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RALEIGH, N. ; C. - SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 11902.
No 128
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Cleveland's Speeches Are ; . ' '
; : .. Worth;TMoEsaii(fls of Votes
The Republicans Alarmed
Over the Outlook In New
York President Goes
Out to Shoor Birds
T TOil jr.
Washington, CVt. XI 8peclL Rf-
rrt rrrvm New rork and other point
revived her today are to the effect
that the Republican are very appre
hensive over the result of the election
Tuesday. There 1 much alarm In New
York, and from all accounts the tide
is turrJr.g towards Coler. So great Is
the frr of the Republicans that they
have been forced to call on the pres
t lent to come to their rescue. The
ru!t 1 that Mr. Roosevelt had the
Mtowln statement prepared for the
pres this afternoon:
JUny Inqclrl hare been made at
th temporary White house aa to, the
preside nfa vtew of the outlook. In
r-pone to these queries regarding- the
pending eampalrn. Secretary1 Cortelyou
all this afieroooo:
The president Is watching with
the kent Interest and the most earn
est desire for lie publican success the
v.rtou. congress canvasses and the
ste canvasses In states like New
York and Pennsylvania, where gov
ernors are to be elected. '
The nepabllcan leaders privately ad
mit that but for the great popularity
of President Roosevelt their party
woo id saSer a reverse In the east and
west.
One of the -ol Jest and most experi
enced Republican newspaper men In
Washiwrton toll me tMay that while
he believed the republican would car- J
ry the boa 9 of representatives by a
reduced majority such an event Is not
st all certain. The situation, he ad
mlttM. was most difSeuIt to anyalize.
Kx-Presldent Cleveland's Morrlstown
speech was bilsl tith delight by all
kinds of Democrats today. It Is 3!d
that Ceteveiand'a recent utterances
are worth half a million votes to the
rrrocrmcy la the eajrt and middle
western ststes. It means the return
to the party of practically every gold
Democrat h to wandered away
from the orrn?rtioTi durg the past
efM years. No other ln-Mnt of the
campaign has givja tLe republicans so j
Strike Commission Takes
Another Dav in the Mines
They Ride Around Town in 2
-Tro'iey Car to See How
the Miners Liva A
Good One on
Two Commis
sioners
Ftranton. Pa Oct. 31. With the
Mme dlllrer.ee with which the mem
bers of the anthracite strike commis
sion conducted . their researched on
Thursday they continued their inves
tigations today. They went deep. Into
the mines. They asked all conceivable
questions of nearly eery one they raw
there. They mide mental notes of a
vast number of matters and then they
took a trolley ride about Scranton and
suburbs and had their first look at the
minrs homes.
IWora the party broke up for the
d;y this afternoon a member of the
commission let drop the Interesting In
formation that the commission will re
turn to Scrar.ten by the middle of next
week and begin the taking of testimo
ny here.
At S o'clock tomorrow morning the
rfr: miss ion will take a train for
Wtikesbarre. where during the mora
ine they will visit the Prospect col
liery of the Lehigh Valley Company.
M.-h Is said to be one of the largest
M the finest in the region.
They -ni make a thorough Inspec
tion of the mine and breaker there. In
the afierr.oon the commission will take
lm:.y cars for Ashley and Sugar
trh. so that they will be able to get
a new of the homes of the miners in
lhat vicinity. In the evening they will
rome bark to this city and will spend
F-.nd.ty here.
Sunday morning Bishop SpalJlig will
Pleach at St. : Peter's cathedral here
M all the other membrrs will attend
the services to hear hlnu During the
dty the commission will visit the
Moes Taylor Hospital In this city.
Their movements Monday have not yet
bn decided but it Is likely that they
U1 visit the Haxleton region.
There were a number of Interesting
developments during the day. One was
the laurh during the morning at the
eipense of Judge Gray. The latter and
Plshop Spaldmg bad become fatigued
with the long stay In the mine and
came to the head of the shaft to await
the others. While they were In the en
gine house a number of slate pickers
employed about the- breaker came In.
The two commissioners began to ask
searching questions of them, bow much
they earned, bow- old they were, and
the cumber of hours they worked each
much alarm, for they .have profited
by this vote In the past four cam
paigns. Mr. 'Cleveland's tariff argu
ment Is praised on all sides and the
entire speech Is pronounced a rem by
Democrats regardless of fselr past
factional affiliations. In some quar
ters, and especially among Republi
can, an e!Tort is being made to make
It appear that Mr. Cleveland la bidding;
for another presidential nomination.
Little stocc Is taken In this view, and
the ex-president's friends are the most
prompt to repel It. , ,
Chairman Grltrrs who has returned
from a visit to New York said today
of the situation there:
"I am satisfied Mr. Coler will be
elected governor of New York by not
less, than 13, POO majority. His majority
south of the Harlem river" will be at
the very lowest calculation 93.0CO,
while Ode!l ennnot possibly come down
to the rlrer-wltn 70.000. We will elect
seventeen out of the thirty-seven con
gressmen from New York and probably
nineteen. ' . . ,
At the !nt.nnee of Professor Collier
Cobb, of the University of North Caro
lina. Representative John II. Small lias
requested S. 7L TClmball, general super
lntend:nt of the life sarins; service to
forward to him copies of the annual
report of the life saving; service for
the last twelve years. In the commu
nication received 'by Mr. Kimball, , It
was mentioned that the special chapers
drvoted to geograpical subjects were
of much benefit- In scientific study.
President P.oosevelt and a party of
friends left here tonight at t o'clock In
a special train over the Southern Rail
way for Mannavaa. Vs. The special
consisted of a private car and baggage
coach. ' The party Included Secretary
Root. Secretary Cortelyou. Surgeon
General P. M. RJxey of the navy and
a stenographer. - The trip will be made
In several honre and, the train will be
sidetracked near Manassas. The party
will fpend tomorrow and Sunday near
Manassas and Monday morning will
leave there for- Oyster Day. passing:
through Washington without going to
the white house.
With the president and his party go
a number of fine shotguns as It Is vicell
understood that the president will pro
bably try some shooting- at partridges
tomcrrow If the game Is found to be
P-!tlral. The president's trip . Is to
give him an outing ondto allow him
diy. Finally Judge Gray divided fifty
cents among the boys and they went
out. .
Fhortly after the other members of
the party came to the surface the boys
rerppeared, as if they were looking
for more cash contributions. Judge
Cray aMced them what they had done
with the money that he had given
them. One of them answered that they
had spent it for cigarettes. Judge Gray
and Dlshcp Spalding looked shocked
while the other members of the party
laughed. Judge Gray administered a
severe lecture to the boys on the evils
of cigarette smoking. Bishop Spald
ing then divided, some more money
among the boys after putting them on
their honor thAt they would spend It
for apples. Another feature was the
rebuke that General Wilson adminis
tered to a secretary of a mine workers'
local who accompanied the party. Gen
eral Wilson was asking some questions
while in the Manvllle mine about the
details of the business. The' secretary
of the local several 'times Interrupted
Mr. Nichols, while he- was seeking to
reply and once contradicted him point
blank. General WlUon is somewhat
peppery at times.- He Informed the
secretary of the 'local; that the ques
tions that were being asked were ask
ed of Mr. Nichols and he alone was
expected to answer :them. Nothing
more was heard frprn' the secretary of
the local.
After dinner" the ; commission started
out to make an Inspection of the homes
of the miners by trolley car.,; The first
run was made to Taylor for the pur
pose of showing the commission a com
munity almost wholly occupied by peo
ple engaged In mining. A large num
ber of women were seen who were car
rying away, husks from an . adjacent
field of corn. It was" explained that
these women were ..either '. Slavs or
Poles, and tbftt hey used the husks
for beddln;" At-Taylor a number of
homes of miners ;were pointed out.
Some Indicated poverty, ethers thrift, .
; ' THE PRESIDENCY L
A Paper by Roosevelt Eulo
gized in En gland
London. November I- The Spectator
eulogises Mr. Roosevelt's article on the
presidency of the .United States, which
was published hera. by the. Morning
Post Thursday." It . says it vis marked
by great clearness aiid good sense. Th
Spectator fixes attention especially on
Mr. Roosevelt's, strjkhig passage m"
paring the powers of the president of
the United States with those f the
British- prime minister, ,
The Journal cones' ff the conclusion
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to thoroughly study the battlefield of
Bull Run. Dr. Rlxey Is & good shot
and is familiar with the country to
which the party Is going. He will act
as pilot In showing- the president some
game. klt Is thought probable that to
morrow will be spent In shooting birds
and Sunday In riding1 over the battle
field and neighboring- places of his
toric Interest.
There Is said to be a probability that
a genuine sensation In business circles
will be caused by the report of -the
committee which recently Investigated
the methods or the census bureau . and
of the division of statistics of the ag
ricultural department In gathering and
disseminating cotton and other .'Crop
statistics. This report will probably
be made public within the next ,week
or ten days and will be immediately
followed by a statement from Statisti
cian Hyde of the department .of 'agri
culture in which he will explain the
alleged discrepancies between Ms fig
ures and those of the census office.
It Is understood from a reliable source
that the report of the Investigating
committee will cast serious doubts on
the work of the census bureau and
that It will be Intimated that the flsht
on Mr. Hyde which Is said to have
been started by certain spaeulative in
terests has at least had the toleration
of census officials. " " 1
Mr. Hyde's statement on cotton,
made up from the reports of the' ex
perts who recently visited Texas and
other parts of the cotton belt, will
probably be forthcoming about the
middle of next week. This will be
entirely separate and distinct f rem the
other statement referred to.
There Is one item of tariff inequality
and injustice that you American news
paper men ought to register your pro
test against, if none other." said
Chairman James M. Griggs, of the
Democratic campaign committee, at
the headquarters today. . .
"It la the simple matter of lead pen
cils," said Judge Griggs. "You may
put It In double-leaded fashion that
lea- pencils which are wielded by Ame
ricans without regard to class, in
cluding, of course the working man,
every woman and child, and every
newspap-man are so protected by the
tariff that they have topay double the
price for then that is asltd of the for
eign user of our pencHs. ,
that the prime minister's .position In
certain ways Is more powerful than
that of the president, but the former's
tenure of office is Insecure and on the
whole, "the greatest office of power in
the Anglo-Saxon world is that of presi
dent of the United States. Though his
powers are limited he has security of
tenure and originating authority, of
which nobody can deprive him."
RECORDS SMASHED
Fast Pacing at Trotting on the
Memphis Track'
Memphis. Tenn., Oct.. 31. Supple-
m ntary events that were pulled off
today on the Memphis trolting track
were productive of more sensational
features than any day's racing of the
meeting. Cresceus, the trotting cham
pion, 2:C2M. started to lower the two
mile record. George II. Ketcham, his
owner, drove the magnificent trotter
the distance in 4:17 flat, lowering by
10 seconds tt e world's twb mile rec
ord of 4:27 2-5 established by the Ame
rican trained horse Cald. at "Vienna,
Austria, two years ago. The American
recor. of 4:28 made last week on the
Memphis track by Onward Sliver, was
also sent glimmering.
A remarkao'e feature of the trial was
that Cresceus finished as strong as' he
started, unblown and showing not the
slightest evidence of fatigue. . ,
Prince Alert, driven by Mark Demar
est and paced by two runners, stepped
the mile In 2:00 flat, lowering the
world's record for gelding pacers, of
2:00. established by himself on the
local track last season, and winning the
great distinction of being ? the third
harness horse that has worked a. mile
In two minutes. It is freely prophei
sled here by horsemen of note that the
gelding will next season equal or better
the mark of 1:594 established by Star
Pointer and xJan Patchen.
' Scott McCoy drove Mabel Onward and
The Monk, hitched to wagon against
the team trotting record of 2:12:.
The effort was a failure, the oval be
ing circled in 2:13. The Monk and
Louis Jefferson, hitched to ' pole" and
driven by C K. G. Billings, were also
sent to" lower this mark and .made the
mile In 2:12, established -a' .world's
record for the distance with an ama,
tour up.
Prison for Anarchists
Patereon. N. J.. Oct. 3L Judge Scott
this morning sentenced Wm.. McQueen,
the English anarchist, and Rudolph
Grossman, a New York anarchist, both
convicted of rioting June 18 last, during
the silk, strike here, to five years', hard
labor iii the state prison. J . (
Counsel for the accused applied for
a writ of error which was granted. This
will act as a stay and keep, the men
out of prison until the Supreme court
reviews the case and' gives a 'decision
The men furnished JS.000 ball pend
ing action by the higher court.
BESET BY A MOB
Soldiers - Return to . Their
Homes Under Difficulties
Tamaqua," Pa., Oct. 31. When com
pany E,' eighth regiment, returned to
Mahany City last evening after being
on duty three months the command
was met at the depot by a mob of
about 1.C00 union men. When the sol
diers disembarked. they , were greeted
by a chorus of boots, Jeers and groans
and cries of "Scab.'-'
While the. company was forming in
line the mob closed In about the men
and they were roughly jostled. When
the march to the armory was taken up
the crowd fell In behind ths company
and commenced hurling sticks and
stones. Several men In the mob struck
the ' soldiers. As. Lieutenant H. R.
Brickert was marching along beside
the company one of the mob called him
a vile name. The lieutenant put his
sword into its scabbard and grabbing
the fellow beat him severely. The mob
then closed In around the soldiers and
they made-their way to the armory
onl7 after great difficulty. .The situa
tion In the Panther Creek valley - is
still very grave.
WIRELESS SYSTEM
important ; Extension 1 to
Be
Made on Fruit Ships .
New Orleans, Oct. SI. The United
Fruit Company, or fruit trust, has
made all the arrangements to put the
wireless telegraph system In operation
with- Its fruit vessels in Central Amer
ica and expects it to save the company
many thousands of dollars as there is
now no telegraphic system-to or be
tween the fruit ports of Central Amer
ica -and the United States. By using
the . wireless ' telegraph a fruit vessel
can be warned which port to sail for.
The companywill establish . two sta
tions, one at Bocas Del Toro, Colombia,
the other at Port Limon, Coata Rica,
about 100 miles apart. The experiments
will be conducted over this country
by the company itself under charge of
Mr. M. Musgrove,. who has been lay
ing the telephone wires of the company
in-Colombia and Costa Rica.
Mr. ' Muagrove arrived today from
New York, where he made the pur
chase of all the ' necessary equipments.
He will leave for Port Limon, tomor-;
row and expect tp make the; "wireless
telegraph sysUiiiJn operation there
and , at Bocas Del . Toro . within sixty
days- The company has already built
three hundred -miles of telephone in
Costa Rica connecting Port . Limon
with all the towns and stations with
which the United Fruit company doe3.
business. It will build about the same
mileage In Colombia and will use the
wireless telegraph, service to Inform its
vessels where -fruit cargoes are await
ing them. .
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BEGIN
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Date When Change in Wages
--v Goes into Effect
c.rontnn Pn.. Oct. 31. Ti,e anthracite
' xtrv commission has oflScially decided
I that if any change is made in the rate of
! wages of the men it shall date from'to
i morrow, November L This announce
i ment - was made by the commission
through Recorder Wright in the follow
' ing brief statement, given out by him
at 9 o'clock this-morning:
"Voted, unanimously, that if the com
mission, at the conclusion of its hear
ings and deliberations, makes any
award affecting existing rates of wages,
such award shall take effect from Nov.
1, 1902."
The recorder of the commission stated
that this resolution was adopted by the
commission because It felt that It was
Important to mal?e its. investigations
deliberately and that it might be well,
in order to relieve itself from pressure
.from any source which might cause un
due haste, to inform the operators and
the miners that should the investiga
tion and the deliberations following It
warrant any change whatever, either
in the way of increase or reduction of
wages, such, change should be from a
certain date! thus enabling all partiees
to facilitate their calculations.'
The action of the commission in tak
ing, this, step at this time, will sa"ve the
the commissioners a lot of time. It is
known that each side to the contro
versy, would take a determined stand
on the question of when the new rate
of wages, if one is made, shall go into
effect. The operators in their original
proposition to President Roosevelt
wanted the commission to fix the date.
Buggy Trace Battle
Cahrleston, S. C. Oct, 29i In Ander
son county yesterday two negroes were
caught In the act of robbing a fanner
and rather than to go to Jail they offer
ed to accept any punishment the farm
ers might inflict. The men were taken
Into a field and stripped to the waist.
There Is no whipping post law in
South Carolina, but this did not in
terfere with the plans for a lashing.
Each' man was given a buggy trace
and they fought each other until the
blood-began to flow. . Finally after
desperate fighting the referee lifted his
band as a signal to stop. The negroes
were in bad shape when the fight ceas
ed, and they went oft to . bed. No ar
rests were made.
Moliiieiix
He Endures Rigid Cross
questioning with Re
markable Coolness.
Prosecuting Law
yer Tired Out.
New York, Oct. 3L After almost four
years in prison under the charge of
murder and the greater part of that
time spent in the death house at Sing
Sin. Roland B. Molineux took the wit
ness stand in his own behalf today and
calmly went through an ordeal which
would have shattered -4he nerve, of
many a man better prepared for such
a siege. :' .
Molineux took the raking examina
tion of the prosecutor, who once sent
him1 to. Sing Sing convicted of murder
in the first degree, with amazing sto
lidlty. -That his mind was perfectly
clear-on every subject connected with
the crime he is charged with commit
ting was 'shown 'by the ease with which
he slipped 01 1 of every bad corner that
the prosecutor sought to put him in.
In almost-seven hours, of cross-examination,
during which the entire brains
of the district attorney's office was at
the service of the prosecutor, Molineux
never made a damaging admission and
never dodged a question in away that
indicated he had anything to hide. Not
once did he lose his temper.
Molineux was serious much of the
time." Nevertheless, during the long
and trylngday he found many things
to arhuse-him and frequently his face
lighted into a smile, although at no
time did he laugh aloud. Ke evident
ly was not fearful of the result of the
unusual step taken by his lawyers in
putting him on the stand, and the only
sign of nervousness he showed at all
was his trick of keeping his eyes-most
of the time on his lawyer, Bartow. S.
Weeks. - "
The prisoner stood the strain better
than the prosecutor. At 4:30 o'clock
the latter was so exhausted that , he
asked Justice Lambert for an adjourn
ment: on the ground that he 1 and the
witness were tired out. "With a smile
Molineux leaned forward: "I am not at
all tired,'" he said. , "I am ready to go
on' ' - ':'- ' ';-''-': ''V' "' ''": .
The Justice "ordered the case to go y n
when theA Vitnes3.inade this statement
and for ,an hour more" it "proceeded.
Then the prosecutor gave out entirely
and District Attorney Jerome came for
ward with a .request for' adjoummapt
which the'. court rather ' reluctantly
granted.- . ,
" Riyti ji Colombian Genera
Stories of Unwarranted Acts
by the Admiral Discred
ited He Exchanged
. Salutes with the
Bogota
Washington, Oct. 31. A cablegram
was received at tle state department
today, from.: Rear. Admiral Casey, dated
last night at Panama, in which he re
ports' all' quiet on ttie Isthmus. The
admiral speaks of the arrival . at Pana
ma of- the: nev,iy acquired Colombian
government gunboat Bogota; saying
that she. hois ted the1 American flag and
saluted, and that he returned the sa
lute in turn. ""He jidds that his rela
tions with: all parties are extremely
friendly; " - T'his statement contradicts
flatly, the : report ; that 8 the admiral
adopted a course toward the Bogota
which aroused the resentment of the
local government officials.
The fellOwing is the text of Admiral
Casey's telegram: -,
; j I -Panama, Oct. 30, 1902.
Secretary Navy, Washington, D. C.
Three xCrs of ammunition came over
yesterday. V Balance remaining at Co
Ion; will come.iater. My relations with
Perdomo most-friendly.- Bogota salut
ed my flag on arrival; returned gun for
(Signed)'. - - CASEY.
The complaints made in Panama and
by the Colombian minister here that
Admiral Casey had-been guilty of an
unwarranted act in . boarding the Co
lombian gunboat Bogota, when she en
tered Panama harbor last Saturday and
demanding her papers, caused the navy
department . to end an inquiry by tele
graph: to Admiral Casey as to. whether
these" complaints . were justified. , Ad
miral Casey's response was received by
the department i today. . It was in the
form of a -cipher telegram, which the
navy department, after some hesita
tion decided, to give. in part, at lea3t,
to the press,, It-is not known positively
that any - portion of. the message was
suppressed. . ' .
Admiral Casey's statement about the
ammunition was to show that he was
not Interfering . with Colombian war
supplies aepbss. the isthmus. General
Perdomo, ..with -whom lie says, he is on
most' friendly-; terms, is a member of
the Colombian, cabinet and its principal
representative on ' the isthmus, where
& Witness
-Meantime Molineux was as chipper
as ever. .:'; v-1"1" "
' It can scarcely be said that the move
In -putting Mollneuxon the stand has
hurt his case so far, though IMdid give'
tae prosecutor opportunities of which
he took advantage. Througn LtCiineux
tie got before the jury ail of the', first
trial testimony of Mamie "Kelando and
detective JoBeph Farre.i of Newark, the
two witnesses who have so careruUy
Kept out of tho court's jurisdiction,
since the first trial and wnoso testl-
jmony on that occasion Justice Lam
bert declined to have read into tne
case several days ago.
Once more, too. iae prosecutor got
the Barnet letters before the jury , and
he got one of them into the case in the
most effective way possible by showing
that the Burns letter (conceded to be
Molineux's) on the robin's - egg blue
crescent paper, and the Barnet letter,
known in the trial as exhibit H also
written on this paper, are almost iden
tical In text and have "the same pecu
liarities in handwriting which appear
to be common to ail letters that Moli
neux wrote.
If the Bamett letter in quesion were
in evidence this testimony would cer
tainly be damaging in" thet extreme
to tae case of the defendant, but it
Is not in evidence and when-Justice
Lambert charges the jury he will un
doubtedly instruct It to disregard these
strong point3 which the prosecutor
over the protest of ex-Ooyernor'
Black, succeeded in bringing - out to-
day. " . - :' V1'" -
Mr. Black began the day by his ad
dress to the jury. It was a record
breaker for brevity. Then Molineux
took the stnad and , went on - to tell
In answer to questions that he was ar
rested February 27, 1889, and had been
in prison ever since. He is now 26 years
old, he said, was born iff Brooklyn,, has
two brothers, was educated at the
Brooklyn high school, but also studied
at the Polytechnic Institute In Brook
lyn. He took two courses in chemistry
at Cooper Union in 18S3 or 1834 when
he was 17 years old. in . answer to
more questions put to blm very -rapidly
by Mr. - Black. . Molineux said! that
after he finished his course at Cooper;,
Union he went into business" with" his
father." Later he went into a similar
business tn Newark ;were he. remain
ed untll December 1898.' ' With " some
reluctance . he admitted that he spent
a year-out west because he was nam
ed as corespondent In a divorce suit,,
and hia father wanted him, to go. He
was 15 years of age, at that time. The:
he is in command of the government
forces. These things and the addition
al statement of Admiral Casey that
he returned the salute of the Bogota
are taken to mean by the Washington
authorities that the accusations against
the admiral are not justified, and that
Senor Concha, the Colombian minister
here, has no basis for his contention
that the course of Admiral Casey has
changed the attitude of the Colombia
government with reference to making
concessions to the United t States for
the construction of the Panama canal.
A report that Minister Concha had
telegraphed hi3 resignation to Bogota
on account of the feeling against him
in the state department, was denied
emphatically today by Senor Herran,
secretary of the Colombian, legation. '
LumberPlant Burned
New Bern, N. C; Oct. 31. Special.
Fire broke out tonight in the Trent
lumber mills, owned by Thompson Bros,
of Philadelphia. The mill is situated
on Trent river close to the business
section of the city. The entire .jmill,
dry kiln and two hundred' and fifty
thousand feet of lumber were consum
ed. The loss 13 estimated at $20,000.
with no insurance. The. work of the
firemen in saving pier No. 1 of the
Atlantic and North Carolina Railroad
was a masterly piece of work. The
origin of the fire is unknown. The fire
is now under control.
Three Held for Shooting
Greenville. N. C. Oct. 31. Special.
The preliminary hearing in the case
of Allen for shooting' Hardee circus
day, was held today. Allen was bound
over in one thousand dollars. The
testimony of Hardee was taken at his
bedside. As a result ' Joseph Allen,
brother of Jhe defendant, and Buck
Forbes were held in five hundred dol
lars bond, to appear next Saturday.
Hardee swore than they also shot him.
More developments are anticipated.
Hardee's almost certain recovery is In
dicated. - ' : .
Voters Indifferent
New Orleans, Oct 31. The Demo
cratic candidates for Congress In Mis
sissippi confess that they, have failed
in their efforts to aruose the Demo
cratic voters of the state and that less
than one fifth of the registered vote
will be polled. The highest estimate of
tor HimseM
women" in-court" gasped for breath
when Molineux made this statement.
Molineux told of his troubles with
Cornish which ended in his relgnlns
from the Knickerbocker Aathletio Club.
Molineux said that although his fath
er was a member of the Knickerbocker
Aathletlo . Club he (Roland McJineux) :
thought so little of his troubles with
Cornish that he never spoke to his
father about them.'
Continuing, the defendant denied
buying the silver bottle holder and de
clared that he did not know Koch, tho
letter-box man, . who had sworn that
between December 12 and Decembt-r H
of that year Molineux went to liia place
and dickered with him for a private letter-box.
He denied any knowledge of
the poison package and said he did not
know what cyanide of mercury was
until he heard all about it on hia llrat
trial. He admitted having an account
at the Tiffany's.
The Burns letter on the robin's egfr
blue crescent paper was shown to hini
and he admitted he had written it. 1
This Is the letter the defense con
ceded early In the trial. Molineux ex
plained writing it by Baying: that ho
had strained his groin and seeing the
advertisement "Little Giant Salve,"
sent for some to try it. Mr. Black
showed by a seore or more questions
that Molineux was a man who went to
many prices and wrote muy letters
in a day and that he 'usually wrote on
the paper nearest at hand. He declar
ed that he had no recollection of where ,
he wrote the Burns letter, but JudgeH
from the postmark that It was some
where In Newark. He told how he had
placed himself in the hands of the po
lice when he heard that he was wanted.
The last question was:
"Mr. Molineux, are you absolutely in-,
nocent of the charge of murder that
now stands against you?"
"Absolutely and ' entirely," was the
answer.
The prosecutor then began.
He took up the divorce In which Mol-(
ineux as a boy of fifteen figured. H
brought out the fact that a charge wai
made that Molineux and the husband v
of the woman in the case had conspir
ed to ruin the woman. Molineux ad
mitted that the man In the case was his
warm friend. He knew a divorce had
been granted, but did not know wheth
er the husband or the wife had obtaln-
i ed it. .
The prosecutor tried in vain to make
thewitness admit soina.knowledgo df
cyanide of mercury and took him care- .
fully over all his acts after his name
was first mentioned ir connection with
the, murder of Mrs. Adams. The first
trial testimony of Detective Farrell was
J also brought out in the same way.
the vote is under 30,000 for the eight
districts, .or a llttel over 3,000 for a dis
trict, and the vote would be much
smaller but, for the fact that there are
several constitutional amendments tc
be voted for.
Large Cigar Plant
Norfolk, Oct. 3t. -The American To
bacco Company will build a large plant
ere. It will have a capacity for two
thousand girl operatives and 2,000 col
ored steamers. The plait will consist
of three brick b'li'J'njfB, four UiJts
high of r.iii' construction at a cost of
$125,000. There vlU'be a ci. factory
where the new machines for cigar mak
ing will be employed, also stemmery
and a large warehouse The work will
begin within two weeks and be flnishetf
in ninety days.
Continuous Performance
San Francisco, "Cal., Oct. 31. Felipe
Galicia, consul at San Francisco for
Bolivia and Guatemala, has received
from the president of Guatemala the.
following cablegram relative to the
eruption of the volcano of Santa Maria:
"It is true the vocano Is in eruption,
but. without any damage."
' A message from the superintendent
of the Ocos railroad states that the
volcano has been in continuous erup
tion since October 24 and ashes to th"?
depth of twelve inches have fallen at
the terminus of the line. News fibmr
points further inland Is anxiously
awaited. .
War on Alcoholic Medicine
New Orleans, Oct. si. The prohibi
tion counties of Texas have determin
ed to bar all patent medicines that
contain any appreciable amount of al
cohol. They base this declnion on th
recent finding of the state revenue de
partment that certain widely adver
tised medicine, is really an Intoxicant
and subject to a tax as such. The
agent is now overwhelmed with de
mands from the prohibition counties
to sample all patent medicines and an-j
nounce which contain alcohol. -
Guessing at Gannon's Pla-ns
Baltimore. Oct. 31.-The resignation
of Mr. Frank S. Gannon as third vice
president of the Southern Railway ha
caused speculation In railroad circles
as to the future of Mr. Gannon. A re
port was current today that he would
take an Important position with th
Gould interests ana might come to Bal
timore as the operating head of the
Western Maryland Railroad- The posi
tion of general manager of the Wa
bash Is alsa associated ' with Mr. Can
non's future.
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