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SUNDAY" CITIZEN THE WEATHER: COOLER. PAGES TODAY THE 24 VOL. XXV. NO. 341. PEW SAYS THAT IAT1IIEY1 TELL MATTERS NOT That Is to Say That Peary Arc tic Club Has Made up -A Its Mind DR. COOK IS TRIED BEFORE HE'S HEARD Meanwhile Alleaed -Proofs" Ate Kept Under Cover In Peary Circles BAR HARBOR, Maine, 8ept. 25. The proof that Commander Robert E. Peary hat obtained to support his po sition on the question "has Cook been at tha pole?" will In no wise be af fected by any Information which Har ry Whitney, the Arctic explorer, who arrived In Battle harbor, Labrador, yesterday may reveal concerning statements alleged to have been made to him by Dr. Cook at Etah last spring. General Thomas Hubbard, president of the Peary Arctic club, preliminary to a conference with Commander Peary here on Monday waa triad to hear that Mr. Whitney had returned safely, but he said to day that HeJknew no reason why any of Ui officers or the Peary-Arctic club should communicate with Mr. Whitney on the Cook controversy. The Peary proofs are still kept un der cover and neither' General W i bard I nor Commander Peary V. ill make known their nature, but It is learned that they do not In any way depend upon what It. Cook told eith er ; Harry Whitney or Prltchard,' the cabin, boy of th Roosevelt, at Etah, nor My- information that may have been obtained in Greenland by any muikr nf tha crew of the Pearv ex pedition. The proofs, further. It Is learned, are not built upon any state ments that have been made so far by Dr.' Oook on his trip to the Arctic. Pending a meeting of the officers of tha, Peary Arctic club In New York," the proofs which are oelng so closely Withheld will be -put Into form, for nnbUeftttevr-A : - -..;. vuWnliDQ(r reary is expeeiea iter Monday. ' ENGINEER LYONS KILLED. ATLANTA, Oa., Sept. 25 J. C. Lyons, engineer on the Southern rail way was Instantly killed this after noon When his engine was overturned while switching In the yards. JURY OF TWELVE SAYS tJT FtRilUI IS NOT GUILTY OF First Verdict in S. C. Dis pensary Graft Trials Was Returned Yesterday. ANOTHER CHARGE COLUMBIA. S. C Sept. 26. The Jury in the case of James Farnum, the "beer king" of South Carolina, indicted for bribery, brought in a ver- I diet of not guilty, after almost six hours deliberation. Farnum was ac cused of bribing officials of the former elate dispensary and Influencing them to make purchases from him. It was , in the testimony that out of a busi ness that did from two and a half to three' million dollars annually. Far- 1 .. i mnntha I V . ll ft W U Til M J1UIII (II .in........ ......... amounting to 1884.000. The Jury had been expected to re main out much longer and probalhly to report a mistrial, although the prosecution's case and evidence were believed to be exeeedlhgly strong. Another Charge. Farnum Is Still under Indictment for bribery In another case and Is im plicated In two other cases of con spiracy to defraufr. He will be tried at another term of c.mrt. The next case in the series of, prose cutions at this term, growing out of the defalcations from the stat.- dis pensary is that of John Black, charged with accepting a bribe, which comes up next week. LOOKING AFTER STORM VICTIMS NEW ORLEANS, Sept. SR. With the completion of the work of res cuing those who had been marooned as a result of last Monday's hurri cane and the successfu or unsuccess ful searches for missing ,-rsons practically- at an end. the citizens alonsr the gulf coasts of Louisiana and Miwisslppl are tonight giving them selves up to oaring for the storm suf- The number of dead tonight la es timated at .150 and of these fully two-thirds are recorded in Terre bonne parish. I T EY S COMING WITH THE PROOF .F. Man Explorer Met In Wastes ' of Snow And Ice Near at Hand BELIEVES WHITNEY IS A GENTLEMAN Gave Him Duplicate Set of Trip Records And Most of His Instruments NEW HAVEN, Conn., Sept. 25. In an Interview given to The New Haven Register in New York last night, Dr. C"k told of his meeting with Harry Whitney In Arctic. The explorer said he was on his way South, and when within Ave miles of Annatok was sur prised to see several men approach ing. "It was," continued Dr. Cook, Harry Whitney and some of the Es kimos with him on his hunt. It was the first time I had ever seen Mr. Whitney and he had to introduce himself. He told me of wintering at my quarters ami told me that Com mander Peary was up North and that he had spotted my party over the Ice. That was the first I had heard of Peary being there. "We went to thu supply house and I told Mr. Whitney I had been to the pole. It fell out that In discussing my route South it occurred to mo that, as Mr. Whitney expected a ves sel to come for him. it would be a good plan to send to America my documents and Instruments on his ship because of their greater safety of transport by water. He readily agreed to do so and when he comes I'm sure they will be aboard in good shape. Gave Him Records. "Mr. Whitney and myself pul In two days at the store house and .then I started for my final tramp to the port where I could ship for civilisa tion. Now one set or records Is. with Mtfc. Whitney and snathes set witb' myself. "While delayed in my trip South from the pole, 1 copied every bit of my' original data to Insure the posses sion of at least one complete set of records In case of accident to the original. When I handed over to Mr. Whitney one set, the other went with me, and I felt sure of getting (Continued on page four.) MARRIAGE REVIVED THIS DYING MILLIONAIRE BUT HE ijTJEHE BED After Joining Lots with His Housekeeper Bridegroom Has a Relapse. CONDITION IS GRAVE AUBURN, N Y.. Sept. 25 John II. Osborne, the millionaire who on last Sunday married his housekeeper. Miss Charlotte EJ. L'uter, while he lay In his bed presumably dying, hi still alive, despite reports current here that the mm, who is seventy-seven years old, had died and left every cent of his fortune to his bride, who is his second wife. Miss Lister was more than fifty years old when she became the wlfo of Osborne, who was lit the head of one of the greatest firms manufactur ing harvesting machines In this coun try. It was learned that City Clerk Han- Ion was taken In a carriage frtm his home to the residence of Osborne to Issue the marriage license, as it was thought then that the millionaire could not live more than few hours. The license had hardly been signed when a mlnlsterSjirrived and perform ed the ceremony. Mr. Osborne's condition today li grave. His hea t has been troubling him, and he t.ns suffered a relapse Osborne's bride has nothing to say about the stnmre ceremony. She was In the mploy of Osborne for about tnree years. WAS DESPONDENT AND CUT HIS THROAT ATLANTA. Oa., Sept. 25. Despond ent over his paralyzed condition, Oeorge J. Rhodes, forty years old. to day slashed his throat three times with a pocket knife and then Jumped into the lake at Lakewood In an at tempt to commit suicide. Rhodes grasped a pole under the water but his failing' strength caused him to relax his hold and when he came to the surface he was rescued and hur rled to a hospital. It W believed he will recover. COOK ASIIEVILL1; N. END QFTHEWORLD FAILED TO GET IN Somebody KIcKed In "Holy Rollers' " Program And Next Bath Is Year Off WORLD WILL MOVE ON AS OF YORE Big Batch of "Sinners" Clear ed Out When The Show Was Called Off WEST DUXliURY, Mass., Sept. 25 The end of the world, Hrranged as the finale In the strange drama enact ed her duriung the past few days, not having occurred as scheduled, most of the actors left the theatre of their activities tonight. Hereafter they wU wait in their homes, with the same implicit fttlthr the rendering of the lost act. The millennium Is still Impending they declare. It Is possible that ome member may again be the recipient of a revelation appoint ing a time and place for the coming of the Lord. In that case a similar gathering is again possible. That It was merely a miscalculation by a few of the more radical mem bers which resulted In the gathering now dlspei si -was the statement of several of trie conservative members of the seci today. They affirm that the end Is near, but that the time is uncertain. Ashdod, "five miles from every where,' has been the stage of the week's program. Tonight but fifty of the three hundred actors remain and they probably will go soon. The last day of watching was pass ed with little change from the pro gram of the week. Nervous systems were eased somewhat by a lessening in the services of prayer, song and supplication. The day was marked by one radical departure. "Newspaper Sinners." The "sinners." as represented by the small army of newspaper men , which has besieged the little congre- gatlon. were admitted for the first ttme-wnnttr meperrsis or-xner-nnw Ing place. There they listened to ex hortation on the belief of the sect, on the past history of the adventlsts and on their faith in the Imminent ap proach of the end of the world. - "o Lord don't disappoint us," prayed the Triune Immcrslonlsts at Intervals during the meeting which they held throughout lust night In (Continued on page two.) INVISIBLE HANDS GRIPPED THE TELEGRAPH WIRES YESTERDAY MORN Strange Electrical Phenom ena Disturbed Wire Wiz ards All Over the World. BOYS SAID "AURORA' NEW YORK, Sept. 25. Gripped by the mysterious "aurora" telegraph wires practically all ovar the world were paralyzed today. From early morning until night, communication was erratic and nt times cut off en tirely between certain points. Old telegraph operators called It the "aurora for brilliant northern lights usually follow such an electrical phenomenon, hut instead of watching for the display, they bent their mlnas and energies to untangling the snarl and adjusting their Instruments. The first "rcnk came shortly before 7 a. m., eastern standard time, or noon at Greenwlcch, and for the next five hours telegraph wire chiefs from Boston to Chlrago wrestled with the strange force. That the .lliturhance was world wide was sli wii by Kuropean de spatches, which told of similar trouble on lines on the continent as well as on the subrnflne cables. The crest of the wave in the eastern part of this country seem to have been reached shortly before noon, and after that the wires began to at more ration: lly. FINISHING MILL WILL CLOSE DOWN OREENSBORO, N. C, Sept. 25 The Coulter-Lowrey company of this city has posted a notice on its doors that ho more goods for finishing will be received by the concern to be fin ished later than October 15. This announcement has also been sent out to the customers tt the mills. All goods on hand will be finished and after that tht factory, which em ploys several hundred hands, wilt close down. The business of the com pany Is to finish the products of a number of cotton mills that have been their regular customers. The plsnt has been In operation here for about fifteen years. ON SCHEDULE TIME C., SUNDAY MORlftNtt, GHOST OF HENRY HUDSON NE W YORK 'S BIG FETE He Walked the Quarter Deck as of Yore in Boots and Plug Hat Gotham Is Out doing Herself in the Hudson-Fulton Carnival Rare Scenes of Beauty and Splendor Everywhere. NEW YORK, Sept. t5. Henry , hundred years ago Into, those Arctic mists from which two American dis coverers have been but lately return ed, walked his quarter deck again to- lay, and, in seas boots and tlug 'hat, surveyed the changes aloft and ashore that make his second visit to these shores scarcely lees memorable than lis first. His roincarnatlon or to be strictly accurate hie Impersonation to day, the re-production of his ship, the Half Moon, and their t went lets cen tury tour of aeetnr Jw. Tork . are expressions ot those rcurrehrveme of historical contrast and instruction by pageant In which the central idea of the Hudson-Fulton celebration germinated. With New York harbor and Manhattan Island for a stage, the play opened today for a week's run, and will for another week show at lesser cities and towns along the route that Hudson travelled. tilory of Pultun. Fulton's name today follows that of Hudson on the program aa the re production of the Clermont, followed the re-production of the Half Moon on the waters of the harbor. The two little ships, once so weighty with achievement, made their round today of the warships assembled to do them honor with a thousand merchant ships and pleasure craft trailing behind them In a parade nrteen miles long; saluted the national and International Hags of peace; were officially received by the city and the Hudson-Fulton commission this afternoon with the other visiting notables; and then to night repeated the course over a river white as day with the glare of the hundreds of searchlights from on shore and afloat, before they anchor ed. Their sisterly progress was marred by but one accident a slight collision BY BIG FIRE AT SPENCER Defective Flue in Restau rant Does $HKX) Damage Before Flames Are Out. SPENCER. N. ', Sept. 2T.. Nine dwellings were burned In Eust Hpcn- oer this afternoon, entailing a loss of $8,000 with 15 000 insurance. The fire originated from a defective flue In a restaurant and high wind carried the flames rapidly a ross a block and successful efforts were made to check the course of the fire by dynamiting several houses. Engineer Wm. lirown was painfully scill'I in an effort to throw water by of a locomotive on the Southern y.inls, the fire being out of reach of the city water sup ply. WASHINGTON. Sept 25. Fore cast for North Carolina: Continued cooler Sunday and Monday, except threatening near tha coast; brisk northeast winds. SEPTEMBER 26, 1901). Notice to Quit. early In the morning by which the ' Clernyint I curt a little paint and tha Half Moon an anchor chain. Nice Weather Man. The weather man made good his promise. At two o'clock this morning rain had ceased to fall, and dawn brought a brilliant day of intensely blue sky and scintillating sunlight. Conservative estimates tonight place the number of those who witnessed the naval parades today from the shores ot Btaton Island, Long Island, Brooklyn an4,ow,Mreyat40Q 009, ' . -'- The parade, theugh a little late in starting, due to the olltslon of the Clermont and Half Moon, went through substantllly aa planned, with out further accident and In sightly and noble order. The torpedo boots, submarines nnd naval auxiliaries led, the way, followed by the Half Moon and the Clermont, revenue cutters, tugs end lighters, merchant men, yachts, motor boats, pleasure craft and such a fleet of excursion steamers as has never been seen before. The day's exercises culminated with the presentation of the Halt Moon to the commission by the Dutch envoys. This ceremony waa formal and fur nished a picturesque climax aa the living shade of Henry Hudson, In vel vet and ruff, grasped the hand of the descendant of Robert Fulton, in small clothes and beaver hat. In front of the mast the gold-luced, berjbboned and frock coated representatives of nearly a dozen nations, while behind them rolled he river which carried their ancestor to fame. And a they tood there on the left banjt with the afternoon sun streaming down upon them, the thunder of the gun of the warships echoed back from the Jersey hills and far up the river. The assembly In the reviewing stand was full of picturesque and brilliant IS FOB HUBOEBOF BELCHER Man Who Killed Father in Presence of His Child Must Pay Penalty. RAXLEY, Oa., Sept. 25. Convict ed of a cruel murder from ambush as the result of a minor quarrel, and placed In the hands of the Judge with no recommendation to mercy. Fate Taylor, a white man, was today sen tenced to be hanged for killing W. A. Itoleher In the lower part of this county on August 10, last. Taylor did not lose his composure when tho sentence was pronounced. Belcher's three-year-old daughter was the only eye-witness to the mur der. Khe was at her father's side In their buggy when a man stepped from the roadside and emptied a shot gun Into Belcher. Taylor will ask for a new trial. NO JURISDICTION IN WHISKEY CASES ANDERSON. S. C Sept. 25. That municipal courts have no Jurisdiction to try liquor cases was the decision handed down today by Circuit Judge Aldrteh and which It is believed will seriously hinder the enforcement of the liquor laws In South Csrollna, If allowed to stand by the Supreme court. The enforcement of the laws heretofore has been largely due to the police departments of the cities. An appeal to the Supreme court will be taken at once. W NOW BEAT If, v ? GAZES ON IN HIS HONOR Internationalism. Beside the sombre frock coats of the American and Jap anese ofllclala there flashed out tha gold dress of the admiral, the red fo of the Turklnsh minister and the Jeweled cap of Wu Ting Fang, the Chinese representative, while sifting through the ciowd was a host of attaches In full uniform. DrUllaitt Scene. TTniW tha irlare of aro light Mid the. Incessant yrglng ot foremen, hun drd of carpenter, decorator and ieotrMM today put final touches on decoration for the Huoson-suiioa celebration. At the hotel last night the electrical display wtre tested for the flrst time, and from Washington height the whole tower Manhattan appeared aa If Illuminated by om groat conflagration. Tti. Plain, hotel apnaared radiant a seen from Central park, The northern ena ot tne ias waa htnMA with norantis who had been attracted by the lght. Above the dark mas of tress the hotel coam oa seen outlined with strings of fire. Above all was a line of electrlo half moons, alternating with the mono grams of the hotel. Tho unruffled nrfa a tr the ' lake reflected the Pic ture perfectly. A were h light wa playing on the nag above tne duiiu Ing and they Beamed to stand out against the black sky In marked con tract, . At Central Park. Alone- Central Dark west the stand which have Just reached completion, were dotted with person who . wars abroad to witness the final touches nlniwd on tha Illumination device. The car bound down Broadway were filled, and passengers when they got (Continued on page sis.) T Henry Smith, Suspected of Slaying Brother, Fails to. Surrender as He Agreed. MIDDLETOWN, Conn., Sept. 25 Henry Smith, suspected of the murder of his brother, William Smith, who was found In the Connecticut river With his head battered In, has foiled Sheriff Davis and his officers for the third time III as many weeks; Smith' latest ruse was to send word on Monday to tho officials who have been searching for him that If they wvuild let up In tho hunt for him he would surrender himself. Tho officers, who have been besting the bushes and rushing about In auto mobiles over half the county for many days, took him at hi word, and the detectives and a posse of deputy sheriffs were called off for three days. Anxiously the officials waited for word from th fugitive until today, when they came to the conclusion that they were the victim of a hoax, and the search has begun again with renewed vigor. Word was posted about the country side that any one harboring Smtth would be arrested as an accessory to the murder. RAILWAYS FINED. LYNCHBURG. Va., Sept iS.-JChe Norfolk and Western, and Baltimore and Ohio railway companies were mulcted in the United State District court here today for violation ot the safety appliances laws. PRICE FIVE CENTS. E HOPES OF FRANCE EXPLQDETO GETHER Dirigible Military Contrivance Let go When Six Hundred Feet In The Air FOUR PASSENGERS KILLED INSTANTLY Breve Sons of Gaul Stuck to Their Posts While Dash Into Certain Death MOIJL1N8. France, Sept . While passing over the national road which leads from Pari to Antlbe and when at a height of between nvs and six hundred feet the French dir igible military balloon, fUpublique. exploded this morning and fell to the round. The four men on board were killed. They were Captain Marchal, Lieutenant Phaure and Bub Lieutenants Vlcenot and Reux,' It waa the Intention ot Captain Marchal, who wa in charge of the airship, to Mop at Nevre and an automobile containing mechanicians wa following the balloon.' It wa almost directly beneath It when the accident occurred. The ' car fell straight down, carrying the flattering remnant of the envelop, and the occupant wore hurled beneath the wreckage. All Killed. All were dead except Lieutenant Phaure, hut he lived only a few min utes m i vr vvina rvmwvtiu. wuinw wvrs transported to the, Chateau D'Avrllly, the property of the Mar quis De Chavannea, .' ; ,i ' , - ?: ' , Lieutenant Tlxle, who wu in com mand of the Automobile say that the balloon suddenly burst nd oiapd. It seemed to oscillate violently a mo ment prior to this, aa though it had been struck, and It fell with the rapid Ity ot a ton. , When h reached the wreckage the, car waa eamnletrd cov ered . with the lop ud hot a sound earns from beneath. With th aid of th Marquis P Chavannea and peasants, who hurried from th ur rounding field tha envelope waa re moved. Appalling Spectacle. Tha spectacle wa appalling. Th car had bean literally crushed, and amid mas of tangled steel and. wire every man except pnaure could b mi mn hie nuat. Cantaln Marchal WRl In a sitting post y re. his body thrown back and hi eye wide open. Tne bodies of the aub-lleutensnt lay man gled beneath the cylinder of the mo tor. Phaure'a body wa lying half outside, as if possibly he had tried to Jump during the descent. Apparent ly the death In the ease of the three men had been instantaneous from the shock when they struck the earth and the weight of the heavy rigging (Continued on. Peg Three.) THIRTY-SIX BODIES ; ON RUB PROPERTY Total Number of Victims of Hurricane Now Reaches Two Hundred. MORE MAY BK FOUND NEW CHILEANS, Sept. 28. Hee tlon hands on ths Louisville and Nashville railroad found the bodies of thirty-six sallcrr and fishermen near Dunbar station. -La., late today. This brings the total number of dead re sulting from last Monday's hurricane up to approximately two hundred. The bodies were badly decomposed end were burled nr the old track bed, without Identification. Dunbar Is a small station on th Louisville and Nashville hallroad be tween New Orleans and Bay St. Louis, Miss. It is not far from the Kigolets, which conmwt Lake llorgne, an 'arm of the gulf of Mexico with Lake Pontehartraln. During the hurricane many light draught calling vessels heading for the, Inland waters wer swept ashore In this section. From day to day the body of a drowned sailor or llHliermail from soma of these wrecked schooner haa been found and estimates on the . total number of dead have been based on the formor rate at which these bodle have been discovered. When thirty six bodies were fiun in one place at one time today, all former estimate aa to the number of persons who lost their Uvea in the gulf coast hurricane were completely upset Diligent search throughout the same section failed to reveal any more bod lea Th clothing and ' appearance of ths drowned men plainly showed their calllns:. but there was nothing Which would lead to Individual Identification. BALLOON AND TH
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