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THE ,CltY:OF RALEIGH OF ANY OTHER NEWSPAPER. -St ' .1 A4fJ t n i 1 j '.Washington,' Oet. 26 Fore cast for florth Carolina for to night and Wednesday: Fair tonight and Wednesday, :v EDITOH t ESTABLISHED 1876. RALEIGH, N. C, TUESDAY,' OCTOBER 26, 1909. PRIGS 5 CENTS DOUBLE Ti IE CIRCULATION ' . ' ' ' ' .' . ". ' - ' - PRESIDENT TAFT GOES ON LONG TRIP DOWN THE BIG MISSISSIPPI RIVER The First Stop of the Presiden tial Fleet Was Made ; Before Daylight GREETED BY CROWD Presidential Fleet Left St. Louis Last Night Amid Schreeching Whistles and Clanging Bells -Greeted ; by Bonflres Far - Down the River President Did Not Attend the Gov enior's Banquet On Board . the Boat Taft's Speech Regarded as Showing His . Determined Stand Against Joe Cannon Children tip Early to Greet the President. - (By William hostek.) Cape Girardeau, Mo., Oct. 26 In the dark of the early morning at 5 o'clock, to be exact, President Taft's boat Oleando put in at Cape Girard eau this morning and made the first stop of the 1,200 mile trip down the Mississippi. Though it lacked twen ty minutes of daylight, there was a big crowd out to welcome the presi dent in' the little Mississippi river town. The thirteen official boats in the fleet trailing behind for a dis tance of two' miles, followed the ex ample of the Oleando and a goodly representation of governors, senators and representatives went ashore rub bing the sleep out of their eyes but strong in their determination to do what Taft did. Motor cars carried the party to the state normal school, where there was a full turnout yof the pupils.' An address of welcowe was delivered by Mayor M. E. Letting, af ter which a group of school children presented the president with flowers. Representative Crowe introduced the president, who spoke briefly, thank ing the children for rising at such an early hour to greet him. The sun was Just rising when the Oleander at 7 o'clock pulled out for Cairo, Ills., which will be reached at noon. An immense crowd was left behind at St. Louis last night when the pres idential fleet pointed southward amid screeching whistles and clanging bells. Far- down the river crowds lined the bank and levees and sent a bedlam of salutes ringing acr.oss the water. In the gathering twilight, huge bonfires began to blaze forth. Bengal lights were set off and the fleet passed between rows of flaming torches. Skyrockets burst in the air, bombs exploded and cheers, growing fainter and fainter bb the river wid ened, came echoing from the shores. At Jefferson Barracks three great fires were burning, and as thOi fleet passed slowly, by the troopers were discerned in the red glow, druwn up at attention. After the bugler sounded a series of flourishes and darkness having fallen the "Star Spangled Banner' took the place of the 21 guns that would have been fired in honor of the president had the sun been shin ing. Then the moon came out, a glorious fall moon, that lighted tip the Father of Waters to an almost daylight Jsiow. Oh .the government's boat, the St, , Paul, which . was, crawl ing along in the wake of the Oleando, bearing the., president, .preparations wererunder way ror tne Danquet mat the president was to attend,, the float ing feast, the arrangement being that the Oleando and the St, Paul should tie up together in order. that the president might cross over and sit at the head of the table wth the twenty governors who make tip the , party. As lights began to play and then a bugle call from the Oleander attract ed the attention of the St. Paul. "A message from the president, St. Paul. Ahoy." , , "Bacik it you. Oleander." ; . , ' "What, h'fi. ,ihe president regrets thalhe cannot accept yolir, lnritation for tonjgfit.;. Be.ls' completely tired out and nls ihroat Is in such bad shape that he, "believes he will rest here. Sdme other night for the din ner.". " ,v: So the governors abandoned their dress suits and, bat down to a family dinner with the diplomats and cabi , net officers in the ship behind, and the senators and, congressmen in, the ship behind that and the citizen com , mlttee , and deep, water legates . trailing aWug,'.;' BashJlghiVr playing ' tj-om ship to ship and megaphone - calls being hurled back and forth to pass the time way..' On the president's boat Tift In- vdulged In a friendly game of whist until .10 o'clock, when he turned la : for a rise betimes at Cape Girardeau thjs morning. . On the senatorial and congres sional, boats a few decks of cards were called into play, but talk was general and most of it had to do with the exceedingly frank speech of the president in the coliseum yesterday. when he served warning on the con gressmen that if there are to he deep waterways from the lakes to the sea, the pork barrel must be smashed as a preliminary move. '': .The, speech is jusj. another. eyldence of the determined stand .. Taft has taken against Uncle Joe Cannon. The speaker got the hated bond issue full j in the. face yesterday and he winced under it. Cannon is doomed. He is serving his last term in congress and he knows it as well, if, not better, than anyone else. If the truth were told, his successor has already been se lected. Wlien the next congressional election approaches the speaker will announce his retirement from politics and the inspiration for his with drawal will come from President Taft himself. Facts that do not bear pub-! licatlon at this time, secret influences that are already atwork, will make this a certainty. On the St. Paul last night, the president's declination to attend the banquet megaphoned' across the wa ter, played hob with the plans of the committee. The chef of the Planters Hotel of St. Louis was already at work preparing delicacies for the feast.. The covers were already laid The long cabin of the St. Paul , re sembled a flower garden. What to do? The family dinner was hastily substituted and the committee turned to the question of conserving the re sources. Here was a lot of the rich food tUat was intended to. presiden tial consumption. ' The president may come on later m, bttt'Will Upkeep that long. An other consideration created conster' nation. In the hurry of getting away most of the correspondents had sent out stories that the banquet, the floating feast, had been held. The St. Louis correspondents went fur ther and described it with full par ticulars. Up to midnight there was great megaphoning from boat to boat to get in touch with the man who had authority over the fleet, he being in the last boat, and gej. his author ization to stop the vessel and send off a telegraph operators to share in a boat, tap a wire and inform St. Louis that the banquet had missed fire. The proprietor of one St. Louis pa per offered $250 to the man who would get ashore with the correction. Nothing doing and for two hours St. Louis correspondents hung over the rail of the St. Paul bellowing mes sages to passing craft. "Take back a message to St. Louis, telephone it, telegraph it, do any thing; say that President Taft was sick and didn't attend the banquet." But we might as well have been in mid-ocean without a wireless outfit. The passing craft seemed to think we were cheering with them, and answered back with, cheers. It will go down in history as the banquet that wasn't eaten. ANNUAL REPORT ON PARK .. (By Leased 'Wire, to The Times.) Washington Oct. 26 The. annual re port of the Chlcamauga and Chatta nooga. -National Military- Comlsslon for the fiscal year eliding June 80, 1909, has beon received at the war' depart ment. It shows that Major Joseph B, Cuming, of Georgia, was appointed to Bucceed Lieutenant Vnerai Alex P. Stuart who died August SO, 1908, and and Colonel John TWeedale, IT.- S. 'A., to simcecs Brigadier ' General ; Frank (i. Smith, ,U.S. A., retired, relieved at tls own roVjuest. . . .j No, land was required, since the pre vious reDort exectot for roads. 1 Tlie total . acreage. Is. $,876; costing 1314,990. During the year' an . extension of the Sherman crest road around the Shei man reservation att he northern end of Missionary Ridge was made. Bight mile's of the roads from Stevens Gap to Crawfish Springs was built : A road from tlie foot of Lookout Mountain to Rossville Gap is under construction. -A .number of new . monuments and markers were erected during the year , The army maneuvers participated ,in by. reiiilar troops and mititla of Ten nessee, Alabama, Georgia, North' Caro. ! Una. South Carolina, and Virginia, held in July and August, 1908, resulted In no doamage to the park. The- total re ceipts for the year were $120,134 and the - expenditures 79,530, nVEHTTLE GIRLS LOSE LIFE IN FIRE Presbyterian Orphige at Lynchburg Burned and Five Children Perrish. HEROIC WORK Were Twenty-nine Children in the Building But All But the Five Were Gotten Out Safely, Though ' First Floor was Enveloped in Flames When Discovered The Cook Discovered the Fire and Ren dered Heroic Service in Getting the Children Out One Little Girl Lost Her Life in Attempt to Save I Her Sister. (Special to The Times.) Lynchburg, .Va., Oct. 26 The Shelton Cottage, the girls home of the Presbyterian Orphanage home of the Virginia Synod, was destroyed by j Are this morning about 4 o'clock and with it five little girls, members of the nursery department of the insti tution lost their lives. There were twenty-nine children and two adult women in the building . .. , . . . . .u7, and it is regarded as a miracle that more than half of them were not in cinerated, for the entire basement and first floor were enveloped in flnmoe whpn riiunnvovctH liv MrK. PriBt thp rw.1, whn ws Hinin- in the structure I anese emDassy. which had received When she discovered the blaze she;direct news from Tokio- but a defi aroused the entire number of occu- i nit statement was , refused, pants, and going to the third floor, I The shooting took place at the she brought twelve or fifteen girls to ; railroad station at, Harbin and was the second floor and they were res- i clear'y the result f a very carefully cued from the top of the porch, for i arranged plot. ii mean of esMine throueh the! The diplomat VH when struck stairway was cut off and the build ing was about ready to fall. Mrs. Priest, after seeing the chil dren in the main part of the build ing out safely, was compelled to jump, and she suffered a dislocated shoulder, the sprain of her back and a painful wound on., her scalp. She i will recover. Only one of the res cued girls was injured, and she sus tained a sprained angle by jumping. The nursery was located on the sec ond floor of the wing of thfe building, and the five children could have been resecued had there been men near by, for no one but women were near bv. One little Eirl who had been taken out on the roof of the veranda found her younger sister was inside the building and she returned to get her. Both of them perished The insurance on the building and contents is $6,000.. The building was donated by Mrs. F. X. Burton, of Danville, as a memorial to her father .The boy's home was located sev eral hundred yards from the girl's home and was not hurt. The dead are: Ruby Moore Field, Lynchburg, Va Lucille Moore Field, Lynchburg, Va. Mamie Reynolds, Bath County, Va. Marie Hickman, Campbell County, Va. Mary Poole, McDowell county, W. Va. The Are burned the cooking and dining departments of the institute and the twenty-four surviving girls ate being cared for in the homes of nearby residents. There seems to be no doubt but the the Are was started by the fur- nace from which the building was heated. . There was no time to save any thing and a fire department would have been of no avail. The instltu tlon was established about seven years ago and wag just getting on a good financial basis. LIEUTENANTS MAKE AEROPLANE FLIGHT (By Leased Wire .to The Times.) , College Park, Dd., Oct. $ Lieuten ant Humphreys and Lieutenant Lahm, for the flfst time this morning took up a Wright biplane unassisted and alone. Lileutenant Humphreys made the first attempt, gomg up at 8:16 oclock, re maining in the air three minutes. He circled the field, twice, remaining . in the air three minutes. His. handling of the, machine was very Bkillfui:, . :, After , ane false start Lieutenant L&hm got into the air at 8:41 o'clock. He staved in tfee air 13 minutes. making half a dofcen 14rgn circled and Several small wes. . . ..... Mr. Wright , watched bis pupils close. f PMGEilTO IS SHOT AND BADLY HURT Recieved ImeeWounds at Hands of Assassin and IDie WAS -AT HARBIN I W;is Shot liy a Vrtiialird! k triot Dim-ton Toriuku Xiinrliiis'ia KAiliw.iMf .uw l-ii'iii c Jnr .Vir:v-il m .u ;i Very IMioiit: ,j!..i..t, Hr; O -rnment Wfcji 'ti-.vi Sv (In- iliisiuiii VJiiMin' in" Ji.il'.i (: lh l'U.'( hi.-:.' i.y liiiwia's Itiili'oi.l Iii :-rx-sc . i ItitWa Prince, o W;, , Diplomat. (By Cable to The Time London, Oft. 26 Prinze it Japan's leading '.'elder statesman' . was shot three tlme3 yesterday morn ing and fatally wounded at Harbin. Manchuria, by a fanatical Korean pa triot. Although the first reports of the attempted assassination staV. that Drin ..n Ttn nrna !nDtnntlt 1 ; 1 ' , . 1 , , 1 later news to the Japanese embassy here said that he did not die immedi ately, but there was no hope for his recovery. ' The report of the shooting was i confirmed here today by the Jap- thrice. -Director Tanaka, of the Man- churian Railroad, was afso wounded Tanaka, a Japanese, was stand ing on the side of the "elder states man" welcoming him when suddenly the reports of a revolver threw the crowd about the station into panic Several shots were fired. One Ko- rean Is reported to have been cap- tured. How many more were implicated in the attempt at assassination could not be learned. It is thought, how ever, that in the confusion following the shooting, several Koreans who had gone to Harbin prepared to carr: out the death sentence declared on Ito by the Korean patriotic organiza tions should the first attempt fall escaped. Harbin was thrown into a furor by the affair. The police were rein forced with troops and so severe be came the restrictions on the public that the town was virtually under martial law. The authorities immediately be gan making wholesale arrests and every Korean in Harbin was either thrown in jail or placed under guard Prince Ito was in Harbin to con- fer with the Russian minister of finance, M. Kokovsoff. The latter before the conference, expressly stipu lated that no diplomatic affairs had been considered by him, but matters of tremendous importance were to be taken up The principal topic was the pur chase by Japan of Russia's railroad Interests In Manchuria. Prince Ito went to Harbin on probably what was the most difficult and delicate mat ter in which he had taken part during his long service as a diplomat. The attack on Prince Ito Is the most Important development in the far eastern situation In a long time, and will In all probability have im mense . results. The attitude Japan will take on the matter. In View of the fact that the shooting was done on foreign soli, Is awaited with anx iety in the offices of every govern ment in Europe. Prince Ito's mission at Harbin was extremely delicate. Tls task was to Induce the representative of Japan's late enemy to-f avor Japan, in spite of an inclination on the part of St. Petersburg to keep the railroad lines out of the' hands of the. Nipponese The Russian government favored the sale of the railroads either to China, financed by an International syndi cate, or to such a syndicate direct. , The. roads include the main line and in addition the southern line from Harbin to Port Arthur. In SO years the title for, these lines will pass from Russia to China. ; u ', . The control of the, roads is of tre mendous strategic importance. The nbrth Mancburlan railroad system under Jipah's control,, would give that nation a tremendous lever and u Continued, on Page J Seven.) Ruler of the I -f At f I sir H - i.v 4' - TfMi&r i,''.M?tf ;": -ASH Speaker Cannon on his "scalp li intin;;" trip looking for support for the coming session of the House of Representatives. According to Con gressman Victor Murdock, of Kansas, one of the most disagreeable jobs in the world awaits some member of the C,;iinoii machine in the House this year. "It Is to go to Cannon and tc.l him that for the safety of the sys tem ho must announce immediately h s intention of retiring," said Con gressman Murdock. But Speaker Cannon, who dearly loves a light, lias no intention of being forced to receive such nu emissary. CANNON WILL TUMBLE-HE IS WEAKENING CHANCE OF G.O.P. He Himself Doing More Than Any One Else to Cause His Own Downfall Is Putting Party in Good Condition for Defeat Other Leaders Don't Like Method ..! CLVBK H. T AVKXXKR.) : Wasington, Oct. 20 The throne oi j Cannonism is tottering! Uncle .loo is himself doing more than anyone else toward hastening the end of gang rule in the American congress: This is the drift of comment in political circles since Uncle Joe's fa mous Ch'engo speech, in which Ik; said : "Twenty members of the house and seven senators voterl ag:;inst the republican tariff bill. They are war ring against the republican majority in congress and against tlie republi can president .w'.io signed the bill. Either they are republicans, or we are. If they are republicans, I am not. If I am a republican, they are not. That 's my doctrine, aud I am not afraid to preach It." Many of the republican member? of congress v!m vote.: f-jr the tariff bljl (iT'nre e-er Cannon's l er- si?teiK-C' in ;i ; ; ; :ui; : t I'er.'i i'.e LaFollettt'-C -mmi:;s-i;i:tt "v elomen. out of the party. Troy do rot for one moment think he will sucree!, and would not wish him to succeed if he could. They realize that a par ty is no stronger than its most pop ular men, and that if the On mm ns and LaFollettes and Bristol s should be driven to a new organization, t lie remaining republican organ would be no stronger than the popularity of Cannon and Aldrich. This is not the view of republicans like Tawney, of Minnesota, and Smith, of Iowa, to whom Aldrich and Cannon are veri table pol tical Gogods, but' to those republicans who would like to be in dependent of Cannonism while serv ing as members of congress, but are kept in line by the whip hand of the speaker. The latter class of republican con gressmen view with great alarm Uncle Joe's action in drawing-a line between the members who voted for the tariff bill and those who did hot. They do not want to go before the public on that issue, realizing only too well that public sentiment Is with the Insurgents and - against those Lower House jneml.ers iV-sstire. who supported the tariff 'Uncle Joe is .making a big mls U:m in Ruins after the insurgents as " ,':d in Klgin and Chicago," said : r.iher of congress who supported t'. c tar if hill. !'He is simply weak ening the pairy and putting it in good condition for defeat, at the con gvt'ssional elections next. fall. The tariff bill was unpopular enough, and wo.ikl have accomplished sufficient !.niuge for those member.:! who la '-I'd their O. K. on it by voting for l .v itho'tt Uncle Joe dragging it out wery 1 ttle while and proclaiming from the housetops that all those who supported it are republicans, and all tho :e who refused to support it, are something e;e. By champion ing the Aldrich-Payne bill Speaker Cannon i also doing himself more !"'.i'm than he has any idea of. He is it:if '.ening his own downfall. '": e T.-'vne.y typo of standpatter is '! ' : ros, eels of re '; ''. . the otVer-hand, t: e In-i- ! not worrying. No re .:::! can senator or representative, i far as is known is sorry that he v ;.o.(h1 the tariff bill. Having stood i. lie consumers, they have every eascin to expect the consumers will -;i -ml by them. Speaker Cannon, iiowover, blindly imagines that it is the insurgents that are on the defen sive, when the truth appears to be, it is the men who followed the leader ship of Cannon and Aldrich who are really on the defensive, and have be fore them the fight of their lives. STUDENTS l'OISOXim Mysterious Malady Causes Closing of Athens College. ' Athens, Ala., Oct. 26 A myste rious malady believed to be ptomaine poisoning caused the closing; of the Athens Female College, a Methodist institution '.today. Although no fa tality has yet 'occurred, the greater part of the students have been stricken and forty are said to be too 111 to be moved to their home. Spe cialists first thought the illness to be some new form of fever. i RECORDER KEPT BUSY IN DURHAM Twenty-Seven Facfts, Judge Sykes in'OnerDay and of m UNUSUAL CASE 1. iHUcfva of iUilv-.;.vs Look- WW!' jilf-l.iM.1-C.flf.bu,0 it.iii'd of- Trade Fivpunug ! nioH-rs (c,if.!0(f Weteome. i uif-nal Ciisr: in 4,'iiy f'oiice Walking Blind .Ticr If, it atul StntavHl--Pick.pot,l'i i p t'ont- Yotiiig' .It-n "W ht Vi'itli Clonus Ave Fin.-'d-'- . s;.,ppetl ii.; m' TlifTii, V.'iw The Tiffir;i . tvt. 2fi Th-' wi-.r-fttlnR ! :he- Richmond and Ions of the Southern Rnif ti"'s place, were here ys- loday General Superin- .. IT. Wesl.fail. of the north. :na.s Bernard, engineer of Ti ' ' .'.!i:itenan-e of way, the general u j per visors and their section masters ; were here yesterday, looking over the ' line from Goldsboro to Greensboro, j and today B. Marye, roadmaster of ! the Richmond division, with the see- ttion foremen and supervisors, were ; here going over the Oxford . and j Clarksville route. They are looking over the track, bridges, and build ings. The merchants' association and board of trade., are preparing to give the national farmers' association a great time her exf; week when they come here to take in the- tobacco fac tories and the 'cotton mills in Dur ham. A big sale is to take place on the warehouse floors while they are here and they will be given chance to see something that many of them have never seen a tobacco factory, warehouse and auction. The farmers will spend but three hours here, coming early in . the morning of the fifth and remaining un(il the 11:22 train back to Ral eigh that day. . Recorder's Court. The recorder's court yesterday broke its record all to smash when 2 7 men faced Judge Sykes and rep resented all sorts of sins. The most unusual case was that of John Ford, who came here from Washington and was the guest, with Mrs. Ford and child, of Mrs. Ford's sisler,. Mrs. Florence Morris. Sunday morning the man and his. hostess fell out over.the 17-year-old daughter of Mrs. Morris. They had taken their toddy "and when Mrs. Morris started to whip her daughter, .Mr. Ford interposed. His hostess I hrew a plate at her guest, and miss ing, struck his little daughter on the head. Notwithstanding these alli ances Judge Sykes fined the visitor $25 and costs. The four young men who figured in the row with the clowns Saturday were then tried. Each testified that the fuss started by the clown slap ping Hugh Pool. This indignity was iiitensified by the. si?e of the clon. who could not have weighed 1 0 pounds. Mr. Pool missed a swing at him, so the evidencewent, when tbe other clowns took the matter, up. Tl-.M hi; i i became general, the polka : iiP'n i hat the clown was merely u 'eater of the wind and mlsseti every lead. The young men. Vade. Brown, .1. E. Cagle, Hugh Poioi, and Wil Fu t -a; j aid $2 and costs. Judge Syfrets said he thought, they had behaved very well after the fus. and that the clown had exceeded his mission In slapping one of the 'men who wa merely lookina on. -v, The pickpocket case , ,of .. William Beall, alias S. 'lionet, was then jtrled. The negro says he has been with, thf West view Sto9kr. Company .-and, was due in Charlotte thlfi week, whero he attends, two race horses- ..Th man wnom ne roijuea toia sucn an unvary- ing and apparently truthful.storj that conviction was certain, but the ,egfo made a splendid Witness and gaye the court great .-d0ujt.;Jaa to his JfUlIt. The charge of" robbery was first re duced to larceny and then the1 min imum sentence vas lmposed,: four months on.thec$i. - ... . $ Will baniels &cjored matt, was charged with assaulting his win and was sent to the roads .for 90 days. . TUley. Vaughan (wi8,'flhd4 ff ior failure to answer 'fii "two- cases'' as a ' Contlnue4 on ftp Swa,) , 1. f r . i
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