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Only Afternoon Paper Between Richmond and Atlanta With Leased Wire and Full Press Dispatches LAST EDITION. - THE'MlKETS. THE RALEIGH EVENING TIMES VOLUME 30. RALEIGH, N. C, AUGUST 28, 1907. PBICE lo. IN CRASH OF TROLLEY CARS SEVEN ARE SERIOUSLY HURT JUDGE JONES WITH STATE CHILD TELLS OF IP. 0. SAFE BLOWERS W A KIDNAPPING Accident Occurred Between Gleoville and Elmsford, New York BOTH CARS TEARING ALONG AT FAST RATE Motormaii Srofiold Pinned Down Hp tween Wrecked Cars and is Cut Out Willi Axes Hurried to Hos pital and Leg Amputated One Car Was Empty and When Collis ion Came, Its Molorimin Jumped and Escaped Injury Unknown Woman Among the Injured Car i'ied to Tarrytown Hospital Story of the Crash. (My Leased Wire to The Times.) New Voi'ki An nr. 2S. Seven per sons were perhaps fatally hurt in a head-on collision between two trol ley ears on th e Tarrytown, While I'lalns and Mammaroneik Hallway between '--Cilenrllle and Elmsford, near Tarrytown today. One of the injured is a woman whose name has not been learned. She is at the Tarrytown Hospital. The niotorman of one of the cars, Albert Kcolield, of White Plains, is the most seriously hurt. Edward MeKepn, a life insurance agent of White Plains nnd four ot her male passengers were also badly hurt. ScolleU's car containing six pas BongMM was bound for Tarrytown. The other car, empty, was bound for White Plains. Both cars were running at high speed on the single track when they crashed into each other at a point just beyond Elms ford. Edward Vaughan, niotorman of the empty trolley, jumped and es caped injury. A telephone message was sent to the Tarrytown Hospital and Doctors Ilrandt and Borden rushed to the scene of the accident In an automo bile Scofield had been pinned down between the two wrecked ears and had to be cut out with axes, An amputation of his right leg was im mediately necessary and he was hur ried to the hospital and placed on the operating table. STEAMER STRIKES ANOTHER SINKS. (By Leased Wire to The Times.) Detroit, Mich., August 2S. The steel steamer Isaac L. Elwood lies In 22 feet of water on the bottom of Lake Erie near Bar Point as the re sult of a collision at about 8 o'clock last night with the A. G. Brower. The Elwood was struck amidship by the Brower. The Brower is an chored at Bar Point, her how badly damaged and her forepeak full of water. The lighter Newman has gone to Bar Point to lighter the cargo of the Elwood. The A. O. Brower is also of steel and belongs to the United States Transportation Company of Cleve land. She is 346 feet long, 48 feet beam, and 2,582 tons. "LORD" BARRINGTON BEHIND THE BARS. (By Leased Wire to The Times.) St. Louis, Mo., August 28. P. Sey mour (Lord) ,. Barrington, whose death, sentence was recently com muted by Governor Folk, left the Clayton jail this morning to begin a 99-yoaw term In the penitentiary at Jefferson City. YET SILENT (By Leased Wire to The Times.) Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 28. At 2:30 this afternoon the railroad commission had undo no intimation whatever as to what the attitude of the body was to ward the railroads' proposlfon to de fer putting the new railroad rates into effect until January, 1908. The new rates as It now stands, become effect ive next Monday, September 2, COMMISSION ST. BERNARD DOG SAVES GIRL IN DRIFT OF SNOW (By Leased Wire to The Times.) Seattle, Wash., Aug. 2S, Caught in a snow slide and held captive for forty-six hours, and at last discov ered, Alpine-fashion by a great St. Bernard dog, Lillian Birchard, re cently of Davenport, la., but now re siding with her parents at Tacoma, in recovering from the effects of the exposure she underwent. With a party of friends and tourists, the young woman was attempting to climb the summit of Mount Rainier near this city. When at an altitude of more than 10,000 feet and with in a mile of the top a dense cloud obscured everything and a furious snow storm set in. Snow fell to a deplh of throe feet. In the excitement of sokoing a temporary shelter, Mis; Birchard stepped upon treacherous ice and was hurled from the eight of her companions. Tier cries were drown ed by tlie roar o fthe wind. The CHICAGO MERCHANTS TO ASK ROOSEVELT'S AID (By Leased Wire to The Times.) Chicago, Aug. 28. Another effort to induce President Roosevelt to be come a mediator in the strike of the Commercial Telegr.i pliers' is being made, this by the South Water street merchants. A petition was circulated in the district yesterday for signatures. : It is expected that the document will bo sent to Wash ington within a day or two. The petition sets forth that the nature of the produce commission business is such that the men en gaged in it are losing heavily by the strike and consequent curtailment of telegraph facilities and Hie presi dent is requested to take some ac tion that will end the trouble. FRISCO SYSTEM VOTES $100,000,000, INCREASE (By Leased Wire to The Times.) St. Louis, -Mo., Aug. 28. A spe cial meeting of the stockholders of the Frisco System over which First Vice President Mather of Chicago presided, was held hero last evening and a new mortgage, a bond Issue of $115,000,000, and an iucrense in the capital stock from $100,000,000 to $200,000,000 was voted. The increase is made necessary by the Missouri law- to enable the ON HUMAN CHARACTER ALL DEPENDSHUGHES (By Leased Wire to The Times.) Sandy Hill, N. Y August 2S. ! "We can't do anything in regulating corporate business; we can't do any thing in attempting to protect public health, to encourage agriculture, to make Industry safe and prosperous we can't do anything unless human character, which enters into all ad ministrations, Is the character upon which you can depend as citizens for fidelity and honesty, and the develop ment of that character depends in turn upon the standards of communi ties just like this. What will you tolerate in public life, when yon allow any fine to represent you? Let us have it thoroughly undorstood that a man walks to his political doom who thinks of anything else but the public welfaro in connection with public office." In this paragraph Governor Hughes, at the Washington county fair, summed up the need of the public service in an address in which he discussed his fight to purify the political and corporate atmosphere of this state. Governor Hughes came up from Albany to open the fair. This county was tho governor's childhood home. men tied ropes to a bare stump, and, leaving the women huddled together for .warmth, attempted to discover the whereabouts of the girl. They returned at nightfall, having seen no Iraeo of Miss Birchard. A temporary protection from the storm was built, and a sleepless night passed. The next day the storm had subsided. With experienced guides the search was kept up all day without success. The third day Fred Thomas of Tacoma Was sen! lor and with his big SI. Bernard dog t lie party re turned to the scene of the slide. Wiihin three '.hundred yards of I lie temporary, camp the missing girl was found. A great tangle of ..evergreens fully protect "d her from the ice and snow and kept off the fierce wind. Save suffering from fiwen ears, fin gers and, toes, Miss ... Kire'hard .was otherwise uninjured'.. She wa.i lieni' ly famished from her "long I'.isl, It is the third rescue by the same dog. VP resident H. T. 'Sager and .officials of the board of trade have prepared another request to President Koose veit to ittervene in the telegraph strike. -Not withstanding the opera tion of leas -d wires between the hoard of trade and eastern connec tions, tho brokers dealing in wheat and cereals are known to be suffer ing losses daily. V ' . Business nnd commercial interests in Chicago, irrespective of the board of trade, and the South Water street merchants, are also preparing a peti tion to President Koosovelt today. The executive is asked to help to ward a pett lenient of the strike, which the business men declare is ruining their prospects. morf gage for the bond issue. The bonds will mature May 1, 192", anj are to pay -interest-not to exceed 5 per cent. : They will he redeemable at the company's option, Two million dol lars worth are to bo Issued at once, the remulnder to bo extended over a period of years. A copy of the new mortgage will be filed in every county in every state through which the Frisco operates. Among tho salient features of the governor's discourse wero a declara tion that the regulation of crisis that it be undertaken without any dis turbance of the count ry'so prosperity, and an omphalic assertion that the Individual states had sufficient power lo curb and control their operations. CRAZED HUSBAND IN SEARCH FOR WIFE, (By Leased Wire to Tho Times.) Fruitdale, Ala., August 2S. J. L, Bertram, a farmer of this place, left Mobile, Ala., In search of his wife, threo children and $ii00 which hu claims his wife secured by signing his name to a check which was promptly cashed, the cashier of the bank knowing both Detrain and his wife well. Bel ram learned through the sheriff's office at Mobile, that Mrs. Betram passed through that city yes terday and said she was going to visit some friends in Jackson, Miss. He loft immediately for that place, accompanied by a deputy Bherlff who will assist the almost distracted hus band in search for his wife and child ren. Uetrnm Bays that he had no disagreement with his wife. L. 8 N and Often Must Restore Old Rales SO ORDERS THE JUDGE Hates Effective January Last Must lie Put On Again This W ill Put These I toads in Same Posit ion if Other Lines in Alabama. (fly Leased Wire to .The' Times.).' Mobiles Ala., Aug. Ssi-'-The Luiil.; vllle & Nashville anil the South and North Alabama Railroads . must, re store tie- rates 'In Ihe tiile; that ,wi s : in c l'fei t en January last., in .iiee-ird-. a nee Willi what is Known as me max iiiium rate bill passed by 1 1 1 - la-it. Hex sin!) i-r. the icy islal lire. This is the effect nl an order is me I i by "'Judge Thomas.'- .. Jones of tie- j l'iiited:Vtal.en court yesterday after- j noon. '; -: .j The rates munt be put ba-k by Sep- ' tenibc-r 10 to what they w-i .- th, first' -if the. year, thereby putting tin- Louis ville &' Nashville and tin- South and North pi the same boat wii'i tin- ether line.! of the state. When the order was Issued , last March restraining the Operation of eeitaiu state laws, none of the roads save the two mentioned resisted' the act' 'making the rates in .effect ..On '.all roads on the. fust, of tin-..year the maximum : rales for all '...'time. Tlies two not only resisted, but raised' rates on twenty-nine articles of bubilding material and raw material, and other products of like character, so far as the Louisville &. Nashville .goes, and on nineteen by the South and North. Tlie stale did not resist the injunc tions against the other laws, but uid against this one. the result -bring. that the rates will have to bo restored, Judge Jones holding with the state. Tlnv two roads will now. become, on thV same basis r.h the others, and fi'l will now go Ir.lo a common- cause, to the end of the litigation for the de termination of whether or not the rates ire fair ns put in by all of the bills. The judge hnids that the assertion that the increases were necessary to uevent inequalities and injustice i not a question to be determined on a parliamentary injunction and can bet ter be left open to the final hearing. However, permission Is given com- munties to try certain rates as to their effect In Injurious way and evidence will bo loft to the master. The bond of the Louisville & Nash- lle upon which it may come In un der the injunction .granted all of the roads, is placed at $:HHl.000 and that of the South and North Alabama at fl.'ll.lllH). This decision has nothing to do with the lower freight and passenger rates enjoined by the Louisville & Nash ville. ; MUST FURNISH A LIST OF DEADHEADS. (By Leased Wire to The Times.) Atlanta, Oa., Aug. 28. In a formal order issued last night, the railroad commission of fieorgia decided to call on '-all the railroads In the state to furnish 'the 'commission with a list of persons using free transportation dur ing the month of September, such In formation to be furnished regularly each, mouth '.thereafter, , The commission nlsn called upon all public utility corporations coming un der Its Jurisdiction in the new law. to furnish not later than November 1, MoT, schedules showing all proper ties, stocks, bonds and securities; tichedules showing how much slock has been issued and how much paid mi same and finally asked showing original cost of all properties' held by tile railroads. . A further .order was issued calling on tlie roads to keep all of their repots in first class condition and to'', provide) for the comfort u passengers. SECOND READING SEPTEMBER 2D. (Special Cable to The Times.) The Hague, August 28. The sec ond reading of the revised version of the American proposal for the es tablishment of an International court, of high justice nt, The Hague, will take place on September 2d. By that time it Is thought the objec tions' of Brazil and Mexico to the manner of appointing Judges will have been overcome, The delegates from these countries say the pro posal does not Insure equality for the countries of the American conti nent. As the objection seriously af fect the proposal there may ho still further revision If the Brazilian and Mexican delegates do not change their attitude. Police Believe They Have a Good Clue HAD BEEN GONE 37 DAYS Little MirhufJ Callia, Six Years Old, Found by Police Today, Tells of Captivity of Two Other Chil dron liny is ill Dazed Condition. I l!y Leased' Wire to The Times.) New . York, . Aug, 2X.'V-In the re markable story told by little Mich ael Callia, six years old. Of No. 1 7 .Mi l)ou;iall sli.-et, Brooklyn, . re leased al'ier ::T days of captivity, the New York and .Brooklyn, police be lieve they have a clue to a .kidnap per's don where little children are held for ransom, "The boy has told of. two other chil dren, a lit He boy . and gil l, Who shared b in en pi ivity and even now are in .Hie' 'darkened room in which h. was kept away from daylight arid the sounds of the streets for more than a nioiuii. '.-.. . Thirty-seven days ago 1 wo men lured Michael from in fro'.it of his home where he was playing, "with promises of candy. They gave him tlie sweets and then hoarded a car with him. The boy does not. know where he was taken.. .'' We went, over the water," he said today. "Then they took, me up, up. up, and the room was dark. When I cried they held a-long knife before me. It had a bright blade, they said they would cut my tongue out. Then they fold me if I did not. stop crying they would burn my eyes out. They cut my hair and gave me an other suit of clothes. They gave niq things to eat when .!. was. hungry. "There wore two o! her children there. One was a Hi tie boy and the other a. little girl. .They would not let us talk to each other - or'. tell" our' names.,' Nobody came near us, ex cept two men." The hoy found by a policeman standing on the street near his home. He is still in a dazed condi tion and unable to tell a coherent story of his captivity but. with the clues obtained from the little fellow the police are certain, that the gang will be behind the bars in a few hours. " 300 LIVES LOST IN HOKADATE BLAZE. (By Leased Wire to The Times.) Tokio. August .'28. The conflagra tion at Hakodate last. Monday de stroyed 11!, 000 houses including all the foreign consulates excepting the American consulate, 'and most, of the public buildings. Three hundred lives were lost. (By Leased Wire to The Times.) New York, August 2S. -Chester B. Uunyan. the defaulting paying teller of tlie Windsor Trust Company,' who confessed to the theft of $0(5.01)11 of the 'company 's funds, look the wit ness stand today at the resumption of the trial of . Mrs. ; Laura Carter, Ihe woman who caused his arrest, on a charge of 'criminally receiving stolen properly, The jury was com pleted yesterday and the act iial trial began before Judge Whitman in part II of the court of general sessions to day. Kunyan recited in detail how under the very eyes of the - officials he walked out of the hank with a suit case containing almost $100,(101) and how he had met the Carter woman, nnd how, for $."i,()00 she had "prom ised to hide him from the police. Later, he says, she demanded larger sums, and when he refused to give her the money, sho exposed him to the police. . SIX 1X.H KKII IX TKOLLF.V ACCIDKXT. (By Leased Wire to The Times.) New Haven, Conn., August 2S. Six persons were injured in a trolley accident at Bet hoi, Conn. this morning. Rlil TELLS W DILI IT SEEKS FATHER AFTER 40 YEARS Mrs. Mary Castes and Mich ael Lyons ISTHE MAN HER FATHER? Lyons Insists That .Mis. ('oats, Who is a Soul hern Woman, is Mistaken, But She in Having Matter Thor oughly Investigated Tlie Story. (By Leased 'Wire to The Tine-..) New . York, , Aug. : 2S.-Miehael F. f. yens, proprietor of the famous old Bowery restaurant, ' closed 'reepnlly, has Pec,!.!., the central figure in the tfl range .-st iiiy: of a "woman- who is try ing to ' Tiiu! her-father after a lapse of mole than forty-live years, Mrs. Mary ('oiitis, wife of a promi nent court olHi ial i ,f New .Orleans is trying to establish that she is the daughter of famous'.' restaurant, -ur whose place'' became... celebrated through dissociation with tlie names 'of ' such ftie'n as (lies! - r Arthur, Ttieli 'il rd. ('reiser and Theodore, I loosevelt. .Mrs. Vonlcs is confident that the Michael V. Lyons, who .'married her' mother in New. .York. In 1s.",7 nl St. Andrews church, is tlie man who helped tii make the Bowery of form. a' days celebrated Lyons, who . has raised a large family 'In', .New York since, the; civil .war, declares that it is a ease of mistaken'' Identity, but this docs not satisfy: the southern woman, who is haying a thorough investiga tion of the case made by a special emissary from New Orleans). A strange feature of the case ,a that the records of the civil war en listments at New 1 nicans nuW oii tile at Washington show that two men by the name of Michael Lyons enlisted from tlie Crescent City in lsiil with the Louisiana volunteers. Both of these men went from New York to New Orleans just prior to the call to arms. - Mrs. (ViateS says her father, Mich ael Lyons, enlisted in the Violet (Juards. Company If. Sixth Louisiana volunteers and left New Oilcans will! that organization. Mr. Lyons asserts that he enlisted from New Orleans in ISfif, with the 2Jnd Louisiana volunteers, Company K, which was known locally as the Washington Life Cuards. Lyons claims his regiment went to Yicks- burg soon after the war .opened, where he was taken prisoner . and - held until tin-close of the war. ;. lie says he. was seventeen years old when lie; enlist ed and unmarried. E (By Leased Wire to The Times.) New York, August 2S,: Pwo per sons were fatally injured and six others seriously hurt when tlie big double four story brick building al Nos. 10!) and 111 Kasl 1 if, I li street, partially, collapsed today, burying ten men in Iho ruins. The 'police sne coedeil In releasing the pinioned ones, after digging in the '.debris for more than half, an hour. Two of the firul men to be rescued were removed to the hospital In ambulances, where it was found they were suffering from injuries which-' the surgeons said would cost them their lives. Tlie injured: Louis Donigati, Mt. Vernon, internal Injuries, cannot live; Simon Cohen, years, fatally in jured. The rest of the Injured are Italian laborers. The building is a total loss. Sam uel Hoaetibnrg, who had in charge jtho work of reconstruction, was ar rested. (.'as i:plosion oii Battleship. (By Leased Wire to The Times.) Lisbon, Portugal. Aug. US. Seven millers were Injured by an explosion of gas on board the battleship Vaseo de (jiima today. No loss of ..life' has been reported. IN Reynolds, Indiena, is Now a Mass of Smok ing Ruins INHABITANTS HASTEN FROM THEIR HOMES Three Thousand IVrsons, With Only Personal Heloiigings, Fled Vrom Hollies That Seemed 1 loomed Town in Few Minutes Aglare and Business Section Obliterated Ituihling After Building Kiivel ". oped in Sea of Fir Volunteer Bucket! Brigade Dos Heroic Work (By Leased Wire to The Times.) Chicago, 111, Aug. 28. Reynolds, Indiana, was almost obliterated and luiiidiods were driven from their home by, a. tire started by postofTice safe blowers nl 'I o'clock this morning. Within a shoit time after the explos ion In the podoflice the town was aglan- an-1 Ihe business section was a mass of llames. The town was without fire protec tion of any sort and 3.000 persons fled with personal belongings from homes which seemed domed to certain de- st ruction.'. The flames spread rapidly froip the poflofriee building to adjoin ing structure '..and before the entire populace was aroused threatened to sweep (lie town from end to end. As building nfter building was en veloped in flames, citizens joined hands '.in' lighting the flames. Through heroic'-efforts of a volunteer bucket brigade many homes were saved and these .stood conspicuously out against the black background of smoking MURDERED, WHO IS STARTLED, OWNS UP. (By Leased Wire to The Times.) Chicago, August 2.S. -The old say in t,', "Murder will out," came true in an unusual way when Policeman Walsh awakened a man who was asleep in a doorway of the Illinois Hospital, Washington boulevard and Halsted street. The man, long a fugi tive, opened his eyes, saw the police man's star and leaped to his feet with a shriek. ''You want mo for murder! You are a policeman!" he cried, as he stood dazed before Walsh. A moment afterward he collected his wits and ran, but the policeman, drawing his revolver, forced the man to stop and led him to the station. At the station the prisoner at first denied being a murderer, but later broke down and confessed to Lieu tenant O'Conner that he Is Charles F. Burbage, wanted In Greenleaf, S. ('.. with it man named W. P. T. Haw ley, -'for the niurder of Gus Tan ner, a negro, two years ago. : FOR 1 B PATS (By Leased Wire to The Times.) Longford, Ireland, Aug. 28. Mr? McKenna, Irish nationalist candidate for parliament from South Longford and seventeen of his supporters, were arrested today. The charges were similar to those resulting in the ar rest of J -lines P. l-'arre', Irish na tionalist member from North Long ford and forty others who wore yes l rday committed for trial, charged wifli participating In an unlawful assembly likely to cause a riot. Mc Kenna nnd his followers were com mitted this afternoon, after he had protested that the policy of the gov ernment did not make for peace. He asserted thta it would cause a revo lution in the situation when the elec tion is held next week. Speakers at meetings are advising the people lo drive the cattle oft the grazing grounds. KILLS HIS HORSE, THEN HIMSELF. (By Leased Why to The Times.) lies Moines, la., Aug. 28. Un able to bear the thought of separa tion from his favorite horse, G.' A. Long, a prosperous Swedish farmer tit Aliunde, killed the animal and then ended his own life. 1
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