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VOL. LII. NO. 118.
Leads all- North Carolina Bailies in Mews and emulation
TWELVE HUNDRED
TROOPS DK GUARD
But Shenandoah Smiles Like
a Sleeping Babe.
THEYHAVENOTHINGTODO
Except to Furnish a Show For Thous
ands of Unemployed.
MITCHELL DEEPLY REGRETS THE RIOT
Reports Appear, He Says, to Have Been Much
Exaggerated. Operators Think That
the Strikers Have Played In
to Their Hands.
(By the Associated Press.)
Shenandoah, Fa., July 31.—Twelve hun
dred State troops are encamped tonight
on a hill overlooking Shenandoah. Down
in the town where rioters and police
men fought the bloody battle last night
all is quiet and the indications are so
long as the military remain the peace
ol the community will not again be
broken.
The riot, which caused the soldiers to
be sent here, came like a flash and was
over almost as quickly as it had started
and since then there has not been a sin
gle case of violence reported. The tens
of thousands of idle men and boys in
this vicinity who had been gathering in
large numbers and marching from place
to place, did not repeat their demonstra
tions today and the authorities conse
quently had little or nothing to do.
The arrival of the citizen soldiery
proved to be a great attraction for the
large army of unemployed and no end
of men and boys came to town to see
the troops.
The first companies to arrive came to
St. Clair at 6:30 a. m., and from that
hour up to 3 p. m., when the governor's
troop of cavalry disembarked aud gal
loped up the main street, Shenandoah
presented a lively scene.
General Gobin, of the Third regiment,
in command of the troops, and his staff
were on the scene early. The camp is
located on a very high hill just outside
the town proper and commands a full
view of the town. Within the camp lines
are quartered two full regiments, the
Eighth and Twelfth, two companies of
the Fourth regiment and a troop of cav
alry.
General Gobin expressed himself as
highly pleased with the rapidity with
which the camp was established. The
commander and his staff are quartered
at the Ferguson Hotel, but it is the
General’s intention to get under canvas
with his staff as soon as circumstances
will permit.
Beyond the presence of a group of sol
di* rs here and there on the principal
street, Shenandoah does not show any
• vidence of having passed through a try
ing ordeal. The large number of persons
who had been attracted to the place by
the coming of the militia left during the
afternoon and the town presents its nor
mal appearance.
THE FOREIGNERS RESPONSIBLE.
The major portion of the population
is made up of foreigners and as a rule,
they kept close to their homes during
the day It Is claimed by the citizens
of the town that the foreign element
was solely responsible for the trouble.
Most of the curious persons gathered in
the vicinity of the Philadelphia and
Reading Railroad depot where the riot
occurred. The station shows many bul
lets marks of the battle. A strong guard
was placed around the station so that the
crowd would not delay the soldiers as
they left the trains and marched to the
ramping grounds.
Contrary to popular belief, Shenandoah
is not under martial law. The local au
thorises end the sheriff of the county
have not relinquished control of the town
or county and they remain in as complete
control of their respective affairs as they
did before the troops reached here. The
soldiers are merely in camp in the out
side of the town. Tt was deemed advis
able. however, by the brigadier general
to establish the provost guard in certain
i. rts of the town. Major Norman S.
I-nrquhar, of Pottsvillc, is the provost
marshal. So long as the situation re
mains as it is at present there is no
li Mi hood that the regimental companies
will he scattered through the mining
towns of Schuylkill county. It i s the in
tention of General Gobin to have the
troops occupy their time by going
through drills, target practice and gen
era! camp routine.
Genera! Gobin spent a busy day in
forming himself of the situation through
out the county. He had a personal in
terview with Sheriff S. Rowland Beddall
in the forenoon. The General also #re
c* ive:l messages from various parts of
the territory. In an interview with the
correspondent of the ssociated Press to
night. General Gobin said:
“The general situation is very quiet.
There were no incidents during the day.
worthy of note, except the arrival of 500
ot ono men on freight trains. It seems
that a lot of idle men for want of some
thing better to do jump freight trains
and ride from one town to another. They
• all such rides ‘Johnny Mitchell excur
sions.’
"I have received dispatches from dif
ferent parts of the country which tell
of meetings, marchings, attacks on in
dividuals, violations of the law aud the
refusal of local police authorities to en
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force the law. Upon these dispatches I
; m not vet ready to act. What I will
do depends largely upon what the sheriff
is going to do. We are here to give him
support in his efforts to enforce the civil
law. We were ordered here because of
his inability to do so. The National
Guard has no opinion to express as to
the merits of the question agitated by
either side to the controversy, as that
is not within its province.”
WANT THE TROOPS WITHDRAWN.
The mine-workers are greatly incensed
over the calling out of the troops. They
assert that this action was entirely un
warranted and is an unjustifiable ex
pense on the Stale. The strikers, through
their officials, are making an effort to
have the soldiers withdrawn. The first
step in this direction was taken this af
ternoon when the following telegram was
sent from here to Governor Stone:
“We, the officials of the Ninth district
of the Minors' Union, believe that the
request made to you to send troops to
Shenandoah was based upon exaggera
tion; an.d as we are confirmed in this be
lief we respectfully request you to send
a personal report, into this town to in
vestigate the conditions and after such
investigation believe that you will learn
that the presence of the troops in this
town is unnecessary and that the order
should be revoked.”
It is said the mine-workers officials in
tend to circulate among the citizens of
the town for signatures a petition call
ing upon the governor to withdraw the
troops. Miles Dougherty, National board
member of the United Mine-Workers,
from this district, told the Associated
Press representative tonight that Deputy
Sheriff Thomas Beddall, who is a ne
phew of the sheriff of the county, and
who was escorting workmen along the
street, which action led to riot, was
wholly responsible for the trouble. Mr.
Dougherty said Beddall had no good rea
son to shoot, as no one was making an
attack on him. The firing of the re
volvers he said, angered the crowd, which
soon got beyond the control of the peace
makers. Beddall’s brother, Joseph, who
attempted to go tx> his rescue, was badly
beaten by some of the crowd, Mr. Dough
erty said, because he was carrying sev
eral boxes of cartridges to his brother,
Thomas. t
It is not Improbable that the strikers
will eall upon the county offices to fix the
responsibility for the shooting of the
deputy sheriff.
Os the twenty or more persons who
were beaten with clubs or struck with
bullets during last night’s rioting, one
man. Joseph Beddall, who last night was
reported to have died, is still living but
is in a critical condition. The physicians
at the minors’ hospital at Fountain
Springs, whore some of the wounded were
taken, fear that Beddall will die. The
four policemen who were shot and the
strikers who were also hit by bullets
will recover. Most of the wounded
strikers -claim they were merely on
lookers.
The district attorney and the sheriff
are prosecuting an investigation with a
view of placing under arrest all those
who participated in the riot. Several
of the wounded strikers called at the
miners’ hospital today to have slight in
juries dressed and after the doctors got
through with them they were arrested
and taken to the Pcyttsville jail.
Cne Grievance Removed.
(By the Asosciated Press.)
Hazleton, Pa., July 31.—G- B. Markle
& Company, operating the Jeddo. Ebcr
vale, llighlalnd and Oakdale Collieries,
issued a notice today that on and after
August 1 no money will be collected
through their offices for the maintenance
of the company doctor. This removes
one of the grievances of which the min
ers have complained for some time.
Deputies Ordered Out of Town.
(By the Associated Press.)
Pottsvillc, Pa.. July 31.—Some excite
ment was occasioned at New Philadel
phia today when twenty-two deputies
with guns on their shoulders marched in
to town to secure the release of a num
ber of men who were not permitted to
return to work at the Silver Creek col
liery of the Philadelphia and Reading
Coal and Iron Company.
Their arrival caused indignation among
the citizens, who declared that the pres
ence of the armed men would tend to in
cite a riot.
Chief Burgess Walters and Constable
Anstoek’ ordered the deputies out of
town and they left and returned to the
colliery.
MITCBELL 13 DFPRESBER.
Operators Think the Riot Will Lead to a Bo
sumption of of Work
(By the Associated Press.)
Wilkesbarre, Pa., July 31.—The riot at
Shenandoah last night has had a de
pressing effect at strike headquarters.
President Mitchell v.as up early and
asked for the newspapers. ie said he
was very sorry that this had happened,
but declined to make any comment until
he had heard from District President
Fahey. Later, after receiving an official
report. President Mitchell issued the fol
lowing statement:
“Complete and authentic reports fur
nish'd by national officers of our organi
zation, looated at Shenandoah, show that
the stories of the riot at Shenandoah
wore greatly exaggerated and the facts
much distorted. Tt develops that no one
was killed or fatally injured and that
the entire trouble might have been avert
ed had the deputies kept, cool and used
greater discretion. While I greatly dep
recate acts of lawlessness by any one.
particularly by those on strike, I am
naturally pleased to learn that the trou
ble is not as serious as first reported.
I have repeatedly warned the strikers
that any violation of law on their part
would militate against themselves alone,
and I am hopeful that there will not be
RALEIGH. NORTH CAROLINA. FRIDAY MORNING. AUGUST 1.1902.
a repetition of trouble of this charac
ter.
All the local leaders of the Lnited
Mine-Workers deplore the shedding of
blood and the calling out of the troops.
They say the presence of the soldiers
will encourage the operators to start up
their mines and if collieries in the
Schuylkill district are put in operation it
will only be a question of time until
mines in other parts of the strike belt
resume, for the miners of the Wyoming
and Lackawanna valleys will not be con
tent to remain idle while their brethren
in other parts of the region are working.
It is the history of past coal strikes
that the presence of the militia is almost
a sure indication of an early resumption
of mining.
Those of the local operators who could
he seen today are of the opinion that
the backbone of the strike is now bro
ken and that it will only be a short time
until there will be a general resumption
of mining.
THE INJUNCTION MODIFIED.
Action of Court Against the Bull Operators in
Grain
(By the Associated Press.)
Chicago, July 31.—Judge Chytraus today
modified the injunction issued yesterday
restraining the Chicago Board of Trade
and the board of trade operators, James
A. Tatten, Carrington ratten & Company,
and Bartlett, Frazier & Company, from
conducting a corner in July standard
oats, by restraining the defendants from
asking the president of the Board of
Trade to endorse down margins deposited
by the complainants, Waite Thorburn &
Company to secure $55,000 bushels of
short sales. The court held a session
before the opening hour of the Board of
Trade in order that a decision might be
arrived at before business was begun.
So important, however, did the court,
consider the precedent of the case that
the motion for a dissolution of the tem
porary injunction was not considered and
the case will come up for further ad
judication next week.
The effect of the action of the court
is for the time being to protect the
complainants against any alleged corner,
and is construed as working against the
bull clique of operators on the board.
There was practically no effect on busi
ness in oats front the injunction. The
assurance by Judge Chytraus that or
dinary business could be done by the
defendants and other members of the
Board of Trade, acted as a check against
any early violent fluctuations. A notice
was posted on ’change interpreting the
court's action as a dismissal of the in
junction against the Board of Trade, and
stating that all business could proceed
as usual, save In the matter of closing
out deals with Thorburn, Waite & Co.
The matter was considered held in
abeyance.
Speculators on the board were all in
clined to comment unfavorably upon the
to the courts. The big bulls said
if such a precedent was established
there would be nothing hut short sell
ing. If prices went down deliveries
would be made, but if the price went
against the sellers there would he noth
ing to prevent them defaulting on their
contracts.
Apparently Intimidated by tho possi
bilities of having to answer to the court
if fictitious prices were pumped into July
oats all sepeulators allowed the manipu
lated uly options in all grains to die
with a flash in the pan. July oats were
scld freely by tho bulls and many of
the shorts covered, bringing a closing
price one cent up at 64 cents. The fa
mous July corn deal ended in a slump of
3 cents and closed at 56. July wheat was
delivered freely and prices slumped
sharply, losing at one time 6 cents.
The close was 5% cents down at 69%
cents. Other deliveries were weaker but
rot markedly so.
VACCINATION RECOMMENDED,
Rixey's Advice as to the Navy Yard Emplryes
at Portsmouth
(By the Associated Press.)
Washington, D. 0., July 31— Surgeon
General Rixey, of the navy, lias recom
mended to the Navy Department in view
of the epidemic of smallpox at Norfolk
and Portsmouth, Va„ that all persons
living within the limits of the navy yard,
not showing satisfactory evidence of re
cent successful vaccination be vaccinated
and that all civil employes and people
whose business takes them within the
yard limits are required to present ast
isfactory certificates of recent vaccina
tion. *
The matter was presented to Rear Ad
miral Taylor, acting Secretary of the
Navy today and there is no doubt of his
approval of the recommendations of the
Surgeon General and of the issue of the
necessary orders in accordance therewith.
Gibbons Accepts Vice-Presidency,
(By the Associated Press.)
Baltimore, July 31.—1 n a letter accept
ing the appointment of the vice-presi
dency of the Schley Triumphal Arch As
sociation recently organized in this city
to erect an enduring monument to theu
Admiral, Cardinal Gibbons says:
“Admiral Schley’s victory shed glory
on our State and I cheerfully accept the
position assigned to ine, earnestly hoping
that the patriotic enterprise will meet
with a hearty response from the citizeus
of Maryland.”
Joirs the liberals.
(By the Associated Press.)
London. July 31.—Announcement is
made that Earl Beauchamp has joined the
Liberal League. This formal declara
tion from the conservative ranks, coming
at a moment when excitement is rife over
the Liberal victory in the North Leeds
bye-election, occasions considerable in
terest in political circles.
Some men sow selfishness and reap
success.
LOS ALOIS FEELS
THE SHOCK M
The Earth Heaves Like a
Troubled Sea.
MANY HOUSES WRECKED
The People Terror Stricken, Town Be
coming Depopulated.
THE SHOCKS GROWING toORE FREQUENT
They Increase in Violence aud the T e.truc'.ior,
of the Place Seems Imminent. Peo
ple Warned to Prepare- For
the Worst.
(By the Associated Press.)
Los Alomfs, Santababara County, Cal.,
July 31.—The people of this city and
vicinity are terror stricken and are flee
ing from their homos to places of safety
on account of the increasing severity of
the earthquakes that have visited this
section since the night of the 27th in
stant, since which time it is estimated
that seventy-five distinct shocks have
been felt.
Three distinet shocks were recorded
early this morning, the last one being the
most severe yet felt.
Every brick building in the town was
destroyed or badly wrecked. In nearly
every house windows were broken. The
Presbyterian church, a large and hand
some brick structure was razed to the
ground and a similar fate befell the gen
eral store of W. S. Wickenben, also a
brick building.
The shock seems to have had a spiral
motion. Goods were hurled from shelves
of stores and piled in the middle of the
roomjh. Even such heavy arrttfcle.s as
desks were thrown about. Not a chimney
is left standing in the town. All brick
walls are badly damaged, but frame
structures generally escaped serious in
jury. In the drug store not a single
bottle escaped and Kohn’s saloon was
flooded with liquor from broken bottles.
President Benjamin Ide Wheeler, of the
University of California, was communi
cated with by telephone and advised the
people to quit the town as soon as pos
sible.
Scientists of the University were away
on vacations, but President Wheeler ad
vised that the pepole be ready to flee
at a moment’s notice, and that the
doors of residences and places of busi
ness be left open so that those in doors
might escape to the streets without de
lay in the event of further disturbance.
The advice of President Wheeler was
communicated to the people at once and
was immediately acted upon.
The Western Union Oil Company is the
heaviest loser, two of its immense stor
age tanks being demolished, releasing
thousands of gallons of oil.
Shocks at Lompoc.
(By the Associated' Press.)
Lompoc. Calif., July 31. —Three distinct
shocks of earthquake were felt here last
night, two of the shocks being very se
vere, lasting over half a minute each-
No Railway Propeity Destroyed.
(By the Associated Press.)
San Francisco, July 31.—Master of
Transportation Richards, of the Southern
Pacific, today stated that the seismic
disturbances in Santa Babara did not de
stroy any railway property and that tho
tracks of his company were intact, all
trains running on a schedule time. Los
Alamos is a town of about 600 people, In
Santa Babara county, and is the center
of a large oil producing territory. It is
situated in the Los Almos Valley, one of
I the most productive valleys in the State,
olives and citrus fruits being produced
in abundance,
OFF TO SERVE UNCLE SAM-
District Conference Opens at Randleman. Noi th
Carolina Astonishes Him
(Special to News and Observer.)
Greensboro, N. C., July 31.—The fol
lowing young men left last night to be
come members of the United States army:
Jas, H. Williams, of Elkin, for Columbus
barracks, Columbus, Ohio, to enter the
infantry service of the United States
.army; Henry W. Smith, of Greensboro,
for Fort Ethan Allen, Essex Junction,
Vermont, to join the second cavalry; Jas.
B. Hollingsworth, of Charlotte, and Cor
poral James C. Fry, of Stokes, for Jef
ferson barracks, St. Louis, to join the
cavalry; Richard T. Thorp, of Oxford, a
land owner to the extent oi twelve hun
dred acres, has been taken ou proba
tion.
The Lindley Park dam broke last night,
and the lake, which has been growing lar
ger by water furnished through drain
pipes for the past month, has vanished.
Soon its bottom will be as dry as the
Cone mill dam bottom corn field.
All Methodist preachers here left this
morning to attend the District Confer
ence which began at Randleman at ten
o’clock in St. Paul's church.
Thomas McClelland, the train porter
who was accidentally killed on his train
near Charlottesville, Va., Tuesday by the
discharge of a pistol in the hands of
Conductor Hanner, lived in Greensboro
for many years and was highly regarded
here. The porter at the time was at his
train assisting some negroes to alight
from their coach. He lived but a few
minutes and was buried today in Dan
ville.
Captain Hanner was assaulted by a man
twice his size, and having a crippled
band and arm, the result of a railroad
wreck, could do nothing less than at
tempt to use his lawful weapon of au
thority as conductor.
Mr. Hardy L. Fennell, of Wilmington,
is here to make arrangements for open
ing un a retail and wholesale horse mil
linery emporium.
Mr. B. C>. Hall, of New York, who has
made a tour of the South in the inter
est of a news gathering agency, was in 1
Greensboro yesterday on liis return. He |
said; “There are better openings for
capital either in large or small amounts
in the South today than* anywhere else )
in America. What I have seen in North
Carolina simply astonishes me.”
Bennett Bros., of Norfolk, have opened
an up-to-date tea and coffee store in the
old Holtoif drug store, under the McAdoo. I
At an educational local tax election j
rally at Oak Ridge Institute last night. -
the audience was large, enthusiastic and
apparently unanimously in favor of the ■
plans presented by the speakers for the i
establishment of rural graded schools, j
The Teachers’ Institute continues to at
tract great interest here. Tomorrow
there will be a special conference on the I
subject of adornment of school houses, <
at which Mrs. Dr. Mclver and Mrs. Os
born will address the teachers.
‘‘ALL A PACK OF LIEB ”
May Yohe Thus Explodes When Told of
Strong’s Denials of Her Charges.
(By the Associated Press.)
London, July 31.—May Yohe reached
here today from Plymouth, where she
landed this morning from the Fuerst
Bismarck from New York. She was reg
-1 istered on the steamer's passenger list
as Mrs. Batcliellor.
To the reporters who met her here she
declared she had never authorized Put
nam Bradlee Strong to pawn anything of
hers and said he had never paid her any
of the money obtained on the pawned
jewels. When she was shown an inter
view with Strong, in which he denied
that he had pawned her diamonds, she
said;
“That is all a batch of lies. For the
$400,000 worth of goods which Strong
pawned, his brother-in-law, A. R. Shat-
I tuck put up $22,000, out of which I paid
$5,000 to Emanuel Friend, my attorney,
, and $B.llO to pawnbrokers. Strong's
' story that he paid me back anything is
j another lie.
I “I do not know until I get my mail
• whether I will go to France or not. 1
, know he is there and I do not want to
| have anything to do with him. I have
! suffered all this outrageous treatment to
I save his mother and my own. I am anx
* ious to get to Genoa, where I have
j tickets for a tiara, diomand heart and
I other things he pawned. I have no means
whatever. I may land in Kamtchatka
before I get through.”
When she was shown a statement of
L-ord Hope’s bankruptcy ease, mention
ing that Hope’s counsel disputed a note
for £9,187 given to her, Miss Yohe said:
“That’s right; the money is due me
and I’ll fight for it till I get it.”
Plymouth, Eng., July 31.—Since Put
nam Bradlee Strong left London he has
been in constant telegraphic communica
tion with his friends there and has shown
great anxiety to know definitely whether
any criminal proceedings against him on
the part of May Yohe or others have
been taken.
On the Diamond.
National League.
(By tho Associated Press.)
At Philadelphia— R. H. E.
Cincinnati 0000 00 0 1 o—l0 —1 6 2
Philadelphia 0000 00 0 0 o—o 4 1
At Boston— R. 11. E.
Boston 3 2 100 0 0 *—6 9 3
Chicago 0000 00 0 0 o—o 4 4
At New York— R H E
St. Louis 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 I—3 9 1
New Y'ork .. ..0 0001001 o—2 6 1
At Brooklyn— R II E
Pittsburg 00000003 o—3 12 1
Brooklyn 00000000 0-0 2 0
I
American League.
(By the Associated Pres 3.)
At Detroit— II II 12
Washington ... .0 ft 001 00 0 o—l 2 1
Detroit 0 6000300 «—9 15 2
At St. Louis— R II E
St. Louis .. ..2 010010 0 0 o—4 14 0
Phila 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 o—4 13 0
Game called on account of darkness.
At Cleveland— R. H. E.
Cleveland 1001 00 0 1 *—3 10 2
Boston 000 00 0 0 00—0 5 1
Eastern League.
(By the Associated Press.)
Buffalo 7; Jersey City 6.
Toronto S; Worcester 1.
Rochester 6; Newark 1.
Montreal 8; Providence 7.
Southern League.
(By the Associated Press.)
Little Rock-Nashville game postponed
on account of rain. No other Southern
League games played today.
New Steamship Company.
(By the Associated Press.)
Mobile. Ala., July 31.—The Benerailis
Steamship Company, organized to oper
ate steam and sailing vessels out of this
port, was incorporated here today. Filo •
meno and Mary Benemilis, of Mobile, and
James L- Lcmaire. of New Orleans, aie
the principal subscribers.
THE ARGUMENT CONCLUDED.
Rosemond Suit Goes to Jury This Morning The
King Case Ooes Over.
The argument of counsel in the Rose
mond suit was concluded at 6 o’clork
yesterday evening, and Judge Winston
| dismissed the jury with the usual caution
until this morning at 9:30, when he will
t charge them on the law in the case.
I The suit is brought by Mrs. Nanie L.
i Rosemond against the Seaboard Air Line
for S3O 000 damages for the killing of her
husband in a wreck near CheraWi S. C.
| Major John D. Shaw made the opening
! speech, for the defendant railroad yester
| day mtvning. It was a learned and elo
quent r> ffs»rt. He was followed by Judge
T. B. Womack, also for the railroad, who
I made a logit-''l and clear presentation of
I the defendant’s side of the ease. Capt.
, w. H. Day cldV,cd for the railroad in a
brilliant speech’* characteristic of the
man. Col. T. M. A concluded for the
I plaintiff. He made"vi tremendously for
j cible plea for the widbw of the dead fire
man. Each of the Speeches consumed
1 about two hours. \
I After the jury had dismissed,
! Judge Winston announced tihat he would
follow the rule agreed upon', and printed
at the head of the calendar, “cases
set and not tried on the day shall
go over to the foot of the calendar of the
following day: and if not tried An that
, day shall be continued for tho term?
less set for some other day by consent.”
Accordingly the ease of Robert O. KinlS
igainst the Seaboard Air Line RailroaT,
’ S et for Wednesday, goes over until next
term. This case was tried at the last
term here and the jury failed to agree.
| Today, the cases of \V. T. King against
the Raleigh and Gaston Railroad Com
-1 pany, and Haywood H. Alston against
the S. \. L. Railroad, will be taken up
as soon as the charge is delivered to
the jury. If any time is left the judge
will go back to the cases set for yester
day, J. C. Marcom, administrator of Ed
• ward Stone, vs. the R. and G. R. U. Co.,
and N. W.' Hatch vs. tho It. and G. It. R.
Co.
SERMONS IN ARALIC,
i
Rev Anthony Asmar, of Mt- Lebanon, Syria ’
: in Raleigh Preaching to Syrians.
I Rev. Anthony Asmar, of Mount Le- !
ban on, Syria, is in Raleigh, the guest of
Rev. Father Griffin, rector of the Church
of the Sacred Heart. He expects to be
here the remainder of the week, preach
ing at seven o’clock each morning in the
Church of the Sacred HeaTt to the
Syrians, of Raleigh. The sermons began
on last Tuesday, and the church was I
. well filled.
Rev. Father Asmar was sent to
1 America by the Patriarch of Antioch, the 1
ancient city in which the term “Chris- j
■ tion” was first applied to the followers
of Christ. He cannot speak English and
, only converses in French and Arabic, j
1 His mission to this country is to look
after the welfare of his countrymen, 1
scattered through the Southern States.
| It is said that there are about fifty
' Syrians here. Tho Syrians are Roman
Catholics, and until the intervention of
France a few years ago, were severely
J persecuted by the Turk’s.
THE SUMMER SCHOOL CLOSES.
The Biggest Ever Held in the World Teachers
From North Carolina.
(Special to News and Observer.)
Knoxville, Tenn., July 31. —The biggest
summer school ever held in the world
closed here today after a six weeks’ ses
sion. Tim school was attended by twen
ty-two hundred teachers from twenty
• five States, mostly South of the Potomac
River. The best instructors in the
j United States were employed at an ex
• pense of many thousands of dollars.
i The Old North State was third in point
of attendance, sending 137 teachers to the
. school. A number of teachers were from
I Raleigh, Asheville and other North
Carolina towns. Charlotte sent twenty
one, Greensboro twelve, Winston-Salem
I eleven, and Statesville ten. Several
prominent North Carolina educators lec
tured during the progress of the school.
I
BAD DEATH OF MISS SOUTHERN.
On Her Way to Health Resort She Expires m
Depot at Oreensboro.
(Special to News and Observer.)
Greensboro, N. C., July 31.—Miss Au
j gusta, daughter of H. W. Southern, of
i Avalan, Rockingham county, aged 18,
died in the depot here at 1 o’clock, ten
minutes after being taken from the
train. She became sick with heart fail
j urc at Summerfield, ten miles distant,
j dying before a physician could reach her.
Her older sister was with her, both going
to a health resort near Thomasville.
The body was tenderly- cared for, the
family telephoned and the remains will
be expressed home by the first train.
The King’s Rapid Progress,
(By the Associated Press.)
Cowes, Isle of Wight, July 31.—Today’s
bulletin on the condition of King 12U
ward follows:
“His Majesty has made rapid progress
since Monday last. His general, condi
; tion is all that could be desired. The
wound is closing satisfactorily.
“The King is now able to walk the en
tire length of the pavilion deck easily
without assistance.
(Signed) Treves, Laking, Bankart.”
Favored by perfect weather the royal
yacht Victoria and Albert cruised west
ward this afternoon. The King sat in
the shade of an awning aft, with the
j Queen by his side.
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PRICE FIVE CENTS.
DRAGGED f ROM JAIL
TO DIEBT THE ROPE
Steel Bars Broken by Mob
With Crow Bars.
THE LYNCHING OFCRAVEN
Captured in a Hayrick and Jailed at
Leesburg,
MILITARY ORDERtD OUT TO PROTECT HIM
They Arrive Too Late, However. Men, Women
and Children Cheer the Mib. l ive
Hundred Sho*s Fired Into
His Eody
(By the Associated Press.)
Washington, July 31.—Charles Craven,
the supposed murderer of William H.
Wilson, a farmer living near Herndon,
Va., was lynched this afternoon on the
pike one mile east of Leesburg, Va. He
was taken from the jail at Leesburg by
a mob of 130 men who overpowered the
Vruard, broke in the outer door and then
enjtered the cage, using hammers and
crolw bars.
LnLtlc difficulty was encountered in this
work. \ A noose was thrown around the
prisoner’s neck and he was led down the
pike in \he direction of the murder.
The partyAhad proceeded scarcely a mile
when the ro)pc was thrown around a tree
and Craven Vas pulled from the ground.
As soon as Wie body was raised in the
air the mob fir(\l fully hundred shots
at the dying Before Craven was
lynched he was gVven an opportunity to
make .a statemenAL He strongly pro
tested that he was\ innocent of killing
Wilson and also that\he was innocent of
burning Smith’s barn,\f°r which offense
(lie had been sentenced Vo jail two years
| before. Men, women children, who
1 lined the road from the jal'J t° Hie sceu . e
of the execution, cheered trap
I Governor Montague was appeal** by
the officer of the common and he
I ordered the Alexandria Light
, to the scene, but the mob accomplteftfd
its work before the arrival of the soT---
diers.
Craven was captured today on a farm
Inear Ashburn, Va. He was asleep in a
( hay rick and was seized by three of his
pursuers, Ernest Norman, John Higgins
| and Henry Bryant, before he had time to
oner resistance. A large crowd quickly
gathered and threatened to lynch the
j negro, but Sheriff Russell succeeded in
getting his prisoner into a train and
safely lodged him in jail at Leesburg.
A Double Hanging.
(By the Associated Press.)
Roanoke, Va., July 31. —The first double
‘hanging in the history of Wise county
will take place at Wise court house to
morrow, when Robert Foy and Charlie
Blackman, Loth colored, will pay the
death penalty.
Foy was convicted of the murder of
Dayton H. Miller, secretary and treasurer
of the Toms Creek Coal Company at
Toms Creek last December. He broke
jail with eleven others prisoners in Feb
ruary, but was re-captured.
Blackman killed Thomas Bates, anoth
er negro, at Tom Creek last month.
Hi nged Tor Attempted Outrage.
(By the Associated Press.)
Camden, Ark., July 31.—After twice es
i caping from the hands of the law, ac
l cording to word received here today, Lee
i Newton, a negro, has been lynched in
. Columbia county.
] Newton was caught a month ago in the,
room of two young ladles belonging to a
I prominent Columbia county family. Their
. screams brought quick assistance, but by
a desperate effort the negro escaped. He
was captured by the authorities but again
j escaped. Last week the police located
him and with the aid of bloodhounds
captured him. Saturday night while the
prisoner was being taken to jail at Mag
nolia, a mob of 23 men set upon the es
cort and hanged the negro to a tree.
LAMB MAKES A DENIAL.
Ibat Louisville and Nasbvi'le Has Bought th*
Chattanooga Southern.
(By the Associated Press.)
Chattanooga, July 31.— President Hen
ry L. Lamb, of the Chattanooga South
• ern Railroad, arrived in this city today
and denied emphatically the reports that
the Louisville & Nashville had bought
the Chattanooga Southern. He declared
there had been no negotiations to that
end.
Lieut Simpaon Ordered to Norfolk
(By the Associated Press.)
Washington, July 31.—Orders have
been issued by the Navy Depai f ment
j detaching Lieutenant E. Simpson from
] the naval torpedo station, Narragansett
j Bay to the Norfolk and Newport News
Navy Yards in connection with the fit
ting out of the Arkansas.
Lieutenant Simpson will serve as exec
utive officer on board that vessel when
put in commission.
W. T. Thompson has been appointed
paymaster clerk, and ordered to duty at
| the Norfolk Navy Yard.