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o;:: :. :Aits way , M . .;A . Miss Annette Ke Herman, of Aastrailta, TO SETTLE Til simrafc: LL' 11- i rTTTHMnOT-r I ft J M LB BATES 1 '1 IF ATTTT.C3 "rrr . 1 ' t 1 r- tt r ;jA J vr" s t . . -i i J i II v-:- - ' I . I "4 i Jfc:3Ki First Call cflfce i Flyer Ttra Oil Man ;--;::e;:!iib.iiii!Gt; hi' AL.".je;ijitLiiE V'v V ne Pennthe Two Hundred Who Vero on the Chicago,' llur- vllngton iuad Quincy Fast Suburban Train Escaped Without Hurt of ..; Some Kind The Rails Spread or tli the Front Tracks of the En- ; - glue . Became Disabled, ' to . the Ex puliation Given of the Disaster, .t . (By Leased Wire to The Times.) ;" l ; Chicago-, May J. Four peraona were- . ',,( reported killed. and more than thirty frightfully hurt in the. wracking of ft . ,. r-'' faat -Chicago, Burlington ) ' Qulncy '' ,' I Railroad suburbaa vtraiiv at . Twenty--4 '-' third Street and Hamlin Avenue, Lawn ' dale, early today, , - J . -. 1 ' K - The train waa running at a rapid auddenly the raila spread or the front " 'V-',.u.-: I... ,ua" -i .... 4t vi.j , , wrecking the entire train. The engine '.' Ji and first eoach. turned turtle and were J thrown Into the ditch. - jj , ' The Buffering of the injured waa in- A A. tense. . For .forty-five mlnntes the po lice delayed In rending as -police con- " ' veyance to the scene. The injured and . :j dying were compelled to remain In the ,j wrecked coaches, , , - --j - .','-. ; Almost immediately it waa diacover ' ii . ed that two women, had been killed. ' -They were Mm.; Mary B. Miller, 4237 j it , -. v Grand Avenue, erushed to death In the first cpaqh and an Jjnloentitled negro : vf ' woma, body crushed; died almost in- N stantly., r'-j-Z- -JBomp of .the tdly Injured arer , ( . , , Misa Kllssabctli Miller,, daughter of i ni- :: the woman 'who Vsl killed; leg broken. v''i taken to St.' Anthonys Hospital; may i-j '"die. V v ; - v J,V : Harry ' Newland, engineer of . the train: pinned beneat his engine; bunt ed and. crushed; may die. , .'.- i n. Assistant District Attorney: Robert y, r.'iW. Cfiilds and Mrs. Chllds, both badly . -' Injured about the bOdyi? taken to Pres- byterlan HoapltaL ; -. . . c v'i ' Fully a score o( other persons were injured, but none pf -them will .die. ' y,. i Ambulances,' ' delivery : wagons, and every ' eort., of conveyance that - could ' '(, ;.;be obtained were pressed tnto usei The ' Injured Were rushed to the St,v Anthony V ti- and Presbyterian .uospltals as, rapidly ,1 " a possible, Not one ' person of the .h ;, two hundred who were on the -train , escaped Injury of Borne aort. - ' , , '. Later.--It now develops that Mrs. i Mary Miller' a the only one killed in ; t ' the Chicago wrec.,- Several others , ' will die, and thirty are badlyvhurt . a- ' V : NEGRO CENSURES :. i , . DIXON, ROOSEVELT ; (By Leased Wire to The Times.) A , ' - Staunton, Va May . The fortieth , annual aesslon of the .Virginia negro r Baptist state convention' opened here : vyesterday. , , - ' . ' The feature of the "session was the ... : annual address - of President .Bowling. .' : who censured Thomas Dixon,: Gover- ' nor Vardaman and Davis, ' Senator v . ; Tillman, John, -Temple j Graves and i : Governor-elect" Hoke Smith, of Geor- : gia, for stirring up -race strife and :'.V i - hatred, ' He1 also, denounced thejegia : lature"Of Florida -for- declaring tlir t',-'h i4th'ftd ICth amendments to thJtlMji V-'" Clonal onitltution.nnconsUtuUonal. -i'v "I fear that'we- haveno ': special v friends today. Look at Qie action, of ,the president dismissing a whole com T V 1 pany of soldiers,, without trial.-. Then - ; 1we thoughts had ft great; friend. Jo ;v Senator JForaker. ftnt , tt t.aaa s alt bun . r combe,, becauso when the president A t e j wantadjto appoint negro, to Qfflce In i. a Cincinnati ,the great 'frbii, of .the 'ne 1 W 1 1 gro- declared it would Uter do and . ' . would injure the party In Ohlt. ,Um ; . "The negro must ehift for himself. ; . Do not sit down and walW". but ,,get money, education, religion and.char- ior and by .these you may hope to. V 111 " . v - i j 1 vrs THE -. v ' j ' D.WVIIXB DIVISION, i (Special to Tlio Fvenlng Times.) - Sjxniocr, N. C, May 9.--Effectlve at once, V. R. I Tin ent of V. a ' ener of the I on n 1 promoted to mint Panville CU . i i His successor at : jiamod. svMr. 1 with the fi ..!! i mend, Va. I j ur resigned, wlio Ih son, superintend ti uilnal division has been ident of the l a same road, i -r hns not been n viis formerly ' r Line at Rlch i C. S. Lake, i!: s sui'orlhtend- ent of motive power of the I- rw Haven & ITartfoid Kin v York, :ad. Mrs. Charles T Yerke's-Mi3her'&nd Jiusfand", -f I ' i, The troubles of. lira. Charlo band, WHson-lHtwer, are, ajruin before the public... Mrs, JMlantv issuing for divorce, alleging ill-creutuicnt an4 marriage fyr, money only,. Pictures of the couylo from late photograiha are hero presented. . ' ' DOUGIITON TILL BE A CANDIDATE 1 1 Special to The Evening Times. Winstoij-SalemrN C, May ;tThe Sentinel this afternoon ; announces, upon the '.authority of two friends close to ex-Lieut. Gov R. A. Doiigh- ton of Alleghany county,, that he will be in the . race for the democratlo nomination for governor, and ' , the friends pf Mr. Doughton are urged not1 to pledge their , support to. any other candidate, - , . ' , A WRENtf KEMXECTED HIGH POrNT'8 SUVOR (Special to The Evening Times. ) , High Point, Si. C lay9. In one oi tne most ' exciting mirniepal leiec tions, ever held here. Mayor M.t.J. Wrenn was re-elected ver Ills oppo nent. - W. C. Jones. - hv the! tiArrrtw margin of iktcfin hjoj-lly,. the' vote beinlil'Witonn 4iS,: Joaos 4J-jv.v , K Thae t were- two; tickets out ihe citizens' ticket, headed r by' W.( C Jones, and the so-cnllod faction ticket, which . bad ' burjed the hatchet and was headed .byMayot Wrenn; 'A held foj ciii::ES A- " 1 AGAL'.ST- A GUILD -: I'tBy, Leased Wire to The(Tlmeh.) A : ,(CJifton Forge, Va., May i.-A. 'i. Koblnson and John Simpson were given a hearing before Mayor Bowles on the charge of abducting the fourteen-year-old daughter of a Chesa peake ft Ohio conductor and detain ing her ftom hoover all, of Sunday night an da part of Monday. After bearing the eftdence the mayor sent the accused man to the grand jury and denied ball. - According, to the evidence the girl and the two men remained in the woods all of Sunday, night' near the cemetery. The girl was .not put on the witness stand. Simpson Is a railroad fireman.-."A v - "vt ,k-';ji'rVv Vt" r - : , v, - . I r ' : ' J '" : r :: , ''''' JT' . I v.V T. Vi-rkeB-Mrnor. uVkil Iinr vounc' hnn a SI lid "By Leased Wlie to Thtf Times.) , is ; Los Angeles', Cal., May D.--Tommy Burns' defeated JacR O'Brien u last night,-and he deserves all the honors which ,go. with the Victory. He won by fonr miles ahd a half, actual dis tance covered. It ''was" more of a running fight than anything else for the'simple'reason that O'Brien-: re fused to. stand up and fight C Burns was -willing' enough and never let an opportunity, escape to mli"snd mix H hard, but , O'Brien . was evidently afraid to' let himself - loose, and for round after round) 'ha did jlttle but run about the ring with "Burns after him, .,' j- ' - .i ' ." , m - -. tin but one round of the fight did O'Brien really do any fighting. - This was the fourth. In this round the Philadeiphian. sent in numerous straight lofts - to- '.-(he - face which brought blood Jrom Burfls' nose. ; In a dozen" rounds there was not enough doing to'giverthe shade' td either fighter but in allvthV tjUieris It was all Burns.' 1 ;J HER ARTERIES ARE ;cijtbyjiEuO;;iida;;b i By Leased Wire to The Times ) f. Washington, May v.r-r-With hfer throat. cut from -ear to 'ear. and. the arteries In both wrists severed, Mrs. Ohrlstie li Porter, S 6 years of; age, wife of the assistant superintendent of, the Reform School,' and a former Inmate of. St1- Elizabeth's, Is believed to be 'dying in the Emergoacy Hos pital.- i - " - Suffering from neurasthenia and temporarily deranged, It is thought. Mrs. Porter attempted to end her. life about 0 o'clock this; morning in her room on the second, floor of a room ing house at 9-1? O street, northwest. IE I01S BniSliEELS Trircbard Grants In :; iir.ci.ia to Southern TVittloTATES AFFEfifED Netthf r TWs. Commons culth Not P Virginia l:iy J'nlilisli the Lower lUites The 'Bill for North Caro- . -Una Is Ma'Ie" Jteiurnablc Ucfore Judge rrltdiard tit Aslicville Juno VTT)i'cntyHrcond, " rfy,'Lftod Wile to Tim Times.) , , ' Elchmend, Va., May 9. OJnitod Bt4Ui$ Clrcultaudge Piitcliard grant ed '&n 'injunction: and restraining or der Ittithe nutt of flio Southern Rail way ..Company against the clerk, and members of tho corporation commla siofl of- VtrginlaV -thereby preventing them frpm publishing their -order puttidg Jlie tirocent pasuger rale la effect In-thls etam. The bill is maUtSi, retirmoblo before Judge pritoharil In AShevllie, June 22. , " At' tho; sam time Jqdge Prltchard gr&nfcd It similar order in tho suit of the"" Soil thorn 1 Railway Company agafhst. tocmbera of tho corporation commisBlon, the tLttorney geuoral and" the f iassi.slani:i-Attorney gonerul of Nortft CftrolUiai .t tho same way re straining tlieso ojtnciuls from publish? log and.' putting into effect the new law 'providing fpr a passenger rate Of "2 c,k The Horth Carolina bill is returnable before. Judge Pritchard, in Ashevllle, on-June 2(i. The North Carolina sul refers to both passen gef and freight rates. 'A' While thls anatter is thus brought to a head by (the Bouthern road it is expected upon, what seems to be higi authority "that; , other transportation companies affected will come in as parties Ur the suit. . .Altihiuua, Oiwtnot .bstte Jlato Order, ' (By. Leased iWlre to The TiiuesO ' :,' -' -MonjtsOmery, Ata. May. .-J udge Thomas 0. Jones of the i United J States court granted preliminary 'In junction or the roaasr to AlaDama, restraining the state frond putting into operation tho new rate laws.. fW;'Mi. 8JHTHI HECOKDBU A ,- v'f OV (iitKATKil CHARLOTTE. , .-(Special to The Evening Times.) '."-Charlotte. N. . May 9,-W.- M Smith of tho local bar. has been elect ed -rocordor of G reatur Charlotte, suc ceeding F. M. Shannonhouse, whose tenure of office lasted six - .years. Many othor important (Offices have been filled by the new board of alder men, i 1 jjohn William January, whose liO tm is j hero . printed, . isv Woderii Jcn Val jt'n. Ho was wntenced o a long tonn of imprlsonnwnt In Mis souri for lobbing ; postonic He escaped. m-nd fb years lived an ex cm plary . life. ;Tpon l is tveaptare recently, ': pftltlpng , t( : by more than flfty thousand p ' have been tent 'Up asking, his pui,.on. .Presi dent Roosevelt Is much interested in f 4A A M-v -! 'p.:m i t.y J t i y - H- i i i fvlX . -J. the case. '.'":. p t ?' v- A-K s 4i -M & V 'f X 'A 1 1 ' I W ill m-1 :' ! ;' ' r - 7 ft RESULT OF NEGRO VOTE Baltimore is Democratic : by Aw V.i" 'I'Vi J'!l'"!-lllV'.J.,!..iA.. .-4 Said That This is' a Protest Against itoosemrs Action in tlHfUiwns viUe AffaJrw-Wliat Will Be the Ef feet at Large? - (By Leased Wire to The Times.) Baltimore, Md., May" 9. The ne groes of Baltimore are responsible for the election of the democratic I ticket, and Brownsville is the cause j steps Just before 10 o'clock.? Her two - ,t , . , . . . daughters, Vernle and Henrietta, were of It.. The statement is made byjwlth hw M10 O.olock Haywood was many people "that the negroes ref rain brought tnto court by a deputy sheriff, from' voting and tha; this-accounts1! He was given a, seat with his family for the slump In the republican cal-'and the UP 8at cl0Be to the 00,111861 culatlons. If is probably true, that 1 some negroes did not vote, but those ' who did go to the polls Were repub-1 licans, and they voted for a democrat! as a protest against President Roose velt's action in the Brownsville case. Every one of these votes Counted two for the democratic ticket. 'The Brownsville ease has certainly proved a God-send to tne democrats of Balti more. A Diligent inquiry among .republican and democratic polls reveals that many of the shrewdest of them are already re-casting their programs on account of the attitude of the negroes inr yesterday's election. Everybody in Baltimore knows that the negroes were angry over the treatment of the colored soldiers of the Twenty-fifth Infantry, . hut few political leaders were prepared to believe . that the colored vote would be swung from the . ; republican to the '..democratic party In consequence of the- Browns- Ule affair. That, this has occarredj however. Is too manifest to be. dls- -. J ... X SV . . 1 1 . I .. Whether the negro vote all oyer the; .country will be affected as it has been la Baltimore. i! !Uv.?e' 6 Calculations oi Taft "republicans in. Ohio may have to be, revised, as there I is-a eolorod vol of 60,000 in that Jt. A' m li' 'h' ii i iT'.imr'iii l f'i ijni' ti m r m" 'r'rT'. ' TWO KNOWN DEAD : h . J " 'J' IN' A GREAT FIRE C3y Leaned Wirt to The Tlme.V Kansas ' dty, Mo., f May 9. Two i known dead, i idocen tnturea and a loss of $500,009 on bulldink-snd con ten ts is the result Of the disastrous Ire ' here x." yesterday , afternoon it Montgomery Ward A Co. branch ln'! the'umversity building, tne Known dead are- Prof. Charles DeMare, ton pierly of Chicago a portrait painter, and Miss Aurora; Wittebort,-a wusiq teacher. - : '- ti I DeMare met his death; While leatH ing from the' fifth story of the burn ing building. Miss WltteBorW while confined in her room by the fire,- matt aged, to telephone to fire headquar ters' and tell where, ahe. was,; j The efforts -bf.tba firamen to :ach' heb unsuccessful. , TIds photograph shows Miss An j ncfte KellcrmaB, tle Australian girl ,wbo Is the. world's champion swim ., mer. Bho has recently arrived in ' this country and expects to add to her natatorial honors, in competition with' American swimmers. The plot turn at tlie Uvt shows how Miss Kcl- lernian takes nourishment while in the water; CRIPPLED WIFE MIS Sbe and Her Dangblers Join , ' Haywcod In Court , : '1' ;'i-i Wt! 'J.' 'V.t.- f 'V ' r,-, ..W'f,;A Today for the Pirst'TiinejSince the ' '-trial -f -Thus - tVhiaoi!- Jb - dteaan a Crowd Gathers- in the , Room', , , ; (By -Leased Wire to The Timej.) Boise, Idaho, May Mra. -W.; D. Haywood, the crippled Wife of the secretary of the Western Federation of Miners was carried up the court house Fo; the flrgt Ume mce the cage w an crowd was in the court room. Nearly1 aii the new-comers were Jurors who were summoned to try this case. On a motion of Attorney Richard son, Attorney E. K. Wilson was en tered In ' the record as counsel for the defendant. Special Prosecutor Hawley addressed the 'court on a recentn ruling of the supreme court, which requires the fil ing of the names of witnesses and pre sent a list of witnesses who are to be called by the state. The names of all witnesses in all of the trials were filed. Darrow asked If it Included all the names and Hawley said all- witnesses now known were listed but that other names might be added in a week or so. Special to The Evening Tiroes.) Wllmlnsrinn V C Matr 0 Rronrl. il"6 In ot a mirror at his beard ing house on lower Market street; Jacob Schaich, an unmarried man, 38 year pf.age, put his throat this morn-tog-Vita suicidaF intent. He died two hours afterwards at the city hos pital. Schaich. came to Wilmington about six -months ago from Coshoc ton, Ohio, to accept a position as coat haker with Munson & Co.- i He was heavy drinker, ana or late had been much depressed. . His remains will be sent to Coshocton. W-v- LIFE : FDR RDER OF ;By Leased Wire to1 Thar dMrnes.) is ''Lafayette, Ind., May 9. -MrgAltce CoopeV Lawson, who on Septembsr S shot and killed her husband, Charles Lawson, saloon-keeper, in this city, wasAthis morning found : guilty" of murder In the second degree and sen tenced' tT Ufa, 'Imprisonment. A A . RIPS iHIS TtlRO AT OPEN AND DIES Kaycr ScLlfz la 7;;: t MIsMAllWtsI - 1 BUSINESS ES 3IIALTu;j the Jtonnlng of TmiCmn Trsterdar , Was Attended by Riotous Demos.,. lnv.stmtiomBBt Ho Ons Was Serf-1 ously Injure More Strlk$ Break ers Come Another Maa. Wesv .i , (By Leased Wire to The Times.) ., San Francisco, Cal.," May . -Re- . gardless ot the disapproval of repre-. ' sentatlves of both sides, Mayor H" Schmitz ended a strike, conference ' last night by declaring h-would ap point a committee of fifty cttUens to -. pass upon the questions at Issue. , ' '' - Contrary to expectations, yesterday ; passed without serious bloodshed, al- , though the United -Railroads sent, out . two cars, and their presence attracted ; a bowling mob. A' r' The police, for the first time since the commencement of the strike, fur nished actual protection,,; and as a -result of this protection the two ears ' run were run over six miles of track without the firing of shot. - ' , The route selected was through the better class business , and residence streets of the western addition and mlttent hurling of missiles by union crowds at various point along the routOiand for two or three minutes a mob of at least a thousand men ran at the cars, yelling; About twenty police officers and patrolmen, led by v Chief Dlnan, some pf them in auto mobiles, some mounted on, horses, ' others on foot, accompanied the cars. - -v The police, displayed diligence and determination- in 'dealing with jtha . mob. When necessity arose they did ' not hesitate to draw their clubs and use them, and as a result a number ; of heads were bruised. i Events of the Btrike. '.'"'.' The police r had instructions to board cars as soon as. any disturb-T ance was raised and search the opera- , tires for revolvers, and to arrest any -of the -strike breakers whsm they ' found armed. Officials of the. road promised that no street car:.1 men would be assembled, and this promise was kept, . J The second death as the result of ' Tuesday's street car riot . occurred'' yesterday afternoon, ' when John Buchanan, a street car shop employe, "' died at the Emergency Hospital. He was shot through toe abdomen. Two others Albert . Simmons, , a chanf- feur, and John Sims, a boy helper .. in not snaetAi1 to llva. 5 . ' Business is suffering greatly front--the strike. Many Of the big retail . stores have decided to open late and close early,-and most of them have laid oft a number of their employes. The absence of adeauats transDorta- tion facilities ' through the .burned " ; district makes that section of the -city almost destitute. The same Is true of the principal restaurants and ' theaters, several of which have closed their doors, announcing that they will ) not reopen until the strike is settled. Omaha,: Neb., May .- Six '. cars ' filled with strike, breakers for use in . San Francisco passed through Omaha 1 yesterday monoisg over iths Onion'' Pacific. ' The men were recruited. In ' uuivofti uvuiv, u.a. . Minneapolis. ' im " - -1 . THE JAPANESE CECO kowin n7Acai::sTc:i (By Leased Wire to The Irimes.) WasTiltiffton, .May,. Ksoorted by' Lieutenant Oeneral Arthur MacArthur, -the highest, officer of-the American ar my and personally .met and. wslcomed at the Station by .Major, deheral J. rranklin' Bell. ' ohM of staff 'of ihs army, with a squadron of the Thirteenth : cavalry from Fort Meyer, and by VU-' eounti-Aokl, the Japanese ambassador and his Staff,, GeneraJ, KuroHl.' the llu . tie. brown.-, grlm-vlsaged heTar- of ths Yaiu and his i staffs made their arrival in the nation's, capital this, morning; for a series of brilliant Stats enter talnments on their way to the James town Exposition. " ; . " The ViBltOrs'werS escorted y Dsn. eral 1eU and hls eavalry detachment Tronv thS'.Shtth; Street station direct Jy toi ths- Kew . Wlllard Hotel, where breakfast was served. -Ths party will hav a.day of rest, no Set entertain ment hutti bet arranged for them. 5 rl. '-.- AW tj - A- - " A' " v r- . - '. .
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