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Only Afternoon Paper Between Richmond and Atlanta With Leased Wire and Full Press Dispatcher LAST EDITION, ALL THE UABKETH THE RALEIGH EVENING TIME VOLUME 30. RALEIGH, N. C, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1908. PRICE 5 CENTS. HIS BLADE WAS BATHED N ROYAL BLOOD BEFORE Cardova is a Famous "Red" Who Recently Sought the Life of King Alphonso 0 1 GTAl Q R FRAN GO SEEKS TD FLEE THE His Despotic Power Broken By a Womuii, Queen Amelie, Through the Xew Boy-King, Manuel, the Late Political and Oltieiul Boss of Hie Empire Would Flee From the Sight-of the Hevoluffoiiists Who Have Him Marked for Death, and His Late Associates In Affairs of State Who Know Him No More Latest Cable News of Situation In Portugal. (Special cable to The Times.) Madrid, Feb. 4. With his almost despotic power broken by the firm hand of Queen Amelie, who through the new king of Portugal, Manuel II, forced his retirement, former dictator Franco Is today seeking to flee the country, where his policies- of repres sion cost the life of Its king. Marked for death by the. revolutionists, Franco has at last realized the Imminence of his danger, and, though Under the special protection of his successor, Rear Admiral Ferrelra Do Amaral, will lose no time-In quitting the coun try. '. That .all Is not yet quiet In Lisbon, Is proved by the scattered news re ports which reach here from the Por tuguese frontier. These say that fir ing was heard this morning In the : western quarter of the city and also declared, that martial law has been declared. Rumors of summary executions of conspirators come from Oporto, and it Is further stated that nearly 100 rev olutionists prisoners are already on their way to African prisons. Only Part of Plot Carried Out Yet. Dispatches from Paris Indicate that the assassination of King Carlos and of Crown Prince Lulse were only part of an International anarchist plof. The Spaniard Cordova, who took part In the murders. Is well known among the ranks of the world "reds": and Is said to have been concerned In the at tempts on the life of King Alfonso on his wedding day and when he was the guest of President Loubet in Paris, The new Portuguese cabinet was formed under the presidency of Rear Admiral Amaral. a member of the progressist-Dissident party. Some of the new ministers have been notably opposed to the rule of Senor Frar.co, but on the whole the present cabinet is Liberal, with monarchlal tendencies. The Young King's Speech. At the opening session of the new council the young monarch. King Manuel II, placed himself In the hands of his minister. He appeared before them and In voice shaking with emo tion, -4Ald: "1 am yet without experience, either in science or In politics, I place my self entirely In your hands, needing and believing In your patriotism and wisdom." Arrests are being made by the wholesale In Lisbon and suspicious persons still at liberty are under po lice surveillance, The Portuguese frontier is being closely guarded to prevent the escape of suspects. The authorities are main taining a strict censorship on all out going telegraphic messages. The general opinion is that there will be a modification In the ministe rial program after the funerals of the late king and his eldest son, the Crown Prince Lulse. These will probably take place February 8. Volcanic Undercurrent at Lisbon. Lisbon is still In the throes of in tense excitement and the authorities ; continue to follow unceasingly the de tails of the plot which culminated in the assassination of the king and his heir. :: . The Investigations of the Lisbon po lice show that the murders were care fully planned. , On Saturday the as sassins met secretly In the back room of a cafe and there laid out every step of the -plot, which they were enabled to do, as all the details relating-to the home coming of the king had been mad public. To each was assigned a post in the work of shooting down the members of the royal family, but lots were drawn for the selection of each particular victim.' Those who drew Queen Amelia and Prince Manuel (.Continued on Pag Seven.) TO FACE CHARGE OF KILLING BOY Lonnle Thomas, a Negro, in Wake Jail HEARING FEBUARY 12 Dennis Adams, Negro Lad, Victim of Carousal on Public Koad in Swift Creek Township Lad Walked to Kalelgh With Ball in Head and Died Later in Rex Hospital Case is Set for Next . Wednesday,- Feb ruary 12th. Lonnle Thomas, a negro youth eigh teen years old. Is lying in Wake coun ty Jail to await a preliminary hearing before Justice of the Peace Charles A. Hepark on the charge of murder. On the day before Christmas he fired a pistol ball into the head of Dennis Adams,; another negro boy, who died two-weeks ago at Rex Hospital. The tragedy oe-.'urred in Swift Creek township, about six miles from Ral eigh. Lonnle-- and Dennis and some other negro boys were frolicking In til? public road, when I.onnie, It is alleg ed, levelled his gun at tile head of Dennis and fired. It is said that there was small provocation for the deed and that the young negroes had no; been quarreling. With the ball in his head, Dennis walked the distance of six miles to Raleigh, had "part-, of the bullet ex tracted and walked back home again. Here the other part of the ball was removed. Dennis was later removed to Rex Hospital, where he died from the ef fects of his Injuries two weeks ago. Lonnle Thomas was arrested soma time ago on a warrant for assault With Intent to kill, but after the death of his victim the warrant was chang ed to murder. He was to have been given a preliminary hearing yesterday afternoon, but "ustice ot the .Peace Sepal k continued the case on account of the absence of several physicians. The case In set for Wednesday, Feb ruary .12. ' FIGHT TO FREE THAW Lawyers To Begin Action At Evelyn's Request The Faithful Wife Cannot Bear to See Harry Confined in ''That Hor rible Place," and Prevails On At torneys to at Once Take Steps to Secure Harry's Liberation From Muttenwun Asylum. (By Leased Wire to The Times.) New York, Feb. 4 Impelled to Immediate action by the demands of his wife that he be realeased from "that horrible place" as soon as pos sible, Harry K. Thaw's attorneys will, open the fight at once to obtain his liberty. Within a day or two they will obtain a writ of habeas cor pus remanding their -client to court for subsequent examination as to his present sanity. Martin W. Littleton, chief of the Thaw legal forces, has advised delay, thinking that public opinion would be made in favor of his client later and that the obser vations of the Matteawan asylum keepers and the alienists who have visited the acquitted slayer of Stan ford White would augur better for the final Issue. But after Mrs. Eve lyn Nesbit Thaw, accompanied by Daniel O'Reilly had visited the young millionaire in the asylum there was a change of front. The young wife fainted when she saw the fellow-Inmates of her husband and came to a full realization of his sufferings. She left ' Matteawan In almost a state of collapse, protesting against the In justice of keeping him there. Mr. O'Reilly said: "We are going to act quickly.' I have conferred with Mr. Peabody and Mr. Littleton. I am afraid Mr. Littleton will have to postpone his vacation. That's a tough place up there." ' ;', The contention of the members of the Thaw family is that if the acquit ted man is insane they are abundant ly able to care for him In a private sanitarium and that the association with dangerous and criminal luna tics will surely affect him mentally. The case, will be forced to an itn- ' mediate issue, and It 1b probable that within a week a sheriff's jury will i pass upon the sanity of Thaw. ; Mrs. William Thaw had planned a visit to her son in the asylum today, but after the experience ot the wife, the attorneys decided . It would en- HARRY THAW SPRINGS FROM HIS BED AFTER MIDNIGHT AND CAUSES GREAT EXCITEMENT IN ASYLUM (By Leased Wire to The Times.) New York, Feb. 4. Harry K. Thaw's ungovernable temper got tile better of him shortly after midnight this morn ing and he wandered from his private room, connecting with the general I ward where fifty-eight of the ijup ! posed "harmless patients" are confin ed In the Matteawan Asylum for the criminal Insane and created such a panic among the "harmless madmen" that guards had to bo called and they had to be restrained by force. I Thaw had been sulking since the visit of his wife, Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, yesterday afternoon. . His experience , in coming in contact with gibbenn-,' j madmen had reduced him to an almost similar state. '-.. When Thaw wnt back to the, ward he was ugly and nervous. The other .-patients, many of whom believe they are multi-millionaires, had been told that a real millionaire was among them and they began to make Thaw the butt of the:r jests. The Insane chatter of Thaw's fifty- ' eight - companions amused him for a time. Then their incessant talk began TRIAL SOON TO E OFF fBy Leased Wire to The Tlmas.i New York, Feb. 4.--Kuymond Hitch cock, the comedian, Indicted for as saults on young girls, will be tried probably next month. Henry W, Sav age told John A. Ilenneberry,: Mr. Je rome's thief clerk, that If the case was called at once he would los? be tween JGO.OOO and $80,000 as he would have to cancel several contracts mnda for Hitchcock. It Is understood that arrangements will.be made between the district at torney office and the children's society to have the trial postponed. BRYAN MAKES T (By Leased Wire to The Times.) Philadelphia, Pa., Feb. 4. William J. Bryan dictated the fololwlng last night before, attending the luncheon of the Racquet Club: "If the voters of the democratic par ty want another than myself nominat ed at Denver, they ought to Instruct their delegates to that effect. If they want me nominated, they ought to In struct their delegates for me. "It Is not a matter to be decided by me or by any small fraction of the democratic voters. It Is for the ma- ! Jorlty of the democratic voters to de termine. In November last, to stop the misrepresentations which were go ing about as to what I might or might not so and as to the conditions under I which I might or might not be a can ; dldate I stated that I would not ask , for a nomination but that would be, a candidate it It was the desire of the .democratic party that I should be. "Believing that In parties as in pop ' uiar government authority . comes up to the official from the people, I believe ,that voters when Jhey gather in their communities shouuT-..express them selves on party principles and candi dates, and then select delegates In har mony with their ideas." RICH MEN MUST SERVE JAIL SENTENCE (By Leased Wire to The Times.) . Toledo, O.", Feb. 4. Members of the (Toledo Ice trust were resentenced to day by Jude Klncaid. eNarly two years they were fined $2,500 each and sentenced to six months In the work house. The supreme court remand i ed the ease for re-sentence on the 1 ground that defendants should have . been sent to the county jail Instead of the workhouse. Today the same Judge, after hearing pleas for mercy, Imposed a sentence of six months In jail. ' danger her health to see him sur- rounded by insane patients and ad- visea ner postpone ner vibu. ANOM NASTY OM IMPORTAn STATEMENT to bore him, and When they began to tease him his anger rose, Michael O'Donnell, who In 1 902 was sent to the asylum for killing a man in a card game in New York city, .Is the boss madman of this ward. His friend and confident is Savarin Do -Angeiis, who shot a man in this city. One of their associates :s John !. Roth, who at tempted to kill the Rev. Dr. John Hall on the steps of his church, in 1891. Through the early part of the night Thaw was quiet. From the long row of while beds on -which lay the other sleeping madmen tnuM be heard rnores with occasional groans, 'as some brain-diseased patient tossed uneasily on his .bed. Now and tlien some sleeper would cry out but such noises did not disturb the. others.- It was all too much for" Thaw, how ever. He tossed uneasily in his bed in. the private room for hours. Then ' tli old Thaw temper the temper, that : marked his career from early child I hood' until the night ...lie '-.shot- Stan- ford White to death, b.ihil over. lie leaped from his bed with a hound and stalked into ward 1, north, demanding Here are some of the leading men at the recent Republican County Committee meeting;, in Xew York City, which ; indorsed Governor Hughes for the presidency. They are sketched by Artist law. , LEAP-YEAR GROOM COULDN'T STAND THE PRESSURE I Pittsburg, Pa Feb, 4. A Leap Year marriage ended In tragedy, when John Hull, aged forty-seven, ,a bookkeepor, put a bullet through his brain. (Hull's wife was a pretty milliner. They were married the day after New Years' Mrs. Hull laughingly claiming the credit of being the first young woman of the' nortbstde to take advantage of I the leap year prerogative. Hull was ,'a confirmed dyspeptic and his fellow j employes said illness unsettled his 1 mind. i ... - . ... ; ; ' ' : "' -:' - "' ' ' " i BONNtrT r'y a (no harry r quiet. His voice rose louder and louder. The other patients, easily ex cited, all bounded from their cols and for a time the ward was in an uproar. Thaw, standing in the doorway of his private room, brandished his arms and his voice sounded above the gibbering and chatter of the other madmen. He seemed madder than the others in his excitement and anger and he continued to yell his orders for "quiet." Attendants came from the other wards. Thaw's fifty-eight .compan ions were bowled over man after man, and the more excited were held fast to their cots and ordered to keep still, One uf the attendants took Thaw by the arm and led him into his room. He was told to go to bed and the com mand was the sort that even Thaw was forced to respect. "I'll be as mad as the maddest of these," lie told the attendant. "If I stay in this place a week I'll go mad, I tell you." The attendants guarded Thaw for a time and pacified him, When the mil lionaire seemed sleeping he slipped from the room. VICIOUS DUEL TO THE DEATH BY 2 ANIMAILS (By Leased Wire to The Times.) Peru, Intl., Feb. 4. There was a fight to the death between a big Bengal tiger and a leopard In the arena of the winter quarters of the Wallace shows In which the leopard was the victor.. - , The tiger got the leopard down and was tugging at his throat, when the apparently, exhausted animal turned upon his back, and, with hind feet, be gan clawing" at : the tiger's breast. With every stroke the blood flowed In . streams. In a few moments, the claws of the leopard had reached the vitals. of the tiger, and these were torn out. The tiger fell over on his side, dead. T HELD INA BANK (By Leased Wire to The Times.) New York, Feb. 4.-Knickerbocker Trust Company depositors to the num ber of more than 500 with more than a half million dollars to their credit In the Institution, are lost, strayed, or stolen. No less than sixty canvassers have been at work for weeks, trying with little result, to find these men and women, "We have discovered vacant lots and stone yards at the addresses of some of these people carried on the book?," said Herbert L. Satterlee, counsel for the Parsons committee, which Is struggling to rehabilitate the concern. "It is impossible to say what will become of the money If (these peo ple are not found." L0TS0FM1EY wiraou OWNER 12 PER CENT. INCREASE - IrV '" ' m EIGHTEEN DAYS 7: - The circulation of the Raleigh F.vening Times has increased over 12 per cent. In the past 18 days. The: Tinies( is the only afternoon paper published at the State Capital and It gives the people the news 12 to 18 hours earlier than any other paper. THE PEOPLE read The Times, that is why an advertisement in its columns brings such big RESULTS. I ANOTHER FLEET TO PHILIPPINES Uncle Sam to Send Six More Warships to Evans 14 TO OFFSET JAPANESE It Is Planned to Have Admiral "Evans' Fleet Return By Way of Suez Canal and to Supplement Present -Fleet By Six Battleships and Two Cruisers Then. to Leave , Force Kqual to Japan's in Asiatic Waters It Will Be Easy If It ; Comes Then. -- (By Leased Wire to The Times.) '.-Washington, D. "C, Feb. 4. The gov ernment is assembling and preparing to dispatch to the Philippines another battleship squadron to join Admiral Evans' fleet. It has become known authoritatively that the administra tion plans to have the Evans' fleet re turn by way of Suez Canal, but by the time Admiral Evans is ready to weigh anchor in the Philippines his fleet will have been supplemented by six battleships and two armored cruis ers. - It is the. plans of the navy yard to divide the Evans' fleet into two parts after its arrival . n the Philippines. The fire squadron will proceed home ward late this year and early next year by the Suez Canal, leaving the eight battleships of the last two divis ions. .-'.:. The eight ships, suplemented by the six which will have arrived will make fourteen battleshlBs in the Far East. Japan has only fourteen battleships altogether, . By the time the two rear divisions of Admiral Evans' fleet are ready to come home additional ships of equal force will have gone to the Far East to replace them. . KILLED 10,00(1 MOORS Slain In Battle With the Troops Of France The French Are Reported to Have Lost' Onlv 1GO Officers and Men French ''Led the Attack and Kutl the Black Men Almost Entirely Surrounded Latest Trouble With the Tribesmen. : (Special Cable to Tile Times.) Tangier, Feb. '. 4. Dispatches from tile Interior state that 10.000 Moors were -.slain In a battle with the French forces. The number of dead. French officers and men, reported is 1C0. The battle took place at Settat, one of the Moor ish strongholdes. ". According to the latest dispatches the French led the attack and almost completely surrounded the Moors. The French used their machine guns chief ly and mowed the Moors down. . The attack was made from three sides with the French artillery in front. Hanked by cavalry. The total forces of the Moors Is not stated. It Is believed they numbered upwards o 25.000. The French forces were only a part of the punitive army and are believed to have numbered not over seven thousand or eight thousand - HEROIC RESCUE OF 37 SAILORS Crew Saved By Brother Sailors During Heavy Sea and a Blinding Snowstorm 19 DROWNED III ATTEMPT T0 SAVE THEMSELVES Graphic Story of the Thrilling and Heroic Conduct of Officers and Crew of the Steamship Cymric Who Rescued Most of the Crew of the Burning Steamer St. Cuth herb While the Latter Vessel Was Burning in Mid-Sea and Nearly ONBLAZI NGSIIIP One-Thlrd Its Crew Had Been! Lost While Attempting to Save f Themselves. ' (Wireless Message Transmitted to The Times.) At sea, on board steamer Cymric (wireless via Halifax), Feb. 4. JTlw Cymric has rescued 37 members of the crew of the steamer St. Cuthbert which was burned in mid-sea. The other members of the crew, fifteen in all, had been drowned on Sunday when they attempted to leave the blazing vessel in a Bmall boat, which capsized. The rescue was made la a heavy sea during a snow storm after the Cymric and the liner Cambrian had circled around the doomed vessel tor hours, waiting for an opportunity to send help aboard. ; At 2 o'clock in the afternoon the " J storm abated slowly and the officers of the Cymric decided to lower a boat. It was manned by first offloer I Stivy and a crew of six seamen. h The boat reached the St. Cuthbert U without a mishap and landed, pro .. tected by the copious use of oil. f Nobody descended for ten min- utes. Then a heavy figure wai low- X ered, followed by another, and thegf , twelve descended the ladder. The $ horror-stricken Dasseneers and crew t then saw that Inmates of the burn ing boat were blackened w!th smoke. Two, Captain Hawke and a sailor,' were frightfully burned on the face and arms. Baked the Captain's Fare. These two injured men were help lessly beaten against : the ship's sides when they were hoisted by a loop under their arms. They had many wounds and a handsbreath of sikn fell from Hakes' face as It was dressed. Meanwhile Captain Finch ordered the boat hoisted to secure a better position for a new start. The sufferers received every care and their wounds proved superficial. Nearly everybody had the soles of their feet burned, besides bruises. Later on it was learned that no body would leave the St. Cuthbert until the captain did. The latter hesitated, declaring the Bhip could be saved, and enjoining the mate as he left not to abandon it. Lifesaving in Blinding Snowstorm. Stivy and his volunteer crew In sisted on completing the task of res cue though others urged that they be given a chance, A blinding snow storm was now raging and the sea was still frightful. Searchlights were rigged and sig nal flash torches arranged. Four teen more survivors were rescued on the second trip. Then the boat crews, leaving lights on the St. Cuthbert to show it was disabled, returned and left Immediately in 'the blinding snow, but fortunately In an ! abating sea, for those remaining. The boat returned at 6:30, half full of water, having been stove la." The St. Cuthbert's officers and crew had a terrible story to relate. At midnight Sunday smoke came from tho ventilators. Somebody went ta the bridge to warn the captain and at that moment an explosion blew all the forward hatches into the air, destroying the bridge and setting it afire. The poisonous fumes f fusel oil drove the helmsman from the wheel and he put the vessel about, heading it to the wind. , ' Captain Hawke fell to the deck frightfully burned and blinded tern- , porarlly. He immediately ordered the junior officers to man the boats. (Continued on Page 8ten.) 5
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