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CHARLOTTE N. C., FRIDAY t.VENlNG, JUNE 9, 1911
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ENGLISH*: lilZES
hire of Big Bank
uses Apprehension
Among Depositors
I'iirk Of Highholben
:s With Total Lia-
Over Forty Mil-
crs~ London Ex-
,-ot Seriously AffecUd] b,. Asso-mted p-
_ j Richmond, EugU. a, June 9.— Amer-
I loans divided honors in the coaching
i ^072 DinCtOrS which waa run today in con-
ineciion with the royal show at Rich-
/ EM Upon De- j Tnond. which opened today.
1 Jr.dge William H. Moore, of New
^\ho had Gatheredri ork, took first prize for private coach-
j Hi# ! Alfred Q. Vanderbilt, of New
:'Sed Doors—ittC|/jYork, secured first prize In the class
! lor road coashes.
. . ^ClVinQS* I .Nineteen competitors started from
‘ Hyde Park for the show grounds at
i Richmond. The entries Included the
• Tlie siock cx- bt St known coashes and teams in the
' . unaiftH'ted to- rnited Kingdom, besides the Ameri-
a of the Birheck'fan competitors.
» ! At the horse show' today. Judge
■ Moore s Memento Pride secured sec-
prize in the class for novice har-
* 4 lower thanjness horses under fifteen hands highh.
rvv’ovcred to,
. ',.:^^"ZT^Saps He Shot
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. v...i,hl>'.rhood of' Associated Press.
' i^i n d i' Bangor. Mo.. June 9.—A confession
‘^‘:that he had shot Miss Cristine Shaw
:> wore e. .t r.y; ,jr c.iior.o last night was made today.
•' iifo ^avliijis' rlie police say. by T. S. Linn. He is a
- i ; x'"!! ; rhine.'O student at the University oi
• •(! t'u'^ "iven arrested immediate-
“ , ' ' ‘ . K'-' after four revolver shots, one ot
r ■" I'l- effect i^^d been fired at
' s '\ve airii ly se-lthe young w..n;an on an Orono street.
;'.ml it is. At the hiispital in this city to which
■' ‘'i'.\ th"' .'he wa'=f lakon. it was stated today
• ■ a diftas that she would rcrover.
- -i t ; i l.inn aikaerl to have told the
- ~ I sheriff 'u the prosenc'e of several
"•s r'eet. : ne'.vspapei men Tl:a* he shot Mi&s
' Shaw because she had caused him
The, • rr.ental tortr.re." He said he haa
■ >o- Miss Sha'A', who is a graduate
''•''•n v;f :he rTiiversity of Maine and a
r'^O' ::or in the Orono high school, for
four yenrs, attd two years ago asked
her 'o many him. She refused but
rher^ taey had been on friendly terms
■ ince tiiat tune.
>iis:» Shov. had done much to assist
Linn in his work at the university,
find !'rom his statement today it was
evi.lent. the sheriff said, that he had
misinterpreted l;or kindness.
Miss Shaw
Kl'iU
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Office
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Gayley Asked About
United States Steel
Company To - day
Six Persons
Killed Ik W7eck
By Associated Press.
Albuquerque, N. M., June 9.—Six
persons are reported to have been kill
ed in the wreck of 6anta Fe passenger
train No. 3, known a^ the CaliforniQj
limited and the fastest train on the
Santa Fe system, near Domingo, 30
miles north, today. A large number
injured are also reported.
Vice-President of Mammoth
Steel Corporation Appear
Before Stanley Investigation
Committee Today-Gave Im
portant Injormation.
T'lne 9.
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Governor Harmon has declared war on Bryan and Woodrow Wilson.—News Item.
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%'cR BURNS—
By Associated Press.
ttcrp’’^ jumi*
.'•cs >’t por-
r,r Association.
OF PEOPLE DEAD. I Francisco. June 9.—The condi-
. '! tion of C. F rederick Kohl, prominent
capitalist and clubman, who was s-hot
*. >i inc Rus.">ia, dangerously wounded yesterday
• r ver" sreamer Adele Verge, a French maid for-
destroyed by: nierly in the employ of Mrs. Kohl,
was slightly Improved today. Kohl
restod asiiy ]ast night and it Is
thi.'uvri.t oe may recover. An effort to
locate the bullet lodged in his breast
hy X rny examination will be made
, today.
'.'—Election of: Adelp Verge spent the night at the
,,i~int ss of ^^ty {.rison in incoherent prayer for
t , " :'uai linnerved, she would only
. . i'o; a. 'l')uie unnerved, she would noly
;')\v meeting reply to questions that she
..r-rted are;!*^!'-^ uoi ku(»w whj she shot Kohl and
V.a.'hin^ron, did not u’ant him to die. She declared
; S;".e had bought the pistol from
i^''>rniH, re- ’which the shot.s were fired, many
i ’..'iouths ago, as a protection against
• York, corres-lthe detective she says Kohl and
j .(-'rank Miller hired to persecute her.
--- I Kohl is well known throughout
s Seized. j eastern cities, because of his finan
cial connections and social affilia-
i:i- Ii • ^ritjnTal; iK.n^*.
ij- ri' valued at i His fir.^t wife was Miss Edith Dtin-
I I 'll were seiz-, lap, of Philadelphia, who was mar-
I - (»n the .Fapan- riec* to l.im ii; '890, and who died in
She Broke Up
Beer Paity
By Associated Press.
Atchison, Kan.. June 9.—"With the
use of a rifle and her strong arm, Mrs.
Nille McGowan, a temperance advo
cate, broke up a picnic at w'hich beer
was being served near here last night
Mrs. McGowan was passing the pic
nic grounds when one of the “keg par
ty,” knowing her temi^erance senti
ments, chidingly invited her to have a
drink. She accepted a cup of beer,
intending to use it as evidence against
the merrymakers.
One of the men said she would have
to drink the beer or give it up. She
answered by picking up a stone and
striking the man over the eye with
it. The man grappled with her and
in the struggle his face was schatched
and his shirt torn.
Mrs. McGowan then secured a rifle
and chased one of the party into the
Missouri river, firing a shot at him
but missing him. Finally she let the
man swim ashore and apologize., His
companions fled.
CDHTIIIIIE THE
liich arri\ed
.1 Fong Thimg
iir, arp said to
I -u-'-le ihe goods
. arrc^-'ed.
Returns.
HELD YOUNG MAH
yP AND ROBBED
PDSTDFFICE SAFE
By Associated Press.
Nashville. Tenn., June 9.—A dis
patch from Newport, Tenn., says that
at an early hour this morning, Guy
Cate, aged 16, son of Judge N. H.
Cate, of the court of civil appeals, was
compelled to stand blindfolded -virile
yeggmen blew up the Newport post
office safe and got away with $500 in
money and stamps. The robbers left
no clue.
Young Cate was returning from a
social call shortly after midnight and
in passing the post ofiice building he
was confronted by a tall stranger.
At the point of a pistol he was
OF IIGDIL [g.
By Associated Press.
Pittsburg, June 9.—The federal
grand jury today continued its investi-
g.'^.tion into the affairs of the Pitts
burg Coal Company and the Monga-
hela River Consolidated Coal & Coke
Company, relative to the transfer of
coal and coking properties, valued at
$17,800,000 to the H. C. Frick_ Coke
Company, a subsidiary of the united
States Steel Corporation, to ascertain
whether there nas been any attempt
to create a monopoly in the coking in
dustry. The transfer negotiations
were officially approved late yester
day, notwithstanding the fact that
th government probe had started by
the hurried reassembling of the May
grand jury.
E. J. Taylor, chief engineer of the
Pitt&burg Coal Company, who was be
fore the grand jury when adjourn
ment . was taken yesterday, was the
first witness called today. He is like
ly to testify to the location of the
coal concerned in the deal and to the
supply of coking coal in the Pitts
burg district.
No Developments
In Murder Case
Killed Fathei
Then Himself
By Associated Press.
Macon, Ga., June 9.—After killing
his father, Tom Davis, a mechanic, by
splitting his skull with a hatchet while
the old man slept, George Davis, a
constable, last night rode to his home
on the Thomaston road, 13 miles from
Macon , and committed suicide by
drinking a mixture of carbolic acid
and laudanum. He left a note to his
wife stating that “there is nothing in
life for me now and I am going to take
this way o fending it all.”
The father lived in the city. His
body w'as found in bed benath the
sheet this morning by fellow employes
who called at the house where he lived
alqne to see if he was ill. The son’s
body w’as found about the same time in
the stable. The father and son had not
spoken for over ten years.
Special to The News.
GreenS’boro, June 9.—There have
been but few ’ater developments in
the terrible double crime of murder
and burglary at Jamestown yesterday
w'hen Mrs. Ida Hill was found dead
in her room at the residence of her
moth;er, Mrs. J. S. Ragsdale, of James
town, twelve miles distant from here.
Every effort is being made to track or
locate the murderer, but so far with
out results. The coroner’s jury yes
terday, after hearing witnesses as to
the death, but have not yet rendered
a verdict awaiting further develop
ments in the trocious crime.
Mrs, Hill was buried today in the
family graveyard at Jam.estown, a
lai^e crowd of sympathetic friends
from all parts of the county being
present.
AT CONFERENCE
OF CRARI TIES
Favorable Reply to Letter.
By Associated Press.
Cincinnati, June 9.—-The Cincin
nati Commercial Association today
received letters from Senators Bur
ton and Pomerene, of Ohio, in re
sponse to telegrams asking them to
vote for the Canadian reciprocity
measure without amendments in
which they state that is what they ex
pect to do.
Homhle Crime
Is Revealed
By Associated Press.
Portland, Ore., June 9.—The bodies
of a man named Hill, his wife and his
tw'o children, were found today in the
Hill home at Ardenwald, a suburb of
this city.
The woman and children had been
beaten to death with an axe.
Debate Wool Schedule.
By Associated- Press.
Washington, June 9.—Debate on the
wool tkrifE revision bill w'as resumed
today in the house. Representative
Hull, of Tennessee, declared that he
belie.ved the passage of the measure
“would break the backbone of repub
lican protection.” He said that while
he believed in free wool, some duty
was necessary at this time to prevent
a treasury deficit.
HOLLAND SETS HERO FUND.
By Associated Press.
The Hague, June 9.—Andrew Car
negie, it was announced here today,
had donated 500,000 florians (about
$205,000) Tor the establishment of a
hero fund in Holland.
By Associated Press.
Boston, June 9.—Three section meet
ings of the 38th annual Conference of
Charities and Corrections were held
here this forenoon. “Sex Hygiene”
^-as the topic at the Ford Hall meet-
blmdfolded and led mto the rear of
the post office and ordered to keep
quiet. After the explosion and the de
parture of the robbers he gave the
alarm.
The robbers are supposed to have
caught a westbound freight train.
They took every coin in the post office,
even the pennies.
New York, following an operation for
ai»pendicitis, in 1901.
ANOTHER EARTHQUAKE
FELT IN MEXICO
CITY
Mexico City, June 9.—A dispatch
I from Guadnli jara dated the seventh
President Taft; and dela.ved by wire interruption caus-
Ithis ujorning. if‘d by the earthquake says that the
I, .I ac '-oiii! any I capital was shaken by a tremor last-
■ ; \'W 'i'ork t()|ing more than one minute.
v * ;'s stav with
TRY TO SETTLE
ii'i.iy .MacVeagh
h'inie.
•'.t Tires Raging.
FIREMEN’S TROUBLE
By Associated Press.
Washiuifton, June 9.—After having
-FfU'est fires! bc;en in session continuously for three
M HiU'ainti. nc-arj flays with the firemen, the government
■ ’ ( ii '.'Mining I mediators who are seeking to adjust
. . j.ite effc'rtsjthe dispute between the Southern
I wlio; Southern Railway and its firemen to
■ Several i day began a conference with the rail-
An Interesting Suit.
By Associated Press.
Chicago, June 9.—Police Inspector
John Wheeler today swore out war
rants charging conspiracy for two
former members of the restricted dis
trict who had sued him in the civil
courts of $860, which they claimed
had been paid for police protection.
The men w’ho started the trouble as
sert a police lieutenant collected $860
from them for “protection money,”
and that the lieutenant told them a
ing, which was addressed by Dr. Rich
ard C. Cabot, of Boston, Miss Laura
B. Garrett, of New York; Dr. William
Healey, of Chicago, and Mrs. Jessie D.
Hodder. superintendent of the Massa
chusetts state reformatory for women.
At the same hour delegates inter
ested in temperance and the care of
inebriates held a continued meeting in
the Twentieth Century Hall for furth
er discussion of the liquor question.
The speakers were Prof. A. R. Hatton,
of Cleveland, and Dr. Irwin Neuff, of
the Massachusetts hospital of inebi-
ates. Ageneral discussion of the
question followed the papers, the prac
tical social workers giving their views
on the care of unfortunates and ne
cessary legislation.
A section meeting, continuing the
Lintless Cotton Plant.
By Associated Press.
Bullochville, Ga., June 9.—J. J.
Stranahan, superintendent of the Cold
Springs station of the United States
department of fisheries at this place,
has perfected, he says, through experi
ments carried on for the past four
years, a practically lintless cotton
plant.
The purpose of his experiments in
this line is to secure a larger plant
bearing bolls filled with larger seed
which will be much richer in oil than
the regular plant.
In the course of ten years Mr. Stran
ahan expects to produce a cotton plant
that will yield 100 bushels of clean
seed to the acre.
Landed Passengers on Ice.
By Associated Press.
Nome, Alaska, .Tune 9.—Unable to
find an open lead, the steamer Corwin,
whose coming marked the opening of
navigation in Behring Sea, landed her
102 passengers on the solid ice seven
miles from shore yesterday. The pas
sengers, four of whom were women,
reached land safely.
The Corwin was unable to discharge
her cargo, but sufiicient provisions for
immediate needs were brought in by
dog sleds.
The Corwin left Seattle May 19.
subject of housing and recreation at'_ Death of Mrs. Bekemyer.
Lorimer Hall, numbered among its Associated Press.
f,art oflt waf"o“go‘ o Inspector speakers Mss'Mary B. Richmond. o( G>.,hrie, Okla., June 9.-Mrs. Albina
part or it was to go lo inspector Albion Fellows, bekemyer, who was actmg governor
Wheeler.
After their business places werfe Bacon, of Evansville, Ind.
of Oklahoma territory, on several oc-
closed they sued Wheeler and Bon-
field for the return of that sum.
■ H fl' -• ro; ed.
tre-Tty Favorable.
' ' 9 -The senate
! ■ .- n relations today
■ ■ :.>vt>rably the treaty
.'s ;ind thi; cotintry
";;a of ten million dol-
■ iiiK interests ot the
ji.fct the Honduran
^7,500,00') is to
M mUi f
Sit ■■
way officials.
To Form New Cabinet.
By Associated Press.
Brussels, June 9.—]‘I. De-'Broque-
ville, minister of railroads, posts and
telegraphs, today accepted i.he commis
sion to form a new cabinet ii\ succes
sion to the Schollaert ministry, which
resigned yesterday in consequence of
AUanla.^Sr.'' June'lt-Thf journal j
says today:
General Clement A. Evans, of the
State prison commission, has been ten
dered the position of adjutant general
under Governor Hoke Smith and has
accepted the appointment.
succeed Adjutant General A. J. Scot .
General Evans’ successor on the pris-
. 1 -u The Nica-jon board also has been selected, it is
i.'iilar in impori, ’^'^9 J understood, but the annoiincement o
acted ucon.
>iis name has not been mader
bill pending in parliament.
Lady.Decies Recovered.
By Associated Press.
New York, June 9.—Friends of Lady
Decies, who was Miss Vivien Gould,
learned today that she has practically
recovered from her operation for ap
pendicitis. She Is taking daily drives
in the London parks and will be able
to take in the coronation festivities. '
Spurt of Pig Tin.
London, June 9.—Pig tin spurted
sharply today and reached $233 for
cash, beating all previous records.
Ferguson and Governor Franz.
Mrs. Beckenieyer was a pioneer
newspaper correspondent and was the
wife of Otto Bewemeyer a local news
paper man.
Two section meetings, held in Pil-1 casions, died here early today. In the
grim Hall and Kingsley Hall later in; territorial days she was a confidential
the forenoon, considered the stand-1 clerk to Governor Barnes, Governor
ards of living and labor, and the secur-"
ing and training of social w’orkers.
The labor meeting heard arguments
for standard payment and working
hours for women and girls by Mrs.
Raymond Robbins, president of the
Women’s Trade Union League, and
Mrs. Joseph Goldmark^ secretary of
the National Consumers’ League.
The subject o fa professional train
ing school for social workers was con
sidered by Prof. R. C. McCrea, of New
York, Prof. C. W. Dotten, of Boston,
and Prof. G. E. Haynes, of Fisk Uni
versity.
Oppose Negro’s Appointment.
By Associated Press.
Oklahoma City, Okla., June 9.—State
ofilcials are opposing the appointment
of W. T. Vernon, of Kansas City, Kas.,
a negro, as assistant supervisor of In
dian schools for the five civilized tribes
of Oklahoma. Announcement of his
appointment was made W'ednesday.
State Senator E, M. Landrum, a
Cherokee Indian, has prepared a pro
test to the secretary of the interior
and the protest has received the sig
natures q1 man^ state officials..
By Associated Press.
Madrid, June 9.—Premier Canalejas
informed the chamber of deputies last
night that Spain’s projected military
oi>erations at El Araish, Morocco, were
not consistent with the treaty of Al-
geciras or other agreements.
It was necessary, he said, for Spain
to restore and preserve order in that
part of Morocco.
It is understood the government also
plans the occupation of Tetuan, Mor
occo, because Spanish subjects have
been killed or maltreated by rebellious
tribesmen.
In both the Tetuan and El Araish re
gions, Spanish interests are endanger
ed. The French government is en
deavoring to disuade Spain from these
military movements.
France Concerned.
Paris, June 9.—The French govern
ment is concerned over Spanish activi
ties in Morocco, especially at a time
when France, having attained the re
lief of Fez, intends to withdraw her
troops after reorganizing the Sultan’s
army and having accomplished the pa
cification of the country.
Spain, seemingly, is determined to
extend her zone in Morocco, which is
now limited to Mellila and Ceuta and
their environs.
M. Geoffray, the French ambassador
at Madrid, is representing to the Span
ish. government the untimeliness of
further military enterprise in the
troubled sultanry as endangering the
confidence of the powers in the main
tenance of Moroccan unity, since some
power might declare that Morocco is
being dismembered and so the powers
were no longer bound by the Algecuras
agreement, but each free to act ac
cording to its own interests in refer
ence to Morocco.
The power naturally in mind which
migJht take such representations is
Germany. The German note which
was reported as being sent^to France
calling attention to the limi'tations of
the Algeciras agreement, apparently
has not been received here.
Was Formerly With Carnegie
Steel Company And Gave
History of That Co.-Told
Of Periods of Destructive
Competition/*^
By Associated £*ress.
Washington, June 9.—Denial that
Andrew Carnegie, by threats, cftm-
pelled the formation of the United
States Steel Corporation and an ac
knowledgement that thes teel compa
nies before that organization councii-
ed with the railroads as to the price
of steel rails marked the testimony
today of James Gayley, vice-presi
dent of the corporation and an officer
of the Carnegie concern for many
years, before the house “steel trust"
investigating committee.
Mr. Gayley &aid such understand*
ings with the railroads were neces
sary to prevent a monopoly In the
steel business, and denied that Mr.
Carnegie, as charged by John W.
Gates, had “held up” J. Pierpc-nt
Morgan and in so ding had forced
steel manufacturers to combine.
Washington, June 9.—James Gayley,
former vice-president of the United
States Steel Corporation, was interro
gated today by the Stanley steel trust
committee oi inquiry. Mr. Gayley,
whom Mr. Gary told the committee
was a practical steel man, gave infor
mation' on many technical matters re
lating to the steel business. Mr. Gay
ley was formerly in the Carnegie Steel
Company.
Mr. Gayley, questioned by Represen
tative Young, of Michigan, gave the
history of the Carnegie Steel Co. from
1885 to 1901, w'hen the steel corpor
ation was formed. He mentioned per
iods of “destructive competition” and
described new methods of manufac-
tureing steel, dwelling upon their ef*
feet in advancing the values of steeJ
properties.
Asked as to the price of rails In the
early period, Mr. Gayley declared that
the price usually w^as fixed in confer
ence with railroad officials, chiefly
those of the Pennsylvania Railroad.
“Were there any agreements as to
prices in those days?” asked Mr,
Young.
“In those days all the steel compan
ies were independent,” said Mr. Gay
ley, ‘and there were periods of war
so destructive that agreements were
necessary in order for all to recoup.
Then w'ould come other destructive
wars. Agi’eements were necessarj^
from time to time, or ultimately one
company would have secured a monoi>
oly of the business.
Mr. Gayley said he had no personal
knowledge that Andrew Carnegie had
threatened to buil a tube mill at Con-
neaut, O., for the purpose of forcing
the Morgan interests to buy out the
plant, as charged by Mr. Gates.
The Carnegie Company had purchas
ed land at Conneaut, he said, for the
location of a new plant, but it was not
determined whether a tube works or
a wire mill would be erected. The
purpose of building either, he said,
would have been to furnish an outlet
for the steel of the Carnegie works
near Pittsburg, w'hich steel had form
erly been taken b ythe National Tube
Company, a Morgan enterprise.
“There has been a statement or a
rumor,” said Representative Young, of
Michigan, “that Mr. Carnegie’s propo
sal to build> tube mill was not in good
faith; that it was really a threat to
aid him in acquiring other property
or to force others to buy him out. Do
you know the facts?”
“There was no proposal to any one,”
Mr. Gayley said, “and there was cer
tainly -no threat to build a tube mill.
The Carnegie Company went ahead to
carry out plans it had determined
upon; but it had never been decided
whether a tube mill or a wire mill
would be constructed.”
Mr. Gayley was asked if any addi
tions had been made to the Carnegie
Steel Company’s property after it had
been appraised at a bank at a value
of $76,000,000 and before it was sold to
Coal porters Strike.
By Associated Press.
Southampton, June 9.—A strike of
coal porters broke out here today. The
American line steamer St. Paul, sched
uled to sail for New York tomorrow,
will be delayed and the mammoth
White Star liner Olympic is having
difficutly in obtaining a crey. A whole
fleet of ships chartered by the gov*
ernment and others for the naval re
view are lying off the port ur^ab’e
take on coal.
the steel corporation for nearly $500,-
000,000.
“The company was always building
and exapnding its works and acquiring
more property,” he replied.
Percival Roberts, Jr., a director of
the U. S. Steel Corporation, was a wit
ness before the committee after the
noon adjournment.
MAN TELLS OF THE QUAKE
IN REGION OF COLIMA.
By Associated Press.
Tuxpan, Jalisco, Mexico, June 9.—
Bias Ruiz, a merchant, is the first per
son to arrive from Colima, the region
said to have suffered the greatest
shock from the earthquake. He re
ports the railroad blocked by land
slides but there were onl^ two or three
victims at Colima. The roof of th.e
cathedral and of the church of La Mer-
cede fell.
Call for Bank Statementr
By Associated Press.
Washington, June 9.—T’
troller of the currency to'’
call for a statement of
of all national banks
business Wednesday •