THE WEATHER: SHOWERS ' i ' H-l U ' W 11 BJ1 11 1 . ,mi fl 1 I ' ' I MJ' X H For Election X IIJJ XkJXJ-JLi V: XJLJJUIJL2J VyJL JL- AZJJLUI . f 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 j r U00 . k . W 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.)