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i 1 1 7eciher. ' Washington!, Aug. 23 Fore .V 1 east tor North'Carollna few to- night ..and- Tuesday f. Partly, y cloud Itpplghi ad Telay.i : til i ESJABLISnHD 1876.; RALEIGrH, N. 0.) MONDAY, AUGUST. 23, 1909. PRICE 5 CENTS 'J terre CONFLICT BETWEEN STiiraS vfi ARilED TROOPS C:!l Cazeo ;R)i, C:!l Cozen Fa nil . and Score Burt situation mm Day Opened lark and Clloomy at SIcKees Bocks, Where Long . flrawn-out Dispute Between 'the pressed Steel Car Company -and Striking Workmen Has Added An other to Many Black Spot That Have Soiled Allegheny 1 County's Industrial Record Evry . Car From the City Held flTp and Searched For Strike-breakers. (By Leased Wire to The times) Pittsburg,. Pa., Aug. 23--Wtth a half dozen dead, another half dozen fatally wounded, and a score more seriously hurt as a result ofj two col lisions between strikers and; troopers during the night, the day opened dark and gloomy at the town ot JMcKees Rocks, where the long drawn-out ttis put between the Pressed Steel Car Company and Its striking, workmen has added another to the many black . spots : thai' have soiled Allegheny county's Industrial record. . At least two score men and' child ren are suffering from bullet-wounds and from injuries received from clubs and stones; I The practice of the last few weeks of firing Into the a'r has been abol tehed. 'and from'' now .on "shoot to kttt;lir th'0fder. - ' '"' , . ,' Everyone within the strike district u ttopped by the police and searched fdf weapons. ( ' - The force of state polled which re- , cehtly took charge, of the strike sit uation at" the Standard Steel Oar Works,'Butler, Pa., has been ordered here. - ' - - The attorneys for the Steel Car Company will ask the sheriff today to have troops seh'there by the gov ernor, according to report from Mc- Kees Rocks this morning, The situation is very threatening and the slightest word may bring on another battle at' any minute. The strike-Breakers in the plant are wild with fdr and anxious to get out, but it Is Said the bosses are keeping them Inside for fear of further infuriating th crowd. During the battle at the bridge they shuddered and cringed in ab ject terror and begged frantically to bo' taken back across the river to Bellevue by the armed guards. The dead: ""Deputy Sheriff Exler, 54 years old married; beaten and stabbed to death while, defending himself from attack in the- first riot. Wooper John L. Williams, of the state constabulary; lived in Phila delphia; shot dead during second riot when rioters attacked street car. " Unknown striker, check No. 778; killed in riot following attack on the second car. George Millbose, 26 years old; single; striker ; "died from bullet wound in lung-while being taken to Ohio Valley Hospital. f Adam Cumbernal, 29 years old, of Orchard streets . Schoenviile; shot four times during second riot; died at Ohio Valley Hospital. ' Unknown strike-breaker; shot; body hucried away to Schoenviile by companions. - - Probably fatally wounded: Trooper John C. Smith, 21 years old; shot in left side. ..... :i Trooper Patrick O'Donnell; shot through the body. ,: " Trooper Luclenones, of Morgan town, W. Va.; sfjt in side and badly stabbed. c Mike Tysowski, 22 years old, strik , or, Schoenviile; shot three times. f,' George Hernska, 24 years old; em ploye Of Star Enamel Company; shot through back'. 1 Adolph Stahl, 31 years old; strik er shot through left lung. -j "The conflict between the strikers nd the troops 'is the worst in the history !of Allegheny county since the bloody Homestead riots in 1892, In which more than 40 were kilted, and one of the bloodiest in the history of tie state. The two battles during tb night were the climax of a series of engagejnenU that hare occurred almost daily between the strikers and troopers or strike-breakers since the inauguratl6n of the strike five weeks ago. v , Afler "'oaiparaUvely peaceful Ait Sunday in Schoenviile the strikers be gan to assemble In the evening at the Schoenviile end of f O'Donovan's bridge! - The men seemed' ugly and sullen. . Suddenly ' It ' was rumored that' a nuiuber of str.ke-breakers were) oeiqg uroirgnt irom tne city into tne plant. , Pickets were Immediately doubled and messengers-sent curry ing through the strike zone and soon a large" krowd of men, armed to the teeth' ith revolvers, clubs, black lacks! bars, of ii on nd rocks, assem bled. Every car from the city was held up and searched for strike-breakers. This proceedure' had been going on for two hours when a car carrying Deputy Sheriff Exler came along. He had been to the city and was return ing to the steel car plant. The strik ers held up the car at the Schoenviile end of the bridge. A revolver was placed at the mo- torman's head, and he promptly stop ped. A crowd of strikers suspected the deputy sheriff of being a strike breaker, as he was carrying a bundle of clothing under his arm. He was approached and ordered to leave the car. The deputy drew his revolver and said: "Get away you ,' or I'll kill every one of you." "Get off that car! Pull him off!" came from various determined voices in the crowd. ' Exler opened Are. Apparently all his bullets were ineffectual. When all his cartridges were exploded and while the strikers were still firing he alighted and begged for mercy. i ll give in boys: For uop s sake don't shoot; don't kill. me!' He fell under the shower of stones and bul lets. ' The passengers an the car fled and the strikers withdrew. , The motormaa and conductor ,too.k Sxler, whO Wfta not dead, to Dr. Mc Kinnon's office but he died as they entered the door. He had been shot through the forehead and besides wasl terribly mangled and beaten with the stones and clubs.' The crowd in front of the doctor's office set up a wild shout when Ex ler 's death was announced. Several other cars wereheld up but no ma terial damage done. Two hours later a car containing Troopers Kitch and O'Donnell and three foreign strike breakers arrived. The troopers, who were in citizens clothes, attempted to get the strike-breakers quietly through the crowd, but were finally mixed nip In a melee. The troopers stood their ground and emptied their revolvers into the crowd. A running battle ensued between the troopers and their assailants. Word finally reached Lieutenant Smith, the com mander of the troopers, and a body of armed horsemen started for the scene. Seeing that help was at hand, Troopers O'Donnell and Kitch'Made another stand, but soon fell under a shower of bullets as the troopers, charged, maintaining a -constant fire. After a few minutes, the strikers broke and scattered in all directions and ambulances and morgue wagons were hurried to the soene. ' It is believed that dozens of men who were wounded during the night's fighting have not been accounted for. They are strikers who participated in the battle and who, fearing arrest, preferred to suffer at- their homes. It is positively known that many more were wounded, than have turned up at the physicians' offices or the hos- Itals. . '. " '..'; ' About 25 arrests have been made. Bullets taken1 from the bodies of the dead men and cartridges in the re volvers of the men arrested were found to have been "mushroomed", that is, the hard covering of the bul lets filed off. leavine the ends flat so hat they would spread out,' making a more dangerous wound. There, is much talk of calling out the national guard today, but noth ing definite has been decided on yet. Everything is quiet at noon, with the troopers patrolling the streets and congregations of men at street corn ers absolutely prohibited. TO PROMOTE SAFETY. Series of Important Experiments to be Made. (By Leased Wire to The Times) Washington, Aug. 23 A series of tportant experiments , to promote the safety of passengers on trains will be made by the block signal and train control board, organised by the Interstate Cdmmerce Commission in September, Two devices for automatically con trolling the speed and stoppage of trains are now being tested "by the board. ' AIRMiTTLE I ffi Sii Henry Underwood dot His Deserls Near Durham Yes ferday Afternoon Started Out to Raise a RoiikIi House, Knocking Down His Brother-in-lawT Striking Anotlier Man With a Rock and Smashing All the Win dows in the House, But His Sister in-law Was Too Nervy for Him Man is in No Danger of Death OtherDurham Nctvs. . (Special to The Times.) Durham, N. C, Aug. 23 Mrs. Bet tie Parton broke a record for bad shooting - of women yesterday after noon, when she put a bullet in the stomach of her brother-in-law, Hen ry Underwood. Underwood came here from Ral eigh, where he had stopped on his re turn from Virginia after deserting "ais wife, and proceeded to lift' the rough house. He had heard that she had sworn out a warrant against him for abandonment and he met her coming from their home. He forced Gen. Pew, Gen. Alden White, and invaders in the war game which was of Gen. Bliss a taxicab, with a New invaders transporting food through the her to go back and said he was going to "raise hell" with the whole houses hold. He started out bravely to do It; knocked down his brother-in-law, Will Parton, with " a chair, struck Robert Browning with a rock and smashed all the windows of the house. He attacked Mrs. Parton, but she was too nervy for him and drew the pistol, shooting him in the abdo men. This stopped him'and he fell. He was brought here and put in jail, Dr. C. A. Adams extracting the bullet, which hit him squarely in the stomach. Had the weapon been any account it would have killed the worthless rascal. He suffered in tensely last night, partly from the wound and more from the hip, it ap pearing that he had been hurt some way. Underwood, until he drank and de serted his wife, had not been regard ed worse than a sorry rascal, though he was known to be mean. Mrs. Par ton, the sister of his abandoned wife, has not been arrested and will in all probability not be arrested. It was manifestly a case of self-defense. The rackett occurred about two miles in the country beyond the new Watts Hospital. Dr. Adams says the man is in no danger of death. ' The closing arguments in the Rawls retailing case in which the pro prietor of the Hopkins Hotel was "Charged with selling whiskey to De tective Mayfield, who was stopping there in July, were made this morn ing by Viictor S. Bryant for the de fense and City Attorney R. O. Everett for the state. The case is themost interesting blind tiger indictment that has ever been tried here. It has consumed two days of last week and will be finished this afternoon. Rawls is charged with maintaining a blind tiger though but one specific sale has been found and that is denied by him. Detective Mayfield came here from Roanoke, Va., and was put on the cases with the result that he found a thirst-slaker at the hotel. Fernle- Foster, the- porter at the hotel, was the chief witness for the State and It was through him that Mayfield bought the booze. ' As sodh as he was detected, Foster was caught and bound over.;; The bond was put up by W. T. RIgsbee and was for $20Q. Foster skipped to Richmond and was caught. When brought hack here lie said he .had been carrying whiskey and tleer from the" near-beer stand' of RIgsbee to ; the Hopkins i i 1 1 f , r i m-.i SHOT IN SELF DEFENCE " Vf SSl S&mvmaimwwmiswtammtdZf Nwiiw" mi miir Wf null " 11 Scenes in the Recent War Games. - i :vv-:-v-v??;:-: ..:.;.-;.v-.-:-:-:''.,.'.v: :- aowx:;' .';';:-;;'ay if .:' .jr w mt'v.r r"iTK 'A.x . " Aide Blayden, studying a road map, as they plan a defense against the recently played in Massachusetts. Itelow is a sketch of the innovation York chauffeur. The loner picture 'shows the marching army of the streets of a small town. guests and a warrant was sworn out against Rigsbee, the richest young man in Durham. Foster was entertaining. He-said In an affidavit before the recorder's court, that City Attorney Everett had promised him to grant him immunity from punishment if he told where he got his whiskey. This affidavit is figuring in the most bitter of legal fights the city has had in a long time. Solicitor Everett did not reply to the affidavit until lie addressed the court and then said that he had told Foster that he knew Foster was the go-between and that he was not seeking to punish him greatly but to catch the men responsible for violations of the law. The defense was rather bitter to wards the city attorney, saying his method of extracting testimony is dangerous In the extreme, putting bad men 'always on the lookout for liberty, and good men forever in dan ger of those very bad ones. The remains of Walter Pickard, Jr., whO died Saturday evening in a Richmond hospital, reached Durham yesterday morping and an escort of city firemen met the body In Greens boro, taking it from here to Chapel Hill, the home. Young Pickard, but twenty-two, was taken to Richmond six weeks ago for treatment of an organic heart trouble. He showed Improvement and his death was a great shock here, where he came almost daily. He was the first chief of the Chapel Hill fire department and served It until his death. He was manager also of the Chapel Hill-Bull City automobile line and the son of W. W. Pickard, pro prietor of the Pickard Hotel of Chapel Hill. The funeral services were held this afternoon. .Frank Allen, a young negro, was detected almost in the act of firing the Brewer-Rand livery stable yestor dayNnorning and locked up Imme diately. Allen's grouch Is unknown and he Is not talking. At 2 : J 5 the officers turned In a fire alarm but the blaze in the; livery stable, was put out be fore the 'firemen "reached the place. Alien was immediately suspected and was almost "on the spot when seen. He will be given a preliminary hear ing tomorrow. - . . Fnrman Yates, a seventeen rear Old boy living here, Is believed by his father, L: S. Yates, to be wandering in Richmond, where he was. known to have been headed a week ago when he left here. Young Yates left his home without a complaint. He is half-witted and hysterical, breaks down when his mother's name is mentioned and is a large baby. Owing to his mental con dition his father, who is a very well known planter, is greatly distressed and fears that he may have been taken by the officers of .Richmond for beating a train or something of the kind. He Is iu constant dread of the prison walls. The youngster comes of an excellent Durham family. REVIVAL MEETINGS. Series to Begin At Edenton Street Church September 10 Rev. E. K. McLarty, of Greensboro, to be Here. Edenton Street Methodist church is preparing for a series of meetings to begin Sunday, September 19. The pastor, Rev. W. A. Stanbury, will be assisted in these revival meetings by Rev. E. K. McLarty, pastor of the Wwiit Market Street Methodist Church, Greensboro. Mr. McLarty is a most interesting and powerful preacher and his work in Raleigh will no doubt be attend ed by great good. He will be in the city about ten days and the Raleigh people' are invited to come out and hear him. ' AERIAL MAIL ROUTES BEFORE MANY YEARS The following item taken Iroin the Cleveland Plain Dealer will be of in terest to Raleigh people: Toledo, O., Aug. IB Postmasters from every state in the union assem bled here today to attend the twelfth annual convention of the National As sociation of Postmasters. , The con vention is to be addressed tomorrow by" Postmaster General Hitchcock, who will arrive late tonight. 1 " That aerial mall routes will be a part of the postofflce service before many more conventions of postmast ers are held wag the' prediction -made by Postmaster Willis G. Brlggs, of Raleigh, N. C, before the convention today. ' - T CONTEST CLOSES THURS. AT I P.M. Four Days in Which to Land Enough Business to Make You the Winner HISS DEMENT LEADS Great Contest Will Come to a Close on Thursday the 2flth, at 1 O'clock I'. M. The Contestants Must Have All Their Subscriptions and Votes in the Big Ballot Box at That Hour, as the Judges Will Take Chaise and Bender Their Decision. Thousands of Votes Are Being Is sued and Home-stretch Will be In teresting. Just three more days after today, then some lucky contestants will re ceive the two magmncent tanaaiau trips. If you are to be one of the for tunate two now is the time to put forth every effort. Many a race has been lost in the home-stretch. Just a little more effort on your part the remaining three days may mean that on will be a winner, while if you do not put forth the additional effort It may mean that you will lose. The CANADIAN OUR leaders in this great contest are so close together that It Is an impossibil ity to begin to pick the winner. Really if some of the contestants knew just how few votes would cause them to lead they would not cease work night or day until the close. In order that the two successful contestants may have plenty of time in which to prepare for these two great: rips the Contest-JUanagei Jaa : decided to close the contest at 1 p. m. Thursday, August 26, and if possible to announce the winners the same af ternoon. Each and every contestant should be on hand to watch the count made, or have some representative. The key to success the remaining three days of the contest is Work. Work every minute of the three days, right up to the last minute of the contest. Remember that one years subscription might cause you to be the lucky winner or one year's sub scription might cause you to lose. Today Miss Dement, of Raleigh, continues to lead in the entire con test, while Mrs. McFarland, of Wil son, is second, and Mrs. Amos, of Reidsville, is third. The question of the hour is, who will be leading next TJhursday at 1:00 m.? Raleigh, N. C. Miss Frances Dement 235,535 Miss Annie Clark 42,000 Miss Eva Warters .. 34,825 Wilson, If. C. Mrs. K. W. McFarland 219,750 Reidsville, N. C. Mrs. J. B. Amos 108,000 Goldsboro, N. C. Miss Dora Powell 47,500 Mrs. C. L. Bass 24,6)0 Lillington, N. C. Miss Mabel Clifton 42,750 Roxboro, N. C. Miss Rosie Newell .. .. 41,300 Kinston, N. C. Miss Clara Oettinger 40.5W Rocky Mount, N. C. Miss Minnie Price, Route No. . 36,500 Greenville, N. C. Miss Lillian Carr 33,400 Washington, N. C. Miss Carrie Simmons 28,240 Durham, N. C. Miss Lida Vaughan 27,600 Miss Mildred Turner .. 2,750 Henderson, N. C. Miss Jessie Dunn .' 26,925 Miss Mabel Kelly.. 4.265 Morehead City. N. C. Miss Bertha Willis 26,750 Miss Corrinne Bell 22,500 Dunn, N. C. Miss Isabel Young.. .. .. .. .. .. 7,500 Elizabeth City, N. C. Miss Inez Broughton 6,150 Beaufort, X. C. Miss Reva Morton.. .. 5,100 Miss Mamie Pnffrey 4,260 Hillsboro, N. C. Mr. Eugene RImmer.. ...... .. 3,25ft Schedule of Votes. ' i? $ .45 ... .. .. .. '45 votes $1.25.. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 125 vetea $2.50.. .. .. .. .. 250 votes $5.00.. .. .. .. .. .. ...j' - 600 votes Payments Made In Advance, -$ .45., ...... ...... .. 200 votes $ 1.26.. .......... .. .. .. 800 VOtea $2.80.. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..-i,000'"vteoa $ 6.00.. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 2.500 VOUS $10.00.. .. .. .. .; .. ., '7,BW votea $15.00.. .. .. .. . .l&6B0Vote: s ; $20.00.. i ,-.20,000 VMM ' $25.09;. .. ..i ..- vr" '-3080 Vt SATURDAY EVENING CAPITAL, 1 1 Weekly, 25o-per year, f 'i 25e. on year.., J.J..,.,.,.'.I00VM 50o... 2 year..i.'..:U.4t'.i.f..li80O vo Send all votes and aUdre co-,' . munications regarding the contest to THE CONTEST .MANAGER, Th -J-'Ji t Evening Times,, Ral'elga,.N. C, 1 7't v t V . v.
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