North Carolina Newspapers

' i. ; J n -i VOL. XIX. NO. 109. WILMINGTON. FIVE CENT 7 4 i 4 61 -7 EFFECTS OF STRIKED Being Felt Ttiroug Country t The 1.010 UKUEM IT Many Vessels Leave Port With Partial Cargoes McrciiaiUs Feeling the lelay -Orders Piling With No Immediate pros pects of lieing Filled Strikers Counting Strongly on General Pro test From -Business Men Leaders of 'Strikers Show Disposition to Cheek Lawlessness. I New York, May S, The contest be tween tha transatlantic and coastwise " steamship companies and the striking longshoremen which followed th re fusal of the former to grant a jvage increase of approximately 33 1-Sj per cent, continued today to the disadvan tage of both parties. While the men remained idle several ships were oblig ed to sail with partial cargoes. The only persons receiving direct hou and immediate benefit from the situ ation are the crews of the vessels who having been pressed into double ser vice, are receiving the wages of steve ; dores in addition to their regular Ipay as ship employees. But with the Ser vices of the crews and such other lielp as could be picked up the work pro- ressed slowly and much freight was . necessarily refused. fttarchants throughout the country 3e feeling the delay, it is said, con tracts are maturing without the 1'ul filment of their conditions, and orders are piling in with no immediate pros pect of being filled. It is in this last phase of the situa tion that the striking longshoremen find their greatest source of satisfac . tion. A gener protest of merchants, .Q they are, sure, will impel the steam ship men to agree forthwith to their demands, for higher wages. The threat that the transatlantic lines, which are under contract with their respective governments to carfy the mails on scheduled time would pe forced to suspend their sailings tem porarily, is not seriously entertained. The thinking strikers realize that the companies would, if necessary, sacrifice tbjr' freight and even passenger busi ness and fill their holds with cca.1, rather, than interrupt or seriously lay the mail service. Rather the strik ers expect to cause such inconvenience and money loss that the companies will be glad to come to terms. - With the exception of the-haifTiozen liners which have acceded to the mands, the steamship people tonight t remain firm in their determination not ""to yield. The liners sailed as schedul ed today. They included the Baltic, of the White Star line, for Liverpool; Noordam, of the Holland-American line, for Rotterdam; the French liner Roma, for (Marseilles, and the Ita'iiaii !Brazile, for Naples and Genoa. Though probably 10,000 men are idl there was comparatively little disorder today. The leaders of the strikers have shown ai. disposition to ceck kuf outbreak against men who are workf ing, and in one instance today severa strikers surrounded two workers who were armed and caused the arrest o the two and later appeared against the men in court. ; HURT BY INFERNAL MACHINE Thought to Have Been Sent by Jilted Lover of Girl. Atlanta, Ga.,Stfay 8. Mrs. Julia Mc Arthy tonight was seriously injured! and her residence at 447 Georgia ave., was wrecked by an infernal machine! contained in a package which she was attempting to open. The package, which was addressed to her daughter. Miss Wate McArthy, was brought to jthe house by a messenger boy while the young woman was absent and her mother attempted to open it. The police believe the machine was sent by a jilted lover, whom they are now leok ing for. Los Angeles, May S.-Jack O'Brien and Tdaimy Burns met tonight for a rseof $30,000 and the heavyweight championship. Burins the first rotmd Referee Eyton called off all bets with out giving a reason. O'Brien is said to be injured. AIG FOR ! GOVERNOR g Affecting Life Insurance Com ic- Charged with Infanticide. (Special to The Messenger.) Raleigh, May 8. Locke Craig, of Asheville, is formally in the field for the democratic nomination for govern- j or. Letters sent out by his friends have brought very flattering replies. Insurance Commissioner Young rules that no life insurance company doing business in North Carolina shall issue any special or board contracts or sell any stock in connection with the pol icies. This is to prevent rebating and is intended to place all citizens of the state upon thi same basis so far as life insurance contracts are concern ed. 1 Rosa Johnston, i. dissolute young white woman, is in custody. She was arrested late this afternoon on the charge of murdering her Infant, imme diately after having given birth to its last night near a stable. The child's mouth was filled with straw to pre vent its crying and its head was then dashed against a box. The woman ie fuses to speak. . John Bethel, a notorious negro, was shot and killed while attempting to escape from the convict canip, of this county, near Wake Forest. He was sentenced for four years for laicenj He escaped from jail several years ago, leading -ftr the escape several other prisoners. Insurance i Commisisoner Young pays into the state treasury $30,131, receipts for April. William Daucy, who served in Co. B. 47 N. C. regiment ant': who had been in the soldier's home for fifteen years died today, aged 86 State veterinarian Butler, who went to Polk county to investigate an: al leged case of glanders in a horse finds it was not that disease but merely abcess of a tooth. Secretary Livingston Johnston re ports that North Carolina Baptists during the past twelve months gave $30,500 for foreign missions and $1G, 104 for home missions, an increase in the latter over the previous year of $6,000. Wake Forest has in four months raised $37,000 on the new endowment fund. M'JW PASSENGER RATES Southern Secures Restraining Order ' Asa i list Virginia and North Carolina Richmond, Va.. May 8. United States Circuit Judge Fritchard tonight granted an injunction and restraining order in the suit of the Southern Rail way company against; the clerk and members and corporation commission of Virginia, thereby preventing them from publishing their order putting the two cent passenger rate in effect in this state. The bill is made return able before Judge Pritchard in Ashe ville, N. C on June 27. At the same time Judge Pritcitard granted a similar order in the suit of the Southern Railway company against members of corporation commission sion, the attorney general and the assistant attorney general of North ICaroIina in the same way restraining those officials from publishing and put ting into effect the new law providing for a passenger rate of two and one quarter cents. The North Carolina bill is returnable before Judge Pritchard in Asheville on June 26. The North Car olina suit . refers to both passenger and freight rates. While this matter is thus brought to a head by the i Southern road, it is upon what seems to be high authority, stated that all other, transportation companies affected will come in as parties. ? I "INJUNCTION GRANTED Alabama Restrained From Putting jn Operation Certain Laws. Montgomery, Ala., May 8. Judge T. G Jones of the United States court to- ; day granted preliminary injunctions on the part of ten roads in Alabama, restraining the state from putting in to operation certain laws just enacted. Continuance pvas taken ; in the appli cation, of the Louisville and Nashville and the southrn and northern roads j "because of 'iheir having made rates j In Violation of the law which says that rau 12 effect January 1. last shall be the maximum charge. This feature was continued for thirty days by re quest oX the state. The roads which secured the in junctions are the Atlantic Ccast Line, the Seaboard, the Central of Georgia and the Western of Alabama; the Alabama Great Southern, the Southern, the Mobile and Ohio, the Atlanta and 'Birmingham, the -Frisco and the Nashville, and the Chattanoo ga and St. Louis. V The laws resisted make rates Jan uary 1. the maximum rates, fixes rates on 110 articles, classifies the roads, and provides for the abrogation of li oeas of any Jroad removing a case from tibia state to the federal court. The question of a master will be de termined on the motion day, the first Totesday in. Jane. DECISION OF JUDGE Removes Ottclss to Trial of Haywood ILL COMMENCE Charged With Participation In filurder of Gov. ' Stuenberg Is Firts of the Four Men Indicted to be Tried One of the Accused Has Made Confession Crime Grew Out of Labor Troubles Trial Promises to be a. Noted One. "Boise, Idaho, May 8. By overruling today the motion o fthe defense for a bill ofparticulars setting forth what overt acts, if any, there were to con nect the acused with the murder of former Governor Steuenberg, Judge Fremont Wood of the district court of Ada county, cleared the way for the trial of William D. Haywood, secretary of the western federation of miners, which will begin tomorrow morning. Judge Wood held that the reues: of Haywood's counsel for a more explicit statement of the charges against the prisoners came too late, regardless of whether it might have been entertain ed at any earlier stage of the proceed ings. In cases where bills of particu lars air allowable Jsidtre Wood, who As .to Dreside ovr fhe trials of the acused miners., declared the motions must be made before the indictments are "caded to before the cases are set for trial. Haywood is the first of four men ac cused of complicity in the Steuenberg murder to be tried. The oihers, Moyer, Fettibone and Orchard, the last of whom is said to have m-ide a confes sion, will be tried as circumstances dic tate, following the conclusion of the proceedings against Hayvrood. The prisoner, hio counsel and the attorneys specially regained to present tie case and plead tte cause of the accusing state, &re ready for the long ordeal in court. The first and cne of the greatest tasks of the court, is to procure a jury and that will he com menced tomorrow morning as soon as Sheriff Hodgin has intoned the formal cry opering the court. The victim of the Caid well assassi nation, long conspicuous a figure in the political life of the state, was pos sibly known to hundreds of citi-sens of Ada county and personal alignment and partisanship on the labor question in-. which the prisoner and his cc-de-fendants were for a lonrr time active 'leaders, is general, sc that it is at once a difficult task to fmd men free from the disqualifications that unfit them for the high duty of a juror. Many men who knew the community well and who add to their cV.cu'aiion the further handicaps of apprehension of future violence for revenge, take the extreme view that it will be possible to get a jury, but the weight of opinion is against this conclusion. One of the, counsel fo.' the prisoners siid: "The broader the scops of the cas'j placed before the state the better we shall be satisfied.' Nearly forty corresponds s for press associations and newspapers .have come to report the case, and special wire arrangements have been made for the transmission of the dispatches. No Lives Lost. Marselles May S Accordin to iis patches received here fiom the agents of the. company that owned the French steamer Poitou, wrecked on the coast of'Uruguay, all the passengers of the vessel, )as well as the crew, are safe. The passengers are baing tranf erred by steamers ito Buenas Ayres. The crew will remain on board un til all nopes of re-floating the ri.sel are abandoned. The dispatches say there t as been no loss of life. There were 160 passen gers cm board the Poitou. Los Angeles, Cal. May S. The nunu au election of officers was the princi pal business tranactPd at today's ses- jsios ofthe imperial council of the Mystic Shrine. Henry F. Nil Jring haus of Moolah temnTe, St Louis, va elected imperial outer ruard. FOUND DEAD IN BED Valdosta, Ga., May 8. Steve Pearce, Pearce, a well known turpentine oper ator of Crossland. was found dead in bed at a hotel here today, his throat cut and a knife In his hand. The theory is that he commlted suicide, al though there is some grounds that sus pect foul play. GUT GOBDII NOT Plan of George Cox to Restore Harmony PREPARES PH1ME Taft For President and Fora ke For Senator Thinks i it is the Only Ticket Tliat Can lirimj Success to the Republican Party i'oiaker Will Make no Re sponse to Suggestion, but Will Sup port Taft if lie is Ohio s Choice. Cincinnati. May S.-W H. Taft for president; J. B. Foraker tor U. S. sen ator and A. L. Harris for governor, is the program advised today by George B. CoxJ formerly republican leader in Hamilton county in an interview with the Associated Press. Reports from Columbus and Washington hud named Mr. Cox as engaged in negotiationsl looking forward to a compromise be tween Taft and Forake: forces but Mr. Cox denied such suggestions. As to the Ohio situation he said. Our watchword should be "Success to the republican party"' and to achieve this we should support W. H. Taft for president; J. B. Foraker for United States senator, and A. L. Harris for governor." When the attention of Senator For aker was called to the statement, he said: "I have just read what Mr. Cox says. If I understand him correctly he makes a specific recommendation, addressed to the republicans of Ohio, as to what their action shall be in the convention of next year. I am not certain it calls, fcr! any' response from me, -but I will repeat that I do not van tany political honors at the hands of the republicans of Ohio except with their hearty in dorsement. Therefore, if what Mr. Cox suggests and recommends should meet with their approval, no one will support Secretary Taft more cordially than I shall. Columbus, O., May 8. A. I. Vorys, state commissioner of insurance and manager of the Taft campaign in Ohio declined this evening to comment on the statement issued by George B. Cox of Cincinnati, advising 'the republicans of Ohio to agree on William H. Taft for president; Joseph B. Foraker for senator, and Andrew L. Harris for governor. I FTRE IN KANSAS CITY One Person Killed and Fifteen injured Kansas City, Mo.. May 84tr-Georgo deMare was killed and fifteen persons were injured in a fire that destroyed the five story brick university build ing at the northwest corner of Locust and Ninth; streets, causing a property damage of $250,000. Six persons are missing! and may be buried in the ruins. The debris cannot be searcneci before tomorrow. The building was occupied by, Montgomery Ward and company as offices, employing two hundred girls, '.and by numerous artists and musi cians who lost everything. Countess j Alexandria Blumberg, a miniature artist who came to America 'two years) ago s from Paris; and who had a studio on the fourth floor, was' overcome by smoke and carried from Iter room by a fireman, who started ujovm a ladder with her. JfVIhen tie two were within thirtyfeet of the -ground the firemen be" low in their ecxitement turned' a stream of water on them, knocking them from the lad der.' i -!'. Miss Blumberg suffered a fractured ckull. Her studio contained many rare works of art. They were all de stroyed. HAD NARROW ESCAPE Liner and Cruiser Nearlv Collide in Foir. New York May 8 Passengers on the big German s tamer Kaiser Wilhelm II, which arrived today from Europe reported that the liner had a remark ably narrow escape from collision with the German protected cruiser Bremen in a dense fog off Nantucket yesterday, j ; According to the srtory the Kaiser was ploughing "along at a high speed when the Bk-emen loomed up in the fog only a short distance ahead- In fetanjtiy the fcSner's engines iwere- re- versed and her nose was turned to ona side. .''"'.' The Bremen's x watch saw the dan- at the; same instance and the :Tr -r i a tu FVE YEARS IN PKNITENTIAKY Was Tried in Federal Court Yesterday. 3Iistrial in a Whiskey Case From "Cumberland Order Made in an Ad miralty Case. . ' ' The United States district and cir cuit court for the eastern district North Carolina was convened at 10 o'clock yesterday morning and the consideration of the cases onjhe dock et resumed. Up to the present time the cases before the court have been mostly for alleged violations of the rev enue laws. The most important case .tried yesterday was that of Ed. Smith, the man charged with having raised checks on several Wilmington .mer chants. Smith was only recently re leased from the Atlanta prison where he served 'a two years' sentence on the same charge for which he was tried yesterday. The indictment against Smith is for violation of the postal laws and hey plead guilty. The court sentenced him to five years at hard labor in the penitentiary at Atlanta and to pay the costs. Judge Purnell stated in answer to questions asked by counsel that at some future date at chambers iu this city, he will entertain a motion to strike the celebrated New Jersey Land and Lumber Co. vs Gardner-Lacy Lumber Co., et al, suit off the docket. The following cases were disposed of during the day: - m,. d ex- etaoin shrdlu cmfwjpat Grant Porter, Cumberland, whiskey retailing, guilty, sentenced to four months-in jail, $100 fine and costs. Frank Debury, Scotland, illicit dis tilling, plead guilty, 30 days in jail and $100 and costs. Judgment suspended and defendant discharged. T. J. Gore, New Hanover, violation of Section 3326, case compromised, set tled with commissioner internal revenue. Tom Bogans, Robeson, retailing plead guilty, judgment 30 days in Jail and fine of $100 and costs. JNed Thigpen, Duplin, retailing, plead guilty, judgment six months In jail and fine of $100 and costs. H. B. Stackhouse, Robeson, retailing 30 days in jail and fine of $100 and costs. W. AV Mosely, Cumberland, retail ing, case given to jury at 12:30 p. m 'At 8:30 last night the jury came in and said there was hopeless division, so a juror was withdrawn and a mistrial ordered. Louis Hoskins, Cumberland, retail ing, verdict brought in after court ad journed "not guilty. Handy Holmes,, Cumberland, retail ina, c & f. Judgment ni si, sci fa and capias. Leon T. Cook, of iMaxton, N. C, at torney at law; was sworn in and ad mitted to practice in the circuit court. STT1IKE IN SAX FRANCISCO Troops Ordered Held in Readiness for Emergencies. -j ' Sacramento, Cal., May 8. Adjutant General Lauck received the following telegram from Governor Gillette last night. "Things look serious. Have everything ready to move if necessary. As heretofore, take every precaution ary measure. "James Gillette." San Francisco, Cal., May 8. A con ference was held in the Mayor's office today between Mayor Sehmitzs, Pat rick Calhoun, president of the United Railroads and Richard Cornelius, being present. The mayor proposed that the case be submited to a com mittee of flftten citizens to be appointed by him. President Cal houn did not accept the suggestion but stated that he would see his col leagues in reference to the matter and give an answer later. President Cor nelius said that while he had no objec tion to the appointment of such a committee he could not agree to its acting as a board of arbitration. The mayor, in closing the discussion de clared his intention of appointing the committee regardless of the opinion of either Calhoun or Cornelius . Of the 25 people injured in yester day's fight between the strike breakers and the crowd reports from the hos pitals today indicate that four mote will die. Nearly all the other wounds proved to be superficial and most of the wounded have been removed to their homes. Thorn well Mullaly assistant to the president of United Railways stated today that the company had a numebr of affidavits skowing that the shooting yesterday was begun by persons in the crowd trying to obstruct the movement of street car and not by the men 'who are operating them. Democratis Swept City. Baltimore, May 8. The democrats swept the city inTyesterday's municipal elcction. " j , The plurality of J. Barry Mahool, democrat for mayorover Timanus, re- butaicaxifc Is 4,640. The democratic J candidates for comptroller and pres- Rident of the second branch of the dry councu. were elected by good plurali AT FD RT Fatal dotcoms of a Family Row , 10 INJURED Infuriated Husband Fired Twice at His Wife ' ' n A Man Who Went to Her Rescue Was Also Shot An Attache of the Com missary Department Secins tlie Shooting, Fired at the Mad Man ana Killed Him Instantly Dead Man Is a Native cf Georgia. A terrible and startling tragedy oc curred in the ordinarily peaceful garri son at Fort Caswell, at the mouth of Cape Fear river yesterday afternoon, as the result of which a man lies dead and two other persons, a man and a . woman., were seriously injured, with chances seeming, it Is said to favop the death of Doth. From facts which could be gathered in the city last night, after a futile attempt had been made to reach the fort by phone, it seems that thero were two parties in the shooting, and that the action of one was taking in defense of the life of the other. The tragedy occurred early yester day afternoon, shortly before i o'clock, when Henry Hamilton, a private in the 19th Co. of artillery corps, for. some reason, now unknown, became angry with his wife and fired .at biQTm the ball lodging in hef body. ' As she; ran screaming with, pain from, the house he followed and fired a second! time at her. Corporal Watson rushed' to the aid of the stricken woman and as he reached her side the initio riated man shot the corporal. Botb of these are said now to be in a preca rious condition. One of the attaches of the commissary department, seeing, the tragedy rushed from his quar ters and shot Hamilton. The latter fell over dead. It is said that Hamilton had re cently made threats against his wife, and that the attaches of the conimia sary department, where he was emV ployed, were on the lookout for his wild actions. As said above the cause o the trag edy could not be learned, but it is be- lieved to have been the result of mari- al disagreements. Hamilton is thought to have come from Coiumbus, Ga., his native city being given as Macon, Mr. W. W. King, undertaker in this city, was notified of the death of Ham- ilton and he will leave for the fort this morning on the steamer Wilming ton with a casket in which the re mains of the deceased will be shipped to his former home u The fort was thrown into a high pitch of excitement by the terrlbla shooting occurrences. BASEBALL. American. Chicago, 5; Cleveland, 7. St. Louis-Betroitrain. National. Brooklyn, 4; Chicago, 12. New York, 4; Pittsburg, 0, Philadelphia, 4; St. Lquis, 6. Boston, 6; Cincinnati, 0. Virginia State League. Danville, 2; Richmond. 5. Norfolk, 3; Lynchburg, 6. Roanoke, 6; Portsmouth, 1 (7 in nings; rain). Southern Little Rock, 10; Nashville, 6. New Orleans-Birmingham, rain. Shreveport-Montgomery; failure of Montgomery to arrive. No other games scheduled. South Atlantic. 'Augusta-Savannah, wet grounds. Jacksonville-Macon, wet grounds. Columbia, 2; Charleston, 0 (3 In nings). . Bond Issue in Elizabethtown Carried. (Special to .The Messenger.) Elizabeth town, N. Ct (May 8. &n election was held here yesterday to 1 decide whether or not Elizabeth town- ship would. Issue bonds to the amount of $25,000 to assist in building ? toil- road from Abbottsburg on thee S. A. ..to Elizahethtown. The bond issue, I was carried by a safe majority. In. the municipal election Terry A. Lyon - I a talented young lawyer, was elected TRAGEDY L' r JllM mayor almost unanimously. . t .