GEN. ARMFIELD DEAD RELEIF FOR REFUGEES
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PRESIDENT
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THESTAND
Testifies Before Commission
In Regard to Advance of
Freight Rates
FEELING T UNREST
Business Depression Duo to Great
Feeling of Uncertainty Among; Fi
nanciers Because of Political Fear.
His Line FronierouB, Rut Thinks
Kate Increase is "Needed to Pay
Wages, Keep Up Road, Surplus,
and Dividend Sufficient to Make It
Atli'uctive to Investors Essential
to Road's Credit to Keep on Good
Financial Basis.
(By Leased Wire to The Times)
Washington, Oct. 13 President
Daniel Willard, of the Baltimoie &
Ohio Railroad, took the stand when
the hearing concerning the advanc
in freight rates In official railroad
territory was begun before the Inter
state commerce commission today.
Hugh L. Bond, Jr., of Baltimore, gen
eral counsel of the road, interrogated
the witness regarding the attempt of
the road to secure a $10,000,000 loan
for the purpose of obtalnlning capi
tal to meet operating expenses. Pres
ident Willard explained that for the
year ending June, 1910, the largest
gross earnings was made, white in
1908 the earning fell behind paying
dividends by f 1,000,000. The in
crease In the pay rolls for 1910 was
$l,(i."r,000, and other increased ex
penses brought the total up to
14 4,000.;' The gross Income for .'. -109
was $77,000,000 and for 1910 ?90,-
000,000. ; '
"As the result after this yea's op
erations and expenses and dwideii.is
are paid we will have a surplus of
$200,000," he added.
Mr. Willard said it is essential lo
the road's credit to keep it on n good
financial basis, He seld there was a
well defined opinion that the relation
of the stock to the total capital
should not lie les sthan"40 per cent.
The -surplus of the railroad should
be a great determining factor in the
establishment of its credit. He said
It was the policy of the road that for
every dollar paid in dividends 50
rents, of the surplus was put back
Into the property.
To make railroad stocks attract
ive to investors, the witness said, the
road should be allowed to earn a
seven per cent, dividend and carry a
(food surplus to back its cred't. This,
lie claimed, could only bo d0n3 by
advancing rates. :
"Commercial conditions today on
our road,' he said, "show such a
period of prosperity that I have won
dered why business generally in
other lines Is not better, It is due In
n large measure, I think, to the great
feeling of uncertainty among -financiers
and others evidently due, in a
large measure to politics. This feel
ing today influences expenditures of
railroads and restrains them front tn
( Continued, From Page Five.)
WON HAS
25,748 POPULATION
(By Leased Wire to The Times.)
Washington, Oct. 13 The census
bureau today made public the fol
lowing population returns:
North Carolina: Wilmington,
2G.M8; last census, 20,976; increase,
22.7. ; ,- -
Ohio Hamilton, 35,279; last cen
BUB, 23,914; increase, 47.5. Lorain,
28.883; last census, 16,028; increase,
80.2.
Wisconsin Madison, 25,531; last
census, 19,164; increase, 33.2.
Negro Woman Kills Man.
(By Leased Wire to The Time.)
Dover, Del., Oct. 13 Standing on
the principle street here early today,
Hattle E. Reese, colored, 2.4 years
old, instantly killed John Curry, also
colored. She used a shotgun and fir
ing at close range blew - oft Curry's
bead.
Adjutant General of NorthCaro-
lina Died Yesterday Evening
Funeral Will be Held In Statesville
Tomorrow Afternoon at 4 O'clock
and Will be Conducted With Mill
tnry Honors Death Came Yester
day Evening at 7:40 O'clock.
(Special to The Times.)
Statesville, Oct. 13 Joseph F. Arm
field, adjutant general of North Caro
lina and one of the best known ami
beloved militarv men of the state died
at his home here last evening at seven
fortv o'clock after n few davs illness
with euremic poison.
He came from Raleigh throe weeks
ago but ills condition did not become
serious until Sunday.
The funeral services will take place
here tomorrow afternoon at four o'clock
and will be attended b several com
panies of the North Carolina National
guard In addition to many mllitarv
men anil other friends.
General Armfleld was a son of the
late Judge .. F. Armfleld of States
ville, one of the most prominent law
yers of the south and Is survived by
three brothers and three sisters,
Messrs. Charles . H., James B. and
Hubert H. Armfleld, and Mesdames Vt .
J. Hill. Frank P. Lewis, of Norfolk,
and Mrs. C J. Jones of Statesville.
He was born In Yadkinville, Janu
ary 2i. 1SH2. He has served with dis
tinction from private soldier to ad
jutant general and won honors during
the Spanish-American war as colonel
of the first North Carolina regiment.
He was a fine type of military man
and won admiration in military circle
wherever known. His death is deeply
mourned far and near.
State In Mourning'.
The news of Gen. Armfleld s death
was received with genuine sorrow in
this citv. The flag on the state cup
itol is at half mast and the adjutant
general's office Is draped in mourn
ing. . . ..
The state will be represented at the
funeral bv Governor Kltehln and pos
sibly other state officials.
Among those who will attend the
funeral are Gen. H. S. Royaler, Col.
Alfred Williams. MaJ. K. M. Albright,
Maj. J. G. Skinner, MaJ. Robert Co
burn, Capt. Baxter Durham, of Wel
don; Col. Macon, of Henderson, and
several others from the eastern part
of the state. Lieutenant Colonel
LcinSter has been in Statesville sev
eral davs.
Military Funeral.
The funeral will be conducted with
militarv honors, the following com
panies participating: Statesville. Sal
isbury, Concord, Charlotte, Dallas,
Lexington, and Hickory.
A Rruve Soldier.
Gen. Armfiold came out of the Spanish-American
war with the highest
praise of Ills superior officers. When
the call for volunteers was made Col.
Ann Held tendered the services of the
First North X?urohna regiment. This
regiment was mustered in at Camp
Brvan Grimes, this city. May 18. 1SHS,
and was ordered to Tampa, Fla. While
en route the department ordered the
regiment to Jacksonville where it
arrived May 23. On Oct. 24 It was
sent to Savannah. Just as It was about
to be mustered out, the war depart
ment retained the regiment and it was
ordered to Havana, Cuba. ,
First to Knter Havana.
The regiment . arrived at Havana
Dec. 11, and Gen. Armfield's regiment
was the first American troops to enter
that citv. The great reception that it
received by the Cubans is still fresh
in the minds of the people. It was
this regiment that pulled down the
Spanish flag from Moro Castle and
hoisted Old Glory.
Went the Nearest Way.
An incident occurred Just before1 the
troops entered Havana which was
characteristic of Gen. Armtlelil. The
Spanish commander sent Col. Armfleld
word not to enter the streets of
Havana bearing arms. The Colonel
replied that he had been ordered by
Ills government to occupy a certain
camp and if the nearest way to that
camp lay through the streets that was
the way he was going. It Is needless
to sav that he went.
The regiment stayed In Cuba until
March 18, 1899 when it 'was. ordered to
Savanna, Ga., where it was mustered
out April 22, 1899.
Col. Armfleld had the reputation of
being one of the best militia men in
the whole service and Was highly
praised bv the superior officers.
Five Hurt In Wreck.
(By Leased Wire to The Times.)
Pittsburg, Pa Oct. 15 Five per
sons were hurt, three of them prob
ably fatally, when the automobile In
which they were riding was Btruck
by a freight train near Johnstown,
Pa , today. All the occupants of the
automobile were residents of Johns
town. Aldrich Gets Hack.
(By Leased Wire to The Times.)
New York,' Oct. 1 3 United States
Senator Nelson W. AhJrlch arrived
from Europe today on the White Star
liner Adriatic, r
Governor Eberhart Helping
In the Work
HefuRces Happier Than At Any Time
Since" the Disaster Relief Coming
iu llnpidly Sow.
(By Leased Wire to The Times.)
' Eaudctte, Minn., OrL :!. With
Governor Kberhart passing energeti
cally among them, slapping I lie aarJy
woodsmen on the back and speaking
a word of encouragement here and
there to the heroic, women woo re
fuse to complain, the fire refugees
were happier todav than at any time
since Lie terrible disaster.
Relief Is beginning to come in last,
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TtfOCSGtH C4fss5' G?AT-rr , SSsSZ'Jr -J,
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Picture sliowin men liglitine, t'ic forest llrcs i;r ir Klicin Minncscfa and a man iving some idea ol (lie ex
tent of t!it' disaster. It is estimated thai lour hundred lives were lost in tlic ci iillaiation and KlOO, 0(1(1 woilli
of timber was destroyed. Thousands of settlers and (heir families, locllier with (he domestic a mis are flee.
ing through the dense woods of Miime.-oU in ;in elHi l to reach salely across (he Kaiuy nver, hIik li divides ( .m
aduaud the I'nitcd States. In the punij' occasioned by (lie H rest lircs. wolves, bears, wild cats, crazed with fear
have herded with the domestic animals driven before the llcciii" settlers without thought of any danaci except
the ttiimes.
In addition to the St. Paul train,
winch arrived with Governor Eber
hart and a number ot state officials,
another special from Winnipeg ar
rived. -
The Croqkston people brought in
4,000 loaves of. freshly baked bread
with a general line of groceries,
clothing and $1,000 in currency.
With the arrival ol Theodore Star
backen from twenty-live miles south
on the Rapid river, practically all ol
the settlers in tae Beaudette fire zone
have been accounted lor. Stabacken
and his two cousins walked twenty
five miles through the burned forests.
They reported that tnree cabins had
been burned m their vicinity, but no
lives had been lost. .
Stabacken had an especially nar
rowing experience when the fires
swept over him and his family Fri
day. Anticipating the approaching
danger, he nastily constructed a rait
ana with his family pushed out into
the Rapid river. Tae flames almost
met In the middle of the stream.
The members of the family kept
constantly splashing water on them
selves, and at one time Stabacken
was obliged to all but to submerge
his six-niontlis-old twin boys in the
stream. When the worst of the
flames uad passed, a landing was
made and the whole family lay
around a camp fire- In their wet
clothing all night. In the morning
thev made their way to an unburned
Cabin, a distance of three miles,
where they joined other relugees
who were fortunate enougii to escape.
INSANE LAYVVER
SHOOTS TO KILL
(By Cable to The Times.)
Rome, Oct. 13 Rendered sudden
ly Insane, .Signor Moncara, a prom
inent Sicilian lawyer in this city, to
day, barricaded his residence and
commenced snooting recklessly nuo
the street, killing one woman and
seriously wounding two others. A
carbinger attempted to arrest hnu
but barely escaped with :ns life. The
police ordered out fire fighting equip
ments and a strong stream of water
was directed into the building but the
insane lawyer refused to stop his
fusillade of bullets. Tae police then
decided to storm the building, mean
while keeping the street clear ot
pedestrians so that no one would he
hurt by flying bullets. The uusband
of Mrs. Gertrude Cecuccl, who was
shot and killed,1 implored the police
to allow him to lead the charge
against the Insane man. The au
thorities refused to allow this.
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BANK'S DOORS CLOSED
Examiner Takes Charge of
Bank of Hope Mills
Recent Fxanimal ion Showed Hud
Capita! Slock Had Keen Impaired
I'.y Itad Loans Only Loss Will be
to the Slockholdcrs.
The Dank of Hope Mills was closed
this morning bv Slate Haul; I2.:imlncr
J. K. Doiinhton ...acting under orders
ol the corporation commission.
From a recent exanumnntiou by
Assistant ICxiiiiiiiier C. V. Brown it
appeared to the corporation com mis
sion that the capital stock had Doen
impaired, and an order was drawn
directum Bank Kxanuner . J. K.
Houghton lo take charge of the al
fairs ot the bank unless the officers
and stockholders would make .'.rood
its capital stock insular, as it had
been impaired' bv bad lonns.
So far as is known now. there will
be no loss on account ol the; closing
of the doors ot the bank exeent to
the stockholders, as the resources
appear ample to take rare ol .the de
positors. The Bank of Hope Mills was 'or
ganized and began business in 190a.
The officers are J. C. Gilbert, presi
dent, and L. B. Fleming, cashier
The liabilities or the bank, accord
.ng to its report hepliMiiner 1. are as
follows:
Capital stock, $5,1IH; .-notes!.' and
bill rcdiscounted, $1.(MHI; b'tls pay
able, $ 1,700: time cert Hica les or de
posit, JliiiO: deposits suliiect l o meek.
$7.xr2: savnius deposits, $".12".:
cashiers' checks outstanding. $-.iil 1;
total liabilities, $2!U!(iS.
XKVKK Ill-:.lil) OF (iRAI'T.
Mayor of Tokio Havs They Have No
(run There.
( Ilv Leased Ire to Tiie 'limes.)
New York, Oct. .1 :! ukio Ozaki,
mavor ot Tokio, accompanied by his
wile, arrived here today on the
steamship Adriatic and amazed Ins
interviewers by declaring thai, he had
never heard of and did not know the
meaning ot the word "graft."
"What Is this graft?" lie asked.
He was told that if a policeman
of Tokio should arrest, the man, but
at terwards accept money Irom his
prisoner to let him go, thai would lie
graft and the policeman would be a
grafter."
The mavor laughed.
"We haven't anything like that In
Tokio now," he said, "but we are
progressing rapidly, and, as you prob
ably kow, with progress bad things an
well as good things are bound' to
creep in. Doubtless Tokio will have
it's 'gratt soon."
He was asked it any ol the mem
bers o! the .'Japanese legislature could
lie bribed or "bought ' by corpora
tions.' '.'.,' ; ,''
"No, that could not happen," he
said '.positively.
Mr Ozaki is known as the ' rolorni
mayor" -of. Tokio, and he was elected
to a second term ot six years. He is
oil a six mouths vacation and alter a
one day stop here will visit President
latt in W ashington. .The mayor and
President. Ta ft are fast friends, the
latter having been the guest ot the
Japanese.' -In Tokio during the '.presi
dent's round-the-world 'trip.. '' .- ';
Seven Lives Lost.
(Hv Cable to I he Tunes)
London. Oct. l;l seven lives were
lost . by the running down of .the
Swedish barken! ine Oiana by the
steamer 'Senator Holiluisen oft' Uog
gerbiiuk, according to a dispatch to
Llovds ti'oin I'uxhaven received to
dav. The barkentme was sunk and
the Senator Holtuusen was badly
damaged. v
.storm aniing.
(Hv Leased Wire to The Times)
. Xew York, Oct. 1 :! Tim following
special storm warning was issued by
the local, weather bureau today: .
"A tropical storm ot considerable
intensity is reported southwest of Cu
ba in the Yucatan Caannel. It is
moving toward the Gulf of Mexico.
Caution is advised tor all vessels
bound or these waters.
HEARING IN CELLA
E
(Rv Leased Wire to Tae 'limes.)
New York, Oct. 1:1 Hie hearing
on the-appeal ot Louis and Angelo
Cell a from the decision of tne 1'nited
Mates Commissioner. Shields holding
them for extradition to Washington,
wiiore thev are under indictment lor
violation of the federal anti-bucket-shop
law. which was set tor bearing
belore the I nited States circuit court
ot appeals today was adjourned un
til October 2S. Tins adjournment
was taken tor the reason that pro
ceedings are under wav in Washing
ton for a review ot the case.
A cllow Fever In cne.uela.
(Bv Leased Wire to The. Times.)
AVas'hiiiRton, Oct. 13 Yellow fever has
appeared at Puerto Cabello, Venezuela,
according to information received to
day by .the state department from
t'niled States Consul Wright at that
loi I, .
Can Care For the
Thousands Next Week
licsidcs (lie Various Hotels Over
1.UIHI Can be ( a red I'tir in Private
Monies Inl oi ination llooth at
I niiiii Station ( liaml.er ol ( urn
inerce Will be "Hoine-comei's"
Hciil(iiiti'teis.
Secretary Olds, ol the Home-coming
Week Committee, lias had made
a careful canvass of t,ie city to ascer
tain the number.-. -'..of. visitors who
could gel lodging in private nomes,
and. finds t.aat 1.21)0 can t.ius be pro
vided lor. The lists have been pre
pared wiih gteat care and a duplicate
made: one to be at the Chamber of
Commerce rooms, which will be
hendHuarters lor the Home-comers;
I lie other at rne information bootli at
t.ie union station. I he booth will be
in charge ot Mr. Robert L. Luinsden,
who made the canvass ol the city. He
will have under ins direction at the
booth lour messenger bovs, who will
show strangers the way to homes.
Secretary Olds finds thai tne Yar
boi'ough House and the Hotel Ral
eigh (formerly the Par Hotel) can
care tor -auo lodgers: Hotel (Jiersch,
lull: Hotel W iignt. f(); Capital inn,
."0.
The laiilnies lor getting meals at
all .lou'.s will he admirable. I lie din
ing room at the arborough and the
Raleigh will be open seven nours in
t be twenl v-tour; (iiersch s cafe is
open until after midnight; Wrights
cute; all night: tae cafe in the Mac
cabec hall can provide tor 1.10; and
there are also the New York, Hicks
and other cafes.
Anv other householder wao finds.'
that they can accommodate visitors
with rooms or meals, or both, are
asked to notitv Secretary Olds at
once.
RKCIPIKMTTY WITH CAXAIM.
.Negotiations A ill He Resumed About
the I-list of November.
(I!v Leased Wire to The Timed
Washington, Oct. 1;! Negotiations
lor the reciprocity agreement be
tween the United States and Canaua
will be .resumed about November 1,
is the belie! of the officials n the
state department. . :.
Although no official announcement
to this effect has been made if is un
derstood that the date tor the re
sumption ot the negotiations was de
cided upon at a .conference several
davs ago at the Beverlv between the
president and Henrv M. Hovt. coun
sellor for the state department who
will represent the I nited Sta.es at
the conference in Ottawa, Can.
.1. B. Osborne, chief of the bureau
ot trade relations ot the state ue'iiirt
nient, will be associated with Mr.
Hovt during the negotiations.
REVOLUTIONISTS (WI GHT.
Revolution Against Ilia Nipped mi
the liud.
(Hv Leased Wire to The Times)
Mexico Citv. Oct. 1:1 Plans tor
another revolution against the reign
of President Diaz, ol Mexico, were
nipped in the bud bv the arrest ot
Gustavo Madero, it was learned here
todav. Madero, who is a brother of
Francisco Madero, deieated candidate
for the presidency, is in prison,
charged with having tried to induce
arniv officers to muiinv. The alleged
plot was exposed bv General Meillon
Huriado. who declared ibat Madero
had made overtures to bun. two
other men are in prison and it wes
reported todav that more arrests
would follow.
Loiigworth For (be Sciiule.
I Hv Leased W ire to The Times)
Toledo, O.. Oct. 1 3 Announce
ment was made here today that
Nicholas Longworth, son-in-law of
Theodore Roosevelt, will be a candi
date for the Lnitod States senate
should it appear that Senator Dick
will lose out in his fight. Longworth
is now making a stumping tour of
Okie. .
Longworth, when here, did not
commit' himself, but it Is learned
lrom the highest autontv that if
Pick is eliminated he will be the can
didate against Governor Herrick.
Winter Cruise Abandoned.
Washingon, Oct. 13 Because of the
existence ol cholera at various Medi
terranean ports the proposed winter
cruise of the Atlantic battleship Meet
was today abandoned bv the. depart
ment. It has been deflnitel determined
trt have the fleet visit French and
British ports on the English Channel.
The preparation of the new Itinerary
ts under way and will be announced
shortly. i i
PLAYED ITS
TRUMP
France Calls For Army Re
servists to Break the Great
Railroad Strike
MARTIAL LAW EXISTS
Railway Systems of France All Tied
I p and the W'heelif of Industry
Throughout the Republic Are
Stopped-(Jovenimeiit Leaders De
clare Strike Amounts to An Insur
rection and Have Placed Soldiers
in Control Drastic Measures
-Taken to l'rcveuf Violence,
(By Cable to The Times.)
Pails. Oct. 13 Martial law practi
cally existed -throughout France todav
us as result or the great railroad strike
which threatens totn'iiaden into com
mercial paralysis touching everv trade
and completely, stopping the wheels of
industry throughout the republic.
Leaders .In the railroad strike this
morning declared that by night not a
wheel would be turning; on any rail
way sjstem.
'I he. ministry looks upon the present
strike 'as a political revolution rather
than an industrial disaster. So men
acing do President Fallieres and
Premier Briaiid declare the situation
to be that the army today is on a war
footing. ''"'"'
.Nearly 100 arrests have been' made.
Premier Briand declared today that
the. strike, leaders 'Would be dealt with
in a Bpyere manner and orders were
given to jail men making incendiary
speeches. ...
Paris feared a famine yesterday and
today it faced one. The authorities
said that so far the suffering extend
ed only to the poor although the seri
ous conditions which will follow todav
will react upon rich and poor alike,
Six strike leaders including Mons.
Lemerne secretary of the general com
mittee of. the strikers was arrested to
day at the office of the socialist news
paper Humnianlte. after the police had
been openly defied.
Mons. Jaures. leader of the social
ists in the .chamber of deputies and
part of his fellow members gathered
it 'the oltice of the Humanlte to dis
cuss the progress of the strike with
the leaders.
The police, raided the office but thev
did not secure entrance until after a
stout resistance bad been made. Af
terwards .Jaures denounced the ar
rests. Foreign visitors . in all ; the French
cities are leaving as they are able. The
employes ot the suh way system of the
Lyons and Mediterranean have voted
to Join the strikers.
AH of the triink: railroad systems
were tied up today although efforts
were made to run trains using soldiers
as trainment. The employers of the
Northern. Kastern. Western and the
Paris, Lyons anil Mediterranean sys
tems were united In a common cause.
The employes of (he Metropolis sub
way ol Paris mid the suburbs have
declared In favor of the Strike although
no tune was set for the walkout. The
masons and allied building trades voted
to ouit work nut of sympathy, and
while no definite time was set, it waR
reported, that this strike would take
(Continued on Page Four.)
GERMANY READY TO
(By Cable to the Times.) .
Lisbon, Oct. .13 The German min
ister to Portugal today acting upon
instructions lrom Berlin, took Initial
stops to enter into semi-official rela
tions with the republican provisional
government of Portugal, following the
official recognition from Brazil and
notification bv the Swiss government
that the Alpine republic is no ready
to recognize olflclally the provisional
regime.
According to Minister Sir Francis
V llllcrs, of Great Britain, Kinglund Will
recognize the new government as soon
as It Is convinced that the revolution
is practically at an 'end. - '
The International status of the Por
tuguese situation waB blighter today
than It has been at any tlmd yet. It
is believed that France and Italy and.
the other Important continental powers
will lose no time in recognizing; the
new government, now that . England
and Germany -have Indicated . the
courses which they will pursue, and
that the United States will then fall
Into line. : '