Weather.
SECOND
EDITION
Washington,, July . 8 Forecast
for North Carolina for tonight
and Friday: Partly cloudy;
showers in west portion tonight
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rSTABUSHED 187f.
RALEIGH, N. C, THURSDAY, JULY 8, 1909.
PRICE 6 CENTS
FLOODS SWEEP
MIDDLE JEST;
MANY LIVES LOST
Thirteen Lives Dave Been Lost
and it is Feared More
Will be Drowned
TRAIN WAS DERAILED
Great Floods In Missouri and Kansas
Manv Lives Lost and it is Fired
That Many More Will be From
Floods and Starvation Landslides
T in Colorado and Train Service Bad
ly Demoralized Atchison Train
Derailed and Boiled Over Into 18
Feet of Wate Many Towns
Flooded and Fire Adds to Damage
In Some Places Woman and Tw
ClUldren Drowned.
(By Leased Wire to The Times)
Kansas City, Mo., July S Thirteen
lives have been lost and it is feared
that many more persons will bo
drowned and starved to death as a
result of the floods which are sweep
ing over DeKalk, Davies, Grundy,
Mercer, Harrison and Livingston
counties in northern Missouri.
Hundreds of thousands of acres of
wheat and corn have been destroyed
and the flood situation is growin
more alarming today.
Tfi a rhino rn Milwaukee X, .St. Paul
t -1 1 3 t- ( ImiH A T. mlin
was cut off in the depot, was rescued
early this morning. Gallatin, Mo., re
sorts six railroad section men miss
ing. ijiThey had been sent to keep drift
wood from Grand river bridge.
The Kaw and Missouri rivers art
both rising.
The statelndustrial school for girls
, at Chillicothe, Mo., is in peril.
V Trenton has been surrounded by
the flood." and along the Grand River
a number of smaller towns are flood-
swept.
. The flood extends through Kansas
and Nebraska and a part of Colorado.
Train service is demoralized in Ne-
braska and Kansas on account of
washouts, and in Colorado the land
slides and floods from mountain tor
rents have caused train schedules to
be abandoned and hundreds of east
ern persons are marooned in the
state.
Iowa and Illinois also are flooded
though the damage in these states is
not so great as it is in Missouri and
Kansas.
The most spectacular accident due
to the flood was the derailing in a
flooded plain of the Atchison, Topeka
& Santa Fe passenger train, bound
from Kansas City to Denver. The
rails spread near Pomona, Kas., and
four of the ten coaches rolled over
Jri eighteen feet of water. Several
passengajrs were slightly hurt.
Pomona is almost inundated, the
Marias Des Cygnes river at that point
beinK three miles wide. A relief
train was sent from Ottawa last night
with food and other supplies for the
passengers of the train, who were
said to have had to climb on top of
the cars for refuge from the rising
water.
To Kansas City, the situation is
threatening. In the western section,
where are situated the, stock yards,
wholesale warehouses and manufac
turing plants, the waters from the
confluence of the Missouri and Kan
sas rivers are leaving the danger line.
At Chillicothe, Mo., on the Grand
river, six men were swept from a
bridge.
Big Creek and Grand River flow
' together at Pattonsburg! both
v streams are, turned into lakes, with
out bank or channel. Heavy rains
. caused them to overflow.
-" The water rose rapidly in the
streets of Pattonsburg. : It has reach
ed the second floors of the stores and
houses. 'Thei 1,509 residents are pris
oners in the top floors or on the roofs
of their homes. The water came up
So rapidly that few persona affected
" had time to lay in supplies of food.
a Provisions, of course, are on the first
floors of the stores and the merchants
cannot help the residents, who' hau
practically no food in their homes.
: It Is reported that two persons have
been drowned.'' 1
A fire added greatly to the fear of
the. towns-people, as much of a lum
' ber yard and two residences as was
. . out of water being burned. The
flames were extinguished before a
. heavy loss resulted.
" " : There are no boats in the town. A
heavy rain adds to the suffering' of
those who are on the housetops, espe
cially the women and children. The
telegraph wires are down. ' ,
Standing In water knee deep and
rapidly rising, Mayor R. E. Mauphln,
from his home in Pattousburg, ap
pealed over the ldhg distance - tele
phone for provisions,, boats, and
clothing, which, he Bays, should be
rushed tOTelieve urgent distress. .
, So far as is definitely known there
has been only one fatality. George
A. Thomas, a lumber workman, was
drowned while trying to escape from
the fire which destroyed the Pattons
burg Lumber Company's yard, stock
and office building down to the wa
ters' edge.
St. Louis, Mo., July 8 Mrs. Ber
tha Cassanova and two children were
drowned in the General U.- S. Grant
Farm in St. Louis county last night
when Aey attempted to ford Gra
vois Creek while it was swollen by
heavy rains. Three other children
were rescued, clinging to the wagon
when it was swept down stream.
PAYS DAMAGES.
The suit against Mayor J. Stan
Wynne, brought by Tim Mangum, has
been settled out of court by arbitra
tors. Mangum charged the mayor with in
Juring his horse at the ball ground
Monday. The mayor caught the horse'
bridle and Jerked it back, the horse
falling heavily in the shafts of the
buggy. Mangum claimed that his
horse was- damaged $50 and brought
suit before Justice Separk. He was
represented by Attorney W. B. Jones.
The mayor offered to submit the
matter to arbitrators, and this was
agreed to. Mangum was awarded $15
damages.
THROES OF REVOLUTION
Marlia! Laws Proclaimed in
.'prising in Republic of Colombia
Aimed at President Reyes and the
Prevailing Government and the
Situation is Serious.
(By Leased Wire to The Times)
Washington, July 8 The republic
of Colombia is in the throes of revo
lution, according to advices received
by the state department from Paxton
Hibben, secretary to the American
legation at Bogota. The uprising is
aimed at President Reyes and the pre
vailing government, and the situation
is most serious. Martial law has
been proclaimed, and the streets of
Bogota, the capital, are patrolled by
strong bodies of troops.
As a result of the insurrection the
postal service has been suspended
and telegraphic communication Is cut
off. Because of this Mr. Hibben has
been unable to get into touch witn
Mr. Northcote, the newly appointed
minister from this country, and he
does not know the latter's where
abouts.
The vigorous methods adopted by
the government have thus far pre
vented any serious rioting in Bogota
Mr. Hibben reports, but the situation
at the capital is far from tranquil.
At present the center of the dis
turbance appears to be at Barran
quilla. The state department has not yet
taken any action in the premises, be
lieving the Reyes government able to
take care of American lives and prop
erty. There are a number of Ameri
can warships in the vicinity, how
ever, and they can be dispatched
there quickly if the situation becomes
more alarming.
EXCITING TIME
AT BRISTOL, VA.
(By Leased Wire to The Times)
Bristol, Tenn., July 8 No more
exciting scenes were ever witnessed
on the streets of Bristol than attend
ed the" opening of the polls for the
local option election in Bristol, Va.,
at sunrise. Hundreds of men, wo
men and children thronged the
streets.
The street in front of temperance
headquarters, near the polling place,
is crowded with women and children
who spent the morning In song and
prayer. Over 400 'votes cast to 12
m. indicate a very close contest,. The
drs claim to be only about 20 in the
lead. Rain is falling. No trouble
has' occurred as a result of the elec
tion.'":''
Japanese Reinforce Mukden. ,
v. (By Leased Wire to The Times)
St. PetersburgJuly 8 A dispatch
from Harbin today reports that the
Japanese are strongly reinforcing the
garrison at Mukden, which now con
sists of 22,000 troops; including fif
teen squadrons of cavalry. Trains of
ammunition nnd provisions are con
stantly arriving and the Japanese are
actively preparing and extending the
fortifications.
StitE ADOPTS
THE CORPORATION
Was the First Busines Taken
Up and Was Adopted
Witlhout Gbanye
AMENDMENTS OFFERED
Senator. Daniel Offered an Amend
ment to tho Corporation Tax Pro
viding That Every Corporation Or-
, ganized For Profit Having a Cap
ital Stock of $300,0(M) or More
Shall Pay a Tax of One-fourth of
One Per Cent, on the fjross Pro
ceeds Over $20,000 Bacon, of
Georgia, Also Offers an Amend
ment, But Both, as Well as Several
Other Amendments Were Laid on
the Tabic.
( By Leased Wire to The Times)
Washinglon, July 8 The corpora
tion tax amendment-to the tariff bill
was adopted by the senate this morn
iag without change. It was the first
business taken up.
Senator Daniel, of Virginia, offered
an amendment to the corporation tax
providing that every corporation or
ganized for profit, hrving a capital
stock of $300,000 or more, shall pay
a tax of one-fourth of one per cent,
on the gross proceeds over $20,000.
Senator Bacon, of Georgia, offered
an amendment to this to include gross
receipts in excess of $300,000. Both
amendments were laid on the table,
Senator Gore, of Oklahoma, offered
an amendment to the effect that any
bank paying a tax could ask that a
certain amount be set aside as a
guarantee to depositors. This was
also laid on the table.
The corporation tax was then
adopted.
Section 7 of the bill, relating to
countervailing duties was adopted
without a change, but against the
protest of Senator Cummins, of
Iowa.
Upon behalf of Senator Clay, of
Georgia, Senator Bacon offered an
amendment providing for a stamp tax
of 10 cents upon each $100 worth
of transactions of bucket shops, and
imposing a license tax of $500 a:i
nually upon such . concerns. The
amendment was defeated, 44 to 34
The tobacco amendment was then
laid before the senate.
The senate agreed this morning to
change the rule providing for ad
journment at 7 o'clock, and will sit
this evening.
The tobacco tax amendment in
creases the internal revenue tax on
snuff from G to S cents a pound; on
smoking and chewing tobacco from ti
to 8 cents a pound; it fixes the tax on
cigars of a certain grade at $3 a
thousand, on a higher grade at. $6
a thousand and on little cigars at 75c.
a thousand; on cigarettes of a certain
grade at $1.25 a thousand and on a
higher grade at $3. GO a thousand. It
prohibits the use of coupons or prizes
in tobacco or cigarettes in packages,
but does not prevent the giving of
such coupons or prizes independent
of the package.
The amendments permit of the use
of another size package, containing
half ounces of tobacco.
Senator Martin, of Virginia, op
posed the amendment. He said that
tobacco was already heavily taxed;
that nelthef dealers or growers had
been heard by the committee; that
the increase was unjust to these
classes and would increase the cost
to the consumer.
Senator Simmons, of North Caro
lina, also opposed the amendment.
Senator Bailey vigorously assailed
the amendment. He accused Sena
tor 41drlch, who now advocates an
increase of the tax on tobacco, with
having argued the repeal of the tax
in 1888. Republican ; senators, he
said, who had just refused to raise
an income tax upon the wealth of the
prosperous, were now proposing to in
crease the tax on the poor man's to
bacco.
Speaking of the increased , tax on
snuff, Senator Bailey said the habit
was generally indulged in by poor
old women, and while he did not ap
prove of it he thought it no worse
than cigarette smoking.
"You republicans," he said "think
that you can do anything now, be
cause the country Is afraid of the
democratic party. Well, I guess the
country Is afraid of us, otherwise
they would have turned you out long
ago, hut they will find that it is bet
ter to be governed by fools than it Is
to be governed by rascals."
BURGLAR SHOOTS
MAN10GOES
TORESCUEOFSON
Burglar in Turn is Wounded
and is Captured by the
Officers
ADESPtRATE STRUGGLE
Young Man Heard Burglar Kilter the
House and Grappled With Him
His Mother Heard the Struggle and
Came to His RescueBurghir Shot
Her as She Came Young Man
Then Hot Hold of Pistol and Burg
lar Kled, But Was Wounded by the
Young Man Later Captured With
His "Pal", and Both Confess to
the Crime Both Men Are Aus
trians. One Having Been jn This
Country But a Short Time,
(By Leased Wire to The Times)
New -York, July 8 In a struggle
witlh an armed burglar to save the
life of her son, George, early today,
Mrs. Sophie Staber, wife of George
Staber, a wealthy importer, with of
fices at 127 Duane street, Manhattan,
was shot and almost instantly killed
in her home, at 455 East Eighteenth
street, Flatbush. The shot, which
killed his' mother tore through
young Staber's shirt. It was fired at
such close range that tho flames
burned his face.
At least a dozen shots were fired
during the struggle, and one of the
burglars who gained an entrance to
the house is known to have been hit.
There was a trail of blood through
the hallway leading to the rear ent
rance, through which the burglars
escapfei.-' '
Young Staber was awakened by the
sound of some one forcing a window
on the ground floor. From the door
of his bedroom, at the head of the
stairway leading to the second floor,
he saw a man climb through the win
dow and start up stairs.
Staber shouted to him to stop. In
stead the burglar pulled a revolver
and continued ascending tne stairs,
saying:
"If you move I'll kill you."
Staber rwehed down the stairs and
grappled with the intruder. He
managed to grab the revolver, and
during the struggle a shot was acci
dentally fired.
Tho sound of the struggle awak
ened Mrs. Staber, who rushed to the
head of the stairs and started down
to tho rescue of her son, who seemed
to bo getting the worst of the strug
gle. Suddenly the burglar freed
himself from Staber's grasp and
called to Mrs. Staber to stand where
she was.
"If you don't I'll kill you," he
called.
Mrs. Staber paid no attention to
the warning and started down stairs.
The burglar fired, the shot striking
her in the right shoulder. She top
pled unconscious on the stairs. She
died before medical assistance ar
rived. When he saw Mrs. Staber fall, the
burglar made an attempt to escape.
Young Staber grappled with him and
in the struggle obtained possession of
the revolver. .
Three of the five shots It contained
had been fired and tho boy emptiod
the remaining chambers as the burg
lar fled through the hallway.
One of these shots struck his arm,
tearing through the fleshy part. The
screen door, tho hallways and the
walls were found spattered with
blood and there was a red trail as
far as Ocean avenue.
The police were immediately noti
fied and reserves were rushed to the
scene. The burglars had disappeared,
however, and no trace of them was
found.
Five hours after the shooting a
man who gave his na. ie as Carlo
Gree, was arrested in the shop of
Nicholas Belot, a shoemaker at
Church avenue and Reid street. He
had gone to Belot's to buy a pair of
shoes. There he told a story about
being held up and robbed. Belot
told the police that the man's socks
were covered with blood. Almost
simultaneously a man who gave the
name of John Smith was arrested in
a clunjp of woods near Canarsle, L. I.
Smith was wounded in the arm and
log and was weak from loss of blood.
He had bound his wounds with a
handkerchief and dragged himself
from the Btaber home with much
effort.
Smith, under the "third degree"
confessed to being a party to the
crime, but declared ho baa B9t en
tered the Staber home. Both men
broke down, Gree confessing that he
was waiting near Belot's for his "pal"
to return with his clothes.
Both men are Austrlans. Gree
only recently came from Trieste,
Austria, he said.
JOHN 1). 70 YKARS OLB.
No Special Celebration But Friends
Will Dine With Him.
Cleveland, O., July 8 John D.
Rockefeller is seventy years old to
day. So ' far as announced, Mr.
Rockefeller made no special arrange
ments for tha celebration of the
event. There will be a dinner at the
Forest Hill home, to which close rel
atives have been invited.
Mr. Rockefeller Is In the best of
health.
Revolutionary Game is l"p.
London, July 8 The Teheran cor
respondent of The Times says the
landing of Russian troops at Enzll
has thoroughly taken the wind out
of the revolutionary sails.
The revolutionists appear to real
ize that the game is up. There has
been no further fighting.
English Athletes Again Defeated.
London, July 8 English athletes
sutlered another defeat from foreign
ers today when the Belgian crew on
the Henley challenge cup, beating the
Jesus College crew of Cambridge
University.
PLANS FOR NEW ROAD
Will be Discussed at Meeting
Tomorrow Night
Merchants' Association of Raleigh
Will Hold Special Meeting and
President liuell of Koad and Mr.
Iluffines of Rocky Mount Will be
Guests.
The Merchants' Association of Ral
igh will hold a special meeting in
their rooms in the Holleman build
ing Friday night and an invitation
has been extended to all the busi
ness men of Raleigh to attend. Mr.
Guy I. Buell, president of the Mont
gomery Lumber Company, and Mr.
R. L. Hufflnes, of Rocky Mount, who
is connected with large land and de
velopment interests, will be present.
The extension of the Montgomery
Lumber Company railroad into Ral
eigh will be the subject for discus
sion, and it is desired that all the
business men of this city be present
to meet Mr. Buell and discuss the
subject with him. Mr. Buell and Mr.
Hufflnes will arrive in the city Fri
day morning, and they will be the
guests of the Merchants' Association
while here.
The Merchants' Association is in
terested in getting the Montgomery
Lumber Company to extend its road
from Spring Hope into Raleigh, and
this meeting is arranged so that Mr.
Buell, the president, can discuss the
matter with the business men of ttie
city. The Merchants' Association is
doing much for Raleigh and it de
serves much credit, for he progressive
spirit it is showing.
All members of the association and
all the business men of the city in
terested in this movement, are re
quested to be present in the Merch
ants' Association hall at S:30 Friday
night.
SERIES OF MEETINGS OF
S. A. L STOCKHOLDERS
(By Leased Wire to The Times)
New York, July 8 Arrangements
have been madts for a series of meet
ings of the Seaboard Air Line Rail
way Company's stockholders, the ob
ject of which is to afford them an op
portunity to act personally rather
than by proxy on the reorganization
plan.
The first meeting will be held on
August 4 at Petersburg, Va., and Ral
eigh, N. C. On August 5 another
meeting will be called at Columbia,
S. C, and the day following there will
be one at Jacksonville, Fla. The two
last meetings will be called at At
lanta, Ga., and Birmingham, Ala., on
August 7.
AFTER THE EXCHANGES.
Georgia Legislature Wants Congress
to Deny Them the Use of the Mails.
(By Leased Wire to The Times)
Atlanta, July The Georgia leg
islature today adopted a resolution
instructing the senators and repre
sentatives In congress from this state
to. vote to deny the use of the mails
to the New York Cotton Exchange,
tho Chicago Board of Trade, the New
Orleans Cotton Exchange and similar
bodies.
JULY TERM OF
WAKE
CRIMINAL
COURT MONDAY
About One Hundred
Fifty. Cases on tbe
Docket
NINE CAPITAL CASES
Four Cases of Burglary on the
Docket Washington Whitaki r to
be Tried for Entering Home of W.
R. Collins in West Raleigh Han
nah Harris Will lie Tried for En
tering Home of Mr. A. Dughi
Courtney Jeffries Will be Tried
Forty Cnses of Larceny on the
Docket Retailing Tiger Brand
Booze Growing in Popularity
Among the Criminals of the City
Three Murd' r Cases.
The July term of Wake county su
perior court begins Monday with
Judgsi W. R. Allen, of Goldsboro, pre
siding. It. will be a two weeks term
for the trial of criminal cases only
and his honor and the solicitor face a
badly crowded docket. There is a
large bunch of prisoners in jail await
ing trial and many others out on bail.
About 151) cases are docketed.
Of these there are nine capital
cases, four burglaries, three murders
and two cases of rape. In the latter,
the parties are all colored. Two of
the burglaries were committed in
Raleigh. Tha fisst of these is the
case of Washington Whittaker, col
ored, who was charged with entering
the home of Mr. W. R. Collins In
West Raleigh and shooting Mrs. Col
lins. Whittaker was an employee of
Man's Dixie Shows, and was here
during the carnival given, by that
company in April. He was arrested
at Wilson and when faced by Mrs.
Collins was positively identified by
her as the man who entered her
room and shot her. Attorney Albert
Cox appears for Whittaker.
Hannah Harris, colored, is charged
with entering the home of Mr. A.
Dughi on Hillsboro street, last April"
and attempting to murder Mrs. Cars
well, the housekeeper at Mr. Dughi's.
Hannah Harris is represented by At
torney Charles U. Harris.
The other cases of burglary are
from the country.
The murder cases are all against
negroes. Lovle Upchurch, Lennon
Shaw and Foster Evans, et al., are
the defendants.
In the long list of crimes set forth
in the docket, larceny holds its accus
tomed place at the head of the list,
standing first with full forty cases.
Larceny is in a class by Itself, so far
as numbers is concerned. The re
tailing of spirituous liquors without
license is daily growing in popularity,
and now stands second on the list
with twenty-two cases. Assault with
a deadly weapon ranks third with a
total of seventeen cases to its credit.
There are three cases of gambling,
seven of carrying concealed weapon
and five of F. and A.. In the
latter class is numbered the case
against William Jones and Maude
Kelly.
The negro Courtney Jeffreys will
stand trial for the second time for
assault on a white girl. Six years
ago he was convicted of the offense
and served a sentence of one year.
This time his sentence, if he is con
victed, will no doubt be a longer one.
These cases, together with other
grist that will surely come from the
mill of the grand jury, will afford all
the food that Judge Allan and Solici
tor Jones can digest in the limited
time at their disposal.
PROF. J. Y. JOYNER
CHOSEN PRESIDENT
(By Leased Wire to The Times)
Dener, Col., July 8 Dr. J. Y. Joy
ner, of North Carolina, was chosen
president of the National Educatonal
Association this morning and will be
reported for election by the nomina
tion committee this afternoon. This
is a decided defeat for the book trust,
as Prof. Joyner made his fight as an
anti-book trust candidate. Prof. Joy
ner won the second ballot of the nom
ination committee. His closest com
petitor was Benjamin Bluett, of St.
Louis, and Dr. Philips, of Alabama,
was third. Prof. Joyner is one of the
foremost educators. of the country. .
Tho Carolina Garage and Ma
chine. Company's 4 handsome new
building has been completed' and they
are moving Jn,
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