'y nnnn' Ik. ft THE ONLY EVENING ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWSPAPER IN CHARLOTTE! VOL. XXXV NO. 6361 CHARLOTTE, N C, FRIDAY EVENING, JULY 6, 1906 PRICE: 5 CENTS ICOTI DECLARED THAT HE ALONE WAS GUILTY OF MURDER NEWSo Jo SENSATIOllNG 77 MOTHER MRS, THAW MAKES A STATE M EHT FOR THE FIRST TIME Mrs. Charles J. Holman, Mother of Mrs. Harry K. Thaw Made a Statement to the Press To-day for the First time. What she Said. AMONG RADICALS AT GREENSBORO jy(y $L(r : - " .... Negro Seaman Hanged at Wil mington To-day Made a State ment Exhonorating Sawyer and Adams who were Sentenced to Hang tor Mutiny and Murder. Efforts will be Put Fortli at Once to Secure the Release of the Two Negroes Condemned to Die for the Crimes of a Brute of the High Seas, Special to The News. Wilmington, July G. Standing on ti.o scaffold this afternoon, Henry Siott, tlie negro seaman, whose home was in Philadelphia, had read . his -.worn statement confessing that he : !or.e committed the wholesale butch . rv of human lire last October aboard the schooner Harry A. Berwind, bound for Philadelphia and off the North Carolina coast at the time. He confessed that he slew Capt. E. 1?. Rumill and the three other white urtkers and threw their bodies over load; that he also slew the negro srcaman, Coakley, whose body was left on the deck of the ship and that hv only implicated Arthur Adams and Rwlert Sawyer, his fellow seamen, new under sentence of death for the same crime, to repay them for betray ing him. His statement unfolded a remark et le capacity for dealing 4eatbr to hu man beings and he claimed that he was led to do the deeds of blood be cause the cook aboard the ship .attack er him and because of the harsh treatment accorded him and the ciew by Captain Rumill and the other officers. ! Shortly after the reading of the tiatf inent Scoit was hanged. Efforts will be made immediately looking towards the ultimate freeing ui Sawyer and Adams, whose date for hanging has been set for August 17. When Scott was hanged here today his counsel was in Washington trying to get a stay of execution in order to liave him examined as to his sanity. On trial Sawyer and Adams testi fied that Scolt alone enacted the trag tdy and told how he had shot the offi cers one at a time while they begged lor mercy and then threw their biood c'renched bodies into the sea. Their tale seemed almost impossi ble and taey were convicted and whi:e Scott claimed his innocence and the guilt of the other two negroes, he was also convicted as it was plain that he had a hand in the mutiny and murders. MILITARY POLICE SERVICE. The Service for the Jamestown Expo sition to Be Performed by Pocahon tas Guard. I!y Associated Press. Washington, July G. The military police service at the Jamestown Tercentennairy Exposition will be performed by the Pocahontas guard, under command of Capt. Carpenter of the United States Marino Corps, at .Norfolk. The preference for member ship in this new organization which win be well paid and will be main tained in the service until November ot), 1907, will be given to the appli cants who have received honorable discharges from the navy or Marine Corps. CASES OF ICE MEN. Circuit Court Suspends Workhouse Sentence of Three Men. By Associated Press. Toledo, O., July 6. Tho circuit ctxirt suspended the Avorkhouse sen tence of Miller, Watters and Bryan, the ice men ' who have boon in jail two weeks, while lawyers were fight ing to get their cases in the circuit court. All convicted ice dealers have 1-ad sentence suspended and are out on bond. The circuit court will not reach the cases until fall. ANARCHIST ARRESTED. Mart Thought to Be Anarchist Arrest edBelieved to Be Plotting Against Emperor William. By Associated Press. Altona, Prussia, July 6. The alleg ed anarchist, named Rosenberg, who is reported to have left Seattle, Wash ington for Geimany, recently, was ar iested here yesterday. He is accused f having had designs on the life of .Emperor William. ERYAN TO MEET HALDANE. Mr. Bryan Lunched With Major Bea com to Meet War Secretary. By Associated Press. Lordon, July 6. Mr. Bryan lunched with Major John H. Beacom, the Unit ed States millitary attache, to meet War Secretary Haldane. ,No other guests were present. MEN FELL HUNDRED FEET With Great Iron Smokestack Men Fell t 100 Feet. By Associated Press. Cincinnati, July 6. Joseph Ayers and Oscar Underwood, sheet iron work ers fell 100 feet with the great iron smokestack at the Front Street Pump ing Station and were probablv fatally injured. o-l r-y jf S "Now Will You Be Good!" HARRISON TERRELL DEAD. ORPHANAGE OFFICERS.' Became Known a the Faithful At tendant and Nurse of Gen. Grant. By Associated Press. Washington, July 6. Harrison Ter- rui, who became known throughout H the country during the last years of the life of Gen. Grant, as his faithful attendant and nurse in New York and Mount McGregor, died in this city last night. While on duty in the War Depart ment ho fell and fractured his skull. Ho was carried to the Emergency Hospital where he died without re gaining consciousness. Tcrrill was greatly liked by all of the newspaper men to whom he showed many cour Usics during the days of Gen. Grant's last illness. He leaves two sons and a daughter. His oldest - son, Judge Kobt. H. Terrell, is a graduata of Harvard College and is now rt the head of the minor courts of the Dis trict of Columbia. His daughter is a teacher at Tuskegee, and his younger son is in the office of gas inspector of the District. TOLSTOI SARCASTIC. He Declares Parliament is Like Child ren Playing at Being Men. Yasnaya, Poliana, July 6. Count Leo Tolstoi, in an interview ;caid, in reference to the Russian, Pajiiauaent: "It seems to ire t.s if children were playing as grown-ups. Our parliament irritates me in this so-called represen tatives oi the people, who really are below the level of the classes which they are supposed to represent, as sume the task of solving problems vhich will decide the fate of 140,o00,- 000 human beings." DEATH LIST OF THE I ! ! i ii it is Estimated now That 51 are Dead and 3,551 Maimed or In jured as Result of Celebration. Many More Expected to Die, Before Accounts are all In. By Associated Press. Chicago, July 5. Fifty-one lives were thrown away and 3,551 celebrants maimed or injured, some of them fa tally,, is the record of this year's "Glo rious Fourth" as compiled by the cor respondents of the Tribune at an early hour today. The loss of life almost equals that of last year when 59 persons were killed while every record for the num ber of injured was broken. Almost one thousand more persons were in the hospitals yesterday or swathed in bandages than last year. That the death list will continue to grow for several days is indicated by the large number of dispatches record ing the injuries believed to be fatal. The deadly toy pistol was responsi ble for a big percentage of the inju ries and six of the dead. How many of the injured are infected with the germ of tetanus cannot be estimated. TWO KILLED IN AN EXPLOSION. Six Others Were Injured, Two of Them Seriously. Saginaw, Mich., July 6. Two per sons were killed and six injured, two of them seriously, by the explosion of an air gasoline tank on the second floor of the boiler house of the Con sendai works. The dead are: E. A. Foeht and Carl Consendai; John Con sendai, proprietor of the dye works was fatally burned. ' . Happenings at Dixie. Mr' Lewis Williamson will celebrate his -17th birthday tonight by giving a lawn party 40 the young people of Dixie. . . i.J . Tionhnnps have been lnsiaiieu m the homes of Messrs. B. T. and T PnP H. Ti. and S. T. Stowe and C. D. M. Montgomery. Mrs. Lawrence Clark is ill at her home at Lodo. ; Mr. Mack Berryhill has returned home after a visit to his sister at Bal- timore. The Second Presbyterian Sunday school will meet next Sunday at 4:o0 o'clock instead of .3:30 the regular hour. ' ni nn n p FOURTH bLUn UUO Annual Meeting of the Directors of Thomasville Baotist Orphanage Held. Special to The News. Raleigh, July 6.- At the annual meet ing of the Thomasville Baptist Orpha nage held last evening all the officers and faculty were re-elected and a" vote of thanks adopted expressing appre ciation for the great improvement made in the management of the orpha nage for the year just closed. Steps were taken to enlarge the water, sup ply, add materially to the capacity and equipment of the kitchen, erect a new ; cottage tnat wiu accomodate ioriy or nhans and also to remodel and move as A base andbsolute lie.' back in lino with other cottages the old Watson cottage which was among the first erected on the grounds. The report of General Maager M. L. Kesler in summing up the work of the year stated that the institution opened up the year with an indebted ness of $11,408 and reduced this dur ing the year to $6,819; having invest ed in land $1,555; two barns $1,091; farm equipment' $525; equipment of Charity and Children $200. There is in hand for installing a laundry plant $1,165. During the year the Orphan age which is supported by the Baptists of the State had cared for 313 orphans. During the year 55 were received and 43 discharged, to live with relatives 20, and put in homes 12. Two died dur ing the year. General J. S. Carr and Major II. A. London of the North Carolina division United Confederate Veterans, were in conference today relative to the pro- posed encamoment of the veterans . i nnin V10 ctntpmpTit. that the CLI1U. gaic uui. f 1 -II 1 . 1 1 .1 ill f i lit l' encampment win ue uwu uu encampment grounds at Aioreneau after the North Carolina National Guard encampments very probably on ugust 22 and 23, the tents ana otner equipment to be left by the state guards for the use of the veterans. Application has been made tor tne usual special rate of one cent per mile for the veterans has been asked from the railroads and will certainly be granted. Orders in detail will be is sued just as soon as all arangements are perfected. SAMUEL PARKER DIED TODAY. Was Shot Last Night By Judge Fulton At Helenwood, Tenn. By Associated Press. Knoxville, Tenn., July 6. Samuel Parker, the young attorney and col lege athlete shot last night by Judge Fulton, at Helenwood, Tenn., died to day. Parker made an ante-mortem statement that he had been shot by Fulton without provocation. It is stat ed that Fulton accused Parker of com menting on Mrs. Fulton, but to that Parker made, an emphatic denial. Ful ton ' surrendered and will be given a preliminary hearing at Huntersville, Tenn. MR. CAMPBELL IN CHARGE. Is Given Charge of the New Division of Naturalization. By Associated Press. Washington, July 6. Under tho pro visions of an act of Congress to es tablish uniform rules of naturaliza tion, which provides for a chango of the title of the bureau of immigra tion to the "bureau of immigration and naturalization," tho secretary of Commerce and Labor has established a division of naturalization, and has placed in charge of it Richard K. Campbell, of Virginia. SCHOOL OF SOCIALISM Executive Committee of Socialistic Party to Establish "Partisan War School." By Associated Press. Berlin, July 6. The executive com mittee of the Socialistic party has announced its intention to establish a "Partisan war school," in the autumn with the object of preparing Socialistic youths for public life, by. lecturers on national economy, socialism, law history, science literature, the natural sciences and debating exercises. An Important Meeting. An important meeting of the Board of Directors of the Young Men's Chris tian Association will be held at 8 o'clock tonight in the parlors of the association building. In addition to the regular order of business, the election of a successor to the late President, Geo. B. Hanna, will take place. Every member of the board of directors is urged to be pres. ent. Sensation Previous to City Pri maries by Issuance of Affidavit by Chos. G, Surtothat Adams had Assured Him of Blackburn's Defeat for. Congress. Atethat Those; Counting on his Having Influence Over Election Would get Left. Adams Says Statement is "Bate and Absol ute Lie." Special to The News. Greensbor, July V.- A political sen sation was created here previous to the holding of the Kepublican city pri maries this afternq'on by the issuance of an affidavitaj5igoed by Charles G. Burton, that Spencer B. Adams as sured him severatimes, he would see to Blackburn's defeat for Congress and that those counting on his having influence over the election would get left. ; Burton is assistant postmaster to Tyre Glenn. The prospects are for a Blackburn stampede here at the pri maries. "' y ' f - Mr. Adams denounces the statement SCHOONER WATERLOGGED. Helpless Off Harbor to Notes. Beaufort Bar Inlet to Be Deepened News Special to The News. '.' 1 Beaufort, July 6. A very interesting game of baseball was played here yes terday afternoon between Beaufort and Kinston, the score being 7 to 1 in favor of Kins ten. The game was void of any special incident, save the oc casional excitement following a decis ion by the umpire. The game was in some respects unique, being played in a strong Jareeze, 'v JLnyiull.view.of the ocean. Quite a number of Beaufort people attended the Fourth of July ball at Morehead City last night. Many peo ple from New Bern and other cities were in attendance. There are not a great many guests at the hotel at present. A large three-masted schooner, bound from a point in Florida to some northern seaport, is waterlogged off the Beaufort bar. The schooner has a large cargo of lumber on board. The captain has telephoned north for a tug to tow his ship nortward. Work on the great railroad bridge is progressing slowly. The track will, it is said, be completed by Septem ber. It is exceedingly difficult work. The piles are creosoted to prevent rot ting at the water's edge. Some fine catches of fish are being re- ported. Gray trout and black fish are biting well. The work of deeping the Beaufort bar will soon be begun. With a suffi cient inlet Beaufort will be one of the finest harbors in the entire south. The Blades Brothers of New Bern have recently formed and had incor porated' a new lumber company. They recentlj, it will be recalled, sold out to the Standard Oil Company. ASSESSMENT OF PROPERTY Corporation Commission is Consider- ing Assessment of Public Corpora tion Property. Special to The News. Raleigh, July 6. The Corporation Commission took up today and have under consideration for the next sev eral days the assessment of road tel egraph, telephone, street railway and other public corporation property in the State for legislation. An amendment to the charter of the Glennwood L.ajrfl Company, of Ral eigh, was filed with the Secretary of State today providing for an increase of the capital stock from $4,000 to $100,000. James H. Pou is president of the company for developing subur ban property northwest of the city. EIGHT ARE RILLED Just as 25 Cossacks Entereed Lime Kiln where Bombs were Thought io be Manufactured Terrific Explosion Occurnd. Eight Killed, Five Injured. By Associated Press. Berlin, July 6 Twenty-five Cossacks surrounded a lime kiln at Miechow in the province of Kielce, Russian Po land, on the information that it was being used for the manufacture of bombs. As the Cossacks were forcing their way in a terrific explosion blew the kiln to pieces. Eight Cossacks were killed and five woundec". IN AN EXPLOS DN Alone and THE FARMERS TOMORROW. An Interesting Meeting is Expected Various Reports to Be Received. Indications point to a lively meeting of the farmers at the court house to morrow morning, which will, no doubt, be attended by a large number. There will be a number of vital sub jects to be considered and discussed, the main one being the report of the warehouse committee which was ap pointed at a recent meeting to confer with mill men in regard to a ware house for the farmers. This commit tee held a meeting last week and la ter had a conference with a committee of cotton mill men. Just what was done at this conference was not given out. The report will be heard with interest tomorrow. President C. C. Moore, of the North Carolina Cotton Association, is hear tily in favor of the warehouse plan. He thinks the farmers should have a warehouse of their own where their cotton may be stored and. kept there. as long as desired, with a reasonable charge for storage. This plan has worked successfully elsewhere and the leading farmers of Mecklenburg are all of the opinion that it can be worked successfully h.ere. Various other reports will be heard at the meeting tomorrow morning, in cluding the secretary's report and a report on the condition of the cotton crop in this county. BIG DISPENSARY PROFITS Raleigh Dispensary Profits for Last Quarter $16,500 The Telephone Tolls Case. Special to The News. Raleigh, July 6. The hearing of the complaint on the part of Col. J. Bryan Grimes against the Southern Bell Tele phone Co., will be heard on July 17 instead of July 5 as at first appointed. The complaint is in the form of a pe tition for an order reducing toll fees j for long distance service to five cents i for the first five minutes and 24 cents I per minute for all in excess of that! time. Also for fixing local exenange charges at $1.50 per month for resi dence and $2 per month for business 'phones. The city treasury of Raleigh has just received $6,600 as the municipali ties share of the profits from the dis pensary for the three months ending June 30. The total profits for the three months was $16,500 the remainder go ing to the county treasury for educa tion and road improvement. For the quarter ending March 31 the city's share of the profits was $6,000 and for the auarter ending June 30 1905 fo.bUU. A steady increase in profits is therefore j noticeable. NEGRO SHOOTS COMPANION. Killing Occurred Yesterday Concord. Near Special to The News. Concord, July 6 Will Cameron, colored, yesterday afternoon shot and killed instantly Charles Taylor, a col ored companion at a celebration at Rock Hill Church grounds, ia No. 2 township. The negroes were holding a celebra tion at the grounds yesterday and the killing occurred just after the noon hour. He was caught where the kill ing occurred. Cannon didn't try to escape and he seems to be uneffected by it. The cause of the killing is not known here, but the report is that there was a quarrel over a woman. Cannon and Taylor were both from the neighborhood in which the trag edy occurred, and in a settlement in which trouble has frequently occurred. THE CANNON MILL. Site has Been Surveyed Both Cannon and New Patterson Will Be Large Mills. Special' to The News. Concord, July 6. The foundation of the new Cannon mill, four miles aDove the city, has been surveyed and will be sejren hundred by sevenhundred feet The site is said to be a magnificient one and just across the railroad on another splendid site will be located the new Patterson mill. The location of these two large mills will soon make a town of considerable size and con sequence. The new Cannon mill as the dimensions of its foundation show, will be an exceedingly large one and it is said that the Patterson mill is to be no gmall thing by any means. The Patterson company has a large surplus and with the new issue of stock a big plant will be. assured. Work on the Cannon mill w'U soon be under way. ( ' I Forsaken. FIRE AT MR.' MILLER'S PLANT. Blaze Started From. One . of the Gins Damage Slight. The first fire of several weeks oc curred this morning at the waste cleaning plant of Jasper Miller & Son, In the rear of the cotton office of Sanders, Orr & Co. on North College street. The blaze started from one of the gins, and as all cotton fires are, it was very stubborn. After so long a time the firemen succeeded in, get ting, it under control. Mr.Miller's damage is fully covered by insurance. The alarm was turned in froni Box No. 18, located at the corner of Sixth end College streets, and as it was in the business section of the cit7 all the fire fighting apparatus was brought cut. VERY MANY RUMORS. Senatorial Race Remains as it Has Been for Several Days. There were many rumors afloat this afternoon regarding the senatorial sit uation. One report was to the effect that Mr. Frank R. McNinch had decid edjiot to make the race against Mr. Mcb. Watkins. This report gaineu such credence that many stated it as a fact. At 3 o'clock this afternoon the writ er telephoned Mr. McNinch, who was at his home. He stated positively that he was considering the matter and that nothing, had. taken, plage, to warrant the statement that was being heralded about the streets. Mr. David Reeves, for a long time steward of tho Buford Hotel, and lately with the Central Hotel, in the same capacity, has gone to Columbia to live. He is succeeded by Mr. New ton, of Virginia. ARTIFICIAL Plans Being Modelled for Artifi cial Island Midway Between Capes Henry and Charles or Detense of Chesapeake Bay, Hampton Roads. By Associated Fress. Washington, July 6. Plans for an artificial island midway between Capes Henry and Charles for the defence of Chesapeake Bay, Hampton Roads and all rivers which empty into them will be modeled after the island Fort Japan has constructed for the defence of Tokio in case the Japanese govern ment will Dermit Brigadier General Story to inspect the fortifications in Tokio Harbor. The general scheme completes the in stallation of 1A inch guns on the pro posed island between the two Capes as well as big guns on both Cape Henry and Cape Charles. It is likely that the proposed island with its immense guns will be located much nearer to Cape Henry tnan to Cape Charles, as the water shoal is near Cape Charles. GIANT CRACKER VICTIM. Former Congressman From Virginia May Lose Sight of Eye. Norfolk, Va., July 6. Whilo cele brating the Fourth in front of his home, on Freemason street, William A. Young, formerly a Representative in Congress from the Second district of Virginia, was severely injured by the premature explosion of a giant cracker. His right hand was so lac erated that it will be a long time bo fore he can use it again, and his right eye is: so badly injured that tia phy sician thinks he may lose the sight of it entirely. He lighted the fuse to the cracker wile it was In his hand, and it ex: ploded before he could toss it fronv him ' C.oes to Greensboro. Mr. T. P. Weston who has held the position of train master on the Char lotte division of the Southern, left yes terday from Greensboro where he, will take a similar position under the su perintendent of that division. Mrs. Weston and the children are spending the summer at- Norwood. They will join Mr. Weston..at Greensboro about the first of September, ISLAND PLANNED Says she did not Introduce Her Daughter to Stanford White. Declares She has Been Basely Misrepresented. Will Tell her Story. By Associated Fress. Pittssburg. July 6. Mrs. Chfrlo T Holman, mother of Mrs. Harry K Thaw, broke silence today for the first time since the kill ing of White, when in a short state ment issued to the Dress she madp a detail of many stories printed in Pitts- Durg and New York papers. In her statement Mrs. Holman said: Stanford White. I never took her to Stafford White. I never took her to theatre managers. I accompanied her as I would not permit her going alone. I have been maliciously misrepresent ed. My story will be told at the prop er time. I am not instrict seclusion. I have received all friends but denied all reporters." Report is Confirmed. . London, July 6. Later in the day the Earl and Countess of Yarmouth confirmed the report that Mrs. Thaw sa.iled for New York. THE THAW CASE. John Burns, Chauffeur of White, Makes Signed Statement That Mrs. Thaw and White Were on Good Terms Up to September. By Associated Press. New York, July 6. Mrs. Thaw's dai ly visit to her husband in the Tombs prison was very brief. She remained ten minutes and after leaving went to the offices of her husband's attorneys. That Mrs. Thaw and Stanford White were on friendly terms up to last September is the assertion made in a signed statement given out by John Burns, who was employed by White as chauffeur. Burns savs that on two occasions, once in February and again in September 1905' the .elec tric cab which he drove was placed at Mrs. Thaw's disposal by White. The first of these occasions was be fore her marriage, the second five months after it.- In each instance, ac cording to the chauffeur, she was tak en from a restaurant to her hotel and in neither case did White accompany her. "In nine months," says Burns, "tak ing out the time White was in Europe and Canada, my employer never once was seen in the electric hansom in company of any woman other than Mrs. White, whom he frequently took to Sherry's for dinner. CHARLOTTE CO. CHARTERED Charter Issued for the Charlotte Hard wood Specialty Company Other Charters. Special to The News. Raleigh, July 6. An amendment was allowed today to Gilmer Bros. i. wholesale dry goods house of Winston-Salem, whereby the capital is increased to $500,000 of which. $200,000 is preferred stock. J. E. Gilmer, is president of the com pany which is one of the oldest of that city. The Charlotte Hardwood Specialty Company, of Charlotte, was chartered at a $25,000 capital authorized $300 subscribed by Dr. J. C. Montgomery W. J. Scheff. and W. C. Bradley. The Blue Ridge Resort Company, of Asheville, surrenders its charter. ALDERMEN TONIGHT. School Board Tomorrow Night Police and Health Commission Meets La ter. At this time on account of several meetings, coming at the same time, the Mayor has been compelled to postpone two of these. A meeting of the Board of Aldermen will be held tonight for the purpose of further considering the question of what dis position shall be made of the cows condemned, the property of Mr. Ernest Moore. It is also likely that other dairy matters will come up, and that there will be more discussion of the new law. The meeting of the Police, Fire and Health Commission, set for tonight, has been postponed until some day next week, while the meeting of the School Board willy. bo- held, tomorrow )OI nigh REV. DR. L. P. MERCER DEAD Was Organizer of Parliament of Re ligions. Cincinnati, July 6. Rev. Dr. L. P. Mercer, organizator of. the parliament of religions which was one of the features of the Chicago world's fair died of heart disease.; He was pastor of the church of the New Jerusalem. Mrs. R. Lockwood Jones delightfully entertained yesterday morning in com pliment to Mrs. Daniel McCarty, of Fort Pierce, Fla, who before her mar riage, was Miss Frances Lardner Moore.