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VOL. XXVI. NO. 5.
LIVELY SPINSTER
PRESIDENT TAFT
J Made A Killing!
TO FORE IN FIGHT
RISSPEUAKING
Texans Fail to Get Their
FulljMeed of Presi
dential Wisdom
Declines Invitation With Dili
For $10 Enclosed
For His Eating
Mrs. Suftern Not to be Balked
In Her Determination to
Get a Husband
Charge That White Slavery Is
Fostered by Tammany Tak
en From Magazine
THE
TILLMAN REFUSES
MUCK RAKER GETS
TO GONTRIBUTETO
MARRIES BROTHER
T00R0ARSETOD0
TUFT'S LiC
OF FIRST HUSBANO
AGIST
YOR
TURNED DOWN ONE ON
MATTER OF A SHIRT
Wants Some One to Manage
Her Estates And Does Not
Care Much Who
NEW YORK, Oct. 23 Th. fre
quent attempts to K't marri. d made
ly the aged heiress. Miss Jcanett
Suffern, of New York and New Jer
sey, culminated in another remurkabl"
wedding last ninht when deputy
Judge Fred A. Hulilmrd of the (ireen
wich. Conn., Borough court, united he r
In marriage to Frank S. lliscoek.
The strangest part of the affair Is
told by neighbors of the marrying
justice In Greenwich, who declare the
new husband Is a brother of the
Hostler Boh" lliscoek whom she
ploposed to and wed out of hand in
a lildgewuy (N. J- livery stable three
necks ago.
Uiscock, today's bridegroom, t;.ivc
his age ns thirty-eight, and his bus
iness as hn engineer of New York city.
Immediately after the ceremony the
collide hurried back New Yorkw.ird
in an automobile. It is presume 1
they have returned to one of the
bride's estates In New Jeracv or in
Southern New York.
This remarkable outcome of the
pathetic attempt or (lie little old heir
ess to "(jet a husband to munai? lor
estate" could not bo explained by
her friends or relatives cither in f'nl
ersnn, N. J., llldgowuud or Suffern
hint night. Why, after discovering
that her first husband. Robert llis
eoik, the ltidgewood hostler was a
bli.amist when lie married her. she
should deliberately choose bis broth
er as her husband, was put down as
past all accountings.
It won recalled by her friends, how
ever that Miss Buffern, a woman of
' alft'y-four,' wa nearly distracted with
worry over her estate when three
weeks ngn she deliberately drove lni-
the Ridgcwood stables and asked the
h nd hostler If he knew of anyone
there who would marry her and then
In. mediately ran off to the weddin
nltar with "Hostler Hob." who desert
ed her in three days afterwards with
(Continued on pngej-sx
THOUSANDS Will LOSE
EMPLOYMENT IN SHUT-
Curtailment Polity Will B'
Inaugurated Toiiioitow
In This State.
MANY CLOSKD NOW
CHARLOTTE. N. C. net. ? 3 .Next
Monday morning some of the largest
mills In the Piedmont section of the
Catolinas will inaugurate a one or
two weeks curtailment and If con
ditions do not improve it Is likely
that this period of curtailment will
be considerably extended. The first
North Carolina plant to inaugurate
tne curtailment plan is the Tarboro
mill and the Henrb tta mills, the big
gest plant in the state, employing
three thousand operatives, will follow
suit Monday, and it is probable that
the Caroleen mills, under the same
management will shut down in a few
days. The seven big mills in Spar
tanburg county. South Carolina, shut
down last night These are the Whit
ney. Spartan. Clifton. Ob nd.ile. Ark
kright. I.oekhart and 1'aeoht. Tlo v
consume about two hundred thoiis-1
and bales of cotton annually and em
ploy ten thousand operatives. The
mills have run two weeks on live day
time, but the present shut down is
complete and for an indefinite period.
There is now a feeling among the
manufacturers that the curtailment
proposition, having ben sanctioned
by the American Cotton Manufactur
ers' association. e:rn be put in practice
in the mills without thereby injuring
their standing in the least, and as it
lias been pretty generally agreed that
curtailment is the business-like course
to pursue, the movement is gaining
strength as it progress, s.
n. & o. bi ys uoi.
WINCHESTER. Vn Oct. 2.1 Fol
lowing the annual election of officers
of the Winchester and Potomac rail
ri ad held in this city todav, announe
m,.nt was ma.le that the llaltimore A
Ohio railroad compunv has secured
,.,.i .,f in,, line which extends from
Harpers Kerry to Winchester, a dis
tance of thirty-two miles and travers
ing one of the rii hest sections of Vir
ginia.
CAMPAIGN SINKING
DOWN MUDDY LEVEL
Judge Gaynor Refuses to Dis
cuss Matter And Murphy
Says 'Nonsensical"
NEW YORK, Oct. 2.1. Slavery be
came a live issue in the municipal
campaign today not Hi'.- slavery
which brought rorth "Inch; Tom's
Cabin" and the denunciatory elo
quence of the 60s, but that nineteenth
century system known us the "white
slave traffic" which haa afforded so
much material for the present day re
r.,rri,.r The growth of this system
under Tammany Hull is attested by
:i writer for the current Issue of Mo
("lure's magazine, has laid the foun
dation unon which tlie local press,
hostile to the democratic party head
ed by William J. (laynor, has bum up
the charge while the rvpublican-f us
ion orators and the supporters of W.
K. Hearst have found new fuel for
an already healed campaign.
The article is printed Jn McClure's
under a sub-title which says:
"The daughters of the poor a
plain story of the development of
New Yor k City as a leading center of
the white slave trade of the. world
under Tammany 1 lull."
Sample of Charge.
And this is a sample of the charges
made :
"The story of the Introduction of
this lOiiiopeun business into New
York, under tin- protection of Tam
many Hall's p.ditleal organization,
would seem incredible if It wire not
thoroughly substantiated by the rec
ords of recent municipals exposures
in' half a dozen great American ci
ties, by two Independent Investigat
ions by th.. United Ht4-uviinMtt
during the'past year, and by the com
mon knowledge of Hie people of the
Kant side tenement district of New
York, whoso daughters and friends'
daughters have been chielly exploited
by it
"The operation of this system has
a double inllucnce upon our large ci
ties, oil the one side. It has preiil
(Continued un page four.)
010 COTTON CONCERN
HOST PROVE THAT IT IS
NOT GIGANTIC TRUST
Prominent Men Included
in Bill, But Names are
Withheld for Present.
TO IMiOBK DISTKIC
OUTHRIE. Okla.. Oct. 2:!. Indict
ments were formally filed lure this
afternoon i barging three of the larg
est cotton purchasing, ginning and
oil concerns of Oklahoma with alleged
violations of the federal and state
anti-trust laws. Tlve defendants an'
the Itoughrton and Douglas company;
W. II. Coyle company and the Lawton
Cotton company
firms which ( ontrol
at b-ast twelv
other smaller corpor-
ations.
The indictments will, it is said, af
fect seventy-five persons Including
some of the most prominent men In
tin- state. Their names will not be
made public until warrants have been
secured.
The Oklahoma larfs provide either
a tine or imprisonment. The indict
ments were returned following a
grand jury invcHtigation that has been
proceeding here under the direction
of Attorney-' ! neral Charl.-s West of
Oklahoma 1-ollowing the returning of
Ho- indictments this afternoon. Mr.
Went saiil that he would continue
probing over the entire cotton dis
tri t of i iklaliomn.
iiorvv sentenced.
PLAOCEMINE. I.. Oct. 53 Fa
loan Roiivv. who shot and killed
Professor Van Iiigen when the latt
was starting on his bridal tour about
a year ago, was today sentenced to
serve nine v.-ars in the state peniten
tiary. Itouvy was a rival of Van In
gen for the hand of the young womat
w he. become Mrs. Van Ingen only :
f. w hours before he was killed.
cotton seed for fi'ki,.
ATLANTA. flu.. Oct. 23 Through
the efforts of the Interstate' Cotton
Si ed Crushers' association. Northern
exhibitors at the Atlanta hore show,
n-h'eh cloned last night have agreed
to make a trial of cotton seed meal
as food for their hest blooded stork
TRAGEDY MARS HIS
VISIT TO DALLAS
Soldier Bayonets Man Who
Was Pressing In to Get
Glimpse of Visitor
DAI-LAS. Texas. Oct. 23. Presi
dent Taft arrived at 6.30 o'clock thin
afternoon after a fast run by special
train from Houston, where he spent
three hours Ihla morning. He was tak
en Immediately to the. state fair
grounds where he made an open air
speech to a throng which filled the
race track grand stand and spread far
out In every direction. Mr. Tuft was
so hoarse that he could -be heard on
ly a short distance, despite heroic ef
forts on his part. He spoka again,
briefly tonight at a banquet tendered
U him at the Oriental hotel, and re
tired on his train preparatory to leav
ing early tomorrow morning for St.
Louis. From .St. lyiuis, on Monday uf
ternon. the president will begin a
pilgrimage of four days and live
nights down the Mississippi river to
New Orleans.
Must Kcfp In I'nu'tlcc.
The president begun to grow husky
after his speech at Corpus Christ I
yesterday and broke down alm.ist com
pletcly during his address at Hous
ton this morning when he tried to
make himself heard to a crowd which
tilled four intersecting streets for two
blocks In ac h direction According to
Dr. Itli hardstoti. tin- president's phy
sician, tile hoarseness Is due in large
part to the let-up in speech making
which came during the president's
lsil to bis brother's ranch and he
pi edicts that the vocal chords will
round to in a day or so. l' to this
lime (he president's voice has kept In
splendid shape.
- "i. was sukd today," said Hie presi
dent, at the fair grounds, "If 1 had
any doubt by Ibis time about Texas
!. ing a part of the 1'nlted Stales. I
replied that the only doubt I had
wafi whether the union was not part
r Texas."
Soldier I'scd llllvonot.
An unfortunate incident of the
president's trip to Dallas was the
(Continued on page six.)
DETROIT TIGERS WILL
TO PLAf NATIONAL GliE
Will Play in Clmttiuinnpi
ami Tampa en Their Way
Down to Havana.
COM! WILL NOT (10.
DETROIT. Mlsh., Oct. 2". With
outfielder Matty Mefntyre in the role
f manager a dozen members of the
Detroit American league champion
baseball team left here tonight for
Havana, Cuba, to meet two Cuban ball
una In a series of twelve gam'
The American league champions will
measure their aiililiy wnn tne na
vana i or Keels anil -ne Aimnnoares
or nines or Havana. Aiinougn mi
am will be without the services of
oultletuers I ooi) ano . rawioro. wno-
liitting played such a prominent pat
in .he winning of the American league
pennant ny tne local nun, manage!
M Intyrr- believes that he will present
:e strongest line up of any American
am which has ever played In Cuba.
In place of Cobb catcher ISecken-
di.rf will cover right field for the
arnstormers" while D. Jones wi'I
1,11 Crawford's regular place at ren-
tortieid. with -M i iniyre in im. rirsi-
hescman Tom Jones will not make th
trio but Oeorge Moriarty, who has
had experience at first base will eov
the initial sack during the Cuban se
ries Delchanty and Rush will play
in their accustomed places at second
base and shortstop. D'f.eary will play
third. Schmidt and Stanage will do
the catching with Mullin. premier
rdti her of the American league and
I,, liv. lt and Willett as the pitchers.
The ball players left here tonight
for Chattanooga. Tenn . where thev
will nlav on Monday. Thev leave nf-
tcr this game for Jacksonville. Fla..
t,, play Tuesday and Wednesday, pro-
dimr thence to Tampa for one
game on Thursday.
They will leave Tampa Thursday
niuht fur Havana arriving In time to
rdav a game on Saturday
Interut In baseball Is reported to
be intense in Havana and the Amer
ban league champions evpected to
piay before tremendous crowds.
PALMETTO STATE WILL WAGE WAR
A GA INST THE STANDARD OIL CO.
Is Alleged That Octopus Is Violating Recent Act Which Prohibits Discriminations
Between Cities and Makes Violation Punishable By Heavy Fines.
CHARLESTON, 8. C. Oot. 23. At
the hist session of the general assem
bly an act was passed to prohibit
unfair commercial discrimination be
tween different sections, communi
ties or localities, or unfair competi
tion, und providing penalties there
fore.
Those guilty of nny violation of the
act ure "liable, for a penalty of not
less than $500 or more than $6, 00(1
to be recovered at the stilt of the
state In the court of common pleas
of any county In tle stale.
It Is uiulurstooa f bat ili attorney
general has now In preparation a
suit under the terms of this act
atralnst tho Standard Oil company up
on tho complaint of the manager of
tho Charleston Oil company, which
was incorporated In 1909 with an au
thorized capital stock of $3,000. The
prlnclpnl office of this company is
near the city of Charleston and Its
business is the selling the products of
petroleum und more especially the
products commonly konwn as kero
sene, oil. This company has establish
ed a plant, erected storage tanks, pur
chased lta slock of kerosene oil and
paid the license required by law for
T
OF BEING ENTIRELY DRY
Citizens lYtiton Aldermen
to (J rant Drug Stores
License.
DURHAM. X. , Oct. 2.1. The pro
hibition question In Durham will ho
opened tonight at soma subsequent
meeting of the board of aldermen, up
on the strength of drug store peti
tions for license to sell whiskey upon
prescription.
Since July of 1908 there has been
no whiskey legally sold by any Insti
tution of any kind here. When the
aldermen took license away almost
by a party vie. they almost gave the
republicans a good Issue In the cam
paign, but the best republicans of
them all. voted for revoking the li
cense and cutting out whiskey alto
gether. It was freely predicted that
the. town couldn't get along without
it. but it has struggled through it
somehow Tlie dryness of Durham
haH b.en aim "i-t parching.
The move, as it now appears, has
no political significance. Tho present
board of al ermen gave to drug stores
the right of selling cold drinks and
cigars on Sunday, something of which
they had b.i n bereft sometime. The
next predicted move was the whiskey
prescription matter, and It Is hen-.
None happen to know when the mat
ter will be iMiated.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 23. Forecast
for North Carolina: Fair and colder
Sunday; Monday fair; high northwest
winds, diminishing.
m
the transaction of the buslneaa for
which It was organised, the telling of
kerosene oil and gasoline In the city
of Charleston.
Vut Down Irlwt.
According to the complaint In this
suit the Htandard OH company wo
engaged for many yearn before the
establishment of Dm Charleston Oil
company In the business of aellJiig
kerosene oil and gasoline In the city
and vicinity of Charleston; that when
It became known that tho Charleston
Oil company Intended to entor the
field, the Standard Oil concern, which
bud. for a. yar or nmr JMnwi 'flrlllnit
oil In this city at the prion of eloven
cents tho gallon, reduced the prloe
ffom eleven cents to ten cent the
gallon. This reduction, it Will be al
leged, was made; for the purpose of
deterring the Charleston oil aomjny
from entering Into competition with
the Standard Oil company here. Not
withstanding this reduction In the
price of oil tho Charleston Oil com
pany was organised and began busi
ness about the 29th of September of
the current year, offering lta oil at the
price of ten cents tho gallon In quan
tities of twenty gallons and over. On
the ll!th of October the Htandard Ol)
GOVERNMENT TAKES UP
1
Will Send Its Representa
tives to Meeting Held at
Columbia, S. C.
WASHINOTO.V, Oct. 23. -An Inves
tigation of pellagra which has de
veloped most rapidJy In the South re
cently will shortly be made by offi
cers of the public health and marine
hospital service, and of the army.
Captains Joseph V. Bller and Henry J,
Nichols tit the medical corpa of the
army have already been selected for
(hi work. A meeting of the investi
gating commission will take placa at
Columbia. H. C, November 3.
The secretary Of the treasury In his
last annual report, Invited attention
to the prmhitble public Importance of
pellagra and recommended unremit
ting study of every phase of the
problem of the disease. Surgeon-General
Wyman of the public health and
marine hospital service, some time
ago announced that pellagra had been
a menace to the health of Italy for
more than a hundred years.
It was first reported in this coun
try from Alabama in 1907 and the
health authorities now estimate the
number of cases In the United States
at over 5,000. The surgeon-general re
ported that there was a universal and
profound conviction that tho disease
wiu In some way related to the con
sumption of musty corn and that on
account of the great severity and high
mortality of pellagra and because. oT
its expected relationship to corn It
was rapidly becoming a matter of na
tional health and economic Import-
KKFORMER8 CARRY CRCSADE
ST. PASri T. i . Oct 23 The In
ternational reform bureau has taken
up the matter of race track conces
sions In Cludad Juarez, opposite va
f'aso and in attempting lo have the
state department Intercede with Mex
ico In the Interests of having tne con
cession annulled. This same bureau
Inaugurated a campaign against rao-
inir In lower California, which was
successful, asserting, as they do here,
that the race course was estaousnea
Just over the international llnn to draw
. . .n DH.1 tllit'ueki und VL't
'evade American laws.
company alltl further reduced the
price of oil from ten cent to nine
centa the gallon, without making,
however, a similar reduction In the
prlue of oil old by It In other cttle
ilmlhu-ly situated.
AH VnrleUn of Price.
In aclllng He oil at the prloe of
nine cents the gallon In the city of
Oharloaton, it will be clttlmed that
the Btttiidurd Oil la selling oil In tbl
city at ft. lower rate than 1 charged
by It fur the same oil In other Cltlea
almUwly altualed. tnd thl reduction
It will b charged, haa been trtttda to
the purpone of Ueatroylng tha business
of tho Oharleaton Oil company. In
aupport of thla allegation the Char
leston oil company Is now, and has
been for some tlm, selling keroene
Oil from lta delivery wagons within
the aamo part of tho state aa Charlea
ton for the following prlcea:
In Darlington at eleven centa; In
Orangeburg at eleven cenls: In Bt.
Oeorg'a at twelve and a half centa;
In Klngstreu at eleven centa; In Harn
well at ten and a, half centa; In Flor
ence. Camden and In Summervllle at
eleven cents.
ASKS COURT TO RELEASE
Prominent Nashville Wom
an Macks Grave Charge
Against Her Husband.
VAaiivrr t tt Tnn.. Oct. 23. -Mrs.
Ellin Plunkett, wife of Dr. W. D.
Plunkett, alleges in an application
tr.r a irii ,,t habeas corpus filed to
day In tho Circuit court that ahe la
Illegally confined In the City View
sanitarium, near thl city, tnrougn
im .r homtntr of her husband and oth
ers; who ah says have thua far ob
tained eorne of her property ana e-
pect to obtain the remainaer.
i- r ii pinnkfltt is well known
In NahvllU, prominent socially and
religiously.
Mr. t'lunkett Is also well known
in Kjuahviii. nnd elsewhere. Bhe is a
sister of the late Thomas Bwope, of
Kansas City, Mo.. Mr. Rwope was sev
eral times over a millionaire. Only a
few days ago a copy of his will pro
bated at Kansas City was put on rec
ord In the Davidson county court.
xi.,nb.,tt Im one of the benefl-
claries under the will, the estimated
value of the property left her Deing
1100,000.
At the conclusion of a brief hear
ing Judge Matthews continued the
case for a finel hearing till 2 o'clock
Saturday afternoon, November 0, and
ordered that Mrs. Plunkett be re
moved from tho City View sanitari
um and placed at the home of Mra
Janie M. Bakr, on Eighth avenue,
South.
IJT BISHOP HARE DEAD.
ATI-ANTIC CITT, N. J.. Oct. 23
The Right Rev. William Hobart Hare,
huhnn of the F.nlaromtl diocese of
a,,(h rtnirnta. died here tonight after
a long Illness. He was sevenr.y-r.wo
year of age.
RECEIVER FOR AGENCY CO.
COLUMBIA, H. C. Oct. 23. Circuit
Ju.lsre Memmlnger today appointed
Wade Hampton Cobb, solicitor of thla
circuit, as receiver for tha property
of th Carolina Agency company. The
receiver' bond woe fixed at 110,000.
The value of the property over which
thft receiver will have control amounts
t about f AO.OOO.
DOESN'T UNDERSTAND
SUCH HOSPITALITY
Columbia's Form of Entertain
Ing a Novelty In The
State, he Declares
fOI.lTMWA. S. C. Oct. M. BecauM
he was asked to pay $10 for a plata
at the luncheon which will b given
to "President Taft on the occasion of
his visit to thla city November I, Ben.
ator I). R. Tillman haa declined to
attend the luncheon, and stutea that '
ht; may not serve on the reception
committee. Senator Tillman aaya that
while Columbia ta to be th nominal
host of Mr. Taft, the city axpeoU tha
state at large to pay for tha prealdent'a
entertainment, , " : A
Tha letter In which Senator Tillman
mukea these atatementa la addressed
to tha secretary of tha Columbia
chamber of commerce, who wrote
asking Mr. Tillman If ha would attend
tha luncheon. '
Senator Tillman aaya ha received an
Invitation ta the luncheon and with
It an Invitation to aend 110 check
Opposes Innovation. '
Mr. Tillman goea oni '
"Thla may be a naw way of cdn
Lductlng rntertalnmente In South Car
onna. inai win nno ravor in ina future,
(Jut u ta wholly contrary to a' I the
ldta of courtesy and. hospitality that
t aver heard of In thla state and 1 do
hut propose to lend my aid or coun
tenance to It" '
Mr. Tillman In concluding hl let
ter aaya since "It aeema to be the of
flrlal aeheme to kr tnenv to meet llw
president and have them pay the fx
pense I -iall ' you emphatically. no I
will not attend tha luncheon."
Governor Ansel and tha other mem
bera of tha committee In charge of
affaire have accepted invitations and
paid for tickets, a have also more
than ona hundred prominent resldenta
of South Carolina, outside of Colum
bia, Including United Btatea Senator
Smith and Chief Justice Jonea.
E
SEIECARSOFTKl
Well Known Chattanooga
Brand of Soda Fountain
"Dope" Libelled. t
CMATTANOOOA1, Tenn., Oct. II.
An Information haa been filed by
United States District Attorney Fin
Isr.d, libeling a ear load of a widely
advertised soft drink, Tha grounds
for the libel, aa aet forth in tha in-,
formation are that the drink containa
caffeine.
Tha Information further alleges
that tha consignment libeled la mia
biended In that It doea not eontoln
th active principal which the govern
ment clalma la Indicated by the brand
on the barrela and that the caffeine
It containa la extracted from tea
leaves. Thla action la taken under th
government pure food law. Bamplf
were taken from tha libeled car and
sent under seal to the department of
...lnKra at W. nahlngtAn.
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BUCKET SHOP OPERATORS
Some' Who Were Caught On
Wrong Side of Market la
the List. i in, 1 1
WILMTNOTON, N. C Oct. SS.
dlctments were returned today In On
slow county Superior court against a,
doyen or more parties charged with
violation of the antl bucket shop Jaw
of North Carolina, The defendants In
,i... kin n-era cniirffed with being the
piiyera. sellers and those who "further.
M- the alleged transactions. nw
these were Kogers MeCuoa " t
Norfolk; U Harvey Son. Kinston,
N C.f O. W. Taylor: O. S. Cox: C. A.
Pettway: F. W. Hargett 8or Georgn
Hurst; George Bryantt N. B- Bneed
Sen. and A. P. Venter J. R. .Frank:
and B. W. Soblston, merchant and
farmer of Onalow county, N. C. It
is said that many of the defendants
aie not averse to' the Indictment as
Ihe urchaacr of cotton for future de
livery were caught on the wrong eldn
of the market. - -