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-c I Y- : . ':''., ; - - r-':----.v .Yv . i v. . vyY ; -Y :. ;.Y-- .- , :.--;.-"YY Y-,.:v V-y;yaY..---y : - :r ' ' ; v.-r'Y ;.,,-,,,:-...... .Y' ' , - ' Y : ' ,"',.. v . .Y ".:'; - '': ,. .-.," -.Y'-; v:- y.. !-':- i. ' v, ,r-" .V: :.-.vt:--'-..Vv- v-jj.-.;- 1. -1 For North Caro Temperature for the past 24 hours: Max. 60; Min. 42. lina: Fair. VoL XII RALEIGH. N. C.; WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 21, 1903 No. 119 Gey SHERIFF'S POSSE TOOK TlhlE.BY SHOOTrfOKia THE FORELOCK I 11 1 ! I I II A ' II II 1 ! I J J Ai I I 1 1. ..1 . 1 IV 1 . F "II 1 " 1 1 - -I,.-.. 1 ' - ' ' " 11 " MMMMMWMMM (bete Mace He Comes From the West and Will Arrive the First of November Working for the Pardon of Crafton ni THO.ll AS J. PENCB Washingrton, Oct. 20 Special. The successor of "Walter R. Henry, who has been appointed examiner of banks for the states of North and South Caro lina, is Guy L Bush. The new ap pointee will assume his duties the first of the month, and until that time Ex aminer Robertson of West Virginia will examine the national banks of the two states. Just what particular neck ol the woods Bush -hails from no one In the office of the comptroller of the cur rency seems to know. All the - infor mation that can be ogtalnedts that he is a western man and that he will be imported to the Carolinas on the first. He is said to be a new man In the ser vice, v . Mr. Henry is of the opinion that h& was put out for reasons of political ex pediency, but the - comptroller claims otherwise. Leading Republicans hei-e assert. that a westerner woultf not have been .transported to North Carolina to examine the banks of that state had Judge Pritchard been a member of the senate. The power of a Republican senator with a Republican administra tion often exceeds that of a cabinet officer, and it is more than likely that Mr. Henry would never have lost his job had the North Carolina Republir cans had a representative In the sen nte." In fact Tar Heel Republicans ara beginning to realize the little ice they cut since their representative was Canadian s nemseiws Award of the Alaskan Boun dary Commission a Se vere Disappointment . to Them They Lose at all Points London, Oct. 20. The engrossed copy of the Alaskan award was signed this afternoon. The Canadian commission ers, Messrs. Ailesworth and Jette, de clined to sign the award, although they signed the maps agreed on by the majority. They submitted their con contrary opinions to the tribunal so as to go ofilcially on record. They, as well as the Canadians connected with the case, are .very bitter. Telegrams from Premier taurler and other promi nent persons in Canada show that . this sentiment is shared generally through out the dominion. In consequence of the attitude main tained by the Canadian commissioners, Lord Chief Justice Alverstone decided this, morning not" to hold the proposed public meeting of . the Alaskan boun dary commission, but to hand its decis ion to Messrs. Foster and Sifton, re spective agents of the American and Canadian governments. The Tchange ln the procedure caused much . astonishment among the people who crowded the corridors adjoining the waiting rooms. AmbassadorChoate, as well as the Canadians and others Immediately conected with the case, was admitted" to the room where the tribunal had been holding open ses sions, but the commissioners remained closeted in the cabinet room. The sec retary of the commission; Reginald T. Tower, finally emerged and . Informed Ihe waiting crowd that no public ses sion would not be held and that the ! Award wuold be made public through the agents. - ' The Canadians feel very sore over ihe outcome. They almost openly ac cuse Lord Alverstone of partisanship. One of the Canadian commissioners lfterwardsaid: ..' "This award affects much more the relations between the. Dominion and the mother country than people here eeem to realize, and almost marks the parting of the ways, at least so far as leaving any such question for England to decide for us." Another bitter pill for the Canadians Is that the award relating to ;the Port-' land canal gives the United States two1 Islands commanding the entrance of the channel and ocean passage to Port Simpson, and destroying the strategic value of Wales and Pearse Islands,; which are given to Canada, and on which some Canadians had counted as consolation. v The mountain line adopted as the boundary lies so far from the coast as to give the United States substantially U the territory in dispute. The line completely clears alt the bays and In lets and means of.- access to the sea, ffivlng the United .'States a complete taken out of the senate. They have about stopped trying to get Jobs out side of the state.- The. matter of securing a jardon for Delgado Crafton of Reidsville has been presented to Attorney General Kriox. It Is probabTe-that the president will consider the case Signatures are be ing, obtained 'to petitions and George town University authorities are taking aiV active interest in the matter. Mrs. Crafton,'1 the youh'g wife of the peti tioner, is -here using her efforts in his behalf , , ... . Repairs to the. long bridge oyer the Potomac were completed this morning at 11 o'clock and trains from the south began to j enter the city for. the first time slnc6 Sunday. . The celebrity with which the bridge was repaired is con sidered a remarkable feat of engineer ing by railroad men. Passenger ser vice between the north and south was greatly demoralized as the result of the, acident. Detective McNamee has arrived here with John R. Sneeden of "Wilmington, N. Q., who was wanted on the charge of embezzling ,$$00. Sneeden sent for Robert H. McNeill, a North Carolina attorney living here, who will defend him. Y Captain Morris K. Barfoll, artillery corps, has been detailed to Charlotte, N. C, for general recruiting service for a term of two years, commencing No vember 1. Captain "Wm. "W. Forsythe, sixth calvary, is relieved from 'duty there. The following ,promotions of North Carolinians in the interior. department are anounced: Luther S. Cannon from $1,200 to $1,400; John E. Rattery from $1,00 to $1,200; Mary S. Brown, appoint ed at a salary of $900. "W. H. Green, a colored lawyer, for merly of Charlotte, was admitted to the practice of law In the supreme court of the district today. R. B. Glenn of "Winston was here today. Conside: land barrier between Canada .and the sea from Portland canal to Mount St. Ellas. Around, the head of Lynn canal the line follows the watershed, some-' what In accordance with the present provisional boundary Messrs. Jette and Ailesworth, the Canadian commissioners, in a state ment of their reasons for refusing to sign the award, say they consider the finding of the tribunal regarding the is lands at the entrance of Portland chan nel and the mountain line is not an aljudicated one. They say: "The decision has been givenn, and in view of Its character, the people ot Canada are, in our .Judgment, entitled to such explanation from us as will enable them to comprehend fully the maner in which their interests have been dealt with." The chief, interest in the decision lies in LordsAlverstone's conclusions upon the fifth or main question. This was furnished to counsel tonight, but will not be made public until tomorrow. The following,- however, Is an abstract: The broad,, undisputed facts are that the parties were engaged in making an agreement respecting the archipelago and island's off the coast and some strip of land upon the coast Itself The western limit of these Islands extends, in some places, about a hundred miles from" the coast, and the channels op passages between the. islands and be tween the islands and coast are narrow waters, their widths vary ing f roni a ' few hundred yards to thirteen -miles. In - ordinary parts no one would .call the wa ters of any of these channels or inlets the "ocean.' I agree with you, as pre sented on behalf pf Great. Britain, that ho one coming from the Interior and reachoing any f these channels, par ticularly the head of Lynn canal oh Taku Inlet, would describe himself as being upon the ocean; but on the other, hand it is quite clear that the treaty does regard some of,, these channels as the ocean. This consideration, how ever, is not sufficient to solve the ques tion. It still leaves open the interpre tation of the word "coast," to which the mountains were to be parallel. There is, so far as I know, no recog nized rule of international law which would by implication give a recognized meaning to the word "coast" as applied to such sinuousitles and such waters different from the coist itself. As 1 haye said, more than once, .the locus in "quo to which the treaty was re ferring precludes-the possibility of con struing the word Vcoast" in any par ticular article 1n any special way if it does not refer to the coast line of the continent. I think, the words "upon the border of the continent compressed within the limit of the Russian pos sessions' in article five rather confirm the view that Russia was to get a strip all along the . continent, but I do not think that much reliance can be L placed upon this because of the pro vision regarding the rivers and streams in article six. Turning from the . language of the areaty to the record of he negotiations, I have been unable to find any pass age supporting the view that ' Great Britain was directly or Indirectly put- XContinuecI on, second page.). intpred :1. Three Negroes Da ad and Seyen Wounded as the Result of an En counter j V i New Orlpnnst. rwt. 20. THwa npernps : were killed and seven seriously wouhd - ed, 'some of them fatallyj in an en-" -counter with a sheriff's posse at Pecan: Grove, plantation In St.i Charles parish about : thirty " miles above New Or leans, today. The negroes were rail- road hands working on the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley railway, which - Is raising its tracks. They were eign- teen in number and were said to " be ffrom Gloster, Miss. They 1 were under the command of a white man named Pat McGee. - t ' ' Constable Charles Zorgy attempted to serve a legal notice on one of tHe negroes Saturday, but was driven from the camp by a negro annjed with -a rifle. He summoned five - bther vhite men, and, the entire party, well: armd and on horseback, accompanied him to the negro camp, which" is - orf the border of the Pontchartrain " swamp AaN the posse approached the railroad camp McGee and the negroes fired v on, them. The shooting was kept up for, some time, the negroes finally scatter ing and taking to the. 'woods. Three negroes were found dead in 'the-fields. and seven wounded, who were cared for In the neighboring ' settlement, Elkinsville. None of the whites was wounded. The posse was Increased and has begun a search for the missing ne groes. " ''- j ' The shooting caused a panic among the other negroes employed on the railroad and nearly all of them fled during the night. SHINGLED OVER WITH INDICTMENTS St. Louis, Oct. 20. Police Captain e ,r fc, Protestant-Eplscopalize ' the Samuel J. Boyd, Thos. E. Barrett, or heathen, lest they be V Presbyterlan mer marshal of the St. Louis court of Jzed but to Christianise them that appeals, and a member of , the Demo they may be saved from heathenism, cratio state committee, John Dolan-, .tn,. iAn ni.ooctnn nf hiciinno wtth chairman of the .Democratic city cen-! tral committee,, Adolph Fein and Jacob -Veissman. members branch of the Jefferson - club, were in - dieted hv the federal arrand iurv today alleged to have been committed pri6f to the recent election. 1 ' "; Six indictments, containing about 30 counts, were returned against Boyd? Ave Indictments against. Welssmafc-anS two additional against both Barrett and Dolan. - - ..,v- '. ; JV..; This brings the total number-of in dictments under which Barrett-will have to stand, trial before the United State district court up to twenty;eigh- teen having been previously. -returned. Four indictments were ; returned against Dolan some time ago. -Each is under bond of $10,000. Extre Sessidir to Convene Congress Invited to: Give Its Consideration to the 'Com -mercial Treaty Between the United States and Cuba Washington, Oct. 20. The President issued the following proclamation con vening congress in extra session .No vember 2: " ; "By -the President of the United States a proclamation: ; " "Whereas, by the resolution of the senate of Marcfy 19, 1903, the approval by . congress of the reciprocal commer cial convention between the . United States, and the 'republic of Cuba, sign ed at Havana on December 11, 1902, is necessary before the said! convention shall take effect; j "And whereas, it is important to the public interests of the United States Rockingham Suffers Severely Prom Fire The Business Section of the Town Damaged to the Ex- Ytentof$75,000-In- ' surance One-half That Amount & Rockingham, N. C, Oct. 20.Special. Rockingham has suffered two fire visi tations in quick succession. The - fire last night, discovered at 1:45-burned several of the best business, houses in town and destroyed $75,000 worth of property, protected, by $35,000 of .-insurance. The stores burned were those of A Mob - Hangs a Man to Pre vent Him frbnv Commit ting Murder Nw Orleans, Oct. 20: George Ken nedy, a negro, was lynched by a mob neaf'Taylortown, Bossier! Parish, La-, i' ? TTL1!!.: 'ZT' fuiid at the railroad depot at Taylor towo, armeil 4with a pistol, prepared to assassinate Conductor Mercer Britta in of the Red River Valley railway as; he passed the station with the night train. j Kennedy-,, made no concealment of his purpose,; He had several serious quar - reia wun rne conaucior ana au w - tempted to kill him the previous night. but failed. Arming himself witn a pis- ol, he waited at the Taylortown sta tion,; publicly "declaring his purpose of shooting the conductor., 'A party of citizens who were inform ed jf the threat went to the depot, capttirecI lCennedy, who reiterated - his intention of killing Brittaln" "on sight, took liim about a mile away and hang ed him from a tree. The mob, which was about one hundred strong, dis persed immediately after the lynching. ' Tle iSifficulty arose over Brittaln put ting? Kennedy out of the white coach. Hhops liTcouNciL y . AiPlqa Presented for Mis sionary Effort on Broader - Lines Y Washington, Oct. 20. The All-American conference of Protestant Episco pal bishops opened here today with an open, -service in the pro-cathedral. Thesermon was preached by Rt. Rev. Wm. C. Doane,; bishop of Albany, and was a plea - for .the prosecution of rnlssiohary, work on broader lines. Bishop Doane asserted that the true aim of Christian missions should not and white robes, lightened ,-. hin,ar,f ,1nr rvf th UdmiA hoods an stoles, preceded bythe , . Y w v--- T - .: of the diocese of ! V" Bishop i - .Tuttle,' of the i (diocese of Missouri, the American prlr mate, was the celebrant at the ser-' vice. ' " . . i ' ." - i ; . ; At the close of the service the bish ops went into executive session." Thirty five bishops from the church in 'Amer ica., Canadaf and the West Indies were in he'fchanceL . Blxter"Tou -hate- heard of a man biting off his noseyo spite his face?" Yarley "Yes; but I never- have seen it done. I have known a man to kick one of his hands out' of doors, how ever." Boston Transcript. Called November 9 that the said convention shall become operative as early as may be: Y'Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roose velt President of , the United States of America, .by- virtue of the power vested - in me by the constitution, do hereby pro- rclaim and declare that an extraordina ry session requires the convening .of both houses of the congress of the United States at their respective cham bers, in the city of Washington, on the ninth day of November next at 12 o'clock noon, to the end that they may consider and determine whether the approval of the congress shall be given to the said convention.. "All persons entitled to act as mem bers of the 58th eongress are required to take notice of this" proclamation. ."Given under my hand -and the seal of the United States at Washington the 20th day of October, in the year of our Lord 1903, and of the independ ence of the United States the 128th. ; (Seal) "THEODORE ROOSEVELT. "By the President: "JOHN HAY, Secretary of State." H. C. Watson, Guthrie & Co., A. W. Porter & Co. and W. T. Willianis, the market of Watkins & Teal, saloon of A. W. Porter & Co., Rental office "of R. S Cole, Rocklnghan. telephone., ex change, restaurant of John Wright and "Crawford Ellerbe, offices of J. P. Cam eron (lawyer)i W. M. Kelly (lawyer), Palmetto Distilling Company, shoe shop of J. D. Young.undertakln estab lishment of H. C. Watson, rooms ol A. , M. Long, Clyde Llles, Jack Ingle, A. W. Porter and T. I Covington and furniture room of Patrick & Co. Considerable, adjacent property ' was in jured and goods removed from en- dangered buildings were greatly- dam aged." The absence of water-works left the town at the mercy of the flames. The court house was on fire at one time, .but7 was; soon extinguished. ANTI-BOYCOTT LAW Three Newspaper Business rs Want to Keep Out of Jail ! Washington, Oct. 20. The Wisconsin . miatr - n xfno,,' s. j . Evening Wisconsin and the 1 Milwaukee Daily ews jere convicted 1 and sentenced to pay fines or suffer impriSoriment for conspiring to injure the Milwaukee Journal, will come up for argument in the supreme court to morrow.! - j j! The -Journal, in 1901, raised its rates of advertising 25 per cent, whereupon its three competitors entered into an agreement that each should accept no advertisement of those who advertised in the Journal except that It were In serted in all three papers and paid for at an increase of 25 per cent over their usual rates. Advertisers who did not use the t Journal were, however, per mitted, as ; before to use any of the three papers at their customary prices. The notice to this effect, served upon the patrons of the three papers in the combination, resulted, it was claimed, in the withdrawal of . advertisements from the Journal and Its consequent in jury "'". . -:! Huegin, Aikens and Hoyti the busi ness r managers .of the three papers, were indicated in the municipal court under the stkte law against combining to injure the trade or; business of u citizen, I and despite their , pleas that their action was justified by trade com petition,! ivere convicted and sentenced to pay fines, In default of which to suf fer imprisonment for thirty days. The Wisconsin supreme court affirmed this judgment and upheld the validity of the anti-boycott law. The defendants thereupon appealed to the supreme court of the United States, attacking the validity of the Jaw on the ground that it - deprived ? th6m of . their liberty and property In violation of the con stitutional prohibition. j ! SOUTHERN PROGRESS '; ;-1.:' j ' ' - .''.t : Observations; of a Railroad Man on' a Tour of I Inspection BJflmore, Oct.i 20. Reuben Foster, president of the Chesapeake Steamship Company, said today in speaking of a trip south with Southern Railway of ficials: ,-j . . :; ; ' "Everything In the south is of an encouraging character I and bringing fair ' prices. The banking situation is strong, and the general monetary sit uation is enviable, ' ; ; jl "Every business centre of the south, such as Richmond, Norfolk Qreensboro, Atlanta, Birmingham, Knoxville ( and Charlotte,, was visited by our party, and we found the general growth of the community, the manufacturing In terests, the business interests and the generah condition of affairs most satis factory, i y i 'i '"ii VI was much gratified to learn that the great shrinkage, and slump in se curities In Wall street has In no way affected southern irosperity. Every thing ; is on the boom: there -and the business man and manufacturer does' i not seem to care very much what bulls and bears aredoing. I "The trip of our party was the an nual Inspection tour of the Southern system, and I want to say that I was struck with the general excellent con dition 'of; the system. The general: im provement that the property has un dergone1 within the past year Is won derful. . Grades have j been -reduced, curves eliminated and' new ballast laid. This shows that I there has Deen o m9t eTnnilitiirA of monev. ail of which has been : cared for and ! was taken out . of the earnings of the prop-j Y i ! BROKE PENSION LAWS A Citizen of Color Sentenced to Fine and Imprisonment Elizabeth - City. N. C. Oct. 20. Spe- ciaL In the federal court this morning, Judge T. R. Pumell presiding, G. W. Taylor, colored, was convicted of j vio lating the pension laws and was sen tenced to two years' inmprlsonment at hard labor and. a fine of $300. Mr. J. i B. Blades, who has just re turned from a circuit of the globe, Nde livered in the First M. E. Church, South, a very, interesting lecture on , missions i in the foreign field. The annual conference of the M. E. Church will convenehere tomorrow. Bishop Joyce will occupy the chair. Came in Automobiles j Durham, N. C.t Oct. 20. Special. A party of j Durham automobilists left this , afternoon, for Raleigh to take In the fair. I There .were three machines and six people in the party. Those who went were -Col. J. C. Michie, Dr. J. M. Manning, F. C. Womble, Capt. V. I N. Johnson, j Capt. R. P. r Hackney ! and John F. Seeman. They will spend two days in the capital city. Imposing Noonfday Parade Yesterday Opening Ceri Mbnies The Fair a Big One Result of Races. Grand Reunion and v ' Parade of Vete rans Today , ' The State fair Is In full blast and th city is full of visitors. Yesterday was the formal opening day, and owing to the slight illness of . Governor Aycock the opening address was briefly made by Hon. R, II. Bat tle. . . As the morning sun rose higher and higher yesterday the hopes of the, State fair officials went up in a correspond ing degree. It was a crisp - autumn morning with not a cloud to obscui e the sky and everybody wore a glad smile. ; ' 'l. - " Y : ' There was ,no trade float or floral parade this year; but a large crowd of handsome men acting as marshals wearing beautiful white sashes and well mounted followed the chief mar shall Hon. Geo. L. Morton on horse back to the fair grounds shortly be fore' noon: Closely behind the long line of marshals followed a procession in carriages filled with officials of the fair, officers of the state government and other prominent citizens ' and ladles. . Going In front of the marshals and civic parade was Levin's band of splen did musicians. The opening ceremonies took place , as usual in the grand stand, and were witnessed by representative visitors from all parts of the state. President Long expressed his disap pointment and the sorrow he knew the audience felt at the inability of Gov ernor 'Aycock to be present and per form the duty of formally declaring the fair, open; "but," he declared "In the absence of the governor I have the pleasure to introduce to you the next best orator In the state, Hon. It. IL Battle, of the city of Raleigh." Mr, Battle said he had received only a few moments notice of the fact that he would beexpected to open the fair ' and had not prepared a. speech. He spoke of the value of "agricultural fairs to the citizenship of the state. It was his pleasure to attend the secotid Tair ever held by the North Carolina Agri cultural Society, and almost every one since that time; and with all this rec ord he felt sure after seeing the pres ent fair that It is the greaest of them all. Mr. Battle declared the fair had never had a better president than the' man who is at the helm this time Hon. J. A. Long. He has given careful, ear nest attention to every matter connect ed with the fair and It has his very best aid and thought in every respect. In. closing Mr. Battle said: "Now, in the name of the North Carolina Agricultural Society I pronounce the forty-third annual fair open to all legitimate pleasures and profitable oc cupations." ! The crowd then dispersed to follow their own individual inclination in searching for amusement and enter tainment, some to the stock yards, some to the machinery exhibits, others to the fancy work department, to the educational department and In short to see everything in the way of exhibits. 'or midway attractions. Chief Marshall Morton and his as sistants repaired to their headquarters and held an enthusiastic" business meet ing. They voted unanimously to ten der their saddle horses to the officers commanding the Confederate veterans reunion today, after the morning pa rade to the fair grounds. There was never congregated a more whole-souled set of men as marshals than Col. Morton has under his command, and, It may oe as truiniuny saia mat a truthfully said that more princely chief marshal than Col. Morton never did the honors on a similar occasion.. His administration Will OB rernemrerfii a unc jl tiic muau brilliant In all the long Hat of suc cesses.' ' tnlt f Bicei an Today's lrcrm The races yesterday . resulted as fol lows: . '. Class 2:50 trottng race for a purse of $100 was won In three straights by Amyline;. time'2:36 1-4, 2;321-5, 2:201-1. The horses finished as follows: Amyline. 1. 1, 1. George H., 2, 4. 2. BaCTnrfrdo, 3, 3, 3. ' ' Monnie J., 4, 2, 4. Thos. Jefferson, 5, 5, 5. The running race, one-half mile dash for a pur?e of 5100 was won by Mr. Smooth, the other entry being Tar Heel. The race was won in . two straight heats, time 53 and 531-2. The races today will be as follows; Class 2:30 pacing, entries: Mary "M.j Bobble H., Jewell, Schnaps, - Ramon. Class 2:24, trotting, entries: Amyline, Dan E., Sam Patch, Kate Campbell, Estuary and Sunol Stokes. rnrdcriite Veterans' Day Today is confederate veterans day at the fair. In the city and at-the A. and M. College. . " It will be a day of enjoyment for the bra,ve. survivors of the memor able four-years battle for what the southern s61IIers thought to be right, and believing that fought for with all their might Yesterday and last nfeht iContinued on page fire.)
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