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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. VOLUME 27. RALEIGH, N. C, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1906. PRICE 5c. THOUSANDS OF LIVES LOST IN THE TYPHOON IN THE SEA OF CHINA So Advices via Manila and From Hong Kong Direct Woold Indicate THE DISASTER GAME WITHOUT WARNING The Public is Incensed at the Ob servatory for Not Reporting tlio Approach of the Storm For Two Hours it Raged Outside of the Sinking and Stranding of Numbers of Steamers and Millions of Dol lars Worth of Damage Wrought in Hong Kong, One Thousand Sam pans and Junks are Missing From Doug Kong Alone. (By the Associated Press.) Manila, Sept. 19 ;i p. m. Latest advices from Hong Kong stated that one thousand lives were lost during the typhoon and that the damage to property, public, and private, will amount to millions of dollars. Twelve ships were sunk, twenty four were stranded, seven were dam aged and one-half of the native craft in port were sunk. The shipping trade has been para lyzed through lack of lighters. THE TYPHOON LOCAL. Came Suddenly and Without Warn ing The Observatory Illumed. (By the Associated Press.) Hong Kong, Sept. 19. The ty phoon which swept this port yester day, destroying a great number of vessels and causing much loss of life, was of a local nature. It came sud denly and without warning. The ob servatory had predicted moderate winds. Half an hour after the sun signal had been fired the storm was at its height. It lasted two hours. Most of the damage done was wrought on the Kowloon Peninsula. The losses are estimated t several million dollars. Over 1,000 sam pans and junks arc missing from Hong Kong alone. Wharves were swept away and houses collapsed. Tho military barracks are in ruins. The steamers Montcagle, Fatshan, Keungshan, Wing Chai, Hermann!, Castellano, Tak Hing, Emma Luy ken, San Kosnrio, Slava, Pakhong, Petrarch, Chum Lee, Sex Ta, Sunon, Chang Sha. Signal and Chlnkal Main arc ashore. The American ship S. P. Hitchcock was also driven ashore, as were many of ths launches thai run about the harbor. The steamers Kwong Chow, San Chcwng, Sorsogon, and Kongmoon were sunk. Ttio steamers Apenrade and Johannc are partly awash. The British reserve sloop Phoenix and a small gunboat, the Dongola, are ashore. The British torpedo boat j destroyors Moorhen, Robin and Taku ! constitution an article which forever were damaged. The Sir William forbids its sale.no matter under what Jervols was sunk. The French tor-jform- after dark, and prohibits drink pedo boat destrover Froude was""? on P,ace of sale' does not allow wrecked and the Francisque is !?88f than a half pint tbesold. and . ,7. ,,,-,, that must be In a sealed package. Me ashore, 'the guns ot the Froude j hnvp llcvei. a(1 a svstom of (.ounty ala. were saved, but three petty offlcors-pensartes. and of such a system 1 can nnd one seaman lost their lives. not speak, but the county dispensers A Chinese revenue cruiser is ashore, ' under our system were shown to have and several Indo-Chlna and Manila been as weak and corrupt as were the liners liarowly escaped disaster. j methods of state commissions. I do Thousands lielioved To He Dead, not believe there is any system that The harbor Is strewn with wreckage 'provides for the sale of whiskey which thrown up on the shine. Hundreds of will not finally debauch and corrupt Chinese boatmen and their families were saved by the bravery of the po lice and civilians, but several thousand of the Chinese water-dwellers must have perished, many within short dis tances of the shore. The losses in lives and property among the Chinese were appalling. Today the police stations in Hong Kong are surrounded by Chinese Identifying their dead. The families of the Hong Kong boatmen live night and day on the sampans, and thousands of those people are now homeless. The Chinese take the disaster calmly, and show no manifestations of grief. One launch that was capsized had 130 Chinese on board. They were all drowned. Steamers In Collision. i The river steamer Fatshan drifted into collision with the French mall steamer. The entire Chinese crew climbed aboard the French steamer and left Captain Thomas, who was in jured, one officer and the engineers to navigate the Fatshan to Shelter Bay, where she was blown ashore. The bishop of Victoria, Dr. J. C. Hoare. was on his way to visit some neighboring Islands when the storm broke, and is reported missing. His launch has been found lloatlng bot tom upwards. Many valuable steel lighters have been lost. Some of them were hurled ashore. Channels will have to be dug to permit some of the vessels ashore to be refloated. The force of the wind and waves was such that some ves sels were stranded alnist high and dry. The Japanese steamer Sada Maru rescued sixty-six natives and one Eng lish pilot as she was approaching Hong Kong. The English mall steam ers Delhi and Poona escaped damage. The British cruiser Terrible entered port yesterday afternoon and reported fine weather up the harbor. Sir Matthew Nathan, governor of Hong Kong, and the authorities are doing everything possible to render as sistance. Reports of fresh disasters are arriv ing every hour. Few Europeans Missing. Only a few Europeans are missing. No reports are on hand to show how the fishing fleets and the ships outside the harbor fared. Public opinion Is incensed at the ob servatory for not reporting the ap proach of the typhoon. An inquiry has been demanded. For years past the Observatory has been subjected to ad verse comment, but on this occasion it Is not believed to be blamoablc. TO ANSWER CHARGE OF HIGHWAY ROBBERY (Special to the Evening Times) High Point, N. C, Sept. 19. Marvin Hooch, who was arrested here yesterday afternoon charged with be ing one of the two men that held up Mr. J. S. Reddick the night before, dud at the trial last night was bound over to court in the sum of $100. RAPS THE DISPENSARY Greenville, S. C, Man Tells of Its Graft and Evils Mi W. J. Tbaekston Says That While Law Had Some Good Features, It is Not Possible for Man to Handle Liquor and Keep Clean. Mr. W. J. Thurston, one of the lead ing business men of Greenville. S. C, is i'i the city on business. In speaking U)l lite dispensary fight in South Caro lina Mr. Thurston said: "I was in the beginning favorable to I the dispensary idea. It seemed to lie an improvement over the open bar 'room. In theory there can be no doubt it is. I "After a trial of some years, there are conflicting opinions on many of i the phases, but there is one conclusion that about 90 per cent of our people ; have reached, and it is this: God Almighty has not made human nature strong enough to resist the temptations that come to those who handle and manage the sale of liquor, no matter what particular form it takes. Not since the days of earpetbaglsm has there been so much graft and corrup tion. "The only good I have seen from its Mft-,1 i,,.l ..vnoi-trndtit lu thp uonllmnnt that has caused us to insert into our those who handle it.' TRAFFIC IS TIED UP BY A TUNNEL GAVE IN (Special to The Evening Times.) Asheville, N. C, Sept. 19. A por tion of the western entrance to Swan anoa tunnel caved In last night and traffic over the western road Is tied up. Dirt and rock caved in for a dis tance of thirty feet, filling the tunnel and covering the track three to five feet deep. Five miles east of the tunnel a washout, one hundred feet long occurred, and train No. 35 Is caught east of that point. Train No. 12, which left here last evening for Salisbury is still at Black Mountain this side of the tunnel. Passenger train No. 10 between Ashevllle and Spartanburg was de railed near Hendersonville last night. All the coaches save the Pullmans and the engines left the track. It is learned here that the coaches turned on their sides, hut. not a person was Injured. LAUNCHING OF THE STEAMER CREOLE. (By the Associated Press.) CJuincy, Mass., Sept. 19. The new steamship Creole, which will bo used by the Southern Pacific Company in its Bervlc.e between New York and New Orleans, was successfully launched at the yards or the Fore River Shipbuilding Company here to day. She was christened by Miss Mary Harriman, daughter of E. H. Harriman, president of the Southern Pacific Company! NEW YORK CENTRAL WILL I SSI' K STOCK. (By the Associated Press.) New York, Sept. 19. Directors of the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad Company today au thorized the issue of $29,8::9.5G0 of stock to stockholders at par. This is equal to 20 percent oi the present holdings of stockholders. The regu lar quarterly dividend of 1 1 -1 per cent was declared. BIG DOCK DESTROYED BY FIRE; SHIPS SAFE. (By the Associated Press.) Buenos Ayres, Sept. lit. Customs dock No. 4 has been destroyed by fire. The damage is est I ma ted at several million paper dollars. The shipping is safe. The Argentina paper dollar worth about forty-two cents. is Great Fire Raging. (By the Associated Press.) London, Kept. 19. A dispatch re ceived here from Buenos Ayres says a great fire raging on docks there threatens to involve the shipping. IRAN THE WHOLE GAMUT I Negro Montgomery Wells on Five Charges Terrorized Negroes On East Yester day, and (iocs to Roads for Carry ing Gun, Shying Rocks, Pulling Knife, Resisting Officers and Dis orderly Conduct. In the police court, this morning Montgomery Wells, the negro from out f town, Grcyfttone, he said, who ap pears to have tried on yesterday to terrorize the entire negro population of the east side of the city, was ar raigned on numerous charges, Includ ing carrying a concealed weapon, throwing rocks, trying to cut folks, resisting officers and cursing and rais ing a disturbance. At the first dash out of the bucket Justice Badger fined him $30 and cost for carrying a pistol, which by the way was something of a relic, appearing to be one of the ear liest type of army revolver. How Montgomery chased Fred Hern don was told In yesterday evening's Times. The composite account of va rious colored witnesses was to the ef fect that Montgomery went into Fred's restaurant on east Davie street and bought a bottle of root beer, got into il row with a negro named Ball, who works there, about carrying off a glass, then claimed he gave ten cents and wanted change and commenced to curse and raise a great rucus, ordered out by Fred, pulled knife, chased Fred around the house, lost sight of him for a minute, grabbed a little colored boy by the collar and started to cut him, threw big rocks, as big as paving stones at Fred, and then started after him on a dead run' up the street. Then ho was caught by the policemen, who had to club him to get the knife away from him and get him to the lockup. Montgomery denied positively that he threw any rocks. He said he never drew the knife till after he was knocked down with a bottle by some one In Fred's restaurant. He admit ted he cursed, but said the others hail provoked him. His memory failed hint on the question of trying to out the little boy. There will bo a good hand on the Wake roads for about twelve months. Other cases disposed of, all of ne groes, were as follows: William Manly, sleeping in his hack and leaving horse unhitched, $4.75. Charles Perry, driving sprlngless wagon at faster than walk on cobble stones, $3.75. Badly Hurt In a Runaway. (Special to the Evening Times) High Point, Sept. 19. Yesterday afternoon just as the Bryan special was pulling out, a horse hitched to a buggy and belonging to Mr. O. A. Kirkman of this place, became fright ened at a moving piece of paper and darted off at break neck speed, run ning the buggy against a wagon and seriously injured him. ARRIVAL OF TAFT IN CUBA! Early Solution of the Problem Predicted THE MISSION OF TAFT The Secretary of War Says His Rusi- ; ness in Cuba is to Insure Peace in, That Island, Going There as the I Representative of President Roose- j vclt. I (By the Associated Press.) Havana, Sept. 19. President Roosevelt's peace representatives ar rived upon the scene today and met personally President Pal ma and the members of his cabinet as well as the Official representatives of those iu aims against the government and got a rough general idea of the situ ation from both sides. Incidentally they received from citizens, American naval officers and others a number of side lights on the situation. Secretary Taft's informal straight forward and kindly manner lias al ready created a strong and favorable impression. The business of finding a solution to the difficulty will be proceeded with directly and persistently to its conclusion. Predictions are already bjing made that, the Cuban problem will he solved within a week, but on what basis is still a matter of conjecture. Secretary Taft himself reiterates that President Roosevelt's represen tatives are here with no policy ex cept to insure peace in Cuba. A thousand militiamen arrived hero from Matanzas today and have been quartered in the Cabanas for t ress. There are insistent rumors today that the utilising in Santiago prov ince has been quelled. The cable service with Cienfuegos and Santiago has been restored. Cienfuegos re ports no hostilities. The provinces of Havana and Pinar Del Rio are quiet. (By the Associated Press.) Havana, Sept. 19. The American cruiser Des Moines with Secretary of War Taft and Assistant Secretary Bacon on board entered Havana, har bor at 7 o'clock this morning. The cruiser came from Floriad at the moderate speed of 1 ! knots in order not, to arrive here before daylight. All on board are well. The secre taries had breakfast early and at half past eight Hie captain of the port con voyed Senor O'Farrill, the Cuban sec retary of state, Mr. Sleeper, the American charge d'affaires, and the representative of the Associated Press on board. At the same hour Com mander Colwcll came over from tin: cruiser Denver. Messrs. Taft and Bacon had a long, informal and private conference with Senor O'Farrill. Afterwards they talked with Commander Colwcll and others. Secretary Taft said he had arranged tentatively to hold hear- (Continued on fith Page.) IN THE STREET General Nicolaieff Falls at Warsaw SURROUNDED AND SDOT The Five Revolutionists Who At tacked Him and Kscaped After the Commission of the Crime Mistook Him for a Member of the Field Court Martial. (By the Associated Press.) Warsaw, Russian Poland, Sept. 19. General Nicolaieff, of the artil lery, has been assassinated here. He was erroneously thought to be a member of the field court martial. General Nicolaieff was walking on Wielka street this morning when he was surrounded by live revolution ists and shot dead, escaped. 'I The murderers ASSASSINATED MRS PITTINGER WINS HER SUIT Vigorous Opinion Delivered by Supreme Court BROWN FOR THE COURT Declares It Would He Rank In jus- j tiee to Mrs. Pittinger to Hold Her Hound By Sum Hid By Paul Gar-, rett for oCoperage in Noted Modoc j Vineyard Case Other Opinions.! Opinions in nine cases were deliv ered by the supreme court last even ing and six other appeals were dis posed of per curiam and otherwise. By odds the case of most public in terest was Pittinger ex parte, in which the court delivers tin opinion in favor of Mrs. I. McK. Pittinger of this city in a suit involving about $ 10,000 and growing out of ths set tlement of the partition of the fam ous Metloc Vineyard of the Garrett estate in Halifax county. The appeal was on a motion made by .Mrs. Pittinger and denied by the superior court judge for a resale of (he vineyard to pay the unpaid pur chase money to Mrs. Pittinger. The. property had been sold by commis sioner's sale for thirty thousand dol lars, including cooperage, which it was understood should be credited on the purchase price if it became necessary for it to be sold to pay the dcHts of C. W. Garrett & Co. This was sold tor $350, was later re sold to Paul Uarrctt by order of the court for $10,200 and paid for in old claims against C. W. Garrett & Co. bought in by Paul Garrett at much less than face value. It was an effort to force the credit of $10,200 on the purchase price of the vine yard that Mrs. Pittinger was fight ing. In disposing of the cas the court says, "It would be rank injustice, and neither within the letter or spirit of the language of the decree, to hold that Mrs. Pittinger is bound by the sum which Paul Carrel t saw fit to hid for the cooperage when he knew he could pay for il in the greatly depreciated paper of C. VV. Garretl Ai. Co. That sale is no more a criterion of its value than is the first sale when il. brought. $;:."0. The court orders that if the purchaser, Mrs. M. F. Harrison, does not pay the notes due on the vineyard, J4.S00 due May I. 1905, and May 1, 1906, there shall issue tin order for a re sale of the property." Statement of the Case. The title; of the case is "I. McK. Pittinger and wife, Lucy W. Pittin ger: H. S. Harrison and wife, M. F. Harrison ex parte. (Appeal by Mrs. Pittinger. ) The case is stated to be a petition for partition of a certain tract of land known as Modoc Vineyard. An order for sale was made and David Bell appointed commissioner to make the stile. The bind was purchased by .Mis. M. F. Harrison at the price of thirty thousand dollars. She paid ons-flfth of the purchase money in cash and has also paid the notes due May 1, 1902, and May 1, 1 904, and has failed to pay a note for $4,S00 maturing May 1, 1906, and also a note in like sum due May 1, 1906. There is also another note for a Ilk 1 sum due May 1, 1907. All these notes bear (i per cent, interest from date thereof. Tills is a motion in the cause heard by the olerk of the superior court of Halifax county made on be half of Mrs. Pittinger for a resale of Hie land to pay the unpaid purchase money. The clerk denied the motion and Mrs. Pittinger appealed to the judge. The matter was heard by Shaw, judge, who affirmed the order of the clerk. From judgment of his honor Mrs, Pittinger appealed to the supreme court. The counsel in the case were Shepherd fc Shepherd, Mason k. Worrell and Geo. C. Green for ap pellant, and Travis, Daniel & Kitch en for appellees. Opinion by Judge Hrown. The opinion is by Judge Brown, and is an especially clear and con cise document. It follows: "The ground upon which Mrs. Harrison resists payment of the pur chase money is based on certain statements in the report, of the com missioner and in the decree of con firmation. The report of the com missioner states, 'And the cooperage was to go to the purchaser of said lands with the understanding that if it should become necessary for said cooperage to be sold by the receivers, lo pay the debts of C. W. Carrel t & Co. then and in that event the purchaser of said lands should he credited on the purchase price for the value of said cooperage.' "There is nothing in the original decree of sale authorizing such ac tion of the commissioner hut in the decree of confirmation June 11, 1902, appears the following clause: 'And the cooperage now in the cellar at siiid vineyard, by consent of all parlies was sold with said land with the understanding that if it should become necessary for the receiver of C. W. Garrett & Co., A. S. Harrison, to sell said cooperage to pay the debts of said C. W. Garrett & Co. then and in that event the value of stiid cooperage should be deducted from the purchase price of said lands and property.' "If the cooperage was the property of ('. V. Garrett & Co, no reason is given as to why it was sold with the land. If it was the property of Mrs. Plttenger and Mrs. Harrison Hie rec ord discloses no reason why il should have thus been practically dedicated to the payment of Garrett & i'o.'s debts as neither tenant in common was a member of that firm. Mrs. Pltten ger has not asked to have the report of sale and decree of confirmation set aside. On the contrary she has re ceived her share of so much of the purchase money as has been paid and is moving in the cause and under such niainder. It therefore requires no citation of authority lo show that in pressing her motion to collect the un paid purchase money Mrs, Plttenger is bound by the action of the commis sioner and the recital in the decree of confirmation that it was done by her consent. If the action of the com missioner was unauthorized and the decree of confirmation made . without her knowledge and consent, Mrs. Pil tenger should have taken proper steps to have the sale and decree set aside but she has taken benefit under it by receiving part of the purchase money and is now moving in the cause to collect the remainder. The cooperage referred to consisted of about 100 empty casks, 15 fermenting tanks, pipes, etc. It appears that the coop erage was taken by the receiver of Garrett & Co. ami sold to pay the debts of that insolvent firm. In her affi davit Mrs. Harrison places the value of the cooperage at five thousand dol lars. At the receiver's sale it brnuKht $350. It Was resold by the order of the (Continued on Page 2.) SOUTH CAROLINA GREETS BRYAN (By the Associated I'rcss.) Columbia, S. C, Sept. 19. From ;i stand erected on the splendid cam pus of the University of South Caro lina William .1. Bryan today at noon delivered the only address scheduled in this sttite during his tour of speechmaking in the south. Mr. Bryan arrived from Charlotte last night. The reception committee con sists of representatives o fovery conn ty in the state. Mayor Gibbs wel comed Mr. Bryan to the city and Governor Heyward to the state. A public reception in the state capilol followed the speech-making and the Bryan special left for At lanta during the afternoon. GDT THIRTY LASHES AND EIFTY YEARS (By the Associated Press.) Wilmington, Del., Sept. 19. Chas. Conley, the negro who attacked and seriously injured Mrs. Beatrice Frankish and her daughter, Miss Cussie l.eitch. on a public road ten days ago was today sentenced to fifty years' imprisonment and to receive thirty lashes at the whipping post. The negro rendered Miss Leltch senseless by a blow on the head with ti stone and struggled desperately but vainly feloniously to assault the elder woman. Conley was arrested Monday night. He confessed yester day and today he was indicted, tried and sentenced. The prisoner will be whipped next Saturday. WRECK AT NORLINA LAST NIGHT This morning at Norlina No. 84 passenger train, which passed Ral eigh about 4 o'clock, ran inlo freight train No. 21, coming from Ports mouth. Mr. W. R. Bishop, engineer on No. 84, was slightly hurt. No serious damage to cither train, with exception knocking off cab on one of the engines. HEARST MAY BE IB ' T THEIR NO If Murphy Votes Tammany as a Unit HE NOW HAS POWER j It Was Generally Understood During j the Campaign That the Leader of i Tammany Hall Was Friendly to the Candidacy of Mr. Hearst for the Governorship. (By the Associated Press.) New York, Sept. 19. According to the returns and the reported af filiation of the leaders elected at the democratic primaries, Charles F. Murphy will be in control of 24 votes in the executive committee of Tammany Hall, representing tweuty districts, and will control sixty of the 105 delegates to the democratic state convention. These sixty votes will enable the leader of Tammany, if he so desires, to apply the unit rule and cast the vote of Tammany Hall solidly for the candidate determined upon by a majority of the delegates. Up to the present tithe Mr. Murphy has made no statement as to his Inten tions in this respect, but during the primary campaign it was generally understood that Mr. Murphy was friendly to Hearst. Murphy's vic tory, however, is believed to pre clude the possibility of District At torney Jerome securing the New York county delegation to the state convention. in Brooklyn State Senator Patrick H. McCarren retains control of the county democratic committee and will control 63 of the 69 delegates to the state convention. In the republican party Herbert K. Parsons, president of the county republican committee, defeated the forces headed by former Governor Odell and Lemuel E. Qulgg. Par sons carried 22 of the 35 districts. The defeat of Odell in New York county may take from him the con trol of the stato committee of which he is chairman. There was no opposition to William !i. Hearst in the democratic primaries in Erie county yesterday, and the full county delegation, including Buffalo, will be instructed for him. GOOD WORK DONE. Much Praise lb-stowed Upon Commit tees iu Charge of Rryan Ar rangements. Much praise has been bestowed upon County Chairman J. N. Holding and Mr. T. I'. Sale, chairman of the commit (ee on arrangements for the Bryan reception and entertainment in this city, for the successful Issue of the affair. Although the plans had to be changed at the last minute on ac count of the rain, which necessitated the making ready of the Metropolitan Hall for the speaking indoors when it was to have been in the capitol square, there was not a hitch in the proceedings. Moreover, It was not known until very late who would be in Mr. Bryan's party. Never, perhap.-', upon an occaslou of this kind in Raleigh were the newspaper men better cared for with a view to facilitating their work of getting into print without delay an Intelligent account of what happened. Sharing in the praise are the chair men and members of the sub-committees on platform, Mr. C. B. Park; music, Capt. W. F. Moody; carriages, i Mr. G. M. Harden; badges, Mr. Jos. I F. Ferrell; refreshments, Mr. Ed Hugh Lee; committee on finance, Mr. Frank Stronach; press committee, F. B. Arendell; escort committee, Messrs. Walter Grimes and George Norwood; reception committee to Greensboro, ex-Governor Charles B. Aycock. & THE EIGHT HOUR LAW IN ALL PUBLIC WORK (By the Associated Press.) Oyster Bay, N. Y., Sept. 19. President Roosevelt today extended I .l- SO l.-lll KVM.to the eight hour law to apply to all public work under the supervision of any department of the govern ment. Thi. order affects more par ticularly work on river and harbor Improvements.
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