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N. DOUBLE THE CIRCULATION IN THE3 CITYOF RALEIGH OF ANY OTHER NEWSPAPER! ' . ,::..-., ; .(,:;.. 1910 Read The Times daring the ' coming year. 'All the News Wliile It Is News."! ESTABLISHED 1876. RALEIGH, N. C, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1910. PRICE 5 CENTS. LAST EDITION THE MEMBERS OF CONGRESS ARE WORRIED The People at Home are Com plaining About High Prices And Asking Why TARIFF AND PRICES ICvery Republican From the White House Down Knows That the Tar iff and the Present High Prices, Which Are Relieved to lie Mighty Clo.se Kin Arc the Ominous Shad ows for tln Party in November anil 11)14 Republican Party is Not G;)ing to (iron- Much Any where While Present Conditions Prevail. (Ry JOHN TEMPLE fiRAVES.) Washington, D. (, Feb. 1 Tim members of the slxty-tlrst congvess are hearing I mm t he American peo ple upon tne high cost of living. Tne four hundred and six representatives who make our laws are hearing from the eighty-four million represented wlirt li'ivA inriiithc! tn Hit 11 1(3 tnnt tne congressional mans nave not. been so oeavy within tue present decade as they have during the last fortnight, and it-Is something more than a presumption that the vast bulk of the messages that they hear relate to this question of food and the mice of il. The) discontent in the home of the country has found a voice. .80 far as I recollect, James J Hill, of St. i Paul, has been the pioneer in arous ing public sentiment upon this vital theme. For a year yast every public interview of the railroad statesman of the northwest has dealt seriously and wavingly wJth the question. Mr. Hill's prestige as one of the re-' public's, real thinkers and prophets has given accumulating weight to his words until at the first breath of it in congress the whole people seem to have risen to tell their representa tives thPl not the . tariff nor the' trusts, nor the railroads, nor the navy, nor the merchant marine, nor Joe Cannon, mean so much to them as the soaring prices of the necessi ties of life. : No. wonder .then, that congress wakes up with a start, and goes to work with a vigor and earnestness that is at least inspiring. When Senator Payne, of New York' and Boutell, of Illinois, and Champ Clark, of Missouri, lay their heads in serious counsel with the mighty ways and means commute be hind them and -bare their arms for a real investigation, it looks like hope ful, helpful work when it is most needed, and promises results. What results and -by what meth ods may not be exactly here at the first, hut one thing at least is sure. Publicity has done 'the work with most of the great evils that have cursed the country, and the light of publicity is going to shine through this question from this time on. No fear of any party division on this great, theme at least.' It is the best hope of the democrats for con gressional success next fall and for the greater election that follows.. And with the republicans it is a mat ter of life and death. They will, of course, endeavor to lift the bonus of high prices from their tariff and the trusts and privileges. " It does not need a declaration from VENICE IS NOT IN DANGERFN0MFL00D (Rv Cable to The Times.) London, Feb. 1 A despatch from Venice this a'fternoon says all danger of Hood has been averted. The rising ' xea, which early todav Inundated parts of the' city, has followed by an ab normal ebb tide which left several of the canals absolutcly,.dry. The phenomenon hns caused little alarm us it Is believed that a return to normal conditions will be experi enced Without serious damage. ' Belief Is said to be gaining ground among tne Italians that the wave bf floods sweep ing Europe has been caused by the terrestrial tnliuence or me so-ranru rinvllirht. or Halley's comet. Several Fiimnran Daneis today publish al- leged calculations PurPorHtin.8nl carried in round numbers $243,000. that a similar cornet made Its appear-. l8.0u0.000 in excess of predict lljat this present manifestation augurs another world-wide Inundation. the president to show how deeply he is alarmed and concerned over re' publican prospects. His recent activ ity in party 'matters, east and west Is almost without a presidential par allel. Nobody criticizes him for this. He is frankly and heartily a repun lican. He believes in the motive and mission of his party. It is his own best hope of establishing the-4egisla-tion which represents his conception of the public welfare. A)ut none the less, his vigorous ac tivity represents his consciousness of tho necessity of it. ' Any republican from the white house down knows mat the present tariff and tne higher prices which are universally believed to be mighty ciose are the ominous and enlarging shadows on the horizon of the party l'n November ana in 91 2. The administration activity in the south is founded upon a better pros pect than that section has held out for change and conversion 'since the war. A republican president who in the last national election carried two con gressional districts in democratic Georgia and three wards in its capital city of Atlanta, has more thnn ordi nary encouragement to go south again. The south is missionary ground for new ideas and new par ties now as never before, and with the educative and suggestive strange i results may be written of the next election. It seems to me that, the trend for the next decade will he for the re publican idea to go southward and the democrat ic drift steadily north ward and west ward. Hut the republican party in . the common judgment of the thoughtful and foreseeing is not going to grow mucn anvwnere unless its great ma . . i joniy in tne stxty-nrsc congress avaos something to make bread and meat and . butter land we love. cheaper in the Ambassador Calhoun to Sail. ( By Leased Wire to The Times.) Washington, Feb. 1 It was an nounced at the state department to day that Ambassador Calhoun will leave for his post at Pekin March 8, sailing from San Francisco on the steamer Magnolia. WORK OFliffi HOUSE The President's Legislative Program Taking Shape Representative Mann Says There is No Foundation For Newspaper Stories That President's Legisla tivp Program Will Go Through.'. ' (By Leased Wire to The Times) Washington, Feb. 1 RepresenaJ tive Mann, of Illinois, is chairman 01 the.committee on Inter-state and for eign commerce, and Speaker Cannon's lieutenant on the floor, said today that there is no foundation for the recent newspaper stories that Presi dent Taft's legislative program will go by the board at this session. The house, he said, is well tip in Its work, and the committees are by no means Idle. The railroad legislation recommended by the president will shortly be in shape for the hoilse to consider. The inter-state and foreign commerce committee is now engaged in hearing railroad managers and oth ers vitally interested in the proposed amendments to the inter-state com merce act, the Hepburn act, and other laws bearing on the subject, and as soon as the committee has all the necessary data to w.ork on a bill em bodying the amendments will be drafted and reported to the house early in March. Mr. Mann said Hie majority in the house is solid for the president's leg islative program and that there has been no delay oil the part of the mem bers in getting to work on the bills recommended by the president. The leaders of the house are in favor of adjourning the latter part of May, If possible. To facilitate this the pro gram is to dispose of the supply bills first. That this is understood by the members is shown by the rec ord already made, for not In years have, the appropriation bills been so advanced as now. The Insurgents in hhe house say that If any part of the presidents legislative program is de feated it will not be due to them, but the regulars who oppose amend ments to. the rules. -: Postofflce Appropriation Bill. ; (By Leased Wire tq The Times.) Washington," Feb. I The sub-committee of the house committee on postoffices and postroads today com pleted work on the postofflce appro priation bill, and reported it to the full committee. As reported the bill the amount appropriated last year, SCENES IN SITUATION IN PARIS IS IMPROVING Many People Suffer From Cold and Hunger But General Situation Is Better THUGS AND LOOTERS Two Hundred Thousand Homeless und Destitute Persons Sull'er From Cold Wave Which Has Settled on the City of Paris Coal is Scuii-e anil Source of Supply Cut Off .New Dangers That Develop as the Flood Recedes One . of the Dangers is From Sewer J4as That Have Reen lteleuscd by the Floods Thugs ami Looters Active. (By Cable to The Times) Paris, Feb. 1 Two hundred thous and homeless and destitute Parisians are suffering in the cold wave which has settled on the city, ;- Their con dition is serious and so far has de fied the efforts of the authorities to relieve them. Discovery of a coal famine was the development of to day. The supply is practically ex hausted and the mines in Belgium, from which Paris draws three-fonrhs of its stock, are tied up by Hoods. The suffering is most acute in the outlying districts, where, because of the failure of the weather supplies fires, have been prohibited. The city stands practically defenseless against the peril of a conflagration today and this danger is vie-wed by the authori ties as the greatest menace they have to guard against. The streets in the greater part of ten square miles in the henrt of the city are impassable, the water supply has entirely failed in a great part of the city and would be practically useless for fire-fighting in the remainder. Under 'these con ditions, it is recognized, a fire would likely sweep the city from end to end. The flood Is slowly but surely sub siding. The Seine, the Marne, and the Yonne are dropping by inches. Every foot, of the reclaimed space adds to the knowledge of the enorni- INVESTIGATION OF PRICES FOOD STUFF (By Leased Wire to The Times) Washington, Feb. 1 As soon as the house met today . Representative Scott, of Kansas, called up the agri cultural bill which has been under consideration for several days. The bill will be before the house all day. Representative Clark, of Missouri, minority leadef, received from Repre sentative Payne today a draft of a resolution for the congressional in vestigation into the course of, the high prices of food stuffs. The res olution provides that the investiga tion shall be conducted by the ways and means committee, instead of a special committee, as many members are said to prefer. The resolution, It it) said, will be approved by the minor ity members of the ways and means committee, and will be reported to the I house the latter part of the week. THE FLOODED DISTRICT The Holel lies Invnlides, ill Paris, which tur several days past lias been surrounded by water ln'cause of the rcci 'M ilomls. The loner pic ture on the right show's the liace tie la Conclude, uhiclic has been com pletely Hooded. Roth of these views are of places anil buildings in the very heart of Paris, otts damage the city has sustained. Street levels are falling with the wa ters and the collapse of scores of the city's great, edifices seems inevitable. To prevent this last crowning dis aster the city's eiiiuniiTiiig depart ment, reinforced l.v t lu .'ablest men in the army and navy, today is mak ing desperate efforis to shore, up tot tering foundations until they can be permanenlly rebuilt. .'...The work In many instances seems almost hope less, but with bravery 1 hat is essen tially a part of the French, and more particularly the Parisian disposition, the task is being attempted. With the recession of ihe water on the swollen river and burst drains and sewers Paris todaf is confronted with two lesser evils. Dislodged by the flood, thousands of monster sewer rats are overrunning -the city by day and night, while .during the hours of darkness the great 'underworld sec tion, of the population, maddened by the prospect' of -unlimited loot, hntUes all but the partially lighted main thoroughfare unsafe. The half-starved rats attacked scores of persons in their homes last night and today the question of light ing them by importing-cats and fox terriers is being seriously discussed. The kindred evil, I lie thugs, or Apaches as they' are locally known, is a constantly growing problem. In the disturbed condition of all municipal affairs no attempt is. 'made to keep records. However, scattering reports of missing persons are constantly re ceived and the fear is growing that many of these will be found to have been killed by pillagers. The troops and the gendnrnerie have been ord ered to kill looters -oir sight and in many instances have done so, but the depredations are const a lit ly increas ing. Organized, gang are 'terroris ing several of llie - out lying districts and even in the heart ' of the city hold-ups are of. constant occurrence. The response of the outside world to Paris' appeal for aid is most lib eral. Every incoming mail adds thousands of dollars 10 the Red Cross and other funds for the relief of the suffering. " The authorities today are feeling easier over the sanitary condition of the city. Yesterday they feared they were facing an epidemic of enteric fever. The director of the sanitary service made an examination of the sewers and reported that the residu ary sewer matter is being carried away In sufficient volume to safe guard the people against disease. ENGLISH MILLS COMING. Will Locate" in This Country as a Re suit of Klections at Home. (By Leased Wire to The Times) New Orleans, Feb. 1 An English cotton .buying firm gave out he in formal statement this morning that OF PARIS 1 '' 4 several cot ton mills will soon inove from F.nglnml in Mississippi' as a suli of the election in Britain-.. -- Eng land's'. refusal to "Impose' a tariff is said In In' 1 he chief faclor influencing t he re'niova I of 1 lie niills. ' M ississipi'-i tonus wilt bid for the location 01 tlh' niillsxand two Or three towns are comidoritfg sending com missions 10 Hi'gland 10 invile the in dllsl ries hoi e . PANAMA LM'FL CAST.. -s "".'. May be Discussed by President and Attorney General loday. V ( l!y I eased ire to The Times. ) . Washington. I). C. Feb. 1 The question of -appeal from tne division of I'. . S. Circuit..-Court.-' of 'ev York in t'.ie "Panama libel case against the New York World may he discussed by I'resiiieat , Tat't and Aitorney (i'en eral Wi. kerliain itfier tile ; cabinet tiicei im!, : . . As 1 lie right, of a li nt ai now lays with the government, the net move . in the prosecution will have to receive the sanction of the president-. A conference - has been held between the iiitoiney , gen eral 'and Stuart ..McNamaiy,. special auorney in the case. liioters Shoot Japanese. ( l!y Cable to The Times I Pekin. Feb. 1 Further details of the revolt against tne Japanese' at South Phongan were received today. All of the government buildings-were-burned by the rebels and the Japa nese and Korean officials shot 10 death Government troops shot and killed 1 en of tile rioters before they were, subdued. .Two 'hundred, arrests were made today, MORE EVIDENCE IN SWOPE MURDER CASE 1 i'y Leased .Wive to The Times) Chicago, Feb.". 1 John G. Patton, executor of the Swope estate, an noutued today as he made ready to return to ' Kansas City, that he had secured most .important evidence and clews s' lengthening the belief that Thomas 11. Swope, the -millionaire Missouri philanthropist, and his neph ew and heir, Christnian Swope, -were murdered, tie refused Xo state the nature of new evidence, but declared that the report, of the Chicago chem ist that fatal quantities of, strychnine had been found in the viscera of Swope made it practically certain a murder had been committed. llr. Paxton said he did not fear the suit for slander, asking $100,000 damages, filed by-Dr. J. C. Hyde, hus band of a niece of Thomas Swope. A second sutl of $600,000 for slander ...---.-,. Forney I'uxton, Dr. Frank ""ward L. Stewart follow, - '''7o,8, iiiui'der have IH-. ,J ..1 -ri'anls charging spared in Kans as City, il was reported, anil will be. sworn out. and sr-rved as soon as Mr. Paxion returns tlicre with his reports. He rrl'usi'fl to say for whom the war rants would lie issued, lull it declared that both the'Swopos were poisoned as I he resuli of a plot. im is r i n io t r. Two Fatally a"d Four Seriously Hint in 11I0 Wreck. Illy. I. used Wire to The Times I Hotimn, La... ..Feb. 1 - Six persons I were hurt, two laiallv, in an automo bile wreck near here 1,-isi night. The party consisted, of Robert Der enier. )(. ,(. Vnuligci-. .!. Adam ller K"f, . Oscar Toiijan, John ('.. l!er ger," and Nelson Debut lie, started out in Younger's automobile, which the owner was. dihiug. for a ride 011 Ilayou 'Torre Iloiim , towards Schriev cr. .- Leading the Younger automobile was another '-car- in which were Sid ney Tou.ian and A. II. Davenport. In attempting to pass the car in front Voiingi-r's machine became iiiiinan ageiilile and. turned turlle. pinning 'Merger and .Younger underneath They cannot smryive. TILLMAN CHILDREN STILL WITH SENATOR (By Leased Wire to The Times 1 ('"himbia. S. I-.,. 'Feb. .1 Pending-. ill decision of the. .'supreme court , th ehil'iren ol Mrs. li. II. Tillman, Jr.. will be left in the custody of their S! aii'lfat'.ier,: Senator Tillman. - This was 'announced by Chief Justico Jones w hen court - converted today. He said that no decision in the young woman's suit for liei- childdien had yet been reached,, but 'that it would be handed down as soon as possible, .The court loom was crowded in expectation of !-t ision. . . . WARE-KRAMER CASE A. T. Company Demurs to Cer tain Portions of Complaint American Tobacco Company Through Its Counsel Appeared r.clorc Judge Connor cslerilay Afternoon anil Demurred to the Complaint of the Warc-ivianier Company. . Yesterday aftereiioon the Ameri can ''Tobacco' Company, through its counsel, made a special appearance before Judge Connor 'and "demurred ! to the second cause in the complaint tiled by the Ware-Kramer Tobacco Company. .'The hearing-: was.-', begun about (twelve o'clock and was: . not concluded- .until' nearly, seven o'clock. T.ie American (Tobacco Company was represented by Ayrock. & Win ston , of Raleigh. I.. Fuller, of Durham and Junius Parker of Mor ristown, X. .I.:-.' F. A. Daniels, of (loldsboro, and F. A. Woodard and C. C. Daniels, ot Wilson, The suit was brought against the. .-merican Tobacco Companay by the Ware-Kiame;' Tobacco Company and Robert T. Thorpe, receiver, asking for damages to the amount of $2. 20U,0(Mi. The demurrer was over ruled and motions' made to strike out certain portions of the complaint. The matter was thoroughly argued by counsel and papers filed. Judge Connor now has the matter under ad visement and will ''render an- opinion as soon as lie can go into the matter thoroughly. .-'.''. Pardons Man Who Shot Him. 1 By Cable to The Times) Paris, Feb. 1 Mailis, the waiter who assaulted President Fallieries Christmas day has been pardoned. Me attacked .M- Fallieres near the Etoile. us he was taking ills usual early walk with M. Ra Mondou, the secretary-general of the presidency, plucking iim by the beard, striking him, and throwing him ( on the ground. For this offence he was sent enced to four year'-, imprisonment, which,' on appeal, was reduced to three, and now he has been pardoned, being just 12 months in custody. "Pcnnsy" Declares Dividend. (By Leased Wire to The Times) New York, Feb. 1 Declaration by the Pennsylvania Railway directors today ot a quarterly dividend of 11 Vi per cent., maintaining the old rate of six per cent per annum, disoppinted many in Wall street, who had looked for the stock to be put on 7 per cent, basis. Heretofore dividends were paid 8ejni-iinu.ually, 1 I MANY BODIES TAKEN FROM COALMINE Death List Will Probably Reach Over One Hundred In Primero Horror ONE MAN RESCUED sievetny-niiie Bodies Found Piled in a Mass at the Foot, of an Alrshaft Where lliey Had Evidently Rush ed, Hoping to Lsoipe When the Ex plosion Occurred Main Shaft of the .Mine is Completely Wrecked Pitiful Scenes About the Mouth of the Mine Where the Women and Children Are Gathered One Man Taken Out Alive Rescue Work Being Rushed. (By Leased Wire to The Times) Pi inn 10, Colo.. Feb. 1 Early today twenty-six dead bodies had been taken from the Primero Coal Mine, of the Coliaado Fuel & I von ' Company, in which -an explosion occurred late yesf lerday afternoon. "Remember Cher ry," was the slogan of the desperate refo.uc party an. they worked with the hope of rinding' the-130 imprisoned men alive. Shortly before 2 o'clock this morning the efforts or the rescucra were rewarded with finding of Dionado Vinson, whose condition Is such, how ever, that he may not survive. The company insists that there were not nioro than eighty men in the mine at the time of tho accident, giving- aa evidence that s-eventy-nine saftey lamps are unaccount ed for. The men and their families lit the mouth of the deathplt, however, insist that the total la 150 and possibly 20O. Vlrgon was saved iu U'l; vthe rescuer, heard, him calling from behind the big cave-in. A few 1nim1l.es hard digging made an opening large enough to haul him through. X'iigon told the following story of his experience: 'I was working near a dozen other fellows when the great crack came. I iivolic! in another part of the mine. "I pulled myself together and on my hands and knees started for a light I saw. I was so weak from the shock I could not crawl, and I knPw I would lie. if 1 did not. t?et to the surface soon. "I saw dead men ahead of .mo as I' pulled lnvseif along the ground, I heard men groaning and screaming. and then for the first time I knew what bad happened, I seemed to get new life and I crawled over the dead and dying men and finally fell .un conscious in mv efforts to free mv- II' from the living tomb, "When 1 awoke I was sicker than I was . before, the gas was. fast collect ing about inc. 1 tried to crawl again, but I was too weak. I tried again and again, and finally was able to pull myself along a lew feet at a time. "I heard the men's groans about me ind the sickening shrieks of the suffo cating victims sickened me. I could hear men begging one another to help them, but no one could help anybody. I seemed to be the. only one In that pan of . the mine who had not been rendered - absolutely helpless. I passed men in the patch to the light who must have given out as t hey tried to save themselves.. J knew many of them saw the light. . 1 could tell by the way they tried to pull' themselves along. "The whole inside of the mine is wrecked. 1 don't know ill what part of the mine tile .explosion-occurred. '(.-I do not remember. T did not know there was an explosion until I was nearly at tho point where I was rescued. 1 did not see any men in the mine who had not been hurt, and I think nearly every one ol them in the shaft was killed or so badly i continued on Page Five.) THE NEW SENAT0R FR0MNORTHDAKOTA (By Leased Wire to The Times) Washington. Feb. 1 When the senate, met today Senator Money, of Mississippi,., announced the resigna tion from the senate of Senator Foun tain L. Thompson, of North Dakota. Immediately Senator McCumber, of North Dakota, presented the creden tials of W.'E. Purcell, appointed by Governor Burke, of North Dakota, to succeed Senator Thompson. Senator Burrouws, of Michigan, called attention to an irregularity in the credentials, but after some dis cussion withdrew his objection, and Mr. Purcell was sworn In. It is said hat Mr. Thompson's res ignation is due to ill-health. He has suffered two bemmorrages since he came to Washington, two months ago, and is now in Texas recuperating. Senator Purcell, like his predecessor, is u democrat.
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