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. I :' t ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS 1 1 . r V ..T Carried by th Evnlni DlpaUV Together with ExUntlv SpMlal; CorretpondOf. . YfTHE WEATHER. Fair tonight and Wednesday. Warmer tonight Moderate east to southeast winds. VOLUME TWl WILMINGTON, NC , UESB JANUARY 27, 1914. PRICE THREE CENTS. I Si IB Head of Federation Will Ad dress Convention As To The Strike. MOVER WILL REMAIN i And Hear What Gompers Has To Say Relative to His Charge Convention Will Hardly Finish Its Work This Week. liMli.riiipolis. Ind., Jan. 27 Doubts urn . pnssed today that the Unit (,1 Mini Workers of America conven lion, vhit li began-its session a week would be able to complete its work this week. It had been expect ed ihii' i he convention would adjourn Saturday night, but two important emu n;i I ices, those on wage scale and mi Constitution, are yet to report. It is understood that the Constitu tion committee's report would be brief and would recommend no radi cal changes in the organic laws of the organization. President Gompers, of the Ameri can l ederation of Labor, will arrive here Thursday morning and speak be fore the United Mine Workers' con i iHiuii. according to announcement by President White today. Gompers will expIaTnthe attitude of the Fed erations' executive council, in connec tion with the charges-made in conven- fioii yesterday by President JHoyerr of the Western Federation of Miners, that if the copper strike in Michigan is lost it will be due directly to the inactivity of the American Federa tion's executive council. , President .Woyer said ne expected to remain here to hear Gompers' explanation. COURT HOLDS BOB FITZSIMMONS 100 OLD X v, York, Jan. 27. The Supreme Court today denied application of Hob' rt Fitzsimmons, once heavy- wejin ring champion of the world, !r an injunction restraining the New Yi!k Athletic Commission from refus ini; to sanction his participation in iioxiim exhibitions in New York Sta'i'. The commission held that I'ii.-iiiiinons is too old to again enter h" y'wva. Justice Seabury ruled that 'he commission was within its limit in making the order. EB PLATING FOR BATTLESHIPS 1-omloM. Jan. 27. An invention for ''hIiIht plating battleships is being ' I" inieiited with by the British Ad '"'''liy, according to The Globe, us ti. ill. ucil informed on naval matters. 1 h.. process consists of sandwiching :i' t- of rubber between layers of I'liiuiiened steel and the inventors de ,;' that the wall of rubber will '''Vl the same effects on projectiles 'i' " sandbags Jiav-e on rifle bullets. HATE WAR TO BE f FOUGHT TO FINISH ''ii'lon, Jan. 27 Representatives '" i'.'ihuid of the Hamburg-American 'Miship Line- declared today that ';ite war, opened between Ger steamship companies, is to be "ii;'-'"i to a finish.- No quarter will ' be shown or expected between Hamburg-American and North '"''nan Lloyd. Hea vy Fog For Norfolk Harbor. Norfolk. Va., Jan. 27 Hampton ll('i"ls and Norfolk harbor were today ""Sloped for some time in the thick 'sl i ok known here in many years. Mv,-r traffic I inif. was paralyzed for a RUBS WILSON IS AGAINST FREE PASSAF AMERICAN SHIPS 1 - ' - 1 1 , ! ! President Strong IhlHis Posi tion That American Coast wise Vessels Should Not Be Exempt From Panama Tolls Expected to Soon Make His Attitude Public. Washington, Jan. 27. That Presi dent Wilson is opposed to exemption of American coastwise ships from Panama tolls, was flatly asserted at the Capitol today by those who knew what took place at the conference last night between the President and the Senate Foreign Relations Com mittee. One Senator admitted that the President minced no words, in ex plaining his position on the tolls questions; that his views were in clined toward that taken with Great Britain' relative to provision of the Panama bill, exempting American coastwise ships from tolls, and that the President would make public his attitude in the matter in the near fu ture. Several Senators expressed surprise, in view of the President's positive attitude on this important question, which has been at issue for many months, that he had not urged action at the extra session of Con gress., What the President will rec ommend was not disclosed in the af termaths of the midnight White House conference, but two ways are open for settlement of -the issue, at least temporarily. One would be to repeal the exemption provision of the act and the other to pass the pend ing Adamson bill, to suspend, for two years, operation of the exemption clause, giving time to demonstrate whether the canal could be self-sustaining, without tolls from American coastwise ships. Japan Reported in Throes of Finan cial Trouble in Spite of Oeclara tfons tdonrraTWornan '"Bank President at Tokio. , Tokio, Jan. 27. Despite official ut terances to reassure the public, Ja pan is declared in other quarters to be suffering from an economic de pression. In the northeastern section a famine has made the situation par ticularly acute. In some cases schools have had to close because there was no money to pay the teachers and be cause the children, weak from lack of food, were unable to attend. The Hokkaido government has asked the central government to advance $15, 000,000 for relief funds. The chief cause of the general de pression, which began about the time of the death of Emperior Mutsuhito, is the heavy taxation of the people which is necessary to pay the inter est on the national debt of over a bil lion dollars. The wave of elation among the people at the close of the victorious war with Russia and a patriotic business boom also caused a general rise in the standard of liv ing and the price 'of commodities soared as a result of the more lux urious level of expenditure. Then came reaction. This was due to the burden of extraordinary axes to meet the war debt and constant expendi tures in the building up of a big army and navy. The government, however, is at tacking the problem heroically by making heavy retrenchments. Much to the dissatisfaction of the army, it has been decided to abandon for ; tne present, at leact, me ioug-suuu-, ing proposal o create two more mil: - tary divisions. Baron Takahashi, the minister of finance, promises a reduction of tax es to lighten the burdens of the peo ple. He will endeavor to continue 001 DEPRESSION the practice of redeeming the na- She inherited a fortune from her tional debt by $25,000,000 yearly. He 1 husband whose death had terminated looks forward also to an increase in J. a plan to establish a bank. The the amount of capital invested in the ! widow to carry out her husband's in establishment or expansion of bank- tentions, and after carefully training ing and industrial enterprises. Cost ly harbor improvements may be de- layed but the authorities are actively planning to build a new waterworks system in the city of Tokio and con - struct a sewage system of which the'i0ng business day. She is modest metropolis stands badly in need in and simple in her tastes, with "Sin the interest o public health. For cerity" as her life motto. Although these improvements loans will prob- J thrifty, she makes liberal contribu ably soon be sought in Europe. , tions to charity and is pointed out by But it is by increasing her export '.her friends as a model of Japanese trade that Japan hopes, to find real , womanhood. relief. Continuous order in China,! Japanese scientists are interested where revolution upset the market for Japanese goods, and the opening of the Panama Canal are greatly de sired as furnishing means for aug menting the exports and thereby re 'ducing the balance of trade whicm WILL RE-BUILD Seaboard Will at Once Have Another Coal Chute Raleigh's' Police Chief Exonerated Mecklenburg Man Pardoned. Raleigh, Jan. 27. TheSeaboard Air Line will take steps at once to re build theT)ig coal chute that burned down north of the city Sunday morn ing, a structure that cost about fif teen thousand dollars ten years ago. A large quantity of machinery for hoisting coal and crushing it for use in the locomotives and for disposing of the ashes and cinders from the en-, gines constituted the principal loss. The request on the part of Chief of Police Walters for his official re cord to be examined by the city com mission in consequence of the charg es by E. R. Carroll in a recent temp erance meeting that Walters wilful ly failed to seek out and ari-efet blind tigers, has resulted in a pronounce ment by the commission that they find that the chief has been faithful and diligent in his official conduct. Yesterday afternoon at 2 o'clock there was held the funeral of W. B. Wilder well-known business man and farmer, who died Monday in his home here. He had moved from his farm into the city only a few weeks ago. He celebrated his sixty-first birthday on Saturday and died on Monday. He is survived by his wife and nine children, all'' grown. For the funeral the pallbearers were: E. B. Crow, Joseph G. Brown, P. H. Ray, C. B. Barbee, D. J. Hood, and S. C. Hob by. now stands against Japan. Everybody is also looking forward eagerly to the coronation of the new emperor next fall as signalizing bright prospects by the increased de mand for labor and putting a large amount of money into circulation. The Japanese business - men . who visfttrd' thVUjnited States four years ago have decided upon a campaign for closer understanding between the two' countries.' At a recent reunion, upon the anniversary of the party's return after a four months' stay in Ameiica, resolutions were adopted asking friends in America to assist in furthering the traditional friend ship between Japan and the United States. It was decided that members of the party should send personal let ters to their American acquaintances seeking their aid in this cause. This is but ,one of many indications of Japan's earnest desire to be under stood by the United States as a first class power and to bring an end to the movements in the United States which hit the Japanese. It would be a mistake, however, to believe that Japan intends to drop the California land question. On the contrary, there is every indication that she will stick tenaciously to her i original position. This point of view was voiced by Buci Nakano, president of the Tokio Chamber of Commerce while welcoming a party of Japanese tourists from Sacramento. He said it was a source of deep regret that the land question remained unsettled ed, despite the united and assiduous efforts of both the Japanese govern ment and the Japanese people for a speedy solution. It would require further effort and the Japanese at home were fully prepared to strive to the last for a fundamental settle ment. The first woman bank president Jn Japan has established herself in Tokio ghe ig Mrg Kin gen0i wh0i al. though 70 years of age, is in every sense the executive head of the Seiio Commercial "Bank of Tokio, and is rapidly acquiring a reputation for efficiency among Japanese bankers. her sons in financial institutions so they might serve as able assistants in her work, she opened her bank here, 1 she arrives at her office at 8 o'clock 1 sharp every morning and puts in a in an extraordinary case in a Kyoto hospital where a child was removed from the side of a male patient. The patient was born with a small tumor in the left side of the abdomen' which I gradually grew in size as the years Sypg HT Swept Its Way From Canadian To the Mexican Further Reports pMay Increase the Number of Dead High Water Does Much Property Damage. San Francisco, Cal., Jan. 27 The Pacific coast today : waaH emerging from the grip of a storm Vhich drenched the entire region from the Canadian to the Mexican borders. Latest reports place the death toll at eight. High water caused much dam- age to property, particularly in South em California, and railroad traffic in j California and Nevada was badly . crippled. Several towns have been partially submerged and hundreds of persons, living on the lowlands, have been forced to move. Seven Drowned. Los Angeles, Cal., . Jan. 27. With seven persons drowned, all forms of overland transportation are either tied up or handicapped seriously. Six train loads of passengers are maroon ed and this section of the State has been damaged to the extent of mine than a million dollars, as result of the unprecedented storm; which has been ragtag since Saturday. The pros- BSCLJT or.r-xeiief -ihrlelMEened .with- tha appearance of the sun today. The greatest damage was done at Santa Barbara. OPIUM MUGGLI!!S AT NEW ORLEANS New Orleans, La., Jan. 27. Owing to the large number of steamships ar riving at this port at this time of year to load cotton, the customs in spectors are having great difficulty in preventing the smuggling of opium. Many of the vessels are arriving from the Orient and considerable quantities of the contraband drug have been seized. In one recent case the Chi nese members of the crew of a Brit ish ship attacked a party of customs inspectors on the wharves and it re quired the service of the strong arm squad before the riot could be quelled. REPORT WILL EXPEDITE TRUST PROGRAM Washington, Jan. 27. The Admin istration's program for control of financial operations of railroads will be expedited by the Interstate Com merce Commission's sensational re port on the 'Frisco system receiver ship, according to many Senators to day, who pointed out that the report disclosed, through its exposition of syndicate operations, in which the ! 'Frisco took part, conditions which legislation prohibiting interlocking di rectorates would prevent. Ex-Sentor Cullom Grows Weaker. - Washington, Jan. 27. Former Sen ator Cullom was weaker today and his physicians continued to marvel at his wonderful vitality, which has sustained him from day to day, while they were predicting that his death was only a few hours off. ls went by until it became as large as two men's heads put" together. The surgical operation was carried out with much difficulty. A deformed chilld was discovered. Professor Osaki who participated in the opera tion says that such cases are rare but that viewed from an anotomical standpoint they are by no means sur prising, since they are nothing but an abnormal combination, prior to birth, of the tissue of twin, babies, which ought to have been vn born sepa- rately. The patient is recovering. n LIST EICHI MAY LIFT EMBARGO ON ARMS FOR OLD MEXICO m RAPS vll ids Allowances to Industrial Plants Declared To Be Unlawful Rebates. IT IS SIGIIIFICAIIl Interstate Commerce Commission Makes Important Decision in Rail ' tfrad Case. Washington, Janv 27 The millions j of. 'dollars paid, annually to the. great industrial plants, the so-called trusts, by the railroads in the form of "al lowances," or special services, were iield today by the Interstate Com merce Commission to be unlawful and unreasonable preferences. In fact, unlawful rebates. The decision sig nificantly referred to the Eastern railroads' movement for an increase j of freight rates by stating that the railroads themselves must properly conserve their sources of revenue END OF BIG COAL STRIKE IN SIGHT London, Jan. 27 Speed tti termina tion of the coal strike, which began January 21st, was foreshadowed to day when Union men voted to resume work in all the coal yards, where em ployers had- consented to grant an increase of two cents per ton for loading . coal. The strike -has: toyefcvr ed ten thousand men. ' PAPERS CUT OUT BOOZE ADVERTISEMENTS Pittsburgh, Pa., Jan. 27 The Gazette-Times and Chronicle-Telegraph announced today that "in order to make their business policy har monize with their editorial utteranc es" they would not accept advertise ments of intoxicating liquors. JAP. SENDS BRYAN GIANT RADISHES Mobile, Ala., Jan. 27 S. Imura, a Japanese gardener here, today sent Secretary of State Bryan two radish es, weighing thirty and twenty-eight pounds, respectively. His action was prompted by the report of a Cali fornia farmer sending-bryan a radish weighing twenty pounds. LOST CONTROL AND MINE CAGE DROPPED Terre Haute, Jan. 27 Nine "men were injured, several seriously, when an engineer at the Sanford mine, near here, lost control of the mine cage today and it fell to the bottom, two hundred feet. Bouin to Race Kohelmalnen. New York, Jan. 27 Quite- the choicest tidbit that has been served up to followers of athletic sports here this winter is billed for Madison Square Garden tomorrow night, when Jean Bouin, the noted French runner, and Hannes Kohelmainen, the un conquerable Finlander, will engage In a two-mile race in an effort to settle the question of their relative su premacy. The two have long been rivals for the premier honors as dis tance runners. Kohelmainen defeat ed Bouin in the Olympic gamcc at Stockholm, but the Frenchman hopes J for a different rett!t in the contest! tomorrow night. Liner Damaged But Slightly. Liverpool, Jan. 27 The Cunard liner Mauretania suffered only slight damage from the explosion of com' pressed gas, which occurred aboard yesterday, killing four men and in juring a number of others. Live Question Discussed at Last Night's White House Conference and Number of Senators Favor It Presi dent Inclining That Way. Washington, Jan. 27 Lifting the embargo on arms for Mexico also was discussed at last night's White House conference. Some of the Senators favored it, on the ground that it would hasten hostilities to a con clusion. One Senator said today he believed the President was inclin ing more and more to that view and might lift the embargo soon. It was the general opinion of Sena tors, after their talk with the Presi dent on the Japanese situation, that the officials in Japan were friendly to the United States, but were being pressed by the radicals in Parlia ment. HAITIEN REVOLT RAPIDLY SPREADINC Cape Haitien, Jan. 27 The revolu tion in Haiti is spreading all over the north. At Port DePaix and Gonaives the entire population has risen. Two prominent exiles, Generals Zam or and Laroche, both former Ministers of War, returned to Cape Haitian, which is in the hands of the Rebels. Committee of Safety. Washington, Jan. 27 The blockade of Cape Haitien, the storm center of the latest Haitien revolution, has been proclaimed by the Government at Port-au-Prince. State Department reports today say the diplomatic corps at Port AuPrince has designat ed a committee of safety, to assume charge, in the event of possible b dication of President Oreste and an outbreak of disorder. The' German cruiser Bremen has arrived there. WOULD AMEND CHARTER WIBIT GOETHALS Albany, N. Y., Jan. 27 The bill by which Mayor Mitchel, of New York City, seeks to amend the charter of that city, to meet with the views of Colonel George Goethals, so as to make possible his acceptance of the position of Police Commissioner, came to Albany, too late-fer introduc tion today. It will be introduced to morrow. CHILDREN DIE HRATPOISCN Haleyville, Ala., Jan. 27 Three small children of Perry Rowland here are dead today from eating rat pois on, while their parents were away from home visiting. LION KILLS MOVING PICTURE OPERATOR Nairobi, British East Africa, Jan. 27 An encounter with a lion caused the death here today of Fritz Schind ler, a member of an American mJv ing picture expedition engaged in picturing wild animals in their native haunts. Schindler was attempting to photograph a lion, when the animal sprang on him. TOBACCO WAREHOUSES DE STROYED. Special to The Dispatch. Raleigh, N. C, Jan. 27. Fire at Fu quay Springs today destroyed two large leaf tobacco warehouses, caus ing damage of about ten thousand dollars, partly covered by insurance. They will be rebuilt. PRESIDENT NAMES GOE- 4 THALS. 4 Washington, Jan. 27. Presi- dent Wilson today signed an ex- 4 ecutive order putting into oper- 4 4 ation on April 1, a permanent 4 4 government for the Panama Ca- 4 4 nal Zone and naming Colonel 4 George W. Goethals as the first 4 4 civil governor. His nomination 4 4 will be sent to the Senate today. 4 iROOPS CALLED TODAY 10 PROTECT A Negro Arrested For Killing Mrs. Lynch Saturday Night. SOLDIERS 61 AUTO Hurry From Raleigh to Wen dell t6 Protect the Accused Who Is in Jail A Horrible Crime. LYNCHED THIS AFTERNOON. " Special to The Dispatch. Raleigh, N. C, Jan. 27. Twen- i ty minutes before the arrival of fr the military company at Wen- 4" . 4 dell this afternoon a mob of, a thousand men and women lynch- fr ed Jin Wilson. Nobody else fr was lynched. 4 4 S 4 4 4 I I "S 4 4 4 i 4 4 4 4 " Special to The Dispatch. Raleigh, N. C, Jan. 27. Jim Wil son, who is alleged to have brained Mrs. William Lynch, near Wendell, , Saturday night, and .arrested today, is being guarded by three hundred men at Selma, where he was jailed. The men insist on a speedy trial at the scene of the alleged murder. He is said to have confessed. " Cdnrpany "B, of the1 State troops, un der command of Assistant"' Adjutant Gneeral Gordon Smith and W. P Moody, left here this afternoon in au tomobiles for Wendell, to protect Wilson, the negro, from being lynch ed. He will be brought from Selma to Wendell. Governor Craig received a call for aid at noon. Excitement is running high. Wilson is said to have implicated five other negroes, some of whom are under arrest near the crime. Wil son probably will be brought to Ral eigh tonight, after an investigation. The Johnston county coroner's jury investigating the horrible murder of Mrs. William Lynch near Wendell, de veloped evidence that some unknown person probably criminally assaulted her and used an axe he found on the premises to literally split her head open in two directions. The bloody axe was found near a sawmill camp, sticking in a stump. Also some part of her wearing apparel. A negro em ployee of another saw mill camp, who has disappeared, was suspected. Shoes he left behind fit the tracks of the murderer. The secretary of State charters three new corporations as follows: The George K. Hummel Co., Char lotte, capital $25,000 authorized and $2,000 subscribed by George K. Hum mel and others for a merchant tailor ing business. The Mebane Motor Car Co., of Me bane, Alamance county, capital $25, 000 authorized and $5,000 subscribed by W. A. Murray and others. The R. B. Newman Co., of Wise, ' Warren county, capital $5,000 by R. B. N. Newman and others. Will Graham, of Mecklenburg coun ty, was pardoned yesterday by Gov ernor Craig, most especially on ac count of recommendations from Philadelphia, where Graham spent several years as a fugitive from this State, after escaping from service of a sentence of five year's for larceny. He lived an exemplary life in Phila delphia and a wealthy negro woman is among the petitioners for the par don, she ' pledging to marry Graham if he is pardoned. Another pardon Is for Henry Moore, serving fifteen years from Davidson county for second degree murder. He has served four years arid is now, a physical wreck from tu berculosis. First Initiative Election. Springfield, 111., Jan. 27 The first initiative election under the commis sion form of government law in Illi nois was held in Springfield today. The question at issue was whether the city should combine its municipally-owned water and light plants. ; -. !' ''ft: f: i. : t ': ' V t
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