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y 0) y- L AST 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, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1906. PRICE 5c VOLUME 27. INFURIATED TROOPS ENGAGE IN BUTCHERY OF JEWS AT SIEDLCE Thirty-Six Hours of Riot and Blood in the Po lish Ciiy FLAMES BURST OUT AND MANY BUILDINGS FALL The Terrorists Held Responsible for Provoking "' Massacre by Their Fusillades From Windows and Uoofs Upon Soldiers and Police Patrolling the Streets A Report From Siedlee States That Two Handled Jews Have Been Sluin and a Thousand Wounded Arlil lery Sweeps the Streets iYVth Hor rible Effect Late Advices Say the Hinting t'ontinues Stations Crowded With .lews Who Are Seeking to heave the City Latest Report Says the Butchery of the Jews Was Deliberately Planned. (Bv the Associated Press.) Si?dlce, Sept. 10. A Jewish mas sacre surpassing in seriousness all previous one in this vicinity took place hero Saturday and Sunday. It was carefully planned before hand, the solders warning all of the Chris tian population in advance to hang out their ikons so that t!uy "might remain undisturbed. Saturday night some terrorists killed two soldiers, and thereupon the Li ban regiment broke forth in tin rest rained fury. They began murdaring .lews on every hand and continued the work of slaughter all night Saturday night and all day Sunday. Early this morning Governor General Skallon telegraphed lor permission to use the artillery. Four batteries then opened fir? down Pienkna, Warsaw and Aliena streets which were inhabited by thousands of Jews. The destruction was horrible. It is estimated that fully U00 Jews have been killed and 1,(100 wounded. There are 3,00 urisoncrs In custody, a great many of whom are wounded. Not a soldier was killed. BUILDINGS ARE IX FLAMES. Frequent Shots and Occasional Vol leys Jews lu a Trap. (By the Associated Press.) Siedlee, Sept. 10. Six buildings in the big bazaar of the city are now In flames, adding another terror to the killing and plundering which has been going on here for the last thirty-six hours. Frequent shots and occasional vollay tiring is still heard in different parts of the town, but because of the general panic It is difficult to leant accurately just what is transpiring. As far as it is possible to learn there have been, up to the present time, about sixty persons killed and two hundred wounded. Hundreds of .lews are a.?3omb'ad today at the railroad station await ing means of getting out of town, but Siedlee is surrounded by troops who do not permit exit or entrance. Field Guns Planted. Field guns occupy points of van tage on the principal streets. There seems no doubt that the ter rorists are responsible for provoking the massacre by the'r fusillades from roofs and windows on Saturday against soldiers and policemen who were patrolling the streets. Troops surrounded the houses from which this tiring came and poured In vol leys through windows and doors. This was followed by a search of the premises which soon developed into wholesale plundering and subse quently into a massacre and slaugh ter. The trouble began on Pienkna street and spread rapidly to a larga portion of the town. Almost all the Jewish shops have been looted. Own ers who defended their property were kill 3d or Wounded. Any person seen leuvtng a house or looking out of a window was shot without mercy. AKTILLKKY IS PLANTED. Revolutionists Fire From Windows. The Troops Reply Willi Volleys. (Bv the Associated Press.) Warsaw, Sept. 10 Artillery was (Continued on Page Seven.; CUT HIS THROAT, PHONED DOCTOR (By the Associated Press.) New York, Sept. 10. Anthony Pride, G2 years old, a bachelor living at the Longacrts Hotel, killed himself during the night by cutting his throat. Pride, after slashing his neck, evidently re gretted the deed for lie telegraphed to a nearby physician who had treated him for a heart affection. When the doctor answered Price said: "For God's sake come quick. I've cut mv throat." He called a second time before the doctor could get dressed. When Dr. Flnloy reached Pride's room he could do little for the man who died five minutes later. Pride was connected with the New Jersey department of the Equitable Life Assurance Society and was an insurance expert. He came from the south. His sister lives in Mississippi, He was a collector of rare books. Ill ness caused the suicide. FLOOD OF GOLD (By the Associated Press.) New York, Sept. 10. Kuhn, Loob & Company today announced that the firm had engaged $2,500,000 in gold eagles in London for import. Under the order of Secretary Shaw a na tional bank acting for Kuhn, Loob & Company may draw upon the United States sub-treasury to the amount of $2,500,000 pending the arrival of the gold in this country. THIRTY1 THOUSAND ARE PUT TO WORK. (By the Associated Press.) Mahoney City, Pa., Sept. 10. Af ter being idle since September 1, the thirty-nine collieries of the Philadel phia and Heading Coal & Iron Com pany in the Schuylkill field, employ ing thirty thousand men and boys, re sumed operations today. THE CHARLESTON NEARING CALLAO. Callao, Peru, Sept. 10. 9:10 a. m. The United States cruiser Charleston, with Secretary Root and his party on board, has been reported approaching this port. DOZEN HURT IN CRASH Legs of Motorman Crushed, Will Probably Die Two Trolley Cai-s Had Stopped When a Third Car Came Howling Along Striking One and I lulling It Against the Other. (Bv the Associated Prest.) New York, Sept. 10. Twelve persons were injured, one of them probably fatally, in a collision between two trol ley cars at the New York end of the Brooklyn bridge today. The accident occurred while the early rush to the city was at its height and was witnessed by hundreds of persons who were passing through the bridge terminal. A Park avenue, Brooklyn car had stopped at a loop entrance to wait for a switch to be adjusted. Another car which was following came to a stop a few feet back, and a moment later a third car came bowling down the steep incline, crashed into the sec ond and drove it with terrific force into the Park avenue car. Both end:; c,t B. Court street car, the second car. were wrecked. In the crash Motornien Julius Scharff who was on the car which ran into the switch between the wreckage of the two ears, had both his legs terribly crushed. He probably will die. None of the passengers injured was dangerously hurt, though nearly all had painful cuts or bruises. FROM EUROPE BRYAN PLANS NOT ANNOUNCED Committee Will Give But Program This Week SPEAKS HERE MONDAY Chairman Holding and State Com mittee at Work oa Details e hrar;kan to be in ltaleigli Only a Few Hours Address at II A. M. Chairman J. Newton Holding of the county democratic! executive commit tee, said today that plans for Bryan day in Raleigh had not been finally arranged, and that final announcement of the program would hardly be made before Wednesday or Thursday. Mr. Bryan will arrive in the city Monday. I September IT about 10:30 a. m., coming I on the local train from Greensboro. ' He will not be here but a few hours ! and will leave for Greensboro at 3:30 , in the afternoon. Mr. Holding is conferring with the j state chairman as to details. I he list q those who will assist in entertaining Mr. Bryan will be made known. There is no statement as to the speaker lo Introduce the Nebraska)). Very probably the speaking will take place in the open air, provided it doesn't rain, though this is by no means certain. At state headquarters today it wits Bald that there was great interest throughout the state in the visit of Mr. Bryan, and he will he greeted everywhere by tremendous crowds. While in North Carolina Mr. Bryan will have a strenuous time .of it. but one which he is able to handle. Mon day at 31 a. in. he will speak in Ral eigh; At 8 o'clock that night he will make an address at Greensboro. Tues day morning at 11 be will speak at Winston-Salem. At 3:10 that after noon he will he heard by unterrified democrats at Salisbury, and at G p. m. he will talk at Concord. Two hours later he will deliver another address at Charlotte. . . South Carolina democrats are anx ious to have him stop in Columbia and telegrams Inviting him there have been sent to his home. THE GKAIN CROP (By the Associated Press.) Washington, Sept. 10. The crop estimating board of the department of agriculture today reported that the condition of corn September 1. 1 ! 0 , was 00.2: spring wheat, S3. 4; oats, SI.!); barley, SO'. 4 : rye, 90.5. SMALL SUM ON HIPPLE'S LIFE. (Bv the Associated Press.) Philadlephia. Pa.. Sept. 10. Con trary to general belief, Frank .1. Hip pie, the suicide president of the wrecked Real Estate Trust Company, carried only a small amount of life in surance. This became known today when F. C. Newbourg, counsel lor the Hippie family, announced that policies for a total of only $ T.r. t)t on the life of Hippie will have been found. One policy calls for $5,000 and the other $2,500. Mr. Newbourg declined to give the names of the companies in which Hippie was insured, nor would he say whether the policies contain ed a suicide clause. The attorney said It was I he holier or Mr. Hippie's family, as well as that of the late president's friends, that he was insur ed for a large sum, and the dlsebv- I ery that this was not the case came is a great surprise. Visitors at Sagamore Hill Today. (By the Associated Tress.) Oyster Bay, N. Y., Sept. 10. Gov ernor Higglns is expected to pay a visit to President Roosevelt at Saga more Hill today. Paul Morton, presi dent of the Equitable Life Assurance Society, is expected to arrive at the same time to call on the president. Secretary Loch said there was no connection between tits two visits. KEY. JEHSEH McKAl'tiHAX LYING AT POINT OF HEATH, (Special to The Evening Times.) Wilmington, N. C, Sept. 10. To day at noon Rev. Jesse A. Mc Kaughan, pastor of the Brooklyn Baptist church, is lying at death's door at his home on Campbell street. Two wcels since lie was' operated on for appendicitis . CONDITION OF CHARGES WERE SENSATIONALj ! Supreme Court Hears Tavis - Baggett Cases THE AFFIDAVITS READ Lawyers Seek to Prevent Issuance of Licenses to Successful Appli cants lagged Charged Willi lie ing Implicated in Fire and Talis Opposed for Alleged Usurious Practice. This morning , in the. of Hie North (Jaroliiia I two eases unprecedenn Were heard by the full an. In SUJ li t d in court . nee room nil- court this stale Charges had brought ' character of two young Raggett of I'linton, ami ; Tavis of Winston-Salem ; stood the last exaitilnatlo court for license to praetii gainst the en. Hiram liet'nie '. who had before law at the tile . opening of this fall term of court. In eonseipieueo of these charges licenses were not issued to these young men I until the matter could be Investigated I by the court. Today was set for the ! hearing. I Hiram Daggett's ease came up first, at Hi o'clock this morning, but was full ! concluded because further evidence de sired by counsel representing the young man's accusers was not at hand, j The general charge against tfaggelt was Hint he was a young man of bad character. The specific charge was that he was guilty of burning a belonging to himself and ids hi j VV. E. Baggett, and obtaining store oilier, from North j Hie insurance company, th State of Greensboro, money upon a padded Inventory. Mr. Kdwin W. Kerr, attorney for Daggett; read his clients affidavit, in which Baggett denied thai he was in terested in the store at the time of the fire, the same belonging exclusively to his brother, affiarit having sold out some five months before the lire, which occurred in Jifly, 185. H was charged In this affidavit that a warrant was sworn out by Henry A. Grady of Clin ton, charging affiant with being impli cated lb the burning of the store, that tlii' purpose of this was to create a suspicion against affiant and his tiler, that while Mr. Grndy appears pendent I as the laiaant the respon 2ll It, Wi30n, a jii s at the bottom of charges thai diced uncle, it prosecution, th of the affiant':- ju nto t this .lend uncle, the bri her mother, was try- ing to Injure him in every way he j could, that Hie warrant was sworn lout immediately after the departure of affiant for Chapel Hill last January; I where he went to read law. An affidavit was read from the agent I of the insurance company to the off eel i that the entire Insurance transaction was with YY. K. Baggett, brother of the affiant. Kerr Talks For Raggett. Mr. Kerr read ;i number of affidav its from neighbors of the Bnggetts and (311 R. Wilson lo show that Hiram Bag get t's character was considered good, and that Wilson was violently preju diced against Hiram Baggett. and would do anything to injure him. An affidavit from Leyhman Baggett, a brother of Hirani and W. K. Baggett. stated that he was at home the night of the fire, and that Hiram and W. 13. Baggett and W. E. Baggett's wife were sound asleep when the fire was dis covered and lie had to call loudly to wake them up. In one of the affidavits it was af firmed that Wilson, the brother of the aimlieant's dead mother, had declared i that the (using a term that generally brings blows) I might go to Chapel Hill, but he would get him back in handcuffs." j Mr. Henry A. Grady who was present las attorney for the complainants, asked for permission to bring in more I evidence, alleging that he bad tried to get affidavits irom persons ac quainted with the facts and that he could not obtain these without com pulsion, as they declined to give vol untary testimony. He therefore beg ged for an order of the court appoint ing a referee to take testimony of such i witnesses as ea The court set the time for tli j testimony, and I of the superior eh side might produce. Monday. October 8, as ' taking of this further W. F. Sessions, clerk court of Sampson, as i referee. In the course of the hearing Asso ciate Justice Brown said he did not think the court should pass on specific charges like a jury, but on the matter 'of the general reputation and charac ter of the applicant' and the deposi tions should he limited to that. I Appearing with Mr. Kerr for Mr. Baggett was Mr. J. C. Clifford of Dunn. The three Baggett brothers were all present. Tavls Case Called. Then the Tavls case from Winston Snlem was taken up. First Mr. W. M. Heiulren of Winston-Salem read the charges against Mr. Tavis, as follows: "Tin' undersigned members of the bar, residing in Winston-Salem. N. C, having been informed that Hemic -C, Tavis w ill apply to your court on Mon day next for license to practice law, (Continued on Sixth Page.) REPORT ON THE CROP OF COTTON j Average Condition August 25, 77.3 AHEAD OF LAST YEAR'S On the Same Date Than It Was 72. 1. The Ten Year Average is Condi) ion of the Crop by Stales Shown By a Table Issued by IJu reatl. . (By the Associated Press.) Washington, Sept. hi. Tin- crop re porting board of the bureau of statis tics of the department of iigricuitui'e finds from the reports of correspond ents and agents of the bureau (hat the average eWiidlllon of cotton on August IT. was 77.. as compared Willi S2,8 on Julv "", 1906. 72.1 on August 23, IJMjV, M.I on August '.'", IHuJ, ami a tony year average of 73.2. The following table shows the coll- if tin cotton crop by slates Aim-. .Inly Aug. lflrY( Slates. 2rr.l!Wfl. 25, ItMitl. 25, 1906. Avi Virginia .71 sti 711 s:t X. ' 71 7.". 7ii 7S S. C. . 71 7L' 7.'. 715 Georgia . 7- 74 77 70 Florida .. 7il 7 77 7S Alalia ma. 7il S;J ?0 711 Miss S3 ,8S 7ti Louisiana 7(1 SS II- 71 Texas ... 7S St! 70 IK Arkansas. M S!l 72 73 Tennessee SS Ss SI 7! Missouri.. HI 5 Si", s Oklahoma Ss 92 S2 . 7s I. T. .. . .. SO :$5 NO 77 V. 8. ... 77.3 R2.I 7J.I 73.: This report made in eoltfoi inn y with the act of ingress reitiiring condition reports of the cotton crop by this bureau to be issued on Uie same date as the first ginners reports by the bureau of the census months in which both elasses of reports .are issued. THE NUMBER OF ALE (By the Associated Press.) Washington. Sept. 10. A bulle tin issued today by the census .niveau places the cotton ginned in the Uni ted Slates up to September l. loot;, ai 10, '1,2 09 hales, counting round bales as half hales. 1'p lo the sain1 lime last year 470,655 hales bad hi en ginned. The amount ginned during the present year in the various slates was as follows: Alahama, 25,0005 Ar kansas. 448; Florida, 189S; Georgia, 24,550 ; Indian Territory, 9; Louis iana. l!!,S02; Mississippi, 9,547; North Carolina, II; Oklahoma, South Carolina, 3,144; Tennessee, :!; Texas, ;!24,-L"iS. The report shows that in all the states there were 11,492 ginneries in operation this year as against 8,(539 in 1905. FIGHT WITH FIRE AT PROF. CARLYLE'S. (Special to The Evening Times.) Wake forest, X. C, Sept. 10. Fire broke out tit the residence of Prof. .1. II. Carlyle today til noon hut not much damage was done. The students were in classes, bit I dismissed themselves immediately on hearing the alarm, all running to Professor Carlyle's in the eastern part of town, hoping to he of some service, but the iianies were extin guished by the neighbors, THa lire was probably due to a spark falling from the kitchen flue onto the dry shingle root'. Part or the root' was burned off and the contents of the kitchen damaged by water. GIRL OF THE TOWN POISONS HERSELF. (Special to The Evening Times.) Salisbury. X. C, Sept. 10. Ethel Harris, well known in the disrepu table portion of the city, attempted suicide yesterday and will die from the poison She swallowed Iwo large bichloride tablets and was in agony in ti lew moments. She was restrain ed or she would have taken a dozen. The physicians found her in a hope less condition when they attended her. GINNED HUNDREDS ARE BURIED ALIVE BY THE DESCENT W I flC luUIJll I Alii JllIC WELL DIGGERS rum mni rnm' UNI KllH UDLU (Special to The levelling Times.) Salisbury, X. C, Sept. 1 0. While j digging n well for the water neces sary io supply the engine of tbe big lumber plant , some employe's of the I Fred Brenner Lumber Company of this city. Saturday afternoon discov ered some of the riches) gold ore that has ever l, ecu found in this county, the best gold region iti the stale. Ex perts Hill he sent her' lo tosl it and ii is believed that d large vein I'iths . through i tip property. Tito in nm her l.eoinpatiy is erecting the largos! plant it owits in the south bill mining will supersede building for investigation. RIFF (By the Associated Press.) St. Louis, Mo., Aug. io. h. clay Pierce, chairman of the executive hoard of the Waters-Pierce Oil Com pany, wits arrested today tit the cor ner of lii'Otidwt! v and Olio streets, on an attachment issued and served sev eral weeks ago to Compi 1 his attend ance as a witness in a civil suit. Mi. Pierce was taken to the sheriff's of fice in t lie court house. OPSEA SINGERS AT ELLIS ISLAND. (By the Associated Press.) New York. Sent. 10. Fifty mcm- hers of t he Metropolitan Opera Chorus arrived, today on the steamer La llrelaigne. I. tiler tile chorus may have to go to Ellis island to prove i thai they are not contract laborers A. theatrical agent, John J: Barry, filed a eomplaiui with the department 'of commerce and labor in Washing ton and witli the immigration author ities in ibis city in which he alleges thai the chorus singers come under the contract labor law. in that they are laborers brought to this country under contract. PIERCED HER BRAIN Wife Killed by Supposed McCartney Was Playing Willi a Pistol When il Was Discharged and His W ile ! received the Bullet in Her Head. (Special to The Evening Times.) New Bern, X. C, Sept io. While playing carelessly Willi a revolver. Wil liam Mansou McCartney; aged si years, accidentally shot his wile ItillU ting in juries flout which she died two hours later. The seven iccldent occurred about half past Sunday morning anil McCartney him: Slf went, after the doctor and seemed greatly distress under arrest to await d. He was put tile investiga ory before that aid and the by the jury. His si I body was straightforw other witnesses numbering some live or six people substantially corroborated his statement. He said that he went to tlte dresser and took up the pistol, one of the modern liainiuci less kind and was carelessly playing with it, when pointing the muzzle upward the weapon discharged, the ball hitting the woman, who Was standing by him. in the corner of the right eye, and lodg ing in the bruin. The affair occurred at the bouse of one Elsie Scott who is said to conduct a house or ill repute and for this reason, the tragedy bail the appearance of murder, but there is no evidence of any quarrel or bad feeling between them. McCartney is a tinner and came here from Wilmington two months ago, his wife proceeded hint two weeks. Her home was formerly at Jackson City, Tetth., and her maiden name was Moore. She was 24 years years f age. (Continued From Third Pago.) OIL Mi ZED BY THE li and Sand 0verwl,e,n,s Township of Kewareli FIFTY-FIVE BODIES DRAGGED FROM MIRE In Addition to tile Hundreds of Lives Lost Countless Cattle Perished, Caught by the Hush of the Ava lanche and the Crops Were De stroyed Over the Townships the Sea of Miie is About Six Feet heep The Number Overwhelmed Is Put at Some Two Hundred and Filly Souls. (By the Associated Press.) Tillls, Sept. 10. Practically with ; out warning the side of a mountain i riisng above the township of Kwareli j broke away, and in a sea of seml ; liquid mud, sand and stones swept ! down on the township and over I whelmed and obliterated it. Some 255 persons have been buried alive. Fifty-five, bodies already have been recovered from the mire, which is about six feet deep. In addition to the lives lost countless head of cattle perished and the crops were de stroyed. Kwareli township occupies an area of five kilometres in the district ot Telaw in the Caucasus. Similar dls asters are of common occurrence 1H Caucasian valleys. , j NEGRO FATALLY SHOT AT A CAMP. (Special to The Evening Times.) High Point, X. C, Sept. 10. John Carter, colored, died here last night from the result of a pistol shot inflicted the night before at a rail road camp just outside the incorpor ate limits. It is learned that Carter accused John Sharp, also colored, of j doing the shooting, but Sharp, who ! is still at the camp, denies it, while j there are about one dozen other ne j gro hands absent this morning, which i looks like others than Sharp are the guilty parties. The shooting oc I curred over a game of cards, i The coroner will arrive this after I noon to hold an inquest over the ! body. : IjOCOMOTIVK fikkmkx IX TKXTH COXVKXTIOX. (By the Associated Press.) Milwaukee, Wis., Sept. 10. The tenth biennial convention of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen opened in the public service building here today with about 700 delegates present. The convention will con tinue for about three days. The ses sions will be secret. Many proposed amendments to the constitution will come ui lor discussion including a proposal to change the name of the order to include the engineers. Frank B. Sargent, formerly head of the or der, is in tin' city and will remain a short time, his visit being of a per sonal nature. The first day's sesson was given over to routine work. I) HATH AM) IU HIALi OF MR. P. A. DCXX. i (Special lo The Evening Times.) Wake Forest College, Sept. 10. Mr. I'. A. Dunn, aged 87 years, died : at his home near Xeuse Falls, this j county, early yesterday morning and I was buried at Forrestville, two miles south of here, yesterday afternoon, j Dr. William Koyall conducted the j funeral services. The deceased was ! the grandfather of Mrs. John B. ; Carlyle, of Wake Forest, and she j tind Proressor Carlyle went to Neuse j yesterday morning to accompany the J remains here. Mr. Dunn was a I brother of Mr. W. B. Dunn, of this j place. He was an active and influ I ential citizen, for a number ot years I director of the Raleigh and Gaston ; Railroad, a prominent business man, I for a number of years trustee of I Wake Forest College, and took great I interest in all the work of the Bap ! tist denomination. For the lst few ' years he had bsen living on his farm I al Neuse.
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