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' v.,... : .... :;:::,v. zdamly PAP&D;i;?j'.;jon7Zj-.GARCZ, f-JtQO QUI 1 L;J. . VOLUME LXXXV XO. 73 BALEIGH, K. C, SATORDAY MOIriNGj rEBRUAJRiY 15, 1908. PUICE C CENTS Mi iuiar : I ' -; . ' " . r . ;-:. ----;, -" t i f-: .'::..- . . .- ' . - .4 ! '..--.--.'.! v - : . j . : , - . , " ' - "' ' ' ami. Pi oral yaro ft tl 11 ChO? tl vtitt vt- rrc wo jH a w 7 -ti-. (OlUJlll JIM I-WQ mJLWMT - -.- , v ' ' .. . . -.. ', , '. - : .; , , j, 1' ... 1 I 1 I . C ' : SSSSfSSSBSBSS-SSBSBSBSSSSSSSSSSSSS-B' Kitchin Hakes Full State ment as to Letter - .- NEGRO FACTOR AGAIN It the Antl-Admlnlstratloh Plans Pre vail and Negroes Take Part in Cm ; t Tentlon Sootli Taft .l is Against . ; (Stamps Kltehin Denies - Any ;1 Thonglit of congressional ' I - ' - Candidacy. , , 'VI; f' - j . ... - ;'-'!..-;-" -r- ' I By TIIOJIAS J. PENCE. . Washington D. C. Feb. 14. Rep lepentatlve ;W. W. Kitchln returned from theState today and gave to 'the preta a: statemen.ih -reply; to th criti cisms -of 'the letur he recently;' wrote regarding the date for holding: the Fifth District Congrestaional Conven tion. Mr. Kitchln r'flrt learned of these criticism yesterday atEltzaeth City, Just bfore he took; sl train for Washington. . The ; statement from ILltchln follows: v . v j " 5 s ( "After I left the hotel yesterday to return to this; city, jl : first learned of the c.lkirm of the letter I had wrlt- .iiji' to cc'rala congressional eommltee V.tat letter has beenv distorted O li.?,!'.ate- that I hiave some possible iea of being a candidate -for Con ITI&3 this year, - Since I announced uy candidacy for Governor. I have never for a momenii had the slightest ilea of belns a candidate for renomi r.atlon for Congress - under any clr cun-iSlanees. :, .The uiiiust and hostile " Itilcrence would damage me If the jeople,were not intelligent and fair minded, ;.r T ; L-!''"; , 11 . -" "But I let none I of my friends be nUimed and let them tea? In mind rnv former caution not totake my po U lonj or estimate S my campaign by what thy see in f hostile columns. Every day brings new evidence of the p eople's confidence j in me,' ; and " my nomiaation fpr. governor: pn , the first Jb&llot H more , jrolable ' now thar at t any rior-tlme.'' ' v : j v- ''-'-'V The reasons that J had In desiring that the Conjresslorial . Convention be held alter the State convertion was that I wanted to avoid he possible complications tHat . may Mine in the Congressional Convention -and the pos sibility of danffer tot me from tne ais aPDolatment of some of -the friends candidate for Con- of the various eresa in the Flth. District, over the , failure of . their j favorites to succeed in the Congressional Convention, ; as more than one cannot be nominated. ' I have held and shall hold hands ab ; solutely oft of , the yifth District' Con gTessionaT contest j But experience, I very much regret; to know, tells me that such a policy, so generally ap proved In one holding a position to wlfffch he -wasr elected by the. friends t eyery candidate In his district, ias nbt heretofore prevented Injury to roe from euch Jmpsrtiallty. f These rea sons, I thought, would be manifest to every body at all acqualntedUwlth the ' situation. I do not see how a late con- vention -could hurt , congressional can i didates." and I - thojight it would be a - recautlon against harm to me In the i'-'giibernatorial contest. ' , , ;u? :My opinion as to the convention .date may be erroneous ,and If mo, the good Judgment of the congressional committee will so find. I am not so I constituted as to regard myself Jn . fallible. Ifi the committee should : i think a late convention would injure f the congressional aspirants, or hurt ; the Democracy, it will be an early one, j but If It . should , think an early one would hurt me while a late one would ; not hurt the Democracy ? or the con gressional aspirants, then the sugges tion of 1 a late convention "Is worthy of its consideration, I expect the com : - znlttee, -which ' is composed largely, if no't;wholly of my friends, to act upon : Its own Judgment, and its action shall not in. any event be criticized by me. TTalr play would have with held such an attack as was made on me until some investigation, and fair play : demands that papers publishing . the attack also publish this. w , Negro lector Aealn. - ; The colored voter, who has been dls- franchised In most of the States of the : South during the past ten years, is to 1 1 become factor in politics once more. 1 When the Democratic party denied the ; ' black man the privilege of the ballot. T the Republicans of the South turned upon, him and eliminated him as a factor tn party politics.For nearly a ' decade hte colored voters of the South ern State' have had no more voice in party matters than' In jthe expression of; the electorate at the polls. Partlc i alarly la this statement true with ref erence t5. North Carolina Republicans. Whose State- Conventions have been , notable btr reason of the fact that ! they were "Lilly White" affairs. It Is ho exaggeration to say, that since the tascaa:e of the sunrage amenament, not. more than half a 'dozen colored men have attended State Conventions as accredited delegates Frevtoua to " this period Republican conventions in Korth Carolma. were of s very dark hue. The same was true of O. ' X P. conventions In other States of the ; South. !."- - :,. -i i In the desperate game that I being cy by the Republicans of the wery possible advantage Js to I by the various contestants, -has arrayed on his side the ,i Federal patronage, T. R- to 'ary. but - In so far as the concerned this seeming ad ; may prove a handicap. Be Mth the day-that k fif- : t? towth4 ConsUtutlon hlted State bernm. .c ir$ has dominated the nZrXXul ,-,yht in the south Alth'iurt the 'man has - been mIV?? V1. UK2 renerauon. . ....... ci uctn IovaI tn ,0 stand.with it. u recoSLe! Its supporters In the Insular posses sions, and gives to them recognition in the ReDubllcan National LConvenUon as much so as tldoes to those in the District of Columbia. In the case of the negro the O. Q. P. goes still further and exercises a cencern for his pouti unique to say the least. One only has to read the j last Republican National platform to be convinced , of . that fact. That docu ment said "We favor such congressional action as shall determine whether, by special discriminations the elective franchise in any State has been unconstitutional such Is the case, we demand that representation in' Con gress and in the Electoral College shall be proportionately reduced as directed by the Constitution of the United States." v j ..;' -.- , The opposition to the administration candidate for the Presidency, realizing full well that the Republican party is committed to the political! recognition of ' the negro," has again resolved to make hlni a factor In Republican pol itics' In the South; The b Jack man is to be urged "to exercise hii right as a Republican and participate in primar ee and conventions that choose dele gates to the Republican National Con vention. It is a case of the field against the administration, and the emissaries of Fairbanks, ( Cannon, Forage.r Hughes, La Follette and the other can. didates, will unite In urging the negro to support delegates opposed, to the of-de-holdlng crowd In the Southern Matesv There will, be no necessity for urging the negro to " take a position hostile to the candidacy of Mr. Taft The colored-voter In the j South not only resents the ) President's attitude towards the race In 1 the jBrownsvllle affair, but he Is even more bitter to wards the various State Republican or ganization leaders, who eummatea him as a political factor, following the1 enactment of the various disfranchis ing statutes enacted by,the several leg islatures In the South. .v i The Southern Negro Is naturally a Republican, and will so continue,, but he has mighty little sentiment in him for the dominant Federal and State rowers in , the party. In this city last night. Rev. S. I. Corrothers, a negro preacher, declared In a public address that If Secretary Taft is nominated for the : Presidency through, the Influence of 1 President Jloosevelt every .colored man in the cbuntry must and will vote tor William' Jennings Bryan. This, while an exaggerated statement. " ex presses the present sentiment of the negro as a race, and indicats how the black man will line up on the question ot the election of delegates to the Re publican National Convention j If the present plans of the anti-administration candidates! for the Presi dent . prevail, and the - negroes take part in the v local conventions, ? Mr. Taft is going to have rough sledding In the South Ixl. North ;Carolina the office-holding " crowd' -would : be swamped In all the Eastern and Mid dle State districts, unless resort should be made to trick practices. That : was the old method of nullifying the negro majorities ' in convention. The sit uation is different now. The negroes have the practical a?snrnce that thfey will be heard when the national con vention assembles at Chicago. If the I f .Continued on Page Four.) Ice Lien of State Hold Secret Meeting Thirteen of Them Gather in Durham, Hold Sleeting and Give Out No , Information, Not Een That They Met. (Specbil to News and Observer.) JDurhaVn. N. C Feb. l4.f-There was a meeting of .the ice manufacturers and managers of various ice 4lan$su over the fState In this, city last night. The meeting was held in the Corcoran Hotel, where the men were in session behind closed . doors from 8 to 11 o'clock- No information ;in regard to the meeting would be given out by those who were approached in regard to the matter. ' 1 Just what the meeting ; means .can not be told, at this time. : It was ctU dently for the purpose of : discussing the ice manufacturing question, but whether it means that there has ben formed an, ice trust or that the ice men have ;reached an agreement as to prices, et?..vcould not be learned. There were thirteen men in the meeting, these being as follows; Messrs. W. O. Bennett, High Point; Henry Well. Qoldsboro; W. i Worth, Wljmington; William Dunn. New Bern; A. R. Jordan. Raleigh ; . John F. Harrison. Fayetteville; I A. J. Boy kin, Wilson; J- T. Pomeriyt, Graham: C. W. Thomas - Winston-Salem; A. P. Corbett, s Oxford ; C. H. Tiirner, Hend erson; J. W. Hines, Rockyj Mount, and R. L. Lindsey. general manager for the Durham Traction Corhany, which owns the ice making business here, s It was intended that anV news of the meeting should leak but. and when it was detected on account of so man ice manufacturers elng in the ' city, that there " had been a meeting. ! the statement was made that there was nothing to give "out and I that it ; was only a social meeting, the request being made that -nothing be said about li at this time. On account of the secrecy surrounding the matter, it is thought that it was a meeting when the ice makers came to; an "under standing" of some kind. The visi tors who attended the meeting left on the trains today for their home , BRUSH STRUC PISTOL. I policeman Sliot by Ills Own Gun In j Peculiar Manner. j (Special to News and Observer.)? Spencer, N. C. Feb. j 14. Police man Frank Edwards, of East Spencer, was shot In a peculiar manner today by Chief of Police J. R. Cruse, of Spencer. i - - '. - With a dusting brush the latter was dusting the clathes of Edwards, when a alrge revolver In his pocket was accidentally fired 1 by the brush s and the bal passed through Edwards' leg, making a severe wound. , He was removed to his home for treatment. . ; WE THIS BLOWN AWAY ". "'..'.' ' ' Tornado Sweeps Across Two States MANY ARE KILLED ' i f The Towns of Mossville, Noso and Ser- vice, in Mississippi, and Tyler, I Texas, Are Devastated . ' , Details Are ' j : t Meagre. (By the Associated . Press.) Hafilesburg, Miss., Feb. , 14. A county, tornado 'passed over Jones north of here today and the town of Mossville, ; of 600 Inhabitants, Is re ported to have been blown away. At p.--.!. i least two are dead and several In- - Jured. f The I town of Noso, as well as the town of Service on the Laurel branch of the Gulf Ship Island Railroad, were away. Whether or not there are any ifatalitles cannot be learned. Advices from Dallas state that the tornado swept over Tyler, - Smith county. Texas, early today, killing four persons j and doing considerable, dam- -' . Vi Severe Wind . and aRln Storm. i -. I Memphis Tenn., Feb. 14. Severe wind and rain storm visited the southland southwest today, causing lass of life and much damage to prop erty. (In Smith county, Texas, sev eral people were killed by a tornado, including C. A Francis and wife, Mrs. W. Francis and child ? and a negro named Mose Lee.- Much damage was wrought. . small " buildings and out houses especially suffering. : Many points in Mississippi report damage by heavy winds and an un usual down-pour, of rain . At Mosjk ville "near Laurel, several lives - are reported lost. ' I At Jackson, the heaviest rain ex perienced in years fell. It was accom panied by terrific wind and lightning. .. At Memphis tne downxail - ot ra4n. whlch was continued for three days, ceased" at four o'clock this afternoon and the weather .is growing colder. Wire communication with Hot Springs, ShTevepOrt, La., and Texas points is completely prostrated. SENATE SUMMARY. Senator Clay Makes a Speech on Aldrich Currency DDL Declaring Jin Favor of Issuance of i Paper. Money, By the Associated Press.) . Washington, D.. C. Feb. 14. The Senate today gave attention to a speech on the Aldrich Currency bill by Senator Clay, of Georgia. Mr. Clay's declarations! n favor of the Issuance of paper money by the government provoked a controversy between him and Republican.' Senators.' Senators Lodge! and'i Teller ; both gave their views briny on the . policy j of issuing paper j money by the government At 1:30 the Senate adjourned until Monday. MllieOEEIIIIG Of the Tri -State Asso- ciation of Phys icians The tnth regular annual session of the Tri-State Medical Association of the Carolina and Virginia will be held in the Assembly Hall of the Selwyn Hotel at Charlotte, beginning uesday Feb. I. I , Headquarters will be at the Selwyn Hotel v . A fine program is assured, and the attendance promises to be large. - Oeritlemen desiring to present pa pers, who have, not already done so, should send their titles to the secre tary at once. -Atuhors are r?Quested to bring copies In duplicate of their papers, thus faciliatlng the early appearance of the annual volume of Transactions ami permuung omer puoucauon as welL , v The oflkers of the session of 1908 are as follows: " Dr. Stuart McGuire. Richmond. Va.. president: Dr. Edward C. Register. Charlotte. N. C, vice-president; Dr. Southgate Leigh, Norfolk, Va., vice president; Dr. Chasi M. Rees. Charles ton, Si C. vice-president; Dr. J. Howell Way. Waynesvllle, NV C, secretary treasurer, f Executive Council: Dr. W.- F. Drewry. Petersburg, Va.;, Dr. W. R. Lowman, Orangeburg. S. C; Dr. Ben J. K. Hays, Oxford, IN. C, Dr. Stephen Harnsberger, Catlett. Va.; Dr. W. H4 H. Cobb, Ooldsboro, N. C; Dk J. Shelton Horsley, Richmond.. Va.; Dr. Curran B Earle, Greenville, S. C; Dr. David T. Tayloe. Washington, N. C; D?. LeGrand Guerrj'. Columbia, 8 C.:l --, , ,;-;-. "Y I'-'-' Committee of Arrangements: iDr, Edward d Register. Charlotte, N.i C; Dr. Robt L. Gibbon, Charlotte, NJ C; Dr. John R .Irvtn. Charlotte, N. C. i Reputable physicians, members of their county and State societies, i are cordially invited to attend the session. ilATUE IS Unveiling at Trinity Co! j lege Commencemont ! Macadam Road Contractor Arrives George Smith Defied late and Weni to Roads Real Estate j Deal f . Whipping Saved Sentence. (Special to News and Observer.) JJurnam, n. c.. Feb. 14. C. Ii Peters, the contractorwho secured the contract for the building of the $75,i 000 macadamized road to the Person county line, has arrived from! his home in Knoxvllle and is making preliminary arrangements for the beginning of the work cn the 19th instant, i He went out on the roadway today to select his camp sites and get a general idea of where to begin the work, f He will bring with htm all of his old foremen who j have ben on various J contracts with him and several of the: most exA perienced hands who haVe been in his employ. Most of his labor he will get from this section, if possible! so it was learned today. Mr. Peters' i part of the contract, on this twelve-mile! piece ot roadway is to grade and mcadamlze the road, but the bridge buTulng wilt be let . In a separate contract or the work done by the county forces. There will be seven of these, bridges. - One will be 100 feet in length, smother 80 feet and flva others from;s xteen td twenty feet in length. The new steel bridge over Elerbee creek, near the city, is, now almost completed and travel has been re sumed over it. For several weeks it wa snecessary for people living in the norhtern part of the county to come to the city by a road that " was much longer. The bridge is how being used. This bridge has a steel span of about 75 feet. The extremely bad and disagreeable weather is interfering with the work of the large convict forces on the roads. There are eighty of these con4 vlcts and with favorable Weather a great deal of work could be done within the next month or so. But now the prisoners are forced into the shacks most of the time. - -V Defied Fate Got 'Sentence.:'' ; At the recwit term of Durham Su perior Court George Smith a young white man, was tried on the charge of "selling whiskey -and convicted. He was given six months on the; roads but the lea of the defendant that he was suffering from a severe case of catarrh and If given a chance would! leave the county, and go to Baltimore if or treat tnent agreed" to at?a fine, of, $ 501 He was allowed td ay, the fine amTthe additional sentence was Imposed, that of six months on the roads provided he was found iri the county after five days. . Then Smith- had a ' cise in the Federal court and he was allowed to pay a fine if he left the State. This was agreed. his morning! he was loaf inar about the union depot when Sheriff Harward picked him iup and h was 'this afternoon sent to the road gang for tht six , months sentence.. Real Estate Deal. This morning a deed was recorded in the office of Register of! Deeds in which a piece of unimproved property on Main street, near the public library property,, changed hands. This prop ert ybelonged to the North Carolina Trust Company, of Greensboro, and it was sold to the Southern Real Estate Company, also of Guilford county. The purchase price was $11,1(0 The lot has a frontage of 63 feet bn Main street, runs through 74 feet and two inches to Chapel Hill street; has 4 frontage of l0 'feet; two inches on that street, and returns to the .begin ning with a 60-foot line. On account of the shape of the lot tho jprice paid Is one that shows there is" nfat so very much fall in realestate here. ' Whipping Saved Sentef ice. i In the mayor's court thl morning two negro boys, William Cinada and Jesse Garland, were tried on the charge of rock-thro wing Inf the city. They nave been gullty-of tills offense before. The mayor was about to give them a sentence when the rhothers of the kids agreed to give them an of ficial whipping in the presehce of of ficers if that would suffice., The boys were taken to the basement of the court house and in a few minutes the walls that came from that .section of the big building told that ! the good work was being done. The! . mothers whipped until told to; stop by the of, fleers and when the quartette of e groes came from the basenent the boys were sniffing and vejry docile animals, while the mothersj were ex1 plaining to them what woulld occur, if they ever landed In court again. Three rntermeiits.f The remains of the late F. Fowler, the Confederate solider who died at the Soldlera Home in Rajleigh, and whose remains were brought here last evening, .were laid to rest In Maple wood cemetery this j .fternoon. the funeral being preached from the home of his daughter, Mrsj J RJ Cates by Rev. M. Bradshaw. He left one other daughter In addition to Mrs. Cates, this daughter being. Miss Bettle Fow4 ler. .. I Mr. J. J. Prltchard. of this cityi was over in Chatham county, neaf Bynum's today to attend tie funeral and burial of the late Edgar Riggs4 bee, the University Medical student who died in Raleigh. Rigsbee was a nephew of Mr. Prltchard aiid was 21 years of age. ' j The remains of the little ton of Mr; and Mrs. T. O'Neal were brought here from High Point and burled in the family plat here. Mr. O'Neal, who is now superintendent of a hosiery mill at High Point, former y lived In this city. V j Capt. I. M. Howard, Arother of Mrs. I. M. Reams, of this city, died suddenly at his home In Atlanta yes terday. The particulars were not re ceived. Capt. Howard. wlfo was ini the railroad service, has vijsited Dur ham many times and was known to a large number of Durham people, jj Duke Statue in Place. j The bronse statue of the late Wash ington Duke, given to Trinity College by. the frlsnda of Mr. Dukej has been placed in position in the Ropey square, between .the Duke buildlnfe and - the main entrance. It will bp unveiled commencement and from now- to that time will remain covered. Itf Is a beau-i tlful piece of work and costi it is saldii in the neighborhood of $10,000. f The city owns the old Pride of Dur-i (Continued joxr rage j Five. 111 THE QUIET A N udder 0' Dem Clubs in Greensbuh POLITICAL NOVELTY These Secret Clubs Not So Much After Breaking Democratic Ranks as 1- . . i.f -, . - -i. -. - Breaking Administration Rc- . - 'ir- I ''-.! ' ' ' . publican Ranks Reporters ' - . '-It; "t: t - r . ' Not Admitted. -1 ; . By ANDREW JOYNEIL T j Greensboro, JsT. Q.r Feb. 14. If sur face indications amount to ' much there is considerable being done here in the- politlcalj line on the quiet in the pastfew days and nights. The city was hqnorjed yesterday afternoon and last' night by the presence of Hon, Locke Craig,', candidate for gov ernor, his manager. Senator Webb, and also enaor J. C. Buxton, of Winston, candidate, for Congress. The three stopped jat the McAdoo hotel and were visited ; by many political and social i friends. Mr. Craig of course, receivlrig a large meed of at tention from his numerous strong friends at thlsj cosmopolitan center. ; i Senator Webb, in speaking of his friends' chahcep for. the governorship, wus highly optomistlc, his very coun tenance showing that when he de clared that Mrf Craig as good as had the nomlnatjori he believed it i In tRepublican . circles, there has been much talk here In the past few days over the presence here of a high mucK-amucg in: the party from Wash ington, who: has been mitetlv "f oollnr around" the big f dogs" In politics In this sectlon. The gentleman in ques tion nas not taken the pains to be in terviewed by the Industrial News even, and his presence here is known, only o a. jew. ms mission . 13 said "to be tor sthe purpose Of "seeing,, iwhat chances there ire In this State for an unlnstructed: delegation to .the Nation al ?onvenUoiv4 If he is on that scent, he must feel greatly encouraged., for i prominent Republican who has Just returned from la trip to several coun tles in the Eighth district brings the report tra.t ot n ten members of the yongreesionai committee in that dis trict eight of ithem are antl-Taft or anti-lnstructloni of jdelegates men with. a unanimous Cjannon, preference. This committee is to meet In Taylorsville today; and he predicted that it would Vote against instruction of delegates. rThis in the! face of the fact that the ?tate executive committee in session here three weks ago endorsed Taft junanimously. ' j ; . j A Republican who keeps up with everything going on In the party ranks declared yesterdayh that the organiza tion of Republican clubs, which was being heralded! about so, was not to get Democratic! recruits so much as to perfect an organization to successfully fight the officeholders machine organ Szation which had pledged the State to jTaft Last night j one of these Re publican clulbs jwas organized here, at jwhlch reporters were not admitted and the only Significant thing about jit ws, the presence of only one re cruit and the absence of every soli- itary Republican in authority ;. even jChalrman Adams not being Invited. and not a Federal official permitted ito enlist. The! old nght of the ins against the ous, this gentleman de Clares, Is on, thie vital point being the fleM against Taft ; r 1 The Republicans here, who have not been allowed any voice whatever iri the party management or any share In jjj rewards, have been those reciprocally energetiq in getting up some interest in the formation of a club hereT- ,! ' i For several days It has been talked and , last night j the great event was pulled off. iRer(orters were not allow ed to be present even the represent ative of the Republican organ, of which Mr. i Rollins is president, and Chairman Adams.a controlling spirit himself a flre-trled Republican, and a former stronsT; lieutenant of .the anti Federal ofnee-hbldlng . element, - .was not permitted in the councils of the organization 4s It was, about twenty were present iri person, the total en rollment being; 55,. including proxy names put i on the list. ... One of the lleaJlng spirits of the organization, upon being asked yesterday afternool if a certain prominent official- - and hard working jRepublican would be there, retorted: "No, by. . . . he nor no other office holder will ;be there, for they haven't been invited." And not a one was there. So the reporters did not feel cast down by exclusion, appreciating fully that If a Republi can club was being formed and mat ters .were to be discussed and princi ples enunciated; which such men as Postmaster ! Douglass, Marshal Milll kah. none of h js deputies, nor Chair man Adam himself could be let Into, it was perfectly proper to keep them from the public prints. A secret po litical club for jthe purpose of getting recruits is a novelty, and a secret po litical club from which are to be ex. eluded the 1 leaders of the party is more so. unless looked at from' the standpoint of tne 1 Republican above quoted.4 who declared that It was all a scheme to perfect an organization to defeat the Taft offlceholding ele ment of the party at the State conven tion, and have an unlnstructed delega tion sent tothe National Convention. The personnel pf the meeting last night was' first class, and that of its permanent i officers equally so. " The only new recruit was Mr. W. R. Pleas ants, who formerly held, but lost offi cial position under the Democratic city government and has (heretofore voted Democratic,- He was liberally rewarded for. his presence by being placed upon the-executive committee. The list of officials is as follows: President CJ D. Benbow. Secretary- Gabriel Daniel. , Vice President A. I Bain and R. Q. Campbell. ? j Treasurer A. 1 R. Perkins; i Executive Committee F. ' J. Mulr, R. Q. White, W. H. McCormlck, W. P. Bynum, Jr., J. R. McClamroch and J. R. Pleasants. x . Bankruptcy Petitions. - x . Judge Boyd returned from Ral eigh last night after a long, spell of holding court there. This morning the following voluntary petitions Jn bankruptcy were adjudicated and re ferred to Referee Ferguson, of Greensboro:, J. C Gravely, of Mad I son,; merchant, assets J2.000, llabUlUes $$.000; U. S. Grler. White Oak. gro cer, assets $1,Q0. llabllltlev $2,100. ' MAFNI FICENT . SPECTACLE. Tho Battleship Fleet Sighted Off Cur ;:, - amina . Ught V i i (By' the Associated Press.)' i Valparaiso, Feb, 14., 2:10 p. m. The fleet of American . battleships un den. Admiral Evans has Just been" sighted off Point Cu ram ilia Light The vessels are In column formation and 'are approaching rapidly; The day is beautiful and the spectacle of the : sixteen, big- ships of war forging steadily over the blue water is mag nificent ' "v ""';:" 'i:v-. Valparaiso Is filled with .people who have come in for the naval review and the greatest enthusiasm - pfealls. Many, boats haye put out from here the batter to witness the passing of the fleet The shore along the point is crowded with people. Th converted . cruiser ' Yankton came here a few hours ahead of the warships. , . FIRE IN PLYMOUTH. . Two Story Frame Building ' Total Loss. 1 x . 1 "... ...'.-;.. - ... -. . , 't (Special to V News and Observer.)' Plymouth, N. C. Feb.- 1 At ' 8 o'clock this : morning, the alarb of fire was given by Policeman Brinkley, and our people turned out to find that the . two . story 'frame restaurant - of Jerry Johnson, ion Water -street was on fire and the flames had gained such, (headway that the gullding and eon tents was consumed. The loss was total., but 'Is partially covered by in surance. ::.. .-j; - The building belonged to Mr. D. O. Brinkley.' HOUSE SUMMARY. Oratory Gives Way-to Legislation ' Legislative. Executive and Jn. dial Bill Takes Right-of-Way. ' t By the"1 Associated press.). ' " Washington. D.' C. Feb. 14. Ora tory in the House ' of Representatives today gave way to legislation with the result that materiat progress was made in the Executive, Legislative and Ju dicial bilL " It met with comparatively smooth sailing, until nn. p.cilAts pft.or der. by Mr. Macon, " of Arkansas, the proposed ' Increases In salaries of the assistant secretaries of the several -de- partmen zm were sine Ken out. air. jtia con explained, nls action by Baying tnat an appropriation bill was not the place for such legislation. ' -. V - ' , With. " neariy two-thirds of the blU disposed of the House at 5:W p. m. adJo.urned. . : ,' ' .'- -- i J :. Negro Prisoner Shot Jail er at Plymouth People Much Excited and Wrought Up But No Attempt at Lynchln ' 3I!!lt!-i Kept Guard - Throngli Night. (Seclal to News and Observer) : Plymouth. Feb. 14. Late yes terday evening the reort of a istol was heard three times in the Jail. People attracted by the reports rushed to the scene. From within they heard Po Hceman W. R. White, who is also Jailor, call for- nelp 5 saying, 'I am shot" ' Men rushed into, the jail yard and found Mr. "White, leaning against a post pistol in hand, holding John Moore at bay, in one; corner of the stockade." kill the ' black villlan, came' from several, and the -negro rushed back into the. Jail, where he was soon found by Sheriff Jackson, who ' had rushed to the scene. Mr. White was removed to Dr. Dtsosways office, where it was found that only a deep .flesh wound had been made in the back of the head. The 'wound was dressed and Mr. White returned to the Jail. . - The facts as told are these: Mr, White went to -lock. Moore in' his cell for the night - as. usual. As they started down stairs. Mr.' White two steps ahead, the negro fired and as Mr. White fell ackwards, the negro jumped on him. and In the scuffle that followed, both gained the yard, and here Mr. White shot the negro twice, when in came the people to the rescue. The? negro Is ,in. Jail for house breaking, having broken into the store of Mr. T. J. Oaylord. ; before Christ mas. I His object must have been to murder the jailor and escape. Where he got the pistol -and what he did with it is a mystery Had it not' been for the cool heads and careful protection given by the mayor and Sheriff Jack son.' he. would, have been riddled with bullets in his cell, and if Policeman White's wounds had been serious "no doubt 1 some would ... have , lost their temper to that extent that would have It la gratifying tnat our people con trolled themselves on- this occasion. This morqlng the negro claims that he did not shoot Mr. White, bat struck him with a big lock, but people In the vicinity are sure they heard three shots fired, and Mr. White only fired two. one taking effect in the back, the other In the groin, fiom the effects of which the negro ' is .. suffering , very much. As a recautlon in case of an attemt was made to lynch the pris oner, a: detachment of the - military company was kept on guard last night Ignorance might "be bliss If some body did not think it his duty to put us wise. . .- - , - m MURDER HO; BELIEF TO SOUTH AfID WEST Clay Declares Aldrich Bill : Wrong and Viciou WANTS PAPER. T.10NEY: Senator From Georgia Reviews) - thr ' Banking System ' of the '.Country and. Analyzes the AldHnh Ti-,n " ' 'o-f Issuance of Emergency ' . . ; . Currency. (By the Associated Press.'') ' , Washington, ; D. C. Feb. 1 4 , Seng, tor Clay, ' of Georgia, spoke on th Aldrich" currency ;blll 'today. He .re viewed the banking, system of the. plan under s consideration for the is suing of emergency currency. Senator Clay declared, the Aldrich bll was wrong and vicious and would give rnor relief to the-South' and' West He contended that it simply enlarged the powers of the national : banks, and that Congress " wai rellnkulshins the sovereign, right to issue and cir culate money.,4 whlcli ought never- to do. ,. The plan of the mlnorltyIn the Senate for the" Government SSOO.000.000 of treasury notes, and to use them in paying the expenses of the eovernmsnt that thavmivht ..& liii. wiicir way Into all the channeLs of ' trade was advocated bv him. 1 ' Mr. Clay said there are now in cir culation $350,000,000 of., treasury notes, not costing the government anything and nerformine all the func tions of monev. a n.i thai'thi. could be easily increased to J500.000,- uuu wiwout in any way disturbing our finances. : -; ' . :':- State bonds., city, bonds, and mu nicipal bonds of the South and Wtt ibe, contneded were now, being hfrt by Eastern capitc lists, and that the South and Bast could not secure any aaaiuonai circulation by making mese Donas a oasis ot circulation, a they had already been sold la the East lie declared thnt -th i-'m : railroad honr'i mfrl!:.-ne,". In th ' . ncn bill applied solely to the rail roads of. the East and that the rail- er Ttld jHvtrtATtilm am fXlrlcn bill. The bilt'he said, was drawn in xavor of, the rich and pow erful.', enabling them' to control the money issues, an It was not In the Interests of this American people. Ila declared he stood by the doctrine once advocated by JohnC Calhoun. Thom as Benton and Andrew Jackson that our money ought to be gold and sil ver and paper monev issued by th government t - He ridiculed the Ide that additional treasury notes wouM depredate because we did nfoi, hav the gold to redeem tfrera. X. 1 "If the Aldrich bill becomes a law." said Mr. Clay, "the government guar antees the- redemption in gold of the additional notes issued. Thv the natlnn. al banka , Would not this be as great a strain On the gold reserve as treas ury notes?' ; . : - . Senator -Clay contended that the people prefer paper money and that there was no raid on the trn-nrv now, to have the paper money re deemed In gold. He did not maintain that an unlimited amount of paper money could be issued, but. said the Issue should be guarded and limited in amount to meet the needs of act ual demands of the- Minntrv - TT .-f lciser severely the financial -policy the srovernmenf in the nast In m' bonds and all of government ql uons redeemable in gold. : "But" said Senator cSay. "if out paper issue should be carefully g-aard ed and limited In quantity, and mada a legal tender in the payments of th debts, possessing and. en jcytvy all the functions of money, then it will depreciate in value and . will be as good as gold and silver, because it will-have back of It the entire re sources of this great epubllc all 03 our agricultural products, all nf ... banking capital, all of our real esi?it- ana an oi our property or every claj and kind just as the same propj.t that is now back of. the obli-aU-)-of the United States." . , "Talk about fiat money,M sa!' -' Senator; "All of the nanur noio.- ihave ln circulation today, except goia ceruncates, is nat money t.. large extent your national bank noto is based upon the bonds of the United States, and while they are redeemable in gold, no one will contend that wo have the gold to redee mthem. They are good because the pledges oZ ho government are behind them, and they have been made money by an act of Congress and legal tender In the payment of debts." ; Senator Clay said it would be a sa l day for the country when Congress should absolutely surender the sov ereign right to regulate : the circula tion medium and leave it to individu als and corporations. Then he said the country would gradually he own ed by the banking associations, Congre was criticised by him ifo allowlng surplus of $300,000,000 accumulate in the Treasury. If money was not needed to pay V n.n.i. nf the rovernment. h ought; to have been left In . . . 1 . . Of tne people. A wbi rcrr f ernment City or State, axe r. collected from Its citizen - it did - not need to pay 4 of the government . IiOcalTaxin c (Special to News r : New Bern, N. C, r tvs ChJ.pel, Craver favor of local tax Only two votes ag A matt Is alw loud ties unle them. ' Hardly ar with. unless .a; agree with yov