BE PASSED AT LAST
ilroad Measure Passes Sen-
ate After 12 Weeks.
TWELVE DEMOCRATS VOTED KO,
Senator LaFollette Incorporates
Amendment Permitting Widows
.and Minors of Deceased Railroad
Employees to Ride Free on Trains
Washington, Special. The Senate
passed the administration railroad
bill Friday night. It had been under
consideration for more than twelve
weeks and practically no other busi
ness except appropriation bills were
considered in that long period.
Only. 12 votes, all of these by Dem
ocrats, were recorded against the bill.
The practicable unanimity with which
the measure rwas passed was due to
the radical changes made- in the
measure from the form in which it
was drafted by Attorney General
Wickersham, following numerous con
ferences at the . White House on the
subject4 of amending interstate com
merce laws.
Had it not been for the retention
of the sections to create a court of
commerce it is likely that the vote
for the bill would have been unani:
mous. - , ; .
An amendment by Mr. La Follette
permitting railroads to issue "passes
to the widows, during widowhood,,
and minor children of employes kill
ed in the line of service, was accepted
without division.
The only provision in the bill ap
plicable to other than railroad cor
porations is one regulating injunc
tions by the Federal courts which
suspend the operation of State laws.
It is provided that such action shall
be taken only when presented to a
justice of the Supreme Court or a
circuit judge and heard by three
judges, one of whom shall be a Su
preme Court justice or a circuit conn
judge. v . .
Claft to do "&2 North Carolinian:
Washington, Special.; Representa
tive Charap Clark, minority leader of
tie House, has set for himself an ap
proximate age limit in public at
about 73 years of age. I -'
:Tbe people may set my time of
retirement a little earlier than that,"
he suggested laughingly when discus
sing political age limits -with a news
paper man., "So far as I know the
only public man who set' an age limit
on his service and lived to it was
Xatlian Macon, of North Carolina,
Speaker and Senator," , said Mr.
Clark. ' i When in his prime he set
the exact age at which he would re
tire. When that day arrived he was
in the middle of a Senatorial term,
tut kept his" word and resigned He
was one of the greatest men of-thal
era.
Another Polite "Theory."
Louisville, Ky., Special. It is now
the police theory that the Kellner
hild, who was late for the church
service, was discovered alone in the
church by Joseph Wendling, the miss
ln? janitor, "assaulted and murdered
snd her body dragged through the
church and dropped into the base
ment through a hols in the sacristy.
Another Newspaper Prize.
New York, - Special. The New
York Times announces that it has ar
ansed with J. C. Shaffer of The Chi
a?o Evening Post for an offer of
v-5.000 for an aeroplane race between
Chicago and New York. ' V
Subscribers Must Pay, in Advance.
'ew York, Special. Mayor Gay
rot announced Tuesday on behalf
Ji tlie New York World, and the St.
Louis Post-Dispatch, a $30,000 prize
r a successful aeroplane flight from
York to St.. Louis.
Elephant Stole Ladv's Diamond.
ew York, Special The authorities
t the Bronx zoological gardens re
gretfully admit that Alice, the biggest
Repliant -at the zoo, is a thief. She
stole a diamond ring from Miss
Wizabeth.Morrell, of Chappaqua, N7
who was feeding crackers to her.
jhe ring, which was on Miss Morrell's
fn?er, was loose, and Alice apnarent-
y snatched it under the impression J
ai u was crood to eat.
Let It Be Soon.
Atlantic Citv. Special. Tnr!n5hrtn!
Editions
utions urging that the church take
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('losinjr Session nf the o-anorol go.
of the United Presbyterian
held here.
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GOV. CALLS LEGISLATURE
Extraordinary Session June 14,
Take Action on Bond Issue.
Raleigh, N. C, Special. Governor
Efttchin issued Friday evening a pro
clamation calling the, North Carolina
General Assembly to meet in extra
ordinary session here June 14 to take
action as to the impending $3,430,000
refunding bond issue to take care of
bonds falling due July 1, the necessity
for the special session being the in
ability of the Council of State to mar
ket; the refunding bonds at this time
in sufficient quantities under the re
strictions of the legislative act auth
orizing them to meet the July bond
obligations. ' :
Mr. Ballinger ;Will Resign.
Washington, "Special. Richard A,
Ballinger wiir resign his post at the
head of the interior department. His
resignation will be 'accepted by Presi
dent Taft, who is aware of the inten
tion of Mr. LUf.iuger to surrender and an extra dividend of 2 per cent,
his portfolio. The South Atlantic States Corn ex-
The resignation will be submitted as position which is to be held in Colum
soon as the investigating committee - bia, S. C, from December 5 to 8
shall have filed its reports . exonerat- ts , attracting . attention all over the
ing Mr. Ballinger of the charges ! South.
brought against him. That this will
be the nature of the report is not
doubted, although one and possibly
two minority reports will be submit
ted, neither of which will relieve Bal
linger ol blame. . 1
ri l: i o i tii:
er's intention to resign comes from a;use L an. ?ld vest as a depository
mnv.a T.0l?flhilitv i pntrplv V. cost Dominick Rosato his life sav-
vond nnpstion.
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Southern Suendine Money.
Washington. Special. Contracts
for locomotives, rolling stock, steel,
rails and fittings, involving a total
expenditure of $7,290,000 have been ,
let by the Southern Railway company j
according to announcement made
Wednesday, thus carrying out the
statements as to orders to be given,
vvuiftiucu ju x lcoiucut jj-iivjr o
nouncement of March 17.
By these contracts 75 locomotives,
'VfPU
win ; Cu5ci-
baggage cars are tobe added to the
uiuixvc puncr aim ruiuug siucb. equip
ment of the Southern. In addition
to this, contracts have been let f oi
46,000 tons of 85-pound steel rail and
for 190,000 improved joints for use
with this rail.
. .
. Disaster in New York Subway.
New York, Special. Two hundred
hysterical woman, screaming children
and panic-stricken men fought, theii
way through a dense smoke in the
Mott avenue subway station in the
Bronx, Thursday, striving to escape.
Only one elevator, was available to take
them to the street, which is 65 feet
above the subway level at this point,
and the crush to reach this exit on
the five flights of stairs which led tc
the surface increased the panic.
Fifteen persons were overcome by
smoke and two men wsre injured
seriously enough to require hospital
treatment.
Fire in an automatic pumping sta
tion caused the smoke. The damagi
was nominal. ': - ' . !
Ex-Gov. Folk in Democratic Race.
. St. Louis, Mo., SpeciaLMissour
Democrats of all factions at a dinnei
Thursday night heard former Gover
nor Joseph W. Folk announce th
principles on which, it is said, h
will seek the Presidential nominatior
in 1912. The dinner was in chargt
of men who have: been promoting the
boom of the former governor.
Identified by. Teeth.
" Charleston, 'W Va., Special. Gin
seng diggers in the mountain of Fay
ette county found the body of Mrs
Rachel Carter Martin, who suddenly
disappeared while .on a visit to hei
brother in January, 1908.
. The body was identified by peculiai
fiillinz of the teethe
No Aid to Special Railroad.
Washington, Special. -President
Taft says that during his administra
tion he will not lend his approvai
to legislation designed to give govern
ment aid to specific railroad interests
in Alaska. Instead, he favors a gen
eral law. which' will apply to all whe
comply with its provisions; a la
modeled after - the ' policy, which f oi
years has been in effect in the Phil
ippine islands.
Would Oonibine Memorial Days.
Richmond, Virginia, ,Special,
The Rev. James : Cannon, vr., a
prominent Virginia Methodist and
delegate from the general Soqthern
board to the World "Missionary Con
ference at Edinburg, Scotland, advo
cates the combining - of Decoration
Day of the North with all Confeder
ate memorial days in the South intc
one celebration. -
' Y'A Murderer at 80.
. Rlnpfipld. W. Va.. Special. John
Dent, 80 years of age, shot and killed
.Henry Watson, at unniwoou, v a
Thursday.
THE NEWS MINUTELY TOLD
The Heart, of Happenings j Carve
From the Whole Country. :
The month of May contributed1 a
?hastly record of 30 suicides in Penn
sylvania. Ninety-five per cent of the moving
picture places in New York are dens
)f iniquity. ;
In Louisiana, under. the present
statutes, the appearance of any child
ander 16 years of age in theatres at
light is. prohibited.
Cuba willingly authorizes the rais
ing of the wreck of the battle ship
Maine, and will give every assistance
to the Americans in the work.
The supreme court of the United
States set the corporation tax cases
tor reargument at the beginning of
the next term before a full! bench.
The directors of American Snuff
company, New York; have 1 declared
a quarterly dividend of 5 per cent,.
Five thousand bales of Southern
cotton are on their way back to Sou
thern spinners after a journey from
the' South to Liverpool and from
I Liverpool to New York.
Lack of faith in banks and the
mgs of $747, at Chicago.
His wife
threw the vest in the fire, i
The output of the government's
smokeless powder factory at Picatin
ny, N. J., arsenel is to be trebled
soon. The factory will be abler to
urn cut-3,000 pounds daily. .- .t
In an opinion handed down Wed-
nesday, the Interstate Commerce
Commission declined to issue an or-!
i uauucu vivwii. ncu- .
der, which might disturb the system
ji X1CC3 XillcS III I II 6 OUUII1
Police records of Gary, Ind., for
vrnv -v,riW nna ncnn in
the city was" arrested- during
the montn . Tce saloons' which re-,
opend May 1, number 135.
Ex-Governor Robert B. Glenn has
been making , a series of lectures in
Newark, N. J., in behalf of the Na
tional Religious Training School and
Chautauqua for the Colored Race.
"I'd rather be known as a boodlei
than a liar," said State Senator Dan
iel Holstlaw in an interview at
Iuka, 111., speaking of his confession j
to accepting :a bribe of $2,500 as a
i lesrisiaior.
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Although the New York market re
ports show tkat butter receipts in
May were larger than usual, the prices
of the best grades are higher now
than they have been before at Jhis
time since the civil war.
By a vote of 31 to 25 the senate
refused to challenge the supreme
court of the United States to another
decision regarding the right of com
mon carriers to transport commodi
ties produced by themselves.; j
The supreme court of the United
States Wednesday advanced the so
called government Panama canal
libel suit against the Press Publish
ing company of New York for hearing
the first Tuesday of next October. .
. Gov. Hadley and John H. Curran,
commissioner of immigration of Mis
souri, have started a fund which is
expected to reach $10,000, to be given
to the aviator who in 24 hours shall
fly from St. Louis-to Kansas City, a
distance of 288 miles.
In a far-reachig decision in the
case of Monroe Hampton, a negro
boy of 12, sent up for two years in
Lauderdale' county, for burglary, the
Alabama supreme court held that no
confession of a child, under 14 years
of age, could be used toward convic
tion. As a result a new trial was
ordered."
Eighty-five employes of jthe Treas
ury Department received "vacation
notices' Wednesday, which : means
that they wre permanently relieved
from duty.
King Victor Emmanuel, of Italy,
thinks highiy of the American Cross
of Honor Society, and has sent
Thomas Herndon, at Washington, the
president, an autographed photo
graph of himself as a token ' of his
friendliness to Jhe drganization.
A collar which a couple or years
ago became soiled in one day can now
be worn for two -days in Chicago,
so great have been the strides in
abating the smoke nuisance, according
to City Smoke Inspector Bird. , '
Miss Sarah E. Peck, a member of
the faculty ; of Union College, Lin
coln, Neb., was fined by United States
District Judge Munger $10, after she
had entered her voluntary - appear
ance. - Miss Peck was indicted by a
Federal grand jury on the charge that
she wifully refused to give her age
to the census" enumerator or to , an
swer questions as to whether she had
been married or divorced.'; ' Her age
I has not yet been made public.
Aeriar navigation has made such
rapid progress .that Secretary . of
State Knox and ; the government of
Mexico are negotiating an aviation
treaty governing the pasage of air
ships across the border line between
these two. countries. !
Memorial Day was observed at
Paris by all Americans. The embassy
and consulate was! closed and Am
basador Bacon and Consul ' General
Mason made a trip; tothe Cemetery
of Picques to lay .flowers on ' the
grave of Lafayette;
Not one cent o the Rockefeller
million dollar fund for the investi
gation of the hookworm disease will'
be spent in Texas; The State Boar
of health refuses j -to contribute n
equal share of the'jfund.
Kissing as a perfectly, safe paime
has just received the 0. K. of Jr. A.
M. Worthington, a professor An the
Harvard medical school, Boston. Per
sons who refrain because of fear of
the interchange of jjacteriaare mar
tyring themselves . useless! the edu
cator told his audience at a lecture
on "Man and His Bacteria."
Rural Carrier Remembered.
Washington, Pa.,: Special. George
White, a farmer and- rural mail car
rier at Rea, has delivered to himsell
a letter from a lawyer in a western
state informing him t that one Patrick
Sullivan has left tU him in his will
$16,000. White, wllo first took it as
a joke, has remembered that 15 years
o he befriended a- peddler whose
name was, Patiick Sullivan. He had
often treated him to meals or lodging
, Convict's Heroism Rewarded.
Montgomery, Ala., Special . As a
result of heroism during the fire which
cremated 26 negro jconvicts at Lu
cile mines on May 5th, last, Nathan
Page, a life conyici'will be paroled.
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r ned lnt0 fire a nd saved
V , Tfiompson,;oie of the guards
who had been overcome by the fumes
of .the burning oil, while trying to
unlock the cell , in ivhich the loss of
life took place. Suggestion of the
coron'er 's jury that I this be done has
the approval of the convict board.
Foreigners in Danger in China.
Washington, D. C, Special. The
city of Nanking, China, has been
posted with placards inciting the peo
ple to the destruction of foreign life
and property. :
; President's New Private Secretary.
' Washington, Special. Charles D.
Norton, of Chicago, assistant secre
tary of the treasury, was appointed
secretary to the President Wednes
day. . ; :
1 Terrific Tornado in Augusta.
I Augusta, Ga., Special. A tornadc
here Thursday night, reaching a velo
city of 62 miles an hour and lasting
for 16 minutes did more damage than
any in the history of the city, with
the exception of the great tornado in
1878. . , :.-; . .;
Death From Unusnal Fall.
Cleveland, Special.Plunging head
foremost down a flight of stairs, and
through the window of a door, Wil
liam Raddatz, 30 years old, had his'
head almost severed from his body bj
the broken, glass. :
I Bride in Agony Ten Years.
New York, Special. When Mr. and
Mrs. Asa Cummingsj , of Binghamton,
N. Y., were married 10 years ago their
friends showered ,thm with rice,
j. One kernel lodged in the bride's
ear. For 10 years it defied the efforts
of physicians and surgeons to dis
lodge it. Three fruitless operations
were performed, and' a short time ago
she entered the Post Graduate Hos
pital here for treatment. Brain fever
developed and she died Saturday.
! Important Action of Mayors.
! Winston-Salem, Special. The State
Municipal association, the closing ses
sion of the second annual convention,
unanimously adopted & resolution in
troduced by, Walter Clarke, Jr., of
Raleigh; indorsing the commission
form of city government. 4
! It is also to ask the legislature to
enact a general law allowing cities J
by popular vote to adopt the com
mission form of government. Mayor
F. N. Tate ;of High Point was elected
president df the . association and it
was decided , to holdj the next annual
session in Raleigh. :
Very Late About Important Matter.
t Washington, Special. Authoriza
tion for the compilation of the mili
tary and naval, records of the Revo
lutionary War, with'-a': view to their
publication, is contained, in a bill re
ported to the Senate Saturday from
the Committee on ; Military Affairs.
These records are greatly scattered
and it would be a gigantic -task , to
find and assemble them in i satisfac
tory manner.- Tor this purpose it is
proposed that an appropriation ; "of
$50,000 " shall be rcaue, :
HONOR JPORY DAYIS
Six Southern States Unveil
Memorial Windows
Petsburg, Va,, bpecial.oix bou-
therr States Friay, the 102d anni-
versry ox iiie uixm ui ncwucui
rson Davis of the Southern Con
eracy, honored the memory of J
leir
soldier dead who fell before this I
ity during the war by dedicating
memorial iwindows in the old Bland
ford church here, in the cemetery of
which lie j buried these martyrs of a
Lost Cause. The ceremonies were
under the auspices of the Ladies'
Memorial association. '
F. H. Weston, State senator, reprer
senting GOv. Anselof South Carolina,
presented the window given by that
State and made the address. i
Alabama's window was presented
by Gen. C. Irvine Walker; Congress--man
J. W. Collier, of Mississippi pre
sented the window of his State; the
Tennessee ! window was presented by"
Capt. Carter R. Bishop of Mississippi,
and Miss Mary Harvard unveiled the
Arkansas window and Miss Fannie
Constable the Maryland . window. j
The six windows were accepted by
Gov. William Hodges Mann of Vir-
ginia, on behalf of the Ladies' Memo
rial association of Petersburg. j
With the unveiling of the six win
clows Friday, all of these Southern
States now are represented in Bland-;
ford church, except Georgia, Florida,
and Texas,
TJ. S. Conrt of Customs.
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Washington, Special With two
hundred and twenty-five cases on its
dockets as a starter the latest Federal
court, the United States court of cus
tom appeals, will begin business Tues-'
day. .
It consists of Presiding Judge Rob-!
ert M. Montgomery of Michigan; and
Associate Judges William H. Hurt of
Montana; James F. Smith of Calif or
nia; Orion ;M. Barber of Vermont and
Marion De Vries of California.
The term of the court will probably
run through June and July. - The
court may adjourn then until Septem
ber or October.
One of the rules .permits attorneys
before the Federal courts or the
court of last resort in a State or ter-.
ritory to become a member of the bar
either by recommendation by. a judge
in one of these courts, or upon motion
by an attorney of the customs court.;
Whew! Some Dividend.
New York, Special. One of the
largest "melons" ever sliced for the!
delectation of stockholders will be
cut by the Singer Manufacturing
company, which has called a meeting
of directors on June 18 to declare a
$30,000,000 stock dividend to its
shareholders.
Is It Necessary? .
Washington, Special. General
Clarence R. Edwards, chief of the
Bureau of Insular Affairs of the War
Department, will leave for the Phil
ippines the last of June to make an
extensive inspection of the govern
mental machinery of the islands.
Baptist Missionaries Watery Grave.
Bombay,! By Cable. Miss W. Wil
liams and -Howard Bishop, missiona
ries of the (American Baptist Society,
were drowned while sea bathing in
the gulf of Bombay, at Bulsar, north
of this city.
Bishop lost his life in attempting
to save his companion, Miss Williams.
Troubles of the Rich.
New York,-' Special. Mrs. Mary
Blair Brokaw has asked the Supreme
Court in Brooklyn for an allowance
of $8,000 with which, to contest the
appeal which her husband, W. Gould
Brokaw, has taken from the separa
tion decree recently granted her.
Young Lady Sat on Burglar.
New York, Special. Unmindful of
a revolver which he leveled at her,
Freda Dolinsky, a girl of 20, tackled
a burglar in her parents ' home early
Sunday and floored him with a seltzer
bottle. She! followed this by breaking
a tumbler on the burglar's head,
stunning him, then sat on him until
help arrived.' She is the daughter of
a silk manufacturer.
Innoncent of Murder.
St. Louis, Special. Mrs. Dora
Elizabeth Doxey was found not guilty
Saturday by i the ' jury which heard
the evidence against her on a charge
of murdering William J. Erder with
arsenic. She was rearrested on the
charge of bigamy. ;
A Month to Pass $110,000,000.
Washington, Special. After serv
ing as a vehicle for. political debate
in the .House of Representatives, for
nearlyva month,' the sundry civil ap
propriation i bill, , carrying proposed
appropriations aggregating $110,000,
000, was passed Saturday. . ; .
SOCIALISM FEARED
Framing an Issue for the Com
ing Campaign
TAFT'S SPEECH IN MICHIGAN
points Out the Demands and Conten
tions of the Socialists, and Admits
That it ;is a Very Grave Problem,
and One That Has Not Yet Been
Solved byv the American People, j ..
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Jackson, Mich., Special. President
Taft Saturday proclaimed socialism
as the great problem that confronts
the American people, the issue that
is soon to come and that must be
skillfully met. He predicted that the
American people must soon determine
whether it! shall trust the same party
with the solution of "that problem
than which we have had no greater
in the history of the country."
Mr. Taft spoke with great earnest
ness and his remarks seemed deeply
to impress his hearers. By many his
words were taken as frajning an is
sue for for the coming campaign.
He said:! "The issue that is being
framed, as it seems to me, is the (
issue with j respect to the institution
of private property.- There are
those who charge to ' that institution
the corporation abuses, the greed and
the corruption that grew out of those
properly, the poverty of some and the
undue wealf of others, an therefore
say We will have none of it and we
say
must have a new rule or distriDuuon .
that for -want of a better name we
shall call socialism.' ,
'.'.On the oher hapd it is contended
thdt it is not the institution of pri- .
vate property that shall be abolished,
but only that the time has come in
wnicn it is necessary to lay aown cer
tain rules restricting and regulating
the "use of that private property'which. ,
shall not deprive the world of in
dividual effort but which shall still
keep the law. .and the- opportunity to r
uac jxxv o.tc : x yjyjx w jf uuuu ouvii vuu-
trol that these abuses may be wiped '
out and the boon of individual effort v
sun ue iexu ij us.
"Now, my friends, that presents a
gTeat and difficult problem that I am
quite willing to admit we have not
yet solved.'
Automobiles Ruining Men.
New York, Special. There are so
many young men coursing about the
country in i automobiles an(J their
pleasure absorbs such a large share
of the productive capital of the coun
try that Chancellor James R. Day 'of
Syracuse University believes it is be
coming , a question if the automobile
is not a curse to' the country.
The chancellor was speaking to the
graduating class of the University
Sunday on self-sacrifice and self -de-'
nial and he chose the automobile as a
" broad and apparent illustration" of
a luxury that too often is not sacri
ficed. -i
"Young mechanics and clerks and
business men," he said, "who need
all of their capital, are mortgaging
t;heir homes by the thousands and los
ing their positions often by their in
fatuation with this form of pleasure. ' '
Lack of 'self-denial is accountable
the chancellor, believes, for a lower
marriage rate. '
; Who Said That It 'Did? j
: Philadelphia, Pa., Special. Presi- '
dent Taft delivered the annual com
mencement day oration at Bryn Mawr ;
College, where his daughter "Helen is
a student. I Taking for his subject
TT .1. n .! t TTT . f f i
President declared that he . favored
the higher education of women, and v
said that he utterly dissented' from
the suggestion that higher education
rather unfits them for the duties of
- wife and mother. i
Gold Stampeders. ; .y. -Iditarod
City, Alaska, Special.
(Via Kaltag, Alaska,) -f-Three hun
dred , and fifty prospectors, the first
party of stampeders to reach the new
Iditarod gold fields, ' reached 1 Fair
banks Sunday after three-weeks trip
down the Yokon river.
Uncle Sam After Murderer.
Washington, Special. The State
Department will" render every possible
assistance to the Louisville, Ky., au
thorities in (tracking the murderer of
little Alma Kellner. - ? ; " ,
Risked Life For False Teeth..- ,
' East Point, Ga., SpeciaL-A Gold
berg, a merchant, barely missed death
Saturday morning when he attempted
to rush into his burning .. residence
and secure I his set of ; false " teeth.
JViends . barely reached him in time
to detain" mm,'