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A I^W DAYS advertise the vacated room in the news 1 ^test Edition TTTK t Edition TiT> Tj^T>» tt> Charlotte 2 Geat« • Copy C*Bt# Stiniay PRJC£fOutside Cl»8trlott% 6. Cents « Copy D*ny and Sunday. EMBER SQ CHARLOTTE C„ SATURDAY EVENiim 8C5NE8 IN TRiPOUl AND OPPOS ING ADMIRALS. fuikey Addresses Another Appeal To The Poweis 1 VYhrf^d at Action P«ftJ*ance of mogt of EXpressea ui , Jurkey—Stdl Eopt o* frflWif Ustltss Bloodshed— foidd SeiUe 7rouble in fidCCCLbk Mcnntr, ^ CcJTijn'^U'^ ot Union And ^ogre.^s Issues Proclama- -Press Violent in Its Comr ' - Reports From a. - first blow In th* , v > hin -4 hours fol- .uufr The ci'D mand ! Abraizi have boM- . , «aort iif Pr*v«FR. ^ ernment house* p.' a Turkish torpedo - 1 ’.-'in no hostilities at -> i'loc'-? 'iiis movnmg vnicvrted to hav® land- - T r.oli. ; u cruiser is repcrtcd ■ c ^.'■re in Trincli harbor, • ’ n : ked *.he I’nited States .f he" ?r.b>crs in Italy. _ “• S5‘ i*iilisn buh* - , ,1 c'vernment strength- ^ -ceo on the Greek r* n . on'iers. Turkey had "■ _ . ppeal to the pow- , . = ‘still time to pre- .. of H conflict. : -raiicn of war - s n ;"eceived with -• n pr?vail8 In diplo* r. Ciierlin that che i. f =cort duration. . Pu-?. —> '='^pt. 30.—Turkey i 3no.:-ev appeal to the ~x. -■ surprise at Italy’s ^ v^ai- yesterday and 3 7 • r i. r; . time to prerent " . e 1. ejects of a atrug- • .'LU.x ^'.a the attitude of n enpi’e justifies : r al8 to the peaceful. . anci ir.endiy sentiments ;e - ’0 p-.i^^t in con vine » ' e ■ oncliiatory int«n r 1 SQ prevejat , oI IsSvdr i-.i R?ked the United ; O'" interests of : , ■- i - 'H Italy. n ' issador to Turk- ha' von Bieberstein . c This morning that i ‘su'jied the protection 111 r's ^nd interests m aLians in Turkey num- :orted errly today that ^ i ' hip had gone ashore nt3 3ta e that the crew ■ le I'.ikish torpedo boat deatroy- whifii w IS sunk In the harbor of ii) Kpirus by an Italian cruis- . fla-. ^'.'icaped. Martial Law. T ^ :‘r e announces measures “ msk- !:b8 n. e of martial law more •'if'.p iecau;ie of the public excite- ' Publif' nf^eting? and alarmist tional exposition ; ationi are prohibited. Any ^p* ; r -ed to endanger public “= ‘ ‘;ie immediately suppress- •* . rrn . • iririH. SuScient troops K : ftitioned in convenient 'leet mergencies. The com- ■ffw. of union and progress put>- ^ the ^''^ ving proclamation: Proclamation Published, i'al} r l“ng'h has unmasked her ■ '1 ' 'n!» on Tripoli. The Ital" ■i ("--.rgf aa!» handed a note to the “ r*’ uucing the occupation of T’'iX)U province yesterday. The Ott> ia r.atloD prefers honor to life and Mijnantly repels Italian audacity There vi;i be war between the countr. ’ and our nation ^'iH !Ep’o^ every means against the ea& Tnroll will courageously defend fee'.? Will Expel Italians. The Ottprr-.n government will ex ?tl ill Iidl.Hn? from Turkey and Ital ichools :md business houses will cioiei;. Our country vill employ all its in Saence to ranse these measures to be applied In .1 calm spirit towards the ution which has trodden under foot ^liT most sacred rights. We beg the ^Pt-'.auon to remain tranquil and le»te ♦/> tv. ({overnment the duty of acting aga’nst the Itliana, thus de- ’^onstrating; that Ottomans are more Allied p.nd equitable than Italians *^0 drove their government to the Pfeient action. ‘■’® invite all children of the fath- «rttnd to be united at this critical ®oiaeiit.'’ Press is Violent. Tils principal newspapers use Ian* of unmeasured violence against Italians, while the Ottoman p*o* Pl« are advised to show their patriot* by the strictest boycott of Ital* products and at the same tiin® *0 trrut the Italians in Turkey a* good blddinf rMult«d In the disap- the decline, powers will in- fiubatantial con cession to Turkey helped to bring about a cheerful hardening lone, which prevailed at noon. Consols were then only 1-t and Turkish bonds 1-2 lower than yesterday while American shares were well above par ty. In the last hour of trading values w«;re inclined to droop from the best and the market closed quiet with a feeling of uncertainty pending furtlj* er developments. n"o Hostilities As Yet. Berlin. Sept. 30.—The Wolff bureau has received the following 4i»patch: Tripoli, Sept, 30, 9 a. m. There have been no hostilities here up to the present. The Turks and Italians are in a waiting attitude but reports in native circles- have it that Italian troops have landed to the westward of Tripoli.’’ Revolution in Portugal. Lisbon, Portugal, Sept. 30.—A revo lutionary movement beginning at 2 o’clock this morning is reported in Northern Portugal, but the report had not been confirmed at noon. Engagement off Prevesa. Constantipople, Sept. 30.—The ofB- cial version of the engagement oft Preversa says that an Italian cruis er accompanied by torpedo boats at tacked two Turkish torpedo boat de stroyers as the latter were leaving Preves^^. One of the Turkish vessels found refuge in Prevesa harBor while the other was struck by several Ehells and ran ashore. The crew es' capod. Note to the Powers. Berlin, Sept, 30.—Italy today sent a clr'cular note to the powers explain ing her reasons for the action against Turkey, expressing the hope that the steps taken will be confined to the occupation of Tripoli, that the hos tility will be of short duration and that negotiations to fix the status of Tripoli will be begun soon. Italy, it is stated, will endeavor to localize the hostilities. Turkish Torpedo Boat Sunk. Salonlki, Turkey, Sept. 30.—Afl Italian naval division today bombard ed the seaport of Prevesa, destroying the government house and sinking a Turkish torpedo boat in the harbor. Await Turkey’s Request. Washington, S6pt. 30.—^te department today awaited the Otto man goYemment’s requ«at On top It a .typloai arched atreet jn Tripoli, boneath It « vltw of th§ har bor and on th« right are RhQtographs of Duka iVAbrussii who will oemmaftd a division In tht talian navy And bottom) Ransford D. luokmiin, a» American, now an offlear In the Turk lah navy. Both Italy and Turkay ar« miking hasty prtparatlont In oa«e of waf over Tripoli. Italy wants Turkey to agree to an Italian occupation In TrU polk, the principal aeapcrt of iarbary, and Turkey la not Inclined to allev^ thia. ♦ the weather. ♦ ♦ ( ♦ A ■• By Associated Press. * ♦ ^ ♦ Washington, Sept. ^ - ♦ caBt; North and Sout'^' arolina Fair and cooler ^ ght; Sun day fair, mode northeast winds. vent accepting the charge andgi^ng room for the papers of the Turkish emba&sy in Rome and the Turkish con sulates in Italian ports In the Ameri can embassy and consulates. Italy Bloodthirsty. Rome. Sept. 30.—The declaration of war against Turkey has been received with enthusiasm in all country. Upon the receipt of the hews from the capial great processions were organized in Bergame, Parma, Genoa. Bari, VercelH and Perugia, the cr^ds singing patriotic songs and acclaiming the army and navy. The government is communicating to the powers, its position respecting the various phases of the conflict. A dispatch from Genoa says that the Turkish counsel there has received In- ItruSons to goto Turin and withdraw the Turkish exhibits from the Interna- A^new8°dlspatch from Tripoli says that a boarding party squadron took Possession of Ae TW kish transport Dema at Tripol. t ransDort which still had on board a part cargo ot war aupplie.. s«r- ™AdTsUraddrSl“rthe event of bombardment of and other forel^ers, paper correspondents, will be taken on Soard the vessels of the I allan fleet. Occupyl"9 oA A Chiasso, Switzerland,, JePt* 30 wireless message received from Rear Admiral Aubrej,^m com mand a Tripoli, ex- that the occupation ‘ pract The cruisers .is;?.* , • ^ ■ group of Illinois Central shopmen who lirft their work at SfSO o’clocic to be followed later by their fellow workers. At 10 o’clock the remainder of the 500 employes here laid down their tools and left the shop. Guards were posted around the plant. Denver Men Out. Denver, Col., Sept. 30.—One hub* dn^imachihists and seventy-five c§r- •wployed.ri^ the Harriman lines here^ (juit 'woVk at 10 o’clock today dto^obedience to yesterddiy’e^ strike. or- ' "V . All Mon Out. ^«a^ City, Sept. 30.—All of the 100 iu the local shops of the Union Railroad quit work promptly at o’clock this morning, A strong high fence, built six yeai*s ago, sur rounds the shot)8 h^re. TJni!>n men say ^ri^cks hay© been ci^red within the effplostire to inake room fc^ bunk cars. Chicago^ Sisipt. 30.—TheH was no signal ^v^n ^en the hour arrived. As soon as the. clicks showed ten The Aar^ or Ground Bot^ ¥mi So^em Real Est0 I^oan S: Trust Com- paim ot Boskins is Ihe Umiwn, ,V . ■ . Jkr.Lee of Ike Lmd^ Loeotim Be- twunlntemrban tracks Sedboof d MaUroaA'---^P&wer Co, WaUing Acfkn &fl The News of yesterday told the puj> Uc that the Sduthem PoW>r Compaar- had bought prop«*ty from the Soutl|- o’clocks the employes began ridding >ern Real ©state, L»oan * Truest Cow q themselves of their tools and walked 'out in groups of twenty and thirty. pany, at HoskiAs. Thit the propetrty'^ Ther^ was no demonstration and the | to be for th^ Intertirban shops, was groups of policemen at the diiferent surmised. gates of the stockade had nothing to Today The News fteels that it caii do. As the strikers first to leave r^ch-1 aflirm that the flhops will ed the gates they met several hundred men constituting the n^ht force. The night men w^re returning for theii tools but they-^decided not to re-enter the shops. Most of the men went right to their homes rather than lingei’ about the gates. There were no strike breakers at hand and although the company is re ported to have a force of recruits in Chicago the men thought they would not be taken tp the works until tomor row. , ' . One hundred and fifty locomotiv-es being repaired are in the shops and more than 500 cars are in thei yardj not available for use until repairs are completed. The first handicap to trafllc is ex pected tonight when the engines ar« be located on the land purchased. The Power Company purchased SO acres of land from the Southern Estate, Loan & Trust Company, the sale being made within Uie past tev days. The property is located Just bejfOttd the Hoskins Mills, bctweea th6 Into*^’^ urban tracka and the &» A. L. R. R. The lanti represents, in slat, about fou^ city blocks. . The Trust Company purchased t»« land in different tracts, selling same in one lump to the Power Company. Mr. Lee Does Not Say No. Mr. W. S. Lee, vice-president of Power Company, was seen today by brought to the ash pits. The men sayjNeWs raporter. the question ^ -Hrni >>o Tin nn« to handle them to him directly: Will you tell hia there will be no one to handle them and the engines will not be ready for use tomorrow. Julius Kruttschnitt, vice president or the Harriman lines, who will represent the companies ii^ all negotiations .look ing to end of the strike, return^ here today from New York. . ‘ Th|ff€ "^as a 4«lay Ih the deilt^^ oI thj^ order to the machlnistt and^the shen ia the machine shop* recelred no notification to atrike work wtt^ oth»rs out ^'^Sined ^rlthtti ttor 4gtoiftfle.^ “ A tefegfaph .meaner 'Jea^ng ^ order was stopped at the _hy tlw railroad police who prevented the de- to him directly: . what you are to use the land lor?^ “No, I can not tell you,” he sato. ‘‘You have purchased the land ? “Yes, we have gotten a tract of land hetwfen our line and the Seaboard* tracks,” was. the reply. . “I wonl4 me to teU you more, bttfc we can not tell what we ire, going t o —^whttt w« can do-^umtU tnis tiOT- bte ■ ojwr i^e paving business If set- ^^*Ve don’t kno^ % W livery of the message- An open air meeting will be held this afternoon. raf .‘e »oTrS. W ?«!' *T^r,po.ctp?.” d klsh llshlng boats »u»pected ot being By Associated Press. (Jreenville, Aia., Sept. 30.—Fireman John Hardwick, negro, ^was killed, one white man and three negroes were in jured and property valued at between $40,000 and $50^000 was destroyed here this morning by fire which burned lie cotton warehouse of J. N. McBride. Hardwick was killed by electric wires while removing cotton from the house. McBride was slightly cut. About 400 bales of cotton were ruined. The ori gin of the fire is not known. —The local cotton market opened at 10 cents this morning, but drop ped to 9 718 cents by bflf past 1 o’clock. Two hundred and 15 bales had been placed on the market upto thattime.Lastyear , for the same date, 483 bales were marketed at 13.40 cents per pound. ^ era boilermakers, machlnistB, tinners, Between twelve and fifteen thou- J ^ -porkers, coppersmiths, painters FOR flBSlTlMt "’Rome, sept SO^he duke ot Jhe Abbruaii two Turkish rnelirboau' og mvesa yesterday. A Double 2 ragedy , Near Bndgewater Special to The vfews reach- ed“Srnk/'ot a““i«.h.. sand men employed by the Union Pa cific, Illinois Central, ‘Ya*oo & Mis sissippi Valley and allied roads .walk ed out at 10 o’clock this. morning In conformity with the strike orde^ is sued following the refusal of the H^- riman line > executives to recopize the - federation of imion- Employes. . New, Orleans . Mon Act. New Orleans, Sept. SOr—At tj.e^^- giers ehops of the -Southern Pacific 360 union employes afl&liated with the federation obeyed the strike order at 10 o’clock today. , x,. The clerks employed in the freight offices o« the road will consider the strike situation at noon and car repairers went out ~ At San Antonio. San Antonio, Tex., Sept. 30.-r-Five hundred men of the Southern Pacific went on .strike here' today. No dis orders were reported. Early Story. Chicago, "Sept. 30.—With . several hundred men. already, out and the re- main'der^of the 35,000 shop employes of the Harriniah lines commanded to ■strike at't^n o’clock today, union offi cials went to work early today to per fect their plans‘for forcing the rall- roadis to recognize the recently organ- ized^federation of shop employes. -While railroad officers declared that the strike ordei* telegraphed yesterday By Associated Press. New Orleans, Sept. 30.—^Miss Anhls Crawford, charged with murdering her sister Blise a week ago by administer ing morphine late yesterday showed the first break in the self-possession rigidly maintained since her arrest Tuesday by prolonged outbursts of weeping. Clinging to the iron bars of a window in her ward and with her head bowed on, her arm the prisoner was found by Mrs. Octavia Kennerly, the matron who tried to,comfort h er. treat us, and pur plaaa the action ot the city in r^td to paving matter. We want to help buUd Xp Charlotte and it is, in our power- Southern Power—to do it. Mr. Lee said very little—^ Is a m«h of action, not words—but the fact that the Power Company has bought 29 acres of land at Hoskins on the main line of the Interuban, just b^ tween the Inteurban and Seaboard tracks, and Mr. Lee's smiling refusal to say just what it is for coupled with the conversation which Joll^e^ assurance enough that the Southern Power has secured a location for ite *^TWs Is of tremendous import tc Charlotte. This fact The News would impress upon all who are interested in Charlotte’s future. , Charlotte is the natural Placd for the Interurban shops; the ^ey note ol the whole Interurban «^tuation. Charlotte lost the Southern shops by shortsighted P°^^°y Se go(4e that laid the golden egg. ...lAinoi iiintnrv reneat itselil At the local r. would-not be unanimously obey- 115 additional ^ uS leaders said that the men in n-riock. Bwelllng the nuBiter ot ^ ^rtke by a refer- erid^m vote taken some time ago and * TO that they-•> expected to see all union mechanics of-the railroad involved on the .warpath before night. Ready for Strike. Managers of the railroads asserted that they were ready for the strike if one must conae., It was said that sev* her. Almost immediately the prisoner r^ covered herself possession, the lines in her face hardening at the first words of sympathy spoken by the matron and answering cooly walked away, keeping entirely to herself. She was found crying several times but resented sym- ^ For hours she sits staring l*^to^^ near Bridgewater, in a negro and a white Mn lost their n,me not get with- rescue him. He man f 5yhen°he suddenly being taken Tgovernment has decided, to ■^njihen its military forces on th® and Montenegrin frontiers. Effect on Stocks, i^ndon. Sept 30^—Th® unexpected outbrwik of hostilities between TurE* I'T and Italy caused the dealers on a* stock exchange today to marJ^ jown the quotations In early ontlelp*^ ^ of telling orders from rarlous r "^rklsh bonds were noml* thr^ points lower, Italian bondi 1^ P®'nt and British console but sellers did not appear and Rodgers on Hts Way to hew York By 80.—Arlator C. Manefleld, O., Bepu » jjy P. 'Rodfere, who jor frota New York to w A 160,000 the from tim«i state Bri« railroad, the direction of Marion, O. By Associated Press. , Columbia, S. C., Sept. 30.-In the trial of the so-called dispensary, form er directors of the state dispensary, and W. O. Tatum, former dispensary commissioner, are charged f^th wn- BDiracy to defraud the state In a label dei wlth Hlv^^ Company of Cincinnati, the defense today gave a surprise by putting up no witnesses and at 1 o’clock argument to the jury was begun. Judge Wilson, presiding, r^ fused the motion the defense for a ditMtion of verdict in favor of the de- *®Th“s®tate , closed-its testimony this moXrDenirib W^skopt again stand but little wiclitional was that in the price paid for the 21 m lion label., »36.»60 , there jas w^^ l«sed »profit”t of more tha^ ?ZO,wu. The state sought to VoVe by a busi- iSfa man of ToweIi;8 borne town ^at shortly after the label deal Towm larae sums of money at low toterest but thl. testlmoay ,«Sr he concluded before Monday. have bwn reported ’■Burnside Men -Quit. , Burnside..ni.. Sept. sand men employed in the tral shops, at Burnside, walked out at 10 o’clock, oteying yesterday fe strike order. Two-thirds of the Pol'®® partmrat were held in reserve for fear of an outbreak. \ Walic Out at Houston. ^ Houston* Tex.. Sept. 30;—^tween 1,200 and 1#0 “en of the Harriman strikers oh .the Illinois: Central ^and Yazoo.&■ Mississippi'Valley roads here to 1500. ’ T1 ilve hundred employes of'the .n linoia Centifal shops at Harahan.^just above New OrleatiB, laid down their tools at 10 ^ o^clock and jjarched to tne clty.^ This increasM^ the num^r ^ of striking'^employes'^f the lUinojs thousand men had been discharg- eyes filled with tears which Central and Yazoo & J^l»sissippi Y%1 1 ^ ^ cheeks, falling un- ley to 2,000. No disorders of any lana ^P^ld be glad > her hands clasped in her - to return to "^ork. Leaders of the^fed-|, erated employes declared that the | ^ sister of Port Arthur, roads were not in a good position was the only relativ.e to visl withstand a strike and that the; prisoner yesterday. It is now un- meh went out the struggle would the case will be put be- shtTrt and victorious for the ^edera-|^^^^ ^ special session of the grandi tlon. “ . _ j ijury to be called next week. Ready for Order. :•» /uhough the bodies of Annie’s par- When the, four thousa^ ents and her sister Agnes will not be employed by the Illinois Central rail-, it is said, their deaths will rokd company at the Burnside investigated by thfe jury. The dis- 1 auv ,, + reiKjrted for work at ®^ ®-trict attorney has decreed that no lines obeyed ' the strike at morning they did °ot bnng dinner. information will be forthcoming o’clock today, quittingtheir work j p^ns with them and declared that jgo^ concerning future d^ promptly at that time. There was uo j^hey would obey the strike order j ^gi^pni^pts in the case. He also said dKen ■ ' j their union and lay down their tools veiopments i ohemlst The Southern Pacific shops had 'j. o'clock. ~ been previously closed. . ‘ The shops at Burnside^ ^ are sur- IVIen Out at Memphis. | rounded by a ten foot board fence sur- Will municipal history repeat Says He Shot Self. T)v Associated Press. Nashville, Tenn., Sept. Officer W.M. Greaves lies ^ the ci^ hospital in a dangerous condition ^om a bullet wound through ^s Gleaves says he accidentally shot him self. Some mystery surrounds the ehooting which occurred lat^^yertjr. day afternoon four miles from the city. The police temporarily Iwld Mrs. Stella Ernest, the wife of a-^^^ten^, who was with Gleaves at the tl?M- Gleaves is married and well connected, Memphis, Tenn., Sept. SO.—At the ijy a wire screen. Policemen stroke ot 10 o’clock the strike lead- stationed at every entrance and ers ass^t that the remaining shop-l^one hut railroad officials and work* tn#>n ahd 'frelglit handlers of the Unjj ip^n were admitted. Sois Central and Yazoo & Mississippi police Reserve On Hand. v«llev Railroads enapioyed-here went. Although no violence is expected to* on strike.' "^Less than 15 men^■--it' is |^y reserve forces of polfcemen are said went out today. The other.allied j joeing held' at the Woodlawn, Kensing- woftoenTstruck with the clgrks Mon-lt^p and Grand Crossing stations ready Thirteen hundred men are out. *^r immediate use in the event of AtVlckaburg, day Vicksburg, iJfiss.,' Sept. 30. Propmt- trouble. , ^ « I V4. Railroad officials worked all. night preparing lor-the strike of shopmen iedakuon S°^p?oy^of^?^^ HUnois • by''rem^ng hundre^ of locomotives federation ^ y-u rTnSl and Yaaoo & Mississippi Val- and cars from the shops. fey The strike a c Anticipate Strike Order. that he had instructed City Chemist Metz, who is looking for more poison Jn the stomach of Elise, to make a secret report of his findings. This re port is expected eariy next week. Robert Crawford, a.brother of Annie, manager of a small «taurant, said yesterday that he believed if was^glven a fair chance she would prove her innocence. . ^ “Even if ^he did give Elise the mor phine,” said he, “she did it by mis take ** Edward Crawford,, another brother, admitted that he had visited Annies home recently for the first time in many years. He said he had not had any fallii^ out with the family but “had not both ered with them,” remaining away un til their trouble started. Special to The News. Raleigh. N. C., Sept. 80.~Con^» sioner John Nicholas today bound Wil liam D. Stephenson over to the f^- eral court under a $1,000 bond ttfr ri^ -ling the mails on the Ralei€di a^ South Port railroad between *ttaleigh and Fayetteville, this being his run as a railway mail clerk. For months past there have oeen robberies of letters and J. D. Pojiert- son, J. S. Lemen and W. F. Cherter, post-office inspectors havf been striv ing to fix the crime. They started from Fayetteville yes terday, a letter‘marked for Identlfic- cations, addressed to a firm In Nor- *^It contained marked bills. The let ter disappeared. The Inspectors search ed Stephenson and found the bills in his rpom. . He confessed, but insists that h« knows nothing of any robberies of let ters in*^he past. ' . - . Stephenson tBA beien on the run s« years, is 38 years old, and a native o Wake county
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