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Only Afternoon Paper Between Richmond and Atlanta With Leased Wire and Full Press Dispatches. LAST EDITION. ALL THE MARKETS. THE ..RALEIGH- EVEN VOLUME 30. RALEIGH, N. C, TUESDAY, MARCH 10, 1908. PRICE 5 CENTS. JL A. JJJL I TAFT QUICKLY REPUDIATED IT And His Press Mgr. Hastens Willi An Explanalioa SMUT IS UIM As Rricfly Stated in a ' Telegram . to. Lust Edition of The Times Yester day, Secretary Taft Repudiates tlie Strange Story Sent Out by His Oliio Press Bureau If He Should Renounce Roosevelt's Policies He Would be Done For Irresponsible Clerk Issued the Circular and How He Did It. (By Leased Wire to Tne Times) Washington, D. C., March 10. After Secretary Taft had given out '-. - his repudiation of the Dress slip is sued by his Columbus press bureau yesterday reflecting on President Roosevelt's" policies and announcing that Wall street was now in favor of Taft as a conservative Candidate, he received the following telegram from Arthur Vroys, his political manager: "Columbus, O., March 9. I have just learned today that while I was absent in tne state convention last weak a pamphlet was prepared and x last Friday wa3 sent out by one of our men. In this pamphlet he includ ed an article published in the Ohio state journal, of Columbus, O., on March 1, which he referred to and (juoted from the weekly financial re view of J. S. Bache & Co., of New York, on February 29. This pamph let was sent out from hero without my consent or knowledge. If I had known it was prepared her,e I would have forbidden its being prepared. If .1 had known it was prepared and its . Issuance was in contemplation I would have forbidden Its issuance.' (Signed) A. VORYS." Washington, March 10. In the senate today Mr. Perkins of Cali fornia introduced a bill for the re tirement of employes in the classi fied service.. A bill was passed appropriating $4,000 for a site and pedestal for a memorial statue to Dr. John Wither spoon, former head of Friucston College, to be erected in Washing '.' ton. ;- r Senator McLaurin addressed the senate on the Aldrich currency bill. Senator Galllnger got an agree ment for a vote March 20 on the ocean mail subsidy bill. Senator Bankhead of Alabama in troduced a bill for the purchase of an airship for use of the army de signed by John Mason Jones, of New York.',.: Senator Dillingham introduced a resolution providing for tests of fhe Ishara long range shell. It was re ferred to the committee on naval af . fairs. In the ; house Mr. Hamilton, of Michigan, made a speech favoring government regulation of corpora tions. The committee on interstate and foreign commerce heard argu ments for a bill giving commercial traveling men a rate of 2 cents, a mile on all interstate railroads. Representative Hayes, of Califor nia, inaugurated a movement to ' weaken the power of the speaker in controlling legislation. Tbe committee on immigration and naturalliatlon increased from $5 to $10 the fee for naturalization. ANEW FUND FOR UNIV. OF VIRGINIA (By LeasSa wire to The Times) Charlottesville, Va., March 10. Through the generosity of Dr. Thomas Nelson Page and his wife, Mrs. Florence Field Page, of Wash ington, D. C, a fund of $20,000 has "been placed at the disposal of the University of Virginia for the estab lishment of a permanent lecture foundation, to be known as the Barbour-Page Foundation. The name of the foundation is in memnrv of the donor and of Mrs. Page's great-grandfather, Governor James Barbour, ot Virginia.- TODAY'S WORK IN CONGRESS THE PRINCE PUIS OUT AFTER ANNA Divorced; Wifelof Count Boni Sails for New York WHILE BONI IS ARRESTLD She Is Relieved to Have Wedded Her Former Husband's Cousin, Prince He Susan, Who Fought a Harm less Duel With Boni and Who Has Now Had Him Arrested on Serious Charges The Prince Coming to America in .Wake of Anna Gould and u Great Society Sensation Is on " Tup, : (By Cable to The Times.) Paris, March 10. A formal com plaint against Count Boni De Castel lane, charging forgery and using letters, has just been made by his cousin, the Prince De Sagan, who is reported to have married the count's former wife, Mme. Anna Gould. The ; prince charges Boni with producing at his recent trial spurious letters; purporting to have been written by him (the jirineo) in which the de fendant attempted to ruin him in the esteem of Mme. Anna Gould. The court named a judge to hear testimony against Castellane. Mme. Gould will sail for New York tomorrow on the Kaiser Wilhelm. A sensational story is current to day that Mme. Gould is practically without . funds. Mine. Gould left Paris yesterday for the Chateau St. Maran, at Daudon, accompanied only by a maid and her children's tutor. According to gossip the most of Mme. Gould's funds are tied up in New York subject to the orders of George J. Gould and her sister, Miss Heles Gould. Current rumor has it that immediately upon hearing of Mme. Gould's alleged marriage to the Prince De Sagan the Gould family stopped all remittances and forward ed a demand that the former countess go at once to New York for a family council. Well Informed persons here express the opinion that Count Boni will surely make a scene should Mme. Gould attempt to take her children to America with her tomorrow. Ac cording to the French law and the decision granting a divorce to the Gould heiress, the children can only be taken out of France with the con sent of Count Boni, subject to ap proval of the court granting the de cree of divorce. The Prince Follows. (By Cable to The Times.) Paris, March 10. Prince De Sa gan, who it is believed is already the husband of Mme. Gould, today secur ed a passport for the United States and will sail for America tomorrow on the Kaiser Wilhelm. Sagan said this mornlng.he hopes to win the con sent of the Gould family to his mar riage to the former countess. TO HONOLULU OF (By Leased Wire to The Times) San Francisco, Cal., March 10. In the hold of the liner Siberia, sail ing this afternoon for Honolulu and the Far East, are 150 cases of new Springfield rifles and twenty-five boxes of huge shells for the fortifi cations in and about Honolulu har bor. The rifles are packed tear in a box, making the shipment 1,500. A large consignment of cartridges for these rifles was shipped for Hon olulu o: the Bteamer Nobraskan, sailing; last Friday, and there are more rifles and cartridges to go to the islands. The shipment of big shells Is the first made by the gov ernment to Honolulu for a long time and will probably be followed by others. The magazines and arsenals in the Philippines have been well stocked with war munitions during the past few weeks, shipments of 50,000 rifles, 20,000,00a cartridges and large amounts ot guncotton and powder going forward since the first of the year, attention now being .given to the garrisoning of the Hawaiian Islands. BIG SHIPMENT WAR IN IONS I SPECTACULAR E Quarter Million Loss and Eigiit Men Insured BIGGEST BLD'G BURNED .Many Kxciting Incidents Attend a Rig Fire at the Big Pennsylvania City, Chief of Police Among Those Hurt by Becoming Ktitnnglrd in the Fire Hose Origin of the Fire Not Yet Kstablished Notes and Incidents ', of the Sensational Conflagration. : (By Leased Wire to The Times) ..Pittsburg,;.. '-Pa.,' March 10. The most spectacular and sensational fire in the history of Wilkinsburg bor ough occurred here this morning when the Wallace building, the larg est and most .imposing building in the town and in t lie very heart of the community way completely destroy ed, entailing ii loss estimated con servatively at " $.2 5.0,000, and causing painful 'injuries to 'eight' men. Others had narrow escapes, and at least four persons were almost burned alive as they slept. .' The fire is of unknown origin. The blaze, which within a short time af ter it was discovered, at 5: SO o'clock, threatened to become a conflagration and Pittsburg had to be called upon for aid. The building is owned by Congressman John Dalzell. The injured: Chief of Police Dan iel Doncaster, cut and bruised about the lower part of the body in being tossed about the street by a hose which became unmanageable. Robert Watson, John Cleary, Wil liam Kord, J. D. Fisher, and Peter Schrott, all hurt at the same time and manner as was Doncaster. A: Wright, cut on hands and arms by shattering a pane of glass in his excitement to escape from the build ing. - '.'' -.' ' James Woods, cut and bruised by falling down a fire escape. Adjoining the Wallace building Is the department store of Colw-Ml & Graham. It was reached by the flames and was also a mass of smoke and flames, as was the building where the fire started, but was not com pletely destroyed. The proprietors of the store estimate their loss at $15,000. v " '. There were many exciting inci dents during the progress of the fire. While W. H. Kizer was in his office on the first floor endeavoring to save his books, the 'floor collapsed and car ried him to the cellar with tho wreck age, but he miraculously escaped ser ious injury. He was rescued from his perilous position by firemen with ropes. ' "; ; At 11 o'clock the building Is still burning. The front wall is bulging out and in danger of collapsing at any minute. GET THOSE SHIPS (By Leased Wire to The Times) Washington, D. C, March 10. Representative Hobson, of Alabama, a democratic lender of tho house com mittee on naval affairs, called on tho president yesterday. After coming from the white house he predicted that the house, during consideration of the navy bill, would increase the number of battleships provided for In this year's bill from two to four. Mr. Hobson said that at least sixty democrats would Join a majority of the republicans in voting for the larger number of big ships. Pushing Scheme for New 'Warships. (By Leased Wire to The Times.) Washington, March 10. With the special house committee on naval af fairs who are getting; at work on In vestigating the charges against meth ods mployed by lobbyists interested In the naval Droeram the presidents I supporters are getting: to work once more for his big naval expansion pro gram. The reaction, as a result of the Lllley charges, seems decidedly to . u Kill 1, It tnf hill- (Continued on Page Sevan.) PITTSBURG FIR I10B80NSAYSHE ANDPRESDTWILL N TO PROSECUTE .I ;:i Trial of Actor HItcfecock Starts lip in te Yort ALL DAY ETflNG JURY Flirt of Several .Cases Growing Out of Alleged Criminal Intimacy With . Small Girls Culled Today Charge is Abduction and Assault Girl Sixteen Years Old lii-ought to Court by Agents of Gerry Society for Pro- teclion of Children Hitchcock Kays' Its Partly "'Jiiurk:i;::il Wife Stands by Him; 'and ' -Comes to Court. (By Leased Wire to The Times) '' Xew York, March 10. The trial of Raymond" H.itchcock, the actor, charged v.'ilU n-iiscohdirt-t wit ! several yoapit girls, :vas l.ie:.fi;n today-- before justice liU'.nehiiril, i:i Uio crim'iiVd' branch' of- the .-.supreme' court. The court room, v.-i'.s t-rcwdad with two Jury panels of 1 -00 nit n each,' so that there was no room for .spectators. . .'.. Hitchcock; accompanied by his Wife, I'.'S'.'-hc'J tl'.e court -room-early, Hitchcock- was stopped at the door by Policeman. Ward, who announced, that -'the-. court's instruction were that no witnesses should' be allowed in the court room Until after they had testified. Mrs. Hitchcock was given a seat in the corridor. She was strikingly dressed in a dark bine cloth tailored gown, with sable furs and a picture hat trimmed with pur ple ostrich illumes. Hitchcock' left her in the corridor and went into the court room. - He was i joined there by his lawyers, John B. Stanchfield, Carl-Fischer-Hansen and Isaac rFromme. The complainant Jn : the case tried today is Elsie Voecks, six teen years old. She was brought to court by an officer of the Gerry So ciety, in whose custody she remained during the day. Assistant District Attorney Garvin 13 prosecuting Hitchcock. He said it was likely that the whole day would be taken in the selection of a jury, and no testimony will be heard until tomorrow. . ;" Tho indictment on which Hitch cock is being tried charges him with abduction and assault. The com plainant, is Elsie Voecks, sixteen years old,; who was brought to Court today in the custody of an officer of the Gerry Society. She has been a prisoner since the Hitchcock expos ure early in the winter. ,'- (Special to Tin1 Evening' Times.) Charlotte, N. C, March 10. Soma time today there is guing to bo "an awful waste" of fiery booze In this city"'- . .-,'. ;.'. ', ; '.'; Deputy Collector J. D. Albright has In his keeping three barrels of rum Whlskoy, which he will pour into the gutters in the reat of the postofnee building overlooking Vance Park. This act of Mr.-Albright Is not of his deter-, initiation, but In keeping, with the. fed eral statutes, which require that nil contraband spirits not bringing at auc tion as' much.-as the tax per gallon shall be poured upon the ground. The stuff Is of Inferior grade, which ac counts for tho fact that no offer of $1.10 was made for It. In the three barrels are perhaps 130 gallons. Deputy Collector Albright declared that he would certainly dispose of the liquor today. Til's ho said he would do regardless of tho fact that he was the only man in Mecklenburg county who could legally sell the stuff without li cense. "Tlfl true, 'tis pity, and pity 'tis true" 'that It will' have to go all of this liquid delight and Charlotte too such a desert waste, "spiritually." Col lector Albright, who anticipates a groat mob of tho common herd to foregather about the postofllce today, has asked for police assistance, not to help him dispose of the booze, but to keep back the crowd. Only a few members of the city administration and of the Anti Saloon League will be permitted with in the space enclosed by the ropes. "Good-Dye, "Old Booze," will be sung while the celebration is in progress. GDuGLE-GDOGLE: GOOD BYE OLD BOOZE-GOOGLE! IT'S EVELYN WHO 01 While Harry Hopes for "Rec ORClliallca" Ssys Lawyer NEW ASPECT ON AFFAIRS Col. Rnrtlett, Persona! Attorney for Flder .Mrs. Thaw, Gives .Oat a Statement in Which He is Cor roborated lly Evelyn and Her Lawyer, Dan O'Hcilley Thaw Didn't Assault His Wile, Hut There's a Serious Hreak Import ant Developments in a Few Days That Will Clarify the Atmosphere, (By Leased Wire to The Times) New : York, March 10. Colonel Franklin Bartlett,. counsel for Mrs. William Thaw has made the following authentic - statement regarding the strained -.relations between Harry Thaw and his wife: 'The-' reports that, have been printed to the effect that Mrs. Evelyn Nesbit Thaw "has ''becil shadowed for evidence in' a -divorce1, proceeding are without truth, ilis. William Thaw is inclined to be fair and just with her son's wife. Insofar as I am concerned as counsel for th! mother, I would not use any such means us are suggested in these frequently; printed" stories."' I believe that Mrs. Evelyn Thaw has every rea son to expect consideration in 'her treatment by myself us counsel for Mrs. William Thaw. "Mrs. Evelyn Nesbit Thaw desires a separation from her husband and her husband hopes there may be a recon ciliation. 'There has been an estrangement between them, but there-has not been any such outbreak on the part of the husband as was described in an after noon paper yesterday." Colonel Bart lett, ..declined to discuss the. financial end of the family trou bles of the Thaws, Lawyer O'Reilly, counsel for Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, denied in detail the story that Thaw had pounced on his wife wllen she last visited him, caught her by the throat and tried to slrangl; her. . :" "There is not a word of truth in that i'tory," he said, "and it will be impos sible to find an attendant at the '-asylum '. who-' will back it up." "How long since Mrs. Thaw has seen her husband?" he was asked. "Three weeks," he replied. Mr, O'Reilly also denied that he had advised young Mrs. Thaw to demand $50,000- cash and an annuity of $12,000 to consent to a divorce, or that she had been offered .$23,000 flat to give up Thaw, with the alternative of nothing at all If she did not decide quickly." "In a few days' there will be devel opments that will put an entirely dif ferent aspect on the matter," he said. it is possible only to guess-at what Mr. O'Reilly, meant, 'for he declined to make any further statement. "It is absolutely untrue that any ac tion for divorce has been begun against me," said Mrs. Evelyn Thaw at her home. "It is also untrue that I have been seen by Harry's family on the subject of the divorce. At tins time things arc fo uncertain that I cannot tell what will happen in "the future. "And all of these stories of being followed by detectives and a report of my doings having been made te law yers representing Harry's mother are false. "Why, for a long time I have been keeping a diary of my comings and goings just on purpose. On purpose for what? Well, Just on purpose, and I know Just what I have done each day and night since the end of the trial. "And my servants would make the best witnesses I could have in any di vorce case. , They know what I have been doing and where I have gone. "It Is true that I have most ot my things in this house packed up and that I am going to move very coon.- I am going to move because the house is too big. I urn not going out of New York." : Mrs. Thaw was asked If there was any truth in the report that her al lowance had been cut off and that un less she should make a settlement with the Thaw family on the basis of a per manent separation from her husband that iwmore money from that source would be coming. "It Is untrue," she said. "None of Harry's family has ever held the purse Btrlngs on me. I have been re ceiving my allowance from Harry right along. And after he was sent to Matteawan ho made new arrange ments for my allowance. I am not In need of money now nor do I expect to be. The latest story that has been started about me Is that Mrs. Thaw showed Harry the report, detectives had made about me and that ho was so Jealous when I went up to see him at Matteawan three weeks ago he choked me. That Is as big an untruth as the rest. "There will be some important de VAlnnmnntM 111 n. tow dnVR which will i set all these rumors at rest," WANTS VORCE UNG ALFONSO BARCELONA Surrousded By An Army of PRO FECTING HIS LIFE 5,000 Special Police. Drought to City Also to Guard Against Assassina tion Croud -.Kept, at Respectful ;.. Distance Trip Vneventful Visit More of Social and Commercial Than Political Nature Inaugurat ing City's Public Works Inspects Squadron This Afternoon. (Hy Cable to The Times.) . Barcelona, Spain, March 10. The train bearing King Alfonso and his suite arrived here at 9: DO this morn ing. 'The ''royal, party was met by the city officials and a short address of. welcome, was. read to his majesty by -the ''mayor.'- An immense throng surrounded' the depot, but were kept at a respectful distance by the police and military. Captain Linasas, com mander of the Catalonia province, was in -personal chu'rgu of the troops. It became known this morning that over fifty men of Scotland Yard, Eng land's famous government detective agency, had been in the city for near ly three weeks. ... Besides the military, nearly 5,000 special police have been brought from cities in northern Spain and it is the opinion of the authorities that it will be impossible for would-be assasins to approach near enough to his majesty to do him any harm. The trip from Madrid was unevent ful. Preceding the royal train was an engine with one coach bearing thirty picked carbineers. This was followed by an extra train half an hour later having the same number of coaches as the royal train, being an exact .duplicate of the train bear ing the royal party. The royal train left Madrid eignt minutes later than the second pilot train and kept almost in sight of the pilot train the entire distance. At short intervals along the route small parties of troops were stationed within sight of one another with or ders to shoot anybody who approach ed the tracks in a suspicious manner. Hearty cheers greeted his majesty when he alighted from the train, and it would seem that a large majority of the crowd were monarchy sympa thizers: The king has been strongly advised against attending a gala per formance at the Lyceo Theatre to night, but his majesty po-poohs any suggestion. The mayor- said today that should the alarmist fears for the king's safety be realized 't will be through the acts of extremists who are outside ordinary political ranks. The republicans are not disposed to mar the king's visit by thrusting the political schemes upon him at this lime. They realize that the king's visit Is more of a social and commercial nature than political and his inaugu ration of the city's new public works, which had been erected at a cost of seven million dollars, was regarded as a national act. This afternoon his majesty will inspect, the Austrian squadron now in this harbor, ' :- 5 BEFORE COURT A motion to re-tax the costs for printing in the famous $30,000 fine case against the Southern Railway by Judg3 H. F. Long was argued in the supreme court, today. Last fall the supreme court overruled the judgment of the lower court and the attorneys for the road are contend ing that the cost In. the case should be borne by the state. The cost in volved amounts to about $174. Ex Governor Aycock appeared for the state and Messrs. James H. Pou and F. H. Busbee for the road. ; Another case of Interest today was that of tne. state against Tillman, of Johnston county, who was sentenced to the state's prison for ten years for manslaughter. The principal point Involved was whether tlfe evi dence was sufficient to have the taa go to the jury. Attorney General Gilmer represented 'the state and Mr. i H. Brooks the defendant. , on
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