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' , HE73 CH2VIC2 OF THE ASSOCIATE PRES3.- - .' t- r i'., ' J l". ' ;V - ' i: t Leads all North Carolina Afternoon Papers in Circulation. ' , j ' . THE R A LEIGH ;EE LAST EDITION, yOLUUE 27. TWELVE PAGES TODAY. EALEIGH, N, C, SATURDAY, MARCH 23, 1907. TWELVE PAGES TODAY. PRICZla DEFIANT RIOTERS FACE A ThomM Bailey Aldrich. GLORY WRECKS A BiH HERO TAKE THE ROAD 1 DEADLY BAYONET CHARGE HIM A HOT COAL t ; fi.:.:.- ; ; r ; ..3. TIMES; ; 4 . NING ZELAYA FOUND AGHAST BEFORE lillN'SfCELL -i .... OUT THE STREET i "i One of Many Conflicts on the Fire Desolated Soil of Moldavia J0RTHW0OF MOB LEFT DEAgON FIELD Glght of the Soldiers Fell Before tlio i Revolver and , Riffle Fire of the j Rioters Iu Another Battle Be tween Troops , and the Peasant Mobs Fifteen of the Latter Were Killed, tho Soldiers Opening Fire, Though Forbidden to Do So by the t Prefect of the Town Eight Thou sand Fugitives Have Fled to Austria- (Spoclal Cable to The Times.) Vienna, March 23. The present uprising in Moldavia continues un checked. To date, 85 persons have "i)eeu killed, 400 farms havo been de vastated, 8,000 fugitives have lied into Austria and 10,000 Jews arc homeless. Five hundred peasants invaded Mlchailent, and the soldiers, by order of tho prefect of the town, were not permitted to fire. Some of the sol diers fired against orders, killing fif teen 'of the rioters and' wounding forty-five, . The most serious fight of the day occurred near Piatra. Several thou sand peasants' marched against this town, -where a regiment of infantry was stationed. The soldiers charged the peasants with fixed bayonets; tho peasants replied with, rifle and re volver fife, and then the troops oponed fire. -In the. end the riotero ; TetreaWd; leaving 4? dead. T. wound ed and 250 prisoners. The troops had eight killed and 27 wounded. CAPTURE OF PORTERS WHO LOOTED THE MAIL. (By Leased Wire to The Times.) New York, March 23. Through the? arrest and confessions today of two Grand Central station mail porters, the post office department expects to re cover many thousands of dollars worth of loot and to stop the systematic pil laging of mail in transit which has piled up more than 2,000 complaints in the last seven months. Postofflce Inspector Jacobs and Mey er were on the watch all of last night In the Grand Central station, and today arested William. Cohen, aged 38, of No. 413 East 81st Street, and William Fried -mann, aged 45, of No. 1208 Park Avenue, as thoy were about to quit work. Daring the night the officers say they saw Cohen and Friedmann steal pack ages containing two fancy linen shirt waists, one silk shirt-waist, twelve dos n silver buckles, two rolls of lace and three boxes of women's silk stockings. ' "They have confessed to us that that was about an average night's loot," said Jacobs, when he took the prisoners to police headquarters. - This systematic robbery Is said to have been the greatest discovered In the poatofflce for many years. Officers started out to search the places where they said the prisoners had confessed that the goods were stored. NEGEO PRISONER BURGLARIZED ROOM Sheriff R. H. Raper arrived In Ral eigh this . morning , from Elizabeth 1 City-with, a negro by the name of. . . ciiweii Overton, who was convicted . of burglary and sentenced to twenty years in the penitentiary.. - - ; The circumstances connected with the case were very unuBual, for at : the time that the crime was commit - ted Overton was serving a term in tho . Pasquotank county jail. In ,- some : way he got out ef his call and went to -another part of the Jail and entered ' the' room 'occupied by the jailer's '. wlfo.' The woman was awakened by a , slight noise, and pon seeing the form of the man, seized. a pistol and . , commanded ' him to throw up hands. She then called, for assist ance and the negro Was carried back to his coll. ,: ,, ....,,.' ,.' i At the trial Overton pload guilty, '.'and but for this fact, it is said ho would -ha certainly been hanged. ', To Be Moved to Statesville. - (Special to The Evening Times.) Winston-Salem, N. , C, March. ' 23. Winston-Salem- loses , the . collector's offloe for th fifth Internal revenue district. It Is to be moved from Ashe vllle to Statesville, the home of the collector. v ' - Miss Grace E. Seym our ' ' ' .'7-.j--' m :;:' '.:: This picture is from a recent pho tograph of Miss Grace E. Sivymonr, former resident of Helicon Hall, who reveals tho secrets of tho Utopian Colony, founded by Upton Sinclair NEW BERN OIL MILtS FLAME (Serial ' to The Evening Times.) New J5ern, N. C Mureh 23. The plant of the New Bern Cotton Oil and Fertilizer- Company was partially do stroyed by Are shortly before 12 o'clock last night. The part destroyed was devoted to tho manufacture of cotton oil and Its products, together with all contents, consisting of about 300 tons of oil cake and meal and 1,000 barrels of oil. The Are is said to have originate! from a hot box in the machinery. Th) loss will bo between $50,000 und 3S0.000 well insured. The plant will bo re built at once. ITS HORROR IS (Special Cable to The Times.) Shanghai, Miircli 2i. Rer)its from the famine area indicate tlwit famine conditions-have become so serious as to threaten to exceed in honor the great famine of India. Hundreds are dying every day, and diseases which have started among the sufferers are spread ing rapidly, striking down the weak ened ptuplo like a plague. - The civic committee is preparing to send out ap peals broadcast to the world. The sit uatlon confronting China cannot be un derstood in other countries, us the hur ror is Indescribable. AN EARTHTBROE JARS KINGSTON , '(Special Cable to The Times.) Kingston Jaralca, March 23. There was 5 another very severe shock of earthquake felt in Kingston and the vicinity.- 'For several seconds bulld- , Ka 1 - are gi'eatly alarmed., " WOR1C WAS BEGUN TODAV , . . ?vOX SEABOARD PASS TRACKS. . Work was begun this morning on the T38SS tracks of the Seaboard Air' Line between Raleigh and Norlina,' the con tract havings been ' awarded . several days since to a Charlotte firm. The tracks are badly needed and the work will be pushed rapidly to completion. Mr. T. W. Dobbin has returned from New Tork .City." t " INDESCR IBABLE A Thermal Interview Witt) . Minister Merry CROOKED WORK DONE The American Representative Kicked Like a Mule Over Tampering With His Cablegram, Went Aboard the Raraconta and Hurled IK-flancc at All Hie Nicnraguan Government. (By Leased Wire to The Times.) New Orleans, La., March 23. A let ter received yesterday from a stall correspondent of the Picayune at Stin Jose, Costa Hica, dated March 10, says: Tho publication in the United .State3 attempting to discredit the story of Minister Merry's departure from Nica ragua and the denial by the stat:- de partment, and the report of Nicara gua, have attracted considerable at tention among Americans In Costa P.lca, who know the facts of this In cident. Minister Merry bad been pressing the claim of Sam Weil, of New Or leans, very energetically,' and from in formation he received he came to the conclusion that some one was tam pering with his cables. He sent on on 1 occasion a message In code, and some little time after was uncertain as to the wording of the message, and sent his clerk to the cable office with a re quest to have the cable returned t him. 'The cable clerk, after a lengthy search, claimed that he could not find tho message. Minister Merry then went In person to the office and do mantled the copy. It Is understood from the very best authority that th clerk of the cable office went to th palace of President Zelaya and receiv ed the message. It has also been slated -upon equally as good informa Uon that one of the words In tho mes age hud bean Changed. -" : A Starkiy Interview. "This led to a very heated and stormy Interview between President Zelaya and Minister Merry, and re sulted in Minister Merry closing his legation?' Shortly after he left for Colin to to catch a vessel bound for Puerto Renos, Costa Rica. "At the same time the steamship Baraeouta, from Panama, arrived be fore the City of Para reached Corinto from points further up the coast. The minister of war of Nicarauga, with an armed guard, came down from Mana gua, the capital, to Corinto, and went to the Baraeouta, tied up at tho wharf, went aboard and demanded from the captain the manifesto of the Honduras consignments. "The captain of the Baraeouta ob jected and reported the action to Min ister Merry, who went aboard , and fully indorsed the position taken by the captain. He held that there was no law i tho country which can force a ship captain to open his safe and show consular invoices to the officials of another foreign country, even though this country may be at war with the country to which the Invoice and freight is consigned. "Arm and Defend the Ship." "The minister of war then told the captain of tho Baraeouta that he would search tho hold. Ho left the ship apparently to secure armed forces and during his absence Minis tor Merry instructed tho captain to arm his crew and officers and ataoh the hose to the Are pipes and be ready to defend his ship by means of hot water. 'Then he notified his secretary to have his baggage brought from the hotoi and taken on board the Bara couta. Ho hoisted the legation flag to the mainmast of the ship and not! fled Nicaragua that this ship for thi time being was the American legation and American territory, VSInce Minister Merry's arrival In Costa Rica, Nicaragua has cut off a 1 cable communication between points south of Nicaragua and the United States, excepting such messages as they see fit to allow to pass through All code messages are stopped at Co- it a. - "The sensational occurrences In Nicaragua, in which Mr. Merry figur ed, -are known to everybody In San JJose. -The facts about Minister Mer ry's stormy Interview with President Zelaya, the tampering - with , Merry's cablegram, the attempt to search the diplomatic . correspondence of : the American minister and the affray with the minister of war of Nicaragua, at Corinto, have not only been' told here by Americans and Costa Kicans who were in Nicaragua at the time,' and who witnessed some of .the. occur rences, but- the representations - have been confirmed by Minister ;',Merry himself since his arrivat here. Min ister Merry has declined to be .inter viewed for publication, but he has not hesitated to discuss the matter with Americans otTd with members of the diplomatic corps and Costa Rican gov ernment officials." , . , Thaw Urges,1 His Counsel to Fiee Work 7i-rr ON JUDGE The Chief ishr f the Defence is the Statement of an Alienist Who Recently M i le Kxaminatioit of Thr.w nnd Pro iiDuneed JIiu :iilv Sne. I (By Loosed M?ii The Times.) h 2:;. "Harry seldom talked more al;!e to lie known what want s it and his New York, J.I Thaw Is sane, J I with men who ' w advise with 'coun he wants anl trw logic r the logi- ri this ptinute h;'. j: in tfie court rooi:i r a .sane man. Ai ' hh sane as anyone ' ! who hay watched hall offer aflidavils fact and there is tho case. We swearing to till a possibility t lis; i Hi will bo no commission "appointed." Those were the words of l)e!;i:iiM Michael Delmns, Thaw's; chief coun Bel, before the lawyers for atanlo.d White's slayer won to court today to submit affldauis offse tiii'; those of Jerome's seven alientr.ts, who swore Thaw wan a hopeless lunatic. The terror o( a madman's cell has dawned clearly before Thaw, and li Bm; has Instructed hi:; counsel to li to th Mr utmost against a lunacy com j mission I Mr. Del mas failure to appear in court yesterday when Iho Juror:; were dismissed, pending Justice Fitzgerald's decision on thj appoint ment of a commission was in no wiso indicative of him bavins wi;h druwn from the case, ho declared. "It seemed to rue that th3 prepa ration outside of court was of more Importance than I he four, minutes of legal tQchjiicial4.vJn.;$0Urt,l" ho said. A Flood of Affidavits. "Will you have as many ufTldmits as Mr. Jerom - has?" ho was asked. "We shall have many moru, If it is possible to avoid the delay that the commission necessarily ' will cause, ws wiir do it. It is hardly an agreeable proceeding at the best. 1 myself would not like to face it, and If we can we will spare our client. But it will be difficult for a body of conscientious men to say that a sane man is insane." With the iiling today in the su preme court of the affidavits pro pared by Harry Thaw's lawyers, in their determined attempt to prove him sound of brain at the present time it became, known that the pris oner has submitted to the most ex haustive examination possible since last Wednesday) by one of the dj fense's alienists. - Found Thmv Sane. The result of this mental and physical probe was the declaration of th9 examining physician, that in his belief Harry Thaw is quite sane. This declaration was Embodied in an affidavit and formod the chief re liance of the defense upon swajing Justice Fitzgerald to refuse the do mand of the district attorney for th-.; appointment of a commission in lunacy. ' Other affidavits, sworn to by all the insanity experts retained by the defense and all declaring Thaw sane and perfectly capable 'of conferring with his counsel were also filed with the court dark. They were all as positive as to Thaw's sanity as the eight submitted by the district at torney were emphatic In declaring Thaw a paranoiac and,' therefore, an lncurabla lunatic. But there were further documents InvThaw's handwriting 'Intended lo show that Thaw was not only able, but also that he had consulted, con ferred with and directed his lawyers since tho trial began. - These papers Included notes, suggestions, memo randa, all in the defendant a hand writing, as was the first long letter. . Postponed Cntil Monday. With this mass of answering docu ments all tending to refute the claim of the district attorney that Thaw is insane in ;the hands, of the court and the district attorney today, further action in the case was post poned 'until Mondayjf;;,!:u, - ;" But the district attorney was not Idle. ; He supplemented his affidavits declaring Thaw insane with a num ber of letters which i he" had j not brought forward during the trial. These letteri also jwera in Thaw's handwrlting, and a number of them (Continued on Page 6.) - i Thema; A ,:.eriean Bailey poet:-, u: Aldrich. dean of, dead, at the ase ;' VI y.-iiis. ran; poetic M r. niua Aldrich combined i '.villi much shrewd !;;;; i:u;ss sense and fo: 1 une as a banker. accumulated a AFFIDAVIT BY DEUAS Strong Argument for Sanity of Harry Thaw Xolcs by the Prisoner Breathe a Spirit." of "Deep Devotion for His Wife :inl-t'rge That She Be Spared .Ml Possible Humiliation. (By Leased to The Times.) New York, March 211. Eight affl ilavjts were prepared and submitted by Delmaa testifying to Thaw's san ity at present. Thay were taken by n8lhi!t3, '3aha, J3,' Qleason. Henrv C. McPike. and the" fotlb'wtwrieiasts for tho defense: Dr. Britton D. Evans, Dr. Charles G. Wagner, Dr. Smith Ely Jalliffe, Dr. Graeme M. Hammond and Dr. George Francis Khiels. In the estimation of the attorneys for Thaw the most' convincing argu ni"nts presumptive of Thaw's sanity is supplied by fifteen notjs and let tars, all embraced in Mr. Delmas' af fidavit, written by Thaw to his at torneys since the trial began. Mr. Delmas' affidavit in part fol lows: "During the course of the trial I have had frequent interviews with the defendant in the prison in which he lias been confined and have re ceived from him a number of letters. These are hereto attach. 'd, marked exhibits A, B, C, 1), E. F, G, H, I, .1, K, 1j. M, N, O, P, Q and it, and made a part- of this, my affidavit. During (he actual conduct of the case in court, I have, from timo to time, re. raived from the defendant, at. the hands of a messenger, a number of slips of paper, containing sugges tions wilh reference to tho conduct of the proceedings actually going on. Many of these slips were, at the time of their reception, torn up and de stroyed. Some fow I happen to have (Continued on Pago Seven.) A FACT (By Leased Wire to The Times.) New York, March 23. Awakened by a dream which pictured his broth er being murdered, Dr. Oscar Austin, of Yonkers, Jumped out of bed early today, dressad himself arid ruihed to his brother's home at 50 Warburton avenue. The halls were dark, and Dr. Austin groped his way up the stairs. At the top landing he stum bled over tha lifeless body of his brother. ' ' Lighting the gas, Dr, Austin turned his brotTior over on his back. Ho; found a bad bruise at the. bade of the Skull. - : 'T : ' " Dr. Austin notified the, police and . MURDER AOREAM MURDER an investigation is being rhade. Atis-jcita tin makes . the declaration that his brothar met with foul -plsjy and was! i robbed. The dead man was a nros per0Us merchant,' ahd always carried' a large sum of money. Mental and Physical Undoing of Jm Parker HE FELLED CZOLGOSZ And Wrested the Pistol From the Assassin's Hand When He Would Have Fired on MrKinley Again. Prosperity and (ilory Have Proved Too Much for Jim. (By Leased Wire to The Times.) Atlantic City, N. J., March 23. De clared by physicians to be mentally and physically a wreck, James Par ker, tin' giant colored man, who fig ured ns the hero at the shooting of tho late President William McKlnley at Buffalo, when he struck the revolver from the hands of Czolgosz before the assassin could empty the remaining shells into the frame of the already fatally wounded executive, and then felled the murdered with a blow from 1,13 P'1''" ,,st. -es in the city prison. Policemen could scarcely recognize In Ihe emaciated prisoner before Recorder James Hayes the hearty seven foot giant who came to the resort last year. "Prosperity nnd too much glory proved the undoing of Jim," a friend ly witness told Judge Hayes. A policeman arrested Parker for Va grancy. Judge Hayes refused to sen tence him. "A man who tried to do the service for his country that Parker attempt ed deserves leniency and help, even when he goes wrong," said the kindly magistrate. Friends say that Parker quickly went through with the funds, aggre gating a small fortune, which admir ers at the time of his early fame show ered upon him. Doctors who have ex amined him in jail say Parker is like ly to prove a victim of tuberculosis of the lungs within a few months, and that his mind is nearly gone. He ap peared to realize his condition at times, however, and has begged to be sent to his. old home In Jacksonville, Fla., to die. Wealthy men of the city who have been acqunlnted with bis case will probably see that his wish Is jWPiSS eut. fniiMM!Parker was fotmerly employ ed in the United States srnalfc as a messenger, the place having beeikgtvefi him as a reward for his action i: Buf falo. Senator Hanna secured him that appointment, and shortly after the senator's death Parker left his gov ernment place and went on a tour, lec turing about his experience in connec tion vith tho assassination, at which time he was a waiter in a cafe on the Buffalo Kxposition grounds. Tarker was formerly a constable at Savan nah, aG. THREE SUICIDES IN WINDY CITY (By Leased Wire to The Times.) Chicago, March 23. Louis dial decott, 4!) years old, formerly con nocted with the Sycamore- DeKalb Electric Company, of Sycamore, 111., and wilh the National Chicle Com pany, yesterday committed suicide by shooting himself in the head at his home on Clarendon avenue. Mrs. Chaldecott attributes the act to nerv ous prostration, and says he brooded considerably because some of his ventures did not pay as well as he had expected. Continued ill health is said by the police lo havs been the cause for the suicide of Klaas Bruin, 38 years old. of 117th street, who killed him self by shooting last night. Henry Bolatora, 21 years old, of j West Polk street, a printer, cut his throat last night with a razor. He then called for assistance. He was taken to the hospital in a critical condition. honduran army suffIs defeat Managua.'Jtech1 23 Advices from the front say the Honduran army has been attacked and defeated near Mar- hv HondnYan revolutionists and. tho Nicaraguan artay. ' Among prisoners captured by the litter la GntiP-ml rJii-latnmn fm-mpr- iy of Memphis. Many were killed and ' ' wonded on both sides. v Remove Stock QuqtatlQa Tick ers from Their Offices ; THUS AnVKFS RYIW 1 11UU JllfllULiV Mll The Railroads Are Really Owned by the People, Not by the Nabobs' of Wall Street, He Declares, and They Should Not Be Manipulated By Tliem. (By Leased Wire to The Times.) Washington, March 23. Thomas F. , Ryan, the New York financier, dic tator in the insurance business, em peror of Gotham's transportation sys tems, and a central figure in .the east ern business horizon, spent a few hours In Washington today, and then ' hurried to Oak Ridge, Va., where h3 has a country home and where he ex--' pects to take a rest. He neither saw the president nor tried to see him, and : did not call upon any government oHl cial. ' . "Take the railroads out of Wall . street and take the ticker's out of the railroad offices," he said in an inter view today; "for only by so doing will the great arteries of commerce be freed from those old men of the sea, tho stock manipulators, who are now riding upon the necks of the people" who are the real owners of the roads. "No I do not cxriect to see the nres- Ident," said Mr. Ryan. "I am on my . way to my place at Oak Ridge, Va., for rest. Besides, there Is nothing more that I can do affecting the prob- . lems now confronting the president." "You mean tho railroad problems?" "Yes. I mean the railroad situation. The railroads are. really owned by the people and not by Wall street brokers. They should be taken out of Wall street and the stock quotation tick er's should be taken out of the rail- . road offices. The railroad officers and the practical railroad men who are charged with the responsibility of op erating the railroads should be In ab solute control. They should . welcome ;s every opportunity to confer with the' president, aiding him In his efforts to t reach a solution that will be fair and i 1 1 tit in lha ..i.i , ,r .in., n , li.- -n . porations and ensure strict obedience ' to the law." JONATHAN B HOWN. , "-4 (Special Cable to The Times.) Paris, March 23. In the excop-. tional elaborateness of the ceremony attending the reception of Mr. White by President Faliieres, Europe sees a desiro on the part of the French gov ernment to pay the new ambassador of the United States a signal compli ment in return for his services to ' ; l.' .... ii nr i .. V. A IffAnl... nnA ann I I .1 11. U ,1, LUC i-LlgUMil CIE, WU1DI OUbQi There is also the deeper wish to draw tighter the bonds between Paris and Washington. French statesmen have reverted almost unanimously to the standards of Judgment as to the United States which obtained in the Revolutionary period and the years -immediately following. It has come to pass that an Amerl- can is more welcome on the banks of the Seine than auy other foreigner. This is well brought out in the Paris press comment upon the White ap- pointmont. FIREMEN COMPLAIN TO CHIEF OF POLICE Another complaint was made this morning to Chief Muilins, of the po lice force, of tho people who are not ; members of the fire department Jump-. Ing on the wagons when they are gc- ing to fires. Raleigh has one of the best volun- toer fire departments in the state, e and one that the citizens can be Justly . proud of, but it is a great nuisance both to the drivers and the members v of the different companies ' for non- firemen to be running 'In tl fire house when an alarm fs'eotnrnK in, and Jumping on and off the wagons." The penalty is a heavy fine for the ; offense, and hereafter the" law will btt : strictly enforced, and any one caught j on a wagon that is not a member of a . company will "be taken before Police Justice Badger and dealt with ac- cordTngly.' M , i ; -'x ELECTRlb'POTOR' FROM BUCKHORN (Special "to The tevenihg' Times.) irayettrvflle: K. . March M.-upt 13. J, MaSweTt of tho Cape "Pear Elec tric Power Cotmftany, with K8 tmmence plant at Buckhorn Falls, says that he confidently expects to have 1.500 or 4, 000 horsepower i flashing by electrical transmission to the industrial plants of Fayetteville by June 1, ; , i ' '
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