North Carolina Newspapers

PROBE I THE REVENUE GRAFT i Senator Simmons Sees Attor ney General Moody HAS NOTHING TO TELL VHiat He Learned Evidently Related to the Investigation in the West ern District and He Was Gratified in ConsequenceEconomical Road Building in the East By THOMAS J. PENCE Washington, Aug. 8. Special. Con firmation of the announcement made in this correspondence that the depart ment of justice at- the instance of At torney General .Moody is making a searching investigation of the charges relating to whiskey frauds and col lusion on the part of the revenue offi cii.;? in western Carolina was not reeded, but it has been given in xest emphatic manner. This morning ?;nator Simmons had an extended in terview with Attorney General Moody, and although he would not discuss the object of the conference there is no ioubt that graft in North Carolina Kas the subject under consideration. The senator, who gave outward , evi ler.ee of the fact that the interview tvas highly satisfactory, went so far is to declare that he had every rea son to believe that the department of i.utice intends to probe to the bottom the charges iri" reference i to graft and rorruption in the administration of the revenue laws in North Carolina and to bring the offenders to punishment." What Mr. Moody said to the senator :ou'd not be learned. The publication at this time of the character of the evidence secured by the special agents of the department would be almost fatal to the investiga tion, and nothing along" this line- may be expected, unless it comes from the grand jury room at Greensboro or some r'aer point in North Carolina. ; Sena tor Simmons would not say what he knew about the investigation, but it Is PArfain thef lio. rrn trm filiated Mr. Moody on this move looking to : the j mittee on Insurance of the American improvement of the public service in Bar Association, has completed the re North Carolina and towards the ap- J port of that committee, which is to prehension and punishment of theibe presented to the annual convention guilty. Senator Simmons practically at Narragansett Pier August 23 to 25. alnvitted that he brought to the at- ( The report makes five specific recom tention of -Attorney General Moody the nmiaHoni:' - " ea?e of Editor Deal of Wilkes, who was assaulted by two revenue officers some weeks ago. In discussing this subject Mr. Simmons commended Judge Boyd and District Attorney Kolton for their efforts towards en foirin? the liquor laws and punishing violations. He declared, however, that they received little assistance . from revenue officials. The construction of sand clay roads in Eastern Carolina is a subject that is interesting Senator" Simmons, and he discussed the practicability of this v.xrk in detail with M. O. Eldridge, as sistant director of the public roads bu I'.M. Highly important was the de cision reached by Mr. Eldridge, after the conference, that he would send an expert to any county in North Carolina desiring to enter upon this kind of road improvement. The sand clay roads, which have been built with great suc cess in South Carolina, Florida and other South Atlantic states are con-' side-red as good as macadam and can he built for one-fourth the cost. Roads of this character have already been constructed in Wayne and Robeson counties. ; Senator Simmons hopes to have the agricultural department send fxpf-rts to Jones and Craven, where the construction of good roads will shortly be undertaken. These experts will go to any county to superintend, the con duction of a section of sand clay road, .so that the work may be intelligently carried on. i senator Simmons said a i good sand day road can be built for between four an"i five hundred dollars a mile pro vided the material does not'lhave to be -ransported too great' a distance. He nas rpcpntlv . inctW -r-aAa h1a character and considers them the verysays that the welcome extended to M. cepted and went back to hisv launch, tc-st The; senator will be pleased to ! witte lh the 'United " States has pro-I to the accompaniment of morje ruffles, ffna literature upon the subject to duced an . excellent- Impression at the flourishes and pipings. Then the launch ny county road officials and also lo j Russian foreign office and has . given ! went over to the Dolphin, where.. Ad i'Mst . county authorities in securing rise 'to hopes that the fraternal rela-' miral Mead met Baron KomuraaijiJ experts. o machinery is required to ! tions existing in former days between j Mr. Takahira, the Japanese- plenipo- uiia the sand clay roads. Two inches i " sand on eight inches of clay is the ; ?roportionate part of the materials em- "oyeo, and it is said that this kind f road will soon pack like asphalt. , , Senator Simmons has renewed his ef orts to secure an officer In. active- ser ?ce detaiied as military' instructor at -ne A. and M. College irf Raleigh. It 18 custom of the war department 10 detail retired officers for this duty, ut it is not generally believed that :"ey P?ses3 the zeal and enthusiasm " stimulate youth. General Chaffea, . lft acting head of the war department, nas refused vi- . . leg, uppucaiion ot ine sui' e for the detail -to this work of eutenant J. A. S. Young, who has! the endorsement of both the North Carolina senators and Representative Pou. Lieutenant Young is a North Carolinian. Senator Simmons has taken the matter on appeal to the acting sec retary of war, who has the matter under consideration. The department is disinclined to assign officers in active service to these positions. ASPHALT DECISION The Venezuelan Crisis fs Brought to the Front ' Washington, Aug. 8. By a decision rendered yesterday by the federal court of cassation of Venezuela, the highest tribunal in the land, annulling the. con cessions of the New York and Bermu dez Asphalt Company, the difficulties between Venezuela and this country are again brought to a crisis. What Presi dent Roosevelt will do now is an open question. In March Venezuela was openly threatened by the United States with trouble if an agreement was not reached to arbitrate the matter. The ultimatum, for that is what the late Secretary Hay's communication amounted to, had no effect. President Castro insisted that the asphalt ques tion was in the hands of the Judiciary of his country, and accordingly that it would have to be finally disposed of there before it could be arbitrated. On one pretext or another he dodged the arbitration issue. This government allowed the matter to rest in the hands of the courts of Venezuela, although government officials here had no hope that the asphalt company would get justice from the judicial institutions of the South American republic. There is no doubt that the United States government, will insist that the asphalt . question be subjected to arbi- . -1 . . , . . ji i uauuu, ovj iirmiy convincea is tiig a.J- I immsirauon in at ine company nas been subjected to unjust treatment by the courts in Venezuela, tribunals which Castro controls from top to bot tom. REFORM OF INSURANCE Federal Regulation and Con trol Proposed t - Recommendations by a ; Committee of the American Bar Association. President Roosevelt Said tO Be Favorable to the Innovation V . '. . .-. , Omaha, Neb., Aug. 8. Ralph Breckin ridge of Omaha, chairman -of the com- 1. Legislation by congress providing for the supervision of insurance. 2. The repeal of all valued policy laws. ' 3. A uniform fire policy, the term of which shall be specifically defined. 4. The -repeal of all retaliatory tax laws. 5. Stricter incorporation laws in the several -states as they affect the crea tion of insurance companies; and a fed eral statute prohibiting the use of the mails to all persons, associations or corporations transacting the business of insurance in disregard of state or fed eral regulations. President Roosevelt is quoted as hav ing said to the committee that he is very much in favor of federal supervis ion of insurance. The committee would require reports to a governmental department showing i . the amount of money collected, for what purposes used; showing honest mnnnsrement and the protection of policy holders. W. R. Vance of Virginia, a member of the committee, is expected to present a minority report in which he will dif fer with the committee not on its gen eral findings, but qn the proposition that there is no constitutional obstacle existing to the inauguration of federf-1 insurance business. "Wild cat": companies are strongly criticised. , The report says that state laws denying companies the right to defend against death claims In suicido cases encourages self-destruction. Peace Not Probable Paris, Aug 8. The St. Petersburg - A tha Potlti Ta ricion RUSSia and the United States may be restored. There is little faith, how- ever, in the attainment of peace. A dispatch to the Matin from St. Petersburg says that in governmental circles peace is neither believed prob able nor desired.. ,. French Squadron in England Paris, Aug, 8.r-The newspapers here devote columns to the visit of the French squadron to England. ' They dwell upon the extraordinary cordiality of the reception given to the fleet. The Petite Parisien says the British nation. always noted for the magnificence of its hospitality, has surpassed Itself. PEACE ENVOYS AT PORTSMOUTH Admiral Mead Does; the Honors of the Occasion ' A STAND-UP BREAKFAST The Foreigners Meet American La dies at the Navy Yard Naval Honors and Salutes to the Pleni potentiariesMilitary Procession Escorts the Party to the City Hotel Wentworth, Portsmouth, N. H., Aug. 8. Of all the great days in its history this was the greatest ,Ports, mouth ever had, for Portsmouth wel comed and entertained the envoys of two powerful nations sent here in the interest of bringing an end to the most sanguinary and far reaching war ever fought. Portsmouth awoke to be greeted with disgusting rumors that the peace squadron, the popular name applied to the three vessels which conveyed and convoyed the Russian and the Japanese emissaries to this curious old town, had been again delayed and would r.ot get into the- harbor until after noon. But this report proved ground less, for about 8 o'clock, the Mayflower and Dolphin, with their convoy Jie cruiser Galveston, came boldly' and squarely out of a light mist, and after maneuvering around a bit dropped an chor off the lighthouse just inside the harbor entrance, three or four miles from the government navy yard. It was 9: 20 . when theanchors were, all down, and not much too soon either, for the ceremonies were set for a time shortly thereafter. ', M. Witte, the head of the Russian mission, wa informed that the ships had come, and he lost no time in leav ing the. Hotel Wentworth, where both parties have been quartered, and going jovero tne,JM.aynower in. a government launch provided for. the purpose, ac companied only by Gregory Velenkln of the Russian embassy in Washing ton, ..who will act as his personal sec retary throughout the negotiations. Over at the navy yard every detail had been arranged for the reception of the envoys there. Rear "Admiral Mead, the yard commandant, started out In a steam launch at 10 o'clock to pay his- respects to the plenipotentiaries and to invite them to the breakfast which was served in the new building at the navy yard known as the gen eral storehouse, in which the peace terms are to be discussed. Admiral Mead wore the special dress uniform of his rank. With him went his aides, an ensign and a marine lieutenant,' who were likewise dressed in full re galia. The launch put out from the yard with no other ceremony than, the custo mary ruffles and flourishes from bu glers and drummers and it made good time to where the "peace squadron" was lying. It proceeded first to the Galveston, where Herbert H. D. Pierce, the Uni ted States government's representative with the envoys, was waitings to be taken -to the Mayflower. Col. J. . H. Bromwell of the engineer corps who is commissioner of public buildings and grounds in Washington and has charge of official . functions ' at , the White House, was on the Galveston also. ' . ''; ;. ' ! With Mr. Pierce and Col. Bromwell on board, the admiral's launch steam-: rd to the Mayflower to greet the Rus sian envoys. The officers and crew of the Mayflower were at quarters when Admiral Mead's launch arrived alongside. Asthe admiral and his aides and Mr. Pierce stepped aboard, offi cers and crew saluted, the boatswain's mate piped shrilly and the ship's band gave the customary ruff les and : flour- - ishes. , . '; v. .".,' :';;' V Admiral Mead, was not long ' about the business which took him to the Mayflower. He was presented to Af. Witte-and Baron Rosen and the mem bers of their suites by Mr. Pierce, and after some pleasant conversation ex tended his invitation for the Russians '. t- Inin him o f Viroo Irf a at had If "an-. tentiaries, and those composing their party. They also received and accept ed the invitation to breakfast. : - ' y -Just after Admiral Mead got bacTt . . - xvjr jr.i. """sentence on a technicality. mere in a launcn irora me wuvesion, and fifteen minutes later thosewho were at the yard heard big guns boom ing away pff in the distance.' Every body there know what it meant,' - The Russian, envoys were leaving the Mayv flower, and that ship and the Dolphin were saluting them. ' " - , i ' v Admiral Mead had provided his own steam barge for .the use of the Rus - plans. It was big enough for all of ed and injured are being- brought to " disaster -and death wmen naa rouow- ; gmeer at cuieDra, wno naa peen ap them. It was a good fast boatv, and ; Fort Russell. Names are not yet ob- ed in the" wake of the shock. J pointed from St. Louis,, Mo., bad died made rattling- time going to the navy been built at 1 he shore' end of the yard's . small boat slip .and- signal flags ' of yellow, red and White and. blue flew; from it, which looked blight ana gajv Down at the 'bottom J of the stage Admiral i Mead and Mr. Pierce were standing awaiting.: the Russian en voi's. - - '. - - M. iWItte was jthe first to step from the.Iau'nch to" the gaily decorated land ing stage. He was greeted by Admiral Mead and Mir. Pierce with, cordial handshakes. Baron Rosen followed and v as received in like manner, and after him came other members of the czar's mission. .The two envoys and most of the members of their ; party were in sombre : black frock : costs and top hats. As Admiral . Mead grasped M. Witte's hand a petty officer up at one corner of the building, which is built along . the right side of the boat slip, waved a red flag to the commander of the saluting battery over in the mid dle of an, open space upon which the meeting, hall of the p? ace conference faces. Instantly the first gun boomed out, and it was followed by eighteen more. A marine battalion, drawn up on the ground, presented arms, and the buglers of a. band at the right of the battalion sounded their ruffles and. flurries to do -honor, to the distinguish ed emissaries from Europe. Mr. Pierce and Admiral Mead es corted M. Witte and Baron Rosen uP the inclined gangway and presented them tosi .the yard officers in waiting. It was not long 'before a second launch came steaming; into the boat slip bearing the Japanese envoys. As the launch bearing the Japanese neared the landing stage. Mr Pierce , said something to M. Witte " and Baron Rosen, and in a 'moment was leading the way with M... Witte by his. side toward the conference3 hall, where the breakfast was to take place. - Admiral Mead greeted - the Japanese as they-stepped on the; landing stage. The . marines presented arms again. Baron Komura was ' the first to leave the launch . and Admiral Mead met (Continued Aon page 7.) RUSSIA NOT SATISFIED t . ... The Czar's Advisers Want ilic War to Go On Wirelest Messages Between the Czar and Witte Are Believed to-Indi-cate a Want of; Harmony-Russians Still -Talk of ,Vitirtr- x St Petersburg,' Aug. 8. The ex change -.- of ' icipher telegrams - between the czar and M.-? Witte continues on the eve of the-opening of the peace negotiations at Portsmouth. These messages pass to and from Portsmouth and the palace at r Peterhof direct without" the intermediation "of thejmin istry "of foreign " affairs. Whilevi the contents can only be conjectured it is accepted as a fact by all parties that want of harmony exists between the emperor and his chief plenipotentiary. The preponderance of sentiment ati the - court is now so unpeaceful that the . hope is expressed that the terms of Japan will be so severe that it will be immediately seen that they cannot be accepted. There Is an .energetic and increasing group among the czar's entourage who now maintain that the continuation of the war is necessary irrespective of the terms Japan is: will ing to offer. They hold that the Rus sian empire, which in the past has sacriflflced all for prestige, is an im mense - military power and cannot abandon after onlyveighteen months all that .such prestige means. Even If a long war does not bring glorious vic tory, to the present army it will con firm the reputation of the Russian soldier, for endurance and courage. The- czar again today presided over the "'council, '-which is . considering the constitution of a national assembly. It is expected that he will issue a mani festo on the subject Saturday, the czarevitch's birthday. It is thought it will commence with an appeal to the patriotism of. the people In the name of the heir to the throne. ' Reports continue to' be received of f amine-and misery in the strike affect ed' districts. It Is the unshaken senti ment of the court that the war ought to proceed. - . No Appeal From Judge Lynch Wacov Tex., Aug. 8. At 2 o'clock this morning mounted citizens number ing about 600 surrounded the court house ' and, jail, and after making prisoners of Sheriff Tilley, th jailer and all- the deputy sheriffs, broke open the 'Jail, took Sank Majors, colored, out, -and after hearing his confession, hanged. him from the new bridge.- of criminal assault and given the death pen.a!ty but had been granted a new trial by Judge Surratt, in order that there might be an opportunity for x the; court of criminal appeals to revise the j v t a. v j x. Soldiers Killed by Explosion. Cheyenne, Wyo., Aug. 8. While maneuvering in Crow Creek forest re serve, -'twenty-five miles west of Cheyenne,' six soldiers of the Eleventh United States infantry were "blown up this i afternoon by the premature ex- 1 plosion of a four-Inch shell. The kill- . taihable. Big Building Collapses and Unknown Number Dead c A GREE MANY INJURED Department Store Went Down ' in a Heap With Hundreds of Employes. List of Dead and Wounded Incom pleteEight Dead Taken Out of the Ruins Large Number Missing Albany, N. Y., Aug. 8. Death and do- struction followed the collapse of tffc j central section of. the five story build ing occupied by the department store of John G. Meyer Company in North Pearl street shortly before nine o'clock. Of the hundreds of employes, three quarters of whom are women, girls and cash boys, nearly a hundred were buried in the debris. ; It was next to impossible tonight to get anything like a correct list of the dead and. missing. The offices and books of the .' corporation were carried down in the wreckage, including the list of employes. - Of the four hundred employes on the pay roll fifty were on vacation, and of the remainder the names of two hundred and fifty were secured. .Of this 250 forty were missing or unaccounted for . tonight Of the other hundred fifty were cash boys, of whom there is no list, and fifty were men and women, clerks, whose names could not be learned. - - Up to 8 o'clock tonight five dead were taken out of the ruins. - They .were Michael Fitzgerald, Anna Whltebeck, Anna L. Sharp, Minnie Bullman, Frank Leonard, cash boy, .The more or less injured number up wards of 75,' but only 25 found it nec essary to go to the hospital. These in clude thirteen men and twelve women, all employes. ..Those most seriously in jured were" Miss Helen' Dorfahue; back broken and injured internally;"Miss Ma- lone, badly, crushed, and Miss McAvoy, legs bruised. ' ' " Robert M. Chambers, one of the members of the firm, was cut out of the wreckage, but was not seriously in jured. ; , " '. ''.'-.. " ...,.-'" '."''.' It was estimated tonight that there were at least twenty-five more bodies nuried in the ruins, but this, was. pure guess work, though considered conser vative. The employes who were figur ing up the missing at 8 o'clock to night said that seventy-five employes were unaccounted . for. This number grew gradually less as the night ad vanced. ; v The building-is in the center -of the block on Pearl street and runs through to James street, and is sixty-four feet wide and two hundred feet deep. Al terations have been going on for the past. two months, and under. the cent tral sections of. the.: building excavation was being made In order to construct a sub-cellar twelve ! feet deep. The main supports of this central section on' the basement floor .were steel gird er resting on' a pillar in the center of the ' building, which was continued on up to the roof. This morning work men cut . the 'floor alongside this pil lar. This work, however, was delayed too long, for whle the work was progress ing the pillar, which rested on a stone foundation standing on-a clay bottom, slipped and in less time than It takes to tell it all four floors of the central sec tion of the building buckled downward in the center, to .', be followed a few minutes afterwards by the roof. These was hardly a moment's warn ing to the great mass of employes of the impending catastrophe. Those in the danger' zone had but a few mo ments' notice. . They were in the base ment where the main pillar, to the shored up, was located, and while this work was going on the counters were noticed to slant. The head of this de partment at one warned every one on the floor, ' and all the clerks under him escaped, so did the thirty-one men working for .the . contractors in that section. li was; on V the upper floors, or main business section of the build ing, where "the employes were taken unaware. " That so - many escaped even with slight . injuries is nothing short of a miracle. ' . Within three minutes after the first alarm a section of the building from ?-P?J Sl lapsed and all four floors, heavily laden wltn goods ana tne root naa piungea into the: basement. -; The scenes which followed beggar description. Many thought the . building had been blown up by an explosion. Numbers of em- jployes were too stunned ty the shock to move-.1 They had to be forced out of the building. Those who kept their presence 9; of- niind: quickly choked the hack fire escape and the front en trances. - Many found themselves in the street, not"-showing how they got there or why they were there. Then ouickly came a realizing sense of the VAViwvM o the fire department, and the poUce re serve were on hand in a Jiffy. For a time the work of rescue was delayed because of the fear that the remaining sections of the building .would "fall. The side walls in the devasted section remained standing, but looked omni ously dangerous. Within half an hour a corps of twenty-Aye physicians were on the scene and the hospitals prompt ly dispatched the necessary nurses and ambulances. So far as known only two shoppers were injured. All of the killed or Injured so far as known lived in Albany or across the river In Rensselaer, and all were employes. A few suffered ar broken arm of leg. The ringing of the Are alarm box in the shopping district quickly brought an unmanageable mass of people to the scene. News of the collapse of the building spread through the city like wildfire. Elbowing their way through this crushing mass of hu manity came fathers, mothers, sisters and ' brothers and husbands and wives seeking dear ones. Then -followed scenes most pitiable. -Employes who had got safely out of the building were scattered here and there - Rumor had this and that one killed. There was no one who could still the anxious in quiries of relatives or friends. Meanwhile Mayor Gaus and the city officials had arrived and they brought order out of chaos. All city laborers and trucks were ordered to the scene. Then the work of rescue began. The groans of the injured, pinned down un- derneath the great mass of steel and wooden girders and covered, with bricR and mortar, were heartrendering. In a short time over twenty-five injured had been extricated and removed, to the hospitals. A number of bodies were seen- which could not be reached. ! The work of clearing away the wreckage continued all v through the day and night, but it was apparent that the full details of the worst car tastrophe that "this city . has experi enced in years would not , be known until tomorrow, as the debris can not (Continued On Page ' Two.) FINE CHURCH BURNED St. Thomas in New York a Total Loss by Fire It Was in the Heart of the . Million aire District and Was Furnished in Keeping With Its Surroundings. Works of Art Lost New York, Aug. 8. St. Thomas Epis copal church, at Fifth avenue , and Fifty-third street, one of the-most rich ly furnished religious edifices in" Ameri ca, was wrecked by fire today. Within a block of the ruined church4 are the homes of half a score of the country's wealthiest men. On 54th street, directly in the rear, is the city residence of John D. Rockefeller, and near. by are the residences of William Rockefeller, H. McKay Twombley, Col. J. J. Cooke and the home of the late Daniel mont. The fire was confined, to the church. . Defective electric wiring is supposed to have started the fire. The loss is estimated by Fire Chief Croker at at least a quarter of a million dollars. Only a mere shell of stone wall was left standing and many valuable paint ings and ,bas-rellefs were ruined. One bronze bas-relief called '.'The Adoration of the Cross," and valued at $50,000, was destroyed. V Two large paintings, "The Resurrec tion" and "Christ Healing the Sick," were also burned. J6hn LaFarge exe cuted the paintings and , the bas-relief was from Augustus St. . Gaudens. Sumptuous altar and ; chancel furnish ings, including a $20,000 organ, were de stroyed -by the fire. For a time John D. Rockefeller's home was In danger. Firemen, who stood with their hose lines in Jhe win dows of Mr. Rockefeller's . homS, con centrated the streams of water on the 206 foot stone tower of the' churcih. which for a time threatened to topple over on the Rockefeller home, ' owing to the intense heat at the tower's base. . : . A dramatic incident, the ringing of the big bell in the tower, marked the close of the struggle just " at the mo ment when the firemen had succeeded in saving the surrounding homes from the impending danger, - The; peril was greatest when the roof of the church fell in. The shock shook the great tower to its top. The onlookers sank back, but'the only sign the tower gave was one stroke from the clapper , of a shaken bell. Only a little . more than an hour elapsed between the time the smoke was first seen and the fall of the roof. '- - ': .. - ." The church, which was closed for the summer, has stood on its present site for fifty years and has . been the theatre of some of America's most brilliant weddings. Rev. 'Ernest M. Stires is the rector. , The furnishings of . the residence of Dr. W. Seward Webb were damaged by firemen, who broke into, the house in order to drag-their hose' to an ad vantageous position. Died of Yellow Feyer -Washington, Aug. 8. The isthmian canal commission today received a ca ble from Governor Magoon, reporting that A. G. Livington,7 a division en- - At ' ' :. - TOOK IT OUT - IN SHOOTING Ade Walker Kills Eugene Lamar in Kernersville BOTH MEN WERE DRUNK They Had Been Gambling and Walker Wanted to Try His Luck Again-Lamar Refused and Walker Began Shooting Both Had Pis tols and Used Them Winston-Salem. N. a . a no- s cial. At Kernersville, about 1:S0 this afternoon, vAde Walker shot and killed Eugene Lamar, a married man about 35 years old. The two men were in the blacksmith shop of Granville Manuels near the Southern Railway depot when the crime was committed. Walker was found an hour later at his home half a mile away and was ar- ! rested. He told the officers that he ' had decided to return and surrender to the authorities. At the preliminary trial before a magistrate and Mayor W. S. Ldnvllle oiiciuuun, lvianueis, owner OI the blacksmith shop and the only eye witness to the shooting, testified that Lamar and Walker were drinking; that when the two men came into the shop Walker asked Lamar to play an other game of cards with him. The witness gathered from the conversa tlon that Lamar had won $1.50 from Walker in a game played this morn ing. Lamar said to Walker: "You are too drunk. ' Ade;, besides you are fussy when drinking; wait till you sober up, and I will play with you agafn." "D it, let's shoot it out then," ex claimed Walker. Lamar replied laugh ing: "All right, then." Walker drew his pistol and fired twice. Lamar drew his gun and began shooting, emptying VIM Wol A 4- J..,A . 1 . 1119 flOlUl. Ab .1.111S JUIIVIUIC II1C VWUCJ. of the blacksmith shop decided that Jhe was in dangerous territory and . he ran, out in search of an officer. When he returned Walker was- leaving 9and Lamar was down on his all fours, groaning. A physician was summoned ' ana ne arrivea just Derore ine wouna ed man died. Lamar was shot three times, but th wound, that proved fatal was from a ball which entered the right breast. It was found just under the skin in th back. One ball took effect in the right leg and the Other in the left leg. ' One of the balls fired by .Lamar went through Walker's left leg just above the knee; another went through the coat, and another grazed his right ankle. . ' ' . Walker was ordered to jail without bail until the next term of court. He was brought to Winston-Salem to night. Walker is known as a dangerous character when drinking. He killed; a man in Winston-Salem a' few years ago, but was released on the. plea ,pf self-defence. He also killed a negro a number of years ago. About four . years ago he pulled down a deputy sheriff, R. C. Hunter of Kernersville, with a shotgun, peppering him in tne face and breast. Walker claimed thaf he did it Just for fun, though he ad mitted that he resisted arrest and told the officer to. move on. He served ; & term on the roads for the last men tioned offense. MURDER AT CAMP MEETING Ardor of Negro Worshipers Unaffected by the Tragedy Statesville, r. Jim Summers, colored, who served a trrr, of three years on the Iredell f county chain gang for shooting at Jim Deaton of Mooresvine, men uCpuiy sheriff, nad who had the reputation ct being a very bad negro, was killed Sun day evening about 6. o'clock at a n5c camp meeting near Mayhew. Davidson, township, this county. Coroner J. P. p,irir went to the scene of the killing yesterday and found the body of Sum mers lying where It fell when he wa shot. The camp meeting was in full blast and no one seemed disturbed by; the killing. ' ... The coroner's jury returned a verdict that the deceased came to nis aeatn uj pistol shots at the hands of Jim Shu ford, also colored. Shuford is a Ca tawba county negro. Plenty of negroes were willing to testify that Shuford did the shooting, but no one seemed tc know what was the cause of the mur der. Shuford escaped. Wholesale. Cannibalism in Congo Antwerp, Aug. 8.-Fassengers from the Congo Free State, who arrived by steamship today, state that a report is current in me vvu" of cannibals known as Niems havu killed and eaten 2,000 negroes and eight German colonists.