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I ^esl Edition the charlotte news. Latest Edition 43. NO. 7013 CHARLOTTE, N. C.. THUR6DAY EVENING. APRIL 27. 1911 1>1> T/^ p* j In Charlotte 2 Cents a Copy Daily—5 C«nts Surday * I Outside Charlottes Cents a Copy Daily and Suuday P f;- I; ra^ E- dive But ns aughs At Chrge Of Kidnapping Dlirs WORK 0P~ STHIE SUNDII f Made Arrests in "ase oj Los Angeits namiting Conspi- ’hs at Charges i]amst Him. X Fiiend oj Labor— . ases Full of Evi ls Resting Up For . iunge. ’ '21.—William .1. ■tivo credited with r t a n eat of the al- ■ 'f the lx)8 Angeles ml who was arrested a charge of kid- .;crs. is in Chicago pxperiences of the v.Jil no to Ivos An- ,i;e the men he jail- \\ifh him from In cases full of evi- ,;v and otherwise. Special to The News. High Point, April 27.—The morning session of the convention was occu pied largely with reports of depart ments work by C. J. Van Carter, general secretary of the state associa tion. The reports show 11 denomina tions to be affiliated with Sunday school work in the state. A total Sun day school enrollment of 370,000 out of a population of North Carolina of 2,200,000, leaving 1,830,000 not in the Sunday schools. The general secretary recommend ed less talk and more work in the coming year and also budget of $5,000 to carry on the work. N. B. Broughton, chairman of the executive committee for 16 years, asked to be relieved. No action was taken. The treasurer’s report showed J4,- 945 received this year . Wake county won the banner cn account of the I Tobacco tltVVT l.iiliiaPiling charges largest amount contributed. Marion .jiowii as a sympa-J I-f^’^rance has arrived and speaks this ,.l l;Or. No matter whether Judge Sam’s decision Is favorable Oil cases, the above map who will get it in the nose. or unfavorable in the Tobacco Trust and Standard = I'.f’ :]• f up' i.‘^ ridicu- -tivp. "Anyone s better. I’m a .-ony the men U'd with a labor n Los Angeles afternoon and evening. For further proceedings see page 3, Uncle Joe Lauded Tar Heelia News Bureau. Congress Hall. SUICIDE AT H: I N Washington. D. C., April 27.—In his speech on Canadian reciprocity Un cle .Ice Cannon said pretty things j about North Carolina, the home of his people. His remarks on that subject las they appear in the Record follows: } "I was born in North Carolina, and j when 4 years old. in the arms of' my mother, was moved over the moun tains. The family went to tho Wabash, I and my good old mother never ceased mourning for the magnificent climate of North Carolina. My f&ther, w’hen J a young man. helped to found a coK" j lege down near Greensboro, N. C. A ifow years ago I accepted an invita tion to attend its commencement. 1 7 he President Spencb Busy Day “Cease Hosiilities In Your Zone” Are Fedeials Ordeis Skies Clear Again In New Orleans il BROTHERS K r.iil 27.—Refusal of . , j i, , „ inerce commission arrived the day before the commence- ■ in:il railways of the around with Profes- vQtoa nn thp sor Hobbs through the section of conn- ■ men. to the .ea 'fy are alleged to get! visited the old farm w’here I was * is the feature of a born, and found there every evidence nwn todav in the Im- prosperity and thrift. As I remember. 1 rnmnnf rasPs I the place, it was crossed by deep _J:!! Iguilies and was not good for very much. I asked the farmer how-^ he got IR riimn ^ prosperous state. > 1 '■! r « ? L Ml ly 11 He replied that he began by throwing iniJLLjlU lUllU ^ across each gully, so that the ditch washed in and levelled up the iland. Then he had found the use of clover and cow peas and improved the j land, and that while he had paid only '^$10 an acre for it a few years before, he had, within a few' days, refused $25 per acre. I asked if any other agency were at worl^ in bringing about this I increase than his own labor and intel- i ' - T'-.'ss ; ligence. ‘Oh, yes,’ said he ‘w'e have . Aitril 27.—A fund of | railroads and factories now. Over here .;•(T| for the defense of at Greensboro they have large factories, ' ■■ i iothers and Ortie Me-1 and I find there a market for my chick- *•'1 with complicity in ens and eggs and all the small fruit I 1.0,^ \ngeles Times'have to sell.’ 'Crihed at the meet-i ‘‘I was amazed at the evidences of iil l.al)or council last i progress on every s-ide, and if I had j been taken to Greensboro blindfolded li sting against the :*i would have remarked, ‘How marvel- ' . . .'ts of the McXara-lously has the city of Peoria, or the ' ' .r.ier'l w^re adopted, 'city of Quincy, improveu.’ I ‘’So that renaissance in agriculture 0, " - ! >s not only going on in New York, and I WO Men New England, btit is going on in ithe South. The quickening life of oth- n' Ync/1 "f/l er industries furnishes a market -L'u/ UCU, LU UtULll ^-ent out to the old Quaker grave- yard, and even there I coul. trace the 1 progress of the country. The first bat I tie monuments were tw'o or three y April 27.—Two, feet high, but gradually higher ones ‘ " t death today in a : ^-gre added, until the monuments of (iair.aufd the dwelling last eight or 10 years compare fav re of Cliarles K. Dewes.' those erected in any pro&- ■ere Andrew Harrlgan, I perous community. The graveyard told d .lames .lohnson, 10 (jjg gtory. who w ere asleep on j ..j am Interested in seeing North Car- ' : fhe house when the'oijna, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, i all the Southern states, diversify- their industries and restore their lands Br F: c.?n ♦; HT-' S' itT I Senatoi Frye • Tendeis Resignation Well Known And Popular Man Shot Hmselj Yesterday Af ternoon With Rifle—Death Resulted Immediately—Bad as Cause. HOUSE WILL GOME TOOItY Chairman Underwood An nounces This Early in Day— Effort will be Made To-day to Get Jhl9U9l^ Reappor- " tionment Bill A.-, Wa ' tlon . tb« f, ■- • ‘‘.i'd V , f- iiiii -r "f r!,;. ■pril 27.—The rela- ) cliiid welfare was for discussion at the second inter- 'f mothers and par- x'iation. The prog- nonstrations of play of second grade local schools and a Mi hu or Washington, April 27.—On account of ill health. Senator Frye, of Maine, today tendered to the ^ vice-president his resignation as president pro tern- pore of the senate. The senator is confined to his apartment and hre friends, because of his advanced are pjsprehensive. It is probable ^at Senator Gallinger will succeed him as president pro tem. * Mr. Frye, who is 81 years old, last _ year suffered an accident to his foot ; on various phases which resulted in an abrasion that re- aiiiong those to speak .fused to yield to medical treatment. ' '" Ef K. .Johnson, pres- For practically seven years Mr. Frye '’(‘iin.^yivania congress ruled over the senate, taking'the gaven 'I"'. I. R. Little, pres- on the death of Vive President Hobart '■ ory,ia congress; Mrs. and again wielding i^ when Colo^^ pipsifient of the Iowa Ilohert Park, vice- Massachusetts con- extend sessioa. Roosevelt left the offl^ to become president on the death of Mr. McKin ley. He has been a member of the sen ate slBce 1881, and occupied a seat in the house for several terms before , that date. Had Lived There 14 Years-It is thought Worry Over Bad Health Unbalanced His Mind And Prompted Awjul Deed- Funeial To-day, Special to The News. China Grove, April 27.—Mr. G. H. Weddington, a resident of this city, committed suicide yesterday after noon about ■ 1 o’clock by shooting himself with a rifle. He was found in his room by the members of the family who heard him fall and was dead when they reached the room. For many years Mr. Weddington was associated with ^he various cot ton industries around this town but for some time past has been in bad health. Worry over this is supposed to have unbalanced his mind and caused the awful deed. Since Mon day there has been a» noticeable change in his actions and while Ms family were comparativelj*^ certain that his mind was unbalanced, there was never a thought that he w'ould commit suicide. ^ Yesterday afternoon the wnoie family went 'to dinner together and Mr Weddington was with them. There was nothing particularly no ticeable in his actions at the table and as he could not eat much he left the table before the rest of the family. He made no statement but went directly to his room. , The first intimation that the. fam ily had that something was w^rong was when they heard a dull thud from the direction of Mr. Wedding- ton’s room. They rushed in and lying across the bed was the husbaiid and father with a terrible hole in his breast where the bnllet had torn through, and on the. floor was the weapon of destruction, a 32 calibre rifle. The barrel had been pressed so tightly to the body when the bullet was fired that it made practi cally no souij^d and the leaden ball was driven completely through the chest*. * A physician was immediately sum- pioned but when he arrived there was nothing for him to do. Mr. Weddington was about 50 years old and leaves a wife and four chil dren and four children . by his ’ first wife. He also has several brothers and half brothers. His oldest daughter by. his first wife lives about four miles from China Grove and came immediately in answer to the: news of her. father’s death. The" other three children by his first wife are in the United States army and navy. ‘ They were ■ notified of the death .but will be unable to come here.... - Mr. Weddington has been a resi dent of this Immediate vicinity for about 14 years «nd was well known and popular through the covinty. The news of his death spread like , wild fire and soon there was a great crowd of the sympathetic at the be reaved home. ^ XUS The funeral will be held this ai- temoon at Qreenmound cemetery. By Associated Press. New York, April 27.—Today bade fair to be another active period in President Taft’s metropolitan itiner ary, his propram including a series of conferences with the republican lead ers and the delivery of what promised to be an important speech on Canadian | reciprocity at the annual banquet of the Associated Press and American Publishers’ Association today. William Barnes, ji\, chairman of the republican state committee and Lloyd C. Gijscom, pi8Sident ^ the repub lican coui\vy commit*; ee, ’Ver^ expected to call upon President Taft this fore noon, while it was thought probable that former Congressman Herbert Par- I Wants to Get Measure Through sons and William ijoeb, jr., collector of the port of New York, would take occasion to pay their respects. Sever al other political leaders were likewise expected to see Mr. Taft before he left the home of his brother, Hgnry W. Taft, where he spent the night to attend a luncheon at the residence of Henry Clews early this afternoon. Mr. Taft’s speech at the dinner of the Hungarian republican club was de livered about 1:30 o’clock this morn ing. His nearest approach to this rec ord of late hours was during his swing about the country in 1909 when. By Associated Press. New Orleans, April 27.—Following a steady downpour of rain lasting 36 hours, accompanied by strong winds and high tides, the storm which yes terday and last night threatened se rious -damage along the Louisiana and Mississippi coast had abated at an early hour this morning and bright 'sunshine greeted New Orleans to day, No lives were lost in the stornf and the property damage was not heavy. Telegraphic communication along the gulf coast east of New Orleans is still partially paralyzed and today there was continued interruption of traffic on the Louisville & Nashville and Illinois Central Railroads. The damage on the former line, caused by washouts near Desair, was repair ed during the morning but the latter road was forced to route trains via Hattiesburg and the New Orleans & Northwestern Railroad because of a wreckage at Dunbar. The greatest damage done by the storm was to the property along the water front at Gulfport, Biloxi, Bay St. Louis and Pass Christian. Several small schooners and barges in the harbors at these places were dam aged, beach roads ^ torn up and wharves partially wrecked. A lumber schooner and several smaller craft in Lake Ponchartrain w’ere ^wre*ked. Four spans of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad bridge between Dunbar and Rigolets were carried away by the high tide last night and three other^ spans are several feet out of line. A temporary structure is being built today and efforts will be. made to operate trains over the line tomorrow. Minister of War of Diaz Cab inet Sends Order to All Fed eral Officers Where Fighting is Likely to Be in Evidence Ifow, Before State Legislatures Adjourn—Free List Bill Re ceives A ttention—T he Day *s Proceeding, By Associated Press. Washington, April 27.—Before ad journment today the house of repre sentatives expects to pass the re apportionment bill increasing its one night in October his boat was late membership from 391 to 433. Chair- in reaching Baton Rogue and he spoke Underwood, of the ways and A OESPlRATE to. a throng in the Louisiana capital about a half hour after midnight. President Taft’s speech tonight on Canadian reciprocity, it is understood, is to be the first of a series of speech es to be delivered while the bill em bodying the reciprocity agreement is before the senate, and will be made in the hope of influencing action upon the measure by the upper house. During the morning August Belmont, with H. L. Herbert, and old-time Eng lish polo player, called on Prasident Taft. Miss Francis, w'ho has been paint ing President Taft’s portrait, called by appointment. Miss Fi-ancis brought a sketch of the president made by a fellow artist which she asked the president to au tograph. ' President Taft accepted their invi tation to open the new public library building on Fifth avenue May 23. ONE LIFE LOST V^HEN CAR BURNED. - By Associated Press. ► Rocky Mount, N. C., April 27. ► A Pullman car of the Atlantic ► Coast Line’s Palmetto Limited, ► Northbound, was destroyed by ► fire here early here today and • resulted in the death of J. Probe- ► stein, of New York. ► The fire was started by an ex- ► plosion of gas leaking from a ► tfkilk and Ignited by a lantern^. means committee, had planned to take the^ measure up yesterday, but it was supplanted by.the free list bill, though with the understanding that it would be taken up today. Efforts to get quick and favorable action are due to the fact that many state legislatures are nearing adjourn ment. ‘ No state under the bill loses in representation, the reapportionment merely fixing the nunaber of constit uents entitled to one representative. Following yesterday’s caucuses among the regular and Insurgent re publicans in the senate, intense in terest was apparent in the next move of the insurgent senators, some of whom insist they were treated un fairly in the appointment to commit tees. A secret meeting of the progres sives w^as called for this morning. It was thought the whole fight might he transferred to the open floor of the senate later today. By Associated Press.- ■ Oriska, N. D.. April 27.—To save Miss Mary Smith from death. H. P. Olseen, of this town, was lowered head downwards into a well twenty-two feet deep and only 18 inches in diam eter. The strain was so great that blood burst through his chest and left arm. The girl was barely alive. Miss Smith fell into the well and Olsen tied a rope around his ankles and crawled down in the well while bystanders held the rope. When he reached the bottom he seized the girl and called to the men above to pull. Added to her weight of 160 pounds was that of her drenched clothing and it took three men to pull the two over the edge of the well. Death of Mr. W. B. Carter. Special to The News. Winston-Salem, N. C., April 27.—W. B. Carter, aged 65, member of the hardware firm of Brown, Rogers Com pany, and one of the owners of Brow^n’s | tobacco warehouse, and one of Win-' ston-Salem’s best citizens died today. RETmiiEOBY M’itAMyil!; By Associated Press. ^ i Los Angeles, Cal.. April 27.—;Clar- ence Darrow. the Chicago attorney, who figured in the defense of Moyer, Haywood and Pettibone, has been re tained as chief counsel for .John J. and James B. McNams>ra and Ortie McMan- igal, the alleged dynamiters. Chicago, April 27.—Attorney Clar ence Barrow again today denied that he had been retained, as counsel for the labor union men accused of being dynamiters. VICTIMS OF GAS IN MINES: Tamaqua, Pa., April 27.—George 2i- kitis, aged 26, miner, and Ignacius Marka, aged 23, laborer, were badly burned by explosion of gas at the No. 11 Colliery. Socialist Me mber A Real Bad Boy- Would Exterminate The Senate Also States That'* it is Impera tive That You Overtake Gen- eial Ragabo And Inform Him Of Peace Pact”Attempt to Repair Road, By Associated Press. Chihuahua, Mexico. April 26, via Leredo, Texas, April 27.—Orders re ceived here from the minister of war of President Diaz, cabinet, to “cease hostilities in your zone.” and also stat ing that it “is imperative that you overtake General Ragabo and inform him of the “peace pact” found prepara tions making and being carried out by the Federal commanders in the move ment of troops today anything but peaceful. Orders had been rushed from Mexico City for the rapairing of the railroad into Ciudad Juarez, across the Rio Grande from El Paso. General Rabago's forces were thirty miles north and it was understood that these soldiers were destined to service as guards for the workmen on the rail road line. The zone understood here to be in cluded in tlie armistice comprises Jua rez, Casas Grandes, Linaca and Chi huahua. The order of the minister of war suspending hositilities was receiv ed in this city at 10 o’clock ths morn ing. Couriers were Immediately sent to Rabago and it is understood his force will remain at his present camp pending negotiations looking to peace. Rush orders came from Mexico City to have the railroad to Juarez put through, without delay 'and General Rabago’s forces w'ere put in readi ness to move. The suggestion at first was . made that if repairs on the rail road were attempted the insurrectos would Interfere, as the insurrectos al ready had kept the road out of com mission for more than three months. The answer came to have the work- naen protected by troops; What would have developed if the Federal troops, fully equipped with fieild guns and am munition for a long siege had reached the outpost of General Madero’s foroes is interesting. It is said that when Rabago gets into the neighborhood of Madero.the government will be in a position to show a less amicable attitude toward the insurrectos. The situation in the interior grows daily more grave. Away from Madero’s camp peace talk has no place in the councils of the insurrecto chiews. The suspension of personal guarantees, which was de scribed as a form of martial law insti tuted throughout the country, has had no effect toward limiting the spread of the revolutionary movement. Fewer arrests are now made than formerly, because, it is said, outspoken insurrecto sympathy is becoming so general as to be beyond the power of police and military officials to curb, and fear of jail sentences no longer d«ter the citizens of the larger cities from openly discussing the merits of Madero’s demands. Pictures of Madero and his troops are sold in the streets without restraint. Couriers from the Interior report that the insurrectos are rapidly adding the smaller towns to their civil govern- • ment. The town of Rosario, south of Parral, today is rei)orted to have been talven. The telegraph operator at Ros ario reported that the insuiTectos had entered the town in great numbers and taken possession without a fight. In the insurrecto circles, it is be lieved that any final terms of peace will include a provision by General Madero for- the liberation of all politi cal prisoners. This does not necessarily niean that the fourteen Americans now in the penitentiary here will be Included, as the Mexican government probably will insist that the United States prosecute the men for violation of the nutrality laws. Thousands of native Mexican poli tical prisoners, including such men as Eduardo Hay. member of a prominent family in Mexico City, under any peace terms probably would go free. Hay is in . a hospital with more than ten wpunds received at Casas Grandes. United 'States consul Letcvher con tinues to visit the American prisoners and see that they are properly at tended. By Associated Press. Washington, D, C., April 27.—Victor Berger, of Milwaukee, thi^ socialist member of congress, in a resolution introduced today not only proposes to abolish the senate, but aims to strike to the Constitution, which, if petition ed for by five per cent of the voters in each state, shall be submitted to a general referendum. ' ‘-The senate has run its course,” said Mr. Berger after his threatening docu- from the hand of the president the | ment had been dropped into the hop- veto power and take from the*courts|per on the speaker’s desk. It must the power to invade legislation enact-[some day, as with the British house ed by the house of. representatives, of lords, yield to the popular demand All this is proposed as an amendment * for its reformation or abolition. ’ HER [IT By Associated Press. Cambridge, Mass., April 27.—Har vard University plans an innovation in the form of an open commencement this June. Memorial Hall will be aban doned on account of insufficient seat ing space and outdoor seats and plat form erected in the quadriangle form ed by Sever, Emerson and Robinson halls. For a number of years even alumni of long standing have found it impossible to secure seats. Under the proposed arrangement over 3,000 per sons can be accommodated. —His old comrad'es in Mecklen burg x\i!l be sorry to hear that Peg Leg Graham will not be able to at tend the meeting of Mecklenburg Camp Saturday, or to go with the boys to Little Rock. Mr. Graham is sick at his home in the country. ’ Intervention in Morocco. By 4ssociated Press. Paris, April 27.—France today noti fied the signatories of the Algeciras conference agreement that prompt and energetic intervention in Morocco by France had become necessary to pro tect foreigners at Fez, to re-establish order throughout the country and to safeguard the sovereignty of the Sul tan. One Killed by Explosion. By Associated Press. Pointe-A-Pitre. Guadaloupe, April 27.—Whi’.e the French steamer Mo roni was loading rum and sugar at the docks here yesterday fire broke out in thee argo and before it could be put out caused an explosion among the barrels of rum which kill ed one fireman. The monetary loss is considerable. ' » —W^ell, everything’s ready. At 4 p. nj. Lave Cross will call the house to order.
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