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LAST EDITION ALL THE HARKX2T3 TIME THE VOLTJUE SO. pm mm mm James S. Sherman Officially Notified of Nomina tion Today FDR THE OCCASION Peculiar Feature is the Absence of Governor Hughes Who . Was Not Invited to be Present Salute of Nineteen Guns at Daybreak Big Crowd of Visitors in the City and a Big Parade - This Morning. Among Those Present Were Secretary- Root and Frank Hitchcock. (By Leased Wire to The Times.) Utica, N. Y., Aug. 18. Notifica tion Day for the republican vice-presidential nominee, James Schoolcraft Sherman, is being observed here to day' with all the pomp and noise that was to be found in either Cincinnati or Lincoln. When day dawned this morning nineteen guns- boomed, the salute for the vice-presidential nominee. The city was already prepared when the people began to stir. i There Is just one singular feature! which cannot be explained. This is I the absence of an invitation to Gov-i ernor ; Charles E. Hughes.'1 ; Mr. Hughes, accordingly, is not here. ..There Is a mad riot of enthusiasm. Automobiles gayly decked In national colors, assembled for their part in the big parade and open carriages with waving plumes add another touch of lively color to the imposing scene; Hundreds of visitors are in -town, lther to-take part in or wit ness the show. ."."' At 11 o'clock the parade started ' with the notification committee in automobiles. Bands played stirring music, people . cheered and flags waved. : v-. - The Sherman home was almost hidden in a maze of red. white and blue and sin front a stand had been erected for the orators. Among the prominent men here to take part In the ceremonies are Sen ator Burrows, chairman of the noti fication committee; Secretary of State Ellhu Root, national chairman Frank Hitchcock, and President M. W. Stryker, of Hamltlon College, from, which Institution Mr. Sherman was graduated years ago. Mr. Sherman received a tremen dous ovation from his townfolk when ho made his public appearance. Frank Hitchcock was pointed out as one of the notables of the hour. The line of march of the parade was lined with a cheering throng of spectators and as soon as the line passed there was a grand rush to wards Genesee street In jorder that -good positions might be gained. The program for the day had been arranged so that nothing could interfere. An opera house had been rented In case of adverse weather, but the weather -man was kind and this contingency was precluded. It was planned that the honored guests should take luncheon with Mr. Sher man, Mayor Heeler, Chairman Sim ends, of the reception commitee nd other prominent residents of the town in the early afternoon. Fol lowing this the program calls for out of door sports and this evening will be a grand display of fireworks. At 6 o'clock tonight Mr. Sherman will give a dinner for the notification committee. Att. Operators' Meeting Excites Forty Thousand Miners ' (By Leased Wire to The Times) Pittsburg, Pa., Aug. 18. Forty thousand miners in the Pittsburg district are excited over a meeting of operators whlca has been called here for today, at which a blow may be struck at the heart of the miners' union. Union leaders of the miners have demanded that mine owners take a greater check-off from . the monthly pay of miners for the union. This the operators have refused to the entire district The call for a secret meeting sent , out by the operators Is Xor the pur HAINS OUGHT TO BE PUNISHED His Wife Says He Should Heavily Punished for His Crime THE CAPTAIN BEAT HER Did Not Know What She Was Do ing When She Signed Alleged Con fessionWants Custody of Her Children and Will Raise' Them in Ignorance of Their Father's Crime. Captain Hains Used to Beat and Choke Her and She Was Afraid of '.Him. v . -V-. (By Leased Wire to The Times.) New York, Aug. 1 8.' 'Captain Hainseshould be puniBhed. I hone for my babies' sake that he does not die, but his punishment should be heavy." . These are the words of the wife of Peter C. Hains, Jr., the United States army captain who shot William B. Annls to death on the float of the Bayside Yacht Club last Saturday af ternoon because, as he believed, An nis had broken up his domestic hap piness. Mrs. Hains is a handsome woman and spirited. She is determined to get her children and take them to the home of her father, in Winthrop, Mass., where she has "teen "living since her - husband separated from her.''" ';' "I wanted to see my children very much today," she said, "but it's too late now and 1 must go back. Should I go on to the fort, I would have to explain to the guards and then. call up the colonel's office and, well, you see, I had better go back to New York noW. "I have a perfect right to Bee my children. I am their mother and I love them and they should be with me. When Captain Hains and his brother and father brought this ter rible and untrue cnarge againBt me I did not know what I was doing. I was deadly afraid of the captain. He has beaten me in his wild rage. At times his eyes were like those of a mad man and his voice Would choke until he could scarcely speak. It is hard now to tell the full story in a conected way, and I don't see why I should, but such terrible reports have been circulated that I feel jus tified in branding them as false." Mrs. Hains then told of her early married life and her , meeting with Mr. and Mrs. Annls. ' "Mr. Anis was a fine man and his wife and I were close friends," contin ued Mrs. Hains. "Mrs. Annls knows the truth. She knows that the terri ble stories circulated by Thornton Hains were lies. That is some com fort to me but it does not make up for her loss and suffering. "I cannot explain why I ever sign ed the paper Captain Hains brought to me which purported to be a con fession from me, unless I was fright ened into doing it. Yes, I remember now how frightened I was. I came to New York believing I could com fort Mrs. Annls. "I decided to take my children .(Continued on Page Seven.) pose of settling the check-off system once for all. It is not intended that there be a conference with the min ers' officials. Should the operators decline to bold out the monthly money for the union it is claimed that the United Mine-Workers would not exist three months. The meeting of tomorrow may de cide the fate of the union mining easf of the Mississippi for all1 time. Commercial Bar Silver. ' New York, Augv 18 Commercial bar silver, 51 Kc; Mexican dollars, 45c 1 . RALEIGH, N. C. TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, 1908. Magistrate Higginbotham Has Live ly Time With "Holly Rollers, ' 9 lll i" ti' I It r n$2fi?M raw i f Si Magistrate - Hlginbothan, ; wim holds court in that part of Brooklyn known as Williamsburg was theJu'i of a lively fistic encounter in ... hi' lively court. The witness in. the notorious "Holy Rollers" case struck at him and was immediately knocked d downv and almost out by Magistrate, who is something of an athlete. ' The jiuhre then had bis assailant arrested K'.i) locked on a charge of assuvl'. Thc.woAian shown in,thc tsftpafjJfV'.i f nidiw illi ft; Clnrker one of the leaders '61" the Holj Iwflet s, 'while tl) wonmu ia the lower cor n is Elizabeth Robinson, Who sM-ciispd Magistrate ininbotham of hav ing tried to kiss her and was then h-ld for ronteiAnf of court. fighting Bob Evans Was Retired From Service Today (By Leased Wire to The Tiincf..) Lake Mohonk, N. Y., Aug. 18. After forty-eight years of active ser vice In the United States navy, Itob- ley D. .tivaua, Known to his country men as "Fighting Bob," was retired today and from now on is a private BROUGHT BACK TO LIFE After Being Pronounced Dead Patient is Made to Breathe But Second Death Occurred a Short iime iator ana Treatment ruiioa to Revive Him a Second Time, (By Leased Wire to The Times.) Um Vnrlf Aim 1 O nnnn Pill ver a ward patient in the eastern dlstrlct hospital suffering from tuber- nounced him dead, culosls and rheumatism, who was' Dr. Michael Jeffer , corroborated brought back to life after being dead, her but decided to experiment with according to every known physician ( the strychnine and oxygen. He in and medical test, stopped breathing Jected enough strychnine to kill three again today, and this time proved to men. be beyond resuscitation. ' "-; . - Just before Culver passed.away to- Marriage licenses have been is da; he opened his eyes. His wife sued to Ira D. Hornaday. age 21. and was beside his bed, where she hadjRena E. Oattls, age 20, white, of been all night He stirred slightly i Cardenas, and to Tom Anderson and toward her and appeared to smile, Ida Morgan, colored, of Wendell. 'Ivl, ' - - J$6g&pr A c' - HS. A -i55l ft I'mi.tO . I citizen of the. nation - which; he so 'nobly d feiuk' 1. I Adminil Evans has been spending , the summer at Lake Mohonk on ac 1 count of ill health which arises prin , cipally from rheumatism. His crip j pled leg which was maimed in 1865 during the assault on' Fort Fisher, has also heen giving him consider able (rouble. , "I am In perfect, condition, except for my log," exclaimed the bluff old sailor, hearitly, today. "I think in three more weeks I will be sound again. .Inst because I have retired from nrtive service it does not neces sarily mean I have quit the navy. About the middle of October I shall take up my duties as a member of the general board in Washington. Admiral Evans Is president of the San Clirlstobol Sugar. Company of Puerto Rico and In the future will devote the most of his time to that enterprise. : ' Speaking of the proposed alliance with China, he declared that he thought it would bo a good thing for American commerce. seeming to recognize her. Then he was attacked by a sinking spell and j the restoratives that proved ef flea ; cious once were this time of no avail. . Four hours after' Culver had been brought back to life with injections of strychnine and applications of oxygen, this treatment was continued. At last the efforts of the physicians were rewarded by natural resplra- tion setting in. The man's pulse was very weak but distinctly noticeable. ' After the first sinking spell Miss Josephine Ryan, senior nurse of the ward ln which Culver was, pro- vss v .. . i s TROOPERSmOTmS BAnLEALLMGHTLORIG LEAPED TO HER DEATH WomoD Commits Suicide By Jumping Into Welt Mrs. Phillips Leaves Boarding House Where She Was Staying For Med-1 icai Treatment and Throws Herself i Into Well. I (By Leased Wire to The Times) Madison, Fla., Aug. 18 Mrs. T. S. Phillips, 70, of Hanson, Fla., com- mitted suicide early this morning by i leaping into the .well at the boarding house of which she was a guest. Her. jbody was found standing upright in the well with her neck broken. , Mrs. Phillips, accompanied by a, (By Leased Wire to The Times.) daughter, came to Madison Monday' Springfield, 111., Aug. 18 The cll for medical treatment. During the max In an all-night battle between early hours this morning she arose the troops and rioters in which the unnoticed and, making her way to militiamen were fired at from ambush the well,' is supposed to have thrown ln a11 Parts of the cltv was reached herself into it. She had been in m at 2:30 a. m. today, when a negro health and despondency over this is wno had trled to set flre to a build said to have been the cause of her , ,ns on E1shth street, between Jeifer- deed. '"'' ':' LIFE UNDERWRITERS MEET. at Tr00Per Adelman, of Troop B, ; , Seventh cavalry. Nineteenth Annual Convention Being! The soldier returned the fire, but Held in Los Angeles. j failed to hit his man. The negro eB- ( By Leased Wire to The Times) caped and a firing squad started in Los Angeles, Cal., Aug. 18. The Pursuit of him. Earlier in the night nineteenth annual convention of the tbe same negro had been seen prowl National Association of Life Under- lnS about the house of E. W. Hocker writers opened here this morning j D' Trooper Lowenstein. with an address of welcome by Mayor Tne cavalry and infantry were en- Harper. The president's address and gaged in battle at six separate points the reports of other officers occupied ' With the rioters during the night and the morning hours. Addresses on ; early morning. Many negro homes insurance topics and general discus- j vere attacked while the militia and sions are on the program for the af- rioters in ambush were firing at one ter-noon.;, Jn -the. evening . the eleJ another Tho RhwUwKvbesan ".ALtl" gates will be given a reception at the ! o'clock at night, when the militia Hotel Virginia. Long Beach. The commanders Were congratulating convention will be, in session three , themselves that they ; had restored days, clo3ng with a banquet Thura- .Ci'iet. ' v day evening at the Hotel Virginia; Tlio outbreaks were evidently The annual report of Secretary j Planned, as they occurred in half a Waite read this morning says the dozen spots at the same time. In an past year has been one of hardship ! instant the city was aroused by the and discouragement for many of -the' cracking of rifles and the clatter and members that the prospects are ros- j clank of racing soldiers, icr. i Just before the rioting was re- - j ncwed Governor Deneen issued proc- KLEIN HELD' FOR COURTS. , ; lamations calling on all citizens to furnish evidence to the grand, jury Will Answer Charge of Murder for against persons who participated in '-..'Boycotting Nelson. , the lynchlngs and destruction of prop- (By Leased Wire to The Times) 1 erty on Friday and Saturday nights, Kankakee, ills., Aug. 18. Joseph ' and offering ?200 reward for the ar Klein, of Company A, First Illinois rest of the men responsible for the infantry, was held by a coroner's Jury -.death of Scott Burton, William Done- to answer to a charge of murder in j I he civil courts for the death of Earl I Nelson. Nelson was bayonetted in Ithe back when he attempted to board 'a train carrying the regiment from I Chicago to Springfield. ..: Following the - finding of the ver dict, two deputy sheriffs left for j Springfield to take. Klein into cus tody, . .' ..-'; I That there will be no trouble be 'tween the civil and military forces is promised in a statement made by Governor Deneen at Springfield. He said Klein will be turned over. MR. NATHAN STOCKTON DEAD. Well Known Citizen of Winston-Salem Died This Morning. (Special to The Times) Winston-Salem, U, C, Aug. 18. Nathan Stockton, a well known citi zen of Winston-Salem, died this morning after a lingering Illness of several years. Up to the time his health failed he was engaged ln the leaf tobacco business. Race War Imminent in Jellico Coal district (By Leased Wire to The Times.) Knoxvllle, Tenn., Aug. 18. Be cause of the determination of the Kings Mountatn Coal Company to work negroes ln the same mines with white men a race war is imminent ln the mining region adjacent to Jel lico, Tenn. Seventy negroes, heavily armed, are barricaded ln a commissary which Is surrounded by between 850 and 400 white men, and an attack is ex pected at any moment. Sheriff Hud dleston, of Campbell county, has reached the scene and summoned PRICE 5 CENTS. Negro Tries to Set Fire to a Building and shoots at Troopers SIX BATTLES OCCUR -DURING THE NIGHT Outbreaks Were Evidently Planned, As They Occurred in Half a Dozen Spots at the Same Time City Aroused by the Crack of Rifles and Clank of Racing Soldiers Govern or Offers Reward For Principals ; son and Madison, within a stone s ' throw of military headquarters, shot , ga". Louis Johnson, John Colwell, Tames Scott, and Frank Dekmore. DK8F.CRATED HOME OF LINCOLN Was Threatened .With the Torch by the Slaughter-Crazed Mob. Saved by a Woman. (By Leased Wire to The Times.) Springfield, III., Aug. 18 The home of Abraham Lincoln has been threatened with the torch. A mob, slaughter-mad, crazed by the terrible scenes of murder and arson of Friday and Saturday nights, tried to burn the home from which Abraham Lin cola, the great emancipator, was called to save a dying nation. The torch was lighted, but was not applied to. the building that is loved above everything in Springfield. A woman, alone and unaided, stopped the mob in its effort to shame not only the state of Illinois, but the whole nation Tho attempt was made on Satur day night, after the lynching of aged (Continued on Page Seven.) every available citizen to protect the negroes. The trouble, which has been brew ing for several months, broke out Saturday when 150 white miners went to the Kings Mountain mine aud drove twelve negro families from there. They marched the negroes all day Saturday, allowing the women and children to camp and eat whit food they carried with them, but forced the men to keep moving. Gen eral Manager John Gorman, of the Astra mine, and county officers are doing everything ln their power to avert trouble.
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