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THE
SUMMOMS ISSUED
SID BEEN SERVED
ONW.T.M'CORMICK
Late Construction Engineer of the
I'itu U.i(a. Pi M:cj -i . !
vitj "ttiti i i a 1 1 1 muiiiieu 01 a
Suit that Will be Brought
Against Himself, A. E. Board-'
man and C, H. Campbell.-
While no Charge is Given Out the
Fact that it is a Joint Action
Indicates that the Charge will
be Conspiracy to Defraud the
City ol Charlotte.
A joint civil action has been
brought against W. T. McCormick, A.
II Boardman and C. H. Campbell by
the Water Commission of Charlotte.
The fact that it is a joint action
against all three of the men who were
engaged to construct the city's new
v.ater plant, indicates that the charge,
when filed, will be conspiracy to de
fraud the city.
Sheriff Wallace, armed with a no
tice of summon, served the paper on
W. T. McCormick yesterday afternoon.
3IcC.o ni.cks presence m the city, be- Mitchell, of the United Mine Workers
came known to City Attorney Hugh W. called a meeting of the anthracite
Harris yesterday. He immediately had . committee for this evening to dis
tiie papers issued and Sheriff Wallace cuss tne anthracite situation.
saw that no time was lost in serving
the s?.me.
As to the other two principals in the
notion, the papers will be served on
each of them at the earliest possible
moment.
A. E. Boardman is now on the briny
deep, en route to Germany.
It is understood that ex-Superintendent
C. H. Campbell is now making his
headquarters in Atlanta.
At any rate, when these two come
in reaching distance the notice of the
pending suit against them, will be
strved in due form.
The reading public and this in
cludes the large majority of the peo
ple will understand why this action
has been brought against the ' three
men named above.
The people of Charlotte, especially,
will recall with interest the many ses
sions the water commission held du
ring last fall. The members of the body
did all in their power to bring those
suspected of crooked dealing to the
Lar of justice.
While no public display has been
made, the members of the commis
sion have been actively at work, doing
everything possible to tighten the ceils
around those under the ban of sus
picion. They believe that an investiga
tion, such as they now have started,
will bring out the facts that the Water
Commission, as well as the public, are
entitled to know.
W. T. McCormick, who during the
construction period of the new water
plant, was constructing -engineer, re
turned to the city yesterday. It is said
that he spent most of the day consult
ing with his attorneys.
This morning, at the Hotel Buford,
McCormick was to be seen talking
with a number of Charlotte people.
Whether or not he discusser the suit
that will be brought against him and
his two associates in the construction
of the city's water plant, is not known
It is, however, known, that he had
frequent talks with his attorneys and
it is presumed that his lawyers will at
once begin the preparation of his de
fence. While some seem to think that A. E.
Boardman will never return to this
country, others say that he will and
that his stay in Germany will only
cover a. period of several weeks.
As to ex-Superintendent C. H. Camp
hell, he is not far away and in case
matters come to a head, the city attor
ney believes that his presence can be
secured at the proper time.
Robbery at Goldsboro.
Special to The News.
Goldsboro,' N. C. March 29
Someone one entered the hardware
tore of Mr. G. H. Stanton' Tuesday
night, and stole . therefrom, a new bi
cycle, three pistols, a Winchester
rifle, and several other articles. Sever
al complaints were made to tho police
yesterday morning from different
parts of the city from several busi
ness men stating that their places of
business had been robbed.
A telephone message received Tues
tty night from the authorities at
Rocky Mount, stated that Jesse Baity,
who is wanted in this city on a num-j
lcr of charges, had been arrested at
that place and would be held until
tlio authorities here could send, for
him,
RAILROAD RATE BILL.
Senator Clay Addressed Senate on
Railroad Rate Bill. I
By Associated Press.
Washington, March 29 The Senate
iMbsea a cm authorizing the erection
cf p. dam across the Choctawhatcheo
River in Dale county, Alabama.
The conference report on the Con
sular Organization bill was adopted.
Clay addressed the Senate on the
Railroad Rate bill. He discussed the
question of the court review of the or
ders of the Interstate Commerce Corn-
mission saying if under the House bill
the
regularity of the commissions or
ders only was contested. No carrier
would be deprived of the right of con
testing the r?.te fixed.
The House agreed to the conference
report on the Consular reorganization
bill.
Clay'sSpeech.
Clay said he believed the court' re
view Oi! commissions findings ought
to be permitted but should be con
fined to the question as to whether
the rate fixed is constitutional.
Reward for Good Behavior.
The bill providing for commutation
for the good conduct for the United
Stater, prisoners was passed.
Washington, March 29. The Senate
Committee on Commerce authorized
a favorable report on the nomination
of James E. B. Stuart to be collector
of Customs for the district of New
Port News, Va. This nomination has
been held up for a :ong time on
several charges among them being
one that Stuart had done a number
of things that tended to disrupt the
republican party.
CONSIDER WAGE SCALE.
President Mitchell Addresses Con
vention Action of Scale Committee
Endorsed.
Indianoplis, March" 29.President 1
iNvnen. tne national convention ox
was called to order President Mitchell
said: "This convention is called that
you may determine what action to
take on the wage question. In the
central competitive district the opera
tors have offered the present scale.
This was defeated by the miners. In
the joint conference is pending a mo
tion to restore the scale of 1903 for
two years. "In the southwest ,dis
trict the delegates have proposed a
settlement on the scale of 1903, with
an advance of 3 cents a ton in the min
ing scale at the basis point."
The action of the committee was
endorsed and the miners adjourned
to meet the operators in joint confer
ence at o'clock. -.
THE ROOSEVELTS OFF TO CUBA.
Mrs. Roosevelt and Children Leave
This Morning for Fernandina, Fla.
From There They Go to Cuba.
By Associated Press
Washington, March 29. Mrs. Roose
velt, acompanied by her children,
Ethel, Archie and Quentin, the chil
dren's governess and Mrs. Roosevelt's
maid left Washington for Fernandina,
Fla., on the Florida limited over the
Southern Railway this morning.
At Fernandina they will board the
Mayflower for a cruise of about ten
days in West Indian waters. Mrs.
Roosevelt is taking the trip to secure
rest and does not expect to be enter
tained by the people either in Cuba
or Porto Rico.
J. W. ALEXANDER'S CONDITION.
Former President of Equitable Life
In Weakened Condition Taken to
Sanitarium.
By Associated Press.
Greenfield, Mass March 29. James
W. Alexander, former president of the
Equitable Life Assurance Society ar
rived here and was driven to the pri
vate sanitarium at Deerfield, where
he expects to remain several weeks in
recovering from effects of two surgical
operations which were performed in
New York recently.
He is still in a weakened condition
but is daily gaining strength.
Mr. W. W. Boykin, a prominent
traveling man of St. Louis is in the
tlLy imi UL "1C "U1"1U-
MOTHER BIG FLOOD
For a Hundred Miles the A'abam
River is Covering the Lowlands
Four to Six Feet Deep and
Hundreds of Cattle are Swept
Away.
By Associated Press.
Mobile, Ala., May 29 Officers of
the steamer Mary, bring news of se-
fiious conditions along the Alabama
river.
For a hundred miles the lowlands
are under water from two to six feet,
and crops are damaged.
Rain is again falling over the upper
water-shed. Carcases of cattle and
other live stock by the hundreds are
strewn over the inundated district.
Lumber interests have also sus
tained serious losses.
Address State Teachers Assembly.
Special to The News.
Raleigh, N. C, March 29. Dr. Henry
N
Snyder, president Wofrord College,
s C. has accepted an invitation to de-
liver an address before the North Caro
lina Teachers Assembly, June 15. Also
he will address the State Summer
School a few days later.
ON ALABAMAR VER
II CftVALRY TROOP,
TWO COMPANIES
OF INFANTRY, OURS
Mayor McNinch Secures a Cavalry
Troop From Fort Myer and Two
Companies ot Infantry from
Fort McPherson for the Big
Celebration in Charlotte.
He Wires the News that he Has
Strong Hope of Other Material
Recognition From the Govern
ment. The Mayor .will Try to
Land the Marine Band.
Mayor S. S. McNinch telegraphs The
News this afternoon that Secretary of
War Taff, has ordered Troop E, 13th
Cavalry from Fort Myer and two com
panies of infantry from Fort McPher
son, for the 20th of May celebration.
He adds that he has strong hope of
other material recognition by the Fed
eral government.
In his dispatch to The News, Mayor
McNinch says that through the good
offices of Senator Simmons, Governor
Glenn and Major Walter G. Coleman
of the Seaboard Air Line, he has been
able to induce Secretary Taft to prom
ise the above named companies for
our big celebration.
As The Njews stated Tuesday, Mayor
McNinch is doing all in his power to
making the coming 20th the greatest
in the history of Charlotte. He is now
in Washington doing his best to get
seme big recognition from the govern
ment. He hopes to land the Marine
Band, which will be well worth one's
visit to Charlotte on the day we cele
brate. All Charlotte wishes Mayor McNinch
well in his splendid efforts to secure
governmental attractions for the 20th.
RIDICULED CHURCH UNION.
Bishop Candler Depreciated Church
Selfishness and Ridiculed Union in
His Sermon Before Baltimore Con
ference. By Associated Press.
Cumberland, Md. March 29. Bishop
Candler, of Atlanta, opened the ses
sion of the Baltimore Conference of
the Methodist Episcopal Church South
Bishop Candler In his sermon depre
ciated church selfishness and ridicul
ed the proposed church union. His
auditors frequently shouted "Amen"
Virginia C. Morris, Front Royal of
Va, treasurer of the Womens Foreign
Missionary Society, reported $5,399 re
ceived which is an increase and the
establishment of the Sarah B. Wilson
school in China-
INVESTIGATE COTTON GROWTH.
Committee Representing English Spin
ners and Manufacturers to Visit
South.
By Associated Press.
Boston, Mass., March 29. The com
mittee representing the Federation of
the English Cotton spinners and Manu
facturers arrived here. The committee
is visiting this country for the purpose
of investigating the growth of cotton
and its use by the manufacturers, and
proposes to visit the Southern cot
ton, fields.
North Carolina Postmasters.
By Associated Press.
Washington, March 29. Fourth
class postmasters appointed are,
North Carolina, at Enochville, Andrew
McFreeze; for South Carolina, at Dun
bar, Charles F. Dunbar.
Whistle Means Fight.
Novel Way of Issuing a Challenge in
a Mining Town in Pennsylvania.
Wilkes-Barre, Pa., March 29. Keith
Bush, of Athens, near here, was to
day arrested on complaint of Dr. L.
B. Dennison, charged with disorder
ly conduct, and the whole town is in
terested in Justice Carey's decision in
the case.
There is an air which if whistled in
Athens means a challenge to fight.
School boys whistle it at each other
and immediately engage, and it is a
deadly insult among the railroaders
and the occasion for frequent, fights
and disturbances. It implies that the
man whistled at is an opponent ot
labor unions.
Dennison complains that the boy
whistled it at him as he drove through
the town. .Being a . man Dennison
could not fiht the boy, so he had him
arrested. The hearing is set for to
day. .
Little Worm Responsible.
Washington, March 29. A little
worm, the teredo, or "borer," will be
responsible for a river and harbor bill
carrving at least $750,000. Speaker
Cannon and the House managers have
opposed any river and harbor bill at
this session, but thousands of dollars
expended in driving, piling and build
ing jetties at the mouth of the Colum
bia River, the army engineers in
charge report will be wasted unless
an immediate appropriation , be made
to protect the work, which the "teredo
or borer" has attacked.
WESTWARD BOUND.
Mountain People Going to Prairie
Country. Charming Social Affair.
Special to The News.
Asheville, March 29. Of late
months there has been noted an un
usual exodus of people from Western
North Carolina to points in the far
west and northwest. Emigrations of
this kind have been in order for sev
eral years from this section, but of
late the movement has been greatly
accelerated, and it is estimated that
in the past few months several hun
dred colonists have taken the west
ward way. Their destinations are wide
ly different, some going to Washing
ton, Nebraska, Orange, the Dakotas,
and Idaho, while others take a more
southerly route, locating in the terri
tories and southwestern States, some
going as far as California.
One of the most charming social af
fairs of Asheville society recently, was
the dinned given by D. C. Waddell, Jr.,
Tuesday evening in the private dining
room of the Battery Park Hotel to
honor Mrs. Eleanor McCartney Lane,
the well known author who has writ
ten a number of successful books, and
whose "AH for the Love of a Lady,"
is now running In Appleton's and is
shortly to be published in book
form.
Henry Dixon, colored, who attempt
ed to kill Ben Gwyn, also colored, Fri
day afternoon, was today convicted of
assault with a deadly weapon and of
carrying a concealed weapon, and sen
tenced to the roads for nine months.
J. P.. Smith, a young white man, was
Tuesday afternoon arrested in this city
at the request of the authorities of
Canyon, Texas, for the alleged raising
of a check at that place. Smith has
consented to return without requisition
papers, and Sheriff Reed has been re
quested to tv.rn him over to the Texas
authorities at Texarcana.
TAMPA WANTS EXPOSITION.
But President Roosevelt Is Not Enthu
siastic. Commemorate Beginning
Canal.
By Associated Press.
Washington, March 29. President
Roosevelt was asked today to give his
interest and support to another Inter
national exposition.
It is the desire of the people of Flor
ida that such an exposition be held in
Tampa January, February, March,
April and May, 1908, to commemorate
the beginning of digging the Panama
Canal.
Representative Sparkman of Florida
introduced J. L. Brown, of Tampa, to
the President and they discussed the
exposition project.
The president was not enthusiatic
about theproposition, as he said he
had about all the -Work on hand con
cerning expositions he well could
stand.
VICTIMS OF OAS
IN ATENEMENT
One Italian Deadand Three More
are Reported Dying at Phila
delphia Hospital. All Due to
an Accident. Gas Flowed all
. Night.
By Associated Press.
Philadelphia, March 29. Ignorant of
the mechanism of gas fixture, a family
of Austrian immigrants who arrived
here three days ago, were overcome
by illuminating gas last night in a
tenant house.
Schaye Weinstein, died today, at
the hospital, and Rosa, , his wife and
their three daughters, Celia, aged 22;
Sara, aged 19, and Anna, aged 14, are
said to be dying at the same institu
tion. The victims were found unconscious
today in their rooms by Rebecca, the
fourth daughter, who had spent the
night with relatives. In extinguishing
the light, last night some member of
the family had accidentally turned on
the gas again and the fumes had es
caped into the rooms during the entire
night.
COMPANIES CHARTERED.
Bank of Johnson County Chartered
Also Company At Statesville.
Special to The News.
Raleigh, March 29. The bank of
Kenley was chartered to do a commer
cial and savings banking business at
Kenly, Johnson county at a capital of
$50,000 authorized and $10,000 sub
scribed by C. W. Edgerton and others.
Another charter was to O. W. Sloan
Glass Co., of Statesville at a capital of
$50,000 authorized and $20,000 sub
scribed for making plate glass mirrors
and dealing in glass generally.
PROTECT BEAUTIES OF NIAGARA.
Proposition to Limit Export of Energy.
Ottawa, Ontario, March 29. A fed
eral policy for water power, which will,
prevent the export of energy developed
at Niagara to an extent to injure Ca
nadian industries nas been announced
in the House by Minister of Public
Works Hyman. i
It is proposed that right, to export
power shall be granted subject to re
vocation at short notice; there shall
be no claim against provincial or do
minion government arising out of .such
revocation, and the companies shall be
subject to such rules and regulations
as the government may see fit to im
pose. Action is also to he taken to prevent
spoliation of the scenic beauty of the
falls. " . ' '
: ' .
400 PERSONS ARE
VICTIMS TO MOST
HORRIBLE MALADY
A Tropical Disease More Repul
sive Than Leprosy is now Pre
valent on Island of Guam. To
Establish Hospital for Isolation
of Dread Plague.
Account of How Disease Affects
Victim. Experts Give Opinions
on Disease. Over 400 Cases
Have Developed on Island
Alreadyi
By Associated Press
Washington, March 29 Gangerosa,
a tropical disease more repulsive than
leprosy, has become so prevalent upon
the Island of Guam that Lieutenant
MsNamee, U. S. N., acting Governor of
the Island, has recommended the es
tablishment of a hospital for the iso
lation of the disease, which is believed
to be highly contagious. Admiral
Rixie, Surgeon-general of the Navy,
has approved the recommendation, and
it. is likely thaat a $5,000 hospital for
cases of the new disease will be erect
ed immediately, near the Leper Hos
pital on the Island.
Lieut. McNamee says the disease
destroys the upper part of the face by
slow ulceration and is more horrible,
both to the victim and his companion,
than leprosy. Four hundred cases have
already been developed. Lieut McNa
mee says its isolation is imperative.
The naval surgeons have investigat
ed the disease in parts of South Amer
ica, and the West Indies and report
indicates that there can be little doubt
that it is a distinct malady, and one
which does not yield to the treatment
given tubercolosis, leprocy and other
diseases common in tropical countries.
Cases of gangerosa have been treated
in New York which are believed to
have come from Brazil and Panama.
LIVERPOOL BETTER.
It Opened Weak But Higher Prices
Prevailed at the Close.
NewXprk. March 29. The Liver
pool raaj.t after opening down, re
covered; o about the closing prices of
yesterday, cable advices stating that
the easier tone was due to strong ef
forts to depress prices by traders who
are short. The local market has also
developed a reactionary tendency on
selling by N. O. where the relative
weakness of yesterday afternoon has
continued today and a nervous feeling
among smaller traders who take profits
every time support is temporarily with
drawn because of the fear that the
bull leader is selling on the strong
spots. j
With traders generally showing such
extreme caution on the long side, of
the account, with sound conditions
among consumors who are adding to
their stocks at the higher values and
with continued unfavorable climatic
conditions over a large portion of the
belt, we see no reason to sell to the
influential operators who are working
for higher prices but would prefer to
buy on pronounced setbacks.
BROWNE'S HEAVY SENTENCE.
Lawyer Convicted of Forgery Will
Spend Twenty Years in Prison.
New York, March 29. Unless one of
those shadowy clients of his shall come
out of the void to his rescue, tomorrow,
will prove the end of delays for Henry.
Huffman Brown and the conicted
attorney will go to Sing-Sing to begin
his twenty-year term for forgery.
"The forgery charge was only one of
many that offered. The others would
have been pressed had that failed. He
was a man of many schemes, which he
worked out. for the most part alone,
preferring to use for his allies im
aginary persons, who had names, but
no local habitation. As the prosecutor
remarked, they appeared when he
wanted them, at leat their works did,
and then disappeared, never ' giving
any damaging testimony against their
counsel. The flesh-and-blood clients
Browne had been serving of late were
not so'tracteable. , '
The defendant was charged with
having forged the-name of William R.
Hubert in a transfer of propert yonce
a part of the old Bronx estate, left
ownerless when Ebbe Peterson, his
wife, Mary, and their little daughter
were drowned at sea. Eighteen years
ago as Browne himself said in testi
mony, the lawyer cast his eye on this
property. Eight years later, as he did
not say, he invented two heirs, Clarke
and Wing. Browne made Clarke and
Wing his clients. They had to fulfill
the sole end of their existence, like
other characters in fiction.
IN PURSUIT OF HIS DAUGHTER.
Preacher Opposed to Young Woman
Becoming a Missionary.
Kansas City, Mo., March 29. Miss
Nina V. Brandt is speding westward
on a fast train bound for San Diego,
Cal. Her father, pastor of the First
Christian Church of St. Louis, is but a
few hours behind on another train.
Officers along the way are watching
for the young woman and the wharves
of the China-hound steamships are
guarded to prevent Miss Brandt going
aboard. She said she was going to
China to become a missionary. All ef
forts to dissuade her were in vain and
she disappeared. She was seen here
and reasserted her decision. Her father
pased through last night in pursuit.
GREEN GAYNOR.
Several Witnesses Testify Regarding
Character of Work Done by Greene
By Associated Press.
Savannah, Ga March 29. R. F. En
sley, testified in the Greene and Gay
nor trial regarding the character of
the work done by Greene and Gay
nor in the Harbor improvements, the
witness having been employed as in
spector. He said he found mattresses
properly contstructed. W. G. Austin,
who also was inspector on the Harbor
work testified that he had complained
severaltimes.
to Carter about the manner in which
mattresses were being sunk in the
jetty line, and Carter had reduced his
salary and transferred him to other
works. This was brought by District
Attorney Erwin, the witness having as
serted that fasciness were properly
bound and tightly choked. John J.
McGiffen, Mayor of Fernandina, Fla.,
testified that the matresses used in
the Cumberland Sound work were
strongly land compactly constructed.
John H. Gaynor, who had been em
ployed by the defendants in the work,
testified that the matresses were made
compactly and (that there, were no
holes in them.
JOHN D. BREAKS PROMISE TO BOY
Oil King's Failure to Educate a Lad
Sends Young Singer1 Back to Con
cert Hall.
Cleveland, March 29. Harry Evans,
fourteen years old, has gone back to
the concert hall stase because the
richest man in the world broke his
promise. John D. Rockefeller heard of
the boy last summer when he warbled
at a beer garden. The Oil King took
Harry away from the place and prom
ised him and his mother that he would
support them and give the boy a good
education. Since Rockefeller left his
Forest Hill home not a word has been
heard from him. and Harry is wonder
ing where he is.
The Oil King had young Evans out
tc his home shortly after he took him
from the beer garden. He talked of the
birds, the flowers and the trees, quoted
poetry and Scriputure, and then asked
Harry to sing.
Without accompaniment the boy be
gan: "I Need Thee Every Hour." John
D. wiped his eyes, and walking to the
window, looked across the green lawn
into the cool depths of the woods.
Then came "What a Friend We Have
in Jesus." The servants noiselessly
gathered at the door.
"Sing 'I. Need Thee Every Hour'
again. It is my favorite," requested
the Oil. King.
Rockefeller spatetd Harry's head.
"Your voice is a power for good," he
said. "You must be educated so we
may keep you in the church."
, The bay'- is the jsvrport. t? wid
owed mother , and was forced to sing
in a concert hall to earn money.
SCHOOL GIRL SUICIDE.
Fearing Punishment at Home, Child
of 14 Puts on Best Dress and Dies
By Gas. t.
New York'. March 29. Rather than
face disgrace and her father's anger
when he discovered that she had been
dismissed from a school, Jessie Mc
Gregor, aged fourteen, deliberately
took her own life by inhaling gas.
That the child had evidently been
making her decision since last Friday,
when her teacher told her she must
not return to school any more, was
shown by the careful manner in which
she had prepared for death. Complain
ing of a headache in the afternoon,
Jessie retired to her room. She curled
her hair carefully, put on her best
drcs, closed the windows, carefully
turr.ed en the gas and lay down on
the bed. She had evidently adjusted
he sV.irt.-3 nnd assumed the position
in wh:ch she wished to be found.
INSURANCE BILL PASSES.
Mutual Election's In N. Y. Cannot Be
Held Before November 15.
By Associated Press.
Albany, N. Y., March 29. The As
sembly passed the insurance bill post
poning until November 15th the annual
elections of the New York Life, Mu
tual Life cf New York, Mutual Re
serve of New York and the Security
Trust of Binghamton, and prescribing
that at elections when held no proxy
shall be valid if extended prior to
September 15.
Bill now goes to the governor.
OVER EAST RIVER
TWO CARS COLLIDE
Passenger's Make Mad Rush to
Get Outside and Young Woman
is Seriously Trampled Upon.
Car Ran Away Striking Car
Ahead.
By Associated Press
New York. March 29. Two street
cars collided on Williamsburg Bridge
over East River, injuring about a score
of nassenerers.
Miss Fannie C. Ferguson of Brook
lyn was seriously hurt, being trampled
on by passengers in their rush to leave
the car.
The collision occurred on the incline
on the Manhattan side of the river,
one car running away down this slope
and striking rear end of the car ahead.
Presidential Nominations.
Bv Associated Presi.
Washington, March 29. The Pres
ident sent to the Senate the following
nominations for postmasters: for
Georgia, D. C. Cole at Marietta; for
South Carolina, B. J. Hammett, at
Blackville.
AFTERMATH OF
RECENT
OF
Police Arrest Eight Men, Two
Boys and one Woman Charged
With Complicity in Recent
Murder of Six Bulgarians in
Minneapolis,
Ones Arrested are Either Mace
donians or Bulgarians and are
Thought by Police to Have Oc
cupied House Where the Mur
dered Lived. "
By Associated Press.
Duluth, March 29. Six foreigners,
who are thought by the police to have
occupied the house in Minneapolis,
where six Bulgarians were murdered
were arrested here.
One of the men arrested acknowl
edged that they came from the house
in Minneapolis where the six Bulga
rians were slain. He said they left Min
neapolis Monday when there were only .
six men in the house and that all were
alive and well. He sand he knew but
two of them. A woman, the wife of one
of the men. is in custody with them.
All are well supplied with money.
Later Other arrests were made,
and the police now have in custody
eight men, two boys and one woman.
Some are Bulgarians, and some Mace
donians. Some Futher Details.
Kuzman Siekuloff, spokesman of the
party, says for the last year or more,
some of the Bulgarians from the
Providence of Presbad, in the north
ern part of Turkey, have been work
ing in the wood camps of Northern
Minnesota. .One week ago yesterday
Seikuloff and the six members who are
dead, completed their work at Albora
and went to Minneapolis with their
winter's wages in their pockets.
Saturday a party of immigrants ar
rived from Bulgaria, and Monday af
ternoon Siekuloff started for Duluth
with the new comers, leaving six mem
bers ofj his old band in Minneapolis.
Siekuloff and the other members of
the party declare that they are at a
loss to know, the cause of the murders.
INVESTIGATING DEATH.
Memphis Cotton Broker- Says He
Merely Acted as Friend to Beauty
in Distress.
Memphis, Tenn., March -29. The
Grand Jury today began investigating
the cause of the death of Elizabeth
Buckley, the sixteen-year-old actress,
better known in Memphis as Adelaide
Hayden, who died last week in St.
Joseph's Hospital. )
C. P. Hunt, a cottonf broker, con
tends that his relations with the
young girl were purely platonic, the
result of the sympathy of an old man
for beauty in distress. When Miss
Hayden was deserted here by the Billy
Cliiford company Hunt had her sent
to a hospital and finally provided
funds for her to reach her New York
home. Realizing her condition she
hastened to draw another draft on
Hunt's sympathy bank and returned
to Memphis and to her death.
Wilmington Marriage.
Special to The News.
Wilmington, March 29. A quiet but
pretty wedding took place last night
at 9 o'clock when Miss Kate Galloway
and Mr. Charles R. Yopp were united
in marriage at the home of the' bride's
parents on North Third Street, Rev.
N. M. Watson, pastor of Grace Metho
dist Church officiating.
The bride is the charming daughter,
of Dr. W. C. Galloway and the groom
is. a well known young business man
of this city, the son of Alderman
W. H. Yopp.
The young couple are known to a
largo circle of friends and they were
the recipients of a number ct beau
tiful and useful presents. Mr. and Mrs.
Yopp will reside in this city.
CHARGED WITH EMBEZZLEMENT.
F. E. Ferrrell Arrested at the Louise
Mills on Serious Charge.
F. E. Ferrell, a mill operative, wast
arrested at the Louise mills yesterday
afternoon by Patrolmen Christenbury
and Barnhardt as a fugitive from jus
tice, ferrell is wanted at Dillon, S.
C, where, it is alleged, he embezzled
about $100 fronvone of the mills. He
claims that he borrowed some money
and had some additional, money that
had been given him to solicit help for
the mill and while out on a trip the
money was stolen.
He was not able to replace it and
left, intending, he says, to repay it as
soon as he could save np enough. He
will be taken to Dillon tonight.
Mr. Morrison 'Selected.
Mr. Reid Morrison, of the graduat
ing class of the North Carolina Medi
cal College, has been selected as resi
dent physician at the Presbyterian
College.
Little Duffy Bruns 111.
Duffy, the little son of Mr. and Mrs.
W. L. Bruns, continues tiuite sick. It
was thought that the little fellow was
somewhat improved this afternoon.
Card of. Thanks.
Mr.J.E.Cassidy and children wish to
thank their friends and acquaintances
for the kindness and sympathy shown
them during the illness and death of
Mrs. Cassidy.
THE
MURDER
THE I BULGARIANS