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MURDERERS ESCAPE
Amounts to a Good Sum A
Petition in Voluntary Bankruptcy-Wake
Foreot Stu
dents' Pranks-Large Num
ber of Young Barristers
Two Negro Murderers in the
Penitentiary Emulate the
Example of Will Harris.
The Munificent Reward
Offered for Apprehension
(Special to The News,)
Raleigh, N. C, Sept. 4 Certificate
( I' increase of capital for Cora Cotton
Mills. Cleveland, by issuing $50,000
i. referred 7 per cent, stock, was filed
with the Secretary of State today. F.
T illing, president; O. G. Falls, secre
tary. :' .,
Cel-I-ko Co. of Raleigh, was incor
porated, charter $20,000 capital sub
scribed. $50,000 authorized, to com
; und Cel-i-ko and other soda foun
tain drinks. William Hays and W. W.
Mills are the principal incorporators.
Deputy Sheriff Warren of Nash
ounty, brought John Coppedge to the
Tenitcntiary today to serve a life sen
tence for burglarizing the residence of
Mrs. Hedgepath, who, it will be re
membered, caught and held on to the
luuglar with a tenacity which, distin
guished her as one of the bravest wo
men on record. Deputy Warren says
hr brought Coppedge here earlier than
he intended because of the high feel
ing among the people and the immin
ent danger of lynching, the sentence to
lite-imprisonment not being at all rel
ished by the people of that section.
Two negro convicts, Malcom Smith
fiman, serving twenty years for the
ppcond degree of murder, committed in
Guilford, and John Creasman, serving
fifteen years, from Henderson county,
second degree of murder, escaped last
flight from the Central Prison. They
had been convalescing from a long ill
iie?s in the hospital. They cut a hole
through the ceiling, got on the roof,
then by using a chain connected with j
th? water tank, climbed down a four
etory wall of the building, then over
the snckade without being detected.
The Prison authorities offer $25.00 re
Aaifl. Notices sent the chiefs of police
of the principal towns.
Postmaster Bailey, of Raleigh, who
is paymaster of rural free delivery
mail carriers for North Carolina says
the payroll for August was $17,000.
There are 367 routes in the State.
The postoffice receipts for Raleigh
'lui'iim August amounted to $4,044.56,
against $0,502.95 for August of 1902,
a gain of $541.61 and August 1902 was
a campaign month, with exceptionally
heavy mails, too.
A petition in voluntary bankruptcy
is filed in the United States Court
here by Abe Morris, of Tarboro. The j
liabilities are $7,011 and the assets
Jl.i4. 9
The first bale of 1903 cotton was
on the Raleigh market yesterday
.md brought 12 cents a pound by M.
A. Parker. It was grown by W. L.
Turner of Wake county.
W. W. Upehureh, of this city, was
brought here from Henderson last
night suffering from the amputation
of a foot. He was spending the night
at. Henderson and was crossing a rail
The Macedonian Committee
Trying to Raise a Loan of
Ten Millions in London--A
Wealthy American Prom
ises Half Million Condi
tionally (By Publishers Press.)
London, Sept. 4. Eugene Lazarovich
th' organizer of the Macedonian Revo
lutionary Committee, is now in Lon
'1' n seeking to raise a loan of ten mil
''r'n dollars. He said to the Publish
es Press today: "Our object is to re-
n it with this money an international
army of fifty thousand to be placed at
'he disposal of the Powers as a Mace
donian Police to preserve order after
rf aee js restored. We intend to secure
a representative body of trustees to
a' ' as custodians of funds. A rich
American whose name I am unable yet
tf state has promised five hundred
thousand dollars provisionally and
there is more now in sight. We look
to America for substantial help,"
PATROL
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REVOLUT OHISTS
road track in the vard wh em hi a tnrt
was caught between the bumpers of
two freight cars and crushed.
Two cadets at the A. and M. College
having a grudge against Capt.
Phelps, commandant, rushed against
this officer on the stairway of one of
the buildings yesterday and knocked
him down so that he rolled down sev
eral steps and was painfully bruised
The boys claimed it was accidental,
but two of them have been expelled.
A student from Wake Forest Col
lege brought the news this morning
that some of the boys last night went
into the chapel and removed the
strings from the upright pianos in that
department. No one knows who did it
Last year 15,030 bales of cotton
were sold on the Raleigh markets.
The dates and prices for the sale of
the first bales for the past three years
are: 1901, Sept. 6, 8 cents; 1902, Au
gust 22, 8 1-2 cents; 1903, Sept. 3, 12
cents.
A member of the Supreme Court
says the names of the successful ap
plicants for licenses to practice law
will probably be given out Saturday.
Eighty stood the examination and the
percent of those receiving licenses
will, he says, be unusually large
Some creditors of W. E. Gwaltney,
who until recently ran a large store
here, have petitined for Gwaltney to
be declared a bankrupt in order that
they may break a bill of sale of stock
and fixtures by Gwaltney to Crutch
field, Tollam & Co., of Spartanburg, S.
C, and force this firm to share the
assets with other creditors. Gwaltney
left the city the day before the place
was closed up and is said to be in
Oklahoma.
HEAD-ON COLLISION
01 FHEJESTERH
Passenger Train No, 35 Col
lided With an East Bound
Freight at Majolica, Six
Miles West of Salisbury.
Three Persons Injured
(Special to The News.)
Salisbury, Sept. 4. At Majolica, a
small station on the Western North
Carolina road, six miles west of this
city, last night at 9 o'clock, there oc
curred a head-on 'collision between No.
35, the West-bound passenger train
and No. 78, an East-bound freight.
Baggagemaster Jones had one of his
bands badly broken and. Engineer W.
S. Taylor was slightly injured.
One passenger, a woman, whose
name could not be learned, had two
teeth knocked out.
Twenty head of sheep in a cattle car
attached to the freight train were in
stantly killed, it is thought from the
shock.
The cause of the collision seems to
be with the crew of the freight train
No. 35 had orders to pass No. 78 at
Majolica. Usually, the West-bound
train does not stop at this station and
the supposition was that No. 78 would
be in the sidetrack. Instead, the
freight was a few minutes behind time
and had not pulled in the sidetrack.
No. 35 was running "at the rate of 25
miles an hour. The engine to the
freight was not derailed but the pas
senger engine was knocked in an up
rignt position and was almost straight
in the air this morning.
The Bast-bound passenger due in
Salisbury at 8:30 o'clock came by way
of Charlotte, over the A. T. & O. and
did not arrive in Salisbury until 4
o'clock this morning. The track was
blocked until about the noon hour to
day. NOTED BURGLAR
GOES TOJING SING
Gentleman George, the Man
of Many Aliases, gets a
Sentence of Twenty-Three
Years-Twenty-Nine Bur
glaries in Two Months
(By Publishers Press.)
New York, Sept. 4. Harry S. Brooks
alias Robinson alias Gentleman George
and other fanciful names, wes sen
tenced today. to 23 years at Sing Sing
prison for burglary. Brooks comes
from Connecticut and is 29 years old.
He pleaded guilty on five indictments
to burglary but confessed to the police
that, in thft last two months he had
'committed 29 burglaries in this city.
He procured forty-five thousand dollars
worth of property by his thefts anda
goodly portion of it was displayed in
the court room today. He stated that
he had been twice before convicted,
once in Connecticut for burglary and
once in New Jersey of manslaughter.
Charles J. Glidden and
Breaking
COL, W, A, TURK
TALKS OF SOOTHE
Says His Road is Doing
Everything Possible to keep
Trains on Schedule Time.
Work of Double Tracking
Delays Matters no Little
The biggest man of the Southern
railway was a Charlotte visitor yester
day afternoon for a short while.
Most everybody would name this
gentleman without any further de
scription but in case there are any who
are at a loss to know trho this gentle
man is, The News will name him
Col. W. A. Turk.
Mr. Turk, who now holds down and
ably too, the position of passenger
traffic manager of the Southern, was
only here for a short while. He came
up from Greenville and left on one of
the night trains for Western North
Carolina, his family being at Toxaway
Inn, in the Sapphire Country.
Age is dealing lightly with this
genial and clever gentleman. He, how
ever, grows no' thinner. In fact he will
almost admit that he is several
pounds heavier than this time last
year. Col. Turk had been to Greenville
looking after some of his company's
interests. While there he gave out the
folowing interview to the Greenville
News:
"Now about the handling of through
trains from Washington, just lock at
the work between the National Capital
and Orange. Va., and you will find the
cause of delays. Hundreds and hun
dreds of men are working day and
night on the double track. The dis
tance is eighty-five miles and while
this work continues the greatest care
must be exercised in the movement of
trains. They must mn over the line
to Orange at a reasonably safe speed,
otherwise there might be serious- dis
asters. It is to our interest, of course,
to protect the railroad property, but
at the same time we must have due
regard for the safety of passengers. I
am not going to say that the Washing
ton trains will be on time hereafter.
That would be foolish. Fcr the next
two months the service must be slow,
or until the double track is in shape
for fast traffic. The ordinary man
cannot appreciate what is being done,
or the amount of wcrk involved, and
this thing has given the company more
concern than it could possibly give to
any private citizens. We are honestly
trying to provide the best service un
der the conditions, and there will be
more improvement as the work ad
vances and nears completion.
"The Southern Railway was also
handicapped by not being able to se
cure locomotives ordered long ago.
The shops had more than they could
do and our orders were delayed.
Many new engines have been deliver
ed, however, and as these are brokenin
we are able to make better time. You
know a new engine is like a celt that
has nver been trained. It must be
broken. It has got to be acquainted
Family Who are Making Their R ecord
Tour of Eirope Now Penetrating Artie Circle.
jp CMK.LZS 1
with every stitch of the track, it must
know the curves and the grades and
they are never assigned to passenger
runs until they are ready to do the
work of veterans."
R VETERAN
Colonel McClellan,-a Soldier
of Three Wars, Celebrates
His Eighty-Ninth Birthday.
Was a Confederate Soldier
Under Johnston
(By Publishers' Press.)
Bristol , Sept. 4 Col. George R. Mc
Clellan celebrated the SDth anniversary
of his birth a$ his home In Bristol yes
terday. He is said to be the only sur
viving field officer of the volunteer
army that marched against Mexico.
Also fought in the Cherokee Indian
war and also in the civil war under
General Johnston. He was wounded in
the battle of Shiloh. The colonel is still
a vigorous man.
THE TURKISH
American Marines Will be
Landed In Constantinople if
Necessary to Protect Amer
icansHorrible Outrages
in Adrianople
(By Publishers Press.)
Vienna, Sept. 4. The Odessa corres
pondent cf Vol Ksblatt. wires that all
the Coast of Adrianople and Stefan is
ablaze. Hundreds of villages have been
destroyed and the once smiling region
of Geoktepe and Wasiliko are blacken
ed like the desert. Hundreds of Turk
ish women, girls burned to death.
Will Land Marines in Constantinople.
Washington, Sept. 4 U. S. Minister
Leishmann at Constantinople today in
formed the State Department that
some European powers have landed
marines at Constantinople. If the lives
of Americans there become endanger
ed the United States government will
also send a detachment of marines to
Constantinople.
Mrs. L. L. Surratt, who has been
at the Stokes-Whitehead Sanitarium,
Salisbury, for several weeks, is expect
ed to return home in a few days.
MEXICAN ,
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SITOTO
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Mr. Glidden's autoriiobiling feats
probably surpass those of any of
his competitors. His grand tour
now extclnds from Ireland to the
Arctic zone and thence back
through Europe. Mr. Glidden is
an expert chaffeur and besides his
wife is accompanied by Dr. Rust,
j secretary of the Massachusetts
Automobile Club, and Mr. and
Mrs. Dudley E. Waters, cf Grand
j Rapids.
HARRIS IS SHREWD
AID WATCHFUL
He Carries a Bottle of Tur
pentine to Ward Off Blood
hounds -Mixes Up With
Cows and Hogs in Order to
Thwart the Dogs
Mr. Victor Fesperman, of Long
Creek, was in the city today and had a
long talk with Sheriff Wallace concern
ing his race after Will Harris, the
negro desperado.
Mr. Fesperman states that his blood
hound ran Harris for more than two
miles Wednesday afternoon and night;
that Harris was seen by several par
ties including his father-in-law, Calvin
Houston. He went to old man Hous
ton's home Wednesday afternoon be
tween three and four o'clock, asked for
something to ear.
This was about three hours after Mr.
Robert Earnhardt saw him at the
bridge over Stony creek, in Mallard
Creek township.
Some little distance from Houston's
house, Mr. Fespcrman's dog unearthed
some watermelon rinds that Harris
had buried only a short while before.
After leaving that place where he
devoured the watermelon, Harris con
tinued up the creek to a point a short
distance from where Mr. Earnhardt
had seen him at the noon hour. Instead
or' going up tjie c reek on the same side
H,? he came down, he crossed to the
opposite side.
Mr. Fesperman's dog was making
Harris hum when the negro dodged in
among some cattle and hogs that were
in a field close beside the creek. At this
point the dog lost his track and ran
back to old man Houston's, it is sup
posed on the track of Harris as he
went down the creek at mid-ady.
In speaking of Harris, Mr. Fesper
man says he is the shrewdest negro he
has ever had anything to do with. If
he sees a cow or a hog, when h eis
being run, he will follow the animal as
long as he can. Mr. Fesperman says he
does this, knowing that it will be hard
for a dog to keep up with his tracks.
Then, too, he has gotten on to another
scheme to baffle the dog. He carries
with him a bottle of turpentine and
sprinkles the fluid as he goes. When
the dog is following the trail and
strikes tracks where turpentine has
been sprinkled the animal gives one
big snifile and returns home. A dog, ac
cording to Mr. Fesperman, cannot bear
the scent of turpentine.
Harris, so all agree, must be making
the Poplar Tent neighborhood his
abiding place these days. It is this sec
tion he is always seen going from and
after leaving Cal Houston's, he always
returns the same way. He will travel
up and down the creek fcr miles in
order to keep from making tracks.
When he does get out of the water, he
hugs the banks, preferring to make his
way through the underbrush beside the
stream, rather than risk himself out in
the open.
Mr. Fesperman informed Sheriff
Wallace that he expected to have
another race after Harris either this
afternoon or tomorrow morning.
A colored woman who lives about
ten miles from the city on the Salis
bury road, who was in the city today,
stated that Will Harris made his ap
pearance yesterday in the watermelon
patch of Sam Alexander, who lives
near the McGinnis place, and was in
the act of stealing a melon when
Alexander saw him. Alexander hailed
Harris and shot at him, but Harris
got away and carried his stolen melon
with him. The outlaw is said also to
have shot a dog which attacked him
in the same vicinity the afternoon before.
Ten Thousand Soldiers.
(By Publishers Press.)
Louisville, Ky.. Sept. 4. It now
seem assured that te nthousand sol
diers will take part in the manoeuvers
at West Point, Ky., in October. Major
Elias Chandler received a list of the
state troops who will be present. They
are Kentucky, 1,400; Wisconsin, 8000;
Michigan, 3.000; Indiana, 2,200. There
will be at least 3,000 regulars. There
will be no women at the cramp as
guests. General Bates commander, de
partment of the Lakes, issued an order
to this effect, and so instructed Adju
tant General Murray.
Frederick Coudert Better.
(By Publishers' Press.)
Oyster Bay, Sept. 4. At the home
of Frederick R. Coudert, Sr., it was
said that Mr. Coudert who has been
seriously ill with heart trouble, passed
a comfortable night and that his condi
tion is much improved since yester
day. MINE-WORKERS
QUARTERLY REPORT
Gratifying Exhibit Made by
Auditing Committee -Absence
of Strikes in the Organization-Financial
Status-Large
Monthly Income
(By Publishers' Press.)
Indianapolis, Sept. 4. The quarterly
reports of the auditing committee of
the United Mine Workers of America
was completed last night. With a mem
bership of 325,000 scattered throughout
the states from coast to coast, less
than two thousand men are on strike.
The report shows that the organiza
tion now has $99,610.94 in eash in their
treasury and an income approximating
sixty thousand dollars a month. The
situation, as far as the mine workers
are concerned was never more grati
fying in this history cf their union.
SERVIANS ARRESTED.
They Were Guilty of Having a Procla
mation Denouncing the Murderers
of the Late King.
(By Publishers Press.)
Belgrade, Sept. 4 At Nish and oth
er Servian garrison towns a number
of officers have been arrested for hav
ing in their possession a proclamation
against the murders of the late King
Alexander demanding their punish
ment. Admiral Dewey's Movements.
(By Publishers' Press.)
Troy. N.Y., Sept. 4. AdmirsI Dewey
came to Troy this morning from Sara
toga, and spent an hour in inspecting
the shirt and collar factories of Cluett.
Peabody and Co. He afterwards visited
Watervliet arsenal. He will die at the
Troy Club as the guest of E. M. Green,
of this city.
Mucical Director Dead.
(By Publishers Press.)
Munci Munich, Sept. 4 General
Music Director Zumpe was found dead
in bed this morning. He had practical
oversight of the Wagner Cycles at the
Royal Theatre and his death will in
terrupt their progress.
. ATTEMPT FOILED
Kid Curry Supposed to be the
Head of the Gang -The
Railroad Sends Another
Train Ahead of the Limited
Plot Thwarted
(By Publishers' Press.)
Missoula, Mont., Sept. 4. A special
train carrying a posse of armed men
ran ahead cf the Northern Pacific Lim
ited last night because of the discov
ery of a plot to hold up and rob the
regular North Coast Limited. The rail
road officials learned that the plan had
been laid upon the North Coast Lim
ited at Malta. It is said that Kid Curry
is abroad in Montana with another
gang and that railway officials will
adept extraordinary precautions until
J he is in custody again.
TRAIN ROBBERS
REVOLUTION
CIVIL SERVICE
The Thousands of Govern
ment Employes Denomina
ted "Laborers" to be Plac
ed on the Classified List.
Merit System to Prevail
An Eligible Listof Laborersto
be Created and the Man at
the Top of the List will Fil
the Next Vacancy -Immense
Strides in Reform
(By Publishers Press.)
Washington, Sept. 4. An order is
soon expected from Oyster Bay that
will virtually have the effect of placing
the thousands of government em
ployees designated as "laborers" in the
elassified service. Regulations govern
ing this proposed change have been
formulated by the Civil Service Com
mission and will be laid before Presi
dent Roosevelt on Tuesday. Commis
sioner Cooley has left here for New
York. He has a draft of the regula
tions with him and will go to Oyster
Bay the first of the week. "The propo
sition," said Cooley today, "is to create
an eligible list of laborers. All appli
cants must qualify as to their physical,
mental and moral attainments and the
one heading the list is to be given the
first vacancy."
PAYNE'S ACTION APPROVED.
Senator Ball Non-Committal On the
Turning Out of the Delaware Post
mistress. (By Publishers Press.)
Wilmington, Del., Sept. 4. United
States Senator Ball when asked his
opinion regarding the removal of Miss
Hulda B. Todd as postmistress 'of
Greenwood, Delaware, by Postmaster
General Payne, refused to make a
statement His silence is believed by
many to be due to the fact that he ap
proves of Payne's action.
It will be recalled that Miss Todd
was dismissed for personal reasons.
She was not personally liked by some
of the Addicks Officials and was dis
missed for this reason alone, accord
ing to the reports to-date.
NEW AUTOMOBILE RECORD.
An Automobile Gees to the Top of Mt.
Washington.
(By Publishers' Press.)
Crawford House, N. H.. Sept. 4.
Martin Y. Hoy and Mrs. Albert H. Hoy
of Chicago, made a trip to the top
of Mount Washington yesterday and
deturned and established a new record.
The run was made in a steam automo
bile and the trip was made in the
actual running time of an hour and
o'J minutes allowing 25 minutes time
lest, on account of meeting carriages
going up and coming down.
FATAL MANOEUVERS.
Too Realistic Drilling A German Of
ficer Killed an-i Soldiers Wounded.
(By Publishers' Press.)
Berlin. Sept. 4. The German army
manoeuvers were again too realistic
at Kaiser Lauten in Rhenish Bavaria
today. One offic-pr was killed and six
men wounded. This is Hie second fatal
manoeuver this year in the Prussian
army.
TO MODEilZE
THE PAPAL SYSTEM
The Young Clergy arc Start
ing a World-wida Move
ment to Bring the Papal
System Into Accord With
Modern Progressive Ideas
(By Publishers Press.)
Rome, Sept. 4. The young clergy
are agitating to start a world-wide
movement to induce the Pope to
modernize the Papal System to accord
with modern progressive ideas. The
initiators count especially on the
French, Irish, American and Austral
ian clergy to help and trust the Pow
ers and the Press will support them.
RECOMEHDED