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HE FASTEST GROWS A P ER I ORTH CAROLINA E CHARLOTTE NEW GHT ;S TODAY 66 Greater Char lo tt EDITION 5? me paper -bed: Daily, 1888 Sunday 1910.. iRLOTTE, N. C, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 30, 1914. Price: Daily 2c; Sunday 5c. NI T E 4 73 V E S LO S T 71 1 larjiil Mm ine faster Ofj The Vnginia Coast TV T J f. T i T 771 T if 71 i ijezse roa nams ine mon- loe-Lattei Sank in Ten Min-utes-Thnlhng Rescue of 86 Pejsons From Icy Wateis -- Terrific Scenes on Board Lost Ship. iated Press. & k Va., Jau, 30. Forty--icons went down to odaj when the Mer . nd Miners liner Xan- ;nk the Oid Dominion lin roe. Wireless lists for- by Captain Johnson, of -'j -roe, returning with the ? on the Nantucket 'if --' .-engers 25; crew 24; TO SELL WABASH LROAD AT FORECLD sore; TO RATIFY T RAT! ON T EAT By Associated Press. St. Louis, Mo.. Jan. 30. The sale of the Wabash Railroad at foreclosure was authorized today by Federal Judge Adams. Judge Adams directed that no Uids for the property lower than thirty-four million dollars be accepted and that the sale be made without appraise ment. Chester E.' Krum was appointed spe cial master to execute the sale. All bidders will be required to deposit witi him $1,700,000 or $3,500,000 in Wabash first refunding or extension mortgage bonds. The decree of foreclosure was hand ed down on motion of the Equitable Trust Company of New York which as trustee holds $41,900,000 in bonds of the Wabash. The motion was submit ted with the announcement that a plan of reorganization had been made satis factory to the trustee and the receiv ers. The decree directs that within twenty days the Wabash shall pay to the Equitable $4,323,621 as interest on the first mortgage bonds from July 1906 when the road first defaulted in interest payments. Seaboard Train Clashes Into A. C. L. Train At Pembroke -engers ""; crew -n r r Va , Jan. 30. With a :?.:- awning covering a gap- ?: r'- bow and with a par ::ei srgo causing a list ar i. the steamer Nantucket :? ill-fated steamer Monroe's cenger and crew, docked sp-moon. Several thousand c-':r on the water front to 3 earner pass in her slip. l.e rescued stood upon the 'ire Nantucket wrapped in a; their only garmet. There " dead. Thee were Mrs. Harrington, daughter of J. i ".'i. Stevens street, Nor , '.'nd First Lieutenant Le- '"urtis, of the second coast Wsfervleit Arsenal. N. Y. 'ncs-on's body, placed in a - ' offin. was borne from the 'h the husband refusing nitii the body had been - 1 i Lieutenant Curtis was 3 handkerchief found by Kiaht in the pocket of his 1 & ki "Curtis." This was n intation to be found. v n-.'fon and Lieutenant Cur 'ld alter being rescued ' s?cr. '-'arnngton, of Bridgeport, '.-band of the dead woman, :;ug story of the experi-'''-'! and wife. Harring-i- ( e were- long in the wa n was swimming with - 1 air between his teeth o wrre picked up. i-".r;2'on died from exhaus nauled aboard the - .-v airier being thrown in " ' - 'aner men It was diffi-'''.,-c:, ',"''!'mation. Representa Pi'r;?. were all barred -'Jcket when she landed. .-u uv r. u. jaw. sen- ' Merchants and MIl.- ''-a'fori Company, that this "f K. E. Tapley, a local ' ' ' ! or. :; rescued leaning over " ' r '-lie Nantucket as tho '1 it was told to the o;i the wharf that the ' "': and rammed the fog at 2 a. m. today ;; -Monroe careened and 1 :i:.;n ten or twelve "I '. " r- impact. : ' 'f'r- turned on her side f ' and crew crawled owr . ' ' !.-e vessel and walk- ' " ':Htii fina.llv wnh(id rff :, ' , ined down side and V..:;fl :r-' bottom. ,rr. :a'-';- 'hat there had been '' preservers many -'-'Uid nave been lost.' As .. "' , 1 e--''?u remained in the ;-a.t 10 thrpft nuartorc nf J, . th!,y were gotten out. -- whose name AM Ti.it : ; r;:. tiiose that were saved .-" t-ilS morning wae n.t v . . .-i " Ui kj u iy it - ;- ' was among the first of :'a;!ngers to conio off the ; ",' r sne had tied up at "al"ouah clad oniv in -..3 .1 a;c robe, gave a arphic description of the collision and the events that followed. "It was about 1:30 o'clock," baicl Mr. Lyons to a reporter for the Ledger dishatcb. "and yptv fossv. T had un dressed, but had not gone to bed. The ' fog horn was blowing every minute. ! Suddenly it. blew twict and repealed the double blast twice. Then, almost j like putting on the brakes, "the Moi-j roe stopped and I knew there was something the matter. Rushing upi stairs on deck, I saw somebody yet ting ready to put a lifeboat ovr. I asked him if there was any danger: he replied that he didn't know, but wanted to be ready. I couldn't see whether he was a white man or col ored. "Almost before the words left his mouth the Nantucket struck us near the bow on the port side. I ran down stairs, and tried to dress, but the ship was listing so that I could not stand up, so I hurried back upstairs. There were very few passengers on dsck and one boat was overboard. As it push ed away Captain Johnson told me to jump to make it and I left Captain Johnson standing on the deck of the ship. The boat went back and he got in. The Monroe went down easily and was below the water within twelve minutes after the collision. "The crew behaved splendidly as far as I could see" continued Mr. Lyons. "There were not very many woman on the ship, but they were al lowed to get into the boats first, with the children. There was no effort ou the part of the men to crowd the wo men and children. While we were in the lifeboat we picked up a man and a woman. He was holding her by the hair in his teeth and was almost ex hausted when we pulled him in. The woman w-as dead. "There were many people "who must have been caught in their staterooms. The collision occurred so suddenly and the boat sank so quickly it's a won der that many more were not drown ed. The listing of the steamer made it impossible to lower the lifeboats on one side of the ship and that added to the difficulty in saving lives." Asks for Clothing. To the agents of the eMrchants and Miners line at Norfolk the comman der of the Nantucket sent a request for-clothing for fifty men afta twelve women. President Whitney of the Merchants and Miners Company, expressed deep est regret over the disaster. The Nantucket two years ago burn ed and sank iu the harbor near Lo cust Point and one of the crew lost his life. Norfolk, Va., Jan. 30. Forty-seven persons lost their lives in the icy wa ters of the Atlantic at 2 o'clock this morning when the Old Dominion liner Monroe was rammed amidships, prac tically cut in two and sank within ten minutes, 25 miles southeast of Hog Island, by the Merchants and Miners' steamer Nantucket. The 47 lost comprised 23 passen gers and 24 members of the crew, as yet unidentified, according to official wireless report to the Old Dominion line here. Eighty-six Persons Saved. Thirty-one passengers and 55 of the crew were saved. Captain Johnson of the sunken Monroe and all his officers but one were among the saved. The lost officer was Second Engineer Gate ly. Eighty-six survivors picked from the sea and huddled on the NancuckeS, which was proceeding slowly with a crumpled bow toward Norfolk today are the only ones who know all the story of how the two big ships, pick ing their way through a blanket of fog one bound north and the other bound south crashed near the Winter Quarter shoal lightship. Fragments of the wreck narrative that reached here by wireless told The City of Montgomery Fog Bound. By Associated Press. New York, Jan. 30. The city nf Montgomery of the Old Dominion line was among the steamers fog boar.d in New York harbor until noon to day. Down the bay and in the lane to the ocean the suspension of tratlic was absolute until noon. THE DAY IN CONGRESS. By Associated Press. Washington, Jan. 30. Senate: Foreign relations committee recom mended renewal of all pending arbi tration treaties. Ho-se: Began debate on Burnett literacy test immigration bill. Representative Stanley . testified at the judiciary committee's hearing on trust bills. Louis D. Brandeis urged uniform accounting for corporations before the commerce committee. Secretary- Daniels continues testi mony before the naval committee. Daisy Hill, a coloted woman, was locked up this afternoon for alleged larceny of two skirts and a purse from the Belk Bros, department store, where a sale has been on all week. She , was arrested by Officer Bradley, after a lively chase for her up a stair way and down the elevator. how the Nantucket, backed off. lowered boats and began sweeping the misty sea with her searchlights, then, with in' ten minutes, the Monroe, her pas sengers pitched out of berths ia niht clothes, went down. Scenes of Horror. In the swirling vortex of the sinking ship men shouted and women scream ed through the mist. The Monroe went down so quickly that there was little time for launching boats and it is be lieved that the only ones saved were those picked up at once by the Nan tucket. Rescue Work Hazardous. A dense fog that enveloped the sea and the panic that followed ths col lision made rescue work hazardous. With water pouring into the doomed liner Monroe, her frightened passen gers rushed to the decks and groped helplessly about in the dense fog. Many hurled themselves overboard. The Nantucket's boats had bean low ered almost immediately after th.3 col lision and, guided by the cries of the Monroe's passengers and crew who had taken the desperate chance of leaping into the icy sea, they pressed the work of rescue. Searchlights that were aimed through the wall of fo were of feeble help. The Wireless Busy. Meanwhile the wireless began hiss ing out its call for aid. The revenue cutter Onondaga, cruising off the Vir ginia Capes, heard and under forced draft, sped northward. From her Nor folk berth the wrecking tug I. J. Mer ritt soon was underway. The Old Do minion liner Hamilton, not far from where the Monroe went down, was headed for the Nantucket and other ships turned their prows to the res cue. Passengers All Ieep. . The lost had not a chance for their lives. In the heavy fog that lay like a blanket over the sea the Monroe was picking her way northward. SU3 had left Norfolk at 7:40 last night and" at the time of the crash there were on deck only those whose duty kept them at their station. The pa- (Continued on Page Six.) By Associated Press. Washington, Jan. 30. The senate foreign relations committee today voted to recommend immediate ratifi cation of general arbitration treaties with Great Britain, Japan and oth'-jr nations twenty-five treaties in ail. These have been pending for re-ratification since last summer. The vote iD favor of the treaties was 11 to 2, with four senators ab sent, Senators O'Gorman, democrat, and William Alden Smith, republican, voting in the negative. Affirmative votes were cast by Sen ators Bacon, Stone, Shively, Hitchcock, Williams, Swanson, Pomerene and Smith of Arizona, democrats; Lodg?, Root and McCumber, republicans. The committee took up the treaties immediately after the conference with President Wilson iast Monday night. The treaty with Great Britain was held up last summer because of fear that its ratification would force arbi tration over the section of the Pan ama canal act exempting American coastwise vessels from tolls. President Wilson's attitude on this question is generally accredited to be that this provision is a violation of the Hay-Pauncefote treaty and con gress intends either to repeal the "lause or suspend its operation pend ing negotiations. Vff Jibe . California alien land question was involved in the Japanese treaty but the administration view that this controversy practically is at an end settled the minds of the majority of the committee in so far as the generr.l arbitration treaty was concerned. CLARK DISCREDITS TALK OF PRESIDENCY, By Associated Press. Washington. Jan. 30 Speaker Clark declared today that nothing in his Bal timore speech last night could be con sidered as indicating that he had fig ured on being a presidential candi date in 1916 or any time in the future. "The only thing I said about the presidency," said the speaker, "was in reply to the flowery introduction of the toastmaster. I said that if all that the toastmaster said was true I ought to be president today and would be if the proposed primary had been in force in 1912. I praised Pres ident. Wilson's handling of tb.; Mexi can situation." The Arab Patrol meets tonight in honor of the prodigal's return. The fatted calf will be killed. THE WEATHER. Forecast for North Carolina: Rain tonight, colder in interior: Saturday, colder and generally fair. Variable winds becoming north and probably increasing. MORE ROASTS FOR FEDERAL JUDGE SPEE By Associated Press. Savannah, Ga., Jan. 30. W.. W. Lambdin, a well known attorney .of Waycross, Ga., was the first witness called today before the congressional committee investigating charges of of ficial misconduct against Federal Judge Emory Speer. The witness was asked by Chairman Webb of the' con gressional committee to give an ac count of the bankruptcy proceedings against the Beach Manufacturing Com pany of Baxley, Ga. MTj. Lambdin was an attorney in this case. The witness testified that early in 1913, Max Isaacs resigned as referee in bankruptcy at Brunswick, Ga., and shortly afterward the partnership of Issacs & Heyward was announced. Mr. Lambdin called attention to the fact that Heyward was a son-in-law of Judge Speer. "In rapid succession," the witness continued, "three large concerns w?ro thrown into bankruptcy, namely the Beach Manufacturing Company, the L. Carter Company and the Gray Lumber Company. While local coun sel were associated in these cas5tf, Isaacs and Heyward always took the lead and the general impression was that they had the favor of Judge Speer. "These bankruptcy cases, which ap peared to be unjustified, threw a grd.t shock into the commercial world of South Georgia and business generally became apprehensive." The witness declared that Juds Speer appointed a receiver for the Beach Company without going through the usual procedure. "About a year before the Beach Manufacturing Company was thrown into bankruptcy,'' the witness said, "a bankruptcy petition was filed against it, but this petition was denied. At that time Heyward's law firm was as sociated with counsel for the defend ant company." On cross-examination Mr. Lambdin said that at the time the Beach Man ufacturing Company was put into the hands of receivers there were forty or fifty unsatisfied judgments outstand ing against it and by agreement the company had for a time passed the intrest on its bonds. Mr. Lambdin'i. testimony in regard to the Beach Manufacturing Compa: ny's bankruptcy case was corroborat ed by V. E. Padgett, an attorney of Baxley, Ga., who was connected with the litigation. Mr. Padgett said that counsel for the manufacturing company discussed the advisability of asking Judge Speer to disqualify himself in the case be cause of his relationship to Heyward. "Before we arrived at a decision," the witness declared, a Mr. Talley brought us word that Judge Speer would put the lawyer who filed such a motion in jail." The witness said Miat later during the investigation, representative of the department of justice began a probe of the situation and Judge Speer wrote a letter disqualifying himself from farther connection with the case. News "Want Ads" Bring In the Scads (L. LAMAR LEDWELL, JR.) There was a young merchant nam ed Timothy Brown, Whose store was much nicer than others in town. This fact made him dizzy While others were busy, His clerks were all idle, and this made him frown. But now things are different he uses "Want Ads", To tell all the buyers the latest xf Jads His store is so busy At times he is dizzy The News' "Want Ad" column has brought in the "scads." 81 WANTS PRINTED YESTERDAY A total of 2,446 since New Year. One-Cent-A-Word Page Eight Use The 'Phone 115 'NUF 'CED ;ays "BOOZE FIGHTERS" REA LABOR ON 0 By Associated Press. Indianapolis, Ind., Jan. 30. That Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, was "gloriously drunk" at the Seattle convention of the federation was the charge made by Duncan McDonald, of Illinois, at the convention of the United Mine Workers of America today. During the prolonged cheers, "liar," "slander er," were hurled at McDonald by Gompers, who sat on the platform. "I am glad Mr. Gompens is here so I can say wnat I want to," said McDonald in beginning his reply to the speech made yesterday by Mr. Gompers. "I said there were booze fighters in charge of the American Federation of Labor and I'll prove it. At the Seattle convention I had a room with my wife at a hotel next to the room reserved by the resolu tions committee. The first Saturday night we could not sleep for the noise made by a bunch of drunks in the next room. "I appealed to the clerk of the hotel and the noise grew louder. Then I went down to the hotel of fice and the nieht manager called Jim Duncan on the telephone and told broke, who was standing on the plat him they were disturbing all cm the jform when the collision occurred, was floor. President Harahan Gives Out List of The Injured Passen gersThe Cause of The Wreck is Being Fully Investi gated Trains Crash at Pembroke. Two Coaches of The Coast Line Train Were Derailed Dr. James of Laurinburg is in Charge of The Injured Seaboard Engineer the Most Seriously Injured. By Long Distance 'Phone. Laurinburg, N. C. Jan. 30. Seaboarc Air Line passenger train No. 14, from Wilmington to Charlotte, ran into At lantic Coast Line train No. 79 at the crossing of the two roads at Pembroke at 7:40 this morning. I wo ot the coaches on the A. C. L train were derailed. It is said that the dense fog made it difficult for the Seaboard train en gineer to see the Coast Line train, which was standing on the tracks and it is also said that his brakes failed to respond when he did see it. Several persons were injured, the most seriously injured being Engin eer Charles Shaf'er, of Hamlet, of the Seaboard train. He was badly bruised about his head and. body. The hospital here rushed out Dr. James and nurses and at 3 o'clock this afternoon the injured had not been brought here. W. D. Dixon, chief of police of Pom- INJUNCTIONS WERE DISSOLVED. By Associated Press. Kansas City, Mo., Jan. 30. Injunc tions against John T. Barker, attorney general of Missouri, preventing him from proceeding with suits to recover $24,000,000 excess freight and pas senger charges made by railroads while the Missouri rate cases were in litigation, were dissolved today in an opinion by Federal Judge Smith McPherson. The criminal injunction brought by railroads to prevent enforcement of Missouri's two cent , passenger and maximum freight rate laws also was dismissed, in accordance with the re cent decision of the United States supreme court upholding the laws. In addition the court held the $10,000 bond put up by each railroad in 1905 when the state rate laws were enjoinei has no reference to those persons who have paid excess rates or passngor fares and they can recover whatever is due them. "The noise grew fierce and I final ly knocked' on the door of the room and was asked to come in and have a drink. When the door was opened there sat Gompers at the head of the table gloriously dmnk and with a bottle of booze in his hand." The statement threw the conven tion into an uproar and it was gome time before order was restored. Gompers Denies Charge. Mr. Gompers followed McDonald and denied the charge of drunkenn ness. He declared the statement "li bellous, untruthful, vicious, slander ous and without any form of honor." Mr. Gompers left the hall to take a train. RIOTOUS SCENES AT OPENING OF PARLIAMENT. By Associated Press. Cape Town, Jan. 30. Riotous scenes marked the opening today of the parliament of the .Union of South Africa. It was apparent that General Louis Botha, the premier, and his sabinet ministers, would be promptly called upon to justify the iron handed methods they adopted in dealing with the recent strike, partic-r ularly the deportation of ten laoor leaders. Vincount Gladstone, governor gen eral, said the declaration of martial law had been an "imperative duty." General Jan Christian Smuts, minis ter of defense, gave notice that he would move a bill to indemnify the government for all its acts under martial law and to prohibit the return of the deported men, thus raising an effectual bar to the efforts of the labor repVsentatives to move the im mediate discussion of the "surrepti tious deportation of citizens without trial." Labor members tried to debate "the crime of kidnapping citizens," but the speaker refused to allow the mto continue. injured by a falling ladder knocked down by the collision. Others reported injured are: The Injured. William Freeman, of Lumberton; Tom Ford, of Hope Mills; Mrs. Rosa bel Cartwright, of Laurirlburg and Mrs. N. J. Emanuel, of Latta, S. C. Allen Perry, colored, of Pembroke, was also injured. It is said that the injured, outside of the Seaboard engin eer, were on the Coast Line train. Another Account. Norfolk, Va., Jan. 30. President Harahan of the Seaboard Air Line Rail way, gave out a statement of the wreck today. He said two coaches of the Atlantic Coast Line train wen derailed and the following passengers slightly hurt: Tom Ford, and Miss Laura McLean, Hope Mills, N. C; Miss Nancy Em anuel, Lamar, N. C; Miss Rose L. Cartwright, Laurinburg, N. C. ; News boy Resinwald, of Charleston, S. C. : W. M. Freeman, address unknown, and Engineer C. A. Shafer. The cause of the accident is being' fully investigated. Dr. James, of Lau rinburg, is in charge of the injured people with everything possible being done for them. REBEL MOVEMENT ON A BIG SCALE. More Postmasters. By Associated Press. Washington, Jan. 30. The president today made these nominations for post masters: Mississippi Essia E- McCormick, Yazoo City; Lizzie Dillon Oltenburg, Winona; Amos K. Porter, Boyle. Louisiana John B. Sewell, Baldwin; James M. Underwood, Farniviile; James H. Leggett, Oakdale. South Carolina Joshua L. Younrr, Warre Shoals. Virginia William E. Ramsey, Gret na. Alabama W. B. Jones, Camden; Randolph St. John, Sylacauga. Georgia Thomas C. Spivey, Eaton ton; W. T. Thurmond, Commerce. Florida O. K. Paxton, Jr., White Springs. Bv Associated Press. Juarez, Mexico, Jan. 30. Rebel movements toward Torreon began on a large scale today. The bulk of the main army had encamped at Escalon, more than half way southward from Chihuahua, and more troopers were joining them from the states of Du rango and Coahuila. Rebels wer re ported drawing in from the eastward to attack Saltillo and cut off the fed eral communication from Monterey. General Villa proposes to put practi cally his entire army against Torreon. The federal garrison is variously estimated at from 6,000 to 10,000 while the rebel's strength exceeds that number. Black Hander Weakens. Bv Associated Press. -fiw York. Jan. 30. Angelo Sylves ter, reputed leader of a black hand gang that terrorized the East Side, lost all his bravado today and per suaded the court to postpone his sen tence until he could see the district attorney. It was reported today Syl vestro wanted to confess. Th- po lice believe that Sylvestro can give ! evidence that win enaoie tnerr. to catch other members ot the gan,; re sponsible for nearly a hundred bomb c.vjj. osions. Mr. L. B. Padgett of Greensboro, state secretary of the Missionary Laymen's Conference, is in the city today, in conference with Mr. J. B. Ivey" and others in winding up the details of the conference held here in the fall. PIEDMONT FIRE IN SURANCE COMPANY HAS ANNUAL MEETING The annual meeting of the Pied mont Fire Insurance Company was held . yesterday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock in the offices on South Tryoi street, at which time a review of the business of the year was given into, showing that the year had been a prosperous one with the company. The capital stock of the company is $100, 000 and a net earned surplus beyond all liabilities of $183,365.31. The assets on December 31, 1913, amounted to $395,293.94 compared wih $365,997.84 for 1912. The reserve for unadjusted losses for 1913 are $4,198,82 and for unearned premiums $107,729.81. The capital stock of the company ia $100,000 and it has a net earned su plus of $183,365.31, which gives a snS plus as regards policyholders of $283, 365.31. The following officers and directpra were elected for the ensuing year: Directors: Messrs. J. T. Anthony, Henry M. McAden, B. D. Heath, C. Valaer, Y. H. Belk, A. L. Smith, Eu gene H. Chisholm. Officers: Messrs. Henry M. McAderu president; B. D. Heath, vice president; A. L. Smith, secretary; Eugene H. Chisholm, manager. FEATURE COMMITTEE BUSILY WORK ON FEA TURES FORT WENT! ETH The feature committee of the board of directors of the Mecklenburg Decla ration Society met this morning in the office of the Greater Charlotte Club and conferred about several features which it is proposed to put on during the Twentieth of May celebration. Several of the operators of moving picture theaters in the city were pres ent by request of the committee to consider several propositions araon; them one to snow moving pictures of the main features of the celebration. The feature committee is busily en gaged in several schemes that will make the spectacular part of the cel ebration one long to be remembered. A system of street fairs and carnival-, istic stunts of various kinds are be ing considered and the committee Is looking into the proposition of several carnival and show companies why wish to have charge of the amusement side of the celebration. s
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