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Only Afternoon Paper Between Richmond and Atlanta With Leased Wire and Fait Press Dispatcher LAST EDITION. , ' ALL THE MARKETS. THE EALEIUJB VOLUME 30. RALEIGH, N. C, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18, 1908. PRICE 5 CENTS. EVENING TIMES. C.f, SAILED AWAY Former Tarheel ' Wanted in Boston Turns Up In London SAW CRASH AND SKIPPED Located and Recognized In London by Former Business Associate. Denies He is Criminally Respou Klble for Anything Connected With His Collapse But Admits He Has : Gone Broke Was Able to Gather Up About $50,000 When He Sailed Less Than a Month Ago Other Particulars.' (By Leased Wire to The Times) Boston, Mass., March, 18.-Car-denio F. King, the financial agent, who a few months ago could write his check for a million, and who is now wanted as a fugitive from jus tice, is in London : lie has been located there by a well-known business i man who has been associated with him in several of his spectacular enterprises. While his friends and agents were circulating reports of his ' being in New York to raise funds, of confine ment in a southern sanitarium the financier for whose s arrest on a charge of embezzlement warrants have been issued, and for whom the police of the world are now looking, quietly gathered up his things, took every available penny and every ne gotiable paper in his office, valued at about $50,000, and sailed for Liver pool on the Cunard, Liner Etruria February 22nd. ' - King's name was not entered on the list of passengers, and his res ence aboard the boat was not known until after the pilot had left. Then he made his appearance and seemed to make no effort to hide his iden tity.' He wag recognized by a prominent Boston business man with whom he had been associated, and discussed his plans and the outlook for the fu ture, intimating that he was goi:ig abroad on business. At that time ho warrant had been issued, and the friend did not know that King was in financial difficul ties. : He and King left Liverpool to gether and went to London together. It was there that the friend learned a few days ago of the fact that King had disappeared and that the police were searching for him. He com municated with his Boston lawyer, who notified the police. Tonight a cablegram was received from London saying that King was stopping at a second-class hotel and quoting him as saying that he would soon Issue a statement explaining his side of the difficulty r" He denies that he fled as a criminal and says that he is Innocent of every charge. He claims that if anything, he is only a debtor and not an embezzler. He admits that he is '"broke," but says that if certain plans turn out be will be able to make good his losses and settle with his creditors before any criminal action can be taken. He says he has communicat ed with his Boston counsel and that they will, at once act. in his behalf. None of his lawyers in Boston to: night would admit that they had heard from their client, and none of his former agents or friends would admit that they even knew King was In London. The police will at once - communicate with the London po- llco and, It is probable that King will be arrested tomorrow and held for extradition. Whether he can -be extradited or mot is a question. His business af fairs are in such shape that it is al most Impossible to learn anything from them, and the receiver now In charge says' he cannot make, head from tall. , If King persists In the claim that he Is only a debtor, the general im pression is that the authorities will have a hard time proving embezsje ment, owing to tuo manner in which he conducted his affairs. i 1,200 WITNESSES TO THIS SUICIDE San Antonio, Tex.; March 18 A dispatch to the Express from .3ua delajara, Mexico, sayr , Jose Meria Moreno, owner, of the San Pedro ranch In Conposltal, yes terday committed " suicide before ' ' 1,200 people by going into the cattle pen and allowing- a hull tT gore him . to deatu. s v HOW KING LATEST ADVICES F SEATOTROUBLE V (By Cable to The Times.) Portau Prince, March 18. The embarkation of Haytien revolution ary refugees aboard the French cruiser has already begun from the consulate at Gonnaives. The French, German and -British diplomatic representatives are look ing after their departure nad guard ing against 'any demonstration, either by the government or there about, against the fugitives. An rangements are also being made to take the revolutionists sheltered at St. Marc and Port d9 Paix to Gon noives for embarkation. Prsident Alexis will do his best to prevent any outbreak of violence against the men the powers are de porting..; ' -.. ; Strong forces of troops guard the. streets of Port au Prince, Gonnaives, St. Marc and Port de Paix, and no public gatherings are permitted. The executive has made it clear, howeyer, that he considers himself as having granted concessions to tha foreign governments upon which they could not have justly insisted. There is no doubt he would have de sisted had he been powerful enough to do so, and that an Immediate ef fort will be made to secure American assistance in concluding treaties. The president is investigating a complaint from Secretary Hortzberg, of the German legation heie, that the later narrowly , escaped beingK mobbed on his way from the legation to the wharf to consult with the commander of the British cruiser, on the ship's arrival Monday night.. - The people accused the secretary of the responsibility of the recent troubles and finally became so threatening that he had to beat a path through the crowd to the wharf iwth a heavy walking stick. There is no doubt an apology will be forth coming. That the presidentV'elieved Port ait Prince aws in dank r of bombardment when the foreign war ships arrived is certain. He figured, however, that ha might as well fall by an overwhelming outside force as at the hands of the revolutionists the consulates have been sheltering. PROSPECTS OF THE BATTLESHIP FLEET'S RETURN (By Leased Wire to Tho Times) Washington, March 18. It, is proba ble the American battleship fleet will remain in the Philippines for at -least six weeks on its cruise from tho Pa cific coast to the Atlantic. This In ference is drawn from an oVdclal state ment given out at the navy depart ment today to the effect that Rear Ad miral (now captain) William D. Pot ter will hoist his flag- as commander Of the second squadron before the fleet leaves thePhllipplnes. Rear Ad miral Emory will leave the fleet on October 30, when Admiral Fetter suc ceeds him. s Admiral Emory will not be retired until December 17, but without the relief of one rear admiral there would be a supernumerary on the fleet. As it is announced that the fleet will nrrlvo at Manila about Septa, n- Jber 15, . it will therefore remain In Philippine waters about six weeks. HljpN INSISTS The overture was certainly hade (By Leased Wire to The Times) Washington, March 18.--Represenla-tlve R. P. Hobson, of Alabama, reat serted today that Lawrence Spear, naval constructors ; for the Elecirle Boat Company, came' to him last No vember and made the overture to him to have him put oh the commltteo on naval affairs If he stood "right" on submarine legislation, . Mr. Hobson went further than he did in his testimony before the Inves tigating committee and Said Hr. Spoir made the overture, unoqulvocally and unmistakably, not only to hlra, but to his private secretary. 4. . . ROM HAYTIEN HART McKEE. ftp mmMmMM VAV, JTNT uru " T -.-SiRSaii;-.'"' Hart.McK.ee, whose picture is hare shown, is a young Pittsburg Million aire''' who .is now being sued for di vorce in Paris. '- Mr. MiUfce'e seems to have had bad luck in his matrhnom, tills eing the second apsparance in i divorce proceedings THE MYSTi DEEPENS HE! Police Story Contains Atlmls sions Which Add to it NOT GOOD CLUETOK State of Body of Florence Iteynolds, Found in a Coal Bin, .Slakes it Difficult to Determine Cause of Denth An Insurance Policy Which the Police Assumed Would Furnish un Important Clew, Turns Out Useless. , (By Leased Wire to The Times) New York, March 18 The mystery enveloping the death of Sarah Thomp son, some times known as Florence Reynolds, whose body was found in a coal bin In a cellar at 147 East! 32d street, deepened today. Despite the unusual circumstances surrounding the case the police de clared the young woman was not the victim of an assassin and admitted she had been dead so long It Is now impossible to get a .satisfactory story of her actions previous to her death. The state qf the body made it dif ficult to determine the cause of death and the only clue on which the police had to work the finding of. the life Insurance policy made put in the girl's name fell flat. 1.1 was proved that the policy was taken out by a former friend, who, after learning of her death, turned it over to an un dertaker with instructions that every cent was to be used for her burial expenses. '. i - ' HARD TIMES IN COTTON MILL CIRCLES (By Leased Wire to The Times) Plainflcld, Conn., March 18 No tices have been posted In cotton mills at .Greenville, Shctucket, Voluntow, Nowch Falls, and other towns noti fying three thousand employes of a 10 per1 cent, reduction in wages next Monday. . , Montyille mills have shut down altogether.- :' ' ' .. -;.:',..- ....'.' E8Y THE MIS-SP ELLED WORD CONTEST. :'. : ' :;-.;.;:;. ., ;-': ''"'.;.'.''''''''.'''''.'''''' -' -.-".' ' No one found the mis-spellod word yesterday. It will appear in a local adver tisement during the week ending March 21, and the first person who finds the word and reports it to the business office will be given a year's subscription to The Times. Read today's advertisements and if you don't win the prize today, try tomor row. H E ANSWERS WIFE'S CHARGES Noted Pittsburyiier Figures In Pans Divorce Suit HE BLAMER THE WOMAN Cornelia's Passionate .Love Letters to" Hart Before the McKee's Were Married Rend in Court ilh .Some KnVct American Consul Placed on the Stand, lie Bores the lii'arii cd JiKles With His Generalities. Some Spicey Details. (By Cable to The Times) I Paris, March 18 A. Hart McKee, I the. wealthy Pittsburger, 'whose wifej is seeking an anullnient ot their j marriage, answered her charges in I the French divorce court todav with sweeping denials and counter-accusations of falsehood, cruelly and un faithfulness. McKee's side of the case was opened today, after a weeks post ponement, and his counsel, Maitre Labori, made a preliminary demand that Mrs. MeKeo's divorce petition be reiei-ted 'anil flsked for the irraiitinff of McKee's petition, flot alone for a legal separation, hii for the custody of their children. Through his attorney ; McKee de nied every charge set up by the wife. "Under the mask of a professional beauty," said the attorney, "she hides the falsest and cruellest of souls. She is hysterically shameless, He, a tender husband and step-father, in- stead of the satyr and tyrant she has pictured him." Labori urged the court to teach Americans a good lesson by showing them how French' jmsiice .'wards such prejudices of a trial at, law. Taking up the history of the Mc Kees life togethe ever since they were married at the Bsllevue-Strat-ford Hotel in Philadelphia, the law yer asserted that Mrs.vMcKee was too first to cause a breach, leaving her husband and children at the chateau of veronne after a trifling difference and then'-telegraphing . to her hus band to follow her to Paris, where he arrived to find that she had rifled the safe in their city residence and disappeared. ... Labori referred in general terms to the devotion of McKee towards his wife and children, but read many tel egrams and letters in' support of his claim that she had showed evidence of her favor upon other men than her husband. McKee's denials cover the broad and general assertions of his wife that he was stingy, irregular in his habits and a menace to the peace of their lives. In her libel suit she had asserted that MeKeo would spend much of his time about their home, attired in pajamas, writing for the New York papers under the signa tures of "Fifl" and "Clarice." She had also set up the claim that Mc Kee was uncleanly In his habits, wearing portions of his garments un til they literally fellVfrom his body. After the answer, today McKee boasts that his suit would create tho biggest scandal of the year fell flat. He claimed to have evidence in his possession relative to the conduct of his wife which would shock their friends, ... McKee says that his suit for libel against Mrs. McKee and her father, General G. M. Baxter, formerly of Nashville, Tcnn., will be pushed to a conclusion subsequently to the divorce trial. A striking coincidence lies. In the fact that McKee's first wife, formerly Miss LLydia Sutton, of Pittsburg, is in. Paj'is, and Is said to be on rather frlehdly terms with her former hus (Continued on Second Page.) . MRS. HART McKEE. W .( & 1 J it ' .'v:C'-';: 4 1. h " L.i.d.U .. Mrs. Hurt McKee, whose picture is here shown, is suing her husband for a divorce m Pans. Mrs. McKee is a noted nguro in this country. Th?re are manv feature m her mar riage to McKee. BENA1DA What the Astute Sen. Lodge Says On the Subject IF NOT TAFF, ROOSEVELT If They Keep Pounding Away at Sec retary Taft and Succeed in De feating , His Nomination, un First Ballot, There Wilt be a Hush, Amoiuiting to a Lamlslide For Koosevelt That None Can Stoji So Say These Politicians. Washington, D. C, March IS The Washington; correspondent of the Boston Herald sends the : following to his paper: Senator Lodge, the closest per sonal friend the president has in congress is now a rival to Senator Bourne in talking a "second elective term" for Roosevelt. A few nights ago Senator Lodge was a guest at a dinner here, and In the smoking-room became one of a group of four who discussed presi dential politics, .One of them, a prominent representative, remarked that if the democrats would allow him to .'write the platform Bryan could give Taft a hard run and could come near to defeating Koosevelt. i : Senator Lodge observed that peo ple need not bo so certain Roosevelt would not be nominated. "If they keen pounding away at Secretary Taft and succeed In pre venting his nomination at Chicago on the first ballot, lookout for a stampede to Roosevelt," said he. , "Oh, you are all saying that now in the hope of driving business men to support, Taft," said, another New England senator, "who had been one of the group. "It is a nice political coup, but it won't work. Senator Lodge insisted that there was a decided prospect tlmt the pres ident would be re-nominated. Ho has been talking It emphatically in other places during the past week, so much' so that anti-Taft republicans are be ginning to think the president may want the nomination after alt. S I T AY :0 BEACHED SHIP TO SAVE CREW PASSENGERS (By Leased Wire to The Times) San Francisco, Cal., March 18. Witn more than eighty passengers and a crew of fifty men on board, tho Pacmc Coast Steams-hip Company's big steamer Pomona, northbound from San Francisco to Eureka, last night struct a submerged reef, four miles off hc coast opposite Fort Ross, and, leak'r.g like a sieve, was run ashore and beached to save the lives of those on board. Not In the history of shipping on this coast has a sea disaster been averxd bv as smiill a margin. it'.i the pas- senders aboard almost in a panto ana ' the water pouring Into her hold, .no Pomona w;is lun ashore at the too of her speed and beached just In t'ma to prevent her sinking In-'deep- water. In less than an hour after the steam er had grounded upon the beach all its passengers had been safely transferred to the shore. Tha crew followed -if'.er saving as much of the most valmu'e part Jf --thii vessel s cargo as possible, leaving the big ship deserted, pounding in the suif. The passengers spent the night crowded in and about the oni; house within a mile of the scene of ihe wreck, the house of the Call Ranch, in the ex.?uemciit pt.d danger from the moment the ship struck on the sub mersed reef, Cay, ';a!n Swanson, his of ficers and men maintained perfect d.'s eipline and their bahavior did mu -n to allay the panic of the passengers. The Pomona landed -.with such for?e on the beach as to tear away a larpe section of the hull. Aboard was a In rge quantity of Wells Fargo & Com pany's express matter. This will re salvaged this morning. v United Mine Workers' Convention. By Leased Wire to Tke Times) Indianapolis, Ind., March 18. ' When the United Mine-Workers' convention met this; morning a mes senger from the national wage com mittee announced that they were not ready to report and adjournment was taken until later in the after noon. - it is understood that the commu te j has struck a snag and are divid ed on the question of taking a stand on the joint settlement plan or re commending separate agreements be attempted in each state. MR. CLEVELAND IS 71 TODAY (By Leased wiro to The Times)' Lakcwood, N. J., March IS Ex- President G rover Cleveland is cele brating his seventy-first birthday in a quiet manner at the Lakewood Ho tel today. Mrs. Cleveland returned from Princeton this morning, bring ing all the .".'Cleveland 'children,' Dr. Joseph 11. Bryant, Mr. . Cleveland's physician and close friend, Is hero from New Ynrk, to 'spend the day with him. Mr. Cleveland went out for a walk yesterday to his cottage, known as The l.Iitle White House, which he occupied during part of his two pres- I idential terms. He said it was the longest walk he had taken in nine months. SERIOUS ASPECT OF RAILWAY TROUBLES at Salisbury Salisbury, March 18. An Important communication received here todav from a .representative of the men In" the Southern Hallway case says in part: "At meetlnir before 'the inter state commerce commission Saturday tho proposition 'of arbitration was pre sented and was flatly turned down by all organizations." This practically means that unless the company backs down and accepts the union's pro posals there will be a general strike all over the system. The men here are not excited over the prospect, still hoping that some way may be found out of tho difficulty. They consider their demands Just and the 'off or made to the company absolutely fair. On the authority of Mr. A. Stewart, superintendent of motive power, all men laid off are employes and are en titled to the same pass privilege as when in active service, CORN SPECIAL STARTS MONDAY Inlinerary ot Train Carrying Corn Experts SOME OF SPECIALISTS Train Will Visit Washington, Eden . - ton, Plymouth and Other Points. Jteprcsentative Small Secures Na tional Expert Will Mean Much to Fanners of Eastern Xorth Caro lina.' : . --1' The corn growers' special train that is to be operated jointly by the lh Carollna Experiment Station and the Norfolk & Southern Rail way, will leave Washington, N. C, next Monday morning, March 23. It will visit Pinetown, Plymouth, Roper, Belhaven, Columbia, Cres well, Edenton, Moyock, Camden, Elizabeth City, Ahoskle, Hertford, . Washington, Vanceboro, New Bern, Oriental, Bayobro, Kington, Cove and Dover. At each of these places stops of two hours or more will be made and talks on proper methods of select ing sesd, fertilizing, cultivating, har- vesting, feeding, and of combating insect and disease enemies of corn will be made in the coaches of the "Special." The train will be equipp ed and run free by the railroad, while the lecturers and illustration material will be furnished by the Experiment Station. The motto of the Special will be "More Corn to the Acre." No corn grower can af- . ford to miss; this opportunity of hearing these gentlemen who have given so much time and thought, to the study of the corn plant. The train will consist of two pas-, senger coaches as audience cars and an exhibition car in which will be arranged an exhibit of the largest' collection of varieties of corn ever. ., brought together in the state. Also an opportunity will be afforded to see and study ears of the varieties that have afforded the highest aver age yields on the experimental grounds of the Experiment Station and State Department of Agricul ture. '.'A large collection of speci mens affected with different diseases will be on exhibition so that those who wish may see them, learn to re cognize them and receive information as to the mct economical and effect ive methods to combat them. When it Is realized that the .av efcigo yield of shelled corn per acre for North Carolina is less than thir- teeir bushels and that there are but four states in the American Union that produce less per acre, It is felt that it is high time that the people of this state redouble their energies to try and materially increase this extremely small yield. North Caro lina produces less than one-half per acre than is the average for the en tire United States, The farmers to Increase their yields must give more thoughtful at tention, to the factors that contrib ute to yield. If the farmers of the stifle would select, their Beed corn properly next fall and give, their land more thorough nieparatlon and the crop better cultivation next spring the increase ' yield for next year would average five bushels per acre or in other words an addition of $6, 000,000 worth of product would bo added to the credit side of their led ger. These and other practical mat ters are the ones that will be dis cussed on the "Corn Special." The speakers on the train will be Director C. B. WilliamB, of the North Carolina Experiment Station; Dr.' Tait Biftler, director Farmers Institutes in North Carolina: Dr. F. L. Stevens, Plant Disease Specialist Experiment Station Dr. George T. College, will Speak on the "Valuo Winston, president of the A. & M. of Technical Education" at Edenton. Dr. F. L. Stevens will be present and given an Illustrated Bteroptlcon lec ture on "Some Applications of Science to Agriculture." In addition to the speakers above announced, Congressman John H. Small haB secured Mr. A. D. Shamol, of the Bureau of Plant Industry, Washington, D. C, who will accom pany the train on'Ita itinerary and talk on corn breading. Mr. Shamol Is a native of Illinois and lias a rep utation , throughout- the great com belt of being the highest authority, on the breeding of corn. T
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