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RALEIGH, N. C, THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 1908.
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DECISIVE CONFERENCE
Koosevelt and Carnegie Put Their
Heads Together On An Educa
tional Scheme Involving the Ex-M-nditure
of Vast Sum of Money.
Twelve Millions Already Spent On
Enterprise At Pittsburg The
President "Has Other -Plans,"
Suld Carnegie After the Confer
ence Xo Third Term.
(By Leased Wire to The Times)
New York, March 19. A well
founded rumor became current today
that. President Roosevelt has given
Andrew Carnegie his tacit consent to
become the head of a new Carnegie
educational institution. At this time
the presumed negotiations are in a
tentative stateg and Mr. Carnegie
declined to discuss them today.
The ironmaster has just returned
from Washington where he dined
with President Roosevelt and spent
much of his time in the company of
the national executive. Asked wheth
er ha and the president had dis
cussed a third term, Mr. Carnegie
said:. ;;,..
"The president has other plans."
Pittsburg is the seat of the great
educational institution which has
already cost upwards of $12,000,000
and which are not yet completed.
Mr. Carnegie declined to go into de
tails in discussing his Washington
jaunt.
MONEY IN PLACE
WHISKY F
(By Leased Wire to The Times)
Mobile, Ala., March 19. Majority and
minority reports were presented to the
county school commissioners at their
meeting yesterday afternoon by a
special committee appointed to recom
mend plans necessary to meet the ll
nanclal situation confronting the boa' J
resultant from the Carmlchael statu
tory prohibition bill, which will cause
a deficiency in funds from liquor li
cense of $SO,000 annually.
The majority report recommended a
reduction of 20 per cent of the salaries
r.f the entire teaching force, Abolish
ment of the offices of assistant supa,--Intendent,
supervisor of manual train
ing, the ceasing to pay salary to the
license officer and with a recommenda
tion that the buildings and equipment
of the kindergartens be given over t)
the use of associations ot citizens wlth
c ut remuneration.
SUSPECT'S OUT:
(By Leased Wire to The Times)
St. Louis, Mo., March 19. A shortage
variously estimated at from $5,000 tj
$(i,000 has been disclosed in the St. Louis
office of Surveyor of Customs Charles
G'allenkamp. The latter's chief clerk,
A. S. Schrloner, in whose department
the shortage Is said to have been found,
was relieved from duty pending a fur
iher investigation of the discrepancy.
The whole matter is shrouded in mys
tery and a special committee from
Washington to investigate the short
age Is maintaining the utmost secrecy.
Neither Mr. Gallenkamp nor Ills chief
clerk will talk on the subject. A short
age of $1,600 was discovered in the of
fice of sub-Treasurer Aklns, one year
ago, and Is now the subject of con
gressional Investigation. 1 '
Senator W. J. Bryan Is1 Dying.
(By Leased Wire to The Times)
Washington, March 19. Senator
William J. Bryan of Florida, w,ho Is
critically 111 of typhoid fever In
Providence Hospital, wag no better
this afternoon. It is believed he will
die. .
ALABAMAwANTS
IDS
MONEYS
GONE
EVERYBODY Mil
ST,
PROHIBITION
Charlotte, N. C, March 19. The Ob
server has the following .from Its reg
ular Washington correspondent today:
"Come across with $100," Is the mes
sage to each and every North Carolina
congressman from the leaders of the
prohibition movement. "Come on down
with the dough or we will remember
you in the days to come," is the glad
news. The poor representatives of the
dear pee-pul have a hard time making
erds meet. Washington Is the most
expensive town in the country and a
member of congress must keep up ap
pearances or be laughed at and called
"stingy.'' The paltry sum of $7,500 a
year soon disappears if the represen
tative heeds every "call." There is no
limit to the demands made.
.A seat in congress comes high, as
most honest occupants of them will tell
yt u. Money for post-convention cam
paigns, for election campaign funds,
for the wife some new and fit clothes
for the national capital and incidentals!
The thrifty man saves something for a
rainy day, btat the good spender goes
broke. It is said that several fuslon
Ists, Tar Heel congressmen of ten years
ago saved a pittance for a pinch.
Some bought farms, while others in
vested their savings in town property.
Mr. John S. Henderson, of Salisbury,
is reputed to have left Washington
$20,000 worse off than when he came
here. Had .not the political revolution
come and replaced him here, he would
have had to retire in self-defense. In
other words, Mr. Henderson lived as a
North Carolina representative should
live here when he comes to congress,
and the salary, then $5,000, was not ad
equate for the demands. Several of the
present day representatives are said
to be well-to-do if not bloated bond
holders. They are classed as "tight
wads" and men who are able to rep
resent the pee-pul In Washington as
well as their clients at home. A man
with the double accomplishment of
making and saving at both ends of the
line "can always do well. His coffers
become full. .'
The call from the prohibitionists will
no dpubt be followed by one from the.
Morally Stunted. In several of the con
gressional districts the antl-prohibl-tionists
are numerous. Two hundred
(Continued on Page Two.)
SIGNIFICANT ACTION
FOLLOWS RELEASE OF
THE PERJURED GIRL
(By Leased Wire to the Times)
New York, March 19 Develop
ments in the case of Raymond Hitchcock,-
whose acquittal was brought
about last Monday by the testimony
of Flora Whlston, took .a new turn
when Sheriff Foley received an exe
cution against the property of Wil
liam H. Stutehbury, who signed the
bonds on which the Whiston girl was
released from custody by Magistrate
Barlow.
A strict investigation into the mat
ter is promised by the district attor
ney's office.
OFF TO DENVER;
TROUBLE SURE
(By Leased Wire to The Times)
Chicago, March 19. More than
400 strike-breakers left Chicago last
night for Denver to take the places
of union boiler-makers, machinists
and helpers on strike at the shops
of the Union Pacific and the Denver
& Rio Grande railroads.
The strike-breakers were hired by
J. G. Merrill. He claims he has se
cured all the men he wants.
ALARM AT 3:10
THIS AFTERNOON
An empty house, Just back of the
Southern Railway cotton platform,
corner Davie and, Dawson streets,
caught on Are this afternoon and an
alarm was turned in from box 31.
The Are ' department responded
J promptly, put the Are was out in
five minutes. The alarm sounded at
13:10. '
STRIKEBREAKERS
Gregory Dershuny, Noted An-
SUCH A LIFE AS HE LIVED!iAN"0VATI0N"PR0P0SED
Death of One of the Most Notorious
of the Jewish Revolutionists,
Leaving Behind Him a History
That, if Put Into n Hook Would
Head Like a Miulacval Romance.
His Many Marvelous Escapes
From Prison and the Horrors of
Siberian Exile.
( By Cable to The Times. )
Zurich, Switzerland, March 19,
Gregory Gershuny, Russian terror
ist, and anarchist, is dead in this city j
where he has been living for some ,
time under an assumed name. j
The dead man was one of the best
known of the Jewish revolutionists
in Russia. Hie record of his life1
reads like a page from a mediaeval j
romance, so many were his escapes
from death.: His escape from Slim- j
ria equals in interest the escape of
Latude from the French Bastile.
Committed to perpetual imprison-j
ment for complicity in the assassi-,
nation of M. Sipiaguine, Russian j
minister of the interior, Gershuny j
was sent to the silver minas at Aka-j
tui, on the Mongolian frontier of SI . j
ebrla. It was determined by the;
prisoners that their cause needed
Gershuny on the outside to work and
they aided in his escape.
He escaped packed up tightly in a
barrel of slaw, In this Gershuny
was lowered to a cellar and later
another prisoner assisted him from
j his close quarters and aided his j
flight through a tunnel to the surface
of the ground. He made his way to
Japan, thence he came to America.
In New York he was greeted by
thousands of Russian Jews who
hailed him as the greatest of their
patriots.
SENSATIONAL CHARGES
OF KURDER ft TRAIN
WRECKING ON S A L
(By Leased Wire to The Times)
Columbia, S. C. March 19. Train
wrecking and murder are features of a
story brought to Columbia by the crew
of the-second section of No. 8. a Sea
board Air .Line fruit llyer from Florida,
which reached here today several hours
late..- -
Yesterday afternoon a negro named
William DeLoach set a switch turning
the train Into the siding at Davis'
Crossing, Fla., but the train was un
der control and no damage resulted.
The negro got oh the train and came
as far as Kingland, Gu., w here ho was
arrested and turned over to Operator
Proctor and Section Master J. M. Kirk
land. They searched him. taking one
revolver. After a while the prisoner
asked for water and the section mus
ter took him to a water tank, near the
station. While there the negro drew
another gun and shot Klrkland down,
thus making his escape.
Mr. Ktrkland was shot at 7:30 p. m.
and died at 1:15. Where the negro s
second gun came from is a mystery,
as KIrkland and Proctor had searched
him closely, trying to ascertain if ho
had a switch key.
Posses heavily armed are seourirt.j
the country around Kingland and ni no
officers are with them, a lynching " III
result upon the negro's capture.
THAN ALL REST
(By Cable to The Times.)
London, March 19. Speaking in the
house of lords, Lord Tweedmouth, flint
lord of the admiralty, defended the pol
icy of the government In refralnl.ig
temporarily from laying down a large
number of battleships and said that the
construction of battleships just now
partook largely of the nature of an ex
periment. He declared that In 1911
Great Britain will have a navy prob
ably greater than that which the pow
ers of the world combined could uh-uemble.
BRITISH NAVY IN
3 YEARS BE IRE
Released From Penitentiary
for Infamous Crimes
Notorious Crook Lawyer Completes
Sentence and: Sneaks Away to;
"Hide Out" Hut Other Birds of j
a Feather Plan a Bniimier for the
(Person Who Ought to H in Prison
All His Life If a Small Part of j
What : iDstrlct Attorney Jerome ;
Said of -Him is Partly True.
(By Leased Wire to The Times.)
New York, Mar. 19. Abe Hum
mel, the notorious crook lawyer,
characterized by District Attorney
Jerome as meanest in New York,
completed, his term lor an infamous
crime today and was released ' from
Blaekwell's Island penitentiary this
morning, took tne first ferry boat, to
the foot: of Fast Seven! iet.li street in
Manhattan., and, met tli to by
friends, leaped at once into an auto
mobile and disappeared.
It is., believed. 'he. has gone into
hiding until such time as he can ar
range to leave this country for a
European tour,: probably on Satur
day. Hummel accepted through his
nephew, Abraham Kaffenberg, an in
vitation to an elaborate banquet to
be given by his friends Saturday
evening in an uptown hotel. It is
the wish of his family, however, that
Hummel remain quietly at home
until arrangements can be made for
a trip to the south.
Dr. Matz, the physician, has ad
vised him to quit New York immedi
ately for a warmer climate, such as
can be found on the Mediterranean.
"Hummel is incurably afflicted
with a malady of the kidneys," said
Dr.' Matz.; "Only last, week he faint
ed away as he sat In the hospital
because of an uremic spasm."
ADMITS 4 WIVES ARE
LI VING AND JUDGE YET
(By Leased Wire to The Times)
New York, March 1 9. Recorder
Kelly, of Kearney, N. J., held in
$1,000 bail, on his confession of
having four wives, Frederick W.
Hsld, also known as Parsons, who
says he is the son of wealthy pa
rents in Galveston, Texas. He was
married in February, 190S, to Miss
Anna Duckworth, of Kearney, under
the name of Parsons.
Held confessed ho had married
his first cousin. Miss Louisa Held,
in Easton, Pa., in June, 1902; Miss
Elsie Maure, of Neward, soon after
ward, and in January of last year,
Miss Nellie Murray, of Newark.
"There Is something about me,"
he said, "that makes every girl 1
meet flirt with me and fall In love
with me. i have known a groat many
pretty women and they have all
loved me."
MME. GOULD IS AGAIN
IN SIGHT OF OLD HOME
(By Leased Wire to The Times)
New York, March 19- The steamer
Adriatic, in which Mine. Gould Is
coming to America, passed Fire Is
land at 10-.2S this morning, and
should reach her-dock about 3:16
p. m. today. - ' '.
HELL HATH XO El'KY
LIKE A WOMAN SCOKNEI)
Oklahoma City, O. T., March 19
Fannie Ritchie and Harry McCuen
were arrested in Denison, Texas, yes
terday after the woman had accused
the man of being responsible for the
death of five persons In this city last
August. Five bodies were found In
j the ruins of a resort which had been
J burned. The Ritchie woman says
; McCuen murdered a stranger in the
resort for the purpose of robbery and
that a negro porter set fire to the
building to destroy bloodstains left
after the murder.
GOESTHROUGH
( By Leased Wire to The Times)
Albany, N. Y., March 19 The sen
ate judiciary committee in session
this morning decided to report at
once the Agnew bill which provides
for the repeal of the Percy-Gray law
and refused all further hearings. The
Jockey Club was routed and the last
barrier of the passage of the anti
betting hills is down.
It is said Joseph Auerbaeh's at
tack on Governor Hughes at the
hearing yesterday was mainly re
sponsible for the refusal o the mem
bers to grant any further hearings,
although it was known that the
lonely excuse for a hearing was -for
delay. -' ). 'J ' ;-'V:
The vote to give no further, hear-j
ings and to report the bill out was ;
unanimous in the '.commit tee, Sena
tor McCuiren, Gnittan, Tuylor, t'ol
alian, and Grady being absent.
Those who voted in I'uvor of the
bill, were Senators Raynor, Page,
Cobb, Davis, Armstrong, : Allds,
Smith, and Hingman.
The absence of Senators MeCar-
ren and Grady is regarded as very
insignificant. Both were said to
have been about the senate chamber,
but refused to go into the executive
session of the senate judiciary com
mittee.;' Instead the two senators stood out
in the lobby -and ..-communed with
each other.
Friends of the anti-betting bills
now see' no reason, save for some new
move on the part of the Jockey Club
why the race track bills should not
be in the hands of the governor
within ten days. No one in the com
mittee proposed an amendment to
the Percy-Gray law and the eight
votes in favor were by republicans.
A "NOBLE" VICTIM OF
THE GAMBLING HABIT
IS EXILED FROM EUROPE
(By Leased Wire to The Times,)
New York, March ..19. Among the
passengers on the White Star liner
Cedrle was one who registered as
"Count H. Fchimling," He said he bad
been ordered from home bv his father
because of his losing $20(1,000 In gam
bling at .Monte Carlo. He bad been
held by the ''Immigration authorities on
board the steamer for half an hour be
cause of suspicions that he might be
misrepresenting himself,
"I belong to the.'Australian nobility."
he. .announced, "and our family has
large estates In the 'northern put t of
Austria, My father became .'angry at
my 'constantly losing money and at
last he practically cut off my allow
ance. He has sent nie out of Europ ,
giving me $1."0 and will send me $lf0
every month on condition that I stay
away.'; I cannot return until .he. dies.
"On my last bet .at '-Monte' Carlo I
staked my villa on . one game -'and lost
it." .
FOREWARNED OF HIS
WIFE'S VIOLENT DEATH
(By Leased Wire to The Times.)
Asheville, N. C, Mar. 19 Having
a premonition that evil was about
to fall upon his wife, James Ed
wards, a business man of Putnam,
N. C, rushed from his office to his
home, and stepping into the door of
the hallway, was horrified to see
Mrs. Edwards lying on the floor
dead, with a bullet hole In her tem
ple. Shs had killed herself. Mrs.
Edwards was in the best of health
and the cause of her action is a
mystery.
One Man Killed and Two Injured.
(By Leased Wire to The Times.)
Calumet, Mich., March 19 One
man was killed today and two seri
ously Injured In old Osceala mine, a
cable breaking and dropping the car
and contents on three men several
hundred feet below.
Defctives Scoured Europe &
Asia k Him in Vain
BACK ON VISIT; NABBED
One of the Most Important Criminal
Cases of Years Solved by the Ar
rest in Frisco Today of J. Edward
Broeck, Who Purloined Half Mil
lion of Jewelry in New York and
.'Skipped to China In Business
There He Returns on Brief Hus
iness Trip, But Will Stay Longer
Than Ho Intended.
(By Leased Wire to The Times)
San Francisco, March 19 J. Ed
ward Boeck, a New York jewelry
buyer, wanted in that, city on a
charge of stealing pearls and dia
monds valued at $105,000, has been
arrested here.
Hoed; had desk-room in the offices
of.-Marcel Ins & Pitt, Broadway, New
York, and had access to their stock
of gems.
Many pearls were being imported
and Boeck is alleged to have ob
tained $50,000. of these in addition to
other jewels. He disappeared last
May.
(By Leased Wire to The Times)
New York, March 19 John Ed
ward Boeck, soldier of fortune,
clever jewelry salesman and pros
pective dictator of the Chinese em
pire, whose arrest has been reported
from San Francisco, skipped, out of
New York last May when he found
that he was to be Indicted for Steal
ill Sr.fl OHO wnrtli rtf t.ni'ol rv fmm
local dealers.
New York detectives have trailed
him all over Europe and Asia. Kla
arrest was made by the merest
chance. He was seen coming out of ;
a saloon by a detective, who recog
nized him from his picture in the cir
cular sent out by a detective agency.
Boeck denied his identity at first,
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fessed.
Boeck said that since he left New
York hp h:is heen working as a 1fw-
ciij Duicsuiau in viima 111u1.il. ui mu
time. He said that he bad only
once come to this country for a short
visit, and intended to go right back
to China.
Boeck, who is only 38 years old,
Is the son of a Polish scholar, who
at one time taught mining and civil
engineering in the University of Vir
ginia, in which state . Boeck was
born. Later his father taught in a
school near Philadelphia and eight
Sears ago Boeck was a car tracer for
the Reading Railroad at Philadel
phia. He borrowed so much money
that he lost, his job, and then floated
a scheme for developing a summer
resort in Pennsylvania. He was
about to be arrested for swindling n
this connect ton when ho was married
to Mary Glassmire, of Tamaqua, Pa.,
aim no was ici on.
In 1900 Boeck went over to China
with an exhibit sent there by the na
tional association of manufacturers.
The Boxer outbreak came at the time
and the exhibit was a failure, so
Boeck stayed there and went into the
copper business in Shanghai. He got
into the good graces of many Chinese
officials, and when Prince Fu Lun
came over to the St. Louis Exposi
tion as the Chinese commissioner,
Boeck accompanied him to help
handle the exhibit. After the exposi
tion Boeck got the job of disposing
of most of the exhibits, and in doing
so became acquainted with many big
jewelry firms and rich art collectors,
i Ho w:ik iiIko comnilsslonpfl tn.linv.
copper for the Chinese mint and thus
became acquainted with Senator Wil
liam A. Clark and the Guggenheims.
Then he branched out into the jew
elry commission business and got the
jewelry which led to his arrest.
His success from the first was un
usual. He began by negotiating the
sale to J. Pierpont Morgan of a dia
mond and pearl collar that cost prob
ably $100,000. Soon he was asking
odds of no man as a salesman ot
precious stones, and in an astonish
ingly short space of time he com
manded a position which enabled
him to demand from diamond dealers
their cost prices, and to offer to split
the profit of retail sale with them.
He continued to make wealthy
friends in this city, and, although he
had a wife, carried on a courtship
with a wealthy young girl of Pltts
(Contlnued on Second Page.).