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VOL. I, NO. 291
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GBEENSBOEO, N. C, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15. 1906
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Views In Havana Where American Sailors Were Landed Thursday
PRESIDENT PALMA.
AT UNVEILING OF
1.
PANIC
KINLEY STATUE
Says Normal Has Not Received
Due Consideration at Hands
of City.
DR. HARRISON SUBMITS
REPORT TO ALDERMEN
There Are More Births and Fewer
Deaths per 1,000 Population Among
White Than Among Negroes in City
Recommends New Ordinances.
At the reguliir semi-monthly meeting
of the board of aldermen yesterday af
ternoon, Dr. Charles D. Mclver, president
3f the State Normal and Industrial Col
lege, asked that the matter of paving
south Mendenhall street be reopened, in
order that the board might hear proper
ty owners who were not present at the
last meeting of the board, when action
on the petition was deferred until .March
1st. The request of Dr. Mclver was re
ferred to City Attorney Strudwick, who
will determine whether or not the board
has the legal right to reopen the mat
ter. In addition to this interesting dis
cussion, Dr. Edmund Harrison, city phy
sician, submitted the report; of the
board of health, and added some re
marks that were quite interesting, and
which called forth a reply from his hon
or, the mayor.
A large amount of routine business
was transacted. 1
The board met at 2.15 o'clock with all
of the members present, and t Mayor
Murphy in the chair. On motion, the
reading of the minutes of the previous
meeting was postponed, and the meet
ing proceeded to business.
J. C. Olive, who conducts a fish mar
ket, presented a petition signed by sev
en fish dealers of the city, including
himself, asking that the board pass an
ordinance requiring persons or concerns
selling oysters to . pay a license. On
motiupv the request , was referred to the
market committee.
II. R. Hill presented a petition signed
by all but three of the property owners
on Pearson street from Bragg to Gor
rell, asking that the street be macadam
ized under the provisions of the Hunter
ordinance. The city attorney was in
structed to prepare the ordinance pro
viding for the improvement of the street,
as requested. This street will, of
course, come in turn and the other
streets ordered improved be macadam
ized first.
Dr.' Edmund Harrison, chairman of
the health committee, made a report for
the eight months from January 1 to
September 1, 1900. Among other items
in the report were the following: Num
ber of white children born in city in
eight months from January 1 to Sep
tember 1, 137, or an annual birth rate of
19.3 to the 1,000 inhabitants; number of
births of colored children, 28, or 7.9 to
the 1,000. Number of death's of white
people in same time, 104; colored, 100.
The annual death rate among the whites
based upon this report, is 15.6 per 1,000,
and among the negroes 30 to the 1,000.
Dr. Harrison said that it is highly
probable that not all of the births were
reported, but he felt sure the report
was not far wrong. It will be observed
(Concluded on page 2, column 2.)
T
5
Dr. J. A. Austin of Charlotte Bad
ly Injured by Car Plunging
From Bridge.
Special to Daily Industrial News.
Charlotte, N. C, Sept. 14. Dr. J. A.
Austin, a well-known physician .of this
city, was seriously injured in an automo
bile accident this afternoon about 3.30
o'clock. The accident occurred near the
Elisabeth Mills, the machine going off of
an eighteen foot bridge.
Dr. Austin was brought to the Presby
terian Hospital in another machine. It
was found that his shoulder had been
badly wrenched, several Angers terribly
mashed, two -ribs broken and it is feared
he sustained internal injuries. He is
resting aa well as could be expected to
night. Dr. Austin bad just purchased the ma
chine a few hours before the accident oc
curred and this was his first trip in it,
and his tret experience running the auto.
He waa answering a call to attend a
patient at the Elizabeth Mills and was
accompanied by George Mamilton, who
was slightly injured in the accident.
In endeavoring to cross a small wooden
bridge Dr. Austin lost control of the
maoaiM and it plunged off the bridge,
pinning him underneath the auto, which
weighed fourteen hundred pounds.
But for the fact that the ground waa
Btray1 Ee probbiy
Livaa tort la Hotel Fire.
Ottawa, Ont, Sept. 14. The Gilmours
Hotel waa destroyed by fire tonight. It
to feared several Urea have beta last
PHIS
ICi
UR
AUTO
MASH
h ' iH
The Presidential Palace.
IES
Officials Deny the Authority of
the Federal tody In Their
Case. .
WANT TO DISCUSS MATTER
Washington, D. C., Sept. 14. An ihi
nortant conference was held tnrlnv lie.
tween members of the interstate com
merce commission and the representa
tives of several coastwise stcamsliin line
concerning the maintenance of estab
lished rates on shipments of freight by
a combined water and rail route. r
The steamship officials do not assent
to the authority of the commission so
far as the recently enacted railroad rate
law seems to annlv to thim. hut thav i.
sired to discuss the situation with the
coninl'.ssioners with a view to reaching
a common ground of understanding, a
nun. ui wording agreement.
ine representatives of the coastwise
lines explained to the. commission their
reasons for desiring to accomDanv their
concurrence, in through rates in con
nection with the railroads with a dis
claimer of assenting to the jurisdiction
of the commission nr tha annliMlm. Af
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the interstate commerce law to them,
nue at tne same time, giving assurance
Of their desire tn enrmpratn mm, I. k.
commission and the railroads in a bona-
lide application and observance of estab
lished rates and tn
eral purpose of the -statute by harmoni-
yu i-uuperauon wini tne commission
ln-so-far as they can do so consistently
With thn nnipvnf inn ..f. : i. . y
- i .iu I'll oui-ii ngnis as
they may have under various statutes.
It is their nnsttinn Hint il, ,.
protected by the socalled Carter act, and
other statutes, independent of the act to
jruuiaLff euiiimcrpp. in rtui4 tn
1 ' . -.. vi utiiiiu-
responsible to the shipper or owner of?
ES
Nebraskan to Address Big Crowd
at Virginia City
Today. v
Roanoke, Va., Sept. 14. William Jen-
nings Bryan arrived at Radford, Va.,
tonight from Cincinnati at 11 o'clock.
He was taken to the home of ex-Governor
Tyler whose guest he will be until
tomorrow night.
Mr. Bryan will gpend tomorrow at the
district fair at Radford nnd will moU .n
address in the afternoon before what
promises to be the largest crowd ever as
sembled in he western end of the state.
fcRYAN SPECIAL TRAIN
TO STOP AT LEXINGTON
Special to Daily Industrial News.
The Hon. .W. J. Bryan's special train
will stop at Lexington next Tuesday,
and the people of Lexington and David
son county will be given an opportunity
of seeing Mr. Bryan and hearing him in
a ten minute speech.
The arrangements to have the special
stop here wlire made through State
Chairman Simmons upon application of
Lexington people.
The train is scheduled to arrive here
3.05 p. m. Tuesday and leave, at 3.19,
this schedule beftg subject to slight
change.
All of the factories and stores here
have arranged to close in honor of Mr.
Bryan. The Lexington Band and local
military company will be in attendance,
BRYAN
ARRIV
AT RADFORD
' If'..
T 'lll iPflESHT ROOSEVELT
General
PALMA GRANTED SUPREME
POWER BY CUBAN CONGRESS;
TAFT TO GO TO THE ISLAND
Extra Session of Legislative Body Creates Vtrtual Dictatorship to Meet Situation, and
Authorizes Increase in Governmental Forces American Secretary
C.'-'-y . ',o War to Lend His Aid m Restoring Peace.
Havana, Sept. 14. The extra session
of congress called by President Palma
completed at one sitting this afternoon
the business for which it was summoned,
namely the granting to President Palms,
of the fullest powers not already consti
tutionally possessed by the executive for
carrying on the war, including the right
to appropriate any public funds for war
purposes; revoking appropriations voted
at the preceding session of congress, in
order to permit the diversion of the
moneys involved to the prosecution of
the war and authorizing increases of
the rural guards to 10,000 and the artil
lery to 2,000 men. -
This triples the former force of rural
guards ana doubles the artillery. These
measures which were combined in one
blanket bill, were yassed by party votes,
the Liberals and Independents refrain
inf from voting, nnd the Liberal Na
tionalists voting with the Moderates.
President Palma submitted a brief
message, principally devoted to deplor
ing the conduct of the opposition whom
he charged with the responsibility of
causing the rebellion. The message con
tained no recommendations beyond sug
SHOOTS WOMAN, THEN
BLOWS OUTJS BRAINS
Georgia Grocer Wounds Atlanta
Woman. Then Turns Revolver
on Himself.
Macon, Ga., Sept. 14. Charles Gcis
mar, one of the largest retail grocers in
this city, shot Mrs. E. B. Ivey at her
home in Atlanta this morning about 8
o'clock, shattering the bone of one of
her thumbs, and then blew out, his
brains.
It seems that Geismar was infatuated
with the woman, and, went to her home
last flight and was refused admittance,
and the tragedy followed this morning.
Mrs. Trey, Until 'rteehtly, has 'Hrtd In
this city, and was well known, her hus
band doing an extensive business here.
After moving to Atlanta eOlsmar has
visited the family, having dined with
them last Sunday. .
i wm . fee
I
View of the City of Havana, Capital
gestions that congress approve "all recent
executive decrees and take such steps as
may be deemed advisable for ending the
war.
Another feature of the day was the re
turn on board the American protected
cruiser Denver of. the blue jackets who
were landed from that vessel last even
ing on the request of President Palma
who represented that he could guarantee
the. protection of American interests.
This was in view of the fact that the
landing of the blue jackets had not met
with the approval of the Washington
government which , is believed here to
have regarded the step as open to the
construction of intervention. The events
of today also indicated that the insur
gents in Havana province regarded the
landing of American sailors as constitut
ing intervention, nnd they signified their
readiness on that account to quit the
field. Nothing resulted from their offers
to surrender. .
The worst sufferers today were the
railroads, which are Completely tied up,
no trains leaving Havana. , This is a
particular hardship to hundreds of coun
try families who were coming to the city
Loaded With Trackmen Car Runs
Off Open Draw
. ';..'.:-;' Bridge.
Toledo,' O., Sept. ' 14. Running with
out permission, a hand car loaded with
trackmen of the Wheeling & Lake Erie
railroad ran. off an open draw near tho
Maumee bridge tonight, 'and every one
ou the car were, drowned.
The number of men on the car is said
to have been twelve. So far two bodies
have been recovered.
'Owing ;to 'tne fast tlmt 'the men took
the oar from a point some miles from
Toledo where work is being d6ne, iden
tification of the missing men has not
been learned.
, - -H- v mm I 7 ' .
' - in to tins irm
.
of Cuba.
for' fear of attacks by the insurgents.
Telegraphic communication is almost as
badly ' paralyzed. Reports 'of the cap
ture of t'ienfugos are persistent, but
the absence of telegraphic communication
makes it impossible to certify the
rumors.
TAFT AND BACON TO
CO TO THE ISLAND
Oyster Bay, N". V., Sept. 14. After a
protracted conference with Secretary of
Wwr.- Tuft. Xotinar Secretary of State
Bacon, and Secretary of the'Xavy Bon
aparte, President Roosevelt tonight ad
dressed an important comniuuieailoli .o
Cuba and arranged to send Secretary
Taft and Bacon to that island on Sun
day to make a thorough investigation
of conditions there and lend their influ
ence to restore pence.
The communication is addressed to the
Cuban minister to the United States,
Senor Quesada. It is an impassioned
plea to Cuba to realize her responsibility
as a self-governing republic, and to re-
(Concluded on page 2, column 5.)
FOUR RELIGION GRAZED
Attack and Stone Several White
Persons and Kill Phys
ician. Charlotte. N. C. Sent. 14 Cm,1 !,
religion, four well-to-do negroes, Reed
Anderson, his daughter aud two sons,
ran' amuck in a remote section of Ander
son county, South Carolina, yesterday
afternoon, attacked and stoned several
white persons, and destroyed property.
The Andersons finally barricaded
themselves in their home, defying arrest.
Dr. W. A. Tripp, whom the police, aought
to hare enter the house and drug the
maaiaoal negroes, was shot and thrown
bodily through the door. The negroes
were not overnowered until Baed Anifer.
.'on was killed.
MAKES STRONG APPEAL
TO PEOPLE OF
As Well-Wisher of the Republic
He Warn Against Insur
rection. FACTIOUS
UNITE
-Follow-
; ,ii.g is the. loiter of President Koosevell.
! to the t iiImiu minister:
! "Oyster llnv. N. V., Sept. 14. l!IOIi.
"My Deur N-nor (juesnda: lis this
! crisis in the ailairs .of the -republic of
I t iiha, I write vim. not merely because
you are the minister of I nlia accredited
crniiieM, but because vou
and 1 were mlimaielv drawn together
I at the time when the I niled Mates In
I tervened in the affairs of t uba with the
result ot making her an independent na
tion. "Vou know how sincere mv affection
and admiration and regard for Cuba are.
Vou know that I never have done, anil
never shall do anything in reference to
( iiba save with such sincere regard for
her welfare. Vou also know the pride I
felt because it came to mc as president
to withdraw the American troops from
the island of Cuba and officially to pro
claim her independence and to wish her
godspeed in her car?er as a free republic.
"I desire now through you to say a
word of solemn warning to your people
whose earnest well-wisher j am. l-'or
seven years Cuba has been in a' condi
tion of profound peace and of steadily
growing prosperity. For four years this
peace and prosperity have obtained-. un
der her own independent government.
"Her peace, prosperity' and independ
ence are now menaced- for all possible
evils that can befall Cuba, the worst is
the evil of anarchy into which civil
(Concluded on page 2, column 4.)
S
TRADE REVIEW
Official Crop Reports Confirm
Advices of Large. If Not
Record Crops.
Xew York, Sept. 14. Bradstreet's to
morrow will say:
Trade, crop and industrial reports are
still almost uniformly favorable. An
immense business is doing in the west
and northwest, southern jobbing trade
shows expansion, and inability to get
adequate - jobbing trade shows expan
sion, and inability to get adequate sup
plies of many lines of goods is the main
subject of complaint at eastern markets.
September, like August, appears to bo
scoring heavy gains over the correspond
ing month a year ago.
Official crop reports confirm previous
public and private advices of very large,
if not record, yields, but prices and lnii
fic conditions are a bar to a free move
ment. "
Car shortages is no longer n subject
of speculation, but is an accomplished
l? rZfZXl
eoual to the strain. Money is rather
easier, especially at the east, where large
gold imports on special terms have
weakened rates. ,
Cotton fabrics easily lead the list of
textile products which report very ac
tive demand. Some lines of spring goods
have been withdrawn owing to the mills
being sold up. Cotton manufacturers
are optimistic. Dress goods are active
with jobbers. Worsted fabrics are also
in good sale and even woolen fabrics are
active. There is further evidence of im
provement in the silk industry which
sees some light after a rather unprofit
able season
BRADSTHEET
Frantic Efforts of Crowd to See
Mrs. Longworth Nearly
Cause Disaster.
ORATORICAL EXERCISES
POSTPONED TRL NIGHT
Polics Find Themselves Utterly Unable
to Cope With the Crowd, No Pro
vision Having Eeen Made for Dis
order. Columbus,- 0.. Sept. 14. With panic
thri'iiteuniir a eiuwd of i)0.)00 persons
mugim; abuut a -stiini! creeled in the cap
ital hiuuihIs. frantic to secure a glimpse
ol .Mrs. .Nicholas Lungwort h, the presi-
dent h daughter, I he oratorical exercise
arranged tor the unveiling of a statue
ot William .Mckinlcv fins afternoon,
were -suddenly.; postponed until tonight
after the statue ot the martyred presi
dent had been hurriedly unveiled by
Mrs. Longworth.
I hi! speeches of the occasion were de
livered louiiriit in memorial hall.
I he crowd w as so large and cramped
that'll- got beyond 'control and the -shrieking
oi women and children who
were caught m the. crush rapidly worked
the crowd .into a trcn.y. .Many women
laimed and were carried out of the
crowd by -the police. .Mrs. Kliza Muhn
and a .ncgress- were trampled on and
had to be removed m an ambulance.
Loth will recover.
-V.r. and Mrs. Lmigworth had an ex
citing experience m escaping from tho
excited crowd, irom the speakers' stand
they weiri thr.iugh n window overlook
ing the.'platiorm into the governor's
oMice, but l no v wr-re scarcely inside,
when the people began to surge through
the doors inun the corridors and the
ollice was cpucklv tilled. The Long
worths then attempted to reach an auto
mobile winch was waiting for them in
the street, but once inside the buildin"
they were caught in a surging crowd.
I-Hiding no immediate avenue of escape
Congressman lungwort h fought a way
for his wife out ol the capitol grounds
and ncross Hro.td street into the Outlook
building. Ihere they remained until the
police cleared a wav for a carnage which
took the congressman nnd his wife to
the hotel. Later the Longworths took a
tram for Cincinnati.
Unable to Cope With Crowd.
The committee on arrangements had
expected an enormous crowd, but in
view of the solemnity and dignity of
the occasion the -committee halieved that
the crowd would be easily-kept in re
straint. I nder onunary circumstances
the police anangments would have boert
adequate, but the officers quickly found
they were powerless to cope with the.
crowd, '
Memorial hall tonight was filled with
people. , Governor Harris presided. The
speakers were William R. Day, associ
ated justice of the supreme court o ftho
United States; ohn D. Deniel, United
States senator from Virginia; General
Joseph McKay, of Brooklyn, N. Y.,
national commander of the 'Union Vet
erans' Legion, and tien. It. B. Brown,
commander in chief of the (?rand Army
of the Republic. Mrs. McKinley was
ble to -attend the dedicatory exercises
(Concluded on page 2, column 2.)
HESTER'S WEEKLY
COTTON REPORT
Amount Brought Into Sight Dur
ing Past Week Was 199.
699 Bales.
, New Orleans, Sept. 'll.Seerctftry
Hester's weekly cotton statement, issued
today, shows the amount brought into
sight during the past week as 190,0'.)!)
bales, against 227,1"2 bales for the sev
en days ending this diite last year, and
for the 14 days of Septemlier it has
been 320,41)8 bales against 498,833 last
year. :
The movement since (September 1,
shows receipts at all United States ports,
20ll,U(l bales, against 3S4.734 last year.
Overland across the Mississippi, Ohio and
Potomac rivers, to northern mills and
Canada, 7,642, against 8,528 Inst year,
interior stocks in excess of those held
at the close of the commercial year, 15,
740 bales, against 354,754 last year, ln2
Southern mills takings, 88,000, against
85,302.
Foreign exports for the 14 days have
been 1211,4(18 bales, against 153,832 lost
jear,. The total takings of American
mills, north, south and Canda, htus far
for the season have been 120,580 bales,
ngainst 1.11,231 last year.
Stocks at the seaboard and the twenty
nine leading interior centers have in
creased during the week 511,150 bales,
against an increase during the cor
responding period last season .of 137,707.
Including stocks left over at pcrts and
interior towns from the last crop and
the number of bales brought into sight
thus far from the new crop, the supply
to date is 618,268 against 043,364 for the
same period last year, , '