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A Report From Indianapolis
Estimates The Number of
Bituminous Coal Miners
Who Have Quite Work at
250,000.
Effort Being Made in Mining
Districts to Settle Con
troversy Over Wages
Strike May Not Last Long
Full Story.
By Associated Tress.
Indianapolis, Ind., April 1. Bitumin
ous coal miners numbering 250,000 are
idle today on account of the. failure of
the United Mine Workers of America
and the coal operators to agree upon
a wage scale to go into effect to
day. District meetings are being held in
an effort to reach an agreement in the
various states, and it is believed the
strike will be of short duration.
Many IcMe in Ohio.
Columbus, O., April 1. According to
accurate reports received from all over
the Ohio mining district, 40,001) work
men of all kinds, employed in the
mines are idle today as a result of the
decision of the mine officials in the
central competitive district to stop
work because, they say, the operators
decline to make any wage agreement.
May Return Tomorrow.
Kansas City, Mo., April 1. It was
believed here this morning that the
3.1,000 coal miners in Missouri, Kansas,
Oklahoma and Arkansas, who are en
joying a holiday today, would return to
work tomorrow, pending the settle
ment of the difficulties with the oIi
cials of the Southwestern Interstate
Soal Operators' Association.
rhf'ie I: v iKfUi no strike : i the
southwest yet," said George Colville,
president of the Missouri miner's as
sociation. "It is up to the operators
to say where there will be a strike."
Iowa Miners Out.
Dos Moines. Ia., April 1. Every
I mine in Iowa is closed. Fifteen
thousand men are idle. The miners
are celebrating the 10th anniversary
of the eight-hour law.
In Pittsburg District.
Pittsburg, Pa., April 1. About 40,
000 miners in the Pittsburg district
are idle today as the result of the
failure to reach a wage scale agree
ment. Illinois Mines Clored.
Springfield, 111., April 1. All the coal
miner in Illinois are closed today.
Will Return Tomorrow.
Terre Haute, Ind., April 1. While
Indiana miners are idle today, it is not
on account of Ihe strike, but because
the men are holding their annual cele
bration of Mitchell Day. Tomorrow
they will return to the mines as usual,
under agreement with the operators to
continue at work, pending a waze set
tlement, which is being negotiated
here, in joint congerence.
Charges Against Chancellor
Day Ruled Out of Court
Bv Associated Press.
New York, April 1 The charges
preferred against Chancellor Day, of
Syracuse University, by Rev. George
A. Cooke, of Brandon, Vermont, were
ruled out cf court by Bishop David II.
Moore at the opening of the 109th
session of the New York Methodist
Episcopal conference.
Bishop Moore in dismissing tne
charges, said that he regarded the com
plaint against Chancellor Day as a
direct on free speech and the tree
press
The decision was greeted with cheers
and long continued applause.
Noted Divorce Suit.
Associated Press.
By
Paris, April 1. Maitre La Don con
cluded his argument in hearing in the
suit for divorce brought by Mrs. A.
Hart McKee. formerly Mrs. Hugh Te
vls, and daughter of Colonel George
W. Baxter, of Tennessee, against her
husband.
Public Buildings.
Associated Press.
By
Washington, April 1 The senate
committee on public buildings and
grounds ordered reuorted bills for new
buildings at Abbeville, S. C $75,000,
and Miami, Fla . $75,000.
Resigns Pastorate
Join Anti-Saloon League
Special to The News.
Greenville, S. C, April 1. Rev. J. L.
Harley has resigned the pastorate of
St. Paul's Methodist church in this city
to take uj) work of the Anti-Saloon
League in the state.
He was yesterday appointed super
intendent of the organization in South
Carolina.
E IS SU1TQ
By Associated Press.
New York. April l.--That Prince
Helie de Sagan is suitor for the hand
of Mine. Anna Gould is announced by
the prince himself in a statement in
which he says that Mine. Gould will
sail for France very soon after his own
depaiture, which is set for April 0th.
The prince's announcement was
made co-incident with the circulation
of reports that Mine. Gould has quar
relled with her family because of her
determination to marry De Sagan.
Miss Gould has left the home of her
sister and is living with friends at the
Hotel St. Regis.
Not only is sentiment, but money as
well, involved in the break between
Madame Gould and members of her
family.
The will by which Jay Gould disposed
of his fortune contained a codicil which
provided that any of his children who
should marry without "first gaining tne
consent of the other sons and daugh
ters should forfeit one half of his oi
lier interest in the estate. In Madame
Gould's case the one half interest is
variously estimated at between six and
eight million dollars.
Many Charges of Fraud.
By Associated Press.
Clinton, III., April 1. The fourth suit
against Vespasian Warner, commis
sioner of pensions, was filed by his
half sisters, Mrs. Minnie Mettler and
Arabella W. Bell, in the circuit court
yesterday. The bill charges the jug
gling of bank stock of the John -Warner
&. Company bank, by which Vespasian
Warner obtained full control. Many
charges of fraud are made against the
commissioner as to ihe means adopted
to get full control of the estate of his
Trouble At
Hayti Grave
By Associated Press.
Paris. April 1. A special dispatch
from Port An Prince, Haiti, says the
situation there is extremely grave and
that complete anarchy reigns.
A dispute is said to have arisin be
tween the chief of the military district
of Port An Prince and a nephew of
President Nord as to their respective
powers.
The dispatch declares that American
warships are preparing to land troops.
Trouble Mot So Serious.
Washington, D. C, April 1. Ameri
can intervention in Haiti is regarded
by the officials of the state depart
ment as one of the most remote conse
quences of the domestic disturbances
in that island.
Official dispatches do not show, ac
cording to information obtainable, that
the situation has become graver with
in the past few days. It is said that
no orders have gone directing landing
of marines.
Attacks Donapare.
By Associated Presa.
Washington, D. C, April 1. Mr.
Clarke, of Florida, replied to Caul
field, regarding the peonage investiga
tion, and in the course of his speech
denounced the attorney general as un
worthy of his office and ignorant of the
law. He asserted that for 10 years
past Bonaparte's name had not ap
peared as counsel for anybody in the
supreme court of the United States
and said he had had only 13 cases out
of 3,400 docketed in the Maryland
court of appeals.
"Jeff" Davis Fined.
By Associated Press.
Little Rock, Ark., April 1. United
States Senator Jefferson Davis was fin
ed $25 in the police court today for
disturbing the peace. The fine was
administered for the senator's action
in getting a pistol and appearing on
the street yesterday, where he had
been attacked and beaten a few min
utes before by Thomas Helm, deputy
prosecuting attorney. Helm was lined
$10 for assault.
Big Company's Dividend.
By Associated Press.
New York, April 1. Today the
Atchison and Santa Fe declared a
semi-annual dividend of 2 per cent
on common stock.
HUNG HERSELF
VITH STOCKING.
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By Associated Press.
Hampton, Va., April 1. Miss
Louise Clarke, of Ironton, Ohio,
committed suicide by hanging
herself with a stocking, attached
to the transome over the door
to her lied room.
She was 22 years old, and was
undergoing treatment for ner
vousness. 4-.
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Big Railroad
Celebration
Special to The News.
Hookerlon, N. C, April 1. With the
extension of the East Carolina Rail
way from Fayetteville to Hookerton
the citizens of that progressive town
wish to show their appreciation' of
their connection with tne outside
world and have decided to do so by
a gala day with speeches by promi
nent men of state fame and a barbe
cue and a dinner complimentary to
Mr. Henry Clark Bridge's, president
of the East Carolina Railway, to
whose push and enregy alone is due
the existence and success of the East
Carolina Railway, one of the finest
short lines railroads in the country.
The committee on entertainment
are planning to have about 2,000 peo
ple fur dinner today. They had alrea
dy secured by donation foi !,y-oin- igs.
Kookorton has thrown open' wide its
hesuitaible u.-o:s to all ft sttor towns
sad have sent out over 2.000 invita
tions to Kinston, Greenvill?, Washing
ton, Tarboro, Rocky Mount, WiLon,
Goldsboro, Pinetops, Macclesfield,
Fountains and Farmville, and the din
ner is free for all.
Hookerton is located in the most
fertile section of Greene county, near
the junction of the two Conientnea
creeks, and' is on a high bluff on Mae
casin river. It is very proud of its
high school, and well it may be, for
its success has been wonderful, and
its campus cannot be beaten anywhere.
The building is situated in the center
of a magnificent oak grove that al
most equals the beautiful Commons of
Tarboro and Boston.
To accommodate the guests of
Hookerton who wish to go over the
now line the East Carolina Railway to
day will run a special train from Tar
boro to Hookerton, leaving Tarboro
at 9:00 a. m., upon the arrival of the
trains via the Atlantic Coast Line from
Goldsboro, Kinston, and Plymouth,
and returning to Tar'uoro will leave
Hookerton at 4:30 p. m.
Fire at Statesville De
stroys Home of J. L. Steele
Special to The News.
Statesville, N. C, April 1. A fire
lyesterday destroyed the home of Mr.
J. Lee Steele, on Seventh street. The
property belonged to Mr. Adam Steele
and practically all its contents were
destroyed, only three pieces of furni
ture being saved. The flames originat
ed from a defective flue and were not
discovered until thexhouse was well
on fire. Mr. Adams had an insurance
policy for $G00 on the house, but Mr.
Steele, who lost all his belongings, had
no insurance.
The scene of the fire is some dis
tance from the center of the town,
and the fire department was unable
to accomplish anything worth while
on its arrival after a hard and long
run.
I Connecticut Arrives.
By Associated Press.
San Diego, April 1. The battleship,
Connecticut, arrived today off Coron
ado. Admiral Evans was expected to
come ashore soon. The Connecticut
will return to Magdalena Bay this af
ternoon. Holt-Brooks
Fight Warm
Greensboro. N. C. Anril 1. Senator
J. Allen Holt has got down to his work
of organizing his forces for his nom
ination to congress in earnest, so far
as his campaign in Guilford county is
concerned. He has rented accessible
ouarters in the Guilford Hotel build-
ins:, on the ground floor, and has a
force of clerks under the supervision
of Mr. John A. Gilmer, busily engaged
sending out literature, getting reports
from organizers, etc. The triends ot
Senator Holt are claiming Guilford
county by a large bajority, but this
claim is not only denied but ridiculed
by the supporters of Solicitor urooKs.
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By Associated Pre:
Indianapolis, Ind.,
republicans went i
tioa today to adopt
ally present to the c
ident Fairbanks as
p:i' 1. Indiana
ate conven
i 'utforin, for.m
! My Vice Pres-
thiir choice for
the presidency, instruct the thirty In
diana delegate-:.' to Uic national con
vention to vo I'.t him and to name
a state ticket.
When the reso1 committee met
to adopt a plat n, th,e party lead
ers had agres u A.Jl :v upon ideas
to be pi'i.seulc-u' to' the committee.
These embodied a. ohibition of cam
uaign coiilribi..:: 5 by the corpora
tions; revision oij the tariff 1y an
extra session of cciigress to be called
immediately after the fall elections.
Speech of Senator Beverage.
Gentlemen of the Convention:
The world moves, and the republi
can party is abreast of the times.
"The world moves," said Galileo
three centuries ago, and the narrow
minds who ruled that day foiwed him
to recant. But the republican party
never has yielded and never will yield
to those who ask it to about-face.
The republican party is always on the
march toward better things. Every
republican watchword Is a battle cry
of progress. Every republican leader
has been a captain of advance.
The first republican candidate for
president was called the Great Path
finder. Its second candidate for presi
dent was called the Great Liberator.
Its last candidate for president and
the nation's chief magistrate today
is called the Great Reformer. These
men did things for the people that
is what made- them republican lead
ers. A republican leader is not a ma
nipulator. He is an apostle of ideals,
a writer of laws, a doer of deeds.
The republican party does not exist
to get offices for the ambitious; it
exists only to work out the welfare
of the nation, to right the wrongs
that curse the people, to secure the
government of law by making law
secure the demands of justice. The
republican party would preserve the
rights of property by making property
observe the rights of man. To make
conditions better, human life happier,
liberty broader and stronger this is
the meaning of our organization.
And it has been this undying pur
pose of human betterment that has
written every reform 01 the last
eiedit historic years and placed be
side the name of Washington, Jack
son, and Lincoln as a leader of the
people toward liberty and light the
name of Theodore Roosevelt.
We must eco to the people, not
merely boasting of what we did for
the people yesterday, but telling tnem
what we are doing for the people to
day and what we will do for the
people tomorrow. Every law we
have written was bitterly fought and
cunningly resisted; yet so wise are
those laws that all parties now en
dorse them, and even men in our
own party who secretly opposed them
are now publicly their loudest cham
pions. It is said that we have gone too
far and done too much; but why do
not those who say this propose to
erase a single line we have written?
Why do they not propose to abolish
the Department of Commerce and La
bor, to repeal the pure food and meat
inspection laws, the irrigation law or
any other statute in that great struct
ure of righteous legislation whose
foundation and framework these laws
are? And if no man proposed to
tear down what we have builded,
shall we listen to their counsel that
we should not finish cur work? For
there is yet work to be done. If
there is not, let us disband. When
any party becomes merely a machine,
seeking the spoils of office, it is no
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longer a political party, but a com
pany of brigands.
A do-nothing policy is not republi
can not American. Laurels fade
when not refreshed by new and noble
deeds.
We must revise the Sherman law.
It is nearly twenty years old in fact
and a century old in spirit. It pen
alizes dishonest combination, and that
is right; but it manacles honest busi
ness and that is wrong. Business is
the name for the trade activities of
the people. Free its hands, unshackle
its feet. Only upon the dishonest let
the ball and chain be locked. Strike
only that business which pilfers from
the people; but help all business that
serves the people. Our -watchword is
justice. For the pirates of business
the yardarm or the plank; but fo
honest business the open seas and
welcoming ports.
The tariff must be revised imme
diately after the presidential election
To revise it now would lock up busi
ness for months of disaster and
doubt, lie who would refuse to re
vise the tariff immediately after the
presidential election is too ancient to
be trusted; he who would revise the
tariff on the eve of the presidential
election is too hypocritical to be tol
erated. But the earliest possihle re
vision of the tariff is the will of the
people because it is the demand of
conditions and to the people's will
and chansing conditions. Bourbon oh
struction must yield.
Two years ago some of us be
gan this fight. We were met
with arrogance from those who
think that the world does not
move; from interests whom the
tariff properly protected when it
was made, but whom changed
conditions now enable to act
like highwaymen to other hon
est interests; from a purchased
press owned by glutonous corpor
ations and by men whose wealth
flowed from obsolete schedules.
But success is now in sight, and,
as Indiana led the first charge in
this battle, so let Indiana lead
the last charge that crowns it
with victory.
And let that revision be honest and
businesslike. Let experts at once be
gin the work of finding out the facts
and making classifications. The man
who does not want experts to find out
the facts does not want the facts
found out. Our classifications are a
generation old. They are so out of
date that three hundred thousand con
tests have been decided to find out
in what class articles really belonged
Let us go to the people not only
promising revision, but saying to
them that we are already at work
p-ntiiprinp- nil the data unon which
congress can act with knowledge and
wisdom and without delay. By com
mon-sense tariff methods Germany
is nassinsr us on the seas of com
merce; even little Japan is rivaling
us. Give America the same common-
sense methods, and she will beat Ger
many, Japan, and all the world com
bined.
Montana is Tested.
By Associated Press.
Rockland, Maine, April 1. The ar
mored cruiser, Montana, left today for
a series of 12 runs over a mile
course which will comprise the offi
cial screw standardization trial. A
northwest gale shifting suddenly to
1,-jpkerl nn a heavy sea. but
the trial was continued.
Mrs. James L. Keerans underwent
an operation for appendicitis yester
day at St. Peter's Hospital.
Populists Will Not
Oppose Prohibition
P.y Associated ' Press.
St. Louis.. Mo., April 1. Numerous
delegates to the Populist convention
have arrived today and it soon be
came evident from the expressions of
the late arrivals, that there is small
chance of the convention taking any
stand against prohibition.
A considerable number of delegates
are against any plank in the plat
form touching upon prohibition.
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EDUCATIONAL UN
INVESTIGATION
OF CHARGES MADE
81 REP. LiLLFY
By Associated Press.
Washington, D. C, April 1. Franklin
A. Taylor, of Waterbury, Conn., vice
president of the Randolph Clows Com
pany, manufacturers of brass and cop
per, was the first witness called bv the
special committee, of the house that is
investigating charges against the Elec
trie Boat Company.
He said he had told Representative
Lilly to vote for submarine boats as
there was a possibility of his company
getting some business if the boats
were ordered.
"What was Mr. Lilley's reply V
"He would not commit himself one
way or the other."
The last conversation the witness
and with Mr. Lilley was a week ago
Saturday in Waterbury. During that
conversation Mr. Lilly, according to the
witness, said he proposed to see the
Lake peSple had a fair chance. He was
present in the Waterbury Club a week
ago Saturday, he said, while Lilley was
talking with a number of gentlemen
about the recent investigation. Ac
cording to Taylor Mr. Lilley said it
was quite likely he would get an ad
verse decision and in that event he
said he would go on the floor of the
house and tell all he knew about the
whole matter of submarine boats.
Taylor said he never lost an oppor
tunity to impress upon Lilley that he
ought to vote for submarines, and that
he had shaken his fist at Lilley several
times, but always in a jocular manner.
He did not intimate to him that he had
gone to him at the instigation of the
Electric Boat Company.
There will be a prohibition meet
ing in the Sunday school room of the
Tenth Avenue Presbyterian Church
tonight at 8 o'clock with Messrs. C.
W. Til lei t, F. M. Shannoiihouse and
W. C. Dowd as speakers.
Pacolet Mills 9
Get Big Order
Will Send $2,500,000
W orth of Goods toChina
Where Trade is Picking
Up Hopeful Signs in
Cotton Manufacturing.
The dispatch from Greenville, S. C,
reporting the sale of large quantities
of cotton goods on the China market
created much interest among com
mission merchants and in cotton mill
circles in this city, 'me dispatch
stated that the Pacolet Mills, near
Spartanburg, S. C, had platted or
ders for approximately two and one
half million dollars worth of goods in
the markets of China.
This report reached Charlotte yes
terday and was confirmed this morn
ing. A prominent commission merchant
when asked for an expression of his
views, said it was an indication of
vastly improved conditions and that
if the mills in this country could suc
ceed in placing orders for $2.r.,000,000
worth of goods in China the condi
tions here would not only be greatly
strengthened but it would greatly
encourage tne producers. Speaking
further of the conditions that have
existed lately, he said:
"The West has been buying more
goods within the past two weeks.
Larger quantities have been sold and
orders have been constantly increas
ing." Regarding the depressed trade with
the mills in the south this same gen
tlemen said he had heard of a mill
in Georgia posting notices that on
account of the failure to market its
goods the mill would close. The next
morning these notices were torn
down and others substituted to the
effect that the mill would run full
time, as its output had been sold for
six months in advance.
Another commission merchant cor
roborated the above statements. He
said this deal with China was looked
upon as one of the most favorable
signs of renewed activity in the ex
port trade that has been snown since
the panic. The Pacolet Mills, lie
said, turned out principally export
goods and for nearly two years there
had been scarcely any trade of conse
quence with cnina ana uuring mat
period in which that country has
shut off its trade with the mills of
this country the Pacolet had accumu
lated a large quantity. The price
paid for the goods could not be
learned here.
Dr. J. E. S. Davidson Moves Office.
Dr. J. E. S. Davidson has moved
his office to the Hunt building, sec
ond floor, and will get his calls at
Hawley's drug store.
PRICE 5 CENTS.
STATE
OPERA
Large Number of Delegates
From 19 Counties Present,
sAnd Are Welcomed By
President of The Greater
Charlotte Club.
First Session is Addressed by
National President C. W.
Barrett, Who Says The
Union is a Business Or
ganization. The North Carolina division of the
Farmers' Co-operative and Educational
Union of America was organized here
today with 1!) counties represented.
There was: a fine attendance.
The first session, which was public,
was called to order this morning in
the criminal court room at 10 o'clock
by State Organizer Fant.
Mr. Fant called upon Mr. W. 0.
Crosby, secretary of the Mecklenburg
union, to introduce Mr. E. R. Preston,
who welcomed the convention on be
half of the city and Greater Charlotte
Club.
Mr. Preston said that while Char
lotte, the Queen City of the state,
boasted of being a commercial and
industrial center, the fact that North
Carolina had been, and would still con
tinue to be, an agricultural slate; and
that the city was still dependent upon
the agricultural interest, which made
the convention doubly welcome.
Charlotte as a Starter.
"Charlotte has always boasted of be
ing the starter of things." said Mr.
Mr. Preston," and we are pro.id of
the fact that the city is the scene of
the hi;, h of this great organ :z: tion in
this state."
Dr. II. Q. Alexander, presiug&tof i.h.-
Mecklenburg union, respond'?
address of welcome. '
Dr. Alexander said iimi iuie iiu
was on the program to respond to the
address of welcome, he wanted to add
a welcome from the Mecklenburg un
ion to the delegates. Dr. Alexander
said:
"We welcome you because we are
brethren working in a common cause,
and we feel that your visit to us will
be an inspiration to us to go forward
in this great work.
"The spot on which we stand is
sacred because here it was that the
birth of American liberty took place,
and it is fitting that this should also
be the birth place of the Farmers' Un
ion in this state, which is to help us
to throw off the tyrancial yoke of
the Wall street gamblers."
Dr. Alexander introduced Mr. C. W.
Barrett, of Texas, the president of
the national union.
Mr. Barrett Speaks.
Mr. Barrett said that he was agree
ably surprised in the tone of the ad
dress of welcome. "It lias been the
custom in the past," said the speaker,
"for a farmers' meeting to be wel
comed by the mayor or some promi
nent "citizen who would speak for an
hour, and say nothing but throw bou
quets at the farmers, and all this was
done for a selfish purpose. We know
our failures in the past have been
caused by reason of the fact that those,
not of us, gave us nothing but flattery
for the purpose of securing our aid for
their own selfish ends, and it gives
me pleasure to hear addresses of wel
come like those heard this morning."
In exploiting what the Farmers' Un
ion was, Mr. Barrett said: "The Farm
ers' Union is a business organization
composed of farmers, banded togeth
er for the purpose of attending to their
own business and letting that of oth
ers alone!"
The speaker then complimented the
personnel of the delegates present. He
said that North Carolina would go into
the union with as good, if not better,
material than any other state.
"I am almost a North Carolinian,"
said the speaker. "My grandfather
and great-grandfather were natives of
this state, and I fell at home among
you."
The 12th State Organized.
After President Barrett's address,
the convention went into executive
session, and all who were not possess
ed of the pass word retired.
North Carolina is the twelfth state to
be organized into the union, the oth
ers having already a state organiza
tion being Alabama, Florida, Illinois,
Kansas, Louisinana, Mississippi, Mis
souri, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Ten
nessee and Texas. '
In this state, the following counties
have been organized and sent dele
gates: Alamance, Anson, Montgomery,
Moore, Richmond, Union, Cabarrus,
Mecklenburg, Iredell, Lincoln, Gaston,
Cleveland, Polk, Catawba, Rutherford,
Macon, McDowell, Haywood, Yancey
and Cherokee.
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