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a Session Will Be
Witnesses All Declare
Thaw Was Irrational
Before The Shooting
.4
ked To Pass. State
Prohibition Law
SO
x:cutive Commh. o
uti-Saloon Leagut.?
cuh's to Ask Special St,
siuti to Pass State Pro
lillntion Bill.
Meeting to Be Held Night
(it 7 he 21st. Nezv In
corporations Mayor
J: rank! in Confers With
Governor.
. ;; ' -.t The News.
j':. X. C, Jan. 13. In the sen
. i '. the executive committee
u v. X'.n'ih Carolina Anti-Saloon
i :r : last night and had a three
!;.-:: .'.-iou. It prepared the fol
: . ".ivss to the people of North
-.he members of tho executive
c, !.;;-.o ef the Anti-Saloon League,
.i'u! consideration and after
:: ; ; ::n with leading and various
- of the state, are of the unani
. Ir.ieu that the special session
r ;. Lt 'i.-ra! assembly presents a fit
: ; ; i unity of securing an act
rir.e: the manufacture and sale
in this state. We believe a
r of the people of this state
,; w'x this legislation and the time
; : - c -me fcr the enactment of the
With anything like unanimity
::!:: the temperance people of the
,-, . v.v believe the general assembly
,vi'' a.- fitch an act.
riotie men demand that the
' . v question shall be removed
! riizan politics and settled fbr
;: the interest of morality. We
r. ; ' call upon all friends of tem
;. to use their influence with the
: ;I assembly and especially with
Immediate representatives and
i era to vote for prohibition; and
v: ; . v. all friends of temperance to
; convention to be held in Ral
, (:; Tuesday, January 21, 190S.
-The crystalization of public senti-n.vn-
;r.akes this the opportunity of our
v.--v-n for settling for all time this
re 'val issue, and one -week's ae
rmv may count more now than
r. (:: kiary lifetime of temperance
Y' :h. Let every man do his duty."
Thi- address and call is signed by
.'.!-.-. John A. Oates, chairman ex
if. lvo committee; Heriot Clarkson,
.!-; nizer: W. S. CVB. Robinson;
'.V. ii. runt, W. B. Cooper, Clarence
'I. '. j;.mos I. Johnson, W. N. Jones.
IT. Pen, H. G. Fenncll, R. B.
v- i:h. . W. C. Douglass, J. A. Hartness,
;. !,. Dro-.ighton, I. C. Blair, Josephus
!'; : h i. II. A. London and Q. K. Xim
Charlotte Charters.
e 1. h-h, X. C, Jan. 13. Mayor T. S.
I". r! :h!i, of Charlotte, held a confer
i '. vt C.ovc rr.or Glenn, relative to
h er.-.-ihiiitv of securing legislation
:. t :-pecial session that will
; e vii-'- - intendment of minor im
- n iif' to the charter cf Charlotte.
! :.; :: t-u: that ouite a number of
1 ;:; ff this character will be offered
. ih" special session in the event
::. r;:l'.-s to be adopted in the caucus
! s-n:.;' tho i.TOduction or misceiiaiiw
- ill'-.
An i'lvf-ndmcnt. is entered for th?
f'; '.- r rf the Charlotte Sanitarium,
the , wh.rrcbv 5123.000 capital is di-
i f;tudly in preferred and common
; f . ";ir. D. A. Tompkins is one of
s rincipal incorporators.
New Charters Granted.
Tie- Furniture Warehouse Company
: i;e i3 chartered at a $100,000
subscribed by W. E. White, J.
' W hirr, and E. J. Jackson, for con-
''': a warehouse for storing fur
:: : iiji-! other merchandise with au,
h:f :h j Iho to manufacture furniture.
Tl:- Pomona Cotton Manufacturing
;e ;. of Greensboro procures an
! ; .r:i! iit to its charter allowing an
- of preferred stock from $100,
' ' ? -00,000. Lee H. Battle is pres-
-hm Moss Hardware Company
' t.fii-n-.on is chartered at $25,000
' : e by S. II. Allen, W. E.
Moss
Ihdcomb, of Elkin, received a
1 do a general mercantile bus
a capital of $25,000 authoriz
! ?fi,00'0 subscribed, by E. E. Hcl
md others.
-;nor Glenn left today for.Wash-
on business connected with the
Carolina building at the James-i'h-:i:o:-.ition.
Funer-il of Mr. Schenck.
' The News.
' '.nry, X. C, Jan. 15. The fuuer-
-'i!'. Daniel Schenck was held from
m Lutheran Church yesterday.
' !;'-:! k was one cf the best farm
n P.owan. lie was 52 years old
'ounty did not claim a better
' ioy;. citizen.
or
Senators Elected.
l;y Associated Press.
A!;!.;Tlo!is, Md., Jan. 15. The gen-
'''-I usr.cmbly in joint session elect-;
;! lotin Walter Smith United States
'"j- for a long term at the same
' v' flaring Senator Whyte for a
:"' !t term.
"HiO oust v.nrrl nf thr Ko'iihorn
7 . ,
k;!,:V7(v (lf.net ia l,mnr fl;ic;hr't clpan
Vfiy
every week,
Decision in Case Involving
$20,000,000 Worth of Land
By Associated Press
Danville, Ills., Jan. i5...Judge
right, m the federal court, yesterday
rendered a decision in the case of
David Somers, et al., against the Illi
nois state Trust Company, of East
bt. Louis, involving about $20,000,000
worth of railroad land and timber pro
perty in lorida.
The complainant asked tw tho
Trust Company be restrained from'
ioreciosmg and selling mortgages on
the Appalactncola Northern Railroad
Company, Florida Development Com
pany, and Florida Land Company.
Judge Wright overruled the motion for
a temporary restraining order..
The decision leaves the Trust Com
pany free to hold a sale of mortgages
advertised for last month at East
St. Louis.
Due West And Donalds, S.
C, Connected by Railway
Special to The News.
Due West, S. C, Jan. 15 The branch
railroad recently projected by the citi
zens and merchants of Due West, to
connect with the Southern at Don
alds, is now in effective operation. Tne J
new road, which is four miles in length !
has been tested and officially accepted
Mr. Jas. McClintock, of Due West,
has been appointed as conductor of the
car, winch will make four trips each
day from Due . . est to Donalds.. The
road, engine and cars are owned and
operated exclusively by the Due West
Railway Company, of which Mr. R. S.
Galloway is president and principal
stockholder. For a half century the
two colleges here have suffered on ac
count of the lack of adequate communi
cation with Donalds. Thus, the new
enterprise satisfies a longfelt need of
an up-to-date railroad train, which
will, no doubt, change the future his
tory of Due West.
Boy Charged With Murder.
By Associated Press.
Salt Lake, Utah, Jan. 15. Suspected
of the murder of Richard Smith, at
Eliza, Ala., a year ago, Walter Simms,
19 years old, is in the Salt Lake
jail.
Drug Company Reorganized.
Special to The News.
Salisbury, N. C, Jan. 15. The Chest
nut Hill Drug Company, which recent
ly failed, has been reorganized and is
iioyv known as the Higgins Drug Com
pany, with Dr. C. M. Higgins in chargo
as manager.
Aftermath o f
Big Disaster
By Associated Press.
Boyertown, Pa., Jan. 15. With the
opening of the four improvised
morgues in which lay the victims of
Monday night's theatre holocaust, the
inhabitants of this borough began to
realize the awful extent of thc tragedy.
The hand of sorrow has touched
probably every family in town and in
the neighbroing villages.
The gruesome scenes following the
disaster bring a shudder to the stout
est heart and many of the thousands
who have come as curiosity seekers
have gone away declaring they never
want, to witness another sight like it.
The morgues contain 1G2 bodies.
Most of theT bodies were in such con
dition that few of them will be recog
nized by their features.
In nearly every case the upper por
tion cf the bodies were burned, some
of them to a crisp.
, That the victims were not confined
to the residence of Boyertown was
hown by the number of unclaimed
teams at the hotels.
There s no clue to the identity ct
the owners of a number of teams.
The merry parties of four and six
that drove into Boyertown in these
teams are- believed to bo among the
unidentified dead in the various
morgues.
Onlv one of the Christmas prizes
offorprl bv the iewelry firm of Gari
baldi, Bruns & Dixon, has been called.
for. This was the second pme, $o
and Mr. J. Henklc, of Lexington, put
in a claim for it.
Important to
Lumbermen
By Associated Press.
Macon, Ga., Jan. i5 Judge Speer,
in federal court, last night rendered
an opinion denying the right of rail
roads in the Southeastern Tariff As
sociation to modify or set aside the
order of the court which indicated
that any and all shippers of lumber
affected by the advance in rates
made June 22, 1903, were entitled
to make a claim for overcharges
amounting in the aggregate to vast
Attorneys for the railroads have
contended that the only parties to
the suit of H. H. Tift et al vs.
Southern Railway et al were entitled
to put in a claim under the mandate
of the United States Supreme Court
to which the case had gone.
A Vast Sam for
-a-r t-i -rr
lyavyiLacit rear
By Associated Press.
Washington, D. C, Jan. 15. Repre
sentative Hohson had a conference
with the president today and on leav
ing the White House he said he would
have the president's support in behalf
of the bill he has nearly completed, .
providing for continuing the naval pro
gram. The Hobson bill will provide for an
annual appropriation of ?50,000,000 to
be expended in the manner to be do-.
emeu on eacii year uy rue .pro-uuent i
and the experts of the navy for new
battleships.
Mr. Hobson said the appropriation
made would be sufficient to build five
J battleships of the Dreadnought type
each year.
WORK -OF GRAND LODGE.
Report of Temple Building Commit
tee Adopted A Rreprieve Grant
ed. Raleigh, N. C, Jan. 15. The North
Carolina Grand Lodge devoted the
morning principally to the exempli
cation of secret work.
After lengthy discussion of the re
port of the temple building com
mittee it was adopted. The report
was a full an denthusiastic endorse
ment of the course of the committee
thus far clothing- them with full
lCi i. ill 4 Cl 11 Li UUlllUi 1L V VI L li V
Lodge for the prosecution of the.
work to the earliest possible com
pletion.
Governor Glenn grants a reprieve
to Robert McDowell unaer sentence) ties, United States currency notes to
to be hanged in McDowell county, j the exaent Gf 100 per cent of the par
Feb. 20, for murder. The reprieve! value in the caBe of the United states
is to March G, on account of the bon(ls deposited as security, and 75
the fact the superior court of Mc- per cent 0f the par value of- the state,
Dowell will be in session the first county or municipal bonds or obliga
date. tions.
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News
"A Youth, Who Bore,
A Bar.ner With the Stranne Device
EXCELSIOR!"
Longfellow.
Secretary Cortelyou
Makes a Denial
By Associated Press.
Washington, D. C, Jan. 15. Secre
tary Cortelyou was at his desk in the
treasury department today. At the
White House it is said positively that
nothing whatever is known as to the
secretary's reported resignation. The
secretary's appearance at the depart-
riei.t tf(lay was or the first time s'incc
recent illness which begun about
lour weeks ago.
Ho characterized as without founda
tion the stories that he was to leave
thc cabinet. He said he expected to
rrmH tn .lf. Roorptnrv nf lh
treasury.
Currency Bill
Of B aeon
By Associated Press.
Washington, D. C, Jan. 15. Senator
Bacon introduced a currency bill today
and explained its chief features to the
senate.
The bill provides that any national
hanking association with circulating
notes outstanding, secured by deposits
of United States bonds of not less than
50 per cent of their capital stock and
with a surplus of not less than 20 per
cent of the capital stock, bay secure
the circulation, by deposit of security
with the treasury department. The
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by the United States or any state, and
it is provided that such institutions
may secure, on a basis of these securi
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AND IT WILL TAKE
CARE OF YOU
Advertising is the nourishment on which business thrives and fat
tens. That the merchants of Charlotte are more prosperous than in any
city in the Carolinas is largely" due to. the fact that they are liberal ad
vertisers. '
That The Charlotte News publishes more advertising than any Char
lotte paper is due to the fact that the merchants know it reaches the great
est number of people who do their buying here.
Cf 11.75G inches of advertising published in Charlotte papers January
8, 9. 10, 11, 13 and 14 the division was as follows:
Chronicle - - 2495
If the brightest, most prosperous business men of Charlotte do the
greater part of their advertising in The News don't you think it would
ho wiae to follow the methods by which they have prospered?
Situation
In Japan
By Associated Press.
Tokio, Jan. 15. An accurate predic
tion concerning the probable life of the
Marquis Saionji's cabinet is improba
ble. The inability of the government
to avert the climax and the resigna
tions of ministers of finance and com
munications created a situation ap
proaching a political panic. The con
sensus of opinion is that the present
cabinet either with double the port
folios or possible additions will face
a, new diet which, after the general
elections of the spring, will open July
22.
The ministers of finance and com
munications, made vacant yesterday
were filled temporarily by the minis
ter cf justice, combining finance, and
the minister of the interior, combining
communications portfolio. The opposi
tion and even the friends of the gov
ernment see determined to force the
government to appeal to the country.
With the unpopular budget, the con
stitutionalists lack nine votes of an ac
tual majority in the lower house. Re
liable authorities think the constitu
tionalists will refuse to accept the gov
ernment's financial policy, when the
budget is presented. In that event the
cabinet will resign, the diet will be dis
solved and the former budget contin
ued until another cabinet is formed
and a new budget passed.
Salisbury Bank Meeting.
Special to The News.
Salisbury, N. C, Jan. 15. The stock
holders of the First National Bank met
in the office at the bank yesterday 'at
noon and elected the following officers:
W. C. Coughenour, president; Thomas
C. Linn, vice president; William H.
White, cashier; Ernest Woodson, tell
er. A hoard of directors was named.
Tl ' m T U IW
m mimim UJ11-HIIM
Don't Think Railroads
Should Bear Expense
Special to The News.
Salisbury, N. C. Jan. 15. Editor
John M. Julian, of the Post, goes to
Ualeigh next Sunday to be present at
the opening of the extra session of the
legislature on Monday, the 21st. Mr.
Julian is one of the representatives
trom Rowan and, like many others,
does not believe that the railroads
should be allowed to pay the expenses
of holding an extra session to pass
upon a Question affecting the roads, es
pecially when it is virtually to right
a wrong done the roads by this same
legislature. Representative Julian pre
dicts an interesting session.
Walter Murphy, Esq., another Rowan
representative, and who was a candi
date for speaker of the house at the
regular session, has announced his in
tention of opposing, on the floor of the
house, on the opening day of the gener
al assembly, that feature of the rail
road rate question, which calls for the
payment of the expenses of the session
by tne railroads. Mr. Murphy says
such a thing is unconstitutional, and
is unprecedented. That this feature, at
least, of the agreement is going to be
bitterly opposed in both the house and
senate goes without question.
Americans Treated Roy
ally At Rio Janeiro
By Associated Press.
Rio Janeiro, Jan. 15. The events on
the official program today for the en
tertainment of the visiting American
officers are a breakfast at the resi
dence of the president at Petropolis at
noon and in the agternoon a garden
party at the American embassy in the
same suburb. s
Read Admirals Thomas, Sperry and
Emory will represent the fleet at the
presidential function. In addition to
these officers the only guests of the
president will be Ambassador and Mrs.
Dudley, the Brazilian minister of mar
ine, the minister of way, chief of the
naval staff and members of the presi
dent's personal staff.
The newspapers here all comment
favorably upon the good behavior of
the soldiers who had shore leave yes
terday. The men all had a .good time
and perfect order was maintained.' Not
less than 4,000 men visited the city.
It is calculated that between the
buying of supplies for the ships and
the money spent by the officers and
sailors, not less than a quarter of a
million dollars will have been left be
hind in Rio Janeiro by the time the
vessels sail.
Chairman Oats
Optimistic
Special to The News.
Raleigh, N. C, Jan. 15. Chairman
Jno. Oats, of the North Carolina Anti-
i Saloon League is enthusiastic over the
'prospect for securing prohibition for
(the whole state at once by legislative
enactment at tne extra session io con
vene sext Tuesday.
He says he finds the temperance
forces in all parts of the state alive to
the situation and the realization that
this is the time for the supreme effort;
to be made, that offers every prospect
of splendid victory in securing pro
hibition for the whole state and
averting the necessity for local faction
al contests over the whiskey evil that
engender breaches in the localities
that it takes years to heal. He ex-
pects a very large attendance at the
state convention called by the execu
convention called by executive commit
teen Tuesday, when it is proposed to
! demonstrate to the legislature in no us-
certain way the wide-spread demand
the temperance leaders contend there is
for immediate action in providing sta
tutory prohibition for the whole state.
He says every member of the state
anti-saloon committee,, in a protracted
caucus last night, heartily supports
the position set out in the resolution
for a supreme effort the coming week
for state prohibition.
Mr. Bean Located.
Special to The News.
Salisbury, N. C, Jan. 15. Mr. Eu
gene H. BeanJ who is almost as well
known in Charlotte as his native city
Salisbury and familiarly known
among his friends as "Major," has
hung out his shingle and will practice
law in this city.
Physician
Is Robbed
Spartanburg, S. C, Jan. 15. Dr.
W. G. Sexton, a prominent physician
of this city, was assaulted and
robbed by two men at an early hour
this morning while in his stable
looking after the feeding of his
horses.
He had just entered the stable
when a man appeared from behind
and catching hold of the physician
jerked him to the ground and sat
on his head.
The other robber went through
Dr. Sexton's pockets securing $21
being weak from a recent operation
Dr. Sexton was unable -to make
much resistance.
In falling to the ground his back
was painfully injured.
The Day Was Consumed
in The Famous Trial by
Taking Testimony Of
Several Witnesses For
The Defense.
Manner of TheDefendent
on Day of Tragedy Des
cribedHis Conduct at
Whist Club The Day's
Proceedings.
By Associated Press.
New York, Jan. 15. Dr. Horatius C.
Wood, of Philadelphia, was called to
the stand today as the first witness in
the Thaw trial.
Dr. Wood some years ago made an
examination of Harriett Alice Thaw, a
elative of the defendant.
District Attorney Jerome objected to
this physician's testimony, but was
overruled by the court, as the relation
cf the attending physician and the pa
tient did not exist in this case.
Dr. Wood said that Miss Thaw was
of unsound mind.
The next witness to be heard, told
of some new eccentricities of Thaw
just before the killing of Stanford
White. He was Christofer Baggan, a
steward at the New York Whist Club.
He said that Thaw was at the club
on June 20, 1906, just five days before
the reof garden tragedy. Although the
day was hot. Thaw insisted on taking
a screen with him wherever he went
about the rooms. He was highly ner
vous and excitable and irritable, and
once when he passed the witness he
was muttering: "This is awful!"
Baggan said that Thaw finally came
up to him and asked him to have a
package put in the safe.
"What was in this package?" asked
Mr. Littleton.
"Cigarettes, wrapped in tin foil."
Thaw's eyes, the witness said, had a
pectriiar stFe. -A telephone- most ;. -,e
came for him, and when the witness
touched him to attract his attention,
Thaw trembled all over.
"Did Thaw impress you as rational
or irrational?" the witness was asked.
"Irrational," the witness replied.
On cross-examination he said Thaw
was in the club playing whist the day
of the tragedy. The witness could
not say if they were playing for money.
The witness "guessed" Thaw was able
to hold his own at bridge.' He said
that Thaw had been more or less ner
cous ever since he had known him.
Thaw was at the telephone the better
part of an hour the day of the tragedy
and the witness heard him repeat
"This is awful!"
Thaw's nervousness had increased
notably, he said, during the last year
he had known him.
Many Witnesses Called.
Miss Matilda Stein, who was a
telephone operator at the Grand hotel
in 1003 and 1904, when Thaw was a
guest there, testified she knew Thaw
under the name of Farr. She saw him
often and his eyes were always staring
and bulging. His manner was irration
al. One morning Thaw put in 75
telephone calls in les sthan " three
hours. One morning he ordered his
breakfast three times in 20 minutes.
On cross examination Miss Stem said
Evelyn Nesbit also was a guest at the
Grand hotel under the name of 'Miss
Farr.
Mrs. Carolyn Lowry and William A.
Johnson, newspaper wirters, who wit
nessed the tragedy, declared in turn
upos the stand that Thaw impressed
them as decidedly irrational.
Lionel Straus, portrait painter and
eye witness, also characterized Thaw's
actions as irrational.
Francis McGuiness, who was a mem
ber of the coroner's jury which con
ducted the inquest in White's death,
testified that Thaw at the inquest ap
peared irrational.
While Henry Schafer, another mem
ber of the coroner's jury was testify
ing that Thaw appeared irrational at
the inquest, Foreman Gremmals, cf
the jury, asked: "Did Thaw's eyes ap
pear then as they do now?"
"No sir," said the witness.
Henry W. Schmall, another member
of the coroner's jury, also testified as
to the defendant's irrationality. They
all said the jurors discussed Thaw's
! mental condition after rendering their
verdict.
Littleton here sprung something of
a surprise by asking the witness if he
had read Jerome's comments on th
mental condition at the former trial.
He replied in the affirmative.
"Did my remarks influeuce your
judgment," demanded Jerome.
"In a way they did," said Schmall.
A luncheon recess was then taken.
No Senator Elected Yet.
By Associated Press. '
Louisville, Ky., Jan. 15. A mess
age from Frankfort, says the ballot
was taken in the joint session for
United States senator without re
sult today. Beckham 66, BranrUey,
64, scattering 5 and two absentees.
A meeting of Mecklenburg Pres
bytery has been called for the23dr
inst. in the First Presbyterian
i Church to act on the resignation ol
Rev. Mr. West, of Huntersyille.