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IP \T MISS THE NEW SERIAL, “THE PHANTON OF THE OPERA”—STARTS IN THE NEWS MAY 1ST. es >N. CHARLOTTE 20 Pages ONE eECTlON. ;S0. 16 CHARLOTTE, N. C.. SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL 30. 1911 PRICE 5 CE MS Woodrow Wilson ^cusses M any tal Issues of Pay ^ ’ Up of Common t;r to Under- respondent to- son was told by day. “Are they • mg that charge?” he Inquired ^ly. “If so, then,” he _ went on, ‘. .ppose I would better \QTeCTtlCni ihOn plead guilty and ask for a non-suit, I to mix legal phraseology to fit the \/OllCQC ClQSS— I case. It was not I, though, who brought I the pressure. It was simply the pres- . Gf lSSU€S» 1 sure of enlightened and determined 1 public opinion that was brought to — I bear upon the legislator.” hhr , “^'hat causes contributed chiefly Otic i^onscienfx sturdy growth and widespread • Pnr Pfirnrm^ existence of this enlightened opinion j in New Jersey, a state known for a Tpr^^u generation As one of the worst politi- l\ew country?” Governor Talks] “Honest and enlightened publicity,” ' replied the governor. "That large sec- ThinaS* jtlon of the daily and periodical press ^ * I which for a decade ha^ been crying out ,.jl "Not many I ® voice in the wilderness has im- , * ‘ parted an impulse to popular thought ‘ people beheve^ ^hat has led it on to a stage or reso- i. is-sion of public lute determination witnessed usually public platform onjy in revolutionary eras. Among the uni’ing the people leaders of this section of the press on If 1 may si>eak i William Randolph Hearst stands con- nee. I have found spicuous.” of the common I Here are the more important bits ake a point, quick- of reform legislation enacted by the .n -igument. quicker I New Jersey legislature that has just • ruiency and to com- ladpourned: than many a col-j .Direct primaries for all elective 'ed. " said Governor, state and municipal officers. = national News Serv-j Direst primaries for United States la j senators and delegates to national con- ai:5p the college, ventions, with popular expression of -ciice, but because choice for president and vice presi- -’\s Is not in con- dent, ilit . s of life, and a I Corrupt practices act, “with teeth in r:'ion citizenship is ini it,” to safeguard the purity of elec- al lite day by day, *tions. (? I. f>xniain to them \ Public utilities bill, with drastic pro- .1' '•> the quick. i visions fixing the resijonsibility on of- . • r and explain tojftcers of corporations for violations of t 1 i? \ou are trying i the law by corp^oratione, tnd vesting .ii\e all minor ob- power in a commission to make rates will see to it that and physical valuation of the property in Icing it. The'.of public service companies. ve TO prove to them ueiin to serve them, A hat vou say and that he least afraid of the . \e'l; that the only do with the man; Personal registration Civil service for election officers. Non-partisan (or Massachusetts) bal lot in primaries and general elec tions. Commission government for cities, TO the wrong thing including a modified form of the initia- ' i ■! Ill Ui public and tive. referendum and recall. Regulation of cold storage, sn ; p- phase of the Reforms in railroad taxation, overnor Wilson said:{ Workmen’s compensation law. pro- ' inner tables and'viding for an automatic payment for !eci conversations of injuries or loss of life in industries, r three years. I havfe - :iffai’-s declare that ^ thing to set up a \iueiiia. Because, they I') cQvern this great it vast accumulations v^er. the votes of the are too difficult to man- ii!' to direct, too difficult ; a> it i? necessary to ; I't- n of political power i p concentration of na- CKoWN ceonfi^TIi states AHie/CA^ Coronation ) VNirtD^TA7t% Disastrous Wieck Oj Excursion Tmin On Pennsy RaUi oad DEnnEiTS nptciED Fast Train Carrying 16 8 School Teachers From Utica to Washington Rolled Over High Embankment And was Destroyed by Fire. AMERICAN VIEWPOINT OF GEORGE III. AND GEORGE V. * Threatening Letter Sent Detectives On McNamara Case [ BADLY HURT IN V> R E G K d Mi3t doctrine preach- _^:n by men who ought •'*1 sTter. and I learned ■ .uch talk that there ed rh“ fundamental prin- Ovrary, and that, there- MT willing to make secret h po'.iMoal machines and rislation they did not •p e;ited and that legisla- n ant was permitted. : political organization; •litical leadership, but ' in these political ma- ,'ov er comes from one (=> used for special inter- ’ T: tb=> common cause, a ch the lobby in any h lit seeing who is be- ^ hese gentlemen think deceive themselves as the ostrich withj .. «and 1 am opposed to ■!f;nn and take excep- ; inn-mental alteration i ai u franee of Lincoln; n sovernment for the s'j: n covernmenf by the -r upon being trus- 1* "T'tant business and ill re in the droppings .! A happened to the whole ■ h’ forces of reform, so 'r ?li, should suddenly d n )«uch progressive Letter From M. /. Schmidt 0 Threatens to Blow Detective Burns, City Attorney Frede ricks and Raymond Bums Into Tiny Atoms. u IS --BEST DF that s all,” respond- lnv«s learned what is rho-r government has from its original de- have learned how ■'t i» acain. Moral and ' have had an uplift us of our life.” ■'r ^•prn'^r Wilson Inquir- aes in recent months oh?nire and parties pn dissolved? Why is • ^r\ slight difference •fforms? It is not be- debating political ■lobating nothing else itals of government, resent ative govern- e;over«ment whose ' uh the general body ^' hich respond to the people and to the e in fheir hearts? party politics In the men shall spend - ultimate purposes at '■* 'or elections shall be - of purity and econ- Greensboro, N. C.. April 29.-—Engin eer R. B. Farrell, of Greensboro was brought here at eight o’clock tonight with both arms broken and severely bruised about his body as a result of a turned over engine at Vandalia, a sta tion three miles from Greensboro on the Sanford Mount Airy* division, of Southern Railway. He is at St. Leo’s hospital, physicians reporting that no internal injuries are so far evident. The regular passenger train from San ford, due in Greensboro at 4:40, was stalled at Climax, 12 miles distant on account of a disabled engine. Captain Farrell, left here with a relief engine and tender backings Near Vandalia, the tender jumped the track at edge of cut, twisting the engine entirely over. Mr. Farrell was caught and wedged between the reverse lever and boiler, his escape from death being miracu lous. The overturned engine and ten der completely blocked the track, and the wrecking crew had not opened the passage for the stalled passenger train at Climax, as it had not arrived at 8:30 o’clock. The southbound Southern, passenger train from Danville, this afternoon ran into a delivery wagon at Summit ave nue crossing, and threw an 11 year old driver, John Angell, son of the county jailer, a safe distance from the track. The boy was very badly cut in the head and several places on the body and is at the hospital in a precarious condition. The boy was warned by the watchman at the crossing not to cross but he whipped his horse forward, the train striking midway of the vehicle, literally crushing^it to pieces, but the horse was uninjured.. Bums Says if He is Killed, the Case is Complete And Men Will be Convicted--Detec- tives Find The Lost Launch. Chicago, April 29.—A letter threat ening to blow to atoms Detective Wil liam J. Burns, his son Raymond and District Attorney Fredericks, of Los Angeles, was received today by Chief Burns, head of the agency which caused the arrest of the McNamara brothers and Ortie E. McManigai, charged with blowing up the Los An geles Times building and scores of other dynamite outrages. The letter was postmarked Times Square station, New York, Apinl 26, 5 p. m., . and was signed M. J. Schmidt. From its tenor as well as from the signature. Burns believes th© letter was written and mailed by Matthew J. Schmidt, a Chicago an archist, for whose arreSt as one of the decline concerned in the blowing np of the Los Angeles Times building $5,000 was offered in a circular let ter sent out to the police of all the large cities of the world by the Los Angeles district attorney’ on January 10. Schmidt was formerly a member of the Amalgamated Wood -Workers International Union and the Brother hood of Carpenters in Chicago. Detective Burns said of the let- ter: , i. “It bears internal evidence of hav ing been sent by Schmidt who is an avowed anarchist. McManigal’s con fession states that Schmidt was one of the men who helped James B. McNamara to blow up the Times building. However, I am not afraid of his threats. If I should be killed tomorrow the case against the McNa- which was used by McNamara in tak ing the dynamite away from the plant across San Francisco bay,” said the detective. Efarns left this afternoon for In dianapolis, where he will confer with the chief of police of that city and with Wa.lter Drew, of the National Erectors’’ Association as to further steps in the case of the dynamiters. He will leave Indianapolis for Los Angeles Monday.' McNamara Won’t Talk. Los Angeles, Cal., April 29.—Calmly awaiting future developments, John J. McNamara, secretary of the Interna' tional Association of Bridge and Struc tural Iron Workers, and his brother, James B. McNamara, union iron work er, and Ortie E. McManigai, charged w'ith a series of dynamite outrages, are obeying to the letter the instruc tions of their attorneys and refuse in terviews to all other persons. , Although district attorney, Freder icks declares threre is no reason for a change of venue, there continues to be much discussion of the matter^ There is considerable speculation re garding the possible arrest of others in connection with the Los Angeles dynamiters’ case. The authorities have under survillance three Californians. District Attorney Confident. Los Angeles, Cal., April 29.—A sec ond identification of J. B. McNamara as J. B. Bryce today added to the conviction held by the district attor ney’s office that the person of that name in the county jail is the one who bought dynamite from the Dupont Powder Works at Giant, Cal., and placed it under the Los Angeles Times building. The new witness was Trevor Mac- Caohren, a bell boy, of the hotel Ar gonaut, San Francisco, who this , morn ing identified J. J. McNamara as the man who registered with M. A. Schmidt and Davis Caplan at the Argo naut during the latter half of Septem ber last and stayed there a week. The first identification of J. B. Mc Namara, as Bryce was furnished by Mrs. D. H. Ingersoll, of San Francisco. Ortie E. McManigai, whose confes sion accuses the McNamara brothers of complicity in the Times plot, today definitely turned his back upon the approaches of attorneys for the de fense. When Judge Hilton visited him in the jail, ■ McManigai was brought to the visitors’ ro(^. “I represent the two McNamaras,” said Judge Hilton. “I wanted to know Those four words convey to every one in the office of The News un speakable grief, for he was the friend of all, and there were none who was not his friend. Sam Smith dead? The information came to the office a tew minutes after the Grim Reap er had reached out and gripped the heart that pulsated always with throb for those with whom he work ed—and the information checked bus iness for the time being. Stricken suddenly a few days ago the young man—^for he was but yet in the prime of his youth—lay a vie tim to nervous prostration until last night at 10:20 o’clock when his earthly troubles wei'e ended. Sam Smith was the mailing clerk for The News. Thar was the official title, but Sam was more than a mail ing clerk because he was a man every inch of him, and because we all of us, love him. Not only did printers, reporters, editors, advertis ing men and other attaches of the office admire and respect Sam Smith,! but there are those in Charlotte who know of the good deeds he did and mourn his death today. / For about a dozen years Sam Smith, worked for The News. He was once what is called a “galley boy.” Later he went into the press room and then he started working for the mail ing department. When questions came up about circulation Sam Smith was one. person who furnished correct in formation. He was the son of Mr. R. A. Smith and there are three sisters who sur vive him. God never made a more loving brother, a more devoted son. Nor was there created such a friend, such a lovable character. Sam Smith dead? The office force can scarcely believe it. The funeral will be held today at 12 o’clock at the First A. R. P. church, on corner of Third and Tryon streets, of which he was a member. From there the remains will be taken through the country to his old home in Matthews, where he will be in terred. The pall bearers will be Messrs. John A. McLaughlin, John S. Owen, Floyd W. Bangle, George W. Ire land, Carson Deal and C. L. Granger. Chicago, April 29.—The activities of the Helm committee in probing al leged bribery in connection with the election of Senator Lorimer today brought out three unexpected develop ments. It appears that there is a New York conribution to the alleged $100,000 bribery jackpot which the committee has not yet been able to reach be cause of the state boundary limit to its powers of subpoena. The committee* has reason to be lieve that the Lorimer seat was sold over again” and that certain collec tors declared a handsome personal dividend on the deal. According to a Springfield man who is close to the Helm committee, that body, through its investigations, is satisfied that the entire fund used in the interests of the junior senator did not come from Illinois sources. It has traced one large contribution to the inner official circle of one, of the largest trusts this country has ever known but so far has failed to find the Illinois connect ing link that would turn the informa tion into competent evidence. The general officers of the trust in question all make their headquarters in New York city and those who are supposed to have guilty knowledge have seemingly made it a point to keep out of the state since the Helm committee went into action. This is said to have been the reason why several important confei'ences have been held in a neighboring city safely on the Indiana side o£ the line instead of in Chicago, the natural meeting place. An interesting phase of the alleged bribery matter which has not yet Iwo Dead, Two Persons Seri ously Injured And Eight are \ Reported Missing — It Was Thought All the Passenges Escaped B^ore Cars Bumed ♦ ADMITTED NINE DEAD. Easton, Pa., April 29.—It is now admitted that the death list in the Martins Creek wreck will amount to nine or ten. Easton, Pa., April 29.—Rushing along at fifty miles an hour, a five- coach special excursion train on the Belvedere division of the Pennsylva nia Railroad, plunged from the rails eight miles south of this city this af ternoon. side swiped an oil tank and hurled 168 passengers into a fifty-foot gulch on the west bank of the Dela ware river. One body has been recov ered. Eight persons are missing or dead and forty are injurefl. Two are dead. Most of the passengers were school teachers from Utica, N. Y., and neigh boring towns, bound for a week’s trip to Washington, D. C. Without an in stant’s warning the merry party shot over the bank. Oil from the wreck ed tank poured onto the debris. Fire immediately started in the fifty car, and fed by the oil, quickly swept through the, entire train leaving it in a twisted mass of iron and charred wood. The cries of wounded women rang out above the crash of the wreck and brought aid from a farm house which come to public attention is that, more I stands within a stone’s throw of the money was actually raised among the Martin’s Creek ferry, where the train coi»binations of capital interested in tariff manipulation than was actually spent at Springfield. In other words, the Helm committee has reasons to be lieve that the seat of Mr. Lorimer was bought for a certain price and “sold” tb' the interests at a much higher figure. mara brothers and McManigai is com- —„ plete and “I know they will be con-; whether you wanted me to act as youi* victed.” Sully Secures Grant oj Immunity New York, April 29.—Daniel J- Sully, the former “cotton king” who is now suing John Hays Hammond and others in Washington for |1.* 000,000, was today granted, upon his wife’s application, a writ of protection permitting him to come to New, York on Monday and be immune from ar rest under civil committments now pending against him. \ Mrs. Sully has been sued by Peter bore is no politics In H. Corr to recover $20,000 damages. ' erely the question of She says that this action Is brought government. The main for non-payment of a $20,000 note • ' .lersp> this winter I that she Indorsed to accommodate ' ople have access to, her husband and Corr. She also ■ [claims that the money was lost in l arged with having j cotton speculation and that Corr has to bear upon the New,said he would not look to her for pay- ure to achieve the re- ment as indorser. HP of progressive legls-', Mrs. Sully wants her husband to ‘ ''^‘^orded in your ad- ^ct as a witness during th« trial in Governor Woodrow Wtl- the- supreme CQurt. Detective ’ Burns received a tele gram from San Francisco which stat ed that employes at the Giant Pow der Works In that city had positively Identified James B. McNamara as the man who had bought 2,000 pounds of dynamite from the firm a month be fore the blowing up of the Times building attorney ,“If you represent them,” returned McManigai, “you cannot represent me.” Then calling to tie jailor, he said: “Take me back, I’ve had enough in terview.” Judge Hilton shortly afterward told reporters that McManigai had admit ted he had been in the pay of W. J. Bums, national detective agency for We have also traced the launch three months prior to his arrest. Which Is A Gieater Detiiment to Man, Whiskas Or A Bald Head? Washington, April 29.—Senator Robert Lu Taylor, of Tennessee, lias replaced Ollie M. James, of Kentucky, as a member of the affirmative team In the, debate to be -held at the Na tional Press Club , Tuesday night next on the resolution “that whiskers are ag reater detriment to a man Senator Taykw’s associate oh the bald headed side of the argument will be Representative Nicholas Long- worth, of Ohio. Upholding the value and beauty of whiskers will be Senator John W. Kern, of Indiana, and “Uncle Joe” Cannon, of Illinois. Mr. James will be absent on t>usiiiess. Annual May Day At Wellesley Wellesley, Mass., April 29.—The an- nual May Day revelries at Wellesley College ‘lasted throughout all day. The girls arose early and gave all the statutues a soap scrubbing and then proceeded to decorate them. The ‘black woodsman” was dressed up as a baseball player; Diana was garbed in a bright komopa^, and had several towels thrown around her, her stag wearing a pair of goggles; Venus was decorated to represent a snake charm er; the “Sleeping Infant” was dressed as’ a freshman, and the “01 dMaid” was dressed as a sophmore. After breakfast, the (seniors, dress ed in their caps and gowns, rolled theor hoops down to chapel. Tonight the girls gathered on the chapel steps and sang their college songs. Jap Woman May Get Some of Morgan Wealth What Congtess Did Satmday Washington, April 29.—In the House —Debate was continued on the free list bill. Hammond, of Minnesota, said "he believed the bill would off set the effect of reciprocity on the farmers. The Stanley resolution asking ap pointment of a special committee to investigate the steel trust taken up by the committee on rules, which be gan series of hearings. Bill Introduced by Reilly, of Con necticut, providing for government tak ing over control of common can'iers on guarantee .to stockholders of 5 per cent of dividends and payments of In terest charges to bondholders. Post master General to have charge of op eration, with aid of ten additional as sistant postmaster general, who shall be railroad and transportation experts. Interstate commerce commission to be merged with postoffice department and have superivlsioji of rates. Bill endorsed by postal progressive league. , , ^ The senate was not in session tpday. Lenox, Mass., April 29.—The death of Mr. George H. Morgan, cousin of J. P. Morgan, on Friday, makes it probable that a large share of the Morgan millions will be inherited by a Japanese woman. She is the aristocratic Oriental beauty, Mrs. Yuki Kate Morgan, whom George Dalton Morgan married in 1904 at Yokahoma on his trip around the world. George Dalton Morgan is the son of George H. Morgan and a neph ew of J. Plerpont Morgan, his father having married his cousin, J. Plerpont Morgan’s sister. Young Morgan is now in Japan. There were reports at one tirne that the marriage did not meet with the complete approval of the elder Mor gan and his second wife, who was , Miss Sarah Learned Mifflin. But little Miss Yuki Kate is a daughter of one of the finest families in Japan, and when she arrived here with her hus band, she changed everybody. In Chicago, on the trip across the country, young Morgan had said that he did not know exactly the ojrinlons of his relatives concerning his marriage, but that nothing could possibly alter his devotion to her. They remained at the $1,000,000 mansion^ of the Mor gans in this city for several weeks, but soon were sailing for the Orient Young Morgan’s departure on hlfe round the world trip followed very shortly the announcement that his en gagement to Miss-Meta Mackay had breen broken off. Negro Arrested in N. J. for Murder. Lakewood, N. J., April 29—Henry Graham, the negro ; who disappeared when the body of Mrs. Charles Tur ner, murdered near her home, was found, was arrested tonight in tjie horns ot named Jennings. Ambushed and Shot. Russellville, Ala., April 29.—City Marshal Ramsey w'as ambushed and shot near here last night. Four buck shot took effect. It Is believed the marshal’s recent activity against blind tigers is the cause of the at tack. Bloodhounds have been placed on the trail in an effort to run down the assailant. The officer is serious- 1;^ wounded. left the track. At 11 o’clock tonight the fire is still burning and the bodies of the missing passengers and crew are prob ably cremated in the ruins. Five hours after the crash a gas tank on the rear coach exploded with a terrific force, hurling a score of spectators to the ground and injuring three men. Conductor Charles M. Person, of Stroudsburg, Pa., is dead. Mrs. Ruth erford of Utica, died in an Easton hos pital tcnight. The missing who are probably dead are Miss Sarah Jones, Utica; Mtes Sophie Knowlt, Utica; Miss Bessie Walker, Utica; Miss Susan Sessions, Utica; Miss Louise Lindsman, Utica; Miss Mary Allen, Utica; Miss Marion Brown, Utica; baggagemaster, name unknown. Among the Injured are: Miss Nel lie Bayres, cut about head and arms; Miss Catherine Bayres, cut about head an arm; Miss Catherine Lawson, scalp wound; Miss Marporie Williams, scalp wound; Mrs. Elmer Rutherford, badly burned, probably serious; Miss Edith Boll, broken arm; Miss Bertha Hall, broken arm; Mrs. Catherine Boggs, slightly cut; Samuel Sproal, Easton, trainman, head and face cut; Clark Parsons, fireman, scalded f Miss Cecilia Linsman, cut; Miss Anna Campbell, lacerations; Mrs. E. C. How- ley, and her daughter, Edith, cut about arms and head; Miss Mary E. Condon, left arm broken. The excursion train made up of D. L. & W. coaches and a Pennsylvania engine, left Utica about 8 o’clock this morning. The teachers in expectation of a joyous trip had dgcorated some of the coaches with school banners. All along the roffte their train was accord ed a joyous welcome. At the point where the train left the single track road the rails run on a high embankment with a forty foot valley through which trickles a small stream on one side and a strip of woods on the other side. A gang of Italians were repairing the road there today and had just re- laid the rails v/hen the Utica special rounded the curve at top speed. The tracks not securely spiked, spread, hurling the train into the ra vine. The engine li^s beside the track almost upside down. The wreck of the baggage car is seventy-five feet to the left of the roadbed. The ruins of the third and fourth cars are near the track. The fifth coach was burn ed to ashes upon the rails. For twelve hundred feet the rails are torn from thd roadbed. ■ bavld Hlllyard, an aged farmer, who lives nearby, was the first one to the rescue. He heard the crash and the cries of agony as the Injured school teachers struggled to free themselves from the debrbis. “I jumped into a car window to free a woman whom I saw lying help less there. Already the fire was burn ing her dress. I dragged her out and as I did so, I saw a man lying pinned beneath a heavy beam. I tried to 'pull him out, too, but could not. As he reached for my hand, the fire was on him. “Good-bye, good-bye,” he cried ana I leaped out. I saw him twist a min ute and then be was buried in the flames. “Women were running wildly about, their clothes and ban* on fire. You* could hear their shouts for a mile Those who were only scared dragged out the wounded and carried their onto the grass. I heard one woman crying for her daughter and then 1 saw her jump into a burning car tfl get the girl. I didn’t see ;^er again.
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