Newspapers / The Wilmington Messenger (Wilmington, … / Oct. 27, 1906, edition 1 / Page 1
Part of The Wilmington Messenger (Wilmington, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
VOL. XIX NO. 5J48 WILMINGTON, TVE ILL WVESTIGATE Exclusion of Japanese Chil dren From Public Schools. AT SUN FRANCESCO. GAL Matter Subject of Earnest Dis cussion at Cabinet Meeting. The President Feels Tliat Every Effort Should be Exerted to Give the Jap- aueso All Treaty .. Rights 3Ir. -Met- .tfalf Sent by President Roosevelt to San Francisco In Order That Ho May Get Full Information as to Every Pliase of the Matter. Washington, October 26. President Roosevelt tonight directed Victor H Metcalf, secretary of the department of commerce and labor to proceed tc San Francisco and make a thorough and complete inquiry into the situation affecting the exclusion of Japanese children from the schools provided for white children and the determination to place the Japanese pupils in sepa rate schools. The president is anxioUs t obtain at first hands from a cabinet -officer who is acquainted with local conditions in San Francisco full in formation affecting every phase of the -subject to the end that whatever ac tion is taken by this government may be after an accurate understanding of the situation. The president feels that every effort within the power of the administration should be exerted to see that all the treaty rights claim ed by the Japanese for its people resid ing in the United States should be re spected and protected. The determination to send Secretary Metcalf to San Francisco was one of the results of the requests made by Viscount Aoki, the Japanese ambassa dor, who at a conference with Secre tary Root yesterday asked in behalf of his government that the Japanese subjects in California be accorded their full rights under the treaty of 1894. including that of the children to at tend the public schools of San Fran cisco. This request was the subject of very long and earnest discussion at the cabinet meeting today. J Mr. Metcalf will leave Washington, tomorrow and will proceed to San Francisco with all possible dispatch. Every facility will be put at his com mand to make his investigation as lllUlUUgll its jusaiuic mit-rci tin- uivu.u- stances, as the president is anxious to have the inquiry conducted with -all possible expedition in -order to have the results at hand without de lay. It is hardly likely, however, that that any report from Mr. Metcalf will be available .before the president leaves on his Panama trip. It is hoped that the expressed desire of the administra tion to secure the treaty rights of the Japanese will tend to allay the anti American feeling in Japan, unless the whole matter is diplomatically ad justed. The inquiries to be instituted by Mr. Metcalf are supplemental to steps al readv initiated in San Francisco yes terday by direction of the department of justice to compel the authorities to receive Japanese pupils in the public school. The viscount also represented to Sec retary Root that Japanese restaurant keepers in San Francisco have suff ered indignities. At least seven or eight! reports have been made con cerning a boycott inaugurated against these restaurants and these reports state that agents have been posted to prevent patrons from entering the res taurants and in several instances stones have been thrown and windows hrnltpn. Administration officials do not hes itate to express privately their views pf the present anti-American feeling growing out of the wrongs which the Japanese declare they nave suffered and one member of the cabinet said today, after the meeting that the gen- erai opinion or in "a:.Dr. Hamilton and his mirDOse to leave the situation was exceedingly grave and would require the most delicate treatment to prevent an open rupture. -1 -San wnnnisco. October 26. Judge Wolberton of the United States clr-. cuit court yesterday issued an oraer gone should Dr. Hamilton leave to the board "of education of San Fran- Monday Dr. Hale, the pastor of the Cisco citing that body to show cause , ' continue the nrotracted why an injunction compelling the rein- cnurcn, win continue tne protracted Ttatement of Yasuhara, a Japanese meeting for several days or a week pupil recently excluded from the Pa- longer. cific Heights Grammar school should This morning at 10 o'clock the sub not be issued; The board is ordered ject Gf the Bible study service will to answer on November 5. probably be: "Some Rules for Chris- This order was issued foowJng n n Following the evange . application for an injunction presented .... talt, the ordinance of banSlm to Judge Wolberton with the inten- list a talk the ordinance or oapusm tionof making this a test case. will be administered. Dr. Hamilton tIG will preach tonight at 7:30 o'clock Strikebreakers Arrive. Last night he made a most earnest Richmond Va., October 26. The first appeal to the unsaved. John 3:16, Installment of strike breakers to tike tnat wondrous verse, .was the text, the places of striking machinists in the The 'sermon was one of the best the Southern railway shops at Manchester evangelist has yet preached. A num arrived this morning from Spencer. !N ber went forward on the invitation of a These men were originally sent from tne preacher ana acknowleged their northern cities to Spencer, and from faith in Christ as their Saviour. the latter place sent here. They are . all that are expected for the present. Robers Secured $6,700. More are expected some tirne later, but Jefferson City, Mb., .October 26. In when these win arrive is not known Dy formation was received' here today -any of the Southern officials here. that the Bank of James, in Monteau - . ' county 15 miles from here was enter Cars to Gun Club ed last night by robbers who blew Today Cars to Gun Club every half open th'safe and secured $6, 700. They "hour from i to 5 p. m. escaped. , SENSATION IN PERJURY TRIAL Hooe Reiterates His Charge' of Intimacy With Mrs. Hartje. MADE DENlAli UNDER THREATS i Witness Was Severely Cross Examined. i Was Roughly Used by Private De 1 tecjtives WThen Arrested Was Told That He Would be Lynched Unless i He Denied ttie Charge. Pittsburg, Pa., October 2G. The tes timony today in the trial of Clifford Hooe, a former coachman of Augustus Hartje, charged with perjury in con nection with the recent Hartje divorce case, was the most sensational and re volting since the Hartje domestic troubles began. .. Hooe reiterated the charges of inti- tLiacy made in his first deposition and said he had been coerced into making a second deposition, which is an ab solute denial of the first. The negro said when he was arrested in East Liv erpool, Ohio, by a number of private detectives that they roughly used him and that while he occupied a cell in jail, one of the detectives had pointed a revolver at his head. He' was told, he. said, that a large crowd of angry men were waiting his return to Allegheny-county, and he would be lynch ed unless he confessed that the'charges of intimacy against, Mrs. Hartje were false. Hooe said the threats frighten ed him into a confession which he later signed in this city while intoxicated, the liquor, he said, having been pur chased by the detectives. The negro also testified to having received con siderable sums of money from John L. Welsohns, a friend of Mr. Hartje, but said he merely borrowed it. Hooe was put to a severe cross ex amination by Assistant District At torney Robb who asked questions in rapid succession. Finally the negro broke down, crying excitedly: "You've got me all excited and tangled up. Bon't ask me so many questions st once. Ask me slowly and I'll answer you like a man." " "Then hold your head up, look the jury in the face and answer me like a man," said Attorney Robb. Further on in the cross examination, Hooe exclaimed: "Oh, you've got me all tangled." . "So you're tangled?" "Yes, I don't know half the time whether I'm in Pittsburg, Washington, New York, Montclair, or anywhere." "Were you tangled , up when you made that statement in Mr. Ferguson's office about Mrs. Hartje?" j "Nc, the pressure wasn't so strong," said the defendant. ; Attorney Robb, County Detective Robinson and the district attorney's stenographer were also witneses. Mr. Robb told cf a second confession made by Hcoe, to him which was to the ef fect that Hooe had'never been intimate with Mrs. Hartje. He was corrob orated by the county detective and stenographer. i When the court adjourned until to morrow Hooe was still on the stand. DR. HAMILTON TO LEAVE The Rev. Dr. Hamilton Will probably Lave Wilmington Monday Meet ings Will Continue, Dr. Hale Preach ; ing Able Sermon Preached, Last Night Today's Services. Unless something should arise to convince the Rev. Dr. W. Hamil ton that it is his duty to remain at the First Baptist church for another week he will leave the city Monday. To morrow, the Rev. Mr. Wakefield, who so ably assisted Dr. Hamilton in the special meetings for over two weeks, will begin a series of meetings at Hen derson, Kentucky, and ' it is to take up the work there that the evangelist is planning to leave Wilmington. He will go to Henderson by way of At lanta, his home since his connection with the Home Mission board of the Southern Baptist convention. No minister has ever made a better im- pression on his congregations than has the city is to be regretted. The evan gelist has done a wonderful work in Wilmington for his Master, a work that will bear fruit long after he is Hearst's Manager Charges That Cortelyou Was in New York to Show Woodruff How, to Raise an Enormous ; Corruption Fund New; York, October 26. While the gubernatorial candidates of the repub lican and independence league and democratic parties were campaigning up state today there was no dearth of political interest in this city where" a court i decision practically wiped out the local congressional, senatorial and assembly ticket of the Independence deague. Reversing the ruling of the board of elections the appellate division of the supreme court declared many nominat ing petitions filed by the league to have been improperly made in that they were intended to nominate can didates who were to run in overlapping or extended districts. , Thei exceptions to this ruling were most nominees against whom no pro tests had been made, and whose cases consequently did not pome before the court, I all of , whom sought places un der the league's emblem of the bal anced "scales. The league's judiciary ticket i alone remains Intact. The i league will carry the matter to the court of appeals II that body can be convened in special session. While today's decision directly ef fects the local ticket only some con cern was expressed tonight regarding its possible effect up state in places wherei the same practice m the matter of nominating petitions may have been followed. Max F. Ihmsen, manager of the campaign of William R. Hearst for the independence league, today made a statement in which he charged that Postmaster General Cortelyou had come to New York to show Chairman Woodruff of the state republican com mittee how to raise an enormous cor ruption fund. - Mr. i Woodruff promptly issued a de nial of the .accusation., : ' Charles E. Hughes, republican nomi nee for governor, addressed large au diences at Bath and Corning today. William R. Hearst, the independence league and democratic candidate, went to Albany speaking in that city to night.! This afternoon he spoke at Troy and Cohoes. Big crowds greeted him. . Albany, N. Y., October 26. Mr. Hearst's speeches at Albany, Troy and Cohoes tonight, were substantially alike and for the most part were new. Speaking first of the large number of meetings he had addressed during the past four days in Greater New York, and the enthusiasm displayed at those meetings he declared there had never been any like. them in New York. . "I feel confident, said Mr. Hearst, THE RAWLINGS CASE Prison Commission Recommend a Further Respite of Thirty Days in the Execution of the Boys' Sentence. Atlanta, Ga., October 26. Pending the decision of the United. States su preme court on the appeal of J. G. Rawlings, the state prison commission, today deferred action on the petition of his sons Jesse and Milton Rawlings, for a commutation of their death sen tence to life imprisonment. Subse quently the prison commission sent to Governor Terrell a recommendation for a further respite of thirty days in the execution of the boys' sentence, which was set for November 2. The hearing of the appeal of J. G. Rawlings has been set for next Monday by the su preme court. The father and sons were convicted of the murder of the two Carter children; near Valdosta, Ga., more than a year ago. NEGRO BECAME INDIGNANT Pyawso Mr. W. H. Hubbard, WbO Conducts Saloon on Market Street, Would Not Sell Him a Drink. Mr. W. H. Hubbard, who recently tpened a first class saloon at 128 Mar ket street and which is known as the "Lillie White Cafe" was fiercely cen sured yesterday by a negro who is said , to have been a preacher. He desired to buy a drink of whiskey and he was told that negroes were not served in the establishment and would not be under any consideration!. The negro Is said to have become very indignant and said he would see if the license granted Mr. Hubbard stipulated' that no colored people should be served iu the saloon. He was ordered from the saloon and the keeper of the saloon saw that the order was obeyed and that (Without any hesitation. Cowboys Lynch Negro. Roswell, N. M., October 26. "Slab" PittSi a negro, who was run out of town two weeks ago, after, serving ninety days for violation of the Ed munds act, was lynched by cowboys at Toyah, Texas, yesterday. The ac cessory, a white woman, followed the negro to Toyah, and they were living together. The . cowboys went in the ! night and . placed a 'rope around the ' neck of the negro. He was dragged to death and then hanged. WIPES S TICKETS ''that ; two , thirds of the people of ; Greater New York are in favor of this eminent from the trusts, and the great public service corporations which now control it In their own interests and restores it to the hands of the people jto be conducted for the greatest good of the greatest number. ' "The question merely is whethef two thirds of the people of New York will be able to effect anything against the great aggregation of capital .which con trol not only the machinery of parties but the machinery of government in nearly every department. The men who have been put in office and who hold the power of office were put there by the trusts and stand ready to serve the trusts to the last desperate ex- tremity. - "I warned the people last year that immense sums would be used to defeat ,them; that the great trusts and cor porations would go. any length to de feat them. They listened, but doubt less hardly believed that so serious a situation menaced them, yet the result established the truth of every warning I had given them. t "Tonight I solemnly warn the people of this state that even more desperate measures will be taken by the corrupt corporations at this ejection. ,1 "All that Belmont and Ryan and Morgan and Rockefeller and r Rogers spent? to" buy or bribe, or steal the mayor's chair for their puppet, McClel lan will be lost if a governor and leg islature are elected who will see to it that the votes that we have fought to preserve are honestly counted as cast. "If the criminal trusts and corpora tions can. control the machinery of both old parties and stifle any independent movement, what relief can you hope to secure? "You may nominate candidates, hut only such candidates as your corpora tion masters approve. You may cast your vote, but your vote will bniybe counted when your corporation masters approve. You -are free born American citizens but you only retam .such rights; and liberties as your corporation mas ters aliow you. You conduct your own government but only in the way that ! your corporation masters desire." ! In conclusion he said: "Whether. I ! am elected or not, I am enlisted in this i battle to the end, and I will fight in I the lead or in the ranks as you desire, i But, if you see fit to elect me, and my associates and give us an . honest leg i islature, I pledge you that we will ! restrain corrupt corporations and whip j them out and their servants out of the temple of our government. And we ' will restore the government to the peo ple and adopt laws that will perpetuate the people iir power for generations to come." MAY BE PROSECUTED -"i Pennsylvania's State Treasurer Claims That Board 'Exeeded its Authority In Spending $9,000,000 in Furnishing New Capitol. Harrisburg. Pa., October 26. State Treasurer Berry, a democrat, who was elected last year by the reformers said today that he Would recommend to Attorney General Carson that criminal proceedings be instituted against mem- bers of the board of ' public grounds and buildings who contracted for the furnishing and equipping of the new state capitol which cost the state $13, 000,0000. Mr, Berry is preparing a letter to the attorney general which he expects to have ready to fdrward on Monday. Berry claims that the board exceed ed its legal authority in contracting for nearly $9,000,000 of work on the building. The state treasurer says he will reply later to Governor Penny, packer's letter of yesterday defending the conduct of the board. ICE MEN MUST SERVE SENTENCE , Circuit Court Sustains Decision of j Judge Kenkaid. Toledo, Ohio, October 26. Circuit i dourt today upheld the decision of Judge Kinkaid, of common; pleas court in- the sentences he gave Reuben Ijemon, Rolin Berd, and Joseph Miller, convicted of conspiracy in restraint of trade to the sale of ica These are the famous Ice cases which were tried in common pleas court last summer. The sentences given the men were $2,500 fine for each and six months in the workhouse and if the supreme court affirms : the lower courts; the ; Ice men must serve their sentences'. The cir cuit court also held the Valentine anti trust law constitutional. :'vv:;;.: ; :" ' ' I ... " : His Retirement Was Voluntary. Tokio, October 26. The allegation that the retirement of Midshipman Asahi Kitigaki ' from the naval acad emy at Annapolis, was at the request of the Japanese embassy at Washing ? ton,- is deemed here to be impossible, as the Japanese government has care fully avoided anything likely to pro voke rthe United States. M. Mitigaki's parents are without word from -him but it is believed his retirement was entirely voluntary and in no way con- nected with the situation at San Fran- 1 Cisco.,- TRAGEDY OF THE STORM Captain Kelson Becomes insane and Commits Suicide. THRILIING STORY OF RESCUE Standard Oil Company's Steamer Saves Six Men Signal Fire Built on Boat Spread and the Men Were In Immi nent Danger of Being Burned to Death When Taken Off. ,New York, October 26. A thriling story of the rescue of half dozen men in the recent storm off Florida Keys and the subsequent suicide of an in sane captain was 'related by Captain Rudolph Rubelli of the Standard Oil company's steamer Captain A. M. Lucas, which arrived .here today after the most tempestuous voyage of her career. The rescued men were fisher men whose houseboat had been swept to sea by the gale. The plight of the fishermen was call ed to the attneion of a watchman on the Lucas during the height of . the storm by a signal fire which they were burning on top of their houseboat. Before assistance could be sent to the men, the signal fire had spread to the houseboat and the men wer.ln immi nent danger of being Durned to death. There was no time to lower a boat and so the steamer was run along side the burning houseboat and the men were rescued. The news of the rescue was .transmitted to Miami by wireless tele graph and the Lucas proceeded north ward. - On October 20, the sea quieted and the trip was continued without Inci dent until Tuesday. Then Albert Nel son, whose home is in Brooklyn, sud denly jumped up from the ' dinner table, screamed out: "I can stand this no longer," ran to the rail and jumped into the sea. His mind, it was said had become deranged. A boat search ed the sea for some time for .him but no trace of Nelson was found. CHARGED WITH CONSPIRACY Warrants Issued for Arrest of Several Persons in Connection With Fail ure of the Aetna Banking and Trust Company. Washington, October 26. Warrants for the arrest of several persons in con nection With the allure of the Aetna Banking and! Trust company, a branch of a Butte, Montana institution, which was closed a few days ago, by the comptroller of the currency, were is sued today by the police court. The warrants charge conspiracy and; are for E. W. McCormick, engaged on the bus iness of'forming corporations; Ray mond S. Donaldson, real estate dealer;1 Miss Barbara Kritschmann, and John T. Hoag, the latter assistant cashier of the company. McCormick, Donald son and Miss Kritschmann were di rectors of the Illinois Securities com pany, and Hoag made an affidavit that this concern had. a deposit in the bank. Chicago, October 26. John T. "Hoag, was arrested here tonight on informa tion from Chief of Police Sylvester, of Washington. Hoag accompanied by his wife and daughter, was passing through Chicago en route to Spokane, Washn. WBuIi RESUME BUSINEESS Real Estate Trust Company, of Phila delphia, Wrecked by F. K. Hippie, Will Reopen November 1st. Philadelphia, October 26. Common pleas court today discharged George H. Earle, Jr.," as receiver of thex real estate trust company of this city, which failed on August 28th, because of finan cial irregularities of President Frank K. Hippe who committed suicide. The trust company under a reorgani zation plan perfected by Mr. Earle, will re-open i November 1. The plan pro vides that ,. the creditors be paid one third of their claims in cash and the remainder In preferred stock" of the trust company. Cars to Gun dub ' Today Cars to Gun Club every naif hour from 1 to 5 p. m. - STTLIi A MYSTERY Several More Life Preservers Washed AshoreNothing Yet Learnd as to the Cause of Wreckage Coming Ashore. Norfolk, Va.. October 26. Further information from IHcT coast today bearing on the coming ashore of sev eral hundred life preservers between Cape Hatteras and Kinnakeet since October 19 was to the effcet that sev eral more of the preservers have washed ashore since yesterday' bear ing similar marks to. the others, but that there have been no developments by which anything definite can be told as to the cause of this great num ber of life preservers and . other- un dlstinguishable wreckage coming ashore on this coast. Cars to Gun Club Today Cars to Gun Club every half hour from 1 to 5 p. m. A L dlalloty Line of Steamers Un der fa Control. E THE Line Runs Between New York and Southern Ports. Between Eight and Nine Millions In volved in , the Deal Old Board pf Directors Will Remain practically the Same Line Now Owns Ten Ves sels and Several Larger and Finer Vessels are Being Built Mallory Line Will be Run independent of Mr. Morse's Other Properties. tNew York, October 26. Control of the Mallory steamship line has heeni sold to Charles W. Morse. fThe deal Involves between eight and: nine mil lions of dollars. The new interests havei acquired practically all of the stocks of the company. A meeting to organize thfe new board will be held shortly, Henry and Robert Mallory will con tinue with the company under the new management. The Mallory fline runs between New York and Brunswick, Ga., Key West, Tampa, Fla., and Galveston; Texas. Mr. Morse Is already the con trolling spirit In the Clyde steamship line which plies between New York and dominant factor" in several steamship lines running between "New York and New England points. The Morse inter ests purpose to increase the efficiency, of the Mallory lines by additions to its complement of ships. Henry Mallory, president of the New York and Texas Steamship JOmpany, when asked about the transfer said: It is true that Mr. Morse has, taken, over the Mallory Line. The deal is practically completed with the excep tion pf a few minor details. The board of directors will practically remain intact, and the Mallory,interests will bel retained. The fleet now. comprises ten vessels, averaging twenty-nve hundred) tons, and several larger and finer ves sels are now being built." , It was reported in Wall street today that it was the intention of Mr. Morse to form one large holding company un der which all his steamship lines would be operated, but Mr.' Morse, when ask ed as to this report, stated that it was Incorrect. He declared that it was his Intention to run the Mallory line ab solutely independent of his other prop erties. Mr. Morse said that his hold ings in the Mallory line consists of 05 per cent, of the stock, the remainder being held by Mallory Interests. Cars to Gun Club Today Cars to Gun Club every half hour from I -to 5 p. m. OTHERS MAY HAVE BEEN SAVED Men Picked Up at Sea and Landed In Norfolk Will Return to Miami. Norfolk, Va., Cctober 26. The fivei survivors from F;Cus2boat No. 4 on the construction work on the Florida Eastl Cast railway, landed here yesterday by the British steamship Heathpool, were today telegraphed funds' from the of fice of the construction engineer at Mi ami, Florida, and . are preparing u leave by rail for Miami tonight. Referring to an inquiry made here today concerning J. J. Tbhlm of Savan nah, Ga., supposed to have been lost in the hurricane off the Florida coast, where he was engaged in the railway construction work Frank Revely of the survivors landed here, said he knew. Tbbin well and that the Savannah man was on house boat No. 4 when she was torn from her moorings in the storm and foundered. Revely believed that Tobin had been lost but said there might be hope for him and others as it was possible some vessel could have picked up other sur vivors who had not yet been landed. - Cars to Gun Clu b Today Cars to Gun Club every half hour from 1 to 5 p. m. Gan and Herman Fight. Chicago, October 26. Articles of agreement for a finish fight between Joe Gans and Kid Herman, of Chicago, were signed here today. The terms are 133 pounds two hours before the fight, the winner to receive 65 per cent and the loser 35 per cent, of the purse . Nolan, Battling Nelson's manager, met Gans a short time before the be erfnnrnsr of t.h nereement between Gans and Herman and opened negotiations ior a ngnt oetween uan au eisun. Gans insisted on 133 pounds and Nolan declared that the same weights mnst govern as at the last night In GoldfleldaL Gans turned his back on Nolan and commenced to talk . with . Herm an's manager, who was standing close "by. Both Gans and Herman, Bay theyj favor Slier for" referee. S I IP D FA .W M 1
The Wilmington Messenger (Wilmington, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Oct. 27, 1906, edition 1
1
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75