Only Afternoon Pai.ji-in the
LAST EDITION
VOLUME 30.
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Trouble Between Coal Union Men and Opera
tors, Which Resulted in Bloodshed Yester
dayHas Now Reached Acute StageAla
bama Great Southern Train Held Up at Ad
amsville' and Strikebreak off and
Driven to Woods.
(By Leased Wire to The Times.)
Birmingham, Ala., Tuly 16. From be
ins intense Wednesday, the situation
with Hie coal miners and operators be
' came critical today. Several sensa
tional incidents and developments of
all ports mark the past 24 hours.
The biggest sensation of the day was
the holding up early this morning af
an Alabama Great Southern train at
Adamsville, a big crowd of strikebreak
ers being taken therefrom and driven
to the woods. .
Man Riddled by Birdshot.
At Lewisburg J. D. Aderhelt, a union
sympathizer, a guard at the powder
Works, was mysteriously slain, his boily
being riddled With birdshot, and two
special deputy sheriffs are in the coun
ty Jail upon coroner's warrants charg-
ing attempted murder.
Near Adamsville the taking of strike
breakers from vans is reported. Strike
breakers seem to have begun to arrive
in big crowds today. Up to this time
there seemed to have been few in the
district.
At Lewisburg and vicinity a strike of
other coal mine employes, In sympathy
with the striking miners, is reported.
From Bessemer comes the report that
the furnaco workers and ore miners,
uovffr beforo ororo niijed, ore being
formt'il into unions. '''
Junt at di ylreak this monilug a- train
bearing a ui'ii-uhion- wliwrs. Vo wr
ta-wwk tov ty iii 'lhi' hmWm i tile 6lrV
nn.iBliU' .v.U .'i I. on company, at
. A.-lfM:". sitiy was pM up Juat above
- Jefferson on the AlfLbtuna rmt-Bfwts-ern
by sympathizers with tho striking
miners and a scene of wild confusion
Roosevelt Tells
How lie feels About Things
No Use for Men Who Talk About Executive Usurpation
Believes In Being "Strong President" Or Nothing
(By Leased Wire to The Times)
Bangor, Me., July 16. President
Roosevelt has confided to his friend
"Bill" Sewall, a guide in the Maine
woods, that he has no regard for the
little, feeble, snarling men who yell
about "executive usurpation."
"I had a letter last week," said
Sewall, when found busy in the hay
field, '"and I judge the president is
mighty glad to have the combination
settled and the stress of his own of
ficial work so near over."
Reading directly from the presi
dent's letter Mr. Sewall quoted:
"I hope Mrs. Roosevelt will be
better now that the strain of the
presidential nomination- is off. As
for me, I thoroughly enjoy the Job
and never felt more vigorous as far
as the work of the office is. con
cerned. But it's some different from
the work in the backwoods and
VORYS SAYS OHIO'S CERTAIN FOR TAFT
(By Leased Wire to The Times.)
Hot Springs, Va., July 16. "This is the time when the demo-
crate always carry Ohio in a presidential campaign. Ohio repub-
Means have their own troubles and they always inspire a demo-
cratlc hope of an Internal split and bolt. This is the time when
these troubles are settled and over. If It required anything to
do it, the claims that the democrats will carry Ohio this fall have
completely settled all our troubles and cemented all republicans
in Ohio in a determination to elect the national, state and iegls-
latlve tickets by 100,000 at least." v
For four hours Judge William H. Taft and A. I. Vorys, his
Ohio manager, discussed the situation, with incidental reference
to the speech of acceptance upon which the candidate it at work.
i At the conclusion of the conference, Mr. Vorys gave out' the
statement quoted, above.
Mr. Vorys will return to Ohio, with full Instructions from the
candidate concerning the management of the state campaign: but
In order not to interfere with tbe completion of the speech, of
acceptance he wilt remain here two or three days for other, con-
ferences with Judge Taft.
THE: EALEIGH EVENING
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KfiiRi
resulted, the strlkeDreakers finally be
j Ing forced, it is alleged, to run from the
train and take to tho woods for their
, lives.
j ; The train loft Birmingham early this
morning and had proceeded through
several striking mining camps before
It came in the vicinity of Jefferson. The
train was guarded by seven special
deputies, armed to the teeth. In Ad
dition to these deputies, there were tns
engineer, conductor, fireman and liag
man of the train.
Swooped Down On Train.
Just as the train whistled for Jeffer
son, the engineer on the special throw
on his brakes and it was stopped. Iu.
aiedl.icly, the guards say, they saw a
1 swarm of men, estimated at 300 and
! said , to be fully marshalled, swoop
down toward the coaches, bearing Hie
I strikebreakers. Before anything could
be done to stop , the mob, they had
reached the train. The deputies weru
held up at the point of rifles, they say,
and forced to drop their firearms. Af-
ter the deput'es had been driven nwsiv
from the train, a fusillade was . flrsd
' through the coach.
Mines Running, Buys Manager.
! A Ledger representative visited the
office of General Manager James Bon
nyman, of the Southern Coal & Tron
; i;omvaiiv ' Mr. Huiivrrini :.ij'
( "Our nn i, of course, did not Are
shot. Thfj 'r id-n'y v-powcr-u.
;rid'i' OfcF hartiw,...,' ;a
J ir. the itwits. Ttou may say. however,
that our minea are running and the
I output is-.Being . Inrreased da.!I. V.'o
j will contin to run and wilin a few
(Continued on Second Page.)
Bill Sewall
plains that you and I have done to
gether in the past.
"People Know I'm Truthful."
"I said I would not accept another
term and I believe the people think
my word is good. I would be migtity
sorry to have them think anything
else. I believe In being a strong
president and making the most of the
office and using it without regard to
the little, feeble, snarling men who
yell about 'executive usurpation.'
Admires Washington and Lincoln, j
"I also believe H Is not a good
thing for any man to hold it too
long. My ambition is, no matter In
however humble a ' manner and no
matter however far off, to travel In
the footsteps of Washington and
Lincoln."
Teddy Will Visit Maine.
The president promises to visit
Bewail in Maine when his term con
cludes .
State of North Carolina WitH Leased Wire and Full Press b,
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Advertisement in The l-Jvi'iiinp: Tlnips Timls Lost Dog
After d ing Lost Ac-arly u Month.
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LOST Very small
no tail. Answers name ''Sport."
Reward for return or inlormation
at The Times oilicc. 2 41
Sport has been found and a Raleigh home made happy and all
by the simple little wuut advertisement above. It was during tile
last week in Juno that "Sport" went away, or rather was car
ried away by a boy, as the story goes. No information as to his
whereabouts could be secured and tho above want Ail. was placed
in The Evening Times on July 2. St:ll time went, by and no word
or news from "Sport, and frien ls said a Times' want Ad. did not
pay, but the man who put the Ad. In the paper never gave up.
He believed that "Sport" would some day hear of the Ad. nnd
come back home, and so he has.
Yesterday afternoon a lady came Into The Times office and
reported that a little Fox Terrier, minus a tail, nni answering
the name of "Sport," was at her home about a mile in the coun
try. He had been left there by a small boy and the good lady
had been kind to "Sport" and taken care of him. But here is
the story, the good lady in looking over an old copy of The
Times found tho above Want Ad. und came immediately to The
Times office and reported that the lost had been found. The
owner of the dog went out to the farm at once and brought his
pet home where he had a nice bath and a good warm supper and
today "Sport" is the happiest dog in town and his owner knows
"IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE IN THE TIMES."
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Could Not Swim and Went
ter Boat Capsized Tommle Howell Narrowly
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Escapes Same Fate As Companion.
(Special to The Times.)
Oxford, July 16. A party of four,
consisting of Messrs. Darius Batman,
Nick Cannady, Tommle Howell, of
Oxford, and Hubert Poteat, ot Wake
Forest, while out boat riding at Can
nady 's mill, a fishing pond about 10
miles from Oxford, and of consider
able depth, at noon today, when,
through some unexplalnable means,
the boat was capsized, sending two
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of it occupants, Darius Eatman and
Tommle Howell, into the water.
Mr. Eatman, who could not swim,
was drowned. Tommle Howell nar
rowly escaped the same fate.
The tragic end ot Mr.
Eatman
comes as a terrible shock to hlls
friends here. He was at one time a
professor" at Wake Forest College. !
He was woll educated and a man of.
considerable ability. J
16, 1908.
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Trench Womaa and Re
lata JioVJ Likp. M
-Donnld Har-
ing facij'-'s, pd
h'M-e today on
Jlajehuc and
went ii.iniedialely to his of.ee in
Broad street to make preparations to Belle Hopkins is in the hands of the
break the will ot Benjamin Hart, the officers.
American millionaire, who died last) About 6 o'clock last night Acting
May in Puns, disinheriting his Marshall N. N. Smith and other offl
ndopted daughter and his alleged di-, cers caught a negro, said to be Henry
vorced wile and leaving Ins $2, 000,-j
000 to a French 'woman, Mme. De
Hie.
Kvldence lie Spicy.
The contest will be made July 30
in tho surrogate s court and It prom-
i i.ses to develop a three-cornered
! fight for tno dea l man's millions that
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anything of its kind.
Mr. Harper is counsel for the
adopted daughter, Mme, Jean Guille-
.men, wile of t..e counsel or moored. at the Texas & Now Orleans
,j French embassy at Vienna and form- passenger depot and held up pnssen-
crly a special envoy of France to the ger train No. D, westbound, about vlo
United States. Mine. Do Gulllenioii minutes, while a thorough, but una
is a sister-in-law of the Countess of '.vailing search for the negro was
Montebello, M. Do Guillcmon has made. Passenger train No. 8, east
iustructed Mr. Harper to spare no ex- bound, was also stopped this side of
peuse and leave nothing undone in the Nechcs river and searched for the
the attempt to break the will. negro. Sheriff Landry was joined
Hurt Was Virginia Man. here by Rangers Wright and Hanier.
Hart was a Virginian who amassed i ' ..:- . . .
his fortune in New York and con-i - .... 1
verted it into bearing securities, and
then went to Paris to live. In 1S92
he adopted Isabelle Lucchessl, then
three years old. tie had her edu
cated in Europe and in New York,
and It was while here that she met
M. De Guillemen, then on his mis
sion to tho United States.
. Undue Influence Alleged.
After tho young girl's marrlago
Hart established her in a hsindsomo
mansion which he built for a French
woman, Mmo. De Bin. Mine. De Guil
Ilmcn refused to recognize this wo
nian socially and left Mr. Hart's
house. Attorney Harper said today!
that the will is to be contested on
tho ground that the millionaire was Faust, private secretary to Congress
unduly influenced by Mme. Do Ble. man G. K. Favrot, and formerly edl
There .will also be another fight to tor ot the Baton Rouge Times, was
break the will on the part of the assaulted nnd dangerously stabbed
former wife of Mr. Hart, Eliza by Edgnr George, a linotype operator,
Wright, from whom, it is alleged, ho who, until a few days ago, was cm
secured a divorce a good many years ployad on : tho Dally State. Miss
ago.
HITCTICOCK COE3 TO OPEX
THE CAMPAIGX IN WEST.
Washington, July 16.-Chairman
Frank IL Hitchcock, of the republi- of Miss Bates, having known her dur
can national committee, will leave ing tho publication of the Daton
Washington for Onlcago and Colo- nougo T!me3 two years ago, was In
jrado Springs, Col., this afternoon,
where he will begin the actual work
ot solidifying the party machine in
the all-important west and middle
west. Before leaving Mr. Hitchcock
held a conferpnee with Secretary
Francis Curtis of tho congressional
committee.
TIME
Fine Wilmington Hotel Goes Up in Flames, Fire
Having Originated in Greek Restaurant. "Lum
sna" Catches Several Times But is Saved
Bucket Brigade Only Firefighters Available
Regular Company Arrives too Late to Do Any
thing Guests Lose Many Personal Effects.
(Special to The Times.)
Wilmington, July 16. This morn
ing at 7:30 fire destroyed the Ocean
View hotel and several buildings in
close proximity, including thcrestau-
i rant, bar, tenpin alleys, etc. The
'Lumnia," the. only big attraction,
had a narrow escape from destruc
EAUMONTFULL
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Believed Ttiat Negry Wlio As-
sjultsid Liflle Hopkins Grl
Has Been Cauglir
( By Leased" Wire to The Tiraox
Beaumont. T-r. . July 16 nean-1
ut. is niier" v ":.U hn : v :lu 'ft vrr.vd
men, due to the belief that tho negro
who brutally assaulted little Ada
Goldman, sleeping in the barn or out-
house of another negro in the vicinity
of. the powar plant. This negro was
given up, it is said, by the negro who
harbored him. There was talk of
r storming the county jail, where a
number of negroes, as suspects, are
confined, but Sheriff Landry solemnly
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asmireu jeaamg citizens inui- ine ne-
gro was not In the jail.
Pnnsenser Trains Searched.
A crowd of hundreds of men gath-
OF MEN I MM
Newspaper Office Sees Row
Over ioung Woman Employ e
Congressman Favrofs Secretary Slabbed By J;:a!cus Lin
otype Operator,Who Bade Miss Balis lluose.
(By Leased Wire to Tho Times)
Baton Rouge, La., July 10 A. II.
Clnlro Bates, bookkeeper for Tho
Stnte, who was present When tho
troublo occurred, received several
cut3 across the face nnd arm while
attempting to separate the two men.
Mr. Faust, who was a warm friend
the city preparatory to accompanying
Conercssmnn Favrot on a tour of the
district in advocacy of the letter's ro-
election, and had called at the office
to have a frledly chat,
George, who, it is stated, had for
ths past several weeks attempted to
pay tbe young woman attention, re-
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PRICE 5 CENTS.
tion, having caught several times.
The fire originated in a Greek res
taurant. The guests in the Ocean
View lost many personal effects. The
hotel depended on the bucket brig
ade and the bathers and other did
good work. The Wilmington, fire
company arrived after the fire was
under control.
SWIFT EXPRESS
MEETS ACCIDENT
Wiiiic Mountain Flyer (ksoif
Rai!s-0.i2 Woman Ki.Ied,
: Ei!)!i! Pjss3iig?rs Hurt
Xeased Wire to Tho Times.)
nwlch. Conn., July 16. The '
. w. -ijvci a Hanford road,
wmc h left -.No y York at 8:02 this morrt- ' .
ins, .Inmptd the track while crossing a -
grade bridge over Steamboat road, 1C0
yards ea.st of the station here, and one
wo man was killed and eight persons
bad'.y hurt.
The tra'n was crowded with passen
gers from New York. It parted Just
back of tho second coach as the three
miilrPe rnr Avprt? .epn to wnv on th
bridge. Then the three cars, as they
tore along the rails, toppled over and
crephed upon th ir sides at the very
edge of the brldve structure.
Passcngcrs Hurled Right and Left.
: .'Passengers in the three overturn. d
cars were hulled from the r seats and
upon one another in heaps. Some of
the seats became loosened from their
fastenings and fell upon the prostrate
passengers on the floors of the oars.
A fearful panic occurred in the three
overturned cars. ; Men and women, as
soon as they recovered from the chick
of being flung 'against the sides of the
carf, tiled .desperut.ly to make their
way out. through w ndows and do rs.
The woman killed was dashed against
the side of lli car and wis left where
she lay as the other? tried to get out.
Townsmen Render Their Aaid.
Volunteers crowded about th ; wreck
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sented this manifestation ot friend
ship and, having seen Mr. Faust go
to tho office several times during the
past few days, telephoned Miss Bates
from another part of the building,
saying lie, wanted her to choose be
tween '.himself and Faust. Miss
Butcs gave htm some evasive an
Rwer and, turning to Faust, who was
sitting near her desk, told him of the
conversation. .
A tew minutes lator George en
tered the room and, passing some re
mark to the young woman, assaulted
Mr. Faust with a knife. Miss Bates
attempted to separate the men and
was stabbed twice before she thought
to call for assistance from down
stairs. Manager Itamleres, who wa
silting In front of the office on the
ground floor, rushed to the scene ar
found the men still struggling ,wl.
one another. He finally separated- ;
them, but It was not until he had
choked George into insensibility that V
the latter ceased to fight
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