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CHARLOTTE, N CMHPRHEAY. EVENING, NOVEMBEr 1905.
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THE FLAMES SWEEP
fllESS SECTION
till OFJifflLLE
Severr.i Large Clothing and Dry
Goods Establishments were
Burned to the Ground in the
Tennessee City at Early Hour
This Morning.
The Building Occupied by the In
ternational Harvester Company
Among the Ones Burned. The
Loss is Estimated at a Quaiter
of a Million.
KTioxvillo. Nov. IS. Fire early to
day (i, proved the four story clothing
.,;, i;y of Siutle and Beeler on'Com
nit'ieo venue between Gait and State
sweets: a live story building occupied
l,y Broy'es, McClellan and Lackey,
wholesale agricultural implements,
vehicle and seed house and the Inter
national Harvesters Company's five
?:crv ImiMing. wholesale implement
ami vehicle store.
Slight water damage was suffered
In- the Hicks-Hodge-Jameson Com
pany, wholesale dry goods, Gillespie,
Shields and Company, wholesale cloth
ing: Haves and Hansen, wholesale
sh.oes: W. N. Smith, retail furniture
ami Bickle, McClure and Co., whole
sale clothing.
The losses will aggregate $225,000.
Smile and Beeler estimate their loss
ar S7.i.000, with $50,000 insurance.
Charles Leonhardt on building, less
"l'.OOO. insurance $10,000
Boyles. McClellan & Lackey Com
pany, loss .1:50,000, insurance $40,000.
C. M. McGee. on buildings, $20,000,
fully insured.
International Harvester Company,
loss ?.j0,000, insurance not known.
H. C. Bondurant on building, loss
$15,000. insurance $5,000.
A TRIPLE MURDERER.
Ohio Physician Charged With Killing
Father, Mother and One Brother.
By Associated Press.
Dayton, Ohio, Nov. 18. The Coroner
has rendered a verdict charging Dr.
Oliver Crook Haugh, now in jail here,
with the murder cf his father, Jacob
Haugh, his mother, Mary Frances
Haugh. and Lis brother, Jesse Haugh.
Jesse McClelland, a farm hand on
the farm, was an important witness,
relating a shocking story of the crime.
McClelland stated that the bodies of
the victims, being cremated, were
plainly visible through the windows
and dcors of the burning cottage and
that they showed they had been muti
lated. It is the belief tthat the bodies were
disembowled and'oil poured into them.
-McClelland stated that the body of the
mother had the legs cut off at the
knees. It was the first to fall through
the burning floor and stood upright
against a flue, with the stumps of the
legs resting on the ground. The son's
body was the second to fall to the cel
lar and the father's followed.
TO HAVE OFFICIAL TEST.
Battleship Virginia Leaves for Rock
land Where Test Will be Held
Wednesday.
Ei " Associated Press.
.New- pcn News, Nov. 18. The
battleship Virginia left for Rockland,
Maine, to have its official trhtf Wed
nesday. She is to make 19 knots.
PPINCE CHARLES KING.
Norwegian Parliament Unanimously
Makes Prince of Denmark King.
J5 Associated Press.
mstiama. Nov. 18. The Norwegi
an lariiament unanimously elected
nnc-e Charles of Denmark to be King
f Norway
Carolina Postmasters.
Associated Press. '
v ashmgton, Nov. 18. The following
v-aioiina postmasters were pamed to-
Ar .V,orth Carolina: Blalock, Johnnie
J1- Wibam.
South Carolina: Lenoir, Robert W.
0vei" Parler. Daniel C. Dantzler.
CillTESlST
LABORER
federation of Labor Decided to
Strongly Oppose any Aspirants
for Public Office who are Not
friendly to the Laborer. Many
Resolutions Passed.
B'PhiS,Ciated Press.
""sburg, Nov. 18. The Federation
Shii? t- impropriated $1,000 to aid the
on -i and Laundry Workers now
svmnnti at Troy A resolution of
as wJjteT01 RUSSian workmen
FAVOR
GOLDSBORO ITEMS.
Death of Ex-Mayor Gulick. Other
News Items.
Special to The News.
Goldsboro, N. C. Nov. 18. This
morning at 8 o'clock, at his home in
this city, the soul of Ex-Mayor J W
gave it. He was 72
years old.
gave it, in the 72nd year of his age
Mr. Gulick was one f our best citi
zens, serving for a number of terms,
at different time as mayor. Mr. Gulick
was a brave confederate soldier, and
was desperately wounded in the fierce
battle of Malvern Hill, July 1st, 1862,
from which wound he never recovered,
measuring all the rolling years be
tween in ceaseless pain. It is sad to see
such noble souls going out from our
midst old confederate soldiers, the
world's unapproachable immortals!
Last night as Mr. Tom Jones, of
La Grange, was 'driving through the
country in a horse and buggy and
when in a few miles of that town
was surprised when three men ran out
into the road and called on him to halt
stating that he would have to turn over
all his valuables. As the robbers had
the drop on him, Mr. Jones pulled out
all the money he had and gave it to
them, thinking that would satisfy
them, but the robbers also took his
gold watch. After they were satisfied
that they had taken everything from
him of any value, they ordered him to
get out of his buggy, then getting into
the buggy themselves, whipped up the
horse and drove towards La Grange,
leaving Mr. Jones standing in the road.
Mr. Jones hurried on to La Grange as
fast as he could and when in about a
mile of the town he found his horse
tied to a tree. He notified the police
but so far no trace of the men has
been found.
THIRTY-FOUR ARE MISSING.
As a Result of Collision Between Tor
pedo Boat and Cruiser.
By Associated Press.
Kiel, Nov. 18. The torpedo boat
"S 136," collided last night near Buelk
with the small cruiser Undine. The tor
pedo boat sank and one officer and 32
seamen are missing.
The disaster occurred during
maneuvers. The torpedo boat got
under the Undine's bow and was
struck amidship, causing the boiler of
the" S 136" to explode.
The suddeness cf the catastrophe
explains the great number of victims.
It is believed that the missing
were killed or drowned.
Several wounded officers were res
cued. -
YALE AND PRINCETON.
A Great Football Contest at New
Haven This Afternoon.
Bv Associated Press.
"New Haven. Nov. 18. A mighty
throng of people, decked with bright
colors, in whih the blue and orange
prevailed, poured into the city for the
30th annual football contest between
the Universities of Yale and Prince
ton. The betting is 100 to 45 in favor
of Yale, and in the matter of scoring,
a number of combinations made xaie
the favorite, almost two to one.
Score of First Half.
New Haven, Nov. 18. First half:
Yale 6, Princeton 0.
End of First Half.
Cambridge, Mass., November 18.
First half: Harvard 6. Dartmouth 6.
FAVOR SEA LEVEL CANAL.
Board of Consulting Engineers Favor
Sea Level Canal by Big Majority.
By Associated Press.
Washington, jnov. 18. ine coaru ui
consulting engineers of the Isthiam
nnnal Commission declared itself by a
large majority in favor of the sea
level canal.
TWO KILLED IN WRECK.
Railroad Wreck Near Rawlings En
gineer Seriously Scalded.
By Associated Press. '
Cumberland, Md., Nov. 18. An east
bound freight on the Baltimore and
Ohio ran into the rear end of another
freight near Rawlings.
Trackman C. V. Marks and Fireman
Jerry Collins were killed and Engineer
McNanamie so badly scalded he will
probably die.
MAY GO TO PRISON.
Madden and Skidmore Fought One
Round in Texas and Were Locked Up.
Fort Worth, Texas, Nov. 18. Jack
Madden, former bantam-weight cham
the world, and Jake A. Skid-
more, known as "Young Choyinski,"
were arrested and charged with vio
lating the anti-prize fighting laws of
Texas. r
These men wre given what they
termed "Scenes in a Gymnasium," and
,fought the first round., when the po
lice, took the men into custody and
locked them up this morning. They
were admitted to bond for their ap
pearance in court later.
Banks Hold Large Sum in Excess.
By As-ociated Preps. .
New York. Nov. 18. The clearing
house banks hold $2,915,150 in excess
of the legal requirement of 25 per cent
of deposits, against a deficit of $2,428,
800 last week.
Japanese Protectorate.
By Associated Press.
Seoul. Nov. 18. The Cabinet agree
edto adopt Japan's proposition for a
Japanese protectorate over Korea.
.
Booker T. Washington in Arkansas
T.ittle Rock Ark. Nov. 18. Booker
T. Washington of Tuskegee, Ala., to
dav beran a tour of Arkansas. Indian
Territory, and Oklahoma, making
speeches intended to create' a better
feeling between the races in the South.
He addressed a large audience compos
ed of both races here this evening. In
his opinion, he said, the two races are
to live side by side in the South for
centuries to come and ther should en
deavor to live in peace and harmony
MERGER OF NUMBER
OF ICE PLANTS III
SOUTHERN S TATES
Application for Charter for Ice
Mfg. Society at Wilmington.
Society May Sub-Lease Plants
Anywhere in U. S. Serious Rail
road Accident at Henderson.
Bidders for Purchase of Swamp
Lands Unable to Get Together.
Board Demands $500 for Op
tion. Scheme of Merchants
Association. Charters Granted.
Special to The News.
Raleigh, N. C, Nov. 18. An applica
tion was made for a charter for the
Ice Manufacturing Society, incorpor
ated, at Wilmington. The purpose is
the evident merging of a number of ice
plants of Wilmington and other South
ern cities. The incorporators are W. E.
Worth, of Wilmington; Geo. L. Baker,
o Columbia, S. C; W. J. Rushton, of
Birmingham, Alabama; A. Ellis, of Au
gusta, Ga., and M. W. Thompson, of
Greensboro. The capital is $100,000.
The articles of agreement stipulate
that the company will have authori
ty to establish a separate lease and
to sub-lease ice plants anywhere in
the United States. The corporation
will furnish ice for berry and vegetable
cars.
Other charters were granted to the
Bed Springs Trading Co., ot Robeson
county, at a capital of $25,000, W. T.
Bryan and others suTjscribe $15,000.
Also to the McDonald Williams Lum
ber Co., at Rennert, Robeson county
at a capital of $15,000 by J. C. McD.
Armid and others.
An order was made by Governor
Glenn for a special term of the Edge
comb Superior Court for January 15,
for criminal cases. Judge B. Jones is
to preside.
Dorsett Harris, a negro driver, was
fatally injured, a pair o fine dray
horses killed and the dray smashed at
the crossing at Henderson this morn
ing by the Raleigh, W'eldon Seaboard
Air Line shoo fly train. The negro at
tempted to dash over the ' crossing
ahead cf the train. While it was inside
the corporate limits of the town it was
slowed down to regulate speed. The
negroes skull was badly fractured.
The State Board of Education and
bidders for the purchase of State
swamp lands were unable to get to
gether after a lengthy session last
evening. The board demands $500 for
option on the lands, including 65,000
acres in the Angols tract, and one
bidder, R. M. Johnson, representing
Norfolk parties, offers to put up $100,
and Goldsboro parties, represented by
ex-Governor Aycock as counsel, offer
to put up $200. This for a 90-day op
tion on the lands, at $1.50 per acre.
The board will have a session tomor
row to consider the matter further.
The Monroe Cotton Mill increases
its capital stock from $150,00 to $250,
000. A charter is issued for the Rowe &
Roach Co., of Greensboro, to do a
marble and granite business; $5,000
capital subscribed, and $15,000 autho
rized. Incorporators, W. D. Rowe,
Danville; W. H. Roach and M. S.
Callahan, of Greensboro.
MOVE TO ATLANTA
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Dr. McKelway to Take Charge of
Southern Headquarters of the
National Child Labor Commit
tee. What Trustees Say in Re
cent Report Made Public Today,
By Associated Press.
New York. Nov. 18. It is announced
that Atlanta has been chosen as the
Southern headquarters for the Na
tional Child Labor Committee instead
of Charlotte. The new office will be in
charge of Dr. A. J. McKelway, assist
ant secretary of the National Com
mittee.
In announcing the change the trus
tees said it was made in view of the
urgent need for legislation in Georgia
and in response to the demands of
leading citizens of that State, which
came so near a successful fruition at
the last session of the Georgia legis
lature. In their report the trustees also
said:
"At least two million children under
16 years of age, in the United States,
are employed for wages, most of whom
ought to be in school. The Child Labor
Laws lack uniformity in the different
States, and many of them are only
crude beginnings at legislation; nearly
all are poorly enforced." :
LIEUTENANT RESIGNS.
Resignation of Lieut. Fortescue Ac
cepted No Cause Given.
By Associated Press.
Washington, . Nov. 18. Acting Sec
retary Oliver accepted the resignation
of Lieutenant Granville R. Fortescue,
of the Tenth Cavalry. Forescue was
one of the officers mentioned in the
Taggert case. No reason was given
for his resignation.
HEADQUARTERS
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BY COMMISSIONERS
Messrs. Durham and Wilson Have
a Little Bout at the Meeting of
The Police Fire . and Heath
Commission Held at City Hall
Last Night.
At the meeting of the Police, Fire
adn Health Commission last night Mr.
J. P. Wilson, chairman of the health
committee of the commission, stated
that so long as he was at the head of
the health department of the city he
did not desire Chief of Police H. C.
Irwin to in any way interfere with his
department.
This statement was ma'de because
of the fact that Sanitary Officers Hen
derson and Squires, who were taken
from the regular force during the sum
mer months, have been reporting to
Chief Irwin. Mr. Wilson claims that
he, as the head of the health depart
ment of the city, should have complete
control of the officers whose duties it
is to look after the sanitary condition.
Mr. Wilson also claimed that the ef
ficiency or inefficiency of the health
department is saddled on him and this
being true he thought it right and
proper that he should have the con
duct of the department solely under
his charge.
Mr. J. A. Durham, chairman of the
police committee of the commission,
reminded Mr. Wilson that he did not
wish to have anything to do with the
department.
Mr. Wilson stated that he did not
refer to Mr. Durham, but that he did
think that Chief Irwin had gone out
of his way to interfere with matters
in his department.
Mr. Durham replied that it seemed
that Mr. Wilson had it in for Chief
Irwin. He thought that Mr. Wilson, if
he had a grievance against Chief Ir
win, should file his charges and let
these charges be investigated by the
commission. Mr. Durham also remind
ed Mr. Wilson that charges could be
brought against Chief of the Fire De
partment W. S. Orr, whom Mr. Wilson
desired to succeed , Mr. H. C. Irwin as
chief of police. Jiv Durham remind
ed Mr. Wilson that he thought an
amicable adjustment of these little
feelings was made when Mr. Orr was
elected chief of the fire department
and he supposed from that time on
politics would not enter into tne ac
tions of the commission,
Mr. Wilson, in reply to Mr. Durham,
stated that it was true he favored Mr.
Orr for chief of police because he
thought that Mr. Orr was a better man
for the position than Mr. Irwin; that
politics did Sot enter into the matter
at all. He voted for Mr. Orr because
he thought it was in the interest cf the
betterment of the city. Mr. Wilson
further stated that after the election
of Mr. Irwin as chief of police that he
went to him and told him that he was
going to stand by him as all godd citi
zens should do. Mr. Wilson claimed
that he had lived up to this voluntary
statement, but that ever since the
trouble in regard to the slaughter pen
he had been continually reminded by
people of something that Chief Irwin
had said in regard to his conduct of
the health department. He said that
he did not pay any attention to such
statements.
Mr. Wilson stated that on a certain
occasion Chief Irwin came to him and
demanded two policemen; that two
men were assigned to his department,
but that Mr. Irwin refused to accept
them. Why, Mr. Wilson says, he is un
able to understand. He thought that
the commission shQuld define just
what Chief Irwin's authority was and
what authority he (Wilson) had, so
that in the future no unpleasantness
of any kind could arise.
In concluding this heated contro
versy, Mr. Durham stated that he had
no desire to say that Mr. Wilson was
controlled by political motives and
that he would withdraw his motion
concerning Officers S Henderson and
Squires returning to the regular force.
Mr. E. Hyland, of the firm of Breen
& Hyland, was elected plumbing in
spector to succeed Mr. W. S. Dudley,
whose resignation was handed in some
time ago.
Mr. J. J. Williams asked that a hy
drant be placed near the residence of
Mr. Joe Klouse, on South Mint street.
He also suggested that the hour of the
night shift of policemen be changed
from 5 o'clock to 4 o'clock. 1 Neither
of these suggestions were acted upon
last night.
After some uninteresting routine
business the meeting adjourned.
BRIEFS.
Register of Deeds A. Morris Mc
Donald issued a marriage license to
day to Mr. J. G. Moss and Miss Emma
Garrison; also one to Mr. J. F. Barr
and Miss Mary Jane Allen.
Mr. Eric Brown, of this county,
yesterday qualified before Clerk of the
Court J. A. Russell, as administrator
of the estate of his brother, Mr. Clif
ton Brown, deceased.
Constable S. C. Ross went to
Sharon this morning and brought back
with him an old negro man by the
name of Albert Marr, having arrested
mm lor senng wniskey. Several jugs
cf whiskey were found in his home, af
ter he had denied having any on his
place.
Sheriff Wallace today received
notice from Superintendent P. L.
Murphy, of the State Hospital at Mor
ganton, that James E. Shaffer, the
young man who is confined at the
county jail on acount of mental de
ragement, would be admitted to her
hospital. Shaffer will be taken to
Morganton Monday. ,
A
SPICY ARGOMEN
THE REPUBLICAN
FIGHT BETWEEN
TWO RIVAL PAPERS
A Prominent Republican Does not
Think That the Party Should
Be Brought Into Such a War
fare as is Now Going on in
North Carolina.
The Gentleman Interviewed Says
It is not Important that Mr.
Holton Should Succeed Himself
but Highly So that His Policies
be Carried Out as to Gratters.
One of the most prominent Republi
cans in North Carolina as well as one
of the most conservative, gave The
News a really interesting interview
this morning.
' The gentleman's name The News
withholds for good and sufficient rea
sons. The interview follows:
"How will the fight between 'The
Industrial News' and 'The Tar Heel'
the two new Republican newspapers,
representing the Rollins and , Black
burn factions, respectively termi
nate?" asked The News man of this
Republican.
"The fight, so called," said he, "will
not amount to anything at all. The
Republican ' party is too big and too
busy now to be concerned as to indi
viduals. It is immaterial to the 82,000
Republicans in North Carolina, what
kind of a scrap Rollins and Blackburn
indulge in, in an attempt to prove who
of the two is the bigger man. The Re
publican party is not dependent upon
either one of the two gentlemen for
leadership. It has other good and able
men."
"In your opinion, what will be the
outcome of the fight and peculiar situ
ation relative to the appointment of a
United States District Attorney, to
succeed Mr. A. E. Holton who now
holds that position for the Western
District of North Carolina?" - -
"At this time, of course, it is im
possible to foretell what may happen,"
was the reply. "Again, personalities do
not count. It ought not to matter to
the rank and file of the Republican
party What man is appointed. It will
not matter to the President. The thing
of vital concern is the policy that will
be indicated by naming the man for
District Attorney. Holton has shown
his fidelity to his office and to the trust
given him by the government, in
going after the criminals. It is idle to
say his course is persecution instead of
prosecution, so long as he convicts de
fendants and they are sent to the peni
tentiary. "It is idle for any man to claim that
his friends are railroaded to prison for
political reasons, so long as that man's
friends are found on the criminal side
of the docket and are proven guilty.
We all know that innocent men could
not thus be harassed in North Caro
lina. "The Question narrows itself down
to this," continued the gentleman talk
ing: "It is not important that Holton
should succeed himself; but it is im
portant that his successor should be
just as able, just as determined, just
as alert as Holton is. The policy of
Holton in bringing the grafters and
defaulters and falsifiers to justice,
pTotToTItW
the govjevealed
ruth of Plot Party Revealed.
Police Investigate Building and
Find Many Fire Arms and Am
munition. Suspicion of Radical
and Liberal Leaders.
By Associated Press.
Havana, Nov. 18. The truth in the
reports of the plots to overthrow the
Government is revealed in part today.
The Government received a confident
ial report that the ostensibly vacant
house in the Cerro suburb was being
utilized as a secret depository for arms
;and amm'anition and ordered the secret
police to investigate. The police found
41 rifles, 21 carbines, 35 packages each
containing 1,000 cartridges and some
barrels filled with ammunition and ac
coutrements. Considerable suspicion
is directed toward the Liberal and
Radical leaders.
No new fever cases are reported.
To Ladies. of First Church.
Since the changing of the hour of
the Sunday school there has been no
regular Bible class for ladies at the
regular hour. Tomorrow afternoon at
3:30 Mr. Thos. S. Preston will organ
ize a Bible class for the ladies of the
church and it is earnestly hoped that
all ladies who do not attend Miss Wat
kin's class immediately after the morn
ing church service will be present and
co-operate with him in this work.
Second Presbyterian Church,
North Try on Street. Rev. Martin D.
Hardin, D. D., pastor. Services at 11
a. m. and 7 : 30 p. m. ; Sunday school
at 3:30 p- m.; prayer-meeting Wed
nesday evening at 8 o'clock.
suits the people. The people believe
that his course has added to the moral
tone of the whole State. Now, will the
Republican party say that it does not
endorse his course, by appointing as
his successor a man who believes, or
says he believes, that course is perse
cution? Or, will the Republican party
say that it is not fully in harmony with
Holton's policy, by appointing as his
successor a man who, through lack of
experience or otherwise, is unable to
hold the office up to the high mark set
by Holton? The Republican party may
do such a thing; but in the evil hour
that witnesses the change, the Repub
lican party will be damned in the es
timation of the people. The successor
of Holton must be a man who is in
every' respect Holton's equal as a
man, as a lawyers, as an officer. It is
not the man but the policy that must
be sustained.
"Why, our peopde are not different
from other people;" continued the Re
publican. "Everywhere, we see the peo
ple expressing themselves as in favor
of honesty and uprightness. In New
York, in Philadelphia and Pennsylva
nia, in Ohio ,and in Missouri the great
mass of the people have risen against
the grafters and gamblers and scala
wags who polluted the public service
in order that they might loot the public
treasury.
"The same feeling is abroad in
North Carolina. Henceforth, the party
that allies itself with the condemned
is itself condemned."
PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN.
The Children of "Professor Napoleon"
Photographed This Morning.
It has been indeed a funny sight
today to see the many hundred child
ren taking part in the big musical
extravaganza, "Professor Napoleon,"
going to the photograph gallery of
Scott and Powell, to have their pic
tuures taken in full dress costume.
Funny little old men in black suits,
beaver hats and gray wigs, antiquated
old ladies with sun bonnets, white
capes and long black dresses wending
their way through the streets indeed
would make one think that Charlotte
had suddenly been transformed into
a middget city of prehistoric day.
Following these would come a large
group of Jockey Boys in complete
jockey uniforms.
Next one's attention would be at
tracted by a large group of American
Indians in full war-paint parading the
streets.
Later, a large group of Salem witch
es, with historic piqued hats and red
dresses, but. having left their brooms
at home, they come sailing down the
Street.
Last, but not least, a hoard of fair
ies resplendent in beautiful costumes
of white decorated with gold and sil
ver and wearing wreaths in place of
hat:!.
The streets of Charlotte are always
crowded on a Saturday, but from ap
pearances today half the people were
members of the big "Professor Napo
leon Co."
The box office opened at Jordan's
drug store for the sale and exchange
of seats, and proved to be the largest
sale of the season.
As stated before, the net proceeds
of this entertainment will go to the
Charity Department of the Presbyteri
an Hospital.
A Good Investment.
As the result of the great electrical
development which insures cheap and
abundant power, to Charlotte manu
facturers another great industry is
about to be added to the city's indus
trial life a factory for making the
finer grades of table damask.
To those who know of the remark
able growth of Buffalo and Niagara
Falls since the latter became the Elec
tric City there can be no doubt that
this is but the forerunner of other
industries which will, in a few years,
make Charlotte one of the most im
portant manufacturing cities in the
South.
Today Charlotte has scarcely enough
houses to shelter its present popula
tion. The great unmber of employees
of the mills and factories which are
soon to come lead to an enormous de
mand for houses. There are now many
suburban properties that may be
bought at low prices that could be di
vided into desirable home-sites and
the person who buys these in antici
pation of the city's growth is almost
sure of making a profitable invest
ment. Some of the best of these nron-
erties are described in F. C. Abbott1
& po.'s large advertisement today.
Sacred Concert Sunday.
The following is the program that
will be rendered by the Richardson
Orchestra at the Colonial Club tomor
row evening:
PART I.
Zampa (Overture) Herold.
Selection (Flute Solo)
Mr. H. Asbury.
Quartette from "Rigolletto" ..'..Verdi.
"Maritana" (Selection) Wallace.
PART .
Danse Hongroise No. 1 . Brahms.
Adagio from "Sonata Pathetique"
(Piano Solo) Beethoven
Mr. Karl von Lawrenz.
Gbtt Erhalte Franz De Kaiser . .Haydn
String Quartette Messrs. Abbot, As
bury, Richardson and Von Lawrenz.
Cofnation March and Fackeltanz from
"I Prophet" Mayerbeer
Miss Potts Entertaines.
Last night in Steele Creek Miss
Carrie Potts entertained a few friends.
The evening was most pleasantly
spent, one of the attractions being a
guessing game, in which Professor
Crowther and Miss Laura Pegram
tied for the first price. Dainty re
freshments were served.
Mrs. J. Walker Kirkpatrick, of
Sharon, returned to her home today
after spending some time . at Rock
Hill, where she visited relatives and
friends. - .
THE FEDERATION OF
MANY PROTESTANT
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Business Committee of Inter
Church Conference Announce
Draft for the Federation of 30
Denominations. Churches to
Meet Every Four Years.
First Meeting Dec. 1st, 1908.
Number, of Members. . Chief
Points of Federation. Outlined.
Council to Act as Advisory
Board.
By Associated Press.
New York, Nov. 13. The business
committee of the Inter-Church Con
ference on the Federation, announced
the draft of a plan for church federa
tion. Following are the chief points:
Federal council of the Protestant
churches are to meet every four years,
first meeting to be December 1, 190S.
Each denomination is to have four
members in the council and oue extra
member for each 50,000 communicants.
The council is to act in the capacity
of an advisory board and to interfere
in no way with the autonomy of in
dividual" denominations.
The object is to be united action on
social and moral questions and to give
spiritual counsel and promote fellow
ship. An executive committee is to deal
with the business of the council in in
tervals between meetings. Thirty de
nominations are to be in the federa
tion at" the outset and provision is
made for the admission of others.
The plan will come before the con
ference Monday.
' The Protestant Episcopal delegates
were unable to acttfor their church in
endorsing the plan for federation, as
they were without specific instruc
tions, tcf
A motion was adopted requesting V ?
Federation to use its influence to havo'
laws enacted which will hold the em
ployers and not the employees for ac
cidents on railroads and other places
where mechanical machinery is used.
The government is urged to acquire
control of the telegraphic companies.
A motion was made that every candi
date to public office who was not a
friend of the laborer should be strongly
opposed.
THREE PLANS FOR CANAL.
Fortifications Will Not be Considered
Until Tvpe of Cana! Is Decided Upon.
Washington, Nov. 18. The full
board of consulting engineers of the
Panama canal Jield- and all-day session
Wednesday and continued to work
upon the different types of canal. Only
rumors reach persons outside the com
mittee room. It was indicated today
that several reports might be made,
one favoring a sea-level canal, another
for a lock canal at a 60-foot level, and
still another for a lock canal at a 30
or 40-foot level. There seems to be a
general impression that a large num
ber of engineers at present favor a
sea-level canal, but an intimation has
been made that there might be a com
promise upon a low level lock canal,
which would be very satisfactory to
the canal commission and the admini
stration. The officers who accompanied Sec
retary Taft to Panama to investigate
the matter of fortifications for the
canal have not yet made a report and
will not until a type of canal it de
termined. Upon the type of canal will
depend the location of the mouths of
the canal and no definite plan for forti
fications will be feasible until the
paces where protection will be needed
can be definitely known.
Johnston Building Condemned.
The old Johnston building at Nos.
20 and 22 North Tryon street was yest
erday visited by the board of building
inspectors of Charlotte and condemn
ed, it being considered unsafe. The
board is composed of the Messrs. S. J.
Asbury, J. D. Ross and Capt. F. W.
Ahrens. The building is owned by
Mr. William Johnston of Richmond,
Va.
Mr. I. E. Munger, general secretary
of the Monaghan Mills, Y. M. C. A., of
Greenville, S. C, is spending the day
in the city.
T, V, LAWSON HELO
Case to be Trid at December
Term of Superior Court.
Charged with Criminal Libel
Preferred, by Clarence W. Bar
ron. 3y Associated Presa.
Boston, Nov. 18. Thomas W. Law
son is held for the December session
of Superior Court, on the charge of
criminal , libel preferred by Clarence
W. Barron. :
The bail is fixed at $3,000 which was
furnished at once. . . .,
IN BOND OF $3,000
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