The News and Ob_ ~~ver. VOL. LIII. NO. 20. [L®sinHs «iDD RDcrorpthtb ©fflo°®Ooonai MOw (Pffl[]B®[PS Bod UMOd Rl®\Wß ffloodl ©otP®ooDsiftß®Dn AHOTHER EFFORT BY THE PRESIDENT i. Promises to Appoint an In vestigating Commission. AND ACT ON ITS REPORT ThU if Mitchell Will Oet the Miners Back to Work. MITCHELL ASKS TIME TO CONSIDER And He Wishes to Lay the Proposition Before His Associates. Wriehtand Sarrent Were the President’s Agents. Roose velt Talks With Others. (By the Associated Press.) Washington, D. C., Oct. 7.—The fol lowing statement was made public at the White House this afternoon: “On Monday. October 6, Hon. Carroll De Wright, Commissioner of Labor, went to Philadelphia, and gave to Mr. John Mitchell the following from the Presi dent: “ ‘lf Mr. Mitchell will secure the im mediate return to work of the miners in the anthracite regions, the President will at once appoint a commission to investi gate thoroughly into all matters at is sue between the operators and miners and will do all within his power to ob tain a settlement of those questions in accordance with the report of the com mission.’ “Mr. Mitchell has taken this matter tinder consideration, but the President has not yet been advised of any decis ion.” The President was in consultation to day for almost two hours with members of the Cabinet relative to the coal strike situation. He also talked over the sit uation with Dr. Albert Shaw and Dr. Lyman Abbott. About. 1:30 o'clock. Frank P. Sargent. Commissioner-General of Immigration and for years Chief of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen, arrived at the White House from his trip to Philadel phia, where he went as the emissary of the President to convey to President Mitchell, of the United 'Mine Workers' Association, the proposition of President Roosevelt that the miners resume work. Mr. Sargent had not succeeded in seeing Mr. Mitchell. The President, however, had heard from Commissioner of Labor Wright -who saw Mr. Mitchell on the same errand last night in Philadelphia, and the latter's report was that Mr, Mitchell desired time to consider the proposition and lay it before his asso ciates. After a conference of an hour between tbc President, Attorney General Knox, Postmaster General Payne, Mr. Sargent ar .d James S. Clark, it was decided to give out the above statement. Orders to the National Guard. (By the Associated Press.) Harrisburg, I’a.. Oct. 7. —General orders placing the entire National Guard of Pennsylvania on duty in the strike region, were issued today from division head quarters, which have been established at the Commonwealth Hotel in charge of Col. William J. Elliott. Assistant Adjutant Adjutant General of the Guard, who will remain in Harrisburg until the troops are recalled. The orders designate the location of the throe brigades and all of the State troops will he in the field by Thursday. General Miller will command the division. NO DEFINITE PLAN AGREED OS. After Conference With Striker* Manufacturer* Go to Confer With Operator*. (By the Associated Press.) Bualo, N. Y, Oct. 7—The conference between the committee appointed by the National Manufacturers' Association and President Mitchell and his lieutenants held, at the Iroquois Hotel, this after noon did not result in any definite plan being agreed upon for the partial re sumption of work in the anthracite coal fields but the members of the Manufac turers’ committee stated that they were greatly pleased with the progress made. The fact that communication was estab lished with the operators by long-dis tance telephone and an appointment made to meet a committee representing them. In Philadelphia tomorrow, is looked upon as significant. Mr. Mitchell, this afternoon possivcly declined to discuss the reoucst made by President Roosevelt that Mitchell use bis influence to induce the miners to resume work with a promise of the appointment of a commission to investigate the min ers’ grievances. It was learned from a reliablo v source, however. that Mr. Mitchell docs not regard the proposition favorably, and that he will decline to ask the miners to resume work under the conditions stipulated. When the conference adjourned the fol lowing official statement was given out: “The committee of the National Asso ciation of Manufacturers has listened to the explanation of the present strike difficulty as offered by a. special com mittee of the United Mine Workers at the head of which was Mr. John Mitchell. The National Association of .Manufac turers’ committee has learned what it could of the conditions and now goes to Philadelphia for the purpose of meeting a committee of mine operators with the idea of getting their side o fthe difieulty. The National Association of Manufactur ers’ committee carries no proposition from the mine workers and has no other mission than the desire to speedily bring about a settlement of this dispute." To Investigate the Coal Trust. (By the Associated Press.) New York. Oct. 7.—lt was learned to day that United States District Attorney Burnett had been instructed by the At torney General in Washington, to in vestigate the working of the Coal Trust in his district, that of the southern half of Now York State. General Burnett de clined, however, to state the nature of the investigation to be made by him or when it would be commenced. Further than to state that such an investigation had been ordered, he would not talk. McLean and Dixon at Liberty. (Specal to the News and Observer.) Liberty. N. C., Oct. 7.—Hon. D. H. Mo- Lean and Dr. B. F. Dixon spoke here to a goodly number of people on the 4th. Quite a number of ladies were present. Hon. D. H. McLean led off with an able speech reviewing the past of the Republi can party and comparing it with the work of the Democratic party. He showed that the real friends of education and good government in this State were in the party which was now in power. Dr. Dixon followed. The Doctor dealt freely in facts gathered from the figures in the Auditor’s office and did our cause good. The Ramseur Cornet Band furnished excellent music for the occasion and was much complimented. Democracy is not losing in this part. NOT A (MOULD GET TRROUGH Police Guards Useless. Call for a Thousand Volun teers Unheeded. tßy the Associated Press.) New Orleans, La., oct. 7.—The New Or leans Railway Company today attempted to obey the order of the mayor to run passenger cars this morning and although almost ihe entire force of city police was concentrated at the scene of action, only one car succeeded -n going five squares from the canal barn. Four cars were started out with non union motormen and conductors, each carrying eleven policemen, while a hun dred policemen were massed in the vicin ity, but when the first car reached Tonti street the strikers and their sympathizers made a rush for the ear and secured pos session. The police made no show of resisting the assault. Not a single strik er was hurt. F. H. Schwcnck, of Chi cago, a nonunion conductor, was badly injured, and he with three other non union employees wore bodly taken pos session of by the strikers. A policeman was hit on the foot by a brick and another of the non-union men v ho is a prisoner, was roughly handled but not badly hurt. The cars were badly damaged by stones. The company informed the mayor that the police protection was inadequate ana this afternoon Mayor Capvielle issued a call for a thousand volunteer citizen po lice. The responses to the call have hern few and it appears that in the fail ure ol police protection the militia will he called out. The company says it will be ready to run cars if protect ion is given. Three arrests were made by the police during the day. The four ears which were sent out by this company this morning, left the Canal street barn at 7 o'clock in a procession and started up Canal street. They were greeted with hoots and yells by the crowd of strikers in the immediate vicinity, but no vio lence was offered. Two blocks from the barn a large crowd was gathered and they made a dash for the first car. One man swung on to the trolley rope and pulled the trolley down. The can ran a block and a half before it stopped. The stopping of this car stopped all the others and the strikers boarded them without any show resistance. Some police drew their revolvers. Stones and bricks were showered on the cars and the crews of two of them were carried off bodily. The trolley ropes were cut. The company then made a play for Fed eral interferences by running out a mail car behind the others and of course it could not get through. Ground was laid for a charge of interfering with the mail. By 10 o’clock all tc ears ahd been re turned and the crowds of strikers had dispersed except a few who were left on watch. Clark Bentley, a conductor, was arrested today on a charge by Postoffice Inspector Lake Jones, of cutting trolley wires near Audubon Park on October 1. The fact thu the Felcral officials have taken a hand has, surprised then. An affidavit has also been made against D. Munlsch for cutting wires and the inspector says two other men were concerned in the crime. Bentley was re leased on SI,OOO bond. The trial of the sixteen strikers charged w ith interfering with mail cars began before the United States Commis sioner. and much direct evidence was adduced against all but the officers of the union, who were not in the vicinity. The trial vas continued until tomorrow. The only time most people ran save money by not spending it is when they haven't got any. RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 8, 1902. ONE MILLION MARK 1,000,000 Pounds of Tobacco Sold Here t j Tobacco and Cotton Together Have Put Into Circulation cn This Market 5210,974 3 More Than Last Fall. Tobacco and cotton together have put into circulation from this market up to the present time this fall $210,974 more than last year. Os this total excess, cotton has contributed $103,474, and to bacco $107,500- These figures are of course approximate, and do not claim to be exact, but they come very close to the actual amounts. That much has been actually paid out to farmers for cotton and tobacco over and above what was paid out last year. Os course there was no tobacco on this market last year, so the amount of to bacco sales this fall is all excess over last year. One million pounds of tobacco have been sold on this market since last Jul> in the two warehouses, the Farmers’ and the Capital City. It has been estimated that the average price paid lias been $10.75 per hundred pounds. Several prominent tobacco men pre dict chat before the season is over, 3,000,000 pounds will have been sold, whereas the expectation was that the to tal would be about 2,000,000 pounds. One gentleman who knows perhaps as much about tobacco as any man* ,in North Carolina, predicted to a News and Observer reported yesterday that be tween five and eight million pounds would be sold next season. This same gentleman said that he did not consider that the combine between the Imperial ar.d American Tobacco Companies would effect the Raleigh market in the least, either this season or next. He looks upon it as simply a com promise touching the manufactured ar ticle in England. The competition, he says, between the buyers cf the two companies on this mar ket has hern just as keen since the re port of the combine as it was before. A PARDON ASKED IOK MU SHOW Many Petition For Pardon For LYcnng Man Who Committed Crime- One of the worst crimes ever committed in North Carolina was by a young man in Guilford county. His girl victim was cruelly wronged. IT is conviction wae widely approved as a just sentence. A M. Scales, Esq., of Greensboro, was lu re this week to ask a pardon for Murrow, and the matter is now before the Gover nor. He will no doubt give the applica tion long and serious consideration before cutting the sentence down six-sevenths. The Greensboro Telegram, writing of the application, says: “Mr. A. M. Scales, Mr. J. S. Murrow, and Mr. D. B. Coletrane, the latter of Concord, went to Raleigh today carrying for Governor Aveock’s consideration a numerously signed petition for the par don of Roscoe Murrow , son of Mr. J- S. Murrow*. There has hern some criticism of the movement to secure a pardon for Young Murrow, but Mr. Sales, who baa looked into the matter thoroughly, says such criticism is due to ignorance of the facts in the case. He has in his posses sion affidavits which he says make it certain that false accusations were pre ferred against Murrow. Some of these he read to a Telegram reporter, who agreed along with everybody else that they changed the aspect of the case most decidedly. So numerous are these affi davits and so reliable and trustworthy are those making them that it looks as if Mr. Scales has a complete ease in be half of the young man. Had lie been able on the trial to produce the evidence he now has Mr. Scales thinks the sen tence of the court would have been far different Young Murrow has served something over a year of his seven years’ sentence. The sight of one of his eyes is practically gone and the other is failing. Specialists have examined bis eyes and they say if he is not relieved of the hardships incident upon his life as a road convict he will assuredly go blind. The glare of the sum on the earth and the tools with which he works makes the daytime injurious to bis failing vision and at night sleeping with a light in the quarters only serves to make matters worse.” Lawson Thrown From His Wheil. (By the Associated Tress.) Savannah. Ga., Oet. 7. —Gus Lawson, the cycle rider, was injured this morn ing on the track of the Savannah Coliseum while training for his race tonight with Bobby Walthour. Lawson was following a motor pace by Callahan, of Baltimore, when a plug of the motor blew out. While trying to got out of the way. Lawson's wheel throw him, the fall badly cutting his head. Dr. Whitehead’s Body Brought Home. (Special to the News and Observer.) Scotland Neck, N. C., Oct. 7.—The body of Dr. Frank Whitehead, who died at Suffolk yesteray, was brought to Hob good today and will be buried near N i liala Presbyterian church close to his old home tomorrow. Dr. Whitehead wife the son of Mr. W. T. Whitehead, one of the leading farmers of this community. He practiced medicine as a young physician hero a few years ago and then removed to Suffolk, where he built, up a handsome practice. Hi* death s**a3 a great surprise to his many friends here. When a married couple got a divorce it is up to each to congratulate the other. Tlis Weather Today: fiffiKKTt Fair. ONE HUNDRED AND ONE MILLIONS Total Net Earnings for Nine Months of the Steel Trust. (By the Associated Tress.) New’ York, Oct. 7. —The directors of the United States Steel Corporation, today, issued a statement of not earnings for the nine months of the year ended Sep tember 30. Earnings for July, August and September, with the last month es timated, aggregate $36,764,643; total net earnings Tor the nine months deducting each month’s expenses for ordinary re pairs, renewals and maintenance of plant, also interest on bonds and fixed charges of the subsidiary companies aggregate $101,142,158. The usual dividends of 1% per cent on the preferred, and 1 per cent on the common quarterly were declared. Deducting $10,774,105 for sinking fund on bonds of the subsidiary companies and depreciation and reserve funds leaves a balance of profits for the nine months applicable for securities of the corooro tion of $90,368,053. From this amount is deducted $13,680,000 for nine months’ in terest and a sinking fund on the bonds, leaving a net balance of $76,688,053. Un divided profits for the nine months appli cable to increase of “depreciation and reserve fund” account, new/ construction, or surplus, are $34,647,982. The preferred dividend is payable November 13, and the common dividend December 30. A NEW ENGINE FOR DURHAM Also a New PireStation toCost Between E6.U00 and 87,000- (Special to News and Observer.) Durham, N. Oct. 7.—The Board or Aldermen, at their meeting last night, I decided to purchase a fire engine. .Mr. Horace Moore, of the LaFrance Fire En gine Company, Elmira, N. Y., was pres ent and made a proposition. The engine is one of the best made and will be ready for delivery in about ninety days. Hook &. Sawyer, architects, of Char lotte, have submitted plans for the now fire station of Durham Hose Company, No 2. Estimates for the construction of the building will be received at the meeting of the aldermen on Monday night, October 20th. The new building is to cost between $6,000 and $7,000, and will he thoroughly equipped in the most modern and improved manner. The suit of Thaddeus F. Smith against the Erwin Cotton Mills Company was or. in the Superior court today. The plain tiff sues for SIO,OOO damages for injuries received by some machinery in the dye department of the mills of the defendant last December. Guthrie & Guthrie are the attorneys for the plaintiff, while Boone, Bryant & Biggs, Winston and Fuller, of this city, and P. H. Cabell, ot Richmond, Ya., represent the defense. Ellis Warren, colored, of Orange coun ty. while at a dance at the homo of May Watkins, colored, on Red Cross street, this city, was shot last night about It o’clock, by some unknown party. The ball sped through a window and struck Warren in the back, below the right shoulder. No clue as >o the guilty party has yet been obtained. Warren is re -1 orte 1 as getting on as well as could be expected, and it is thought will recover. The Democratic candidates begin their county campaign next Monday. At one o’clock on that day they are to speak at Mangum's Store, and at night at Rongc raont. lion. A. L. Brooks, of Greensboro, Messrs. C. B. Green and Jones Fuller ad dressed the citizens of East Durham last night, and made strong and able speeches. Mr. Brooks spoke today at Rougcmonl. j. Lindsey Patterson, “Independent" candidate for Congress in ihis district, spoke at the court, house in this city to night. Tlv' remains of Miss Minnie Ray, the 18-ytfar-cld daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Ray, who died Monday afternoon of fever, were laid to rest this afternoon in the oily cemetery. The funeral ser vices were conducted from the residence at 3 o’clock by Rev. A. P. Barbee, pastor of the Christian church. Thirty-seven deaths occurred in Dur ham during September, twenty whites and seventeen colored. THE WORK NEARS LILLINOION. Trostlcs on the Mills Road to be Finished in a Ftw Bays “We shall begin laying track as soot-. as tor rails arrive, and wc are looking for them now every day." So said President Mills, when asked as to the progress being made on the ex tension of the Raleigh and Cape Fear road from Fuquay Springs to Lillington. “The trestle work,’’ he continued, “is nearly finished from Fuquay to Neill’s Creek. This point is within two miles of the Capo Fear and our present objec tive, Lillington. It "ill be completed by die middle of next week. The grading is proco'ding very satisfactorily and will be wound up, by December. I think. “You’ll tie operating through to Lll- Hngton by Chritmas. won’t you?" “That depends in some measure on the weather. 1 shouldn’t like to ray posi tively. On>- thing is certain, though" -and hip far-' lit up with one of his sudden genial .-miles —“we must get in there be fore the fertili/.'*r season opens." Dan Fateh, sh > famous purer, yesterday failed in an attempt to lower his record of 1:591/., covering the distant" in 2 03- a wonderful performance, eniu-lderiug the soft condition of tie-Brack. SUING THE A- C. I FOR 820.000- Labor i* Organizing all Along the Line in Wilmington. (Special to the News and Observer.) Wilmington, N. C., Oct. 7. —B. F. Penny, a leading dry goods merchant of Wil mington, is suing the Atlantic Coast Line Railway Company for $20,000 damages in the Superior Court here before Judge Henry R. Bryan. The complaint sets forth that in August, 1898, the plaintiff was a passenger on one of defendant company's trains upon which an unruly, negro had to be ejected by the conductor at Leland, Brunswick county: that the negro in retreating from the train, fired a pistol at the conductor and the ball in tended for the conductor, struck plaintiff, causing serious injuries which he believes and is told arc permanent and yet dan gerous. At a previous trial before Judge W. A. Hoke a verdict by a jury for $6,000 damages was set aside for technical rea sons. Bellamy & Bellamy, E. K. Bryan, Herbert McClaramy, Eugene S. Martin and A. J. Marshall, Esq., appear for Mr. Penny, while the railroad's interests are being looked after by Messrs. Davis & Davis, Bellamy & Peschau and Rountree & Carr. Prof. R. D. W. Connor, of Wilson, has arrived and assumed the principalship of the High Schobl. Something over 2,000 pupils were enrolled in the public schools yesterday and that number will be in creased next week[ General Organizer M. S. Belk, of the American Federation of Labor, last night organized the printers of the city into a Typographical Union. A Federal Labor Union, under a charter from the Ameri can Federation, was also formed. The latter consists of painters, tinners and allied trades. There is organization of labor here all along the line. THIS ENDS THE BLUFF Roosevelt Displeased With Southern Republicans for Excluding Negroes, (By the Associated Press.) Washington. D. C., Oet. 7.—Bishop Alexander Walters, of New Jersey; Bish op G. W. Clinton, of North Carolina, and Rev. L. L. Caruthers, of New York, rep resenting the executive committee of the Afro-American Council, called upca President Roosevelt today to ascertain his attitude toward the movement among certain Republicans of the South, to ex clude the negroes from participation In the counsels of the party. They were especially solicitous of ascertaining whether the President endorsed the ac tion of the Republicans in North Carolina and Alabama with this cud in view. They were presented to the President by Gen. James S. Clarkson, surveyor of the port of New York. Postmaster General Payne arrived at the White House while the conference was in progress and was pres ent part of the time. After the inter view the colored men expressed them selves as highly gratified with what the President Lad said to them. They announced that the President had stated to them that his actions in all matters affecting the race was bis an swer as to the attitude toward the col ored man; that in ♦appointments the character, intelligence and the esteem in >which the applicant was held in the com munity in which he lived would be the first consideration and that no man would bo excluded or appointed because of his color. That he heartily disapproved or the efforts of certain Republicans in the South io exclude the negroes from par ticipation in politics was known so they reported the President as having stated io those in authority in the movement. Moreover, it also was stated that the President had cited his action in remov ing District Attorney Vaughn, of Ala bama, who was the head of the white Republican movement in that State as evidence of his attitude. It is inti mated that this attitude would be stilt further emphasized in the appointment of his successor. When Bishop Walters and his asso ciates departed they expressed them selves ns completely satisfied with the President’s attitude and it is understood that they will issue a statement, defining their position as well as the President’s attitude. When they came to the White House, they stated they were prepared, in case of an unfavorable reply, to issue an ad visory statement to the colored people of the