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f , a, '"N '. SECTION : ONE-Pages 1 to ; 20 Pages KCIIA1to;CU SUNDAY MORNINGi AUGUST 5, 1906 I ' PRICE ITVE CENT IYEBLY TRIAL' TO-MOEBOW . MUTTERINCS STILL IN Till AIR .; Spallation Rife at Salisbury to ' , Attitude Member of Irmer f Howut Mub Will - Assume Toward Alleged Slayers of Lyerly Family, ' ; ' ' Wltoae Trial Begins To-Morrow ' ' There Are Still Vague Stuttering - -YV., of Lynching Prlitouore '.. Will, be j viiardil by Armed Man SoUiltor I A Hammer on . the Scene .Early "5 SeJibury News Notes. . , -. Spatial to- The Observer. ' . Salisbury.- Aug. . 4, Oflloers late - last- night brought Jim Draper, vicious negro, to Salisbury from Sugar ' Springs, the notorious tough suDuro of Salisbury, and landed htm In Jail. ' ' Hs had -been badly mistreating his . 'wife and Officer Rufty sent for, help before the arrest . could be made. When the ' Salisbury deputies ; came, ': v the negro -turned upon-r them and 7 at ruck Mr. D. W. Julian, a violent ' blow on 4he hand. Nevertheless he -' . was choked -Into Y submission, and ""':. brought up. Draper . bears a bad name and la a fighter from the word go. H was making himself, a terror In the community when a stop was ; put to It by the officers. He will be -;Jt tried on several charges x at, the Au . runt' turn, at eourt ' n .1 " . . Solicitor Hammer to hereMnd 'fsdy ' : for the trial Monday In which , the alleged. Lysrl murderers are to be arraigned. -He 'i on the 1 ground early and will watch everything that goes on. e naa peen 10 Kowan re cently and has the case for the Flat ' down aa fine as any one could have .- with the evidence before him. There t r much speculation as to what will ' ' become of the . negroes, who are to ' , be brought here Monday. ' That tiore will be an armed force of men here cannot be doubted and the Jail yard ' .-will be kept cleared. '-The man who - . goes Into It will have to give a mighty good excuse for -himself. - From the . amount of mattering going en. one ' ' cannot tell what la going to' happen. The talk of lynching has not abated . altogether and there Is a professedly good sentiment against .allowing the , ; law to deal .with the case because of : V the atrocity of the deed. -Strange and, unreasoning la the prejudice' of the , laity against the lawyers, who wllr de- lend the black wretcnee, wno are en titled to a fair trial.- ' ' - ' r-r This -afternoon Mr.' John 'Mowery . '' sustained severe ' Injury felling fpom the dray of his brother to the 'I hard pavement below. -His head was . badly- braised and be was taken to - his home, where his 4 wounds i were ' '' dressed. The Injuries are not serious . enough. to lay him ap-fer s vcon ' " Mrehli time. ' ' -' ' ( Mr. Warham B. Paid win.- wha has . been In Ballsbury for the paaf i months, left this morning for Bedalla, Mo, " Where he will be stationed In the future. Mr. Baldwin has - been manager of the Salisbury Gas Works . here and goes to. Bedaiw to taae tne .; same bat larger. work. Oolng with ' Mr. Baldwin will be his popular mother," Mrs, Lyman- H. Baldwin, ,. 'hm ahort stay herd, was .so wel . eome a sojourn that all' hoped, for . . permanency, xne ww i-nnu vc" . spare thpm-nnd they, will' be gone ; ."' CARS QUJDKilUhLJSQiiirWVi Head -On CreWi Btweea Cam on Ike - fhore Etoccrlo Roeut at VenuUllon. . - Owing to MIssnderKtood Orders core Injured, one wiaiy. . r'" ( Vermillion. O.,' Aug. -In a headn en oollUalon. between h (wo passenger ears on the Lake Shore Electric Road this afternoon, two people were killed outright, a third was tetany injurea. ' while probably a score more were m bound Lake Shore electric limited . crashed Into the-regular No. II east bound three miles -west of here -and - the limited was telescoped more than - half way through Its length by the west-bound car. - Both were running at a high rate of speed and the two ' .cars met at a curve. About SO per ' eons comprised the pissenger list of the two cars. The collision is saia to ' have been caused by a misunderstand- ; Ing of orders. The Injured were re- moved to a hospital in juaraio. ; W. 33. M06DT, Beach Park, Ohio, motorman on limited.- FRED SMLLJCT, aged II, of Lima, The faUHV Injured: " - -James Yerrick, Great Western OU - Company, Milan, O concussion of the brain.-. :,'' " ' ' - Most of the Injured are residents of Cleveland and Lima, . . ; ... , MOST WITNESSES LOCKED TJP. V,.!r; - ,' - . efaMtaeaBMSBi ' . ' St err to 'Thwart Efforts to ' Cause . Charges of IVonage Against Jlor ' ' Ula Lumber Concern to EaO. . . Pensacola, Fla., Aug, 4. The Unit ed States -commissioner before whom -was held the. preliminary hearing of the charges of peonage against tne Jackson Lumber Company has order ed every witness In the case, - not ' ' resident of Florida or who Is not well known to him, locked up In Jail In de fault of ball, and all will be held un , til the next term of the United States - Court This action Is reported to have been tnken because of the dlsap - pearance of Henry Lambert, who tes tified Monday that he had been horse- - whipped after ' being caught with bloodhounds. Other witnesses In the . case have stated, It Is reported, that they have been approached by. un known parties, with propositions to " pay their fare to New York and not , to -remain here to testify,- further In the .case, -V',., j. ,- .- v :- LEOISLATOn tO rEyiTEJfTLiRY. Sentences - In Latent ' Orftow ' tsind -, Irauds Trial Others Convicted, Portland," Ore,, Aug. 4. Wllllard N. member oL tha Oregon Legle- of 1101, a wealthy contractor timber dealer, to-dav was sen- V ,.ced by Judge William H. Hunt, 1n - TT,(I,4 'UtiiU, Plpoult ri serve one year's Imprisonment in the Federal penitentiary on McNeill's Is land and to pay a fine of 12.000. Jones was convicted' of conspiracy to defraud - the government . Thad dus Stevens Potter, a well-known Portland lawyer, who was tried and convicted Jointly with Jones, was sentenced-to serve alx months In the county Jail and to pay a fine of 1100. LORD "DOUGLAS TO LET IT DROP. VMtm of Mistake Forgjvcs Police Who ArresUHl Him as Ilogus Lord Douglas, the Digamist. Portland, Me.. Aug. 4. In the case of Lord Sholto Douglas, who was de tained by the police here, it is an nounced that the authorities had ex j.rrxfied thi-lr rurfll It their mls tnke and Lord Douglas said he de rlred to have the matter dropped. J,ort potifflns was mlniaki-n by tha 'i.lic aiiihnrltlcs f-r the boR-en "Ird Ifouelan," fio Ih winlKil liy the North Cartel in poilt ou tiio tlmrga of big amy, " , - i BOHAIVNON CONFESSES. Arrested In Danville, Va.. Negro Ac kiumkxlgca That He Slew t-oreman' lieacliaui Drought Back to Worm Carolina. Special to The' Observer,- Danville. Va.. . Aug. ,4 Frank Bo- haunon, the negro who was arrested here .last night for the murder of Foreman Beacham near Greensboro last Tuesday, confessed to the killing to-day Bohannon has been in- i)an vllle -since Thursday but . up to last night succeeded in evading the police, Wheh arrested he was not told for what offense he was wanted until carried to the station, where he ac knowtedged that bs ' was the slayer of ths whits i man. 1 - - - ' -When interviewed by The Observ er's correspondent Bohannon showed no sign of being sorrowful for what be had done end declared that Beach am and the other white men at the camp.had.treated .hlnvbadly.I: When arraigned he will likely plead that Beacham attempted, to shoot him with a pistol before he fired the shot gun. - Bohannon did not know . that Beachamr was dead until, arrested by the police. . He wilt be carried back to North Carolina to-night and every precaution will be taken to prevent mob violence. : -. e IN. OUILFORD JAIL. Some Talk of "Lynching Bestcluun'i , siayer But umrtais do aot r aw Special to The Observer. ; ; " Greensboro. Aug.' 4. - Frank Boi hannon who shot and killed Foreman R K. Beacham, at Hilltop Tuesday, ls-ln Guilford county Jail. He was brought here this evening from Dan ville., where he was arrested last nlgnt Out of an abundance or cau tion, ; Sheriff : Jordan had the train stopped half a mile from the depot and , the prisoner was taken on and carried-directly to -the rail. While there has been talk of lynching, It la thought that no attempt at anything of the kind wilt be made. : - Kelser Crutchfleld and son. - Oscar, who were arrested Thursday night. are -still in JalK They are charged with conanlracv in the nlan- to mur der the foreman. They have retained counsel and-will vigorously light the case against them. .. . n FOR REMOVAL TO U. 8. COURT. Motion FVd at Durham In Case of Blat-kM-HI Durham Tobacco Com 'fMUy, of Thlav State, -Against the American Tobacco Company end Others, , . Special to The. Observer. - Durham'. Jlua. 4. To-dav a motion for removal of the case of the Black well Durham Tobacco Company of this ' Bute, against, the Blackwell- Durham Tobacco Company, the Amer ican Tobacco Comnanv. of New Jer sey, and others from the State courts ta the. Circuit Court of the United States , was , filed , with the clerk of Supreme Court 'In this petition It Is alleged that the defendant companies are ciuxens or a foreign State and that the other parties named. -C." W. Toms, . W. W. Flowers and D. . W. Andrews are only, named for the pur pose of "defeating the Jurisdiction o! the said circuit Court of the United Slates." Bond In ths Sum of SS00 I given- te pay the costs In- case, the makers of this motion have te pay the costs. This is ths litigation recently Instituted by. the newly incorporated Blackwell Durham Tobacco Company. TEXAS REPUBLICANS SPLIT. State Conventions Called at Opposite Ends of lite Huge State, ilace (Jucs tloa, lie In gBone of Contention, Houston, Tex., Aug.. 4. RepubU ran conventions were held in most of ths counties of Texas to-day and. because of a split in the ranks of the party in many of, the counties, ' two conventions were held, delegates be ing selected to attend State conven tions te be hid at El Paso on the call of the State chairman, Cecil A. Lyon, of the regular Republican party, and at Houston on ths call of A. C. Ache- son, of Denlson, as chairman of the reorganised eUpubllcans. ... The party- disagreement was caused by the allegation that the Lyon con vention Is to be held at El Paso to prevent the attendance of negroes. the railroad fare being too heavy for many of them to get to ths western border of the Bute. . - . ' FELL THIRTY FEET. Yonng Carpenter, of Corpus Christ 1. Texas, Hus tains rainini injuries at Oreevsboro, . Special to The Observer. ' . - Greensboro, Aug. 4 Bruce Ar lington, a young carpenter , was se riously injured at I o'clock this morn ing by falling from a scafford at a house in course of construction on West Market street He fell - a - distance-of 10 faet to the ground.' His leg was broken Just above the ankle, and he received a number of painful bruises about the head and chest Physicians were summoned and they hastily rendered the necessary atten tion. . He waa removed to 8t Leo's Hospital for treatment" Toung Ar- rlngton ' came - here two - weeks ago from Durham. ' He is a native of Cor pus Chrlstl. Texas. Hs Was resting very well this evening. - '. ' ' . ' '" ' " HELD CAPTTVK Br BLACK HAND. 8S-Year-Old Italian Is Found Round and Uegged In a Hallway Wltlioai Food or Water for 80 Hours. -New' York.' Aug. 4. Pa aqua I a Gre- coas, aged 15, who was reported several days ago as having been kidnapped by a mack tiana gang, was round in the hallway on Eleventh street gag ged and blindfolded with feei and hands tied. - He told ths police that sloes late Tuesday night he had been a prisoner of several Italians, who had given him neither food nor water In 10 hours or his captivity. . Eutcene Duche. a tailor. Who noti fied the police of Orecos' presence In the hallway, was arrested In suspi cion. (.'''... ''..;- . .. ... . ,,v Four Killed and IS Hurt In Crash of Eiertrio Cars," .'' ' Cleveland, O., Aug. 4Four pas sengers were klled and IB Injured as a result or a collision ' between east-bound and west-bound ears on tha Lake Shore Electric Hallway, a hort distance west of Vermillion, O.. this afternoon. Thirteen of the In jured are reported to be seriously hurt - -',.'.'' Homicide Dee at Texas Election. ; Cold BprtngN, Te Auk. 4. fn an election light here to-day, E. B. Adams. Democratic nominee for tax- woMf,-was instantly killed. Sam Adams, his brother, was shot InJhe eao, ana it is nontvea raisiiy wound- ed. W. Y. ltohertsnn was badly wonnded nd O. . W. - Wllllamwin minded, but no lnna;rotiKly. Wll- linmwon, it u alleged, did most of the liooUnj. 1 ' , SOUTHS NAtlO.NAL BAKKS Bf ANY NEW ONES ESTABLISHED With ExoepUon . of Middle Weetern States, teouth M All Sections of - Union In EHtabllshnient of Natlonnl ' Ranks During Period From lttUO to " 1005 and Forthcoming Report of Treaaury Department for Pat Rear Is , Expected to Give This Section - Anotber fine Showing The lire .men Cotton 6plnners Convention. BY, W. W.-PRICE.. Special to Th e5 Observer. -f')is' Washington, Aug., The Depart ment of, Commerce and Labor has re ceived, a report of the cotton spin ners' aqd manufacturers' meeting that waa held In Bremen, June 1 5th. This convention discussed conditions of the cotton TIndua try, .speciaLi tonslderattPO having been given the growth of cot ton in this country, methods of baling, cost of transportation, etcv . This re port will be of special interest at this time, ' Inasmuch as the . two; agents, Messrs. Whittam and Clarke, rocently ) appointed by Secretary Metcalf to go abroad and Investigate markets for American cotton, goods, 1 are now In Washington receiving instructions' In their work preparatory ' to taking up lueir duties in foreign lands. . At the Bremen meeting there were present-a large number of delegates ana representatives from It different countries. Many carefully 1 prepared reports and papers were read- upon a variety of technical and commercial subjects. The question of cotton sup ply, cotton statistics, cotton growing. moist cotton, etc., were thoroughly uiscussea. . . .. . CONDITIONS IN' . SOUTHERN ...V ?,; - STATES.' .V - As the United States sunDlles about 75 per cent of all the cotton in the world it was natural ' that the chief topics of discussion dealt with con ditions In the Southern States.. commission was appointed to com municate -with cotton exchanges and with American cotton- growers and shippers, and to- do alt In its power to bring about a more satisfactory condition. It Is expected, that this committee will take up the matter assigned to it at once. The grievances chiefly -complained of and- laid at -the door of American cotton merchants were' that they were In the- habit of selling large quantities of damn cot ton, thereby entailing- a heavy loss on the spinners who psy for cotton and not for water. Spinners say that too many bales out of the 7,000,000 sold to them each year have too large a percentage of water. Much. of the wet cotton Is said to be caused by leakages In old presses used In pack ing the staple In the gin houses. Spin' nera. also complained that much of the American - cotton was damaged while in' the possession of the grow er, he allowing it to become water- soaked . before selling on account of Insecure covering. It waa. - pointed out that-vnany Amertoaa -sotton bale. are put up in a napnasard way and in various sixes and dimensions, ana that often ne effort 'is made to pro-H teot them in any way at the railway depots or on the docks at tha ports: la fact that there is nos warehouse or storage room available to accom modate more than a small fraction of the crop while In transit and that therefore spinners are not surprised to find many of the bales landed In European ports in a filthy and dilapi dated condltlctt, with a superfluity of heavy burlap dangling about them tattered and torn, while the Egyptian bales reach the same markets in i more compact form, of a more uni form slse and weight and with a lighter and tidier covering. ' The' fact was -brought out before the convention that the world's con sumption of cotton Is growing at -the rate of 400,000 bales per annum, and that American f cotton planter has lit- tie to fear from other sources, . It Is believed, however, that there Is room for much improvement of our Industry generally. ."-' MANY' NEW NATIONAL BANKS. The forthcoming annual report of the Secretary of the Treasury Is ex pected to show that' many national banks have been established through out ths South generally during the fis cal year that ended June 10, not The tnduatrlal development of the South , has caused many corporations wanting to do a banking business to secure commissions during the last few years, and It is expected that when the shewing for tne year just ended is made It will be a good one. The re port will also show what banks have been made . government depositories since the last fiscal year ended. From March 14, 1800. to September 10, llOt, there were organised In the Southern States a total of 171 national banks, employing a capital of lit, SOI. 500. These were: The States of Virginia,' which organised SI banks with r a capital : of t,B7l,000; West .Virginia,. 41 banks and $1,804,- 000 canltal: North Carolina, ti banks with IflO.OOO capital; South Carolina, ten banks . with f 010,000 capital; Georgia, 40 banks -with 11.141,000 capital; Florida, II banks with $1,- 550.000 capital; -Alabama. banks with . fl.l6t.IOO capital; Mississippi. II banks with 11.455,000 capital; Lou isiana, It banks with 11,485,000 cap ital; Texas, tit banks with 111,565, 000 capital Arkansas, II banks with 1,450.000: .Kentucky, 7 banks with 14,010,000' capital; Tennessee, 17 banks with a capital' of $1,410,000. The total for all Southern States was only exceeded by the total for- the Middle western states, wnicn reach ed the enormous figures of 111, 461,- 000. These States were Ohio, Indi ana, Illinois," Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa ' and Missouri. During the period that the Southern States organised 171 banks with a to ut capital of $11,101,500, the New England States, consisting of Mains, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachu setts, Rhode Island and Connecticut had a total of only II banks snd a total capital of $6,115,000; tha States New Tork, New Jersey, Pennsyl vania, Delaware, Maryland, and the District of Columbia nrgnnlimd "445 hank with a. capital of $in;ltf,l00; he States of North Dakota. ' South Dakota. Nebraska, -Kansas, Montana. Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Ok. lahoma. end the Indian Territory or- ganlxed 171 banks with a total capi tal of llt.eis.ooo. in - Washington, Oregon, California, Idaho, Utsh. Ne vada, Arizona and Indian Territory the total number of national banks organised was 140 and the total capi tal was iio.sza.nvu. - The. fact that from 1000 to 190$ the 'Southern States . led erery other part of the United States with the exception of the Middle Western Htstrs is en excellent indication of the Industrial development of , ths CUlLOatf )VLN8 IN JLLIX01S ALL PARTIES' HOLD PRIMARIES Senior , Senator Eattilr Defeats Ex can KoiMUuulon and Congrcexniun V. Denomination- - and XongreaMinan . ' laoruuer, Boss of- Clik ago Itepub- lk-an Machine, ' Also Wins Out . c-D.igrrMi.an maiin lilkeulee, He- j mary Candidate for Senator Sing- i gular New Primary Law , Gives : . tieneral Satlaf action. , j , w, j - Chicago, Aug. 4 For the ; first time In the history-of Illinois all the primaries of all . the parties were held on the same day. The new pri mary law gave general satisfaction. In the tempestuous districts in Chi cago, the vote was large, but in the districts where there were no local contests the vote wae very light The greatest interest In the elec Uon centered, in the vote of endorse ment for United States Senator and for ;theominatloh" of Republican Congressmen In- the second and sixth districts, both in Chicago. The Dem ocrats had no candidates for United 8tates Senator. , In Chicago Senator Cullom received . nearly twice many- votes as : ' former Governor Tates and . from scattered returns throughout the State the indications are that the senior Sonator . from Illinois -will-carry the State. The total vote cast in Chicago for United States Senator was: Cullom, 14,783 Tates.' tl.lt7: Webster. 1.871. Congressman . William Lorlmer, of the sixth district and Congressman James: R. Mann, of the second dls trlct both- secured large majorities In their district. Senator . Cullom - i Far Ahead in - ji-Y-sv-.-.vN viuaago. Chicago. Aug. r.i 4. The returns from 515 precincts out of the 1,251 In Chicago' show that the vote at the primaries waa very light snd the Indications are that Shelby M Cullom.; for -United States Senator, will have a plurality over Richard Tates, .of about xo.ooo or so. STORY OF BIO EMBEZZLEMENT, ..,-.- r' ' . i i i President of Union Trust Co., of Pitts- burs;. Tells How Book-keeper Mix tion and Teller Wray Got Away, WitU 9123,000. f ' PltUburg."Aug; 4. Official knowl edge Of the $1X5,000 embexslement from the .rnlon Trust Company sev eral days ago was disseminated to-day In a statoment issued by 11. c mc Eldowney, president of the trust com ym.it j . A asisy eat sw ssas . w- printed in .local papers, so effectively had the matter been suppressed. - The statement says: "On Wednesday, August 1, while a book-keeper, C 8. Hixson, was on his vacation, a discrepancy was found In his books In the 'Union Trust Com pany. . Htxson was immediately ar rested and ha made a complete con fesalon. . ' i - .s . . . "In his confession he stated that acting Jointly with C. B. Wray. a tel ler, they had stolen $116,000, dividing the money equally, -Wray, the teller taking the mosey Off the counter while Hixson, the book-keeper, falsi fied the books. - The money was' all lost ; in " spcultlh,-Our auditors have vSrlfiedhw-cOpfeeHlon of Hixson to a cent namely, t $116,000. Hixson Is now lodged H the Allegheny coun ty JalL and the Union Trust Com pany will do all that is necessary to arrest C B. wray, who. has escaped. and see that he Is punished to the full extent of the law.". - -GOV. VARDAMAN'8 'LATEST. Appeals to MltwlMMippi Voters to Elect .Legislators bo Will Mop Appro lriatlons for Negro Education Wants Jim Crow Lew for Washing ton City. New Orleans, Aug, 4. An appeal by Governor Varuaman, of Mlssiasippl, to white voters to select Slate legls lators who will vols . to stop grant ing appropriations for the education of negro children, la reported from Brookhaven. Miss., where the Gover nor to-day addressed t fanners' meet, Taking up the negro question In Washington, Governor Vardaman said there Is need of a Jim Crew .law re serving - certain scats for negroes In that city. Hs said - Southern Con gressmen do not propose the enact ment of such a law because they are afraid' of criticism. He declared that If chosen to represent Mississippi in the United States Senate he would offer auch a bill at least once a year. He said that he would rather he Instru mental in securing the repeal of the fifteenth amendment than to wield the sceptre of King Edward of England. HOMICIDE IN KNOXULLE. . i ... - . - Traveling Salesman, Returning Unex pectedly to Hie Home,- Hliis la- Year-Old xouin found mere. Knoxvllle, Tenn., Aug. 4. Frank Brown, aged is, was shot shortly be fore midnight by Owen Nesbltt, 4 traveling salesman, at ths - letter's home, this city. Nesbett- returned from Chattanooga unexpectedly and found Browa at his home. Brown started to flee and. Nesbett shot him. the bullet ' taking effect In Brown's groin and after a short run he pltohed headlong into a creek, dead, his skull having been fracurad by the fall. Nes bett surrendered. ' t i CinCKAMAt'GA TROOPS CHANGE. some nilitia itegiments liCave - as Others Arrive, Third North Carolina Being Among the Latter. , - - ;. Chatunooga, Tenn ' Aug. 4. The first arrivals of ths National Ouard at - Cblckamauga National Park en campment have served their Urns and departed.' ' - , ,-. ,..- Ths Seventy-first Virginia. Third South Carolina and Second . Alabama were paid off and their, places ere oemg taken ny tne imt .Georgia First South Carolina, a North Caro lina regiment and a battalion ' from Mississippi.' Y -v v.- :,. NERVELESS SHERIFF REMOVED. - - . - -. t i Gov. Broward, of Florida, fiunpehds and names Muereseor to uniccr Who Jailed to Resist Lynchers. , y.. t 0 Tailahsssee, Fls.j Aug. 4. Governor Broward to-dny suspended front office Sheriff Oeorge R. Carter, of Citrus county, because he permitted, with- out adenuate' realsunve, two prisoners to be taken from his custody by mobs who lynched them. Frank Jordan be ing lynched on May 14 and .James Davis en Jane 7, thus outrsing and bringing ths dignity of the State into disrepute.-'') v-t .c ' 1 ' :''. K. P. OrHlihm is appointed to suc ceed Carter. - :.' -;ti ":'-' Aged BeptUt Edltw Dend. Wilmington, Del., Aug. 4. Itev. Os car Fllppo, for thlrtoe-n years eete tsry of the Iluptlst Publication Km-loty f phllsdclphla. died to-risy. lie wns 0 v'nr old. lie was at limes editor of various Baptist publications, .;.,, MUST .BUILU UEW J)EP0T CORPOR-VTION COMMISSION ACTS Order' Is - Ma!o That ' Southern and Carolina & Nortliwestern Improve f' DeHt , Fadlitlea . "t v Hk-kory .C (ieorge -K. Billings, Former Inmate of Uisane Asylum, Found Dead In Johnston County Creek and Case AttracU Attention Cur porn Uon ' Comniliwion- Sars RalUvads Must I Build Vuion Depots--News Notes of 'State Capital, v cr' ''" ' , f' - Observer Bureau, "T ' ' HI South Dawson Street,'",,-;," ' ,. -X VvRtlolSh,,; Aug.. 4. h . A sensational , story having ' been rubllshed . to the ' effect that George Bilings, an insane patient - of the f-tate Hosprtal here, had escaped and had been . found dead ' In a creek In Johnston county with his hands tied, Ths ObserrerV correi"pondnt Inter viewed Superinttitilent , McKee,- re-grdingthe-matterri-DrIcKee.jwy Billings' home Is In Durham and lhat his family,- knowing him to be insane, Sllowed him to go to. New, Hanover. From the latter county he was 4r.t to the hospital, his family saying that was the place for him. He wis dis charged as cured and was ahK to work for himself; He went to Cary,, then to Wilmington and Duplin tuuu- ty, being sent from the latter place to the ho-jltul.v Lf st August he recap ed. No member of the family ever visited him while In the hospital. The cc roner of Johnston county reported to Dr. McKee that an unknown white man's bedy,, much decomposed, was found In a creek there with his wrists tied with a . grape vine. The governor and Dr. McKee sav the latter la hpbo and Is probably somewhere Ma the state. MUST BUILD NEW DEPOT AT . HICKORY. The corporation commission orders the Southern and the Carolina & Northwestern Railways to. within 10 days. Improve the passenger and rreignt depot 'facilities at Hickory The order for such Improvement was nrst maae three years ago and tbone railways began altering the old rta lion in the center of the town, but tne cltixens stopped this by Injunc tion, claiming the land belnngnd to the town and that the location was so cramped the extentlon of the dep.t would be dansrerous. The Sunreme Court so held but decided the South ern Hallway owned the depot slg-M. Unde the. present order a new site must oe cnosen. Governor Glenn respites until An gust 14 a man named Whitney, con- viciea or aeauction in Stanly and under three years' sentence In the penitentiary. Attorneys Jerome and Smith were here to-day to see about tnis case. The Governor orders a sneelal term of Pitt' court for one week be ginning August 17th to try criminal cases, Judge Shaw to preside. ine war .Department directs that $12,000 be set apart this year for a rifle range . at the permanent en campment The range will be ready for use by the First Regiment but not in complete snaps.. It Is decided that all military stores shall be kept at Raleigh, as heretofore, and that Cot Alfred Williams shall bs detailed on special auiy as a special quartermaster gen eral to have charge of the arsenal. stores ror issuance to the First Reg! ment began to arrive to-day. Those ror tne second Kegiment were de layed:. There Is no change In the situa tion as regards tne strike of the car penters here. The ranks of the strikers received one aceeaeion to-day. bringing tne total number up to 140. The president of the local union. Mr. Barrpw. says the strike Is only ror a nine-hour day and that It Is not the purpose of the union to say that contractors shsll or shall not employ union men only, the only point being to secure the shorter day, leaving the employment of. men entirely to the contractors. The Observers correspondent had an Interview to-day with one of the best known building contractors here, who. when asked about the strike of the carpenters, said he did not think it would Inst long and that he thought the strikers would come to their senses in a few days. That they had be-n led away by speeches which have demoralised them. He added that a number of carpenters from out of town hsd ap plied for work but that none had been employed because it was be lieved the men now out here would soon return to work. One man came here on the railway, saying that he wished to be foreman and would bring ten men with him. The con tractor said that the strikers would quickly see that they were wrong and that It was not possible for the contractors to psy them ten hours' wsges for nine hours' work. He added that If the demands of the strikers were conceded, then similar demands would be made by the bricklayers and other men In the building trades- Lieutenant B. E. young, the now Instructor In military tactics at the Agricultural A Mechanical College, Is to report hers for duty next Mon day, Me Is a very capable officer and has been for . a considerable time Instructor at Jefferson Bar racks, St. -Louis. A charter Is granted the Michael- Green Manufacturing Company, " at Ltncolnton. to make furniture and other articles,- from .wood, capital stock $60,000. v - , Recently 'the corporation commis sion made an order, for a union de pot at Lumberton. TO this the Sea board Air Line excepts, making the earns exceptions which have been filed in all eases ox tnts cnsracier, namely that th commission has no Juris diction and that Its order violated the fifth amendment of the united States constitution and the : fourteenth amendment also and further by fore- ns- one railway to -enter Into a con tract with another road. it being further set forth that the order la unreasonable, arbitrary and unjust and amounts to .- a confiscation , of property. -"" ' ? ; ' The corporal ion commission aiso makes sn order that' the Soaboard Air Line and the Durham 4k South ern Hallways shall build a union tatlon at Apex, in mis county, with in 00 dsys. , ."'" ' Mr. , Henry Clsy Brown, clerk of the corporation commission, has gone to Albemarle - upon news that his brother, Mr. J.' M. Drown wss paralysed. Tha , latter was ror. a number of years one of the clerks In the House of BepresentaUes. - To-morrow., the new passenger schedule on the Ytalelgh ' A South port Hallway between hre and Fay etteyllle biicome effective, There will be two, trains each way. Many Halelgh people will visit Faynttevllle, the schedule being very convenient This road Is an Independent one and t a .member or the -associated rsllwsya. , "'''; There Is a movement . to have Suwln Hannon,' the child of 11 now n the penitentiary for murder. iiu-cd In the hands of the North Ciu-ollna Children's Home Boolsty. The matter is to be taken . up - at once.,'- i-'"'-.-:Y" .':". .'. "' ' One of the, colored carriers rn the postofT.es ; hers Is in trouble,, charges against him having .been, made by an inspector, these being for with holding and detaining, mail. It be ing stated that 'falling to make his route in the required time he took mall to the Doato0.ce and secreted -tt it remaining there two daya. Hla dismissal has been recommended - to the Postoffloe .Department The ne gro. P. W. Dowd. was bound to Fed eral Court He gave bond and Is still on duty.:;'.,-'.' Y-. ,c-( Y" FOR MURDER OF MOSE HUGHES. Da:!d .L. English Is - Arrested at HartHvillrt, S. C, Charged With t Crime Former Convict . ' Taking Business Connie in New York State oongaree River FaUo . . . . , Observer" Bureau, . - y , iea u,i a,a. ' .- ,; v Columbia, 8. C : Aug.; 4. '' ' Therlver having fallen-five -feet during the night, the Southern's Con- garee river bridge near this city, which was being weighted down last night by coal cars and heavy en, gines, is now considered out of dan ger of being washed away, though no trains win do irustea on it tor sev eral days yet, nor untU the river gets to a normal point where . the foundations can be thoroughly over hauled. The river has been twice as high as now on several former occa slons, but the bridge wss weak by reason or tne remodeling work -going on at the time of the freshet. The Florida trains and the trains be tween nere ana Augusta pass over this bridge. They are . being de toured by Denmark over the Sea board. A large force Is now at work night and day, however, building connection with the Seaboard Con garee bridge nearby. This will be finished by noon to-morrow, after which there will be no delay in travel. Later the bridge gave way, a bit after the weight was removed, snd tne span in danger was loaded up again, this time with five large coal cars weighing, with their loads, 70 tons each. Hoyt Hayes, the Oconee county white man whom the Governor sav ed from being hanged and finally pardoned, la taking a business course in foughkeepsle, N. Y. In a letter to State Chairman Wll lie Jones, Representative W. P. Pol lock, of Chesterfield. to-day an nounced his withdrawal from ths race against Congressman D. E- Fin ley of the fifth district Mr. Pollock Is Just out of the hospital after an operation for appendicitis, and Is not physically able to make the canvass. Mr. Pollock was one of the ablest men In the House and his friends no doubt regret that they will lose the chsnce to push him for Congress, David L. English, formerly of Union county but recently -clerking In a store st Hartsvllle. Darlington county, has been arrested there on a warrant charging him with being an accessory lfi the murder of the ne gro, Moae Hughes, whose body was found In the Tiger river at Union two months ago. It Is understood that there is also a warrant out for Douglas English, a brother of David. Immediately after the Inquest two white men, W. R. Gil liam, a Union county farmer and Douglass English. of At lanta, were arrested for the crime, but they were released. This week before the arrest of English two ne groes living In remote portions of Union county, were arrested for ths crime. The esse Is In charge of Pinkerton men. English's father has denounced the arrest of his son, saying David was not within 160 miles or union ror six months prior to the murder. COLORED ORPHANS HOME. It Will he Formslly Opened at Win ston-Kalem To-lar I tent 1st As sociation Adjourns Forsyth Xews Notes. Spoclal to The Observer. Winston-Salem, Aug. 4. The elec tion in Dewlsvllle township Tuesday resulted In a defeat, by a vote of II to II. for the proposition te levy a special tax to be used in the es- tabiishment or a nrst-ciass scnool in Lewlsvllle. The colored orphans' Home will be formally opened to-morrow after noon at I o'clock. Dr. D. Clay Lilly, of tha First Presbyterian church, will deliver an address'; to the colored people on mat occasion. The home Is located on the Wash ington read between the . Lexington and Thomasvtiie roads, it Is a six room house and has about It acres of Isnd adjoining. The - movement for sn orphanage home of this kind waa begun last summer and tha col ored folks Interested have pushed forwsrd In their endeavors to afford an asylum for ths orphans In this section. Mr. Jtramle Rivers, hostler on the Southern Hallway yards, came near being burled alive yesterday morn ing about I o'clock. Mr. Rivers hsd fired up the engine and waa running In to the place where it should leave whan it suddenly turned over, tearing the csb so badly, that it will have to be taken to the shops. Mr. Hlvers stuck to the engine and It is certainly a miracle that; he got off with only a few bruises. ' . The Pilot Mountain Baptist As sociation, which has been In session at Waughtown since Thursday, ad journed this afternoon. The attend ance or preacners ana jay memoers was quite large and the proceedings were Interesting and profitable. Features of to-dsy's session were ad dresses and reports on ' temperance and Sunday school work. Two or three obituary notices were read. BAN PUT ON FEVER VESSEL. - . . eBBBBSSjasesaeass .'-',-', Almost Entire Crew of tlte Whitehall. from Colon III witu uiagres r oves at New Orteans., New Orleans. Aug. 4. The stesm- er Whitehall, from Colon, to-dsy was declared a menace te the health ef all porta and orders were given by tne State board of health to bold her In definitely at the Mississippi quaran tine station. Ths Whitehall has one of the worst fever epidemics on shin- board In ths records of tropical ship ping, having arrived here two days sso with an outbreak of Chasrea fever. With the death to-day of the steamer's second officer, three, of her complement oY 11 men have already died and II others are In the hospi tal, quarantine officials say that the Whitehall entered the Mississippi river with .scarcely enough wall men to 1 run her. So great waa , the amount of dirt snd swarms of files on her decka that the nerves pf experi enced physicians wers shaken as they bosrded her. Bryan Views Milan Exposition. Milan, Aug. 4 William J. nryan to-day vlsltod the International Kx position here, ' He leave MUtin to night for Vetilo. where he-T-1il mout Axnbuaaador .Vvblto, ALL DETEXUS ON TKOOrS .'.--'. -. -i .-I ,. , .,.'.! , . . DESPERATE -GAME IN RUSSIA, Revolutionary Leaders Admit Tliat It Government' Military ; Support , Stand Up aa at Svenborg and t rmi. stadt They Will be Losers, While . Authorities Seem to Welcome Tee ;. as Means, of Scotching Revolution Nearly 70,000 .strikers in St. -Vetemburg, Bat Many Umthoidas- ' tic St Petersburg- Full of Troops. i t Petersburg, Aug. ; With a. general strike formally declared anl -the country apparently on; the tares- ,' " hold of a gtgahtlo struggle, minor is sues fsds in the - background. If the strike tnsugurated to-day gathers sufficient' headway to endanger the v life of the State It has virtually been, dealded that Grand ' Duke Nicholas Nlcholaievltch will be named com mander of all the troops In the empire "where martial Jaw- exists," which. would be tantamount to tha decreeing ' ... of a military dictatorship. , ,. ' It Is possible, however, that the government will not be driven to this extremity, ss ths showing made to- , day. by the St. Petersburg proletariat ' was not Impressive. ' Although nearly , , 70,000 workmen are reported to bo out at nightfall, many of the men ap pear to be entering the struggle with heavy hearts. ...- ... -f.tY. :.. HINGES ON TROOPS' LOYALTY, t- ' Moscow and St Petersburg, or rathr . . er St. Petersburg, sre expected te de clde the issue. - The railroaders, up an whom the Initial success depends. , although committed, hsve not yet ' formally ordered a strike. On the Y ulterior object of the proletariat lead- ers, which at present Is masked, most : depend the attitude of the troops. If Y the military supports of the govern- : ment stand up aa the did st Sveabors and Cronatadt the leaders acknowl- -edge that the game Is lost; but even, so. they declare that defeat If It fprces ' the disaffected portion of the army to- show its colors, will only prepare the Y- wsy ior nnai victory. .-; ,. ,'-; ,, While the authorities undoubtedly are snxlous, they manifest equal con- naence that the army will not tail the Emperor in a crisis and that the strike will prove a dismal failure. . Indeed. the faction now in control seems. to' -welcome sn immediate test In the con-- vletlon that It will be able to scotch ' the revolution for a long time to come. ? CAPITAL, WELLi GARRISONED. -To-nlght brought Increased excite ment throughout the Industrial sec tions of the city.. Although the police are re-enforced by mounted pstrols in the central districts of the city, all Is quiet there. In the work- men's quarters there was ferment. Dragoons and Cossacks were In evl- . dence In the principal streets and . police pickets, armed with rifles, were"' at almost every corner. Nevertheless ths correspondent heard orators sd- . dressing crowded meetings st many places. Searchlights from a cruiser at tha t Baltic works snd from the roof of the building are sweeping the Neva and several torpedo boats built. In the - United Ststes are scurrying -up and ' down the river. No collisions of lm-. portanee were - reported np to mid- v nlght . , ... . . , . . v ., BESTIALITY OF THE REDS. v , - Novo Vretuye Reviews Tlorrors a Oonstadt as Show Ing What May be , Kxected If Mob Oeta Vppertisnd Broke Iegs of Woman and Then v SUboed Her to Death. St. Petersburg. Aua. 4. The Novo- Vremya, the only unofficial paper to sppear to-day, declares the nation seems determined to eommit harlksrt -snd reviews the bestiality of the mutineers at Crons'adt In their at- tacks upon ths officers as showing what the country may expect If the . mob gats the upperhand. The paper says ths mutineers tied a rope with ; stone at one end around the neck of one of the officers snd threw him in- .' to the lake, where he was drowned; beat In the fsce of another offlctr wit1-, the butt of a rifle and broke tha Ins of Mme. Jacobl, alstsr of Col. Alex anderoff, who threw herself btween lur brother snd some sailors, whllr J ( the latter were forcing their way lute their house, and tanbed her t3 death with buyon-ts. It turns out that the servants of Col. Alexanderoff and Cspt Vrlchlnaky delivered them up to ine mutineers, anj those . ervants were among the murderers who w-r . tried by drumhead court-martial an t shot When they were offered the " services of the priest six of the men ; sentenced to death refused to accept ' ins sacrament ana only expressed rc- ptDtanctt. TRAIN KORBERH GET $40,000. . Government Money Stolen in Livonia ' a. a. M . ' .tuniftu ami i-oiimi noeiaiists Issue Inflammatory Proclamations. V j , Warsaw. Auar. I A t. !-?,. m e-M Llbau says that train robhors to-day,' oeiween udid ana - Hstrpot stole 140,000 of government money. Eight passengers were wounded In detend fna? tha train. Amnnr tKm ik.. ' consul general of . Brasil. M. yon Rupnlevakl. , and a German ; named -Grundmann. . A plan to liberate ' the political . Prisoners here wss betravad ta .. m. authorities to-dsy. , v Several civil servants and policemen - who . were, Implicated have been arrested. NO SEMI-LIBERAL CABINET. Y Premier Rtnlypln Breaks Off Negoti- ' a I . .. Ma 1 1. a , a a a . "in us umoii Mm Sion- Moscow. An g. 4. Alexander Cuch. koff, . a member of the OctoberUis , party, whose name has been men-' tloned In connection with the make up of the proposed reorganised cabl- net returned hare from CH. Potcr..- burg to-day. .He announoed that the negotiations for the formation of a non-bureaucratio ministry were bro ken off. - Premier Htolyplrt declining ; to Institute Immediate -reforms. A bomb was exploded this after noon In a room In the Kasan-Moscow railroad station occupied by the train superintendent. Two employes Were .lima. .,.' When special editions of th news- ' paper to-day announced the lnau.ru- ' ration of a general strike In Moscow, the populace hurriedly .began to In In supplies of food and other necen-1-ties of llfo. Thus far the ceMUtloi of work has not been general. , - . 1 ' l ' asesSHBSBsaSBasg e , - II RIOWN UP BY OWN BOia Party of Moscow Worknkcn Hfcrt ! They Ilea mtenieii tor J r , . London. Aug. 4. -A dispatch fr-- Moscow ssys a number of world i had prepared to reowlve with b' detachment of troop si-nt ; hem when one of the bmi , msliircly exploded lv s ' 11 tploded the other hHil"i. I 1 tr k int-ri 1 1 ,', '-i " ! nixny ru I), i 'J ." I Injure I. .
The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, N.C.)
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