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Koloff, treasm.ei. of Cuba. . : Taft proceeded to the Palace at noon f s Until further notice the civil Gov- Saturday to take over the government emors and alcaldes will also report to of Cuba. The act was not accompani-j me for instructions. , . ki; '"I ask all citizens vunt residents of ed by any formal ceremony or public wahtme iu tho W)vk of re. ceremony or public demonstration. sloring ortier, tranquility and public During the morning Brigadier Gen- confidence, eral Funston conferred with Mr. Taft j "WILLIAM -I I. TAFT, J regarding the location of the camps I "Secretary of War, United States , " , , t Government. -v ' "-. lor tue nrst division or me Aiueiu-au troops to be landed here. The sites have not yet been selected. Funston will command all the troops in Cuba, which will number about 7,000. GOV. TAFT'S PROCLAMATION. Declaring Intervention in Cuba, Pres ident Roosevelt's Representative, Proclaims Provisional ' Government, With Himself as . Head Until Elec tions Shall be Held Civil Admin istration to be Interfered With as Little as Possible. Havana, By ('able. Provisional point with full speed. Quartermast Governor Taft 's proclamation declar-: tr's depots at Philadelphia, and Bos- mg intervention in Cuba, as publish-, ed in The Official Gazette was as; iojiows : "To the People of Cuba: "The failure of Congress to act on the irrevocable resignation of the President of the republic of Cuba or to elect a successor leaves the country without a government at a time when great disorder prevails and requires that, pursuant to the request of Mr. Palma, the necessary steps be taken in the name and by the authority of the President of the United States to restore order and protect life and property in the Island of Cuba and the islands and keys adjacent there to, and for this purpose to establish therein a provisional government. The provisional government hereby estab lished will be maintained only long enough to restore order, peace and public confidence by direction of and in the name of the President of the United States and then to hold such elections as may be necessary to de termine on those persons upon whom the permanent government of the re public should be devolved. In so far as is consistent with the nature of a provisional government established under the authority of the United States, this will be, a Cuban govern ment, conforming with the eonstitu- tion of Cuba.. The Cuban flasr will be hoisted as usual over the govern- ment buildings of the island; all the cutive departnints and provincial audmunicipal governments, inelud- ig that of the city of Havana, will t..g(Sue ;to be administered as under K-i .T juban republic. The courts will f """. w JiumimMei;; jusuce, ana all laws .not in their nature in- tion philosophically. There is no op .i. appi25le-' reasn of tEe temporary .position apparent,' and it seems cer . ', ,' d ?rgTir character of the gov- tain that there will be absolutely no nil .1 - I ... 1 ii'' , as,. .-- ernment will be in force. President Roosevelt has been most anxious to bring about peaee under the constitutional- government ' of" Cuba, and he made every endeavor Gen. Wint Ordered to Newport News. Washington, Special. Brigadier General P. J. TTint, commanding the Department of the Missori at Oma ha, has been telegraphed to hasten to Newport News to take charge of the embarkation of troops for Cuba, 3,500 have been ordered to prepare to sail from that point as soon as possible. A Serious Train Wreck. High Point, N. C:, Special. A ser ious ,wreck occurred here Saturday night "at mid-night on the Asheboro division of the Southern, and as a result, a negro woman is dead, a negro man injured and the engineer and fireman of the ill-fated train are badly shaken up and bruised about the bodies as a result of th eir inmn. ing from the engine. They are at the ! nospuai Dut it is not thought they are dangerously wounded. The train vas badly smashed up. It is believed ' to have been the work of wreckers. Negro Beaten to Death. Cm.Umbia' S. C, Special. A special to The State from Anderson says: William McFall, a negro, was beaten to deaath Saturday by George Keasler, a white man, about two miles east of the city. McFall had just seized Kesler's wife by the arm and the supposition is that the negro in tended to criminally assault her, Keasler came up in timo to save his wife. Keasler surrendered. II ill Of 1ft "Provisional Governor of - Cuba! "Havana. Sept. 29, 1000." ' Washington, Special. Prepara tions for the? military occupation of Cuba moved at a rapid rate after the receipt of a dispatch from Secretary Taft urging the sending of an army to Cuba. All the organizations making up the tirst expedition arranged by the request of the Secretary of War, and Quartermaster General Hum phrey and his assistants immediately began to hire transports and to or--der supplies delivered immendiate ly at Newport News, where the first expedition will be mobilized. Suf ficient supplies to last (5.500 men for .'0 days are being rushed to that ton. New York and many other cities are being drawn on, and Captain Samuel E. Smiley, of the Fifteenth Infantry, has been ordered to New port News, where he Avill secure store bouses and look after the sup plies. Bregttdier General T. J. Wint, com- mandihg the Department of the Mis- souri, was ordered to Newport News, where he will assume full charge of the embarkation of troops. Funston to Hold Command. Although the military secretary and chief of staff were unable to communicate with President Roose velt, preparations for the immediate departure of the first expedition were but little delayed, as the Secretary of War, the President and the mem bers of the general staff had gone so thoroughly over the situation that there is a general understanding as to the policy of the administration. It is now known that Brigadier Gen eral Frederick Funston, who is al ready in Cuba, is to be in command of all the troops sent to Cuba. Full details of the organization of the first expedition were made pub lic by the chief of staff. Lieutenant Colonel W. W. Witherspoon is to be the chief of the expedition staff and he will have as his assistants the fol lowing officers of the o-eneral staff , corps: Major William A. Mann, Major .Francis J. Kernan, Major David Taillard. Captain George W. Read. Captain Charles T. Menchev ami Capt. John W. Furlong. Taking Matters Easy. Havana, By Cable. The' Cubati people are taking- American interven ' fiehrino- The .i;,,; and taking transportation to their homes.. .--.The occupation of the United States soldier,? will last until order is fully restored in the island. Tin Miner Killed. King's Mountain, N. C. ,Special. About 5 b'elcjk IViday afternoon Ben Payne, a tin miner, who was working at the bottom of the main shaft, was hit in the head by a piece of falling timber, sustaining injuries, from which he died six hours later. He -was about 24 years old and leaves a wife and four children. - Minister Quesada Resigns. Washington, Special. Senor Don Gonzalo de Quesada, the Minister, of Cuba, appointed by President Palma, has tendered his resignation to the provisional government of Cuba. It is stated that Mr. Quesada has not taken this step as an act of resent ment or as an evidence A of any ill feeling toward President Roosevelt or the American administration, but that he considers it his duty to do so in order to facilitate the execu tion of the President's policy toward Cuba. Leading Deleware Physician Killed in Runaway. Wilmington, Del., Special. Dr. William T. Skinner, of Glasgow, near here, one of the best known phvsi- i cians in the State and his daughter, Rhea, were killed" near their home. when their horse became frightened by the locomotive of a neai'-by train and ran away. Dr. Skinner was 55 years old. V GOVERNMENT 8T0MS Army Posts Along the Gulf Almost Wiped Out EMERGENCY REPAIRS ORDERED Only 8-Inch Battery and Tank is Left of Fort McRee, Forts Pickens and Barrancas Suffer Severely, Fort Morgan is Damaged $100,000, With Six Civilians Killed and One En listed Man Injured Santa Rosa Life-Saving Station Destroyed With Loss of Five or More Lives Pensa cola Navy Yard Wrecked. Washington, Special. Enormous, damage to both life and property was done at several of the army forts and naval stations along the eastern Gulf coast by the recent hurricane. . Major General James F. Wade, commanding the Atlantic division, re ported to the War Department that six civilians were killed at Fort Mor gan, Ala.,' and one enlisted man 'is missing The damage to the post is estimated at $100,000. Gulf Quarter master Hodgson, at Atlanta, reported to Quartermaster General Humphreys the same facts, adding that the foil (Fort Morgan, Ala.) was completely inundated. Authority was telegraphed to Cap tain Thomas B. Dwyer, commandant at Fort Morgan, to make such re pairs as are necessary in the present emergency. In addition to this ac tion, Quartermaster General Hum phrey has ordered to that post L. H. Doten, civil engineer attached to the quartermaster's department, and Zed ley W. Chaplain, civil engineer and superintendent of construction at Fort Hamilton, to direct the work of repair. Captain Lawrence S. Miller, com mandant of Fort Barrancas, Fla., re ported that three enlisted men are missing from that post; that Fort McRee was almost totally destroyed, and that Fort Pickens suffered se verely. Concerning the damage at Forts Barrancas and McRee, Quartermaster Hodson, at Atlanta, sent the follow ing telegram to Quartermaster Gen eral Humphrey: ' "Atlanta, Ga., Sept . 29. "Quartermaster General, Washington "Following telegram received from quartermaster of Fort Barrancas: " 'With approval of commanding officer, request authorirty to purchase material and hire labor in open mai-- ket for temporary repairs to Ayharves- and buildings at this post and lort Pickens, approximately $10,000. De tailed estimate to follow. For Mc Ree entirely gone except 8-inch - bat tery and tank. "HODGSON, "Chief Quartermaster." The authority requested in the tele gram was given by the quartermaster general. Work of Train Wreckers. Columbia, S. C, Special. Southern Railway's North-bound Florida train, No. 30, was derailed at 6:30 Thursday morning as . it was clearing a bridge between Barton and Allendale, this State, and though the engine rolled down the embankment and two coach es was overturned no passenres were injured and the engineer escaped with a few bruises and burns. Colored Fireman Andrew Kemp, who had been in " the service seven years, coming here from Edgefield, : had both legs broken ; and;died before' the physician could reach; him.' .. The railroad people say . that the accident 'was clearly the work of train wreckers, and the local magis trate, James M. Patterson, seems to be similarly impressed. The railroad people say that a number of spikes were d.awn and three angle bars re moved from the north end of the trestle. Barge Lest With Eight Men. Key West, Fla., Special. Captain H. W. Barstow, of the steamer Den ver, which arrived from. Galveston, re ports!; passing the steamer Wiiiif red,' 195 miles west of Dry Tortugas at noon Friday. A barge with eight men on it, which was being cabled and wTas lost on the morning of Sept. 25. The Winifred lost all her boats and her cabins were flooded during the hurri-. cane. She was starting back to search for the barge. Mississippi Coast's Damage. New Orlenas, Special. Six persons were drowned in Missisippi Sound by the hurricane, eight large sailing ves sels and about thirtv small vessels wrecked and Ship Islanld, Cat Island and Horn Island were submerged. The federal quarantine station on Ship Island was badly damaged and about $1,000,000 damage was done to prop erty on the mainland. WORTH STATE NEWS Items of Interest Gleaned From Various Sections FROM MOUNTAIN TO SEASHORE Minor Occurrences of the Week of Interest to Tar Heels Told in Para graphs. ' '- Charters Granted. The. Southern Insurance Company of . New Orlenas and the Guardian Fire Insurance Company of Pittsburg, Pa., received licenses tii. do business in" this State. i The Stanley "Mercantile Co.,!. of Stanley, Gaston county, was chartered at a $30,000 capital by W' L. Jenkins and others.' 'r-r'-:,:- -,:: . A charter was issued the Calloway Real Estate Co., of Salisbury, T. C. Williamson being the principal incor porator at a capital of $4,500. ; The. "piedmont Investment Co., of Greensboro, changes its name to the Whitaker Bed Brace Co., and reduces its capital from: $7,000 10- $1,750. V ' The Eleventh Cotton Mill. 1 Mr. L. F. Groves, a prominent cot ton mill man ,has been at Avork for the past several days organizing another cotton mill for Gastonia, which is now one'of'th most impor tant milling towns in the Piedmont section. Associated with Mr. Groves are Messrs. John R. Withers and G. A. Gray, two other prominent and successful mill men of Gastonia. These gentlemen have been meeting with marked success in' raising the necessary capital for promoting the entei-prise, more than half the amount needed having been subscribed by the time the books were opened. The new concern will operate 5,000 spindles with a capital of $100,000, and will be driven by electric power from one of the companies recently franchised in that territory. Items of State News. The Clark Manufacturing Co., of Jonesboro, has entered suit in Wake Superior Court against the Western Union Telegraph Co., for $800 dam ages for delay in the delivery of a telegram frem their commission house in New York. The delay in the delivery prevented a sale of goods which damped the company, it -is alleged, to ihe amount of $S00. Sous -.C Chief Justice Walter Ciark, of the Supreme Court, are managers of the mil! and anor, son, Walter Clark, Jr., is xjT& tor the cnpany in in stilutiul.e suit. Negro Crap Game Results in Shoot- ' ing. Spencer, Special. Jim Walker was shot and perhaps , fatally wounded near this place by Will Crete, with whom he quarreled over a game of craps. Both are colored and the weap on used was a shotgun. Walker re ceived more than a hundred shot in his body and was,carricd to a hos pital, while his' assailant escaped. Four Cadets Wera Expelled. ' Raleigh, Special. President Wins ton .of the A. andM. college expelled fbur cadets for hazing fr&ibmen - by making freshmen clean tip their rociins and do very menial Service. 'TWTf ac uity h ave adopted ; this s means; of breaking up hazing in the college and will expell for the slightest offense of this character. , - ' Gallows for Bohannon. Greensboro, Special Frank Bohan non was sentenced by Judge Long to be hanged October 25th for the inur der of It. K. Beach am at Hilltop July 31st last. , Kiser Crutchfield, convict ed of being an accessory was tt sen tenced to life mprosinment in the State penitentiary. - The ' other . de fendant, Oscar Crutchfield was acquit ted by the' jury. . Attaked Young GirL,.?. Wilmington, Special. J; Sid bury, 57 years old and a man of family, whs arrested in the country and committed to jail in default of $500 " bond ; for. his ; appearence for preliminary trial before Justice Fur long Saturady on a charge of an-attempted criminal asault Wednesday moaning upon- a 16-year-old white girl of the neighborhood in which he lived. Two able lawyers have been retained to prosecute the case. "According to the - Buffalo Courier, hardware, manufacturers recently traced forty freight shipments irom Richmond to various points in the Southern States. The average num ber of miles traveled per day by these shipments -was 61.61, and the average -mileage per hour f , was ; 2.57. The quickest time was made by a shipment from Pvichmond to Olmstead, Ky., a distance of 797 miles in six days. .The slowest time: was from Richmond to Easton,; Md., 170 miles in seven days." Manufacturers are gathering evi dence with the view of bringing the subject to' the attention of Congress. GULF STATES SWEPT BY FIERCE HURRICANE v y " - - Mobile and Pensacola Laid Waste bv Wind and Water. . IMMENSE DAMAGE TO PROPERTY Loss Estimated at $50,000,000 in the - Various States Visited by the Storm -Much Loss of Life Re ported. : Mobile, Ala. Loss of life .various ly estimated at from five to fifty per sons, many people injured, 7000 homes damaged, the business quarter devastated and a property loss of fully ?5,000,000 is the effect 'of a forty-eight-hour tropical hurricane in Mobile. The city is practically in ruins. . ' There are no reliable figures to be had as to the loss of life. Three ne groes, are known to be dead,, and there are rumors that fifty persons are lost, but as things are these ru mors cannot be verified. ; It is feared, however, that when all is known the life loss will be heavy. The city has been placed under mar tial law and looters will be summa rily dealt with. Every church in the- city has been damaged, though Christ Church aiii St. Francis Street Baptist Church suf fered more than the'others. Mobile's shipping suffered severely. Many of her river boats are beached or sunk, -all complete wrecks. Her docks and those of private corpora- tions are destroyed. The revenue cutter Alert has gone down in Mobile River. She was rammed by some un known vessel and sank immediately. The depth of the water in the wholesale district, which includes the section from Royal street to the river, was seven feet. i The wharves from Fraseati, the ex treme south end of the city, as far up the river as Three Mile Creek are total wrecks. This also includes the new Mobile and Ohio docks and the Louisville and Nashville docks. Much fear is entertained for Fort Morgan, Ala., where the Government Quarantine is located and many sol diers quartered. The chances are that much loss of life has been caused by the storm to those living on Dau phin Island and other outlying isl ands. During the hurricane trees, fell, roofs crashed by the hundreds and thousands of pieces of slate and other debris were hurled about. Many peo ple were seriously injured and cut by the flying slate and pieces of tin roofs. , The fruit trees and thet fall, vege table crops all over Southern Ala bama and Mississippi are ruined. So also are the cotton and - sugar cane crops. . One Mississippi planter said that lie would willingly accept $15 for his cotton crop. The Mobile County Court Houe was badly wrecked. The clock in its tower was blown away completely, and now nothing of the clock re mains. ' . All along the line of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad huge trees lie flat ith limbs torn off . and twisted. The streams- are all out of the banks and for twenty-five miles north of Mo bile, looking to the right of the rail joad, one sees only a solid sheet of water running swiftly toward Mobile. There are many farmhouses in this inundated section and many people may have lost their lives. Pensacola, FlaA-The worst sea storm and hurricane that the Gulf Coast has experienced since the vil lage of Pensacola on Santa Rosa Isl and was swept away 107 years ago has struck here. Many lives have been lost. . A large area of the section between the city and the Navy Yard is under from five to ten feet of water, Many women were taken from second story windows and carried to safety in boats. The estimated property dam age is $3,000,000. . Every house in Pensacola suffered damage and "nany roofs were blown off. The water front is strewn with wreckage for miles on either side of the city, and vessels are piled on the wharves," or - here the wharves once were. Bis; iron steamships and , many, lighter sailing ships are lying: high and diy up in the city, where the tide has never before 1j?en known to leach. ' New Orleans. Great damage to the cotton crop was reported in dis patches to the Cotton Exchange. Baton Rouge reported' about , twenty per cent, damage. Gallman, Miss., reported rains which flattened the plant down in the mud, and Natchez, Miss., reported that there and imme diately across the river in Louisiana the damage was probably twenty-five per cetft?- No damage to sugar cane has been reported. . 5 t Damage to property aggregating more than $50,000,000 was done in the various States of the South that the" storm visited" " V ..' Two Missourians Indicted. , The Grand Jury returned indict ments against Robert M. Snydef, of Kansas City, charging bribery in con nection with the passage of the Cen tral Traction franchise bill in 189S, and against former Councilman Fred erick G. Uthoff, now of Denver, on the charge of hatving given perjured testimony on the same matter before the Grand Jury in 1902. ; : .. ,:j Cop Kills Woman in Car. Because he was jealous. Policeman Whitney D. Barrett entered a trolley at Penacook, N. H., and shot to death Miss Julia Cfcadwick. He then com mitted suicide. He was fifty and married. - Plymouth Damaged by Flood. About $20,000 damrge was done at Plymouth, Mass., y the waters of Town Brook getting beyond control and breaking through a dam at i'Yy mouth Mills. ' MAD MURDERESS KILLS GIRL NURSE Lizzie Halliday, Inmate of .Mat teawan, fakes Seventh Life. ACT PROMPTED BY AFFECTION Woman Knovrs Favorite Attendant is About to Leave Hospital and At tacks Her With Shears- Stabs ; Victim 200 Times. Matteawan, N. Y. Mrs. Lizzie Hal liday, upon whose head rests the guilt of slav,ing six men and women, adcjfd a seventh victim to her list in the hospital for insane criminals, when she stabbed her nurse, Miss Nellie Wicks', aged twenty-four, to death. Miss Wicks had showed such tact and skill in the management of forty oy , fifty women patients that she was promoted to be head attendant of the women's departments Mrs. Halliday, a woman of middle age and somewhat imbecile, showed a great fondness for her from the outset, and the attend-, ant made her one of her most trusted patients. Recently: Miss Wicks announced her intention of leaving the hospital to study to become a trained nurse. Mrs. Halliday took the announcement to heart and begged her not to leave. The young woman laughed and humored her patient, but continued her preparations for departing. Sev eral times Mrs. Halliday had said she would kill Miss Wicks before she would let her go, but she has made so many threats against different per sons since her incarceration that little attention was paid to her. Least of all Miss Wicks feared her. T. Miss Wicks entered a washroom at a quarter to 8 o'clock a. m.. She was followed stealthily by Mrs. r Halliday, who had in her hand a pair of shears which she was allowed to have to do Bewing. Creeping up behind Miss Wicks, 'the lunatic struck her on the head and felled her. Then taking the nurse's keys she locked the door, leaving the keys in the lock so the door could not be opened from the outside. With the fury of a tigress she returned to the attack, and, using the shears, she stabbed the girl over 200 times over the heart and in the face and neck. Miss Wicks' screams brought help, and the door was broken down. Mrs.. Halliday stood at a window, calmly watching the death struggles. A maniacal smile of triumph lighted her face. "She won't leave me now," r.he said, and laughed as she spoke. Miss Wicks was hurried to a cot, but died within an hour, without re covering consciousness. Mrs. Halli day laughed gleefully when told she was dead. When Coroner Goring asked her why she had committed the murder she-replied: "She tried to leave me." Mrs. Halliday will not be placed in a cell. Superintendent v Lamb says she will be-Garefully guarded, but there will be no punishment for her. For years Lizzie Halliday roved the Hudson'and Mohawk valleys as queen of a gypsy tribe that made a living chiefly through raids on the farmers. It was in IS 9 3 that she led her band into Sullivan County, when she met old Paul Halliday, then in his sixty- fifth srear. He lived on his small mountain farm with his bachelor brother. Later she married him. She had been there four years when the McQuillans, mother and daughter, who were lured to the farm, were killed by Mrs. Halliday at the same time she murdered her husband, and the crime was brought home to her. Long before this she had burned the Halliday homestead to the ground, and the imbecile and crippled son of Halliday in it. After the fire, which did not een cause her arrest, she was discovered stealing horses near Newburg, and a term in an insane asylum saved her from prison at this time. Set free onca more, she remained quiet until the disappearance of Mrs. McQuillan and her daughter, Sarah, started an investigation that resulted in the dis covery of theXr mutilated bodies. Her trial and her final commitment to Matteawan are a matter of history. She had been sentenced to be hanged when petitions were circulated in her behalf and a commission, which Mrs Halliday aided materially by her pre tended attempts at suicide in her cell always when rescue" was near finally adjudged her insane. ' Artemus Brewer, : another of Mrs. Halliday's husbands, died after a year of beatings at the hands of the pow erful woman, and yet George Smith, an old-time friend of Brewer, who saw him dfe, married the widow. She laughingly gave him a cup of pois oned tea. one day and left him. When the doctors brought him around' the woman" had "fled .with another man, one Hiram Parkinson. ' On the way to Matteawan Asylum Mrs. Halliday attacked Deputy Sheriff Morris and bit him in. the hand. He later died of blood poisoning, caused by the bite. , She did her best, on the train to kill him. Six Sisters All Suicides. Miss Julia Winslow, who belonged to a prominent family living near Warren, 111., committed suicide by saturating her clothes with kerosene and then setting fire to herself. She was the last of six sisters, all of whom committed suicide. Cassie Chadwick Gives It Up. Cassie L. Chadwick has decided to fight her case no further, and she will' serve out her ten years sentence in the Columbus (Ohio) Penitentiary unless she can get a pardon. v i Hearst's Madison Square Meeting. Madison Square Garden, New York City, was crowded at the-atiheation meeting of the Hearst ticket, the principal speech being made by W. K. Hearst. HUGHES NOMINATED BY f Kew York Republicans . Accept Candidate by Acclamation. BRUCE GETS SECOND PLACE Mayer and the Rest of the State, Ticket Chosen Without Opposi- , tion Platform Recommends Re forms in Public Affairs. 1 Saratoga, N. Y. The Republican j Slate Convention nominated Charles E. Hughes of National fame beca: . of the insurance investigation, for Governor, and renominated M. Linn Bruce for Lieutenant-Governor, Tho other State officers were all renamed, while Senator Merton E. Lewis, cf , Rochester, was named for the vacant Sta,te Controllership. Immediately after the adjournment of the conven tion, the caw Slate Committee was or ganized and , Timothy L. Woodruff was elected Chairni n in place of ex Governor Odell. With a- remarkable demonstration, for President Roosevelt, and ith rousing cheers for Tait, Higgins,' Bruce and Wadsworth in connection with the recital of their services in the administration of the affairs nl Nation and State, the Repub lean State Convention had been organized the day before. When State Chairman Benjamin B. Odell, Jr., called -he convention to ' order at 12.21 p'. ra., the hall was . "-"-wded witi delegates and specta- . to:, and aLiong hundreds c - icr- TWrTCinlov a n r nncavol f fli n i T-m n r Odell, in behalf of the State Commit tee, presented the name of Reore3en- . tative Michael E. Djriscoll, of Syra cuse, to be temoorary chairman of ' the convention. Mr. Driscoll finished . speaking at 1.35 p. m... and the usual routine resolutions were adopted. Ge-ieral Stewart L. Woodford was made Chairman of the Committee on Resolutions. After - session of one hour and twenty-five minutes the convention took a recess until 11 a. m. next day. Upon reassembling the repoit of the Committee on Credentials was the first order of business. Next came the report of the Com mittee on Permanent Organization, which was submitted by Judge Bren ner, of Kings. The recommendation of the com mittee was that Senator W. W. Arm strong, of Monroe, should be perma nent chairman, and the Senator was escorted to the chair by Herbert Par sons and Congressman Sereno Payne He began to speak at 11.28 o'clock. Obairnnr, Armstrong finished speak ing at 12;06 and was loudly cheered. The ovation lasted half a minute. The Chairman announced that the next order of business was the report of the Resolution Committee, and General Stewart L. Woodford was snDauded as he took the stand to read the platform. It was apparent from the reading of the platform that Hie Republicans had decided to make "Roosevelt th leading issue in the r!unnf-ign. Every reference to the Prvident's -name brought out more: outbursts of enthusiasm. Judge Job Hedges, of New York, vis recognized at 12.27 o'clock to ulaca in nomination Charles E. Hughes, of New York. Senator W. J. Tully, of Corning, a member of the Insurance Investigat ing Committee, seconded the nomina tion of Hughes in a.brief speech. He was followed by Sneaker James W Wfdswortb. of the Assembly. Senator George Raines, of Ontario, moved that the Secretary of the con vention cast one ballot for Ifughes. The resolution ;was passed unani mously, and Chairman Armstrong an nounced that the Secretary had cast one ballot and Hughes was the nom inee. - " As soon as he could get order the Chairman called for nominations for Lieutenant-Governor. He recognized Congressman Parsons, of New York, who offered the name of Lieutenant Governor M. Linn Bruce, of Mannat tan. to succeed himself. . On motion of- Congressman Sher man the other - nominations were made in a lump unanimously. All the present State officials were re nominated, with the addition of Mar tin E. Lewis, of Monroe County, who , was named1 for the vacancy of tho office of Controller, The Republican State ticket is as follows: For Governor Charles E. Hughes, of New York. For Lieutenant-Governor M. Linn Bruce, of New Yorac. For Secretary of State John F. O'Brien, of Clinton. For Controller Merton E. Lewis, of Monroe. For Attorney-General Julius Mayer, of New York. For State Engineer Henry A. Van. Alstyne, of Columbia. For State Treasurer John G. Wal lenmeier, of Erie. A telegram to Senator Page was received, from Mr. Hughes, accepting;, the nomination, 'without pledge oth er than to do my duty according to my conscience." 1 The convention then adjourned sine die and the meeting of the new State Committee was held immediate ly afterward. Charles E. Hughes i the son of tho Rev. David C. Hughes, a Baptist min ister, and was born at Glens Falls, N. Y., April 11, 1862. He is a lawyer in New York Citv. Two Women Thrown and Killeo. x, Mrs. Clara C. Marsh was killed' while riding a horse at Oberlin, Ohio. The horse reared and fell on her Mrs.' Marsh was the companion of Miss Florence Story, a sophomore in Oberlin College who was thrown from her horse and killed the day before. American Ambassador's Receptions The Turkish Government has post poned the audience set for the Amer ican Ambassador, Mr. Leishman.'