The Charlotte News [Charlotte, N.C.: January 13, 1911]

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)L. 43. NO. 6924 CHARLOTrE. N. C. FI?IDA\. JANUARY 13 1911 PRICE 5 CENTS
Twin Numbei "23"
Was Wrecked On
Friday Thirteenth
Qfa ous Rear-end Collision
-,rs at Batavid, N. Y., on
■:v York Central Rail-
Six Passengets were
M
Others were Seriously
1 -Two Dead Bodies
Still Under Engine Of
Wrecked Train—Coach Was
cred.
■ I Presa.
\. Y.. Jan. 13.—Four pas
1} asleep In their berths
Now York Central Rail-
ItOO and Buffalo west-bound
cround to death as that
• tba Ilatavla station early
. others were fauilly in-
. iIn- condition of eight Is
serious. •
■
n old. probably Cassius
Hn>oUlyn, N. Y.: Masonic
:.ii beneath his body In his
-th.
•'i face, plain gold band
-1 Knpagenient" engross-
. ring marked "F\ J- S."
nude, no description possi-all
of whom are at lo-are:
FlMM, lawyer. Indianap-
!
.• abort, Fultonvllle, N.
will die.
Moore, lawyer, Buffalo, se-red.
nidress unkonwn.
i, Chicago, slightly ln-rland.
Detroit, fatally.
negro porter. Boston.
Shaw. Toronto. Ont., se-nds.
rtne Ilugcins. and son.
-hton, Miss., painfully
i
on. Blackburn, Eng-illy
cut.
• nt Kveritt. of the west-
■'i of the New York Central
a ade the following state-
Protest Against
Tax on Potash
By Associated Press.
Washington. Jan. 13.—The state de-partment
Is being flooded with letters
from farmers and others all over the
United States protesting against the
action of the German government in
levying a tax on potash, largely used
ae a fertilizer In America. Many of
the letters are written but a great
number are in printed form Indicating
that they are the result of the work
of some of the bureaus which have
been established to create public sen-timent
in this matter.
Eighteen Killed
During Rioting
By Associated Press.
Bombay, Jan. 13—Eighteen per-sons
were killed and 24 others wore
injured during yesterday's rioting. As
usual the occasion of the Muharrani
festival brought about a clash between
Sunnyites and the Shiahs. Troops call-ed
out to restore order fired several
volleys into the mob.
Near Beer Bill
Discussed In
Is
The
Senate-Other Bills
LORD DECIES "HELD UP"
BY CUSTOMS OFFICIALS.
By Associated Press.
New York. Jan. 13.—Ix>rd Decies,
who arrived here late last night to
visit his fiance. Miss Vivian Gould, had
a taste of Uncle Sara's customs red
tape before he left the steamship pier.
He had property declared that Mrs.
George .1. Gould had requested him to
get for her on the other side, and was
told that the duty on It was 1800. He
tendered a check for that amount and
was surprised to find that the rule of
I'ncle Sam was- cash only. All the cash
lie had with him was $200. He knew
DObody on the pier and there was no-body
of the Gould family to meet him.
After waiting about an hour he decid-ed
that he would leave the gown in the
hands of the customs men until this
afternoon and then send down the
cash.
"-h preliminary Investiga-tion
able to make, .1. B.
iffalo, engineer on train
I van into train Number
• :in,j liuffalo express) was
for the accident In that
I siennls. Mr. Lydell
the employ of this railroad
I and has been an cnglne-
>»S with a perfect record."
3ody Identified.
,(, Jan. 13.—The unidenti-found
in the Batavia wreck
b WHS discovered a Ma-is
probably that of C. ('.
. "-1st.int general manager}
■he agency, who left
ast night for Buffalo.
BODY FOUND !N SWAMP
WAS IDENTIFIED.
Bv Associated Press.
Albany. N. Y.. Jan. 13.—The body
of the 5-year-old boy found In a swamp
en the Schenectady road last Tuesday,
r.nd believed to have been murdered
by the forcible administration of car-bolic
acid, was identified by relatives
today as that of George Melber, of
Schenectady, N. Y.
[
OF THE DAY IN
L
FIVE BODIES
WERE MEN
START TRIAL OF
THE GYPS IES
Plans of Robbers -
Fius tt at id
0 . Jan. 13.—Three rob-ted
to rob the post office
Ing county, early today
ilt a pistol battle was
Be of ihe rolibors was wonnd-reast
and one of their
• « was shot. Wilbur Peet,
aw the robbers at the |>ost
the) at once opened fire.
• d and one of the yegge-
■ 1. The robbers seized a
nd two horses and pick-
• wounded men. escaped to-
By Associated Press.
Connellsville. Pa., Jan. 13.—When
firemen early today ceased searching
the ruins of the McCrory store, de-stroyed
by an explosion and fire here
vesterday they decided that the five
bodies they had discovered were all
the debris contained. Two bodies
were identified by signet rings on
fleshless fingers and one by the shoes
she wore. Another is supposed to be
the bodv of her aunt when the explo-sion
took place and has not been seen
since.
The fifth victim is believed to be
an Italian customer, as a pocketbook
containing a number of foreign coins
was found.
Mrs. Edward Miller is in the hos-pital
with her legs broken and many
severe burns.
Banzi Nippon! Japanese
Sacrifices His Life on The
Pyre of Unrequited Affection
By Associated Press.
Wheeling, W. Va., Jan . 13.—The
Schenk case today is more or less a
continuation ol the plans of yesterday
that time would not permit to be com-pleted.
When Miss Alma Evans, the
nurse who attended John O.
Schenk through the illness that is al-leged
to have been caused by his wife
administering poison, was called to
testify yesterday, it had not been ex-pected
she would be the first witness
of the day. Therefore when her testi-mony
was once started it crowded the
plans of the prosecution and those
witnesses who had been called and
were unable to be rached were noti-fied
to appear again today.
The counsel for the defense as well
as the prosecution were much chagrin-ed
and not a little annoyed this morn-ing
over false reports that have been
sent out concerning the conduct of
the trial. There were many rumors
last night that the trial was to be
stopped and a commission in lunacy
apiiointed to lake up the case of Mrs.
Farnsworth Schenk. the accused In
the case.
Counsel for both sides were emphat-ic
this morning in denying that any
such move had even been contemplat-ed.
It was stated by the attorneys for
the defense, in this connection, that
they expect to clear the atmosphere
considerably with the statement of
their client, for Mrs. Schenk will be
put on the stand, according to Attor-ney
O'Brien, who has thus far been
the active counsel in her behalf.
Prosecuting Attorney Handlan seem-ingly
to offset any expectations of the
defense, asserted this morning that
within the next two days a witness
would be called by the state who
would show that Mrs. Schenk pur-chased
quantities of arsenic and sugar
of lead shortly before the return of
her husband from Europe. Who this
witness is the prosecutor did not say,
but smilingly replied: "Just watch."
The crowd began to gather early
and before daylight a number of men
and women were In line watching for
the doors of the court house to open.
When the trial was resumed the room
was full and crowds were standing in
the streets. The strictest rules re-garding
attendance are still being ob-served.
,
A change was made fn the states
plans this morning when Dr. O. W.
Burdatts. Schenk's dentist, was called.
Dr. Burdetts testified "he examined
Schenk's teeth after Schenk became
ill At first be believed the discolor-ation
was caused by a diseased condi-tion
of the gums but later he conclud-ed
something he did not understand
was wrong with him.
Special to The News.
Wadesboro, Jan. 13.—The recent
troubles between the rival bands of
Gypsies are being aired on the jus-tice
court here in the trial of sev-eral
members of the Joan band for
assault.
This morning Chief Stephen Joan
was on the stanu and tells a horrible
story of the events of the night of
the arrival of King Emil Mitchell.
Joan claims to have been tied to
a tree and robbed while his daughter
was taken to another tent and crim-inally
assaulted. I
On the other handtthe other clan
denies all of the cljnrses but ac-knolwei'ses
that lher->, :-"*z .* ieneral
fight und several V.-«KIU h?:ids.
The hearing occupied the court
all of yesterday and Is not yet
concluded. It Is merely a preliminary
and will come before the superior
court next .week for trial.
Moore is Acting Grand Commander.
By Associated Press.
Birmingham, Ala., Jan. 13.—Official
announcement is made that on account
of continued illness. James L.. Richard-son,
of Washington, grand commander
of the Scottish Rite Order, has been
granted indefinite leave of absence
from his official duties and George F.
Moore, grand prior of the 'supreme
council, has been appointed acting
commander. George F. Moore Is a
native of Alabama and is editor of the
New Age Masonic magazine, published
in New Y'ork.
L
SITUATION IN
TENNESSEE
ON STRIKE
By Associated Press-.
Lisbon, Jan. 13.—Railroad communi-
1' cation throughout the republic is prao
tically paralj zed as a result of the
strike of employes who went out on
Wednesday.
Portugal is cut off by land from
the rest of Europe. Today the strik-ers
refused to permit the Southern ex-press
to lea\e the capital. Mail from
abroad is reaching here by steamer.
The strikers rejected an offer of a
25 per cent increase in their wages.
Paris, Jan. 13—A news agency dis-patch
from Madrid says that a trav-eler
arriving there from Badajoz, 5
miles from the Portuguese frontier, de-clares
that the soldiers In the fortress
at Elvas, Portugal, have mutined, de-manding
increased pay. The Elva9
worklngmen have struck in sympathy.
May Pass State Wide
Prohibition Law
Special to The News.
Raleigh. Jan. IS.—The house bill
prohibiting near-beer saloons in Mar-ion
county caused a warm discussion
in the senate with the result that it
passed with an amendment that It
does not Interfere with the sale of
soda fountain drinks. It went to the
house for concurrence.
Senator Barham's bill, relating to
the speed of automobiles and a penal-ty
for violating It, was referred, after
~a long discussion that showed strong
opposition to any change.
President Newland announced the
committee on legislative apportion-ment
with Mr. Thome, of Nash, as
chairman.
In the house, Speaker Dowd an-nounced
an additional committee, with
the following chairmen:
Internal Improvements—Taylor, of
Vance.
Printing—McNeill, of Moore.
Enrolled Bills—Kendrick, of Gaston.
Corporation Commission—Majette,
of Tyrrell.
Insane Asylums—Kent, of Caldwell.
Privileges and Elections—Quickel,
of Lincoln.
Regulation of Liquor Traffic—Holler.
of Gates.
Corporations—Wooten, of Lenoir.
PenaJ Institutions—Coxe. of Anson.
Insurance—Ross, of Cumberland.
Mr. Ewart, of Henderson, introduc-ed
a bill to limit sleeping car berths'
charges to $1,25 for lower and $1 for
upper.
Also a resolution for the investiga-tion
of the Mattamuskeet Railway gra-ded
by state convicts.
A bill was passed for a bond issue
for Hickory- and Rutherfordton.
(Continued on Page Two.)
By Associated Press.
Nashville. Tenn., Jan. 13.—The sen-atorial
situation In this state is still
up in the air and the most astute poli-tician
cannot tell how It will end.
The failure of the McMillln and
Fitzhugh people to reach an agree-ment
last night leaves the matter just
where it stood yesterday.
Another conference is on this morn-ing
out little is hoped from It, though
strong pressure is being brought to
bear to get one of the men out of the
way.
An anoymous communication over
the telephone today was made to W.
R. Hamilton, of the Anti-Saloon Lea-gue,
giving him a "sure tip" that the
regulars today are planning to stam-pede
the convention to Hooper and
that they concede McMillln cannot
win and believe that the best thing
for the'regulars will be to send Hoop-er
to the senate, thereby making Nat
Ba^er governor.
Baxter wants to go to the senate
himself and is being groomed as a
candidate, but would be well pleased
to wait for that if in the meantime
he is governor. Hooper stated some
time ago that he would not accept the
senatorship, but it is said that he has
receded from that position. A state-ment
is expected from him later in the
day.
McMillin's friends are up in arms
and it is doubtful if they will stand for
any such attempted throwdown. Just
as the independents prefer McMillin
to Frazier and all prefer McMillin to
any republican, so McMillin's friends
prefer an independent to allowing their
candidate, a nominee from the demo-cratic
party, to be so dealt with.
Each side may be whipped into line
on any plan agreed upon, but It Is be-lieved"
that the senatorship cannot be
delivered to a republican. Neither
side will stand for it.
The matter of the governor's Inau-guration
will be settled today in the
senate. That body will amend the
house joint resolution changing the
date to Jan. 25, which will give time
to get the senatorship out of the way.
The regulars are holding back the in-auguration
date and making other de-mands,
north of Wadesboro Tuesday night. These demands are that some modifl-
The men. both colored, were about jcation 0f tne liquor laws be made for
Heavy Snow in Nevada.
By Associated Press.
Reno. N'ev., Jan. 13.—The present
enow storm is the heaviest within
memory in this district. After a
steadv fall of 36 hours there was a
record depth of two feet on the level
late last night. A depth of 12 feet is
reported at Truckee, and 6 feet at Im-migrant
Gap, California.
Passenger trains are being held at
Truckee, California and Sparks, Nev.
m Dies of Wounds.
Special to The News.
Wadesboro. Jan. 13.—Beady Arm-
Strong died at noon yesterday from
the effects of a gunshot wound inflict-ed
by Henry Tomlinson. The shoot-ing
occurred near Cedar Hill, 13 miles
night.
19 years of age.
• d I'ress.
irg, Miss.. Jan. 13.—His great
aacrlflce, accomplished by
ip the Knglish wife whom he
"lie man she loved, Kunisan
i Bomohal, and the son of a
Japanese, of Tokio, is dying
■ harpy hospital here of a
ami a disease, while his
wife and the man she mar
". by tender attention, trying
Ins last hours easier.
■ he stoicism of the Oriental,
and says nothing, but be-
■ suffering lies a strange rom-
■ decade ago Helen A. Hunt.
tr was mayor of a small
ar London, England, and well
• '1 a young Englishman nam-
Olbtoa. A quarrel with her
' i'.vised the girl to come to
' Eight years ago she found
i Uo-ston penniless. While
in the store of M. Yamataro,
»he met Inomata. The Japa-ir:
ii loved her and his gen-
" on Miss Hunt. They were
d went to New Orleans. The
'• ii and Inomata worked night
to make enough money to
pay doctors bills and hospital fees. His
own health became undermined and
he became despondent. Some months
ago. while Inomata and his wife were
in Jackson, Miss., on business, she
met Gibson. He too, having come to
America. One sight of him told the
girl she still loved him and Gibson
swore that he had loved her always.
After days of silent anguish, Mrs.
Inomata confessed to her husband that
she loved Gibson. The Japanese lis-tened
with stoical silence to the story
and then abruptly left his wife to think
it over. On his return to their board-ing
house in New Orleans, Inomata
said to his wife:
•I am falling In health. You go to
Jackson, bring suit for divorce and
I will not oppose it. I will say noth-ing.
Then go marry this Englishman
you love." . _,
The girl followed his advice, on
Decembeh 5th. accompanied by the
man who had been her husband, and
the man who had been her by-gone
sweetheart, the woman came to Vicks-burg.
Here she and Gibson were mar-ried.
That night Inomata, the Ruskin of
Japan, went to the hospital to die.
Arlington Hotel to Be Sold.
Bv Associated Press.
"Washington. Jan. 13.—The historic
Arlington Hotel. In this city, across
Lafayette Square from the White
House, It is announced today, is to
Dr. J. W. Mallet., ennitus professor »---— ^—^dlcSTof New
l^'waTone 'of thfwSss^to- Vork and Washington capitalists.
flay. He said that his tests of the
water used by Schenck showed that it
contained eight-tenths of a grain of
White arsenic to the pint.
Florence Coleman. a maid who for-
Thelr plan is to demolish the struct-ure
and erect on the site what Is de-clared
wil be the finest hotel in the
south. It is said $6,000,00 is involved
in the project.
merlv worked In the Schenk family,
testified that the Friday preceding
Mrs. Schenk's arrest she had been told
by Mrs. Schenk to clean John's room,
ready for his occupancy. She denied
ever" seeing anything put into the wa-ter.
Edward McAllister, the druggist
from whom the water and medicine
came, testified that, no lead was used
in the quinine compound sent to the
Schenk house.
Harbor of Refuge at Hatterae.
Beaufort, N. C. Jan. 13.—Opposi-tion
to tl«pb '"'dins of the ha[bor
of refuge at Cape Hatteras. which
has been decided upon by govern-ment
engineers having charge of the
project, has developed here and the
chamber of commerce will meet two
nights to advocate Cape Lookout for
the sailors' haven.
The chamber will lay particular
stress on the shifting sands of Cape
Hatteras and the shoals which move
tip and down the cost for half a
mile They say that to build the har-bor
where engineers have selected
would mean the expenditure of three
times the sum if it was built at Cape
Lookout. ■
Markham Nominated.
By Associated Press.
Washington, Jan. 13.—President
Taft today sent to the senate the
nomination of M. O. Markham, of
Georgia, to be surveyor of customs
for thep ort of Atlanta, Ga.
By Associated Press.
Austin, Texas, Jan. 13.—The enact?
ment of at least two laws— one pro-hibiting
the sale of intoxicants with-in
ten miles of a school house, the
other prohibiting the vending of li-quor
in less quantities than a quart
■—and possibly the enactment of a
state-wide prohibition law before the
present administration retires—these
are Included In the plans of the pro-hibitionists
in the legislature now in
session here, according to announce-ment
made today.
In the senate the prohibitionists
admittedly have seventeen votes
against fourteen anti-prohibiHon mem-bers;
in the house tli<i;>8e.t*dlng Is:
Prohibitionists 75; aiiti-nrohlbltlon-ists
58. It is asserted that Governor
Campbell would sign each or all the
measures mentioned. He will retire
next Tuesday, at which time Gover-nor-
elect Colquitt, an avowed anti-prohibitionists,
will assume office.
Two thirds vote is necessary to
pass a measure over a governor's
veto in this state.
Swear Off Trading Stamps.
Charleston, S. C, Jan. 13.—Retail
merchants here are anxious to aban-don
trading stamps, claiming they
are a drain upon profits. The question
was interestingly discussed at the
session last night of the association
of retail merchants.
Indian Contract
Case Comes Up
Washington, D. C, Jan. 13.—"My ex-perience
has demonstrated how much
easier it is to remain silent and se-cure
than to wage war against wrong
doers of a certain character," said
Senator Gore, of Oklahoma, today in
his concluding statement to the house
committee which has been investigat-ing
charges of attempted bribery In
connection with legislation bearing up-on
contracts of certain Western at-torneys
with Indians, calling for largo
fees.
Cecil Smith, the Texas lawyer who
closed the arguments in behalf of
J. F. McMurray, of Muskogee, for at-torney
for the Choctaw and Chicka-saw
nations, one of the chief benefi-ciaries
under the contracts in ques-tion,
declared that there was no evi-dence
in the record to connect Mr.
McMurray in any way with the bribe-ry
which Senator Gore alleged had
been attempted. Mr. Smith said the
evidence proved that if Jacob Hamon
made a proposal to pay $25,000 to Mr.
Gore in return for his Influence in
congress, as charged by the senator,
the offer had been,made as a joke,
or else that he proposed to get Gore's
support for his own bill and then
made a deal with McMurray, whereby
the latter would ultimately "pay tho
freight."
AllegedFiaud Scheme
Ai Albermarle Ends
'* In Two Arrests
THE WEATHER.
the large cities. It is not believed
that anything will be accomplished
along this line, however.
The Third Ballot.
Nashville. Tenn., Jan. 13—The third
ballot for United States senator, in
joint, convention today resulted as fol-lows:
McMillan (regular democrat) 60;
Fitzhugh (independent democrat) 17;
Frazier (democrat) 25: Sanders (re-publican)
29; necessary to elect 66.
No election.
A bill was introduced into both
houses of the legislature today pro-viding
for ac ommisslon form of
government for Chattanooga.
A bill was introduced into the
senate to so amend the constitution
as to allow ministers to become mem-bers
of the general assembly.
The senate amended the house
resolution and fixed January 26 as
the date for the inauguration of
Governor-elect Hooper.
By Associated Press.
Washington, Jan. 13.—Fore-cast
:
North Carolina—Rain tonight
and Saturday except fair near
the coast, colder Saturday in
west portion; light variable
winds.
South Carolina—Fair in east,
rain in west portion tonight
or Saturday, colder Saturday
in northwest portion, light va-riable
winds.
GREAT CROWD SAW TY COBB
PRESENTED WITH BIG TROPHY
By Associated Press.
Jackson. Miss., Jan. 13—The arrest
here last night of J. C. Masters and
Thomas H. Sibley, promoters of the
Albemarle Development Company, of
Albemarle, N. C. charged with using
the mails in ascheme to defraud, is
the result, of an exhaustive investiga-tion
by postoffice insuectors and other
arrests in three or more states are
expected to follow.
Sibley has been in this state for
several months and is said to have
sold several thousands of dollars worth
of stock in the Albemarle concern
within the past few weeks. Masters,
who <s the secretary of the concern,
had just arrived here for a conference
with Sibley when the arrests were
made. Both were remanded to jail in
default of * 1,000 bond each.
The business of the Albemarle De-velopment
Company extended through
12 or more states, including all the
Southern states east of the Mississip-pi
river. The amount collected from
each investor ranged from $12 to $48.
The hundreds of persons interested in-clude
bankers, ministers and mer-chants
in almost every small town in
Georgia, which has been more system-atically
canvassed than any other
state, and in perhaps one half of the
small cities and towns of South Caro-lina,
Alabama, Florida and Mississip-pi.
The operations of the promoters,
while not so extensive in the other
By Associated Press
Augusta, Ga.. Jan. 13—One of the
largest crowds ever in the local
theatre gathered at the Grand last
night to see the presentation of
Honey Boy Evans" great trophy for
the best batter in t*e major base-ball
league to Tyrus R. Cobb. It
was a handsome piece of silverware
and was received by Cobb with a
speech that set the whole house
laughing. He was so nervous he
just couldn't talk connectedly. The
presentation speech In behalf of the
donor was made by City Attorney
♦♦♦ C. Henry Oohen.
states, embraced a number of town*
and cities In Tennessee, Louisiana,
North Carolina. Virginia, Kentucky
and West Virginia.
The company was organized about
two years ago with offices at. Albe-marle,
N. C. The promoters secured
control of a tract of land near Albe-marle
for the ostensible purpose of
developing a health and pleasure re-sort.
The plans were pretentious and
contemplated the expenditure of large
sums of money in the erection of
buildings and in beautifying tho
grounds.
Certificates which entitled the pur-chaser
to participation in the draw-ing
of the company's lots was sold
for $12 each. Nothing was contained
In the certificates as to the date of
the drawing.
The name of Walter C. Irvln, whose
home Is said to be at Salem, 111., ap-pears
as president of the concern. He
is said to have had very little connec-tion
with it within the last year.
Masters and Sibley, who are said
to be the^real promoters of the com-pany,
are alleged to have operated in
a similar scheme near Mineral Wells,
Texas, about five years ago. In the
prospectus of the Albemarle Develop-ment
the company the same photo-graphs
that were employed In pro-moting
the Texas concern are used, ac-cording
to information furnished the
' government.
Judson Clements of Geoigia
Elected Chairman Of The
Intel-State Commerce Com.
By Associated Press. |A. Knapp, of New York, at a special
Washington, Jan. 13—Judson C.' conference of the commission held to-
Clements. of Georgia, was elected day. Mr. Clements Is the senior
chairman of the Interstate Commerce member of the commission and Is a
Commission to succeed Judge Martin \ democrat.