North Carolina Newspapers

all the news ' vVHIUr IT !S NEWS, 1 VQL. 9 Thaw 's Eccentric Br Whist Playing Figure in Reckless Manner in which] Defendant Played May be Used to Show State of his MindL Jerome's Plans Forecasted. Will Probably Put on at Least Three Alienists to Controvert Testi mony of Experts as to Introduction of Thaw. - Xew York, Feb. 13.—The defense i'. Thaw's case assumes it has laid the foundation for the introduction el" testimony heretofore excluded, in king Thaw's will and codicil, said io provide a fund for the prosecu tion of his murderer should he die, a violent death. j The defense counts largely on the j ~iil io *iio»v tiie ofieet on Thaw'.s aiind. of the stories told him re trains the relations of White and ivelyn Thaw. Jerome's Future Course. • .a: Jerome's i u3 40 bird to sf.y, out it • i a ihai lie will put on at . .. . it . alio-iists iii au attempt 0 ii- Lo3tiHlJ.il,> Cf riluVi) .5 C!»y€lib. Wiii i'S'CU.I-Gii TO ail ;r a i vv tken it is the ...,0 .I.on to have i-vei,n Tiiaw finish -!i.r jr. i lar.khn Shields formerly cf Sua Francisco, lias been selected to t-r.ist i-elmas ia his crcss-examiua ucn cf the experts for the prosecu tion. The stories regarding Thaw's eccen ;ric bridge whist playing, which may possibly figure in the trial as show ing the defendant's state of mind, cbout the time of the tragedy, are cropping out. The latest story is that Thaw play ed ca an average of three nights a *eek at one ciuo and never for l~ss than oae doliar a point, meaning that with luck against him he stocu to lose $1,590 a night. The opening cf the Thaw trial -was 'lel23*ed, owing to the illness of the wife of Juror Eolton. Ho asked permission to visit his Ift me ia the Bronx, in company with officers and was taken there. Mrs. Eoltcn is threatened with pneumonia. Court adjourned till 2. Wire. Thaw to Testify. The illness of the juror's wife causes 2ome apprehension that it may sen-, ously interfere with the trial. On motion of Jerome, after a con-, fertnee with Justice Fitzgerald, the morning session was abandoned. Thaw was not brought into court. He had a s long chat with his wife in the prison ers' pen. It was announced that Dr. Evans would go on the stand this afternoon, to be followed by Mrs. Harry Thaw. Dr. Evar.s on Stand. I? was reported that Juror Bolton ictonded reporting to the court the rendition of his wife critical and thai he believed it to be his duty to bo with her, but he returned and the trial resumed. Dr. Evans was called to resume his testimony. The continuance of t\he in ill was agreed upon after Delmas informed the court he would require only about 20 minutes to complete the direct examination of Evans. This was done so that in the event el an adjournment for a day or two the case may be resumed with Eve lyn Thaw on the stand. SHORTAGE HALF MILLION. Shortage of Savings Eank of New Brit ain Mai be Half Million —Treas- urer !g Missing. New Britain, Conn., February 13. — It is learned that the shortage at the Savings Bank of New Britain, through alieged speculating of the missing treasurer, William F. Walker, may tiuout to a half million of dollars. Brownsville Some More. Washington, Feb. 13. —Corporal iladison, former corporal of Co. C. -sth infantry, testifying before the nate committee on military affairs in the Brownsville investigation, said an order was issued by Maj. Penrose to break open the gunraclts if the ?''ir.s could not be secured any other way. He said one rack was opened by the sergeant but all' of the racks were being pounded by men when the call to arms came. He said no were allowed because it was ibought an attack was being made on the garrison. He insisted Co. C. c.jiild not have been involved in the shooting. Senate War.ts to Make Time. Washington, Web. 13. —The Senate adopted an order today beginning Monday daily sessions shall begin at 11 o'clock. ALL TRAINS STOP 5 MINTES. Official Order Directs Honor to Mem cry of President Walters. Norfolk, Va., Fes. 13. —As a mark of respect to the memory of Alfred Walters, late president of the Sea i-oaru, xt viM-; tmtcteu iu an order that all trains on all lines of the system come to a full stop, ""hereever they may be, at the funer al hour in New \ork tomorrow and remain standing for a period of five .ninutes. Aimed at immigration Frauds. Washington, Feb. 1& —Exclusion of ioreigners who use their passports to teeure admission to the United States to the detriment of labor conditions m this country is provided for by an amendment to the immigration bill agreed upen by the conferees of the Senate and House today report ed to Congress. ERIDE CHEWED UP TICK-TS. I So Husband-Elect Had to fcuy Others and Passengers Laughed. 1 Winsted. Onrm., Feb. 13. —While on [their way ;o Mi'.lcrton. N. Y., the Giet . na Green for Connecticut couples, yes terday. Homer Logan, twenty-one, of Win ted. and Miss Annie Mardine. eighteen, of Torrinqton. were handed a message at Canaan which read: "We are on t:> the whole affair." The mes sage bore the signature of a Winsted newspaper When it am > time for Conductor Simmons to take up the tickets he dis covered that til? bride had chewed up both. T.e passengers laughed when • he c n stopped to collect the j ;\jsWbo?rH"» smiled and blushed "Wi. il*' r.i t.-rl'U'sroom dug down in hi pock. t after the price of two more cai fares. Train Hits A Funeral Party. New York, February 13. —Two wo men were killed and two men badly in- j jured at a railroad crossing in Long Island City yesterday when a Lon?r Island Railroad train struck and de molished a funeral coach containing j three persons, besides the driver. Mrs. I' Nellie Terwilliger and Miss Sarah ; Hallady, of Jersey City, were instantly killed and Elliott Terwilliger, husband ■ of one of the women, and James Healy of Brooklyn, driver of the coach were seriously injured. Edward Elliott the engineer of the train was arrested. Would Put Stop to Land Frauds \ I The President Sends a i Message to Congress, Calling Attention to the Need of Legislation j Affecting Public Land. I Washington, D. C., February 13. ' The President sent to Congress a mes sage, calling attention to what he . terms "the urgent need of legislation affecting the different phases of the public land situation." He advocates the conservation of ! coal and other fuel resources on lands still belonging to the government, say ing that henceforth the nation should retain its title to the fuel resources, urges the government control of west ern public land pastures, and asks j for an appropriation of a half million, ] in addition to the present estimates, to aid in detecting and preventing all land frauds. ! He contends for a system of govern- i ment leasing of mineral lands, on con ditions beneficial, to the public and for treating these fuel lands as public util- j ities. President Rcosevelt points out that it would have been better if. some of ' the eastern coal lands had been left under the government control and sug- I gests a provision in the west "against a recurrence of the conditions we de plore in the east." Citing 2,300 cases of public land en " tries the President says ncncompli ance with the law was found in over ! half of them and deliberate fraud in 1 very many of these cases. Meeting of Civil Engineers. 5 Hartford, Conn., Feb. 13.—The Con necticut association of civil engineers j began its annual meeting in this •city today, with President Charles I?.| j Chase of New Britain in the chair., Numerous subjects of interest to the . * profession are scheduled for consid-1 •; cration during the two days of the 3 1 convention. 3 : I i Dominican Treaty Held Up. 3 ! Washington, D. C., Feb. 13. The " I new treaty with the Dominican R®- r 'public was the subject of consideration! I I by the Senate committee on foreign s ; relations, but owing to Senator Bacon's 1 opposition no progress was made to-1 o wards a favorable report. Mr. Bacon j s,finds the new treaty objectionable be-, c ! cause he considers our interposition in i ' Dominican affairs unwarranted. d j * W. U. T. C. -Advances Salaries. | New York, Feb. 13.—An increase of 10 per cent in the salaries ol e operators at the companies principal g ! offices throughout the country was a I announced by the Western Union Tel egraph Company today. '' ' ' ' CONSERVTIVE LEGISLATOR—"HOLD ON! DON'T HIT HIM WITH THAT STICK. USE THIS ONE." Fifty-one Bodies of Wrecked Ship's Passengers Drifted Night, Incased Passenger Rate Bill Disc House Discussed at length the Manning Bill, to Reduce Passenger Rates. A Great Number of Other Bills Takei up. ilaleigh, N. C., Fel). 13. —Tne House spent two hours this morning discuss ing the Manning bill, to reduce passen ger Tatea; Th» bill was prepared "by the House committee on public s?r vlce corporations. It purports to place J a passenger rate of two cents for the j Southern and A. C. L. railways and two and a half cents for the Seaboard Railway. The bill proposes to deter : mine the rate by the amount of busi i ness done by the railroads per mile, ■ and on this basis the above rates are ' named . The consideration of the ! oill will be taken up again tonight at ] & o'clock. The general feeling in the House seems to be favorable to the. I bill, although there is some opposi tion. The Koonce bill, repealing the Lon dou libei iaw, exempung a jii inn damages where retraction was I made the next day, was reported favor ! ably from the committee. The bill was ! brought up yesterday. Representa tive Julian, of Rowan, asked that the bill be re-referred to the judiciary committee. Douglas opposed this, and this led Dowd, of Mecklenburg, to make a heated speech in favor of ; Julian's demand to re-commit the bill. The bill was finally re-committeed to the judiciary committee No. 1. Mr. Laughinghouse introduced a resolution, calling for a special report jef the corporation commission on the adjustment between the commission and the the Southern of ahe suits for penalties incurred by breaking the ! Selma connection. He charged the and the Southern of the suits for $15,000 and had not required tne Southern to pay the expenses of the counsel, incurred by the Staae. | Representative Dilling introduced a bill, to regulate child labor and the hours of labor in the factories. In the Senate. The Bickett lobby bill came up and was discussed in the Senate today. Action on the bill was deferred until Thursday. A bill passed to authorize Winton to vote on dispensary or prohibition. The joint resolution, appropriating $5,000 for the representation of the negroes at the Jamestown Exposition, passed its second reading. The bill, appropriating $500,000 for I the mental defectives, passed its final reading. ( A bill passed to restore to the citi zens of Johnson county the right to make and sell cider and wine. The Dowd bill, to allow minors to withdraw deposits from savings' banks ■ was discussed and re-referred to the ■ | committee. j A bill passed to confer police powers i 1 on conductors of trains and station i. masters, to arrest persons ror drunk •|cnness, etc. • j The bill, by Pharr, of Mecklenburg, ■ to make it a misdemeanor for a person I I connected with trains or street cars, |to be found intoxicated, passed. I , !I - Some men outlive their usefulness and some others are born without l eny. i There would be a heap of virtue ■ in the world if there was more fun in it. j HICKORY, N. 0.. THURSDAY FEBRUARY 14. 190. I _________ Many Corpses, Clothed in Thick Encasement of Ice, Drift Ashore. Fate of Many Unknown. Prob ably 150 Lost. j , i The Few Survivors Relate Blood-Curdling Stories of 7heir Fearful Exper iences. Vivid Account of Disastrous Wreck. > Block Inland, it. 7., reu. Z.Z. —Up to 8 o'clock this morning 51 bodies, vie- 1 tims of the Larchmont, sunk in the collision in Rock Island sound, had been gathered in by the coast patrols and vessels. 1 The list of survivors still stands a- j 19 this morning. i Of the dead 11 were identified by daybreak. Purser Young maintains there were 150 to 200 passengers leaving Providence. Blood-Curdling Experiences. Every corpse that came ashore was encased in ice several inches thick. Only two women were among the .survivors. Oliver Janvier told of the most try ing of all the horrible experiences. He came ashore in a boat with nine He was nearly dead himself. He waded ashore in svater waist deop. i One of the two women surviving •vas Mrs. Feldmac. of New York, and J was rescued with her husband frcm j ; ihe after portion of the deck house., That the woman should have sur vived the horrible experience on the i frail support was a miracle. Shi j was one of the 16 carried off on a piece of wreckage. One other woman was swept cl . and one by one the men lost their grip and dropped off as the portion , of the deck drifted helplessly, out by j the aid of her husband Mrs. FeldmaL i , clung on.. Feldman at one time was • a sailor. Ninety-Five Persons Missing. L ' Up to 10 o'clock the names of 125 s persons, who were on board the Larchmont, were known. Of these 19 are known to have sur-! 1 vived; 11 are among dead, having been identified and 95 arc missing, j 1 Of the identified dead, seven were members of the crew and four were 1 passengers; of the missing 12 are members of the crew and 83 passen ; gers. The Associated Press communicat ' ed with Captain McVey and Purser . Young of the Larchmont. From them it is learned that a conservative esti mate of the loss of life was 150. Mc- Vey and Young were suffering severe » ly - In addition to three bodies picked up ( during the night, one was recovered this morning. ' The Last Report. The number of known dead is 12 , missing 97, members of the crew | missing 11. The boat room floors were lined with dead, each one frozen stiff. In the living and sleeping rooms the suffer [ ing survivors rested on cots and beds, ; racked with pain in their frozen limbs ' and shuddering with the recollections of the horror of their experiences, many were denied the merciful un consciousness of sleep. 1 It is feared none of these survivors ■ j will escape unscathed. Frost pene-: i trated too deeply to be overcome bv ■' medical treatment and the surgeons i knife will be; the only salvation of some of the unfortunates. AND PREBS HIS FAMILY FROZEN. Farmer Walks Three Hundred Miles Through Snow to Tell the Sad News. , Norfolk, Neb., Feb. 13.—After walk- ( ing three hundred miles through snow j and ice and cold, leaving behind him j on South Dakota prairies the frozen j bodies of his entire family, his wife, * his little girl, and two grown sons, all f of whom perished in a blizzard January 14, F. W. Stevens arrived here today on his way to Seward, Neb., to break , the news to the aged parents of his { dead wife. He kept the story secret till now that they might hear it first from his lips. Stevens lived on a t homestead 250 miles from Yankton, j Fuel famine forced him to chop his, j barn into kindling wood. Food famine j loieed him to leave the hiime and ' journey fourteen miles to a store. Two! sons, eighteen and twenty, went hunt-' ing game food. The blizzard sprang ' up, delaying him two days. He return-! ■ ed to find the wife and ten-year-old ' baby girl frozen to death in bed where \ i they huddled together. All the barn 1 fuel was gone. The sons never return- ' ed and their bodies still lie. on the j 1 plains. j i He buried the wife and child beside'' the shanty in the frozen ground, bade 1 the lifeless forms farewell and walked to this city. He had $1 in his pocket j 1 and railway employees here bought a ticket for him to Seward. ; i South Atlantic League Meeting. : Augusta, Ga., Feb. 13. —The South j i y.tlautic Baseball League is looking 1 iorward to the most successful sea- ] son since its organization. The out-;« look never was brighter in the cpin- ion of the league magnates who rounded up here in response to the i t all of President Charles W. Boyer and went into session closed doors ' ihis morning at the Albion Hotel. |' The work of the meeting is the 1 election of a president, the adoption ! of a 1907 schedule and getting ev- 1 orything in shape for the send off of 1 the game this spring. President Boyer is assured of re- s election, so that this feature of the ' programme will be easily disposed 1 of. The schedule has been prepared ( and probably will be adopted without 1 my changes of consequence. It pro- 1 \ides for 130 games, which is slightlyl Jn excess of the number played last * 5 ear. The season is to open April 8 ( with Augusta at Savannah, Macon at ' Charleston and Columbia at jacKson- j v?lle. The closing date has been! fixed for September 4. Michigan Dairymen in Session. i J Saginaw, Mich., Feb. 13. —The Mich- J « igan Dairymen's Association, one of j 1 the largest and strongest organiza tions of its kind in the country, be-1 ( gan its annual convention in this j I city today. The attendance is large J and representative of nearly the en- " tire State. The sessions are being held in the Masonic Temple and will . continue until Saturday. The pro- , gramme is replete with interesting J and istructive features in the way of papers, addresses and discussions 1 ( Covering every phase of the dairy in- € clustry and practical talks by a num-i her of well-known experts. Not the j least interesting feature of the gath ering is the large exhibit of dairy' y products, applances and machinery. To Advertise West Texas. p Abilene, Tex., Feb. *l3. —The praises £ of West Texas were loudly sung to- S day at a conference of representa- tives of the commercial organizations of this section of the State. The pur- f( pose of the meeting was to discuss jj v/ays and means by which West n Texas may obtain her share of the I g immigration and capital now pouring, j into the State. A permanent or ganization is to be formed to exploit | the natural resources and advantages f of this section. i a i No Sub-Treasury for the Southe States is THE LIE IN TEXAS. \ ' Hot Times Ir. Investigation cf Charges Against Senator Bailey. Austin, Texas, February 13. —De- claring that "all this prattle a lie" and urging that the committee inter pose and "stop these insults," United States Senator Joseph W. Bailey brought to a climax, yesterday after noon, an exciting session of the legis lative committee appointed to investi gate charges filed against him by Rep-; resentative Cooke. This was in replly to a request of Representative Cocke that additional witnesses be summoned by whwich he hoped to prove that Senator Bailey had borrowed $7,000 of J. D. Suggs, oftron county. When it was suggested that the committee leave at once for St. Louis, where additional testimony is to be taken, Senator Bailey prpotested that , he should, not be compelled to "go over the country as the principal in an investigation of this nature." > It also-developed yesterday that the > testimony to appear in The Rocerd i committee is averse to allowing testi-1 mony to appear in The Record before 1 being censored by a majority of the committed, assisted by Senator Bai- i ley. j i: JUROR'S MIND A BLANK. j For Five Days C. R. Jones Oblivious \ to his Surroundings. 1 Lewiston, Me., Feb. 13. —With his j mind a complete blank for five days,, O. R. Jones, of Sabattus, who has been serving on one of the traverse juries j in the Supreme Judicial Court in Au-; burn, has proven a puzzle to Main >: physicians. Last Tuesday he drove to 'he city, put his team in one of the!, .-tables and started for the court house, H where he was to hear an important! case. While walking in Court street! his mind suddenly became a blank and j J later he was found wandering aimless-1 ; ly about the city. Recognized by | 1 friends, he was taken to his home and ( several physicians called. He remained in coma until Saturday when he suddenly awoke as from a 1 peaceful slumber and is now perfect- . ly well and in full possession of his mental faculties. During this long state of insensihili- j ty he took no nourishment, and at long ! intervals the physicians say, he had no heart-beat. \ !' Ex-Governor Higgins Dead. ,-f Orlean, New York, Feb. 13. —Frank 1 Wayland Higgins, former Governor of i New York, died at his home here last 1 night at 8:40. Mr. Higgins suffered for years from heart trouble. After | he entered upon his work as Cover- >. nor, Mr. Higgins was warned by Dr. E. C. Janeway, of New York city of a j serious organic difficulty in the heart, but no effort was relaxed, which Mr. Higgins believed essential to the dis- ] charge of the trust reposed in him by ; the people of his state. When the only official duty which ' remained for him to perform was to assist in the inauguration of his suc cessor as governor, he resisted the ! importunities of his family to spare • himself, and went to Alhanv to take ! part in the ceremonies. This over exerted him and undoubtedly shorten ed his days. j ' ! , Michigan Republicans Meet. Grand Rapids. Mich., Feb. 13. —Re- publicans from all parts of Michigan j rounded up here today for the annual meeting of the State League of fie-' 1 publican Clubs and the State nomi-; ( nating convention, the latter to be. held tomorow. Tue members of the league got together this afternoon j, at the Lincoln club rooms for 'lu- j election of officers and transac tion of other business. Public inter-!, est centers chiefly in the fifteenth \, annual Lincoln banquet to be held at | j the Auditorium tonight. The princi pal speaker at the banquet will be i Judge William J. Calhoun of Chi cago, a former member of the inter- f State Commerce Commission. 5 1 Lehigh Express Derailed. '■ Easton, Pa., February 13. —Two cars | ' of the Black Diamond Express on the Lehigh Valley Railroad were derail ed on the bridge crossing the Dela ware river here yesterday afternoon. 1 Both cars, a day coach, and a sleep er, were damaged, and the latter slip- 1 ped to the top of the stone pier and ' came close to going into the river. * Several persons were injured. The most seriously injured are: i H. C. Seaton, superintendent of the 3 Bethlehem, Pa., Silk Company hand \ 1 and head cut by glass and jumping; r through door. ' j Charles Cuzzins, of the Mill Supplv i Company, Allentown, Pa., cut by brok en glass. AIUS HIS WIFE'S MURDERER. E Keeler Joins in Furlong's Plea to Hughes for Clemency. jfc Albany, Feb. 13. —An attorney for r _ Furlong, the young man sen- * tenced to die in the week beginning L March 4 for the murder of his aunt,; r Margaret Keeler, in New York City, a appealed to Governor Hughes today | for commutation of the sentence to 1 life imprisonment. The husband of the a murdered woman sent a letter to the; governor favoring the appeal. Mr. Hughes reserved decision. x > When any one has done you a t favor how small it looks the day after. . t THE BEST JOS PRINTING OF ALL KINDS AT THIS OFFICE. The Fact That Represent atives from These States Could not Agree on the Location is Responsible for Decision. Vote of Committee against the Plan was Close. Shows Statement as to Abolition oj Certain Sub-treasuries. Washington, D. c., Feb. 13. —By a vcle of six to five the House commit tee on ways and means decided against trie plan to establish a new sub-treas* ury in the Southeastern States. The vote was not a strict party vote, and the committee expressed sympa thy with Secretary Shaw that in the interest of economy several of the present sub-treasuries might be abol ished. The failure of the delegation from the Southern States to agree upon a location for the proposed new sub treasury is generally believed to be responsible for the adverse action by the committee. DIES OF A BROKEN HEART. Wife Deserted for Another Woman Fails to Survive the Blow. Norfolk, Va., Feb. 13.—A coroner's jury returned a verdict today that Mrs. Herbert Mortimer Wilson, "of Bridge port. Conn., and Boston, died of a broke n heart. Her husband had de serted her, it is said, for a trained nurse. The Y/ilson's came from Boston to Southern Pines, N. C., a .month ago, Wilson being ill. It was there he met the nurse. The couple had stopped at a hotel in Portsmouth on their way home when they quarrelled. Wilson threatened to send for the other woman, then disap peared. " The wife became ill and was taken to a hospital. She pined away- &i> i died. J " "Th*» cdirpfe "have been married-Tl"r n years. The wife was thirty five years old and her husband thirty. "HELLO" GIRLS SEE THINGS. A Raccoon. a Mink and a Red-Headed Snake, All Real. Washington D. C., February 13. The "hello girls" in the Twelfth Sires x Exchange were panic-stricken today b% the unexpected visit of a raccoon, l real mink and a red-headed snake, whe ordinarily live next door in a furnished room house for animals. The coon and the mink had been ab sent from mess hall at the animal store for about a week, but today and last night were the first time they visited the hello girls. The telephone opera tors ail know that it was a mink be cause it lcoked like a fur coat one of them owns. They were a little doubt ful about the ccon until shown one. The coon and the mink played hide nnd s?ek iln the ventilating shaft, and when they were not circulating around the red-headed snake poked its head out of the heating register. CURB ON ELECTION FRAUDS. Bill Fofhid- of Ticket Spending More Than SIO,OOO, Albanv, y.. F- u. —corrupt practice bill, limiting the amounts which may be expended by candidates for State offices, was introduced by Phillips Phillips today. The lim itations are: For governor, $10,000; for any other elective officer, other that judicial, $G,000; Representative in Congress or Presidential elector, $4,000; State sen ator, $1,500; member of assembly, SSOO. N A Lady Labor Leader. Chicago, 111., Feb. 13.—Conspicuous among the scores of noted women who have gathered in Chicago for the annual convention of the Na tional American Woman Suffrage As sociation is Miss Mary R. MacAr tbur, who is one of the foremost wo men labor leaders, in Great Britain. Miss Mac Arthur is only 26 years old, 'cut is secretary of the Women's Trades Union League, with 135,000 members, all of whom look to her for advice in their industrial troubles. HUMAN HEART PICKED UP. Bruesome Evidence of Tragedy Sus pended From a Car Truck. Washington. Feb. 13.—A human heart was found hanging to the trucks of a passenger coach of one of the Pennsylvania Railroad's express trains from New York by a car inspector this morning. Attached to the heart was a liver, and neither had been in the least mutilated. They looked as though they had been torn from a body only a few hours previously. Minds of too many men are filled with useless knowledge. The more a man wants to borrow the harder he shakes your hand. Efforts of a homely girl who tries to look pretty are very often vain.