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Weather. mm Washington, April 10 Forecast for North. Carolina for, tonight and Sunday; Continued cool tonight -with frost. Sunday, fair warmer. ESTABLISHED 1871. RALEIGH, N. C, SATURDAY, APRIL 10, 1909. PRICE I dSTTS BZCOnD. , , EDITION I r.amrMM l$.SAf$i IS ACQUITTED OF She is Now at the Home of Her Mother Resting After Gonial GIVES OUT STATEMENT Says Duy of .Acquittal Was a (iood Friday For Hei Tells AImuiI. the Shooting of Her Husband S:iys " She Was Up Stairs Doing Some household Work When lie Was Shot Harry Had Been Quarreling and Shu Had Gone Up Stairs at Her Father's Request Snys She is In nocent of Any Wrong in (ounce , tion With Hit Husband s Heath. (By Leased Wire to The Tltms) Macedon, N. Y., April 10 - Mrs. Georgia Allyn Sampson, acquitted last night of -the' murder of her hus band, Harry Sampson, nephew of the late admiral, is today with her fam ily at the Allyn home here. Her mother, who had been dangerously ill, has been given renewed strength by the acquittal of her daughter. Today Mrs. Sampson made this full statement to the Hearst News Serv ice: '.''.;' "It hat indeed been a Good Fri day for me. " God only knows what I have suffered, but I stood it. for my father's and mother's sake. I am young and they are old and I was -willing to bear it. If father had given in at all, I would have droprted too. . "Dear, dear father; I never knew before what a father's love means. I knew I would be acquitted when the trial came, and I was contented to wait. ."' '.'' ' ; '''- ' "Where was I when my husband was shot? Well, I will tell you all I can. On Saturday before Harry's death I had been to Rochester all the afternoon. When I came home I left ray good clothes in the east room up stairs. "I came down in the morning and Harry was still wrangling. I was ex cited and don't remember what was said. Father told me to go up stairs and keep still. I was hurt and went away. "I first went into the east rooni up stairs and stood by the window. I saw father drive out of the yard. Then I went Into the front room and tidied up' something there. It was there that I heard the outcry. It was about 8 o'clock. I ran down stairs as fast us I could and saw Harry lying on the floor.. He could not speak to me. You know the rest. "I am innocent of any wrong In connection with my husband's death. I never wronged Harry in my life. "I slaved for him, raised chickens to help him, raked hay will him to save expenses and I loved him more than my life. Hls'inemory is us dear to me today as anything I have left on earth. I believed that I would he acquitted of my husband's death un til Mrs. Hamilton Instilled at. the in quest and overyone pointed at me. I am afraid of a gun. "In conclusion please let me say that tho reports that I was disloyal to my husband are not true." WOMEN A It 12 HOPKITL. Chicago Delegation Now Looking to the Senate For Kelief From Hosiery Tax. . ' Washington, April 10 Mrs. E.;M: Henderson, head of the delegation of Chicago women now in Washington to "fix" the duties on women's wear ing apparel, was mildly enthusiastic when seen last night. The fair lob byists had a strenuous day of it. The delegation is undaunted by the rebuffs It has met. The delegates from Chicago also are disappointed at the attitude of Representative Mann, who refused to espouse their cause. "We could have Wished otherwise from a Chicago man," said Mrs. Hen derson. "We had also wished to have the house consider the hosiery schedule separately, as they did lum lier and hides. As It Is now, we must place our remaining hope In the sen ate and In the conferees." . In lured in Collision. Philadelphia, April 10 Craig Lip- nlncott and wife, leaders of Phlla delphia's "400", were severely in jured early today when their auto mobile collided with a hospital am bulance. Mr. Llpnlncott suffered from the nervous ihock and is under MURDER CHARut (he aura ot utyalcUns. . . i Mrs. Sampson. This is u sketch by Artist 1'iigsley oi Mrs. Sa projsit'ss of lice trial at Lyons, New York. DEATH OF THE (By Cable to The Times) London, April 10 Algernon Chas. Swinburne, the poet, died today. Mr. Swinburne was seventy-two years old. He has been ill of pnuemouia for four days. : He celebrated his 7 2nd birth day on Monday by taking a six mile walk and did not complain of being ill until the following day. The entire Swinburne household, including Theodore Watts Dunston, the poet had been ill of influenza and later Mr, Swinburne himself contract ed the disease On account of his ad vanced years he could not fight off the ill effects and grew rapidly worse. Mr.-Watts Dunston Is now recovering but the shock of his friend's death may prove serious. J Swinburne, the essayist, poet and friend of all the latter day litern- tuers, has occupied a unique place in the ago of Victorian literature. For fifty years his pen had been busy and some of his poems are accounted among the most beautiful in tho Eng lish language.: Illy Leased Wire to .'Tho Times) Columbia, S. C April 10 A plot of tnin wreckers was responsible for tho injury of eight persons today when the New York & Florida Limi ted on the Seaboard Air Lino crashed Into an open switch at Hick's station, 40 miles south of here. Of flclals of the road issued a statement saying that tho switch had been tam pered with and thnt this was the cause of the accident. Railroad de tectives have been hurried to Hick's station. OPKKATOKM HKGIX WAR. Reduce Wages at Mount Lookout Cnllinir For Certain Hindu of '.'Work. ' W'ilkesbarre, April 10 Tho opera tors have ul ready begun the war on the miners as Indicated by the action of the Mount Lookout colliery ot the Temple Coal and Iron Company in reducing the yardage price on certain kinds of work from $2.75 to $2.00 The miners at the Westmoreland col liery complain that they are being furnished with an inferior grade of powder which does not allow them to POET SWINBURNE SEABOARD TRAIN OPEN SWITCH do at much work as they formerly ac comullshetL . , , , i , .-, . PROVISIONS OF FRENCHTRE4TYAS TO EXTRADITION Citizens of Either Country Will Not Be Delivered to the Oilier FOUGHT FOR BY FRANCE This Provision is the Result of Highly I cars Diplomatic Fighting on the Part of France In All That Time France Has Never Surrendered a (Tiininal to the I'nited Stall's, Hav ing Refused on the Ground That the Men Had Committed A'o Crime In .Their Own Country Neither Has She Asked This County to He liver I p One of Her Citi.ens. 'P.v Leased Wire to The Times.) Washington. April 10 A new ar ticle has been added to the extradi tion treaty between the United Slates and France, just ratified by the sen ate. It provides that neither of the contracting parties shall be bound to deliver up its own citizens or subjects under the stipulations. This is the result of eighty years of diplomatic fighttng on the part of the French re public. In that length of time France has never surrendered a criminal to the United States, having refused in every instance on the ground that these men had committed no crime in their own country. The digests of the state department show a number of opinions of noted French jurists, In which they say France regards her extradition treaty with this country as not containing an obligation on each of the contracting parties to de liver its own subjects to each other. The United States has never been called on by the French government to surrender a fugitive. France has always refused to surrender one. One of the more recent cases was that of Paul Roy, who, it was charged, committed murder in New Hamp shire and fled to France. The United States applied for extradition and was refused, but the French govern ment announced that If the papers in the case were forwarded to Paris, the man would be tried in that country. The question asked by the state de partment is, how will this new article affect a naturalized citizen. M. Jesserand, the French ambassa-' dor, todav declined to discuss the ex tradition treaty or any of Us features in any way. NEGRO KILLED BY MOB OF WHITES (15y Leased Wire to The. Times) Shellnian, da., April 10 A mob consisting of at least four white men, unmasked, entered the home of Al fred Iverson, a negro, who lived about six miles north of Shellnian, and killed him. A negro woman and a small boy escaped from the house at the party approached. No reason has been suggested for the outrage and there Is nothing that would lead to the identity of the men. It Is not believed, however, that they are from this immediate section or they would undoubtedly have been recognized by the woman, who says she never saw them before. A scrap of a Bkull cap saturated with blood and with tufts of a white man's hair attached to it, were found near a pool of blood In a part of the house some distance from where the negro's body was found. This fact has raised the question of whether Iverson wounded or killed one of his assailants before he himself was cut down. SKVEN MINERS KILLED IN EXPLOSION LV MINE (By Leased Wire to The Times) Wlndbcr, Pa., April 10 Seven miners' lost their lives In an explos ion at mine No. 37 of the Berwlnd- Whlte Coal Company last nigh. All the dead have been recovered today according to Mine Inspector Blower, By a strange turn of fate among the miners caught in the death-dealing blast were four members of one family, a father and his three sons One of the boys, William Gibson, and his father Michael Gibson, are among the dead. Richard and James Gib son, the other two ions, made their escape. TARIFF BILL IS TAKEN UP IN THE SENATE TODAY Two Thousand Copies of Bill Ordered Printed for Use oi Senate A MONSTtB PETITION Petition From Illinois Signed by 2."i), OOO Citizens Protesting 'Against Increase in Kates on Leather (,oods mid Cotton Hosiery, Present eel bv Senator ( nlloin Senator llailey Offers An Amendment to the Cen sus Hill to Provide For the Ap pointment of Census Kmploycs by Noncompetitive Kxaininntion Said Civil Service Would llecoine Life-Tenure Office Holding ( lass. (By I.ea::- d Wire to The Tillies) Washington, April 10 Immedi ately ufteivthu senate convened todav Chief Clerk Browning, of the house, presented the tariff bill to the sen ate. Upon motion of Senator Aldrich it was laid before the senate and 2,000 copies ordered printed. Senator Cnllom "presented a peti tion signed by 2"0,000 citizens of Illinois, protesting against the in creased rates in the tariff bill on leather goods and cotton hosiery. It was referred to the committee on finance. After the committee amendments of tho census bill had been adopted by the senate today Senator Bailey offered an amendment to strike out section 7 of the. bill placing all the employes of thev census office under civil service 5inS to substitute section 7 of the old bill, which provided for the appointments of the employers by non-competitive examination to be prescribed by , the director of the cen sus. Senator Bailey made an earn est argument .-.against the civil serv ice law. lie said the civil service would eventuate into a life tenure office and offlceholUing class which in the end would mean a civil pension list. He denounced the system as a sham and a humbug and explained how the law could bo suspended by tho president to appoint someone who could not pass examination. Senator Baker interrupted to say that he did not believe there is any provision in tho.-law that warranted the president to suspend it, but the records showed that President. Roose velt had caused to law to be sus pended 315 times. Senator Bailey contended that men qualified and fully as competent hud been nppoint- d to office under the old system, lit had been reported, he said, that the president would veto this bill if the change was not made regarding the appointments in the census office. If ny attempt, were made by threats or persuasion to Influence legislation the records of 'the past seven years would be a holiday to what the next four years will be. He paid a tribute to President Taft's work as governor of the Philippines, where his word was the law of the land and also the pres ident's work as secretary of war in control of the Panama Canal. He urged the senators to stand by their records made on the passage of the census bill that had been vetoed by President Roosevelt because cong ress bad seen lit to place the power of niipoitnment in the census office under -the jurisdiction of-the direc tor... . ;i:i:kal booth's birthday. Founder of Salvation Army Is 80 Years Old Today. (By Cable to The Times) London, April 10 General WII Ham Booth, founder of the Salvation Army, Is SO years old today. His birthday was celebrated the most fit ting occasion for the army to lauch a. new philanthropic scheme- the founding of the University of Hu manity, a school of training for those who desire to engage in the work of social reform which Is being carried on by General Booth and his lieuten ants all over the world. There are S.300 cities In which posts of the Sal vation Army have been established and commemoratory exercises ure be lng held today In which prominent men and women of all creeds and religions joined. ReturniniK Krfem Ilarbndoes. New York, April 10 Among the southerners registered at New ,York hotels, today are Messrs C. B. Bar bee and B. S. Jerman, of Raleigh, N. C, who are coming home from the Barbadoea, . , "Dick' 9 Croker j- . .rW :- ..m'siM WMTVIMrtmiMmmm tSt Jim V 1 Richard Croker, who Is said to be In the politics of greater Xew York in Young Bride Won't Live The case of the Slate vs. Cicero Sheai in, a young, .man of Wake For est, charged with perjury, was tried i today before .'Justice' Separk. It seems that. Sliearin, who is an em ploye of the Royal Cotton Mills of Wake Forest, desired to unite liim- self with Miss Flora Cone, also an employe of the Royall Cotton. .'Mills, in the holy bonds of matrimony. Ac cording to his story he courted Miss flora assiduously for three weeks. gained her consent, raised the neces sary $3.t0 and came to Ualvigh for the license, in a preliminary conver sation with Hon. V. H. Sawyer, dep uty register of deeds, young. Shearin luted that his bride-to-be was is years old. In fact, he swore that she was IS years old. He'' got 'the papers, went home, rounded up his - iniinmo- rata and married her at. the home of quire Caddell. 'The. lady then re fused to livo with him and went home lo her ..mother.'. . Mother and Father Cone wore angry when they heard ot the .occur rence.-. They put their heads together and figured out that. Flora' was slill on the sunny side of 1 S and ' 'quickly came to the conclusion that some-one ad lied. Mr. Cone canie lo (tnlelglr, examined the books of the .registrar. Hid employed lawyers. Messrs Hold ing & Buna were retained lo prose cute young Shearin. Shearin also gut busy and leiu- ployed two lawyers Messrs. K. W. Timberlake, of Wake Forest, and TAFT PLEASED WITH TARIFF (By Leased Wire to The Times) Washington, April 10 Members of congress who called on President Tat't. today received his commendation for the expedition with which the tariff bill was passed. Speaker Cannon and Representatives Payne niiib Dwlght were, .'among the first. They said upon leaving that they believed "the president is highly gratified .with the bill and the manner in which it was handled." Youth Kills Sweetheart. El Paso, Tex., April 10 In the busiest street of El Paso, Clay Rnt cllffe last night shot and killed Blanche Atkinson, 17 years old, be cause she had broken her engagement to marry him. . When a crowd that witnessed the tragedy sought to cupr ture hint be killed himself. ' Again to Rule 1 looking forward to resume lus place control of Tiinimuny Hull. Chiis. 1'. Harris, of Raleigh. The case came to trial today at noon, be fore Judge Separk. Tlie bride was the most interesting witness. She is a very pretty youne woman., plenty large enought to be is. but lacking somewhat in intelli gence. She did not seem to realize what she had done. When asked by Attorney-Harris if she knew what it meant to he married to a man, she was not certain. She said she mar ried Sliearin because Bhe was "per suaded by Shearin, June Husky, and Hetly Frauier", . She was asked If she did not un derstand and answer the questions Squire Caddell asked her. . . . "1 just nodded my head and said uh-hiih,": she said. In answer to other questions she said : - "Live with him?" (pointing at the defendant, who by the way, Is a niight'y', in:(ignificant-looking chap), "No. 1 waii'f going to live with him." "Why? i don't love him, that's why. Yes. I promised him just once. 1 wanted to be free. But I knowed my mamma wouldn't let me live Willi that ugly thing." She furnished a good deal of amusement to the little crowd pres eut. I he case was stopped by the consent' -of all', parties'. Shearin be ing placed under a bond for good be- iiiiylour and lor. his appearance at the July term .of court. An action will be brought' to 'annul the mar ruige,- -.'.-. ISvHAINSMAY BE A WITNESS Illy Leased Wire to The Times) New York, .April 10. District Attor ney Fled C. Dewltt, of Queens county and .Detective Lieutenant Butler, his chief of detectives, left for Boston this nftenoon to have a conference with .Mrs. riaudla Llbbey Hains, wife of I'aptalu Peter Conover Halns, in prep aration for the trial of Captain Hains next week for the murder of William K. Annis. It was said at District At loniey Pewltt's office that Mrs. Halns would almost certainly be at tho trial ami in all probability she would be a witness. . Ilaby Scalded by Coffee. ( By Leased Wire to The Times) Bridgeport, O., April 10 Two-year old son of Adam Moser, of Oaylord was scalded to death by hot coffee at the breakfast table today.' TOBEARBURDi DF TAXATION IS THE BEST TEST ' ' : '.-;. ;; Of the People's Interest en Faith in Education, Says Superintendent Joyncr EDUCATIONAL GROWTU Nothing So Clearly Indicates the Inv (reusing Interest and Abiding ' Faith of the People of North Caro Una in the Education of AH Their ' Children as the Growth of Local Taxation in the State Since lftOO A Larger Number of Local Tax Districts Established in 1908 Than Evit Before. . - The Times man interviewed State Superintendent Joyner on matters ' connected with the conduct,of his de partment and asked for his views on the educational progress and growth, of local taxation in North Carolina Mr. Joyner said: "The best test of the people's in terest and faith in education in their willingness to bear the necessary bur ' den of taxation to provide it.' Noth ing so cleat ly indicates the increasing interest and abiding faith of the peo pie of North Carolina in the educa-i tion of all their children - as th growth of local taaxtion in the state since 1900. In 1900 there were only eighteen local tax districts in the en tire state and all of these were In the cities and larger towns. In 1809 there are 767 such districts, inolud i . .i. nn - a'- f.'. ' mg uii nit) ciLitju, larger lown, mosi of the villages and at least five or sis hundred distinctly rural communities.; The people in these ocal tax districts) have voluntarily voted upon them selves an additional school tax ot , from fifteen to fifty cents on, the hun dred dollars valuation: of property and corresponding amounts on the poll, to be added to the funds recelr ed from the regular state and county tax for schools ' to Improve and lengthen the term of their local tax districts are to be found in all : counties of the state except seven, ' from one to thirty-five in each coun ty. $650,739.40 was raised in these districts: by local taaxtion for school purposes during the last school year, about one-fifth of the total school fund, an increase of $104,607.00 over the amount raised by local taxation the preceding year. It Ts remarkable that notwlth , standing the financial depression dur ing the past year there has been an increase of intercut In local taxation, indicated by the establishment of one . hundred and forty-six local tax dls trists during the year, a larger num ber than has ever been established during any preceding year. "Reports from various county su perintendents, all of whom have not yet been heard from, show that else tions for 'local taxation and the estab lishment of local tax districts will be held in fifty-four districts before the first Monday in June, 199, so as to -have the tax levied. If voted, at that time and make it available for the next school year. "The solution of the problem of lengthening the school terms, In creasing salaries, Improving equip ment and providing such educational facilities as this age demands Is to be found in supplementing the funds provided by state and county by local taxation. The facts and figures show that our people are solving this prob lem and are learning that they are not too poor to educate their chil dren, but that they are too poor not to educate them and that they can hope to increase prosperity and wealth only by educating them. The people of North Carolina are making more sacrifices today and bearing a heavier burden of taxation, in propor tion to their wealth, for the education of their children than the people of Massachusetts or New York, or per haps of any other state." Colonel Roosevelt At Sues. ',1 S i" (By Cable to The Times) , Port Said, April 10 The steamer Admiral with Colonel Theodore Roosevelt and his party aboard, left here at ten minutes before 8 ' this , morning for Suez. Mr. Roosevelt Waa entertained last night at dinner at the Suez Canal Company residence. Af ter leaving Sues the Admiral Will touch at Aden. Mr. Roosevelt evi denced the keenest interest; In that portion of the Journey, which leads' through the Sues Canal but refund! to taCk for publication, -.' - , .1. Li
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