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LAST EDITION. ALL THE MARKETS. full Leased Wire Service of the Associated Press. Leads all North Carolina Afternoon Papers in Circulation. THE RALEIGH EVENING TIMES. RALEIGH, N. C, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1906. PRICE 5c. VOLUME 27. THE AIR RIFE WITH RUMORS Philadelphia Awaits Arrest of More Directors NEW FACTS EVERY HOUR They Reveal Various Forms of Du plicity cm the Port of the Men Entrusted With the Affairs of the Looted Heal Estate Trust Com pany. (By the Associated Press.) Philadelphia, Pa., Sept. . Ru mors of arrests of directors of the looted Real Estate Trust Company tilled the air today. District Attor ney Ball declares in most emphatic terms that no man will be spared in the effort to bring to justice those responsible for the dissipation of the depositors' money. The statement is made that two directors, who are also members of the bar, have profited to the extent of ?750,000 in the past three years by accepting fees from Adolph Segal for passing on security tendered by him for loans by the bank aggregat ing ?5,''u0,l)u0. So far as is known warrants have not yet been issued for these men, but the public is awaiting with breathless interest sensational arrests of directors who stood high in the community before . s.e crash and exposure came. Hippie's Cry From the Grave. President Hippie's plaintive cry from his grave "Segal got all" has aroused the depotyors to a high pitch of indignation. On the day that Hippie shot him self, according to a statement now made public, he left a note for his son,, V. Wharton Hippie, In which he said: "Segal got all the money. I was fooled, but have no one to blame but myself." This note 1 now in the possession of Receiver Earle and District At torney Bell. Lawyers representing hundreds of depositors are taking an active part in the investigation of the af fairs of the trust company, and facts are coming to light almost hourly revealing new forms of duplicity on the part of the men entrusted with the depositors' money, and the trust funds of large and small estates. Investigation shows that the loot ing of the trust company will cost the Presbyterians less than $100,000 and the leaders of that faith are con gratulating themselves that Presi dent Hippie chose n opportune time for committing suicide as far as the church is concerned, the funds and deposits being low at this time of the year. Receiver Earle expresses the opin ion that President Hippie was money mad" and that there seem ed to be no end to the variety of -methods by which he juggled with securities which fell into his hands, and concerning which he sought to deceive the directors. Extraordinary Method of Theft. "He was not content with stealing the same bond or stock certificate once," said Mr. Earle, "but did it several times over. "He would, for instance, receive a bond or certificate as collateral for a loan, the security representing a safe margin. Then, if Mr. Segal came along asking for a loan and presenting insufficient security, Mr. Hippie would take the good security depos"ed with a note of another man and place it with Segal's note. "In this manner the directors were brought to believe that the fund security was collateral for the loan to Segal. This sort, of opera tion was repeated by Mr. Hippie as often as Mr. Segal's demands deemed to' render it necessary." Hippie's Sleight of Hand. Mr. Earle said that the practices of Hippie had left the notes and pa pers relating to loans in almost in conceivable confusiou. It was es tablished yesterday that the substi tution of bogus bonds for good bonds among the trust securities of the Presbyterian general assembly board was accomplished by Mr. Hippie through a species of sleight of hand. He went to the box in the vault con taining the trust securities in ques tion on the pretext of cutting couv pons in order to pass them and place the proceeds to the credit of the board. After the box was open ed Hippie informed the clerk that somebdy at the door wanted to see him for a moment. The clerk un suspectingly lert Hippie alone for this brief interval. The time was sufficient to enable him to substitute two bogus bonds for two genuine bonds, which he afterward hypothe cated for 'the benefit of himself or Segal. 1 STRIKING CARMEN RETURN TO WORK. (By the Associated Press.) San Francisco, Cal., Sept. 6. The strike of the street car men on the United States Railways, incidentally also that of the linemen, electricinns, firemen and construction workers, came to an end last night when the strike committee of these unions of ficially declared the strike at an end. The carmen immediately reported for duty and soon cars began leaving the barns. Of the two thousand strike break ers imported by the United Railways, President Calhoun said that many of them would remain in the com pany's employ, and that it could use them as well as the former employes in the building and operation of pro- Ijected lines. STEAMER SUNK BY A COLLISION (By the Associated Press.) Sandusky, O., Sept. C. Nineteen men had a narrow escape from death last night, when the steamer Homer Warren and her tow, the barge Wil liam Crosshtwaite, collided in Lake Erie, near Kelley's Island and sank. Both vessels went down within a short time after the collision, and the members of the crews were pick ed up by an upbound passing steamer, which responded to the signals of distress. Both vessels were lumber carriers. The Homer Warren had a crew of twelve. The William Crossthwaite carried a crew of seven. NET EARNINGS OF THE RAPID TRANSIT. (By the Associated Press.) New York, Sept. (i. The annual report of the Brooklyn Rapid Tran sit Company for the year ended June 30 was made public today. It shows net earnings of 18,355,886.35, an increase of $1, 574, 176. The surplus for the year after payment of taxes, fixed charges, betterments, etc., was 92, 162, 60S), an increase of ?1, 012,675. Killed by Fall. (Bv the Associated Press.) Bar Harbor, Me., Sept. 6. James F. Grant, of Camden, N. J., a water carrier on the battleship Maine, was instantly killed aboard the vessel here today. He was struck by a fall ing bucket of ashes. WILL FIX THE LOWEST PRICE (By the Associated Press.) Hot Springs. Ark., Sept. C The ex ecutive committee of the Southern Cot ton Association met late today for a three day's session. President Harvey Jordan and Secretary Richard Cheatham arrived today. Chief among the matters scheduled to be consid ered is the minimum price of cotton, the price to be named depending upon the data in hand considered most re liable as to acreage and present condi tion of the crop. Another important matter is the con sideration of a charge against Secre tary .Cheatham involving alleged con nection with brokerage firms. THE RACKS AT SHEEPSHEAB. (By the Associated Press.) Sheepshead Bay, Sept. 6. First racee, six furlongs: Roseben, 1 to 3 and out, first; Rusk, 3 to 1, second; Pretension, third. Time 1:12 1-5. AVENGED BY LAW (By the Associated Press.) West Chester, Pa., Sept. G. Rlcardo Forte was hanged here today for the murder of two children, Marie and Dominlck Dl Lucca, aged four and nine years respectively. Forte, eighteen months ago. enticed the girl from her home at Howells ville, near here, and after assaulting the child beat her to death. The boy encountered Forte and his victim and was also fatally beaten. DOUBLE MURDER NECKS OF TWO BROKEN BY LAWi Negroes Die Amid Jeers of Their Race HANGER FOR MURDERS The Story of the Atrocious Crimes For Which These Men Buffered the Supreme Penalty of the Law Upon the Gallows in Pittsburg is Briefly Told. (Bv the Associated Press.) Pittsburg, Pa., Sept. 6. Cornelius Coombs and John Williams, negroes, were executed by hanging in the jail yard here today. Coombs was the first to pay the death penalty. He was placed on til 3 scaffold at a few minutes before 10 and promptly at 10 the trap was sprung. Ho was pronounced dead at nine minutes past 10 and when the body was cut down the physician announced that his neck had been broken. The preparations for the execution of Williams were then made and at 10:23 the trap was sprung from be neath his feet. Seventeen minutes later the body was cut down and it was anounced that his neck also was broken. Coombs, who has no friends or relatives, will be buried by the county, while Williams, who leaves a wife and one child, wil be buried by his relatives. During the execution the streets about the jail were crowded with men, women and a large number of children whose jeers and laughing and shouting had to be quieted by a special detail of police. Crimes for Which They Were Hanged The crimes for which John Wil liams and Cornelius Coombs, ne groes, suffered the extreme penalty of the law here today were murders of a most atrocious character- Their victims were women of their own race. Williams shot md killed Mary Qulncey, his mother-in-law, i:l hor home in this city on September 1 6 last year. Wthout any apparent, pro vocation he fired five shot? at the woman, each one of whica indicted a wound that would have been fata), Williams retained one cartridge In his revolver, with which he tried to shootj the detective that arrested him. He remarked at the time that he had saved the one for the man who should try to arrest him. Coombs shot and killed Lizzie Dickerson, a woman with whom he boarded in McKeesport, February S, 1905. The shooting was done in the presence of the woman's husband and was prompted by jealousy. ARMY WORMS MOVING Quit Simpkin's Place and Strike Elsewhere All Have Not Gone, Hut Scouts For age for New Field of Endeavor Millions .March Slowly, Pulling Fodder as They Skidoo. Army worms, which invaded the premises of Mr. W. A. Simpkins. four miles from Raleigh, are march ing on again. They have begun to move and while Mr. Simpkins is glad his neighbors are not. While the progress is slow there is the hope that they will hurry. A mix Up of the type yesterday made it appear that the worms were four and one-half inches long. They ranged in size from half an inch to one and a half inches, but even at that they are big enough to ravish potato vines and strip great stalks of corn of the fodder awaiting the farmers. Mr. Simpkins has talked with the men at the department of agricul ture about the pest, but he is still in doubt as to the best method of warfare. Just how many millions of worms got into his fields is not easily estimated, but they were there, Just the same. Farmers in nearby ections are somewhat concerned arid they ex pect a visit of the enemy at any mo ment of the day or night. NO PRECEDENT IN THIS STATE! I Objection to Issuance of I Law License I HEAR CHARGES MONDAY .Supreme Conrtjpf North Carolina j Called Upon tor First Time ( Pass l"pon Chargrts! Against Character of Applicants for Urease to Prac tice Law Winstoii-Kaleni Case. Members of the Winston-Salem bar, were here last night conferring with members of the supreme court with1 reference to the procedure in pre ferring charges to prevent the 'issu ance of license to a citizen to practice, law. It develops thai no case of the kind has evefycome up in this state, ; but there will be two before the su preme court jnext Monday, one from; Winston-SaWjjB and the other from! Sampson county. The one ffflm Winston-Salein is icy prevent license being issued to 1!. V. 1 Tavis, who passed the mental exam-, ination successfully I wo weeks ago. I It seems, that the applicant for li cense from Winston-Salem is a young man who has been in business there several years as a money lender, and j the prosecution in- making objection to the issuance of the license, claims among other things that, he 1ms been ; charging usurious rales for money ' loaned. Watspn and Hendron are1 among the liwyers of the Winston-j Salem bar who have volunteered! their servtewl to make the light! against the Issuance of (he license to Tavis. It is alleged that this charge of us-' urious rates in loaning money was brought against Tavis in a magis trate's court at Winston-Salem some; time before the supreme court, met,, and he claimed iu. the hearing that a part jffiieamount collected for the,.use of .hi money (in this case' twelve hundred per cent of the prin cipal loaned) was for drawing up the. legal documents necessary. He was reminded by the prosecution that he1 was not a lawyer and had no right! to charge a lawyer's fee. His answer was that he knew the law all right and that he intended to go before the supreme court tit the approaching ses sion, stand the examination success-, fully, but before the license was is sued the charges from members of the Winston-Salem bar came with ob-j jection to the issuance of the license. Both the cases are set for a hear ing before the supreme court. Monday j morning, beginning at 10 o'clock. OUR TRADE WITH CUBA Expansion Noted in the Los! Fiscal Year Particularly True of Our Exports. j The Increase is Larger iu Maiitil'ac-. turcs Of Iron and Steed Thau in Other Articles. (By the Associated Press.) Washington, Sept. 6. A report Issued by the! department of commerce and; labor today says: Commerce of the United Stales with i Cuba ill the fiscal year just, ended was greater than In any earlier year of the trnjile relations between this United! States and I hat island. This is par ticularly true of exports. The import'! from the island fell slightly be.'(iw 1 those of 1905, due to the fall of prices of sugar but the exports to the islands were 23 per cent, greater than In 1905. 75 per cent, greater than in 1904, and about 121' per cent, greater than In 1903. j j Exports to t'uba aggregated $47.7(53.-: fiss in 1906. Prior to 1895 the value of the imports Into the United States from Cuba ranged in most years from fifty 10 seventy-five million dollars. Of tin) five articles forming the bulk of out Imports from Cuba, sugar amounted in value in 1!)06 to six mil lion dollars, tobacco 13Vfc millions, cig ars and cigarettes four millions, iron ore two millions and bananas one mil lion. Tobacco, cigars and cigarettes, and iron ore show an increase in the fiscal year 1904, and bananas show a reduction of less than half a million dollars, while sugar shows a reduction of ovfr four million dollars in value In 1IICG. Its compared with 1905. Tha Increase in shipments to Cuba, While visible In many articles, occurs chiefly in manufacture of Iran and steel,! of which the total exports to the Miami were 19,879,648 in 1900, against $t,10tOS iu 1905. MANY GOING TO LAUNCHING Indicated by Letters to Navy Department "RALEIGH" LAUNCHING That Vessel Was Christened by -Mrs A. W. Haywood of Haw River Daughter of Gov. Thomas Ho!! itnuglit Kvereises Were at Portsmouth About a Dozen Years Ago. An Associated Press dispatch sent out this morning from Washington says: "The navy department today wrote a letter to the Newport .News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, Which Is building the armoured cruiser North Carolina, directing the company to communicate with Coy: ernor llle-in of North Carolina wil h a view to (ho selection of his daughter as the sponsor for the cruiser when ii is launched on October li at New port News, Va. Communications to the navy department indicate that a Inrg number of North Carolinians to attend the launch- are preparing ing." This letter the agreement is in accordance With reached between Gov- ernor (II. mil and the navy depart ment while the former was In Wash ington some days ago. Miss liebekah Glenn, the gover nor's popular daughter, will christen the cruiser when she slides down the ways at Newport News on the sixth of October, and everything points to (he presence Of a great number of North Carolinians. It is always an inspiring sight to see a vast craft launched, and when it is a man of war and mimed sifter one's own Hale there are few occa sions of greater interest in the life of any . commonwealth; Not many years ago North Caro lina enjoyed a somewhat similar dis tinction when the Raleigh was com pleted, and a large number of North Carolinians and especially a goodly representation from Ibis city went lo Portsmouth for the exercises. Thai vessel was cirri tened by Mrs. Haw River, Thomas Holi. A. W. Haywood of daughter of Governoi The (litest ion lias already arisen the contents of as to what shall he t lie bottle t hat is to be the cruiser's prow as s broken upon e slides into the water. In this matter it. will of course iie impossible to suit every body. If champagne is used some will think it a shameful waste. I! anything else hut wine is siVrinl-led over the bow of the North Carolina some will be sure to say all the things of the good old days are be ing unworthily supplanted by Hew and more unpalatable ones. At any rale if wine it is, if. should surely be of native production. It was a bottle of champagne, the real arti cle, that .Mrs. Haywood broke: PUT ON THE BLACKLIST Charge Made Against the Baltimore and Ohio Also Against the United States Ex press Coin pas iy A Discriminating Hate on Parcels lid iff Asked of Interstate Commerce Commission. (By the Associated Press.) Washington, Sept. C. A charge of blacklisting is contained in a com plaint filed with Hie interstate sspni- j moire commi . ion' today by .1. Eu gene Walker, a Citizen of Media, Pa., against tne Baltimore & Ohio Kail-! road company and the United Slates Express Company. The allegation is made that in ac-.' cordance with a joint system of pack-; age express for persons in towns ad jacent to Philadelphia, inaugurated ! by defendants, certain iixed rates were established, and complainants avers that he Willi numerous oilier; citizens enjoyed the benefit of these . rates on parcels from Philadelphia lo Hockessin, not only on defendant's' lines, but also on the trolley line to; Hockessin, not only on defendants ! have since blacklisted the patrons of the trolley line and compelled them to send packages by the Pennsylvania Railroad to Kennott. Square, abo.it live miles distant, to avail themselves of the package rale;;. It is declared that the station agent of the Balti- j more it Ohio Railroad keeps in his I office a list of the patrons of the trol : ley line and that (bey tiro refused the 1 privileges accorded to those who ride j on defendants' road. The complaintunt prays that he land Other citizens may be given equal treatment with those riding on the i Baltimore & Ohio, and that such other relief may he granted as the i ci reii instances of t he case require. A WIRELESS STATION FOR THE SOUTH SEAS. (By the Associated Press.) Washington, Sept. 6. Wireless communication will be established With the Island of Ttitiiila by the navy Wit filll a lew month's if the rec- o m men don t ions of the officers in charge of litis work is approved by the higher officials. This is the only important, naval station whore a wireless plant litis not been erected and the navy deem it of importance to have arrangements by which ih commandant may communicate with ships which are sailing the South Seas and perhaps with distant land stations. iSH (By the Associated Tress.) New York. Sepl. 6. An opening call loan rate oi I'll percent at the stock exchange showed less relief from the money stringency than was hoped for amongst slock operators as the rest) 11 of the treasury depart ment's order to facilitate gold im ports. As the measure is made ef fective only for next Monday, it did not offer means for an immediate ad dition to bank resources. The assur ance of fl lure facilities, however, was expected to induce grea'er freedom in extending credits. Stocks Opened higher .stimulated by the news of the treasury order, but were affected by realizing sales and by the high rate maintained for money. Ban iters interested in Secretary Shaw's goid importation order made Inquiries tit the sub-treasury today as to whether or not the ordr -applied to the importation of gold from Australia. In the absence of definite Instructions the inquiries were re ferred to the treasury department at Washington. Ily " : 3 0 p. m. the quotation on call money bad declined to 10 per cent. Washington, Sept. 6. In answer to aij. inquiry today Secretary Shaw said, in explanation of his offer yesterday to facilitate gold Imports, that it Would apply to gold Imported from Australia or any other point. The importers, however, from tar distant countries, will be required to (lie with the treas ury department evidence of the fact nf tile purchase, giving the date that the gold would be shipped. INSTANT DEATH (l!y the Associated Prose.) Elyria, ()., Sepl. (i. Three men were killed and a dozen seriously in jured by the falling of the second floor of the new factory building Gar ford Company under construction here today. Sixteen workmen on the first floor of the building were caught beneath! the fail "f heavy tile, brick and steel j beams of the wrecked door. The dead and injured, so far as is known, are Hungarians, who were j doing tin' heavy work about the con-! struction of the building. Their names are unknown. The injured ; were removed t, h hospital as fast as taken from the ruins. All the am- ' bulanccs and doctors in the city were! called lo the relief of the injured, j Those resetted from the ruins are said to he in a very critical condition. The cause of the accident is tin-.- known. TWO MEN DROP TO SWIFT DEATH (By the Associated Tress.) New York. S'pl. (i. Paul Pleljan, a machinist fifty years old, and Louis 55oebel, L'li, his helper, fell live stories to the basement through an elevator shaft in a now building at Broadway and til'nd street today and were killed. They fell from a swing ing scaffold. STOCK MARKET FOR TWO MEN MURDER TRIAL GOES TO STANLY Negroes Indicted for Slaying the Lyerlys MOTION OF DEFENSE Judge Ferguson, After Heariug Ar gument, Grunts the Motion, aivl (he Trial Will be Held in Stanly County Next January. (Special to the Evening Times.) Salisbury, N. C, Sept. 6. On mo tion of the defense this morning, the case of the Gillespies, indicted for the murder of the Lyerlys goes to Stanly January next. Attorney Williams, representing the accused negroes, made an earn est plea for removal, Solicitor Ham er urging that the case be tried here at an early date. Mr. Williams in troduced an affidavit from George Urvin, Mr. Kluttz, replying to it, said Ervin had been returned after be ing taken out of jail by a mob. He thought this plainly showed that the mob had no feeling against the de fendants. The solicitor also said in view of the fact that the mob came from oilier counties he did not see the advantage to be gained from re moval. He paid a high tribute to Rowan's intelligence, saying juries are uniformly just. Judge Ferguson said the prisoners Were entitled to all protection and that he felt the danger of violence, though there was no sign of it now. The solicitor, he said, had asked that the state have a fair trial as well as the defendants, but the state could live if men did not receive conviction, but if they were taken from jail by the mob they could not. The Lyerly Sisters. An earlier report from Salisbury received at noon said: The Lyerly sisters are here, ready to give their testimony in the case brought about by the most horrible murder ever read in state history. The case was called this morning and a spe cial venire ordered to report here to morrow morning when the trial of Henry Gillespie, George Ervin and Delia Dillingham will be opened anew. True bills for murder against the trio were found at the special term of court but the question of its legality having arisen, Solicitor Hammer drew new indictments, the little Mayhew negro was again so.it before the grand jury and his testi mony was such as to cause the new indictments to hold good. The state relics almost entirely upon him to prove the unlynched negroes guilty. It will be remembered that George Ervin was taken out by the mob and at the request of E. A. Barber, a relative of the Lyerlys, was returned because he expressed the belief that Ervin was innocent. The editorial of The Times is remembered when its question as to the decision of the mob was discussed. He has been declared innocent by that great tri bunal and if the present court con victs him, nobody can guess what the rabble will do. Gentle Is Acquitted. George Gentle was acquitted yes terday evening after the jury had been out but 21 minutes. There was hardly any evidence that Gentle was a member of the mob, his own idiotic statement to an officer being I he only testimony introduced to show such a theory. Another Account. (By the Associated Press.) Salisbury, ft. C, Sept. 6. In the Etowah superior court today Judge Ferguson, on application of counsel for the defendants, ordered the case of Delia Dillingham, Henry Gillespie and George Ervin, negroes, who were to have been tried here this week for the murder of Isaac Lyerly, his wife and two children, last April, moved to the. adjoining county of Stanly. It was represented that feeling against the negroes is so intense In this county that they cannot get Justice. The pris oners were returned to Charlotte for safe-keeping. WOULD CONFERENCE ON TUBERCULOSIS. (By the Associated Press.) The Hague, Sept. 6. The Inter national conference on tuberculosis was opened here today with a good attendance, in the presence of Prince Henry of the Netherlands. Toe French foreign minister, M. Bour geois, was appointed president of the anti-tuberculosis association.
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