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DOUBLE THE CIRCULATION IN THE CITY OF RALEIGH OF ANY OTHER NEWSPAPER. I united I ZSFTtt rt7Vr V 7$r iast - ralhch! mm XWtttllfl Wm$ edition ESTABLISHED 1876. RALEIGH, N. C, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1909. PRICE 5 CENTS THIRD DAY'S SESSION OF CONFERENCE Conference Spends Busy Day Transacting a Great Deal of Routine Business QUESTIONS The secretary then called Revs. H. Report From tho Anti-Saloon League ' E. Spence, W. C. Martin, W. E. Trot Heceived and Referred to the Com- man, R. D. Daniel, C. R. Canipe, and mltee on Temperance Rev. J. L. W. W. Peele to the chancel and Cunitinggim, Director of Correg- Conference Mr. F. S. Blair, Rep resenting the National Peace Con- ference, Before the Body Dr. O, I W. Bjrrd Also One of the Speakers, i Taking Dr. Hammond's Place. I I The third day's session of the ' North Carolina Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, was called to order by Bishop A. W. Wilson, at 9:30 this mornlnc tho re- liglous service of the hour being con- to lose your place. The real starting torney' and ,the defense had employed ducted by Dr. Wm. H. Moore, presid- point is just where our church puts 88 unel Attry Burgess. ing elder of the Rockingham district, it: a genuine understanding of your: t The fir8t witnes8 clled fr tne The secretary read the proceedings j place in the church. The notion now sta'e wf 8 Dr- McCullers, who testified of yesterday which were approved. ! is to give a man a training the as l the, causes of McLean s death. Under call of question 2, "Who Re-1 apostles would not have given. Your He staed that the spinal column was main on Trial?" the names of the fol- starting point is not their higher crit- Bev"ed b a b"Uet and that a man lowing were called, made their re- ical point, but have you faith In cou'd live wnotf sPine was brokn ports, character passed aud were ad- Christ? Christ and the higher crit-, BS J1'81 L P ln the PreKent tase vanced into full connection: H. E. itc often cross. You will never get' Suslf.lGaddy wf-1 bhe Spence. Wm. C, Martin, W. E. Trot- away from the fact that in spite of w" wit Mary Ut?n ou ,the "1?,ht man, R. D. Daniel, and C. R. Canipe. all higher critics Christ is all ln all ofthe "hooting and her version of the J. J. Boone was continued in the to us. Paul's standard Was, "God ftta,r wa8 tnat she a"d Uar ,w h class of first year. . j forbid that I shonld glory, save in w rifnd8 were walking up North The report of the trustees of the the cross of Christ, and 1 dare you to West 8tref whfnh?y et Torn and Methodist Episcopal Chnrcb. Th,Hold td any other"." Otner founda- neBro namfd Alstn' Mal7 and was received and referred to the com- tion can no man lay. My time Is Tom engaged in some high words and mittee. I short now, and bad I it to go over On motion of Rov. John H. Hall again it would be the same. Let the the case of Rev. Louis N... Booth, of people feel as you go Into their homes the Methodist Episcopal church, from that you bring Christ, the beginning the Atlantic Mission Conference was and the end, preach Christ. I thank taken up and he was admitted to this God I have known something of.hlni, conference in deacons orders. land I throw the burden on others Rev. John H. Hall surrendered the ' with the hope that Christ, the living credentials of Revs. Edward John- j Christ, will be your bope and stand son and Sanders Payne, local preach- ard. He Is the all and worth It all. ers, one having been expelled and the Go out with the spirit of his bap other withdrawn from the church. tlsm upon you and With the idea that Taking up Question 2, the follow-! Christ is the first In all things. The ing young men passed examination of ; vows were taken la 'open conference, characterr reported, and were ad- j An Invitation Was received from vanced to the class of the fourth professor John B. Ray to attend an year: John M. Wright, A. D. Wilcox, entertainment at the Blind Instltu J. C. Whedbee, Chas. T. Rogers, Ed- tion, 4:30 to 5.30. Also, one from ward N. Harrison, John W. Autry, W. Peace Institute to attend an enter ic Rexford. Louis T. Singleton, and tainment there at 5 o'clock this even O. W. Dowd. 'ing. ! Revs. M. A. Smith and M. Y. Self: ,d uy. "a, " 1 Under Question 12, "What travel-was enUtied to five members, each man. She stated that after the shoot ing preachers are elected elders?" iof laymen and ministers. The blsh- ing all the crowd ran and she went the following passed and reported op apPointed as tellers M. Bradshaw out to the fallen man who said, when and were advanced to class of fourth and T- A Sm00t and T H. South- asked who shot him, "Mv own dear year: Louis E. Sawyer, W. T. Usry A. W. Price, L. P. Howard, E. B. iiavcu, xj. . nuuiliauu, dames ivi. Daniel, and L. B. Jones. Under call of Question 1 the fol lowing young men were received on trial: T. M. Grant and S. 3. Kllpat rlck. ; On motion the following local preachers were elected to deacons orders: C. B. Culbreth, Walter Pat ten, J. H. Aiken, D. H. Reld, and 8. J. Kil patrick. A report from the State Antl-Sa-loon League was received and re ferred to the committee on temper ance. Rev. J. L. Cunniggim, a member of this conference and director of the correspondence school at Nashville, was given 't(me to speak a good word for the new book, "Future .Leader ship of the Church," by John R. Mott. On motion of W. L. Cunniggim the name of T. J. Browning was referred to the committee on conference rela tions for the superannuated relation. Dr. Parker, of the China Mission Conference, and Mr. F. S. Blair, rep resenting the National Peace Confer i i ! ence, were introduced-and the latter spoke on the subject indicated. ' He asks that the conference take up the matter of petitioning against all war. On motion of Dr. W. H. Moore the presiding bishop and the secretary signed tho petition. Mr. Blair comes in behalf of the conference.' Dr. C. W. Bird was introduced to speak for Or. J. D. Hammond, gen eral secretary, who prefaced his re marks by a reference to the charge of time coiibumcd in u North Carolina Conference In connections! officers, And Assured the conference that he was sot connections! and that the Episcopal bee had. never buzzed about his car. The main object of Dr, Bird U to lay before the conference the at tempt of the educational board to raise half a million endowment In five years by 100,000 members who I join the Educational Federation and jpay $1.00 a year for five years. I Dr. W. F. Tlllett was introduced 'and prefaced his remarks with the I statement that his coming here is al ways a home-coming, and with that as an introduction told the conference of his work in the Vanderbilt Uni versity, from which he said had gone lout more than 700 ministers; and took occasion to tell of the advant- ages of the correspondence schools of that institution. As a proof of the efficiency of Vanderbilt as a trainer j of ministers he called a long list or f names on this conference roll and!' asked, "Are they a help or a hind-! I ' ranee to a man who comes to tell ' ! about Vanderbilt?" j i On motion of John H. Hall it was ' 'ordered that immediately after the f A 1 1 1?!! recention of 0,888 lnt0 fu" connection vALLJuI tho conrerence 8 lnt0 ballot t0T del egate to the general conference. Bishop Wilson proceeded in his own duties there were before them and to tell them the best way to do such, Said he: "Start right, in your clos-! ets. You will have plenty of advice, j and many suggestions, but your only chance is to get as close to God as you j can and never get away from Him. I would not give a fig for ambition in tho man who does not want a circuit. but a station in keeping with hia nhHltv sneh will en line vnn TAirinor un rnn mnrrnr nr pipprinn or delegates to general conference it WAN annmincert thai1, thp Conference gate and Job. G. Brown. The ballot proceeded. By agreement the ballot was ord ered counted and the tellers instruct ed to report the result to the session Saturday morning. Mrs. Lucy H. Robertson, president of Oreensboro Femafe College, was Introduced to the conference and spoke briefly and hopefully of the old (Continued on Pa Two.) I THANKSGIVING DAY HAS GONE and our minds are turned to the future. It was an ideal day on which to make plans for the coming year, It was not .a day for big business, yet there were many things of interest taking place in the city and throughout the world. After you had finished your Thanks giving dinner and taken a comfortable seat for a good smoke you were agreeably surprised to see your old friend, THE EVENING TIMES ready for you. Did you notice that it gave the doings of the world, from the President and Crowned Heads of the world down to all the incidents in our own city on Thanksgiving Day? DID YOU NOTICE that it contained 8,260 ; : AGATE LINES 0 PAID ADVERTISING. I 9 MARYMIEAN BEING TRIED FOR MURDER J iL. DK Pv.,.4 iUeil 1111116 lOllCC lOUlt This Morning Charged With Murder WITNESSES STORY Trial of Mary McLean Begun This Morning and Will be Continued This Afternoon Damaging Testi mony Given by Kye-witnesses to the ! Killing Both Had Been drinking j and Woman Resented Slap Given ; by Man Witnesses State That j Man Had No Weapons and Was ; Not of a Vicious Nature No Previous Fuss Between the Two. Mary McLean was tried in the po lice court this morning for the mur der of Tom McLean, a cousin, on NovemDer le- The state was repre sented oy waiter Clark, jr., city at- Tom slapped Mary in the mouth, whereupon she pulled a gun and shot him. Said both had been drinking. Nannie Marks was the next wit ness and her testimony was the same In substance as that of the Gaddy wo man. She stated that Tom McLean had no weapon and that if he had held one she could have seen it, they being near a street lamp. Knew of no previous fuss between the de fendant and deceased. Mrs. Mettle Nowell stated that she lives on North West street and that about 6 o'clock on the night of No vember 16 she heard loud voices in front of her house. Going out to see what was the trouble, she saw a party of negroes, but did not recognize any one except Mary McLean, that Mary was fussing with a man and that the ; man cursed Mary, then slapped her with hie mn horwi anH thof fmma- dlately afterwards Mary pulled a pis- j tnl frnm anmowhapa nnri chrtt tha cousin, Mary McLean, shot me". Witness stated that she did not see any weapon in the hand of deceased, nor any lying around on the ground near the place. Mrs. Nowell's two small children were examined and their testimony c'oroborated that of their mother' Mr. J. H. Nowell was examined and said he was in the house at the time ( continued on Page Five.) A Pathetic '( . . . . . 1 1 f mJfr'"ffi&L i" A t lt : til y M HALF MILLION MILL Also $100,000 Tobacco Busi ness Chartered Today Lumberton Gets a Cotton Mill With An Authorized Capital Stock of $5O,000 Tobacco Warehouse for Wilson With a Paid I'p Cap.tal of $100,000 Watha Improvement Company. There were three certificates of in corporation filed with the secretary of state today, having a total author ized capital stock of 10,000. The Jennings Cotton Mill, incor porated, of Lumberton, was charter ed to build and operate a cotton mill for the manufacture of yarns, cloth and all kinds of textile fabr cs. It has an authorized stock of $500,000, but may organize and begin business when not less than $34,000 Is paid in. Among the incorporators are A. W. McLean. The Center Brick-Watson Ware house Company, of Wilson, was char tered to buy and sell tobacco and manufacture and sell it in all its forms. The authorized capital stock is $100,000, and begins business with the full authorized stock paid in.' N. H. Cozart, AV. P. Anderson, and others are the incorporators. The Watha Improvement Com pany,, of Watha, Pender county, was chartered to develop and build a m,.- i. is $io,000 and it will begin business with $6,000 paid in. FOUR TOWNS IN DANGER FROM LAVA Santa Cruz, Teneriffe, Nov. 26 Four towns, In the path of the streams of lava that re thrown out by half a dozen craters, are today threatened with destruction. The situation is critical. The Inhabitants of the ap parently doomed towns are fleeing, and those of a fifth, Arguayo, have ap- 0 pealed for aid. The four chiefly en . ! dangered by lava are Tanque, Tam aino, Chasn and1 Santiago. 0 The entire island Is rocked almost m i continuously by the tremblors that ac- j company the violent explosions and 0 eruptions. The ashes darken the sky I an over the Canarler, floating many i miles. Ravines and srullies are filled ! with lava. The situation about Mount ( Bilina today was more critical- tnan I ever. Flames are snoi irom me ye-juia to irreat hlghts, sometimes reaching more than 1,000 feet. From all over tho island refugees 'are fleeing to Santa C.tiz. The sv jernmeht has 'started work on the I opening of a way from Guia to San ijuan on the coast. The Red Cross has a large organization in the field. FIVE PERSON'S DROWNED. Gasoline liaunch Overturned With Party on Lake. Muskegon. Midi., Nov. 8 Five ' young people were wrowned here yes terday when a gasoline launch was i overturned precipitating the ten oc- cupants Into the water. The party was makihg a trip across the lake to attend the wedding of Oscar Lett and Hilda firecksti-om, wken the becident occurred. , One of the party threw a lighted match under the eeata and come gas oline ignited, causing the occupants to rush to the front of the boat, cap Kiting it, ; Scene at the Cherry Hill Mine 1 ( .- . , if 1 wn I There are many pathetic scenes at i the Cherry, His., mine, both before and duriiij; the time of the rescue of i n number of the entombed men. This ; picture shows the womnn at the left, supported by two nurses, after she had been told fiat her 'ushaml wis so fortuir'te to be one of tlvse saved from t'ie b-m'nB mine. The. woman at the rifjht was told her hush ind was dead. There were scores of j scenes just like these. The it t e gir' at the bottom is the da-ahter of a ! m'ner waiting for news from her , father. ! CLOSING CHAPTER IN MINE HONOR (By Leased Wire to The Times.) Cherry, Ills., Nov. 26 The c'.o.-in chapter in the St. Paul mine hoiro was written today when ihe last of the state troops and the army of mine officials and expert d p it d. leaving the widows and ovpha.id of Cherry to mourn f r 310 dead and lsit bodies abandoned to the flames In the sealed mine. With the departure of Company C, of Skoglund, took up ttu work of guarding the upper works of the mine, which some of ihe miners, in. their anger at the abandonment of rescue efforts, had threatened to destroy with dynamite. The mine inspectors in a body, head ed by Hlchard Ncwsam, chief mine in spector of the state, left for Chicago to lay before Governor Deneen their findings. The relief work continues under agents of the American Red Cross and food was dispensed today as usual. The United Mine-Workers of America conferred on a plan of permanent re lief for the widows and their children. Ernest P. Blcknell. of the Red Cross declared that the aggregate perma nent relief fund had reached $05,000. John W. Rohrer Dead. (By Leased W'.re to The Times.) Klttanlng, Pa., Nov. 26 John V. Rohrer, the oldest newspaper editor in Pennsylvania, is dead at his home h,ere, He was horn ln Klttanlng March 5, 1823. In 1859 he was elected to the state legislature and in 1864 became editor of the Arm strong Democrat and Sentinel which he founded. He continued in active management until a lew mouths ago. ECONOMY IN NAVY May Re-organize The Navy Yards Those in a Position Know Say Thiit Xiivy Yard Kvponses Can te (ircatly Cut Without Impairing the Efficiency of the Service. Washington, Nov. 26 Officials of ; the navy department are confident that congress at the coming session will enact legislation :n keeping with tne secretary's recommendation for a reorganization of the navy yards. It is admitted by those in a position to Know that it is in the management, of the navy yards that expenses can be cut without Impair ng the efficiency of the service. Representative Butler, of Pennsyl vania, a member of the house com mittee on naval affairs, who has given much study to the workings of the navy, is one of those who favor econ omy in government expenditure. He believes there is ample room to im prove the naval service 'n many quarters. He does not approve of au thorizing the performance of civil dntiop generally by naval or military men. 'I";:civ use when not actually employed with their regiments or on their shij's is wrong, he says. A fhane in the percent system, he be lieves, wo'ihl enable the government to rave eno-gh money each ''ear out of the prd nary appropriations for eonstrrction and mnintiiinance of the raw, to lmv a first class batleship. Commem ing on navy yard-., he as serts tha' their mn'fTeriient is ex ra"nP"t an ' waseOl nltlio'igh en l ' r I - - 'innof;' "There isn't any eonn nmv in the flirp"tirn of n'rr ynrls," he sail "Tl'e bniU'ipps and s'lops, "oiii ioo ni'if'i moppv and are larger .p ' ore'iiev in number than ,neees sarv. The direct on of these yards Is S'-aftered and fieir administration rt eoe-eitra'ed T''ere is no or-s'tio- a"d "annot be w' en th re c m - O't T'-ere is too nvieh a-'-fioritv in too many administrators Give I heir disri' line and care to the militarv. but tal e from ,it the com- eree Dn t nut our officers to mau ng an". men Mvg. and don't req 'ire h m to 'w ard sell. I do not mean ' commit myself to what was known as the Newberry plan of manage ment, but 1 do wish to see it tr ed. 'f the proposed recommendation for reorgani-ation brings good business and concerning each patient Bald: conditions aud secures greater econ- 'Do you see that man? Well, he is omy, congress may be depended upon just as sane as I am.' I tell this 'to to treat it fairly. show how irrational the conversation "A few years ago each bureau had was. its separate power plant in the navy "I finally told him that my pres yards. Congress favors consolidat- ent position was unbearable and ing these plants that they will all be asked him to help me in suing for jm under the direct'on of one engineer, annulment of our marriage. He Can we not go further on the same ould not give me any definite line by doubling up these many ad- answer concerning that and would ministrative officers? Last winter only talk about 'my furniture' as he naval officers estimated the cost of a called it. collier to be built in a navy yard at "I don't know what to do. Today more than $1,500,000, while the ship I am allowed $70 a week and as soOn builders employing private "yards as I try to buy anything under the agreed to construct It for less than name of Mrs. Thaw merchants charge $900,000. Th's is not a rare instance me four times the ordinary1 price, of what would seem to be extrava- Seventy dollars a week to me is like gance, but it is the last one to reach $17 a week. Mr. Thaw has plenty tf my notice. Congress will assist the money and he Is squandering It. He navy department In bringing about Is playing Wall street ano the races, economy in the administration of the and I know the name of the man, in service." j Mew York who Is acting as hlB agent - i In his gambling. Furthermore, he 'is Tommy Divon Won Fight. losing money. And la addition tO Memphis, Tenn., Nov. 26 Tommy this he donates money to chutclrta; DIxoc, of NeW York, was granted the and he denies me his wife What I decision over Young Silberberg, of St. need to live on. I f el sorry "for nttn. Louis, last night ln the feature at theil beleire that he is not responsible Paoeaix Club, I and that he Is badjy-fujvi$e4" f .! I MRS. THAW COMES OUT IN BROADSIDE Says Her Husband Is Trying to Take Her Furniture Away From Her SNUBBED HER to Matteawan to See Her Hus hand in Answer to a Letter and Was There Met With a Demand for Her Furniture Says It is Hard to Live on $70 Week Says Her Po sition is Unbearable But Thaw Re fuses to Agree to au Annulment of the Marriage Says Thaw is Squandering His Money on the Races Also Gives Churches But Denies His Wife. (By Leased W re to The Times.) New York, Nov. 26 Mrs. Evelyn Xesbit Thaw today came out with a broads de against her husband, Har ry Thaw, whom she visited at the Matteawan Asylum, and who finally snubbed her there. She declared that she knew Thaw gambled In Wall street; that he had ample funds, and that he Is now try ing to take away from her all of her furniture. "1 don't know what to do," she said today when seen in her apart ment at 31 West 33rd street. "I have no money with which to retain legal talent. Harry is trying to make it as disagreeable for me as he can and he will not permit me to sue for an annulment of our marriage. "Three weeks ago Harry wrote me a letter saying that an Important matter had come up for us to discuss and asking me to visit him. "He stated In the letter that our pet dog "Toto" had died ln Pittsburg. 1 thought a great deal of 'Toto' and it grieved me. So I went to Matteawan to see Harry. I did not go with my brother, as has been stated. I went' alone. "When I arrived at Matteawan I met Dr. Baker and he told me that Judge Morschauser, Mr. Thaw's law yer, had told him that I was coming to visit Harry. I then saw Harry In a private room. Although he had threatened to kill me, I was willing to see him alone. Dr. Baker, how ever, would not consent to this, and so :i guard was present. "The iirst th ng Harry said to me was, 'I want to see you about getting my furniture." I asked him what he meant. He replied, 'Under the civil code a husband is compelled to give his wife no more than a bed. I want the rest of your furniture. I am go ing to send a sheriff after if I asled l.im why he intended resorting io fiat niethol. -The trustees of my estate have arranged to sell my furn'ture to de 'ray by recent, expenses.' I told him '. at i tho. ght it was hardly possible i intended taking the little 1 had, and he said, 'You go to Dr. Austin lint and make him explain to you.' !) lint was the first alienist to call .: . Thaw a paranoiac and he thought Mi Dr. Flint had gained this im ; .eti '.oii through things said by me. 1 toli him that Dr. Flint was not supporting me and he declared that I was hand in glove- wun ur. mmi. " v, e talked for two hours ln the asylum. During that time several patients there passed us. Mr. Th" pointed out several of them.' . .ue m dst of his conversation In wnich he was demanding 'his furniture' and
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