1 IE CONTINUITY. EACH DAY'S DURATION ADDS VALUE TO YOUR ADVERTISING. THE TIME TO ADVERTISE IS ALL THE TIME. 3" VOL. XXIII HARLOTTE, N. C. THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 8, 1903. 0 ' NO. 5464 NEWS. THE GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE IS READ Senator Justice Introduces a Bill Prohibiting Manufac ture and Sale of Liquor in Towns SENATORIAL GAUCAS TOMORROW EVENING Mann's Bill Prohibits Any Legislator Accepting Office Created by the Present Legislature Raleigh, N. C, Jan. S Senator Jus tice introduced a bill prohibiting the manufacture and sale of liquor, ex cepting in incorporated towns of five hundred inhabitants, and making the minimum state, county and town li cense $500 each. Senator Mann offered a resolution that no legislator shall accept an office created by this legislature. The House passed a resolution to in vestigate a number of employees. The bills introduced were as follows: By Scott for another building at the A. & M. College; by Graham to extend the time for adjusting the State debt. The senatorial caueas will be held here Friday night. Governor Aycock's message was de livered to both houses shortly after they were called to order. The sub stance of the document follows: The Honorable, the General As sembly: I welcome you with much pleasure to the Capital of the State. With the beginning of your labors my own are appreciably lessened. You come to your work fresh from the people with a knowledge of their wishes and with a sincere desire to meet their just expectations and de mands. The year just passed has been one of great prosperity to the people of the State .Farmers have produced good crops and received reasonable prices for them. Industries have increased and manufacturers have been kept busy. Labor has had steady employment at fair wages and the State has probably never enjoyed a period of more general success. The State Government, however, has been embarrassed by a want of sufficient revenue to meet the appropriations provided for by the last General As sembly. It will be one of your first duties to devise means by which the expenditures of the State will coma within the revenue. I am of the opin ion that the Revenue Law now in force under the new assessments which will be made next June will supply all the demands for current ex penses. The Revenue and Machinery Acts of the last Legislature were much criticised at the time of their pas sage, but experience has shown that with a few modifications they are per haps as good as can be made under our Constitution. The adjustment of taxation so that the burden shall fail equally upon all and in proportion to the ability to pay is one of extreme difficulty; if indeed it is not alto gether impossible. There has been much complaint of the inequality of assessments in our State. Farmers and merchants complain that the cor porations do not pay their proper part of the taxes for the support of the Government, while some of the cor porations insist that they are taxed in excess of the taxes levied upon other property. The laws now in the statute books provide for equality of (Continued on Second Page.) IE ROUSE TO BE FAIR! PALACE Diplomatic Reception Will Take Place This Evaning and Will Be a Sight Worth Beholding Washington, Jan. 8. A small army of florists and greenhouse men are hard at work at the White House putting it in shape for the diplomatic reception this evening. Palms, ferns, smilax and blooms of many varieties have been transferred from theGovernmenthot-houses and by the time electric lights are switched on the newly remodelled home of the President will be a scene worth be holding. Two thousand invitations have been issued. II COMMISSION WEARY.v Will Hold Longer Sessions To Ex pedite Hearing. Philadelphia, Jan. S. It has been de termined to expediate as far as pos sible,1 the hearing in the coal strike in quiry and the members of the anthra cite strike commission this morning opened the third day's session at 10 o'clock and from now7 on in the morn ing session will be three hours and the afternoon two and a half hours. The examination of witnesses which claim they have been assaulted by strikers was resumed this morning. On the witness stand before the strike commission today. President Mitchell testified that the three miners convict ed of the murder of Daniel Sweeney belonged to the union. Big Coal Land Deal. Morgantown. W. Va.. Jan. S. The iron and steel manufacturers of Cleve land, O., through their agent W. R. Murray yesterday closed a deal for six thousand acres of coal land off the Free port, Morgantown and Kingwood rail road. The companies will unite in building a coke plant to supply their factories. The price paid was thirty dollars per acre. Gambled With Employer's Money. London, Jan. S. In the Guild Hall court today George Hunbert, a 27 year old clerk was charged on his confess ion with stealing 15,000 pounds while employed by Brown and Shipley, American bankers. The hearing was adjourned. He lost the money on stock betting. MPORTMT CASES FOR Hf COURT Three Murderers, Probably a Fourth, Will Be Tried Next MonthThe Bishop Case is On This Docket The next term of the criminal branch of the Mecklenburg Superior Court will convene in Charlotte Mon day February 9th, Judge Shaw will preside. At this session of the court there will be three murder trials and prob ably the fourth, if Ell Alexander, the negro who killed Oliver Weddingion is captured. True bills have been found against John Dodge, who on November 3, was charged with the murder of Lizzie Pat terson. A true bill lias also been found against John Carter, who is charged with the murder of his wife, Maggie Carter. The case of Arthur L. Bishop, charg ed with the murder of Thomas J. Wil son, will come up for trial and it will probably be the first of the three mur der cases to be heard. While a true bill has been found against Jorn Dodge, the jury will hardly convict him on a capital crime, as the dying statement of the woman in a meas ure, exonorated him. Dodge was at the home of the Patterson woman, the night of November 3. While there he and the woman had some words. Late -Dodge pulled out an old pistol and flourished it around. He claims that the woman had done nothing for him to take her life and that the tragedy was the result of an accident. Just be fore death ended her sufferings the Patterson woman stated that she did not think Dodge intended to kill her. The case of John Carter, the colored janitor of the North State Club, charg ed with the murder of his wife, Mag gie Carter, will attract a large number of the better element of the colored population to the court room durir : the trial of the case. Carter and his wife were very well-to-do negroes and while the tragedy was a revolting one, there will be a great effort made to save Carter from the gallows. Several of the best lawyers at the Charlotte bar have been retained to defend Car ter. Ell Alexander, the negro who killed Oliver Weddington, is still at large. News readers will recall the fact that this tragedy was enacted in the Provi dence section, the 7th of last Novem ber. The sad tragedy that connects Ar thur L. Bishop, the young Petersburg traveling man, with the death o? Thomas J. Wilson, is still fresh in the minds of the public. To Hear Kentucky Charges. Washington, Jan. 8. The Interstate Commerce Commission meets in New York January 15th to hear testimony in the Kentucky railway merger case. This is the action brought by the rail way commission of Kentucky against the proposed consolidation of the southern railroads. Sternberg to Succeed Hollebein. Berlin, Jan. 8. It is officially an nounced that Baron Von Sternberg, German Consul at Calcutta, succeeds Von Hollebein as German ambassa dor to the United States. Sternberg sails for America Saturday. New Treaty With Germany. Berlin, Jan. 8. It is reported the Government will negotiate a new com mercial treaty with the United States in the spring. l " 1 "m i mi FIGHTING S H i OF THE HAGUE COURT Germany and England Now Anxious to Secure a Settlement With Castro Offhand ' WOULD ARRANGE MATTER THROUGH MINISTER BOWEN Matos Scores Castro, Charac terizing Him as a Real Sav age, Whose Word is Not Worth Anything Washington, Jan. 8. The State De partment today received a memor andum from Minister Bowen at Caracas stating that Venezuela had accepted in general the terms and conditions for arbitration laid down by the powers. It was officially ad mitted at the department this after noon that the present proposal of the powers is for a conference in Wash ington in which Minister Bowen should act as the representative of Venezuela for the purpose of settling the entire difficulty without further delay. Washington, Jan. 8. The Govern ments having claims against Venezue la are now endeavoring to secure a settlement with President Castro with out referring the dispute to The Hague. Hague. Germany particularly objects to the Hague on account of the cumbersome ness of its machinery and the neces sarily long time that it would require for an adjustment of the claims by that tribunal. Both England and Germany w-ould prefer to arrange the whole affair by diplomatic negotiations through Min ister Bowen at Caracas. In view of this new trend of the negotiations Castro's reply to the lat est communications of the powers is awaited with considerable interest by the State Department. MATOS SCORES CASTRO. Willemstad, Curacao, Jan. 6. Gen. Manuel A. Matos, leader of the Vene zuelan .revolutionists, made the follow ing statement: "The present misfortunes of Vene zuela come from the presence at the head of the Government of a man des titute of morals and of administrative ability a real savage. Castro was a man entirely unknown, who arose by chance to the highest magistracy and has never learned anything because he listens to nobody and never studies. He has always been the same. His ar bitrary actions in the interior have been the cause of the uprising of the wbnlq nation. There is no cruelty which has not been inflicted by him upon all who have been considered enemies of his authority. He has placed in unhealthy prisons soldiers, merchants, farmers, young and old men, and has carried his cruelty even to putting them in irons of 40 pounds weight. "Defenceless cities have been sub jected to pillage and bombarded with out clemency for the crime of having been occupied by the revolutionary army. Similar arbitrary actions toward foreigners have been the cause of the common action of the several Europ ean nations in order to protect their citizens. What is happening today in Venezuela is without precedent, be cause an uprising of such magnitude could have been caused only by a sol dier of fortune as cruel and as ignorant REMORSE FINDS CROWNPRINCESS Shows Signs of Repentance, But Swears to Kill IHer Babe Before Saxon Court Has It Rome, Jan. 8. The Pope has in structed. Abbe Max of Saxony to make a final endeavor in His Holiness' name, to bring about a reconcileation be tween the Crown Prince of Saxony and the Princess Louise, who eloped with the French tutor. Vienna, Jan. 8. Despatches received here from Dresden say it is reported here that the Crown Princess has begun to show signs of repentance for the elopement. Sensational developments are expect ed when the princess' child is born. She swears she will kill it rather than allow it to go where she was unhappy. The Saxon authorities will try to ob tain the child by every means at their command. as General Castro. Venezuela has fer- tue soil and has been able to retain her financial equilibrium, her foreign, exchange, to facilitate commercial transactions and to fulfill all her na tional obligations. The natural income of the Republic, without increasing the taxes or burdening industry, has given Venezuela sufficient to pay her expen ses and to have a surplus which will ; permit the paying of debts and the de- "Venezuela considers the actual con flict, exterior and interior, as charac terized by the man who has created such a situation, and that if once this man disappears the nation will return to its morals and its credit, and with this the easy solution of all the diffi culties will be found. Therefore it is clear that when once the liberating re volution, in which resides the national sovereignty, is triumphant Great Brit ain, Germany and any other civilized country will come to easy terms with the- Republic. There is no doubt about this. SNUBS LIKE BLOWS TO WIFE. Court Grants Divorce Because Hus band Would Not Kiss Her. St. Louis. Jan. 8. Judge Warwick Hough has granted a divorce to Delia R. S. Crowe from Thomas Crowe, a railroad engineer. Mrs. Crowe, former ly a school teacher, testified that her husband, from three months after their marriage, repulsed her caresses and when leaving the house would kiss her sister and refuse to kiss her. In his decision the Judge says: '"Contumelious words, especially when accompanied with a contemptu ous demeanor, may amount to an in dignity which would be felt by a sen sitive mind with far keener anguish than might follow the infliction of a blow." Coal Strike Leads to Suicide. Mahonoy City, Pa., Jan. 8. Worry over his loss of earnings during the coal strike caused John Costock, a colliery fireman at Silver Brook, to commit suicide at his home by shooting himself. He leaves a widow and six children. VEST RESOLUTION IS BEFORE SENATE The Philippine Constabulary Measure Receives Consid eration in Preference to Important Things Washington, Jan. 8. Two House bills, one amending the internal rev enue laws relating to distilled spirits to bonded warehouses, were passed by the Senate today. The resolution of Mr. Vest, of Mis souri, to place anthracite coal on the free list was taken up by the Senate at 12:30 o'clock. Mr. Aldrich, against the bill, was the first speaker. The House, in committee, of the whole, gave consideration to the Phil ippine constabiltary bill, which aims to promote the efficiency of the Philip pine constabulary by giving the rank and pay of a Brigadier General of the army to the army officer in inferior rank in command of the service and rank and pay cf a colonel to officers serving as assistant chiefs of service. PUPIL STABS TEACHER. i Cutting Affray In School Because Boys Got No Candy. j Washington, Pa., Jan. 8 The great- est excitement prevails in the little i town of Harveys, in Greene county, ! over a cutting affray, which occurred at the public school there yesterday. I The teacher of the school, C. R. Clut t ter, attempted to punish Arnold Mc- Clellan, aged 17, when one of the boys drew a pocketknife and stabbed the ! teacher several times. Clutter is in a serious condition. i The trouble was a result of the i teacher's refusal to treat the pupils on j Chrfetmas. It is a custom among the ! country school teachers in this section I evert . ear during the holidays to give ! thepr-piis a treat of candy. Clutter j neglected to da this last week and the ; pupils requested it. He still refused, i and a riot ensued. ! STOLE SUNDAY SCHOOL CASH. Person Who Took It Twenty-Five Years Ago- Now Returns It. Somerville, N. J., Jan. 8 The clerk of the First Baptist Church, in Som erville, has received a letter accompa nied by $25 as a conscience gift from an unknown writer. The writer says he appropriated a collection of $1.50 from the Raritan Baptist Sunday school when he was a boy, and he has had a troubled consi ence over the theft more than 25 years. The Raritan Sunday school was a branch of the Somerville Baptist Church and was disbanded a quarter of a century ago. Friends Get Col. Johnson Title. Washington, Jan. 8. At the earnest solicitation of his friends, who want to be able properly to call him "Gen eral" after he retires to private life, Lieut.-Col. J. A. Johnson has postpon ed his resignation from the army for a few days. Col. Johnson is assistant adjutant-general. Through the efforts of his friends the President has agreed to appoint him a brigadier-general. He will resign the next day as General Johnson. THESE ROBBERS, PROFESSIONALS Four Safe crackers Captured at Columbia Thought to Be Ones That Worked This Section WERE LEADING FAST LIFE WHEN ARRESTED They Are Held For Higher Court There-Believed the Right Men Are Now in The Toils Charlotte police think that the four professional safe crackers who have been nabbed in Columbia, S. C, are the ones who have been doing the dirty work in this section. The four men who have been jailed in Columbia, gave their names as Charles Howard, Edward Dugan, Thomas Nolan and William McKinley. The four are also thought to consti tute the gang who rifled the vaults of the Savings Bank at Fort Mill and committed other robberies in Upper South Carolina and certain sections of this State. For some time it has been known that such a gang have been operating between this city and Columbia. Many think that these four men have been in Charlotte, and that, too, very re cently. In its account of the capture of these crooks the Columbia State of this morning says: The prisoners were arraigned before Mr. Lide yesterday afternoon and were locked up in the county jail as they could not raise the amount of bail, $20,000 for each man. The preliminary examination, to be held at a date not yet fixed, will be conducted before Mr. James Verner, who was just recently appointed United States commissioner. The officers will not give any of the evidence which points to those men as the ones guilty of the crimes enum erated, but they 1 evidently have enough upon which to operate. The developing of the evidence will be the work of the secret service men. Before their formal arrest each of the suspected crooks was asked many searching questions. The officers say that these men have the bearing of professionals and their own statements show that they have been in Columbia some time. They denied being con nected with any of the numerous rob beries in the State and say that they have not been outside of Columbia ex cept to the carnival in Charleston. They likewise denied having ever trav eled in neighboring States. These men. or some of them, have led a fast life here. They have squan dered thousands of dollars. Nolan is said to have lost $1,500 at cards in one night. Since their several arrests pei . ;n tnwn who were thrown with them have been telling marvelous yarns of the extravagance of some of these worthies, how they would throw out a greenback in payment of drinks and then refuse the change, how they spent their money on men and women whom they fancied. Such acts as these would tend to show that these men, if guilty of the charges preferred, have been living in Columbia for months and had become venturesome in their fancied security. The government men who have been working on the case are very compli mentary in their references to Chief Daly and the way in which he engi neered the case.. Officers Strickland and Thackham, the city's detectives, are also receiving due credit for their ser vices in spotting and shadowing the alleged crooks. No bank or postoffice in South Carolina has been secure in RGHERS PLEAD F Ask More Generous Loans by England, Cattle at Cost, General Amnesty and Abol ition of Special Police Pretoria, Jan. 8 At a meeting of prominent burghers held yesterday ad dresses, which will be presented to Colonial Secretary Chamberlain and the legislative council, were adopted. The addresses make the following re quests:, General amnesty and retention of the Boer laws regarding the natives. More generous loans by England, selling to Burghers at cost price all cattle import ted into the country by England and the abolition of Baden-Powell's special police. Rnthn told the Burmhers he had col lected 105,000 pounds in Europe for the j distressed families. ' URTHEH A late months, and if these are the ermltv f parties who have committed so many t depredations, then the State is well rid or tnem, ana the officers are indeed to be praised. QUITS WITH STANDARD OIL. Country Justice Gave Monopoly Some of Its Own Medicine. Seneca Falls, N. Y., Jan. 8. Justice ' of the Peace Charles Higgins, to give the Standard Oil Company a little of its own monopoly medicine, quietly bought up all the copper flag in the marshes at Cayuga Lake. The Stand ard uses a large quantity in the manu facture of oil barrels, and many years ago, Higgins says, drove a mean bar gain with him. Last year there was a shortage of flag and this year the Standard came to him for its supply. He put on a fancy price, but the trust objected. "You pay my price and in advance," said Higgins, "or you get no flag." The trust came" to terms. REBEL CHIEFS SUBMITTING. Some Of Them Offer To Make Peace With Castro. Caracas, Venezuela, Jan. 8. As a di rect consequence of the Government troops' victory at Guartiers six leaders of the Matos revolution have requested to make their peace with President Castro and his administration. Among these revolutionary chiefs are Generals Battalia, Antonio Fernaandez and Crespo. Further details of the battle have reached here. During the four hours' engagement 117 insurgents were killed and many were taken prisoners. SEVEN ARE DEAD i EIGHT1LL DIE Local PassengerTrain Crash ed Into Freight Near Mc Keesport Last Night With Awful Results Pittsburg, Jan. 8. The condition of the victims of the wreck on the Pitts burg, Virginia and Charleston railway last night, who were taken to a Mc Keesport hospital, is unchanged this morning. The bodies of the seven dead are still at the Duquesne morgue. Cf the injured eight will die. The passenger train in the wreck was the West Elizabeth accommoda tion, which left Pittsburg at 3:20 p. m. It w7as on time and had a clear track, according to the displayed sig nals. At the siding at Cochrane it ran into the rear car of an extra freight which had taken the switch, but failed to clear the main line. The official.? cf the road attribute the disaster to the failure of Patrick uinn, the rear brakeman of the freight, to see that his train had fully cleared. Quinn has not been located. The dead are: C. E. Stroud, hag-gage-master, Elizabeth accommodation of Homewood; C. M. Boenner, brake man cf accommodation, Pittsburg; John Stewart, passenger, residence un known; two unknown foreigners, kill ed outright; two unknown foreigners, died on way to hispital. The injured are: T. D. Cook, will probably die; Sam Sullanoksky, shoul der blade fractured; Peter Kimosky, burned; John Smith, seriously injured; Mike Gentill, slightly injured. FIRED ONE CHURCH TWICE. Prisoner Said To Have Confessed He Objects to Catholic Edifices. Ogdensburg. Jan. 8. A man giving the name of Henry Bath, aged thirty years, ' and who says his home is in Massachusetts, is under arrest in Brockville, charged with arson in hav ing attempted to set fire to St. Fran cis Xavier Church, in Brockville, on New Year's Day and last Friday. On being accused of the crime he confessed, it is said, giving as his rea son that he thought no Roman Catholic churches had a right to exist in a Pro testant country. GREAT NEW YORKER DEAD. No Coffin Ready Made Large Enough To Bury Miles In. Cgdenburg, Jan. 8. R. W. Miles, aged fifty-four, a farmer, who died on Saturday, was the largest man in Nor thern New York. He weighed more than 400 pounds. No coffin large enough could be found in any stock. While the under taker was embalming the body a spark set the roof of the house ablaze. The fire was put out with small damage. , i Roosevelt to Be at Canton Banquet. Washington, Jan. 8. President Roosevelt will attend a banquet to be given by the Canton, O., Republican League on Jan. 27, in honor of the birthday of President McKinley. The President will leave here cn the night of Jan. 2G and return on Jan. 28. Corbin Grand Marshal at St. Louis. Washington, Jan. 8. Ad jt.-Gen. H. C. Corbin will be the grand marshal of the parade at the opening of the St. Louis Fair on April 30, 1904. Lieut. Col. Edward A. Godwin, who is now on duty at the Fair grounds, will be his chief of staff. S WOULD DIG TOE PANAMA DITCR German Syndicate is Endeav oring to Euchre the United States Out of Control of Proposed Canal NEGOTIATIONS COME TO AN ADBRUPT HALT German Intrigue Believed To Be Responsible For the De lay on the Part of South American Folks Washington. Jan. 8. In official eir- ! cles here it is admitted this morning that there is foundation for the state , ment that Germany is endeavoring to euchre the United States out of the control of the Panama canal. Recent cablegrams from Europe have indicated that a syndicate composed principally of German capitalists stood ' for the property of the Panama Canal company as soon as the option of the United States expires. The syndicate saw that the canal was a profitable business enterprise and apparently has attempted to obtain possession of it. German Intrugue, in behalf of these German capitalists is believed to be re sponsible for Colombias delay in nego tiating the treaty with the United States wrhereby this country would se cure control of the canal. Negotia tions, which have been pending since June, have come to an adbrupt halt. JUDGES WITHOUT SALARIES. West Virginia Change Appears To Leave Them Payless. Parkersburg, W. Va., Jan. 8 The discovery is made that the recently adopted Constitutional amendment has left the judges of every State court in West Virginia without a salary, from the Supreme Court of Appeals to the lowest criminal court. Before the adoption of the amend ment salaries of judges were fied by the Constitution. The amendment re pealed that section of the Constitution and provided that the salaries of all judges should be fixed by the Legisla ture. It is contended now that the for mer Constitutional provision having been repealed and the Legislature not having fixed the salaries under the new amendment to the Constitution, every judge in the State is without a salary, and will be until the Legislature fixes the new salaries. ( ATTORNEY RUTH WANTED. Newport News Woman Swears Out Warrant A Silk Factory. Newport News, Va., Jan. 8. Attor ney Charles H. Ruth, of Washington, who came here four years ago as coun sel for the Washington Block Asphalt Company, is wanted by the police to answer to the charge of embezzlement of $300 belonging to Mrs. Mary John son. Mrs. Johnson swore cut a warrant for his arrest this evening. She sued a railroad for damages and the case was compromised for $600. Her share was $300, and she alleges that Mr. Ruth left the city without paying her. Chief Johnson has wired Chief Sylvester to lock out for Mr. Ruth. Mr. Ruth announced publicly that he intended to leave, but no at tempt was made to arrest him. Malleable Iron-Casting Combine. Pittsburg, Jan. 8. The malleaole iron-casting combine deal, which fell through because of lack of support, will be taken up aj'ain after it has been ascertained what Congrosess will do cn anti-trust legislation. ROUSE DISCUSSES L Congress Will Be Asked To Empower Committee to In vestigate the Entire Sub ject of Transportation Washington, Jan. 8. The coal situa tion became the subject of a discussion before the House committee on Mer chant. Marine and Fisheries today with result that a resolution will be intro duced in the House asking Congress to authorize the committee to investi gate the entire subject of coal trans portation. The matter came up when Chairman Grosvener called up the McCall resolu tion to suspend the coastwise laws of the United States so as to allow foreign vessels to carry coal for a period of ninety days, unrestricted by any pro vision of existing laws. The resolution will be drawn up by Littlefield, of Maine, and will be introduced by Gros venor. ill ii HAN OA T T

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