VQLfjMEI. WASHINGTON, NORTH CAROLINA, MONDAY AFTERNOON. DECEMBER 13 190* NO 113 NEGRO WANTED Jit SUNitt W URGE Horror Unavenged He is Wanted for Friday's Crime. Woman in Hospjtalia Her De lirium Acoises Her Husband Victims Aae Buried. THE REWARDS INCREASED Savannah , Ga., Dec? 11. ? State ments .of Mrs. Maggie Hunter, only survivor of the three women who were attacked and two of them killed in their homethere yesterday after noon, made in her delirium at tt)e Savannah Hospital, where she hov ers between life and death, canned I the arrest of her husband, J. C. Hun- 1 ter. today. Listening physicians and nurses who have hoped to catch a definite clue to the perpetrator of the crimes which caused the deaths in terrible fashions of aged Mrs. Eliza Qribble, and her daughter, Mrs. Carle Ohland er. heard Mrs. Hunter say that her hnsband had struck h$r. The police were immedlately\notified and Hun ter was quickly found and taken Into custody. Howovar, the police havfc placed no charges against him. . Desi^te_th|f sU^ement_mqde In the Injured woman's delirious babbling, few believe that anyone is guilty of the crimes except the negro man now missing, who was seen to enter the house about the time of the murders with an axe in his hands, and to leave the building late. Tfie search for the negro has not abated, yet he seems to have disappeared as If swal lowed up by the earth. To aid the search for the. murderer. Governor Brown, of Georgia, today added 13.00 to the reward already offered, mak ing the total now $1,300. Lato this afternoon a double funer al was held with every mark "of "the city's sorrow at the taking ofT of the victims and horror at the brutality of their murder. Mrs. Ohlander and Mrs. Grlbble were burled and as evi dence of the feeling here, the crowds that were at the scene of the crime respectfully stood back, and the two caskets were followed by but a few relatives of the. slain women as they were taken to the graves. Another Arrest Made. With the arreat of William Walls tonight it is possible the police have taken a stride toward solving the mystery of the. murder of Mrs. Eliza . Grlbble and Mrs. Carrie Ohlander and the fatal wounding of Mrs.^ Mag gie Hunter here yesterday afternoon. Though Walls Is not formally charg-i ed with any crime yet he is closely guarded at the jiolice station because today the police found at hltwhome a gray sweater fterked with blood and a < oat badly Biftinpq. but wnitin nag not yet been sufficiently well examined to determine the nature of the stains. The police bc^an their Investigations In regard to Walls because they were told that he had expressed an inten tion -to visit the Grlbble home a few minutes prior to the time of the rnur ders and again appeared after they nuuiL^iave occurred. He, It is said, la a eouatn of Mrs. Hunter, who lato: tonight Is unconscious In Savannah ments 'In delirium from which the ' police hoped to learn something that would point to the double murder, having almost ceased. Lttle hope Is entertained that she will live' more than a few hours. Despite the arrest of - Walls and thei stories that his acqualntancea have told of his oHlons on the day of the 'murders the declarations of wit nesses that the mtBsIng and suspected negro roan was seen entering the house of murders with the axe that was used In the killing of the two women in his hand, fi> regarded here as furnishing the best clue to the murder. However, the police will continue to hold Walls and J.. C. Hunter husband of the Injured worn . an, according to their statements to ptght. CIVIL OOUKT. - Court opened this morning for the second week with HI* Honor Judge Ward, presiding. An the first week the trial of civil causes will continue. Next week the criminal docket wDI V? taken np. HEwVl'lm FTRNITtlRE. The Cbrlflllan Church congrega tion hire Insulted n?w pulpit furnl tnre In their church auditorium. It ?in very attractlre and hu been much admired. ANKKX COMPLETE!!. ! . Tie annex to the Ft ret Methodtal Church hill I dinar hit Wn THREE MILLION IMS USED EACH MINUTE L , ? _ The Average Per Day Seven Billion Matches Are Struck, in the Woffif During Year ? United States Consumes One Half of This Amount. IMPORTANCE OF INDUSTRY By the end of the brief minute taken to read these paragraphs the nations of the civilized world will have struck three million matches. This is the average for every min ute of the twenty-four hours of the day. Seven billion Is the enormous number for the entire year, and those ll?!ng under the American flag are said to be responsible for the con sumption of one-half of this amount. The importance of the fndustry which turns out the little splinters vf wood tipped with sulphur or some ether material Ignited by friction is only recognized when the average smoker tries- to contemplate his pre dicament if he had to go back to the time* whon he had to coax a 'spark from a tinder box. Of course, the answer is, he would smoke a greal inw because ofrthe difficulty in get ting a light, or else, on the other hand. Bmcke contlnously in order to keep alive the .fire at the end of his stogie or Havana, pipe or cigarette, as the case might be. Small and Insignificant as It is, the match demands perhaps 'as muth at tention In 'the choice, of the wood going into its manufacture as any other forest product. Only the choicest portions of the best trees are suitable. Sapwood, knotty or' cross grained timber will not do. Instead cf being a by-product of other arti cles of manufacture th^ l\tle match U turned out ftt hundredsN^f. ipills over the country where tho by-pro ducts are Jyilky objects like doors, aaah. shingles, siding, nowta ?n>i mr,i wood. The pines, linden, aspon, white cedar, poplar, birch, and willow are the most suitable match tim bers. The match makers ? not the matrl monlal kind ? are already finding that the amount of choice timber available is dwindling. Forest eoi\: nervation, if applied "to the holdings [ ,?fc*the match companies, like, it is on Uncle Sam's N*atltfnal Forests In | tho West, will do much to make the Tfipply sufficient for a longer number1 of years than would be the case if the old-time wasted lumbering meth ods of a few years ago nhould con tinue. The rapid increase in stump age prices is one of the chief factors lu encouraging the wise use of the forests where suitable match timber it; available. ODDFELLOWS ATTEND SERVICE Hear Sermon of Rev. H. B. Searight at Presbyterian Church. The TTia*nrXo JgeTSroT ""lOTTTT 0. F.. attended the First Presbyterian Church Sunday evening In a body to hear a special sermon by the pastor. Rev. H. Searlght, from the topic David and Jonathan, a large num ber of the lodge were present. The sermon was highly enjoyed and to day has been much complimented. Mr. Searlght Is a speaker of nfaget Icm IDd always n reaches with power. The musle by* the choir was one of the features. THE WORSTED MAX. Those of our citizens wishing td see a first-class performance should not fall to witness "The Worsted Man" by local talent at the school au ditorium next Friday night, lit Will be for the benefit of the Methodist Church organ fund ah'dTTSdUia Be iib erally patronised. An^xcellent per formance Is promised/ _ -/ STORM WARNING. Washington, D. C., Dec. 13. ? Ob server, Washington,, N. C.: Southeast storm warning, 10 a. m. Storm over Indiana, moving northeast. Brisk to? high southeast to southwest winds this afternoon and tonight in eastern part to Charleston. . MOORE. FIRCHA8RS RESTAURANT. Mr. Mi F. Wright has purchased | the restaurant of Mr. J. W. Brabble, Water street, and will continue 1 business at the present stand. , THtVi nothing th.t requires .urh ~*** 1 "" """"I *? ? ?x>4 mh'. ? -?-? ? . .. . INEXT MEETING TO BE HELD J HENDER50MIILLE [ ? - ? ? - * * Convention Has Closed Baptists Smoked Out of Their Church and Had to fierrow the Methodists' Building-Good Re ports from the Colleges. STUDY OF HOME MISSIONS Wadeiiboro, X. .C., Dec. 12 ?The baptist State ConvcQtiOi. adjourned yesterday afternoon. The next con vention wlU be held In Henderson vllle. Rev. J. J. Hall. D. D., was chosen to preach the convention, ser mon. Yesterday was a busy day with the convention. The first thing in the moiming Pastor T. W. Chambllss was brought face to face with a proposi tion. Somehow a brick from the top of the chimney fell Into, the furnace pipe and the building was filled with smoke. In a short time the Methor dlst Church was secured and heated and the convention moved In a body to the other building. - President Dowd remarked that it was. anaihor Instance of "Chambllss ready on the spot." The trouble was remedied during, the day and the building was ready for the night session. The report of the board of trustees of Meredict College as submitted was in part: "The record shows the names of 371 matriculates of the session, 21 above the enrollment of last year to 'date. Those students are distribut ed over five States and seventy-seven counties and represent twelve Chris tian denominations. ? Nu Hlckness of any consequence has yet appeared and the spirit and deportment of the students have been very gratifying." Thfe report of the trustees of Wake Forest College was read. shows that the college has 362 stu^ dents and owna $4?45,OOQ worth of property. There aro 73 ministerial students ftf the institution. Profes sor J. B. Carlyle spoke on the report in a magnificent address. T_he report on home missions was read next, which said in conclusion: "We must pull up on home mis sions. We need to study It. No pas tor who has failed to study the sub ject can teach his people. ICmoiloual appeals wHl not do the work. We mrrM wal^use of tracts, of our home field, and of the mission study -course. Let this convention urge upon the churches of North Carolina the rais ing of the $21,000 for home missions which the Southern Baptist Conven tion requested us to raise. Home ! mission* for this year Is laid -out on, "a basis of $343,500- Let us make good." FOKtY rXRER KKVORTRir Dr. Joahua Tayloe has returned | from Wilson where he was railed Sat- 1 urday as ^smallpox expert, for the Eastern dlsjrlct of North Carolina, to- consult with the Physicians nnd county t^ommission^frti of Wilson county, in reference^to the spread of thai disease. TU^ Wllibn~TimTO says that about ,40 cases have been reported In that county by-the heal th_oJflcerw - As no fatalities have occurred a great many think the so-called smallpox Is nothing more than ordinary chicken pox. However, that paper states, It is more than likely a rigid vaccina tion and quarantine will be required. Public Hearing Next Wednesday A public' hearing will be held at tho Chamber of Commerce rooms oq Wednesday, December 15, at 11 a. m. relative to the harbor lines, all pe^l bobs who feel interested are request ed to be present. This Is a matter of vast Importance to Washington. Its citltens should look after its harbors to gain a greater part ofTts support. LUCKY YOUNG LADY. MIm Mabel Willi*, daughter of Mr. E. K. Willis, it receiving the; con gratulation* of her many friends for. ^her good luck at the Oem apd Gaiety theaters last week. She" held the lucky coupon at the Oem on Friday evening and on Saturday night at the Gaiety also held the winning ticket. GETTING ON NICELY. '??Master Joshua Tayloe who was ac cidentally shot in the haifd by his playmate, Master Murry Short. Sat urday last. Is getting on nicely sojfcr. This will be wolcomo to hla - SAVE WOMAN FROM fflH BY . HEROIC WORK J . .1, ? A Thrilling Rescue i ? ! Three Firemen brf Heroic Work Rescue Mrs. Cdrdline Richmond from Fourth FlootjXfter Flames Were Licking Window Sill. WER&GIVEN OVATION I New York. Dec. TJK ? One of the most thrilling m Id-alt rescues ever effected by New Yoffc firemen was made by three men or truck 24 in the course of a $20,000 Are in the seven story loft and office building at 1428 Broadway today. Mrs. Caro line Richmond was sden in the win dow of her jn?xrfcurlng parlor on the fourth flotfr, wringing her hands and apparently making ready to jump with clouds of smoke and an oc casional tongue of flames showing behind her. Firemen Robert Netaon ran up the extension ladder, which was seen to be several feet short, carrying a light scaliBg ladder. !looklng..this on the sill of the win dow above he mounted to where the woman had fallen unconscious across the sill. ( >? By thto time a Bheet of flame had burst from the window below. With the unconscious woman over his shoulder Nelson climbed half way down the scaling ladder to a point between the two floors. In the meantime a longer exten sion ladder had been run up to the fourth floor far enough aside to es cape the flames from the window be low. Firemen Edv^prd Keegan and Patrick Kerwln moufled until they weiv but a fuut away from-Nelson and his helpless burden. But appar ently that foot could not be bridged, and Nelson ' and the woman were doomed. Then came the almost miraculous rescue. ' . * .? ? ^oid llU Urtl" aald Kerwln Keegan encircled both him and the Jadder with his- arms, while Kerwln. bending over until he could gra?p the hook of the scaling ladder, swung it and its two occupants clear of the window ail! and with herculean strength, swung It, pendulum-wise, until its sweep, was sufficiently wide to permit the lower-end to be grap pled to the ladder on which he and Keegan stood. The rest was easy and the throe men bearing the stilt .unconscious wpman descended to re ceive one of the greatest ovations that even a New York crowd has ever fivon its heroic fire fighters. CAPITAL CITY'S RICHEST WOMAN r -? ' ' Mrs. Florence Tucker Dies in Raleigh at Age of 72. Raleigh, Dec. 11. ? Mrs. Florence P. Tucker, widow of the late Rufus 8. Tucker, died this evening at 6.80 o'clock, aged 7 2 years. At the death of her husband fifteen years ago. Mrs. Tucker aRHumed the manage ment of hln estate, then estimated at half a million dollars, and has since, b*y close personal management and Jt'dlcious Investments, fully doubled the value of the estate. She was easily the wealthiest resident of Raleigh. She has been In falling health for more than a year, but her condition became critical only the past week. She submitted to an operation Thurs day, from which, iif her weakened conditio^, she could not rally. Mrs. Tucker was Miss Florence Perkins, of Pitt county. She leases four children, Mrg. James Roylan, Mrs. E. H. Fellowes. Mrs. W. H. Will iamson, of Raleigh, and Mrs. J. H. Winder, .of Ohio. Two of her children are dead, Mrs. Harris and W. R. Tucker.- The latter left three chil dren who will inherit their father aj portion of the "eSTaTe. ~ A HANDSOME EDIFICE. The building of the colored Zion M. E. Churchy which is to.oost ap- 1 "proximately $15,000 when completed. | !s .progressing sjowly. It u tha in tention of the m? tubers to have an- 1 other rally, for tlirtKtttdlng fund at ! an early day. Thi^ed'lflce/when com l leted, will be an ornaibent tb the city. ARE IN THE CITY. Meaers. Henry Bonner, Glen Bon ner, W. H. Hooker, L. C. Ceton, W. E. Swain, H. T. Bonner end Dr. M6n-' tegne Bonner, ot Aurora; L- H. Rom, L??- C*ton, P. Stllley and Dr. W. H. Dixon, of Sdweina. arreted tn the city this morning tU the Weehtaftoe' A Veedener* train to attend oonrt, STARTLING FACTS US TO CONVICTS OF MECKLENBURG They Eat With Chips "X V_ The Grand Jury Also Condemns the Action of Allowing BT535P | hounds at These Camps to Run I ai Large During the Day. * JURORS NARROW ESCAPE Charlotte, X. C., Dec. 11. ? That the convicts of Menklenhnrg oat u ith chips and pieces of bark, is the start ling disclosure raadi; by the regular report of the grand Jury, which late, today completed Its bIx months' term of service under Judge James Webb, and there is great danger in letting' run loose the "so-called" blood hounds at the convict camps ,is an other declaration of thrf grand jury, following the narroV escape of a Juror who was attacked viciously by' a dog and was saved only in the nick of thae. We recommend, says the report submitted today: "That the dogs at the camp be h?/ld In leash, at least during thb day, as one of the grand jurors, while Inspecting the camp, was attacked by one of the- so-called bloodhounds which was finally subdued after a fierce fight. We deem it a menace to the public to let these beasts run at large In the day time." In regard to the lack of means for translerrlng their food from the lit tle plates of tin to their mouths at meal time, at the camps, the grand ?Jury says: ' "We recommend that apoons be furnished the convicts to eat dinner, as we found moBt of the convicts eat ing dinner with chips and pieces of bark." What excuse the keepers of the three camps in Mecklenburg county, with their seventy-five to one hun dred chargaa. will make to, thla sen sational report" is not known, as the camps are located out in the country and are not easy of access. The grand Jury was perhaps reduced to a state of mind bordering on paranois by the vicious attack of the so-called blood hound. and was not In a frame of mind to hurl over many bouquets at the managers of the camps and those who look after the convicts' welfare. It should be said, however. that this Jury, which so stirred the wrath "of the cannlea about the camps reported that tjie^onvicts were well I fed and clothed, atjd had sanitary ad visary quarters. LIVKMT THIS WF.KK. A turkey given away each night next - week at the Gaiety theater and' a handsome, present nightly at the Gem theater this week doubtless will} Jimtvu hum of ? ttnnrc ? iitu.i limine mecca for our citizen?. both of these playhouse^ a mecca for] our citizens this week. MINE DISASTER. _ Johnstown, Pa.. Dec. 13. ? Three men died of suffocation and twenty one others wfare overcome and res cued with difficulty late last night as a. mall t\t a Am n>hirh broke the fan house of the mine of the Shoemaker Mlniag Co. This Torpedo Picks Up Scundj London, Dec. 11. ? A wonderful torpedo, which picks up sound and tracks It down Is reported to be In the hands of the British admiralty. l.y whom It will be suj?jected "very soon to exhaustive trials. The prin ciple of. the microphone Is utilized. The 'torpedo with a brain,' as the ne$' weapon has been dubbed, is fit ted with a delicate mechanism, -which is controlled bjf a microphone attach -cd. Jo, _the -lorcgdg's rudders. When Hie~microphone picks up a sound it deflects the rudders In such a manner as to guide the torpedo straight to the source of the sound waves. Prop erly ?i;ned, the Inventors claim that the torpedo will pick up the propell *rm vessel. Further than this It Is claimed that the mechanism is' such that it can be so adjusted that the torpedo will strike not At the immediate origin of the sound, but, thirty or forty yards to the Tight or left of the sojind, at the will of the manipulator. The feature, if proven, would make it pos sible to place the torpedo in the vital part of a ship that was steaming across the new weapon'* track. upon wH*t ha ?Mu't want. THE TAR HEEL '? BHD VERY IICTIIIE Hit WASHINGTON May Be Duncan's Cain j'i'hc North Carolina Republican ^Committeeman Has Been in tHe Capital City Several Days ? Ac I tivc WitirPoliticians, THE SUPERVISOR'S FINISH Aa?h union. I). C . Dec. II. ? Til -opposition to ihe confirmation of the nomination of Hoy Cabell, of Virglua. to be Commissioner of Intern.il Rev |enue, has upset Southern Republican politicians. They do not know what I to make of the situation. There was a story this afternoon that Cabell ?cannot be confirmed by the. Senate, .that he Is to be made first assistant Postmastef*- General, and that E. C. Duncan, of North Carolina, is to be appointed Commissioner of Internal Revenue In his place. No ronflrma ition can be had of this rumor. Dun :can has been^cre for several days, 'and has been very busy with ihe poli ticians. It will be recalled that Mr. Duncan was once before discussed for the Cnmmlsslonshlp of Internal' Revenue. . It was over this office that Judge Adams broke with the natiuit ?l committeeman. The ten census supervisors In North Carolina who have been Tiere receiving Instructions as to their du ties, returned home tonight. One of the tblngB that Director Durand em phasized in his talk to them wan that "these must be no politics In the se lection of enumerators of tfr :V. I U><- lit What * I Is declared by its officers to have been I the. most successful convention of its kind ever held came to end today when the National Rivers and Har? I "bora congrcss adjourned after a three days' session. Captain J. F. Ellison, of Cincinnati, was elected secretary and treasurer, and Jonh A. Fox. of Arkansas, special director. Vice president to represent States ahto were named. The new board of directors ?uet Im mediately after adjournment and took up the question of the date and place for the next convention. The matter, however, was put over after much discussion until a later date. The resolutions adopted by the con vention- make an appeal to Congress -for^ an appropriatton-o? J50-000.0(K> - foi river and harbor work: *nd $50.-' 000,000 annually for ten years there after ; expresses the bellof that ttu? rivers and harbors bill rhould bv? placed on an equal footing with the other irreat appropriation b.Ms and condemn what is declared to be the present method of appropriation whereby the river and harbor b.'l ca:r.*? only "whtu Oh/ tewain afvi thu other budge'* nave Lcen autho> It is decla ltd* unlesa the w tt-rways of th.3 Un'tsrf States ate s."> improved as to prr.*d? the prowr transportation flcwu.** this count.-y cat not hope to Id ' ta >? 1'rs domvi'.ic C'?rmerc