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3E KMiM GH TIMES Clean as a Pin Outside and In Ask the Man Who Takes It Vol LXXII. No. 53,' f Weather: Threatening. RALEIGH, N. C, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 13, 1912. LAST EDITION. PRICE FIVE CENTS. Double tti& N Other Newspapen STUDENT DEAD AT IfHIVERSITV Fell From Barrel Onto Broken Pitcher While BciDg Made to Daoce WILL SPANK SAII DOillGO CHnwim BARN BURNING OUTBREAK ft EST IS ORDERED Coroner and Jury Investigating Tragedy in Which Billy Rand of Smithfleld Lost His Life Gloom Cast Over Students Young Hand Had Two Brothers to Graduate in Iwt Four Years Details Lack ing. . " -. (Special to The Times.) Chapel Hill, Sept. 13. I. William Rand, a freshman from Smithfleld, was killed by falling from a barrel on a broken pitcher while being made to dance by sophomores at 1 o'clock this morning. Pending the investigation by the coroner's Jury Very few of the details have been gathered. At 1 o'clock this morning the Bophomores. it is said, had a num ber of fret .men in the new athletic Held hazing them. A part of the program was to make the new i len dance on barrels. Young Rand fell from a barrel, striking his nock agalr;t a section of a broken pitcher, death resulting. . The clerk of the court of Oraage fcoun designated Squire Algernon Bar boo as coroner and a Jury has been selected to hear the evidence. Adjournment was taken until 2:30 this after.on. While everybody on the hill know? that the fellows who participated in the hazing had no intention of do ing harm, the feeling here is strong. It had been thought that a dozen irresponsible .youths could no longer cast, reproach ob the university, and the feeling of the students was that of indignation mdeofrow. V Was Smithfleld Boy. Mr. Billy Rand, who was killed by falling on a broken pitcher at Chapel Hilllast night, was a native of Smithfleld and was one of the three brothers who have gone to the Institution in the last few years. Mr. Oscar R. Rand graduated In 1908 and Mr. Ji H. Rand completed the courry last spring. Three finer boys never lived and their parents will have the sincerest sympathy of hun dreds of friends. Mr. Rand was P cousin to Mr. Parker Rand, a stu dent at the A. and M. College. The news of the tragedy was re ceived In Raleigh early today and it was not many minutes before nearly everybody on the streets was discuss ing it. Among all the people who discussed the mat tor the regret was expressed that a fow rowdies could be responsible for the death of a bright young man, to say nothing of the criticism that will bo heaped on the university by roason ol the pranks of the irresponsible. Report From Durham. (Special to The Times.) Durham, Sept. 13. I. W. Rami, a member of freshman class, was kill ed' on the athletic field at Chapel 11111 last night. Several members of the sophomore class were engaged in the hazing and while Rand was standing on a barrel one of the boys knocked the barrel out from under him, causing him to fall and cut his Jugular, .vein. He died in about ten minutes before medical attention could be rendered him. Four Under Arrest. The matter has been turned over to the civil authorities and four of the sophomores are now under arrest awaiting a hearing in the magis trate's court. , , WICKERSHAM OX MAINE Believes Wilson Will Carry the State in November. , Bretton Woods, N. H., Sept. 13. That Attorney General Wickersham expects to see Governor Wilson carry Maine was Indicated in his answer to a question here. Before leaving for his home at Cedahurst, L. I., he said: "I do not agree with the president that the Maine Teturns are as reas suring than those received from Ver mont last week. To me these Ver mont returns imply Taft electors while the Maine situation has no such aspect. I was of course im mensely pleased to see Maine re turn to the republican column but t was vastly mora sorry t o see that harmony was not preserved after the victory. I would not be at all sur prised to see the enemy capture the Maine electors." Bhafroth for the Senate. Denver, Sept. 18. Complete re turns from fltty of the sixty-two counties in Tuesday's primary, as-: sore the nomination by the demo cratic party of Gov. John F. Shat rotb to the long term- n the United jjtfttel gene, , Uncle Sam Has to Send War ships to Island Republic to Stop Trouble . Washington, Sept. 13. The Unit ed States is about to intervene in Santo pomlngo. WarBhips will be dispatched immediately to the Is land. A revolution has broke out and is threatening American and other foreign Interests. The Domingo revolution Is believ ed to be a part, of a recent one thought to have been quelched. The gunboat Wheeling is at Guantanamo, the gunboat Tacoma at Bluefields, Nicaragua, and the cruiser Des Moines at Key West. Each, carry ing a complement of marines, and a full crew of blue Jackets are the most available forces for the work. The gunboat Petrol is already in Dominican waters. The customs houses of the Island, controlled by the United States by treaty, must be protected against seizure by the revolutionists. Fur ther than that, advices this morning conveyed news of so serious a na ture, that the state department pre pared for immediate activity. -, The latest reports indicate, notwithstand ing reassuring promises from the Dominican government, that the rev olution, which recently culminated in the battle of Debajon when that place was taken by revolutionists, never has been completely 'suppress ed, but has smoldered, only to break out afresh and with greater in tensity. Officials here believe the movement was tormented by a Junta in New York. SIAIECLUB Meeting of Bodies Called At Greensboro Sept. 25 -More Gamblers (Special to The Times. Durham, Sept. 13. Yesterday was another gamblers' day in re corder's court, there being nine de fendants, but they were all black in contrast with the seven poker play ers who were up the day before. The white poker players got off with 126 and the costs Wednesday morning, and yesterday the "coons" were let off with fines of from $10 to $15 each, for playing the game of skin. The $10 fellows wore the ones who plead guilty, whilo the 15 boys made a light and wore convicted. Mr. L. E. Tufi.8, secretary of the Commercial Club of Durham, has, in behalf of the other organizations of kind in the state, called a meeting of the state's commercial organiza tions to bo held in Greensboro at noon, September 25. The commer cial organizations of Raleigh, Uolds- boro, Greensboro, Winston-Salem Charlotte and others have signified their willingness to heartily co- operate In the movement to organize a North Carolina Commercial Club with the purpose of advertising the state, investigating traffic conditions, securing the co-operation of the state, national ; and railroads, de partments of agriculture, for the benefit of the farmers, the organlz- ing of a publicity bureau, compila tion of statistics of commercial in terest to the state, and other meth ods of conserving and advancing the interests of the entire state. Among the secretaries of the various com mercial organizations . of the state who have been co-operating in this movement, are Fred A. Olds, of Ral eigh; F. S. Sherman, of Goldsboro; Lee Carraway and W. 8. Creighton, of Charlotte; Robert Douglas, of Greensboro, and Fred Tate, of High Point. All these secretaries' , have given enthusiastic responses to the Invitation to attend the meeting in Greensboro,- and others are yet to be heard from. It is expected that practically every town of the size to have an organization of this char acter will have one or more repre sentatives at this meeting. Wher ever a state organization of this kind has been formed, there has been a great deal of good accomplished, not only for the individual cities com posing the. State club, but to the state as a whole. . Mrs. Pickett Improved. Washington, Sept. 13. Mrs. L salle Corbell Pickett, the famous Confederate ' ; general's widow, brought hore yesterday from Fhlla delphla, 111 with pneumonia Is much better todav. Hones for her recover? are Improved. B. F. Corbefl, of Sun bury, N. C, and Dr. E. L. Tompkins, of Virginia Joined other relatives at "NATURE'S SECOND PART OF FUNERAL OF EMPEROR Toklo, Sept. 13 The second part of the ceremonies in connection with the funeral-of the late Emperor Mutsuhlto, occurred tonight when the casket containing the body start ed on the journey to Aoyama, whence it will be taken to Mono yama for final burial. The imposing ceremonial in the palace earlier In the day was attended by great digni taries. . The passage Of the funeral car through the capital's streets was impressive. It afforded the popula tion the opportunity to display sor row at the nation's bereavement. Hundreds of thousands stood in silence along the route as the coffin passed on the first stage of the Journey to its last resting place. The streets and boulevards were bril liantly illuminated with torches and arc liThtB. The special envoys, in cluding American Secretary Knox, and foreign diplomats resident here after the funerad 'service went di rectly to Aoyama. BRYAN TAKES STUMP Will Follow Train of Roosevelt in Went, at His Own Expense. New York, Sept. 13. William 3. Bryan notified democratic national head i larters here that he will start next Saturday on a sneaking tour of the western Btates following close ly 'on the trail of Colonel Roosevelt. He will make the trip at his own expense. Mr. Bryan will open at Denver Saturday night, September 14, pre ceding Colonel Roosevelt, who speaks there next Thursday. He will then speak at all important points where Colonel Roosevelt has spoken In the west, returning to Lincoln, Neb., on October 6. From that, date until the end of the cam paign be will speak in the middle west and east under auspices of the speakers bureau of the national com mittee and at the committee's ex pense. - Waldo t Before Committee. New York, Sept. 13. Police Com missioner Waldo, who appeared to day before tht aldermanlc Investi gating committee investigating blackmail Informed the committee that he is : prepared to turn over all the records of his . department and aid the committee every way possible. t i Motorcyclist KiUed, . Columbus, Ga Sept. 1 3. Ernest Polndexter, age twenty-four, was In stantly killed and George Crawford, twenty-two, injured, when. a motor cycle they rode dashed into dray. The motorcycle was going forty miles an hour. The shaft of the wagon penetrated Polndexter's chest. - ' Suffragists Forbidden. Ottawa, Sept. 13. English mili tant suffragettes, who recently' de cided to go to Canada as a protest against Canadian premiers' views on suffrage, will Add themselves stop ped by the department ot immigra tion's order, forbidding their en- GIFT FROM THE SUNNY Methodist Prctesta&t ; Child- rens Home Be Near " High Point "Tho Methodist Protestant Chil dren's Home, Incorporated," was chartered today by the secretary of state to conduct an orphanage near High Point. The institution shall be governed by a board of eighteen trustees, ten of whom shall be the following: J. M. Millikan, R. R. Ross, Geo. T. Penny, Dr. J. K. Relt zol, F. R. Harris, Mrs. A. G. Dixon, Mrs. W. C. Hammer, T. A. Hunter, Martin H. Holt and Mrs. J. J. Welsh. Thc general conference of the Methodist Protestant Church in the United States will appoint six per sons to membership on the board of trustees and the president of the general conference and the president of the North Carolina conference shall be members cx-offlclo. The corporation, being eleemosy nary In its nature, has no capital stock. Another charter is to the Essenkay Sales Company, of Ashevllle; to ac quire exclusive agency for the sale of Essenkay, a substitute for inner pneumatic tubes and and In vehicle wheels and to operate garages, etc.; authorized capital 320,000,.- with 1800 paid in by B. V. Goodwill, F. N. Challcn, W, S. Dickson, D. M. Williams and Earl Godhey. WILL CONDUCT -OWN DEFENSE Burton W. Gibson Will Not Employ Counsel. MKdleton. N. Y Sept. 13. The fight which Burton W. Gibson, the lawyer, will make for his life, he said today will be directed entirely by hnself. He has not engaged counsel andi will appear in his own behalf when arraigned, before Judge Boyce,,on the charge ot murdering Mrs. Rosa Szabo, his Viennese client, who met death while boating with him on Greenwood Lake, July six teenth. LEMONS 40 CENTS A DOZEN Retail Prices in Chicago Soar to . Prohibitive Figure. Chicago, Sept. 13. -Retail prices for lemons soared today to 40 cents a dozen, against recent quotations of 26 to 30 cents. Restaurant keepers denied that smaller slices of lemons were being served with iced tea, and druggists declared it was premature to predict an Increase in the price of lemonade. Purveyors and house holders were said -to be the persons of the new addition to the high cost of living. , ' A general famine In the lemon supply, both domestic and foreign, was the reason assigned for the re markable upturn, Ju prjcej, ,m SOUTH" WILSON'S LUCKY DAY Seagirt, Sept. 13. On this Friday, the thirteenth day of the month, Governor Wilson sat in seat thirteen in a car returning from New York The nominee liked the coincidence. "Thirteen is my lucky number, Wilson said. "I usually get seat thirteen, or room thirteen wherever 1 go. Number thirteen runs through my life constantly. In my thirteenth year as a Princeton professor, 1 was elected thirteenth president of the university. 'There are thirteen let ters in my name. I am not afraid of the number thirteen." NO. PANIC FROM ELECTION George M. Reynolds Says Prosperity . Will Not lie sunken. Chicago, Sept. 13.- George M Reynolds, president of the. Conti rental & Commercial Bank before leaving for Detroit to attend the con vention of the American Rankers Association at Detroit, Baid: "Not in the 32 years I have been in the banking business'-has': pros perity, had so little chance of being shaken as it has at present. Ten years ago an election like this would have broimht about a money panic Now, there is no danger of such eventuality." AMERICAN TROOPS MAY FIRE If Mexican Rebel Bombs Fall in Douglas, They Will Retaliate. Washington, Sept. 13. American troops may take a hand in the fight ing at Agua Prieta If bombs fall in Douglas, Ariz., or Jives are menaced on the American side of the Mexican boundary. This was intimated to day at the headquarters of the gen eral staff of the army, following ad vices that rebel leaders would dis regard warnings that they must not fire in the direction of Douglas. Mrs. A. W. Huntley Dead. (Special to The Times.) Santord, Sept, 13. Mrs. A. W. Huntley, of Jonesboro, died Wednes day night at Central Carolina hos pital, after a brief illness. The re mains were carried to Oxford for Interment, accompanied by a num ber of relatives and friends. She is survived by a husband and little son, and was a sister of Mr. A. B. Kim ball, of Greensboro. , Yoshiliito Gave Half Million to Charity. Toklo, Sept. 13. Yoshihito made a grant to charity of a half a million dollars. One-fifth of the sum is given to Korean institutions. Secretary Knox and suite will vis it Nikko, a town famous for its temples and mortuary shrines, to morrow; returning to the capital 8unday. C. H. Bull Company Bankrupt. Norfolk, Va., Sept. 13. C. H. Bull, trading in the lumber business as O. H. Bull Company, filed a volun tary bankruptcy petition today, with liabilities of a hundred and forty eight thousand dollars. The assets are scheduled at a hundred and gWy-nlne tOvjBajnJ, Two Men Arrested Here For Selling Liquir Wanted At Lonisburg Henry Arnold, w hite, and Charles Edgerton, colored, who are in jail here -on the charge of selling liquor, are wanted at I.ouisburg, Franklin county, on a more. serious charge. They, with Norman King, another negro, are accused of burn ing a barn in Franklin county sev eral months ago. King was arrested today. The news of King's arrest was re ceived today by Insurance Commis sioner Young, who was notified by telephone of the capture, at once communicated with Capt. W. A. Scott in Greensboro, and the pre liminary hearing was set for Mon day. Since burning a barn Is a. more serious offense than selling liquor, 1t is not apprehended that the Raleigh officials will offer any objections to the two men held here being turned over to the Franklin county officers pending an investigation. Valentine Resignation Accepted. Beverly, Mass., Sept. 13.-The resignation of Robert G. Valentine commissioner of the bureau of Indian affairs and the proof sheets of President Taft's decision in the "religious garb case" which officials had a bearing on the resignation, came, to lieverly on the same train last night, The resignation was ac cepted promptly but no successor to Mr. Valentine will be named un- till Secretary of the Interior Fisher returns frta a Hawaiian visit. SELECT FARM SITE Is Favorable to Granville Couity Tobacco Test-Farm Back From East The test farm committee of the board of agriculture returned to Ral eigh today from the eastern part of the state, where they inspected sev eral Bites for a test farm in the black or drained lands. The committee was favorably impressed with the section near Belhaven, and if ar rangements can be made the farm will be placed there. The committee has about decided on the site in Granville county for a tobacco test farm. The counties of Rockingham,-' Forsyth, .Granville and Durham were competitors.. Major Graham stated this after noon that the committee had made a proposition to the Granville peo pie, which; if accepted, would result in the farm s being located there. The comniKtee was deeply im pressed with tho lands in eastern North Carolina. Land near the site selected for the proposed test farm is well adapted to growing corn and on one acre 75 bushels was made with out the use of a plow, the planter merely poking the soil with a stick J. B. SMEl.TZEIt DROWNED AT COI.CMBIA Y. M. C. A Was in Swimming in the That Institution. I'ool Columbia, S. C, Sept. 13. JV. B Smeltzer, a young white man, aged 20 years, was drowned, or supposed to have been drowned, in the swim ming pool at the new Y. M. C. A yesterday morning. The young man was in swimming with a companion II. G. Duncan, and had swum across the pool and tuned and started back for the other side, when he was seen by Mr. Duncan to throw up his hand and call ror help. Mr. Duncan, who is a poor swimmer, could give no assistance and called for others, and Mr. Stratton, the secretary of the Y M. C. A., Mr. Ross, physical director and personal friend of Mr. Smeltzer ruBhed down to the pool to give as slstance, but when they arrived the body of the young man was at th bottom of the pool, lace downward He was pulled out and every enor made to resuscitate him but in vain Life was extinct. The deceased ' was popular an widely known in Columbia, and throughout the state. His father and mother are both dead. He attended Newberry College, ' graduating last June with the rank of A.B. He was intending to return to Newberry the coming season and take tho degree of M.A., end also act as director ot the physical department. During the past year he was cap tain and third baseman of the New berry baseball team, lie had' a fine record as an all-round athlete; witn a partner winning the state cham pionship in the tennis tournament of the colleges of the state and had many other prlzej Jo. his credit, MAY COAL FIELD Fire Applied to Company's Property and Stables De stroyed Early Today v MEN WERE WOUNDED Expected Outbreak In the Cabin Cr"-k District Came This Morn ing When Fire Was Applied to Company Property District Is Under Martial Law Fire Ws SUn ted Early This Morning In Paint Creek Company and Men Were Warned Not to Start Work Anin. --' .-''' Charleston, W. V., Sept. 13. The expected outbreak in the Cabin Creek district of the Kanawha coal field, where twelve hundred Wert Virginia militiamen under Major Pratts' command, maintain martial law, came with dawn when the stables of the Ohley Coal Company were destroyed by fire, An attempt was made to fire the tipple of the game company. Twenty-nve muma- men from the Clarksburg company. under Lieutenant Cochrane s com mand drove off the men. Some were wounded. Soon after four this mornine the pickets saw a sheet of flame leap from the stables. Despite the soldiers efforts to extinguish it, the stables were totally destroyed. While the soldiers fought the fire, half a dozen disturbers poured a barrel of oil on the company's tipple. In Paint Creek, where the trouble first began, and despite the sol dier's vieilanee. a party of rioters succeeded in. leaving letters at the Mucklow Ceal Company's ottice ana also the houses of : many miners, threatening that It the mine was start vl or the nieO attempted to go to? 6rk, the- butiflings wtwio ne dynamited. No effort was made to start the mines. RAILROAD MEN REFER DEMANDS TO ARBITERS. Charles P. Neill and Judge Martin A. Knapp Will Hear the Disputed Matters. Washington, Sept. 13. The con ference between the southeastern railroads and representatives of their conductors and trainmen over the question of an Increase In wages were brought to a close by the rail roads agreeing to submit the matter to mediation under the Erdmann act. Efforts by the railroads to have the matter arbitrated met with refusal by the employes. Charles P. Nelll, United Statr,i commissioner of labor, and Judge Martin A. Knapp', of the United States commerce court will be the board of mediation. About 12,000 men are involved and their demands for an increase in wages would amount to about 16 per cent. A number of conferences have been held here, between the railroads 8d their employs but no agreement could be reached. The employes of these roads Insist that their hours and wages should be equal to those employed on the west ern railrot s. Some days ago the question of calling a strike was submitted to the employes and it is understood it carried by a large majority but the leaders of the employes unkjns couns.elled moderation and urged a compromise by having the contro versy submitted to mediation. The railroads Involved Include the Southern, Atlanti Coast Line, Sea board Air Line, Queen & Crescent, (North and South; New Orleans, Mobile & Chicago, Central of Geor gia, New Orleans, Great Northern, Mobil, & Ohio, Tennessee Central and Georgia Southern & Florida. WILSON WILL MEET BRYAN. They Will Speak From Same Plat form at Lincoln October 5. New York, Sept. 13. Governor Wilson announced today before leav ing for Seagirt that he will meet William Jennings Bryan in Lincoln, Neb., October 5, when they will speak from the same platform. On that date Bryan will have completed a stumping tour through the north west and Pacific coast states. Wil son will be on his second trip went. The only other date announced on this trip is Indianapolis, October 3, when the "governor speaks at the national conservation congress. Springfield, Milwaukee, Des Moines, may be vlHlted. Acting National Chairman McAadoo stated that Wil son is being overwhelmed with re quests from democratic loaders In many parts of the country to speak In their sections. I Broadway Curfew Maintained. New York, Sept. 13. The pro posed Broadway curfew law, direct ed against mashers, was supported today by Judge Cornell, who Imposed work house sentences on ten men loafers found after midnight oq
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