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CHARLOTTE. N. C.. MONDAY EVENING. NTAV 15, 1911
On To Little Rock**
The Slogan of Wai-
Scaned Veterans
In Charlottp 2 Cents a Copy »bily-€ Cents Sunday.
I Outside Charlotte ^ Cents a Copy Dally and Sunday.
7:'’ •‘i/ Annual Re-
oj United Confederate
Yitercns Draws Thousands
^Sr>ecial Trains Pouring in
frcr Directions.
Veterans Witt Mut
To - night — Accomodations
Provided For Seven Thou
sand Old Soldiers—Resume
OJ hogram of Reunion.
T af''‘'iatcd I’reea.
ia ok. Ark., May 15.~Wlth
i I anting In evidence every*
r.; ii every arrangement per-
. properly care for the com-
v’sands of visitors and with
a tur conditions, the people
K-ck are today welcoming
Lt^U-
E»g8 »
L^re,
|yt of ^
1.1.
.irp pouring In to attend the
ilsi Rc '-‘'-D United Confeder-
ins. Special trains are arrlv-
.\11 railroads and it it esti-
;ii 10,000 veterans will be
W'*
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nv^ \ '
^‘it
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5* ID ■;
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V
feve" ;i
hid '
a;e
! r of Veterans, who are arrlv-
i' jje numbers, will hold their
>n tonight.
r odations have been provided
. v .irive committee for six or
. , soldiers. Camp Shaver
1 oi^i'ued and 1,000 or more
'ud with clean, white cots
- every applicant. Lunch
. huge commissary have
- td for the accommoda-
.fU'jans.
'. lulou will open Tuesday
.s of welcome and re-
^ rb- afternoon the annual
■ (lolivered by Dr. R. C.
On Wednesday the
vili be taken up, when
■ >nrlnus committees, will
" ..sidered. Officers will
, :,d tlie next meeting place
oil. On Thursday the pa-
'■ rans will take place.
• *r>!;e W. Gordon, the com-
■r. arrived today from
0 > i!l come when Confeder-
' will be held no more,”
ill Gordon. “The old boys
; away rapidly — at .the
:• hau 6,000 a year. To the
- fledge there are about
= l^ft. You can well Judge
T.ore will be 10 years
1 a.. workers, 200 strong,
led TO arrive this afternoon
of capturing the next con-
>Urv
Fifteen Special Trains.
Tenn.. May 15.—Fifteen
l air.E (arrying thousands of
: kI visitors passed through
morning en route to
k. Many veterans and sons
r’:- arrived here last night and
1 over until today. General
‘iordon, commander-In-chief
from Washington Sunday
r!"=nin^ He left on one of the spec-
>»1 trains for Little Rock early to-
d»v
H llroai men say that 30 special
irsir.v hfen engaged to carry the
r rr-fvgii t^e Memphlts gateway.
Making Etfotts
to Efiect Peace
By Aasociated Press. ^
Juarez, Mexico, May 15.-J' ^ ? as
surances that the Mexican* ament
is inclined to accept *' ^positions
submitted unofficia’’ .^'a^.ain the last
two days by the ' '.ctos for the es
tablishment of .e were received
here today by R^^eelo Hernandez, one
of the go-betweens in the negotiations
The government Is believed to be rea
dy to reorganize the cabinet and give
the inaurrectOB four members out of
eight, and to allow the revolutions to
name outright fourteen out of 27 state
governors and by mutual agreement se
lect the remaining 13 governors.
More definite advices giving the at
titude of the government are expected
before the day Is over. Optimism re
garding the ultimate success of the
peace parleys now taking place by tel
egraph with Mexico City prevails. '
Progress Toward Peace,
Mexico City, May 15.-~Peace again
loomed big on the horizon of Mexico’s
internal affairs today and led foreign
minister, de La Barra, as he started for
the national palace at an early hour, to
remark:
“We believe that we are making
great progress toward peace.”
irri
date of encampment
OF NORTH CAROLINA GUARD.
S'rr
Ri
T'‘;v.
Xews.
' 1*.—Governor Kitchin
'V hoard of the North
nal Guard today deci-
iiliments of the Second
^>e July 20 to 27, and the
lit. Auk. ^ to 10: also de-
: t)'" much-needed store-
1' Glenn.
t-cPENDED
for three days.
•Mny 15.—Joe Tinker,
■ hioaco Cubs, was today
hr- i' days for his tron-
’ f“ Doyle at Brooklyn
T
APPROVE SEN-
TENSE iPOSEK
ON WILSON
By Associated Press.
Washington, May io.—The supreme
court of the iJnited States today ap
proved the recent sentence of con
tempt imposed in the New York courts
on Christopher C. Wilson, president of
the United Wireless Telegraph Co.,
because of refusal to permit the ex
amination of the company’s books.
By this decision the Federal govern
ment won a far reaching legal con
troversy in that oflicials of corpora
tions, cannot, refuse to give up posses
sion of corporation books fr examina-
tin by grand juries, lest they them
selves be incriminated thereby.
The sentence of contempt imposed
in New York courts on Wilson were
based upon his action in defeating the
attempt of a grand jury to examine
the books of hi? eorporation.
In 1910 a subpoena addressed to
the United Wireless Telegraph Com-
pan:- was not to any individual, as is
usu#Uy the case, was served on the
officials of the company, directing that
certain books of the company be pro
duced for examination by the grand
jury, which was investigating “an al
leged vilation of the statutes of the
United States by Christopher C. WMl-
son.”
It is said that the investigation had
to do with violations of the postal
law.
Wilson h/’aiself appeared in court to
answer to the subpoena, but declined
to allow the grand jury to examine the
books and refused to turn them over
to the directors of the company for
production in court. The ground for
his refusal was that the books would
tend to incriminate him. He was fin
ally adjudged in contempt of court.
Two attempts to procure his release
from a marshal’s custody on habeas
corpus proceedings resulted in fail
ure. His case was then brought to
the supreme court.
Mr. Justice Hughes, in announcing
the opinion, said that Wilson could
not under these circumstances assert
a personal privilege which the obliga
tion of the corporation to the gov
ernment required it to perform. Justice
McKenna delivered a dissenting opin
ion.
Teh court also approved tlje con
tempt sentence imposed on William
Dreier, of New York, secretary of the
Lichenstein Millinery Company, who
had also refused to produce books un
der circumstances similar to those in
the W’ilson case.
EV.
mMrict
Ifive, r
T>,
PrPBB,
■ s', .May IB.—There are
rs of a revolutionary
non and the surround-
“ planned for tomorrow,
in rthnmien, the foreign
'"anton, are prepared to
i‘»’sties8ness is widespread,
’''■iisands of persons are
'’11 the disturbed section to
'’It is said to cover a wide
h ''' he led by relatives of
* laivsfi officials educated In Ja-
av ‘ than $1,000,000 Is said to
, ' ■ ' i* to the rebels.
Ci , . " of rebels and suspects
•P >v in Canton.
gunboats, one French,
t'^Iian American and one
Tho " Canton.
general
®‘'>rrr A I Shanghai and to-
j!on/ ii'iticlpated with apprehen-
TRIAL OF SHERMAN
WAS RESUMED.
By Associated Press.
Cattanooga, Tenn., May 15.—The
trial of Dr. John W. Sherman, charged
with the murder of his brother-in-law,
Thomas B. Norman, was resumed In
the criminal court today and most of
the morning session was taken up in
the examination of physicians who
reached Norman soon after he was
shot. They were Drs. L. E. Boone, B.
A. Deakins, E. B. Clark, E. E. Kerr.
All gave the opinion that the shots In
Norman’s body were fired from the
front, In the face of the state’s evi
dence that the autopsy showed that
they were fired from the rear, but
each admitted that his examination
had been superficial, that the wounds
were not probed.
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National Grange—By hank, I don’t want you on my Rural Free Delivery, and I'm going to try to lick you.
DECISION AFFECTING
AMERICAN INDIANS.
Washington, May 15.—Three cen
turies o' civilization have not brought
the full blood Indian to the point
where his rights are equal to those
of the white man. Such was the decis
ion today of the supreme court of the
United States in holding constitution
al the 25 year restrictions on the
sale of Indian lands.
Firemen Arrive For
Grand Tournament
Here This Week
TODAY'S EVENTS.
Companies From the Difierent
Cities in North Carolina An
ticipate With Much Pleasure
the Meet to Begin in Char
lotte Tuesday.
New Bern.
New Bern, with Chief G. Y. Harring
ton in control, is here strong. The
New Bern Steam Co., No. 1, and the
Atlantic Co. are both well represented.
The first has sent these men here:
Messrs. T. D. Davis, R. C. Whitley,
Roy Tucker, Don Sparrow, Ulrich
Mitchell, Jack Simpson and C. A.
White. The Atlantic Co. is represent
ed by the following people: W. F.
Richardson, H. L. Cutler, Jesse Tol-
(son, Casey Seifert, M. L. Hall, Tom
Fighters Will be Here, Many Smith, Tom Lassiter, Carlisle Harper,
I Carlton Parsons, Euge^ Williams, Beh
Coming on Opening Day— Williams and Eph Brinson.
Decorations.
DeeoratioT»s~ have been placed^n all
th0 K/tJI f the stores and upon all the EUbllc
i/ie ouiu , buildings and the race course down
Church sti'eet has a grade of only one-
half of one per cenL A large grand
stand has been erected and from this
More lhan an Hundred Fire-
Business Session at 11 a. rn.
the Ball '
At 11 o’clock the convention will be
formally opened.
In the absence of Mayor Bland, Col. j all of the people may watch the fire-
W. W. Phifer, mayor pro tena, will ex-'men when they fasten the nozzles to
tend the hospitality of the city to the the plug on the east side of the street
visitors. The convention will then be, and throw the water towards First,
called to order by the president, Mr,
James D. McNeil, of Fayetteville, who |
is not only'president of the State Fire-
Special
Transportation.
transportation
facilities
men's Association, but mayor of the given all the firemen who came
city from which he hails. j the apparatuses, it is uhder-
Prayer will be offered by Rev. Har-!®^®®^/ carried free,
ris Mallinckrodt, of the Episcopal . ^ ? ^ne local department,
church, and Mr. T. C. Guthrie, a prom- . busiest man in the city
inent attorney of the city, will deliver i this time. He is entertaining visit-
the address of welcome. | same time attending to
Mr. Clarence Keuster will introduce ^ score and one little details for the
Mr. Guthrie. tournament.
President McNeil will respond to; Tarboro Company,
the address, after which there will be' P- L- McCabe, chief; W. W. Haynes,
a general hand-shaking among the men E. B. Morris, assistant, chief; M. W.
who protect the homes and lives of Haynes, R. S. Bunn, A. C. Deberry.
the people of the state through waking 1
and sleeping hours. ( NOTES.
Afternoon Session. i
After an adjournment for lunch the' The North Carolina State Firemen’s
delegates to the convention will re-1 Association was organized in 1877—24
turn to the auditorium at 2:30 in the years ago—in Greensboro. The late
afternoon for a business session which Ed. Englehard, of Raleigh, one of the
may last for an hour or more. I most popular men of his day, was the
A( 5 o’clock, according to the pro-1 first president. He was succeeded by
gram, they will take a “recess” to en- Mr. Chas. Benbow. Col. McNeil was,
joy a “Dutch lunch,” and at 8 o’clock,and is, the third president. He is as
in the evening they will again be In j fine a man as ever came from that sec-
session for business purposes. j tion peculiarly famed as the home of
Having finished all of the real busi- fine men—Fayetteville. Popular all
ness of the convention upon the first' over the state—a gentleman of highest
day, the delegates and the firemen will' type, and a citizen who. all know, and
get down to the manner of entertain-, he wields an infiuence not only as
ing the great multitude on Wednes- i president of the firemen’s association
day. The great firemen’s parade is but in many other capacities
scheduled for 9:30 Wednesday morn-
The Raleigh boys are carrying Dres
den parasols and wearing white kids.
* • •
ing. This will be one of the features
of thff tournament. Each departnient
will vie with the other in an attempt
to make a better showing. And the
prizes are stjch as will inspire all of
them to do their best*
The engine contest will be held In
front of the United States Mint and
the hand reel races for North Caro
lina will be down Church street. At
5 in the evening the hook and ladder
boys will try their hand in a race, and
Thursday the hose wagons will do
their stunts.
Asheville, Raleigh, New Bern, Kin
ston and Hickory have already arriv
ed here. Loulsburg came In later and
Lenoir will be In tomorrow.
Raleigh Companies.
The Capital Hose Companj^ and the Special to The News.
Rescue Fire Company, No. 1, of Ral- Washington, D. C., May 15.—The
eigh, are strong with their apparatus North Carolina Alumni Association, of
and firemen here. Members of the! Washii-t^ton, has organized with Dr.
Capital Hose Company, are: Messrs. {j. H, Hoimes, president; Dr. L. H.
Charles Farmer, Rallie Mangum, Battle, vice-president; Dr. R. O. E.
Mr. John L. Miller is secretary -,pf
the association, and as accommodating
as he Is capable.
* * *
President McNeil and the Louls
burg company are at the Selwyn.
« « •
The two Newbern teams and Tar
boro teams are at the Central.
• • •
The Raleigh teams are aT the Bu
ford.
U. OF N. C. ALUMNI
ASSOCIATION IN WASHIN^GTON.
Mickey Billings, Bud Conrad, Fred Hil-
klns, Alex. Kreth, Bud Poole, Albert
Bretsch, Burrell Uzzle, Hubert Pulley.
From the Rescue Company are:
Messrs. C. T. Hinnant, P. S. Pete) Har
ris, E. S. Doolittle, E. M. Brockwell,
J. A. Hinnant, Cellle Pool, James B.
Bynum, W. N. Fowler. They are stop
ping at No. 214 South Church street.
Louisburg.
From Loulsburg the fire department
No. 1 comes to Charlotte with the fol-j
lowing membersMessrs. S. P. Bod-
die, J. HJ. Thomas, W. F. Beasley, M.
S. Davis, H. E. Height and J. L. Pal
mer; and from Co. No. 2, Messrs. J.
A. Turner, B. N. Williamson, F. B. Mc-
Klnnle, G. B. Cooper, J. J. Lancaster
and ©. Y, Yttl^oro..
Davis, secretary; H. H. Bennett, treas
urer, and Prof. Wm. M. Coleman, his
torian.
NEW SECRETARY OF WAR.
By Associated Press.
Washington, May 15.—,
President Taft today formally
nominated to the senate Hen
ry L. Stlmson, of New York,
to be secretary of war.
3:30 P. M.—Art Exhibit and re- 
ceptlon at Elizabeth. Col- 
lege. «
4:00 P. M.—Class Day Exer- 
cises at the Presbyterian 
Cllege.
4:00 P. M.—Baseball at the •
League Park; Greensboro 
vs. Charlotte.
8:30 P. M.—Concert at Eliza- •
beth College.
Concert at Presbyterian •
College.
Wrestling bout at Auditorium. •
Jo Turner and Jim 
Prokos.
Amusements — Vaudeville at
the Academy of Music, on ♦
South Tryon Street, and
at the Orpheum, on West
Trade.
Moving Picture Places: Edi-
sonla, Amuse-U, Princess,
Theatos No. 1 and 2.
Down At Work
Revising the Tariff
Schedule On Wool
LABOR LUO^IIS
WERE
LY SELTEKGED
Important Opmion Handed
Doum by United States Su-
pteme Court — Holds That
Gompers and Other Labor
Leaderi> Need Not Go to Jail
. TUFT IS
BETTER TO-Oliy
By Associated Press.
New York,^ May 15.—Mrs. Taft,
whose sudden illness Interrupted the
President’s plans and brought him
hurriedly to her bedside yesterday
frotp Harrisburg, Pa., \^as better this
morning. President Taft will be able
to return to Washington today, it was
said, as he intended. Dr. Evans, who
spent most of yesterday at the home
of Henry W. Taft, the president’s
brother, where Mrs. 'faft was ill,
left the house last night and today
he said his patient was doing well
and showing encouraging improve
ment.
Was Not Body or
Dorothy Arnold
By Associated Press.
New York, May 15.—“It is simply
another disappointment, the body is
not that of Dorothy Arnold.”
This was' the declaration today
of John Arnold, brother of the miss
ing New York girl, after a night
spent In examination of clothing and
jewelry of a young woman whose
body was found in the East river late
yesterday. The clothing was fine and
there were several pieces of valuable
jewelry. The body had been in the
water for four months t>r more and
was In such condition that identifi
cation was difficult.
Miss Arnold disappeared on Decem
ber 12.
No White Men Are
Dead From Fight
By Associated Press.
Montgomery, Ala., May 15.—Indica
tions today were that there would
be no white fg,talities irom the battle
which deputies encountered Sunday
with Tom Benson, a, negro murderer,
near this city. Deputy Harry McCord,^
who was shot In the stomach, was
pronounced this morning not seriously
hurt. Deputy E. T. Naftel is out of
danger as also is the chauffeur, Al
fred, who was shot. Deputy O. H.
Ellis will lose his left eye but it is
though he will recover.
To Investigate Murder.
By Associated Press.
St. Petersburg, May 15.—The cen
tral government today dispatched M.
Zaltzeff and M. Peneko, high officials
of the ministry of justice, to Kiev to
investigate the mysterious murder of
the Christian boy, Yuscchlnsky, whose
death has caused threats to be made
of a massacre of Jews in that city.
Court Takes Recess.
By Associated Press.
Washington, May 15.—The supreme
court of the United States at 2:05 p.
m. took a half hour recess for lunch
without having concluded the an-
nounceipeiit of opinions.
Ruling Which Held Them in
Contempt And Ordered Jail
Sentence is Set Aside—First
Decision in Series oj Big
Cases.
By Associated Press.
Washington, May 15.—Setting aside
the sentences of imprisonment impos
ed by the supreme court of the District^
of Columbia for alleged^ disobedience
to a boycott injunction, the supreme
court of the United States today held
that Samuel Gompers, John Mitchell
and FYank Morrison, president, vice
president ^nd secretary, respectively,
of the American Federation of Labor,
had been\ erroneously sentenced to^
jail on a charge of contempt of a *6-
cal court.
This was the first case announced.
Justice Lamar delivered the court’s
decision. He began to read the writ
ten opinion Iwthout declaring the de
cision at 12 o’clock.
Many minutes were spent in review
ing the facts. '
The court unanimously held that
the only sentences that could be im
posed upon the labor leaders were
fines. In so holding, the supreme court
of the United States found that the
court of appeals of the District of Col
umbia and the supreme court of the
District erred in treating with con
tempt proceedings as a criminal case
and not a civil one. The effect of hold'
ing the proceedlngs^a civil one was to
make jail sentence impossible. Hence
the judicial sentences had to be set
aside.
To correct the error the case was
sent back to the local courts with
direction that it be dismissed. At the
same time the court expressly made
it possible for civil proceedings to be
instituted against the labor men by
the Bucks Stove and Range Company,
of St. Louis, at whose instance the
original contempt case was brought.
The court was led to hold that the
contempt proceedings in this case
must be civil in nature because crim
inal punishment is exercised by courts
to force persons to do acts commanded.
In the present case the court took the
view that the labor men were being
sent to jail, not to make them do
something the court ordered, but be
cause of “something they had done.'’
Inasmuch as all the differences be
tween the labor and men and the Buck
Stove and Range Co. have been adjudi
cated, Including the “boycott” case,
out of which the contempt proceedings
arose, today’s decision is probably tlie
last heard of this widely known ac
tion.
Judge Parker Talks.
New York, May 15.—Former Judge
Alton B. Parker, of counsel for Gomp
ers and the other labor leaders,
said:
“A monstrous injustice has been
averted by the unanimous action of
tho court. The decision furnishes an
other illustration of the care with
which that court regards and protects
personal rights of citizens.”
The Ways And Means Con^~
mittee is Busy Arrangmg
Schedule to Be Submitted to
The Democratic Caucus For
Ratification,
Strong Opposition to Free Row
Wool—A Compromise Bill
May Result—Senate Com
mittee Resumes Hearings on
The Reciprocity Bill.
By Associated Press.
Washington, D. C., May 15.—Demo
cratic members of the ways and means
committee of the house of representa
tives today began drafting the re
vised tariff schedule on wool, which
will be submitted to the democratic
caucus for ratification.
That the wool bill would be ready
for the caucus probably within the
week was the opinion of democrfitic
leaders. Advocates of free raw wool
we^e not as confident today as they
heretofore had expressed themselves
that the revised schedules would place
the raw material on the free list. Extra
ordinary pressure has been brought to
hear by conservative leaders to secure
unanimous approval of a compromise
bill and these leaders Insist that
such a bill would meet with caucus ap
proval. Such a bill might provide a
tariff of about 5 or 6 cents a pound
on raw wool, with provision of a cent
reduction each year until the raw prod
uct eventually would go on the free
list, and a cut of 40 to 50 per cent
on manufactured woolen goods.
The house was not in session to
day.
The senate finance comlmttee re
sumed the hearing on the Canadian rec
iprocity treatybill and later when the
senate met it was to continue the dead
locked effort to elect a successor to
Senator Frye, as president pro tem
pore.
History or tbe Case.
Washington, Feb. 20.—The charges
of contempt against President Gomp-.
ers. Vice President Mitchell and Sec
retary Morrison arose out of a bitter
labor war between organized labor
and the Buck’s Stove Company, of
St. Louis. Mo.
The St. Louis concern had come
into the supreme court of the district
ot Columbia to prevent, by injunc
tion, the Anierican Federation of La-
(Continued on Page Two.)
I Fir Til
By Associated Press.
Sulphur, Ky., May 15.—Armed with
an antiquated shotgun, whicij re
cently disappeared from a local hotel,
waving a piece of red calico, Charley
Williams, a millde aged white man,
attempted to hold up the Louisville
& Nashville pay train as it approach,
ed the Sulphur station this morning^
The crew, who were armed, stopyM
the train and started for Williams,
dropping the shotgun, escaped. A
lunacy commission will be appointed
to investigate his case if he is cai>-
tured.
T
OF BEEF CUTTLE
By Associated Press.
Nogales, Sonora, Mexico, May 15.-*—
A round up of 60,000 cattle on ranch
es in the vicinity of Cananea, Nx)gales
and Naco has been ordered for ship
ment into the United States. Tho cat
tle probably will be bonded througli
the Nogales port on a special conces
sion ^rom the treasury department.
It is understood that fear of the im
position of a heavy tax by the rebels
is back of thep roposed exportation.
New Emperor.
By Associated Presa.
Addis Abeba,Abysslnia, May 18.—•
Prince Lidj Jeasu, grandson of EJm-
peror Menellk, was proclaimed em
peror of Abyssinia yesterday. The
coronation ceremonies will take place
later.
Yokohama Entertaining
American Blu^’ackets As
Guests of The City s Mayor
f
By Associated Press. j
Yokohama, Japan, May 15.—The city,
is bright wit# the colors of America *
and Japan in honor of the American |
bluejackets from the Asiatic fieet who |
are the guests today of Mayor Araka- •
wa and Yolcohama. j
This afternoon the mayor gave a gar
den party which was attended by 50 ,
officers and 500 visiting sailors. Speech-1
es were made by Vice-Admiral Saito,
the minister of marine; Vice-Admiral'
Ijun, chief of the,general staff of the
navy, ai\d vice-Admiral Uriu, com
mander ot the naval port of Sasebo,
who exiea'ded an official welcome. Re-
' \'
sponses were made by Rear Admir
al John Hubbard, commander of the
American fleet and Rear Admiral Jos
eph B. MurdOck, who is to assume
the command this week. y
Tonight the mayor gave a dinner
for Admiral Hubbard at which officers
ol? both navies were present, members ^
of the American embassy and 200 na
tive and American resldentfe of the
city. Cordial sentiments of mutual re
gard were exchanged by the speakers.
The functions arranged for the enter-
tainrtient of the visitors are much more
elaborate than any with which the
naval representatives of any other,
nations have been honored.
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