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The dispatch "'"" THE WEATHER'. - . e Rain and t much colder -tonight. Wed-nesday, fair and much' colder. Delivered In the City by Carrier or sent anywhere by Mall at 35 Cents per Month. AV,.. . ! -' , 'Cold wave. High, northwest winds VOLUME seventeen: WILMINGTON. Nv C:, ,TUES5AY,r NOVEMBER 28, 1911 V .PklCELTHREE. CENTS K t SETHLCV TELLS 1 f X ? i' 'V . X - I J v I I I M V. I VI 11 I II I ."VI I'-.1 I I "I I 1:1-1 : T" 1 plfPk --flhnnnn -I v IJILI- THEY DECLARE Illinois Sop: Editors Eo dorse His Cendidecy ii iiin wi k hi - Ai rr UUUUU10 .'Ulllld j ' TliKlil.r PI.Mi; . ; III TO DO jc - I1IIIUIU 1 UI1UUI ; Appears:Jgefore Senate 1 . Hetalks of. the Trust Question' and Advises What Should be Done and Tells How to Do it Believes in Fed eral License and a Trade Commis sion. . -. : "'. 5' Washington, D. C, Nov. 28. Seth Low,, president of the - National Civic Federation, - gave, the Senate Commerce Committee personal view as to methods ' for . ., controll- trusts. He urged inter-state to-day his the best ing the Federal license of all Inter-state corpo rations, giving them - permission to incorporate 'with a settled charter if they desired. He 4 suggested ' the ar pointmenfc of ajJFederaT Commission to look after organization and acts of the companies'operating in more than one State. ENGLAND AND GERMANY SMILING AT EACH OTHER . Berlin, Nov. 28. The, conciliatory tone of the speeches of the British and Premier (Asquith - and . taeir ex pressed desire for improved relations between Germany andJSngland in the future are cordiallyhoedin Gov ernment circles here," wVi!v5f v" EARTHQUAKE HITS CUBA Santiago, Cuba, Nqv: 28. An earthquake shock the city- t- at 6 o'clock -tbis" morning.1 M'uWalaraaT fiWf was no damage. , , ' 4- ANOTHER BEATTIE LETTER Wrote One to a Minister The Morning of the Electrocution. ' : -Richmond, Va., Nov. 29 W. H. Gates, a non-sectarian, who took deep interest in Henry Clay Beattie, Jr., while in prison, today made public a letter from Beattie, postmarked 2 o'clock the morning of the electrocu tion. The letter says in part: "There are so many things, in the Bible you explained to me which I never under stood before. I only hope and pray that you will be able to enlighten oth ers, so that they may be prepared. If I were free, I wftuld ask for no greater joy than to bring others, to God.". STORM WARNING. ' Washington,. D. C, Nov. 28. Warn ing to hoist Northwest storm warning 2 p. m. Atlantic coast, Norfolk to Key West. Winds, will shift fa high west and northwest late this afternoon and tonight, with colder weather. :0 Newark, N, J., Nov. 28. The death of John-F. ;t)ryden, former United States Senator and founder of the Pru dential Insurance company, ends a long career (Of activity. He was born in 1839 near Farmington, Me., and en- tered Yale college in 1861, but was forced to leave by ill health; He en tered the insurance : business and founded the Prudential in 1873. ' He leaves an estate estimated at ?10,000,- 000 to $50,000,000. - !, NiOHNF. DRYDEH k J 1 1 1 1 II I III lilrX rnllni.xllll ' ; vi - nil ui i uuuiUUil ; I Ulfifir Finalfi'. .,fe Noted Trial Out in Denver i Nnm Near Its Close State Has Made Out a , Stronf . Case, and Defense Relies on Its r Plea of - Self-Defense Hus band ' Was Shot irt the Back by His Wife. , - ' ' - Denver;, Colorado Nov, 28.--Closing scenes, in the trial of. Gertrude Gibson Patterson, charged with the murder of ;her husband, Charles A. Patterson, which began r week ago,took place t;oday. With tfie exception of the, further examination of a witness for-the defense, "who testified "to -hav ing ,seeTrPatteraoh strike' r his wife during a quarrel - and who said Mr. Patterson 1 had " threatened heir life, the;State had finished its case,. self-defense, ihe State has placed the iact mat "sne shot - ner husband in the back : and has had a witness to testify that after his attention had been attracted by two shots, he saw Mrs. Patterson standing over her hus band, Y who - was" on his " hands : and knees before her and that she fired Into his back once , more. The de fense relied in a great part on the story told by Mrs. Patterson regard y -iM.ro. x-a.Lei suit xegara.- ; with the mane'Hptfv " ing her life with. Prominent been the nanie of Ernil ' Strouss, . Chi cago millionaire, .whom1 Mrs. Patter son declared on the stand had taken her to Europe to be educated and she had been known as Mrs. Strouss. - The defense has made much of Mrs. Pat terson's testimony l- : that ; after - her marriaere to .Mr. .Patterson he had demanded thatf : isheiiaccept, Strouss' in.Titat)pn-;-xo.''' go ,.Droaa,; . provwea Strouss ' gve "Vfier 1,6Q ftafiica -she xyegttre; r-hfj hnsband."i: Tiie de f ense introduced : a certified copy of Mr. Patterson's bank account showing a deposit of that sum on the date Mrs. Patterson said she gave him the mo ney, v DANCE AT LUMINA Delightful Affair Will Be Given There - Tomorrow Night. The boys of the trolley line of the Tidewater Power Company have ar ranged for, a delightful dance to take place tomorrow night at Lumina. It will be a jolly and most enjoyable af fair, and it is expected that quite a crowd will be on hand. There, will-be good music, and a good time in general. As he "who . dances must pay the fid dler," or words " to that ffect, gentle men dancers will be charged 50 cents. This will be merely to defray the ex- pense of the orchestra.. TRIAL QF CHORUS GIRLS STARTS ALL OVER New York, NovS-The jury-box in the Stokes shooting case was refilled today, and attorney's began to present all over again the testimony already eiven. W. E. D. Stokes, the million aire . horseman, who charges the de fendants. Ethel Conrad and Lillian Graham, with intent to take his life when they shot him last July was the first witness in the new trial. Stokes had completed his direct testimony and was well into his cross examination when'the case was halted yesterday by discovery that a juror had talked too much outside the co'.rt faomV. - '' : i ' . - ' ": . - ' ''' " .j1- J Schooner Sold. t .The schooner ' Stephen G.' Loud, which was towed here some days ago in a waterlogged condition, has been sold to Mr. F. AT McCullough, 6f Nor- folk, Va. The sale was engineered "by the insurance companies'. The Loud is loaded with lunfber, only the deck load having been lost. when the vessel was disabled. The schooner was found abandoned at sea by. the derelict" de stroyer' Seneca and -.was towed . into Southport, from whence it was brought to this city by the tug Reliance. - - L'Arioso German Tonight. V The first dance of the season of the L'Arioso German Club' will be danced this evening in . the ballroom of the Masonic Temple. It : is "expected that the dance will be quite an elaborate event and that there will be; a large number of couples In at tendance.-Mu sic will be furnished by the Hollow bush orchestra. . , v - ' -. Suhscribe, to The JEvening ''Dispatch ' v se ".V vJ 1 . hew pwy ' f 1 v. TJi ' . ' i h. ' . New York, Nov. 28 The new mf!lioj dollar drydock aiithe Brooklyn nary yard, the, biggest , on the Atlantic coast, ; wilj be flooded within a few days and will le readrjor the reception of battleships of the Dreadnought class by January. It took eight years to construct the dock Th floating caissonwfcich will serve as a gate for; the basin in which the battleships will rest is the .largest ever constructed. -It coat 12,0007000. - f - V SIX J3URDERED 1 I Brutal Deeds Committed in Louisiana apd Young Negress Charged With 1JboJno 5 the: Horrible : Workr Her Mad-Soaked Clothes Found, ihe Maintains Her Innocence. "41 Lafayette, Louisiana, Nov. 28. Ar rested and accui of the murder dfsix- persons, and then confronted with - her - blood-soaked clothing that had; been found near the scene ' of theA crime, Clementine ' Barnhael, a young negress, laughed at-theN po lice .todays refusing to admit any part in the' crime. Her brother and have " been ar- two'young negroes rested - as material witnesses kITyjetfSay thiiIaimoif Norbert Randall, numbering . six per sons,' was found In the beds, their bodies horribly, packed. It is be lieved they were murdered Saturday night as they slept. They were all negroes ' V ', CHRISTMAS. PEANUTS MUST BE GOOD Chicago- Nov. 28.-VTwo . hundred and twenty-three sacks of peanuts from "Virginia destined for the Christ mas stockings of boys , and girls of the Middle West, have been held up here by agents of . the .Department of Justice, because r District Attorney Wilkerson'does not want Jthe children disappointed, in a the quality of the Christmas peanuts. A libel peti tiondeclares s the nuts -are wormy, dirty, and otherwise unfit for sale, as a bafis for holiday cheer. WARRANTS ISSUED Against a Negro Named Dave Baldwin, Charged With Larceny. A warrant was issued by Magistrate Harriss this afternoon against Dave Baldwin, a negro who works at the Champion Compress! " He is charged with the larceny of two. small pulleys froni the: firm of C. D.;Maffitt & Co., this "morning. Mr. J. Frank Garrisoa, sales manager, noticed .the negro act ing suspiciously in the store and decid ed t& watch himr , His vigilance proved most timely as after a few' minuses he walked over .toward Baldwin, felt his coatpocket and Removed therefrom one ot the pulleys. ; Baldwin . thefl walked out of the store accompanied by . Mr. Garrison. As the negro was passing an Itlleyway to the north of the store he toss'el away the second pulley. Mr. GarAson heard it drop and picked it upf accompanying Baldwin as far as the'cSmpress where he; learned the negro's name. Issuance of the war rant followed, Baldwin expressed' great surprise when Mr. Garrison pulled the pulley from his pocket and Innocently asked: ; "If you found It in my pocket, who' put it there?" Mr. ; Garrison- re plied that it was-up to Baldwin to 'set tle that part of the question. - " j French "Finapcier Dead. )... Paris, Nov. 28.-f-Baron Gustave Sam uel James deRothscnild a partner o? Rothschild Brothers, bankers, died to day, agea! eighty two years. ; 'The Chinese Smugglers." v " Stirring, Story of the Pacifio Coast Grand Theatfe Today. : , .-' The store that sells everything. Bor- nemanns. xOocmAT BRoojit uy n - -- COURT PASS T Washington, D. C.,' : Nov. 28.-rln ry 'state of the Union there will fasAut. of existence January the Istesljhlstoric court practically as old as the State? ftself. That day seventy-seven. United! States Circuit Courts will cease to"do business at 276 different places?where they have been accustomed to meet. ' Elimina tion of the Cireuit Courts .is one of the reforms provided in the new ju diciary code,- which provides ; for only District ;Cdurnine Circult Courts ; of Appeal, tjnd the .Supreme is. now being perfectedhere. ; ; : , The twenty-nine' Circuit Judgel will hot lose their jobs, as they will. con tinue to sit, in Circuit Courts of ap peal and help out the District Courts. All clerks of the Circuit Courts, will have their-positions abolished. Under the new code jurors for the Federal Courts will receive . summons' by registered mail. . ' SHOPPING EARLY Salespeople Are Being Given a Chance For Christmas. New York, Nov. 28. Nineteen States are doing their Christmas shopping early this year and. in the opinion of Mrs. Florence Kelly, secretary of the National Consumers'. League, the other twenty nine States will be In line with in the next decade. . "The overworked saleswomen at Christmas will soon ex ist only in memory," said Mrs. Kelly today. . ' - - TS TAR HEEL LAND New York, Nov. 29. It has been announced here that Oville and Wil bur Wright have : purchased One thousand acres ' of . land at Kitty Hawk, N. C, on which they will es tablish a permanent aeroplane testing ground. The tract is composed of giant sand dunes and woodland. CONVICT GETS A JOB BY ADVERTISING. San Antonio, Texas., Nov. 28. Driv en to desperation for lack of employ ment, a. former convict placed an ad- 1 vertisraent in a local paper stating he was a man of good education, who had recently been released from "the peniteitiary He said that every time he had asked for a job he had been asked where he had been working for the past five years, and his prison term had proved a bar. ' . " The. effect of the advertisement and frank statement of his circumstances brought many offers of employment, including one from a construction com pany, which has at least a year's ywork for the manv " , , He- has studied civil engineering and will no doubt make good in his ' new position, for he has a determination to make a fresh, start in life. ' 1 "A Bllhd ' Deception." ' Lubin's Latest Film Creation the Grand Todajr. - ' at Great values In - Millinery at Borne- mann. It AWAY HOARY FIRS '-4. 4 g ; &Mlrii nifiN, ?f havy vakd f f ..j CUE TO SH017 i "Girl From Rector's" at Last Lands Safe and Sound n Raleigh Histori cal Association Wilt-be "Addressed by Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Toi v night. - . v Dispatch News Bureau ? RahBigh, N. C., Nov. 228, 1911. t The "Girl from Rector's" who was too immoral for Raleigh two- seasons ago, will be staged here today, matinee and nigh, the protests' of the two pa pers notwithstanding. ; Mayor . Jas. J. Johnson said he has no authority to stop the show, and the city Villf have a hoajd of? censors , in -the "building ready ; to'make'thfe icrowd froja'Rec- ker Flar If "thlyhocTmItyP of the; capita) city.' It .Is ajafe bet, however, that only4 a small fraction of the modesty of this citywill be shocked, judging from the number that almost rioted here two years ago when this 'same girl was not allowed to alight . . , . ' ; Preparations are being finally made for the entertainment here this week of the .North Carolina Teachers As sembly, which wlll hold its first meet ing tomorrow. Mr. Chasi L. Coon, of Wilson, is president of the assembly. There will be many notable speakers on the program, but the most interest attaches of course in the address-of Hon. Champ Clark, speaker of the Na tional oHuse of Representatives, which will be delivered Thursday night.- ' ' Dirt has begun to fly on the' site ot the new state building, corner of Pay etteVille and Morgan streets. ' The work' of excavating began today, a large force of hands being' engaged. Colonel Ashley Horne, of Clayton, chairman of the state building com mission, was present to watch the progress made. . Senator Henry Caoot Lodge, . 'of Mas sachusetts will deliver the annualad dress tonight, following President H. E.'Rondthaler, of Salem Female Col lege, who will deliver a lecture' on some phase of the work. This "after noon the business session will be held, and at night ex-Judge andiMrs. R; W. Winston will hold a reception at the Yar borough in honor of . the associa tion. ARRESTED FOR TRYING TO BRIBE 'Los Angeles, Cal., Nov. 28.7-S. L. Brown of the, Department of, Investi gation for the District Attorney's of fice, arrested Bert Franklin, ex-United States,: Marshal, ' tQday on a charge of having ..attempted to bribe a pros pective juror in the, McNamara case. Brown asserted that he caught Frank lin attempting to pass ? 4,000 to tli Lockwood summoned on: the twelfth venire, and that the money was now in' his possession. Member of Famous Family Dead -y .: Palmyra, - Missouri, ; Nov. 28, Mrs. Sarah Lee, one .of tthe oldest members of the most famous family ill ..Missouri Civil .War history, died here today, aged eighty. She was-a daughter of Andrew, Alaman, whose ahdhction by the Confederates brought, - atfeut -the "The Chinese :; Smugglers ', Stirring; Story ef the Pacific Coast Grand Theatre Today. . . ; i.oi nwn" JS'av'. t;:W:-V "Xy ' v1sk" I - JUROR mfferial Circles Take at Government Troops : Also Capture Wu " Chang amsi Rebels. Make Overtures ; For a. Compromise Fierce Fighting , North of Nanking American Ma rines, Sent to Peking. - "I t Peking; Nov. 28. The Imperial troops occupied .the whole city of Han Yang yesterday "afternoon. -Wu Chang captured .was Imperial1 troops" today? tne Revolutionary leaders "expressing a desire to negotiate for a compromise and suggesting - some slight change: In tne Government program. ThV Govern ment is. endeavoring to secure , imme diate ceslion of hostilities ' at Nan king, where the fall of the city is im-. minent . There is ttujch; jubilation in official circles over 'the sudden suc cesses of the Imperial troops, f Mer chants are overjoyed at the prospect of the resumption of business and re establishment of order, witR removal of jthe terrible' menace to lives of for eigners in the interior. - . . ' Fighting North of. Peking. Nanking, Nv. 28. Some fighting has taken place to the northward of the city. A- Jbombardment isfimminent. All foreigners, except the Japanese Consul and his guard, 'have left : the city. All foreign warships have with drawn out of range. American Marines to Peking. Shanghai; Nov. 28. American ; Adfl miral Murdock is sending a company of Marines from here to Peking aboard the .cruiser Saratoga. Terrible Slaughter DeportedT ' San Francisco, Cal., Nov: 28'-rerri-ble slaughter has marked the fighting at Nanking, accordingtoa; cablegram today to the Chinesei daily .'paper here! Tne report says 3.500 ; regular . soldiers killed. BOTH SIDES LOST T HEAVILY IN BATTLE Tripoli, Nov; 28. The Italian au thorities announces sixteen killed and about one hundred wounded in an engagement at Forts Mesri and Henni Sunday when the Arabs and - Turks were forced to retire 'wjth a loss of' over five hundred. Three hundred! were taken prisoners. 9 Toy Department 2nd floor. Borne It t mann's. FOR JUST ONE KISS. Younf Man Made the MjWke of Not Getting "Kissee's donsen'f First. New York, Nov. j28.w-iouisr Solo mon, twenty-three years fold, of No. 20 Eighth avenue, Long Island City, was - strolling over the - , Queensboro Bridge Friday night in a sentimental mood. He had been married but a few months and his thoughts were on love. w - - " " . "Oh, he exclaimed, framing his thoughts In speech, "Oh once more to taste the .glories of a kiss." . ' . Chance threw Miss Mary Dervey of No. 346 Webster avenue. Long Island City, in his path. . She was pretty,: her eyes blue and her lips tempting. T wonder," mused Louis "shou Id I wait until I get home for that kiss, or embrace opportunity now?" "Embrace It now," Was his answer to himself.- '- V ' v So he rushed up to ' Miss Dervey and clasped Her in his arms and kiss ed her on the lips, "Scoundrel i cried - Miss . ,Dervey, thrusting;1, him from her. "What do you mean?" T Then anger choked the next words in her throat, She stamped and xshe screamed, and when Louis started, to canter away, but Miss Dervey grabr 1 bed him' and held on untiUa police man came up. ' - : . ... When Louis, was assigned - before Magistrate Breen 1 in the Yorkville court his wife was with : him. ; ; - "I thought I knew the young wom an," Louis explainejl. , . "Is it your practice to kiss all the girls you know?" inquired the Magis trate! -r- , ' ' ' . "No, Ybur Honor," Louis answered, "butk would have been all right with this ' girl ' had she been the y girl I thought she was." - . ' , , ' "Ten day's In the workhouse!" ' "- The store that sells the best' goods for less monej. Bornemann's.' ? It i Heart Victories In Association Meeting They Approve His Re-nomination and Pass Reso'u-' ons to That Effect Also Declare or . Protection and Scientific ' Revi sion of the Tariff. . I v ; Springfield, Els., Nov. 28. The Illi nois Republican Editorial Association today ' adopted resolution - approving the-?r'candidacy of President '-Taft for" renomination and endorsing -his " ad ministration'i. Regarding - tie tariff, thehj resolutions . say : v , "We adhere to the' Republican . policy of protection and favor scientific revision of. the tariff,which contemplates maintenance of - the American , rate of ; wages arid the American standard of living". ' Survives a 70-Foot Fall. - ' - Roseburg, Ore Nov.- 28. Falling down the elevator shaft from the third story of the. new" Perkins building the basement, a distance of about sev; enty feet, and . escaping with a few slight bruises, was the unusual experi ence of Walter, Baldwin, a laborer, -here. - ' Baldwin was ? working near the ele vator shaft and was about; 'to signal-' the engineer to hoist the cage,, when he suddenly lost his balance and plunged down i. the .. shaft. Persons ; who witnessed the accident rushed, ; into the basement expecting, to find, the man dead. - - - ' - v ' ' A physician was :,' summoned,' and upon examination . found that "Bald- win sustained only, a few, bruises. Turtles CIog'Sictjon Pipe.-V , ft MpxticeMo-- Indsi Nov.;t28.r!-Turtles . ! of " large size ' and numerous are"1 inter- fering with the ideepienlng of a -ditWi ' nChtiiMer; whlcit-moaft t .(V. WW a. . '. - T-rfi- " . ing a centrifugal pump with a six-inch suction pipe. : It cleans the loose earth - and sediment -from the ditch and de-, posits it several yards away-i When small turtles are drawn Into the suction pipe they are thrown out without difficulty by the pump, but fre quently a larger turtle gets crosswise in the pipe and the earth and grass accumulate about its- body,', stopping the pipe and causing the men ' a great , deal of trouble in removing it. , A large crowd gathered at Front and Market streets this afternoon at 4 o'clock when the fire department dash ed toward tmt locality, v However, there was no fire. Workr on Bqx 43 at Front, and Orange streets 'caused an alarm from Box 41, at Water and Market streetsV-. ' Juarez, Nov. 28.-rGeneral Pascual ( j i GENERAL SC 1 ' : Orozco, who aided Madero. in the suc cessful ' rebellion ' 'against-' President'j Diaz, Is in command of the, govern- -, ) ment troops Jiere and is the main de- n W pendenCfc of President . Madero In the campaign against the , followers il ; General Reyes Orozco -will ,-remain - ' nere a. few-days before proceeding to. the state of Sanaloa. He 'is prepared to pegn an active.' campaign should . . tne Reyistas take the field. ' Porttandi Ore.; Nov 27. Joe CI glatti, a newsboy, thirteen years old, came to -Portland, from Omaha, beat ing ; his , way on freight trains, and completed 'the journey dri a-week.1- He was "nicked-'Up at Sixth and Burnside ' streets and will be turned over to the. Juvenile Court. j - J , . tf:
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