car ries one across to' the house tree, on which the ascent Is completed vby a scaling ladder. This, however, Is 1 60, hasardous for many of Stelfiberger*a guests. He therefore contrived a "elf* dwellers swlug/'.'by wMch Vls I tors can be hoisted aloft by ropes and pitfley. "Hie door to Camp Aloft la ppened with a rtlle shot;*' Mr Stlenberger sayS,: "and as' no one but myself Knows where to put the bultat that liberates the 'rope I am assured of quiet when 1 wish to slepp or' work undisturbed. r-' * "I firmly belleife in the treetop' iJuro^or-canBumption." he continues ,"Any aflllcteff person can tty tt at a "kmall cost. I evicted this platform with my own hands, and there Is no roof over Camp Aloft except In stormy weather, when a canvas la drawn overhead. "I gained fifty pounds the first six mdnths, and after three years of tree top life I tip the scales at more than two hundred.. That's pretty gopd for think?" RKNEW CONTRACT. lull, Jan. 4.? Wide ft Morrl son, contractors for railway gradlnq and general construction, today re newed their contract for another year with the penitentiary for 160 convlcta. For several years they have employed thla number, paying 91-50 a day for the labor. They are building two railroads In the Lum jberton sections. JUDGE BROWN RELEASES KNOTT The Evidence Was Not Suffi cient to Convict Hun. The cue of Z. V. Knott, ch*rg?l with engaging in the business of ex porting laborers* from this State to South Carolina wtlhout ftrvt paying license tax, was heard upon hsbeas corpus proceedings by Justice Brown of the Supreme court bench 6n Mon day. On yesterday afternoon the Judge rendered his decision discharg ing the prisoner from custody. His Hoaor held that the evidence wss not sufficient to convict under decisions rendered several years ago In exactly slmllsr cases by the 8u pre me Court lot North Carolina, Lam vs. Commis si oners, lit N. C., p. 441.: Carr t?. Commissioners, 1J6 N. P., p. US. Mr. Jamss'cordon, of New York city, was the host st an oyster roast Monday evening. The function was a moat pleasant one "and greatly en joyed by the following guests: Misses Isabel Carter. MUdrsd Darts. Mary Carter.. Beasts Conoly, Mary Bell Snail. Katharine Small, BlUaseth Warren, Julia Mayo and Matilda U?4fm; Meeara. J as Cordon. <*? THE ICE KING BEGINS SERVING HIS SENTENCE ? : ' ? '^1 Morse Rails^ Bitterly The Millionaire Starts for Atlan ta Penitentiary After Paying a Fine of $7, 000, 000- Wife Ac companies Him. HE MARES STATEMENT Naw Tort, Jan. 4. ? With a no j>reme effort to be cheerful, but with ?ttotion occasslonally getting the bet tar 9t him. Charles W. Morse left Nsw York today' to bsgln serving a fifteen yesrs* sentence In the Federal prison at Atlanta. Qa., Imposed upon him for violation of the International banking laws*. Before leaving the Tombs, where he had been confined for the greater part of the past year, Morse received his wife and two sons and then the newspaper men. IJe was' too affected to say anything, but he handed oat a carefully prepared statement of! comment on his cats. Morse left Jersey City oa the Birmingham flyer or the Southern Railway at 10:43 a. m., in custody of deputy United States marshsla. The iprty occupied a state roonu, .statement Is Bitter. Morse's statement Is bitter and drattttlc "| am going to Atlanta to begin pepal servitude under the most brutat sentence ever pronounced a cftlten in a civilised country 1| his opening sentence. "1 llave hoped." the sUtenafcnt con tinues, "wMfcritot hope w%dch comes rroi* a <on?ol?u*n*se dt my Inno cent lhat I will not have to close out forever the light sad Hbarty of this Mfrbrtd * under suc? an Inhuman sen tenc*. j I bad MT that the fact that 1 hut vafal a fine of .000,000 and nrtlVa war la prtoon woBM iitttrs' the ery for a victim, and I have stead ily lipped that the courts would be compelled to give me a new trial. When 1 learned that the private de tectives of the prosecution were to ho the keepers- of the Jury; that thr Inry drank- .like men- upon -a Jfcunt 01* a holiday rather than citizens engaged in ra serious service, and that as a result two of them were rendered un fit, *1 naturally hoped that I would allowed another trial by another Jury free of the hostile influences. ? Government Gone Mad. "It seems, however, that the courts Intend to establish the practices which make rum drinking a part of jury seulce and private deUM^tlvetras" the custodians of a jury a permanent institution. By this sentence 'and judgment I may# be brought to ruin, but the damage done to me is not half as Important as tfee injury to the Administration of justice. I am now up In years and must with the passing of time pass also; but the record of my convcltion and the way it was brought about will remain a lasting sad dangerous exsmple. of a government gone msd in search of a victim. Hopes For Pardon. ' "Whether I shsll serve my full sen tence I am not able to say, much de pending upon the wsy the gov ernment at Washington shall look upon' it I have grest fslth that all right thinking men and women who knew of me and my case and who realize the Inhumanity of my sen tence will mske knpwn their feelings to the Presideht. Whstever the fu ture may hold in store ? liberty or| Imprisonment ? I shall endeavor to , meet in the same way I have strug gled against the misfortunes of the past two years. (Sighed) ? "C. W. MORSE." Morse braced himself for a final picture at the hands of a crowd of newspaper photographers'. He read a newspaper after' be had boarded the car. The train Is due. In Atlanta about noon tomorrow. . si hp assi s all records. The Dally News during the month of December carried more columns of paid advertising than any paper ever published in Washington. This fact foes to show that as an adver tising medium this paper is unsur passed. Through Its columns the merchant# receive results. Not only was the amount of advertising space | larger, but the circulation greatly in creased 'over the preceding month #! MU& CRAWLRY ENTERTAINS. >?eulnc ?? n ?prMd | CtarU. YOUNG MAN HANGS* HIMSELF : IB BED POST Prominent Socially ! Suicide Was Carefully Piasned ?No Motive for the Rash A>t is Known? The News Carries Sorrow. DIED OF STRANGULATION j 4 Thomasvlllo, Jan. 4.- ? Woolen committed suidlde t Ing in his room In the rec.. Mr. J. Eugene Wyche just . the depot between 6 and 8 o'c Self destruction was dellb planned as It took some time 1 out the plans he executed. Brans Wyche, a nephew of "J Wyche, slept with him and i 6 o'clock to catch a train. left Woolen got up and 1 ? door, then he wrapped a gau derahlrt around his neck, doubled a window cord and, u ing it about his neck, tied it clou. to (h? bed poet. Then he raised his feet from the floor and hung there till dead, dying from strangulation. He was In night clothes and had [just gotten out of bed. No cause can be advanced for this rash act as he was one of the most consecrated Christian young m4fc in the town. He was secreniry of the street Sunday school and usher In, the church and was considered a mod*l j young man. . ? r . He was 27 years old and was book keeper for the Queen Chair Company. He had just completed his years' work, balanced his books and had his statement ready for the stockhold ers meeting to be lie Id in a few.jlftys. His books and eccountB have been 'checked up and found ,corect. -otfteer and employe no He was liked by everybody and [was one of the moat popular young 1 ?>en in the town. He was interested in athletics, was captain and catcher for the baseball team and was a member of the lawn tennis club and one of the basL.pla.v He was born near Randleman, but now his father lives in High Point. Baixter Woolen will be missed In Thomasyille. for to know him waa to like him. WINS BOX OP CANDY. Miss E. W. Mlllner, one- of the] nurses at the Washington Hospital, held the lucky number. 1J66, 4ra*= Ing the 5-pound box of candy at Dr Hardy's drug store. She Is receiving the congratulations of her ma friends on her good fortune. ST. PAUL'S P. E. CHURCH. Thursday being 'the Feast of Epi phany there win he dlvtH* services In St. Paul's Church at 7: JO p. m . which time the Rev. N. Harding, rec tor of St. Peter's Church, will preach a sermon to the Woman's Auxiliary of St. Paul'*. We, desire all of our friends to be present at his aerrlce. Special seats will be prodded for the White 'people. Rev. wa. T. Wood, priest In charge. NEW BRIDGE MADE USELESS 30 Feet of N. & S. Albemarle Bridge Carried Away. The Norfolk' and Southern rail fay's bridge across Albemarle 8ound was completed last 8aturday,and the first train went over the structure that evening carrying the officials of the road! Monday _,tf6but 30 feet of the bridge was carried away by a tug1 I towing a barge. In the bridge has been constructed two draws. The larger of the two* has not as yet been adjusted so as to be operated. The smaller draw seems to work. Monday the tug and barge attejftj&ed to pass through the bridge Wtislng the smaller draw. It was fotfnd that the span was not wide enough for the entrance of the barge so the captain of the tug forced his way through, with the result the bridge was considerably damaged. Thjs makes the structure useless for some time yet PUBLIC PHYS . TOO MUCH FOR FOODSTUFFS Statement of Secretary Agents Are Now Endeavoring to Learn the Cost of Production. Figures, to Be Compared on Ml Sales. TO PUBLISH THE FACTS ? Washington, D. C., Jan. 4.; ? "We have discovered that the farmer is not getting exhorbltant profits out of the beef he raises," said Secretary of Agriculture Wilson, discussing high prices of food supplies today. "I have no doubt," he continued, "that the same conditions will be found to prevail In moat other lines of farm products. The department of ? agriculture has agents In every State and every county of the coun try.. They have been ordered to re port exhaustively on the cost of production and returns on sales of all sorts of food products. As fast as ?%e receive these figures we will com pare them with prices the same pro ducts bring In cities where consumed, and will then give the facts to the public. "We Intend to bring out the truth, irrespective of whom It hurts or whom It benefits. I am convinced the public Is compelled to pay a great deal more for nearly everything It eats than It should and I believe the figures will bear me out. "There -is ample excuse for some of the Increase' In the co^f^fHiving over what ItVwap years ago. The farm area is ntot keeping pace with the demands for foodstuff: The cities seem' to have more attractions for the laboring, man than do tho rural com munities. The vast horde ot immi grants. as. ftigll as the. over increasing jK)puUtl^k"?M*aJje fed the farm is WMUilMili till*. fd6&?'. HALCYON CLUB NEW YEAR DANCE Given at the Elks Hall Last g^T ening ? MucIl Enjoyed. The New Year's dance at the Elka hajl last evening given by, the Haly con Club proved to be a most delight ful occaaion. Quite a number ot vis iting young ladies and^pentlemen were present. No german of the sea BOir carried with it? more pleasure. The figures wore led by Mr. Frank H. Bryan, the club leader, who danced with Miss Marcia Myers. The following were present: Miss Matilda Haughton, L. C. Warren; Miss Tlllle Morton, E. H. Harding; Miss Lizzie Hill, S. F. Bur bank, jr.; Miss Barham, Norfolk, Mr. Betts; Miss Carrie Simmons, Baxter Bell; Miss Hattle Jones. C. U. Hill; Miss Maude Wlndley, J. E. Clark, jr.; Mies Hill, Newport News, Walter Wlndley; Miss Mary Hill, Will Horne; Mi 8s Elisabeth Rogers, <X H. Blakely; Miss Muse Blount, W. H* Ellison; Miss Olive Burbank, Jos. Morgan, Bhawboro; Miss Pattle Baugham, Samuel Clark; Mlsa Mary Ke&hln William Knight; Mlaa Caddie Fowle, Sam Etheredge; Mlaa Miry B. 8mall, Harry McMullen; Miss Katherlne Small, R. F. Jones; Miss Mary C. Hasaell, . Dr. Disoeway; Miss Mary Carter, James Cofton; Miss Isabel Carter, S. H. Bryan; Miss Mildred Davis, Charles Moore; Mlsa Katie Moore, J. D. Callals; Miss Evelyn Jones, David Carter; M4es Annie P. Nicholson, Alex Blow; Miss Wini fred Nicholson, H. C. Carter; Mies Reba Dumay, Archie Clark; Mias Warren, Edenton, Chas. Small wood; Mrs. F. W. Hoyt, Wllllfcmston, Dr. A? C. Hoyt; Miss Julia Mayo. Lee Dav enport; Miss Claudia McCullers, N. L. Simmons; Miss Davenport, Pactolus. John MacLean; Miss Lottie Blow, Warren Watkins; Miss Carrie Alex ander, Mr. Chase; Mrs. James Staton, J. F. Tayloe; Miss Mary Carter, JaB. CordonT Mr. antl Jkfrrs. C. H. Richard son, Mr. and Mrs. Caleb Bell, Mrs. N. 8. Fulford, Mr. and Mra. B. G Moas. . , Stags: J am 08 Ellison, R. ft. Neal. Clyde Tilgh man, Dr. John Williams, D. T. Tayloe, Jr., Wilson Lamb, Roy Hampton. Chaperones: Mrs. WC L. Laugh lnghonsfr?$Irs. J. B. Moore, Mrs. Her bert Bonner and Mr*. J. W. Williams, of Wilson; Mn. J. K. Hatton, Mm. V- P. Whitney, Urn. A. M. Dumay. ?ehtocbs thommy evkniso. 3 R?*. H. B. Se? right. pMtot of the R. R. EMPLOYES - OF NORTHWEST FOR H STRIKE Will Start This Week president Hawley, of the Switch men 's Union, Says a General Strike May be Expected at Any Time Coming Week. MEANS GIGANTIC WAR % Minneapolis, Minn.. Jan. 4. ? The vote of the railroad employes of the northwest la for a strike, according to the best information obtainable toda. This Is taken to mean that a gigantic' war between the men and the corporations will be waged throughout the northwest and that the transportatlng system of syne of the biggest companies In the coun try, embracing thousands of- miles, will be the scene of strife that will Inyolve 25,000 men. President Hawley, of the Switch men's Union, made this announce ment here: "There will be a general Btrlke ?f 4he-organlzatl<fn In the railway di vision of the American Federation of Labor In the northwest this week. I am not making an announcement or prediction. Announcement of the real opening of hostilities must come from President Perham, who is In Washington, but tils Is what I be lieve is going to happen." Most of the returns from the strike vote in the northwest have been re ceived and President Hawley was fa miliar with their ten6r before he made this startling declaration. Ac cording to his Information the rail roads affected by the present switch men's strike are doing but one-fifth of tholr^norma! business, and th'o sit uation of the strikers la stronger than ever. . After a Conference, with George B. Horwler. president of th?? 8tate Fed eration of Labor at Duluth, Hawley declared that the men who went out are enthusiastic and confident. The miners' union at Butte had decided to keep Its hands off the switchmen's strike, according to ad vices received here today. This fol lowed the'TfeirBerallons of the con" ference committee delegated to de vise ways and means to end the strike. The committee consisted of delegations from the Great Falls Bmelters mey's -union, the Butte min ers', union and other bodies affiliated with tho Montana .Federation of Labor. ? ? INVITATION. The Dally News acknowledges ^he^ receipt of the following wedding In vitation : Mr. and Mrs. John W. Chapl^ request the honor of your presence at the marriage of their daughter Julia Swindell to Mr. Henry Gilbert Mayo on Wednesday morning, the twelfth of January, nineteen hundred and ten, at eight o'clock Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Aurora. North ^Carolina. At home after February flrat, Aurora, N. C. FARMERS INSTI TUTE FOR COUNTY Will Be Held in This City on January 27th. There are to be a number of Farm er'^. Institutes held in this ?tate dur ing the months of January and Feb ruary. under the direction of the De partment of Agriculture. There will be instituted held for women at the same time bb those for the men. The following dates ha've been arranged for Hyde and Beaufort counties: Washington. January J7; Middle ton, January 13; Fairfield. January 14; 8wan Quarter. January 15. These Institutes are of great im portance and will give value to all farmers who attend them. BIO FOREST FTRK. There is a large forest fire raging in the neighborhood of Orimesland, Pitt county. Already several hun dred acres of woods has been prac tically destroyed and the fire Is still devastating the trees. UnlMt>lt <s extinguished the damage to property will be much more. The loss cannot be Estimated. nil JUT^ ?bm she II UTTLE SON Parents Make Sacrifice If Charlie Ohle Lives He Will Owe it AD to His Father and Mother Who Gave Blood and Skin to Save Him. OPERATION SUCCESSFUL New York. Jan. 4. ? IT Charley Ohle, ten years old, a patient In the Kings county hospital, Brooklyn, re covers hIA health, as the surgeons be lieve he will, he will owe It all to his mother and father* who In turn have given their skin and blood to Bave the boy. The little fellow was run over by an automobile abont two months arfo and both legs were crushed and broken. At the Kings county hos pital It was decided to amputate the legs, but the mother pleaded so hard with the surceonB that they reconsid ered the matter. They said the boy's legs might be saved if new skin could be grafted on them and new blood transferred Into his veins. ?The legs were put in plaster and the bones set. Then the mother let the doctors take ninety-two square Inches of her skin for her son's left leg and thirty-two ounces of her "blood to fill his impoverished veins. The operation was successful anjl the left leg made nearly aa good as new. Yesterday the boy's father sub mitted to a like operation for his son's right leg, giving nlnety-elx square inches of skin and thirty-two ounces of blood. The surgeons at tbe hospital are very fond of the' boy, for he has undergone terrible pain without a whimper. PRAYKRMEETING. There will be prayermeettng serv ices in ail the different churches of the city this evening at the usual hour, to which the public is cordially .Invited. At the Christian Church, - Miss Etta Nunn, the corresponding secretary of the C. W. B. M., will apeak, at 7:30. Her subject w"l be Ihlasion work. WATERP1PK EXPLODED AXD WREX7KEI> KITCHEN RANGE. Lumberton. Jan. 4. ? What came | very near to being a serious a^jident happened at the Methodist parsonage during the recent cold wave, when the cooking range was wrecked by the explosion of a water pipe con- * nected with It. The stove was com pletely wrecked, part of it being hurled through the window, and sev eral pieces of it were driven into tne walls and ceiling. A galvanized bucket that happened to be sitting near the range was cut as though with an axe. E. M. Hoyle was stand ing near the ^-ater tank, -and as fate would have it, happened to .be about a foot out of range of the flying pieces. COLORED MAN SERIOUSLY HURT - . T Was Attempting to Board W & V, Train. Linzy Gibbs, colored, of Vande mere, N. C., was seriously Injured yesterday afternoon In attempting to steal a ride on the 'Washington and Vandemer passenger train. A larg* hole was knocked in his head and his left leg broken. Gibbs was. at Cash Corner when the afternoon train arrived from Washington on her regular run to Vandemere. As the train pulled out the negro attemptod to jump her. Ho was d rapped over 150 yards when his grip on steps of the car gave way and, he fell to the ground, sustain ing the injuries as above stated. Th^ train Bped to its destination with* out knowledge of the accident-* Gibbs was discovered by some of his friends last night and taken to hla home where he lies In a critical con dition. ?New Advertisements * in Today's News ? ? E. H. Mlxon * Co ? Garhell ? ? Cbteae.- ? ? J. K. Hort ? Outlet Sale. ? ? J?? E. Clark Co. ? Blanket*. ? ? Run Bros. Co.? Overall..' "? ? Gem Theater. * ? ? Gaiety Theatfcr. ? ? Vlck'e RetpvdM*. ? ? Lam tire Brono Quinine. s ? ? Fuo Ointment ?
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