♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦*♦+♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ | THE WEATHER TO-DAY, t ♦ For North Carolina: X Partly Cloudy. | VOL. LI. NO. 154. Leads all Merth Carolina Dailies in Mews and Circulation wilcox lira BYTHE HUMIDJURy His Arraignment For Murder Follows Quickly, NOJ GUILTY, HE PLEADS Calm and Smiling He Goes Through the Ordeal, A LARGE CROWD GATHERS IN THE COURT The Drawing of Talesmen. It is Believed There Will be Much Delay in securing a Competent Jury to Try the Case. (Special to the News and Observer.) Elizabeth City, N. C., March 11.—“ Not guilty,” pleaded James Wilcox, through E. F. Aydlett, one of his lawyers, this afternoon when arraigned to answer for the death of his one-time sweetheart, Ella Maud Cropsey. Judge Jones announced before lunch that Wilcox would be arraigned the first thing when court re-convened and that brought the biggest crowd of look ers on that had yet assembled. The prisoner was brought into court promptly. It was the first time he had been out of doors for many days. Tlfe defendant sat down near his counsel. His father, former Sheriff Tom Wilcox, took a chair just behind him. “Stand up,” commanded District At torney Ward, addressing the prisoner, “and hold up your right hand. Now put it down.” Wilcox remained standing while the State's attorney read the following in dictment in a clear voice: “State of North Carolina, Pasquotank county. Superior Court, March term. The jurors for the State, upon their oaths, present that James Wilcox, ot the county of Fasquotank, State of North Carolina, on the 20th day of No vember, 1001, with force of arms at and in the county and State aforesaid, felo niously, wilfully and of his malice afore thought did kill and murder Ella M. Cropsey, against the form of the statue in such case made and provided and against the peace and dignity of the State.” * The indictment bore the signatures of fiunds heavier since his incarceration, but the prison pallor is on his face. His eyes are the weakest part of the ex pression. Wilcox was nicely dressed, wearing a well fitting dark coat and light trous ers, freshly laundried linen, turn down collar, black bow tie and newly polished shoes. His hands were folded across his lap during most of his stay in the court room. He gave no token of nervous ness, but on the contrary smiled pleas antly once or twice at something the lawyers were saying. “110w r will the defendant he tried?” asked the court. "By God and his country,” responded an attorney. The prosecuting counsel declared t’nc States readiness to enter the case Thursday morning and the defense law yers said they would be ready Thursday or Friday of this week. It was finally agreed that the case should b e called at 2 o’clock Thurslay afternoon. It was decided, after discussion, that L' tO veniremen would be necessary to start with and Sheriff Grandy got a wal nut box containing the names of pros pective talesmen. Ten year old William Young was brought in to draw the names, which were read out by Sheriff Grandy and copied by counsel and others. The name reading developed the fact that twenty-two of the persons men tioned ha I died or moved away and that brought about a discussion of the statute which provides that the list shall be re vised every two years. Register of Deeds Spence was sworn and gave evidence. Defense’s counsel noted exception to the drawing of the names from the box and it was contended that only one of those drawn had been away more than two years. * Among the talesmen drawn are H. T. Greenleaf. chairman, and L. L. Wftiler, of the citizen’s committee of five who directed the search for Nell’s body, and J A. Kramer, another .committeeman. It is believed there will be much de lay in getting a competent jury, though that obsiaele would not be alleviated by a .removal to another eounty, since the case has attracted almost international interest. When the drawing of names was done ] with there were only five left iu the 1 box. The prisoner's lawyers made no at tempt to have a change of venue. That was determined upon at a conference of the attorneys last night. They decided t v, at their client would have as good a showing here at home as anywhere. Wilcox’s father said tonight that only two witnesses had been summoned by the defense so far. One of these is Charlps, brother of Caleb T. Parker, who said ho raw a man have in his arms a woman near the Cropsey home on the night, of j the disappearance. The defense will i s.crk to prove by Charles Parker that Cal«b was at home before Nell Cropsey disappeared. The prosecution has summoned Capt. The News and Observer. Leonard Owens and H. Bailey, of the steamer Roy, which passed in front of the Cropsey residence about the time Nell w T as murdered. Though some of Wilcox’s friends had hoped the grand jury would not find a true bill, the prisoner himself said this afternoon that he was not surprised at the indictment. The grand jury, after having been on the Wilcox case since early morning, in pursuance of District Attorney Ward’s instructions reported in court at 12:15 o’clock. There was a hush as they filed down the center aisle and Mr. Ward stopped in the midst of an argument about another case. The find of grand jury was not read in open court, but word of the indictment was soon passed around. The witnesses called by the grand jury were Miss Carrie L. Cropsey, of New York, a cousin of Nell; Miss Ollie Crop sey, the dead girl's sister: Dr. J. E. Wood and Dr. I. Fearing, who conducted the autopsy; J. H. Ljfßoy, coroner's jury man: Justice W. H. Cropsey, Nell’s father; Caleb T. Parker and Capt. Leon ard Owens, of the steamer Roy. The grand jurymen had no difficulty in agreeing to the bill of indictment when the evidence was in. Miss Carrie Cropsey and Miss Ollie Cropsey came to court about 11 o’clock. They went to the main court room through mistake and were ushered to seats in an enclosure occupied by law yers and reporters. After a few min utes they were shown to the grand jury room on the first floor. EO S, BATTLE'S CASE Was Argued in Supreme Court Yesterday. Ex-Gov, Russell Opened For Defendant- At torney Gilmer For the State. The Liquor Cas®. Yesterday morning „in the Supreme court the case of the State against Ed. S. Battle was argued. This is an appeal from the sentence imposed upon Battle by • Judge Robinson last September, for -m> awwMilt «{>on Mayor A. M. Powell, of this city. Ex-Governor Russell opened the argu ment fpr the defendant, and Mr. S. F. Miordecai and Hon. Jos. B. Batchelor closed. The Attorney General made the argument on behalf of the State. The defendant’s counsel, Messrs. Rus sell & Gore, S. F. Mordecai and W. N. Jones, filed a printed motion to arrest the judgment, with a brief supporting such motion. The points made by defen dant's counsel are: 1. That the bill of indictment is fa tally defective as far as the charge of assault with “serious injury” is con cerned, because it fails to specify the nature and extent of the injury. 2. That tHe bill practically charges two offenses —assault with serious in jury, and simple assault within one mile of the court house; and as there was a general verdict of guilty the court could not pronounce judgment. For these positions defendant relied upon State v. Earnest, 08 N. C., 740, State v. Right. 124 N. C., 845, and sev eral other eases cited in the brief. The Attorney General, while not ad mitting the correctness of defendant’s contention, insisted that in no event should the court grfint a new- trial, but, at most, should remand the case to the end that a proper judgment be entered. What are known as the liquor cases are to be argued in the Supreme court today. These involve about $15,000. For a long time the city of Raleigh has been collecting license taxes from saloons which were outside of the city limits, but w-ithin the police jurisdiction of the •city. A bill was passed by the last leg islature providing that all cities must refund money collected on liquor licenses from parties outside the corporate lim its. At the time of its passage the effect of the bill was not appreciated. But no sooner had the Legislature ad journed than ex-Governor Russell and Attorney E. J. Best brought suit against the city on behalf of all the liquor deal ers who have conducted places outside of town. The city appealed from the Su perior to the Supreme court, and City Attorney VV. L. Watson argues before the Supreme court for the city. THE FUGITIVES IN CANADA. State Department to be Asked to Take Steps ' For Their Extradition (By the Associated Press.) Quebec, March 11.—Col. John F. Gay nor, who with his wife and his partner, D. B. Greene is stopping at the Chateau !■ rontenac, in this city, said to an Asso ciated Press reporter today that he and Mr. Greene are not hero in hiding from the l nited States court at Savannah, Ga. Asked if they intended returning to the l nited States, Col. Gaynor leplied that they might return on the 17th instant. Washington, March 11.—The officials of the Department of Justice ar,o looking up the law' and the treaty bearing on the subject and as soon as this is com pleted they will ask the State Depart ment to take steps io secur the extra dition of the men- Suicide at the Puritan. (By th Assocated Press.) New York, March 11.—A man about thirty-five years old, supposed to be J. K- Oliver, of Roanoke ,Va., committed suicide some time between midnight Sunday and 2 o’cloc k this morning in the Puritan Hotel, a Bowery lodgiug house. Hp killed himself by drinking carbolic acid. The body was sent to the morgue- RALEIGH. NORTH CAROLINA. WEDNESDAY MORNING. MAKCH 12. 1902. MALLORY OPPOSES SUBSIDY SCREAAE Against Public Bounties For Private Individuals. RECIPROCITY BOBS UP Is the Sugar Trust to be Its Chief Beneficiary ? HOUSE WONF DISCUSS THE QUESTION « Burleson Attacks Hay For Declining 1 o Ask the British Government For Passports for Rev. Hiram Thomas and His Wife. (By the Associated Press.) Washington, March 11.—For several hours today the Senate had the Ship- Subsidy Bill under consideration- Mr. Mallory, of Florida, made an extended speech in opposition to the measure, lie analyzed the bill carefully and held that there was no good reason for its enactment into law, saying he balieved it would not accomplish the results hoped for it by its promoters. His op position was based chiefly on the ground that it would extend the favor of the United State sTreasury to private indi viduals and corporations without a just return for the expenditure. Prior to consideration of the subsidy measure, a lively debate occurred over an effort on the part of Mr. Berry, of Arkansas, to ascertain when the Commit tee on Privileges and Elections might be expected to report to the Senate the resolution providing for the election of Senators by direct vote of the people. Mr. Hoar, of Massachusetts, indicated his vigorous opposition to such a reso lution, on the' ground that it would sub vert (he fundamental principle upon w hich the Senate was founded. Mr. Burrows, chairman of the Com mittee on Privileges and Elections, said the committee would take action on the resolution in time to get a vote on it at this session. A number of Senators dis cussed the subject. Mr. Mallcry said in its ultimate analy sis the Ship-Subsidy Bill was a measure to take the money of the tax payers to build up the private business of indi viduals and corporations. Referring to Mr. Frye’s argument in support of the establishment of an auxiliary navy for which the pending bill provides, he did not believe there was sufficient justifi cation for the extraordinary expenditure proposed by the bill. In the event of a war between the United States and Great Britain, France, Germany, Russia, or any other great maritime power, this country would find itself in a very dif ficult situation from that which it was in during the Spanish war- The proposed auxiliary cruisers would not be left to scour the seas, because it was the policy of all the nations named now to build war vessels which could easily overtake any one of the ships which by the pend ing bill would become a part of the naval auxiliary fleet. Mr. Mallory contended that the propo sition to give subsidies to great carry ing vessels would accomplish little in aid of commerce, because a majority of the ports of this country and in South America were so shallow that vessels of a draft greater than twenty-three feet could not enter them. After analyizing at length the provis ions of the measures, Mr. Mallory de clared: “Ccngrsss never in its history passed a measure of this character. It has pass ed many laws to advance private gain under the pretense of public policy, but never one so absolutely bald and bold in its advancement of private purposes as this measure.” He felt humiliated, he said, every time he visited the water front of his city in tch fact that with the exception of schooners and coasting vessels the American flag is never seen upon a mast in that harbor. He would go as far as any Senator to put the American mer chant marine on a footing of equality with that of other nations, but he could not endorse a measure such as this, which was so at variance with every principle of right and justice. Mr. Frye referred to the fact that it had been claimed that the clause in sec tion six of the Ship-Subsidy Bill, which directs payment to the owner or owners of any vessel of the United States “duly registered by a citizen of the United States” would place under the provis ions of the bill the four ships that had been admitted to an American register. He therefore submitted an amendment which was adopted, making the clause read- “Hereafter built and registered in the United. States or now duly reg istered” TIIE HOUSE PROCEEDINGS The Speakers Told of Everything But the Busi ness Before Them (By the Associated Press.) Washington. D. C., March 11. —The House today entered upon the consider ation of the Postoffice Appropriation Bill, bat as usual during the general de- bate on an appropriation bill, the mem bers who spoke devoted themselves to everything except the bill before the House. Earlier in the day. Mr. Thayer, (Mass)., attempted to take advantage of the division among the Republicans on the subject of reciprocity by bringing forward a resolution to investigate the reports that the sugar trust would be the chief beneficiary of Cuban reciproc ity, that it w r as subsidizing newspapers, establishing literary bureaus in other ways attempting to create public sentiment in favor of Cuban reciprocity. A point of order against the resolu tion was sustained by the speakers- Mr- Thayer appealed from the decis ion and his appeal was laid on the table 125 to 87, the Republicans voting solidly in the affirmative, while two Democrats, Messrs. Fleming, Georgia, and McClel lan, New York, voted with the Republi cans. The feature of the day was a speech by Mr. Burleson, attacking Secretary Hay for declining to request the British authorities to furnish passports to go through the British lines to Rev. Hiram W. Thomas and wife, who desire io go to South Africa to distribute Boer relief funds Collected in Illinois. Mr. Hitt, Ills., chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, made a spirited reply to Mr. Burleson, charging the Texas number with attempting to prejudge the case be fore tho evidence was in. Mr. Burleson sent to the clerk’s desk and had read a letter from John O. Knight, who came to Washington to se cure the passports for Dr- Thomas and wife- Mr. Knight in the letter stated that the funds Avere collected in response to an appeal by Governor Yates. He had gone to Secretary Hay, the letter said, with a letter from Senator Cullom and the Secretary of State, according to the letter, had declined to make the re quest of Lord Pauncefote on the ground that such a request Avould be considered “meddlesome” and a “breach of ncutrnl tty” and against the views of President Roosevelt- If the facts stated in this letter were true, said Mr. Burleson, then the State Department was so ‘‘saturated with pro- British spirit that it could no longer re spond to the common distates ot human ity when made in behalf of Boer wo men and children.” Mr. Burleson said that under date of March 4, another ap peal had gone from Mr. Knight to See*- retary Hay without eliciting e response. Mr. Burleson said \ls purpose fn hav ing these letters read was to fasten the attention of the American people upon the course of the State Department. Mr. Hitt, of Illinois, the chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, replied tc Mr. Burleson with soma display of heat. He asked whether he would have allowed a committee that existed in London in 1863 and which was in full sym pathy with the Confederate cause to go through the Union Lines for the purpose of distributing relief. International law must be observed, he said. ‘The Interna tional Red Cross was.organized for the purpose of carrying relief. Funds eouli be distributed through it or through our consuls but not through those in sym pathy with the enemy. Relief funds raised in this country had in fact been distributed through our consuls. “But why should not the Secretary of State use his good offices to relieve the distress of the Boer women and children confined iu concentration camps?” asked Mr. Burleson. Mr. Hitt replied that according to Mr. Knight s letter the Secretary had offered to help Rev. Dr. Thomas in every way in his power but he manifestly could not do a ridiculous thing. The rules of in ternational law upon the question were well established. Every soldier of either army who had been in prison during the Civil War understood the situation per fectly. Jefferson Davis would not have allowed Northern sympathizers to per ambulate through Southern camps to dis tribute relief. The Secretary of State could not make a demand which on its face was contrary to all precedents. It would he a slap in the face of a foreign government. It had not been done in our war or any other. Our Government, he said, in conclusion, should not put itself in conflict with another for the sake of making political capital. Mr. Brantley, of Georgia, discussed the question of Cuban reciprocity. He con tended that whatever was to be done should be done speedily. He favored re ciprocity. He argued# that the South would benefit greatly from the com merce of Cuba if freer trade existed, and that, moreover, if Cuba was prosperous a sanitary condition would be maintain ed there which would remove the danger of yellow fever, which had constantly threatened the Southern ports in the past. Mr. Brantley spoke for over an hour. He was closely questioned by the Michi gan and Louisiana members. Mr. Meyer, of Louisiana, said the question of reciprocity concerned the wheat growler of the upper Mississippi valley: the manufacturer of New Eng land, Pennsylvania and Ohio; the stock farmer of Kentucky and all our varied in dutsries. There is, he said, no consider able number of the American people who desire tariff agitation and controversy. The farmers and planters dread any un friendly legislation by treaty. Congress or otherwise. Against Excluding China. (By the Associated Press.) Pekin, March 11.—The Chinese Govern ment has presented to the United States Minister, Mr. Conger, a strong memorial against the re-enactment of the Chinese exclusion fciAv by the United States. The Government here particularly objects to the exclusion of Chinese from the Philip pine am\, Hawaiian Islands, representing that the Chinese had acquired extensive commercial interests there, and were closely connected w ith the islands by family ties. PRUSSIA'S PRINCE BIOS US FAREWELL He Sails on the Deutschland For Home. HI NTTHATHE MAY RETURN A Farewell Luncheon With Pleasant Little Speeches. PASSING SHIPS GIVE A NOISY SEND OFF The Prince Sends a Message of Thanks to the Prfs'dent and Through Him to the Nation For Kindly Feeling Shown Him. (By the Associated Press.) New York, March 11.—Prince Henry of Prussia, sailed for Germany on board the Hamburg-American liner Deutsch land this afternoon. His last day in America was spent entirely on board the Deutschland, but it was well filled with pleasing incidents. . he Prince breakfasted early and about 10 o’clock began to receive official fare well visits from the representatives of Germany in this country, and those of the United States Government. Mayor Low was also a caller, and the Prince, in bidding him farewell, gave him a hint that he had some intention of returning to America for a second visit. The Prince in reply to the Mayor’s expres sions, said: “I thank the citizens of New York for all their kindness to me which 1 appre ciate deeply. If I should return to America I should feel, when I reached New York that l was once more at home.” The members of the party that accom panied the Prince on his tour were his guests at luncheon. Covers were laid for twenty-eight persons in the dining room of the steamship and music was furnished by the band from the Hohen zollern. At the close of the ’luncheon when it came time to say good bye, the Prince, taking a rose from the table, said: “This is the badge of that which I have been admiring during my entire trip to the United States—American beauty.” i He pressed his flower in his button hole and each guest followed his example. Admiral Evans, taking the Prince by the hand, said: “I have only this to say to Prince Henry and my brothers of the German navy. We are glad you came and sorry you are going, and hope you will come again. It gives me great pleasure as the representative of the American navy to seize the hand of friendship you have so kindly extended eeross the Atlantic.” hen General Corbin said: “We have all enjoyed the trip and the memory of it will abide with me for ever.” Assistant Secretary Hill said: “The memory of your visit will always be in our hearts and the hearts of the Americans.” Immediately after the luncheon at the Prince’s invitation the party went to the commander's bridge of the Deutsch land and was there photographed. Then the real leave-taking began. ( The final farewells were said by members of the German Embassy at Washington. An incident of the forenoon was the call of the committee of forty New York letter carriers, representing the New York branch of the National Letter Car riers Association. They came to present the Prince with a bronze tablet in com memoration of the martyred President of the United States, Lincoln, Garfield and McKinley. The letter carriers failed to see the Prince, and were received by Admiral Von Seckendorff in his behalf. In thanking them the Admiral said His Royal Highness, in return for the present would send the New York Letter Car tiers Association his portrait with auto graph. to hang on the walls of the or ganization’s room in New York. Shortly before the Deutschland sailed, the United Singing Societies of Hudson county, N. J., was heard on the deck of the Princess Victoria Louise, which lay alongside the Deautschland, and sang a number of selections. Prince Henry ap peared on the bridge of the Deutschland with Captain Albers and bowed his ac knowledgments repeatedly. When the ship sailed all approaches and the pier house were crowded. The first cabin section of the Deutschland was packed all the afternoon with pas sengers and their friends, and in many cases women had to be rescued from the crush* to see the Prince. Jhe Deutschland sailed at 3:45. As she moved away from the pier, the (cheering was continuous. The Prince appeared on the bridge and bowed. All down North River the passing tugs and era ft of every description gave the great liner and her distinguished passenger a noisy sent-off. At the Battery, which was reached exactly at 4 o'clock a great crowd had gathered and cheered as the vessel steamed on down the bay. The Deutschland reached the Narrows at 4:35. Fort Wadsworth and Hamilton fired salutes, which were answered by the Deutschland's whistle, and the gar rison at Fort Wadsworth lined up on the bluff until the sjeamer had passed out into the lower bay. The Deutschland is due at Hamburg on Monday next. The Prince's apartments on the Deutschland include the captain’s cabin and three other adjoining rooms espe cially connected and prepared for the use of His Royal Highness. The social hall on the Deutschland was beautifully dec orated with flowers, and there was a pro fusion of them in the Prince’s suite of rooms. The company had also tastefully decorated the pier. The imperial yacht Hehenzollern started on her homeward trip at 2:40 o'clock this afternoon. A crowd wit nessed the departure of the ship at her pier, and a cheer from the people was answered with a salute by whistle from the Hohenzollern. For an hour before the time for sailing the crew and offi cers of the Hohenzollern held a levee, bidding farew’ell to friends. The Hohen zollern is under orders to proceed to Bermuda, where it makes its first stop. Henry’s Message to Roosevelt. (By the Associated Press.) Washignton, D. C., March 11. —The fol lowing exchanges took place between. Prince Henry of Prussia, who sailed for Europe on the Deutschland and Presi dent Roosevelt: v “Hoboken, N. J., March 11, 1902. “The President of the United States: On this day of my departure, I bog to thank you personally as well as the na tion, whos? guest 1 have been, for all the kindness, consideration and good feeling 1 have met with during my visit to your interesting country- I tiope that my visit may have increased the feelings of friendship betipeen the coun try I represent an dthe United States- Bidding you farewell, let me wish you every possible success, and, pray, re member me to Mrs- Roosevelt and Miss Roosevelt, who so charmingly and with so much pluck accomplished her task when launching Her Majesty’s yacht “Meteor” once more, most hearty thanks. May we met again. “HEINRICH, Prince Yon Preussen.” “White House, Washington, March It, 1902. “Henry, Prince of Prussia, Steamer Deutsehlfvnd, Hamburg Dock, Hobo ken, N. J. “Not only have I enjoyed your visit personally, but on behalf of my country men I wish to express to you the pleas ure it has been to see you and the real good I think you visit has done in pro moting a feeling of friendship between Germany and the United States. It is my most earnest wish that this feeling may-strengthen stearrHy. Mrs. Roowrek* send her Avarm rewards, and so Avould Miss Roosevelt if she \v r ere not absent. Pray present my heartiest greeting to His Majesty, the German Emperor. Again I thank you for your visit and wish you all good luck wherever you be “THEODORE ROOSEVELT.” BTIFFENS BRITISH BACKBONE- Disaster Bouses Bull Dog Determination. Rumor of Another Defeat (By the Associated Tress.) London, March 11. —Expressions of steadfastness have today succeeded those of humiliation, which were universally heard here yesterday, on the publication of the news of Genera! Methuen’s dis aster. Lord Roseberry struck the pop ular note today in a speech before the Glagow students. He admitted that it was heart-breaking after ail the expen diture of life, time and money, but, he added: “It will not dishearten us. We have got to see this thing through. We must take the blows which fortune deals us Avith equanimity, showing ourselves worthy of better fortunes.” Reports from the continent that the defeat of General Methuen Avas followed up by another fight, also favorable to the Boers, occasion some anxiety, owing to the absence of news from General Gren fell's column of 1,300 men, which left Klerksdorp to join General Methuen. It is thought that, possibly General De Larey may have attacked Grenfell. The War Secretary, Mr. Brodrick, when asked in the House of Commons' today what steps had been taken in view of the success of the Boers against General Methuen, to send Imrd Kitchener re inforcements, said 6,000 Yeomanry would be immediately embarked, with large drafts of cavalry and infantry. Lord Kitchener would be given all the assist ance he asked for. Daniel Speaks For the Minority. (By the Associated Press.) Richmond, Va., March 11.—In the Con stitutional Convention this? morning a resolution was introduced providing for a joint commission of the Legislature and the conA’ention to recommend laws to put the new' consttution into effect. Senator Daniel consumed the principal part of the session of the conference in delivering an argument in support of the minority suffrage plan. Fireman Rilled in Collision. (By the Associated Press.) Alexandria, Va., March 11. —The north bound Manassas Junction train on the Southern Railway dashed into a number of coal cars standing oa the main track just *outh of Manassas Junction. \\res ton Atkinson, the fireman, was killed, and Thomas B. RoAvan, the engineer, avhs seriously injured. The train was filled with passengers, ftut no other per sons were injured- Mr. Marion LaAvrence, of Toledo, Ohio, Secretary of the International Sunday School Convention, will arrive in the city next Saturday afternoon and will address a mass meeting of the Sunday schools in the city in the Baptist Tab ernacle Sundav afternoon at 3 o’clock- While here Mr. LaAvrenee will be the guest of Mr. N. B. Broughton. *♦♦444444444 4 * 4 THE WEATHER TO-DAY.t ♦ For Raleigh: 4 l FAIR. I CE FIVE CENTS HE VETfIESJHE BILL Roosevelt’s Foot Planted on Bill Removing Charge of Desertion. (By the Associated Press.) Washington, March 11.—President Roosevelt today sbnt his first veto mes sage to Congress. It was directed to the Senate, and the bill vetoed was one removing the charge of desertion from the naval record of John Glass. The message was as follows: “There can be no graver crime than the crime of desertion from the army or navy, especially during war; it is then high treason to the nation and i s justly punishable by death. No man should be releived from such a crime, especially when nearlv forty years have passed since it occurred, save on the clearest possible proof of his real innocence. In this case the statement made by the afliant before the committee does not in all points agree with his statement made to the Secretary of the Navy. In any event it is incomprehensible to me that he should not have made effective effort to get back Jnt the navy. He had served but little more than a month when he deserted, and the war lasted fo*. over a year afterwards, yet he made no effort whatever to get back into the war. Un der such circumstances it seems to me that to remove the charge of desertion from the navy and give him an honor able discharge would be to falsify the records and do an injustice to his gal lant and worthy comrades, who fought the war to a finish. The names of the vet erans who fought in the Civil War make the honor list of the Republic, and I am not willing to put upon it the name of a man unworthy of the high position. “THEODORE ROOSEVELT.” After the message had been delivered Senator Gallinger, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, read the report of the committee on which the Senate acted. From that statement ijt appeared that Glass enlisted in. January, 1864, when only 16 years of age, and that, having witnessed an act which compromised the second officer of the ship, ho was taken ashore in March of that year by that officer and told not to report again for -duty. The committeesay der, together with was re sponsible for his desertion. NEGRO DESPERADO CAPTURED Officer Henley Hakes Use of the Bntt of a Pis tol With Good Effect. (Special to the News and Observer.) High Point. N. C., March 11.—Wiley Hargrave, colored, and a desperate char acter, was captured here late this after noon by Chief of Police J. C. Henley, of Srencer. He is wanted for an aggra vated assault with intent to murder. Last October Hargrave got a gun and defied everybody on the yards at Spencer. How ever, as son as the officer appeared on the scene, armed to the teeth, he made his escape. He is also wanted for rob bery and other complaints. Policeman Henley accidentally ran upon Hargrave, who was engaged in making mortar, and grappled him, but not se curely enough to prevent what would have been a terrific attack on the officer had he not delivered some terrible blows on the negro’s head with the butt of the six shooter in the officer’s possession. The blood flowed freely form the wounds and at the time to take the train to Spencer tonight Ihe negro's front pre sented quite a “reddish” appearance. While here Mr. Henley also captured Preston Stone, white, who Is wanted in his town for carrying concealed weapons. Stone himself paid the required b;md of twenty-five dollars nad was released. Policeman Henley’s visit here was to capture other parties than those men tioned. For some time parties have been breaking into the freight cars at Spencer and in the last few months sev eral thousand dollars' in goods have been taken. It was thought that some of the guilty parties wore here, but the of ficer failed to find tham. TO PUT A TEAM IN THE LEAGUE Greensboro Athletic and Baseball Association is Organized (Special to News and Observer.) Greensboro, N. C., March 11. Ihe Greensboro Athletic anti Baseball Asso ciation was tonight to put a team, in the State League. C. C. Al bright was elected president, and L. J. Brandt, secretary. General Rain ia Texas (By the Associated Press.) Dallas, Texas, March 11.—The most general rain for over one year is falling in Texas today. Reports from north of Dallas show a heavy down pour, while there are light rains as far south as San Antonio. The rain was badly needed throughout the State, and it will prove of incalculable value to crops and cattle ranges. A Murderer Hanged. (By the Associated Press.) Aberdeen, Miss., March 11. —Alvin t‘ol lin Williams, colored, was hanged here today for the murder of Marcus Kings ley. Hon- Hannis Taylor, of Mobile, Ala-, lately United States Minister to Spain, has be'>n appointed by the Attorney General, special counsel for the Govern ment to aid in the defense of claims be fore the s Avc\ ’■Treaty Claims Com mission.