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43. NO. 69c8
CHAKLOTTE, N. C.. MON DA\ EVENING, MARCH 6, 191 I
nety Persons
Vere Burned To
Death Testerda y
Breaks Out in
^irg Motion Pic~
Most of Victims
■cn-Forty Others
Cause of Trouble at
Port Au Prince
Out While Ex-
as in
of Rescuers Were
l>y A*so(Mat('il J’ress.
Xow > uTK, M”rch ti.—
viving; today on the steamer Albinsia
! ifoiii Hayti reported ihaf the troub’.c
[ at I’on au I'ritice during President
Simon s absence on the northern frcui-
tier was due o liie fact that the
I tary fiOve»’nors left in charge at il'.e
y : capital took ad’ antage of the presi
dent’s abs»pnce to punirfh personal ene
mies.,A number of these, the Albingia's
^CulfuL SC672^Siprison
j and afterward shot. Suoe President
'Simon’s return the situation in I’ort
I au i’rincp has* been renorted nuiet. j
Storit*.'-' of disiurbances in ail )iarts
!lie rn'’cd Stales w(>re told by the
vr.yagcrs on the bingla. One of the
i asst'ii^eis was Roi'ort Kertzberg.
cl;a\->llor ()f the legation a Port au
I’l'M’- e V. !;a was taken ill at hi-; ])t)s’
nearly a tnort’n ago in tlie disiurbcd
of aiTrirs was innble to find a
p'l; 'ician. One native doctor wliose
sei’vicfj, w. re teripovarily sectired. dis-
aiipear-‘d and i: '.va> subsenuently
Icarneu tint he had been iiuprisoii‘'d.
11» rtzbei’g filially d*H‘ided to (‘all on
' In Aigingia to oi); ain treatment here
C.- .Vinety
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FAKtW£|,>«
LONC-F/' ../eu.
TO ALL
MY V
C-F\ELATNE.Sst^
PENNSVLVANIA
AVE-.
THE VILLAIN REITRES »
"P'D In Charlotte, J cents a Copy Daily—5 Cents Sunday
t Outside Charlotte, 5 Cents a copy Daily and Sunday
Chicken Fighters
Found Guilty By
Magistrate
Cobb
IlF STOLE
1
raniTiES
Thirty-one, Found by Deputy
Sheriff Porter in The County
Sunday, Convicted After
Brief Hearing This Morning,
By Associated Press.
New York, March 6.—George Ban
croft, a banker, ^6 years old, dis-
close lo
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V i. '.vitr’
u't , lit
ior'i'oly
’P tl'.e
>u>\ incf
Ti'ccps 0^ for Manila
San I'rancis c
'lif' ciosc M’ the
h?.c ) tn op siiii
es.--..
March C. Not since
Ii..iii^h-.vnit‘ricaii war
sailed from ibis port
'y lesion
Did Damage
>!' l;.;ue a nutviher of men a:^ ibc
rmiv.i Si:;ts transp'iit i.ogan will
''a!’'; when she leaves for .Manila to-
dP'..
H»'r ' Otni.lenient ii'.cludes troo;is 1).
E. (J ai.il • of ti;i> «'ii;i)!it cavalry, ihe
L'ild and !''h co.apani.s (.»f o;.si aitil-
lery; A. and B riiounta'n batceries of
i.h?' s;'Cond iioUl artillery.
'i\ t!i' ;.o;^.;a’s (a:g'' ions of|i)t.vin
S-’ -1 sivii: niiii'hinery to b^ user
in ;.*rtilic;i;i(ai work at Corregidor i:s-
lai.'.i.
Legislature Rushing
W 0 rk F or Eaily
Adjom nment Tuesday
JUDGE CHARLES
FOUND DEAD
BROWN LORE
IN BED TODAY.
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Missing Woman Found.
By Asso( iated I’ress.
.\iinncaiKdis, .Minn., March ^Mra.
Buck, propiieiiess of the res-
..Tirani iti the S.vndic?ire bnildini,
whi-h was d‘'!:-'royed by lire last night,
a’.id h(» as one of t-he women yup-
l)osrd to be missing, was found todav.
She I'.ad been sta.xing witli friends.
r>r-nha liadons. emi)loyed by Mrs.
I^tick. -ilso reported missing, has not
been •ict ai' (1.
Crown Prince Arrives.
i(H iaie(i Pre'^i-'
W • II
1 ;j;:in‘ and
; ir d' oi'• n:
and o\iin-
.Tl l'ff;>;r> it could
. ''licein.Mi notic 'd
: 1 and lie lat'i :
liiat'^h an e\
> '■ ^”!ed i l e s; i•! .> ]
al^^o had 1
- f 'he i'uildiiu! jj,-
' 'air(>. l‘'g.M»t. March ti.—The Ger-
' n U'lrc and i'le ('rown Prince Frederick William
1’ r .r w* re -"rn- p,i today from Suez and was wd-
: he gas cxplo-1J ,1,^-, f^iiway station by ^iie
' Khedive, the ministers and diplomat
he si cond I v^sident here. Me will spend some
. .fli' va- i'T'f-i ii,ne in Kgypt wit'll Crown Princess
Cecilie, who. with her suite, has been
i in tlie country for some time.
Special to 'i'l)-' X' ■ s. j
Kaleish, .March *1. In tl’.e house j
an effort \va. made in vain to get ihej
and Connor bills from ilie ta
ble. "I'iio.'' aitprove («f a!i insurance j
coin’iiission and a!*!;eaj trom tlie ru:-'
inv; cU' the c-omiTiissioner of insurance, i
Tiie mol ion lo take tiiei'a from tiie
table failed of
support.
Would Settle Tfie
1 rouble at Albany
Bv As‘=ociated Press.
Wilmington, De'., March 6.—Charles
Brown l.ore, chief justice of the
Delaware courts for ir> years was
found dead i?i bed today aL his resi
dence in this city. He would have
bt’cn eighty years of age on ]\!ai’ch
Mr. l.ore was attorney general of
Delaware in IStJT and served two
16.
terms in congress beginning in 1882
as a deniof rat. His term as chief jus
tice of the Delaware courts expired
in 1909.
two- .thirds majority
bill to
sf fons-
iT'.v dii'-g
ntimber
By As‘.iocia,tod Press.
Albany, X. Y., March 6.—A mes
senger was sent l)y Governor Dix this
! afternoon 10 New York to urge upon
. Tammany l-Iail leaders and William
F. Sli€^n;^u 1’U‘ji'-'('cssity i-f : "'rttling
i the senatorial situation in Nev*
York
, va
low^'d dc
■(•ui ants of
OENCY
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Free Speech Fight.
P.y Associated Press.
Sacramento. Cal.. March 6.--An ad
vance agent of the marching force of
industrial Workers of the World arriv
ed liere la:^t week, bring word tliat the
|,arty would disband here if conditions
.It Fiesno coutintied forceful. The men
arr going to I*resno to join in the
fvf‘(“-speech ti.2,hi which was amicably
settled last week.
Solicitors salary bill: the
prohibit rnarriage. betvv'eeii fit
ins and to i t'ovide for state't
auditors ^YGi;|P among tlie
tabled in the house. • state.
Bills passed to allow commissioners', ^his followed the publication of a
'li cotinties to appropriate for road j statement by Governor Dix in reply
im))rovemcn; demonstrations; to reS* 1 to the declaration of William F. Shee-
ub.te shipnv.'nt of cattle into Nortn ji^n, the Tammany senatorial aspir-
Carolina; to require prompt service
l)v telegraph companies; incorporate
the Raleigh, ('harlot te and South
ern Railroad Company; allow married
women to contract; provide payment
of a reward for T.ewis West.
-rs Meet.
A mcet-
D alcrs .\s-
Viiginia State
Debt Mattel
By Associated I’ress.
Washington, ^1yrch fi.—The sum of
. 1 i'i\ e ' was * today by the su-
’ •.mi at pr^ine court of the United States to
"■'I- ■ , n.liortion of the $33,fl0H.of|.|
\va> cH!l!d
v' Te welconi-
.:>• wieni Frank
rd .\. H. Mead-
Shoe .\sso-
w i made by
ihl>.
olfl X'irginia state del)t which West
Virginia is under obligations to bear.
The court left the final determina
tion of the matter, including the
fpu siion of interest, to the two states
to decide by conference.
Mr. McDonald introduced a bill ininient;
the senate to reduce the ntmiber of
pages in the assembly from 24 to 10,
and number of laborers from 24 to
Senator Barnes offered a bill to
incorporate the Virginia and bast
Carolina Railroad. The cc'mmittee s { the immediate
substitute for the Brown club liquor | issue.’’
bill passed and was sent to the house,
it being practically identical with
the bill heretofore passed by the
house as not interfering with liquor
in lockers of club members.
There was refusal by the house to
concur in the senate amendment to
appropriate a bill increasing tlie
Soldiers’ Home appropriation to $40.-
OOii the senate agreeing to put
it i’)ack to $30,000. A conference com
mittee v.as also named on senate
amendments to the revenue bill.
Both branches are rushing work to
day to compleie the passage of bills
so all will be enrolled tonight for
ratification tomorrovv. so adjourn
ment will be about noon Tuesday.
an’., that he would not withdraw
from the contest that has become a
deadlock unless the caucus action
thde him a candidate w'ere rescind
ed.
Governor Dix says in his state-
“The failure of the legislature to
select a federal senator is a vital
and paramount issue confronting our
party, and' our party is entijtled to
know the names of those members
of the legislature who are opposed lo
settlement of this
The forty first ballot today showed
no quorum.
Demociats Hold
Impoitant Confeience
DECILNED TO SERVE ON
RECEPTION C0MIV1!TTEE.
By Associated Pr'e.^s.
Houston, Texas, March —Because
of Col. Roosevelt’s attitude tOAvard
Jefferson Davis, .fudge Norman (t.
Kittrell has declined to serve on the
reception c(unmittee which will meet
the former-1 president licre next Sui’-
day. Col. .lacob F. W^)iters accepted
the vacant committee position to
day, sStying he did so owing to the
restoration by Col. Roosevelt of
Davis' name on Cabin John Bridge
near Washington, D. C.
Death of Hilman Pulsifer.
By Associated Press.
Wasiiington, March fi.—Hilinan
Piilsifrr, compiler of the navy year
book, indexer of senate puldic docu
ments and for many years clerk to,
the senate committee on naval af-ji
fairs ai\d widely known among naval»
officers, died at his home early to
day. Death w’a:^ causcd by pneumonia
following an atack of ptomaine poi
soning
Mr. Puisifer was born in Auburn,
Me., in 18.')2. lie came to Washington
With Senator Hale thirty years ago.
Until iiis last ‘llness lie Avas contin
ually associated with the senator.
Two Pleaded Guilty hut Justice
Held 2 hat All Must Fare
Alike and Fined Each The
Sum oj $10—Appeals Taken
Convicted before Magistrate J. W.
cove.red today that he was robbed last of the charge of fighting, or
Thursday afternoon of securities worth and abetting in figliting chick-
approximately SIOO.OOO in the vesti-,ens Sunday afterijoon on the plantation
bull of i^ie Produce . Kxchange Safety, of p]d. Cato, several miles I'rom the
Deposit and Storage Conipany. ! city, SI people w'ere fined $10 and costs
Last Thursday, Bancroft placed this morning. Twenty-nine asked for
the securities in a large enveloi>o, an appeal through their attorney, Mr.
tied with red ^^’1’^". ^nd bearing y \ Adams, who represented all of
hnn B name in the corner. Alone he entered a plea of guiltv
>valked aie two hundred feet iromM^ Simpson,
office to the produce exchange, them^
oow^n a fiight of steps from the stieet .
level entrance to the vaults. ^ n 1 1 • i « 1 4. *
.lust as Mr. Bancroft was about to ^Heged chicken fighters yester-
turn the corner at the end of the cor- a ternoon while gaves were being
ridor into the vaults a tall man came! chickens on either side of
running around the corner and col-j^ treshly-made pu. There were so
lided with him. The shock threw Mr. | many around the pit that it was im-
i'.ancroft oiT his feet and in falling' I’o^-sible for him to grab all of them,
i'e dropped +he envelope i ^hre of the men remained and he
That was the cue for an undersized but three of the men remained and he
voting man who had been leaning np the sinews of war, such as dead
against the corridot- wall. He stepped, chickens, live chickens, lap robes,
up lo Mr. Bancroft, assisted him to' I’opes that enclosed the place, and a
his feet and was solicitous to tuck un- sack of sharp steel gaves. Incidentally,
der his arm an envelope. Mr. Ban- it may be said that this sack of gaves
croft, of course, thought it was the was i)laced in the automobile of Mr.
enveiope that fell. He went on to, Wilson Wallace, son of Sheriff Wal-
deposit it in his box as usual. |lace and were taken from the machine
Today when George Bancroft, .Tr., while the iirisoners were being round-
his son, unlocked the box he found ed up at the home of Mr .Caton.
that the only envelojie there contained' Learning that a chicken fight was to
three old new'spapers. A clever sub- be pulled off in the neighborhood of
stitution had been effected when the the Caton home the sheriff and deputy
elder Bancroft was upset in the vault ^ijeriff w'ent to the scene. Sheriff Wal-
corridor. ' I lace drove his horse and Mr. Porter
The robbers, it is believed, knew on j ^vent in an automobile. Arriving at
w'hat day and hour it was the firm’s jjie home of Ivir. Caton they found any
custom to deijosit its securities. They 1 ^^j^ber of vehicles but nothing o£ the
knew that Mr. Bancroft habitually car-, chicken fighters,
lied them in an envelope of certain! ^ miuutes Mr. ('aton was
appearance, for they provided theny j Qf
selves in advance with so close a dupli-,^ shoulder. The officer met
cate that it deceived even the man searched the bag, finding two
who ot all others should have best cocks, one with its head
l,\iiow'n its ap))earance. ^ ! nulled off and the other with two
So bold a robbery in
very heart of the city’s financial dis-j
trict, shocked the jiolice. Years ago,
have best
, , ,, [pulled off and the other with
daylight, in the j wounds under its throat.
“What does this mean?” asked the
Inspector Byrnes had drawn a dead ! wks the
Deputy Porter then deputized Mr.
Bv Associated Press.
Welber
ith Child
Placed
Charged
Murdei -
On Tnal
M-’rrh. fi.—Charged
H'l- murder of her own
‘ l{« lb* r. of Schene-
. on n‘al before jus-
sui)r'-me court to-
'-n of .lanuaiT 13 the
ijoy was found in a
-:1s by a hunter on the
any. The boys face
I'Urned by poinson.
of carbolic acid
'>lato drops were the
y tiie authorities unsuc-
ht to learn thfe boys
• n fJeorge Melber of
. .1 black.smlth identified
That of hifj grandson,
■ I. whom he had thought
o phan asylum. The police
a I arch for the child's p^^r-
''uud that Mrs. Melber had
left the house where she was working
in Schenectady. She w'as traced to the
station in that city' and thence to
Rochester, where she was arrested
charged w'iLh the murder.
After fuaile denial of her identity
Mrs. Melber confessed the crime. She
declared that she was ordered to take
the boy from the Schenectady orphan
asylum because she could not pay
his board and that she came to Albany
to put him into an institution here.
Admission was refused, she said, and
she pifrchased some acid and the
candy, walked to the place where she
body was found and poured the acid
down the child’s throat when he com
plained ot being thirsty and asked for
water. ' . ,
Then, she said, she kissed him, laid
his body on the ground and took the
next car for Schenectady.
She resumed her position as house
maid and did not leave it until nearly
a week after the commission of the
murder, w'hen slie read of the finding
of the bodi’. .
Washington, IMarch (>.—The majority
members of tlie new' ways and means
committee of the democratis house
of reiiresentatives held their first meet
ing today to begin the formulation of
a program which may include the se
lection of all standing cbmmittees as
well as a decision in regard to the
extent the extraordinary session will
go in the matter of revising the tariff.
Chairman Underwood, of Alabama,
presided and ail' of the fourteen mem
bers were present. .
The committee will be.compelled to
listen to two factions. One is radical
and will favor the enactment of a bill
to carry out the terms of the Canadian
reci])rocity agreement, but will favor
also the reporting of a schedule-by
schedule revision of tiie tariff, wath at
least the w'oolen and cotton schedules
tacked onto the Canadian agreement.
The other plan urged by the more
conservative members of the New
Hojise, involves action on the Canadi
an agreement and the consideration of
a schediile-by-schedule revision in the
regular session next winter.
JUDGE LINDSAY
Judge Ben B. Lindsay, of “Child Court'
fame who has taken up the cudgels
for eaual rights. Judge Lindsay who
hails from Denver, Col., stopped off
at Albany, N. Y., where a hot fight
is being waked by suffragette’s to
have an equal rights measure report
ed to the senate, long enough to de
liver an enthusiastic address for the
“ciuse” and blast the statements
of one Richard Barry, a magaxine
writer who fathered a speech in
which he held Colorado up to audi
ences as bright and shinning exam-
Die of a corrupt egual tuffraoe state.
Important Rate
Conjerence Held
By Associated Press.
Washington. March 6.—At a confer
ence betw'een the interstate commerce
commission and important officials of
the eastern trunk lines today a con
clusion. not yet made public, w^as
reached as to the cancellation of the
proposed, advance in rates in official
classification territory.
It was suggested to the commission
that the carriers be permitted volun
tarily to suspend the proposed ad
vances from March 15 to some time
next autumn in order that the car
riers . might have an opportunity to
ascertain how this final years’s busi
ness might work out. The request
was made with a view of taking this
fiscal year’s business as a basis for
another proposed advance in rates,
perhaps next autumn, on which it is
expected that a better showing in sup
port of the increase may be made than
was made in the recent cases.
t
line across the cut at Fulton, below,
w'hich he ordered that no crook of,^®!”^
'^rinstan^'wilSn Wal.ace to.-eMa1„ .vlth the .^'o
ti3e wUh the police. 1 dead chickens and the horses and ve-
Having tried the order, the under-, hides and to detain any one who
world ultimately obeyed, and for years'wanted to leave.
the financial district was the safest; Guided by the crowing of roosters
place in the world for a man with. the deputy tollowed a winding path
large sums on his person. Bank run- through the woods, around a thick
ners and messenger boys ran about briar patch, untH he was finally stand-
the streets, their pockets literally ing at the side of the pit He recog-
stuffed with bills of large denomina-j nized J. E. Paxton as one man who
was on one side of the pit, putting a
gave on a chicken. Several men were
standing around him. On the opposite
side another crowd was doing the same
! thing.
I “1 turned to look at the other
.tions.
Three Men Captured.
By Associated Press
Espanola, Fla., March 6.—Three men
—names not made l^nown—w-ere cap-, Porter, “when I heard
tured this morning as a result of the ^ ^^owd was
killing yes-terd^ ot . pePi^ty l!!!. ff leaving I looked at them run for
White and A. Joh^ider 1 he sheriff,^
of this county declares they are p Qdjei’ crowd. Hearing another noise
ties to an alleged conspiracy against
the dead deputy.
turned again and this crow'd was
I couldn’t get all of them.
White and Schneider were shot while eathered up 12 sacks, a lot of
searching two Carrelton brothers and^^.^^ chickens, five dead chickens, some
another man who had been arrested., robes and the ropes that enclosed
— ^ it he pit. One man said these w^ere
Bryce Cannot Attend. j buggy reins. It was all we could carry
By Associated Press. j back to the house. When we got back
Atlanta Ga.. March 6.—Ambassador 1 just waited until the men came up,
lames BiVce of Great Britain, ’vill and t(K>k their names and had war-
irauend the Southern Commercial! rants issued for them. All of them
Congress, w'hich will open here next | were down Uiere. , , , „
Wednesdav. In a letter to Edwin I-I Where the fighting took place is
'Quarles, secretary of the congress, the spot very clos-s to tlie South Carolina
! diplomat declares engagements in a line and in his argument, ’
I distant part of the country will prevent ams said maybe the men thoi^ht the.v
He was scheduled to , were out of North ( arolina. He
at length upon what constituted aiding
iand abetting, claiming that iJeople
his attendance,
make an address.
/I could even look at the cock fight and
^Inot be participants. As a parallel case,
Death of Judge Lowell.
By Associated Press. jj^g deciaied that a man was shot at
Boston, March 6.—Judge Francis Square some years ago and that
Low'ell, of the I’nited Stales circuit hundreds congregated around.
'I’o
court, died
home here.
THIRTY FERSONS
INJURES
SERIOUS FIRE
DR. CHARLES F. AKED
Dr. Charles F. Aksd, the celebrated
pastor of the First Avenue Baptist
church of New York, of which-John
D. Rockefeller is a member, who has
been formally called to the pastor
ate of the First Congregational
church of San Francisco. Dr. Aked
has been in Caiifarnia several weeks
preaching in various cities, and is
said to view the summons' with
favor. Y
suddenly today at . hold those guilty who s-aw the fight
i would mean that those who looked
at the dead roan were aiding and abet-
ting.
For two men he did plead guilty,
and asked that the court be lenient,
because it was a sport that but few
would resist the temptation to see
Ywice did I^Ir. Adams argue, but
to no avail, ’.Sfiuire Cobb holding that
all were equally guiltj'. When ho an
nounced the imposition of the fines,
tlie two who had pleaded guilty signi
fied their intentiop of paying the fine
I and costs, while the rest said they
By Associated Press. j would appeal. case will be an
Minneapolis, Minn., March 6.—A. E. | interesting one when it is heard 111
Zoiine, of Conklin,a & Zone, managers the higher court.
of. the Syndicate building, which was! Eleven of those against whom war-
swept by a fire Sunday, causing a loss rants had been issued were not pres-
estimated at $1,200,000 today announc- ent, but they were fined just the
ed that it had been definitely estab- Two had' presented medical certm-
lished that no lives were lost. Both cates.
women reported missing have been ae- Those arrested and fined are:
coiinted for among the 50 lodgers who! !'■ ^^cCall, J. C. Maynard, J. \v.
were rescued from the blazing struc- Horton. J. B. Davis, T. J. Thon^)Son.
^ure. , J- H. McCall. J. W. Foster, Cal. Grier.
Total Number of Persons Injured. T. B. Foster, F. P. Mosel^.
Cleveland. O., March "6.—The toll Kistler, J. H. Newman. J. R. Gattis,
of persons injured in a fire this Hart Lockman.'C. P. Phifer, T. M. M^-
morning which consumed a three-sto-, tin, E. E. Moil is, Roy Cathey, J. L.
ry apartment building, shows that Paxton, Frank Bostic, Charles? Davis.
thi:’ty were hurt, some through the O. K. Phifer, W’. A. Hinson, . . W il-
collapse of the floor but most of kinson, —. .—. Johnston, J. E. Moore,
them in leaping from windows to B. Price, Albert Maynard and W.,
safety. Three may die. T. Sipap&on. •, ‘