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- !-;-- 15C THE DISPATCH Delivered In the Cityvby Carrier or sent anywhere by Mall at SS Cent per Month. -- , . ;V Rain tonight and Wednesday; not., mncuchange ,in;tenperatmp; inod-' erate easterly ; winds. .- .-' , "v- ; " . J. PRICE U A:' m 14?-: - J if i r-,s r lit i-1" v ;-:nv ,jry. i-.vf-, i oast mmmm-.. HELD-UF PIT J 11171 W ROBBERS THIS flOl : I Daring Act Brought to SuGGessf ul CaroliDa and Looters Escape Passenger Train No. '80 Bound North, From Florida, Was Robbed by Menj Who Had Boarded Train as Passen-l gers Number of Registered P i Sacks' i .Two ' Stolen Train Was Moving : in Two Sections and Express Car. Thouaht ! to Have Been the Particular OhWi- i Was on the-Second Section and Es caped Posse in Pursuit. . ", Savannah, Ga., Dec. ; 1 2. -Atlantic Coast Line passenger train No. 80, from Florida to New York,' was held up by robbers shortly after midnight at Iiardeeville, South Carolina. A posse left for the scene early "this morning. ' : Atlantic Coast Line train No., 80 left Savannah for New York, at 12:45" o'clock this morning and was stopped by robbers near Hardeeville, S. C, just before day-break. Several sacks CITED TO APPEAR BEFORE HUSSION Washington, Dec. 12. On the ground that the Durham and Southern! Railroad, owned by B. N. and J. B. ,Duke, of the American Tobacco Col, receives for a twenty mile haul, forty per cent, of the Seaboard Aii Line's division on through -freight business, the latter railroad will be cited before the Interstate Commerce Commission to show cause why its rates into arid out of Durham, N. C., should not be reduced. The Norfolk and Western Railroad also wil be cited to show why its rates on coal into Durham should not. be lowered,.'. The Norfolk and Western, it is charged, allows 62 cents a ton to- ihguDarhaW 'ami South Carolina Railroad, a lumber road, for a haul of one mile, while it receives only 77 cents a ton for a haul of 116 miles. The commission charges that the Seaboard Air Line "bought" - the tobacco company's business by allow ing its traffic., to be taken away from it at one point by a road under man agement allied with the tobacco con cern, i. ' ARIZONA PASSING . - NTO STATE SOVEREIGNTY Phoenix, Ari., Dec. 12. Arizona has assamed full sovereignty of .State "by electing its own Governor and acquir ing for the first time two United States Senators and one Congressman. Inter est in the election centers in the vigor ous contest between the Republicans and Democrats for control of the new State by the election of a Governor and Congressional delegation. The Demo crats hope to elect Mark Smith and Henry Ashurst as Senators. The Re publicans declare Ralph Cameron, the Republican delegate in Congress, is Practically sure of winning one seat. Ottawa, Dec. 12. Princess Patricia, daughter of the "Duke of Connaught, the ne w eovernor general of Canada, has arrived, and the socla season will open at once; "Princess Pat," as she! is known, is expected to add much, to the gayety of the season here. She re mained in Europe ; visiting relatives after her parents sailed for their? new home. ' . : ,: " 'vrr ' W -' -: '; ' " .-. "Panama Canal in 1911." Big Scenic and Educational f fam f J'' , X - Film, at Grand Today. ; of fegistered..mall were taken. The train was' running in two sections and V' at .wmcn' . me rooners, aimed, were car- ried on the second section and escaped attack. Nisht. t1op Hardeeville, cleared the train from Soon after it eot awav tnat station. but before it had gone out of Bight, it stopped. A few minutes later the sec ond section arrived from , Savannah: The crew ran ahead to find out what had happened to the first section, but the robbers had escaped. The hold-up men wee passengers on the train. They forced the engineer to 'stop. Cov ering the flagman and conductor with revolvers, they made the flagman'open the mail car, after U was detached and ran forward some distance. Hece two mail clerks were made to give, up then disappeared. "A posse was sent the ndisappeared. A" posse? was sent from here to take the robbers' trail. NATIONAL CONVENTION ;Washington, Dec. 12. The Republl- can .National Committee, in quadren nial session today, ratified the pro gram arranged in advance for its' de liberations. The National convention, to nominate candidates for President and Vice President, will be held in Chicago, beginning Tuesday, June 18. The vote for Chicago was overwhelm ing, the ballots showing: Chicago, 42; Denver, 7; St. Louis, 1; absent, 3. St. Louis formerly withdrew from the contest. . , .r ';JV. ' -,t-v' The form of the call for delegates to the National ' convention,' , including disposition of the . troublesome presl- dentiaf" preference -t primary ?4nest0 Was still in the hands of a special sub committee when the National Commit tee recessed until 2 p. m. :::' "-:?-V p. ANTI-SALOON ii SESSION Washington, X). C. Dec 12. Seven hundred delegates and employes, rep resenting the Anti-Saloon Leagues of every State in the Union, are here at tending the biennial convention of the Anti-Saloon League of America. An address by Representative Hobson, of Alabama, this evening will be the fea ture of today's session. ' A conference oh Inter-State liquor traffic, with spe cial representatives - named by Gov ernors of " thirty States participating, will.-be-held' Thursday and Friday. ' "Panama Canal in 1911." Big Scenic and Educational Grand Today. . " ' - Film, It'. Storm Warning. ', . . Washington, D. C, Dec. 12, 1911. Northeast storm warnings ordered 3 p. m. from Jacksonville to Punta Rassa. Storm center at 1 p. Ja. apparently near northeast Cuban coast moving north west. Increasing northeast winds in dicated for eastern and southern Flor Ida coasts , tonight and Wednesday. -' - ' ' -' MOORE. ; Kansas City, Dec. 12 Harry W. Waldron, who disappeared while on the Jury trying Dr. Hyde,, on a charge of murdering Colonel Swope, has not yet been found - Judge Porterfield says that unless Waldron appears tonight the jury will be discharged. ' -.j' FOR FREE TRANSIT Of American Shios Through the Pan- ama Canal. r 1 Washington, Dec. 12. A bill pro viding for' free transit of American vessels through the Panama Canal has , been . , introduced oy senator Lodge. The measure would .have the charges against American ships paid out of the' National Treasury. l;i-t ;:k Christmas Trees, Christmas Trees, Phriatmaa Trees A fine lot will be 'here on .next week's steamer, Monday, Dec. l8th. Kindly end or phone your nta rs. c; B Bellois. Produce Leaier, ir TMnrth 9ri St Phone 1576. de 11 6t i ; Edison Kalem--Selig. f, Biggest Film Successes of Three Big Companies, Grand Today. , vxi . Harry Morgan Sings "Fairy Moon". ' .At the' Delightful GrandToday, Itj CHICAGO LANDS REP mmm xss: - OF 1 X: ' DelhiDec. 12. Half a hundred members" of .the Bsritlsh ribb'ility are here to add to the gayety, of the dubar.O About one-third of the more noted came with King George and. Queen Mary on board' the Medina, 'while tha oth ers came" in another ship, that '.accompanied the' royal p?urty. .Prominent among : the titled - -5 personages are 'the Ruchess ' pf Devonshire, .the Countess of Shaftesbury, and the Hon. MJss Ba rhig. - This- picture of them was made t aboard. the Medina by Ernest Brooks, the official photographer. He also made the picture of the four battleships which acted as escort to. the king, an d "queen on 1 the J long voyags, the pict ure being madefrom the Medina. MWl El Marks Proclaiming of King and Queen ' as Emperor and Empress- of J ridia - For Richness of Color and Maghifi '. cent' of Decoration, the Occasion Has Likelvever Been Surpased. ! 1" DhX'ltodla, Dec. T2. King George V. and his consort, Queen Mary, were today., proclaimed ; Emperor and Em press of India. The English monarch's accession to the throne of his vast In dian dominions took place amid a scene which for richness of color and magnificence of decorations probably has never been surpassed. The huge amphitheatre erected; in the Dunbar cam pwas thronged. Sparkling gems of many Indian princes and the smart uni forms of the soldiery contrasted strong ly with the white dresses of the Euro pean ladies and the sober garb" of civil ian officials. The booming of the Im perial salute announced the approach of the Emperor and Empress. fThe Em peror wore a robe of Imperial purple, a surcoat of, purple and .white satin breeches and silk stockings. Her Majesty's Imperial robe was purple velvet, trimmed with ermine and. with a border of gold braid. Standing in the great central tent, their Majesties re ceived the homage of Governors, rul ing Princes and otiier representatives of British India.' " ' Wit GHASTLY FINDS ii CI LI . Briceville, Tenn., Dec. 21. Spurred by .last night's discovery of three sur vivors of Saturday's dust blast in Cross Mountain coal mine, fresh 1 rescue squads went into the cross entries this morning digging with redoubled en ergy. ; Their only reward was finding a' corpse-strewn chamber far back in the mine.' Six bodies were recov ered. Two were identified. One was Josenh McQueen, a widower, and the Pother was Tate Vallace, who ' had a wife and four children. ; r" , One rescue party penetrated , Into crqss entry No. 23, but no miners were found there. Additional directions for their rescue were scrawled In chalk on the walls. They evidently were com pelled to change their vantage points on . account of altering air conditions. The 'rescue squad pressed on in the direction indicated by the chalk marks. At .11 o'clock thirty bodies had been removed. ', , ' ; IS STILL PROBING .. Los-Angeles, ; Cal., Dec. 12. The grand jury has resumed investigation into the alleged conspiracies in con nection , with, the v numerous dynamit ings , in 'various parts of the - country in the : past three years. The, investi gation's scope, it is said, will not ex tend east of Salt , Lake City, and. will be confined largely- to. California. One hundred and thirty-three . witnesses have beea summoned. J r ' .; Mm 'X;:x.:.v.;.:.v;.:.:.: HON; MISS II Special to The pispatch." " . ; . , Raleigh, N, Co., ; Dec. ; i2.-4Thefirst was cbntanie'd m the mewspapersv-ahd Governor Kitchin -was as much - sur prised as anybody. No application has yet been made v for the position, though the Elizabeth City bar has en dorsed W. C. Rodman, of Washington. The Governor today received a letter from Judge Ward asking that another judge be assigned, to ! hold a special term of civil court in Perquimans county January 1st. Judge, Ferguson was named. NO MORE FIGHT For 5 Champion Jack Johnson. Who Now Weighs 00 Pounds. Chicago, Dec. ., 12. Jack : Johnson, champion heavy weight pugilist of the worM, weighs nearly three hundred pounds, and will neve(r again enter the ring in a contest to retain the title, according to. information ? received at his home here. Johnson is on the ocean returning : to Chicago with his wife, who is seriously ill. Before sail ing from Liverpool ryesterday, he an nounced that he was through with the arena and would enter business in Chicago. 7 ' "-. - . i. That is the status ! of The Dispatch; - Not only going, but almost three hundred (300) extra "copies of The Dispatch were "gone" yes terday. That number was sold on the streets by news boys yesterday afternoon, in addition to vthe regular city subscription list and out-of-the-city subscribers. y- Doesn't: that suggest some v thing as how to get Christmas Trade ? P: CAPTAIN'S SUPREME PiERVE Special to The Dispatch. " -- ' ' - ' ; Raleigh, N.' C Bee. 12. That n:, W. Winston, Jr.; captain of the University of North Carolina football, team, ; not only was ill with' Sppendicitis bef ore the game and knew it, but that his ap pendix broke in the scrimmage at Rich mond with Virginia Thanksgiving day, is the statement by attending physi cians at the hospital here. His supreme nerve ha snever been, surpassed. - He is r recovering; 5 nicely "from vthe ; opera- tion, "mm JUDGE AVARO TO RETIRE FROM BENCH TAR HEEL FOOTBALL n V mmm mm mmmms COUNTESS Or!: Lillian Graham Made to; Tell Where . She Purchased the Gun Had Bottle of Whiskey ; In . Her Room Appears Defiant in Face bf Raking, Cross. Fire .Today.- New York, Dec. 12. Lillian Graham and Ethel Conrad, on trial for 4 shooH ing "IV. E. D. Stokes, siat- side by side when court was resumed today. -When the case was called, the Graham girl raised her veil, and took the stand, Prosecutor Buckner, continuing his cross-examination, asked .about a visit the girls made May 31st, eight- days before the shooting, to a department store, where they bought thes revolver, with which they shot Stokes.' She "said they had no intention of " buying guns when they started. - J " vV "Did you hear Miss Conrad -say she wanted something small that .would shoot straight?" ' . ... 7. . c . "No sir." . V - 'r "When did you first decide to buy the guns?" ' ; . iO' "We were walking around, the sport ing goods department and . saw some pistols and decided to buy them. She denied the insinuations ; that, she and her friend ever planned over the telephone how they could lure Stokes within reach. .. . 4l w X." : ' When Stokes called up. their apart ments the day before the - shooting and asked for Miss Conrad, " the wit ness said, she answered the telephone, but told him she was the French.; maid, Lillian Graham : Sat erect firing, -back answers at the prosecutor with a spir it she had not shown, .since the trial began. r - . - .'" . ''The prosecutor surprised the court I by ' producing a pint bottle one-third full of whiskey. ., He asked; the wit ness if it ; was the bottle she sent out to be filled June 1st, the day..jDf the shooting. She admitted she had a bot tle of whiskey in the bouse, but . de nied she had it refilled that day. "That may be the bottle," she said: "I don't know." - ; " :.-":V7-f; "Coming down to the .nig"ht-Stokes was shot, "she said he thought She had gone to Europe and was surprised to see her. - . -;' . , She admitted she was angry with him for what he told Miss Conrad about her and her sister. , The witness rehearsed the story of how Stokes throttled her and. pushed her down, the hall, into her bedroom, and against the bureau and how; she reached into the open drawer, behind her, and got the revolver with which she shot him. i-M-. hV'C, FJ Washington, Dec. i2-TheV. House Foreign Affairs. .Committee ha unani mously, agreed upon .the Sulzer resolu tion directing the immediate abroga tion of the 1832 . treaty .between; the United States and Russia,, because of discrimination by Russia against Amer ican Jewish citizens in recognition of passports. .' The committee' -'will - urge Congress1 to. take; quick taction on the resolution, --H; 0 GIL illlwlllp Sidings Nepessary for Manufacturing Business apid Corporation Commis sion Grants Perm issioh, ; Subject id Approval of Council Raleigh Enthu siastic' Over y Baseball Interesting statistics - as to: Infant i Mortality Big Explosion Among Fireworks Stock. .V ..' ft-ttH.. :W- -- tf'ixio. . Dispatch' News Bureau. . h v ;'l5?Raleigh The corporation commiss)ri, has given the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad permission to - place ; two sidings on streets in Wilmington-r-one for the Carolina Metal Products -Company,' of which B." G. mpie is : president, and the other for " Mr. Empie Individually. The permission; of the commission was given on tthe jUnderstanding ""that the railroad' would' first' get authority from the ; Wilmington city government . be fore placing the sidings. ; ' V t . : , Dr. James F.. Royster, professor of English in; the University of North' Car olina, today, brought his-class in. "jour nalism" to , Raleigh to see the offices here in the rush hours. The university has started a number of young men ;in the newspaper field in the! past ten years, and there" is scsfrcely a city of consequence in the state that has not one or more university boys doing good work. . v' -y - r;. , - i :l - j ' Raleigh people are enthusiastic, over the prospects of. entering -the Cdrolina Baseball Association, and are especial ly glad that Wilmington is also to en ter. The matter will be determined finally next Friday,1 night, when, the directors meet in Charlotte. ' 1 " ;y -' Mrs. Jacob S. ' Allen, relict of the late Jacob S. Allen, died at the home bf . her son, Mr. John G. "Allen; No. 7; North ' Bloodworth street,. Sunday evening "at 7: 30 o'clock. - She had been a . patient , sufferer, for. some months from a . complication ojj . dis eases ' ahtl the end' was' not whjily unexpected. & 'MrsX Ailen, was-. -ii' native ; of thhi ! city, beinr -Tdaghtef pfhomasj M. and; Eligabeth (Miller, German, both old . residents of Raleigh. ; She was a city, being a daughter of Thomas M. sister-of Mrs. John Nichols, who sur vives her and the late .General John C. Gorman. She was married in 1864 to Jacob" S.l, Allen; long a prominent builder and contractor of this city and beyond some : years spent V in" other cities wherd her ; husband was engag ed in large contracts she resided her long life here.i The funeral was held this afternoon. Fire in Newsstand. ?vM. Fromme, a newsstand keeper, was almost blown through the door of his place oh West Martin street when gas exploded and caught fire, causing a damage of about $1,300. Mr. Fromme had just entered his stand and was attempting to light the .gas when there was an explosion. He says he was blown from a chair on which he was standing. Simultaneously a lot of fire crackers and ! roman candles went off, making a big noise and great illumi nation. The stand was insured for $800. . v v Infant Mortality. Infant mortality for the cities and towns in North Carolina has just.,been made . public by the census ! bureau, in Washington. It shows that Raleigh has a low death rate among infants, though not as low. as Asheville, which leads all other, cities in "this respect. The figures are unusually, interesting here because of the high death rate among adultscaused by deaths at the state hospitalrthe penitentiary and the soldiers' home all of which are charg ed up to this city."-. Raleigh gefe credit for an "electrocution for example, and when . an old soldier dies this city gets credit for, tnis death also, making a comparison unfavorable, and unjust to the capital city. v ' y - ' " - The figures as given out In ..Wash ington . shdw that '.the rate bf deaths of infants under one year to the .total number of deaths in municipalities of North Carolina, having a population of more y , than one ; hundred, - ?; twenty ; deaths of infants under five years in ratio total thirty-two in-one hundred. ; For the ""death . registration area," that is, the states having effective birth and death registrations laws, the ratio is nineteen in one hundred, and twenty-seven' in one hundred, respec tively for children under one, and chil dren under five years. The " statistics are regarded as especially valuable be cause they show the importance" of "san itary ' measures for the protection . of infants.-; :y:. -f" K' 'iJ''yX '-: In North Carolina, Asheville report ed 14 per cent, of its deaths as. being among children under. 1 year; and 21 per cent., among children -7' under " " 1 years; Charlotte, 15 and 29 percent, respectively; Durham, 20 and '( 35 ; Greensboro, 21 and 30; Raleigh, 18 and 23 ;. Wilmington, 24 and 34; and ; Win ston, 21 and . 34. ' ' ' . 'v" To Open Tram' Road. : v v: To build,. equip and operate V tram roads from : the wharf: landing oh Baird's Creek to Arapahoe and through Bncklin Swamp, or down the point road booQ if ooas being Boom - ed up jne Line; Atlantic Coast Line's Good Roads Train. V, . Gets Rousing ; Reception All Up the Liner Big Banquet at Warsaw Last : Night, Followed by Lecture and Ex-C a hibits Today. C '".'-, " - :. Special , to The Dispatch. - ; y , Warsaw). N. C Dec. 12. The Atlan-? , . ,'"' tic Coast Lme road' improvemenV train! arrived about" 5 o'clock yesterday" af4 , r -ternoon and: was . met at the station by " " the mayor and a large" number, of '. " representative business, men . from the : .town of Clinton and. Sampson countyv. , ' -; More than three hundred : people 'were'-; present to welcome the train and 'the' ' Atlantic Coast . Line 'and 'Government' ; representatives. "After" ; : meeting the1 . citizens,' who had : gathered-the 'ttIsI- . ; - : tors- were' invited to be present: liater '-l. ??i at a banquet, which had been arrang. -v ed a tthejMbhtague ; Hotel.. j;At ! the'j JS, -. Montague"one hundred plates were : ar ranged, and at". 9 o'cldck. the ffuests ' ; ' ' : were all invited into thebanquet hal&v i- :Md where ood cheer and enthusiasm; ran! mgn lor tne Daiance of the evening: Among the guests ; were ; citizens; W .11' is.'-.i.iC-i j ii. -v" resentat.ivfi hiisinpca imph nf P.HwtrTi 7 1 Mr.. .Geo. L. Peterson, - a prominent! . merchant of Clinton, presided as toast! master and introduced.; the several speakers of the evening. Evefy ; in-' corporated . town and every township in the county was . represented. and.atV least " one representative ; of each "Was v called: on tfor '. a . speech.'. Mr. L. . E.' Boykin, United . States Good Road Ex-! pert, and Mr.KM. L.Stdver? tiain-; master . on the Wilmington and WeI-i don division of the Coast Line, , were!- I 'yi also called on for a-stfeechr outl 1 also called ' on ' for a speech. 'About thirty ;" speeches were made, touching every phase-of, the ;road; question and : the " nnsBihilitlAa nni? ( nrnsndritr rif Sampson county, r There 'probably! hak not- been atmore'enu r insr rin EtoBteTnr .North '"Carolina -for? It shows thaCeveryt:o"ne isTaliye to theT"rr interests of 'the" county . andj that the " spirit of co-operation is strong, which.; argues well for the future ,of Sampj ; ' ; son : county. . - This ' morhingj at 9 : 30 ' ' the exhibit, "car of the road jimproveA-. ment train was ' opened and about five, hundred people., passed through and' viewed the Government exhibits. At 10 am. an illustrated leclure was giv- ; . . . en at the opera house and at least" five hundred people were present at y this lecture given by the Government experts, illustrating different phases of the road- subject. . After the lec-' ture the exhibit car was-again open- -, ed and about 200 more, people passed through and viewed the exhibits. The ' lectures and exhibits , were attended ; by at least seven hundred people, all ' representative citizens of 'the county.. . : In every way the, visit of the road im 'provement train to Sampson county was a big success afid . much - good . should result, v .. ' .. , " :ii APPROACHING hLORJDA Washington, Dec. 12. The West In dian storm -was located by Weather Bu ' reau, at. 1 o'clock 'this afternoon, cen tral, northeast of eastern Cuba. It was moving northeastward and may' reach- the JTlor,ida.coast late tonight. Storm warnings were Immediately ordered -displayed on the east and'south Florida .coasts. - t. .J. . .:v;r v:. - ..v;-;:- or Sand Hill road to;Giantsboro and fromtArapahpe;ta eKrshaw and Orien tal and to' carry; on - a general traffic. business.'in horselsteam and gasoline, boats are the principle objects of the Arapahoe Baird's , , Creek. Tramway j :j Company of; Oriental chartered today, i by the secretary of state. The corpor-; . ation will ' also deal in timber; lands, ! merchandise, etc. The" authorized cap- , ital stock is $15,000 with $4,000 sub- ; scribed by. H.: Ai Reel; C. W. Keel, H; W. Brinson, J. M." Reel and Reel Broth- ; eis.? ' V Reprieve For Gouge..-' MGpuge, line 5Mitchell .aV. county tax-collector "who jwas; sentenced to V twenty:; months; oa i-thevroads for.oblit-. era ting the records "of his books and whose appeal f thetSipreme Court de-y nied November;29;rJs beeh granted a reprieve-- by' Governor Kitchin ' until j January loth in order that his jttor- neys may bringfarth 'their, "meri tori-' y ous grounds" for an application for par- . don. : .Gouge.- was . convicted in April," 1911. Governor Kitchin in his reasons for the reprieve; BaJ-s . yy) . '!"?!' ."Reputable attorneys , , representjh g. ; this defendant, having assured me that they -have . meritorious -: grounds f or an application for pardon,' which they can- not prepare and present before the sen- v tenee begins, I hereby reprieve.defehd ant until ; January 15, 1912, eondi-; tion that he remain under , same bondv! that he is now uhder," . Up. f. mi t-r - ... . i w ---'., - '4 -I iii!'i-' .1 ,; 'rV-
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