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WEATHER, ' I Generally fair and warm er today and Thursday; va- j riabie winds. - j . The News A paper for 11 the people and for ths people all the time. Read it and keep posted. VOL. IV. NO. 67 STATE EDITION; GBjEENSBOKO, 2T. C, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1908 STATE EDITION. PRICE FI VE CENTS GOVERNMENT BY COftllS IQ A IS Aldermen Adopt Proposed Amend ments Placing Enforcement With Four Commissions. COMMITTEE WILL ASK FOR A POLICE JUDGE Each of Six Aldermen to Select Member of Commissions of Finance, School, Public Improvement and Police Econ omy of Police Judge. : There is a movement on foot for a revolution in the method of administer ing the affairs of the ctty. Several weeks ago C. C. McLean, John L. King and City Attorney' Thomas J. Shaw were .appointed by the board of alder men as a committee to draft and sub mit proposed changes to the. present charter of the city. This committee made its report at an executive session of the board of aldermen, when the amendments to be submitted to the leg islature were agreed upon. The amend ments will be redrafted and made pub lie in a few days. According to plans outlined, Greens boro will have four commissions to han dle the affairs of the city. These com missions are to be known as flnance commission, police commission, public improvement commission : and school commission. Each of the six aldermen I arc to select one man for each of the four departments. The commissioners are to be paid a salary, and upon them will be the duty of carrying out the or dinances of the city. Another contemplated chango is the establishment of a city court with a judge to try police cases similar to the (Continued t a Page Two.) -SWINDLE FfiOM THE VERY BEblNir SAYS The Seminole Securities Company Agents May Be Indicted in . - North Carolina. SOUTHERN LIFE NOT HURT Raleigh, X. C, Dee. 23. "After going into the matter f horduglily there is no doubt In my mind, in. the mind. of Com missioner McMasters, of South Carolina, and others-with whom I talked- in Co lumbia, that the whole Seminole Securi ties Company was a swindle from incip iency," was' the Offieial statement of the Hon. J. R. Young, North Carolina com missioner ' of insurance, on his' return from Columbia tonight. ' ' The commissioner' wants all in North Carolina who bought stock in .the cor poration to furnish him names of agents and he will undertake to prosecute them through Superior Court grand juries in counties where stock was sold. Concern ing the muddle the Southern Life Com pany, of Fayetteville. has gotten into with the Seminole company, the commis sioner says he believes the Southern company is solvent and policyholders are fully protected by the more than one hundred thousand dollar reserve, deposit in his hands. He is gratified at the course the officers of the Southern company are taking to clear up the Sem inole deal, and show that they have done nothing to be criticized for in selling their stock at rather high figures. -YEAR-OLD BOY SCALDED TO DEATH SON OF T. C DEBNAM DIES AT -HOSPITAL FROM SCALDING RECEIVED TUESDAY. .Thomas E. Debnam, the four-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs T. C. Debnam, of Reid street, died, at St. Leo's hospital yesterday afternoon from the effects of a sever scalding 6n the day previous. The funeral services will be conducted by the Rev, Sanders Tl. Guignard, rector of St. Andrew's Episcopal church, it the residence, 001 Reid street, this morning at 8.30 o'clock. , The body will b taken to Durham for Interniont. . . ' The child was . playing around the range, whn In some way, a pot Of boil ing water was overturned, the contents falling upon it, scalding it fearfully. The child was taken to St. Leo's for treat ;mcnt. -..t . .-.','' County Offices Close For Christmas. i All the county offices will be closed RECOMMENDED Friday and Saturday of this week on a omit of the holidays. ; s .. i . " " i " HEADS CABINET IS"; V j SENATOR PHILANDER C. KNOX. I Selected for Secretaryship of State and Taft's Cnief Adviser. ,'',- New Pastor Pounded. The members of Centenary Methodist church yesterday afternoon gave a pounding to their pastor, the Rev. 51. A. Smith. OUSTS STANDARD OIL AN D SUBSIDIARIES FROM STATE Forbids Them From Ever Doing Business There Again and Dis" solves the Water-Pierce Oil Company, of St. Louis End of Illegal Combinations. Says Hadley. Jefferson City, Mo., Dec. 23. The SuJ prenta Court of Missouri delivered a de cision today ousting the Standard Oil Company of Indiana and tho Republic Oil Company from the state, forbidding them ever again to do business in Mis souri, and. dissolving the Waters -Pierce Oil Company, of St. Louis. In addition, each .of , the. companies is fined $.)0,0(10. .Tho .court declared that the three oil companies .had. conspired and combined to monopolize the oil business in Mis souri. . . . ' v, The decree against the Watirs-Piercc Oil Company is tempered by the proviso that it mav continue in business if, by January 1&, 100ft, it can show to the court that it has taken steps to operate as an independent concern, and has sat isfied the judgment against it. The oth er companies are-given until March 1. 1900, to wind up their affairs in the state. . The decision is so sweeping that Attorney-General Hadley and Governor Folk hail it as the end of illegal com mercial combinations in Missouri. .. Attorney-fieneral Hadley. who has prosecuted the Missouri case since its inception in March, 1005, will become governor in less than a month, and then will be charged with the enforcement of the decree issued today. The attorney-eeneral, in a statement, asserted that attempts had been made to compromise the suit, but he said he DR. BURBAN K AN D WIFE DIE NEARLY AT SAME HOUR Husband Found Dead at BenboW Hotel While Wife Dies in Durham .Hospital. Tw tragia deaths occurred .: yester day which marked the passing of hus band and wife at about the same hour. Dr; CI. F. Burbank, a former resident of Grcensborp, who was said to be a first cousin of Luther Burbank, . the noted plant wizard, of California, was found tlead in his bed at a room of the Ben bow hotel. His wife died in a hospital at Durham about the same time. When it was discovered that he was dead a bell boy went -to his" room to deliver a telegram announcing the death of his wife.' MTs. Burbank died of stomach trouble, whilo it ' is ( thought that Dr. Burbank died from an overdose of mor phine, . - - . .' . About nine o'clock a telegram came to the hotel offico addressed to Dr. Bur bank. A' bell boy was sent to take it to his room.-; In" short order the boy returned snd said that something was Iwronff with Burbank. The clerk went lap to the, room and found him cold in I death, How fon lis had been dead wa COUIUEN SELL AT TO S100 r:,uH! More Than Three re of Them "Easy to Re" . According to 1 jtlmony. . "V $45,000 SPLIT UP BY THEM ON ONE ORDINANCE Smoky City Quickly Takes First Place in the Ranks of Grafters' Homes. Scandal Threatens to Startle Nation Before It Is Completely Threshed Out. Pittsburg, Pa., Dec. 23. -With a sud denness that startled Pittsburg from end tq end, this city today moved into first place in the role of corruption and muni cipal graft. Late tonight, many hours after thun derbolts in the -shape of sensational testimony were exploded, the people of Pittsburg are dumbfounded. It is stated that the shocking develop ments here today are mere preliminaries, and subsequent steps ogiinA additional councilmen and business men will not. only .startle Pittsburg, but the whole country. It was intimated strongly in the testi mony in court today that over three score councilmen are "easy to reach," and the "reaching" necessitated only small sums ranging from $100 to $5. In the pas-nge of onu ordinance atone it was testified that sixty councilmen had divided IM5.00O. , Sensations followed one another In rapid, succession during the hearing of the seven councilmen and two former bank officers, arrested oh charges of bribery, corrupt solicitation and con spiracy last Monday night. W. W. Ramsey and A. A. Vilsack, (Continued on Page Two.) refused the offers of the attorneys for the oil companies. . In its derision the court says: '"If such abuses as those complained of are permitted to continue untrnmmel cd. it would only be a question of time until they-would sap the strength and patriotism from the very foundations of our government, overrun the republic, destroy our free institutions and sub stitute in lieu thereof some other form of government." The principal indictments again th companies are: That they have ireatcd and become members of a pool, trust agreement, confederation, combination, arrangement and understanding among themselves for the following purposes: "First, to rtgnlate, fix and control the prices to be paid by retail dealers and other in the State of Missouri for the refined products of petroleum sold and offered for sale in t'hi- state. '"Second, to control and limit the trade in refined products of petroleum in this state. . "Third, to control, limit and prevent competition in the business of buying and selling refined products of petro leum in this state between themselves and others engaged in like business; and - ''Fourth, to mislead the- public into the belief that they were separate and distinct corporations and pursuing an independent business as legitimate com- (Continned on Page Two.) not ascertained. The coroner wss noti fied and he examined the body but an inquest was deemed unnecessary. The body was removed to the Undertaking establishment of E. Toole to be prepared for burial. Several years ago Dr. Burbank lived in Greensboro and practiced his profes sion a? an optician. He left Greensboro in 1002, his wife died and he married strain in Ohio. He arrived at the Ben- bow last Caturday and talked of going into business here. It was not known that Dr. Burbank was ill. MRS. BURBANK DIES IN DURHAM HOSPITAL PITTSBURG Durham, X. C, Dec. 23. 'Mrs. G. Frank Furlmnk, wife of Dr. Burbank,, died suddenly at the Watts hospital this morning shortlv after nix o'clock. The body lies in an undertaking establish- . (Continued on Page Two.) .'.''. V ; T.F. RAN DUITS THE DIRECTORATE OF 34 COMPANIES Yields to Advice of Physicians and Withdraws From Active Operations. RETAINS HAND IN BUT THREE COEERKS Action of the Financier Taken in Pur suance of Policy Begun by' Him Three Years Ago at Urgent Recommendation of Doctor. New York, Dec. 23. Thomas F. Uyan. j admittedly one of the greatest powers in the financial world, announced today that, yielding to the advice of his phy sicians, he had -resigned ' from the di rectorate of thirty-four corporations. i The only enterprises in the management ! of which. Mr. Rynn retains a hand are 'the Morton Trust Company, the Xation.il j Bank of Commerce and the American I Tobacco Company. ! Mr. Rvan's actidn was taken in pur- ; suance of a policy of retirement, first I j adopted two years ago, when he was tol.l j by his physicians that the multiplicity i of cares devolving upon him . as the chief i steersman of so many financial organiza tions, were more than sufficient, in them selves to tax the endurance of any one individual and were rapidly undermin ing his health. After a busy career of forty years, most of which had been spent in mapping out and carrvinff to a successful issue numerous street, rail-! i ; u . : f ! magnitude, Mr. Ryan felt that he could unharness himself from his many busi ' ness responsibilities and devote the re- I maining years of his life to comparative ' It-inure. ' I Mr. Rvan today said: ! "This step has been taken after long! nd m4iiH4ytiof-Miw (H" tsigtirflcnnce 'to Other than that, my I doctors told me 1 ought to let up. They j first advised me to unload some of my responsibilities two years ago, and since then I have gradually withdrawn from the directorate of thirty-four corpora-! tions. JUv recent resignations are but t jSTSTf tZi!?ZX. spons.oilities as rapidly as I can m jus-j tice to the interests involved." ; Among the corporations from the di-1 rectorate of which Mr. Rvan has re-1 signed are fhe Commercial Trust Com-; "ct&1l "candle Trust Company, of New York; and the Naboard Air Line railway. CHRISTMAS EXERCISES HELD IN ASHBORO STREET SCHOOL Yesterdav morning at the Ashboro ' sioner Joy ,1.. Morrow, who turned ever street, graded school, from nine to lUO'l'is office without a moment's naming to o'clock, entertainments were held in the -Ma.i- Spencer Cosby, late Monday after different classrooms of the first, tifc-d, jnonn, was the result of an undiplomatic fourth, fifth and sixth grades. The;lptt"" fpnt ' 1,v Major Morrow to the classrooms had been decorated . with I President ' Of the I'nited States on a holly, cedar and mistletoe, and was in ; "trivial" District matter, keeping with the programs rendered. This "trivial" matter is said to have The several teachers gave presents to;V-n Vi.i'nr Morrow's noml.-(." ohjict.cn their pupils and in return were recipi-p .President's plan to have District ents of gifts from the pupils. AH the j-fvprnmnt supplies, purchased in eon citv schools closed yesterday for the '.'unction .with.-feder-.il. government sup hoiidavs. The first school day in the P,if,s b.v federal government di-burs-coming new vear will be January 4. -i n officers, rather than through the Dis- 1 - . 1 - . jtrict property clerk as lu ret ofor". : McFarland-Erne Bout Called Off. It is understood that this diUW-n-e of New Orleans. La.. Dec. 2.1. It was of- .opinion consisted in 11 minority rep .rt on ficiallv announced today bv the Westoide ',n' Par' of ( 'mmissi:vnrr Morr-nv to one Athletic Club that the proposed bout in !of the President s su-ge.-' a A.ig New Orleans between Packev McFarland Sf"''0,i w,li1,11 ConrnUionm Ma Fni and Young Erne, had been called off. land snd West acouise '.d in. It is re and it is not expected that further nejn- i garded ss the culminating .ict comieclcd tiations will be made fn have the men I wi,tt the administration of the oifiee of I meet here at any early date. Custodian of Crosses of Honor. Mm. .7. (J. Prodnax, Sr., has been p. of the United Daughters of the Ctanfed- "T!e!ive Maj. Jay J. Morrow st once." rjunkett head of the Irish department eracv. All Veteran desiring crosses1 This is in substances a telegram rc- jOf agriculture, and knighted for Ins inter t.A..'M x. n..i..r ... l .nivl bv tho sivrehirv nf war shortly est and service in educational and agn- n"""i v. .n.. j'iwuun. ai nrr residence in West Market street. slo PILOTS' ASSOCIATION GUARANTEES THIS, AND TAFT WILL SAIL FROM THAT PORT. Washington, D. C, Dec. 23. The ar mored cruiser Xorth Carolina, with! President-elect Taft aboard, and her j i sister ship, the Montana, aecompsnyinf. , can be taken across the bar at the en j trance to Charleston harbor, with pVr- feet safety, at eieht o'clock on the mom- j ing oManuary 25, according to a guar- Association of Charleston, S. C.', throtiTh Commandant Dyer,; of the Charleston navy yard, to the navy department to day. . - - . At this hour there is high tide, the water at the bar then being twenty nine feet deep, while the North Caro lina draws twenty-seven - feet nine I inches. The only provision made by the I Pilots' Association is that the weather ; be clear enough for the marks to be jseen and the tido not exceptionally low 1 for high tido. GOMPERS, MITCHELL AND MORRISON GET JAIL TERM New and Old District Engineers , ii I ! ' " ' ' MAJOR SPENCER COSBY, The New Commissioner. UNOiPLOMATIC LETTER TOPISIOTCIUSEDF 'S I ' j District Engineer Commissioner Onnosed Chief Fxfif.lltlvft's Plan of Supply Furchase. NOT THE FIRST DIFFERENCE ';'"''' ! ' . T . I VA amngton. v. net. 3.1. 11 nas been semiofficially confirmed that th summarv dismissal of Engineer Commis jengineer commissioner about which there ilis been more or ess controversy, pnr- 'lieularly affecting Fchool repairs and thei building, inspector's office, during' the I " . after three- o'clock Monday afternoon It was signed by Ihe President of the I'nited States. Secretary Wright communicated with the chief of engineers. It was tound that Ma jor Spencer Cosby was lh" only ensineer on duty in .-Washington.." He was recommended to succeed Major row. and with in two hours a iter the receipt of the first telegram Ma.inr Cosby received a telegraphic order trom the 1 President to report at. the Munutpr.ll building and take charge of the engi-! neer s omce. The orders came as a suprise to both officers, and the war department itself knows no more today abo-it tbir reason for the. transfer than does the general public. It is said that the President's action in removing Major Morrow came within thirty-six hours after the receipt of the objectionable letter from the com missioner. WEEKLY COTTON STATISTICS. , Liverpool,-Dee. 2.1. Following are the weekly cotton statistics: Total ssles, all kinds, 30,000 bales. Total sales, American, 26,000 bales. English spihners' takings, 62,000 bales. Total export, 4,000 bales. Imports, all kinds, 121,000 bales. Imports, American, 110,000 bales. Stock, all kinds, 760,000 bales. Stock, American, 693.000 hales. Quantity afloat, nil kinds,, bales. 661,000 Quantity aflout. 4Sl),0(K) bales. Jotal sales on simulation. 100 bales, Total sales to exporters, 400 bales!-1 j MAJOR J. J. MORROW, The Retinng Comrairsioner. T OF AGRICULTURE HEAD CALLS ON JUDGE TAFT Makes Trip From Washington toi Discuss Conservation of Resources. LAUDS FORESTER PINCHOT . (la.. Dec. 23. Sir. Horace cultural matters, kept an appointment with President-elect Taft today, which was made for him by President, Roose velt. Sir Horace came on a late after noon train from Washington and began his return to that city two hours later. The object of his visit to Mr. Taft, ss ; PXPlainpd V 11'' latter, was to ascer- r;nj t. T. Continued on Page Two.) T Y 1s T ivr T T T A L 1 I W 1 L L t DEFENSE OF ! State Will Close Its Case Today and Adjournment Will Be Taken Till Mondav fnim City, Tenn;, Dee. 23. When the state asked for an adjournment of the night rider trial late today, it announc ed that it would close its case on Thurs day. The judge declared that instead of adjourning tomorrow until Saturday, it might be better to adjourn until Mon day, in order to give the defense a chance' to prepare its case. This ques tion will be decided tomorrow. The defense will be an alibi for each of the eight defendants. Members . of their families will swear that the men were at. home and in bed during the mint oi itctoper J3, the night that Cap- tain Rankm was murdered. No at I tempt will bs made to show their l Tn P lirrrn hll I u ourrr.fi FOB FAILURE TO OBEYUCTIOrJ Labor Leaders Severely Scored by Judge in Delivering the Sentence. I GOMPERS WEEPS AS HE HEARS THE ORDER Dramatic Scene in Courtroom Where Are Gathered Members of Family of Men. Sentenced Case Will Be Ap pealed to the Court of Appeals. Washington, D. C, Dec, 23. Twelvo months in jail for Samuel Gompers, president; nine months for John Mitchell, one of tho vice-presidents, and six months for Frank Morrison, secre tary, all of the American Federation of Labor, was the sentence imposed by Jus tice Wright, of the Sapreme Court of the District of Columbia, today for contempt of court in violating an or der previously issued enjoining them from placing on the "unfair" or "wc don't patronize" list the Buck's Stove and Range Company, of St. Louis, Mo. All three of the defendants were in court. Notice of an appeal to the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia, at once was filed, Gomprrs being released on $5,000 bond, Mitchell on $4,000, and Morrison on $3,000. . . In addition to the wife and daughter of Gomper, there were presentanuin,-. her of local labor leaders anT 'others, who were attracted by the notice that a decision in the famous case would be announced today. Mr. Gowpcrs' fam ily were visibly affected. i With tears coursing down his own checks, President Gompers 'heard the order of the court, which condemned bini to prison for a year. Both Mitchell and Morrison seemed stunned by tho sen tence, although Mitchell appeared to be the least concerned. Asked if he had anything to say whv sentence should not be pronounced. President Gompers declared that he had not consciously violated any law. There was much be would like to say, he said, but he could not do it at that time. He added, how ever, that "this is a struggle of the working people of ou-: country and it is a struggle of the working people for the right. It is a struggle of tho ages a struggle of men of labor to throw off some of the burdens which have been heaped upon them; .to abolish some of the wrongs and to secure some of the ricrhts too lone denijd." Mitchell and Morrison confined them selves to an indorsement of what Mr. Gompers had said. y . A Scathing Arraignment. The decision of Justice Wright, which consumed two hour and twenty min utes in reading, was one of the most scathing arraignments that ever came from the bench in this city. He re cited the conditions anteceding the in junction and referred to the fact that for twenty-five years the Buck's plans had operated as a ten-hour shop and SEL hers of esciutions of labor organizations bearing on the Buck's case as tending to show the methods of influencing mem- bcrs of unions, "and these methods," the court remarked, "seem to be knowi as 'per5Uision.' " The customers of the stove company, the court said, had been intimated, brow-beaten and co?rcf d out of their business relations with their customers, "by direct interference with the boy cott of their (the customers) trade re lations with their own customers and the public generally." Following an ex haustive derision of conspiracies in re straint of trade, Justice Wright said: "From the foregoing it ought to seem apparent to though'ful men that th defendants to the. bill, each and all of them, have combined together for the purpose of, (Continued on Page Two.) nn IIP L 1 Illi NIGHT RIDERS Witness Wears a Gun. whereabouts the night that other out rages were perpetrated, as the defend ants sre indicted only for the murder of Rankin. When William Russell, the self-confessed "niht rider," was called . for cross-examination today, a huge re. vblver projected from his pocket. Tim state's attorney sent the witness out of the courtroom to dispose of the weapon. The defense elicited from the witnex that after he was arrested by the sol diers, he was told by some men that lm knew about the murder. They added that they would not be under guard (Continued on Page Two.)
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