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4. THS DISPATCH y1 t!lvired Inlhe City by tSrrter c THE WEATHER. 3i wit anywhere by Mall at 55 Cent Per Month. Unsettled weather - with : showers tonight v or Tuesday! Not much change! in tempeVature.; Light' winds VOLUME v SEVENTEEN WILMINGTON N; Cf . iijONDAY, JULY 10. 1911 PRICfe " THREE t GENTS -iiilta "mililil lliiil in Op- tpM: lepjS Mm taofaiHaiiiilton teinip,; forteM- psltoBtoReciprocity HfeWfl the Bar of Justice . CiM Hot Fly ; Mercury Up to Ninety Pour In GotA at Noon and Suffering Intensi Milk ? and Ice Scarce Sizzlina Philadelphia, Where Death' List Up xo mts Atternoon Had Reached One Hundred and Twenty Two. , New York, July 10. The heat wave apparently ended last week returned this morning to claim renewed domin ion over the city: and exhausted 'mil lions. The thermometer at 10 o'clock registered ninety two. ' The .humidity is stifling." Milk and ice are scarce and the prices'Tipward. . ' ; At noon the temperature was 94 and the humidity made suffering inlense. Prostrations . have i increased rapidly. - ; Death List Grows. - ; Philadelphia, .July .10. This is one of the hottest days of the summer in Philadelphia. The thermometer was 96 at 1 o'clock : and still climbing. Eight deaths from heat making a total of 122 since tlxo?J9pen began. WALK OUT l PARIS - Paris, July 10. Twenty thousand union building workers struck today to enforce their demand that the piece work system be " abolished and their daily rages increased. . UNFILLED STEEL, TONNAGE United States Corporation Makes Re : ' '' port Today. ' , ' New York, July 10. The United States "Steel cbrporatiop has announc ed their unfilled tonnage on its books "June 30th . totalled 3,361)58 tons, against 3,113,187 tons May 31st V i. t'"1" A STRIKE OF SIX IS New York, July 10. A general strike of leather workers, involving six thou sand menjgs pending. It will be effec tive witlfi a week, if a new wage schedule is; not, adopted. Today's ' three pictures will be all head-liners. - Grand Theatre. ' It. 'iSurprise'Souvenir Dance Tonight. Washington, ...v-wal Wash ington is visibly disturbed 'over ' the charges of Congressman Norris, of Ne braskaagamst Charles D. Hilles, sec retary to 'President Taft. Korris.. al leges that Hilles is promoting' a po litical news ; bureau," which 1 promotes the publication of news favorable to certain politicians and suppresses news advantageous .to others. Norris claifis in particular that Hilles has, insmred "false reports" regarding the presidential candidacy of Senator t' La Follette. of Wisconsin. Norris is the leader of t,he;?lepublican insurgents, in the lower house ; of Cpngf ess and ".fa vors ; La Follette as - against' Taft for PresidenHn 1912.' Mr. Hilles is prepar ing a statement in answer to Nprrisf mm iQQUSAHD PEI1DIII6 - -6 iffy''' K''. , f- 1 - f War on Him Will Be WanM Rv in. surgents. of . Republican Camp ; Be cause He is Too Closely Allied With Aid rich Democrats Making Honest Efforts at Reform Real Downward Tariff Revision. 0 -, Washington, July 10. President Taft will be opposed by progressive Republicans for a re-nomination on the ground that he is still the mouthpiece of Aldrich and the . great law-defying industrial- corporations of the coun try. " .;v , ; ; " v If proof was necessary to show that the old alliance between Taft and Ald ricli still exists, the President himself furnished it on two notable occasions within the last couple, of weeks when he went out of his 'way to indorse the Aldrich near-central-bank scheme which is designed to give Wall street absolute control of the money and credit of the United States, and , thus make it the absolute . master of busi ness and industry... J : f Progressive Republicans contend that ft the President should be -re nominated and re-elected "he woufd continue to bey'the complaisant help mate of schemers like. Aldrich, who are striving constantly to make the great masses of the public little more Jhanthe serfs ot the few men who compose the great financial combina tion, of which JPierpont Morgan and the Standard Oil capitalists are the most conspicuous figures." And Mr. Taft now publicly confirms the fears of the progressives. - . : , . Therefore the only thing left for the public to conclude is that .Mr. Taf f a re-election would necessarily place back in control of Congress . the same class of men who were swept out by the indignation of the public In the last ..election. v f:V S v; .. That Mr. Taft is but the mouthpiece pxe advocates the Aldrich monetary scheme as Demg , tne most ? lmporc ant" legislation before the- public Is evident on the face -of things. For Mr. Taft has himself been, frank enough to say that he knows nothing about the Aldrich plan; that he has not studied the financial question, and that he has taken his convictions from those who have told him the Aldrich plan. should be adopted. - Taft's strong endorsement of the Aldrich scheme will make it more nec essary than ever for the progressives within his party to prevent his nom ination. "It also means that the Aid rich scheme will be made one of the big campaign issues of 1912. The Democrats desire no better issue. The scheme Aldrich has cooked up gives tq Morgan the power, of life and death over business and industry. For, the life of both is credit, and the control of credit Taft would place absolutely in Morgan's hands. Democrats Making Hqnest Efforts. The Democrats are sincere In their efforts to run' the House of Represent atives on an , economical business basis. The report of Jerry. South, chief clerk of the House, just made public, shows that during the month of June a saving lof $8,561.90 was effected as a result of the abolishing, of useless offices. This item, which does not include the big reduction on. the po lice force which the Senate has not yet qoncurredin but ; will approve shortly, means a saving of $102,742.80 in a year. . 1, 'This is not a stupendous sum, it is true, but the spirit is in striking con trast to the $35 wastepaper baskets in the offices ; of Postmaster General Hitchcock . and the expensive recrea tions taken , by the Aldrich monetary commission 'at public expense' at Nar ragansett PierN .- . Taft Bureau Repudiated. ; ' Once more the White House press bureau has been forced to back-track. It. was like this; Franklin A. Shotwell, of : Omaha, secretary of the Progres sive Republican League of Nebraska, came to Washington, ha a talk with the ; President, and was quoted by the White' House press bureau as ?saying that Nebraska was strong "for .Taft for re-nomination and re-election." Now it happens that the league which Mr. Shotwell was made to appear as speaking' for, is 'strong?- against Taft instead of being- for him. When ' the officials of the Nebraska organization heard' of Shotw ell's . statement they promptly passed resolutions ' repudiat ing it, and wired them to Washington. The " fact is the real progressive Re; publicans stand as a unit against Taft's re-nomination, and every indication is that if he secured h v nominatibn again they. will' permit him tot go down in defeat. Then they will make ari at tempt ' to reorganize the Republican party. - j Progressives Lose Ground. When it is too late some tJf the ;Re publican insurgents in 1 the United States Senate who, are opposing re ciprocity may learn tfiat they are com mitting one of those huge political Senate Takes . Up Simmons' . Amend ment and Hears a Strong Speech- Amendment Will Be ' Lost House Not in Session Today. ' Washington, July 10. 'Voting ori the Cummins dnd Simmons amendments to;the " Canadian -reciprocity bill was the feature of today's , session of the Senate under "agreement for a voe on these provisions of the "legislative "day." -Senator Simmons,! of North Car olina, made a-lengthy speech in sup port of his"? amendments ,and those of Senator r.Cummins," who a:so made a few remarks. A vote on the j Cummins and , Simmons, - amendments enlarging the list of Canadian . products to he admitted free will be taken-today and unquestionably will be defeated. The business before the Senate when it met was a vote on the Cummins free flour amendment, but according to pre vious agreement, the right-of-way was giy,en to Senator Simmons for a speech against reciprocity, He contended' that even with reductions upon Canadian manufactured" PEdducts given in the agreement, the Manufacturing indus tries Of the United States would be more adequately protected against Canadian competition " than -, against competition of Great . Britain, France and Belgium. He expressed the belief that the price of farm products would be reduced under, operation of the Can adian agreement; . that the effect would not be to benefit the consum ers, but to benefit the brewers, millers, manufacturers of cereal products, and that arrangements equitable to the farmer should include a material re duction of duties on ; manufactured products used by the farmer. Senator Simmons endorsed the Bailey amend ment, which, proposes a part of the farmers" free list as an amendment to the reciprocity measure. ; 4ThAjiuse4sUt.i f -71" ft i i ' 1 " ATTORNEY MAKES BITTER ; ATTACK Oil SEE Chicago, July 10. Evelyn Arthur See was accused of hiding behind wo men's skirts when argument on The evidence was begun in court today. Assistant State Attorney " Burnham pointed out that four women have been called to the witness stand and two of them admitted writing what the prosecution considers the most damaging portions' of the "Book of Truth." He declared the testimony had been of a nature which probably had not been heard in many years. Thei; defendant's attorney, Cantwell, in making ,the usual motion to take the case from the jury was overruled? Burnham's arraignment of the defend ant; as a hypocrite affu profligate, veil ing ;his misdeeds with the cloak of re ligion, was scathing. 'Surprise" Souvenir Dance Tonight. blunders that have been described as worse than crimes. f - Real Revision Downward. The wool bill, passed by the Demo cratic House, but not acted upon as yet in the Republican Senate, reduces the .-tax on cloth " out of,r which the poor man's clothing Is made, from 160 per cent to from 25. to 40 per cent; on women's dress goods from' 150 per cent to from 30 to 5 per cent, and on blankets from'O per cent to 30 per cent. . Facts About Steel Trust. The restriction of competition, which is in violation of thelaw, was the prime object of the organizers , of 'the United States Steel Corporation, ac cording to information which has re cently come to light in Washinglpn. When formed, the steel trust had prop erty valued at $682,000,000.1 But it was capitalized at $1,402,000,000.: Of the capital stock, $720,000,000, or more than half, .was water. Three partners of J. P. Morgan advanced $28,000,000 tofinance the trust and received stock worjth $90,500,000. The average rate of profit from 1901 to 1910 on the corporation's actual - investment was 12 per cent. Although this combine is in existence in plain violation - of the law, the Taft .administration refused to prosecute it. The Taf t , administra tion, however, co-operated with the steel trust by - giving secrets of our battleships to foreign nations with the' Understanding that ; in exchange, for these secrets ' the countries ' thus 1-fa-vofed would , give a substantial con tract to the steel trust.' The man who permitted the exchange of vital gov ernment secrets in order that the 'al leged trust could increase its dividends was Philander C. Knox, now. Secretary of State. - Mr. Knox helped organize the steel trust' and went from the position of steel trust attorney ; to that of United States Attorney General,. U h ye- J' HWJ jfSI,' j- V, VJA Rome, July 10. Reports of the ravages of cholera in southern Italy and Sicily indicate that in several cities from twenty to fifty deaths a day-have i been occurring. Jnf.Messina and Palermo conditions have been the worst. In Pizzo, and Reggio natives. have become. panic stricken through the invasion' vi iub uieau uiseusM wuico is iuiuuBi aimHl.!" ll 1 II'' III I fWjltlBiJIll . T ! .-ij -'! "J-.. . Police Making Strong Efforts to- Find the Missing Epistles in the Stokes Case Girls Hinge ' Their Case on the Letters. New York, July 10. The polie to day redoubled their efforts to solva the mystery of the lost letters in the Stokes shoqting case. Tomorrow court will receive the last evidence, wheth er or not Lillian Graham and Ethel Conrad are to be held for the grand jury,, on a charge of trying to murder W. E. D. Stokes, the millionaire hotel man. The girls admit shooting "Stokes, ill their apartment, but declare the circumstances these letters .would re veal would show that the shooting was justifiable. ENT TO FEED STORM SUFFERERS Washington, July 10. President Taft has promised Representatives Clayton, of Alabama,' and Adamson, of Georgia, to direct the serving of twenty days army rations to "Sufferers from the severe storm of-. July 4th in Lee county, Alabama, and' Harris county, Georgia. -V- Well Known Educator Dead. Raleigh, N. C., July 10. John B. Carlyle, for 23 years profes sor of Latin,, at Wake Forest College, died at his' home" to- 4 day " aged 53 years. For two -4 - years he was? president of the -Baptist ,State . Convention. He was . one of the State's best known educators. ! 4 : - - T BANKERS IH SERIOUS AUTO CRASH Denver, Col., July 10. George- F. Keller and Garnett M.' Wigle, promi nent bankers, were perhaps fatally'in jured today when . an automobile plunged down a steep : embankment in Arvada, near iere. -.- Every one is kicking about the heat except those who visit the Grand The atre, r -' - " , it. ' : ' - ' i ,$1.00 Oil Clbth ,Matts54 1 inches square, 72 cents, at' Gaylord's sale. It "Surprise'' Souvenir Dance Tonight. HK 0,1 iBS lmpussioie to cure. ; ' " ' i '.V " ;V,'A"' v2'-f"W,-r- ALL BUT TWO 3; Of Passengers of the III Fated Steamer Santa Rosa Have Been Accounted For Ship Went to Pieces at Point Arguella. San Francisco, Jury 10. All but two passengers have been accounted for out of over two hundred m the steam er Santa Rosa, which foundered at Point Arguella, according to Pacific Coast Steamship officials. THREE LIVES LOST III STEAMER COLLISION Sault Ste Marie, Mich., July IO.-t-Three lives were lost when' the steam er, John Mitchell, was sunk in collis ion with, the steamer, W. H. , Mack. The Mitchell was . 420 feet long, 52 feet beam,'-2S feet deep, a-steel - ves sel with a j gross tonnage of 4,468, built in 1906yThe Mack was54 feet long and belongs to the Jenkins Steamship Company, of Cleveland. Japanese ArtSquares 9 by 12 feet $2.98, at Gaylord's sale. It. Ju THE. POLTAVA NCHED Russia Adds Another Of the' Formida " able Dreadnaught Type. ' St. Petersburg, July 10 Poltava, the second of four battleships of the dread naught type laid down in June 1909, was launched today at the Admiralty Dock: The vessel is .of twenty t three thousand tons, and in displacement di mensions is similar to 'the, Sevastopol, launched June 29th. . r . .; , t ... Stocks -.Today. . . NewYork, July 10. Wall Street. General improvement in stocks? result ed from the opening transactions' Buy ing was brisk. Reporte of better - wea ther in the crop region was borne out by a fall in grairV prices and caused a strong, active stock market. While report of the unfilled tonnage by the United States Steel corporation was much better than was expected, showing an increase of nearly 250,000 tonsj the statement . proved well, dis counted. The price of United, States Steel hovered close to 79 1-2 the. best figure of the forenoon. -: Tjie market generally showed considerable , firm ness but was very dull: ' X: i : ' Toward noon the market becahe less active. Traders await the crop report. Good quality White Lawri 4 cents a yard, Gaylord's sale. ' . j - - It.; , ft " : Y Captain Rogers Transferred. Washington, July 10-CapjL : CgD. Rogers has been detached f rpm dttty as- captain of the, Norfolk ifaVy Yard and : ordered to duty - as - commandant of tbp Portsmouth, N. H., Navy-Yard, relieving Capt,' F. A, rWilner; jretired, and ordered home.' - '".' ;, .' They Appeared and Entered . Pleas of Not Guilty and Secured Delay Until , September Will File. Demurrer . Then Bond of Each Fixed at One Thousand Dollars. ' ; New York, July 10. Eighty three wire manufacturers, indicted under the anti-trust law on charges of restraining uaue in wire proaucis, . toaay oegan a fight against the Government by en tering pleas of not guilty and securing a- delay until September to enable them to file a demurrer. Each man's ball was fixed at $1,000, ' . . GOVERIJIilEIIT ISSUES JULY SBOP REPORT Washington, July 10 The July crop report of the United States De partment of Agriculture, crop report ing board was issued -at 2:15 p. m. and show's, the condition for July 1st and yield per acre as indicated by condition at that date of the principal farm crops and the acreage of those not already announced. as follws: , Corn condition 80.1 per cent of nor mal compared with 85.4 per cent in 1910 and 84.7 per cent average for the past ten years; on that date in dicated in yield per acre .25.5 bushels compared with 27.4 bushels 1910 final yield, and 27.1 bushels average or the last five years. Area planted to corn this year, 115,939,000 acres, compared with . 11,002,000 acres in 1910. -'Winter wheat -.condition, . 76.8 pe4 cent of normal, compared with 80.4 per cent June 1st,. 1911; 81.5 percent lit 1910 and -81.4 per cent , for " ten year average. Indicated yield per acre, 14.6 , bushels.' comnared with 15.8 bnsh- year average. - Spring wheat conditipn, 73.8 per cent of a norma, compared with 94.6 per cent on une 1st, 1911; 61.6 per cent in 1910, and 87.8 per cent for the ten year average. Indicated yield per acre, 11.8 bushels, compared with 11.7 bushels in 1910, and 13.5 bushels for the five year average. Tobacco condition, 72.6 per cent of a normal compared'with 85.3 per' cent in 1910, and 86.0 per cent for the ten year average. Indicated yield' per acre, 696.1 pounds,' compared with 797.8 pounds in 1910, and 8260 pounds for the five year average. Area planted, 893,200 acres, compared with 1,233,800 acres In 1910. , ' . r ; Rice condition 87.7 per cent Of a normal, compared with 86.3 per cent in 1910, and 88.6 per 'cent for the ten year average. Indicated yield per acre, 32.2 bushels, compared with' 33.9 bush els in 1910, and 32.4 bushels for the five year average. Area .planted, 705, 000 acres, compared with 722,800 acres in 1910. " .' Japanese Art Squares .9 by 12 feet - $2.98, at Gaylord's sale, s CONDITION OF GATES IS UNCHANGED TODAY Paris, July 10; 'The condition of John W. Gates. former cotton king, who has been ill hefe for several weeks in a sanitarium is unchanged 'today. The duration of his illness has weaken ed his patient. " , "' - PRESIDENT'S CRUISE ENDS. . Washington, . July : lOr-The Wesi dent's yacht, Mayflower, with the Pres ident and a. party of guests, including Democrats and ! Republicans, - arrived" at the -"Navy Yards here-this morning at 7 o'clock, ending a two days' cruise .which 'began in Philadelphia" and ex tended down the coast through Hamp ton Roads, andjip the Potomac. ,'- MAN DIES FROM BITE, ; . ; OF A filOSfiJITO 'Newark, N. J., July 100. Aaron Ken nedy js dying froni mosquito bite pois oning. He was but huckleberry pick ing when swarms of mosquitoes attack ed' him and bit him until his features were swoilen..beyond recognition. .1 ARRANGEMENTS COMPLETE " Washington July 10. Representa tive Carlin, of Virginia, - called at the White House this ' morning and com pleted , arrangements for the' -' Presi dent's .trip -to Manassas,, 4 Virginia, July 21st to, attend the Blue! arid Grey reunlbn, the " occasion ot the . fiftieth I anniversary, of the battle of Bull Run. After, Covering Almost :,One . Hundred r and Fifty Miles op Their Way. to ; Washington . Aviators. Had , to : De scended Take Train to' Baltimore' Atwood Expects Later- Today to (. Finish the Trip. - " -- Baltimore, July 10. Forced by in tense heat, with an accompaniment ' of extremely high, humidity to discoa- ' tinue- temporarily a at ; least their pro posed, flight by aeroplane to Washing ton, Harry Atwood and .Charles ; K. Hamilton, who . left-Atlantic .City: at 5a 04 o'clock this morning, in f the lat ter's bi-plane, descended shortly after 9 o'clock, near Stemmer's Run ' Sta- ' tion, eight miles east of Baltimore on the Pennsylvania Railroad, and-came to Baltimore by train. They traveled approximately 148 miles with but one stop for gasoline, this distance being 13 miles greater than Atwood carried; his mechanician in his flight from Boston to New London, Conn. Atwood announced - his ..iritehtion; of - resuming i J hs flight later lh the day with the expectation, of" reaching Washington in time for dinner this evening; FISHER FOUNDiNO" TO DICK" LETTER. Washington July " 10. Secretary -Fisher told President Taft' that care- kful search of the Interior Department's 'f-il'i J A ' ..ft. . - i 4 eturus -laiiea 10 ' snow , me LUCK - to Dick" letter In which it ' was alleged that C P. Taft used . hisr influence, in behalf of the navigation . interests in -Alaska to . secure 'control br Controller Bay. Secretary "Fisher also told the President she saw , the article written by Miss. Abbott before it was, printed nfr'fe'membe? eCnosuc&ietter"i"n"the': article. ,v ja.w. ."- ' " :'"-?- - , . ' Commissioner . Fred S. 'Dennett, i of the general . land office, t and T Miss ;M. F.; Abbott, v a- writer, both subpoenaed as witnesses, were present when the House committee on expenditures in. 1 the Interior Department began its in quiry into the"' charge of ' alleged, "grab" -of valuable waterfront lands in Controller Bay, Alaska,? by the Gug genheim interests. ,,Published -charges have been made that Richard, S. Ryan-. of New York, . claimed to be the se cret agent of the Guggenheim syndi cate, wrote a letter to former Secre- tary -Ballanger, declaring he (Ryan) had - asked Charles P. Taft to speak to his .brother, President Taft,' about the Controller Bay claims and follow- ing this the President 'made no fur-. ther objection to my JDlaim." -The land, it is said, .was .wanted ' as a terminus for the; railroads from' the'Guggen- heim mine properties. Dennett was summoned to ' tell what he knew ' of -the ., order by the President throwing . the ; land open to entry. Miss Abbott claimed to. have made a copy of the alleged", letter from . Ryan , to Ballin ger. -. . ' ; . ' ; ., " ' London, July 10. Lord ..Kitchener is to succeed ; Sir, Eldon Go'rst as British agent arid consul- general - in Egypt. The occupant- of , this. : position is the actual ruler of Egypt. Sir Eldon Gorst has held the-office since 1907 . : : :- ;; . .. - i ".The .Thief and the Girl," a'beanti ful, Biograph picture today at tha Grand.'!'--;-"..' 'j:JV V---: W. k Surprise?SouvenirJj?aMce Tonlghtj DICK f-' f 1 V J4' r i! I - - -5 V i1 r.f .1;.
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