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t Weather. Washington, April 13 Fore cast for North Carolina for to night and Wednesday ; ' Rain tonight, cooler in the west. ESTABLISHED 1871. RALEIGH, N. C, TUESDAY, APRIL 13, 1909. PRICE I CENTS 7TV I SECOND. . I fWf f ttliU IlliWl EDITION liio BILL ' t, ;-i i';-. r' ;-: 'v f: . . " Senator Aldrich at Work On Statement to Be Made Public Thursday MORE THAN PAYNE BILL Experts in the Treasury Also Busily Engaged in Figuring on the New Rates of Duty Believed That Where Duties Have Been Reduced the Revenue Will be larger Be cause of Increased Consumption Senate Changes Will Give Several Millions More Revenue Than the Schedules of the Payne Bill. (By Leased Wire to The Times) Washington, April 13 Senator Aldrich is at work on a statement to be made public Thursday, giving somewhat in detail the estimated revenue that the Payne tariff bill, as amended by the senate finance com mittee will produce. Experts in the treasury have been busily engaged for several days figuring on the new rates of duty and allowing for in creased importations under the re duced rates on many articles of daily consumption The record shows that where duties have been reduced the revenues increased because of larger consumption. The opinion is express ed that the changes made in the Payne bill will give quite a few mil lion dollars to the revenue from cus toms over what was estimated by Chairman Payne. The increased duties on foreign wines and champagnes, it is estimat ed, vwill not decrease the importation of these articles. It did not do it -when the rates were increased by the Dingley act. The figures show a steady Increase In consumption of foreign liquors due to the growth of the country. It is hinted that the duty on foreign champagnes was in creased to protect the American man ufacturers of that beverage. . BONDS FOR LIGHTS. Wake Forests Casts Nearly Solid Vote For Bond Issue. (Special to The Times) Wake Forest, April 13 At the election held yesterday to vote on the question of issuing bonds, the limit being $16, 000, for the establishment of an electric light plant for the col lege and town, there was only one vote in opposition, and the plan will he ready at the opening of next ses sion. The studens were jubilant last night when news was received of the victory at Greensboro, and immedi ately . began a celebration which .lasted until 12 o'clock. Bonfires Iblazed and college songs and yells .were heard on the campus and the streets. A number of the faculty were called ou at their residences for speeches. All are planning to give the debators a royal reception on their return on the afternoon train. CASTRO MAY LAND IN SPAIN. French Government Does Not Regard Him As a Prisoner. V (By Cable to The Times) Paris, April 13 The French gov ernment does not regard Cipriano Castvo as In any sense a prisoner. Should Castro come to St. Nazair the government has no intention of Tno lestlng him unless he tries to foment public disorder. It is believer, how ever, that Castro wlll'leave the steam er at San Ander, Spain, on April 22. Kenora Castro Can't Land, iWilleniBtad, Curacao, April 13 i Castro, wife of the ex-presldont of Venezuela, who has bee a refused ad mittance into Venezuela, will con tinue to Colon. DAUGHTERS OF CONFEDERACY. Regular ', Meeting Thursday After v noon Instead of Wednesday. The Johnson-Pettlgrew Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confed eracy will hold their regular' meet ing on Thursday afternoof( Instead Wednesday) at 4:30, at the home of Mrs. C. C. Baker, on Polk street. Central Ep worth League. The devotlonaliineetlng of the Ep worth League of Central Methodist church will meet tonight , at 8:00 o'clock In charge of Miss Gertrude Royster. The subject of the evening will be, 'Comforted by the Risen "Barlor". 1 This la an Easter subject ' ymd the public 1 invited. . V TRIAL (IF SARAH KOTEN TOMORROW (By Leased Wire to The Times) New York, April 13 Sarah Koten and her little baby boy, Abraham, were brought over to the Tombs to day from the hospital on Black well's Island, to be ready for her trial for the killing of Dr. Samuel Auspitz, which begins tomorrow. The Koten girl refuses to part with her baby for even a few hours, and the child will, t.herefore, be on her arm in- the court room when she is called to the bar to plead to the charge of murder against her. Under ordinary circumstances the infant would be kept at the Black well's Island hospital, but an excep tion has been made in her, case and one of the matrons wil help her in her care of the baby. CYCLONE IN BIRMINGHAM. Great Damage Done in the Suburbs of the City. (By Leased Wire to The Times) Birmingham, Ala.; April 13 A ilgh wind almost of cyclonic propor ions, visited this vicinity at an early lour this morning, doing considerable damage to interurban electric service md unroofing a number of houses, in the suburbs. It is estimated that the aggregate loss will reach $100,000 when full reports have been received. io far no loss of life has been re vived. -. APEX DEFEATED. I-'Ine Ganif of Ball at Fuquny Springs Vest entity, , (Special to The Times) Fuquay Springs, April 12 Bule's reek College defeated the strong pex team here today by the score of i to 2, In a hotly-contested game, .features of the game were the pitch ing of Pearce and Harward, the field "ng of Cameron and the batting of .Vhittler. Batteries: B. C, Pearce ind Scarboro; Apex, Harward and Howell. Attendance, C00; umpire, uewls; ..time, 1:40. Summer Excursion Rates. (By Leased Wire to The Times) Washington; April 13 Represen tatives of Virginia and North Caro lina railway and steamship lines met here today to fix passenger excursion a tea for the summer. TAKEN TO STATE PRISON Cotton and Holderfield Begin -Their Terms Cotton Takes It Easy, But Wants to Avoid a Curious Crowd Holder Held Is "Very Much Cut Up About It" A Blind .Tiger In Jail, ' Boasted Cotton. Earle P. Cotton and Tim Holder field were carrieed to the penitentiary iarly this morning by Deputy Sheriff Stell. The prisoners seemed to have lost their air of indifference and self confidence .and shrank from public iew. ' They requested that they be '.alien from the jail at an early hour ind in compliance with their wishes Sheriff Stell drove up to the back of the jail a little after sunrise this morning and the two notorious pris oners were quietly handcuffed and led to the carriage. Very few people saw 'he transfer of the prisoners from the ;ounty jail to the state's prison. Cotton bore himself cheerfully. He laughed and chatted with his guards md seemed to be eutirely at ease. He lid not seem to be worried about the outlook lu the least. Holderfield, ta use the expression of one of the men who saw him, "seemed to be very much cut up about it". He looks with dread on his ten-year sentence. Cotton has gotten a great deal of fun out of his jail life. It Is rum ored on the street that he ran a small bllnd-tlgr in jail. Booze was smuggled to him in bread and in other ways. It Is claimed. Cotton openly boasted that he had done this, but it was hardly possible. There was no way on earth for him to get whiskey, except as it was adminis tered to him by the jailor on the ad vice of a physician. Jailor Parham Is positive that no booze was smug gled to Qotton In bread, or in any other way, for he Inspected every thing carefully that was carried to him. . Cotton was refused cocaine during the last days of his stay in jail and the change from 70 grains of cocaine per day to total abstinence, made some stimulant absolutely necessary. It may have been that Cotton did sell a small amount , of his dally allow ance to a trusty In the jail In order to be able to say that be "ran a blind tler.to jail". , HORRIBLE CRIME WAS COMMITTED HEKELASTNIOHT Home of Mr. A. Ought En tered and House-Keeper Attacked in Bed NEGKOWOlMANARRESTED Mr. CniKwell, a White Woman,". Age 5:1, Housekeeper For Mr. A. Dughi, .Attacked i:i Her Bed Hands Cut mid a Terrible Gash in Her Throat. A Narrow Escape From Death. Dr. Rogers Called and Dressed Wounds Kusty Razor Found. Huiiiiuh Harris, Colored, Arrested on Suspicion She Had Been Cook I'nlil Displaced by Mrs. Croswell. Last night at the residence of A. Dughi, 40S Hillsboro street, occurred another of those horrible crimes that are fust making Raleigh' noto rious. The victim of this outrage is the second white woman to suffer -at the hands of a : burglar and would-be murderer within a single week. She is Mrs. John C. ' Croswell, age 5:!, formerly a resident of McDowell county, and for some time house keeper for Mr. Dughi. Last night at about 11:00 o'clock Mrs. Croswell was awakened by a voice threatening immediate death if she opened her mouth. Mrs. Cros well -was alone" in the house. The family was away, spending the day and night at Mr. Dughl's country place, and Mr. Dughi was still at. his store. The unfortunate woman thinks it was a woman's voice she heard. The light, which had been burning In her room,hi-been cxrlngnlSnJ and she could not see her assailant. She tried to ward off with her hands the blow which- she thought was coming in the dark and in the strug gle her hand was cut in two places. In spite of her struggle her unknown assailant grasped her hands, held them down and cut her throat from the centre to the left ear, a very ugly gash. Then the monster, thinking the work of death complete, fled. Mrs. Croswell then got out of her bed and with great difficulty made her way to the telephone. She called up Mr. Dughi. y He could hardly un derstand what the woman was say ing, but managed to make out that there was trouble at his home. He secured a hack and drove home in great haste. In the meanwhile the woman, weak from loss of blood, had staggered to the front door, leaving a crimson trail from the telephone through the hall and out on the porch. Her screams attracted the at tention of Mr. W. C. Addlcks, who was passing, and in a few minutes the neighborhood was aroused. A hurry-call was sent for the police and a doctor, both arriving in a short while. The cook at the home of Mr. John U. Smith, while Mrs. Croswell was standing on the porch screaming for help, saw a negro woman running to ward Harrington street. She thought she recognized in the fleeing woman Hannah Harris, former housekeeper and cook for Mr. Dughi. She was ar rested on suspicion, being found without difficulty at her home back of St. Paul's church (colored). Other Inmates of the house declared that she had been in the house only about .20 minutes when arrested. Dr. J. R. Rogers made a quick ex amination and found that the cut was a bad one, though not necessarily fa tal, Had it been a quarter of an Inch deeper it would undoubtedly have resulted in death. In the bed by the pillow, which was gashed deeply, was found an old rusty razor. This razor, It Is said, is he property of Hannah Harris, and it can be shown that the razor, has been In her possession. She was carried to the guard house, ve hemently declaring that she was In nocent and knew nothing of the crime. The .'evidence is strong against hep and she will have a hard time proving har Innocence. The description of the fleeing wo man: given by Mr. Smith's cook, which fits her. almost exactly,, the fact that Bhe had been at home less than 20 minutes 'when arrested and the finding of a razor which can bo iden tified as her own at the scene of the crime, Is all against her, and makes It look dark for Hannah Harris. The terrible crime with which Bhe is charged and for which she will be called fipon to stand trial, Is burg lary, the breaking and entering of the dwelling of another In the night time, with intent to commit a felony therein. The penalty for the crime Is death. . It is asserted also that Hannah Harris had a motive in attempting to kill Mrs. CroBwell. Hannah had been cook in the home of Mr. Dughi for 20 years until displaced recently by Mrs. Croswell. It is said that Hannah hated Mrs. Croswell bitterly and from her hatred for the woman who had taken her place this horrible crime resulted. Mrs. Croswell, at last reports, is resting very well and will have a quick recovery, provided no danger ous complications arise. Her physic ian, Dr. Rogers, is well pleased with her condition. CHICAGQ SUFFRAGETTES STORM LEGISLATURE (By Leased Wire to The Times) Chicago, April 13 Two hundred suffragettes left. Chicago today -on a special train for Springfield, where to morrow they will demand franchise rights from the state law-makers. The train is scheduled to Btop at Joliet, Pontine, Lexington, Blooming ton, Atlanta, and Lincoln, to take, on more supporters of the, movement. Arrangements have been made with the executive committee for a hearing tomorrow 'morning, when five minute speeches have been accorded to 25 women, who have prepared addresses. Miss Jane Adams, of Hull House, is head of the .Chicago delegation, and has been chosen chairman to Intro duce the different speakers. '.: Enroute to the capital speeches will be made from the rear platform of the traiii. WANT BATTLESHIPS TO SAIL UP MISSISSIPPI (By Leased Wire to The Times) Washington, April 13 The people of the south are disappointed because no battleships are allowed to sail up the Mississippi river. They will ap-laLtacisUlX,ALlhfi-liav.Y Meyer to Bee if he will not henceforth per mit the ships to sail in those waters. A number of congressmen called at Secretary Meyer's office today to place the facts before-him. Mr. Meyer was not in. They wild call again soon. The delegates consisted of Senators McEnery, Foster, Frazler, Taylor, Clark Davis, Money, McLaurin, and Representatives Candler, Speight, Byrd,. Bowers, Dickson, Collier Brownlow, Austin, Moon, Hull, Hous ton, Byrns, Padgett, Sims, Garret and Gordon. It is asserted at the department that the waters of the Mississippi are too shallow to permit vessels of heavy draught ascending the river. ROCHESTER SWEPT BY SEETHING FLAMES (By Leased Wire to The Times) Rochester, N. Y., April 13 A large fire started in an east Main street business building about a mile from the center of the city today. A high wind swept the flames up the street and at noon a large section of the thoroughfare was ablaze. St. Pe ters church is one of the buiidings burned. - .- ' The' blaze originated in the house of the Hunting Company, drygoods merchants. Four: persons leaped from windows and were painfully hurt. A 45-inile gale swept the flames with a menacing roar toward the very heart of the business sec tion and shortly after live sparks communicated the tire to St. Peters I'resbyteriun church and a block of four flats on Grove street. At noon a general alrm was sent in. The wind failed the flames until the burn ing buildings were a seething fur nace.: .. ... MR. A. N. JONES LEAVES. (iocs to Panama to Enter Government Service. ' 1 Mr. A. N. Jones, of this city, mas ter machinist of the Seaboard Air Line Railway Company, a young man well and favorably known to the peo ple of Raleigh, has accepted a posi tion with Uncle Sam as floor machin ist in the service at Panama. Mr. Jones will leave for New York next Sunday and will sail from that port for Panama on April 20th. Operators Not Opposed to I'nlon. (By Leased Wire to The Times) New York, April 13 The anthra cite coal operators today Issued a statement denying any friction yester day at their meeting and declared that they objected to signing a con tract with any organization controlled by the bituminous Industry, though not opposing workers organizations. CUMMINSIS NOT ENTHUSIASTIC (By Leased Wire to The Times) ' Washington, April 13 Senator Cummins, of Iowa, is not enthusias tic over the Payne tariff bill as amended by the senate finance com mittee. The Iowa senator said today that the people demand tariff revis ion downward, but an examination of the bill shows the revision has been upward. He regards the duty on lum ber, glass and iron as excessive and not what the people expected. He has prepared a number of amend ments In keeping with the Iowa idea and will make an effort to secure a reduction of the duties in many of the schedules. He favors free lum ber and Intimated that the senate might put lumber on the free list. CHARTERED TODAY. Three' New Industrial Enterprises Launched. Articles of incorporation were tiKed with the secretary of state today for the following new enterprises: Summitt Avenue Building Com-' pany, Greensboro. Real estate busi ness. Authorized capital stock $100, 000. $ 12,000 paid in. Caesor Cone, Julius Cone and Bernard Cone, incor porators. Carter-Bradshaw. Inc., Wallace, Duplin county, general merchandise. Authorized capital stock, $10,000; paid in, $5400. Z. J. Carter, J. F. Bradshaw and B. P. Teachy, Incor porators. ' Middleburg Lumber '.'".Company. General lumber business. ' Total au thorized stock, $10,000; paid in, $1, 100. P. C. Sturgis, C. A. Rose and H. M. Church, incorporators. The Dudley Choals Cotton MIK Company, of Granite Falls, filed a certificate changing its capital stock from $100,000 to $200,000., Cheated Justice by Suicide. , (By. Leased Wire to The Times) ' -BVnghamton, N. Y April 13 Ar thur V. T. Beck, a well-known law yer and formerly clerk of supervisors, who was to be tried in Cooperstown today on the charge of misappro priating county funds, shot and killed himself in his office here at 9 o'clock. TROOPS ARE MUTINOUS Serious Outbreak Among Turkish Soldiers Thousand of Troops Participate in Outbreak in Constantinople Gov ernment Buildings Surrounded and City in Turmoil. .(By Cable to The Times) Vienna'..' April 13 Dispatches which are yet unconfirmed bring the Information here today from Constan tinople of a serious outbreak in which thousands of mutinous troops participated. According to the tele grams they have surrounded the government buildings and the city is in a turmoil. It is said the minister of war has fled for his life and that the insur gents are now occupying the war de partment, defying the government troops. Through the night, says the dispatches, looting was rampant, and many citizens have left the city, fear ing the result of the mutiny. The description which the tele grams convey give Constantinople a war-like appearance with the main streets patrolled by cavalry and the public squares occupied by armed troops. Situation Grave. (By Cable to The Times) Constantinople, April 13 Serious disturbances of a revolutionary char acter have broken out here. The sit uation is grave. Demands Dismissal of Grand Vizuer. (By Cable to The Times) . Berlin, April 13 A Constantinople dispatch says the revolting troops are demanding the dismissal of Grand Vizuer Hllml Pasha, the president of the chamber of deputies, and of All Ftiza Pasha, the minister of war. Troops at Night Riders' Trial. (By Leased Wire to The Times) Nashville, Tenn., April 1 3 -Governor Patterson, in accordance with the request of Judge Cook, Attorney-Gen eral Bowman, and the sheriff of Humphreys county, has directed that a detachment of the national guard be sent to Waverly to preserve order at the trial of the alleged night rid ers, which will commence next Monday.- : ' ' ' :- '' i BIG BROKERAGE FIRM ALLEGED Pelitiou Filed in United States Court and Lindsay Russell Appointed Receiver PAID MONEY ILLEGALLY Botli Partners Are of the Younger Men on Wall Street, But Funis, the Head of the Finn, Has Been Cred ited As Being One of the Sharpest Figures in the Financial District Figured in New York and Newport Society Number of Branches in New York and Chicago Finn Was the Largest on the Stock, Exchange. (By Leased Wire to The Times) New York, April 13 A petition in Involuntary bankruptcy, alleging lia bilities of $1,400,000 was today filed aganist the big stock brokerage house of Ennis & Stoppani of 38 Broad street, members of the Consolidated Stock Exchange and the Chicago Board of Trade. The petition was filed in the United States district court before Judge Holt and he immediately appointed Lindsay Russail as receiver.: The pe titioners declare that the assets of the firm amount to only $400,000. The petitioners were three small creditors. Lindsay Russell, the re ceiver, is of the law firm of McLaugh lin, Russell, Coe & Sprague and he qualified by filing a bond for $50,000. The three petitioners are Charles Sincere, with a claim of $2,500; Ethel B. Newton, with a claim of $250 and Fred J. Rlngley, with a claim of $2,305. All three were cus- tomers of the concern. They allege that the firm, knowing itself to be In solvent, Illegally paid, over money and property to preferred creditors. It Is charged that Bartlett, Patten & Company were on April 2 illegally paid $500 and that Logan, Bryan & Company were illegally paid $1,000 on March 25, It is also charged that property worth $5,000 has been illeg aly transferred by the firm. Thomas A. Ennis, the head of the firm, is one of the younger men on Wall street but has been credited as being one of the sharpest figures in the financial district. He was gener ally believed to be very wealthy, even a millionaire. Ennis has been one of the figures in society in New York and Newport, has owned his own yacht and as such is one of the prominent members of the New York Yacht Club. He Is also a member of the Hanover and Crescent Athletic Clubs and the dem ocratic club. With Charles F. Stoppani, also one of the younger men on the street, Ennis formed a partnership in 1885. The firm was of modest standing for a number of years, but gradually grew until a number of branches were established, both in New York and Chicago, Stoppani la a member of the same clubs as his partner. The brokerage firm was the largest on the Consolidated Stock Exchange. The failure is said to be due to spec ulation on the "short" side of the wheat market in Chicago. The firm continued doing business for an hour after the receiver was appointed, and when they finally assigned, there were 100 customers in their offices. MARRIAGE KEPT SECRET. Miss Luella Holloway Married in Washington During Inauguration. The announcement of the marriage of Miss Luella Holloway, of this city, to Mr. John T. Davis, of Washington City, will be quite a surprise to the friends of Miss Holloway here. While visiting friends in Washing ton during the Inauguration she was quietly married to Mr. Davis. She returned home and to her work at Willow Springs, where she was teach ing and the marralge was kept a pro found secret. The schocll term having come to an end, she left Sunday to Join her hus band in Washington. She Is the daughter of Mr. S. J. Holloway, of this city, and has many friends here who will be Interested in the announcement of her marriage and wish her much future happiness. Off For Atlanta. , County Superintendent Z. V. Judd, Prof. E. C. Brooks, of Durham, Prof. C. L. Coon, of Wilson, Mr. C. H. Me bane, and Mrs. C. D. Mclver, of Greensboro, left today for Atlanta, to attend the Southern conference for education. .State -Superintendent J. Y. Joyner left yesterday. TO BE BANKRUPT 4. r fi i , .