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, " I 1 " - cm -- 1 I I if r, ' ! J I ' i );,(,- . i ! ' ! I ! I ' ' ii i irarYNu St. ,a;- 1. If if , f l( if, a i , rffi ! I i .; 'it. i i ; : f r -. !,, ,,)..- 1 ' if OLD SERIES V0L7LXXXIHN0. 4,644. FAYETTEVILLE, N. C.,' VEDNESDAY, SEPT, 10,1919. NEW SERIES-VOL. XXXVI-NO. 2,469 'BATTLE Fijre Men jFiffeen ; : Woiiaed Beleen PoKcis iQ0p. Strikers kt ilammQudi r Ind.;li arlyi ' f 'r !- ' S " ' .. .' g ;' v. fma -'.'.'.. . . t "... iiiB.iitopg.!tHfir;i STRIKERS '. ,(By Th Associated Press) , , - j; paipmond, ' Iodianft, Sept. Five ; strikers were killed and fifteen wound-" ; ed; In battle' between one . thous and former employees of the Standard Steel Car -Company and the police early today. ; ; g y ; ' 'j. - f ; .' v V " . ' Two months ago ' two thousand - workmen at the plant went on strike ' 1 for ""Increased wages and . Improved 'working conditions. 1 tHye weeis ago there was a riot between strikers and thl police, In which a number of per sops were Injure, and as a result of i tnts outDreaK uorernor uoodncn sent , a regiment of the Indiana State Militia to Hammond to restore order.' The troops; were withdrawn" , about two weeks ago;. Yesterday two hundred striker?, returned to work,- and this caused considerable bad feeling among the men who refused to returnVV ; ; TodiV' when the two hundred men werft; pn tbehvWay to work' a crowd l" of one thousand foreign born strikers gathered in the street several blocks f rohi the pWnt of the Standard Steel , CAr Company aid threatened them.' . TwentJrvP'lcene'l and. twenty spe cial guard employed by, the Company were rnshed to the scene : and the crowd was ordered to disperse. The order was greeted 'with Jeers, and the men refused to obejf. Captain Strong, in' charge' dt thW police)1 then ordered i the leaders of the mob arrested. When ; th0 police Wfemjptedrtft execute the' , " comnTind'the crowd aitackd "the por . ' lice wlth;:'sticks rid stoherf, n l:iev cordihgio Cap'tam Strong End fife: tftllate'd by . firing, about 1 aeventy-llye ' shots Into the crowd,' killing "five and ..wounding' fifteen - strikers? ;"'Wtr- the! strike leadert were "taken into cus- j tody. . . .. - - i.i - '" v 1 "None of i the policemen or - special j guards jfras wounded; Koe)JaJls;Gnar : Against Possible Attack V IBf The Associated Press), --i-vv -. Knjoxville, Tenh., Sept. 9. A ma chine gun company of militiamen and an. armed force of deputy sheriffs guarded th$: Knoi County , Jail -4ast night. ' Some will contintie on duty until further. orderar This was is a protection against a possible attack upon the Jail in an effort to release the fifty jnou now in custody on charg es growing out of the attack odl the Jail and the consequent riotlhg on Saturday night,' August 80th, ' when unsuccessful , efforts were made. pre sumably to' lynch Maurice Mays, a negro who It is charged killed a' white woman. - ( , ' - An anonymous letter has been re- "cJy.ed by .Judge Nelson; of. the Kttox County - Criminal Court In . which threats were made against Judge Nelr son and .Sheriff Caten T118 tetti& as serted (hat ';- the ,tjille(ysd : rjoters. ,tf$ to be .released from ..this, Jail....The guards have orders to shoot the first, person attempting to harm, the Jail or any 6! the officers,", Bald Sheriff Gate, Wants Investigation cf : . . Killing of Sony Bandits "' - ' f (The Akafisas Qaiette.V, Chicago,' Sept. 9,, James H. McGlll, father of Herbfert McQlll, killed by Mexican bandits on August SOth, has . appealed. W the" foreign Relations Committee o the United States Ben ate in an effort to bring to Justice the murderers of his son. - This' tfecame known today,' the announcement be ing made' that Mr. MsGlll, Chicago managers of tfie Banana Growers' Association, had 'written a personal letter o Senator Lodg of thd Fpreign RMatlohs Committee-' detailing the deitth of hie son and requesting that a.tull 4nvestiga.Uon,.ba. made .wUhout delay. ' . , j . THE WW TOUR The President Was' Givii a Great Ovation ia Minnesota (Today I V He Addresses iLegisIatireJ Jand Joucljes on m I fBy the Associated fress.) - St..; Paul. Mln;r Sept. 9. President Wilson's : special train arrived in St. Paul at 9 o'clock this morning. The President was' officially welcomed to Minnesota by Governor Burnquist, and to the Twin' Cities, iy Mayors L.i C. Hodgson of St; Paul anfljj. E. Myers of Minneapolis., r ' , '.'I ' The President anil Sirs. 'Wiisonj re ceived an ovation when they stepped from the station a few minutes later! Tne streets around the station -were patrolled by Minnessota.. National Guardsmen, Tlje Piesidential party was Jmmediately driven to the State capital, where the President address" ed the Joint .session of the State Leg lslature at -10 o'clock this morning. St. Paul, Sept. 9. The cosiof liv ings the President told the Minnessota Legislature today -Is largely due to "a world situation1 i-f rowing out .of the sacrifices and waste of the war. '." Back of that, added the President, lay jthe fact thOjt the world had nol yet I learned , what, the peace statui would be. ; ; !.-?.: ' . i l. "' He continued that this was the one nation which would have enough free capital In the near fiku.'e to rehabifi tate the worlo economically. .j :-yi , The Legislature,' wh'h began yes terday, an , extraiordinarjr ' session ; to consider , the , high cost; of living- and other subjects, refceiyed the President With cheersj , He was j Introduced, by GoW-fiaraanlsieiA- WliMaatttf!' '. ti;-J: vein ii-sm.tB.' uuyeit wiBia fuuu u auiuo uf ou ment1 to tireyeWt fhture, .Wttrs. ; r The President' contratnltted- the Legislature on ItB raUflciatlon. yester day pt the Federal Woman's Suffrage Amendnjent. ... , First of all, Mr, Wilson said, it,wa,s Ihe natlons duty to set the Commerce : .i -v.. . i- : . . .: . 0i tne worm going by tne establish nient of peace. " Atter that, he contin ued,' there' were dbmesiiC adjustments that must .be ma,de, mentioning' among other things that railway facilities In tnts country were not equal to Me aei mand.. , -. - ' ' ' ,L..Havlag .Established-a-1 worid-settlc ment economically, Mr,; Wilson: declar ed, it .Was imperative that there be. an arrangement , to insure "tlfat no body could monkey, with the process" set up. ., ,. Turning to the relations of labor and capital, the President Bald that laboring, men everywhere jvBre dlssat isfied with their relation to their em ployers. That was true abroad, be added, to a greater measure than ifl. Referring to the treaty provlsionsfor an international labor . organization Mr.TWllson said here was the way to effect a definite solution of the prob lems. He asserted that in this' so lution the United States was expect ed by the world to sejt. up the stand ards and lay down: the principles. . As a basic for the solution,: the President suggested that the interests of labor and capital must be recognlz ed as IdenUcalj and the two ought to be, Reasonable enough to get together When- jt was realized hat labprwas not f a rommodlty, una . real ;.pp-oper- atioB had. been established production would incj'ease "by jfeapa and bounds; and. that would be . 'one element, in reducing 'the cost of living. - J SO FOOU8HI "John," she'said to her husband "tell m about this Irish matter. It 'seems awful foolish' to me." i v "Whar fopllsh "about It?" Why, 1 , overheard a nian; on the car say the - trouble was ' about , an 'ulster fancy quarrelling about an old ulster In all this : hot weather Bos ton Transcript. ' . t 4 EYES EXAMINED - 'glasses ground.'', J?,' Dl JUlJUS SHAFFER ' ' ' ' 218 HAY 8TREET ' 1 Fayettevllle, N. ' OFF TO EUROPE Nineteen Members Southern I ; Commercial Congress SailJ edjTodat fori Glasgow; Ajnong Thenr Seven North 1 e (By . the. Associated Press.) . New: York, ..Sept. ; 6. Nlnteen niem- bers of the Southern Commercial Con gress wer, among the passengers to day1 on the steamshin Columbia' for Glasgow.Ior a two months study, of trade conditions in Europe. Members of the party included . Word H. Wood, of Charlotte, N. C, W. H. Harris edi tor -of' the Charlotte Observer,.' and CharleS E! Lambert,, W. F. Dowd, and Odora Alexander of Charlotte, F. S. Lambeth' of1 Thomas vlLle, N. C., and B. Taje'of High Point, N. C. Tijey.wlll be joined in Paris by othet members of the Southern Com mercial X3ongr'ess who are, already in Europe, while another group' of mem bers will sail for Europe in about a week to . Join the party. This is the third similar commission sen), to Eu -Lrope and foreign countries. The last one, . consisting of 118 delegates, spent many months, in Europe six years ago in a study of commerce, banking and shipping. TLie data gathered will be submitted by the Commission to the forthcoming meeting -of the Southern Commercial Congress in. Savannah December 8. EXPLOSION OF GA8E8. ; (By Tha Associated Press) New i York,' Sept. .S.-Several per sons' were injured by broken glass. and hundreds' of Vin'dbws shattered when gases' whicbiShad acciifmhlated'i nder FortJ'second' street,,, caused a "series of explosions todayk The Iron i;pov- ermgs of manholes were hurled high Into the air. but, no one was hurt The explosions paused a panic In the neighborhood., and police reserves were called, to. restore" order. f. ,, THE COMMISSIONERS. The County Commissioners met, in their regular session Monday, Septem ber'!:. Those present were E. V.,Ed ens, Chairman;. F. JL. Holcomb,. H. A. Wllllama. ,.J.,..TlMarUn. and. .Albert Wade. The reports of Alex Leslie, super Intehdent of roads, Dr.' Verdery, coun ty health officer, and W. J. Brocking ton, farm demonstration agent, were made and acedptedy . John Smith bf Cumberland and oth ers came before the board and asked that the road from Cumberland to the Raeford " road be changed- as had been stumped. The commission ers agreed to wort, same as early as they could get to It. A. A. McCormlck asked that the claying of the McArthur road be con' tinued, and the commissioners agreed that , this should -be dpne as early as possible. s. , ; . . In the afternpon session, which con vened at 2:30 o'clock, J, T. Martin and F.: L. . Hokumb , with Superintendent Davis, were appointed to examine the Don carter roaa ana report on u. ; A, list ; of the , Jttr9rs( to serye In, the October term of .Superior Court was drwn up, khd iir beJpubliBhed la ter.- ' ; v ..- , STABBED ON. STREETS. Edwin Mauitsby; a white man, was stabbed in the Shoulder Tuesday night about iz o ciock somewhere near nog efs undertaking shop on -. Anderson street, and was" carried to a local hos pital, where he Is reported as get ting along nicely todayv' His ondi tlon Is hot. considered senouH unless' complications set In, and. lie, will be out shortly. ' ' Maultsby Is alleged to havesbeoti 'with a number of other men when gome one in the crowd knifed him; In the shoulder. NThe man that did -the scaDDing luimuuiuiei; rau, u - wit nesses say, down towards the hospl tal Where Maultsby was carried. When the nolice heard" of the disturbance the man had fully. disappeared.- $ey era! people saw the man who did the work as he- was .running, but not ktfowinr"of'the"8tabMng,"tHrTi6rat tempt to stop watch him.:' - WHO FIRED SH017 J.' ' .- f - K '- i"r :.-;-. j.1 ',- il .C.--:: .'. V.,-' ;'' - - estimony to the Effect That a Member the litbb Fired fcGmiijTOctf Developed Wo ah Org of FiAg in (By the Associated' Press. " Charlotte, Sep't.i4.--fhe -first' shot In the riot - which . took place at the car barns of the Southern Public Uttl-t ity Company on -the ntght of Aufjust and in which flT men were killed and a score or' mor'wexe injured, was fired hot by Chief pit, but by a mem ber of a mob oL more than 100 men who weVe pressing behlmf John Wil son, the latter' having angrily ap proached the1 chief Ho ask who struck his brother, Clem jWilsonT earlier In the night. fc John Wilson was bound over to the Superior Court this morn ing, on the charge1 of having incited the riot. Testimony of officers was that John TWilson led a crowd of jseveral hun dred toward Orry&ling "Get the little smart cb'lef' and "Let's lynch him." " v' , -t ' When the unidentified man fired his pistol, the jostlingf the crowd throw ing the -shot wild, Chief Orr raised his hand to protect hti face, and his gun was discharged; Into 'the' air, after, which an orgy of firing developed, it' was testified. 4 - .' ' ' - ,r,- -h : A Mexican Lb About the Airpians Exposed Today Wfts'bjgftB,,Stt? -ftegret ever Ihe firing at the American army air- blade on the. border Tuesday has been expressed - by the Mexican govern ment) it was announced today at the Statu Department. Aaswances were given that i immediate Investigation would be made with a view to a' sat isfactory adjustment. WaEhington, Sept.' 4.--The Ameri can-army airplane fired upon by Mex icaasiwas "at no timet over Mexican territory', ihe War Department was informed... today , by,,: . MjC . . General Dickman, commanding the Southern Department. .Mexican officials claim ed that" the machine:Jiad crossed the international border' line before the Mexicans opened lire, wounding Cap tain D. W, McNabb.-. , Fire in Rocky Mount Today -Endangers Hotel Property 1 (By The Associated Press) Rocky Mount, N. G., Sept. 4. Hotel property valued at half a million dol lars, was endangered by fire here thi: morning when flames destroyed the Bland 'cafe, adjoining the Ricks Hc tel. The hotel was iot damaged, but the. damage, to-the Cafe .was estimat ed' at between five and ten thousand dollars. ' STORM WARNINGS ISSUED. '1, (By. The Associated PresB) Washington, Sept.-,9.-r-More special storm warnings for , Gulf shipping were issued today by the Weather Bu reau. ( All shipping was advised to use every . precaution and to await special bulletins. s The tropical hurricane over the .Florida straits ,'at ,8 Wolock this morning was moving, northwest. Hur rlcr.ne warnings were , continued at Ker West and changed to northeast storm warnings at other South Flor ida points. v ' ', CONVENTION OF MINE WORKERS. I u (By The - Associated Press) Cleveland, Ohio, Sept. With two thousand delegates from the collieries of Hie' tyntted Stajtes and Canada gath ered' In vthe armory W thft.v Cleveland Griys.f the International;-- Convention of tt''VriitWjWn-W erica was caled to order at 10 o'clock this' morning. AS TO WAGES Reprgsentatires of 600,000 j RaOvvaj Shopmen Ask That Wages Be Adjusted in Ac cordance With' President Wilson's Plan - (By the Associated Press.) Washington, SepL ! 4. Representa tlves of the 600,000 members of the United Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way and Railroad Shop Laborers ask ed, the Railroad Wage Board today to adjust their wages In accordance witb the principle laid down by President Wilson In approving adjustments last week for ths railroad shopmen. The board was told that the men adhered to the President's decision that there should beno general increase In wages while the government agencies were actively seeking to return eco nomic condition to normal, but they felt that the inequalities in pay exist ing as between the empjoyes, of dif ferent systems should be corrected. The maintenance of waymen and rfhop laborers, the spokesman said, receiv ed the lowest rate of pay of any class of employes in the railroad service. Decision to ask for a readjustment of their wages at this time was reach ed by the men recently through a se cret ballot. It was announced tnai the question of general wage in creases would be considered. . at the annual convention of the Brotherhood in Detroit September 8. Police Have Nothing to Give Out About Cooper Murder (By i ne amockiiu rrjmv.i - Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 4. No an nouncement had cdme from the po lice this morning relative to their search for the murderer of Robin J. Cooper, whose body was recovered from Richland Creek last Saturday. Though a week has elapsed since the murder was committed, those inves tigating the case, so' far as is known, are till in the dark as to the motive back of the murder. FINDS FAYETTEVILLE ON A BOOM,. Dr. L. C. Rouse and Mrs- Rouse d Poplarville, Miss., are in Fayetteville visit. Dr. Rouse was born in the cty and is the son of Mr. M. H Rouse, who is well and favorably known here where he engaged in the steamboat business more than thirty years ago, leaving FnyDtlev.ijlle for Mississippi. Dr. Rouse has a lucrative medical practice in Poplarville, but he felt a a long to come back and .gol over the scenes of his boyhood days and ho says that he find3 a wonder ful change for the better, a3 Fayette ville is fast merging into a prosper ous, progressive, modern little city. BIG PRICES FOR TOBACCO. Mr, N. D; Wade, representing the Liggett & Myers" Tobacco Company In this section, with Fayetteville as headquarters covering1-his territory In his roadster, is in town for a tew days in the Interest of his firm. In an interview with an Observer reporter yesterday Mr; - Wade stat ed tbat he had found the tobacco crops in fine condition throughout the State. He also said that fine grades of tobacco are bringing-Wgher prices thari ever before, pontlng to an In stance in Kinston several days ago when 600 pounds of fine weed broughT?50p. 11 " . , 1 Only One House Standing. M'ami. Fla., Sept.' 10. Apparently reliable Information fronf Marathon, a town on the overseas railway one hun dred and eight miles south of Miami and 48 miles from Key West, states that only one house was left standing after the. harricane passed. ,( This In formation was brought. ta4hls .city, by engineers and other railway men who jwere on Marathon Key when the storw struck it. 'j First aid for - ptomaine poisoning, J quick to-relieve pain. Warranted. -by Perry's Drug Store.-'Advt. , ' AWFUL CRUELTY Physician Tells of i Barbarous Murder by Bolsheviki of More Than; 1,000 Victims, Were Slain With Sledge Hammers. (By the Associated Press.) Constantinople, via London, Sept. 4. -More than .1,000 persons were ex ecuted by the Bolaheviki , before they evacuated the city of Yekaterinosiav, in 'Southern Russia, according to a dis patch received here from that city, giving an account of the massacres, by a physician who was the princi pal medical expert at tho opening of the puts into which the bodies of these victims vhad been thrown after their execution. This physician declares that the victims' head had been crush ed with . hammers and their, bodies badly mutilated. Many of them, he said, were found with broken legs and ribs, caused by blows from sledge hammers, specimens of which were found in the vicinity. The physician tells of the case of one officer who misaed being struck by, the tiring squad bullets, and simulating death, escaped the Bolsheviki who came along bayonetting the wounded. The"Bqlshevik organizations in the city had been headed by a workman named Valiavka and various Chinese, the report adds, and the principal posts of the Soviet administration un der them were in the hands ot young men and women. Wholesale pillage, is declared to have occurred in the town before it was evacuated. bhettteln St. Rejoicing and Enthusiasm (By The Associated Press) London, Sept. 3. Great, enthusias tic demonstrations were held at Cairo and Alexandria on Saturday and Sun day in consequence of the receipt of a telegram declaring that the Foreign Relations Committee of the United States Senate had declared that Egypt should be independent, according to a Cairo dispatch to the Daily Mail. It Is said that the head ot the Egyptian National Deputation in Paris was the author of the telegram to Cairo. No action has been taken by the Foreign Relations Committee of the Senate regarding Egypt that would seem to warrant a demonstration I4 that country. The committee recent Iy gave a hearing in which the claims of the Egyptian Nationalists were voiced, but no further action has been taken by the committee. DEATH OF. MR. W. L. HAWLEY. y . Mr. William L. Hawley died at : o'clock Wednesday a. m. in Highsmit! Hospital after several weeks of sic! hess. The announcement of his deaf brought sorrow to many homes ii Fayetteville and the Cape Fear sec tion, for he. was highly esteeme among a large circle in all condition in life. The prosperous and cultured esteemed him for his admirable qua) it'es and the poor and humble lovec him for his life of service among them iis an adviser and Sunday schoc teacher1 and as an example of tha Christian love which seeketh not it own. He was a tender and devotei husband and father. Mr. Hawley, who was 66 years 0 age, was born and reared In Fayette ville and lived a long and useful lit within its bounds. ' He loved the ole town and its trad'ditions, was true and loyal to his state and a patriotic an useful' citizen In the true sense. H Was a ruling elder in the Presbyle rian Church ahd a member of (Jure bferland Lodge, No. C, Knights of Py thias. At the time of his , death , ht was City tax collector" and had beef tor a number ofyears, ; Mr.vriawle"? ,? leaves.', his wlte, :.wh befdre marriage was Miss Amelia Mr Klmmom of Raleigh : a daughter, Mrs Kate ; Baconi .and aT grandsoneiall 0 Fay ettevHle. i'rie afto' leaves Jtwo sis teraJlra-vMelfax- McKiaaotMMa ton, N-'C and Mr8.'Wi HyHawthorn of Cornwall, (NY. ' ' ' FOREIGN NEWS Mattrisf l of 4; Interest Which , jQaimthe, - Rumania 'RefpseiiJlo , Sign Peace JreatyJugo; , Slavia May Also Refuse; V (By The Associated Press.) , Paris, Sept. 9. Dr. Krarl Renner, the Austrian chancellor and head of , the Austrian peace delegation, who Is to sign the peace treaty tomorrow tor his nation, arrived in Paris from Vienna this morning.. London, Sept. 9 Occupation of Petropavlosk on the lohim .River, about 176 miles west of Omsk, by the Bolshevik forces, is claimed in a Rus sian Soviet official statement receiv ed here today. ' . 1 Paris, Sept. 9. The Rumanian del-' egatlon to the Peace Conference an nounced today that It would1 not sign , the Austrian peace treaty, the ' sign ing of which by Austria, and various other powers is set to take placet at 10 o'clock tomorrow : mornng. , Before the Rumanian announce- . ment was made today it iwas indicat ed by members of the Supreme Coun cil that RumanSi was expected yta take the course she, has announce, d, . In refusing to sign the treaty .became ; of the Council's flat .refusal tq grant her the privilege of making reserva tions in connection with the rights of minorities interritories detached from , the former Austrian Empire, as pro vided for in the ( peace treaty., , . ' It is also' considered as Improbable that the, Jugoslav dejegatipn will; llgn the treaty. It will be granted, j cate wun iis .npm, gvvrunioi.., us JUigo-Slav objections .are, similar,, to those of, Rumania. . . ' '.V TO DECIDE ON PROHIBITION DI8- PUTES. , . : (By The Associated Press) . Washington, Sept. 9. Representa tive Volstead of Minnessota and. Mor gan of Oklahoma, Republicans, and Representative Webb, Democrat of North Carolina, were today appointed mantSrs for the House in the con ference which will settle disputed pro visions of the Prohibitfon enforcement law. The Senate is represented by Senators Sterling of South Dakota and Melson . of Minnessota, Republicans, and Senator Overman of North Caro ina, Democrat. Consideration of Cummins Bill Begun in Senate Today (By The Associated Press) , Washington, Sept. 9. Consideration of the Cummins bill for private opera tion of railroads under Government control, with strikes and lockouts pen lized, was begun today by the Sen ite Interstate Commerce Committee, vhich decided to hear representatives 5f the railroad brotherhoods on the labor provisions probably next weeki The hearings will be limited, it was mid, in order to speed final action hi the bill, which was recently re ported by a subcommittee" head by Senator Cummins; ' .' 1 JUVENILE COURT OFFICER CHOSEN. v Boards of County Commissioners and Education Elect -- Official la olnl Session Assembled. i The Board ofi County Commission ers and the Board of Education met yesterday at noon In the court housft, 'n a Jofnt session t oelect a Juvenile Cdnrt, officer and compulsory attend ince officer. ,A number of names wem suggested, and Mr John A. Martin was declared the nominee ot the Joint tody. ,1 salary and transportation expenses were Axed at $2000 per year, ind from this, amount he is to furalsu his ova. automobile and traveling ex penses. , , - , ;Mr. Martin is the Bon of Mr.. John r. Martjn of the County - Board of dommissloner Jiving .5 about :.' threo allies i east of Fayetteville He has n-4ehooW-teaelterfor-tmler' if years and Is therefore particularly, dapted to the work. , . myth '.s 4 l); 1 I i; 1 t f. I t 'i'"
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