North Carolina Newspapers

JJn JLla y'.W ONLY EVENING ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWSPAPER IN CHARLOTTE. VOL, XXXV--NO. 6449 CHARLOTTE, N. C-, TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 16, 1906. PRICE: 5 CENTS 3 3 E g, a id rr ci a a . - a i i The First Day of the Fair a Great Success. All Ex- . , - . pectations Met in Crowd! and Amusements. The Floral Hall a Place of i Beauty and Crowded. I . ! Mr. Morrison the Speaker of i the Day. Makes Splendid 1 J r I Snpprh Rpvipwmo- Pasf i Opeecn, reviewing rast - A f m. j ' Achievements and Tore- I Casting Car eat ruture Or i Charlotte and Mecklenburg The first day of Mecklenburg's big county fair was a success. Immediately upon the arrival of the parade at the grounds, the crowd was assembled in the floral hall to hear the 1 ,, orator of the day, Mr. Cameron Mor- rison. ! He said: Mr. Morrison's Speech. ' Welcome visitors to the city in be half of the management of the fair and the people of the county, i don't see why the great crowd of people who i . i went to the Raleigh fair didn't comeicuauiltl uLamcu uunu. i lchui- ... ists and captured 49 members of the here where they could see something. ; bmd whQ are chared witn having The exhibits are a great credit to the j committeed many murders and rob- countv and would not, in reality, be a i beiies. discredit to the state fair. Peonle of i It is alleged that the band originally Mecklenburg county have done well ! delivered the proceeds of their crimes in manv important lines of business j to local Socialists organization, but, since the war. The exhibits displayed ' becoming dissatisfied with the pay in this fair show something of our ment received, subsequently carried great triumph in agriculture, com- a business of their own account. merce, mechanics and other fields of i useful endeavor. I The people of the whole South have; .--,11 i,cio-- ti-.A last: tew years The history of? mankind Tress'0 on this earth does not contain a story ; e Osservator Ro of material upomldmg and wealth ac-: pubiishes a semi-official article cumu.atin comparable vita that of . cab,net ig reparing the people of the Southern States smce aUck the Vatican at tne re-opening the war . 1 .t ... of the Chambers by accusuing it of - Ho referred to the mabimy of the , j in conSpiracy with Monarch- people of the South to devote thein-; ists to overthrow the republic. selves to business affairs from the time j when the slavery question commenced Alleged Peonage. to De agitaieci in ine .onu unui m- competent voters were excluded from -- the ballot box in the South: that the i political difficulties in the South ex- acted the best thought, of the best peo-1 pie of the South and caused interest in politics to dominate and well nigh ex-, agent of the State of the Florida Hu clude at times interest in business: : mane Society. Miss Stirling had al that we are now rid cf all those gov- j ready brought the matter to the atten- emmentai uouoie auu. reu.. lo iiiLo; business in dead earnest. He read j figures from a'n article of the editor of the Manufacturers' Record showing the great development along many lines in the South fiom 1SS0 to 1905. From this article it was shown that from 1SS0 to 1903 the South increased its number cf cotton spindles from 667,000 to 9,205,000, and the consump tion of cotton in these mills was from 223.000 bales to 2,163,000 bales; and claimed that one-half of all this great increase was in Mecklenburg and with in a radius of 100 miles around it. "It is impossible to estimate the effect of the leadership cf Charlotte brains, money and enterprise in bringing about this great manufacturing activi ty in this section cf the country. "Our manufacturers here helped to organize and carry forward the success of many of the mills in the surrounding counties and evidences of their daring entei prise were felt from Rutherford Ion to Montgomery." He read from a tnblo nrenared by the Manufacturers Record making a comparison of the South in 1905 to the rest of the coun try in 1SS0, just 25 years before, show ing the South now to be stronger in many important respects than the whole country was in 1880, and claimed that North Carolina people have done their part in making this glorious re cord in business. He declared that the farmers cf North Carolina had nobly performed their part in this great record that our people with land not so fertile as land in some of the Southern States but be cause of superior skill, seasons and freedom from pests, and insects sur passed all other States of the union and that meant of the world in the pro duction of cotton per acre planted. In 20 years we were only surpassed tor a short time by Indian Territory, Jjut not by any State. The number of our cotton mills lead all the other Southern States. We achieved all this, notwithstanding we are just out of jjassion and politics and down to busi ness. "Wo have just settled the negro question to our satisfaction, thrown away all political intolerance and pas sion and we are going into business for the first timo in dead earnest; we liave reaffirmed the ancient judgment of our people that the greatest in dustry of the world is that of growing xaw cotton and we have further learn ed that the second greatest industry in the world is the manufacturing that raw cotton; we know we grow three fourths of all tlio raw cotton on eatrh Continued on page 2 Two Men Horribly Killed at Gold Hill Mine by Explosion ".- t-Ayiuiton or Dynamite in lioia Hill Conner Mino Rooul-. : r-,4.u e 1-1-' aawMlls, 1 - W&Cllll U Two Miners Buried Beneath Debris Special to The News. Salisbury, X. C, October 16 In a terrific explosion of dynamite in the Gold Hill copper mine at Gold Hill, near here, last night, at ten o'clock two miners, Burgess Cox and Will Frazier were killed instantly, their bodies being terribly mutilated and left half buried in the debris, -There were fifteen other miners in the mine v.t the time of the explosion bllt nons of them were injurd. Cox and Prarier had prepared dyna- mite to mcike aVblast and the explosion occurred before they expected it and before they were able to get a safe distance away. The signal for the set- ting off of the fuse by electricity was Si ven to early and the tragedy was the result Cox has a family and both men live at Gold Kill. Their bodies were not taken from the debris until three o'clock this morning. Mr. Walter George Newman is the President of the mine, it being one of tne largest copper mines in this sec- jon 49 TERROISTS CAPTURED. Police Discovered Headquarters of Band of Terrorists and Captured 4 cf The Memoers. y Associated Press. lice discovered the headquarters of an 1 . . T . . ... 4 . 1 . . . 1 1 1 I TO ATTACK VATICAN , . To Bring Charge of Conspiracy to rv Aq-npiatp(l Press Washington. T) C Oct. 16. The ,t.sp of nlpc--pfl nffmasre in the resr- on SOuth of Tampa, Fla., were brought to the attention of President Roosevelt yesterday by Miss Emma Stirling, an liuii ui uie- tmei. ui uuonv,, which is novr looking ino the charges. Supreme Court Decision. Columbus, Ohio, Oct. 16. The Su preme Court decided that the Drake investigating committee to probe the municipal affairs of Cincinnati is il legal. ED REVOLVER m CLinx uiiCDAisn u u onui nuoDHiiu I the Presence of her Children Woman Fires two Shots at Hus band in Self Defense, Killing Him Instantly. He was Jeal ous. By Associated Press. Chicago, Oct. 16. In the presence of her daughter and a party of chil dren, Mrs. Sarah Alcopa shot and kill ed her husband, John L. Alcopa, early today at their home. Tne shots were fired to save her own life. Alcopa was chasing her around the house with a butcher's knife and she ran into her bed room, took a revolver from the dresser and fired .two shots, one striking the man in the left temple and the other in the lung. He died instantly. Alcopa was a cigar maker, 39 years old. His wife is 39 and there are iwc children. Jealousy of John Minerine, a room er at the house, is said to have caused the shooting. Mrs. Alcopa was ar: rested. COMPANIES- MERGED. Railroad Companies Merged and Cap ital Greatly Increased. Bv Associated Press. - ' 'Norfolk, Va., Oct. 16. The Norfolk and Southern and the Virginia anc Carolina Coast Railways was mergec by the stockholders and the capita, increased from two to. three millior "Suffolk, Va., is made the northerr terminus and Columbia, N. mc southern terminus. .orr Pamlico, the Oriental and Westerr sold to the Atlantic and North Caro linaand the John L. Roper Lumbei Co were brought into consolidation. SEIZ H Giant Pumpkin cf As Result of Terrific Ty phoon Which Visited Hong Kong Sept. 20th and Last ed Two Hours, 10,000 Lives were Blotted Out Entirely. , Steamer, Which Escaped Brings Fearful Story of Un precedented Disaster. Mo&t of Victims were Chinese. Many Ships Destroyed. The Damage is Immense. By Associated Press. Victoria, B. C, Oct 16. Ten thous r.nd lives were blotted out, 17 steam ers and sailing vessels were wrecked or badly damaged, over 1.000 junks fwamped, turned over or battered to pieces against the stone walls of -the Praya, 80 per cent of lighters, launches, yachts, houseboats and small native crafts were entirely de stroyed, many wharves wrecked and many damaged, as the result of the typhoon lasting but two hours at Hong Kong on Sept. 18, according to advice brought by the steamer Empress of Japan, one of the few vessels to escape the disaster, which arrived yesterday. The Kowloon sustained the heav iest loss, but all sections of the Hong Kong and Hinterland suffered. There were 24 Europeans among the killed. The others were Chinese, mostly and junk population. On the approach of the typhoon the junkmen skurried for shelter, col liding with! each other, cutting down yachts, houseboats, etc., striving through the driving rain to reach Causeway Bay. Thousands soon were thrown into the sea, lashed to a fury, with the waves 20 and 30 feet high. The wind blew the junks around end sent them swirling and twisting to be dashed to pices against the Praya, where hundreds of junks and sampans were dashed to matchwood and the mangled bodies cf the crews tattered against the stone walls with in sight of those on shore powerless to lend them aid. The storm ceased as quickly as it began. The sun shone then on the scenes of unparalleled destruction on Hong Kong. This typhoon exceeded all others experienced there in its severity. A PROTEST ADOPTED. Protest Against, Panama Canal Com mission. Adopted by New Orleans Progressive Union. By Associated ' Press. Newnprleans,':La, Oct.;i6. A' pro test against the decision" fbf; the Pan ama Canal Commission :for half rates -or canal supplies exclusively from Mew York and San Francisco, was ad apted last night by the directors of the Jew Orleans Progressive Union, which protests vigorously against such, as being descriminatory and ser ously detrimental to the interests of the Port of New Orleans and the whole Mississippi valley. Seize Twelve Bombs. By Associated Press. Voronezh, Russia, Oct. 16. The po lice seized twelve bombs found in the possession of a peasant belong ing to the village of Pesski, the centre of the Agrarian disorders in this vicinity last summer. ' Mecklenburg Prosperity is Opened at BIG TIME FOR PYTHIANS. Pythian Convention in Full Blast Thousands "See the Parade. By Associated Press. New Orleans, Oct. 16. The Pythian Convention is in full swing proceed ing simultaneously in the several de partments. The . business sessions occupied the morning hours while the afternoon was given oyer to a general parade of the uniform rank. Several thousand visitors came into the city to watch the Pythians march. It is estimated that with the late arrivals this morning about 4,000 uniformed men would be in line. The evening hours set for the first contest of the convention, that of the companies of uniform rank for the Lest exemplication of the ritual. Following a drizzle of rain during the first night in camp, more wet weather is promised for today. Nev ertheless, the Pythians in their town of tents at the City Park race track, made light of weather conditions, 1 lacing their tables, many of which were supplied by their own mess cooks, under the shelter of sheds and the grand stand and inviting their ladies to these picturesque meals. A GIGANTIC PURCHASE. Properties of Georgia Coal and Iron Company Company Sold Considera tion $2,800,000. By Associated Press. Birmingham, Ala., Oct. 16. The offi cial announcement was made here of the purchase of the properties of the Georgia Coal and Iron Company by the Southern Steel Company, the con sideration being in the neighborhood of $2,S00,000. The property acquired consists of a 200-ton iron furnace at Rising Fawn Ga., 57,800 acress of mineral lands in Nort Georgia, 330 coke ovens and several coal and ore mines. Rising Fawn was the principal seat of operations of the Georgia Coal and ; Iron Company. The propertiess win be consolidated with those of the Southern Steel Company, which re ! cently absorbed the Lacy-Buek Iron Company and the Chattanooga coal ond Iron Company. FOUR INJURED FROM . EXPLOSION OF AUTO Automobile Running at High Speed Struck Trolly Pole and Exploded, Enveloping Four Oc cupants in Flames. Two May Die. By Associated Press. Cleveland, Ohio, Oct. 16. An auto mobile running at a high rate of speed on "netrnit. avenue struck a trolley j pole at Kenilworth avenue in Lake : wood, suburb, early today and explod ! ed. ! Every one of the four occupants of the car were injured and two may aie. According to the man driving the machine, something went wrong with the machinery. The car suddenly swerved from the roadway and struck a pole. The collision and the explo sion seemed to be simultaneous. Thp 1 s gallons of easoline in the ! reservoir of the machine let go with a roar and enveloped all four of the per sons in flames. the Fair Grounds Today. RUN OVER BY TRAIN Messrs. Frank Irwin and Will Mahew Narrowly Escape Death Irwin Bad ly Hurt Horse Killed. Special to The News. Davidson, Oct 16. Mr. Frank Ir win, of Mooresville, was run over last night by train No. 24, from Charlotte to Statesville, at the crosing below Cornelius. He was driving in a buggy with Mr. Will Mahew, and tried to cross the tract ahead of the train. May hew jumped and escaped, but the horse was killed, and Irwin was thrown many feet away. His right hip was broken and badly crushed, and he received two gashes in his head. He seemed to be under the Influence of whiskey, for he recklessly tried to cross in front of the train while his sober com panion jumped. The engineer stopped the train as soon as possible, and he was placed in the baggage car and brought here to the hospital. It is not yet known if his injuries will prove fatal, as he has only been partially ex amined. He was totally unconscious when brought here, but Dr. J. P. Mun roe said his pulse was good and he was probably not fatally injured. The football team returned last night from Athens, Ga., where they defeated the University of Georgia Saturday by the score of 15 to 0. They were met by an enthusiastic bunch of students, and were driven up on the campus, to the noise of drums, pans, etc., where a big bonfire was built and speeches made. MR. JONES' FUNERAL. Will Be Buried Thursday at 2 P. M. Died in Day Coach. By Associated Press. . Chattanooga, Tenn., Oct. 16. The body of Rev. Sam Jones, who died on a train en route from Oklahoma tc Little Rock, passed through Chat tanooga today. Mrs. Jones, who, with her two daughters, accompanies the body, says the report sent out that Mr. Jones died in a sleeping car berth is erroneous. He died in the day coach which he occupied as he complained of not feeling well "and wished to sit up. On account of the public interest ell over the South, Mrs. Jones and her daughters have changed the date for the funeral from tomorrow after noon until Thursday at 2 p. m. The body will lie in state at their Cartersville home. CASE OF STANDARD OIL. Both Defense and Prosecution Rest Case Argument Begun. By Associated Press. Findlay, Ohio, Oct. 16. Both the State and defense rested their case in the trial here against the Standard Oil Company of Ohio for alleged con spiracy against trade at 9:45 o'clock. The argument of counsel will follow. Wedding in Military Circles. Washington, D..C, October 16. St. Thomas's church was the scene at noon ; to-day of a: Redding of interest in military circle's.. The bride was Miss Anna Breck Aspinwall and the bridegroom r Lieutenant Blanchard Comly, of the 3rd Regiment of Cav alry. The ceremony was performed by the bride's father. Brother, officers of the bridegroom in full dress uniform acted as ushers. -Railroad Men. ....... Atlantic City, N. J., October 16. The American Association of General Passenger and Ticket Agents, repre senting all the leading railroads of the United States, Canada and Mexico, began its 51st annual meeting here to day. ... Wadesboro Lynching Case Now Being Considered Case of State vs. Anson County Lynch ers Now Under Consideration The Point at Issue State Fair Opens Brilliantly. Special to The News. Raleigh, Oct. 16. The noted Wades boro lynching case State' vs. Zeke Lewis for participating in the lynch ing of J. V. Johnson, May 2S, last, came up for argument on appeal to the Supreme Court today, Walter Clark, Jr., appearing for the State instead of Attorney-General Gilmer, who is detained out of the city. The principal question at issue is "Does the fact that Chap. 461 and 1893 of the code were split up into sec tions so as to be put under proper headings in revisal distroy the mean ing of the sections." The North Wilkesboro Hardware Co. was chartered at a capital of $50,000 authorized and ?11,000 sub scribed by L. E. Davis, A. L. Combs and others; also the Imperial Mat tress Co. of Washington, N. C, at a $30,000 capital by W. E. Jones and ethers. Deputy Sheriff J. T. Hutchins is here from Forsythe to deliver eight convicts to the penitentiary. The Forty-ninth annual State Fair formally opened today at noon by Governor Glenn, who congratulated the State on the great industrial pros perity. He declared the exhibits in the fair were superb demonstrating that the development was great. The crowd today is the largest in the his tory of the fair "at the opening. SPEAKING IN CABARRUS. Hackett's Appointments He is Close . After Blackburn Other Speakings. Special to the News. Concord, Oct. 16. Mr. Richard N. Hackett, the Democratic candidate for Congress, will speak in Concord on the night of the 18th, Thursday night, speaking at the court house. Mr. Hackett will be in Cabarrus county this week, speaking at Mt. Pleasanc and in No. 10 township at Bethel. Failing to get his opponent, Mr. Black burn, to meet him, Mr. Hackett is pretty close about Mr. Blackburn in Cabarrus. Mr. Blackburn is at Mt. Pleasant today and at Bethel tonight, so that it is a case of so near and yet so far to all practical purposes. Mr. Hackett will get a good crowd in Con cord. The Hackett clubs in this city have grown nicely and will be out in force to hear the next representative in Congress from the Eighth speak. Ex-Governor Aycock will be here Saturday, the 20th, and another strong speaker will be .Mr. L. C. Caldwell on the 25th. Mrs. John Hurlocker, of No. 8 town ship, died Sunday evening at 6 o'clock. Mrs. Hurlocker was 84 years of age, and is survived by a husband and four children, one son and three daughters. She was a member of St. John's E. L. Church and the remains were" interred today. BUSY PREPARING Native Uprising in Morocco and Algeria Growing in Imminence. Military Authorities Apprehen sivft Definite Plarsfor Holy War are Being Arranged. By Associated Press. Paris, Oct. 16. The imminence of the formidable native rising in Moroc co and Algeria is growing. French Te French military authoritiess in Algeria are in a state of apprehen sion. The commander of troops in the district of Ain-Sefra has cabled to the minister of war, saying that prepara tions among the Moors for a holy war are proceeding energetically. Mouley Abou, a coussin of the Sulta of Morocco, has visitied all the tribes and has induced them to cease "their international quarrels and prepare to take the field in the middle of Novem ber. A point for concentration has been chosen on the Wady Ghir, where arms are being collected. : Harry Thaw's Partner. By Associated Press. New York, Oct. 16. That another nerson mav be indicted with Harry Thaw for the murder of Stanford White, was intimated by Diistrict At tnrnev Jerome todav. Mr. Jerome in dicated such an indictment mbght be found during an argument before Recorder Goff as to he right of the distrir.it attorney to issue further grand jury subpoenas in the case. Mr. Duckworth Not so Well. The condition to-day of Mr. H. D. Duckworth, who has been ill at his home in the western part cf the city for several weeks, is reported not so good to-day as it has been heretofore, OR S HOLT WAR Mrs. Jefferson Davis, Widow of the Great Chieftain oi the Confederacy, is Now Unconscious and Sinking Rapidly. Death Expect ed Soon. She is in Hotel in New York. Surrounded by Her Daugh ter and Friends. Pneu monia has Set in and Doc tors Offer no Hope for her Recovery. By Associated Press. New York, Oct. 16. Mrs. Jefferson Davis, who has been ill of pneumonia at the Hotel Majestic was still alive early today, but her death, it is f.aid, was not far off. Mrs. Davis took a sudden change for the worse last night and her physicians said the end was only a question of hours. Her 011I3- surviv ing daughter, Mrs. J. Addison Hayes, and other relatives remained near her bedside. throughout the night. Mrs. Davis is SO years old. New York Her Home. Mrs. Davis had made New York city her home for several years, but she spent the summer in the country, leturning to the city in autumn to live, usually in the hotel. Last winter while stopping at the 'hotel she was taken seriously ill as the result of a cold and owing to her age it was feared that she would rot recover. After a week's illness, however, her health was restored. On Saturday, Oct. (i, Mrs. Davis again caught a severe cold and her condition soon became serious. She was attended at her apartment in the Hotel Majestic by Dr. Robert II. Wylie and her daughter, Mrs. J. Addi son Hayes was hurriedly summoned from Colorado Springs. With her ability to resist disease greatly lessened because of her age, Mrs. Davis grew worse until pneu monia developed. Sinking Rapidly. A clergyman who was hurriedly summoned to Mrs. Davis' room re mained with her a short time and as he left the hotel he said she was unconscious and sinking rapidly. Dr. Webb, who has been in con stant attendance in the sickroom smce late last night, said the end v as momentarily expected. RECEPTION TO NEW PASTOR. Elegant Affair Given by the Congre gation of St. Paul's Presbyterian Church in Honor of fair. Raynal, New Pastor. A delightful reception was tendered last evening by the congregation oi: the St. Paul Presbyterian church in honor of their new pastor, Rev. C. E. Raynal who preached his first sermon last Sunday. The parlors of the church were decorated. During the course of the reception a large number of the members of the Second Presby terian church called. Refreshments were served under the direction of the Ladies Aid Society. The evening was delightfully spent and everybody seemed to enjoy the oc casion. Cotton Brings 11.33 or. Streets. The local ccttcn market today was 11.30 and the receipts were 1 2S bales at the above figures. Tor the same date last year the receipts were ?7 bales, the best price being 9.67. This indicates that cotton today is close tc; 1.60 cents above the ruling price tor the staple. as sold on the streets a year ago. Two Large Arc Lights. In crder to better light the large class rooms of the night school of the Y. M. C. A. two large gas arc lights were installed today. The material equipment for a high : grade school has been provided by the ! committee in charge of this important ! department of the association's work, j and every effort 'will Le mads to make the schcol all that is hoped for it. Killed by High Fall. By Associated Press. Mobile, Ala., Oct. 1G. Major E. R. Quattlebaum, customs inspector, an i well known throughout the South, f,-ii from the United States barga oiT.ey last night 20 ieet to the wharf belov, and sustained injuries . that , .resuitct in his death .two .hours later. . :The Governor Spoke. Special to The News. Salisbury, N. C, Oct. 16. Governor Glenn delivered a speech here la: t night, in the court house to a largo crowd. The speech cf the Governor was the best of the campaign so far, and the large crowd was carried away by the tone and eloquence of the speech. Texas Postmasters. Dallas, Texas, Oct. 16. The Texa3 Postmasters' Association convened ir. Sth annual session at the Commorcir: Club in this city with a good atten- dance