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For North Can
lina: Fair.
" Temperature for
tha past 24 hours:
Max. 74; Min. 54.
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RALEIGH. N. O.. THURSD AT?.! OCTOBER 29. 1903
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Southern Railway Wiilj Add
Two Fast Passenger Trains
to Its Service Between
Washington and
Chari6t:e
Washington, Oct. 8. Specialj It is
not at all likely that the state de
partment will take any notice of the
press report, Giving an account of the
imposition of a fine by Italian official-
on Richmond Pearson, minister
to Persia, for the alleged Insult of
fered a railway : officer. If the Italian
government should present the matter
officially to this government then the
incident ould be considered; but this
is an ovent unanticipated and most
improvable. Such is the attitude of .
the state department as expressed by.;
an official today.
dav the addition of two more iasi.jp
consrer tmins on its system between
d Charlotte, which will
Washington an
be put in operation Sunday.- In.
addition to its spndid passenger ser-
vice important changes in schedules,
effective Sunday, are also announced,
The change give3 the Southern four
fast trains out of Washington' every,
night.
The new trains will be known; as No.
3S and 24 and will be operated between
Washington and Charlotte. This ad
dition to the service of the system ia
for the purpose of relieving, the heavy
traffic on the through trains. No. 33
. will, leave Washington daily at 9 p. m., f
arriving at Greensboro at 6.20 a. m.
and at Chirlotte at 9 a. m. Nd. 34 will
eave Charlotte at 9 p. m., Greensborc.
it li:59 p. m., and will arrive in1 Wash-
ington at 1015 a. m. These trains will
nake direct connection at Charlotte
a-ith trams to and from Columbia, 5a-
.annah, Augusta and other
south. Stops will be made at
pcints
ReJds-
v-ille, Greensboro, High Point, Thomas
. ille, Lexington, Salisbury, Concord. A
sleeping car will be inaugurated on
t rose trains for the accommodation ot
engers. . ' j v
Xo. 0 will be changed to leave here
it 7:19 p. m. instead of 9 p., m., as it
loss at present. This train will ar
rive at Greensboro at. 4:05 a. m. and
Charlotte at 6:55 a. m. Itv-ill leave
Tharlotte at 7:10 a. m.. arriving at At
anta at 4:35 'p. m. Reidsville, High
Point, Thomasville and Lexington are
:o be made regular Ftops for this train.
General Manager Ackert, ;of the
Southern, has isstxed an order trans
ferring the line from Salisbury to Nor
wood,. N. C, and the Union; copper
mines branch of the system from the
Mbel Cechtel's" Life
Taken in Her Own Ho
Her Lover and Members
of the Family Un
der Suspicion
Allentown, Pa., Oct. 28. The mystery
surrounding the death of Mabel Bech- '
:el, the pretty mill girl jvho?e body
with the head crushed inp was found
in an alley-way adjoining her home j
yesterday morning, took a surprising :
turn today when the police discovered
what they regard as almost conclusive
f vider.ee that -the girl's death was ac- '
comp:ihed at her own home.! -
This evidence was in the shape of
blood stains found on the wall onU
fioor of a room sometimes occupied by
the girl, and of a small hatchet with
the handle broken, in a bureau in the
garret. On the hatchet were some
stains, which the police .believe- are
5tains of blood. The police, have un
der arrest on suspicion Eeksteiri the
girl's lover, to "whom she is said to
have hPPn wrfl ar,rt hPr brother
Tom Bechtel Thev are held in $1C0
bail for the action of the coroner's
jury tomorrow. .Both have as-
serted that they know nothing about
the crime, as have the whole Bechtel
family, all the members of which have
been subjected to the "sweating pro-
ress'V at various times today. .
David Weisenberger, the cigar sales-
man, who gave himself up to the New
York police, has been practically
eliminated :frjom tha mystery. His
alibi seemed to -be perfect. He wasvto
released on baiL :
The Bechtel" family 'consists of a
mother tba ViT-nthprs and ' two "sisters,
besides the dead girl. One of these
fisters, a Mrs. Davis, lives in Phila-
delphia. The other members of the ;
family occupy a neat cottage in the
row of the same kind of houses in
Cedar street. Of the brothers, none
hac; 0 nnrllnnl'irlv rmnA T-rii tn t Jrn nnd
Tom, the eldest, several times has been
in trmiWp . x
A;wek flrt tho miU learned to-
day, Tom had a quarrel with Mabel,
in the rnnr of xcWh it.' m said he
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Light 'Shed on! Mill
J mm nu
Asheville division to the Charlotte di
vision. . " ;j:
Major Robert M. Thompson," a native
of Guilford county, N. C, i?ho had re
county, x. ., wno naa re -
nxost of his life ' died lasi
sided here
night. Major Thomson ser-ed in the
sixth Tennessee union cavalry regiment
during the civil war. Since then he
has held a position in the treasury de
partment. 1'
pattle Ground Monuments
rreensboro, N. C, Oct. s 2S. Special.
Mr. R. P. Johnson, who succeeds Col.
E. E. Winslow as civil engineer for the
government, is in the city today. He
visited Guilford Battle Ground this af -
tetnoon to arrange for the erection of
the Nash and Davidson monments. The
battle ground was chosen as the site
for the location of these monuments
several months ago, but since then
nothing has been heard concerning
them.
Minister's Mother Dad .
N." C, Oct. 28. Special.
MethoJist church here, has i received a
telegram announcing j the death of his
aged motner at fceima, im. . y-. ne was
called to her bedside last (week, but
returned in a few days, leaving her
much improved. "Her death was not
unexspected. She is nearly seventy
years 'old and -has had fivfij strokes of
paralysis. Owing to a delay In the de-
livery of the U gram. Mr. Hocutt was
llot atie to leave here in time for the
funeral. I - . ! -
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- Tariff POIICy WOUld HUrt
Liverpool, Oct. 28. Speaking at a
luncheon here today,' Mr. Chamberlain
said his hearers must have been struck
by the manner in which the new tariff
proposals had been received abro3G.
The -feeling on the continent and in
the United States was not against thi:
policy but in-favor -of .preparation to
meet it, and to meet it byj concession?
which he described. Moreover, he wa
of the opinion -that if these ?oricession:
were- not. extended it would b foreign
countries and not the British con-
sumer who would, suffer,
colonial secretary declared
The former
that it was
because the two great objects of hi?
life, which had been devoted to 'the
amelioration of the condition of the
working classes, and the strength of
the empire, were connected one with
the other, he had taken off his coat, so
to speak, for the struggle.'
raer..;.riys;Te.rv
Ae;over the girl's treatment of Eckstein.
- Eckstein, who is a furniture polisher,
(has nothing against his character. He
j admit? having been in Jove with Mabel.
Evidence goes to show that the girl
j wa? not averse to treceiving attention?
from other men and . that her char
lacier was not of the best. Weisen
I berger, who lves in South Bethlehem,
lis a traveling fman. His eXfcumsta-nces
; v.-ere better than Eck'stein's. He was
able to. take Mabel driving often and
spend money, on ner, vu,n me . res.m
that Eckstein recently had been losing
favor with the girl. j
The? mother, brothers and the sister
were taken to -j police headquarters
early this morning,, and for several
l.-urs the chief of police, the mayor
and coroner -questioned jthem. They
stuck to their story. All of them took
particular pains to tell of Weisenber-
Pr's attenti.Qn-to the. .girl and of his
engagement to take her jto drive.
While the family- were at headquar
ters the chief and detectives went to
the house and made a more careful
search of the premiss, jln the. front
bed room of the secondj floor they
found" a larje stain on the wall and
one on- the carpet, which looked as
though effort? had been made to scrub ,
it. Continuing their search further,
they found the hatchet tucked away
in a bureau drawer In a comer of the
attic. The hatchet ordinarily was
kept down stairs, the police say. The
stains have been cut put; of the walls
and carpet ior.l analysis. .
The family -was taken -jto; the house
this afternoon j and confronted with
the stains. They insisted that ihey
knew nothing -abpt them, but it was
'.noticed , that,.where:they jwejie inclined
talk before they became very
re
ticent.
.Mayor Lewis, who has in. charge the
invrfitisml'on. made" & statement to- 1
night In which- he said the evidence
against the.-three men now Under bail
was purely circumstantial. "We be-
lieve," said e.'fthat-the girl' was
murdered in the house and that one
of the three men did it. It is almost
r Art.i In tn nnm a" nut at thT Inauest to-
morrow. Weisenberger's ! story is sup-
norted bv' witnesses and would clear
him in any court of law. We' are
holding the brother because we found
what we believe are blood stains on
ls. Aujnr, a i ' h n v a -tftnf
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ion the same floor. He end the; others
1 insist that the stains found. Jn the'
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rooms are tobacco stains, and till stick
to. tne story tnat tneyt nave xoia an x usey menmunu, ysu esuus: iion
sxlong. ;' Eckstein's mother said he went ; est Jo.'' first time' 2:194; The 'Span-
to bed early Monday night when he
says be got back from! the Bechtel's,
but there is nothing to j show, tha t he
did. not leave the house again . that
night."
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The police regard the
finding 'of the
girl's hat, coat and shoes in- the par
lor, which the mother j herself . told
, about? as jone of the weakest points, in
! their story. - Qn the girl's body vas
i her. waist, which had no blood . on "it
at -all, while her chemise underneath,
was soaked with blood. jThat. the body
j was near a door leading . from the
j tearway into the cellar the-police also
! regard as a suspicious; circumstance.
j There is no evidence, that the girl had
been assaulted or tnatj sne naa oeen af cotton goods from 1-8 to 1-4 cen,t a
poisoned. Eckstein and Tom Bechtel yard. ; This advance has been due to
jjire locked up tonight, being junable to the recent-. advance; in the price of raw
furnish bail. Weisenberger's;. ball was cotton. Local . Jobbers have not yet ad
furnished by Congressman Kline. j vanced their prices, and will not do
:; The police have another member of so , until it becomes necessary to re-
the family under suspicion. He . has
not been arrested so far. He, , too, is
said to have been enraged at the girl
for her conduct with Weisenberger;
ANARCHY A RELIGION
Contention of Counsel in the
Case of JohnlTurner
New York, ,Oct. 28. John Turner, the
English anarchist, who . was arrested
wimc iwuiwsuig a, iuothws " i
tained at Ellis Island for deportation, !
, ,A A ,J, ,.
was before Lnited States Circuity Judge 1
Lacombe today on a writj of , hnbeas
corpus. Hugh O. Pentecost, Mr.'-Tur-
ner's attorney, attacked the constitu-
tionality of the new law.
tion was that the law is
His con ten -contrary
to
thexfirst amendment Of the consiitu-
tion, in that anarchy, .in effect was a
religion and that the law also abridged
a man's freedom of speech.
"Mr. Turner," sa'id j Mr. : Pentecopt,
"has been deprived of his liberty and
of . the right to . consult counsel except
in the presence of the j Irnmigration
commissioner. It has! been a star
chamber inquisition ail through like
the administrative process of .Russia." J
juuge j-.acoir.ee aspect ijor oners and
reserved decision until Friday.
TEXAS BOLL! WEEVIL
Secretary Wilson Gane to In
terview Him on. His Na-
x
tive Heath
New Orleans, Oct. !28. Secretary., of j
Agriculture Wilson left here today f or
Texas to investigate 'damage done to.
the cotton in that state? by the Mexi- j
can boll weevil. The department would,
he said, give a general (review of the
boll weevil damage in the south; in its
December report. Secretary Wilson
goes to Texas to view! the situation for
himself, to confer with experts- and see
if some plan can not be adopted f 01.
the extermination of "j this insect pest.
If any plan can be devised,, the depart
ment will, he . said, join- with the cot
ton growers in demanding such federal
assistance from congress as may be
required to stamp out; tlie weevil. x
PEONAGE AND
PERJUEY
. ,
I Antoln nn
Investigation in
Leads to Mixed
1
Results;"
New Orleans, Oct. 128' The
States grand jury for the nothern dis- j
tnct of Louisiana, ,now
in session at -
Shreveport has begun
the "investlga-
tion of charges of peonage in Ouachita
parish. A number of jwi
negroes, were brought
nesses, mainly
to Shreveport
testify. They
bv the government to
claimed that an Ouachita planter. living -
near Monroe has kept several of his,'
negroes in bondage and has on a ntim-
b of 0-ccasiona rtripped and whipned
them severely for theH threatening to!
leave him. The planter.
against whom
the charge is made lis
in Shreveport,
but he did not testify.! After the inves-
tigation all the negroes Were locked up
charged vith perjury. ;
FAIR AND RAGES
A Raleigh Horse Takes; First
Money in Trotting Event -
Charlotte, N. C.J Oct. 28. Special.
me city is uirongea wn visitors to-
day and the crowd; at; the. fair sur-
passes ;the most sanguine expectations,
Tomorrow is the big day when the
schools and business houses will give
half holiday and the official ball will
take place at night.; ..; " .
ine.cuwi. event i.i imwi.ioudy
the racing program, j Hereare the en-
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tries and the results of the races-his
afternoon:
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2:20 trot, purse 300-Queen Bess,: Geo.
Jj ver. Roanoke, Va. : Petronell, Geo.-M.
ronell, Geo.-M.
Harden, Raleigh; Lady Thelma, James
farrow, Jtoper; Kate Campbell,, Price
NeelyrVinstoq; Sam Patch , Henry
L.- Upshur, Eastville, Va.; Estuary, J.
L. Pride. Results; : Pettwiell, first.
i time, 1:19; Ram Patch, second; Lady
Thelmf, third; Estuary, fourth.
. 2:18' pace, purse $300 Honest Joe,
Geo. F. Dyer, .Roanoke, Va.; Jesse
Fentofcf, : Joe Staton, Richmond, Va,;
Jack tfiorner, H.J. Jamison, Roanoke,
Va.; aryi;M., William Boswell. South
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- Boston va.; The Spaniard, - C. A.
lard,, second; Mary M., third.
ADVANCE IN
f I C9IT0N GOODS
Prices Are From 5 to 20 Per
Geht. Higher Than They
Were a Year Ago
.Baltimore, Oct. 28. Manufacturers of
I cotton: croods have 'within the oast few
' days Advanced the ! price of all grades
plenish their present stocks at the
, higher values. The present advance,
dry. goods men say, will not affect the!
consumer, out wiu proDamy De aeauci
ed .from the profits of the retailer!
Owing to the manipulation in the cot
ton market during' the past summer
there has been an almost continued ad
vance in cotton goods. This advance
ranges from 5 to 20 per cent, as com
pared with the quotations current at
this time last year. Bleached goods j
have advanced from 5 to 7 1-2 per cent,
brown - goods from 15 to 20 per cent,
and ticks and cheviots from 15 to 20
per cent. I Linen goods are also higher,
and -'com oared with last vpar the ad-
J0B
vance has been about 10 per cent. Cot-
goods, which J this time last year
ost 4 cents a yard wholesale, are now
seiimB. 4 1.1 4, t2 flnd 4 3-4 cents
a yard. "
Local jobbers say that stocks of
goods in the hands of manufacturers
at present are very low and that it is
- extremely hard to procure goods. Re-
tail southern trade just at present,
however,! is very well stocked, the fall
trade having been nearly all supplied.
MT TI
BE JUDGE
Governor of
Porto Rico to
6ral Office in :
Have a Fed
Montana4
-Washington, f Oct. 28. It fs under
stood tof be the intention of the presi
dent to appoint Governor William
Hunt of Porto Rico United States dis
trict judge of Montana, r to succeed
Judge Hiram Knowles, who expects to
retire some time
ing. winter or ear
during the approach
y spring. .
was appointed to the
n 1890 and has an-
Judge Knowles
federal bench
noun red that he
will avail himself of
his privilege under the law to retire
Governor Hunt1 formerly occupied a
place on the supreme bench .in Mon
tana.
BOY'S NEGK SAVEI
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An Alleged Confession Ruled
Out by the Judge
Norfolk, Va,, Oct, 28. When Judge '
! Hanckel ruled out an alleged confes
sion made to his father, a verdict of
not guilty was given today in the ca?e
of John Dey, aged 13, on trial for his"
life for the alleged poisoning of his
stepmother, Mrs.J Olin Dey, In August.
It was alleged that the' boy . mixed
strychnine, drunk by Mrs. Dey, to mur-
Unitedider her sister who had had him pun-
ished often. The; court ruled that the
alleged confession to the father was
extorted. 1 The father, while the boy
being congratulated after his ac-
; qui ttai, Stooa at one siae witnout
speaking jto his json, whose education,
lne says, will have to be paid for by
others j ' r - . .
Maternal relatives of the boy will
sna nim TO scn001 in ,Aja,umore-
EXPECTS ITO BE BOS
Dowie Says He Will Control j
New York Politics in
! Five Years
Now York, Oct. 28. At "healing service"-today
Dowie said:
"For j many( years I have held the
balance of political power in Chicago
and. I control over 50,000 votes there.
Whatever way I say the election shall
go it goes, and j I shall have the same
power here some day. Fifty thousand
votes would control the situation here
If.JI had them, and in five yars' I will
control that number in this city."
Dowie today settled with Robert M.
Farley, who sued him. for. $1,060' for his
legal services in defendin
T T
f
pierson, tne rormer Dowie roiiower, ar-
rested i for allowfeg his child to die
without a doctor.
Mr. Farley attached Dowie's carriage
1 as he was about to drtv -Madison j
Square Garden.
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King
Delegate
Not
So He Said, and He Had No
Ust for Checks When Cus
tomers: Had Cash Not
in Labor Business
for His Health
New York, Oct. 28. Walking
Pele
olntly gate Tim McCarthy, indicted
with Sam Parks on two charges of ex
tortion, and at liberty on $5,000 bail
furnished by Big Bill Bevery's nephew.
John J.-Byrne, has, disappeared. Byrne,
who cannot find him, obtained j from
Judge Foster in the general 'sessions
today "a surrender , piece," which
amounts to an order for the police or
other persons to arrest McCarthy on
sight. ' . . : f
Parks' trial was continued today.
Whereas in the Plenty ca&e Plenty
was the only complaining witness,
every one else connected with the case
was a Parks man. .. In the Tiffany
studios case,) at trial before j Judge
Newberger, there are three men who
had dealings with Parks, r and two of
them were with him at one time when
he made reckless statements. In talk
ing to Louis, Schmidt and jPavid
Fraze, Parks! said to them that he in
tended to. uss for himself the JSOO he
demanded ; beif ore he would call) off a ;
strike on work, being done by the Tif-
fany Studios Jcompany, and that after
he got it they were at liberty to em- ;.
ploy non-union men as they saw fit. !
Mr. Fraze testified that he went to
Parks after Benjamin i Thackara said
he had been to see him at a saloon in
Third avenue and had been senti away,
with the message to send some . one ;
authorized td do business. J
Mr. Frazej weiit and got Louis ;
Schmidt, treasurer of the company, ,
and they went to Parks' house. Mr..'
Schmidt objected to paying the fine
because the
union men
wages. -
"You don't
ness for my
Parks.
Parks said
a fine. "We
Tiffany workmen
were :
union .
1
who were getting;
think I am in. this busi-
health, do you?"
asked
that the money was not
call it an initiation fee,"
sounds better. Look at
he said. "It
the other companies doing business. ;
They don't nave any trouble, because j
they have been to see Sam Parks." j
"Well, I suppose. we'll have to do the v
same," "said Mr. Schmidt. "Does this '
money go to the union?" '!
"The umoni be damned," said Parks." ;
It goe3 to Sam Parks
and
few
others."
"I did not
Mr. Schmidt
bring the money," said
"Do you want it in a
"I want it
in cash," said Parks.
wasn't born yesterday. You can mark
Was
Attack With Daaaers On
Governor of Caucasus
Assailants Fly, but are Shot
Down by Cossacks The
Governor's Injuries are
Mot Serious
Tiflis, . Russian Trans-Caucasia, Oct.
28. Prince Galitzin, governor general
of the Caucasus, - had a narrow escape
from assassination yesterday in the
outskirts of
stabbed the
.the town. ;Three natives
governor general thrice.
They fled, but were shot down by Cos
sacks., J.
Prince Galitzin was driving with his
wife I when i j the would-be assassins
rushed upon the carriage, daggers in
hand. Two seized the governor general
and attempted to drag ; him from the
'ehicle, while the third man inflicted
the wounds on the prince's head and
hand. ; ;
A Cossack who was in attendance
upon the . prince threw himself upon
the assailants. While a hand to hand
fight was in - progress the carriage was
driven off at a7 gallop. Ultimately the
assailants fled,; followed by a mounted
guard of Cossacks who had hurried to
the scene. The Cossacks chased the fu
gitives through the brush, firing con
stantly with their rifles. They killed
one man (instantly. The other two
were shot down and died soon after
ward.
After his
Prince X3a
injuries had been dressed
itzin attended a reception
given by the citizens of Tiflis.
The outrage has produced great in
dignation the governor general having
become popular . on account of his in
terest in,, the .welfare of the inhabi
tants. ....
RATTLER: STINGS
A Freak Showman Has a
Narrow
Escape From Death
i
Charlotte,
N C, Oct, 28. Special
L. C. Crouch, owner of a show located
on the midway at the fair grounds, He3
in a serious -condition at the Presbyte
rian Hospital as the result of the care
less handling. of a snake. Crouch, while
exhibiting his collection of freaks to a
Parks
Born yesterday
every bill if you want to and go
down' and have Jerome mark It too.
I've got money enough to keep me the1
rest of ray life, and next month I am
going to; take a trip for my health.
After that it is not likely that you will .
hear of Parks in labor circles."
Mr. Schmidt added the story of the
payment of the money to Parks.
Several witnesses were called to
show that the men at work on the
Tiffany Job belonged to Parks union.
Whitecap Warning I
Austin, Tex., Oct. 2S. The negroes of;
Robertson j county, situated north of
here, have been warned by white
cappers to leave the county under;
threats of being whitecapped If the
warning is not obeyed. Printed noticed
containing the warning have been
tacked on trees throughout the coun
try districts. The negroes are much
alarmed and many of them' are leav
ing to avoid trouble. , -
RUSSIA AND FRANCE
The Czar Suspicious of His
Ally's Intimacy With
xf England
Paris, Oct. 28. Russia's uneasiness
regarding the recent development of a
French rapproachment with Great
Britain and Italy is shown by the ob
jects of Cjount Lamsdorff's visit to
Paris, which are admitted to be as fol
lows: to communicate the results of the
recent conference between the czar an!
Emperor Francis Joseph; to explain
the proposed interviews between the
czar and Emperor William, and to dis
cuss with Foreign Minister Delcassfc
the next move in Macedonia should the
sultan definitely refuse to accept the
Austro-Russian reforms. Count Lams
dorff, while expressing the czar's satis
faction with the improved relations
with France, England and Italy, seeks
to know the full obligations under
taken by France.
It is known that during the past few
months France has quite abandoned
her attitude of tutelage In her foreign
relations toward Russia and that the
St, Petersburg government has now
taken serious alarm. ,
It Is denied that Count ( LamsdorfTs
visit is connected with the far eastern
question, jit is affirmed on high Rus
sian - authority that the" most , critlqal
point in the Russo-Japanese negotia
tions was successfully; passed days ago,
when for ja brief .time war seemed aT
question of hours only. . The Russian
authorities here declare in the most
positive terms that the danger of a
rupture of peace has entirely disap
peared forj the present. It is asserted
that no crisis of any nature Is expected
to arise within the next few months.
crowd in his little tent, last night,
picked up a big rattlesnake by the
neck. The reptile wound its sinuous
folds around; the showman's arm,
tightened its grip and caused the mus
cles of the; arm to relax. Then it quick
ly released its; head and sank its fangs
into Crouch's arm. Crouch threw the
snake from him first and then at
tempted to pick it up to replace it in
its box when the snake repeated the
biting performance. This time, the
showman, thoroughly frightened, ran
out of the tent, boarded a car and went
to town He entered the first saloon he
found, and calling for a pint of whisky,
drank It down at a gulp. By this time
his body was swollen to enormous size
and the apibulance had to take him to
the hospital. Several physicians work
ed heroically with him during th
night and morning. This afternoon
they think he will probably recover.;
SAVE THE COUNTRY;
Mr. Parry's Convention Has
I a I ask Set Before It
j Chicago, Oct. 28 Dr. M. Parry, of the
National Manufacturers' . Association,
and other delegates who will meet to
morrow to form a national employers
association, .arrived in Chicago today
and took rooms at the Auditorium
Annex. - . '.
j "The purpose of the meeting tomor
irow is toj form a body that will have
many aims," ! said Mr. Parry today.
"The greatest work, perhaps, will be
an effort to save the republic. It is
stime thera was something done. On
jditions are so bad that it.'will not be
long before the nature of our govern
ment is changed, and. we, shall have
socialism We propose' to see that there
is no change in our governmen -and
that the
existing condition of" affairs'
is preserv
ed. L We shall show the vre i
a better .way to improve
mg .men
their condition than through the un;o,i.
as they j now exist or through s-ri i -ism."
'!- ;; "j
! Delegates are arriving from all Pi;
of tha country, and there i5 every iii
dicatlon that the federation v:.i!
formed with a large charter w?i:il-
; chip.'- ' : . .
s.