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'IS ^I'ES FOR PONY OUTFIT ON NEW OR RENEWAL SUBSCRIPTIONvS TO THE NEWS HELPS A FAVORITE ei,t Edition THE CHARLOTTE NEWS Latest Edition U. 43. NO. 7073 CHARLOTTE N. C., THURSDAY t-VENlNG ‘JULY 6, 19l 1 pt> T^P j In Charlotte 2 Cents a Copy aDily—6 Cents Sunday. « Outside Charlotte 5 Cents a Copy Dally and Sunday. mid Disassociate Railroads Control From Of Mines alize the Commode use Of the Into state ■cc Law—Jo Prevent :y oj Business by Trying Railroads. THE SIEEL CONCLUDE All 'laS '^ght. Jui" 6. -The govf^rn- (he fleht to .'o;;! carrying railroads Against the Lehigh] .^ailroadHeard Ioday : By Associated Press. -f C/ # r^’ Brussels. Belgium, July 6.—The steel w.. Diazes \fOUrZ in nieu concluded the business which had i. 4 4. them together from nine steel ^OVeTninent to i luduclug countries in a brief session today und adjourned. Most of the Americans left for Paris late in the af- lernoon. The conference appointed a committee of 30, made up of membere of each national group, to work out a plan for an international steel organi- . , zation and submit the same to the full M'jaJ control ot mmoa conference which will be called. The t...> commodities clause j American members are Judge E. H. -'ato commerce A , Q^ry, chairman of the board of direc- :>!nst the Lehigh Va.-jtors of the United States Steel Corpor- '* .i bo filed today in the:afi,-,n; President A. J. Farrel, of the t 1 :ri In Philadelphia. same corporation; Charles M. Schwab, Valley Coal com- president of the Bethlehem Steel Com- rs. Incorporated, the pany; E. A. S. Clarke, president of the t Middlefleld railroad & L»acawanna Steel Company and Willis L. King, vice president of the Jones and Laughlin Steel Company. The convention organized forthwith by making Judge Gary chairman and W. B. Peat, of England, secretary and i:nvernment s adjourned to meet again when sum moned by the chairman. Reciprocity Junction CA^/AD1A WSX/RQk/n m v\w(^ Fearful Toll Of Human Life Due To Extieme Heat Educators In ’Frisco 2 oday By Associated Press. San Francisco, Cal., July 6.—The first big influx of Eastern delegates to the convention of the National Educa tional Association, which opens neve tomorrow evening, arrived today. This vanguard Included representatives from Chicago and New Orleans. The reception committees are busy wich plans for welcoming thousands of visi tors. The most notable of the day s arrivals w'as Mrs. Ella Flagg Young, president of the association, who is City superintendent of schools in Chi cago. Mrs. Young came with a party of about 30. The opening feature of the conven tion will be a banquet tomorrow eve ning, in . Mrs. Young’s honor. : ■ . and the Locust Moun- 'mn Company are not il companies, but merely fh> Lt-high Vallpj* ll:i:l- ih’virf‘3 f('r evading the ' IS ..i; i;;int. .. .’r .:ed the Lehigh I Following their deliberations the del- H' -i!, ANith the object o'legates were received at the Palace by ition. has caused the King Albert and later they visited the . ’ » i>;ii Compaiii' to con- | battlefield at Waterloo, nine miles out- ^ for the output of other j Belgian capital, rntors, has transported . it; own lines and through ( mpciny fixed the price in and other markets. . mr’ent charges that al- fvii;- tng of coal from other -as ho n done at a loss to 1 rjvaiiv, il has enabled the road to tra.nsport the ? OTTTi lines and profit from « harges. ■hi’r aJleeation that the Ije- ('orupanv is an adjunct of Valley Railroad, the gov-j pinmf sB_\s that since j qv Associated Press :-.iock of the coa> comcnny ‘ by the railroad. It has i(iciul?, that niilHona of dol- -HIS NEICHBORS E r^ttsburg, July 6.—A f«w minutes al ter it became known today that Fred- ierick Prager had been found dead in advancf'd by the rail- > ^is house in High street. North rnmpany which have Side, neighbors rushed to the house -rfiindtd. and ibat the rail-; and began ransacking for $11,000 alleg- .iid the upon thei^(j t,e hidden somewhere about the V s bond?, bfinp j preujiges, n took a squad of police to e’T'.ment clalTns, by the j house of fortune hunters and Iran port at ii»n of coal s.^ye the building from being wrecked. Prasrue succumbed during the night to the heal. Three weeks ago his sister, Mrs. Emma Strana, committed suicide, while a few months ago John Strana met a violent death in a mill. The three deaths wiped out the Strana-Pra- ger family and neighbors endeavored to get the rumored fortune. The police will make a thorough search some time today. T the Lehie’i Valley ;:y ih*'> IcgTi owner Van(.- Coal Companv’s ; .n®», nr has a i^cunlary ihe government hopes imo line with the re- ■ i r? {he ►nprenio conrt .1^'; , • « art, strike I rnaij».Anies and fo. r? t: roads from their con- r.r-s. n’: uu “i:/ T ILED FRIEND •'3 Ft^-.-es. Jolj 6.—A trap r.iaa for a chick*.^a r lt killed Rule* Baker, one i .'s ’.f-lghbors- A oreacu c a 'Aiis arranged so tLat t’.;e door of :'•€ Are th« gnn. pjuk '1. .vas bcirching for a ri; turkeys and auenriited ’Lf:Tn In Troutman's to open the ;nin whirh killed Bak- i ar^ than *^0 yeura ,,jfarrat'ra, the A Slight Disturbance at Reciprocity Junction on the Tariff Line. Some of the Insurgents are after Taft and Reciprocity Bill.—News Item. Blocade in Subway Capped Misery of Present Hot Wave -Relief Promised Tomorrow Bv Associated Press. „ , ^ . ,, , , . 110 o clock the Mercury had reached 84 New \ork, July 6. A blockade in j gjjj deaths had been reported up to the subway today capped the misery j that time. W’hile the heat wap consid- of the hot wave. When the stalled i erably less severe than on Monday and trains finally crept into the under-j Tuesday, the cumulative effects of four ground stations, fainting passengers, days of suffering kept the hospitals The Ghosts Walk Around His Bed w’ere helped out by the score. Many had to be carried to nearby drug stores and some taken to hospitals. busy with new arrivals. One man gave up the struggle against the weather and therw himself in front of a rail- ■WTiile the blockade lasted the list road train on the upper "West Side, of heat prostrations grew faster than His legs w’ere cut off dnd he* will die. Atlanta, July 6.—John G. Graham of this city, who cut his throat with a razor ye&terday, to escape a baud of white clad ghosts that haunted his bed, failed to release himself from the spectres even at that bloody price, for he was taken to the Grady hospital, and will probably recover and the terrible shapes, invisible to other eyes, continue to march in ghastly procession around his bed, while he shrieksr at them in defiance or cowers in fear. Graham did not try suicide until he had exhausted other expedients to Reports From Many of the Larger Cities Show Heat Wave is Still Doing its Dead ly Work^Many Deaths Aie Reported, Proceedings Of Day in Senate By Associated Press. Washington, July 6.—Life was to be instilled into the ordinary proceedings of the senate today by the proposed voting of the republican insurgent amendments offered by Senator Cum-! 74 mins, of Iowa, to the Canadian reci- , ^ „ . , , j j ' ly at 8 o clock, as they did at the same hour yesterday. Chicago’s offi cial figure was 80, a decrease of 6 degrees; Boston v.ith 86 degrees as Cooler Weather is Promised by Government Forecaster For Atlantic States on Tomor- row--Many Reports. By Associated Press. Washington, July 6.—Cooler weath er tomorrow is promised by the gov ernment forecaster to the ilorth At lantic states, practically the only sec tion of the country where the hot wave remains wholly unbroken. By tomorrow night Boston, now one of the four hottest places on the map, will get relief, it is predicted and the worst and most prolonged spell of heat since 1901 will be broken. New York and Washington began today with the thermometers regis- 80 degrees respective- compared with 82 yesterday morning, led the country for heat, along with Northfield, Vt., Syracuse, N. Y., and Concord, N. H. It isr considerably cooler in t-"’ at any previous time since the extreme hot weather began. There was no change for the better Relief is promised by tomorrow, relieve himself of the haunting forms, w'ith the hope of thundershowers to- They came to his bedside, he declar- night. PEACE PIICT TO BE SIGNED IN EDTDIIE IKES HIT IICK Senator and Mrs. Lea Practically Well Again. Washington. July 6.—Senatpr and Mrs. Luke Lea. of Tennessee, who have been patients at a local hospital several weeks past had so far recov ered that they were able to leave the city for a near-by mountain resort. Sen ator Lea, weakened by the tranfusion of blood to save the life of his wife, is r:pidly regaining strength and expects soon to resume his active duties. SUNOAY BALL By Associated f’ress. By Associated Press. Washington, July 6.—An attack on London, July 6.—The British gov-! the Canadian reciprocity bill on the emment is so sati&fled with the ’ ground that it surrenders the market o orhi I of the American farmer without any progress of the American-Bntish arbi-, agreement was tration treaty that Sir Edward Grey, g, usurpation of authority by the the secretary of foreign affairs, was ^ president and that the bill should able to announce in the house of com-; ^ave originated in the house as a mons today that there was every revenue measure, was made in the prospect that the peace pact would, senate today by Mr. Gronna, of North be signed very soon. I Dakota, a republican insurgent. “I believe that the United States Senator Gronna declared the farm- government and ourselves are now in g^.g country were almost unan- subs-tantial agreement as regards the imous in their opposition to the reci- details of the draft of a treaty,” he prodty bill and that their indiffer- said. MESSAGE OF GOV. HOOPER TO LEGISLATURE. ence was apparent only to those viewing the farmers attitude with prejudiced eyes. In having the bill framed and try ing to force it through congress, de clared Senator Gronna, the president exceeded his constitutional powers, a be Trotters Arrive. ■;-:ifr.no. Cal.. July 6.—^JThe 1 rotters reported anyon. a naiural ice ;u i^rmardino nioun- lii'-'c weeks ago, today. The r\ of Georjif* MacDonald. . », ivrry Elmore, Harry :t ;;tiMe. ?[0 GO'iERNOR illPPOINI ilfli Xr>'A':-, .Jul;. r.,- X delegation rnifrt Oxford to urge upon .'' h ri til*' up, ^.mtriiont of f * ')»• lii.u. e, A. W. ■ foninilssioner ■ .) !ii- Ht=nry (.’lay ' ' found lov»*rnor ivitohiii !• rl!; In tl)o delori'ition M s Rov^u-r, A, fl, ifickt', W’, l)r>vtn. T1h-> ' .'iiinin widi rcinforre- ' a," iirf-r^slnf4 tlu» aj)point- !d -«r (ir.th.HfM oil I lu* ground ajid HqiiipjtK'iii for ) ( ainiiu>.'lor"T .Mho ttiat •i t i... 1 lill 1! VDiO i'or By Associated Press. Nashville, Tenn., July 6.—In a spec ial message to the Tennessee legisla- decidedly serious violation, he added, ture this morning strongly urging the because it w^as in accordance with passage of the fellow-servpuits law, g. pledge given to a foreign nation, w'hich is pending, Governor Hooper, “The president,” he continued, “has stated it was currently reported that apparently come to the concluswn one railroad alone had issued more that he represents the people of this than 11,500 passes during the legisla- country both as executive and leg- tlve session. ' i&lative and that the two houses of “I am glad that our state has not congi'ess are merely two bodies ot been led astray by the extreme fanati- men provided for by the constitution cism of anti-corporation crusaders, but which he can unfortunately not get let us not make the mistake of swing- rid of, but which are to be ignored ing to the opposite extreme to the det- and coerced whenever he deems riment of men,” said the governor. | necessary or expedient. In another special message Governor Mr. Gronna contended that the Hooper urged that interest be collect- goods oji ed on state deposits. j s*eU to VEGETABLES ^FRUIT SAVED, t^he United ‘^/ellYnTto Atlanta Julv 6.—Vegetables and her. * „ , . fruit in the ndghborhood of Atlanta He denounced the agreement as a verdict Is taken to mean that Suuda> j saved by the heavy thunder- cloak to hide the adoption of a ^ contests will continue. Nine inaings | gj^Q-^grs By Associated Press. Jacksonville, Fla., July 6. “Not gu'l- ty” was the verdict of the jury in the case of Pitcher Clyde Adams, of the Jacksonville club of the South Atlan tic Ijeague charged with participating in a game of baseball on Sunday, June 25th, in violation of the state law. This case wa.s the outcome of tiie Sunday exhibition game played be- Columbus and Jacksonville. The tween ed, yesterday morning just at dawn. He begged them to go away, and threatened, and even threw furniture at them, but without effect. Finally he took a razor and after slashing at the heads of the ghosts two or three times, turned the blade in desperation on himself. He was found by his sons, lying in a pool of blood, all but dead. The blade, how'- ever, missed the jugular and Graham stands a good chance to recover. procity bill. These amendments pro pose to enlarge the free list from Can- j ada under the bill by adding cotton, wool, sugar, steel, iron, etc., to the 1 Canadian products privileged under | the agreement. The senate arranged to meet at 11 o’clock this morning and hereafter. Senator Gronna, of North Dakota, was scheduled to make a speech today against the reciprocity bill and Sen ator Works, of California, expected to upper lake region, the plains sta^tes discuss the federal public health ser-! and the middle west and further re- vice. Senator Owen, of Oklahoma, j ^ucUons in temperatures are prob- also expected to speak today on the | showers have moderated the commission form of government. | Southern states and relief The house was not in session but the I may be had committee on ways and means expect-j Atlantic states within the next ed to begin its task of adopting a re- hours vision on cotton tariff. Chicago, 111., July 6.-Two hundred and one deaths and 273 prostrationb was the toll exacted by Chicago’s rec ord-breaking hot wave, which lasted for five days. One hundred and twen ty-five infants who died from the heat are included in the list. The hot wave was broken shortly Atlanta, July 6.—The announce- after 1 o’clock this morning by rain ment that Governor Smith is prepar- which brought with It a cool breeze to call the legis'lature’s atten-1 and a drop in temperature of 0 de constitutional provision j grees. Later the wind shifted from Strike Situation Further Complicated By Associated Press. Manchester, England, July 6.—The situation growing out of the strike of carters was further complicated today by the enforced idleness of thousands of cotton operatives. Many mills are unable to obtain coal and other supplies and have been com pelled to shut down indefinitely. Throngs of strikers and others out of work were in the streets, the num ber being added to by several hun dred coal miners who struck this morning in sympathy with the carters and the dockers w'ho have not yet returned to work. Some 750 troops and 300 London po lice arrived this morning. There was an occasional recurring of stone throwing but the police, swinging their clubs, quickly routed the man- ifestants. The strike leaders declare that roughs and not the strikers are responsible for the rioting that has taken place. Inaease In Legislature ing tion to the for the re-apportionment of legisla tive representation in the several counties does not mean the redistrict- the west to the north and the mer cury gradually dropped until at 7 o’clok it stood at 80 degrees, 6 points mg of the stat for congressional pur-j lower than at the corresponding hour poses, nor has it anything to do with | yesterday. At 9 o’clock the temperature EXCURSIONISTS ARRIVED IN COi.UMBIA ALL RIGHT. will be nlayed with an interruption fori -p^e truck farms were suffering ter- ribly, and had the rain not fallen it would have meant a loss of hun dreds and even thousands of dollars to the farmers who grow that of produce. Local Option Election By Associated Press. Mobile, Ala., July 6.—A local option election to determine whether liquor shall be legally sold in this county by private dealers under the regulation? passed by the last legislature, is on here today. The weather has been very bad all the early part of tne day and light vote is expected. o? the past two afternoons., ^crnomic and industrial policy out ot atliletic sports between every three innings by wliich the management evades the law and upon which ground they fought and won the casQ. Risiisr DROP IN PRICE OE CO R N By Associated Press. Chicago, 111., Juy fi.-WIth rain mols- tcnlug tiie cf)rn fields of Illinois, Ne braska, Iowa and north Kansas the market for that cereal dropp^ 3 cents at the opening today. The Dewmbe options which closed at '!b cents >es- ...rriav, declined to 63 while September .ninini.s ion^-r In tin- Char- options wnicn c—— infioii win n Hrovn and Iajk lerday, declined .inatod latt July, dropped from 66 3-4 last night to b4c. General Fight at Dance. By Associated Press. Muskogee, Okla., July 6. A quarrel over a girl at a country dance and pic nic nine miles south of this city today resulted in a general fight in wMch eleven men were stabbed. It is heliev harmony wnth republicanism, a, policy which lie said the rank and file of the party would repudiate. Mr. Gronna contended that the farmer had met with “unkindly re buffs” when he attempted to press his case to the president, that the administration indifferent to the wel fare of the farmers, that the free admission of the Canadian wheat would glut the Minneapolis and Du luth markets and cause the surren der of w'heat growing to Canada to a large extent for years to come. Special to The News. Columbia, S. C., July 6—The Charles ton excursionists from the Tentn Ave nue Presbyterian church, reached Col umbia at 11 o’clock without mishap. Every comfort was provided for the pasengers and everybody is enioying the trip. There were 425 of the ox- cursicnists. Th3 start from Columbia for Charles ton was made at 12:20 o’clock. FORSET INSECT FIELD STATION PLANNED. that. The representation in the state as sembly is fixed by constitution on the population of the respective counties as show’n by the United States census. The governor has wired the direc tor of the federal census bureau ask-! ing certified copies of the popula tion of Georgia by counties, and the! re-apportionment will be simple. The law provides that the six most pop ulous counties in the state shall each be entitled to three representatives in the assembly; that the next twen ty-six counties in point of population shall each have two and that the re maining counties shall have one. was at 78 compared with 93 for the same hour yesterday morning. The official weather forecaster pre dicts cooler, unsettled weather for to day with thunderstorms for tonight. The forecast for Friday is clear and cooler. Hot at Pittsburg. Pittsburg, Pa., July 6. The oi^ pressive heat continues here todaj. At 9 a. m. the thermometer register ed 87 degrees, a jump of 8 degrees an hour. There is no indication that the hot spell which started last Fri-' day will be broken today. Southwest Cooler. Kansas City, July 26.—With temper atures over the Southwest at 7 0 clock this morning reading from 5 to 10 de grees lower than at the same hour yes terday and light showe-s in sight over years, Curtis at his alley. TUIS MHS To Decide Prohibition Issue. Birmingham, Ala., July 6.—Local optionists of Jefferson county today filed a petition with the probate judge asking for an election to deciae whether or not prohibition shal’. i « continued. Sixty-five hundred names of qualified voters are on the libt and less than 4.000 are needed un der the law. Probate Judge Stiles will require a list before of the injured who is unidenti- , ^ flpd wil* die The wounds of several week to investigate the Se sirious ' By Associated Press. ^ Spartanburg, S. C., July 6.-As the result of widespread destruction of the pine trees in this section of the coun try, it is announced here that the gov ernment will establish a forest insect field station in this county. A. D. Hop kins, in charge of the forestry insect Investigation will arrive here tomorrow morning to take up the fight against the pine beetle, w^hlch is believed to be responsible for the destruction. Christian Endeavor Meet. By Associated Press. Atlantic City, N. J., July 6.—Thou sands of members of the society of Christian End.'avor arrived in this city today for the 25th international convention of tiie bi? organization, which opens- this evening. The tig feature of the convention will be ihc visl! »!f President Tni't tomorrow night, when he will speak at two meetings' on the pier. Aged Negro IDes. Atlanta Ga., July 6.—Jack Jones, ^ a respected negro shoemaker of this ^ most of the territory, relief from lie city died yesterday at the age of 103 , heat was predicted today by the local little shack, No, 161 forecaster. Yesterdays climax of the heat wave will not be reached today by from 10 to 15 degrees, he said. At Fort Worth, Texas, a slight rain fell todav Last night an inch of rain fell at Niobrara, Neb. The temperature j ■at Norfolk, Neb., showed a drop of nearly 30 degrees at 7 o’clock this morning and at North Platte, Neb., 08 at that hour. „ , , , In the 24 hours ended at 7 o clock this morning there were nine deaths from heat and 20 prostrations in Kan sas City, most of them coming lite j last night and early today. The temper ature dropped from 90 at 1 a. m. to 80 at 7. At Oklahoma City and Wichita it was 76, at Little Rock, Ark., 72 and at Fort W”orth, Texas, at 7 o’clock. Jwo Deaths From Heat. Akron, O., July 6.—With the temper ature near the hundred mark, two By Associated Press. New Orleans, July 6.—The price of the most attractive new crop deliver- j several prostrations occur- ies in the cotton market broke a quar- j here today, ter of a cent a pound this morning as ; Very Hot in Boston, the result of rains in Texas and Okla-1 _^^Boston, My homa. For over an hour after the opeu- i today with the sun blazing dow'n ing the heaviest selling in months was, ^ cloudless sky and high temper- done and it appeared to be about equal-1 combining with unusual humidity ly divided between long and short ac- making conditions more distress- counts. ing Soon after ten o’clock this morn- On the opening the new crops were mercury had climbed to 94. 11 to 12 points down. By the middle -jjp morning the heat has of the morning they were 24 to 25 | ^he direct cause of ten deaths in points down. October displayed the 1 England and there have been 17 most activity and the widest decline. browning accidents, the victims in The slump of 25 points was equivalent i cases having sought to avoid the to ?2.25 a bale. Thousands of bales of i by cooling baths in ocean, lake long cotton were thrown overboard j stream, on this decline and many thousand j Death Due to Heat, bales of cotton were sold short. Bulls j Cincinnati, O., July 6.—The death made no effort to support the ne vv j today of Frank M. McDonald, for many crop months and all the buying orders j years in the lumber business in Cov- came from shorts who were satisfied 1 ington, Ky., was reported as directly with their profits. I due to the heat. McDonald was The weather map did not show 1 known to the lumber trade In the West much if any rain in the west heir,' and South. private telegrams told of showers well Three Deaths at Davenport scattered over both Texas and Okia- Davenport, Iowa, July 6.—Three homa. A little later the supplementary deaths were reported here today as reports from the weather bureau con- a a result of the excessive heat One firmed private messages. Such rains as i death occurred during the night ana 4.10 inches at Ardmore, Okla.. and 2.74 ' two* this morning. A heavy ram Nacogdoches, Texas, wap taken. broaght relief. I • '!* 'I • ,y\ 'I •• ■'‘iv ^ ...i •l‘.♦ • V's ; m I. wt ■ ;p»(« . ,. -I. ■ Ait * * • , ^ i. vv.',. • . , ’.‘f ■ J'f’- mf ti' m (. ... ■' iKk-.,.' ■ ■ *1 m ■ ft r.’s.V’' .' ft 1■' ■ .'.‘I*:.- »•- .r i V >1* yl-f ^ • ,-* 1, ^ i- > ■ i * > •' r'
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