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THE CHARLOTTE NEWS
VOL. 45. NO. 8052
CHARLOTTE N. C.. FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER. . 1911
P'RK^'p'lIn Charlotte 2 Cent» a Copy Dally—5 Cents Sunday,
f Outside Charlotte 5 Cents a Copy Dally and Sunday.
Extra Police Called
To Quiet Disorders
In New Otleans
^ntire Reseral Force Has
,:n Called Out to Prevent a
petition oj Last Night*s
Aoting When Eight Pet sons
i, crc Injured,
s Vftre Stoned — Several
Tenders in Jail— Governor
. :ay Be Asked to Send
I roops to Preserve Peace,
ated Press.
! TleanB, Oct. 6.—Following an
.1’ li o’clock today upon a
iing at the corner of Mag-
‘ Latayet^e streets in whiin
pfed 21?» strike breakers, 800
the Illinois Central Rail-
■any and strike sympathiz-
iTw a short distance upon
-■ h of several squads ot
■r es and at -noon declar-
>' until 3:30 o'clock this af-
■ ! permit the railroad com-
Mi’ply with their demand to
■ th' strike breakers out of
Gulfport and a detachment of thir
ty dismounted cavalry from Macon
arriving about midnight. Fully a
hundred more troops are expected to
reach McComb before tonigt-t and,
wiih the second Mississippi regiment
held in readiness, military officials
believe they have the situation well
in hand.
LTp to noon today no arrest had
been made by United States depu
ties on warrants charging violation
of the restraining order growing out
of Tuesday’s rioting. The delay in
the issuance of the warrants is the
unofficial reason given for no arrests
having been made.
The strikers appear to accept the
present situation philosophicaliy.
They attend dailj; meetings of the
unions.
r’eans. Oct. 6.—Practically
’■o pol’.ce reservie force of
• ar? was ai-signed to duty
ro; d district today to pre-
'•le’inon of the serious riot-
• sttrday and last night
• ' Harriman lines strike In
The forces of railroad de-
nnd deputy Ignited States
- :>'so were increased.
Ask For Trops.
- current this morning
: officials had appealed to
Sanders for military protec-
1 was denied. However,
. cf rioting and bloodshed
’’..e governor to take a
thp possibility of fed-
; used to enfor^'e the
-sued by the United
“t
Eight Injured.
' • »rike breakers and a deputy
"■•jfes marshal were wounded
’uiiy's clashes, with tlie
ana sympathizers and five of
•are in hospitals with pain-
^ least one of the men,
: . u r. of Brooklyn, N. Y.,
i *o bf' fatally Injured.
Many In Jail,
e strike breaker# and a half
^ly^.'cers and 0«orge Pence, a
e, Va., detective, are in jail
red with rioting. Pence and Ar-
Coneland, aiso of Roanoke, are
"arged with assaulting and
_• R». with intent to murder,
RpTf'h, of Algiers.
Care Stoned.
Central coach and two
th» Southern Pacific Rail-
’•e shot riddled and stone
'most beyond use in two
r.ob attacks and during the
o^hp’* serious depredations were
!»d on railroad property,
case the air hose on seven
' ' :ars w*>re slashed while the
being made ready to move.
One Dead; Three Wounded.
-.;ion. Tex., Oct. 6.—With a rec-
’* -"r guard dead, another hover-
. 7 €cn life and death, three ad-
1 1 gnards so badly wounded as to
fined 10 homes or hospitals and
emplor former employes of
' crinian lines injured, the Har-
n#* Ktrikp entered upon us
H at ’his point with conditions
” i a.id considerable Intensity of
Governoi Kitchin
at Eigh Point loday
Special to The News.
High Point. Oct. 6.—The annual dis-
strict meeting of the Masons, the pro
gram of which was sent to the News
several days since is in session today.
A large number of delegates arrived
this morning and were taken care of
bv the reception committee. Capt.
Dadameade, H. F. Hunsucker, Chas.
Hayworth and Col. John D. Paylor.
After the afternoon session an auto
drive was given. Governor Kitchin
is on the program for tonight.
Fire Does Not
Stop Postal Boys
A small fire broke ou^ this after
noon at 3 o’clock in the basement of
the Postal Telegraph building. It was
quickly botten under control
The door of the basement was
locked and had to be broken open.
The fire originated in some loose pa
pers and bagging.
Notwithstanding that the building
was full of smoke, and that fire was
Immediately under the floor the Postal
“tick tick” kept on and the messen
gers were rushing In and out as usual,
delivering messages.
Rogeis Expects to
Make Chicago Today
By Associated Press.
Chicago, Oct. 6L—C. P. Rogers, who
Is making a coast to coast flight for a
prize of $50,000 expects to land this
afternoon In Grant Park, Chicago,
where the big aviation meet was held
in August.
He spent the night at Hammond,
Ind., and soon after noon he will get
into motion and an hour later he ex
pects to be in Chicago.
After a rest over night here Rogers
will depart for Kansas City.
SHEllill
SHCEKS WERE
HEDORDED
THE WEATHER
By Associated Press.
\\ashmgton, D. C., Oct. 6
Forecast:
North Carolina:—Local rains
tonight or Saturday; warmer; ♦
4- moderate northeast to east
winds. ^
FRENCH WARSHIP DISASTER.
First pictures of the explosion of the
French battleship Llberte in Tou^
Ion harbor, France. The lower
picture shows the twisted mass of
wreckage that was once the battle
ship Liberte. The upper picture
shows the hole torn in the side of
the battleship La Republique by
one of the Liberte’s armor plates
hurled against her with terrific
force. The photographs were taken
on the 25th of September, the day
of the explosion. More than five
hundred sailors were killed by thr^^
explosion.
V
Italians Now Reign
Supreme in Tripoli
Day’s Developments
IFIEH SIDMII
Italian Government Eas Been
Set Up—Sajety is Guar an*
teed to Foreign Residents —
Damage Done Dw ing Bom
bardment was Eeavy,
By Asociated Press.
Kansas City, Mo., Oct. 6.—All of the
nine balloons which went up from here
yesterday in the Bennett cup race.
Lahm cup race and altitude contest
save one, were still in the air at 9
o’clock this morning, according t^ in
formation received at the headquar
ters of the Aero Club,here.
The America 11 landed near Em-
mettsburg, Iowa, as 1:30 this morning
after wethering a severe storm. Its ' consulates have guaranteed the safety
pilot, William F. Assman and his aide, 1 qi foreign residents.
J. C. Hildert, were hurt when the bag j After the Italians hau occupied Sn\-
came down amid telephone wires. All j t^ania fortress, chiefs of the Arab tribes
the other balloons are believed to be ^vent aboan the Ita1i?in fiagship and,
saili'c northward over Minnesota. denoting their submission, begged that
Des Moines, Iowa, Oct. 6.—The bal- | iijomijardment of the city cease,
loon America II, W. S. Assman pilot, during the bombardment no harm
one of the contestants for the James | (jojie to property of Eui'opeans,
Gordon Bennett trophy and the Lahm j Tripolitan forts and the governor’s
cup, which left Kansas City last night, ii;jansion were destroyed.
Several Persons Were Killed-^
Property of Europeans Noi
Harmed—Turkish Gunboat
Sunk—The Latest Develop-
mints.
By Associated Press.
iripoli, Oct. 6.—Italian government
has been set up In Tripoli. The capital,
abandoned by Turkish trcopi, is com
pletely in tlie hands of the Italians’,
who, at the solicitation of tiie foreign
landed four miles west of Emmetts-
burg, Iowa, at 1:30 o’clock this morn-
' ing after encountering a severe storm.
The balloon in descending became
entangled in telephone wires and its
ocupants were painfully bruised.
Will lake up Case
of Craw ord Woman
Repetition of AusHn Disaster
Threatened at Black River
Falls, Wis.-Dam Goes Out
By Associated Press.
Black River Falls, Wis., Oct. 6.—
Telephone advices from Dells Dam,‘
18 miles up the river, say the dam
has gone out and the manager in-
charge says that notliiing can save
Hatfield dam, just below; ,
The water at this point is the,
highest In years and If the Hatfield ture, sixty feet high and 100 feet
dam Is swept away the loss will be deep a the base.
tremendous. People are panic strick- Efforts are being made to cinfine
en. They have been notified to move the torrent which has broken through
from the lower levels in the city. the dam to c canal and thus out of
The Hatfield dam is 55 . feet high the main river, but it is a.dmitted
and was built three years ago. It is that the situation is desperate.
dl oart officials claim they have a
of se\Tnty per cent at the local
more men en route but the
rs /intend that less than 1
'icnced men are at work agains
no-mal force of several hundred.
' ;tril;p was proceeding peacefu -
'her Texas ixilnts early today,
■'.ordinj: reuorts received here.
Vessenger Boy» Strike,
i^aot pr body of decidedly
- !» helped to enliven
’’he police today when
bovs pmployed by the We
. n Telegraph Company ^alkea
The strikers armed
pticks, clubs and stones
tened trouble for any boys who
• mried to take their jobs.
extra detail of police ^
r to preserve order at the o
•- ^mpany. .
Police Reserve Called
‘ ' >rleans. Oct. 6.—The entir
^ ^^,rc^ of the New Orleans ^lice
tment at 11 25 o’clock this mom
ordered to the Peters scb^l
1.; : on Magnolia street ^^^ere six
strike breakers arc Quar
Situation at McComb City . .
..Icr ,mn City. Miss.. Oct. 6.-^h
; ket fence of a half
i onetB around the railroad P P
’ here, a ten foot board -
i '1 with barbed wire strands ‘^cio
? ^1 of the workshops.
of automatic cann^
tor of a two story office build
oiH ‘>ntral Railroad officiaU
1 the opinion that they
- Ird to work as many
ii- :,r.-:;Ker:s as necessary in their
ppcial train of laborers
Migi't and at daybreak this mom
= w(*r. nut to work on the const
'■n of he board fence. It
■ iiplpted before nightfall, *
Mroad rr‘n Another consigns
' strikP lir.-akrs, is expected to w-
'luring the day from ,,, w'
' ohahly a rouple of carloads
Ilf herpf rom New Orleans
By Associated Press
Port au Prince, Haytl, Oct. 6.—A
heavy earthquake occurred here at
5:30 o’clock this morning. The move
ment was from east to west and con
tinued for thirty seconds.
The shocks were accompanied by
subterranean rumblings. No damage
was done, ,
Recorded at Mobile
Mobile, Ala., Oct. 6.—The seismo
graph at Spring Hill College here re
corded a severe earthquake at 4
clok this morning, which, accord-
Ine to calculations was probably
about 700 miles distant. It is believed
the earthquake must have occurred
In northern Mexico.
Washington Records Shocks
Washington. Oct. 6.—An earth
shock estimated to have occurred at
f distance of about il,MO
Washineton was recorded this morn
Infa Georgetown University obaer-
latonl The- disturbance began a
5?21 o’clock and lasted more than 40
“Mobile Ala., Oct. 6.-The strength
of^he wave was equal In both compon
ents. The main shock had been
bv continuous tremors since last
Fridav. There was a slight let up yes
terday and scarcely anything last mgat
InSlng trouble, but the seismograph
disturbance grew intense at 4 o clock
mornin*.
Oct. 6.—An
New Orleans. Oct. o.—
ouak” described as ''“’Xwr
ver
u r^^rnVlmately 2,500 miles
^^^^^hpaJt^of New Orleans, probably
southeast recorded this morn-
the register^
UTOoeraphy In that the earth-
step in • y Father Franck
quake was Pr^cted y ^i^rosels-
hauser, through am
mograms Monday when his pre-
,as not «•>>'™ "“‘’gTv’e the probable
diction was isu^. “ « j a,atui-b-
distance or directio^
lour hundred troops were In uom that date.
a modern concrete stnicture' stor
ing a vast quantity of water.
Try to Control Torrent.
Lacrosse, W’is., Oct, 6.—Telephone
advices just received at the office of
the Lacrosse water power company
say that the west end of the main
dam at Hatfield went out at 10.30.
The dam is a solid concrete' stfuc-
Ten Thousand Persons
Killed in Chinese Pr ovince
During Recent F i g h t s
By Associated Press.
Peking, Oct. 6.~Ten thousand per
sons were killed during recent fighting
between antl-forelgn insurgents and
government troops in Szechuen prov
ince, acordlng to telegrams from
American mi&lonarles at Cheng Tu re
ceived today. Of the dead two thousand
were soldiers. Rebels are in possession
of many cities southwest of Cheng
Tu. Soldiers have been sent against
them.
Thousands of natives, homeless and
destitute because of the fighting, have
killed themselves.
Maunei Tells
Strange Tale
By Associated Press.
San Francisco, Oct. 6.—Fred
Schroeder, captain of the 400 ton
schooner Elvira, brought a marvelous
story from Arctic water. As his ves
sel neared Bosgostav he said, a burst
of vapor rose above the island, dust
rained on the sea and as the vapor
cleared, new land was in sight.
“When it cooled off,” said Schroe
der, “there wei;e four new islands.
We could see them distinctly but
they quivered in such a strange way
that we did not attempt to approach
them.”
TUFT IISSIS
F
CRI
By Associated Press.
. Pocatello. Idaho, Oct. 6.—Critics
of the United States supreme court
death OF MR. JAMES A SUATER.
Special to The News.
Winston-Salem, N. €., Oct. 6.—Mr.
James A. Slater, aged 8, died suddenly
at the home of his daughter, Mrs. W.
T Carter, early today. He was a na
tive of Salisbury, was married In New
York and conducted a mercantile busi
ness In that city several years.
.When he retired last night he com- tion.
plained of suffering from IndlgeBtion
were bitterly assailed by President
Taft here today when he asserted
anew his yie'^s as to the relations of
government to business.
.“When a court is doing its daty,
when it is trying to .Interpret the law
as it ought to'be, to have It. condemn
ed and attacked^ and its motives
questioned for mere pollticah purposes
without any solid ground for attack,
it goes to my"heiart and I resent:it
with deep indignation,’* d^lared the
president.
He asserted he had failed to re
ceive an answer to'his. challenge to
W. J. Bryan and other publicists to
cite a .single case of restraint of
trade '‘which ought to be condemned
and wluch would not be condemned
under the supreme court’s interpre
tation of the anti-trust law in the
Standard Oil. and tobacco trust cases.
Defends Supreme Court.
“What distinguishes this country
from any other one,” said the Presi
dent, “Is tjie supreme court that we
have, that often has stood between
us and errors that .might have been
committed that would have been great
ly injiri’ious to the-country; and to
turn upon t^at court* and to question
its motives, seem to me to lay the axe
at the root of the tree of our civiUza-
C50urt’s disposal of the Standard Oil
and tobacco, cases as “two great de
cisions.”
“They were two of the greatest
trusts that existed,” he said, “and in
the working out of the deci'ee the
court had to mak^ a remedy. The
Standard Oil Company presented all
the phases of illegality and criminality
necessary to establish a meonopoly at
a time when they did not feel the nec-
esity for concealing their methods or
their motives.
‘•‘The tobacco trust represented an
organization made in anticipation of
the operation of the law, helped out by
the advice of cunning lawyers in order
to avoid its- operation. But against
them both the decree of tlie supreme
court has been pronounced.”
“To one in my place,” said the pres
ident, “there is no discretion with ref
erence to the trial of cases brought
to the attention of the executive as
violations of the law. It is not for the
executive to say he can withoid any
knoweldge of prosecutions just to help
business. Business must reform it
self.
But when that part of the business
community that thought that the anti
trust statute did not mean anything,
understands that it is to be enforced,
then we may’ reach a solution that
will enable the business community
to.settle down on a proper and legit
imate basis.
“We must eliminate so far as we
can this desire to attack wealth earn
ed by thi'ift and gathered togethered
together by foresight, attention and
industry because that is to set up a
feeling that bodes, no good.
“If we had allowed these combina
tions to go on and develop the only
remedy would have been to change by
force the power thus concentrated in
the hands of a few individuals to the
state and then we should have had
state socialism.
“We must get back to competition
as an element in this country. If it is
impossible, then let us go to slcial-
ism, for there Is no w'ay between. ,
for one, am not discouraged as yet,
in the hope that we may return to a
legitimate and independent competi
tion.”
Fired on Cruiser.
Massowa, Eriatrea, Africa, Oct. 6.—
1 he fort of Hodeidah, a seaport of Ara
bia, fired on the Italian mining cruiser
Aretusa. The s-hots were -vithout effect.
The Aretusa replied with her guus.
Gunboat Sunk.
Provoked because she had been fired
upon by the Turkish fort at Hodeidah,
the Italian mining cruiser Aretusa at
tacked . Turkish gunboat and sank
I her.
I Turkey having taken the offensive
By Associated Press. j jn Red Sea, where Italy had intend-
Nev.’ Orleans, La., Oct. 6.~Acording I eo to remain on the defensive, the
to an announcement by District At- i Aret.usia and the dispatch boat Staf-
torney Adams, a special session of the , feta, and repair ship Volcano, all or
grand jurv will convene Monday next which are armed and the s-maller war
t. take up the case of Annie Crawford. ! craft available have been ordered to
charged with the poisoning of her sis- • chase the few old gunboats that Tur-
ter Elsie Crawford. U-ey has in the Red Sea and to at-
Although not definitely learned, it itack the ports of Yemnn if necessary,
is believed that City Chemisrt Metz has Urge Forbearance,
submitted to the prosecutor his report Cologne, Germany, Oct. 6.—The ua-
concerning the examination of the or- zette’s correspondent at Constantino-
gans removed from the body of the i pie reports that the German embassy
rtead slr't. This report will have an im- there is urging forbearance on t^e part
dead girt. This report
portant bearing on the ca«e as by the
amount of poison found in the body
may be determined whether Annie
Crawford spoke the truth when she
confessed that she had given her sister
only one and a half grains of mor-
phinie, miS'taking it for calomel.
SPOSSE TO CSLl
FOR SOPPLiES
of the Turkish government in the mat
ter of the exinilsion of the Italians.
Number Killed During Bombardment.
x^erlin. Oct. 6.—A correspondent of
the Wolff Bureau, telegraphing from
Dehibat on the Tunesan frontier under
yesterday’s date, says:
“Six I )ldiers and six Jews were kill
ed and five soldiers and one Jew
wounded during the bombardment of
Tripoli.
“The Europeans, of whom there are
still 4,000 in Tripoli, were unharmed.
Shells from the Italian fleet did com
paratively slight damage in the city.
“The Moslams remained passive.”
Will Occupy City.
Berlin, Oct. 6.—Although the Ital
ians landed marines at Tripoli, it is
understood here that mediation wiil
not be acceptable before the city has
been occupied by the expedition from
Italy, the first ship of which is dua
to sail for Tripoli tomorrow.
Grermany in the meantime is endea
voring to restrain Turkey from tak
ing any measures that might lessen
By Associated Press.
Austin, Pa., Oct. 6.—Before another
24 hours it is expected that a tempo
ry electric light plant will have been
established on the fiats whfire once |
stood the greater portion of Austin, i hope of successful mediation
which was destroyed by flood last
Saturday.
■ With this plant in operation the
clearing of the wreckage will be push
ed forward night and day.
The inquest into the scores of
deaths began at 11 o’clock this morn
ing.
DemonstraHon
Awaits Gen. Reyes
Mr.
Talt referred -to tls© suprwn6
FRENCH FLUE
RAISED
Bv Associated Press.
‘San Antonio, Tex., Oct.. G.—Arrange
Austin Pa Oct. 6.—“Human suffer- rnents were made today by friends ol
ine and’ distress makes the whole 'General Dernardo Reyes for a demojv
mg ana uifeu e nivon stration upon his arrival here. It Is
rat/com"mlsfsoner of health express’- ^^"^^0^
ing appreciation at the made tor a
sponse residence to serve as the
relief materials for the nooa&..epi j for Rpves.
town of Austin.
As an Instance Dr. Dixon cites the
contents of an envelope received by
his office yesterday. It contained a lit
tle package of paper dolls, all care
fully cut out from the supplement of a
Sunday newspaper. Written on the en
velope in a childish scrawl were the
words: “From a little girl to any little
girl who has lo&t her dolls.”
Even today, nearly a week after the
INDEPENDENT TOBACCO
DEALERS WILL ACT.
Washington, Oct. 6.—Organization
of independent tobacco dealers who
claim they will oppose any disintegra
tion scheme of the “trust” that does
not contemplate restoring the tobacco
industry to conditions that prevailed
and combination,
^ ^ 1. before there was , ,
breaking of the dam, the food supply i forecasts a protracted struggle when
Is limited. (public discussion of the American To-
By Associated Press.
Berlin, Oct. 6.—The caliph appealed
to the commander of a German war
ship in tne harbor but he refused to
interfere. The French flag was planted
on an ancient bastion dominating the
twon and which the overzealous
French patriots had occupied in the
absence of the garriton. They fired
a salute and sent word to Hie Germans
to-leave Agadir, which they declared
had become a French possession.
The incident, according to the dis
patches received here, created excite
ment in southern Morocco, but the
German foreign oflace is satisfied with
ttie countermeasures adopted by the
l^enofa govemixient.
The problem of securing writing pa
per was solved by one of the towns
men who salvaged from the wreckage
several ton rolls of brown wrapping
paper which had been washed down
bacco Company’s re-organlz^lon Pians
begins next week before the federal
circuit court. . , ,
The attitude of the federal govern
ment is as yet uncertain. Attx>meya
the valley from the mills beneath the the tobacco trust ordered dlssolv-
dam. He peeled off hundrieds of yards ^d by the supreme court ex^^cte^to
of the water-soaked outer sheets and "
then tore the dry clean layers beneath
into great sheets’ which he furnished to
all who had none. Thousands of sheets
of the curious copy peeper are on the
files at the telegraph office.
In many other ways necessity has
shown herself the uiother of inven
tion. Gas comes out of the earth here.
Lights were needed in the streets and
in the few remaining houses. Plenty
of pipe and couplings were in the
wreckage and for a fair price laborers
strung pipe around a room and over
a barrel head table, c wherever it
was desired. Of course there were
turns and twists that could not be
avoided as the pipe had to be used
without thread cutting in whatever
lengths it happened to come. Accord
ingly the pipe runs in many different
directions before it reaches th6 jet but
it eventually attains tiie desired re
sult.
submit their scheme to Attorney Gen
eral Wickersham today.
The plan has been discussed by tne
tobacco companies attorneys, •'t'
torney general and the judges of the
circuit court at several conferences,
and so far as its main points the con
cerned, was considered generally sat
isfactory.
Bloodhounds on Trail,
Barbourvllle, Ky., Oct. 6. Deputy
Sheriff Andrew Mitchell and Clareuce
Mitchell left here last night with blood
hounds to assist in the apprehension
of persons connected with the homi
cides that took place near Cumberl^d
Gap on Tuesday when Deputy Sheriff
James Collins, of Bell county, was
mortally wounded and his two son^
Olln and Russell Collin- were killed
while attempting to take into custody
Mrs. Sirelda Denney Barnett, wanted
as a witness at Pineviiie.
iore this morning, a company