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Pull Leased Wire Service of the Associated Press. reads all North Carolina Afternoon Papers in Circulation. LAST EDITION. " ALL THE MARKETS. , Ill' I , v THE RALEIGH EVEMIMG VOLUME 27. RALEIGH, N. C, TUESDAY, MAY 29, 1906. PRICE 5c. TIMES. KING WILL WED THURSDAY Spain Joyfully Celebrates the Royal Event AMERICA IS HONORED Mr. WhitridtfC, tin- Special Envoy From the I'niled States, Will Pre sent King Alfonso With Auto graph Letter From' President Roosevelt Twelve Italloons Went Today. (By tli. Associated Press.) Madrid, May 211. The s.rrival today nr I he foreign jii'inces and envoys ad. is to llio glitter and pomp with which this elty Is invested for the royal wed ding. The Amei'leun, Italian and ror giicsc 'delegations were among the earliest arrivals, while princes, areli d likes and grand dukes representing Hie reigning houses of ICurnpc with dazzling retinues arrived continuously dining the afternoon. . ' Mr. Whitridge, the American envoy, accompanied by his family and hU military and naval stafT, reached Madrid after midnight.' owing t a slight accident to his train. Mr; Whit ridge waa highly gr.iluled at the splendid quartern given him In the Pino-Hermoso palace, regarding It as n nianifeslutlon of Spain's cordiality to the 1'nited States. Along the front of the palace ale looped garlands of red anil while roses and over the massive doorway is the escutcheon of I'nlted Slates framed in prismatic glass, through which electric',' lights pioduce a glittering effect.' The wings of the palace are fronted with hve escutcheons of Spain and Bnttenbeig each framed with electric prisms. The stars and stripes float from an upper 'window of the palace, the staircase Is transformed into a flower garden and the stately interior is hung with many of ilie governine'U's gobelin tapestii's. Detachments or cavalry and civil guards are in constant attendance. .Mr. .Whitridge received Mr. Collier,' the American minister, this morning and discussed the : prog-rain for the American envoys reception. At 4 o'clock thi. afternoon Mr. Whit ridge escorted by a troop of Hussars, wi. I visit the foreign minister, the Duke of Almodovar, present his credential and arrange for an audience with King lfoiiso lit which a sealed, autograph letter from President Roosevelt to the king will be presented. This probably will be tomorrow, as the king was overwhelmed today by arriving princes. s . A uniiiuo feature of the festivities Ibis afternoon was tile, ascension of twelve balloons from the aero club park. The perfect weather lent to the success of the event, the flight of the balloons over the city being witnessed by the royal family from Pardo palace. JIM CROW DISTURBS RATE BILL CONFERENCE I (By the Associated Press.) Washington, May 29. At a two hours session of the conferees on the railroad rate bill today a num ber of undisputed' amendments were agreed to tentatively, nil of the dis puted points were passed over, nnd considerable time was devoted to a discussion of the so-called "jim crow" car provision. This amend ment has given the republican con ferees some concern because of the opposition made by northern negroes against the alleged principle involved in the separation of the races. Sen ator Tillman announced that ho 'would not consent to any change In the senate provision. BIG CIVIL CASES IN ASIIEVIILE COURT (SJpecial to The Evening Times.) Ashevlllc, N. C; 'May 29. Superior court for the tilsi (it rtvil cases 3 in session here witlir Uudgc W. R. Allen of Goldsboro presiding. The court will remain in' session n,fpr four weeks. Among the ' more'i(lmportant suits H that of Mrs. Crenshaw v. ' the Ashe Ville & Biltmore Street, Railway Com pany. Several years! ago Mrs. Cren shaw was struck by. a Biltmore car on Ashland avenue and permanently Injured, both legs being so badly crushed as to necessitate amputation. Suit was brought for , $2fe.C0O and the cause triedS'last year. Mrs. Crenshaw was awarded a verdict for $13,000. The defendant company appealed to the supreme court and the higher tribunal granted a new trial. It is said that when the .case is tried again the plain tiff win demand 30.0C0. The most important case set for trial t Ills week Is that of T. K. Klniberiy and wife against R. S. How-land. The complaint alleges that a few years ago, the defendant conducted blasting oper- ii lions near the plaintiff's home, and thai, great stones were thrown onto the house of the plaintiff and Into the plaintiff's yard and endangered the lives of the occupants; that on a cer tain day In August a rock crashed through the porch roof of the plain tiff's residence and that Mrs. Klm berly, unwell nl the time, received so nervous a shock as to result In serious Illness and extreme nervous ness, and that she lias never entirely recovered. The plainlifTs demand the sum of $10,1)00. ATLANTIC COAST LI MO ORDERS SOO COAL CARS. (Special to The Evening Times.). Wilmington. N. ('., May 2!). The At lantic Coast Line awards t-j Barney & Smith, Dayton, Ohio, a contract for five hundred steel frame coal cars, 80,000 pounds capacity. The contract price is about $:sr0,0CO. The delivery of fifty new engines by the Baldwin Locomo tive Work's will begin In September. EIGHT HOUR BILL WINS Entrance of Hearst Gives Committee Quorum Democrats Had 4 Out of 7 Voles Bill Will He Hcpui-tcri Favorably Hurried Summons Sent Out for Republican Members Availed Nothing. (l)y the- Associated Tress) Washington, May 2!). The house committee on labor today authorized a favorable report on the eight-hour bill. Chairman Gardner of New : Jersey said there was no opposing vote. There was evidently no intention on the part of the majority iu tho committee to take final action on the measure today. The meeting was held tinder the general order for hearings, and L. E. Payson, repre senting the shipbuilding and rail road interests, was opposing the bill. Thres republican and an equal num ber of democratic . members were present. The committee consists of thirteen members, and consequently seven constitutes a quorum. Throughout- the hearings the attend ance of members has been very slim. There was a sudden change in the situation during the hearing today. Representative Hearst of New York, who has ben absent for some time, walked into the committee room. This at once constituted a quorum of the committee present, and gave the democrats four out of the seven votes. ; .'.-. '. In an instant Represantativo Hunt of Missouri moved that the commit tea suspend the hearings and go into executive session. This motion was carried. A somewhat hurried sum mons for republican members was j sent out, but without producing re sults, in executive session the mo tion was made without delay to re port the bill. This motion was de celared carried, and the democratic members are rejoicing. SULZER ASKS FOR MEAT TRUST REPORT (By the Associated Press.) Washington, May 2!, Representatl e Sulzer of New York today introduced a resolution calling upon the president "If not Incompatible with the public Interest" to send to the house at his earliest convenience the reports of Charles P. Nclll find James B. Rey nolds "in connection with their inves tigation of the 'meat trust," the stock yards and the meat packing houses of Chicago, Ills., and other places and all data, exhibits and correspondence in any way relating to the same." It Is understood Representative Fin ley of South Carolina, will Introduce a similar resolution at the suggestion of MlnoritS- Leader Williams. (By the.Assoclated Press.) -Washington, May 29. Guatemalan revolutionists who attacked Oeos, have been driven across the Mexican borders, but small parties of revolutionists are appearing at various other points along the Mexican boundary and threatening the Guatemalan government. This in formation was contained In a dispatch received at the state department today from Mr. Conl the American minis ter to Guatemala and Honduras. TROUBLE GROWS GUATEMALA TRIED HARD TO KILL HIMSELF Hotel Guest Takes Poison Without Saying Why DURHAM DRUG CLERK Hubert Luinley Went fo His Hoom In YRi'boi'ough Lust Night and When Door Was Forced Today He Was I'ncoiiscious Heroic Efforts Save Him and He May Recover. H. K, Lumley, a young drug clerk of Durham, attempted to commit suicide. this morning In the Yarborough hotel liy taking mix vomica, chloroform, tinc ture of arnica and other poisons.' The most heroic treatment by physicians have succeeded in reviving him and sustaining life thus far, but he Is not yet out" of danger. He went to the hotel about 9 odock, took a room and left an order to be called at r,:?M to catch an early train for Durham. He had no baggage and paid for the lodging in advance. He could not be awakened this morning and when the room was forced open Lumley was found in an unconscious condition. Dr. Rowland and Dr. Rog ers were called In, the former taking charge of the ce.so; ' . '. An examination of the room reevaled an empty vial of mix vomica, an empty one of chloroform, tincture arnica al most empty, '.and another of ammonia partially filled. For a long time Lumley's life was de spaired of, but he finally yielded to powerful treatment and revived some what. .'...'... Luinley has been with the Vaughan Drug Company of Durham. H is a son of James Luinley of Grand Rapids, Michigan. His mother Is matron at Trinity .College end he has an uncle, George Lumley, in Raleigh, Another iincle, Sam Lumley, a native of Raleigh, 'committed suicide in Greenssboro more than a year ago. , Young Luinley was sufficiently re suscitated this afternoon to admit of his being removed from the hotel to Rex Hospital and Dr. Rowland says he has a good chance now to recover. He has as yet been unable to make any statement as to his attempt at suicide. Information has been -received from Durham that the young man had a disagreement of some sort with his employer yesterday after noon and this is thought to have ac tuated .him. ' ,."' Chief of Police J. A. Woodall of Durham, who is, here attending the federal court, . says young Lumley was a very quiet and stralghtforwnr ward young man and so far as he knows had no bad habits, being very much liked by all who Hnew him. . Tho-. mother of the young man is expected lo arrive this evening from Durham. DEATH OF WELL KNOWN ; NEWSPAPER MAN (By the Associated Press.) Detroit. Mich., May 29. James E. Scrlpps, founder and for many years publisher of the Evening News of this city, now combined with the "former Detroit News, an'il former director of the Associated Press, died at his home on Trumbull Avenue in this city early today after a long illness, aged seventy-one-years.'.'' Myelitis, an Inflamatlon of 'the spinal cord, from which Mr. Seripps had been suffering for a year, was the cause of death. Mr. Scrip-is went to California last fall in the hope of ben efitting his heulth.' but grew worse steadily during his stay, there, and ro turned here April 10. The disease pro gressed very rapidly after he reached home, and within a few; days he was compelled to take his bed. For the past week he had been In only a semi-conscious condition. ' Mr. Scrlpps suffered no pain at any time during his illness. He is survived by his widow, one son and- three married daughters. SLEW WIFE, MARRIED DAUGHTER AND SELF (Bv the Associated Jress.) Elizabethtown, N. Y., May 29. Frederick Benedict of, Reber, Essex county, today shot and killed his wife, and married daughter, and tlun committed suicide by shooting. He was 45 years old. SIMMONS FIGHTS SOUTHERN MAIL Passed LEFT TO POSTMASTER He .Hay Continue Subsidy If It Ap pears To Him Necessary In Older To Secure Rest Service. Malloiy Says Southern Most Direct Route To Atlanta. (liy the Associated Press.) Washington, May 2. The senate again had under consideration today the subsidy for the southern fast mall train, and Senator Malloiy sent an amendment, in the nature, of a substi tute for the senate amendment provid ing thiil. .the postmaster general shall not be required to expend the money appropriated "unless it be necessary to provide the same or as good a ser vice as now provided. Senator Simmons opposed the amend ment, saying that as there are three railroad lines to the south, equally as good, if not better, seVvlce would be secured without the. subsidy, lie said that no investlpHIon as to the need of the service hat' ver bpen made by -.he postofffce depa; , plenty and contended that such inqu, y should be. made be fore the money' expended. Senator Malloiy defended his amend ment and the HUbsldyjaa. in the interest of an improved mail service. He said that the South -in Railroad on which the fast mail trains run is the most di rect route from Washington to Atlanta. Senator Mone.' also spoke in support of the subsidy plan, saying that it has done much in the' past twenty years to keep the south in -touch with the coun try at large. He opposed all efforts to give the postmaster general discre tion In the matter of sustaining the system, Senator Bacon (Ga.) also defended the present service. The '.Georgia sen ator contended that if the Mallory amendment should be accepted it would have the effect of doing away with the subsidy character of the appropriation. while Mr. F,.ster deel-u ed Jliat the com mittee amendment would have the ef fect of discontinuing the expedited ser vice.'' ',.'",.''. Senator Petlus also spoke in support o;.' expedited service. After he conclud ed the- Malloiy amendment was adopted.. WHY ONLY DEMOCRATS? Mr. Gaines Says Republicans Not Arrested In Arresting Members I'mler u Call Of Hie House, Mr. Gaines Serves Notice On Olliccis Of House That All lus He Treated Alike. (By the Associated Press.) .Washington, May 29. An ex perience' meeting was held today in the house of representatives. It, grew out of the arrests made by the sergeant at arms and his officers and hauling members before the bar of the house in order to complete a quorum under a call of the house last evening. The journal set forth tile names of the members who had been placed under arrest by the officers, and who upon presentation at the bar of the house wore discharged from arrest and permitted to vote, , Mr. Gaines of Tennessee stated that ho had loll the house at 6 o'clock upon, a mission of humanity, to inquire after a skk brother. He hud gone to his hotel and was noti fied that a "call of the house" .was on. lie went into the cafe of his hotel and saw a number of members there and notified them that there was a call for a quorum. He re sponded with others, and was over taken by an officer of the house; who placed him under arrest, and he was presented to the bar of the house. He wanted to take this opportunity to ask why the democrats were sin gled out for arrest and the republi cans immune, and he desired to serve notice that officers of the house must treat all alike. So far as he was concerned he did not care for the arrest, for he was doing a duty to the sick which he would do again, house or no house. Dnvitt Losing Ground. (By the Associated Press ) Dublin, May 29. The bulletin issued this morning by the physicians In at tendance upon Michael Davitt says that he continues to lose ground, though he is resting quietly and is free from pain. THE MINORITY CANAL REPORT Reasons for Recommending the Lock Type PRESIDENT DECIDED Only Question, Says Report, Is Wlicllior.Coiigress Shall Annul Ac tion of President or Hold Its Hand nnd Allow Him to Kven Ise His Power. , (By the Associated Press.) ''Washington, May 29. In recommen dation of the construction of u lock canal ".cross the Isthmus of Panama, the minority of the senate committee on inter-oceanic canals has drafted an exhaustive report, which was submit ted to the senate today by Chairman Millard. One or the chief arguments made in favor of the l ick canal is that the Spooner act shows that congress Intended that should be the type, al though the authority to decide was conferred upon the president. The minority report says: "The 'president, having taken the advice of competent engineers and of (he canal commission, has recom mended that it is advisable to con struct a lock canal." The minority declares that the only question pre sented is whether congress shall annul he action of the present or shall simply hold its hand and. allow tho president to exercise the power whi 'h has heretofore been conferred upon him. The canal type proposed by the minority of the board of consulting engineers is the lock canal, which is the type favored by the minority of the senate committee. The report Urgues that "the plan is well balanced for it will take Just about the same time to construct the dam. excavate for the locks and build the locks as it does to make the needed excavation through the Culebra cut, a period of not more than seven and a half years. Everything else to be done the three dams forming L.ske Sosa, the dam and lock at Pedro Miguel can be con flicted within this time. The cost of the canal is ' $1 0,000,000. This Includes everything bur the sanitation, and it of course includes the equipment al ready purchased and preparation for construction already made." The -central feature of the plan l the dam and locks at fiatum and the minority says the evidence Is over whelming that "the dam will lie as firm as the everlasting hills." Testi mony of engineers is quoted to refute criticisms of the dam. In answer to objections to the scheme of having locks placed in light, Ilie minority says "they tie placed immediately together so that a vessel can move from the water at highest ' level in one lock immediately into the low level of the next lock. Locks tliif? arranged in Might or In steps, so to speak, are well known devices in lock construction and are no more if an experiment than a single lock." It is argued that the Soo canal demonstrates that it is entirely possi ble to install and maintain a system of lock machinery which will work with the. utmost smoothness, and that the liability of accident Is practically excluded. The criticisms of W. Henry Hunter, chief engineer o( the Man chester ship canal, are referred to as "extreme statements": aild the. report' charges that the accidents at that canal were because sufficient "precau tions and instrumentalities" have not been adopted, such as have, prevented similar accidents. In the Soo canal. Transformation of a lock system into a sea level one. the . report says, could be effected without transfering with the traffic in the lock canal. The cost of such transformation, however, Is estimated at $20,000,000. The cost of maintenance of the lock canal is estimated at $2,500,000 a year. A large part of the report is devoted to -objections to the sea level canal, chief of which.- 11 says, Is the problem of controlling the waters . of the Cliagres river. This is done by the construction of several big dams but In spite of these, said the minority, a current of varying force would be made in the sea level canal between Obispo and the slnu'es of Union bay. The sea level 'canal, says the report, will have 19 curves of 597 degrees cur vature, while the Suez, of twice the length has only 15 curves of 4G712 de grees. The minority says the length of the curves In the lock canal is only fifteen per cent, of the total length of the canal, while that of the sea level Is 38 per cent and while the degree of curvature Is greater in thelock canal than the sea level, the ( urves are almost wholly in channels 1,000,800, and 500 feet in width, in which such curves have not the slightest effect to increase the dangers of navigation. Concerning the danger to the lock canal from malicious mischief and at tempted destruction in time of war, the minority says there is no reason for supposing that neutrality will not be accepted by all the nations of the earth, and that this wonjd be the most effective way of preventing In jury to the canal. It Is argued thai the sea level canal, with its tidal lock at Sosa, and its narrow gorge through CUIebra would offer excellent oppor tunity for destruction by explosives. The danger from eartquakes is not treated as a serious one, the report quoting testimony to show that earth quakes are not of frequent occurrence at the isthmus, and that violent earth quakes have never happened at that point. Incorporated in the report of the minority are two letters from Fred erick P. Stearns of Boston, one of the Amirican engineers who signed the report, in favor of a lock canal, and a statement by . Charles Dorleth, Jr., professor of structural engineering in the University of California at Berke ley, on the subject of earthquake dam age in California recently. The report says it was shown that the reservoir dams ami the buildings e instructed properly of masonry were uninjured; that the man- dams about San Fran cisco have heeiy examined with the result that Mr. Stearns declares that fears 'expressed for the canal works at Panama are fanciful in the extreme. "Estimates made by the majority as to the cost of the sea level canal are disputed by the minority, which de clares that the total cost will be about $272,000,000 Instead of $247,1.00.000. : LEAVE THIS AFTERNOON President and Party Off for Portsmouth Trip Hi-inn Made on the Cruiser May flower Mrs. Koosevelt, His Sis-tor-iii-I.aw Miss Carow, and Kthel and Quentin Will Accompany Mr. ICooscvelt. '(By the Associated Press.) Washington, May 29-President Roosevelt left here shortly before 3 o'clock this afternoon for Porsmouth, Va., where tomorrow he is to deliver a memorial day address 'before, the Army and Navy Union. Tin trip 10 Portsmouth will be made on the cruiser Mayflower. The .president will be ac companied by Mrs. Roosevelt, his sister-in-law. Miss Carow, and his chil dren, Ethel and Quentin. Nen'nc Sec retary Ixveb nor Assistant Secretary Barnes will be of the parly. Morris C. Lattai the pi-esldent's personal stenog rapher, who has had wide experience on piesldential trips, will direct the details of the trip in the absence of Secretary Loeb. ' At the conclusion of the ceremony at the cemetery, adjoining the Naval Hos pital at Portsmouth, the president. Mis. Roosevelt, Miss Carow and the children will be the guests of the commandant of the Portsmouth naval station at luncheon. After luncheon the party will go aboard the Mayflower and. pro ceed to Hampton, where a brief stop will be made at the Hampton Institute. While the president is there the ground of the institute will be closed to all ex cept members of the president's party and the students and faculty. The president will deliver a brief speech at the Institute. Immediately following the ceremonies at the institute, the president and '.us party aagin will board the Mayflower and start on their return trip to Wash ington. They expect to arrive here about S o'clock Thursday' morning. It being necessary to make a slow run up the Potomac on account of the 'consid erable draft of the Mayflower. M'OOVERN t BRITT WERE ARRESTED (Bv tre. 'Associated Press.) New York, May 29. Terry Mc tiovern and James Britt, together with sixteen other men among whom were Harry Pollick, manager of tho Twentieth Century Athletic Club, and Timothy Hurst, the referee, who were arretsed last night after a ton round fight between Britt and Mc Govern before the Twentieth Cen tury Athletic Club in Madison Square Garden, Were in police court, today charged with violation of a section of the penal code which regu lates prize fights. At the request of counsel for the prisoners the court granted a postponement until Thurs day and continued the bail of five hundred dollars each. MOIIE PKOTKSTS AOAIXST SMOOT FROM 15 STATKS. (By the Associated Press.) Washington, May 28. When the sen ate met today there was another flood of petitions from women all over the country asking for the ejectment of Senator Smoot of Utah from the sen ate. As on yesterday, they were all en cased in strong paper boxes, of which there were fifteen from as many differ' ent states. Mrs. Davis Improves. (By the. Associated Press.) New York, May 29. Mrs. - Jefferson Davis, who has been 111 for several weeks, was reported today to be convalescing. SHE TRIED TO END HER LIFE Young Lady Shot Herself Near Durban) : FFARFIIIIY WnilMflFn XJUU 1 HUU11UUU Miss Zenobia Franklin, Miserable From Family Troubles and Quarrel With Her Lover, Toole . Uncle's Shot Gun to Tobacco Barn and Pushed Trigger With Stick. (Special to the Evening Times.) Durham, N. C, May 29. Mlsa Zenobia Franklin, a young lady 18 years of age, made a desperate at tempt to end her life last Saturday at the home of her uncle twenty miles north of Durham. Particulars of the affair did not reach Durham until a lain hour last night. Miss Franklin, who is the daugh ter of Henry Franklin, and lives Ave miles from Rougemont, waa at the home of her uncle, Louis Duncan, when she attempted suicide and was fearfully wounded. A shot gun was the weapon used, and the load tore away her entire left breast, leaving exposed her lungs on left side. Fam ily troubles and a love affair are given as the causes that led the young woman Vo take this step. Miss Franklin has told the story of how she made the unsuccessful attempt to end her life. She slipped, her uncle's gun from his home aqd went to a tobacco barn, some 200 yards away. There she first cocked the only barrel in which there was a load and then placed the breach of the gun against a rock. She could not reach the trigger and a stick was used to fire the gun. In leaning over to push the trigger she turned the direction of the gun, and this saved her life. In3tead of penetrating her breast and directly . to .her heart, 'as she intended, the load tore through her left breast. Miss Franklin has a step-mother, and the report is that the two did not get along very well together, tbls accounting for the fact that she was at the home of her uncle.. She also had fallen out with her sweetheart a few days before the attempted stil-'" cide. She has told nothing about tho cause, only that she was mistreated. not saying by whom. Information received from Rouge mont this morning was that the young woman was still living, and that she would possibly recover, un less some Inflammation, causing either blood poisoning or pneumonia should set in. PANDEMONIUM IN TENNESSEE CONVENTION Nashville, Tenn., May 29. Soon after the democratic gubernatorial convention was called to order to day a wrangle arose over the selec tion of a temporary chairman, and at one o'clock pandemonium reigned in the convention hall. The cam paign for the democratic nomination for governor has been the most bitter that this state has known In recent years. John I. Cox, who succeeded to the governorship when Governor Frazier was elected senator to suc ceed the late General W. B. Bate, stands for nomination and is opposed by Congressman M. R. Patterson of Memphis and Judge John R. Bond, a leading jurist of this state. The police were called in after disorder had prevailed for half an hour. As tho roll call of counties for temporary chairman prooeeded, pro-' test after protest was made. The presiding officer was unable to con trol the gathering, although he pounded vigorously for order. There were many heated arguments among the delegates, and several of the par ticipants nearly came to blows. It was at this point the police were called. WARREN COUNTY ENDORSER SIMMONS AND KITCHIN. (Special to The Eyening Times.) Warrenton, N. C, May 29. The county democratic convention Is holding an enthusiastic meeting In the court house today, It has en dorsed Senator Simmons and Con gressman Claude Kitohln for reelec tion. All the candidates, both sue-. cessful and unsuccessful, are In th best of spirits. . . .
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