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THE RALEIGH .EVENING- TIMES.
VOLUME 80.
RALEIGH, N. C, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1908.
PRICE 5 CENTS.
AliTOISTS BREAK
SPEED RECORDS
New Time Records' Are Being
Established With Every
flours Rod
CRASH IN THE CONTEST
Italian Racer Breaks His Collar Bone
and His Mechanician's Shoulder Is
Fractured DePalma Broke
World's Record for Eight Hours,
Making 338 Miles, This Being IV
Miles Over Best Score Also Broke
Nine Hour Record At Close of
the Twelfth Hour Fulford Was
Twelve Hours Ahead of Record.
(By Leased Wire to The Times.
Brighton Race Track, N. Y., Sept,
12. With eight contestants in the
great 24 hour auto race the terrific
pace is smashing world's records.
Sartorlr, the Italian, in his big Re
nault and tffe mechanician Rene
Gourand were both hurt in a crash
early in the grilling contest. : Their
car Is out of the race.
Sartoris' collar bone and several
ribs were broken and Gourand's
shoulder was fractured as the car
went through' a fence. Both are in
the hospital.
DePalma, in his big Allen King
ston, broke the world's record tor
eight hours by maklug 388 miles.
This is 18 miles over the best score,
DePalma also broke the nine hour
record, going 421 miles or 15 miles
better than the best score. Mulford
In his Lozler also broke the world's
war ditched during the ; night but
was uninjured and went on. The
track was so -torn -up by the fall
'driving that ' a lialt of three hours
will be made for repairs. The race
will finish at 11:30 tonight.
At the end of the tenth hour De
Palma's loading was eight miles
ahead of the world's record.'
Mulford was driving with dare-devil
recklessness to hold his lead over
the Flat car. As the cars swung Into
the twelfth hour of the gruelling con
test, Parker in the Flat, threw cau
tion aside and dashed around the un
manker curves like a maniac. Mul
ford was forced to keep pace wlta
him and the other cars trailed in.
Robertson was ordered from the
track by the officials to explain the
complaints of fouling. He declared
that Mulford had ; purposely kept
ahead of him to prevent the Simplex
from making up time.
Records are belug smashed every
hour. The Lozier car No. 2 with Mul
ford at the steering wheel closed the
twelfth hour twelve miles ahead of
the record.
AN IOWA COLLEGE
DRAWS COLOR LINE
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(By Leased Wire to The Times.)
De8 Moines, la., Sept. 12 High
land Park College, of Des Moines,
has 'drawn the color line. This ts
the first Iowa educational Institution
to exclude the negroes, and the ac
tion has caused resentment among
the thousands of negroes in the state.
The negro Baptist associations of
Iowa and Nebraska, in session here
yesterday, condemned the college's
action and declared It the greatest
set-back the race has had in Iowa.
Highland Park college has an en
rollment of 2,500 students, and sev
eral negroes have been in the classes.
President Longwell, in announcing
the drawing of the color line, de
clared , he had nothing personally
against the blacks; that they had
conducted themselves well, but that
the white students compelled the ac
tion by refusing to attend chapel or
walk Into classes with the negroes-.
. DEATH OF AN OLD SOLDIER.
John A. Hundley Passes Awnjr At Sol
diers' Home.
John A, Hundley, an old veteran
from Halifax county, died last night
at 11:30 at then Soldiers; Home, ;He
aia private la Companj F, Twelfth
(forth Carolina Regiment.
His remains, were taken to , his
homo near Norllna today for later
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Cardinal Vannutelll
Cardinal Viuuiutelll, the Papal Le
gate who is presiding over the Euch
ariHtic Congress in London.
GAS EXPLOSION
(By Leased AVire to The Times)
Chicago, Sept. 12. Many, persons
are reported to have been dangerous-
ily injured, some parhaps fatally, In
I an explosion in the Underwriters Lab
oratories at 382 East Ohio street.
Two boys and a man were hurried
away in a grocer's wagon and am
bulances were cllled from three po
lice stations.
I The explosion' occurred on the top
floor of jthe building and was due to
Jar"hTch ad- bsen" felt" flowing all
nlitht." Flames that followed the ex-
' plosion caused fears that some of the
Injured inlght be incinerated. One
report was that a. second explosion
had occurred following closely upon
the first one. qf
COUNTY BOARD OF ELECTIONS.
Names Registrar and Election
Judges for Raleigh Township.
Registrars- for Raleigh township
have been appointed as follows: ,
First Ward : J. J. Lewis and R. M.
Gray. '
Second Ward:
Nathan Barnes.
Third Ward:
M. R. Haynes and
Bart Durham and
C. R. Harris.
Fourth Ward:
VV. R. Warren.
Outside East:
W, T.Womble.
Outside West: ;
C. M. Harris and
H. M. Little and
C. A. Pegram and
Ben Morgan. :
The election judges appointed are
as follows:
First Ward: E. A. Lasslter and
T. 14. Arnold, democrats, and L. M.
Green and Percy Lees, republicans.
Second Ward: G. W. Kelly and
H. E. Glenn, democrats, aacVJ. G. Al
len and A. B. Forrest; republicans.
Third Ward : J. E. Chappell arid
J. C. Upchurch, democrats, and C. H.
Heine and G. W. Bond, republicans.
Fourth Ward", i I. M. Norwood and
Haywood Branch, democrats, and M.
W. Woodard and Charles Collins, re
publicans. ' -.
Outside East: A. E. Olmstead and
Geo. W. Johnson, democrats, and
John F. Ross and Geo. A. Powell, re
publicans. Outside West: B. M. Parker and
Bryant Smith, democrats, and Oscar
Petross and Will, O'Neill, republicans.
(JOVEUNMENT WILL
APPEAL COMMODITY CASE
(By Leased Wire to The Times)
Baltimore, Md., Sept. 18 Attorney-General
Bonaparte, who re
turned yesterday from Lenox said the
government would take an appeal at
I once, from the decision of Judges
I Gray and Dulls In the commodity
cluuse case. Mr. Bonaparte will take
up his work at the department of jus
tice Monday and the appeal will be
made as soon as the papers can be
prepaTed, . . .
Tlino Loans. ;
New York, Sept. 12 -Time loans,
firm; money on call, nothing said;
sterling exchange, 480 to 487H.
HURTS SEVERAI
with actual business In bankers bills
at 484.40 to .45 for demand and
484.75 to .85 for 60 day bills; prime
mercantile paper unchanged la
rates. ,t : -
BOMB SENT TO ;
GOVERNOR FORT
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Discovered By the Postal An-
thorities and Taken
From the Mails
A TRAGEDY AVERTED
Package Was ' Marked Personal and
' Was so Arranged That it Would
' Have Killed the Mau Opening it.
Contained Powder, Nails, Bullets
and Matches Attempt to Assassi
nate the Governor is Believed to
Have Grown Ont 0 His Persistency
in Enforcing the Sunday Laws at
.Atlantic City.
(By Leased Wire to The Times)
Philadelphia, Pa., Sept. 12. The
postal authorities of this city held up
the malls and took from them an In
fernal machine, of devilishly ingen
lus construction and saved the life of
Governor Fort, of New Jersey. A con
spicuous package of peculiar shape
attracted the.' attention of the postal
clerks and caused It. finally to be re
ferred to the superintendent. The
postal authorities decided finally to
open it. After the usual precautions
hecesasry to the examination of sus
pected infarnal machines had been
made it was found that the package
was thai of a bomb which would
have exploded and killed the man
who opened It. The bomb was con
structed with, powder, nails and bul
iets with matches go arranged- that
the unwrapping would have IImmI if.
, ..But for the vigilance of the postal
authorities a tragedy would have re
sulted. The package might have
been opened by a secretary . In the
governor's office but this is not like
ly, for It is marked personal ; and
would have been handed to the gov
ernor himself. ,
The attempt to assassinate Gover
nor Fort is thought to have grown
out of his persistency In closing sa
loons in Atlantic City on Sunday and
his threats to employ the militia lo
this end if the local authorities did
not comply with his orders. A hsavy
loss has been sustained by hotel pro
prietors and saloon-keepers as a re
sult of this crusade and the mailing
of the Infernal machine is thought to
be the result.
NO HALL FOR
PARTY
(By Leased Wire to The Times)
Birmingham, Ala., Sept. 12. The
board of education this morning de
cided not to permit the use of the
high school auditorium to W. R.
Hearst, John Tempi e Graves and
Thomas L. Hlsgen, leaders of he In
dependence party, who are to be here
Monday night. The action of the
board is said to be based on the
ground that it is contrary to the
rules to allow the holding of any po
litical meeting In the high Bchnol.
Permission to use the Hippodrome, a
public play house or ampltheatre,
has already been denied the visitors,
and just what they will do has not
yet been announced.
JOINT CANVASS IN THE FOURTH.
Challenge Will be Sent to Brigg and
HEARST
Jones.
At a meeting of the democratic ex
ecutive committee of the fourth con
gressional district, It was decided
that Mr. R. S. McCoin, of Henderson,
elector for this, district, and Mr. E.
W. Pou, candidate for re-election to
congress, should canvass the district
together, beginning in Chatham
county September 28th.
Hon. James R. Young was re-elected
chairman of the executive commit
tee.. He was Instructed to challenge
Postmaster Willis O. Brlggs, the Re
publican, candidate for a Joint can
vass of the district Mr. Frank
Jones, ths republican elector ,wlll
alao be asked to meet MM McCoin.
It Is not thought that either of these
gentlemen will accept -
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GIBBONS TALKS
OFTHECONGRESS
Objections ;o roniorrow's Pro
cessional Are Without In
fluence He Says
MEETING WELL TREATED
The American Cardinal Greatly lin
pressed by Eucliaristic Conference.
Great Public Meeting Could Not
Have Been Surpassed by Any
Country in the World For Spon
taneous Enthusiasm Congress
Will Have Splendid Effect in
Drawing Together Different
Branches of the Catholic Church.
I By Cable to The Times.)
London, Sept. 12. Declaring that
the objectors to the big Catholic
parade which takes place tomorrow
lacked influence, Cardinal Gibbons
today said:
"No religious ceremonies I have
ever witnessed impressed me so
forcibly as those of this Eucharistic
congress. The great public meeting
at Albert Hall Thursday night was a
revelation. It. could not have been
surpassed In any country, in the
world for spontaneous enthusiasm,
it was to me a remarkable revela
tion of the devotion of the English
Catholics.
."The congress will have a splendid
effect .in drawing '.together the different.'-;
branches of the Catholic
Church. The; Latin and Anglo-Saxon
groups, hitherto: have kept rather
apart,", but this congress will make
th beginning of a truly great Cath
wV?fl. reunion. Catholics not. only In
h'ngland. but everywhere the English
language is spoken will gain new
forvor. . ';.' ',';.;
',' "The: congress has been treated
admirably by the I'higllsh press which
throughout has been; fair-minded.
That section of the English people
that are proesfing against its crown
ing act, the procession of the host on
Sunday, are not, so far as I can
make out, supported by auy weight
of influence."
After the procession Sunday Cardi
nal Gibbons will go to the Duke of
Norfolk's Country seat, Arundel Cas
tle, Sussex, whore a great garden
party will be given Monday. On
Tuesday he will go to Ireland as the
guest of Archbishop Tuam. He will
sail for home from Queenstown on
October 1.
TAFT COMING ACROSS
Now Endorsing Kansas Bank
Plan .
Avoids the Objections to the Plan of
the Democratic Platform He Says
The Kansas Proposition Comes
Within the Savings Clause,
(By Leased Wire to The Times)
Topeka, Kans., Sept. 12 William
H. Taft, the republican presidential
candidate, in a letter to Walter H.
Stubbs, republican candidate for gov
ernor of Kansas, points out that tho
Kansas platform's reference to bank
daposlt insurance avoids the objec
tion urged against the democratic na
tional platform. Mr. Taft'B. letter fol
lows: "I agree with you that the action of
tho republicans as to an enabling act
by which banks In Kansas may vol
untarily guarantee each others depos
its Is different from the proposition In
the democratic platform, '.offering a
tax against all banks by which they
are In effect to guarantee against the
recklessness and dishonesty of every
other bank. t '
"You are certainly at liberty to
sny, what I sincerely boliove, that tho
proposition In the Kansas platform
avoids altogether the objection which
I urged In my speech of acceptance to
the democratic proposition for a na
tional enforced Insurance of deposits
In all banks. The Kansas proposi
tion comes within tho saving clause
which I expressly inserted to show
that the objection I had to make was
not applicable to such a system."
, Commercial Bar Silver.
New York, Sept. 12. Commercial
Bar sliver, Mexican dollars,
46.
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who in returning 10 the United states
to renew her efforts in behalf of her
brother.
ACCOUNTS ARE IN
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BAD
CONDI
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'(By Leased Wire to The Times) '-'."year '. than ever before and that if
'Washington, Sept.-'' 12 A report the republican campaign managers do
has been received at. the postoffice
department; of the inspection of the
Atlanta, Ga. .postil'ftec. . The report I
snowed a oaa condition 01 anairs in
that, dffice. There is no shortage, but
tho general condition of tho finances
, ', , m. , . ,
mentn regulations.. The inspectors
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have, recojimended the removal of
postmaster E. F. Blodgett, oT"that
office, and several of the Officers con-'
nected with tho accounts at Atlanta. !
Postmaster Blodgett lias practical-
ly -grown up in the postoJtlce service, , J
having been postmaster at Atlanta
frit liri ixiuf civ vinic iirifii1 in nrlil.'li I
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ho was the assistant, tor a number of
years. He has I ways shown high :
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by the .-department as one of the best,
postmasters'.. In '.'1 he south.
This fact will be taken into consid
eration when the. department passes
on the inspectors' report.
FORMATION OK AUTO I
CU B IN lULKKiH.
"iroii-hoiikeis" of This City Will Or-
giinize tin Auto Club To Agitate
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(liiinnces Entliusiiism High. Club
Nccdi-d in Raleigh.
Owners and lovers of automobiles
in this city will meet tonight nl 7:30,
in the mayor's office to perfect an or-j
ganizati.ni of an automobile club....
Enthusiasm along automobile lines
runs'. high in Italeigli and a club of.
this -kind will be well received In:
RnleiKli. ;". i
The "llonk-iioukers'1 are in favor
of more lenient ordinances for auto-:
mobiles and better roads, but they
wlslf to Im on agreeable terms wiih
the cit izens. ,
Among the promoters are JlcBrs.
L. A. Mahler. R. D. Godwin and
others of this city, and Mr. Frederick
II, Elliot,, of New' York, secretary of
the American Automobile Associa
tion, This association Is composed,
or more tnan 3u,uuu nior.orists 1
throughout' the United States and its
possessions, and by its affiliation with I
the .Automobile Club of France forms !
a most powerful liiternational orgau
i7ation. The Raleigh club will be federat
ed with the ' American association
and Its members will enjoy all priv
ileges of the club.
BURNED TO DEATH.
Child Was Standing Near Fire When
Clothes Ignited.
: ' - (Special to The Times.)
- Oxford, .N.' C, 8ept. 12. A mes-
sage received, here from Crocdmoor, ward C. Clapp, one of Georgia's na
Granvlllo county, bore the intelli- tional committeemen, called the gath
gence of the burnin gto death of the erlng to order.
eight-year-old son of Mr. Jackj . ; :
Wheeler yesterday morning at 11, The Governor in the Campaign. ,
tiut. iu paiucumia iu iue inno
bear out the fact as to how the de-
plorable accident occurred was: The
child was standing near an open
blaze when Its clothes became ignlt-
ed and the flamne could not' be ex -
tlngulshed. A a result of the affair
I tha rh II H AaA a vh.-irt (tma a ft or.
wards.
WEST MAY VOTE
OR
DEMOCRATS
Is the Opinion of James
J. Hill On Western
Conditions
TAFT MAY BE DEFEATED
Kays Farmers Have Not Paid Much
Attention to Bryan Until the Last.
Year or Two, But That Just Now
There is a Strong Sentiment in His
Favor, And That the Democratic
Vote Throughout the West Will be
Larger Tluin Ever.
I (By Leased Wire to The Times)
I New York, Sept. 12 -James J.
Hill, chairman of the board of the
Great Northern Railway, who came
to town on Thursday and is going
I back to St. Paul Sunday, made some
interesting remarks to his friends In
Wall street concerning political con
ditions in the west.
-Mr. Hill said that the Farmers'
Trust west have never paid much at
tention to Bryan until the past year
or two, but that just now there is a
strong sentiment among the farmers,
lie said that the democratic vote
through the west will be larger this
not put in the hardest kind of work
Mr. Taft may he defeated.
He said that in seme western states
republicanpoliticians seem to be
suffering from over-confidence, but
declared that the democratic leaders
are keenly alive to the possibilities
'and may succeed in carrying some of
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tho stntes that, hnve hArAtofnrA hnnn
the states that have heretofore been
considered rafely republican Unless
the Taft workers roll up their sleeves
and get busy. He said that if the
weather is had on election day this
j yea r and the percentage of stay-at-
home republicans for that or any oth
er reason is large, the count of the
; ballots iu the west may bring some
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surprises. Mr. Hill was asked today
showing an improvement and he de-
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clared emphatically that It is falling
off rapidly and is practically gone
i now, beyond all hope of recovery.
said that, conditions were such
thai it: is almost useless for American
vessels in make a fight for Oriental
trade.
For this reason Mr. Hill said he
did not credit, the report that E. H.
Tlai'i iinan is considering the purchase
of the oceanic steamship line, owned
by lh Spreckels family. He said he
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believed Mr. Harriman to be too well-
informed on Pacific trade conditions
to get another steamship line.
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Mill- UIlllLO IlllUlfU
THAT HE IS RUNNING
(By Leased Wire to The Times)
Atlanta, Sept. 12 More than
.1,000 parsons, among whom were
many stylishly gowned women,
crowded the casino of the Ponce De
Leon Park and cheered John Temple
(Graves,--.the' - brilliant orator and
Journalist when he was formally noti-
nC(j 0j
hls nomination as the candi
date for vlco-prosldent by the inde-
I pendent party. There were fully
1 11,000 peoplo outside the casino who
had been unable to get in. On the
I same platform with Mr. Graves as
I orators of the evening were Thomas
!L. Hlsgen, candidate for president;
i William R. Hearst and Clarence J.
Shearn, of New York. When the
quartette of distinguished men
walked on the stage they were greet
ed with a soul-stirring ovation. More
than SO men who snt upon the stage
rose to their feet and the spacious
hall rang with salvos of cheers. The
demonstration was long and conlln-
uous, and only subsided when Ed-
- uovernor uionu is at ijrisioi, va.,
today, attending a Chautauqua. , He
will rturft to the tat nxt,week,
and will fill many appointments in
various parts of the state next weak,
, He will be at Dallas Tuesday, at Lln-
colnton Wednesday, at MonroThura-
Av t7. n. v... VvMam will
I return to the city next Saturday. ,
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