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yOL. 45. NO. 8082
CHARLOTTE N. C., MONDAY^ JEVENiNG, NOVEM 13 I9I |
Supreme Court of Appeals Upholds
Action of Lower Court in Beattie Case
Semy Beattie Ji
Doomed To Die
In Electi ic Chav
A TRIPPLE MURDER. ^
^.■rmg Executive Clemency,^
Ymg Wife Murder, oj\* ___
^ -\y-07ld IS Doomed to Die>^ By Associated Press.
for His Crime Soon.
tourioj Appeals Refuses to
Atlowa Reopening ofihe]
famm Case—Petition Bad',
Sein Fikd Last Week. I
^ . tnp-
p!e murder was cor V ,ted to
day in Brooklyn. women,
mother and daugu , and the
child of one of them were
found dead in a dwelling on
Park avenue. The father of the
child is sought by the police.
Presf.
Va.. Nov.
5-DAY SLEEPER HAS RELAPSE.
IS.—The 8U- Tlllle William# Drop* Off Again While
HHLTH DEPIIRT-
MENT MAY TAKE
HANO IN STRIKE
j Bj Associateo Press.
New York, Nov. the garbage
gatherers strike is not broken today
the health dei^artment will step in to
save New York from the evil effects
of Ecme 40,000 cart loads of refuse that
has accumulated since the men who
d'i-\e ’ne -street claning department’s
wagont; Quit work because they ob
jected to night hours.
Fear of the strikers and their friends
has ktpr, r rofesslonal strike breakers
from oceiitirg the high wages the city
offers for fci'bstitutes and dread of the
Teanisters' Union has prevented con
tractors from bidding to perform the
i work usually done by the city de
partment. Ihe health department in
tervened today when its men took out
I several huiidred barrels of dianfectant
to sprinkle on the piles of rottin?
1,'arhage :n the poorer and more thick-
t'rp r
■ if appeals today denied
Tor a writ of error by
P-vtle. Jr.. convicted of | sleep after attending a dance at Music tines z.duiinietcrf j
at Moving Picture Show. •
ly IKUn.aleo districts.
I Williams of this village, who went to,
. Wife last JUI.V. | weeks a.o and slumbei ed , ThatlLVh^^^d
D on the appeal from the > ® ® » mnJiff ^ while at- taught the &rr‘>.i sympathizers a les
■ he Chesterfield «>att,, 5 Miss Wliflamt >f.-terday'e riots we-
>r.ced him to die in the elec- j went to sleep in a chair while watch- *
r*. Nov. .4 iB final. Only clem-
“i e by Governor Mann
e condemned man.
Governor to Isue Statement.
•t , '’i' nope of judicial In-
dashed when
:erp
■i-'ai coii;
the
' announced that "the
i-lmnly correct in its
appeal is theretore
exten.'^ive the police had to
in7lh7'Z7mes " " cope with the strike began there w.r.
A physician was summoned and the I
young woman was removed in an auto if, arrests has l>een
to the home of her grandfather, Silas
H. Case, on Greenwich etreet. It was
believed she had entirely recovered
from the effects of her last seizure.
’U'lBg anc tJe
.T.ieu.
No further comment was made
the case.
T.-fj.M n* the penitentiary
» ^ uot tell Beattie oi
but would leave that
fat'--', and brother.
■’u'. iuJuencee are said to he
on Governor Maan lor
”f - either commutation or
^ " Ti . believed he will in-
>11
■ir said he would issue
tomorrow.
Supreme Comt
Gives Decisions
,-«ri A’fd t resB.
^ .u P. C.. Nov. 13.-The
"re siu.tb; nl>-fought contest over
•e power f the iater&tate commerce
to prohibit railroads from
'n operators of elevators com-
atlou nr elevating grain in trans-
- f.r.,illy decided today w'hen
• ' rr- i supreme court the
’ ’ n possessed no such pow-
Moving iPcturc Shows.
''' !Dg :)ii?are show promoters re-
)day when the supreme
c of 'he rnited States decided
moving pirtures based on the
:?r- if r fc,;v-ightecl book may
;'!»’!tute in ir'rinaiement of the copy-
‘rt* on the book or the reserved
l-iEht*- to dranffttij'e.
Rebels Continue
Succisses in China
1 f.
•.stnriatf (i Press.
P*;;’"? .Nov. m.-Yuan Shi Kal, ac-
' 'VO thousand troops,
':un >Sial entry today into the
‘bich he was driven in
^ear8 aeo.
5 hat the strong man of
- id been prevailed upon
sive the tottering throne
f'f his counsels became
»■ his arrival; and a vast
il lined the route from
p‘ation to the temple
vcn jirovided for his resi-
ret
hetiPti-
b.f:>
mSIlTESM
Sp«^al to The News.
Statesville, N. C., Nov. 13.—The
morning session of the conference
was occupied mostly with discussion
of the reports of the committee on
the spiritual jit^te ■ of the church,
and the report of the board of edu
cation. The report on tfte spiritual
state of the church r^ommended
that pastors themselvei hold meet
ings in churches Instead of employ
ing evangelists, except ^ special
cases. It recommended the appoint
ment of a committee on evangelism
consisting of J. B. Abemetfay, L. T.
Cordell, J. W. Moore. It recommended
also employing a conference evangel
ist of song in the person of S. A.
Fisher, his salary to be provided
without asking the conference tor
aid.
C. H. Neal, H. K. Boyer, C. vv.
Byrd and J. S. Martin, the last nam-.
ed being laymen spoke to the report.
Dr. Byrd and Mr. Martin emphasiz
ed the importance of making evan
gelistic services of the regular serv
ices of the church in order to give
opportunity for people to become
Christians and unite with the
church.
Report number 2 of the board of
education recommending an Increase
of live hundred dollars on the as
sessment for education, created much
discusion. An amendment was ofter-
ed to strike out the increase. Sev
eral speaches were made after which
the report was adopted Including
the increased assessment.
An amendment to the report on
temperance was offered by W. B.
Hales and others and was adopted
recommending that the conference re
spectfully request the management
of all daily papers now carrying
liquor advertisements to discontinue
same; when present contracts ex
pire.
The afternoon session was set
for 3 o’clock. When appointments
will be read. The opinion prevails
that man changes will be made. The
Shot by Sweetheart
Woman Dies
By Associated Press,
Chicago, 111., Nov. 13.—Miss B3*tha
Atwood, 26 years of age, who Is sup
posed to have come to Chica^jo from
New Orleans and who is be'ioved to
have had a s•^ter in St. J.ou’ls, died in
a hosiptcl h(-re today, the rjsult of
having been shot In the neck last Mon-
jday by h'ir 8weetheai.*t, WiUium J.
j oTilSh ^ — ~-
I Grush conltfitttted iuiclde directly
^er he had ^hot the young woman.
The shooting Is said to have followed
Miss Atwood’s refusal to marry him.
appointments were by cabinet this
• 1 iiale and heartv hiH an-^ session. The appointment
l ln'/'.;:"l«rt"r*.pSrt.T. S. B. Turrentlne a«
- -ndition which had been! of the Winston district wUl
:-.n ti
p'cr.,.,0 for his delav in Obey- ^ surprising to quite a num
• "^t^rl^^^dS^^^he conference
' prom\'" "w. P. Few president of ™^Col-
tmnprinl edict of Nov 1 E- A* Cole and P. T. Durham, w
■ ^’ions to thp 1^ the Interwt of colleges; O. 8.
; eHsed UiB unwillingness ^M^®rw^mont ^In
' ’ e .-nd whether he could J* A. Baldwin, president Piedmont In-
; i to re-ronsider this decis- dustrial InBtitute.
■ n a rjueetlon of much spec-' B. Abernethy, conference secre-
1 tary of education, spoke.
-n Shi Kai Arrives Reports ol tHe Epworth League
■ fable dispatches ^®ard and committees of district con-
1’ ' lounce that Yuan .f®rence records
J . F'eking this morn- relations, were heard. The tem-
iiavc an audience with P®rance report recommended tnat tne
■ 'Ih\ to riiBcuHs the Bitua- conference do not support papers ad-
‘ d that Yuan will not verUsing liquor. A Uv«ly discussion
p‘ ” '-miershii), ensued, special mention being made or
o/eign Consul* to Quit Nankina Papers that carry liquor advertisement
^Nv. in the discussion. A subsUtute was ere.
. r " nsuiR and foreigners un to request the paper*
tion will move out of continue liquor advertiseinenti and the
Captain and Thtee*
Men Drowned
3y Associated Press.
New Haven, Conn., Nov. 13.—The
schooner Witch Hazel, from New York
for Provincetown went down in the
sound off New Haven during the storm
of last night. The captain and three
men were drowned and two others
were saved.
WOMEN PREPARING TO
RUN THE CITY.
By Associated Press.
Chicago, Nov. 13.—Believing that
the time is not far distant when wo
men may be elected aldermen and a
woman wielding the gavel in the
mayor’s chair, Chocago’s suffragists
are interesting themselves in a
school for the instruction of munici
pal employes which will be opened
tonight.
Women especially are Invited to
attend the classes which will be con
ducted by John Curtis Kennedy oI
the University of Chicago.
"We may have a woman mayor and
women councilmen in a short time,"
said Mrs. Mary E. McDowell, of the
University of Chicago settlement in
making the announcement of the new
school, “and It Is well to get our in
struction now."
F
L
AT ATUNTA, CA.
By Associated Press,
Atlanta, Ga., Nov, 13.—^Approximate
ly 400 delegates, representing every
state of the union and including fra
ternal delegates from England and
Canada are in Atlanta for the opening
session today of the thirty-first annual
convention of the American Federation
of Labor. With the leaders of every
branch of organized labor: in attend
ance and questions of far reaching im
portance to the labor world on the pro
gram for discussion, the proceedings
of the convention will be watched with
interest.
The opening session of the' conven
tion. which is to be preceded by a pa
rade of all the delegates to the con
vention and members of the labor
unions of Atlanta, will consist chiefly
of addresses of welcome and the read
ing of the report of President Gomp-
r* -
%
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NEWS.
kZ
/ . • •
Southern Tiain No.
37 Wrecked And
Engineer Killed
THE WEATHER.
By Associated Press.
Washington, Nov. 13.—Fore
cast:
North Carolina, fair tonight,
freezing temperature on ' the
coast, slightly warmer in Ex
treme west poi'tion; Tuesday
fair, with slowly rising temper-
perature.
South Carolina, fair tonight
with freezing temperature;
Tuesday fair, slowly rising-
temperature.
BOY: EMPEROR AND DOWAGER EMPRESS.
The boy emperor of China (upper picturie) and .the present Dowager Em
press, .who is tive widow of Emperor^ kwang^Su, who. died In 1908.
Both the boy. emperor and'his mother had to flee the Chinese capital,
for fear of the revolutionists, who’ are sweeping over the country
and have estaiilished a republican forttn of-government.
Wave
V' mM.ediately/The'^commanh- ^ ^
■ torMsn w.rship, today notl-
that thev roniH nnt the closIng business. Rev. J. H.
: and property Weaver having presided during the
ingide the city morning.
Ccmtinued on Bight.
The busineM of the convention until
Friday, it is stated, will consist large
ly of the Introduction of reecdutions
T^ich then wil be referred to commit
tees for consideration and later report
ed to the convention for action. The
conTention Is expected to be In session
here for about two weeks
By Associated Press. ^ i '
' New Orleans,.. Nov. 13.—Con.sidera-
ble damage was done the ^siigar ahd^
trucking industries in Louisiana and
Texas by the unseasonable low temper
atures of yesterday 'ahd tbday* Freez
ing weather extended as f^r som^'' as
the middle gulf cioast tbdSiy with the
temperature 27 degrees as far south as
Alexandria, La. r -
In a large part ^f the. sugar belt
cane is still''standing‘ ln,the fli&lds and
the cold snap came so suddenly that
few planters had- time or sufficient
force to give ajiy; protection . to the
crop.
The cold came too late to do much
damage to cotton except* to injure the
grade but the high winds of yesterday
stripped the scattiered open bolls cleaji
in some sections.
increasing cloudiness ’-i is ' in,dic:ated
for the* west gulf .stlLtes toni^t and
Tuesday but the weather hureaii prom'
ises a general rise in temperatures.
, Atlanta, Qa., Nov. 13.—Atlanta is
shivering In the grip of one of the
coldest snaj>s experienced in •■Novjem-
ber since 188*?' when ' the . mercury
dropped to * 16 degn^.' ■ At 1 o’clock
this mom|ng > the, ofllcial temperature
w'as given as 22 degrees,' a^drbp of
46 degrees . since' 7 ^ o’clock a. m.
Sunday.
The cold snap, is thought 'to .have
caused little, dami^e to cdtton as
most of the ero^-had been a^
strong wind, hpweir^T. prec93ed toe
drop of the >mercury and. Iiiv'Soi^m
sections ' odtton; wMch. . h^^
left in the' bolls was at^^d' ahd
scattered* through . the fleSw;;
Montgomery. - Ala., Not. iS.^\^th
one exception wi^^er .rekjdrds,
^or the first half of November for tlie
past 39-years'Were-broken in Mont
gomery this jnorning. The tempera
ture registered here by the weather
bureau wa» 27. This is, the lowest on
record so early in the month except
November 12, 194, when a temperature
'of 26 was reached,
Bristol, Tenn., Nov. 13.—The coldest
weather Bristol has experienced this
winter came this morning when the
mercury fell to 10 degrees above zero.
This is unusually cold for Bristol at
this season’of the'year.
Nfew 'Orleans, La., Nov, 13,—Joseph
A. Gonzales, aged 64, a fisherman, died
at the door of his ca1t>in on Lake Pont-
chartraln today as the' result of ex
posure to the. cold. The old man was
caught by a'trap door falling across
his body early today and thus pinion
ed, di€!d as; a result of the cold. The
minimum temperature here was 34.
WHAT ABOUT ANTI-
TmJST LEGISLATION.
Washington, Nov. 13.—President
Taft discussed ^ay with Attorney
General Wickerslam the advisability
of supplemental ^ ‘ anti-trust legisla
tion, at the, coming session of con
gress. The conference related par-
ticiilarly: to Jthe likelihood of passing
a' 'federal- Incor^ratlon ^ct. It was
pointed : out that a provision of this
kind might-be made to allow corpora
tions whose method of doing business
:wa8 in riolatibn of the Sherman anti-
trpat law to re-organize under a
act.-
V iipnatoir^^moot who had a long talk
w4n» ' tHe’; ‘pfiBSident expressed the
9^1oii^it^ would be impossible to pass
aiyr and-tnist ; legislation whatever
>g Mission of congress.
BEUTEO BEPORTS
By Associated Irress.
Nashville, Tenn., Nov. 13.—Belated
reports of the storm that swept
oyer Middle Tennessee Sunday
night and Sunday morning, reache-
ing a climax in a cyclone at Joelton,
this county, are comihg in today.
In a number of towns houses were
unroofed# fences and wires blown
away and corn fields leveled.
At Pulaski the fe^s of the people
were accentuated by a blazing me-^
teor and I^wrenceburg spent me'
night in darkness, the light wires
becoming crossed with telephone
wires and the current cut off to pre
vent a conflagration.
It io a coincidence that a storm
of such extent in Tennessee should
come, during the voyage of the repli
ca of the ilrst steamboat to cruise
down the Ohio and Mississippi
rivers. While the old “New England"
was steaming down the Ohio near
the mouth the first of the earth
quake shocks which formed Reel
Foot Lake in West Tennessee oc
curred, the crew of the Jittle boat
witnessing the sudden disappearauce
; of isl^ds and shore lines. an4 na.t-
tirai phfeiioffieMt fBSfc leff' tti^' iibpi’e
of the middle West panic strickeh.
The first of those shocks came on
December 11, 1‘811.
DeToilment Occutred Between
Bentja And Reidsville About
Iwenty Miles North of
Gretnsbord^ tause of Derail
ment Could not be Determined
RAilBDIDS OF
STATE FIGHTING
Special to The News.
Raleigh, Nov. 13.—Chairman Franklin
McNeill and Secretary A. J. Maxwell,
of the Corporation Commission, and
Attorney General T. W. Bickett have
gone to Washington for a hearing this
week before the new commerce court,
on the appeal of the Norfolk & West
ern Railway Company, from the order
procured by the North Carolina com
mission from the,Interstate Commerce
Commission for a substantial reduo-
tion in freight rates from Cincinnati
and other western points to Durham
and Winston-Salem as the North Caro
lina terminals.
The Southern Railway Company has
joined in the fight with the Norfolk &
Western against the reduced rates on
the ground that the North Carolina
commission intends to undertake to
require the Sotuhern to apply similar
reductions to Greensboro and the dan
ger to railroads of the state geenrally
that may lead to reductions to such
North Carolina * shipping points as
Charlotte, Wilmington, Raleigh and
others.
—Mr. Geo, A. Howell, Jr., is home
from Davidson College spending a few
days with his parents.
Colored Fireman Seriously In-
jured—Engine lutned Over
And Four Sleepers and Two
Mail Coaches Left Track—
Engineer Kinney Well Known
Engineer W. A. Kinney was killed,
and Foreman Ed Tbwnesend, colored,
was so seriously injured that he may
die, when Southern train No. 37, run
ning from Washington to New Orleans
was derailed this morning between
Beneja and Reidsville, about twenty
njiles north of Greensboro. The e.i-
gine turned over, and four sleepers auci
two mail coaches left the track. The
mail clerks and passengers v/ere bad
ly shaken up, but according to early
reports none were injured.
The pause of the derailment vu1d
not. be determined on first examina
tion. The train was running at a good
rate of speed when without warning
the engine left the track and turned
completely over dras^in^^ with it «iix
coaches. The engln^r was crush!>d
and burned and died almost instantly.
Fireman Townsend, thoifgh seriously
hurt, may recover. It is considered al
most a miracle that no others were
killed, and the circumstanc is probably
due to the steel ffonstruction of the
cars. "
Train No. 37 is the famous vestibule
limited, and known as the finest train
run in the south. It passes Charlotte,
on schedule time, at 11 o’clock in the
morning.
Engineer Kinney was running the
train that was in collision with Presi.
Spencer’s special, on Thanksgiving
Dflty^ about six years ago, when Presi
dent Spencer, of the Southern Rail^y,
JjjJjled. He. la the a family
^6f engineers, his father and 'two broth
ers having been -killed before him.
Later Story.
Special to The News.
Greensboro, N. C., Nov. 13,—Num
ber thirty-seven, the Southern Kali-
way-New York & New Orleans Pull-
nian train consisting of two mall, one
combination sleeper and baggage
and seven pullmans running forty
minutes late was wrecked near
Benaja, Rockingham,, caimty midway
between Reidsville and Greensboro
at seven forty-five o’clock this morii-
ing. Engineer W. A, Kinney was
kiUed, and colored fireman Ed.
Townes of Spencer was badly hurt
in back and hip.
No passengers were seriously hurt.
D. E, Line of Baltimore suffered a
sprained wrist, A. M, Short, ticket
collector, Atlanta, had his head lac
erated.
Henry Morrey, Greensboro had
his thigh wrenched, R. F. Arrington,
colored porter, Washington had his
head cut. Several mail clerks were
badly shaken up, but none seriously
injured. There was grjeat excitement
here over the first report of many
killed and injured before the tacts
became known.
Only six cars, the two postal, one
combination, alid three pullmans left
the track. The accldnt is supposed
to have been caused from spreading
rails but it is impossible to say what
the exact cause was since the track
was completely torn up for two hun
dred yards. The remarkable escape
from death and casuality was due to
the heroism of the engineer, the
steel cars and the bank which cause
the cars following the engine to lay
over on the bank when the engine
ploughed into the soft embankment
and was literally buried, crushing
the engineer on his seat. The fireman
wast brown out of the cab into the
Continued on Page Nine.
Steamer With Fifty Persons
On Board Headed Far Rocks
Helpless In Tetrific Gale
' ■ ^ * ~
A * t {Washington, which ran ashore«n Pea-
Portland, Ore., Nov. 13.-—A wireless f cock spit yesterday afternoon is being
mesMge td the weather bureau here driven by a southeast gale toward the
crews have sue-1 Rock Island between Cape Disappoint-
® and North Head. It in believed
steamer Washington at the mouth of
the Columbia.
**•« a - vu. i7vwrAj
The steamer was in a worse position runnine
that many or all of the fifty persons
on board are doomed. A terrific esa is
this morning than when darkness fell
and shut her'off from the view of the
watchers on shore. A terrific south-
At 9 • 45 o’clock the ^ Washington
was drifting closer to shore between
Cape Dissapointment and North
at the
■
east gale was blowing; and slowly but!„ a «rn 3 «
surely she was creeping toward the j ready to fire
The only hope for the fifty persons)
aboard was in the bravery of the Unit-1 * the life saving station
ed Stat^ life saving crews from the ^ says the Washington is
Cai^ Disappointment and Point Adams I"^ rapidly and was expected to
stations. These men patrolled the’f® smake from her
beach all night witing for the vessel *^®®el c^Id be seen. It was believed
to drift close enouugh to shore that!®^® of water. ^
life lines might be fired over her. , | Ih spite of the heavy sea, life savers
The tugboats Tatoosh and GoliaJh lefV P^'^'P^ed to launch tlieir boat in the
Astoijia early toda^ for the. scene but hope of picking up any who might be
their captains had little hope that washed from the wfeck or jump over-
they would be able to get close enough board. Two of the crew of the Wash
to the stranded vessel to afford any.lngton were washed overboard aud
kind of aid. f . ! drowned.' The life saving crews havo
Astoria. Ore.. Nov. 13.--^e steamer not sot a line on board the veasaL '