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LAST EDITION; ALL THE MARKETS. THE KALE EVENING TIMES. VOLUME 27. RALEIGH, N. C., MONDAY APRIL 30, 1906. PRICE 5c. DRIVE OUT RUM DEMON, IS THE GOVERNOR'S CRY THINK SOUTHERN GETS LESS t THAW ANC HAIC AC Ellivh HAS SHOT BY NEGRO MINERS FOUGHT uni vimj iirtia ui i viw. Full Leased Wire Service of the Associated Press. Leads all North Carolina Afternoon Papers in Circulation. 1ENTER CONDUCTOR WAS TROOPERS AND SUICIDED Dispensary is Just as Bad as SalooDS, He Tells Ral eigh People WANTS PROHIBITION ' FOR EVERYBODY HERE Itinging Temperance Speech in Met ropolitan Hall Yesterday Afternoon Which Gives Added Force to Anti Id.sponsury Movement Ministers Meet Tuesday Night to Consider the Question Gov. Glenn Tulks From the Shoulder and ltoasts the Common Evil. An audience Unit taxed the seating capacity of Metropolitan Hall as sembled Sunday afternoon at 3. 'JO o'clock to hear the address by Gov ernor R. B. Glenn -in advocacy of prohibition. It was a characteristic ' speech delivered with the eloquence and forcefulness that always distin guishes the governor's public utter ances. Saloons and dispensarbs came iu for most vigorous denunciation and his hearers were besought to take their stand not only against the presence of either the saloon or the dispensary, but also for prohibition throughout the slate. He declared that he would bo willing to retire permanently to private life at the close of tho administration as gover nor if only he could during this ad ministration establish prohibition, upheld by strong public sentiment 'during-his term of office. After the address those iu the au dience who were with the governor in tho position he had taken in his address were asked by Rev. Sylvester Met Is to hold up their hands and the majority of hands were raised throughout the hall. And nearly as many hands were raised in response to tho question as to how many were in favor of voting on the question of "dispensary" or "prohibition" at this time. ' Mayof Johnson announced that at the request of many leading citizens thera would ho a conference of the pastors and three or more laymen I from each of the churches of the city in the old Mayor's office in the city hall Tuesday evening at S o'clock for the purpose of discussing the question of the advisability of hold ing an election at this time. Ho urged a full attendance. Tho governor was introduced by Mayor Johnson, and the closest nl I on l ion was acorded him. He put the selling of whiskey, whether in an open saloon or from a dispensary in the same category, and the burd'jn of his address was that both be swept from the borders of the state as be ing tho greatest enemy to the state, manhood and womanhood. He in sisted that the business interests of Kaleigh and North Carolina would he furthered by the abolition of the liquor traffic. In answer to the argu ment that to substitute prohibition for the dispensary in Raleigh would be to deter people from coming to Raleigh, either to locate or on busi ness, he declared that such would not be the case, but that if there were persons who would b9 kept away, then it was best. ; He told of having traveled through a well-known western North Caro lina liquor town recently wlren ha i saw men on the outgoing trains laden j with bottles and" jugs, drinking and j rowdy to a disgraceful degree. He j . said he even saw a crowd of these men get off at a station and engage in a brutal fight. These, he declared, were the sort of men who would be kept away from Raleigh if the dis pensary should go, and the city could well do without them. The governor.; call id attention to (he prosperity of such -prohibition towns .as New Bern, Fayettevillc, Greensboro and . others with their low rate of taxations as compared with the highest tax 'rates to hi found in Wilmington and Ashevllla where high license for saloons Is the policy. Statistics were read showing that North Carolina's .' proportion of tho liquor that is'consumed in the United States is $32,000,000, but tho gov ernor said that ho , had by corre spondence with various officials and others In a position' to know, ascer tained that $10,000,000 was more nearly the amount consumed, and this would give $S per capita for each man, woman and child in the state. He said he had that morning tele phoned to State Treasurer Lacy and asked what amount was necessary to run the state government and was told that $2,500,000 was required. Then he telephoned to State Superin tendent of Public Instruction Joyner as to how much was devoted in the state each year to public education and was told that the aggregate was about $2,000,000. These two amounts he compared with the $1G, 000,000 that he insisted was worse than wasted each year in the state for strong drink. As a further arraignment of the liquor traffic the governor declared that the records show that 55 per cent of insanity, 45 per cent of idiots, 29 per cent of the paupers, 80 per cent of the criminals and 50 per cent of the inmates of the Soldiers' Homes are due directly to strong drink. Be sides, there are 60,000 persons who die each year from excessive drink ing and the death of about 80,000 others Is due indirectly to drink. I The governor urged his hearers to elgh in the balances the integrity and virtue of their sons and daugh ters as compared with a few paltry dollars that might be saved in the way of taxes by retaining the dis pensary and to take their stand firm ly on the side of temperance. He said it was possible to so adjust license taxes on saloons or dispensa ries and on gambling hells, brothels and other places of evil, as to make the town absolutely tax free so far as the individual citizens ars con cerned. -"but that this would be-accomplished only by the sacrifice of the young manhood and womanhood of the city. - THE MUTINEERS MUST DIE (Py the Associated Press.) Washlngioii. April .30. The decision uf the. ; supreme -court of tin- United. Slates' was announced today in tin case nt Hubert' Sawyer-, and Arthur Adams, two negro members of the crew of the schooner Hurry Uorwiivl. who are under 'sentence of death for the murder of the captain, the mate, the.' engineer--and the cook of that vessel. The decision of the trial court - .was sustained, and the result,. was against the defendants. They were charged with having -.committed the crime in connection1 with two other negro mem bers of the Crew on the tenth of last October off the coast of North Caro lina while , the vessel was northward from Mobile . The two other men who were charged with complicity In tho crime were. John S. Coukley, who w;is kil'.'Ml afterwards, and Henry Scott, who in the trial .of the eases testified against Sawder and Adorns. The throe ..survivors, of the tragedy were 'taken off the vessel by a puss Infr ship and landed at Southport, N. C. Their trial took place in the cir cuit court of the United Stales for the eastern district of North Carolina, and both were found guilty of murder on the high seas. They brought the ca.se to the supreme court upon an allega tion of error jiv the proceedings in the trial court consisting in the standing aside of jurors. The court overruled the objection, but Justice Peckham. who announced the court's finding, said It did so with reluctance owing to the possibility of an abuse of the prac tice. Justice White dissented from the decision. BODY FOUND AT FOOT OF CLIFF. (By the Associated Precs.) Salt Lake City, Utah, April 30 A special to the Tribune from Weiser, Idaho, says: The body of a man was found be twee nthis city and Huntington Sat urday evening. . It was at the foot of a high cliff from which he is thought to have jumped or fallen. On tho body was a railroad ticket issued to William Bryan and good to Itogers ville, Mo., from Portland, Ore. Servian Cabinet. (By the Associated Press.) Belgrade, Servia, April 30. General Putnyk has accepted tho portfolio of war In the new cabinet, and M. Vellmi rones, who as was reported yesterday had accepted the post of minister of public works, has after reconsideration decided not to take office. M. Panics therefore will take the portfolio of pub lic works In addition to the premiership mill ministry of foreign affaires. NOW Crowe Convinced He Was Innocent DISPOSITION MOROSE Muentcr Lived With Prof. Crowe While an Instructor at the Univer sity of Chicago Does Not Believe He Withstood Shock of Wife's lhatli and the Charges That He Killed Her. (By tlic Associated. Press.) Chicago, April 30. That Eric Slu enter, brooding over the charge that he murdered his wife in Cambridge, Mass., and depressed to Ilia verge of melancholia' by-grief for her death, has committed suicide is the belief of those who knew her best while ho lived in Chicago. "I am convinced now that Muen tcr did not kill his wife," said Prof. J. M. Crowe of the University of Chi cago. Muentcr lived with Prof. Corwe while he was an instructor at the University, "t believe, however, that he has committed suicide. Know ing his temperament as well as 1 do, 1 do not believe he withstood the shock of his wife's death aud the blow which followed in charges that : he murdered her. He was of a mo I rose disposition at best, and such misfortune as has overtaken him would he calculated to drive him to desperation. ' The fact that ha left his children with his sisters would seem to mo to strengthen the theory that ho contemplated committing sui cide when he loft the home of his relatives." AYCOCK WON T RUN FOR SENATE (Special to Tho Evening Times.) Goldsboro, N. C, April ,"0. Some of the recently published political speculations connecting the name of ex-Governor C. B. Aycock with United State senatorial aspirations will make the following.-interview with that gentleman by this correspondent rather interesting reading: in response to an inquiry bearing upon the subject Governor ; Aycock said: "No, I am not a candidate, and whenever in t ho past I have Wi'.ntod a public position I have never hesitated to announce the fact., if I were a candidate for the United States senate or intended to be I should long sir.ee 'have notified my friends of.niy purpose, 1 am out -of politics, and 1f J ever return to it my friends shall know at once." SENATOR DANIEL ON RATE BILL TOMORROW Washington, April 20. The house bill appropriating $170,000 for the emergency needs of the navy department at Mare Island and for the postal service at fan Francisco, made necessary by the lecent .earthquake, '.was passed by the senate when it convened today. Mr. Daniel gave notice that tomorrow ho would address the senate on the vale bill.; The railroad rate bill was called up by Mr. Tillman, and Mr. Clarke, (Ark.), made a speech upon the measure. MANY PEOPLE WANT TO SIGN PETITION Rev. Sylvester Betts said today that a petition calling for an election for dis pensary or prohibition can be found nt Kimball's barber shop on Fayettevillo street. "Governor Glenn's powerful plea for temperance," said Mr. Betts, "has persuaded a great many good citi zens to sign, and I have received in qulrles today about the place where tho petition may be found. Names are be ing constantly added and wo will show that the board of aldermen will bo re quired to order an election as soon as I he llsl has been examined." Prof. Car, MR. WIGGINS MAY DIE Negro Man and Woman Boarded Salisbury-Spencer Car and Sat in Space llosorved for Whites Swore at Conductor, Who Ordered Them From Car. (Special to The Evening Times.) Salisbury, N. C. April 30. Conductor W. A. Wiggins, one of the best men in the employ of tho Salisbury-Spencer Street Railway. Company, is at the Whitehead Stokes Sanatorium in the most critical condition. He was shot yesterday morning by John Black, a negro, w hom he attempt ed to remove from the cars because of disorderly conduct. The negro mil a woman were going towards Spencer and look seats in the middle of the car, a space reserved for while people, and the conductor .' told' them that they they would have to move to their own division. The drunken woman began to swear and pulled out a live dollar note, tearing it so the conductor -hesitated about accepting it. He then tolj her that she must behave herself, wliou the man interposed. Mr. Wiggins ordered them both off at the switch, half way between the two towns, and as Black stepped . off he turned and shot at Mr. Wiggins twice, the second shot striking him iu the stomach. As he fell the negro continued " a reckless fire, striking R. Range, a wealthy Philadelphiaii, in the arm, and then he ran. The crowd followed but he escaped and has not yet been cap tured. Mr. Wiggins was brought to Salisbury and given an operation as the only chance for his life. It was frund thatUhe LpUslines were pUiic- tured at eight places and one -wound was a particularly bad one. He has but the slightest chance to recover, and the physicians think complications are like ly to develop. The woman and another colored man wre taken into immediate custody, and are held for results. The woman is regarded as an accomplice, and the man is held because of infor mation be is supposed to h.r.' '. Immediately after the . sltt.oling a posso of several deputies and iivin.; el the citizens started after the desperate negro . They have found no trace of him. He is a South Carolina negro, and camo here fioni Whitney, win-iv hi' worked a time on the race theie. Sher iff Julian lias ottered a personal row ai d of $50 and the hunt has be.M k -i t up. Feeling goes high over the a.faic. The indignation over the brutal a- t is in tensified by the attempt of the negroes to override the social btr.-cf and in trude themselves upon the whi'es. who have been fair to them at! die. ti.iitv 'Conductor Wiggins is a brother of Mrs. C. Jlulehins of this city. Mrs" llutcbins left last night for Salisbury to be at her brother's bedside. SECRETARY BONAPARTE TAKEN SUDDENLY ILL (Ily the Associated Press.) i?lon.. April 30. Advices Washington.. April 30. Advices re ceived here from Secretary Bonaparte, who is at his home in Baltimore, are to the. effect that he is believed an ill man and perhaps threatened with pneu.- monia. rle is said to nave sunereu iiuni a chill while at Atlantic City Friday and tit is was followed upon his return to Baltimore by another and more se vere one. Baltimore, Mil.. April 30. Secretary Bonaparto is confined to his room at hts residence In this city with an acute at tack of indigestion, which his attend ing physician says is not serious. The secretary arose at his customary hour this morning in his usual health, and was attacked with indigestion after breakfast. OUTLAW'S THIRD VICTIM DEAD. (My the Associated Press.) ; Portland, Ore., April 30. A spe cial to the Orcgonian from Salem says that Sheriff J. U. Shaver, who was shot by '..I he' desperado Frank Smith early Saturday morning at Woodbum, is dead, the third victim of the out law. No trace of Smith has been found. Hecla in Kruptioii. (By the Associated Press.) Kdinburg, Scotland, April 30. Steam ers which arrived at Lelth today from Iceland report that Mount Hcclu. has been in eruption, ashes being scattered oved a wide area. The disturbance, however, wns not serious. Ordered from Street He Fired Blackjacks Used, But Finally Bullets WOMAN SERIOUSLY HURT Mrs. Sol Goldsmith, Whoso Home Was Middled Willi Bullets Man in Crowd Shot Probably Fatally. One Skull Fractured Trooper Badly Injured. (Hy the Associated Press.) Mt. Carmel. Pa , April 30. After the dining room girls at three local hotels refused to serve Lieutenant Smith's command of state constabulary here today, the troopers in front of the Com mercial Hotel were charged upon by a large crowd of foreign miners. The troopers beat them back with black jacks. Michael Glugen had his skull fractured, and a number of others re ceived lacerations of the head. A trooper was badly injured by a blow f i om a. club. A second collision between the con stabulary and the ' mob occurred here shortly after noon, when a man threw a stone at the soldiers who were drawn up in front of the residence of Dr, J. D. Keefer on Hickory street. A man named Wilson who was in the crowd was shot. He will likely die. A num ber of other men were founded, but managed to get to their homes. During the .shooting the residence of Dr. Keefer was riddled with bullets, several inmates having narrow escapes. The homo of Sol Goldsmith was also riddled, his wife being seriously wounded. WILL IMPOSE LICENSE TAX ' Tonight, tho board of aldermen of this city will hold a special meeting for the purpose of receiving the re port of a committee appointed to con sider i.iie matter of levying privilege taxes here in order to increase the city's revenue. This committee was appointed at the last meeting of tho board. It is ci'ir.pcsed of Mayor Johnson, City At-1 tornev. Snow and Aldermen Grimes, Jackson and Iee. Th ; .report of the committee has not been made public and will not be uv.til the board meets tonight. How ever, it is aid that the committee will. 'recommend' the imposition of taxes which, may increase the city's income by $10,000. No statement, is mode as to what corporations or lines of -business will be taxed. It is said that banks, telephone companies. Ox- I press coui panics and many other bus-1 iness v. ill be subjected to this tax. j The hijaier.t tax in the proposed ordi nance is r. 0 0 a year. $300,000 TELEGRAPHED TO PHELAN TODAY (By the Associated Press.) Washington. April 30. Three hun dred 'thousand dollars was forwarded by wire by the American Bed Cross today to James D. Plielaii. chairman of the lied Cross and relief committee in San Francisco, and he was advised that. $1,000,000 more is at the disposal of the commission. Judge W. W. Morrow, president of the California branch of the Bed Cross advised the Bed Cross that it will be bettor from this time in for the society to send money to California rather than food and provisions, as the Im mediate needs are provided for. HEARST'S RESOLUTION FOR $2,500,000 MORE Washington, April 30. A resolu tion was presented in the house today l y Kepresentaive Hearst of , New Vork appropriating $2,000,000 addi ticnal for the California earthquake and lire sufferers. King Edward in Naples. Naples, April 30. The weather con tinuing fine. King Kdwnrd said he would not leave Naples without visiting- the observatory, as he desired to meet Prof. Matteucci and Frank Fer ret of Brooklyn, N. Y., assistant di rector of the royal observatory on Mount Vesuvius. The Duke and Duch ess of Aosta were delighted and offered to guide the king. Five automobiles were ordered to convey the royal party to Mount Vesuvius. Mrs. White,' wife ot the American ambassador, formed one of the royal party which tried to reach the observatory Saturday, and It was hoped she would be able to accom pany their majesties today, but it was found that she had already returned to Home. GORKY TO SPEAK IN CHICAGO. (By the Associated Press.) Chicago, April 30. It was an nounced today that Maxim Gorky, the Russian revolutionist, will speak at two public meetings here Sunday, May 6. The meetings will be held under the auspices of the conference of the Chicago workingmen's organi zations. The two meetings, at which other speakers will be present, will consti tute a protest against the condition of the mining classes in Colorado-aud Idaho. GEN. DAVIDSON VS. C. A. WEBB. Ashoville, X. C, April 30. Five democrats of this city and county have presented the name cf Gen. Theodore F. Davidson, formerly at torney general of North Carolina, for the democratic nomination for the state senate from this county. This means a fight between General David son and Chas. A. Webb for senatorial honors. Mr. Webb has represented Buncombe in the state senate for two terms and now seeks a renomination. MOROS KILLED 30 (By th Associated Press.) Manila, April 110.- A detail Of Moros on the Island of Samaria, in an encounter with Puiajanes, killed thirty of the latter. DEATH CLAIMS HENRY ROUSE. (liy the Associated Press.) Cleveland. O., April 30. Henry C. House, chairjnan of the board of direc tors of the Missouri, Kansas & Teas Raiway, and president of a number of other western railways, died here today ot pneumonia. Mr. Bouse was fifty-six years of age. He had been ill for about two weeks. '. Mr. 'Bouse in early life was largely interested in the - manufacturing . busi ness in this city. In 1SS5 lie became in terested with the syndicate that built the Chicago, Wisconsin & Minneapolis Kailroad. Subsequently be became identified Willi John D. Rockefeller in the tatter's railway interests. He rep resented Mr. Rockefeller on the boards of a number of railway companies. At the time ot his death Mr. Bouse was a director in at least twenty-five trans portation companies. Ho was a mem ber of the Union, Roadside and Coun try Clubs of this city and five leading New York clubs. He owned tho schooner yacht Iroquois and was com modore of the Seawahnhaka-Corinthian Yacht Club, New York.-. TWO SHOCKS THIS MORNING. '(fiv the Associated Press.) San Francisco, Cal., April 30. Two slight earthquake shocks at an interval of an hour were felt here early this morning. They were of the same nature as a dozen other shocks that have been felt since the big quake of April IS. No 'damage was done this morning and there was no alarm. VOTE ON RATE BILL NOT LATER THAN MAY 12 (Hy the Associated Press.) Washington, April 30. Senate leaders will endeavor to have fixed a time for a vole on the railroad rate bill upon the conclusion today of the speech of Sen ator Clarke of Arkansas. The opinion is expressed freely that May 10 will bo the day named and that the date posi tively will not be later than May 12. PULAJANES What the Record Shows Con cerning Appropriation for Fast Mail PAID S55.000 LAST YEAR FOR OPERATING TRAINS Figures on File at the Postofflce De partment Indiatc That 30 Per Cent of Appropriation Was De ducted, and Most the Southern Can Receive is $80,000 Six Min utes Delay in .Schedule Means Loss of Pay for That Day Rate Only Trifle Above Freight Tariff In teresting History. So much has been printed about the so-called "subsidy" enjoyed by. the Southern Railway and so many con flicting statements have been pub lished that The Evening Times de termined to make an investigation on its own account In order to ascer tain the facts regarding a measure which promises to be a live issue in the next campaign in North Carolina. One newspaper has said that tho government was paying J. Pierpont Morgan ?142,0C0 as a special Sift, the supposition being that Mr. Morgan was the sole owner of the Southern. It happens, as anyone call find for himself. -.that the company has stock holders everywhere, many of them be ing iu Raleigh. But that is not the point. The Southern Hallway does not re ceive the entire appropriation of $142,- ('00 for the operation of a fast mail train from Washington to New Or leans, but the most it can receive Is about $H0,000, the balance going to other "roads '-which '-assist' In the move ment. The United States government absolutely controls the schedule of trains 37 and 97 and the railroad com pany cannot change .the. leaving time from Washington nor the arrival time at New Orleans without the consent of the postoffice department, and If trains and 97 arc as much as six minutes late at mail route -. terminals the government docs not pay the railroads one cent of any special facility remun eration for that day. The terminal points on the Southern are Danville, Charlotte and Atlanta, Montgomery and New Orleans being the terminals of tlu Western of Alabama and tho Louisville and 'Nashville. For the calendar your. 1903 otit of the appropriation of $14:1.728.73 the govern ment deducted $.'6,161 .OS for failure to make absolute schedule, leaving only $106.567.67. : Out of the Southern Rail way's proportion of the $142,728.75, which proportion is about $80,000, the postofflce department in 1903 deducted $25,138.2N, or more than 30 per cent., so the Southern Railway, because of its failure to maintain tho schedule, re ceived only $5.VHi0. instead of $142,728.73. . The correctness of these figures can bo Verified by the records in the postofflce department at Washington. As already stated, the department divides the mail lino from Washington to Atlanta., into three divisions, tho first from Washington to Danville, tho second from Danville to Charlotte and the third from Charlotte to Atlanta, the latter point being the terminus of the Southern Railway proper," Rail roads carrying a large amount of mall after passing 3,000 pounds, recievo $21.37 per ton per mile per annum. The department, for instance, pays the Southern "fl.S cents per hundred pounds from Washington to Danville, which mail must be. moved on the fastest trains, while the freight rate from Washington to Danville Is 72 cents per hundred pounds. The mail rate from Danville to Charlotte is 46 cents per hundred pounds, the freight rate being 69 cents; from Charlotte to At lanta the mail pay s 90 cents per hundred, against 75 cents per hundred freight. There are 108 postal clerks employed every day between : Wash ington and Atlanta, traveling an ag gregate of 32.304 miles per day, equal to 11,790,961 of transportation per an num, which, at even tho low figure of two cents a mile, would be worth $235,916 per annum. The popular cry of newspapers and politicians opposed to the appropria tion by congress is that it is a sub sidy. Jt is not a subsidy any more than, the $900,000 appropriated in the postoftiee bill for pneumalii;- tubes for expediting"' the mails in Boston, New York. Philadelphia and Chicago, nor (he appropriation made- for transfer f erring tho mails on 'incoming steam ships ii Now York and San Francisco. Tugs- are sent out to mnet the ves sels and they rush back, delivering the mall to the postoftiee ubout tho time the. Steamers dock. In 1893 tho '-Atlantic Coast Line de cided 'to surrender '''Its'-' appropriation for ae fast mall 'service from Washing ton to Florida, and the Industrial con- (Continued on Page Two.)
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