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P OF BREESE TRIAL AlegU Wrecker *f A stain* Beak Gets Setes-Year Se«teace VUAL WAS LONG AND TEDIOUS »» , . jXji j* * - ... .» - , S -- ,, V- . • \> ■X.' \ ’ " ■■ to'B i ■■ After Being Out tor a Little Mate Than Seven Hen re, toe Jury Re turns a Verdict of Guilty of Ah toraotoM end Mleappllcatlon of rand*, Bu. Net Guilty of Ember tHMUKe “ 1 • ".p t Charlotte. K. C, Specie].—Tho jery to the Bneeee case returned a verdict of Bantjr at 13JS Saturday moraine. proaldoat of tha tint at Asheville waa at hy United States Die a r. Keller to ear— a ,w_, yaara to tha penHeatl ary- Tho vardlot waa found on 41 «o—ts oat of tha sixty-six. or those ckarstos abstraction a— wUfoi tale l ossSoatta of tho fnade of tho baak. •arr* yaara a— to a day tha Tint I Bank of Asheville’closed Ha Boars. So— to tha aotooMohoo that too doateg Say of a trial testis* for IT ended seven aad publicity Sores white light of the affairs of to a little more tho verdict waa At 11.45 the Jury returned to their boa The defendant aad hie they ware tm V and soon. Major the defendant, so i hy Judge C. A. Moore and Mr. J. 8. Adame, arrived la tha Ted oval Court roam. This was a tow minntes P*et twelve o’clock. At 1*J3 tho Jary waa polled, aad three mln ■tee later. Cod H. c. Coal— clerk of toe cast asked to a solemn tone: ' iiimi* Of tu jury, km you MW1 upon your verdict r “We have,” rofmlill J. K. PaUer mm. who had ham aaleeted to apeak “Bow do you tod the defendant. Wmiaaa B. Pre*e«r “Mot guilty of embenlement, tat tatty of ahatianttai aad wBful mia iPlrfictUOB Of tfqixta Major twiHi aat perfectly atUL Ma looked a little haggard, but be ymdt ahjttac ut hfogSTta mowed Tta Mark aatad counsel for tta dn Cel. Cowlea called each Juror to his Mat, asking each of them, “How say ym " aad receiving the answer of tta verdict aa tout cpokm. Jadge made a motion ter street and for a new trial, both warn overruled by Judge District Attorney Holton prayed the ttdgmcat of the court at lilt o'clock. Judge Keller aatad counsel for do ttaaa if they wMtad to ear anything tor MaJ. Brecon. They had nothing I am peraaaded la Mr aad Impartial trial for abstrac tion and wilful atinappllceuoa of the ■mere, toads aad credit* of tta First Maaml Bank of Aatovtll* As a for yea, bat 1 bare aad adjudged by tta William E. Breese, to Imprisoned for the la tta peniten Oa, aad that your this, tta Mth day of NORTH STATE NOTES Many Nmay Items tethered Press ell lections. The corporal too commission km g»r» out Information regarding the now MMMMB^gf certain property at tbs rail wars and other eoaunon car Men. The Atlantic Coast Uae has NT mllsa. valuation N4.MS.9M; Seaboard Air Line. 09 miles, valuation. *16.500, 9M; Soatbern Railway owned lines. U9 mllas. tl4.T16.669; Soatbern Railway, leand line. 9N miles. 01479.999; uMa ceUeneons raUwaya, 903 miles, N4U 474. The total mileage la 9409, and total valuation^ **9,496471 The other valuations follows: Western Union Telegraph. 097.991. telephone compan ies. $839,792; Southern Rxpraas. *401, 1M; Pullman Company, 049,491; etec trtc light and-gns companies. *399440; •treat railways, 0.494.190; waterworks, MOl.168: steamboats. 9179.404; bridge and canal companies. *231409; refrige rator companies. 004.099. The grand total la *74477,569. the increase over last year being *516434. The Increase of mileage at raUwaya la M, divided aa follows: Suffolk * Carolina, 14 mllaa, Transylvania, 11; Durham h Charlotte, 3; Capo Pear 4 Northern, 4; Chowan 4k Alexander, 3; Raleigh A Cape Pear. 7; South * Western, A At 4:14 o’clock Monday afternoon nine prisoners escaped from the coun ty JaU at Dallas, aad are at large. Two of the prisoners wore white aad erven were colored. One negro, who waa blind, failed to got away. Prom the best Information It seems that the negro porter recently employed tailed to bar aad lock the doors se en rely. When the prisoners found that the doors wore I msecs rely fastened they made a nab past the guard. Kn Arm strong, wife of Sheriff Armstrong, saw them rushing down the stairs and gave the alarm. At last account none of the prisoners bad bees caught. Harry abort aad h. e. Kimbrough war* arrest ad on the yards of the Southern Ballway la Asheville Sunday by Chief of Police Jordan and Patrol man Wilson. Whan the oMcara mads the arrests they thought they had taken two man—the woman was dress ed la a suit of black clothes, her hair waa cat doss aad eba looked to be a boy of II or SO years age. Her state ment revealed the fact that ska was In disguise, aad also that she was the asms person who had won considerable newspaper notoriety In Charlotte aad Knoxville. The man paid the fines at both. Experts from the Stats Agricultural Department era bow making the an nual tour of the SUM. taking aemplea of food for man and beast which are on sale. Two seizures of food-at offs hare been mad* within the past few days. Theta are two firms which sail adulterated food which ara not permit ted tb do business In this Stats, oa* of thee* a Vlrgaala concern. Some of tha goods seised are confiscated, while oth ers nr* required to be sent back out of the State. . J. I* Abernathy, formerly of Ashe ville. waa am bashed on tbs outskirts of Frankfort. Ky,. Saturday afternoon aad was murdered with a Winchester. Abernathy showed true North Caro lina grit With hla revolver he in stantly killed two of hla assailants, fatally shot a third aad wounded a fourth. He was conscious when found but died in IB mtauten. He requested that hi* body be shipped to Ms bro ther fas Murphy. He had $M0 aad some checks In his pocket. Secretary of State Grimes made another very valuable "and” !u the old archive*. In shape of n bond for 13,400 pounds sterling, given by Col onel James Ingress, who was colonel of the South Carolina regiment which was sent to what was then the far northwesters border, during the war between Orest Britain and the French and Indians, not long before the de feat of General Brad dock. The signs tars and sent of Colons! Ingress are vary dear. Saturday afternoon Mr. K. McKen sle, a northern man, one of the pro prietors of the Pins Product Com pany, operated a few miles west of Fayettrvqis. was badly hurt la a run away. his horse throwing him from Ms baggy sad breaking bit left lag shoes tbs knre. Tbs Injured limb was not and Mr. KoKanato was takas to; tbs Hlgbsmlth hospital at Fsysttsvllls. tests Chairman 81mmoos will ogaa DemocraUeJttadqoartars in Raleigh on Flans ftar two public school bolldiags one in mbooavtna and one la Mooro rsporsd by Hook * of Charlotte, having by County •upeitnteu work will at ones be corn ua their eoaotrnsttoa. The »4M40 such, sta in schoolhosss arehl •’JKm flodowtog 10 tho rate te ixteg tho i rural fros dsRtury moil carriers: zmssarin s 33, 333; M to St, $443; 13 to 33, |413; 13 to 13. HTfi 14 to 14, 3343; 13 to riTTliRll to iki rtfifrl**** ' # ■ A BRUTAL HOLD UP D#«bte inter ai4 Robbery oa a PeiNsyhratia Highway $3,000 TAKEN FROM A PAYMASTER Great Stir Caused In a Pennsylvania Mining Town by the Act of Web bers In Firing From the Roadside Upon Paymaster Patrick Campbell and Hla Driver, Charles Hayes. Johnstown, Pa., Special.—Charles Hayes, e driver employed by the Puri tan Coal Company, Is dead, end Pat rick Campbell, the company's paymas ter, lies perhaps fatally wounded ut the Altoona Hospital, as tha result of a brutal hold-op aad murder on tha township road leading from Portage, this county, to the mining town of Puritan, at about 10: IS o'clock Satur day morning. The two men ware In e buggy, taking a satchel containing about $3,004, -with which to pay the coal company's employee at Puritan, from the Adams Bv press office at Por tage to the coal town, when, at a point about three-quarters of a mile out of Portage, they ware suddenly fired upon by three men armed with shot guns. Hayes fall to tha bottom of tha buggy pierced by 37 buckshot wounds in hla neck and breast, and died about half an hour later. Campbell waa hit tn the shoulder and fell from the buggy. The highwaymen came out from- their place of hiding tn the woods to the right of the road, secured the satchel of money aad escaped. According to uur usual custom near the first of the month, Campbell and I Urea west to Portage about S o'clock In tha morning and ate breakfast at the Portage House. At 9 o’clock tha two went to the offloe of the Adame Ex press Company, where they obtained about 93,009 In gold and bills, which. they placed ta a email leather satchel. Armed with 48-calibre revolvers as a protection against possible rubbery, they got Into their buggy and drove out the township road. This waa the last seen of them before tha shooting took place. About ten minutes after their departure, Mr. Heleel, a farmer, who Uvea four miles from Portage, started for home In a spring wagon, over the name road which tha paymaster and his driver had taken. Three-quarters of a mils from town, where tha road la flanked by woods, be suddenly came span the body of a man .apparently., writhing In the death agony, in the middle of the road. Getting down from his wagon, Halael discovered the wounded man to be Campbell. The lat ter waa drenched with blood, which was flowing from a wound In the right shoulder. Although In dreadful agony Campbell waa still consci ous and managed to whisper to Helael that he and his driv er had been fired upon by robbers; that he, dlsxy from his wound, had fallen from tbe buggy, which had gone on. Helael staunched the man's wounds as best he could with a handkerchief end a bit of linen ripped from hta cost, lifted him Into the wagon and started out on the road In search of the team and the driver. He came upon the pay master's buggy, standing at tbe side of tbe road, the horse, unbanned, nib bling at the long grass. Coming up op posite the vehicle, he found tbe form of tb^ driver, Hayes, lying motionless and croody across tbs bottom of tha man's body from the base of the abdo men to tba neck a maaa of gun-shot wound!, showing rad and ghastly through a great rent in the clothing, made by the heavy shot. Ha seemed to be dead. Helaet tried to lift the prostrate form Into his wagon with Campbell, tat could not, Hayes weigh ing about 1M pounds. As no help was at band, sad there was no banes near er than Portage, Helael turned his team about and drove at a gallop back to this place, his sow unconscious pa tient laying m tbs bottom of the wag on. He drove directly to the odtee of Dr. J. A. Schofield, in whose charge Campbell was placed, secured assist ance sad went back for Hayes. The body of the driver was taken to Portage, where physicians discovered that although Hayes waa unconscious life was sot quite satinet. He waa woumded beyond recovery, and died within Id situates after being brought Into the office. Meanwhile Paymaster Campbell, who was still In the oiks of the doctor, had regained —ton— and waa able to give n brief, whispered aeeowet of the bold-up to Dr. flchofleld end Landlord Yeekiey, of the Portage House, who waa helping the physician. He said that nothing manual or see pfrlcoa bad occurred doting the ride from Pfcrtage to the piece where the shootlag took place. MO Men Hi Pursuit. Portage, Pa., tpoelaL—Pursued by 1M mm. the three men who murdered Charles Hayed, driver, and perhaps fatally wounded Patrick F. Campbell, paymaster for the Puritan Coal Com may. shoot a mile south of this piece bdturday morning, am hiding In Cedar Swamp about seven mOus from Port ed*. on (he Bedford county line. One of the fugitives is layered, bat not •dough to hffleet his Sight. In parttee of about >0. the pursuing men are scattered out etir the entire boundary of Laurel TbMmt Swamp, which Is It miles long and sorau wide, ■mry minute. Mgaal ahota are beard from dldermt gam of the swamp. A system of algaels hpve boon arranged m (hat none of the acariheje win get lant, and tn enable them to mnoenf Ike fegitirea when they are found /settee of the tan MeOanhey, of Bfamrdbl* n town about Ms rnOee to the cent* of Peruse, about 11 o'clock noticed th running stress the town tow swamp. McCsrthey celled ope 30 followers to hur ry. They id before reach lug the ■ warns one of th* fugitives fell. Acother valley of shots rang out as tbs fallen si attempted to rite, and he atumbledwalaL. His companions lifted him to hS feet, and th* three hurrijl Into the swamp. When Justice McCar tney and bln poam arrived they saw a trail of blood loading from where th* man had fallen Into th* iwamp. They followed, but when about SO yards In, lost the trail. The party then aep-rated one man being detailed to Boaverdale end tho others scattering through the rxrampy paths and beating the swamp. ICWS THROUGHOUT TIE COUNTtY Paragraph# Of tylnor Importance Gathered From Many Source*. Through the South. Oapt Joseph T. AUyn, of Norfolk. Is dead. Km. F. hi. Simmons was unanimous ly * located Chairman of the Democratic Executive Committee for North Caro lina. Dr. C. W. Kent, of th* University of Virginia, refuse* to allow his name to be presented for president of th* Unl 8upplydBynarTyti.OOO have been filed at FeWsburg against the Virginia Passes garland Power Company. Robert Smith, an Inmate of th* Sol di* ra’ Horn* at Hampton, shot and kill ed Edward Taylor, a negro. Five taka submarine torpedo boats are being built In auctions at Newport Nawn C. C- Johnson, of Portsmouth, was taken to the penitentiary to serve two rears for forging his wife's wOL MaJ. w. JL Braes*, who seven years ago wrecked th* First National Bank of Asheville, North Carolina, was tried at Charlotte and sentenced to seven Tears la the Atlanta penitentiary. The trial lasted seventeen days. The battleship Louisiana, now build lew*, will be launched iL._1 v The 8Uta Department U advised that a revolutionary movement against the Morales government In Bento Domingo la threatened. It to believed that President Roose velt contemplates vigorous measures igalnst Turkey to improve the position erf American citizens living In the Turkish empire. The United States Treasury trork JarthjM^cn Saturday tell to $2t 811,768. “ ' John K. Wilkie, chief of the Secret Service, estimates that the hanks of the country the last fiscal year handled a little mors than >11,000 counterfeit money. In the North August 13 will be Manila day at the St. Louie Exposition. In the Iowa Democratc convention the Parte nd IImist men united In aMSfatfithe OflksL V Tb» Sepubllean guts convention at Daa Motnee adopted a “stand-pat" plat form on the tariff. * John J. Ryan, a well known horse owner, was arrested In New York Tues day on a charge of larceny in connec tion with an alleged get-rleh-quick scheme. Mayor Carter H. Harrison, of Chi cago. sent to Judge Parker, through a committee which visited him at Bsopua, N. Y., promisee of Democratic harmony In Illinois. De Lauteey Nlooll was quoted as say ing that New York was as certain for Parker dg Georgia. ▲ strike Involving 28,000 textile ope ratives Mb been ordered at Pan River, Maea-.JMi^fcas^d by a cut In wages. CinAPMlM preached at South ampton. lTl, where he la spending some days. The strike situation at Chicago re malna unchanged. The packing houses are completely tied up aad no com promise la la sight Perelgn Affaire. Lata In forma tloa from Angus C ali en ta, Mexico, shows that two Ameri cans ware killed thore by officials who were seat ta sfrost them. The Russians are reported to have keen defeated in a kettle near Ta Teke Iflso, Maackwrla. aad Ike fall of Mlecb waag la expected. WOeoa Barrett, the* noted actor, died la London. The German steamer fcaadla was re leased by Reasla, which ordered the volunteer fleet to refrain from Inter fsrwiBi with foreign shipping. Increase In Cos I Output. Washington, * pec tel.— The forth coming report or the United States OdologMal Survey will show thft the MI£ AT SWIFT'S FACING HOUSE Considerable Damage By Blase That Threatened Greater Loaa Chicago, Special.—Fire broke out among tha packing houses In tha stock yards la tha large refinery of 8wltt ft Company, and soon gained such head way that every available fire engine In the stockyards district was called cut. Rumors of incendiarism were rite. Ex aminations, however, showed the cause of the blaze t<Aave been an overheat ed dynamo. Tha building. 150 by 250 feet and three etorlea In height was fined with tierces of lard many of which exploded, spreading the burning Srease in every direction. The damage was principally confined to the upper part of the building. According to Lou ie F. Swift, the actual lose would be only a few thousand dollars, fully In sured. Wilmington Votes Wet. Wilmington, Special.—In the mand pel election here Wednesday under the Watts State law, upon the question of the establishment of n dispensary In the city and the operation of dlstll lerlee within tha corporate limits the anti-dispensary advocates won by n majority of MO In n total vote of l.filt and oa the operation of the distilleries . there was a majority o1 Ml. First Death From Strike. Chicago, Special.—Clarence Hall la the first victim claimed by death as n result of the stockyards strike here. Hall Is daad at the Continental Hos pital. Last Tuesday ha, with R. F. Keating, hla employer, an ice dealer, was driving pan n crowd of rioters Two shots were fired, one of which* struck Keating, passed through hla leg and struok Hall. The police never ascertained who flrad tha ahot Girl Strikers Form • Mob. Chicago, Special.—Kitty English, a forewoman of Swift ft Company's plant, was mobbed and baldy hurt by a crowd of girl strike sympathisers at Halstead and Root streets. Fully a doien girls took part in the attack. They beat the forewoman with their Oita, tore her clothing and finally stab bed her with a hat pin. After a desper ate struggle Mias English escaped. No arreets wars made. Attorney General Attends. London. By Cable—A lengthy meet ing of the defence committee took place Wednesday under the presidency of Premier Balfour, at which the Attor ney General, sir Robert Finlay, waa present The Attorney General does not ntually sttend these meetings, but It waa stated that the questions at Issue between Russia and Great Britain were under discussion and that EHr Robert waa called In to advise aa to the ques tion# of international law Involved. No Serious Violence. Fort Worth, Tessa, Bpeclal.—The pecking bouse strike situation hers la without change. Manager Judd, of the Armour plant, aays be has enough men to operate the plant There has been no violence of a serious character. The strikers will open a commissary, and rations win be Issued .to such workmen as are In need. Telegraphic Brief*. Col. W. W. 8ale, of the Son* of Veter ans, has appointed Mlaa Margaret Tay lor, of Norfolk. 8t*te aponaor for the Lynchburg reunion. Miss Osborne Tem pleton, of Waynesboro, la named aa maid of honor. Mlaa Katharine Moasie Ryan, of Norfolk. Is sponsor for the Second district. Charles Southall, a 17-y*ar-old negro. In a light with another negro, named Manpln, at Ivy, Va., was cut severely In the throat with a rasor. Suspecting murder, a Harrisonburg undertaker cut off the bead of the sup po»«<l victim. Clarence Peterson, and hold* It aa evidence of font play. General Kurokl'a Japanese army hat defeated the Russians at Klae Tung, southeast of Liao Yaag. Man churl* The British Mediterranean squad ran arrived at Alexandria. The offer of French co-operation to the organisation of tile police of Tan gier has been accepted by the Moroo can authorities. „ Admiral Dewey and bis crews will re ceive one-half of 91,fg7.SS< prise money as a result of the batUe of Manila bey. The board of visitors of the West Point Academy advises the purchase of Constltntloa Island and lte addition to the reserve LI cm. Secretary of Commerce end Labor Metcalf says bit department la look ing oet for alien musicians who may be Imported to take the place* of Amer icana. Jerry Smith, the colored major do mo of the White House, is dead. Late reports Indicate that Minister Letibmau may soon reach an agree ment with Turkey respecting the treat ment of Americas educational Inatlta Uoee. The Russian Vladivostok squadron aeak the British ('earner Knight Com mander and captured the Oerman *tearner Arghle off the Japanese coast. The British ataemar Ardors, which wan seised by the Rvastaa volunteer 0Ht ataemar danoleaah lu the Red sea. has haaa ralinl. ffhe carried Amert eaa army supplies. KILLED BV A BOMB Bassiaa Prime Minister Assassinated In His Carriafe WAS NEXT TO THE CZAR IN POWER -Bomb Thrown Under the Carriage of tho Minister of tha Interior In a Crowded Thoroughfare Near a Rail road Station In St Petersburg. St. Peter*burg. By Cable.—M, Von Plehvo, Minister of the Interior, was •saaaalnated at 8:60 o'clock Thursday morning by a bomb thrown at bis car riage while be wae driving to the Baltic station to taka a train for the palace at Peterhoff, where be was fo make his weekly report to the Em peror. The assassination Is believed to be the outcome of a widespread plot, the existence of which has been suspect ed for several days Numerous ar rests have bean made. Including that of the assassin, a young man who la believed to be a Finn named Leglo, and who Is now In a hospital, severe ly and perhaps fatally Injured by tbe ' explosion of bis own bomb. An ac complice of Leglo, aleo apparently a Finn, but whose name la unknown, baa been arrested. He bad In his possession a bomb, which be tried to throw, but be was overpowered by the police just In time to prevent great loaa of life. . Tbe asaaasin wore a brown overcoat and a railroad official's cap. Ho stood ot> the sidewalks just as Minis ter Von Plshve'a carriage was about to cross tlio canal bridge near the station. Tha minister was escofted by a number of detectives on bicycles, end one of thorn jostled tbe assassin, who then rushed into tbe road and threw the bomb after the carriage. The miksle struck the hind wheel and exploded with fearful force, kilt ing or wounding over a score of per sons. Minister Von Pleve sad bis coachmen were killed outright, and I an officer of tho guard was fatally In jured. ASSASSIN ARRESTED. One of the cyclist detectives arrested tbs assassin, who endeavored to escape, though wounded by splinter* In ' the face, arm and abdomen. He made no attempt to resistance, however, when seised by the detective*, and confessed bis crime, but refused to give his name. The police, Immediately after the explosion, arrested a auspicious Indi vidual who took refuge in a hotel op posite the scene of the tragedy. He carried a bomb similar to that thrown by Xeglo. As soon aa the police saw the bomb they scattered, bnt an em ploye of the hotal rushed up behind the accomplice and pinned his nrma. The explosive la believed to have been composed of pyroxylin, as It gave off little amok*. The force of the explosion was so terrific that It not only broks every window within a radius of half a mile, but reduced the heavy paving atones to powder, heaved up the pavement and flung n heavy piece of the iron work of the carriage across the canal, severing the thick mast of a barge, which fell, stunning the captain of the barge. Everybody In the street was knocked down and more or leas bruised. When the officers of the law. headed by Mlnlater of Justice Muravleff. had terminated the necessary formalities by drawing up a written report of the. crime, the mangled remains of the Mlnlater of the Interior were conveyed to a humble ehapel. adjoining the station, the window* of which miracu lously escaped destruction. The priests and people, with characteristic Russian piety, at once jonled in a solemn re quiem. The square In front of th* sta tion was fllt«d with a reverent crowd of peasants kid laborers, and the busy hum of traffic was silenced. A priest lifted up hie voice and proclaimed "The eternal memory of the departed servant Weneeslas.” while all those In the congregation dropped to their knees. auv iuioiuaj njftcniM wm LOrown with deadly accuracy, aad the assas sin wet favored by the fact that traffic here ia alwayi of tho heaviest, oaring to tba crossing of lines of surface cars and the continuous stream of heavy trucks. If. Von Plehve was always apprehensive of attempts upon hla Ilfs and used to drive aa rapidly aa possi ble. The coachman, however, wee compelled to go slowly at this point. The a sea as) a In laying hla pleas evi dently foresaw this circumstance and, while the Minister's coachman slowed down, threw the bomb. The explosion was terrific and practically annihilated the woodwork of the carriage. The horses tore off, dragging the axle and the front wheels. The ani mals. though Infuriated by the wounds they had aastalaed. had not galloped far before they fell, with pools of blood under them. The Minister's servant, who waa also on the carriage box. waa badly wound ed. and two officers who were driving by In a cab were Injured by ffylag splinters. The assassin himself was wounded la oae aye. America* Retains Hie Job. New Chwang, By Cable—Major Ta kayama, tba Japanaae administrator of New Chwang. has arrived here aad has Issued aoti(cation to tba population that New Chweeg aad Ytnkow era bow under Japanese control and that Uvea and property will bo protected. Mr. 0![Christ, aa American who waa deputy commissioner of customs hero seder the Russian administration, has beam ap pointed commissioner of cuatoms.
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