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AST EDITION. fOLTJME 30. POWDER SHOP EXPLOSION KILLS FOUR IN ILLINOIS ig Blast Works Controlled By DuPont's Trust GH T FORCE QUITTING Fust as Crash CameDay Gong of 150 to 200 Not Quite Due (By Leased 'Wire to The Times) Chicago, April 13. Many men were urcd and a number missing in an cx liosion early this morning at the ictna mills of the Dupont Powder oinpuny, near Millers, 111. . The shock of th : explosion was .a nl IS mill's away. Tin- wrecks! till! employed from 150 to ' MO' ' men in he day time, hut the full force was tot at work when the disaster occur-' ed. The night shift had just completed ts task when the death-dealing blast tartled the town. Houses were d:s nantled and Windows broken hundreds if yards from the scene. At Chester on,' Ind., Harbor, Gary and Dane Jark, a dozen, or more miles distant, Itlzens thougft an earthquake was i pon them. Physicians and nurses were hurried o the scene. A number of. the in ured were-removed to the new hos iltal In Clary on trains over the Lake ihore, Baltimore & Ohio and Wabafh. At 7:30 o'clock four were reported lead. SAN DIEGO EAGER HUGHES IS STILL FOR THE FLEET (By Leased Wire to The Times) . San Diego. Cal.. April 13. San Diego is filled to the overflowing point with people and to the burst ;ng point with enthusiasm and it's all an account of the approach of the Jay when the battleship fleet will swing into line, anchor fore and aft ind turn loose 15,000 men for three lays' enjoyment ashore. The city looks like a flower garden there it Is color in every direction one looks. Flags, thousands and thousands of them, are flapping in the breeze, and nt night, being tested for the great event, more thousands of electric bulbs in various colors. San Diego surely expects to have a great time and to show the boys of the fleet a real American welcome. . Every hotel, boarding house and rooming house and every home is filled with visitors, and if the trains keep bringing people, some of them will have to sleep outdoors. The fleet arrives tomorrow and, while the ceremonious welcome does not begin until then, today is a hol iday. Everyone is wearing holiday clothes and manners. Everyone is swayed by boundless enthusiasm. ChelsefrrireLossWillW (By leased Wire to The Times) Boston, Mass., April 13. Ten thousand persons are homeless, 1, 000 buildings are smoking In ruins, six persons are known to have lost their lives, 85 are missing and 80 were Injured as a result of a Are which broke out at Chelsea, a north ern suburb. The property loss to day is estimated at $12,000,000. Embers carried by the wind swept across the creek and Ignited the tanks of the Standard Oil company In East Boston, and several of them exploded with a roar that coul1 be heard 10 miles out to sea and In all parts of Boston. No one was Injured by the explo sions, and the concentrated efforts of the EaBt Boston firemen, who had Only Afternoon Paper Between Richmond and Atlanta With Leased THE BALEIGH B5r?,n HARRIMANERIE BOSS FOR SURE (By Leased Wire to The Times) Peoria, III., April 13. Through a friend of S. . M. Felton, formerly president of the Chicago & Alton and vice-president Of the Mexican Central railway, it was learned that an offer had been made him by K. H. Harriman to become president of the Erie road, which: recently passed into Harriman's hands, by the taking of the note issue of $5,500.00!.: The man who made the announce ment expects Mr. Felton Will .-accept, art the Krie Is a more Important road and Is located in this' country,- and more of .Mr. Feltoh'M time could be spent in Chicago. CONVERTED GAMBLER TURNS IN HIS CARDS --.Sunday afternoon was the great est service of all the revival at, the Pilot Mills Baptist Church. Rev. P. G. Elsom spoke to men only and 10 men confessed Christ, There was great feeling in the audience, strong men in tears, making confession of their sins and asking ; for prayers. Two gamblers were converted. One of them gave his pack of cards h j to Mr. Elsom when he came forward to accept Christ. Mr. Elsom says he never has had such an experience in all his preach ing. He will keep this pack of cards to use as an illustration of how Jesus blesses man when they give up their sins. - Over 75 made a profession of faith during this revival. (By Leased Wire to The Times) New York, April 13. Angered at the refusal of the legislature to kill racetrack gambling, Gov. Hughes is said to be preparing a coup for the opening of the season at Aqueduct Wednesday which will make racing men sit up and take notice. Accord ing to a report from Albany, he is preparing to use force to end betting in the bookmakers' ring, and there are hints that he may go to the ex treme of calling out the militia. The governor is now moulding sentiment in favor of his position just as he did in l he public utilities bill matter. The governor Is said fully to re alize by this time that only the most drastic, radical measures will suc ceed, but he is certain that as chief executive he can employ such meas ures and that, as nobody else will, he must. Gov. Folk, It will be remembered, fussed about in Missouri trying to stop racetrack gambling and finally threatened to call out the militia, but the gambling stopped before the mi litia got started. AFTER GAMBLING to $12, 000,000-Six Deaths been driven back to their own dls trlct by the threatened danger, suc ceeded In preventing the lira from spreading to the rows of wood tene ments which line the waterfront. Many women were in great terror at the roaring of the flames and the shouts of the firemen in the smoke which enveloped the city. Children lu great numbers became lost from their parents. Children who were apparently alone laid down here and there on mattresses or quilts, and cried themselves to sleep. Moth ers with babies in their arms, look ing from shelter from the blinding smoke and flvlne cinders, ran to parks. All patients of the Frosts hospital, (Continued on Page Seven.) RALEIGH, N. C, MONDAY, APRIL 13, 1908. HEFLIS VICTIM MAY OIE TODAY McCreary Has Pneumonia and Lockjaw Doctors Hold Out no Hope (By Leased Wire to The Times) '-. Washington, April 13, Thomas McCreary, the -New .York horseman accidentally shot., by Representative Hellin, of Alabama, is slowly dying of lockjaw at the George Wasliing ton University hospital, Pneumonia has developed and the physicians say he cannot survive the day. Representative Hoflin's brother, who is 'a pnysician, is among tho.?e attending the sick man. The bullet which struck McCreary was intended for a negro Hellin was ejecting from a street car March 23. The : congressman, who is under $3,000 bond, has called repeatedly to inquire about McCreary's condi tion. S (By Leased Wire to The Times) New York, April 13. Bishop Alexander-Walters, head of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion church1 in New York, created something like a sensation among the colored worship pers of his denomination yesterday by relieving himself of a bitter attack on President -Roosevelt for the pu't he played in the Brownsville affair and by declaring Tuft was until -.o be the negroes' candidate for the pres idency because he was, with Roose velt, a party to what the bishop term ed "a deliberate plot to discredit the negro race for political purposes."-, That the bishop's denunciation of the president and secretary of war did not fall on cars altogether apprecia tive was evidenced before the last clauses of his letter had been read. Several of those present allowed them selves the privilege of groans of dis approval, and at the end Rev. Dr. 1'arkes, chairman of the meeting, called attention as delicately as he. could to the fact that the meeting was not to discuss polities but to consider the ed ucation of the race. NEWS SUMMARY (By Leased Wire to The Times) Washington, D. , C April 13. While; the republicans held the lime light in national politics this week, by reason of the state conventions In New York and Massachusetts, the democrats will have their share of publicity during the next seven days. The birthday of Thomas Jefferson, which falls on Monday, will likely be celebrated more generally than In re cent years and more important ut terances may be expected. By far the most Important of these celebrations will be the banquet of the national democratic club in New York. A quarrel over the question as to whether William Jennings Bryan should he Invited to speak at the din ner threatened for a time to disrupt BISHOP WALTER WHACKS TEDDY the club, but it is now likely that tlieUlll receive the endorsement of the Nebraskan ,lf present, will add to the oratory of the occasion. The other speakers will he President Woodrow Wilson, of Princeton University; Sen ator Owens, of Oklahoma; and Sen ator Simmons, of North Carolina. Two Important democratic state conventions will be held Tuesday, those of New York and Delaware. The latter gathering will likely as sume an importance not warranted by the importance of the state in na tional politics, owing to the fact that. It will mark the launching of a boom for Judge Gray for president. For several months the Delaware Jurist has ocacslonally been mentioned as the "logical leader" of the eastern democracy In opposition to the can didacy of William J. Bryan, and his endorsement by the convention of his home state is expected to vesult In crystallzlng sentiment In his favor among those who desire an eustern candidate. The New York state democratic convention will also meet on Tues day. Carnegie hall, New York, hav ing been selected as the sceue of the ' gathering. Sentiment among the EVENING COMPLETE FAMILY KILLED IN TEXAS! Big Posse Goes Searching for ; Mexicans Suspected of Murdering Gersdls (By Leased Wire to The Times) la!!-is, Tex.. April ::. Th- ' people of Wautoga, a little village in Tanant county, are greatly agitate, 1 today' over the 'brutal killing- of.'. an c aiii family. ) -K ii ly this, morning neighbors. discov- j ered Ihat the home of -M. 1". Gerse.ll ' i had been broken into anil .-further ex-! animation1. revealed the dead bodies of ' Gers'll. his wife ami, infant .daughter 1 Their bodies were a . mass of-'.'bruises ' and their head en that, their ft rec'iguiy.ablo. ' were si rttur.es'' v. Several. huri itily beat-j ere almost un- j 'Mexii-ins' are j :e which was si arching for SUSpl I'ted. . quickly.- fo- thrill.; and llleil . a pes is .now DELAWARE SO rnll -IffipP lO A V rllJl lllli3i SlEtl I I Ull lllJUUL Ullft I . -. : ; : 1 Wilmington, Pel., Apr. 1 ri..- There is no opposition among the-- demo - crats of Delaware to the boomof. Judge Gray for the presidency. The Bryan followers, it. was declared to dav, hiis capitulated. So unanimous t is the feeling in New Casile county v ire no con-j lie state con-1 Tuesday and! for the jurist that thei tests for delegates to vention at Dover on consequently it will not. be-necessary to hold the primaries in Now Castle county. . . I The only exception is one ward in; Wilmington where the .election will; he a formality. In Kent and Sussex! counties the Gray men are also iu control. The state convention there-! fore, which will elect six delegates: and as many alternates to the Den ver convention, will strongly r.isiruei them for Gray. Washington, 1"). ('.. elation of the naval April i:W 'onsiil aMpropriat'Ori bill under the tiv In the house minute mle was begun today V " ' :-'- 1 1 ' - -' . , : OF COMING WEEK ( members of the democratic state com- mitee favors an nainslrncted deleiv-1- tion from the Empire state,-but. the will nrobablv be some opposition to this programme. Many delegations j in up-state counties and cities havej been instructed to work for the inter-1 est or Bryan. Chairman Conner of the state committee and many other j prominent democrats are believed toj favor Gov. -Johnson and will attempt to secure the elect ion of delegates fa vorable to the Minnesota man. Mr. Bryan will be in New York next week and may attend the convention. The Michigan democratic statu committee will hold a meeting in Lansing Wednesday to fix the time and place for holding the state con vention. It Is 'likely that Mr. Bryan committee, although Gov. Johnson, of Minnesota, has gained many ud- herents in Michigan. I The only important republican state convention to lie held next week I is that of Minnesota called to meet. 1 in Minneapolis on Thursday. Sec-! rotary Taft will undoubtedly he the, choice of the convention for the pros- Idency. Arizona republicans will hold their terriiorhil convention in Tiiscon next Saturday, when two del - egates pledged to Taft will be elect- ed. The republican territorial on- vention of Hawaii, to he held In Hon- olulu on Mondav Is also likely to fa - vor the war secretary. The fight between the adherents and opponents of Secretary Taft will be continued In Massachusetts this week, when conventions will be held In several of the congressional dis tricts of the stale. Present appear- itnees Indicates that the Taft boom- til bn successful in a maiorltv of the districts. In many other states district conventions will be held, and will probably servo to Increase the Ui(J con,,llol. of ihe wonln- depnrt lead of Secretary Taft in his race for .lllt,nt, "i shall go crazy If 1 am kept the presidential nomination, -i in hero much longer." Wirt and Full Press Dispatches INTERSTATE COMMERCE LIQUOR BILL IN SENATE GOES TO CHURCH JUST TO STEAL (By Leased .Wire to Th Times.) Chicago, April l;.. As she rosf. from her knees, crossed .herself de voutly and - walked -our. of St. Eliza beth's Roman Catholic church, 4 1st street .ami Wabash avenu.e May O'ilara, alias May Miller, was ar rested by a police sergeant and throe patrolmen ..for. stealing the 'purses of worshippers. . The woman's rooms on state street, which she occupies Wit h Frank -Cunningham, a former jockey, Were i found to contain between Ll and aO j purses and handbags, all of which j are supposed to have been st'ob-m by.i May O'Hara while pretending to be in prayer, but. in reality . soarchiiif;: .'the' seats in front of her for plunder, I Nelson-Gnus .Negotiations. (By Leased Wire to The Times) while; there was no minority report, Kan Francisco, Cal., .A:.i 13. this1 document represented the view Battling" Nelson, after signing upi.of only. a majority of the committee W',h l'romo,er Gll'as-:"' of t)rt'-j llontal 'lu" S;inil'tl;l' lor the tee i:id - ,ime within a week . to meet, Joe' I Gnna. In, n 20-round light tor - me. I latter part. of May, has again broken.- j his-.agreement. Nelson hi giving l.isj ; excust? for re:;otiiion of balking . tac-( 111 8 announces ne v. in nave a neiierj I cnance in a u-nmiio. or nuisu iibiu:; with the old master. Cans had agreed to weigh in at l;;! pounds ringside si ripped, permitting Nelson to come into the ring -with whatever weight he saw fit. CAUCUS CALLED (By Leased Wire to The Times) , Washington, April -.18; In'- the sen ate today Mr. Scott urged that the gov ernment build army building in the District of Columbia for housing its department oflieers, instead Ot renting: quarters for them. . i . Senator Knox, for the majority of . the judiciary 'committee, reported ,a I bill to regulate the C . O. P. business in liquor shipments by express companies,- - .'- '. The conferees, on the army bill held their first meeting. . ... Senator Kaynei: introduced a reso lution expressing' the sense of the sen- ate upon the powers-delegated, by the consutuilou lo lae . i.iiei .-.aus I Pe so enlarge.! as in i-iii-riiaiii on the the I l'lglits ol Ule -siaies- guarantee!! oy j tenth amendment. Itoiiigs of the House, The house considered the naval ap propriation bill, The conn agreed on mtti'C on .mines a bill for tie' m .mines ..and milling t;i!il:,-.luii-'nt the interior of a buie.iu of mliiet i.i. department. Keinililieai'S cin '..Sated : 'today , for a caucus on the AUiricli cui bill. :. call rt ney Steel Works lo Klin Again. Jolitisiown. I'a.. April 1 :J . -1 1 was niinounicd today dial several depart ments, .of the Cambria Steel com pany's plant, would resume work this .week. About l.uuo men will return lo work during the next few-days. FOR CURRENCY ffard Sunday for Mrs. Duke Locked up in Chicago Jail j j Chicago, 111., April IS. In her ceil in tu, county jail Mrs. Alice Webb Duke, fm.im.,. ,vif,, (lf j,.aie ,, Duke, head ,,f the' tobacco trust, a woman used to ' luxuries of every kind and formerly possessed of unlimited wealth, spent the longest Sunday of her life. Mrs; Webb Is locked up on a charge of passing worthless checks at the Great Northern hotel. She was commit ted to Jail Saturday In default of $:mi0 ball. The woman Is practically penniless, No visitors, save the newspaper nun, came to see her. "What a day for me tills has been!" exclaimed Mrs. Duke in the afternoon, uiwl l-wMii,l n U'it'A untllm1 111 ALL THE MARKETS. TIMES. PRICE 5 CENTS. Common Carrier Delivering to Takes Big Chances TLMMLS DEMANDED Purpose of Measure to Stop Persons Out ol State (By Leased Wire to The Times) j Washington,- April Li. Senator j Clark of t he committee on judiciary i tiiis alternoon reported to the senate i,the: committee substitute for all th.e:j j pending bills to regulate interstate j commerce shipments of .Intoxicating I liquors. The senator1 explained that, and -Senator . Bacon, of Georgia, 'add-'.' that the views of the minority represented- in a bill Would be. moved (Mi- a substitute for the minority measure. - The bill of the. majority . j substantially the same as' that of the minority, excepting the minority measure includes an additional sec- uon considered greatly to -'strength-- en the act by providing that state powers over liquors shall attach at I he place to which the goods are con signed, but, before delivery to the (Continued on Page Three.) TROLLEY STRIKE SEES BLOODSHED (By Leased Wire to The Times) Philadelphia, l'a April 13. Chester, a suburb of riiiladelpliia, was thj fi'i iii' of great disorder today when the street railway company attempted to operate the street cars with non union labor. ;- . , . The union -employes are on a strike and the attempt to resume traffic with st tikebreakers resulted in rioting and bloodshed. The men were forced to lice from the. cars, while they were fol lowed by a volley of sticks and stones. nalows were smashed and several were s!i;,;htly injured, although nono .venous enough to be taken to a hos- pitaL I'-isini V'L"'" Two ..hundred-, men are idle and ss is almost generally suspend- All Serene In l'ellsaeola. (By Leased Wire lo The Times) IVnsacoia. Fla., April 13 The city today is -quiet, there being no out break of any wort in connection with the strike against the I'ensacola Elec tric rohinany. Gov.-Broward has or dered additional troops to proceed at once to this city. ,..' .: Contrary to expectations, thero has been no attempt on the part of the oftU'ials of l lie street railway to operate cars. The ollielals say Ihore will be no such .attempt, mado until the 'additional-troops get here. ... ' McCLi:iJ..X.lli:.l!ST CONTEST. (By Leased Wire to The Times) New York, April 1,1. Selection of a jury was begun before Justice Lambert in the supreme court today In the recent proceedings brought by Attorney-general Jackson against Mayor McClellan after legal quibbles and technicalities by the mayor since 190,") had at last been swept away. The trial is the result of the quo warranto proceedings Initiated by the attorney-general and the suit will determine finally, by the opening of the ballot boxes of the election of 1905, whether or not the mayor was fraudulently elected.