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A;-;AfA A -- y.,.v i ? a a a- .-t:,v Delivered A; : :-Vv AAA . ... 25o per todnttl ;' ; Sent anywhere In the Country. VOLUME SIXlEENip Tvo Measures Needed to Meet Urgent Emergencies Were Hurried Through Doth Houses in Thirty Minutes In come Tax Bill Ably Discussed -Gov ernor's Salary Bill the Special Order for Next Wednesday in the Senate Bill That Will Touch the Coast Line Introduced. '-'" - (By Llewxam.) Raleigh, N. C.fc Jan. 20. A,, quick rail to cure defec4s in existing Statutes ;a:d meet pressing emergencies im lu llod the legislature in both .houses today to give an lustration of rapid lire enactment. Within; thirty minutes two bills were put through "(under sus pension of rules) and before noon hal boon enrolled for; ratification, signed by the President of the Senate 'and thev Speaker, of the House and became! full grown laws.. .. a . : These measures were: First, a Sen- ate bill to prevent an exhibition of the Jeffries Johnson prize -fight' pic ture show, advertised for tonight at a ir.il! town, 'Rockingham. ; Second, House bill to prevent the 4 shipment of -live- iuail outside of the State and repeal the authority now given the Audubon Society to give per mission to ship; live Jauail. ? It was hurried because parties ia Guilford were planning .to ship tomor-' row a large number of live partridges to-a stock game preserve fn New York' State. . ". ;:.: -; ' - . In the Senate,, the, morning special order was taken up," being the Income' tax measure 16th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States): and Senator John - W Cfraham , deliver ed an able legal speech on the sub ject. Senator Barnes, and others also addressed themselves to the lubject. A' i The newPresldent Prb Tern Pharr; tenant Governor Newland ,. being , ab sent. .. . .. The Governor's salary bilj was made the special order for next Wednesday in the Senate. - Jlr. Connor's bill to enable the city of Wilson to refund its indebtedness vas taken up under suspension of the rules and passed'. It will pass the Senate tomorrow. Among the more important new bill3 today are: Relating to the collection of bills by undertakers by claim and delivery papers; to. protect life against deadly weapons; to strengthen the law concerning assault and battery on females; to regulate contracts be tween public carriers and the em ployes (Atlantic Coast Line); to se cure better railroad facilities (passen ger traffic) between Hamlet and Ral eigh; a bill concerning deposits of fire .insurance companies; a bill . relating to casualty corporations and liability of indemnity reserve insurance com panies, v ' Py Brown, to enable Elizabethtown to refund its indebtedness. .., . A bill by llobgood,-. regarding de l'osits under section 4780, Revisal. Through a message from the Gover nor there was laid before the legisla ture the report of the State Board on International Improvements, referring especially to several of the minor rail loads of the State and especiall to the construction work by convicts, etc Senator Bunn moved the report be referred to a special committee to be appointed by the chair, who shall draft the bills to meet the several and sun dry recommendations of the report of" the board. . . .. :. Senator Bassett offered a substitute motion to defer . action t till tomorrow, when a larger number of Senators will be present. Senator Brown accepted Uassett's motion, but will insist on his special committee1 later. , At 1:40 o'clock the speical order in tbe Senate was displaced for the regu lar order and the 16th Amendment in come . tax measure was again set for special order for Tuesday the 24-th. ne calendar Viilla nnccoH Inrlnnfin tin very important measures not already noted. New York, aJn. 20, Andrew Carne 8ie has announced the gift of ten mil Jjon dollars to the endowment fund of Carnegie Institute of. Research of ashington. This brings his total en owment of institutions to twenty five million dollars. p. Grand.Theatre. nest equipped moving hoBe in the South. ' picture IS 1- Record . Breaking fiGtlori Physician on? The Sid Democrats Bi of Lepti Ttfdaj lio For The Defense Fight The f at Iff ANDY CARNEGIE GIMAl TEN MILLIONS Ml It vs.v ; yyr-i.. a- A;; AaaaMAAAaaaa aa A K Ex??rJ Witness Trying To Foir Testi mony Given by Doctors for the Pros- ecutionWltness: Visited Schenk in . Hospital For the Defense. . r 1 wneenng, w. Va., Jan. 20. With the opening of the second day of the defense in the trial of Mrs. Laura Farnswprth Schenk,. charged with ad ministering-ppisoa jfo her husband; John O. Schenk, , : the millihonairo packer. Dr., K. .J. OsOTrne, one of the defense's experts, resumed the stand. Prosecuting Attorney Handland con tinued his cross-examination. Osborne, is one of the physicians sent by Mrs. Schenk's lawyers to examine Schenk at the hospital.- Osborne testified that Schenk's symptoms did not agree with the history "of the case as to leadf or arsenic; poisoning. Mrs. Schenk -ap-pejared in the court-room : this morning apparently, fully recovered from the slight attack of illness of yesterday. . Dr. -Osborne was on the stand all the imprning. and was subjected to a close technical crqss-examination. LIFE IMSURAHCt WORLD ; New York, Jan. 20. The business and- financial 'world in Life Insurance circles in4 particular were slow in re covering from the shock caused by he sudden death , last night of Paul Mor ton, president, of the Equitable Life Assurance Society : and Secretary, of the Navy in . Roosevelt's cabinet. Mor toii was stricken at the Hotel Seymour and ;le&ScirbrW! .hemorrhage; be tore his- jyite -,nd Wcc ccaild. reach his side--His . burial will be : here to morrow, following funeral services at St. Thomas' Episcopal church.. TO BECOME AJAR HEEL Superintendent of Anti-Saloon League of Virginia Resigns. Richmond, Va., Jan. 20. Rev. James Cannon, Jr., of Blackstone, and Rich mond, Va., has resigned the State Su perintendency of the Anti-Saloon League to take General Superintend ancy of the Southern Assembly, Meth odist "Chautauqua," Waynesville, N. C. SHEEHAN FAILS TO ON JOINT BALLOT T Albany, N. Y., Jan.. 20. The third Joint ballot for 'United States Senator today stood: Sheehan, 60; Shepard, 11:: Kernan, 4: ranter, o; uemun, Littleton, 2; Girrard, 2; Glynn, 2; Rosendale, 1; O'Brien, 1; Depew (Re publican), 52. Total, 141. Necessary for choice,-,71. Two new candidates were voted, for, Martin H. Glynn and Simon W. Rosendale y A recess was taken until Saturday noon. Stocks Today. New York, Jan. . 20 Wail Street With few exceptions prices at the opening of the stock market indicated irregulatibn.. The trend of prices on the stock exchange was downward in response . to ' a general selling move ment, which continued throughout thi morning. The sentiment was mixed, though professional traders were in clined to be Bearish and weaken 'the market further, with short selling Notable 'I strength Was shown by a large number of inacUve industrials and specialties, A slightly better tons prevailed in. noon 4'ay trading. There fnfther Kains in inactive indus trials, . which were strong, points of the morning. Bull operators increase.! the activity iu he .arternoon, succeea ing in advancing -prices moderately. REBELS AGAIN TTACK Anri This Time Get Fourteen Killed and Two Waunded. . Pnrrfii : Chihuahua.via Elpaso, Jan 20 Following the fight of, Sunday in Eaquirlchic, when seven rebels were killed and ten wounaea, iue reuci x -.tanVoi fa town Tuesday Another fight took . place, . the, rebels losing 14 dead and twp; wounaea. . ; Grand Theatre. Mr. -Morgan wiU sing "You're .the Ideal of My Dreams.? r It " Grand Theatre.-, Three ttew reels of pictures today. SHOCKED BY MORTON'S DEATH 1 iv Jubilant , Oyer the; Big ? Cauctte Held Last, Night Champ Clark is Esp clally Happy Chairman Underwood Will Call . New Committee Soon to Frame-Up Plan of Action; ViVashihgton,. Jan. 20. Toe 1 bemo- i ; . crates were jubilant today over suits of, the caucus last night of; their party in -the next llouse of Representa tives. Speaker-elect V Champ Clari, who scored the honor of being the firt DemoQi-otic Speaker ever chosen - fotjf me nrsc term oy acclamation, was in a happy frame "of mind.-V "lt ; wap a very harmonious meeting," he said: "It vtfis particularly gratifying that there was . the remarkable attendance of 221 out "or ;227 Democratic Representatives in the next Congress. ' Many of - them came hundreds of miles to join iin the deliberations .of the caucus. There was not1 a hitch or a jar- in the whole proceeding." ' . v Representative- Underwood,, of Ala bama, chosen ; by 1 acelmation as chairman of the Ways and Means CoiU' mlttee, shared witlr Clark a host of congratulations from members of ' the House and others during the day. The new Ways, and Means Committee !s 8olidlyfor tariff for revenue only, ac cording to the party leaders. Chairman Underwood will call, the committee to gether next week to frame a plan of action.- It is not expected the commit tee will begin actual work until after the adjournment March 4. Its deliber ations will then be continuous until probably June and possibly resumed in autumn. . All of the members are un derstood to be a unit for bringing in the proposed tariff legislation sched ule.-: - .-." - WHILE ICE SKATING Weathersfield, Conn., Jan. 20. Miss Lucy Pedford and Frederick Belmfield, each aged twenty nine years, were drowned last night, falling through a hole in the ice while skating on a cove here. To Hold Greek Services The Greek colony of Wilmington will be interested to learn that services will be conducted in this city Sunday morning from 11 a. m. to 1 p. m. Rev. Joachim Gortzos, rector of the Greak Orthodox Church at Charleston, S. C, will arrive here tomorrow and he wil officiate at the services. Rev. W. II. Milton, rector of St. James' Episcopal Church, -has offered the use of St. James' Parish House for the service and it is expected that there will be a large congregation present. v Iowa Also Struggling to Name Senator Des Moines, Iowa, Jan. 20. On the first ballot of the Iowa legislature on the United States Senatorship the vote stood- Lafayette Young, 32; scatter ing for other Republicans, 71 ; -Porter (Democrat), 52. Necessary for choice 80. MINISTER'S WIFE GETS BLUES AND KILLS HERSELF Danvers, Mass., Jan. 20. During fit of despondency, following a nerv ous breakdown, Mrs. Eugene M. Grant, AiTAri sixtv voars old. wife of. the iSastor of the Universalist Church here, com mitted suicide today at her home, by inhaling illuminating gas. TRAGEDY 'T . Baltimore, , Jan. . 20. Following a quarrel, Mattie Handlas was shot and killed t; on a sidewalk near iGay and Exeter Streets .this morning by 'Her man Enser, who afterwards killed him self . The victims of .the tragedy are thirty years old each. . : Grand Theatre. V Mr. Morgan will sing "You're the Ideal of My Dreams." it " "LaPaloma." - By the Grand Theatre orchestra. -Ha 'AAaa.A - A aa-;" m Radicallmberlls Zp SVJ - - ,"' i - v ; v & u N - HUDSON In JndsonC. Clements the interstate commerce commission has elected one of -'Its mbf?t .radical members chairman. He succeeds M.'A. Knapp. now' presiding justice of the new court of commerce, but it is said President Taft was anxious for the selection of Commissioner Edgar .E, Clark of Iowa, a Republican. The commission, however. followed its rule of choosing Xhe rank ing member. This elevates another Democrat to a high office,. Mr. Clements was a strong supporter of the interstate board's fight, forjurlsdictipn over the railroads some ten years ago, It is said that none of his written olnl6h8-haa ever beeioverturnel, by tbe Supreme OHiferat-wSifr-iind then in the, Georgia' feglntco-nreIlQ va made an interstate commissioner 'in 1.SH2 bv Piesfdent It'iarrlson. He is strong advocate of the physical valuation, of. r:iilrrml. ' ; lit 1 DM Committee Decides For Two Battle ships To Be Constructed Next Year. Also Number of Auxiliary Craft. Washington, Jan. 20. Two battle ships, two colliers, eight - torpedo boat destroyers and four submarine boatsl contitute the naval increase program ! for next year, under action of the House Naval Affairs Committee. Tne committee's action carries out the main features of the administration's plan, of building twcKbattleships an nually, witha few needed auxiliaries. The . battleships will cost $6,000,000 1 each, exclusive of armour and arma ment and will be of 27,000 tonnage. GIRL BIGAMIST SENT TO HOOSE OF REFUGE Albion, N. Y., Jan. 20. Esther Dahlke. of Buffalo, aged sixteen years. was received today as an inmate of 1 the Western House .of Refuge, after pleading guilty to a bigamy v charge. The girl says her first marriage was the result of a joke, and her second marriage the outcome of a dare. Both marriages occurred within the past six months. . STILL NO RESULT. Tennessee Legislature Took Tenth .Senatorial Ballot Today. Nashville, Jan. 20. The Tennessee legislature $ in joint convention took its tenth ballot today for United States Senator, without result. The vote was: ..... McMillin, (regular Democrat) , 56;. Ento, : (independent-' Oemocrat), 63; Wooldridge, (Republican), 3; Mc Keller (independent Democrat) , 8. OFFERS BODY FOR FIFTY , Aged Man, With Aged Wife,. Drove to Strange Desperatlop. ; Cleveland, Jan. . 20. Fred Beach, aged sixty six years, a Civil War vet eran, offers, his body for sale for fifty dollars. , He "makes the offer because of his inability to find work; or pro cure money to support himself and aged wife. Mrs. Beach apprbves her husband's N offer. - . ". ' LaPalorria." By the Grand Theatre orchestra.: $3.50 Craddock Shoes in samples at $2.85 Saturday. Wilmington Shoe Co.Ut a' -A ll H -r I. court. Judge Clements ( served in , be ji Committee Decided by Vote of Nine to Six on Southern City for Panama Exposition Will Lkely Get Appro priation. Washington, aJh. 20. By a vote of nine to six, New Orleans was selected today by the House Committee on Ex positions, as the site for the Panama Canal Exposition in 1915.. The bill giving recognition to New Orleans was referred to a sub-committee. for slight changes. It is expected the appropriation item, will be. carried. ADOPTS RESOLUTIONS. Missouri, Legislature Dee-lighted Clark , W'1' he Speaker. , Jefferson City, Mo., Jan. 20.-The House of the General Assembly today adopted a resolution ' congratulating the Democratic members of the Housa of Representatives, for selecting Champ Clark as the caucus nominee for Speaker. FORTY MINERS KILLED Lost Their Lives in Disaster In Russia. Berlin, . Jan. 20. A hews dispatch from Sosnowice, Russia Poland; says that forty miners lost their lives in a fire in the- Cassrhir colliery. Three hundred and sixty escaped. I New York, Jan. 20. A statement is sued from the officers of J. P., Morgan & Co. today by Henry P. Davison, of that firm, gives the Aldrich currency reform plan the most enthusiastic en dorsement it has received' from any notable Wall street source. Davison's statement characterizes the Aldrich plan as "admirably effective, and sim Pie." ,v- .'; . . - : r v Veteran of Several Wars ' Dead. . New York, Jan. 20. Captain George B. Boyntpn, a hero of several romantic stories and who participated in several wars in the South and Central Ameri can countries, died today, aged sixty nine years. , . : - v ; Grand Theatre.. - " -. ' Finest 'equipped moving picture house in the South. It MORGAN GIVES PRAISE TO ALDRICH'S MONEY FLAN V7 mm i Dim Stem Fede Amerfclh Fetferation of Labor js Cbn . Vfrohto! yVjth This Joblemi-Coior Li(ie Bobbed Up. at Today'' Meeting . Over Hotei Incident. Columbus, O., Jan. 20. The United Mine Workers of America adopted f resolution today , withdrawing from theAmerican Federtibb of, Labor Jf the latter does hot a3mlt the. Wester Federation ot Miners Into the Ameri can Federation of Labor Without re 3trictions. The resolution was adopted almost '.unanimous.-. The color line problem bobbed up in the convention, when Robert Berley; x colored delegate from Duquoin, 111.. complained that at a hotel here, where secretary, and treasurer Perry aud the Credentials Committee have establish ed headquarters he (Berley) was not -allowed to ride on the passenger eleva tor, but was required to ; take , the freight elevator. The convention vot d for the appointment of a committee 'o find new headquarters. CO,. GOES TO THE WALL South Bend, Ind., Jan. 20. The Mil ler nd Donahue Lumber Company, one of the largest tn Northern Indiana, Tailed' today for $250,000 and is. insol vent, according to a petition filed i i ihe Superior "Court. V STEAMER BURNED, AT SEA Three of Crew Were Lost arid Others 1 ' y -Rescued. , . vf; . Albany, West Australia; . Jan. 20 Three of the crew of the British freight steamer,- ParislanJa, were lost when the vessel burned at sea. The survivors arrived yesterday on . the "British transport, which picked them up. The Parisiana, of 3,084 tons, sail ed October 29th from New York for Melbourne. . . SAMPLE SHOE SALE Wilmington Shoe Company to Start a Big Period of Big Bargains Satur day. Beginning Saturday vand continuing until all goods are: soid the Wilming- jtdn Shoe Company, whose establish ment is'located at No. 217 North Front street, will inaugurate what it calls, a "Sample Shoe Sale." This sale has true significance. It means that. shoes that were handled by traveling sales men of the Craddock-Terry . Company, of Lynchburg, wiilbe placed on sale at a big sacrifice. The Craddock-Terry concern travels half hundred men and each man, so it is said, carries out be tween five and seven hundred sample pairs of shoes. Naturj01y these shoes are of the best make, as experts view them, "and they are always handled with care, but In the nd? they must be sold. Hence the coming bigsaW, which is going to offer some real fine bargains in footwear. Mr. L. W. Wes sell, manager of the Wilmington Shoe Company, has an Interesting announce ment 'about the sale in today's Dis patch. ' ..' .: . Anti-Tuberculosis League for; Colored. , The sec&id annualo the North Carolina AntiTuberCulosi3 League for colored ' people; win be. held in the. city of Raleigh? Tuesday Jan? Uary . 3lst, lli. President, uuaiey. with, the colored physicians and-with Ihfe Z aistance w' : Secretary , of - the -State -; Board of Health, is arranging a very, valuable and instructive program. He is mak ing an, effort to reach aa'Jfat; as.'pos Bible the colored people of the Sta and impress upon them the Importance of better efforts to preserve .public health.- It is certain that -an Interest and an activej ! co-operation In -this meeting and In the? local leagues, that are . beinjg established ' throughout the State,, will .result in better health ana a largely ;. reduced death? rate among 'the ; neeroes. For. . this reason the movement - should appeal 7 -to all, anil especially should the' colored, leaders, by their presence .and their Influence, give Impetus ; to ; the League ana its WOrk.- - . Generator, f afr . tonight' Saturday . moderate" variable winds. V: O 5 PfelCE FIVE C3SNTS a List of ;Those Who; Will Ijb Cjuests of The Dispatch Tomorrow Afternoon af -; lt8 ."Buster Brown? Theatre PartyThe Little Folks' Can 3et Their Tickets at 9 O'clock Tombr- . rotf Morning at The Dispatch Office. " The lid is off. The Dispatch's Con test EditorTaud1 assistahts; have .picked the winners of ;the . letter writing fracas, and : tomorrow a hie bunch of happy --faced;' bright youngsWs will be at the ''Buster Brown" matinee as guests of The Dispatch. The winners' names are hoted.'.below, but don't lpok at . tne answer nerore reaaing , what s ahead 6f it; "You; Tdmmle Brown; stop looking at the end of ;thi8;icie !" t , . iAfter laboring until f Up midnight fastT nlgbt the Cohtestl 'iitr aid co- workers ' picked - the 1 winners. . ; Ther3 were just three huhdreapd: fourteen lottoro - THtt tiifxt ! in A; : woW 'vao A '. ovi1 while it took;tjme it furnished' pleas-" ure to those, reading them.' -By a pro cess of elimination th5 Tpile was put down, to fifty. Then another reading . and more elimination took place, until only twenty-six remained. -Finally ten more were cut put, so that the sixteen awards, representing; .twenty-eight of the very best, seats for. tomorrow af ternoon, were left, after ' careful con sideration had been giveneach of tho twenty-six. It was hard pulling to de cide before the number was reduced to; twenty-six, and it was just tea times harder from then on. All the letters were good and with very few exceptions' the rules had been strictly adhered to. There were scores' of let ters that were extra fine, and it made The Dispatch wish its' -purse strings were longer so it could make the party tnhch, larger But the idea prevailed , that novelty. ad originality, just such t bright thbAfghlil aM sflaslj;,;i;hiough.Va ybungster's' mind must be those to count greatest, . Handwriting and grammar were- nbt considered vital. Ideas were those "desired the pure, jolly, unique ideas of the dear , chil dren and finally the winners were picked, . Their letters are gems of novelty and amusement and ;.The Dis patch only wishes it had the room to reproduce the charming letter crea tions, but it hasn't So It will have to give up that pleasure. Now the win ners must come to The. Dispatch office tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock, or as soon thereafter as possible, and get their tickets. The, tickets first class reserved seat tickets-will be. ready for them. All they will have to do Is to show their name in The Dispatch and the tickets will be ! passed over. Then go to the performance tpmorrow afternoon and see "Buster."" This year the. jolly little mischief-maker, his side-kicker, "Mary Jane," and dear oidTige," j are better than-ever and. the company is larger and stronger. ' So the youngsters can see what a big time they lare feoihg, to have. Those children who won boxes should take : their dear mammas and papas with them, or their brothers and sisters. The matinee ' will - commence r at 3 o'clock, the curtain going up at that hour, and all The Dispatch party must be on hand to havea big time.. The Dispatch wisnes eacn one jjij good time. Here are the winners, wno will call tomorrow arid get their seats: First Prizes. Two Lower boxes, with four tickets to each box Leonory Keen; Latham Harriss. -. .- ii Z , - r v Second Prizes. Two lower boxes, with three tickets for each box Minnie James Tharp; Thalia Bunting. , - . " ! Third Prizes. - ' : Two upper boxes,; with two seats to . each box Arcada Burriss; Jeahnette Buck." ."'' V '," ; ' rrr-i:;---0hpr- Prizes- .i.-usv-n 'r ' Ten of "the best ' Orchestra ( Seats LeRo ;Heyland, sLoulse',-. Robinson, Eyelyn Mahhv Abramv Williams, Vera Pearl iMat6h; Littleton S. . Vaughn, 1 Frederick Burr, " Dudley Howell, Alice Browne -and Annie . Hamilton. - ;. Richmond, aJn. 20. Five were killed four, fatally, hurt and seven injured as V the) result of ah. explosion of dynamite or gas in the Gay ton' Mines, fifteen : lZ miles west" of here today. All the dead were Poles- 1 . Grand Theatre. Three new reels of pictures today.: r '. Same Shoe Sale -begins - Saturday. jShoe' Co,;';;' Z' D O iKifLiiS;! VIRGINIA MINE DISASTER Mi MM mi n ZWZ m ,5- Z,$:A ';..'.'.-,;iT.ji.i;ii. '.1 i-.h: '.v.-j.s yti ::.;vf mz f'vi MZ tznz: -. it Saturday.1'. v- -a ' V ; zt':-::Z..-::Z:-: A ZZ'Z-: '9;
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