Only Afternoon Paper Bctvcen Richmond and Atlanta Vith Leased Wire and Fait Prcoo Dispatches. ... f -- . LAST EDITION. ALL THE MARKETS. - . . . J THE RALEIGH EVENI VOLUME 30. RALEIGH; N. C, SATURDAY, MARCH 21, 1908. PRICE 5 CENTS. TIMES. THE NOTORIOUS MIL DIVORCE DINES Husband Answers Allegations Concerning His Alleged "Stingy" Character SAYS HIS WIFE COST OVER A HALF MILLION The Little Red Note Book Plays a ".v Prominent Part In the Gossip Surrounding the; Case Counsel For McKeo Tells With Dramatic Kffeet How Mrs. McKee, Formerly ot Nashville Tennessee, Deline ated '. a Frightful Dream to Her Husband "Oh, My Darling Lover Boy, Will You Every Realize How Much I Love You?" Beginning ,of a Narrative That Gossip Lov ers Will Find Opportunity to le " Jight in Reading As tlie Famous : Suit Progresses. . What A. HartMcKec Says His '"', Wife Cost Him. Advanced to former wife in order to get divorce, $90,000. Paid for magnificent string 9 of pearls, $60,000. Gave her other jewelry worth $90,000. For gambling, wine and high living in Monte Carlo: . ; Advanced to pay her gamb- ling debts, $3,300. Lent her to cover . gambling losses, $16,120, - To make good her losses at gambling table, $2,400. Paid her bills" for wine amounting to $5,527. . Miscellaneous expenses, $62,- 000. Grand total, $329,347. "v (Special Cable to The Times.) Paris, March 21. As a preliminary to the astounding accusation which he will mat. in his client's defense in tha divorce court on Wednesday, Counsel for A. Hart McKee, who is suing his wife for divorce, has given an inter view, in which he refutes Mrs. McKee's allegation that her husband was stingy. Indeed, Lawyer Labori declares that McKee's wife cost him almost a half million dollars and he has gone into details In giving forth this information to the public, asserting that his figures are authoritatively. Today for the first time McKee's lit tle red note book" took a conspicuous part In the gossip surrounding the case, M. Labori says that his client took par ticular pains to Jot down each item of expense incurred through his wife. This note book will play an important part In the trial before it is finished. It is also expected that letters from Tich PIttsburgers and New Yorkers Will also be read,, as these have been solicited by H. Sellers McKee, the fa ther of Hart., It was not until today that an Inkling was given of the finan cial settlement made by McKee upon his first wife, who was formerly Mlsi Lydla Sutton, of Pittsburg. It would appear from the figure given out by M. Labori that the first Mrs. McKee has received at least $100,000 in a lump sum, not to mention alimony. M. Labori told with dramatic em phasis how Mrss McKee, formerly Mrs. Hugh Baxter Tevls, of Nashville, hal dellnated a frightful dream of hsr husband. According to the lawyer Mrs. McKee dreamed that Oerald Hughes, a man whom she had Jilted to marry Hugh Tevls, had shot heV father. Mrs. McKee wrote a letter to her second husband, telling of the terrifying effect which this vision .had had upon her. M. Labori will lay before the court correspondence between McKee and the econd Mrs. McKee, written at th time the first wife was suing for di vorce and also, letters written subso quent to this time. One letter is from an attorney, Marshall, of Pittsburg, who represented McKee when his flrat wife sued for divorce. At that tlma McKee and Mrs. Tevls were In Pari together. , It was sent to Mrs. Trevis and reads as follows; - "Unless Hart returns to New Tork alone Immediately Pittsburg proceed ings will be stopped and decree ren dered impossible. Hla being alone will remedy situation." ;. . Immediately on receipt of this mes sage McKee sailed on the Savole for America. This Is a portion of a letter from Mrs. Tevls which followed him: . (Continued on Page Seven) , DUKE GOES ID GET CONSENT GO TT ffifl (By Leased Wire to The Times.) New York. Mareh 21 Tin rrvlnir '. to Rome'to obtain the formal consent of the Italian court before the announce ment of his engagement to Miss Kath erlne Elklns, the Duke of the Abruzzl sailed today aboard the Lusitania. The stubborn opposition of ex-Queen Markherita to the match and her in sistence that the duke marry a prin cess of noble blood, it is said, has been the only bar to the formal betrothal of the cousin of Italy's king to the wealthy and beautiful daughter of Sen ator Elklns, of West Virginia, but- de spite the opposition of Queen Dowager it has been known for several weeks in court, circles 'thit the marriage would take place. The duke has de termined to marry the girl of hia choice, and the Official Journal today for the first time1 admits that the cousin of the king and Miss Elklns are engaged. - Beset with difficulty on all sides, the duke remains firm In hts purpose to fd Miss Elklns, and believes tha once ho has overcome the objections of his cousin all obstacles will be re moved. Thf- only question which Has agitated society is the uncertainty of he position Miss Elklns will occupy should she marry the duke. The sturdy Americanism of the El klns could not adjust Itself to a mor ganatic alliance. - The high spirit of Miss Elklns also precluded nil thoughts of such a match, and her friends say she told the duk3 that unless she could be received with duo ceremony at the Italian court she would never consent to marry him. It 13 known that the king has been won over by the duke and that the queen dowager is the only one who stands in the way of the match. There fore the duko of the Abruzzi suddenly determined to go to Italy to win over the obdurate queen. None who know him doubts that he will be able to ob tain her consent. It is even reported that at the special request ef the king tha pope had al ready provided a special dispensation for the marriage. V It is said the king may confer a title upon Senator Elklns to render legal the marriage of the duke and a com moner's daughter. Beneficial in Holding Early fruit in Check SNOWFALL WAS GENERAL Reports From the Snow Zone Tell Au Kncouraglnjj Story of Escape of Early Fruit Trees From Fatal Blight On the Whole it Looks Like the Snow Was Rather a Good Tiling From the Fruit Crop Point of View Amounted to Blizzard In Truck Section of Virginia. (By teased Wire to The Times) Roanoke, Va., March 21. Four Inches of snow fell here yesterday. The fall lasted six hours and was one of tha heaviest of the season. Beyond a re tarding of early fruit and vegetables the damage will be slight. Bristol, Va., MaVch 21. Snow fell throughout southwest" Virginia yester- day. The sudden change will be bene ficial in holding in check peaches and other fruit. This time last year peach trees were In full bloom. Norfolk, Va., March 21. A heavy snow yesterday with a northeast wind reached almost the proportions of n blizzard. The fall was almost as heavy STORM DID GREAT DAMAGE 1 The fall was almost as heavy from three m8ernble rooms on the l tr;ne 1nst above l8 neart and lodK durlng the winter. It is believed ' 8PCOnd floor last Tuesday. She was 'in Jt at th Lef Mr a snow has not injured the early as any that the snow has not injured the early truck crops or fruit. . FJoods in West Virginia. (By Leased Wire to The Times.') fortrnoogd within five weeks reached its crest last night with thirty-nine feet, six Inches. There Is much distress among the "U"B 1113 poor, and already measures for relief are belna; put through by the i board of " 71. L" i"ly riZ-t:r.n; the suffering therefore was not so great as a month ago. Trolley lines, some of the steam roads and many industries are interferred with iy. the high water and the clty'g jobbing business Is at a standstill. Over 1.000 residences are I flooded. Last night the Volunteers of America, at their Southslde station, fed over 500 peopla who had been driven from their home. LEAPED INTO DEATH Jilted Lover's Desperate ActjThoussnds Were Iktiog for and Its Fatal Result LYNCHERS ON HIS TRAIL Ti-nsjc Ending Toduy in Chicago of a Romance That Hud Its Begin ning in Far-Awny Pjilcrnlo Ital ian Sought to Kill Woman Who Rejected His Suit Badly Cuts An Infant in Her Arms Enraged Mob Seeks VeiiRcimcc and to Escape 'Lynchers He Leaps to Death in Calumet River. (By Leased Wire to The Times) Chicago, Mar. 21. Driven to bay after he had murderously attacked a young woman who jilted him to become the bride of another, Nicho las Fortuna leaped into the Calumet. River and drowned himself at Blue Island to escape the Jury of a mob in close pursuit. It was a tragic ending to a . ro mance that had its beginning in far away Palermo, In the Mediterranean Sea. The victim of Fortuna's wrath, Mrs. Rosie Dibiuse, is at St. Francis Hospital In Blue Island suffering from three Wounds inflicted with a razor, A six-months-old baby, niece of Mrs. Dibiuse, who was uninten tionally slashed across the head by the frenzied Italian is under a doc tor's care at the home of her pa rents, where the assault was com mittad. Fortuna was at the saloon of Angelo Martehp and some of his friends began to chaff him for being jilted. He invited everybody In-' tire place to drink with him. This was the toast he gave: - i - "I no cam for-on-4te-tglva me de shake 11 It a dat. Some day maybe she be sorry she not marry Nick.". He remained drinking at the sa loon several hours and then went to the home of Peitro Orsino where his sister, Mrs. Dibiuse, was still stay ing. As he entered the house Mrs. Dibiuse was sitting In a cocking chair holding her brother's baby. Fortuna rushed upon her With a razor and began slashing. The first blow of the blade fell upon the head of the infant, cutting a deep gash. Mrs. Dibiuse let . the child drop to the floor to save It fr' m further Injury. She then endeavored to keep off the -.drink-crazed man but was un able to ward off the blows. After slashing her twice across the head and once on the shoulder he fled from the house. Captain of Police McAver was no tified by telephone. After a long chase Fortuna was caught Bight of on Ashland aveue near Stony Creek. The river was ahead of him. He could hear the shouts of the mob in pursuit to "kill the dago," and there being no avenue of escape, he hurled himself into -the stream and was drowned. EXTREME INSTANCE OF DESTITUTION AND SUFFERING INN. YORK (By Leased Wire to The Times.) New York, March 21. For two nights a family of five, "children with their mother havo been sleeping unsheltered on the pavement in Scammel street, on the lower Eastslde. Mrs. Annie Reynolds was evicted h eoiH, nn,t. Ta Bmaii mat- tresses thrown against the brick wall served as a bed for four of the chil dren. Mrs. Reynolds huddled on the and Deputy Collector J. B. Hoi- son m her arms and tried to sleep. 'land cosea- jn on the negroes and Several times policemen passed 1 on the;after & scufflo captured one of them. I opposite side of th-street. When re- :nno;ioJ tn ant thou oM' thnt tllO fllHrt , .. . ,,, K jnold8 and ner cnll(3ren wa8 , nnothfir 'Precinct and passed without paying at- tentlon to the woman. Governor Guild's Condition Today. (By Leased Wire to The Times) Boston, Mass., March 21. The condi tion of Governor Guild Is reported un changed this morning. It Is said, how- ever, that Dr. Wlnsiow Ua fnn, U pnysician, nn inrormeu Airs, iulld to I be prepared tor the worst. -SPELLED Tills Word C. A. SEFARK WINS IT The Word Was Found in the Adver tisement' of the. OHice. Stationery Company and . Was Spelled "Crnon" Great Interest . Was Taken in the Contest In City and All Over the State. Mr. C. A. Separk found 'I he 'mis-spell-, eci word tit 3:45 p. in. yesterday and reported it to The Times' office at that hour. Never before In the history or the city have the people been so in terested In a contest. The Times' of fice hits been flooded .with, letters anil telegrams from' all parts of the stuti from people who thought they harl found the word. It is very evident there are thousands., of people, both In the city and throughout the state who read the local ads. placed In this paper.. All. Sea park is one of the best known men of .Raleigh and it gives us pleasure to present him with the year's subscrip tion to The Times. The word appeared in the advertise ment, of the Office Stationery Companv, and was spelled craon when it should have been spelled crayon. The peo ple have enjoyed the contest and th merchants got the benefit of the race. H.G.REECESHOT Raid Yesterday IS TAKEN TO SANFORD Wounds, According to Telegram Re ceived Today, Not Serious Was With Collectors Pool and Babbitt. Home is at Siler City and is Popu lar. .".. United States Marshal Dockery today received a from Deputy Collector W. Claudius telegram C. Pool Informing him that Deputy Marshal H. C. Recce was wounded by bloek adars last evening in a raid near Spout Springs, Harnett county. The telegram was very meagre, but stated that the wouud was not seri ous and that Mr. Reece had been carried to the hospital at San ford. Mr. Recce lives at Siler City and has headquarters at Sanford. Deputy Collectors Pool and C. M. Babbitt left Raleigh Thursday afternoon for Harnett county. They were joined by Mr. Reece 'and all three must have participated in the raid. Mr. Dockeryis waiting for more information ;iii' regard to the shoot ing and the raid and if he hears nothing further this afternoon will telegraph to Sanford. The wounded man was one of the most popular of the collectors, and it Is hoped that his Injuries will prove but slight. Details of the Story. '..':-,.- Mr. R. L. Burns who arrivad in Raleigh today from Sanford, brought particulars of the affair at Spout Springs yesterday. The officers lo cated the still and found two ne groes at it. One negro, by the name of Johnson, raised a Winchester rifle and flrsd at Mr. Reece, the hall en Recce dropped to the ground and the negro attempted to shoot Mr. Pool and would have succeeded had a! shell not lodged in his gun. Mr. Johnson ran off and Mr. Pool fired three times at him and It 1b believed one of the shots took effect. Both negroes were armed with Winchesters. The distillery was de stroyed. . Marshal Reece was carried to San ford today and was able to walk ; from the train to the hospital. Mr. Burns says tha wound, while serl oub, is not dangerous and the wounaea man win ue uu rigni agaiu In a few weeks. MS I Hi HS E' y Left for Europe Today Under Bispise and Alias CASE GF THE UNDER DOG Notorious Little Jew '-Lawyer,'. Who : Has r.een Mixed I'p in so Many Questionable "Professional" Trans- .-.-actions, and Who Has Just Com pleted 'Term, in Sing Sin;; Peniten tiary, Adopts An Alias and Hoards the liijj; Lusitania to Seek Health Ah. ..ad Complains of Newspaper Treatment. (By Leased Wire to The Times) New York v March' 2l--rAbo Hum mel sailed tor 'iiiuropo: today on the steamship Lusitania under the alias of Herman 'Newbur.ser; He occupied stateroom '''No. 70 on Lho upiiei' prom enade deck and in the next state room, No. OS, were his nephew Abie KafTenburgj Ali-s., Kaffen'burg and Kaffenliiirgh's mother. The little disbarred lawyer who was released Thursday from the Blackwell's Island prison, after serving ten months for his connection with the Dodge-Morse conspiracy, will stop in London as the guest of Toddy Micheals, the theatrical manager, at the Hotel Sa voy for more than a week and will then proceed to Marienbad to take the euro. Later he expects to spend much time in Paris and the south of France. ' He will feliirn to this country in the late fall, probably, to embark in the real estate business. While a prisoner on the island he is said to have made a considerable fortune as a real estate speculator. . - "AHhouah Hummel - spent a . gay night last night In Manhattan no one was at the sailing of the Lusitania to aoe him off and none sent flowers or notes of condolence. At 7 o'clock liibt night he sat down to a wine din ner with about a dozen other men who had been as well known along Broadway and as first nlghters as was Hummel. The spread was in the na ture of a farewell dinner to Hummel and was in an out-of-the-way restau rant ou the west aide, where there was no intrusion.-" There was much drinking and : merry-making. One rumor also had it that there were several women dancers to enliven the feast.' -Hummel did not leave there until nearly midnight, and he was then driven directly to the Cunard line pier, where he boarded the Lusitania. He went to bed at once. Before the ship sailed today Iluni mel v.'ii'S 'Uj) and made this complaint, which ki'Hratod thut l;is mind is burr deued-with 'nuich bitterness:' "This is a merry case of the. under dog and I xim the dog. It is a case of jumping '.bii the felh the worst of the deal. fellow that gets I got "mine and am still .'getting it. I have been iniglity good to the newspapers in this towli, furnishing them with more good stories than all the other lawyers nut together. And what do I get? Do you see what they say about me? Their treatment is outrageous "But l am done with them. Task no odds of anybody, and when I itae back I will show them that l ean get along. I got a raw deal all the way through. They made me the goat from the start and l had to si and for it. When reporters sent cards and notes to Hummel he refused to reply. Abie Kaffenbtirgh, who did not spend the. night on the ship, volunteered to speak when he wont aboard. "My uncle does not wish to make any statement, but I will say for him that he will recover all the prestige he has lost. He will come back and make a bigger fortune than he did in the law business." DELEGATES INSTRUCTED TO VOTE FOB CANNON (By Leased Wire to The Times) Sulem, Ills., March 21. Republicans of the twenty-third congressional dis trict met here yesterday afternoon in delegation. Former Congressman Dix on, of Ramsey, presided. W. F. Bundy, of Centrnlla, and A. H. Jones, of Rob inson, was chosen delegates to the na tional convention and Instructed to vote for Joseph G, Cannon for president. 1 nCALLTO ARMS BY FEDERATION OFiiM (By Leased Wire to The Times) Washington, I). C, March 21. Unan imous opposition to Secretary Taft, the defeat of every candidate not friendly to organized labor, and the placing. '.of its own candidate in the field is under stood to be the salient feature of a call to Ik issued by the American Federa tion of Labor here directing that 'mon ster' mass meeting be held by union men all ; over the I'nitecl .States on the. third Sunday and Monday in April. The stand taken by labor with regard to tiie approaching '-campaign was de cided upon by this convention : just closed here, which was attended by na tional and international presidents of unions comprising over three million men, ' v" It is planned, it is authoritatively stated, to have the various local, stato and national federations go on record with regard to candidates 'of their re spective series, and where candidates are found of the party known to be inhnical to labor, every effort is to be used to defeat him. Should all regular candidates be opnpsed to labor legis lation labor is to put out its own can didates and to secure all pledses pos sible to bring about his election. In this it is said that the affiliated labor organizations will have the support of the farmers' union, over 300,COO strong, heretofore not affiliated with th? Amer ican Federation.. . v The labor convention is understood to have gone -on-record as to be oppos ed to Secretary Taft for president and In favor of making the most stubborn fight '-in- the ristory of organized lah)r to biing about the defeat of every leg islator whose record does not appear favorable to the unions.: A committee composed of President Gompeis, Vice President O'Connell and Secretary Morrison, of the Federation of Labor, has been delegated to raise the funds for the carrying out of the formulated plans by getting every jUn'on man In the country In line. , The call for mass meetings in April will he the first definite step and It is estimated that nearly three million men will meet and ratify the platform adopted at the convention at this tim?. DEATH IN A BIG H0TEL BLAZE THIS MORNING (By Leased Wire to The Times.) Pittsburg, Pa., March 21. Two men wen- horribly burned, nnd will die, four others" were seriously burned, and one side of the New Eagle Hotel, the lat gest in . McKees Hocks, was destroyed by lire resulting from a gas explosion early today. Tile seriously injured: Andrew Xortard, aged 40, .body burn ed, may have inhaled flame,, will prob ably eie. -. .' . C. W. Iliburn. aged 3"; face and en tire body seared, condition critical. others injured: Christian Dorn beeker, .Nicholas Dornbecker, -'.'Edward Celeero. Albei t Ceero. "The-'properly - loss was about $20,000. LONGEST FLIGHT OF AEROPLANE (By Cable to The Times.) ; raiis, March 21. Henry Far man, the ! aeronaut, made at Isay yesterday after noon the longest aeroplane flight ever known, circling more than a mile and a half In two minutes and fifteen seconds. . t-. Tills was the best of throe successive flights. LIVED 18 DAYS WITH SKULL FRACTURED (By Leased Wire to The Times) Charlotte, N. C, March 21 Geo. Gifford, "after living eighteen days with Ave fractures of the skull and with open fractures extending to the interior of the brain, is dead. S. Q. Barnes, his alleged assailant, was released from juil upon $6,00" bond, following habeas corpus pro ceedings. The Injured man attended ; to hts work severnl dayB, not sus- i pocting his serious condition, until k seized with convulsions. BE PATIENT DEAD UNDERCOT IN A HOSPITAL Detectives Assert That, Young Matron Was Undoubtedly Strangled to Death SENSATIONAL AFFAIR Mrs. Murfruarice McCue, a Young Brooklyn ...Matron, Found Today With a Sheet Tight Wound Around Her Xeek mid yuite Dead in Hos pital Ward Body Lying Under the Cot Which the Woman Had Been Occupying Lost Her Mind Two Days Ago and Was There for Treatment An Impossible State ment Issued By the Hospital Au thorities, Which Does Not at AU Coincide With the Views of the Police- Suspicious Developments. (By Leased Wire to ihe Times) New York, March 21 Mrs. Margaret McCue, a young Rrooklyn matron, was found strangled to death today under her cot In the Kings county hospital. A sheet was tightly wound around her neck several times and indicated that much strength had been used in effect ing her death. Detectives who were sent to the hos pital by the coroner declare that the young woman had been murdered and mentioned the fact that two nurses were in the room constantly and inti mated that a belief that another patient might be implicated. The hospital authorities Issued, an impossible, statpniont tn tt,n affunt Mrs. McCue. probably had killed herself by rolling off her cot while the sheet became entangled about her neck. Mrs. McCue was in a Straight jacket. she having become violently insane on Thursday and four detectives believed that for .that reason alone it would have been Impossible for her to roll a sheet up into a rope and then wrap it about her neck in such a manner as to strangle herself. Mrs. McCue became a raving man iac at her home at 11 Flushing Ave nue, two days ago, and tried to hul herself from a window. She was trans ferred to the observation ward at the Kings county hospital by the police and It had been planned she would be permanently trnnsferredto the Kings Park Hospital for the insane. She was so violent that she was phjeed in a straight , -Jacket with her arms held down to her side with straps and canvas bandages. The doctors had reached the conclusion last night that Mrs. McCue was hopelesslyinsane. When the doctors informed the cor oner by telephone of the death of Mrs. McCue they said it was an accident and that there was no other way In which she could have met death. On being questioned further, they admitted that two nurses had been In the room at the time Mrs. Me('ue fell from her cot, They still 'persisted that the wo man had wound the sheet about her own neck and the coroner ordered the body sent to the ' .'morgue for an au topsy and asked the police to investi gate, -'-':. :''".:. The police learned -that . the woman had been placed in . a. ward where sev eral other persons were under observa tion and that she had annoyed them greatly by her continued hysterics In w hich she woul!cream'nnd yell almost constantly. It was said that she great ly disturbed the sleep of the patients, whose condition was not as hopeless &i her own and the detectives Intimated that this might have proved a motlvo in the mind of some other patient. After an official Investigation tha coroner agreed that Mrs. McCue did not kill herself through accident or de sign, but that she had been murdered by sonic one else. When the detectives reached the hos pital the two nurses who were said to have been in the ward at the time Mrs. McCue was killed, had gone oft duty. Hut neither of them had gone to their rooms In the hospital and an Investi gation showed that fhey had left tho place. Detectives were sent out to find them nnd bring them before the coroner to make a statement. NEW B.&L. ASSO. FOR WINSTON-SALEM (Special to The Times) . Winston-Salem, N. C, March 21 A charter will be forwarded to tha secretary of state tonight for the In corporation of andther Winston Salem building and loan association, making the third. It will begin bus iness with $200,000 paid In, and with one million capital authorized.

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