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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. CI VOLUME 27. )NESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1906. PRICE 50. WITH ONE VOICE THE CONVENTION NAMES HUGHES FOR GOVERNOR Without Pledge Other Than to Do My Duty as I See It IT IS THUS THAT HE ACCEPTS THE HONOR The Platform Adopted by the New York Republicans Endorses the Ad ministration of President Roosevelt and Governor Wiggins, Declares That the Tariff Should Ite Revised Only by its Friends and Demands dp Prompt Punishment of Slob Instigators and Leaders. (By the Associated Press.) Saratoga, N. Y., Sept. 26. Tem porary Chairman Driscoll called the republican state convention to order today a little after the appointed ttme. State Senator W. W. Arm strong, of Rochester, was unani mously elected permanent chairman, and on assuming ths gavel spoke at considerable length on the respective records of the democratic and repub lican parties In the administration of state and national affairs. The committee on resolutons then made its report which was adopted without dissoni. Charles E. Hughes, who conducted the insurance investigation before the legislative committee, was placed in nomination for the governorship. The nomination was greeted with tremendous enthusiasm. After several seconding speeches the nomination of Mr. Hughes was made by acclamation. Lieutenant Governor M. Linn Bruce was similarly renominated. A telegram from Mr. Hughes was read accepting the nomination "with out pledge other than to do my duty, according to my conscience." On motion one ballot was cast for the renomlnation of John F. O'Brien for secretary of state; M. E. Lewis for comptroller; J. G. Wallenmier for treasurer, and H. A. Van Alstyne for state engineer and surveyor, and Julian M. Mayer for attorney gen eral. Ex-Lieutenant Governor Timothy L. Woodruff of Kings county was elected chairman of the state committee, suc ceeding ex-Governor B .B. Odell Jr. The convention then adjourned. At the suggestion of William Barnes, Jr., the executive committee of the state committee of which he has been chairman, was abolished. Republican State Platform. The platform begins as follows: "Assembled as delegates to the re publican state convention, we gladly record our pride and confidence to President Roosevelt. We endorse what he has done in fulfilling the will of the' people, in protecting both labor and capital, In preventing unfair dis crimination in railway rates; reform ing the abuses of trust corporations; In providing for the speedy construc tion of the Panama Canal; In securing pure food laws and uniform naturaliza tion laws; and also in elevating the standard of the public service. ' In these splendid achievements he has had the hearty co-operation and as sistance of a loyal republican congress. Wo congratulate him and the world on what he did for peace between Rus sia and Japan and upon what he Is now doing to compel peace in Cuba. He has fought the battles of the plain people so courageously and success fully that his name is an inspiration in every state campaign and his record the platform upon which every good citizen Is willing to stand. We pledge the republican party in New York state to follow faithfully In his foot steps." The administration of Governor Hig glns. It is declared, "passes Into his tory as one of the greatest" the. state has ever known. As the result of the recent Insurance investigation "un worthy officials have been driven from power and laws have been enacted to secure the protection of policyholders against long standing and widespread abuses. The faithful enforcement of these laws and their further amend ment whenever necessary is promised. The people are congratulated. Direct state tax has been abolished and the fiscal year closes with a working balance In the state treasury of more than ten million dollars. "We approve," the platform says, "the legislation granting a substan tial reduction in the price of gas to the people of New York City and pro viding for a commission to prevent the over-capitalization and excessive charges of public lighting corporations and we favor the extension of this policy to the regulation of all public utility corporations." The wisdom of the protective tariff is affirmed and It is demanded "that Its revision, as occasion may require, be entrusted to Its friends and not to Its enemies. Legislation "for the restoration of and American merchant marine so that the hundreds of millions now paid to foreign shipping interests may be paid to our own people; so that our foreign commerce may be strengthened and enlarged, and so that we may have an Invaluable reserve power of ships and men In case of war" Is favored. The stand taken by President Roose velt in his application of the eight hour law is endorsed. Reduction of representation in the electoral college and hi congress to off set suppression of the elective fran chise is demanded. The platform also says : "Realizing the national dangers aris ing from the alarming growth of mob barbarities engendered by race hatred in our own land, we demand the prompt and adequate punishment of mob Instigators anl eaders and wo Insist upon the Just and equal protec tion of the civil and political rights of all our citizens without regard to race, creed or color. We also place upon record our sincerest sympathy with the suffering and outraged Jews In Poland and Russia" ENGLISH MILL EMPLOYES Webb and Rolx-rts to Meet in Joint Debate. Gastonia, N. C, Sept. 20. A com pany of 22 mill operatives from the Manchester district in England have arrived here and will set in to work at the mill in a few days. Hon. E. Y. Webb, democratic can didate for congress, and his political opponent, Or. Frank Roberts, will hold a political debate at two ap pointments in Gastonia. One of these is at Cherryville on the tenth of next month, and the other at Gastonia on the eleventh. The condition of Mr. David Hor ton was reported a little better yes terday afternoon. Friday morning he was so violently insane that it was deemed best to confine him. He is a brother of Mrs. A. A. Wagstaff, and was brought to Gastonia a few months ago from a hospital in Naw Mexico, where it is said he is pos sessed of some property. COURT MONDAY (By the Associated Press.) Washington, Sept. 26. The next term of the supreme court of the United States will begin a week from next Monday. The docket now contains over 4C0 cases and others will be added be fore the opening day. Among the important cases which will receive early attention are the fol lowing: - The contempt proceeding against cer tain citizens of Chattanooga, Tenn., In connection with the lynching of a negro prisoner in whose case the court had taken Jurisdiction; the Kansas Colorado suit involving jurisdiction over the irrigation waters of the Ar kansas river; Barcelon versus Baker, Involving the question as to whether the Philippine Commission has power to" suspend the suit of habeas corpus in the Philippines; Moyer, Haywood and Pettlbone, officers of the Western Federation of Labor versus Nichols, involving their light of release from prison in Idaho, where they are in carcerated on the charge of complicity in the murder last year of fOrmer Governor Steunenberg; Tearcy versus Stranahan, a revenue case involving the question as to whether the Isle of Fines is Cuban or American territory, and payment of money on account of the purchase of the Panama Canal. On account of the resignation of Jus tice Brown and the failure to flip his place there will be one vacant seat on the bench. DID THE MASCOT AND THE MASCOT DID HIM. atatosvllle, N. C. Sept. 6. M. E. Strouss, who calls himself a profes sional newspaper writer, is In jail here awaiting a preliminary hearing. Strouss came to Statesvllle about July first and effected an agreement I with Tho Iredell County Mascot to publish an Industrial edition to that' paper. He solicited advertising and obtained money In advance at the .Mascot's expense and thon left town. He was locnted by Mr. Frank Brum ley, editor of the paper, In Tennessee. NATION'S HIGH CUBA WITHOUT A The Cabinet Resigns. Paima Abdicates Friday OUR FORCES MUST LAND The Action of the Governing Party Compels the United States to Take This Step, Which 'will Be Welcom ed by Conservative Interests of the Island. (By the Associated Press.) Havana, Sept. 26. Cuba today is practically without a government and the landing of American forces to restore order in the island is believed to bo the necessary outcome. Tho moderate, or governing party, last night, decided to abdicate every thing in the nature of national, pro vincial and municipal government and thus force the hands of tho American peace commislsoncrs and compel the United States to inter vene for the second time in Cuba. The liberals, or opposite party, de nounce the action of the Palma ad ministration as treason, but the con servative interests throughout the in land welcome the idea of American intervention as being the only means of securing an orderly administra tion of the island's affairs for any length of time. It is pointed out that even if the American commis sioners succeed in establishing the liberals in power it would not ensure peace in Cuba and that the condition of unrest would continue indefinitely. The government officials all admit that they prefer American interven tion to seeing the liberal party in power. Palma To Abdicate. President Palma, at a special ses sion of congress called for Friday, will formally present the resignation of himself and Vice President Mea dez Capote, but it Is not certain that a quorum will be presented as the moderates yesterday decided that they would not have any further re lations with the government of cu ba, also alleging unfair treatment at the hands of the American commis sioners. The latter have plainly signified their disgust at the conduct of the government leaders and have practi cally abandoned their efforts to re store order in the island except by the use of force. Secretary Taft has pointed out that tho Cuban officials instead of co-operating with the American commissioners have engag ed in every kind of obstruction with tho object of continuing their control of the government and have rejected terms of peace, proposed by the Americans, which were honorable to President Palma and his advisers. Raima's Cabinet Resigns. All the members of the cabinet and the heads of departments have pre sented their resignations to President Palma. He has accepted them, but the officers will retain their positions until the resignation of the president has been presented to congress. Senor O'Farrill, secretary of state, and Jus tice said last night there probably would be a government by a commis sion appointed by the American gov ernmcnt. He mentioned Senor Bar reiro, chief justice of the supreme court and General Menoeal as possible commissioners. Palma Asked to Reconsider. A communication from Secretary Taft and Assistant Secretary Bacon was taken to the palace shortly after noon. It was understood to contain an urgent appeal to the patriotism of President Palma to reconsider his res ignation and co-operate with the Amer ican peace commissioners. The rebels encamped in front of Ha vana are today in extra line spirits. They all appear exultant over the withdrawal of the Palma government, and the possibility of American inter vention did not seem to act as a draw back to their satisfaction. No one was found who would say that the rebels intended to resist an American super vision over Cuba. The most important leaders, however, regard American in tervention as too delicate a subject to be discussed at present and they pre fer taking their cue from the liberal revolutionary leaders in Havana. A Talk With Guerra. A correspondent of the Asociatedj Press found General Pino Guerra today at a house on a plantation just east of i Arroyo Arenas, south of Havana. Guerra expressed the utmost satisfac tion at the resignation of President Palma and Vice President Mendez Capote, and said the president should have resigned long ago. But In the Opinion of Guerra, Palma's resigna tion was not offered in good faith, but was only Intended to demoralize the country and cause a chaotic condition (Continued on Page 5.) GOVERNMENT WRECKS FLYER Dead and lers Will Die LIST GIVEN Mail Was Running at Of Seventy Miles An Hour Rushed Through the Into a Freight Train. Associated Press.) HI., Sept. 20. Passen ger Iraili Jto. S, Of 'the Wabash Rail road, running from Kansas City to Buffalo, N, Y., known as the Buffalo Mail, and due in this city at 4:52 a. m., ran into an open switch west of Catlin, ill., early today and crashed into a Bsetion of a fivi.-j'U Iran. All the passeMBr ears except one turned over and .burned. Three persons are known to hjave been killed, and sev eral others are missing. Thirty-seven Injured arc being taken care of at Danville hospitals. The known dead are: Engineer J. B. Butler of Peru, Ind. W. W. Ellison, fireman, Lafayette, Ind. Edward Harding, mail clerk, Ives ville, 111. Four children of Mrs. Livingston of Kansas City were thrown out of a car window by the mother, but caught in 'the burning debris and badly burned. Some may die. The mother wag not injured. Four children of Mrs. J. H. Wald shalm of Guoiph,. Ont., wore badly burned and all probably will dij. TO RATIFY THE MERGER Stockholders to Meet in Norfolk October 16 ihey Will Confirm Agreement of Consolidation Between the Nor folk and Southern and the Virginia and Carolina Coast Railroads. (By the Associated Press.) Norfolk, Va Sept. 26. The stock holders of the Norfolk & Southern Railroad and the Virginia & Carolina Coast Railroad Companies are called to meet here October 16 to ratify the previous agreement of consolidation; I to vote upon a proposition for the in- crease of the capital stock of the N"l folk & Southern from $2,000,000 to $;!. ,000,000; to provide for an extension of road from Edenton, N. C, to a point near the northwestern boundary line of the state of North Carolina; to sell I to the Atlantic and North Carolina ' Company the Pamlico, Or.ental and ! Western Railroad; to sell to the John L. Roper Lumber Company of Vir ginia that portion of the Virginia & Carolina Coast Railroad Company's lines extending south from WiiUluop, N. C, and to consider a resolution au thorizing the John L. Roper Lumber Company to cancel Its issue of $5,106. 00 of sinking fund gold bonds and mortgage securing the same, and ac cept in lieu thereof $5,000,010 pa.- value of an issue of $10,000,000 of sinking fund gold bonds of said Roper Com pany. ACROSS ON CATTLHSH1P. Rev. A. II. Williamson Accepts a Call to Investigate Sanitary Con dition. (Special to The Evening Times.) Statesvllle, X. C, Sept. 20. Rev. S. H. Williamson, who recently re signed as pastor of the Front Street, Presbyterian Church of Slatesville. has accepted a call to tho pastorate of Euphronia and Pocket Presbyto rianrian Churches in the vicinity of Sanford. He is a good preacher and. has made many friends here who re gret his going away. Messrs. Crowson and Deal were in Statesvllle yesterday en route to their homes at Taylorsville. Messrs. Crowson and Deal have just return ed from a visit to London and Paris. They worked their way across the ocean on a cattle ship. Dr. T. E. Anderson,, who, with Dr. W. O. Spencer of Winston wa-3 ap pointed by the state board of heaith to Investigate the sanitary conditions of the Normal and Industrial College and the colored A. and M. College at Greensboro, has gone to Greensboro where he will bo joined by Dr. Spen cer to make the investigation. Three Known ' HIP m : The Wafts the H VIon Mpfr SwitdHp DanvflflBt THE REIGN OF RIOT IS OVER All Militia on Duty in Atlanta Withdrawn CITY UNDER CONTROL All Kinds of Work Are Going For ward llriskiy and an Air of Peace and Quietude is Present on Every Hand All Saloons Closed. (By the Associated Press.) Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 20. The race I riot situation is in absolute control of the authorities this morning and i business has resumed normal con I ditions. All the militia on duty were wilh- drawn ai noon today, the out-of- town companies being returned to their homes. Tho local commands, I however, are under arms at the arm ory ready for emergency. Tho saloons will remain closed all day and night and probably tomor row. In tlu negro districts perfect or der prevails and the terror of mob rules has passed away. The negroes are at work and peace has been re stored at all points. The city will pay propsrty owners tor all damage indicted by rioters and at a mass meeting of citizens a fund of several thousand dollars was subscribed to defray the expenses of burying the dead and caring for tha wounded and to care for the families of the victims. This applies to both races. The antire situation is in the hand of a public order and safety commit tee, aided by the mayor, police and county authorities. The schools are open and well at tended and all manufacturing plants and factories which have been sus pended since Saturday resumed Work today. All saloons are closed. Li censes to negro restaurants and lov drinking places have been rescinded by the city council in special session. With a citizen's committee of ten, aided by the mayor, police and mili tary, a battery of artillery, a battal ion of cavalry and an increased police force on duty, it is believed order has been fully restored. NEGRO SO00TS WIFE DEAD ON TOE STREET (Special to The Evening Times.) Wilmington, N. C, Sept. 26. The second murder of the week was com mitted at noon today at the corner of Howard and Sixth streets. On Sun day night Mary Ashe, a negress, lied from her home to escape the wrath of her husband, William Ashe. Today Ashe discovered his wife on Howard street and shot lie redad as she was running from the house of a relative. William Ashe Is about twenty-five years old, a fisherman by occupation and well known to the police. He will probably be arrested this afternoon. Fred Hill, the young negro who killed Charles Washington on Sunday night has been located near Wilming ton and an effort to capture will be made this afternoon. STUDENT SHOT LAST NIGHT DOING well (Special to the Evening Times) Chapel Hill, N. C, Sept. 26. Ber nard O'Neill the student who was shot here on the University campus lasc night by J. J. Hatch a freshman is resting well today, and no serious com plications are entertained by his phy sicians, Ho will be removed to his home in Wilmington in a few days. Hatch who gave himself up to the authorities last night was released on bond this morning. His father has arrived from Mt. Olive and is with him. CAMPAIGN MONEY BY FEDERAL OFFICIALS. (By the Associated Press.) Washington, Sept. 26. The civil ser vice commission Is giving attention these days to the question of campaign contributions. Some complaints have been received of efforts to use the mails so as to evade the laws prohibiting the solicitation of such contributions from federal officials at their places of business The commission held sev eral years ago that the law applied to requests for money sent to govern ment officials at their offices in the malls, but later the question wps re ferred to tho department of justice, and there the matter rests. The tlepart- mcnt has never passed upon it, i,ut now that the subject is again becom ing acute, there probably will be a request for consideration and decision. FRANK BOHANNON IS NOW ON TRIAL. (Special to The Evening Times.) Greensboro, N. C, Sept. 26. The trial of Frank Bohannon, Ki and Os car Crulchficld for the murder last July of Railroad Foreman Beacham was begun yesterday, the jury hav ing been secured by the beginning of the afternoon session. Tho case may be concluded by tonight. The witnesses thus far introduced have testified to the effect that Bo hannon shot Beacham down while be ing begged not to shoot. The testi mony of Bohannon against tho Crutchfields was ruled out, but. wit nesses were introduced to show that Ki and Oscar were with Bohanno'i the night before the killing, making a row in the Camp and looking for Beacham. THE HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL GIVE DEGREES. (ss-ij,! pnimaossy am fl) Cambridge, Mass., Sept. 20. Ill con tinuation of yesterday's exercises of dedication cf the new buildings of the' Harvard Medical school which were held In front of the buildings in the j Fenway. Bdsfon, an academic session was held at Sander's academy in this rol o delegates was followed by the. ennfei'ririp- nf rlepTeen hv Preside!!! KI- i lintt upon edieal men of prominence. MRS. OELRICHS ASKS TO BE MA MS A DM IN I STRATRIX. (By the Associated Tress.) San Francisco, Cal., Sept. 20. Through her attorneys, Mrs. Oelrichs yesterday tiled a petition in the pro bate court requesting that special letters of administratrix be granted her upon the estate of her late hus band, Herman Oelrichs who died at sea last August while returning from Europe. The estate is valued at 51,000,000. The letters probably will be issued today. TO ERECT A BUILDING Edwards & Brouglttoo Print ing Cn. tn Have Home Lot Purchased On Salisbury From McMaekin and Howie Front of New Home to Be of Pressed Brick and Stone Throe Stories Work to Begin At Once. The Edwards & Broughton Print ing Company of this city, recently chartered to take over the business conducted for the past thirty-five years by C. B. Edwards and N. B. Broughton, today closed a contract by which the company purchases a lot 70x210 feet on the west side of Salisbury street. On this lot tho company wiil at once erect a three story build in ; es pecially adapted to the Edwards & Broughton printing business. It will have a front of pressed brick with stone trimming and will be modern in every respect. Work is to begin with the least possible delay so that the building may be ready for occupancy in the early spring. The lot was purchased from W. C. McMaekin and Thos. Howie and is the lot on which the McMaekin stables are located. The purchase price was 510,000. STENSLAND 10 (By the Associated Press.) I Chicago. Sept. 26. Faul O. Slensland, j i fugitive president of the defunct .Mil waukee Avenue State Rank, arrived in j Chicago at 8:55 today on the Tuen-I tleth Century Limited, on the Lake Shore Railroad. He was taken nr.- j mediately to the criminal court '.lad ing. Stensland', appearing before Judge: Kersten in the criminal court thisj afternoon plead guilty to charges of forgery and embezzlement. Judge Kersten sentenced him to an indeterminate periol in Joliet peniten- tiary. Stensland in charge of Jailer Whit man left for the Joliet penitentiary shortly after one o'clock this after noon. Fund for Typhoon Sufferers. (By the Associated Press.) Hong Kong. Sept. 26. The Chinese subscription fund for the benefit of sufferers by the recent typhoon has readied the sum Of $80,000. JOLIET PRISON; TO HEARST AS THE NOMINEE All Indications Are Now Plainly Pointing WRESTLE OVER SEATS Owing to the Inability of the Com mittees to Finish Their Work Pre liminary to the Convention, the Latter Wus Not Held During the Morning. (By the Associated Press.) Buffalo, N. Y., Sept. 26. Twsnty six hours after the democratic state convention first met in convention hall finds the permanent organiza tion still unperfected. A session was set lor 1 1 o'clock this morning, at which time tsmporary Chairman Nixon appeared and announced that adjournment would be taken until 2:30 o'clock as the committee on contested seats had not completed Its hearings and was unable to present a permanent roll of delegates. Mr. Nixon reached the hall at 2:50 p. m. and after formally calling tho convention to order anounced that the committes on contested seats was still in session. Adjournment then was taken until 6:30 p. m. Buffalo, N. Y., Sept. 26 The demo cratic state convention was called to order at 11:06 by Chairman Nixon who announced that owing to the inability of the committees appointed yester day to complete their work the session would stand adjourned until 2:30 p. m. today. Before Today's First Session. After a strenuous day and night of preliminary politics, the New York, state democratic convention came to its crucial session today with all indi cations pointing to l'ie nomination of William Randolph Hearst for governor. District Attorney Jerome and former Mayor Osborne of Auburn are both quoted as threatening denunciatory speeches in the convention and advis ing the naming of an opposing ticket. Definite knowledge of any such plan however, is lacking. The necessary preliminary work was taken up as soon as the brief conven tion session of yesterday was ended, and it was prosecuted with energy during the night. The committee on resolutions worked until one o'clock before a product to its liking was ef fected. It was early decided that the platform should contain a plank on William J. Bryan, also that it should declare in favor of municipal owner ship of public utilities, the latter being qualified by a local option clause Wrestling Over Contest. When the pplatform sub-committee finished the preliminary draft of the document the contested seats commit tee was still wrestling with the con test from twenty districts involving the seats of sixty delegates. It is ex pected however, that the entire work of the convention will be concluded today or this evening. After the adoption of the platform nominations will be in order and the roll by counties will be called. William V. Cook will respond to Al bany, the first county called, and will place Mr. Hearst in nomination. The nominations to be made and voted for under this order include governor, lieutenant governor, secre tary of state, attorney general, comp troller, treasurer, engineer and sur veyor. "if they nominate a decent repub-;( lican at Saratoga 1 will go upon the' stump and plead for the defeat of Hearst," declared District Attorney Jerome of New York today at an ad journed session of Albany confer ence of anti-Hearst democrats today. "1 will appeal for his defeat nofe on the ground that it is a political issue, but because the issue raised is that of politcal freedom. Wo do not thnk that it is a democratic con-, vention. It Is not representative. I for one believe we are entirely ab-; solved from any obligation to sup port a ticket put together in a back room by Charles Murphy, 'Pat' Mc Carren and 'Tim' Sullivan. I believe it the duty of this conference to give unmistakable utterance to their be lief that this convention was not democratic In any sense of the word." At 1.30 o'clock this afternoon the committee on contested seats in the democratic state convention had seven contested cases before it for argument and the indications were that when the conventibn assembled it would be only to adjourn again till probably 9 p. m. This means that there will be a night session or that late adjournment will be taken' tonight until tomorrow morning at 11 O'clock. The democratic state convention ad journed until six p. m.