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wanted, tor Sale, tor Kent, Lost and Felind, Board or Boarders, Rooms or Roome^s-Page Eight 26 ONE section. VOL 2, NO. 45 THE CHARLOTTE 20 Pages ^ j ONE seerioN. CHARLOTre, N. C., SUNDAY MORNING. DECEMBER 10. 1911 PRICE 5 CENTS Rescuers Unable To Reach Victim OJ Mine Disaster r.. Kmves FroJ"'Res. Attack Ji^TOc Man ^ i»»c hv Cavt’in end Flamts special to The News. ^ ^ T> ^ 117 I. Monroe, N. C., Dec. 9.—J. W. Smith, pn-fUS OJ Rtlltf wjOTMTS an express messenger who runs be t r'* tween Hamlet and Atlanta and who Dnvin Back by Fire, I lives at Monro^, was seriously cut ^ this morning two miles trom Monroe as he was on his way to visit his wife’s . > Pvn About th^ cousin, intending to spend tiie night [fliHtlC /i/CTMTl IxdJl /llWtti t/lC, gQ ’possum hunting. Ttn/lii nt Hnp Mhtfir Monroe early yesterday “Oay OJ unc aimer uiornlug and hired a horse and buggy u* 4n Qiirfnra Anei drive out to the home of his wiles Brought to ourjact Ana ^elaave. m about an hour after he Tj r nth En~ horse Und buggy came back, Idtniljl^a Llllic nope soaked in blood but Smitn totamed For the Men. mlBslng. a party »l once went in search, thinking, perhaps he had been murdered. The place was found where the horse had turned around and started back toward Monroe. As no tiace could be found of the ruissing man for quite a while, excitement was intense. He was finally discovered at the home of Mr. Verne Lockhart, about two miles from Monroe and about a mile from where the horse had turn ed around and started back to town. He reported that two men had attack ed him with knives a» he was about to drive around them in the road. They w'ere white men, he said. He was weak from loss of blood and has not talked much yet. He was taken back to the home of a relative for medical atten tion. He is badly cut on the arms, neck and back, but will recover. He lives at Monroe, is 25 years of age and has a wife and child, who came to Monroe from Wilmi^igton, where they were visiting, at the flrst news of his disappearance. Smith says that only one of the two men did the cutting, and that he will be able to identify him if he sees him again. Smith made his es cape from his assailants into the woods. There he lost his way and ac cidentally came to Mr. Lockhart’s res idence. Chief of Police Laney and bis men are working on the case. ’if: ifl a f>, Tenn., Dec. 9.—For the m ten years a great mine * ^ made the Knoxville col- rlPT ocho the Bobs and wails i^T) nd children—relatives of n v’’ ^0 lives were snuffed out f'i :a they worked. 0 V.tKl and twenty-five men— ‘ „ r ,rp. perhaps a few less— rv «ntor' d in the Cromm Mountain nerr H!iceville. J O '^'^ility that any is alive is „ . i '.if it was practically ad- ,d ’ • DOt them will es- 42 fxplGgion of blasting powder or 'If' rorkod the earth today with- minutes after the shift had -e to vork, 7^ 0 of the men, forunately late 19 t^'ir ^ork. were in the passage ' inj: to the working pit two miles ■=:o the bowels of the earth. They 1 th« rr «h and. turning, fled for -Lir !ivt>p Of the many who descend ed i! ^ are the only ones who caiae Jilt alivc. Horror stricken, they crawled to the «„rfice and gave the alarm. In an Vr resrne parties were organized •rd started into the shaft. Rescue Impossible, p = rescue was Impossible. Almost i; toon B? they descended, a column ci ir-oke trickled from the mouth of f.e mine, A few seconds later It be- (I a thick pillar and the rescuers, . .in? and blinded, rushed to the i‘T- ir a late hour tonight rescuers had ,*ded in extinguishing the •ms. bu. had been unable to pene- m th- drift on account of ga«. Tut explosion is believed to have cfcurred two miles from the open ing and abou. 800 feet below the sur- fice. 11 of hp men who were in the re working within a few hun* >1 = of the hole and it Is possi- tle ;• were killed at the first blast. If survived. Are damp would have chol'M ou*^ their lives before now. November Advertising •IN— The News Again Breaks Record In Novembf ^ jlO, The ^ws published hope now expressed i» that ’ue '.in caved in a part of the TDfar.'’ blt- ked the passage way be- t^veen a few of the miners and the deadlv fire. Tie fire fans kept pumping at top in tis.* hope that some one was »1.- ‘.nd mlKht be rescued. R jcue parties after a time attempt- «d to deacend Into the workings but r driven back. Once the body of 22,84 Pa :hes of ^ .dvertising In ^ iber, 1911, there were publis’^^ in this paper a total of 25,909 INCHES Bre». ng All Previous Records and Showing a Gain of 3,063 Inches of Advertising Such a volume of advertising, increasing in this proportion, shows that merchants place the highest value upon The News advertising and consider it in dispensable in carrying tjie news of their stores to the homes in Charlotte and surrounding towns. [ eiLL AIMED AT Los Angeles, Cal., Dec, 9.—^Under heavy guard in a special car attached to a Southern Pacific passenger train, John Joseph McNamara and his young er brother, James B, left tonight for Oakland. From there they will be taken on a special boat tomorrow to San Quentin penitentiary. They will reach the prison some time tomorrow morning. The formali ty of booking them may not be com pleted until Monday as prisoners are usually not received at the peniten- tiarj’ on Sunday. The men were taken away with » Bluer was found. It wa» brought j great secrecy. The left the jail in a to liie liurface and identified as that i big automobile shortly before the train of Lee Paulson. left and were put aboard their spe- Tje ei.tombod men are walled in by cial car which w'as the last on the train some distance out of the city. lixu*and3 of tons of slate and coal "Mch v.f-re shattered from the roof wd aides of the workings by the force tie explOBlon. Ai new'a of the disaster spread nit the Brlte\ille district, men iff th ir posts In other workings and ■ 'tei. ?d to Join the rescuers. Women Dragged Back Fronrt Pit. Woripn, v.;id-eyed and disheveled, wirleking to the mouth of the pit 5'iempted to enter w'hat would a place nf, certain death. 1 u! non dragged them back and • nrts tried to cheer them, t iming of the federal res- 7 -might It was learned be hours before the shaft '1 cleared of smoke and damp to make possible an •V,:H le . r ’-"a; the =1- - It is in Ihe Merest oj 2 he Tobacco Growers — Fension Bill Scheduled to Pass Next Week^TariffBUis Expect id Soon, ^ that it is feared, the “ an j b :,m; who may have been I'i fi li instant death will have fai (1 I : r'lonih. ; - ‘ ii ral res-cue crew was pow ; =':.;ld make no headway In ' ■ ;il. ;1 pit and the announce* hin^L could be done was •7 ^ a long groan from the I'toriral men and women 1. il'd the opening, iiio oxploBlon came from : r bulling pow der is a mys- iU *he last three weeks l“*d been Inspected by a fed* r and an Ins-pector for an company which Insured the ■ miners and both pronounc* (lu. w •1 in;-: ■ -urs;/, •‘V= of Sheriff Hammel, who wanted the men to be taken away with the least possible ostentation, persuaded the newspaper men to seek cover shortly before the men left. The train, thjb “Owl,” one of the fast- tralns between Loe Angeles and San Francisco, arrives at Oakland at 1:4B a. m The men were kept in separate state rooms on the train. Each was hand cuffed to a deputy sheriff. There were six guards, Including Sheriff Hammel and Under-sherifl Brain. Each man had a big revolver; besides this. In . the arsenal on the car were a number of sawed off “shot guns” and other arms and ammunition sufficient to have supplied an ambi tious mllltla company. IIEAO OF TBOST COMPANY E HIS LIFE T Philadelphia, Pa., Dec. 9.—Peter Boyd, president of the Tradesmans Trust C3ompany, which is now in the hands of a receiver, committed sui cide this afternoon in his law office in the North American building by ptitting the bullet through his head. The shot was not heard by any of the tenants of the building and his body was discovered late this after noon by the cleaners. The body was found on the floor of Boyd s office, with a bullet hole in his foreh^d and a revolver on the floor by his side. . Mr. Boyd was a prominent repuoil can and succeeded Samuel H. A^h^ bridge as president of the Tradesman s Trust Company at the latter s death several years ago. He was well known liBsifiBippi. who was hurtiaa a lawyer and was a member or^ In .November, will have niany prominent clu^ ‘ He suffered a re-j I® September th« Tradesm^? Tru^ unable to Company closed its ” ni V ■ ration mass meeting that time Henry M. Chyidler, • The senator has been at er, has been at work trying aw the senate but the complicated affairs of the bM . active part in the So far he has been unable to mwM conditicn* la not any statement about the expec ed rt- oangerous, however. turn the depositors will got. Speaker Clark Pressing For Action on All Important Bills—‘ Senfite Marking Tim^ —Will Get Busy Fro m Now On. Washington, Dec. 9.—During the first week of its session the demo cratic house passed a bill aiming a blow at the tobacoo trust. This ac tion may forecast the character ot the legislation to be enacted, or at least discussion at the session which has now opened. The bill authorizes the census bureau to ascertain every six months the quantity of leaf tobacco held in storage warehouses. It is in the Interest of the tobacco growers, and Is designed to prevent a comer or monopoly of leaf tobacco. Sherwood Service Pension* Bill. Following action on this bill the democratic leaaers tnrew into the house the Sherwood service pension bill, which grants to veterans of the civil war graduated pensions up to $1 a day. This bill is to pass the house before the end of next week. After that will come a number t)t bills on the house calendar of lo cal importance. The important leg islation of the session will come alter New Year’s. Tariff Bills Soon. Chairman Underwood announces he will be ready with some of the Important tariff revision bills imme diately after the holidays. He will bring forth the wool, cotton and steel revision bills in the order ^nam ed. He cannot tell until he has seen the president’s message on wool and cotton w'hat the flrst democratic bills will be. The general Impression from the house is that there will be little Change, if any, in the new bills to be presented by the democrats ot the ways and means committee from the revision bills presented at the last session. Speaker Champ Clark is pressing for action by the democrats on all measures to be supported by the democrats at the coming session ot congress. He says there is much to be don© and he does not want the democrats to be charged with respon- ^ 4 V Bitter Attack On Dollar- A - Day Pension Bill CELF6RI1IES Southern Representative Prc- homces Sherwood Bill Attempted Campaign Contri bution of *'$50,000,000^*— H ated Words. t Washington, Dec. 9.—Verse— j “Round the table are offlcers fair; j President and congress all aie i there. I “Look them over j^ou insurgent | horde | “And take them all if you have j the sword.” I a ;,n , ' ‘^'^untain mine is one of " n. (i by the Knoxville Iron -vttpany and has been in operation for ' -.bar 20 vnars. History of District. . " district near here has a Not 10 years ago, on l^th, 1902, the ter- ‘ iilo disaster sniffed at I'ves of 187 men and Williams Better. . Dec. 9.-It will be sev- ''■lllianiV Senator John Sharp Ijj H •'liKSiRKlimi n:V\r\ ixrDu r -r *ip«e MRS. SHUSTER AND CHILDREN Latest photograph of Mrs. V/. Mor gan Shuster and her children and be* low Mrs. Morgan Shuster, mother of the American >«tho is now the center of contention in Persia over his re fusal to accede to, demands made upon him by the Russian government..The United States „has warned Russia^ through Anrbassador Guild that Mr. Shuster and hie family must be pro- tected at all haznrda. Advises Legislators to Jell Ihiir Constituents it Is a Came oj Buncomb—Protests Against **Nejaricus Legisla- tion.^* ^ - This touching parody of Whittier’s i Washington, D. C., Doc. .9. — The “Barba Frietchie” gave the keynote a^jaiu loday was ihe scene o£ to the December dinner of the oratory on the Shei wocd dollar- Iron Club, the famous organization. ’ pension mill^ but while the represenlmg tlie press of the nation house worked overtia)e in a six-hour at the New Willard note! tonight. |s€S&iou the senate ws.3 idle. The up- The red banner of insurgency v.as PO” chamber iicid no s'assiou at all to- fiung to the breeze and every sliit day, although the senare coinniitteo auu sibe vas supercharged wii.a, me ou interstate commsrce oo:ilinue.d its syirit o[ levolt against present cii- .investigation Oi: the tn^K qu£itiou and oilioiis, jc;.ttcal, social and pe.sou- I'-'-cui.tiDi.ed its .,1 jprobe. ^ Nothing was too sacred to escape J Many Speakers Turned Loose, the irony and wit of the actors wno More than a score of speaker displayed on the miniature stage ana the bherwood bi in the nouse A the choristers who chanted to tiie^Teat majority of them .avored the tune of popular airs, the grievances ; ^easjirc or one siniiiav ^ of the common people and the glow- Sies to tiic old soldier were heard al- ing promises of reformers. most from the tiuie che gavel fell. Re^ Two hundred and fifty guests were | ^esentailve BurgeEs oi Uxas, di- present, including President Tatt and j enough.^to discuss the Vice President Sherman, two ambas-jtantf for an hour. He attacked the sadors, seven members of the cab-jt^^’*ff policy of f^ce ra^ niaten^s, inet, ten senators, a large number that Wilnam .Tenaings Bi'y- of representatives, Governor Har-, ®n had reverse mon of Ohio, Governor-elect Golds- such a polity. CdssdcM The Czai In Mad Chase Ovet Snow And Ice To Eject Shusters many years, under republican con trol of the committee. Speaker Clark was the ranking democratic member and he has fought the dem ocratic fight for low tariffs In the house for years. Senate Marking Time. The senate had been marking time during the past week, and will con tinue t>, do so until the house shall have sent across some bills which the senate t'links worth jits time to consider. Up to the present the sen ate has been busy conside^g nom- inationf! bv :he president arm mulling over the president^l messages on the trusts and foreign affairs. Most of the committeiBs of the house will get busy next week. The committee on interstate and foreign commerce. Chairman Adamson, will leave from New York Sunday to inspect the Panama' cahal. This com mittee will have charge of the legis lation fixing' the, tolls and enacting the regulations governing the Pana ma zone. The members of the com mittee desire to see'for themselves whether tlfe progress of the canal warrants the claim that tolls should be established at' this time. The Stanley steel ■ investigating commltt^ee will resume its hearings Monday on the work' of the steel cor poration, Andrew Carnegie Is ex pected to testify before the commit tee during the week. The committee on expenditures in the department of the interior will take up questions involving the work of the reclammation service, and especially with, reference to the con struction of the Roosevelt dam in Arixona for the irrigation of lands in that country. Colonel Roosevelt is said to have urged this, work to be done and it is now charged that the Southern Pacific Railroad is the ways and means committee will meet the coming week and take up work on all the Important schedules the tariff. An innovation will be that the speaker may attend the sessions of the committee to give its mem bers the benefit of his judgment and experience on tariff legislation. For Washington, D. C., Dec. 9.-Plunging through the snow, Cossacks of the Czar on their way to eject W. Morgan Shuster, the American treaprer-gener- al from Persia are now within 75 miles of"^Teheran. Behind them are hurryin 1,100 Russian infantry. This specific information was received by the state department today.'* 4. So eagerly is every move in this great drama about to' reach a climax in Teheran being >, a^ched by the state department that it is in constant receipt of cipher dispatches from Min ister Russell. In today’s dispatch the minister ex pressed belief that the heavy show that had fallen might possibly delay the Russian infantry. Tremendous im portance to the mission of these troops by Russia iS' illustrated by the fact that it is attempting a movement at this time of the year when great drifts make the roads almost impassible and extreme cold even a short journey one of extreme suffering. The attitude of W, Morgan Shuster in defying the Czar to oust him and his 10 fellow Americans from Te heran as expressed In his telegram to the I. N. S. is in direct accord with the Instructions tendered him by the United States government through Minister Russell. . » Should Russia really put her threat into execution it ia believed that Per sia will resist and Russian blood be shed in Teheran. Then it is prophesied, a reign. of terror followed by an at tempt to partition Persia among the European powers will follow. borough ot Maryland, former Gover nor Folk of Missouri, a great gather ing of newspaper men and leaders in the business world. The table in the shape of a grid iron was he^iped with roses and or chids while the walls were hung v/ere southern smilax. The festivities began at 8 o’clock, when I-ouise Garthe,* elected presi dent of the club, took the arm ot president Taft rftnd led the way into the bhnauet hall To Continue Stesi Inquiry. ’IT\e Stanley steel investigating com mittee announced late this afternoon that it had decided by unanimous vote, to continue the steel inquiry. It w'as agreed, however.i that the committee will not attempt to make any recom mendations as' to the guilt of the steel trust now that the government has insituted suit against it. This agree ment is a compromise betweenu the Littleton and Stanley views, which fhave been unharmonlous heretofore aa At each plate was a souvenir booicjto the scope of the future investiga- Of Mother G^iose rhymes with car- tion of the committee. slbility for failure to Pass legislattoni beneficiary of the project that desired by local communities, montr ■miinrtns nnfl fnrn#>ii the former wife 9F TOBACCO TRUST organizer MARHIED New York, Dec. 9.—Mrs. Belle Har- cost many millions and forced the Issuance of 20,000,000 bonds by the 'j. Hughes, former wife of Col. Joseph government that the reclammation ^ of the organizers of the might not become bank- trust, who died in February MISS GERTRUDE cooner missing. ^ Chicago, 111., Dec. 9. — The ^ police today began a serch for ♦ Gertrude Cooner, of Blrmlng- ^ ham, Ala., wo has been miss- ♦ ing from thfe Young Woman’s ^ Christian Association slnce^ ^ Tuesday, ^ Y. W. C. A., officials said ^ Miss Cooner came to Chicago ^ after quarreling with her par- ^ ents. service nipt. SIX JURORS CHOSEN TO TRY PACKERS Chicago, Dec, 9.—The Federal trial j of ten Chicago meat packers on charg es of violating the Sherman anti-trust law adjourned until,Monday after six tentative jurors had been accepted. of this year, was' marrie^ today to Alexander Cazzani, a wealthy tobac co grower of Rio de Janeiro. The cou ple will eail for the home of the bride groom on Wednesday, f^USSI A REQUESTS PUNISHMENT OF THREE ASSASSINS.' Teheran, Dec. 9,—^The foreign office has received a note >^from . Russia; re- quqesting the punishment of the three assassins of Ala-Ed-Dowleh, former governor of the province of Fars, who was killed December 1. It is generally believed that Ala-Bd-Dowleh’s alleged Intrigues with Russia brought about his death. THE WEATHER Washin^on, D. C., Dec. 9. Forecast for Sunday and Mon day: North Carolina, South Caro lina and Georgia, increasing cloudiness Sunday, probably fol lowed by rain Sunday afternoon or night, Monday, rain and colder. tooQ» ,pt prominent guests by oerry man. One cartoon of the president show ed Mr. Taft in aeroplane with tiie V6r'K€l« “T. Is for Taft, or tariff so high “Which must be revised (In the sweet bye and bye.)’* A cartoon of Senator LaFollette presented him playing with a small predential ^ocmlet, and showing President Taft in the distance witn a knife. The accompanying verse ran: “L. is for LaFollette, a whirlwind tor talk. “Whose presidential boom Taft hopes to balk.” All of the republican and demo cratic candidates for president came in for their share of the raps, car toons being shown of Governors Harmon and Wilson, Speaker Clark and othersJ Colonel Roosevelt was not forgotten, for there was a pic ture of him holding a big stick and sitting beneath a tree. Beneath the cartoon was this rhyme: Beneath the cartoon wbjs this rhyme: y- “There was a busy man who lived on a hill, “He lives there yet, but not al ways still. On Tennessee Iron he says he was ‘wise,’ And he’s the one who never told lies.” After the diners had been given a chance to look over the souvenir books they were asked to pay atten tion to ballots at their plates, label led “for the progressive presidential primary” all were asked to vote. Before they had a chance to vote, however, two men impersonating Sen ators Bourne and LaFollette entered and began to quarrel. It was then announced that 210 votes had been cast with the following result: Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, 161; James K. Garfleld 4;‘ Senator Cummins J; Sen ator Bristow 1; Near-Mlnister-to- China, Crane 8 1-2; Senator LaFoi- lette 10 1-2; Senator Bourns 23. When Dr. Wiley was declared elect ed Senators Bourne and LaFollette left shouting that they had been cheated. That venerable body, the, supreme court, came in for its share of at tention early. After Dr, Wiley had been placed completely re-construct ed, having passed through the “re call”, / The new court was headed by “Bath House John” Coughlin, as chief justice, with Euguene Debs, “Hinky Dink” Kenna, Samuel Gomp- ers, “Fingy” Conners, Charlie Mur phy, Governor Stubbs of Kansas, ex- Senator Aldrich and Theodore Roose velt *as associate justices. When the attorney for the sugar trust sought to call the court’s at-‘ tention to the law, he was chided by the chief justice with "Can that chatter. We make our own laws.” The trust was ordered to ‘puii apart.” The steel trust was charged with having “gold bricked T. R.,” although the justice of' thatt name violently protested that “they didn’t gold brick me.” The trust was as sentenced to four hotffs’ private conference with Attorney General Wickersham. a,ti appeal for an injunction to Representative Graham, chairman of the-hoitse comn^to%^ ^*efe-iavestigat« ed the Controller Bay charges, pre sented the majoritjr report of his com mittee to the house today. The debate in the house today show- ed that the democrats are not unani mous in their support of the Sherwood bill, reported by a democratic com mittee. RepresentativeJJ Sims,, Trib ble and Dies, all democrats, opposed the bill on the theory that it was ex travagant and Mr. Dies claimed that the legislation was a bid for the old soldier vote. The Hardwick s>ugar investigating committee continued its probe of the sugar trust today and the house judi ciary committee held another hear ing on the Clayton bill to define con tempt of court. Bitter Attackij on Pension Bill. Representatives Samuel J. Tribble, of Georgia, and Martin Dies, of Texas, both democrats, vigorously attacked the Sherwood service pension bill in the house today. Mr. Dies denounced the bill as “an attempted campaign contribution of nearly $50,000,000.” He declared there was cowardice in both parties, as advocates of the meas ure feared to vote against the bill because of the possible effect on elec* tion, Mr. Tribble said the South had contributed to Unioin soldiers pen sions without ^ protest in the past, but that the time had come for all sections of the country to object to further in creases. “Democratic house cut its expenses $186,000,” said Mr. Tribble and, now proposes to add nearly $60,000,000. to the pension rolls.” Both speakers protested against giv. ing the veterans of the Civil war mor« than they had asked for. “I think decapitation for a good many cowardly statesmen here would do the republic good,” declared Mr. Dies. He told members to go back to their districts and tell their consti tuents that legislation is a “game of buncomb.” “Somebody’s got to be brave enough to risk his hide to stop some of the nefarious legislation that is being pass ed in this country,” he added. “If President Taft is the man, and he decides to veto the Sherwood bin, il say ‘More strength to his •rni,' ” File Complaints With CommlesiOn. Washington, Dec. 9.—Complaint was filed with the Interstate commerce commission today by the Waugesha Lime and Stone Company, of Wauke sha, Wls., against the Chicago, Mil waukee and St. Paul Railroad, alleg* ing the exaction of excessive and dis criminatory rates on sand and gravel from Waukesha to Chicago. It is charged that like industries in Jonesville, are accorded more favora ble rates. presidency was denied by Justice Ai* drich, who said. “Oh let him run. What difference does it make?” A petition to prevent Taft boomers from grabbing the presidential nom ination from “Bob” LaFollette, was denied on the ground that “it is no crime to take candy from a cmid.” William J. Bryan was ushered to- Said he: “My friendship is lor for Under- Clark. My sympathy Is wood, but my vote will be tor WU- prevent Bryan from running for the liam Howard Taft.”