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Only Afternoon Paper Bctvccn Richmond and Atlanta With Leased Wire and Full Press Dispatches LAST EDITION. ALL THE IIARKETS. f I' V THE RALEIGH. , EVENING TIME VOLUME W. TWELVE PAGES TODAY. RALEIGH, N. C, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 21, 1907. TWELVE PAGES TODAY. PBIC3 U WILL CORTELYOU LEAVE CABINET Report Is Aceenlsated in Washington Today FRICTION WITH PRESD'T BROKER OUPHANT DIED OF WOUNDS THIS MORNING FEAK ANOTHER SECT Y TAFT AIN'T THIS A SCHEME! BRYAN TO BE NAMED BY HIS DAUGTER RUTH BIG EXPLOSION HELPED AGAIN A GREAT BRITAIN FIGURING NEW NAVAL PLAN MAJORITY If the Reports of Opposition and Treachery to Taft's Candidacy By the Cortelyou People Are Tine the Secretary of the Treasury 1'iiiba Wy Ouxht to Retire Cortolyou's Probable Successor Already Men tioned. .' (By Leased Wire to The Times.) : Washington, D. C. Dee. 21. Rumors of Secretary Cortolyou's impending resignation continue to fly thick and fast here, despite his flat denial of a few days ago. No official confirmation of them is obtainable, and in adminis tration circles such talk is discourag ed, one of the. grounds given'-.' being that the president would greatly dis like to change treasury heads at this particular time with the country just recovering from the financial strin gency.. The resignation reports are based on the Idea of friction in the cabinet be cause of alleged treachery of the Cor telyou forces to the Taft boom. It Is generaly agreed that if Mr. Cor telyou goes. Postmaster General Meyer Will succeed him. He is a business man of ability, and the president has confidence in him as was shown by tlie fact that he was freely consulted In the financial difficulties. If a cabinet vacancy occurs the pres ident is likely to consider filling it in a way that will do most good to the Taft movement, 'and Collector Merrltt of Niagara, Is mentioned In this con nection for postmaster general as a man whose selection Would give sat isfaction to many politicians in New York state. MICH. DEMOCRATS ARE FOB HARMAN (By Leased Wire to The Times.) Detroit, Mich., Use. 21 Anti Bryan democrats of Michigan have settled upon Judson Harmon, of Cin cinnati, attorney-General in Presi dent Cleveland's cabinet, as their favorite. There was a protracted conference at the Pontchartraln Hotel yester day between Mr, Harman and the leading anll-Bryanites of Detroit. Mr. Harmon, when asked point-blank if he was a candidate, laughingly re plied: "Now, modesty forbids a direct answer. It Is a great honor to be mentioned for the presidency. I wouldn't want to say that I was a candidate, but I will say that I am not throwing stones at one who sug gests my name," GEORGIA BANKER ACCIDENTALLY HILLED (By Leased Wire to The Times. ) Waycross, Ga., Dec. 20. Hon. Warren Lott, ordinary of Ware coun ty, and former vice-president of the Bank of Waycross, accidentally killed himself while hunting this morning. Dr. M. M. Johnson ' was the only witness to the accident. Dr. Johnson says he was standing about sixty yards from Mr. Lott, who had just crossed a fence, when the lat ter's gun discharged. When Dr. Johnson reached the wounded man's Bide, Mr. Lott attempted to speak but could not be understood. He expired almost Immediately. Mr. Lott was universally loved by his neighbors and much Borrow Is felt In this section of the state. Lieuten ant Warren Lott, Jr., a son, is sta tioned at Fort McPherson, Atlanta. $100,000 PAID OUT TO ! fipUTHERNE'Y HANDS i.-! Bjwncer, Dec 21--The employes of the. Southern Railway Company at Spencer have received their Christ mas pay checks and it is learned that the pay roll amounted In the aggre gate to more than $100,000, which were paid out in this community. Many of the employes are off duty on account of the. slackness In railroad work and Quite a number went to their old homes In various states to night to spend Christmas. It Is ex pected that work will be resumed on a larger scale with the opening of the new year. (By Leased Wire to The Times.) New York, Dec. 21. James H. 'Oil-, pliant, the millionaire broker who was' shot In his office at No. 20 Broad street by Dr. Charles Gleger, of Beau-j fort, S. C, a ruined Wall street gam-V bier, died early this morning in the, Hudson street Hospital. His wife ane son were with the broker when the end came. j Examination of the baggage in1 the Holland House of Dr. Gleger, who died inrtantly by his own bullets, showed that in all probability he was crazed by drink and drugs whei he com mitted the crime. Many photographs of life In Abbys slnla showed that the dead man at one time had been an intimate friend of Count Szechenyl, now the fiancee of Miss Gladys Vanderbllt. The two men were shown pictured in many poses during the days when Gleger -was royal physician to King Menelik. Gleger, who had. lost his whole for tune of $30,000 In speculation In the "street," is said to have demanded an extension of credit from Oliphant and when refused opened fire, NAVAL BUREAU CRITICISED BY A MARINE ARTIST (By Leased Wire to The Times.) New York, Dec. 21. In the January number of McClure's magazine there will appear an article by. Henry Reut-. erdahl. a marine artist, criticising the bureau organization Of the United States navy department and the de-j frets of the battleships. j Specifically, the author sets forth that there is not enough of the armor; belt above the water line, and that the j freeboard and bows of the ships are so low that the forward turret guns and the broadside guns on the windward ' side cannot be used to advantage in a heavy sea. He also criticises ;the pro motion system, which deprives the navy of the services of its younger of ficers in command rank. ' After reading extracts from the Reuterdahl criticism, Lewis Nixon, for-, mer naval architect, remarked that the writer had raised no new ques-. tion. He also intimated that Mr. 1 Reuterdahl had not said anything which could help in any way toward the solution of the old questions. "Furthermore," said Mr. Nixon, "We have the best navy In the world to-.' day, so far as both ships and men are concerned. We can whip any other navy In the world." General B. P. Tracy, secretary of the navy In President Harrison's cab inet, seemed to think that the McClure article was deserving of more serious consideration and admitted there was danger In overloaded battles. And In theory, af least, the former secretary of the navy intimated that promotion in the service, above a certain rank, should be by selection. Abide from their comments on Mr. Reutcrdahl's criticism. General Tracy and Mr. Nixon both referred to the present cruise of Admiral Evans' fleet to the Pacific. "The present cruise Is a splendid thing," said Mr. Nixon, but I hope that the ships will not visit Japan." "Why?" "Don't you remember the case of the Mjilne?" siiamITfIie belgian people Vienna, Dee. 21. A great crush of people attended the auction sale of the wardrobe of Princess Lmflse of j Belgium, which was brought about by a broker to whom "she had pawned all . her possessions. A fair sum was real-' ized on the entire collection, but the, amount fell miserably short of the sum paid for it, which is estimated ntj jipo.ooo. I With the sale went all the posses-, slons of the princess at the time she was placed in a sanitarium nine years ago by her husband after she had eloped with Count Mattachtch. After spending six years In captivity she made her escape, aided by Count Mat-; tachlch and she afterward proved Jier: sanity. Prince Philip then handed her ward-j robe she had abandoned and the prln-1 cess promptly pawned it f"r $12,000., She could not pay the Interest, which precipitated the Bale. In the collection j were articles rangln" from lmndker-j chiefs worth $10 each to sealskin Jack-1 etM worth over $1,000 each. There were nearly a hundred fans, hundreds of articles of underclothing, ! marked with the princess' monogram and ths royal Belgium crown, dozens of pain of boots and shoes and dozens of costly drosses. &lay Establish New Naval Squadron in Pacifc LONDON PAPER SAYS SO Fleet Will lie Called Pacific and Xortli American Squadron am! Will Have Hase at' Esquimau. iSclicnie to lleconie Effective in .May How Scheme Will Affect Camulu Not Known. (By Cable to The Times.) London, Dec;'. 21. The Standard prints conspicuously a statement that Great Britain has decided to estab lish a new naval squadron in the Pacific. The paper says It will be composed of the present fourth -cruiser squad ron and six cruisers of the county claws, so called because the vessels are named alter ihe counties of Rut land. The squadron, which will he called the Pacific and North Ameri can squadron, will, it Is expected, have Its base at Ksquimall. Tlie scheme will become effective in May, 11)08. Ir will, perhaps, be recalled tint an explanatory statement of the navy estimates lor 1!)0T-'()S contained the announcement that tho- naval ' yards at Halifax and Esquimalt would be transferred to the Dominion govern ment subject to the condition that they bo available for repairing his majesty's ships, and that the admi ralty would be free to resume pos session whenever naval interests re quired. The Standard says it does net know how Canada will be affected by the scheme. The fourth squadron cruises periodically in North Ameri can and West Indian waters. The Story Denied. (By Table to The Times.) London, Dee. 21. An emphatic de nial is made by the British admiralty that Great Britain had decided to es tablish next May a Pacific North American, squadron, 'the base of which was to be at Esqulmault. One of the highest officials said that the report which was published in the Standard was ridiculous and without a shadow of foundation. OUT FOR TAFT (By Leased Wire to The Times.) Detroit, Mich., Dec. 21. Gover nor Warner has issued a formal statement declaring himself in favor of Secretary of War William H. Taft for the republican nomination for president. A straw vote of twenty-four coun ties, the most densely populated of the state, shows Secretary Taft has an overwhelming lead of Hughes, his closest competitor, and that Can non, Fairbanks, Lafoliette, Root, Cortelyou and Knox are snowed un der., ; -'',"... . . LIPTON CUP FOR NEXT YEAR (By Leased Wire to The Times.) New York, Dec. 21 The board of directors of the Brooklyn Yacht Club has formally accepted the custody of the cup valued at $1,000 oft'ored by Sir Thomas Lipton for i:n ocean race next year. Tho directors also passed a resolution of thanks to Sir Thomas for his generosity in offer ing the trophy. The conditions of the race werq referred to the regatta committee for settlement with distinct instructions, however, that the race should not be to Bermuda. Some members of the clubs favor Nassau as the objective point and the race may finish there. CAPT. OF WRECKED VESSEL FROM WILMINGTON l'ICKEI) IT. (By Cable to The Times.) Liverpool, Dec. 21. The steam ship Miguel De Larrlnga, Just in from Galveston, brought the captain and crew of the schooner Gardiner B. 'Reynolds, abandoned in a sinking condition, en route to Portland, Me., from Wilmington, N. C. MICH GOV COMES Wrecked Mine Roped Off to Protect Onlookers 00 BODIES ENTOMBED Only Eleven Cci'p:e:: Have Yc'. lloon Removed From the. Wrecked Darr .Mines in Pennsylvania Great Dif ficulty Kxfierleitc'cd in Getting the Dfiul Out It !.!; lie Weeks IS- , for' They Are Brought Up Trou- - hie. Feared. (By Leased Wire to The Times) Jacobs Creek, Pa., Dec. 21 Willi only eleven bodies actually re moved from the wrecked Darr mine here, with the .wont danger of an-: oilier explosion hi"..;' terrific than the first and wil'i i;" Imust insur mouniable obstacle' W." great volumes of gas that poiiioi;, t'.c air, the re covery of the boc'.i :; of 300 dead miners' will be cxir er.iply slow. So great is . the fear ol another explo sion that a large area at the mine en-, trance has been 'roped- off to prevent ; tlie possible death .of scores. -of on--' lookers. So great i.v the danger to the rescuers, froi.i the poisonous gases that the finding of bodies is a question of slow, scientific" treat ment of the deadly fumes. Thus, it will be days -perhaps', weelts-beforo the exact number of entombed men .will be known. Michael Hallopy, organizer of tho United Mine-Workers, claims that at least"-2 00 men have been killed in the Darr mine. He believes the list will reach nearer 305. Mr. Hallopy bases hia aliegaUocB a a-eanvass of the miners' homes, which he has just completed. In spite of the many difficulties, however, the fes cue parties have penetrated about 6,500 feet, but it may .require 48 hours more to reach the far entries of t he mine where most of the men were known to be at work. Officials of the company- stated today that the mine is damaged to a greater extent than - was expected. Thei greatest damage has been found in j the deep recess of the pit. The ex-' plosion tore down large quantities of slate in many of the extreme rooms and the mine heading is al most completely blocked. Several members of gangs erect ing brattice workhave been over come by after damp and have had to he removed from the mlno and given medical attention. A suicide and an attempt at self destruction has already resulted from the disaster. Conrad Schuth, 48 years old, crazed by the death in tho mine of his son and other rela tives, ended his own life yesterday by drowning in the river near the mine. He was a widower and leaves four small children. Mrs. Carrino Delano was restrained from committing suicide yesterday. She lost her husband and two sons in the disaster and in quest of the bodies was crossing the river on thei ferry when she was seized with the idea of leaping into the stream. The efforts of three men were required to restrain her until a landing was reached. BAD WRECK STOPS TRAFFIC (Special to The livening Times.) , Charlotte, N. C, Dec. 21. With a heavy train of freight cars seeding along at the rate of thirty miles an hour, a Seaboard Air Lino train Just before daylight today dropped into a long ravine spanned by a 2.10-yard trestlo built of wooden timbers. The weight of tho train broke the trestle, " and nearly every foot of the long bridge was wrecked. The cars are 1 plied up level with the approaches, ! and It will be several days before trains can cross the scene of the trouble, which Is twenty miles west of Hamlet on the main line of the Sea board. ; All through passengers trains will' have to transfer their passengers un-; til the long Rpan Is again bridged, which will probably be the middle of next week. It is said that the engine , got safely across, so that none of the crew were Injured. Roosevelt Uses His Influence ES IS THE LOSER Scheming of -Mr. Roosevelt is Said to Be Responsible for Rise in Taft Stock What the Politicians Are Counting On Secretary's Support ers Feel Cheerful Over Xew York Situation. (By Leased Wire to The Times ) Washington Dec. 21. To the In fluence of the president is attributed the postponement of action on the resolutions endorsing Governor Hughes for the presidency by the New York county republican" committee-"'. .-Thursday. Representative Herbert Parsons, chairman of the committee, and other friends of the administration, conferred with Mr. Roosevelt before the committee met, and politicians believe it was in def erence to his wishes that the.. resolu tions were laid aside tint 11 - next, month. ; On the assumption that the post ponement was in accordance with tlie president's desire, the natural inference is that it was in the 'inter est of Secretary Taft. Consequently, the supporters of the secretary of war feel cheerful over the situation in the Empire state. Tho governor has been regarded as one of his most formidable rivals for the piesid?n tiar nomination, : and one of their most ardent hopes has been that the New York delegation woulld not be instructed for him. The result is they are now count ing on a divided delegation from New York and they look upon this pvospeet as offsetting a possibla di vision of the Ohio delegation as a result of the candidacy of Senator Foraker. As they figure it out they would not put the secretary at so great a disadvantage after all, If he did not have the united support of his own state, since the delegations from New York and perhaps one or two other states which have iavoUte sons, may likewise not be united. WORK OF THE (By Leased Wire to The Times.) Washington, D. C, Pec. 21. In the senate today the session lasted thirty five minutes, then adjournment was taken for the holidays recess. Senator Keott Introduced a point res olution to investigate mining disas ters, ' :" . ,. - -J Senator Scott Introduced a Joint res give Rear Admiral -Evans the giado of vice admiral. Senator Burkett in troduced a bill for control of the graz ing nn public lands. Tlie Joint resolution appropriating $r,o,000 to replace seeds destroyed bv the fire at the department of agricul ture was passed. In the house a resolution was Intro duced by Representative Hull admit ting a Costa Hican for instruction in the military academy at West Point. U vas adopted. .'Mr. Gaines of Tennessee, -made a speech regretting that the house wilt take a Christmas holiday. On motion of Mr." Payne of New York, the house adjourned for .the Christmas holidays until noon Jan uary fi. FIRE AND DEATH AT WILSON (Special to The Evening Times.) Wilson, Dec. 21 Arthur Carter, popular salesman of Wells-While-head Tobacco Company, died last night after a few day's illness with pneumonia. Funeral this afternoon from the Presbyterian church. The large dry goods stores of J. & D. Oettinger narrowly escaped great damage today by tire in Ihe heating plant. The flames were con fined to the basement after a hard fight by the lire department. Loss fully covered by insurance. CONGRESS TODAY (By Leased Wire to The Times.) Denver, Col., Dec. 21. At the coming democratic national conven tion if the women of Colorado have their way, Ruth Bryan Leavitt will place in nomination for the presi dency of the United States the name of her father, William Jennings Bryan. They are determined to have her elected as one of the Colorado dele gates to tho convention so that she may be officially recognized on the convention floor. Colorado which is a woman's suffrage state, will send one and probably two women delegates. INK OITLOOK POH MOUE AKKKSTKI) IN NEW YORK (By Leased Wire to The Times.) .Havana, pec.: 21 Governor Magoon is informed that statements have been received froin. several sugar . mills, which already have begun to grind the present .crop, .-that-'. every hundred ar robas (if ft,;n' will yield one arroba of sugar mure than last year: that a gain of twenty-five pounds of sugar for every ll.fiiio pounds of -cane. This is a gratifying report in view of the lack of -rain .-during the last few months. CORPO. COMMISSION INTERPRETS PROVISION OF THE HEPBURN LAW (By Leased "Wire to The Times.) Washington, P. C, Dee. 21. An offi cial interpretation of the two years' limitation... provision-, .of the railroad rate law, popularly known as the Hep burn act, has been made by the In terstate commerce commission. This action of the commission is of the first importance regarding all claims now pending before th- commission, or likely to be filed for damages or repa ration. The claims now pending in clude the demands for reparation made by the members of the yellow pin association which aggregate be tween $2,000,000 and $3,000,000. The commission has issued no for mal announcement of its interpretation of the limitation provision of the in terstate commerce act, but simply di rected that the following entry be made on tlie minutes of the body: '"Claims filed since August 28, 1907, must have accrued within two years prior to the date when they were tiled, otherwise they are barred by the statute. Claims filed on or before Au gust 28, 1007, are not affected by the two years' limitation In the act. "Voting in the alllrniative: the chair man and Commissioners l'routy, Clark and Ht'.rlan. Voting in the negative: Commis sioners Clements, Cockrell and Lane. "The commission will not take Jur isdiction of. or recognize Its jurisdic tion over any claims for reparation or damages which are barred by the statute of limitations as interpreted by the commission; and the commis sion holds, further, that it will not re cognize tlie right, of the carrier to waive the" provisions of the statute." WRECK DELAYED TRAFFIC ON THE S. A. L TODAY (liy Leased Wire to The Times.) Richmond, Va., Dec. 21 A south bound freight train an the Seaboard Air Line, consisting of sixteen loaded and seventeen empty cars was wrecked at twenty-mile post south of Petersburg at 7: SO last night. A brake-beam, slipping out Of place,". It Is kii id. caused the derailment of thi train. Kil'tecn cars were idled lip in tlie ditch and the track was not cleared until l;:i() p. m. today, delay ing all tralfirv A negro brakeman named Frank Williams had his leg broken and foot crushed. Three tramps known to have been on the train are supposed to have been killed.': HUNDRED THROWN INTO RIVER; MNAY DROWNED (By Cable to The Times.) Allahabad, India, Dec. 21. When a new pontoon bridge at the jurc- I tlon here of tho Ganges and Junlnla ! rivers was opened today It broke down, throwing one hundred people : into the river. Many were drowned. What Democrats Must Do to Get Control THE NATIONAL HOUSE There Are Number Districts Barely Republican and Democrats Are Counting on Getting ! These- That's Why So Much Interest to Taken in Chairmanships of Con gressional Committee. (By Leased Wire to The Times.) Washington, D. C, Dec. 21. Because they believe they have a good chanc? to elect the next house, the democrats are taking considerable interest In to fight for the chairmanship of the con gressional committee between Mr. Lloyd of Missouri, and Mr. Flood 'of Virginia. The work of rounding up the representatives of the respectivs states ielcgations on the committee was continned yesterday. . Twenty-i Ight committeemen who have just been elected are: Brundige, Arkansas; Davenport, Iowa; Moore, Texas; Smith, Arizona; Bartlett, Ne vada; Hitchcock, Nebraska; Ham mond, Minnesota'; Hamilton, Iowat Huliiey, Llinois; Ryan, New .'York; Vvelsse, Wisconsin; Dixon, Indiana; Ansbury, Ohio; McHenry, Pennsyl vania; Granger, Rhode Island; Hughes, New Jersey, Lloyd, Missouri; Git!, Maryland: Flood, Virginia; Kitchen, North Carolina; Finley, South Caro lina; Griggs, Georgia; Clark, Florida Burnett, .Alabama; Bowers, Mississ ippi; Broursard, Louisiana; Gaines, Tennessee; Johnson, Kentucky; Kelt herMassachusetts. The democrats believe that discon tent can bo engendered against the re publicans tfufflclcnt to defeat them !f a proper piiicy be pursued this Win ter. Th-;y have to carry twenty-nine districts ir order to do so. There ar that number, which, on the face' bf the returns of the last election, need a change of less than 1,000 votes in each to go democratic. These districts, their present republican representa tives and the number of vote that have to be changed In order to make, them democratic, are as follows: -' Indiana fourth, 660; Chaney, 170; Holliday, 477; Watson, 748; Qllhams, , 175; Brick, 104. New York McMil lan, 486; Southwick, 877; Falrchtld, 630. Illinois McGavIn, 43. Kentucky James, 400; Bennette, 658; Langley, 456. Iowa Kennedy, 140; Dawson, . 796. Nebraska Boyd, 145. Wisconsin Nelson, 963; Stafford, less than dem ocrats combined. Ohio Douglass, 66S; Mouser, 137; Dawes, 710; Kennedy, 922. Missouri Ellis, 894 ; Caulfleld, 19; Coudrey, 415. Pennsylvania Lafean, 225; Acheson, 669. New Jersey Fow ler, 276; Parker, 256; WHAT THE GAMBLERS AT MONTE CARLO DO (By Cable to The Times.) , Paris, Dec. 21 The "system" em ployed by a lucky Frenchman at Monte Carlo has so impressed pleas ure seekers at that resort that many of the old timers, who lost several fortunes, have been spurred to re newed efforts to raise a stake for tho purpose of trying to wrest back a part of their losings. The French man won $40,000 in three days at Trent Et Quarantle, staking l,00tf at a time and doubling after each win. Each time be lost be reduced the stakes by half, Instead of doub ling it. His method was so success ful that it is being generally linl tated. Two wealthy young French women, after losing $5,000, tried the system, and are now $10,000 ahead of the game. DIU'XKEX DOCTOR DREAMS A DREAM AND SHOOTS A MAX. Warsaw, W. Va., Dec. 21. Dr. Hen ry B. Treakle, a young physician of White Stone, in the lower part of Lan caster county, shot and seriously wounded George Ward, who lives In the same neighborhood. Dr. Treakle, it Is said, had been drinking heavily for some time past, Treakle says he dreamed : that Mr. Ward had forcibly entered, his horns and abused and maltreated Mrs, Treakle. Rising early and taking his shot gun with him In his buggy, he rode to Ward's home, three mile away, called him out and shot him down. Ward was shot In th arm, side and face, tearing the flesh from his arm and inflicting critical, if not fakal wounds, . 1 '. ' GOVERNOR GLENN IN j BEAUFORT TOMORROW. Governor Glenn left this '' kfter noon for Beauofrt, where tomorrow he will deliver an address. Me will return to Kalelgh Monday. '
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