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t Full Leased Virc Service of the Associated Press. Leads all North Carolina Af ternoon Papers in Circulation. LAST EDITION. ALL THE MARKETS. THE RALEIGH EVENING TIMES. VOLUME 27. : RALEIGH, N. C, FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 1906. PRICE 5c. PREMINARY HEARING OF MR. I T. N0RR1S BURGLARS KILL A PRIVATE CAR GIVING INSURANCE MONEY FOR PRESIDENT TO CAMPAIGN LARCENY MILLIONS HALF F0R1IST0WN THE WATCHMAN Before Magistrate Separk on;PARKER9S MAN Charge of Arson by In surance Commissioner 4- H OF WIT NESSES EXAMINED Kvldencp of Walter 15. Jones, Who Keslded Last Yenr At the W. II. Xorris House; ,1. J. Thomas, Who Pawned the Iluu.se on Kvening !' Fire; Mrs. Kmily Woinaek, Who Was At Neighboring House the Night It Burned; S. M. Upchuich, AVho LWetl Half 3111c From Norris House. Mr, M. T. Norris, the Raleigh mer chant, who was arrested on a warrant sworn out by the state insurance com missioner and placed under a $1,000 bond on the charge of burning the : Norris country place, which was in sured for $500 in the North Carolina Homo Insurance Company, had his preliminary examination before a magistrate this afternoon. The preliminary hearing was to have been held before Magistrate I). G. Conn, but. upon affidavit by the defendant the trial was moved to Magistrate C. A. Separk. Both sides had array of counsel. Representing the prosecution, the state, were Solicitor Armistead Jones, , Col. John W. Hinndalo and Mr. F. S. Spruill of Louisburg. The lawyers for the defendant were Mr. J. X. Holding, Mr. S. G. Ryan and Messrs. . Harris- Harris. Tho -attorneys for the North Carolina Home Insurance Company were hot. present and took no part In this proceeding which was --Instituted by the state. Insurance Commissioner Young and his assistant, Captain Scott, wore of course on hand, and the array of witnesses and spectators -crowded the police court, where the hearing took1 place. Mrs. M. S. Calvert wns sworn as stenographer to take the testi mony. The witnesses called and sworn for the state were E. G. Womble, Walter B. Jones, J. J. Thomas, Emily Womack, W. C. Booth, W. II. Cross. J. W. Womble, Cbas. Root, Charles Briggs, Roht. Street (colored), T. Y. Minis, J. I). Mclver, S. M. Upchuich, Jno. Collins, H. J.- Cross, Alex. Webb, A. N. McLean. The first witness was Walter I!. Jones, now of Burlington, formerly of I.ockville and New Hill. Last year he resided a whilo at the old W. H. Norris place. Ho moved from there October 1, but his household goods remained there until Novem ber 8. Mr. Jones is a first cousin of Mr. M, T. Norris, the defendant. The witness described tho - Norris' house as a six room two story house with kitchen annex on the southeast corner and faced north. He gave in detail the arrangements in the house. There was also an old smoke house about thirty; feet from the house. When the witness moved away he left nothing in tho house 'except' iu old lounge With a torn up, worn out mat tress on it,, It was left in the, north east corner -6f ' the kitchen. The house was old and in bad condition, which he described minutely. He had visited the place, since the lire. On cross examination he said the main body of the house was, he thought, about 16x30, and the two shed rooms about 12x11 feet. He gave his rough estimate of tho lum ber in tho destroyed building and tho prices of lumber of this character last November. He left the door to , the kitchen latched but not. locked. On redirect .examination the wit ness said the timber in tho house, in its condition las fall, was not worth much,' probably some of it from one third to one-half the price of new lumber. -.'-.. .1. J. Thomas was the second wit ness. He lives in Haywood, about sevon miles from tho W. H. Norris house. He owned a tract adjoining tho Norris oiace. and for four years, until last fall, ho leased the Norris land. It was not cultivated last yeor. He surrendered the lease November , l, last, and settled with Mr. M. T. Norris. He made Mr. Norris an offer f 1 ono for the place, which em braced between 40 and GO acres of On the day tho house was burned he was passing about 7 o'clock in the evening and he saw a ngni. joolted like a candle light, in the (Continued on Second Page.) Charlotte's Mayor Says Tomp kins is the Man , In Interview With Churlotte Xews Reporter Muyor McNinch Declares Mr. Tompkins the Logical Candi" date for the Presidency in 108. (Special to The Evening Times.) Charlotte, March 23. In an in terview yesterday afternoon with a Charlotte News reporter, Mayor S. S. McNInch advocated Mr. D. A. Tomp kins of this city for the democratic candidate for the presidency in 1908. The interview grew out of the recent utterances of Judge Alton B. Parker, who stated that the next democratic nominee should be a southerner. Mayor McNinch says that Mr. Tompkins is the logical candidate. He country as a captan of industry, and country as a captai nof industry, and lie is well informed and practical far above the average man. being an easy match for the best brain and talent of the country. ; DECLARE TRUCE WITH MR. ROCKEFELLER Illy the Associated Picks.) New Vcirk. March Ki, Fear of a sub. poena which .would compel him to ;e, ufy in the procei'iLnss brought by the 'state- of MI;ourl ag.iinst the .Standard Oil Company need not pre vent John IV Hock-feller. f::oTi visiting- his 'youngest grandson, John 11. ttoekcfellcr lit. if he chooses to do s:. Attorney: General Hadlry of Musauil, who i'! here proiecullng thff suit hi ought by his Mate, announce! -today thai lie Is. willing .'to d, chirp a tiucc V -Mr. llo.'kefiilcr wlfhes in return, to New Y.rk I" sc hi i '.' gi nndson. I e.on'-r think I wi'l need the testi mony of Mr. 'Ito-ckcfeller.'.; anyway," Mr. Hartley continued, 'if I can g. t the inToi-mata):! I want from tlie o:!n r witnesses t expect to examine. .'I hi coui is have ordered them to answer :oy qucsCons, : and .1. haw not tlu slightest ;doul)t they wi.l (1.) so.".. . STRANDED TRYING TO FLOAT SCHOONER lliv the Associate Pre '. ) Norfolk, Va.. March 23. -Tho Nor folk tug Asher J. Hudson, working in an effort to float the schooner Fan nie Palmer, stranded at Little Island, fourteen miles south of Cape Henry, was at midnight herself : driven ashore near the Palmer. .The Little Island life savers have :-.et up their beach apparatus to res cue the crew, but the latter up to this Unto have refused to leave tho Hud son.:;'. NOTED WOMAN DOCTOR DEAD. ( liy tie Associated Press.Y .Denver,.; Colo., March 2 :i. - Dr. Jessie M. ' McGregor, a noted Scotch physician, died at her home in this city last night after a five days' ill ness of 'cercbro spinal mlningltis. Dr.. McGregor ranked among the best of women physicians .ond won distinction at Edinburgh, Leipsic and Paris, where she pursued her studies. She was the possessot of the highest degree ever attained by a feminine physician. - .- - ' GOV. PATTISON GROWS WEAKER. (Rv the Associated Pr-ss ) Columbus. O., March 23. The physi ch.DM Httendine Governor Patllsou re fused this forenoon to say whether he was worse or butter. His son has been summoned home from college. It was said that an official bulletin would be I Issued by the doctors early this after- j noon. At noon the following bulletin was ; Issued; j "Since midnight Governor Pattisort hua cmwn more restless and there has developed some oedema at the base ot 1 1 1 11.. 1 , o a on n lllrl f 1 , 1't ll n J loss of strength. Temperature 102; pulse 130; respiration 28. (Signed) "v. 3 wit sriv. I "OLIVER P. HOLLAND." Bank in New York BATTLED WITH FIVE A Fusillade of Shots Followed, and I lie Constable Was Killed. Rob bers Fled After the Shooting, Leav ing the Drill in the Safe. (By the Associated Press.) Rochester, N. Y., March 2a. Ed ward Pullman, a constable and night watchman at Sodus, was murdered early today by burglars whom he dis covered in tho act of rifling the Knapp bank of that village. . The burglars first visited the Rome, Walertown & Ogdensburg Railway depot, where they blew open tho large sale, stole a small sate and ' " They secured only a small mount Of money. 1 hen they went to the Knapp bank, They were drilling a hole in the! safe when discovered by Pullman. Al- though five men were engaged in the! job Constable Pullman fearlessly en-1 tered the bank and gave battle. A ! fusillade of shots followed during i which M he constable was instantly I killed by 4 bullet. After the shoot- in liie robbers fled, leaving the drill;.,. ,.!, .nui,i t.nnrovfn1 in the safe, When Constable Pull man did not reach his home at the usual time the family became alarm ed and a search was made but it was not until two hours later that a bank employe found the body. Tho robbers were traced to Roches-1 ter where they separated. Detectives j are on the trail. ' i 3 FREIGHTS MIX UP! Reports of Serious Wreck at ' fifihPn Inil : . .. UUiiUbll) HIUi . ' ' " ' .' '. .Many Livestock Cars Smashed- and li::rsc XumliiT of Hoj-s Killed. Five Kmployes Reported Injured. ...(py. the -Associated Press.) Cleveland, O., March 23. OITlcial of ' ihe.'.-.LaUcsnore and Michigan Southern Railroad have received rc pos of a serious freight wreck which occurred early today at Go shen, Ind. Three freight Irains wen; involved j in t ho wreck. -.."An east bound freight ' train containing a number of 'cars of j livestock -'Htopped for water and was run into by a second train, demolish- itig many cars aim Killing a nirse number of hogs. Some of the wreck ed cars were thrown over on to the westbound track, and were run into by a third freight train. It Is reported that live railroad em- elm -en were In lured. The wreck ; is ! one of the most serious from a finan cial standpoint that the road lias ex perienced in some time. Officials here now state that only three. men were injured. They were ,1. II. Sinioii, conductor, seriously bruised and internally injured, A. IJ. Merrick, engineer, badly bruised, and l-V 13. Hall, brnkeman, leg injured, all of tho train that stopped for water. Three engines and fil'tesn cars were wrecked. - STANDARD OIL MEN FAILED TO RESPOND (Hy tho Associated Press.) : New York. Jlareh 23-Henry M. Til ford and J. C. Arnold, of the Stand ard Oil Company, were declared in de fault whtn they failed to appear today before Commislsoner Frederick H. San born in the action brought by Attorney General- Herbert S. Hadiev, of Mis souri, to oust from Missouri the Stand ard Oil Company of Indiana and com panies alleged to be controlled by .lt. When the commissioner appeared to re sume the hearing today, counsel! (of both the Standard Oil Company and Mr. Hadley corao before him and announced that a stipulation has been signed be tween Mr, HadleJ and counsel for tho Standard Oil Interests providing for a resumption for the hearing tomorrow morning. is Of This Sum $250,000 Direct Appropriation 400,000 FOR A PIER For Government Kuildings $250,000, Government JTCxnibitH $1200,000; Rendezvous For Army and Xavnl OHIcers .ISSO.OOO, For Knlisted Men $100,000. (By the Associate;! Press.) Washington, March 23. The house committee on industrial arts and expositions decided today to rec ommend a total appropriation of $1, 4S0.O0O for the Jamestown exposi tion. Or this sum $250,000 is a di rect appropriation. The exposition sought a direct 'appropriation of $1, .000.000. '' or tne construction ot a pier at tiie exposition grounds $u",nuu was I annroved and other items were aereed i ,,",, ,lu fnllnwH- Government buildings $250,000; government exhibits $200,000: ren dezvous for army and naval officers o0,(l00: rendezvous for enlisted men . .$100,000; . transportation for soldiers and arms $100,000; for an exhibit of negro development $100,- j 000. ;. The proposed appropriation., of iSJOftilO xnnirht I'm- Imildini' a flier t '.he island was : -referred to a sub committee', which will investigate what rights the government will have on the island, which Is owned chiefly -by privau.1 parties. In case ihe government .can improve the is iarid on 'satisfactory., terms this ap propriation doubtless' will be agreed upon. Under the head of governnient I h.i.l.linir.i ' .1..': .-,., i,,.,n avfl o be the following: Main government building, colonies innex, aquarium, geological r,urye. building and HI'o-saving station. The exhibit s.-.f of. which the gov rnmont is to expend $200,001) will j include: I. If(? saving, public health i'and .marine-' hospital service, army, navy and light: house, wireless tele graph, fisheries,. Smithsonian Instt t ute, national museum and library of congress . ELEVEN BODIES FOUND Ten Miners Stiil Missing at Century Mostly Foresners liodics Torn ami Dui'ued from Head to' Fool,. Mak ing Ideal ifical ion Very Hard l-it-tie Hope Tli'ht the Oviicrs Kscaped With TUeir Lives. (liy t'-c Associated I'res; ,) G rati on, W. V., March 2::.- T.ven-y-one miners are 'believed to have lost 'their lives in yesterday's mine explosion at Century, W. Va. Eleven bodies had been recovered at noon today and ten mon are still missing. Those not yet accounted tor are thought to be dead in the mine. ' . .- It is Impossible to give the names of Ihf dead, but they are known to be mostly foreigners, as very few 'Americans were employed in the mine. The "bodies recovered were torn and mangled and in , many cases work of identification very hard. From the. fierce force of tho exploson, as evidenced by the ruin wrought in the shaft, there is little hope that thej missing ten escaped with their lives. The explosion is supposed to have been caused by an ac.cuniulation of pliers or New ork. itroppeu oeaii io imtiirnl ens and occurred in the "A" day while attending the funeral of his lrt.,,1 ..r n.rt u'.x.nfift unnth nmin nne . IUIIU 1,1 ......... ... of the men in the "A" lend escaped. Rescuers ore working heroically to reach' flic missing men, but the largo amount of gas still in the mine tvakes the work dangerous and re ta'ds Its progress. 1fhe mine was equipped with all modern mprovements, having every thing which could ; bo expected to coutributo to the safety of the em nloves. Many of the dead leave large fanii- lies and the anguish and distress to been seen on all sides is pitiful in the , extreme. Mr. Gaines Would Provide FATAL POINT OF ORDER! Mr. Haitluick of Georgia Could Not See Why White House Were So High and Mighty That Requested Appropriations Must Not Be Ques tioned. (By the Associated Prc-s ) Washington, March 23. The leg islative bill was taken up by the house today, and Mr. Gaines (Tenn.) offered an -amendment' providing $100,000 for a private car for the president. It made no difference whether the president was on an official trip or on a bear hunt, Mr. Gaines suggested, he ought, to he made comfortable. A point, of order by Mr. Littauer was fata! to the proposHoin, although he recognized its probable necessity. Mr. Babcock (Wis. ) asked Mr. Lit (nucr if he did not think it wise for this congress to provide a private car for the president. l! mifvlif lw v-nv. tho nnvivfr hut if so it ought 'to be properly consid- i ,0"lh of ,h XVost River in the prov uro. ! ince fo Kwangtung, is the great sea Mr. Hardwick (Ga.) congratulated j port of southern China. Mr. Liitiiuer in making the point off :, order. He said Ihe conlingi'iil fundi for the president was increased in Ihe bill, and if he did not think ho would he overruled, he. would make a. point of order against, the increase. He admitted his bump of reverence might not be well developed, but he could not see why every one connect ed with the White House was so high and -. mighty thai no questions could be asked regarding the nesd for re quested appropriations. RESCUED CREW ARRIVES Schooners Collide Off Sandy j The Lcjok Struck Helow Water-Line in Collision With Unknown' Four vaster .".nd Was Abandoned in : Sinking Condition. . (i;:.- liiv Associated 1'icss.) . . Doston, Mass., March 23. The '-Doston & Philadelphia Steamship Company's steamer .Persia, which urrived here to day.' Crom- I'hiladelphia, bad on board the captain and crew of six men of the schooner Lejok, which was in col lison yesterday moining off Sandy Hook with on unknown four masted .teliooner. The Lejok was struck below the Water line and all her head gear was carried away. She was- In a sink inir ronilitioii when abai'idoned by her crew, who were (licked up later by Persian. the Vineyard Haven, Mass., March .23. With a big bole in her port bow, the big schooner Governor Aves put in here today and reported that she was in col lision early yesterday morning with nnAnAonn VTTfV three masted sc hooner about twenty- JTKUi'UCtXiU J! iSxXt two miles southwest of Fire Island. It DEPARTMENT BILL. is believed here that the three masted! was the Lejok. the crew ot which were .i,,,,,,; N M;m 'i l:: - While landed in Boston today by the steamer .. h,a v;o,,u',.n.sid.n-t .j; i. MeXdH Persian, having abandoned their vessel I f ,,,,, N-,,,.;)l -r;1,;ia FirftmcnVAssVi after a collision with a large schooner ci;uji,,, . tl, y,,ur correspondent yesterday morning off Sandy Hook. -. uhHV. when Ihe next legislature con- . j vein-il h would urge that body .to pi;9 DROPPED DEAD AT SISTERS FUNERAL '-,' (Uy' the "'Associated Press.) Fasten, Pa., March 23. George Cy- I it,-. -Mt- Cvnhiivs ii n)ie.'i.iefl to be in SISlel . Ml good health when lie reached here, but i at the sight of his sister's corpse he reoliwl miH fell He was dead When Ili3 relatives reached his side. -! Hell Improvements. (Special to Thjn Kver.ing Times.) i Charlotte, .N". - C., March SJ. ino Southern Bell Telephone Company will at an early dato make extensive im provements in the Charlotte service. It is stated that $40,000 will be expend ed in the extension of the aerial and underground connections. Already there ore several subway cables, but they ., h. pxtpnilPd underground to tho edges of the city, and the aerial lines will be very much improved. PIRATES LOOT LAUNCH Of Standard Oii Company Near Canton I' lilted States Gunboat Callao Pro ceeding to Scene of Piracy Pi rates (tot .Many Winchester Rifles and 1,000 Hounds of Ammunition. (Uy the ' Aso-uiiateil Pi ess.) Hong Kong, March 23. A launch owned by the Standard Oil Company was seized and looted by pirates near Canton yesterday. The pirates se cured a number of Winchester rifles anil a thousand rounds of ammuni tion. The I'nited States gunboat is pro ceeding to the scene of the piracy. i The gunboat Callao is attached to j the Asiatic squadron flee! and com imanded by Lieutenant Robert 'W. i Henderson. She is of steel, having 'a dh placement of two hundred tons jand carries six guns. She has a (speed of ten knots an hour, i Canton, in the vicinity of. which llhe launch was attacked, near the COLONIZE MEN WHO ARE PAST AGE LIMIT! (By the Asxoc-i.iU d Press.) '.-Chicago. March'; 2H. -The anti-age 'limit -league believes that it has solved the problem with men who are -unable to obtain employment in Chicago be cause they have passed the "ago limit." If plans now under way was successful such men are to be sent in' great num bers to colonies In Canada and Florida, where they will become the ministers, the school teachers-or the business men ot the newlv created towns. Negotiations are now being curried on by James F. Downey, president of tho ' league, with the managers of three col I onization projects, one of which ow ns ! land in northwestern ( 'iinadu, -another a j tract three and a half miles from Tam pa, and a third an area on the eastern 'coast of Florida. Towns are to be Ideated here by parties of colonists. WEATHER SETS BACK THE SPRING TRADE (Hy the -Associated Press.) New York, .March. 23. Dispatches to Duns Review Indicate that there hart been a setback in spring trade because of the unfavorable weather, but no de crease appears In manufacturing-activity.'- Richmond reports business for the first, quarter, lamely in excess ot" lust year's, and building operations are heavy, but collections somewhat, irreg ular.: Hank exchanges this week at all lead ing cities in the United States are S2, -27H,4r,l.Cr,!t, an -increase, of 1.1 .per cent, over the corresponding week last year. i legislation similar to that -reenlly p-is.--- -'il by the ' Smith. Carolina legislature. : providing thai. 2 per cen!'.-. of .all pre- i n!IU MS CO CCLCil ui lilt Mi.iiiuuin North Carolina go to the fire orgnni- i tflitiir.M ..I- ihe' iecovnoratcd towns -and cities in I lie slate, the money to ba ap portioned ac: ordins 'to Hie ainount of money 'collected on ..premiums In the va; ions towns and cities.' President McNeill said that the fire companies of Sou til Carolina would derive about SlO.OCn annua ly ly virtue cf the. law just placed on the sl:i','ute books. ! OVJC i. XjJ tlj PRICES RISE. Chicago, March 2:5. Soft coal prices are advahcing daily in Chiea-I go in view of the growing feeling among coal dealers that a strike in' the bituminous regions at. least isj certain. There was littlo western soft coal to be had in Chicago yesterday. ! The price has advanced from $1.10 a ton to $1.60 a ton within the last j fow days. Opinion of O'Snllta, Who Charges Grand Jury to Investigate E BLISS AND CORTELYQU Jerome Does Not Agree With Judge, but Offered to Submit Affidavits as to Acls of (Jeo. W. I'erkhis and Ask for Warrant for His Arrest, and Retain Judge Parker as Spe cial Counsel .Judge O'Sullivan Refused o Grant the Warrant. (liy the Associated Press.) New York, March ''23. The offi cers of life insurance companies who contributed a portion of the cam paign funds to political campaign committees committed larceny, in the opinion 'of 'Justice O'Sullivan of tho court of general sessions. Justice O'Sullivan expressed his opinion in court today in replying to the presentment submitted to him by the grand jury which is investigating i onic of the' phases of the insurance business which were developed by the legislative insurance Investigat ing committee.: He held that lar ceny was committed by the officers who authorized such contributions, and charged the jury to investigate as to the responsibility for such crimes. .- -- ... -- This opinion is directly Opposite to the bne on the same subject which was submitted to Justice O'Sullivan by District Attorney Jerome several days ago. Replying to Justice O'Sullivan, District .--'Attorney Jerome reiterated his opinion that the acts of the in vestigated insurance officials did not constitute larceny, and told tho court 'that if he maintained his con trary opinion, then it was up to the grand jury to seek cause for indict ments for larceny against George W. Perkins, former vice president of tho New York Life Insurance Company, who admitted giving political contri butions, and against George B. Cor- i lelyou, chairman, and Cornelius . . I Bliss, treasurer of the republican na tional committee, as receivers of stolen goods. District Attorney Jerome said, ad dressing the court:. ':" "if your honor will sit as a magis trate in this case, I will submit affi davits as to the acts committed by George W. Perkins and Will ask for the warrant for his arrest. A writ of habeas corpus will follow, and the case will be taken to the highest court, where i will retain Alton It. Parker as special' counsel." Justice O'Suiiivan refused to grant the warrant. TRIBUTE TO MISS TERRY FROM PROFESSION i : . (Py the Associated Press.) -.. , Now York, March 2'i.- It was un ; nounecd today that a movement has ' been begun among the members of ! tin; theatrical profession in America ! to .contribute' to an Anglo-American testimonial to Ellen Terry, the act- ; ress, on tno occasion oi a juunee , cteL. i.,.. ..(J i I'l'mned on the fiftieth anmversarj of -".her career as an ad ress. A banquet in honor ot Miss rerry will be held in London on April 2S, and a plan has been adopted in Eng land of receiving subscriptions of a shilling each toward a testimonial. To make it of an international char acter Daniel Frohman of the Lyceum theatre, New York, has been appoint ed to reccivo subscriptions of twenty live cents each. Members of every theatrical company in America have been given an opportunity to join In this tribute. Iluncombe Fruit Destroyed. (Special to Tho Evening Times.) Ashovllle, N; C Match 23.-?lie fr.l !of this week lian praetloally destroyed i the . poaches and small trult in Bun- eonih? county. Farmers say that the i peach trees were well in blossom whtn ! the freeze came, and that the fruit jhas been killed.
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