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VOL. 18. NO.: 131. WORLD EVENTS TOLD BRIEFLY torrent News 01 Interest Id paragraph By-Telegraph And Cable . JERSEY CITY, N. J., Nov. 29. A chest containing $4,800 is in the pos session of United States marshals here today and the seizure is alleged to be apart of $12,000 which several pet ty officers of the battleship Louisiana gtole while the . vessel was for New York harbor last October. '' - jjEW ORLEANS, Nov. 29. Rear Admiral Frank F. Fletcher, com manding the special division of the Atlantic fleet now in the harbor here, vfith his aides and officers of the bat tleships were guests ; of ; honor r today at a luncheon tendered by New Or leans business men at the rooms of the Progressive union. ' ' s MASSILLON, Ohio, Nov. 29. Jo Mph Davenport, - aged 97, - inventor of the locomotive cab and pilot, and. builder of the first - wrought iron bridge in the United States, died yes terday at Zoar, ; the Socialist settle ment near here, where he has been a recluse for years, - :'-r:.-r WASHINGTON, Nov.- 29. Word reached the State Department that all political prisone srin Santo Domingo have been released." Peace , has-been restored in the Republic The trans port Prairie, with 750 marines, prob ably will be withdrawn from : the, is land soon and replaced by a gun hoat. New York, Nov. 29. Today marked the close of the trial of Charles H: Hyde, former, city - chamberlain charged with bribery. Counsel for the defense summed up - this morning and this afternoon Assistant District Attorney FrankMoes yrtli-sum up f or, the prosecution f A VerdJctpt. e& tonight. . . -: - ; : &EW YORK, , Nov. 29. The lions IB me ivew xorx zoo naa. a .nnjoi turkey yesterday for the first time in their lives. They have been , brought up on dressed beef ever since they left a milk diet, but keeper Snyder thought they ought to share In the general Thanksgiving and bought a turkey for each of them. PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 29. A par ticle of bone from a fractured knee cap, received while playing baseball, worked its way through his system to the heart of George Hayes, 15 years old, and caused his death-in a hos pital here yesterday. .The boys death was believed to have been caused by heart disease until the autopsy re vealed the sliver of bone. . ... ' " '.;-' PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 29. Italian residents of this city at a' celebration here yesterday raised a fund for the purchase of a war aeroplane which they will present to King Victor Em manuel III as a Christmas gift. More than six thousand members of 49 Ital ian societies participated in the cele bration. - , . ' . " vi PARIS, Nov. 29. That the num ber of recruits available for the French army was reduced from 238, 000 in 1906 to 215,000 in 1911, ow ing to the diminution of the birth rate in France, was the startling as sertion ma I a Yvwr .1 Tnoon'h PelnftP.h. . in the debate in the Chamber of Depu ties today on the bill relating to in fantry enrollment. ' CHICAGO, Nov. 29 For the .sec ond time within a week thieves early today hurled a horseshoe wrapped in a newspaper through the window of a store on Michigan boulevard, load ed their plunder; $1,500 worth of furs in an automobile and escaped. Last week what is believed to be the same gang of thieves robbed.? a store $2,500 worth of jewelry after breaking the window with a horse shoe. - . NEW YORK, Nov.' 29. Edwin Ciir tJs. brother of the , late . eGorge Wil liam Curtis, is dead at his home here aged 74 years. For more than 40 years he has held a place in the front ""auk of physicians and Scientists of country. Together x with Ir. Woodward, of the surgeon general's ff. he performed the autopsy on e body 0f President Lincoln. He Was a graduate of Harvard and tha .vi01iy OI jfennsylvania. B Washington, Nov. 29.-r. Raf t.ey' for several years counsellor of fa urkish embassy here, left today w New York, whence he will sail niorrow for London to assume the cutJes of first secretary and advisor j, the Ottoman embassy to Great in- The transfer of the diplo of thWaS Said be Part of the policy Balk Porte' Sn view of the present d.,.i situatloh, of concentrating its C9nmatic strength in -, the European WEATHEE: Fair. warmer tonight; Saturday &ir. CDILD ; IDEOTIFIES s MEN 'VSTJEiACCDSESAS ;INDLA!NAPOLIS, Ind., Nov, 29. As the youngest -witness yet to testify. Miss Cleo Beard, 14 years old,-picked out of the 45. defendants at the dyna mite conspiracy trial , today two men whom she said she saw shortly before the explosion at North Randall, Ohio, on -March 25, 1911. In that explosion an ore convey ojr .was blown up." - . The littl e witness, garbed in'a pink dress, climbed the high .witness chair and looked toward the accused "bomb plotters" and told her story She said with her sister she 'was going alpng a lonely road toward , her home at North ' Randall. : ; : . ' ; ; "It was just before dark." she said. "On the road we met the men who were carrying a 'box" between them. The men were coming toward Randall from the direction of Cleveland: One of them had a. funny face." "A funny face V asked' District At torney Miller. "Do you see him in the court room?'' "Yes, that's . him," replied Miss Beard, pointing to "George Anderson of Cleveland,' one" of the defendants. 5 "He's the one that carried the box. And there's another one," she added, pointing to Peter J. .Smith, of -Cleveland. "We ' had not been home more than an hour when the explosion, a. mile away knocked the dishes off the table." . " :? '. Laura Beard, 18 years old, also identified the men. v . Anderson and Smith, iron workers, are t accused by the government with having7 blown up the North Randall job because , it was erected on T the "open shop" basis. The box, the sisters testified, they saw, in the hands of Smith and Ander son; was " produced in ; court - and was Identified by other - witnesses as hav ing v been found in the wreckage, of the explosion. ' '. ' WORLD'S COMMERCE Greater This Year . by Four Billion: vThatt Evec yBefore Recorded.. WASHINGTON H"6y.. 2 tf-TMs ear the .'world's ' international . business will- reach the- enormous4 totai o" $3 5, OO.OOO.'OOO according to a report is-- sued 1 today by the bureau of foreign and "domestic' commerce. The estimate is made on official returns of export and imports from virtually eVery com mercial country In the world. . The new figures ,will establish a record, for it is ; four billion dollars greater than the trade in 1910 and more than double that done in 1890, 22 years ago. Seventy leading countries furnished their figures to the v government - sta tisticians. Only Argentine and.. Rus sia reported decreases, both falling off sharply. The United States so far has shown a monthly Increase of $18,000, 000 over 1911. . The - balance of trade (that differ ence of goods sold over those import ed) still remains strongly with Amer ican manufacturers and producers, the figures showing that they enjoyed a balance on the right side of the ledger of approximately $16,000,000. r.-:'-4 ; WEST POINT SQUAD Starts for Philadelphia for i Annual Gridiron Event With, Navy Tomor row, v -; ' 4r- WEST POINT, N. Y., Nov. 29. Ready for the game' with the -Navy tomorrow, . the . Army football squad, consisting of fifty men with . Head Coach Captain Ernest Graves, his as sistants' and Trainer Harry Tuthill. left here for Philadelphia in a special train early today. The corps of cadets headed by a band marched to the station and gave tne squad a rousing sendpff. :V v ' v - Cadets Larabee, Coffin and Eisen hower were on crutches. The squad went without Herrick, the big guard, who .was -detained by his studies. Cadets McDerinott, ; scrub quarter, and Stickney, sub tackle, also had to, stay back for the same reason; . but all - three will join, the squad in Philadelphia this evening. " r The squad of cadets, band and of ficers and' civilian residents or the post will go on to Philadelphia to morrow morning. - HUGE PETITION School Children of San Francisco Send Long Document Asking for Liberty Bell.- ' .i---'----:"-.?v- - SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. Nov. 29. The liberty bell petition, mounted on a huge reel and containing the sig natures of nearly 500,000 school chil dren of Calif orina, started on its jour ney to Philadelphia yesterday, after being paraded down Market street yesterday with Y military honors. When the Philadelphia authorities seemed unwilling' to send the" famous bell to San Francisco for the Panama -pacific Exposition in 191 5, it was de cided to make- an appea lto them in the petition form. The plan proved a success and the signatures pasted; to gether makes a string two miles .long. 1 The petition is going as special. Dag gage and will be sent through to Phil adelphia Without Stop. - ; ..;. VILL LEAVE RUSSIAN HATTER FOR WILSON TO ARRANGE . WASHINGTON, " Nov. 29. The Taft . administration, jt was made known today, does not intend to make any agreement or enter . into a modus Vivendi ' to supplant '.the treaty with Russia which expires January 1 The question of a new treaty and the 'sub ject ,of the treatment of American Jews traveling" in Russia which raised such a storm all oyer the j United States last 1 Spring, will be one of the heritages;;; that President" Taft will leavei to Mr. t Wilson. - , :". Although there have been conflict ing reports as to the administration's plans toward Russia, a letter fj-oin the President to Simon Wolf, Wash ington representative of the United Hebrew; congregations and . theVorder of B'Nai B'Rith, Just made public, clearly indicated the President's in tention of allowing his successor to settle this question. ' President1 Taf t's letter to. Mr. Wolf read as follows: "I have your letter of November 22 in which : you refer to the report that; we are engaged in ' making a temporary agreement with Russia to take the ' place of the agreement which we have abrogated. "I beg; to assure' you that we ex pect to make no- agreement of " this kind .or of any kind. What we have been doing is examining the existing treaties and statutes and interna tional -law applicable ' to a situation like that which will occur after our treaty with Russia of 1832 shall cease to be. We do " not expect to change by ' any agreement or so called modus vivendi; the status quo, which the abrogation of the treaty will leave on the first of January; by its ceasing" to have effect.'K EASTERN METHODISTS ;;,'.- ,"':,:r..;.V:- ;.', North Carolina Conference Receives New Members and : Holds Memo- rial for Dead. .. f ., -.-v (Special to The Chronicle.) , FAYETTEVILLE. Nov. 29. The principal' features of. today's . session of ; the North - Carolina , Conference were the reoeptionVo aiass ' of eight undrgr)&d.uatea. into, .fuh cbnoectloii and the observanoeof the. memorial, service, for' the four members of -the Conference who have passed away during the past year. i ,' When receiving the class into full connection Bishop Denny delivered -ah address to the. class and! to the Con ference oh the subject of the - import ance of .the step being- taken . by the class and the importance of " the' en tire worth .' of. the ministry f or ' the entire Conference. ' . r Y r V J.' Y. : Old MT A. Smith, ' W. H. Moore, C. J. .D. Pegram having passed the .examination" of character, were referred to . the committee on Con ference relation for, the superannuate relation. Answering question - 12, three local preachers were recom mended -for deacon's orders and an swering question 16, W. B. Humble, a local preacher,' was recommended for elder's orders. Y " v' . ; W. H. . ffmith was received into1 the Conference as a deacon, coming from the Disciples Church, . . ' ; The' anniversary of the . Conference board .of education will -be held' this evening. ' ' ' ' " ' ' ' WOMAN DISCHARGED Supreme Court Judge at Raleigh Dis misses Mrs-. Weathers from Insane " Asylum on Account - of; Error in Commitment. . . - -: - -:. (Special to The Chronicle.) ? Raleigh, Nov. 2 9.t Associate Jus tice George H. Brown - today ' ; dis charged Mrs. Ella H.. Weathers from custody " of the Central Hospital" for the Insane on the ground that com mitment was irregular, it being) ad mitted that the clerk of the court had not made an examination of the wom an. , In discharging : the woman, Judge Brown insisted ' that ; people committed to asylums should have their , sanity determined. -The vques Uon of. sanity was not. entered into by the court, who "' advised " Frank? E. Weathers, the husband,' that he could proceed anew ; if he . desired. ,XJV. . , ; NEW YORK WILL HAVE " CHILDREN'S'; THEATER, 'NEW YORK, Nov. ! 29.- A chil dren's theater, the : only -playhouse in the world devoted exclusively to. the entertainment of children, ? is to be opened in New York next month.- The funds for the enterprise were provid ed by William K. Vanderblt, but it is expected to be practically self-sup- rporting. . , . v ;:- v - The auditorium will seat 800 chil dren and has 12 boxes. The wall dec orations are in. nursery, still." -Plays are to be given ? in. the afternoon, be ginning at 3:30 o'clock, an hour con venient for school children.... PADUCAH, Ky., Nov. 29.-Emmett S. Bagby, assistant , cashier : of the City National' Bank of Paducah, shot and '"killed ' himself in the basement of ' the bank Jiere today. 'Officials of the bank refused . to. make t a , state ment, but it is known .that i two ; ex aminers are x working son the lnstltu tion's books. , K .... .' " It- .. ' -' . CBlELOTTE, N. 0 & JDAY, NOVEMBER- 29, 1912. VISIONS MY BE OVERDRAVi v. . AntwnM 'X'-- ? - -f"'. Not Nearly Enough Offices ( Are Available For, The Army Of ; JoD Banters FEWPOSTMASTERSHIPS IN NORTH CAROINA Of 6i 100,000 Voters for Wilson and Marshall Correspondent Says 1,000, 000 is Fair Estimate of the Number Who Seek Positions Be, Filled by About 11)00 Places Plans, to -. Be Pursued.- ..." s BY PARKER R. ANDERSON."' WASHINGTON, Nov. 29. Demo-? crats with a bit of "a pull and1 a yearning for - office gave thanks yes terday for a huge feast in - prospect. But there's a- fly on the window pane. Huge as it is, the meal, by, something like " 1,000 to 1 is too small to go around." . '. During the four years Rafter . March' 4 next, 143 Republican first, second and third class postmasters in North Carolina who draw salaries jaggregat ing nearly - 300,000 a year, will be replaced by 143 North Carolina Dem ocrats.; -:": . . . - . . . . -. .The figures are taken from the lat est issue' of the official ' postal guide and are accurate. The', sum paid, ' to fourth class . postmasters whose sal aries range 31,000 a . year, are not included. ; A- few weeks before "elec tion, .President Taft issued an order placing all fourth ? class - postmasters under the protecting wing-of theeivil service , law. : Great pressure will be brought to bear upon .President Wil son by Democrats from all. sections of the - country to rescind this' order. He may, and he may not, do so." Com ing as he does from a : section pf the odun,try where civil servlceia. xnoxe highly.regarde4..sthan in 'soma , other BtioiHXp$(tfntr ocratie" President will thinkr.twiceTbe f ore "he (abolishes'5" the ..Taft executive order.' "..' V ' r. ' .. . ;' '. ' ... 'All told, " not counting - fourth class postmasters, .the Wilson1 administra tion wjll have places for about 11,000 favored Democrats.- The. average' sal? ary is about . 3,000 a year. .vSo the : to tal "spoils of war, for the entire country is 'a bout 3 3, 00 0,000-at year. Over , 6,100,000 . persons voted , for Wilson and Marshall. " '. It is considered low to say that"-1,000,000 -"of ' these think their -fair- recompense" would be a Federal office paying, say, $3,000 a year. The problem to be solved is that of . apportioning 11.000. places among' 1,000,000 applicants. ; - - If President Wilson pursues the usual course. Senators Simmons and Overman and the Democratic .Con gressmen " from North , Carolina will dispense the plans for their State . ' - - Of the above mentioned 143 first, second and , third ; J; class postmaster ships 13 recess appointments - have been .made by ; President Taft. They are': William A. Mace; Beau fort; Charles F. Smathers, Canton;" Edward C. Beaman, Farmville;' Wilr Ham H. Cox, . Laurinburg; Frank Roberts, . Marshall; John W. Brown, Oxford; John , R. Joyce, Reidsville ; George - W. Robbins,'- Rocky Mount; Samuel M. Jones, Sanford, and Thom as B. Wallace, Wilmington. . It. is probably safe" to say that ' none of these.: Republicans will be confirmed by the Senate. A -'.-p-;; -; ;,i Besides these appointments already made, the commissions of John B. Spence at Charlotte expired December 17, 1911; Frank Roberts at Marshall, December 17," 1911; C. F. ; McKesson at Morganton expires March i6,- 1914; W. H. Everett at Newton, February 10, 1912; B. A. Baber at Shelby, March 2, 1915; D. Luther Yount at Lihcolnton, March 24, 1912; G.. F. Hambright, h ' King's Mountain; : E. Grant Tasour .at Gastonia, June . 1 3, 191 4, and Mount Holly, ' which is now a presidential office, - is open for ap pointment, the commission of the in cumbent expired; January 1 of this year. v;:,: Y ' ; :, 'v 'In addition to the postmasterships, the United States attorneyships, and marshalships, the collector of revenue and customs, , together with the minor Jobs of -assistants and deputies in these various offices, 'are regarded as legitimate prizes . of - victory and' theae total up . an "amount aggregating $40. 000 to $50,000 a year. The rule of both Republican and Democratic -administrations -in the past at least at the outset, has been that . each . Congressman of the ; party in power be allowed to -designate the postmasters in his district; and that the recommendation of , two Senators be solicited relative to all other places in the State. . 'V . This means, if 'the rule be followed in North CaroIInajAthat the candidates for district attorney and United States marshals for - both., the - eastern, and western districts, vth64 collector' 'of in ternal . reveuWMth V for the ; western and. eastern districts, collectors of cus toms . for the districts . of . Albemarle and Beaufort and all other . offices GREAT RACING FETE IS ON FOR TOrJODROW ' Drivers Confident Hiat They Can Lower All Local Records Hade So Far Red Wood, Grennan, Cook and Hickman, the men comprising ' the teams who will race here Saturday on the . half-mile course, of the Char lotte Fair Association, are today try ing out their cars and getting accus tomed to the track which they declare to be in "excellent promise for Satur day's performance. ' . . ' The races will, as a matter of fact, be the bestvand swiftest exhibitions which have ever been - witnessed in Jhis city. ; , Hitherto a couple of cars, operated by Barney Oldfieldi and ; his assistant, held the local record, but on Saturday four races will be seen on the tracks, at ; the same time and the affair will assume much . the ap pearance, of a great auto racing meet. f The condition of the' track," accord ng' to "Wood who ' is largely engineer ing the local meet for tomorrow, is highly satisfactory ' toc' all of the . ex perts who are here. "The snow of yesterday," said he today, "will have the effect pf layings the. dust, so that this most uncomfortable - and un pleasant accompaniment, of the usual race will be absent on Saturday.1 On this account ' the ; cars will , be visible throughout the races instead of be ing submerged in .clouds of dust as is the custom. : - This" will also give the men ' a clear view of the track and, enable, them - to, make better time on the track." . .- ' '' . ' . ' The racers here, believe that they can ' easily duplicator qidfleldV record made on the old track at Latta Park some years ago in a half-mile run. - As ; a matter of -V- ihfonhatiofi j it: should be stated that the record' es tablished for a half -nile, dirt track of the'same character""as the: Charlotte Fair Association 'track, is : 1 :07, or possibly 1-2 second , under this time,' and the men who are here expect to make a showing v Saturday - that will come pretty-- close to . thif 'hfdf -mile '' :. ,TlieJ . four, racing dars which - have been5 brought -to the dlty are all 1 in 'hrst'ciajs.ttatiS axif ? ry. fbr' ti5ei work tomorrow.. ; laacn or. tnese? cars has seen a varied- experience, having rim on the Indianapolis Speedway, at Daytbhia," rFlorTdaT and :Jadfe rother .;-fa-mous courses and - are therefore ca pable of pulling off the. half : miles in great time and in expert style when their enormous-- reseHre-power . is turned loose on the drivinig gear; and the machines ieap , forward like living beings, lapping up . the distance at a speedthatilltmake the ."spectators experience tiny chills-coursing up and down their spinal columns, ' i .-. TEST SOCIETY LAW . ' . . ' Case Before Mississippi Courts to As , certain States of Law 4 Against . Greek Letiter Fraternities. JACKSON Miss., Nov. . 29. Prep arations have ; been made f or', a legal est of the Russell anti-fraternity law passed by the last Legislature, for bidding Greek letter societies existing at any of the colleges or schools sup ported in whole' dr." in part by ' the State. . :. ; ; . . , ; .- . - . --':; ; ; . rj. p. . Waugh of Goodman, ' Ala., a student at Millsaps College was select ed by a committee to enter the Uni versity of Mississippi . to compete for a scholarship When he offered to matriculate he was ' asked to ! sign a pledge not to affiliate or become con nected with a secret society and that he had' not been so connected within 60 days. ;"" - ':'-;-'o:-' ; . Upon refusal the university author ities refused ; to allow f him. to enter. Waugh now .declares he ' will ; contest the constitutionality of ."the" law and in this will be assisted by sons' of the more prominent , attorneys of , the State. - "' " ' PIPE LINE BATES Are Called for by Interstate Com 5 meroe Commission in Case Pending Before Commerce Court. . WASHINGTON, - Nov.. 2 9. The In terstate Commerce Commission today directed pipe line companies operat ing in interstate oil traffic to submit schedules, of their" rates, and charges for oil transportation by February 1 next:.' " , ' The order is directed at the Okla homaPlpe Line Company, the' Stand ard Oil Company of -New; Jersey, the Uncle Sam ; Oljl ; Company of Kansas, the Prairie Oil &;Gas Co. the Stand ard Oil. 'Company '" of Louisiana, the Ohio- Oil, Compny,,CSv-the . Tidewater Pipe Company, the Pure Oil . Com pany, the Pure OiPPipe Line oCm pany and the National Pipe Line Company...; ... - i -''":V.' v . The 'commission already has decid ed these pipe ;ile ca appeal is;- pending in - the Commerce Court, hecessltatmg-today's 'action; . v classified as appointive positions, must first secure the . endorsement of eith er Senators Simmons or. Overman, or still better, "of both. PATRICK'S LAWYER MAKES DEFENSE OF DIX'S ACTIONS NEW TORIC, Nov. Whether Albert T. Patrick, who was pardoned by Governor Dix, will make' a fight for the millions left by . William Marsh Rice, the millionaire he was accused of having -murdered, may be settled today at a conference between Pat rick and his counsel former Judge William K. Olcott. Patrick was bene ficiary under what ' was by him al leged to be Rice's will. ; "I have not studied the will," Judge Olcott today, "and until . I r have a chance to confer with Mr. Patrick ,1 cannot say what action we will take." Judge Olcott took occasion to de fend the action of Governor Dix and in a statement he replied to the sev eral, criticisms made yesterday and last night by attorneys and others connected ':. with the prosecution of Patrick; In this statement Judge Ol cott. said: ; ; .; . ; . "Of course, it is the precedent in an application for a pardon that the district attorney , who tried that case and the Judge before' whom it was tried should be heard before action is" taken;"" " ; , ': .- "Beginning with Governor Higgins and going : through to Governor Hughes, White and Dix and every Governor except Governor . Dix has had this pardon application - before him ; by my insistently knocking at their ' doors. ' Each . one followed the precedent of asking Justice .Goff and former '.District Attorney Jerome, for their ' opinions and to each . of them these officials have rendered an opin ion strongly and unchangeably against Patrick. When Governor Dix took ixip the matter, therefore, it would have been double .work for him to have asked for these opinions again. They were on? file, unalterable by their very terms and it was. in ; spite of these opinions that Governor, Dix' conclud ed to use his authority ; (superior to that of., even the learned " opinions of Justice.; Goff and Mr. Jerome) and to dp eventual and ; much delayed justice in this. case." ' ' V .- ;;,-; -;.'.. : ' EUOATOR -DEAD Dr. William. Waugh Smith Chancellor of Randolph Macon Colleges Dies , m -Lynchburr. .v . '- ; . . ;y -, . . . . - . . - . ; - ; LYNCHBURG, Va., Nov. 29. Dr. William Waugh Smith, chancellor of the ; RandolphTMacon system of ,col leges, . president of . Randolph-Macon Women's College of Lynchburg and founder of the woman's college and Randolph-Macon academies at Bed ford City, Va., and Front Royal,-Va., died here early today after a lingering illness. " - :" . Doctor Smith, who was a prominent figure in the Southern Educational Conference, was a warm - personal friend . of President-Elect Woodrow Wilson. He was born in Warenton, Va., March 12 1845, and served four years in the Confederate army, having been twice wounded. ' DR. J. A. FOIL DEAD Professor Emeritus of Cafc.vba Col - lege Succumbs; to Long Illness. (Special to The Chronicle.) . NEWTON, Nov. 2. Dr. J A.. Foil, for more than 30 years member of the faculty of Catawba College, and since last . commencement professor emeritus, died at his home here last night, after a long illness, . and will be buried here tomorrow. He is sur vived by his wife and ; three daugh ters. Dr. Foil was born in Cabarrus County in 1847. " As teacher and preacher he was one of the leading figures in the North - Carolina -. Re formed Church; ; - ; ' MRS. SARAH A. SOSSAMON DIES IN SALISBURY. '-'..':.-'"-.'v --':.:. - (Special to The Chronicle.) ..- SALISBURY, Nov. 29. Mrs. Sarah A. Sdssamon died last night at 10 o'clock at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Ed. L. .Heilig, 218 West Council street. She was the widow of the late J. Wilson Sossaman and was 71 years of age ' She . is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Ed. L. Heilig, with whom she has been making her home for some time. The funeral ' will be held this afternoon at 3.3o o'c'ock from the First ' Baptist church, ser vices will be conducted by Rev. C. A. G. Thomas and the interment will be in the Lutheran cemetery. TO HAVE SCHOOLS FOR ELECTION OFFICIALS CHICAGO, Nov. 29. Schools of in struction for .election Judges and clerks will .ber ''conducted' by the election 'commissioners and county clerks,; was announced, last night,' in the hope of obvia(Vpg at future elections the delay in tabulating the official vote. . ; - The action was decided on after numerous complaints had been re- fceived about the tardy count of votes at the recent election. i . n ' The official returns were not an nounced until 21 days after the police figures had been tabulated. Lack of familiarity - with the election laws is blamed for the delay. PRICE ONE CENT J,g'" TODAY'S NEWS OF CHARLOTTE .. . ". . Happenings 01 The City Sketched In Brief As Seen By The Chronicle Reporters The prediction of the weather office for tonight and tomorrow is for a continuation of clear, coldness with probably a slight j rising of the tem perature tomorrow. - ;- . . ; - The Piedmont & Northern Lines will oecunv th haiiAmAnt AfflPA in tho Thiirst building that 'was formerly 'usecl byithe firm of F. C Abbott & Co. - - . ; , The former Carolina . students who saw the game yesterday at Rich mond between Carolina and Virginia, mostlyVirginia,, returned this, morn ing, . chagrin being spread across their countenances In great . clusters. Preliminary work for the paving' of North College-street, from Fifth in tersection began this morning '. .when the contractors sent a large force of hands to begin digging away the su f ace and prepare for the concrete foundation, . JMr. Hamilton C. Jones will lead the vesper service of the Young Wo men's Christian Association Sunday afternoon at 5 o'clock. The service will be an interesting one, as Mrs. Jones is an attractive speaker, and all women of the city are cordialy in vited to attend. . x ' , Mr. W. W. Reid, the wealthy New Orleans citizen, who has : come to Charlotte to make his home, has pur chased a tract In Myers Park for $12, 000 and expects to erect a handsome home in the early -future. Mr. Reid is making other Investments In Char lotte real estate . . Rev. J. M. Grler. pastor of the Presbyterian church , of . Concord, Is rather seriously ill at the Presbyte rian Hospital here, suffering an attack Of typhoid t fever. Mr. VGrier Js' a na tive of this county, a. brother of Rep-, resentative W. . A. . Grier of . Steele' ureeK. .. . : . " , benchi'thaf.tyurtthismornin ior . ine nrst lime since nis uewnuon at St. Peter's Hospital where he un, derwent a minor operation. Only the usual business conrrontea nun, xno program' being exceedingly light for' a morning after Thanksgiving. . The . Maxwell .car of Mr. B. Rush Lee was badly damaged this morn ing by fire in the engine which de manded the attention of the depart ment. The machine was stationed In front of the offices of the Carolina Realty Company and the fire started when Mr. Lee attemnted to crank and the engine "back-fired." Dr. JG. Kennedy, pastor of East Avenue Tabernacle, will return home tomorrow from Pittsburg where he has been spending the past three weeks and will preach at both services at his church Sunday. Dr. Kennedy . AAlAKvattnn ' Via K At Vi anniversary of a church in Pittsburg' The stockholders and creditors nt the Charlotte Fair Association will hold a meeting tonight at 8:30'oclock at the Selwyn Hotel, this being an ad journed meeting from last ; Filay night. Important interests looking to the enlargement of the scope of the fair association will be debated and discussed tonight, : . . : 1 The meeting for men at the' Young Men's Christian Association Sunday will be addressed by Dr. W. J. Martin, president of Davidson College who will speak on the subject "A Con trast." President Martin's coming to Charlotte is always the signal for a large gathering of men and this com ing will be no exception j as it is his first address before the association . since his acceptance of the .presi dency of -Davidson College. The boys of the Y. M. C. A. will De given a treat tomgnt wnen a eei of stereoptlcon slides will be shown. The subject of the slides is "Interest ing Scenes in Interesting Countries." Two performances will be- given, one at 7 for the benefit of the boys of the night school and any others who may wish to attend, and another at 8:30 for the reception of the Junior senior : clfiflRAH nf th Charl o tt a TTlflrli School. which will be given in the boys de- partment of the Y. M. C. A. tonight. : - - . Owing to the condition of the golf grounds the tournament that was ' scheduled at the Mecklenburg Country t Club yesterday to play the second competition for the President's Cup, was postponed ana win . De piayea on some date to be selected by the com mittee in charge. In . addition ; to the wet and snow-covered ground, the weather was so cold that It was deem ed wise to put off the match, the con- playing. ' ... , ; , ... . . UTAH FOLKS WAN ' COMPULSORY PATRIOTIS3L - SALT LAKE CITY, Utan, NOV. Z9. An amendment to the State Consti tution making the teaching of patriot ism in the public schools compulsory was recommended yesterday' by ' the t Utah Teachers' Association. . There new v . f dented bv d. ' H. - Christensen. ' super intendent of the Salt Lake City schools and the recommendation was carried by a small majority. Interest in the subject grew out of 7 the expulsion from the Salt Lake City , schools of tw,o little: girls who de clared . themselves Socialists and re fused to take part in-the flag saluting exercises,' ) -
The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, N.C.)
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Nov. 29, 1912, edition 1
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