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Only '.J. Afternoon Paper rBoivioon Richmond ontl Atlanta With Leased Wire and Full Prcoo Dispntefico LAST EDITIONS l", ; ' f 'tfEf. fSfrlfenSja THE RALEIGH EVENING VOLUME 30. RALEIGH, N. C, SEPTEMBER 4, 1907. PRICE ic TIMES. MURDERED AND BODIES GROUND UNDER WHEELS Horrible Fate of Two White Men at the Bands of Three Negroes THE BLACK SUSPECTS IE ARRESTED T y Negroes Mario a Desperate Ilesist mice mill Hud to be Quelled by the Officer's Clubs Thef Deny the Charge, of Course Graphic Slory Told by the Train's Express Mes senger Names of the Unfortunate Men Not Vet Known Nothing to Disclose Their Identity. (By Leased Wire to The Times.) Champaign, 111., Sept. 4. Throe negroes are under arrest here whQtfi the Champaign police believe to have murdered and robbed two white men on an Illinois Central flyer and to have thrown them under the wheels, where the bodies were ground to pieces. The victims of the double tragedy wel'e found near Clifton, a small town south of Kankakee, and when the fust train which left Chicago nt "o'clock at night arrived here early today the suspects were nt once arrested. All deny their guilt, but one of them had considerable money, and it is the belief of the police that it may have been obtained from the two men who were killed. The three men under arrest show the effects of a terrific fight, for they are marked with scratches and bruises which may have been inflicted by the victims of the tragedy. All show marks of a desperate struggle. Five men" were' seen to board the "blind baggage" on the Flyer which left the Twelfth street depot in Chica go nt G o'clock last night. Ed. Boll, the express messenger, . tells a graphic story of tHo affair. "Near Clifton," he said, "I felt a jolt. A few seconds later there was another. It seems as If the train was running over some obstruction. The train stopped and we backed up and found the bodies of the two white men ground almost to pieces. "There was nothing about them that would indicate their identity. When the train was stopped the ne groes who are under arrest, could not bo seen, but when the train ar rived at Champaign they were cap tured. One of the negroes admits he rode on the tender of the engine part of the time while the other two were on the platform of the car. They de ny there were any white men stealing a ride on the train, but the express' messenger declares that they were seen when the train pulled out of the Chicago station. When the police attempted to ar rest the three men found on the front of the caf they made a desperate re- slstance and had to be quelled by force. ; BURTON WILL FIGHT JOHNSON (By Leased Wire to The Times.) Cleveland, O., Sept. 4. Congressman Theodore Burton, for six terms the twenty-first Ohio's representative In congress, going there by an over whelming vote of the people of the Eastslde of the city of Cleveland, an nounces that he will yield to the de mands of the people of Cleveland and opose Tom L. Johnson for the mayor alty. ....' For a week the demand that he sac rifice his career In congress and In the nation's affairs to the duty of re deeming Cleveland to the republicans has been reiterated day after day. thousands signing ' petitions asking him to accept the nomination to be made next Saturday, " In announcing that he would accept the nomination the congressman de clared the delegation must be elected fairly, must nominate a clean ticket and adopt a platform clearly showing that no alliance exists between the republican party and the traction In terests opposed to Tom Johnson's three rent fare lines. His letter closes with the declaration that letters from President Roosevelt and Secretary Taft and conferences with Secretary Garfield led him to abandon his con gressional career foe the fight against Johnson. lilli FAILURE NEW YORKTODAY Union Iron and Sfeel Com pany Goes Under A BILLIONAIRE'S RIVAL Principal Plants "Were, in llirniiiui Iinni, Irontoun, P.ig Stone Gap ami Chit ti ring -The Failure Caused Much Anxiety in Financial Circles ami Vnciisincss on Wall Street. Particulars of the Collapse. (liy Leased Wire to The Times.) New York, Kept. 4. The Union Iron & Steer Company, -competitor of the billion dollar street trust, failed today and a receiver was appointed. ' "Announcement of the failure had a bad effect' 1" -Wall street, sending prices lower and causing an ominous fear to pervade the stock market. It was believed that othpr failures might be announced at any time. While the Union Company , was- cap italized at only $2,000,100 its assets were far In excess of this amount and it was predicted that the failure would be accordingly great. In anticipation of the announcement none of the officers of the company were today at the company's odlees In the Empire building the same build ing which houses the general offices of the steel trust. Clerks were told to tell Inquirers that none of the officers were expected today. The Union Iron & Steel Company had been a persist ent antagonist of the steel trust and the latter fought the small company Just M menollessly, The Union Company was incorpor ated under the laws of Delaware, 'an.l had pig iron and steel manufacturing plants at Ironton, Ohio, Hlg Stone Gap, Chlttanlng, Denver, and Birming ham, Ala. Its largest plants are at Ironton and Birmingham. - One authority In Wall street inti mated this afternoon that the failure of the concern was duo to the fact that the steel trust had shut down on buy ing pig iron and steel from outside its own furnaces. This is said to have practically cut off the market of the Union Company, and as It could no longer sell Its goods, It had to close. This was cited as a parallel to the Standard Oil cases In the eighties and nineties, when producers were frozen out when the Standard refused to buy their oil. When the corporation papers of the Union Compnny were filed In Wil mington in 1899 the preferred stock was placed at $1,000,000 seven percent non-cumulative and $1,000,000 common stock. The failure caused deep fear on tho stock exchange and declines were not ed all along the line. There was a feeling of uncertainty and a fear that the bottom might drop out at any min ute. The receiver was appointed by Judge Skeen in the United Statea district court. He appointed L. C. Pettlt, of Big Stone Oap, who was favorable to the petitioners, the Norton Coal Com pany of Bristol, Va. The Norton Coal Company alleged that it could not obtain settlement of Its bill against the steel company. ' Norfolk Man a Bankrupt. . (By Leased Wire to The Times.) Norfolk, Va., Sept. 4. Robert H. Sexton, director of congresses and special events at the Jamestown Ex position, has filed a voluntary peti tion In bankruptcy, placing his lia bilities at 3,2C3. His assets are given as naught. Sexton was con nected with the St. Louis Fair. A business venturo in St. Louis was unsuccessful. His creditors are In Baltimore and St. Louis. STATISTICS (By Leased Wire to The Times.) New York, Sept. 4.--The annual statistics of the cotton crop, as com piled by Superintendent King of the Cotton Exchange, shows the follow ing: Port! receipts 9,907,840 bales; overland, 1,230,794; southern mill takings, net, 2,401,314; total crop, 13,539,948 bales. Secretary Hester of the New Orleans Cotton Exchange makes the total crop 13,510,982 bales. SOME COTTON Photograph of Prince Wilhelm and Party in New YorhjyilSflN WITH hLssmiM k-M seven ? v Jibuti SAID THE LORD COMMANDED DEI To Share Fate of Joan D'Arc and Built Pyre NAKED WOMAN IN BLAZE Cnnntliaii Woman lluilds n Funeral I'yre and Sets l'ire to It After Ife inoviiiK AH Her (lutliiiij; TIic Clmrcli-ocrs licliold the- Horrible Spectacle of n Xuile AVoinnii lV-iiig liiirucd to "Death Loft Letters Proving Ki'Iiirious Hallucination, (By Leased Wlie to The Times.) Ottawa, Out, Sept. '. 4. Imagining that the Lord had commomiided her to. share the fate of Joan of Arc, Mi s. Joseph La Londo, of St. Lnzare, a small French Canadian '.-village, near Vaudreuli, burned herself 'to death on a funeral pyre of her own making. While her relatives Avere at liish mass she built a pyre fioiii fence lugs and ties branches, undressed herself entirely, and climbed on the pile, to which she set fire. People coming out of church meet ing saw the smoke and the woman's clothes hanging on branches of nearby trees, Her body, partly consumed, had fallen from the pyre. She left .letters explaining why she committed the ter rible deed. WHY CENTRAL (Ry- Leased Wire to Tho Times.) New York, .-Sept.". 4.Tho Central of Georgia bondholders were hiit surpris ed at. the annual report of the oflieers of the road Just issued which on Its face upholds the action of the directors In passing the dividend entirely on the third class of income bends and pay ing only a part of it on tho second class. The incomo account shows a surplus of only $33 after the payment of Interest. The bondholders will not be deterred by the report from faking action to compel the payment of the five ret' cent interest on all divers classes of the Income .bonds. The committee of bondholders meets tomorrow to per fect their plans to bring about tills result. They say the poor.' financial showing of the road is due to bonk keeplng rather than lack of earnings. President Hanson in his report says: : "The financial results from the op erattotn of the property have not been as satisfactory as In recent years. This Is duo to a large increase In wages and In the cost of nearly every class of material necessary to oper ate the property. In addition to this, owing to Inferior coal and Inadequate motor power, there was congestion at all Important points upon the sys tem which made the cost of operation considerably higher." UECCKIITS AT UALHKaH OFFICK SHOW INCREASE. The postofflce receipts are always light during the summer months, but those for the month of ugust of tho present year show a '.'considerable in crease over August, l'.WO. Itecelpts during tho month lust ended were $5, 802.53, ngalnst I4.848.S9 last year, an In crease of $1,013.64. MADE NO MONEY t . I fir V ij&h & 5u :i I YhiIo vision-;' in New ork, Prince interest ill the liniUmn nl metropolitan t lii-oii ill a newspaper ollice, whore in the editorial room lie dictated a story and was interviewed. When lie reached the coiiiposiii!; room he found il being; set ill type, and Mhei lie was taken to the nress room lie found (he story in the linishcd paper, as well as a photograph taken while he was in the olhee. His inspection did not. occupy more than nn hour nl his 1 unr. I he accompan yni iliiislrat ions arc lrom photo graphs made while ihe 'Prince was boing; interviewed. MORGAN CO. DECLARES WAR AGAINST UNITED STATES (P.y Leased Wire to The Times.) Docatttr,. Ala.i Si-pt..4.-Ono of the most a bio. charges ever delivered to a grand jury iii tliis ouiity 1 as boon made by judge Thomas- W. Wert, judge of the Jlorgau county law and equity court. - Jndgo Wert charged -!- the grand jury 'at. 'length on the violations -of tho stale railroad laws;"-taking the position that.:, this 'grand jury has the 'right. 'in indict 'any person guilty of violating those laws. Ho said: "The position taken by somo seems to ho that by tho Injunction tho laws of Alabama aro 'suspended. It. is true that the legislature -enacted a slalnto providing for a contest of tho freight law, and whilo tliis court does not WILL VOTE ON AMERICAN PROPOSITION SATURDAY Tho Hague, Sept. 4. The next plenary sii t ing of 1 lie peia' congress will '.he hi'ld Saturday, when tho Aiiiefi'.an proiosal for the collection of coiiiraetual d'lits, made by Gen eral Horace E. Porter, will be voted upon. This-, proposal was yesterday approved, praetiially 'unanimously by the eoiuniiilce of examination:!. The i'.il'orlance of the iroposal lies l'nainly i:l (lie principle which if. es tablishes rather than in practical application, which may occur seldom. Argenline Kopublie. voted -ir the lirojiosal hut maintained her origi nal reservations on tho subject. It is not likely' 1 Hat. the Auslro-Huuga-rian proposal on ohligatory arbitra tion will he heard of again. It was practically wrecked by yesterday's vote of the committee on arbitral inn on which all nations wc ro repre sented. . American delegates nro now in terested In a suggestion mndo to Latln-Atnerican countries regarding tho American proposal to establish a perinanent international high court of justice at The Hague, is that from fifteen to twenty-live electors be se lected by tho conference, who shall elect judges. This suggestion, how ever, does not meet with the Ideas of the Latln-Aniericnn countries, who think the rights and sovereign ty of the countries represented arc not protected. illiclin ot Sweden took a keen new simpers. He was shown y,: s : on t tie question of tho suspen sion of. this statute, yet I -'charge you that II. -is your duty to look inio every alleged violation (it this statuto and indict those who have not complied with its provisions." Montgomery, Ala., Sept. 4. - When shown .the report -of the charge to his grand jury by. Judge Thomas Wr. Wert, of file Morgan county law and equity "court, in which delianco was paid to the orders of the federal court at, Montgomery, Judge Thomas G, Jones, of the federal court, made only one comment."-.- Ho said: "I am sorry to see that the Morgan county law and enniiy court baa' de clared war against the United States." COMPOSER GRIEG DIED III NORWAY. (Special Cable to The Times.) llergon. Norway, Sept. 4 Kdward llagerup (irieg, the composer is dead. Grieg was born in llergen in 1X43 of St ol I isli ancestry, hoi It his father and his grandfather having been l'ritish consuls at llergen, lie n reived his musical .education In Co penhagen' and 'at the Leip.ig Con servatory. He conducted, the muKucl festival at lilnningham In 1SSS, mid performed In Paris In !n:l. i:vi:i l.MI'KOVF.MKXTS AT NEW OKLEAXS. (By Leased Wire to The Times.) New Orleans, Sept. . 4.- The New Orleans levee board has completed plans for levee improvement, which, it Is expected, will place the city In safety from Hoods. The entlro levee system Is to ho remodelled and levees built three feet higher. Enormous expense is necessary In constructing tho new levees, but the saving; In the futtiro will surpass the outlay la a short time. BOARD KILLED TEN INJURED Building a; Buckhorn Struck by Ligfitnlng MANY WERE SHOCKED S'cJwccii Fifty and Khty Men Had 'liikcii Keillor in lliiiUIini; t-) (.i t Out. of li.'iin -Most of Hilled ;:ml Injiii'i'd Here csirocs 1'irst l;iy TlK if lijmt. Sevori men were killed and ten n lured at: lluckliorn Falls yesterday ifinrnonn. bur. a lull report ol tne orriblo a flair could not he learned until this afternoon, as all of- the wires worn down and communication was impossible. Lightning struck a tree onlv a few feet from a cement house in which wore between fifty and sixtv men and glanced from the tree to tho building. All in t lit' Imildrig were either killed, injured or severely shocked. 1 ho lulled at Buckliorn were J'iiigono i'lack. white, ot Mon cure: .Thomas C. (junior, white ot: Moncure: Tallev Lett, colored; Mark Douglass, colored: Kufus Lett colored: Alfred Ilertha. colored, and William McKev, colored. lniuied: Kd. Lett, white, D. O lndor, white: W. J. Kelly, white: Aaron Austin, colored: Ronton llaughton. colored; Luther Hooker colored: Is. B. Faison. colored; Dan iel Cole, colored; Darling Austin, colored, and imx Lamer. Tho two white who were killed only went to work for tha Phoenix Construction; Company yesterday morning. They lived at Moncure and the bodies were carried there yester day evening. Tho white men who wero injured lived in. the vicinity of the falls and were carried to their homes. . Tho cement house which was struck is located near the dam and the men rushed into the building to get out. of the rain. The lightning did not strike;', the,' main power house. It was a few minutes after three o'clock when tho building was struck. Ac companying the rain siorm was a strong wind and several trees were blown across the telephono lino and the lines wero not repaired until today. All of tho injured men will recover and it is said that none of their in juries are serious. Several of them had their feet painfully burned Many of the other men in the build ing were shocked, but escaped In jury. This is the second disaster at Buck horn within the past "few months. liarly in Julie several men endeavored to cross the river In a small boat which was- swamped and all of the men drowned. Duekhorn is about thirty miles from this city and is on tho Cape Fear river. Tho Phoenix Construc tion Company is having a large dam and electric plant constructed at. that point iiud n large -force; of men are employed. ;cws of the terrible affair caused considerable uneasiness among several families In this city, as they have relatives who work at Buck horn. SlUKF.ItS .MA K F, TIKHBLK AMOXti THEMSKLVF.H. Antwerp, Sept. 4. Fighting be tween tli striking dock employes and the police was resumed tills morning and it Is feared more blood shed and incendiarism will '.result. The workmen are now extremely vio lent and apparently are bent upon tho destruction of dock property, strike-breakers imported from Ger many and England were attacked by the strikers and severely beaten. Tho Englishmen suffered most. When the riot was at its height the police charged the strikers with clubs and sabres. One policeman wns struck with a paving stone and killed. Near t:m market house six mon nnd several women and children were wounded. Carts wero over turned and used as barricades by the 'strikers.. Afterward the strikers set fire to the carts and also fired the timber yardB. They are now at tempting to set firo to the petroleum tanks at Uobokcn. 300 ON IS WRECKED Six Passengers Killed on a Canadian Pacific Fly er and 20 Hurt DEATH CAME WHILE THE VICTIMS SMOKED CIGARS Train, Heavily Loaded, Was llunning Behind Schedule Time, and When It Went Down a Steep Grade at Tremendous Speed the . Engine Jumped the Track Five Cars Left the Rails and the Wonder is That Many Slow Were Not Killed or Injured. (By Leased Wire to The Times.) Orangeville, Ont., Sept. 4. Six persons are dead and more than 20 seriously injured as the result of the wreck of the special Canadian Pa cific passenger train near Caledon. The train carried 300 persons. Th dead are: Norman Tucker, Flesherton. John Thurston, Walter Falls. James Hanks, Perm. James 15uler,( Princeville. W. A. Armstrong, Markdale. liohert Ciirr, Shel bourne. All the six persons killed were riding in the smoking car, next to the locomotive. The train, which was very heavily loaded, was running behind schedule.. From Orangeville there is a pronounced down grade, and the locomotive suddenly jumped the rails. Five of the seven cars fol lowed. The engineer was hurled through the window of his cab, but escaped almost unhurt. DEATH IN THE BENZINE BARREL. (By Leased Wire to The Time.) New York, Sept. 4. An exploding barrel of benzine in a Williamsburg firo today hurled twelve firemen to the walls of the cellar of the struc ture and five were so seriously burned and Injured that they were sent to hospitals. . A panic among the tenants ot the big frame tenement houses at No. 41 Havemeyer street and among the neighbors followed, and in the ex citement one man Jumped from a second-story window, but escaped with slight Injuries. At the hospital it was said that at least two of the injured firemen would die. Tho dying: JAMES KENNEDY, captain of En gine No. 112. JAMES SMITH, fireman, ot Truck No.- 154. FISH RENEWS HIS ATTACK (By Leased Wire to The Times.) New York, Sept. 4. The personal encounter between former President Fish and President Ha rah an of the Illinois Central Railroad Company, which occurred last week, had its sequel today at the meeting of the board when Mr. Fish again present ed the set of resolutions. The board today adopted tne resolutions with some slight modifications. Officials of the company, however, were very reticent and declined to divulge what took place at the meeting at which the following directors were pres ent: Harahan, Fish, Hackstaff, Au chincloss, Ooelet, Cutting, Peabody and Vanderbilt. The resolutions are said to con tain rather serious charges against the present management which 'Mr. Fish desired to have answered. They allege that the affairs of the Illinois Central are virtually being conducted from 120 Broadway, the office Of the Union Pacific Company. They likewise contained clauses questioning the legitimacy of cer tain financial transactions In which the Illinois Central had been en gaged. With the adoption ot the resolution today it was understood that some answer would be prepared by the management and sumbltted to tha meeting of directors which will b held next Wednesday. "V V
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