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THE SERVICES of an experienced Advertising writer are at the disposal of all who place their advertising in the News. NEW THE PEOPLE who read the News represent a purchasing body which ex pends hundreds of thousands of dol lars annually for supplies and via the News is the cheapest way to reach them. M A VOL. XXIII CHARLOTTE, N. C, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 21. 1903. NO. 5476 CB w r WATAUGA BILL PASSES SENATE Prohibition Measure For that County Goes Through Without a Dissent ing Voice NO PROSPECT OF A BREAK IN THE DEADLOCK Some Interesting Bills Intro ducedProceedings of the House and Senate Tuesday Raleigh, N. C, Jan. 21. The Legis lature, in joint session at noon, ballot ed for Senator. There is no prospect of breaking the deadlock. The Watauga prohibition bill pass ed the Senate unanimously. The following bills were introduced: London, prohibiting insuring the lives f infants; Justice, for regulating pri vate insane hospitals; Gilliam, pro hibiting child labor under 14, unless for supporting a mother or a disabled father. SENATE, JAN. 20. With Lieutenant Governor Turner presiding the Senate began its twelfth day's session at 11 o'clock yesterday, prayer being offered by Rev. M. " M. Marshall. PETITIONS. Petitions were received through Senator Ballenger as follows: From itizens of Hooper's Creek township of Henderson county, asking for the incorporation of Pataty's Chapel, Methodist, the manufacture and sale of liquor within two and a half miles to be prohibited asking for amend ments to the game and fish laws. These were referred to the Commit tee on Propositions and Grievances. BILLS INTRODUCED. The following bills were intro duced". S. B. 131. By Webb, of Buncombe: To amend chapter 1164 of The Code. 3. B. 132. By Wellborn, of Ashe: To amend chapter 8, Laws of 1901, re lating to increase of the Governor's salarv. S. B. 132. By Ballenger, of Polk: To amend chapter 437. Laws of 1901, by prohibiting tho killing of ducks and pnipes and by making the open sea son on partridges, quails, pheasants, grouse, wild turkeys and larks from November fifteenth to April first m Henderson county. To Committee on Propositions and Grievances. S. B. 134. By Ballenger, of Polk: To make drunkenness a misdemeanor. For the first offence $10 or 10 days' imprisonment; each offence after ward $25 or 30 days' imprisonment. To Committee on Propositions and Griev ances. S. B. 136. By Sprulll, of Tyrrell: To prohibit hunting on enclosed or fenced lands in certain counties. To Committee on Propositions and Griev ances. 1 S. B. 137. By Burton, of Rocking ham. To allow the town of Madison to purchase site of the town Academy for (Continued On Seventh Page.) Broken Heart Marked Down $4,750. Bath, N. Y., Jan. 21. When Miss Esther Townsend heard that her fiance had married another girl she brought a suit against him for breach (if promise. The defendant, Theodore W. Case, did not deny his agreement to marry Miss Townsend, who sued him for $;",000, but he didn't have the money. Yesterday they settled the matter before it came to trial by Miss Townsend throwing off $4,750 and ac cepting $250 from the defendant. I1ICH Oil TRIAL T Prisoner Looked Pale and Careworn When His Hear ing Was Begun This Mornine London, Jan. 21. Colonel Lynch, charged with high treason in the Boer var, was brought to the bar of the royal law court this morning for trial. Iynch was indicted on four counts vering his actions in the Transvaal, Orange Colony and Natal. The accused claims he was a natural ized Boer and therefore'not indictable. The crown is represented by six at torneys and the defendant by four at torneys. Thtre is much interest in the trial and the court room was crowded vhen the proceedings began. The wife f f the prisoner was present. Lynch was in court and looked pale and careworn. REASON I ArrihirrriA-w I " 1 - With Glorious Sunshine After Clouds and Sleet. "What is more rare than a day in June?" asks the poet. Answer: A day like today. Nature gains so much in the recoil from rime and ic3 and fog. What a transformation transfigura tion took place from early morning to noon! The sunshine burst forth from disappearing clouds and never was it more welcome. Young and old came out to bask in the balmy atmos phere as if it was the first sunlit day after the creation. The porous, spongy earth drank in the warm beams and rejoiced. The overhanging trees and shrubbery shook the clinging icicles from their shackled limbs in showers, which fell shattered upon the pave ments. Eaves and awnings dripped with the melting sleet. Pungent and aromatic vapors arose like incense from the tepid, thawing earth. It was a picture too glorious for brush and canvas. It has been a rich, temperate, clean-washed, ambrosial day, when sun and soil meet in one long, sweet and soulful kiss and the wine of nature sparkles to the brim of the beaker. Huntersville Items. Huntersville, N. C, Jan. 20. A meet ing will be held in the A. R. P. church this week. Preaching commencing on Thursday night and continue through to Sabbath night. The services will be held at eleven a. m. and seven p. m. each day. At the morning service on Saturday the newT church will be dedi cated. The communion will be cele brated on Sabbath. Rev. John Boyce, former of this congregation will assist the pastor in the meeting. Mr. John Auten, section foreman, will move his family from Charlotte to Huntersville this week. There is soon to be two additional Rural Mail routs established from the Huntersville of fice. We will then have four routs from this office. This will be a great benefit to the people in the country. , N. latest foreign unhid views Italy in the Grasp of the Ice King Bubonic Plague Reaches an Alarming Stage in Durham Rome, Jan. 21. Italy is experiencing a severe cold snap which is being felt over the greater part of the Empire. In Venice the lagoons are frozen over. Constantinople, Jan. 21. The second Russian torpedo boat passed through the Bosphorus on Monday bound for Sebastopol. Paris, Jan. 21. The Chinese Ambas sador has signed a contract with the Russo-Chinese Bank for a new loan of forty million francs to build the Tichen Ting Fu and Tain Yuan Fu railway. Lisbon, Jan. 21. The Minister of War is about to submit a proposal to Paliament for the government to ac quire thirty batteries of quick firing guns, six batteries of howitzers and a hundred thousand improved rifles. Durban, Jan. 21. The Bubonic plague which is epidemic here, is in creasing and is assuming alarm pro portions. There are no less tha,n thirty six cases, two of which are Europeans. Thus far seventeen have died from plague. ANNUAL MEETINGS. Corporation Stockholders Meet and Select Officers. Yesterday afternoon the annual meet ing of the stockholders of the Louise Mill was held. The following directors were re-elected: J. P. Wilson, E. A. Smith, M. P. Pegram and W. S. Mal lory, of Charlotte and Messrs. Morris Whitridge and R. B. Hopkins, of Bal timore. Mr. J. P. Wilson was re-elected president and Col. W. S. Mallory sec retary and treasurer. The plant was found to be in splendid condition fi nacially as well as otherwise. At the annual meeting of the South ern Real Estate, Loan and Trust Com pany, held yesterday afternoon, Mr. P. M. Brown was re-elected president; Mr. W. S. Alexander, vice president and general manager, and Mr. Fabius J. Haywood, Jr., cashier, and Mr. C, M. Carson, secretary. The following board of directors were elected: P. M. Brown, R, A. Dunn, Dr. D. O'Donoghue, E. T. Cans'ler, W. S. Alexander, Dr. R. L. Gibbon and C. M. Carson. At a meeting several weeks ago, this corporation declared a 'dividend of 6 per cent., payable after the first of January. Cotton Receipts. Eighteen bales of cotton were re- s0a ot th rnt.ton nlatform today. Price 9 cents. Seventy bales were re ceived last year, the same aate, m price being 8 cents. There were 485 marriage licenses issued by Register of Deeds McDonald last year. Of this number 220 were white couples and 265 were negroes. In the Recorder's court this morn ing Jake Henderson, colored, was made topay the costs for being drunk and disorderly. 7 BflffBH OOff Hn H-ri B B II W nilll republicans in quandary, f i bus u n n - h a a v hbshhuhmb h h a a n i ?? b mam w m mm mm mm kj ii mm mm r mm mm mm mm hh h m ebcxmh mm m m i vviluua lo ruurou UUILI 1 , Hertford, N. C, Jan. 22-2:30 P. M.--After being out all night and more than half of today, the jury in the Wilcox case filed into the court room at 2 o'clock today and announced that they found the prisoner guilty of murder in the second degree. The prisoner took the verdict coolly and with his usual indifference. udge Councill sentenced Wilcox to thirty FORT FIRED 117 SHOTS. Details of the Hot Reception To the German Gunboat. Maracaibo, Venezuela, Jan. 21. The German attack on the San Carlos fort at Maracaibo was premeditated. Saturday morning the commander of the German gunboat Panther sent three boat loads of men to recon noiter the fort. The Panther forced an entrance at noon and attacked im mediately. The fort replied and fired 117 shots. Several of them seemed to hit the mark, for the Panther turned about and repassed the bar at 6 p. m. She again took up her position on the blockade, 20 miles from the fort. During the attack four Venezuelans were cadly wounded and ll siigntiy. The fort was little damaged. Reports that the German bunboat. at the time of the engagement, was trying to force the entrance of the lake in order to capture the Vene zuelan gunboat Miranda, which is in hiding there, are generally believed. The Venezuelan government has given out a statement to this effect. REMARRIED HIS FIRST WIFE. Couple Had Lost All Trace Of Each Other and Were Divorced. Vineiand, N. J., Jan. 21. Robert Morehead went West in 1S77 and through illness and misfortune and the loss of letters his wife lost all trace of him. Mrs Morehead got a di vorce on the ground of desertion. She never married again. She an? her son at last monrried the mismg man as dead. Morehead married again, but lost his wife by death. After the death of his second wife he started to find his former family. Obtaining a clue at last, he came to Vineiand and Minounced his allegi ance to the bride of his youth and his "baby," Frank, now grown to han hood, with a family of his own. After matters were talked over and all en tangled circumstmces unraveled the couple presented thembeives before Lev. Robert 1. Moore on Sunday night and were remarried. NURSE INHERITS $10,000. Cared for a Banker and Tock Him Home, Where He Died. Syracuse, Jan. 21. Edward Wal thart, a trained nurse of the village of Phelps, has received a bequest of $10,000 from Edward Bailey Buck, a banker of Baltimore, whom he nursed through a severe illness at the Geneva Sanitarium in 1S95. . Walthart . also accompanied Mr. Buck home when he returned to Bal timer. There he ha a relapse and died. Walthart first heard of the be quest on Saturday, when the postmas ter received a notification from the executors of the Buck estate. Arrived in Time for the Wedding. Danville, Va.. Jan. 21. Mr. Harry Coleman and Miss Mary A. Travis, of this city, were married at Pelham, N. C, yesterday after a wild chase, in which the young lady's stepfather was a hot pursuer. The old man, who reached the scene in time to witness the ceremony, swallowed his disap pointmen; with as good grace as he could and invited the young people home to dinner. STRIKER'S PLACES ARE BEING FILLED Boot and Shoe Workers Un ion Send Another Install ment of Men to Work for Manufacturers Today Lynn, Jan. 21. The Boot and Shoe Workers Union, made further progress this morning in filling the places of the striking cutters at the Union Stamp Shoe Factory here. Thirty more went to work today in four additional factories and six were added to thoss supplied yesterday at Harney & Co., making a total of thirty-six newr men furnished by the Un ion this morning. All the imported men went to work under police escort. WILL TAKE APPEAL Hartford, N. C, Jan. 21 The jury in the case of James E. Wilcox re turned a verdict of murder in the second degree at 2 o'clock this after noon. The sentence as passed by Judge Council gives the prisoner thirty years at hard labor in the peni tentiary. His honor said: "The guilt of the prisoner as I see it, compells me to give him the full penalty of the law. If he is guilty he deserves it and more. I think the jury has displayed great charity in giving him the bene fit of this doubt." Great excitement prevailed and a f crowded court room listened breath- lessly to the sentence. Every face dis played eagerness and excitement save that of the accused. With quick and deliberate steps James Wilcox walked into the court room. Hp looked a trifle nale but. not one muscle displayed a quiver. Even when he arose to hear his fate pro nounced his countenance was passive ly calm. He was prepared for the worst. Down at the little depot the Crop seys and the Wilcoxes were waiting for the train that would take thein home. They hardly expected a verdict before the train arrived, but it came They surmised the meaning of tne 'phones imperative ring. The news was told them but they-xpressed no ; emotion. Both families received it without comment. The attorneys for James Wilcox de clare tneir intention to appeal for a new trial. Another effort is to be made in behalf of the prisoners liberty. BLOOD POISONING FROM Symptoms of Septacemia Ap pear in Two Students Within Twenty-Four Hours Two students of the North Carolina Medical College at Davidson, are lying at the point of death as the result of blood poisoning, contracted while in the dissecting room of the college last Thursday. The unfortunate young men are Mr. J. M. Boyce of Blacksburg, S. C, a nephew of Dr. C. M. Strong of this city and Mr. O. R. McLeod of Robeson county. While dissecting a subject last Thursday, Mr. Boyce stuck a sharp pointed instrument In his hand. Mr. McLeod had a slight abrasion on one of his hands and it is supposed that the poison entered the veins in that way. In 24 hours after the young men left the dissecting room, symptoms of the dreaded disease made itself manifest and for the past three days they have been very near death's door. Yesterday Dr. J. P. Munroe, presi dent of the college determined to resort to heroic treatment in order to stay the ravages of tha disease and, if pos sible, save the lives of the young men. Seeing in The News of Saturday the wonderful success that Dr. Charles C. Barrows of New York had attained through the use of an injection of for malin and salt solution he decided to make the experiment as a last resort. Dr. Munroe was assisted in admin istering the deadly drug by Dr. C. M. Strong of this city. The injection was made in the tissues of the chest cf Mr. McLeod. At the time the patients tem perature was 106. In less than an hour, the temperature had fallen to 102. This splendid result was, however, only temporary, as the patients tem perature soon rose to 104 and has been about this figure ever since. This afternoon another injection will be given and this time the fluid will be injected into the patients arms. Dr. Munroe informs The News this afternoon that the lives of both Mc Leod and Boyce are hanging by a thread and but little hope of their re covery is entertained. CADAVER years in penitentiary. TWO CHILDREN FROZEN. Fearing to Go Home, They SJeep in a Barn. Norway, Me., Jan. 21. Fearing to return home because they had been threatened with a whipping if they wet their feet while sliding, Elvina McKav. thirteen vears old. and her brother. Everett, aged ten, crawlea into a barn to sleep on the hay. The barometer registered 20 bo low zero until this morning. When thej' were found by a farmer in a badly frozen condition, both feet of the girl were so badly frostbitten that amputation of all the toes of both feet will be necessary. Her brother's feet were frozen to four inches above the ankles, and his ! Western ranch and proved to his visi f hoes had to be cut away before the j -ors that ho had not forgotten it. doctors could work on him. The Blackfeet were introduced by I George Bird Grinnell. POOR WOMAN TO GET MILLIONS Engine-Wiper's Wife Notified of In terest In Vast Estate. Nevada, Cal.. Jan. 21. Mrs. Frank Le Grande, wife of an engine-wiper, employed by the Southern Pacific Company, has :ust received informa- j tion confirming her right to a one-fifth interest in an estate worth $20,000, 000. This vast fortune was left by Mrs. Le Grande's grandmother, who resid ed in Holland, where her estates are located. The will bequeathing the for-! tune was made some time before her j grandmother's death and sent to Mrs. le oranue s mother, who kept the documents until long after her moth er s ncath. The government of Horhrmfr fn-w effort to locate truTieirs, found Mrs.? LeGrande's mother and the will. v -. discovered" TRAIN BURNS UP STATION. Wheel Flies From Axle and Over- turns Stove in Building. Port Jervis. Jan. 21. The Erie sta tion at Hoadleys was burned last night, and the operator, D. E. Sher wood, barely escaped with his life. A i wheel on an east-bound train broke off the axle and crashed into the sta- : tion, overturning the stove and setting the building on fire. j Sherwood crawled through tho ' ticket window into the waiting-room just in time to escape a car of lumber, two empty freight cars and a loaded coal car, which lett the track and j burst through the side of the station. These cars, together with the building and three other cars of the train, were , burnea, with their contents. $1,0C0,000 FOR NEW STOMACH John D. Rockefeller Makes That Of- far To a Doctor. Atlantic City, N. J., Jan. 21. John D. Rockefeller, the Standard Oil magnate, returned to Lakewood, N. J., Curfew to Ring for Girls Only. this afternoon, having been at the Wilkesbarre Pa Jan 21. A cur Hotel Brighton with his wife since ; f ew law" which provides 'that all girls Saturday. This is the first visit here i under fourteen shall be off the streets in 12 years and he was greatly pleased - q n. m. unless accompanied by with his trip. ' adut reiatives has passed the Citv Dr. Philip Harvel, a local physician, ; council on a first reading. The large was called in to examine Mr. Rockefel-! numDer cf voung girls who went to ler s throat, ana the latter offered ; Dalls started the movement for this him $1,000,000 if he would provide iaw. him with a new and healthy stomach, j " His stomach and throat give tho multi-millionaire PTeat tr",'bi-' in-i is compelled to live on the simplest food. SHE JUMPED FROM One Woman Fatally Injured By Rash Act While Lives of Sixty Persons Were Saved from Death Chicago, Jan. 21. In a fire in the Oakenwald apartment building early this morning one woman, Mrs. Eliza beth Irwin, was fatally injured, by jumping from a third story window. The lives of sixty other occupants wrere in great danger but it is believed all the others escaped. There were many exciting escapes. The loss i sixty thousand dollars. 3RD STORY WINDOW Tug Of War Between Statehood and Cuban Reciprocity. Washington, Jan. 21. The Cuban reciprocity treaty and the Statehood bill, both of which are now pending in the Senate, have become entangled ia a manner which may jeopaidize the chances of both. This complication has been brought about by the oppon ents of reciprocity who aim to de feat the treaty. These Senators are Democrats, and have notified the Republicans that un less the Statehood bill is voted upon they may feel it their duty to, prevent action on the treaty. This movement is led by a Demo cratic Senator from the South who has always said that the treaty can be defeated. He now realizes that if It is allowed to come to a vote it will be ratified, and so the Statehood threat is made with a view to pre clude favorable action upon Cuba. The Republican leaders of the Sen ate are anxious to pass the Cuban treaty, but they are loth to permit a vote upon the Statehood bill. They place considerable reliance in the claim made by Senator M. S. Quay, of Pennsylvania, that if a vote is al lowed Oklahoma, New Mexico and Arizona will be admitted to Statehood. They are therefore anxious to defer a vote and discuss the bill up to the point of natural dissolution at the end of the session. PRESIDENT MADE SIGNS. i Conversed With Red Men in Language of the Woods. Washington, Jan. 21. The Presi dent delighted ten Indians from the Blackfeet agency, in Montana, today, when he talked with them in the sign language. The Indian tribles have dif ferent languages, but there is one sign language that is universal. The President learned it while on his CONTEST HEARING U ftCOIt STAGE Caucus Reaches the Thirty- Fifth Ballot and the End Is Not Yet in Sight Rfcieigh; N. C. Jan. 21. The Sena torial contest is now reaching an acute state. The members are, many cf them, anxious to reach some de cision. The prediction is being freely made now that the longer the dead lock exists the more promising grow the chances for some dark horse. The action of Mr. Lock Craig's workers will be watched with the closest in terest for he holds the key to the situation. The thirty-second ballot resulted as follows: Overman, 51; Watson, 46; Craig, ;1; Alexander, 7. The thirty-third ballot resulted as follows: Overman. 53; Watson, 4G; Craig, -2; Alexander, 5. The thirty-fourth ballot resulted as follows : Overman. 53; Watson, 49; Craig. 34; Alexander, 4. The thirty-fifth ballot was an nounced as follows: Overman, 52; Watson, 45; Craig, S4; Alexander, 4. The caucus adjourned at 9 o'clock until tonight at 8 o'clock. The Matter Adjusted. In the action of James and Egbert Harty vs. Leon Steam Laundry Co., ap plication for receiver. The matter was adjusted satisfactory to all parties, and the proceeding discontinued. The 'ap plication was brought befor-3 Judge Thcs. J. Shaw. Burwell & Cansler rtp resented plaintiffs and Clarkson & Duls, defendants. New Stamp Issue. Washington, Jan. 21. The new is sue of two cent stamps bearing" the portrait of Washington in a new posi tion with draped flags above the vignette are being distributed by the Postoffice Department at the rate of about twenty million daily. All the old issue is exhausted except those in stamp books and these soon will be used. Steamship Fills Her Bunkers. Halifax, Jan. 21. The steamer Silvia, from Hamburg, for Baltimore, put in here this morning short of coal. She takes five hundred tons. A Card of Thanks. , We desire to take this means of ex pressing our heartfelt thanks to our ; many friends for their many acts of I Irinrlnacfl o rl Dvni-ficcinnc nf cvmrafVtv j durIag the ilness; death and burial of nnr rfpar child. Mr. and Mrs. B. J. Summerrow, CONSUL GOWDY ON THEFAJR FRAUD He Deplores the Fact That the Story Was Given to the Newspapers Before He Got It SAYS HE IS WILLING TO LEAD INVESTIGATION Cheap Furs and Imitation Pearls Substituted For the Late Mrs. Fair's Treasures Paris, Jan. 21. John K. Gowdv United States Consul here, made a statement today in reference to the an nouncement that the valuable effects belonging to the late Mr. and Mrs. Charles Fair, were missing before the articles were shipped to America. Gowdy, who took charce mains of Fair and his wife after the fatal automobile accident, said: "If anything is wrong with the delivery of me rair rurs ana jewels, it would have been better, at the other Ririf fnr nil the facts to have been reported here be fore giving the newspapers so thor ough an account of it, that an inves tigation might have been made. While I desire to be courteous and obliging to journalists and am too never to busv to arnnmmn.- date them. I feel under' the rir cumstances in this case and from what 1 have just read in the Morning Her ald that I should say nothing in refer ence to the information from San Francisco, except when I am fully ad vised by administrators of all the facts, then I will be pleased to either make an investigation or give every assistance in making one. "With reference to the missing furs and jewels, I desire to say, that all the property of both Mr. and Mrs. Fair was inventoried and appraised after each appraiser was sworn to honesty, to faithfully appraise and to make true reports. Both the inventory and appraisment will be furnished by me to the executors at the proper time." When the effects of the late Mr. and Mrs. Fair were received at San Fran cisco, it was", found that a valuable fur wrap owned by the late Mrs. Fair was missing and substituted for it was a cheap affaoir worth about $30. Her wrap was valued at thousands. It was also found that many of the large pearls in one piece of very costly jew elry was missing and their place were imitations. To Retire Circulation. Washington, Jan. 21. Several days ago the Secretary of the Treasury wrote to the banks that had substi tuted State and municipal bonds for government, bonds as security for public deposits that he would like to have the resubstitution of government bends. The Secretary's action, it is ex-r-'ained, was taken in accordance with the policy announced at the time State and municipal bonds were ac cepted. These bonds were accepted only on condition that the banks should use the bonds that were re leased by the substitution as a basis for circulation. It is now expected that the banks will retire thi3 ad ditional circulation and thus release the bonds to b? used again as security for tho deposits. State to Work Coal Mine3. Topeka, Jan. 21. Representative Rough ton today introduced a bill in the House authorizing the State Executive- Council to employ miners to work the penitentiary coal mines ac Lansing, the output to be soid to the people at cost. OVER 0E MILLION This is The Number Said To Have Professed Methodist Faith in the Last Four Years Chicago, Jan. 21. One million, five hundred thousand converts have been made by the Methodist church during the four years of the twentieth cen tury thank offering movement. This is the spiritual accomplishment to be placed in . church annalg along side the twenty million dollars for benevolencies based through the same movement. This announcement will be made in the Northwest Christian Advocate published in this city. The j figures being based cn the reports of t probationers admitted to the church. CONVERTS CLAIMED
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