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3be Cbatbam TRecorfc. RATES OF ADVERTISING: One Square, one Insertion. . . . . or One Square, two Insertion.... 1.5 One Square, one month.......'. 09 EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. U 1 IV XJ I J I'TV K TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: CL sU) 111 S Sl.5DPerYear : Q O V TTyrjTTf V IN AniMMrr : v ; '-' '. ' 'IL Items Ciafhorirf FMm Ex-Governor Is Dead. TTilmington, SpeciaL Ex-Gover-aor Daniel L. Russell died Thursday afternoon at 3 o'clock at his home in Brunswick county after an illness of several weeks, resulting from a re rurrecee of the attack -which he suf fered four years ago, necessitating an :3peraiicn at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He was 63 years of age and is sur vived of the immediate family only by his wife. Daniel Lindsay Russell was born at Winnabow, Brunswick county, An&st 5th, 1S45, and was, therefore, ;.n the 63rd year of his age. His par ents were Daniel L. and Carolina Sanders Russell, the mother having died in the only son's early infancy! ?lantation in Brunswick and received his early education under the private tutelage of his relative, the late Dr. Benjamin Sanders, but when only 12 years of age entered Bingham School, preparing there for the University of North Carolina, where he matriculat ed as a freshman at the age of 15 years. At the University the young man remained until the following year, when he was forced to aban don his studies on account of the out break of the Civil war. Soon after returning to his home he organized at his own expense Company G, of Brunswick county, and "became its eapr ain. Began Political Career Early. pW ti thP . Tye?7t aVtWS elected to the Keaislntnrfl r,f cT-t!. Tl 1 1 -1 " A ' v ? , r. Carolina from his native county and served two terns before attaining Irs uu.iu1um, uis service in tne the City of Winston against the Nor Legjslature he was made title com- folk & Western Railway be complet missioner oi Brunswick and while -en- ed in this city June 2d. Special Ex gaged there he began the study of ; aminer Brown will probablv sit un law under the learned Manger Lon- Jon the case. The action is brought in don. In when but 23 years of the hope that a better freight rate on ii ua. maae page ot the s- penor Court o this district and 5n 1U uiai capacuy ior six years, He was the youngest man who ever ; served on the bench in North Caro lina. Upon the expiration of his ju dicial term, he was elected to Con gress from this district on the greon&aex. ticket. defentino- fnl A. U AVaddell. the Democratic nom- wee. He served two terms in Con gress and later devoted himself to a iucrative law practice in Wilmington, a part of the time being senior mem ber of the firm of Russell and Rich ard. In 1S94 hP fnsion ticket to the governorship of by reason of the fact hat the pns Xcith Carolina, serving a full term of ner 13 reIated to the jailor, J. W. four years. Returning to Wilmin-- fuewi5an' at Columbus, and the fur ton he formed a copartnership for - .e,r fact that Colum"us is not a sate the practice of law with John II. jaiL wre. jr., hsq.. this copartnership continuing until the death of Mr. Gov in 1904. Cilice that time he has hppn pn- gaged in the practice of law, associat- 'a J iMth himself Louis Goodman, Esq., under the firm name of Russell' & Goodman. . I i Barn Burned in Halifax. i q coLand Neck, SpeciaL Thursday aorning just before day the barns and stables of Mr. J. E. Hancock jost outside of town, were burned, the loss being from $300 to $500. A colored man who lives on the farm nd superintends it was awms hv tho ha.U IC S " 7J I n; ;.:: ? r - n ae onp V, inount1ilf neard some : from the Greater Charlotte Club in cnLTln! a7ay f l0t of fwsWy i viting the North Carolina Associa 'i 7ad JUSt been Put ln th.e tion of Postmasters, of which he i: tio'ti , theretwas some sPPOSi- 'president, to hold its annual conven caLll it sponstaneous combustion tion this year at that city. He savs he ?re but the man in charge the date and nlafie nf mflpAino- is lef I thinly u i . . .l M. uc Iieara retreating looc-ians iien ne went out. He succeeded in hl L teams" Mn Hancoek 1 n8elf was ayay from town. j I Rich Gold Mine in VadWn. inston-Salem, Special. Mr. W. -McKoy, one of the owners of the KJW mine at Courtney, Yadkin coun- I the retail department of the Everharl samn 1? Clty' had several'i Grocery Company and before th HpTI m s mine on exhlbltlon- flames could be checked the stock and wo,,? ne of goId ore' whlch building together were damaged tc m pan out $500,000 to the ton. the extent of $6i000 and perhap: ere are thirty-six men employed atjmore the. same being fully covered anrl u or 1S camea on a&yby insurance, the x total amount onP Wl. ' The mme Promises to be stock and buildings amounting ue ot the richest in the country. J $13,000. Incorporations. The Rockingham Hotel Company, of Rockingham, with $75,000 total authorized cnA i7nnn cnVicTn"fcol thp j- 1 m ' -a -w- I ineorporatiors being T. C. Leak, lJ- Leak, W. C. Leak, H. C. Wall, . Everett, M. L. Hinson, A. S. Mockery and L. G. Fox. The charter of the Storage Supply . K!pany, of Asheville, was amended, increasing the capital stock to $75,000 trm $50,000. The Goldsboro Insurance and Real ty Cornnanv re-Anped its stork t.n 5S10.- 000 f; rom $15,000. 4. , - - . - 7 r Death of a Colored Minister. Oxford, Special. Rev. : Walter a-tillo, colored, died suddenly in Ox lord Tuesday morning from a stroke t 'irirv,-.-!-..- T"U J j -0 t i'vjjicijf. xiie uwasoa was iui d timber of years Pastor of the Sec-i rw Baptist church here, and ,Tpas j ranch influence for good among the colored people. His son, Walter atillo, is principal of the colored i-paded school of Oxford. The funer- will take place Thursday. Aire - Grand Lodge Adjourns. Hendersonville, Special. The Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows conclud ed its annual session here Thursday shortly after noon and many repre sentatives left immediately for their respective homes. The 'morning hour was occupied in receiving the reports of Various standing com mutes and the adoption of numerous resolutions relating to the good of the order and one thanking the local com mittee, and for the generous hospi tality accorded to the Grand Lodge. Charlotte was unanimously selected as the meeting place next year, the name of Goldsboro'. having been with drawn after being pt in nomination. Ihe following grand officers were elected for the ensuing year: Grand Master, H. M. Shaw, Oxford; Deputy Grand Master. P. "FT Willi n t?k bet City; Grand Warden, Frank D. Hackett, North Wilkesboro; Grand Secretary, B. H. WoodelL. Raleigh; Grand Treasurer, Richard Jones, Wil mington; Trustees Orphans Home, Marcus Jacobi, . Wilmington, and Charles Dewey, Goldsboro. It was conceded by all present that this has has been the most largely attended session of the Grand Lodge ever held in the grand domain of North Caro lina, and every member of the same went away singing the praises of Deautitul Hendersonville. Date For Second Hearing. Winston-Salem, Special President F. J. LiDfert. nf thp nnnril r fro A a haS received a telegram from the sec l. r, . xiaty ui me mier-otate commerce commission statin? that the hearino of the case of the'board of trade and eoal may be secured. Some of the evidence was taken at a hearing here a few weeks ago. . Removed to Asheville lryon, Special. Lee R. Fisher, of Lynn, who recently surrendered tc Sheriff W. C. Robertson, of Polk clntyS and who has been in.-iail at Columbus, was taken to Asheville and lodged in jail there by order of So licitor Spainhour. Fisher is in jail for the killing of R. F. W. Allston at Lynn early in March. It is under stood that the removal was ordered Bishop Atkins To Preside. Asheville, Special. Methodists al over Western North Carolina will learu with pelasure that Bishop AtKlns nas been designated to hold the next ann"al Western North Carolina Conference, which meets here Novem- ber 18. At a recent meting of Bish- PS f ' th . ?ut ' thodAi?1 church, held m Nashville, Bishop At- kins, at one time pastor of Centra! chureh, Asheville, was assigned tc this conference and otheu Western Conferences. ' Postmasters Invited. Raleigh, Special. Postmastei -aieign, Griggs has received an invitatior u to the executive committee, which ha I not vet aete(i on the matter. but thf convention will hardly be held beforf autumn. Fire at Lexington. Lexington, Special. At 11 o'clocli Friday night fire was discovered ir or tc Hotel Company Organizes. Rockingham, Special. The Rock ingham Hotel Company, the company just chartered, met and organizec Thursday night and elected Messrs W. C. Leak, president; R. A. John son, vice president; H. C. Wall, sec retary and treasurer, and W. C Leak, R. A. Johnson, H. C. Wall, A S. Dockery, M. L. Hinson, S. S. Steels and W. N. Everett, directors. This is the comnanv which is groins: tc buvd Rockingham s elegant ne-w three-story hotel, to cost $40,000. Live Stock and Contents of Ban Burned. i Wilmington, Special. News reach ed the city of the burning of the bam and stables of G. B. D. Parker, oi Chinauepin, Duplin cpunty, with sev- en head .of live stock, wagons, har- ness, 6UU Dusneis 01 com ana otnsi property on Wednesday night. .Th origin of the fire is thought to have been incendiary. An effort was made to get bloodhounds to trail the crim inal, but this wus unsuccessful. AAA 1 1 , J 1 - J.1 PtlTSBORO. CHATHAM COUNTY. N. fi.;TOTlNFnAY MAY 20. A GREAT CONFERENCE Governors of Many States and President Meet in Council IS A NOTEWORTHY GATHERING Notable Conference, the First of Its Kind in the History of America, Begun Undsr Auspicious Circum stances in the White House. Washington, Special. Two ideas destined to mark material progress in America's future resulted from the first of the three days' conference at theWhite House at whicch President Roosevelt, the Governors of 44 mates, Cabinet officers, Supreme Court judges, Senators. Reoresenta- fctives and experts are participating, in eiions to reacn conclusions on the best methods of conserving the nat ural resources of the United States. ihe first is that a permanent organ ization between the States and the na tion is necessary and will likely result from the present conference to ac complish the end sought. The sec ond, suggested by Secretary Root, is that there is no limitation by the con stitution to the agreements which may be made between two States, subject to the approval of Congress. The two ideas fully developed, it is predicted, would result in the con servation of the energies , and re sources of the nation through uniform and unconflicting laws, both national and State. The idea that the conference should be perpetuated developed in the form Df resolutions adopted for later con sideration by Governor Glenn, of North Carolina, Oovernor Folk,, of Missouri, and many others, but a par iimentary move to save time sent them to a committee for considera tion. Forty-four Governors of soverign States of the Union sat on gilded ;hairs in the historic East Room of &e White House and chatted from 10 io 11 o'clock. Five hundred other persons taxed the capacity of the room. They were Cabinet officers, Supreme - Court Justices, Senators Representatives and experts in all lines of industry. With a flourish of ;rumpets the President and vice pres deut entered at 11 o'clock and the jonference, the first of its kind in ;he history of the nation, begun. Tie leception of the President Was :ne lirst climax of the day. He enter ed the East Room at 11 o'clock as :he Marine Band rendered the presi leniial honors. The Governors arose; :hey clapped their hands, they shout id. The demonstration became tu nultuous. Then followed a hush The venerable Dr. Edward Everett 3ale, chaplain of the Senate, read !rom the Scripture the description )f the fertility of the land promised ;he children of Israel, and followed it vith a supplication for guidance in be present undertaking. President Roosevelt here begun his ;xplanation of the reason for the ionference. His .fifty-minute speech vas many times interrupted by ap plause, and when he finally reached lis point of praise to the inland wa ;erways ccommission, and declared vith characteristic vigor that should Congress neglect to perpetuate the jommission "I will do it myself," he 'captured" the assemblage'. The iovernors stood up and shouted, Sen iors and Congressmen added a laugh :o their applause, and e-eneral as sent was given the sentiment. The President's Address. The President spoke in part as fol ows: Governors of Several States and Gen tlemen: I welcome you to this conference at he White House. You have come lither at my request so that we may join together to consider the question it the conservation and use of the ?reat fundamental sourcces of wealth if this nation. So vital is this ques tion, that for the first time in our his tory the chief executive officers of the States seperately, and of the States together forming the nation, have aaet to consider it. With the Governors come men from sach State chosen for their special ac quaintance with the terms of the problem that is before us. Among them are experts in natural resources and representatives of national or ganizations concerned in- the develop ment and use, of these resources; the Senators and Representatives in Con gress; the Supreme Court, the Cabi net, and the Inland' Waterways Com mission have likewise been invited to the conference, which is therefore national in a pecular sense. A Weighty Problem. This conference on the conservation of natural resources is in effect a meeting of the representatives of all the people of the United State's called to consider the weightiest problem now before the nation; and the occa sion for the meeting lies in the fact that the natural resources of our eeuntry are in danger of exhaustion if we permit the. old wasteful methods of exploiting them longer 'to. continue. With the rise of peoples from sav agery to civilization and with the con sequent growth in the extent, and va riety of the needs of the average man, there comes a steadily increasing growth of the amount demanded by this average man from the actual re-, Bources of the country. Yet, rather curiously, at the same time the aver age man is apt to lose his realization of this dependence upon natupe. Savages, and very primitive peoples generally, concern themselves ; only with - superficial natural resources; with those which they obtain from the actual surface of the ground.. As peoples become a little less primitive, their industries, although in a rude manner, are extended to resources be low the surface ; then, with what we call civilization and the extension of knowledge, more resources come into use, industries are multiplied, and foresight begins to become a neces sary and prominent factor in life. Crops are cultivated; animals are do mesticated: and metals are mastered. Mankind's Progress. Every step of the progress qf man kind is marked by the discovery and use of natural resources previously unused. Without such progressiva knowledge and utilization of natural resources population could not grow, nor industries multiply, nor the hid den wealth of the earth be developed for the benefit of mankind. From the first beginnings of civili zation, on the banks of the Nile and the Euphrates, the industrial progress of the world has gone on slowly, with occasional setbacks, but the whole steadily, through tens of centuries to the present day. But of late the rap idity of the process has increased at such a rate that more space has been actually covered during the century and a quarter occupied by our nation al life than during the preceding six thousands years that take us back to the earliest monuments of Egypt, to the earliest cities of the Babylonian plain. A, Difference of Degree. When the founders of this nation met at Independence Hall in Phila delphia the conditions of commerce had not fundamentally changed from what they were when the Phoenician keels first furrowed the lonely waters of the Mediterranean. The differ ences were those of degree, not of kind, and they were not in all cases even those ' of degree. Mining was carried on fundamentally as it had been carried on by the Pharaohs in the countries adjacent to the Red sea. The wares of the merchants of Boston, of Charleston, like the wares of the merchants of Nineveh and Si don, if they went by water, were car ried by boats propelled by sails or oars; if they went by land were car ried in wagons drawn by beasts .of draft or in packs on the backs of beasts of burden. The ships that crossed the high seas were better than the ships that had once crossed the Aegean, but they were of the same ype, after all they were wooden skips propelled by sails; and on land, the roads were not as good as the roads of the Roman Empire, while the service of the posts was probably interior. In Washington's time anthracite coal was known only as a useless black stone; and the great fields of bituminous coal were undiscovered. As steam was unknown, the use of eoal for power production was un dreamed of. Water was practically the only source of power, save the labor of men and animals; and this power was used only in the most primitive fashion. But a few small iron deposits had been found in this country, and the use of iron by our countrymen was very small. Wood was practically the only fuel, and what lumber was sawed was consum ed locally, while the forests were re garded chiefly as obstructions to set tlement and cultivation. The mere increase in our consump tion of coal during 1907 over 1906 ex ceeded the total consumption in 1876, the Centennial year. The enormous stores of mineral oil and gas are largely gone. Our natural waterways are not gone, but they have been so injured by neglect, and by the divi sion of responsibility and utter lack of system in dealing with them, that there is less navigation on them now than there was fifty years ago. Fin ally, we began with soils of unexam pled fertility and we have so im poverished them by injudicious use and by failing to check erosion that their crop producing power is dimin ishing instead of increasing. Such was the degree of progress to which civilized mankind had at tained when this nation began its ca reer. It is almost impossible for us in this day to realize how little our revolutionary ancestors knew of the great store of natural resources whose discovery and use have been such vital factors in the growth and great ness of this nation, and how little they required to take from this store in order to satisfy their needs. After speaking upon the various points wherein our natural resources should be conserved the President colsed as follows: Finally, let us remember that the conservation of our natural resources, though the gravest problem of to-day, is yet but part of another and greater problem to which this nation is not yet awake, but to which it will awake in time, and with which it must here after grapple if it is to live the problem of national efficiency, the pa triotic duty of insuring the safety and continuance of the nation. When the people of the United States con sciously undertake to raise themselves as citizens, and the nation and the States in their several spheres, to the highest pitch of excellence in private, State, and national life, and to do this because it is the first of all the duties of true patriotism, then and not till then the future of this nation, in quality and in time, will be assur ed. - Governor Glenn's Great Speech. Governor R. B. Glenn, of North Carolina, covered himself with glory before the President and the Gover nors. He made a very delightful speech, takiae as his subject the Ap- palartffl aU'Whue Mountcua park pro ject. The Times calls it' the one startling feature of the session. Among other things, Governor Glenn said: "When the Civil war closed you. of the North told us that we were yur brothers. You said that if we wanted anything to come to you and we would get it. The very first time we have come to you to assist us m preserving a great industry we are' rebuffed." This statement brought forth round after round of applause from Governors from all parts of the United Stales. Governor Glenn's reference to old war times was made during the course of an impromptu address in which he followed the lines of- Presi dent Roosevelt in condemning Con gress for its inactivity. "We have come here year after year," said Governor Glenn, "and asked that something be done to reg ulate the industry of inter-State for estry. We can v regulate intra-State forestry, but we cannot regulate the inter-State industry. And every time we come to our Representatives in Congress they say, 'Wait until next session,' that is the answer we have been getting for years. GOVERNORS ADJOURN The Set Programme of the Last Day Swept Aside and the President, With Charasteristic Progressive ness, Lets it be Known That Action is What is Needed and There Will be no Halting for Precedent or Red Tape. Washington, Special. The frrpt conference of the Governors of the States of the American Union ended Friday. The final accomplishment of the conferencec, which has been in progress at the White House for three days cannot be set forth with mathematical precision. That its im mediate results are more than ample is the expression of President Roose velt and of the Governors who par ticipated. The printed record of the confer ence, which will later be available to every American home, will be a com pilation of facts, startling in their meaning, convincing in their univer sal conclusion that the States must aet, and that the States and the na tion must co-operate that to the end the whole people of the nation may accure the lasting benefit of its nat ural resources. "Declaration of Co-cperation." Besides the compilation of facts by the experts and the freely ex pressed opinion of the Governors, the conference leaves as its permanent record a thousand word "declaration of co-operation." Perhaps greater in importance than all else was the determination of the Governors of the States to perfect a permanent organization whereby a heretofore unknown intimacy may be developed among the Executives of the forty-six soverign States, made strong by a common purpose and made potent by a pro-announcements which may not lightly.be disregarded. Of the last day the story is one of many features. The set pro gramme was swept aside. The Pres ident presided hroughout. The pre pared papers were not presented, but they will be printed in the permanent record. Their places were taken first by the "declaration" which was adopted after discussion which brought to light no serious objection to its affirmations. President Roosevelt himself an swering the one criticism that of Governor Folk, of Missouri to the declaration, aroused the conference to its warmest demonstration of ap proval .'He swept aside the "aca demic question" of where the line of authority should be drawn between the States and the nation. He want ed action, and what he said received endorsement at each period. It was this: Roosevelt for Action. "Just a word on what has been called the twilight land between the powers of the Federal and State gov ernments. My primary aim in the legislation that I have advocated for -the regulation of the great corpora tions has been to provide some effec tive popular sovereign for each cor poration. I do not wish to keep this twilight land one of large and vague boundaries, by judicial decision that in a given case the State cannot act, and then a few years later by other decisions that in practically similar cases the nation cannot act either. I am trying to find out where one or the other can act, so there shall al ways be some sovereign power that on behalf of the people can hole every big corporation, every big in dividual, to an accountabiliy so that ' us or ms acis snail ue Denenciai to the people as a whole. In matters that relateNonly to the people within the State of course the State is to be sovereign and it should have the power to act. If the matter is such that the State itself cannot act then I wish on behalf of all xthe States that he national government should act. The declaration, upon which the President 's remarks were predicated; was presented to the conference by Governor Blanchard, of Louisiana., at the opening of the session. The de claration begins: "We, the Governors of the States and Territories of the United States of America, in conference assembledi 1908. NO. 41. do hereby declare the conviction that the great prosperity of our country rests upon the abundant resources oi the land chosen by our forefathers for their homes and where they laid the foundation of this great nation." The declaration states that the nat ural resources of the country yare the common heritage of all the xpeople, and that the duty of the government is to censure the same for future gen erations. Reclamation work is advised and the streams and watercourses should be protected and improved. Forestry ought to be encouraged by the States and the general government. The final work of the conference was tc make it a permanency. 'Late-.jWeto-r. In 'Brief A MINOR MATTERS OF INTEREST In pursuance of a harmony deal with Aldrich, Mr. Foraker suspended his Brownsville fight until after the election. ! Governors, jurists, Senators , and many famous men gathered at the first National Resources Conference, which began at the White House. The Taft managers are said to have made a deal with the corpor ation interests that is expected to in sure his nomination. , The Wright brothers made a flight' of three miles at Manetoe, N. C. The African Methodist Episcopal General Conference, in session at Norfolk, decided to elect five bishops. Virginia Odd Fellows will raise a $300,000 endowment fund for their orphanage- and old folks' home at Lynchburg. Two rcr;r(.s, members of the Suffolk- chain gaDg, saved the life uf their fiuard and were pardoned by Mnyr Xnriictt. Another tornado in the South has done much damage. More entertainmen.s were given in San Francisco for the officers and men of the fleet. A three-cornered fight is on in Pennsylvania among the adherents of Bryan, Johnson and Gray.. . An autopsy was performed on "The" Allen, the New York sport ing man, to see if there were -any. grounds for the theory of foul play. Bishop Horstman of the Catholic Diocese of Cleveland, died of heart failure. Twenty-nine prisoners were killed and 30 more wounded in an attempt to escape from a Russian prison. A tidal wave is said to have cost 10,000 lives at Hankow, China. Allen Gard, Governor of a Philli pine provincce is dead, bolo wounds at last proving fatal. Congress passed the agricultural bill on Monday. House and Senate conferees are in a deadlock over the Pension bill. One more body was dug up on the Guinness farm near Laporte, Ind. Japan is expected to inaugurate a still more aggresive policy in Korea. King Manuel of Portugal took the oath of allegiance. , Ludovic Halevy, the French novel ist and dramatic author, is dead. Four .prisoners escaped from the Spartanburg, S. C, ' chaingang Mon day, but two were recaptured. The General Conference of the Northern Methodist church, in ses sion at Baltimore, had a busy day. Jews were accused in the Douma of mutilating themselves to escape military service. Prince Philip zu Eulenberg was placed under arrest on a charge of perjury. The House adopted the conference report on the Army bill, granting $7,000,000 increase in pay. Secretary of the Navy Metcalf re viewed the great armada in San Francisco Bay. - Two business blocks in Atlanta, Ga., were burned, the loss being esti mated at $1,250,000. The Schuylkill river rose 10 feet and caused much damage in Philadel phia suburbs. All of the 72 wreckers : and mem bers of the crew on the ship Peter Rickmers were saved. v After a hot debate, the House de cided to exclude the canteen from soldiers' homes. The battleship fleet entered the Golden Gate and San Francisco went wild with delight. The Connecticut Republican con vention turned down both Senators as delegates and indorsed Taft. Ex-President Cleveland who has indigestion, is said to be gaining rap- av A 16-year-old Italian boy,, with a razor slashed five persons in New York, and two may die. The American Ice Company inves tigation was ordered continued in spite of President Oler's appeal. HEARTLESS. "Bilger eloped with his cook, the unfeeling' wretch!" "Well, I don't know. Why should n't he if he wanted to?" "But his ife "was just 'goiaar to give a dinner party." Life. ' Special clfcrf. wJ winding up onHy once in 400 days, are now manufactured in Munich. . . For Larger Advertise ments Liberal Contracts will be made. BIG BANK DEFUNCT Pittsburg Institution Unable to . Recover From Big Steal WILL NOT HURT OTHER BANKS Allegheny National Will Not Re Open, Its Doors Institution Can not Weather the Stom Will Have No Effect on Business. Pittsburg, Pa., Special. It is of ficially announced that the Allegheny National Bank, whose former cashier, William Montgomery, is in jail, spe jifically charged with the misappro priation of $594,000 while officers of the bank and of the Treasury De partment are trying to fathom still , larger apparent discrepancies in the bank's funds, will not re-open for business Monday. Instead a notice on the door will announce that the Comptroller of the Currency has tak 9n charge and will close up the affairs Df the bank. Until late Sunday it had been ex- . pected that the institution would weather the storm and be able to continue business. To this end a number of strong financial institu tions and prominent capitalists of the city offered assistance and provided 1250,000 cash while the directors pro vided a like amount to meet imme diate needs or provide for possible emergencies. At the same time a complete re-organization was decided upon. A hitch ' occurred in these plans and all of the day was spent in conferences attended by Examin er Folds, representing the Treasury Department, the bank's, directors "and financiers who had proffered aid. Af ter a careful review of the situation suspension of the bank was decided upon as the only logical course, but this decisis:: cuecly announced until a new ray of hope appeared. The announcement was withdrawn and the conference reconvened to dis cuss the ney suggestion for continu ing business. Finally, however, it was agreed to. stand by the earlier decision and to liquidate. The suspension of the bank, it is believed, will have practically no ef fect upon commercial or financial in stitutions of the city. ' President to Methodists. Washington, Special. "Good citi zenship" was the subject of an ad- dress by President Rosevelt in which he paid a notable tribute to mother hood before a large gatheririg of Methodists at the American Univer sity, in course of construction, just outside' of the city limits. The assem- . blage was composed principally of the delegates to the General Confer ence of the Methodist Episcopal . church, now in session in Baltimore. What was to have been a feature of the occasion a reception of the delegates by the President and Mrs, Roosevelt in the college of history was abandoned owinjr to an engage ment which the President previously had made. Perhaps no feature of the exercises occasioned the Presi dent more real delight than the sing ing by the German members of the General Conference of "Ein Feste Burk Isk Unser Gott" (A Mighty Fortress is Our God"), a hymn sung by the adherents of Martin Luther' during the period of reformation. "That's fine," exclaimed President Roosevelt when the singing of this old hymn began. He added that it was his favorite song. The President then repeated a portion of. the first verse of the song in German to tho evident delight of the assemblage. k Telegraphic Briefs. After a lively debate the Senate re ported Senator Rayner's Stewart in quiry resolution to the Military Com mittee. '" Hundreds of visitors saw a Vir ginia couple married in the rotunda of the Capitol. Governor Fort, of New Jersey,- is being boomed as the Republican nom inee for Vice-President. Work on Panama CanaL Charleston, S. Special. The Hon. William H. Taft, Secretary of War, arrived in Charleston harbor at noon Sunday on board the cruiser Prairie and after spending a few hours in the city, 'during which time he was met and greeted by a number of officials and friends, left the city for Washington at 5:15 p. m. via the Atlantic Coast Line. The Secretary expressed himself as exceedingly well pleased with th5 progress of the ca nal work. Monster Cotton Mill Engine Ruined. Greenville, S. C, Special. Owing to a derangement in the engine, the cylinder head of the six hundred horse-power engine which pulls some of. the machinery of the Americaa Spinning Company blew out and the engine was uracticaJIv ruined. - Tt will be necessary to shnt down the mill for several days or until the damage is repaired. The engineer was out of the room at the time and no one wm injured. . 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