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RALEIGH, N. C, TUESDAY, MARCH 17, 1908.
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U. S, WARSHIPS
DISPATCHED!
PORT-AU-PRINCE
Fears of General Massacre to
Follow the Reign of
Terror There
GUNBOATS OF OTHER
NATIONS TO THE SCENE
The Administration At Washington
Orders the Eagle to Proceed to
Port au Prince At Once, to be Fol
lowed by at Ijeast Two Others.
Oreat Britain Has Already Dis
patched Two Cruisers to the Seene.
French Cruisers Join Those of
Germany and England Trouble Is
the Outgrowth of State of Affairs
Depicted in Cablegrams Printed In
The Times Yesterday and Satur
day. ,
(By Leased Wire to The Times)
Washington, D. C, March 17.
Fearing a general massacre in Hayti
following the reign of terror that ex
ists there the United States govern
ment has ordered the gunboat Eagle
to proceed immediately from Guan
tanamon to Port, au Prince. ...'
The Eagle will be followed prob
ably by the Des Moines and the Pa
ducah. The French cruiser D'Estress is ex
pected to reach Gonnalves today,
where She will act, in co-operation
with the British and German ships of
war now on their way to Hayti. It
'It understood that Germany and
Great Britain are acting in accord in
this situation.
The British foreign office has al
ready ordered the cruisers Indefa
tigable and Crescent to the scene.
Hundreds of foreigners have fled from
Hayti according to the dispatches re
ceived here." The French legation at
Port au Prince Is menaced and a gen
eral massacre of the white residents
is feared, according to a dispatch to
the French foreign office from , M.
Carterton, the French minister to
Hayti. - -
Borno, the Haytion minister of
state, assured M. Carteron that Hayti
would agre to allow the refugees who
had taken refuge in the French con
sulates at Gonnalves and St. Marc
to leave the island. Immediately fol
lowing this there came the news of
the execution at Port au Prince of
between ten and twelve prominent
persons on the charge of conspiracy
against the government together with
a correspondence by cablegram from
M. Carteron announcing that General
Alexis, the president of Hayti, had
not only refused to confirm the as
surances given by M. Borno but had
flatly refused to permit the refugees
In the consulates to depart.
General Nord Alexis claims the
plot against him,, was hatched in the
French legation, and an attack upon
the legation is feared because M.
Carteron, the French minister, de
clines to deliver the refugees under
the French flag to the Haytien au
thorities. Genera Antero Firmin, who led the
last revolt in Hayti, is among the re
fugees under the French flag. The
foreign office recognizes that the
general and his followers are revo
lutionists, but it declined to hand
them over to the Haytien govern
ment on the ground that there were
no assurance that the men would
have a legal trial. In this connec
tion It was claimed that the French
would defend any man who sought
protection. - v
The refugees number about 100 in
all.
U 8 WARSHIPS TO PORT AU FRI
Guantanamo, Cuba, Mar. 17. The
gunboat Des Moines sailed at 8
o'clock this morning for Port au
Prince, v
' Kingston, Jamaica, Mar. 17. The
. Birtlsh cruiser , Indefatigable has ar
rived at Port au Prince.
Meeting of W. B. Band.
Every' member of the W.-.B. Band
who intend to take part In the an
nual exerlaes will please attend the
meeting at the Presbyterian church
tomorrow (Wednesday) afternoon
t 3:30 o'clock. -' x
4 ARE DEAD;
2d INJURED IN
ANEXPLOSION
(By Leased Wire to The Times.)
Coalmont, Ind., March 17. As a re
sult of an explosion In one of the ten
wheel houses of the United States pow
der mills, four men are dead and twen
ty badly Injured. They were all em
ployed In the powder plant. The dead:
WILLIAM MEYERS.
PETER SIMMONS.
GEORGE GRABY.
AN UNIDENTIFIED MAN.
r All the windows in the village were
broken. Plate glass windows and many
other windows were broken In Linton,
Ind., 18 miles away.
It was feared that explosions would
follow in the other nine mills, but foiv
tunately this did not occur.
The men-fled' 'panic-stricken from the
buildings and It was several minutes
before the work of rescue began.
BRUISER BURNS
TO RETURN HOME.
(By Leased Wire to The Times.)
Detroit, Mich., March 17. -Tommy
Burns, champion pugilist of the
world, has been cabled to return to
the United States on the , first boat
after his battle tonight with Jem
Roche, champion pugilist of Ireland.
Mrs. Burns is lying seriously ill at
the home of Tommy Burn's mother
in Preston, Ont. Mrs. Burns' condi
tion Is not dangerous but is so ser
ious that a cablegram was sent to the
American pugilist to hurry home.
DRAGGED EMMA
Police Mabe Notorious Woman
Anarchist Shut Up
CAUSED A BIO SENSATION
300 People Had Assembled in Work
men's Hall In Chicago to Hear a
Notorious Woman Sneak on "An
: archy As It Really Is," When the
Police Interfered She Tills Time
Thought Discretion the Better
Part of Valor and Obeyed Orders
to Leave the Hall. : :
(By Leased AVIre to The Times)
Chicago, March 17. Emma Gold
man, leader of the anarchists of this
country, was dragged from the stage
by the police last night just as she
was about to deliver her speech on
"Anarchy As It Really Is"
The scene was Workmen's Hall at
Twelfth and Waller streets. Nearly
300 persons had assembled there,
more than half of them anarchists
of the Edelstadt group the same
set which witu which young Aver
buch affiliated and the same hall in
which he had imbibed some of his
anarchistic notioils.
At the opening of last night's
meeting it was announced as the first
conference of the Freedom Groups
and that the proceeds would be de
voted to free speech in Chicago.
Miss Goldman was not af rested,
and as soon as the police had or
dered her from the hall she went to
the residence of her friend. Dr. R.
Miriam Yampolskl, at 624 Twelfth
street, denouncing the authorities.
She said she would .take legal action
aaglnst the police for restraining her
personal liberty.
SAINT JWRICK'S
DAY IN THE MORNING!
1 New York, March 17. His Emi
nence, Cardinal Gibbons, today dic
tated the following sentiment of ap
preciation of the Irish commemora
tive of St. Patrick's Day over the
long-distance telephone to the Hearst
News Service from the Cardinal's
residence In Baltimore:
"The duty of tha descendants of
the Irish race In America, Is three
fold:
"Toward his God.
"Towards the country of his fore
father, and
1 ' "Toward bis adopted land."
FROM PLATFORM
PEACE DEPENDS
ON 12 INCH GUNS
So Declares the Famous Naval
Expert, Reuterdalil
HE WIRES THE MESSAGE
As Long as the United States Main
tains a Strong aval Force mid
Has the Command of the Sea In
the Pacilic, Every Issue Can be Set
tled by Diplomacy Hut Guns Are
the Promoters of Real and Lasting
Peace and Not Hague Conferences.
( By Leased Wire to The Times. )
Los Angeles, Cal., March 17.
Henry Re,uterdahl,.'.the famous naval
expert, now on his way to Washing
ton, after accompanying the battle
ship fleet around South America, tel
egraphed the following statement:
As long as the United States main
tains a strong naval force and has
the command of the sea in the Paci
fic every issue arising can be settled
by diplomacy. Unfortunately for the
world, twelve inch guns and not The
Hague are promoters of peace, while
the issue of nations are being discuss
ed by the diplomats.
There is absolutely no reason in
ternationally for the fleet's immediate
return to the eastern coast. The Men
roe doctrine has established the in
tegrity of South America and the
West Indies, and there Is not a sin
gle cloud on the political horizon of
the Atlantic. The superiority of the
British navy maintains the peace
abroad. :
Malting all new nayal construction
more or less absolute is another ar
gument for peace and good feeling.
The latest reason, given In W?fjt
ington for the fleet's return is that
the homeward journey would show
Europe our real naval strength. This
to be polite, is pure moonshine. Eu
rope knows well enough that in the
ports of South America the admiral
ties of the great powers have had ob
servers stationed to find out the con
dition of our ships. The German
cruiser Bremen came to Rio for this
particular purpose. The British have
been shipmates with our fleets In the
east, they know what we are made
of and to Impress Italy and France
will not keep our prestige.
BE RELIEVED
MAY EIGHTH
(By Leased Wire to The Times.)
Washington, March V: 17. Admiral
Evans will be relieved ut the command
of the battleship licet at sum! wn on
the evening of M&y 8 immediately af
ter the grand review by the secretary
of the. navy. He will be succeeded by
Rear Admiral Charles M. Thomas, sec
ond In command, and now command
ing the second squadron, comprii.ig
the third and fourth divisions ml (he
second torpedo boat flotilla.
GIRL RELEASED
(By Leased Wire to The Times)
New York, March 17. Simultaneous
with the announcement made today by
the district attorney that Raymond
Hitchcock would again be tried oil
charges of felony, growing out of the
complaints of little girls, it was learned
that Flora Whltson, or Flora Smith
(whose perjured testimony caused tho
state's first case against him to be
suddenly dropped) had been released
from the Tombs prison at 1 o'clock this
morning. Magistrate Bartow, who
signed 'the ball bond, would not say
who the bondsmen were.
Assistant District Attorney Oarvan
said the second case against Hitch
cock will be brought to trial within
three weeks,
ADM L EVANS
TCHCOCKWILL
RETRIED
AGAIN
NOW PAPKE IS
A"
His Critic So pronounces Him
AfterLast night's Fight
KELLY BADLY WHIPPED
He Went the Ten Rounds Hut When
the Time Was Called Hugo Didn't
Have Much I,oft to (jo On, Had An
other Hound lleen Demanded.
Both Peepers Bruised and Bleed
ing and Ribs Aching But Papke
Did N'ot Kseape I'nhurt,
(By K. AV. SMITH.)
Milwaukee; Wis., March ,17. He's
a thunderbolt, this man Papke. He
Is everything anybody has said of
him, and after that perhaps you can
think up something move that fits
hi ni. -
He whipped Hugo Kelly and did
the job up as befits a championship
aspirant in ten of about the fairest
rounds one could have patterned had
the fight been framed up in advance
for the-' purpose of pleasing one of
the greatest gatherings of fight en
thusiasts that ever gathered in the
middle west.
The battle at the hippodrome went
the full ten rounds agreed to in the
articles of agreement and when Ref
eree Al Bright dragged the right arm
of the German out of a tangled heap
when the final bell idled he made a
decision that was nothing If not just.
It might have been a draw by a wide
stretch of official leniency. It might
have been a draw if Bright had shut
his eyes to a majority of the points
that go to make Papke the Illinois
Thunderbolt. Kelly was a I badly
beaten up' man as he left the ring.
Both eyes were cut and bleeding, the
left frightfully gashed in the eye
brow, his lips were swollen, the top
of his head had a severe rip in it and
his right forearm swollen with a
bruise that was thought for a time
to be a fracture.
His ribs were aching and sore and
seated In his dressing room he was
about as disconsolate an object as
one could picture.
Papke did not escape unscathed.
An old cut over his right eye was
re-opened slightly and - the under
part of the same peeper was swell
ing, shut, as he walked jauntily out
of the arena. But these were mere
incidents. The laughing, light-hearted
spirit of the victor was unruffled.
Highest praise should be given
Hugo Kelly for the remarkable dis
play of gamenesS he gave last night.
He was about the most willing fellow
with the shadow of defeat cast deep
ly around him it would be possible
to find anywhere.
'-.- With the blood streaming frdm the
cut over his left eye, he fought on
with mad desperation and In the
tenth round he gave his' supporters
strong hope. Papke really was tired
in the session but his distress was ap
parent only in spots and he kept ral
lying in the most disheartening fash
ion. ";
Kelly was staggered several times
with punches to the head, but It was
body punches that wrought his down
fall more than anything else. Time
and again in every round Papke
smashed his fists into Kelly's body
with sickening force, taking much of
the steam out of the Italian's
punches. Then It was that Kelly
showed the Indomitable courage
he possesses by always coming back
with astonishing gameness JtiA meet
ing his burly young antagonist in a
toe to toe exchange of punches that
would set the crowd frantic, with de
light. There was never a round In
which Kelly did not flatter his admir
ers by a display of something In a
lighting sense. But in every round
the other fellow was the master, con
tinually doing something that render
ed nil the Italian's best efforts.
NEW NORTH CARO.
POSTMASTERS
(By Leased Wire to The Times)
Washington, D. C, March 17.
John R. Hargrovo has been appoint
ed postmaster at Duncanville, Tusca
loosa county, Ala., vice J. M. Smith,
resigned.
North Carolina: Marie B. Proc
tor has been appointed postmaster at
Beattier Ford, Lincoln county, N
C, vice J. Nixon, resigned, and A. J
Newman has been appointed at Zlr-
cenla, Henderson county, N. C, vice
U. G. Staton, resigned.
THUNDERBOLT
'ELLAMAY' WON'T
LEAVE CHINESE
HUSBAND AT ALL
(By Leased Wire to The Times.)
Snn Francisco, Cal., March 17. Mrs.
Kutherine Clein.moiis. Gould, of .New
York, has offered to share her portion
o." Howard Gould's wealth with Mh.
tVorg Sung Yu Cleminons, of Pan
Francisco,' to give her protection a r.d
a home. From the-bedside of her ill
rid penniless mate, AVong Kung Yu,
tin" Chinese'" whom she calls husband,
she who was Ella May Clemmons lias
sent at answer to Mis. Gould, "No."
These two. women,' sisters, have held
no communication fur eight years. The
silence lias been broken by an acquain
tance of Mrs. Wong Sung Yu, pitying
her plight and the misfortunes', that
have followed her since forswearing
allegiance to ; the ''American Has;, she
became a legal subject of the Chinese
Dragon, Wrote recently to Mrs. How
ard Gould, bossing her to save her
sister from .want. -
Mrs. Gould - replied to her sister's
friend and said she would gladly ex
tend aid to "Klla May"; that, upon
one condition she would send a check
for Immediate use, for clothing and all
her personal necessities, also tickets
to New York so that Klla May, upon
her arrival could go to her mother,
Mrs. John Dyan, now in the east, and
with her take passage for Europe to
spend the remainder of their lives in
travel abroad under assumed names,
but that Klla May .must come alon-.
Mrs. Sung Yu positively refused to do
this, and will remain with her Chinese
husband.
RECEIVERIPACE
'
FILES REPORT
Inventory of Visitor-Press
Publishing Co.
LIABILITIES ?I4,230,I7
Assets of Company Are $14,450.8 4.
Largest Creditors Are John C.
Drewry and Two Hanks State
ment by Receiver in Reference to
Property Not Included in Inven-
' tory.
Mr. W. H. Pace, who on the amdioa
tion of the H. J. Brown Comp fiy and
other creditors, was made receive.- fc.r
The Visitor-Press Publishing Company
by Judge .1 Crawford ISiggs, tivlAy
tiled with the clerk '"of '.the .-superior
court the Inventory of the company
when he took charge of It February
25. The inventory, .which qives in de
tail all the assets and UanilM!?--. -of
tho concern, places the liahl'Uies at
$1430.17 and the asxets at" ill.r.l.M. .'
The cash statement shows that the
Vlaltor,-Press' Publishing Company bad
on hand February 21 a cash total of
$.".3!!.02. of which SH2.81 was In the sati
and $470.81 In the bank. The lot il
property assets are given as $3,-41j 7?,
wlileh do;;s not include the pie. is and
a linotype machine.
Debts due the compan.' amount to
$.-..006.Sl) in advertising, etc., and $5.f00
on subscription accounts.
The nubilities are put at '$14.2.10.17,
John C. Drewry, the Citizens' N.uioial
Hank cr.2 the Carolina Trust C ir;ia',e
belnn the largest creditors. To Mr.
Drcwy the company owes J'i.rS2.C4; to
the Citizens' National Hank, $2.5'jc. and
to the Carolina Trust Company. $2.00.
The other amounts rinse fv-.m a few
dollars up to several hundred.
At the end of the inventory Mr. Face
makes the following explanation:
This inventory does not Ineitt.la one
Mergenthaler linotype machine which,
I believe, belongs to tho Visitor -Proas
Publishing Company. It serins tha'
this machine was bought and the title
thereto for reasons unknown to the
receiver was taken In the narrii of J.
C. Drewry and Q. C. Crater. A mort
gage was given on the ma;:')lna baik
to the Mergenthaler Llnotync Com
pany to secure the purchase 'price,.'. '.'I
understand that the purchass price
was about $3,800, of which th.;ro is new
duo about $1,400. Air monies paid tc
far on tho machine were paid by the
Visitor-Press Publishing Company. I
have been unable to get In communi
cation with Mr. Crater, although I
have attempted to do so, to get
signature to a bill of sale to the Visitor-Press
Publishing Company. Mr.
Drewry signifies his willingness to
sign a like paper. The title being fir.
oilier parties, I do not think I could
put the machine In the Inventory until
I could obtain title thjreto as r-celver."
THE REPUBLICAN
RADICAL OF THE
SENATE TALKS
He Assaults Trusts and Combi
nations in tluj Business
and Financial World
FURNISHES HIS TEXT
Senator fjaiAilette Delivers a Broad
side Against the .Money-Devil
Combination Heads the Names
From a List of 113 Men Whom He
Declares Practically Control All
the Railways, Hanking Institu
tions, Mines and Industrial Enter
prises of Great Importance in the
I'nited : States Present Panic a
Manufactured One and Xot Real,
He Declares.
(By Leased Wire to The Times)
Washington, March 17. Senator La
foilette, taking the Aldrleh bill as his
text, launched a broadside against
trusts consolidations in the business,
industrial and financial world today.
Ho read a list of 113 men who he de
clared practically controlled all the
railroads Industries, mines and banks
of the whole country. These men
raised prices or lowered them at will.
They moved them or stayed them as
they pleased. Of these 113 men, 52 he
asserted, were in the directories of the
two great banks of New York, the na
tional city bank (Standard Oil) and
the National Bank of Commerce (J. P.
Morgan). . ' .
"The ability of these groups," he said,
"through their connecting Interests to
engage in underwriting to finance pro
motion schemes, where the profits re
sulting from over-capitalization repre
sents hundreds of millions of dollars,
could have no competitors elsewhere
In the country. Their ability to take
advantage of conditions in Wall street
even if they did not create these con
ditions, forcing interest rates on call
loans as high as one hundred and fifty
per cent, would enable them to com
mand, almost at will, the capital of
the country for these speculative pur
poses," The senator took up the question of
the Aldrich bill, contending that the
test which the bill applied for the pro
tection of the government in the mat
ter of municipal bonds was different
from the test which it applied for the
acceptance of railroad bonds. He then
sald:.:'
"Today we are confronted with the
astounding proposition that congress
fchall hold out a legislative induce
ment for the exaction of transporta
tion charges which shall net a con
tinuous 4 per cent dividend on railway
capitalization. It Is Idle to say that
this measure is limited in Its scope;
that it has reference simply to a llm-,.
ited Issue of railway bonds as security,
lie is blind Indeed who does-.. not seo
the ultimate effect of a proposition
liieh directly or Indirectly raises a
standard for the payment of a fixed
dividend Upon railway capitalization
without regard to tho value of the
property. The certain effect of this
action by congress Is to stimulate
every railway company within the
purview of this statute to maintain the
position of its bonds within the favored
classes and every other railway com
pany to qualify at the earliest possible
moment for.admission to the favored
class. It is plain as the noonday sun,
that thi' direct effect of this proposi
tion will be to advance ra'lway rati
charges, and that it will Identify the
government with a maintenance of
rates in all cases where It has accepted
railway bonds for currency circula
tion.. "Could any plan have been devised
which would be more effective In
blocking the way of legislation for val
uation of the physical properties of
railways and defeating the final reduc
tion of rates to a Just and reasonable
basis?
"Coming as they do In the guise of
a reinforcement to failing credit, these
bonds are made to appear as promoters
of public Interest."
Senator Lafollctte then reviewed I he
recent panic, holding that It was man
ufactured and not real.
"Can any sane man doubt," he said,
"the power of a little group of men
In whoso hands are lodged the control
!of the railroads and the Industries,
outside of agriculture, as well as th 3
great banks, insurance and trust com
panies, of the principal money center
of the country to give commercial
banking and general business a shock
at will? Having the power, dli thav
not have reasons (purely selfish rea
sons, It Is true) but reasons nunlclc-iit
o cause thorn to exercise that power?
(Continued on Page Seven)