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. 43. NO. 69 = 8 CHARLOTTE. N. C.. MONDA\ EVENING, MARCH 6, 191 1 P"D TCp tin Charlotte. ! cents a Copy Daily—5 Cents Sunday
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Cause of Trouble at
Port Au Prince
By Associated Press.
New York, Uarcb •;.- Passengers ar-riving
today on liie Steamer Aibingia
from llayii reported that the trouble
at Pori an I'rince during President
.. ,,., .. „ Simons absence on the northern Iron-
" ' ' x- Her was due to ihe fact that .he mill-lary
governors left in charge at the
capital look advantage ol" the presi-dent's
absence to punish personal ene-mies..
A number of these, the Alblngta's
passengers say. were cast Into prison
and afterward shot. Snce President
Simon's return Ihe situation in Port
au Prince baa been reported quiet.
Stories of disturbances in all parts
of the United states were told by ihe
royagera on the bingla. One of the
passengers was Robert. Hertzberg.
chaeollor of the legation a Port au
.' !;a was laken ill at his post
neatly a month ago in the disturbed
State of affairs was unable to find a
physician. One native doctor whose
• rare recelv- services were temporarily secured, dis-appeared
and it was subsequently
mi while the 11■' '•wnad that he )>atl been Imprisoned.
Mr. Hertsberg Dually decided to call on
thi Algingla to obtain treatment here
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Tr;cps Of for Manila.
B Associated ■ '.ess.
Ban Francisco. March 6.—Not since
the close of the Spanish-American war
ha* H troop ship sailed from this port
' l SO large a number of men as the
United States transport Logan will
when she leaves for Manila to-
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plosion
Did Damage
A bo nb was ex-
In the ii"i!«i' of
Italians and an-il
In the doorway
- ; emoved and i st in-tan
before it could
I oUceuum notified
: and the latter
h a match an ai
\> recked the store
throwera also had
of the building
i Damlco and the
Park* r were burn-
; the gas explo
url in he second ex-
Hiding was | art-
.. followed de
"j the occupants of
Her complement Includes troops D,
B, G and I of tiie eighth cavalry, the
L'a'd and 9th companies of coast artil-k*
T) : A. and 15 mountain batteries of
the second rteUl artillery.
in thi :.'i-..,m's cargo is soo tons of
; structural machinery to be used
in fortification work at Corregidor is-land.
Missing Woman Found.
By \sso< lated Prees.
Minneapolis, Minn.. March •.—Mra.
Mar] Buck, proprietress of ihe res-la'irani
in the Syndicate buildin;,
which was deetroyed by tire last night,
and who was one of Hie women sup-posed
to be missing, was found today.
She had been staving with friends.
Bertha Radons, employed by Mrs.
Ruck, also reported aliasing, has not
been 'located.
Chicken Fighters
Found Guilty By
Magistrate Cobb
THIEF STOLE Thirty-one, Found by Deputy
Sheriff Portet in The County
Sunday, Convicted After
Brief Hearing This Morning.
Two Pleaded Guilty but Justice
Held 2 hat All Must Fare
Alike and Fined Each The
Sum oj $10-Appeals Taken
Convicted before Magistrate J. W.
Cobb of the charge of fighting, or
Thursday afternoon of securities worth aiding and abetting in fighting chick-approximately
$100,000 in the ves^-'.«n» Sunday afternoon on the plantation
bult of yie Produce.Exchange Safety,»'" Ed. Cato, several miles from the
Deposit and Storage Company. city, III people were lined $10 and cost3
Last Thursday. Sir. Bancroft placed this morning. Twenty nine asked for
the securities in a large envelope, au appeal through their attorney, Mr.
represented all of
By Associated Press.
New York, March 6.—George Ban-croft,
a banker. Nf> years old. dis-covered
today that he was robbed last
the
ure
Wo rk For Eaily
Adjournment Tuesday
Would Settle The
1 rouble at Albany
Special to The News. I
Raleigh, March 6. -In the house]
an effort was made in vain to get the
Devin and Connor bills from the tn-bla.
They approve of an insurance)
commission and appeal from the n|;,]jV Associated Press.
bag of the commissioner of insurance. { "... _„ v v a.,—,!, « A n,Pc.
The motion to take them from the -*"*">• N" ' ' *'",ch G' + ™"s
table failed of two- .thirds majority senger was sent by Governor Dlx tins
support. I afternoon to New York to urge upon
Solicitors salary bill: the bill '° Tammanv Kail leaders and William
prohibit marrlagft.between his- roue- v„ s;,.-.,;.,„ ,•»,.-n«oossi:v „r filing
ius and to liTbvlde tor state-Traveling i . .- . . ,
auditors wero, among the number the senatorial situation in Ne*v Yet*
tabled in the house. 'state.
Mills passed to allow commissionersl| This followed the publication or a
Of counties to appropriate
5IDSNCY
. NDER CONSIDERATION
Howard
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thai
after he
I Bt. Paul Tnes-nld
accept the
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Pacific
Crown Prince Arrives.
By Associated Press
Cairo. Egypt, March ft.—The Ger-man
Crown i'rince Frederick William
arrived today from Suez and was wel-comed
at the railway station by 'he
Khedive, the ministers and diplomats
resident here. We will spend some
time in Egypt wit"h Crown Princess
Cecllle, who, with her suite, has been
in the country for some time.
Free Speech Fight.
By Associated Press.
BacramentO, Cal.. March 6.—An ad-vance
agent of the marching force of
Industrial Workers of the World arriv-ed
here last week, bring word tliat the
party would disband here if conditions
at Fresno continued forceful. The men
arr going to Fresno to join in the
free-speech flghl which was amicably
settled last week.
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. • offered
i. conferred
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IS
-• Dealers Meet.
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March r,.—A mcet-
D Shoe Praters As-commltfse
en
morning and at
nven Ion was called
ites were welcom-lov
•. president Frank
• and A. H. Mead-
"f t'ne Shoe Asso-w
i made by
of Mini phis.
Vnginia State
Debt Mattel
Bv Associated Press.
Washington. March 6.—The sum of
$7,182,607 was Held today by the su-preme
court of the United States to
be the proportion of the $3?,.oon.nno
Old Virginia stale debt which West
Virginia is under obligations to bear.
The court left the final determina-tion
of the matter. Including the
question of interest, to the two states
to decide by conference.
tor road
Improvement demonstrations; to reg-olate
shipment of cattle into North
Carolina: to require prompt service
by telegraph companies; incorporate
ihe Raleigh, Charlotte and South-ern
Railroad Company: allow married
women to contract; provide payment
of a reward for Lewis West.
Mr. McDonald introduced a bill in
the senate to reduce the number of
pages in the assembly from 24 to 10,
and number of laborers from 24 to
10.
Senator Barnes offered a bill to
incorporate the Virginia and East
Carolina Railroad. The committees
substitute for the Brown club liquor
bill passed and was sent to the house,
it being practically identical with
the bill heretofore passed by the
house as not interfering with liquor
in lockers of club members.
There was refusal by ihe house to
concur in ihe senate amendment to
appropriate a bill increasing ihe
Soldiers' Home appropriation to $40.-
00(i the senate agreeing to put
it back to $30,000. A conference com-mittee
was also named on senate
amendments to the revenue bill.
Both branches are rushing work to-day
to complete the passage of bills
so' all Will be enrolled tonight for
ratification tomorrow, so adjourn-ment
will be about noon Tuesday.
statement by Governor DiX in reply
to ihe declaration of William F. Shee-han,
ihe Tammany senatorial aspir-ant,
thai he would not withdraw
from ihe contest that has become a
deadlock unless the caucus action
ihde him. a candidate were rescind-ed.
Governor Dix says in his state-men
I :
"The failure of the legislature to
select a federal senator is a vital
and paramount issue confronting our
party, and' our party is entitled to
know ihe names of those members
of the legislature who are opposed to
the immediate settlement of this
issue."'
The forty first ballot today showed
no quorum.
Bv Associated Press.
Wilmington, Del., March C—Charles
Brown Lore, chief justice of the
Delaware courts for 17> years was
found dead in bed today a: his resi-dence
in this city. He would have
been eighty years of age on March
Mr. Lore was attorney general of
Delaware in 1867 and served two
16.
terms in congress beginning in 1882
as a democrat. His term as chief jus-tice
of the Delaware courts expired
in 1909.
DECILNED TO SERVE ON
RECEPTION COMMIT". EE.
By Associated Press.
Houston. Texas. March 6.—Because
of Col. Roosevelt's attitude toward
Jefferson Davis, Judge Norman (J.
Kittrell has declined to serve on the
reception committee which Will meet
ihe former- president here next Sun-day.
Col. Macob F. \9blters accepted
the vacant committee position to-day,
skying he did so owing to the
restoration by Col. Roosevelt of
Davis' name on Cabin John Bridge
near Washington, D. C.
Death of Hilman Pulsifer.
By Associated Press.
Washington, March 6.—Hilman
Pulsifer, compiler of the navy year
book, indexer of senate public docu-ments
and for many years clerk to
the senate committee on naval af-fairs
an.d widely known among naval
officers, died at his home early to-day.
Death was caused by pneumonia
following an stack of ptomaine poi-soning
Mr. Pulsifer was born in Auburn.
Me., in 1852. Ho came to Washington
With Senator Hale thirty years ago.
Until iiis last Illness he was contin-ually
associated with the senator.
tied with red tape, and bearing .,,-.,. A A(, wflo
arms name in the corner. Alone he•„ bl|l wh d j or ,|t
walked the two hundred feet IroiiU fol. , ,,, v n w ., si ou,
office to the produce exchange, thence Th-g- ^ ^ flnc&
Deputy Sheriff Porter Hushed the
covy of alleged chicken fighters yester-
.'. day afternoon while gaves were being
down a flight of steps from the street
level entrance to the vaults.
Just as Mr. Bancroft was about to
turn the corner at the end of the COP placed on chickens on either side of ridor into the vaults a tall man came:1
running around the corner and col- a feshly made pit. rasra were Jo
lided with him. The shock threw Mr. "W around the pit that it was im-
Bancroft off his feet and in falling' Possible for him to grab all of them,
he dropped the envelope. >" ,hre of ,ne me" remained and he
That was I he cue for au undersized but three of the men remained and ho
young man who had been leaning >'l> the sinews of war. such as dead
against the corridor wall. He stepped chickens, live chickens, lap robes,
up to Mr. Bancroft, assisted him to ropes that enclosed the Place, and a
his feet and was solicitous to tuck tin- sack of sharp steel gaves. Incidentally,
der his arm an envelope. Mr. Ban- it may be said that this sack of gaves
croft, of course, thought it was the was placed in the automobile of Mr.
envelope that fell. He went on to.Wilson Wallace, son of Sheriff Wal-deposit
it in his box as usual. jlace and were taken from the machine
Today when George Bancroft, Jr.,!while the prisoners were being round-his
son, unlocked the box he found
ihat the only envelope there contained
three old newspapers. A clever sub-stitution
had been effected when the
elder Bancroft was upset, in the vault
corridor.
ed up at the home of Mr .Caton.
Learning I hat a chicken fight was to
be pulled off in the neighborhood of
ihe Caton home the sheriff and deputy
sheriff went to the scene. Sheriff Wal-lace
drove his horse and Mr. Porter
The robbers, it is believed, knew on!went in an automobile. Arriving at
what day and hour it was the firm's the home of ^Ir. Caton they found any
custom io deposit its securities. They ;mimber of vehicles but nothing of the
knew that Mr. Bancroft habitually car- RUeged chicken fighters,
ried them in an envelope of certain; Bul in a few mj,„ites Mr. Caton was
appearance, for they provided th«"-|geen coming fieWl' 8rHp of pines with
selves in advance with so close a dupli- a ,)ag on hjs sho„ider_ The officer met
cate that it deceived even the man hjm an(, sear<.hed the hag, finding two
who of all others should have best dead gaine cocks one wUh its head
known its appearance. | ,led off amj the other with two
So bold a robbery m daylight, in the; , wounds under Us throat,
very heart of the city's financial dis-trict,
shocked
Inspector Byrnes had drawn a
line across the cut at Fulton, below I
Havtng Iried thlorder. the under- hides and to detain any one who
world nil imately obeyed, and for years'wanted lo leave.
the financial district was the safest. Guided by the crowing of rooaters
place in the world for a man with'the deputy tollowed a winding path
large sums on his person. Bank run- through the woods, around a thick
ners and messenger boys ran about briar patch, untH he was finally stand-the
streets their pockets literally ing at the side of the pit He recog-stuffed
with bills of large denomtna- nised J. E. Paxton as one man who
Ihe police. Yearsdago,dei(mv sheriff
""What does this mean?" asked the
puty sheriff. |
"You can see for yourself," was the
pur", da
•od fare.'.
I , $01 per act*
Co.
rrtOOS
Mrs. Welber Charged
With Child Murdei -
Placed On Tnal
«3 000 || HI
Co.
Building
Id
Press.
1 Murch.
• rate murder of her own
'' ■: Uelber. of Schene-
00 trial before jus-
■ supreme court to-
DOOO of January 13 the
• boy was found in a
aeda ey a hunter on the
Many. The boys face
II■!. burned by polnson.
bottle of carbolic acid
ocoiale drops were the
tyi the authorities unsuc-
■ougbl to learn the boys
I then George Melber of
ly, a blacksmith identified
as 'hat of hie grandson,
ber, whom he had thought
orphan asylum. The police
; • carch for the child's par-i
found that Mrs. Melber had
left the house where she was working
in Schenectady. She was traced to the
«.—Charged station in that city* and thence to
Rochester, where she was arrested
charged with the murder.
After fuaile denial of her identity
Mrs Melber confessed the crime. She
declared that she was ordered to take
the boy from the Schenectady orphan
asylum because she could not pay
his board and that she came to Albany
to put him into an institution here.
Admission was refused, she said, and
she purchased some acid and the
candy, walked to the place where she
body was fouud and poured the acid
down ihe child's throat when he com-plained
of being thirsty and asked for
water.
Then, she said, she kissed him, laid
his body on the ground and took the
next car for Schenectady.
She resumed her position ns house-maid
and did not leave it until nearly
a week after the commission of the
murder, when she read of the finding
of the bodr.
Democrats Hold
Impoitant Conference
By Associated Press.
Washington. March 6.1—The majority
members of Lie new ways and means
committee of the dempcra'is house
of representatives held their first meet-ing
today Io begin the formulation of
a program which may include the se-lection
of all standing committees as
well as a decision in regard to the
extent the extraordinary session will
go in the matter of revising the tariff.
Chairman Underwood,'of Alabama,
presided and ail' of the fourteen mem-bers
were present.
The committee will be.compelled to
listen to twe factions. One is radical
and will favor the enactment of a bill
to carry out the terms of the Canadian
reciprocity agreement, but will favor
also the reporting of a schedule-by
schedule revision of the tariff, with at
least the woolen and cotton schedules
lacked onto the Canadian agreement.
The other plan urged by the more
conservative members of the New
House, involves action on the Canadi-an
agreement and the consideration of
a schedule-by-schedule revision in the
regular session next winter.
.tions.
JUDGE LINDSAY
Judge Ben B. Lindsay, of "Child Court"
fame who has taken up the cudgels
for equal rights. Judge Lindsay who
hails from Denver, Col., stopped off
at Albany, N. Y., where a hot fight
is being waked by suffragette's to
have an equal rights measure report-ed
to the senate, long enough to de
liver an enthusiastic address for the
"cause" and blast the statements
of one Richard Barry, a magaxine
writer who fathered a speech in
which he held Colorado up to audi-ences
as bright and shinning exam-
Die of a corrupt egual suffrage state.
Important Rate
Conference Held
By Associated Press.
Washington. March C.—At a confer-ence
between the interstate commerce
commission and important officials of
ihe eastern trunk lines today a con-elusion,
not yet made public, was
reached as to the cancellation of the
proposed advance in rates in official
classification territory.
It was suggested to the commission
that the carriers be permitted volun-tarily
to suspend the proposed ad-vances
from March 15 to some time
next autumn in order that the car-riers,
might have an opportunity to
ascertain how this final years's busi-ness
might work out. The request
was made with a view of taking this
fiscal year's business as a basis for
another proposed advance in rates,
perhaps next autumn, on which it is
expected that a better showing in sup-port
of the increase may be made than
was made in the recent cases.
was on one side of the pit, putting a
gave on a chicken. Several men were
standing around him. On the opposite
side another crowd was doing the same
thing.
"I turned to look at the other
Three Men Captured.
By Associated Press
Espanola, Fla.. March fi.—Three men
—names not made known
tnred this mor
kiiling yesterday
White and A
of this county declares they are par-ties
to an alleged conspiracy against
the dead deputy.
White and Schneider were shot while
searching two Carrelton brothers^aBdiy^ CB|^eMf fl ,
other crowd. Hearing another noise
I turned again and this crowd was
leaving. I couldn't get all of them.
"We gathered up 12 sacks. a lot of
another man who had been arres lap robes and the ropes that enclosed
the pit. One man said these were
buggy reins. It was all we could carry
back to the house. When we got back
I just waited until the men came up.
and took their names and had war-rants
issued for i hem. All of them
Bryce Cannot Attend.
By Associated Press.
Atlanta. Ga.. March 6.--Ambas»ador
{.lames Bryce. of Great Britain, ".ill
'not attend' the Southern Commercial
i Congress, which will open here next, were down there
! Wednesday In a letter to Edwin L. I Where the flghtln
Carles secretary of ,he congress, the spot very close to the South Carolina
iSomat declares engagements in a line andJn his argument. Attorney A*
distant part of the country will prevent ams said maybe the men though, the
was scheduled to were out of North Carolina. He dwelt
took place is a
his attendance. He
make an address.
Death of Judge Lowell.
By Associated Press.
Boston. March 6.—Judge Francis
Lowell, of the I'nited States circuit
court, died suddenly today at his
home here.
DR. CHARLES F. AKED
Dr. Charles F. Aked, the celebrated
pastor of the First Avenue Baptist
church of New York, of which-John
D. Rockefeller is a member, who has
been formally called to the pastor-ate
of the First Congregational
church of San Francisco. Dr. Aked
has been in California several weeks
preaching in various cities, and is
said to view the summons' with
favor. r
THIRTY FEHSONS
NJUHED
Fl
•at length upon what constituted aiding
land abetting, claiming that people
/I could even look at the cock fight and
"not be participants. As a parallel case,
ihe declared that a man was shot at
Ihe Square some years ago and that
hundreds congregated around. ' To
hold those guilty who saw the fight
I would mean that those who looked
at the dead man were aiding and abet-ting.
For two men he <ii»l plead guilty,
and asked that the court be lenient,
I because it was a sport that but few
I would resist the temptation to sec
Twice did Mr. Adams argue, but
to no avail, 'Squire Cobb holding that
all were equally guilty. When he an-nounced
the imposition of the fines,
the two who had pleaded guilty signi-fied
their intentiop oi paying the fine
and costs-, while the rest said they
By Associated Press. | would appeal. The case will be an
Minneapolis. Minn.. March 6.—A. E.. interesting one when it is heard In
Zonue. of Conklin.a & Zone, managers the higher court.
of the Svndicate building, which was! Eleven of those against whom war-swept
by a fire Sunday, causing a loss' rants had been issued were not pres-estimated
at $1,200,000 today announc- ent, but they were lined just the same.
HE
ed that it bad been definitely estab-lished
that no lives were lost. Both
Two had" presented medical certifi-cates.
women reported missing have been ac-j Those arrested and fined are:
counted for among the 50 lodgers who! '- P- McCall. J. C. Maynard, J. W.
were rescued from the blazing s-truc- Horton. J : i
ture.
Total Number of Persons Injured.
Cleveland, O., March "6.—The loll
of persons injured in a fire this
morning which consumed a three-sto-ry
apartment building, shows that
thirty were hurt, some through the
collapse of the floor but most of
J. H. McCall. J. W. Foster, Cal. Crier,
T B. Foster, F. P. Moseley, M. T.
Kistler J. H. Newman, J. R. Gattls,
Hart Lockman.'C. P. Phifer, T. M. Mar-tin.
E. E. Monrls, Roy Cathey, J. E.
Paxton. Frank Bostic. Charles Davis.
O. K. Phifer, W. A. Hinson. - . —. Wil-kinson.
—. —. Johnston, J. E. Moore,
them in leaping from windows to Rs B. Price, Albert Maynard and W.
safety. Three may die. T. Simpson.
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