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VOL. XVVI. NO. 13.
SCIENTISTS FACE
GRAVE CRISIS IN
STETSON AFFAIR
Possibility That First Chuich
of New York May Secede
From Mother Church k
MUST EITHER DO SO
OR SUBMIT ENTIRELY
Committee of The Church Will
Report on Charges Again
st Their Leader
NEW YORK. Nov. 1. The Chris
tian Science cult faces a crisis In the
outcome of Thursday's meeting of the
1,800 members of the First Church of
Christ, Scientist, Ninety-sixth street j
and Central park, west, In this city. J
This la the wealthiest unci most pros- .
perous church of the cult. It was
founded by Mrs. Augusta Stetson and j
has been; controlled absolutely by her.
To this meeting a committee of in- i
nulry representing the church and
composed of seven trustees, headed
by E. F. Hatfield, will report the re
sult of an elaborate investigation Into
the charges upon which the director"
of the Mother Church at Poston
have disciplined Mrs. Stetson and her
leading practitioners. Upon this re
port the members will probably vote
to do one f two things, namely:
To acknowledge the truth of the
charges and yield obedience to the
Boston edict which must compel the
repudiation of Mrs. Stetson and her j
discredited practitioners; or
To repudiate the charges as un
true, the action of the Mother Church
as unwarranted, and Its assumption
of authority to superintend the spir
itual affairs of the New York church
as false and futile.
Among well informed Christian
Scientists the prevailing belief is that
Mrs. Stetson will triumph in the vote
to be recorded on Thursday after
noon, -..It Oi tint members of the First
Church of Christ, Scientist, will haVf
voted practically to accede from the
Christian Science organisation . a "dl
ecte4, .-ostensibly, hyMJUy Bak ixa
Eddy f in- person; and controlled ac
tually by the directors of the Mother
Church.
Mrs. StPtHim Heady to Face Issue.
M Ktfitnnn lu ,1 nil 1)1 tons rentlV to
meet this issue, it is an open secret I
that she aspires to the supreme lead
ership of the Christian Science cult.
It "Is equally well known that sin
(Continued on poire four.)
TIES HIE SETTLING
LENT KAlHi
Now Authorities are Trying
to Explain Why the Sol
diers Were Called
MAKE A STATEMENT
JACKSON, Ky., Nov. 1. Jackson
and llreathitt county are quiet un
tho surface tonight after an exciting
day which witnessed anions other in
cidents the arrival of militia from
Lexington and its departure later for
Croekettsville, the stronghold of for
mer Sheriff Edwin A. Callahan. The
streets were thronged with armed
mountain men today, while groups
of citizens discussed the tense polit
ical situation and others gathered at
the station to await the arrival of
more troops from Cynlhiana.
Circuit Judge J. P. Adams, repub
lican candidate for re-election, who
made the request on Governor Will
son for militia to preserve order in
Breathitt county during tomorrow's
election made the following statement
tonight:
"In -requesting the troops of the
governor, I was heeding the earnest
appeals of the good people to take
immediate action to prevent a con
flict and loss of life and to preserve
peace and good order among the peo
ple." ATJL-ROrXI) "SHOOTING REE."
MERIDIAN. Miss.. Nov. 1. In an
affray today between M. L. Atwood,
a white matt, and Julia Woodward
and Lira Henderson, two negro wom
en. Atwood was shot and instantly
killed. Liza Henderson was shot
through the right arm. Julia Wood
ward was badly cut on the head by a
pistol In the hands of Atwood. The
fight started over a bill of which
It is alleged the negroes ocd At
wood. NEAR REER LICENSES.
RALKIGIT, N- C, Nov. 1. The
boc.rd of aldermen today granted li
censes to neteii (inn" iu ......
and cancelled all .other licenses. One
of the aldermen ueruireu several urus
tores sold whiskey without i resorption.
TO RECEIVE THEIR
SENTENCE AT BAR
IE
T
Unusual Proceeding Soon to
be Witnessed in Highest
Court of U. S.
IS SEQUEL OFTHE
CHATTANOOGA "BEE"
Charged With Contempt of
Supreme Court Men Call
ed For Sentence
WASHINGTON, Nov. 1. The un
utyi.il proceeding of an arraignment
for sentence at the bar of the Su
preme court of the iTnlt.-d states wi;i
be witnessed two weeks from today in
accordance with the unnounrcment
made today in the cases of Joseph II.
Shipp, of Chattanooga, Tenn., and
live co-defendants, charged with con
tempt. The court today denied mo
tions for a rehearing of the cases.
The cases originated in the courts
deciding In March, lUOii, to consider
the appeal of a negro named Ed.
Johnson from a verdict of the Ten
nessee courts, holding him guilty and
sentencing him to be hanged on a
charge of criminal assault. The night
after the determination of the Su
preme court to review the proceed
ings In the case was wired to Chatta
nooga, where Johnson was confined
In Jail, a number of people stormed
the Jail and took him out and lynched
him.
Court Iiiccn.seil.
The court was much Incensed over
the lynching, and at its Instance the
attorney-general instituted proceed
ings against Shlpp, who. was the
sheriff, and the Jailor, and twenty
live others supposed to have been im
plicated In the lynching,, charging
them with contempt oif the Supremo
court, .Many of the accused were exonerated-.
and in the end only six
ware found gollty.- These were Sher
Iff Shipp, his deputy. Jeremiah Gib
son, who was the Jailer, fait her Wil
liams, Nick Nolan, Henry I'udgett,
and William Mayes, residents of Chat
tanooga. The lincling of the court was an
nounced in May just before the close
of the last term of the court, but all
tl)e defendants entered motions for a
(Continued on page four.)
FOR THE FRESH i Hi
Exta One (Jot Away With
llic Crowd But Is Later
Taken Back
CIIONK SUPPER HOUR
OliEKNVU.LE, S. C Nov. 1. Six
negro prisoners, including John Cuf
lic, under sentence for the murder of
his wife, broke jail here early to
night .and made good their escape. A
seventh, Will Mcl'ullough, also gained
his freedom but was recaptured be
fore he got out of the city.
J. tiler Phillips had gone up to the
third story, where the negroes were
confined, .to si., the prisoners their
supper, :lnd as he opened the big
door leading into the cage one of th'
negroes knocked him down and the
others rushed nut. The ntni who
dealt the blow also attempted to es
cape, hut the jailer held to him tin-
fil help arrived.
I.ASSlTEK'S PALL HEARERS.
WASHINGTON. Nov. 1. To repre-
s. nt the house of representatives 111
Die funeral of Representative Prnneis
I!. Lassiter of the fourth Virginia dis
trict, at Petersburg, Va.. eleven o'clock
Wednesday morning, the sergeant nt
arms today announced the following
committee: "The entire Virginia del
egation in the house, together with
In i refsentatives Graham of Pennsyl
vania: Thomas of North Carolina:
lii.rdwick of Georgia; Kronmilbr of
Maryland; Goulden of New York and
Austin of Tennessee and Assistant Kcr
geant at Arms Weber.
FATAL Ol'AHRKIi.
DANVILLE. Va., Nov. 1. Edward
Powell, white, was shot and fatally
injured in an altercation with Wil
liam Dudley S. Smith, of Alta Vista.
Vr -Sunday night, in the. northern
part of Pittsylvania county, and
is dying this afternoon. The
shooting occurred at a general
row at a negro's place, where
liquor Is alleged to. have been
unlawfully sold. I'wpII Va
farmer aged thirty-five and leaves a
widow and five children.
OFSNECOUR
ASHEYILLE, N.
MR. TAFT, CIRCUS,
BALLOONS GAVE
IL
-Uncle Joe" Was Billed
Failed to Appear at
The Show
But
RAILROADS WERE
REALLY IN CLOVER
Thirty Thousand Pleasure
Seekers Take Day Off
From 1 heCrlnd
JACKSON. Mlw.. Nov., 1. Presi
dent Taft, a three ring circus, a gula
day at the slate fair, a balloon as
cension and a thrilling imnichiite leap
gave Jackson today n share of honors
unique and unparalleled In the his
tory of the old city. "Uncle Joe" Can
non was to have been an ailed feature
In the city, tonight, but ho had been
summoned to the east on business
and pavwed through Jackson this af
ternoon without stopping. Secretary
of War Dickinson rejoined the presi
dential party this afternoon.
President Tall left at midnight for
Columbus, Miss., the birthplace of
Secretary Dickinson. He will spend
three hours there and will reach Hlr
mlngham, Ala., at 7.10 tomorrow
evening.
The railroads handled thirty thou-.
and excursionists In to Jackson today
and they were fairly saturated with
pleasure. It was an event of most of
their lives to sew a president of the
United States for Mr. Taft Is the first
one ever to visit Jackson. Mr. Mc
KinlCy pasted through the city on one
occasion but made only a few remarks
from the end of his car.
The president had a long but Ideas
ant lay. He seemed to enjoy the big
crowds that choked the streets and
gn-.e him a demonstrative welcome
wherever he went.
In Noel's Ark.
He lunched with Gov. an Mrs. Noel
anl met a number of the state cttl
jseivi. He spent an hour going through
the various exhibits at the fair and
wn particularly Interested In the ag
ricultural displays. These displays so
impressed the president that he devot
ed most of Ms address to the Impar
lance of farming and to a depreciation
of the tendency of young men to drift
to cities, where they think they
be "where the wheels go round".
the late afternoon the president had
an hour's automobile ride alsiut the
city and then enjoyed a brief period
of rest before attending a banquet In
Ills honor.
FEMALE COLLEGE CLOSED
BT A STRANGE DISEASE
WHICHPUZZLESEXPERTS
Authorities Say that They
Are Totally tillable to
Assign Cause
(URLS (1 01 NO HOME
LAG ItANC.K, Ga., Nov. 1. Follow
ing the strange epidemic of sickness
which developed last week In the
study body of the l-agrange I'cmale
college witli an attendance of mart,
than two hundred, the board of trus
tees decided today to close the insti
tution for three weeks. Besides the
many girls In the school who were
stricken, almost all of the others left
for their homes.
In a statement Issued tonight by
the board of trustees It Is slated that
"it Is impossible to say what the
cause of the sickness was, whether
general or local." They announce
that every precaution will be taken
in the matter of nnitatlon, fumiga
tion, and improvement of the hygienic
conditions of the college.
I'lve local physicians issued a slgn-
i ed statement in which they declare
j that there Is no further danger from
. the canst which resulted In the III
, m a anil saying that reports sent out
greatly exaggerated the conditions at
the college.
KILLKIt lY KXPLOKIOV.
j niJISTOI Tenn., Nov. 1.
jclal from Pennington Gap. V
A Spe
, states
that A. J. Deaton was Instantly kill
ed nhil William Carroll seriously In
jured by a boiler explosion at Pur
sell. I.ee county, Va. Dealon who re
cently resided In Preathitt county.
Kentucky, Is survived by his wife and
one child.
RATIFY AtTION.
LYNCHBURG, Va. Nov. I A
meeting of the stockholders of the
Southern Fire Insurance company
here today, ratified the action of the
directors in September to take steps
to dissolve, Tha biMimxwi has been
re-Insured without loss to policyholders.
JACKSON CA ADA
C, TUESDAY MOWN I NO,
A
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GOTHAM'S CAMPAIGN CLOSES AND
Gaynor, Bannard and, Hearst Are Busy Fitting the Laurels to Their Noble Brows.
All the Campaign
NEW YORK. Nov. 1. New York's
triajigular political campaign endud
tonight. William J. Gaynor, the
democratic candidate for mayor.
made, his final speech in Harlem.
Otto T. Barnard, candidate of the re
publican and fusion forces, dosod his
campaign with a noonday address on
the water front and a brief talk to
negro voters at a downtown Baptist
church In the evening. Hearst, the
Independent candidate, wound up his
formal speech-making last night at
Madison Square garden, but soma of
the lesser light of his independent
campaign burneiK fed' Hre and es
poused his cause with a llnal burst of
oratory at open air meetings in the
four corners of Manhattan tonight,
while many or the minor cnndldatCH
ajjW,on both democratic nnd republican
Jntttckets had meetings of their own In
the doubtful districts.
Omlldeiice EvcrywlK'rt.
In each of the rival camps com
plete confidence in the result was ex
pressed. Charles K. Murphy
Tammany lender, said:
the
We are well satisfied with the re-
suit of the democratic campaign,
Gaynor will receive more votes than
both the other candidates for mnyor
and he will curry the whole demo-
MARCH COTTON PASSES
THE FIFTEEN CENT MARK
Rig Advance 'Follows Weak
Opening and Prosperity
Iioonis for the Fanner
NEW YOliK. Nov. L In spite of
enormous realizing sales today's cotton
market showed a strength that sur-
piined the hull leaders and sent all
deliveries to In., high records for the
sermon with .M.n. Ii selling at 15.10 and
May at U 15, the highest figures ever
reached at this season of the year
since the Civil war. The big advance
followed a weaker opening. There was
little shown of aggressiveness on the
part of the r. ognlzed lenders hut
Chicago houses were buyers and there
was a big public business on the ad
vance from 14 the lowest point of
the morning, to 15.15 for May. The
market closed in in within two or three
points of tie- highest for the day.
VICTORY CLAIMED
BY BOTH PARTIES
HALTIMiilii: Nov., L Lead era of
both parties claim victory In the elec
tion tomorrow and quote widely dif
ferent figures With chief Interest In
the promised amendment to the stale
constitution designed to disfranchise
the negroes. He republicans say the
measure will l- defeated In the city
and state In K..000 while the demo
crats assert Dial the amendment will
bo adopted bv S.000 or over In the
whole state.
8HOWER&
WASHINGTON, Nov., I. Forecast:
North Carolina; Fair In eaM. showers
and cooler in western portion Tuesday,
winds, .
NOVEMBER 2, 1909.
Letter From Son John!
EVERYBODY CLAIMS THE EARTH
Managers Making Sweeping
gers Offered and Taken.
crstlc ticket with him In every bor-
Lough.
Herbert Parsons, the republican
leader, said;
"Our light against Tammany mis
rule has won. Reports from every
assembly district in the greater rlty
show that Ilannard wilt be elected
by fifty thousand plurality. The en
tire fusion ticket will go through
with a landslide vote."
Charles H. Qehrlng, for tho Hearst
forces, said:
"Hearst will get more than three
hundred voteswinning by 'ove out
hundred thousand plurality o-ver hc
Tammany candidate. I look for a
landslide to Hearst."
All three sides agreed tonight that
about six hundred thousands would
be cast tomorrow, out of the total
registration of 644,500.
Kavy ltrts.
About $126,000 was wagered on
the result of the mayoralty contest
In New York today. In the financial
j district the prevailing odds favored
unynor ny about 1 to 1.
j Dunmird, In his closing appeal to
he voters at his noon meeting today,
sald:
j "I have fought this campaign
I against Tammany Hall, against cor
WILL PROBABLY SAY THAT
PEftflY fiHCHEDTHE POLE
Keport ()f the National Geo
graphical Society Will be
Favorable
WASHINGTON, Nov. 1. -Comman
der Hubert K. Peury practically was
endorsed as a discoverer of the north
pole by the National Geographic so
ciety today.
Kvery indication points to the fact
that Peary's personal statements be
fore the sub-committee of the socie
ty today convinced Us members that
he had set foot on the top of the
world. The explorer has been In
vited to deliver the first of his pub
lic lectures before the society here
in November 12. and It was pointed
out tonight that had the proofs been
open to the slightest quoetlon he
would not have been asked to appear.
It was announced tonight that a
public statement of the findings of
the society would probably be forth
coming on Wednesday. This rapidity
in determining the genuineness of
Peary's claim that ho reached the
pole on April 6 lust Is taken to mean
that there Is no difference of opinion
imong the three experts who are
delving Into his arctic data and that
they are convinced of his honesty.
WORKING TO GET
PRICES TOGETHER
CHARLOTTE, N. C, Nov., 1. -For
the purpose of ascertaining If a parity
cannot, bo established between the
price of cotton and the selling price ol
yarns a committee representing 'the
North Carolina cotton Manufacturer
will leave for New York city Thursday
to hold a conference with tho yarn
commission men. C. K. Hutchinson,
of the Nlms anil Woodlawn mills ol
Mount Holly Is chairman of this com
mittee and ha will select the other
membersT ""The mill men "beltevt that
the commission men, who hold a strat
egic rosittn N-t ween the manufac
turers and the buyer, can aid the
southern mills In putting yarns e-n
more, profitabl y baabv.the selling" prl"
.t thU time being ruinous to . the
manufacturer, i j ...
Boasts. Heavy Wa-
, . '
ruption, waste, graft and improper
n..i ii i
be solely for the public good and not
for plunder. Potty graft must b
tamped out. I have favored as lib
eral personal liberty ns ) consistent
with law and order.
- "I believe that I can serve you and
that tomorrow you will choose m bus.
in ess man, a man who will attend to
the duties of the office to which h
la elected," , . t , , , -
Tho final word la the, Hearst cam
paign came In a brief statement from
tht Heft ftsaftquatterv xpressing
confidence la the result and promis
ing a clean and Independent govern
ment of the city for four years to
come, , .;
There were big round tips of al
leged repealers as a result of the In
vestigations of the registration roll
by the state superintendent of elec
tions and his men, One man, con
victed of illegal registration, was sen
tenced to three years In King Hlng,
while two others got Indeterminate,
sentence of from six month to four
years. A special grand jury In the
borough of Queens (Long Island) re
turned fifty Indictments tonight
- ""'-"'-' irnn -s-n-Lfi-'iii njuvu-injrj)r
(Continual on page three).!
After Altercation in Which
Conductor is Wounded
He Fires at Fleeing Negro
AUGUSTA. On., Nov. 1. Conductor
Lock Montgomery of the Augusta
(Southern tonight at Keysvllle, twenty
nix miles below here, shot and killed
John Williams, a negro passenger on
the train. The conductor and the
poksenger had an altercation, and the
conductor received a flush wound In
the side, before the negro Jumped
from the train and ran. The conduc
tor's aim was good, however, and the
negro was dropped. This Is the sec
ind shooting on this road during the
pan two years. In which the conduc
tor and a negro passenger had fights,
the lust time being when Conductor
James Mason was killed by a negro
who was never apprehended. Conduc
tor Montgomery tonight was not in
capacitated for the duty as the flesh
wound was not very deep.
AJfOTTIER OVS PLAY,
Al'Gl'STA, Ga., Nov. 1. Kdward
Jackson, switch engineer for the Oeor
la railroad tonight shot in the right
eye and killed John T). Hudson, switch
freight conductor for the Charleston
md Western Carolina railway a a
result of a dispute between the men
n.-r track rights.
HOW HE FLEW.
HAMMONSPOflT, N. Y.. Nov. 1.
Charles K. Hamilton, a pupil of Glenn
I. Curtiss, flew twenty-nve minutes
md twenty-flv'e second today In, the
Curtiss Hudson-Fulton aeroplane en-
ircllng the aerodrome nineteen times.
"Ills Is within a few mlnutee of equal
ling the longest flight that Mr. Curtiss
hue made.
HEAVY RECEIPTS.
nOANOKFf. Va., Nov., 1. -At the
general office of the Norfolk and)
Western railway company today It was
said the gross receipt of the road for
the month of Septenfber were the lar
fest III the tilwory of the company, the
figures IM-Ing 1 3, 178,000,
PRICK FIVE CENTS.
TO SHOOT AERIAL
T
WANDERERS Willi
HENEAVY CANFJOTJ
Department Devising Ways
And Means Against Aerial
Invasion .
EXPERIMENTS DUE
AT SANDY HOOK
Three Balloons of Small Size
Will be Bought For tar
get Practice
WASIIINCITON, Nov. I. To devise
nine means of defense against aerial
Inu lion, the bureau of ordinance ot ;
the war department. It wue learned to
day Is about to begin ft series of ex
po linen ts of hooting at air craft with
cannon. . ,s
The experiment wilt be carried on
nt the Bandy Hook proving grounds '
In New Jersey, Captain Charlus lxi
Chandler, of the signal corps, left
Washington i today tot New York to
make arrangement for the balloon
to be used In the teat. , ; g ,
i To Buy Balloons,
I Three balloon of small slae will be
purchased, and It I for Ihe purpose,
of inspecting and preparing for the
ehrt of them that Captain Chandler
wai ordered to New York.. ,
. At the beginning or the work, only
gtis bag will be used but' later, thu
Ik Id of operation may bo expanded.
No on -will occupy the bakt of thr
U.! loons wVn firing 1 In precess,
No tt of thl nature have ever
i urvn mau in Aiiiisi I it iiii en mr tin
been made In America and as far as
of till character have -been tarried
on by gun manufacturer In Uermany,
The 1 knowledge gained thereby ha
resulted In the manufacture of balloon
cannons, ,-',;
I Thaf teats at Band T I no It tulll tin
itii.de with cannons now in use and
such hew design , will, be drafted- a
the experiments show may, be wise.
hiunal Corps' Work.
While ordinance, official are en
deavoring to devise mean to reduce
the effectiveness of .an, enemy's bal
loons and aeroplanes, '.he slunal corps
will be engaged In solving the prob
lem of navigating the air with . greater
ascuranco against successful Attack
from the land. Experiment win
shortly be conducted In mctHIng the
motor of the Wright aeroplane own
cd by the government m that flight
may be mad a nolslessly a possible.
Atttmpt to communicate by wireless
telegraphy from an aeroplane will also
bo mndo. ,
GOVERNMENT PUZZLES
Internal .Revenue Depart
ment Wonders What is ,
Being Done With it .
CONSUMPTION OHOWS
WASHINGTON, Novt overn
ment officials In the Internal revenue
department are puzzled to know what
Is being done with all the whiskey
thut Is being taken from bond, r AI-1
though It Is the common opinion of
those who have observed life In the
large dtle that public drunkenness
is not near a prevalent a It used
to be, the strange fact remain that
the consumption of whiskey la stead
ily on the Increase, and that, too, at
a rate out of proportion to the
growth of population.
Inasmuch a the farmer are-not,
using whiskey as a liquid fertiliser
for their crops, and Inasmuch, also,
as there is no record of the substitu
tion of whiskey for gasoline as a mo
tive power for automobile, the sus
picion I strong In the minds of gov
ernment expert that the American
people are not paying any too much '
attention, privately, to the prohibition; .
wave that wa supposed to he wep
Ing over the country. .Whether tho ;
actual per capita consumption ; Is
much larger than ueuat cannot yet
be accurately determined, bvi certain
it 1 that Bradstreet" and other com
mercial agencies report a substantial ,
Increase In the revenue of aaleinoda
by whiskey dealers.
Curiously en ugh the annual re
port of the Dlstlllerlce Securities cor
poration for year ended June JO Inst, ,
published thl week, show that de
spite the activity ot the prohibition
propagandists, th withdrawals of
whiskey for the period covered In the
report largely Increased. - Other sta
tistical fact are adduced to prove
thl. Return mad t the commis
sioner of Internal revenue how that
tha everage;annun..;,''Wjthdrawgjg of
whiskey from bond for the last eleven
years were 112,332.110 gallons, where
as the withdrawals In the fiscal year
just passed were 134,901,408 gallons
the largest ever recorded. . The
Continued on page three.)