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VOLUME 30.
RALEIGH, N. C, MONDAY .MARCH 23, 1908.
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STEAMSHIPS COLLIDE
AND 2OO0LIVES LOST
IN DISASTER AT SEA
NORTH CAROLINA LOSES
TERRIFIC EXPLOSION
WRECKS ANTI-SALOON
NEWSPAPER OFFICE
NING
Two Japanese Vessels Carry
ing 300 Souls Aboard
Passengers & Crews
FEARFUL LOSS OF LIFE
EARLY THIS MORNING
The Details of the Horrible Accident
Are Very Meagre, Hut Definite
i Collision Took Flare This Morn
ing Two Miles Off Todohokke,
Near Hakodate Captain and Ma
jority of Passengers und Crew of
, 43 of the Matsu Maru Perished.
Rescuing Steadier Saves the Lives
of a Number.
v (Special Cable to The Times.)
Tokio, March 23. The Matsu
Maru, an 800 ton coasting steamer,
belonging 'to 'the Yuson Kashi lini,
"was Bunk In a collision with the
Hideyoshi Maru, 696 tons, at 2:30
o'clock this morning, two miles off
Todohokke, near Hakodate. .
The captain of the Matsu Maru, a
majority of the 244 passengers and
forty-three of the crew perished.
The Hideyoshi Maru and another
steamer rescued the survivors.
; Details from Tokio describing the
sinking of I the Japanese steamship
Matusa Maru, which was rammed by
t,he, steamship Hideyoshi off Todohok-
ko, state that more than 240 pas
sengers and the crew of 43 perished.
The captain of the Matsu Maru, as
well as the crew, did everything in
their power to prevent panic, but
failed. They stuck to their posts and
went down with the ship, ':,
The ships struck in a heavy fog.
They were close together, proceed
ing, with considerable speed before
the pilots saw the danger. There was
no chance to slow up and not suffic
ient distance . between the ships to
sheer off. The Matsu Maru was al
most cut in two and the water filled
her in a few minutes.
Another steamship appeared on the
scene and lowered boats, but not in
time to pick up mo, re than a score of
survivors. Several of the boats,
filled with rescuers, were nearly
' caught in the suction caused by the
sinking vessel and narrowly escaped
being drawn under the water.
DELIVERED TO
HAYTI GOVM'T
(By Leased Wire to The Times)
New York, March 23 Haytl has
a new gunboat and it was delivered
to the island government In spite of
the revolutionists, by Captain Henry
S. Chester, an American, who re
turned from his successful mission
on the steamer Admiral Sampson to
day.' .
Captain Chester, who comes from
Dennlsvllle, N. J., and has made a
specialty of delivering gunboats to
Central America and West Indies
governments : In -troublous times,
took the gunboat, formerly W. E.
Emery's steam yacht Columbine,
from here and delivered her, safe
and sound to the Haytjen govern
ment at Port au Prince on March 13.
The revolutionists were Just about
bubbling over when Captain Chester
left Port au Prince. Several of them
had already been shot to death at
Gonnalves. Eight political : exiles
came up with him on the Admiral
Sampson. They had been banished
from the republic by order of Presi
dent Nord Alexis.
"I think there is a good deal of
doubt about the future of Haytl,"
said Captain Chester. "I don't be
lieve the blacks can maintain a gov
ernment there. In fact I think the
best thing that could happen would
be for the United States to assume
a protectorate over the Island."
N
GUNBOAT
CRIMES
AGAINST
JUSTICE IN THE
(By Leased Wire to The Times.)
Chicago, Ills., March 23. Oberlin M.
Carter, ..formerly captain In the United
States engineer corps, will seek resto
ration to the army and to his rank as
a result of the vlndloat'on he received
in the decision of ,t Judge Kohlsaat.
handed down Saturday, which released
$45,000 worth of securities. He is con
fident of obtaining from the president
this recognition of the justice of the
court's decision.
While admitting that reinstatement
in the army is what he desires, Carter
would not discuss his plans for bring
ing the matter to the attention of the
administration' From his advisers it
was learned that he will petition Pres
ident Roosevelt directly.
The restoration of the honor that was
taken from him, the ex-captain places
above all other consideration. It has
been known among his friends for some
time that he has refused repeated of
fers for high salaries from engineering
concerns who recognized his ability.
"I don't want to. 'complain unduly,"
he said, "but I do feel that if the Amer
ican people understood the crimes
against justice that it is possible to
commit in the name of military law,
they would demand an investigation
and complete reformation of the sys
tem." SENATOR TILLMAN'S
CONDITION IMPROVED
Augusta, Ga.i March 23 A long
(By Leased Wire to The Times)
distance telephone message from
Trenton to the Herald reports Sena
tor Tillman's condition much im
proved this morning.
MEET DRAWS AN
(By Leased Wire to The Times)
Washington, March 23 The open
ing of the Benning's race meet hero
today has transferred Pennsylvania
avenue for the moment into a prom
enade of racing people; and race
goers. As usual, the meeting begins with
the first half, of the Benning's handi
cap. . "Willie" Shaw and "Tommy"
Burns, two old rivals, who. Tode In
Europe last year, but who will be
back In the saddle In the United
States this season, will begin their
very first race of 1908 to show what
they can do with the thoroughbreds.
Shaw is to have the mount on Greeno.
Rosl Angolaria has bought the horse
and says that he Is better fit to race
now than he ever has been.
It Is generally understood that
there will be no opposition to the
laying of wages, providing the same
system Is followed ; which has been
In effect for tho .past two years. ; ,
PLATO DURHAM
AT
(Special to The Evening Times.)
Concord, N. C, March 23. Rev. Plato
Durham, the newly appointed pastor of
Central Methodist Church, arrived in
the dlty Saturday, becoming the guest
of C,. B. Wagoner and filled his pulpit
morning and evening: on Sunday.
Rev. Mr. Durham comes to the field
highly recommended as a pulpit ora
tor, as well as one of the strongest
writers In the state. Ho was recently
appointed to this Important chnrgo by
the bishop, to fill the vacancy caused
by the resignation of the former pastor,
who was called to a large church
north.
NAME OF LAW
NN
RACE
MMENSE CROWD
DEGINS WORK
CONCORD
Justice Pritciiard is Sustained by the Supreme Court of
the Uoited States in the Railroad Cases.
(By Leased Wire to The Times.)
Washington, I). C-, March 23. North Carolina lost today in the supreme
court of the United States in her fight over state railroad rates. In an opin
ion announced by Justice Peekham the court affirmed the famous position of
Judge Pritchard, of the United States circuit court, in which he released Jas.
H. Wood, a Southern Hallway station agent, charged with violating the state
law fixing a maximum passenger rate of 2 1-4 cents a mile on the 'theory that
his arrest interferred with a temporary injunction that Judge Pritchard had
issued suspending the enforcement of the law until it could be determined
whether the law was confiscatory.
Washington, D. C, March 23. In a decision handed down by the supreme
court today, state authorities are denied much power in their effort for con
trol over interstate railroad legislation. The decision holds that Attorney
General E. T. Young, of Minnesota, is in contempt oFthe I'nitert.States cir
siilt court and is based on his attempt to' .enforce a state railroad rate case,
Young had been ordered by the court In ouestion not to enforce the law,
which he did. He appealed to the supreme court to release him 'front the
punishment imposed. Justice Harland dissented.
PRINCE
SAGAN
HIES TO WASP
Suitor For Hand of MadsmelTennessee Mao Starts Rbose-
Gould to the Front Again
FIGHTS SHY OF PAPERS
He Outgeneraled An Army of Rc
IK)rters Who Laid : Siege to His
: Apartments in New York t and
Slipped Away to Washington
Some Extra Morsels of Gossip for
the Scandal Mongers and Sensa
tion Creators to Feed Upon The
"Hero of a Hundred Harmless
' Duels." ..:
(By Leased Wire to ihe Times)
New York, March 23. Prince Hellc
pa Sagan. suitor for he haVid and
heart of Madame Anna Gould, the di
vorced wife of De Pagan's cousin.
Count Bonie De Castellane, who arrived
in New York surreptitiously to con
tinue his courtship, departed secretly
today for Washington. The -object of
his trip is a mystery and those who are
friendly with De Sagan in this city
refuse to discuss even his presence
here. .-
It was said, today by a man who was
on the Adriatic last Thursday when
Anna Gould's party landed here that
Prince De Sagan was a member of the
Gould retinue. The Informant said that
the ship list contained an assumed
name for the prince and that he was
also listed as a chauffeur. Why a
chauffeur should be brought here from
Paris who is entirely unfamiliar with
New York streets, and why a driver
Should sail with the party when no au
tomobile was carried were peculiar fea
tures. Prince De Sagan cleverly out-gener-aled
the army of reporters who laid
selgo to his apartments In the Prince
George Hotel today and slipped away
to Washington which has been recently
tho temporary home of the duke of the
Abruzzi.
It was not until last night when De.
Sagan visited the Gould home and
dined with"' Mr. and Mrs. Tyler Morse
and Mme. Gould later at the Wyom
ing that tho confirmation of his pres
ence here was obtained.
However, the report last night had it
that the prince had slipped away from
Paris and sailed from London, England,
to Halifax on a swift steamer, arriving
in Montreal by rail early yesterday and
leaving', there for New York, on the
Montreal Express. The arrival of the
prince In New York caused such a
wave of gossip as had not been occa
sioned since the divorce granted Mme.
Gould from her spendthrift husband,
(Continued on Second Page.)
: : MISS-SPELLED WORD CONTEST :
During the week ending March 28 a special mis-spelled word will be
placed in the advertisement of some local merchant or local advertiser, and
the person who finds and first reports that word to the merchant or adver
tiser in whose advertisement the word appears will be given a year's sub
scription. On the day in which the word appears,' the merchant will be
notified what word it will be and a year's subscription placed in his hands
to give to the first person reporting that word to him.
Eemember, the word will be in a local advertisement and you must
report the word to the firm in whose advertisement you find the word and
if you have the correct word and you are the first one to find and report it
they will give you the year's subscription. 1
3D-TERM GHOST
STALKS AGAIN
veil Scare Going
MIGHT CHANGE HIS -HIND
Hut '-There is Only One .Inducement
That Could Influence Him Secre
tary of Nashville Hoard of Trade
Says the; President. Said That If
He Kelt Sure He Could Curry Even
One of the Late Confederate States
He .''..Would. Reconsider Decision
and Run This Year Chance for
Tennessee to -Get in the .Cabinet.''.
(By Leased Wire to The Times)
Nashville, Tenn., March 23. Secre
tary E. S. Shannon, of the Nashville
board of trade, upon his feturn from
Washington, quotes President Roose
velt as saying that if he felt sure of
carrying one of the southern states
solid he would reconsider his announc
ed decision and make the race for pres
ident this year.
"I should like for the state of Ten
nessee," the president Is quoted, "and
if I should be re-elected after having
carried Tennesse I would name a Ten-
nessean as a member of my cubine:."
SALE OF FA MOl'S HOMESTEAD
OF ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
(By Leased Wire to The Times) '" ,
San Francisco, March 23 Because
of the quarrel with her daughter-in-law,
Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson,
widow of the novelist, has advertised
for sale her half of the famous
Stevenson homestead in this city at
the corner of Hyde and Lombard
streets. Mrs. Lloyd Osborne, who
has been unable to agree with her
mother-in-law,, owns the other half
of the house, and refused to part
with it.
Mrs. Stevenson does not care to
live so clo,so to Mrs. Osborne In the
future and therefore she has instruct
ed her broker to dispose of her half
of the house. As to the home of the
great novelist, the , Stevenson house
has been a show-place In the city for
many years.
No Session of Senate Today.
(By Leased Wire to The Times.)
Washington, March 2?,, The sen
ate adjourned today immediately
after convening out of respect to
Senator Bryan.
The house considered District of
Columbia bills.
s
ID AY I
L
SCORES TAFT
(By Leased Wire to The Times)
Toledo, Ohio, March 23.' At a
union labor mass meeting a., 'ended
by 2,000 persons, Congressman
Isaac R. Sherwood declared the
presidential candidacy of Secretary
Taft to be inimical to the interests
of the workingmen. The congress
man also condemned President
Roosevelt for the presence of 'fed'
era! .troops at Goldfleld Inst winter.
General Sherwood said in part:
"To William H. Taft are we in-
d?bted for government by injunc
tion and the recent ruling of the
supreme court on the questions of
the boycott and the blacklist. Taft's
decisions while a judge in the case
against the bricklayers'.-, union in
Cincinnati and the strike of the
brotherhood of locomotive engineers
on the- Ann Arbor Railroad later
have been made the basis for nearly
all'these recent dacisions of the su
preme court detrimental to organized
labor." ,
Regarding the president's ; action
in the Goldfield case, General Sher
wood said:
"I did not condemn Roosevelt for
sending troops at the call of the
governor, but I did condemn him
when, after learning by private re
port that the troops were not needed
he not only failed to make the re
port public but also failed to rectify
his mistake by withdrawing the sol
diers from Goldfleld."
CASTING OUT
1!
(By Leased Wire to The Times)
Pittsburg, Pa., March 23. Thou
sands of undesirable foreigners are
to be deported , irorp. the Pittsburg
district within t.'ie next few months.
John T. Harper, agent-at-large for
the .'immigration bureau of the de
partment of commerce audi labor, is
in Pittsburg now,, gathering statis
tics incident to commencing depor
tations. The crusade is the carrying out of
the recent order of federal authori
ties to use ''deportation as a 'means'
of checking the growth of anarchis
tic sentiment and in ridding the
country 'of the burden of, taking carj
of indigent foreigners.
Investigation of prison records is
said to have shown a preponderance
of prisoners of foreign birth.
Death of an Infant.
Friends will sympathize with Mr.
and Mrs: J, E. Riddle in the death of
their six-mouths'-old rhild. The
funeral will he tomorrow, the inter
ment to be iu Oak wood cemet ery. :
:0
ABOR MEETING
REFUSE
AMONG
IMMIGRANTS
The Rock Island Daily News
Was This Morning Victim
of Revenge of Gamblers
BIG CYLINDER PRESS
Newspaper .-Which' Had Done Much
Toward Driving Gamblers Out ot
Illinois City and Had Fought the
-Elect ion Rattles of the Anti-Saloon
League Narrow Escape of Jani
tor and His Family, Asleep in the
' Kuildiii", Policeman Across Street
'.Notified .-by Being Knocked Dowu
by the Concussion.
(By .-Leased .Wire to" The Times)
Rock Island. 111:,. March 23 Early
today a terrific explosion, shaking
the business center of Rock Island,
occurred in the press room of the
Daily News, which has been leading
the fight of the anti-saloon forces,
backed by a powerful law and order
league; and has driven the gamblers
from the city. The new $10,000
press was wrecked, a dynamite bomb
having been placed under the cylin
der. Fragments of iron two inches
thick and from one to five feet in
length were found in all parts of the
News building, which is three stories
high and in the center of the retail
district. The press room fronts an
alley and the rear portion of tho
building was badly wrecked, walls
being pushed out and floors let down.
janitor H. F. Heuck, his wife and
two children, sleeping in a flat ( n
the second floor, were thrown violent
ly from their beds, and Heuck re
mained insensible for ten minutes.
That no lives were lost is considered
a miracle. The Daily News building
sustained damage estimated at $6,
500. The entire plate glass front of
another building eighty feet aw&y
was blown out and a policeman across
the street was knocked down by the
concussion.
METCALF DINNER
WILL BE A BIG
$20 PLATE ONE
(By Leased Wire to The Times)
San Francisco, Cab, March 23.
A banquet at the Fairmont Hall, to
be giV 'n the officers, of the battle
ship fleet on the evening of May 8,
at whicli Secretary of the Navy Met-
j calf will he the gmest of honor, prom
ises to be the greatest function of tho
' kind ever held on the coast. There
! i... . . pfin a .1...
wjli lie more limn uoo hi ine iuoicw
and the dinner will cost $20 a cover.
Arrangements have been perfected :
for the governor's banquet. It will
not only he a most notable affair in
the welcome of the fleet but one of
th 6 '..most- brilliant' occasions of the
kind given here.
T;ie "Peruvian cruiser Admiral
Ci'iiu is on the way to San Francisco
a.ul will be here during the naval
celebration when the battleship fleet
arrives. .. - ....
IMPORTANT DECISION
BY I.C COMMISSION
(By Leased Wire to Tho Times)
Washington. IX ('., March 23. Mer
chandise hilled from an Interior olnl
in the United States to a point in Eu
rope is regarded as all-water transpor
tation in a decision of tho interstate
commerce commission Just handed
down. The decision is in the case of
the Cosmopolitan Shipping Company of "
New Jersey against the Hamburg
American Packet Company the North-German-Lloyd
Steamship Company and
the Wilson (Hull) lines and the Scan-'
diuavlan American lines constituting
the so-called "Baltic pool." It is held
that the "pooling of the traffic by wa
ter carrier Is plainly a matter over
which this commission has no Jurisdic
tion." -
Commissioner Lane wrote the opinion
which Is concurred in by all the other '
commissioners.