North Carolina Newspapers

1 VOL XLI NO. 7 WILMINGTON, N. C, JULY 28, 1907 S1.00 PER YEAR 6 4 V 30 PERSONS KILLED Excursion Train Crashes Into Freight HUE THAN 70 INJURED Crew of Freight Train Responsible . for Accident Excursion Train Running at Rate of 50 Miles an Hour Freight Engine Turned Completely Around by Force ol Collision Not Enough Left of Baggage Car to Show Where tt Had Been Thrown. Salem. Mich, July 20. Thirty peo ple are dead and more than seventy injured, many of them seriously, as a result of a head on collision today he tween this village and Plymouth when a Pere Marquette excursior -.rain hound from Ionia to Detroit crasacd into a w ? .bound freight in a u located in a sharp curve- of the eero .-.larquette rend about a mile east f S.lem. The passe '&tr train d ele.ei; ;'aiv, tcii-ryi rig the Ptre Mar i et; shop ei:. ployees of Ionia and their families t the Michigan metropolis for their an nual excursion was running at Irgb speed, probably fifty miles an hour down a grade It struck the lighter locomotive of the freight train with such terrific force as to turn the freight engine completely around The wrecked locomotives this after noon both lay side by side, both head ed eastward. Only few of the freight train r.ars were smashed and it was only a few hours work to remove all traces ol them from the scene. But behind tha two wrecked locomotives two wreck ed locomotives six cars of the Mas&en ger coaches remained on the trick un damaged and were used to convey; the dead and injured to Ionia; one ccach was entirely undamaged with only its forward trucks off the rails. These were the rear five cars. The two coaches next ahead telescoped Th6 next car forward stood almost on end after the wreck, its forward end rest wig on. the road bed and the rear and high in the air upon the two telescop ed coaches that had been following it Two coaches were thrown crcsswiso the track, and lay suspended from bank to bank of the cut five or six feet above the rails. Of the baggage car not enough re mained to show where it had been tossed . Portions of the baggage car and oi the locomotive tenders ;j:id freight oars were piled in an undescribable mass of debris. The 28 dead bodies first taken from the wreck were shipped to Ionia and the injured were placed on two trains, one of which headed for Detroit and the other for Ionia. There were about 35 injured people on each train. Later in the day the body of Ed Corman, the head brageman of the passenger train, was taken out cf the wreck. A Fireman Knowles died on the relief train en route to Detroit, bringing the list of dead to thirty, with a possibil ity that more bodies might be fouad in the wreckage and that several of the injured may die Responsibility is placed squarely up to the crew of the freight tram by the officials of the mad. Officials who arrived at he wreck soon after the accident secured from the freight orders under which it was running and which clearly showed the position at the passenger excursion train, and that the freight had encroached upon the other train's running time. The special was due at Salem at 9:10 a. m. and at Plymouth at 9:20 a. m. It passed Salem on time. The time card of the special was telegraphed to the freight crew in form of a train order and this order with the sig natures of the freight twjin crew at tached was recovered by the officials of the road. The freight crew left" the scene early but Che railroad officials said that they explained simply that they had for gotten. The collision occurred at 9:13 o'clock and the freight train should have reach cd Salem at 9:10 to be within their ; FIXLEY MAKES STATEMENT Gives HI Views Upon Cases Now Before Judge Pritchard. Asheville, N. C, July 20 President Finley of the Southern railway today gave out a formal statement, bearing upon the railroad cases now before Judge Pritchard. Mr. Finley, after explaining the character of the cases, declared that such haVe from time to time been filed in a large number of states and have heretofore progressed in an orderly way to a final determination. H re iterates how the public is protected by the railroads giving coupons to pur chasers of tickets covering the differ ence between the old and new passen ger rate fixed by the legislature and Uie siaternent is made that the whole case can be disposed of in a few months. He further says: "It would seem to be perfectly plain that if an individual or corporation believed itself to be in danger of de privation of its property by legislation it should be .allowed the privilege of having the validity yf the legislation determined in an orderly method. If ours is to be a government of law and not of man, then, surely no litigant should be deprived of a fair opportun ity of going into the courts to protect its rights. "The Southern railway company is bound to protect its property, not only in the interest of its ownprs and credi tors but also in the interest of the whole public. "It has a right and a duty to appeal to the law for its protection. It is not in the right or interest of the peo ple of North Carolina that the ability of the -transportation companies to perform the public service and to en large and increase the means of serv ing passengers and shippers, "shall be destroyed or diminished. "It is a contradiction in terms to say of any person or corporation that filing a suit in court and asking for an orderly and judicial determination of the very right of any m.itter is it- J self a violation of defiance of the law, If an appeal to a court is a violation of law then all our courts should come to an end." ZEKE LEWIS OX TRIAL Another Alleged Anson County Lyncher Faces Jury. Charlotte, N. C., July 20. eko Lewis one of the score of the residents of Anson, charged with the lynching of John V. Johnson, May 28, 1906, was placed or. trial in Union county this morning. The jury was secured in an hour and the same witnesses who testified for the state in Jones' case went oa the stand today to give evidence against Lewis. Sheriff Bogan swore today that Lew is was one cf the ring leaders of the mob and one of those who seized him and took the keys to the jail. H. D. Kendall, Sr.,' the lyncher Who turned state's evidence, gave evi dence that differed considerably froin that given in the Jones trial. He wis not so positive in his identification ot thofce whom he saw in mob his mind mind seemed to have weakened under the strain of the former trial. The cross examination of Kendtll was completed and the court took re cess until Monday At adjournment Judge Peebles cr dered that the jury be not allowed to attend religious services tomorrow tor fear that they might hear a sermon on lynching. The defense claims that it has a stronger alibi for Lewis than was es tablished in the Jones cas. SKELETON" UNEARTHED Suggested That it Might be That ol Pocahontas. Gravesend, July 20. While excavat ing on the site of the old parish church where .Pocahontas was buried and which was destroyed by fire befon? 1727, workmen unearthed a human skeleton. Much interest was evoked by the finding as it was suggested that the bones might be those of Pocahontas. The skeleton was submitted to ex perts who, however, were unabl? to arrive at any definite conclusion. The position of the skeleton when the workmen came upon it, facing downward within two feet of th-3 surface, suggested a more recent bu rial than that of Pocahontas. Pocahontas died at Gravesend in 1617. In 1613 she was married to John Rolf one of settlers of Jamestown. In 1616 Rolfe and hip wife, in com pany with a number of Indians, sail ed for England. We believe that lower freight rates are of more importance thai. lower passenger rates, but come to thlnx of it the railroads are as slow giving us one as the other. Durham HeraW. lamns miisi warn Otherwise He Will Continue to Prosecute Them L GOV. GLEXX INTERVIEWED Result of Trial Against Southern Wliat lie Kxiected Will Stop Cases if 1 tail mads Will Comply With Rate Law. (Special to The Messenger) Raleigh, N. C, July 20. In an interview tonight Governor Glenn said he will continue to prosecute the iail roads until they obey the law. Com menting on the verdict of the jury and sentence of the court in the case isainst T. E. Green and the Southern railway, the governor said: "It is about what I expected. Upon the testimony there being no evidence offered by the defendant to show that the rate was confiscatory and there fore unconstitutional, the jury was compelled to convict, and the judge was right in putting a fine on the real of fender and not the agent, who simply sold tickets under orders." As to what would be his future ac tion the igovernor said that depends on the course pursued by the Southern and Coast Line railroads; if they will ac quiesce in the law, like other roads have done, then no further indict ments will be made, but if they persist in selling tickets at higher rate than 2 1-4 cents, I will instruct the st ite's attorney to aid solicitors in finding new bills, and in prosecuting the same until the said railroads obey the law, or the courts of the highest jurisdic tion declare the rate act unconstitu tional. As I have stated I regret this conflict; I want it settled, and if the railroads will withdraw their attempt ed injunction until evidence is taken and the court passes upon the consti tutionality of the act, in the meantime selling tickets at rates fixed by the' statute, I will aid them in ha'steniag the hearing of the case, stopping all indictments and asking all citizens to cease bringing penalty suits. If, how ever, they refuse to recognize the law and as a result costs- fines and odium attaches to them, and their Agents, who persist in obeying them in de fiance of the law, and go to jail, they will have.no one but themselves to blame, as the state is ready to stop when the law is obeyed. I am not guilty of usurpation as some railroad organs contend in thus trying to en force a violated law, but simply as an executive, officer of the state, exec-uT' ing the law, as under the state contl tuticn and laws, I am compelled to do. My duty is to see that all persons violating the law are proescuted; I am actually in a great many cases, as in thea marked the prosecutor. So whether it be in prosecuting the al leged lynchers, as I am now doing in Union county, or trying to stop rail roads from setting at naught the de clared will of the people through its legislature, I intend, without needless ly harassing individuals or railroads, to try to enforce the laws now being persistently and definitely violated by those railroads COREY COMES RACK Will Resume His Work as President of Steel Corporation. New York, July 20. "I have c:me back to resume my work as president of United States Steel Corporation," said William Ellis Corey, vgon his ar rival upon the French liner La Savoie. "I have no intention of resigning from that office. . I have heard of no meeting of the directors to consider the question of asking for my resigna tion. I have heard of no plan to get Mr Alva Dinkey to take my place as president. I should have heard of it if there were such a plan on fcot." Mr. Corey is returning frcm his honeymoon tour in Europe, and was, formerly Miss Mabelle Gilman, to whom he was married in this city last may. To the .inquiry as to the truth of the published reports that his wife would return to the stage, Mr. Corey gave a most emphatic negative. "Mrs. Corey will not go back to the J stage. She has retired from staje life forever." And to this Mrs. Corey, who' stood leaning on his arm nodded an emphatic approval. "Yes, I purchased a chateau in France," continued the head of the Steel coroor-ition "W exDect to spend our summers in France. I par- chafeed the diateau de Villegenis It is a magnificent place." x Speaking of their plans Mr Coray said that he and his wife would soon take up their residence in their Fifth, avenue home in this city. New lot of children's Parasols all cdfors, 15c, at Rehder'a. SEEK -RELEASE FflOPil SENTENCE Ticket Agents Sue Out Writs j I Habeas Corpus CASK HEARD IN V. S. COURT Entire Day Consumed in Argument. Judge Pritchard ill Render Ic- ,- ..nti cisloii on Monday, Accent anletl f Writon Statement. Asheville, N. C July 20. Argu- ment in habeas corpus proceedings brought by Messrs. J. II . Wood and O. C. Wilson, in the United StaUs circuit court to secure their release from the sentence imposed cn theni Thursday by the city police court for violating, as agents of the Southern, the state rate law, was closed thi3 afternoon and Judge Pritchard an- inounced that as he wished to accom- pany his decision with a written state ment he would adjourn court until Monday. The entire day was taken up wuh arguments by counsel for the petition ers and ptate, General Counsel Thom, of the Southern appearing for tlx for mer, and Judge J. H. Merrimon, of this city, for the latter. Judge Merrimon contended that no court had ever paralyzed other courts by preventing them from proceeding in criminal cases by suspending a stat ute, and he further contended that the court could not hold that the, state legislature could fix rates, but could not provide punishment for failure to observe such rates. Mr. Thorn argued that the penal section of the rate law was unconstitutional, both on its tace and was so proven by evidence, be cause it allowed such extraordinary fines that through fear of them, the railroad would be deprived of the ina lienable right to resist the law in the courts, and that as the court had tak en jurisdiction of the rate law in the case decided here June 29, it was le gally bound to protect that jurisdiction sjiice otherwist it would be a nullity. WORKED IN CHARLOTTE 3Ian Killed in Trolley Accident Fri day Night. Norfolk, July 20. George E. Adam son, aged 41 years, who was killed in a trolley accident-near Ocean View last night, had been working as a machinist in Charlotte, N. C, and Savannah, Ga, He was several days ago joined la Charlotte, by Miss Alda C. Sherrill, of Cornelius, a small station near Chac lotte, and the couple were here tak ing in the exposition before proceed ing to Adamson's old home in Provi dence, R. I., where they were to have-, been married at he residence of his mother. They had procured their tickets and were to have left by steamer for Prov idence today. Misls Sherrill is here awaiting word from relatives in Providence of Ad amsoa and the disposition of his body after which she will return to Char lotte. Rioters Sentenced. Roanoke, Va, July 20 J. F. Lester and Robert Bell, indicted on misde meanor charges by a special grand jury in connection with the riots ot last Saturday night, when a mob smashed all the Greek restaurants and shoe blacking places in town, were to day tried in police court. Lester was fined $50 and given six months in jail. Bell was fined $25 and given 30 days in jail. Seventeen of the twenty men indict ed are charged with misdemeanor and will be tried in police court. The other three are indicted for fel ony and will be tried in the higher court . Heavy Rainfall in Ohio. Marietta, Ohio, July 20 Seven inches ; day C.J. Cooper the general manager of rain in the last three days has put j of the Southern Life Insurance Co., railroads out of commission in this bought from M. Mcl. Matthews, man region. , ager and I W. Thornton, the Hotel Trains on the- Maskigum river di- LaFayette, one oi the largest nd fin- vision of the Baltimore and Ohio are ; all annulled. A train on the Pennsylvania rail- ; ! road got as far as Caldwell, but was ; compelled to return to this city, the ; tracks having been swept away. Farm- j ing interests have suffered greatly, corn wheat and hay fields being washed in- to creeks and rivers. Country roads are about impassl- e "riusea mj -u"w uavms uccu geaerall destroyed. When Carrie Nation gets through with the jug agents in Greensboro and the blind tigers in Durham she will go up against a different kind of proposition if she takes it into her wise head to visit our capital city, which we suppose she will. News and Ob- rarer. COUNTY BONDS SOLD. (Special to The Messenger.) . Dunn. X. C. July 17. Harnett coun- ofty b?nd? wer! 801(1 Ju.ly.sth b tne uoara oi county commissioners for a premium of $423.00. The issue Is for $40,000 and Is for refunding the entire county debt Messrs. Jno. Newecn & j Co., of Chicago, were the purchasers. Rev. A. R. McQueen, of Moore Coun- . . , ' terian churches here and at Godwin j i ana win mate mis ms no me. j The county assessment Increase will be about 40 per cent, from four years ago. The board of equalization met last week and adjusted about all dif ferences. A good many farmers in this section are trying the long staple Sea Island cotton, called Floradora. Last season this kind of cotton sold for 20 to 21 cents per pound. ffiPBy the,bz increase cmfwyp vbgkqj Dunn will have a good public school beginning about September 1st. Prof. Jno. A. McLean, principal. Miss Jessie Smith, of Dunn, is first teacher. Five other young ladies have been elected teachers, Miss Gertrude Harper, or Dunn, among them. The building Is a nice two story brick structure, just finished, and ready for the furniture, costing about $11,000. Order was given the Columbus Desk Co., of Columbus, Ga., for up-to-date desks and furniture. No town In the state has a nicer site and building. There is not a vacant store or dwel ling In town. Dunn will have a tobacco market this year. Mr. E. W. Harris will run the warehouse, and Mr. Geo. II. Real will represent the American Tobacco Co.. here. Mr. Real Is a big buyer and makes this a very strong market. Raleigh Nissevvmtl. Raleigb, N. C, July 19. -Governor Glenn designates Judge C. C. Lyor. to hold the McDowell count two weeks beginning Monday, instead of Judg-? ?tbles, who is holding the coi:'. lor trying the Anson county lynchers. The corporation commission gives a hearing -to General Manager L. A. Boyd and Attorney J. G. McCorniirs: on the question of tax assessment against the Raleigh and Charleston railroad. The assessment was doubled as compared with the assessment four years ago, but on the showing made by Boyd and McCormick the Increase was cut in half. Victor S. Clark, Ph. D., of the United States department of commerce and labor is in the city gathering statis tics as to child labor conditions in this state. He says steady improve ment is shown in all parts of the state with evident effort on the part of manufacturers to maintain proper at titudes. The statement is made from the office of Adjutant General Robertson here that the new supplies are coming into the quartermaster general's de partment right along now and the va rious companies in the state will re ceive their new equipment just as rapidly as they can' be made up and packed. Further, that every company will receive new supplies in ample time for the encampment at James town. The shipments will be in regi mental order so that Charlotte will be among the first supplied. The Wake county school board has located one of the four high schools to be established in the county at Holly Springs. New Rule Issued. Receivers of spirits turpentine find it impossible to sell the spirits in oil barrels at the present difference be tween machine barrels and oil barrels. At present the difference is 25c, but buyers are demanding 75c. On ac count of this fact, the chamber of commerce has adopted the following rule effective August 1st, 1307: "Rule 6. Refined petroleum barrels which have been properly steamed and glued shall be a good delivery on contracts for shipping and merchant able order, provided, 'such barrels are in shipping and merchantable order, and they are subject to deduction of seventy-five cents each, such barrels with spile holes except in the bung stave are unmerchantable. Fayetteville Hotel Sold Fayetteville, N. C July 10. To- est in the state, just refitted and re- furnished. The management contin ues with Chief Clerk Cagle. KOREAN CABINET RESIGNS Seoul, July 18. The cabinet minis- ters, Including the newly appointed household minister, have resigned. It is reported that the emperor was very angry at his ministers on account of auvisea mm cu auairaic. He said to them that he occupied the inrone oy right inherited from nis ancestors and that his subjects had no authority to advise his dethrone- ment, much less to do so with the suport of foreigners, Marquis I to, in compliance with the emperor's urgent desire to see . kim. even for a short time, proceeded to the palace this afteraooa. IIU SEOUL Residence of Korean Premier Destroyed by Mob EXCITEMENT INCREASING Korean Army Unable to Cope With Situation Hostilities Directed Against the Japanese 'Machine Guns En trenched In Streets ol City People Warned to stay In Their HousesShops Still Remain Closed Military Patrol the Streets. Tokio, July 20. A dispatch from Seoul says that an enraged mob of 1, 000 persons has attached ard bum?d the residence of the Korean premier Yi Wang Yang. The premier w.is absent at the time of the visit to the palace. A proclamation was published at five o'clock this evening, warning th people to remain in their houses. At dusk , machine guns were entrenched behind breast works built in the streets approaching the palace in anticipatiom of a night attack. Millltary aro patrol ling the suburbs. Japanese troops are arriving here, but they are too few in numb- r to make any attenpt to disarm Korcin soldiers feasible and they are now con fined to their barracks. Marquis lt was tlrst to be receiv ed. He had a conversation with tho former emperor lasting ten minutes. The new emperor is performing his duty in a purely perfunctory manner. He is said to show little strength of character and the outlook for his ad ministration of public affairs Is no' promising. v Ping Yang, July 20. All the shops here are closed. There is great ex citement among the natives who are unaware that abdication has been ac complished. The safely of the Japanese residents is problematical, as the departure ot a regiment for Seoul leaves only 3(J Japanese in the province. The shops of Seoul have been cloeoa now for thirty-six hours. Today the crowds are greater and tho native spir it Is higher, necessitating a greater show of military force, and tho people are encouraged and inflamed by tko several killings of yesterday General Hasegawa has two machine gune placed in th palace square. Not only is the Korean army regard ed ai impotent to copo with the situa tion, but tho members of the Japanese coops are wholly inadequate. Arrangements have been made for reinforcing them from Shlrnonostfkl. Hostilities are directed wholly against the Japanese. Other foreigners aro safe. Much apprehension is felt for tho safety of Japanese at the inter ior plac when the Korean mase3 learn, as they will In a few days, of the momentous events that have oc curred. Tokio, Judy 21. Late advices from Seoul say that the rioting is growing in magnitude. Attempts to burn the railway sta tion and the police building were frus trated by prompt action by the Japa nese police and gendarmes. The powder magazine of the Korean government i3 strongly guarded by Japanese troops at the request of the minister of war. Rioters are shooting wildly out of windows and two Japanese are report ed to have been killed. Murderous assaults are frequent and the city Is verging almost on a reign of terror. Business is completely suspended. Riot Reported In Progre. San Francisco July 20. A riot Is reported to be In progress at the Unit ed Railroad's car barns at 20th and Mad Icon streets. Four men are reported to have been shot. The barn is said to be one fire department has gone to the scene. All the police reserves have been call ed out A. Pittsburg woman is suing for di vorce because her husband required her to eat beans. In Boston It would bar been, considered that the man had! shown the most distinguished con3ider fix; bis epoaae. Savannah News, jRIOTIi