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; Only Aftarnoon Paper Coivccn Richmond and Atlanta VJith Leased Wire and Full Prcoo Dispatch- LAST EDITION, ALL THE IIAEKET3. ., . -.. J i THE BALEIGH EVENING TIME VOLUME 30. RALEIGH, N. C, THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 1908. PRICE 5 CENTS. Murphy Beats MeCarren; New ' York Fight Will Be Cam BUTLER HAS! USE FOR LILLEY Two Strikebreakers Shot M of Chester's Trolley War NELL SWINNEY MAY GET WELL BALLOT RECOUNT TO BEGIN TODAY Some Time Perhaps We'll Know Whether McClellan or Hearst Was Elected WILL OF THE PEOPLE Must he Vindicated In This Matter Says Justice Lam bert From Bench (By Leased Wire to The Times) New York, April 16. The formal re count of the ballots east at the mayor alty election of 1905 will almost cer tainly be begun today before Justice Lambert in the supreme court. Two more jurors were seated yester ilny, .-making the total number of jury men now In the box eleven. After the ; twelfth juror has been chosen, Attorney-general Jackson and his associates will hurry forward as speedily as pos sible the wurk of getting at the ballot boxes. With the summoning of a. second panel of 100 talesmen, extraordinary prejudices were developed by the men whose names were withdrawn from the whole. Justice Lambert again took an active part in questioning the tales men. In several instances he cleared away with a happy illustration the fg which hud settled over the witness chair. ' . . ;- There was an important declaration from the bench during the day that put the issues at stake in this trial clearly before the talesmen as well as the pub lie at large. Seizing upon an occasl6n where reference had been made to prejudice against the parties to the contest, Justice Lambert said: "It must be understood that it is the will of the people that is to be vindi cated in this case not Mr. Meeuilan or Mr. Hearst. Our form of govern ment requires that the man who re ceived the greatest number of votes should be declared elected, and that is all that Is to be decided." - MORAL: IK YOU WANT VEKDICT Go Into Court Without Your Coat and You May Get One. (By Leased Wire to The Times) Denver, Col.. April 16 It was probably the fact that he was too democratic aud pleblan to wear a coat that" secured a verdict for C M. Wallace, a milkman, who sued the tramway company for - damages he thought due him for injuries re ceived. " When Wallace walked Into the court where Judge Bliss was presid ing ho was In his shirtsleeves and wore his hat. "Here, what are you doing here? Take oft your hut," commanded u tip staff. ' Wallace obeyed, wonderlngly, and then Judge Bliss began to take a kindly interest In the man who pa raded about In the chilly month of April without a coat. Finally, after much talk, Wallace admitted he had not worn a coat for half a dozen years. This mollified the court, made a hit with the jury, and Wal lace received a verdict. Drowned Off Swedish Coast. (By Cable to The Times) Gotheburg, Sweden, April 16 Be tween 20 and 30 persons were drowned yesterday, when the steam ship Goetalef capsized off the coast here. The bodies of eight were re covered and several were rescued. 11ROKKR RETURNS LOOT. Chicago, April 16. Charles W. Glllett, a broker, at N. 115 Adams street, paid 122,500 to the directors of the First Na tional bank of Seymour, Wis., In settlement of a suit started against him to recover nearly $50,000 that had been lost in speculation by a defaulting cashier. The suit, which was to have come to trial before United States Judge Landis, will be dismissed under the terms of the settlement. It Is said to be the first time In the history of this country that money ille gally paid out by the cashier of a national bank has been re covered from a broker. t '-.'... . :.. ... - , " -' ' , - ' ' j : -',.,''"- -'.:... " "' -.'', ' : , ;."'.''...- '-.,.'-"-.''."'. ' . '.' , '.-."" .',.' .'.'. '."-. .'."..".:.. ii:li:gatks at largk. Lewis Nixon, Charles F. Murphy, Charles Froeb, Al ton B. Parker. Alternates. George H. Thatcher, Fran cis K. Pendleton, Joseph E. Sehwartxenbach, William F. Rafferty. Klectors at Large. . Nathan - Strauss, William II. Fltzpatrick. A e (By Leased Wire to The Times) New York, April 16 Senator Pat rick H. MeCarren is no longer boss of Brooklyn. Read out of the or ganization by a vote of S25 to 89, MeCarren split the democratic '.party open from New York to -."Buffalo when, looking straight into the, face of Charles F, Murphy,, who had de throned him, he shouted loud above the-tumult "in" the convention: "You undertakers who have charge of the democratic party to day, and who are about to enshroud the corpse, had better prepare the coffin also, because deeply will he buried the democratic party.' If this is the beginning of the campaign for the mayoralty, let me tell you that there is not a single one among you that will ever see ' a democratic mayor again." v Early today, after a tumultous ses sion of hours, the uproar in the con vention became almost a riot. -Last "night that there has been more or less uproar, but when Chairman Carmbdy' read off the list of new state committeemen, half the upstate delegates had jumped to their feet yelling at the top of their lungs, . . -. Thirty or forty angry men in the middle aisles Jiolted down through tho surging jahi for the stage. Ser- geant-at-Arms Watson tried to stem tho tide and push them back, but one delegate caught him by the shoulders with one hand and Wat son fell off the stage on top of the FIVE HURT WHEN CAR HITS POLE Indianapolis, Did., Anril 1G. Five per sons were seriously injured' when a lim ited traction ear on the Shelbyvllle line of the Indiana Traction company was wrecked this morning at the junc tion of Prospect and .Michigan streets, In the suburbs. The Injured: Hid Canger, Shelbyvllle, badly hurt; William Passott, Sholhyvllle, injured on head: Theodore Kck, Oreensburg, Ind., hurt about shoulders and scalp wounds; T. E. Goodrich. Shclbyv'lle, injured about the. body; unknown man, unconscious. The wreck occurred as the car was rounding a curve at a rapid rate of I speed. The car turned at an angle of 45 degrees and struck a telephone pole, turning completely over. The wrei k is said to have been due to the failure of the breaks to work. There were 35 passcngci'B on board and all were badly shaken up and many received slight In juries. - (By Leased Wire to The Times) Asheville, April 1 Papers In a test suit have been filed here by United States District Attorney A. E. Holton for the purpose of establish ing the ownership of the United States to all land In North Carolina west of Pigeon river and southwest of the mountain, extending from the source of this river to the South Car olina line. The territory Includes eight counties, with a population of 100,000. In this territory are 50,000 acres of George W. Vanderbilt's Plsgah forest preserves, on which are two high mountains, four railways, cop per and kaolin mines, and many towns and villages, as well bb the (Continued on Page Two.) D OWNS WEST OF PIGEON RIVER? overturned desk in the pit below, The riot lasted half an hour. The angry protestants declared that the list of state committeemen read off by Carmody contained the names of men who had been defeated by the delegations. At the height of the tumult, Chair man Carmody shouted out that there had been a resolution passed giving the convention power to select the state committeemen by general vote. A", dozen men cried out. "liar!" and were rushing again for the stage, when police reserves interfered and dragged them '-hack to their seats. Without any semblance of order and wi'hout any motion to adjourn, the convention came to an end with Murphy still smiling, the new Brook lyn delegates whooping -it .'-up for Tammany, and the up-state men still uttering dire threats 'as -'to what they were going to do when they got home. , . Under the primary election law, (tie 1'ucl ion - securing recognition from the state, committee has, undisputed control of all the election machinery, and Senator '.'.MeCarren' Is thus : left helpless. : ':. Immediately' after Chairman Bul ges had presented - the "report-, Sena tor MeCarren--' ascended . the rostrum to' present .the report of the minority. ....VI want to congratulate tho minor ity of the .committee for the .labor expended in an effort to arrive at the truth." was McCarren's iirst shot. "At this time I beg to submit a brief statement of fact. 1 want to say, also, to the democrats of New York county that the undertakers in charge of the democratic party in the state today, who are about to en shroud the corpse, had better pre pare the coffln, for the funeral will follow almost immediately. "If tiiis is the way you are begin ning a mayoralty campaign, you had better prepare for defeat, for there is hot a single one of you who will ever see a democrat elected to that place. I never voted a republican ticket in my life ' ."What about Hughes?" roared a delegate, and in an instant the con vention was thrown into wild dis continued on Page Seven.) ' WIFE OF MAYOR CALLS HIM DOWN (Hy Leased Wire lo The Times) 'Sacramento, Cat., April 16. Mrs. Clin ton L, White, wife of Sacramento's mayor, gave her husband a public scolding for permitting Emma Gold man, famed for her anarchistic utter ances, to speak in this city. In an in terview site dictated in the presence of her husband. Mrs. White said: "I have my opinion of, tho mayor of any city who would allow Kin ma Gold man to speak In public: I do not think she Ought to be permitted to speak. If she was not good enough to speak in Chicago,' I don't see why she should be allowed to speak here." The mayor smiled While bis wife re lieved herself of her pe.ntup indigna tion. He seemed to think his wife's statement was a pretty Joke on himself.- - Kiiima Goldman' spoke last night on "Anarchy, what it really is." She is to 8eak here again tonight. GETS 10 YEARS (Special to The Times) Louisburg, April 16 It may be re membered that Atha Ieaii3, an elderly man in this county, had for long years saved and concealed about $5,000 and was robbed of thin. His son,'" Morris,' was suspected of the theft, aud, upon arrest and examina tion, it was believed that Sigma Bunn, a young man living near, was privy If not accessory to tho crime. Bunn tfns tried Tuesday and Wed nesday was acquitted. Morris leans was brought into court and submit ted, whereupon the judge sentenced him to 10 years in the penitentiary, intimating to him that if he would tell where the money was the sen tence would be lighter. This he re fused to do, FOR HIS CRIME Says Connecticut Csress man is Bigger Grafter Than Those That He Accuses! SOUTH CAROLINA MAN Intends to Make Far Fly Be fore He's Done Willi "Dirty Blackmailer" (By Leased Wire to The Times) Augusta, Cia., April Pi.Cv-n. ,1. (".. Duller, when -hifo.i med tli.it .tlm'. "Liljev eluuycs before the seiiate llivcsfluatiijg committee hn.d praet ie il'y fallen .Hat, expressed no sui prise but, cot ills' litlo-r hand, stated that it was just a he had expected,'. "That fellow. .Lilley Is-. nothing i'nre. than, a common blackmailer," declared Gen. Butler, "and he has lost the ' re t'peot of all his colleagues. His charges front the very lirsf. -had no 'botti-.ni in tilers:, and the most rc."ectuble mem bers of both houses-. .consider thetn "so, "Lilley, in my mind, . is '-more of '-a . grafter than he charged others, with being-. I believe he was win king in the interest of the Lake Boat company. In his -Whole case it could be Veen that tie Was trying to force a, sale. of. the Lake company to the Electric company. In fact, when , the president of tile Lake company was on the stand before the Investigating committee he slated that he wanted to sell his company to the Kleclric. "Had Representative Lilley made his charges against one of the meinhvrs.'c.f tlie house or senate, he would have been expelled,-. and."' for this reason--he' re frained from naming the members of the house that were connected with the 'scandal' He know we "t- no re'--c juihu; but I? hie '.md ta .' ?. at n V against a member of the house tiny would have the . right of the floor , in re-ply to him, and his position would have been too hot" for him to have stood It. ."'-,. "You can lake it that nine times out of ten 'when a. member of the house takes a stand like Lilley and denounces gentlemen of high standing, like those Who were pulled into this hearing, they have '-a. hand behind them and are be ing freely fed ! "i am not through with this investi gation, for I am preparing a statement now to give the public in.v side of the affair-,' and Lilley had better look out, for I am going to make the fur II y be fore I am through with it. After X had iin'shed my .statement before the in vestigating committee I told Mr. Dal scell I hud something 'else..' that I -would like to say, but, 1 thotisht, e.ltogi-ther, unpiiiiiamentary at that time. After I had left the stand, however. 1 told him I considered . Llllev the dirtiest blackmailer I hud-ever come In contact with.": ; Murderer of Chief Oenlon Pays Penally for Crime at Fayeltevilie (Special to The Kvenlng Times.) Fayeltevilie, X, '., April ltl.Sam Murchlsoii, the negro- murderer of Chief of Police J. II. Heiiton on Sunday, February i'S, paid the awful penalty of his brutal crime today at noon by hanging in the Cumberland county jail. He waa pronounced dead 4 minutes af ter the trap was sprung. lieforo his execution Murchison made a statement, declaring he was ready to meet his God ami that ho had nothing against Mr. Benton, but his brain was tired by "blind tiger", whiskey at Jhe time ho committed the crime, and he did not realize the awful deed. It is quite a coincidence that yesterday just one year ago Tom Walker, another ne gro, was hangl d for the killing of Chief of Police Chtison and Officer Lockamy who. In the discharge of their duty, were mnklng a raid upon a blln(l tiger run by Walker. Illshop Capers Cannot Live. (By Leased Wire to The Times) Columbia, S. C April 16 Bishop Ellison Capers, 71 years old, is at the point of death, ... SAM MURGH1S0N ISHANGEDTODAY (By Leased Wire to The Times) ; Chester, Pa.,''. April 10. Two strike-breakers were shot this morn ing in tae fiercest riot that has marked - the sirike of the employes of the Chester Traction eompany ,.S. William llorgmann, who .acted. 'as ntotorman when car No. 1 left the bnriiH at 5 o'clock, was shot in the foot, while a revolver bullet lodged in the leg . of William Gfiesmier, claim agent, of 'tho company, who was attacked while leading a squad of strikebreakers.. Ilioting was spasmodic from mid-hi-.rht on, and began w ith an attack i in the'Lafnyette hotel, w-'aere the 100 strikebreakers have been housed, -...'An' attempt to lead 40 s.: rikebreak ers from the Lafayette at Fourth and Pennsylvania streets to . the . car barns, at Huh and Eigemoni streets through the hack-, streets about 4 'o'clock.' was soon discovered by the watchful strikers and .their sympa tl:i.cTS,. and in a dcsjicraU" V.and-to-htttid battle the .Jinporlo':! "workers were routed rnd driven, bruised and .bleeding, to shelter in the carbanis. Gricsniier, who w as in charge, was hit Jjy a well-aimed bullet and fell in his tracks. The police carried him into the barn amid a hail of missiles and to the accompaniment of Oatha and cries. . . . The rout, of the Kifikebretikerji angered the ti'action company offi cials and preparations were made to run a car at 5 o'clock, the hour when the regular "'city '..schedule, .begins on ihe streets of Chester, it came out promptly on the hour, with Porg mann as motornum nnd an imported strikebreaker as conductor. Borg rnann is the man who took out the first car in the San Francisco .-.street car strike. , .'-' "Tli and get at them," "Down with them!" "Kill them!" were the shouts which rose. Hardly had the cam r;o?e two ynrds from the ban. when the furious attack began. Men swa rmed aboard on both front ., a nd rear, the trolley was pulled from the wire, . the coin roller was wrested from Borgmann's hands, and the mob began boating him and the con BRYAN REMOVES HIS PRESS MAN (By Leased Wire to The Times) Lanslhg, ili'-li., April 1 ti. William i Jennings Bryan has discarded his publicity pi Jinoicr, Willis J. Abbott. ' because .of 'the letter -which-' -Abbott sent out characterizing lite entry of 1 Gov. Johnson as an l.npert inenco. ' Mr. Biyan was exireniely reluctant in discussing the main f, which he I evidenily, .considered a (list resting i faux pas. lie declined to rejily to ! Cov,; 'Johnson's criticism of the Ut1: . - . - i ; t(,f. . : - I I "i have seen the. interview." said: i Mr. Bryan, "lint 1 do not know how - ! 'accurately 'either, the let tor or M r. ', .: Jphiisiin's. rc'ply was quoted. 1 have i:o coinment lo piake, save to say 1 that Mr. Abbott was hot. acting for: me and 1. l-new nothing of tae, let ,er, t it was not authorized by mtv" 'T Durham, X, "., April lfi.--Br.odie I.. Duke, of North Carolina. New Yoik. New Jersey and Texas, apii'nrs tittle 'concerned about the fate of bis for nier wif", Alice W'ebb Duke, who is In : a Chicago 'prison In default of bail I pending trial on a charge of forgery. I lie said in an interview at the Duke I home: j "No personal Information have 1 cm cernltig cither the w hereabouts or w 1 : fare, of Mrs. Alice Weeb. I tun averse to borrowing from.-press' reports any occasion for alarm or corn-em.: In the absence of Information, I shall avoid any consideration of the matter." : Dallas Is In Danger. Dallas, Texas, April 1 fi. Trinity valley Is being swept by one of tho. largest floods in the history of the country. . BROOIE DOESN CARE ABOUT HER MUST ductor, using the controller ,as a club. .Hricks, Stones, Lead Pipe Fly. Bricks, stones and pieces of lead pipe were tit town from every side, it was barely' light and the bullets Hew wildly. How many shot,; were fired no one knows, but it sounded like a volley of musketry.' " Sleeves were pierced and halbrims shot oft',' and there were .remarkable escapes by the dozen. Melt on both sides fired , and ' narrowly missed each other..' One, of the.. bullets - struck Gorgmaiin in the foot. - .lust then a strong detachment of policemen came Uji the street, and drove the crowd back. Tlie car was- left, standing on the track, and Borgmann and the conductor were hustled into the car barns. The doors were locked and barricaded. The police roped, off the st reels adjacent: to the barns and are still on guard. Mayor --Johnson . quickly readied tbe scetie, and his. .condemnation of the traction compa.iy officials, for at tempt ing to si art car .service wit It out his itermistion was scathing. It, is regarded as out . of the question to maintain order. -'.Chief of Police Pennington admits his men cannot cope with the situation. . .. . . . President Higg telephoned Capt. John C. Grciomc, commander of the fit ate c onstabulary, at his home : in Roser.iont to send the state constab ulary, but was told this could not bo done except by official written re quest from Mayor Johnson. . Sergeant Xoden,, of the Chester police, was handed a dynamite tor pedo as-he came out of the carbarns at 10 o'clock, It had been placed on the street car track at 13th street and lOdgeinont avenue, but had rolled oil on the pavement, The man who gave it to Xoden said: "Sergeant, you are too good a fel low to he killed in this manner," The torpedo Was an improvised affffair, about as large as a walnut and covered with tin. Sergeant Xo den turned it over to Chief Pen nington, who ordered it destroyed. All the city officials are in confer ence in regard to the situation and the , police admit. -that the disturb ances are beyond their control. TWO KILLED ON PANHANDLE LINE (By Leased Wire to The Times) Pitlshttrg, Pa.. April 10. As the result of aa easlboutid freight train being sidowiped by a westbound train on the Panhandle road at Collier,- i."' miles west of Pit tsliurg, early today, the' cab. of .the easl bound freight Was smashed '.and two in:n were killed. . The dead: .lolin liivwell, SO, single, brake niaii,: resided at Deiiiiison, . (). . . Charles I'tteilmcli, "2 !,'.- .fireman, Deimison, O. Maxwell, the brakema't, waswith rtie'rliacii, the ..fireman- of the rast boui;d eitgiiK.. The men are said to havi liern (in the steps of the engine, a ad when. I'l'' west liouud .freight, came "along the cab i'u'som'e liiauncr got . sidew Iped iind both men were instantly killed. VAN SCHAICK S W a.-!thiK'.o:t, D. C, April lfi.-The president w ill net Interfere 'In the case of Cant. W. ' S. Van Shaiek of the III- j fated "(!eliei;il Sloeuin," now: serving 'a Pi-year term 'n Hlttg Sinn: for neKll jgenec responsible for, the -disaster.; . The i-timinille from the maritime ex i change, - in. New York, -composed- of I't eiierli-k Dalzell, liugcne Moraii ami A, .1. ( iiiiiie.-, called on the -president today ami made a strong' appeal for a paidon o-i- behalf of ('apt. Van Shaiek. The. 'p'roj-ident told them.-he could not Interfere, in the .mailer and advised thei.i to call on Atlnrney-Kcnoral lloii ii.ai te. "Oalmeal King" X More. AKron, ()., April 1 C Ferdinand Schnmachi.f. belter known as, the oatmeal king, died in ihis city today, lie wus &2 years old. ERVETIME One Bullet Extracted and Re covery Depends on Absence of Complications NO MOTIVE UNDERSTOOD For Act of New York Doctor, Just Arrived at School On Visit (Special to The Times.) . Asheville, April 16 Miss Nell iwinney, who was yterday evening shot by her father, Dr. C. O. Swln ney, in the reception room of the Normal and Collegiate institute, may recover, according to the physicians who removed one of the bullets from her head. The other bullet has not yet been located. The physicians say complications only will prevent her recovery. Details of the Shooting. Asheville, April lfj. Enraged at Jiis sixteen-year-old daughter, Nel lie, because of a harmless school girl prank, Dr. C. O. Swinney, who recently came here from New York, fired two shots at her, fatally wound ing her, and then turning the re volver on himself, he placed the. muzzle in his mouth and pulled the trigger, dying almost instantly. Badly wounded as she was, with two bullets embedded in her skull, Miss Swinney ran from the room and upstairs to the principal's room be fore she fell. The tragedy occurred in the re ception room of the Normal Collegi ate Institute, a large girls' boarding school in this city, where Miss Swin ney had been a pupil for the past session.: Just what occurred prior to the shooting is not known, as there were no witnesses, and the girl, while still conscious, could give but a vague account. Dr. Swinney, who up to a few years ago had been a prominent physician in New York, has for some time past been in poor health, and of late, it is 'alleged, his mind had been unbalanced. Recently his daughter was one of a number of the schoolgirls who, as an April fool's joke, absented them selves from school, and tho father brooded over the little escapade un til it assumed to him the proportions of actual wrong-doing. When Dr. Swinney called on his daugnter at the school this afternoon about 3 o'clock he was shown into the recep tion room, and few minutes later his daughter came down and went into the room, closing the door be- j hind her. She sat down at the piano, her father sitting beside her. Half an hour later girls and teach ers were startled by the sound of four shots, and a second afterwards Miss Swinney, with blood streaming from the wounds in her head, came rushing from the room. In a few i minutes the wildest confusion reign jed, schoolgirls and women teachers j here -'and there, but Miss Robinson, the principal, speedily restored or der and hastily; summoned a physi cian. '' .--'' Miss Swinney was desperately wound-ed, and there Is little chance for her recovery. The room in which the tragedy (Continued on Second Page.) DOG FIXDS LOST PIN. '- ' : '.:' Wiiisled, Conn., April 16. Jack, a collie owned by James Maddrah, of Hubbard street, recovered a valuable pin which i had been lost in tie woods and relumed It to the owner, MIsh Ida Maddrah, eldest daughter of his master. Miss Maddrah lost the pin, which was a gift, while hunt- Ing for wild flowers with her little niece on a mountain side Sunday. She did not discover her loss until that night, and then started out with Jack in quest of the pin, Half way up the hillside the dog found the pin and brought It to Miss 9 Maddrah in hut mouth. " . - - :
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