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THE DISPATCH Kit? J I- V1 Dellveredjnt-the Ciiy by Carrier, $rv sent anywhebyMall t S5 Cents Per Month, ' , ; - V Showers tonigit. or, SunOay,vLIglit volume seventeen; WILMINGTQN, N.;C, SATURDAY, AUGUST '26 1911 PRICE : THREE ; CENTS $ V. r'v , ' etK;:;..'-: i TJ7!fr ? ' V ffliiiii Iv HI if a - . . U ) f" 4 . WMAmimm r . .. . .... ' . urn. 10 1! 1 III A--, -.1. r iy - TJ- 'St iejlligle; Mft Vomon in tha Prosecution ;This-T Morning introduced a Witness, to ,rbve, ; By Circum stances, That" Beattie Hid . the Gun Alongside the Road Before Tragedy Was Enacted- Jurymen Closely Ex amined the Automobile and Beattie Coolly Assisted Them- Number of Witnesses Examined Today. Chesterfield Court House, Va., Aug; 26. Henry .Clay Beattie Jr's. trial for tion of the floor of the car underneath' the wheel. : The floor was removed an4 one juryman : i stuck his head through,, the, c .rtog to determine if any blooduli tricMed through. Beattie sharplyY "wed the Jury-J sisted them inen's every, move. in prying -open parts f. strolled . confidently uro e seat and the auto v wife murder .wtesunled at; 10:35 tte ;his .straw ha.t tilted V side ? a portfolio of papers ,,er hial' " and - t - - arm Stroking ' his- paint Brush beard he stood gaping at the caj-till Judge jfeti soil ; reminded, biiu ofhis dutyH ' ;; -- y"! -reckon ye all will J.have , to git back heye: This ain't sno circusrhe cautioned, and the crowd saggedback for "a" minute, but soon : pressed fr- ward again One juryman 'crept under--the from . behind and examined . thfe yvoa. chinery. The inspection '.was condoct ed': in silence. :'s jY-- ' o clock this mortifig; 1 , The -court ficials . were hte? liyjV because v of muddy roaascj ne,j; cpurr room was i i Sheriff Gill wass a bit? lax in keep- xrowtied wun spectatprsxiounf Beat-ijng tne crowd back from.the machine. lie, settLeu ueam w. uf itti.uer, wits W read in the', morning ; papers a verbatim-account of yesterday's testimc As he took; his ; seat .Judge Watson, rapped ' sharply, appealing to Virgin ia Gentlemen'reseht I 'to' keepl their coats on in deferenco to- the ladles present. . ". : .. E. K. Mosely aged eighteen, one of J the high school hoys, who claimed on the night of the tragedy to have pass ed a machine similar to tha in which . Beattie and wife were supposed to be, wag, the first, witness. He was a member. of the paVty. attending a din ner at Bon-Air and wefe returning to Richmond in machines on the' night of the tragedy "Did you pass a machine on.the way to Richmohd?" Moseley "was asked by the, prosecution : - " " - "Yea., One with a lady and msakvha it. r;ltVwaslStanding still." : ' " 'h J "AVhat. was the: Toolmgwith- "Did yoa offer i thing lors cl'.Wher was the i; ;"Standing .oa 'tne leit-nana ooaru. '7-r The ' defense; took the witness and . Hill Carter .asked if he remembered . the exact5 hour. - - ' ' . . iTt was after; ten when we left Bon Air. We got .home about eleven;" 5n car Before returning, to the court room; Beattie coolly : ealled; attention tcv,via punctured' 'tlr'ef .ant : JudgerWM8onr- dered the chauffeur to have it fixed. Court then adjourned for its after- . r;.i ii'v i 7 v4 fM:At;JTO HEAT noon recess. An important- Point. .This morning's Jte'stlmony developed that B,. Adams, one- pf the Joys re turning froth, -the f BdnAir : dance' in another ironveyance. atone, saw a man, ' - r l 6f 3? . -V'.i 1CHARLE3 .SCHWAB! L New York, Aug. 26. Unusual, as was his career, was thAmeral of John W; Gates, the American financierOwho died in Paris. -When the body, arrived by steamship it was tpn tc-the Hotel Plaza, where services' were ' held. unaacompahied, standing byv a machine Then," snrrounded by members of his family and many men olnance and personal friends, the body was placed in an mandc4ng taken to beautiful Woodlawn cemetrf, where it was deposited in a splendid vault. Amorie, jthe hOvi were 9harles M. Schwab, theTstellagw" . asstancer-v';v- ;.l w ftrlih &tK-jb&7&i&mianertW& I .niitand:dvin lJey. the noted raliroadm . -rv - i : r ----- . . - t a art , - - t i i i ii i it : m i v 1 1 1 1 i i ii j. i. ' r w n V 11 ladyr ? r' a 1 Hlfill M I IlllVk IIL VluUI H i deed6t whichhe "stands ac'cusetf ' y" Yesterday Afternobn;;" j " ! r ' i AaivmiHn' !iWnr . that '"between sunset' and dark on th6 night 6l the Race War Starts Over Dispute Between murder.1 he saw an' automobile 'similar J to Beattie's halt at 'the roadside hot 'When ydtt i later visited ' the scene j far from the scene 'of the crime.' A oPthe blood spots, was it near where ione man stepped out, he said, and you remembered "seeing the machine this man, the prosecution will attempt Twq Bell Boys Officers Went to Ar . rest Them and Were Fired On Miij- tla Rvdy to Move. stop that niiht?" 'Ys-. somewhere around mere. , Corroborated Moseley. i W. B, Sydnor another, boy of the party, corroborated Moseley's story, to show, was Beattie, concealing .the on, Ga., Aug. 26. In a race riot, at Indian Springs hotel one deputy was killed, another fatally injured 5 and Likely Hangs ome Coming Session of the Floweryl ingdom's- National -Assembly Amtan G'rH Making An Interesting ur of China. gun with which it is alleged he shot ,njured Tnere was a general exodus of guests. The Jackson Rifles are in readiness-to leave immediately. i An altercation between two Dell Doys his wife. Tally , a laborer, swore that about 11 o'clock y that night . sitting on the adding 1na1. 5ae wuu1.111 1 bacK porcn 01 ms .nome, nut mi ""M--aD0Ut dividing a "tip'-led to the clash, the ninning-bdard wore a brown ram roadside, he heard the scream L a wpnt t arrpsf the neer(fcs. ccf, or 'duster. Previous testimony aW0man,then a shot-and finally thdmen tbe officerg appr0ached the established ;tKat: Mrs. Beattie was at- noise of an automobile' starting. ; v Ineetn flWers "a fusillade 'greeted tired similarly on thefnight or. tne , The Briggs boy testified that - some f1 murder.; Hkattieystened the declarations of the boys, oveihe4fienehile :.hh automobil passed-a : intently tp m'e i)etwel0:30 aiid lidbck on Sleaning e sajne iiight he ahd'a- numbrof HUNDRFDS OF SHOPMEN i LAID OFF FROM WORK Rola LASsiter, tollQwingdselejy gtahdW'bn'ihtumning ;Mbadr.1 1.. iri svdnbil' iaid he wasunnSng his TM,ft : 0 sKedthe''iniah fatber;tar ind was famiar with tlie e saw was theiisonerV ;ut under various, makes of machuies. He de- 'cross'! .exarntiatlon ' ty tJth"d6if fenrhei ciweu-i-u.'iuT3i..--4ir'' 1 maimaiueu luai'iuej rf aad aan some- car ot Vre&ai'nder 'b thfe "jc 6th er( journey ' Ut i V - ' - !; , . Sararaento, Cat.' Augv 26, Thirty dip WrrdEith4 1 OpniBiffi IntSputhern "acific snops . were laid off yesterday. Bdarcity of .work is given as a reason he coming session the National As to prove an in critical one for Pekin, Aug. 26 of the Tzuceng Yl - 1 sembly, is exped teresting if not) China. The newly instied Cabinet, recog nizing the impoice of developing the- country, has tion of construct out the land wi frpm abroad. A ernment's' prograj cal and control on the idnhipg bqa what ohcnnrert bv tne nooa was . Oi n-.RIihmnnd. " ' i make similkf to the Beattie automo- Cross "examined- tty H. W- . Smith, rted'" his gun and beaten him with it bile. .The prisoner xbntlnually,.prQmpt- for the def enSe th wijtness1- admitted I until only a; frazzle was left." ed Attorney. Smitn,-ms counBet,; v-a that he was not an expert on auiomo-i ( .Among tne)tner witnesses at tne ticularly directing a .line 01 question- .MlejJ and mlgnt mistake a tour-pas- afternoon session - were 1. y. etti: ing which "might .indicate tnat tne senger car for a five-passenger car. grew to whom, a 'negro delivered the hrivs mnnliiTifta were running. too fast H. ntiinir eenerallv'to bis story, how-j ehn.' N. H. Jacobs., a justice of the to remember stores and . buildings eVer. - ' - - - - peace, '.of Chesterfield county, Eddi along the road-by which the youths gam Tally who 'said ; he. worked in Shepai'dson, "and -'James' Thomas, both claimed to: have later .. lQca$ed Atneia--quarry followed the dairyman on I negroes . who lived near the scene r b murder as identified) wtn the" Stand. - J . ; - . - ' -'- , ; the crime. r 6t :the machihthey passd called to the Owen my house 'abbut 00 - yards frdni thf Jbbrne pbn affer the tragedy, testified road ", lly' tpstffied In direct exafci- thai Beattie gave him a statement or ihatiOn;-'hen,Ali of a suddent about p:e 1 allegod encounter subs amially as Vi r.viAftk heard the 'scream' of irtoldtb .ritutrs. 'fue hoy had claimed, its inten- railways" through- money borrowed jimtim of $200,000,- 000 will be-meed4or this project, of which . the Hukw 000,' signed in M first instalment Established That a Broken Rail Was Responsible tor Yesterday's "Awful Railroad, - borrow Undertakers Worked All Night. Embalming Bodies. ' A ' ' .- ' Manchester'; N.v Y., Aug. 26. A brok en rail, it is established, 'causeel' the wreck of the LeHigh Valley train, which pluged over Canadaigua trestle yesterday afternoon," killing twenty five and injuring fifty or sixty pothers. S$ixteeh undertakers worked7 rough out the night embalming bodies: . This hnoming eleven . bodies had not been fdentifle'd. The train was iacked;with prandArmy , veterans, returning from, the Rochester encampments Most df Loan of .$50,000,- provides only the them were.enroute to theiMhomea did New Jersey -and PeBnsyjvlaSefesi, s 01 me unmese, ii me injurea were tasen to various incial Assemblins t nearby citjes:, 5 j.m Ml a i of the Tzuchenff ' "I'T : ) W Mmi -' But the great as; well as the and .the elected Yuan, are violentbposed to- the Gov. And those-mem bers of the Tzug Yuan who are chosen by the pices are the radi- section of that body The newsirs of the country, which enjoy pectj liecense, are how oalling Sheng HI Huai, President of the Board opmmunications, a traitor to China, put through andpd the Hukwang contract. several scene of the the positidtt DtdnV Need Help. . .1 t. PaWohoii nepd 17 vears.' who the prince Regeir the dismssal'of Prince Ching fro In combatting olicy the Prince net in. whose ha still preserved, i or-conlrol the said, drnv tha maoftnA ear of the boys, aaid he slowed three or me man V, 1 . ml. e. . 1 Cnxunn ' 1 Cries OI a man lot Usi,y iu' muuiia raiujij n w an si itmu , wo vYY"j , xioii , surprise sprung. I tha Als ma-chine to a speed 5of woman, tnen ol;i;" l -lr1,' Lf?y;''. w; Ue.,Mu ii .u.-. four mileraii hour and apke utes; -more 4 ..? an couja,meu JV lo" T .. Lti-r . -v . f Uhofc-He had examined: ' the vt j.m s aK I ?a vWn ; : ' ':Did you -hear 5. anything -. else, 1 thfe . bodknd had -und dirt he w'as mol te ah&wer ..was JXo., , w..?. j l.ZXJZ'y iiki Wo' . 7 1"; .:r:ir- -jmWkmmblim tnrr naked: ffl$Wkte?f&& "m. JW idn the, gun wnenirsi Jiinioru, i.x,.,, lah RfnfrirH was . suddenly - called JWSW-.. 7 " JVT. 'a " w r ,r7-. 7-7" - - -.- - ; t nl 1 -. UtJ ttiitYVTWrt-rt alt HTTJir I BmrArol "narcntm whrt- hart ::m 1. ie-.Warde4 blKhWin'--red around ;,h bl,dy .-.r-toa o ,k, .i' o-Ar0 .a white into thenar. , i .; H ; ,. the-wf epon. . r . , :. ; : " 110 .uuvl eui" 5 -.H..! did. not. said be; thess.;, Butlailie ij!fero,-Tr;omas, whose hons-e ar . : i " t. -1 A f nrthor Wamination he ' admitted I sinlius about 150 yards f rdm wlifive .C!Mr; 'niiat ho mkht havo &M the morl.. Uhe Wl,od ..pot was' found ifhe ro,H . . I ATi automobile borti sounded, -tie re i hno'after me-c'i.ej'vtnea tne suou J.e ination waft; delayed accordingly. . .;a"f w . - . . i caiiea xiaviuK uuu 3k i wu . iuo-.yu;vi, - jurors fcxanr.-:ie ruw.. - - - , im::: Lii i. 5:. ' f c. crowd ; Jil.ed tie and a -party . 01 uiqer w " r'fTf nB?JIJl ' "r .va:5 ;U1 . luuuu . Ul .. " t was the visited the scenes ' V jiune jsneparuoii nyy, wuu " irom me scene, iPiU The jury, followed by a out to see the Beattie car. ,. . .- , . "what dm von say -meu . ue ". ea- two buusicb, num iuc.dcu, iuiu first timethfeiiurvmen had.seenthel wnat aiay , J: . - i- ,!.; natwl -;- vv- f i of Having neara tne snot ano tne noise machine. -Thev lifted ud its upholster- asked. ., .- -; .,v . - . -vd,iv. ;!i.;x.J-' , - , ti, . nr '1 said - that if a man woum ed seata, peered underneath the gears 1 .X,, and nosed :.afound..thfi .steering- wheel; snotinto paying, particuiar attention to the bi-'i car . Starting -toward town. he reason that he At the rrounds e time appeals, on e been made to e Premiership. hostility to their ent and the Cab i- all-real cower is reparing to limit of the National Assembly -whic' via be remember ed, came into be irough the efforts or the Throne a le government to reorganize the a istration and "pro mote av.ancemel tern-cc(un tries iT$ief ear of tlJ the lines of Wes; sses is of foreign ernmeri dra to lhsueagai'ns of the lending contraci)bra herd ment'ofllcialsV d! dencepi- the' pe foreign, Joans Miss 5hzabt hisiorytil FIFTEEN LIVES LOST BY POWDER New-York, Aug. 26. Cable dispatch es from Portlimon, Costa Rico, tell of the lcs of fifteen lives in a - powder magazine explosion at San Jose. The dead includes two army officers. The explosion was due to a soldier's carV lessness. " ' 4' "1 Want to Go' Back to Carolina." "Will Be-Sung Today at the Grand by Danford. '." ,-' it - Syracuse Democratic Leader Dead. i racuse, Aug. 26. Wiliia'nlfB.vKlrk, former mayor and' the'cjityDemcH cratic leader, died this morning, ; control hecominked ; upon v themi along with' the tys but the Goy- all loan agree-! merfts ; with cararecieioh in order such calamity; -It is c6nsjdered.uniateby the agents I and the foreign Chinese Govern- enjoy the - cdnfl who believe that LYNCHBURG MOB TRIED , v TO tyfJCH flRIRER 1 Jr.'; v- Lynchburg, Va., Aug. 26,--Early .this mbrnng a moh surrounded the. jail to get possession of Mercer Garland, the --Tiegr-o who shot Policeman .Ware Thurs day. "iVbtfiyj "object fecials fs making br purposes of! 'qUeese or,' af called in Amer- ica;'. 'graft." i da.il, - professor, of : College,; is , just V The. mob was timid and was dis persed, 'after. , Fletcher ;'. Mercer, ' its spokesman hadbeen " arrested.' - .The negro , jwras, secretly taken to Roanoke, before the mob congregatedThe town is- quiet. ' Joy Riding Fuh. Grand. Today. f In the ; Biggest .vof All . Atitomobile 'The 'Auto Bug.". ii FrcoUijr Rus ' li. Extensive Experiments Being Made lo anow eecman Soldiers All About Farming Angles of th F6Hierland to Stock. Their Streams With Amer ican Trout .Be?Uia ; An- -26aE-reaching v ex periments are being -made in the Gemah army -in teaching the soldiers both, practical and theoretical farming ui lus uieir service y in tne ranks Many of tile, soldiers, even those from the cities," become so interested that when they, have finished their, term they takeadvaatageol; a vlaw passed some years ago, by which -they: are enabled , to. purchase stnall plots of land,. '.by the. paynientta, ready money of a quarter of its value, in tnts way it is hoped to stem. the rush of people from the agricultural ': districts to the cities, which has caused so much anx- icijr iu tue autnomies or : recent years The Prussian State itself sells much of its reclaimed moor-lands in this manner in plots ranging from half an acre, to twenty-five acres. ' It' charges -Interest at the rate of only 3 1-2 per cent on three-quarters of the purchase money, and also advances money for the erection, of houses, and Darns. - rue tenant 1 may pay oft ? as much as he likes gvery year, and, after a certain number of years' the property becomes -his own. In some instances larger plots of land are (acquired from private owners by- the Stater and laid out in contiguous small ' farms, which are sold in a similar manner to farm laborers. These", by a system of ccr operative working, ara. enabled, to cul tivate their , land at a. much 9 cheaper rate than- if they weeV working 'alone The idea pf the-gradual pur.chase sys- tenisspreadb3grapidl3& ttoaugiLihe Qygs.effqrts jural aPF- '.?wl4vatjed: are beop)ing thriving. jB'lra'auThe Gov- ernn3?nt iPW apiWtnted.. , 15Q ft commis Sioners,,to. a.ssisjt, in, the ;jpurchase. of :thrVty worKers. . ' , i, ; . , ! . , The hoof and mouth disease Is now making much ravages among German flocks that even the Agrarian organs admit that the .meat supply of the country is seriously threatened. ' An official report of the Imperial Govern ment, dated July 3t,. shows that 31,- y2b farms, located in 4,808 different districts, are affected. One result of the -spread of the disease has been a reduction in the , number of cattle in country,.. f. , ' ..vi Ul r J According -to, the r. latest,, official re P0rtr;the. numher of all-live.,stocfc eid ?$P$,v?wAH?f bT9&t., tof markets this year has, been smaller than in 1910. ,p claimed. , :by. , ,thf, - Agrarian news paper;. jtha , Jthe , isease was,, brqught Into .Germany .. in . .June, 1910. ..from Rus.sjabJttd. bfst.despit the. rigproUs pr.eca4itipnry ,pieasnres vof . the author ities, ,4ha.5Breacl tq, its present ,prd- puf-uvu, jin.jufei qriej: jBpace joi. one year. .8:?, junplyig, ifurther threatened .bythe: certainty that all sorts 'of animal food products will be scarce and high. The grass crop -has been greatly damaged by the protract ed heat and drought of the spring and crop also, as is shorter than usual;: and this means much for the meat supply, since the waste of pota to alcohol distilleries is one . of the principal feeding materials for fatten ing live stock. The oats crop has also been;-seriously I iuredT, by ...adverse weather cflnditipns summer.. The potato feared,' 'Svill . be much The . number ; of,, emigrants . leaving the German Nprjh Sea pofs ; this year AS-mucn less tnan ; in : j.io. ;ovitne irat . seyen, .months, of fthe year JHam- burg reported a reduction of 26,pOQ..In a total of 48,738.-8' causes assigned or ne - iignter . ; outgo rinis year, ; are in -part the unfavorable business situa- tip9 in, tne TJnlted States and the inore rigid ; app 1J cat4oof - the American ijri- migration laws. Another cause, how ever, is evidently prosperous condition of the chief countries that now'supply the bulk of the Immigrants into the United ; States. This" year Germany f itr self is feeling very keenly the short- age in the supply of Russian farm la borers, due . to the fact that Russia s - now enjoying , unusual prosperity, pages' have "been raised,' and the. peo-. pie are consequently "staying at home. The shortage of Russiarf laborers has amounted to the proportions of .a ca lamity, .for the farmers in. the .eastern i (Continued on Page-;Two.7 : JJUl Roadside ,5randstand Collapsed and Man I n jured--Four Thought to Be Seriously So--DaughterT pf Senator Lorimer Hurt '" ' :a n : r- Elgin, 111., Aug. 26--A;score of per sons were injured, four seriously,; when several sections of a road race grand stand ; collapsed today. ?irhe accident occurred only, a few moments after the . last car in the Elgin cup; race driven by- iRalph Mulf ord , got away, ' Among ; the. fhjured are Mrs. Ray Graham, Sexf ator William LorimerVdaughter. r ; "l Want to Go; Back to Carolina." ' WHt Be Sung Today at the Grand by rtL' 1 .-.-. ..... FOR TARGET WORK Dreadnaught Will Fire. Against Old ; Huitc. 1 ' ' ; U' -Norfolk, Va., Aug.:26:-TheAtlantic fleet battleshins. rendeivousine - In Hampton Roads,, preparatory to the September- war game off the' Vk-ginia coast, sail Sunday for ' Tangier for target .work.Jjy the dreadnaught Dela ware's guns agafnst the bulk of the bat tleship: San Marcos, , known as the HJld battleship exas. . -. : ' " Strongest of All , Dramatic Films The Winds of Fate' will be Seen, Grand Today. . . it GREEfJVJLLE CHARGES . RATE DISCRPilTIQii crimtnatioii memstjmmmila favor of Atlaintaand - ether Southerh V poiniB,v is.aHegedrflnVcijmplairits;' filed With - the Inter-state . Commerce' Com- - mission , againsti tbe .Southern: Railway and Old Dominion Steamship Company. Llpscomh-JRussell Company, , of Green- ' llle, says it is" compelled to. pay sixty cents pen. hundred, pounds on : roasted coffee from New York; while Atlanta enjoys a rate of fifty, six; cents. . " Globus Viena a,nd : French sticks, best on earth. Ask your erocer for nr call phone 689. : 2t 1 'W V. T J If GOV.TR. Indttanapolis; Ind., : Aug.... 26. Gov ernor Thomas R. Marshall of Indiana is the choice of .'Thomas L;' Taggart fprmer "chairman ofv! th Democratic natibnal committee, Tfor the homiifa tibn for president, according to a staie-; inentmadfe' by' l;Taggart, iwho de hies' disldyahy-'ito'KKe Indiana gover- nor. Mr. Taggart in his interview de clared ;that;there fs7,ho : truth in the story to th& effect! that he is schem ing "with Tam'toanLeader VMurphy of 'New York ' ahdROger Sullivan ' of Illinois tojcohtrol' the-delegatlons from their respective states and use them for; their own ends. ; t. has been un derstood that.Taggart Is for Governor Harmon of Ohio' for the presidential : nomination;, . ! V- Concerts at Lumlna Tomorrow. The programs'. include-.. "Summer Days," "Woodland Whispers," "The Rosfisl HoneytncwnltKPa others-T itmrX ' it -- - '---3.-;. .-- . 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