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ffi TAFT VIEWS
Arrived In Toledo This Mor
, Ding and Sqvi large Line
of Old Soldiers .
AN IMPRESSIVE EVENT
City Lavishly Decorated, Every Build
ing and Home Being Decorated in
Flags and Banting Abont 20,000
Veterans jba Line, Also Many Wo
men Connected With G. A. R.
Post Muster Will Be Held To
night, Also . Many Camp Fires
Trying to Get Taft and Foraker To
getlier. -".'. ' " '
(By Leased Wire to The Times)
Toledo, 0., Sept. 2 From the
shade of an old, sturdy hickory tree,
overlooking the official reviewing
stand ; on Madison street, between
Thirteen and Fourteenth streets, Wil
liam Howard Taft, republican presi
dential nominee, this morning re
viewed the G. A. R. parade, the most
impressive event of the forty-second
national encampment. Mr. Taft ar
rived ito Toledo this morning from
Middle Bass, in Lake Erie, where he
, is seeking a diversion from his cam
paign duties by fishing the greater
part of the time. The Taft party
immediately proceeded to the review
ing stand, where they saw the men
' who offered their lives during the
great Civil War.
It was a picture that can be de
picted only by , the brave soldiers of
two score and seven years ago. . Many
'of them are crippled and almost
blind. . '
Impressiveness was added to ths
encampment by the fact thatthe Mau
mee valley, where Toledo, Is located,
was the scene of so many massacres,
battles, skirmishes, deeds! of daring
and acts of personal heroism during
ths war of 1812.
It is difficult to estimate the num
ber of 6. A. R. veterans in line to
day, but a conservative estimate
places the number at between 15,000
and 20,000.' A large number of wo
men, connected with the G. A. R.
posts also paraded. The various state
organizations formed In different
places and "when the, parade pro-i
ceeded up Madison past the official
reviewing stand it was complete.
Practically every building and
home in Toledo today was lavishly
decorated and mammoth American
flags were made up of red, white and
blue and hung in the streets. Peopla
utilized their balconies and lawns for
spectators to see the parade, and gi
gantic stands were erected along the
line of march where $1 and more was
charged for each person to look upon
the veterans, many of whose memor
ies of the great Civil War are not
dimmed by the passing of nearly half
a century. ' - -
After the parade disbanded the
veterans and . visitors went to their
. headquarters preparatory to the
, minor happening's of this afternoon.
Tonight at the Valentine theatre
there will be a' G. A. R. muster at
. which only members of the organlza-
- lion wiy be, admitted until 9 o'clock,
when there will be a camp Are to
which the public will be adfaitted.
Many other campflres will also be
held. A living flag, composed of To
ledo school children, will be formed
at Twenty-third and Jefferson streets.
' Much Interest attaches to the re
ception to be held this afternoon at
, he Lincoln club as . Mr. Taft and
Speaker ForakeT will sit on the same
, platform at the dedicatory exercises
at Fort Meigs, but Mr. Taft refused
to attend. Friends of both are still,
.... working for harmony, however, and
this may result from this afternoon's
: meeting.
OPENING OF, THE B. U. W.
Some .Changes (n Faculty. Big At-
tendance This Year.
The Baptist' University for Women
opened today with a good enroll
ment. " Many of the girls have been
kept away on account ot high water
and will arrive later.
There have been few changes In
the personnel of the faculty. Miss
Elisabeth Coltrane, an M. A. grad
uate of .Columbia University,' take
ths chair of English. Miss Mary
Shannon Smith, an A. B. graduate
of Harvard University, will take the
chair, of - history. Mist Cornelia
Brownlee wilt strengthen the depart-
ment of music.
VETERANSMARCH
RALETGB
FALLING OFF IN
VERMONT VOTE
Republicans Carry State DyDc
creased majority Falling
OH of Nearly 4,000
WANTED BIG MAJORITY
Republicans Made Strenuous Efforts
. to Moke the Majority Big As Pos
, sible, Because of ' the Influence
Election Might Have on National
Election Full Republican Ticket
i of Course Elected, Though Demo
crats Carried Some Counties Re
publican State Ticket Lacked Ele
ment of ' Popularity. '
(By Leased Wire to The Times.)
Burlington, Vt., Spet. 2. Partly cor
rected returns this morning show that
the republicans swept the state of Ver-.
mont yesterday by a plurality of 28,
000 and a majority of 26,000. The plu
rality shows a falling off of 3,849 as
compared "with 8,539 In 1904. Roose
velt's plurality In the state in that year
was 30,000. " -
The race for governor with returns
from all but 12 out of 126 cities and
towns is as follows:
George H. Prouty, republican, 43,576;
James ; E. Burke, democrat, 15,608;
Campbell, prohibitionist, 729; Dunbar,
socialist, 439, and Backus, Independent,
1,106. On the face of these returns,
Prouty's plurality is 27,968 and his ma
jority 25,699, figures which the twelve
remaining towns will swell.
In 1904 Bell, the republican candidate
for governor, received 48,115 votes;
Porter, the democratic candidate, 16,
566. - -. ':; :-.:..' ;. :
While complete control of the legis
lature In both Its branches Is retained
by the republicans the democrats elect
ed two county senators and their rep
resentatives In - Burlington, St. Johns
bury and Sti: Albans. The re-election
'of United States Senator Dillingham
and of a republican to succeed to the
unexpired term of the late Senator
Proctor is. assured. This will be former
Governor Carroll 8. Page, of Hyde
Park. - :
-'As the election was taken as the na
tional political barometer, being the
first preceding tile national contest, the
republicans made strenuous efforts to
maintain their usual standing. In two
weeks of rallies and bands, and speech
es, up-holding Roosevelt and Taft,
apathy was swept away. Every effort
was bent by the party to bettering 25,
009 plurality and up to 30,000 which was
claimed. But the present state ticket
has lacked the elements -of popularity
possessed by the ticket In 1904 and to
this as much as to national conditions
the result is attributed.
The state ticket elected In full is as
follows:
Governor, George II. Prouty, of New
port. -. '
Lieutenant-Governor, John A. Meade,
Of Rutland.
Treasurer, Edward M. Deavltt, of j
Montpeller.
Secretary of State, Guy W. Bailey, of
Essex.- V '"' ' r
Auditor, Horace Graham, of Crafts
bury. Attorney-General, John Sargent of
Ludlow.
HISGEN AND HEARST
ON CAMPAIGN TOUR
(By Leased Wire to The Times)
New York,' Sept. 2-Thomas His
gen, j candidate of : the independent
party for president of the United
States, is resting at Elm hurst to pre
pare for the long campaign trip
upon which he will start this after
noon. In cohipany with William R.
Hearst he will endeavor to speak in
every Important center in every state
in the union. ' They will 'tour, the
south in the early part of their trip,
and will be polned by John Temple
Graved, the candidate for vice-presi
dent, at one of the big southern cities.
It la not expected that they will re
turn to this city until the day before
lection, when the independence par
ty's campaign will be wound up in a
big rally here. , ,
NEUSE STILL RISING.
NEW BERN BOTTLED UP
New Bern, Sept. 1 Nw Bern is still
bottled up by floods. No mail has been
received since Monday night from the
west and north. Conditions of the flood
at Klnston are reported Worse, the rlvtr
rising and sevurnl Inches .. over the
bridge. The Morehead-Beaufort bridge
Is s&fe. Report false that It is unsafe.
Tn rurtficet county ths other bridges
were swept away, the damage belhg at-
tlmated at 150,000.
of North Carolina
RALEIGH, N. C, WEDNESDAY .SEPTJUMBER 2, 1908.
Alexander Moore Who Claims
$100,000 Ffom Thos. W. Lawson
VW (lis- ;SiS'jl.i-v
Alexander P. Jlooi-e, owner pf the rittsburj; Louder, who claims
$100,000 from Thomas W. Ijawson, of Boston. Mr. Lawson ollercd
that sum to any charity if the eLader proved its contentions in its attack
on "National Stock." Mr, Moore hojds that the eLader made good its
assertions.
Fl
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Liquor Dealers Say Trade Has
Fallen OH Immensely Since J
Prohibition
NO BUYING IS ABROAD
Looks Like From the Cry of Those
Interested That Prohibition Laws
Do Prohibit Imports For August
' Far Behind Those of Last Year
California Wine-flvoweis Hard Hit.
Will Make No Wine This Year
-' Association .: Favors I'sc of ljl.itht
Wine at Meuls.
,(I3y Leased Wire to The Times)
'ew York, Sept. 2 Enormous
financial loss to the liquor trade has
already occurred, owing to the prohi
bition wavq- that Is sweeping the
country, and the end is not yet.
This is admitted by E. Freund. of
the Wine and Spirit Gaaatte, of this'
city, which is published in the int't-r-ests
of the wine and liquor importers
and manufacturers of the United
States. ,v" . ' .. '.. -.."'
"The large importing houses in
New: York are doing practically uo
buying abroad," said Mr. Freund,
"and will dp none until their present
stocks are exhausted. The Imports
of wine and liquors for August were
far behind the imports for the same
month in preceding years.
'.'The wineries of the Pacific coast
in particular have been hard hli. The
California Wine-growers' Association
has decided to buy no grape this
year, as it already has a large vintage
In cellar. ...
"The assoclatlpn will, however,
work up' a limited amount of grapes
ia a co-operative basis, th a growers
to have a share of the wine, that will
keep, whereas the grapes will not."
, It was this association which, some
months ago, passed a rosolution con
demning . intoxication . and favoring
the temperate useiof .light wines at
meals. The association proposed to
organize an educational campaign
throughout the , United States long
that line.
Street Car Ride Over Town.
The Hlllsboro Street Christian
church 8unday school will give a
street car ride all over the extensive
ear line tomorrow night. All mem
bers are cordially invited to attend.
The fare wilt only be 10 cents.
BIG
NANC1AL
With a Leased -Wire
BVE-Ni
1
HOLLAND WILL
TIGHT CASTRO
Is -Prepairing for War With
Venezuela and Castro
Must Apolooize
A GREAT EXCITEMENT
Wave of Martial Feeling Spreading
- Over the Country imi1 Unless Apol
ogy Comes There Will Be. No, Hesi
tancy in Compelling' the Venezuel
an Executive to Behave No Dispo
sition on Part of Holland to Allow
Castro- to Kxpel Her Minister and
Not Resent It.
(By Leased Wire to The Times)
v New York: Sf'pt. 2 "Holland is
preparing for war with Venezuela,
and if the complications now existing
between the two countries are not
satisfactorily solvad otherwise by an
apology from President Castro there
will be no hesitancy on the part of
my country in compelling the Vene
zuelan executive to behave."
Mr. H. A. Hyde, of Amsterdam,
Holland, a prominent electrical engi
neer, who is at the Hotel Ast.or,
made the abova declaration in dis-'
cussing the Venezuelan crisis and the
feeling in his own country,
"There is a great deal of excite
ment in Holland over the situation,"
he continued, "and a wave of martial
feeling is sweeping over the country.
There Is no disposition on the part
of Holland to allow President Castro
to expel her minister and offer other
international affronts without resent
ing It In the natural way."
AERONAUT FALLS.
Gas Bag Explodes and Falls 150 Feet
to the Ground.
(By Leased Wire to The Times) i '
Minneapolis, Minn., Sept. 3 Capt.
Jack Dallas, operating the Stroebel
alr-shlp on the state fair grounds,
made his first ascension in the dark
last night and met with a disaster.
He had gotten barel 150 feat from
the ground when tne gas bag shifted
In Its netting. The Immense pro
peller, which draws the ship through
the air, caught in the silk, and, with
a report like a dynnmlto bomb, the
hag exploded, nnd the whole appa-i
ratnn fell to the ground with a crash. 1
Dalas suffered severe '.njut'es to his
back and aide.
Service and Full
NG: TIME
EARLY, 10 GET
Will JSaGiven Pension of $72
a Month for Total
, Disability
CASE IS UNIQUE ONE
John B. Early, the North Cnroiina
Tx'pt-r, WW be Given Pension For
tal Disability Incurred While in
L n itcd v States Army Case1 is
I nlque And Some Iicgal Difflcultii's
Must be Bomoved Before the
Mont'y Can he Paid Over to Early's
Vse. ;-
(By Leased Wire to The Times.)
Washington, Sept. 2 John It.
Early, the Washington leper, will re
ceive a pension of $72 a month, for
total disability incurred while a sol
dier in the United States army, as
soon as the1 legal difficulties which
surround the payment of the money
can be solvad.
The case hs been placed In the
hands of the judge advocate general
of the arnv. for a solution of the
problem of the payment of a pen
sion to a leper, who cannot, by rea
son ot his affliction, dispense the
money himself. v
"The case of Early Is unique in
the annals of the United States
army," said Commissioner Warner,
"and consequently presents some dif
ficulties which have not been, fore
seen by the law-makers. If Early
were a drunkard or insane, or a
minor, we could have his wife ap
pointed guardian of his estate and
pay the money to her, but as Early
Is nons of these we must hit upon
some other plan. , It has been .sug;.
gested tliat Early he placed in a house
ia the vicinity of the soldiers' home,
in order that he might be technically
considered an Inmate of that Institu
tion.:'.. The officials of the home could
then sign and execute the vouchers
and the money be paid ovr to his
Wife. ' '':- -'.' ,, -.'".'. .::.; '' -"
The agitation over Early's case and
that of the wife of General Wardell,
who also developed leprosy, will. It
is believed by 'officials "of the public
health and marine hospital service,
lead to a renewed effort to obtain the
establishment of a national leprosa
rium at some place in the United
States.
NINE BURNED.
Cinder Explosion in .Furnace Causes
One Death.
(By Leased Wire to The Times)
Pittsburg, Pa.,-Sept. 2 Nine men
were seriously burned iu a cinder ex
plosion in an open hearth fire fur
nace at the Carnegie Steel Works in
Homestead this morning. One of the
injured will die.
The men were operating a crane,
hoisttns finders from the pit at the
furnace when the explosion occurred.
REOPENS TWO CENT
FARE LITIGATION
(By Leased Wire to The Times)
Pittsburg, Sept. 2 A decision
which means renewal of litigation
under the 2-cent railroad rate law
has been reached by the county com
missioner and Major A. J. Hay, solic
itor, They, refused to permit the
Buffalo, Rochester, and rittsburg
Railroad to obtain a judgment by
default in an acflon against the 2-cent
fare law, similar to' that by wklch the
Pennsylvania Railroad had the law
declared unconstitutional. A suit
will follow and the act may again be
passed upon by the supreme court, at
which tribunal the Pennsylvania
Railroad won its case by a vote of
4 to 3.
REAR ADMIRAL GLASS
DIED LAST NIGHT
- t ' , '
(By Leased Wire to The Times)
Paso Robles, Hot Springs, Cal.,
Sept. .2 Rear Admiral Henry, Glass,
who arrived here yesterday Jram his
home at Berkley, Cal., where he un
derwent an operation about a month
ago, died last sight.'
Roar Admiral Glass was born in
HopklnBVlllo, Ky., on January 7,
1844, and was appointed, to the naval
academy In 1860.
ARM
PENSION
Press Dispatchzs
ALL THE MARKETS
3
PRICE 5 CENTS.
EXCITING CHASE
OVER STREETS
Police Chase and Catch Man
Accused of Shootirg the
Baltimore Millionaire
REFUSE TO GIVJi HISNAME
Expected That the Arrest Will Solve
the Mystery of the Board Walk
Murder Police Refuse to Talk of
' the Arrest and Even Refuse to Give
the Man's Name Try to Keep Case
from Public and Censor the News
Hurts Business.
(By Leased Wire to The Times)
Atlantic City, N. J., Sept. 2. In a
wild chase through the Tenderloin
section early today the police caught
a man suspected of the shooting of
Charles Boyle Roberts, the Baltimore
millionaire and society man who was
attacked as he rode In a wheel chair
with Mrs. W. S. G. Williams jn a
lonely section of the board walk.
The capture of this man is expect
ed to solve the great board walk mys
tery. The police, are silent concern
ing his identity, or will Chief Wood
ruff admit that the case was connect
ed with the Roberts case. One of his
detectives let the cat out of the bag
inadvertently. Great excitement at
tended the pursuit.
It is said that this man who moved
in the same walk of life with Mr.
Roberts and Mrs. Wililams was
simply infatuated by the great beauty
of the Baltimore society woman with
whom he had but a slight acquaint
ance and that he timed his effort
to kill Mr. Roberts with the return
to this country of Mrs. Williams so
as to direct suspicion away from him
self. One of the strange moves of the
police was the attempt to close up
the case to the public. All newspa
per correspondents who have been
doing active work on the case were
called to Chief Woodruff's office and
told that enough publicity had been
given to the case and that it was time
for them to leave as no more news
would, ber given out. It was even in-
i tlmated that they would be asked to
leave town If they continued to send
out the news of the developments in
the mystery. . . : ' . ;;
Hotel proprietors and business men
have brought pressure to bear on the
chief of police on account of the wide
publicity -..which;-' has followed the
episode as they believe it has give
the: town unwelcome notoriety and
he believed that they could best serve
his own interests' by attempting to
censor the news. It did not take him
long to discover his mistake.
lUCOr.IK RODRIGUEZ IN JAIL.
Short in His Accounts in the Havana
Postof flee $53, 185.
' (By Cable to The Times)
Havana, Sept. 2 Ricardo Dodri
gnez, chief of the bureau of supplies
and vouchers In the Havana postof
fice, who disappeared after the dis
covery of a shortage amounting to
?o3,135, Is now in jail.
He is 70 years of age and was em
ployed for ten years in the Philadel
phia postofflce, entering the Cuban
service from that city at the time of
the first Intervention.
According to the police, the steal
ing in the bureau of supplies has
been going on for several years.
Sheets of stamps were abstracted
from the original package which were
then re-sealed so that the taking of
stock did not reveal the deficiency.
, BEN PRESTON DEAD.
Bright Youhr Newspnper Man, For
merly of Clinrlotto, Dies in At-
-- ;' . lanta.
(By Leased Wire to The Times.)
Atlanta, Ga.:, Sept. 2. Benjamin Pres.
ton, a member of the Georgian staff,
died last night of typhoid fever. He
had been ill for about six weeks. His
brother, E. R. Preston, of Charlotte, N.
C, was at his bedside, as was also
his sister, Mrs. A. J. McKelway, of
Atlanta. ,
Mr. Preston was 22 years of age and
was a son of Rev. John A. Preston, of
Lexington, Va. He was a newspaper
man of unusual vigilance and a bright
future Was before him. He had been
a member of the Atlanta News staff
prior to the consolidation of that news
paper with the Atlanta Georgian, bad
been connected with the Charlotte
News and other Carolina dallies.
The body will bo taken to Lexington,
Va., over the Southern Railway at
12:40 o'clock this afternoon. ,