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t t -'Jr. IAKLOTTE Latest Edition H ' t i Latest Edition ... (! '.-jit m 1 Km VOL, 43. NO. 6891. CHARLOTTE, N, C MONDAY. EVENING, NOVEMBER 28, I9IO. PRICE 5 CENTS ei nment's Suit An Estimate Of The Appropriations For Rivers And Harbors Foi Dissolution of Trust Filed "P'li Hi nrnm G MEWS, ; 1 ; : : (HIS MIND IS TRYING- I QfL Gov Sugm :: i Pziilion Filed, by Eemy A. District Attorney in U, S. Circuit Couit For Southern District of New York. Government's Petition is Leng thy One Comes Under Head of Sherman Anti-Trust Law And is Sweeping Arraign ment oj Defendant Co. v,- -Hi Press. y. Nov. JS. The Federal ., today began one of its .,. ?r;aiii actions against, great .im. rn which are said to have , I tV Sherman anti-trust law. . W ise. United States district in the United States i iirr for the southern district . -.v York, a petition asking for ,:.-s i'-!ti. .n of the American Sugar impaay and twenty-nine ..-.rations, which compose the ; -mar trust.' The petition nii illegal combination in re- f trade and asks from the :" in whatever form may be ludine a receivership if r ivi;..bk " - (rir.ir.anies composing the :,'::.( have an aggregate ; ? '. . ii-n of $2"t.000.(00 and con , r.- percentage of the ouput ; r: I'.! 'his country. The com ;: :- .ii.'r, the government alleges, . ' s arbitrarily. The petition . for years the companies r- -I --il the lav." and have op : . i . m iters and ground them i - ..vtencr. Railroad rebates and frauds are mentioned as evi 'ti? , :1 which were employed to ; foinbino to the commanding r.-hi'-i: it occupies today. Vfc st-vm suit, which it is estimat L '; if iii the courts for two a final adjudication is ;bo result of many weeks .f ::ation. District attorney Wise ..;. iiir. investigations under the di--':, (; Attorney General Wicker , r. : n- s;.f nr several days in Wash week in conferring with h. .r u' i t' general on the final plans. ::'. ;s expected to rank in im- ,'3n- with those of the government .:, ;e Standard Oil Company and ;? A'v-rican Tobacco Company, rvc row pending in the supreme 'i; vj-l to the government in the " vili be some of the most able :-n lawyers of the country. M. iiec-k. former assistant Unit :: attorney general and now :::?c-i for the American Sugar Re On:pany. will lead the attack : o-.-ernment's position. V"?" York. Xov. 28. Attacking the Ar..e-;;can Sugar Refining Company. ! ;3 i mown as the sugar trust, as combination, the federal .-:h today filed its long expec " f ir the dissolution of the cor The petition was filed by A. Wise, district, attorney in i'cc; States circuit court for the -is-rict of Xew York, and the "it 5 broueht under the Sher ;ri trust law is expected to be the most important actions of fi r vcr undertaken in this coun- ;:ovenimenl's petition is a f-ne, occupying 221 ' printed ' ' is sweeping arraignment of ''tvant companies. ef 'he rl!p?atinn is that, the fi . Havemeyer cf Xew York, i f r o .f the sugar combine, receiv- !i).f;rM).000 common stock of the r ?ursr Rpfininer Comnanv. of as a sift at the time war formed to take into -ty four independent con- K;vernment also alleges that bf American Company took over Philadelphia companies,, includ r Spreckels Sugar Refining Com ffavameyer and his broth tf'odore Havemever bought 45 !..i;r ' . TT I": (v.' Co;; z i '-I rr ;. of th stock of the Spreckels y and then sold it at a large the American Company, of ! '.'Oth were directors, antral. the petition marges that -fVndsnta "for sor.e time past 1 en and are now engaged in v.! li '' 'Strain the trade and commerce t!::'JT;g and between the several states Or-: 'cr'-itories: of the United States f.r " " itb foreign nations in raw sugar, r ' refined sugar, molasses ' other l;i-prcducts of raw and snzar heefv anrl to roon Kr 'lie tame. Such unlawful com 'n and conspiracy is the resu! o-n Growth of a series of wronr ;rH extending over a period e VfJ'rs and participated in L ' !J::' - respectively in the mannei V.: v; . m forth. In participation in ms af-ts, agreements and combin hereinafter described, all of the ,' ' n 'hi tits have been 'actuated by ( ' : ;'ri:' intent to restrain said inter . ' 'id foreign trade and commerce J.'.'.,. 7" J"!'id refined sugar and related and to monopolize parts there- ( ; government petitions the court i J:ree: That the defendants have '(d "f'Saged in unlawful combination cnpiracy to restrain and mono 1:( ''rwVrP; tnat tne American Sugar l;' -'18 ,orapny, the National Sugar tho ""'i-'duy 01 ew jersey ana ?tern Susar Refining Company is each in itself an unlawful combina tion in restraint of trade; that the shares of the capital stock of each de fendant corporation heretofore acquir ed by any other corporate defendant were unlawfully acquired, and that each such holder be enjoined from continuing to hold such shares; that the shares of capital stock in the Na tional sugar Refining Company, Utah Idaho Sugar Company: Great Western Sugar Company and Continental Sugar Company, formerly held by the late H. O. Havemeyer; that the defendants be enjoined from continuing to cam out the purpose of the unlawful com bination and conspiracy and be re quired to withdraw from all connection therewith; and that the court grant such general relief as may be proper by way of injunction, receivership or otherwise." One of the features of the govern ment's lengthy petition is the charge that the American Sugar Refining Com pany has obtained unfair advantages over competitors by obtaining money on imports by customs frauds, as was brought out. in the government's recent suits; by receiving rebates from rail roads and by working in harmony with wholesale grocers' associations throughout the country and keeping up the price of sugar. James H. Beck, general cqunsel of the American Sugar Refining Com pany, made this statement with ref erence to the government's suit against the company: " The company's reply to the various charges will be seen when its formal answer is filed in court. For the pres ent, it is sufficient to remind the pub lic and the company's stockholders that the supreme court has already declined, in a similar proceeding by the governments' to hold that this com pany was an illegal monopoly under the Sherman law, and the court has deprecated 'the challenging of the jus tice of their well considered and sol emn judgments.' "The company has no monopoly in the sugar industry: it produces no raw sugar and does not. and cannot control the price of the raw material; it has no agreements direct or im plied, with other sugar companies, and is subject daily to competition of the keenest character; ithas, including its beet sugar interests, about. 51 per cent of the country's trade, and it requires a liberal stretch of the imagination to call this a monopoly. "It does not seek to stifle compe tition or oppress the consumer by ad vancing the cost of a necessity 'of" life. I'Jts refinery profit last year averag ed lets'' than" xirte'-sith of a cent per pound. During the last decade, when the prices of nearly every necessity of life has materially advanced and when the cost, of this company's labor and, supplies have very largely increased, it has continued to sell sugar at a low er margin of profit taken from any in dustry. In 1S70 the price of granulat ed sugar in Xew York was 13 1-2 cents a pound; in 1880, 9.S; in 1890, 5.32, in 1909, 4.7G." SEVERAL HURT 'I STRIKE RIOT By Associated Press. Chicago, Nov. 28. Italians who were said to be striking garment, work- j ers engaged in two riots at Yv entwortli and Alexander streets today. One wo man was made unconscious by a blow on the head from a baseball bat. A man was clubbed senseless by the po lice, a seargeant was slightly injured and five women and four men were arrested. A short time afterward Walter Mil ler. 12 years old. fired upon a crowd of strikers that had stormed the Miller home and shot, off the index finger of Miss Frances Veseley's left hand. Miller's sister Viola and several other the-garment woruers nad sougnr. retuge m the house from the crowd, which was angered because they had not remain ed on the strike. The mob of nearly 500 fell back from the boy's shots, leaving behind Miss Veseley. who fainted. The police took her home. Emma Ginto, a laundry worker, M as the sufferer from the baseball bat. The weapon, it is alleged, was wielded by another woman. Bertha Pecon, wno was subsequently arrested. While the fighting was going on. Police Ser geant John McCann was knocked to the ground by a stone. Joseph Ben balk, who it is said, threw the mis sile, was so severely clubbed afterward that he ha dto be taken to a hospi tal. M1&3 Ginto told the police that the trouble started over the fact that she and several girls persisted in working after having been asked to go oft a sympathetic strike. Killed His Neighbor. ly Associated Press. Weimar, Texas, Nov. 28. Henry Tie ann, one of the wealthiest farmers f this section, today shot and killed Fred Froelich, Sr.. his aged friend and I neigll yOi. , i leuinuu anncu i'iucm.u w iook aner ms sluiv uunu& o sence. Returning home for some thtns- b had forgotten, he saw a man he supposed was prowling about his barn and opened fire, with fatal results. Battleships to Mardi Gras. By Associated Press. New Orleans, Nov. 28. One or more United States worships will be sent to New Orleans for Mardi Gras, with a British man-of-war as a visi tor at that . time, is the announce ment made here today by the New Orleans Progrerire r Union, GOOD WEATHER IN TENNESSEE By Associated Press. Chattanooga, Tenn.,' Nov. 28. Fav orable weather conditions are promised for the aviation meet which opens in this city this afternoon, notwith standing it. is cloudy during this fore noon and the wind high. The party of aviators is made up of Charles K. Hamilton, who made the famous cross-country flight from New York to Philadelphia and return; John B. Moissant. who won the $10, 000 prize offered by Thomas F. Ryan for a flight around the Statue of Lib erty and the sensational passenger-carrying flight from Paris to London;. Rol and G. Garros, the only operator of the Demoisselle. the smallest aero plane in the world; Rene Barrier, a pu pil of Bleriot; Rene Simon, who will operate a Bleriot machine and others. MURDER CHARGE By Associated Press. Lauisville, Ky., Nov. 28. Joseph Wendling was called before Judge Gregory in criminal court today to answer to thee harge of murdering 8-year-old Alma Kellner in St.. Johns Cathoiic church, December -10, 1909. Wendling. who w"as janitor at the church wher the Kellner child had gone to mass, is charged with having assaulted and murdered the girl and then hidden her body m the church basement. Portions of the child's body were found months later and after Wendling had mysteriously dis appeared. . Wendling was arrested in San Francisco after a phase of 11,000 miles. Two of the chief witnesses for the prosecution are detective Burke, of San Francisco, who arrested Wend' ling, and Mrs. Cora Munea, of Hume, Mo., from whom information was re ceived which led to Wendling's arrest. Grand Jury To Piove "Trusts ' By Associated Press. Savannah, Ga., Nov. 28. Judge Em ery Speer, of the United States court in charging the jury at, the beginning of the cdurt session this morning gave up his entire time to a discussion of combinations in restraint of trade and in restraint of interstate commerce. It is evident from the charge of the court that the grand jury is to be called upon to consider alleged violations of the law upon the line outlined. Judge Speer stated to the jury that the time had come to quit attempting to punish the transportation companies by fines taken from the treasuries but that un der the Sherman and Elkins acts there should be some direct punishment of the offending officials. , Cotton Firm in Trouble. By Associated Press. Liveprpool, Nov. 28. Forword, Crump (c Co., cotton merchants, an nounced today they had placed their bc&jie in the hands of a public account-. ant. ' All Quiet Along Border. Bv Associated Press. Laredo, Te., Nov. 2S. There were no developments along the Mexican border today. Everything is reported quiet and business is again ormal. J JOSEPH wtiLINb GALLED TO ANSWER TRANSFERED ! YOUNG GIRL IS THE SECOND RESCUED FHGM PARLIAMENT SAME BANDITS DISSOLVED By Associated Press. Tampico, Mex., Xov. 28. Miss Grace Rolph, the 17-year-old Nebraska girl, who disappeared from a ranch near Tampico several weeks ago in compa- ny with Segando Selivere, a noted ban-" dit, has been rescued and brought here. She claims she suffered indigni ties at the hands- of Selivero and was almost exhausted from ill treat ment and exposure when found. Miss Holph was found Saturday about fifty miles inland from Tampico deserted. A small band of rurales and two .or three Americans were in the rescueing party which brought the young woman to Tampico. Dr. Rdlph. of Pender, Neb., the father of the girl, was in the searching party and is now with her. Mexican Situation All Quiet Here To-day By Associated Press. Washington, Nov. 28. The entire republic of Mexico, with the exception of the State of Chihuahua, is quiet, according to a telegram received to day by the state department from Henry Lane Wilson, United .States ambassador at Mexico City. Phillip Hanna, consul general at Monterey, . telegraphed, the depart ment that the latest reports received from Mexican consuls in northern Mexico indicated that tranquility pre vailed fro mthe Arizona border 1o the scunthern boundary of San Louis Potosi and from the Pacific to the gulf. Mr. Hanna added that very few disorders actually had occurred. All Quiet Again. El Paso, Texas, Nov. 2S. This morning's train from Chihuahua City and points south, arrived at El Paso on time and experienced no trouble between here and Chihauhua. Pas sengers on the train Were all from the interior and only heard rumors of trouble near Chihuahua yester 'day. Thee ity was quiet on the ar rival of the train there. STORM WARNING FOR THIS ST1TE By Associated Press. New York, Nov. 28. The local wea ther bureau has received the following special from Washington: "Disturbance over western North Carolina will move northeastward with winds shifting to high northwest on South Atlantic coast tonight. Storm warnings are displayed on the Atlantic coast from Jacksonville to the Norfolk section." THE WEATHER. By Associated Press. O Washington, Nov. 28. Fore- cast: - North Carolina, rain, followed by clearing s and much colder tonight, cold wave in. extreme west portion; Tuesday fair and colder; high northwest winds. . South Carolina, fair and much colder with cold wrave tonight; Tuesday fair and colder; high northwest winds. By Associated Press. London, Nov. 28. The second parlia ment in the reign of the late King Edward VII, which met on Febrluary loth, last, was dissolved today in pursuance of the program of the libera government to go before the country on the question of the prerogatives of the house of lords. The king's speech was notable for its brevity, the only reference to the constitutional crisis being a colorless expression of regret that the confer ence between the leaders of the op position controlling parties had failed of an agreement over the reformation of the upper chamber. The longest and most interesting paragraph, which immediately follows an allusion to the death of his majes ty's father, dealt with the recent arbi tration of the Newfoundland fisheries dispute with the United States and read : "I confidently hope the questions connected with the North Atlantic fish eries between Canada and Newfound land on the one hand and with the United States of America on the oth er, which have been the subject of controversy for nearly a century, have been at last finally settled by the award of the Hague tribunal. It is the cause-: of special satisfaction that it had been found possible to solve by arbitration problems of such an intri cate and difficult nature, and the award has been received by both sides in a spirit which must tend to in crease good will." The - proclamation of dissolution summons a new parliament to as semble on January 31, 1911. "Geny ManderCase Was Dropped By Associated Press. Washington, Nov. 28. Leaving to one side the question as to whether or not states may "gerry mander" their territory for congressional dis tricting purposes, independent of limitations by congress, the supreme court of the United states today dismissed for want of jurisdiction the appeal from an attack on an alleged "gerry mander" in Kentucky. The court held it was without juris diction because the case concerned the congressional election of 1908 and, therefore,-the case now raised only a moot question. Judicial proceedings were begun by republicans in Kentucky in 1907 to test the alleged "gerrymander" for the state for congressional election pur poses. Charles Richardson, in the fourth congressional district,' filed a suit asking that the secretary of state and his successor be enjoined from printing on the official ballots in 1908 the names of certain candidates for congress. Itw as claimed by Richardson that the act of the Kentucky legislature had "gerrymanded" the seventh, eighth and third districts in violation of statutes of congress, and the con stitution. Such discrepancies exist ed in the apportionment, it was claimed, that a voter in the eighth district availed in voting more than one and four-fifths times as much as a voter in the eleventh, At the elec tion in 1908, it was argued, before the supreme court, the republicans carried the eleventh by over 21,000, while the democrats carried the eighth by about 1,700 and the third bv about 500. ' The Kentucky court of appeals held that it has no power under the con stitution "to review the action of the legislature in districting the state for congressional purposes, and it ques tioned the power of . congress to do so. Will Remove 2000 People Fwm Homes By Associated Press. El Paso, Texas, Nov. 28. Prepar ations are being made by the govern ment to remove nearly 2,000 people from their homes in order to make room for the great elephant butte reservoir near Engle, N. M. Six Mexican villages, ranging in population from fifty to seven hun dred will be inundated when the water is turned in. Among the towns o be obliterated is Paraje, once an important station and distributing point on the old Santa Fe trail, with population then of 3,000. Some of the towns are among the most ancient in ."America, the origin run- ng back several centuries. From Paraje the trail entered upon the famous Jornada del Muerto (journey of death) where scores died with thirst in the old freighting days. The government is now engaged in buy ing up the t farms and village prop erty of the native residents and by tne time water is available, tne great basin of 40.000 acres will have been deserted. The ranchers will be allowed to till their land until driven out by the water. A government agent who returned here Sunday af ter spending three weeks ih that region, stated that he met but one American during the time and that tne most primitive conditions pre vailed everywhere. Is Rag Time Music a Cause of Crime? By Associated Press. Macon, Ga., Nov. 28. In an ad dress to the students of the conserva tory of Wesleyan College, today, Dr. Dingley Brown, director of music, declared that rag-time music causes a large percentage of the crime committed in this country more in fact, than is attributed to liquor drinking. 'Rag-time music is the greatest curse of our country, and the most serious menace of the younger generation in our homes," he said. It is debasing .and. instills a criminal tendency into the minds that absorb it. "Rag-time" is music only in its most decadent and perverted form, and is more to be dreaded than whiskey and rugs." Minister Scoies Hobble Skirt By Associated Press, Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 28. "The big gest piece ' of torn foolery that the devil ever put off on woman," declar ed Rev. Len G. Broughton to his Baptist congregation Sunday night, "is the hobble skirt. It makes a wo man appear in her walk like a Geor gia convict in the chaingaug. Our wo men are too much in for fads just any old fad." , The pastor declared he mentioned the hobble skirt as an illustration of the present day church. "If I know anything about the church, it is seriously hobbled in its walk. It is attempting to do its work without the power of God." Fust Convictions Foi Peonage By Associated Press. Washington, Nov. 28. Sentences of imprisonment imposed upon W. S. Harlan, Robert Gallagher, C. C. Ilil lon and S. E. Huggins, of Alabama, on peonage conspiracy charges were allowed to stand as legal today by the United States. These were the first convicitnons under the recent crusade of the federal government against peonagle. . The Staff Correspondents Predict More Trouble With Anti - Diaz Element Soon By Associated Press. fa pBSn. Tesas. Nov. 28. Accordine to staff correspondents of the El Paso Palocio declares he saw the bodies Herald, who returned here last night, of four Mexican soldiers brought in there is every prospect of further from the mountains near Gomez Pal trouble in the affected districts of acio last Friday.. Chihuahua and Durango. They declared i Confirmation has been received of that ninety per cent of the natives in a recent report that revolutionists tore that part of Mexico are against the UP railroad tracks west of Parral on Diaz government and those not open-; Thursday and prevented repairs being ly supporting the revolutionists are,made- Confirmation was also secured passive. ! ' -ne rePrt of a battle at Manaquipa The correspondents state that the ! near the Mormon colonies on Wednes-, revolutionist army is not made up 'of day . peons and bandits, as has "been re-1 Further news is to the effect that ported, but consists of native railroad 'there was fighting at El Valla between employes, farmers, mechanics and oth- Manaquipa and the Mormon settlement ets. The insurrectos appear to have and the- colonists are said to be in plenty of arms and ammunition and seem to have plenty of money behind them. Both correspondents agree that the insurrectos have not been conquered, but only driven into the mountains. Desultory fighting is expected to con tinue and there have been jseveral $30,095,798 will be Needed for This Work For the Fiscal Year Ending June 30 1912 Accoraing to Dickinson's Report. Gen. Bixbu Makes Reb o ? t Which Will be Sent to Con gress With Presidents Approval- Many Pet Projects Have Been Eliminated. By Associated Press. Washington, D. C, Nov. 28. Appro priations needed for river and harbor work for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1912, aggregate $30,095,698, accord ing to estimates made public today by Secretary of War Dickinson in the' form of a report made to him by Brig. Gen. W. H. Bixby, chief ot engineers of the United States army. These figures will be sent to congress by Seretary of the Treasury McVeagh and legislation in accordance therewith will he recommended by President Taft in his annual message. The esti mates are divided as follows: Under continuing contracts. $ 7,368,077 Rivers and harbors (gen eral including Mississippi River Commission, and ex aminations, surveys and contingencies . . $22,627,361 Under California Debri3 Commission (expenses ..$ 15,000 Prevention of deposits in New York harbor $ 85,260 Many pet projects calling for the ex penditure of large sums have been, omitted from the estimates this- year. Among these are the 14-foot channel from Chicago to the Illinois river, deep' channel for the Missouri river from' St. Louis to Kansas City and from Kansas City north, as wety as many1, others which have had as their cham pions members of both houses of congress who insisted strenuously that these projects be not forgotten. , The elimination of many of the im provements which have formed parts of river and harbor bills in the past is in accordance with the insistence cf President Taft1 that "pork barrel" measures shall be strangled. Instruc tions were given to the engineer offi cers of the army to prepare estimates only for such projects as are absolute ly needed or which give certain prom, is- to reduce the cost of transporta tion by opening up new water routes and enlarging some of those already, existing. J The general estimates aggregating more than $22,000,000 are applied to 211 works. Of this amount about 10 per cent is for the restoration or main tenance of completed projects at 136 localities, so as to secure the contin uance of benefits resulting from past expenditures. Practlally 70 per cent is for the prosecution of work on the Ohio, Mississippi, Detroit, Hudson Continued on' Page Ten. ( RESUME TRIAL OF By Associated Press. Yazoo City, Miss., Nov. 28. The trial of L. C. Dulaney charged with giving a bribe to State Senator Bilbo, to influence his vote in choosing a senatorial' candidate was resumed to day. Argument was continued on the question whether the state can show a general conspiracy to influence legisla tors or confine the inquiry to the al laged transaction between Bilbo and , Dulaney. This question was vigorously argued on Saturdaj' and was taken under ad visement by Judge Henry today. f small fights within the last few days. W. W. King, a resident of Gomez great fear of an attack., - . The American victims of uprising at Parral Monday were: Edward Lawton, killed, and J. H. Story, of Hartford, Conn., and A. B. Wallender, wounded. Lawton't throat was cut by a bullet , and. Story was shot in the abdomen, and right hand. MR. 4 1 1. rap f-r. ' WW :'ib t ;f 5 ...--: i it ii i hi - it i.r .ii' . j 1 if- t!(i
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