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THE WEATHER. Rain followed by clearing Sat- 1 urday; Sunday fair and warm- ! er; moderate north winds be- j coming variable. , ' ; Y. fN. ' . - ' PERSISTENCY. , :: '' ' -4 - V5S isl Sj? )i SsSvlP - iv' AV.-: tt MverUser. TU paper is -" : ; I . ij '- . '1 . "' ' : ' .' " ' . . .' - ?.: T : : T- : : 11 .... V : 1 1 '- VOL. LXXXV-m 1415. WTLMTN"GTON, .iSr."C;f STTJBD AYMOKNTNG, MARCH 12 1910; WHOLE NUMBER 13,24 O. OIL TRUST FACES ASE T Outcome of Legal Battle in Supreme Court Anxious ly Awaited. THE ARGUMENTS tIEXTUDIIDAY Case as Summed Up for Prosecution and Defense Contentions of the' Trust and Government Array of Attorneys. . Washington, Mch. .11. The most set rious legal battle that "Standard Oil" lias ever faced, will confront it next Monday. ' ., . That is the day set by the Supreme Court of the United States to hear arguments on the appeal of the Stand ard Oil Company,, of New Jersey, froin the adverse judgment of the. United States Circuit Court for. the Eastern District of Missouri, which ordered the dissolution of the . New Jersey corporation as an illegal combination and monopoly -in restraint of . inter State commerce. To point out the alleged errors of the Circuit Court, in its findings and in its decree; the- keen est intellects within command -have been procured. To argue for the af firmance of the decision of the lower court. Mr. Wickersham, the Attorney General of the United States himself, will head a brilliant array of counsel, for the government. - ' , ; The Circuit Court announced grave findings against the seven, individual devendants, 'John" D.-Rocekfeller Wil liam Rockefellert, Henry M; Flagler. Henry H. Rogers,. John D. : Archbold, Oliver H. Payne and Charles H. Pratt the Standard ; Oil Company,, of , New Jersey, and other . defendant compan ies. '. 'r-.t ;;-'.'-,-'. The court found that in 1899; by an exchange of , stock" by the seven indi viduals, the Standard Oil . Company, of New Jersey acquired., the legal rti tie to a, Majority. ;-ef - the stock- of 13 companies, which in tnrn controlled a large number of others, all but one engaged in the oil business. . Wfhat is found as to this combina tion was that: That since 1899 the affairs of all these companies have been managed by the principal company as the bus iness of a single person, so as to fix for them the price of crude oil, the urates for .transportation and the sell; ins prices of its products. That the par value of the combined capital stock in 1899 was about $100; 000.000, and that In 1903 it was $150, 000.000. That 12 of these companies, owned 5i.."65 miles of pipe lines. That six of these, companies had ".574 selling stations throughout the United States. That these companies from 1899 to 1007 produced more than one-tenth of the crude oil obtained in this coun try. That they owned and operated more than one half of all the tank cars used to distribute Its products. That they manufactured more than three-fourths of all the crude oil re fined in the United States. That they transported more than .four-fifths of the petroleum derived from the Pennsylvania and 'Indiana oil fields. . '. That they marked more than four fifths of all the illuminating oil sold in the United States. That they exported more than four- fifths of all the Illuminating .om sent forth from the United States.- That they sold more than four fifths or an the napntha sow in tne unueu States. . . That they sold more than nine tenths of alj the lubricating-oil sold to railroad companies in the United States. i . On this finding: the court decreed: That the organization of 1899 was a combination or conspiracy . In restraint ot inter State commerce in petroleum and its products, such as the first section of the Sherman anti-trust act "declares is Illegal: that the seven In dividual defendants, the Standard GUI omiiany, of New, Jersey, and 39 oth er companies had entered into a com hination or conspiracy to monopolize ana had in fact monopolized a sub stantial part of interstate commerce in violation of the second section of 'lie Sherman anti trust act; 'that 33 other companies accused were proven not to be in this combination. .. The court enjoined the principal company and Its directors from exer rising any control over the subsidiary companies: it enjoined ,'tha .subsia diary companies from declaring or paying any dividends to the principal company, but. not from distributing latably to the shareholders of the principal company the stock of the subsidiary company; it enjoined those ;una to be In the "illegal comblna 'ion" from continuing In It or forming i new combination by means- of ag Kiegation of the physical properties in the hands of one member of tha combination, and forbade those, in the combination from enraclne in inter State commerce until the combination was discontinued. The counsel arrayed in' defense of standard Oil includes John G. ftiilburn. of Buffalo, N. Y., in whose borne McKinlev died! n. T. ; Watson and John G. Johnson, leaders of tb'. i nnsvlvania bar:, and Mbrizt Rose' thai, the legal pillar of the Standard ROUS (Continued on Page Eight) DR. EBEIi ALEXANDER - DEAD Passed Away Last Night at Knoxville, Tenn-Dean of University of ' -. North Carolina Long and . ' . Distinguished Career. (Special Star Telegram.) Chapel Hill, N. C , March 11. Word was received here tonight of the death in Knoxville, -Tenn., of Dr. Eben Alex ander, dean of the University of North Carolina. . . . " . . Dr. Alexander was visiting his son, Dr. Eben Alexander, Jr., under a leave of ahsAnrfl from the TTnlversitv. He had just returned from New York City wnere ne attended tne meeting oi tne Senate of .MMb-Nationai society or vm Beta. Karma. He has been unwell for some time but his death was sudden and unexpected. The following bare facts of his life were taken from a sketch written by Prof. E. P. Jones for Ashe's Lives of Distinguished North Carolinians. Dr. Eben Alexan der ..was born in Knoxville, Tenn. March 9th. 1851. son of - Judee Eben Alexander, of Knoxville, and grandson or James White, or ireaeii county. fmmilaF, nf tho nronpnt. ' r.itv ftf TCnoT- ville. in 1869 he entered Yale college. At Yale hq was one of the most prom inent and popular memoers oi me Class of 1873. He was a member of the Psi Upsilon fraternity, of the skull and. bones honor order, and the Phi Beta- Kappa scholarship society. : - After graduation he became tutor in the University of Tennessee, pro fessor of ancient languages and later chairman of the faculty. . He gave up his position at the University or Ten nessee to .become, professor of Greek in the University of North Carolina in the Fall of 1886. in Anril. 1893. .' President Cleveland appointed Dr. Alexander envoy extra ordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Greece, Roumania and Servia. This position he held during uieveiana s ad ministration with dignityr aDinty . ana nrm to -his country. - While at Ath ens he played a leading part '. in the revival of the Olympic games.. Har per's Weekly, -Sept. 28 1895, said: "The first subscription mat reacnea the committee's hands was not from a born Greek but from Mr. Eben Alex anwer, United States Minister ; to Oreere. who nevertheless is looked uii- on and claimed as a true Hellene, both by his - wide acquaintance with the nrAk . i&nenae e and literature and his whole-hearted sympathy -c with ; the. The leading '. newspaper ' of Athens, in. a long editorial, expressed the ap preciation, of the Grecian people for Dr. Alexander's eminently successful services as the minister from Ameri ca. "It Is a far cry," says Prof- Moses "from the acropolis to a proressor s chair at Chanel Hill, but when . his term of office expired the diplomat gladly put aside tne Dusmess oi tne Nation to take up again his work for the young men of North Carolina" He returned to tne university in 1897. In 1900 he was selected dean of the University, a position which he- has since heald with honor to him self and with usefulness to North Car olina. After the work in the class rnnm and the dean's oflce the object to 'which he devoted most of his time and care was the building ol the pres ent magnificent University library. His most1 distinguished personal cnaracier- i8tics were his gentlemanly Deanng onH rnnrteav at a!3 time. He was a man loved dearly at Knoxville, Tenn. and here at the University. Dr. Alexander is survived by his wife, who was Miss .Marion Howard Smith; four children, Mrs. A. H. Pat terson, or cnapei jhui; ur. jiiDen Alex ander, of Knoxville, Tenn., .and Mrs. Pa.nl W. Schenck. of Greensboro: and three sisters, Mrs.. William Newman, of Atlanta; Mrs. J. a. rayne, oi unapei Hill, and Mrs. Bell Cook, of Montreat. The funeral will be held in Knoxville Sunday afternoon. Exercises in the University will be suspended in his honor tomorrow. - FIRE HORROR IN PERSON. I Colored Man, Wife and Eight Children Burned to Death Near Rovboro. Roxboro, N. C, Mch. 11. John Wag- Staff, and his wife, and eight children colored, were burned to death at their home, seven miles north we3t, of Rox boro last night in a fire which destroy ed " their; home, j T ; Particulars . of the , holocaust are meagre for the reason that the humble Wagstaff home . was remote, no one saw the fire and nothing was known of It. until this morning, when a farm band" on his way to .work" found, the iiouse in ashes and the charred bones of the occupants in the ruins. J . The theory '. is that the Are caught in the kitchen, and suffocated tbe oc cupants herore tney couia escape. me house Is on the farm of W. E. Farley, a prominent farmer of person county. Wagstaff was one of his most trusted tenants. : ' - ,:, !: .' ' . r STRIKERS BACK TO WORK Conditions Greatly Improved at Bethle- a i ii.ai,. nem icei a..u tJfKloViom "- Pa Mftrr.l 11.- The- beginning of the sixth week of the strike at Betalehem Steel Works to day found more than 4,500 men back at work, many or wnom im reyyi icu u skilled. mechanics. . : s be r n . vcttfrriAvB statement that the steej company would pay the men a nve to ten per tcm. as soon as the plant was in complete va strike leaders to- day, eaid; that the company will have to make , terms uerore ine-pw ,UD fully operated, owing to' skilled labor not being ODiainaoitJ uwo m. TO SETTLE APPEAL OF PEOPLE Demands For Arbitration ; FromAll Quarters in v Philadelphia. LEADERS RENEWED THREATS Still Claiming That: Strike Kas Only : Begun General Situation Im proved Industrial Life is Paralyzed. Philadelphia, March 11. The fight for -arbitration of the differences be tween the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company and its 4,000 or more striking employees became insistent today. From quarter after quarter in Philadel phia" and. outside of it, the demand for mediatory, measures was voiced. Ev erywhere it was recognized that the failure to arrive at an arbitral agree ment Was the only thing that stood in the Way of a speedy calling era of the general sympathetic strike in this city, which has practically parayzed the ity's industrial life and which labor eaders made , renewed threats to pread if the deadlock continued. . At a representative meeting of busi ness men this afternoon the call for ar bitration was the keynote frpm begin ning to end of a 2 1-2 hour debate which culminated in demands upon' both local and National influences for Uie Betting in; motion of forces which would work to bring the Traction dis pute before mediatory tribunals for settlement. ' ." Local, financial, commercial and offi cial bodies and the Federal , authorities, as well as the salutary' influences of the National Civic . Federation, were appealed to step in and end difficulty. Governor Stuart at Harrisburg was pe titioned . by patriotic' citizens of the city . and invoked in various resolu tions, statements, and', petitions to ex-ert-fbs bower In Putting a Eton to coadlt tions which Philadelphia .daily finds! growing more intolerable. Each day, seemingly brings, the situation nearer a Crisis. ' An excellent sign was the good or der which prevailed throughout the city today. Not until tonight was there any sort of an outbreak in any quarter of the city. Coming out of a meeting vhich was held, in musical fund hall t Eighth and Locust streets tonight a ection of the crowd displayed a turbu ent spirit and passing trolley cars vere stoned. The police by a show of force and the display of revolvers, sub dued the demonstration before much mischief was done. Nobody was seri ously injured and there were no ar rests. Cars ran uninterruptedly today . in greater numbers than since the strike began. Urge Peace In Philadelphia. Two hours and a half of discussion of the strike question by a large gath ering representative of more than 30 business organizations of the city was productive late this afternoon of the adoption of a resolution in which three separate , influences are invoked to bring the industrial war to an end. Of the two local influences appealed o, stress was laid upon the financial powers of the city. The city's bank3 are requested to use their influences in dispute to bring about arbitration on an. equitable settlement. Each com mercial body represented was asked also to bring every possible, pressure to bear upon the councilmen to cause a special meeting of city councils to be called for action which will induce the company, and its men to come to terms. . The resolution took a' wider scope, however, in directing that' a telegram be sentfto Seth Low, president of the National Civic Federation, asking that the , Federation offer immediately , its services as arbitrator to the two par ties jto the dispute,- the company and the bunion ' organization representing the men:'. "The traction company, many thought would not lightly cast , aside an offer from the National Civic body to act' as mediator. The men's organi ation has. already announced that it would welcome arbitration. All shades of opinion was represent ed at tbe meeting at the close of which a representative committee of 30 was name. to put the. resolutions adopted into effect. petition to , President Taft presented by Alfred H. Love, of tie Universal Peace Union, was num erously signed by the business men at the close of the meeting. It suggested that the commission' for the promotion of industrial peace, which nas at' its disposal the funds donated by Theo dore Roosevelt from the Nobel , Peace Prize awarded to him, be asked to' act in the crisis hei. , , .1', - "Immediate action," was the demand of eVery speaker of the afternoon. The blocking of & settlement was' variously attributed in the speeches, , some of which were extremely warm in tone, upon tbe'. transit company, the city officials and in a few instances, upon the attitude of the strikers themselves in forcing a general walkout and in sisting upon recognition of their union in. any . arbitration they were willing to endorse. "The City hall could settle this in 24 hours if it would" was one -rator's declaration. . 7 .Tonight the - Philadelphia ., Rapid Transit Cpmpany; through : President Kruger, Announced, its - willingness; to complyvith Mayor Rey burn's request (Continued on Page 2.) MAT PROBE CORRUPT METHODS Newcomb Wants Unlimited investiga tion in. New YoVk Senate First Signs of the Split in Re'pubii- : can Ranks. Albany, N. Y., .March .11. Senator Newcomb gave notice today that he was preparing to get some action on his resolution providing for an Unlim ited investigation of legislative corrup tion and his declaration is regarded as the, first significant result of the Re publican organization's victory in the Senate leadership fight, ; The vote on the question 'of sustain ing Senator Conger's bribery charges against Senator Allds, was expected to furnish the next clash between the two elements into which disregard of tne wishes of Senator Root and Gov ernor Hughes and the election of Sen ator Cobb as president pro tem, has spilit the Republican party in the tate Senator, but if Newcomb moves next week to take up his 'resolution the line up may come before the Allds Investigation is over. Two measures providing for a wider investigation are in the hands of the finance committee, jf The other was in troduced by Senator Wainwright, but its purpose is practically the same ,as that of Senator 'Newcomb's. Whatever the truth of the situation may be, public opinion seems to have associated the opposition to the lead ershir of Root and Hughes, with an in tention to shut off further attempts to air legislative scandals and with sym pathy with Allds. r Hinman, the Root-Hughes choice for majority leader; haft been outspoken against Allds during the frequent de bates over .the admission of certain testimony. ' :. . These circumstances lead to a con clusion that Governor Hughes and the "Older Statesmen" .of the party in Washington, have agreed upon a wider legislative inquiry and are ready to issue .orders against any disposition to shelter Allds. Such . an investigation could not hurt ' the N Hughes regime. The idea that the people are with them can be traced to expressions , in the governor's recent statement . and the Koot telegram. . The declaration of Senators Brackett and Davenport and ..their friends in the Senate that Cobb s vicitory only, post poned the issue 'is not denied by the victorious organization: men." -Thej-lie- claret Mwfever.-rlisirTn'tstige or-defeating the combined forces of the gov ernor and the National administration will carry them victorious through the next fight, whatever it may be about. J. P. MORGAN IN ROME. American Financier Would-be Life Prisoner in the Vatican. ' Rome, March 11. There was "hard ly a minute of rest today for . J. Pier pont Morgan, for the American finan cier was busy almost continuous ly from early morning until late to night. Viewing works of art of the masters, taking care of a large amount of accumulated correspondence and receiving visitors, were embraced in the programme of the morning and afternoon and this, evening he dined with the Princess Teano and after wards remained for a reception held in his honor. Mr. Morgan is in per fect health and he said today that ow ing to the mild weather prevailing he had not for many years so thoroughly enjoyed a visit to Rome. Having expressed a desire to visit the Borgia Apartment in the Vatican at' a time when tourists were not ad mitted, Mgr. Misciattelli, prefect of the Apostolic palaces, today sent Mr. Morgan a special card of .admission and later in the day Mr. Morgan view ed the art masterpieces there. Mr. Morgan said he would not mind being a life prisoner in the Vatican if he were permitted at all time to look upon such artistic perfection. Mr. Morgan today accepted an invi tation pf the committee of the Italian organization - which is arranging for the celebration in 191.1 of the 50th an niversary the proclamation making Rome the capital of United Italy, to act as the honorary president of the foreign committee. Washington, March 11. The Senate today confirmed Marion H; Stevenson to be collector , of customs for tbe dis trict of Cherrystone, Va. OUTLINES. The demands for arbitration in the Philadelphia strike became insistent yesterday and appeals were made to President Taft,' commercial, bodies and the National Civic Federation. The situation, is still serious and .labor, leaders claim that the strike has just begunrr Arthur P. Davis, chief engi neer ' of . the reclamation service, was on the staad yesterday in the Pinchot Ballinger investigation. He-made an attack on Secretary Ballinger and de clared several statements he made to President , Taft to be false The ar guments in" Supreme Court next Mon day .will be the most serious legal battle Standard Oil has ever faced Ten persons were burned to death in a fire In Person county, this State, -on Thursday: night 'The programme tor. the consideration of the adminis tration railroad bill has been definite ly arranged- -The New York Cotton Exchange was . declared a legitimate market for dealing in actual cotton in a court decision in New York yester day New York, markets:. Money on call easy 2 3-4 to 3 per cent, ruling rate and closing bid 2 7-8, offered at 3. Spot cotton closed quiet, 10 points higher,- middling uplands 15.10, mid dling gulf 15.35. Flour steady. Wheat spot firm No. 2 red 1.27 bid. elevator, domestic and. nominal . lo.b. f afloat. Cora spot firm No. 2, 66 nominal f.o.b. afloat Oats spot steady. , Rosin stea dy. Turpentine quiet. . AHOTHER ATTM Chief Engineer of Reclama tion Service Appears in Pinchot's Behalf. HAD WARNED THE SECRETARY That Hi9 Course Tended to Demoralization-, of Service Contradicts Statements Made to Presi dent Taft. ', , . Washington, Mch. 11. With Arthur P. Davis, chief engineer of the recla mation service, on" the stand, the at tack upon Secretary Ballinger contin ued today before the Congressional Committee of Investigation, Mr. ,Da vis was called as a witness by Gif ford Pinchot and was examined' btt Mr. Pinchot's attorney. , . - Although expressing reluctance tJ testify, Mr. Davis provei to be well fortified with maps, dates, data, etc. He contradicted .flatly many state ments made by Secretary Ballinger to President Taft and ended the. day by declaring that the reclamation service is still in danger of disinte gration as a result of Mr. Ballinger's attitude toward it. Mr. Davis declared that "in language as strong as politeness and proper respect would permit," he had told Secretary Ballinger himself - that his entire course had tended to a . de moralization of the service. ; With regard to a statement by M. Ballinger to the. President that he had restored many lands withdrawn by Secretary Garfield on the strength of recommendations from the reclama tion service, that these lands were no longer needed for reclamation pur poses; Mr. Davis, declared that' all of the recommendations made by the rer clamation service were in response to . direct orders issued by Mr. Bal linger. .These orders -were repeated, he said, many ; times, tuit were, never put;.in - Writing; n Director Newell, of the :.r reclamation; .servrpe,.. belaid.,. prp tested " vigorously againsrtneec'r tary's action. r ' , " Mr. Davis said Secretary Ballindr had written a letter to 'Dr. Thomas E. Will, of this city, repeating the statements that lands had been re stored upon recommendation of the acting director of the; reclamation service that they were no longer need ed. The witness said he was the act ing director referred to; that he had never made any sueh recommenda tion. Mr. Davis declared that early in the present administration, he had found Mr. Ballinger- deeply prejudiced against the reclamation service. He asserted that Mr. Ballinger - had told him to prepare the list of lands for restoration . slowly so as. to not at tract public attention. The witness said he had made no attempt to in fluence Mr. Ballinger as to these res torations because he was always met with the flat statement that Mr. Gar field's withdrawal of, the lands had been entirely illegal. i Mr. Davis asserted that Mr. Bal linger was wrong in stating to the President that Mr. Garfield's with drawals did not truthfully show what they were made for. There had bee'n no subterfuge, he said, "and if there had been any appearance of subter fuge it was his fault and not Mr. Garfield's. The witness revealed in his testl mony that there is quite a feud 'be tween the reclamation service and the geological survey. It was on reports of reclamation service that Secretary Garfield acted in his withdrawal of power sites. Secretary Ballinger has depended entirely upon the govern mental survey. - - Mr. Davis did not hesitate to crit iclse the survey and declared that the narrow strips which had been withdrawn, along streams by the gov ernmental survey, did not properly protect the power sites. -: , The direct examination of Mr. Da vis had not been concluded , when ad journment was taken until tomorrow morning. , . , DEMOCRATS IN CONFERENCE Party Leaders In Secret Conclave at Hot Springs, Ark. v Hot Snrines. Ark.. March 11. News that Charles Murphy, Tammany lead er, was on the way to Hot Springs where National Democratic Chairman Norman E.,Mack has. beep in confer ence for several days with friends of Southerners, who asDire to party lead ership in 1812, caused much gossip to day, and tonignt. ': A Presidential booms have' been unof ficially started for Senator Culberson, Joseph Folk, Governor Harmon, and Mavor-Gavnor. of New York, but no one will admit that any'serlous con- erence on the subject has been neid. i ' ' m - - - BONAPARTE DEFENDS NEGRO. He Appealed to Supreme ; Court to Have Death Sentence Set Aside. Washington, March 11. Former Attorney General Charles G. J Bona parte has been retained to defend Pink Franklin, a negro of Orangeburg, S. C; who is appealing to. the Supreme Court to have set aside a death sen tence imposed upon him" Franklin was convicted in 1907 6f having mur dered Henry F.. Valentine, a special constable, who was attemptlngLto 'ar rest "him on a charge of violating a laboreontract' The hearing will be in April..' ' HANGED AT ELIZARETHT0WI1 Henry. Spivey, Charged With Murder of His Fatfierin-Law, Pays Death Penalty for His Crime Last on Scaffold. ) - (Special Star Telegram.) Elizabethtown, N. C, Jkflch. 11.) Promptly at 12 o'clock today Sheriff J. M. Clark, of Bladen, pulled the fatal lever and Henry E. Spivey, the negro convicted of killing his father in-law. Frank Shaw, near Clarkton, in this county, several months ago, paid the death penalty for his crime in the last legal execution upon the scaffold In this State, the law designating elec trocution as the means of imposing capital punishment having gone into effect a few weeks after the negro's conviction. Spivey was convicted at the March term 1909. rn tne Superior Court here. "Spivey after his crime was captured at Wilmington as he arrived on a late Seaboard train, being returned to this county for trial. The evidence against him was overwhelming and the jury reached a verdict after only a short deliberation. Last Friday there were perhaps a thousand people here to witness the hanging when he was reprieved at the last moment. From his cell Spi vey could see some of the crowd. nnH hear more of them. The strain was terrible on him and that night he broke down completely. He cried and cried; would eat nothing and had fever, but from this he soon rallied. At times he would be proud and d riant, and maybe in the next minute desopndent and repentant. Today he went to his death with little show of feeling. When taken out of jail he remarked that it felt funny out there. He was asked if he had any statement to make and replied that he did not. The crowd was not so large todav as on last Friday, owing perhaps to the tact that- they- had learned that the hanging ' would . be, private. Those present were sober and well, behaved. Sheriff J. Marvin Clark, quite a young man, deserves great credit for the or derly and able manner in which he managed the entire situation since the arrest of the prisoner. .When the- rope and black cap had been- adjusted Splvey's -knees ; weak- ended and he began o sink. The sheiv ecrelirawnfe r situation "ahaquick ' as" a flash, the rtrap was thrown. - Spivey died in less" than 11 "minutes, was at lowed to hang for '25 minutes, taken" down,' pronounced dead by County Physician Lesley -B. ; Evans, and the remains placed in the coffin. Thus ends'' the story of one of the most notable murder cases that Bladen has had in many years, a case that has1 cost the county first and last, about $700 or $800. After Spivey's conviction last March an appeal was taken to the Supreme Court, and the lower court was af firmed in- a well considered opinion by Manning, Judge. The Governor is sued to the sheriff of Bladen a war- rent directing the hanging of Spivev on Jan. 11th,; the able attorneys rep resenting the prisoner at once became active in seeking a commutation of sentence and in order to give them a hearing Spivey was reprieved until March 4th. 'No action having been taken by the Governor, Sheriff Clark brought the prisoner here on March 3rd, and that afternoon -received a message from ' the Governor repriev ing him until March 11th, this being done it is understood, to allow the attorneys for the prisoner to secure recommendations from, the Judge who tried the case, and from the Solicitor of the District. Judge Adams, of Car thage, refused to consider the matter unless the Solicitor would recommend it, and in the meantime the private secretary to the Governor directed the sheriff to inform the prisoner thp.t there was no hope for him. Spivey was a bad prisoner, and it Is thought by many that this militated strongly against the commutation of his sen tence. While he was In jail here af ter his conviction, Sheriff Clark found in his possession a half dozen or more hack saws and other things not at all to his liking, and under direction of the Solicitor carried Spivey to the State prison for safekeeping. When he went for the prisoner recently he was informed by the officials that Spi vey had , come near making his es cape four different times. 'Spivey him self told that if Walter Morrison, un der sentence to be electrocuted had not "squealed" dn him he would have made good his escape, stating that hi was out of his cell and was just fixing to get into the yard. Asked how he would have passed the guards after getting out of tbe prison proper, he replied that they were often asleep and that he could have managed that all right. - , . MAY HONOR NEWSPAPER MAN. Bill in Congress For a Statue to Jan . v " uarus MacGahan. ' ..Washington, Mch. 11. A newspaper man may havea statue erected in his honor at the National - capital, a bilf having been Introduced today by Rep resentative Douglas, of Ohio, appro priating $20,000 for that purpose. The man was Januarus Aldysius MacGa han,' whose descriptions of the atroci ties practiced -upon the Bulgarians by the Turks attracted the attention- of William E. Gladstone, resulted in Eng lish recognition of Bulgaria's freedom, and won for their author the title of "the liberator' of the Bulgarians." .' MasGahan was a correspondent for the London Daily News at Constan tinople. He died there in 1878 and in 1884 his -body was brought to America at, the expense of this government and interred at' New Lexington, Ohio. The Bulgarians celebrated his memory an nually with a requim mass. ' THE' PAY THE PENALTY This is "Something Absolute-' ly Sure" Dr. V Torrey. FIRST WEEK OF SERIES ENDS Dr. Torrey Tells Large Congregation ' of the Impossibility of Escape ! From, Sin About 100 Con- , . versions During Week. With a stirring sermon in the Cham- . ' pion Compress building last night '. Rev. Dr.'R. A. Torrey, the noted evan- gelist, ended the first week of the' series of meetings he is. conducting in . Wilmington. During the week aome- V " things like 100 persons have professed faith" in Christ and openly expressed '" an. earnest 'desire, to live better lives . henceforth. The best meeting ; yet held was the one yesterday afternoon, when there were 41 conversions, the ": number including men, women and . ' , -children. . .'. Dr. Torrey last night preached a f v strong practical, and to many ; a ' most enlightening sermon on the cer- tain penalties of sin. showing in i a - clear and convincing manner ; that ' ; ' surely "the way of the transgressor is hard." Owing to the threatening V; ; weather the congregation was , the j smallest since; the meeting began. Wit '' ' those who were, present listened to ; " the evangelist, with rapt attention ' ! -throughout his "able discourse. . (One of the. features of the meetlne : last night was the singing . of the children's choir of about :! 50 voices.' : The children occupied the gallery and ' the songs Trender,ed by them pleased ' . tne congregation, greatly. - .The choir y is under the .direction of Mr. Young. assisted by Mrs. J. Df Smith and Miss -Lucy Mcintosh. Dr; Torrey compli-, me'nted the. x:feijldren's choir. yery high. ; If.-, The cortftottteeesli'QBtQ express; ?" through the papers its thanks to .thA -, 1 Stieff Piano House for, the. use Of.a'. Stieff Grand Piano for. the meetings. f'v. Dr. Torrey announced that there : would be no services. today, Saturday always being taken as one of rest, and ... . stated that services would be held Sunday at 4:30 R. M-. and 7:30 P..M., . for both men and women. Services ' ' will be, held every afternoon next week at the usual hour with the, ex. ception of Friday when there wilL be a meeting for children, between the ' ages of seven and 21 years. No adults will be admitted except those who expect to take part in the meeting. Dr. Torrey stated that. Mr. Jacoby was considering the matter of holding' a"' meeting, at the Y. M. C. A. every day . . rrom 1:05 to 1:30 P. M. for the pur pose of giving instruction as to how to study the Bible and, asked the men' ' of the congregation who would attend to hold up their hands. A large num- ... ber signified their, intention of attend ing. Dr. Torrey also asked for more . , personal '- workers and many hands went up. He said that announcement 1 would be made later as to the .Bible Study class. After the sineine of a solo, .'God Will Take Care of You", .' by Mr. Young, Dr. Torrey led in pray-, er, following which he began his ser-. ' mon. ' In beginning Dr. Torrey spoke of the uncertainty in financial and politi- ' cal matters and regarding theological , questions, speaking particularly of the '''' uncertainty in the minds of the states men In Washington regarding the tar- J iff and postal savings bank bills. But",- he said, "there is something . absolutely sure. You will find in Nam' ' bers 32:23: 'Be sure your sins will find you out.' It is absolutely certain that if a man sins he wUl suffer. There . -.. has never been one sin committed on ' -J earth that paid; never one committed ';" but the sinner is the loser. " It may seem to him for a time that he has ; escaped, but he-will finally be requlr-' ed to pay the penalty. He will suffer for every sin ha commits. You some-. times escape the laws of man, but you r, cannot- escape the laws-of God. : ' "- "Very likely there are some here tonight who contemplate some sin in the near future. Maybe you came; ' here tonight for the purpose of car-- - rylng out your plans to commit some sin.- If so, DON'T YOU DO IT! 1 1 6 wish to call your attention to a few ways in which sin will find you out. "The first is in the execution of the ' human , law. When a man who - sins thinks he is escaping he is merfely: -weaving a net about him." Dr. Torrey '; ir told of a prominent New. York banker; who violated the laws of the country v,? and who escaped for a - time but ; is , now serving a sentence in the Federal . prison in Atlanta, Ga. While Dr. Tor- -v tey did not call any name the descrip- tion was that of Morse.- He also told of a Chicago banker who was caught and sentenced-, .to prison. "They thought", said : Dr. Torrey, "they were.' , escaping; when they were in reality r," weaving a net around " themselves.'' t He told of the robbery in Chicago of f . f a postoffice money order. Inspectors ' v went to .work on the case to find out ; who forged the signature .and after- ;j some months of work exhausted every '" clue. This is where Dr. Torrey ,xame v in as a Sherlock Holmes. " He was . shown the forged money order.; . Just . at. that moment- the name of a man ' : : whom he- had heard-use profane lan- y.v guage crossed his mind. The'frlend with Dr. Torrey had some of tne hand- - wriHns' nf (ha man vhnRA nm flflsh. ..-,?" ... Jh. . v. . -J.v J" I J
Wilmington Morning Star (Wilmington, N.C.)
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