VOL. VIIL NO. 71.
GBEENSBORO. N. C MONDAY.
29, 190L
Pride Five Cente,
NO MORE CBURCB
DOOR
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ALDERftlAll PASS All 0RDIIIA1ICE
. IT FORBIDS CONORJEixtid JLr6tTST
WEST MABKEt 'tHUBCH;' ' '
Boys Must Now Move Elsewhere to Look
at the Folks Going ia and out Water
Committee Elected -kther Matters of
Interest.
The Board of Aldermen met Satur
day night in an adjourned session.
Those absent from this meeting were
Boyd and Joyner.
A committtee" from the Board of
Stewards of West Market Street Meth
odist church, composed" of Messrs. J.
A: Odell and E. J. Stafford, appeared
before the Board and asked that an or
dinenace be passed prohibiting the
loitering around that church.Alderman
. Elam offered the following which was
adopted :
"Be it ordanied by the Board of Al- I
Mermen of the City of Greensboro, I
JNTorth Carolina, that it.shall be unlaw- I
ful for any person or persons to loiter I
around West Market Street church, or I
make annoying and insulting remarks
to any person or persons coming to or
from said cburch. Any person violat
ing this ordinance will be fined five
dollars."
Prof. George A. Grimsley and Mr.
Georee S. Sergeant from the
committee on the public library, ap
peared before the Board and asked that
the rooms in the City Hall on the third
-a ritr-rt fnn tka una rf tVia HVtrW I .
au uC "
They stated that the commmittee in
the canvass of the city had met with
such success as to be able to fill all
the rooms onthat floor. Upon motion
of Alderman Love the request was
granted.
Alderman Scott offered the follow
ing resolution which was adopted:
"Resolved, that the Board of Alder
men learns with pleasure of the move
ment now oh foot to establish a public
library in bur city and believe that it
will result in great and lasting good
to our community. We commend the
public spirit of the library committee
in cnarge or saia movement, uu muoc
who are so liberally giving of their
means for this purpose, and we trust
the people of the city will show a lib
eral and progressive spirit in so an
important matter.'
A settling committee to settle with
the officials of the city was appointed
comoosed of Messrs. Tom Sherwood
and B. H. Merrimon.
The application of John Barker to
sell liquors by retail at his store on
West Market street, was, by the request
of the applicant, de'fetred to the next
meeting of the Board for action.
Mr. J. Ed. Albright was granted a
plumber license
R. S. Small n.ade application to sell
liquors by retail ar 230 South Davie
street. Under the rules the applica-
-
tion went over two weeks.
A deed to Tate street was filed and
accepted
Alderman Ellington moved that they
proceed to tbe election of a light and
water committee, to consist of three
men, one to be elected for three years,
one for two, and one for one year.
Messrs. Sherwood and Ellington were
elected tellers. Alderman Ellington
nominated W. T. Sergeant for the three
year term, B. H. Merrimon for the sec
ond, and J. D. Glenn for the one vear
term. Alderman Hunter moved that
the clerk be instructed
w.
of the Board for Sergeant for the three
year term, which was done, and Ser-
geant was declared elected. Ballots
for the two year term were then taken
and resulted in the following; vote,'
Merrimon,1; Hunterj 3 .Merrimon' was
declared elected. Ballot for the one
year term resulted In Glenn, $; Whar
ton 3. Glenn was declared elected.
10AFING
This committee is appointed underthe
change of charter by the last Legisla
ture, x v
The building committee was instruc
ted to put in a drain for the city -hall
lot
Board adjourned.
JIarrlrtire ttt the White If ease.
By 7ire!fi)2Phe Telegram. r
Washington April 29. The police
this morning gave out information that
Barry Finklestein, a murderous maniac
who months ago left the Utah State
insane asylum was arrested when he
attempted to force his way into the
White House yesterday. The news of
the arrest has been kept from the
Washington public and the President.
THE PRESIDENT'S TRAIN STARTS
LEFT WASHINGTON THIS MORNING
for the: long itinerary.
For the Next Few Week the Executlre
Post ot the Government of the United
States Will be on Wheels.
By Wire to The Telegram.
Washington, April 29. On schedule
time, and cniid great cheering
the
this
President's train left this city
morning. The train is the one used
by the educational party in its late
Southern trip
The Presidential train which pulled
out of the Southern Railway at 10:30 a.
m. consists- of a private car for the Pre
sident ahaHMrs.;i McKinley, two Pull
man compartment' cars, two Pullman
sleeping cars, a dining car and a com
bination car. Col. Li. S. Brown, gener
al agent of the Southern Railway, ac
companies the party from here to New
Orleans, and from New Orleans to Port
land, Ore. Mr. O. E. McCormick, pas-
genger traffic manager of the Southern
Pacific, will accompany the party.
Those who travel -with the President
...
are Secretary and Mrs. May, Postmast
er-General and Mrs. Smith, Secretary
and Mrs. Long, Secretary and . Mrs.
Hitchcock, and Secretary and Miss
Wilson, Miss Mary Barber ( Mr. Henry
T. Scott, Mr. and Mrs. Charles A
Moore, Secretary and Mrs. Cortelyou,
Dr. and Mrs. Ricky, Assistant Secre
tary Baraeaj Mr. ,M. A. Dignam, sever
al stenographers representatives of
press associations, Illustrated weeklies,
Washintgton dailies and a representa
tive of the press of San Francisco.
Mr. Marcan, manager of the Western
Union Telegraph Company at Wash
ington, and Mr. Ribble, manager of
the Postal Telegraph-Cable Company
are also on the train.
The train will go by way of Alexan
dria, Charlottesville, Lynchburg and
Roanoke, Va., Huntsville, Decatur and
Tuscumbia, Ala., and Cornith, Miss.,
arriving at Memphis, Tenn., 4:30 p.
m. Tuesday, April 30. A stay of sev
eral hours will be made In Memphis,
the party leaving there during- the
night for New Orlenas, going by way
of Vicksburg -and Jackson, reaching
New Orleans at 4:30 p. m. the flfst of
May, and reamining there until 6 p.
m. the following day.
On the the evening of May 1st, the
President Will - attend a banquet and
will probably deliver a short address.
On the 2nd the party will go for a drive
visiting In its course the Cabildo, the
old building which was the seat of the
Spanish and French governments, and
which witnessed the transfer of sov
ereignty from Spain to France, and
from France to the United States. Af
ter luncheon a boat ride will be taken
on the Mississippi.
3yples Rob a Girl.
By, Wire to The Telegram,
I woahinVtnn. Aoril 29. Cvpsies in
i Y Cfcfr iff " Q y m. -
camp opposite Georgetown today held
ud Blanche Ferguson, a girl on "her
way to school .and took her pocket
1 book and other valuables. The" camp
wiftbe thoroughly-Investigated -by the
VlrtfclaJVuthorities: ;Two girls have
aireadr: been arTeteaAottvBUsptciotti
knowingr KcQQtnpfisll?
abouU, who belong to tWs-campr
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LIES
TDE NEGRO.
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OR.PARKHUBST GIVES HIS VIEWS
THE NEGRO AND SAY88O.
Bat the Northern Man Makes a Flamboy-!
ant parade oTer the Negro Got. Chand
ler Should have Done like Got. Ayeoek
Did. ,
. New York, April 28. Thet Rev. Dr.
Charless H. Parkhurst preached today
at the Madison Square - Presbyterian
church, on topics connected with his re
recent trip South. He also made, an
incidental reply to Gov. Candler, who
was reported as having denounced
those Northerners who took an inter
est in educational matters in the South,
as a distinct section, but because they
were conscious of the unity which
makes the North and South members
of each, other. The conference held at
Winston-Salem, in North Carolina, he
said, was characterized by the utmost
frankness on .both sides, and yet from
first to last, not an embittering word
was. spofceii3fRef erring to Governor
Candler's criticisms, Dr. Parkhurst
said they would not have been made
hadthe Governor of Georgia, as did
the Governor of North Carolina, come
into direct touch with the personnel
of the conference, or for five minutes
respired the atmosphere which the con
ference exhaled."
Referring to the estimation in which
the people of the South and those of
the North hold the negro. Dr. Park
hurst said: "The Southerner does not
like the negro any better than the aver
age Northerner does, but the xiegro
with just about the same amount of
Christian jsidettonlyot.ithe!
two, the Southern white man has per
haps the advantage, that he sloes not.
make quite so flamboyant a pretense
of loving the negroas his Northern
brother does. The JSouthem i white
man disliked the njegro, and owns up
to it. The whitfrmaiuin the:Nortb dis-
likes the negro and' ties about it."
The preacehr Baid further ''The in-
discriminating act by which the :ine-
grpes . had conferred upon thenv the:
right . to 'vote was one of those blun
ders that it is not easy to escape from
after it is once committed, but which
it would seem, we ought to have had
Northern' statesmanship sufficiently in
telligent to prevent
"The counsel that both the Northern
and the Southern friends of the negro
are now,, giving him is to keep quiet
upon the whole matter, to keep out of
politics; not to talk about the constitu
tion; not to insist unon his right, but
to attendSfiustriously to tne work of
gfUing htriiself well ready which lf
is not now-for what God andth ; coun
try and the future may i;-.v. in store
:o- cim"
Lr.' Parkhurst sed bv tr.e folio -Ir
general reference to p 'vi-r.T. coii!i
t: ts arrtohgSou lien people:
"The South does not altogether love
us, but no one there hates us nearly
as much' ls" it would be perefectly nat
ural for them to hate us. They are all
glad that slavery is done. They are all
glad that they are inthe Union. They
all glory lit the flag, even while in ten
der berehvinent they lay flowers upon
the graves bf the Confederate dead.
We . belong to them and they belong to
us; &devery deed of kindness wisely
rendered, every word of symathetic
interest prudently spoken, every new
commercial relation and every inter
change of hospitalities discreetly ar
frrged will be somuch contribution to
that perfect readjustment of relations
Wtilch shalPmake for the enrichment
of our comhion history."
y.erg Thompson, colored, was arrest-
ed Saturday night for being drunk and .
disprderly. He was arrested by urn-
cer Merritraaa a urHt enxeruuueu
some obleUons to being locked up.
ABOUT
Big Fire in Alabama.
By Wire to The Telegram
Birmingham, April 29. Fire today
destroyed half a block of buildings at
BessemerT" The loss is seventy-five
thousand. The last report says the
fire is under control.
Shi pping:' Consolidation.
By OTri:
' London; : AprilV29.J. Pierpbnt '"Mor
gan purchase! today the Leyland Line
of steamers. This is the first step in
the consolidation of trans-Atlantic
shipping interests.
MRS. HOWARD WRITES LETTER.
LAYS HER CASE BEFORE A JUSTICE
LOVING PUBLIC.
But the Facts In the Case as Stated by the
Attorneys Do Not Help In the Attempt
to Manufacture Sentiment,
The. follwing paper has been sent to
this office, with request to publish, and
is addressed to the public. The paper
was written with a typewriter and
signed by "Mrs. J. L. Howard." It
reads as follows:
"I am the wife of John L. Howard, -who
Is now incarcerated in the com
mon jail of Guilford county, under a
charge of conspiracy to cheat and de
fraud. My borne is in Chicago. I
have made two trips to Greensboro and1
have enedavored to accomplish every
thing I could in his behalf .My expense
thing I could inhis behalf. My expen-'
ses to and from Chicago and here have
been considerable. On my arrival here
the first time, 1 found that my husband
Mr. Hawley, and Mr. Daley had em
ployed Major Charles M. Steadman,
JMjV G. S. Bridshaw and Mr. W. P. Ra-
gah' 'as uhefr attorneys to appear for
them before Mr: J. M. Wolfe, the-mag-istrate'who
held the preliminary hear
ing. I found that the officers had ta
ken from them on their arrest a sum
or money approximating the sum of
$500 and all of their clothing and ap
parel, and that the defendants had
given an order to the attorneygiahove
nanied fdr 150 as their fees" f ottbe1
appearance oeiore tne magistrate?
. t
'Thbe papers are still outstanding? But-
I witi to say to the people of Guilford
county that 1 have paid out of my own
pocket the sum of ?350 in cash to Major
Stedman' and Mr. Bradshaw as attor
neys, and have their receipts, and have
asked them to surrender to me the or
ders upon the sheriff for the money
in his hands 'taken from my husband
and that they refused to surrender me
those papers. In consideration of this
and other matters they no longer ap
pear for my husband or the other de
fendants. I am not able to prosecute
an action for their recovery. I have
done all that I can do in behalf of
what I conceive to be just and right.
I have spent all my money. I must go
home, and I leave my cause and the
cause of my husband in the hands of
a just and law-abiding people,
"MRS. J. L. HOWARD."
This was so clearly an exparte state
ment and ro calculated ahd no doubt
intended to do the gentleman named
an injustice that The Telegram did not
consider it just to publish it without
making the attorneys mentioned aware
of its conteatiT and it therefore asked
them for arstefeanient, in reply to which
Major Stedran said:
'Wherrthese three men were arrest
ed they employed Messrs. Bradshaw,
Ragan, and myself to appear for them
before the magistrate, and gave an
order payable to all three of us for
$150 for this service. They also gave
an order to me as trustee for $236 to
be held for any, fees that might there
after arise and not coyered in the $50
each was to receive for appearing be-
fore tne magistrate. This order was
made payableimediyidually
but M sjnFftont c&ae
ndUfiued'W&ii:i
4 '-A&jiUSi
SIX PWS1NERS
GET OUT OF JAIL
UNLOCKED DOOR THIS MORNING
WHILE THE JAILER WAS OUT THEY
--A80-WJE!IT; OUT
: if
Ohlj4qehm HasBeen Recaptured
and in Broad Open Day Ught the Gan
Make Good Their Escape "Here's Tron-
ble up Town.
This morning about nine o'clock
considerable excitement was created
by the announcement that six prisoners
confined in the county jail had es
caped.
The escape was made in the fallow
ing manner:
The cells in which the prisoners are
confined stand in a double row, with
the doors facing each other, and be
tween them runs a passageway several
feet wide, into this passageway each
day the prisoners are permitted to
come at stated intervals for exercise.
Each end of the passageway is com
pletely barred by iron work, one end
containing a door, which opens into
yet another passageway wihch runs
around the cages. The only means of
exit from this outer passage is through
an iron door, but once through it is
an easy matter to escape. This outer
iron door had been left open this morn
ing by the jailer in order to -allow the
corridor to P iwept out by a
negro. While this door was open and
the negro sweeping, the jailer went up
stairs with Mrs. Hawley, wife of the
assayer., and soon afterwards the guard
had occasion to also go upstairs. This
was the opportunity looked for by the
prisoners, who at that time were al
lowed the privilege of . the inner cor
ridor ' for exercise, and one of r them
reached his hand through the bars of
the door J to the box containing .the
levers that, open, the doors. This box
is locked by a combination similar to
the ones used on safes, and the negro,
turning the knob, accidentally turned
it the right way causing the, box to
open and allowing him to pull out the
leyer that opened the corridor door,
ft was then but the work of a moment
to dash through ne open door, run
through the innfer portion of the jail
used as a sitting room for the guards,
and then they were, at liberty.
Jailer Rees, on hearing the noise
below, ran down stairs,and seeing what
was to pay; drew his pistol and drove
the balance of the negroes back into
their cells. By the time they were
locked up the six who were first out
had gotten out of sight, and five of
had gotten out of sight.
The names of those who escaped are
Will Thomas, in jail for carrying a ra
zor; Bob Johnson jailed for an as
sault committed on Summit avenue;
Robert Poard,a United States prisoner;
sentenced to 18 months in the peniten
tiary for pilfering mails at Winston;
Alf Mabry, fighting; Tom Young, lar
ceny; and Foster Benton, t fighting.
Tom Young was recapture! by Deputy
Sheriff Jones. In speaking of his cap
ture, Young said, T seed Mr. Jones
coming, an' I stopped and waited fer
him."
Alf Mabry, one of the fleet footed
dusky runners, has for some time been,
complaining, and has had the atten
tion -of a physician, but when the doors
were open this morning and the sweet
breath of liberty was wafted into his
nostrils, his sickness became a thing
of the past, and none were fleeter of
foot than this same sickly coon.
One of the negroes was seen near
the Farmer's Warehouse without a hat
and when asked the cause of his haste
replied, "Dere's trouble up town."
Chief of Police Scott made a search
through the woods in the vicinity of
the water works, but could find no
trace of the fugitives. The United
States prisoner, Foard, would have
been, taken. to Nashville tonight. The
sheriiX is responsible for-bim.
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