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the wants are of service in innumerable WAYS - see if they CAN’T SERVE YOU. Eiltion THE CHARLOTTE NEWS."«“ ion > OL. 45. NO. 8036 CHARLOTTE t*. C.,'MONDAY EVENING. SEPTEMBER 18 191 I PRT(^T7lIn Charlotte 2 Cents a Copy Dally—5 Cents ?undaj% ^ > Outside Charlotte 5 Cents a Copy Daily and Sunday. ivests Expected This Afternoon In Hawkins Case V finesses to Be Put on at Ajiernoon Inquest /■,,rL to Prove That „ ; Married Man Was WAh Girl Ihursday, H jtnesses Will be Called ^ :r IS Freely Predicted Several Airests Wil hi loday. ;e XewB. . ^ 'le. N. C., Sept. 18.— ■ . r . .oer of uitnesees to be .. i • at the Inquest it is ,: TV-ill take until late in . ■''nplete th© Investiga- - -Tior.f! will come early 5«i art sat 30 o'clock, a > .1 again be put will further testify . ' .si>'cioas ud^T in • V lut’ McCalls. t. ir.arried man con- ' , r,.-,- •'r'>bably will be - - ' .' n (hat several r >da«'rd. who will . -r !r -iiinony to the ; Q'r'en with Miss . \' oflnesday. ' ?av ^hat he ' T-■'’ir.-da'. - ’ RT?a Sunofsky . V .ST''1','.rated by oth SEVERE STORM ' - TV I." are to &wear to •n 'he Thursday ♦ (."mimtted will T;ie : parties will uvestigation i: vas compr-11- ‘•ne in Marion "Urt open- earlie8* . -V,,, Si Rec- -TWO KIIUD By Associated Press. Chicago, II., Sept. 18.—Two persons were killed, 20 hurt and property was damaged to the extent qf $500,000 to day in a storm of lightning thunder, wind, rain and hail. The dead: Thomas Mathew. 28 years old; found in a rain-fllled gutter in front of his home. John McPhilllpe, 73 years old; killed by being blown over a hand railing in to a basement. ■ The storm destroyed a tenement. Half a dozen houses were set on fire by lightning which drove 37 families into the street. The gale tore roofs from a score of buildings, uprooted trees, flooded basements, shattered thousands of windows, wrecked the west side ball park, devastated half a dozen green houses and menaced lake shipping. Farmers Lose Heavily. Gallipolis, O.. Sept. 18.—Cloudbursts folov\ed by a sudden rise in the Ohio river caused the loss of thousands of dollars to farmers in this section last night. The tobacco and corn crops in the bottoms were ruined by the flood, the cresi of which passed this morn ing. omn uns onEii pnn siDivrii By Associated Press. Kiev, Russia, Sept. 18.—Death to day hovers over Peter Stolypin, the Russian premier shot down by a would-be assassin in the Imperials theatre here several nights ago. No Hope for Stolypin. The condition of Premier Stolypin this evening is considered almost hopeuess. The heart is unable to witl", stand the drain of the internal bem in extremis. & is . isen s be- 140 and the temperature ^ iiormai. The heart is ^ langer ADVISES TEXAS FARMERS TO HOLD COTTON. ;-.an -n a I.''] oy ’ -.-i -::1. '(•r Re^urrs H Mne. • ’.’.an ''’ho v-as to ^ kxiir. returned to his i ■11 ( ■■;? ^. and will not re- j I ! a. rnf.'tijiied in the! (ie-'d ' irl. is fouiid to : '"f-!!. of R'M'k riiil. She j •r u.'.d now thoi^^hl i By Associated Press. Austin. Texas, Sept. 18.—Ed R. Kone, state commissioner of agricul ture, today Issued a statement urg ing Texas farmers to hold their cot ton as long as possible in an effort to get 15 cents for it, saying that the supply and demand and all conditions the ^ere such ps to justify that price. Tiamp Comet Out Foi Publicity : u T'hei’ell " as t!ia’ intFuded o i-if h'lTiie. cn Expected. r- s-' •ndp.'>inr of the assurued a b^ig^t- r Ri;d i& thoueh' w‘.II bo put \in- T.o')!' 1;. ca?r there a:!! ('ause ^ne of a^iO’.s this country Witnesses. I thirty new witness- •.,p jv^-^.ent at the ■ ?ind with those tf> teotir’y i)etore . liinEr like fort> wit- ■ '.e c;op= into the '•mpluated becomes veof'iv- 'v".r) aie i' tiip 1 but .n- attempts to are disregarded •er: touching on ppi ’ing the sensa- ‘ I 1 1 inii I'f-^.-iion is ■ ‘■rartlin^ than 1. .f. 'A addell, the nfflceis the first ^ ■ r Stand. \ot Implicated. • a-M .'hose name 15: connection with : i ’* case, by mis- '“''tion whatsoever, offrred to testify. ■ 'f ex-Congressman ■’ •i By Aspociated Press. S». Louis. Mo., Sept. 18.—Father I Martin S. Brennan, O. S. J., of St. i Louis rniversity, has sighted a tramp comet which he terms a real publicity ??eker, as its tail may be plainly seen with opera glasses. The head is visible to the naked ej'e, .nist to the south and west of the star chu- bau. which in nautical and lay par lance. is known as the “tail of the dvagon." The head is said to be much larger than that of Hall%y’s comet or others v»hlch have been noted *in recent years. Its origin and identity are unknown according to astronomers who accred- iT its appearance as simply another one of the fieak formations of fiery nebulous matter. The comet is easily seen after 8 p. m., and thereafter through the hours before daylight. Fire Does Much Damage at Columbia By Apccciated Press. Charleston, S. C., Sept. 18. Loss of 50,000 dollars was wrought to the works of the Etiwan Fertilizer Com pany, about about three miles beyond the city boundary this morning, the lofty acid chamber being totally de- stroj'ed. City fire apparatus attempt ed to stay the flames but it is said .that there was a lack of water, only m Atlanta for chemicals being available. A defective coni'ng to her flue is thought to be the cause. It is stated that the plant was fully in sured. rhages. The patient is pulse is 160. This forenoon the pulse ha to low ed. The patient had apper * to im prove until late Saturday when peri tonitis set in. Early examinations of the wounds inflicted on the premier by Dmitry Bogroff, led to hope for an early re covery. Development of unfavorable symptoms followed a few hours af ter the patient had made a most hopeful rally. The rally followed im mediately the removal of the bullets in an effort to relieve the premier s unbearable pain of which he had complained throughout Saturday night and which had thrown him into a state of depression where death seemed a welcome relief. Several times during Saturday night the premier had broken out involuntarily with a murmui-ed clamation. ,, “I feel death stealing upon me. The operation was entirely success ful. The bullet was removed without difficulty and hopes apparently were justified when the premier experi enced a great sense of relief and cheerfully talked with his attendants, inquiring* of current events and com mentiag on the appearance of his as sailant. ^ ,, ... "The little fellow was awfully pit. ful as he came up to me in the theatre.” said M. Stolypin. “He was pale and bowed—a sorry figure.” This favorable symptom did not last long. Soon the patient’s pulse began to mount alarmingly mistakable symptoms of set in. Hi? temperature strangely average later trifle below the normal. The normal temperature was first ascribed to an almost total^elim- ination of outside infection count of the care Rein had made the initial dr^fcoing-. Later some of the physicians were inclined to regard the ’dropping tem- pe^atuve as an unfavorable sign, indi cating that tiie patieiifs .system ^as yielding to septic poisoning vvithout the struggle wliich would be mai ^e by a rise in temperature. Many Arrests Made. \t 1-30 o’clock this afternoon the patient's condition grew worse minute to minute. Oneh undred and fifty arrests lawyers and other acquaintances Dmitry Bogroff, the man Stolvpln. have been made in Bogroff today furnished the author ities with valuable clues. The original cSdent behavior of the prisoner has given place to iespondency and he is now receiving medical tre^t ”^1?ogroff is believed to have ed to a new autonomous resolution ■arv group, the aim of which is to as sassinate individual statesmen. Bogroff bas declared be held Stolypin as one of the most pernic ious men of the state. There is a story that the revolu tionaries put Bogroff in a diiema, whe?e he had to kill Stolypin or be killed himself. Bogroff ^hose the first alternative as pen?.lt\ for ai leged indiderity to the ‘ reds. and un peritortltis iemaJ-iied sinking at tn- on ac* which Prof. Two Big Banking Institutions Closed Theii Doors Todat AVIATOR JIMMY WARD Jimmy Ward, the youthful contestant for the $50,000 cross-continent prise, who started from' New York in his biplane on Wednesday (Sept. 13) for his trip to Los Angeles and San Francisco, by way of Chicago. Negto Who Assaulted Decisive Stage in Noted Coniroveisy By Associated Press. Paris, Sept. 18.—Negotiations be tween France and Germany are en tering a decisive stage. Feeling among French statesmen appears io be that they have offered Germany more than French public opinion will approve after the present strain re laxes. They have offered in compensation to Germany te'rritories in the French Congo in which fifteen French com panies are operating and upon which France has expended $10,000,000 in ten years. An examination of' the terms after the agreement has been concluded must show siiteh a degree of German renunciation in Morocco as will justify Utie cabinent in •offering to cede 60,000 square miles or so of the richest part of the French Con go. Otherwise the agreement will be overthrown by the chamber of depu ties. The French ministry will probably find it impossible in any essential particular to go further than they have. Tradesmans Trust Company, o) Philadelphia, Having Capital of Saif Million And Depo sits oj Over One Million, Closed Doors, Woman Be C 0 Sure To nvicted Vienna Quiet Afiet The Food Riot from of of shot i‘iersonville recent- III S reads Over :e Big Systems Ihe strike inau- on the Great !-rn Railroad la prr-at systems;, f'ni» .Midland (1 th*» Great North- ^ ‘oday service is OPPOSE BILLS OF LADING VALIDATION SCHEME. Bv Associated Press. New Orleans, Sept. 18. Representa tives from a dozen Southern and some Northern cities interested m the exporting of cotton met at noo ’ ins cotton e of today in the New Orleans cotton ex change building for the purpose defining their position to the cotton bills of tion scheme as Proposed by the Liv erpool cotton interests which became effective September 1 n Charged With Assault On Thee Little Girls is Under Heavy Guard •ated PreM . Ky., Sept. 18.—Protecte d by ilxty member* of Ken- National Guard, W. T. Ham, i«U|Ui|JO paBjeMO *1 ♦hi* ' * oj^three little girls, wa® takin from this city to MaytvlUc, this tng against Ham In Mayavllle Is intense. It Is feared that the eol hav« trouble In protecting him. By Associated Press. Vienna, Sept. 18.—This city was quiet today following a Sunday of food rioting. F4g3?^*ag between - mob and police began during a meeting of the socialists* outside the Rathhaus yes terday in protest against the high pri- the importation of foreign meat and otherwise control the sale'of food sup plies. The number of casualities cannot be stated definitely but unofficial reports are that six persons were killed and more than 200 hurt. An official ac count sates that one person was kill ed, sixty seriously injured and several slightly wounded. Leaders of the social democrats de clare that the rioters were an undis ciplined element of the city, and ex hort The workmen to abstain from fur ther demonstration and to resume their work. PREMIER STOLYPIN. Special to The N«ws. Warrenton. N. C., Sept. 18.—A negro committed a crime upon the person of Mrs. Joseph Choplin Saturday about noon at a spring to which she went to get water. He threatened her with a gun, overpowered her and ac complished his purpose. The father with three, neighbors, white and c'olored, approached - his home, not to arrest but to watch that he did not get away while the sheriff was phoned to. Upon the approach o! j ^.gg Qf necessaries of life and tO the father the negro shot him w'ith cemand that the government permit bird shot in the face and chest and again with the other barrel in the hip and side. The father is in a serious condition but will recover unless com plications set in. The sheriff and posse, armed only with shot guns, attempted to capture the negro, but were repeaterily shot at and struck with stray bird shot. The sheriff returned to town, leav ing a guard, procured help and Mitb rifles demanded the surrender. Upon appeal of the father and brother of the criminal they were allowed to cap ture him and turn him over to the sheriff. The brother-in-law made a friendly approach while the sheriff and posse seemingly disapre£.red and grab bed the rapist and called the sheriff. This course was taken to prevent bloodshed and the killing of the negro in the home of his father who is a respected colored man and land own ed He was quietly brought to town and placed in jail. The colored citi zens aided in the arrest and bitterly condemned the crime. Mrs. Choplin is ready to go before the grand jury now in session and there will be no doiibht about the con viction. The father of Mrs. Choplin is vet in a serious condition. Judge Justice, in his remarks to the g’ and jury this morning, said that the conduct of the citizens of Warren was just simply admirable. Negro ministers in their churches here yesterday condemned the crime in the strongest language and assured the public of their disapproval of such conduct and their readiness to aid in upholding the law. , , . The case will go to the grand jurj today and betried Tuesday or Wednes- The wife, father and husband are tenants on the land of the editoi ofT The Record. Troops Not Needed. Raleigh, Sept. 18.—The North Car olina National Guard authorities here are advised that no military guar wull be necessary to prevent the lynching of Normar Marshall, neld for criminal assault on Mrs. J* Chaplain, the probable fatal wounding of her father and other members ot the posse that arrested him Sunday after he had barricaded himself m a house that the men stormed. The sheriff of the county among the wounded. Court is in session at -Warrenton and the negro will be tried at once with conviction certain. Electrocution within the shortest possible time is assured. The crime was committed at Yicks- boro, Warren county. Minister Faces Senous Chaige Tacoma, Wasb., Sept. 18.—Charged with misappropriation of church funds and other serious indiscretions Rev. John Parsons, for three years superintendent of the Alaskan mis slons of the Methodist Church, will Bions of the Methodist Church, will be fore the Oregon annual conference at Salem. Rev. Mr. Parsons is now in Fair banks, Alaska, and will .not appear personally. He will make an active defense, however. Two Severe Siorm*t Iheieaiened Washington, D. C., Sept. 18.-Two severe storms are threatening Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico today. The latest storm was centered east of Ber muda and head^ for the pathway of the trans-Atlantic liners. Within 30 mile& of Havana the other disturbances lashed the Caribbean sea. 'ihe storm approached the Yucatan channel. Whether it would swing about to the United States was problemati cal. Disastfous Fve At Lost Angeles By Associated Press. "Los Angeles, Sept. 18.—Fire attack ed the plant and storage tanks of the Hercules Oil Refining Co. near Los An geles. today, baffling the efforts of firemen to control it and threatening to destroy property wirtli several hun dred thousand dollars. At 2 o’clock eight immense storage tanks had exploded. Twentyfi-ve oth ers are believed to be doomed. The fire probably will burn for several days. Elections Pass Quietly. Bv Associated Press. Eagle Pass. Texas, Sept. 18.—Elec tions in the state of Coaliuila passed very quietly yesterday. No disorders have been reported from any point in the state. Senor Carranza is be lieved to have been elected governor and it seems certain that a Maderista legislature was elected. Senor Aldape was Carranza’s opponent. Storm Notice Received. Bv Associated Press. “Mobile, Ala., Sept. 18.—The local weather bureau today received the following special observation from Washington; “Indications disturbance in Carrib- bean sea is west of Jamaica and ap proaching Yucatan channel. Intensi ty unknown.” Premier P. A. Stolypin, of Russia, who lie* near death at Kieve, Rus sia, as the result of attempted assassi nation in the Royal Theatre by a law yer named Bugrof, who fired at him twice from behind the Premier’s box. Noted Educator Dead. By Associated Press. Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 18.H. C. Gunnels, twice state superintendent of educa tion of Alabama, and well known in the South as an educator, died here this morning. He had come to this city for tfeatment. • T nir'Ti ir ' was Ward Passes Over Elmira. Elmira, N. Y., Sept. 18.—James Ward, on his coast to coast flight, flew over Elmira at 11:15 this morn ing, having left Qwego, 36 miles away, at 10:45. He did not stop here. ’ ■* Metropolitan Bank and Trust Company 0/ Cincinnatti Or dered Closed ty State Bank ing Department— Depositors Are Protected, it is Said. By Associated Press. Philadelphia, Sejt. 18.-—The Trades men’s Tn\^t Co., with a capital of $500,000 and deposits, when the last report was made of $l,238,obo, closed its doors this morning. Peter Boyd, a wel-known attorney is president, having succeeded the late Mayor Samue' H. Ashbridge, in the office when the latter died. ^ Statement Issued. The company issued the following statement: , To the Public: The board of direc tors of the Tradesmen’s Trust Co. haa decided to close the doors of the In* Btltutlon in order to protect the de positors who in the judgment of the' board will receive dollar for dollar. . The institution is solvent. Its as sets properly administered will pay its entire indebtedness and leave a sur plus for its stockholders. The assets are largely in the shape of mortgages and advances on real estate and, while well secured cannot be realized upon at once. Therefore, as a precaution ary measure in the interests primarily of the depositors, the above^ action of the board was decided upon.” Failure at Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Sept. 18.—The Metropoli tan Bank & Trust Co. closed its doors today on order of the state banking de partment of Ohio. State Bftck Biamin* ers E. F. Romer and C. S. Baxter, will remain in charge of the bank until a deputy is appointed. The bank, which was organized six years ago, has a capital of $110,000. Deposits of $750,000. Its total resources are $932,000 and, its deposits about $750,000. Of the de posits $125,000 are city and county funds which are guaranteed. The officers of the bank are; President. T. J. McClure; vice-presi dents, John J. Bruce and R. K. Le- blonde; cashier, Alfred Morrison. Statement Given Out. In a statement given out by them they claim all depositors are fully pro tected an(^.that there will be no loss. The reason given by the state au thorities for closing the bank was that the officials of the institution had been given too much latitude in making loans on collateral not approved by the When news that the bank w'ould not open for the day became circulated a constantly growing throng of deposi tors gathered about its doors. There was no disorder. The bank had a state charter and Its deposits were mostly of the tavinga character. ♦ ♦ ^ TAFT ON RACE SUICIDE. ♦ + HE WEATHER. By Associated Press. W'ashington, D. C > Sept. 18. Forecast; Carolina and South Cloudy tonight and moderate northeast North Carolina: ■ Tuesday winds. By Associated Press. ^ 4 ♦Detroit. Sept. 18.—Presi- dent Taft again took issue with ^ his predecessor here today in an address at the state fair x grounds. Probably for the first * time in the course of his ad- ministration, he brought up the ^ question of “race suicide.” The ^ old issue on which Mr. Roose- * velt expatiated from time to time But Mr. Taft did not take - the view that Mr. Roosevelt ^ expressed. . The president remarked: “If care is not taken the ^ crop of babies will increase more than anyother crop the > nation produces.” But Mr. Taft did not me^ • he is really afraid of a big crop of tots. He made it ^ plain that what is feared was that • the farm crops would not keep up with the increase in the number of small mouths to . feed unless scientific methods . of farming are more general- ► ly observed. President Taft On “Trusts” Detioit By Associatea Press. Detroit, Mich., Sept. IS.—President Taft at a luncheon here today made the first of what may be termed the political speeches of his six weeks’ tour of the country. He took up the “trusts” and clear ly outlined his views concerning them. The president defended the de cisions of the United States suprerrie court in the Standard Oil and to bacco trust cases, and there was a distinct campaign note in Mr. Taft’s challenge to his ancient i)olitical enemy, W*illiam J. Bryan, to point out what particular contract or re straint of trade' he would condemn which would not be condemned w'ith- in the definition of the statute as laid down by Mr. Chief Justice White. Mr. Taft added rather significantly that persons who do not understand the decisions and really do not un derstand the law have had a great deal to say about them. It was not fair to the cour^ he declared, to say that it hid read the word “rea sonable” into the anti-trust statute. “I am entirely opposed to an amendment of the anti-trust law,” said the President. “It is now a val uable government assent and instru ment. Tested and brought into bene ficial use by 20 years of litigation and construction by the highest court, why should we imp'eril its usefulness by ,experiments ?” Mr Taft referred to the fact that immediately after the trust decis ions were handed down by the. su- court. Senator LaFollette Before preme spread on the public record a quoia- tion from one of the president’s mes sages as being as variance with the “rule of reason” laid down by the court. Thep resident asserted that ms views a.s expressed in the message were in exact accord with the decis ions. Taft Speaks at Detroit. Detroit, Mich., Sept. 18,—President Taft arrived here at 7 a. m. He was escorted to the Detroit Club where he was entertained at breakfast by Mil ton C. McRae and fifty Michigan news paper men. He is schedule!^ to speak at Pontiac and the Detroit state Fail grounds before 1 o’clock. Detroit was in holiday garb to greet President Taft upon his arrival this morning from Erie, Pa At tbe en trance to the village of Highland Park, a northern suburb there hung a large banner bearing the words: 'Welcome President Taft — Reciprocity and World-Wide Peace.” The president found a busy day out lined for him when he reached the city. Every minute of the nine and a half hours which his visit w’ill cover was accounted for. Following his breakfast at the De troit Club, the program included an address at Pontiac, after a 26-mile trol ley ride; a speech at the opening of the Michigan State Fair; a luncheon and address at the Wayne Pavilion, an automobile ridef about the city and an informal talk to‘the delegates to the convention of the National Association of International Revenue OfBcers. The president’s train will leave for Saginaw at 4:25 p. m. iiii iiii n ii