North Carolina Newspapers

;Weather. SECOND. EDITION Washington, D. C, March 3 Fore cast for North Carolina for tonight and Thursday Fair tonight and . Thursday. Moderate west winds. ESTABLISHED 1876. RALEIGH, N. C, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 3, 1909. PRICE f CENTS ORMOND WANTS A TO INVESTIGATE As to Need of New Building and Report to Next General Assembly OTHER NEW BILLS Senator Oniiond Takes l'p the Mat ter of Xrrdiil Improvements Ut Stutc lliiildiiigs and Asks That n Commission be ' Appointed to In vestigate Conditions and Iteport to the Next (lenerul Assembly -Sen-n(c Met at 10 O'clock, lieutenant Governor N'ewlaud Presiding; And Senator Turner 'Leading the Prayer Bond Issue , h'or Insane Passes Second Heading. . Tho senate was called to order at 10 o'clock by President Newland. Senator 'Turner led in prayer. The journal committee reported no cor rections to be made and the roll of committees was called. New 'Hills. Today. Now bills were introduced today as. follows: S. B. 1540. Senator Barrlnger. To establish a card Index system for registering grunts, etc., in the office of the secretary of state. Judiciary. S. II. 1541. Senator Clark. A joint resolution to paying for the preliminary drainage surveys. Cal endar. S. H. 1542., Senator Scott. An omnibus justice of the peace . bill, lust ice of the Peace. S. II. 15411. Senator Britt. To amend the compulsory education law of the city of Aslieville. Education. $500,000 llond Issue. The bill providing for a bond issue of $500,000 for the care of the insane of tliu State was called up and pussed its second reading by a vote of 43 to 3. '" Passed Third Reading. The following bills passed their' 11 mil reading: : ; S. It. To extend time for organi zation of the-.' Winston-Salem' South bound Railway Company. S. B. To promote drainage 01 wet. swamp and overtlow land. H. B. To establish a graded school district In Marshvllle. 11. B. To amend law creating Kdenton graded schools. S. B. To allow. Lexington town ship to Issue honds. S. B. To amend road law of Wilkes county. . v H. B. To improve public roadk of North Whittakers township. S. B. To authorize the city of Raleigh to erect 'a municipal build ing. Senator Ormond today made a new move In the matter of securing bet ter state buildings. Senator Ormond is an earnest advocate of progress and realizes the great need of better and more modern buildings for the accommodation of the various de partments of the state government. He was In favor of the bond issue to enlarge the eapitol, which met its death at the hands of the house. He Introduced a bill today providing for the appointment of a commission to investigate the needs of the state, prepare plans and specifications for needed buildings and report to the general assembly of 1911. School Fund and Pension. Senator Ormond, for the commit ter on appropriations, Introduced a bill amending 4097 of revlsal rela tive to the appropriation for public schools, increasing the appropriation from 1100,000 to $125,000, and amending chapter 634, of laws of 1907 relative to pensions, increasing pensions from $400,000 to $450,000. Therewas a motion to place the bill on its Immediate passage and an In teresting' discussion )followed. Sen ior Bassett cautioned the senate ngainst undue haste. Senators Blow. Ormond and Barrlnger spoke for the increase in appropriations. Senator Means offered .an amend ment Increasing the appropriation trom $460,000 to $500,000. He de manded the ayes and noes and the amendment was adopted by a vote of 44 to 6, Senators Bassett, Blow, Godwin, Long of Iredell, Nimocks and Ormond voted In the negative, basing tbelr opposition on the ground that the committee on appropriations has done whit Is best In the matter, ippropHatlng all the money avail able. The bill .passed Its second reading and on .objection went over till tomorrow. ,. The Justice of the peace omnibus (Continued on Page Two.) COMMISSION Henry Henry W. 'Taft, brother of the President. Is a prominent figure in the inauguration ceremony. Mr. 'I aft is u liivtver, and one of Ins l:nv part no enteiTd the Cabinet as Attorney (Jeiiernl, Black Hand Fire in a Five Story Temement House-- (By Leased Wire to The Times) New York,; March 3 An 'incendi ary fire In .the. five story bvick' leniv ment house, 371 -Seenlh avenue.' early, today' paused the death of 10 persons and the injury of a score, of others. ' .." 1 ; .' ' An, investigation .'showed that 'the stairs and halls from the basement to the top floor had been saturated with kerosene oil. Six '."mouths -'ago the owner of the building received a threatening blackmailing letter. The dead: . LILIO PH.Il'ATI, .Ml years old. ROSA TLACtAi. 7 years old. LKNA Tl.ACIA. Ill yours old. FRANCESCO Ultl I'l l. 5S years. MRS. .lOSHl'llINK TRAZI.SA.NO. 50 years old. '.";-', JOSEPH TltAZISANO. LUNA TltAZISANO, L'li years old. MRS. CAROLINA FANSONK, NO years old. An unidentified man. Id years old. An unidentified boy, 4 years' old. -. Tho injured: Robert Fansone, right hand nearly cut off by falling glass; Nicholas Bnrdilia'. :! years old, burned about head .and fare; Miss Matilda Manad. 20 years old, buttled about face and body. The Are started i'.i ihe basement and raced to the roof; following the jin Outlaw Escapes From . Chain Gang-Sentenced 4 Years-ji Desperate Man Kid Fisher, the famous outlaw, habit of coming to Raleigh every pay--who had been sentenced to servo four chy and gambling with the railroad years on the Wake county roads, boys. made his escapo last night from what When caught . in Hamlet Fisher is known as the Zeb Page camp. I grabbed the gun from the officer and Fisher was captured in this city threatened to shoot him, jumped on a about February 1 S, by Ol'llcers lien- passing train and made his escape, nlng, Thompson, Allison and Bag- On tho 22d of February Fisher was well, assisted by Officer Woodall, of sentenced to serve four years on the the Southern Railway. These officers roads of Wake county, but he served having been informed as to the where- ' only until last night, when he made abouts of Fisher, went to the house his escape from Page's camp, of a woman named Hatch, who lives) So. "-desperate' 'Was Fisher that he in the fourth ward. When they sur-j broke the shackles w'th which he was rounded the house Fisher tried to. chained. His next move, after free make his escape. ing his feet, was to break the bars The officers then began to fire on from the window and leap out. As him, but he returned the shots. For j ho was making his escape he was fired a time tne oatue-rngeu, risnor iiom - ing his own. He was finally captured by Officer Denning. An umn as H hocniiin known thiit. Fisher had been nrrested here, teUvJcamp. It was pluced on exhibition at grams came pouring in to Chief Mul- ino couri-nouse loaay. Ilns, telling of ho outlaw's desperate It Is the belief of those who saw deeds in other cities. He was wanted the coat tlTat Fisher's wounds must In Durham for robbing u man of $102, be sufficient, to cause death. The and in Wilson for highway robbery, (shots, as shown by the coat, went When Fisher was put on trlul he dl,rectly Into his back. He, It is stated that he left Wilson when Me-! thought, is probably now somewhere Kay waB arrested for highway rob-4 near the camp, as it seems almost bery. Whether or not he had a hand impossible that he should have been In that afTalr was not ascertained. He able to go very far, his back having stated, when accused of taking $40 been filled with BB shot. , from Lee Lawson, a Seaboard Air ( The camp from which Fisher made Line train hand, that be was In thojhis swape s situated near Method, W. Taft. X " ' ' TV Mi, i trail of oil. ' i The firemen ;' were delayed in reaching i he hi axe because of the Pennsylvania Railroad tunnel, and had to go in a roundabout, way to reach the scene. When they arrived the entire building was in flames. Scaling ladders were used and many I of those " 'wliis had appeared at the, front windows were carried down by i the firemen. ' After the fire was "extinguished and , a search of the building was made,! the 10 dead bodies were found ion the upper, floor. The ..'members' of thej Trur.isniio family were found grouped j around the' bed in a little room in the! attitude of prayer. They had been I ul off from escape and knowing tliat death Was near had n clustered to-! nether for the last feW seconds of their lives. . : I Five miuutes after the fire had; been discovered it had spread to the top floors of 372 and 37C Seventh avenue, the tenements flunking the burning building on either side. Chief Croker, who was on the scene early, said the evidence of its incen diary., origin was apparent. An investigation was begun at once by the authorities and arrests are ex pected today. .'There were many thrilling rescues by firemen and policemen. .i'" t Full of holes and stained with blood, his convict's coat was after wards found in the woods near the THE INAUGURAL PREPARATIONS The City Enfele Willi Brill iant Decorations for the Occasion IN A BLAZE OF GLORY With Only One More Day Before (he Inauguration of Mr. Taft, Willi Washington lirilliiuiily Decorated For the Occasion, the Dawn of To morrow Awaited W ith Patience by the Thousands of Visitors Who Throng the Hotels, Hoarding Hous es ii nd Streets, the Weather, ' hough 1 iircatciiing, it is Hoped it Will Not ltain. f By Leased Wire tn The Times) Washington, March 3. With the In aiiiiiiaiinn nf Mr. Taft one dnv 'nv-iv, a hinlon. brilhanllv di eoinli'd for llii' iicariun, awaits .ilawn or tn- iimii i iiw with inipat u iU'iS. While the Wi'iilhir tuoav Is i-lnuilv and tlnca.t i 'iniig rain som of the amnli'iir weaili i r prophets are asserting tliat March 4 w II be extremely dlsagrveuiile, (he weather bureau forecasts.' that (lie day ' pi (ibablv" .will be fair a'nil sun shiny. Kvcn If the suh doesn't shine and im rain falls no one will pav much atteiiliiin I o the-weather tomorrow. I'resldeiit-eleet Taft unvnt a conrpar atively quiet (lav vesterdav. W ilh the exeeptiun of an evening call on a friend and a few hours spent on the Chevy Chase golf links he remained Iniliinrs nearly all day. The whole Taft family are here, including relatives from Con neellcut, .Ohio and California. Vice-President-elect Sherman spent the day attending to his duties in the house of '. representatives. ' President Roosevelt put in a, strenuous1 -time at at. the while: house, signing bills, and cleaning up the remaining matters nf his administration. In the senate Vice President Fairbanks presided oh usual. Kveryihiiig has btiiri arranged for the 1nautrtiraUoj:V'Qbifs , .orders were issued yestijnTjjy fupttiki-'ioarade, which will be tho givatest ever seen III Washington and Ihe immense pension luiihlli-iK is ready for the flittering so cial end of the Taft adinlulst rat Ion. The ciul end of the Ttt't admlnistrat ion. Tile new regime, will bring forward more than ever before the social end of ol'li eial life. . All day yesterday throngs from all parts of the country poured into the city, and Ihe inrush today is ..even greater, livery train rolling into. the big union station is tilled with 'inaugu ration crowds, and the railway men are working night and day to handle the arrivals. Trains are packed for miles along the tracks while there ale are hundreds of private, and sleeping cars occupied by those who arrived in them, distributed about the city on railway sidings, Many governors with their staffs arrived yesterday and oth ers are due today. Military nnd civic organizations come by the score yes terday and more will arrive every hour today. The naval brigade fleet at Hampton Road. Is here and the blue jackets are enjoying 'the. first long shore leave they have had jn many months. Soldiers uf every arm nf the service can be seen on the streets, mingling with the thousands of visitors. : Mount Vernon, the home and tomb of Wash ington, Is a favorable pilgrimage for visitors, and thousands have been there and are going today. Decorations all over the city are up and historic Pennsylvania avenue Is gay with flutteiiug flags. Last 'night the electric Illumination effects were tested nnd from the cap itol to the court of honor in front of the white house it was brilliant almost beyond expression. Under the lights the court of honor presented, a beau tiful effect, null, long after midnight the vust crowds surged up and down Pennsylvania avenue admiring the shop windows, the decorated city and the Illumination. It was an', orderly and good natured crowd. .Today the few remulnlng details for tomorrow's function are being arrang ed, and by night all arrangements for the ceremonies which will ''usher In the Tuft administration will have been completed. TOBELOSLFOl'i Innr.bruck, Austria, March 3. The thirty troops and several officers of the Austrlun Imperial army who were thought to have been killed in the lumlsllile near Laffram yesterday, were rescued today more scared t.ian In jured. Their escape was miraculous. Hearing the approach of the stones and snow above them they sought shel ter In a nearby cave In the mountain side. The mouth of the cave was ob scured with snow but a relief detach ment of soldiery today dug them out. TROOPS THOUGHT OscarS. euf Xf s 'W, A WiSWW 3 f rjw--- I mtl? This is a nctiire of Former Secrefary of Commerce and Labor. Oscar S. Straus, who retires trom public nllice with Mr. Roosevelt. Many Witnesses Put On The Cooper-Sharp Case I Hy Leased Wire to The 'I'itnes) : Criminal Court Hooiu, Na:;!iville, Tenn., March o - It is given out here today that rebuttal proof of the slate lit the .Cooper-Sharp minder trial will require about two days in its presen tation. Attorneys for the s;tate are secretive, regarding; what it will of fer, but the tip is given out Dial some surprises are in store. Ilel'ore the rebuttal begins tomorrow Ihe stale will probably cross-examine Dr. 'Me Pheelers Glasgow regarding the au topsy and wounds on the body 'of Senator . Carmack, tl. is said that much of the proof in -possession of the BEPOHT OF COMMITTEE ON TENNESSEE MATTER (l!y Leased Wire to The Times) Washington, f i. (., March ?,. -Senator Culberson today submitted in the senate the report from the committee on judiciary, in which the'-' opinions of the .members are expressed in re gard to the Tennessee Coal . & I ron Company merger with .the I'.iHed Stales Steel Corporation. Senator Nelson says in the 'report it was In his opinion a clear viola tion of the anti-trust laws; that it ought not to be tolerated and that the president, was misled in the matter by those who advised liini. Senator Foraker says lie believes the president had no authority' to per mit, the merger. Senator Bacon says the merger was clearly illegal. Senators Culberson, nf Texas, Over man of North Carolina, and Itaynor of Maryland endorse Senator -..Huron's opinion. The president is not condemned in the report, but the effect of the lang uage that ho was wrong in permit ting the absorption and' that the merger was in open violation of the laws. ' THIRTEEN DEAD !N LANDSLIDE (Hy Leased Wire to The Times.) Belluno, Italy, March 3. Thirteen persons are known to have been crushed to-death today In a landslide that struck the village of Tassel. Scores of houses were burled, and It Is I feared the death list will be greatly In i creased. Troops have been' .dispatched to th scene. Straus. stale that . was incompetent in chief has been rendered competent in re buttal by reason of denial by defeud- anls. It, is undtMstood that Ed. Craig, who. ".carried the threats from .Cooper to Carmack,' -will be put in rebuttal to disprove Colonel Cooper's assertion that Craig said Carmack was in "an ugly, 'vicious mood" tha.Jiif&i lii l'ore l lie I ragedy. Miss Daisy jee t Hr.nil'ord's 'stenographer),. Dr. Ru- . fits' Kurt., and possibly Mrs. Eastman will go" on the stand again in rebuttal. II is generally believed now that the argument, which will be unlimited, will begin 'Monday and that in less than a week the case will be over. FURIOUS HAIL STORM STRUCK RALEIGH TODAY Today dawned bright and clear In llaleigh, iiimI up to rioon it promised to he a typical spring one; but shortly after twelve tin- clouds began to gather in the west, Not many minutes had elapsed liefore they became blacker than ink. Several .Hushes of lightning followed by hard peals of thunder, and the storm broke in all its fury. The sihl was a marvelous one,; as the Times' inan beheld it from the win dows of the Murphey graded school. "The winds came and the floods de scended." The hail descended with such fin y t hat it broke Into thousands of pieces as H dashed against the ground. In live minutes the roofs of the houses were .-almost covered and the tempera ture had fallen about 15 degrees, T. nor filled the hearts of the chil dren ill the 'Murphey graded school and il was nut . until Professor Seagle bad persuaded ihein to sing several songs that .they became composed. Pedestrians were seen running in ev ery direction, in search of overcoats and' umbrellas; trccl cars. were, light ed in fact, ii sieitied as If day had suddenly recii tin ned Into night, spring into winter. - Sui b a sight has not been w itnessed in Ualeigh In many years'. The barom eter began to fall at 10 o'clock and the the wind had reached a velocity of 46 iniles an hour by IS: 30.,-" COVINGTON AGAIN VOTES AGAINST SALOONS I Hy Leased Wire to The Times) Covington, Ky., March 3 The lo cal option election held here yester day resulted in a sweeping victory for the temperance advocates for the next two years, the majority against saloons being 88 . ' Two years ago the people voted the saloons out by a majority of less than 50. This time the liquor men peti tioned for nn election, believing they had a chance to win. HOUSE KEEPS UP ITS RECORD FOR BUSY SESSIONS Great Amount of Work Pass es Through Lower Branch of the Legislature MIME'S NEW BILL 'oily-ninth Day's Session of the House of Kepresentatlvee -Met at 10: HO O'clock, Mr. Morton Presid ing Rev. F. M. Hhamburger Led the lVayer Mr. Hinsdale Intro duces Bill to Allow Raleigh to Sell the Market House Many Local Hills Introduced Pension Bill Taken l p and Sent to the Commit Ue on Appropriations Other Matters. The forty-ninth day of the house of representatives, North Carolina gen- . eral assembly, was called to order at 10:30 o'clock by Speaker Pro-tem Morton, and the religious services ' were conducted by Rev. P. M. Sham burger, pastor of Edenton Street Methodist church. The journal was found to be cor rect, and the call for petitions brought out these; By Gavin: Communication from Allen Dale, asking that fines be laid upon net Ashing. By Braswell: From cotton and peanut growers, asking relief from weigher's fees. By Connor: Petition' against the Connor .tobacco warehouse bill. - The committees reported the usual number of bills. One was referred to the "Committee on Pish Traps' just what that Is is still a question. The paint bill formerly killed In agri cultural committee came back with a favorable report. Bills Introduced. By Barnes of Hertford:. To amend law as to Ahoskle township, TO -amend the Hertford primary law. By Albrittion: To allow John A. Exum to collect back taxes. By Majette:. As to roads In Tyr rell. By Foy: To allow commissioners of Pender $3 per day. By Lemniond: To prevent throw ing glass In roads in Union. By Harrison; To amend law as to cotton weigher at Whitakers. By McDewltt: For relief of Enoch Rector, ex-treasurer of Madison county. By Turlington: As to Iredell road law. By Caudlll: To allow commission ers of Vilkes certain compensation. To amend the charter of North Wilkesboro. By Mc Williams: As to small fish in Pamlico Sound. By Connor: To establish line be tween Wayne and Wilson. By Rascoe: To allow Bertie to Is sue $5,000 in bonds. By Hinsdale: To allow Raleigh to sell the market house. By Gordon: To amend the law as to mental defectives. To appropriate funds for state institutions. By Doughtou: Resolution as to pay of committee for handling audit ing reports. By Foy : To amend the charter of Watha, Pender county. By Doughton: To amend the law as to apportionment of school money and pension money. . By Gotten:.;' Resolution as to put ting in Torrens system of records. By Perry of Bladen: Memorial to congress to prevent tariff reduction on lumber and peanuts. On motion of Henderson the special order was displaced and the pension bill taken up. Several minor motions were made and the pension bill went to the ap propriations committee.: The special order came to its place again, and the bill pertaining to pub lie health as pertains to sewerage and water-works, looking to the rights of one party or town as against another party or town, and giving the state board of health power to enforce San ltary laws throughout the state; Mr. Doughton amended by strik ing out 10,000 and making It 6, 000. Mr. Grant moved It go to tne appropriation committee. This was done. '' Tha riAirt nnoelnl nrAnr ttia nntnM. etrv hill, was in ken tin anil ha elarlr read. Dr. Bolton amended by adding that any candidate falling shall haVS his fee returned. This Was' addpted and the bill passed second reading (Continued on Pag Two.)"'1' if r