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time. Associated Press Service. Associated . Press Service. Vol. LXXI. No. 78. Weather SHOWERS. RALEIGH, N. C, SATURDAY, APRIL 13, 1912. LAST EDITION. PRICE FIVE CENTS. Dovible the Number of Paid Subscribers in R.aleigh of any Other Newspaper WILL LAY THE E Exercises At the Y. C. A. Building At the A, and IH. College WILL BE HELD MONDAY Masonic Cirnnd Lodge Will He iii Charge of the- Fxorrises Which Will Take Place Monday After noon at 2:4.T Dr. W. 1). Weather ford to he the Principal Speaker Will He a Procession of Com mittees Oniclnls and Students Dr. Weatherford is Xow at tlie A. & M. Taking Part in Associa tion Meetings. The corner-stone of the Y. M. C. A. building on the A. & M. Col lege campus will be laid on Monday afternoon with appropriate exer ciaes under the auspices of the Masonic Grand Lodge, the oldest se cret organization in North Carolina. In general charge will be Grand Master W. M. McCoy, of Wilming ton. Friends of the college and of the A. & M. College Y. M. C. A. will be most cordially', welcome at the exercises. It Is worth noting in this con nection that the Grand Lodge laol the corner-stone of the "first A. & M. building-the ''main building," late ly rechristened Holladay Hall and lias since then performed other ser vices of the same kind for the col lege. The Masons have been good friends to the A. & M. during the entire twenty-three years of its ex istence. The procession will form at the drug store in West Raleigh at :45, in the following order: The advisory committee of the Young Men's Christian Association, Mr. W. H. Graham, Jr., president of the association in charge. Vis iting delegates from other associa tions. Mr. J, W. Bergthold,' general Bocretary "of the A. & M. Associa tion in charge. t The A. & M. Col lege faculty. Vice President W. C. Riddick in charge. State officers. President D. H. Hill in charge. A. & M. cadet battalion, under com mand of cadet Major O. W. Smith. Following tho battalion will come the guests tf honor, the Grand Lodge will act as escort. Command ant Willis 0. Peace, captain IV S. A., will bo In general charge of the procession. Friends of the college, Including the students and faculties of Mere dith College, St. Mary's school, and Peace Institute, are invited to at tend the exercises. Those who are not in the processioi) will assemble on the campus. After the pirade has reached the Y. M. C. A. Bite, where the cxer- " (Continued on Page: Five.) .jMC1-:kus. Willi the Duke ami Duchess or Munchcter, Lady Wilson, Lord Fal inner and Lord LnMselles us members of the party ou board of Mrs. Leeds' yaU-h, MeniimmiN, is on Its way from Manila to Nagasaki. The party wait entertained for four days at the rcd- di'iice of Govnrnor Forbes Ixfore CORNER STON " jt." i fa- ' - y N, ' :- I L . Niilhig. , GEN. FUNSTON WILL SUCCEED GEN. GRANT Cheyenne. Wyo., April 13. -A pri vate dispatch, said to have been sent by an official of the war department at Washington, was received at. Fort R. A. Russell, declaring ,that senior Brig. Gen. Frederick Funston would succeed the late Ma. Gen. Freder ick D. Grant, and that Brig. Gen. Clarence R. Edwards, chief to the insular bureau, would suceed Fun ston as brigadier general of the line. CHANGF.S IS OFFICERS Navy Department Makes Changes In Commanders of Some of the Hig Ships. Washington, April 13. Follow ing the conclusion of the Atlantic fleet's spring drill, some changes among the high-ranking officers :f the navy have been announced by the department. Rear Admiral Bradley A. . Fiske, formerly com manding the fifth division, succeeds Hear Admiral Thomas D. Howard in command of the third division. The fifth division is turned into a re serve division under a captain. Rear Admiral Chauncey Thomas is given notice of his retirement for aga, April 27. He! has turned over the command of the Paciiic fleet to Rear Admiral Sutherland. Republicans Open Headquarters .".'.;''" May 1. Chicago; '. April 1 is. Headquarters for ihe republican national commit tee will be opened in Chicago May 1. Victor Rosewater will be in charge. The announcement was made today by William' I). Hayward, secretary to the national coin mil tee. Wisconsin Delcgaics. Madison, Wis., April 1 1!. Official returns from the presidential pri mary show that: of twenty-six dele gates to the Baltimore convention Woodrow Wilson gets nineteen and Champ Clark six. One unpledged delegates was elected. - ' KIOREHEAD BUST PLACED IN NICHE The North .Carolina historical commission set in its place today in the-rotunda, of the state capitol the bust of Gov. John M. Morehead. This bust was presented to the his torical commission by Mr. John M. Morehead and Mr. Lindsay Patter son, Governor Morchead's grand sons. .: It Is the fourth bust to be 'placed in the rotunda of the capitol and fills the last of the niche3 on the lower floor, intended for that -pur pose. The others nre busts of Gov ernors W. A. Graham and Samuel Johnston, 'and Senator Mutt W. Ran dom. The exercises in connection with tho unveiling of the Morehead bust will be held at an early date. S.VYK1) BY CHILD'S COIGH Parents Awakened in Time to Kscnpc From Burning Home. ' Wilmington, Del., April 13. Mi ami Mrs. Charles A. Tait, of 605 West 23rd street, were awakened early yesterday by the coughing of their 5-year-old son, to find the room full of smoke and the entire lower portion of the house In flames. Tait, with his son in his arms and his wife following, attempted to descend the stairs, but were forced back by the flames. They then es caped to the roof of the porch as the flames burst into the room. The child was dropped into the arms of a neighbor and Tait and his wife were assisted to the ground. 'Tho house was ruined and tho loss la placed at $7,000. MRS. LAFOLLKTTK ON STIMP Will Make Speaking Trip In Call fornla In Senator's Interest. San Francisco, April 13. Thomas K. Kase, president of the State LaFollette League, announced today that Mrs. LaFollotte would conduct a spoech-makhg campaign In Cali- luriiiu in me iiin;reBL ui nei uo- band's candidacy for the republican nomination for president. She will accompany the senator to California after the Oregon primaries, and will make addresses to the women voters In the principal cltien. Mrs. Emily Montague Bishop, sent to California as the personal repre sentatlve of Senator LaFollette, Is now delivering addresses In south ern California and soon will come tp San Francisco, ; ' BOTH AIM 8 Wide Divergence In State ments Issued From Rival Republican Headquarters Washington, April 13, .Over one- half the 1,076-delegates? to the re publican national convention will have been selected at the close of the Pennsylvania primaries today. Statements issued from Tait and Roosevelt headquarters here show a wide divergence in the claims to delegates selected up to last night. The Taft claim is: Taft, 33'; Roosevelt, 113; LaFollette, - 30; Cummins, 0; uninstructed, 2. Roosevelt claim: Roosevelt. l!il; Taft, 49; LaFollette, 30; Cummin., 4; contested, 104; uninstructed, lllli. The chief differences between tho rival managers lie in the southern stales, where the Roosevelt forces list a-. "contested" all the delegates claimed by Taft; in Mississippi where the delegation of 20 is claim ed outright, by both sides; and New York where 88 delegates are listed "uninstructed" by the Roosevelt managers, while the Taft managers claim 83 of them and concede 7 to Roosevelt. The six Vermont, dele gates claimed for Taft are-1 held as "uninstructed",. hi the Roosevelt statement. At Clark headquarters -the follow ing statement of democratic de!v wates was issued: For Clark, 14:1 ; Marshall, 30; Wifson, 27; .Burke, 10; uninstructed, 12. At the Wilson headquarters an estimate of 72 dele gates was given as the Wilson strength. .'Claims were not mo'le public from other headquarters.' Dr.- J. Y. Joyner delivers an ad dress today at an educational rally at Albemarle, Stanly county. SIATtM, IDE BY Washington, I). C, April I::. The lie was .passed on the house floor when Representative (irahain, of Illi noischairman of the' committee on interior department, expenditures, branded as "absolutely and unquali- fieldly false" n statement made -.yesterday by Minority Leader Mann that Graham told Mrs. Helen Pierce Gray, a woman lobbyist, not to re turn a fee protested by an Indian client. "The ensuing debate wag in tensely bitter. Mann finally .demand" ed that. Graham explain the connec tion of Mrs. Gray with the commit tee .or that the committee should be made the subject of an inves'.iga Hon.: KEYSTONE STATE J'hiladcliihia, April IS. Pennsyl vania voters are today participating In the most important primary elec tion since the uniform primary law was enacted in 1906. The chief in terest In the contest for Pennsyl vania's seventyslx delegates to the national convention. The regular republican organization is backing Taft- Roosevelt's supporters claim they will elect a large number of delegates. Tho democratic party in Pennsylvania favors Wood row Wil ton, for president. Candidates favor ing Champ Clark are on the ballot In many congressional districts. Har mon candidates are not numerous. OUTLAW TRIAL IX HILLSVlI.Li: Judge HtupleH Sets April 23 as Time for TrjiiiK Allen Clan. Lynchburg, Va., April 13. J Judge Walter R. Staples of RoanoKo this afternoon at Wythovllle, Va.. fixed HUlsvllle, Va., as the place and April 23 as the time for the trial of Floyd Allen and all others indicted for the murder of tho Carroll county offi cials and who are now In custody. Both defense and prosecution ashed for a change of venue, the detente wanting the trials at Roanoke. Judge Staples decided on Wythevllli, and then the defeuse withdrew its mo tion and the judge decided as stated, DELEGATE WILE DUE PARTY VOTE Eight For Taft 16 For Roose veltMecklenburg Republi cans Co Wtt - . Charlotte, N. ('....April I :!-. -XorV.i Carolina's reprct-eniatum -.at the re publicannational -.convention will be divided so a;; to give RoiiBc.velt 16 delegates and Tait cij'lit. Thia announcement was made by State Chairman. Morehead after, a party leaders comereme in arrange a new plan for-organization in this state. I'nder the new plan it is reported that the vote at the- various conven tions shall be probated according to the relative strength of each candi date. I'nder the old plan the .winner of the majority of state's representa tion received the full strength of the vote of that state in the national convention. Mecklenburg Republicans Wet. Charlotte, April 1 3. -The Meck lenburg county - republican--- conven tion here this aftcnio in will adopt a strong resolution declaring for local option, the county to lie the unit and condemning the Webb bill in strenuous language. The resolution will declare the Weld) bill is mere ly for the purpose of. beclouding. the atmosphere around 'a fraud and that the present state wide prohibition law is responsible for an increar.e of murders, assaults, perjury ami other crimes. An, evenly divided Tail, and Roosevelt delegation will 'bo-selected to the state convention..'- '-Harmon in 'licav,o. Chicago, April I .;..,' ( omitig from Omaha,-', where- last .night he replied to': Win,' .1. Rryan't-. charge:; against him, Governor II ;i i iiion spent today here -'conferring-1. .tli his campaign managers. ; The senatorial -'headquarters " Senator Kiinninns will bo in the police court' .room of the old. 'muni cipal building-, Jlr. A, 1). Wails 'to day having made arrangements to rent this room ivom the Ky. The room will ihi be available, however, until the middle of next .week; when the Raleigh' -.oWci-rs gel. into their new quartern. Mr. .Watts will be in charge of the bureau here un'.il Senator. Simmons' manager arrive:; in about two 'weeks. VoMiiiHlei- at Tlia!'Mi. Washington." ii. ('., .'.pv:l I '.. Warner llJoqes was. today appoint ed poslni:i.-;:r :i Thaxton. .'Ashe county, "'.-North ' arolina, vice (!. A. Marl ill- resigned, v (.'Or XT SKIiGIUS WITTK. As u uieinber of the Russian coun cil of the empire, Count Serglus Wltte it nt permittwl to engage in any activities other than tho'-e con nccted villi the government. The man who helped make history at Portsmouth, X. II., as plenipoteii tlary of the cnc in signing the pence pact that ended the Russo-.lapnnese war, recently made application that lie he allowed prriiiinlon to promote a llnaiK lal Ncheme, hlcli Would tin doubtelly uiiike him a rr.v rich man, he In itmv in iHllicr KtriiiKhti-n ed clrcuinstnncew. ' Tlie count's ap plication met with flat refusal, in which he wn nilvisel Hint lie wax needed' In tin- wrvlre of the rwtr and the cwr only. Li :M J I I I WANTS ROAD TO RALEIGH Mr. Leonard Tufts Willing to Build Part of Great 5it. V. L. .V.'iggs, road supervisor of Wak:' count.-, : pent yesterday at Pinch y.vrt. as the guest of Mr. L-i nard Tufts, and while there was tiiown-. over about 75 miles of fine Kani'ci-iy voatis. "It was worth anv hod.v'a time and expense," Mr. .Vig.-s said today, "to see those beiratiful road-, and I am inighiy glad I went." There are about. 200 miles of roads about I'inehurst, most . of which Mr. Tufts built himself, ani hey are models for every progressive roadbuilder. During the hard win ter these sandclay roads stood up well and as good today, Mr. Wiggs -.aid, a ' Fayettevllle street. Tile plit-log drag :s the only machine used on them.'. Mr. Tufts told Mr. Wiggs that he would help linance a good road to the '.Wake' county line, if the com missioners of Wake would build the connecting link. The hundreds of visitors to I'inehurst each winter are not able to take in the shows in Ral- eigli because ol poor roads and Air. Tufts hopes'. to have a highway con structed -that. will enable his guests to motor over in the -afternoon, re main over night in lialeigli anil re turn next morning. Mr. Tufts would -build this roadv or ratlu-r help Moore and Lee counties build it. so as to -link up Willi the road running by Apex or Hie Cen tral highway' coining into the- eity by way of Smithll.eld, Johnston coun- ly. .Mr. -'Wiggs. is heartily in syni palhy Willi the big capitalist's am bition, and will do all in his power to give Wake county the necessary link, BILL REPORTED . Washington. April i:!. The house -ommittee. on the election of presi dent and vice-president ' favorably ieiorted the Henry bill which funds, together with their 'disbursement, in tended lo advance- the caudacios of the aspiran s for tlie two higher federal-offices. The vote was unani mous. Crossed lOnglisli liannel. London, April 1 -Maurice V. Prevoiis, a French aeronaut, . left Paris at a quarter to seven o'clock this morning in an aeroplane, carry ing a passenger, lie landed at half past one at Kasl Church," having crossed the channel from Calais. Franco. TICKET IS SLATED FOR LEGISLATURE Tliere is no longer any doubl that there will he a light ill Wake county this spring over the '.-nomination of candidates for the general assembly. One ticket has already been tenta tively agreed upon and unless some thing unforeseen occurs the follow ing men will be in the race for leg islative of lice.-: For the senate, John W. Hins dale, Jr. For the house, J. Wilbur Bunn, of Ralilgh; M A. Griffin, ol ' Wendell, and Krnest Mills, of While Oak. Tills is the slate said to have boon agreed on yesterday iit a conference of politicians, and there: was no doubt today of tho fact. OFFF.R .MOXA LISA TO MORGAN" Two Men Said to He Negotiating With Him as to Stolen Picture. Paris, April 11. A .newspaper whose artistic news Is generally re liable, says that two men left Rome yosterday for Florence in order to ane tp Mnrfrnn ntirl fifl'er I n ui.ll hn "fona Lisa," the famous pic ture stolen from the Louvre. It is Btated tlmt Mr. Morgan, who had been staying at the Grand Hotel, Florence, went on an automo bile trip to Vienna this morning, but returned to Florence this afternoon to Interview the two mysterious visitors. . . TO BE HELD TONIGHT New York, April l:!. -The most interesting1 political event of ilie precon vent ion held here will be (he Jefferson birthday d' "er of the Na tional Democratic (' -Mght. Gov ernor' Woodrow Wir. . 'vernor Dix. Mayor Gaynor aiu or O'Gor.man will "be among the "ty,, ei . Prominent democrats from over the country will attend. l!OM FOR 1'. O. RKACH Wealthy Horseman Puts l"p Sum and He Will Not Hurry Hack. Aiken, S. C, April IT Frederick O. Beach, tlie New York millionaire, for whom a warrant has been is sued here on the charge of eutt.ng his wife's throat several weens ago. will not be compelled to hurry hack from his trip to Europe to stand trial. It was announced today that Thomas Hitchcock, Jr., the ni'Mion aire horseman, has furnished bond of .$1,000 for Beach's appearance at the September, term of c'rci it court of Aiken county. The bond has been accepted and this practi cally ends the case until that time. It was .stated here today that Beach, who now is in Paris with iiis wife, will probably remain abroad uiitil the latter part of August. Kulogy on .lelVcrsoii. Washington, April i:i. Amid democratic applause . Representative Austin,, republican, presented in the house an eulogy on Thomas Jeffer son, whose natal day it was. He said he knew of no man "to whom the American people owed a greater debt '.of ...gratitude." He pledged his aid in erecting in Washington a monument suitable lo his memory. Aviator Killed," aris. April i:',: : Lieutenant l.ton- c.our was killed in an aeroplaneac cident. The officer fell from a great height, passing over Laiment. The aeroplane collapsed from ' -an un known .cause. - AT BISCflE BURNS News was received -in the city to day of-the destruction by lire Thurs day night, of-the plant of the Biseoe Furniture - .Manufacturing Company at ISiscoe. The origin of the (ire is not known. Mr. W. Ii. Hicks, presi dent, and Mr. K. II. " Hurt, secretary treasurer, were the principal stock holders in tile concern. . The, loss was ' $2i,0oii w ithout a cent of in surance. . . AI.LKXS n.(;i; THKIP. MINI) Diiin'l Want to lie Tried at llillsiille At First; Xow They Do. Bristol, Va., April I :;. -All hough a petition for change of venue w-ia liled some -weeks ago by members of the Allen gang, now in jail for shoot ing up the courthouse at liillsville. they have all decided that they wish to be tried at Hillsville, according to Judge N. P. Oglesby, of this city, former judge of tre circuit court of Carroll county, and now attorney for the members of the clan in the Roan oke jail. Judge Oglesby says that he advised them to be tried in their home county and that they 'decided that it. would be the best. Judge Staples has Hot as yet acted on the petition for change of venue. Judge Oglesby .estimates that the trial, which begins April 3, 'will last30 days. '-.:. RATS SKT woman frf.k. Alleulown, Pa.. April i. Mrs. Kant). ill tiilp, under -'arrest' on a charge of a'tempting to kill her hus band by feeding him wit h poison and glass-lillcd pie, was vindicated yesterday, when the grand jury re fused to 11 ml a bill against her. At the time of her arrest Mrs. Culp offered to eat tlie pie to. prove that there was no glass or poison in II. Since then rats and mice have carried away the pie, and no dead rodents have boon found on the premises. Xen Southern Record. Chapel Hill, April 13. What is claimed to be a now southern rec ord was established hero when Pat terson, tho star mile runner of the University of North Carolina sprint ed a mile in four iniiiutes and 32 seconds. Te event was the feature of the track and field meet between the University of North Cnrollna and Wake Forest. E IN THE LEVEES Louisiana ' and Arkansas Territory Being Flooded Through New Gaps In Levees bitEAK THE WORST YET Mississippi Is Raising Havoc in Son t hern Arkansas and Northern Loiisiaha It is lOstinrnted That Several Thousand Square Miles of Territory, Covering Parts of Sev eral Counties Will Be Flooded Refore Night Rreak is Regarded as the Most Serious Since the Flood" Regan and the Damage to Property' .-Will Be Large. Greenville, Miss., April 13. The Mississippi river is raisng havoc in southern Arkansas and northern Louisiana, with a mighty force of the greatest tide in the waterway's history. The flood is pouring through two gaps in the levee, at Panther Forest, Arkansas, and near Roosevi It, Louisiana, over the fer tile lauds Of Louisiana and Arkansas, delta. Before nightfall it is esti mated a thousand square miles in Kasf Carroll and Madison Parishes, Louisiana, ar.d Chicot and Desha counties," Arkansas, will be flooded. The breaks last night are regard ed as the most serious since the Hood period began. The damage to property will be large. Thousands of .Families Homeless. New Orleans, April 13. Great property damage was wrought in north Louisiana as a result of a sud den break in tlie levoe near Alsatia. It is feared many lives are lost. ICight hundred square miles are Hooded, and thousands of families were made homeless. I'F.ACH CROP SOT LOST Some Sections of State Show 0 Per C nt. of Ruds Flourishing. Uarrisburg. Anrll 13 Tne severe cold weather of last winter did not kill all of the peach bud. State economic zoologist surface said yes terday that from spocinients of buds received from Berks county and other. ' eastern-''- sections, he believes there are many localities where more than 00 per cent, of the buds are flourishing. , Minder Remains a Mystery. Lynn, Mass., April 13. The murder of George K. Marsh, a wealthy soap manufacturer, whose body. containing four bullets, was found on West Lynn ' marsh yester day, remains 'a 'deep- mystery. The police are working on information that Marsh was seen Thursday night riding with an unknown woman in a buggy. MRS. ROHFRT F. SCOTT, Wife of the Fngllsli , antarctic ex. Idoicr, is ronlldent that her huslmnd will yet In- recognized as the real conqueror or the antarctic. She de dares that when her husband re turns after another year's stay In the Nouthri-moKt regions the com piling of the data whitli lie Is gath. .-liiiK will bo f such Importance to the wientiitc world that the mere fact or being the first to reach too polo will he of no account nhatwo. ever. - "- .- BREAKS CJ lit :.'f': ' v.
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