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MB. PEEBLES DEFENDS HIMSELF.
Ororior Glera Aki lyeock to Fill
ippditmeata Kew Corpontloa
Charteici G0Tner Glens Awlga.
ti Ctmpalffa Trip.
Special to The Sun.
Ralelsfa, N. C, Sept 23. Judge R. B.
Peebles, of the state superior court
Mnch, Is out In a lengthy card de
fending the ruling he made In the
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superior court at Bryson City lome
Weeks ago acquitting two young men
of the charge of disturbing divine
Worship In that they had created a
disturbance In a 8unday school, on the
grotoatf that Sunday schools' are not
for divine worship and the statute to
punish disturbers of divine worship
wuffi not, apply. The, ruling, of the
Judge hag been sharply criticised in
inany quarters and Sunday school as.
soclations and other religious bodies
have adopted resolutions condemning
the ruling.; Judge Peebles complains
that a great personal wrong has been
tlono him by EJ, L. Middleton, state
secretary of the Baptist Sunday school
board and others who have taken the
lead bringing about the public criti
cism of his ruling. He says the stat
ute, 3706 of the Revisal, applies specifi
cally to meetings for divine worihrft
"ind that his ruling was !at: 4hat
Sunday school Is not . a "religious,
body," but that it is not a "meeting
for divine worship," primarily, but
for teaching children the' Bible and
that purpose of the meeting gives
character to the meeting and not the
incidents, the prayers and other wor
shjpful forms in the Sunday school
being merely incidents to the purpose
of Biblical instruction..
The Judge suggests that the two'
men, Henry-- BrahneriSr and MerHtt
Beck, be, Indicted under another sUU
ute, 8704, that provldei'fox the ptfn
lshment of disturbers of school's and
similar public gatherings which he
ruled would more properly apply, He
Is anxious too for the state supreme
court to pass on the ruling he made
and wants to forestall the form of pro.
test that, has been started ,. against
him in having associations and con
ferences to adopt resolutions of pro
test against what he Insists was a
righteous' ruling construction ot the
law on his part ' ''V
Governor Qlenn went today out to
Wakefield, this county for a big Dem
ocratlc rally and barbecue, at which
he will be the principal speaker. News
from Wakefield is that . there Is a tre
mendous crowd and treat enthusiasm.
United States Senator Xee S. Over.
man is to be the principal speaker
Thursday , aV similar ray and bar-
becue at Leesvllle. Then ihe -mill
speA" ia '. i '.Wake oourt. houaft' jln
Raleigh that night .Wake s getting
a number of the biggest Democratic
campaigners In "the State Just now.
Ei-Obvernor Aycock made a big
speech at 'a' big barbecue 'at-Fuquay
Springs last Saturady.
Pressing official huslness here made
It ' necessary for Governor Glenn to
call on ex-Goverh6r'Ayc6ck to fill
his appointments for political speeches
: at Aberdeen tonight and a Troy to;
morrow. 'Wednesday, the governor
will spend at Wakefield, as the prin
cipal campaign speaker for tin fell' day
rally and-barbeW.:. v-sw'j
' The Piedmont Gralii arid' Provision
Company, as the natne' Of a new cor
poration JulfellJIteH W Hickory
N. C, flOO.OltEpital jautttorised and
$12,000iWih4d'Wj. iVOlb'bs, W.
C. Shell and J, D. Riddle.
It is expected 'Uiat' DecembeV 18th
will be thesilaj' designated 'this year
by the eute'Bupiriottb
' nc insirucuon ana bis aavisors tor tne
observance of North ' Carolina 'Day,
under the State statute requiring that
such a day be set aside each year
for the special Inspiration of Interest
Idf Stati history and Stat pride in the
plbllc sehools of the State, The Pro.
gram this year Is to be VOerman Set
tlements in North Carolina", and the
preparation of this is being pushed
Just now by R. D. W. Connor, secre
tary of the State Historical Commis
sion. These settlements were prln.
cipallv In O ran re. Rowan: GullfnrH
Burke, Lincoln, Randolph, Iredell,
Stokes, . Cabarrus, Davidson, Davie,
Stanley Catawba . Gaston, ' Alamance
and Forsyth.
Governor Glenn Is notified by Chair
man Jno. A. Atwood, of the speakers
committee of the Democratic National
Committee, that he is assigned to a
campaign trip into New York, Mary
land and some of the Northwestern
States for ten days, October 10th to
20th. The Itinerary is being arranged
for the Governor now and is expected
dally.
THAWS COUNSEL DEAD.
A. Bnssell Peabody Died at Babylon
Teday.
By Wire to The Sun.
Babylon, L. I., Sept. 23. A. Russell
Peabody, one of Thaw's counsel died
here today.
SENTENCED THIRTY YEARS.
Charged With the Murder of His
Aunt
By Wire to The Sun.
Hackensack, Sept. 23. August Eber.
hard, who was convicted of murder in
the second degree has been sentenced
to thirty years. He was charged with
the murder of his aunt, Mrs. Otillie
Eborhard and of robbing her of $3,400.
MEMBER BOARD OF AGRICULTURE.
Mr. Shuford of Hickory Succwds W. A.
Graham.
By Wire to The Sun.
, Raleigh: N. C, Sept 23. W. J. Shu
ford, of Hickory' is appointed" a mem.
Afbee of the board of agriculture. Vice
W. A. Graham, resigned.
AUTO KILLS NEWSBOY.
Yktim, High School Pupil, Served Pa.
, pen to Rockefellers.
By Wire to The Sun.
Greenwich, Conn., Sept 23. A six
cylinder automobile, owned by Julian
W. Curtiss, of Spalding ft Co., New
York, and driven by his chauffeur,
Peter McGuire, struck and killed Chas.
McCann, a 14 year old newsboy this
morning.
The boy was exceptionally bright,
had Just entered the high school, and
arose at 5:30 o'clock this morning to
go on his paper route, which Included
the houses of William S. and Percy
Rockefeller and other well known New
Yorkers.
Oklahoma' City, Okla., Sept 23.
Carlton McConnell, aged 9, and George
Stone, aged 7, were fatally Injured to
day by being run down by an automo
bile on their way home from Sunday
school. McConnell died on the way to
the hospital.
SEKrfON BY JUSTICE BREWER
Speaks In Church He Has Attended
Almost Half a Century
By Wire to The 8un. ,
Leavenworth, Kans Sept. 23. Jus
tice David J. Brewer, of the United
States Supreme Court, Was the prin
cipal speaker at today's services In
commemoration of the fiftieth anniver
sary of the founding , of the First
Congregational Church of , this city,
Justice Brewer has been a member of
the congregation for 49 yens. -
His address was in the nature of a
sermon, , He spoke of .the ood feel,
ing among Christian, people generally
and- of the . abatement jof bitterness
among creeds, and told, the great re
ligion of the future would be a com
mon effort to uplift .humanity. ,
WAR GAME IN MISSOURI, ,
Five Thousand Regulars. to. Compete
. For Valuable Prises ,.f ri 9
By(,Wlreto The Sun. ,: ,;( ( . f
SU ; Joseph, Mo.,. 8ept,, ,23.The
greatest military tournament, ever at
tempted in the, , War Department .will
begin here tomorrow, and,, continue
a week. Five, thousand regulars are
encamped at Camp Everett, Peabody,
on the shore of Lake Contrary. Brig.
Gen. Charles Morton, commander of
the department of Missouri, Is In com.
mand. " - -
RAN ASHORE
' IN A FOG
Cruiser Yankee Has an
Accident
WAS ENROUTE TO NEWPORT
One CampartmeBt Leaking Sobma.
rise Trader Sent to Her Assistance
From New, Bedford Others Beady
To Go to Her Assistance.
By Wire to The Sun.
Newport, R. I., Sept 23. The
cruiser "Yankee", which is command
ed by C. C. Marsha, enroute from
Cutty Hank to Newport for coal ran
ashore on the pandle rock off Buz
zards Bay, during a fog today and
one compartment i3 leaking. A sub
marine tender was dispatched from
New Bedford. Other craft are ready
to go to her assistance.
SUICIDE LEFT NOTE TO GIRL.
He Was the Son of Lawson N. Fuller, a
Noted New York Horsemen
New York, Sept. 23. Lawson W.
Fuller, a clerk in the building depart
ment of the Metropolitan Life Insur
ance Company, shot himself in the
right temple in a room he had taken
at the Hotel St .Denis, on Saturday
night His body was found in front of
the dressing table by a maid who went
in to clean the room thlB morning. A
note was found which raed:
" "Q!rtle, you can' never understand
why I committed this act
" LAUTIE."
Fuller was the son of the late Law
son N. Fuller, the famous horseman,
reputed to be the only man In New
York who could drive eight horses
through Central Park as easily as an
other man might drive a pair. Mr.
Fuller was a conspicuous advocate of
rapid transit, and is said to have
coined the expression for Jay, Gould
that the elevated roads would be the
midair sanitarium for millions of per
sons.
WOMAN SCARED TO DEATH
Frightened b ya Strange Man Who
Was Following Her
By Wire to The Sun.
New York, Sept. 23. Mrs. Ella Co-
ove, was frightened by a strange
man, who was following her early
this morning and dropped helplessly
on the street and died before an am.
bulance could be called. She had
suffered from apploplectic tendencies.
The man ran away.
TRAFFIC TIED UP TODAY
Bad Fog Causes Delay la Transpor
tation
By Wire to The Sun.
New York, Sept 23. The worst fog
of the season tied up all the river and
bay traffic today. Some of the fer
ries had to quit running. A big
steamer which was scheduled to sail
were delayed in starting.
STAR OF BENGAL TOTAL LOSS
One Hndred and Ten Drowned
' Twenty-Seven Saved
By Wire-to The Sun. 1
Seattle, Wash.,' Sept. 23. A cable
dispatch to the army signal corps re,
ports a total loss of the bark Star of
Bengal, on Coronation Island, and by
which 110 were drowned and 27 were
saved. Nine of the drowned were
white. ' ' - ''' '
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' EXHAUSTIVE EXAMINATION
Turret Gun on Armored Cruiser Ex
-' ploded and Killed Thirteen Men,
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By Wire to The Sun.
Tauloud, Sept 23. An exhaustive
examination Is ordered by the French
Government today to Investigate the
cause of an explosion of a turret gun
on an armored cruiser when thirteen
men were killed and a score injured,
SCORE WERE V
IWRED
In it Trottey Collision
Today
CAUSED BY MISTAKE IN SIGNAL
Motormu is In a Critical Condition
Others Not Seriously Hurt-Accl-deat
Happened Near Chester, Pa.
By Wire to The Sun.
Philadelphia, Sept. 23. A score "of
workmen were injured in a head-on
trolley car collision near Chester this
morning.
The accident is believed to have
been caused by a mistake in the sig
nals, dae to a heavy fog. Edward
Smith, motorman is in a serious
condltioa. The others injured, are not
thought to be serious.
COTTON KING A CLERK
Dan J. Sully Says He Is Done With
Speculating
By Wire to The Sun.
New York, Sept. 23. Daniel J.
Sully, once a "cotton king" has gone
to. work, as a clerk in a cotton office.
He says that he Is done with specula
tion. He was once worth millions.
PREPARING FINAL BRIEFS
In Case of State Against Norfolk and
V Western Railway
By Wire tThe Sun.
Raleigh, N. C, Sept. 23. T. C. Guth
rie, of Charlotte, and H. A. Foushee,
of Durham, are here, with the Cor
poration Commission, preparing final
brief complaints in the suit of the
Commission against the Norfolk and
Western Railway Company, before the
Inter.state Commerce Commission to
compel the Norfolk and Western to
give North Carolina points freight
rates on a parity with the rates given
Virginia cities.
This brief will be filed within ten
days and then the Interstate Commis
sion is to set the date for a hearing
on the evidence and the briefs.
TINY BOATS TO ROUND HORN
Take 15,000 Mile Cruise to Warn Mar
iners on Pacific Coast
By Wire to The Sun.
New York, Sept. 23. Six tiny ves
sels, whose mission It will be to warn
the mariners of the Pacific coast of
the United States, started on a 15,000
mile cruise around South America.
They will follow almost exactly the
'route taken by the great battleship
.fleet
The ships in the little fleet are light
house boats and tenders, the largest
of them less than 200 feet In length.
They are under command of Capt.
Albert T. Mertx, of the United States
navy. It is expected that they will
reach San Francisco In about four
months.
BRIDGE COLLAPSED WITH TRAIN
Several Reported Hart Bridge Was
100 Feet High
By Wire to The Sun.
Wilmington, Del., Sept. 23. The
Baltimore and Ohio bridge, over, the
Susquehanna at Port Deposit, col
lapsed, wnne a ireignt train was
passing over It. Several persons are
reported fatally hurt. The bridge was
100 feet high.
WERE FRIGHTFULLY BURNED
By Elevator Containing Vats of Hot
Sugar Failing
By Wire to The Sun. .
New York, Sept 23. An elevator,
containing three men in charge of
a huge vat containing boiling sugar,
fell in a candy factory at Williams
burg today and the men were fright
fully burned. . One of the elevator ca
bles gave way. The car fell to the
bottom and the vat was overturned.
The men were sent to the hospital
BULLET ENDS WEDDING PLANS
Bride Is Dying and Police Seek Youth
Who Opposed Big Ceremony
By Wire to The Sun.
New York, Sept 23. Seventeen-year-old'
Antionette Alne is dying in
a Brooklyn hospital and the polico
are searching for Pasquale Agnle, a
young man of 20 years, to whom she
was to have been married within a
few weeks. The girl has a bullet
wound in her abdomen.
From Information obtained at the
girl's home after the shooting it ap
pears that there had been a serious
misunderstanding between the young
pair, growing out of plans for their
approaching wedding. Antoinette
and her parents wanted a big public
wedding with much ceremony. v
Agnle, however, told them he had
no use for church weddings, that he
would have none of it and that he
and Antoinette would be married
quietly by a Justice of the peace or not
at all.
Antoinette fretted over the denial
cf her wish to have a "great wedding"
and it is. believed that in a fit of de.
spondency resulting from brooding
over it she fired the shot which pro
bably will end her life.
RICHMOND LOST $23,505
State Suffers Less Loss of Revenue
By Decrease In Saloons
By Wire to The Sun.
Richmond, Va., Sept. 23. Despite
the manifold exactions of the Byrd
liquor law and the fact that a ma
jority of the counties have altogether
forbidden the sale of ardent spirits;
the Commonwealth will suffer com
paratively little loss of revenue this
year from the prevailing temperance
movement.
This is shown by the figures lust
compiled in the auditor's office for
the fiscal year ended July 1, But
Richmond's restrictive ordinance,
which cuts down the number of bar
rooms to 150, cuts down her revenues.
Richmond's revenues In 1907 prior to
the passage of the new ordinance,
'were $10,554.13. This year the re
ceipts from licenses aggregate only
$77,048.71.
Virginia also would have fared
badly had not her licenses been rais
ed within the last year from $175 to
$450. This jump helped considerably
to meet the vast deficit which other
wise would have been caused by the
changed conditions.
The Commonwealth this year loses
a total of $40,601.60 as a result of
the activity of the Anti-Saloon League
$10,264.95 from the counties and
$30,336.65 from the cities. The fol.
lowing are the counties that Bell no
liquor:
Accomac, Amelia, Amherst, Appo
mattox, Bland, Botetourt, Brunswick,
Buchanan, Buckingham Campbell,
Caroline, Carroll, Charles City, Char
lotte, Clarke, Craig, Cumberland, Dick
enson, Essex, Fiuvans, Giles, GIou
cester Goochland, Grayson, Hanover,
Highland, Isle of Wight, James City,
King George, King and Queen, Lan
caster, Lee, Loundoun, Louisa, Mat
thews, Middlesex, Montgomery, New
Kent, Northampton, Northumberland,
Nottoway, Powhatan, Prince Edward,
Pulaski, Roanoke, Russell, Scott,
Shenandoah, Smyth, Spottsylvania,
Stafford, Washington, Wise, Wythe
and York.
LONG TRIP FOR GRAY NUNS.
Mother General, Though 69, Will Visit
Missions In the Far North.
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Sept. 23. Moth
er Fillatrlault, mother general of Gray
Nuns in Canada, arrived here this af
ternoon on her way to the Mackenzie
River district for the purpose of In
specting the missions in the Far North.
Although 69 years old, she is setting
out on a Journey Involving a trip of
2,000 miles beyond Edmunton, through
a country where dog trains and canoes
are the sole means of transportation.
She will be accompanied by several
Gray Nuns.
. Richmond Horse Show Abandoned
Richmond, Va., Sept 23. It was
announced that the Richmond Horse
Show Association will hold no exhl.
bitlon this fall, but there will be a
brilliant display of horseflesh at the
'State Fair, which will be held from
j October 5 to 10.
SUMMONS TO ,
WHITE HOUSE
Haskell to Confer With
Roosevelt
TO UNRAVEL HASKELL MYSTERY
Sealer of Weights and Measures For
District of Columbia to Aid Presi
dentWould Make No Statement
Today.
By Wire to The Sun.
Washington, D. C, Sept. 23. W. C.
Haskell, the sealer of weights and
measures for the District of Columbia,
was summoned to the White House
this morning for a conference with
the President
The object of the conference, it is
understood, is to unravel the mystery
of the "Haskell", who is Involved In
the Standard Oil bribery chaTcs.
Mr. Haskell would make no la
ment as to the conference, but .
intimated that the President might do
so later.
SHOOTS HIMSELF AT 88.
Noted Advocate of Game Protection
Uses Gun to End Mpm Life. '
Cincinnati, Sept. T5. Alexander
Starbuck, aged 83, former president of
the Cuvler Club, of this city, and wide,
ly known as an advocate of measures
for the protection ot game, shot himself
fatally in the corridor of the govern
ment building today. Although once
wealthy, he had lost all his money.
One of the nMerlTi to friends was
dated September 14, and read :
"Why' old age, sickness, threatened
Insanity enough to make the tired
soul seek the immortal dawn."
SUIT OVER LINCOLN RELICS.
Lock of Hair and Cuff Button Sold for
$600, Plaintiff Says.
New York, Sept 23. the sale ot
some Lincoln relics figured in a suit
in the Third district municipal court
today. Dr. Charles Sabln Taft was
Lincoln's physician, who was at his
bedside when he died, secured a lock of
the presidents hair and a cuff button.
When Dr. Taft died, some years ago,
he turned them over to his son, Chas.
C. Taft, now of this city,
Taft charges that he was in the em.
ploy of Louis L. Cohen & Co., at 801
Eighth avenue, and that about three
years ago he had a chance to sell the
relics. He spoke to Cohen about it,
and $80 was advanced to him for his
expenses to Washington, There he
sold the relics to MaJ. William H. Lam.
bert, U. S. A., for $800. He received
a check for the amount and turned it
over to Cohen to get cashed.
The $800 expenses were deducted,
and then, he says, Cohen only handed
him $346.67 and kept the remainder,
$173.33. , - "
Cohen showed Justice Young a re
ceipt which Taft had signed and said
he was to get one-th'Ird of what the
relics brought If the $80 was advanced.
Cohen said that he kept the money, as
It was his share. Justice Young took
the same view and dismissed the case.
MACK LOOKS TO THE WEST.
New York, 8ept 23. Norman E.
Mack, chairman of the democratic na
tional committee, plans to force the
fighting In the Pacific Coast States, and
In October speakers of national promi
nence will be sent West to aid In
swinging all debatable states into line
for the democrats.
Mr. Mack said tonight that the re
ports received from California, Oregon,
Montana and Colorado were of such
character as to lead him to the belief
that with a strong effort they would be
captured for Bryan and 'Kern. a
"I regard the Middle West States,"
said Chairman Mack, "as safely demo
era tic, and all our effort tow will be
, to bold our advantage, which will be
made easier by the rout of the republl
'cans. The national committee Is re
ceiving the most glowing reports from
the Pacific Coast and we will make
.added efforts to bring California, Ore
gon and other states into line."
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