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it ' .. t. i f THE DISPATCH THE WEATHER. Delivered in the Cityby Carrier or sent anywhere by Ml at 35 Cents Per Month. ' . Unsettled . with showers tonight or 'Friday, not -much change in tem perature. Moderate' easterly winds. VOLUME SEyENlEEN tit'" WILMINGTON, N. C THURSDAY, APRIL 13, 1911 PRICE THREE CENTS MI . i ; ' x . ' ' - - " . nnrinnn mtiT mmnnnt i i i mm Mil riiii lu ll' OH Til, TDD .IK1 Action Up in The lor Court Case of Highsmith vs. Highsmith is Being Aired Judge Peebles Re mands Cases Against the Women Indicted by the. Grand Jury to the Recorder's CoWt--Other Matters in the Superior Court. At 3:45 o'clock this afternoon after all the testimony was in, counsel for the plaintiff in the Highsmith case an nounced that as they were unable to get some important witnesses in court at this time, they would take a non suit. This ended the trial, and now the case will have to be started a-new. The case of Chadbourn vs. the Brunswick Wood and Coal Company was then taken up. Upon motion of ex-Mayor A. G. Ric aud, Judge Peebles this morning in the Superior Court' remanded all of the indictments found last week against eighteen women of the under world to the Recorder's court. It was pointed out that the indictments read that the offense was committed "on and after the 1st iay of February" and unless it was more than sixty days from the time the indictment was re turned the Superior Court would not have had jurisdiction, and even though it did have jurisdiction it was concur rent with the Recorder's court, and the cases could have- been remanded. No announcement has been made as to when the women will be tried. When the Murchison Bank case came to an abrupt ending yesterday afternoon, as told" of In yesterday's Dispatch, there remained no cases that could be disposed of as all witnesses had been excused until this morning, the opinion prevailed among all .the the bank-case weuld consume at least two days and possibly three. This morning the case of Edmund High1 smith against ThOmas A. Highsmith was called for trial! All of the morn ing session was consumed in examjng witnesses and it looks like the case will consume the remainder of the day. Messrs. John' D. Bellamy and Herbert McClammy appear ior the plaintiff, and Messrs. E. K. Bryan, A, G. Ricaud and yilliam J. Bellamy for the de fendant. , Highsmith claims that Thomas Smith tore the roof of the house he oc cupied off for the purpose of making repairs, and over his protest and that his furniture was almost ruined, by rain. He asks for $2,500 punitive dam ages for the wilful and wanton man ner in which Smith entered the premi ses and removed the roof from the dwelling, and $500 for the damage done the furniture by water. The defendant contends that High smith had agreed to get out of the house so as the repairs could be made, and in fact moved out and then moved back in after the roof had been remov ed. Both parties to the suit are ne groes. u Case of W. H. Chadbourn et al. against the Brunswick Wood and Coal Company will be called either late this evening or tomorrow morning. It involves the ownership of seventy large poles,such as are used for pilings, lhe evidence is very conflicting and when tried before there was a mis trial. Other cases' disposed of are as fol lows: " Elizabeth Williams against Ernest T. Williams, absolute divorce granted. John R. Turrentine, Jr., against the Atlantic Coast Line, continued for plaintiff; T. J. Sternberger against Na tional Cash Register Company, death of plaintiff suggested; J. C. Stevenson '& Co., against Atlantic Coast Line, continued for plaintiff; -Alexander Sprunt & Son against W. M. Pate, and a similar action against J.'D. Barnes dismissed, the matters In controversy having been adjusted., - The following cases were set for trial today but there is no probability of any of them being reacned before tomorrow: Luke Davis against At lantic Coast Line; Lula Russ against Wilmington Steam Laundry; J. W. Carmichael against the Southern Bell Telephone Conmany : S. L. Smith & Son against Rogers & Thomas. ' . SEVEN YEARS IN PEN. mm Super Aberdeen, Miss., April, 13. Judge H. ,C. Niles in the Feder al District Court today sentenc ed J. H. Miller, who was found, guilty of fraudulently using the mails, to Beven years'in prison," and to pay a fine of eleven thousand dollars. , . - Remains Laid By Side of flls KM Last Sad Rites In Greenwood Cemetery Over All Mortal f Cleveland's Dis tinguished Dead William Jenninf s Bryan Met the Remains and Was One of the PallbearersCareer if The Notable Man. V New York, April 3, With solemn and fitting honors the obsequies over the body of the late Tom Johnson, of Cleveland, were held this morning in Greenwood cemetery, Brooklyn, where. near his old friend, Henry George, the great single taxer, he was laid to rest. William Jennings Bryan was among those to meet the funeraf party at the Grand Central Station upon its ar rival from Cleveland. .More and .more it isKbeing realized that in the death of Tom Johnson the masses have lost a big friend, and the country a really great man. , Thomas Loftin Johnson, who rose from the humble station of clerk in arcar barn to the position of traction magnate, inventor, member of con gress and four times mayor of Cleve land, was born in Georgetown, Ky July 18, 1854. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Albert L. Johnson, and re ceived hip early education in thestate of Indiana. v In 1869, at the age of 15, he took a position "with the - Louisville Street Railway Company, where he . applied himself so well that after six years service he had thoroughly mastered every detail. He Invented and pat ented numerous improvements, the sale of which formed the nucleus of a fortune later estimated at more than 11,000,000. In 1876 he bought a bad ly x managed traction : line in . the city of Indianapolis, -rejuvenated and plac ed it on a payink basis.' Later he ao quired "large street railway - interest in Cleveland, Detroit and - Brooklyn which he afterward sold and centered in Cleveland, his adopted city. There, too, hevoperated an iron manufactur ing establishment, Tom Johnson first came into the public eye in 1891, when he was elect: ed to congress by the Ohio democrats through his advocacy of the "single tax" theories of the late Henry George. As an exponent of the municipal ownership of public utilities, with stress on street railway lines, he came even more famous. So firm a believer was he in its principle that he spent most of his fortune fighting its opponents in Cleveland. He carried the idea of municipal ownership even further. He argued that there was no more reason why passengers should be carried by ele vators free of charge to the tops of high buildings than that they should be carried from one building to an other, or from their residence up town to their offices downtown. He declared that a free ferry was just as sensible as a free bridge, and otten said he hoped to live to see the day when vehicles would be provided for the public free of cost, both on land and on water. After the expiration of his term In consrress ne was ooomeu sn. vanuun times for" the Democratic nomination for Governor of Ohio, and was serious ly considered as a presidential possi bility. " In 1901. convinced that Cleveland's council and major were corporation owned, or at least negligent of the rights of the people, he announced nis r.ariHir!iv for the mayoralty. He was plppted. In Cleveland it had been cus tomary for the incumbent of this of fice to hold over sixty days alter ei3c tion. Acting under the letter ot tne law, however, Johnson entered the maTofs office the day after the bal lots had counted him in and calmly in formed the then mayor mat ne was out of a job that he, Jotinson, naa qualified and proposed to take immea.- ate charge. Prior to 1900 there were two trac tion lines in Cleveland, one on which Tom Johnson and his friends were controlling factors, and the oher m which Senator Hanna was the powe". These lines were later consolidated as the Cleveland Electric Railway Com pany, and, in the process of consolida tion Johnson was froze out. His com pany had been giving seven fares for a quarter while the other line charged 5 cents each fare. After the absorp tion the 5-cent.fare was .universal. , v As soon as he had taken his oath as mayor, Johnson opened the first broad side for a 3-cent fare and for preven tion of extension of franchises on va hious streets, excepting, upon th it basis. Fourteen injunction suits, three of which went to the United States Supreme Court, were brought during the early, stages of the duel. The most sexciting incident of the fight Committee of Five tft ;i 1 The New Lorime Senator La Follette reopened the Lorimer scandal .when he introduced a; resolution appointing a. select committee of ve to investigate charges of cor- , ruption in the election of William Lorimer and to retort their findings to the, senate. An extraordinary, feature of the' resolution fe.that it namer the five , Senators instead of directing a standing committee tl make the investigation. 1 Another unique feature of the measure is that all five are new members of the senate. They are John D. Works of California, ai insurgent; Charles E. . Townsend of Michigan, a "near" insurgent, and George P. McLean, a regular, from Connecticut, with John W. Kern of Indiana and Atlee Pomerene of Ohio, both Democrats. - ' 0 CO V CT Felons n Roads in CumberKsirwJ Coun ty" Made Break for ' Liberty- -This Morning OAs Killed and Others Shot ' f Special to The Dispatch. Fayetteville, N. C, April 13. The white crew of the county chain gang, working the road six miles from Fay etteville, attempted "to escape this morning. A negro, Frank McDonald, was killed and several others were shot by the guards. No one escaped. BOMB EXPLOSION IN CHICAGO Chicago, April 13. Hundreds of houses were shaken about the mid night hour when nitroglycerine in a bomb exploded, having been set off supposedly by 'Black Hand" agents in Augustine Arrigo's home, on Ewing street. DIXIE" CHEERED LUSTILY BY VETERANS IN CHICAGO Chicago, April 13. Battalions of grizzled veterans of the blue and gray, who fifty years ago glared at each oth er over pistol and rifle barrels, sat side by side last .night in the Audito rium, where the semi-centennial anni versary of the firing oh Fort Sumter was celebrated. The great theatre was packed from stage to gallery. Both the blue aiid gray sang the old battle hymns. "Dixie" echoed with as loud ervor as "Marching Through Georgia." SENATE ADJOURNS TODAY UNTIL NEXT MONDAY Washington, D. C, April 13. Giving notice that it would be impossible to complete the re-organization of the Senate committees before next week; Senator Gallinger moved this morning that when the Senate should adjourn today ihe adjournment shall be until next Monday. The motion was adopt ed. . 'Cheaper Man - Offered Memphis. : Omaha, Neb., April 13. In a letter to James S. Warren, Commissioner of the Memphis Business Men's Club, Will A.' Campbell, - manager of the Publicity Bureau of the Omaha Commercial Club, says: "Since you failed to get Bryan for two millions, why do you not get James C. Dahlman, the Cowboy Mayor of pmoha, who will likely come for about a million and a half ? - - iviayor Jim nas Deen tne Drams o. the Bryan candidacy in the vWest fov niteen years and - win make you a good advertisement. Photo and let ter follow." ' r 'AgrlcultueaProducts Is th-Txt of Bill Introduced By Representa tive - Macon Aimed at Both Inte state and Foreign Buying. Washington, April 13. Representa tive Macon, of Arkansas, has intro duced a bill making it unlawful for "interstate or foreign buying, or sell ing, or otherwise dealing in futures in agricultural products or commodi ties of any kind whatsoever." The bill would prohibit the receipt, deliv ery and transmission of interstate or foreign messages sent by telegraph, telephone or mail, if such messages are in connection with or dealing in futures in agricultural products. RIOTERS TODAY IN FRANCE APPLIED THE TORCH Eperpay Department of Marne, France, April 13. A renewal of riot ing broke out in almost every village in the Marne champagne district today. Rioters at Vinay. demolished wine presses and burned buildings. A score of the ringleaders have been arrested. "Trading Stamp Mania." Howling comedy Grand Theatre today. It. THREE YEARS' CONTRACT. Has Now Been Signed By Star Twirl er Walter Johnson. Washington, April 13. Walter John son, the Washington 'American League team's star -pitcher, who left the team while at Atlanta in training, refusing to sign for a salary of less than $7,500, has now come to com plete terms with the club and signed a contract for three years at a salary said to be twenty-one thousand dol lars for that period. Johnson has re sumed ' training and will be pitche.1 either tomorrow or Saturday. SIX BURGLARS WENT AFTER BANK'S BIG MONEY ROLL Winchester,' N. H., April 13. Half a dozen burglars made an tfnsuccess- ful attempt , this morning to blow op en the Winchester National Bank safe, containing twenty-six thousand dollars. Much of the bank's furniture was destroyed and the ' heavy outer doors of the vault demolished. -Th robbers did. not have time to attack the inner door and the funds remain ed intact. The robbers escaped. "Trading Stamp Mania." Howling comedy Grand Theatre GHIIG QUICK ACTION ON THE BILLS on Tariff tan ' Property Damage Bone " Bajallj OtaraJ ' 8 !-.". -' . ' ' I I . - Ways and Means Committee Report ed the'Canadian Reciprocity Bill to the House Today Will Report Free .List 'Measure Tomorrow -Republican Members Stand Solidly Against "'.Latter House Takes Up Direct Election of Senators. Washington, April 13. The Cana dian Reciprocity, bill introduced in the House yesterday, was reported favorably to the House today by the new Ways and Means Committee. The cbinmittee also passed favorably on the free list tariff, measure, but will not report it until - tomorrow. The Canadian reciprocity bill was taken up first by the' committee and, after brief discussion, Representative Mc Call, its sponsor in the Sixty-first Con gress, moved that it b approved by the committee and it was done with out division. The free-, list bill was not unanimously approved.. The vote on it in committee ; was strictly a party vote. The Democrats favored it. The . Republicans, voted solidlv against it. The Republicans, with Se reno . Payne as spokesman, declared the measure hasty and ill advised. They : asserted that - Chairman 'Under wood and his Democratic colleagues had not sufficient data to show what would .be. the effect of the changes. Direct Vote For Senator. ' ;With announcement from Represen tative Underwood that the Democrats were determined before adjournment today, to - pass' the resolution provid ing for the " election - of - Senators by direct vote of the people the House plunged into debate , on .the proposed constitutional amendment." Represen tative 'Rucker 'of ' Missouri, chairman 4xt ilka. JCommittee itt. charge -of Hie matter called up -'the direct "election resolution immediately after the House began its business. The resolution is identical with the one pressed in the Senate last session by Senator Borah: Representative Hobson spoke in favor of the resolution. Representative Fos ter, of Vermont, Republican, declared he favored it. Former Speaker Can non declared he could not vote for the Rucker resolution because it robbed Congress of its control over the elec tions of Senators and he further be-7 lieved of members of the Houses. His Annual Shave. New Haven, Conn., April 13. When the friends of Edward Lewis, one of the well known characters of Strat ford, a New Haven suburb, saw him this morning they realized that it was his birthday, for he had had a shave, Mr. Lewis does not believe in shav ing as a general rule. Each birthday, however, he gets a fine,, fresh shave and hair cut, , and today, as for many y,ears pasti he celebrated. OF A L BANDIT THIS -MORNING i i Syracuse, Kas.,1 April 13. A bandit boarded a Santa Fe passenger train near here this morning. He was heav ily, armed and pointed a revolver at Conductor Reilley and Brakeman O' T .paw robbing both. men. obtaining: a small sum. . When he attempted to rob the passengers. Reilley showed re sis,tance arid was shot twice ' through the shoulder. The bandit stopped the train and jumped off. A posse is searching for the' robber. Stock Market New York, April 13. The stock market was dull and irregular at the obening. Fluctuations in prices in most ' cases were confined ' to : smal fractions. Influence of. the coming holiday over the week-end was 'felt this morning Trading was at a low point. Soon af ter the opening business almost sus pended. Pressure against ; Pennsyl vania had a depressing : effect on general buying. Some of the western stocks eased off. Few inactive stocks fluctuated a point either way: There was scarcely any movement whatever to the market in the late afternoon Occasional spurts of buying and sell ing were . succeeded by.intervals of intense dullness. Prices averaging pretty well up to yesterday's close. Prices worked lower. . DUt not enough stock was sold to create any marked impression on values. "Trading Stamp Mania." Howline comedy Grand Theatre today. It OF llOO Storm That Hit - Kansas, Oklahoma and Other States Dealt Out Death Many Houses Blown Down Dam age Toll a Tremendous One. ' Kansas City, ALpril 13. -Meagre re ports received this morning from the storm stricken districts of Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri and Arkansas indi cated that the storm covered a wider area than early information showed. The wire service is so demoralized that definite news is not now obtain able. When communication with Big Heart, Okla., was established this morning it was learned that two per sons were killed and sixty were in jured,- thirty-six seriously. Every bus iness house in the town was destroy ed. Those 'seriously injured were tak en in a special train to Tulsa, Okla., where they were placed in a hospi-j tal. It is believed that some of them1 were fatally hurt. Whiting, Kansas, at first reported to have been a se vere ' sufferer, almost escaped - injury. The tornado' did much damage in the farming districts north and south of there. . . One' person was killed and three se riously Injured at; Reserve, - Kansas. Mrs. Fred Stone was killed when her house collapsed. - ) " - -' Her two sons .were seriously injur ed. The wind was so severe it strip ped the clothing from Mrs. Stone ani her children. The tornado destroyed five,-houses in Reserve. Three per sons were, injured, and several houses blown down at Delaware, Okla7 Sev eral houses - were destroyed - in Oche- lata, Okla. " -. Thirty-two persons were hurt, thirty houses demolished, and -the property damag;enB,;1& Ridge, Kansas.., . . A . school nouse was destroyed,., injuring, thirtyschoo children, some seriously .Mjrs: Clair? Rutledge and Daniel Cousins ' were badly hurt by flying timbers. - At Hiawatha, Kansas, one person was killed, four seriously injured and a number slightly hurt. ; At Plummerville, Ark- the tornado killed three and severely injured a score. WETS" AND "DRYS" AT IT AGAIN IN ILLINOIS Springfield, 111., April 13. The "wet" and "dry" fight in the legislature was resumed today when the county option bill was placed upon . third reading in the House. The "dry "xbiH' carries county option and the "wet", bill re peals the present township local ' op tion law. LICENSE FAR AHEAD Jay Gould Prepares to Wed Queen Lil's Grand Daughter In June. New York, April 13 Jay Gould, George J. Gould's son, this afternoon obtained a marriage license to wed Miss Annie Douglas Graham, grand daughter of Queen Lil, of the Hawaiian Islands, The couple will be married in June. ; , Resurrection , of John." ' Latest Edison drama Grand Thea tre today. i It. 4 ,5S O r :. "'Iff ' THOMAS JEFFERSON, UNITED STATES THIRD PRESIDENT. His Birthday Anniversary is Being Celebrated Today in a Number of Places ; and Big Observance at "the University of Virginia. ; THOS. JEFFERSOI Big Celebration of Founder's Day at the: University of Virginia Cornell Professor.- Declares If Jefferson Were Alive He'd Defend the Peo ple. Charlottesville, Va., April 13. The one hundredth and sixty-eighth anni versary of the birth of Thomas Jeffer son, author of the Declaration of In dependence,; third President of the United Stages, and father of the Uni versity of Virginia, was appropriate ly celebrated . with annual Founder's Day exercises at the University of Virginia, today. Jacob G. Schurman, President of Cornell University, de livered the principal address. He de clared that if Jefferson were alive today he would insist upon protection of the rights and interest of the gen eral public against the aggressions of consolidated capital. FLEO DOWN FIRE ESCAPE New York, April '-13. Sixty girl fac tory workers fled down a fire escape when fire threatened destruction of a building occupied bj the Manhattan Soap Co., on West Thirty-sixth street .today. .- One hundred . menescaped in1: elevators and fire escapes. The prop erty loss is heavy.' ' - DEFENDS "ONLY CHILD." Other. Scientists , Do. Not Agree That Such Is a Menace. New York, April 13 Several neu rologists of this city- commented yes terday ori a cable from Vienna in which Prof. Fried jung was quoted as saying the "only :. child" is a menace to the race, : inasmuch, as its domestic isolation, makes it unnaturally nersr ous. Prof.' Charles L. Dana, said: "The only child in a family is likely, to be overindulged and so may be injurious ly affected, s On the other hand, an only child is more' likely to get more individual training, so that,, if only that training is good, the only child is safe. In my own experience cases of deterioration of the brain and the nervous system do not, as a rule, oc- cur in cases of only children. Nerve degeneration in children is usually due to a combination of bad heredity and environments and bad mental, habits.". . ' - Dr. Frederick Peterson said: "I do not think' it can . be safely asserted that the 'only child' is a menace to the race through nerve' degeneration. It is true the only child is often a little shy. Otherwise it is not abnor mal. The facts in my own experience do' not lead me to "regard the only child as a menace." . N Dr. Edward D. Fisher said: "I do not' think an only xhild more of a menace to the race than; any other child." , - Resurrection of John." L'ateste Edison drama Grand Thea tre today., , It. - I" ,1, , -. ., h :;!:f 'Va'. ,:-;.;;;;'r;i;K' it,,': ti. '---.M;h:'i.V'y;:-:?'l't. if!?. ' v.-.: ta ; U ym-m xmmm :m 'v m mm m .... - 'r-'K ;-',e.U,"1 v:':;!;i;:i:!ilfH;-' ;silv -TV,:-, "' - - 3 ;!'-' .''tf - '.::":;IWI:f? ::tKm--i: .:. :t;ri'if'' i ... f !f.i-n:f'l- i". e-'V- -: -::;J:mix si;",: h , t ? lit i ' . :-.:-t''iv, - - ',! '.:-".--t'5 :.i ,svii-. t A : r-l- : :'". j"!'.:;I :i(''. - :S:-mX;.: ': " ii-hi'-W -:v'"'iH;r:OJ-.'. i::-''.Ii:i';'i ;! 'l 1 J w V: v, . t.-: ' .-1 5 I - j t If IK - . I it f 5 ' V A L t. i ., (.1 )j ! 1 - -In ... i . -f ? ).:!! ' trt t (Continued on Third Page.) today. - . ' It.' mmr
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