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-I ' T I v rJ f THE THE WEATHER: FAIR A Citizen Want Ads Bring . : ''Result. v - .VOL. XXVII. NO. 104: IflTlBILL Kl LLEDJH HOUSE After Spirited Debate Stubbs Measure Loses by Heavy Vote WILMINGTON ASKS FOR LOCAL OPTION Ewart Bill Adding Teeth to State Anti-Trust Law Favorably Reported : RALKIOH, N C, Feb. 1, The ' Btubha bill to call a constitutional . convention for the revision of the North Carolina constitution was de feat In th bouse tonight , 6 to 22, after two hours argument, open - ed by Doughton of Allegheny against the convention and Turlington of Iredell , for it. $tubbs of Marlon, author of the bill. closed with a spirited apee-h for the convention. The other speakers were. Battle of Walts against the -convention, and Williams of 'Buncombe for, Roberta of Buncombe against the convention. When the house convened for the night session to consider tho Stubbs bill Mr. Stubbs sent forward amend-. menu providing that the convention GO If called shall net consider any amendment relative to prhlhltl9n. The convention shall not be In ses sion longer than thirty .days to for mulate proposed amendment, then adjourn ninety days and re-awemble to adopt or reject the measures pro posed, the whole session not to ex , ceed sixty days. The vote on these amendments was a tie 28 to 28 and Speaker Dowd cast the deciding vote In favor of the amendments. The bill then came up on second read ing and the speech making began, , Mr, Dougbton. opposing the conven tion. Insisted that the people and the .. business of the state should not be diverted with opening tho whole organic ' law to change. The " dem , ocratic party might be disrupted, on seriously hampered jn the campaign. . He wanted to enter .his solemn pro - test' against opening the etmstTtutlofi to- general change. " Mr. Turlington, advocating the bill. Insisted the convention would more than pay for Itself In empowering the legislature to change the state system, of taxation alone. Add "Teeth" to Trust I -aw. The Ewart bill, designed to Im part "teeth" to the North Carolina anti-trust law, received favorable re- , (Continued on Page Four) ATLiNTH BROKER CHASED BT FRIENDS IN SPEC! linTTOECIINE Has Recovered Both Rail road Bonds and Reason ' NO EXPLANATIONS SPAKTANBUr.O, P. C.. Feb. 1 After being pursued more than out hundred miles by his riend, Judge E. C. Kontz, of Atlanta, and KhcrifT I). D. Wllklns, of Shelby. N. C. part of the way In a special train. Tela mon Smith Cuyler. the wealthy cot ton broker who Jumped from a mov ing train at Kind's Mountain, N. C, Saturday night with $22,000 Itock Island bonds in bis possession and ' declared that he was being chased by detectives, was overtaken at Toecane, N. C, near the Tennessee line last night and brought to Spar tanburg this afternoon. He was badly bruised hut seemed to be rational. He said thet he Jumped from the trnin In the belief that it was about to stop nnd he cause he wanted to semi a t.'Ieffram 6 his mother, li'rs. Henry Hunt Smith, who is 111 in Atlanta. He struck his head, he said, and lost consciousness. He has a dim recol lection of having walked many miles and crossed many rn'lroad tracks but said he knew nothing clearly until he found himself kneeling over a stream of water bathing his head. Judge Kontz. wh.i Is with Cuyler "at a locaT hotel, would not permit Cuyler to sny nmthing further, on the ground that his nerves were in no condition for him to make statement Judge Kontz said how ever, that Cuyler had entirely recov ered his reason. Upon their retirn from Toecane they went to Rutherfordton and re covered the bonds from Mr. Carson, an attorney with whom Cuyler had entrusted them. Cuyler and Judge Kontz will re turn to Atlanta, tomorrow morning. Judge Kontx went o 8helby, N. C, upon learning that Cuyler had been arrested there on suspicion. Upon arriving, however, he found that Cuy ler had been relccscd and had left. Ooyler took a Seaboard Air Line train tmt Jumped off at Postlc. N. C. He 1 ten took a train on the Cnrollna, (Continued, on Fg Two) MYLIUS, DEFAMER OF ENGLAND'S KING TO PA Y PENALTY King George Barred by Statue From Appearing to Brand My us as His Calumniator. LONDON, Feb. 1. The report of ten repeated that King Oeorge, while a cadet In the royal academy, made a morganatic misalllnace with the daughter of Sir Michael Culrhe-Sey-mour was given complete official de nial In the highest court of England today. Edward F. Myllus. the local agent and distributor of The libera tor, a republican paper published in Paris, which revived the tale last No vember .was tried on u charge of se ditious libel, promptly, convicted and given a maximum penalty of twelve months Imprisonment, i In pronouncing sentence Lord Chief Justice Alverstono said that the pun- lfhmcnt was inadequate for one who had chosen a weapon for a personal attack upon his majesty from the use of which every honorable man would recoil. ' Annoyed the British The story of the now exploded ro mance hud been current for a long time, but It became especially Irri tating to British sensibilities follow ing King 5eorgo'i accession. As pub lished by Edward H. James, editor of The Liberator, it set forth that during" tho lifetime of the Duke t Clarence, his eldest brother, and be fore Oeorge became heir to the throne, the futures king visited Malta, where he fell in love with and mar ried Mary Elizabeth Culme-Seymour, eldest daughter of the admiral who was then stationed at Malta as com mander In chief of the Medlterahean squadron. This was supposed to he in 1890; but the admiralty records show mat me sing ma not noia an appoint ment on any Bhlp that visited Malta between the fall of 1888 and the sum mer of 1893. The marriage records of the Island of Malta were produced to prove that no such marriage had been recorded. Admiral Culme-Bey-mour Bwore that his two daughters, one of whom has sln'eo died, never had had an opportunity to meet his majesty, The admirars three sons gave similar testimony and Anally the daughter In question who is now the wife of Captain , N Nuplor,., entered the wit new be Mid declared that, ah had never seen the king but three times in her life. On the first occa sion she was 7 years of age. She was at Portsmouth wnen he called upon her father in 1898, eight years after the alleged marriage and oncb again at a garden party in 19011, on which occasion she did not have a chance to address him. Myllus offered no testimony and did not examine the crown witnesses, he confined flis defense, which he con EMINENTPRELATESLOWLY TO BEST IfTEfi LONE UNO USEFUL LIFE Archbishop Ryan Very Much Depressed Last Night MIND STILL CLEAR PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 1. When l)rs. Lt 'Place and Sunders left the sick roo niearly 1 nthe night they stated that Archiblsbop Ryan's condition was very muc h d 'pressed. He Is very weak and his pulse flickers, they state. Ho was Mill able to converse with us but hi speech is not nearly so fluent as In the afternoon when he was talking to Cardinal Gibbons." Cardinal (jlhhous made two visits to the dying prelate today. On the first visit the archbishop's eyes were closed and the cardinal placed his hand gently op his head saying, "your (Trace docs not know. me?" "After forty years I know every tone of your eminence's voice and now I am, as I 'have ever been, pro foundly convinced that you are the Instrument of providence for the pro motion, of every good thing for our church and country,'" replied the archbishop, without opening his eyes. During the conversation the arch bishop said: "If we keep our country conser vative, no country will be as great as this. No country has such elements of greatness as thlK' ' Following his fcecond visit. Cardinal Oibons stated in an Interview, "the archbishop's mind' is still perfectly clear. I need not sayhow much I have been edin-d by his beautiful pious sentiments, rejoicing In the ad vancement of religion In this country and saying that the hopes and sta bility of this nation depend upon the permanence of our religious and "mor al principles. The archbishop said, 'if this nation Is to last It must ge governed by the same principles in the future as in the past' He ex pressed hope that God will bless our much beloved country." DAMAGING PR A HIE FIRE BARTLETTSV1LLE, Ok la., Feb. 1. A pralr'.e fire which has done more than $100,000 damage to oil and farm property is sweeping across Washington county. The oil waste on the Caney river is burning for two miles, ASHEVILLEN. ducted himself, to technicalities, as sorting that he could not be legally tried In the absence of his accuser. Denounced ss Calumniator Sir Rufus Isaacs, the attorney gen eral, who led the prosecution, in his closing speech, denounced the de fondant' as the- circulator of a base li bel. The attorney general concluded his appeal to the Jury by saying that It was not the throne which required defense hut thu his majesty had sought the protection of the court as a man, husband and father. The proceedings came to a drarlfa tic close when after sentence had been pronounced, Sir Ilufus read a letter from King Oeorge in which the writ er set forth that only the advice of the crown that such a coarse would be unconstitutional had, prevented him from appearing personally In the court room and publicly branding as untrue the allegation that he had ever entered Into any amrrlage alliance other than that contracted with Queen Mary. It has been many years since a prisoner has been tried In this coun try under the statute invoked in the present case. In olden times the of fense was punishable with branding and pillory. In today's trial the gov ernment Invited the freest publicity and the court room was crowded with notables. KAIbltOADS HrXNl'ME OPERA. TIONS MEXICO CITY, Feb. 1. The Mex ican Central's two passenger trains which were In the hands of revolu tionists between Chihuahua and El Paso yesterday were this afternoon permitted to proceed along the line, one north, the other south. Railroad officials here tonight stated that they received telegrams to the effect that traffic had been resumd. DEADLOCK UNBROKEN (. ' ALBANVk: Y'" Veb. - tAirtie thirteenth Joint Fallot since the leg islature began the contest over the election of a United States senator to succeed) Chaifneey Depew showed to day that the deadlock Is no nearer a break than It was January 7 when more than a score of Insurgents re fused to support Wm. F. Bheehan, the caucus choice of the democratic organization. Mr. Bheehan received 13 less than tho required number of votes today. HOUSE CANNOT SERVE IN Decision Made by Demo crats at Meeting Last Night DIFFUSE POWER WASHINGTON, f'eb. 1. Another radical step to prevent the concen tration of power In n few hatidr in tli house of refireseita lives a laken tonight by the newly designed dem ocratic members o! the was and means committee of the next con gress. lt was determined that In the make-up of the committee of the new bouse tho chairman of all com mittees that have the power to pre pare appropriation bills and the chairman of the Judiciary, Interstate' and foreign and DNlrlet of Colum bia committees shall not be mem bers of any other -ommiiUfes than thoso over which they pres'dc. This will add 1! to the number of members who are to be etpressly limited to service on a single com mittee. The democratic caucus which chose tile 14 members of the ways and menns committee restrict ed them to service upon that com mittee and gave Ihim the power to select the other committees of the house. After a lon session tonight, these members of the new wuyS and means commlllee determined to fol low the policy , of making the chair man of tho improtant committees and particularly thos? that have con trol over tho appropriation bills In eligible for scrvieo on other com mittees. The announcement was given out by Chairman Underwood as "the settled policy of this com mittee." While the committee has not the power, as 'iad the democratic caucus, to prohibit a member from serving on another committee. Chair man Underwood made It clear that tho committee in fili ng up Hk- other committers will adhere to the rule laid down toniKht. POLICE KTOP BOCT MEMPHIS, Tenn., Feb. 1. Young Otto, of Now York, so far outclassed Eddie Webber, of Indianapolis, to night that their bout before the Na tional A. C. was stepped by the po lice in the third round to rave the Indiana man further punishment. - - C, THURSDAY MORNING, "FEBRUARY 2, 1911, ' if V. S.Uji.-.m-Mayos: J.ilPrJJgY. !Ml!HAJ -Hfrtfty AaOv0, tX'Ali J.t. HMKIft; ''..-.,, 4. A. Wn"n "'.11 a'il''" L .fit I r hitivi-vvii TERRIFIC DYNAMITE EXPLOSION j . SHAKES In Widespread Ruin Which . Seven M. ore Ate 'JyliSBma, nvnorvue rtrm wr vwiucui ww . i ' ' ' . . i . xtvTir e-rotf K WK ' fl -war e.rsrn bt dynamite in transit from a freight car to the hold' of slighter moored' pior No, 7, Commnriw, N. J., let $o at Just one mindta past noon today, 150 yards soath' of the Jersey City terminal of the . Central Railway of New Jersey and m the widespread ruin that loiieweo nra - men prv known to ' have : been killed, seven missing. ' hundreds afs wounded .and T(iryintr reporu ( to 19 uoaocountsa ror. . . Tkirtv unms' la be . sv conservative estimate proiwty damage will hardly fall below 1750,- 000. The cattse Ht tha explosion is variously attributed to the dropping of a case of dynawlt and to a boil er explosion on the boa Just what was the direct cause probably nevr ill be known. Wldtlrcad Wrwkago The Jersey Central terminal was wrecked, three ferryboats In the Hn. werA torn unit splintered, lower Manhattan across tha river was shak- from the street level to the top h Hinirer tower, severe damage wn. ilonA In Brooklyn and Htaten Is land and to the Immigrant detention station on Kills Island; The shock as felt at Amityvllle, Long Island, li miles distant and In New Jersey t Long Brunch, 4 5 miles away. The dairgo is so widely scattered that It Is Impossible as yet to more than roughly estimate lt, but In Man hattan alone It Is placed at 1100.000. On Kills island at from $10,000 to 25,000 and In ail, three quarters of million spears to be a fair estl late. UT Stretched Arms From Cas ket and Threw Mourners into Panic OLAKOOVY, Ky Keb. 1. Htretch Ing out her band toward those who had assembled anout her coffin, Mrs. .lane Pltrnck. an ctogenarlan, caused a panic at her funeral at Gamaliel, Mpnroe county, yesterday afternoon, according to reports reaching here to day. The funeral Sermon had been preached and I lie lid of the coffin was removed to pertnl'. friends and re latives, to take a last look at what they believed a corpse. It was then tii at Mrs. I'itcck regaind conscious ness. Khe remnlm d allvet for several hours, her death following last night. Several physb lans examined the body and pronoun i d Mrs. Pltcock dead and the body was again placed In the coffin. NAVY BEATS W. ANI L. ANNAPOLIS. Md Feb. 1 The Navy basketball team defeated that of Washington and Lee university this afternoon by a score of 0 to 25. WASHINGTON, rib. 1 Forecast: North Carolina: .fair, warmer Thurs day; FHday unsettled with raig in WMt portion moderate to brisk south winds. "She Points With Pride: V - t I ft Viif HIM.4M"! - NEW YORK TO Followed Seven Mert Are Known Co Have Met Deatfy V Strewi AH Lower New York. ' ' '; ' " w- ' The lighter receiving the dynatnlta, the Katharine W., owned by James Healing of Jersey Ck, vanished ut terly with her crew of seven men. In cluding the master', Kdward Travers. Alongside was . the lighter Whistler, which was mo badly shattered that she sank with h craw of twe, while the Swedish iteel barkcntlne. Iogrld was stripped of her rigging and the lives of two deck bands muffed out. rragraents of one man's head was found gwinglnf hiH up on a tangled piece of, rope. ' . ' WUh-4b oaaetasa. tlia Kathorlnt W. simply disappeared) not a splinter of her has been found. Only the Whistler's flag pole has been found. The freight went up in a pull of dust. On the rear 0eck of the barkentlne Insrld were found a pair of iron trucks that were olso torn, to bits. Fifty yards bar stood another car of dynamite. The explosion ripped the roof off It and broke in the doors, but tho dynamite Itself did not ex plode. on hoard the Ingrld the steel mis lenmast snapped off above the lower yard and the tanglod wreckage came tumbling about the decks. Every thing abaft the mlr.zenmaat was level led flat but the steel plate of the hull held stoutly and showed not even a mafV ' Pier Entl IH-iikillslied For one bundled feet the pier end itself was utterly demolished. The plunking seemed to hae ground to powedr. A steel gondola car on the southermost track looked like an old hut that had been used by boys for a football. T NOT SERVE PRISON TERM President Tafit .Commutes Sentence. Striking Out Imprisonment Part WASHINGTON. Keb. I President Tn ft today commuted the sentence of Fred D. Warren, the socialist editor, who was recently centencod to six months Imprisonment and $1,000 fine by striking out tho Imprisonment and reducing the fine to $100, to be col lected by civil process only. Warren was sentenced under the postal statutes for mailing matter on the covering of which was printed a label in la rue red letters the fol lowing; "ne thousand oollsrs reward will be paid to any person who kidnaps ex-Governor Taylor and return him to Kentucky authr rltlea" President Taft In lecldlng the ease says that while, the violation of law is clear the sentence seems exces sive. Hi preseiitn'lve Campbell of Kansas, In whose district Warren lives, personally presented a petition to President Taft a few days ago ask ing clemency for the socialist editor. FOUGHT OVER OIIIL GALILEE, Miss, Feb. 1. Hugh McNalr, IS years old. who was stab bed several days ago by Professor Cleve Edwards, principal of the public school here, died today, Edwards surrendered to the au thorities. The trouble grew out ' of an alleged attack by McNalr and two companions on Edwards upon his return from a visit to a roung wo man, for whose attentions all four principals were rivals. ' -C . SS3 - rw'' '-ft.' . FOUNDATION All about war strange freaks C the explosion. , " ( In the train shed at rhe terminal, nearly the whole southern exposure of the glass roof collapsed, shower ing the passengers with broken flaw. One man wm struck by a twenty "pound fragment and so severely tj i that he died. : An , engineer In ja shunting locomotive was blown from hie cab and died of fractured skull. A tuk Boat captain was hurled front his wheel hbuse'and Ashed out of wk tr minutes later ewimmtng about tha southern aide til the .demolished " ' Paseengtv fetation Damaged Inside tb passenger station thej-e was damage visible everywhere. - Tie floors were llttored with broken glass, windows fronting on the inner court had been sucked from tn frames, sashes and all. Hlates were torn from the roof. Tte hands of the ferry house clock wese torn oft There wers no sashes In rnost of the windows and no glass tn those that had sashes. Two ferryboats of the Central Rail road of NewJrsy, the Bommervllle and and the Plalnllold, lay In the ter minal slips and a third, the Lakewood was Just entering Into the river. All of them careened violently and all of them were showered with their own glass. Many of the wounded pas sengers In these boaU came to New York for treatment at the hospitals. TVrror In Now Vork In New York, the terror, was In tensified by uncertainty. For half an hour nobody knew what had hapsned uumnnvinnri ---!-- Cjnjjm'ijmJgo-gjJL T OH CANADIAIC AGREEMENT Outlook Is That They Will Favor Immediate Pass age by Congress WASHINGTON. Feb. 1. The at titude of the democrats In the house toward thu reciprocity agreement with Canada Is being thoroughly canvassed at tho Instance of Minority Leader Clark. Mr. Clark today asked the democrats of every state dele gation to lake up tho matter among themselves and report to him so that ho might know the general temper of tho house democracy as to the measure. New York, led by llepresentstlve Sulzer. started the ball rolling and the conference of that state , was unanimously In favor of passing the bill Incorporating Ihn agreement. Virginia democrats held a meeting at the same time and the consensus of opinion was for the agreement. Democrats from other states talked over the situation among themselves and thu sentiment so far as it de veloped seemed to be that tho dem ocrats should pass the measure be cause of what Is embraced rather than defeat the whole proposition by balking on any prints of omission or conclusion that local points might favor. CAIITKK OKXIK8 Rl'MOR WAHHINOTON, Feb. 1, Senator Carter, of Montana, today requested the publication of his donlM of a report current here that Secretary Malllnger Is about fo .glve place' to himself as secretary of the Interior. "Please deny the report emphat ically,' so far a I am concerned," said the Senator, "and you may add that under existing condition I would not accept th office of sec retary of th interior." , r- PRICE FIVE CENTS PRESIDENT TAFT ! F: uOUTU TOUR ,.11 . .., f Probably in Anticipation of an Extra Sossloh-tif Congress In Spring, V. GOES TO ATLANTA v MIDDLE OF MARCH All on Account of proposed Agreement With Canada Which May Fall V WASHINGTON, Feb. 1. President Taft a announcement today that the Southern tour whtoh ht had planned to take the early part of next month would be cancelled with the exception" of the visit to' Atlanta on March 10 ' started political tongues to.wagglnff CANCELS POT with rumor to tha effect that hia purpose waa to prepare tor a possible extra session of congress in ease- tha , , present session 4utl to jennet the ret-l . . proclty agreement between tha United ' State and Canada which the presl- ' dent Is urging strongly ai legislation naeded by both countries. -t, pressure of business and tha fact that numerous Invitations 'te: visit many pleoea-l t)i Bouth wer mak ln tha teur which had been planned assumed to large :- proportion, a re tha reason -assigned r at the white house for th president' cancellation of the trip, 'it l believed in many --. quarters, however, , thsi Mr. Tuft 1 clearing the dackrot all but absolute " ly necessary engagement so . that In osss he should llnd It Impossible to get his reciprocity measure through this session, he van be preparsd ft. an extra session. H has said tiis,li hope to see -it passed before Mardht . Fear have bees . expressed, . how. evsr., that the seimt will "talk the measuf le deatrt" or kill It In some Other,; y although It I believe 1 the house, jurObably with., tha. aid Of the democrats wlU U pass It It thle should be the ease, the president will feel,. It Is said, that ha can depend 0 diwn:r!l? teilsii s-i-'li e v... exist atr Uarch 4, to support him la his. effort to pan , this . leglslatlott ' ' which 'h looks upon' a on of tha . most important the present adminis tration ha urged, - ' , m ! An extra session would (ore action on th question with th chance ap parsntly In favor of the president get 1 - ting hi reciprocity legislation, , , ' . Having promised a long time at to address the .uonventlon - of .th Southern. Commercial congress In 'At- ' lanta on th night of March IS, th president wa unwilling to cancel thl Importanttengagement, especially t would tak him away from Washing' , ton for only two day. '; v 'H FEDQUL. FORCES LEAVE R PUERTOCDRTEZDPErjFDH INSURGENTS TO flCCUPr . , . American and British Ma- . '. t .. ,- .! '.;-i.., i . a t v i . riues Are ux rm-i session EVACUATE QUIETLY FUERTO (X)RTKZ, Honduras, Feb. 1. The evacuation of Puerto Cortes by the Honduran troop . he taken place and the town U now In the . hands of the American and British marines, who are awaiting the er- ' rival of the force of General Manuel Ilonlllu. th leader of th revolu tionists. Several- day ago trenone were dug and gun placed outside the limits of the town and govern ment troops were stationed there to oppose the Insurgent but the sser withdrawn Monday afternoon, " the governor having; asked th comman der of the International fore .for 4S hours in which to evacuate tha city, He asked also for protection and marine were then landed from the I'ntted Stat gunboat Marietta, and the British cruiser Brilliant to prevent .disorders. ...iVvr e I'rPlor to this, order had been Is sued that no lighting would b per mitted within Puerto Corte and the collier Ciatar was sent In eoaroh of . it ieral U'e Ohrlstroa. who It be lieved to bo on hi way to form 'a iuncturo with Cleneral Bontlta. Christmas, however. It la aid,' could not be found. -..' , Humors were also dispatched a fur as the 1'lua river to aeek Ocii eral Christmas for the purpose Of notifying him of the Intended evacua tion and the 48 hour guarate of protection. J ritfJMTNEKT SOCIAUST DEAD ' HOBTOK Ma., Feb. i'l.8lmotl Wing, the first candidate for presl- ' dent of, the United State nominated by the socialist labor party, I dead at : hi home In Charlestown. agea 4 year, wing was a candidate tit- .: tb election of 1191 and received fl,18i vote. He was an Inventor' of th first multiplying" camera anu' many photoftaphlo device. ' , h
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