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Oniy Afternoon Paper Between Richmond and Atlanta With Leased Wire and Full Press Dispatched ALL THE MAEKETa THE 'B ALEIGH EVENING 3 VOLUME 30. RALEIGH, N. C, SATURDAY EVENING, J ANUARY 11, 1908. PRICE 5c. FIREMEN LOST IN GREAT FIRE THE SFCRETARY SOME OF THE LEADING LIGHTS IN THE FAMOUS THAW TRIAL. EVELYN THAW IS i NEW YORK DELIGHTED acdlWiii Three Buried in Ruins Fiflyyniured MAN ACTS OF BRAVERY Thirteen-Story Purkep Building in Xw York Burned Down Caniron - Shoots Line to Men on Building ami They Descend to Ground. Great Loss in Art Eleven Thous- .'llld People ni'iit. Put Out of Employ- i n.. T 1 1 1 1 rpi.A T ! New-York, Jan. 11 The list of dead, missing and severely injured in New York's great sky-scraper fire follows: . : The dead: Fallon, John, fire patrol No. 3. '.--::: The missing, supposed to be dead: Phillips, Thomas, engine No. 72. Connor, Geo., engine No. 72. Injured and taken to hospit nls: ... Shea, battalion chief, sixth battalion. - McDermont, police captain of East 2 2d police station. Ross, battalion chief. Lnngfprd, deputy battalion chief. i , " Darva'n, John, captain en gine company No. 72. . McNntty, John, engine com pany No. 72. Fufey, William, engine com pany Np. 72. Lynch, John, engine No. 72. Turney, James, engine com pany No. 72. ; Fogarty, William, engine company No. 72. - Jluah. Charles, engine com pany No. 72. Olm, Victor, engine com pany No. 72. Kelly, Lawrence, engine company No. 72. Snyder, John, driver, en gine company No. 72. Wellman, Captain, engine No. 74. Keevoixh, Edward, fire pa trol No. 2. Warr, Captain, Are patrol .No. 2. : Ward, Lieutenant, fire pa trol No. 2. . i Green, fireman, fire patrol No. 2.. - Fltislmmons, fireman, fire patrol No. 2. Johnson, fireman, fire pa trol No. 2. Hutchinson, Timothy, fire man fire patrol No. 2. Three firemen are burled In the ruins of the thirteen-story Parker building, 19th street and Fourth av enue, and It will be late today be fore their comrades will be able to make an attempt to rescue their bodies. Fifty firemen were Injured, .some seriously, while fighting the blaze, and $5,000,000 damage was done. v As the heavy Iron girders threat ened to warp and send the walls crashing to the street, Acting Fire Chief Blnns ordered ihe trains in the subway discontinued from 2:25 until 4:25 this morning. The heavy fire-proof material, of wnicn me noors were uuui, wenKeneu by heat, cracked and crashed from the upper stories to the cellar, spreading the fire through the entire building. It Is under these tons of debris that the firemen expect to find their burled comrades. 'On the tenth' floor of the building was stores "one of the costliest art collections In the world that of the late Henry Walters, president of the Atlantic Coast Line. Mr. Walters, a Baltimore "man, paid $260,000 duty to bring to the United States statu ary, paintings, and bric-a-brac valued at about $2,000,000. This priceless collection seems to have been totally destroyed. Another great art loss was that sustained by the firm of A. ft M. Kraghausin, dealers in costly Ori ental rugs. Their stock was the largest of Its kind in the world, being valued at a million dollars. 1 Fully 11,000 persons were pot out I .(Continued on Page Five,) Spend Three Days There On Business HIS SPEECH LAST NIGHT Af Cooper I'nion He Pointed Out lie latious of Capital und Labor Ad vocated Sympathetic Unionism Neither Woodruff Nor Parsons Wants to Meet 'Taft. ...(By Leased Wire lo The. Times.) Now York, Jan. It. William H. Taft, secretary of war, was in action early today and intends to dispose of a week's business' .'during his three days' stay in this city. He left the home of his brother immediately after breakfast uad went to his brother's oBice in Wall Street to keep business appointments. He conferred before noon with Charles Swift of Detroit and representatives of Judge White and company about financing a Philippine railroad pro ject.' While nothing would be said by Mr. Taft about political conferences he is understood to have In view sev eral interviews with prominent re publicans from the New England section. Reports are said to have been made to him, that he will have the votes of nearly all the states east of New York in the national convention There are now a num ber of prominent easterners . here. Neither State Chairman Woodruff nor Herbert Parsons, chairman of the New York county republican committee, expects to see Secretary Taft during his stay here. It is possible, however, that an interview will be arranged before the presi dential candidate returns to Wash ington. The secretary addressed an audi ence of two thousand at Cooper Union last night. In his prepared address he pointed out the depend ence one upon the other of capital and labor. He declared that great aggregations of wealth properly em ployed widened the field of labor and were to be welcomed, while wealth improperly used was to be condemned. He advocated unionism in fo far as sympathy and the re sultant co-operation made for the common good. Mr. Taft was greeted with cheers of "Hurrah for our next president.'' THE DEPARTMENT DENIES REEORT Washington, Jan. 1 1 Official de nial Is made at the state department of the report cabled from Tokio that Ambassador O'Brien had demanded from the Japanese government an agreement In writing restricting to a certain annual number the emigra tion of Japanese to the United States. The United States has not, and will not make any such demand on Japan and the diplomatic exchanges which have taken place and are still going on don't contemplate In any way put ting such a character on the repre sentations of this government as would force Japan to make an une quivocal refusal of our requests, which would be the Inevitable result of any demand for a written agree ment of any sort. CHEMISTS MEET The mldwlner meeting of the North Carolina section of the Ameri can Chemical Society was held today In the rooms of the department of agriculture. There were present a large number of chemists and the program was one of Interest. The following officers were elected for the ensuing year: President James E. Mills. Vlce-PreBldent W. A. Syme. Secretary-Treasurer R, O. E. Davis. Reporters L. F. Williams and C D.' Harris. After adjournment shortly after 1 o'clock the resident chemists enter tained the visitors at dinner at GlerBch's Cafe. The visiting chem ists were Dr. Chas. H. Herty, Dr. James E. Mills, Dt. R. O. E. Davis, . Chapel Hill, and Dr. W. H. Pegram, NORTH CAROLINA (Trinity College, Durham. .- ., E5 SAjfe fife , 45sJ f " "I ' 'Af.S ' .Xl ) In this picture are shown the lending counsel in the great 'I haw trial now left to right they are: Victor J. Ihiivlnig, (he ti(l;e; William i. .Icroiue, Thaw, the mother. THE GRAMD JURY ' -"i ICES REPORT Recommend Retiring Rooml for Women Witnesses i FIND PL Though Sanitary Condition! ; Are Found Not So Good in Jail, Blaine is Laid to Had Plumbing Sheriff and Jailor Commended -Chairman Johnson's Letter. - The Wake county grand jury, be fore being discharged tliis afternoon, submitted the following report: The grand jury at this the Janu ary, term of 1908, of the superior court of .Wake county respectfully present to the court: First. That they have passed on bills present by the solicitor and re-; turned same to the court. i Second. That they have examined I the jail of the county, and find that' the prisoners are well fed, and the jail not in as good sanitary condi-1 tion as might be. The plumbing is j especially bad. This should be rem-. edied at once. The prisoners speak in very complimentary terms of! Sheriff J. H. Sears, and subordi-l nates. '. I Third.' They visited the sheriff's j office, tho register of deeds, and also j the clerk of tho court, and found everything in very satisfactory con-j dition, all Tecords conveniently ar-.j ranired and well kent. Fourth. They .most urgently rec ommend to the county commissioners that they have suitable retiring ; rooms for the female .'witnesses" who may be summoney to the court, and , a female servant, employed during the term of court, to attend to the. comfort of female wltneses. Uiion investigation the grand jury finds no j place whatever. set apart for this pur-; pose. This should certainly lie at-! tended to as soon as possible. It mto-Hfr tin will In atnfo horn Innt ItlA1 jury had a talk with Mr. D. T. .Tolmr son, chairman of the board of county commissioners, In regard to this Im portant matter, and he gave every assurance that this matter should be attended to at once. We appe herewith his letter In regard to this matter, written later. ' Fifth. They visited the county home, and found everything in very good condition. Indeed. Tne Inmates comfortably clothed, well fed, and well cared for. .. . . ; Respectfully, O. L. BETTS, Foreman. Letter From Chairman of Board. In his letter referred to In the above report Chairman Johnson, of the county commissioners, said: ; "Our board paid out last year for permanent Improvements of the court house and jail $4,006.56. "Second. We paid out on perma nent Improvements at the county home $708.15." Mr. Johnson further calls atten (Contlnued on Fourth Page.) - THE HAPPYCLIJB :..:' ! TO ESTABLISH "(By Leased Wire to Ths Times ) Chicago,. Jan. 11- A sanitarium for inebriates is to be Branch No. 1 of Bishop Samuel Fallows' Happy Club, if certain plans o,th4 club are executed. . The establishment of the branch is looked upon as a need because tr.ose canes cannot be received at the WesstHidc flinreh among the other ap plicant for tre;Ur.iant of the bishop's "Christian Psychology." "I have received a numlier of let ters -urging me to give particular at tention to the cases of inebriates and drug victims," said Bishop Fallows! "It is true that the most thorough cure for these cases can be reached through tho: application of Christian psychology because the best and only cure is to let liquor and drugs alone. The principal point is to get the 'drunkards' mind In shape to exercise his will power sufficiently, and his taste will be overcome." WILL RETURN TOIiYORK (By Leased Wire to The Times.) Boston, Mass., Jan. 11. Deny ing all knowledge of the death of Mrs; Lena Whitmore, George Dick enson, or Charlotte McDonald, ar rested last night in Cambridge, after a week's search, upon the charge of being an accessory to the murder of Theodore Whitmore's wife in Harri son, N. J., on Christmas night, in formed Chief Inspector Valts this morninsr that she would willingly ac companyofficers lo New .York .with out ."waiting.' for requisition papers. Detective Charlock of New Jersey arrived on the Hist New York, train today; and will return with her as soon as 'iossihle.' In the possession of Chief Watts is the diamond bracelet which Mrs. Dickenson admits was given her by Whitmore on the morning after Christmas. This bracelet, the Netv Jersey police say, was the property of Mrs. Lena Whitmore, the mur dered woman. Georgle Dickenson Ib Regarded as the most important witness yet found ill the Whitmore case. She admitted to the police that Whit more had paid her attention and that he had often told her that he loved her. 7 llooscvolt' an "Over-Ideal." (By Leased Wire to The Times.) Chicago, Jan. 11 Judge P. ter S. Grosscup, of the United States dis trict court, thinks President Roose v'elt is an "over-Ideal." k ASANITA ioiiifj; on m New orv 1V, and 'I (he prosecutor; Martin W. Little ton, , RTH CAROLINA CRUISER WILL E (By Leased Wire to The Times.) Newport News. Va Jan. 11. After a stormy voyage down the coast the hew- armored cruiser North Carolina returned to the ship yard hero with the news that she hud failed to make the contract speed on her forced draft run of four hours. Although the yard officials and naval ( officers who made the trip positively declined : to give any ngures, it is authoritatively stated that the ship made 21.9S2 knots on the . four hours' run, missing the required rate of ''22. knots by a narrow mar Bin..'. General'. Manager.' Post of the ship yard says the cruiser failed to make the speed because picked coal was not used and on account of certain changes iu regulations made at the last moment by the trial lioai J. He says the North Carolina is one of the finest ships ever built here, and is confident that when the vessel "'Is given anolher trial, within the next week or so, she will exceed the speed requirements. NIGHT RIOER ARE CRIMINAL (By Leased Wire "'to The Times.) '. 'Henderson, - Ky., Jan. II, Ilcsolu tions declaring the niglit rider's, .who have .-been; '-terrifying- the tobacco u l;lon( .criminals, wore adopted here by the American Society of Equity. Tho resolutions further stated that there was no fou ulatioii for Governor -Will-: son's statement' liut the -widely' was' responsible for the recent raids. The incetlnif '.appealed to the state legisla ture for laws forbidding, tho use of. Paris ureen or any other poison on tobacco.' V Hopkinsvllle, Ky., Jan. H. An agree ment has been signed by three buying houses of this town which, blacklists all tobacco pledged to the dark tobacco association. The houses will not buy nor will they receive nny of the to bacco coming under this head. The action was taken to disprove asser tions that buyers were trying to per suade farmers to violate their pool pledges., , IS (By Cabin to The Times.) Tokio, Jan. It. The appointment of i , Baron Takahlra to succeed Viscount jOokl as Japanese ambassador to the i United States was officially aiinuunc Jed today. , YET MA GOOD TARAHRA CHOSEN TODAY haw's mother. Heading front' (he delciidci', and Mrs. William SEES CONFLICT WITH JAPAN Justice Harlan Would Vote tor Big Navy A WAR IS INEVITABLE There Will Bo, He Thinks, a Conflict Between Uaecs That Will Shake the Kiirth A Skilled Army in Japan of Five Million Men. Washington, D. C, Jan. 11. A great conllict between (lie yellow and the white races 'was- the .prediction made by Justice John M. Harlan, of the United Stales supreme court in an ad dress at the third annual dinner of the tiavy league of the United States at the New Willard last night. ..-Justice Harlan said in part: "If I had the opportunity I would vote-'for -an.:' appropriation of $.ri0,000,000 a year fur a period of ten-years for a larger navy, r The great importance of a navy is shown in the constitution which restricts the appropriations for tho nrniy, but sets no limit for those for the navy. There Is no such thing as friendsliip between nations as be tween nien. Nations make no sacri fices to preserve- friendships and don't forbear to do certain tilings because It does not meet with the approval of another nation. "1 don't care how large a navy we haye, but I want to see a navy large enough to take care of the Pacific and Atlantic oceans and our ports on those ocea ns. ; "The; trend of the -.immigration of 1 lie while people, in-, the past has been from east to west. There has been none from the west. Just across the water there is a country with an Im mense population, whose commerce we are seeking. We refer to the people of Asia as the yellow race. .There are t'0.l!iMUi(in Chinese, as strong physical ly and mentally as we are. There is over there another nation whose peo ple are -progressive - and ambitious, A'e niay sumo day see a skilled army in Japan or r.,mi.0o to 10,000.0(10. . They will say: 'You claim Kurope as your country. That Is ours. Get out!' I don't think lin y have any such .Idea now, and we have no hostility toward them, lint (here will be a. conflict be tween tlie yellmv race and the -white race that -will shake the earth. When It comes 1 want to see this country with a htiyy. on both oceans that will be strong enough." TOMMY LEACH TO LEAD THE "REDS." Pittsburg, Pa., Jan. 11 When President Barney Dreyfus, of the Pittsburg. Pirates, returned from Cin cinnati, he announced that Tommy Loach, the Smoky City team's 'all round player, will In all probability manage the Cincinnati Reds next season. : "While I was In Cincinnati Garry Herrmann asked mo if Tommy Leach was for sale," said Dreyfus this morning, "and i I told him that he could have him. Herrman then said that he wanted him as manager, as he thought he would be the ideal man for the leadership of his team." Thinks Jury 100 Percenl Bet- ter Titan Formsr ATTENTION IS ON HER Is Now Jogging Memory to Recall Story Told at First Trial Thaw's Counsel Reviewing Testimony Jurors Under Close Guard All Twelve Men Selected and Thaw Pleased. I The Thaw Jury. 5 No. 1. Charles E. Grem mels, notary and ship broker, married, 38 years old. No. 2. Arthur S. Naethlng, baker, married, 50 years old, with several children. No. 3. George W. Carey, dry goods merchant, widower, 60 years old. No. 4. George C. Rup precht, salesman, married. No. 5. J. H. Holbert, pres ident of a spring water com pany, married, 40 years old. No. 6. David A. Arrow smith, president of a steam carpet cleaning company, mar ried. No. 7. William F. Doollt tle, clerk. No. 8. William H. McHugh, widower, clerk. No. 9. Frank J. Howell, ic president. No. 10. William Burck, as sistant secretary of the Bow ery branch of the T. M. C. A. No. 12 Francis Dovale, real estate operator, 40 years old. -.- . i :'."' ' '"---- : ;'. No. 1 2. James A. Hooper, butcher, widower, 50 years Old. '-;;";, (By Leased Wire to The Times.) New York. Jan. 11 With th twelve jurors sworn to give Harry Thaw a fair trial for the murder of Stanford White under close guard in their rooms in the Knickerbocker Hotel, District Attorney Jerome and Martin Little ton, chief counsel for Thaw, started reviewing the testimony given at the last trial. Evelyn Nesblt Thaw, around whom the greatest attention centers, Is also jogging her memory a bit by studying the story she told the jury almost a year ago. Thaw, who displayed such nervous ness while the jurors were being se lected, has cheered up. He expresses the belief that a better body of men could not have been chosen. As for Evelyn Nesblt Thaw, she is in high feather. Asked what she thought of the jury, she replied with a laugh: "Why, it Is one hundred per cent better than the last one. I am de lighted." Thaw will spend the time between now and Monday morning looking over his papers and consulting with his at torneys. When the trial is called Monday As sistant District Attorney Frank Gar van will open, as he did In the first trial. The examination of the police man who arrested Thaw after the killing of White, the witnesses who saw the shooting and the coroner's physician, who made the post-mortem will follow. The state does not expect to consume more than two hours In their examination. Then the defense will open. Mr. Littleton will make the opening address in the afternoon, and it Is likely that a witness will be called be fore the close of the day's : session. Then on the following day the trial will be In full swing. Mrs. - William Thaw, mother of the prisoner, who is ill at her home In Pittsburg, is Improved today, but there Is no possible chance for her to ap pear ns a witness for her son, A let ter he has just received makes this fact plain. The matter has been presented to Justice Bowling and he . annoued that on Monday he would entertain a motion to have her testimony' taken In Pittsburg. It the prosecution does not RorlouHly oppose the motion It Is expected that Justice Dowllng will ap point a New York lawyer to take the testimony and certify It to the court. With his mother 111 and his sister, the Countess of Yarmouth, busy In England getting her marriage to the titled person annulled, Thaw will not get the same comfort by . .the presence of his family he got during ths first trial. Another sister, Mrs. George Lauder Carnegie, Joslah Thaw - and Evelyn Nesblt Thaw, will be the rD (Contlnued on Page Five.)
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