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V t rip; Only Afternoon Paper Between Richmond and Atlanta VJith Leased Wire and Full Press Dispatcher LAST EDITION. J- ALL THE MARKETS. JLJLiLJLH JLtJUXJLHJTJJL 1U V 111 1 JL 1. UT VOLUME 30. RALEIGH, N. C, MONDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1907. PRICE IC TIMES. SENSATIONAL TURN IN WAR AGAINST TRUSTS Uncle Sam Seizes Goods While Passing From Stale to State SEIZED HT NORFOLK Section Six of Sherman Law Author izing Seizure and Condemnation by Government of Property of Any Trust While In.. Interstate or. For eign Commerce, is Enforced for ' First' Time in Case of u Shipment of Tobacco by the American To bacco Company, Billed to Great Ilritain Other Seizures of Goods of Oilier Trusts Will Follow. (By Leased Wire to The Times.) Washlngon, Oct. 21. The federal government took another sensational and advanced step today in its war fare against trusts. It has seized trust goods passing in interstate traffic. Acting under orders from the at torney general a $7,000 shipment of leaf tobneco,consigned from Dur ham, ,N. C, to the British-American Tobacco Company of Great Britain, has been attached at Norfolk. The action has been taken by invoking section G of the Sherman anti-trust law which authorizes the Beizure and condemnation by the government of property of any trust, while in in terstate or foreign commerce. This is the first time the section has ever been enforced. Although the tobacco trust Is in volved in this particular instance, it is understood that similar action may be taken against the products of other trusts against which suit for dissolution is pending. The British-American Tobacco Company is declared to be the for olgn branch of the tobacco trust, and the government . charges that one third of its $:!0,000,000 capital is held by the Imperial Tobacco Com pany and tne balance by the Ameri can Tobacco Company. The government further charges that the British-American Company has been created as an instrumental ity and for the especial purpose of defeating and violating the laws of the United States and that while Us principal office is in London the chairman of tho board of managers ,1s an officer of tho American To bacco Company, against which suit for dissolution is already pending. GASTRONOMIC FEATURE OF HAGUE CONFERENCE (By Leased Wire to The Times.) I Tho Hague, Oct. 21.- During the 210 days the conference here lasted the delegates had 317 dinners given In their honor, including those from tho diplomatic body accredited to The Hague. The dinners cost alto gether 1523,600. The general ex penses sustained by the governments amounted to $2,970,030, Including $1,125,360 spent for telegrams. GRAHAM CLARK TALKS ABOUT COTTON MF'G IN EGYPT; HIS REPORT (By Leased Wire to Tho Times.) Washington, Oejt. 21. Special Agent W. A. Graham Clark, In a report to the department, describes the present unprogresslve state of Egyptian cot ton .milling: . Cotton manufacturing is not a very promising industry In Egypt. There la only one .cotton mill In the country, Which In this respect 1b behind all other cotton raising countries, where the tendency Is for the cotton mills to go to the cotton fields. The solo rep ; reientatlve In Egypt of the world's greatest Industry Is the Anglo-Egyptian Spinning and Weaving Company (Limited), which hag 20,000 spindles and 600 looms and Is located at Alex andria, i , Until tho first of this year there BRYAN SOON HIS INTENTIONS Some Time Next Month He Will For mally State What We All Already Know Accident to His Train This Morning Interrupts Trip to New '. Voile. s (By Leased Wire to The Times.) St. Louts. Mo.. Oct. 21. That Wil liam Jennings Bryan will, some time in November, issued a letter- declaring that If It Is the wish of the democratic national convention that lie should make the race for president he will accept the post of standard bearer, was the information which has reach ed St. Louis, from an authoritative source. In connection with the reported plans of Mr. Bryan, it is said Governor Joseph W. Folk, in a few days will announce his candidacy for the -United States senate to succeed Senator William J. .Stone. While Senator Stone is a very able campaigner, the hold Governor Folk has on the people of Missouri for his fearless attitude on. law enforcement; his friends believe, will make him an easy victor. Bryau Kn Route to 'cv York. Washington, Oct. 21. William Jen nings Bryan, the democratic leader, on his way from Atlanta to New York, where he is scheduled to speak tonight in Cooper Union, was maroon ed last night on a lonely siding on the Southern railway, at the Virginia end of the Potomac bridge and was fast asleep, while admirers in Wash ington gathered at the station to wel come him on his arrival here. The stationmaster finally informed the reception committee that, the train would not arrive-.-until this morning and they departed for their homes. Assurance was given that the accident was confined to the en gine of Mr. Bryan's train and that the leader was enjoying peaceful slumber. . USING CALOMEL TO OUTWIT THE GOD ALMIGHTY Chattanooga, Tenn., Oct. 21. "You are simply trying to outwit the will of God with calomel and olive oil If God scuds sickness and death as a means of ciiastlsemont," said the Rev. Byron Holly, rector of St. Paul's church, yesterday, This is the leading .Episcopal church in tho city besides being tho wealthiest congregation, and the sermon created a sensation, to say the least. The rector disputed the generally accepted doctrines of Pro testant churches, including his own, and said it was common belief that sickness and death were sent by God, this doctrine being included in the prayer-book service and sung in the hymnals. He stated that he had reached this owing to his vows, but could not believe It after a lifetime of study. His idea of sickness and death was that it was duo to bad city government and worse sewage and drainage. were two cotton mills In Egypt, but the other one, tho Egyptian Cotton Mills (Limited) of Cairo has ceased operations and the machinery has been sold and will be shipped to Merslne, In Asia Minor, whereHlt will be run on coarse counts using local cotton. One adverse factor Is that the English government, while very friendly to cotton raising In her pos sessions and countries where' her In fluence Is paramount, Is unfriendly to cotton manufacturing In those lands. The . Insufficiency of efficient help available, however, has probably had the largest, retarlng the Industry, to gether with the fact that the first cost of the machinery and supplies are jmuch higher than In England. TO MAKE KNOWN TOM HUH HUNG HIMSELF And Saved Sheriff That Dis agreeable Duty assaulted old woman The Franklin County Negro Who Was Last , Month Senln'uced to Death for Criminally Assaulting Aged Miss Ferry, Committed Sui cide in His ('ell at Ijouishurg Sun day Would Have Been Kxecuted Wednesday The .Particulars. (Special to The Evening Times. V . Louisburg, N. C, Oct. 21; Tom Upchurch, the negro under sentence of death for assault, who was to have been hanged here Wednesday next, was found dead in his cell in Frank-! lin county jail yesterday: by the; death watch. :, Though under close surveillance, Upchurch had in some manner se cured a coil of wire. During the night he fastened one end; to a girder of his cell, tied the other around his neck and jumped from his cot. He committed an aggravated- as sault on a -fifty-year-old white wo man. Miss Perry, near Louisburg, in August last. The jailer found him ..hanging by a wire around the neck, cold in death. His toes touched the floor, and were bodly lacerated in the struggle. The sheriff is keeping the body awhile to be seen by all and to show his horrible death. The negro had evidently fixed the wire around his neck and then jumped off his bunk. The wire was embedded in the flesh of his neck out of sight, although the skin had not been cut. His eyes and ttongue, fearfully swollen, bulged from his head, and when discovered the body was stiff and cold. The wire was just long cnougn to permit tho ends of his toes to touch the floor and in his death agony the skin and flesh had been literally worn away in the ef fort to gain a footing. The body presented a horrible sight and with it a most sickening odor. It was taken down and laid out in a room in the front part of the jail, where it will be kept until the people from the section of county in which be committed the awful crime may have the opportunity to view it and satisfy themselves that he Is really dead, i Now that Upchurch Is dead, there are open expressions of pleasure that the sheriff has been spared a dis agreeable job and that -the town next Wednesday will bo spared the pres ence of a morbid mob to gloat in tho excitement of Uie hanging. Up church was carefmiy watched and everything that he could possibly use to injure himself was removed from his cell ,nnd it is a mystery how ho procured the wire. The gallows on which he was to have been exo cuted had been built and now stands in the jail enclosure. 'F iL (Special to The Evening Times.) Greensboro, N. C," Oct. 21. Sun day at 11 o'clock death claimed Mr John Lineberry, of Randlemnn, as another victim of the wreck last Thursday night of train No. 34, which collided headon with a freight train at Rudd. This makes a total of five deaths resulting from the ac cident. Of the nineteen Injured poo- ple taken to St. Leo's Hospital from the scene of the wreck, two have died and-' the following have recovered sufficiently to go home, leaving the hospital yeBterday and today: Messrs, John W. and Mulla Gibson and W, O. Wemple and Capt. June P. Thomas, of Danville, Va., and Mr. Charles A. Klndley, of Gastonla. The hosplal authorities report this afternoon that those remaining there for treatment are getting along very woll. The remains of Mr. Lineberry were sent to Randlemnn todrty (or burial. . r ANOTHER VICTIM OF GREENSBORO RAILWAY WRECK BUNCOMBE BEAR FOR ROOSEVELT President Promises to Come to Asheviile Next judge ouion good one He is. Too Much for the Lazy and Procrastinating Lawyer and Com pels Them to Try Their Cases Lively Times Over Bond Issue Proposition to Aid New Railroad. Bingham ictorious in Football Game Saturday Asheviile-- News. (By Leased Wire to The Times.) Asheviile, N. C, Oct. 21. Presi dent Roosevelt has accepted an invi tation to come to North Carolina later in the season to hunt bears. The invitation to the ...-president was sent by J. L. Alexander, 'Inviting him to be his guest at. Toxaway Inn, in the Sapphire Country, to hunt, bears. The president wired that lie .would be pleased "to. accept Mr, A lexander's invitation, the. date of his visit to be 'decided on later. : A party of well known , sportsmen wilt; accompany the president . on hi.-- bear hunt through tho -mounains of western North Carolina, and the president has been assured that the bears will not be lacking. It is expected that one of the guides will lie Dolph Wil son, son of '"Big Tom" Wilson, tho famous Dear trapper of the Blue Ridgo. Dolph has killed ninety bears: The president's hunt will include visits to the principal mountain ranges in the Blue Ridge, noted for bear and other game. Itis expected that George W. Vanderbllt will ex tend an invitation to the president and party to hunt on his famous Pisgan.. presenes. ,.Mf Mr. .Vander bllt is here during the president's visit it Is. expected he will be a mem ber of the party and will also enter tain the president at Biltmore house. The President's Telegram. (Special to The Evening Times.) Asheviile, X. C, Oct.. 21. Mr. Alexander has received the follow ing telegram from tho president: "Mr. J. L. Alexander, Toxawny, N. C. "Your telegram of the sixteenth has been received and Is greatly ap preciated, but the president will nnt be able to prolong bis -present trip owing to impending engagements, but he will be '.pleased to accept yont kind invitation later in the season. Most cordially yours, "M. C. LATTA, "For the President." Mr. Alexander Is hopeful that the president will 11 ml time to come -before, the season closes, believing that tho chief executive of this nation will find better sport in the Toxaway region than he has in the canebrakes of Louisiana. The football season opened here Saturday with a game between Bing ham School of Asheviile and Ca tawba College. The game resulted in a walk-over for Bingham, the ca dets winning by the score of 20 to 0. They out-played Catawba at every stage of the game, and not at any time was the result in doubt. Superior court for the trial of civil cases adjourned here Saturday afternoon after six weeks of continu ous court. .- Judge Gulon, who pre sided, stuck out the entire time, try ing nil cases that came before him and doing much to relieve the con gested civil docket. This Is the first time in several years, it Is said, that a superior court judge has stayed here with the six weeks' term. Usually the lawyers, showing a dis position ,not to try causes, succeeded in having cases continued and the presiding Judge after Bitting around doing nothing for several days be fore the term ended would become disgusted, pit'k up nnd leave. Judge Union, however, stuck It out and many cases were disposed of, Many prominent democrats and republicans will this week; take the stump in Asheviile and Buncombe county In advocacy of the $200,000 bond Issue In aid of th proposed competing line of railways through this section. The vote on the propo sition will be tnKen Tuesday of next week, October 29th, and since Hen derson county has voted the bonds it Is believed .that Buncombo will fol low suit and give a- big majority for the sutd bonds. Speakers will be heard In every section of tho county this week, when the people will be urged to get out Tuesday and vote for bonds. BALLOON RACES THIS EVENING Nine Big Fellows Start at Four O'clock FOR THE BENNETT CUP America, Germany, England and France Represented by Crack Aero- j nnuts and There is Much Interest In the Kvcnt Beginning at St. Louis Other Aerial Races to he Pulled Off Duriim- the Present Week Gossip About the Airships and Aeronauts. (By- Leased Wire to The Times.) St. Louis, Mo., Oct. 21. At ! p. m. nine balloons, representing IOngr land, Germany, Franco and America, will begin, in St. Louis the second in ternational race for the James Gor don Bennett cup and a prize. of $.1,000 cash divided into, five prizes, tho chief one being $2,500; which goes with the cup. The balloons will .ascend at. intervals of five minutes.-;.. - Two of.' the balloons representing England, with pilot rolls and Hunt ington, have been withdrawn. ... The. weather this morning is ideal with no probability oi unfavorable atmospheric conditions. .Ralloiis. and pilots in the race. With the order of starting in to day's contest for the international cup: '.-''-.; ;..-' '; ; "'.- ."'.. Balloon, Pbmmerne; gas capacity, 77,000; pilot, Qscar Erbsloeh; na tion. Germany. Balloon, United States; gas capac ity, 75,000; ilot, Ma j. Henry B. Hor sey: nation, America. Balloon, L isle de France; gas ca pacity, 77,000; pilot, Alfred Leblane; nation, France. Balloon, Duesselclorf; gas capacity, 75,000; pilot, Capt. Von Abcrcron; nation, Germany. Balloon, Lotus II; gas capacity, 75,250; pilot Griffith Brewer; nation, England. , Balloon, American; gas capacity, 77,000; pilot, J. C. McCoy; nation,) America. : Balloon, Anjou; gas capacity, 7!), 500; pilot,- Bene Gasnier; nation, France. Balloon, Abcrcron; gas capacity, 75,000; pilot, Paul Mecklc; nation, Germany. Balloon, St. -Louis:- gas. -capacity, 75,000; pilot, Allan R. Hawley; na tion, America. Tho prizes:: . . .. International aeronautic, cup and $2,500 to the winner; the cup to be held by the aero club to which win ning contestant belongs; second prize, $1,000; third prize, $750;; fourth prize, $500; fifth prize, $250. -The race If for the greatest dis tance from .starting points to lauding point. The best American voyage, made by John Wise from ,St. Louis to Hen derson, Jefferson county, N. Y., In July, 1859, covered S70 miles on un air line or .1,150 acocrdlng to map measurements. The world's distance voyage, made by Count Henry Be La. aux in Oc tober, 1900, was from . Vlncenr.es, France, to Korostichow, Russia, a dis tance of 1,193 miles. The wind is light from the north east but Forecaster Bowie says there Is no doubt that tho upper current will take the aeronauts north and more or less east, so tho course will be much like that, taken by the Mc Coy and Chandler balloon when they landed In West Virginia, voluntarily. In order to reach St. Louis in time for today's contest. Tho tank has been filled with spe cially generated gas, more than suf ficient to fill the nine balloons, which hold an aggregate of d( 4,r(H feet and no detail seems larking. The. fill ing proces sbegnn this morning and will be concluded by 2 p. m. It is believed by aeronautic experts-who have come to see the race, that the record of 870 miles as the crow files from St. Louis to Henderson, X. Y., undo in 1859, will lose its standing as the American record. There are some so sanguine as to believe the De La Vnux record of 1,903 miles, made In 1900, Is not, snfo. , Considerable betting on the race has been dnno nnd more Is expected. The American contestants who were not regarded very highly a week ago, have sinco sprung Into favor, and, -whereas, odds wore formally given In favor of tho Hermans against the. Americans even money Is nil that is visible now. From the conversa tion going, on among mose wnonugnr J (Continued on Pnge Seven.) WHY WALL STREET RESTS EASIER TODAY CRISIS OVER IN NEW YORK BANK AFFAIR Clearing House Committee Announ ces That the Moi'se-llcinze Hanks Are Solvent Clarifies the Financial A'.nriyphei'c- i'i the Metropolis. . ';..; '(By i.casc'u Wire to The Times.) ; '.Jio-.y York, Oct. 21. With the an nouncement ; of. the clearing, house commit ;?e: tha iff or due examinaM Hon the position of the Movse-Heinze Kinks -'was- sound and that t'.iey would 1)0 cared for the crisis in local bank ing affairs hail ..' passed. That -the credit situation was extremely strain ed was ftaJe evident .by the high qnota-t Ions. of call money, --'-which'-after starting; at - seven 'per, cent rose promptly, to nine. .. The stock mar ker for the: first ; hour hesitated be tween the conflict in g impulses ;o,f re lief ' that: n. banking ' failures were Impending ''".-'and--' uncertainly,: as" to had ! whether the . forced liquidation been completed, Trices came in frrfm London a. point to. a point and a. half higher, arid recorded similar gains at the opening lu-r.. Tne:i a fresh s;-ll- l'ug movement . . set in 'which, earned many of the' leading issues back to within a fraction of Saturday's clos ing. . But . when it. became , evident that, there was no urgent pressure to sell and that the market was receiv ing good support, a pronounced change for. the better set in and by midday a vigorous rally was in prog ress. 'THE PRESIDENT . Vicksburg, Miss., Oct, 21. All ar rangements have been comiileted . to eutei'taiu President, Room' volt, in Vicksburg this afternoon. The prin cipal streets are a mass of color and pictures of the president are to be seen on all sides. The president will arrive at Delta directly across the burg, at 2 o'clock river from Vicks- lie will be met by reception committee of 10 J citizens mill ra board the. steamboat Hello -of the Bends, the party will proceed to-Vicksburg. A drive over the city and through the national cemetery will end at . ccitirt house square where ('resident Roosevelt will deliver an address. ;. . ;;' The president will then board a . special train on the Yiizoo & Missis-; fipiii Valley , Railroad and will go, di-j t-ect t .) Memphis w here h is train will lie transferred to t.ie Louisville fc Nashville Railroad.' The president Is'' scheduled to arrive ' in Nashvillej at !:M. o'clock. Thursday morning. : Welcomed By 40,0() President's Speech. Vicksburg, Miss., Oct. 21. Forty thousand people welcomed President (Continued on Second Page.) 4Q.000 GREET IN VI K BIO MANAGERS OF T AFT'S PRESIDENTIAL BOOM IN CONFERENCE TODAY (By -Leased Wire to The Times.) Washington, 1). C 'Oct.. 21. A. I. Vorys, inatMig"!- of the Taft presiden tial liuom, and Henry V. WilllaniM, manager nt the Tali bureau In Co lumbus, O., came to Washington to day with confidence-written, all over I hem. During the day they will confer with Secretary- of tho Interior Gar Hold, Secretary of the Treasury Cor telyou, Chairman of the republican national commit tee' Harry New, Post master General Meyer, Ralh Tyler, of Columbus, who la auditor' for the navy department, and Elmer Dover, secretary of the republican national convention. "Reports from nil parts of tho Four Undesirables Elimi nated From Banking Interests themes, morse ID THEJTHOMASES I 'our Conservative Men Today Took Their Places As Successors to the Above Named ns Presidents of Cireat Banks in the Metropolis A Lot of Talk That Will Interest Many People in the Financial World National Bunks of North America, Mercantile Hamilton, Consolidated, All lave New Heads Today How and Why the Changes V 'iv Brought About. (By Loused Wire to The Times.) New York, Oct. 21. Wall street was easier this niorning when the ' an- . Aouncement was made that Augustus Heinze, Charles W. Morse, Charles K. 'Thomas and Orlando F. Thomas had been eliminated from the banking in terests of New York ana tnat wur new presidents,, all Conservative men o." business, were in charge of tho VrorserHeiiize-Thomas banks . .of this, r::v. '.'-.- ' ;' .' .'. - ., i AceoinpanylnR this announcement c-Tine a (.-lean bill of health from the e l ea ri ng house. . committee, : which has examined' the institutions and found tl.ri.ii l.,i,,,wl file iVrtitrfrYlfnf occasioned by the crumbling -of cop- I per . prices . and the discovery that 1 1-1 cloze interests had been using united I copper stocks as collateral for loans, 'occasional runs on any of the banks I involved, the clearing house is ready to stave (iff trouble. In fact, the at- titudo of the clearing house is such Hint, there need be no apprehension. These - banks, will be as safe as one could desire --as long as the clearing house stands by them, The commit tee wants to make it clear, however, that the directors of the banks and their depositors will be expected to hare in meeting the situation vith coolness and calm Judgment. These are the banks in which changes took place today: . "The National bank of North Ameri ca W. F. llavemeyer succeeds Alfred Jl. Curtis as president. The Mercantile National Bank KethM; Millikin takes the place of F. Augustus rielnze. The Hamilton Hank W. R. Mont gomery in place of F.. It. Thomas. The Consolidated National Hank '.. Alliron, president, in place of p. F. Thomas. ' Just what other changes will be made in the four banks cannot bo conjectured. It may be tho new presidents will have a thorough house cleaning and that in every Institution , new iiiooci w in be unused ana tne other ofliccrs will be asked for- their j resignations. - ; -i ' - :''' K. U. 'ITliomas was the last of the four bank presidents to announce he had (tlit the Job. In quitting the presidency of the Hamilton bank, he also resigned as vico-piiesldent of the (Consolidated National bank, as vice 1 president and director'' of the Me chanics and Traders and the Mercan tile National. He also offered to withdraw from the Bowling Oreen Trust Company and the Hudson Trust Company. Thomas gave out the fol lowing statement; . . .' , "I have sold my stock holdings and resigned as a director and president of the Hamilton bank of New York city. My holdings have been taken over by William H. Montgomery, sec ond vice-president- of the bank, rep resenting local interests. I have been inltuenced to take this step (Continued on Page Seven.)' country are encouraging," said Mr. Varys. "It is now an assured thing that Ohio will send to tho national convention a solid and enthusiastic delegation for Mr. Taft." Mr. Vorys was asked If there was : any special significance In the fact that Chairman NtTw of the republi can national committee hud called a meeting of the committee for Donem ber (i and 7 to decldo when and whoro tho natlonul convention Is to meet. "Oh, no," ho replied. "It turn no such significance and It certainly has none for us. It niakos no difference to us whero or when the convention Is held. The result will be the same after nil."
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