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i VOL. XXIX. PITTSE0RO, CHATHAM COUNTY, N. C. THURSDAY, OO FOBER 4, 1906
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The United States Formally Takes Charge
Of Island Republic
...n nrrtiMirnito avoid the present step. Longer
PRESIDENT HAS RESIGNED j :TZ
t : Cabinet. "
Taft's Accession as Provisional Gov- j s "Until further notice the heads oi
ernor Unaccompanied by Ceremony all'the departments; of the central
, - government will report to me lor m-
pr by Popular Demonstration of -tvuptions ineludillir General Alex-
Any Kind. andero Rodriguez, in command of the
" rural guards and other regular gov-
Pnv , ernment forces, and General Carlos
Havana By Cable. - Gei01 . 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
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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
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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.
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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.'