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a.:- ::A; v delivered In the City by Carter or' sent anywhereb. Malt" at 35 Cent Per Month; i VOLUME SEVENTEEN WILMINGTON, N. ;.C - MONDAY, AUGUST 14, 1911 , t PRICE THREE CENTS ' .T .V -'i T . .. v- illll mmwm. : A f Kr? . C Jj III K I I ; I I ' ' If ? l ily' n H I 1 " Unsettle weather with showers to-' : .sZmsM JSl S4yjkXJ4 0fS or Tuesday.; Light to meddrate ttpiiii IflFII IE PotiiniftM H'8 Mljf.Lleant as pool Yestertaj to Stetebood fiili And Many Injured in Strike piot There, Followed by a a Big Lockout Today Strike ; Fever Rapidly Spreading Throughout Great Britain Locomotive Engineers Want a Na tional Walk-out. ' : .'. -.' Liverpool, Aug. - 14. -Seriftus riot ing growing' out of the -strike which is in progress here occurred yesterday afternoon; One policeman, was killed by being struck on the head with a brick and many "persons were injured. An altercation between a policeman and strikers during a transport iworfc; ei's' demonstration' at St. Geore'slhalt, started thV trouble t hich; iaie: 4 . Lockoottin The ;thfeaning5;ikpaf -Jby ship : i i owners rbe.comeeffetite: today.. .Thirty thousand idockr risen fere Refused - em ployment; until? khby ; decided to abide by the 'terms of their recenf agree ment. ' ' M i '-, Strike Fever Spreading. . London Aug. 14.4: The strike .fever has become epidemic in Great Britain. From one end 5 of the country to the other men have .either struck or -are threatening to. Women and' girls in smaller factories are demanding better, labor conditions. .. London's ; streets are commencing to resume the normal appearances, but railroad men through out ; the .country : have . assumed : a threatening -attitude and - a" - cpmpiete tie up of the- railroad. systems js feared The locomotive engineers have adopted a resolution in favor . of a- national strike. ""-Quiet has been ' restored at Liverpool, following yesterdayls'r ? rkt i agwhen" a policeman .K8,-kiljed; and : Jbliefe'Klments -were.brought ' here..' Glasgow, .where .the street; al- way jnerii "aref on'a strike, is also quieter. today. . : ;. ; ';;? : '. It fiWD II. Y. TAILOR New York;-Aug, 14. Three are dy ing in a hospital as the result of John Vecci, amad tailor,-going to the home of his neighbors, John Armenia and wife. Armenia, was ; asleep in his apdrtment in Brooklyn; when ly Vecci burst in with aknife and a pistol. Ho stabbed tho , woman repeatedly ; and shot the .husband He. emptied.,. the -revolver -Hi" is own- body. , . I CARDINAL Rome,-Aug. 14. The serious illness of the Pope has caused talk to spring up regarding his successor Jn pase of his death. Among the leading cardi nals who would have a chance of be ing elected ate Oreglia and Rampolla Oreglia, one Of : the oldest cardinals in point of. service, was ; elevated to the position fjec. 22nd,' 18731 Rampolla oecame a cardinal Marcn l4tn, iss.; , Thre? 'ig e'fhi pf ;:iUWcurj.".; ; Atthe Bolidcomfort " It. BLOODYWORK OF; - V Ot Would Reallv be - Vetoina Ryit of People7 of Arizona and New Mexico to Qovern ThemselvesRe publican Talk About American Wages Knocked in the Head Good Roads , Will be Campaign Thunder. Washington, August 14. Are .the American people competent to rule? And if they are competent,, have they the right under the constitution to -do so? . -. v . . S Here are two vitah questions direct J ly involved in a veto ; by President Taf t of : the Flood - resolution granting siaienooq io Arizona ana ew - Mexico .-territories .which '. have these many years ) been eligible to admission' as States, V bit which have, been barred out, first, because certain big interests' in "the lerritories desfred . it, and .sec ond, because the - Republicans feared Arizona would send Democratic Sen ators to Congress. " , . The impression x that the . White House press bureau would have to go .out to; the country is that the veto was ntade necessary by. a provision in the Flood resolution which estab lished the recall. -;; Thfs Iserronebus. The facf is, both -branches otCongress were careful not to go on record either for or. against the recall.-.rThe resolu tion simply gives the people of Arizo na ; i&e' right of local self government; the right to vote on the question of recall,-, and ta -themselves determine whether they desire the recall. , , So the President is not vetoing -the recall, of- judges when he vetoes state- hood. What he really is 'vetoig Is the dl of Arizona-li) de- RSe ' u llL" V emslyelhejrjaoi j, rignt; ot tne cide for.- themsely uublican government under , which .thex wish ,to live. "Yu .folks . in Arizona axe: not-intelligent enough? too selept the- form of ; government .under: .which you are tp live," is. ther ultimatumV.the President ,lay- down by, vetoing., thle statehood resolutioTtr Jtn.TTa?e irouiu have-his will .prevail instead! of the will of two thirds of the Ipeopler of Arizona, t ... .-. . .' ' ; , The Republican argument that a high tariff is necessary to maintain the high American wage" is shown up as a farce, by the presence in sev eral American .manufacturing commu nities, of agents of Canadian manufac turers, who are gathering " figures to show that Canada ' cannot compete against American, wages. The Canadians, for. instance,, are learning that, men ..work, in the steel mills; twelve houra; at day, and t seven days a .-. week for ' a dollar -and. a half a day.- It is because they do ndt wish . t& -compete- against ; tlie'cheap for eign immigrant labor' employed: by.thie steel and : otherJ.tr4istsrihat4some of the Canadianarettjig. the defeajt of repiprociiiyJ , 1 ' . ) And, yet, tne uepumican . proieciiuij- ists haVe argued all tiiese years that the great .danger to American labor was ttte possibility that' it might hayej to . .compete wim me .cneap lauyr ua other countries. . The information gathered by the Canadians knocks the legs from under that ancient conten tion, so far as ; Canada is concerned, at least. . . . . Speaker. Ciark. plans to" make good roads an issue, of the next-campaign. As' a member, of 'the Lincoln Memo rial Commission Mr. Clark is advocat ing the building of a great highway from Washington to" Gettysburg, "as . i' f .: " . . - - the npceug of -a great syajem-oi.n,ar tionaf ifads Jniltbx:the f3Cveriitnent in co-operation with the States." The majonxy :oi iiie-. uviuiuicsaivu lavuio, marnie; area 'in wabmugLuu, TVUl',if the - Speaker says .would form a fine meeting place for English sparrows. but 'which would- iiot .fit -to With thepng stabbed in the heart with a ht Tvotiai' fhftrsir.tftr'. of -'--the;CTeat'"-Lini'Titii li-'Vhn"'Trti,-'iiQ-ir v, coin: i The Speaker has ; induced the President to defer, action -until legis lation can - be pasised permitting the biiilding of f-the- road. 1 He will- then work for the adoption by the Govern!- ment of a national road building pol icy. r":Zy .vy":' " " s . That Attorney General -Wickersham will become a campaign Issue by 1912 is regarded as certain) lay ' those who are looking ahead. Wickersham has permitted Taf t to; be besmirched in the Pinchot and other matters. Wick ersham was on the side of Ballinger against Pinchot just as hes .is at pres ent against DrWiieyrDevelopments in the steel Jtrttst'investliatioli furnish ed- fresh evidence tliatWickersham eplifies;' tha the the opinion, of many ih,j5equenceoj! ' 4 J.iy..K,v 1 fl STEAMER JfiHtl LOCK g 1 , V. , :CincinnatLug-.-44.---Year round nayigatlon of the waters of the middle west by -large; craft, will .be materially increased through the completion 'of the iminense dam across the Ohio river at Fernbank, near this city ; The dam ' l 'wWlKeep a continual pme loot tleptn or water in sections of the river where at times thp water fell tbelow" this caark; The lock,' fSjfl means of -which vessels gq past the dam, is 600 feet long and lid feet wide. - . iJ2iJlli-l fJiL-k .m . : - y -. w- v '-a. Hi if on Typhoon in Japan Killed Hundreds arid Wreaked Great Damage Afloat and A&hore Loss at.Tokio FourMilllon Dollars Smashed a; Corner in Rice. ' Victoria, B. a, Aug. 14. More than 500 lives, lost and grat devasta tion ashore and afloat .resulted from a typhoon and tidal wave that swept over - Japan July ' 26th, according to advices by the steamer Empress of Japan. At Tokio.a tidal wave swept away, many houses. A torpedo boat was 'swept ashore and several steam ers foundered, while big liners dragged theif.; anchors. .The loss at Tokio is 14,000,000. The typhoon broke a cok her n the rice .market, the firm ; that had, . cornered it losing hundreds of thousands bushels. ' .- - ' ; --.-f y' ' ' N lYER VRE Fort WaVne, Ind., Aug. 14. A revis ed list of the dead and injured as the result of the Eastbound, 18-hour Penn sylvania Flyer from "Chicago to New York, .leaving the track one mile West of here last night, shows two dead, two missing and thirty injured. It is prac tically certain, that the two missing men; the fireman and. engineer, aro dead,4; ' - - . . . THE DEADLY HATPIN. One ,Ypung4 Woman Stabbed Another 4 ' ' In -the Heart, ,Naw York, Aug. 14. A quarrel among young women returning .early this tiiorning from Long Island result ed in'l?-year oldAlyeda Carpenter lie- pin.' f The' police' .have arrested ljer companion, charged with the murder. all this will be that Taft will get many a" whack oyer Wickershams shoulder. f When' .be Sherman anti-trust law was passed legislation was directed toward j-the prohibition, or destruction of monopolies. Roosevelt, Taft and RooseVelt. have iiot ; the idea of trust dissolution. .They 'advocate - instead that- the ; existence of the trusts be recognized and legalized, but that their greed -be curbedrby Government regu lation It remains to be seen whether the'.people are ready -to confess that the Competitive fstem., is obsolete; to i.aba,hdon .a system.- which, affords free reign ; for indiyidual jenterprise; jand?teeslishin its fplace :, ceh,tral; izedi.Governmehtwith the business pf ized i .Government i with ; the business REVISED LIST OF FfcYER WRECK VICTIMS r II HI Mob in Oklahoma Yesterday Took'the Body of the Negro Lynched Satur--day and Burned j It Negroes -Being Warned To CleaTf Out."' -. . . . . "- - Durant, Okla., Aug. 14. Although little condemnation was offered for the mob which yesterday burned to ashes the "body of the negro who assaulied Mrs. L. R. Campbell, every ef fort will be . -made to jipprehend the leaders. Mrs, . CampbelL" shot by the,, negro- after he attacked her is in a serious condition. All the negroes have been warned to leave Durant. Most of them left today. Se rious race trouble is feared at Caddo?, 12 miles north, .from which place the burned . negrb, , it is said, came here. The .attack on Mrs. Campbell followed a series of wild 'erimes, which ld to the belief that the negro was dement ed. .A posse found the negro, twelve ;miles southwest of- here when a- run ning fight ensued. The posse numbeif-r ed fifteen men- and it was' estimated;! 150 shots were fired at the negro be fore his body-" was ; picked up The corpse . was bro.ught here, A mob of 500 persons met the. posse at the out skirts. The body was taken from the officers and carried1 tb Mrs. Campbell's home. She identified it. The body was then taken to a vacant lot. near the city's center, and burned on a pyre of -dry goods boxes. 4 ,; THE COTTON MARKET. New York, Aug. 14. The cotton mar ket opened steady at the. advance of 8 to 11 points and sold about 10 to 11 points net higher during 4,he first half hour - .on better cables than espected and apprehensions of continued cr.op deterioration,; as the result" of .dry 'hot weather in the Southwest Liverpool turned easier' shortly after' the local opening, with private cables reporting that labor troubles were becoming more diespread and local market eased off in sympathy with prices, Only 3 or 4 . points above closing ; figures Satur day's latein, first hour.; - , v -Reacti(jh'frpm early high prices was f ollbwed by renewed firmness. Late in tW forenoon,, with early sellers cover ing on expectation that Texas weather would show ; high temperatures over Sunday, and 'pn1lrumbrs. of v bullish -private condition j on report to be issued today, or tomorrow. J Active 1 positions sold: up to a net garn'of about .13 to 15 points with y-Octoberl-ealling at .il.28 or 28 " points above the.:low level of Saturday morning. -iWt-'-'-'li .t. Daford' v they. "Map. ',: Behind? the en HiBODi j .v::-:- -i-:. ii 1 a ill '. - ' -JT5-.: -'i.v. r w, .-.A'qww.'.?- More ' Evidence : ''Obstacles ; thrown ' in the Wayo Dr. Wiley-Solicitor McCabe Wouldn't Allow information ' bt Given United States District' A. torneys. , Washington Aug. 14. Restrictions placed upon Bureau of Chemistry offi cials, by Solicitor McCabe on their talking with United States District At torneys has greatly hampered the work in the district , laboratories where . at torneys prosecuting the pure food cases often seek expert advice, accord ing to Dr. W. D. Bigelowthe Bureau Assistant Chief, who today' again -aH pearedl as; witness) before-' the Hdttsje Committee1 1 investigating the charged against Dri Harvejr W. Wiley: "Bigelpw officials were, ja.ot io.ialk -with -district jfttorneys without TjePrffftWT M Washington, Aug.14. Mrs. - ..John McClintock, aged 85 years, was brutal ly choked and beaten, yesterday -by two negroes in her home, near An nandale, Va., and $700 was .taken., She was attacked as she slept by the side of her bed-ridden husband. The . ne groes, took the money belt from about her waist. Officers "are searching for the negroes. .. ' " ' ..... . -1 -"w vk iff 5 Vm Pope -Slowiy; Improving. . 4-r Rotnev Aug. ; 14.: Physicians; v today- found ' Pope Pius' 1 condjkx tion little changed but a slowf gradual ipproyement is.percePviTr.T Mtible. Cooler' "weather had a? favorable . effect ; upon ItleMpt 4 'tient. . ly..'.,-;, ". . : '". ,:'' " - :.4 4 ( ATWOOD STARTS ON BIG TRIP. St. Louis7 Aug. 14. Harify . N.. At wood, of Boston, Cthe aviator- this morning began, a record f breaking flight. t)f l;460 miles across "the conti nent from stLoms to New York and other cities. Savahnab Ga'Aug.; 14.Turpentine ffrnt"fiIil-2 bid .' rbsinfirm type.Pr6.40 t6 645; G, 6.40 :tb4gj h&WQ Lm Subscribe t .ThTV; Evening Dispatch Prf-i H-lf.lH i.'i BWIIffillM:- PLACE IK VIRGIHIA FEW, Witnesses Were Examined and . Beulahj Binford Not Called Bill Charged Murder in the First Degree Date. of Trial Will, Now Be Deternv ined'Upon. Chesterfield Court House, Va., Aug. 14. The Grand Jury met this morning to consider the case of Henry Clay Beattie, Jr., the twenty-six year old' son of, a Richmond merchant charg ed by the coroner's jury with murder ing his young wife, July 18th. -The indictmeijit charges' murder in;te firs: aegree and was in the clerk's hands when the grand jurors arriyedk tfflQi but four witnesses to' be heard the spectators, have prepared for only ; a brief wait before, the: (document will be handed down formally and the date for a trial fixed. The sheriff has an- riounced that Beittie ould be kept in1 the x Richnftnd ' jail- faring today's proceedings. Paul Beattie, Henry's cousin, and Beulah Binfprd, the viva cious seventeen year old girl, for love of whom the prosecution charges Beattie killed- his wife, reached the court house' early in officers' custody. The other witnesses heard by, the Grand" Jury, included Thomas E. Ow en, Mrs. Beattie's . uncle, to whose home Beattie 'brought the body with his tale of a mysterious man. firing into his automobile from the roadway. The indictment charging Beattie with murder , is the usual document .brist ling with, legal verbage. It describes the commission of the crime and con cludes solemnly that the jurors "Upon tbeir ths doj? sayhe-'i said Henry "Clay ( Settie Jr., feloniously, willfully and of malice aforethought did kill and 'pmurder -and 'against the peaee- and dig nity of the-Commonwealth' of Virginia" hi tweniy-ithree year '-Old wife Louise Wellford-Owen Beattie. Upon this indictment the State will tiy' and send the tprfsoner ' taf the1 electric ' chair; ' : Vf-r vr-r.'frue Bill Returned; -' :- ! ' A true- ibill, charging murder in the first degreerwas returned by the grand jury of Chesterfield Circuit Court this afternoon against Henry Clay Beattie, Jr of Richmond. He will be tried for his life, as the alleged murderer of his young wife, the .victim of'the Midlo thian turnpike tragedy. . After the grand jury, brought in the indictment court adjourned " until the afternoon, when tlie date of trial is expected to be set. Neither Beulah Binford, nor Paul Beattie jvas -called before the jury as a-witness. - Both re manned 4n the anteroom while '.the jury were iiir Bessfotil i The indictment cOy- rso broadly all : degrees, of homicide;. from t'lnurdfer- in;.: the first- degree - to manslaughten,'-i fr s--'iU.-i -. -i v-f lj 4 1 1 : at "Stocks Today. .New York, Aug. 14-. Wail Street.-?- !PjAces' rebounded' 'sharply atvttie? open ing largely on 'Lohdoh's l-oiti'ative gajfajs and ranged' one ' tb two points 'ere e? pecialW ''strengthening" in' Standard t tlail way fe'hares;1 r Trading 'was active. . : Abatement of selling noted ( in ' the second hour in many instances. - Prices were lifted back to " early high, By noon the' list showed most substantial improvement "The Holy City" Will be rendered today at the Grand by Danford. , . It. II . : JVashington, Aug., 14. Agitation among members of -Congress looking fo a JSederal law regulating; marriage and divorce is the result of the storm of -protests.' over, the . approaching ma- .riage. Af John Jacob . Astor and Miss Madeline: iForce.i f rSenate Curtis, of rKansas. is among the advocates of such a .measure. He says it is a mat ter- vitally? affecting the social inter: ests of the Nation. He says no man whose wife has divorced him orf charges ofjtspecific crime 'should be Dermitted :' tov marry again. ' Both mar riage and divorce sho.uld be more dif ficult. Representative Sheppard, of Texas, thinks an organization might 4 influence .various States to join in a plaat f or ifiaif orm - divorce ,-. laws . . -. ,p -.. - v. ' ; vi-r. . -i i 'ih'v -i r . ii -- . ' H --V'.' m. . rj . .... ... . .. i r. ' The Vocalist Sensation of the' Day.; Difbrdg the ;' u'Man' ;' Behind the V6ice,"hdw;atahe Grand; 44! 'V VL. TO GOVERN . :a iLl. '- fj n t: . ' Negro Who . Slew Pennsylvania Po liceman Taken From Hospital and Burned Carried Out onCot In Most - Barbaric Manner and Put to Death- Women in the Crowd Great Wave, of , Indignation and Ring-leaders of the Mob Being Hunted For. Coatesville, Pa., Aug. 14. Zacharlah Walker, a negro desperado, was car ried on a cot from the hospital here tonight and ' burned to a crisp by a frenzie46b, of men and: boys. on a ifire which tiiey ' Ignited about " a half " uiie jvft ,,ojYn. 5 1 ne negrp, wno naa.1 kjijei ! dgah $o; ;a, policeman of : jte?: Wotthi iltn toilk1, :iast night,'- was first ; dragged to the scene of the shooting begging pitepusly , for mercy. . He. had , been arrested by a posse, latte this .af-; " ' iferhdon .4 after ? ai search-wftih had .; stib-; red: the .country ' dei iWbfejii Ithe pessV: finally; located: him,he wa&jdundj hid-: i ing in a cherry tree and with the last ' bullet in his revolver shot himself in the mouth, falling from the tree. He was removed to the hospital and plac ed under police guard. ' A few minutes after 9 o'clock a crowd numbering almost onet thou sand persOfis appeared at the hospital. The . leaders ' were, unable .to gain ad mission, burquickly. smashed the win dow frames and crawled .through the corridor. A policeman who' had, been placed on duty to watch .Walker, was the only person in the' building be sides the nurses and patients, The leader of the mob .placed ihis hand3 . over the ., policeman's ejjes rwhile oth ers, who had entered the hunaing, set about to take their, man from" the. hos pital. .When Walker was taken to the 'ospltaf e'wi!jm; Jf : or- der to 4 prevent his .escape.: The. mob " seeing this gathered . up'( the bed and placing it on the - shoulders ; of four men, started; for the -country. . : . (Burned at the f Stakes n Theylef(thel1towir3riwyijQf Ithb Toweryille road, and iVhenhalf a mile the hospital 'stopped '-at a farm liouse. Here they entered a field and quickly gathering iP & pile . of dry grass and weeds, placed tne bed con taining their victim upon it. l"he ne gro was .begging pltebusly to be re leased, but his pleading fell upon deaf rs. A match was placed to the pile of grass and the flames shot up quick ly, entirely enshrouding the scream ing victim. That not a vestige of the murderer be left the -jnob tore down the' fence along the' road and piled the rails uponthe burning negro.1 " ' Women In the Crowd. After waiting. for?' half .an hour, the mob dispersed as quietly,, as it had come. A carious feature, of r the burn ing was the fact that; thefey were al most asmapy , women In. . the crowd , as menl. Juring the marchTfom the hospitariip the scene cf thef burning of the negro, - a: distance of less than three-qurtrs f a mile, .not a police man ks . encountered i by the deter mineffmobv Even the man m duty in the hospital made -no" effort, to stop the fifteen or more, headers who had gained; admittance1 to - the'' in8titutpn. v .The pnly masks worn by the mem bers of the mob, were handkerchiefs drawn loosely over their -faces;' The frenzied mob's work in drag ging Walker, j the , wounded'" ne gro f rom - a hospital ,and burning him to death for killing policeman Edgar Rice, Saturday night, has aroused in dighation, , Everything is being done to identify; the mob ringleaders. iThis quiet v4 Quaker community Js deeply StirredvThousands of persons journey ed to, the scene of the burning today. , Nothing was left of Walker, but his aahes ' . all unburned portions of the bospHalcQt which formed, part of his pyie , having been ' gathered . up by souvenir :-: huntef s. ' Sooft after . being capldred ; '.Walker. - tried j suipide . by shooting' himself. The negrpr'cpnf ess ed the Crime;. . Cbatesvllie i stteets are .vaUyfilfed -with people on Saturday nights. Following . the negro's cap- . turef.and removal to the hospital hun dreds gathered about the hospital. ' As the" crowd increased talk of lynching Spread; A masked man finally mount ed the hospital steps, shouting: "Men -of Coatesville, will you'let a drunken negro do up such a. white man ;-as h Rice?" The crowd was ' transformed " into riotous mob. An attack was made on" the hospital, the frightened negfo" being tied to a cot and 'removed to a new land f arn!.r The moh did its wfork ' .' quickly," placing thej negro in the mid ; aie oi a piie ui wuuu ouu uiusu nuu applying matches, ' y m m am. ir -'a - f
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