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- . . ' ' . . ..' ' ....... m t m m i h bsv. i -r at -. - m m -a mm -.- w mum mm w mm a m mmm m m m m m m a m a mmmmr VOL. XIX NO. 328 WHiMINGTON IVE PROBIi GOES 01 Hie Way the Standard Oil Carried on Business Co fill OPPORTUNITY TO REPLY Commission will Prepare Report for Presentation to Congress Hearing Lasted Three Days, Daring Which Thirty five Witnesses Were ltaminctl An Ineffectual Attempt was the proper person to go to for such. Information. Mai com Jennings who conducts an advertising bureau at Lancaster, Ohio, was called for the same purpose. He admitted that he made advertising contracts with Ohio newspapers for the Standard OIL Company, but said they were not different than those made for any other concern. Another witness in- this line was Charles J. Castle, who was for fifteen years a special agent of the Standard in Cleveland territory. He said that the literary bureau was conducted by Charles A. Ricks, who, on the witness stand yesterday denied that any such thing existed. Castle sai dthat he made several advertising contracts for Ricks himself C. B. Chamberlain, secretary and treasurer of the Globe Oil Company of Cleveland was one of the other import ant witnesses of the day. He told about trying to get a contract for lubri cating oil for the Hocking Valley rail road, but he said their purchasing agent, C. B. Duffy, told him that he could not buy lubricating oil from him as that would lose the road hundreds of thousands of dollars in freightage from the Standard Oil Company. i I TTpiiht . . I . ' '. "IS 11 DELUSION 1DB II SHE" Is nr. Lamar's Opinion of the Hepburn Rate Bill WITH SENATE AMENDMENTS ATTEMPT TO BRIBE LEGISLATORS Hughes Claims to Have Letters to Prove the Fact A Great Wrong Will be Done Consum ers and Shippers When the Bill Be comes a Law He Voted for the Bill Because He Recognized it as the Best He Could Get. 'GO AHEAD WITH THE DEAIi EXA3HNATION AS TO HER SANITY to Sell Lubricating Oil to a Railroad Josephine Terranoa's Counsel Protests Against Proceedings of District At- Xewspapcr Men Examined In Effort to Show That the Standard Oil Com pany Had Newspapers Subsidized. torney 'Defendant Appeared Down cast foVthe First Time- Cleveland, May 26. After three days spent in taking testimony concerning the affajrs of the Standard Oil Com pany the Inter-state commerce com missioners Prouty and Clements ad journed this afternoon and shortly thereafter started for Washington New York. May 26. An unavailing protest against the manner dn which alienists are conducting their exami nation into the sanity -of Josephine Terra nova, whose trial on a charge of murder was unexpectedly suspended yesterdav, was made today by her counsel, former Justice Palmiere. Two members of the commission appointed (to examine her went to the tombs prison and for an hour conducted tests where they are expected to soonbegin the preparation of their report on the into the girl's physical and nervous testimony taken here and in Chicaeo iconlition. Her counsel declared it to fr- n,Mflnfoin be a most unusual and outrageous . ? I proceeding, saying that representa ine report, nowever, win not be tlves of the district attorney liad closed until the Standard Oil company's asrreed, .before having Ihls client ex- attorneys have been riven amole on- amined today, to meet him and hear portunity to reply to the many state ments and charges put in evidence Attorney Virgil P. Kline, for the Stand ard Oil Company, gave a notice just before adjournment, that he desired to answer some oMhe testimony produced and requested the commissioners to name a suitable time and place for the re-opening of the case for this purpose. Mr. Kline was told that this privilege would be extended to him and that an nouncement of the time and place would be made in the near future. In the three days hearing just com pleted a total of thirty five witnesses have been on the stand. About fifty or sixty were subpoenaed. Some of these were not called. Counsel for the com mission however, had five; or six on hand ready to be sworn but the com missioners declined to hear them indi cating that the things expected to be proven were not important. Today's developments were regarded as important and were in keeping with the general line of inquiry made during the two previous days. The first wit ness was W. E. MacEwen formerly chief clerk in the car department of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad company in this city. He said he was in a position to know much of the inner workings of the car de partment and he proceeded to tell what he knew of the handling of tank cars. He said the cars of the Union Tank One (Standard Oil cars) were given a great advantage over rival cars in com puting mileage and freight bills. The bills of one would be computed accord ing to one standard of distance and those of the other according to another standard. The result was that the Standard was enabled to save a con siderable sum over the charges made to competing companies. MacEwen said he was with the Lake" Shore road for several years-and when he left it he started to work with the Peerless Transit company a small rival tank line. Knowing how mileage and charges were being computed he went to the proper Lake Shore officials and asked for the same advantages as was extended to the Union Tank Line. The officials, he testified, made light pf his request, ridiculed him and said he was showing great ignorance of things. Not discouraged, however, he obtained copies of the compilations of car re ports which were duly forwarded to the Cleveland .office of the Standard Oil Company and taking them to the offi cials of the Lake Shore finally succeed ed In accomplishing his object. Several weeks aso he said he noticed that the high rate was again being charged against his company and going once more to the general offices was inform ed that it was all a mistake, that the Peerless Transit "company being the only company to except V to the high charges, except the Union Line, the matter had been entirely forgotten. Special counsel Monnett endeavored to show by several witneses during the day that the Standard Oil Company maintained a press bureau for the pur pose of subsidizing Ohio newspapers 125 of which he said were on the Standard's list. . . w. J. Brickell. for many years the editor of the Columbus Ohio Evening Dispatch was one of the witnesse called with this end In view. Mr. Bricktn was asked whether his paper did not nn Htfrfttnre and DUD- accepi ouuiu" " - ... i n. i r,w soace rates. He sal a i iUU A w mi w m any protests he might have to make. The examination in the vnson, ne said, was performed without giving the girl's counsel an opportunity to be present and in face of the young de fendantfs ileas to be let alone. For I the first time since the beginning of her trial, nearly three weeks ago, the girl appeared downcast today, bhe passed a sleepless, tearful night, the prison attendants said. BANK PRESIDENT IV TROUBLE Gordon DuBose Arreste! on a Charge" of Embezzlement. Birjningham, May 26. Gordon Du Bose, president of the First National Bank of Ensley, Ala, which was re cently merged with the bank of Ens- ley, was arrested here today by Dep uty United States Marshal H. F. Ash ley on a charge of having embezzled $40,000 of the First National's money before the merger. The arrest was made on a warrant eworn out by Silas H. F. Coover, na- , tional bank examiner. DuBose waiv ed preliminary examination be Tore United States Commissioner S. B. Watts and was placed under a bond of 520,000. Acocrding to the affidaviT: of the bank examiner worthless notes to the extent of $103,500 !had been made out by DuBose from July 28 last to February 2 if of this year. Some of the notes, it is said, were duplicates drawn for the purpose of paying other notes and the actual shortage, is plac ed at $40,000. DuBose declines to make a statement. Washington, May 26. There was a reference to the rate bill in the house today when Mr. Lamar, of Florida, said that the Hepburn bill with the senate amendments was a "delusion and a snare." "When the Hepburn bill becomes a law," said Mr. Lamar, "leaving out the subject of classificatioh.it will be found that a great wrong has .been done to shippers and consumers. Mr. Lamar said he had written a let ter to the governor of Nebraska ask ing in regard to the classification of railroad rates by the state railroad commission and had received a reply to his inquiry that there was no rail road commission in Nebraska. He said: . "No wonder W. J. Bryan was de feated in his own county and in his own precinct. You can't lick the re publican party reinforced by the rail roads." He said he protested against the passage of the Hepburn rate bill but voted for it because he recognized it as the best he could get. He warned his colleagues that they must be alert otherwise even the Hepburn bill will be made a makeshift. Incident to his consideration of rate legislation and the necessity for still further work on the part of the democ racy Mr. "Lamar said that the only way the democrats could win would be to convince the American people that they were "honest, sincere, fearless to do the right and brave to face every danger." It was his judgment that it would take four Bryan defeats to equal the defeat of the "safe and sane candidate of the democracy" at the last election. PROCEEDINGS IN HOUSE Was the Instructions Given by So-Call ed Tobacco Trust to Secure Votes in Indiana Legislature Against Cigar ette Bill Members WTere Appraised as Being Worth From $250 to $1,000. Wabash, Ind., May 26. Arthur L. Hughes, today made public the fact that he has a large number of letters which, are the property of O. A. Ba kfer, who ia hiding to escape an in dictment on the charge of attempted bribery in the last legislature in con nection with the passage of the anti cigarette law. Mr. Hughes in discuss ing these letters today said that one letter of the lot was signed by a man named Gibbs, whose office was in New York city and who, Hughes explained, was connected with the so-called to- ibacoc trust. The contents of this let ter referred to the -purchase of legis lative votes and appraised one mem ber as worth $1,000, another at $500 and a .third at $250. I know who these men are," said Hughes, "and Gibbs was not far astray in his valuation. I know, too. what members of the legislature were ap proachable and those who were not and a lot of Hhem belonged dn the first class. Gibbs was succeeded by a man named Oole who was connected with the so-called tobacco (trust and here is a telegram to Baker in cipher. Translated, it instructs Baker to go ahead with the deal' whereby certain votes were to 'be obtained against the cigarette Ibill. Baker was in communication with the insurance companies during the session of the legislature. He was not employed iby the tobac co trust alone and the work done for the insuranec organizations was quite aa nefarious as that of the tobacco trust" ROANOKE COLLEGE EARTHQUAKE IX MINNESOTA Buildings in Houston Were Rocked Violently Cracks in the Earth From Two to Six Inches in Width The Atlantic Mine Closed. St. Paul, Minn., May 26. A special from Houton, Rich., says: The most severe earthquake disturb ances ever experienced in this region occurred at the Atlantic minetoday. There were more than 50 shocks. Buildings rocked violentlp and in sev eral place there are cracks in. the earth from two to six niches in width- The shocks were distinct in Houghton and Hancock, 'but did no damage. Great alarm prevails and miners and their families aee prepar ing to leave for other points in the copper country. The Atlantic mine shut down two weeks ago as the result of these dis turbances. Indication, of caving in' is now nearer the surface, as the shocks are more distinct. It is .believed lo cally that the 'Atlantic will never be opened, as it would take a year lo clear the shaft and drifts of fallen rock. Diplomatic and Consular Bill Occupied the Day Chinese Exclusion Brougnt Up by Mr. Clark Speeches Made by Several Members on Various Sub jects. Waahinenn. Mav 26. During: the course of a listless day5s legislation iu the diplomatic and consular bill in the house today, Mr. Champ Clark, of Missouri, stated that he had heard whisperings that the Chinese exclusion law was to be modified to affect all classes of Chinese with the execption of Coolie labor. He gave notice that if there was such intention on the part of the majority he would fight such a change to the last ditch; that he had been somewhat instrumental in put ting the Chinese exclusion law on the statute books and that for one he would not agree to its modification. Under general debate, the house hav ing met at 11 o'clock for the further consideration of the diplomatic bill, speeches were made by Mr. Rucker, of Missouri, on his publicity bill; Mr. Samuel W. Smith, of Michigan, in fa vor of a postal telegraph; Mr. Lamar, bf Florida on railroad rate legisla tion; Mr. Perkins, of New York, on the benefits of civil service; Mr. Mur phy, of Missouri, on statehood, and Mr. Rhodes, of Missouri, on giving the provisional militia of Missouri a pensionable status. The houseaIler making a few amendments to the 'bill at 5:40 ad journed until noon on Monday. The 53rd Commencement Will Begin June 10th -Baccalaureate Sermon by Rev. Floyd W. Tomkins, D. D., of Philadelphia. COLOR LINE DRAWN j The Negro Question Before Presbyte wan General Assembly for the First ' Time- Committee on Church Policy! - r a -n . " .. . aiaue .report in wnicn It Sought to 'Divide the RacesAfter Much Dis cussion the Matter Was Deferred"! Until Next Year. Des Moines, Iowa, May, 26. The color line was sharply drawn. and the negro question came squarely to the j surface , in the Presbyterian general ' assembly here for the first time today. The committee on churches policy sub mitted a report recommending the erection of a synod in Alabama to in cludethe Presbyteries of Birmingham, Levereand Rogersville, to be known as the 'synod of Chattanooga. The Pres byteries are now included in the synod of Tennessee. The other Presbyteries in the synod are French Broad, Hoi ston, Kingston and Union. ajie Presbyteries of Birmingham, Levere and Rogersville are composed of negro churches. The others are composed of white churches. The purpose of the committee was to di vide the races. No sooner had the report been submitted that Russell Taylor a negro minister of Levere and one of the commissioners to the assem bly from that Presbytery, took the floor. He violently opposed the pro posed synod, on the grounds that the three Presbyteries specified were not numerically strong enough or well versed in church law to assume the functions and duty of a synod. Mem bers of the committee spoke for the erection of the synod, carefully avoid ing the race question and emphasizing the claims that each of the three Pres byteries had asked such action. After spirited discussion in which the colored commissioner received the majority of the applause, it was unan imously voted to refer, the whole sub ject to the assembly of 1907. A new synod was created composed of the south and east synods of Florida and will be known in the future as the synod of Florida. The Presbytery of Havana was detached from the synod of New Jersey and attached to the new synod of Florida, Chairman A. B. Marshall of the committee on home missions read a telegram from the Presbyterian church saying it does not charge the board with improper practices, but the active workers in the field. The assemblv authorized Dr. Marshall to telegraph the southern assembly that if such practices were being followed it was unknown to the assembly. The general assembly concluded its busi ness late this afternoon and adjourned to meet next year in Columbus, Ohio CLASH IHTiLE Russian Parliament Rejects Government's Policy REVOLUTION IS Ifi THE Ain Present Cabinet Not Satisfactory to lower House Demand for a Ministry Approved by the House The Gauntlet Thrown Down Gloomy Forebodings Prevail and the General Impression is That the County is on the Eve of a Titanic Struggle The Struggle May Possl- bly Commence Monday. " SEEKING A SEABOARD OUTLET Salem, Va., May 26. The exercises of the 53rd commencement of Roanoke college will 'begin on Sunday mourning June 10, with the baccalaureate ser mon to be delivered by Rev. Floyd W. Tomkins, D. D., rector of Holy Trinity church, Philadelphia. On Sunday evening the address before the Young Men's Christian Association; of the college will ibe delivered by Rev. G. U. Wenner, D. D., pastor of Christ Lutheran church, New York city. On Monday evening the annual contest for the medal in , oratory will take place .in the town hall. On Tuesday morning addresses before the alumni association will be made 'by Rev. M. G. Gr. Scherer, D. D., class of '87, of Charleston, S. C, and Rev. J. M. Owens, R. M.. class of '97, of Lynch burg, Va. The -annual address before the literary societies will be deliver ed on Tuesday evening by a speaker yet to be secured. Wednesday, June 13,. will be commencement day proper. The exercises will consist of addresses by members of the graduating class, the awarding of prizes and distinc tions, and the conferring of graduates and former students, and the com mencement promises to be one of un usual interest. Wabash Railroad Makes With Tidewater and Railroads. Connection Deepwater RESOLUTION OF ENDORSEMENT Passed by the Grady Township Conven tion at Currie Yesterday. To Investigate Couse of Fire. j (Special to The Messenger.) . j insurance Commissioner Scott has gone to Scotland Neck to investigate the fire there, believed to be incen diary which destroyed fifty thousand dollars worth of property. , - Currie, May 26. Orady township convention was held here today and was called to order by the executive committeeman, M. M. Bullock, Esq. The following resolution was intro duced by James F. Moore and unani anously passed. Resolved. That the delegates of this convention, be and the same are "hereby instructed to vote for a resolution- in the county con vention endorsing the course and urg ing the renomination. of -the Hon; F. M. Simmons to the United States senate, Hon. Charles R. Thomas to the housa of repreesntataves, Hon. Oliver H. Allen judge, Hon. Franklin , McNeai corporation commissioner. W. J. HOLLINGSWORTH, N. R. CRQQM, G. F. LUCAS, A. a MOORE, Delegates. M. M. BULLARD, . Chairman. JAS. F. MOORE, Secretary. .. f King Alfonso Takes Ride in Automo bile. : Madrid, May 26.-King Alfonse rode in an automobile today from the Royal to the Pardo Palace where he joined Princess Ena. Later the king brought : the princess and her mother, Princess i ... j Henry to Madrid, driving the car him- The Cook I se- MQch enthusiasm was manifested When the Cook Comes Late, or fails r r ...." .. iulUilJ Snow In North Dakota. ' Memera, N. D., May 26. Three days of constant rain, has been; followed uy a hard snowstorml Over two, inches of snow has fallen. " . v - . - 111., l-w. r1 trt rtfl ttaU he had no posmo - ta Gas Range, the subject and the business manager questIom ' to -come at all It is mighty good to have testifying their admiration for Princess Gas solve th servant Iia- mere were no notable features on the programme today. Anns for the Revolutionists. Cape Haiten, Haytl, May 26. News reached here by messenger today to the effect that the Santo Domlncan revolutionists commanded by Maurlclo Jlmenes have attacked Guayubln, In Santo Domingo and killed Gen. Mon go, fhe commander of the town and then retired immediately into the in terior. Telegraphic communications between Monte Christl and Santiago de Los Cabellerosa, Santo Domingo, has been cut by the revolutionists who have tak en up arms in behalf of General Isldor Jimenes, the former president of San to Domingo. They have been joined by partisans of General Morales, the pre decessor of General Caceres as presi dent of Santo Domingo. A schooner loaded with arms and ammunition recently sailed from St. Thomas with orders to land her cargo at any cost 'between. Puerto Plata and Monte Christi, on- the northern coast pf Santo Domingo and 4t is said" that the uprising just eported indicates that the schooner accomplished her task. Norfolk, Va., May 26. From reliable authority it is learned here that the Wabash railroad is. so closely identified with the tide-water deep-water rail roads, now being constructed from Nor folk to Charleston, W. Va., that it will be used as an Atlantic seaboard outlet by the Gould ljnes. The tlde-waj;er deep-water lines pen etrates the coal fields of West Virginia. At Charleston, which will be the west ern terminus, connection is made with the West Virginia Central, a Wabash property over a friendly Davis-Ellon. line. The West Virginia Central taps Cumberland, and from that city the Western Maryland, another Wabash property, Is building a Pittsburg con nection, thus completing the link. That Wabash interests are identified with the tide-water - deep-water lines was developed in a discussion of termi nals for the latter system in Norfolk. The construction of the tide-water deeo-water lines is the most remark able railway building in American his tory. With absolutely no regard for towns, mountains and valleys, the tide water seeks from Norfolk on almost a bee line, the great "and undeveloped coal fields of West Virginia. AFTER THE BRIDGE TRUST Associated Press Correspondent Dead. New Orleans, May 26. Jr B. Mc- Daniel, correspondent of the Associat ed Press at New Orleans for, the last 35 years, died at the New Orleans san itarium today after an illness of the week. Mr."" McDaniel was a native of Alabama and served valiantly in. the civil war. He was engaged an; mer cantile pursuits in NewOrleans for a time after the -war and served as busi ness manager of "the Picayune for a short time. Since then he ihas been the New Orleans correspondent of the Aoouwa kcu a cash xio ix j cu 9 v age. He leaves-no relatives. Nineteen Companies and 'Agents In dicted by Grand Jury at Lima, Ohio. Lima. Ohio, May 26. Nineteen bridge companies and agents were indicted by the grand jury late Friday afternoon, but the county officials refuse to make their names public until service can be had upon them. Thirty-four indict ments in all were returned but the true bills against the bridge companies and agents were "secrets." Of the thirty-four indictments re turned there are two each against for mer county commissioners T. C. Burns George W. Kanawl and Albert Heffner. The exposures regarding the bridge trust operations here are said to oe St Petersburg, May 26. At the end of a memorable seven-hour session the lower house of parliament indignantJy; rejected the government's policy; as presented by Premier Goremykin, and, with only seven dissenting voices',' voted a lack of confidence In the min istry, practically throwing down tho gauntlet to the bureaucracy with a de-. inland for the (retirement of the present cabinet and its supersession by a mln- etry approved by the majority in the nouse. t The spirit of absolute revolution i3 n! the air and a conflict ibetweea the crown and the nation now appears to be inevitable. While the house avoid ed the appearance of delivering an ul timatum the government seems to have no alternative except surrender or war. The gloomiest forebodings are everywhere expressed tonight and the general impression is that the country is on the verge of a Titanic struggle, (Which may be delayed but not averted. Dispatches received from the interior indicate that the struggle (possibly may be inaugurated Monday, with a general strike, when the people learn that all amnesty has been re fused them. While the premier's statement prom ised co-operation with the lower-house "in so far as the latter does not trans gress the limits of the fundamental laws," it recognized the agrarian ques tion as paramount, proposing to rem edy the deficiency in land through" the operation of an agrarian bank, and migration to Siberia It proposed the introduction of universal and compul sory education, the reform of the ad ministration and the realization of our liberties. - Premier Gormykin's statement, how ever, returned a non-possumus on the burning question raised Iby the house in its reply to the speech from the thone. tl declared that the govern ment's fiat and exceptional laws can not 'be withdrawn until murder and terrorism cease. , The appropriation of appanages of the crown and church' and private lands was declared to be in admissible. The right of investiga tion of administrative acts, the state ment declared, "belonged to the crown,' the house having only the power of Aerpolataon; Amnesty, Premier Gor emykin said, was solely the preroga- ' tlve of the emperor. Such, (briefly, was the govemmeut a reply to the address of the house and! the premier's words seemed to arouse all the latent resentment In the hearts of the members of the house. The constitutional democratic leaders for the first time gave free range to the passions, and with flaming words, ora tor after orator declared the govern ment's pqan inadmissible, and said that the ministry must give way to a cab inet -in which the people had confi dence. Even Count Heyden, the leader of the right, deserted the government's slde t saying that Inasmuch as the govern ment had refused to redeem its prom ise to repeal the exceptional law, hU vote was also for censure. .The resolution of censure as adopt ed provides that the 'house shall pro ceed wth the order of the day Monday thus adrotly placng upon the shoul- JfSJS-ders of the government the responsl- yam iruni lu.i w . J.V biiity for making the next move, should have been the ordinary cost of I For this moment, as indicated by a oTiages. j communication Issued by the official The, most sensational evidence, It is j agexLcy at midnight, the ministry Is" saiacame rrom tne prxuge u ; hesitating in a dilemma, being ready REPUBLICAN EX. COMMITTEE j neither to resign itself nor to dismiss parliament. Meet in Greensboro Thomas S. Roll- i SrliHfrm Tkronmed in thA Philinoines. Ins Resigns the Chairmanship and . Manlla May 26. Sergeant W. H. Spencer B. Adams Succeeds Him. Thompson, Privates J. O. 'Miller and State Convention Will be Held in "j. S. Morrison, of the Eighth cavalry, Greensboro on July 10th. ' I and Private Mendoza, of the constabu- : lary, together with five horses, were (Special to Tae Messenger.)) drowned yesterday in the Lingayan tive committee met this afternoon in this city for the'pOTpose of naming a date and selecting a place for the next state convention. .Thomas S. Rollins, of Asheville, resigned; as chairman and was succeeded by Judge Spencer B. Adams, of Greenshoro. Greensboro was selected for the next state conven tion, which will be held July 10th: The river was swollen by the recent typhon. The troops were on a practice march. The bodies of Sergeant Thomp son and Private Morrison have been re covered. - . . - Lnmlna f . the Place to spend the day: Every one goes. -
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