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m :test Edition THE CHARLOTTE NEWS. Latest Edition . 43. NO. 6954 CHAKLOTTE. N. C.. FRIDAY EVENING. FEBRUARY 17. 191 1 pT> T (In Charlotte, * cents a Copy Daily—5 Sunday Avx V/JJ^ *) Outside Gharlo tte, 5 Cents a copy Daily and Sunday iry Becker Dies m Effects of V ood ilcohol He Drank vy U Man Found in Semi- s Condition in His : t Charlotte Hotel rning.. a i d to Have \ ■A Spree jor Week \ / Have Taken Jhe\ ^'ith no Idea oj Sui- appc'\i'('ntly abimt ;i tailor hy jirofrs- 1 i ■M'liiiii' liou l thi^ ' l.ii .• ('M.>('1\ US a ui'ti-d suri'o fullow- ■-'c rt‘(l (luaiiliiy df i .MS cHnditii>n ho tl.'.-r I'l' 1 IS jonni . .■r whoso a'.tontion i^'d ;roaiis. Wi'h- ...iisn'-'ss l:o (lied. ! 0'1' lutil con- •1 M'.d I lit' story STEIIENSON TO B£ Feb. negro IT.— nhf) iiy .-Vsso, i;it‘d Mttmidsvilie. W. \'a , Frank Stevti'son, the t‘ouf;ht desperately for his life after killiui; Mose Hlaf;inan, a while boy in .Mingvi county, in lltuT, will be lian.iTt'd at sundown in (he stale lu-nitxniary here today. Stevenson senieiKM'd to deatli after t'ach of twt» trials and then feiiiuing insan ity was sent to the Western ns\- hiin. 'I'll.-re he was ri'ix'a't iUy exam ined by alienists anil it was decid ed be was sant>. '1‘he third dath seniriiie followed. He wi!l be .ulven a suinptuoiis meal at 4 o'clock and soon afterward will go to the S'vaf- foid. Negro Confessed Murder. , Hy Associated Press. I’anatna City, Fla.. i\b. 17.—-The body of kiehard Hancock, an aged man who for years had lived alone, was fotnid at his home near here today witii three btillet woiiiids in tlie back, liicl-.ard ^i!•X■'il], a negro, was arrested and coiilesst'd to having killed hit.i. Hancock was rcimted to have beer, wealthy and i’ saitl that he kei>i I F YOU AKE OPF05ED TO BOHEJS YOU'RE A I Y©U AKE W FAVOK YOU'RE A Bill Prohibiting Gambling In Futures Is Cons I dered ItCGLPT eONILLA CONSE RVATIVE &-1NK STAND PAT 5>mP F06-Y OLD MUTT OBSTKUCTISIG- 6U0- R.^DlCAl_ CrOOK PKOWESSIVE LOON INSURe-ING- NUT FANATIC BOOB PAY YOUR TAXES, AND TAKE YOUR CHOICE I in I'lmrl'site t'or t ' ;• ;o. Mr. ' ieclv- ! «d i-!h' ot the • . 1 wi.. and fani-1Minis ot money m the house. 1^ ;. c \\ ( !':>iu;d •wr, c ■I i-:l' . fov ago and , ck> ci'i'j'loymii.t 'i>: hii rs ai d tv. «> Weeks, ilntv for al- It is ktiMwn he received $100 last from ithe sale of some wood. a' Record of Coast Artillery Company. Hy .\ssociated I’res.*^. ciat. s sup-I I'cnsaco'.a, Fla., Feb, IT.—One h'.ni- To beavil.\. ; is tiu. locord in subma- {rine mine lirlng made by the I'lXrd app'ii'fUtly I c();npan.v of coast art'Her.v siatu'i’.ed lie retired , jj, i.-,,,-] ijarrancn.s. wjiich has been at at the •'hi'i’-1 j,., f,,j. se\eral da;.s. livery mine t:ntil gt't'iins ' iiai'bor and liemoli.'hed it]- target ti.wed above it , The mines jwcLi' t‘\p1o(1i'd by wiiat is known as l'.Tudu’'em tirina." observations being b meat!.'- of i hi- a-s ;.i imt been confined '. r.lay •n. ant> an 1 ril tlii:' niorn- ;! out of the ial instruments. 1 lawl( n.-rr't n in who 11 W! I'e his 'o’!- n' • . . . ;uni pli' - !; ;r with ‘I'.e ft!.; - Will- fotiiul K-'^l-i 1 111 1. Ie. one ; 'i \ 'and re- 'i- \\i. da; . .Mis, f 1 M !iul for not \s i ]. to pa>' ■«,s ui.'Mi on the ■ iio! |i !• =; did not r. • - in Hif'hinond. nt'd thni Itosides ‘ bili’rt ti and a ; \ 1. Ml OF mmii S.C., 13 P>y Associated Press, i:i Texas. Feb. 17.- Officials of the Mexican Xorthweslern Railway report that Orosco ,and Blanco, the n;surrecto leaders, have finally con summated a junction of their forces and are located near Ascension, about tin miles southwest of .luarez. The in- surrectos cut all the telegraph wires on the Mexican Xorthwes-tern between Duz.'nan and Casas (Jrandes, i jured. Brig. (len. Joseph W. Duncan, com manding the de!»«i'lTnent of Texas, ar rived >'estt'rdpy from San .\ntonic). He v.'ill inspect tb.o I'nited States patrols (ui li’e riv'^r folay. By Associated Press. (Jreenville, 3. C., Feb. 17.—Police man O. S. Gunnells died at 10:40 this morning from the effects of pistol shot wound.s inflicted about 2:3o o'clock at the Columbia and (ji'eenville Railroad depot by an unknown man. Officer Ar thur ilohnson, who was shot in the le,g bv I lie same man, is no seriously iu- ID GillESE By Associated IM'ess, St. Petersburg. Feb. 17.—The No- voe Vremya in discussing today t’ne aniKiunced j)iiriiose of Russia to make militar\' denK»nstration in Hi ])rovince in Chinese Turkestan, de- sci’ibes the note .presented at Peking by Minister Korotovitz as a semi- nit iniatum, as it does not specify the term witliin which Cninn must coin- iilv with the demands of St, Peters- ,1 burg. The man made his escape and as | p;i]).‘r adds, however, that if \er has not been appiehended, al- | ('hinese gov-^i'nment lails to act thougli o . cers are scouring the woods j Ui- S.-ccial Ici Ti..' 'n'c'WS, W'liision-Salc't.'i. .\. C.. Feb. 17.— ('ai'ta’i. Charles Baiiuson. a vet.'ran of the civil war ; iid a giaiiil lecturer of the (Irand l.odve of Masons, dieil at l;i honit in .\iocks\ilie lat*.' last night a-i tl'.e result of a s’;okc of paral\sis which occr.iied in !)eceniber. C.'ptain P.ahnson was TO y(M;s old and was well knov.ii atul jn'oi linentl'’ ;o!iiected throv.gliout the state. Ar- Epidemic Of Grip In New Yoik By As.sociated I’ress. New York. Feb. 17. -The epidemic f)f grip here shows no signs of sub- silence and health department re cords slnnv a large increase in the number of deaths from grip and pnetnnonia over last year. Inclement and cliangeable weatlier is the cause of the unusttal inimber of cases of grip. Records of the board of health m-'Uts for the ftineral have not | made i>nblic today show that during .‘c:i completed but ii is thought ! the month of .lanuary there were efore -be laps(> of a foiniiglit for 1-i-1. ' s'.'i'ii •ap'in.'vuiHii ^A ill be anii)lifir: i he oriicers saw the unknown man | wiieu under the treaty of 1SS1 Rus- go into tlie C. & ti. depo'". about 2:;50|gj., withdrew from the Hi region it o’clock and they \vent immediately to | jn consideration of certain po- see who he was. L'poii entering thejijiicai and trade concessions in that door of ;he station. Officer Gunnelis j ai,,-] tij/j ad,ioining Chinese posses- flafc-hed his light and as he did so the j v:,i(,]is. It is now asserted that China stranger opened fire. Gunnells not iupi faith iti the matter of By Associated Press. Puerto Cortez. Honduras. Feb. 17.— By wireless to New Orleans: “The peo])le of Honduras will never accept Manuel Bonilla for president because he is in league with a fruit combine of the Vnited States.” This declaration, made this morning by General Maximo B. Rossales, the peace envoy of President Davila, does not give promise of an early settle ment of the revolutionary troubles of the country as General Bonilla is de termined to resume fi.ghting if th(> i>res- idency is not turned over to him. Al ready the revolutionary tvoops here under General Lee (Miristnias are grow ing restless becatise of the feeling that tl’.e ])eace pri'posal of President Davila was merely a ruse to gain time. They anticii)ate further fighting. General Rosales says that if General Bonilla will sacrifice bis ])evsonal am bition to regain the presidency the peace negotiations may be concluded within a few days. As the report of President Davila lie will favor the se lection of a tlrird man for the i)iesi- dency, wiio will rule until an election can be held. M'he gunboat Wheeling will go to Ptierto Barrios Saturday to meet 'rhomas C. Dawson, who will represent the United States in the peace confer ence to be held aboard the 1 aconia beginning Monday. General will remain in Ceiba dtiring ference. President Davila claims that the en tire countr\’ with the (‘xceijtion ot the nojtli coast is in control of the gov ernment. He claims that (Jeneral Duron, who captured several tow'iis in the department of ('holuteca sever al weeks ago, lias been driven across tile frontier into Nicaragua. Bonilla I he con T shot in the femoral artery and in the ))owels and suffered agonie.5 until he died. He was formerly ■ hief of police, btit was a private at the time he >vas i killed. ' a It \I b i ad B: r:;er l'asith;Hth. iau rmeiit will take place some 7.‘>:? deaths , N. V. Her;tiiiu‘ tome rrow afternoon. j)n('unionia. •, w oi'th '-'t i . - _ r .-iin! a tele-j Earth Shocks Recorded. |: : ce authori-' ]>y Ask- cP-’.-d Press. -i. int'orma-j Nt-w Orleans. l.a., Feb. 17.—An iratthquake. probably several thousand , bwdy will bo ipii, s wei't of h r(> was recorded by esial-.li^^h-'tj,;> sei'^ni(>graph at Loyola College this is a'to^^etbcr 'I'be shocks began at S:'o^ * sl'.ippi .1 tf) continued until 10 o'clock, 'I'he niaximutn am))titude was 2'i millime tre!- and the movement was from east to west. iu Xev.^ York city from Also there were l.")2 dentils from grip. Last year in .lan uary grip caused fortj'-seven deatns and pneumonia 70!), Must Silence Annexation Talk the treaty stipulations. Hence the forthcoming return of Russian trooi>s to Hi and a probable occn])ancy pend ing a new and more d»“’tire under- staniing bet wen the two govern ments. BODIES OF MURDERED MEN RECOVERED. •t li secured i^,:t clearl,v tiicugbt that 111 in ‘'leaning the tailoring trki d cli'Mted • had no use . (1 to believe that HI at.;. s'ii( id:>.l in- Mea 'S that Beck- iii tin* morning iM-y to s.ntiate bis . il with the wocid i- i ;i to be in his awoke the i>er.-;on i iioui ho iu)tifici'i 111- ho’^n and tlu' : .\V.-(1 EKPIBED Tl-Oll! I- la By .Associated Press. Columbia, S. Feb. 17.—Mr. Thomas Hassell Gibbes, aged GO years, and one of the best nu'n in (’oluinbia. died here early today from valvular trouble of the heart. He was cashier of the of the Bank of ■j Columbia, was twice mayor of Co- 17.—K. ' lumbia. He is survived by his wife, comnnssion ; By Assoc'iated Press. Reno. Ctah, Feb. 17.—Advices from Sui>erintendent of Police P. .J. Donnel- iy and the sheriff of Washoe county s*tare that the bodies of the four stockmen murdered near Camp Denio had been recovered. All w'ere horribly mutilated. They agree it was the work of a band of Indians. Merchant Dead. Want Taxes of Twain Estate. Bv^ Associated Press. New' York, Feb. 17.—Suit has been brought bv the city of New oYrk against the estate of the late Samuel L. Clemens to recover personal taxes for several years back, based on an assessment of about $15,000. Mark Twain In his life time protested the assessment on the ground that he was a resident of Connecticut. By Associated .’ress. Kansas City. i\lo., Feb. 17.—In an ad dress av the continental dinner of the Knife and Fork Club here las-t night, Cy Warman, of Montreal, the poet and author warned his auditors that the United tSates must silence an nexation talk if they wish Canada to accept the proposed reciprocity meas ure. “I am not in favor of annexation, but I am in favor of reciprocity,” said Mr. Warman. “It is the greatest thing for the good of the two countries that OP OS! IN TH[ Special to The News, Raleigh, N. C., Feb. 17.—The senate today passed on second reading a hill to establish state farm-life schools and ^ 1 J 1 it was re-referred to the committee on has been proposred in the last hundred j jj. years. But if the people of this country , senators seemed to be united iu talk annexation they will defeat reci-j jjuj ))rocity in the Canadian house. Don t \|tn new bills were offered, one by sms III [ DISTOHStD spoil a good thing by wanting too much.” BILL TO , I'cb - li.l.ia 'two S«ms and a daughter and by two; .is \\ Inter residence,. _ re. IH- ,|S' ..it night. Heart brothers, (me of whom iS deal h. ■ c.ibbes, of Augusta, Ga. iff’s Office And Grand iry to Clash Ovei ElecHon Fraud Investigation Soon i'l '. 17. A clash be- • ■! I- r\ and the sheriff's :/ t lie probabilities ot 1 ..i.s in the election • I |: T sinc'j the V- Attorney Lew- . that Foreman ell hnviiig trouble i>i . subpoenas isstu'd ■ . i! with t!ie endorse- 1 t found." Fr.ink '’ollaid, form- ■ Moon keeper, (‘onverted .HI Siind:i> I'evival last 'w hii;)«elt an evangelist, ijil-i-ai'cd before tin* grand .e.na iia'i b en i'-’sueil Tor he was at lionu^ a!! day yesterday until evcMiing. .\s soon as he left the house a deputy sheriff called over th(? teb'phone and being informed that .Mr. Col lard was not at home, immediately api>eared at the house with the sui)y»oe)ia. Not finding his man the oflicer marked the subpoena “nf)| at home" and immediately re turned to the sheriff's ofTice. IJeneh warrants issued on indict ments returned a week ago have not been served and Foreman Woodyard believes such a ciujdition antagonis tic to the v.ork of the grand jury ex ists in the sheriff’s office that he will be .justified in starting sotnething that wili asslt the future efforts of the grand jury as much as did the elimi- dp.vs ,i^^o. Collard says nation of l.ewman. W ms iFE DISIPFEmiED By Associated Press. Pittsburg, Feb. 17.—The people of Edgeworth, a fashionable and wealthy suburb are alarmed over the mysteri ous disappearance of Smith Agnew, a prominent insurance man and nis wife. Agnew left his home while slight ly delirious yesterday afternoon and his wife soon followed him. Organized parties spent the night sc(Hiring the Sewickley valley jn search of them. Mrs, Agnew was trac ed a short distance from her home but from that point she has dropped out as completely as has her hus band. IS FHVORED Special to The News. Raleigh, N. C., Feb. 1(.—1 he Latham bill to ’prohibit liquor in clubs was placed on the calendar today with a favorable report from the committee on liquor traffic. It would prohibit liquor in clubs un der all circumstances, including re ceiving it for division among mem bers or beng stored in private lockers. Hurricane Last Night. Cuxhaven, Germany, Feb. 17.—A hurricane has raged on the German coast since last night. Several ves sels in damaged condition have taken refuge • here. Several craft have grounded in the Baltic. • X FREE TOMORROW Senator Cotton for enlargement and mr.intenance of the Eastern Training school: another by Hobgood provides lor ])rimary elections in the state and to prevent corrupt practices i nelec- tion contests. The bill creating Hoke county was ratified. The senate is now oii,the si>ecial or der Boyden-Sikes state highway com mission bill. The banking bill of State Bank Ex aminer Doughton w'as rei)orted unfav orable in the house from the commit tee on banking. Mr. Koonce introduced another anti trust bill, this time a bill to amend the anti-trust law’s of 1907 and 1909. Bv Associated Press. Washington. Feb. 17.—New York bankers disturbed by a report that the department of justice is about (o investigate the New York city clear ing liouse for alleged violations of the Sherman anti-trust law have sub mitted to Attorney (ieneral W^icker- sham a brief explaining the organiza tion and functions of tlie association. The New York bankers took alarm at a rr'cent attemiit to have a grand jury investigate the clearing house association at New Orleans. In that case, hov.ever , Attorney General Wickersham held that the New Or- eans (learing house did not come within The i-cope of interstate com merce and ordered the proceedings dismissed. So far as could be learned todav no oificial jiroceedings against the New York clearing house are c(jntenipla1 ed but the bankers ex plained they wish to present their TiT RESCUED AFTER e: AN “EASY WORKLNG” egg BEATER. WITH WANT ADS. For Particulars see The Want Ad Page 8. By Associated Press. Wheatland, Iowa, Feb. 17.—Chilled, numb and iiungry after clinging for 36 hours to the branches of a tree, Harold Tyron and Charles Rice, two trappers living on an island in the Wapsie river were rescued late last night. They narrowly escaped the grasp of the flood which swept dow n through the river bottoms. Tyron and Rice woke up Wednesday to find their boat swept away, their tent surrounded by water and the riv er full of floating ice. The water rose rapidl}^ and the men were obliged to climb a tree for safety. They were dis covered by Fred Schocker, who saw them from shore. Having no boat he Avas obliged to go to Wheatland and bring a skiff out to the place in a wagon In order to rescue the men. By .\ss-ociated Press. Washington, D. C., Feb. 17.—An agreement that it would vote roda.v on the bill to prohibit gambling in cotton futures, the committee on in terstate commerce decided by a vote of 6 to 5 to report it to the senate without recommendation. The failure of the committee to make recommendation to the senate resulted from the conviction on the part of several members that a measure of such impoi-tance should be given more consideration than was possible under today's decision to vote. An agreement had been made, however, «nd Senators Clark, of Arkansas, and Tillman, of Soutli Carolina, held the committee to Its word.” Three sections of the bill as it Iiassed the bouse were eliminated by the senate committee, ^d some of the friends of the measure say that the changes make the measure non-effective. The sections struck out are: 'I'hat which authorizes agents ('f telegraph, telephone companies to adininisted oaths in their efforts lo ascertain whei?!^ messages offered for transniissi(m were in violation of the law. That declaring boo^s. newspapers, pamphlets, letters or other writings or publications containing (piotati(uis which might induce the making of coniracts in violation of the proposed law should be non-mailable. M'hai ])ro- viding that the postmaster gene’’al, upon evidence satisfactory to hims('!r, might return mail li the senders when he believed it to be unlawful under the Jiroposed act. The action of the committee was preceded by a hearing which con sumed the entire afternoon, so that when the committee came to deter mine it course il had no time for an exchange (jf views. The result was that most of the members of tho (•(immittee were unwillin.g to endorse a bill of so drastic a character, al though they were in favor of some measure that would eliminate gamb ling from the dealings in cotton. ReprestMitatives of the New Or leans exciiange and exchanges at New York and Chicago trained their gun.s upon the bill in the hearing. They attacked the bill as being hurl ful to the farmer and of being im- I'ossihle of enl'orcement so far as its evident i)iirpose was concerned. The hearing was attended by -i large number of senatoi's from South ern states, wh(j are not members of the committee, and a number of Southrn congressmen, all of whom displayed great interest in the pro ceedings. The principal arguments against the bill were made b.y .ludge E. H. Ftirrar, representing the New Orleans exchange, and F. B. Thomi).son, its jiresideiit. They consumed practicall.v all of the time. The commit fee seem- etd interesled in trying to get the views of the witnesses as to wheth er the government will separate si*eculative trade from the legiti mate transactions where biiyeis and sellers intended to leteive and de liver goods, .Indge Farrar thought the courts might interpret thep roposed law so as to prevent all business, but that it would be imijossibh! imder the meastire to sepaiate the good from tho evil. He contended for the right of dealers whether merchants, spin ners or farmers, to hedge in the matter of disposing of cotton. In re])ly to a question by Senator (Mapp, the speaker said he would ajiprove any measure that would absolutel.v prohibit transactions where there was no intention to recive or deliver but that the bill in question would not accomplish that result. Canadian Annexation Resolution Stirs England- Congress Takes Action By As.sociated Press. London. Feb. 17.--Whether, as is suspected in some quarters, Congress man Bennet. of New Y(jrk, had no more sinster motive than to embar rass the reciprocity forces in his own countrv, there is no room for doubt that his Canadian annexation reso lution introduced in the house of rep- resenratives 3'esterday has greatly disturbed certain minds on this side of the Atl.vU.ic. So serious is the resolution taken by the imperial prefi»rei*'‘e party that it will be made a subject of interpel lation of the government in the house of commons on Febrnarj' 21. Pretnier Asquith will be asked at that time if he intends to send any communi cation on the subject to the United States government. The flurry caused by Representa tive Champ Clark’s declaration that he hoped to see the day when the American flag would float over the British North American possessions had scarcely passed when the cables brought Mr. Bennet’s resolution ask ing thep resident to enter upon sucrh negotiations with the British govern ment as he might deem expedient for the annexation of the Dominion of Canada to the United States. At once the dying agitation in op position to. the United States-Canada recii*ocity agreement was revived. The Liberal press refused to take either the speech of the future speak- ei- of the h(iuse, or Mr. Bennet's res olution seriotisly, but a i>ortion of the tariff reform press is n.V^inv ^he mtist or both for their own ues. Voted Against. Washington. Feb. 17.—To offset the Canadian annexation talk which the administration fears might affect the reciprocity agreement the h(Mise com mittee on foreign affairs today, bv a vote jf 9 to 1 reported adversely on the resolution introduced yester day by Representative Bennet, of New York, for the opening of nego tiations with Great Britain looking to the annexation of Canada. Mr. Bennet was the only member who voted for the res(jlution. The committee’s action followed conferences of Chairman Foster, of the committee, and Acting Chairman McCall, of the ways and means com mittee, with President Taft totlay. One of the Benet resolutions asked the president to report to the house all the facts concerning any negotia tions now pending w'ith the Cana dian or British governments, ar.d also whether any negotiations are no wpending looking to Canadian an nexation The other resolution, a concurrent one, reque.sted the president to “e:i ter upon and to prosecute from time to time such negotiations with the British government as he may deem expedient for the annexation of the Dominion of Canada to the United States.” ’ ' II; ■If ifi I li ■Kt
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