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Full Leased Wire Service of the Associated Press. Leads all North Carolina Afternoon Papers in Circulation. LAST EDITION. ALL THE MARKETS. THE RALEIGH EVENING TIMES. RALEIGH, N. C, FRIDAY, AUGUST 3, 1906. A VOLUME 27. PRICE 5c. CONDITION OF COTTON CROP Statement Issued By Agri cultural Department GENERAL AVERAGE m A Loss of iVur Points Durum Last Month North Carolina Crop Con dition July 85 Was Only 75, Which Is Ten Points Below the Ton Year Average. (By the Associated Press.) Washington, Aug. 3. The. crop re portlng board of the bureau of statis tics of the department of agriculture In a bulletin Issued at noon today finds from the reports of the correspondents and agents of the buerau that the avexuge condition of cotton on July 25 was 82.9 as compared with 8H.3 on June 25, 1!in6; V4.ll on July 25, 1005: 91.C at the corresponding date. In 11)04 and a ten year average of 82.4. The following lable shows the con dition on July 2.r of this year with the respective ten year averages: July 25, Ton Year STATES. 1905. Average. Virginia 83 86 North Carolina. . 75 85 South Carolina.. 72 S3 Georgia 74 S4 Florida . 72 85 Alabama 83 S3 Mississippi SS 81 Louisiana 88 82 Texas 86 ' 80 Arkansas 89 82 Tennessee 88 85 Missouri 95 86 Oklahoma 92 86 Indian Territory. 85 88 New York Market Broke. New York, Aug. 3. The August condition reported by the government placing the average conditions of the cotton crop ajt S2.9 per cent against 74.!) last year and 91.6 wo years ago, was followe'd by a sevoVe break in the cotton market. October sold down to 9.94, December to 9.98, January to 10.05, or 30 to 34 points net low er. and about 20 points below the previous low level of the season. There was selling for southern ac counts and active liquidation on the decline. VIRGINIA BUILDING AT JAMESTOWN (By the Associated Press.) Norfolk. Va.. Aug. 3 Ths Virginia Cum mission to the Jamestown Impo sition, with Governor Swanson as chairman, is in session here this af ternoon, completing details prepara tory to the Commencement of actual work on the Virginia State bidding. After a conference with the board of governors of the exposition company relative to restrictions placed upon the state's contract with the company for the state building, it was announced that a satisfactory arrangement had k.. moiia Ri.l will be opened for the Virginia building nd the contract' let before the commission adjourns. The commission will also may out a tentative plan f,or the state and county exhibits, especially those per taining to truck and fish. The state commissioners here besides Governor Swanson are A. M. Bowman, N. B. Early, C. Fenton Day, W. W. Sale. II. W. Withers and W. W. Baker. The lowest bid for the state build ing was found to be $2,500 above the $25,000 set for the construction of the building The commissioners are now considering this matter. A SPECTACULAR MIMIC BATTLE. (By tho Associated Press.) Chattanooga, Tenn., Aug. 3. A mimic battle between the "brown" and "blues" at the Chickamauga national military park encampment took place today. Each "army" was composed of two regiments of infantry, half a regiment of cavalry and a battery of field artillery. To the "blues" under Colonel Thiise of the 12th cavalry, was assigned the duty of holding the his toric Snodgrass Hill. The "browns" under Colonel Van Orsdale of the 17th infantry wore in the asasultlng com pany wbtch was to advance and at tack with modern methods, not in a charge but In open order with a firing line in front. An artillery fight was a natural accompantement. Large crowds saw the "battle" which was spectacular. Extension of W. V. Wires. (By the Associated Press.) Butte, Mont., August 3. The Western Union Telegraph Company yesterday 'took charge of the wires on that por tion of the Great Northern between Great Falls and Butte, giving the com pany the entire wire system of the Great Northern wires for commercial GREEN-GAYNOR CLAIM AGAINST UNCLE SAM (By the Associated Press.) New York, August 3. At the request of Kellogg & Robs of, this city, counsel for Greene and Gaynor, under convic tion for embezzlement In connection with harbor improvements at Savan nah, (3a the attorney-general of tho United States has fixed September 27, next, as the date for the examination by the government of Greene and Gay nor in their claims now pending against the government in the court of claims. The examination will be held at the prison In Macon, Ga., where Greene and Gaynor are confined, according to a statement niadt) today by L. Laflin Keliogg, who said he had received no tice to that effect from Attorney-General Moody. at Washington. "This is the action," said Mr. Kel logg, "brought by the Atlantic Con tracting Company under which name Greene and Gaynor did business, against the government to recover damages for breach of the same con tracts which funned the bawis of the charges on which they were recently convicted at Savannah. Our clients' claims amount to $350,000, actually earned and certified by the government officers and admittedly unpaid for; in addition to over $500,000 In profits on work remaining to be done. After all the evidence lor tho plaintiffs in these proceedings had been Introduced the government produced a stay, pending the absence of Greene and Gaynor in Canada, Their presence in this country now makes it necessary for the stay to be vacated and the examination had." A BIG FIRE AT MILAN Extensive Damage to Inter national Exposition Loss Estimated At From $800,000 to Over 92,000,000 Italian Ami Hungarian Exhibits of Decorative Arts Entirely l)estiyed. (By the Associated Press.) Milan, Italy, August 3. -Fire which broke out hero this morning in the international exposition did extensive damage. The sections de voted to the decorative arts of Italy and Hungary were totally destroyed, as also was the pavilion in Which were installed the exhibits of Italian and Hungarian architecture. The damage is estimated at .$800,000. Several firemen and carbineers were injured. , For a time the British, Swiss, Ja panese and Netherlands sections were threatened but by energetic work, the firemen succeeded in saving them. Tho jewelry and fine arts sec tions also were threatened but a largo force of carbineers carried the pictures, many of them of almost priceless value, from the gallery of fine arts, into the corridors of sec tions beyond the fire zone. Some of the estimates place the loss as high as $2,400,000, which probably is ex cessive. The origin of the fire is attributed to an electric short circuit. Tho au thorities reject, the theory that the conflagration was incendiary. GRIEF FOR DEAD WIFE; SUICIDE. (By the Associated Press.) Huntington, W. Va., -August 3. William Weber, a prominent govern ment contractor, who took opium with suicidal intent yesterday, died at a hospittil here today. Weber's wife committed suicide by drowning herself in the Sabine River at Beau mont, Texas, two months ago, and grief over her death is supposed to have caused his suicide. Weber's homo was at Beaumont, Texas. He had the contracts for the Unftod States building being erected here and for the one at McKeesport, Pa. BINDERY FOREMAN LOSES HIS JOB (By tho Associated Press.) Washington, August 3. W. A. Miller, assistant foreman of bindery, of the government printing offlce.who was suspended by the public printer on July 21 for insubordination and Insolence, was, dismissed from the government service yesterday. Mil ler's former suspension in 1903 was the cause of President Roosevelt's order declaring the government printing office and all offices where workmen are employed by the gov ernment to be open shops. THE GENERAL STRIKE BEGINS Ordered to Formally Com mence Tomorrow MANY WENT OUT TODAY Five Hundred Revolutionists Cap tured Last Night By Dragoons. Mutiny in Artillery Camp Near Warsaw Troops Guarding Kail ways. (By the Associated Press.) St. Petersburg, Aug. 3. A gen eral strike has been formally ordered l to begin In St. Petersbur;; tomorrow at noon and as a preliminary the men employed in a dozen establish ments went out at noon today. A dozen establishments in the Vasili Ostrov and Vihorsky quarters and in the Moscow quarter, beyond the Narva, went out at noon today. The final decision was not reached without a strong fight in the. work men's council three delegates stand ing out to the end against nine. The failure of tho strike is predicted since the workmen generally tire not pre pared. Tho plan is to bejn the strike here tomorrow and at Moscow on Monday and gradually to extend it through the empire until every thing, including the railroads and telegraphs are at a complete stand still. A section of the street railroads here, Including the Nevsky Prospect line, stopped running this afternoon. The- police this morning arrested half a dozen members of the work men's council who were elected to di rect the general strike and they also captured several members of the rev olutionary military committee. The signal to strike has been for warded to seventy-two different pro; letariat organizations throughout the empire. St. Petersburg, Aug. 3.-6:05 p. ni. the strike here has already af fected fifteen thousand men, includ ing the employes of tho electric lighting plants. tRigft, T.ivonia Russia, Aug;. 3. A secret revolutionary meeting which was attended by 500 persons v was surrounded last night by dragoons, who captured every man present. St. Petersburg, Aug. 3. All the stations of the Finnish Railway be tween St. Petersburg and Viborg, as well as the entire length of the coast which the line shirks, have . been oc cupied by troops. Warsaw, Aug. 3. The' artillery men in the summer camp at Rember toff near Warsaw have mutinied, in fantry and Cossacks have been dis patched to quell the revolt. ASSASSIN ATTEMPTS LIFE OF A WITNESS (By the Associated Press.) Jackson, Ky., August 3. Asbury Splcer, a prominent witness against former Judge James Hargis and others in the recent trial of the Marcum mur der case, was fired on from ambush Thursday night near his home on Mid dlefork of Kentucky River, in this county. One shot' took effect in his back, a second shot was fired but went wide of tire mark. ANOTHER DEATH RESULTS FROM POLL BOTH FIGHT, (Bv tho Associated Press.) Memphis, Tenn., Aug. 3. W. J. Cook, who took part in the fight nt tno polling booth of the fifteenth dis trict yesterday afternoon and who was shot in the abdomen, died today. W. G. Wellington, who was killed, had recently been indicted by the grand jury charged with running a disorderly house. I). P. Conn, a judge of elections who was shot in the heel, is not ser iously injured. Virginia Murderer Executed. (By the Associated Press.) Richmond, Va., August 3. William E. Welcber was hanged at Lexington today for the murder of Henry .1. Smith In August last. Death was Instantaneous. EX-MAYOR SENTENCED TO 12 YEARS IN PEN (By the Associated Press.) Patterson, H. Belcher, N. J., August :;. William who while mayor of this city absconded a year ago and who surrendered himself Monday last, was sentenced today to twelve years In tho Trenton penitentiary on a charge of embezzlement. Belcher disappeared from this city nbout a year ago while he was mayor. He was alleged to have embezzled from $100,0(10 to $150,000 from personal friends and from the Manchester Building & Ixian Association which suspend business. No was true forced to of the missing man was discovered by the au thorities until he appeared at the county jail Monday 1 1 i .-; 1 n and volun tarily surrendered. He had only $17 In his possession, and declared jhaj he had suffered great hardships dining his absence. He said that he had traveled about the country until his funds were exhausted. He found himself penniless In St. Paul after losln,; the last re maining $200, and then secured work digging ditches for $J.T a day. His health broke down and he was com pelled to seek other employment and resume his wanderings. n. found hire ell' in Mow York, without funds. After giving up he expressed regret and was prepared to suffer the eoiis of his embezzlement. Justice Scott in his review ' nnaiiyr hi aim himself sain ni- t en si ! had Bttiu uiai eiencrs peculations lejL r-.oaio in int. iciniis penal ies 'and that he saw no reason cising clemency. Sentence ! imposed. I'c oxer- was then WANT SUIT IN FEDERAL COURT Mr. Jones Fuller was here today from Durham and this afternoon filed in the office of the clerk of the United States circuit court the records in connection with the pel it ion that is pending before Judge I'ritchard for the removal of the case of Blackwell's Durham Tobacco Company of North Carolina vs. Blackwell's Durham To bacco Company of Xew Jersey, the American Tobacco Company et al to I the United States court on the ground that it is a controversy between liti gants in different, states. -Mr. Fuller is of counsel for the defendants. This is the case In which The Blackwell's Durham Tobacco Com pany of North Carolina was chartered in the office of the secretary of state a few days ago. and thereafter insti tuted suit in the superior court of Durham county to prohibit the New Jersey company from manufacturing tobacco in North Carolina any longer under the name of lllack well's Dur ham Tobacco Company. THE COURT UPSETS A NEW LABOR LAW (By the Associated Press.) New York, Aug. 3. The state law of New York restricting the labor by women and children to ten hours a day and sixiy hours a week In factory, was declared today by Justice Ol in stead, In a decision handed down in the court of special sessions, to be an "un warranted invasion of constitutional rightH." The ruling was concurred In by Justices McKeiin and Deuel. Judge Olmstead declared that the law was class legislation. DECISION HAXDKD DOWN IS OHIO ICU CASK. (By the Associated Press.) Toledo, 6 August .'!. Judge Babcock in common pleas court handed down today his decision in the ice case, sus taining Judge Kincuid In every particu lar and exonerating him of having made any promise or suggestion or lenient) as claimed by the attorneys for the ice trust. Should the attorneys for the ice men appeal from Judge Babcock to the cir cuit court which they are likely to do, the court will cither send the cases back for re-hearing in common pleas court or by declaring there is no error, cut off the last hope of the ice men to escape Imprisonment. American Opticians Xew President. (By the Associated Press.) Rochester, N. Y.. Ausust 3. Kansas City was selected by the American As sociation of Opticians at the concluding session today as the place for holding the convention next year. C. A. Folsom of Georgia, was elected regent for three years. American Jockey's Victories. (By the Associated Pruss.) London, August 3. Malier, the American jockey at the Goodwood races today won three races, the Nassau stakes, on Lord Derby's Canterbury Pilgrim: the Gordon stakes, on Lent Derby's Victorious, and the Mole Comb stakes, on W. Raphael's My Pet II. NO REPORT YET AS TO WATER Made Tonight EXPERTS STILL FIGURING Is Understood the Special Com mittee Will .Merely Ask to be Con tinued Experts Purit aii(f ItiddJek Working On Estimates For Pro posed City Plaid At Neuse River. The board of aldermen will meet to night In regular monthly session, t nil side of the usual routine of business there is nothing of special interest to Iconic befoi-C the body. Tne special Colnmitt rppomted i Somg time ago to luV Uon of the pU1.Chase l tigate the quos the city of the water nlant or the making of another oiueneea contract with the present company will, it is understood, make no reconiniollda of thol.j . toniatlt but will ask that they be t.,mttnued until s e futui dale, since ' , i,,,., ..,111 mnro t on require more time to complete their investigations before being- position to present any record inenda- tlolis. The two exports, Prof. Charles U. Park and XV. C. Itlddlek, who have been employed by the committee to look over the situation and prepare estimates of the cost of the present plant and also of the cost to tile city of constructing a new plant, are slid at work. They are figuring now on the cost of a plain proposed to be built by the city at the Neuse Jtivcr, some I! or ". miles from town. The special committee is composed of Mayor Johnson cx-otHclo chairman. I Aldermen Jackson, chairman of the Water committee, Cooper, Grimes and j Lep and City Attorney Snow. I it is understood that the attention of the committee is especially directed now to the Neuse River proposition, land that it is the delay In the estimates of the cost of this that delays the re port. REV. T. G. WETMORE DEAD AT ASHEVILLE. (Special to the Evening Times.) Asheville, N. C, August. 3. Rev. Thomas G. Wetmore of Christ Church, Arden, and also in charge of Christ Church's school, that place, I died at the Mission Hospital here this morning at 3 o'clock from the j effects of an (deration for appondi- ! cilis I Mr. Wetmore was a son of the lute distinguished divine, Rev. Dr. Wcitnoiv, of Linrolhlon. lie was in perfect health last Wednesday and was in .Vsnevuio on business, tie re turned to his home at Arden, was taken ill that night and brought to the .Mission Hospital Thursday. ; I hursdny nighi tin operation was ' performed by Br. Stokes of Salis bury. Surviving liini are a widow and several children. Mr. Wetmore was I one of the most prominent Episcopal i ministers in lliis section of the state. DEATH PENALTY FOR RAPE IN ILLINOIS (By the Associated Press.) Chicago, "Aug. 3. Punishment by death is recommended by the July grand jury as the maximum penalty for attacks on women. The recom mendation was made In Its final report, which was handed Judge Dupuy in the superior court yesterday Changes in existing laws prescribing punish ment for assailants of children also were recommended by the Inquisitors. The action of the grand jury is the result of the long continued preval ence In Chicago of such al tacks. Cargo Must Go Overboard. (By the Associated Press.) Block Island, R. !., August 3. The work of salvage on the United States collier Nero, which is strand ed near the Southeast light, was re sumed today. It wr.s found that in order to float the craft it Jould be necethary to throw all the cargo overboard. Convention of Hot nil Jewelers. (By the Associated Press.) Rochester, N. Y., Aug. IS. The American Association of Retail Jew elers opened their convention in this city today. The object of the con vention is to reorganize the as sociation and to form stronger or- zanizations in all the states and cities. CARELESS DANDLING OF PUBLIC FUNDS (By the Associated Press,) Akron, O., August 3.--Examiners Poulson and Haley tiled their report of the exa mi nation of the Summit county treasury with probate Judge Pardee today, It shows that there Is a deficit in the treasury of $272,451. The examiners say this deficit was $.S!12,l.rj4 at the time the examination was begun, but that since then afcirge amount of borrowed money has been ret u riled. The report says that a large part of the loans are unsecured and that a considerable pari of the securities rep I resenting loans of the public funds are renewal's of obligations taken by former ill insurers and carried by the present treasurer. Fred 11. Smith. Treasurer Smith declares that the vault in the court house is unsafe to kee.i public funds ill and that tile cost of his bonds. ti0OJ)W) in all. is so high and his salary so low that lie had to loan money to keep ahead. Second Primary for Congressman. (By the Associated Press.) Memphis, Tenn., August 3. In complete returns today from the eighth congressional district indicate that there was ho nomination in yes terday's democratic primaries. Gen eral George W. Gordon and John W. Appprson, the two leading candi dates, will therefore enter a "run off" on August II, when a special election will be Held. STATE EXHIBIT PLAN North Carolina Commission ers lo Meerx Will Confer With Governor Glenn September I About Representation At, .Jamestown Exposition Com plete List of Commissioners as Apr proved By the Governor. Gov. Glenn issued a call today for a meeting of the North Carolina commis sioners for the Jamestown Exposition lo be held In his office September 4th to perfect general plans for the repre sentation this state shall have in tho great exposition. He says the previous call for the com missioners to meet August 1 was with out ids sanction and did not material ize. He is especially anxious for every member of the commission to be present. They are E. L. I laughl ridge, Rocky .Mount: J. E, Pogue, Raleigh; li. W. Hinshnw, Winston-Salem; D. C. Haines. Murfricsboro; Col. J. W.. At kinson, Wilmington; H. C Doekery, Rockingham; N. It. Blaloek, Norwood; I). J. Carpenter, Xewton; Geo. S. Powell, Asheville; Dr. John Faison, Poison. The i nil tee will decide at this meeting whether the state will have a Special building of its own or not. ITALIAN GIRL KILLS HER LOVER. (By the Associated Press.) New York, August 3. Because he had refused to marry her Marie Scha bare, 22 years old, an Italian girl, today slioi and probably mortal ly wounded Nlchola Terra. The shooting occurred in Worth street near the live points mission. The young woman said that Terra, though already married, bad prom ised to make her his wife. When he rofnsi d to do so she said she determ ined lo kill him. Brighton Races Today. (By this Associated Press.) 1 rightoh Beach, Aug. 3, First (i furlongs selling, 4 years olds up: Jucquin, 9 to 1" and 2 to 5, race and i first ! Hell ; Novena, 3 to 1, place, second; of Portland, third. Time cond Race: S 1-2 furlongs, 2 1:1.' Si year s old, Botanist, -1 to I and 7 to 5, first Laura A., -o I, place, second; tstic. third. Time 1 : US. Fat DEATH OF EMBASSY CLERK CHAS. HUDSON (Bv the Associated Press.) London, August 3, Charles Hod ison, for thirty years chief clerk of the American embassy hero, died to day. Mr. Hodson served under eight ministers and ambassadors. With the late James Russell Lowell, par ticularly, he was on terms of Inti mate friendship, and he leaves a set of Mr. Lowell's hooks, each inscribed, "To my dear friend," and a most, in teresting collection of letters, Mr. Hodson and Mr. Lowell having kept up a correspondence after tho latter left London. JOINT DEBATE IN THE TENTH Prof. Brill Accepts Mr. Craw ford's Challenge. LAW LEAGUE ADJOURNS Xew President a Frisco Man Meets Next Year at Detroit Police Get Negro Who Has Been In the Wholesale Burglary Business and Recover Much Plunder. (Special to the Evening Times.) Asheville, N. C, August 3. The com mercial law league of America, which met In annual convention here Mon day, adjourned last night with a ban quet. Henry G. XV. Dinkelsplel of San Francisco was elected president for the ensuing year, and Detroit was chosen as next year's meeting place. J. J. firitt, tile republican candidate for congress in the tenth district, has accepted the challenge, of W. T. Craw lord, the democratic candidate, and ar rangements for tile joint campaign and the dates will be made in a few days. Mr. Britt is still cashier In the office of Collector Brown, but said this morning that it was his Intention to leave the service shortly. The police, this morning arrested Cap. Jones and Hayes Watson, two negroes who, during the past few nights, have burglarized four residences In this city. The plunder was found in possession of the burglars. Nearly $100 In money, four watches and almost a room full of stolen clothing were recovered. The men will be. tried at this term of court. FATAL RAILWAY WRECK TODAY. (By the Associated Press.) Pittsburg, Pa., August 3. Three persans are reported to have been killed in a wreck of. the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburg train, at Har mony, Pa. The accident is .said to have occurred shortly after 10 o'clock but. no details have been received. The dead are reported to be train men. A wreck train has gone from Butler. Later. Three trainmen were kill ed today in a freight wreck on the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburg Railroad, near Harmony, Pa. The accident was caused by the train run ning into an open switch. NEW SOAP CO. AT HIGH POINT. (Special to t ho Evening Times.) High Point, N. C, Aug. 3. A new enterprise for this place is the Steele Soap Manufacturing Company, or ganized here today with the follow ing officers: President, Aaron Lich enstein; vice president and treasurer, F. P. Ingram; secretary, J. A. Pow ers. : , " The plant has been operated in St. Louis and was brought to this place through the efforts of Rev. Lichen stein, the converted Jew, who has been here a week. The plant for the present will be located in the sec ond floor of the Kirkman building on Hamilton street. FEELING AGAINST NEGRO MURDERER. (By the Associated Press.) Canonsburg, Pa., August 3. Fearing a demonstration. Coroner Slpe has de cided not to have Elmer Dempster, the self-confessed murderer of Mrs. Marg aret Pearco and her two children present at the inquest, which will be held here tills afternoon. The coroner thinks the negro wdll be safer behind the walls of the Wash ington jail. Little Robert Pearce, the fourth vic tim, who was dangerously wounded, Is doing well and will probably recover. MANDAMUS FOR THE N. Y. LIFE. (By the Associated Press.) New Itork, Aug. 3. An order di recting the Mutual Life Insurance Company to show cause why a writ of mandamus should not be issued demanding it to file a correct list of ots policyholders, was issued today by Justice Giegerich In the supreme court. The order was issued upon application of Colonel A. M. Shook of Tennessee, through Samuel Unter mr, counsel for the International Policyholders committee. Edward and William to Meet. London, Aug. 3. It was officially announced today that King Edward and Emperor William will meet at Frederlchskron Castle, near Ham burg, Germany, August 15.
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