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I r - ? "3 SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: $8,00 Per Year: CHARLOTTE, N. 0., MONDAY MORNING, JULY, 23, 1906. J t . . PRICE FIVE CENTS. i ..'.-, j i'. '1 .r .,,...'. ,..,.,..',.... . ' a '(., I - ' '.-,," ,, ' . ' ' '. - 29 DIE IN WRECK; 23 INJURED g3MI C0LLIS18S HEAR HAMLE "i THE ' DEAD MOSTLY, NUKU-a eaboard Air line Passenger Train No. 44 and an Extra Frclgtit Tjatn 1 . Come Together With , an Awful Crash In ; n, Deen Cut One MUe From Ilantfet dCiurlneer : Lewla, V Hie Fireman and the Fireman of th Freight Instantly Killed and , Death' 1 m Swift to a Scores or ' More of the Passengers In Colored . . rvmJ IWil and Injured to be Removed to Rockingham on a Spe- ' ctal Wreckage . riled High on Tracka and Traffic la' ' Completely -,?' Blocked T1b Wreck Probably Due ",,-'' to a Mlnnndertandlng . of I Or :; ders .-'or Lap. Order The ni.Fatnd i i Pasaenze". Train Left , ; '-'" Charlotte at 8 , O'clock " Yesterday . : Afternoon and Was Banning 40 . ..V Mile an Honr When It Flunced O Headlong nto the Freight Detail Hard to.Obtaln. Special to The Observer." :;".'.'. Hamlet July It. Twenty or mora J - were killed and twenty-three badly In Jured In a head-on collision between a Seaboard Air Lin 'passenger train and an extra freight one mlla from here' to-night. Nearly aO tboee killed were colored paasengera,yl. .. ' . . The known dead arei ENGINEER It. B. LEWIS; of the . H. 8. BTRD, Baggagemaster, - ., FIREMAN .'TOM HILL, colored, of the passengey train.. - ?.-'" s NEGRO FIREMAN. , NAME UN , KNOWN, of the frelkhV ' ;' ; s ' ... Probably SS other unidentified. ; ' . : Railroad men, cltlxens and the pas ' eengers who escaped Injury, ar work- "' fng heroically y to recover; the - -dead and Injured Imprieoned In, the wreck- age.,. . Both the eecond and nrat ' claee coaches' were overturned and it l ' feared that the death Met will be aadly augmented before the work of ' the reocnera la completed. , The rescuers can see a number- of Jlfeless forms by the fitful light of :'- lanterns and these they, are atrlTing -. manfully to reach. Fortunately tne lamps In the coaches were extinguish. ed In the crash and fire was not aaaea ' to the horror of the catastrophe. Thua far u,t of th rlou,lr J Injured ' reaches . twenty-three -five , white and eighteen colored, t Others ay be Imprisoned In the overturned '". coaches..' . - '' The engineer -and -.fireman .'of tha freight train Jumped and eecaped with a few bruises. The coach for ' colored people was completely de molished and nearly; everyone In It '' met death. Both locomotives were demolished and the baggage cars and coaches Jumbled together (n an un . sightly mass. The tracks are piled . high with, wreckage and will be ' blocked, for hour ' Trie wreck occurred about "7:10 " o'clock. The. passenger train, which left Charlotte at 5 o'clock, was with out orders, and was moving at the . rate of forty miles' an hour. .Without t warning the. freight, an extra" fruit train, west bound, dashed around the curve In the deep cut ons mile from Hamlet, and the two trains came to gather with an awful crash and , roar. ' Engineer Lea-Is and his fire : men were Instantly ', killed anof death was almost as swift to the passengers la. the colored . coach. Tha destruc . tlon was complete and rendered more ' horrible by tha cries and groans of ":, the dying., ;"::;;'v:""; -X : y:?:l !. i , .."The. dead and Injured.wlll be con ; veyed to Rockingham si soon as a special can be made up and the track Reared sufficiently. ' Mewwges - have been' sent to every phyak'lan In Ham y ; let and .Rockingham,; aa welt as In ; the eountv.," -: '-. "' ' . '. , r It Is Imboaslble at this time to as certain the .names of the dead and injured owlngMo the confusion Incl ' dent to the 'catastrophe. ' Not all the dead have been Identified, but' It Is stated that the list 'will reach J . . The chief dispatcher of the Seaboard at Raleigh has. ordered II coffins from the undertaker at Rockingham. The blame for the wreck has not been placed. The passenger train. It Js "said,-, had.' no orders to meet the freight,, and It Is tha presumpMon that the freight overlooked , Its orders. - One report ascribes the cause of the wreck to have bean a lap order, stat '..CI jg that the passenger train had or- J ders to meet the freight at Hamlet, while the . freight's orders were' to meet the passenger train at Rocking- ham.- TWE.vrr nomrM hecovkhed. Vnr of tho Dead Wllts hn' Others (lolorrdTlie Vrok tlio WoTmI In t ."' the KhoarU's lll-tory Opt. Jewls Wrtl lirlovoil Farther le- talls pf tlt (tatnphe. ,-. y Hamlet.' July St J;B0 a. m Pas senger train No. 44 and first No. 1 1, which was a freight, collided head-on one and one-half miles west of hero st l:te' p.- m. to-night - Up to' this hour. I o'clock, 10 dead have been taken from under the debris, and 26 injured,, many of whom will die. , Japt. Frank B. Lewie, who was at the throttle of the paiuonaer train, was killed outright. II. H. . Byrd, bnsa)temkter, was the only other white person killed.' Oapt. J. l. Kowen was In rhsrge of the paaaenwr train end he Is the only one of the crew of his train that waa not killed. He eacaped with a rw brulaes about the hip. Knalnenr J. O. linndy end Capt V. II. Hunt were lit. chnrgo of the frrlcht train. Mr. I inmly Jumped ajid wna not sorloualy Injinoif. The eVinfrorh la th onl that CZAli KAMES KJSW PBEMIER STOLYVIX TAKES THE n . - REINS By Imperial Vkaao ' Oorrmykrn, WItte'a Hnocnmov. Is Removed itom l-ower and MlnlHtcr of tho Interior Stolypin ApfMlntel In HU Stead ; I'arUamcnt Hulkllng Cloaed and Gnarded by Police Following Ukase of Saturday Dlaeorving tike Present BodyNo Rioting Whatever In St. . i'teraDnrs.-v'. .'' -'.'S 'T " ' St Petersburg. July ' t2. -An Im perial ukase relieves M.- Ooremykin of the' premiership and, appoints - M. Stolynin Premier.',' He also ? retains his present poet , as Minister of the J interior.'. .-. 1 ,- -.r-v : M.; Etichlnsky, MlrflatV , of Agrl culture, has reslaned. r. . : The Parliament building waa closed to-day and guarded , by police, . who refused . admission except ', to the President and the Vice President of the House.'.. - : v s - : The streets ' are empty and bear the usual Sunday aaoect. ' ' Following la the text of the Impe rial manifesto dissolving Parliament: 'TEXT Of UKASE. " - "W called the representatives of the nation by ear will to the work ot productive legislation, confiding firm ly., in divine .clemency and believing In the great and brilliant future of our. people.-. We ejcpactad benefits, for the country from, their labors, we pro posed great reforms la all depart ments of national life. . We have .al ways devoted the greatest care to tha removal of tha ignorance of the peo ple 'bv the llrht of inatruotlon and to the removal of the burdens ef the people . by facilitating conditions; -of agricultural worr. - . "A cruel 'dlsaDDOlntment haa befal len our expectations. Ths representa tives oi the nation, instead of apply ing themselves to the work of pro ductive legislation, strained Into a sphere beyond their competence and nave been making comments on the imperfections of the fundamental laws which can only be modified by our imperial win. . in short the rep resentatives of ; tha nation have un dertaken really Illegal acta auch as an appeal to the nation by Parlia ments - . ' i: - . r ' t - WILL CARE FOR PEA8ANTS. " "The peasants, disturbed by such anomalies, seeing no hope for the amelioration- at their lot resorted in f-e number of districts to open pillage, aescrucuon or outer -peoples prop erty and disobedience ot law. But our subjects ought to remember that Improvement In the lot of the people is only possible under conditions of perfect order and tranquillity. We shall not allow arbitrary Illegal acU and shall Impose our Imperial will on the disobedient by air the force of tha power of the Bute. -.- "We call on well-disposed Russians to unite for tha maintenance of legal power and the restoration of peace to our 'dear fatherland. May calm be re-established 4n the Russian land. Msy Ood help us realise the chief- est ot our tsskx, that of reform? of the lot of the peasant Our will on this point Is . unshakeabte, and Russian husbandmen, without Other people's property being encroached Upon., will be supplied. In cases Where peasants lands are too small, with .legal and honest means for the enlargement of their property. Representatlvea of qther class will, at our request, de vote all efforts to the realisation of thla great task, -which will be per formed definitely. In a legislative manner by a future Parliament -NEW PARLIAMENT NEXT MARCH "In dissolving Parliament we con firm our immutable Intention of keep ing this Institution and in conformity with thle.lntenMon we appoint March S, 1107, the date for the convocation of the new Parliament by, ukase ad dressed to the Senate. . "With an unshakeable-twllet In di vine clemency and the good sense of the' Russian, people, we shall expect from the new Parllnmeat a realisa tion of our' efforts by their Introduc tion ef legislation In acoordanc-wtth the requirements of regenerated Rus sia. ' . "Faithful sons of Russia, your Em peror calls on yen to unite with htm for the regeneration of tho holy fatherland. We believe these grants In thought and action will appear, and, . that thanks to their assiduous efforts,- tha glory of - Russia will continue to shine.". ' . 1 , -V haa ever occurred on the Seaboard system. , The second-class car and the baggage car were telescoped and the passengers, all colored, in that - car were killed or Injured. ' It took about five hours to get the dead and Injured from the wreck. ah the doctors of Hamlet and Rockingham were dis patched to the scene and attended the njured. - - - .... .. it is impossible at this hour to as certain tha cause of the wreck. Capt Bowen ssys that he was given a white board at Rockingham. Capt Lewis, the dead engineer, .was one of the moat beloved men of the system. He had been round-house foreman up to two weoks ago and resigned to go back -to the road. t ...-- Passenaera and 1 mall were trans ferred. .The Injured were sent -on a special train 'to. Charlotte ihle morn ing, where they will be taken - care of In the hospitals there. v Blame Placed at Door ot Rocklngliam -'?'.'. Operator. js.rrv- ,;!; Special to"The Observer.,: : '."j. " :' Rockingham, July 11. 1 eJ m. It IS stated at thla hour, that dead bodies have been recovered and eight other bodies i are ,' pinioned In the wreckage.. - Thla brings the .number of dead to .. ,- - -..x It la further, rumored, thouogh the Information In not official, that the cause of the wreck was the failure of the operator here to deliver the or ders to No.'. to meet -the extra freight l',:.V i Sending Injured to Charlotte V Special to The Observer, - V, ' t Hamlet. July it. S a. m. Tha per sons Injured In the wreck near here will, be sent to Charlotte this morning on a special train. There are five white and eighteen-colored and these will be distributed among the Cher lotte hosnltsls. The .special will reach Charlott about S o'clock. . Hi Injured Brought Here. . , ? The anecint train bearing thnae In jured In the wreck near ; Hamlet reached Charlotte about S O'clock thla morn I nr. - The trsln bore twenty- three peritons, five white and eighteen colored. Two of the white pssieners were taken to St. Peter's Hospital and three to Mercy General Hospital, The colored were carried to the Oood Kamarltan Honpltal. It Is Impo-wlb' at this time to sacertaln the names. Dr.-H. f.- Wilder, the sro-aboard pti yule-la n, with a corps of other Char- otte phvuli larta, . hnwtllv summoned. met tho train on arrival, and att-r ed to the romovai and trtatmeot of the Injured. CZA U UbM n FA CE8 PEOPLE DOUSIA PREPAIUNO TO DEFV IT ITtas' Dissolving Parliament and IU Itesults Thus Far. Look Like tho Opening of tlxr Iint Act' In Uie Great Drama of the lliusdan Revo- lutiou, Immodlate jHsne. Depending . I poo the Array - Urea prepara y tioa Maile to Repress Masses , by . Force Constitutional Deniorrau A Biased -Members of Douma .- Leaving for llnland. There to Meet St Petersburg' July tt. With the Imperial ukase dissolving Parliament, which- was promulgated - early this morning, the curtain rose upon pos- slbllity the last act In the great drama of the Russian revolution. The peo ple and the xovernment now ; stand face to face, and upon the army de pends the Immediate Issue. - ; Even should, the goverhment how ever, succeed In restraining an but break -ot the people, . the victory probably, will only be temporary and simply confine the steam for the final explosion. No one doubts the sever ity of-the storm which will rise In the country In response to the Emperor's dlsDersal of the men .whom he wei corned Uwo months ago in .the Winter Palace as the Vbest men la Russia, but the die la cast' The government has elected to flrhL-and the capital to-day bore eloquent teatlmony of. the preparations made" to repress the maasea by force. Tne city waa paca ed with soldiers and -r resembled -an armed camp. . .. s : CAPITAL FULL OF, TROOPS. v During Saturday night v additional troops were brought in and disposed of according to plans previously adopted. These re-enforcements In eluded four Infantry regiments of the Chevalier Guard, hussars, mounted grenadiers, and a battery or .machine guns. ' Ths troops occupied ranroaa sUUons and the Bridges across ma rivers and canals, and the patrols of both Tollca and ' renaarmes ' were everywhere doubled. -Tha work of aatherlng In revolu tlonary agitators began Immediately after the ukase placing St Peters burg In "a stats pf , extraordinary security" waa- promulgated, and hundreds of arrests were made before daylight. v GIVEN DICTATORL1L POWERS. - The nowers conferred upon M. von der LAunltx. prerect or ponce, ana m. Blnovteff, Governor of the province, are HtUe ahort of those of petty dic tators. Searches and arrests can e made . without process of law, news papers forced to suspend puDiics- Uon and persons deported by ad ministrative order without trial, Public andmrtvate meetings are for bidden. Those arrested may, : If It Is desired, be tried by military courts and summarily executed. The only real difference between 'extraorai neary security'; and full martial law Is that power- is exercised by the so- called civil Instead of military au thority. . . r . - Although the news of the, dissolu tion of Parliament screed like wiia- fire among the members of the vari ous political organisations, the masses here generally are hardly awake to the momentous t event The news traveled fast-In the country and the general expectation Is that the peas antry, accepting the aisperea! oi par liament aa the final-, blow , to their hopes, will rise en masse. - MAJORITT PARTY AMAZED.. , The oroletarlat organisations have been preparing for months for Just such provocation to aeciare open wax. It Is impossible to describe the con sternation with which the Constitu tional Democrats learned the news. Aithouah It had been bruited for the jast three days, the ukase was re ceived cy tnem in Diana amaaemenv. Even fiaturdsy night's caucus did not believe the xovernment would dare to take the threatened step and seri ously discussed the attitude to be taken towarda Miniater or tne interior Stolypln when he. appeared In Par liament to-morrow to answer inter- pellatlons. - The xovernment undoubtedly cal culated on catching the opposition' oft Its guard, but If It expected to strike terror to the hesrts of the members ot Parliament It haa failed signally. Soma time ago when dissolution seemed Imminent tha various groups of the opposition virtually agreed to follow the example of tneir Jrrencn compatriots of the States General and meet, if driven out of the Taurlde Palace, wherever' and whenever cir cumstances dictated until a constitu tion waa firmly established. - . ' POUMA MEMBERS TO FINLAND. -After a hurried secret conference this, morning It was decided, on ac count of the possibility of tha mset lng being broken up and the mem bers arrested. - that they go . lm Immediately to Finland and decide up on the course to m. pursuea, - ana msll groups left this afternoon and evening by ' train. . ' Whether word was given them to meet at Viborg or Helslngfors is unknown, but It seems probable that Finland In future Rus sian history will become synonymous with "the tennis eourf'.of the French Revolution. . Even, Count Heyden, the leader,- and other 'members ' of ' the' Right are understood to have depart ed. It la quite Improbable, however that Parliament aa a body ' will . at tempt to formally set up Its author Its against that of the government. .: EVEN PEASANTS TO STRIKE.'; The Constitutional Pent jcrats and Intellectuals generally recognise that they have no weapon with which to light the government bayonets. - The Initiative, therefore, .. naturally Will fall to the proletariat y This the So cial Democrats and the-Group of Toll In parliament all along have recog nised, and the moat elaborate prepara tions ha vs been made to repeat the laetlrs of last .fall and paralyse the country with a general strike., .But the plans st this time have been per fected with much more deliberation and Involve not only the paralyala of cities, telegraphs, rallrtMds and all means of communication throughout She, empire, but a complete strike of en iwnts In the country, as Well. They confidently believe the loyalty of the troops haa been so shaken that the military supports of the government will give way snd that when put to the tost the army will , be , divided agalnat Itself.,, J7-. .;. ;; ', r.:... vw ... FOREIGN POWERS f NOT . NOTI '.,: , FIEU. . ,-' ;', ; perhaps jh most remarkable feat ure of the events connected with the (IMaolutlon of Psrllsment Is that the xovernment carefully avoided notify ing the representatives of the foreign powers of what was coming. No word of official warning was feelved even by the representative of Uusjila's ally, France. -.' The only Intimation thnt eomethlng was about to happen was tho appearance of guards - at the embsaxiea, loaotlona and consulates jhortiy aftor tnldnlglit, but this morn- AN CVPnOFTTABLE CROP.. - Many Tobacco Growers Abandoning ' ... tlie Weed for Hettcr-Paylna toie Figures Slwwlng Deterioration in Special to' The "Observer. '''., " Rcldsvlllc, July 12. Receipts yf tobaooo on the Reldsvllle market, far the' past week have' been the lowest of. any. week during, 'the present sea son,, which' Is doubtless due to the fact that - everybody, has about sold out all of the totacco on hand. There will not. be much more of the: 1 JOS crop . on the market.. The local to bacconists hear, good reports ; from the' different sections snd they are looking forward ' to a fairly ' good crop this1 year. The Reldsvllle mar ket will be in -f good condition to handle H and the -ware housemen are now ready to take cars of primings whenever they come on the market Although-tobacco is the chief lr)-i duatry so far as the farmers In this section are concerned. It la not be lieved that such will be the case sev eral years from now. Alresdy some of tho tillers of the soil hsve been taught by sad experience that .h)y can da so much battel raising othir crops and ' others are following suit each season. . Ths price drops lower year by. - year and It haa about reached the point that the remunera tion- is not worth tha trouble The Observer's ' correspondent haa - In hls possession statistics showing the number of pounds .and prices paid for the weed on the Danville market (and they apply about the same to the Reldsvllle market), which shows that such la the case. In 187B 14,- 47,4U Bounds were sold for II.- 0OI.J14.17. -or an aversge of $20.45 per hundred pounds. Ten yesrs later. In 1885, 17.017,404 pounds were sold for 15.011, ll.l, or an average of 418.B4 per hundred pounds. In 1404 40.140.844 "pounds were sold for !. 117.(44.41. or an average of 17.74 per hundred pounds In the year 1475. while the Danville warehouses only sold ' 14,474,411 pounds, they realised.. 43,002,111.11. almost ss much as tbey did for the crop of 1487. when 44.498,454 pounds were sold for M.OH.ftt.lf. SEABOARD DETECTIVE DROWNS. f t ' eass"a Mr. 43eo. F. Flu water. Head of Rsll- road's - Police. - Organisation, r eii Between Two Tag Boats at Ka vannali Waa Onardlng Company's Property From Strikers. . Observer Bureau, 1208 Main Street. Columbia. 8. C. July 21. Mr. J. M. Harrison, the local de tective Of the Seaboard, received a telearam to-day - summoning him to Savannah' at once on account of the drowning there at 1:48 this morning of Mr. Oeorge 8. ntswater, tne need detective of the. Seaboard system, who has been In . Savannah recently In charge of "IS- armed assistants protecting the road'a Interests in the strike there of the stevedores agalnat the Coast Line . and $lorgla Railroad people. , " Mr. ntswaier waa powsnui man physically and a good swimmer and that he lost his Hfe by drowning is a surprise, as well ss a shock, to his Co lumbia friends. It seams that the Sea board's whsrf is off on ailttle Island from the wharves of the Coast Llns and Georgia roads, and Mr; Flts weter hss been using a tug to patrol his company's property and prevent the strikers Interfering witn tne stevedores at work there. Persons arriving here this evening say Fltswster. in attempting to step from one boat to another, fell Into the. water between and has not been seen since. . . SONS, OF VETERANS OFFICERS. Commander-in-Chief Owen Annonnces lAt of Stair Appointments ana in , nomerable Asslstanta.. Montgomery. Al July ft. Dr. Thomas M. Owen, commander-in- chief of the United Sons, of confed erate Army, In two general orders to that organization hss made his an nouncements of staff . appointments and official standing committees of thw confederation. Tha following staff ' appointments are made to ran trom April i, isves Inspector ' General, W III T. Sheehsn, Montgomery, Ala.! , quartermaster general. Richard G. Banks. Montgomery,-' Ala.: commlsssry general, Leroy 8. Bovd. .Washington, D. C; Judge ad vocate gsneral, John A. Collingsworth, Humboldt Tenn.; surgeon general, v. Hamilton, M- D., Rome, Oa.j chsp plain general, Rev. J.. W Caldwell, Jr., New Orleans. From twslve to seventeen assistants to each of the sbove are also named. A. C Sexton, of Montgomery, Ala., Is adjutant general and chief of at alt. Tha order reearoing ma appoint ment -of standing committees In cludes seven, the hlstoiial, relief, moa- ument, finance and womon a memorial committees, the- Joint committee on co-operation between .Veterans and Sons and the. executive committee on permanent archives.: ;.-.v. ;4" 1 v. - 11 ' " THRKE NFXJRO . TRAIN MEX DIE. FrVlglria Collide on 'Central of - Oeor- gla -Conductor . inims Tiiat lie and Kngtnccr Had Item on Duly aw. uvsm, , .. '. ,, v Fort Va ley. Ga., July II. Two freight trains met In head-on collln Ion on . the Central of Georgia Rail way two and a balf miles south of here at 4 o'clock this morning and three negro trainmen were killed and Engineer' Yets wss seriously Injured. About fifteen cars were ruined. Ths wreck was caused by the negligence of the " northbound conductor, who failed to read his orders right and claims that he and the engineer had been ot) , duty for nrty consecutive houra. -. ..';.'. ;; :,.; . Weevil-Proof "Cotton Found.. '. Apparently . n.M.. 'k Hahm tt, '' Tttlw - Am. liouncement that a variety' of cotton known as "triumph" cotton Is appar ently not attacked by ths boll weevil was maae io-uny or rmiornoioxim NeWell,, of 'th Slate crop" com mis slom ir'V. ' ?"'-' ' '"V- -' Thla plant Is announced to be free from some other cotton , pests. . It yields over halfa bale to the acre and is noUsensltive to weather con ditions, v , . ';,..:.- r ', '. , Ing, lmmedlstely sfter the guards had been, stationed, notes were sent ex. plaining the measures taken to pro tect the foreign representstlves. Up to this evening- no other communica tion, has been trsrismltted to them. There were several conferences of diplomats thl afternoon concerning the advisability of asking, for war. ships, or at.-least dispatching Ships to take off foreign subjects in case of neceiwity; nut no concerted action waa 'decided Upon. . To-night-' ths trains are filled with foreigners goipg abroad. ' t - -. v SPENT THE NKJIITON TBAIN WRECK' HARD ON PASSENGERS The Accident Near Kalbsbtrry Trivia hat Folks on Anotlier Train Were tireatly Inronvenlrnced Bkicklna of Tranlo (mplete Plana for tlie 'next rfau under way oneora wi . - fleer After an Alleged A;lallsnt. Special to The Observer! v - Salisbury! July tt. The Wreck on the . Western' Road last : night was cleared up by o'clock this morn Ing and the trains are making their usual . schedele runs 1 to-day. . Front the newspaper standpoint It was an Inconsequential thing, something that is name to nappen every day on tne yard. Five cars - were derailed, but from whet cause: no one .seems to know. Thse went off In a cut and their blocking the track was com plete. The place was filled and tt was Impossible to remove the ' destroyed freight and timbers until late In the night Upon hearing of the accident The Observer's correspondent ran out to It and found It a trivial ' thing. Lightning and th rain broke up com munication with Charlotte. There was no injury to any of the crew. ' The passengers on the train may be a trifle hard upon the road, but there is no going behind the fact that they have a righteous kick. The new Western train runs almost always on time, It la due here at 8:30 and the derailment was wfthln two mtta of Salisbury;-Notwithstanding this,-that train came In on time and - waa halted at - the wreck, for an all night wait Many of the passengers waded through the rain and mud to Salis bury and others waited until 4 o'clock' this morning before they were brought Into the city by the train that had been delayed. It la less than- two miles to the wreck and there wss a full passenger train stsndlng ready to go out for houra, but no effort was made to convey the weary patrons of the road to their destination. Some who were going further lost their connections and It was a miserable way to spend tne night Those who complain do not. ot course, understsnd what methods have to be employed by the officiate here to run a special train out from the city, and the wires on tne Western are proverbially unde pendable. - But there are few to dis pute the assertion that the way to spend a comfortable night la not In the open on a day coach without bed Or board." " ' AFTER ALLEGED ASSAILANT. Officer Johnson, of Concord, waa here yesterday after Paul Bost, a colored man. w-anted In Concord on a charge of asssultlng a colored woman. Bost hss been released from the chain gang In Rowan and was happy over the prospect of en- Joying going back to his home for liberty. He will be prosecuted for his lack of gallantry and probably go back to the gang. ' , The men In the coppersmith de partment of the Southern shops yesterday presented to their resigning foreman, Mr. W. 8. Plckler, of Halls bury, a beautiful watch chain aa a memento of - their association with htm and as. a token of their regard for him. He has been three years at the head' ot this 'depsrtment and stands In high favor with the men under him. Ha will - travel for the Southern - in 4he- same cspsclty and department In which he has been working . and will, continue his resi dence In Salisbury. Mr.'Plckler's place will be filled by Mr. W. M. Stalls, of Charleston. 8. C, from which place he cornea with flattering testlmonlsla Mr. L. Barker, who runs the Elko Prlntery and Stationery establish ment, of this city, has moved his quarters on Inntss street snd hss now the most stylish and beat-atocked enterprise ever projected In this city. Besides owning the best equipped Job prlntery In this section of the State, he haa put In a large atock of the finest stationary, stenographers' and typewriter supplies and every conceivable thing used In the com mercial life. It Is not merely a shop of utility, but a real ornament to tha street which It grsces and a credit to the taste of the proprietor. THE NEW JAIL The architect drawing the plana for the new Jail hss been la the city recently and It Is very likely thst ha will begin soon to work upon tha site, which. It Is understood, will be near the present ons snd the prettiest In the city. As noted some time ago In The Observer, the Jail Is going to be built since the matter cannot be made a political Issue. The storming of the old structure saturdsy night July 14. convinced all -who looked on of the frailly of the rage holding the murderers of the Lyorly family. This Institution will cost something like S20.000 and will be one ot the very prettiest In the Bute. . From messages received from Mr. Whitehead Klutts In the Eastern countries, he and Rev. W. A. ' I ro be th are hsvlng a great tour. They have been given the privilege ot visit ing the House of Lords and House of Commons and heard Balfour speak. They visited Psrls In the early part or the month ana , nave viewed tna tomb of Nspoleon. They are now In Italy and will not stsrt back to America Until the latter , part ot August. . . . ' . . . ..' The Dorothy iewis mock company, which haa played an engagement at the park here, -haa disbanded and a portion of the company will go to night to Charlotte to Join tha Peters Stock Company, plsylng at Lett a park. These people have proven themselves artists in their profession snd' have -plessed Salisbury greatly. Mr. and Mrs. Kendall, who nave been tsklng lesdlng psrts In "The 'Oay Parlslenne" and "A Hero In Rags," do especlslly clever work, Mr. Ken dall being , a decided - favorite In Salisbury. Fulton Heights park will continue to run aa usual. v.. Mr. and Mre.T. J. Northey, of Charlotts, are visiting-Mrs,. Northey's relatives here and win remsin in Rowan until Thursdsy. Mrs. Nor they will spend to-morrow in Mocks vllls. Mrs. - Jsmes L. Turner, of Charlotte,' has been here the ,(past week on a visit to ner parents. Mr. snd Mrs. W." IV. Jsmes -Mr. T. It. Vanderford. Br.,- went , to WsyneaVllte Inst night to spend to-nay with Mrs. Vsnderford. Mr, B. Walter Tat urn Impending the day In Hendersonvllla with Mrs. Tatum. ,, ' y .; ', .; y PIIONK LINEMEN' STIIIKK OFF1. Union Takes Official Action Regard ing Contest With Hell Company Koine- VnonWtlonabkv SlriWiTS to he Ite-Kmployrd. ... Atlanta, Ga July f 1 The strike of the linemen of the Southern Bell Telephone and .Telegraph Company, which was declared by the Electrical Workera' I'nloa on April 14, wss of ficially Called off by. the ofllclata of the union to-dsy. 1 c - . The telephone company hna agreed lo employ as many of the strikers as thi'V I'ntilil uo, eiu-e tiling such ss had been guilty of objectionable con duct since tha strike waa dot-larsd. BUSSELL SAGE MEETS END HEART FAILURE AT AGE OF 7 At Noon Snnday Aged Financier Was Seised With Sinking Spell and Col . ' lapsed. Dying Two Honrs Later ' Had Been in Exceptionally Uood Health Klnre Arrival Six Months Ago at His Summer Home on Long Inland Mrs. Sage and Her Brother Ksecutors of the Will. - New York. July ft. Russell Saga died auddenly to-day at-his country home, "Cedar Croft" at Lawrence, L. I. The Immediate cause of death was heart failure, resulting from a com plication of diseases) incident to old age. , The veteran financier would have celebrated his 87th birthday on August 4. Mr. Sage had been In ex ceptionally good health since his ar rival at his summer home, about six months ago. At noon to-day ha waa seised with-a sinking speel and col lapsed, falling into unconsciousness about two ' hours before his death, which occurred at 4:80 o'clock. - There were present at the end Mrs. Sage, her brother, Col. J. J. Slocum, the Rev. Dr.- Robert Leetch, Dr. Theo dora 8. Janeway, ot New York; Dr. J. Carl Schmuck, a local physician, and Xr. John P. Munn, for many yesrs Mr. Sage's family ' physlclsn, who was summoned from New Tork when- the first alarming aymptoma were manifest... , The funeral services will be held on Wednesday at the West Presbyte rian church In West Forty-second street of which Mr. -Sage had been a member for many years. The in terment will take place In Troy on Thursday. Mrs. Sage and her brother. Col. Slocum, are named as the executors of Mr. Sage's will. TRAVKUNG MAN'S TRAGIC END. Homer K. Morgan, ' Formerly of Ashevllle, Found Dead In a Street In Chattanooga Supposed to Have Fallen From Window Remains Taken to Henderson County for Interment Special to The Observer. Ashevllle, July 11. The remains of . Homer K. Morgan, formerly of this place, but for several years a traveling aalesmsn. who waa found In a dying condition on a street In Chattanooga. Tenn., thla morning. will be brought here to-morrow morning and from here the remains will be taken to Henderson county, the old home, for Interment Particulars of the trsgedy are lacking. A message received by a brother here to-day stated 'that his brother was dead; thst he retired to his room on the third floor of the Southern Hotel st 11 o'clock last night, and waa found on the pave ment In front of the hotel thla morn ing at 4 o'clock. He waa taken to a hospital and died two hours later. It Is supposed that the unfortunate men walked in hie sleep and fell through, the window. Mr. Morgan waa about 28 yeara of age, waa born In Henderson county and had made Ashevllle his home for a number of years. The mother and brother of tha deceased reside here. Sin ERE ELECTRICAL STORM. Vounsr Lady Struck by Lightning, Hut Not Seriously Injured Freaks of FJectrlclty. Special to The ' Observer. ' Newton, July ,22. A very severe electrlcsl storm paused over this pluce between 8 snd 10 o'clock Isst night. For more then two hours the lightning flushed Incessantly and the rain fell in torrents. Men who had left their homes snd congregated at the hotels and stores found It diffi cult to resrh home. Home complained of feeling the effects of the electric, lty In dlsslness while out or doors. Suddenly the telephone bells all over town rang violently and all the elec tric lights want out As the members of the Methodlat church choir were going home light ning knocked Miss Vena . Little. daughter of Dr. J. B. Little, down, She wss Immediately picked up and carried Into St. Hubert's Inn. but It wss sn hour before she regained con sciousness and could be tskea home. Fortunately otherwise then a little nervousness, she Is this morning suf fering no other 111 consequences. All water courses In this vicinity are out of their banks, and coasldersble corn and peas blown down. It wss by far ths worst storm wo have had this season. NEGRO HELD FOR Bl'llGLAIlY. Ernest Holme To He Tried In Howen fin His Life Funeral of H. M. Smiley. , ; " '- Special to The Observer. , - Spencer, July 22. Ernest Holmes, colored, wss bound over . to . court here yesterday afternoon . on the charge of burglarising the home of H. W. Holt at thla place. ,The bur glar was aesn tsking a watch which wsa afterward found on Holmes, who was srrested for the capital offense. He Is a desperate character and will bs tried for his life. The crime and the rapture, following so soon after wards, crested a small sensation here and feeling ran high for a time. -The funeral -of -H. M, Smiley, who waa killed in a wreck on the Albe marle branch of the Southern Friday night, waa held at .the late home of the deceased here to-day. Rev. J. K. Gay officiating. . The Interment waa In the Spencer cemetery. . . Mr, , Smiley was much liked by all who knew him, OUTLOOK FOIt TEXAS. PRIMARY. No opposition to Ten of tlie Sixteen Congressmen Close Contest for , Govermsrslilp. ' .,. ,- . , , Houston, . Tex., July 11. At ' the Democratlo primary elections to be held Saturday, July 28. nominees for Governor and Congressmen In tha six teen congressional districts wilt be selected. The contest for the guber natorial nomination Is. very close. T. M. Campbell, O. B., Colquitt C k. neii ana m. m. urooke are ' the candldstes. ..- .... " , . ...' ' -,.,.. ; In the congressional districts, 1 ten of the sixteen Congressmen have - no opposition within the party. The fights are in tha second, fourth, sixth, seventh, twelfth snd sixteenth dis tricts. In five of those the present incumbents are .. making a fight for re-elevtlon. v v .. h vv--' ; -y,-FOUR KILLED IN WRECK. ' -. - 111 -, One Coach of Train fines Down Km - iMiikment ' tin Spokane Falls 44 ' KortlicraJtallway. . , . j :) Booksne. Wash., ' July , 21. Four men were killed and a number of persons' Injured, 'none fatally, tin a wreck on the Spokane Falls A North ern Hallway last night . One coach at the end of the train fleft the tracks while the train was nfrlng-a bridge over Henver crrok and rolled d'wo the hnnk, ciresgim one coach with It - The rest ot tho train crowscd the bit Ue lu sattoy. THE DOCTKIXE OF DBAG0 MATTER OF, MUCH IMPORTANCE Tills Doctrine. Named. After Its Ex ' , ponrnt, Dr. Luis L Dragn, of Ar gentina, Is a Declaration That No . Nation Haa a Right to Forcibly t'n- ' .' detfake lo Collect Debts Owing ta in Cltlseus by Another Nation- ' It Now Occupied m Secondary Plac v on the Programme of the Third . -Conference of American Republlca History of the Doctrine. ,.. . .. ..,'.''", , Washington, July tt. In a aecon-w '. dary place In the programme of what V Is destined to be one of the most preg- ': . H nant of International gatherings, tha Third Conference of the American Republics, Is set dowi the Drago doc- . 7 trine so named .after ,'Ia exponent1 Dr. Luis M. Drago, a learned publicist y; ot Agentlna. Yet In Its bearing upon v the future,, not only of the little re ': publics of the 'Southern Hemisphere.. . but upon the nations of tha world. . even upon the greatest, in their time. , . . of misfortune and distress, it should ' . easily command first place. , For, so cording to the Ideas of the orlgtna- ' . tor of the doctrine. It should mean , " the very perpetuation of their, Inde-; pendent national existence. . It educed to Its simplest terms;, this, doctrine la a declaration that no aa tlon hss a right forcibly to undertake . to collect debta owing to Its eltlsena' y by another, nation. And the proposl- .,. j tlon before the" Pan-American Conrer- " ' ence, which It Is asked to submit to ' ' ' the great Hague Tribunal, Is, to what.'; extent if at alt. the use ot force la v justifiable In the collection ot . auch V;" debts. Naturally, the question thua ;" ' propounded is of the most vital In terest to every debtor nation, snd " most of sll to the practically defence- . less republics of South and Central America. . ,'. ' . . " " REASON FOR THE DECLARATION. The three Americas were wrought', ' up to a pitch of Intense excitement In -1802 when the allied fleets of three ' great European nstlons Great Brit ain, Germany and Italy appeared oft ';', the coast of Venesuela with declared -Intent to collect by force debta owing by that Republic to their eltlsena A , few American warships were there. .' too, but merely as pensive spectators.' American cltisens were large creditors '. of Castro's government, but -tha y American ships had not come aa debt collectors. They were there to guard any Infractions of the rights of nsu- : trals; to prevent bombardments of helpless and defenceless porta; to re- '' strsln excesses, and. above all, to -'ook after American Interests Inclnd- Ing the Monroe doctrine. Argentina waa the first of tha.,. Southern republics to raise a note of protest, and It came la the declare-' tlon of the now famoua Drago doe- ' trine, directed by Dr. Drago. then ! , Minister of Foreign Relations ef Ar gentina, to the government of the United States through Senor Garcia ; Merou, minister of the Argentine Re- public In Washington. It aroused all of. .South and Central America. - It. even . excited sympathetic response from a considerable portion ot tha -pre as of America, and so strong Waa - the sentiment aroused that in dread .. of a hemispherical --consolidation ? -against them, the allied blockading -powers gladly availed of the good of- .... .. flees of the United States to submit the Issues between themselves and Venesuela to the arbitration of Tha -Hague Tribunal. EFFECT ON LATIN-AMERICA. ,. But a profound Impression haa been ; - made upon the South and Central V1 American republics by the blockade, ' ',' , and Dr. Drsgo's protest snd the feel- . ' ing of resentment engendered had not .' ' been lessened by the decision of the , august Hague Tribunal the "packed court" as they called It on the ground that the Judges represented only th . ' : great creditor nations adverse to ' Venesuela. . ; , The United States haa returned 00 ly a most cautious and discomforting ' rely to Dr. Drago's note In th shsp , of a reminder to her sister republlca that the Monroe doctrine shielded ; their territories against final annexe- ' ' tlon to European powers, but would not protect them against any lesser . action by their creditors, Th Presl- ' dent of the Argentine Republic re fused to accept this construction ot in- ' ternstlonsl relstlons and made ' Dr. Drsgo's declaration the subject ' of apeclal endorsement In an annual message to the Argenlne Congress and since 1801 this doctrine has been dis cussed In every South and. Central ' American capital. . . ;. There was no Isck of opposition. . : and notably Brastl, through her aemt nfflclnl newspaper preas, combutted ' the Argentine proposition, being her- self gnxlous to avoid her European creditors, but professedly-anxious to .' avoid the submission to a European . , -tribunal of a doctrine ' essentlslly ' , .' American In application. The Wash- Ington government also was not will ing st the time to commit Itself to the' Drsgo doctrine. There were many Americans owning concessions .. In South and Central America and th; West Indian republlca and possessing, bonds of those republics, whos horl Ings might be cancelled at the whim ' of any revolutionary president wer forcible collection made an Impossl- . , blllty.., " HOW IT CAME BEFORE THE CON- - FERUNCB. I The discussion of this Important question was academic , and without special significance until it waa sud denly, last winter, thrust upon the. committee on programme, composed ot representatives ' of tha principal , -' American republics then' In session - gt the State Department considering . '., tha subjects to be submitted to th Rio. Conference. Th . first proposl- tlon wss embodied In article 4 of the , programme, In these wordst ' . . - "A resolution recommending that ,1 the second peace conference at Th . Hague be requested to consider the extent to which the use of force for ..... the collection of publio debta Is ad rnlsslbie," ",t ;:.-: 1; .) '..r', J;k v . But not all ot the republics repre sented were willing, to admit that it was right to use any degree of force; a bitter contest ensued in the secrecy , of the committee room In this case th dlnlomatld room at the State e , i partment and finally a compromise tmnt 'anil . immii m 1 reached by the Insertion of the rds:' "Whether, and If at all" juwt Br the word "'consider" In the or- was n words afte Igtnat article. " Hut some of the South A are still of the opinion that t! tlon should n"t be perinlttf.i beforCsThe Il-iKue TrliMin shupo, so a 'spirited c able as the lUo enfr.M. , this propoltlon. lu fict. l i the putative suDinr of the bearing his nam.', r- '.- l to r bis government t-- c-nf.-r. catiMO H vim pr-'i I f Tic I on I
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