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OVER A HUNDRED BOYS AND GIRLS ARE COMPETING FOR PONY AND OUTFIT OFFERED BY THE NEWS aiest Edition THE CHARLOTTE NEWS. Latest Edition \ OL. 43. NO. 7047 CHARLOTTE N. C., TUESDAY fcVENiNG, JUNE 6, 1911 ■p-p T^'C' I In Charlotte 2 Cents ft Copy aDily—€ Cen ts Sunday. 1 Outside Charlotte 5 Cents a Copy Dally and Sunday. epori on Underwood Viool Bill Submitted To Congress Today hUnt Taft, tne Republu iis and The Tariff Board me in For Severe Criticism ' the Hands of Commit- jtT It Data Gathered by -.rc Will be Delayed, as in Fi e >5 ■' r.. June t).—Sharply ii l i the republi- imard. the lepoit .v.-r.l bill was suo- w ■. :cda.y by the demo- .ir' ' ..0 ways and means President Taft's , ' of the Payne ■A . ;i li bo derlared .hat o 'U- is indefensible '•> .a\ so.” the rei'ort r-.dv ’.i made' these pub- 1. r uhile the farifi a L 1 ^ .By Associated Press. * t r. Ihe Steel Trust ana Bur, Frant^e. Jiine 6.—Pierre Vedri- , , I r.o, the winner of the Paris-to-Madrid InaUStrieS, j rligli.t last month, crossed the starting line at the aerodrome here this morn ing, bound for Nice, the end of the ?rst stage. The distance between Buc and Nice is o37 miles. Four of the contestants in the race —Beaumont, Garros, Frey and Vidard —already have reached Rome, and are preparing to resume their flight to Ttirin. the concluding stage of the l.oOO-mile event. Vedrine reached Dijon, 160 miles from Paris, at 7: L'5 o'clock this morn- in,;?. and, after taking on fuel, reas- cendcd at S;45 o clock, sailiilg away In the direction of Lyons. The pr( snt contest was begun on ■ ; r cnuslderation bvj ^^ja.v 2sth., but the aviators have until ■ i iia’ioiif' would iiave accomplish the distance - ^ f i>e( pl>^ and of ].300 miles from Paris to Turin, by I'lju'i them tc protest v.ay of Rome, The aeronauts are at . I r.al of ihe public wel- [i^erty jg start when they please and ! to land as often as they deem it nec- |esrary, provided they reported at ,cer- . t'lliance at that tain fixed points, llie race was or- i . r al *'f the act schnizcd by the Paris Petite Parisian. , i ''^'il lo for him to I France. June 6.—Vedrlne. after -! ur. •>! the r( s.>o::sibli- over Chalons-Sur-Saone and !'* o! revision »viiicii | f.yi^or at an altitude of 3,000 feet, en- i .countered a violent wind which rocked ■ ■••hIr ar some length his machine dangerously and compell- ; .'f he administration od him to make r rough landing at ' Hj, to congress data Saint Laurent-Les-Macon, just outside I'-'.r-i ■ and other indi.^'.- Macon. Vedrine w'as uninjured but his _ investit’ated and i he i aeroplane was damaged, lin board to communl-1 The accident u^^set Verdine’s plan V, M>ien Industry. ; to Hy from Buc to Nice in one day ' liif tariff board ap-'and he abandoned ther ace. The report, • that | He will return to Paris. ■ with and under' 'he pre^-ident ehill ; SHERIFF NOT GUILTY. f»s to what part of | Cl n*ay be likely to ' By Associaied Press. ■1 of loeisla-1 _ , r ^ n be consiaered- Carlo, 111., June 6.-A. B. Bankston. . Vi,.w,,„m, r,( sheriff ot Pulaski county was nrlff Ircivlation of the charge ot the f ihi of I niuvder of Wiltord French, a policeman ’ leiJ.r. not Mnp'i-sible tiiati . ^ i t • . I. 1 I Caira last Depember by a jury at b > "lie such delay in the; ii t i ‘a-, '.ongress of sta- ’p. at!'*!! cnllectt d by the , > . ( n.'ni;, '.v;u)l and wool- ^ '(o m JJIAZ Root Amendment Will Most Likely Be Adopted Hopes of Administration That Finance Committee Would Report Reciprocity Bill Without Amendments Are Cruelly Blighted. PASSING OF TWO EX-PRESIDENTS. Castro has secured a boatload of arms and ammuntion and, Is on his way to Venezuela.—News Item. UU RIFLE IN IKE CAPim Jonesboro. 111., today. The jury %vas out sixty-flve hours. i]. ;•*' I been in cr)mm'.in- : - . ot making pub- b;. th* bureau of corpora- .i.g iuves'igations ot the . '-r industries. ANTI-HORSE THIEF SOCIETY INVITES MR. TAFT TO KAS. By Associated Press. Washington, June 6.—One of the -.o ni .iin.s that any fur-: unique invitations received by Presi- rt vNlon of the wool I dent Taft today came from the Anti- ' iip objectionable to j Horse Thief Association of Kansas ■ aiding the determi-iand Oklahoma, which asked Mr. Taft . i’.n'!?tee not to put come to Arkansas City, Kas., to ad- ■iU the list but to re-i convention July 19. The asso- • * *tl ity to ‘'0 per cent ■ the invitation says, numbers , ccmlnl tee insists as i about r.O,OOC. The president was com- a ru.- did that the ' decline the invitation, > I - t ons rued a.-; an !i y democratic polit- uu- be maintained flit* t.itai of the fis- ^•ic members nf the '••ommlttee. with the t ^f\ Burton Harrison, ^ nod the report. Convention. Heike Case Up. By Associated Press. .;)iion of the treas-| york, June 6.-Charles R. Heike > a es, re'^ulres tha' former secretary of the American Su- the rust^s djitiesipgj. j^^fl^ing Company, and Ernest W. CJcrbracht, former superintendent ot tlie sugar refinery at Williamsburg to day were before the United Stats cir cuit court of appeals, where arguments were made b.v counsel for permission to appeal from the decisions* of the Pnited States circuit court. Heik« and (Jerbracht were convict ed on conspirac.v to defraud the gov ernment through underweighing of Im ported sugar. Special to The New's. Raleigh, N. C., Jtine 6.—Out ^it the rifle range here today there is in progress the shoot between the crack rifle teams of the three regiments of the North Carolina National Guard in the three regimental shoots recently held at Raleigh, Goldsboro and Gastonia, thf> contest to continne through tomorrow with a view to wmm Special to The News. Statesville, June 6.—Mr. Claude Laugenour, son of Dr. and Mrs. P. F. Laugenour, was drowned yester day afternoon in Mr. W. E. Morrison’s mill pond two an^a,,-half miles north of town. Re was bathing In the pond couple’s love affair ,, , . 1 us vvith three companions, and while — proving out the real champ onshlp as ^ j 3,,, across deep water he betweeu the winners of the honors ^ ,3,^^ (o weath without In the regimental shoots. The teams ^ ,1,^^ gj,,- !?i,-5® «8h. tor the' immediately and from the time Third; Asheville tor the First and ^ ^ ^t 4:46 until It IN MyRDER E * *■;,—The exocu- •f t^. Nfw Orleans •-ifitinn announces . A’uerlcan Bank- ’ veiiiif>n has been • - L>! -Jl. ■ n.;i ; t to the ap- ' -i-tai y F. K. Ams- .i.: vM here .lunc 1- ^ i'h the ex'^cutive Tr.-»g c Death. 'in; ' ti, - George, the iit .Mr. and Mrs. L. \V. at Thunderljdlt, a re- .... i!', ni'-t a (ra:rif death 1, a ’'.inchlne shop near •f the l;.rL'* pulley ' i 'I i k 'he lad over the I'; hi;-T r.f'v. OF tah Johnsing ij foi Coronation ■ 'f '1 rrr*h,-,. I .ro c -.lark .lohuson, ■ hi:- festive ap- ■ i!t ;md ;.o!dpn smile, ' .« ti (lay with a host .. li 'rnt ricHn notables to ■ '1 Ki'iir George’s coro- .il'-l. '»■ i'tiins a t.Tteroom ■ f I* fl;\-t c'lbin , ,1, 1! V.; V riT' afislgn- ;i: . 1 i;.> bf to , r wf til ahij). ■) :uim>uiu'ed that tlie chief : : L’nni ih*=^m to a small '.ithf-r socluded corner of li:ii dlnin.i '-aloon. s:iid did not intend to *)iit that if he w.as of- I. 'ii-rh n.oney he wotiid fight a la hpfif for about $30,000,” . I ii HL'ht Sam Langford?" : 1 n') hear,” answered the a wild cat.” Asheville for the First Lumber Ridge for the Second regi ment. The W’^ake county commissioners have given notice that it is the de^- sire of the people of the county to vote on both the es-tablishnient of the farm-life school and on the Issu ance of $400,000 road bonds, botn elections must be on the same day and that this will necessitate the holding of both elections on August 31. The elections are sure to be call ed for this date. Sheriff Sears, of V/ake county, has just completed a full settlement with the Wake commissioners for the 1910 state and county taxes. The grand total was $291,000. The bank of I.aGrange, establish ed in 1906 and having $10,000 capital with J. R. Wooten iis president and L. F. Davis as cashier, was closed today by order of the corporation com mission becaus-e of unsatisfactory fin- nancial condition. It has over drafts and unsecured papers aggregating $12,000. The bank has been in unsatis factory condition since last October, the commission having insisted upon readjustment that was thereafter rep resented to have been made, but abus'es have continued with the re sult that the commission orders the institution closed for the reason, as the order sets out, that the bank “has been conducing its business in an unsafe and unauthorized manner and is insolvent.” was found at 5:55 every effort was made to recover it, and after it had been secured the doctors worked faithfully for 40 minutes in their ef fort to force artificial respiration and resusitate it, but all in vain. Dr. Laugenour, the father of the dead boy, was taken to the pond in an auto and v/hile he showed his great agony during the efforts to re cover the body and to resusitate It after the recovery, he retained com posure and with tears streaming ask ed the writer to hold up the case of his boy as a warning to others; to plead with other young men to stay out of deep water even when they can swim a littl^. The father was not allow'ed to see his son until it was prepared for burial. The moth er and oldest daughter. Miss Mabel Laugenour, were at home, but the oth er two members of the family, little Misses and Blanche Laugenour, were in Rock Hill, S. C., on a visit and were notified,of their brother’s tragic death by wire. This, the firet victim of Morrison’s pond, was a young man in the prime of life, in his 21st year and with a bright future. His death is truly very pathetic and distressing, and the be reaved family has the sympathy of the community. / AUTO VICTIM’S GEMS GONE. By Associated Press. New York, June 6.—One mystery in th« case of Henry A. Scheib. who is under arrest here charged with the murder of his wife, formerly Eliza beth O’Grady of Springfield, Mass., is cleared up by an explanation of the by Edward O. Towne, of Chicago, council for Scheib. Following the discovery of the wo man’s body last week and the finding of letters in Scheib’s rooms, the police were perplexed by letters addressed to his wife as “Mrs. Hugh A. Sher man.” According to Towne’s explanation, Schieb first saw Elizabeth O’Grady at church here one Sunday in 1906. They met in'* the same pew so often that they got acquainted and walked in the park. They joked over the German and Irish combinations of Scheib and O’Grady. The girl told him she had taken the name of Lillian Lover, as a “trans lation ot what O’Grady meant in Irish” and they were trying to find a suita ble substitute of Scheib so that Lil lian’s parents would not object to a “Dutchman.” At the time they were passing the equestrian sta.tue of Gener al Sherman near Central Park and she suggested adoption of the famous gen eral’s name. Accordingly, they were married as Sherman. The “Hugjiie” was a pet name which the wife sup plied. DLDTHIlll KILLED SELF By Associated Press. Chicago, June 6.—Leopold Dreyfus, of the firm of L. Dreyfus & Co., com mitted suicide today after having con fessed, the police declare, that he was party to the burning of his place of business on Market street last Sat urday afternoon. The confession according to the po lice, may throw light on other fires in the downtown district and is regarded by the ofiicials as evidence of the exist ence of an organized band of Incendi aries w'ho for a stipulated price offer to set fire to business houses. Suspicious circumstances In the fire, including the finding of several cans which had apparently contained gaso line, in the rooms occupied by L. Drey fus & Co., clothiers, caused a careful investigation to be made, and Leopold Dreyfus was questioned repeatedly by the police. The confession in substance the police say, was that two' men ap proached Dreyfus and his brother about a w'eek ago and offered to burn the establishment fixing $5,000 as their price. Dreyfus is declared to have agreed to $2,000 and to have paid down $300, the remainder to be paid when w'hen the insurance was collected. Dreyfus and his brother were arrest ed yesterday afternoon and, after the confession, Leopold Dreyfus was per mitted to go to his home in the custody of a policeman. While in another room today Dreyfus shot himself through tne head. When the police reached him he was dead. The valuation set on the property of the company was $12,000. Fire Attor ney Sullivan is co-operating with the police in an endeavor to leam more of the alleged band. Presidents Son Was Baired CHOLERA ON LINER. By Associated Pres». New York, June There has been no alarming change in the condition of John Bigelow, the veteran diplo mat and author, so far as could be learned here today from his physic ian. Dr. Milton Powel, upon his return from the Bigelow summer home at ; Highland Falls last night, said that his patient is suffering from recur rence of an old malady, w'hich is serious on account of his age, but that Mr. Bigelow is in no iinmediate danger. John Bigelow, United States ambas sador to I'rance during the civil war, lawyer, editor and historian,wasi nine- ty-ihree vears of age November 25 last year. Despite his age he has re mained actively at work. On April 30 he returned from a trip abroaa and on May 24 he spoke at the open ing of the new public library here as president of the board of truseees. T i6 /ollowing day he went to his summer home, “The Squirrels’ al Highland Falls, up the Hudson river. There ho set to work on his book of memoirs, part of which already has been published. Dr. Bigelow spent last Wednesday morning at his literary labors dic tating to his secretary and some* times using his pen himself. The at tack came that evening. By Associated Press. Trieste, Austria, June 6.—The Cu- nard line steamer Saxonia, which ar rived here today from New York, is in the hands of the health authori ties, as the result of the discovery of a case of suspected cholera on board. The victim was a Hungarian emi grant from America, named Bernis. i-ie died t sea. A bacteiological ex amination is being made and mean while permission for communication between the vessel and the shore is withheld by the officers of the port. Tar Heels In Capital. Special to The News. Washington, D. C. ,June 6—Dr. Rob ert S. Young, of Concord, is here to day with W. Colb Morris, who will stand the examination for ^ West Point July 5. He was appointed an alternate by Republican Doughton. Gleim McKay, son of A. S. McKay, of Mooresville, has- been appointed page by Mr. Doughton. „He goes to wf)rk today. The Gaston county soil survey maps are ready for distribu tion. Mrs. Sirohacker Acquitted. By Associated Press. Pittsburg, June 6.—Mrs. Minnie Strohacker was acquitted "today of the charge of having administered strychnine to her husband, George Strohacker on January 7 last. Strohacker becajne seriously ill aft er eating his n^n day lunch and physicians found that strychnine had been placed on a slice of his bread. His wife was arrested but Strohacker refused to believe that she \vas in any way connected with the poisoning and supported her tlirough the trial. Washington, D. C., June 6.~Washing- ton. pawnships are being Searched for jewelry to the value of $400, missing from the body of Robert Oliver Wil liams, the young Baltimore millionaire killed on May 13th, when his car turn ed turtle near Autoville, Md., and in jured Miss Helen Griffith, of Baltimore. A Request has been received from the Baltimore police to search for a three-stone diamond ring, a pair of diamond cuff-links, and a ^'at’s eye pin. Williams, it is said, wore the jewelry on the day of the accident. When his body was taken from the wreck of his car it was gone. Whether it was stol en or lost, can not be determined. M EH OPPOSE Special ,to The News. Washington, June 6.—S. W. Cramer, of Charlotte, representing the South ern cotton mill men, presented aL peti tion and an appeal to Cnairman Under wood, of the ways and means commit tee, asking him not to revise the cot ton schedule at this time. The committee has planned to take up the cotton schedule immediately after wool is out of the way. Mr. Underwood did not say what in fluence the paper presented him today would have. —The many friends of Dr. J. C. Boyette will be glad to know that he is better today. He spent a week at Lincoln Lithia Inn, hoping to ward off his present spell. By Associated Pi ess. "Washington, June 6.-—This was the first day for a long time that both houses of congress have been simul taneously in session. The senate was prepared to adopt plans for the new in quiry into the Lorimer case, the com mittee oji privileges and elections hav ing decided yesterday on the person nel of the sub-committee that will ac tively undertake the investigation. The sub-committee desired at the hands of the senate authority to exercise all the sweeping powers of the full commit tee. In the house the report of the ways and means committee on the wool tar iff bill was ready. Discussion on the bill will begin tomorrow when Repre sentative Undei'wood, chairman of the committee, will call it up. No limit on debate will be fixed until later. Mr. Underwood ,will direct the democratic discussion and Representative Mann the republican opposition. Representa tive Payne, former chairman of the ways and means committee and the oldest republican member of the pres ent committee, will aid in Qonducting the fight against the bill. Senator Root, former secretary of state, was slated to appear before the house committee on expenditures in the state department today to tell what he knew regarding the unaccount ed for $1,600 included in the $2,450 voucher for which Albert Rosenthal was paid $850 for the portrait of Jus tice Day* By Associated Press. Columbus, O., June 6.—Because he was unfamiliar with the rule re quiring applicants to register when they begin their study for law, Rob ert Alphonse Taft, son of President Taft, was denied the privilege of tak ing the Ohio state bar examination, w'hich began today and will be com pleted tomorrow’. Two months ago he wrote to the clerk of the supreme court asking to be registered for the examination. He was advised that as he had not registered when he be gan he began to prepare for the law that he could not take the examina tion now. He probably will take it two years hence. Dartmouth Admitted. Philadelphia, Pa., June 6.—As a re sult of a mail vote taken since the dual spring meeting in March, Dart mouth college, it was announced today by Secretary Ralph Morgan of this city, has been admitted to membership of the intercolelgiate basket ball league, which heretofore has been composed of five universities: Yale, Pennsylvania, Princeton, Cornell and Columbia. Full Report On V. St Steel Imst By Associated Press. Washington, ^ne 6.—A full report on the United States Steel corporation which Herbert Knox Smith, commis sioner of corporations, has \)^n three yeads in gathering, will be laid before the president soon. Upon this report and the report of special Investigators of the department of justice President Taft and Attorney General W'ickersham will decide what action if any, shall be brought against the corporation. The minority report is signed^ by Representative Payne, Dalzell, Need ham and Longworth. “For purely political reasons,” it says, “this cold blooded measure is brought forward. If it could become a law it would slaughter sheep as in 1894 and close the mills much more universally.” The bill is not drawn on lines for the production of revenue of raw wool„ the miority report contends, and adds that “with a duty of 20 per cent on wool, the duty on manufactured cloth is too low to enable our manufac turers to pay the w'ool duty and still compete wit« imported cloths.” “The wool schedule is difficult and intricate and directly involves the-wel fare and living of more than 500,000 people,” the report continues. “With out any heai*ing or new .data, with no information later- than that of two years ago this bill is forced upon the House at the mandate of a poilitical caucus. There can be no expectation that it will pass the other house or be even considered there before De- cmber next at least.” The minority report charges that the democrats give the need for revenue as the real reason for the introduction of the measure. It characterizes the democratic elements with regard to the condition of the treasury as “ab solutely false” and presents treasury statements purporting to refute the democratic charges of republican ex travagance in expenditures- Chances Are That Amendment to The Paper And Wood Pulp Section Will Be Adopted in Modified Form, By Associated Press. Washington, June 6.—Hopes of ths administration that the senate financs committee will report that Canadian reciprocity bill unamended were dash ed today when after a brief executive session of the committee it w^as learn ed that the Root amendment to the paper and wood pulp section probably would be adopted in modified form. It was said that in accordance to seven republican members of the com mittee,* three democrats—Bailey, Sim mons and Johnson— would vote for the amendment while Senators Pen rose and Cullom are declared to be with the three other democrats in op position, thus presaging the adoption of the amendment by a vote of 10 to 5. Final consideration of the measure will be begun by the committee to morrow. The amendment offered by Senator Root provides that the paper and wood pulp section of the bill shall not be in force until the president “shall have satisfactory evidence and shall make proclamation that such wood pulp, pa per and board, being the products of the United States, are admitted into all the provinces of Canada frea of duty.” It is contended by its opponents that the amendment raising the question of the dominion government’s jurisdic tion over the provinces will endanger the measure. This is refuted by those who believe in the provision. Secretary of State Knox did not ap pear to explain the agreement between the two governments. The committee endeavored to agree on a date for a vote on the measure. It was apparent that the members fav ored July 15 and a recommendation probably will be made to the senate to this effect when the bill is reported. Southern Goljeis In loumament By Associated Press. Nashville, Tenn., June 6.—W ith near ly 200 golfers from all over the South thronging the loca| links, the Southern golf association opened its tenth annti- al tournament here today. The quali fying round was opened at 9 o’clock and will not be finished until tomorrow morning. An election of officers will be held tonight. H. F. Smith, vice president ol the Nashville & St. Louis Railway, is slp,ted for re-election as president ot the association. Owing to the excessive hot weather the grounds are very dry, making the play in some respects difficult. The first pair started at 9 o’clock this morn ing and did not go arfound till 11:30. Other pairs followed at 5 minute inter vals. The thermometer registered 82 at noon. Congress Wants Facta. Washington, D. C., June 6.—Failure of the war department to report award of contracts for materials used in the construction of the Panama canal, amounting to many millions of dollars to congress was the subjetc of inquiry today by the house committee on ex penditures in that department. Captain F. C. Boggs, general pur chasing agent of the canal commission, explained that reports were not made to congress by the secretary of war as is done in the case of rivers and harbors work because the comptroller of the treasury has held that the com mission is under the supervision '>1 the w’ar department in the sense that it should comply with regulations gov erning other public works. Pay Tnbute To Cardinal Gibbons By Associated Press. Baltimore, June 6.—Distinguished men of this and other nations will gather here to pay tribute to James Cardinal Gibbons as a man and a citi zen at a popular, civic demonstration in honor of the 25th anniversary of his election to the cardinalate and his gol den jubilee as a priest. The affair will be entirely non-secta rian in character and is in recognition of the infiiKsnce which the cardinal has exercised for high ideals in citizen ship and patriotism. Addresses will be made by President Taft, Vice President Sherman, former President Roosevelt, Chief Justice White of the United States supreme court; James Bryce, the ambassador of Great Britain; Speaker Champ Clark, Senator Root of New York, former Speaker Cannon, Mayor Preston and the cardinal. Governor Austin L. Crothers will preside at the exercises which wiU be held in fifth regiment armory from 4 to 6 p. m. At their conclusion Mayor Preston will give a dinner to about fifty of the guests. President Taft will return to Washington immediately af ter the exercises*
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