i :! ! IT 4nW fniTi nil t . TOL. XIX. NO. 91. WTL TVE -Y .1 01 E5 Deyastation Greater Than At First Supposed FIVE TOWNS DESHD Whole of the West Coast is Badly Damaged Owing to Absence of Communication News From Stricken .Area is Hard to Obtain List of Fatalities Grows. Larger Heavy Earthquake Shocks Continued on West Coast Until Yes terday Morning Acapuleo Partly Submerged by Tidal Wave. City of Mexico, April 16. Heavy earth, quake shocks continued on the t west coast until 4 o'clock this morning Late news from the area, of the great est destruction in recent earthquake' shows that the devastation was great er than at first supposed. Besides the destruction of Chilpan aingo and Chilapa, it is now reported that Textla, between these two cities) contadnlnfe jabout the same popula tion, a Chilpancingo, was also, level ed. Messengers from, the coast who have reached Chilpancingo also say that the towns of Ayutla and Omete pect have been destroyed. Ayutla is about fifty miles south of O Chilpancingo in the state of Guerie- roy and some twenty miles west of Acapuloo. ( Ometepre is further south near the boundary" line of the states of Guer rero and Oaxaca. It is a town of about 4,000 inhabitants. Tlapa, a town eight miles west of Ohilpancingoi, and near the border line of the state of Oaxaca is also report ed damaged. The Teport from Chilpan cigo says that the west coast from yJCcapuIco south of Salina Cruz, the - Pacific terminal of the Tehuantepec national railway has been badly damaged.- Owing to the remoteness of these points and to the fact, that wire and aail communication is very poor, a news from the stricken district comes jTery Blowly. Only one wire is working IlxChilpancing6 and that rather spa V dically. Nr--Tbrough the courtesy of the officers of the Federal Telegraph company, the Associated Press was given the wire today at noon while It was work lag through to Chilpancingo. The operator there was questioned as to tfea number of casualties but he declar that he knew nothing beyond the fact that he had seen about a dozen corpses knew of some thirty wounded. 0 A dispatch to El Pais, a daily paper, fwjhich- is the organ "of the Catholic chnrch in this city, from the bishop of Chilapa confirms the report of the .widespread destruction of that vicin ity. Fourteen are reported to hare bjoea killed in one house and the num ber of wounded given as thirty eight. fa Textla it is reported that 12 bod ies bare been taken from the ruins aJafTthat twice that number of wound e'4 are being cared for in temporary structures erected in the open coun try. ; Up to 4 o'clock this morning the fiskocks continued with more or less severity near Chilpancingo;, complet ing the work of destruction and de stroying many of the most important pttblto buildings of the city, the new MXLnlcipal palace was badly shattered. It predecessor was leveled by an earthquake four years ago. The hos pitals and the jail are In ruins. Tip to this time the number of deaths reported is 38 and the wounded 93. Out In view of the latter reports it is thought that these figures will fall far short of the real number of f a tfcJlties. It !a reported that Acapuleo was ffertly submerged from the great waves which ' dashed over the break water. Although no breath of wind was stir rUg on the night of the first shock the earth began to tremble, the sosV-jSo lashed into a fury and as th Su3Cka continued the harbor took on , . Cue appearance of a typhoon swept JjEJeaa. Just how much of the port I baa been submerged is not known. ' . OMnmnnication by rail with Tera Qb te entirely cut off owing to tta sinking of road beds on both, the Mex ican and interocean railways. I Reports from nearly- all the larger j cities in the southern part of tile re public have now been received and. although many of these places felt the shock severely, no loss of life has been reported and the property loss is Insignificant. -' - SUPREME COURT OPINIONS Advisory Board Settle the National Guard Encampment Question. (Special to The Met-senger.) Raleigh, N. C. April 16. The advis ory board of the North Carolina nation al guard,' in session here today, re ported to the governor, who approved its recommendations, that the j con ing encampment of the first brigade be held as follows : First regiment at JMcrehead City for five days, rifle practice, thence to the Jamestown Exposition for three cays for instructions; Second 'and Third regiments to proceed from home sta tions to the Jamestown exposition for seven days' encampment for instruc tions. ... ' The board also recommends that the rifle range at Camp Glenn at Morehead City be completed for use by the First regiment at an expenditure not ex ceeding $5,000 and that the, camp grounds there be properly prepared for that regiment. The recommendations are signed by J. F. Armfield, brigadier general, commanding; Thomas R. Rob ertson, adjutant general; Francis A. Macon, quartermaster general; J. N. Craig, colonel Third regiment: J. T. Gardner; colonel First regiment: J. VanB. Metts, lieutenant colonel Sec ond regiment. .The period of the encampment at the exposition is North Carolina week, which will be in August. Opinions were handed down as fol lows: Wood vs Kincaid affirmed; Leathers vs Tobacco Co.. affirmed; Thompson vs Express Co, affirmed; Tobacco Co. vs Tobacco Co.. affirmed; Immigration Co.. vs Rosey, affirmed; JMedlin vs Simpson, affirmed; Home vs Power Co., -affirmed; Perry vs Perry, new trial; Faust vs Faust, new trial; Hex vs Dobbins, per curiam, petition for certiorari denied, motion for new trial for newly discovered testimony refused; judgment below affirmed, v B'NAI B'RITII ADJOURNS. Wilmington Selected as to Place for Next Meeting. Charleston, S. C., April 16. District Grand Lodge No. 5. Independent Or der B'Nai B'Rith, which gathered here Saturday adjourned today after elect ing the -following officers: - President Sigmund Gardner, Savan nah, Ga. First Vice President H.. S. Hutzler, Richmond, Va., Second Vice PresidentMontague Triest, Charleston. Secretary J. L. Levy, Richmond. Treasurer Aaron Goodman, Bal timore. Sergeant-at-Arms Leonard Haas, Atlanta. Representative to Constitutional Grand Lodge Sol Wiel, Goldsboro, N. C. Wilmington, N. C, was selected an the place for the next meeting. BY SCORE OF 15 TO 1 Oak Ridge Wins Game From Ring- ham. . (Special to The Messenger.)' Oak Ridge, N. C. April 16. Oak Ridge won from Bingham of Ashevile here today by a decided score of 15 to l. The work ' of Maybery in the box and Swink behind the bat was work of high order. The home run of Moore, bringing in two men ahead of him, and the left-fielding of Hooks, were the features on the part of Oak Ridge. The batting of Mor gan and beautiful catch of Glenn, cut ting off Holt were features for Bing ham. Batteries : Oak Ridge, Maybery . and Swink. Bingham: Hull and Rerbous; Sessoms and Morgan, Uupire, Lanier; Donnellsoorer. Oak Ridge, runs 15, hits 12, errors 1. Bingham, runs 1, hits 6, errors 8. ' A Tax Shirker Chicago, April 16. Taxing authori- ties of Lake county. Indiana, have in stigated an action against the Standard Oil Company of Whiting as a' result of investigations in charge of county Assessor Black. It is alleged that the company for four years has sequester ed millions of dollars worth of valu able property from tax duplicates. It is estimated by the officials that the Standard Oil company should be pay ing taxes of $40,000,000 worth of prop- erty, when it is assessed on the tax duplicates for only $3,000,000. The Standard has been paying $50,009 a year when it should have paid 10 times that amount, the tax officer? claim REMEMBER BLUE RTBBON . WhMl OrdArill? Tour flumrin cr a w 1 1 m rtf tiemon or' Vanilla either is delightfully j different from ordinary extracts, MISREPRESENTATION MUST STOP Ptherwise Department Will Pub lish List of Names STATEMENT OF 3m. WILSON Manufacturers of Food and Drugs Advertising That Their i Products Had Government Guaraiitce--Seerfc-laryTircd of Seeing the Untruthful Statements, and Will Put a Stop to Them. Washington, April 16. fit this outrageous misrepresentation does not cease, the department will publish a list bearing the names of manufac turers who are indulging in this cam paign of deception." This remark was uttered by Secre tary Wilson, iof the department of agriculture in an authorized statement today, and was brought forth by the fact that there had com to his knowl edge information that a number of manufacturers of foods and drugs were freely advertising that the Unit ed States government Swas guaran teeing their products.. The secretary said that the serial number and guar anty required by the pure food arid drug act to be placed on food arid drug products were being used by these manufacturers, for this purpose. "The serial number," said Secretary Wilson, "is assigned to fix. the re sponsibility where it belongs, upon the manufacturer" land to protect innb cent dealers who have right, under the law1, to rely upon his guaranty. It is the guarantee of the manufac turers, not the guarantee of the gov ernment The secretary declared that every effort would be made by. the depart ment tb put a stop to these state ments. "I will do a little -advertising my self," he said, "in behalf of the peo ple. I am growing tired of seeing these untruthful statements on the ad vertising pages of the magazines, .the walls of the New York'" subway and the advertising space of the street cars of the principle cities. Manufactur ers who will deceive the public about their guarantee will lie about the quality of their product." He added that the law was to be administered fairly and that no hon est manufacturer need fear that the department will take "snap judgment" on him or harass him in any way." Campaign Contributions New. York, April 16. A resolution intended to secure the publication of the contributions made to the repub- v lican and democratic committees at the last national canvass, was offered today at a special meeting of the National Publicity Law Conference. It was entirely unexpected and caus ed a lively discussion. The meeting had been called by President Perry Belmont to further the movement for an effective national publicity law which would require a public record of campaign contributions and expen ditures. The resolution which was offered by Alexander Troup,, of Con necticut, a member of the democratic national committee, requested the chairmen and secretaries of the re publican and democratic national committees of the last national cam paign to make public, all the receipts and expenditures of the campaign. This resolution was offered by by Mr. Troup after he had quoted from a newspaper dispatch from Washington from which it was stat ed that President Roosevelt wanted the campaign books of the last cam paign opened in the next national can vass! "I think the public wants the books of the last campaign opened," exclaimed Mr. Troup, who added that in 1904 the presidently had indignant ly denied that a large sum of money had been contributed to the republi can campaign fund. DIED FROM EFFECTS OF. BLOW Dr. Patterson Struck Wife With Chair While She Held Pistol Pointed in His Face. tGreensboro,- N. C, April 16. While his wife held in her hands a pistol pointed in his face, Dr. R. B. Patter son struck -her over the head witha chair in their home at Liberty. Ran dolph county today. Mrs. Patterson died from the effects of the blow. Dr. and Mrs. Patterson are related to prominent families of the state. For some time the relations between the two have been strained and this morn ing when Dr. Patterson started to call upon a woman patient Mrs. Patterson objected. Upon hia return a "quarrel arose and Mrs. Patterson drew a pistol. He seized a chair and struck her down. Belt defense will be his plea 1 WILMINBTONiflNO MOUNT AIRY Thorough Connection to be Made at an Early Date WAKE ADOPTS NEW ROAD LAW Corporation Commission Hears Com plaint Against Southern Express Company -Citizens of Clinton Peti tion for Passenger Train Each Way. Charters Granted. (Special to The Messenger.) Raleigh, X. C., April 16. The Wake county commissioners have adopted the new road law. Prof. W. C. Rid dick, - chairman road commission, having i been appointed for six years by the legislature, the other members being George B. Hill and H. D. Rand. The -commission will make every ef fort to have the reads here like those in Mecklenburg and Durham counties now 'regarded as the best In the state. The corporation commission had a hearing today on the petition of Cole Planter Company of Charlotte against the Southern Express Company, asking the commission to order the express company to transport cotton planters at. first class rates instead of double first class ! W. A. Myatt, of Raleigh, represented the" Charlotte company, Superintendent JBuckner appearing for the express company. I John; C. Drewery bought the resi dence of Staples Fuller on Hillsboro street, one of the handsomest homes in Raleigh. Fuller soon leaves for New Tork. The house was built by Percy Albright .five years age A charter is granted the Trenton Buggy and Manufacturing Company, Trenton, which will, also manufacture furniture; ; capital $50,000, S. Barker and others stockholders, Another charter is granted to Char lotte T.umber Company, Charlotte, $25,000, R. M. Ogelsby and others stockholders. Another insurance sgencfT is chartered the Guilford Realt;y and Insurance Co., $50,000, II. S.fMillev and others. Anderson and Craig of the Atlantic Coast Line was before the corpora tion commission : in answer-to? -petition of J citzens of . Clinton for passenger train each Way daily, between War saw -and Clinton. There is now only one train each way, mixed freight and passenger. The commission reserves dcision. The desired train is expected. It is now assured through connec tion will be made at an early day. be tween Wilmington and Mount Airy on the old Cape Fear -and Yadkin Valley railway. This connection will be made by change of schedules on Southern trains leaving Greensboro earlier. The Southernl will put a passenger car on the through freighht train which leaves Sanford at 5 in morning for Greansboro, reaching the latter place at 10 o'clock. This will' enable, pas sengers from Sanford arid all inter mediate points to go to Greensboro going in the morning and returning in the afternoon instead y of having to remain 24 hours. T'ae, supreme court, in the case of th e Black well Durham Tobacco Com pany of : North Carolina against the Blackwell Tobacco Company of New Jersey and the American Tobacco; Co., sustained the decision of the lower court that the case is not removable to the federal court. The case came up on appeal, being on the grounds that j - Watts, Toms and other persons) in the service of the American Tcbacco Co., at Durham, were made parties to the complaint improperly. The court holds they are proper parties. The case will now be fought out in the state courts involving the right to the Durham Bull Tobacco trade mark. MR. OTTO BANCK RETIRED On Pension by the Portner Company. T. T. Newman Appointed His Suc cessor. Mr. Otto Banck, who has been a local representative of the Portner Brewing Company for the past 14 years has been retired with a pen sion by that company in appreciation of his long and faithful services. Mr. Banck has recently suffered a nervous break-down and it was necessary for him to take a vacation of several weeks, which he spent at PinehurstT The officials of the Portner Company, decided that he was entitled to a long rest, and they granted him a pension for his services. In succession to Mr. Banck, the com pany has appointed Mr. J. T. Newman to take charge , of their local agency. Mr. Newman has been with the Port ner concern for the past 12 years. - He was the agent at Petersburg .for sev eral years and later became their agent at - Washington. N. C. At the latter place he was a well known and popular citiaen, having been Past Ex alted "Ruler of - the Washlntos, lodge of Elks. He has already assum ed his new duties in this city. LYMAN TWINS' TONIGHT Academy Offers "The Rustlers", a Bright Musical Comedy, for This Evening. The Lyman brothers, who will ap pear at I the Academy tonight with their big company in the musical farce comedy "The Rustlers have the remarkable distinction, of being the only twin comedians today before the public. These clever young players have made over one half of the people of the United States forget their toils of life and enjoy a good laugh although they are still in their twenties and even now at that age they are rated with the besfTeomedians of the day, their work being- full ot originalities and funny eccentricities of the higher order. Their new vehicle "The Rustlers" is a musical farce . handsomely staged and filled" with bright clean and re freshing comedy, intermingled with pretty music, made sprightly by a dainty chorus t eiegantly costumed to gether with a complicated and funny story portrayed by a cast of clever fun makers, "The Summer Girl," "Military Maids," and the "Trolly Girls'.' are some of the features which are to be seen. Seats are now on sale. The scale of prices is to $1 BRYAN CHIEF ATTRACTION. Democracy of Brooklyn Observe An , niversary of Birth of Tliaonias Jef ferson. New York, April 16. With William J. Bryan as chief attraction, the de mocracy of Brooklyn tonight in ob servance of the birth of Thomas Jef ferson engaged in an enthusiastic re union and demonstration. The func tion was the annual dinner of the Brooklyn democratic club and th rep resentative followers of Jefferson in. Brooklyn occupied to overflowing "th assembly'' the largest of the city's public dining halls- A call to many democrats in. many states neaer and distant was included in the arrangements for the celebra tion and the presence of many of theselent peculiar interest to the din ner. Foremost was Mr. Bryan, who, concluding a day of vigorous action which embraced four public addressee, was "gTveh a splendid vre(tidn and -who delivered a characteristic dis- course taking for his subject 'Thom as Jeffeerson." In Favor of Peace. New York, April 16. The protest of mothers, wives and daughters, against a continuance of wars among civilized peoples was voiced today at the fourth session of the first national arbitration and Teace congress in Carnegie Hall, presided over .by Mrs. Anna Garlin Spencer, of Providence, R. I. The big hall was crowded with women gathered from many sections of the country and all wearing the white badge of dele gates. Mrs. Julia Ward Howe and Mrs. May Wright bewail were to have been the guests of honor, but the former could not be present. A letter from Mrs. Howe was received and redd. Following the morning session at which "the relation of women to the peace movement" was discussed there were two sessions of the congress this afternoon, one at the hotel Astor de voted to "the commercial and indus trial as preface to the peace movement, and at Carnegie Hall devoted to young people. Marcus M Marks, "president of the National Association of Clothiers, presided at the hotel Astor gatheriag while at Carnegie Hall William H. Maxwell, superintendent of the public schools of New York was in charge. Baseball. AMERICAN LEAGUE. 'At Boston: Boston 4; Washing ton 2. ' ; ' - At New York: New York 6; Phil adelphia! 9j At Detroit-Chicago cold. At St. Louis-Clevelandwet grounds. NATIONAL LEAGUE. At Cincinnati: Cincinnati 0;' St. Louis 3. At Brooklyn: Brooklyn 1; New York 4. f : ' At Philadelphia: Philadelphia 6; Boston 5. SOUTHERN LEAGUE. Little RockSShreveport, , postponed, wet grounds. I Memphis-New Orleans postponed, rain. Birmingham-Atlanta, ' postponed, wet grounds. At Montgomery: Montgomery - S; Nashville 0. SOUTH ATLANTIC At Jacksonville: Jacksonville I; Savannah 3. i At Macon: Macon 6; Charleston L At Columbia: Columbia 1; Augus ta 0. ' OTHER GAMES. At Lynchburg: Baltimore, Eastern 1; LynchburgL BtatiL 0. At Greensboro: A. fcnd XL CtoUeca Guilford 8 ATTACK OF DELIS Puis Her of Evelyn Thaw On the CeFensIve ES T Loves Her Daughter as Fondly as She Ever Did Denies That She Aided District Attorney- Would Have Killed Slim ford White Herself if "She Had Known of the Fate That Had Be fallen Her Daughter European Trip Was and is a Nightmare to Her. (Copyright 1907 by the Pittsburg Leader Publishing Company.) Pittsburg, April 16. The Pittsburg Leader this afternoon prints a six column statement from Mrs. Charles J. Holman, mother of Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, in, which she defends herselC against the accusations expressed and implied against her during the Thaw trial. The statement opens by saying tnat two nights after the night upon which which Harry Thaw shot Stanford White she received this telegram from her daughter: "It is most important for you tosay absolutely nothing" .Until now s has remained silent and has been forced to take the defensive of the attack made upon her by Mr. Delmas in his closing address to the Thaw jury. She denies that she aided the dis trict attorney in any way and that she had been seen by Mr. Jerome, Mr. Garvin or Mr. Hartridge.. i H3Trs::Hohnan then details her strug- gle folldwing the death of .her fifth -husband, in her efforts to properly raise her two children and says her daughter first posed for an artist named Storm of Philadelphia, Pa., who met Evelyn at Cresson, Pa., a -summer resort, when a little girl. "Florence," she says "was in love with the stage.' She did everything to discourage her, but it was useless. . The story of Florenc's first meeting " with Stanford White, she says is sub-, stantially as told by her on the wit ness stand. When Florence returned! she told her, mother she had met the. grandest man and later when Mr. White sent for her rhe went toshis office. .Mr. White, she says, warned her specifically against several young men, with whom Florence had become ac quainted, but ,dld not refer to Thaw. His manner, words and actions were the personification of whole-hearted disinterested generosity, Mrs. Holman says, and if ever a woman reposed implicit confidence in a man she says . she did. Mrs. Holman asserts that if Flor ence underwent the experience that is. said to have befallen her, she did not take her into her confidence. Continuing, she says: '-Had shl told rhe what she told the Thaw Jury it would not have been necessary for Harry Thaw to kill Stanford White. I would have done it myself." Speaking of the European trip, Mrs. Holman says: Every detail of thej trip was and Is a nightmare to me. Mr. Thaw Joined us in Paris. Florence and I shared the same apartments. Mr. Thaw had apartments by himself There as no pleasure In the tour for me. The things which appealed to Flor nce and Mr. Thaw in Paris did hot ap peal to me, Florence testified that we quarrelled frequently while in -Parf3 in fact . continually. The disagree ments were caused by my pretests at visits to various restaurants." ; In closing, Mrs. Holman fays: "I solemnly affirm that my love fo daughter is as deep and intense as it was when I first held her in my arms a helpless baby. Regardless ofall that has transpired, my affection Is unal tered. The door of my home is open to her and will swing wide at her lightest tap today, tomorrow and al ways while I Jive." ' ! Rescue Work of the Salvation Army, i Adjutant and Mrs. Yates of the Sal vation army post, went to Southpoit (Monday afternoon and returned to the city yesterday. Monday night in the court house at Southport Adjutant Yates delivered an interesting lecture on "Rescue Work of the Sarratlon Army" He was greeted by a very large audience, the court room being packed 'toitelimlfc , 5 STATEME