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noipiipppipiippp^ • • ; ant advertise the vacated room in the news and the E WILL BE A NEW TENANT IN A DAYS THE CHARLOTTE WS. VOL. 45. NO. 8048 CHARLOTTE N. C.. MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER. 2. 191 1 PTJ TPF I Charlotte 2 Cents a Copy Dally—6 OMlts Sunday. * I Outside Charlotte 5 Cents a Copy Dally and Sunday. :r-.'e«tment*. • Insurance lar Load of Coffins Tells Sad Tale Oj Austin Tragedy ‘ to Early Hour This Morn ing 20 Victims Had Been Placed in Morgue— Death I jst May Not Go Over 200 lcttuI Wreckaae. '^lOperty Loss at Least Eight Million Dollais — Heavy Rams Kup Away Crowds oj The Curious — Problems Faced Jo-day. Gov.Blease Threatens 2 o Fire Col Bond -r- ,faoclsted Press. Austin, Pa.-. Oct. 2.—With the ar- : _ of a carload of coffins here this lorning the grimneBS of the tragedy t-t practically obliterated this town Impressed upon survivors and I Tiers w-ho today began anew their to mine deeply into the hard UU& of debris. Twenty Victim* In Morgue. Twenty victims, including two at ;ostello, had been placed in a t«m* lOian,’ morgue at Odd Fellows hall, )H€ of iLe few buildings standing in ie ruined district. The identified lead a.^e 12. Plaao for the funerals were being Side today. The most essential mat er .n hand here aside from the persis- .ent vork of clearing away the more icce»Pib!e ruins is the completion of 1 -ers iS of the living Austinians. If ±€ death list aggregates anything i.-vt 'he tnormous number some have r;.i.iia'ed. the health officials realise ' cond’ ions demanding prompt at- c-uon * ill aripe within a few days .2 tuB rums Probably 200 Dead. T’-. cost careful and well informed .i>c:..fi'.ors. however, are unprepar- .-i ;eam that more than 200 have ;er.r.;ed There is indeed a possibil- ' hat 150 will be the total. Tte policing conditions today are „ra>.u. *;iv perfect. twelve hours 1 v „ iir of rain served to materially •eU- the number of incoming sight- and to thl&_ .aacxcat the police reil'ved. Til state constabulary, state sani- ik: c-i^inecrs and chief officials of the «r *e health department, are co-oper- ring In the measures for protection »iid I'elief. Scenes of Desolation. Ruined Austin. Costello and the val ley bt ond today present pictures of if-c.aMon. No reliable estimate of tbe property loss can be made soon, but it IF safe to say it will not be less 'ban $ S.O'10,000. Tbe iiap^r and lumber industries are utterl'' destroyed. The timber supply indeed was rapidly nearing, exhaustion and at the best it was thought five yeaft from now the industry would be practically at an end. In fact, abou^ 200 families had moved from AusMa this fall. Five hundred more ^•Quid have gone within the next year or two unless some industrial devel- 0[,xent came in to hold them. What Was Cause of Break? Questioned as to the cause of the sudden failure of the Bayliss Pulp & Paper Co.’s dam, citizens shake their heado ominously. They recall the E^'are a year ago last January when a considerable leak was discovered in 'be immense cement structure. Al though two feet of the rim of the dam "S'aE removed to relieve the pressure and a 14-foot patch was placed where needed, tbe alignment ,of the upper edge of the dam gradually becaroe a siight arc instead of a straight line. Thi= bulge caused worry on the part of the citizens and led to a somewhat recent inspection. Certain protective measures were determined upon bu the de^av was fatal. u ♦ i '1 never went to sleep in the hotel on Main street here," said a visiting railroad official today, “without a mighty fervent prayer that the appar- entlv mevitable might be delayed. ^-Uays felt that we might be swept away during the night.” Below the torn dam today the 'auej for a mile or more is swept practic * 1 clean to the bed rock and Run, the reservoir feeder, swollen J last night’s rains is sweeping thraugn new channels where the main busin portion of the town once stood. Situation at Costello. Costello, three miles away, Is pro portionately as shattered as • Only the loss of the floods and the timely warning phone operators who lives to do so, held the death two ♦ TWENTY PERSONS DROWN- ♦ ED. By Asosciated Press. Charleston, S, C., Oct. 2. Because ‘ Governor Blease was not invited to I the Gate City Guards Peace celebration in Atlanta and because the corps of Cit adel Cadets Belonging to the state’s military college had accepted an in vitation to attend, the governor bas threatened to remove Col. O. J. Bond, superintendent, unless the acceptance is withdrawn. It happens that owing to a question of flnanes, the board of visitors had already decided not to send the corps. Colonel Bond admit ted receipt of a letter from Governor Blease but declined to divulge its con tents or to discuss the matter at all No official statement is to be had here. . "When asked about the disposition of the case against Dennis Weiskopf, who is under indictment with L. W. Boykin J. B. Towill and W. O. Tatum on the charge of conspiracy to defraud the state, Attorney General Lyon said he he had nothing to say but called at tention to the fact that during the trial just concluded it had been brought out in the testimony that the case would be nol prossed against Weiskopf when the present trial is concluded, upon the condition that fie testify for the state. As the trial resulted in a mis trial and it must be gone over again, there being no statement to the con trary*, the indictment is still held against Weiskopf. Dennis Weiskopf is of the Nivisson- Weiskopf Company of Cincinnati, from whom the labels in the case were purchased by the former dispensary board. As to when the case will be brought up again in the courts, there is no statement whatever. The defendants are being held under their same bonds for their appearance and there seems to be no change in the status of affairs in this particular indictment, although some formal nol prosses were entered by Attorney General Lyon Monday morning in cases which have already been tried In connection with the dispensary “graft.” 1 zf’ r. Reports Conflict On Turko-Itahan War In Mediteiranean Heyburn (republican) Idaho; George . *r - ^ Sutherland (republican) Utah. and|// IS Not Definite Whether Atlee Pomerene (democrat) Ohio. About five witnesses are to be ex amined daily. Seventy-five witnesses have been subpoenaed. That a political faction is back of the investigation ^ is one of the con tentions made by Senator Stepheu- son’s supporters. It is alleged that when Senator Stephenson first was elected' to the senate in 1907 to fill out the unexpired term of John S. Spooner, the LaFollette faction ex acted a promise from him that he would not seek re-election. His an swer was' that he was not bound by any promise and he was re-elected. Senator Stephenson is a republican years old, a banker, lumberman 82 and capitalist. Dance Ended Fatally. Alexandria, La., Oct. 2.—The sec ond death resulting from the free tor all fight at a negro dance hall at Oak dale yesterday morning occurred at a local sanitarium today when Den- wood Woodward, white, succumbed to his wounds. John Whittington, white, and Mar tha Washington, a negrees, are ex pected to die. DISAGREEMENT rtULERS OF WARRING COUNTRIES On th left is King Victor Emmanuel and the right the Sultan of Turkey, rulers of the two countries who are now at war. The king through his ministers delivered an ultimatum to the Sultan of Turkey and demanded a reply within twenty-fOur hours. The refusal of the Sultan to accede to the demands of the Italian government precipitated the war, Italy" at once sending warships to capture Tripoli, a Turkish stronghold. H HEELS SCHOOL CHILDREN WILL SEE "RIP VAN WINKLE" AS GUESTS OF THE NEWS. LABELS CASE k ^ B' .■\35oftated Press. ^ i'''ndon, Oct. 2.—-Twenty I’^^rsons—the crew of t“6 ♦ steamer Hatfield—were drown- ♦ ed today when the Hatfiela ♦ colliced with the British ♦ steamer Glasgow. The col- ♦ lision occurred not far ^jom ♦ Rotrerdam. The Hatfield ♦ was in-bound from Huelva, ♦ Spain. The Glosgow was e4- ♦ route from Rotterdam for ♦ Dundee. The Hatfield was ♦ sunk. By Associated Press. Columbia, S. C., Oct. 2.—After near ly 35 hours deliberation upon the tes timony and the law. a jury of 12 citi zens of Richland county declared it self this morning unable to reach an agreement as to whether L. W. Boykin, J. B. Howill and W. O. Tatum, former state dispensary officers, are guilty or not guilty of the charge of conspir acy to defraud the state in the pur chase of 21 million labels for the old state dispensary from Nivisson-Weis- kopf Co. of Cincinnati, in the early part of 1905. The trial of these former officials of the dispensary was commenced last Tuesday morning, both the state and the defense being repre sented by a distinguished array of The state closed its case Saturday afternoon about 1 o clock and the defense announcing that they would put up no tectimony, the arguments were immediately gone into and af ter a charge by Judge Wilson the indictment was given to the jury and they retired to make up their verdict at 11:15 Saturday night. Court waited for their verdict with out adjourning until 4 o’clock Sun day afternoon, when Judge Wilson left an envelope and requested that if a verdict should be arrived at, it should be sealed and left to be opened when court convened Monday morning at 10 o’cloc. At 10 o’clock this morning the jurv had not yet come out of their room. When court was called to or der Judge Wilson ordered the sher iff to bring the Jury out. The roll was called with due formality and the question was asked: Gentlemen of the jury have you reached a ^^‘ We have no,” responded Mr. N. O Pyles, the foreman. Judge Wilson ^Ijry reeretting very much that the J i y had^not been able to reach a verdict but he stated that he would refra n from offering any censure c” cism of their course. After thanKing ♦Via mfor their patience in the case hp ordered a mistrial and the panel It is understood that the major ty of the jury were for ??erf”wre .If,- '‘‘’■'\'^Ie““''weraneged,l Of not guilty!^^The° other two. in mi \ By Associated Press. Chicago, Oct. 2.—High heeled shoes and hobble skirts have received an* other blow in Chicago. Following the Pennsylvania Railroad’s discovery that the modern dictates of fashion were the cause of nearly a hundred acci dents to women while boarding or leaving trains or using station stair ways during the last year, orders have been given to bar women meeting at the Chicago terminal from passing the gates. When a unior .station caller announ ces the arrival of a train he adds: “Ladies not allowed to pass the gate.” “These are orders,” explained a gateman. “You see, in this station trains and baggage trucks are passing all the time and passengers have to be careful. Women with these high heel ed contraptions and bandages around their ankles get in the way and there’s always danger of running over them. They get in the way of the passen gers, too.” bCHlEy DROFPED DEAO JODAY three agreed to a verdict one of tne tnree^^t. were not able to see thfcir the defendants ever. way to acQuitting^^^--.^ and hence the mi ^f the week’s work court. the circuit Bv Associated Press. "^New York, Oct. 2.—Rear Admiral W’infield Scott Schley dropped dead to day near the corner of Forty-fourth street and Fifth avenue, while on his way down t^wn. He had been out of town over Sun day and on his return here had gone to the New York Yacht Club on West Forty-fourth street. After a short stay at the club Ad miral Schley started to walk along Forty-fourth street toward Fifth ave nue when he w’as taken suddenly ill* A hurry call was sent for physicians, but before aid could reach him, the admiral was dead. Kings Mountain's 131st Anniversaty Elaborate preparations are under wav for the celebration of the 131st anniversary of the battle of King s King’s Mountain, '\^ hich will be observ ed at King’s Mountain Saturday, Oct. 7. Senator F. M. Simmons will make the principal address of the day. will be introduced by Congressman E3. Y Webb, who will also make an ad dress. Rev. J. D. Mauney, of Hickory, will open the exercises with prayer. The Shelby Cornet Band and the Bessemer City Cornet Band, assisted bv a carefully trained chorus will ren* der an ’elaborate and appropriate mu sical program. • _ In the afternoon the Shelby and Gas tonia military companies will partici pate in a sham battle. The exercises of the forenoon ■mil be held in the Academy at Kings Mountain. - A special reduced rate for the occa^ ion has been made on all railroads within 50 miles of King’s Mountaii^; the rate being 1 1*2 cents per mile. ♦ The Charlotte News has ♦ ^ made arrangements with the ♦ managet^ent of the Academy ♦ ♦ of Mu§ic whereby sixteen box ♦ ♦ seats to the matinee perform- ♦ ♦ ance of ‘‘Rip Van WinkJe,” ♦ ^ Joseph J^fE^son and hbt ca^* ♦ Jsie compfeiiy p^^.yei>*- ne|t ♦ Monday afternoOir'''^1S'be' giv'- ♦ ♦ en to pupils, under sixteen ♦ ♦ years of age, in the white ♦ ♦ schools of the city, who sub- ♦ ♦ mit the best composition on ♦ ^ “Rip Van Winkle.” ^ ♦ All compositions must be sub- ♦ ♦ mitted by next Friday evening ♦ ♦ at 6.30 o’clock, and they will ♦ ♦ be looked over by competent ♦ ♦ judges, who will determine the ♦ ♦ winners. . ^ ^ C0mi)0siti0ns must be limit- ♦ ed to 100 words each and any ♦ over that length will not be ♦ considered. ^ Neatness and general appear- ♦ ance of composition, spelling ♦ grammatical correctness will ♦ be considered as well as the ♦ facts in the story. . ♦ Mr. Jefferson’s reputation is ♦ too well known in this commu- ♦ nity to need any com meats. ♦ and large numbers of pupils ♦ in the city schools will doubt- ♦ less try'for the prizes. ♦ The pupils submitting the ^ compositions judged to be the ♦ best will be given one entire ♦ -box, consisting of four seats; ♦ the second best, two box ♦ seats; the third best two box ♦ seats; and the eight next best, ♦ one box seat each. Special boxes have been en- ^ gaged for the occasion. ♦ Get busy, boys and girls, ♦ and see who can ♦ write the best story about J “Rip.” ^ Address all communications ♦ to “Rip Van Winkle,” care of ♦ The'Charlotte News. ♦ CBOCIAL TEST or SliOPIiEII' STRIKE TD- By Associated Press. Fot Thud Time Since His Ekction io U. S. Senate In 1909, Senator Stephenson is Called Upon to Defend His Position. Tripoli Has Been Invaded by Italians-No Sure News Since Sunday at Midnight—No Firing Heard. Messages From Other Foreign Cities 2 hrow Some Light on Condition--Foreign Powers Keeping Out of the Embtog- lio. By Associated Press. London, Oct. 2.—A maw of contra dictory reports continued to shroud whatever history has been enacted in. the first two days of the Turko-Ital- ian war in the East Mediterranean- Whether the city of Tripoli has oeen invested by Italian troops cannot be definitely determined. There is just one thing certain. Th© I Italians had not attacked the North Chicago, Oct. 2.—Violence broke' African city up to midnight Sunday, out today among striking employes there had been an attack and sub- of the Illinois Central Railroad shops | sequent occupation, reports of the at Burnside j Ijombardment would have been heard John Chomas, a carpenter who^ de-1 the steamer Castle Garth, which dined to walk out with the other men,; i®^t Tripoli late Saturday night and was assaulted by four union pickets arrived at Malta this morning, as he was going to work today. He 1 Italian censorship of the wires out was struck on the head with a brick I of Tripoli is held responsible for lack and immediately was surrounded by a definite news. Reports from out- crowd of nearly a hundred strikers, lying sources are hopelessly conflict- Chomas was rescued by the police.' No arrests were made. j Refugees Brought, In. Two hundred strike breakers were I smuggled into the big carshops at i Malta, Oct. 2. A scene of confus- Burnside under cover of darkness, ac- io^ occurred at the quarantine station cording to the report of Illinois Cen- Iiere early today when the British tral officials. They also declare that steamer Castle Garth entered the har- 100 strikers have quietly returned to bor in the height of a severe gale, * j crowded with 1300 Maltese refugees The statement was made that 800 of from Tripoli. The passengers were the 3,000 ehopment employed at Burn-! huddled on the deck clamoring to get side are at work today and that this to land after three days’ voyage with number is being augmented hourly. | ao insufficient supply of food and This statement was made by an agent water. Although there had be?n of the railroad. | casualties, practically all a -.c reru- Chicago, Oct. 2.—The crucial test of gees were faint from "iiitflger and the strike of shopmen which was inau-, thirst, gurated on the Harriman lines Satur- Relief, day is expected to come today. .j Saturday was a half holiday in thej The port authorities promptly order- shops at nearly all poines on the sys-, ed emergency measures directing tha tem and in some cities the men were vessel to dock immediately. Once only employed^ during the first fbur, ashore the passengers soon found re days of the week, consequently it was lief. R0DG£RS’ MACHINE WAS BROKEN. By Associated Pr«ss. Htintington, Ind., Oct. 2.—Caught a sudden gust of wind, C. P. Rodgers’ aeroplane dived to earti just after had started from this city toward Chicago today. The ma chine was wrecked and Rodgers pain fully bruised. , . A SWEPING INJUNCTION. By Associated Press. Jackson, Miss., Oct. 2.—A temporary injunction, sweeping in its provisions and applicable to the entire state of Mississippi, was issued here today by Federal Judge Niles against .all the members of all the unions on strike On the Illinois Central Railroad system. THE WEATHER 'Washington, Oct. 2.—^Fore cast: North Carolina, local rams tonight; moderate variable winds. Senate Committee of Wiscon sin Legislature Preferred the Charges Which are Being Investigated at Meeting Be gun Today. By Associated Press. Milwaukee, Wis., Oct. 2.—United States Senator Isaac Stephenson, of Wisconsin, tok the witness stand ear ly today to answer cnarges that bri bery and other corrupt use of money contributed to his election on March 4, 1909. He appeared as a witness at the opening of the investigation begun by a sub-committee of the committee on privileges and elections of the United States senate. not possible to determine to what ex tent the strike order was obeyed. Julius Kruttschnitt, vice-president Provisions, Exhausted. The members of the Maltese colony in Tripoli went aboard the Castle Milwaukee, Wis., Oct. 2.—With chages before it that United States Senator Isaac Stephenson, of Wiscon sin, secured his election on March 4, 1909, by means of bribery and other corrupt use of money, the sub-com mittee of the committee on privileges and elections of the United States sen ate formally began its sessions here today. Senator Stephenson was summoned as the first witness. It was the third time since the cam paign which resulted in his election to the United States senate on March 4, 1909, that Senator Stephenson was called upon to defend himself against charges of bribery. Under a resolution adopted last Aug. 15, when the investigation of Senator William Lorimer, of Illinois, was still under way in Washington, the sub committee was authorized to inquire into these charges preferred by a senate committee of the Wisconsin legislature. That Senator Stephenson kept se cret many of his disbursements in the primary campaign for nomination in 1908; that whereas he a4-"atted hav ing expended $111,385 his campaign managers accounted for only $107,793 and that a large part of his fund was improperly used. That fraud connected with his pri mary campaign contributed directly to his election. x x That he distributed money to state officials to further his campaign. That he spent money in legislative districts to strengthen his support in the legislature. . , „ That he was elected only after a two months’ deadlock and then only af ter three democratic assemblymen Thomas F. Ramsey, now dead, John now dead. John T. Farrell and Si las A. Towne—absented themselves and so insured his election. Two legislative inquiries preceded the present investigation. Charles E. Littlefield, of Maine, who with W. E. Black of Milwau kee, w'ill act as counsel for the “de fense” announced Senator Stephen son was ready to testify. Members of the committee here are Senators and director of maintenance a^nd oper- Q^rth Fi'iday morning at the suggest ation of the Union and Southern i3ritish consul, who feared Pacific lines, expressed the opinion jqj. safety in the threatened bom- that less than 25 per cent of the Their provisions were soon men had gone out. exhausted and the severe weather add- W. L. Park, vice-prssident and gcn-l^^j ^ehir discomfort, eral manager of the Illinois Central/ Triooii Indifferent, claimed today that less than one-half j ^ « tm * u t -n • of the seven thousand men on his line , Rome, Oct. -.—Dispatches from Tn- had obeyed the order. \Po\i picturesquely describe the appear J. A. Franklin, international presi- ance of the African city on the eve of dent of the boilermakers’ union, as- Italian occupation.’ serted that 20,000 men quit work on The native population, it appears, is Saturday and that their numbers | taking the course of events with stolid would be increased during the day. j indifference although the foreign pop- In some instances the unions have ulation hp larply fied. ffiven special permission to the older ] Most of the business sectlOTl of tn€ ■ men long in the employ of the sys-1 city is closed in view of the danger oi tem and who would find difficulty in a serious damage from bombardment obtaining employment elsewhere, to! The dispatch says: remain at work. | Landscape Serene. A strong police guard is held in “The landscape is serene. One eeeS readiness in this city to quell any trou- party of big Turks lolling on the ble that may develop at Burnside ramparts, half hidden by the shade oi where the main shops of the Illinois palms. They have hoisted a fiag Central are located. j of red. which fiaunts with a haH* heart The only trouble so far reported oc- deiiance .over the red fortifl curred yesterday at McComb. Miss., (.g^^ons where a train of. strike breakers was ‘ stoned. ENTERED HOTEL SHOT HIMSELF INTHECREAST Special to The News. Winston Salem. Oct. 2.—Just be fore midnight last night Clarence Prevette, of this city, walked into the Central Hotel in North Wilkes- boro, placed a revolver to his left breast and fired. The ball went clear through the man’s body, and while he Is alive this afternoon, there is no hope of his recovery. Prevette was 24 years old, unmarried and was a clothing salesman. Despondency is given as the cause of the young man making the attempt to end his life. The clerk of the hotel immediately summoned medical assistance for the unfortunate salesman and everything possible was done for him but from present indications the efforts of the physicians will not save his life. ►.MANY LIVES LOST STORM. IN By Associated Press. Aniwerp, Belgium, Oct. 2.— Twenty-four coasting vessels went ashore and forty small craft were sung in a storm that swept the North sea to day. Many li'^es were lost. Soldiers Not Nervous. “Close by the' flag is a sentry, while behind the parapets one sees a group of soldiers watching from the summif of the castle. They are not worried or nervous. Their air is one of prO' found indifference. For them this daj is no different from any other day. Officers Idle. “Over in the barracks offloerg and gendarmes Idle in the doorways, ob serving with characteristic Oriental carelessness the passing of huddled groups of fright.ened foreign traders, their arms filled with parcels. “Women carrying infants are at th€ heels of the men. Patrols of soldiers pass gravely along the nearly deserted streets. Shops Closed. “The shops are closed and the win dows barred. Hundreds of houset have been vacated. . ^ “Terror has seized the Inhabitants. All the terraces are empty except thal at the Italian consulate which is occu. pied by correspondents. Holst German Flag. “Above the hospital conducted d5 Italian's Nuns waves a Red Cross flag/ A bold Monk distinguished by his long flowing beard has climbed to the ^ ol the bell tower on the Italian Catholic monastery and hoisted the G^nnac flag. . . Italians Await Fight. “The few remaining Italians awall impatiently the first firing. The loeai batteries are deserted. At sea a toes of freighting sailing boats is scurrying out of the harbor. Coffee Houses Opened. “This evening the coffee houses in the Arab quarter re-opened and priestl appearing on the balconies of the mi narets invited the people to Crowds of Arabs gathered at the dif ferent points and read the posted no tice in Turkish which says*. Turkey’s Stand. “ ‘The Italian government made an unjust demand on Turkey, asking hei (Continued on Pag» Nine.) iii