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r Mohm" Post. : - i r ' - For North Caro l lina: Rain. -Temperature for the past 24 hours: Max, 98; Min. 74. VoL XII - RALEIGH. N. O.. THUKSDAY, AUGUST 27, 1903 No. 72 J Red fleet Under Admiral arKer Captures Portland Such Is Naval Opinion of the Result of the War - Game on the Coast oft.Maine. Seen by Thousands Red ! n Foard Battleship Illinois, : t. Rendezvous In Middle Hay. Slx . Miles Northeast of 'Portland, Me., x. -'J Hear Admiral Parker's red . : mac!e an attack on the defenses fv.rt!.ind at daybreak this morning. t- f 1 thrre is a pretty general opinion r: .,';.? the personnel of his command it he captured the city, figuratively, j"y it was, but well worth seeing t ivrtnlnly enough like the real t ir c t e Interesting. If the men on sh:rs an tne nen In the forts did T r.j.y it. there were thousands of ,ivn th battle was begun, they lined I t ,. -..: ?5 of the mainland and Islands!.. . , t vMtii" the struggle between lleet . .. fort. y,.r x w . hours before full daylight fv.- th battleship division, under the jr, r--command of Rear Admiral Ittrkr. lay within sight of the shore rxntlon stations and batteries, be in;: just out of range. Although -.rvhltghts played full upon the white ! -9 and yellowish superstructures of th armor clads those on shore were :".iMe to detect the enemy's presence. It was not until an hour after that the army was certain qfVlhe proximity of t'A fo. but the day was misty and r-il daylight did not come until 4f30. t Th.'4 red fleet had run down to Port land from Seguln Island, where It had u.ehored at 9:0 Monday night, six hours after It left Rockland. It was a Mack night, dreary, drizzly and full f a cold mist. Darkness of the styglan quality prevailed. Through this gloom !he fleet picked its way at moderate sreed. led by the Kearsarsre. Out of the darkness, away off In the distance at first, but gradually growing nearer, the combined glow of Portland's lights f-wmed up. Two hours after leaving .-:nin Island the fleet came within the rnr.ge of the reflector beams shot out r n-n the shore stations, but It was ;!?nt that the searchlights were ln : :i tlve even, at less than three miles. In fact it took good strong daylight to how the presence of the ships to those" u the forts. Rear Admiral 'Coghlan, "with part of th cru!er division including the f Uvrrsrfi. went off to the northward and eastward to pass Into Hussey und. and attempted to force that !hip channel. Taking a wide, range to th ne?tward. the squadron under Rear Admiral Sands, headed by the battle ship Texas, drew near to Cape Ellza tth. and beginning as far south as Richmond Island, put out of business ih signal stations and searchlights, I Lipton Looks Says He Yacht Racing So Uncertain That It Is No Good to Give Up Until One Has Lost All Chance to Win New York, Aug. 26. Sir ThomavUP .'n has had wo races scored against us yacht Shamrock in the present se ries for the America's cup, but he has i t given up yet. Ife says he still has a chance, but he admits that It is a .-nail one, and to lift the up this year he must now win three straight races, still, everything he can do to bring f-uccess to his boat Is being done, and if his supporters had half the grit he has It is possible -that the Shamrock miKht have a race or two to her credit. .Sir Thomas also Is feeling blue. He his worked now for seven years or more to win the America's cup and h F'ems to be as far as ever from suc cess; further than he was two years ago when the Shamrock II. came with in a few seconds of winning races. Sir Thomas sat on the deck of the Erin today, looking at his racing yacht and wondering how It all happened. He is released -with the showing that the Shamrock made In Tuesday's race, and he said that if she continues to improve, as she has then she will win the com ing races by a good margin, but he thinks this is a forlorn hope. "It is very disappointing," said Sir .Thomas, "that after all these years of planning and. working my boat can t.ot -win a race. The yacht had a poor mainsail on in last Saturday's race, which hurt her very much, but Tues day ve had a very fair sail on and the yacht did-very much better. "Ve are hoping for the best tomorrow and the Shamrock will go to the lino in the best possible shape and with everyone determined to do all he can to help the yacht to win. Tacht racing Is uncertain, and we will not give up Mf the last race has been sailed." Sir Thomas was" asked If there was ny truth In the report about there having been trouble on his yacht be twta Cptaln Wriuge and Designer and fired over the cape at Fort "Wil liams. Meanwhile the squadron under Rear Admiral Wise, headed by the cruiser Yankee, had gone down to Mid dle bay, where the fleet Is now an chored, and taken possession of It for a base of operations. To do this he found Jt necessary to demolish the signal station on Orr's Island. Haskell I Island and other places, and sent guards ashore to hold them. The Scorpion had gone through the channel between Cushing Island and Cape Elizabeth before daybreak. She had taken up the mines In the channel to clear a way for the main battle ship division before being discovered. Close as she was to the searchlights they failed to pick her up for a long time, but she was detected ultimately and counted out. The destroyer Trux ton, which also went ahead to take up mines, had better luck. She act ually sneaked right under the search lights, anchored off Cushing Island and began countermining. It is claimed by the navy that she accomplished her ! rVit KAfnof TcAVAVArl . " , .1 ship squadron 2 1-2 miles off Cushing Island and Portland head. It was not until 4:26 that Fort Levitt fired the first gun. Then the battle began In earnest. Steaming ahead of the Illinois the Kearsargeengaged at close range. Admiral Barker's plan was to let his vessels keep In line.but to steam fast or slow at the will of their Individual commanders so as to confuse the range of the shore batteries. The order to cease firing was given at 5 o'clock. At that time the range had dwindled to 850 yards, less than half a nautical mile. The red fleet Is very well satisfied with Its morning's work. It is believ ed by many officers that the channel between Cushing Island and Cape Elizabeth was forced and that Port land was consequently at the mercy of the enemy. CAMPAIGN CIVILITIES An Arkansas Judge Knocks the Governor off a Platform Little Rock, Ark., Aug. 26. Judge Carroll L. Wood of" the Arkansas su preme court, who is opposing Governor Davis as a candidate for a third term knocked Governor Davis off a speaking hetandV four.Xeet to the ground, during the canvastf'at Bismarck. . yesterday. Governor Davis was not , hurt and friends prevented, further trouble. Judge -Wood was immediately arrested on the charge of assault and battery. Governor Davis publicly asked Judge Wood questions, and before they could be fully answered. Interrupted with more questions, which so angered Judge Wood that he knocked Governor Davis from the platform. Later the matter was adjusted. Judge Wood returned to Little Rock today. Blue, but Feels Hopeful Fife. He said he had not Heard of any, and he would have been likely to if there had been an;- friction. Both yachts kept their moorings all day today. There was the usual over hauling as there always Is after a race. In spite of the statement that every thing Is being done on the Shamrock to keep her In fine shape things appear to be somewhat lax. Designer Fife is In charge of the yacht, and today, in stead of superintending the overhauling of the boat, he was enjoying himself in a small boat. Mr. Fife has been the most confident of all in the Lipton party. He has been so confident that he could not see that the Reliance. was a good boat or that there was a pos sibility of the Shamrock being beaten. It has been apparent to all who have watched the races that there has not been the snap In handling the chal lenger that there has been on the de fending yacht. Tomorrow's race will be fifteen miles to windward or leeward and return. A SHIFTY H00-D00 - An Old Negro Preacher Runs a Lucrative Side Line Washington, Augi 26. Rev. Bishop Brooks Johnson, a 98 year old negro resident of Washington, was arrested today on the charge of practicing med icine without a license. According to the evidence Johnson poses as a full fledged hoo-doo. and in addition to preaching the gospel on Sunday drives a thriving trade during the week In charms, love potions, rabbit feet, snake rattles and the like, and creates Bap tist ministers at 51.33 a head. Johnson, who is an exceedingly active individual for his age. demanded a jury trial. Schooner Turned Turtle Norwalk. Conn.. Aug. 26.-The three- i masted schooner William L. Newton "I , tiirnoA turtle In of Bangor. Maine, turnea ,u, u Long Island sound, during me squall Tuesday afternoon and all on board were evidently drowned. warring with FIRE AND SWORD The Revolution in Macedonia a Contest of Butchery Between Christian and Turk London. Aug. 26. According to a Sofla telegram to the Times the Tur- m0rrow decide who is to be the next kish repressive measures in Mace- "governor of the state Judge Crltz or donia have reached the utmost limits jiajor Vardaman. It is conceded on of barbarism and it Is evident that It an si(jes that the primary is a direct is the intention to accomplish byide-; vote on the negro question, a referen grecs the total extirpation of the Bui- ! dum as it were, whether the George garlan population. ; 'settlement, Incorporated in the cons- Within the. last few days, says , the gtitutlon of 1890 and providing for the Times correspondent, twelve more disfranchisement of illiterate negroes, Christian villages have been handed shan be upheld, or the next negro poll over to fire and sword, and the wo- cy aivocated by Vardaman, which in men and children of all ages have been ciU(es the -non-education of the ne massacred. Convoys of prisoners dls- . gr0es, adopted. patched to Monastir have been murder-1 in 'dosing the Critz campaign at ed by-the escorts on the way. A prl- ! jaCkson the following was laid down vate letter from a foielgn resident in, by Hon. It. N. Miller as the position Monastir says even the .local Turl:3 ; or judge Critz are disgusted and meditate assassin-j "jn the name of God, fellow clti atlng the consuls. In order to provoke J ZenSf what do you want to do with the European intervention. i negro? Ke only asks to live and work The insurgents are taking terrible our cotton fields. The negroes all over revenge and are executing the revolu- the state are asking today if we are tionary program to the letter. The going -4o let them live. I believe there reported concentration of large Turkish is an element of our people whom we forces In the Adrianople' district at. have more to fear than the negro the Kizylagach and other points on ' the white criminal element. The election Bulgarian frontier Is regarded, with Cf Major Vardaman would be an in much apprehension In Sofia, as it is vitation to them in a half dozen coun well known In the case of war an in-. ties to begin killing negroes, and I be vasion would be expected from this neVe by next January there would not direction. j be a dozen negroes in those counties. A dispatch from Constantinople says I ."if you separate the school funds that the remaining European reserves i you will destroy the white schools belonging to the second and third army and you would leave the negro to be corps, fifteen battalions of reserves in j educated by aliens and taught to hate Asiatic Turkey, and thirty-six bat- ! us: We must see that they are taught talions of local reserves will be called and taught right. Education cannot to the colors. This will brine: the nura ber of Turkish troops on a war foot ing in Macedonia up to nearly 350 bat talions, which is almost double the force employed during the war between Turkey and Greece. The Turkish gov ernment has apparently decided to use all possible energy to repress the re bellion. Eumer Rushdl Pasha, commander of the Turkish troops in Macedonia, has been recalled. Ibrahim Pasha has been appointed to succeed him. PANAMA CANAL -s- Colombian Congress - Trying to Work Out a Plan for . Agreement Washington, Aug 26. The state de partment has received a dispatch from United States Minister Beaiipre at:Bo- gota. dated August 17, saying that ef - j. m i i . . ions are uemg maae lowara an agree- ment that will bring about a ratifica- tlon of the Panama canal treaty. Advices received several days ago by Minister Herran of Colombia were that a committee of three members of the Colombian Congress had been appointed to devise a plan which would save the treaty from rejection. ; According to reports received from Minister Beaupre, dated as late as August 17, this committee had not yetjtake the oath of office. Hereafter, reported. It is believed by officials here j every employee of that branch of the that the officials of the Colombian government service will be required to government expect this country to give it some assistance in its present diffi culty, but it is reiterated at the state denartment that Colombia must wnrk out the problem by iself. The Indica tions are, from such information as has been received from Minister Beau pre that the Colombian government is anxious for this government to ac cept certain amendments to the treaty, and assurance have been given that it would pass the Colombian government. STICK TO ZION s . ;, East Africa Means Nothing to; Modern Zionism; Chicago. Aug. 6. The . following cable message was sent to Leon Zoolt koff, delegate to the international .con gress of Zionists at Basel, Switzerland, last night: "Urge congress to leave African proposition to executive committee. Zion not to be abandoned until all ef forts exhausted. (Signed) "BERNARD HORWICII. For Chicago Zionists." , The action was the result of a meet ing of thirty leaders in the local Zion ist movement. It is believed that the message voices the sentiment of a ma jortiy of the orthodox Hebrews of this city. ' zation project. Zionism is dead," de-; clared Mr. Horwich In an address. "All our efforts have been directed toward re-establishment of the. Jewinh nation in Zion. East Africa may be a de sirable place for colonization, "but it Is not our country." Went Back on Lacy Norfolk, Va., Aug. 26. The members of the Brotherhood of Locomotive En gineers In Norfolk have failed to ap prove the candidacy of State JTreasur er B. R. Lacy of North Carolina for J"' before the Wfcnn.al ention , t Los Angeles next May.- They have sent C. ,:r n -tromr r'' '"ZL't . "1 ronWatuIa- .letter, nf endorsement -nd congratula- " I PRIMARY TODAY SM MISSISSIPPI Different Phases of the Negro Question the Absorbing - v Issue New Orleans, Aug. 26. The Missis siddI nrimarv camDaien ended today. ' The wnite voters of MIssissiDDl will to- hurt any one, not even a horse or a dog." The betting is two7 to one on Critz's election, with some bets of three to one. MUST TAKE THE OATH Government Printers to Put the Union in Secondary Place "Washington, Aug. 26. Public Printer Palmer late ; thi: afternoon issued an order that piece work and per diem . employees ; of the government print ing office -must immediately take the regular oath of office which embodies a vow to support the constitution of the United States. . Mr. Palmer ad mits that the order did not originate with him, but that he was directed to promulgate it. He will not discuss ! the matter in detail, but says that the ii..tiiii... 'je a l v. i v. j iiiiiiii e -c-ainc iium an uniting uigu in position. By' those familiar with the situation this is held to mean 'that the instruction to him came from . President Roosevelt. This order by Public Printer Palmer Is a direct outgrowth of the Miller case. Heretofore only salaried em ployees of the government printing of- !fice, a number of minor officials on a Per diem scale, have been required to take the oath. This means that there will be no room for doubt left in the J j minds of employees of the bureau that m an possiDie traae oamcumes "uau may arise in the future the constitu tion of the United States is to be first considered and the constitution of the labor unions is to be held as a sec ondary consideration. Mr. Palmer has not yet announced his decision in the case of Assistant Foreman Miller of the government printing office who was dismissed be cause he had been expelled from the bookbinders' union, and who was later reinstated by orderrof President Roose velt. It can be stated on authority, however, that should the personal 'charges affecting Mr. Miller, which are no,w before the public printer for con sideration, not be proven Mr. Miller will be retained in the go'ernment ser vice. It is fully expected that the order is sued by the public printer today, .with , the knowledge Gf the source from wh: 1 It came, will cause considerable com ment in labor circles. NEWTRIAL ORDERED Another Chance for a Young Officer Afflicted With Ex cessive Dignity Borlin, Aug. 26. An imperial military Naval .Ensign Huessner, who on : . iod nn v,,-e rrr. -mri fellow townsman, Hartmann then serv ing as a, private in the artiilery, be cause the latter greeted him as a chum Instead of saluting him as a superior bnicer. The court has also ordered that Huessner be tried again. On the first trial Huessner, who killed Hartmann in the street of his home town, was sentenced to four years imprisonment and dismissal from the service. Huessner's counsel ap pealed from this sentence and it was commuted to two and a half years' im- in a fortress, P lu' , MJ. . The news- ms of .this i action, and this compelled Admiral Von Koester. inspector general of the navy, 4 ' Tom Johnson Nominated for Governor of Ohio Fusion in Nebraska Columbus, Neb., " Aug. 26. Fusion of the Populists and Democrats in Ne braska was completed last night by the Democratic state convention en dorsing the nominees of the Populist state convention -who were nominated at Grand Island earlier in the evening. The Kansas City platform was re affirmed without a dissenting voice. J. J. Sullivan was nominated for supreme judge, W. O. Jones and El O. Webber for regents of the University. SEVEN UNIONS IN ONE $ Building Trade Workers to Be Organized into a Power ful Combination Indianapolis, Ind., Aug. 26.Seven na tional unions, whose members are en gaged in the building of trades of the country are represented here tonight by their president and other officers, and an effort is being made to join all of them into one union to make the fight against the National employers' Association, which the promoters now believe to be inevitable. Those who are attending the meet ing are "F. G. Gubbins, president of the bricklayers and masons' unions; Frank Buchanan, president of the Structural Iron Workers union; M. P. Garrick, general secretary and treas urer, and William Balborn president of the International Brotherhood of Painters; J. F. Lillian, secretary ot Hod Carriers and Building Laborers; W. A. Keefe, president of the plaste rers' union; L. W. Tilden, secretary of the International Association of Jour neymen Plumbers, and William Ru ber, general president; Frank Duffy, general secretary, and Thomas Neale, general treasurer of the International Brotherhood of 'Carpenters and Join ers. The several officers ay they came here with well defined views and find that they are in accord on the ques tion of a general union of all the building trades. General officers may be elected tomorrow. No attempt is being made to conceal the fact that the new organization is being formed in order to meet a pos sible conflict with the employers. CALEBPOW CASE Two Speeches Made for the Defense and One for the State - Georgetown, Ky.', Aug. 26. Two speeches for the defense and one for the commonwealth were made to the jury in the Caleb Powers case today and this evening, covering eight and one-half of the twenty-two hours given by the court for argument. The de fense speakers were Attornews Jero Morton and Samuel Wilson. Col. John Hendricks spoke for the state. The argument of the defense was that Henry Yotsey, who they claim is a crank and mentally unbalanced, is alone responsible for the death of Goelbel. The attorney for the com monwealth argued that Youtsey, a fa natic, andHoward, a hired assassin, tools in the hnds of the defendant, and of W. S. Taylor. Col. Hendrick criti cised Taylor for sending his deposi tion into court. He urged the i 'r fiiction of the death 'penalty. SAVED BY BULKHEADS -4- The Battleship Massachusetts Might Have Foundered at Sea New York, Aug. 26. The battleship Massachusetts, which struck on Egg Rock, near Bar Harbor, two weeks ago today, while running through a fog to get to Oyster Bay for the president's review of the fleet, was put in dry dock at the Brooklyn navy yard today for repairs. The battleship's injuries are much worse than was at first reported. Over 300 tons of water leaked into her lower hold ajid two of Eer forward compartments. Had it not been for the water tight bulkheads she would have foundered where sho struck. The dock ing keels, which were practically de stroyed, no doubt acted as buffers be tween the rock and the plates of the ship and prevented much more serious damage to the hull. The ship was damaged forward and aft and on her port and starboard rides. She probably struck twice. The erds of two of the blades of the port propeller had been clipped off by the reck and the blades badly-bent. There is a dent in the line plate on the port quarter about on a leval with the rolling chock, and the ship's keel is bent up in several places so much that it does not rest on the blocks in the dry dock. In the" opinion of several naval offi cers who saw her in dry dock today the Massachusetts will have to go cut of commission--and. that it will take two or three months to put her into shape again.. Kansas City Platform En dorsed and Bryan Invited to Make a Canvass of the State Columbus, O., Aug. 25. One of the most remarkable Democratic state conventions in the history of Ohio poli tics was heldvin this city today and Mayor Tom L Johnson of Cleveland was nominated by acclamation for gov ernor. The name of his opponent in the race, Hon. John L. Zimmerman, was not presented, although the latter's followers had carried the bit:er flght up to the very doors of the convention. Scenes of the wildest" disorder and confusion attended the bringing ot Johnson's name before the assemblage and personal encounter? . resulted In several Instances. Speakers, bitterly attacking Johnson, kept the floor in spite of attempts to drown them out, merely through Johnson's sufferance. Almost as much confusion attended the vote on the endorsement of a can didate for the United States senator ship to succeed Senator Hanna. On the first ballot no choice was made, Clarke receiving 335 votes and John J. Lentz of this city receiving 203. Other votes were scattering, 346 being neces sary to nominate. Clarke was nomin ated on the second ballot, by a com fortable margin. The nominations of Johnson and Clarke were flanked, by the following nominations, all by ac clamation, and rushed through with out regard to rule or form, the con vention in great confusion with but one-fourth of the delegates in theii places: For lieutenant governor, Frank B Niles of Lucas; for' supreme judge, Hon. J. P. Dempsey of Cincinnati; for attorney general, Hon. Frank S. Mon nette of Franklin; for treasurer ot state, Volney Dahl of Fayette; for au ditor of state, Charles H. Kloch ol Mercer; for state school commissioner, Hon. J. H. Stcrest of Futnam; foi member of board of public works, Thos. H, Jones of Lawrence. - While the platform contains ovet 4.000 words, J the only references to national questions are contained in the following paragraphs: "Assembled In convention at Colum bus, preparatory to the state election of 1903, we,' the Demo'crats of Ohio, re-affirming the declaration on national issues in our platform of 1902, adopt ed at Sandusky, hereby renew our allegiance to the Democratic party of the nation, and avow our devotion., to the principles of its last national plat form. We, accordingly, conderpn co lonialism and imperialism, denounce trusts and trust fostering tariffs, re pudiate government by injunction and oppose financial monopoly, together with every other legalized monopoly and legalized privilege. "Adhering to these principles of the Kansas City, platform, we repeat our condemnation of all efforts to renounce or ignore them. "Until United States senators are re quired by amendment of the federal constitution to be elected by popular vote, nominations of- candidates for United States senator should be made by state convention.." By special invitation W. J. Bryan' ie to speak In Ohio in support of these declartions of principle. The failure of the Zimmerman fol lowers to present the name of their candidate before the convention oc casioned the greatest surprise even in the Zimmerman ranks, and the John son forces swept the board even more easily than they expected. It is the general impression that Johnson's high handed methods Insur-S ed the election of the Republican state ticket by from 60,000 to 80,000, and Mr. Hanna's return to the senate. CHAIR FACTORY AT MBANE BURNED Everybody Fought Flames Heroically Loss Partly Covered by Insurance Mebane,, N. C, Aug. 23. Special. The Continental Chair Company's fac tory was destroyed by flra ' tonight. The fire started. within a few minutes after the whistle had blown for quit ting. It started in the tinlshlng de partment, the cause being unknown. Within a few minutes the entire "build ing was in flames. The effice fixtures, safe, files, books, etc., were all saved, even while the building was' falling in. For a few minutes the store of A. II. Mebane, his dwelling and the home of Mrs. F. L. Mebane were In serious danger, but by manful labors of the town boys and people the buildings were saved without loss, as well as a great deal of lumber and timber of the chair company. Every one joined In working like Trojans, even the girls of the town banding themselves Into) a fire brigade, tarrying water, fighting the flames and acting the heroines they are. Mebane hasn't a fire com pany, but our people will beat the world on fighting fire. The insurance amounted to eight thousand dollars. The loss is about sixteen to twenty Micusand dollars. V
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