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ASHKVHJLB N. C,' THURSDAY MORNING AUGUST 17, 1905 PRICB FTVB CENTS. SPIRIT OF COMPROMISE IN THE AIR AND PEACE TWELVE DIE BENEATH v ! CONGRESS TO TAKE UP 1 HUGE MASS OF STONE! INSURANCE QUESTION LOW DEATH RATE CAUSES YELLOW FEVER VOL XX NO 271 FIGHTERS MAY SOON Crisis in tho Negotiations Will Probably be Reached by Monday TWO MORE ARTICLES RECEIVE ATTENTION Tate of the Chinese Eastern Railroad Decided at the Conference I'ortsmou'h. N. H.. Aug. U.-The pro-pecta of leave are distinctly brighter tonight. The plenipotentiaries are laboring w,lth a seriousness und eameatme which leave not the slNh' 'rst doubt that they Jre anxious 10 on rlude a treaty. Though the nuiln Hltit "remain to be contested and the plenlpo ' tentlarlcs of each aide apeak ns ihough the conference would go to pieces, un less the o'her aide gives way. the splr lt of compromise la In the nlr. When he returned to the hotel tonight Mr. Wltte, who wan tired out wiih hi hard day 'a work, said: Yialdad Seven Pointa. "I am doing alt I cun do for peace. Of the eight articles we have ulready discussed I have yielded seven. No other ata.esman In Russia would have dared to have done o much, and I have done what I have done uiunn my own ' responsibility." From an authoritative source It In .now possible1 to forecast wi'h a fair de gree of (accuracy thai Ihe rlls will come on next Monday, Articles 7 and 8, dealing with the fa e of the Chines,' Eastern railroad, having been disposed of today, there remain, In addition to the ceaslon of Sakhalin, the question of .Indemnity, the limitation of Kunsla's sea. power m the Far East, the urren der of the interned waiHhli,; and iji grant to Japan of fishing rights on th Littoral, north of Vladivostok. To all except the latter, to which Russia win agree, a negative anawer has been re turned, .absolutely "In the case -of In- 'demnlty and Sakhalin. Perhapa bo h the-othera may be modified and ar 'cepted by Mr. Wltte In order to strengthen his position In In'lstlnc upon a concession from .Japan regard ing Its demands of an Indemnity and Sakhalin. Will Consult Emperor. Before yla'dlng on either of the lat ter it tan be regarded as practically certain that Mr. Wltte will consult the emperor. The exchange of view.? on .he five remaining articles Is cxpeted :o be oomDleted on Friday or Saturday morn- Inir at the latest. The nleninotentlarlei will then adlourn until Monday, and the interim will probably be tiw.l bv the ulenliiotentlnrirs to consul' their respective governments. When they meet on Monday their last cards will be thrown upon the table. If there Is to be bargaining it will r-ome then and suddenly the conference will be over or peace will be assured. Gave Up Manchuria Russia by tho a p eery' a nee of these two article?. In connection with artl cles 2, 3. 4. 6, " and S. surrender ' every vestige of her ambition In Manchuria. She closes the door to the warm weath er. Ice-free port of Dalny, upon which she lavished her millions, and retains only as a commercial road the link of the railroad connecting: her European possessions with the marl ime prov inces upon he Pacific. There were perFitent rumor? about the hotel late tonight that several pow ers. Including the Wahslngton govern ment, are bringing pressure to bear upon Japan to forego "the cos: of the war" and conten' herself with su?h other compensation jis she can secure out of the railroad, the Russian proper ty In Port Arthur and Dal.iy and the cost of the mantrenartce of Rus-ian prisoner In Japan, This is undoubt edly the line of ul'.imate compromise. If compromise there is to be. WUI Make Fight. flihe Associa ed Press cun state au thoritatively that neither the question of making Vladivostok an "open port" or the Amur river an International wa 'terway. as some paper- have stated. Is Included In the Japanese terms, which, as developments have demons rated, were given correctly by the Associated Press the day they were aubmltted by Continued on page Four COLLECTOR STEWART CHARGED WITH REMOVING Washington, '. Aug. 1 Complaints having reached the civil service com mission that J. E. B. 8 dart, collector of the port of Vewport News, Va has been unlawfully removing; Democratic employe of his office, an Investigation has been ordered and U H. Fisher, tiead of the examining division of the commission embracing the state of Vir ginia, baa beeo aent to Newport News In mat t i ha Tcta . Unofficially the civil service commis sion la advised that Collector Stuart bases bis action upon the neceeaity for BE DECLARED DUAL TARIFF a NOW THE CRY National Reciprocity Confer ence Condemns "Reci procity" Policy TERM HAS OUTLIVED ITS FORMER VALUE People Demand an Impartial Consideration of Ques tion by Congress Chicago, Aug. 16. "Dual Tariff" ill all probability Is ihe war cry whlcl ..ill rtiiK through the Culled States for some jvars to co Instead ol the familiar cull for "reclpro-lty." The new slogan means tae pussagt of u "maximum und inlii.mum tain, law, permitting the establishment ol reciprocal trade relations with friend ly foreign countries by vote of Con gress. Alvln II. Handera, chairman of thi executive co:nniUtee of the Nations Reciprocity conference, whloh oeiuv at the Iroquois theater .this morning. ia credited lAith originating Uic war cry. It is contidt red probable that th; reciprocity conference will close lit sessions by .lesolvlng Itself Into th Iual Tariff league, an organization to Have a periiKinctit fo:m for th purpose of educating legislators an' voters in the principles of tihe hlgl and hnv system of duties. Reciprocity Condemned. 'I condemn the word reciprocity,' salid L. K. Lincoln, of Hie Ruffali Livestock Assocclation, who addressei. the conference today. "In the mind-1 of many voters "reciprocity mean nothing else than "free trade' an free t;ade Is not the object for whlcl this conference Is called. Considerable cxiiit-mint was cause before the proceedings started by th' distribution of a painpMct signed b Albert Clarke, secretary of the "Horn. Market Club" of Boston. assailing th reciprocity movement and baekln up the attack with an allegrd lettei from John M. Carson, chief of th .bureau of manufactures In tile depart j men:, of commcy' and labor sayin. that the department h:id no tuples o 'the new Herman tarifT. This adtnls slon was taken by Mr. Clarke as th basis or an argument an argument seeKing i show tha! there was no nce-I of reciprocity conference. A man em ployed In dlstitiliutinc; these pam phlets ma shown to the door. Eugene N. Foss. of Roslon. spoke o "Reciprocity as a political Issue." He said in part: . ."Up to Roosevelt." "Whether or not It shall appea that tho maximum and minimum tar Iff system Is as advisable as some o us are inclined to believe, the countr will demand that the whole probler be considered by Impartial expert? This duty rests primarily upon th member of the mitlional House o Representatives. If. however, by rea son of Improper control, setional con slderatlons, prejudice or part Isl an shir there are not to found in that bod" men Whom the people can trust. w must look to the executive to And .hern. "President Roosevelt has been test, ed and proved equal to the task o' such discovery. His Influence In th struggle for Cuban reciprocity com mitted him long ago to this cause had It not been for his resolute ad vocacy with Congress we Should no' enjoy with Cuba the measure of reci procity that we enjoy today." CHE8TNUT DEAD. Baxxley. Ga.. Aug. IS. A. J. Chest nut, who a -few days ago shot ant' killed Marshal Mike Asplnwall, anr" being pursue" by the sheriff and r large number of citizens, was wound ed, died this morning. Willi Bmltn a carpenter, of Waycross, engaged here at work on the school building, shot Chestnut with a rifle and alncc has become Insane and Is now In the isylum. DEMOCRATS FROM OFFICE a reduction In hie force, but no ex planation haa been given aa to the grounds upon which the Democratic employes were, as alleged, singled out The commission takes) the view that a reduction In the force of any office made necessary by tack of appropria tion or other -aufjes la not In I self Ille gal, but where It la shown that discrlm In ttion haa been practiced and the re movals are clearly suggestive of par y polilca regardless of the efficiency of the lemployes affected, the matter a-- furs a different aspect, and carrier rigi. Inquiry. Mountain of Rock Weighing Thousands of Tons Falls Into Quarry WORKMEN CAUGHT WITH NO MEANS OF ESCAPE Recent Heavy Rains Softened Dirt and Made Accident . Possible Allentown, Pa., Aug. 18. A mass of limestone weighing -hou-amt" of Ions slid from the side of a ouairy at mill A of :he lx'lsh I'lutland Cement com pany at Ormmd at nunn Imlay, Just live minutes before time to quit work Twenty-seven men were .it work In the lUarry. which Is l.ooO feel loi.g, KiO feet icross and UK) fee deep. Tre heavy ruins of ihe past two days had soft ened the ear'h and cuu-el the sil.ie of oek. Where the fallen mass flipped away a smooth perpcii'lli u!ar wall re mained rising a sheer litO feet, while he quarry Hour was covered with b:ok- en nx k. (inly nine of the men got iway safely, four of whom escaped by running up on a maxs of ruck ui tile pposlte side of Hie quarry. The re maining eighteen were huddled In a pace ten feet square, and twelve ol hem were killed and six injured. Two if the lat er may die. All of the nici: are Slavonians, who lived In shuntlc- close to the quarry. Men Warned. 1o men saw the side of the quarry lulver ami shouted a warning to the lien. The men misinterpreted the eali aid failed to move out of he zone of lunger until it was ion late. With a hunderous roar the mountain of wk ell, pinning ihe men fast. The res uers found six nu-.i huddled in on. dace, four standing and two ly hit '.own. Three wire alive and one diet Mifore he could be gotten out. Eigh todies were recovered before dark, a vhich time two more were exposed l lew and two o.hers burled deep ir, .he pit. The latter bodies may no j be reached until tomorrow, , ,. . ' ' RATES ENJOINED. Savannah, Cia., Aug. lfl. In the Su icrllor court today Judge Oann hand d ilm.vn a decision enjoining the rall oad commissioners from putting into ffeet certain railiiad rates regarded s unfair to. the city of Savannah, and leclarlng as untenable the conten tion of the cnmmlifMion that they were not answerable to the court as to the ales fixed by 'them. Showing How the ""VSigi ft ' Trr " ANOTHER NEGRO HANGED BY MOB Man Who Killed Perry Takes From Sheriff and Hanged to a Tree Confesses Guilt Memphis, Tenn clnl-Appeal speoia, : ant. Miss., say a th .: negro who shot a I l'eiry near I-ake .. c it!. A dimmer on Lake t'ormor II. niy Young, the killed lvlward E. nor. int lasi Sat in sheriff Withers i nd at he s ene ,ni aimed mob, ur.lny. was taken t ,. mil a deputy tOlii-V of his crime hnni;' ! ' fl'he negro confer, i his guilt, but not Intend to kill ihe I'ossi'-sion of ti'iiillng. he raid. pleaded that he .1 I I'erry ,a iilstol ... which they were .!. having exploded. Young was crini w hile fording a rn i titer's cabin on .. Wl heis. who, with . d this morning ii n-ai h his fa-h-land. Sheriff jMisse of forty men, had been acounni; ihe country for the negro, waa ln.iiiled of the capture and took possession of the prl-oner. Hastening with th negi, to the town if Ten on, where h. proposed taking a train for Hcrflnn'l ' ihe county seat, the sheriff was conii .nted at the sta tion by the mob. and before he could make an effort at i -isiaiee was over powered und hla prisoner taken from him. The mob tln-u i.riKneded to the Itass plantatlonitli Young an J hanged him to a tree. BOYCOTT IS TO BE' SUPRESSED Viceroy of Nankin Told to Put a Stop to Discrimination V Agalnst American Goods Shanghai, Aug. 16.-TIie Chinese 'orelgn board ha; ordered Chou Fu, he viceroy of Nanking, to tnak i every effort to suj'presa I be- iMiycoit which has now jbeeii extended to English goods. Imported It Is supiioscd by an Anuii'lcan firm. I'liln ie niHrchanta have asked the fTcner.il chamber of commerce to ns slst them to suppress the movement, fearing it hat si lions gnancoial troub'e will result. Much Yif the trade of Shanghai Is aln.uly being transferred to Tien Tsln. w hero General Yuan Shi Kal, vKreroy of I'eehlli has prohibited the boycott. A PAGE FROM LIFE. Baseball Score Can Stop Any Argument. Federal Supervision of Com panies Will be Advised by President ROOSEVELT CONFERS WITH AUTHORITIES Plan Meets With Approval of Large Insurance Concerns Says Dryden oysl. r Hay. X. Y.. Aug. IS.- Ked eral supervision of Insuram e was this evening the subject of a conference at Sagamore Hall. The parties to the conference Were the president, Sen ator IHv.lcii. nt Xew Jiisey, presided of the fruilcnt lal liisuraixe eoinpany and Ml. Meek, special cclllini'l for the Xi a York Life Insurance company. At the last session of Congrens S. ator 1- yileii, . no Is recogulxxed as in eXMit on life Insurance. Introilueed a bill for h'cderul supervision of In surance. It was along Ihe lines of this measuie thai today's eonfereli proceeded. The president is known to be in favor of Federal control of the insurance business If It can be brought about constitutionally. Whe ther It can be Is the point yet to be determined. That Ihe Siiprem court of the I'nlted States eventually will be culled upon to pass up. ill Ihu ques tion time is little doubt. At the conclusion of the conf. rente Senator Dryden said: My opinion Is I hut a very large ma jo: ty of Insurance companies will favor national supervision. Under ex Is lug arrangements we are obliged to conform to dlffr.crciit laws und reg ulations in practically every stale. The laws and regulatimns ure being chang ed continually and different Insur ance companies place different Inter- )u etui Ions on the same luws. What Insurance companies want Is u uni form, harmonious und contOnuIng policy.- and that we believe Is to be had While no announcement was made of the conclusions of the conference, If any i-re reached, there la ample authority for the statement that Pres ident Roosevelt will discuss the ques- ton or Insurance In his forthcoming message to the Congress In the light of devlopmenls of the last nix months. That ho will recommend the t naetment of a law providing for Fed mill sniK-rvlslon of Interstate Insur ance, there is no room for doubt. THREE KILLED. Cincinnati,. Aug. 18. tThree men were killed nnd ten were injured tonight when a fast through express from New York to Cincinnati on the ltaltlmoto & Ohio Southwestern crashed Into a Win- ton Place trolley car In Win on Place a suburb. TO FEEL TEDDY WRITES TO THE LEAGUE Colored Organization Given a Bouquet and Some Advice by President SERVANT PROBLEM UP FOR CONSIDERATION Laziness of Colored People Ccm.Ttented Upon by Judge Terrl 11 Xew York. Aug. 18. Two hundred colored hu incss men opened the sec n:d annual sesi-lon of the convention of he Colored Huslness Men's lcague. I lie object of the league la to bring toge her negroes for mutual helip and suppoit. The following letter waa read: "My Dear Mr. Scott: I wish atl suc cess to the .National Business League. Your orgaulxutlon In entirely out of politico and is stlmula lug uctlvely among your people und workUig to in crease their efficiency In the Indua rlul work. It is also doing fur-reaching work in the way of giving them a realising sense of their responsibilities as citizens and power to meet these responsibilities. It Is as true of a' rare as of urn Individual that while outsiders can help to a certain degree, yet the real help mut come in the shape of self-help. The success of your organi sation and the development among our colored tellow oltlxens of the qualities for which you stand, depend upon your own efforts and not upon philanthropic efforts from the outside merely. "THEODORE ROOflBVEHiT," Servant Question. Al the af'ernoon session Alfred J. yillara, of New York, spoke on "The Negro Servant." Judge Terrill, of the District of Columbia, discussing the same question, said that of a colored population of H8.0O0 in the city of Wash ington today there were 25,000 Idlers who did no: work at nil Ho said: "Ini disagreements bo ween employer and servant, In three out of five enscs I have found that Ihe servant was nt fault. The most serious1 phase of the question In that It Is Impossible to get colored people to work for col ored people." SURVEY BOAT RUN DOWN BY STEAMER Detroit, Mich., Aug. 38 The U. S. survey boat Hancock was sunk In Uiko 31. Clair today, about i miles north of the Oros.-e Point No lives wJt lost. K. S. Wh sii-tant chffTljr'nlted States dl north of the Oros.-e Point lightship. heeler, n- dlstrlct en gineer, was on board the Hancock, making soUnoMngs for the proposul 25 foot channel. The Hanco, k was cross ing the channel when the package freighter, Illnghnnit in, i f Iluitalo, t'fund up struck h;r Vow and' dam aged the H.iniock so seriously lhnl hi sank In 'wo mlnu'. s. Tho officers ,tii' crew esjapel I i lifeboat". FLOODS WASH AWAY HOUSES AND CROPS Huntington, W. Va., Aug. IS: A record-breaking thunderstorm pre vailed In this section during the Mght. 5 Inches of rain fell in two and a half houra. Brldg?s and culverts wer washed out on the county roads and the ciillwnys suffered from landslides, all trains running 1 to 6 hours late tonight, Traffic was suspended on the fSuyandot'.e Valley fine und on the Big Sandy brunch of the Norfolk West ern railroad. Orow ing crops were ruined and In many Instances farm houses were washed away, their oc cupants barely escaping. ATTORNEY FOR TAGGART IS CHARGED WITH "MANUFACTURING SENSATIONS" Wooater, O.. Aug. 16. The sensation of the week In the Taggart trial was started by Judge Smyster today when he attempted io follow up the direct charge of grafting brought by nlu against Cap'atn Taggart. 'From whom did you receive that sil ver service In Manila when in charge of the transport Relief?" demanded Pmyster. " " ' "From the Famum-Royd Shipbuild ing company." an Id Taggart. "Wa there not a racket In Manila Juat before you left? MORE HOPEFUL !Dr. Wltte Believes "Dlscise Can bo Stamped Out Be-, fore Fall Frosts ; OICCfMliU LA Wo AKE STRICTLY ENFORCED Delinquents Get J25 Fine no Matter What Excuse They May Have Yttterday'a Reeertl. New Orleans, Aug. H.Offl- elal reKirt to 6 p. in.: Now ruses 6. ToUll to date 1141. Deaths 4. Tutul deaths to date 176. New foci 19. Number of cases under treatment 414. New tVleaiia. Aug. 16 With UtrW variation In the diUly record, It nat urally follows that there Is-no -matt rial change In the situation ' and none la looked for irr the immediate future. There la considerable aatla faction to be drawn from the small number of deaths, because It allows two intngs one that the type of the disease la not aa malignant aa at first suppose.! and that other that the authorities are flndlnlr about every; case In the city. The- generally accepted death rate la about 11 per cent. It l about a week ago (hat the daily record took such a Jump, one day 105 cases being reported. Since then the dally recoid has hovered around 10. While ( days are usuully allowed for a pa tient to recover or die, moat of the dvaths occur In the fifth and aixth duy, ao the fact that the deaths yea- teiday and today 'were amalt Indicates that ail the cases are on the record aow and subjected o treatment ac cording to the modern Idea. 'Dr. White said the other day that If he could be assured of having; every case In the city under observation, and proptir treatment he could atamp out - the disease tn a short timn ao evi dently the desired condition Is ap-- proachlng, If It haa not already been attained. ' There were no prominent people : among the new cases, but the majori ty of them are among ithe people of comfortable clrcumstancea. Only s tlx of thf new foci iu above Canal atreet. Reorder ia 8trict. , When the murine hospital service , took hold of the situation it waa fig ured that tho work woMld require about 1200 men. Some (000 men arc now employed nnd the number Is gradually Increasing. Some casea Of cltlzenn wlio failed to sc.ieen their eJa- ' terns came up today before Recorder . Fogerty. The defendants made what would ordinarily be taken aa good e- . cuses, but Judge Fogarty said that In , a crisis like thila no excuses mould be Accepted In hla court. The court fined tho accused $25, or SO days' Imprison ment. About 8.1 cltlena are to ana-, wer similar charges tomorrow. JORDAN BEFORE THE GRAND JURY Cotton Leakage Investigation Goes Merrily On Many Witnesses are Cabled Washington, Aug. 1. The usual atr of secrecy pervaded the court bouse here today when the grand Jury met to continue the inquiry Inito the cot ton leakage cases. With ihe exception of President Harvey Jordan, of the . Southern Cotton Association, all of the n I tin tuse were employes of the agri cultural department most of them hay ing to, do with the work of the ata tlstical division , It was said tha; notwithstanding the moss of evidence now In he posaea- . slim of the grand jury It la the desire of the district attorney to put before . them , every , shed of Information ob tainable, and thut for (that reason the Inves lgatlon had been prolonged ao aa to permit of the examination of every employe who may be able to throw additional light upon the subject, j -(t t tluggart waa not given an opportunity ? to anawer. ' "That- man la manufacturing eensa,. tteVe," shouted Attorney Sterlln. coun sel for Taggart, pointing; at Judge Smy aer. , - - Here Taggart (broke In, trembling with passion: "If there la anything reflecting- on my character aa an officer of the army 1 want It knows and probed," he cried.' Judge Eaaon calmed the wlinesa and forbade the continuance of this line et questioning.
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