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Weather. ties 2nd Edition Washington, D. C, NpT. 7 Fore cast for 'North Carolina for. tonight and Sunday: Fair tonight and Bun day, light to fresh westerly wlnda. :i V0LU1TE S3. RALEIGH, N. C, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1908. PRICE 6 CENTS. LAMPHERETRIAL Mrs. John W. Kern and 2 Children. HORRIBLE SIGHT MEETS HUSBAND Ai tist Leavitt Son-In-Law of Bryan. OREATESTPERIOD LI BEGINS MONDAY II IA MW Man Accused of Murdering Mrs. Belle Gunness to Face Charges LAMPHERETOTALWRECK Startling Revelations Are Promised ' by the Prosecution Mrs. Gnnnlg and Her Three Children Were v Burned In Their Home Lost April, tit Least That Is the Charge, Though There Are Some Who Say the Woman is Not Dead Lam phero Confident of Acquittal. (By Leased Wire to The Times) f Laporte, Ind., Nov. 7 Startling revelations are promised by the pros cutlon In the trial of Ray Lamphere, accused of burning to death Mrs. Belle Gunness, the modern Borgia, and her three adopted children, by setting Are to the Gunness house of death last April. Judge John Rlch ter will preside over the case, which begins Monday. Correspondence between the ' Gunness woman and the two men now living in the vicinity of Laport in the possession of Prosecutor Ralph N. Smith, indicate that Lam phere had for a long time threatened Mrs. Gunness with exposure unles3 she regularly paid him stipulated sums of money. The letters are said to make plain Lamphere's motive In committing the crime. Both these men will be summoned as witnesses and their identity is be ing closely guarded. ,. Prosecutor Smith is confident that Lamphere will be convicted on the evidence.' Lamphere declared In jail today he was confident of acquittal. "They may twist and turn the evl denoe all-they like," he said, "but if they prove that I set fire to the house i they will have to do It by false testi mony. Whatever I may have been guilty of, I did not do that. I have been the victim of circumstances and my actions On the night of the fire have been misrepresented. I have been reported to have told different stories, but really I have told only one. I have led a pretty flighty life, but there are others Who have done as bad as I who are walking the streets of Laporte today, free. I know nothing about the house of crime as they called it. I worked for Mrs, Gunness once, but I did not Beeher kill anybody and did not know she had killed anybody. I think that something could be cleared up about all those bodies that would show a great mistake has been made. Lamphere is In a state of nyrvous collapse bordering on wreck. Ho jumps clear off the ground when his name Is spoken In an ordinary tone of voice and his eyes roll continuous ly. The accused has been allowed no drugs since his confinement began, and enforced abstinence from alcohol has made a remarkable change In his appearance. Aside from nervousness he la far more presentable than he appeared when arrested. ROOSEVELT if ILL LEAVE MARCH 25 Ban Francisco, Nov. 7 President Roosevelt will leave the United! States on March 23 to spend a year In South Africa and engage In scien tific research for the Smithsonian In stitute. This positive statement was made last night by Edmund Heller, assist ant yertebrate zoologist at Berkeley University. Prof. Heller yesterday accepted an Invitation extended to him by President Roosevelt to ac-j company tne expedition to Arrica in the capacity of zoologist. , A week ago Prof. Heller received a personal ; letter from V President Roosevelt explaining the object of the expedition to Africa and Inviting him to accompany It. Prof. Heller was recommended to President RooBevelt by Dr. Merriam, head of the biological survey of the depart ment of agriculture. , j .President Roosevelt In t letter to Prof. Heller states that all arrange ments for the expedition, have been made by the Smithsonian Institute, and all its expenses will be paid by that, society. The letter also gives a number of details of the program ar ranged (or the expedition. , j tit; r X ill6"4 " t. ... . fJA. MORSE IS A SACRIFICE He is a Victim of Public llimor Morse Claims That He Is a Victim to Political Interest From the Ranks of the Predatory Rich Says the Judge Might as Well Have G iveu Him a Life Sentence. New York, Nov. 7 ' I'm a sacri fice a victim of public clamor," bit- terly commented Charles W. Morse church closed the week of mission today on the fifteen year sentence Im-' services conducted by - Archdeacon posed on him by Judge Hough In the Percy C. Webber. Tha people of Ral United States criminal court. The eiKh were indeed fortunate In hear Tombs prisoner, who two years ago,'"S this gifted man an their appre ,. a Vlm if ,.., i, nnn nnn c ation was shown by the large and called himself worth $22,000,000.. ympathpt,c oonglvgutw spoke with a sneer. . On Wednesday he gave his lecture "I'm a sacrifice," he reiterated, ' germon on. The Passion Play. From "by political interests, to the public a brief allusion to the plague 'among clamor for a victim from the ranks these devout peasants and their vows of the so-called 'predatory rich.' In consequence of their, dellverenco, "I'm forty-two yeats old now,"Whlch resulted In their giving once in added Morse, as for a second his ten mr. The Passion Play . he car sneer gave place to a look of sorrow ju jjj idly. t for -.s and his voice seemed tinged with dramattc ci09e, sadneas. Quickly, however, the blt-j Wllh the imagination and touch of a terness he felt reasserted Itself and J genius, he gives you the color and at he went on: , , (mosphere of each picture as It comes "Ho might as welt have given me In turn. . life as fifteen years." - Prom each scene of this sublime These words from the convicted spectacle of human sufferlns and sacrl u , . .,,,.,! m, Hce, before which ail ages have stood banker constituted practice illy his he drawg a ,e8s0n w human first outcry against the court order iQ homefy )n ,ts ynipathy( M power that he be confined In the United ful ln lt(, flppeni that the Impression Btatea prison atj Atlanta. land the lesson are profound. Morse Blcpt soundly In his cell all ! To have mlssod the sermons of this night. He had his own bed clothing mission Is a distinct loss; to have .nrf .nit nf naiamns. He had com- missed this lecture sermon, to have plained the night before because he r ...... .... could not get a "robe" ln which to sieep. ine piisuum aeep and profound learning of most after dinner, which was sent from catnoC an(j tolerent views; as a man the outside, on his order. who brings to his work the broadness At 6:80 Morse was awakened and cutture which such a student of with the other prUonera. He sent human nature and of history must find out for his breakfast, and while his wide travels. But, more than -,.,,, j lho now-nannrs there Is felt, whenever he ad- awaltlng It read the newspapers. ,drcMel of men and women, tBe r,. pti. vi .n. t-.-'deep sincerity and nobleness of his AT?-JrJl yl Christian character, behind the-mat-decided that Chrttlan burial lhall be netlc Md powirful pertonallly of the refused to Catholics who are married man, Ana he tg that mogt potnt of to non-Catholics by non-Catholifl n sxamples-a man who lives his clergymen. j religion. : si MISSION SERVICES END Conducted by Archdeacon Percy C. Webber Large and Sympathetic Congregation Heur This Great Man While Here. His Talk on the Passion Play A Man Well Known for His Deep Thoughts of Christianity Accom plishes Much Good. Thursday evening's service at Christ , ted an opportunity, I- A rnhi ion nnn WPhhflf ! Archdeacon - Webber Is known Bonds for Extension of Water- works oil Comprehensive Scale -Southern Activity , A., ACTIVE Italtiiuore Increasing Its Municipal Improvements; Also Richmond, r.anville, East Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, and , South Carolina, All Show Municipal Im provement on a Large Scale Bal timore Leads, With $5,000,000 Worth of Bonds For An Extension of Her Waterworks System, Whieh Will Place Her in tlie Front Rank on That Line. (By Leased Wire to The Times) Baltimore, Nov. 1 Baltimore's vote this week In favor of an issue of $5,000,000 of bonds for an extension : of its waterworks upon the most sldes tne mUrdered woman and crim comprehenslve scale closes the activ-: son gPiashes on the floor and bed It.)' in municipal improvements in the , clothing, was the ghastly sight which south. I confronted William Casey when he Authorities at Richmond, Va., j returned to his home in East McKees have just awarded contracts of $47..-!.port shortly after midnight this 738 for a new pumping station, in- morning, after having taken part in eluding $19,805 for cast iron pipe tne republican jollification, and special castings for a new force The scene of the tragedy was a line between the reservoir and the room occupied by George Hartzel, pump-house; v $14,550 for four cen- Casey's son-in-law, whose wife was trifugal water pumps, with an esti- mysteriously killed a year aco. and mated capacity of 4,000,009 gallons daily, each; $7,475 for electric mo- tors and appurtenances, and $6,460 j for an addition to the steam pump--. house. : Danville, Va., has awarded a $22,- 000 contract for Improvement of its electric light hlant. East Point, Ga., has voted $15,000 of bonds for similar improvement; and Norcross,, Ga., voted this week finally was released, as Mrs. Casey's on a like preposition, v. ' story waa.pot credited against . bis de- Among the corporate undertakings 'ntai ; : evolving electric lighting of towns . Hartzel was missing when the intir and cities is the planned expenditure ,er was discovered this morning, of $15,000 by a company at Boons-: Forty-five minutes later, when county boro, Md., to develop about 200 horse detectives and police of neighboring power rrom a stream ana to transmit boroughs were on the lookout for light and power through six miles Hartzel, the man was found uncons of wiring to Boonsboro and' other . ons in a trunk a few feet from cities. ! where the mutilated bodies lay. He A company at Bristol, Tenn., is hud '-squeezed into the trunk, closed proceeding with the development of tne lid, and with a bottle of chloro- Its plans for a water power electr.ic form ciose to his nostrils had soon plant, call!.., c; for the construction of become unconscious. Physicians en two., concrete dams 100 feet long,'.' geavored to revive him, but he died 15 feet wide at the bottom, 12 feet .at 2:15 this morning. high, and 5 feet wide at the top, and . the erection of 20 miles of transmis- ATTACK OX KAISEH. sion.wire "- "... To supply Albertville, Ala., with electric lights until the development of a water power at Short Creek Falls, a franchise has been given a steam power plant in North High lands. Other municipal undertakings in clude the 'construction of a $110,000 outfall sewer at Louisville, Ky.; a vote this month on an Issuance of $250,000 of bonds for a sewer sys tem and waterworks at Rock Hill, S. C; construction of sanitary sewer at Tuskagee, Ala., an expenditure of $23,564 for storm water sewers at Jackson, Tenn., and $40,00 for a suburban water main at Nashville, Tenn. ' '. FOKAKEIt A CAXDIDATE. Anxious to Succeed Himself and Has Many Pledges. Cincinnati, Nov, 7 Senator Joseph B. Foraker, lt was learned yesterday, will soon Issue a statement in which he will formally announce his candi dacy for ro-electlon to the United States senate. Mr. Foraker's friends assert that he has more members pf the general assembly pledged to him than has any other candidate for the United States senatorshlp. Congressman Burton, of Cleveland, who named the Cuyohoga county del egation which was elected last Tues day, starts with these 14 votes. . Ex-Mayor Julius Flelshmann may also enter the race. Germany Rejects French Proposals. Paris, Nov. 7 The Matin's Berlin correspondent says: It is declared In official circles that Germany has rejected the French proposal submitted by Ambassador Cambon and that the government In sists on France's expressing regret at the actions of the French soldiers at CaBa Blanca toward an official of the German consulate. The emperor alone ls responsible for the attitude and requests that every modification of the German demands be submitted to him by Prince Von Buelow, the Im perial chancellor, and Heir ' Von Schoen, secretary of foreign affairs. Found Wife and Daughter Mur dered When He Retined Home Last Night SON -IN-LAW MISSING Alter Search the Son-ln-Law Was Found in a Closed Trunk With a Bottle of Chloroform Pressed to His Nose Died Shortly After Be ing Discovered Hud Been Accused a Year Ago of Killing His Wife, But There Was No Evidence to Sustain Charges. ; (By Leased Wire to The Times) Pittsburg, Nov. 7 His wife lying on a bed with her throat cut from ear to ear; his six-year-old adopted daughter on the floor nearby, with her head almost severed; a razor, dripping with blood, on the bed be- wn0 nad Deen boarding recently at the casey home. Mrs. Hartzel was found murdered iat winter. At that time her Jmother, Mrs. Casey, accused Hartzel of killing iier daughter, and said he had confessed the murder to her. ! Hartzel denied his mother-in-law's gtoiy. He was for several days in thu custody of county authorities, but Muxiinillian Harden, German Editor, Attacks the German Jluler. (By Cable to The Times.) Berlin, Nov, 7 A tremendous sensa tion has been created throughout Ger many by nn attack upon the kaiser by Maxlmllllan Harden in his paper, D'o Zukunft. fur the emperor's diplo matic crura and his tendency to en gage In controversial polities. . "Does the emperor desire to renounce the throne?" yuys Harden' editorial. "His grandfather contemplated adblca tion In a less serious crisis and one that was not brought about by his own faults. .. "The emperor must not be blind to the fact that his fellow countrymen are'. -now against both him and his ehanecllor. Neither Chancellor . Von Buelow nor his successor can hereafter retain office without a pledge from the emperor that he will limit his personal share in the government. Future Germany must demand this, "The house of Hohenaollern must demand it, too. In thl cruelly grave nherwise lt will be too late." Other papers throuKhout the empire have reprinted Harden' editorial ut terance, and lt la manifest on every hand that the sentiment of the people Is thoroughly aroused Language such as Harden's could not have been used Emperor William, of Germany, ar- physicians or acknowledged author wlth impunity a few weeks ago. and rlved at the ca!)Ue of S(,ho(!nbrun last lty 0n diseases peculiar to the south. oTthe HtC BrTSS - fV T uMl ixTTZ rrnor ,Hok? 8ralth :m r t r Interview has created, can now take : ranc'3 ph. The coning of the address of welcome. One of the in action against the fearless Journnllst. emperor Is regarded as a domonBtra- terestlng papers will be prepared by Harden ls the man who was tried tion of German good will toward the Dr. J. Barrington, of Yazoo City, some months ago for his exposure of Austrian attitude on the near eastern Miss., on "The Technikue of Negro the nefarious court clique, the "knights . question and the public turned out In Cabin Surgery." of the round table," with whom the iarge numbers to cheer his majesty. I , ' : "" ' '.-..: emperor had surrounded himself. His latest stand against the emperor Is likely to result In his being made the leader of the new movement to restrict the emperor In his Imperial pre rogatives. Common Council Jailed. Puerto Plata, Santo Domingo, Nov. 7 The members or the common council of Azua have been .ilaced In prison In Santo Domingo, by order from 436 for Representative Smith stroyed and for a time a part of the of the court, on a charge Of mlsap- and Governor Kitchln to 620 for down-town wholesale district was In plication of municipal funds. Sheriff Lanier and Commissioner danger. The city of Santiago invites bids , Harrington. i The fire ls thought to have been tor an electric light plant and an The fifteenth senatorial district started by a cigar stump carelessly aqueduct, the amount to be paid ln ' sends two republicans, W. O. Turner, cast away by an employe of the post 20 years and guaranteed by the city 'of Harnett, and Dr. Matthews, of card concern In the shipping depart bonds at 8 per cent. Sampson. I meat on the fifth floor. MRS. LEAV1TT WANTS DIVORCE (By Leased Wire to The Times) j Chicago, Ills., Nov. 7 Now that the election is over and there is ho chance that the airing of her domes- u , , ... . tic unhappiness might have a harm- ful effect upon the political future of her father, Mrs. Ruth Bryan Leavitt is preparing to bring suit for absolute divorce from her artist hus- band, William Homer Leavitt. i This information was given out : keep them worklng or a wnoU year last rright by an intrmate friend of at their maximum if they should jiot Mrs, Leavitt. This friend says the recelve another order, suit will lis filed in Denver, where -ah this means Just one thing, the Leavitts had a home purchased nameiV( that the greatest period of for them by William Jennings Bryan rallroad extension work we have yet and where they last lived together. had ls upon U(j in every department Leavitt is now in Europe, continu- of commerce and business the coun lg his ai-t studies. The two chil- trv ,s gure to progress overnd be dren, Ruth Leavitt, five years old, y(jnd the oint lt had attained in the ana vviuiain uryan ieavut, inree years old, are with their Officially, they still live in mother, Denver, but they spend much of their time in Lincoln and the children had the time of their lives at Falryiew dur- ing the campaign. Little Bryan Leavitt is the com plete master of his grandfather. " No Information is expected from the artist. His wife told friends in Denver that he was "simply impos sible" and that she couldn't endure him another day." When the action is begun the charges will be non-sup- catod by a canvaSs made by the na port, mental cruelty and incompati- tioual association of manufacturers. bility of '. temperament, Mrs. Leavitt will nsk for the em tody of the children, AUSTRIAN MINISTRY WILL RESIGN TODAY (By Cable to. The Times) Vienna, Nov. 7--As a result of the prolonged trouble between the Czechs ; and Germans in Bohemia, Association, will hold Kb annual which has led to bloody riots at meeting, beginning Tuesday, Novcm Prague, Relchenberg, and elsewhere,' her in, through until the 13th. Dr. Baron Von Beck, president of the l. Wyman, of Birmingham, is Austrian council of ministers, will president of the association; Dr. Os today tender the resignations of him- ' car cowling, of Shreveport, La., is self and h!s colleagues to the em- secretary-treasurer. Among those peror. The event is in no way con- Wflo will take part ln the proceedings : nected with the international crisis. Emperor, William hud a long talk1 w;th Baron Von Aehrenthall, the Austro-Hungarlan minister of for-' eign affalrB, and later with Emperor, Francis Joseph. - i i Vote in Harnett. (Special to The Times.) Dunn, N. C, Nov. 7 Harnett county's majority for democrats run New York Central Man Says Roads Will Begin Wonder ful Improvements MANY ORDERS GIVEN W. C. Brown, First Vice-President ol New York Central, Says That Since the Election He Has Already Sent Out Orders For Railroad Supplies and Equipment Involving An Ex penditure of $31,000,000 Order Were Placed Some Time Ago and Made Contingent on the Election of Mr. Taft. (By Leased Wire to The Times) Clarinda, Ja., Nov. 7 "The great est period of railroad extension work this country ever had Is upon us," says W. C. Brown, first vice-president , of 'the New York Central Railroad lines, who Is visiting ln Clarinda, where he has many property Inter ests. .' "The morning after election 1 sent out more than lftO telegrams releas ing orders for railroad supplies and equipment for the New York Central Klines alone, aggregating In coBt $31,- 000,000. I placed these orders some I time ago, and made each order con tingent; upon uie election oi mr. luii. .;I can gay positively that other railroads of this country have either already done so, or will within a few QayS. release orders like these of ours that will aggregate $240,000,000 for equipment and materIai tnat will g0 lnt0 raliroad building, extensions, and improvements of rolling stock. I can ten you ai80) that enough orders nave been. piaced wltn the gigantic stei ii,HnRtHn of t.hn - muntrv "tn fall of 1907. when temnorarv lack of confidence and the approach of the pnmi-tniffn r.nnRnlrpri tn check business and we are now entering nnon r neriod of even ereater -nros- perlly and buslne8S activity than we have ever known before. Manufacturing Interests Active. (Bv Leased Wire to The Times.) New York, Nov. 7 That the im portant manufacturing . Interests of this country are about to put to work at least 650.000 idle men is Indl- the result of which will be published in the forthcoming issue of its mag azine, American Industries. The can vass on which this statement was based Was made 10 days before elec tlon.. SOUTHERN IKKTOR8' MEETING. Medical Association Will Moot ln At lanta Next Week. (By Leased Wire to The Times) Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 7 The South ern Medical Association, which is tha guif branch of the American Medical ' 0r the meetlne are many of the noted Water Mains Give Out. (By Leased Wire to The Times) New York, Nov. 7 With the high pressure water mains giving out as flames raged ln the seven story build- ing at No. 9, 11 and' 13 Walker street early today, the firemen were helpless for more than an hour. More than $100,000 in property was de-
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