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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
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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
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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
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