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Press StntU A Vol. LXXI. No. 39. The Weather PAIR. , RALEIGH, N. C FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1912. LAST EDITION PRICE FIVE CENTS. Double the Number of Paid Sibscribers in RaleigK of any Other Newspaper in A VAST PLOT Goverbment Will Seek to Prove That All Officers Are Equally Guilty AT IT FOR SIX YEARS Kew Disclosures in the Forty Thou sand Letters Held by the Gov ernment Will Be Basis for Charges Against Officers and Com mittees of Bridge and Iron Work ers Union All Defendants Charged With Being Equally as Defendants Disclosures in the Letters Are Amazing. Indianapolis, Feb. 10 New dis closures in the dynamite conspiracy eases, through forty thousand letters and telegrams quoted in the indict ments as implicating all officials of the International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers, will be the basis, it is declared, upon which the government will seek to convict the fifty-four defendants, charged with committing or abetting in almost one hundred explosions. The correspondence, contained in one of the thirty-two indictments and embracing what are termed "un consumated acts of conspiracy" Is held as showing that a vast plot, ,known to and furthered by Frank M. Ryan, president of the Iron Workers and to members of the executive board and many business agents, was carried on for six years to destroy tho property of steel and iron con tractors who employed non-union labor. It charges all defendants as being equally guilty as abettors. It Is charged that Ortie E. MacManigal, Herbert S. Hocking and James J McNamara, became an organized dynamiting crew. District Attorney MJller, comment ing upon the thousands of letters collected as evidence, said: "The freedom with which these men put on paper, their plans, motives, and working out of their purposes, is amazing. The wide scope of thirty two indictment's theory that the de fendants guilt is equal, no matter how small was any individual's ac tivity. In the correspondence selZ' ed in the Iron Workers headquarters here. It is revealed that 'Jobs' be came the accepted word Bent through the mails to designate some place to be blown up. The letters show the regular fees were paid for doing the 'jobs.' " COLONEL' GOING TO OHIO Accepts Invitation to Address the Constitutional Convention, Columbus, 0., Feb. 16. A letter announcing his acceptance of the in vltatlon to address the constitutional convention was received from Theo dore" Roosevelt today, He fixed the date as February 21st. The acceptance, coming just at this time and meaning as it does, the Invitation of Taft's home state GREENSBORO PUTS BAN ON DRUGSTORES (Special to The Times.) Greensboro, Feb. 16. The city commissioners of Greensboro yester day afternoon determined that liquor should not be sold by drug stores here on prescription and In the fu ture Greensboro will be even drier than In the past. The ordinance adopted yesterday afternoon pro hibits any sale of intoxicants by drug stores In whatsoever form or man nor and all ordinances In ' conflict thereof are repealed. The vote on the question was two to one, Com missioners Brown and FouBhee vot ing for the non-license ordinance and Mayor Murphy against it. For Greater Halli-oad Liability. Washington, Feb. 16. A cam , palgn for greater railroad liability as to bills of lading, especially on cotton, was renewed before the sen ate Interstate commerce committee , A delegation representing the Amerl can Bankers Association and a large number of organizations urged prompt action. by his rival, has aroused the deepest interest. . Progressives in the convention ex pect aid from the coming of Roose velt, at least .o the extent of off setting the effect of Governor Har mon's attack on the initiative and referendum. ' . The fact that Roosevelt's accept ance of the Invitation to the conven tion was delayed until news of the effect of Harmon's speech had per meated the east, Is interpreted as meaning that Roosevelt has already mentally put himself In Harmon's place and considered what he would do under similar circumstances. Colonel Roosevelt's letter follows: "My Dear Sir: It gives me great pleasure to accept your most courte ous invitation to address the Ohio Constitutional Convention. I have been dclining Invitations to speak, but this seems to me not 'so much an invitation to speak as a request that I help the representatives of a great state who are engaged in do ing the greatest and most funda mental piece of governmental work on behalf of citizens of that state, and under such circumstances It is both duty and pleasure to accept. I thank you for the Invitation. As you ask me to fix the day, I shall come on Wednesday, February 21st, by the Pennsylvania train that leaves, New 'York at 6:;S4 p. m., on Tuesday, February 2uth, and arrives in Columbus the following morning at 9:60. "I shall have to leave Columbus at 3 o'clock the same afternoon by the New York Central train, so I could address the convention In the morning, say vibout 11:30 o'clock. With many thanks, sincerely yours, "THEODORE ROOSEVELT." Nine Injured In Wreck. Chlttenango Falls. N. Y., Feb. 16. Nine were injured when a Lehigh Valley train, was derailed. The In jured were in a car that went of an embankment. No Clues to Bandits. New York, Feb. 1 6. The police have no clues to the three automo bile bandits who yesterday attacked two bank messengers In a taxlcab, robbing them of twenty-five thousand dollars. BIG BLIND TIGER GIVEN ROAD SENTENCE (Special to The times.) Asheville, Feb. 16,-Yesterday in superior court Judge Long sentenced P. H. Thrash to twenty months' Im prisonment in the county jail for violation of the search and seizure law of Buncombe county. The de. fendant, through his attorneys, gave notice of appeal and the bond was fixed at ?4,uu0. The case came up on appeal from the police court, where Mr. Thrash had been convict ed of keeping more than two gallons of whiskey in a stable : on Depot street, and was given a sentence of sixteen months. The defense made a strong plea for mercy for the defendant, saying that he was a man of good character and they wished Judge Long to de lay passing sentence until they could get some influential citizens of the city to speak in his behalf. As those citizens were not In court at the time Judge Long refused to do so saying that Mr. Thrash's cases had already taken up about a fifth or sixth of the time of the court and he understood there were still other cases against him to be tried. He intimated, how'ever, that he might reduce the sentence and impose a fine. He inquired as to what Mr Thrash is worth and the solicitor said possibly $75,000 or f 100,000 The defense claimed that he la worth about $15,000. Judge Long Bald he Is worth far too much to have to sell whiskey. HOOKWORM CAMPAIGN Four Additional Counties to Have Hookworm Dispensaries Thirty One Counties Total Number. . The counties of Martin, Greene, Lenoir and Duplin, have made pro vision during February to have the state and county dispensaries for the free examination and treatment for hookworm disease. These add! tlons bring the total number of counties making such provision to thirty-one. The work has been com' pletod in twenty counties. The work is carried on simultaneously In Ave counties. Up to this time the record shows that about 60,000 peo pie have been treated. Many of the results of cures may be seen in each county and are truly remarkable, The devil spots folk on their honor o to be sure to get them. WILL ADOPT HISTORIES Text-Book Commission ami Sub-Commission to Meet la April Final action of the adoption of United States histories for. the pub lic schools of North Carolina will be taken' April 1 8 by the text-book commission and sub-commission, and all briefs, criticisms and other mat ters to be submitted by representa tives of publishing houses must be submitted by April 1. This, in brief, is the substance of a statement, given out-this -afternoon. ' '. The text-books -for live years. were contracted for with the', exception of I'nited States histories- at ' the sessions of tho commission last sum mer. The '-following- in the notice by the 'commission : "Notice is lui liy piveu I hat all text -books on I u i led (Hates history to be submitted for the examination of "the sub-committee of the text book commission, together with' all briefs, criticisms, etc., must be in the hands of the committee and the members of 'the-text-book commis sion and sub-commission not later than April 1, 11)12. The books must be submitted in the form in which they would be used in the schools, if adopted. All proposed changes in text-booys heretofore submitted must, be actually incorporated in printed form in the books submitted on or before April 1 . "The text-book commission and sub-commission will be requested to meet for final oflicial action on April 18, 1!U2. Very respectfully, J. BRYAN CRIMES, "J. Y. JOYNER, "X. W. WALKER, Text-Hook Commission." ER THE BORDES Washington. Fob. 16. The war department has decided to deal dras tically with Lieut. Ben. W. Fields 18th Infantry, who In command of a squad of American soldiers made the mistake of crossing into Jaurez, Mexico, from El Paso, Texas yes terday and nearly precipitated an international clash. Fields was ar rested pending further Investigation SALVATION APMV DOST TO I5E ESTABLISHED. Adjutant and Mrs. Lee (irimshaw and Lieutenant May Lord,, of the Salvation Army, were In Raleigh to day for the purpose of making plans to establish a post In this city. It Is hoped to open headquarters here In less than two weeks. In nearly every city of consequence the Salva tion Army has posts and the work being done by those good people can not be measured. Adjutant- Grlnr shaw is desirous of securing a suit able building for his headquarters. EXPOSITION PRESIDENT. Mr. Charles O. Moore, president of the Panama Pacific Exposition, who Is In the east on business connected with the exposition In San Francisco in itriu . TIGER 0 DAY '."''"' !T ontinuante U Granted Until Next Wednesday In Mattel ot Poland, Morris anil Others NO BILL OF PARTICULARS Justice Dicilsoe Declined to Alloy.' Defendants to Have All Evidence of ' Protiecut ion IVI'oi-c Trial H. 10. King Waives i:tmiiiiation and Given Doml in Alleged Spite Case. Prosecution I iiriiisliei', Names of WilncKM's Xcv, William Drawn for Poland, Whose Place is on Wilmington Sire.-t. J lift ice of lb.. !'i are E. M. lilcd- iiisii ivi ly lo fur d blind tiler.'', ia .court by Con-ti-- bill of iar cmiciI'.w cares. soc- today rel'u: ,1 llisll the five :i tic; I railed as far -: I. stable J I y r 1 1 1 1 1 , ii li tirilh'irs In their i What, t.hey,.' y.'aiili'Ml I o know, accord ing to their in torney were the names of every witness against thorn. the approximate time ;he liquor was alleged to have been bought and the place, where it wn sold. Mr. .1. W. Bailey, appearing for the prosecution ;it the instance of Constable Byriim, furnished the lawyers for the defend ant with the names of the wit nesses, but the court stuck to his ruling that the particulars of the alleged sales were not matters for the defendants to Know. And all four of the cases were continued un:il next, "Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock. II. K. King, who was indicted after he had given information about certain alleged tigerswaived a preliminary hearing and his bond in the sum of $100 was eontifliied foi his appearance -su the March term of Wake superior court. Contention of Defense. After a ..few preliminaries, Mr, Chas.. V. Harris, attorney for V. C. Poland, staled that he. yesterday tiled in the magistrate's court a request lor the bill of particulars, because i..e back' of the warrant contained only the name of one witness, Julian Harrell. and no definite time as to the sale. His client, was in the dark as to the witnesses against him. he had been unable to know how to make his defense and does not t h ink it' right and lair to be tried without being given an opportunity to face his accusers with other witnesses. Justice Bledsoe replied that he had no jurisdiction and that it was his Dimness to bind over to tour; if lie found probable cause. To Apply to All. Mr. Arniistead Jones, speaking for another of the alleged tigers, said he wanted the ruling as to Poland to apply to all the cases, and the justice assured liini that it would. Mr. Jones then proceeded to argue that, the court should have all the legal evi dence before him in order to ascer tain as to probable cause, 'contend ing that justice could not he done unless the defendants had nil the particulars. He thought no wrong (Continued on Page Seven.) KITCH1N WILL SPEAK Gov. W. W. KItchin, candidate for the United States senate, will open his campaign with a speech In the Academy of Music tonight, to hear which men, women, and friends and opponents are welcome. The speech will deal with the public record of Senator F. M. Simmons, who essays to return to the Job, and is expected to be an Interesting deliverance. The speaking will be under the auspices of the KItchin Club, formed In Raleigh a week ago. With fine weather It Is expected that the Aca demy will be crowded. CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL OFFICERS MEDICAL COUPS MaJ. Henry Page, M. D., medical corps, U, S, A., has been detailed by the war department to conduct a cor: respondonce school for the officers of the medical corps, North Carolina National Guard. Major Page is sta tioned at Fort Moultrie, 8. C. Politics lives as far as it can get from tho Tea Commandments. A. 1. LOSES TO WAKEFOREST Local Team Flayed Fiercely But Never Had a Look In (Special lo Tho Times.) Wake Fore:;), Fi ll. 1C With an exhibition -of-.passing and, dribbling the like of .which has never been seen oil this lloor, Wake Foiest piled up no points against the A. & M. tiiiintet here last, night, while the Farmers were-only able to score !l points. At Hie end of the lirst. half Hie score stwo'l IX to 1, A. ii M. making the oHrer 8 points in the sec- ;iid half. A;; Hie score will mIiow . & M. never had u look-in. How ever iitey played fiercely the whole game, in spile, of ihoTaii that the ball iciii.ii.ieil for Hie most part in I lie w .lie : ..:: lerrilo! v. I'iid,.:i''ii 'il; . the leal lire of the ami- a:: I In' ' pI'V iu;v of c.'iplaiii t'.frtin for Wake. l''o.v..i. The lirt thirteen points scored by Wake For est were made by -himself. At the end of Hie j.ame 2 1 poiuts-Ktood to his erei'it. Dowd and I'tloy at guards were on their men at all. .-times, 'They played star hall and the A. li .M. forwards found it. impossible to evade t hem. For A. Ai. '.Captain Chambers was the star. Allilie -points 'scored by his team were made by him. The whole secret, of the game was the fact that A. & M. was completely outclassed.' . The passing of -Wake Forest had them guessing the whole time. There was a. noticeable ab sence of roughness in the game. The fouls were called about evenly on both sides. Nine fouls were credited to A. & M. and ten to Wake Forest, The line-Up was as follows: Wake Forest--IL -Heuui, r. f. ; R. (Continued on Page Seven.) NEW ICE FACTORY The'- Standard Ice Company has begun work lor its new plant, which s on 'the -block north of the Nor folk .'.Southern freight depot, and this properly, the most of which was purchased from Mr. X. W. West, and Which covers about three acres, and which is bounded on the east by the Norfolk Southern' railway track. The plant Is to be of thirty tons capacity daily and will cost $11(1,0110, Side tracks will he provided for fifteen cars and Hie plant will later become an icing station. On the -property there weie ten cottages, and two of these have, been removed, the plant being located in the center of the block, so thai the company will rent eignt liouses. Raleigh will, when this plant is -completed,- have four ice plants., due of these is owned by Mr. E. C. Hillyer and is leased by Johnson & Johnson, and another, owned by the Carolina Ice Company, is also leased by Johnson & Johnson. The latter firm will operate the now plant. The firm of Powell & Powell TO MANAGE TAFT CAMPAIGN William It. .McKlnlcy, chairman' of the repiiblleiin congivislonnl ram puigii committee, who bnx been put in charge an nmiiager of the Tat't cnnipalgii, nml who will extahlish Tuft hendqimilers in WnMliinirton Mr, McKlnlcy hulls from Illinois, I A has bought the plant in south Ral eigh, on the Southern railway, near the shop of the Raleigh & Southport railway. At the Standard iant wells are being driven for the supply and there will be a group more than twenty of these wells, ai. deep driven, which will furnish the entire .supply, CIIAKLES H. ROWLAND COMING Will Conduct Evangelistic Services at the 11 ilisboi'o Street Christian Church. Rev. Charles II. Rowland, of Franklin. Va., will begin a Beries of meetings at the Christian church February 2 5. Vhe meetings will con tinue for ten days or two weeks. Rev. Mr. Rowland is a member of the F.asfern Virginia Christian'" Confer ence.. ;He lias been .the successful and popular pastor of the Franklin Christian church for twelve years. Since his graduation at Elon Col lege he has held a number of very successful meetings in Virginia and North Carolina. The church here is very fortunate in securing his ser vices, lie is a pleasing speaker and presents the gospel of Jesus Christ in no uncertain terms. NOKTII CAP.OI.INA POSTMASTERS Several Changes Made Today One New linial Carrier. Washington, I). C Feb. 16. North Carolina postmasters appoint ed today were: Meela A. Ashley, Amy, vice M. E. Ashley, resigned; Cicero Johnson, Ellis, vice J. A. Richardson; Hill L. Bullor.!:, Moore, vice W. J. Moore, resigned; Carl li..- Wallace, Rusk, vice W. C. Douglas, resigned; Fred erick Jeanjaquet, Whitney, vice C. T. Smith, resigned. Young 7.. Parker, was appointed carrier, rural route one, Middlesex, vice Thitrman A. Lee, temporary. Woman Burned to Death. Pittsburg, Feb. 16. Mrs. Marv Armstrong, .lighted a gaB jet at home with n piece of burning paper, then dropped it on the floor, and attempt ed to extinguish it. Her clothing caught lire and she died later In the hospital. AINSWORTH WILL BE Washington, Feb. 1G. ---While no order of military arrest had been issued early today, Major General Frederick C. Ainsworth's status war, thai of an army officer under sus pension from tho exercise of his du ties as adjutant general and under orders to remain here pending the adoption of disciplinary measures by the war department. This is thor oughly well understood to mean that Ainsworth will be tried by court martial on a military charge, -which translated Into plain English, is: That he is alleged to have been guilty of disrespect to General Leonard Wood, chief of staff, his senior, and Secretary Stimson, his official supe rior. : The war -department Is bus) selecting a court to try Ainsworth mid in formulating, the charges. Necessarily many retired officers of high rank must lie placed upon the court. The case 'probably- will be one of Hie most notable In the irmy's history. It probably will be several days before the order will be issued creating a court and citing Ainsworth before it. Ainsworth maintains absolute reticont.ee.. It Is expected the democratic house may probe the whole war department the relat Ions between the general stall ml the adjutant general's office. Good Cars Save Lives, lluntoiig.lon, Pa., Feb. 10. 'Phy sicians, declare none of the thirty one persons injured in the Pennsyl vania wreck at Warriors Run would die. All are in the hospital there. The limited embodied the latest Ideas for safety in steel car equip ment. Railroad men declare that It was due to construction of the Bteti cars that many lives were saved. Judge LuniiiiiK Dead. Trenton, Feb. 16. I'nited States Circuit Judge William M. Lanning died at his home, of heart disease. Lanning would have sat with Circuit Judges Gray and Rufflngton In the government suit against the I'nited Stales Steel Corporation and its sub sidiaries. For Final Adjustment. Mr. U. C. Beckwlth, appointed special commissioner by the board of county commissioners to adjust all matters arising from the annexa tion of a part of White Oak town ship by Durham county, went to Dur ham relative to a final adjustment of these matters. Jt REPRIEVE FOR JNO. ROSS Cleveland tounty Negro Given Nearly Two More Months to Live On Day For Electrocotion STICKS TO CONFESSION At Time When He Thought His End Was Neur Ross Declared to Sheriff Wllklns That He Killed Mr. John Dixn and That Frank Gladden Killed Mrs. Dixon No Reason for Reprieve Given, Rut Was Done, It Is Thought, to Get Further lAght on Horrible Murder. Reprieved by Governor KItchin un til April 12, John Ross, the Cleve land county negro sentenced to die In the electric chair today for the murder of Mr. and Mrs. John Dixon, on the night of December 13th, de clared in his cell to Sheriff Wilklns, of Cleveland county, that his origi nal confession was true in every par ticular. Ross at this time did not know that he was to live nearly two months longer, and wnen he was ap proached in his cell by the Cleveland county sheriff, he said frankly-that he killed Mr. John Dixon and that Frank Gladden, a white man, killed Mrs. Dixon. Gladden was acquitted at the trial in January of the murder of Mr. Dixon, and was not tried for the murder of Mrs. Dixon. The fact was developed this after noon that Frank Gladden the white man, was tried with Ross for the murder of only Mr. Dixon, and not for Mrs. Dixon. The officers may in such an event ' try him for her murder and use Ross as a witness against him. Whether anything will be done could not be learned today. The reprieve came as a complete surprise today The governor assign ed no reason for his action, but the report was current that the negro's life was spared for the time being in hope that he would make a full con fession so that others believed to have been implicated in the foul murder might be brought to trial. Everything was In readiness at penitentiary for the execution when the governor's reprieve reached the warden. Present at tho penitntlary were Sheriff Wilkins, Mr. G. H. Kline, fatehr of Mrs. Dixon; Mr. A. C. War lick, nephew of Mr. Kline; Messrs. Charles and John Stroup and De puty Sheriff Proctor, all of Cleveland county. It was said today that the senti ment in Cleveland county is still strong against Frank Gladden, the white man who was tried with Ross at a special term of court. The reason for the reprieve will be made public later. New Dunn Officers. Adjutant General Leinster today issued commissions to . A. Jack son and Geo. P. McKay as first and second lieutenants of Company M, beeond infantry, at Dunn. FIVE MURDERERS HANGED AT ONE TIL1E Chicago, Feb. 1C Five murder ers were hanged in jail. They were Frank Shiblawskl, Ewald Shlblaw ski, Philip Sommerllng and Thomas Schult, slayers of Fred Guelzow, a farmer murdered last October; and Thomas Jennings, a negro, convicted on finger print evidence of murder ing Clarence Hiller, a railway offi cial. - - . Floods In Spain Subsiding. Seville, Spain. Feb. 16. The floods are rapidly subsiding. Two suburbs, Navas and Burguillos are in a lamentable condition. Many In habitants are dying of hunter. Cemeteries are undermined by water and corpses are floating In the btreets. . . : t ...'-.. Floods In Portugal. Lisbon, Feb. 16. Floods through out Portugal have wrecked many VII lages. A scene of desolation Is ob served for miles along the country , roads. There are many human tic Urns and a financial loss of 110.000,- 000. 1 . - '
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