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-1 SEVENTEEN WILMINGTON, N. WEDNESDAY, DEQEMBER 27, 1911 PRICE THREE CENTS 9 : r i thediipatcw , r . ' -oV 'u- iil- . r; :- i ' eredlntHaCtytyCor ' TH k " . THE WEATHER. : , tent anywhere by Mall it S8 Conta - HKJ U I t 1 O, U K j T 11 V iLUC L I1 'WITIh 1 If I h .F Pair aid much colder "tonight, per Month. ; ; v - - ': VJV fSsii,0$s's j tVAV ltt JKTy'" IVTvi J Avfty' IV L A i A ' Thursday fair and colder. Brisk to - ' T - 1 NT V'iV- - -high-west to northwest winds. VOLUME I 10 1 11 i Oil CHINA'S PROBLEM DOH Thought He is Attempting a, Shrewd MoVeHowever Premier Has Con sentof Irnperial Court Members to Abdicate and Will Himself Later c-icn Returned American De clares Chinese Themselves. Not Fit to Govern Peking. Dec. 27. Representative members of the Imperial court have signified to Premier Yuan Shi Kai their iillingne. to agree to abdication. The court 'realizes there is no hope for it in the detention of three or four de" tached sections or the country and the semi-loyal provinces, and hopes to ob tain better terms by agreeing to the nroposiMl referendum on, the question the form of government. . Yuan realizes that the Republican spokesmen gathered at the peace con ference at Shanghai are not likely to accept his proposition for an elected as sembly, representing the entire empire. Yuan protably will resign1 his office af ter making the best terms possible for the throne. ' ' - Thought to Be a Trick. Tokio. Japan, Dec. 27. Yuan Shj Kai's proposal to decide the form of Government which shall prevail un der China s new regime by a conven tion of the delegates from all over the Empire is regarded as a shrewd move, but opinion is divided as to Whether it can be successfully done. Well informed men here believe the Revolutionises -re i-o 4 -patient to await '-c outcome of a convention and being aware of the PekingNGov ernment's helplessness may insist up on a refusal of Yuan's proposal. Unfit to Govern Themselves. Palo Alto, Cal., Dec. 27. A Repub lican form of Government in China u u Hi in au auouiuLc iaiiuic auu Tould be a calamity to the Chinese nation, according to Prof. ;W,GvBate- Tien Tsin. who arrived yesterday at Ms home here, after being driven out c? China, as a result of the Revolu tion. "The people of China are more ignorant than we Americans real ize," said Prof. Bateman. "Their con dition is awful. They ar4 in no con dition to govern themselves?' INT GALVESTON. : CITIZEN INDICTED . Sterling, 111., Dec. 27. Bcncan Mac kay, one of the largest real festate owners in Galveston, Texas, whose name is linked with the rebuilding of that city after the great storm there, was .indicted today by the grand jury on charges of misappropriation of the funds left by his father as part of an estate valued at $3,000,000. J FISHER Washington, Dec. 23. The fifth. an nual nifjeting of the American Associa tion For Labor Legislation will be held -we Ij(;C. 28-30. Walter Li Fisher, sec retar' 1 he interior, will preside dur ing the. discussion of the mining indns-lry- Safety and health in mines will C0Hid..red and will be discussed by experts. WALL FELL -AND ONE KILLED ' .Philadelphia, Decj 27. One man as killed and five injured when a "ttil 0V build;,,.. 'he Ederer Thread Company h COIlanRPrt tnrtav; sventv- h;i,. ini.it ,i ii ,ii ii women were in the u'"g, when the crash came. Many ""'owiy escaped death. '-r Br. mh Wool Tailh And the People Had to Pay Big Mone tary Tribute This Year in Conse quence of His Veto Last Summer Why Roosevelt's Candidacy Was Mentioned is Explained Was "Big .Stick" Held Over Mr. Taft's Head? - Washington, Dec. 27. An important point in connection with the Presi dent's message on the woolen sched ule has escaped attention. It is this: Mr. Taft is giving the peo ple a discourse on wool instead of cheaper woolens. Whether the Presi dent's message, which doesn't tell Congress any more about, the differ ence in the cost of production at home and abroad than it knew before, will be accepted, by the countryias a satis factory substitute : for cheaper and better clothing, which he promised ih his pre-election speeches, and was in a position to give but flatly' refused by vetoing the ; Underwood-LaFollette wool bill, remains to be seen. Here are some facts which will aid the reader to . reach a conclusion as to whether the President is now, ever was or ever will be in good faith with the public when - it comes to inter fering with the profits of the tariff trusts which make big campaign con tributions to the Republican party: When the Payhe-Aldrich bill was passed Mr. Taft said the woolen schedule of that measure was "inde fensible," and that he would like to see it revised and revised downward. At the xtra session of Congress Democrats and progressive Republi cans passed & bill reducing the-abnormally high tax on -woolens in a sin cere and patriotic attempt to lighten the burden of taxation to the users of woolens. Had the President signed this bill it would have meant a reduc tion this winter in the price of woolen clothing of all sorts for men, women idhildrCTateb;iia.lt!ie prises of blankets and other ' forms of -woolen manufactures needed for warmth by the-general public. -"A But the President vetoed this bill affording the very kind ' of relief he had declared -to be in sympathy with, forcing the American people to con tinue to pay a subsidy in artificial prices to the wool industry of approx imately $100,000,000 a year. "J must veto this bill," declared the ", President, "but after the tariff board reveals the difference in the cost of production at home and Abroad I will favor downward revision of the wool schedule." This report is now in, has' been rea'd and analyzed, and found to con tain practically nothing -more on the subject of difference in the cost of production at home and abroad than the Democratic Ways and Means Com mittee was in possession of when it framed the Underwood bill. The joke is on the public again. The people asked for cheaper and bet ter clothing, and all they get, so far as Mr. Taft is concerned, is a nicely worded but useless message; words as a suDsutute iur reucL num extortionate prices exacted by the tariff trusts! Getting First Hand Facts. Sixty of ti.3 Democratic members of the House of Representatives are utilizing the holiday recess to make a first hand study of conditions in the Panama Canal zone. Inasmuch as the canal is eating up government money at the rate of several thous ands of dollars a day the Democrats hold that it 4s their duty to see, per sonally that this money is being wise ly and properly spent. The question of fortifying the canal will come up soon, and as this will mean a large additional expenditure, the Democrats propose to know just why and where this money is to be expended. Hence thev are taking advantage of the tem porary let-up in affairs at Washington to investigate.. , ' Speaker Clark has urged all the Democrats to visit the canal zone a some time, and practically all of them propose to folloV the advice. This is in line with the announced Demo'cratic'program to get to the bot tom of every proposition which calls for an expenditure of government money.1 Why Roosevelt WasJJoomed. y The Roosevelt renomination .talk, which was more ' pronounced during the recent meeting of the Republican National Committee than at any time .since the' former . president's return from Africa, has died aown agam. And now comes the report that this talk was started, by the old guard lead ers among the committeemen for the purpose of frightening Mr. Taft into allowing them to have control of the preliminaries of the next Republican convention in Chicago. This control means a big advantage to those, who possess it, for with it goes the au thority . to dictate seating arrange ments, - admissions; - distribution of natrnnaere . and committee .. assign ments; in short, it means control of the convention right up to tne time fir lii i kh w " . m Wm4 8MV rwB& ? - ill ' Delhi, Dec; 27. -Many of the decorations designed for the durbar will regain as permanent "memorials to thf first visit of an Enbh King and Queen to India. Among the most impo IJg decorations was the entrance gate to Kashmir campV The pillars of this gate are of walnut carved and figured emblematical of Kashmir archi tecture. The carving was done by native workmen, and great artistic skill is shown, - LOOKS Thought That Railroad Will Be Built from Knoxville, Tenn., to Ruther fordton and Other Points in North Carolina Meeting Tomorrow Ex pected to Further This Develop ment. That the di- Special to The Dispatch. Raleigh, N, C, Dec. 27 rectors of the North Carolina--Trans Continental .-: Construction .Cpmpai7, which owns the South Atlantic Trans Continental Railroad Company's char ter, intends pushiyg the road from Knoxville, Tenn., to Rutherfordton, N. C, and to other points in the State, is inferred from the fact that E. C. Duncan-, one of the directors, and a rail road promoter, left today for New York, to attend a meetings The plans have not been given out, but from rail road activity in the State it is believed the meeting tomorrow will mep furth er developments. DYNAMITE OUTRAGE TRIED IN PENNSYLVANIA Rochester, Penn., Dec' 27. Twenty-four sticks of dynamite, . 12 caps, wrapped in cotton, and ten yards of fuse, packed in a case, were found in the yards of McDonald and Hart man, dealers in contractors' supplies, today. Since the discovery of a quan tity of explosives near the railroad bridge across the Ohio River, several months ago, said to have been plant ed there by agents of the McNam aras, the police have been active. A. Big Surprise Song. By Jolly Harry Morgan at the Grand Theatre Today. It of balloting. . ' " ' The1 Roosevelt talk, according to the best information, did not spring from the friends of the former presi dent, but from his enemies. The plan was, by starting this talk, to dis concert and divide the "Insurgents. Then, with Mr. Taft deserted by all except the Southern postmaster dele gates, a deadlock could be forced, which could be broken at the proper time in favor of a compromise candi date acceptable to the old guard lead ers. - - Seeking a Way Out. That the men who control the big industrial corporations of the country are convinced that the people are de termined to break up these monop olies, and that they are seeking a way to escape this mandate of the people, are among the more important facts brought out by the Senate trust in vestigating 'committee. Louis D. Brandeis, the noted Boston lawyer, told the committee that the statements of Mr. Gary and Mr. Per kins that the trusts were willing to accept a price fixing law, were only apparent concessions. What the mag nates want, Mr. , Brandeis said, is the passage of the Aldrlch ' monetary scheme, which will insure the contin uance of a. centralized control of money and credit," on which all busi ness depends. f These magnates, the lawyer testified, are bending every effort to gain the enactment of the Aldrich. plan into ; law, and one of their methods, he said, was, to biind the people to their real purpose by ' morning.. Prosecutor Butler expects making them believe the trusts are to conclude the examination of the wit willing to surrender. 'ness before the day closes, gNTRANCE GATE TO KAMIR MOTHER E Made by the Nationalists in the Duma to Swat the United States Would Now Exclude all People of Jewish Faith From Russia, as Well as Raise Customs Duty. St Petersburg, Russia, Dec. 27. Supplementary legislative proposal of a prohibitive character has been in troduced by the. Nationalists in the Duma. It . is aimed ;d1re$tfy at-thlware store and, after-helping them United States. According to the pro posed enactment's terms, American citizens of Jewish religion will be to tally excluded from Russia and cus toms duty will be raised by one hun dred per cent, unless Russia's normal schedule is lower than America's. In that case duty equalling the American duV will be collected. Boycotting American Machinery. Washington,' Dec. 27. The move ment in Russia to boycott American machinery is growing. The State De partment has been so advised. DOING SETTLEMENT WORK. Is Former Fiancee of Rev. Rocheson, is the Report. Boston, Mass., Dec. 27. - Miss Violet Edmands, the heiress who was en gaged to marry Rev. O. V. T. lliehe oon, has left her homt to bo-'cty. a settlement worker in N.-w York city. Announcement that sh3 is doing set tlement work comes from a close friend of the family. REPUBLICAN PROGRESSIVES ' START THEIR CAMPAIGN Youngstown, O., Dec. 27. The real battle of the so-called Progressive wing of the Republican party against Taft's renomination starts today with speeches b"y" Senator Robert M. La Folette in Youngstown and Cleveland. Old Pullman Employe Dead. Philadelphia, Dec. 27. James Mar tin, superintendent of the Pullman Company, with headquarters in Phila delphia, died today aged 65 'years, of paralysis. He was with the Pullman Company for forty years; Y INMATES DIE Berlin, Ded. 27. Eighteen inmates of the Berlin Municipal Slfelter for. the Homeless died during the night from poisoning and others are dying from the same cause. Over four thousand nen took refuge in the institution last night and some -"brought scraps of extra food, consisting in many cases of spoiled smoked; herring. This is assigned as the. reason of the fatal ities. ATTORNEY STILL ON STAND Albert Veeder Telling of Packers Pre vious to 1905. ChicagoV Dec. 27 Albert H. Veeder, an attorney for Swift & Co., continued his story of the operations of the pack ers prior to 1905, when th Chicago, ; meats packers' trial was resumed this CAMPf Rifle Hardware Establishment in the Capital City Condition of Youth In jured by Powder Keg Explosion Con . tinucs Satisfactory The Sandlin Case. Dispatch News Bureau,: Raleigh, N. C, Dec. 27. Sometime yesterday a thief of thieves entered the Hart-Ward hard- selves to a dozen fine pistols, several pocket knives and some cartridges, carefully closed the rear door, which they forced open, and silently stole away. No clue has been found as to the identity of the rogues. As stated yesterday, friends of L. M. Sandlin, the Wilmington wife-murderer, might as well abandon .all hope of Governor Kitchin's commuting his death sentence to life imprisonment, for there is little likel'.hcod that exe cutive clemency will be extended this prisoner. It is said fhat physicians v. bo have examined-the man in the yvnitentiary declare he is sane, anl the evidence to show 'nsanity, as .pro duced by his relatives and attorneys, iS rot of a most convincing nature. Governor Kitchin has said nothing a' -out the commutation, nor has he discussed the case, but from what can be learned Sandlin s days on earth aie surely numbered. The condition of the three white boys and the colored boy who were injured Monday as the result of thef explosion of a can of gun powder was reported as satisfactory today, though Hester Atwater, the negro boy, may be slightly worse. These boys were injured " when Atwater applied a light ed match to a can of powder. STANDARD OIL JUNIORS STARTED IN TODAY New York,- Dec- 27 Thirty-five sep arate companies,- formerly composing the Standard Oil Company, today be gan work as individuals, and the gigantic task of organizing operating forces for separate units of the old oil trust was undertaken. It will take some time to determine whether the dissolution plan will pfoduce the com petition that the Government hopes for. According to the independent oil men there has been no change in the situation thus far. HIS BIG COTTON OFFER Columbia, S. C, Dee. 27 Colonel Robert M. Thompson, promoter of the plan to lend the Southern rfCotton Grow ers $25 per bale on' this year's cotton crop, the rest to be paid when the farm er wishes to sell his product, has, writ ten the editor of a local paper;; the letter stating that owing to the criti cism of his scheme he has decided not to press it further now. He hopes the farmers will eventually accept his plan if adopted. Thompson thinks it. would save the South fifty million, dollars. " A. Big'Surprrse Song. - By Jolly Harry Morgai. at the Grand Theatre Today. it Subscribe for The Evening Dispatch. SUCK THIEVES Spinners' Decide they Cannot Work Cloth Mills With Looms Idle and So Will Throw Over One Hundred and Fifty -Thousand Weavers Out of Em ploymentTrouble Started Because One Man Refused to Join the Union. Manchester, Eng., Dec. 27. Notices have been posted at all mills belong ing to members, of the Federation of Master Cotton Spinners in the North and' Northeast of Lancashire - county that the" cloth mills will be closed to? night and not reopen until; further no tice. Weavers. ' numberine on hun dred afM sixty thousand, will be locked out. Anequal number of spinners' will be-reduced to half time, with prospect of complete . stoppage of work ' if, the trouDie De prolonged. The Federation' of Master Cotton Spinners -decided it was impossible to continue turning-out yarn while the looms are idle. Thy will curtail the production by stopping work on three days in each week,-beginning January 1st. A man named Riley and his wife, two non-unionists, whose employment originated the strike in the Helene mill 'at Accringtonv December 20, which led to the lock-out, would not consent to join the Union ancbthus obviate the lock-ouj. GAVE TOYS TO POOR. Reeollectons 1 of Hard Boyhood Prompts a $12,000 Xmar Donation. Springfield, O., Dec, 27. Stirred by recollections of a boyhood spent under unusually hard conditions in an un promising part of Indiana, where his parents - were able to eke out but a bare living, a boyhood that brought an intense longing for tovs - which other children had but which of neces sity were denied him, John . W. Bopk walterf a Springfield multi-millionaire, although nearly 4,000 miles away, 'in Geneva. Switzerland, -playe.d ' Santa Clans for " Springfield's poor,7 includ ing several hundred children. - In sending his check here for $12,- 000 ror tne poor of the city for a happy Christmas, Mr. Bookwalter stip ulated that a goodly share 'of the sum should be spent in the pnrcnase ot toys for children who would ,not be likely otherwise to get them. - The committee in charge of the expendi ture of the money carried out the do nors plans to the dot, the medium of the Salvation Army, the Associated Charities and other institutions being used to effect the distribution. - , Nearly 3,000 poor people of Spring field enjoyed their Christmas, dinners through the bounty of Mr.. Bookwal ter. Between 500 and 600 . baskets containing Christmas dainties and substantials were distributed. LIKELY TWO FATAL ACCIDENTS BEFALL MEN Special to. The Dispatch. . Raleigh, N. C, Dec. 27. Striking a heavy city wagon, loaded ..with three thousand pounds of rock,, with the force of a catapult, a horse ridden byd Walter Tedline fell sprawling to the street today and probably . fatally in jured the rider. John Johnson, white- and married, of Ridgeway, was struck by a Sea board train at Manson last night and sustained fractured shoulderrblade, five ribs and jajwbone and is in a hos pital here in a semi-conscious condi tion. He will probably die. TWCT "BACK SCRATCH ERS" Reach -the ' President as Belated Christmas Presents. Washington, Dec.-, 27. Belated Christmas presents to President Taft in the shape of 'two "back scratchers," from a Michigan manufacturer, reacfr 'Should ed the White House today. you have occasion to use them before 1912," said the manufacturer in a let ter, "pleaste, entertain the happy thought that' Michigan is at your back.' 0 LABOR UlllOli LEADERS READY Td TESTIFY Los Angeles, Dec. 27 With labor union leaders ready to testify the Fed eral Grand Jury hiembers resumed their investigation of the alleged . Nation-wide dynamite conspiracy today. The-preliminary hearing of Bert H. Franklin, the detective employed by the McNamara defense,, charged with bribing jurors in the McNamara trial. was also resumed. . "Sergeant White's PeriP (Lubin.) Great Photoplay of Thrills, at the Grand Today. , V ' It i's im'The States Bleak Weather Swept Down from the Northwest ; Since Yesterday and . Mercury Takes Big Tumble In the Far .Northwest the Temperature is ' Below Zero. . ' . Chicago, 111., Dec. 27. A cold wave sweeping . down from the Northwest has reached the Lake region. Since yesterday,' at noon ' the temperature fell from forty-one to J.wenty-t6 de-' grees above zero. The Weather Bu reau said the, mercury would fail ten more aegreesDeiore, tomorrow, ijnere , are - heavy ?stows in. Wisconsin ; and MichigahU', In the Canadian Northwest tiie " t'imp)eraiitr .1 jratige '- from ,two to fwenty-sfe, degrees below zero. ; Re ports ii from Northwestern States in this connshow ,th,e grange is : six above' to fourteen degrees, below 'zero." Taft Can, "Make Hay" Now.; Pittsburg, Mass., Dec. 27 Mar shall W. .Stedmaii, ajake maker of, Tyringham, . has madeT a hand , hay -rake to be presented, to -President Taft. - It is of' ash the finest -that Stedman could . find and has ibeen polished ,tq show the sjtraight . grain. That the rake might' have the prop er, "hang" in the' hands of the Presi dent Stedmanc Obtained the length of the President's ' arm: and 'has shaped the rake to fit his reach.' '; Stedman is oft the third generation of rake makers on 'Hop Brook,' the region where the American Indians first taught therwhite man to make maple sugar. .. ... .-,.: ".'. : v .. "-' - GOVERNOR. TAKES HAND : IN HUNT FOR LYNCHERS - V- . '., . . i v . . 27.- Governor Annapolis, Mdi, Dec Crothers has .takenya hand in; the hunt for the; lynchers who put to death King Johnso alias Davis; the negro, taken from, the Brooklyn lock up Christmas morning.. Johnson shot and killed Frederick Schwatt,'ai white man, at. Fairfield Sunday. , Thev Gov ernor, after a conference with, county officials, insisted that the lyncher be brought f to ..justice, .. The county, po lice is -diligently investigating the af fair. Efforts to learn the identity of Johnson's slayers thus far have 'been futile. - ii . Washington, Dec'.- 27. It . is appar. enttha the entire, question of reor- . ganizing the army has been .reopened v and will not be settled without a' long" series of hearings by 'the-' house 'mili tary affairs committee of which Rep resentative James - Hay, of Virginia I is chairman. " The hearings have' been discontinued until Jan. $, when Jvi;ajor General Wood and Mr. Stimson, ;sec- ' retary .of war) 'will be heard. ? ' y AUGUSTA SEEKS RELIEF ' FROM FREIGHT RATES Washington, v Dec. 27. Augusta Chamber of Commence has petition ed the Interstate Commerce'; Commis eion claiming", that the , railways and stoamshp , lines 'operating-along the South Atlantic TJo'ast make . rate, dis crimination against Augusta' in favor of Atlatha..The shoe rates from New York ; to'-' Atlanta are ; les -than to Augusta, "although the. distance - is greateii. , ' '. 'A. ;.'. :l - ' Bargains In unretfdemed iJowelry, speciality 14 Buit-cases, bas. trunks and musical instruments. w Uncle bb'aries, 16 SouUi Front street. tf 4 '