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J ., ., Delivered anywhere la City 25c per month. T .in- iibninbiv Rain or snow tonight, much cold- v er with.' a cold v wave, r Temperature will fall to ahoul 25 degrees. ' Sent anywhere In the Country, y -." i, . 0 VOLUME -FIFTEEN W ILMmQTON, 'rK. C:,, TUESDAY, JANUARY; 3, 111 X PRICE FIVE CENTS 7 L Thousand; Dollar New Year's Gift For Richar4 Parr,- Sugar' Trust Nemesis. sfflfaBiiiiB ,1 '.I t Indications Today Point to Dpvfl qf : Doughtpil For Speaker of He Hoid Thoudiv Split May Let Koonce or some "Unknown" Slip In Battle,.; .of Wake, Also in the RaceSenator Joe Brown Talked of for ..President Pro Tern of the Senate Democrats Will Caucus ; Tonight Summary of Some Expected Important .Questions That Will be Presented to the Legis lature. - (By l'eiam.) Raleigh, N. C. Jan. 3, 1911 rtooks like Doughton 6r Dowd ) tor Speaker" of the House unless these two. "West erners"; divide sq closely Jn the caucus tonight that Battle, of Wake, yiijr Koonce, of, Onslow, r an "unknown" u;ay be nominated. .Brown, of Coluni L '.s and Barham, of Wayne, are, strong-' ly supported for President pro tern of the Senate, with Pharr, of Mecklen burg, also a favorite. Among the prob ably certain nominations .tonight.' are W. E. Brock or R. O.VSelf for prin cipal clerk If the Senate; Reading Clerk of the; Senate, Mark Squires; Scrgeant-at-Arms of the Senate R. M. Staley, of Wilkes, or Kerf of Caswell; Assistant Sergeant-at-Arni3 of the Sen a to, Summerlin, of Wayne; Principal clerk of the HouserCpbb of Burke; Iteading Clerk of the House, Arendall, of Wake; doorkeeper-of the House, Kilpatrick,' of Lenoirr ;J ''l W. E. Hooksof , Wayne, "and J.C Rolinsonof Durham seem to be'run- ning as leaders . for, engrossing clerk tainty as to the other officers and it is impossible to accurately", forecast, the results. The legislators . registering this morning and tonight's caucus will find nearly all the Democrats present Raleigh, N. C. Jan. 3. The biennial session of the General Assembly of North Carolina . convenes tomorrow and while the personnel of' the new body of lawmakers has been rather backward in coming forward this time. there will be a. pretty full attendance of the Senateand House when th3 legislature is formally called to order at noon Wednesday. ) - ' Not until yesterday were there many arrivals. Sunday the city was almost destitute of legislators, and the advance guard ofoffice seekers found only a few "Yarbordugh, House Colo nels" and a stray legislator -to listen to their more br .less;, meritorious "claims", on the "party.' v 'f Some of the wire-pullersv that infest every legislature were busy Sunday arranging "slates", n the Interestof their several - friends who ' are . here after jobs jobs great and small, with the - usual sectional distribution H them among 'the claimants 'figuring conspicuously and with the. adhesive ness that has . put the average court plaster to shame. These jdtfs will all b& disposed of at the party caucus of the two branches of the legislature tonight " Some slates are born to be broken and the usual number of the heavy hearted and disappointed will be buying : re turn tickets to their homes on the af ternoon trains tomorrow. , .. v cithers will as usual linger with the oft-delusive hope of landing a smaller piece of pie .. than that which they claimed as their portion in the flrsH'be prevented by statute instance. But,' alas, disappointment sits upon the doorsteps of .'Hope and ever has and ever,will. In this special, it may. be added that every piece of lie already has a third mortgage upon it at thi3 writing and nothing but Ood's mercy, can save it from the oth er one. That is, if many of these good fellows persist lit "waiting," after the caucus acts tonight , and the forma elections to the positions occur tomor row. , Our old Confederate friends are per ennially with us on these occasions and as far as this writer is concern ed he hopes they will be as" fully or more liberally recognized ihan hereto fore. Every Democratic legislature for man yyears has not failed these old heroes and none is going W do it while our party controls the machinery 'of government An Important Legislature This. Not Many . Qld Hands. reny-Lieijtenant. Governor New land opks Into Mq faces of; the fifty Senators who will constitute the -new Senate tomorrow he will recognize" but seven who served In the Jast Senate, ustjoftceyentb: of the old Senators beinetuj'n.ed. ' In;lthe:Househe raUoIs little if. any greater. .ptit ;this does hot mean that slx senth's of .this General Assembly is coffipose&fcf "raw material." A .' Some- of the ablest men In both branches, while not serving last j ses sion, . h&Ve . been here - repeatedly- as members of previous legislatures. . .Again, there are several "new" Sen ators, who last session served in. the House. And vice versa, with relation to a few in the House. . ' . There is Senator Joe Brown of Co lumbus, for , instance. He has not been here , for . several" years. But- he is really the "Nester" of. he Senate this session. This writer (In report-: ing the Senate) has served with -him so many, terms, that he is afraid to risk an assertion definitely op the ex act number , of times . . Senator Joe Brown "has served' Columbus In the Senate. He has been missed more than any other man whg.,has served and then absented .himself Jfor a sea son. He is one or the best assets tne Old North State, has as a legislator. : NeYertheless, the youthful idea -Is budding "statesman" whom some tfool newspaper manhas written upland swelled the exaggerated ego of ; his subject to dangerous proportions, is. righti on the spot and possibly mors than the usual niimber of worse than damphool, "Bills'" wiU be duly "Intro duced" and ""considered" at the ex pense of a State treasury which opens the new year with a deficit Many of ' these emanations of the juvenile legislative ego would dis grace the statute books were it no or the watchful care of such men in the Senate and House as Doughton of Alleghany, and in the Senate as Brown and others who some times have to almost bind and gag the colts of the egislativo stables. There will come before this legis ature a number of matters of the gravest " concern and nlgnest impor tance to the State. There are going to be some of the liveliest scraps (inside party, lines that have ever reverberated ' through these historichalls. :- . The Democratic party is not a unit on some of these questions, by any means' it i as "untefrifled" as ever in" its life's history, and will as usual take orders from no . f'boss," self-ap pointed, or otherwise.. ; " Among the matters that will take up mucti of the best thought and time of the session are these: N f?;;, -. Shall there he a , State Primary, at which the . candidates of all parties shall be. nominated , on one! certain day? ..." . ... . ' . -. Shall there be "additional temper ance: legislation," by which not onjy the sale of "near beer'? shall be pro hibited,' but the social club feature of handling liquor :for an exclusive set Incidentally itt may be remancea that Paul Kitchin is this year a Sena tor and that he is still the Governor s brother. I ; v -v The Insurance Trust is slated for at tention also ;. ..: -. '- t One o( t.he'inosrmeritoriou3 proposir Hons of the session will be SenUtor Cotten's registration of. Land Titlss Plan. , . ' . Some of . our. oretnren ar Bt. to measure arms with the advocates of RcEbbl bonds lor nigner euTicduuu These doctors are going to do each Other somevreal damage in their scrap if a strong and alert referee 13 : not placed. on dutyand Hept constantly on. the job.. ' -: ' ' - , Reform In the 'method of l taxation Is an old friend whord 'I- recognize al most every session here."' ' Its a great piece of Injustice the way much prop- . f ; , s.f rl - - i '. ' , : .. ' - ii "f f V ,.,i n rmmii,-vi i umi win nww inwi nwiiMpi i umiiiiin TTiw nnnm r - ---- WMniiifTMniii i in i i '' i ,twiii. rfMi.lif-...JM np.Yf-T.. rntwi-mrnmimmimth': ' noTy would you like to receive a Hie customs detective who discovered flFf Eft nFIVEts YEARS s 7 t rr Government Now Permitted to Sue for Back Spanish-American War Tax - Result of Supreme Court Decision. Washington, D. C, Jan. 3 After five years of litigation, the Federal govern ment, by virtue of the United States Sunreme Court's decision today be came entitled to press suit against the executors of -the estate of the late Wlnfield S. Stratton, a Colorado min ing magnate, for nearly $5,000 for back stamp tax under the Spanish-American war tax measure. ; A FEMALE POLICEMAN . FOR CITY OF MILWAUKEE Milwaukee, Wis., JtSi. 3 Milwaukee within a few days will have its first female policeman under the Socialist plan for protecting women workers The female officer, will do duty about the factories. - ' 1 v " . Stocks Today. New York; Jan. 3. Wall Street Active selling after the opening of the stock, market caused - a sharp decline in which representee stocks showed hp substantial fractions below the final prices of Saturday. The list was strengthened during the second hour but trading was - of perfunctory char ecter, and confined to speculative lead ers. The opening rate of 6 per cent for call' loans was probably deterrent to a broader market Bonds were firm. Grains were extended. - Inquiry wae especially marked for a higher grade of dividend paying - railroad stocks Business gradually contracted as the prices got higher. Although specula tion became almost nominal in the af- ternoon strength. the market maintained erty escapes proper taxation while other property " isVborne down with every centime that can be placed On it. . But it is no new . thing In North Carolina Let us'hope that something along this promised "reform will be actually, eventuate this session. , Grand Theatre. "The" Tenderfoot Messenger,' funny. - . ; ti , very It little Kew Year's sift of $80,000? That is the steel springs hi the scales on the American' Sugar Refining company's dock! BEHCH NOW FULL Last Two Associate Justices of th United States Supreme Court Took the Oath of Office Today-r-Now Five Members .Commissioned by Presi dent Taft. Washington, Jan. 3 The two va cancies on the United States Supreme court bench were fillud today, when Judge Willis Van Deventer; of Wyom ing, and Judge Joseph R. Lamar, of Georgia, each took thefoath of office as Associate Justice. For the first time in nineteen months the Supreme bench was complete. For the first time since the organization of the court nearly, a i century and a quarter agD, one Presi dent had commissioned, within a sin gle year,! five men who sat upon the bench. Chief Justice White adminis tered to each tie oath of allegiance. A NEW YORK SWEPT . BY EIRE - Troy.N. Y., Jan. 3. The business section of Granville, a village of five thousand inhabitants, fifty miles north of this cityr; was swept by fire today, with a three hundred thousand dollars 1 loss The absolute failure "of the wa lev supply at a crimcai moment gave the flames full sway. A sudden shift of the wind saved the residential sec tion. There was rip loss of life or in jury. ' Altogether ten business block, three hotels and seven , residences were destroyed. ,' " ' IT THAT BRITISH STEAMER IS LOST London, Jan. 3. The wreckage pick ed up intheBay "of : Biscay Reaves no doubt of the fate of the.BritVsh steam er, Axim, , which lef tLqaJpn Decern ber 9th, for West African port3, with a crew of thirty British and : Germaii sailors and four pas3ehgeYsfThe ves sel wasost in heayp.storms. , Grand Theatrei ' ' Be' sure and see "John Dough andi the Cherub.1 It VTnHe Ram's nwsr 'st THrhnnA been returned tp the federayM ,agot hut -the treasury had ho r -. ..V ? SI HERE' Frigid Weather Will Extend From Florida North Both Flood and -'"Storm Warnings Sent Out. Washington, Jan. 3 Cold weather that will extend from the extreme South to the Canadian line is usherini J in the New Year. The East and South by tonight will feel the effect of the cold wave that gripped the west. . The frigid weather will extend firbm Cen tral Florida, North IN the East,, snow and rain will add to the discomfort. In the South, heavy rains hlas necessitated-the issuance of? flood warnings to communities alon the largest fiv ers, storm warnings aiso nave rDeen ordered raised along the Atlantic coast. .-.V' J- TOWN IN New Orleans, La., Jan. 3.-rA Puertd" Barrios dispatch announces the cap ture otTruxillo, Honduras, by the rev olutionary gunboat ' Hoiet. .7 Aftfer the Hornet left New Orleahi, she' pick ed up one hundred men,' one thousand rifles, twp machine guns, arid a large quantity of ammunition. The Hornet arrived at Laguna, Lagracios, -on De-cember-N28th and subsequently captur ed the Bay Islands. II ALLOWED TO Washlogton, Jani 3. Thet so-called "Carinack amendmenf ' to' the Hep burn' rate law, making the initial car rier liabre for the . loss of interstate shipments during transportation,' not only on its lines but also on those ot connecting carriers, wa3 declared coaj stitutional by the United States' St preme Court today. A stubbornght was made against the amendment as a radical departure in rata legislation. $100,000 Fire Today for Newark. - Newark, N. J Jan. 3. The Knick- erbocker Storage Warehouse," seven stories , high, was- (destroyed by nre today," the loss being $100,000. COLD 1 10 OlilGGrs and Soldiers i iriiln ham ! . ;;V..SJ.i; . i 7 , I , ! rM. M U W U W W London's East End the Scene of Ter i , rific : Bajttle, Like a. Chapter in;, a Dime .Noye Murderers Desperately Fight Hundreds 'of Police- and Sol diers Preferred Death in a Fjery Furnace tourxendering. . r' :,. London, Jan. 3. t Battling to a grim end against desperate . odds:.; Peter, "The Painter, and eh Frjiz,! reputedanarchist, went. to their eath . perished wAth ; them in' thi jBaibies thaf consumed their ?deh m Weyreelj near the heart of London j j Thisi after-' . . . . i noon only the charred .bodies ;of .the, two desperadoes, wanted tdf T;the sassina6n'of--;three?pieemen;!.itw-' weeks ago, had been recovered,?; Tlif ouuaws were swallowed: up ; in seeta ing flames. ? Such a . battle petween law officers and criminals has seldom been waged. The terrorists stood oft companies of Scots guards': detach ments of armed police, a battery of horse artiUery, 5 three i machine guns, and a fire brigade, until the house was fired. . The authorities sought to get the men alive, but it took them seven hours to get hold of their incinerated bodies. -The greatest excitement pre vailed. Fifteen' hundred policemen were massed about the scene to keep back tens of thousands of spectators There is some doubt , whether the police" fired the", building. According to One version, the; ssassins put th? torch to.: their; improvised,. if ortress "when the only alternative warf1 their capture. y London, Jan. C-r-The East End was thrown into great excitement today by a pitched battle between several hun dred police and y. band of suspected men, alleged murderers and" friends of murderers Of policemen recently kill ed by ankrehistio burglars- Th pus pects occupied a four story brick build ing In Sidney street, a narrow thor oughfare. The police surrounded the place, and were met with a volley of shots from within. A rapid exchange of shots followed; , Two ;detecive3 were shot; one seriously.. The police, after locating the men and anticipating, trouble, ordered the houses in the imr : mediate vicinity yacated.r- Before day light a ' iine of ofllcers wa.s- thrown around the square,: allowing no one to approach within a hundred yards . of the scene of the expected battle. The police lines were drawn so .Clgnily it was believed " the Inmates ?hd no chance to escape. - The police were satisfied the place , housed the inur der5rs so long sought. They also were j satisfied the murderers were well ) tor: ) tified. i Since a recent murder almost the entire force of Lpridon police ha? been hunting .the anarchists. The trou ble began early, wen; Letectiye? son,, while ;-atcb4nfepremi9e8'M fired upon, and wounded.. A cordon of pqlice,, armed vwitn , ; revolvers, ap-! preached the hodse jand were itnelj with a volley v. of shots from rapid fire re yolyers of most modern pattern" Police Supt. Ottawa took charge of -the re inforcements. - Police from all station poured - Into . this district; ; taking up commanding' 'positions about the ref- uge of the assassins Whehever ofli-j .cers . approached the hbuse a volley .of shots spatteVed the pavement.. - A de-1 tachment of sixty men, of the Scots Guard arrived' and were served with ball cartridges. They fired a round into; the building.- fThere was' a tem porary I Then, plied. The besieged were: armed with magazine rifles, Mausers .' and Brown- i ings. The excitement in the East End spread throughout the city. Enormous crowds flocked to' the -scene , Contin ued volleys from the assassins' refuge necessitated and called out two "hun dred headquarters' ; men.; ; Further drafts were made uritiKseveral httn dred ofllcers wfee' on the sceriev The situation became so serious that space a half mile from the house was clear ed. The soldiers kept a "fusillade di rected at the5 windows.', The assassins replied vigorously The authorities started .straw fires around the build ing hoping tosmoke but" the -murderers. The fire department was called when the flames communicated to the snouung aenance w the: JLarg ?05t -l!hgr land. It is believed oulconpardorii . 1 rw. .-' si Southern ? Pacific; Train Held Up in Sensational Manner Pultmin Cjrs .Enteredand Frightened Passengers Wade tb' Shell Out Their Valuables. Porter Killed, and Two Others i Wounded Five Sheriffs' Posses Af- ter the Pandits. - - 4 w!ouiiedf ttrijd I i hurifld' t l.ifesseHi4! 1 attention to the Pullmans, where they made a "rich haul among th Califor nia boupd passengers, holding , the train for over an hour. The train proceeded westward-after the robbers secured all the. booty wanted. No pas senger escaped the robbers. The train- riaen also lost their money and valua bles. ' Conductor Cunningham this morning notified tle superintendent's office here of the;, hold-up; A posse left f or the scene in automobiles and a special train. The bandits stopped the ? train i at; awatefihgtation .by throwing a red liit n tle signal stand toward the approachinglocomo- tivq. As it came to a .sthdstHlhe rbandits eovered . the. .engineer and'flre-' man with . reyolyers,; ' holding, them until the conductor ; ran up to investi gate. -Then he, was, placed under trainmen at pistors point, while the ; Other started throogh ! the train. One porteri'disregardnig, . his' commands, was shot down and killed. The shots aroused the 'occupkrits jpf the cars. When the bandit appeared with an open sack and menacing pistol the passengers contributed hastily. The bandit went through the entire train stopping at every , berth and making a , deliberate 'search. '; After ebmpletirig ; their work the robbers 'drove away in a vehicle. Five, sheriffs posses are now in the field. ,. . The posses of ofBcers; heavily afm- ed tracked the two bandits to a point four miles beyond the scene of hold up They are beiieyed to be headed toward," this city. The money loss among the passengers was from two thousand to twenty five hundred dollars. , i Norfolk ; Weatljer Forecasted Dead. NorfolV, Va' Jari: 3.-Ja.iries ? J. ' : Gray, for " sixteen ' Vekrs ""Norfolk's : weather forecaster,1 died, today, aged fQrtyotireirs.-rJ;; ti. r0rj: house. The firei fightera divided vener-: gies between extinguishing thei blaze ' and 'fl.oodingthe outlaws W streams of. water thrown into the windows. De spite the terrific , oddsr the . trapped ; nien continued a desperate'; resistance 1 and frequently appeared, at the win-' dows, emptying their guns Into the crowds. ' . -. . : ;.- .. - . ' . As the afternoon progressed the bat-0 hejw.ed.mQre;';-'npel. Additional comipanies , of Scots . guards were ' or dered' but, and. took up a positlod In front- So determined were the crImi- nais that J resistanpe .machine guna ? were called for. The men were placed under orders to bombard, the JBast End fortress should other- measures fail to : dislodge the defenders. The flames,?: nnauenched.' swent throueh the build- Ogden, Utah, Jan. 3-Southern Pa-. liA-ri cifice train No.-, 1, the Overland .Limit V l; ediwesthurid:?wasiheldlnp!tbyUtwo ' tie1 fexpress? Sc'df dyj$&ig; ft&Wt f ing,' driving ,xthV occupants, to the top ' V- j ( story, and bursting out of the win- " . dows. ?, ; Hard pressed the terrorists ' continued a grim fight. At ' 2 o'clock; ' the whole building was in flames;. and? th, ; desperadoes were driven to thai .: roof, and -from there, they fired indls- : criminately upon the police and sol- -: diers ; below. As . the fire enveloped f the" house heavy explosions oecurred They . were apparently -from' ammuni-T '' tlon. Shortly after-2 o'clock the roof fell, carrying the anarchists down ariild -v the seething flames. ' Just before tna ;' supports gave rway one desperado at- tempted to; dash? from the ; building 1 shooting In any direction. He met a volley from "the soldiers and staggered" ;: back Into, the house, which was then -a fiery furnace, , , - - " 0?:r'0?'-00'. 00-00 w? ':0:f0'i k??1' ;.-A li - mm 0 f -,., mm .... 11 ;1i 00 :A'0"V mm lliii' bit -. i 0 :M!0. mm '000: Kf 0i h r ki rn r- : x - sf00 000
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