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RALEIGH, N. C.; MONDAY, JULY 27, 1908.
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President of Southernahd Traffic Officials of
Subsidiary Companiesffalk liver Situation,
With View ' to Meeting Demands of Ppnic
Times and Also to Adjust tabor Conditions.
By Leased Wire to The Times) ,
' Washington, July 27 A confer
ence of 20 of the chief traffic officers
of the Southern railway and its allied
subsidiary corporations will begin
at the offices of the Southern, In this
city, today, its purpose being a dis
cussion of the business situation gen
erally in the south. The gathering,
which was called by W. W. Finley,
president of the Southern, will be
presided over by him and will in
clude the presidents of the companies
affiliated with the road.
Mapping Oat Year's Business.
It is stated that as the fiscal year
of the various roads and other corpo
rations interested came to a close
July 1, much attention will be given
to mapping out plans for the new
year along the line in taking care of
is bad. : There is a revival of pros
perity in the south since the first of
July, this time a steady, sure, day-by-day
increase of traffic. I have
never been able to understand - why
we had what is called 'the panic' six
months ago. Last year we had good
wheat crops, good corn crops and
good cotton crops. These products
all sold at good prices. JYet business
J stopped in a day as it were.
Thought Bottom Had Been Reached.
"From the signs, as I saw them
after that time, I thought the de
pression had touched bottom and that
business was on the rebound, but
every time business took a sput I
was doomed to disappointment, be
cause traffic fell off again. And you
know that railroad traffic1 is a sure
sign of business conditions. This
freight and passenger business In the continued through February, March,
Southern's territory. The Intention
is to take action to conserve the In
terests of labor on the various roads,
and, at the same time, attempt to Im
prove the service of all lines.
Mobile & Ohio Expects Benefit.
"We expect the result of our delib
erations to have considerable effect
in the way of further building up
railroad business along our lines,"
said E. L. Russell, vice-president of
the Mobile & Ohio, who is here.
April, May and some part of June.
"Now there Is a change, sure, for
the better. The south has in sight
the best cotton crop it has had for
2 S years, the best corn crop it has
had for several years, and, I under
stand, there is an average wheat crop
Encouragement in Cotton Belt.
"Since July 1 business on the Mo-
! bile & Ohio has averaged better every
(day than since 'the panic' struck us
"Mind you, I do not think business This points to encouragement."
SEEK ABDUCTORS
OF A YOUNG GIRL
BROTHERS FIGHT
Amelia Stechel, Thrown From
Boat to Drown, Remembers
Nothing Found Oo Rope,
0VERTHE1RMULE
(By Leased Wire to The Times.)
New York, July 27 The police of
South Brooklyn and central office de
tectives today sought the two men
who abducted 18-year-old Amelia
And Neat Lancaster Gets Fa
tal Bullet From John
Shooter Surrender?.
(By Leased Wire to The Times)
Atlanta, Ga., July 27. Neal Lan
caster, 28, was shot and Instantly
killed this morning by his brother
John, 34, a steamfltter, as the culrai
Stechel. carried her off In a rowboat. 1 nation of a Quarrel over a mule in
and then threw her Into the bay to i which the two shared equally.
LIGHTNING DR1VLS
WILD MAN DESPERATE
drown. The girl was found uncons
cious, clinging to a rope at the side of
a piledrlver anchored about 100 feet
off Fifteenth street.
In Water Nine Honrs.
The girl, when she recovered cons
ciousness, said she hadeen in the
water nine hours. yya.vt hands
clutched thr;j?convulslvely that
they could not be loosened, so the
rope was cut off and rope and girl
were taken to the Norwegian hos
pital, where her grip was finally re
leased, but not until she had been re- (By Leased Wire to The Times.)
Btored to consciousness. - i McDonald, Pa., July 27. Leppo,
Gagged and 111 Treated. the wild man with the Metropolitan
According to the young woman, ' show, became crazed when Ughtnlng
ana was seized at a lonely spot in struck the big tent and, in his fury,
Bay Ridge by two men, gagged, car-' attacked Joe Dudley, a negro," with
rled out into the bay in a royboat J his teeth and bit him so badly that
and there ill-treated and flung over-. he will! die.
board.; She swam for shore, but was, Leppo, fastened his teeth In Dudley's
exhausted by the time she reached . nock and held on nntil his jjalra were
The tragedy occurred at the home
of the brothers on the Magazine road.
Just beyond the city stockade. Neal
has surrendered to the authorities.
pried apart with an Iron bar in the
hands of another employe
Once separated from his victim,
LeDDo ran wildly about thetent. In
which several hundred persons had
taken shelter from the storm. He
hurt many people before being felled
the piledrlver and had Just enough
strength left to grasp a rope; after
which she became unconscious and
remembered nothing more until she
woke up In the hospital.
The precinct police said there were
evidences that her story was true, and
a number of detectives were put on j with a stake and chained
the case at once. -At 7 a. m. y ester-,
day, according to Henry Houghton, a '"
night watchman at the Bush Terml-j
nai company's hocks, ne saw me gin
clinging to the rope and rowed out to
her. He found her unconscious.
Houghton notified the police and
called an ambulance.
PIXD OLD SWEETHEART At 1
WESTERN FIVE CtKTC B6w.
C. P. TAFT WANTS TU BE
A SENATOR FROM OHIO
Hv tiaeed Wire to The timet.)'
t Cincinnati. A.. 3 At If .kA 4w
candidate for thi Unite! BtaUt ten
i: Bismarck, N. D.; July J7.-i-Aitfea als.trom Ohio is Chirle P. Tatt, a
Blalsdell, secretary of state of North, brother or William Howard Tatt. I
A.w Laiuw tAva'li frhrtwrt thus f.f rthlv trt hU Mr,
VHVWt ivugvm " wvjuwia " " - -, - - - . -
when he strolled Into live . cent ; tonal friends, not even the politicians
theatre at Mlnot. N. D., and met Miss
Grace Emmone, the pianist, . whom
he had known, el a girt In lilnhestA.
The meeting resulted la their $.r
tut - i - , '
haying been - taken .into hie ; eonfi
dence. " But . the lenetorthlp,' it . is
Uldi Is Understood, to be hli, reward
Mike Murphy Giving Instructions.
w -non-
This Picrare Is From a Snapshot taken on the Olympic field in Lon
don and Shows Trainer Mike Murphy. Instructing Hillman, on the Lett'
and Bacon Just Before the 400-Metre Hurdle . Race.---' .Bacon Finished
First in the Race and Hillman Was a Good Second. ; ;
BEGBHER CM
Hearing Continued This Afternoon at Request
of Attorney and Laurinburg Fixed as Place
Day Wednesday August, 19 Telegrams
of Protest to Governor Come Pouring In.
The hearing of the application for
a pardon for H. B. Register was
continued this afternoon at the re
quest of counsel both for the state
and defense, and Governor Glenn set
Wednesday, August 19, as the day on
which to hear the evidence. As the
governor will be in Laurinburg on
that day, the hearing will be held
there and not in Raleigh.
tion to the pardon. The evidence
against Register is conclusive, de
clared Mr. Lewis, and on that ground
he opposed the pardon.
Register was convicted in Colum
bus county in 1904 of accessory be
fore the fact of the murder of Jim
Staley, a negro, and Jesse Soles, a
white man, with whom Staley was
living. The object of the murder was
The governor this afternoon read j robbery, and the house was burned
Independifats Open
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telegrams to the counsel, who assem
bled in his office, from leading citi-
him not to pardon Register. A min
ister of the county, in a letter, pro
tests against the pardon.
Mr. D. J. Lewis represents : the
over the doomed nrsn's heads.
Cross Edmondson, a white man,
was sentenced to six years in the pen
itentiary for complipity, turned state's
evidence. Edm'ondson has since died
and the friends of Register claim that
his statements were untrue. They
state and Messrs. Jackson Greer, of , claim further that developments have
Whltevllle, and C M. Bernard, of ( arisen to throw- doubt on the guilt
this city, appear for the defendant.; of Register.
and Mr. Greer is a paid attorney.
Jabel Register, a. son, after the su
preme court' had affirmed the Judg-
Without the slightest doubt in his ! ment of the lower court, and after
Hearst Men Gathering in Chicago to Draft Platform and
Name Candidates for President and Vice-President-No
Fusion, Say Leaks, Willi Democrats.
INDEPENDENCE i PARTY
PROGRAM FOR TODAY
It j those who predicf that tin attempt
j y: r.i d maaetta-euMyijeKKj vae conven
'.jfitor
(By Cable to The Times.)
10 a. m. Meeting of the
national committee at the
Auditorium.
10 a. m. Meeting of wo
men's : auxiliary committee
on receptions and entertain
ments at the Auditorium.
12 noon. Temporary Ser-geant-at-Arms
Frank Bnist
will meet with 100 assistants
at Orchestra hall and arrange
for first session.
1 p. m. Caucuses of all
states except Iowa begin,
stretching through ths after
noon.... 2 p. m.-Indiana delega
tion received by W. R. Hearst
at the Auditorium annex.
7:15 p. m. Doors open at
Orchestra hall for conven
tion. 8 p. m. Convention called
to order; following business
transacted : ; Secretary Walsh
reads the convention call;
temporary chairman, prob
ably W. R. Hearst, intro
duced; temporary chairman
makes "keynote" speech.
.tion for the democrats. It is true that
filibuster work has been in progress,
but a canvass of the various delega
tions fails to find any evidence of
weakening on the part of delegates.
Hearst Won't Take Nomination.
. As to who will be the candidate
for president, this is pretty much of
an open question. One thing Is as
suredMr. Hearst will not be the
man. He declines, unequivocally, to
run, and he will not accept If noml
mind as to the guilt of H. B. Regis
ter, the old white man of Columbus
county now serving a life sentence in
the state prison for accessory before
Gov. Aycock had declined to pardon
him, was hanged February 24, 1904,
for the murder. In sentencing him.
Judge Lyon is said to hare stated
the fact of the murder of Jim Staley that the father was guiltier than the
and Jesse Soles, Attorney D. J. Lewis son and he wished he could punish
of Whltevllle appeared before Gov- the old man instead of the boy, who
ernor Glenn this afternoon in opposi- : (Continued on Second Page.) .
GRAVES TO TAKE
SECOND PLACE?
9: nated. Thomas S. Hisgen, of Massa
' achusetts, is accorded strong ; sup-
j port. It 5s believed he will be nom
A j inated. There are other candidates,
j however; whose strength indicates to
many' that the question Is an open
0 j one and the honor will fall to any
0 one of four men mentioned.
9 . Howard Very Strong Man.
I Besides Mr. Hisgen, former Con
gressman Howard, of Alabama, is re
garded as a remarkably strong man.
0 j It would not be surprising if he won
0 : out over the Massachusetts man.
0 j Col. Graves, of New York, Is another
0 strong candidate. The old Atlanta
0 ' editor Is well liked by the delegates
Understood That Former Geor
gia Editor Wishes to Be on
HITCHCOCK HAS
NAMED HIS AIDS
(By ERNEST ELI ROESER)
Chicago, July 27 This evening at
8 o'clock the national convention of
the Independence party the : new
party will be called to order by
William Randolph Hearst, who Alls
the office of temporary chairman.
There Is none of the noise, none of
the tremendous crowds, none of the
holiday spirit and the gay decorations
In connection with the convention.
The assemblage has the appearance
of what tho workers In the new party
Intended It to be a working organl
zatlon. -
' No Set Program Prepared,
The leaders of the new pprty say
this convention la not to be like the
others. There Is no set program.
Anything is likely to happen, and
anyone of the man mentioned for the
presidency is likely to be nominated.
AH depends on the will of the vari
ous delegations. .
One thing may he regarded as as
sured by the common opinion of the
delegates-there will be no fusion,
the Independence party will stand by
Itself; It will call for and work tor
it own votes and, in Wort, will
campaign with the sun vigor that
the other parties will, there Is at
kolutely no tihanc of the vote belnt
thrown to the candidates of either
the democratic or republican parties,
according to the men lo are doing
thing here today.'
' -;. No Delegate 1 Weakening
there li considerable speculation
if ttv m tat Joe retake it to U in, Chloi iU ta whit. M .rlalljf
tlturUd fty thi 4t UiUlltUre... Illi at ti Mstlonv, W le
and he will have a strong following.
Taylor, of Illinois, and Neal, of In
diana, are in the field.
(By Leased Wire to The Times.)
Chicago, Ills., July 27. With the
ratification by the Independence par
ty's national committee of the plans
for temporary organization all will
be h readiness for the opening of
the national convention tonight. Mr.
Hearst has been selected temporary
chairman. ; -
Every state is represented. There
are no delegates from the territories
and no alternates.
There are six presidential candi
dates exclusive of Mr. Hearst, who an
nounces he does not desire the honor.
The candidates include Thomas L.
Hisgen, Massachusetts, said to be
New York Editor to be Keynoter,
(By Leased Wire to The Times.)
Chicago, July 27 Chicago today
has a whirlwind gathering of en
thusiastic men from every state In
the union to attend the first big con
vention of the new Independence
party.
Early in the morning Important
developments started. Delegations
arrived with unbounded enthusiasm.
New York appeared with 125 men,
cheering and bubbling over with en
thusiasm. Ohio, Taft's state, reached
,the city 40 strong. California un
corked the real article of enthusiasm
and boomed the first vice-presidential
candidate Gen. J. C. Haggerman, of
Carson City, Nev. v
The meeting of the national com
mittee was held at 10 o'clock in the
Auditorium. William Randolph
Hearst, of New York, was selected
temporary chairman. He was select
ed unanmiously by the big committee
and will sound the keynote of the first
convention. ;
WIDOW IS SHOT BY MAN
WHOM SHE DIDN'T WANT
; (By Leaeed Wire to1 the times)
Granite City, 111., July 17. Mre.
Kocur, a widow of one of the wealth
iest and most respected men of the
foreign colony here, was shot twice
ind killed in her home by a man eh
hid rtul4d.!; Mr. Koeuf U-yeir
614 toft Waeiftd tue t&Ottl&f.
Nine Men Will Compose Exec
utive Committee National
Committee for Campaign.
(By Leased Wire to The Times)
Chicago July 27 Announcement
has been made by Frank H. Hitch
cock, chairman of the republican na
tional committee, that the following
men will constitute the executive
committee:
Charles F. Brooker, of Connecti
cut; T. Coleman Dupont, of Dela
ware; William E. Borah, of Idaho;
Frank O. Lowden, of Illinois; Chas.
Nagel. of Missouri; Victor Rosewater,
of Nebraska; William L. Ward, of
New York; Edward C. Duncan, of
Hearst's choice; John Temple Graves orth Carolina, and Boies Penrose, of
of Georgia, and M. W. Howard, of Al-j Pennsylvania.
abama. flmlrmnn Wllnhi-nclt ' flocHiiif tn
Mr Graves will likely be the vice- ! havlng the execu-
presidential nominee in the event of, 1
his failing to get the presidential,1"9 committee maau up soieiy irom
place. the membership of the national com-
Mr. Hearst's keynote speech Will nilttoc Tlin memhers will h Hlnfrlh.
outline the campaign policies. There ' uted between the eastern and We8tern
are no seat contests. The adoption
of the platform will probably be """"' nu
made by Tuesday noon.
TOLEDO ALMOST
AN ARMED CAMP
(By Leased Wire to The Times.)
Toledo, O., July 27. In the hope
of apprehending Louis Armour, 60
years old, who murdered hie wife,
tried to kill his daughter, and then
ittempted suicide, Toledo has been
transformed Into almost an armed
eimp and every avenue ot escape Is
carefully guarded.
Comtnir back to his wlfe'a house
t6t th tcdnd tlmi in it Jreir. Ar
mour met her leaving for church.
When she refuted again td take him
back he shot at Mr two or three
nouueed later.
BIG LAND RUSH
OKLAHOMA
(By Leased Wire to The Times.)
Muskogoo, Okla., July 27 At mid
night the law removing the gov
ernment restriction on 9,000,000
acres of Indian lands In eastern Ok
lahoma went Into effect. Every one
Is striving to get the first chance at
the property. The removal mean
that 9,000,000 of the S0.000.006
acres of Indian land in 40 countie ot
eastern Oklahoma formerly - Indian
territory becomes salable.
Tor a month agents of real
tate companle have been rounding
up the Indian and negro allottee.
time. One bullet struck her in the One buyer has been entertaining i
head and the died in an ambulance. I number of Indians and negroes her
Her daughter rushed to her side and' for three days, providing them with
a bullet missed her. Then the man J everything they desired, th only con
placed hit gun to hi heid and pulled, dltlon imposed being, that they do
th trigger, but it ttittea fir. H,not leave their room nor allow iny
ee&ped.
one eater.
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