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- v . - l . 1 - v . ' . i , ; ,. . j ' r -: . v - ' I .' rTr- p s . jl t . ii - - a '.. . ..... '' " i - r . , . Oiily JJhrnooh Paper in the State of North Carolina With a Leased Wire Service and Full Press DLpdches LAST EDITI02T J 4? 1 r-T.-g -,.,- '''"!- :- THE ,-BMJSIGH- EVENING TIMES. RALEIGH, N. C. SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 1908. V0LU1IE && PRICE 5 CENTS. Mme. Farman and Famous Airship. WIMM MOB HANGS ALL TlIt:X :T9 K - 7 KlostOD and New Bern Heavy Sufferers and Crops Under Water - THE NEUSE AT KINSTON RISEN NEARLY 2 FEET Heavy Northeaster Spent Force Last Night and Day Dawned Bright and Clear Shoofly for West Able to Leave Kington for Raleigh, but Traffic Won't be Restored Until Monday Bridges in County Were Washed Away Crops Are Nearly Ruined Pull Accounts From New Bern and Wilmington. (Special to The Times.) Kinston. N. C, Aug. 1, 1:25 p. m. The heavy northeaster, which has been beating upon Kinston for sev eral days, spent Its force last night, and this morning dawned clear and bright. . v Communication with New. Bern over the Norfolk & Southern has been partially restored, a gasoline boat running as a ferry to transfer passengers across South West creek, a mile and a half below here, from tbe westbound to eastbound trains. The Norfolk & Southern shoofly left Kinston. an hour late with the transferred , passengers en route for the west. --. -. " ' It will bp Monday before traffic is restored, '.' ..' The NeuBe river has risen 22 inches in the past twelwe hours, and ia still rising. - v - Bridges all over the county are - down and tbe log bridges at South' west and Kennedy's Mill are gone. . Crops all over the county are un der water and badly damaged if not ruined. GREAT LOSS TO CROPS NO MAIIi SERVICE AT NEW BERN. (Special to The Times.) New Bern, N. C., Aug. 1. Reports coming in today tend to show that the greater part of the damage done by the storm of the past three days was to crops. At present the extent is inestimable to the corn and pea crops. ; Reports show that almost all are lost. - - The only hope of encouragement rests on that of the cotton crop, owing to its being planted in higher soil. ' Reports from Beaufort and More- hesd City show that so serious was the damage done in that section the flBhlng industry will be at a stand still for several days. New Bet n has no mall service yet. Repairs on the Norfolk & Southern between Kinston and Dover1 and on tbe Atlantic Coast Line between Dixon -and Jacksonville are not yet completed. The only line open is from New Bern to Washington. Tbe reported rain-falli reached 12.89 Inchos and exceeds all previ ous records: ' Later Mall reached here about 1 o'clock through the use of a boat transferring passengers and mall at! Caswell, where the' track Is out of commission, ' i .'ii M i. .'..' 1 Echoes of Storm at Wilmington. ( Special to The Times.) Wllmineton. N. C. Aug. 1. Afffer five days of storm and rain, tbe sun burst out gloriously today, and noth- tag remains of the terrible north . easier which had the Carolina coast In Its grasp Wednesday night and Thursday. From a velocity of sixty miles an hour, the. wind, which had been lashing the coast Wednesday night, yesterday did not exceed a velocity of forty miles, and today It sings as a gentle tephyr in compari son. ' Great damage was done by the storm to wires, and six hundred tele- pnones were put out ot commission. Many trees wers felled and fences blown down. Ths cars, temporarily cut off from Wrlghtsvllle Beach, are again running on regular schedule; the traoks havs been strengthened. iesierasy aa toaay visitors, irixni-, ened by ths storm, again flocked to the beach, which has again assumed its wonted appearance. xne wore oi Cleaning up tne neons, (Continued on Becond Page.) ,: HAD POWERFUL FRIEND FOR HIM Some Inside History- of Jno. I. Howard Affair DOUGLASS IN RALEIGH Son of Stephen A. Douglas, Distin guished Democrat, Said to Have Offered Governor Aycock Bribe Was Driven From Office, But Not Prosecuted. Referring to the pardon of John L. Howard, which was set forth in The Times of yesterday, a gentleman of this city today said to a re porter that it is not gener ally ltnown that Stephen 'A. Doug las, of Chicago, and son of the dis tinguished democratic "leader of that same name, and who was candidate for the presidency in 1860, came to Raleigh and brought his wife,' during the administration of Governor Ay cock, as the attorney of Howard and the other two gold brick convicts. He stopped at the Park Hotel antl remained here for a week and made a persistent effort to Becure the par don of Howard, Daly and Hawley. He did- not meet with, any encour agement, and in his final interview he made ' bold and is said to have offered Governor Aycock five thou- sand dollars If he . would issue-tt (Continued on Second Page.) ' Warden Mitchell Guard,M (By Leased Wire to The Times) ' Atlanta, August 1 The legislative committee investigating the convict lease system convened again at 9:30 this morning Startling revelations were expected during the day as Colonel J. W. Eng lish, Jr., Dr. W. B. Hamby and former Chief Warden Jake Moore were ex pected to be called late in the day. W. M. Toomer, former partner of Dr. Hamby, took the stand this morning, following several convict guards and deputy wardens who testified to cruel ties in various camps. . C. L. Tatum testified to the killing of a negro convict named Webb by Warden 'Mitchell, at the Durham Coal and Coko Co.'s camp. , . Tatum: said he was ; there when Mitchell shc-V Webb. Mitchell had been talking to Webb about taking a whipping for not working. Webb was in chains at the time and did not ad vance on Mitchell. Mitchell talked about an hour and then standing about ten feet away, raised his pistol and Webb put up hia hands to his eyes. Mitchell fired, the bullet entering the back of Webb's neck. "Webb had cursed the Warden," Tatum said, "and said he would not work.1 The negro Bald Mitchell might as well kill him now and be 'done with it Mitchell took htm at Other Arrests in Big Express Robberies (By Leased Wire to The Times) New York, Aug. 1. -Following the arrest of three men, charged with be-, ; ing memDers or a gang wno in tne' past few months have robbed the Adams Express Company of trunk In which were goods valued at $100,- . 000 or more, jthe detectives of Brook- lyn today said tree more arrests woum do maao ana me cnances arejioss oi some valuable trung or par- that much of the stolen stuff will bo, cel. Then It was discovered that a recovered. According to detectives , large part of the stolen goods were the express company has been rot)-: Jand checks mad by job printer In! Dea inrouga a system oi oogus tags TURKS TO SOLI THEIR PROBLEM Solution of Question Will Bury ; Many Hopes ; SICK MAN WAS ADROIT In Appeal to Own People, AbduJ Ham id Has Outplayed Europeans and All Calculations, as to Future of Empire Must be Revised. , . (By Cable iT, The Tin.ys) London, August 1 That. the con stitutional movement in Turkey bids fair to change the political face of the ncar'east and to call into being re cuperative influences which will have the broadest International effects is a conclusion rapidly forcing itself upon European statesmanship, Whether the credit for the coup of Abdul Haniid belongs to Berlin's sug gestion or to London's advocacy of "mobile column" to hunt, down the lawless Macedonian bands, the pre dominant fact Is that the "sick man of Europe' has outplayed all the chancelleries in his adroit appeal to his people and In his prompt dismis sal of the leaders of the palace clique, chief of whom Is the infamous Izae-t Bey;-' It is not improbable that the young i Turks,' intoxicated with the success I which has attended their ag-Hation, (Continued on Second Page.) his word." ; Witness had whipped convicts and had seen guards kill two men trying to escape. - ' When asked if he did not know It was against the rules for a guard to ; strike a convict except In self-defenae. ' the witness repliad: reckon I didn't." "No, sir; I Whipped Boy. i . Witness saw Abe Winn, a 16-year- nlil white hov: sent to the rami) for stealing two cans of potted ham,' whipped for scalding a hog with hot ! coffee. It was a hog belonging to ; witness. ; Warden Goode whipped j Winn 12 or 15 licks on the bare skin, i Winn was sent to the hospital and died with pneumonia. Witness' thought Winn worked three or four days after ; the whipling before he was taken to the hos&tal. : 1 Did They Die oSbIows? Asked about the case of the Jew wise expression would get one In any.; flee, llt'oidy and Mattis. have been as who was whipped to death he testl- 0f the many ..places. A lookout wis' signed -to watch the heap of ashes fled the Jew and another foreigner ; put at the outside door and another ! alongside the old crc:;l bed. had died in camp, but didn't know If directed yon if you looked all rlgnt, j At 1:3(1 a. in. today they saw two they were whipped to death. j to the scene of nctivli.les. The wheel men skulking through; the lot. The The Questions of Mr. Candler do- was going in every place and : faro' men went to the ash heap and were veloped that the firm of Hamby and ; was dealt as In the old days. Of standing over it when the detectives Toomer owed Dr. Hamby a total of course there is no way of estimating, ran for them," one of them yelling: between 120,000 and $40,000, and the extent of tho first night's ral! "Halt! You are under arrest!" that It had paid Hamby some money for his convicts.. W. M. Toomer then took the stand. (Cnotlnued on Fifth Page.) to Follow league with the gang. When a trunk was given to a driver at some of the express depots In Brooklyn, he would put on the bogus tag .and check and deliver the trunk to the house of an accomplice. 8o clever were the thieves that the detectives and Pink- ertons had difficulty In getting a real clue. Reports came In dally of the being disposed or in Brownsville and tne detectives arrested Alfred wu - fert, John Cook and Alfred Moule. i mi f m "" i ii Mi Mine. Kurinau nud tt anions liiislun(l's nirxhlp aro li iv slunvn. Mmo. FARO OUT AS iTWO SUSPECTS IN OLDEN HAYS; NABBED TODAY i . PnnnAflii tt 1 nrt.n ! f!ri v klft n' Odi(iiuyaibyaHiiiieuan!Uiui ; , , Ue3iaiiU!!l itt8CCa J .. ' : LIfl IS THROWN WAY OFiTiHNK MEN IMPORTANT ' ' Hundwln of S;..u-ts -at the Spa ami Every Ganil liiiit House in the City, llusy .Inints iet Tip' Everytliiiiu Is All liijtlil May Not Be Inter fered Midi by! Authorities. (By Leaded Wire to The Times) Saratoga, N. Y., Aug. 1. The lid Is off at the Spa. Last night even-j gambling house worthy, of the 'name; had been doing business. '"They, haven't arrived at the wide-open stage, but the 'proper make-up and business, but if the chips stacked up at tho'bank in one of the prominent leaped the fence skirting Green places may he taken as a criterion, I Point avenue. Down the avenue they big money '-changed hands. j fled, the detectives, with drawn re- The gambling houses got the mjfs-j volvers, keeping pace with them and terlouB tip yesterday afternoon that; threatening to shoot, everything was all right. The natives For more than half a mile the knewit early and. the news traveled chase contluued. Then the detec fast. After dinner all the places were tlves, athletes both of them, over hunted tip and the merry click of the hauled their men and stion had them .stacked chips could be heard in at least a dozen different places. dltlons at the track could not be iproved upon under the oral betting, gystem s,.nntor Brnckntt, boss of the town, has put his ''stamp of ap- prdval on thr betting as is boing car-! ried on anr1 I; is doubtful it the oral layers will be iuterferrcd with In any way. . : The Saratoga special arriving last evening brought In twelve cars crowded with sports. There wasn't a vacant seat on tne tram ana ac- 'cording to the conductor, the ma- Jority 0f seats ' on the empire state express and the fast mall which lcrt , tne urana central mis morning vers Jboutflit In advance, Jltf whiimii iinnrimi i. Vnttlr f i4 ftftl If rA it Pitfall mm uuiauvw taiui I88r 00806 ' '' ' Suspinons Chnraeters ound Prowl ing Afar i'lai'e .Her loung Io nian Mas : l!ui'iiel Kellows Tell Oiiillii liny ; Stories- A Lively Chase. ' (By Leased Wire to The Times) New-York,' August. '1- On a theory that the niurdeiei-s of the woman whose body was covered' 'with .acid and then set on fire in a vacant lot in Green Point would return to the stone two detectives from central 6f- The men took to their heels and in shackles and on tho way to the Cou-jGroen Point station. One of the men im-'sald ho was Walenty Borkowoskl, 22, and the ol her gave his name as Jul- .ian Knslnsky, and the same age. "What were you doing in that lot?" the men were asked. "wo wont there to sioep," one of , the prisoners answered. "We came hero yesterday from Glenvllle, Conn., and are without money or friends, We have committed no crime." Both men were searched. In the pocKets or ons was ss ana tne otner had $6 concealed fu his clothes. "You d.ld not tell the truth about having no money," remarked Police captain Madigan. j (Continued 911 Page Beven.) FOUR NEGROES TO TREE THAT SUIT WAS Railway Must Construct Per manent Subway CITY MUST HELP A BIT Oiregson Street Crossing Litigation FiniiJly Settled by Corporation Commission Garland 8. Greever Elected Professor B. N. Duke to Build Princely Home.' (Special to The Times.) Durham, N. C, August 1. The corporation commission, in the now famous suit of Durham against the Southern Railway, renders an opin ion in favor of the city and orders a permanent subway crossing of con crete, stone or brick. The city and the road have been at odds four or five years. At one time or another, it appeared that they were about agreed. The company had promised the crossing and . last winter after various disagreements, the board of aldermen ordered City Attorney R. O. Everett to take the matrer before the corporation com mission. He did it, evidence was Introduced and after hearing the tes timony, the commission orders the road vo construct this passageway 46 feet wide and 12 high. It, directs I work to bejcm at once,and the under ground Di idgo to be ready In SO days. In hut one essential does the city fail to win. It bad agreed to de fray $750 of the expense of grading and macadamizing. The commission makes thiR $1,000 and there is little doubt that, the city will accept the proposition now. The aldermen act upon it Monday night. Early Morning Fire. Fire at 1.45 this morning destroy ed the planing mill of John Malone and greatly damaged the residence of Pleas Peace, a well-to-do colored man working there. The blaze broke out In Hayti, the colored Durham. In a few minutes it was raging and the firemen made tine runs. Low pressure failed to give necessary water for quick work, but a ttuckiy neighborhood was saved, Peace alone losing property, He believes the work is incendiary because he discovered a neighbor's store afire two weeks ago. The planer Is run by electricity and there lias been no fire about the place In weeks or months The damage is considerable, quite a quantity of lumber and machinery going un in the fire. : Elected a Professor. Mr. Garland S. Greever, teacher of English In the Durham high schools, has been given the associate professorship of English in Arkansas University and will not return to :.ue City this fall, Mr. Greever Is one of the most popular men the schools have had. lie is especially gifted in English and has fresh from the press a work on American Poets, which has paid him a neat stipend for his trouble. It will be extensively used in the state schools of Missouri, his home. Mr. Greever left here in June and his romantic marriage is recalled here. He married his schoolmate sweetheart and the two have taken a protracted tour of the country. His good fortune delights Durham, it. D. Whitley, Dead. Mr. H. D. Whitley, a jeweler of Main street, died last night after a long illness, and this morning wai taken to his old home in Henderson where he was burled. h0 was 69 years old and was soldierly old fellow. In the war be tween the states he was badhr'ln- lured in the liin mid arm unit rhuan wounds followed him through Jlf. Ho leaves a wife, two brbthers and one sister. Prominent Visitors to Durham. Mr. and Mrs. . Thomas H. Street, a couple .well known throughout the district; arrived here yesterday and stopped with the brother of Mrs. i street, Mr. J. B. Walker. I Mrs. Street was Mrs, Thomas F. Cozart and the relict, of a great to- bacco manufacturer. The marHHse (Contlned on Page Sevsn.) ON BY DURHAM Victims Had Indorsed Murder of Wbite Farmer Named Cunningham NOTE OF WARNING IS PINNED TO ft VICTIM Negro Who Committed Murder Safe in Louisville Jail, While Those : Who Endorsed His Action Arrest ed for Conspiracy Slob Quietly Entered Russellviile, Covered Jailor With Guns, Secured Prison ers and Left Town in Ignorance "Let This Be Warning to You Nig gers" Was Found on Body Today. (By Leased Wire to The Times) Russellviile, Ky Aug. 1. The bodies of four negroes swung from the limbs of "old hanging tree" when the sun rose this morning. They had been taken from the Logan coun ty jail during the night and lynched by a mob of fifty men. The victims are Virgil Jones, Tom Jones, Robert Jones and Joe Riley. The cause of the lynchingrwas tie murder of James Cunningham, a white farmer living near Allensville, Ky., in Todd county, by Rufus Brow der, colored, a week ago. Browder ambushed Cunningham because he had been discharged. Browder is in jail in Louisville for safe-keeping. The negroes who were lynched belonged to a lodge which had pas'sba resMtttJiiipiiuA murder of Cunningham. For this the four, were arrested on charges of conspiracy. - ' Last night a mob quietly entered Russellviile, went to the home of Jailer Butt, covered him with gut), secured the prisoners and hanged them so quietly that the town did not know of it till this morning. Not a shot was fired. Two of the ne groes were in night clothes. Pinned to one was the following note: ."Let this be a warning to you nig gers to let white people alone or -you will go the same way. You lodgers had better shut up or quit." May Be Another Lynching. (By Leased Wire to The Times.) Indianapolis, Ind., Aug. 1. Word has been received here that William Douglas, white, aced 23. who is nhnrenrt with lmvlnff flsssnlted Helen S Dungan, aged 13, at the JQyji&tt . summer home north of Indianapolis, has been surrounded in the woods on White river near here and a squad of detectives has gone to the scene in automobiles. The man is hemmed in by a posse of farmers headed by the father of the girl. It is feared violence may be dealt to Douglas if the ofllcers are ; not on hand when the capture ia made. ';.: The assault on the Dungan child was bold, as the assailant Baw the child's mother not a hundred 'yards . away when he grabbed the child and dragged her into the woods. HITCHCOCK WILL LET HUGHES FIGHT ALONE (By Leased Wire to the Times) New York, August 1 -Frank H. . Hitchcock, chairman of the republi can national committee, after a con ferenre with President Roosevelt sam Oyster Bay, declared a policy JgOlfllUl Interference in the matter of , jv ernorshlp nomination. He rreetat,' clear that he would not tupped -1' ; y fluence with the state leaifo ,htai fom terfere In any way to ; , ;. , a "plan for the turning down : and the nomination of lnn 'fir To use his own expresslJJlJ 4 tlonal chairman is not "bu .... , ,ir. , the purely state situation V. '; :' The national chairmal 1 1 . ;.. i ' was a distinct disappoint -'f': friends ot Hughes. mmwv Commercial BtrL. - . (By Leased Wire to t .., """ J New York, Aug. lt oh-' rt -m abr silver 52 , uncht0JI,' dollars 45c, unchanged " . - : . ,; knit in - ' ., ', t '!' "", ., ; :' ' .1 Jl . , I . t ,.i
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