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Fall Leased Wire Service of the Associated Press. Leads all North Carolina Afternoon Papers in Circulation, LAST EDmOH. ... ILL THE MAEKEE& THE fiALEIGH EVENING T VOLUME 27. RALEIGH, N. C, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1906. PRICE 6a - - W. T. RIGGSBEE MUST SHOW WHY HE IS NOT GULTY OF CONTEMPT Rule Issued Today by Judge Purnell and Made Return able Next Thursday WITNESSES SUMMONED Solicitor Brooks was Here from Dur ham and Stilted That a Number of Important Witnesses who Had Been Summoned in the State Court to Testify Against Riggsbee for Stuff ing a Ballot Box Had Been Sum moned to tlie Federal Court Said He Had Learned That the Defend ant in the Case Here Knew Noth ing of the Men Being Summoned. THE BOOM FOR FIVE Of OUR MEN SEN, CULBERSON FELL IN BATTLE How a North Carolinian Has On account of what looks like a movement to defeat the ends of jus tice in the state court by summoning witnesses to appear in the federal court, a rule was issued today by Judge Purnell against W. T. Riggs bee, of Durham, to show cause why ho should not be found guilty of con tempt of court. The rule was made returnable on next Thursday morning at 10 o'clock. This morning, a few minutes after court convened, District Attorney Skinner made a statement in regard to a number of witnesses who had been summoned from Durham county to appear in a case against one W. M. Watson, charged with retailing and conducting an illicit distillery, He said it looked to' Mm very mufeh like a conspiracy, aa'the witnesses stated that they knew nothing whatever about the matter, and the defendant had stated that he had not requested that the parties be summoned. Colo nel Skinner said he believed it con tempt of court to have summons issued when the defendant knew nothing of the matter. He said that Solicitor A. L. Brooks, of the Durham district, was in the court room and ho would be glad if ho would make a statement in regard to the matter. Solicitor Brooks said at the begin ning of the present term of criminal court in Durham county that a bill was sent before the grand jury in which W. T. Riggsbee, of that city, was indicted for stuffing a ballot box, but that the bill was thrown out of court on the ground that several of the grand jury had not paid their poll .tax. A new grand jury, ho Stated, was summoned for this week, but that it was learned that a num ber of the witnesses against Riggsbee had been summoned to appear before the United States court. Solicitor Brooks stated. that ho decided to come to Halcigh and learn the real facts in the case. One witness, Solicitor Brooks said, who claimed he. saw Riggsbee stuff the ballot box, was summoned, and ho wrote that he had been summoned to Raleigh. Some one said that Riggsbee had been around getting witnesses to come to Raleigh instead of to Durham, he said, and the mar shal says he was told if the witnesses could not be found, to go to Riggs bee. So Well was the plan carried out, he said-, that the money was paid into the clerk's office to get the. men summoned, and money sent to .them to defray their expenses. ,, The wit nesses were first summoned to appear Tuesday, Solicitor Brooks stated, when the Durham county. leases were not to be called until Wednesday, and another set of subpoenas were Issued for Wednesday. Continuing, he said: ''Riggsbee also approached an officer and asked him if he sup posed a bill would be sent before the grand jury. The entire affair I be lieve, to bo a conspiracy to defeat the onds of justice in the state court, and, if not contempt of the federal court, it was certainly contempt of the state court." He said, for the protection of the honest citizenship, he thought the courts- should co operate to suppress such a practice. After Solicitor Brooks had con cluded his remarks. Judge Purnell said that Riggsbee was guilty of con tempt in the state court, and he was Inclined to believe it to be contempt of the United States court. Col. J. C, L. Harris here made a statement in regard to the summon ing of Blake, stating that he was wanted as a character witness and not to testify as to'what he know about the case. . District Attorney Skinner thought the master should be investigated, and was of the opinion that a rule should be Issued against W. T. Riggs bee to show cause why he should not be adjudged guilty of contempt. "You think that the proper course to pursue, do you?" asked Judge Pur nell.' "I do," was the response of the district attorney. The rule was Issued today and the hearing in the matter will be next Thursday morning at 10 o'clock. In the meantime Watson is to remain here. He -is out on bond. Riggsbee Well Known. Riggsbee is well known in Durham and Is said to be worth several hun dred thousand dollars. From the manner in which Solicitor Brooks spoke of the matter this morning it is believed to be more than probable , ln that Riggsbee will bo required to show cause why he should not be judged guilty of contempt of the state court. Solicitor Brooks, In the course of his remarks, stated that after it was learned that so many witnesses who were to be summoned in the Riggsbee case had been sum moned to Raleigh, that a rule was Issued that any witness who failed to bo present at the court In Durham and came to Raleigh would be judged guilty of contempt. This, he said, was after it was learned that there was something unusual about tho pro ceeding. (Continued o Page Two.) Been Launching It The Pulajanes Left Thirty on the Field RECEIVED WITH FAVOR A Member of North Carolina Com mittee That Went to New York to Meet Bryan Talked Culberson at Democratic Club and Found Warm Supporters. FIGHTING IN LEYTE An American' Camp Attacked by Bolo Men A Few Have (iuns These Fire a Volley and Tin n the Rush is Made on til Camp. ADMISSION TO THE MINISTRY Eight New Preachers Enter on Trial EVENTS OF THIRD DAY Preachers of Raleigh, Elisabeth City niul Durham Districts Make Their Reports Kev. F. Ii. Church Sur renders His Credentials as a Preacher Bishop Wilson Lectures (Special to The Evening Times.) Rocky Mount, N. C, Dec. 7 The third day's session of the Methodist Confer ence was called to order at 9 a. m. by Bishop Wilson, with religious services by Rev. Ii. L. Davis. The proceedings of yesterday were read and approved. Leave of absence was granted A. W. Christ and N. H. Gullon. J. E. Saun ders was discontinued at his own re quest. The class of the fourth year, W. A. Pilund, W. H. Brown, J. H. Buffalo, W. E. Brown and W. R. Jenkins were clectcd elders. E. H. Sams, J. W. An tony, W L. Rexford, H. E Spencer, E. B. Crown and F. B. Watson were elect el local deacons. Question twenty was called and preachers of Raleigh, Eliza beth CIH and Durham districts passed their character and reported. pr. J. H. Clewell, Salem; J. R. Brooks,, Reidsville; W. D. Morton, of the Presbyterian Church and J. S. Hun ter were introduced to the conference. RteV. F. Li. Church surrendered his cre dentials as minister. J. w. Antony, W. L. Rexford, W. H. L. McLaurin, J. C. Whedbe, c. T. sog ers, W. M. Dargan, L. T. Singleton and A. P. Wilcox were admitted on trial as preachers. Report number one of books and periodicals was presented. This re port protests, ,against the proposed in crease in the postage rate. The ballot for editor was taken to be reported at tomorrow's session. Bishop Wilson delivered his third lec ture and at 11:40 the conference ad journed. Notes From Conference. The First Methodist Church, where the sessions of the conference are being held, of which Rev. W. S. Roan is pastor, is one of the prettiest churches in the state. Tuesday night, when the pastor an nounced that the morning session would begin at 9 a. m., Uncle Marcus L. Thomas wanted to know why the "sessions were to begin earlier than former sessions." The reply was: "We are smarter people." Mr. C. W. Bynum of Chatham county, a layman, has attended con ference as member of the Sunday (Continued on Fifth Page.) A prominent member of tho com mittee that went from North Caro lina last fall to New York to take part In tho reception to Mr. William Jennings Bryan on his return from his tour around the world, and to invite him to visit North Carolina, tells of an Incident that happened Now York at the banquet at the Democratic Club in New York the night before Mr. Bryan arrived, and it is given hero for what it is worth as an item of political news. It appears that the committeeman mentioned had been talking for some time with friends In the states of Maryland, Texas, Kentucky, Louis iana and Alabama regarding tho feasibility of Senator Culberson of Texas as the democratic nominee for president in 1908. This gentleman says that every body ho talked to grew enthusiastic oer the prospect, expressing them selves as considering Mr. Culberson one of the strongest, purest and best men in tho party.. At the Dsmocratic Club banquet he mentioned the matter to several of the prominent democrats presont, and he declares that practically all there to whom he broached the sug gestion were greatly attracted by It. s He was particularly impressed with the remarks made by the rep resentatives of the Baltimore Sun and the Louisville Courier-Journal, who had both come to hear Mr. Bryan's speech and from what he should say determine the policy of their respective papers as to his can didacy. The Courier-Journal man said that his paper was already ln line for Mr. Bryan and wanted to remain so, and that he hoped Mr. Bryan would not say anything that would force his journal out of line. Tho Baltimore Sun man an nounced that ho had gone there to hear what Mr. Bryan had to say in the hope that the Sun might be able to get in line. Both newspaper men expressed regret at their papers being out of fine with the party in 1896 and 1900. Of course neither paper remained in line as far as Mr. Bryan was con cerned after tho speech in Madison Square Garden, and the North Caro lina committeeman is more enthusi astic than ever before as to the ad visability of the party selecting Sen ator Culberson as its standard bear er in the coming national election nearly two years hence. In connection with this, an edl- rial in tho Washington Post a few weeks ago is of considerable inter est. The Washington paper assures the Houston Post that it commends Senator Culberson and had no in tention in a former editorial of in timating that the senator from Texas was a belated objector to gov ernment ownership of railroads, and proceeds to say some very nice things about the Texas statesman. The Washington Post goes on to I say: 'It is the opinion of this paper that the democratic party might easily do worse than to nominate a! southern man for president of the 1 United States, and it is the opinion of this paper that Charles A. Culoer son is presidential timber. At any rate, he would not go into the cam paign to defend a policy that every democrat from Jefferson to Tilden would not have touched with the tongs." (By the Associated Press.) Manila, Dec. 7. Later reports of the fighting In the Island of Leytc, December 5, show that Ciipt. Samuel V. Ham, with detachment of Com pany L of the Eighth Infantry and a force of constabulary under Lieut. Ralph P. Yates, Jr., were rushed by sixty bolo men four miles from La Paz, on the Taragonn trail, during the afternoon of thai day. The Pula janes had a few guns, fired a volley mid then made a rush upon the American force. Five Americans were k.'lled and nine were wounded. The enemy lost thirty man killed. The number of Pulajanes wounded and captured is not known. A de tachment has started ln pursuit of the insurgents. The telegraph line between Tachban and Iloilo is down and no further details are obtainable. The list of the American dead is as follows: Sergeant Joseph Clark, died of a bolo wound. Sergeant James- Prover, killed with a bolo. Private William Dufferin, killed with a bolo. Private W. Hadioy, gunshot. Private Edward Keogh, gunshot. The wounded were Corporal Weld, Private McHenry, Private Edge and Private Wakefield, all severely wounded, and Privates Armstrong, Brennan, Herron, Horai?.and "RfehaTa son, slightly wounded. The dead were buried on the bat tlefield during the night of Decem ber 5. No report has been received of any further losses among the constabulary. TWO CITY CARS SMASH TOGETHER Met on Curve at Morgan and Salisbury Streets LITTLE DAMAGE DONE One Passenger Received a Slight Cut . .on the Head and a Few Bruises Disabled Car Was Being Carried to the Shed and Collided With Hillsboro Street Car- THE BAPTTSTS' MISSION WORK Morning Given Over to its Discussion MR. MASSEE'S REPORT Suggestion That $50,04)0 Be Pledged to University for Women It Is Decided to Await the Result of the Effort to Raise $50,000 for Wake Forest. IN MOROCCO A BATTLE IMPENDS. . (By the Associated Press.) Melllla, Morocco, Dec. 7. A de tachment of the sultan's troops, un der the command of Kaid Bachina has crossed the Moulouya River, and native runners report that the pre tender's followers are preparing to attack the sherifian force. The re sult of the battle is anxiously await ed, although it is believed here that the sultan's soldiers will bo victorious. (By Southern Bell Telephone.) Greensboro, N. C, Dec. 7. After the report of the Baptist University for Women at Raleigh had been sub mitted to the Baptist Convention to day by the Rev. J. C. Massee, the suggestion was made that the asso ciation pledgeltself to raise $50,000 for the institution, and the matter received considerable attention. It was finally decided, however, that in view of the fact that $150,000 had been pledged to Wake Forest it was advisable to await, the result of that effort. Still, the convention showed that it is in hearty sympathy with the excellent work of the Uni veristy and is anxious to advance it in eevry possible way. It was shown in the report read by Mr. Massee that the institution has 355 stu dents, representing seven states and nine denominations. The morning session was devoted principally to state missions, the re port of the state board indicating wonderful progress within the past year. The report recommmended that 40,000 be placed to the credit of the board, and this was unani mously adopted. Many excellent addresses on the mission question were made during1 the morning and there was lively in-. terest in the proceedings. Much' routine ground was covered, and altogether the convention Is making rapid progress with its Work. There was a head-on collision this morning about 8 o'clock between city ears Nos. 8 and 4 where the line makes the curve at the intersection of Morgan and Salisbury streets. Fortunately no one was seriously hurt, but several were right badly scared. On the soutlir bound car was one passenger. Mr. John McDonald, prescription clerk at the Hicks Drug Company; on the other car, Dr. George T. Winston. Mr. George W. Thompson and Policeman Mart Thomp son. The accident was caused by the con ductor on No. 4 being of the opinion that he had a clear track and had start ed to the shed with a disabled car which was being run backwards with the mo torman on the rear end and the con ductor on the front holding the trolley. The Hillsboro street car stopped at the junction of Hillsboro and Salisbury streets and after waiting for a few minutes proceeded down Salisbury. The speed of the car had been slack ened so as to make the curve, and but for this the crash would have been much more severe. The cars met right on the curve and No. 4 was knocked around and made to face down Morgan street. Neither car was dam aged to any great extent, but of the two the Blount street car fared the worse, the windows ln the vestibule having been broken and some of the wood work splintered. The Hillsboro -street car suffered no damage other than the fender being bent and the sign knocked off. Motorman W. M. King and Conductor S. W. Eason were on No. 4 and Motor man T. W. Green and H. D. Davis on No. 8. Conductor Eason got one finger slightly cut, and with this exception none of the other employes were hurt. Mr. George W. Thompson, vice presi dent of the Virginia Cotton Mill, was hurt worse than any one else, and his injuries are of , but small consequence. He was standing in the rear door of the Hillsboro street car looking back of the car and when they met he was thrown full length in the car, sustain ing a small scalp wound on the back of the head and his left elbow was bruised. The conductor on the northbound car stated that he was told by a con ductor at Fayettville and Martin streets that he would not meet a car, so he thought it best to get to the shed as quickly as possible and get another car. As stated above, they staitcd off pulling the car backwards. According to the rules, the Blount street car should have waited at Martin for the Hillsboro street car. Both cars were got on the track in a very short time after the accident oc curred. The Raleigh Electric Company has very competent men employed, and it is the rarest thing that an accident occurs. They have a regular dispatcher to look after the cars, something that few companies have except in the larger cities. Manager Carr's Statement. The following statement of the acci dent was made by General Manager Carr of the Raleigh Electric Company: "The Blount street car, in charge of Motorman King and Conductor Eason, was delayed by reason of some trouble with the controller, and should have waited at Hillsboro and Martin for the Hillsboro street car. It came on, how ever, and met the Hillsboro car at the corner of Salisbury and Morgan streets. Motorman Davis and Conductor Green were in charge of the Hillsboro car and they were running according to sched ule. "Conductor Eason's hand was slight ly cut by a broken glass. A colored employe on the Hillsboro car received a shock, but his injuries were slight. No passengers were hurt, so far as I have been able to ascertain. There were no passengers on the Blount street car." CHI PSI FRATERNITY HOUSE AT CORNELL fJNTMM.K IN Fl AMR $10,000,000 worth of butter, cheese and milk. No feature of the export trade in agricultural products has shown a more steady and rapid growth than that of meat and dairy products, of which there was an increase of about 60 per cent during the past decade. DEATH OF ALDERMAN WARD F. JOHNSON. (Special to The Evening Times.) Wilmington, N. C Dec. 7. After an illness of several weeks with paresis. Alderman Ward F. Johnson died this morning at 4:30 o'clock at his home In north Ninth street. Alderman Johnson was one of Wil mington's leading public men. He was a former chairman of the county demo cratic executive committee and at the time of his death was candidate for mayor and the acknowledged head of the municipal ownership forces. A RUINOUS FIRE IN LUMBER YARDS. OUR DAIRY AND MEAT EXPORTS. I. (By tho Associated Press.) Vashington, Dec. 7. According to a statement Issued today by the bu reau of statistics of the department of commerce and labor, more than $250,000,000 worth of meat and dairy products will have passed out of the United States into the markets of other parts of the world in the year ending with the present month; This total Is made up of a little over $200,000,000 worth of meats, $3M, 000,000 worth of cattle, and about (By the Associated Press.) San Francisco, Cal., Dec. 7. The plant and stock of the Union Lumber Company, at Sixth and Hooper streets, was completely destroyed by fire early today. The flames were confined, by hard work "of the fire department, to the premises of the company. The loss is estimated at over $200,000. TRAINS MEET IN A DEADLY CRASH Four People Are Killed and Three Are Injured ON THE MAINE CENTRAL The Wreck Reported to Be Due to a Misunderstanding of Orders Both Engineers Among the Dead; Also One of the Firemen; the Other Badly Hurt. (By the Associated Press.) Lewiston, Me., Dec. 7. Four peo ple were killed and throe others seri ously injured in a head-on collision between a special and a regular fi eight train on the Maine Central Railroad near the small station of Annabessacook late last night. The wreck was said to be due to a mis understanding of orders. Both trains were going so fast when they met that eight of tho thirteen cars of the special were hurled over the engine and demolished with the greater part of the contents. The track was blocked for hours. Tho dead are: Fireman Hodges, of the special. Engineer Forrest Fletcher, of tho regular train. Engineer Harrimau, of the special. Brakeman Ijowe, of Lewiston. The injured: Fireman Charles F. Freeman, of the regular train, sustained a com pound fracture of the arm, which may have to be amputated at the shoulder. Two brakenien were badly cut about, the head and sustained severe scalds and burns. APPROVES MAKING JAPANESE CITIZENS, (By the Associated Press.) Honolulu, Dec. 7. United States Commissioner of Immigration Sargent, who is here from Washington to Inves tigate. the subject Says the Hawaiian immigration law has been compiled with in the importation of Portuguese, but that ihe department of Justice will re view the law. Governor Carter expresses his ap proval of the naturalization of Japa nese as advocated by President Roose velt in his message to congress that popular sentiment favors the position taken by the people of California. The planters here claim that they havo spent large sums to build up artd de velop a middle class of substantial citizens. Three Firemen Pinned Be neath Fallen Wall Roast to Death OTHER LIVES LIST IN FIERCE FLOOD OF FIRE Borne of the Students Taken From the Ruins Braised and Bleeding and Blackened by the 8moke The Heat So Intense That the Firemen Were Driven Too Far From One Side of the Building to Be Able to Fight the Fire A Lawyer Among the Dead Firemen. Desperate Leaps for Life. (By the Associated Press.) Ithaca, N. Y., Dec. 7. Early this morning the beautiful Chi Psl Fra ternity House at Cornell University caught fire and soon the first floor was aflame. Before the Are depart ment could arlve O. L. Schmuck of Hanover, Pa., had jumped from a third-story window and was so se verely Injured that It Is feared he will die. Three of Ithaca's volunteer fire men were killed while fighting the flames. Four students lie in the infirmary at the point of death, while at the time of writing, it is not known how many are in the ruins. The chapter house, which was a mansion built by Mrs. Jennie Mc Graw Fiske, on the campus, over looking Cayuga Lake, but never oc cupied by her because of her prema ture death, was a beautiful struct ure of sandstone. It was handsome ly decorated within with marble and mahogany. It is now a heap of ruins. The walls, which were of rubble masonry collapsed under the flames and high wind. The firemen killed were: A. S. Robinson, a lawyer and graduate of Cornell. Esty Landon. John Rumsey. They Were Roasted. They were manipulating a hose on the north side of the building when the wall collapsed on them and pinned them, slowly to roast under the burning debris. When the fire department arrived the screams of two men appearing in the windows of the southwest tower, over the main entrance were heard. For some reason the men hesitated to jump, and before they could be reached the tower collapsed and the men were buried beneath the ruins. They were W. W. Goetz of Milwau kee, and H. M. Nichols of Chicago. Ooetz was later rescued. He Is in jured. The burning chapter house burned rapidly, and the walls cracked apart in all directions. The fire was so hot that the firemen were driven from the southeast side of the build ing. They put up a hard fight, but the walls were so hot that any at tempts at rescue were impossible. President Schurman of Cornell and his staff are preparing a list of wounded and missing. In Pitiable Condition. Among those who were taken from the ruins were J. M. McCutch eon of Pittsburg, the football full back substitute. Those taken out were In a pitiable condition. They were bleeding and bruised by falling bricks and timbers and blackened by smoke. Several of those who had been thus caught were badly burned. It is said that McCutcheon, who jumped, will die. O. L. Bchmuck of Hanover, who also jumped, is al ready dead. C. J. Pope, a freshman member of the fraternity, is missing, and is supposed to be under the ruins. At the present time it is impossible to discover what town or city he comes from. The fire Is still blazing fiercely, and it will be several hours' before the ruins will'' be 'cool enough to un dertake any rescue work. Many of the students at first supposed to he missing are beihg care for at other fraternity houses In the vicinity. This is the most terrible disaster that has ever occurred at Cornell, though at Hie Delta Chi Chapter (Continued on Page 2.) ,
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