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s FOR PONY OUTFTT ON NEW OR Kl^.NEWAL SUBSCRIPTIONS TO THE NEWS HELPS A FAVORITE Edition THE X Latest Edition NO. 7054 CHARLOTTE N. C., WEDNESDAY tVENlNG, JUNE 14, 1911 piD T^'C' J In Charlotte 2 Cents a Copy aDlly—6 Cen ts Sunday. Outside Charlotte 5 Cents a Copy Dally and Sunday. '3 Fitters War rowing Worse in iicago At Present uggers And \Biidge Contract Indictment campaign oj Great Labor jrrs Surround i ► ^crc Elevator ATC Employed he Watchmen-’ \ wmg Worse, ♦ With nine al- -a- nun" under - ia th.’ plumber ■'ar. the cam- I'ac ioiial fight r and ek'vator Tu i»e worse Let Foj $57,500 The Mecklenburp and Gastop " ity boards, of commissioners ^ter- noon signed the contract grivii- to the C. W. Reqnarth Co., of the Spartan- burjJT, the conrract for the concrete bridge to steel ai)proaches at Sloan’s terry. The contract represents $57,500. The Requarth Co. evpects to move to Charlotte this month. _| SELF WHEN IliE Special to The News. Raleigh, June 14.—The corporatior^ commission has just received from State Bank Examiner J. K. Dough ton, of Tarboro, a telegram to the effect ...Tt'';iid build- n.-'iruciors: are ^ktnon nightly. I'ivkeTs sur- ' :i at Wppr .• i’« iitt-r av-- ■ -»nirtois are I that the cashier and assistant cashier iit ui as tue> Bank of Tarboro are short in their accounts and that since his ar rival Cashier L. V. Heartt had shot C Vi Seamen and Fuemen Offiaally Launch Strike At Liverpool KEEP OUT OF IT Read OJ Steel 7 rust to 'lesiify By Associated Press. Washington, June 14.—After former Vice President Gayley of the United States Steel Corporation had repeated ly referred his inquisitors in the “steel trust” investigation to James A. Far rell, president of the corporation, mem bers of the special house committee practically announced their intention to call on Mr. Farrell to testify. It was announced he would appear when eveo:. it was desired. The investigation committee wants to know w'hy steed rails are sold cheaper abroad than at home; why prices of rails quoted to the Canadian Pacific Railroad were lower since 1901 than the uniform domestic rate of $28 a ton, and whether there is an agree ment now among steel manii^'acturers whereby the territory is parcelled out. To all these queries Mr. Gayley re ferred the committee to Mr. Farrell. Mr. Gayley was asked whether the steel war of ’97-’99 broke about the or ganization of the U. S. Steel Corpora tion. He said he did not think this price conflict had anything to do with ot; although it might have had an ef fect on the formation of the Federal Steel Company. Many Other Ports on the Con- \ tinent Involved in Strike— firsL Ships Tied Up Were Two Trans^Atlantic Liners, a'nr constnic- and kicked k ii- rmot. an " a?’ attacked I and will probably die. •;1 ; broken by . rs : is said. .i.' ructors to t'>iT they be 'n rab'd wea- . • ^ irohed. if 1525.000. in tl. m, the' d attack them The president of the bank, A. S. Shackelford, The bank is supposed to have a capita! of $2.^,000 v.ifh a surplus ot The bank is closed and a receiA'er Is to be procured by the commission. E LIHLE New (hleans Chemist Tells Thnlling Stoiy of Escape Fiom the Revolutionists ilai .,age Suit BBin says p. o. IS By Associated Press. New Orleans, June 24.—S. G. Che- quelin, a New Orleans chemist, whose {arrival here last night relieved the Washington, June 14.—At attempt to ' anxiety of his relatives and friends, discover the secret of the power of j told a thrilling story of his escape the late Henry O. Havemeyer. who for from Cuiiacan. Mexico, following the vears was the controlling genius of the : capture of that city by the insurrec- United States Sugar Refining Com-' tos three weeks ago. Mr. Chequelin, ALL Riem By Associated Piess. Chicago. Ill, June 14.—Voicing ad- miniHtr^iiion vi^ws as to how the post- oilice dei)artment should be run, Jas. J. Britt, third assistant postmaster : general, today told the delegates to I the International Circulation Mana gers’ Association, in session here, that ! '^.lav ni^post •N and Trea^ •ricp.n Toi»accc • 1 ro the jur;. i'.ia »ult I. T'.. V-;. tne e\aml- I' t-> showing rnVa' i'o iiU.-l- *• • Ini' ueli rhi.« ^ .-;«iiary c-iV- s r" r'.trnl bus i"n i.r^ ii'tev't honest publisher has anything to t . "t. sides, i gj fjjg hands of the postofRce de- i partment. ” ■ Bu’." he added. “No dishonest pub- li?her has anything to hope for.” He \vas speaking on “The Uses and Abus- of ihe Second Class Mail Privi- ' lege." Referring to the c"harge made rec ently by Senatdr Jefferson Davis, of Arkansas, that one publication in this ! country had been practically put out of business by the postoffice depart- nlen^ Mr. Britt said; "You have heard recently from some quarters that the department has, without cause, attacked several news- i papers and i»criodlcals and that a pol- I icy of oilicious interference with the ! business of publishers has been in augurated. It is a painful fact that i while the great bulk of the newspapers t —The Nor-, periodicals of the country are ■ hlle under 'honest and law-abiding, there are some I nir hppn d#>-|that wilfullv trample the law under foot and have no regard whatever for postal laws or the rights of oth ers. If any have felt the weight of the law it is b^’cause they havo invoked it. not because it has been unjustly imposed.’’ Regarding efforts to eliminate annual ))ostoffice department deficit, Mr. Hriit declared that the “ledgers of ,tht der»ar!nient at no time should show either a defi‘it or a surplus, the entire service being administered on a self- p I ■■ sustaining basis.’’ A proper equaliza- I M I III tion of postal rates, he said, would III I !■ easily make it possible to reduce let- Lll llv postage from 2 cents to 1 cent van ouncsf. "Tile payment of fully 84 cents per pound on letters caused by the payment of 2 cents an ounce on under weight pieces,’ said Mr. Britt, gives a profit which is applied to the de ficit caused by deficient rates on other mail matter,” • as to • • the charcje! • 'pt.ira^od that .1 11 r-r the , ■ n law ■ i- ; • : :uis.sible : ■ i; drvi'loped a • • ! )of*ndan'’ : ill thic "^uit ■ ( ^ji'ion he I ' .: 'ii*-nt as j • •• V'';irn-Krame ? a 'rn;empnt j ' '-' iniiTny r • ph intiffs. ’ ti:. il adjU 't-l • J. fil .'^rifirday. From Vessel. .n order from ! 'Hard, the ' ’it if aiiimn- , Honduras, in the -Mp company. the TiiP forty-flri»t ' >• .Vorth Car- of Pythias, with a grand • f' lumder del- (irand Causland, ol ■>n to order. . «.* this city '• • It (inie, tlU' I jt,. ' by Ma- were i’vth- 1 (Irorge N. C . ant- ' ature of the liv I'nlon B. ' ■ ! , president 'H'- instjrance • iii‘ lodge K. Hi; "In I nion 'Kil Many Southern Mills Closed Down Bv .Associated Press. Montg.Jinery, Ala., June 14.—On ac count of the high price of cotton, whi(!li, it is stated, makes it ble to operate It at a profit, the Mon- tala cotton mills, with 10,000 spindles. Cordage Com- - h dns a cere- I' . I'oniple No. • I’ Miians will more estate. and the Montgomery pany, using 125 balei. month, have closed their plants for the summer. They will not the new crop is harvested in tlie fail It is reported to local brokers that two mills at Selma. Ala., two at ilo bile, Ala., and one aimia'r have suspended o»>«rat °ns for simiar reasons and that the ' Ala., and Columbus, Ga., are runn on short time. c{fna.tion f'otton mill men regard the situatio as critical- pany. failed again today when the house "sugar trnst.’’ investigation mitrf*e cross-exaniiuod - Ciiariew^r4^ Heike, supposed confldentee of the stigar king, and secretary of the company until his in dictment in connection with the re cent sugar customs frauds. Edw'in F. Atins, acting head of the corporation, had testified that Mr. Havemeyer had ruled the concern with holdings of $200,000 of a total of ninety million dol lars. Mr. Heike protested that he knew nothing of the operations of Mr. Have meyer. Mr. Havemeyer ran the business, the witness said. He denied that he had such confidential relation with Mr. Havemeyer as to be able to testify now about tlie business of former days. “Were you not from the time of the organization of the company down to Mr. Havemeyer's death, his confiden tial assistant,” Heike was asked. "No sir” said Mr. Heike emphatical- He was asked to give a history of the organization of the company, but professed his inability to tell why the merger was entered into, although he was secretary of one of the companies that went into the combination. Looking at it from the past, he said, he judged the merger was to reduce the cost of production. After futile attempts to bring out the inside history of the purchase and or ganization by the U. S. Refining Co. of the various companies. Mr. Gar rett asked if there was any one who could tfU of the deal. . , “That I do not know,” replied Mr. Heike. smilingl.v. Secretary Freenltin, of the corpora tion, produced books of the directors meetings, showing the outright pur chase a m'ijority of the stock of the BaUimcrj Refinery for $181,000 in 1892. . ^ . “Where is the resolution showing the abandonment of the Baltimore plant?” inquired Representative Malby “ lam not sure there is one,” replied Mr. Freeman. Mr Heike, in response to queries, said “that he did not know” whether any sugar liad been refined at the Bal timore plant after its purchase by the United States Refinery. “You round that the refinery at Phil adelphia could supply that territory more cheaply and that it was not wise to have competition?” asked Mr. Gar- *^^Mr. Heike said again that he did not know. J Representative Garrett questioned Mr Heike about the purchase and clos ing of the Pennsylvania-Sugar Refining Company’s plant at Camben, N. J. “It was poorly located, said Mr. Heike. . “Yet you wpre willing to pay $700,- 000 cash for it?” ^ “Yes sir.” He was unable to throw light on the transactions by which the Unitei States Refining Co. gaiped control of the Pennsylvania Company by loaning money to its president, Adolph Segal, who gave stock in the Pennsylvania as coflateral security. The Pennsylvan ia Refinery, he said was not operated after it fell into the hands of the Amer ican. Charlotte Tanning Co. Auctioned The property of tne Charlotte Tan ning Company, formerly known as the Shaw Harness Company, was put up at public auction today at noon at the court house door and was b!d in by the directors of th© com pany. Mr. W. A. Gresham conducted the who had charge of a large sugar mill noar Ciillacan belonging to Governor ~ edo of the state’ of Sinaloa, said that a reign of anarchy followed the capture of Culicacan by the rebel troops. All places of business were looted, he said, factories were burn ed and Gen. Morelos, the federal com mander, and many' of his soldiers w'ere executed in violation of terms of surrender which guaranteed to them safe escort out of the city. Mr. Chequelin made his escape with Governor /iedo left thee ity at night on a special train., sra MEN TO By Associated Press. Washington, June 14.—Willing to come in response to a request prac tically to the doors of the capital, the officials of the American Sugar Re fining Company, under investigation today by the House special sugar committee, declined to enter until commanded to do so by a subpoena. John E. Parsons, for years general counsel for the American Sugar Re fining Company, came to Washington from New Yo."k, upon the mere re quest of the committee, but he re mained at a local hotel untir'a pro cess server had visited him. Other officials were served with subpoenas in New Y’ork before they started. IN Ti CASE IS CHIEF TNESS T Final Meetings Of the Chanties By Associated Press. Boston, June 14.—Final section meetings of the thirty eighth annual conference of charities and correc tions w'ere held today in the various halls around Beacon Hill. New phases of the questions which have occupied the attention of the delegates- during the past week were taken up during the day. STRESSES DEEP WA TERWAY PROJECT, Springfield, 111., June 14.—Governor Deneen’s message, which was transmit ted today to the special session of the Illinois 47thL_ assembly, was confined to consideration of the deep waterway project and the necessity, in his opin ion, or speedy action to acquire pow er''sites needed by the states in the de velopment of the waterw’ay. Another matter for prompt action by legislatures, in the governor’s opinion, is the completion of negotiations with the Federal government for co-opera tion in its construction. By Associated Press, Cincinnati, O., June 14.—Mrs. Jea- net-te Stewart Ford, “the woman in the case,” was expected to be the chief witness today in the trial ol Edgar S. Cooke, wbo is charged with embezzling $24,000 from the Big Four Railway Company. She probably* will be called as a witness before the completion of testi mony of Charles Warriner. Warriner s re-direct examination was in progress when court adjourned ye&teday. Warriner, in his confession, charged that Mrs.'Ford received a large part of the $64.3,000 which he said he had taken from the railroad company. Mrs. Ford was once tried on the charge of blackmailing Warriner, but the jury failed to agree. She is still under indictment. Ever since her trial Mrs. Ford has been an invalid and she will be forced to give her testimony from a wheel chair. By Associated Press. New^ Y'ork, June 14.—A ship with a true case of cholera came into port today. The Italian line steamship Europa, from Genoa and Naples, drop ped anchor off quarantine and report ed that a stee’-age passenger named Agostino Tavolla was on board suffer ing from cholera. The patient is on his way to recovery. The Europa with its 77 capin passengers and 363 steerage will be held at quarantine for the present. The Berlin was released from quar antine this morning, the steerage pas sengers and the stewards having been transferred to Hoffman Island. The crew will remain on board the Berlin under observation of the ship’s sur geon, No new cases have developed. WIIH TARIFF IN LS FOLLETTE IS Ship Owners Scout Idea That Stiike is Sbious- Uneasiness Felt as to ‘ ^ hether Other Liners Will be Able to Leav Prats, By Associate Press. London, June 14.—The strike of seamen and firemen was launched offi cially at Liverpool ajid at some of the other ports of the British isles and the Continent this morning. The first big steamers to be tied up were trans- Atiantic liners. Tlie crews oi the Teu tonic and the Empress of Ireland, num bering o50 and 300 men, resp^tively, refused to sign. ^ j Despite the recent efforts of the strike leaders to hold her up, the Olympic, of the W^hite Star line, th^ largest steamer afloat, got away from Southampton on her maiden voyage to New York early this afternoon. The Teutonic of the Whit j Star line was scheduled to sail from I.i\erpool next Saturday for Quebec and Mon treal. The Empress of Ireland, owned by the Canadian Pacific Steamship Com pany was due to leave Liverpool next Friday tor Quebec. In the early development of the strike there has appeared to be a lack of cohesion among the men at most of the ports w'hich explained the com parative indifference of the ship own ers, who continued to scout the idea of any really serious inconvenience. Crews Dismissed. Amsterdam, Holland, June 14.—Th© crews of three of the Royal Steam shop Company’s vessels refused to sign this morning and were dismissed. 'I'he sailors on most of the steam- er^ In the harbor struck, but work proceeded as usual. 'The dock hands decline to join the strikers. Signal for General Strike. London, June 14.—This afternoon the international seamen’s union is sued a proclamation stating that tne signal for an international strike would be given throughout the United Kingdom, France, Belgium, Holland and Scandinavia at seven o’clock to night. Won't Hurt This Country. New York, June 14.—Probably none of the big trans-Atlantic liners nor any of the 200 or more tramp steam ers of foreign register will be aban doned by their crews in this country as a result of the seamen’s strike, according to Matthew- Tearle, who is in charge of the strike in America. REGIPROGITYMGIIIillllS DF auction. FIB OUT PEmSUED By Associated Press. Newbern, June 14.—After swim ming out into deep water where the current was running 10 miles an hour, J. W. Willew, of this city, for merly of' Norfolk, and J. H. Morris, son of J. C. Morris, of Greensboro became exhausted and before they could be rescued both sank. Their bodies could not be found. By Associated Press. Washington, June 14.—At both ends of the capitol national legislators to day championed or opposed tariff measures. In the senate Canadian re ciprocity had the right of way, the proposed agreement having been re ported to that body yesterday bf Senator Penrose, chairman of the fi nance committee. Discussion of the measure, promising to extend over a period of many days, bids fair to be gin in earnest, for tw^o senators, Messrs. McCumber and Curtiss, had given notice that they w^ould speak. The house, still busied with the w'ool schedule, expected a number of speeches for and against the reduc tion in duty, the democrats are striv ing to accomplish. The several investigation commit tees of the house continued their la borg. CASTRO AGAIN LOCATED. By Associated Press. Port au Prince, Haytl, June 14.— The steamer Consul Grostuck from San Juan, P. R., which is reported to have on board Cipriano Castro, de posed president of Venezuela, was still at Port de Paix this morning, but getting up steam with the inten tion of continuing her trip. The ves sel is expected here tomorrow morn ing. By Associated Press. Washington, D. C., June 14.—Sena tor LaFollette in an individual re port expressed adverse views on the reciprocity bill. He said it was per fectly consistent for one who believed in free trade to support the bill, but that no man who believed either in tariff for revenue only or in a protec tive tariff could consistently give it his support. “I believe in reciprocity,” said Mr. LaFollette. “I believe in reciprocity with Canada but I protest against this proposed revision of our tariff by evec- utive mandate. I protest against this diplomatic bargain that is masquerad ing in the guise of reciprocity. “tl is not reciprocity. It is not a fair exchange of tariff advantages. It is a taMff trade conceived in special interest selfishness, negotiated in sec ret and brought into the open with the attractive label of reciprocity as a bid for the favor of the American public. “This agreement is not in the inter est of the consumer. Relief from the high cost of living is not to be found in such a tariff compact as that rep resented in the pending bill. “It is not necessary to wrong any class or do injustice to any interest in order to benefit the consumer. And it is scarcely less than criminal to make a scapegoat of the farmer for the benefit of any unlawful combina tion. “It is not the farmer, it is not the consumer for whom these negotiations were made. It was made to benefit the railroad, the miller, the packer, the newspaper publisher, “The newspaper publishers are promised a free market for print pa per for which they expend about $55,- 000,000 annually. No one who investi gates the conditions under which the newspapers of this coimtry have been compelled to purchase their supply of print paper can escape the con clusion that the publishers have been subjected to extortion. “The conditions under which the publishers are forced to conduct their business are Intolerable. These condi tions call for action, w'hich will afford immediate relief. “The gross injustice of the proposed bill impels me to oppose it. If, how’- ever, it is to be enacted into law it should not pass without amendments in the interests of the great body of By Associated Press. Jerusalem, .June 14.—The. Sheiks and other officials of the Mosque of Omar were sent under arm.ed escort today to Beirut, where they will be tried before a special court on charges growing out of the operations of the English explorers, who, it is alleged, w^ere permitted to violate the Mosque while excavating for sacred relics. Lorimer Hearing Thursday. By Associated Press. Washington, June 14.—The Senate Lorimer investigating committee de cided today to adhere to its purpose of beginning the taking of testimony Thursday, June 22. consumers, including the farmers, who are compelled to carry all the burden]the Charlotte-Wiimington of the president’s lopsided pact.” would be built By Associated Press. ^ W’’inston-Salem, June 14.— xne North Carolina Good Roads Associa tion opened a two days’ session here y^esterday. President Patterson in hi# annual address said he longed for the time when the entire South would be linked by a ^'stem of well located and properly drained and surfaced roads. He spoke enthusiastically ol the increasing sentiment in favor ot good roads in this state. Dr. Joseph Hyde Pratt, secretary of the assicia- tion, reviewed the work of the organi zation since its beginning ten years ago. At the afternoon’s session of the association encouraging reports were made by President H. B. Varner, ot Central Highway Association; Fred N. Tate, of the Triangular Highway Association; Dr. Joseph Pratt, of the Crest of the Blue Ridge Highway Association, and Leonard Tufts, on the capital-to-capital highway route. A telegram was read from President A. J. McKinnon, giving assurance that highway