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VOL. III. NO. 80
LAST EDITION.
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Investigating Antl-Admln-Istratlon
Plans.
NOW APPARENTLY IS
THE FIELD AGAIMST HIM
Secretary Believes That It is a War Be
tween Certain Predatory Corpor
ations and the People, and That Fight
ing Has Reached Critical Stage.
BY JOHN E. MONK.
Washington, D. G, Jan. 7 By states,
congressional districts and counties
throughout the Union the Taft people
are rapidly laying bare the machinery of
the anti-Taft" and anti-administration
movement. There is ample evidence that
a head of unusual administrative capac
ity has lately been giving t'ho Taft
workers some advice, and it only re
quires one guess to decide that the head
belongs to Taft himself.
First, there has been assembled in
formation that there is. coalition among
all the other candidates for President
except La Follctte. At least, if Hughes,
Fairbanks, Cannon, Knox and Foraker
are,at all personally hand in glove,
the movements behind their various can
didacies can be distinctly traced to one
common source of aid and inspiration.
And it is this fact which has aroused
the secretary of war to take up a gen
eral share of the personal direction of
his campaign.
Mr. Taft believes the war between a
(Continued on page Six.)
FIFTEEN-CENT COTTON
SLCEia OF
Annual Convention Now In 5es
slon at Memphis Considers
Ways and Means.
WAREHOUSE CERTIFICATES
: Memphis, Tenn., Jan.' 7. The annual
r (invention of the Farmers' Educational
i.nd Cooperative Union met here today.
About '300. delegates, representing every
southern state nnd Missouri, Kansas and
AVashington, are in attendance.
G. S. Barrott, of Union City, Ga.,
president of the union, before calling the
convention to order, said: "One of the
most important things we hope to ac
complish is to get fifteen cents for cut
ton, and we are going to get it, if we
hnvc to hold it from the market for
years."
' Besides planning for the reduction of
(lie cotton aerenge the convention is con
sidering steps to make practicable the
folding of cotton by those who are not
iti shape financially to wait months' for
their money.
Numerous suggestions have been made
along this line. One, which -hns hecn
discussed at some length, has warehouse
certificates for stored cotton as the bais
of a bond issue. These bonds will be
sold to those members of the union who
have the ready money to spare. A fail
rate of interest would be fixed, the bonds
to mature in twelve months.
While the members of the union
would be first urged to tako these bonds
they would also be offered to such banks
M might desire them. In all cases the
1 (Continued on page Two.)
UNVEIL MONUMENT
' TO BENNINGTON DEAD
Thousands Attend Ceremonies at San Diego, Cal., in Memory of
, Victims of Explosion on Gunboat,
San Diego, Cal., Jan. 7. In. the pres
ence of thousands, including the. officers
and sailors of the Paciflo squadron and
citizens of San Diego, and other cities,
the memorial monument to the Benning
ton dead was unveiled this afternoon
at the National cemetery on top of
Point Loma. The plain shaft stands
within the plot where are buried, most
of those who lost their life In the ex-
S lotion on the gunboat ; Bennington,
uly 21, 1005, and is composed of seventy-four
slabs of San Mego county
granite, roughly dressed and towering
sixty feet above the concrete bass,
capped by a pyramid of polished gran
ite. - ' ' ' : '
t The principal speech was made by Ad
miral Goodrich, commandant at the
YesAdverttsing Dhes Pay.
This the Result of the First Two
Days of the New
. Trial. ,
FOUR TENTATIVE JURORS
AWAITING CHALLENGE
Ninety-Five Men Called and Questioned,
and for a Time It Looked Like Full
Allotment Would Be Had, But Hopes
Were Soon Dissipated.
New York, Jan. 7. Three jurors
sworn to serve on the trial panel for
Harry K. Thaw represented tonight the
net results of the two days and six ses
sions of the trial before Justice Dowl
ing in the criminal branch of the Su
preme Court.
In addition to the trio who arc oath -bound.'.
well ami truly to try the case,
there were in the jury box at the close
of the night sitting, four tentative
jurors, who are subject still to per
emptory challenge by either side. The
task of filling the 'five vacant chairs
will be resumed tomorrow morning,
when the last instalment of one hun
dred talesmen summoned on the origi
nal omnibus panel of three hundred
names, will report for examination.
In all, ninety-five proposed jurors
were called and questioned today, as
against fifty-seven yesterday,
At the close of the afternoon session
the jury box was filled and hopes ran
high that at least a majority of those
(Continued on page Two.)
HUSBAND DENIED HIS
LIBERTY IN HARRISON
SWAMPMUROER CASE
Court Refuses Liberty to Man
Suspected cf Killing
"': Wife.
HER FRIEND WON'T TESTIFY
Newark. N, J., Jan. 7. An unsuccessfully'-
attempt to have Theodore Whit
moro released from the custody of the
Harrison police, by whom he is held in
connection with the murder of his wife,
uiitt tumid v hia pommel: The nt.tnrnev
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protested against wmuuore ucuig lunger
held by the Harrison authorities when
no formal charge hos been made against
him. In denying the request Judge
Branegan said a formal charge of mur
der against W'hitmore had been drawn
up. : '..: V
The Harrison authorities were noti
fied today that Harry Hendrixson, a
friend of Mrs. Whitmore, who is being
held by the Brooklyn police as a wit
ness, has refused to come to New Jer
sey to testify at the inquest tomorrow.
No burial permit will be granted until
after t lie inquest.
W'hitmore was brought into court la
ter in the day and arraigned before Jus
tice Branegan on a charge of murder.
His hearing was set for Thursday after
noon, the prisoner meantime, being com
mitted without bail.
After Whitmore had been led back to
bis cell he gave out a statement in
which he declared that he sent the let
ter signed "Lena" received by Mrs.
Bessie Schmitter with the trunk, and
that Fred Elliott helped him prepare the
trunk. He reiterated that the last time
he saw his wife was on Christinas af
ternoon, and he supposed she had gone
to Schenectady.
navy-yard, who was commander of (the
Pacific squadron at the time of the acci
dent on the Bennington.
The unveiling consisted in the drop
ping of the national ensign, which had
been draped over the two tablets on
tho face of the monument.
On one was inscribed, "To the Ben
nington Dead," and on the other,
"Erected by the Officers and Men of the
Pacific . Squadron to the Memory of
Those Who Lost Their lives in the Per
formance. of Duty."
As the flags dropped the soldiers pre
sented arms and tnree ruffles and flour
ishes on the drums started the minute
guns on board the Charleston and Chi
cago, which were fired regularly through
out the remainder of the services.
Three Two Dead. Dying and
Eighty More or Less
Injured.
TRAIN LEFT CLEVELAND,
OHIO, NOON MONDAY
Excusion Is An Annual Event From the
Middle West for Florida Points and
Cuba Engine Had Crossed Bridge
When it Jumped Track.
Atlanta-, Ga., Jan. 7. Running at a
speed of thirty miles an hour the sec
ond section of an excursion train on
the Southern railway from Cleveland,
O., known as the. Collver special, and
bound for Florida points, plunged
through a trestle over Copper Mine
creek, about fifty miles west of
Atlanta, today, and as a result three
persons are dead, two others are fatally
injured and eighty passengers were so
seriously injured as to require medical
attention. ,
It was nearly ''.midnight when the
Southern railway's relief train reached
Atlanta bearing the body of Engineer
James Edwards and about fifty of the
injured, among whom was Mrs. Emil
Hoover, of Columbus, O., who is in a
dying condition, and Florence A. Studc
bakcr, of Cleveland, internally injured,
and probably fatally hurt. Road Fore
man of Engines Schnapps, and a negro
fireman, Mose Baldwin, both fatally in
jured, were also on the relief train, and
died shortly after reaching the city.
Many of the other injured were lifted
from the car windows and conveyed to
local hospitals, while some of these hurt
were able to take cabs to local hotels.
The wreck occurred about three
o'clock this afternoon, five vestibuled
Pullmans being precipitated twenty-five
feet to the bed of the creek, which was
nearly dry, one of the Pullmans being
torn "asunder. ' Two hundred passengers
went down with the coaches. '..,
Copper Mine trestle is between Hiram
and Dallas, Ga., in a sparsely settled
country.
Five cf the 3even ?nrs went into the
mud, and as a result a store or more of
passengers, most of them residents of
Ohio, were injured. None will die. The
only seriously hurt are Engineer Ed
wards, who was caught beneath the cab
of his engine when it overturned after
clearing the trestle, and Road Foreman
of Engines Schnapps, and the negro fire
man. Edwards and his fireman proba
bly will die. Schnapps will recover.'
The injuries to the passengers consist
chiefly of broken limbs and bruises.
The Collver special is an nnnunl ex
cursion run from Cleveland, Ohio, to
Florida points and Cuba, under the di
rection of General Passenger Agent Coll
ver, of the Big Four system. It started
from Cleveland yesterday at 12.25 p. in.
in two sections. ,The first, consisting of
four Pullmans and a dining car, and the
second of five Pullmans, a diner and a
baggage car. The train was being run
(Continued on page Two.)
STEAMSHIP MOUNT ROYAL
AFTER A BATTLE WITH SEA
REA CHES QIJEENSTO WN
Long Overdue Liner Comes in Under Her Own Power Leaking
Boilers Her TroubleTerrible Experience With
.'-:' . . ';' Wind and Storm.
Queenstown, Jan. 7. The long over
one steamship Mount tloyal steamed
slowly into Queenstown today. She had
not been heard from in many days, hav
ing been last reported of! the Lizard,
December 10.
The Mount Boyal belongs to the Can
adian Pacific railroad's Atlantic service.
She left Antwerp Dec. 7 for St. John.
N. B. She had on board threee hundred
Hungarian emigrant and a crew of
about 100 men. She was first definitely
sighted off Old Head of Kinsale, six
teen miles west of this port, early today.
She signalled that she was coming in
here. She declined the help of a tug
that was sent out to assist her and came
in alone. .
Trouble with her boilers was the rea
son the Mount Royal had to put back.
Shortly after leaving the British coast
she encountered a series of violent gales.
She battled with the heavy weather
for a fortnight, until Christmas eve,
when serious trouble with her boilers
developed. The steamer was then in
longitude, 24.50 west and latitude 43
north. A moderate supply of team was
finally obtained, but the weather was
such "that the captain reluctantly de
cided it was best to make for the Irish
coast.
Consequently the steamer was headed
about and steamed slowly into port.
Passengers and crew are all well.
The Mount Royal's officers de-crilied
the weather as the worst experienced on
the Atlantic for many years An aw
ful hurricane raged unceasingly for
Ask the Man
No Formal Action, But Commerce!
Commission May Soon
Make a Move.
PRESIDENT ORDERS
REPORTS EXAMINED
Scrutiny Will Embrace Not Alone The
Main Line But The Subsidiary Lines.
: Both Factions More Than Anxious to
Tell What They Know.
BY JOHN E. MONK.
Washington, D. C, Jan. 7. Although
no formal action has been taken in the
matter, the machinery was set in '"motion
today which may result in a thorough
investigation by the interstate commerce
commission of the operations of the Sea
board Air Line, which has just been
placed in the hands of a receiver by or
der of a federal court.
At the suggestion of President Roose
velt, it is understood an expert of the
commission lias been instructed to make
a complete examination of all the re
ports of the road filed with the com
mission for many years back. This
inquiry will involve not only a-scrutiny
of the reports of the Seaboard itself, but
also the system's constituent lines. Just
what will be disclosed by this examin
ation of the road's reports to the com
mission is not known, and will not be
known until a report has been made.
Inquiry develops that the advisabil
ity of inquiring into the conduct and
management of the Seaboard Air Line
has been under discussion here for sev
eral days. The charge has been made in
;an informal manner that -under the
direction of Thomas F. Ryan the Sea
board has been manipulated much as
was the Alton by Harriiiian and the -Erie
by Jay Gould, and such maninulati'in
has been prejudicial to the -public in
terests In the event that government decides
to- probe-' the -affairs -of the Seaboard, it
is believed that title .'difficulty will be
experienced in ascertaining the exact
facts. The Seaboard has been disturbed
by factional troubles for a long time,
and each faction is apparently willing
to tell its side of the story.
Whether the commission will under
the general authority conferred upon it
by law order an investigation of the
Seaboard will probably be determined in
the near future.
ILLINOIS CENTRAL
' '' DROPS 3,ooo MEN
New Orleans, La., Jan. 7. Between
.3,000 and 4,000 Illinois Central railroad
employes have been dropped from the
company's payrolls on account of the
financial situation. This was the an
nouncement here tonight of J. T. llara
han, president of the Illinois Central.
Mr.- Hnrahaii said that if he could pos
sibly prevent it no more men would be
laid' off.
days, making the conditions fearful for
oil on board. Fortunately the steamer
had a huge store of extra provisions and
everything humanly possible was done
for the comfort of the passenger, who
were compelled to spend such a memor
able -'Christmas on the Atlantic.
Xo one could be allowed on deck, but
all were assured that the vessel was in
a perfectly seaworthy condition.
Despite the terrible experience there
was only one case of serious illness, that
of a bahy which died on reaching Queens
town. -
Even after Chiisamns eve the gale
continued with unabated force for an
other live days, but with her back to the
hurricane the Mount Royal rode easier,
although only aide to make sixty knots
daily.
One passenger describing the voyage,
said:
"We thought we were lost. We siw
nothing for fifteen days but a wall of
green sea water on both sides of the
ship, nothing but darkness for days to
gitlier. We should not have dared to go
on deck, as the ship looked as though
she was standing on end at times. We
spent n most unhappy Chri-tinas, many
of us being sick, but we tried to make
ourselves as happy as we might. When
at last we came ' safely to port . we
could only thank heaven for our
escape." : -
Arriving at Queenstown the , passen
gers assembled and voted their grateful
thank to the captain and officers of the
Mount Royal.
Who Advertises in the Daily
Accused bi Over-Certiflcatlon of
Cheeks Aggregating
$400,000.
LIABLE TO BOTH FINE
AND IMPRISONMENT
Action By Grand Jury Follows Investi
gation Into Affairs of Mercantile Bank,
of Which Institution Heinze Was At
One Time President.
IT. Ang-uatiM Ilclnae.
New
York. Jan. 7.' Indicted by the
grand jury for the ovrreortifi-
derul
cation ot .fifteen checks, representing in
the aggregate over $100,000 and drawn
by the linn of Otto lleinze S Co. on the
.iecanlile National . Hank, Charles Au
gust us, M? inze, l'.v.copjM.'r n.ag.ial a and
former president of the Mercantile Na
tional Bank, 'surrendered himself to Uni
ted States Commissioner Shields today
and later was released on $50,000 bail,
He will plead to the indictment before
Jiiilge Chatlield in the United States
court tomorrow,
Edward Lauterbaeh. counsel for
Heinze, said tonight that his client did
not wilfully overcertify, the checks, as
he had drawn a check to the credit of
Otto Heinze & Co., to the amount of
$500,000 which the bookkeeper of the
hank possibly failed to enter on the
books until a day after the certification
of the checks in question.
The indictment f Heinze by the fed
i.eral grand jury which lias be-. n investi
! gating the Mercantile end other banks
j -identified with the . Heinze and Charles
i V. Morse interests, is the, 'aftermath of
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1 OlUier aiHl l n u uuu ll uimmh, wic- au- . .... ,
pension of dross &-Kleeberg. stock "t severe -storm s.nce 18-0 has pre
brokors. and subsequently . resulted in vailed here today since in ne o'clock this
the 'resignation ot iv Augustus neinze
fioin the.: presidency and the retirement
of the directors of the' Mercantile Na
tional Bank after an examination of the
institution bad been made by the clearing-house
committee. Heinze declared
(hat at times he had been betrayed
by his friends in the United Copper.
'Heinze told the newspaper men that
he did not care to make any statement
and 'hurried away with his counsel.
The ind-etment- contains thirty counts.
It .speinealiy cuarges inai neinze, whim
president of the Memintile National
Rank, overeertified fifteen checks. That
is, that he guaranteed by the bank's
signature that (he sums indicated in the
checks were held by the institution to
the credit of the drawer.
To overcertify bank paper is under the
(Continued on pase Two.)
KILLED BY A
A YOUNG MAN IN JACKSONVILLE
MEETS ACCIDENTAL DEATH AT
; RELATIVE'S HANDS.
Jacksonville, Fla., Jan. 7. Pearl
Moody, twenty years old, was shot and
instantly killed at ten-thirty o'clock to
night by his cousin, August Poppel, at
their home 'in this city. Both young
men were aroused by a noise in the back
of the house. Securing revolvers they
went to investigate.
Moody was on the back porch, re
volver in hand, when Poppel saw 1ilni,
and, mistaking him for the burglar, fired
a bullet into his back: Moody died jn
ttantly. " .
JV..1....1 ..4n,..4A nvt nfFnnan n.iitili.ll.l., li'k!
Jmp.isonn.ent of not, less than five years -v-ral lts -- reported lost No
i-w I ports have boon received yvi from
1 Till II M " r i Mini ini "" il.. . , ,. . , .
i v "r -i,t.Q Jito-savine station, but oonsters
involved. It is alleged that llein.e ! " tn,v haa done untold damage
, ' .i... nil. ii.:... n. r .., t he North Carolina coast.
KIICW II ill. HLO lirin.e um I
BILITUSENATE
Measure Planned to Meet Con
plaints of Non-EIastlclty
In System.
HOPES FOR PROMPT
ACTION ON THE BILL
Republican Members of Committee Ex
cept Hansborough, Who Wants a Cen
tral Bank, Are All in Favor of the
Proposition Submitted.
Washington, D. C, Jan. ".Senator
Aldrich today introduced, in the Senate
the currency bill which has been under
consideration by Republican members of
the Senate committee on finance. At
his request the bill was read at length
in the Senate.
Following are the first three sections
of the bill: . -
"That any national banking associa
tion which has circulating notes out
standing secured by the deposit of Uni
ted States bonds to an amount of not
less than 50 percentum of its capital
stock, and which has a surplus of not
less than 20 percentum, may make appli
cation to the comptroller of the cur
rency for authority to issue additional
circulating notes to be secured by the
deposit of bonds, other than bonds of
the I niteel states. J he comptroller ot
the currency, if in his judgment, business
conditions demand such additional cir
culation and the condition of the asso
ciation making the application warrants
the issue, may approve such application
and shall determine the time of issue
and shall fix the amount of such addi
tional circulating notes to be issued.
Whenever after receiving notice of such
approval any such association shall de-
(Continued-on page Two.)
E
78 SWEEPS ALONG THE
T
Wind at Times Attained a Rate
of Seventy-Five Miles
An Hour.
BIG DAMAGE AT BEAUFORT
More-head. City, N. C, Jan. 7. The
niorning. :
The wind has been blowing at a rate
not less than seventy-live miles per
hour. Considerable damage has been
done here, especially to boats and
launches, yachts, etc.
There has been no buildings reported
Mown down. The Xorfolk and South
ern railroad bridge, a mile long, be
wn jI0rohoil Citv and Beaufort, stood
the storm well with the exception of
two or three stretches, which- were
forced out of line by the swift current,
The -loss here will be considerable.
At Beaufort it is said that every
dock nnd warehouse on the water front
has been taken away by the storm
re-
the
claim
on
The wind now has moderated.
It is
blowing from west-southwest.
SLEW AND TRIED TO BURN
WOMAN AND HER BABE
FEARFUL CRIME , CHARGED TO
TWO NEGROES IN LAWRENCE-
- VILLE, GA.
Lawrencevillc, Ga., Jan. 7. Two ne
groes, John Hudson and Henry Camp
bell, are in jail here charged w'.th hav
ing murdered Hudson's wife and then
setting the house on fire in an attempt
to hide the crime, NYhen neighbors ar
rived they found the bodies of Mrs.
Hudson and her three-month-old child
in the flames.
After the bodies had been removed it
was found that the woman had been
stabbed to 'death, while the child was
left to persh in the flames.
Industrial News. He Knows
Passes Up Proposition Submitted
By Senator Clay, of Georgia,
Till Next Meeting.
BILL AUTHORIZING U. S.
COURT AT SALISBURY PASSED
Representative Willett, of New York,
Makes Bitter Assault On the Presi
dent In the House, Charging Him
With Recent Panic.
Washington, D. C, Jan. 7. Senator
Aldrich today introduced his currency
bill, which has been a subject for dis
cussion among members of the commit
tee on finance for some days. He had
the bill read to the Senate and an
nounced that the committee would bo
glad to consider in connection with it
all bills that senators might desire to
introduce. Ho assured Senator Culber
son that his resolution would receive
attention.
Senator Clay, of fieorgia, announced
that he proposed to have a vote in the
Senate to test the sentiment of that
body on his resolution favorins a fed
eral law to uphold states in their ef
forts to make effective prohibition with
in their borders. He wanted the Sen
ate to pass a resolution directing the
committee on the judiciary to report at
the earliest convenient day, a bill pro
viding that all intoxicating liquors
transported into any state or territory,
or remaining therein for use, shall upon
arrival within the borders of such state
or "before or after delivery to the con
signee, lie subject to the operation of all
state laws enacted in . the exercise of
police powers to the same extent as
though such liquors had been produced
(Continued on page Two.)
DILI, If ISSUED, JILL
BE SPECIFICALLY TO
Says the Governor In Regard to
a Special Session of the
Legislature.
BUT HE CAN'T CONTROL BODY
Raleigh, N. C, Jan. 7 "You can set
the people of the state at rest on one
point relative to the calling of the legis
lature in special session," said Governor
Glenn to newspaper men today, "and that
is that if 1 issue a call for the legis
lature at all it will be for the specific
purpose of acting on the railroad rate
situation and without any reference
whatever to state prohibition, or any
other issue save the rate case." :
"Of course" he continued, "I have no
control whatever over the legislature and
that body can do whatever it pleases as
to whatever affairs of state it choses to
take under consideration."
The governor would have nothing to
say relative to developments that would
indicate the degree of probability there
is for the convening of this extra ses
sion. Bitulithic Company Goes to Richmond.
Richmond. Ya., Jan. 7. The Atlantic
Bitulilhic Paving Company, operating
extensively in North and South Caro
lina, have moved its offices from Spar
tanburg to Richmond.
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TO CARE FOR HERMITAGE
ASKS APPROPRIATION PROPERLY
TO CARE FOR HOME OF AN
DREW JACKSON.
AVashington, D. C, Jan. 7. -Representative
John Wesley (iniues, of Tennes
see, introduced a b 11 today appropriat
ing $3,000 annually for three years anil
$1,1100 annually thereafter, to be paid
to the Ladies' Hermitage Association of
Tennessee for the purpose of caring
for the Hermitage, the home and tomb
of Andrew Jackson, near Nashville.
Mr; Sims, of Tennessee, introduced a
bill establishing a local rural parcel post
for transportation of packages of mer
chandise weighing not more than eleven
fiounds, not to include consignments of.
iquors, "hr.bit forming drugs," or ex
plosives.