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LAST, EBITIOl Leads all North Carolina Afternoon Papers in Circulation. AT J, THE MARKETS. THE RALEIGH' EVENING TIME VOLUME 27. RALEIGH, N. 0., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4, 1906. PRICE 5c. iLL" EMPTY THE COMMITTEE THE SEABOARD WAS WRECKED HAS DEEN UP FROM TOMB LIBERAL SPIRIT STILL IN SESSI Full Leased Wire Service of the Associated Press. DARR QUITS SENATOR DANIEL IS HEARD FROM CANNON DA BALLOON ANOTHER MINER SOBERNESS AND FOUND Alfred Walter Succeeds Hi as President GENERAL MANAGER TOO Action Taken In New York Today At , Meeting of Dim-tors -Hun- Will Kilter Other Business, Hut Still Retains His Place On the Hoard. Change Was Expected. (By the Associated press.) New York, April 4. At a meeting of the directors of the Seaboard Air Line Railway held today J. M. Barr resigned as president and general manager of the railway company to take efTect on April 30. Alfred Walter of Baltimore, Md., was elected as president to take ef fect April 30. Walter has been con nected at times with the Pennsylva nia, Baltimore & Uhio, Brie and Le high Valley Railroad, having been president of the latter from 1897 to 1902. It was announced that Mr.. Burr's resignation is in conformity with a determination reached by him in De cember last, to engage in work that will give him more leisure. Mr. Barr will continue as a director of the company. v Not much surprise will be ex pressed in railroad circles over the news from New York this afternoon that President Barr is to leave the Seaboard Air Line. A statement was printed in The Evening Times last week that he would resign and that Hfi Wultni urfiiilY DnirAOf1 Tilm !) president and general manager, that program having been carried out by the board of directors. Almost every week for the past two years there was a junior, that a change was con templated and many names of pros pective presidents were mentioned. Almost every week there was a de nial by Mr. Barr and his assistant. Mr. Barr and Mr. John Skelton Williams were always antagonistic, and the feeling between them was extremely bitter. In fact, this is be lieved to have been responsible for much of the friction, which really did the company much harm. Mr. Walter has a good name as a rail road man and the assurance has been given that under his management the Seaboard would make greater strides than ever before. Yesterday The Evening Times re ceived a copy of the Stockholder, a Wall street publication, which con tained a severe attack on Mr. Barr because of his work with the Atchi son, Topeka & Sante Fo Railroad. He left that road May 1, 1901. WHITE CONVICT KILLED TODAY Lee Shelton.- a white convict In the penitentiary for a term of thirty years, was killed late this afternoon by falling frtm a flat cat on the Mills railroad, which waa belne1 Bsed to haul clay from the pits, five miles from the city, to the penitentiary kilns. The Car had been loaded and was be ing moved toward the city. Just how he happened t4 fall iB not explained by the officials, 'but he was terribly mangled and instantly killed. Shelton was sent up from Halewood, charged with felony. SHOCKLEY, CASE GOES OVER AGAIN. '! (Special to the Evening Times.) ' Wilmington, N. C, April 4.-For the third time the case of M. W. Shoekley, charged with killing Frank Talbert, a marble cutter. In July last is contin ued. Shdcklcy ran a saloon on South Front street and on the night of July 29 struck Talbert a blow on the head, from the effects of which it Is alleged he dlCd. ; in .',';,;'.; WOMAN DIED FRO BURNS. (Special to The Evening Times.) - Winston-Salem, N. C, April 4. Mrs.' Jane Mock died at Vienna this ttinrniitv fmm burns received yester day' afternoon while burning some trash in the back yard. Her. dress ignited and before rescued all of her clothing was burned off. She was Sixty years old. No Soutiiern Delegate to Foreign Conference TOO MUCH POLitlGS Porto Ricun Delegate, He Said, Would Bp a dreat Master of Juiis. prudence and Expression if Hi Could Define Relation of His Coun try to the United 8 tales. (By the Associated Press.) Washinngton, April 4 The sen ate today considered the urgent de ficiency appropriation bill. Among its provisions is one appropriating $60,000 to pay the expenses of dele gates to the third international con ference of American states to be held at Rio Janeiro next July, and this Mr. Daniel criticised as "vague and indefinite." He took advantage of the opportunity to say that the southern states were not as largely represented In the conduct of na tional affairs ras he thought they should be. "There are ten or twelve states," he said, "which are- not adequately represented in the higher spheres of American life.' He recognized that. this condition of affairs was due largely to the civil war and to politi cal differences, but contended that politics should not be allowed to have too much Influence in such mat ters. ' He said that those who belong not to the party in power realize that the party is under no obligations to grant political favors to them. "But," ha said, "is It not time that we should recognize the fact that things upon which we differ in politics Con stitute only a 'small percentage of American affairs?" He expressed the opinion that 'the. present genera tion takes little account of the civil war, and declared that the man who would say that there was not in the south good material for any public mission was nothing less than a narrow-minded bigot. Mr. Daniel advocated an amend ment to the bill reported by tne com mittee providing for the representa tion of all sections of the country in the proposed conference. It had been learned from the hearings by the committee, he said, that there were to bo five commissioners, two of whom were to be from Illinois, one from Pennsylvania, one from New York and one from Porto Rico, but he said "we look in vain for a repre sentative from the entire region south of the Potomac and west of the Mississippi." Commenting on the appointment of a Porto Rican, Mr. Daniel said that commissioner woud bo a great master of jurisprudence and also of expression if he could define the re lation of his country to the United States. "He is," said the senator, "a sort of sub-American, a brevet American, an American on the half shell." (i .' Ho spoke in support of the propo sition for the representation of the United States at the conference. ; CAPT. ANDERSON KILLED BY TRAIN AT WKLDOX. (Special to The Evening Times.) Weldon, N. C, April 4. Capt. T. N. Anderson, agent at this place for the Seaboard Air Line, was killed on the Seaboard yard yesterday af ternoon by No. 38, northbound. While looking after the switch en gine, he stepped directly in front of the passenger train and was struck in the back, dragged some sixty feet and cut to pieces. Mrs. J. B. Tim berlake of Raleigh, a sister of Mrs. Anderson, was on the .train coming to visit the family hero. Capt. An drson was about 65 years old. Hanklns Will Run. (Special to-The Evening Times.) Lexington, N. C. April 4. While for mal announcement has not been made, It is understood that Col. G. Foster Hanklns, member of the house from this county, will again be a candidate for legislative honors. Col. Hanklns is pop ular and clean and made an enviable record in the house last session. He is a member of the governor's staff, b ing assistant paymaster general wltn the rank of coloned. There appears lit tle doubt that his nomination will come easily. . . . Ran Through Open Switch Near Norfolk SEVEN WERE INJURED Engineer Mark Noble Was Watching For Just Such u Thing As An Open Switch. Train Jumped Track and Ditch and Ran Into Woods ltefore It Stopped. (By the Associated Press.) Norfolk, Va., April 4. A serious wreck occurred on the Norfolk & Western Railroad between Suffolk and Norfolk about 11 o'clock this morning, when the "Cannon Ball" train, bound from Richmond to this city, ran through an open switch at! Juniuer Siding. Juniper Station, the scene of thoi wreck, is about five miles from Suf-; folk on the road to Norfolk, but is hard to reach from Suffolk because of bad roads resulting from contin ued rains and washouts. The "Cannon Ball" train runs be tween Richmond and Norfolk, and was due here at 11.35 o'clock. It usually carries a largo number of passengers travelling between Rich mond, Petersburg, Waverly, Suffolk Mid Norfolk. Seven persons were injured in the wreck, and but for the vigilance ot .Mark Noble, engineer of the train, who was watching for just such a thing as an open switch, which caused ihe wreck, probably many of the fifty or sixty passengers aboard would have been killed. The train was running at the rate of 75 or 80 miles an hour when En gineer Noble spied the open switch thirty yards away. Immediately he threw on his emergency brakes re ducing his speefl to .about thirty miles by the time the engine struck the switch. The train jumped the track then jumped an adjoining ditch and ran headlong into neighboring woods before it stopped. The engi neer was picked up twenty feet ahead of the engine. The train careened but did not turn over and was not j burned, as first reported No one was killed. Those injured are: Engineer Mark Noble of Petersburg, Va., leg broken; Mrs. L. E. Lear of Fulton Ind., head cut and bruised; Florence Lear, aged 13, of Fulton, Ind., forehead bruised; Frank E. Wood of Norfolk, express messenger on the train, injured in ternally; William Davis, colored, fire man, cut and badly bruised; Conduc tor P. J. Hawks of Richmond, Va., left eye badly hurt; R. F. Bell of Ivor. Va., bruised about the arms and body. Expressman Wood and Engi neer Noble aro the most seriously in jured. The switch which caused the wreck was wide open, and no one has yet accounted for the cause. Though Engineer Noble was looking for dan ger, as he always looked when run ning at such great speed, he had or ders giving him a free road from Suffolk to Norfolk. No one seems to know why the switch should have been left open. It is said that it had been left open after a freight which passed early in the morning. BERWIND CASE IN SUPREME COURT (By tl c Associated Press.) Washington, April 4. The supreme court of the United States today took up the case of Robert Sawyer and Ar thur Adams, who are under conviction on the charge of murder on the high seas. They are two of the members ot the crew of the schooner Bern Ind, whose four officers were murdered off the coast of North. Carolina last Octo ber and are charged with participation in that crime. They brought the case to the supreme court on writs of error, alleging irregularities in their trial, which was conducted at Wilmington, N. C by the United States circuit court for the eastern district of North Caro lina. ' PUBLIC LIBRARY FOR WILMINGTON VOTED. (Special to The Evening Times.) Wilmington, N. C, April 4-The board of aldermen have agreed by unanimous Vote to appropriate the sum of $1,200 to maintain a nubile library. The local chapter, of the North Carolina Sorosls will give to the city their library of 700 volumes. Fears for Fate of Paul Noc quel, Sculptor ASCENSION YESTERDAY Balloon Discovered on Jones' Beach and Reported This Morning Tracks Seem to Indicate That Aeronaut Survived His Flight Well Known as Sculptor. (By the Associated Press.) New York, April 4. The balloon" in which Paul Nocquet, the sculptor, made an ascension late yesterday was found at 10 o'clock last night on Jones' Beach on Hie south shore of Ijiiig Inland. Captain Austin ot the life waving sta- Hon reported today that the balloon had apparently landed on the beach, where U had neen dragged along some uis- tnncc in the sand. .Tracks-about the balloon seem to indicate that the aero naut hud survived his Might.-' Near the spot where the balloon was discovered there are a number of cot tages and shanties to any one of which Nocquet may have gone for refuge for Ihe night if he. alighted safely. The crew of the Jones Beach life saving sta tion were out this morning (searching for any further traces of the missing aeronaut. The balloon was last seen before when it disappeared in an easterly di rection over Long Island tit dusk last night,- and friends of NoeUct feared that he hud been carried out to sea. Members of the Aero Club, however, expressed the belief that Nocquet had made a successful descent with the aid of his parachute before ''the balloon reached the seashore. A later report from the Captain Jones Beach life paving station told of the finding of several buttons In the. car on the beach. On the sand about the bal loon were scattered -several newspapers and other articles fi-o.ni ' the car, the newspapers having 1 "i a taken along to lie ton. i? and "..ust -V!e ths aero naut was taking the direction of the wind. Paul Nocquet 'has made many daring ly successful attempts at aerial naviga tion. It Is not as an aeronaut alone that Nocquet has attained distinction, how ever. He is almost equally wen kiiow u .V. I....... ni-t.Kt AVifl, t to h work as a sculptor. by a bronze figure of President Roosevelt, entitled "A Presi dential Vacation.'- This figure repre sents the president dragging a bear by the ear, while in his right hand lie holds aloft a cub. Comment upon the figure was diversified, but the efforts of the artist pleased the -president,, who sent him a complimentary letter. STATEMENT BY DOWIE Says He Has Dismissed Six Overseers Including Voliva, ami Has Also Can celled Latter's Power of Attorney. Treats With Contempt Powerless Allegations of His Opposition. , (By the Associated Press.) Octalan, Mex., April 4. The fol lowing statement was made by John Alexander Dowie for the Associated Press regarding the action of certain of his followers in deposing him as their leader at Zion City. "John Alexander Dowie, first apos tle of the Christian Catholic Apos tolic Church in Zion, has treated with contempt the powerless allegations ot his opposition by six of his over sold, headed by Voliva. "Dowie admits having taken the following action today: "First, he has officially dismissed overseers Voliva. Piper, Exell, Bras field, Cantel, Speicher. ''.-..- "Second, he has cancelled Voliva's power of attorney. "Third, ho has dismissed Granger from the office of general financial manager. "Fourth, he has appointed Deacon Fielding W.I lh lie as Grangers' suc cessor and has given him power ot attorney. "Fifth, he has taken the necessary legal steps to protect his estate and the vast ineress of Zion. "Stxh, Deacon James F. Peters, general manager of Zion railroad af fairs, is arranging transportation for the immediate return of the first apostle and party to Zion City. "He will probably give further in formation tomorrow, and meanwhile asks his friends throughout the i """"" , 1,-lworfB not to be anxious concerning I Zion or himself.' After 25 Days in that French Mine IN GOOD CONDITION He Suffered Less Than the Preced ing Rescued Men Intense- Exas peration of People State Engi neer Cursed By 'Mob and One Wo man Even Struck Him. (By the Associated Press.) ; Lens, Department of The Pas-De-Calais, France, April 4. Another living survivor of the mine disaster at Courrieres, March 10, was discov ered this morning and brought out of the pil. The finding of another miner alive after 25 days entombment caused in tense exVitement. The man was found in pit 4 of the Sallaumuies vein. He wil in good condition. -'According ' to hi.-s first . statements this man, Augusto Berton, suffered iess than the preceding rescued men. He is 32 years old and was born in the same place as Nemy, the leader of the thirteen men rescued March-30. As the news spread through the region it caused extreme exaspera tion against the engineers who have been directing the salvage work. M. Leon, the state engineer, when he arrived at the pit was surrounded by a crowd of people who cursed and swore at him, one woman going so far as to strike the engineer. FACTORY AND SEVEN HOUSES DESTROYED !'' (By the Associated Press.) ! - Pontine. Mich., April 4. Fire early today completely destroyed the buggy and wagon factory of 11. D. Scott & Company and seven residences occu pying half a block, causing a total loss ot $120.01". The loss on Ihe factory is $100,000. in' addition several 'cars on the Grank Trunk tracks were de stroyed. The lire is believed to have been of incendiary origin. No one was Injured, although the families oc cupying the burned houses were com pelled to make hasty exits. TAX LIST TAKERS ARK CHOSEN TODAY. A committee from the Raleigh bar, composed of Messrs. R. T. Gray, E. P. Maynard and A. B. Andrews, Jr., appeared before, the board of county commissioners today and urged that the vault in the register of deeds' office be enlarged. The matter was referred to the house committee. This afternoon the board will elect the tax list takers. Last afternoon Mr. C. M. Busbee, attorney for the Raleigh and Pam lico Sound Railroad, returned the $10,000 bonds voted for the road by Little River township since the line will not run near Wakefield. .MAJOR BRADLEY" STOOD. THE OPERATION WELL. Major Robert H. Bradley, marshal of the supreme court, stood a seri ous operation in Rex Hospital last afternoon very well. His condition today is pronounced satisfactory. The operation, however, was even more serious than the doctors an ticipated and it is fortunate that he submitted at this time. His friends throughout the slate arc making en quiries about him almost, hourly. PRESIDENT WILL ' NOT INTERFERE. (By the Associated Press.") Washington, April 4. It is stated that the White House has made re ply to the telegram received from the coal operators, and while the text will not be made public there is authority for the statement that the president has decided not to interfere as long as conditions remain as they now are. Gov, Glenn's Advice to High Point Union ANSWERED PROMPTLY Not Being Familiar With The Situa tion Says Could Give Only General Counsel Had Taken Same Posi tion In Conversation With One of the Manufacturers Recently. Governor Glenn made a statement (his morning with reference to cor respondence he has had the past few days with the labor union of High Point regarding' the settlement of the differences ' between them and their employers, the furniture manufac turers. The Governor's attention had been called to an editorial comment by a Greensboro paper to the effect thta he was delaying a reply to the letter from ihe union because he did not care to take sides or commit himself. : ,. : The governor said that, he received the letter from the union last Satur day and answered it, by return mail, addressing the letter to C. W. Smith, who headed the committee by whom tne letter was signed. In this letter he told them that not being familiar with the situation and controversy between the union and the manufacturers, he was not in a position to advise them except to give the general council of soberness and the general counsel of soberness and a liberal spirit in their efforts in ar riving at an adjustment of their dif ferences. He says that in a conversa recently he gave the same advice. The governor wrote today to C.-'W. Smith to ascertain if he had received his letter. PROGRAM FOrBURlAL OF PAUL JONES' BODY '';'. : (By ihe Associated Press.) i Paris, ''.-April'"-. 4. Foreign Minister I Bourgeois -has .written to the American i embassy giving the program of the French government's participation in the burial of 'the body of Admiral Paul Jones at .Annapolis 'April 24.f and fur nishing a. list of tin- distinguished naval personages assigned to take part In the Ceremonies, . The French .cruisers.' w ill arrive at Annapolis in division formation April 20 under the command of Rear Admiral Champion who will be on board the flagship' Marseillaise, with Captain Guepraile and twenty officers on board the rondo will be Captain Huguet; late naval aide de camp of former Presi dent Loubct and seventeen officers, and on board the Aubj Captain Lc flevre and twenty other officers. The admiral's staff will cortsist of five offi cers headed -by ..Captain Batelle, chief of the naval staff of the ministry of marine. FOUND DEAD IN A DEEP OLD WELL (Special to The Evening Times.) Washington. N. ('., April ': 4. Early, yesterday morning the body of J. C. Gorham. a young man about thirty years of age, was found by a negro perfectly nude and lying in the bottom of an old country well near the Green leaf Johnson Lumber Camp, a few miles from t his t it v. - Mr, Gorham was last seen late Moll day afternoon about supper time, and disappeared soon after. Ills clothes were hanging on a nearby tree, and this was what led to the discovery when search was started for him. : His conduct during the past few weeks was not such as would encour age and suicide theory, though it is be lieved by some that he committed sui cide. - .'The. 'coroner's jury rendered a ver dict of death from unknown causes. Foul play is suspected. HOTEL GUEST DEAD IN FIRE. (By the Associated Press.) . Bangor, Me., April 4. John Mc Donald of Cape Breton, a guest, at. the Globe Hotel, a small four story wood en building, was suffocated this morning in a fire which damaged the hotel and the stable in the rear. The other guests escaped in safety. The financial loss' will not exceed $10,000. None of the Members Will Talk ALL DEMANDS REFUSED Question Now Is Whether Proposi tions Shall Bo Modified Or Dele Gates Representing AH Hard ConI Mine Workers Summoned Into Convention At Once. (By the Associated Press.) New York, April 4. The Shamo kin scale committee of the anthracite miners, to which has been entrusted tne task of endeavoring to reach a wage agreement with the mine own ers, went into session at 9.30 a. m. today at-their headquarters in the Ashland House lo discuss what their next, move shall be. The instructions of this body call for an agreement with the anthracite operators subject to the ratification of a convention to be called by the officers of the union, and in case they fail to arrive at an understanding, the committee must report such failure to the convention. All the demands drawn up by the scale committee have been refused by the operators, and the question to be decided now by the committee is whether their propositions should be modified or whether delegates repre senting all tne hard coal mine work ers should be summoned into conven tion at once to decide what further action should be taken. Before the thirty-six members of the scale committee wont into ses sion there Were reports circulated to the effect that the committeemen would seriously consider the advisa bility of modifying their original de mands. -None of the-nienibers of tire-, committee would discuss the reports or even predict what action the com mittee will take. President Mitchell did not take part in the deliberations of the com mittee until late in the morning, as he had other pressing matters to at tend to. He said today there was nothing in the present situation that he could discuss. He declined to say anything regarding the probability of the miners revising their demands. It a call for a convention is decided up on today, it is likely no announce ment will be made until after tomor row's meeting with the operators sub committee. It has been practically decided that wnen a convention is de cided upon it will be held in Wilkes barre. Mr. Mitchell continues to refuse to go into details regarding yesterday's meeting. All information that has reached the public so far has come from the operators' side. Soon after noon the miners' scale committee took a recess until 2 o'clock this afternoon, when they will resume consideration of tho strike situation. Neither Mr. Mitch ell nor any members of the commit tee would disclose the nature of th forenoon discussion. SUPREME COURT ARGUMENTS. Arguments were heard today in the supreme court in two ninth district appeals and a third. City of Durham vs. Eno Cotton Mills Co.. was in progress when court took a recess at 2 o'clock. This latter case involves the litigation over the alleged con tamination of Durham's water supply by the cotton mills, a suit which has recently attracted wide attention. The other two cases argued were Moore vs. '-Railroad from Durham, argued 'by' Winston for the plaintiff and Guthrie for the defendant. Black well vs. Mutual Reserve Association, from Durham by Guthrie for the plain tiff and Hinsdaies and Winston for the defendant. The last named case involves the novel ouestion of whether the court has the power of appointing a receiver of. the assets of the Insur ance company from the policy holders of the state before the plaintiffs claim is reduced to a judgment. KANSAS CITY WENT REPUBLICAN. (By the Associated Press.) Kansas City, Mo., April 4. Every one,, of the fourteen members of the upper; house of the new city council is. a re-1 publican and ten of the fourteen.inein- i bers of the lower house are republicans. The plurality of Henry M. Beardslcy. republican for mayor is 1,550. The other candidates on the republican ticket received nearly the name plurali ties. The socialist vote was trivial.
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