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1 The N ws h&s the Largest ESTABLISHED 1888. Half Witted Negro who Per petrated Black Crime Be gins Long Sentence Ral eigh Cotton Mills Are Cur tailing Production. Governor Glenn FinishesPro h i b i t i on C ampaign in Western Part of State Other Capital City News Briefs. Special to The News. Raleigh, N. C, April 10. Harry Wood, a negro l'J years old, was sent to t'ie )enitentiary to serve 20 years today for criminal assault on a white woman r0 years oM. The negro is half-witted. Secretary-Treasurer C. II. Gattis, of the sue-. heel Eastern Carolina Baseball Lea announces an agreement lias reached that the charge for all o games in all six towns, shall ,. i'.") cents for adults; 1" cents for children, and grand stand not over l." cents. Governor Glenn concluded his west- el'll with will row. A. Rale icone Carolina prohibition campaign I an address at Newton today. Hej l;e in ine execuiiv t uurc iuuhj A. Thompson, president of the i-h and Neuse Cotton Mills, has n Charlotte to attend the meet ing of the executive committee ot tne North Carolina Cotton Manufacturers' Association. The Raleigh mills are now running only five days a week to avoid overstock. Special to The News. Raleigh. N. C. April 10. Last night William G. Hill lodge of Masons con ferred the master's degree on five can didates, the lodge being in session iiom G until 11 o'clock. The grow th of Ma.-onry in the past few years has been well nigh phenome nal and it is expected that when the three lodges of the city move into the grand lodge temple, late in the sum mer, a yet greater period of prosperity will come to them. The work on the temple is going for ward now with great dispatch. In connection with the preparation; for the great annual music festival by the Raleigh Choral Society there was held today a monster children's re hearsal, in which 350 children partici pated. Thorp will be 40.1 people taking part in the performance, the event to be on Easier Mondav and Tuesday ' nights, April inih and 21st, under the direc tion of Prof.' Wade 11. Brown, dean of tlie music department of the Baptist University for Women. Adjutant General T. E. Robertson, of the North Carolina national guards, says mere was never a time in uie nis- n low or 1 in piiiin wnpn merp wprn so j.i liianv towns now without military con panics isking for admission. In fact ihere are at least as many now out of; the guard asking admission as there arc now in the guard. Only the oc currence of vacancies can make room for any of those on the waiting list under the present regulations. An effort, is being made by State Au ditor B. F. Dixon to have Chatham county provide for William Elmore, the aged veteran who came here with his wife from Missouri in the hope of getting a confederate pension. They are now in the soldiers' home, but, un der the law. cannot remain there. El more- was a native of Chatham and vol unteered from that county. A charter is issued for the Tor- rence Paint Co.. Charlotte, capital $50,000 authorized and $10,000 sub scribed by Forest Torrence, Gastonia; J. E. Wilson, C. C. Brown, Charlotte. Checks have been issued for about $20,000 of the 530,000 placed at the disposal of Governor Glenn by the war department for distribution to the North Carolina volunteers in the Spanish-American war. Anderson Cotton Mills Have Shut Down Special to The News. Greenville, S. C, April 10. The Anderson Cotton Mills shut down to day. The mills have 18,000 spindles and 000 looms. They are carrying out the plan of curtailment adopted by the Manufacturers' Association. Fuller May Sit With Pritchard By Associated Press. Washington, D. C, April 10 It is understood Chief Justice Fuller has consented to sit with Judge Pritchard in the hearing of the application for a writ of supersedeas, which, if granted, would stay Judge Pritchard's order for Hie appointment of a receiver in the South Carolina dispensary cases. There is a fund of about $300,000 in volved, and the state takes sharp ex ception to Judge Pritchard's interven tion in the matter. It is contended on behalf of the state that the action is against the state as witch, and that therefore the federal eourt is without jurisdiction. NEGRO SITS WMW SraEili1iLTssTiiLT Mrs. f hompson Drop ped Dead on Porch Special to The News. High Point, X. C, April 10. Mrs. J. E. Thompson, wife of the paster of the V ashington Street Methodist Episco pal church, dropped dead while sitting on lie? front porch this morning at 11 o'clock. Heart disease is supposed to be the cause of death. Mrs. Thompson was U5 years oi age. Mass. Republicans Endorse Roosevelt's Administration By Associated Press. Boston, Mass.,sApril 10. The repub lican state convention adopted a plat form endorsing Governor Guild for the vice presidency. The convention also endorsed President Roosevelt's admini stration, but made no preference for the presidential candidate, although it is stated that the majority of the dele gates to the convention desire Taft's nomination. The platform declares for protection but recognizes that the rates or sched ules must be from time to time chang ed and revised. Posmastcr General Meyer was temporary chairman. Amendment to Rate Law. By Associated Press. Washington, April 10. Chairman Elkins brought to the attention of the senate committee on interstate com merce a letter from Attorney General Bonaparte submitting an amendment to the resolution to suspend until Jan uary 1, 19010, penalties attached to the commodity clause of the railroad rate law. The amendment is intended to protect the right of railroads and the government to test the constitutional ity of the clause in advance of its op eration. Plant Trees In Count Mr. J. . Weddington Says the People of Meck lenburg Shculd Wake Up to This Need Let Trees Shade all Roads. Mr. J. H. Weddington, a nature-lover, who believes in the better protection of trees, in an interview with The News, urges the planting of trees along the public . highways and to protect these that are already giving shade and beautifying homes. Mr. Wedding ton said: '"Our people should wake up to the necessity of protecting our forests and cultivation of trees that beautify the homes and render shade to the traveler as well as the dumb animal that performs so much of the toil and furnishes so much of the necessities of mankind. Every public road leading out from the city should be bordered with trees, for the sake of beauty and the wel fare of our people and their stock. Is there a single road leading out from Charlotte that will show as much as a half-mile of shade within six or eight miles? This should no be so. It will cost but little to beautify our county and the returns will be many fold. Then let us be up and doing. We owe something to prosperity, and as we can take nothing with us when we leave, let us leave something that will show that we lived and had some re gard for these to follow us. It. will be a. good exmple and. will stimulate our posterity to do likewise." Big Automobile Destroyed by Fire Special to The News. Union, S. C, April 10. About '6 o'clock this morning the large motor car bought about six months ago for a motor car line between Union and surrounding points, was completely destroyed by fire. Mr. H. T. Yates, who was the pro moter of the car line and on whom premises the car was stored in a building, in speaking of the fire this morning, said that the first he say of it was about 3 o'clock when he saw the building ablaze. The fire alarm was turned in but it was too late for anything to be sav ed. Mr. Yates said that he had $3, 000 insurance on the car and $300 on the building. He has no idea as to the origin of the fire. His runabout macmne which was in a smaller building nearby, was saved. Condemn Aldrich Bill. By Associated Press. Washington, D. C, April 10. Victor Morawetz, chairman of the executive board of the Sante Fe .Railroad; Em orv W. Clark, vice president of the First National Bank of Detroit, and Frank Dale La Sanne, representative of the Philadelphia board of trade, ap peared" before the committee on bank ing and currency of the house, and all condemned the Aldrich bill. Circulation of THE ONLY EVENING CHARLOTTE, N. Naval Bill is Considered By Associated Press. Washington, April 10. In pursuance of the programme of business mapped out by the republicans through the adoption Wednesday of special rule, the house representatives began con sideration of the naval bill. Under terms of a rule the general debate will close tomorrow at 5 p. m. Chairman Foss of the committee on naval affairs explained the details of the bill, the main features of whicn have been published. Defer.-H Trip of Fleet. Mr. Foss said despite criticisms the sending of the Atlantic fleet to the Pa cific had called forth it had been of inestimable value to the country. Mr. Foss commented upon, the fact that the trend of America's development was westward and he foresaw '"Two ocean" navy for the country. . Record of Target Practice. The marksmanship of the men, Mr. Foss declared, had constantly improv ed; and, referring to the recent target practice of the Atlantic Fleet at Mag dalena Bay, he said that if he were to divulge confidential reports the records would be shown to be even better than those of any navy in the world., Mr. Foss, referring to the recent con gressional hearings regarding the crit icisms of American battleship con struction, declared that the conclusion had been reached that the American warships had been honestly and prop erly constructed and compared favor ably with vessels of other foreign pow ers. He paid flattering tribute to Rear Ad miral Converse, characterizing him as "Our greatest living naval authority." Monument To Dead Soldiers By Associated Press. Shiloh Battlefield, Tenn., April 9. The monument erected by the state of Minnesota in the National Park at Shiloh to the memofy of the Minneso ta soldiers who fell on that battlefield, wa s dedicated here today. Governor Johnson and staff, accom panied by a party cf prominent men of Minnesota, were present and partici pated in the dedicatory exercises. Death of Little Jean Bowie. The pretty little baby daughter, Jean, of Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Bowie, died Wednesday night at their home in Jef ferson, this state, after a brief illness. Mrs. Bowie, before her marriage, was Miss Jean Davis, daughter of Capt. J. M. Davis, of this city. She has the deep sympathy of many friends in Charlotte. Young Gives $100 Bond. Mr. Taul Young, the white man, who was sent to jail yesterday by the Recorder in default of a $300 bond for his appearance at the next term of court to answer . the charge of vagrancy, was released this morn ing. On application of Col. Kirkpat rick, his attorney., the bond was re duced to $100, which he gave in cash. 2 Small Boys Were Cremated Ey Associated Press. New York, April 10. Two small boys were killed and several persons injured in a fire which caused a loss of $20,000 to a five-story tene ment house at 25 Pitt street this morning. The fire drove 20 families from their homes in the building and emp tied tenements and lodging houses for a block. Death of Co!. Blakely. By Associated Press. New Orleans, April 10. Col. Andrew R. Blakely, one of the most prominent hotel men in the country, died he-re. Col. Blakely served in the Confederacy throughout the Civil War and was prominently identified with every im portant movement in the ranks of the United Confederate veterans. Any Afternoon. ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWSPAPER C, FRIDAY EVENING, WATCHING CHARLOTTE GROW ! Prim to Answer For Peonage Sup erin tendent of The Anchor Mills at Hun ter sville Indicted on Such a Charge by Federal G and Jury. The News yesterday contained a dispatch from Greensboro saying that the federal grand jury there had found a true bill against Mr. J. W. Prim, of Huntersville, charging him with peon age. Mr. Prim is superintendent of the Anchor Cotton Mills, of Huntersville, in which a number of Charlotte people are interested. Tlie circumstances are about like this: : v Some time ago Mr. W. R. Hammond and his wife were ari-estad on a war rant sworn out by a justice of the peace in Huntersville, charging them with obtaining goods under false pre tenses. The case was not returned, however, before the Huntersville 311s tice but before 'Squire Hilton here. The News had an account of the trial at the time. It was charged that the Anchor Mill had paid the railroad fare of Mr. and Mrs. Hammond to get them to go to Huntersville, and had also ad vanced them about $45 on furniture for their home there. The Hammonds were to pay back $2 a week on the fare and the same amount on the furniture. When they lacked about $25 of having fully reimbursed the mill, it is said, they left Huntersville and came to Charlotte. Mr. Hammond said on the trial that his wife did not like Hunters ville, that her health was poor there and she would not any longer make it her home. The total amount was only $47 and the bond was therefore fixed at $50. Mr. Hammond said he had relatives in Rock Hill and an effort was made to get in touch with them at once, so that he could give the bond, but it fail ed and Mr. Hammond spent from Sat urday to Monday in the Charlotte jail. Mr. Hammond had said that he was endeavoring to move to Rock Hill, and this is said to be one reason he was held till bond was secured. On Monday evening or Tuesday morning Mr. Prim asked for the with drawal of the warrant against Mr. Hammond, and be was released. He is now working for the Mecklenburg Mills and Mrs. Hammond for the Highland Park Mills. The interests of the latter mill and the Anchor Mill, in Huntersville, are largely in the same hands and the Hammonds have all along said that they were wiling to work out their debt to the Anchor Special to The News. Union, S. C, April 10. The repub licans of this county held their county convention in the Odd Fel lows hall in this city Wednesday at noon, forty-two delegates being pres ent. J. P. Sartor of Carlisle, was re-elct-ed chairman, and J. W. Dawkins was re-eleceted secretary, all of the offi cers of the executive committee 'suc ceeding themselves. The features of the convention was the election of delegates to the dis trict and state conventions, and the fact that the delegates go uninstruct ed, to vote as they deem best for the presidential nominee, is of interest. From what can be gathered it seems that the majority of them are for Foraker, being opposed to Taft, al though Taft is - supported by Hon. John G. Capers, state federal referee. A resolution was passed criticizing President Roosevelt rather severely for his action in dismissing from the army the soldiers whom it is alleged were engaged in the Brownsville riot, without .giving them either mili tary or cival trial. S. 1 REPUBLICANS FAVOR FDRAKER Pamper Published in the Two Carolines NEW IN CHARLOTTE. APRIL 10, 1908. Mill here in Charlotte, paying on the same basis as they did before. In some way the federal authorities got wind of the matter at the Ashe ville end of the line and sent the mat ter to the present grand jury at Greens boro. One of the charges said to be made by the government is that the Hammonds were arrested on a blank warrant, no charge being stated at tne tiniest wras served by the officer. The case will be tried at the next term of federal court in Greensboro There was some criticism on the streets today of the federal 'authori ties for the manner in which they are seeking to scrape up peonage charges. HORSE KICKS CHILD. Son of Mr. R. B. Redwine, of Monroe in Hospital Here. Hon. R. B. Redwine, a prominent at torney of Monroe, arrived in the city this morning with his little six-year-old son, who was kicked by a horse yester day afternoon, and sustained a serious fracture of the skull. Drs. Pressley and Gibbon were called to Monroe last night, and operated on the child successfully, finding the bone badly fractured, and the wound a ser ious one. It was thought best to bring the little fellow to the hospital, and he is resting easy at St. Peter's this afternoon. The little boy was playing at the heels of an old family horse yesterday when the animal -gave a vicious kick, striking the boy on the side of the head. LUTHERAN SYNOD. Annual Meeting Will be Held on 29th at China Grove. The annual meeting of the Evangeli cal Lutheran Synod and Ministerium of North Carolina will be held at China Grove Wednesday, April the 29th, the sessions to be held in the Lutheran Chapel church, of which Rev. C. A. Brown is the the pastor. The synodi cal sermon will be preached by Rev. George H. Cox, D. D.; beneficiary edu cation, by Rev. C. M. Fox; missions, by Rev. R. C. Holland, pastor of St. Mark's Lutheran church in this city, and beneficence, by Rev. George S. Boarden. UNION BANK FIXTURES Cochrane Show Case Company Gets Contract to Install Furniture. The Cochrane Show Case Company has secured the contract to furnish the office fixtures and furniture for the Union National Bank, in the Buford Hotel building. The fixtures will be the handsomest yet turned out by the show case company. They will consist of white Vermont marble and mahogany and bronze grill plate-glass. The bank's offices will be fitted as handsomely as could be done by any concern in the country. The Cochrane Show Case Company, since it started in business here sever al years ago, has won a wide reputa tion on its work, which is considered as fine as may be turned out anywhere in the south. Peculiar Pumpkins" is the attrac tion at the Royal today. This is a good production and will please all. Sanitarium Now Opened Special to The News. Greensboro. N. C. April 10. Dr. B. B. Williams and Mr. John R. Robinson have opened at 1020 West Market street, the building formerly occupied by Mr. P. D. Gold, Jr., as a residence, a sanitarium for the treatment of the drug and liquor habits and neurasthe nia. Dr. Williams has been engaged in this line of work for 12 years and is well known throughout the state as a specialist in the work. Mr. Robinson also has had experience which quali fies him for his new undertaking. The institution will be .cnown as "Williams Private Sanitarium." The North Carolina Mattress Com rtanv. which started the manufacture of mattresses a few weeks ago in a small building on lower AsneDoro street, has outgrown these quarters and moved to 103 South Davie street. NEGROES INT SAME AC COfflODATlS AS GIVEN TO THE WHITE PEOPLE POOL ROOM KEEPER FINED. L. L. Probst Tried for Keeping Place Open After Midnight. Mr. L. L. Probst, the proprietor of the Selwyn Hotel Pool Parlor, was tried this morning before the Re corder on the charge of keeping his place open after midnight, which is a violation of an old ordinance, which could not be located yesterday morn ing, when the defendant appeared in court. Col. Kirkpatrick represented Probst and contended before the Recorder that Probst could be guilty of only a technical violation, if guilty ot anything. Probst testified that he closed the place at 12 o'clock Thursday morn ing and all of the crowd left except Paul Young and two other men, who remained in order to eat a lunch or dered from the cafe. He stated that after eating, he went to sleep on the table, and he woke up at 5 o clock, the officers were in the room. He claimed that he was not aware that the others were playing, and that he received no pay for the games. Officers Henry and House testified as to going to the place and firding Probst asleep and the others with cues in thei rhands. Chief Christenbury stated that about a month ago, he had wrarned one of the proprietors," a Mr. Winter field, that it was contrary to the city code to have games going on after midnight, but that he had never spoken to Mr. Probst on the subject. Alderman Shelor went on the stand and testified as to the good character of Mr. Probst. Mr. Probst was fined $10 and the costs, but gave notice of appeal, and a cash bond of $25 was required. Cost Of Big Storage Plant Wholesale I mil Dealer Doubts Whether itWould Pay to Turn Ike Rock Quarry to Such Pur poses. The novel scheme proposed by Mr. Fred Oliver in The News yesterday afternoon for converting the huge rock quarry into an immense cold storage warehouse attracted much attention and The News heard a number of peo ple speaking of it today. A representative of this paper sought out a leading wholesale fruit dealer and asked him as to his opinion about the matter. He said that he would like very much to see the plan carried out, but admitted that he had some doubts as to whether the plan would pay or not. He said he had never known of a cold storage plant being under ground, but did not interpose that as any special difficulty. Some years ago the fruit dealers of the city had discussed the feasibility of establishing a cold storage ware house, but the cost was deemed to be too great to justify it until the city shall be larger. It was not considered that the city was large enough now to pay on such an investment. He in stanced a big city warehouse where 75,000 barrels of apples were kept from October to June, the charge being 50 cents a barrel for the season. Of courseCharlotte could not hope for any such business as this for some years to come. The cold storage plant seems to be an expensive affair. ' It has to be ar ranged so that temperatures may be varied in the various apartments. For instance apples require a jstant tem perature of 32 degrees or down to the freezing point. Meats take about the same temperature. Eggs have to be in an air-tight compartment and take a low temperature. Oranges, bananas and lemons can do with about 50 de grees. Furs are another article that give the cold storage plant business. Some people asked the question as to why Mr. Oliver proposed such an elaborate drainage scheme. This is doubtless due to the fact that the reser voir is full of living springs of wa ter. WILL NOT INSTRUCT Prominent Republican Says Delegates A Will Go Untrammeled. The republican primaries for Meck lenburg are being held in the country districts this afternoon, and those for the city will be held tonight at S o'clock. These primaries will elect delegates to the county convention, which meets tomorrow at 3 o'clock, which will in turn elect delegates to the congression al and state convention. When asked this afternoon, a promi nent member of the party said that he thought there would be no instructing of delegates at the convention tomor row, but the 'delegates would go to all the conventions untrammeled. Ill Wit!."! Pneumonia. Miss Jennie aVn Landingham. su perintendent of the Alexander Home, was taken to the Presbyterian hos pital Tuesday with pneumonia and her condition is slightly worse today. PRICE 5 CENTS. Interstate Commerce Com mission to Hold Hearing in Regard to Enforcing Law Requiring Roads to Give Equal Accommodation Complaint Aims at all Roads in The South and Directly Against Seaboard Air Line And Pullman Company A Full Story. By Associated Press. Washington, D. C, April 10. The in terstate commerce commission expects soon to hold a hearing in a case of great interest in connection with the letter sent by President Roosevelt to the department of justice in regard to enforcing laws requiring equal ac commodations for colored and white passengers. The case is that of five bishops of the African Methodist Episcopal church against four large railroads of the south and the Pullman Company. Inferior accommodations for passen gers of the African race, refusal of sleeping car and dining car facilities and other alleged discriminations con stitute the grounds for the complaint. The letter to the department of jus tice, made public by the president on Wednesday resulted from the decision of the interstate commerce commis sion in the case of Georgia Edwards against the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway Company, in favor of the complainant. The president wrote his letter to the department of justice after receiving a letter from a member of the inter state commerce commission to the effect that the order of the commis sion requiring- a railroad company to provide equal accommodations to all passengers had not been complied with by the road. It is held that the law permits sepa rate accommodations for whites and negroes, but requires the same facul ties for both. The complaint, while aimed at all of the rail roads operating in the south, is made directly against the Seaboard Air Line railway Company and the Pullman Company, all of which prac tically have ''denied the charges con tained in the complaint made by Bishop Gaines and Turner, of Atlanta; 'Tiree, of Nashville; Smith, of Detroit, and Lampion, of Washington. Night Riders Again Busy Lexington, Ky., April 10. "Night riders" are again becoming active in Montgomery county. Warning notes have been sent to various farmers threatening them with whipping by the riders, who say they will make their visit in the day time if the of fending persons are not found at home at night. Match.es and powder were included in the warning letters re ceived several weeks ago by tobacco men in that country. DEATH OF MR. L. D. GORDON. Old Confederate Veteran Passes Away Yesterday. Special to The News. Winston-Salem, N. C, April 10. Mr. L. D. Gordon died yesterday at the home of his son, Mr. L. K. Gordon, of Thirteenth street. His death was caus ed by heart trouble. Besides the son above mentioned, with whom he made his home, he leaves a wife and two other sons, the elder, Mr. N. W. Gor don, residing in Elkin. The funeral services were conducted from the home this afternoon at 1 o'clock by the pastor of the deceased, Rev. G. W. Milloway, assited by Dr. H. A. Brown. The interment was in Woodland cemetery. Mr. Gordon was a confederate veteran and served in the civil war as a member of company F, second North Carolina regiment. LAND TRANSFERS Two Deeds Filed For Registration in Clerks Office. Two deeds were filed for registra tion in the office of the clerk of the superior court today. Mr. W. J. McCall has sold an undi vided interest in two lots on the Law yers road, one being 45x200 feet and the other 49x150. The consideration was $1,800. Mr. John B. Jetton has sold to Mr. Joe V. Knox a lot in Deweese town ship containing 18.7C9 square feet for $161. F. C. Abbott & Company sold today for Mr. Nichols Hussey a lot in Dil worth, on East Boulevard, to Mr. A. W. Latta, of the local offices of the General Electric Company. Mr. Latta will improve the propert with a hand some dwelling. A Divorce Suit. A suit for divorce has been insti tuted in the superior court by John Wherry against Mary Wherry.
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