Opening Session Of The Baptist State Convention
The opening section of the Baptist State Convention met with Rev W R L Smith of Chapel Hill preaching the induction sermon on the theme Speak to the Children of Israel that they may go forward C Dowd of Charlotte presided and nominations followed for president with Rev A S Justice Rev C W Scarsh Rev Gilbert T Stephenson and N B Broughley among officers seated capacity church seating limited by the building Pastor conference discussed finances absentee members and plan to fund missions with weekly church offerings led by Rev E Maddry and Rev F D King. President W L Poteat spoke on the preacher as prophet and the afternoon session opened with layman views on the church, continuing on Page Two.
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gipeton-Salem
Baptist State
L. Poreat
C. H. Durham
Ow. A. A. Brown
C. M. Beacher
A. S. Justice
Ndersonville
C. W. Scarsh
Woodland
Gilbert T. Stephen Winston-Salem
N. B. Broughley
Rev
Livison
Raleigh
J. H. Briggs
Monual
Gile T. Stephenson
Charles R. Waller
de Vile
Win- Salem
Collum
Sven
J.B. Weatherspoon
Onl
E. Maddry
Sion
Maldry
York
Noema
State Mission Board
Foreign Mission Board
The
Southern Baptist Convention
Maddry
F. D. King
Poteat
W. L. Poteat
Wake Forest College
Trial of Knight Began Today in Defrauding Mail Scheme
The trial of John W. Knight, head of Knight Yancey & Co. of Decatur, Alabama, charged with using the mails to defraud, opened before Judge Grubb in Huntsville. Indicted Nov. 22, 1910, Knight faced a $20,000 bond for the April 1911 term. The scheme allegedly used fraudulent bills of lading attached to drafts and insurance papers to fake cotton shipments and route payments through Liverpool exchanges.
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Associated Press
Huntsville
Ala
John W. Knight
Grubb
United States District Court
Knight
Knight, Yancey & Co
Decatur
Liverpool
New York
Selecting a Jury in Meats Packers Case
Chicago December article reports the start of jury selection in the district court for 10 indicted Chicago meat packers charged with criminal Sherman act violations. Named defendants include J Ogden Armour Louis F Swift Edward F Armour Edward T Morris Arthur Meeker Thomas J Connors Louis E Heiman and others. discussion notes potential guilty pleas and possible penalties up to $5,000 fine and one year in jail.
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Chicago
Ill
United States District Court
George A. Arpenter
J. Ogden Armour
Asident Armour & Co
Louis F. Swift
Ssident Swift & Co
Carpenter
Ohio Governor Harmon Visits Atlanta for Corn Show
Governor Judson Harmon of Ohio arrived in Atlanta to attend the Southern Corn Show He joined a chamber of commerce luncheon and reviewed the King Corn parade before delivering an address opposing the back to the soft movement.
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Atlanta
Judson Harmon
Ohio
Chamber of Commerce
Governors pardon Houston and Boyd in Mecklenburg manslaughter case
Raleigh December 6 The governor pardons Charles Houston and Will Boyd who served one year of a four year manslaughter sentence in Mecklenburg county. Prosecutors and others now state there is grave doubt they participated in the fight that led to the killing.
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Raleigh
Charles Houston
Will Boyd
Mecklenburg County
Senator Tillman Fights Washington Cab Fare Increase
Senator Tillman of South Carolina refuses to pay the fifty cent cab fare from the post office to the White House alleging excessive rates. He calls for his own guidance on interstate commerce as he enters the White House with a quarter in hand and the driver retaining the coin.
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Associated Press
Washington
Tillman
South Carolina
Washington Capman
White House
Interstate Commerce Commission
Senator Tillman
Sugar Prices Drop Ten Cents a Hundred
New York December 6 refined sugar prices fell ten cents per hundred pounds across all grades data shows the market shift with a uniform decline reflecting broader commodity moves and retailer expectations this week.
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New York
Under-the-hammer real estate sale ads noted
City and county real estate advertised for sale under execution. The paper highlights monthly sale dates and notices from various lenders. Readers are urged to inspect listings for bargains and note the official sale dates across pages.
Senate in recess as Lorimer inquiry resumes antitrust talks
Not in session the Senate meets Thursday at 2 p.m. The Lorimer senatorial inquiry resumes. Antitrust legislation is discussed at a Senate committee hearing.
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Lorimer
Senate
Rockefeller and Gates to appear before Steel Committee Monday
Government estimates attacked as misleading by appropriations committee chair. Representative Berger urges diplomatic recalls due to Russian passport trouble. Sugar prices probed by sugar inquiry committee. Tariff plans discussed by Democrats on Ways and Means. Congress likely to delay action on Persian incident.
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John D. Rockefeller
Rev
FD. Gates
Steel
Appropriations Committee
Berger
Congress
House Inquiry into Prices of Sugar
The house sugar trust committee examined global sugar prices with sugar expert W P Willett recalled to testify. Chairman Hardwick received foreign nation statistics from the state department as the panel planned to hear western beet sugar leaders after Willett's session. The Ways and Means Democrats under Underwood discussed tariff plans and began revising schedules including wool cotton iron and steel sugar and foodstuffs.
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Associated Press
Washington
House Sugar Trust Committee
W. P. Willett
Hardwick
State Department
Willet
House Committee On Ways and Means
Underwood
McVeagh Accused of Misleading Congress Over Estimates
Washington dispatch reports Chairman FitzGerald of the House appropriations committee charging Secretary MacVeagh with sending Congress misleading government needs estimates for the next fiscal year. He claims Treasury figures require $1,019,882,728 rather than $745,834,563 and note omissions for postal service costs and building construction authorizations.
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Associated Press
Washington
Fitzgerald
House Committee On Appropriations Today
MacVeagh
Congress
Treasury Department
Treasury
Postal Service
Taft to renominate James S. Harlan for I C Commissioner
President Taft announced in Washington that James S. Harlan will be sent to the senate for renomination to a seven year term as interstate commerce commissioner. Harlan is a son of the late Supreme Court Justice.
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Washington, D. C
Taft
Senate
James S. Harlan
Harlan
Justice Harlan
Supreme Court
Attorney General Wickersham Improves After Indigestion Attack
Washington report says Attorney General Wickersham, who suffered indigestion at a cabinet meeting, was improved this morning after the attack.
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Associated Press
Washington
Wickersham
Rockefeller and Gates asked to testify before steel trust committee
John D Rockefeller and Rev. Fred D Gates were invited by Chairman Stanley of the House steel trust investigating committee to appear next Monday to answer charges raised by the Merritt brothers of Minneapolis regarding the Mesaba ore properties in Minnesota worth about 20 million dollars.
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Washington
John OD. Rockefeller
Fred D., Gates
Rockefeller
Stanley
House Steel Trust
Merritt Brothers
Minneapolis
Minnesota
Congress Will Not Act on Shuster Incident
The Associated Press reports that Congress will not take action on the Shuster incident in Persia. Conclusions reached by the democratic readers in the house were cited as the basis for the decision.
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Congress
Associated Press
Washington
Persia
House
Nation wide dynamiting conspiracy probe set for grand jury
Los Angeles hosts a federal grand jury inquiry into a wide dynamiting plot tied to James B. McNamara and his brother John J. McNamara with Ortie McManigal as a participant. Philadelphia detective Burns confirms McNamaras’ alleged role in city explosions and notes union funds linked to dynamiting efforts.
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Associated Press
Los Angeles
James B. McNamara
Ortie McManigal
John 5. McNamara
San Quentin Penitentiary
McNamaras
John J. McNamara
Burns
Philadelphia
McNamara Brothers
William J. Burns
Pandelphia Rapid Transit Company
Delaware Avenue
Market Street
American Bridge Company
Pittsburg Plate Glass Company
Edwards’ Place
Four Men Killed In Train Wreck Near Manor Pa
Associated Press report from Pittsburg notes a collision of two freights and an express on the Pennsylvania Railway at Devil's Bend near Manor Pennsylvania. Five trainmen were killed and a score injured as a westbound extra freight stalled then was hit by a second freight. A fast Chicago express rush collided with wreckage, throwing the express train from the track and into a twenty foot embankment. Debris closed four main tracks and horses in the express car numbered twenty six of twenty seven were killed.
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Pittsburg
Pennsylvania Railroad
Devil’s Bend
Manor
Frank Daily
John Myers
Chicago
Georgia University Football Captain Vote Tie at Athens
In Athens, at the Georgia University squad election, Robert Mc Whorter and Howell Peacock tied for captain last night. A new section will be held today to continue the voting process.
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Georgia University
Athens, Ga
Robert McWhorter
Howell Peacock
Irrigation Congress Frames Drainage as National Plan
In Chicago the 19th annual National Irrigation Congress heard that excessive water harms land as severely as drought. President B A Fowler said drainage and river regulation form core propaganda for reclamation, with W L Park and George S Maxwell outlining development links and flood control. Delegates from foreign countries will discuss overseas conditions.
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Associated Press
Chicago
National Irrigation Congress
Pacific Coast
B. A. Fowler
Regent Abdicates Throne In China After Turbulent Regent Rule
Prince Chun abdicated as regent of China today ending a decade of cautious rule since the death of the child emperor. Shin Hou and Hsu Shih Chang are named joint guardians to the throne. Wu Ting Fang urged abdication in favor of a republic. Meanwhile Mongolian independence prompts Russia to consider recognizing Mongolia. French troops and artillery are en route to Peking.
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Associated Press
Peking
China
Prince Chun
Shin Hou
National Assembly
Hsu Shih Chang
Privy Council
Kwang Su
Wu Ting Fang
Washington
Shanghai
Chun
Je Hel
Russia
St. Petersburg
Urga
Mongolia
Novoe Vremya
Dalai Llama
Hong Kong
Crude Cotton Seed Oil Price Report
Atlanta on December 6 reports crude cotton seed oil at 311 2a82.
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Atlanta
Mert S. Childers Brought to Americus for Second Trial
Americus Georgia December 6 Mert S Childers indicted for poisoning his young wife was transported from Leesburg to await the opening of his second trial next Monday.
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Associated Press
Americus, Ga
Mert S. Childers
Leesburg
Uncertain if Reyes Has Left United States
Reports disputed whether Gen Bernardo Reyes had left U S territory. At his San Antonio residence he is said to be confined by illness while other accounts claim he crossed into Mexico at Amanpilas. Mexican secret service men heightened alert.
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San Antonio
Texas
Bernardo Reyes
United States Territory
Mexico
Amanpilas
Secret Service
Asquith Vows to Push Ireland Home Rule Bill
Premier Asquith announced in the House of Commons that the government will use all constitutional means to pass a home rule bill for Ireland during the life of the current parliament.
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Associated Press
London
Asquith
House of Commons
Ireland
Federation of Labor Meets in Washington on McNamara Case
The ways and means committee of the American Federation of Labor met at Samuel Gompers’s office in Washington on December 6. The session may extend into tomorrow as all aspects of the McNamara case are discussed.
Death of Col Hawkins in Upper Sandusky
Col. E. A. Hawkins, 68, a Union Army signal service private who first telegraphed to Washington the news of Sherman's march to the sea, died here last night.
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Col Hawkins
Associated Press
Upper Sandusky
E. A. Hawkins
Signal Service
Washington
Sherman
Supreme Court to rule on state penalties for refusing rail shipments
Washington DC December 6 The US Supreme Court heard arguments on whether states may penalize railroads for refusing to receive goods for interstate shipment. The North Carolina statute imposes a $50 daily penalty for refusals. In two cases Southern Railway Co faced $350 and $250 penalties. The NC Supreme Court upheld the law while a dissent urged limits under interstate commerce.
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Associated Press
Washington, D. C
Supreme Court of the United States
North Carolina
Reid & Beam
Rutherfordton
N. C
Scottsville
D. L. Reid
Charlotte
Davis
W. Va
Reid
Southern Railway Company
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Congress
Supreme Court
Union
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Rev. Smith
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Tosion Board
Meat Packers
Edward F
Swift & Co
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F S
Swift
Edward T
National Packing Sc
Hich
the Trust
Arthur Meeker
Armour & Co
Edward Morris
Morris & Co
Francis A. Fowler
Thomas J. Connors
Louis E. Heiman
Morris
Harmon Guest
Chad
Houston
Vy Associated Press
McVeagh
Harlan Interstate Commerce Commissioner
Jhon. D
Irrigation Congress
Chinas
Groes
Clinton
Tenn
Asociated Press
Memphis
Savannah
Tennessee
Clifton
Bobs Landing
Savan
Reyes
United States
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