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V;-, '3J8n LAST EDITION, VOLUME 1, HOTEL BURNED; FIVE ARE DEAD All Exits Gut off By Flames and Guests Are Taken , Through Windows : THROWN INTO PANIC Half a Hundred Men and Women ' Cling to Windows Until Rescued by Firemen But Several Jump and Are Injured One . Man Suffocated In His Room -Tried to , -Escape Through the Window But ,4Wa Weak From . Intoxication and Could Not Get Out. ' (By Leased Wire to The Times) Denver, Col., Sept. 8. Awakened from their sleep by the shouts of fire shortly after 4 o'clock this morning, guests of the Hotel. Belmont, 1737 Stout Btreet, were thrown Into . a panic which resulted in the death .of lire. A The dead: George Burtell, con ductor; George Bode, Middletown, N. i., died in hospital from effects of jumping from third-story win dow; George Ott, Dodge City, Kas., died as result jumping from window; John D. Kane and H. M. Moore, and the serious Injury of eight others. Within a few moments after the shout of fire sounded through the house guests . in every room rushed to the exits. . All of these were cut off by the flames. There was no way to escape -except through the windows and by jumping out. Half a hundred men, women" and children could be seen clinging out of the windows when the B re com panies arrived. Before any assistance could be se cured several Demons Jumped from walki Of these'. Moore was one. Kane was suffocated in his room. He entered late in the evening in an intoxicated, condition. It is evi dent that after he heard tho warn ing he rushed to the window to leap to the adjoining roof. The window was locked and being weak from th influence of liquor he was unable to make his escape. i R, Mr Moore, of Philadelphia, 'whoj was instantly killed by Jumping from -the third story window,' recently) came here from the east for his health. " ' ', -:Y-:; NEW STOCK COMPANY. Will Do a Gents' Furnishing Busi ness. Democrats Enthusiastic for Bryan. " Hamlet, N. C, Sept. 8. Pillow & Co., which do a gents' furnishing business, has been organized into a stock company with the following of fleers and Incorporators: W. H. Purvis, president; J. C. Nlemyer, vice-president; G. W. Pillow, secre tary yand treasurer. ' Directors: H. W. Purvis, M. L. Witt, J. C. Wroton, J. S. Bishop, H. JV Austin, J. C. Nlemyer, J, C. Medlin, O. T. Good win, C. p. Page, and J. R. Gordon. The firm will continue to do busi ness in-the same stand with G. W. Pillow as manager. , : ' . ' The democrats in this section are very enthusiastic and will pile up a safe democratic majority for Bryan. Mr. J. C. Nlemyer, a well known fur- ' niture ' dealer and a staunch demo crat, has a graphophona in his place with a good supply of , records of Bryan's fpeeches, which he plays free of charge to all who wish to . hear them. A good many democrats in this section favored Craig for gov ernor, but since he .failed to receive the nomination they express their willingness to support the choice of the majority. . ' . , TOURISTS FROZEN. Climb the Alps and Get Lost in vFog. Rescued by Guide. Geneva, Sept. : 8. After climbing the Jungfrau, Ormlston Smith . an English Alpinist, found four German ' tourists two women and two men, in a f rosea condition. They had climbed the mountain and, becoming lost In a fog had wandered about for forty-eight hours. All were nearly dead front exposure and lack of food. The men had dug . holes' In the Ice, in which they placed the women. Their hands and feet were frozen. Mr. Smith and his guides carried the exhausted tourists down the moun tain! -tome distance, where they re ceived treatment and were later re-' moved to s hosplUL , Only Allniodh Paper in thc Statc of North THE RALEIGH EVENING Mrs. Charlotte Hitchcock On Trial v m 11. x. rvr Muruer vj nusDanu r '"' .... If ty&f&ti'J I : v.5 Safe' Ttv si. ill Mrs. Charlotte HltchcVk, ou trial In New Vork' on tlio t'hni'go of hav ing viuhlwtfd.jhw olimk. and, I). Van GiOM-n, wiio testified tliut after placing Mrs. Hitchcock in a hypnotic ' state, he obtained from her what he declared to be a true Htatvinent to the eifect tliut her huHbtmd shot her, ami then killed himself. OF CROPS SEPT. 1ST (By IaAed Wire to The Times) Washington, Sept. 8 The crop ro- porting board of the bureau of sta- tistlcs of tha United States depart-: ment of . agriculture finds, from -the , reports of the correspondent s. and agents of the bureau that the condi tion of corn on September 1 was 79.4 per cent, of a normal,' as compared with 82.5 per cent, last month, 80.2 on September 1, 1907; 90.2 on Sep tember 1. 1906, and a 10-year aver age on September 1 of 81.0 per cent. Tho average condition of spring wheat when harvested was 77.6 per cent, of a normal, as compared with 80.7 last month, 77.1 when harvested In 1907, 83.4 in 1906, and a 10-year average when harvested of 77.9. . The average condition of the oat crop when harvested was 69.7 against 76.8 last month,' 65.5 when harvested in 1907, 81.9 in 1906, and a 10-year average when harvested of 80.7. Tobacco rThe average condition of tobacco' on September .1 was 84.3, against 85.8 lust month, 82.5 on Sep tember 1, 1907, 86.2 in 1906, and a 10-year .average on September 1, of 83.7. : The condition on September I, In Important states was: ' Kentucky, 82; North Carolina, 84; Virginia, 90; Tennessee, 90; Ohio, 70; Wisconsin, 83; Connectlcutt, 99; Florida, 94. Fifteen Persons Drowned. San Pedro, Cal., Sept. 8. Fifteen persons are believed to have been drowned ; in the gasoline fishing launch O. K., which has been miss ing since Sunday. Searching parties have been sent out, but little hope Is entertained as the launch is not capable of weathering such a squall as prevailed Sunday night. Mrs. Warren a Suicide. Bt. Louis, Sept. -8 Mrs. Thomas B. Warren, sister-in-law of Edward J. Nally, vice-president and general manager of the ' Postal Telegraph Company, shot herself In her home at 7:40 o'clock last night aD dolled four houri later. CONDITION RALEIGH, N. 14 i V imtdi! Imt" proniio' (n take tlio blame ' 'S T (By Leased Wire to the Times.) Washington, Sept. 8. the en- sus bureau's report on cotton ginned I to September 1, Issued today, shows thn ,,,, ,.- ron,i as half the following, counting round as half bales; , " . ; Active States. Year Bales Ginneries United States 1908 397,924 6,613 United States 1907 200,278 4.080 United States 1906 407,551 6,628 United States 1905 476,655 S.629 Alabama. 1908 26,096 966 319 110 2,291 82 Arkansas. Florida . Georgia . ; Louisiana Mississippi N. C'r'llna Oklahoma S, C'r'llna Tennessee Texas, . 1908 1908 1938, 62,940 1,419 1908 -4,219 383 1908 4,261 546 1908 98 28 1908 .8 7 1908 9,339 637 1908 6 3 1908 288,347 2,432 Includes 20,514 round bales, for 1908, 11,503 for 1907; 21,855 for 1906, and 22,231 for 1905, and 1, 324 for 1908, 85 for 1907, 63 for 1906, and 1,165 for 1905. The sta tistics for 1908 are subject to slight corrections when, checked against GINNING REPOK the individual returns of glnners be- interest Is being shown in the see ing transmitted to the bureau byond prlmar,eg whlcn are bng taken 1UUU. - GOMPEBS ATTACKS CANNON. Goes to HI Home Town and Makes Biwecn ytgninm uie Hara-neaa- " ed, Speaker. j (By Leased Wire to The Times. I Danville, Ills., Sept. 8.-Presldent Samuel Gompers, of T the, American Federation of Labor, attacked the record of Speaker Cannon in the niters own home town here jester- hold his lead and secure the nomlna day. Before an enthusiastic aud- tion sought Evans has been badly lenoe of 2,000 labor men in Lincoln hurt through the eleventh hour rev Park Mr. Gompers said some mighty elation that Irregular ticket Ben: out uncomplimentary - things about the from his campaign headq.uarters speaker. He came to Danville for were distributed through offlclaA the purpose of making a speech to channels. Vote today will probably the laboring, men of the place; hop- be heavier than ln the first primary, ing in this way Jo-defeat Uncle Joe for congress In November. Carolina AVith a Leased Wire Service C, TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 8, 1908. C TENEMENT FIRE Teh Are Missing and Others Are Believed to Have v Perished MANY NARROW ESCAPES Spectacular Fire Believed to- Have Been of Incendiary ; Orijrfn ' in Seven-story . Ttnomopfrrt. Search for Itodies 3eiijrnUo ,: Today. Two Women' Seen on Fire Escape Soroaracd and Fell Back Into Fire and Are Believed to Have Perish ed in the Flames.' ' ( By Leased Wire to The Times. ). New York, Sept. - 8. Four are dead and the bodipa of many others are believed to be tp the ruins of a fire which destroyed? the sevsn-story building which exrcndu from No. 542 to 548 Water street l. One of the dead was identified as a young wo man, another as. th body of a man j recovered were ' so Charred that it was ; imposslblts j i to aetermine whether they wen- men or women. i All were sweatshop workers. ' : The fire is believed to- haV? been incen diary. Search of the Tuins was: be gun at. daybreak 1 locate 'other bod ies, as ten persone , -ire missing;: v , Twonty-six meu were., lfescued by the bravery of firamen .and police. Many of these lied narrow 'escapes from death. - Workers seen ' in the building, which was occupied chiefly by sweatshops at the outbreak of I tiie flauies, are missing ; . V i wo women seen on a. nre-, escape- on the fifth floor s-neTd aud-lell ! back into the lirV v NajVinen.-.,ire 1 re"ctA" atidTs-r;tfK3 ' fertaln. i Thfi flm stnrlHfi nn tlm second floor and got going so rapidly that before : the firemen arrived on the first alarm, the flames'' had spread up through the upper floors and were shooting from the windows on both the Wa j ter and Cherry street sides and it J looked for a time as it the entire j block was doomed, i The Are ate down to the basement ! and shot up through the roof, filling . the air" with brands and sending ja shower of sparks over the neigh- j borhood for blocks around. , It was oue of the most spectacular fires jever seen on the lower Eastside, and ! for three hours it raged. SOl'THFKX PENSIONS. .fames Crcelmun to Write Story of the South' Efforts to Reward Her Old Soldiers. James Creeltnan, the famous Mr. 'war - correspondent and eminent jour- nalist, has written to Secretary of State J. Bryan Grimes asking for in formation about the pension rolls of North Carolina. Hu says it is his In tention to write a series, of articles showing bow the south hasi borne and Is still bearing her burdens without asking for outside aid of any kind. These articles will be published in Pearson's Magazine, and will make Interesting reading. INTENSE INTEREST IN SECOND PRIMARY (By Leased Wire to The Times) Columbia, S. C, Sept. 8. Intense throughout the state today. The races are between E. D. Smith and ex-Governor Jorn Gary Evana, for the United States senate: John E. swearingen, Senator Tillman' ne- phew, and 8. R. Melllchamp for state superintendent of education, and B. L. Caughman and James Cansler for railroad commissioner. ln each race the candidate , first I named led at the first primary, and the Indications are that each will with which river floods erlo:uO terferred OUR DEAD M II AND THE POLICE Alderman Moore and Officer of an Interesting Question WILL BE AIRED IN COURT Mr. Moore Issues Signed Statement About His Encounter With the the Guardian of the Law Officer Peebles Gives , His Side of - the Question "Dad Llm Mr. Rob bins!" Says the City Father Offi cer Peebles Sorry He Didn't Arrest Alderman. ; The hornets' nest stirred up by the report in yesterday's Times, hSaded "Alderman vs.. Police," Is responsible for the following statement from T. E. Moore, alderman: "In reply to an article in The Times of Sept. 7 entitled 'Alderman vs. Police,' I would like to say that I drove down to the depot Sunday p. m. to meet some friends who were com ing in on the Seaboard train, No. 41. Ag the train was backing under the shed I moved my team over to the curb near the men's waiting-room. The officer alluded to requested me to move my team across the street. I asked bis reasons for wishing me to move and ho replied that 'Mr. Rob bins kicked so much about private vehicles being allowed to drive up near the depot, while public hacks were not allowed to do so,' and not because 1 was blocking- the street, or causing anyone any inconvenience. It seems to me that the police are more zealous in catering to the whims of a big 'Liveryman' than In upholding the majesty of tlio law. . "T. E..fOORE." resen tawe -Mr. M( iStated thjhe was not blocking traffli! -at the sta tion and' did not think he was break ing a city ordinance4. , He said it was his understanding that tho officer wanted him to leave just because a ! liveryman. Objected to his being j there, and he wasn t going to do it, 1 for h.has as much right there as I anybody, . Learning of Miv Moore's statements to the reporter, Mr. Peebles, the offl- "move on",1 gave out the following statement: ' ' "Mr. T. K. Moore drove his car - ringe up to (lie curbing l.i front of the men's waiting-room at ine union Heimt: nnH stnititerl u-pnt 1111 tn Air. Moore' and -asked him to move hisl carriage away as there was an ordi nance against, allowing a carriage to stand there. Mr. Moore said It was no violation of the law and ha wasn't going fo move. I told him that his carriage was standing in front of Mr, Robbins' teams, and If Mr. Robbing . should 'come 'down he could make a big kick against, him. 'Dad llm Robbins!' said Aider continued on Second Page.) (By Leased Wire to The Times) New York, Sept. 8 Announcing he had forsaken automobile racing forever and that he would never again participate in any of the cup races, William K. Vanderbilt arrived in this city today, a passenger on the North German liner Kaiser Wllhelm II. "Anto-rflplncr and T hnvn hrnl:fn ALDERMAN MOORE DONE WITH AUTO AND ILLRETIRE apart for good," said the donor of the I s. ' y- ; , ' , .'. ' 1 famous Vanderbilt cup. "I have s-un Th date ls fet tor October U and enough of automobile racing andl",e ,mtUe w111 be 25 rounds ,n th have made up my mind to retire for!,. ,arena whlch PaPke mot good and all. . I shall never take part lKot,chtfet The weight will In another race" 15 at 6 c,ock' tuo tnen to start Mr. Vanderbilt was asked If he had batt',n! ' 9 'flock- Fty-flve per given up auto-racing because of the!!!,lt. of the en,l,e Bate r oe,)t8 wU1 objections of his wife, who maln-'DC talued that the sport was too cerous. "No: Mrs. Vanderbilt had nothing to do with my breaking away from auto-racing," said he. "I have simply had enough of it and will Immediately retire from the game." , He said that he would take no part ln the auto races to be run at Savan- nah this month, nor would be partlc- iu-'lpate in the Vanderbilt cup race' on! 'Long Island next month. and Full Press Dispatch:: TIMES. Rev.P.G.Elsom Will Not Resign His Pastorate WILL VOTE FOR BRYAN Nearly a Million Negroes Will Vote Democratic Dr. Carrothers Thinks it Will Be a Good Thins For the Negroes if They M'111 Exercise Independence In Politics and Not Blindly Vote the Republican Ticket. (By Leased Wire to The Times) Washington, Sept. 8 Declaring that 800,000 or 900,000 negro voters of the country will cast their ballot next November "for Bryan as a re buke to the Roosevelt administration for Its treachery fn dealing with the negro soldiers, and the lily white propaganda of the south, which means the political death of the American "negro." the Rev. Sylvester colored voters at ; Oalbraith.. ft." K church last evening. , Dr. Carrothers, who Is president of the national independent, . civil and pollUcal league of American negroes, ke , n , t0 ne ,eader8 who , . are urg,ns the cause of Taft. He isaid, in part: "The fact that in every town in the union negroes are divided on the nli.tctfififi it F nnlfttno la tYtt nxnai An. 1 1 jcouragiag sign. No man now can 1 tell, to what political party the nc- j gro belongs by the. color of his face, j In fui.ni'o the negro purposes to vote for "" and measures, and not for a party,.- : - A ' "IT 1.000,000 negroes will vote for Bryan In November the negroes Of this, country will receive more res pect in the next, four years than they have received' in the last forty. In- depeiKlenee, industry, self-respect de- mand that, the negro, like all other American citizens, use his ballot to secure, his rights and allow no man to buy or soli him." PAPKE WILL FIGHT KELLEY ( By Leased Wire to The Times) Chicago, Sept. 8 Hugo Kelly, of this city will be Billy Papke's next opponent in the ring. This much was decided today in a bunch of tel egrams that Hashed between James J. Jeffries, of the Los Angeles Club, and Sllvey Forrettl, of this city, man- 11,0 rewa,a: b l,er cent- to the dan-jw,nner 8,1,1 40 per cent' to tne l0Ber' .with 5 per cent, of the gross to Papke for a bonus Blind Tiger in Court House, (By Leased Wire to The Times. Paris,' Ills. Sept. 8. Ellis Weant was arrested while telling whiskey by the bottle ln the basement of the court house. Paris ls a dry town and Weant was doing a rushing bus Inees when caught V ALL TIIU IL A STATEMENT BY REV. P. G. ELSC:i Pastor of Disrupted faycHs-; vllle Street Baptist CLrcIi ; ; flakes a Statec:;t . iTV HE EXPLAINS SITUATD Speaks of Work Accomplished Dar ing His Pastorate 140 Members Added to Church -Clinrch Strang er Than When He Took Charge No Charge Against His - Charac ter Retraction of Charge With out Condition His Statement at Variance With Story of SecedeM. Fair Deal to Both Sides. ' - ; V Rev. P. G. Elsom, pastor of the 7 ' Fayetteyille Street Baptist church, the story of whose troubles with Us ' flock was published yesterday, has returned to the city. It was impose . v sible to get his side of the story yet terday and it is given herewith: ., . ' - "Since I took charge of the ; ; , church," said Rev. Mr. Elsom, "the membership- of the church has in- ' creased from 118 to 258, or about that. There have been 140 addi- tions during my pastorate. We nave - -' a large congregation, and deducting the sixty ; members that hav with- V drawn, we now have a great many more than when I took charge. . I - y now have a peaceful church. - The : ' factions are no longer, and those, who remain will work together lor ' ' good. ';.' .;-; -'' . - y ' ,f'f;i f "As to the origin of the trouble,' I would like to state that the charges referred to did not in any ,wajr Mt- tack my character. They ' could ' bring no charges against toy charae-' s tyfxMR KM -rt4, tfi By? he gospel J i I'preactt iefr'm TPWiie- of J1 Ral- , . wn, t ne oeopte unieign nw me ana 1 joye netuf-w deacon or other member ,t.,my . church na aught to say agaiuat my, character. The only charges I knot anything about arose about ' my style of preaching. What certain members ' 1 of my church said about it was so offensive to me . that I threatened suit And demnnilAA rAtrutHnn n that they prove the truth of thetPT charges. ! ' . - ' - .,J- "In a few days I got an apology, retracting all they had said about mo and saying that it was a closed Incident, If I would join them in making it so. I accepted their apol ogy without any conditions v what ever. I was glad that everything was bo amicably settled. ' "But after the brethren had nxnd -these matters and I had accepted their terms in good faith, to my sor row and grief, they left the church. These people had been my friends and brothers, and I loved them all, and we had worked together like brothers. After our differences had been adjusted I was greatly grieved that they should leave." There is a great deal of interest :n town about the troubles of this church and its pastor. It will be seen that Pastor Elsom's statement, matched up with the story publish ed yesterday, puts the warring fac tions further apart than ever. The reporter has been careful to . stats . the contentions of both sides fairly and accurately. What will be the outcome of the fight now on, it Is impossible to say. It ls to be hoped . that matters may yet be amicably ad justed and that the seceders will re turn to the church. '"'-." "' , - . LOOKS LIKE BRYAN. ' Judge Parker Thinks the BUmUosi in the West ls Encouraging. , , (By Leased Wire to The Times) - Washington, D. C, Sept 8.1 Judge Alton B. Parker, of New York, , who will appear before Jostle Gould ln the supreme court of the District of Columbia tomorrow ' as counsel for the American ' Federa tion of Labor and President Samuel Gompers in the injunction c ct the Bucks Stove &. Rang Comparr. arrived In this city' yesterday ar. noon. The' political situation, according to the formen democratic cftndldat for the presidency, is fa vr ratio t - Bryan. Judge Parker 1 1 be T gained the impressing a r x' trip through th. -r. uiat 1 1 the democratiu .n?bt ; 1 and gaining tt popnUrlty ev and that he oked fojt r-vtr Uon In November ; t- . ' . : ? 1 . '. .' '.;-'. V r.'v '. ; 1 i ''IK
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