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'■ -rri -. ^ntedt For Sale, For Rent, Lost and iPoti Edition ten pages THE Latest Edition TEN PAGES VOL, NO. 8113 t • . V vl CHARLOTTE IM. C.; SATIijWlAV EVENING, DECEMBER 16, fhice Shelby Negt oes Spirited Away Last Night To Charlotte M, I “He came orer to my house and John, And Sack Ross, ^ talked about the mortgage Monday >ifi ChisT ^ thanked him and he left. That ^TOUS'"* ^ 1//IIC/ 0/ j was tVie time I saw him.” r *4^^ ^h0}hii ftn/i “How long have you been know- p^h; Jetton Of bnetoy ana^^ Dixon ?•• Wi'ihin^ nr dptjf. i "About twenty years and I been SnCTlJ rrUKlJlbf uj \^icuc ^ working for him off and on^ all that ■ rnnnfu ' time and he always paid me ’right up. \q,0 LOUniy* j never had no trouble with him at all." “Who do you think killed Mr. Dlx- n M flnu John Ross Taken cn on?" j “I think Hack done it, but I ain’t tn Gi Ston County Jail—\ got no proof. I think he done it ’ M 1 cause he was mad about that bog. Ross in Mcckunourg, He knew Mr. Dixon was going to Courtly Jail—Jhe Men Talk Ftety to porter. HOLY GHOST AND US SOCIETY, The Rev. Frank W. Sanford, leader of the Holy Qhost and Us Society of Shilch who is now on trial before the United States District Court on Charges that he was res(>onsible for the death of six members of his party during his recent cruise In the yacht Coronet; r--K- St 7:10 Chief Jetton, or J Shoriff Wilkerson, of o'iut>. arrived here with c (1 Hnck K08B, charged uUf'If'r of Mr. and Mrs. ' !!, ut-ar Shelby, December 1 ,u ;;n Ross were kept at : a la^t night and sent I ill. morning for sale pail there. Hack Ross n to tne Jail in this city. meut was thought best, riles concerned. : )S8, the youngest of the showed he best nerve. He night quietly. Will and terror stricken. Tbey ;\r. rrird ali night, t nr men were interviewed take that hog Monday.” “Who told you about the murder and what time?” “Mr. J. L. London told me about it that morning about 9 o’clock when I was at work on his place cutting wood.” "How far was that from Mr. John Dixon’s house?” “About a mile and a half. Mr. London told me and he said John Ross told him.” Hack Ross’ Story. “When was the first time you heard any thing about the murder?” asked the reporter. “When the officers came after me.” “W^here were you when you w^ere arrested?” “I was arrested on Mr. Horace Moody’s place about three miles from Dixon’s house?” “What were you doing over there?’’ “I was just moving over there.” Mr. Moody told me to come over early that day and I got up some time between two and three with ny in their respective wife and baby to get ready to go. (!#r coniiDement by a News’ tL. r men tell different sto- John Rots’ Story. R0.S6, when Interviewed this - poke calmly about the mur- d, -MaJ. Stroud and I found ■ s the morning of the mur- ■ n hour after sun up. Mrs. not dead when we found ,■ 8i sent us to tell her . . Mr. Tommy Dixon and . rie't. I was on the way to Dixon's when I saw my :r r A and my cousin, Will in the barn. They said ‘we'll If -111 say anything about' came after it. ’ “Did you see Will Ross between time of the murder and the time you were arrested?' “No sir.” When questioned he denied that he had met Will Ross in the road Sun day and that he had told him any thing about having something in him that people did not know. He said that he didn’t know what Will was talking about” “Were you mad about Mr. Dixon taking that hog? “No, sir. I told him that I could not pay for that hog and asked him to come and get it. I didn’t have anything to be mad about. I couildn t pay for it and told Mr. Dixon so and -2: here.’ ” , asked if he saw bolod on sien he answered “No.” ou go on to get Mr. Dixon’/ ’ ="■1 Y , I en* on and told him and ■ I ; b«‘'k and stayed around, ■ Lilt folks told me to. Then * e after the sheriff and • If and I went and came r i c\i with them.” ,1 John tell you that he killed Mr -; ?’• .Vo, sir, didn’t say that he killed hi told me that If I told ‘. a )out it he would kill me." 'DL he ? -11 you how he got Mr. Dixon our of the house?” H( ,1J that he hold Mr. Dixon -he mule was in a ditch and ' i al;:- to help get it out.” the same mule that Mr. B;- u ,iu a mortgage on?” V. ;ir.” ” n tiie first you knew ot urder?” n e fornd the body.” " i y iu hear Wlil say any " Ju-t Mr. Dixon before that ■ .ir, I did not- ' ! c ar^ you?” at.--four.’’ Will Ross' Story. , ' • • '' in a paroxysm ot v;i3 crying, praying and ? •: * ‘ he white folks to give How tar did you live from Mr. Dixon?” “About a quarter of a mile.” “Were you at home all night?” “Yes, sir.” **Were you in the bam the morn ing of the murder as John says you “Me? No, sir, I didn’t know that he said that I was in the bam. haven’t been about that house or bam In a week.” “When was the last time you saw Mr. Dixon?” "When he came after the hog Mon day. like I asked him to. He sat down In my house and we talked about the deal then. He was Just as good to me as he could be and 1 did not have a thing against him.” Hack Ross stated that he had been working around the place for about 16 vears and had only once befoM that time had any trouble with th« police. That was once about 15 years ago when he got In a fight. Hack was nervous. He cried and constantly protested his innocence calling all the while on the white folks to ^ take care of him. entries for RACES AT COLUMBIA jo '1 !l i find you and Hack " '■ .:,rn?’’ was asked, liarf'? Mr. John Dixon’s i aii'.’t been near that 'i- u\\ ±\ at home.” By Associated Press. Columbia, S. C., Dec. 16.—Entries at Fair Grounds Monday: First race, two year olds, 5 selling: x Lucky Wish, x Orperth, 97; Henock, x Miss Stanel 102; x Arany Stelclllfe. Charlie O’Brien, 105 Second race, 3 year olds and up, sell havr'lound Hackling 5 Carlisle “• f Ward X L'Appelle 105, Lydia i.ee ' .'™:' “‘j ja®’ Sr‘'®Ml‘n«meat“Danceww 113; ■ ; wife kno«s I was De’Oro, Tom Shaw, 116; Maynora '^Third race, 4 year olds and “P> “J* Ing 1 1-16 miles; Otllo, 108; x Mark- . ham, X Roseburg II, x Spring ^^og, a 98; Sigo, X Horace E tho last time that you .loiin Dixon’s house?” k before. I was pass . and Mrs. Dixon asked me Our • wa»er and I fetched Animus 103. ' . rihe wanted to give; Fourth ^ Feather Duster - for ringing It but ‘ ^ M^^mlra 103 ■■ f>rn’t nothing and said. 104, Helene 1A^^ '•in„ I could for her ’cause ^ V. -n so good to me. S”® 3 year'olds and up, sell- > ■! Uif apples anyhow! ratb race, 4 y phuupe, ■ .... .oro that was 5^ T.m, losf Rhasne^h, Haou a,ter the S^ct "fit ’tn the sheritt got me. tome.v 116: x SUnley ^ ulr! not iPt „« Sixth race, 3 year olds, semng, IswflV s?a“s^ri’l6; Rubl^a Granda ... n- «hen . was go.n*lIlHy Barnes 113; • Hack In the road Tippy. -nowance claimed. " mad. He knew that xApprentice allowance " ;oing to take the hog from Mr. Dixon in the Ilf hadn’t paid for it. Helene 10?. Marmara, At- P'D I In Charlotte 2 Cents a Copy XHtOr—* Crata SunAay. Outside Charlotte 6 Cents a Copy^lly and Snn&y. Most Notable Week In Histoiy Of The Chinese Revolution RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR FILES PROTEST. By Associated Press. Washington, Dec. 16.—The Russian ambassador, George Bakhmetoff, call ed at the "White House today and form ally protested agaius't the proposed abrcgation oft he treaty of 1832 with Russia on the ground that such action would be inconsistent with the long friendship that has existed between the two countries. The abrogation of this treaty on ac count of alleged discriminations against American Jewish citizens was provided by the Sulzer resolution re cently passed by the house and now pending in the senate. huch Will be 1 he Coming Week —Imperial Plempoteniiary, Appointed to Negotiate Terms oj Peaze With Rebels to Arrive in Shanghai, ID KILL SELf WHOTLL ♦ ♦ ♦ THE WEATHER. ♦ ♦ — ' For North Carolina: Cloudy ♦ ♦ and colder tonight, rain in east ♦ ♦ portion: Sunday, fair, colder.^ ♦ Moderate west and northwest ♦ ♦ winds. ♦ ♦ ♦ By Associated "Press. , Chicago, Dec. 16.—Mrs. Edna Rob inson, 32 years old, ot Portland, Ore., is charged with an attempt to commit suicide in her room at the LaSalle hotel early this morning by shooting herself over the heart. The woman is sa,id to have shot herself while engaged in conversation over the telephone with Frank Cock- rel, of St. Louis, who was a guest at another hotel. He heard the shot* over the wire and gave the alarm.' Mrs. RobinsOn was taken to'a hos-' pital where her condition is said to be serious. , Cockrel Is said to be a relative ot a former Uiilted States senator. Mrs. Robinson has been ag uest ot the hotel since December 3. She was out last evening and did not return until an early hour this morning. The hotel detective and clerk went to the room when they heard a I'evolver shot and found Mrs. Robinson stand ing near the bed with blood flowing from a bullet wound near the heart. She attempted to pick up the revolv er which had fallen to the floor as attaches of ihe hotel entered. I tried to kill myself but I made a bad job of it,” said Mrs. Robin son. Later she added that she at tempted to kill herself because Cock rell refused to marry her. Shot Son and Suicided. Los Angeles, Cal.,-Dec. 16.—Samuel B. Ayres, of Boston, shot and probably fatally wounded his son at a hotel early today and then committed suicide. By Associated Press Chicago, Dec. 16.—Efforts to bring the democratic national conyentibn to Chicsyio to 4 nt*v-.4Jfe last aisht ?t a meeting of- Che citizens’ com* mittee. A resolution was adopted accept Ing the Invitation of the republican committee to join with that body In raising 5^150,000 to pay the expenses of the two conventions N M E By Associated Press.' Briceville, Tenn., Dec. 16.—Rescue work In the Cross Mountain mine has been retarded today on account of fire in cross entFj No. 17 right and also crcas entry No. 18 left. It is thought no more bodies will be removed until liite this afternoon or perhaps Sunday. Western Governors A Return Borne By Associated Press St. Paul, Minn., Dec. 16.—After a trip of three weeks during which it traveled a distance of 3,40(7 miles and visited 29 cities with an aggregate poI)ulation of over 12,000,000 people A sub-committee of five: was named j Western governors’ special train to meet today with the local citi zens committee in charge of arrange ments for the rejpubllcan national convention. It" is proposed to arrange a preliminary program for both eon- ventions to be submitted to the na tional democratic committee when it meets in Washington January 8 to de cide on the place for holding the next convention. , It is set forth by members of .the committee that more money can be easily raised t,if needed. Chicago has not had a democratic national con vention since 1896. not let us talk.’ thel ast time you jl^ngs: the murder?” Dixon in the ■ STH-L plot. .\) ;ui(l hr said that there nsirie him what peo-^ By Associated Pre. i,g _Mill- i’Afl People things I con- , I It thoy don’t know jtary officials at Fort R1 7 ^lleg- ■ He dtdn t call no tinned their °'nort “it* ed plot to annihilate the port wu School Joi llliter-' ate tn Prtsoh returned this,morning to its staiting point. Sevign governors were on the special train when it left and ten arrived on the train this morning; the additional governors being Oddie of Nevada, Deneen, of Illinois and Har mon of Ohio. The governors, whose purpose it was to bring the Eas't and West into closer social and business re^tionship and to exploit the resources of the vairious states- represented, are.all en thusiastic over the results of the trip. JAKE STAHL FINDS NUMBER OF SURPRISES. and dynamite, detail, of came public with the confesslra Tues day night of private *^1- It Is said details of aJe ot have been maae pixon have a mortgage on ■ ” ■ ai^ked. '■ hut lie acted like a mhn ■If' Raid that he would let ’ n dollars more on ..thelleged plot migni.My>' " V Onlrk’s '" n»y cow and then take ' public for many had not « usr keep the one on my friends threatened habeas corpus rf.u ® mortgage , ceedlngs to obtain the P . my mule, too, but, lease unless the fbpae eighty nice about It.” Was stated definitely. Following kr J , ’he last time you saw threats army officials were forced W> LILLIAN GRAHAM By Associated Press. Jefferson City, Mo., Dec. 16.—Albert Ferguson, convict poet and magazine writer, who will leave the peniten tiary on parole, ow-^ his liberty to some extent to the fact that while in prison he conducted a school for illit erate prisoners. More than one con vict who entered the prison unable to either read or write left it with a fair education because of Ferguson. This gained Ferguson tie aid of the penitentiary officials. It Is said Ferguson is a member of an excellent Kentucky family. He gave his age as 24 when he entered the penitentiary in 1906 under ten years sentence for robbery, from Kan sas City. Ferguson from his cell kept up correspondence with several per sons and wrote i&uch verse. He is paroled to William Marion Reedy, a St| Louis editor. Brooklyr\ Paitor ' Conimtts Suicide ■ > ^ ■ . . ■ • r By Associated !Press. New York, Dec. 16.—Rev. Christmh J. Olsen, who came from Chicago" a year ago to become pastor of the Fourth Avenue Baptist church ,ih Brooklyn, was found dead toda/ ih a bath tub half immersed in blood that has flown from several arteries in his wrists. For sev(feral months Dr. Olsen had been sufferings from head ache and insomnja and lately he fear ed he was goihg Insane.. A few days ago his wife and twp children went t^b 'Chica;go to vi^t lMrs. Olsen’s dying mother. Taking advan tage of their absence the clergyman some time last night wrote a numbec of parting letters, got in the. tub and with a razor slaved both wists.. CORWELIUS VANDERBILT •* ' UNDERGOES OPERATION. By Associated Press. Chicago, Dec. 16.—Jake Stahl, newly chosen manager of the Boston Ameri can League team, found several sur prises last night while making an eX' amination of his roster of players. One surprise was the purchase and sale of a player, named Lockwood, who is dead. Lockwood was purchased from the Vancouver, B. C., club and later let go to Sacramento. He also found that he had one pitcher less than he thought. Fournier, also pur chased from Vancouver and thought by Stahl to be a pitcher, turned out to be a catcher. The new manager said he had made formal application to the commiasioa for reinstatement. He ^xpects to be placed in good standing as soon as the members can take a mail vote. His refusal to report to Boston last year cahsed the black' mark against his name. He expects to be ready to go With his players on March 10 to Hot Springs to begin training. Every Vessel a Treaswe Ship By Associated Press. New York, Dec. 16.—Every trans- Atlantic liner that sails through ti^e narrows to or from New York these days is a treasure ship. Four vessels alone within the past four days have carried abroad four millions of dol lars and more, New York’s annual Christmas present to the old world. This city will have sent in the neigh borhood of ten millions of dollars abroad when the last gift-laden lin er leaves her pier within the next few days. Over the money counter of the New York postofflce there have pass ed within the last ten days more than six millions of dollars for shipment abroad and the season is still at its height..When the last inventory was taken. Great Britain was leading with ?1,337,000, with Italy pressings her for second place with 39,104 money orders totalling $1,091,006. To Aus tria there had gone 25,916 money orders aggregating $493,000; to Swed en 40,352, aggregating $442,810; to Germany 37,573 money orders totall ing $430,346; Liberia’s gift is the smallest, there being sixteen money orders with $863, while to Egypt, next in order from the end there went 94 orders totalling $1,826. Woman Summoiie4 ^ Vmmnan By Associated Press. Chicago, Dec. 16.—Mrs. A. S. Wood, a business woman, was summoned yesterday to appear as a venireman in the trial of the ten packers charg ed with criminal violation of the Sherman anti-trust law. Mrs. Wood said last night she would appear and insist on her rights as a citizen. “I pay taxes and expect to go to the polls soon,” she said, “and I shall certainly protest against any at tempt to exclude me from jury ser vice.” The subpoena had been made out for “A. S. Wood” with the woman’s address. Durland Life Insurance Paid. New York, Dec. 16.—Itw as announc ed today at the ofllces of the Equqita- ble Life Assurance Society that the $15,000 insurance on the life of Kel logg Durland had been paid to his widow. Mr. Durland died suddenly, in the presence of his wife, aboar s train in Boston, on the night of No vember 18. An autopsy showed that death resulted from cyanide, of potas slum. Aium SIX m BICYCLE RKGE NEIIIIS FINISH Dofore you saw him dead?” have warrants Issued. Miss Lillian Grah^rn, who went on the witness stand in her bwn defense, and told a story of how she had been hounded by the mil>la'naii‘e, and stfW that she shot hilrn in self defense after he was choking her. the jyry believed her *tory and returned a verdict of “not flumy.” A CHRISTMAS GIFT TO THE ♦ ^ POOR ♦ z ^ ♦ ^ Charlotte,. N. C., Dec. 14, 1911. ♦ ♦ The News, City. ♦ ♦ “Enclosed please find check ♦ ♦ for $10.00’to help you in sup- ♦ plying Xmas presents for the ♦ poor and needy children of our ♦ • city. ^ “How many little hearts would ♦ • be made happy on that day if ♦ ♦ those who are comfortal^ly sup- ♦ ■ piled with this world’i goods ♦ • would send to you their chil- ♦ - dren’s discarded toys. I'hope ♦ ► that this will be your banner ♦ - year in this Ifood work. ♦ i : “Asking that you will please ♦ ' not mention my name in this ♦ k connection, I am, ♦ “Yours truly, ♦ X. X. ♦ this New York,, Dec. 16.—An' operation for appendicitis was performed today upon Cornelius Vanderbilt at his Fifth avenue hotne by Dr. Austin-Flint, jr., assist^ by sevieral otheVv siw:^eoiis. ,[♦ they are most needed. Mr. Vanderbilt was strfOKeh three ^ ^ day s “ago. > J Do you want to make fund larger? Or, do you have toys, clothing or anything that you desire to donate? ’ , The News will take charge of all contributions jind see that they are pla^d with the proper parties for distributing where By Associated Press For the first time in several years the annual six-day bicycle race neared a finish today with one team leading all others. At 9 o’clock Joe Fogler of Brooklyn and Jack Clarke, of Mel bourne, Australia, were a lap ahead of the next six teams. If they can hold this advantage until 10 o’clock to-night they will win first prize Today, thirteen hours before the finish, Fogler and Clarke had covered 2,477 miles 8 laps. As there are seven prizes, providing the contestants keep the same relative positions today the six next teams will participate in the series of match races at a mile which will decide final positions. Frank Kramer, the American sprint chanjpion, and James Moran, of Chel sea, Mass., who were favorites among the experts when the race began, rode in particularly hard luck early today for. when Clark began the sensational sprint which netted a lap for his team between 1 and 2 o’clock, Moran’e handlebar twisted and threw him heav ily. He was unconscious when picked up and did not recuperate in time to help his partner while the cruicial struggle lasted. Score at 9 O’clock, 129th. Hour. Fogler-Clarke 2,477 miles 8 laps. Kramer-Moran, Halstead-Drobach Pye-Collins, Can>eron-Magin,^ Demara- Lawrence and Lorenzo-Saldow 2,477 miles 7 laps. .HUl-J. Bedell 2,477 miles 6 laps. Li^ize-Van Houweart 2,477 miles Will bt Accompanied by SO Assistants — Fer. confer ence Will be Staged in lown Hall—Great Intemt Taken In the Outcome. By Associated Press. Shanghai, Dec. 16.—The coming week will be perhaps the most uotabla in the history of the revolution In China. Tp^ng Shao Yi, the imperial plenipotentiary, appointed by Premier Yuan Shi Kai, to negotiate terms of peace with the victorious revolution ists, is to arrive in Shanghai early on Sundaj'. He is accompanied by a suite of assistants and personal ser vants numbering no fewer than eigh ty. The party Is making the voyage from Hankow on the chartered river boat Tung Ting. On their arrival here they will have trayeled about 800 miles along the river Yang Tse, which Is patrolled by a score of revolutionary cruisers and gunboats. They will have passed the guns of a dozen -well fortified points and will have touched numerous towns in the possession and governed by the revolu tionaries. Tang Shao Yi will not, in>‘ fact, have seen an imperial soldier or yellow flag since he left Hankow. Included in Tang Shao Yi’s party are two prominent ofaclals, Yen Shi Si, connected with the board of finances, and Yang Shi Chi, former p>resident of the board of communications, who will act as his oounsellors at the peace conference. He also has with him twenty-two representatives of different provinces of China who have been se-| lected by Premier Yuan Shi Kai to offset the revolutionary convention t now sitting at Nanking. ' Pour representatives of Q^end Li | Yuen Hisng, the revdlutlcmary leader i are traveling on the same boat with Tang Shao Yi and his party. '^n.TihS Faiif, former jCSiaeie min-. i^e'f at washEn^on, Siia reiswAir se lected as foreign, minister of the re-, publican cabinet, who is directing the reception of Tang Shao Yi, will send two representatives to meet the party at its landing at the settlement. According to present arrangements Tang Shao YI and bis two counsellors, | Yen Shi Si and Yang Shi Chi will take up their quarters at the Kalee ho tel while the remainder of his snlte will put up at other hotels. The mnnicipality of Shanghai has offered the town hall for the meetings of the peace confermice. This propo sal already has been accepted by Wu Ting Fang on the ooodltlon that Tang Shao Yi approves of his choloe. The best observers among the in- fiuentlal Chinese believe there Is ti good chance of a settlement being made through mutual cdtecessions. The republicans at the present mo ment are determined to demand that the dynasty be brought to a close and that the Manchus as a class or clan can be merged with the Chinese, to gether with their dependencies. ' Rebels Fought Badly. Peking, Dec. 16.—^BJye witnesses to-, day report that the rebels fought bad-1 ly during the battle with the imperial-! 1st troops on December 14 at Lyang i Tse Kuan where the imperialist' gained a victory. The rebels abandoned guns, ammunltiott and camp equip ment and left forty killed and 200 wounded on the field. The way was thus cleared to Tal' Yuan Fu for the imperialists. Wu Ting Fang protested against operations In the province of Shan Si during the armlstic but Premier Yum Shi Kai replied that anarchism in the district rendered a forward movement necessary. The rebels has destroyed part of the Tien Tsin-Pukow railway near Pukow. Majority Favor Republic. Shanghai, Dec. 16.—^A census taken among the representatives of the re publicans now assembled in conven tion of Nanking shows that a large j majority of them Is In favor of a re-1 public but at the presenj; crisis if Dr. Sun Yatsen, general Li Yuen Heng and other influential republicans whose names have not hitherto been men tioned should counsel a compromise, the end of the trouble may be in' sight. . Should the conference at Shanghai fall to reach an agreement the re publican leaders are confident that they can eventually take Peking. It is believed fang Shao Yi is ad vising Premier Yuan Shi Kai to ac cept the presidency of the republic with Dr. Sun Yansen as vice president. It is thought the Manchu dynasty would be forced to abdicate and to accept the terms offered by the repub licans, which wil be liberal. Carolina Again Won Debate the Bv Associated Presa. Chapel Hill, Dec. 16.--For fourth time in five years the Univer sity of North Carolina won the debate from the University of Pennsylvania here\ last night. The judges stood B^rd 2,489 miles 6 lapi^ by Hill-’two to one in favor of the South ^'Deimtra in 1908. . erners. 'v ■■