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panted. For Sale, F6r R^t, Lost and Fipia^vBoard or B^ M Rooiners--Page feighf latest Edition «K. PAGE8 ten pages THE CHARLOTTE NEWS VOL- 45. NO. 8121 CHARLOTTE N. C„ WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 27. 1911 Inlightened Dei»potism Alone Can Save Chinese Empiie r»!' 's the opinion of Proj, ^tr-'man. Of The In^al f'niwrsi/i/ or Chma—People imorant to Govern jj^emsetves, ^isfr-jpcsed to Decide Upon Fu:^re Form oj Government I Means Of a Convention of Ddegates Ftom all Over the Iwpire. . 1 . ’ -t.nl rreas. ' • Cal.. Dec. 27.—"A repnb- f government In China ' 1 solute failure. It would ■ ' ; to the Chinese nation If :. c*taf>li8hed.” j -p(t Prof. W. G. Baate- 'unerial University of • i 11 Ttiin, who arrived yes- ome here, having been •' I’hina by the revolution. -• of China are more ig- ' V. 0 in America realize,” n ion is awful and they if ion to govern them- mtlon can be saved only ^ r '?nvd despotism.” To Decide on Future Government. 27.—Yuan Shi Kai’s pro- 1. ide Itie form of govern- ti phall prevail \mder the a China by means of a - nt’ of delegates from all over , i~ regarded here as a ov(. blit opinion is divided as * r It . An be successfully car- :.Iaay prominent Japanese ' t the proi>osal will be ac he revolutionary leaders in inaHe it easier for Yuan Shi ' ■ ress upon the court that ,:ion is unavoidable. r h;ind many of the well- fii IV' think that the great ' » . '. volntionists is too im- . u to await the tedious .. o: j. nauonal convention. The iL ■; are fully aware of the bel' fulnew' -of the Peking r >nt Wiih this in mind the . Nanking may insist t'' ’• V ’ of Yuan Shi Kai’s pro- immediate resumption of ■ ' i lt> . ■ ? confidently expect that . i^lfl ns gracefully as possi- " '-n«ver such a demonstration is «v'Qi Id Agree to Abdication. 27.—Representative r imperial court, accord- ^ horitalive source, have •.. i« r Yuan Shi Kal their . ' - a^ree to an abdication. ' same authority states, I • tliere is no hoiJe for It in . iiion of three or four detached ^ rountry and semi-loyal , aiid hopes to obtain better a,;ro‘jing to the proposed " on the question of the ' -r-nrni-nt. 1 ,„n Shi Kai fully realizes i ^ an spokesmen g^ther- conference at Shang- M’k- 1. to accept his propo- ully elected assembly - ♦>ntire empire. He Is iMM that the republicans Tt • will favor hlB (Yuan IS certain that he could i'n"les with the modem disposal, which Is better '! ;.:ratly superior to the nir as he is unable to ^'iHTiF he would be unable ' iH lost province*. m! In all probability will • fticp nfter making the best Of* for the throne. ' • Kai rej^ets what he con- " Tans' Shao Yi’s desertion. ' h.if Tang Shao Yl might of the republic, o! iro he himself would not alHO regrets that foreign " withheld their financial ii the help of which he ■ Kjid have reconquered the ^lety }oi Advance ment OS Saence ist-ri Press. * >n. Dpc. 27.—Bcientltic ' i’nited States along ' nt line of endeavor will ■' In W.Mhington this week 'If* Mipctings of the Ameri- "n for the Advancement o; ninp today. Over thlr- 't'ietios covering all ' ” and scientitic worK -Mid the programs in- ”p Mpmkora many ot ' ■ ' of t‘if' country. ' lion, chemical V '-fonomics and other will be covered of conventions. The ’■ Carnegie Institute rpfirf I B of Bcientific activity have been given over inss, '■ is expected to ad- ■ ’ ral meeting at the Na- ' iiru tonight and other ■! ofhrlRls will preside over 'ae iiiPotingB or deliver ad* 'On special subjects. rt Richeson Inal ' To Open Soon By Associated Press. Boston, Dec. 27.—The Rev. Clar ence V. T. Richeson, It appears, will go on trial January 15 for the mur der of his former sweetheart, Alvls Linnell. Summonses were asked to day for 300 citizens of Suffolk coun ty to serve on the special jury panel. For a day or two after Rlchesonr had mutilated himself last week there were rumors thnt counsel for the de fense would ask for a postponement of the date of the trial and the sum monses were withheld until just be fore expiration of the legal time tor service. No more having been made, District Attorney Pelletier ordered the venire today. MISS KAT' ^ /nE ELKINS Planning Raihaad 2o Rutherfordton Special to The News. Raleigh, Dec. 27.—When directors of the North Carolina Transcontinental Construction Company meet In New York tomorrow It Is believed they will make plans for completing a railroad from Knoxville, Tenn., to Rutherford ton, and other points in this state. Mr. E. C. Duncan, director, left to day. STRUCK BY TRAIN; FATALLY INJURED. Special to The News. Raleigh, N. C. Dec. 27.—John John son, of Ridgeway, was probably fatally injured as a result of being struck last night by a Seaboard train near Man- son. His collar bone, blade, five ribs and jawbone were fractured, and he Is In a semi-delirious condition. He Is married. Walter Tedline, colored, riding bare- back, struck a city wagon loaded with three thousand pounds of rock, and both rider and horse were precipitated to the ground. Th« negroes injuries may prove fatal. Casa Up. By Associated Press. Washington, Dec. 27.—The Augus ta, Ga., chamber of commerce today presented a petition to the Interstate commerce commission claiming rail ways and steamship lines operating along the South Atlantic coast make rate discriminations against Augusta in favor of Atlanta. The petition cites shoe rates from New York to Atlanta, which axe said to be less than to Augusta, although the distance is greater. MIINY PROTEST OF SHOSTLR By Associated Press. Teheran, Persia, Dec. 27.—W. Mor gan Shuster 1» still here awaiting the nomination of a successor to whom he can surrender the functions of treas urer general. The populace, which holds Mr. Shus ter in high esteem, is much Incensed against the cabinet because of Its ac tion in dismissing him. Many written protests have been sent to the authori ties. Dispatches from Shiraz received here give further details of the at tack on the Indiin cavalry at Kaze- room. The Indian troopers were escort ing W. A. Smart, British consul at Shiraz from the port of Bushlere to his post. When they reached the vlci^ Ity of Kazeroom, 56 miles west ot Sliiraz, they were fiercely attacked on alt sides by the Persians. A desperate fight ensued in which the troopers used their lances and carbines. The Persians were driven off and It is be lieved they carried several dead and wounded with them. The Indian caval rymen also suffered a number of cas ualties, including two killed. During the fighting Mr. Smart disappeared and It Is not known what has become of him. 7 :: Chief Mourner at Funeral Of Part Of Himself By Associated Press. Minneapolis, Minn., Dec. 27.—T»» be chief mourner at the funeral of parts of himself is to be the unique expe rience of John Moes, of this city, who was run over by a street car and injured so severely that the amputa tion of his right leg b^ow the knee was found necessary. As soon as Moes recovered consciousness he asked for the missing limb and to his surprise was told that it would be disposed of. Moes objected to any form of dis posal by others and the physician m charge returned the leg. By Moes’ direction the limb will be placed in a casket today, taken to a vault at a local cemetery and when he has recovered it will be Interre with full burial rites. Miss Kather^ clkins, daughter of the late Unitr ates Senator Elkins who was thr C iplent of a flood of love letters ^ Samuel B. McHenry, a Chicago ^ .tor, Miss Elkins com plained to iuthorities In Washing ton wher i Is residing with her mother, ai..^ icHenry on Miss Elkins’ complaint was tent to the government hospital for the Insu^ne. It developed that for the last two years McHenry has made Miss Elkins the recipient of a flood of love-laden missives, most frequently directed to “My Darling Pn- gel," and most affectionate in their tone. ANOTHER VESSEL LOST IN T R E m OF mm By Associated Press. Gibraltar, Dec. 27.—Still another vessel, the Germai) steamer Chios, foundered with nearly all hands dur ing tb« recent storm In the bay of Bis cay. The Chios, belonging to the Ger man Levante Line, was proceeding from Hamburg to Alexandria on Thurs day last when she was caught in the hurricane and sank with all but two of her V;rew, the chief officer and one sail or, who were picked up by a passing vessel. The Chios was built at Hamburg In 1891 and registered 2,059 tons net. Explosion Wreck-, ed Building By Associated Press. Buffalo, N. Y., Dec. 27.—Policeman William Aheam and John Flynn were searching a house in Fay street today for Paul Lutz, suspected of having committed a murderous assault upon a woman, when an explosion wrecked the building and hurled the ofi&cers In to the street. The body of Lutz was found in the debris. Ahearn was badly burned and bruised but Flynn escap^ with a few bruises. Half an hour before the police had been notified that a murder had been ^committed at 92 Fay street. The ofli- cers found that Mrs. Ida Schultz, 55 years of age, had been beaten over the head with a blunt Instrument and was dying. A search was at once begun for Paul Lutz, who had occupied rooms in the rear of Mrs. Schultz’s house. The offi cers were preparing to break in his door when the explosion occurred. Lutz had been acting strangely and the woman had ordered him to vacate his rooms. THE WEATHER. ♦ North Carolina: ♦ ♦ Fair, much colder tonight; ♦ Th^ursday, fair, colder in east ' portion. Brisk to high west to ♦ northwest winds. OF T [ IL III By Associated Press. Pittsburg, Dec. 27.—“I am going to clear myself. I will not take all the blame ^or this and the rest of them will have to take their medicine alon^ with me,” is the utterance credited to day to George Bridges, a stranger ar rested at Monessen, Pa., while carry ing a suit case containing 72 sticks of dynamite and a roll of fuse. Bridge* weakened under the police sweating to which he had been sub jected and according to the authorities declared he would make a clean breast of it when taken before a magistrate for a prefimlnary hearing late this af ternoon. Little is known of the man. He ap peared at Monessen several weeks ago. Eight thousand non-union men are em ployed 1q the mills of this town. Rochester, Pa., Dec. 27.—Twenty- four sticks of dynamite, 12 caps wrap ped in ootton and 10 yards of fuse se curely packed in a case evidently made for the purpose and resembling an ordinary travelling bag were found in the yards'Of McDonald & Hartman, dealers in contractors’ supplies here today by Albert Wilhelm, a clerk in the firm’s employ. The'find was turned over to the police who discovered that the case also, contained a long metallic paper knife bearing the name of a Philadelphia company. The pol ice recognized the bag as one they had s«een in the h6.nds of a stranger in the streets several days ago. Sihec the discovery of a> q^uantlty of explosive near the end of the Pitts burg and Lake Erie railroad bridge across the Ohio river several months ago belteved to have been planted there by agents of the McNamara’s, the bridge haS'been guarded day and night,, . F ^ AU MISS HARIETT DE WITT Miss Hariett De WItt of Easton, Pa., who was recently acquitted by a Federr al jury at Philadelphia where she was on trial for the alleged writing of scur rilous letters to prominent persons of her home town. Her counsel raised a novel law polrtt, and the Judge ordered the Jury to acquit her. TO K. A.’S MEET IN NEW ORLEANS. By Associated Press. New Orleans, La., Dec. 27.—The 26th biennial convention of the Kappa Al pha fraternity opened Its sessions to day with an address of welcome by Dr. E. B. Craighead, of Tulane Univers ity. About 300 delegates were present at the opening meeting. Judge Ed. C. Smith, of Raleigh, N. C., knight com mander, is presiding. LUGtS FmUIILY GET UIIGE PART OF INTESTATE By Associated Press. Los Angeles, Cal., Dec. 27.—Chari ty gets the bulk of the $1,500,000 es tate of the late John W. Hunt, mil lionaire owner of hotels, in various parts of the United States. Hunt’s will was filed for probate here to day. John E. Harris, of Jacksonville, Fla., and Robert L. Lucas, of Dallas, Texas, are named executors .and in structed by the v/lll to establfsh va rious charitable institutions, the names of which are withheld. The beneficiaries named in the pa pers probated follow: Bunyan Lucas, 100 acres of land near Shawnee, Okla., and $1,000 in cash; John Bunyan Lucas, $10,000; Robert Lee Lucas, $?0,000; Charles P. Lucas, Atlanta, $5,000; Henry G. Lucas, Fort Worth, $10,000; John F. Lucas, Charlotte, N. C., $10,000; Am brose Lucas, Highlands, N. J., $10,- 000; Theodore Lucas, Charlotte, N. C., $10,000; Lois Lucas, Charlotte, N. C., $20,000; Rosamond Lucas, Char lotte, $20,000; Mrs. Montlcello Lucas, $5,000; Ruth Peak, Ontario, Ont., $200. GOME TROE By Associated Press. Jacksonville, Fla., Dec. 27.—Wild dreams of burled treasures which fol lowed the reading of Stevenson’s “Treasure Island” and other fiction of a like character have been realized, if the story told by Loring M. Hewen. the 17 year old son of Professor Shel by E. Hewen, vice president and gen eral manager of Massey’s Business Col lege in this city, is true.' Hewen with John F. King, 18 years old, a son of W. J. King, a pilot at Maniport, where ships enter the St. Johns river from the Atlantic ocean, claim to have located the treasure on Fanning Island, buried in an iron chest of about one cubic foot in size, some five or six feet under the sand. They say the treasure was located with the aid of a chart, found in the walls of an old shell house on Fort George’s Island, a relic of Spanish rule in Flor ida. Giving credence to their story they have shown a part of the gold, silver and copper coins found in the chest, bearing spanish markings and dates of more than a century ago. Those who have seen the coins esti mate their value at about $150,000. Dischatged Before They Struck By Associated Press. Jacksonville, Fla.,^ Dec. 27.—Dis charged before they struck was the experience of 18 firemen and 18 host lers of the Florida East Coast Rail way, who demanded more pay and an independent contract in substitution for an engineer’s contract under which they were eihployed. This was the substance of a statement given out by President J. R. Parrott of the road this morning. The men made known their demands to President Parrott yesterday and v/hen refused voted to strike at 4 o’clock. They were discharged imme diately following their demands and new men took their places. All trains were running today over the entire system, but each engineer’s cab car ried a deputy sheriff to prevent any disturbance. So far*no violence has been reported. The rallroad^ officials expect no serious trouble and will continue to operate, they say, with the new men. BAD FIRE AT MARTIN, TENN. By Associated Press.' Martin. Tenn., Dec. 27.—This city was visited by a $150,000,flre last night Four dry goods and one drug store were burned. .The origin of the fire 1b not known. FROM RUSSIA By Asi^ciated Press. ^ St. Petersburg, Dec. 27.—A supple- mentai'y legislative proposal of a pro hibitive character aimed! directly at tlie United States was Introduced by the nationalists into the duma today. According to the terms of the pro posed enactment, American citizens of Jewish religion are to be totally barred from Russia and in the second place customa duties are to be raised by 100 per cent unless the Russian normal schedule is lower than the American. 4B-that ease a 4u£y:«tinaHiitg the Amer ican duty, will be collected. The author of the bill states that the last provision is necessary in order to deal with the importation of Ameri can agricultural machinerJ^ The remaining points of the propos ed bill correspond In virually every particular with the bill introduced on Dec. 22 by ex-President Kuchkoff, pro viding for tariff schedules applicable to the United States at the expiration of the Russo-American commerce ana navigation treaty of 1832. POSTOFFICE SAFE CAME NEAR BEING LOOTED. By Associated Press. Warrensburg, Mo., Dec. 27.r--Joy came to Postmaster Smith here last night when an expert opened the safe' which had been standing in the post- office nearly a week , wilh an' unex ploded charge of ^ nitro-glycerine around the cracks of its door. Several thousand dollars in stamps and mon ey in the safe were undisturbed. 'No one had been found who cared to risk opening the safe until the expert arrived. He neutralized the nitro-glycerine by pouring over It a chemical solution, afterwards explod ing a dynamite cap on the door to prove that the glycerine had been rendered harmless. The nitro-glycerine was poured into the safe by burglars who were frightened away before completing their work. GLOTK MILLS OF TO By Associated Press. Manchester, Eng., Dec. 27.—Notices were posted this morning at all of the mills belonging to members of the Fed eration of Master Cotton Spinners in the north and northeast of the county of Lancashire that the cloth mills will be closed tonight and not reopened un til further notice. Weavers to the number of 160,000 will thus be locked out tonight and about an equal number of spinners will be reduced immediately to half time with eveiy prospect of a complete stop page of work if the trouble should be prolonged. The Federation of Master Cotton Spinners at a meeting this morning de cided that it was impossible to con tinue turning, oiit yarn while the looms were idle. They will', therefore, cur tail prodfiction by stopping, work on thi^e days each week, beginning Jan uary 1. VALUABLE INVENTIONS. By Associated Press. Berlin, Dec. * 27.—An incombustible cinematograph film, whi^ wilF lessen the possibility of panics in moving pic ture theatres, was demonstrated re cently beforig the Berlin Chemical So ciety and is reported to be a oomplete fittccesa. PRICEJ;®®** Dally—• Cmta Sunflay. I uutside Charlotte 6 Cents a Copy Daily and Sunday. Senator La FoUette Tells Of Insurgency Up In Wisconsin ITTORilEr TELLS OF OPERATIONS OFPAGKERS By Associated Press. Chicago, Dec. 27.—Further details of the $500,00v;,000 corporation plan- nei by the leading meat packers in 1902 were recited by Albert H. Vee- der, attorney for Swift & Co., when he today continued his dramatic story of the inside history of the Chicago meat packers combination. For the urst time in the trial, which is staged before United States District Judge Carpenter, Michael Cudahy was named as one of the four promoters of the collateral corpora tion by Veeder. At the'lnorning session Veeder in troduced a contract dated July 18, 1902, by the terms of which Cudahy became a partner of J. Ogden Ar mour, Gustavus F. Sw^ift and Edward Morris in thep roposed merger. Eacn of them deposited $1,000,000 in a Chicago bank as evidence of good faith in carrying out the plan, it was testified. The contract, along with half a dozen other agreements was read to the jury and offered in evidence by the government’s counsel. Inability to obtain a loan of $90,- 000,000 from Kuhn, Loeb & Co., was responsible for the failure of the giant merger, accorjding to Veeder. The witness told also how the packers combination acquired by purchase six competing concerns in 1902 and how, in March, 1903, the National Packing Company was or ganized with a capital of $15,000,000. Chicago, 111., Dec. 27.—Albert H. Veeder, attorney for Swift & Co., con tinued hl3 story of the operations of the pacl^ers prior to 1905, when the trial of the 10 Chicago packers Indict ed for criminal violation of the Sher man law, was resumed today. Si>ecial Counsel Pierce Butler, repre senting the government, expected to conclude the direct examination of the witness before the close of the day and it is said the next witness called bjr the government will be -iFerdinanxl Sulzberger, formerly a member of the firm of SchWarzschlLd & Sulzberger, which was absorbed in the re-organiza tion of the packers’ combine. Judge Carpenter may rule today on the motion of the defense to exclude all reference to the packers’ transac tions prior to the period covered by the indictment under the immunity plea. Veeder continued his recital on the witness stand of the inside! his tory of the packer’s combination when court convened. The only name by which the old packers pool which held secret meet ings prior to 1903 was known as “Postofflce Box No. 247,” according to counsel for the government. This mysterious gathering which the government asserts sought to fix the price of meats and suppress com petition at weekly meetings in the Veeder offices had no name which Mr. Veeder in his early examination could remember. Further secrets of the projected combination with $500,000,000 capital ization, w'hich was balked through the failure of eastern bankers to loan $90,000,000 were expected to develop through the testimony of Mr. Veeder. Cold Wave Strikes the West By Associated Press. Chicago, 111., Dec. 27.—A cold wave sweeping down from the Northwest has reached ^he Lake region. Since yesterday noon the tempera? ture here has fallen from 41 to 22 degrees above zero, tl was said at the gcvernment weather bureau that the temperature prdbably would fall 10 degrees more in this section before to morrow. Heavy snows are reported in Wis consin and parts of Michigan. Effects of the storm may be felt in all parts of the centrai West, acording to the weather bureau. In the Canadian northwest, the tem perature ranges from 2 to 26 degrees below zero. Reports from Northwestern states in this country show the range to be from 6 above to 14 below zero. I he Progressive Movement Has Lifted The Populcce to A Higher Plane in Ihe Opinion of Insurgent Presidential Possibility, Recounts Achievements Under the New Progressive Order of Things—Dire Predictions Fell Flat-Insurgent Orators Invade Ohio. By Associated Press. Youngstown, Ohio. Dec. 27.—Th« campaign of the so-palled progreBSive wing of the republican party a^^ainst the- renomination of President Taft starts today with the coming of Seni^ tor I^aFollette to Ohio for speeches here and in Clevelaml. While Senator I^Pollette is talking at Cleveland tonight Senator Clapp, who opened the progressive campaign at Satem, Ohio, last night, will be speaking at Alliance, Ohio. Tomorrow LaFollette will move on to NorwaU4 and Toledo, while Clapp will speak at^ Ashtabula. LaFollette Speak*. Youngstown, O., Dec. 27 —The pro gressive movement and what it ha« done In Wisconsin was the topic dis cussed by Senator LaE\>llette before the biisinesB men of this steel and iron community at noon today. Ho declared the progressive movement was the people’s movement. "The nation has profited by Wisconsin’s civic evolu* tlon,” he asserted, and conunued: “it is not claimed for the progressiva cause in Wisconsin that it has attain^ ed its final destiny, that it has setr tied all of the questions that vex and trouble but we do know that the gov ernment has been njade representative —truy representative. “We do know that the dire and aw. ful predictions which alarmed honest business In Wisconsin have proven false; that capital has not fled from the state but is more secure than else where; that state banks subject to state regulation are safe and failure is iinkonwn; that .the street car, the in- jienirban>. the gast ■electrlc—U^t and water rates are undergoing regulation and reduction and yet, because we have stability, the bonds of all our pub lic utilities are selling higher in the markets than those of other states; that railroad rates have been reduced; the sendees regulated, the complaints of shippers adjusted and yet the rail roads of AVisconsin are more pros perous than in other states because a sense of security prevails everywhere and every producer, evry manufac turer knows that his competitors with in the scope of state regulation enjoy no secret favor ar odvantage. "The old feeling of class antagonism and dis trust is fast giving place to i>eaflfe, con fidence and prosperity. “Whatever success we have attained in Wisconsin through the enactment of wise, constructive statutes, has been the result of a close and definite com prehension of the importance of the work as affecting not only the material interests of the state but the socioligi- cal welfare of the people in the broad est application of that term. “The conditions which prevailed In politics, government and business In Wisconsin 15 years ago are those which the people in most states and in the nation are facing today.” Vetetan Dropped Dead at His Home Special to The News. -f'orest City, N. C., Dec. 27.—-Mr. T^ J. Downey, an old Confederate soldier, dropped dead at his home, one and a half miles south of the city yesterday evening. He was in his usual g^d health and talked pleasantly to his family up to the hour of his death. He was 80 years old and was expect* Ing to start to the Old SoldierS' Home at Raleigh the first of January. Cold in Kansas. Kansas City, Mo., Dec. 27.—Bring ing the first low temperatures of the season the thermometer today show ed a drop of 15 to 20 degrees in tne Missouri Valley states and an aver age drop of about ten degrees in the southwest where readings ranged from 26 at Little Rock, Ark., 18 in Oklahoma City and 20 at El Paso to 6 at Amarillo, Tex., and two below at Dodge City, Kas. Many Inmates of Charitable Institution In Berlin Die From Poisoning By Associated Press. Berlin, Dec. 27.—Eighteen Inmates of the Berlin municipal shelter for the homeless died during the night from poisoning, and others are dying or seriously ill from the same cause. The number of destitute men who took refuge In the Institution last night was 4,414. Some of them brought with them scraps of extra food in order to give a Christmas touch to the frugal meal of bread'and soup served out to them by the authorities. This extra delicacy consisted In many cases of spoiled smoked herring, of which a large number partook. Shortly after midnight groans were heard In the dormitories, of which" there are about 40, and the officials found several men dying and others In convulsions. The physician attached to the insti-“ tution at once administered emitics and telephoned for help from the city hospitals but the condition of many of the men was hopeless and 18 of thbxn died in a short time.