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1 Morning THE WEATHER TODAY : por North Carolina: Showers. For Raleigh : Showers. TEMPERATURS; Tempi-ttun for lha ;8t24 KoJr: Maximum, 84-. Minimum, 68. H ''J, Vol. RALEIG-H. N. C, WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 10, 1904. No. 142 Post. VI LINOISM EXPECTS A LANDSLIDE TO PA I North Carolina Visitor to New York t-inds Strong Parker Sentiment Colored Spellbinders Working for Roosevelt-Greensboro Man After Political Employment By THOMAS Special. "I ex- -'iisrton. Aug. . e Illinois go Democratic next ; ; : by a larger majority than wri. h the state was carried in 'i r i we carried the state by 27, :: majority next November will s i iaMy larger than that." .. -s the encouraging statement :.- t-i Democratic headquarters to v Martin Kmrich, member of con the city of Chicago. Mr. p -cunts for his hopeful view v E" the I 1 ois situation from a Demo aii.lpoint because of the drift in-a-nt in that state and espe I'hicago. He believes there i gradual change going on people there which he ex st materialize in the form of uie landslide. Mr. Emrich upon the probabilities of Illinois, you must take i in r,v ?ideration the class of people K; up the army of voters. There vr--:-.or-nous population in Illinois of birth. As a rule these men hf-en made Republicans by being hat the tariff would keep their r-p and that if the Democrats r-n in power they would get a i-illar. Now they are beginning ; t that the high protective " : nf more service to those great rp . izing corporations that are op- r--:r? them than to any one else. Tr-y no longer fear the 50 cent dollar. T- i? a matter of the past. They ?. :? yoking at the political situation in ntirely different from that ot; ?. e t:.T 1 Tri. too, it must be remembered ; " mw.nav. r-: ;he Republicans of Illinois are not j the stump as a straight-out Republi pf: ;Mt C'a to be found in Pennsyl-lan in the states It Is probable also v ria where the traditions of several; that he will be heard in behalf of the pr.err.tior enter into political life. The Republican national tiket in the mid viers of Illinois have no such feeling. ; die - and far west. Mr. Butler would Th-re is no state in the union in which J not discuss his plans today. When t 'iitical feeling can change over night asked whether or not he would take n rapidly a? in Illinois. I think that j th stump his reply was: "You never rh i'asre is coming and " we will see ajheard of my taking to the woods, did Frrit landslide toward the Democratic ! you ?" t. k: next November." ket next November." Parker Sentiment in New York 'I find strong Parker sentiment in York." observed President James Fryan. of the Atlantic and North - -.a Railroad, who returned from t .- i : a a. ,a .... ud ana Bloppea over v- V, v.ti ; 'p r vr.vv .,t,i if to find so many of them strongly im- rr. -i.h tllo T,ro.! Kar win be the next president. A lead i financier with whom I talked yes t aiv expressed the opinion that odds p"! the result would be even before rainy more days. There has been a big "?! ara in sentiment among the busi r? p-opie in the east, and from many ;r:-"' I learned that Parker is grow i ar ?trong?r all the while. New York 5- re? -r Id as safely Democratic." Jurlson W. Lyons, the negro register 5f the treasury, has returned from a t'ip to the west. He called at the 'hite House today to report personally to Mr. Roosevelt his observations. He fc-is trade a number of speeches while s'vpy from the city. After his White orr of es Improve on Native Costume Filipino Visitors to the Assist ant Great White Father Attract Attention in Washington Hotel Minu Was Dis appointing "iphington, Aug. 9. The delegation 51 vfn Igorrote and Moro tribesmen ' : xc.f Philippines forming a part of n iiippine exhibit in the St. Louis r' i s Fair, and who according to re p'r' from that city intended to call i'p'i! president Had onlv in their flt!i and native dignity, arrived in "ihton. this morning and were re ' i by the president at the White - As the native costume of the 'a is not visible to the eye at long - 'he announcement from St. Louis "f 'i Kome little interest and excite in Washington. But when the n tr cmen alighted from their train at ti la nnsylvania depot the big crowd ''is awaiting iirr(a:irr! 1i.qan- th K'i:(, r,he 5gorroes Wore white V' '-: uniform jackets and trousers -out six sizes too big, that looked as J. PENCE House conference he said: "Everything is hopeful in the west for the Republi cans and so nearly all one way as to be practically without opposition." Lyons and John C. Dancy hold the two best positions that Mr. Roosevelt has awarded to the colored man. They are the star colored orators of the Re publican campaign andwill speak in all the doubtful eastern and western states. Ex-Congressman Henry P. Cheatham of North Carolina is to join these spellbinders, and it is possible that George H. White, the other negro ex-congressman from North Carolina, will be thrown, in the breech to whoop up the negro vote in the doubtful states. Mr. Roosevelt needs every one of these colored votes and he is leaving no stone unturned to capture them. Already an army of workmen, direct- ' ed from Washington by the chief cruar- termaster, is engaged in preparing the round at.Manassa,s for the army ma neuvers. The three camps are now being laid out and the gi-ound cleaned for the tents. The water supply for the troops is one of the biggest prob lems confronting the quartermaster's department. Camp No. 1 -will be sup plied from twenty-five artesian wells, while camp Nn. 2, where the North Carolina troops are to be located, will derive its supply from two big reser voirs, which will be fed by a fine spring at Thoroughfare. t Butler Expected to Take the Stump Ex-Senator Marion Butler, who ar- rived todayfrom North Carolina, will talra. on o r-tit-n -riart In hp ratnnaittn. UAA . V J . . - - w - -r W. L. Scott of Greensboro is here. He hopes to become identified with the headquarters of the Republican na tional committee in' New YoVk. He was introduced to Chairman Cortelyou and Senator Scott of West Virginia prior to their departure for New York. McNeill introduced Mr. Scott and spoke strongly in his behali. The in- timanon was given that his service mjht be needed, later on. ' Richmond Pearson, minister from the Uniieu iSLctLfS iu raoia, aiiivcu. ncj. He is in this country on vacation. While here he will confer with the state department. Mr. R. S. Neal, the well known and popular general representative of the; Burlington Bridge Company, was here today onhis return rrom New York. Other arrivals were Rev. A. C. Barron of Charlotte, H. Lu Frick of Greens boro, J. C. Thomas of Winston and Thomas Murphy. The establishment of rural delivery routes, operative September 13th, was authorized today from Barber in Row an county and Biltmore In Buncombe county. if they might have been borrowed from the marine band on short notice, and the Moros,' whose native dress is also rather simple although not quite so ab breviated as that of the Igorrotes, were clad in the gaudiest kind of figured silk and their chief wore a pair of No. 10 army shoes. The visitors were under the official chaperonage of Dr.' L. K. Hunt, who Is in charge of the Philippine exhibit at St. Louis, and were driven from the station to a boarding house in Third street, which has long been known as the "Indian Hotel." The official menu of the breakfast Is nqt obtainable, but as one of the Igorrotes who later ac knowledged a preference for fox terrier as compared with mastiff, said that the meal was "not much," it is probable that the peculiar tastes of the tribes men were not catered to by the hotel. After breakfast and a bath Dr. Hunt crowded his charges Into a hotel omni bus and hurried them to the office pf Col. Clarence Edwards, chief of the bureau of insular affairs of the war de partment, who is known to the Fili pinos as a sort of assistant great white father. '-. Col. Edwards was 'careless enough to leave the door of his .private office wide open, and it w:as not long before the room was filled with department clerks who craned their necks to set a view of the Filipinos. Neither the Igorrotes nor the Moros appeared to mind the scrutiny, but they objected seriously to the heat. They squirmed in their seats and scratched with great industry, and finally the Igorrotes unbuttoned their uniform jackets to let the breeze from the electric fans play on their bare brown bodies, and the Moros unwound a couple of yards of silk and shifted a bushel or so pf beads to let the wind get a better chance at them. Some of the efforts they made to scratch remote portions of their anatomy not usually covered by clothing were unique and interesting. Datto Falcundi, who organized the trip to Washington in order that he might tell the president that he did not sympathize with Datto Ali, the Moro chieftain who is keeping General Leon ard Wood awake at night in the Phil ippines! was the most imposing figure among the visitors. He was clad in a pair of skin tight unmentionables of some sort of changeable silk and a short Mother Hubbard of some other kind of figured silk. His guards, Gal lo and LaPuchi, who stuck close to his side, wore feeble imitations of thcit chief's rainbow costume and carried long, crooked silver-hilted swords, that looked as if they had seen considerable service. Chief Antonio was accompanied by three other members of the tribe of Igorrotes, one being Antero, a boy of fifteen and the interpreter of the party, (Continued on page 2.) evelopments in Affairs Evidence of Manipulation in the Market Negotiations for the Middendorf Williams Holdings. Directors Meet Friday Baltimore, Aug. 9. Developments in the affairs of the Seaboard Air Line Railway are now believed to be very close by local financial interests. The securities of the company on both the local market and the New York cul market continued to be a feature to day. A sale of 3,000 shares of the stock in one lot on - the New York market today found a ready purchaser. The market gave evidence of manipu lation, and as the price of the stocks advanced under the buying it was quickly followed, by slight declines. This was regarded as being manipu lated to assist New York interests, who are credited with buying the stocks. The bonds of the company showed further strength, the consoli dated 4 per cent bonds selling at the first call on the Baltimore exchange at 73 1-4, an advance of 1 1-4 points over the last sale in this market. The common and preferred stocks were fractionally higher. The Impression is general that nego tiations for the purcahse of the hold ings of J. William Middendorf & Co. of Baltimore and John L. Williams & Sons of Richmond have reached a stage where they will soon be settled. These stocks are under the control of the advisory committee representing the creditors of the two houses. At a recent meeting this committee ap pointed a sub-committee to represent it in negotiations pending with th Blair Interests in New York. It is expected that the two sides will get together on an offer before the direc tors meeting of the Seaboard, to be held Friday in New York. At this meeting action will be taken on the financial plan to raise $5,000,000 of , new money for the Seaboard. If the Blair-Ryan interests acquire the Middendorf-Williams holdings, they will then remove the chief opposition to this financial plan. There is also a deal looking to the purcahse of this block of stock by other interests who are seeking an entrance into the Sea board management. The stock repre sented by the advisory committee amounts to 114,000 shares. The total Issue is 625,000 shares. It is not known how much stock the Blair-Ryan crowd now hold, but it is understood to be over 100,000 shares. progrMofremoval Murder of Pleheve. to Be Fol lowed by Many More London, Aug. 10. A dispatch to the Morning Post from Berlin says an ap parently trustworthy authority reports that after the czar returned to the pal ace at Peterhoff after the funeral of M. de Pleheve, minister of the interior, he found in his writing desk a manifesto of the revolutionary-socialist party set ting forth the reasons for the assassi nation of M. de Pleheve. It declared that the party, in accordance with a resolution of its executive committee, would continue to remove all obstacles ; and persons opposed to the liberation for the Russian people, ine czar handed the manifesto to M. Muravieff, minister of justice, instructing him to discover how it was deposited in the J missal of General Hesse, the palace commandant KILLED IN A CRASH . Five Lives Lost by a Railroad Collision Chicago, Aug. 9. Five persons were killed and several more were injured in a railroad crash betweerv local pas senger train No. 17 of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad and a freight train of the Chicago & Eastern Illinois Rail road shortly after 5 o?clock this after noon at the bridge on Park r Railroad crossing. The passenger train . of the Baltimore & Ohio was speeding to the citywhen the crash with the freight train occurred. The baggage car and the locomotive of the passenger train remained on the tracks. The second coach was derailed. The third car, containing most of the people, was overturned and it was under this car that five persons were pinned and crushed to death. The Chicago & Eastern Illinois freight was backing in a westward 'di rection when the passenger train crashed into it. Officials Murdered Openly Berlin, Aug. - 9. The Vossische Zeit ung says that Tregubenko, head of the forest department, and Chief of Police Kuznezoff have been murdered openly in the streets of Nakhclvan, Russia. Expected of Seaboard FERRY BOAT IS DRIFTING TO SEA z-4 , Men, Women and Horses in Peril With None Able to Rescue Them Montgomery, Ala., Aug.' 9. A ferry boat, with men, women and horses aboard, is running .away down the swollen Alabama river, being carried with the speed of an express train to ward the sea. The runaway boat passed Montgomery last : night just after midnight, where every effort was made to stop it, but without success. As the boat passed the city, the cries of the terrified occupants could be dis tinctly heard above the roar of the river, which is now a terrible flood. A telegram reached the city early in the evening that the boat had been swept away while making an effort to cross the river. The city nr depart ment, " the policemen and a hundred volunteers hurried- to the river and waited while two men set out on a dar ing trip up the river in a boat to make a line fast to the runaway when it came In sight. The ferry boat came around the bend two miles above the city. The boat's speed was equal to any express train, and the men In the boat found Great Britain Demands FIGHT OF FACTIONS Wisconsin Politics Taken Into the Courts Madison, Wis., Aug. 9. The Wiscon sin supreme court today issued an or der giving the "stalwart" faction of the Republican party of the state au thority to bring suit against Secretary of State Houser to restrain him from placing the ' nominees on the LaFol lette state ticket on the official ballot under the .regular' party designation of "Republican" and compelling him to place the "stalwart" nominees on the ballot under the designation of Re publican. The court granted the request with out leaving the bench. The defend ant is given twenty days in which to answer. The case will come up for argument September 6th. The La Fol lette faction will contest. .A Protest From Hayti Washington, Aug. 9. Mr. Leger, the Haitien minister, was at the ystate de partment today and entered an indig nant denial of the frequent newspaper reports of the wide extent of the anti foreign feeling among the Haitien peo ple. He said that a number of resi dent foreigners in Haiti were Involved in the Haitien national bank scandal, which would naturally cause some feeling among the people who suffered from the frauds, but there was nothing like a general feeling of dislike enter tained toward foreigners. Editors Sent to Prison Manila, Aug. 9. F. L. Dorr and E. P. O'Brien, , formerly editors of the news paper Freedom, who were convicted in the island courts of libelling Mr. P. de Tavera, a member of the Philippine commission and whose conviction and sentence ,of six months imprisonment and $1,000 fine were affirmed by the United States supreme court, were committeata- the "BilidabV prison. it impossible to get within distance to pass a line. They made a futile effort to throw a " rope to the white-faced prisoners, but it fell sho.t, and in an instant the boat was gone, rocking and reeling in the terrible current. When it was opposite the city frantic efforts were made to interrupt its flight, but to no purpose. The people could be plainly seen from the shore, and their cries of terror could be heard far above the roar, of the great flood on whose bosom they were being carried out to sea. It is feared that the boat will be capsized and all on board lost. - After the boat had passed the city and it was seen how great was the, peril of its occupants a steam launch was immediately started in pursuit. The launch is manged by several dar ing river men who are supplied with poles and ropes, but it is hardly ex pected that the boat can be overtaken. If the runaway craft could be kept in midstream there would be more hope for its safety, but the river is so swol len and the current so swift that there is little hope. The river, too, is full of driftwood. Points further down the river have been wired to look out for the boat, but no comfort comes from this quarter, as the river Is miles in width and the current so swift that rescue is almost out of the question. The boat broke from the ferry cable about twelve miles above the city late yesterday afternoon, while a party was making an attempt to cross the flooded stream. There are at least two women and six men aboard. RAN TOO FAST ; Probable Cause 'of Missouri Pacific Train Wreck Pueblo, Col., Aug. 9. The district at torney has begun a thorough investiga tion of the wrreck at Eden, claiming to have some evidence of criminal negli gence on the part of the railroad offi cials. Sheriff Armstrong of Denver, wrho was on the train with Governor Peabody which passed the Steele's Hol low bridge just before the Missouri Pa cific flyer was wrecked, says the train crew had orders to cross the bridge at four miles an hour, while the wrecked train is admitted by officials to have been running twenty miles, and pas sengers say it was running 45 miles an hour. A thorough canvass late today among undertakers showed many duplicates in the list of dead sent out last night and reduced the number of bodies recov ered to 65, all but two of which were identified. . Three bodies have since been brought in dead, those of Dr. Munn of this city and two unknown men. An unknown woman's body was found thirty miles from the wreck today and another twenty miles distant. Delaware Regulars Nominate Dover, Del., Aug. 9. The regular or anti-Addicks Republicans in conven tion today nominated a full ticket. Dr. Josh Chandler was nominated for gov ernor. Makes on Nicaragua Damages Claimed for Impris onment of Jamaican Fish ermen and Confisca tion of Their Boats, v War Vessels to Back up Claims New Orleans, Aug. 9. Passengers from Nicaraugua report great excite ment there over the probability of trouble with Great Britain growing out of the imprisonment some months ago by the Nicaraguan authorities of a number of Jamaican fisherman (British subjects) engaged in turtle fishing on some sandy reefs or Islands to which Nicaragua has aid claim, and the con fiscation of their boats. A formal pro test was made at the time by the British government to which Nicara gua made no response. Mr. Paget, British minister to the Central Amer ican states, stationed at Guatemala, was odered to Managua, the Nicara guan capital, to deliver an ultimatum. He is now there and a British man of war Is at Bluefields to back up his demand, which, It is understood, is a claim for damages for inpuries and ! losses to which the Jamaicans were subjected. The impression in Nicaragua in that President Zelaya will refuse the de mand and appeal to the United States government for protection. There is will enforce its claim for damages in the came way as in the recent Corinth case. It Is not thought that the trouble between Nicaragua and England will develop any internal dissensions or rev olution in the republic, as President Zelaya has the local situation well in hand with a large and well equipped army. During 1903 the exports of coal from English and Scotch ports to foreign parts -amounted to 449,935,057 tons, ex ceeding the exportation of the year re. for by;. 1,7914000s ions, v JAPANESE LOST FIGHTING AT PORT ARTHU Their Total Loss During the Siege Estimated at 22,000 General Stoessel Reports the Re sults of Japanese Attacks on the 27th and 30th of July St. Petersburg, Aug. 9. The follow ing dispatch from Viceroy Alexieff, dated August 7th, has been received by the czar: "General" Stoessel reports as follows: 'At 5 in the morning of July 27, the enemy having advanced a strong force, their artillery opened by a series of attacks. One directed against Yupl laza Mountain, was especially vigor ous. "'At about 8 In the evening the en emy were everywhere repulsed with enormous losses. I remained in tha advanced position we have held for two days against an army very much stronger than ours. " 'At 4 in the morning of July SO about five divisions of Japanese 'took the offensive against our position on the Wolf Hills. In view of the enor mous superiority of the enemy's forces and the weakness of the posi tion our troops were . ordered to re tire to the next positions without fighting. The movement was affected In complete order under the protection of artillery, which by accurate fire at short range, completely stopped the Japanese advance. " 'Our losses have not been ascer tained, but they were not great. The losses of the Japanese were very great. In the engagement of July 26 and 27 the japaneae had about 70,000 men and a great number of siege guns. " 'The morale of the Russian troops Is excellent and their health good.'" The Russ estimates that the Japan ese losses thus far as a result of the siege of Port Arthur aggregates 22,000 men, and says the Mikado's injunc tion not to waste lives must haye been ironical. Kuropatkln Feels More Hopeful Paris, Aug. 9. The czjar has received a telegram from ' General Kuropatkln, according to the St. Petersburg cor respondent of the Echo de Paris, re porting that , there has been no change in the district of concentration. He says that the Japanese have not yet crossed the Taitse river and the Rus sians still occupy the right bank. Rus sian troops have occupied Siasoyen, an outpost, and General Kuroki has with drawn as far as Saimatse. A Russian staff officer is quoted as saying that a week ago much uneasi ness was felt regarding the situation of the army. Now it is regarded more hopefully. The Japanese are in scat tered groups, while the Russians are in compact position. They are less in number than the Japanese but their position is more compact. He regarded the situation as most favorable. Big Guns Heard at Sea Cjhefoo, Aug. !. 8 p. m. From a source hitherto reliable It is said there is good reason to believe that the Japanese are renewing their attack on George Graham Vest Lies Bowel in Death "A '.Senator of Two - -.Republics" ..Who Sirved Both With Distinction His Public Carter Closed by His Voluntary Retirement Sweet Springs, Mo., Aug. 9. After lingering for weeks between life and death former United States Senator George Graham Vest passed peacefully away today. He had been so near death for the past three days that the end came without a struggle. He was conscious until about 2 o'clock Sunday morning," when he sank into a state of coma from which he never aroused. He lost the power of speech Saturday morning and during the last thirty-six hours of his life his breathing was barely perceptible. At the bedside when the end came were his wife, Dr. Jaryis, the family physician, Senator Vest's son Alexan der, his daughter, Mrs. George P. B. Jackson, and her husband. The 'remains were taken to St. Louie this evening for interment in , the pri vate car of Mr. A. A. Allen, vice fcretsl dpnt artd central manager of the Mis court, Kansae-Texas Tailrcad. HEAVILY M the outer positions at Port Arthur, The officers of the German cruisei Fuerst Bismarck, lying at the outer edge of the harbor, express the opin ion that the firing heard last night was an encounter between detachments of belligerent warships, approximately, twenty miles northw-est of Chefoo. From the cruiser's advantageous po sition the flashes preceding tha detno ations could be seen. A Probable Explanation Chefoo, Aug. 9. A Chinese Junk which left Port Arthur Saturday re ports that nothing beyond the exchange of shots by the batteries had occurred since. July 28th. The Chinese say the Russian battleships Pobieda, Retvlzan, Poltava and Perseviet occasionally fire. That is probably what was heard' last niffht. Russians Multiply Obstacles London, Aug. 10. A Toklo- corre spondent of The Standard says: The official Gazette prints A medical report from the first Japanese" army, detailing" five cases of horrible mutila tion of Japanese dead by the enemy near Saimatse. An officer who has just returned from the army investing Port Arthur says that the Russians, warned by their dis astrous experience at Nanshal Hill, have exhausted every means for mul tiplying obstacles to the Japanese ad vance. The wire entanglements are now accompanied by an apparently im passable railing. The bed of the moat is filled with upturned nails and sharp glass, and beyond the moat a strip of ground is covered to the depth of sev eral feet with a thick layer of lime. The Japanese officers and men ex press admiration of the Russian scouts. Often at night they -advance close to the Japanese outposts. Russian am bulances, after a battle, are frequently within speaking distance of the Jap anese lines. Outer Works at Port Arthur Probably Taken Tokio, Aug. 9. The foreign office learns that the , Russian raiders who appeared a few milese from Gensan, Corea, have been repulsed. It is re ported that Cossacks are occupying; Anshantien, whence they - are recon noitering. Thus far the Japanese have taken 1,500 prisoners and buried 2,600 Russian dead. It is estimated that the total losses of the Russians number, upwarci of 20,000 while the invalids, will bring the number, of troops inca pacitated up- to 50,000. The Japanese Mail prints a summary of the Port' Arthur rumors and says that probably all the outer works have been captured and that the Japanese artillery is easily in range of the main defenses. It is now a question of mountain siege guns. The indications are that this work was commenced . (Continued Iron page 2.) George Graham Vest was the last surviving member of the Confederate States Senate. When Augustus E. Maxwell of Florida passed away in May, 1903, he left Mr. Vest as the only living man whom he had been asio ciated with in the upper branch of the government upon which the south staked so -much.- Mr. Vest was one of the comparatively few men who had the distinction of serving in the con gresses of two nations which could "not find room together on this broad "earth. In the armies and in the legislative halls of the Confederacy he remained until the Confederacy was no more. -Then he went back to peaceful occu pations under the old flag, and was so thoroughly reconstructed that for twenty-four years the reunited nation knew no . more, gallant champion than he. With the passage of Ser.r.tor Vesi there goes out of public life a repr sentative of a school cf politics which has been of incalculable advantage, to the .United States. Senator Vest waj trained from infancy for the public service. Hi3 early education was in th hands of one of the ablest pedagogue of his timeB. B. Sayre of Kentucky. Mr. Vest's native state. He, was con sidered by men o all parties one ot th Greatest men the rtpublic has pro duced. In the Senate he was called Rn intellectual giant. For the past fe w yea.ru-Ms strength has fast been fail ng. On the fourth of last March ho oluntarily., retired from the Senate,
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