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VOT. XXXIV. NO. 92.
WILMINGTON, N. C, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER lo, 1901.
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ATHBUM PLOT DEEPEI S
FILIPINO MASSACRE AT S.MAR
A CASE OF ACUTE INSANITY
A. HUGE RAILROAD B
DESPERATE RESISTANCE OF ENTRAPPED
NINTH INFANTRYMEN.
CAUSED BY WORRYING OYER THE LOW
PRICE OF COTTON.
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Tlie Prisoner Now Declares His Wife
a Party to the Intended
Fraud.
Ho Says She Knew Nothing or Any Plan
lo Commit Murder to Secure the
Body and Inslstf ThcroWns oMar-der-Uatlibnn
Sent to Indiana by
.Military Authorities for Trial for
Murder-Police Believe Ills Name
and Place of Residence Incorrectly
Given-Evidence an to Identity of
Dead Body C orpse to be Returned to
JefTeronvIlle
Louisville. Ky.. November 13. New
features today in the case of Newell C.
Ilathbun. held here on a charge of de
sertion from the United States army
and suspected of the murder of Charles
Goodman." who was found dead in bed
last Thursday in a Jeffersonville hotel,
were: Rathbun's statement to the po
lice that his wife at Little Rock had
known of his plan to defraud the in
surance company, though not of the
murder feature of it; the decision to
have the corpse of the supposed Good
man returned to Jeffersonville for an
autopsy and identification; the an
nouncement from Washington that the
war department had decided to send
Rathbun to Jeffersonville and turn him
over to the Indiana authorities, and the
refusal of the local authorities to send
Rathbun to Little Rock to testify at
the coroner's jury over the corpse that
was shipped there. They say that
Rathbun will go nowhere except to
Jeffersonville, where he is to be tried
on the charge of murdering by poison
Charles Goodman. A telegram was
sent to Little Rick today asking that
the corpse be returned to Jerfferson
ville.
The suspicions of Captain Sullivan
were aroused this morning by news
from Little Rock that a Miss Corinne
nrooosed a verv much similar plot of I
defrauding an insurance company to
her and had said if she would marry
him and carry out her part he would
send a corpse home; that it could be
burried as his, and that he and she
could divide the insurance money. He
also learned that Mrs. Rathbun insist
ed that the corpse sent from Jefferson
ville and now in Little Rock was that
of her husband.
After ascertaining these facts. Cap
tain Sullivan had Rathbun brought into
his private office and interrogated him
about this phase of the case. Rathbun
said:
"I have only told you part of the
truth, so far. I arranged this matter
with my wife in Little Rock long ago,
but did not want to bring her into the
case. Now it looks like I will have to.
I told her that I would find a corpse
and that she was to telegraph for It to
be buried and then collect the insur
ance and in time I would desert again
from the army and meet her at some
place and we would divide it.
After making this statement Rath
bun said that his wife knew nothing of
any plot to commit murder or to set
fire to a hotel. "Indeed," he said,, "no
murder was committed, for I did not
kill Goodman. I might have killed him
if necessary, but he died from natural
causes."
One of the most perplexing features
of the case as it now presents itself to
the police is in regard to the real iden
tity of the prisoner here. He has been
passing himself off over the courtry as
Lieutenant Newell C. Rathbun; he was
married in Little Rock under that name,
and he was Insured for $4,000, but the
detectives are convinced that it an alias
and that he has never told his real
name or his real home.
Little Rock, Ark, November 13. In
order to establish the identity of the
man under arrest at Louisville, Ky..
and said to be Newell C. Rathbun,
deputy Sheriff A. B. Chichester left
this afternoon for Louisville, accompa
nied by Emil T. Cleockler, who knows
Rathbun welL
Today Coroner Young took testimony
touching the identity of the dead body
sent here as that of Rathbun. Charles
McKown, whose wife is a sister of
Rathbun's wife, testified that he was
well acquainted with Rathbun. He
"had looked at the body and thought
it was undoubtedly that of Rathbun.
The witness received the remains at
the depot Sunday morning and had
them conveyed to his house on Third
and Cross streets. When the coffin
was opened Rathbun's wife viewed the
remains and said "that's my darling."
The first intimation he had that any
thing was wrong was when Mrs. J. C.
"Watkins came to his house Sunday and
after looking at the body said it was
not that of Rathbun.
Chris Elkins testified that he knew
the roan who was here as recruiting
sergeant and who gave the name of
Rathbun. He noted some resemblance,
but could not state positively whether
the body was Rathbun's or not.
William O'Connell testified that there
might be a slight resemblance between
Rathbun and the corpse, but he was
positive the corpse was not that of
Rathbun.
Durand Whipple testified positively
that the dead body here was not that
of Rathbun.
Rathbun's wife did not appear before
the coroner's jury today In response to
the summons served upon her. She
has been in a condition of nervous pros
tration for several days. The taking
of further testimony was postponed
until tomorrow.
Louisville. Ky., November 13. Newell
C. Rathbun, who was arrested here on
suspicion of having caused the death
at Jeffersonville, Ind., of Charles Good
man, who was found dead in a hotel In
that city last Thursday, death having
resulted. It is supposed, from lauda
num poisoning, is tonight in the Clark
county (Indiana) jail on a charge of
murder. Under instructions from the
war department at Washington, Rath
bun. who is deserter from the United
States army, was this evening turned
over to the Indiana authorities and tak
en across the river.
TRAIS ROBBERS INDICTED
True Bills Aeralnst Longbaugh and nis
Female Companion
St. Louis, November 13. The Novem
ber federal grand jury today returned
indictments against Harry Longbaugh,
alias "John Arnold." the mysterious
Montana train robber suspect, and his
companion, Laura Bullion. Each was
indicted on seventeen separate counts.
Charles H. Smith and William O'Neill,
express messenger and fireman respec
tively of the Great Northern flyer that
was held up last July near Wagner,
Mont., arrived here this afternoon and
identified the suspect under arrest as
Harry Longbaugh, the man who held
up the train and took the lead in in
timidating the train crew.
O'Neill says that Longbaugh Is the
man who climbed over the tender and
held up Engineer Jones and himself and
then superintended the blowing up of
te safe. His recollection of the episode
was so vivid that he could describe the
two revolvers that the robber used.
The police say they are the same
weapons that were found on the pris
oner when he was arrested.
MOB VIOLENCE IN NEVADA
A Nexro Violently Assaulted and
Driven Out of Town
Virginia, Nev., November 13. Word
has been received here of an out break
of mob violence which almost resulted
in the death Henry Ellis, a negro, re
siding at Fay, a new mining camp in
Lincoln county. A gang of men went
to the cabin occupied by Ellis, attacked
him, dragged him out and held a mock
trial on a charge of stealing $350 from
a boarding house at Fay. At the con
clusion of the trial they searched his
pockets and took all the money he had,
after which they placed a rope around
his neck and drew him up three times.
The limb to which the rope was fas
tened broke and the mob decided not
to hang the man who was marched out
of town and then released. He suc
ceeded in reaching the town of Uvada
in safety.
Oklahoma's Cotton Crop
Washington, . November 13. The ag
ricultural division of the census bureau
has completed its tabulation of the
acreage and production of cotton in
the territory of Oklahoma in 1899. In
that year there were 240,678 acres in
cotton, producing 70,675 commercial
bales, the equivalent of 72,011 bales of
500 pounds, of a value to the farmers
not including cotton seed, of $2,317,119.
Icleslas Still In Jail
San Juan, P. R., November 13. San
tiago Iglesias, who was sent to Porto
Rico by the American Federation, of
Labor to organize the workingmen of
the island, and who was arrested on
arriving here last week, on a charge of
conspiracy, has not yet answered the
message from Mr. Gompers as to the
cause of his detention He is withhold
ing his reply until tomorrow, awaiting
the attorney general's answer to his pe
tition to Governor Hunt to be released
on his own recognition. He is still in
Jail.
The American Sugar Refining. Com
pany has reduced the price of soft
grades of refined sugar 10 points to
meet the cut made by the independent
refiners yesterday. - '
Cut Off From Their Gnn the Men
Fight With Tableknlves, Clubs and
Stones A Few Who Secure Arras Do
Terrible Execution on the Sayaea.
Retreat of the Small Band of Sur
vivors -The Dead Mutilated
Victoria, B. C November 13. Lieu
tenant F. P. Allison. United States
navy, who arrived here yesterday on
board the steamer Empress of China
on the way home from Manila, gives
some Interesting details of the recent
massacre of the members of thejNTinth
infantry at Samar.
. Lieutenant Allison says the natives
had grown to like the colored troops
who had been stationed there, and when
the Ninth arrived it was thought by
the American troops that the same
friendly feeling would be shown ' to
them, and the guard was not as strict
ly kept as it otherwise wouldt have
been. The night before the massacre
the village president came to Captain
Connell and before the padre declared
that it would take 100 more bambres
(native laborers) to do certain pioneer
work. He did not have the men and
begged the Indulgence of the army cap
tain. I
Honest and true in the legimata dis
charge of his duty. Captain Connell
said: "Do the best you can. Get any
native who will work, but clear away
the underbrush."
Just after daybreak the natives with
bolos to cut underbrush began coming
into camp. Then the massacre began.
The last underbrush man killed the sen
try; the church bell rang, the soldiers
went to breakfast beiow the floor that
held their arms. The insurgents divid
ed. Half went upstairs and shot down
and the other half went in the mess
room and murdered the unarmed sol
diers by force of numbers. u
Not one of the survivors turned his
back upon the scene of carnage until
all was lost, their officers fallen their
comrades slaughtered and a terrible
vengeance executed upon the enemy
Then they saved themselves and their
wounded mates. J
Captain Connell apparently , was
awakened in. nis quarters oy tne attacK
ers pouring in. He was alone, so he
jumped from the window down in
among his guards, but they had al
been slaughtered. He was struck down
by many bolos amost as soon as he
struck the ground. Not satisfied with
killing him. the assassins hacked his
body and severed the head, upon which
they piled paper and sticks of wood,
setting them on fire to render the face
unrecognizable. The body, however,
was identified by Lieutenant Drouil
lard's detachment which came down
from Basey.
The bodies of Lieutenant Bumpus and
the doctor were found upon a bridge
leading up to the quarters, over a lit
tle stream. The lieutenant had a bolo
cut horizontally across the forehead, al
most severing the top of the head, and
a deep gash down each side of the face,
so that when his body was picked up
the face was practically severed from
the rest of the head. The doctor's body
was not so badly mutilated.
. Separated from their weapons, most
of the rank and file fought like heroes
with tableknives, stones, club3 and such
rude weapons as chance threw in their
way. It was a bitter fate that befell
those who closed with the Americans
before they had received their death
wounds. Some of the native dead were
buried by their own crew before they
fled, but Colonel de Russy ordered 160
more to be thrown into a trench.
A rifle In the hands of the first ser
geant of the company rendered a ter
rible account. The sergeant who is now
in the Tocablan hospital killed the
faithless presidente who led the attack.
With six men he fought his way. to th
headquarters building to see if they
could rescue or pick up a stricken com
rade. Despite the mad rushes of the
savages that surrounded them, they
were able to secure the post colors.
Then they cut their way back to the
beach, where another little knot of
comrades were defending the Barotos
and the wounded companions.
Lieutenant Allison says there are 7.000
troops in Samar. He says there have
been a number of filibustering expedi
tions fitted out in Singapore and 'Hong
Kong, mostly by Germans which, in
some cases have succeeded in landing
their contraband arms and ammunition,
but many captures have been made by
the .gunboats.
Cotton Seed Oil Company Director
Indicted
Jackson, Mis3., November 13. The
federal grand jury of the United States
court of the Southern district of Mis
sissippi tonight indicated a. large num
ber of cotton seed oil directors and
other cotton seed oil officials, alleging
violations of the federal statutes, of
July 2, 1900. The Indictments allege
that the oil mill officials have conspired
In writing to control the prices of cot
ton seed .and cotton: seed products.
Philadelphia Syndicate to Develop
Coal Mines In Moore County-State
Auditor Sending Out Pension Lists.
Death of Miss Woodell From Convul
sions Caused by Acute Indigestion
Followed by Pneumonia
(Special to the Messenger.)
Raleigh, N. C. November 13. A negro
farmer became crazy on the street here
today on account of low price of cotton
and became so disorderly that his ar
rest was necessary. He fought two po
licemen like a tiger. He was sent to
the asylum.
The state auditor today began send
ing the pension lists to registers of
deeds. He will send the pension war
rants December 15th. They will bear
that date.
A Philadelphia syndicate is arranging
to buy the Wilcox coal minning proper
ty, 600 acres in Moore county on the
line of the Durham and Charlotte rail
way. It is declared that the quality of
this coal surpasses that from the Cum
nock mines.
Miss Lula Woodell, daughter of B. H.
Woodell, grand secretary of Odd Fel
lows, died at her home this afternoon.
Sunday morning .while talking with
her sister and apparently in perfect
health she had a convulsion. Many
other convulsions followed. She never
regained consciousness. The convul
sions were due to acute indigestion.
Pneumonia followed.
A WEARING DOWN PROCESS
Kmcland Reduced to This Policy in tho
Boer War
London, November 13. Mr. Brodrick,
the British war secretary, speaking to
night at a banquet given in London in
his honor by the City Carlton Club, de
clared that the Boers were hiding their
tracks by murdering Kaffirs behind
them.
Lord Kitchener wired today, he con
tinued, "that the coldblooded murder
of natives had become frequent of late,
and that two dead natives, their hands
tied behind their backs, were found
November 10th at the bottom of a mine
shaft."
"The country has set its teeth and in
tends to go through the process cf
.wearing down," he exclaimed. "We in
tend to provide Lord Kitchener with
fresh troops to replace the tired ones.
Only today a certain colony made an
offer of help."
Mr. Rrodrick said he was sorry any
thing had happened to affect the career
or Sir Redvers Buller and he assured
the company that the deafness of Sir
Evelyn Wood was not a bar to the work
that officer had to do as commander of
an army.
FILIPINO1 INT RIFLE PITS
Attacked and Hon ted by Our Cavalry.
Smuggling: Arms Into Luzon
Manila, November 13, Captain Hart
man's troop of the First cavalry, early
this morning, surprised 400 insurgents
at Buan, in Batangas province, south
western Luzon. Half the Insurgents
were armed with rifles. They were pre
pared for an attack and were in rifle
pits. The cavalry attacked the Insur
gents on the flank, killing sixteen of
them, wounding five and capturing nine
rifles. The insurgents broke and ran,
the cavalry pursuing them.
Two large boatloads of arms are re
ported to have been landed on the
southern part of the Batangas peninsu
la and taken to Duragan. Major West,
stationed in that locality, is endeavor
ing to find these arms.
IIAHEas CORPUS IN PHILIPPINES
Question of Its Applying to the Islands.
EffortH to Secure Auulualdo's IlelH
Victoria, B. C, November 13. Ac
cording to mail advices received from
Manila by the Empress of China, Judge
O'Neill, an American lawyer, is en
gaged in endeavoring to secure the re
lease of Agulnaldo by habeas corpus
proceedings.
Washington, November 13. While the
war department has not been advised
of the reported step to secure the re
lease of Agulnaldo from captivity
through writ of habeas corpus, they
were prepared for a move in that di
rection. A few weeks ago the first ap
plication of this kind was made in the
case of a military prisoner and as there
was some indication of a disposition on
the part of the Philippine commission
to uphold the right of habeas corpus in
that -case, the president was obliged
to cable some instructions, both to the
commission and to General Chaffee, the
result of whfth was a practical denial
of the writ.
The war department officials have
deprecated the making of an issue on
this important point, pending the de
cision of the supreme court in the
"fourteen diamond ring case," involv
ing the question as to whether the con
stitution follows the flag. Up to this
time there has been no real test of the
Important Developments in the Ne
gotiations for Settlement of the
Northwestern R'y War.
right of appeal from the Philippine
courts to the federal court3 nerc nor
of the right of habeas corpus In the
Philippines.
As far as Agulnaldo is concerned. It
is said that his captivity is only nomi
nal. The only evidence of It consists in
the appearanceby his side of an army
office when he walks about the town,
for he is free to go almost anywhere.
Moreover, it Is said that this escort is
perhaps necessary to protect Agulnaldo
from assault as he has been threatened
by the secret societies.
AN ABDUCTED CHILD RECOVERED
The Little Girl Found Atter Nine
Years' Search
Columbia, S. C, November 13. A
strange story of abducting was made
known here today when Mr3. McNeill
Wilson, of Dade City, Fla-, arrived and
claimed her daughter Loula, who had
been stolen from her home nine years
ago. A man named Miller was board
ing with Mrs. Wilson. He was eccen
tric and wrote a book: "Twenty Years
a Tramp, or a Trip Through Hell." He
disappeared, taking the child with him.
A few months later the little girl was
found and taken home.
Not long afterwards she was again'
stolen by a voung man named Hender
son and not until today had the mother
seen her child.
Henderson evidently represented Mil
ler, for the latter, now living at Lake
City, a few months ago sent the girl
here under the name of Mary Young.
He said the child was an orphan and a
care on his hands and as her grand
father came from this state, Miller con
fided her to the Ursulin convent here.
She is a bright, attractive girl ana
was taken into the home ol Mr. and
Mrs. E. G. Sandlfer.
She knew there was some mystery in
her life and as soon as she had gotten
away from Miller began to make Inves
tigations into the matters referred to
In a letter of Miller's which had fallen
Into her hands. She got the names of
parties In south Florida and after
weeks of correspondence found her
mother.
Mrs. Wilson had heard of her daugh
ter being in a convent In Solma, Ala
and had heard of her Indirectly a num
ber of times. Once her elder daughter
went to Canada on a fruitless errand
in answer to a letter. Two years ago
the mother received a photograph of
her child,' but the postmark gave no
clue.
She left here for Florida today and
expects to find the relatives gathered
to receive the lost child. The reunion
of mother and little one was affecting.
Mrs. Wilson's grandfather McNeill
went from Charleston to Florida dur
ing the Indian war and having captur
ed a leading Indian chief, was made a
captain In the United States army.
RECIPKOCI rY WITH CANADA
Its Importance Ursred on the President
by Delegation of Business Men
Washington, November 13. A distin
guished body representing the commer
cial organizations of New York, Bos
ton, Buffalo, Pittsburg, Cleveland, In
dianapolis and Cincinnati called upon
the president today to urge the Import
ance of reciprocity with Canada,
J. R. Leeson, of Boston, acted as
spokesman of the party. He told the
president that next to Great Britain
and Germany the trade of Canada with
the United States represented more in
money to the manufacturers and pro
ducers of the United States than that
of any other country and that unless
something was done to further that
trade In the way of reciprocal conces
sions all of It might be endangered.
The president received the delegation
cordially. He said that he did not need
to be reminded of the Importance of a
question to which he had given much
thought and attention. He said, how
ever, that he did not think It proper
for him to express a preference for rec
iprocity with one particular country;
that the whole subject was being can
vassed and he hoped that something
would be done at the approaching ses
sion of congress. He added that the or
ganizations represented could do muc
by bringing influence to bear upon their
representatives In congress.
Safe Blowers In Georgia
Macon. Ga, November 13. Three
white men last night blew open ---re
In Burkett Brothers store at Tjr
Branch near Macon and secured Z?. la
checks and $50 in money. Giant powder
was used. The burglars are evidently
a part of the gang of experts operating
in this section. .
Incorporation of the .Northern Seeer .
I ties Company With Capital atTozz?
Hundred Million Dollar to C'oatrcl
the Shares or the Northern PaclCo
and the Great Northern, Railways
Northern Pacific 2'relcrred Stock to
be Retired at rar br sale or lionda
Convertible Into Common Stock.
Union Pacific Company to Have
Heavy Interest In New orporatloti
; New York. November 12. There were
; two important developements - In , the
; railroad situation In the northwest and
. both tended to confirm the existing be
' lief that a final basis of settlement cf
the contest for contriol of the Northern
Pacific had been definitely agreed to.
Final ratification of this agreement will
bri.ig into existence the greatest anil
m jst effective example of the communl-
ty of Interest idea as applied to the!
railroad system of the country. The
first of today's developments was the
Incorporation at Trenton, N. J., of tho
Northern Securities Company, with a -,
capital stock of 1400,000,000, and the '
second was the unanimous adoption
by the Northern Pacific directors of a
resolution providing for the retirement .
at par of the company's preferred itoclx
on January 1, 1902.
. There was a full attendance at the
meeting at which this action was tak
en, those present including George F.
Baker and Charles Steele, representing
J. P. Morgan & Co.. E. IL Harrlman
of the Harriman syndicate, which Is la
control of the Union Pacific; James J
Hill, president of the Great Northern;
Samuel Rea, vice president of the
Pennsylvania: James Stlllman, of th3
National City Bank; IL McK. Twoxa
bley. for the Vanderbilts, and William
Rockefeller.
The directors decided thatjf
necessary for the retirement of y t- -preferred
stock should be obtained bj;
the sale at not less than par of $75,000, -
000 of 4 per cent, bonds convertible Into
common stock, each holder of common
stock now outstanding being entitled
to purchase, at par an amount equal to
seventy-eightieths of the amouut of his -,
present holdings. It was further pro--vided
that two dividends of one per - .
cent, each be presented on the preferr-
ed stock before its retirement. ; ;
Samuel Spencer was elected a merxr
ber of the board In place of Robert
Bacon, resigned, and the board organ
ized by re-electing all of the company
present officers. 5 ,
No official statement was obtainable
this afternoon as to the scope of the
newly incorporated Northern Securi
ties Company, but it was generally un
derstood that the company was form
ed to take over and control the shares
of the Northern Pacific and the Great. ;
Northern railways, and of their leased. -.
lines. Great Northern's outstanding;
capital is $125,000,000, par value, selling
at 200 in the market, while Northern
Pacific's total outstanding stock after
the retirement of the preferred will t"v"
JSO.000.000. par value, making a total; !
5203,000.000 par value, for the shares cl
these two companies. At 200 for Great
Northern, the amount would be increas
ed to J330.000.000 for the shares of it'
two companies. ' ' -
Burlington shares. It Is understock,
are not to be turned over to the
Northern Securities Company. 1
stock is now held as collateral for tho
outstanding Burlington collateir.1
bonds, with voting rights vested in tt:
Northern Pacific and Great Northern
railways. It Is understood that Unlc.
Pacific, and the Chicago Northwestern
Interests agreed to the retirement cZ
Northern Pacific preferred and that
i Union Pacific will have a heavy Inter-
est in the capital of the new compacr
1 considerably beyond the par value O
their present Northern Pacific shire
! holding, which are placed at tl.$Z?Z2j
' par value. Just over a majority oZ Cla
; total 1155,000,000 Northern Pacific tiZiH
I capital. . :
I No information was obtainable as O
! what share, if any, the Vandert!:
! and the Chicago. Milwaukee and CZ,
I Paul are to have In the new eompcrcv
j Under the arrangement, the Vzlrz
' Pacific railway will have voting tiz.' '
; In the Burlington, the board of dire: 3
: tors being about evenly divided tz '
1 ween the Union Pacific and the d. 4
interests. The suggestion was Ktc " ;
toaay mat the Burlington stock ?
r be held In a voting trust, undjr ; :
agreement between the two totcrcrl
la this case. J. p., Morgan wO ; tll
voting trustee. . . , tf .
A member of the firm of J. TSf
gan & Co., said that the Northern
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