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VOTES FOR PONY OUTFIT ON NEW OR RENEWAL SUBSCRIPTIONS TO THE NEWS HELPS A FAVORITE Latest Edition THE CHARLOTTE NEWS. Latest Edition VOL. 43. NO. 7074 CHARLOTTE N. C., FRIDAY fcVENING‘JULY 7, I9II pi^ T/^p { In Charlotte i Cents • Copy aDUy«^ Cents Sonfla^. * Outside Charlotte fi Cents a Copy Dafly and Stmday. indre Beaumont Won Thousand Mile Race Which Ended Today ■national Circuit Aviationlcktistian EndCOVOJ :ce or 1000 Miies Won by Wofkers BuSV . dtenant Connean, Whose ^ :mg Name IS Andre Beau- ju.y 7.-sun. rise services on the million dollar ' pier ushered in the second day's activities of the 25th international Christian Endeavor convention. These were followed by the hold ing of Christian Endeavor institutes in eleven local churches. President Taft's arrival and what he will say on training citizens w*l be the feature of tonight's sesslo* The president will arrive about 7 p. ra. and will remain here about v j and a half hours Preparations have been made to give him a most enthu siastic reception. Campaigns for securing the next in ternational convention in 1913 are already under way. California seeni§ to be leading the other contestants? by a good margin. : Fijty Aeroplanists who icTtedy Beaumont Was St Of the ^ine who Land- ^ in Vincennes—Prizes oj : 00,000 Given, ■ Ht#d Press. r.iy 7.—Lieutenant Conneau, 'tn«: name is Andre Beau- •'.p t.OOO mile International ion race which ended today •itlon field at Vincennes, id already won the Paris to St, Conneau brings added French na\*y. of which he ■r Garros was second and ■ ',:i:ed third. flfT*. aeroplanists who took v.r.cennes on June 18, nine ' • final goal. Tw'o of the rac- rir. and Landron. and Cap- -au, who had been detailed certain problems in recon- conection with the race, i on the oi>ening day. Sever- •ei’plved more or less seri - from falls. fn.«k tho airmen through from Paris across Bel- ind. over the English • London and return. Prizes : about $100,000 were given. ‘ 1 timf* of the flyers from '■.n'is were; . ’.:sur.«. 33 miniitei', 6 sec- - 40. nt ?-26;15. I i;::09. rvv; 1:2!-14. • :imos recorded for the en- ,f vt.e hours. 36 minutes. 43 i»arros 62 hours. Is minutes, I- Vidart To hours ‘J3 min- m Thinks Husband Puisued by Mystics By Associated Press. Boston, July 7.—Believing that her husband is being pursued by Indian mystics who desire the return of a marvelously hideous ring he pos sesses, Mrs. Josephine Swanton, ot Chester, Eng., arrived in Boston last night on the 465th day of her search which ha» carried her to India and across the continent to Boston. Mr. Swanton received a silver ring bearing a hideous blue stone, as a reward for service for an Indian doc tor five years or more ago. He has since been continually besought by natives of India for the return of the ring. He went to India to learn the cause and after writing he was leaving Bombay for America was lost to his wife. Mrs. Swanton was told her husband had been seen by a friend in Boston and is here to find him. ■ rcere the Car rier Is Liable Harris Endoised By the Merchants AVIATOR ATWOOD Harry N. Atwood, the youthful aviator, who Is to attempt a flight from New York to Washington, D. C., which will eclipse his recent wonderful one-stop fiigitt from Boston to New London, Conn., to Governors Island, New York. Atwood’s capers about the tops of the Manhattan skyscrapers before making his landing surpassed any> thing of the kind ever before attempted by an aviator. The daring youngster announced that he expected to start his flight to Washington on iVionday, July 3rd, but it aii depended on weather conditions. .THORNT TIKES FULL OOT or RECIPROCITY SWANSON URCES NEED OP BETTER PUBLIC BOARS The God of Heat Becomes Chai iiahle For The Nonce lake Up Defense Of Doomed Woman By Associated Press. Washington, July 7.—“The only plausibly meritorious claim for the passage of the Canadian reciprocity bill was withdrawn by Pre&id^nt Taft in his recent address at Indianapolis when he said that the bill would not diminish the cost of living,” declared Senator Thornton, of Louisiana, dem ocrat, today in addressing the sen ate. Senator Thornton said the farmers of thee ountry should not be “bun coed” by the enactment of the bit*; I ^ut the examination and cross- exammation is conducted with such By Associated Press. New York, July 7.—W. E. D. Stokes testimony was still unfinished when court convened today for further ex amination of the charge that an at tempt to murder Stokes was made a month ago by Miss Lilian Graham and Miss Ethel Conrad. The purpose of these proceedings is to be determined whether the evidence is sufficient to warrant aending the case to the grand Special to The News. .Raleigh, N. C., July 7.-President Ed gar Broughton, of the North Carolina Merchants’ Association, announces the officers and directors of the state asso ciation endorse the candidacy of E. ” 11.. Harris, secretary of the state asso- , . . :ciation, in Raleigh, for corporation '• cai rier I (.Qjjiniissioner to succeed the late H. C. Brown, local associations being urg ed to take action to this effect. The Salisbury association endorsed Har ris last night. Governor Kitchin returns to Raleigh tomorrow. “There are many candidates,” is the answer of Col. Alex. J. Field, privo.te secretary to the governor, to an in quiry as to the number of candidates in the race for commissionership. Some of those known to be in the contest are E. L. Harris, of Raleigh; E. L. Travis,-of Halifax; L. C. Bagwoil, of Raleigh; H. A. London, of Pittsboro. •rd P V. • >r J\il> resulting from a •r 1 >h’tiper'? t-pecific rout- even though it sends r - •. ia a route taking a low- 'he oricinal billed de-tina- r-; '.ia ^ 13 announced by the » ,-,.p commission today n of 'he cate of the Switzer • •t'P?nv, of Shreveport. La., Te\-iP & New Orlcan& ■ I "rh* * carriers. i- 'n declares in the opin- ii> part of a carrier's ,i,it. upon the reasons if* I'UCh instructions and f they do not express - ^ desire. I he Day's Debate In The Senate ii'ed Press. .-'on. July 7.—A continuance ■ ate on the Canadian re- >r' and a speech by Sen- it.-ion, of Virginia, on his i ropriate twenty million dol- ;-T.iy for five years to put ■ the country into stand- '■ >n constituted today’s pro- !; . Senate. Thorn»on, of Ijouisripfia. arranged to deliver his id.iy against the reci- and Senator Gronna, of ■ will continue his at- measure. was not in session and nvestigations, that of the !r. mittee on the Lorimer ; .1 those of the house spec- on the sugar and steel lusfs, will not be resum . \r week. that the bill was not a democratic measure and that therefore he felt free to carry out his pledges to the people of Louisiana in voting against it, even if he did not follow his party in the senate in so doing. “It could never have been framed by any democratic committee.” de clared Mr. Thornton, “for no bill that combines free trade for agriculturists with protection for manufacturers could possibly be democratic.” He contended that the bill violated the great democratic principle of equality but admitted that it would be enacted into law. Condition of J. W. Gates. By Associated Press. Paris, July 7.—Intimate friends who i see John W. Gates daily say that the condition of the American financier ii4 much improved. Mr. Gates’ Physician thinks that he can travel after 1C days and plans already have been made for his return to America at the end of the present month. CURiOS SHOWN FROM THE FOREIGN MISSION FIELD ‘ ia*ed Press. ■ti. S. C., July 7.-Uan‘eI '■I' d, liS hanged toda/ at > I'lr the murder on June ..f Max Lubelsky, a Jiwisn the crime being amon.; me Tocious In the annals of thl^i n 11 the last moment Dunctn ■ 1 Kreat nerve but as the b:u.ck I' being adjusted he faint*d, the • .HK sprung while nr> w^.? in this ■I To the last the ncg.-o stoul- i^Hfiined his innocence of all I*of the crime, leaving a for the newspapers. Bv Associated Press. ‘Asheville, July 6.—Following the regular routine of program exercises of this morning’s session of the South ern Educational Missionary Movement an interesting feature was added to this afternoon's proceedings when workers from China, Japan and _ Ko- rea place on exhibition curios from the fields wherein they have worked and traveled. The vesper services this afternoon were on the campus of the Normal and Collegiate Institute and were attended by many visitors from the surrounding country. Big Packing Plant Burned. Pittsburg, July 7.—Th^ Rea Pack ing Company plant of this city was practically destroyed by fire today causing a loss of $200,000. CASTRO HIlS F IN RESERVOIB By Associated Press. Martins Ferry, Ohio, July 7.—Resi dents of this city and Bridgeport, Ohio, for the past several days have com plained of the taste of water coming from the reservoir here. Last night it w’as cleaned out and the decomposed body of a man found in it. Invest.'t^a- tion showed that foreigners working in the coal mines have been using the res ervoir for bathing purposes. Story of Battle With Pirates By Associated Press. Washington, July 7.—Cipriano Cas tro. the exiled president of Venezuela has eluded the vigilance of the nations of the world and landed in his native country in disguise at Castilleles on Gojira peninsmulr, according to ^ port to the state department today from Caracas, confirming a rumor from there yesterday. The Venezu^a gov ernment is making strenuous efforts to cope with the situation and frustrate any revolutionary designs Castro may hflvc. General Jorge Pello, a friend of Cas tro, has been arrested at Maracarlbo and others of his followers are said to have been imprisoned. His family Is reported to be at Cucuta. It is supposed that the illusive Ven ezuelan reached Castilletas in a, launc from Santa Marta, Colomba, where he arrived from Colon. It la not known lie reached Colon. By Associated Press. Victoria, B. C., July 7.—The story of a successful battle with the pi rates who looted the wreck of the Pacific Mail liner, and the recovery of much stolen silk, w^as brought by the steamer Prelesilause, which reachcd port from the Orient yester day. The agent of the Pacific Mail line was given the use of a small Chinese warship and a complement of soldiers. When the gunboat ap proached the retreat of the looters, the pirates put out and began an at tack. A volley from the soldiers kill ed several of the pirates and the bat tle soon ended with the fiight of the brigands. They were pursued and their retreats uncovered. Much the stolen silk and electrical equip ment taken from the Asia was re covered. thoroughness that it amounts practi-.. cally to a trial. The letters which Stokes referred to yesterday were found by detectives in the girls’ rooms a few days after she shooting and since then have been in the possession of the district attorney. In them, Stokes, who said that he was 57 years old, for the most part adopted toward the young girl an attitude of fatherly counsel, advising her against the stage, against intoxicating liquors and about life in general. The two defendants and Miss Gra ham’s sister, Mrs. John Singleton, wife of a wealthy California mining man, who accompanied them in court, list ened to Stokes testimony with fre quent derisive smiles. All three dress- in the daintiest of summer costumes and present a refreshing sight in the torrid court room. The pretty young defendants were dressed alike today in striking gowns of w'hite serge trimmed with satin. Stokes wore sombre black and carried a boat-shaped straw hat. When Mr. Stokes resumes his testi mony he said he was not sure how many letters exhibited yesterday were his. He thought about eight. He told of a visit made to his office on May 21 last by Miss Conrad, which w'as the first time the letters were brought to his notice. She came into his office, he said, highly excited and was unable to speak for some time. “When she became calmer,” Stokes continued, “she told me she had been out to dinner the night before. She met Miss Graham, she said, at the dinner and the young lady was' in distressed circumstances with little money and no clothes and that she had taken her home to her rooms. “When I went out this morning to business,-Miss Conrad said. I left Miss Graham in bed. I forgot my pencil and returned for it. When I got into the room I was shocked to find a note on the table together with a bundle of letters, the note saying that Miss Gra ham had committed suicide and she had addressed the letter to the press. “Miss Conrad also told me” contin ued Stokes, “that some of the letters were mine and ^onie belonged to other men. She sai*! she rushed into the bed room and found Miss Graham in bed, her face all blistered and burned where she had spilled carbolic acid. A doctor was called and pumped her out, Miss Conrad said, and saved her life. Miss Coarad, according to Stokes, proceeded to narrate to him her family history. Sle was, according to this nar rative, the daughter of a Russian prince, who met her mother in Louis ville and eloped with her. Miss Conrad being born in Venezuela. Losses of one kind and another re duced the widow’s property from $200,000 to $20,000, which later sum she collected in New York on insur ance. This $20,000, Stokes said, Miss Conrad told him, was squandered by a man her mother married. The daugh ter then had to go to work. “She said,” the witness continued, “she had come to see me on her law yer’s advice to tell me about the let ters she found on the table, with the suicide note.” “I told Miss Conrad that Miss Gra ham was an undesirable woman,” tes tified Stokes, “and that I would not give Miss Graham one cent, but J said I would give Miss Conrad mon ey for the nurse to look after Miss Graham. Miss Conrad wanted mbe to sigh a note for $200 to allow Miss By Associated Press. Washington, July 7.—The annual appropriation of $20,000,000 for five years’ to improve the post roads and rural delivery routes of the govern) ment was urged in the senate today by Mr. Swanson, of Virginia. Conten^i- ing that despite the amazing achieve ments in many directions by this country, it is notorious that the United States has the poorest public roads and highways of any civilized nation, he siad. Mr. Swanson explained that his plan would open more than 1,000,000 miles of roads to government aid, that the states or local autliorities would furnish an amount equal to that appropriated by the federal gov ernment and that the total would be divided among the states, according to population. The bill would create a road department consisting of en gineers and capable officials to carry out the project. The measure, he explained, was m.odelled somewhat after the Virginia state law. “When the federal government com mences to bea,r its fair share of the endburden of improving our public roads,” said Senator Swanson, “that day will mark the beginning of ine end of bad roads in this nation. The American nation would be powerless to picture through the vista of the coining years the increased health and happiness, the increased wealth and power and the great moral and material advance which would come to‘ this republic upon the inaugura tion of this great national policy.” Senator Bilbo Resting Easy By Associated Press. Jackson, Mis&., July 7.—The fol lowing bulletin was issued at 10:30 this morning by Dr. Crisler, the phy sician in attendance upon State Sen ator Theodore G. Bilbo, who was as- „ , , saulted by J J. Henry, at Starkville, Graham to go aboard. I said I would Miss., yesterday “Senator Bilbo is resting easy. No unfavorable symptoms have develop ed.” not. I would give no agreement be cause I thought Miss Graham was a dangerous woman By Associated Press. Chicago, July 7.—Some of the most prominent women of Chicago have taken up the cause of Mrs. Angelina Napolitano, who is under sentence of death for the murder of her husband at Sault Ste, Canada. The date for the execution is se* for August 12. Unless the calculations of the prison physician are wrong August 12 will fall within two weeks after Mrs. Napolitano has become a mother. Their campaign takes the form of an appeal to every woman in Chi cago to write a letter to Sir Allyn Aylesworth, minister of justice of Canada, urging him to grant Mrs. Napolitano a respite until a month or six weeks after the child is born. Los Angeles, Cal., July 7.—The Pa cific coast steamship company’s steam er Santa Rosa went ashore off Point Arguello In Santa Barbara county at 3 o’clock this morning, according to wireless messages received early to day at Los Angeles harbor. The Stand ard Oil Company’s barge Number 91 was reported on the way to render as sistance. No details have been received of the extent of the damage although the message telling of the ships going on the beach was presumably from the ship’s own wireless instrument. Many Petitioners. New Orleans, July 7.—Headed by Mayor Behrman and signed by all the city and parish officials, petitions estimated to contain between 50,000 and 100,000 names of New Orleans residents, will be forwarded on July 15 to Earl Grey, governor-general of Canada, asking that Mrs. Angelina Napolitano under sentence of death at Sault Ste Marie, Ont., for the murder of her husband, be pardoned. Littie Rock People. Little Rock, Ark. July 7.—The Ar kansas Democrat today amilod vo t^e governor-general of Canada a petition bearing the names of 21,011 Little Rock people, asking for the pardon of Mrs. Angelina Napolitano. Governor Dona- ghey headed the petition. After Slaughtering Dozens of Lives Upon His Burning Altar He Relents — Fearful Record or Death AndSujfer* ing Comes to an End. Fatal Automobile Accident By Associated Press. Grants Pass, Ore., July 7.—A fam ily automobile party, touring from Portland to San Francisco, ended near Crescent City, Ore., yesterday when the machine’s fuel tank explod ed, fatally burning one young woman and inflicting serious injuries upon her sister, father and the two little brothers for whose protection she gave her life. The dead is Miss Myr- na Kelly. The injuerd: J. B. Kelly, Myrna’s father; Miss Angela Kelly, Mobart Kelly, Homer Kelly, all of San Francisco. A bump in the road struck the bottom of the car stripping the gear and tearing loose the gasoline tanlj- As the car sprang forward fire from the burners streamed back, touching the tank. An explosion, toilowed and flames enveloped the tonneau. Myrna Kelly, with her arms around her six and eight year old brothers, crowded them down in the car but j was herselt caught by the full blast By Associated P«ss o( the fire. She died last night. Atlanta. Ga.. July 7. CATCH COCAINE BUNCH. Special to The News. Greensboro, N. C., July 7.—City Po licemen Heller and McFarland round ed up twelve negro cocaine sellers yes terday afternoon and last night, and in the city court this morning Judge Euer tried several of the cases. Four negro men were found guilty of selling cocaine and were given six months each on the city chain gang. The other cases will he tried Friday. Congressman Mitcheii Dead. By Associated Press. Lawrence, Kas., July 7.—Represen tative Alexander C. Mitchell, of the second Kansas dis-trict, died at his home here at 7:45 this morning following a long illness. Mr. Mitchell was elected to the house of representatives last year on a progressive republican platforni, defeating Representative Charles 1*. Scott, “regular republican.” Two weeks after Mr. Mitchell took his seat in the national house of rere- sentatives last March he was compell ed to return home on account of the illness which resulted in his death. Mr. Mitchell was a member of the Kansas legislature in 1907 and 1909 and during his term introduced the law abolishing capital punishment now in force in Kansas. tllElBlll DESOLUTIOII IS CHICAGO EDiTOR RETURNS DECORATION OF HONOR. By Associated Press. Chicago, July 7.—Nicolay V. Grev- fftad the Chicago editor, recently ap pointed United States minister to Uruguay and Paraguay, has returned a decoration bestowed upon him sev eral years ago by King Maakon, of Norway. The decoration is the Norwe gian knighthood of St. Olaf, granted to Mr. Grevstad in recognition of hip services as a newspaper man. “I feel that it is no more than right that I return the decoration now that I am about to enter the American diplomatic service,” said Mr. Grevstad. “The constitution pro hibits the acceptance by federal em ployes of decorations from foreign governments. While I received the order - several years ago I feel that I ought to ask the consent of congress to retain it and that I do not wish to do.” check for $200, to enable Miss Gra ham to get to Belgium to join her sister, whereupon he continued: “Miss Conrad said: ‘Oh, no, don’t draw a check, there might be some scandal about it. Give me the cash. I said ‘all right,’ and gave her the Stokes said he offered to draw a [ ,moii«y«' Atlanta, Ga., July 7.—State Senator Emmett Shaw’s resolution affecting the election of United States Senators was thoroughly squelched this morning when the senate by a vote of 35 to 6 moved to lay it on the table. This ac tion-is taken to mean that the mem bers of the upper branch of the legisla ture proposes to go ahead with the election of a senator in the good, old fashioned way. The Shaw resolution provided that all senatorial candidates pledge themselves to resign in the spring, if elected, and place their can didacy into the hands of the voters at a primary to be held then. The Copeland-Davis conservation bill, fostered by the Georgia conserva tion congress, was introduced into the senate. It provides for the creation of a state department of conservation with a commissioner at its head to look after protection of the state’s nat ural resources, its game, fish and birds. The house committee appointed to consider the purchase of a painting of the late Senator A. S. Clay to be hung in the capital, reported to the senate that it approved of Senator Harris’ res olution authorizing the purchase. Representative Blackshear of Rich mond introduced a bill to create a state highway commission to look after good road matters. Another flood of minor measures were introduced into both branches, making a total of about 200 since the session opened little more than a week ago. Cooling Zephyrs Fan Humanity Into Pleasant Frame of Mind—Rains Add to 7h^ Pleasantness of The Relief Offered, By Associated Press. Washington, July 7.—Relief fiom the heat has come to practically every large city in the county ex cept Baltimore and Washington which are included in a li'ttie cir cle now monopolizing all that is left of the record breaking hot wave of the past week. The torid region extends tiom northevL Virginia to southeastern Pennsylvania, including Maryland, New Jersey and the Dis- tiict of Columbia, where temperatures are practically what they have been/ for a week. Even here, however, re- Lef may be cxpected not later than tonight, ac&>r-ling to the weather bu reau. There were wme good rains during past 24 hours in Ohio, central Indiana and northeastern Kentucky. There we^e also fairly good suowei'R ever so'ithwc''teru sections from Kansas sovlhwara over tthe Texas and Louisiana 'oast. Showers have ocurred at places in the eastern cct ton belt and on the Atlantic sc'Uih of Virginii. Marked reduction in temreraturea are reported fTcm New’ England New York, PeunsyWana and the lake re gions and it is somewhat coole:* in the lower Ohio and upper Mis.^issippi valleys. It IS slightly warmer o’'''er the northern plains and in the lloclvy mountain region but this will be o£ short duration as a change to cool er weather already has set in along the northern Pacific coast. In New York this morning at 8 o’clock the thermometer registered 82, 4 degrees warmer than at the same hour yesterdav. However, the weath er experts say that a 20 mile breeze is sweeping over Manhattan from the Atlantic and that there will be no ajipreciable rise in temperature dur ing the day. Washington’s tempeva- ture at 8 o’clock was 80, as it has been at the same hour for tha paBt four mornings and the day promises to be another scorcher with the mercury again climbing high in the nineties. Boston, one of the four hottest places on the map yesterday morning, started today with 76, a drop of ten degrees and in Chicago it was 74, six lower than yesterday. Kansas City Cool. Kansas City, July 7.—Clouds over the southwest this morning and gen eral rains and thunderstorms last night so lowered the temperature that none of the extreme heat of the last week will be experienced in that ter ritory today, according to the local forecaster. Cooler in iPttsburg. Pittsburg, Pa., July 7.—Although three deaths occurred this morning from the heat, the torrjd spell here has been broken. The temperature at 9 a. m. was 79 compared with 88, the same hour yesterday. Since the begin ning of the warm weather a week ago there have been five deaths and SO prostrations. Among the heat victims today was Dr. Thomas Welsh, who taxed hla strength during the past few days car ing for heat prostrations and succumb ed to the complaint himself. Dr. Welsh had been engaged up to 3 a. m. with patients and fell exhausted In his office a half hour later. He was prominent here. Some Relief. New York, July 7.-Promised relief from the heat materialized more as a matter of figures than of physical ex perience today. Eleven deaths occurr ed in the Metropolitan district before 1 o’clock, the largest number record ed that early in the day. The terspera- ture during the forenoon ranged be tween 80 adtn.ic eatoin eta oateioni tween 80 and 84. The total number cf deaths from the heat since Sunday 18 125. EDUCATORS GATHERING By Associated Press. San Francisco, July 7.—^Thousands of delegates arrived over night and to day for the annual convention of the national education association and it Ifl expected that the majority of the edu« cators who will take part In the con* vention will have reached here by to night when the convention is sched uled to open. Reiterating her positive declaration that she will not be a can- didate for re-election, Mrs. Ella Flagg Young of Chicago, said that she would not accept the office even if offered to her. Mrs. James Butler Daed. By Associated Press. New York, July 7.—Without recov ering consciousness, Mrs. Jamea S. Butler, of New Orleans, wife of a wealthy cotton planter, died today in the New York hospital, following a stroke of apoplexy.
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