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r fulfil Weather. emu Washington, March 9 Forecast for North Carolina for tonight and Wednesday: Rain tonight and Wed nesday; colder Wednesday. ESTABLISHED 1876. RALEIGH, N. C, TUESDAY, MARCH 9, 1909. BEICE f CENTS am SECOND EDITION US TOWN SWEPT BY STORM AND FIRE; EIGHT ARE DEAD The Town of Brinkley a Mass of Flames Follow ing Tornado WIRES ARE ALL DOWN .Many Towns In Southwestern Arkan sas Suffer From Storm Last Xight. At Least Eight Persons Are Dead in Town of Brinkley and Perhaps There Are More in Other Places Cotton Belt Trnin Blown From the Truck, or ut Least Lost Somewhere in the Storm One Report Says the Train Was Struck by Lightning. Estimated Bead At 38. (By Leased Wire to The Times.) Memphis, Tenn., March 9.- The estimate of the dead in the tornado which destroyed Brink ley, Ark., last, night is now placed at 38, of which ten are whites. Among the names of white peo ple known dead are: Charles Stovnll, Jr. J. L. Starrett. Porter Foote. Mm Phillips. Mrs. Belle Harden. Charles Frenze. Mr. and Mrs. Hood. Miss Clara Rose. Property loss is estimated . at more than a million dollars. Every business house and all bit six dwellings are totally des stioj'.'dl Little Rock, Ark., March 9 The town of Brinkley, which was swept by a tornado last night, is today a mass of flames. Eight persons are dead, atld several scores of persons have been injured. The reflection fromllhb burning town can be seen In Forest City, twenty miles away. Brinkley is a town of 3,000 inhabi tants and Is the junction point of sev eral Important railroad systems. The tornado swept through west ern, eastern and southern Arkansas yesterday afternoon and night. , Tel egraph wires are down throughout the state and only meagre details have reached here: Two railroad em ployes gave the first details of the situation at Brinkley. Telegrapher T. N. Kirtnell and a Rock Island lineman, Richards, ex tracted themselves from the debris of the Cotton Belt depot and walked to the nearest telegraph station, Whoatloy, and sent in the following: "The town Is blow to atoms, all telegraph and telephone wires are down and tracks are blocked. At least eight persona are dead, among them being Mr. Foote, merchant; Mr. Sterett, and a young lady, daughter of T. W. Bunch, a confectioner. "Fire had started in four places In the city, and when we left was not under control. . "The Arkansas Midland, the Rock Island and the Cotton Belt Railroad depots are among the buildings that were destroyed." At midnight a special train bearing physicians and nurses and fire fight ing apparatus was started from For est City for Brinkley. A Cotton Belt passenger train due in Little Rock at 6:30 o'clock last night. Is lost near Barcum, where a tornado struck, and Is reported to have been swept off the track. Another report Is that the train was struck- by lightning. The tor nado crossed the Arkansas river at Fourche Dam and raised a spout of water about, 200 feet high. The same tornado passed Into Barcum, where the extent of the dam age is unknown and from there to Kerr, in Lonoke county. All the windows In a train between Gurdbn and Restor were blown out. FIRST MEETING TAFT CABINET i .- (By Leased Wli-e to The Times.) Washington,. March 9. The , first meeting pt the Tart cabinet wa held today aid all members eitcopt Dlckln non, of Tennese, secretary of war, wer present. Mr. Wright, secretary of war. In Mr. Roosevelt's cabinet, will occupy Dickinson's chair In Mr. Taft's cabinet Until March 15, when Mr. plk4ivn .will h iwinu in. President Taft After Ceremonies. ..-i.,T;..u... ii. t " rresiih'iit and Mis. Tnit jis they after tlif Inaiiiira! tTivnioiiios at the n i -aa u t .- .. .4 ....... i mnmmH,Mmnlm V. iwumiWh tnWHh, , iPC """" "Pr1 MssisaMMaaaww ifaitiml ( v President Tal't, hk he npitcarcd o 4hi ouMdc balcony if tlm CaplUl in order to milute the threat crowd which lial ttatlien-d and which hud Ihvii difUipiKiinted by reason of the fact that the oath of 'office was ailniiiiisteied in the Senate Chamber because of the blizzard which was racing. CANNON YIELDS (l!y Leased Who to The Times'.) WushtiiKl'in.'. March' !. Seaker .'an- non will 'not have to combat the . lit lllipnre nf I'li-slilent T.ift in his tlirht against the house insurgents. By those who talked to the president this morn ing It was said that he, '"desiring above nil thiiiKK, party hannony, so as to fa ellltale the jiassaKe of the tariff hill, has decided to lend his power and In- flueme to the organization. This nractiVally authoritative state ment of Mr. Tafl's position is full as surance that the insurselits will loe their tiglit, that the rules will not be revised and that the house oriraniza- tlon will keep its power intact. James R Watson, who Is 'conduct ing Mr. Caniioii's IIkIU a gainst the In surgents, called at the white bouse this morning and announced at o'clock thbf evcnlni he and Mr. Tal't will meet to talk over the genera! situa tion. MANY MEN GO BACK TO WORK (By Leased. .Wire to The Tlines.) Chicago, March 8. Seven hundred men have been hired In the past two days by the Illinois Steel Company nt South Chlcngo. They had been In IdlcheKs for several nionths. ite-open-lilfi of two plate mills, occasioned by tho receipt of large orders was the the reason "given by the'cotnimny offi cials for the new signs of Industry. The rail mills at Gary, Ind., are hiring ''men at the rate of fifty a day, it Is declar ed by the officials' of the Steel Com pany?. It tt'as announced also that the force of 2,500 men now In Idleness In the town of Hegewlsch, due to the closing down of the Western Steel Car "company, would be re-employed In a couple of months. The' plant has been closed several months. GKORGK T. OLIVK TO SI CCEED KKN ATOR KNOX. (By leased Wire to The Times.) Harrlsburg. Pa., March 9 George T.. Oliver, of Plttnbnrg, was nominat ed today as the republican candidate for United States senator to succeed P. C. Knox, by -the . joint cauctiB ol the aenato nod tiousoi TO ORGANIZATION wore r'(uriiini; to tin White House Cuoitol. TAFT IN ABOUT (Ry. 'Leased Wire to The Times) Washing! on, .March : 9. Prcslncnt Taft has .run up against the greatest trouble of his new Job. Today two powerful Intluences are being exerted upon him, one by the regulars in con gress and the other by the insurgents; one fighting in. the 'interests 'of "Speak-1 ei- Cannon and the other against him. The Cannon light over the retention of the present speaker of the house and his set of iron-clad rules has pre cipitated a wire-pulling wrangle with President Taft as the central figure. Todity the new president was visited by delegations from both camps but so far he has given no expression. In deed, from the '-attitude of President Taft it would seem that lie intends letting the Interested parties tight it out among themselves. HAINS CASE TO BE POSTPONED (By 1nscd Wire to The Times.) '.New York, March 9. Counsel for Captain Peter C. llains, accused of the murder -.of William K. Annls, at the Buyslde Yacht Club last August, have practically decided not to ask for n commission in lunacy. The attorneys, John F. Mclntyre und Joseph A. Shay, In conference today, 'determined to pe tition to Justice Oarrelson, of Flushing when the case Is called tomorrow, not to set u dale for trial, us they need more time. FARMER KILLS TWO OFFICERS (By Leased Wire to The Times.) Seneca, S. C March 9. Deputy Unit ed States Marshal W. B. F. Corbili and his brother, while trying to arrest J. B. Palmer, a farmer. 10 miles south of here, charged with "shooting up" a rural delivery mail box, were botn shot and Instantly killed. The officers Fleers 'aim were fired on in the yard about Palm TANGLE CANNON FINAL SESSION CLOSED AT TWO O'CLOCK TODAY The Legislature is Over After Fifty -Four Days in Session THE CLOSING SCENtS I'he House, After .iisy Night Session, (iot to Work Karly This Morning Several Bills 'Come I'p But the Ma jority of Them Are Killed Bill to Protect Business Names Tabled Bill to Give Liverymen a 'Lien.' on Live Stock Also Pound Its Way to the Table Bill to Provide For the Auditing of the Accounts of the Departments Also Killed. The fifty-fourth day of the house of representatives was called to order at. 950 by Speaker Graham and Rep resentative Wallace, of Carteret county, lead the morning devotions. The journal of Monday's session was reported as correctly recorded. There was a bare quorum when the calendar was taken up and the fol lowing business was transacted: To punish for the cutting timber on the state's lands. The bill to protect business names; tabled. To buy a mace for sergeant at arms; tabled. Tho bill to give liverymen a linn on live stock boarded found its way under the table. As to appeals from justices' courts passed. To provide auditing the depart ments' accounts ; tabled. To regulate settlements of assign ors, repealing the preferred reditor clause and hedging, abottt the settle- -nim--of,Biiciirial.-;'':-'''''- The bill to punish for assault with intent to kill, which was killed last right, was called up, but failed to get out of graveyard. To provide sanitary conditions for jails; tabled. Prescribing the duties and powers of notaries; tabled. To establish registered forests, by Senator Pharr, was inglorlously tabled. To regulate road overseers in Robeson county; passed. To penalize banks for organizing with less than J5.000. The bill to require stockholders' meeting to keep polls open for one hour met untimely death. To elect trustees of sanitarium for tuberculosis: passed. v To provide machinery for caring for epileptics at Central Hospital passed. To extend the colleotion of taxes under the revenue act on account of the oil inspection; passed, v To amend the divorce law's; tabled. To provide a school district in Cumberland schools ; passed. To provide a school district In Wake and 'Chatham; passed. To amend tax collecting laws of Northampton: passed. To allow payment of certain claims out of Randolph school funds; passed. To relieve a senate laborer; passed To amend Wilmington election law; passed. To regulate hunting foxes in Wayne county; passed. To prevent hunting in Grove town ship, Harnett, without permission; passed. To establish a school dial riot In Wilkes; tabled. For relief of one Gaskins, in Pitt county, a pensioner, tabled. To appoint .1. A. Mltchener a mem ber of the Wyatt memorial commit tee; passed. To allow counties to have graded survey maps made ;tabled. Joint resolution to capltol; passed. To regulate making civil court cal endar in Buncombe; tabled, To establish a recorder's court for Klnston and to elect police; killed. To debar a wife from dower In es tate if she lives five years apart from her husband after tender of reconcil iation; passed. To make a stock law In Lee; tabled. The bill of Senator KlutU to estab lish a highway commission and ap proprlatlng $5,000 for road surveys in assisting counties by furnishing engineers passed. The bill for passing upon Insurance department securities and safe keep Inf the same passed. To appoint a water course com mission for Cabarrus; tabled. To allow two years for filing suits (Continued. o faga Bight. , ANOTHER GREAT CRUSH CROWDS CRIMINAL COURT Crowds Began to Gather As Early As Four O'clock to Get Seats IRIAL NEARLY OVER There Was the Greatest Crush Vet Seen This Morning as Sixt'tators Made a Wild Hush to Secure Scats in the Criminal Court Building and Hear Further Argument of Coun sel in the Case of Colonel Duncan B. Cooper and His Son Robin and Former .Sheriff John 1). Sharp Lawyers Make .Splendid Arguments In the Noted Murder Trial Today. (By Leased Wire to The Times) Criminal Court Room. Nashville, Tenn., March 9 Another great crush was In evidence this - :morning and there was another wild rush on the part of the spectators to get seats in criminal court building and hear fur ther argument of counsel in the case of Colonel Duncan B. Cooper, his son Robin Cooper and former Sheriff John D. Sharp, on trial for the al leged murder of former Senator Ed ward W. Carmack. The defense was to have its first presentation today and as a result, friends of the defendants were keen ly interested and an unusually large number of them were in attendance. The court officers are authority for the statement that the crowd began assembling at the court house as early as 4 o'clock this morning. It Is generally believed that General Meeks will consume all of the morn ing session today for the defense and that General J. B, Garner, the bril Maut -young prosecuting ; attj rnoy from Lawrenceburg, Tenn., will take up the afternoon session. Unusual Interest is manifest In the speech of General Garner, as he has quite a reputation as an orator, as well as prosecuting officer. General Meeks represents John D. Sharp. Tomorrow General W. H. Wash ington will speak for the defense and Judge J. M. Anderson will close for the defense during tomorrow after noon. General McCarn will close for the state on Thursday morning and the case will go to the jury on Thurs day In all probability. -General M. H. Meeks opened at 9:20 o'clock with the first speech for the defense. He started out by mak ing a bitter attack on Captain G. T. Fitzhugh, who spoke yesterday for the state, General Mneks declared that he was going to quit speaking when he was through. He referred to Captain Fitzhugh's method of handling Colonel Cooper on the stand and said Captain Fitihugh showed he had inherited some of the malignity of the law suit. He declar ed that Captain Fitzhugh ought not to think that all men who gambled ver.e bad men. This reference was based on the detail of Colonel Cooper to Captain Fitzhugh when the latter in cross-examining Colonel Cooper asked the colonel if lie hud hot gam bled a good deal and for large stakes, Colonel Cooper had ''replied. "Yes, just as you have," General Meeks said the state had sought to expose Colonel .-Cooper whether they could convict him or not. He con sumed quite a portion of the' begin ning of his speech In explaining mat tern Captain Fitzhugh had gone into on yesterday. General Meeks spoke in a low tone of voice and 11 was with difficulty that he was heard in all parts of the court room. This was particularly true of the first 'part, of his speech. He said Senator Car mack a a "great Journalist" was preserving the liberty ol the press. He admitted this was great, "but when any man converts this liberty Into an engine to defame he becomes an enemy to society," declared Gen eral Meeks: "There Is not anything under God Almighty's sun that Is more offensive and Indecent, than such a practice General Meeks asked what signifi cance there was as to whether the bullet worked out or not; that it had nothing to do with the merits of the case. : That Robin Cooper was shot twice was proven and the defense was go lng to prove that Senator Carmack fired the shots. General Meeks said he did not believe there was a more honest witness during the lawsuit than S. J. Bennlngs. This is the wit ness the state has had arrested for perjury.' General Meeks said the state had , .Continued on Eg Two.l MATTER OF THE APPOINTMENTS FOR THE SOUTH 8 Sewell Appointment and Others Are Being Agi tated by Southerners TAFT WANTS TO PLEASE The President's Policy Toward the South Attracting Georgians, Ala bnniiaiis, and .Misissippians, Who Have Been Streaming to the White House the Last Two Days, Holding Whatever Conferences That Were Possible With President Taft The Matter of Appointment of Sewell Also a Subject For Discussion by the Tar Heels. (By Leased Wire to The Times) Washington, March 9 Georgians, Alabamians, and Missfssippluns have been streaming to the white house the last two days, holding whatever conferences were found possible with President Tal't about his plans for the south. As 'yot the meetings have been cut short, necessarily by the large crowdB waiting to see the president, but more conferences are to be held and within the next week or fen days some im portant announcements are coming from the white house about the new president's policy toward the south. With the killing of the old referee system the new chief executive has paved the way for getting in closer touch with the leaders in politics of air the hopelessly democratic states, :ind he has confided to his closest friends that the appointments are going to suit the best people. As one Tennessean . expressed It, politicians are not going to be so much In evi dence. - The republicans of Georgia are the first of the southerners who have come to the front with a reorganiza tion plan for getting the president in closer touch with the people of their state. Representatives from forty or fifty Georgia counties were in Wash ington during the inauguration, and they held meetings, outlined plans, and have returned home ready to wage the campaign After the deliberations the mem bers of the Georgia clubs went to call on the president and he had a good word for them nil. Another body of men Interested In appointments in the south are the Alabamlans who have called at the white house. They want to know what, the president is going to do about reappointing Oscar R. Hund ley, judge, of the northern Alabama circuit. Iteprcii' it've Oscar I'nder- wood, of the Birmingham district, was a culler at the executive offices yesterday and he asked the president, in behalf of the Alabama Bar Asso ciation to postpone action uutir'ufter .March Ki. By that time, it. Is thought, the Alabama", lawyers will send an other delegation to Washington to protest. Who -will "succeed the late Judge Purucll. of the eastern district of North Carolina, is the question Tar Heel democrats and - republicans are asking. President Roosevelt named If. F. Seawell. of Carthage, despite the protests of hundreds of republi cans,' and It is being wondered if the new president will uphold this 'selec tion.'- The senate has set its foot down on Mr. Seawell, and it is not thought be will ho confirmed. FIRE FATAL SHOT (By Leased Wire to The Times) New York. March 9 The startling contention of the defense in the trial of John C.t Lumsden, charged with killing Harry B. Suydani, the curb broker, that the fatal shot was not fired bv the prisoner, was unexnected ly strengthened today In the court of general sessions, when a witness for the prosecution. Policeman Dibel, tes. titled that Lumsden had dented his guilt immediately arter tne tragedy Circle No. 1 To Meet. , Circle No. 1 of Edentnn Street church will meet with Mrs. J. W. Kvans on New Kern avenue, tomorrow afternoon at four g'c-luck, .. . LUMSDENDIDNT SENATE SPENDS MORNING HOURS VERY LEISURELY Calendar Exhausted Early and Members Have Good ' . Time at the Close CLOSED AT TWO O'CLOCK A ' The Senate Hasi Very Eay Time of it Today Catches l'i With the Calendar Early inv the Day and Ad journ From TimeVo Time Joint Resolution to Adjourn at , Two O'clock Passes Several Bills Pass Final Reading Bill Prevent Trespassing on the Grounds of the Central Hospital at Ralcigft Passes Third Beading. V The senate met at 9:30, with Presi dent Newland in the chair. Dr. W. C. Ul LUC A' 11 Ol- J.UJJLIU. .UJIVU , V' U the senate In Prayer. Passed Their Final Reading. H, B. To prohibit sale of wine and cider within two miles of Hopewell church, Sampson county. H. B. Relative to small fish In Pamlico Sound. H. B. To allow foreign executors to convey land in this state without giving bond. , H. B. To amend law relative to providing for mental defectives of the state. . -'- - ' H. D. To enlarge state hospital for t.hu '..dangerous insane. The calendar being exhausted at this point the senate took a recess for 80 minutes. . . At 11: 30 business was resumed. me following bins passed their final reading: , , , H. B. An act supplemental to an act to protect the Integrity of the bal lot-box in New Hanover. H. B. To prevent trespassing on the grounds of the Central Hospital, at Raleigh. H. R. A joint resolution that the general assembly do adjourn today at 2 o'clock, sine die. Senator Dockery sent forward bis sentiments, as follows; Here's cheers for the good . we've done, Here's tears that the race Is run. Here's happiness from sun to sun, Here's long life and luck to every ' - - one." The toast was received with ap plause. Senator Jones sent forward a reso lution for the protection of "bull frogs that jump from bank to bank. on the banks of the Pasquotank. The resolution was adopted and sent by Senator Spence as a special mes senger to the house. Senator Kluttz sent forward a res olution tendering thanks to the ex cellent and gentlemanly crew of lob byists this session has produced. A resolution from the house, intro duced by Representative Morton, pro vided that twenty-three persons might constitute a corporation for the own ing and operating of a water-wagon, said water-wagon to he "a common earlier, equipped -with electric head lighls. ...'air-brakes, and mileage books to he accepted on board. It also pro vided that if any person fall from the waterwagon his case shall be Investi gated by the corporation commis sion or the Audubon Society; Hills Tabled. The following bills were tabled by the senate: : , II. li. To amend section 3083 of the Revisal, relative to a woman be ing debarred of dower In the event she abandons her husband and lives separate and apart from him for five years after written tender of reconcil iation and the offer of support. H. B. To regulate the writing of deeds. ; H. B. To provide for commis sioners to establish a line between Wilson and Wayne counties. H. R. Joint resolution In refer ence to a statue of Governor Vance to be placed In Statuary Hall, Wash ington. The senate indulged in much sing ing and pleasantry of all kltyls. While waiting on the clerks to enroll the bills for ratification the majority of the senators went to the house and joined In the singing there. , i Twenty-seven senators answered the last roll call and were duly pro nounced "honor members." i . Senator Bassett ghowered high praise on Senator Z. V. Long, ot Ire J (Continued on Pafa-?wo.i ' .: ' I ' PT?TMT i'"' .1vt: '''
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