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t :t i 1 i i ! y ! I r . v SUBSCRIPTION HIICE 3.00 PER YEAR. CHARLOTTE, N. 0., MONDAY MORipNO, 4 NOVEMBER 26, 1906. PRICE FIVE CENTL -'b' U 1 fill 1 ; Ul VC i i S' I I V ' -'r THE TflAW MUfiDES CASE BIAY HE CALLED IX DIXEMBER PtIhoim Has gudfatly Declined to i Allow Inrroductioa ol an Emotional Insanity Vice, Saving-, It la Held, J lutf He Prefer Death' In an Uco , f trio Chair to Life In an Insane ' Asylum MecMnjr, Courtship and Wedding of KvHyn Nesblt to the New-.- xork Millionaire A , Deep liove Between the two jmbcs .Thaw's Incarceration. New Tor,- Nov. 21. The trfalvof Harry Kendall Thaw, slayer of Stan ' ,ford White, the noted architects will - probably take place during December or January. This trial la looked tor ward to aa one of the most famous : J cases In the criminal history of New York- Statu. ThA nramlnence of the Thaw famUy socially, the wealth of - nia parent), ui chvubuubco ' ui rounding the young man's marriage to Evelyn Nesblt the ertlsts'e model . and chorua girl, and the apectacular aclio in the midst of which he bred - the bullets into the breast of the . . man who , he claimed had betrayed his wife, all tend to attract , an ln , . tereet to the . trial extending - from , one end of the country to the other. ' For a kmc time 'an effort his been made to bare young Thaw rely ' . upon a defense of "emotional lnsan . Ity," but he steadfastly, has declined to give, hla assent to any auch plan. . and in hla determination not to agree ' to bide behind a cloak of Insanity, the cause which be Impatiently as serts to be Juat. he has at one time ' and another eince bis tonprlsonment dismissed aereral of the lawyers en- - gaged to help In bis defense, among them a fotner Oorernor of Pb state of Nw ;york,--;.y- v.;-? -;, .J -v ' 1 SON OF, WHaLTHT. PARENTa , ' The players in this extraordinary . tragedy of real life are each of them Interesting1. Uarry Thaw, the ever f wayward son of rich and" Indulgent -" -. parents, bad become widely known - throughout the country prior to the kMJog of Stanford White by reason ' - of the publicity given to many of hla 'escapades by, the newspapers. ; " Bis ' - father, 'the late William Thaw, was ' "one of PlttsbuJT8 rtcheat men. , He bad . eerry seen that Uarry was not to bw entrasted with a large Income -lost he grre himself over to a, We .4t loxurious Idleaeea and liberty. So when the eMer Thaw died he pro vWed that Barry Thaw should have only 2,500 a year.-.The balk, of the . ". estate went to Mrs. William Thaw,. . whose Indulgent lore for her child en was soon .made apparent' In the manner In which she lavished money .- . apon them. Barry Thaw. had but to ask whatever sum he chose and the mother gave it to hkn, , He abandon eo - nis - 3.tv a year income from the estate to bis valet. It la said that , the young man's expenditures often ' averaged as high as - SlO.fOO anfl -. Sloo.vOO a. year.. - . ' v . Four, or five years ago fhe Thaw famllycame Into unusual prominence ' through the announoement of the ea gagement of Harry Thawa sister to the Karl of Tarmoutn. This , young , English aottlemaa bad been la Amer- tT tf"rJ?(LI'r9 -5 --Jiii .lime.: n" wes - entertained at ;New- nor and at the end of a auooessful .-' season there, -during which he had -led the fay set In many amateur ' theatrical productions, be decided to .. earn a livelihood In this country. Bis efforts aloner this line were tad Iff er- v- ently sucoessful and then came the engacement and ' marriage to -- Miss (Thaw. Stnoe that.tkne the Earl and the Countess of Tarmouth have lived ' abroad. : ' - STORY of'becrkt wroDmd. ' Followina; 'the weddlne; of his els - fr.(Hinr Thaw also went abroad. -. When be returned to this country two - years ago no remainea in New xoric , Instead of going to his mother's borne . " In Plttshurg It was not Ions; before ; he was seen always In company with a beautiful young girl, Svelyn Nee bit, t who had graduated from the studio to the stage. Young Thaw - and Mlsa Nesblt were central fLgures cof many, theatre and supper, parties alontr Broadway, and there appeared ; In one of the local papers a story to, ne enect xnat,xnaw ana hiss iNee ' hit had been secretly married while ; abroad.. The fact of the weddlrw bad ,. not - been disclosed, it wae declared, because of the tear that a dlsnlea - . ed mother mteht out off the support , of her favorlts son. . The story of the wedding "was taken up ' evervwhere and the youns; peopte were kept busy wltn- denials. Their aoairs attxacud so much attention that they' were re quested to move from the fashionable ' hotel where they respectively- had been oocupyfha expensive eulvea. This r called forth more notoriety.',: The affairs, of the young ;- people were ' kept constantly before the pubtlo un til it was finally announced that Mrs. v Wilxam Thaw fad consented to her 1 son's marriage to Mies Nesblt There v upon they were ca'lcd - to Pittsburg. . and In the mother's home a marriage " ceremony was performed. , .---THAW SLATS WHITE.' . . ' It was late 4n the evening of 'June . U last, that the city and soon the entire country was rlngtns; with the trade news that Harry Thaw had . slam Btanford White, The setting ' for the fatal attack had been the Madison Square Roof Garden, where : - the first wight performance of a euny mer musical show, known as "Mlla . Champagne" was being given. - The - place was gay in flowers and molU colored electric lights and was throng- -ed With a fashionably dressed audi ' enoe. ' On the stage a man was sing Ing "X could kws a thousand sirla,". when suddenly aboye the muslo the pistol ' shots rang out.' . The muslo - ceased, the chorus girls and actors vpon the stage were tenror-strtcken, v men and women In the audience w dropped their glasses upon the tables before them. In the sUUness a man V was heard to say: ' - . ',. . - "You ruined my wKe, d you, and vow I've got you." - - ' 4 Stanford White lay; dead at the OLble- where. he. had - been sitting; Berry Thaw, In evervlng drene, stood with a amoklng piitol In his hand. 'Bis wife, who had seen htm fire the ' fatal shot, was Jed ecfeamin; away from the spot and Thaw was ar rented.. He made no attempt to es ' 'cape. -I: -, v --l ""'' White was vice president of. the ' Madison Square Garden Company and -was. the architect that famous structure In whose tower he had al ways maintained a atudlo. It was In this tower that Thaw had - charged time and time strata since his arrest ' that White entertained young women at the gayeat of parties. Thaw said he had frequently complained of theso atudlo parties to the ' Society for the Prevention of Vice and Jt has tftn et.'thvl on authority that this so .clcty had made enveral Invc ntlfratloni prior to the roof garden tragedy. WHOTE TO ailtL'S MOTIIEIt. : It has ben brotiht' out utrwe the shooting that White befriended jovelyn Nebtt and her mother when the young woman first win hrousht io this city to enter the -tu.iw.a aa a r.ioJoL Letters vbich r:;-)Bel be .1 tween White and the mother ef the girl have been published and they play an Important part in the trial. There have been reports that White sought : the frtrl'a society after her marriage to Thaw, but thta has been admitted by neither side end so far as they could do so, counsel for both sides have closed the mouths of . the moRt important 'Witnesses. - -' v- Thaw had aoupht his Justification In the words he jttered; his victim on the night of the tragedy. Be had claimed that under - the "unwritten law" no Jury : oo ul d convict htra of havina taken the ilfe of "the man who had traduced his wife In her in nocent girlhood." ; To these - accusa tidkia by Thaw the friends of Stanford White, many of tnera Influential men of the community, have declared that the architect's Interest In the girl was purely of a fatherly character. They said ho had assisted many young wo men to make places for themcelves in the world and that he was no more deeply interested In Miss Nesblt than he had - been In - a number of others about k whom no breath of scandal has. been uttered. , j " "- It' has been constantly stated that the Thaw oaee would 'never come to trial and that tne mysteries of its many intricate phases would never be exposed ' to the light of the public's rase, this conjecture being based on the . report that- a plea of Insanity mirht be entered and accepted.1 This nrobabllltv. however. It Is said. Is past. Barry -Thaw has- himself stood In the 'waytof any such plan. It Is asserted that; ln his rerusal to give assent to the Insanity plea he has been steadfastly supported by his wife, who, - it is also generally - re ported,1 has constantly urged her bus band . to take some action against White. . Mrs. . Thaw has been a daily visitor to ' the Tombs prison and Mrs. William r Thaw, who - was called from Europe when ' the tragedy occurred has also been a frequent caller - There nave been many famny conferences and many stormy Interviews In the young man's cell, his -. ' resentment - being shown every time the suggestion of Insanity has been offered. . ,"1 prefer death In the electric chair to a -life la an Insane asylum,'' the prisoner Is credited with exclaiming. Lewis Dalafleld. of counsel to the Thaw family, was first called Into the case. He engaged JOdge W. M. K.. Oloott, of the firm of .which former Governor Frank S. Black, is a mem ber . They had .hardly been la the ease a month when young Thaw after an interview in tbe Tombs uasmtssea them. - He called to his aid Clifford W. Hartrldrs." a lawver who had been hla friend for yeara -Now that the trial la approaching he has call ed Into the case Dolphin Michael Del mas, one of the most noted criminal lawyers of the Weet, who has come on from ' San Francisco to New York to take 'direction of the trial. ' Mr. Dehnas has been Quoted as admitting that the '"unwritten law", may. ho the defense -finally-decided upon. .-- District Attorney Jerome will have personal charge of the proseouUon. He declared he will ' Introduce only such wltnewtas as arer . necessary to prove that Thaw had' made threats against White and -the eye witnesses I Ue ahooting. . Jt , .wGl be fo r the If e0M)t n. itKslmnm, introduce any evidence bearing upon the past Uvea of the principals.' If this is rone in to, however, the district attorney will offer evidence to rebuttal. While the presentation of the prosecution's case will require only two or three days, at is expected there will be great diffi culty In obtaining 1 a Jury and that the trial may continue over period of four. or Ave. weeks., ' - , FOOTBALL CASUALTIES OF . IMC Eleven Killed . and 104 Injured ' In the TJnited , Btates ''Debrotallaed" . tYMtball Mas AooompUabed Largely What It Was Aimed At, . , Chicago, . Nov. -1 1. Eleven players were killed and 104 were Injured In the United States during the football season of 1104, according to The Chi cage Tribune to-day. , Th as fl cures are compared with .the. casualties of ltOt, when It players were - killed and ISO were severely: Injured, and, according to The Tribune, show that "debrutalUed" football , has accom plished In a large degree the object aimed at, to rendering the game lees dangerous to Ufa and limb. -. . ' . . The decrease In casualties Is es pecially , markedamo Iff hi B achbol players. -In the season of 1101 eleven high school players were killed And 41 injured, while In the season Just closed seven wars killed and 16 were hurt -r :. . --..:v.-..i1-ffA,-.. - All oollere and hi th -school games this year were played, under the new rules drawn .up after the . close of last season to satisfy the agitation for less dangerous football. " , - , - This year not one fatality has oo. curred'ln the games, playel by -the larger American colleges. . ' ; , WOMAN DIES , BENEATH WAVES. Attractive Brunette Who Boarded Iro . qnoia at Jackson vUle, Fbv, Suppos ' ed to Have Jumped Over board, - Jacksonville, Fla, Nov. IIj ''One passenger missing' la ; ihe report made by Captain v Chloheater ' of the Clyde ' Line steamer Iroquois, - when It. arrived , here ... to-day.. Miss A. Browning, an attractive brunette, took passage -on tne steamer at Charles ton yesterday for ' Jacksonville, She acted queer on the - boat and spent moat of her time leaning on the rail and looking sadly out upon the ocean. - suss Browning naa not raurnu io her stateroom at t o'clock this morn Ing, but was a till about the; .deck. When the steamer arrived here It was found that she was missing. Her berth had not been occupied and her open suit case,- cloak, hat and Vhoea were In her stateroom. It Is supposed that she leaped overboard at aa early hour this morning. ; . -r There are no letters or other things to Indicate her Identity. . . w y , "... . . ' inland: watekways MExrma Win Be Held at Wllmlnrton Toee tty Onjr-l to increase Trade Be tween South and North - Atlantic Porta.' !. v- - - - - -v .-. , - -, , Wilmlnston N. C.i Nov. 15. The Inland Waterway Association, which was organUcd in ' Columbia, S. C. several years ago to promote the con struction ty the vnitea mates. of an Inland waterway from Norfolk. -Va., to Beaufort Inlet, . North Carolina, will met here Tuesday. , The or ganleatlon isi composed of repreaen tatives from the commercial organi sations of Maryland, Virginia, North and South Carolina and Georgia. Their object. la to Increase the coast wise trade between the South Atlantic and North Atlantic ports by avoiding the dangers of Capes Ilatteras and Lookout - New Commandcr-ln-ciilrf Of UiC Ire- In ml l'oroe. s London, Nov. 26 Llubtenant Gen eral Arthur liciity I'oirpt has bfen ae- )fri-(i to micci-rd (Junoral Francis Wallace Orenfell es coimnnndcr-ln-cltlef of tn forces Uv Ireland, KfcK0UKC3 Ilia; MIKISTB Y DR. CRAPS EX DETDTES BELIEF Refuses to Stake Cowardly Betractloa ; of Belief Which Induced Church to - Terminate Bis JlUiiHtry In liCtter , to Bishop Walker. He Says, "I jun ; Cerlaln Tliat You Will Be Glad to y Acknowledcre TluU I am Not Cum , nelled to TlUs Action by Anything -.That Reflects Upon My Moral In tegrlty or CaUs . In Question f My 4 A-a-uuiuneae as a ranor." . - Bocheater. N. T.. Nov. zS. Bow. inr. to the will of the .Church, but reiusing to maae a icowardiy retrac tion' of the belief which Induced the Church to terminate his ministry; the Rev. Algernon 8. Crapaey, rector of t. Andrews church, of Rochester, N. Y to-day renounced hla ministry in the Protestant Episcopal Church m a letter to Bishop Wm. .David Walker. or the Western Diocese of New York. in tnis letter the Rev. Mr. CraDaey. re-afflrmed hia belief that the "no tion of the ortein of Jesus, that a son of man born, without a human father Is without . confirmation In history. He also asserted that "When I say of Jesus tnat he ascended to heaven, I do not mean and cannot mean that with his physical body of flesh, blood and bonesi he floated Into space and has for two thousand Tears been ex luting somewhere ln.the sky, In that very pnysicaj oay of flesh, blood and bones. Such an -existence would seem to me not glorious, but horrible." Declaring that he Is about to car ry the 'case to the. free intelligence and enlightened- consclenoe of the world, he counsels The hundreds of Clergy and thousands of laymen In the Proteetant Episcopal . Church, who have reached the same conclu sion' -as he has, not to he 'dismayed and to stay where they are.-- - i-X appeal," he says, "from" thosa la places or authority in the Church U self, to the great body -of people." Be asserted that he does not blame his ' Judges and though he bows to their wlU and feels that It Is final for him, he says, "I am equally certain mac it is not ' nnai ror the. enure n. When the apreat tribunal of free thoua-ht has decided this contention. the men who administer the Church on -earth will conform to .this dec! slon. n.v-' ..-..'!-, -vi-:-. ..,, . V HOLDS FIRMLY' TO GOSPEL.' Having let ro of the "temporary and unstable interpretations of the creed." he declares that ha holds mors firmly to the " Gospel. - In his letter Rev. Mr. Crapsey says: . "Under exIsUnc oonditlons I deem It my duty to make a formal and final ' demonstration to the - ministry of the Protestant Episcopal Church, and la consequence I ask that you will for reasons as to trme already given,' not earlier than the third, not later than the sixth of December, that order under Canon 41 of the General Canons of the Church to accomplish my deposition from the priesthood. "I am , oertain that you will -be glad to acknowledge - that I am hot compelled to . this notion by anything that reflects - upon my moral Integ rity or calls In question my faithful ness aa a pastor. My sols dlfSoulty lies In the fact that a long, careful, contentions' study of the holy Scrip tures has compelled mo to corns to certain conclusions ' oonoernlng the p re-natural history of . Jesus, which wars in physical accord with the let ter i of the creeds, and hence have compelled , me. In order to hold the creeds, to give to - oertain articles an Interpretation - that will harmonise them f with the truth aa . finds the truth In the teaching of the Holy Scrrptures. . .. , -'-t ; vX.".- "But .recent Judicial decisions have declared that , any such : harmonising of the creed with my own convictions of the truth Is not permissible In the Protestant Episcopal Church- In my own .' case I recognise the right of the constituted authorities ' of - the Church to define the limits Of inter pretation . and m ; order to hold fast to the truth, ' must let go . of the creed as now Interpreted - by the courts. I am not now and never have been conscious of any tnsincegty In rrvlng such interpretation to the va rious articles of the creed as are de manded by present conditions of thought and the present state of knowledge, any more than I am con scions of Insincerity when I say the sua rises and sets, though as a mat ter of fact the sun does nothing of the kind. .'';' - -,- . . . "If I am to hold the creed at all; I must give to oertain. If not all of its articles, - a . spiritual, rather .than a literary physical Interpretation. When I say of Jesus that he ascended Into Beaven, I do not mean, and caiynt mean that with His physical bod of flesh, blood and bones. Be floated Into space and has for two thousand years been existinr, somewhere In the sky, la the very physical body of flesh, blood, and- bones. . Such an existence would seem to mo not glorious, but horrible and such' a conception Is te m nit only unbelievable, It Is unthinkable. What I do. mean by this phrase, Is that Jssus, .having accomplished. His work In the flesh, ascandel Into the higher of the Spirit Also whmj I say of Jesus that He was conceive 1 by the Boly Ghost horn of the Virgin Mary, I do not mean that the grat and liv ing God order to get Into this world had to violate His wonder fut ,law of human gen-.reH.to, break Into sanctities of marriage and cause a son of man to be born without a hu man father. -.Such a notii Is most renugnant to my Ideal of a' wise and holy God. ' v 1 : v . "I was not therefore alarmed.' t was relieved when a careful study of Holy iScrtptures convinced me that this ntihnaff' the origin of fetus w.e w.tleiui foundation In' hlstirf. ; Jew was not leased In my wonuip. He ear. ennobled by this discovery. When I iai bed the conclusion, as I did some years ago, that the Infancy stories were not historical. X did not cease to believe In Jesus. I believed in Ulra all the more and I gave to the words "conceived by the - Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary,' an Interpretation that harmonised with my knowledge of the facts. He was a child of the Holy -seed, sanctified by His mother's womb, a son of God, In my mind all ths more because He Was the son of man.' ' , , DOES NOT BLAMB JUDGES. - ' ' "I know this conception of Jesus, based upon a careful study of the Boly Scripture la on the very wsrp of Intellectual and spiritual life, and It Is not probable that. It will ever change. . I will carry It with me Into that spiritual world, where I shall see Him face to face. But I am told by Judicial decision that this connec tion is not permissible In the mind of a minister of the Protestant Episco pal Church. X bow to that decision. I cannot change my , mind I there fore leave the Church. I do not blame my Judges. They acted accord ing to their JUht! let not them blame me if I follow my Mrht which la lighting me to- the everla-tlng day. liut whether they blame or not I-cannot do other than I do I must obey Ooi rather than men, - .Jut aiUie I Uiua fd that their SCHOOL SHIP IS BUBUED THREE OF dtirtiv ARE MASSING Of the 600 Aboard the Algeclras at ? Toulon, IVance, It Is Believed That None Dietl in Flame Had 1 Been Harbor Vexsel for . Years - Bnrnina; Created Greatest of Alarm Throughout Clty-Thoee . Mlwdng .'" Imat been Standing on Deck and , When Called Upon to Jump Into J thog Water. HepUed That They vvotua snot wtnm. ".. ,i V Toulon, France, I Nov, IS.--The Torrjedo' school, ship. Alegotras, ' sta tioned In this harbor, (was totally de stroyed by fire at a flats hour . this evening. ,- There were - S 0 0 .men on board when the fire broke,out but it Is believed that m6st of them were saved. : ; '' .y':;-; V'v : The Algeclras was. 'a ship of the line and for a number of years she has '-been, doing duty as a ; harbor vessel and employed as a torpedo training 'ship..- She X was of 6,047 tons displacement and was built in MM;:..!-. ::.-.. .'.- .... -: . The burning of the school ship created the greatest alarm through ouf the clty. New of the lire was first conveyed ' at about 11 o'clock, by the firing of cannon In the bar bor. v The people hurriedly left the cafes and theatres, snd rushed to the docks, whence , they could see the Algeclras, a . mass of flames In the harbor. The '.burning vessel stood out brilliantly In the encir cling darkness, and th glare of the flames lit up the - ' other shipping and the coast and Wharves. . - n . There was terrible - anxiety con cerninf the fate of the 100 men on board until the4 authorities an nounced that everybody had been taken off . in boats and saved, with; the exception of three. Those men did not answer the roll call and it Is presumed they were burned to death. ..i . c' ' . TUG BOATS' "O THE RESCUE. , The entire gar.tson here was call ed out to render assistance, and the. crews of the warships of this divis ion hurriedly launched their boats to go to the rescue of their com rades, who were on board the. Alge clras. for purpose of Instruction. , .Tug boats end fl'eboats, aa well aa several steamers lying In port slip ped their anchors and likewise went, out to help, a v.-.-',.') 1 Organised efforts-; were made to put her out hbt in vain, the flames spread . quickly to all parts of the fshlp and she was blazing from stem to stern, almost, before the men had time to leave her,. , . . As soon as the men had been taken off the flaming vessel, the ef forts of ths authorities were direct ed to safeguarding-' the other ships anchored in the viclnl'y of the Alge ctras. Including the'', lew battleship Patrie, and the torpedo gunboat La Hire. These two warships were tow ed to places of safety. The author Ities oame.rapldry to the conclusion that the Algeclras was doomed, and he was left to burn herself. -. The discipline maintained on board the Algeclras was s-ooellent ... A ma Jority of the men were cool and col lected. .. The tmall boats of . the Al geclras were launched, filled u with men and rowed away, while those who -could not leave in-this manner, awaited the arrival Of their rescuers. A few . of the men, however, were forced by -the flames to jump over board and swim away, Six torpedoes on board the schoolshtp exploaded while the men were, leaving the ves sel. -. -v '-- EXPLOSION IS AVERTED. There was much fear during-, the height of the fire that a torpedo mag ajdne on shore would become Ignited, hut was prevented by deluging- the mserastne with heavy streams of wa ter from powerful fire boats. - The Alfxeclras had been used as a school ship since 1804. s ' It -Is thought that the firs which broke out -to-night had been smould ering - all day lone hi. the vessel's bunkers; . this would account for .the sudden breaking out of the flames at practically the same time, on differ ent parts or tne snip. i -- .e , :, There Is some uncertainty in which ths . three mlasins; - man were really burned, or not It ie reported that they were last seen standing on deck, and. when ordered to Jump Into the water, they replied that they could not swim.'' ,i ' '-... I , C BARRICADED LY A MINE, Aged Miner Shoots a' Merchant " and After . Arming Blmself Descends Into a Sou-Foot Shaft . - v , Linton, - Ind.; Nov. 15. -Wv A. Wat son, a merchant of Midland. InL Is dying at a hospital, and Louis ShuIeyS an aged miner, who shot him to day, is at bay In the Tower , Hill mine at Midland. The shooting was ths result ot trivial quarrel during a game of. cardax After s sbooUng Watson. Shuley went to the home of his elster-ln-law and forced her to give him $1. . Shuley then entered the mine, 200 feet' deep, armed with a shotgun - and plenty of ammuni tion, A party Is guarding .the mine to-night: : -x. . t - . . . . .. . l ! . aUHed in Dispute Over Board BUL Knoxvtlte, Tenn., ' Nov. -1 S John Upton was shot and instantly killed near Cumberland Gap, t Tenn, to day, by James , Harrell. ,' Ths two men had a dfiputs over a board bill which Berrell owed him. Herrell claims ' that Upton was holding him by the throat aad threatening to kill him when; he pulled hie pistol and fired. Ths bau pierced - Upton's heart Berrell was . Jailed ; at Tate well, falling to give a five thousand dollar bond. .-:' .-. : decision la final for me, X am squally certain that It is not final for the Church. 'I have reasons to know that there are hundreds of clergymen' and thousands of laymen In the Protest ant Episcopal '; Church, who : h ' reached :uslon that I have, and sir, t beg to say to t In this letter to jm, i.iat their posi tion in ths Church Is Just as tenable as It ever was. "This Judgement affects no person except myself. 1 am about to carry our case to t..a high court of the free Intelligence and the enlightened con science of the world, and ' I win It there. I will win for every Church and every soul In Christendom. It la to the work of showing that Q6d la In man and man la In G that I co a se ers te the rest of my life. "Let no one think for a moment that I do not love (he Ixrd Jfus Christ and I would 1 ve served Him to the last In Bis Church, which Is to me the historic Church of ths great Ens;llsh-spaklrr race, If only its men In authority 1.ul 1( t me. Alt I asked Of them wa tolerance. Hut they have 'refused tn extend tolor anew to such aa I. arid I mn.it, with a grief which only my lirt knows, ac cept my dismissal from tbe service of ths CiiurU." '. II0K0ES TOSQK'S MEMOBY ' -e -SB-sjBseassiM '' LETTER FROM. JAMES ;' BBXCE Londoner Expreeees Regret at Being u Unalde to Attend Memorial Service) , , at lte-Interment; of - Remains of ' t Revolutionary - 7 . Hero Beautiful Tribute hid Signer of Declaration as a lawyer. , statesman and hoi- , dlT"Onj Cannot Review Record .. of Debates Coanected With I "repa ration and Adoption of Constitution Without J-Vding How Great ; Was 7, Value of Ills Contributions." . PhUadelphia, Nov, Burton Al va Konkle, seoretary of the Wilson memorial committee, to-day received a letter from - James Bryce, M. P., eulogising James Wilson. The letter was to have been read at the Wilson memorldt services on last Thursday, but did not arrive In time. The letter Is'as follows: . "House of Commons. .--,. v-v ,,'; "London. Nov. 7. . f'My Dear Slr--j ...-v.' ;v- "Had it been- possible ' for mo - to cross ' tne Atlantic now my duties here prevent my doing so I would gladly have Joined you In paying nan or to the memory-of James Wilson, a native of my own country and one Of the strongest and cleanest Intellects that Scotland ever sent to the service ui America, v.-.i ". . iV- ' ' "Few men, even In that great gen oration which Wilson belonarad aaual. led himperhaps none except John juarsnaii, surpassed mm in tne am plitude of hla. legal method. ; He had a wonderfully firm, grasp of principles and he knew how to supply them not oniy as a lawyer, but as a statesman. One cannot review the record of the debates connected wltn the prepara tion and adoption of the constitution without feeling bow great was - the value or his contributions.' His logic was always cogent; tola . good sense unfailing; his views of the political condition of- the - times altogether sound and sane.' f You are rendering i -irfiw w Aimncin consuiu tlonal history In thus commemorating a man to whom the constitution owes so much.; Very respectfully yours, r: '. : ."JAMES BRYQE." ;.' THE M. P. CONFERENCE, j Ministerial Delegates Fill Pulpits In . snd Around Rocky Mount The - Conference to Adjourn To-Dsy. 8peclal ; to The . Observer; Rocky Mount Nov.' 2 1. Surely the Lord of the Sabbath has smiled upon this city this day. - The city Is crowd ed in -the. balmiest sunlight; the pul pits are open to the protestant visi tors; Doctors Tagg and Ogburn for the Methodists; Ogburn and Holmes for the Presbyterians; J. D. Williams to th .Junior Order In the Baptist church, snd J. H, Lucas for the Bap tists at . night Doctors Lucas and Tagg in the . Home, church; Revs. Fogleman ' and Mlllaway for the Methodist . Episcopal of South Rocky Mount; Revs. Bethea and Aahborn for the Baptists, of North Rocky Mount, f Mr. a. J. Harris, of Henderson, read a most excellent paper before a mass meeting this Afternoon, his subject was Tho Travail of Service. Mr. Hari Is one of .he leading lay men - of ' ths . Methodist Protestant Church. Tl are sal before him this afternoon his brothers of the min istry as well as his brothers In the ranks; the ministers of the city from other churches, and Christians from all denominations . An index to the fraternal feeling predominant was the fervent prasjnr of Dr. Hone, of. the Methodist Episcopal Church. Miss Kuhns, field secretary of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, will speak Monday morning and Conference will adjourn to-morrow night Editor J. F. McCullouch, of Our Church - Record, lectured last night on' the polity, and policy of the Methodist Protestant Church.. His utterances were' fraught with a pro found philosophy and a fine spirit ROOSEVELT8 NEARINQ HOME. . i( May Flower Will Meet the Louisiana Off Plney Point In tlie Chesapeake Bay at 1 O'clock Monday After, noon. . . -i. . ' Norfolk. Va., Nov. ' tl. The Nor folk Navy . Yard ' to-ntgbt received a wireless communication from the bat tleshlp Louisiana conveying President Roosevelt from Panama, Ths mes sage for transmission ' to the bureau of navigation Washington. At I o'clock to-night ths Louisiana was 100 miles southeast of Cape Henry. The message requested that the con verted yacht Mayflower now anchored at Hampton Roads, meet the Louis iana at 1, o'clock MoHtlay afternoon off Plney Point In the Chesapeake bay. - , The Mayflower will leave Hampton Roads early, to-morrow morning for the rendezvous. : . It Is reported that the Mayflower, on which the President la to pro ceed to Washington after his trans far from the Louisiana, was In wire less communication late to-day with the Louisiana and with the reault of the messages had dropped down, the bay. ' . . . .'' -; Making -for ; Diamond Slioals. A Charleston, . a C, Nov. II. Ths De Forest wireless station at 0 o'clock to-night . heard a . message passing rrom tne .ueauiort, ki. u., wtreiees autlon to the United SUtes . ship Louisiana, which has been - making for Diamond Shoals light vessel off Hatters. Messages were exohanged between the 1 battleship and station signed - by President Roosevelt and Secretary Tuft ' The station here did , not communicate ., directly with the Louisiana." ','... Y.-.-.X 'v' THEATRE FLOOR GIVES WAY. One Person -Killed and Mors Thn a Honrs of Others ' Injured In Accl dent at Newark, N. J.. : ' N.wark. V. J Nov. IS-Vfra. becca . Hohwarts was killed, a dosen other persons were so. badly Injured) that they had to bs taken to the city hospital and II mors were less seri ously hurt to-ntght when the floor of a hau, wnicn is used on , runday:.-oy" '"'""''''' vdi--nlshts as a, Jewish theatre, collapsed: a .farmer, of that riclnlty. were beneath tne weignc oi people stand- ins on ib i a f - When the doors of ths hall were thrown onen there was a -rush for tickets and almost hundred narsnna gathered- within the space. The iM miiniv bens tn s-iv i and there was a mad rush, In , the midst of which the entire floor. dropped, carUIng down with It the' ticket offlce, Some of the Injured may die. Alabama Pollceiiuut lVtally Sliot . Decatur, Al' tNov. IS. Police man J. Lem Jones was shot and fatallywounded at in early hour this morning by Will w ade.. Jones had responded to a call to ulet a' dis turbance , and . arrested Wayne Moore. It Is allt-ired that Wale shot the omcer In the back. Jle dwlod several hours later. Wade and Moore are iUU at large CHARGE ITALIAN WITH LARCENY Officer Front Haywood Goes to Sails .-. bury toe a Former Employe of ths I Champion Fib" ' v Jury In the .Hedrkk Cass Not Permitted to A. ;'-Vtend Charcu Services. ,.'-g Special to'.;Tha ' Observer.' ; viv? .; Salisbury, No v JSr-An sfflcer from Canton, '. Haywood county, came: to Salisbury to-day. for Mak Rosatl, an Italian charged, with larceny of con siderable goods gnd money, some, of which . was . found . on him ; after he was . locked up. isfv, T-'i'r-'' The fellow cannot speak a word of English, , or .Will not! and what he Is really ; charged with, ' could ; no' . be gained from him. ; To an interpreter he declared he was the vlcUm of a conspiracy.' of other members of his people and that they had gotten angry with him and accused him of theft because hs could nof answer In court This Interpreter Is not a great deal smoother with the English than bis Indicted brother Italian - but learned from him that Rosatl has a box. of carpenter's tools In ' which there Is more money and had made way with shoes, hats and clothes. This Is what the foreigner told himself " -' " The officers -arrested him Friday, taking then about -117 from him. ord'eTed'seed w nr,A mh, .hA. i. vi. i,k.. th ' f"r. C.A rXi ;A-7- Vn tAM officers had not gone Into the nslde pockets. He will be taken back to .Canton to-morrow. The officer who takes the Italian gives a more Interesting story of the Fservs -Life - Insurancs Company, who crime. At Canton, where the Cham-1 were Indicted chargea of grand plon Fibre Company operates a great larceny and . forgery following - the pulp mill and a large manufactory in insurance Investigation of a year ago. which are employed 100 Italians, this will go on trial Monday. They are fellow has been working. . He is ac- Frederick A. Burnham. - president of cused of stealing from his fellow- j the ; company; George-D. Eldridne, workmen and ths tool chest belonged, vice president, and George Burnham, ' . .MkM M- fPV-. AfflMM n . V.K .MAMWA.MM. . . - ... . . him hers ths moment he landed and had him locked up. In all. they found tllO.10 on him. The Jury 4n the -Hedrick case naa hun imnrionneA to-dav but - for the strolls about the town and they look York city Thursday.'' Also - during good for the remainder of the todi- the week a large delegation of mln ous trial. Judge Ferguson told' them latere, with lawyers retained on be yesterday that he thought It best that half of the negro soldiers, will visit they be dented the privilege of going President Roosevelt and urge him to to church to-day, that he had known reopen the case. . . -- ' - - V 7 mistrials to result from similar things. "! rrnd opera season In New There Is greater interest In the c!tTB0KMri"nS Stmt as it now sUnds than at any Ume. -J0, Congressman R. N. HackatV of tu ZfA 3tt J Wllkesboro. was here yesterday and !a" wl continue, 5 about four VSi K.olrrtsdtovs of the mortillurtrlon.-pr.i Hthniaet?.m-7ne ? aXI nt nect Ute ln th Kom Catholic Church with BlaettOTttdewtteih America will gather at Richmond. to have anv trouble -In Prv1n Va,, on Thanksgiving Dar to Uke elecUoa falcly. "r- .e"'y , ; part In the ceremonies attending th3 did not chc-.e "-Conm,n ?X dedication of the Cathedral of the nev tecaute-of the hatred the Alex- Heart The new edlflee.i ander statesman bears towards wnicn wUl tak Its place as one of the Blackburn, but bicauae . of hla c- uour t cathedrals In the conn quaintance wun ms y: test and nis amnty as a has never charged xrauu. out -. iiackett save U there was any, it did not come from his side. . n : . FUNERAL OF J. O. SHELLY.... r Slmplo Servlres hi Uie ' ' Methodist C-hnrrcfi at Weddlngton In Memory of Its Deceased Pastor. . vs ' ,: Special to Ths Observer. , V Weddlngton, Nov. v IS. Friday af ternoon. In the Methodist church at this place, the funeral services of Bev. J. O.' Shelley, late pastor of the church, were held In the presence of a large congregation of people who had known and loved the faithful pastor and friend. Mr. Shelley died In the Monroe Hospital oh Thursday, and the remains were nrougnt to nis home hare Friday morning, and were taken from there to the church. ' Bev. W. R, ware, or Monroe, con ducted the services, and Rev, W. W. Bays, of Charlotte, a close friend Of the deceased since the latter' young manhood, delivered the funeral ad dress on the life and work of this rnnA man. Remarks were made also by Rev. J. E. Thompson, presiding elder of the Charlotte district The stewards of tile church were fhe active pall-bearers, and ths fol lowing named ministers were the hon orary paii-nearers: ; nevs. nr. r. Ware, of Monroe; W W. Bays, H. K. Boyer enOV. Tnompson, oi unar lotte; M. HHoyle.. of Matthews; L. T. Mann, of Waxhaw, and C. M. Pickens, of Plneville. Many beau tiful chrysanthemums and otaer flow era filled the pulpit snd altar of the church, and the casket of ths deceas ed, and after One . Interment In the church yard, the grave was completely covered with lhe same. ; ; , ,, FAIRBANKS HOMEWARD BOUND. On Departure From Jacksonville, Fla, Vice tTeskirnt Mpui npT-jn- tlon of Cordial Greeting Extended Him.--' , ' -r- . f Jacksonville. Fla- Not.'. IS. -Vice President and Mrs. Charles W. Fair banks left here at. 7ii O'clock to night by : ' Southern - Railway for Washington, where they are due to arrive :. at 0:10 Monday . night They were the " guests ' while here or Senator ana wra. jamea a. Taliaferro and Senator Taliaferro ac companied them te the train. Before their departure both Mr. and -Mrs. Fairbanks again expressed their ap preciation Of the cordial greeting that had been aocoraea mem in rionaa and their surprise at the wonderful resources of the State as exhibited In the display at the State fair In Tampa, "Vive President Fairbanks and Sen ator Taliaferro, on Invitation off Pres ident Docking, visited Cookman In stltute, a college for negro students this afternoon and - were .very much Interested In Che buildings' and meth ods of Instructions. : ' ' ' . ' TWO KILLED! ONE WOUNDED. Ra-lTwo Mlsstsalnniana En rare In Alter- i - ration aa Result of Which Both Are ' hot and a Bystander injured. MemDhls. Tenn. Nov, 16. A De ctal from Cleveland, Mississippi, says that Job. Hammond, a druggist, or killed and Hammond's brother slight ly wounded, as the result of a minor disagreement late ' yesterday. Ham mond and O'Bryant had an alterca tlon, and It Hr alleged tnat Jesse Ham. ' mond entered into it. when O'Bryant ooened fire. " wounding Jerse Ham mond In the hand. " i Hammond and O'Bryant tn" Prn nr- ftch " reiving wounds which caused , their Catholic Blxhop Stahlcrekl Tonnd "posen, Prussian Poland, Nov. IS Manager fitablerekl, Roman Catholic archbishop of Po-in, who recently had been active In oombattlnr the Oerman government's orir to tpnch the children of Poland n-' t n In the German tongue.' n f un t -- in chair In his sluOy ln-xi i Ills death was tuu ,1 1 . i ease, . . , a.cl WEEK'S &'Vr'S FOBECASIIl) PRESIDENT ' IS PIE ' TO-NIGHT Has Shattered Tradition Tliat Exeoi Uvo MuMt Not licavn Own Country ;; Durlnx Term of Oflice - New York j Election Investigations Begin To , DayThree Insurancs Ofliclals ; .'on Trial To-Day for LartNty ami i J-Vrgory Mass Meeting ) lllnf for ' : Invrntlgatlon of DImiiIwmiI of Nesro Troops Romeo) and Juliet 0Kn . Ing Play of Grand Opera Scawm in New .York. ,;.s - President , Roosevelt Is expected to return ' to Washington this ,.- evenlns; after one, of i the most ; : remarkable Journeys ever undertaken ' by an American .Chief .Executive. -' He bus traveled thousands of 'miles by sa, inspected the work being done On ttio great . Isthmian canal anil tnfMntiiv shattered v. the tradition that .an American President must not during his term of office, visit any land other than his own. ' '. ,. A congress for consideration of methods of social education will' be held In Boston, beginning Friday and continuing three daya Many au thorities on social science . will par ticipate, v ').''- . ' . Monday a special committee of the New . York Democratic State . com mittee will: meet 4n I-w York city . to investigate ekarges of party; lr- c?uty. charged with . ' Instl- rating tne - scratching" which ? cost WilUam .R. ; Hearst - the Demoeratlo nominee for Governor, so dearly In Kings county. v : - -v, Three officers of the Mutual - Re-' A mass meeting to voice a demand that Congress make a full Investiga tion of the dismissal from the army or the negro soldiers of the Twenty flth Infantry, will be held in New try. Is the gift of Thomas F. Ryan ths New York financier. : The s trial of Chester Gillette. charged with the murder of Grace Brown, his one-time sweetheart' will be continued at Herkimer this we-V. ' The -annual struggle for supremacy on the football gridiron between the army and navy will bo played . at Philadelphia Saturday. " - . r- A , hstlo battle - for the heavy--weight championship of the world Is scheduled for Thanksrivlnv Dav - be tween- "Philadelphia" Jack O'Brien, and Tommy. Burns, at. Los Angeles, Cel., : . ' The dlpldmatio body will meet - at Tangier, Morocco, Nov. 37 to con sider the new International agrees ment and the enforcement of its provisions. '..- l ; A special emergency meeting of the National Liberal .FederaUon has been called to meet In London Nov. 17. The ' principal resolution at the conference will deal with the educa-t tlon bill. -, : ' V The suit brou by ths creditors of Count Bonl DeCastellane will b' resumed before the Tribunal ef First instance In Paris Nov. SI. when' Matrie: CruppI, counsel for MmaA Gould, formerly , the Countess .. Da Caatellane, . will reply to the argu. , meats fof the creditors i. ., . .' AUSTRO-nUNOARIAN SITTnfG.' - ,.- - '' '.'' j . Francis Joseph, Emperor-King, ' Re ceives Delegations in Throne Room ,. of Royal I'aiacs at Budapest. ; ' Budapest Nov, SB. The sittings of the Austro-IIungarlaa ' ' delegations were opened nere to-day. ' Francis Joseph, the Emperor-King, recelvlnn ths delegations In the throne-room of the Royal Palace- In .Budapest said that Austria-Hungary's proper line of conduct was the cultivation of clone relatione with allied SUt's, a a agree ment with Russia concerning the Barkens, and friendly relation with' all powers, ' k , . The Joint budget for HOT was sub mltted to ths delegations and - shows a demand for a net credit amounting to I7I.II6.4IS, or I4,11,S8S la ex cess of ths budget of 1104. ; Thla In crease Is mainly on account, of . army expenditures. . ,o . v . A MOORISH CAPTAIN INSULTED, Tactful . Attitude of Troops Prevent Trouble si Berlin- When Snanii.li Doctor Attempts to Force Way t- Place Reserved for Americas Min later. ' ,-.: '-''''' -:...-' ". Berlin. Nov. 15.- A dispatch - re ceived hers from Fes ' reports that last Wedaesday- en the occasion of tribute paying by Moroccan tribes, a Spanish doctor tried to force Mi way to the place reserved for the American ' minister. Mr. Gummere. Ths troops on guard barred bis war. whereupon the Bpaniard grossly in sulted a . Moorish captain, and only the tactful s attitude of the troop-, prevented nnmeroue Europeans pres ent from being molested. '" Roosevelt's Action Censured. Texarkana, Ark., Nov. 15. Rev. E. M. Brlggs, D. D., of Palestine, Tex., In addressing the negro Baptist con vention to-day, said the nesro has t In his power to become something i this country, and It he fails he only have himself to blame. ! Lynching was ' condemned President Roosevelt censured by mi tii- convention for dlscbarginir the gro troops without trial, l'rof. Kn declared the negro In the future have to look to ths . South fur 1 friends. 'V Well-Known Hotel Slan Be." Washington, Nov. IS. Tl. C. X nrAnrl.tit. tf the lit.t.it 1!..!F Jthis eitv. and for trnmr y .n the bft known hoti-l i.m i country, dio.l hure t'-i!sn-. 1 years old. 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