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last EriirioN. , n ALL THE MARKETS. THE KALE EVENING VOLUME 27. 16 PAGES TODAY. RALEIGH, N. C, SATURDAY, MARCH 31, 1906. 16 PAGES TO-DAY. PRICE 5c CHANGES ARE RALEIGH WILL GET CONVENTION MURDER IN THE AMBITION LED TO GREAT EVIL AWFUL DEED OF HALF MILLION MINERS QUIT WORK TONIGHT FIRST DEGREE CRAZY CABMAN Pull teased Wire Service of the Associated Press. Leads all North Carolina Afternoon Papers in Circulation. TIMES. SbwComliiteiliai He fa Accommodate tbe Crowd, that's All HOTELS GIN HOUSE 1,300 WITHOUT A Work That Has Been Done So Far By Secretary Phillips of the Cham ber of Commerce Majority of Ex ecutive Coniniltfcemcn That Have Responded to His Letter Kxpress Themselves as Favoring Raleigh If It Can Ik Shown That the Crowd Will lie Well Accommo dated."' '. ' A reporter for The Evening Times called on Secretary R. M. Phillips of the Raleigh Chamber of Commerce this morning and asked him what had been done so far toward getting the state democratic convention to the capital city. : -. , Mr. Phillips stated that he had wrltteri a personal letter to every member of the executive committee setting forth the fact that 'Raleigh was now prepared to take good care of the convention and . urging the claims of the city to the convention this year. Judging from the replies that had already been received, Mr. Phillips said, it was safe to say that a ma jority of the committee favored Ra leigh provided it could be conclusive ly shown that the hotel and hall ac commodations were sufficient. Mr. Phillips ta'es this to mean that the chances are that the convention will come to Raleigh, '.'For," said he, "Raleigh has three hotels, to say nothirtg-of a list of CO to 60 board ing houses of the first class in my bands now, all of which are pre pared .W. take transient guests and to care for them as they should be cared for when they are in their state's capital. The Yarborough House and the Park hotel, two of the biggest hostelrles in the state, have recently been entirely remodeled and fitted with all the most modern and Improved furnishings and systems of ventilation. "Raleigh's present facilities for accommodating big crowds were amply demonstrated last fall on the occasion or f resiae.m Koosev , vi.it tn the state fair. It was ex-1 nected then that the hotel capacity would surely be overrun, but the im mense crowds were all well taken care of, and the Yarborough and Park hotels still had extra acommodation fnr 100 more guests than they had The records show that 3,000 people were taken care of at that time out side of the hotels. i "The convention will bring 1,000 to 1,200 people to the city, and it will be a simple proposition to take mi-fl of them after that achievmenr last October. You remember that a committee of the chamber of com merce directed that crowd to nomes. It is plausible that If the chamber successfully handled that throng of visitors, most of them Inexperienced in travelling, it will have little dif ficulty In making state convention HoiPimteB comfortable. It has al- rfntermined that the chamber shall have a committee to do similar work to that done so well last October." The reporter asked ' Mr. Phillips what his idea was as to where the convention should be held In this city. He said that he considered that there was little doubt that the Academy of Music was the place for It unless the committee should pre fefone of Raleigh's two big ware houses. He called attention to the fact that the Academy had been only recently remodelled In every respect, pit raised, stage-enlarged new win dows, entrance widened, pillars taken out, seating rearranged, In fact alto gether modernized and splendidly ventilated. It will eat about .1,100 exclusive of stage arids boxes and ex tra, chairs. '.'' :' '' ' The opera house In Greensboro has 936 fixed chairs. . ' ' : ' Manager Cobb of the Yarborough, was seen by the reporter, and asked for a statement of hbw many people they could, accommodate upon the oc casion of the convention. Mr. Cobb stated definitely that 1,200 could be housed easily, without undue" crowd IngT If cots were put In the ball room and- a many as possible in - r , (Continued on Page Two.) AGREEMENT AT LAST On Moroccan Reforms at Algeciras Today Will Be Sanctioned at the Plenary Session of the Conference Today State Hunk of Morocco Agreed Upon, Three Shares fioin to France. (By the Associated Press.) Algeciras, Spain, March 81. The committee of the conference on Mo roccan reforms reached an agreement on all points. This agreement will be sanctioned at the plenary session of the conference tills afternoon. The complete accord resulted from a long conference held this morning between M. Revoil, head of the l-'rench mission," and Count Von Tat tenbach, of the German mission. The division and the policing of tb.e ports of Morocco was arranged as follows: Spain polices Tetuan and Larache; a Franco-Spanish mixed police will be established at Casablanca and Tangier, and a French police force alone will have charge of Mogardo, Sam, Mazugan and Rabat. This gives France four Atlantic ports. The duration of this police agree ment was fixed at five years. Tbe settlement of the question of the state bank of Morocco gives France three shares, including those of the French syndicate. The other nations have one share. Four bank supervisors will be appointed by the Bank of England, the Bank of France, the Imperial Bank of Ger many and the Bank of Spain. TOURIST TRAIN WAS WRECKED , (By the Associated Press. Macon, Ga., March 31. The Chicago & Florida Limi ted on the Southern Rail way, southbound, turned over and rolled down an em- TiTfnfi Ant at HViltnn DanKment ai XXOItOU, eight miles from Macon. It is re ported several have been killed and injured. One body, that of a negro porter, has been taken from the wreck at Holton. Physi cians have been asked for and sent from Macon. All wrecking trains are being sent from Atlanta and Ma corf. The train left Atlanta at 11.40 this morning. The train wrecked at Holton was practically running "empty," as all of the tourist movement at this time is northbound. The Limited is one of the finest trains in the south, its equipment being similar to that of the Palm Limited., from New York to Florida, over the Southern Rail way. The tourist service will be dis continued next week. .At a late hour this afternoon the details of the ac cident were not obtainable. LANDSLIDE WRECK - CLEARED AWAY NOW (Special to The Evening Times.) Asheville, N. C, March 31. The clearing away of the big slide just east of Swannanoa tunnel was ac complished at midnight last night and trains are now running over the Western road on schedule time. The removal of the obstruction in so short a time reflects much credit on the officials of the Asheville divi sion: The slide was one of the most difficult to handle that has occurred in western North Carolina In years. Verdict Returned Against Ben Williams This Morning DEATH SENTENCE LATER Garfield Williams Now On Trial for Murder of Charles Burch Last May Had a Fight - in a Negro Tenement Iron Bars Used Death From Kick in Abdomen. A verdict for murder in the first degree was returned in Wake supe rior court this morning by the jury in the case against Ben Williams for shooting Alex Clark, both negroes, in this city February 19. The case was given to the jury last evening and they were out all night unable to agree as to whether Williams was too drunk at the time of the killing to be wholly responsible for his act and to have premeditated the mur der. tl remains now for the sentence of death to be pronounced by the court in conformity with the verdict of the jury and for the date of the hanging to be fixed. The session of the court today is devoted to the trial of Garfield Wil liams on the charge of murder In that he caused the death of Charlie Burch in this city last May. . Williams and Burch had a fight in a negro tenement on "the Bow ery" last May ana after tne.ngnt complications developed in the inju ries to Burch so that he died a few days later in Rex Hospital. Williams fled and was captured a few weeks ago in Richmond and brought here. Witnesses examined this morning were Zulah Burch, wife of the negro who was killed, Dr. Rogers and Dr. Knox, who attended the injured man land Effle Young, the negro woman in whose presence the fight occurred, j iHer story was that Garfield was in the house when Eurch came in and asked where everybody was. Gar field replied that Ella had gone out and Efllo (meaning the witness) was In the next room. Presently she came out and sat down when Burch slapped her in the face, playfully. Garfield Williams sprang . up and knocked Burch down and kicked him. The witness made Williams stop and went with him in the next room. Burch came in there present ly with an iron bar and she ran out She heard Burch cry out as though ho were hurt and when she ran back in the room Williams hadhim backed up against the wall and had struck him over the head with a bar of Iron, a railroad fish-plate. Williams then pushed Burch out into the yard. He was bleeding from the head. She r.iw nothing else of Burch. Burch had thrown the iron bat1 in the flre placo before Williams put him out. Dr. Rogers and Dr. Knox testified that Burch died of peritonitis, an abscess having formed in the ab dominal cavity after the disease de veloped. This could have been brought about by a kick in the abdo men. The theory of the presecution is that the injury was Inflicted by Williams when he kicked Burch while he was down on the floor. TWO KILLED IN WRECK TODAY (By the Associated Press.) Charlotte, N. C, March 31. In a col lision at Broad river trestle on the Southern Railway. "today Fireman J. W. Ueper of Greenville, S. C, and Brakeman J.. A. Kane of Danville, Va.', were killed. Their bodies are still under the wreckage. Engineer O. L. Wooten of Toccoa, ;Ga., was fatally injured. The accident was due! to six cars breaking from a train at Blacksburg. 3. C. a distance of four, miles from where the wild cars ran Into a south bound freight train. Committee Tells of Abases in Mutual Life CANNOT FIND FIELDS Makes Strong Plea That the Writing of Deferred Dividend Insurance Be Discontinued Straight Talk About Mongrel .Type of Policies Now Being Sold. (By the Associated Press.) New York, March 31. The special committee of the trustees of the Mutual Life Insurance' Company ap pointed to examine Into the company's affairs,"' made' public its .fifth report today. The committee consist of W. H. Truesdale and John V. Auchin eloss, another member, Htuyvcsant .Fish, 'having resigned. The committee finds that its Investi gation thus far leads it to believe "that the troubles which have, befallen the Mutual Life Insurance Company can all be more or less I'hccliy traced to the ambition of its management to equal or excel all others in the amount of insurance it should write and main tain, furthered by its oilier and possi bly controlling desire to be one of the great financial powers of this country." The report says: ' The real purpose of the company's organisation, viz.: to furnish to its afembeis absolutely safe Insurance at the lowest possible cost, seems to have given place to this ambition for power and inlluenee in the business and finan cial world." The company's foreign business, the report sets forth, has been conducted with the same ambition in view, and the general management of the foreign agencies is criticised, the committee saying on this subject: "As an entire propoosition, your com mittee believes and so finds that the company's foreign business has not been remunerative to the company, nor is it ever likely o be, with the possible exception i.an.ed below, and believes steps should be taken by the officials to discontinue the solicitation of new business in foreign countries, excepting possibly Great Britain, Hol land, Belgium, Mexico and France." The committee believes that the most practical means of reducing the undue cost of new business is by placing a limit or such and 'to this end it en dorses the recommendation of the leg islative insurance, investigating com mittee limiting new business written to $1S,000,01 per year. Deferred divi dend policies ale characterized, as "a mongiel type of insurance" and the Truesdale committee declares itself in entire accord with the recommendation of the legislative committee that th? writing of deferred dividend policiey be discontinued. The Truesdale com mittee hesitates to criticise, the invest ments of the company in stocks and bonds and other financial institutions "in view of the satisfactory results threfrom." but favors a limit of the company's holdings of such stocks to 10 per cent of their outstanding stock. Syndicate participations are disap proved by th? committee. The committee says It is advised that such of the company's funds as were donated for political or campaign pur poses were unlawfully disbursed, and recovery can be had in behalf of the company from those of its officials or trustees responsible therefor. The committee understands from the pres ident that he has already consulted counsel- with regard , to wbit. legal steps may be taken to secure the re covery of these moneys and that be will act accordingly. The committee approves of this course of action. In spite of all efforts since last November no trace has been found of Andrew C Fields, who was In charge of the com pany's stationery department and through whom disbursements for so callid legal expenses were made. KILLED WIFE THEN HIMSELF. (Hy tbe Associated Press.) St. Louis, Mo.. March 31. Martin Giesebell, a machinist, aged 60 years shot his wife, aged 50 years, at their home today, mortally Wounding her, and tlven killed himself. . Tbe cause assigned for the tragedy is poverty and inability to meet a street improvement assessment. BENNING RACES. (By the Associated Press.) Bennings, D. C, March 31. First Race for 3 year olds and up, 7 fur longs, Columbia course: Winchester 8 to 1 and 3 to 1, won; Jack McKeon 2 1-2 to 1 and even, second; Repro bate 5 to 1, third . Time 1-32. Second Race: The Oxnard dinner stakes for two year olds, four and half furloungs old course. Okonlte 3 to 6 and out, won; Mantta 10 to 1, and 4 to 1, Second; Lady Vera 3 to 1, third. Time 58. Shot Sweetheart, Killed Man and then Himself JEALOUSY THE CAUSE After Repeated Efforts Ho Carried Out His Murderous Purpose Man Killed While Protecting Girl From Attack By Lunatic A New York Tragedy. (By the Associated Press.) New York, March, 31. In an in sane fury caused by jealousy, James Ahearit, 34 years old, a cabman, shot and instantly killed James Black, 54 years old, an upholsterer, in his flat at 229 East Sixty-third street today, probably, fatally wounded Mary Woods, aged 30, Black's housekeeper and then put a bullet into his own brain. Ahearn died two hours later. The woman is believed to be dying. Mary Woods formerly was Ahearn's sweetheart. She left him only a short time ago to become housekeeper for Black.: Twice last night Ahearn broke Into Black's apartment each time in search of Mary Woods. On the first occasion he shot Black in the nose, injuring him slightly and then ran away without having seen the wo man. After the police for three hours had searched the neighborhood for the cabman and had relaxed their efforts, he returned to the flat and did the fatal shooting. When Ahearn knocked at the door on his first call Mary Woods heard his voice and before he broke the lock she fled over the roof of a neighboring flat, where she took tem porary refuge. Ahearn meanwhile was running through Black's apart ments searching for her. Black was shot when he attempted to restrain the jealous man. The cabman's second visit was so stealthy that Mary Woods had no op portunity to escape. Neither she nor her employer knew that Ahearn had returned until alarmed by a noise, they ran into the parlor. Ahearn there confronted them with a leveled revolver with which he first shot the woman, the bullet penetrating her lungs. In rapid succession he fired two more shots-, one piercing Black's brain and the second was fired into his own mouth, inflicting a wound from which he died two hours later. So close were the three persons when this meeting occurred that their bod ies fell almost on top of one another. Ahearn first met Mary Woods in England ten years ago; when he was a soldier. . The woman came to America, the soldier following her here. Merritt Will Be Named. (By the Associated Pies.) Washington, March 31. John A. Mer ritt, now postmaster of this city, will be appointed by the president to be col lector for the post of Buffalo, N. 1"., vice James Low, deceased. Mr. Merritt has been postmaster here for nearly six years. .,, i .. ." a ''..-.' . TILLMAN'S POSITION Shows Where He Stands on Dispensary Matters Sends Addirss to His People in South Carolina On Kve of Campaign Will Biluul Tlioxo Who Refnsed to Make System More Honest and Clean. (By the Associated Press.) Washington, March 31. Senator Till man has sent an address for publication in South Carolina this afternoon relat ing to his candidacy for re-election. It is written in characteristic language and deals with the dispensary or liquor question, which prorhises to be the main Issue in the democratic primary next August. The senator points out that he believes as strongly as ever in the dis pensary system, and serves' notice that he will conduct his canvass for re-elec tion along that line and will call to ac count such of his opponents in the South Carolina legislature who refused to amend the law. so as to prevent fu ture scandals in the purchase of whis key for the state. STATEMENT BY IDE OPERATORS What Anthracite and Bitumi nous Miners Earn MITCHELL WAS WRONG Former ''Receive Larger Pay Than Latter, That Fact Being Proved By the Official Figures Present Trouble Due to Contentions Which Are Not Altogether Justified. (By the Associated Press.) New York, March 31. The anthracite operators' cormnitte of seven today au thorized the following statement: Some of the bituminous workers who are now active in directing mat ters in the anthracite industry have as serted at times that the wages in the former Industry are higher than in the latter. Mr. Mitchell has often Intimat ed this, although he has never given any facts to support the claim. "It was claimed before the strike commission that the earnings of the an thracite miners were less than those in the bituminous fields and similar as sertions have been since made. The commission found that 'there has been a failure of testimony to support this proposition.' It is established by. the official figures that the earnings of all classes of workers are much higher in the anthracite than in the bituminous industry.' The last report. of $he sec retary of internal affairs of the stats of Pennsylvania contains the facts as to both Industries for the year 1904." The statement then quotes the fig ures referred to, of which the totals, omitting in the case of the anthracite industry the class of 'employes in the breakers,' because there is no corre sponding class of employes In the bit uminous industry, uie as follows Anthra . cite..' Average number of days worked 231 Number of em ployed .......... 136,445 Bitu minous. . . 1S8 93.114 $40,133,604 $431.02 $2.29 Wages ........... $S,519,291 Average yearly earnings $626.77 Average dally earnings ... $2.71 The statement then gives the com parison of annual earnings for all classes of labor showing that the av erage earnings of the anthracite min ers exceed those of bituminous miners by 63.75 per cent., and the average earn ings of all classes of anthracite work ers exceed those of all classes of bitu minous workers by about 30 per cent. "Under these circumstances." the statement concludes, "there is no ground for the anthracite workers to fclaim that their compensation is inade quate." ... HIGH POINT BANDITS Hold Up Night Watchman and Slash His Clothing Five Shots Fired at Intruders as They Ran No Reason Assigned for Attacks, but Citizens Are De termined to Apprehend Assailant. (Special to The Evening Times.) High Point. N. C, March 31. A das tardly deed - was committed here last night when several white men held up Andy Leber, the colored watchman at the Dalton Furniture Company, threw him down, put out the light and slash ed his clothing with a knife, and cut ting him on the arm. After the watch man was released he shot five times at the men, but did not bit any of them as far as is known. The night before six white men wait ed on Leper and told him not to be caught again and last night they made good their threat. The watchman Is an Inoffensive mart and the attack is entirely without jus tification and is condemned by all good citizens, who are going to see that the would-be assassins are brought to jus tice. It is believed that Some of the guilty parties at least are known. There Is much speculation as to the motive of the crime. Executive Board Prepares I for the Great Industrial Battle WILL REMAIN OUT TILL WAGE SCALE IS SIGHED No Formal Strike Order Will Be Is sued, But Men Will Walk Out and Await the Result.. Expected that Many Operators Will Agree To Terms. Monday To' Be Observed As Holiday To Honor Eight Hour Anniversary. (By the Associated Press.) Indianapolis, Ind., March 31. The national executive board of the United Mine Workers of America held a session today to take up In de tail the management of the strike which will be inagurated in the an thracite and bituminous coal mining district of the country at the close of work today. ; It was announced that 509,500 men will leaVe the mines this even ing. In the central competitive dis trict, -composed of Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and western Pennsylvania, Mon day, will be the eighth anniversary of the eight hour day concession and will be observed as usual as a holi day. It was anticipated by members of the national executive board to day that the scale would be signed in all probability by some . of the operators of eastern Pennsylvania cither this evening or Monday. - Before the board went into execu tive session at the national head quarters of the mine workers, mem ers said a formal strike order would not be. issued but at the close of work today the men would leave the mines with their tools and would -not re turn until the scale had been signed by the operators and they had been ( so notified by the district officials. I Members of the board said that every (step possible would be taken to pre vent violence and a formal declara-, tion to the miners forbidding riot ing or destruction of property, and urging them properly to conduct themselves would probably be issued. Will Pay The Advance. Sharon, Pa., March 31 Announce ment was made today that the opera tors of the Mercer-Butler coal dis trict will, grant the advance of 5.5 per cent and there will be no strike. About 3,000 men will be affected. No Strike There. Johnstown, Pa., March 31. No tices were posted today at the mines of the Berwind-White and the Stein man coal companies that they will pay the 1903 scale to the miners. This announcement was received with much satisfaction by those directly interested and by the general public. Will Work On Monday. Irwin, Pa., March 31. No attempt was made by the striking miners to day to interfere with the men work ing at the Yough shaft of the Penn sylvania Gas Coal Company and quiet prevailed about the mine. Fifty ad ditional men were reported at work by the superintendent of the mine. The voluntary advance of 5 cents a ton announced by the operators has had a good effect on the men in the field and reports from the various mines are that all that will be at work Monday DEATlFcLAIMS HOTEL MAKER. (By the Associated Press.) New York, March 31. James H. Breslin, a widely known hotel man, who had been for years Identified with properties in this city, Chicago, St. Louis and other cities, died at the Hotel Wolcott today. Mr. Breslin had been in HI health for a year. He was born at Water ford, N. Y., and was 72 years of age. .,-:'.'.' Mr. Breslin was president of the Congress Hotel Company, the Brook lyn Heights Realty Company, the Knickerbocker Trust Company, and Garfield National bank; and a trustee in other financial Institutions. Miners Walk Out. (By the Associated Press.) Shamokin, Pa., March 31. Hundreds of miners In this field did not report at the collieries today. The men took all their tools from the workings last night which indicates that the miners expect a long strike.