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Still WEATHER Fair today and Sunday, light to fresh winds mostly southwest. The News A paper for all the people and for the people all the time. Read it and keep posted. VOL. IHV NO. 160 LAST EDITION GREENSBORO, N. C, SATURDAY, APRIL 11, 1908 LAST EDITION PRICE FIVE CENTS ONE JIM SMITH AND HIS TRIALS IIHUNGLESI V Is Found Guilty of Minor Offense. But May Face Graver ' Charge. CONCEALING AND REMOVING ONLY CHARGE THAT STUCK Frank, Jim's Brother, Convicted of Ille gal Distilling Other Trials In Fed eral Court, All of Which, Except One, For Blockading. , In Federal Court yesterday a number of illicit distilling eases were disposed of and -several blockaders were convicted. The case against Jim Smith occupied all the -morning session, of the court. After the evidence was concluded, Smith's lawyers announced that they would not resist a verdict of guilty of concealing and removing. The district attorney contended for a verdict of guilty of il licit distilling as well, but the case was submitted to the jury without argument and a verdict of guilty was returned. Frank Smith, a brother of Jim Smith, was found guilty of illicit distill ing. Burl Martin, another Stokes county product, was acquitted. W. M. Allen, of Alamance, was also found guilty of illicit distilling. He was fined $100 and the costs and sentenced to an impris onment of one month. The fine was paid and the imprisonment sentence was stricken out. Samuel Simmons, the negro boy who was found guilty of obtaining a letter from the postoflice under false preten sions, .was sentenced to one year at the reformatory at Oheltingham, Md. It was agreed that the case against Jim Smith charging him with conspiracy to obstruct the process of the law, whereby Deputy Cotector J. W. Hendrix was killed, should be tried next Mon day. The witnesses in this case "were excused until that time, - ' '' -' G 0 M PE B S SAYS FIFTY HEN WOULD GIVE FIFTY -BEASQNSFDHJHE PANIC So Declares Before American Academy of Science in Con vention at Philadelphia MANY TOPICS DISCUSSED Philadelphia, April 10. Industrial sociological and political problems of the time were discused at length here today at the annual session of the Amer ican Academy of Political and Social Science by men prominent in various walks of life. The present business situation and anti-trust legislation was the topic of discussion at the afternoon session. - The speakers were Samuel Gompers, presi dent of the American Federation of La bor; Charles P. Ncill, commissioner of labor, Washington, D. C; William J. Schieffelin, vice-president of the National Association of Wholseale Druggists, New York; Isadora Straus and George ' L. Duval, New York, and Theodore Marburir. of Baltimore. . All of the speakers were optimistic , as to the financial and business outlook. Mr. Gompers said that if fifty busi ness men were to go before a juBt judge and give their opinions as to the cause of the recent financial and industrial disturbance he was of the opinion that they could not. agree, but he desired to make it plain that whatever the cause the workin2-4eople were not to blame. The fact that such conditions existed, he declared, should be taken as a lament' ' abl commentary on the methods of the princes of financial and captains of in dustry. The workers, ' Mr. Gomeprs aid. were not in favor of a species of governmental action that denies the fight to a business man to conduct modern business within the law. Mr. Gompers said of organized labor that it had raised the standard, of life, and speaking for the body of working men whom he represented, he declared that they neither advocated ' nor de nounced strikes, although they realized that fear ol. strtices produced good re knits.' , Commissioner Neill said , that - the Bherman law was trying to restore ab solutely free and unrestrained competi tion, but the' government could ' never 1U.lr ft itwlif(nn . W71i ! 1 a mo are led to believe the consumer is thi only - honest person, Mr.- Neill said he was just as selfish u the trust magnate or the labor leader. When it comes down to the effects of competition, the speaker vointed out that every sweatshop was the legitimate product of competition, I 11 . 1 1 5 . . - the result of Competition, The associa tion or combinations, he held, .was the ,ony intelligent means of preventing de struction by competition.'- ' "" , The annual-.address to the academy ' . (Continued pa Page Two.), - 1 MAKING PREPARATIONS FOR WAR IN FAR EAST Millions for Defense of Pacific Provided in Fortifications Bill. k :r t. MANY EXPECT JAPAN TO MAKE HOSTILE MOVE Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Naval Station Looked Upon As Virtual Key to the Situation in the Pacific, and Strong Base Will Be Established There. BY JOHN E. MONK. Washington, D. C., April 10 Although a. .peaceful nation, the United States is making ready for war, a war that may be precipitated by a power in the far east. Preparations for war, in .the opin ion of President Roosevelt, is the most effective means of insuring peace. Con gress agrees with the President. In the luruncauons Din, wnicn nas passed con gress, millions for the defense of the racinc coast are provided. Many people believe that at some time in the future Japan will make a hostile move against the United States. The representatives of the Mikado disclaim anv such intention. At the unu Hm Congress is cooperating with the Prcsi-' ln lirt A 41... . U T..:fl it v. i.w w wiv chu Limb U1C J UU1UU UUHSfc shall be adequately protected in the event of hostile demonstration in that quarter. The fortifications bill, author izing extensive defenses of the Pacific coast, is only one measure that has been passed in preparation for war. A few days ago the House passed a bill providing for the fortification of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and the establish ment at that place of a naval station. The prediction is made by officers of the government that the Pearl Harbor station will eventually become the larg est naval base in the world. It is the (Continued on Page Six.) SENftTflH ELKiHS ASKS THAT HALT BE CALLED TDENCAGJMNT STORIES Gently But Firmly Urges Suspen sion of Fac-SImilles Till Facts Can Be Given. WILL MAKE ANNOUNCEMENT Washington, April 10. Senator Stephen B. Elkins, in view of the reports from Rome that the rumored engagement of Miss Katherine Elkins to the Duke of the Abruzzi had been confirmed there, and that, in fact, matters had progressed sv far that the royal family have placed orders for the wedding gifts, tonig'it sent to the Associated Press a state ment deprecatory of current reports, as follows: "If you can consistently, will you kindly cease the publication of dis patches, and rumors of the reported en gagement of my daughter. The matter has occupied the attention of the press so long and to such an extent that I feel called upon to make this statement. "While making it, I wish to state that I appreciate the kindly expressions that have appeared concerning my daughter in. connection with her reported engage ment. Whenever there shall he any rea son to make an announcement . abo.it this matter I will be glad to give It to the press in an authentic form.' OF T JOHN COLLINS DAVIS ELECTED AS SISTANT SECRETARY-GENERAL 09 THE ORGANIZATION. Charleston, S. C, April 10. The trien nial meeting 'of the General Society of the Cincinnati concluded its work today and adjourned to meet in Newport, R. I, In 1911.. The election resulted in naming the old officers:- President-general, Wins low Warren, Massachusetts; vice-president-general, James Simons, South Caro lina; secretary-general, Asa Bird Gardi ner, Rhode Island treasurer-general, F. G. Caldwell,, Pennsylvania) assistant treasurer-general, Charles Isham, Con necticut. John Collin Davis, North Caro lina,' was - elected assistant secretary general to fill vacancy. ; . The party Was entertained today with a harbor trij v . r' v: -V' v ' A FOSS EXPLAINS L RILL TO ROUSE Consideration of the Measure Be gins General Debate, to Close Today. MEN, GUNS AND SHIPS . BETTER THAN EVER MORE Chairman of Committee Tells of the Bet terment In Our Men-of-War, Declar ing That Recent Investigation Has De monstrated Superiority of Vessels. Washington, D. C, April 10. The dove of peace hovered over the House of Representatives today. Instead of in terminable rollcalls and clashes of party leaders on questions of parliamentary law, there was an orderly session de voted almost entirely to the considera tion of the naval appropriation bill.v Both Chairman Foss, of Illinois, and Mr. Padgett, of Tennessee, of the com mittee on naval affairs, made exhaus tive speeches justifying their action in reporting what they characterized as a conservative national program for the next fiscal year. And against their contention Messrs. Favrot, of Louisiana, McKinlay and Knowland, of California, pleaded for a navy of such size as to be capable of upholding at all times the honor of the country at home and abroad, while Mr. Bartholdt, of Missouri, advocated a halt in naval increase and the substitution for it of arbitration in matters of international disputes. Many other speeches were made under the order of general debate on the naval bill, but they were on other subjects. The list included Messrs. Webb, of North Carolina, who favored the regula tion of interstate traffic in intoxicat ing liquor: Lamar, of Missouri, who wanted a stricter observance of the Sunday laws for the District of Colum biaj Tou Velle, of Ohio, who pleaded (Continued on Page Two.) ARE MORE AMERICAN THAN OTHER PEOPLES Dr. Weeks Gives History of Early Settlers and Denies That They Were Refugees. SAYS THEY HAD NO RELIGION Last night, in the public library build ing, Dr. Stephen B. Weeks delivered an address under the auspices of the Guil ford Battle Chapter of the Daughters of the Revolution. His subject was "Racial Elements In Colonial North Carolina," and he discussed the history of North Carolina from the establishment of the Albemarle colony up to the settlements of the interior and Piedmont sections. "North Carolina has the distinction of having the most essentially Ameri can population of any state in the Union. To begin with, we were ex ceedingly heterogeneous, our population being composed of many nationalities of Europe. From these sources our population was originated and has since been little contaminate! by foreign blood." Dr. Weeks said that to the student of history there is no past. Everything is expressed by two words Here and now, "We speak of Rome as dead and of the Roman language as dead, but there is nolanguage more alive than the Latin. You cannot engage in intelligent conver sation for five minutes without bringing into use some words ol the Latin lan a a ' p In discussing the character of the (Continued on Page Two.) E SAIL FOR EUROPE TODAY DECISION ARRIVED AT SUDDENLY. HELIE WILL STAY WITH US FOR A FEW DAYS. New York, April 10. Mme. Gould, according to announcement made tonight, will sail for Europe tomorrow on the steamship St. Paul. Prince De Sagan, who has been in this country for sev eral weeks as Mme. Gould's suitor, will remain in New York several days longer. It is expected that he will then return te France. ' " Mme. Gould boarded the steamer late tonight. The prince and Mr. and Mrs. Tyler Morse accompanied her. The trip, according to ' statements made tonight, was suddenly decided upon. Whether ,Mme. Goulds family was apprised -of her determination to return to Europe is not known " , DETAILS NAVA URGES PUBLICITY ON PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS' CHOICE Bour; Cockran Wants Them In-c- A in the McCall Bill, Now Under Consideration. CONSTITUTIONALITY OF PLAN IS QUESTIONED Hardwick, of Georgia, Thinks Supreme Court Decisions Are Against Such Ac tionNew York Man Urges That Scope of Bill Be Extended. Washington, D. C, April .10. The question as to whether a requirement for publicity of campaign contributions could be made to include candidates for presidential electors was brought prom inently forward today in the hearing before the House committee on the elec tion of President and Vice-President and members of Congress, which is consid ering the MdCall bill calling for pub licity of the contributions to campaign funds for candidates to Congress, Representative Cockran, of New York, contended that an amendment provid ing for contributions to the campaign funds of candidates for presidential elec tors would be constitutional, but this' posUion was attacked by Representa-' tives Hardwick, ox Ueorgia, who claimed that the Supreme Court of the United States had held that the election of presidential electors was a matter with in the jurisdiction of a state. Mr. Cock ran admitted that the court hud ruled on this point, but maintained that the effect of its decision was that the state had authority co-jointly with the United States' government to supervise such election. "The pleading of the constitution," said Mr. Cockran, "is often made an ex cuse for not passing desired : legisla tion." He ; objected to the provision of the McO&U bill which, provides that "per sons, companies, associations or organ izations which shall in two or more states influence the result or attempt to influence the result of any election in which members of Congress arc to be elected," siball file a statement of the same under oath with the clerk of the House of Representatives. He said that under this provison the desired result of publicity could not be obtained. To meet this objection " Chairman Gaines asked Perry Belmont, president of the ' publicity league, which is lavoring the McCall "bill, if he would be willing to have the bill so amended as to strike out the words "in two or more states" and make it cover any election. Mr. Cockran' and Mr. Bclraout both favored this amendment. Former Senator Chandler, of New Hampshire, who also is supporting the McCall bill, gave notice tht he did not approve a proposition that the bill should be so amended as to include state committees, and in this Mr. Belmont agreed with him, saying that v-.j object of the move nent was to secure public ity of contributions to national com mittees. Mr. Belmont drew a simile between a man who commits a burglary and one who coicmits an offense against the election laws. "I wish to interrupt you right there," said Chairman Gaines. "I have often heard that comparison made, and I wish to say that whenever any one commits robbery the whole public wishes to see him prosecuted; whenever anyone com mits an offense against the election laws, unfortunately the whole publio does not wish to ste him convicted." Representative Peters, of Massachu setts, urged the passage of a bill sim ilar to the McCall measure. He said that the State of Massachusetts had a publicity law, but that the people there also want federal legislation. The hear ing will be resumed tomorrow. David P. Stern, Receiver. United States Judge James E. Boyd yesterday named David P. Stern as re ceiver for the W. H. Dunbar Company, recently adjudged bankrupt. AT SH1L0H DEDICATED GOVERNOR JOHNSON, HIS STAFF AND FIFTY MEN OF PROMINENCE ATTEND CEREMONIES. Shiloh Battlefield, Tenn., April 10. The monument erected by the State of Minnesota in the National park at Shi loh to the memory of the Minnesota soldiers who fell on that battlefield was dedicated here today., Governor Johnson and his staff, accompanied by a party of fifty prominent men of Minne sota, were present and participated in the dedicatory exercises. Ideal spring weather prevailed. Gen. L. F. Hubbard, chairman of the Minnesota monument commission, pre sided,.:. k : .The party started, on the return jour ney this uftcrnboa .... ' MASSACHUSETTS DELEGATION TO BE SENT UNPLEDGED ':.S:.Vv-':i-9 m POSTMASTER-GENERAL MEYER HJGHES' IIMSEMT PRIlGRi WILLI PUT Rumors of Fight on Convention Floor in New York Are De clared Unfavorable. HARMONY NOW WATCHWORD New York, April 10. The political at mosphere on this, the eve of the Re publican state convention, , has been heavy with rumors of dissension, and for a time today there were reports that a fight would occur on the convention floor tomorrow against the indorsement of Governor Hushes for the presidential nomination. Tonight tho air has cleared and the original program will be car ried out, probably without a hitch.'" Reports that the prearranged plan to indorse Governor Hughes would be up set grew out of opposition in certain quarters to those stated to be delegates nt large. A meeting of t the executive committee of the Hughts League, at which resolutions were adopted leaving tho election of delegates at large to the state . convention,' and the arrival of Congressman J. ' Sloat Fassett, of Che mung, from Washington with resolu tions indorsing ': Governor Hughes for President, and commending the national and state administrations, relieved the situation of its uncertainty. After a meeting of the Republican state committee tonight to prepare the convention's temporary roll, the best opinion obtainable from tho political leaders was that the convention tomor row would bo harmonious, and the pro gram of indorsing Governor Hughes and naming Gen. Stewart. L. Woodford and former Mayor Seth Low, of this city, Frederick K. llazzard, of Syracuse, and Edward II. Butler, of Buffalo, as dele gates at large, with alternates, to the Republican national convention at Chi cago, was likely to be carried out with out opposition from any of tho 1,009 delegates to tho convention, who will assemble at Girnegio hall at eleven o'clock tomorrow morning. Ex-Lieutenant Governor Woodruff, state chairman, will call tho convention to order Ex-Lieut.-Gov. M. Lyon Bruce will be temporary chairman, and Congressman James S. Sherman perma- (Continued on Page Two.) GOVERNOR OFFERS S5Q FOR REM RIOTERS REWARD FOR CAPTURE OF PER SONS WHO SHOT UP GREEK LA BORERS' HOMES. Jlaleigli, N. C, April 10. Governor Glenn has offered a reward of $50 each for the capture of men in the mob at Belhaven, Beaufort county, who shot up the homes of Greek laborers there' and wounded many Greeks. .Thirteen have already been captured and taken to Washington, the county seat. Nearly 100 are supposed to have been in the mob, and many have fled the county. ": Postmaster-General Meyer In a Ringing Speeh Lauds the President, Tells of the Causes of Depression and Discusses Problems Now Before Country. While Recognizing That the Maj'onty of the Delegates Are in Favor of Taft, Convention, to Avoid Any Sign of Controversy, Re frains From Attempting to Instruct. Boston, April lO.-The four men who will head the Massachusetts delegation to the Republican national convention !.: ij,i tk Will IU uiiuicuiicu. fn,,r l,.io,ntPa soineteH at the state con- vention are United States Senators Henry Cabot , Lodge and William Mur ray Crane, ex-Secretary of the Navy John D. Long and Sidney O. Bigney, a business man. The alternates at large selected were Frank E. Dunbar, of Lowell; Winfield S. Schuster, of Douglass; Ralph D. Gil Iett, of Westlicld, and James F. Shaw, of Manchester. The convention adopted resolutions in dorsing Governor Curtis Guild, Jr., as a candidate for the vice-presidential nomi nation and advocating a "wise revision" of the tariff. On the question of the presidential candidacy of Secretary of War William H. Taft, the platform held that the con vention "recognized that a majority of the delegates to the convention desired his nomination, but tliat it was un certain whether a resolution of prefer ence would be carried, and its presenta tion would certainly lead to a contest which would be injurious to the welfare of the party." This last-named plank, the adoption of which was the feature of the con vention it was admitted1 by all the party leaders, was compromise. It was submitted to. the 'committee on resolu tions tWs morning by the Taft League, after an all-night session. ." The tight (Continued on Page Four.) MANUFAGTURERS WILL IT Spinners' Association.Whlch Meets On April 17. Expected to Fall In With Plan. ALL THE SOUTH AFFECTED Charlotte, N. C, April 10. At a meet ing of the North Carolina Cotton Manu facturers' Association 'hero today it was decided to recommend that the mills em braced in the association, as well as other southern mills, shut down for sixty days. This decision was reached after a thorough discussion of existing condi tions in the southern states and the acute depression in the prise of yarns. Strong resolutions to this end were unanimously adopted. The meeting, which was presided over by President It. M. Miller, Jr., ex-officio chairman of the committee, was enthus iastic and representative. The meeting of the Southern Cotton Spinners' Association, called to consider the matter of curtailment, will assemble 'here April 17, and it is expected that tho southern mills will fall in line with tho mills of this state. Tho executive committee decided also to hold the an nual meeting of the association at 1 Wright sville Beach, June 18. RECEIVER FOR NEW ORLEARSjLECTRIC CO. COMPANY UNABLE TO MEET INTER EST DUE ON ITS BONDS, SAYS ' REQUEST FOR RECEIVER. New Orleans, La., April 10. The Con sumers' Electric Company, with capital stocks, bonds and other obligations ag gregating about $2,500,000, was placed in receivership today, Samuel Insull, pres ident of the Commonwealth Edison Com pany, of Chicago, being named receiver. The receivership was asked for by tho National Conduit Cable Company, of New York, holder of $2,080,000 first mortgage bonds of the Consumers' company. The petition for receivership declared that the company bad defaulted in payment of interest due on the bonds, but the amount was not stated. STRIKEBREAKERS INJURED IN RIOTS' IN PENSACOLA Carload of Men Brought In From St Louis Are Roughly Handled. FIFTEEN HURT BY MISSILES HURLED BY THE CROWD Vice-President of Street Railway Em ployes' Association Issues Address ta Strikers, Urging Them to Dispersa ana Go to Their Homes. Pensacola, Fla., April 10. The bring ing of a carload of strikebreakers from, St. Louis this afternoon bv the Pensa- f la .Eleet Company was the signal for .T'otm8 a?d dl8r;r' which resulted ,n.th,e ,nJurlnS of fifteen of the im. ported men. , ..... -N? soone1' had the strikebreakers ar- rived and started for the carsheds than a light occurred between them and tho sympathizers of the union men, and from the corner of Palfox and Wright streets, where the first battle occurred, there was a continual riot, in which, bricks, bottles and shells were hurled at the strikebreakers, and, in turn, the latter 111 III KIMI ... 11MW1 nPBm BrinVa an, hnnlr. ,, ' - ' .' ,JW- VitU&IS. or over an hour the riot continued, the strikebreakers gradually cettuiff nearer to the car barns, but before they reached there fifteen had been wounded, When near the car bams, so fierce was the onslaught on the imported men that they separated and fled, thirty running uii-u a uegru nouse, wnne tne remainder reached the car barn and barricaded the doors. Tonight there are great crowds on the streets. . The mayor has issued a proclamation closing all saloons, and tho board of public safety has ordered the marshal to swear in a sufficient number of depu ties to quell the disturbance. Seventy strikebreakers were marched by the police to the city jail, where they , will be kept in safety tonight. Benjamin Commons, vice-president of the International Association of Street Railway Employes, tonight made an ad. dress, appealing to the strikers and their sympathizers to disperse and go to their homes. , NEW YORK MAN GETS ED Lovely Tangle In Courts of Em pire State as Result of Faulty Legislation. UNIFORM LAWS NEEDED New York, April 10. A divorce de cision that has attracted attention throughout the United States was af firmed today by the apellate division of the Supreme Court. It waa that of Porter V. Ransom, who obtained from Justice Dowling, of the Supreme Court, a decree of divorce from Mrs. Georga L. Browning, of Afadison, Va. The case attracted attention because of its novel features. It appears that Mrs. Eva B. Hill Ransom, wife of the plaintiff, left this city and went to her former home in Virginia, where she ob tained a divorce from Ransom in the Circuit Court of Virginia on the one ground recognized by the courts of the State of New York. On February 27, 1000, five years after obtaining her de cree, she married George L. Browninv prominent Washington lawyer and law partner of Representative James Hay of Virginia, who appeared as Mrs. Ran som's lawyer. On April 24, 1906, Ransom boo tion for divorce here because she was liv ing with Browning. Justice Dowlina granted Ransom the decree, and this judgment is now affirmed by the ap pellate division. Ransom did not defend the Virpinla action brought by his wife because no service was made on him except by pub lication, under the Virginia statutes, and herein lies the legal question which in all likelihood will take the ease to the United States Supreme Court. The Virginia decree was granted to a bona fide resident of the state, Madison being Mrs. Ransom's native place, and she had returned to her home and rela tives there. The decree in Virginia was granted alter a lull hearing and in oon luiuuiy w 11,11 me Virginia statutes. Justice Bowling was compelled, as he stated in his opinion, to find, as a con clusion of law, that the Virginia divorce was of no force and effect against Ran som because of the lack of personal service. Justice Dowling quoted at length from ' the Haddock decision of the United States Supreme Court to show that for eign decrees granted without personal service are not entitled to obligatory enforcement in this state, and on that r.'Tr . 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