North Carolina Newspapers

Full Leased Wire Service of the Associated Press. . Leads all North Carolina Af ternoon Papers in ;ulation. LAST EDITION. ALL THE MARKETS. THE BALE! VOLUME 27. RALEIGH, N. C, FEIDAY, MARCH 16, 1906. . PRICE 5c. t TWO SC E ARE MANY SUIT HAVE TO WAIT NINE FIRES IN ECK AGAINST ROAD IN PATIENCE NEW YORK TODAY BIG DEFIANCE EVENING TIMES DEAD SHACKLEFORD'S wi Worst Railroad Wreck Dis aster in Colorado Since One at Eden Roth Passenger Trains on Di'nver and Ilio Grande. Failure To Pi ll ver Orders to Local So Ex press Could Pass. Victims Pinioned Under Wreckage Were Burned Alive Before Help Could Reach Them. '-.-" '(By the Associated Press.) Pueblo,' Col., March IB At 11110:1 (8 p. 111. Enstorn time) it is positive ly known that nlxtccu iiersons were killed and thirty-four injured in the Denver & Rio Grande wreck near Adobe early today. Pueblo, Colo., March Hi. Aljimt forty -charred bodies lie in he ruins of two Denver ': Itio Grande par-sen. I gev trains which were vrvekeJ by' i' ! head-end collisi'in at 2; 10 o'clock! this morning z a point 1; it. vocn , Beaver, and , Adobe, about (weiu.v eight milos wet of Pnebio. Fai t of the train was burn;!. Fifteen persons severely injoivd in the disaster are lying 011 f.ols at St. Mary's Hospital in .-this city, -.villi the prospect th?t some of tho-.i will be added to the ('oath list. For two and a half hours ha! i -Hi Jo men, thrown from their beillis b; the impact of the two trains rushiiiv; to gether, frantica'ly tore at U-.e burn ing ; timbers .endeavoring viiiily to extricate scorchin:-:, Ivin.; -tieoplo .. . . mi. :..,- from an awiui laie. . w wsn isr-s n ,.,.M,.f trotn nr.-.vi;l f 1 C. il Pliolilo littio i the enr.; th-.t were ,-, ,hr. ..,. Carolina. He paid the company $1,000, EeeTuUlOlS ,er J"" signed he was been preciomt trugni 01 luj.ittu , leCeive $125 a month and expenses, excepting piles of scorched flesh H;;ovMed e .avel.aBod selling $r,o worth Kmnnldorinr bones. I,, ,ih. ami ho was snnolied with -a Passenger train No. 3."-(Tie I'ttih ind California Fxpress, uiuclv suit f..it. n,nvf!- nt S j'cloik last .wiilnir. left this i-it.v so-r al'LH- nid-1 j0 .,; j j night heavily loaded wi'.h p...-:seiie..: and pulled by two engine. The forward coach of the hapless train was well tilled: in fact, it v,:v. I difficult to find a seal anvwhr-re, and a j number of passengers were slamling in , the aisles. Just as this train was rounding a sharp curve between lit aver j mul Adobe it mot tram .No. u. e.i.-i bound, which was runn!:'.g at high , l,,.ivv '''''"r: ' ? . Tn an ! train, cumum " "- . - instant all was contusion, i -....- PaSKCIlg'-l . ,....,. thrnwn from their scats and cov- ei ed with ' splinters of" wood ami Hying III glass. Many were killed la the awiui Impact and the others caught beneath the wreckage, filled the air with their cries for assistance. A moment later the gas. with which the train was light ed, exploded, and in an instant the wreckage wus blazing fiercely. One man in the first coach of No. It had managed to raise a window and j had forced his body half way to freedom I when he became lodged in the window, i He fought fiercely for life, but each j movement only wedged him the more tightly. The flames swept over him and , left him writhing in agony. He cried out, "For God's sake, and for the sake j ot mv babv. shoot me!" The onlookers, tw.vntoi) from anoroaching the scene I because ot the intense heat, could do way and !t ls cstiiated that before the nothing to relieve the man's mscrinK. fil.stof June mol.e tnau tw,,.c' ,iult mini Finally a timber from the roof of tho j w,u be mlull.L,d- The-,e never has car fell upon his head, killing him. 1 .,,.',' ,, ,, The first four coaches of train No. S j been such-great activity in railroad were piled up, the greatest damage be- i building in the west as at present, and Ing done in the forward coach. It was j tne visible supply of labor in that part here that the greatest havoc was done, , of the countl.y has betn exhausted. hardly a man in this coach escaping, . , ,, . " .. , .,, , ,, .,,.), I Railroad -contractors have been able alive. A majority of the bodies eauyn by the fire were reducedto a crisp. "jto resume work earlier this year than M. McParland, messenger of the usual on account of the oben u inUr, Globe Express Company, who was in i d they are maklng strenuous efforts the express ear on No. 10, was caught tJ gst mm from lhe eagt ta gQ QUt in the wreckage and burned to death. west fol. tnis work. Ten thousand men So far as can be learned, he was the only one on the easlbound train to suf fer this fate. I The three engines were practically demolished. Engineer Walter Cosslette bad no oh portunity to escape, although his fire man, A. E. Smith, saw the headlight on the engine of No. 16 as It rounded the curve and escaped with his life. William Hollis and his fireman, Hugh Sudduth, of the engine pulling the east bound train, were unable to save them selves. A. H. Smith, fireman to Engineer Causlet, stated that just before the morning., Mrs. penuer s cieain re- ing under the eye or coacn stoeks collislon he saw the I headlight of!3ultea trom a brief illness of pneu- dale and are in fine shape. Trinity train No. 16, as it roundedthe curve nionia. She leaves four- sons and College team has a strong corp3 of about 208 yards distant. Ho vent;e daughter. One son, Haywood j pitchers and a strong team behind lo the engineer s side, saw Engineer render, lsta student at tne univer- CntiNlet nl the emergency brake. Hojsity of Virginia. Mrs. Peiider was (Continued on third page.) v in years old. F OUR PERISHED N HOTEL FIRE (By the Associated Press.) Grand Rfipids, Mich., March 13. The 1 business portion of the village of Tus- tin, Osceola county, was destroyed by a fire early today, which started in the basement of the Hotel Compton from a defective furnace. Ton guests escaped In their night clothes, while four were burned io death, The dead: . WILLIAM H, SPOKANE,, proprietor of the hotel. MRS. WILLIAM H. M'GKANE. EDWARD DEMOItEST, porter. CHARLES WORKMAN, traveling man of Pierson. The financial Joss is about $22,000. SAYS HE WAS SWINDLED J. B. Rofaon Lost $1,000 to Detroit Co. Young; Man Who Came Here from "' Dillon, : H." C to Sell Perfumery Thinks He Made Worse Thau a Bad Bargain. Mr. J. 13. Robeson, a 'young man who Eiive mi a good position in Dillon, S. C. und ca'me to Raleigh to represent a' be- troll', company, believes that he hni been swindled of Jl.ClXi. and Is trying to recover at leant a part of this sum. Mr. Robeson went from Dillon to De troit and made a contract- with the Ely-, sian Manufacturing Company to .sdl erfuuiery in the' .territory, of North sU).k; nf .'S00lk sai,i ;U) be v.-orth $l,fiB0. Mr. lit ibosoii c.ime to Raleigh and i an oflice in the Carolina Trust j opened Building. He found no market, for th goods he had, and the SILH per month was not fortlicoming. After some de lay, Mr. Robesoti emi'loyed Mr.. Charles I '. Kan is us his eminse! to buing suit against the company. Mr. Harris, upon investiiratioii, found three or four other men in similar position: with .Air. I i'bo latter claims that the I Itobeson. ,-;oods suiipliid him, and valued at not - worth $2.H. - Mi- M.'.ri-i' ittf.po-v ir Is K;li(l. lli'VI'ioOC.i "" .. .... . u tlm' already in.niv than, twenty suns iuul teen mmituiotl ugamsi ine wii'iu . I rl t -iv! h llot l c, i t n , i 1! ,-; ,,,, ,.,. '.. ' niixtufi re nsoi-i-tor. The- latter. 1H now ciuiduetlng.ini investigation. WESTERN RAILROADS FACE LABOR FAMINE ''. (Dy the --Assor-iu'ted Pros.-).) ; Chicago. March 16. Weslcrn railroads are facing a labor famine. Twenty-five thousand men are needed in the- north western and southwestern stales to build the roads that are already under are needed by the Western Pacific, the i new Gould line to Southern California, pand they .are offering men $2 to $2.25 a day for unskilled labor, with the chance of steady work until the cold weather sets in again next fall. I (Special to Th? Evening Times.) Wilmington, X. C, March 1C The funeral of Mrs. Cora M. Pender, widow of the late S. T, Pender, for nierly of Oxford, was conducted from st - Jame8 Episcopal church yesterday THE NANTUCKET IS BAD OFF (By the Associated Press.) ' Newport, II. I., March IS. Wireless communication between the Nantucket Shoals lightship and the torpedo sta tion here has been interrupted since yesterday. It is thought that the high gale with thick snow curried away the lightship's wireless apparatus, which lias been set up after having .been blown down by last week's gale. The last message received from the lightship reported that her boiler tubes j were leaking, and that one of her crew f had gone insane as a result of the hard- I ships resultingu from a long period of violent weather HE HELD HIGH RANK Author of Anti-Jewssli Circu- Iars Arrested . League Levi',-!!', Also Leader of (lie of Hie Kussian People," Was an Employe of the Ministry of the Interior Will ISe Prosecuted. (Hy'the Associated Pres.:.) Petersburg; March 10-.- St. The author of the anti-Jewish circulars was M. Levroff, au employe of the ministry of the interior, holding a rink in the official hierarchy equiva- lent to counsellor of state. He is the leader of the "I.eagle of the Russian People." He he dismiss! ,frcm and will be prosecuted. I , The of ))e;lSilnt eIec. . , , ;, ; . .. . tl0,ls has bee completed in twenty eight- provinces, and m the work- jniens' elections the first stage has ended in ten provinces and six towns, In many cases no returns have been pumisneci nr.i. tne Keen tspeeen) over and killed on the Asheville divi claims to have authentic information si0Il( 01. j, is s0sed that he was showing that the peasants in seventy- j UiKecI by a train. . The autopsy two 'districts elected progressive dole-' showed the stomach filled with gates against forty-eight conserve-1 whiskev, and that the man a short i tives. Election rows occurred at various places, At i orznon. piovmce of Tver, the marshal of the nobility was compelled to close a small land owner's Msembly .because the elec K.. insisted that non-registered per- SPns participating. In the i,. . ,. .- , .... , i ot'" oooi oil 1 K o.iftiiu:L Mil; nuij,uiuii ) 'took the elections inlo their own'ii ". ,Io -Mw urnrxulr nl MI, Hi inclU tit universal suffrage. TO IM GRAVES OF CONFEDERATES (liv the As o. iaifd Pi vsi:) . . Wa Hot I iliington, March 16. o one! E -of Beaufort, S, C., formerly a representative in i; mgre.ss-. from . that state, has bten selected by ;-'icrelary Tuft t'j he a conimissioner to .real k the ! graves of confederate s ddiers wlo dkd in -'northern, -prison)-', Tli( i s . has . been Ue:. n competition for --,,l r.lo,.u .. ll. .,,.,1 f ti, ..,.-. ...v v..., v.. v-w . W1 r ! : 1 1 ." 'dtpr:ins. ( 'oil inf1 VI lln' I : (served .-for fourteen years tn' 'congress, ! and is a distinguished lawyer. He is a veteran of the -confederate army, iphia. She was built in 1904 at a having served under General t-jtephen 'cost of seventy-five thousand dollars. D. Lee, and gaining his promotion tu The. Clvde Line steamer Navahoe, tlu ci.lo:ulcy by gallantry-1 1 action at'whlch Was recently driven aground Vicksburg. He was pros3nt i:i all of. ,, bfl. d subaequentlv the great battles in Irglnia up to. . . . 186$. at' wlilch time he was transferred i0 atter much or her cargo was to the west. . He was present at the battles of Vicksbur Harrisonburg, Franklin, New- Atlanta. : Jonesboro, Bern, Nashville and Dentonvllle, in the last of which he was wounded. BiiUcr I p. (Special to The Evening Times.) Durham, N. C, March lb. This afternoon the first baseball game of ithe season will be played at Trinity Park, between the Trinity team smd the team from the Trinity '. Park srlinnl The teams have both been work tnem. trinity park though light. Is sirring. test is expected. school team, A-lively c on- Result of Accident Near.President Will Take Further Swannanoa Station SOME ARE INTERESTING! One Man Asked $500 Because His Face Whs Skinned, But It Was Found tlic Cuts Were From a Ra zor While Shaving. (Special to. The Evening Ti-.n-s.) Asheville, March 16. As a result of the accident near Swannanoa Sta tion on February IS. when three trainmen were killed, but no pas- senger) seriously hurt, the South ern Hallway has been threatened with a number of suits. One passen ger, the extent of whose injuries was a bruised finger and a slight bruise on the forehead, has instituted suit. He demanded as a compromise $500. This the road declined to pay, but .lid offer $50 to end the suit to avoid litigation. The amount was rejected. Another man wrote the Southern tusking $500.. He alleged that he was ' hurt skinned about I lie face. An investigation revealed the fact that ! prior to boarding the train he had put. jjs face twice with a razor while slaving and was using these cuts as ! alleged injury. His claim was re - fused and th reason stated. He hasn't been heard from since. A third "proposed suit ngaints thei road by reason of the accident will I probably be brought through the, en- fergy and effort.! of a lawyer not j resident, of Aslicvtlle. This suit, however, will f.n-nish considerable j interesting reading. It is declared j that the -.proposed plaintiff to tho i suit was approai l:e'l. by the lawyer and urged to hi i r.g t lie suit, ine mail approached ;;t J.jd that he was not injured, whereupon the lawyer insisted that it might he possible to show injury and the suit may., be brought. Another curious suit, against the Southern is now pending in one of j ,he wieslel.n rounties Th ; tj,eNcase ihese: A mat The facts in in was run j time prior to his death was seen in , an intoxicated condition. A letter j was taken .from his pocket in which ! a member, of I he family had written telling the 'man not to come horn::. His continued drunken condition had turned the family against him He i,..,, p.,,i,i , ,,,., f.jmilv imu ,tiin.4i i" .j...,i,,v ........, ...... alia ed they were -instrumental , .. - 111 1 1 ! ) V 1 1 1 f 1IO VJ ( V,' il leilll Oil the chain gang shortly prior'to his death. After the death, however, the estate j T .vi-.l.T ot.fl ... cult fnf i "'"- "T , v. ' . (laniages o. leaon 01 uib ulhlii vxio- instil uted. Not satisfied with the one suit, however, a second suit was in- stituted and this v second mental anguish. for 'OCR MASTED SCHOONER Tl XXELL WAS ABANDON El). (Special to The Evening Times.) Wilmington, X. C, March 10.- The handsome four-masted schooner, Myrtle Tunnell, which went aground on Frying Pan shoals last 'Friday morning, has been practically aban doned. The cantain. G. S. Jeffries. l. . ,.,. nt ,n ,,., ).,.!,, """ "- ""- ""'v U'l1,innn (,.)., .f l-O l)lilllgwu. uao', uifu v1 ncii. north by. .rail.;: The schooner is owned by George A. lunneli of Philadel- jettied, has reloaded ana sailed for York. CONVICTED OF REXTIXO HOUSES FOR BAD PURPOSES, (Special to The Evening Tims.) Asheville, N. C March 16. In "le Police couu jesteruay Mrs. ioa ie'W antl alrs- i-i.ie eevier were .convicted ot renting nouses to women r immoral, purposes auu iiaw ou each and cosls. Umpire Signs. -I (By the Associated Pre.-tM.) San Jose. Cal., March 16. Um pire Jack Sheridan lias announced that he has signed bis 1906 contract with tlie American League and will leave for the east uext week. Time to Decide A STATEMENT ISSUED Justice Crown's Retirement in June Will lie Followed By Vacntion Till October Says Several Names, In cluding That of Tai't, Have Been I'nder Consideration. (By the 'Associated Press.) Washington, March 16. Secretary. Taft'was in consultation with Presi dent Jtoosevelt for some time this morn ing. No decision has been reached re garding his acceptance of a place on the supreme bench, probably none will be reached for some .time. President Roosevelt later authorized the issuance of the following statement regarding the successorship of Justice frown in the supremo court of the United Stales: "As Mr. Justice Brown will not retire until June, when the supreme court will take a vacation until the second Mon day in October, and no public incon venience can arise from a vacancy con tinuing through the vacation, the presi- ! ue"1 lu,lJ,cl u-" j l,le 'tuestion of Mr. Justice Drowivs sue- cessor. Several names, including that of Secretary Tuft, have been under con- sideration, but no decision has been reached or is likely to be reached or an nounced in the near future." Secretary Taft went to the war department for a few moments be fore the meeting of the cabinet. When asked his intentions he direct ed his inquirer to the statement is sued from the white house saying that was the expression of the presi- dent's views, and that his (Taft's) Hps were sealed: all that he could say was that the matter was indefi nitely postponed.' STEAMER IS AGROUND British Vessel Near Atlantic The ("carouse, Para for .New Vurk, Ma'-yBe Floated at High Tide Passengers Landed This After noon May Suve tlie Cargo. ',;,; (i:y Atlantic tin; Associated Press.) City; X. J.. March 16. The Itritish sieumer Cearense. from Para T for New York, struck on the shoals be tween the Toms River life savins sta tion and Island Reach today, and is still hard aground.'; Tho. vessel at once signalled for assistance, and the wreck ing tug North America, which was lying at the Delaware Breakwater, was ordered to proceed with all possible speed to the aid of the steamer. The sea is smooth, and it Is believed that the steamer will be floated at high tide. Life savers were able to reach the ves sel, but the passengers and crw still remain on board. Captain Mason said that the passengers became panic stiickken when the Cearense struck the sandy bottom, but were soon calmed. The Cearense appears to be lying easy, and, it is said, it is not leaking. The vessel i.s 269 feet in length, and is owned by R. Singlehurst & Co., of Liv erpool. The vessel carries twenty-one passen gers and a general cargo. The passen gers will be landed on the beach this afternoon. It is not thought that it will be necessary to jettison the cargo. JIMMIE BRETT AND KID HERMAN SIGN (Ily the Associated Press.) Toledo, (., March 16. Articles of agreement iesuring a tight between Jimmie Britt of San Franc-bo an. Kid Herman of .Chicago have been signed by both principals and for warded to .Manager McCreary of the Pacific Coast Cub. The fight wiP oc cur the first week in May in Los An geles, both men to weigh in at 130 pounds at 6 o'clock. Herman signed the papers today a'fter Britt had signed I hem Inst week and posted his certi fied check as a guarantee of ood faith, i Frozen Hydrants Before Day Make Hardships DRIVEN INTO THE SNOW More' Than a Hundred Tenants of a Flat House, Half Dressed or in Night Clothes, Went to Koof ia Six Indies of Snow Risked Lives to' Escape Snow. (By' Hie Associated Press.) Now York, March 16. Nine fires, none of them particularly serious, as far as financial loss is concerned, but which resulted in great hardship to tenants and firemen because of the frozen hydrants, occurred in New York city just be:ore daylight today. More than one hundred tenants of a flat house in west Fifty-third street were driven, either half dressed or jin their night clothes, upon the roof jof the building, where the snow was : nearly six inches deep, and from I which they could not escape, i A peculiar feature of this fire was the fact that the building was at no time in serious danger from the 'flames, and yet many persons risked jtheir lives on account of the snow 'in which ; they were compelled to stand for about fifteen minutes be fore firemen with ladders were able to take them all off the roof. The fire was ' in the basement and the smoke drove them to the roof. Six of the other fires were in build ings occupied for business purposes. The most spectacular of these was a fire on the top floor of a seven story building at east Nineteenth street. An old inn, known as the Hotel Ar den oa 225th street was also de stroyed. The ninth fire destroyed a private residence on Staten Island. The total loss from all the fires was estimated at about thirty thousand dollars. . ' V ' i MURDER THE CHARGE i Prominent Physician of Nash vlile Arrested Dead Body. .of .'Mrs. Itosa Manguni, a Beautiful and Socially Prominent Wonmis. Found in the Ohio. Her Brother Swore Out the' Warrant. (l!y the Associated Press.) . Nashville, '-Tenn.;' March 1G. Dr. Herman Feist was arrested here to- ! day charged with the murder of Mrs. I Rosa. Vtansnim. whose dead body 'was found in the Ohio at Cairo, ill., j about, six weeks ago. ! ...Mrs. Mangrum left Nashville Do i comber 14 last, ostensibly for a visit j to St. Louis. ' Feist is a prominent physician of Nashville and his arrest caused a j sensation. The warrant for the ar rest was sworn out by Chester, Ma son, '-a' brother ot the dead woman. Mrs. Mangrum was a beautiful wo man and was related to prominent families in this city and throughout the state. Plague at Sydney. (!!y the .Associate .1 Pros.) Sydney, New South . Wales, March 16. The plague has reappeared hnre. Two cases were reported yesterday and three inoiv- were discovered today in the same block of houses. THE SPRING TRADE PROSPECTS GOOD (F'.y the Associated Press.) New York. March 16. Dispatches lo Dun's Review indicate that favorable progress continues lo be made in trade, and prospects for th" spring reason arc regarded with 'much confidence. "Bank Clearings are reduced in vol ume compared with Hi" hvavy aggre gate of Uk: past three or four months, and at some cities, notably at'. New York, theie Is a loss compared with tho last year, total exchanges for the week for all 1ea.ding United States cities being $2,531,388,730. a decrease of 6.S per cent compared Willi lhe corres ponding week last year. "You Sit an Enthroned Des pot," to Cannon YOU CRACK YOUR WHIP A Rubber Bill Was Up,' ami Its '-.. Author, Brooks of Colormlo, Was Said to Have Crept Into the Speak er's Private Room, There to Suji plicate for His Grace. (By the Associated Press.) Washington, March 16. Before proceeding with the legislative bill the house today considered a bill per mitting the leasing of five thousand acres of arid lands in La Plata coun ty, Col., to the P. F. U. Rubber Com pany for the purpose of the cultiva tion of the rubber plant. Mr. Brooks (Col.) explained that there was evidence of a rubber famine in tnis country; that last year 73,000,000 pounds of rubber was im ported and that the price had In creased three hundred per cent dur ing the past three years. The land in question, he said, was unfit for agricultural purposes and had no mineral value. Mr. Gaines (Tenn) proposed an amendment to prevent the "rubber trust" from getting control of the enterprise. Mr. Shackleford (Mo.) -was given permission to discuss the bill- and be gan to criticise Speaker Cannon re garding the statehood question. He was stopped before he had proceeded far and the objection was fatal to further consideration of the bill. Be fore referring to the statehood mat ter Mr. ShacUleford had this to say about the manner in which Mr. Brooks got his bill up: "The gentleman was not recog nized until he had first surrendered nis constitutional rights as a repre sentative of the people and crept Into your private room, Mr. Speaker, there to supplicate you to extend to him your grace. "No member can submit any mat ter to a vote of the house until he shaii have first sought and found favor in your sight. The constitu tion contemplates that the speaker shall be the servant of the house. In defiance of the constitution you have made yourself its master. You have packed every commmittee so that no bill can be reported without your consent. Unless you are willing that no member can move to discharge a committee from the consideration ot a bill and take it up in the house. "You sit an enthroned despot sub jecting the rights and destinies of this great people to the dictates of your own unbridled will, I "Who stands today between a pro ! gressive, enlightened people and the ' statehood to which they are entitled? You, sir. Only you. You crack jyour whip and a majority of Ihis ' house cowers at your feet. You turn your thumbs down and tho house deals a death blow to prostrate, , bleeding Oklahoma." I Here Mr. Shackleford said he had I read in the morning papers that "Un cle Joe" had given it out flat-footed that he would not permit the house to concur in the senate amendment on the statehood bill, and then pro ceeded: "What a horrible announcement to be made in a free country." The confusion in the house throughout Mr. Shackleford's re marks was such that very few mem bers know what he had said, when Mr. Tawney stopped him with an ob jection. Just before the legislative bill as lak.Mi up the house agreed not to meet tomorrow. When the appropriation bill w as made the order Mr. Kelfer (O.) con tinued his speech in favor of restrict ing southern representation. In advocating the restriction of im migration Mr. Houston (Tenn.) as serted if the present ratio of acquisi tion of population continued, In 136 years the United Stales would have as dense -u population as China. TUCKER WRIT OF ERROR DENIED. (Bv the Associated Press.) Washington, March 16. Justice Harlan of the supreme court of the United States today denied the writ of error applied for in -the case of Charles L. Tucker, under sontence of death on the charge of murdering Miss Mabel Page at Weston, Mans., in March, 1004. v