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I 20 Pages n 20 Pages SECTION ONE EIGHT PAGES. SECTION ONE EIGHT PAGES. ONLY EVENING ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWSPAPER IN CHARLOTTE. OL. XXXV--NO o4S9 CHARLOTTE, N. C, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 1, 1906. PRICE: 5 CENTS r7 MEWS - aieBoad Canvassers Issue ThlJr Report on Elections Held JL. Board of canvas- Ready to Begin Issues Report on Otl Legislation ; cent Election. Dsmo ratlc Landslide. Re--.:--t on Missions. Tit twist State Convention : , Mao: at Greensboro .wt Week. Work Done Jit Noon Monday Con gress will Convene for Short Session. Wash ington Sets up and Takes Notice. jreaks ail Records ' Tr!i -:hone. Washington, D. C, Dec. 1. The period of dulness has ended and offici- nt'hicr the Past Year ! al Washington once more is awake . ----- - . land prepared for tne occasion, on- ward and visible signs are abundant j i that the opening of Congress is at ii-mnd The railwav stations are lite 1 The State Board thronged, the streets are crowded, ho has completed its work : tel proprietors and boarding-house m- c-nvisin- the re-: mistresses of the - "hash belt" are c-uls-in tue ie : beaming . The nation's lawmakers are recent election, giving : 1n Tmvn onrf, more. some of them I.; o ca? t for Mr. Franklin 1 elated over their victory in the recent .r Corporation Commis-1 3le ction. others cost down by defeat. "' , t. . .. At noon Monday the lawmakers will l-.O and the vote tor : up for the last session of the Douglas, Republican can-j Fifty-ninth Congress. The life of. the Congress is limited to but tnree months more at the most. As there i no r.oi3. rreseional returns have Democratic candidate, ; be a busy cue teil. Iii the Eighth Dis- i.U ..t'tt. i ; vote of lt!.907 and Biack-;..-;-ubiican, 15.S41. Ninth District Webb, Dem irceived 12,727 and Roberts, S.t'SS. r.s :.r Superior Court Judges : ..!!,)vs: First District, Geo. Democratic, 123,477; E. F. 1 publican. 1. Third District, . Guion. Democratic, 123.682: i.i.c-ui. Republican, 70,017. rift. Oliver II. Allen, Dem-2X-i)2; A. J. Loftin, Repub-7-:.7;i3. W. W. Ward, 2. i l i. trict. C. C. Lyon, Deruo l':i."SS: David S. Lewis, Re- 7t;.527. Ninth District, J. Biggs, Democratic, 123.340; iiv-ritt. Republican, 76.527, T. nothing. Twelfth Dis f: r.:ts L. Webb, Democratic, B. Spence, licpublican, j is much important business to be dis- posed of the session undoubtedly will There are many great problems awaiting solution at the hands of the national legislators, but notwithstand ing this fact the brief covered by the coming session, which will expire by limitation March 4. precludes the prob ability cf much being accomplished beyond the passage of the regular money budgets, and the disposal of unfinished business that came over from the recent long session. Three months is hardly time enough in which to pass the appropriation bills, let alone dispose of legislation of gen eral importance. The tariff will be let alone for the time being and in all probability the President's program me for rounding out his anti-corporation legislation also will be withheld until the Sixteenth Congress. The Santo Domingo treaty, the Isle of Pines treaty and the Morroco treaty iwait the attention of the State. Immi gration restriction, the Philippine tar iff bill, the Smoot case and several of the so-called "labor" bills will be brought up. . . T Tr 0 , , ! The many urgent advocates of the District J. H. Small, Den. , . , . - . i tjiiiy &uuaiu uia Will LU OIU its passage before March, and they ! mav ncssiblv be successful if the Speaker is won over hut neither this bill nor any of the other leading maes ures which have strong friends will be allowed to interfere with the bills the passage of which is deemed abso- ; J- Cv ngressional vote is as fol- . Q. Atwood, Rep., 3,010; )9 : J ;ie. nd District Claude 10,057; J. R. Caskill, Rep., 1, Kitchen, lid District . 10.382; W. -Chas. R. Thomas R. Dixon, Rep., 5, rh District E. W. Pou : Berry Godwin, Hep., District W. W. lutely necessary . Bern., Members express a determination to 5,270. take up the work of the session vig Kitchen, ;orously at the beginning with the hope V..503; C. A. Reynolds, Rep., P. T. Lehman, 102. i District H. L. Godwin. Dem. J. B. Sehulken, Rep., 4,;45. nth District R- N. Page, 11.73'.; Geo. D. Reynolds, Rep., h District- District- -Returns -Returns still still m- m- h Disti i:i.!;-:i; Crawford, Rep., 12,- rict W. T. J. J. Britt, Erastus Et. Israel, 40. U-.sptist State Board of Mis hu.s received its annual report Cnin snonding Secretary Living- Jf'hnson, which Ti:'- Ba';:ist Sta i ' :;:iv;.nes at Greensboro next . The report shows the board f:t of debt and that ths lar ';r:i'i!:HT. of money has been rais- !of having it well advanced before the holidays. The appropriation bills are to be given the right cf way at both ends of the capitol and pressed through with all possible haste. Beyond the usual formalities attending the open: ing little will be accomplished on Mon day, but by Tuesday or Wednesday at 'the latest the House will plunge into its work. 1 Intense interest is manifested in the President's message on account of the great importance of the many ques- ; tions it will have to deal with. While, of course, the usual secrecy has been ! maintained with regard to the message iand tlie costomary precautions taken to prevent its publication before the t .y-t n. . t i -i f was prepared opening or congress, me freyiueiii nas e Convention, "hown the message to so many of the Republican leaders and consulted vrith them in regard to it that the principal , points of the document, have become .pretty generally known. It is is believ ed the most important recommenda tions and subjects the President has made and discussed in his message are i;he following: ! A system of progressive taxation on great fortunes, so as to prohibit the; concentration of enormous wealth in a few hands. ' National assistance to labor through laws making eight-hours a legal day Persons Killed and Injured for an Government work save on the During Hunting Season. Panama Canal; also limiting the hours As sociated Press. . ' nf labor of lailroad employes; I'iiiciigo, Dec. 1. The Tribune authorizing thorough investigation of : "Seventy-four deaths and 70 ! child and woman labor problems. ! - injured, some so serious that Discussion of the negro problem and mav result, is the record of the i emphasizing the necessity of both aliiif-s " for the hunting season , races observing tolerance in their re- oii-hout the country." ; lations. , Explanation of the causes which i compelled American intervention m I Cuba and an announcement of the un i .:r- history of the convention. Ufv churches had been' or- Kinn any previous year. The decided not to give out any before the convention next KILLED WHILE HUNTING. Steamship Launched "f-n. hdnliia. Dec l.-The turbine j selfish policy the United States will ''! steamship ale, to be launch-j from the vard of the Deia- j I pursue with regard to uuoa National regulation and supervision Cmiicii. arbiter for the machinists rix.-.-nc-d the case of the Southern .Mi.citinists to Judge Gray at Wilming !!!.. and General Counsel Thomas 'he Southern. The railway side " iii be presented and Judge Gray will lui.lt ,- jjjs decision Ly January 15th. 1; The Thanksgiving music will be repeated at St. Peter's Episcopal Sentenced to Hang Hsociat.ed Press. -hnta, Ga., December 1. Wi '..!i.-:.n, the negro found -guilty of an , church tomorrow. :- : Mb last summer upon Mrs. George j : Ih.-risbH-e, a white woman, was to-day I Mr. Eldred Griffith arrived in the 'tr to hang an January 1, 1907. 'city this morning from New York. mMlr viy Mob of Two Hundred Masked Men Enter the Town of Princeton, Ky. And Set Fire to Two Factories mrnmm, T o b a ceo Stemmeries, Controlled by Imperial Tobacco Company, De stroyed by Fire, Set by Large Mob of Men. Washington. D. C. Dec. 1. The i large number and great importance j of the matters slated for considera- j tion and action will combine to at- Mob Entered TOZVU, A.p- .mount of attention to the last ses sion of the Fifty-ninth Congress, which convenes next Monday. It has been the usual custom in the past for the short session to confine its attention to the money budgets and to those matters left unfinished by the long session. But it is believed that a precedent in the opposite di ipction will be established by the plied Torches and Left Firing Revolvers. Loss Near $200,000. Sever al Cottages Damaged, By Associated Press. Princeton, Ky., Dec. 1. The tobac- coming session. There appears to ; co stemmeries ot jonn toteger ana be a disposition among the members ! John G. Orr, the latter controlled by of both branches to dispose of some ine luiyemi iouaeeo -vcu. pauy, u of the great pionational problems de-! New York were destm3 d, today, by a ; ; Tiro '.niv'l rn 1 r r. V rf nrraclrori in r. Tl manding action. Spurred on by tne President it is probable that the leg islators will be more industrious during the ensuing three months than they have ever been before, except ing in war time. Monday and Tues day will be taken up with the Presi dent's message and the transactioin of the usual preliminary business. By Wednesday at the latest the law makers will have their coats off antl be ready for the serious work before them. It looks now as if the Thaw trial in New York, tentatively set to be gin next Monday, will be deferred tntil a later date. The delay will not be longer than a few days, how ever, as it is evidently the desire of both the prosecution and the defense to have the famous case out of the way if possible by the lirst of the year. A number of important cases are on the docket of the United States Supreme Court, which will re-assemble Monday after the Thanksgiving iccess. The meeting of the American Pub lic Health Association will be held in the City of Mexico, beginning its sessions Monday, and will be at tended by eminent medical men and health officials cf the United States, Canada and Mexio Din b COLLEGE MATTERS fire kindled by a mob of masked men. Several cottages in the vicinity were badly damaged. Nobody was hurt. The loss is esti mated at about $170,000. The mob, which numbered about 300 men, enter ed Princeton between 1 and 2 o'clock a. m., seized and disarmed Night Town Marshall, Tehn and went to the factories and applied the torch. Masked men stood guard, permitting nobody to come near until the build ings were completely enveloped in the flames, and help useless.- A squad of the mob took charge of the telephone office and no word was permitted to go out. When the mob saw that the fire wras beyond control they left the town, go ing in the direction of Hopkinsville, discharging revolvers and rifles as they departed. The fire department then came out, but could do nothing more than pre vent the fire from destroying the build ings in the vicinity. THE QUEEN'S BIRTHDAY Eirthday of Queen Alexandria Celebrat ed Today. By Associated Press. London, Dec. 1. The birthday of Queen Alexandria, born in 1844, was celebrated at Sandringham by an un usually large gathering of the Roval Special to The News. Davidson, Dec. 1. Davidson's foot ball season for 1906 closed Thanks day very favorably. The first team defeated V. M. I. at Lynch burg, Va., 6 to 0. The scrubs came out victorious over- the Charlotte Y. M. C. A. by the score of 27 to noth ing, while the third team suffered defeat at the hands of Catawba Col lege by one touch-dowrn. The first team has made fine rep. this year. Their goal line has only been crcss- ! ed once , and that time by 'the V. P. I , which has the best team in the South. The Georgia Tech scored on us by kicking a goal from the 32-yard line, which was the nearest point they reached to our goal. Carolina and Clemson tied us, neith er side in either game being able to score, but the honors being ours in the Carolina game, while in the Clemson game both sides were more evenly matched. So Davidson is equal to or above any team in North Carolina or South Carolina, for the A. & M. ?nd Clemson also played a nothing to nothing game. Quite a number of Presbyterian College girls are spending the Thanksgiving holidays here with their girl friends. Examinations for this term begin Dec. 12th, and all work is finished Friday the 21st, when the Christmas holidays begin and last about two weeks. Cotton has been coming' in fast for the past week, and nearly all the spare ground around the depot is covered with bales and still it comes in. The price has been from 10.50 to 11. The November number of the Da vidson College Magazine came out this week, rather late, but full of interesting and entertaining matter. family. Greetings from all parts of the An interstate convention for the i world arrived, King Edward's gift was discussion of the question of the : a costly white motor car. Old Seaman Dead. By Associated Press. Salem, Mass., December 1. Captain Thomas Fuller, veteran ship-master hero of many exciting expeditions on the high seas in the days when piracy poular election of United States henatcrs will assemble in Dcs Moines next Wednesday. Delegates Avill be in attendance from nearly all the States of the Union. Another gathering of wide interest V.1U ue liio iNaouxiax uuo. , gnd mut. were fre terence, to be held m Oklahoma City TT -.,.c. f 00.Q tne latter part of the week. This : conference has been organized by the ; ,ot 2i:r.J?l.?z:Four Killed in puse it tu lci !v tu. ,-jv-- drainage, locking to better roads, improved reclamation service, etc. The national rivers and harbors rnntrress. organized here last Janu ary, will open its second convention j J Number of PerSOUS Train Wreck ,:. ii om tne yara ui ! of corporations engaged in interstate Iron Works, is to be the fast- ; commerce; either by act of Congress s well as one of the finest ()r through a constitutional amend- engaged m the American ai- ; ment coast service. It is the prop- RoMoval of ail duties, save 25 per of the Metropolitan Steamship 1 cent Gf the present rates on sugar and ! any. ; tobacco, cn Philippine products, ex- i cepted duties to be removed entirely The Machinists' Side. i in 1909, v- orbited Press. American citizenship for Porto Ri- liUton, D. c, December i. , cans. Increase cf the navy and necessary changes for improvement of the arm. ; Development through national sub sidy of a great and powerful merchant marine. Statement of work done on Panama Canal and recommendations for the future. next Thursdav. xne cnier purpose is to demonstrate to Congress that a sentiment has arisen in favor of in creased regular river and harbor appropriations. Operator Mattoax is Still Being Hunted By Associated Press. Lynchburg, Dec. 1. Operator Mat toax, upon whose shoulders is placed the responsibility for the wreck Thursday, is e.ill missing, although the detectives of the Southern are tending every effort to locate him. A comparison cf the record at the Rangoon office and at Wilmer's, the next block office north of Rangoon, disposes of the rumor that Mattoax was outside his office, engaged in a boxing match when the first of the wrecked trains entered the block be tween his office and Lawyer's. The condition of Private Secretary Merrill is greatly improved and the evher injured are doing as well as : can be expected. Were Injured and Four Killed Outright in Wreck o f Passenger Train. ' ' By Associated Press. Virgennes, Vermont, Dec. 1. Four persons were killed and several seri ously injured in a wreck on the Rut land Railroad near here. A gravel train ploughed into the rear of a passenger train. Two passenger cars were wrecked and caught fire. None of the dead have been posi tively identified. Opera Trour i Wreck. Among the passengers were 21 mem bers of the Drury Opera company of New York, an organization made up of negro singers. One member, Rosetta Falk. is be lieved to be fatally hurt, while another a man named Stevens is seriously in jured. Drury, the leader of the company is slightly hurt. IMMIGRANT'S HONEYMOON Belgian Bride and Groom Come to South Carolina. Special to The News. Columbia, Dec. 1. A Belgian bride and groom appeared at the office of Commissioner cf Immigration Watson yesterday, having come to South Caro lina on their honeymoon trip to make their home here. These were sent by the South Carolina department's agent in Ghent. Mr. Rene Beernaert is an experienced horticulturist and his bride, Elisa, is a domestic servant. Mr. Watson at once sent them both to North Augusta, where positions are awaiting them, and there they will live happily ever afterwards in the land of the free and the home of the brave. The Silver Service. By Associated Press. Nashville, Dec. 1. The silver ser vice given the Cruiser Tennessee by the State will be presented at Hamp ton Roads, December 10th. Chief of Pulajanes 1 aken by Surprise ' By Associated Press. Manila, December 1. The force of constabulary under Major Murphy sur prised the camp of Pablo, chief of the Pulajanes on the Island of Samar yes terday and eleven Pulajanes were killed, 10 wounded. Pablo escaped but his wife and daughter were captured. All clothing, arms and papers ' found were destroyed together with the camp. The capture of chief Pablo is consid ered a question of only a few days. Governor Curdy of Samar wires that the breaking up of Chief Pablo's band signalizes the death knell of the Pu lajanism in the island. Capt. S. B.Alexander is Elected President of the County Cotton Growers Mother of Col. J. S. Carr Dead Aged Mother of Col. Julian S. Carr, Briga dier General of N. C. V., Died Late Yesterday Evening at Old T riniiy. Special to The News. Durham, N. C, Dec. 1 Mrs. Eliza Pannell Carr, mother of Gen. Julian S. Carr, brigadier general of the United Confederate Veterans, died late yesterday afternoon at the home of her daughter, Mrs. J. F. Heitman at Old Trinity, N. C. Mrs. Carr was 91 years of age and has been in declining health for some time. She was conscious to the end and maintained remarkable strength, af ter being practically paralyzed sev eral days ago. The remains will reach Durham this afternoon. The funeral and burial will take place tomorrow. She is survived by three daughters as follows: Mrs. W. A. Guthrie, of this city; Mrs. J. F. Heitman, of Old Trinity, and Mrs. M. D. King, of Chapel Hill. WILL BUY COTTON LAND. : v Small Attendance and Seeming Lack of Inter est in Purposes of As sociation Discouraging to the Leaders. Representative of England Cotton As sociation Will Buy Large Tracts of Land. By. Associated Press. New Orleans, Dec. 1. It was an nounced by Colonel Welch in 'charge of the Gould System of the Immigra tion Bureau, that representatives of the Lancashire and Manchester Cot ton Spinners' Associations, who have completed a tour o fthe coton belt, have practically decided to purchase 3,000 acres of cotton land in Louisiana, and Mississippi, with the view of rais intc and shipping cotton to their own mills in Lancashire and Manchester. By the handling of cotton direct from the farms to the spinners the Englishmen believe they can eliminate the "middle men" and latd cotton at their mills much cheaper fhan at present. Finley May Succeed Spencer. In railroad circles and elsewhere to day there was a great deal of specu lation as to who would succeed Sam uel Spencer as president of the South ern Railway, and the general belief seemed to be that, since Col. Andrews would not take the place, Second Vice-President W. W. Finley would be chosen. Mr. Finley assumed ac- .tual management of the road when Mr. Spencer was killed. The Charlotte Retail Merchants' As sociation, yesterday afternoon passed resolution of sympathy over the death of Mr. Spencer. Court Room Filled. Gillette on Stand By Associated Press. Herkinmer, N. Y., Dec. 1. When Chester Gillette, on trial charged with the murder of Grace Brown, went on the stand the court room was filled. District Attorney Ward, pulled several garments out of Miss Brown's trunk which Gillette identi lied as having seen worn by Grace Brown in the factory. Gillette, under instructions from the district attorney, ransacked his own suit case before the jury, but tailed to find any of his working clothes. Gillette's failure to find his work ing clothes in his grip will be placed before the jury in the prosecutor's summing up as an indication that he intended to be back in Cortland in a week. Evans Turnkey, the Herkimer jail-1 or, swore that Gillette s watch, wnicn the defense claimed stopped at G:10 the night of Grace Brown's death, was going when it came into his possession. John Goye, proprietor of the Taber house.at Deruyter, testified that Gil lette applied for a horse, saying he wanted to drive to South Otselic. DuBose Gets Five Years. By Associated Press. Birmingham, Dec. 1. DuBose was sentenced to five years. The Du Bose Case. Birmingham, Ala., December 1. The jury in the case of Gordon DuBose, former president of the defunct First National Bank, of Ensley, found the defendant guilty on all counts of mis appropriating funds, but not guilty of all counts of . abstraction, and embez vlement. There were 172 counts in the in dictment, and the amount involved was about $48,000, alleged to have been lost in cotton speculation. -DuBose made good the losses, but the federal government prosecuted him for violation of the national bank laws. Mrs. Treloar's W!'! F:!". The will of the late Mrs. Julia Tre loar was filed in the office of Clerk of the Court J. A. Russell yesterday af ternoon. The property is valued at $10,000 and is becueathed to the chil dren of the late John W. Treloar and those of W. J. Treloar. Mr. J. C. Reid and Dr. W. P. Craven Elected D elegates to State Meeting of Farmers to be Held in Raleigh. At a meeting of the Mecklenburg Division of the North Carolina Cot ton Growers' Association held this morning at the county courthouse, Capt. S. B. Alexander was elected president for the ensuing term, Mr. J. C. Reid was re-elected by accla mation as vice-president and Mr. W. S. Pharr, secretary and treasurer by acclamation. Mr. J. C. Reid and Dr. W. P. Craven were elected delegates to the State meeting of farmers to be held at Raleigh the third Wednesday in January, and Messrs. C. B. Cross and B. T. Price were named as alternates. Before the vote on a president was taken, Mr. H. K. Reid, the retiring presiding officer, called attention to the fact that the association needed primarily young blood in its veins, saying that he knew no better way to enlist the active services of the younger element of the farmers than by placing one at the head of the association. He was followed by Dr. W. P. Craven who advocated the same idea, but when Capt. S. B. Alexander's name was placed before the body it was soon seen that he would be elected. In accepting the nomination Capt. Alexander said. 'T am sure that whenever this as sociation is allowed to lag, disintegra tion will be the inevitable result. This association benefits every man in the county, no matter what his business and it should receive the hearty support of every individual business man in the county." He voiced the sentiment of the entire body and that ably spoken by President- C. C. Moore at the Novem ber meeting, when he referred to the iact that the farmers are taking no interest in the association because they were receiving a good price for the staple. Another farmer said on the streets after the meeting that it cotton would go down to 8 cents, the courthouse wouldn't hold the planters who would flock to these meetings. Mr. J. W. Hood, who was appointed by the executive committee recently as collector for the county, his duties being to collect the bale levy and all other dues, reported that he had been in the lower end of the terri tory the most of his time, and had carried on this work in connection with other official duties. He re ported the collection of $18.70 from those he had reached. Mr. Hood spoke of the discouragements he had met in his and did not fail to bestow his compliments upon the farm ers who are remaining out of the association and receiving the bene fits derived through its existence, just because they are unwilling to pay the nominal sum of ten cents for every bale they raise. On the question of a county collec tor the house divided between the two propositions cf having a man who would go over the entire county -nd do this work at a salary, or al lowing each sub-civil division to ap point its own collector. It was a reed after much discussion that the sub- divisions would be allowed to re commend a man to the executive committee, and in case they failed to name a man within a certain limit, the executive committee would make the appointments. The meeting today was poorly at tended as has been the case for the past three months. The majority of the farmers seem to be utterly cal lous regarding the duty they owe the organizers of this splendid associa tion. This fact was discussed at length today by the Mecklenburg division and it was the consensus of cpinion, that unless a more active interest was taken early in the work, the association could not survive. Much credit is due the retiring president, Mr. II. K. Reid, one of the elder members of the association, who has stood faithfully to his duty, despite the infirmities of age.. Wake Cotton Association. Special to The News. Raleigh, Dec. 1. The Wake Coun ty Cotton Association re-elected all officers today and adopted a plan that will be submitted to the State convention here the first Wednes day in January, to the effect that the State commissioners of agriculture leceive reports from the ginner's up to the first and fifteenth of each month and to report the total bales ginned to the United States commis sioners on the day the government report is, to be issued and that the official in turn furnish a grand total lor the cotton States to the State commissioners as shown on the gov ernment report.