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ASHEBORO, N. C, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19; 1907
NO: 29.
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HOSPITAL DIRECTORS MEET.
The Fiscal Year Ends With a Deficit
of $10,000 in the Support Fund,
Due to Several Causes.
Morgan! on, Special. A meeting of
the booid of directors of the Stale
Ilosr.ita! was held here with Directors
fV.vR "indwell, Tate. Shufi.nl, Me
Minn, S:'. er ami J. K. Nortleet, who
was app'dnted to fill the vacancy
caused by t!;e resignation of Mr. Jos.
Jacobs, present.
A iK'li. it of some $10,000 in the
support fund for the fiscal year end
ing December 1st. was reported. This
V?- caused by a cut of $0,000 in the
ani.Tinr of spjriopi ialion asked foi.
ihe advance in the cost of wages
and supplies r.ii the fact that from
the great pressure for the admission
of patients the board tilled the hospit
al to iis utmost capacity. This r;
f.i't forced the board to order nioie
admissions ia the future than the
fi'.nus in hand will care for.
A com
See consisting of Messrs.
Sh-iford. Tate. Ariutield and Mr-it ton ot an institution of this charac
Caraphell was appointed to meet with! ter is regarded as most desirable. The
a committee of the board of North board wishes to obtain a tract of
Carolina Sdioul for the Deaf and
Dumb np:m the matter of a road be
tween tlie institutions.
The mat tor of the election of spe
cial wards for tuberculosis patients.
for which an appropriation of $5,000
,vf ' '!V t!"' ir-"t I.fS!!ature, was j
taken un. , iscussed. and upon motion J
ir v.-as oro.ed that the work of crec-,
tion be
po.-sible.
p: .)cee-.ied wiiu as early as ,,Por T,cxjnrton, jast jn!y, was arrest
ed at Cult, a small station in Tennes-
!hu superintendent. Dr. Jonn Mc-j seo and js Dpin5, ucW for iaCntifica
Campbe'.l. in his able report, sug-(ion. The crime char-ed to Gaddv
jrcu-d as ihe most economical way to was one of the lnost brutal in tl)e Mg
relieve t.ie urgent demand lor room, ;
the erection ot a nurses home, anil j j
T"? utilisation or tue oiu lamwry ,
Lupine for m.iustnal purposes, stat-,
in- that the conversion of the rooms,
used by the nurses on the wards, the ;
fewiug rooms, and one or more of the ;
;av rooms into sleeping rooms lor
patients wouj.i make room tor aoout
one hundred more patients, and esti
; ': the cost of the nurses' home
aini other changes necessary at $1S,
OoO. He also suggested the erection
f a new colony building for one
hundred men. the cost of which he
estimated would be $30,000.
The wards were evamiued bv the'
board ai-y thev together with" the! settlement ofj all claims growing ontfcffi si's. - Wilson eouviaJiuri iJ stand
ot.;(n. liiiis'and "rounds were!0' a "'re n their "Snow Hill roaecond. Thirty-six plaees file
found in their usual excellent condi- las'; Saturday morning. The largest ports. Greenville comes third in
lion.
Wants Presentation at Home.
Ra!
S
oecit
-Governor Glenn
Lns written a very strong letter to the
Sec-re! ary of the Navy requesting
that ihe cruiser North Carolina shall
lie in North Caio'.ina water when the
gift of the Statu to the vessel is pre
s -i.ted. this i'i he a silver service, the
(k'.-iun for wh
. 1 -. -1 1 lifts n!rfilv liprn
d. The Governor in his letter
i
points out that Cape Lookout is a
v.o.'idi-rful harbor, a natural one, bav
in ir 4fi f.-et of water, and that it is
phve. of safety tit for a fleet to
ride in. It is hoped that the Navy
oaitment will have tne cruiser
Ki'-re to receive the sift
The date '
f---r the presentation has not been fix
ed, but most probable it will be in
tijf! i-pring or summer , next year.
Tsr Ileel Topics.
A charter is granted the Sargent
Mrinufaeturir-.r Company, at Char
lotte, capital si:,.-k $o0,000. to make
yarns and cit-n goods. S. B. Sargent
and F.d'.van! L. Sargent being the
principal stockholders.
Governor G'er.n accepts the Com
pany at Y.Yidon as Company K,
Third regiment Infantry, National
Infantry. National Guard of North
Carolina, its Captain is 0. L. Bagley,
who u.-ed to be a cadet at the Agricul
tural and Mechanical College
This takes, the place of the company
; i Raleigh, which was recently dis
banded for inefficiency.
i
Governor Glenn had a hearing on
the application for the pardon of
Thomas V. Dewey, bank embezzler
of Newborn, now serving a term in
the penitentiary. Ex-Governor Ay
cock and ex-Judge Robinson, of
Goidsboio, and two ministers, Dunn
and Fenavs appeared iu behalf of
Dewey, whii Solicitor Ward and all
the directors of the Merchants and
Farmers' J'unk, of which Dewey was
ca!iier, opposed clemency, among
these bei.g ex-President Cutler,
Messrs. Chadwick, Blades, Marks and
Street.
The Commissioner of Agriculture
says there h; a lot of trouble in se
curing proirpt reports from tobacco
warehouses. One offender in this
re-pert is to be made an example of.
The law ;:: poses a $500 fine for
failure to make prompt and accurate
reports, jtiai the Agricultural Depart
ment turned the case over to the At
torney General so Ihat he can sue
for the p- a: l y. After this it wiil be
imposed rj. ;:i all who fail to make
these repi.-its as they should be made.
State Auditor Dixon has sent out
the 15,000 pension warrants, which
aggregate $ 100.000 under the new
laws.
The manager of the so-called "Bad
Dtbt Collecting Agency" has been
indicted by t
Chariot to fo
filly.
The Gove:
term of Go. !
nary Glh f
tice to irc:
e federal errand jury in
using the mails illcg-
or orders a special civil
i! Superior Court, Jan
two "veeks, Jude Jus-
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orKnnc rf f-h frpfo
v uiv w.m.
Location of Orphanage.
Statesville, Special. The board of
t rupees for the proposed Methodist
Orphanage for the Western North
Carolina eonferenee held a meeting in
Statesville at Hotel Iredell. A num
ber of matters incident to the launch
ing of this new enterprise were at
tended to. A committee on argoniza
tion was appointed, consisting of Rev.
-. II. Detwiler, Rev. X. R. Richard
son and Mr. Charles II. Ireland, of
Greensboro; Rev. (i. F. Ivey, of Hick
ory; Rev. J. A. Glenn, of Charlotte;
Rev. J. if. Nelson of Lenoir; Rev.
Harold Turner and Rev. Frank Silcr,
of Charlotte, were constituted a com
mittee on location, the two last nam
ed also to serve as a press or publica
tion commit ie. A number of places
were offered to the board for the loca
tion of the orphanage, among them
being properties in Ilendersouville,
Lineolnton. Rutherfordton, a tract of
land in Union county, Lowell, Con
nelly Springs and Hickory. States
ville, a.s well as several other places,
is preparing to offer sites. The loea-
cut easily accessible to the railroad,
of not less than 300 acres, with an
option on adjacent property, if pos
sible. Slayer of Eubanks Caught.
penPerj Special. Oscar Gaddv,
the ni,m!m,r of Foreman Charles
pui.a f t tv r,,,,,,-
torv of tllc state
Mr. Eubanks be
ing shot dead without warning. He
orw,,i nnA .. .,i,o.i i i. n,-
woo;,Si bnt tIle raee was finallv aban.
doneJ bv the officers. Mr. F. W.
clark of Lane Bros. Comapnv, who
kows Qaddv well, has been summon.
ed from Spencer to Tennesee to iden
tify the criminal. A lynching is fear
ed if be is brought back to Davidson
county now.
Wreck Claims Adjusted.
Kinston, Special. "Within an hour
and a half after negotiations were
! opened Hines Bros, had made a full
claim was bv Amos Fields on account
of the death of his son, John Fields,
by tiie accident. The amount agreed
upon was $S00. Wan-en Chamber
lain, who lost a leg, received $500
and $100 were paid to Albert Sutton
who suffered a dislocated shoulder
and other injuries. There were oth
er smaller claims, which met with
the same prompt treatment. In ad
dition to this Hines Bros, pay all
medical and hospital bills and burial
expenses.
Work Begins on Driveway.
Salisbury, Special. The first real
work upon the Federal driveway se
cuered by Senator Overman, calling
or an expenditure of $15,000, was
begun Thursday when a squad of
hands working for the Southern be
gan the tunneling necessary to go un
der 1he track of the railway. The
pile driver has been hammering down
the posts preparatory to making the
temporary bridge work and the drive
way will run under the main line of
the Southern. When it has been be
gun the real meaning of the beauti
ful boulevard will be realized.
Tar Heel Brevities.
It seems to be the belief that Wake
Forest College trustees will allow
football to be again played there.
Some years ago the college had an
exceptionally fine team, which made
a good record in the State and out
of it, though at that time the game
was not nearly so prominent at at
present.
Shot His Toes Off.
Mount Airy, Special. Bernie
Franklin, son of Capt. S. C. Frank
lin, who lives near this city, lost a
portion of his right foot by the acci
dental discharge of his gun Saturday.
The muzzle was resting on toe of his
right foot at the time of the accident,
the whole load of shot passing
through the toes, rendering amputa
tion of part of tw-o toes necessary.
The young man is getting along as
well as could reasonably be expected,
notwithstanding he has suffered much
since his misfortune.
Physician in Exciting Runaway.
Winston-Salem, Special An excit
ing runaway occurred on Fifth street
about 5 o'clock Thursday afternoon,
when Dr. D. N. Dalton's horse took
fright at the advertisement of Vaugh
& Co. and dashed off. Dr. Dalton and
his driver were in the buggy. The
vehicle overturned and the physician
and driver were thrown out, but es
caped uninjured.
The buggy was
badly torn up.
Colored Masons in Durham.
Durham, Special. The thirty
eighth annual session of the colored
Grand Lodge of Masons is now being
held in this city, meeting with the
Doric lodge in Ilayti. Grand Master
L. R. Randolph of Washington, is
presiding over the meeting ami there
is a very large attendance. All of
the officers or practically all are here,
and in addition there are close to
four hundred representatives from
the various subordinate lodges in aU
tendance.
WAS. SHOCKING INCIDENT
Lady Who Attends Fnneral of a
Young Man, Supposed to Be Son of
a Neighbor, Discovers That the
Corpss is That of Her Own Son.
Columbia, S. C, Special. A cu
rious sensational situation suddenly
developed at a funeral in Camden
when a neighbor, Mrs. Orre, appeared
at the home of a Mrs. Lang-ley to pay
her respects on account of the death
of Wiiber Lewis Langle', a son of
Mrs. Langley who had been killed by
a live wire while working in Camden
for a carnival company. At least
Mrs. Langley and her children and
relatives and neighbors had been
mourning for the dead boy as her son
for several hours. Mrs. Orre, how
ever, as soon as she went to the cas
ket and glanced at the face of the
dead youth, recognized Lewis Sowell,
her own son by a former marriage.
Mrs. Orre screamed with grief and
terror and the attention of others be
ing drawn more closely to the body
it was recognized that Mrs. Orre was
correct. A few hours later Mrs.
Orre's discovery was confirmed by
the appearance on the scene of Wii
ber Lewis himself, who returned
home from the country where he had
been at work, surprised to find him
self being mourned as dead.
Preparations were then had for the
funeral of young Sowell, which was
had at Douglass, near the county
seat. Resides his pother young So
well is survived by two brothers and
a sister, Mi's. B. Lowery and Mr.
Roy Sowell, of Lancaster, and Mr.
Ernest Sowell, of Orangeburg.
Young Sowell 's death was caused
by a shock he received while attach
ing a globe to an ordinary incandes
cent bulb. He was standing on the
damp ground at the time. There
have been several deaths in Colum
bia in the same manner until a me
thod of rigging up these sort of fix
tures was hit upon which obviates
this danger.
November Tobacco Sales.
Raleigh, Special. The leaf tobac
co warehouse report made up by the
Agriculture Department shows that
daring November the sales by farm
ers aggregated 20.629,943 pounds,
this being an increase of about two
million pounds over the October sales,
Winston-Salem again leads .ia amount
s-ales, Kinston fourth, Rocky Mount
fifth, Oxford sixth and Durham sev
enth. Mrs. LongwortVs Operation.
Washington, Special. Mrs. Alice
Longworth, wife of Representative
Nicholas Longworth, and daughter of
the President, was operated upon for
appendicitis shortly after 10 o'clock
Thursday. The operation was per
formed at the White House by Dr.
Finney, of Johns Hopkins Hospital,
Baltimore, assited by Dr. Sophie Nor-hoff-Jung
and Surgeon General Rixey,
of the navy.
Calhoun Trial Postponed.
San Francisco, Special.- The trial
of Patrick Calhoun, president of the
United Railways, against whom the
grand jury returned 14 indictments
on the charge of offering to bribe su
pervisors to obtain an overhead trol
ley franchise was postponed until
February 1st in order to give Cal
houn time to get to New York on
business connected with street rail
wavs in this citv.
Storm Tackles Pensacola.
Pensaeola, Fla., Special. A storm
which struck Pensacola early Friday
did considerable damage to shipping
here. During the height of the gale,
which attained a velocity of 45 miles
an hour, the Russian ship Avonia,
which was at anchor in the harbor,
dragged her anchors and collided with
the British bark Emma Parker,
damaging that vessel to a consider
able extent.
Dies With His Secret.
Norfolk, Va., Special. A special
to The Ledger-Dispatch from Bristol,
Va., says :
Refusing to the last minute to di
vulge a secret which he said if he
had revealed at the trial would have
set him free, Noah Fulton, 21 years
old, paid the death penalty at Abing
don for the murder of his companion,
John J. Johnson, near Greendale,
last February.
New in Notes.
General Stoessal will be placed on
trial before a court-martial on the
charge of surrendering Port Arthur
when he could have held it.
The wife of Secretary Taft had
two escapes from injury or death on
reaching Boulogne to board the
steamer, President Grant.
Emperor "William has returned to
London and will devote t?Srce davs to
sightseeing. .
Though Mr. Bryan's friends arc in
control of tbe Democratic Natitnoal
Committee the claims of Governor
Johnson are being quietly presented.
Everything Quiet in Alabama.
Birmingham, Ala., Special. One
of the Lowe negroes from the vicinity
of Gordo, in Pickens county, where
fears have been held for several days
that a serious clash would take place
between whites and blacks, arrested
at Tuscaloosa late Thursday night,
was taken baek to Gordo. Everything
is quite at Gordo. The negroes will
be given a trial as soon as possible.
GREAT JEET SAILS
With Imposing Pomp Vessels
Start on Long Cruise
PRESIDENT WITNESSES EYENT
The Longest Cruise in Naval History
Commenced Monday When the
Tloet of Fighting Ships Steamed
Ont of Hampton Roads on Their
Voyage to the Pacific.
Tacts About the Big Cruise. 5
Fleet Consists of sixteen
battleships, the Connecticut, 3
Louisiana, Kansas, Vermont,
Georgia, Virginia, New Jer- S
sey, Rhode Island, Minnesota, S
Ohio, Maine, Missouri, Alaba-
ma, Illinois, Kentucky and
Kearsargc; four supply ships,
the Yankton, C'ugoa, Glacier
and Panther; six torpedo
boats and nine colliers.
Crew Twelve thousand of- S
ficers and men, with Admiral '3
Robley D. Evans as command- 3
er-in-chief, Rear Admiral
Wiiliam II. Emery as com- 3
mander of the second division,
Rear Admiral Charles M. 3
Thomas as commander of 3
the third division, aid Rear
Admiral Charles S. Sperry as 3
commander of the furth di- S
vision. $
Route From Hampton
Roads, via Trinidad, Rio de
Janerio, Punta Arenas, Cal
las, Magdelena Bay, to San
Francisco, a total distance of
13,772 knots. ?
Time Sixty-three steam-
ing days and 52 days in port
coaling and at target prac
tice. Cost Food and other sup
plies, $6,000,000 and coal,
estimated cost, $2,500,000.
Norfolk, Va., Special All the
pomp and circumstance possible un
der a Republican form of govern
ment marked the departure Monday
of the Atlantic fleet of battleships
for the Pacific, the begining of the
longest cruise m naval historv. iilit
the Connecticut, the fia:
"Fighting Bob" Evans.
tglie 16 great war -ve.
aft" 'u aay steameti
re-fHamppn Roads, boomT",U a;
f salute as they passed the TiJ
eminent yacht Mayflower,.
President Roosevelt, surrounded by
distinguished officials of the navy de
partment, reviewed the great armada.
Ihe President watched the imposing
line of war vessels until the last had
vanished from sight, and then, wav
ing a "Godspeed." becan nrennra-
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tions for an immediate return to
Washington. With the President on
the bridge of the Mayflower were
Admiral Dewey, Secretary MetcaLf,
Assistant Secretary Newberry, Rear
Admiral Brownson, Rear Admiral
Converse and the heads of the clif
fetent bureaus of the navy depart
ment.
The Mayflower, with the President
and his party on board, arrived in
Hampton Roads early in the morning.
Its appearance was the signal for a
wild salute from all the ships of
the fleet anchored in the Roads. Ad
miral Evans and the flag officers, fol
lowed by the commanders of the ves
sels, tisited the Mayflower to pay
their respects to the President and
the Secretary of the Navy. Shortly
afterwards the Connecticut hoisted
anchor and stood out to sea, fol
lowed by the other vcssls. As they
passed the Mayflower the customary
salutes were exchanged.
The order of the ships of the fleet
in the review was as follows: Con
necticut, flagship of Admiral Evans,
Captain Hugo Osterhaus; Kansas,
Captain Charles S. Vreeland; Ver
mont, Captain William Potter;
Louisiana, Captain Richard Wain
wright; Georgia, flagship of Rear Ad
miral Charles M. Thomas, Captain
Henry McCrae; New Jersey, Captain
William H. H. Southerland; Rhode
Island, Captain Joseph B. Murdock;
Virginia, Captain Seaton Schroeder;
Minnesota, flagship of Rear Admiral
Charles M. Thomas, Captain John
Hubbard; Ohio, Captain Charles AV.
Bartlett; Missouri, Captain Green
leaf A. Merriam; Maine, Captain
Giles P. Harper; Alabama, flagship
f Rear Admiral C. S. Sperry, Can
tain Ten Eyck, E. W. Veetler; Illi
nois, Captain John M. Bowyer; Kear
sarge, Captain Hamilton Hutchins,
and Kentucky, Captain Walter C.
Cowles. The yacht cruiser Yankton,
the supply ship Culgoa, the refrigera
tor ship Glacier and the repair ship
Panther, together with the colliers ac
companied the battleships. The tor
pedo boat fleet is already on the way.
The day's naval review surpassed
any previously held in American
waters, and created great enthusiasm
among the officers and men of the
fleet, as well as in the ranks of the
thousands of spectators who lined
the shores of Hampton Roads to wit
ness the great affair. Thousands of
visitors flooded into Norfolk and oth
er Tidewater towns Sunday and
Monday, intent on seeing the
great naval spectacle, many coming
on private yachts from New York,
Washington, Philadelphia and other
cities. Almost as many strangers
were here to see the departure of
the fleet as were attracted on the big
days of the late Jamestown Exposi
tion. ,
The first stop to be made by the
fleet will be at Trinidad, December
24th, where the sailor boys will have
their Christinas dinner, and from
whence the first messages will prob
ably be sent regarding the incidents
of the cruise. The newspapers will
B7 VJ .
tie TTP"
be forced to depend upon Admira"!
Evans for all news of the voyage,
since no newspaper men were allow
ed to accompany the fleet. This or
der does not meet with the appro
val of "Fighting Bob" who urged
his superiors to permit representati
ves of the press on board the vessels.
It was the vigorous contention oJ
Admiral Evans that as the fleet was
on a practice cruise and one in which
the American people were keenly in
terested, correspondents should be
taken on the ciuise and be afforded
every facility for sending dispatches.
He declared that as the people had
to pay the freight, why, dammit!
they ought to be allowed to know
what they were getting for their
money. The only limit to the activ
ity o? the newspaper men in "Fighting-Bob's"
opinion, should be that
their messages be free from any
teehnicf.l dciaiis that would be ol
advantage to foreign nations. Presi
dent Roosevelt was at first inclined
to share Admiral Evans' opinion, but
a eonferenee with Secretary Root and
Rear Admiral Brownson caused him
to change his mind. Rear Admiral
Brownson is especially opposed to any
publicity in naval affairs. Admiral
Evans will now-have the responsibil
ity of supplying the American public
with such news regarding the cruise
as he thinks is should have, in ad
ditions to his other duties, his, it
is known, he considers a very unfor
tunate arrangement, but lie is not
cast down. With the experience he
is about to gain, he told a newspaper
man before sailing, he might be able
to get a job as reporter after being
retired from the navy.
It is cretr.in that the gallant tars
of the fleet will be given a joyous
time . during their holiday visit ol
fic days in Trinidad. The people
there, as in other cities which the
fleet will stop, are preparing a spread
eagle time for the visiting sailormen.
A great sporting carnival has been
arranged in Trinidad for the five
days, including golf and polo for the
officers, football and baseball for ihe
men a.d horse races for everybody.
The breakers of the Gulf of'Pr.ria
will afford magnificent Christmas
bathing, and, altogether, the 12,000
sailors of Uncle Sam will undoubted
ly spend the most interesting holi
day period of their lives. A great
Christmas feast, with a pound of
Vermont turkey for cad; man, will
be served on the vessels, the f"d f"r
the great banquet bei
refrigerator ship
Jack wiil next
.Rio de Janerio,
JSrazil. where
from
iito
vis
provVjty heave a sigh of regret when
the ships hoist anchor and sail away
for Punta Arenas, the mast souther
ly city on this side of the globe.
From the heat of the tropics Jack
will pass into the cold of winter, de
spite the fact that the noses of the
vessels will be always pointed south
ward. One of the most interesting por
tions of the voyage will be that
through the tortuous channel of th
Strait of Magelan, about 310 miles
long and for the most part hardly
wider than the Mississippi or the
Hudson. On one side are the barren
wastes of Patagonia, and on the oth
er Terra del Fuego, the land of fire.
Greasy natives, with hardly more
clothing than a lady at a society ball,
will swarm about the vessels, offer
ing to trade anything they own or
can procure for anything else under
the sun.
Three thousand miles the great
fleet will plow through the blue wa
ters of the Pacific, northward from
Punta Arenas before the port of Cal
lao is reached. February Slh is the
date set for the arrival of the fleet
at the Peruvian seaport, after having
traveled a distance of nearly 11,
000 miles. Reports from Callao state
that the people of that city and of
Lima, the beautiful capital of Peru,
have already commenced prepara
tions for the reception of Jack,
There will be visits to the old cathe
dra, the tomb of Pizarro and other
points of historic interest, as well as
bull fights and other sports peculiar
to the people of Latin America, all
arranged for the delectation of Jack.
The Peruvians have an enviable rep
utation for hospitality and Jack will
certainly enjoy his visit with them,
even if the tropical February sun
docs beat clown upon his head in a
manner uncomfortably warm. Mag
dalena Bay on the coast of Mexico,
will be the next stop. There Jack
wiil be put to work at target prac
tice, find his days of play will be
over.
Died From His Injuries.
Americus, Special. Benjamin
Lightfoot, the prominent plantei
brained with a club in the hands of
Marion bims, another planter, ol
Desto Saturday, died Sunday morn
ing without regaining consciousness.
The killing of Mr. Lightfoot is gen
erally discussed here as resulting
from a family fued between the men.
Sims has never been arrested, but i
believed to be in the vicinity of his
home, near Americus.
Cotton Crop 11,678,000 Bales.
Washington, Special The crop re
porting board cf the bureau of sta
tistics of the Department of Agricul
ture' from the reports of the corres
pondents and agents issued a report
estimating that the total production
of cotton in the United Slates for
the year 1007-055 will amount to 5,
531,908,000 pounds (not including
linters) equivalent to 11,67S,003 bales
of 590 pounds gross weight.
A magazine writer has inherited a
million dollars. Some of them won't
quit for less, sighs the Atlanta Constitution.
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WILL NOT RUN AGAIN
President Roosevelt Makes an
Authoritative Statement
REITERATES FORMER POSITION
Following Upon the Call of the Na
. tional Committee For the Meeting
of the Republican Convention the
' President Issues an Official State
ment, Declaring That Under No Cir
cumstances Will He Be a Candidate
For the OSce He Now Holds.
'Washington, Special. In view of
the issuance; of the eoil of the Repub
lican national committee for the con
vention the President makes the fol
lowing statement:-
On the night after election I
made the following announcement:
"I am deeply sensible of the honor
done me by the American people in
thus expressing their confidence in
what I have tried to do. I appreciate
to the full the solemn responsibility
this confidence imposes upon me, and
I shrill do all that in my power lies
not to forfeit it. On the 4th of March
next I shall have served three and
a half years and this three and a half
years constitute my first term. The
wise custom which limits the Presi
dent to two terms regards the sub
stance and not the form, and under
no circumstances wiy, I be a candidate
for or accept another nomination."
I have not changed and shall not
change the decision thus announced.
Leaves Field Clear.
It appr-TS that the President had
been awr oing the call of the Re
publican tational convention to af
ford proper opportunity for making
his positiou clear and unmistakable
and -tiuis. leaving the field clear for
Fairbanks, Tali, Cannon, Knox, For-
akcr and other declared or receptive
candidates for the Republican nomi
nation.
Trhe anouncement that the Prcsi-
would not accept the Republi
oniination if tendered, came at
hour io become generally
circles, Lut-amoliS
of it Democrats
:ftetft.Jieans elike the feeling;
wes general that it left no element of
-doubt in the presidential situation, so
far as relates to the thrid term talk
and that it definitely eliminates Mr.
Roosevelt from the contest. Some-
Democrats, however, express a belie!
that a Roosevelt stampede in the
Republican convention would shake
his resolution, and that he "would
prove no exception to the historical
precedent in that no American citi
zen ever refused a presidential nom
ination.
Florida Delegates For Roosevelt.
Jacksonville, Fla., Special. The
Florida Republican State central
committee met here Tuesday and de
cided to hold the State convention in
St. Augustine on a date not later
than February 15th for the purposo
of electing delegates to the Repub
lican national convention to be held
in Chicago June 16. The committee
also adopted resolutions strongly en
dorsing the Roosevelt administration
and pledging the party to send dele
gates from Florida to vote for a can
didate who stand for and represents
the policies of the administration and
who is pledged to their continuance.
NEWSY GM3ANIXGS
Drouth Tontinues in India.
Germany has 40,000 postoffices.
Tasmania grows ths largest apple.
H. O. Havemeyer, the Sugar King,
died of indigestion.
In Algeria the horses outnumber
the human beings.
South Africa ia- becoming a great
field for musical instruments.
Municipal elections in England and
Wales brought defeats to the Social
ists, Amateur aeronauts in Paris have
lost interest in the snort since the
sudden flight ot the Patrie.
Hog cholera in virulent form pre
vails near Marshalltown, Iowa, some
herds being entirely wiped out.
The Salvation Army anti-suicide
bureau reported more suicides recent
ly in New York City than ever be
fore. Extensive deposits of pig iron have
been discovered along the line of the
Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, near
Fort William, Canada.
Several New York City firms for
merly allied with the Milk Trust
abandoned the Trust's nine-cents-a-quart
rate and sold for eight cents.
Work on the Northern Nigeria
Railway is now in active progress.
Rails from England have been landed
and 2000 men are at work laying
tracks.
George H. Richmond, who paid
$1225 for the book known to biblio
philes as "John Milton a Family
Bible" has concluded that it is not
genuine.
A Rome paper stated 100,000 Ital
ianstwho had intended to come to this
country will stay in Italy, while 200,-
000 more than usual will return from
America.
Mental capacity is the need of the
British House of Lords, declare influ
ential Liberals who are urging the
Prime Minister to create a number of
new peerages.
James Hazen Hyde offered to com
promise for $1,000,000 the Equita
ble Life's suits agair.st him to compel
restitution, but Attorney - General
Jackson refused to acquiesce.
It really seems a pity that the
French birthrate ul ln't fall off In time
to prevent Boni. remrky t&e ?fcila
delphia Ldger.
lit
TflE W0RK 0F congress
Proceedings is Both Bouses
of a
Eontine Nature Only.
A speech by Senator Tillman, filled
with denunciation of the President,
the Secretary of the Treasury and
the Department of Justice, of finan
ciers and " captains of industry,"
was the chief subject of interest in
the Senate Monday. His remarks
based on his resolutions directing an
investigation by the committee on
finance of the recent bond issues by
the Treasury Department and of the
issuance of clearing house certifi
cates throughout the country.
"I must confess I have not stud
ied finance very much from the
books," began Mr. Tillman apolo
getically, ''my own labors in thai di
rection liaving been confined to my
own expenses."
Mr. Tillman said he did not know
whether the criticism of the chair
man of the House committee on
banking and currency (Mr. Fowler)
had caused the Secretary of the
Treasury to halt in the issuance of
bonds, but a change of plan seemed
to have been made and he had not
been able to learn how much of the
proposed bond issue had been put
out. He expressed the opinion that
the Secretary had violated the spirit
of the law if he had not violated the
law itself.
"If we are not in the midst of a
panic, we are iu the midst of a chill
produced by tbe danger of a panic,"
declared Mr. Tillman.
"The Treasury," he said, "has
dumped its money in Wall Street,
and the country has praised the
patriotism of J. Pierpont Morgan in
aiding the country to get a grip on
itself and not let everybody go crazy
and precipitate further loss and hor
rors on the country."
Speaking of a published inter
view with the President by Mayor
Dahlman, of Omaha, in which the
President is Alleged to have said that
if he was responsible for the panic
he was glad of it as it had brought
to view the rotten conditions of the
country's finances, he said: "
"I fear that Mr. Dehlman is in
imminent danger of joining the Apa
nias Club. Perhaps somebody here
will use the telephone and find out
about it."
Senator Culberson Tuesday intro
duced a bill to prohibit corporations
from making contribution in connec
tion with elections and to provide
for the pHibncation slawful
butions fey connection witu election
yv or January
prohiCiT'ia' 'national banks
&Ti(y other' corporations making con
tributions in connection with elec
tions and in addition to the law as it
stands he proposes a provision mak
ing it "the duty of every chairman,
campaign manager or treasurer of
any political committee or other per
son who received contributions in
money or -other things of value for
or on behalf of such political com
mittee, or in the interest of any can
didate for a political office for the
purpose of aiding or promoting the
election or defeat of candidates for
presidential and vice presidential
electors to file with the clerk of the
House of Representatives of the
United States a statement in writing
showing the amount of money or oth
er things or value contriDuteci oy
each person, firm, corporation, co
partnership or association, not pro
hibited by law, for the purpose afore
said. ' '
Mr. Culberson stated that the act
of January 20, 1907, provides that it
shall be unlawful to make money con
tributions for political campaigns,
but he thought the law should go fnr-
ther and require specific statements,
as otherwise it might be evaded. He
hoped that the committee on privil
eges and elections would use his bill
as the basis of an improved measure.
Congress Doing Littla.
It is evident now that Congress will
not do very much before Christmas.
The House of Representatives has
been adjourning from Monday to
Thursday and from Thursday to Mon
day and will keep it up until it ad-
ourns for the holidays, which will
mean until about the Cth of January.
The Senate is doing a littler better.
The Senate is looking forward to a
fight on the money question. Sena
tor Tillman is spoiiing for a row with
the Republicans, especially represen
tatives of the administration. Clay, of
Georgia, and Culberson, of Texas, are
ready for a debate. Aldrich, the king
of the Senate, blocked the game of
the Southern Senators the other day
by promising to have the finance com-
nvttce, ol wmen ne is cuairman, ormg
in the information desired and make
proper recommendations. But, barr
ing a lively discussion, nothing is like
ly to happen between now and the
day of adjournment.
Boston Goes Republican.
Boston, Special In the closest
and hardest-fought election contest
which Boston has known for many
years, the city went Republican by
about 2,000 votes, Postmaster George
A. Hibbard, Republican, defeating
Mayor John F. Fitzgerald, Democrat.
who was a candidate for re-election.
the revised returns show- the following
vntfl cast: John A. Clouthurst, mac
ndPnt Lcasrue. 15,S71; Fitzgerald,
Democrat, 36,051; Hibbard, Republi
can, 38,064.
News and Notes.
"Pri'nHnff nressmen in the job of
o in Atlanta to the number of
170 struck on Tuesday.
The Fort Pitt National Bank of
Pittsburg suspended.
PWrmsm Harrv C. New issued
the official call for the Republican
National Convention to meet in Chi
cago June 16, 1908.
Late JVcfceM
In 'Brief
MINOR MATTERS CF INTEREST
The American schooner Thos. W.
Lawson was wrecked by a fierce gale
in Broad Sound, Seilly Island on
Saturday night ; all on - .board being
lost but one member of , the crew. ,
Lynchburg, Va., was visited by a
severe sleet,: storm on Saturday, put
ting telegraph, tlephoue and electric
light wires out of business and de
laying all traffic. 1 " ;
President and Mrs. Rooseelt sail- -
ed on Sunday - to Hampton slload
where on Monday he gave the word
for the sailing of the big fleet to
tkp Pacific. '
King Leopold of Belgium has offer
ed New York a Congo museum ICbfi
the city has accepted.. -
General Knropatkin,, testifying in
General Stoessal 's court-martial says
the Japs ought to have taken ; Port
Aithur much earlier, as-it was weak.
American naval officers were given
a banquet before the sailing of the
Wasniiigion and Tennessee from
Callao.
LVris Sarafoff, one of the abduct
ors of Miss Ellen Stone, the mission
ary, was assassinated in Bulgaria by
a Macedonian.
Prince George of' Greece was mar
ried io Princess Marie Bonaparte in
Athens
The Democratic National Committee
d :dtd to hold the national conven
tion at Denver, Col., on July 7, 1908.
President Roosevelt's elimination
fro mthe contest has stirred the other
Republican candidates to increased
activity.
The Peace Conference agreed to
establish a oint court of arbitration
for Central America,
The Senate passed a resolution
calling on Secretary Cortelyou for
complette information " concerning
Government deposits, bonds, note is
sues and clearing-house certificates. ,
Speaker Cannon announced tho
new house committees on rules and
milrag: " '
There was a debate in the Senate
regarding the custom of executive de
partments sending drafted bills to be
introduced in the Senate,
Company, oS
closed its dp-Jrs, goingj
uquiaauon ior lacK of currency.
William C. Abbott, of Danville,
got out of a sick bed, went to his
stable and hanged himself.
The trial of Fred Jenkins for tho
murder of William Smith was con
tinued at Culpeper.
The British-American Tobacco Co.,
claiming ownership to the 8,750,000
cigarettes seized in Norfolk by tho
Government in October on the ground
that they were bieng shipped in viola
tion of the Sherman Anti-Trust law,
filed its answer to the information
filed by the Government.
Ex-Governor Black, of New York,
made a sensational attack on Presi
dent Roosevelt before the New
Hamppshire Bar Association.
Governor Glenn's plan to have the
North Carolina rate cases compromis
ed failed because the Southern Rail
way would not consent to a trial of
the new law.
The injunction case of Styvesant
Fish against voting of Union Pacific
holdings of Illinois Central stock
came up for argument in Chicago.
Bishop Tiioburn, of the Methodist
Episcopal church, was adjudged re
spensible in the libel suit of Dr. Sain
eni Armstrong Hopkins, a woman
missionary, w ho got a .390 verdict.
Gen. Frederick Funston arrived at
Gold field with troops, but martial law
has not yet been declared.
R. P. Easton, cashrier of a State
bank at Herscher, 111., committed?ui
cide in the bank.
Miss Annie Burkhart, of Pensa
cola, Fla., was made heir to a .f75,
000 estate by a peddler supposedly
penniless.
The C'andaian Pacific Railroad
made (he offer to take what Boston
and Maine stock the New York, New
Haven and Hartford Railroad holds.
The reduction cf Territorial votes
by the Republican National Commit
tee is taken as a blow to Taft and to
Roosevelt as well.
Senator Till:n:;n will begin the
Democratic attack on the Panama ca
nal bond issue by a speech mention
ing the Walsh failure in Chicago.
Senator Money was made chairman
of the Democratic "Steering Com
mittee. Capt. Van Schaick, of the Philip
pines Constabulary, brought over a
loving cup for President Roosevelt
from Manilla citizens and may have
to pay the duty on it.
Colonel Gothals will come back in
two week's to have the width of the
Panama canal locks decided.
Rescue work has temporarily ceas
ed at the Monongah (W. Va.) mines.
Relatives are fighting so hard over
Garibaldi's tomb that the Island of
Capers militia has been Kent.
Wireless trans-Atlantic press dis
patches have been received at Kie,
Russia, 3,759 miles from the sending
station.
Emrpror William left England and
will visit the Queen of Holland on his
way home.
Governor Hughes removed Borough.
President John F. Ahearn, of Man
hattan, charging him with continu
ous maladministration.
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