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J .,'. . ' Only Afternoon Papar in tHe State of North CarolinaWjth Leased Wire and Full Press i. LAST EDITION , vV.t ALL 7 4 THE BALETGH K NG TIME X VOLUME SO. RALEIGH, N. C.; MONDAY, JULY 13, 1908. ' YEN EMN GOES TO WffiffiW Busy Day With National Committee Conference, Which Will Pick Out Chairman to Run Cam paignAlso Sees John W. Kern, Indiana Run- . ning Mate on Ticket licity Before Election Feature of Fight. AH Nebraska roads today lead to Fnirview. Mr, Bryan will spend the day talking with the national com mittee, which gathers at his home to talk over the national chair niunship. He will also see John W. Kern, of Indiana, his run ningiuaie on the ticket. Mr. Kern talked in Kansas, on his way to Lincoln, and made a speech at Phillipsburg, where he advised the people to read end contrast the Chicago platform and the Denver platform. (By Leased Wire to The Times) Fairview, Lincoln, Neb., July 13 William Jennings Bryan entered into the work of his campaign in earnest today. He will meet John W. Kern, his runningmate, today, and both will take part in a conference with the democratic national committee, at which the program for the coming campaign will be mapped out. The train bearing Mr. Kern to Lincoln, due here at 1 o'clock this morning, was delayed several house by heavy . rains. .'.-.'" '. '. .-' Mr. Bryan has made it plain that one of the issues of the campaign will be publicity of campaign funds be fore the election. He says he is going to wait and see what the policy of . the Taft managers .will be. 3n-. this : matter. . ': y; Kern Talks in Kansas. ' .- Mr. Kern fired the opening gun of the campaign In Philippsburg, Kans. Almost the entire population of the town turned out to greet him, and In response to demands for a speech he made a short address from the train. He advised his hearers to read the platform of the two parties carefully and intelligently, and then to cast in telligent votes. He was told that Treasurer - Sheldon, of the national committee, had been quoted as say ing that, while the books will be thrown open, It will be impossible to give a statement of finances until af ter the election. . , ';''.'. ; Cumnpign Contributions Paramount. "Oh, well,'' responded Mr. Kern, "I'll wait and see if that is what they are going to do bsfore I say anything about it. The people are thoroughly aroused to the importance of the full publicity of campaign contribution, and they will be able to understand my position on that question before the fight is over, if they don't already understand It,: as I believe they do." HOXOLfLU FOLKS ARK READY TO ENTERTAIN OUR FLEET. (By Cable to The Times) Honolulu, July 13 -This city has made all the arrangements possible for the coming of the American bat tleship fleet. A wireless message from the battleship Connecticut, re ceived last night, states that the fleet was In latitude 29.19, longitude 145.15. The fleet will slow down to nine knots an hour today, in order to pass the leper settlement on the MolokalU at daylight Thursday morn' ing. The Nebraska is 140 miles be hind the fleet. The sea is very smooth. MRS. KERN SAYS HUSBAND WILL WIN. (By Leased Wire to The Times) Indianapolis, Ind., July 13 Mrs. John W. Korn, wife of the vice-presidential candidate on the democratic ticket, Is nearly con vinced her husband is going to be elected. "You would be surprised," she said, "at the people who have pledged us their support. Then, I think, men are more sincere than women, and I count on what they tell mo. As I have found It, you can most generally depend on the word of a man, but as for a woman well, I can't say. I think it Is part of their social training to be a little Insincere every now and then. Men generally mean what they say and, consequently, I feel much encouraged over the good news I have received." Mrs. Kern resents the story appearing In an eastern paper to the effect that she has no children and that she writes her hus band's speeches. She declares she -is the mother of two boys and tbat her husband takes care of the political sldo of the house, and not only knows how to write speeches but how to deliver them effectively. Campaign Fund Pub to Be Made Strong - ...,'' "WE CARRY NEW YORK" SAYS CHARLIE MURPHY (By Leased Wire to The Times) New York, July 13 Charles P. Murphy and others of the New York delegation to the Denver convention returned to the city today on the Twentieth Century Limited of the New York Central. The big boss said he thought the ticket named at Denver an excellent one, and that ha Wciieved rt would be elected. "I am confident." lie went on, we will carry New York state. The re ports from the leaders indicate this." Mr. Murphy admitted the New York delegation had submitted the name of Judge W. J., Gaynor to Bryan for his runningmate. "But," he went on, "Mr. Bryan did not reply." . "The platform," said Mr. Littleton, "is virtually the same as submitted by the New York delegation, and It pleases us Immensely," KITCH1N Will BEGIN TO STUMP ON AUGUST 4 It is stated in The Reldsvllle Review that Mr. W. W. Kitchin, the demo cratl candidate for governor, will open his campaign, and make his keynote speech at,Wentworth August 4. In view of the Btrenuous campaigning which he underwent in anticipation of the convention, covering about ten months, he can hardly contemplate with much pleasure four months' ad ditional" work on the stump. It has been stated that Mr. Kitchin has been resting at Mecklenburg Springs, Va., since a few days after the convention. Cheap Coal in the City. New York,, July 13. Coal operators, because of the lack of orders and fear ing their balance of the year will be on the wrong s'de of the ledger, are selling domestic coal to consumers at rates ordinarily charged for coal to produce steam. In that way they are striving to cre ate a market of strong householders and to Induce them to put in winter coal Patrickfl. McCarren, Deposed Dem ocratic Political Leader in Brooklyn. - , V "v - - I 1 . W 4 yM' s mi v 4k .. This Is Patrick II. McCnnon, the formerly all-p.wcrful democratic lender in Brooklyn, who was denounced at u 'traitor-, to the democratic party at Denver. Jury System Wrong, Says Judge Compares Homicides in Uniied Slates and Other Countries and Says American Juries Fail to Cunvict Reason Found in Selection of Juries-Wake Court Convenes. In his charge to the grand jury( today, Judge Walter II. Noal, of Laurlnburg, called attention to the IrfU Ul I1IUU1 )) vul 4 V U Mil bVU VIUU . 1 "V .,- greater number of homicides in thls' oun ry" country as compared with England,! Crimes Here and Abrond. France and Germany, and gave for1 'reinforce .what he had said the reason of this difference the fact! nut crime he gave a comparison that American juries in criminal ac tions fail to convict. He did not charge this failure to the jurymen, for whom he has the greatest re spect and confidence In, but rather to the Bystem of selecting juries, which he believes is wrong. , Tie strength of the jury system, he said, is due to the fact that jurors come from the people and know hu man nature. They are unlike gome lawyers, who go about with their heads filled with technicalities, out of touch with the" world and its' af fairs. '.-.. Jurors as a rule never make mis takes in the trial of civil actions, but in crimfhal cases juries ..sometimes make mistakes the state is an In- visible something to them and Juries in North Carolina, provided the de argue that a defendant if turned j fondant-has sufficient means to em loose might reform and so they are ploy the very best taleut he can have lenient at the expense of justice. I a jury who will think favorably of Do you know, he continued, that' him. The system that permits a de a stranger can come into this court-' fciulant to peremptorily challenge 23 house and in nine cases out of ten jurors for no reason at all Is wrong, pick out the men on a jury who he said, for It gives the defendant stand for law and order? He can! -(Continued on Second Page.) Banks, Five Year Prisoner, Shot Dead By Life Convict Sunday Tragedy In West Virginia State Penitentiary at Mouods ville Four Prison Murders in Four Years- (By Leased Wire to The Times.) Moundsville, W. Va . July 13 A. J. Banks, an electrician, aged 47, was murdered in cold blood Sunday by Oscar Phlpps, a miner, In the state penitentiary. Both were prisoners at the institution. Phlpps is serving a life sentence for murder In Cabell county. His victim was doing five years for burg lary. Phlpps is the most vicious con vict In the prison. He has commit. Meal do that. Juries ought not to be swajeu by'" sympathies, , because ! crime is so rampant throughout the of homicides and convictions in the United States as against homicides and convictions in the old world. In 1 H S ." there wore i',808 murders in this country and 39 convictions; in 1S87, 2,3:15 murders and 144 convictions,- in 1894, 9,801 murders and 132 convictions, and 1904, 8,482 murders and 116 convictions. In 1903. -there were 9,303 murders In the Un.il ed States, 301 in Germany, 526 In France and a smaller number in England. In 1906 Chicago alone had 187 murders while London, with double the population, had 24. Juries Turn Men Loose. "Who turn these folks loose?" he asked, iind answered the question with, "Th; juries." In every county ted three murderous assaults since entering the Institution In 1902. Futnl Knlfo Made of Scissors Blade. Yesterday when Banks entered the pharmacy of the prison Phlpps was standing in the door. As Banks went out, Phlpps produced a knife made of a scissors blade and plunged it Into the victim's back. Banks fell and died almost Instantly. This Is the fourth murder at the prison within four years. I' NEGRO BRUTE I OLD MISSOURI KillsYoungWhite Woman Who Resented His Advances Barely Escapes Lynching (By Leased Wire to The Times.) Joplln, Mo., July 13. Because Mrs. Roy Plum, 19 years old, white, an attache of a carnival company, resented his advances, Will Wilson, a negro, 24 years old, struck her a terrific blow over the left temple, killing her. He then tied a rope around her neck and, according to his own confession, dragged the body. 300 feet at Carl Junction, near here. Leaving the body, he returned to the place, where he had murdered the woman. He was tracked by his bare footprints and arrested, and then spirited away to escape a mob of employes who had secured a rope with which to lynch him. ; Wilson was later taken to the jail at Carthage. During his stay in jail he broke down and confessed. ELECTRIC CAR VICTIM BLOWS OUT HIS BRAINS (By Leased Wire to The Times.) Tlloxl, Miss., July 13 Jacob Kor man, .-aged 58, committed, suicide, by blowing out his brains with a single barrelled shotgun. Mr. Korman's family attribute the act to 'temporary insanity, caused by an Injury received some months ago, when he wes run down and dragged by mi electric caiv By these Injuries he-was laid, up several weeks, . Mr. Korman was one of the , old, re spected citizen of Blloxi. He leaves, a wMpv .nild tve children, besides tvo brothers and (wo HiStJs."- BAN'DS OF KEGULAXt .iJt.MY Must Not Compete With Trivate Hands and Draw Wages. (By Leased Wire to The Times.) Washington, July 13 In a letter of protest received at the war depart ment against the playing in free concerts of the Fourteenth artillery band, the post commander at Fort Screven, Ga., has explained to the sat isfaction of the military authorities that the performance of the band is In no respect a violation of the exist ing law forbidding competition with local musicians of military bands. It Is held that the law does not contemplate prohibit fng citizens en joying the benefit of .music' rendered by military bands, but forbids mem bers of such organizations receiving further remuneration. In addition to their army pay, for playing off the Reservation when by doing so they come in competition with local mu sicians, CARDINAL RAMPOLLA VERY SICK MAN IN ROME. (By Cable to The Times) Rome, July 13 Suffering from a nervous breakdown, due to overwork, Cardinal Rampolla, papal secretary of state under Pope Leo XIII, is in a serious condition. He has been or dered away to recuperate and will shortly leave for Switzerland. Car linal Rampolla was a strong candi date for the papacy when Pope Pius X was chosen. London liar Silver. (By Cable to The Times) London, July 13 Bar silver firm, 24, advancod 3-16d. ' .' ''". ' ' -,'.'-.-', -' - ' SISTER OF KERN IS NOT SUITED. Roanoke, Va., July 13. Mrs. Sallie Eagle, only sister of John W. Kern, of Indiana, democratic candidate for vice-president, heard of her brother's nomination when she. '.came to Roanoke mar ket with a load of produce from her farm near this city. "I hnve been trying to get John to quit politics," said Mrs. Engle, 'and the last let ter I wrote him I again asked him to get out of it. His reply, which was received but recently, said: 'Don't be uneasy; there are no bees buzzing in my bonnet.' " BEAUTIFUL YOUNG G KILLED IN Hazel Drew Murdered and Pond, Where farmer Miller Found it Been in Water Some Days Victim Was Gsv , erness in Family of Prof. Carey, Head of Trcy Technical School. ' (By Leased Wire to The Times) Troy, N. Y., July 13 The murder of a beautiful young girl in a mys terious automobile by two men and a woman, who flung her body Into Teal pond, a lonely spot off the main road in the country' near here, was dis closed today, when the outhorities learned of the finding of the body. It was Identified as tbat of Miss Hazel I. Drew, a governess In the family of Prof. E. R. Carey, head of the Reus saeler Polytachnic institute of Troy. Thought Body Handle of Clothes. The body was found by Gilbert Miller, a farmer, who, in driving to the city each day, passes the pond Ha noticed the body several dayB last week, but thought It was merely a bundle of clothes. Finally it had floated near the shore, and then he discovered the seeming bundle of clothes was a hu man body. He investigated and notified the authorities of Renssaeler county here.. Investigation by Garvin C. O'Brien, district attorney of the eounty, led to the Identification of the body by the girl's father, John Drew, of No. 400 Fourth avenue, and the discovery that ahe had been missing from the home of Prof. Carey since Friday, July 3.. . On that day the girl, went to see her sister, taking some' clothes with her' In a grip. iSuWiV nr sister she was going to see some friends at Watervteit, near here. That was the last seen of her alive. , :'', Mysterious Auto, Lights Out. Detective Kaye learned that mysterious automobile, with lights out, had been seen taking the road past Teal pond at terrific speed on the night Miss Drew disappeared. This automobile was seen by an Inn keeper whose place Is along the main road and near a fork leading past the pond. The automobile passed the inn with apparently four people in It. It returned shortly afterward with only three people in it. When the body was found in the pond, the girl's hat and gloves were found on the bank, placed In such a position by the slayers as to give the impression that the girl had placed them herself and had committed sui cide. - ."'When the district attorney and County Detective Kaye examined the body, there was found a heavy bruise at the base of the skull. This had plainly resulted from a blow with a heavy metal instrument. An autopsy was ordered and the coroner found that the girl's skull had been fract ured. The autopsy also showed that death was not due to drowning. The girl had not been mistreated before she was slain. The police bf Troy this afternoon , reached the , conclusion that Miss Drew, the beautiful 19-year-old girl who, it Is now known, was murdered while riding in a mysterious automo htlo and the body thrown In Teal pond, was slain by her sweetheart. The police also believe the murderer Thugs Attack Train Bearing Col. Guffey Decapitated Pennsylvania Leader Escapes Stones and Bullets -Pittsburg Man Sick and (By Leased Wire to The Times) St. Louis, July 13 The train bear ing the Pennsylvania delegation home from the convention 'at Denver was attacked by thugs as it was entering St. Louis yesterday afternoon. On the side of the special car was a streamer announcing that the car contained the Pennsylvania delega tion. It is believed that some per sons bitter against the Guffeyltes for their opposition to Bryan planned the attack. The train wag running at high AUT0O Body Thrown Into Tc:! had a woman and a man accomplice. . . Miss Drew is believed to have been -, struck down while In the automobile by the sweetheart and the latter'a. ac-v complices. The body was held In - sitting position in the machine ad u; not to arouse the suspicions of air one who might see the automobile '. its way to the pond. Drs. Rlckard, Boyce, and Fair- weather, of Troy, who performed th .. autopsy, also reported specifically to' - the coroner that the girl - had not been mistreated before she was slain.; i No water was found in the lungs, to ' the formal report . to the coroner,- read: , -;. '',"; - ; 'X''f--.-f. "We find that Hazel I. Drew came ' to her death through concussion of the brain before her body entered the water." The wound at the base of the skull was about the size of n silver dollar and was just above tlia hairline.' NO HIXI'IM. HAND Lit TED As TTiikinii Woman Tumbles Into ChUit.'Mi River and is Drowned. ' Chicat'.,, July 13. While 200 men and boys sat or stood within a com paratively few feet ; of her and in sight of nearly 1,000 others, an un identified woman fell or rolled .pur posely from the north pier at th mouth of the Chicago, river and was drowned ,''-:' iV - . Although she scream- .dty for assistance, not a. hand in the crowd ths.t wrox-hed her struggles in the w:ttt-r vas lifted -to-save her. Inv Stead, one of che gazers stole Uie": woman's purse and hat, which sh had placed on the pier beside -her,' and fled. A half an hour later the body was taken from the water by Capt. Car land and his men from the lifesavlng station. WHAT THE MERCURY . . SAYS SOL IS DOING When old Sol got up this morning and looked askance at this mundane globa, he decided he would pour it into us, And he did. As he rose gradually and majestically on the wings of the mora-' Ing until he reached noon, he let it out by degrees; but at 12:45 old Sol caused his face to shine more brilliantly; hs also caused the mercury to hop several degrees and Raleigh folks to seek shade. At 12:45 the mercury registered 93 degrees, and Mr. Henry Reece, In the weather bureau, said it would ret ister some more. : , The hottest day previous to this came Saturday, June 20, when the thermome ter registered 96. Yesterday at t o'clock it Was 94.3, Saturday It was 89 and Frl. day It was 75.8. There were some pleas ant days last week, but they are for got.: A few gray clouds are looming up on the horizon; are boiling Into probable thunderheads, and it may rain In the next few hours. In the meantime this weather Is almost too hot. :- Convention Doctor Attends Him on Train speed when, suddenly, there came k'j fusilade of stones, bricks and bullets.; William Schultz, O. E. Maxwell, and: J. F. Curran, of Washington, Pa, seated together at one side of the car, were cut, by flying glass, but caped the stones and bullets. ; . Cn At, tt a if AntAi4 In V ta. ward end of the car and escaped li Jury. Since leaving Denver, Colonel Guffey has been sick, as the result of the heat. At Bed alia, Mo., the trad was held while a physician eanu ''-' 99 aboard and attended Col. Guffey. ( -'' "- " v ' - - '....'', v'Mv'-.'-v T,, -.
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