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VOTES FOR PONY OUTFIT ON NEW OR RENEWAL SUBSCRTPTIONS TO THE NEWS HELPS A FAVORITE 20 Pages N. SECTION. THE CHARLOTTE N ~EWi ^ 20 Pages ONE 8ECTION. OL 2. NO. Z4 CHARLOTI E, N. 0.. SUNDAY MORNING. JUNE 25, 191 I X PRICE 5 CENTS Chicago Publishei Makes Startling Revel a tions H. Kohlsaat,Testifying . mtr Investigati o n, ois Namts oj Promf . hicago Men—Had No al Qua? rel withLot imer ^ ulincis Senator as a J Character” Makes t \onal Revela t io n s— id Report oj Hearings . c Committee. June 24.—Sensational ra.u*? of rroniinent d'l^ by Edward .r. i'.>e t'unk, as identi- ■ruiu r corruption fund . oy Herman H. Kohl- r The Chicago Record- ■ irlmcr investigating ai'- . Roger Sullivkn, aal committeeman ud democratic leader of ■ .si'nal friend of Sena- I , ! r>re?idonT of the > .Mrnan}. . ; "f the W. npany a:;s. I s. foremost in the .-'^velt would not attend i last fall, attend- ■••impr because he 1 i ' K 'hl.-aat of tho n-a Mon in connection . r bribe ftind. Victor 1' 'her "f the ('hicago . ' r -rnry also by Kohl- n.u 'ncod by it in his 1. ‘ri .' tT. .. '.1 had told his i-’ory, and she had ; ad t'» probe for the l\ohi?aat saying he - 'ii.;-:* Tiiy one with 1 " 1'den. rarfd .-ne sentence about answer- ' a coutmitfee,’’ said j tired fcmilo. ! «m confronted ■ i ;»e to answer P‘'’.=onal q'larrel .1 -Mr. K -hl'aat. 1 .. ai ter. ' 'n .he 1 i-nr nnd I ip Hd''*ire. But .1 r. pi ! urs what ri' n a cohesion ■' r , lolicanr- and , ' r: il private pelf. . ' ; as a can- I -> a democratic , a rcpvibl^can ’ ■ ‘la'or Koche. a ^►■d, Mr, Lorhner 1- e i.i the city water • T*r jiarit'’ aropp. It b, tbf papers ot .. 1-zpatrlck. a ■ imer. %as carried -- •;.£? rolls of th#" '1 I' .-.n’y assespor's of- ■ f i • ■ ired irom his for conprc>-';. His af- ’ • a's *-4-n with people , 1 .1 rtften been democrats as wcH ■ '*'c sprinc: of 190J. ■ ' i;> tho ni.^th ward. . t 1 an named Cole ^ In. r Fdward F. Cul- . r .if the old ‘‘gray r a:- di^ernced the .: tJiP world over. ^^•d that Lorimer was Cole to A’lthdraw paid 51,000 to do ■VP. the decent repub- ■ rar - ^'ot together and h i’ he was returned . ,d 1? :-u.i in the council, p of all rhai is bad in >* ^hrn took up f’larence ■ e sf*ry I hat Hines ' ' Ilf^tn.OOO bribery a- fo lunch one day. I ' ' H ■ said money was ■Ml,' I.orlmer. ‘How do ' aKk»-d. I' I WAH asked for a 1 .it d Fimk. * it.' I said. ' ' ant to get mixed In to Ret the company ' ■ II !i Funk. •nld protect his con- ■ ' .' n said he had been f'dward Hines. Hines H nhance In the last -i lature to put over ■' ” took $100,000 to do i'lldual^' underwrote it ■ IS no time for delay; :■ 'i-klnpr for a few peo- • to leimburae them ' ^ TII.'K n was in- I Pin.']. Some '>'ou»;h’ into~our • 1"' I' ' all surely if they Hines hari named to ^ 1 y never given them 'a'lt to bring people into 1* s were these?” was ■ m was Roger Sullivan. TMtsnal committeeman 1 interested In the C .muany. I don’t know ■n tn of wealth. ^ E. S Conway, presi dent of the W. W. Kimball Company. I He told the Helm committee of the Illinois legislat\ire that it was not true, and I believe him. Also, Weyer- hauser was named, but I don’t know what We.verhauser.” Mr. Kohlsaat said he was urged last winter to help Senators LaFol- Ictte and Root to get new facts abo’ the affair. He gave some help. Stv retary \V. I.,. FiHhcr and Alfred Baker came to him and asked him to provide Senator Root further facts. He did not give them the names, because he had given his word not to do so. “I did tell Victor F. Lawson.” said Mr. Kohlsaat. "and it influenced his newspaper policy thereafter. I toid 1'heodore Roosevelt and that was why he would not dine with Lorimer.” "Anybody else?” asked Mr. Marble. ■‘Ves, I also told my wife.” "And has she kept the secret?” asked Mr. Marble, with a smile, "She has so far as I know,” re plied Mr, Kohlsaat, Discovery of . a woman who could keep a secret that long was hailed with enthusiastic laughter. Mr. Kohlsaat said he gave Sena tors Hoot and LaFollette all the in- fi^rmation he could, but not the names. l.aF'ollette was very insistent that he tell the names, and even threaten ed to send the Sergeant-at-arms of the senate to bring him to Washington. With George Bancroft, general coun sel tor the Harvester trust on the stand. Judge Hanley, representing l orimer. endeavored to show that there was a feud between the McCor mick family and Lorimer. He brought out the fact that the taxes of the Me Cormick family were increased from $.'=i.(>no or $9,000 to $500,000 and as serted that Ivorlmer was responsible for the increase. Hanecy also brought out that Lori mer opposed a plan of the Harvesrfer trust, to bulla a permanent bridge across the Chicago river, connecting parts of its plant. "The opposition of Lorimer may have caused the creation of the story of an alleged request for a $10,000 con- tributi^n. which started this investiga tion," said Hanecy.” "Xo friend of Lorimer would go to the Iniertiational Harvester Company for a contribution for anything he was interested in. Lorimer has been accused of many things here, and in ( hicago, which he never heard of.” r.aiicrnft said that the taxes of the Harvestei trust stockholders were rabed to five times that of any other foreign corporation in Chicago, and that they were paid without protest. 'Senator Kern asked Bancroft if he had ever heard thaf Senator Lori- lUv r was interested in any refonij league. "No sir. ■ answered the witness. Senator Lorimer interested in any effort to increase your taxes?” ”We never considered it, and do not believe that now.” $ Notice r CewenAL OitObB, 4^ JU1.Y *uw Tnfe 1/.^. «o) Conmot%jen%e ONLY OBJECTION TO A SANE FOURTH. Many Mills to Shut Down Soon Boston, June 24.—Many of the cot ton mills in New England and the Southern States will be shut down dur ing the first week in July according to information received in mill circles here. The unsatisfactory state of the market and the Independence day holi day are given as reasons for the fur ther stoppage of machinery. Practi cally all of the mills which have their offices in oBston will curtail their out put during the summer and many of them will be Idle from June 30 to July 20. The curtailment in Fall River this week was heavier than usual, due partially to the centennial celebration. The curtailment for the week there exceeded 400,000 plecs of goods. mm OFF Atlanta, Ga., June 24.—That Chas. W. Mor?e can be made to -serve only ten year.^ of the fifteen years sen tence imposed, because the sentence failed to specify the penalty for each of the several count.9 upon which the banker was convicted, was admitted h.^■ the government in the habeas cor. pus proceedings today. Attorney Hen ley, while conceding that only the m.Tximum sentence on one count (in this case ten /ears) could be imposed, alleges that the prisoner cannot prop- erl.v in.^titnte habeas corpus proceed ings until (he sentence has expired. Reuben R. Arnold. Morse's attorney, bases his habeas corpus proceedings upon two claims—first, that the ver dict was illegal on the grounds al ready set out. and secondly, that the government cannot legally detain More In a prison where only hard la- obr convicts are kept. The hearing w^ill be resumed Wednesday. Heavy Loss By Sinking Of Fightets Liverpool, June 24.—A telegram re ceived by shipping Interests here to day states that the loss caused by the sinking of lighters In the harbor at Iquique, Chile, yesterday aggre gates $.=i00,000 and that other ship ping suffered to a total estimated cit $70,000 to $100,000. GRADY’S EDITORIAL BILL. Albany. June 24.—‘‘No good can ever come of such an effort to check or or limit newspapers In their discussion of public men and public affairs. ’ said Senator Josiah T. Newcomb in moving to recall from the Assembly the bill of Senator Grady requiring newspaper editorials to be signed by their au thors. , “It is an extremely foolish bill, con tinued Mr. Newcomb, who, before en tering politics was ah editor. “Any one famlllai yith newspaper affairs, and particularly the c6nstruction of editorials, knows how absurd the bill is.” „ The matter will come up next Mon day night. Lightning's Work Yesteiday Afternoon During the storm yesterday after- noou the flag pole on top of Belk Bros, building on East Trade, was struck by lightning and splintered. No other damage was done the building, but the cash register sys tem, the electric lights, and electric elevator were all put out of business, and the shock felt perceptably In the store. Two of the women clerks faint ed from fright. Dairy Struck. The same bolt struck the Kirkwood dairy. Mr. J. H. Turner, manager, and Mr. R. M. Smith were knocked sense less. They recovered after some min utes, but felt the effects of the stroke all afternoon. Fort Mill Defeats Rock Hill. Special to The News. Fort Mill S. C., June 24.—In a well played game here today and before a good slbed crowd Fort Mill defeated Rock Hill 7 to 6. The game w^as ex citing from beginning to end and was in doubt until the last man was out in the ninth. Both Sheppard and Neal pitched good ball and both de served to win. The featude of the game was the home run of Donaldson of Fort Mill over the fence but as luck would have It there was no one on. Batteries for Fort Mill were Neal and Fetner. for Rock Hill Sheppard and Spong. Nantucket, Mass., June 24.—Two young women were burned to death, three men were badly injured, seve ral firemn wr hurt and svral prom- Innt young women of New York had narrow escapes'In a flre late this aft ernoon which destroyed the boat-house of William Barnes of New York. The dead and injured were as fol lows ; MISS HELEN WILSON, of New York. MISS MILDRBR DE HAVEN of Brooklyn. Badly Injured: THURLOW WEED BARNES, prom inent business man and author of New York. TOM KERR of New York, ULYSSES PAHUD, butler of Bar nes family. Miss Ruth Wilson, a sister of Hel en, Miss Phoebe Judkins and Miss Tanner, of Buffalo, were rescued. Blind Tigers Got A Severe Jolt Fiom Greensboio Judge No Need of Fw iher Delay In Tanff Leg islation Sayi> Gore What Congress Did Saturday Washington, June 24.—What con gress did today: The session of the house today was devoted to eulogies of the late Senator Daniel of yirglnia. The senate was not in session. Committees: The appropriations committee reported deficiency appro priations for the contingent fund of the House amounting to $31,450. At the White House: President Taft returned from his New England trip. Democratic Senators Propose to Piocted With Jariff Plans Regardless of Threat of Pre sident to Veto all Tang Bilh. Mexican Women Want To Vote (By HARRY H. DUNN.) Mexico City, June 24.—Five hun dred women, many of them belonging President Must Answer for Forced Delay in Remedial Legislation—Not Necessary to Wait on Tariff Board— Clark Talks, Washington, June 24.—A program on reciprocity legislation is to be ar ranged by senate democratic lead ers in a few days. It i& certain the democrats will vote to pass the reci procity agreement without change. In- i formal conferences today developed to the leading families of the city and i . . , , * , fact that the great majority ol state, today petitioned the presidnt Special to The News. hen goods; John Hart convicted of Greensboro, N. C., June 24.—The retailing, failing to appear, had his jury in the cast against Caleb Hanes,'$500 bond forfeited and the bond was alias John Joyce, tonight found him guilty of assoult and Judge Daniels gave him the limit of two years on the road, this being possible by an amendment to section 3620 of the code of the last legislature piaklag any as sault on a female, capable of such punishment. Joyce was tried fro criminal assault but was technically not guilty of this crime. Judge Daniels told him he should consider himself fortunate in escaping execution as the case was terrible. Court adjourned at 10 o’clock after several sentences were passed bn cases tried before, as follows: John Stinette, Charlie Whitfield, for retail ing, 12 months on the road; Alex Cha- fin, senior and junior, 12 months on the road for larceny and receiving sto-^the fall circuit courts. Increased to $1000. These cases were the result of a blind tiger detective work here last week. The important point was, by appealing from the city court, the defendants esccaped work on the streets. Judge Daniels ruling that coming to the superior court they belonged on the county roads. The grand jury, it is learned, made presentations against many prominent tobaccoists and druggists, for running so-called lottery wheels, in the num ber being, Farris-Klutz Drug Co., H. J. Latta, Guilford Hotel News stand, J. T. Wade, Everett King Sykes Drug Co., John T. Reese, M. W. Sterne. Ho tel McAdoo, H. Burkheimer and sever al others. Judge Daniels will leave Sunday morning for his home having only one week’s vacation before riding for th right to vote at the coming elections. There is nothing in the con stitution that bars women from the electoral privilege, and Madero is disposed to grant the request and It is probable that woman suffrage will be soon In Mexico without a contest. The women have formed a club called “The Friends of the People. ' They have announced that they will support Madro and Vasquez Gomez as president and vice-president re spectively. President de La Barra this after noon announced that an attempt would be made to extradite Ricardo Flores Magon and Antonio Araujo and the members of the rebel Junta at Los, Angeles on chargcs - of starting a revolt in lower California. There will be a Fiesta of flowers on Sunday in honor of Francisco Ma dero. The parade w'ill induce a hun dred flower bedecked carriages and two hundred blossom covered bicycles, and will start at 10 o’clock in the morning. Enormous grandstands have been erected all along the main streets. President de La Barra and other dignitaries will attend. At 4 o’clock in the afternoon there will be a battle of flowers at the great part of Chapultepec. It Is esti mated that 25,000 pesos have been spent for flowers alone. King Reviews the Greatest Assemblage of Warships In History of The World Port»mOfth, England, June 24.— | played the national anthem common Never before has such an armada'both to America and Great Britain, been brought together for review by' The big visitor gave their majesties a monarch as was assembled in the a rousing welcome. narrow water of the Solent on this, the navy’s day in the round of corona tion pageantry. The sun was shining brightly Vhen King George and Queen Mary with their suites left the naval port aboard the royal yacht Victoria and Albert. The Trinity yacht Irlne led the way and the Victoria and Albert was followed in line by his majesty’s yacht Alexandra, the admiralty yacht Enchantress and the commander-in- chief’s j’acht Fire Queen. An additional convoy of four tor pedo boat destroyers showed the way up and down the lines of the fleet. The guns of the warships thundered a welcome to the sailor king . The King and Queen and princess were on the bridge as the Victoria and Albert entered the waterway be tween the lines of foreign warships and British Dreadnoughts, The American battles’hip Delaware the fourth ih the line and the biggest battleship in the huge fleet, soon fo cused the attention. The vessel was Each s-uccesslve ship took up the cheering and the national anthem was heard from end to end of the long lines. At the conclusion of the reception gress of the Victoria and Albert his majesty received the British flag of ficers and foreign fl^g officers and the commanders of all foreign war ships not carrying a flag officer. Cap tain Gove of the Delaware ^JtTO the other commanders boarded the royal yacht and were received by the king on the quarter deck. At thee oncluslon of the reception the Victoria and Albert again weighed anchor and as the combined armada boomed a royal salute, returned to Portsmouth harbor. ♦ Of the 9hips present the aggregate tonnage of the British craft alone was over one million as compared with a little more than one-half this total present at Queen Victoria’s dia mond jubilee review in 1897. This aggregation of British Dreadnoughts and smaller sisters represented ap- Hammond Talks Of Naval Display London, June 24.—Commenting on the great naval review at Spithead, John Hays Hammond, the American special ambassador, said tonight: “It was the greatest fleet of war ships I ever saw, a most magnificent sight. I attribute my cordial recep tion more to the fact that the United States proposed the arbitration treaty han to do anything else. It is that act that has drawn all of the coun tries of the world together. “The king and queen, continued Mr. Hammond, “were very compajionable wi^h all of us. They walked about the royal yatch and talked lo everybody as though they were greeting old /riends. The trip was more like being on a private yatch. There was no formality anywhere. It was delight ful.” Mr. M. P. Pegram Draws a Pistol dressed over all with great acrches | proximately the huge outlay of $400,- of bunting which proclaimed the j 000,000 while if the value of the 18 American nationality. The sides ot foreign war.ships is added there was the proud craft were manned with' moored in this historic roadstead at cheering bluejackets and her band Spithead an international war fleet ILLINOIS FARMER FOUND IN A WELL. Fowler, Ind., June 24.—Peter Lar sen, a retired farmer, 63 years old, was found dead in a cistern at his home here. His head was badly cut as if by an axe, and there are strong indica tions of a homicide. His wife and he had quarreled dur ing the night, it is said. At 6 o’clock this morning she went to the home of a neighbor and reported her husband had gone away from the house after brutally beating her. The neighbors investigated and found the body float ing in the cistern. Larsen had been married twice, his second wife coming from Chicago as a nurse. They had been married but two months. Mrs. Larsen is under sur- vellance, but has not been arrested. MAN WAS WOMEN FOR THIRTY YERS. Boston, June 24.—An autopsy per formed on the charred remains of Harriet .Kelly, stewardess, who was one of the two women burned to death in the flre that destroyed the excursion steamer (Governor Andrew last Sunday morning disclosed the fact that Harriet was a man. This fact became public today for the first time. For 30 years Harriet lived as a wo man and was known on the Governor Andrew as a widow. No reason for his masquerade is known. For several years he was employed as a domestic in aristocratic Back Bay families, and always gave satisfaction. Represented Charlotte. Messrs. W. T. McCoy, J. M. Mc- Causland and Phons McLaughlin, who attended the meeting of the State Re tail Merchants’ Association in Hen dersonville, will return in a few days. On Mt. J. C. Tate of Tate- Brown Co. Last Night— Accosts Mr. Tate on Street And Fight Occurs. Mr. M. P. Pegram, Jr., who has been clerking for Tate-Brown for several years, became violent las-t night, and drew a pis tol on Mr. Tate. The later clinched with Mr. Pegram and while holding him called to a man standing in front of the Hospital Supply Com pany to take the pistol. He wreched thfe pistol out of Mr. Pegram’s- hand. The police were summoned and Mr. Pegram taken in charge. Mr. Tate was asked about the trouble: “I was walking along the street in front of the store,” he said, “when Miles came from g.cross the street. He ac costed me. I did not wish to talk with him and told him so. He became an gry and commenced to use oaths. We had an agreement that time lost ex cept In case of sickness, would be de ducted from his salary. This was the cause of his anger this evening. I saw that he was drinking, and told him so. He called me a liar and 1 struck him. Then he drew a pistol, saying, ‘D—n you. I’m fixed for you. I seized his hand in which was the tirn^him loJse, so^c^lled a Sitleman iy. The sui't Is instituted under the in front of the drug store to take | sherman anti-trust act. the pistol from him. He succeeded in doing so.” Mr.* Pegram and Mr, Tate have been devoted friends. The whole af fair is to be regretted. Mr. Pegram will be summoned be fore the recorder tomorrow morn ing. them will risk all tariff legislation on later action in the senate. Information reached here today that President Taft had determined to veto any tariff measure passed at this session of congress. Senate demo cratic leaders are not perturbed and will not change their plans to press tho Underwood wool tariff revision bill. It will be acted on as a separate measure. Senator Gore Talks. “I think it is generally understood now that the reciprocity bill will pass without any amendments,” said Sena tor Gore, who led the fight which forced the finance committee to re port the wool and farmers freel ist bills. “But the question whether the pres ident will veto a bill should have no bearing whatever on the action of the senate. We do not need any report from the tariff board or any one else to show that the wool tariff revision* downward. The president himself has said that ‘schedule K’ is indefensible. Undeniable Evidence. “I have in my possession now wool en goods which I bought in Canada for just one-half the price charged In this country for the identical goods. The' president, in reTeretice to his. reciprocity agreement, has re peatedly said the price of labor and the cost of production in Canada is the same as in the United States. We know that to be a fact. Then the high tariff is the only explanation of this difference in prices. “If we pass the wool bill this sum mer, it will reduce the cost of cloth ing to all the people of the United States next fall, and winter. “If we wait for a report from the tariff board another winter will have passed with the same extortionate and inexcusable prices b'^ing assessed against the peple. “The facts in, the case of wool are simple to any one who wishes to see them.” Speaker Clark Talks. Speaker Clark holds that the presi dent’s position if correctly stated, will react on him, and on the republi can party, “The tariff ought to be revised from top to bottom,” he declared em phatically, “The people of the land so decided last November. That Is their latest mandate. The house decided that it is best to revise it schedule by schedule. We have made a good start on that plan. We will continue as we have begun. The country «n- dbrses what the house Is doing. It the republican senate beats our bills or President Taft vetoes them, we will appeal to the country and it will sustain us. We believe we are right. We are not afraid of a con test,” Senator Stone said today that the reciprocity bill “must be passed with out the crossing of a ‘T’ or the dot ting of an ‘I.’ Most of our side feel that way about it. After that is done we can turn our attention to other tariff matters.” He added that what was done m way of revision depended on whether the insurgent repubUcans would co operate. Senator Cummins, who vnth sena tor LaFollette will lead In the effort to get the reciprocity agreement amended with general tariff revisions, admitted that, as it stands now, most of the democrats will oppose amend ment of the reciprocity agreement Senator Penrose, chairman of the finance committee, has advised repub lican senators to wait until the reg ular session before attempting to do anything with the tariff further to pass reciprocity. He has, voiwh- safed the interesting conclusion that President Taft‘intends to send In a message, probably special, at the opening of next congress, urging re vision of the wool schedule along the lines which will at that time be re commended by the tariff board. Big Damage Suit. Philadelphia, June 24.—Suit to cover $3,500,000 damages from the United Fruit Company was instituted in the United States circuit court here today by Elmer Wood, receiver of the Bluefields Steamship Compa- , Will Probe Clearing House. Albany, June 24.—The senate adopted the Grady resolution calling on Superintendent of Banks Van Tuyl to investigate the clearing house reg- ula tions with regard to trust compa nies. I S y-
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