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Only Afternoon Paper in the State of North Carolina With a Leased Wire Service and ; Full iPress Dispatches LAST EDITION ALL THE MARKETS THE RALEIGH- EVENING TIME 3 VOLUME 80. RALEIGH, N. C, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1908. PRICE 5 CENTS. COTTON GMf AT CARY BURNED LAST NIGHT Fire Was Started By Incendiary and There are Rumors of Night Riders OWNER OF GIN HAD RECEIVED NO NOTICE The Gin of P, It. Gray & Bro. Burned Last Midnight Forty-five Bales of Cotton Destroyed Three Mules Burned Had Been Xo Fire About Gin Since Six O'clock and Fire Was Evidently Work of Incendiary. Mr. Gray Had Been Told That Notice Had Been Sent Hun - by Xlght Riders, But Had Not Be reived It. (Special to The Times) Cary, Oct. 2 The cotton gin here, owned by P. R. Gray & Bro., was burned at 12 o'clock last night. The plant wan valued at $1,200. ; No in surance was carried. More than 45 bales of cotton were burned, valued at something like $2,000, a total loss to the farmers. Two mules, owned by The Harrison Wagon Company, standing in stalls near the gin, were cremated and andther, owned by-. Mr.. Stevens, was burned so badly it had to be killed this morning. Twenty live hundred bushels of cotton seed, stored under the gin, were a total loss.. But for the heroic work of the citi zens no doubt the cottage occupied by Mrs. Hurst, and the posfofflce building, would have also burned. A lire-bug is in the vicinity. There had, been no fire in the boil er since six o'clock and nothing what ever to indicate that, the gin caught from this. It was reported here this morning that Messrs. Gray had been notified to shut down their gin or otherwise expect fire, However, this reporter approached Mr. Frank Gray this morning and lie said that he had received no such notice, but was told by Mr. Ivey, the rural free delivery carrier for Route No, 2, that he, Ivey, was told by a party on his route yes terday that he had heard that such a notice had been sent to Mr. Gray and also posted. While little weight Is given this rumor, it is generally be lieved that the fire was of incendiary origin. A CHANGE OF OVSTKK LAWS Will he Recommended by Mr. Clem ent and the Fish and Oyster Commissioner. . ; Assistant Attorney-Genera: Hayden Clement has just returned from Bei haven, where he weat to confer with State Fish and Oyster Commissioner Webb, in' regard to alleged encroach ments of private parties on the state oyster beds. Mr. Clement, on investigation, found that the charges were into and that several parties had been guilty of encroaching on the state beds. Suits will at once be brought against these parties. Mr. Clement will earnestly recommend the amend ment by the next legislature of the law with regard to the state oyster beds and the shipment of oysters. As it now stands, the parties who own oyster beds are at liberty to ship oys ters at any time from their own beds. They cannot ship oysters from the state or public beds except at certain reasons of the year. The parties against whom these suits for encroachments are to be brought, have been shipping "out of. season" from the state's beds. The ' attorney-general and the commission-1 er will 'recommend, for tho good of the oyster business in the state, that a law be passed prohibiting tho ship ping of oysters from either private or public beds during the closed sea son. ' AN OLD SOLDIER GONE. Albert S. Pope Died Lust Night at the Soldiers' Home, Mr. Albert S. Pope died at the Sol-' dlers' Home last night at 11:25. Mr.' Pope came to tho Home January 20, 1905, from Holly Springs. He be longed to Company I, 42nd North Carolina Infantry. He will be burled in the Confederate cemetery Satur day afternoon at 12 o'clock. He Is survived by two brothers. CONDITION OF THECOTTflNCROP (By Leased Wire to The Times) Washington,. Oct. 2 The crop re porting board of the Bureau of Sta tistics of the United States Depart ment of Agriculture finds, from the reports of the . correspondents, and agents of the bureau, that the aver age condition of the cotton crop on September 25, was 69.7 per cent of a normal, as compared with 76.1 oil August 25, 190!?; 67.7 on September 25,1907; 71.6 on September 25. 1906; a nd 6 7 . 6 the average of the past ten years on September 25. The condition by states is as follows with comparisons with a ten year average on September 25; Condition 10-year Sept. 25, average. States - 1908. Virginia. ... . . . . 78 . '- 76 North Carolina. .. 69 71 South Carolina. .. 68 70 Georgia. ... . . 71 71 Florida. . . .''. . . 72 . 70,; Alabama . . ' . , . . 70 68 Mississippi.. . ... 70 68 Louisiana .55 68 Texas. , . . . . . . . 71 63 ;' Arkansas ...... 70 68 Tennessee ..... . 78 74 Missouri. .. .. ,. 70 76 Oklahoma ,. I. i . .'. 70 70 ATLANTIC FLEET (By Cable to The Times) Manila, Oct. 2 The Atlantic bat tleship fleet has entered this harbor, passing Corregidor Island at 12:10 p.. m. :'--':--r'. The hour is so lata the water pa rade and other features of the for mal reception have been postponed to Saturday, which has been made a holiday. The city will be decorated and in the evening will bo illuminat ed. The Moros wore greatly impress ed with the sisso of the fleet and the great, number of men tho Bhips car ried. As the vessels passed the is lands they clapped their hands. A GIRL IX THE CASE. Aldil Trusted Clerk In Theft of $30, OOO Worth of Diamonds. New York, Oct. 2 A young wo man ,lt developed today, was concern ed In the $50,000 diamond robbery of which Oliver M. Furrand of No. 3 Maiden Lane, one of the wealthiest diamond importers in the city was the victim. Mr. Farrand admitted this today and said that the theft was committed by his trusted clerk for sixteen years, Henry F. Marschener, who has disappcarod. The young woman in the case was formerly employed by Mr. Farrand. It is intimated that it was through her that Marschner was enabled to get off with the diamonds. THREE LOSE THEIR LIVES IX A BVRXIXG Bl'ILDIXG Youngstown. O., Oct. 2 Carried on a falling roof Into the flames which were devouring the Interior of S. H. Knox & Co.'s Ave and ten-cent store, three firemen were burned to death a;id several others fatally or serious ly Injured. The building, a three-Btory struc ture, was completely Wrecked, and the property loss Is estimated at $ino,ooo. . . . :;.;" Tho dead: ' . Fire Chief Thomas Riley, Captain Charles Vaughn, Fireman Edward F. Sweeney. Fatally Injured: Chief of Police William Lawler. Candidate Glasscock Resigns. Clarksburg, W. Va., Oct. 2 Wil liam K. Glasscock, republican nomi nee for governor of West Virginia, and collector of Internal revenue, yes terday sent his resignation to Secre tary of the Treasury Cortolyou. Mr. Glasscock's resignation was volun tary. . As a candidate for office he be lieved it his duty to the government to resign. HOME AIRS HAINS brother As an Accessory Before the Fact in the Murder el William E. Annis ! COMPLICATED MYSTERY l' sua I Procedure in Case - of- This Kind Is lo First Indict the Alleged Murderer and Then the Accessory. .'Why T. 'Jenkins Rains Should First be Indicted Adds .Mystery to the Already Complicated Hay Line Yncht CI lib Mystery Mrs. Annls Prosecutrix-. ; (By Leased Wire to The Times.) New York, Oct. 2 District-Attorney Durrln today 'appeared before the grand Jury in Queens county toil de manded the indictment of TV Jenkins Hains as an accessory before the fact, in the murder of William E. Annls, who was shot and killed by Captain Peter C. Hains. The usual procedure in cases of this kind is to first indict the alleged murderer and then the , ''accessory. Why T. Jenkins Hains should first bo j indicted-adds mystery to the already complicated - Kay .Side Yacht Club j mystery. I The witness against T. Jenkins Hains before the grand jury today was Mrs. William C. Annls?, widow of the victim. - Other witnesses whom the prose cution was ready to produce during the morning were Louis C. Harway, the companion of Annls on August 16, when he was killed, and several members 'of the yacht dull who the shooting. ; : But It is chlelly upon the testi mony' of Mrs. Annls that T. Jenkins Hains is expected to be indicted. She was sitting on the-plaza of the yacht club when Annis appeared. She saw her husband's little cat-boat an proaehing the club's float, running free before the wind with Annis and Harway sit ting In the stern. Then she saw the Hains brothers. She knew them. Site suspected that they were looking for Annis. Running down toward the float the agonized woman tried to warn her husband.. "Will, don't come in! Don't come In!" she cried, but Annis 'either' did not hear 'or. would not, heed her warn ing., Peter Hains walked down to the float, followed by his brother. The little boat was 'luffed up into the wind, with the sail hanging out over the float; that Annis was unable to see the Hains brothers. Mrs. Auais made one last desper ate effort to save her husband. She ran toward Captain Hains, but it was too late. As he tired at Annis she stilt tried to interfere and then, accord ing to her story, T. Jenkins Hains turned with a revolver, covered her, as well as the yachtsmen who had run forward, and said: "Keep out of this. It is our af fair. I will shoot down anyone who tries to interfere." THE "GEORGE WASHINGTON." Will lie Xume of New German Steam ship Dr. Hill Will Christine New Liner. (By Cable to. The Times) Berlin,' Oct. 2 The largest Ger man steamship ever built, which will typify the greatness and power of the German nation, is now being con structed and when it is launched on October 31 It will be named "George Washington." Dr. David Jayne Hill, the new American ambassador to Germany, has .accepted the Invitation" of the North German Lloyd Company to name the now liner and the affair will bo conducted wiy great eclat In miir ino circles. The George 'Washington will be 777 fool long. Her tonnage will be 27,000. The launching will take pluce Rt Bremen on tho 31st Instant. Aeroplanes Worth $ I.OOO. (By Leased W.ire to The Times) Dayton. O.. Oct. 2 Lorln Wright, brother of the famous aeroplane In ventors, says: "If 50 aeroplanes are to be manu factured for French use they wilt bo made In France by a syndicate. My brothers have boen thinking for more than a year of starting a factory In Dayton. The aeroplane cannot bo made to sell for $2,000 and leave a margin of profit. It will probably ! sell tor about $i,000. ( ELE1RIC BUTTON OPENS CARNIVAL Mr. Drewry to Push Button-Presto-Brilliant Fire works Display GREAT INTEREST SHOWN Mammoth Masonic Carnival Promises to Eclipse Other Amusements in Beauty and Magnitude There Will lc no Lack of Goods, Generous Be spouse Has Been .Made in the Way of Cash Contributions and Dona tion of Articles One '..'-Hundred Ladies Helping to Mnke it Sue- . cess. ...'...-.; At. 7 o'clock on the evening of Monday, October 5th, Grand Secre tary John C. Drewry. in his private office on the fourth floor of the new Masonic Temple, will press an elec tric button which will signal the opening of the mammoth building known as the Masonic Temple. This button will ..communicate ' with the fuse of an electrical display of fire works on the roof garden and will also turn on the lights in the big aud itorium where the main carnival fea tures are located. Every afternoon and evening during the entire week and -every night the week following the great auditorium, roof garden and adjoining rooms will lie convert ed into a busy and brilliant bazaar and carnival that promises. to' eclipse in '-beauty and magnitude any pre vious charity affair in North Caro lina. , ' ' . Its object Is to help pay off the in iicl)tedneKS on the temple,, so the in coAm of the biiilding cm be used to i staiilisli and maintain a home for aged and infirm Masons. The Masons do not maintain the idle, nor do they encourage improvidence. The work is" purely charitable the caro of the sick, the burial of the dead, the sup port, of a home for infirm and worn out 'Masonic veterans no longer able to follow their vocation. '. .'Over 'one. hundred ladies of var ious denominaiions, some in no way affiliated with the Masons, have band ed together in promotion work and have combined as members of active committees. Generous response has been made in the way of cash contributions and donations of articles. There will be no lack of goods and novelties, prac tical and artistic, with "which to equip this great indoor exposition. The decorative schemes, devised mostly by the ladles in charge, are delicate, '"dignified, artistic and distinctive.- It involves tlie. reproduc tion, upon the niain floor; of a fairy land carnival. Lined on both sides by beautiful visions of color effects and dlvertiscments, the mysterious cabinet of the black art performance adorns one end of ihe auditorium, while the staircases to the galleries and the, tobacco :.. covered pagoda stands at the other end. Dozens of 'quaint and alluring booths, fitted up for the sain of antiques, curios, souv enirs and 'other amusing devices and novelties never dreamed of in Will Shakespeare's time, line each side of the building under the overhanging balconies. At the end of this hall, with cunningly devised perspective, stands the entrance to the midway. The big auditorium with its immense floor space will bo insufliclent to ac- , comodate all attractions, so tho mid way and the carnival side show was added. Not a single exit will be obstruct ed nor anything allowed to hinder the free movement of the enormous crowds that, will circulate every af ternoon and night. Monday Is (he opening day and the attractions. Including the midway and sideshow, also all the,-, booths,; will bo opened at 4 o'clock This Is "college day" and all tho college girls will attend. They nre Invited to 1 1 .1 ...... t 1,At! come oareneuueu nnu oi-i-um i"ri ty Bouvenir mortar-bojrd bat to wear home and keep. Mr. Footo has passes for the com mittees and requests the Indies to se cure them by Saturday afternoon. Watch for fireworks Monday night from the roof of the Masonic Temple. Six Boys Killed. (By Leased Wire to The Times) Toledo, O., Oct. 2 Six boys are reported to have been killed at Sugar Ridge when a freight train on the To-, ledo & Central Railroad crashed into a heavily laden excursion train j TWO MEN KILLED LAST MGHT BY EXPLOSION LONG WARFARE ill ABOUT E1E0 (By Leased Wire to The Times) The Hague. Oct. 2 The long war fare which has been - waged, 'by. the Holland government-'against; the. nn-j tives in Achiu, Dutch East Indies, for i upwards of ;!o years, will soon be j ended. ''.Through successive-' gejierr tions the, conflict .lias t'onft on, more of the Dutch soldiers .'dying from, pois on and pestilence and, fever 'than from the antiquated weapons of the ' A Chi nese. The speech from the throne at the opening of the, state's general staled '.lint the visit of the governor general of Dutch East, Indies to Acn ine had given .'him a clear insight into the situation there and had re vealed the way to 'permanent, pacification..- - ,;V;, . ;, Thousands of lives have been sac rificed in this useless war, and father has given way to sou in the continual campaign--against the Dutch army. Regiment" after regiment,'-'- has been poured imo -Achiu to be swallowed up In the jungle ii nd be heard (if no more; MRS. SPEER AND SHVEYTO SAIL (By Leased Wire to The Times) Now York, Oct! 2 Guarded by her mother, Mrs. W, A. Speer, and It. A. Rambo, who says he Is a friend of the family, Mrs. Russell Thomas; who niarrled her mother's chauffeur, ar rived in this city yesterday, and are at. the Hotel Astor.- Mrs. Thomas was suddenly .'.brought here to get her away from her husband, who was. left, behind in Atlanta and was Uepr ignorant of the departure of his Wile, who is ah heiress to tlie estate ot Iter grandfather, ''John' Silvey. She will come into $1,1251110:. when she .be comes' of age. The mother will sail with Mrs. Thomas for Europe tomorrow. The plans have been kept from the hus band, The girl seems not very happy over being broiiL'lil away from her husband, hut she is not permitted to speak to aiione.."Thu par lv has con- nectlng .rooms on the second lioor of the Aster, and . Ram ho conducts the business for the family; Mrs. Thomas is only I n and wt.s married on Tuesday tit Atlanta. A dispatch from Atlanta sas Thomas is seeking a warrant to stay Mrs. Seer from taking hiswife out of the country and is expected to ar rive here this morning. When Mr, Rambo was informed of this he said he was ready for any steps Thomas might take and under no clrcumstan- ces would he be allowed to even see the girl. '.-' . Mrs. Thomas Is said to he despor-; ately In love with her chaufleur-husi- bnnd. despite the statements of law yers for tho family that she is anx ious to .repudiate '.the-marriage and obtain her freedom. When Mrs. Speer and Mrs, Thomas arrived In New York they registered at the Hotel Astor as Mrs. Speer and daughter and were assigned to a small inside room on the seventh floor. Yesterday afternoon, accom panied by the watchful Rambo they made a sightseeing trip of the city. While passage for mother and daughter has been secured, it Is not, known on what steamer they are to sail tomorrow. "Wo want no scene at the pier," said Mr. Rambo today. Two Killed in Automobile. (By Leased Wire to Tho Times) Detroit, Mich., Oct. 2 Speeding westward on Jefferson avenue, noar Hurlburl avenue, at 1:30 o'clock last night, an automobile driven at tho rate of fifty miles an hour, collided with n eastbound Jefferson car. One woman of the party of six that occu pled tho machine was killed outright. One man was so badly injured that ' he died, at 3 o'clock this morning, 1 Southern Railway's Powder House at Spencer Blown Up Following Fire Y ARE GREAT DAMAGE DONE Two Killed Outright, Two so Badly Hurt TIi.it Tliey Cannot Recover and Fifteen or Twenty More or Less Injured One of the Dead a Raleigh Man Explosion Occurred at 5::() O'clock and Was Caused by a Burning Caboose. (Special to The Times.) Spencer, X. C., Oct. 2 Two men killed outright, two, so badly hurt that they can hardly recover and fif teen or more slightly injured, with a destruction of thousands of dollars' worth of property, is the result of a terrible blow-up yesterday afternoon of "the house in which the Southern Railway- Company kept stored its powder and other explosives used in connection with the work at its large ' K,'l's here. The plant is badly wrecked -and work Is at a standstill for some time. The dead are Charlie- Layton, a married man ' about : forty-five years of age, whose body was man- j gled and charred almost beyond re cognition and Ueorge Gould, colored. Those believed to be fatally injured arc: Fletcher Stafford and James T. Uobbel. ; Those slightly Injured are: W. F. Kaderly, master mechanic, knocked uneoitwious,; C H. Kadle, shop su perintendent ; v. ' "w.'lfluttz isrneBi K'luUz, Robert H. Kluttz, George Huueycutt, C. It. Trexler, J. W. Crowoll, Karl Lents,-- Fred Loflln, Will Loflln, E. D. Whitmire, J M. Ellis and R. G, Koontz. There inay he others who received minor bruises and Contusions, The explosion occurred at 5:30 o'clock and the shock was terrific, being felt for miles around. The house in which the explosives were was a metal structure 8x8x8 feet and was practically full of powder, dyna mite, 'torpedoes and fuseea, nearly a car loud in. all. The explosion was caused by a ca boose standing on a track near the powder house catching fire. Before it. could be 'moved, and while men were around it trying to move it, fire was communicated to the powder house and the explosion followed with tremendous force. Many of the shop buildings were injured beyond ! repair and glass was cracked and the buildings otherwise injured in ; low n. J The main shop building, 200x600 j feet in size, erected at a cost of $480, I tMM) and equipped with all modern .machinery. was almost gutted. I T'lie steel framework stood the shock but nil doors and windows Were torn into atoms, pieces of the debris be ing blown for a mile in various direc tions. The work of clearing up thi wreck also was begun this morning ""'I some of the departments will be j Mo to resume operations tomorrow with an increased force of men. i Iter departments will be crippled for weeks. .-Twenty or more men who were injured by the explosion were taken to hospitals and are being cared for. Among the most seriously hurt are W. F. Stafford, J. T. Oobbell and Will Loftln, the lat ter being blown over the top of a building.'- It is feared several of the injured will die, while it is thought most of them will recover, as they tire doing well tliis afternoon. The remains of Mr. Layton were shipped to Raleigh today for inter ment. Twenty or more buildings in Spen cer were more or less damaged by the great shock, among them being those occupied by the Wachovia Loan Trust Company and Bank of Spencer. In Ihe former, tile floor was cracked and the glnsB front was blown out. The plastering was also torn off In places. Dwellings half a mile distant were also damaged. A horse was killed a mile oft. A pitcher carried by a woman on the street was torn to pieces in hor hand. Immediately after the explosion all tho physicians In Sponcer and Sails bury wore promptly on the scene and ill all that was possible to relieve (Continued on Second Page.)