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HE WEATHER TODAY . For North Carolina : 'Showers For Raleigh : Showers MoiNliS POST. TEMPERATURE: Tsmperiture tor tbf past24-Hours: , x Maximum 74 Minimum, 56. ' , ' Vol. IX RALEIG-H. N. C. SATURDAY OCTOBER 7, 1905 No. Ill THE RAILROAD LEGISLATION .. J i Wtiicii Congress Will Be Ask ed to Pass PRESIDENT'S PROGRAM . Aue Each-Townsend Bill Modified in Imoprtant Particulars Some of the Provisions of the New Meas ureTo be Rushed to a Vote in House if Possible Speculations Washington Oct. 6. After repeated ( .inferences between President Roose velt and Representative Townsend. an !,i .uueement was made that the admin i -nation program relativeto the rail road legislation is completed. The plan hat will be favored by the president ,viil be embodied in a bill which has joen drafted by Mr. Townsend of Michigan and Mr. Esch of Wisconsin, ' kn-nvn as the Esch-Townseiid. bill, I ich the house passed last vinter. The i: tasure will be modified in rmpotant Particulars, and additions will be made ;o it to overcome the. criticisms di ti ted against it while it was pending i, the house and since then. The .bill will provide: FhVt. That the interstate commerce ji!)i::vi?sion shall be given the power decide upon complaint after full vm ing whether a rate is unjust or j i lawful and that the commission shall I ve authority to substitute a rate j v iiich shall become immediately effec- live and so remain unless and until ' r; versed by the courts. .-Ycond. The commission shalPhave :he authority to declare that a rate ih.irged for shipments on private cars '!,- unjust or unreasonable, if it be so "rid that the common carrier shall be ht-lri responsible for such chancres. ! third. "Giving the interstate com- i : -- rc e commission jurisdiction over ter minal railroads. Fourth. A reassertion of the long ; d short haul provision of the original intf rstate commerce act. Fifth. A provision relating to the shipment of merchandise by water and rail so as to prevent alleged manipula tion of rates made possible- in such circumstances under the present law. .ixth. Giving the commission full a uthority to examine the books and rec- rr-ls of the railroads and to prescribe he ls pf the opjnion that it will be un tho general form and manner in which ,vise to make the' hour anv later. p -i h records shall be kept. Whether the provision in the Esch Townsehd bill of a' year ago providing for an interstate commerce court will tt incorporated in the new measure re-. r,ains to be determined. Before a de cision is reached on this point Repre f ritative Townsend, at the instance of the president, it is understood, will con fer with the attorney genera! and Sec- , retary or war rait, iitner a new court will be created orthe number of federal iiiages mcreasea 10 lase caie oi uie , s lieu uuniuc&d. ; Investing the interstate commerce ! commission with the power to make aj rate which shall stand until reversed; hy the courts is ,of course, not new. ! Thi. or at least modifications of it. I Is the central idea -of ijearly every bill ?.aling with the subject that has'been presented either house of congress deal ing with the subject. . The features of the Esch-Townsend kill relating to private cars and termi nal railroads is adopted to give the "measure strength, and also to correct jbusives which are generally admit ted to exist. The private car lines will rot be declared to be common carriers, j Fuch a legislative enactment, good law- J yers contend, would not stand the test ' of judicial procedure. On the contrary j the- burden of responsibility is to be placed on the carrier, as it will be held ibat the handling of perishable commo- Birles by the carrier is a part of trans- tortatlon. ! There is vigorous protest over the j present enforcement of the long and : hort haul clause oC the interstate , iommerce act as interpreted by the tourts. Under the existing act the ir.terstate- commerce commission is! limited in its power to examine the 2' oks, papers, records and accounts f the railroads. It may call for any :pocific document, but that is not H. . In accordance with the policy of V l'licity, In corporate management ) I'inciated by President Roosevelt, it i'l be Jroposed that the authority . the commission shall be sweep Sng when the records of the carriers )re desired in the adjudication of Q'ies;tions arising under the propos iti law. Rcpresntative Townsend has made !t plain that, so far as he is able to control, the house, it shall pass a rate bill in the opening days of the coming session in order that the matter may be sharply' brought to the , atte-ntion of the Senate. Air, nhsprvations umwisena made some Tn - today that are likely to be well takf- in 1849 and other' Hungarian revoM en by- members of the senate' com- tlonary officers at Ada, passed in an mittee on commerce who are under- Mood to have already expressed some annoyance at the aggressive ness of his; tone in recent public dis cussions of interstate commerce Drob- : lems. Mr. Townsend was asked whether the testimony had been of fered before the ' Senate committee had changed his mind a to granting enlarged powers to the commission. He said: "The Senate committee on inter state commerce called witnesses and the railroads of course knew whom to send to the hearings. , During the first part of those hearings the time was devoted largely to showing that it would be unconstitutional to confer such power on the commission as the bill , proposed. They contended that the commission never "exercised sucit power, but they were confronted with the record of the interstate commerce commission, showing every order -th commission had ever issued and it was shown that they had ? exercised the same power as was proposed by the! Townsend bill. ThenUhevhad emi- in.j..jK. j i- nent lawyers to come . and tell - committee that the bill was not un constitutional, and after those opin ions had been received, the ccmrrit tee called on. the attorney general for an opinion and he clearly sot forth that it would be constitutional to con fer the power as proposed. : "They then proceeded to present not evidence but theories' of railroad men as to the nature such legislation would have on the railroads, I believe that . not 2 per cent, of the evidence presented there could be desi (Continued on page 2.) late'd SCHEDULE REARRANGED 's Train Will Be Stopped Outside of City May Not Come Into Town Before Breakfast Time of Stop in Char lotte Increased to 15 Minutes. Leave Raleigh at One O'Clock .By TK0IWAS J. PENCE Washington, Oct. 6. Special. Presi dent Roosevelt has decided to extend j his stay In Charlotte and the schedule ! of the itinery as rearranged today ! calls for a fifteen, instead of a five- minutes stop, at that point. The de cision to increase the length of the stay in Charlotte, probably means that the, president will not be able to re main in Raleigh longer than 1 p. m., as at present arranged. Private Secre tary Loeb said today that if an ex ten tion of the stay in Raleigh should be made the hour of arrival in Char lotte would be thrown back that much, and as the schedule puts the presi dential special in Charlotte at 7 p. m. In addition to his stay in! Charlotte, the new schedule calls for a stop at Salisbury, which, was arranged by Senator Overman. It was originally stated that there would be no stops save those . provided in the original schedule, but an exception was made in this instance because it was asked 1 uy oenaior uverman, wiioiri me yrusi- dent holds in hlgh esteem It was stated today that the pie.;i - . , , , t i,rf at 1 o clock p. m. would not arrive! ln the city proper until 7 o'clock in the morning. -The arrangements pro vide for the side-tracking of the train at a" .station 'some miles out frbm the city, t so that the distinguished visitor and 'his guests will not be disturbed vir c-Vil-ftincr troine Qnvl t'Afirlv whistles. This early morning, stop while the president is asleep will probably be made at Neuse or Millbrok. . The new schedule which will prob ably be the one that will be observed i in North Carolina is as follows: Arrival near Raleigh, 1 a. rri.; leave Raleigh at 1 p. m.; Durham at 1:55," leaving at 2 p. m.; arrive at Greens boro at 4 p. m., leaving at 4:05; ar rive at High Point at 4:30, leave ft 4:35 p. m.; arrive at Salisbury at 5:35, leaving at 5:40 p. m.; arrie at Char lotte at 7, leaving at 7:15 p. m. The stops above enumerated will be the only ones made in the state. . The train ; will be a special, consisting of threa cars. The personnel of the guts the president will select to accom pany him is not known, though it has been ascertained that. Dr. Rixey, the White House physician, will be one of them. President Return Trip When President - Roosevelt , comes from New Orleans to Hampton Roads, he will escorted" by the armored cruiser squadron of -the North Atlantic fleet, commanded by Rear Admiral Brownson. This plan has practically, i been . decided upon. The squadron is (composed of the the armored cruisers West Virginia (Fiagsnip;, rcnuBji vania, Maryland and Colorado. The Maryland, however, is making repairs at New York and will be unable to make the trip. President Roosevelt will be carried on board the West Virginia, that being the flagship of the sadron. Budapest Oct. 6 The celebration here in commemoration of the execu- tlnn of Count Bathvany in Budapest orderly manner despite the present un- j rest. AGAKT liRO And He Has No Business Up There at Present A FEARFUL DEATH RATE i inn ii h -j t i r i v t t 'j ciL1 m m nnariu I t r Among Foreigners, Much Greater. Than In the South Difficult to Rent Shelter in New York What Booker Washington Says New York, Oct. 6. Today's lasue of Charities is a special number devoted entirely to a study of the negro in the cities of the north. Itc purpose is to bring the facts relative to the condi tion of negroes in the cities before the public and with the, ard of Booker T. Washington, Dr. Dubois of Atlanta University and other leaders of1 the race, and of such agencies as Green wich House in this city, it has been possible to gather a great mass of mat ter. The shifting of the negro to the north in the last few years is one subject discussed. "Washington now has the largest negro population," 90,000. New York has 70,000 and Chicago 35,000. The extent of migration is indicated also by the fact that in a great ma jority of the , counties of Virginia in the last ten yea,rs there has "been ac tual decrease in the number of negroes. Of each 10.0C0 negroes born in the south -Atlantic states 247 lived in the north Atlantic states in 1890 and 403 in 1900.' In the cities of the north the negro has a more severe struggle for ex istence than in the south. Booker Washington believes the place for the negro is in the south and he tells why he thinks so. , He writes: -'I do not believe the masses of negroes are yet fitted to sur vive and prosper in the great north ern cities to which so many of them are crowding.. The-temptations are too great and the competition with the foreign population, with which they come in contact, is too fierce." Washington urges the negro business man to go south and he says that money earned by the negro in the south goes further than money in the north, principally because of the cheapness of land and the cost of living. In describing the negroes' struggle for existence in notrhern cities another w riter says that the negro's difficul ties are accurately reflected in the high ; death rate, especially the frightful mor- tality of the negro child. Roughly, in proportion to their respective numbers, for one white child in 1900, six ne- groes died from diphtheria and croup. Other diseases of childhood kill from two to four times as many negroes as whites. One of the most difficult things the northern negro has to contend with Is the matter of housing. In many neigh borhoods in this and other northern cities the negro is unable to rent a house or apartment, no matter how well he is supplied with money. That the great majority of negroes in Manhattan live in poverty is the conclusion of Miss Mary White Ov- mton. who has studied negro cond.- tions in this city for a year and a half. i She points out that in the districts the negroes are, forced to live they -see much that is -base in the dominant race. Charities pays considerable attention to the bringing of women from their homes in the south to the northern cities and the abuses that result. The southern states, especially Virginia and Georgia, are honey-combed with em ployment agencies who use every sort of inducement to get colored girls to leave their homes, promising good wages, easy work and good times. These dupes of the employment agen cies sign a contract agreeing to work one or two months for nothing after their arrival. They sign over their personal belongings to the employment agencies and when their little store of money is gone and no work is found for them they fall into evil life. WILL BE MORE CAREFUL New Order Governing Purchase of Army Supplies Issued Washington, Oct. 6. An army order was made public today which makes new conditions governing the purchase of supplies and the making of contracts by the war department and places the business methods of the department on a more stringent standard than ever before. - " It is supposed that the frauds dis covered by the inspector general at the Schuylskill arsenal at Philadelphia, where many thousands of dollars worth of inferior goods were purchased, owing to lax methods, is one of the reasons why the order issued today was made. Hereafter it will be impossible to molify a contract once made, even if when the work is well under way it is j found that the specifications of the con tract cannot be f ulfllled,as sometimes happens. Hereafter there will be no modification whatever, but, with the approval of the secretary of war, the contract may be annulled1 and bids in vited 'for the new contract, with the competitors fully informed of- the changes in the requirements. Mr. Tstft, in the -order, points" that If modifica tions are? permitted after a contract has once?ben made, it is unfair to the other bidders who made their propo sals with the idea that the" specifica tions advertised would 1 necessarily be observed to the letter. ; On eof the pro visions is, that all supplies rriust be In spected, whenever- practicable, by a commissioned officer of the army at the time of delivery. This follows along the line adopted by Acting Secretary Oliver several weeks ago, when the Schuylkill frauds were -exposed. The secretary directs that the com mercial standing of the bidder be care fully investigated, as well as the finan cial status of his bondsmen. Another provision is that a contract shall be made with no one who has failed un justifiably to fill a former contract. This departure, it Is explained, is made inobservance of the law that supplies for the army shall be purchased "where the same can be purchased the cheap est, quality and cost of transportation and the best interests of the govern ment considered, and such contract shall be made with' the lowest respon sible bidders." SHOT DEPUTY SHERIFF Big Rucus in Stokes Over Woman Moonshiner She Was Ordered to ; Jail by the Mag istrate and Pistol Battle Ensued. Deputy Sheriff Smith und Two of His Assailants Shot ' Greensboro, N. C.,: Oct. 6. Special. Particulars were received here today of a lively pistol battie which. occurred at Smithtown, Stokes county, yester day afternoon, In which Deputy Sheriff John Smith was wounded in the side and two young men of the. crowd -who attacked him were ;lso,hotf The'trou ble occurred when the depty was re moving to jail Mrs. Frank Caldwell, who had just been bound over by a magistrate to court on a charge of retailing. A crowd of men, headed by Oscar Sisk, set upon Smith attempting to take the woman from his custodv. The shooting followed the deputy's 'refusal to give up the prisoner about fifty shots being fired in rapid succession', Thy woman finally gave bond and was re leased. Sisk was arrested and com mitted to jail. It is not known who fired the shot that struck Deputy Smith or the other two men who were wounded, so fierce did the fusilade rage for a time. The officers wounds, while very painful are not considered serious. The extent of the wounds sus tained by the others was not learned. ANOTHER MURDER MYSTERY Mother and Daughter KilledTwo Old Men Missing MIddletown, N. Y., Oct. 6.-Mr. Mar- tin Ingerik, the housekeeper for Willis C. and Fred Olney, brothers, old men who live on a farm four miles from here, was found lying in the Olney barn, buried under a pile of hay. Her skull ha"d been crushed by a piece of gas pipe. Her daughter, Leilia, aged S, had been murdered. The body of the girl was found in the cellar of the Olney house, her head battered out of all resemblance. The two brothers are VJHiVl O - missing and a search is being made ftJt- them. A well on the Olney farm Is , being dragged on the theory that one ' of - the brothers was murdered and the ; body thrown in the well, j Mrs. Ingerik lived at the Olney farm house with her daughters, Leilia and Grace. This morning Grace went to ' MIddletown. leaving her mother, sister nnrt thA r.iH mpn at hnmp when she .- returned this evening sne could not returned mis evening sne couid not find her mother or sister, and the old men wfT-o miccirr sVia frvo. ti0 alarm men were missinc. She eave the alarm i and a search of the premises revealed the facts stated above. A physician examined Mrs. Ingerik's injuries and sai dshe would probably die. : ' GORILLA NEGRO'S FATE Not Yet Recaptured Gov. Lanham Denounces Lynching Dallas, Tex., Oct. 6. Reports from Edna tonight, state that tht general search by citizens for Monk Gibson, who outraged a little girl, has been abandoned. ' State rangers alone .are hunting for him. Rumors are current that, Gibson is being held in conceal ment to be burned when the stats troops leave Edna. Governor Lanham today emphatically refused to entertain the petition from Jackson county asking that the people be permitted to execute Gibson if caught. The "governor in positive terni3 denounced mob law in airy .form. IARYLA1E ITO KNOW About Operation of Our Suf frage Amendment SIMMONS INTERVIEWED By Maryland Newspaper Men and His Explanation of Benefits of . Amendment Will Be Laid Before j the Voters During the Fight j RS Which Seifator-Gorman is Leading fell in the office of the railway .cbm Ji : i pany here while buying a ticket for the ' ' ! honeymoon tri pof his daughter, who Bv THOMAS J PENCE i was married September 9th to Lleuten- . ant H. B. Jordan of the United States Washington, D. C, Oct. 6. Special. rmv W1s h,n was broken by the fall. Senator Simmons was sought today by Maryland newspaper' men, who desired ', to get from him his views with refer-1 amendment since its Introduction in North Carolina. Over in Maryland the people vote this fall on the question of disfranchising the negro, and the ques tion . is discussed to the exclusion of every popular issue. The Tar Heel senator, in speaking of how the amend ment worked in North Carolina, said: "The adoption of the suffrage amend ment in North Carolina is regarded by people generallyas possibly the wisest move in a generation. There is hardly a man in the state who would be will ing to return to former conditions, and should there be a vote on the question tomorrow it would receive more than 100,000 majority. During the campaign in which the amendment was an issue the Republican leaders declared from every stump that the measure was unconstitutional and that suit before the United States supreme court would so decide. The Republicans in our state have not only not brought such a suit, but they are practically unani mous in favor of the amendment today. "By adopting the amendmeat the people of the state rid. themselves of an issue that was always a sourc of anxiety. There- is no question about the negro in the state now, and tne - up tQ the tIme the name of two races are living In perfect peace Hughes was mentioned by Senator El and harmony.. The best of good feeling heT whQ made the nominatingr speech, prevails between them-more so than for whom they were expected to vote, ever before. The ticket, it was said, was made up "With the elimination of the ignorant by Benjamin 0dellt Jr.f and chairman vote, the people of the state, are nw : Halpin of the county committee, able to discuss and settle economic, wag great entnusiasm dls. and moral questions. Matters of local , played at the convention when Hughes government that could not be ap- name wag mentioned in the nominating proached with the intelligent and calm gpeecn Hugnes ls the counsel for the consideration they deserved aye now; committee, which is investi- determined by the people. I refer, ; gatng the affairs of life insurance com among other things, to bond issues. ! nies He was also counsei for the One of the best known Washington ye committee which recently corresponaents wno represents a xviy- , land paper said, after hearing Senator. Simmons' evidence on this question, that he did not see how any well meaning citizen could vote against the amendment. y A Slip Twixt Cup and Lip 7 ' Although the appointment of John C. B. Morton as postmaster at Morehead City, N. C, yyas announced at the White House yesterday, the belief is expressed here by North Carolina Re- j publicans familiar with th situation that a mistake has been made and that j the Morton selection will soon be with- ; arawil f 1 10 " the candidate of the North Carolina Republican organization, and Chair- man Jttoiuns ioiiovers ao not ucucvo president Roosevelt gives hearty ac for a moment his recommendation has ! quiescence to the move made by the been knowingly cast aside. .Mr. Rollins, announcmg his intention to call as well as . National Committeeman and confer and it Is expected that the Duncan, endorsed a. s. winis ior ap ! pointment, and when they learned to i I . , ; u ; - ,r i 1 A ' - fH w. w. untnnllnn TT- i tney at once gut in tuiiiiiiunii.auuii the postofflce, department. iney De - lieve that a mistake has been made and that Willis will finally be the new;the conference. Tnat detail will postmaster. Roosevelt's Raleigh Speech Senator Simmons called at the White j House again today, by ' invitation, to . u . L..v, j Hcc tile yicaiucuu glujjh hio . a r t It is understood that Mr. Roosevelt ; talked with the senator about things ' .. . 1 - .i.n v, i,o,r J.r,ifliiv!fe'overnments wm De represeneu. , with reference to his forthcoming Ra- lelffh sveech. '.which will be one of the notable ones of the southern tour. Prtctmnstprs were annointed todav as follows: George W. Stepp at Black; Mountain, Buncombe county, and Fur nifold P. Koonce at Trenton, Jones county. Rural delivery route No. 5, from Hen derson, Vance county, is authorized to begin operation December 1st. Today's arrivals include Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Douglass and two daughters, of Raleigh . William O. Cory of Asheville. H. A. Shuford of Hickory and J. T. Patrick. Steamship Wrecked Eureka, Cal.," Oct. 6. Fast upon the rocks one and a half miles south of Point Gorda and beside the boilers of the old steamer Humboldtr the San Francisco and Portland Company's St. Paul. Captain Randall, lies a total -wreck. ' its ninety-three passengers and orew of sixty-five men are safe. Some are j on boltrd the steamer Pomona en route jto San Francisco, but the greater num iber are in Eureka, having arrived on 1 the tug Ranger of Eureka and the steamer Vanguard. The captain and most of -the crew are In Eureka. The disaster, it is said, was due to a thick foe WEST INDIAN CYCLONE It Is On the Wayand Will Be Felt From Fla. to Maine New .York, Oct. 6. Coastwise cities from Florida to Maine nay be swat ted by the first West Indian cyclone of the season that has manifested the energy worth the consideration of th official weather experts. Key West began to feel the influence of he tropic storm tonight. The low prss- .sure has been observed over Cuba for uiq iaob tw vicij- o. ai, uvi vivvu o energy today. Capt. Nat. Burrus Dead Norfolk, Va., Oct. 6. Capt. Nathaniel "Rnrn'iss died todav. ae-ed 62 vears. . Yi army, He never reepvered, He served in the i Confederate amy through the war. r : NOMINATED FOR MAYOR New York Republicans Name Charles H. Hugbas Few Will Know Who He Is But This Dispatch Introduces Him An Empty Honor and He May De cline It Cut-and-Dried Aflair New York, Oct. 6. The Republican county convention tonight, in Carnegie Hall, nominated the following ticket: For mayor, Charles E. Hughes of Man hattan; comptroller, Richard Young of Brooklyn; for president of the board of aldermen, James L. Wells of the Bronx,' Tha llro- wo Tinmfnatpfl without a . dssfntln -ote The delegates had no investigated- the gas companies affairs with ft yiew to fixing prices of gas. Hughes may not accept, it is said to night. SECOND PEACE- CONFERENCE President Roosevelt's Answer to the Czar's Proposal. Washington, Oct. 6. The president's answer to the czar's proposar to call a second neace - conrerence at an , Hague has been partly prepared by the j state department and will soon be sent to St. Petersburg to be presented co tV Tiiissian nvprnmpiit. j tenor of the American note will have a good enect on otner nations wuen 0 - - , they are formally asKea to pamci - at i Th t d not make any speci- fications concerning the program of be included in the circular note to be sent out by St. Petersburg together with requests that cokments be made by the ; nations mvua w v . "Tn h : zraYn. The other conference j , V " A , "' Y" for all the South and Central American i governments will be represented.- J.ne ; Program which will be proposed by Russia win oe tixiy ;.ic . I before a final program is adopted there will be a general discussion along all f the governments, Supreme Court U. S. Meets Monday Washington, Oct. 6.-The October term of the United States, supreme court will be convened Monday. It Is expected that exf rery' member of the court will be present There are 415 ; cases awaiting, of which 135 have been ; sJnce adjournn(ent in May. The j . t,a MOM- nma M f tVa previous term. New Russian Ministry St. Petersburg, Oct. 6; The isiovo says that in the new ministry Privy Counsellor A. S. Stishjinsky will be minister of the interior, Baron Nold- eatpresnt chancellor of the commit - tee of ministers, minister of justice, and General Trepoff, now assistant minister of the interior, minister of police. GOVERNME NFS CASE IS WEAK Trial of Indicted Revenue Men at Greensboro. SAMUELS CASE PENDING :M Consume a Week The Evi dence Yesterday Concensus ol Opinion is Disappointment in Lacfc of Strength of Government's Case. Defendant's Able Counsel Greensboro, N. C, Oct. 6j-Special Federal cart resumed its sitting this morning in the case against G. W. Samuels in the presence of an over flowing bar and a packed audience. After the roll call of the jury came a; motion from Mr. Watson that the witnesses j be separated and each call ed when heeded, to which motion Air. Holton assented and it was so ordered This had the effect to largely diminr the audience, Mr. Holton called for i; government a list of witnesses lo enough to convict a- hundred federa officials if they knew enough. Th first witness was Mr. West of th treasury department at Washington, who identified the official reports on file from the defendant Samuels. These reports show sundry illicit distilleries with their paraphernalia destroyed, which the government contends are false. . This constitutes the gist of offense charged in the several counts in the bill of indictment. The burden oi proof is on the government to show the falsity of the contents. For this purpose the .first witness wai Deputy Marshal Brown of Wilkes, who was with Samuels on some of the raids, covered by said reports and gave soma dangerous testimony tending to. sustain the contention of the prosecution. But under the severe and exhaustive cross examination of Mr. Watson the witness did, not add any weight to his direct testimony; and the defendant looked aa if he felt safe after that. The government introduced eight wit nesses during the afternoon session ot the court, some of whom were dan gerous and all of whom were to some extent discredited by the searching an j relentless cross-examination of Mr. Ws-tson. Mr. Holton is cold, tenatious and de termined, with his case well in hand, while Mr. Watson is alert, earnest and effective With- a ready knowledge ol the character of every witness. Thesa two gentlemen are conducting the ex amination of witnesses. Mr. Price la at the side of the district attorney, while Judge Bynum and ex-Governor Aycock have full access to the ear of Mr. Watson. 'Every witness is thor oughly pumped and some severely tested. The end of the pase is not in sight. If all of the witnesses called this morn--ing are to be examined the case will likely consume the greater part of an other week. . . Miss Sherrill of Statesville is the court stenographer. Maj. H. Li. Grant of Raleigh, Solicitor Brooks and Representative Blackburn were among the spectators today. The concensus of opinion as express ed on the outside tonight is disap pointment in the strength of the gov ernment's case. FOURTEEN MEN KILLED Fearful Loss of Life by Quarry Oz . e in In New York Stale Troy, N. Y., Oct. 6. Fourteen men were killed today by a cave-in at a quarry aboijb two and a half miles from . Granville, N. Y. Among the dead U F. V. Williams, president of the corn, pany. The others were Hungarian la borers. Sixteen men were buried in the cave-in. David Cadwalter nd Warden Queen, the foreman of th ,; rescued. The latter is ex. . f . Warden Queen, the foreman of th pected to die. Russian Finances ' St. Petersburg, Oct. 6. The prelimi nary returns for the first six months of the year 1905 reeclved by the min- I istry of finance, show that the ordi- nary reecipts were 949,246,000 roubles , an, increase of 14,32,000 as cosiparej lth the corresponding period of 190V ordinary eAyui.u.co wc x.- "suuuu rouDies, a. ueucre ui io,(v, 000. The extraordinary recipts wertj ! 462.003,000. an, increase of 78.594.000. Th extraordinary expenditures were 562.- 404,000 roubles, an Increase of 400,696,000. Funeral of Dr. V. 0. Thompson Winston-Salem, N. C, Oct. 6. Spe cial Dr. V. O. Thompson, Winston's oldest druggist, who died yesterday In his seventieth year, was laid to rest 'this afternoon with Masonic honors. Deceased served through the civil war j as captain of Company C and as sur- I geon in the 'Forty-sixth Reimenw v h -
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