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f 1 i . DOUBLE THE CIRCULATION IN THE CITY OF RALEIGH OF ANY OTHER NEWSPAPER SA The Evening Times' supremacy in circulation (Its city circulation being double that of any other paper) makes its "Lost and Found" column the most productive of results. LAST EDITION ESTABLISHED 1876. RALEIGH, N. C, FRpAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1910. PRICE 5 CENTS. 1 ov. ry II t A 4 CAIRO JAIL GUARDED BY THE MILITIA One Man Killed and Eleven Wounded in Riot Last Night SHERIFF IS FIRM State Troops Guard County Jail to Prevent Lynching of Two Xcgroes Charged With Purse-snatching Attempt Was Made Last Night to Lynch the Negroes and Sheriff Called Out the Militia Story of the Negroes Crimes and the Work of the Mob. " (By Leased Wire to The Times.) Springfield. Ills.. Feb. IS Upon re celpt of information today that more mobs are forming in Cairo and des perate characters are congregating across the river with the avowed pur pose of wreaking vengeance on tin negioes of Cairo under cover of dark ness. Adjutant General Dickinson was this morning ordered by Governor Denee:i to proceed at once to Cairo and take charge of the situation. A special car on the Illinois Traction system was secured and the adjutant general and his assistant left at 10:4)1 u. ni. for East Ht. Iran's where a special train will be in readiness to carry them to Cairo. Orders were issued to every com manding officer in the Fourth Infantry to be in readiness to go to Cairo at a moment's notice. Governor Deneen has also ordered ' Company M, of Champaign to proceed to Cairo at once. Sheriff Asks For Aid. Springfield, Ills., Feb. 18 Governor Deneen received a message from Sheriff Ncllls at Cairo early today say ing he had fired into a mob sur rounding the jail, but did not know how many persons he had hit. The gov ernor immediately ordered Company K. stationed at Cairo, to protect the jmi -, - Following ii conference with Adjutant General S. M. Dixon, Governor Denevn decided to call out more troops. An order to prepare for immediate action Was issued to Captain William Austin of Company G, fourth infantry, .sta tioned at KfTinuham. Ills. Company (!. 'left Kllinghuin on a special train bound for Cairo early to day. .,'. Governor Dencen's order followed a repeated request from Sheriff ' Ncllls, who Informed him he had sworn in and deputized twenty men, but that they were unable to cope with the sit uation. . 'Troops Now On Guard. ; Cali',0, Ills., Feb. IS Two companies ' of state troops and twenty deputy sheriffs armed with riot, guns are guarding the county jail today follow ing an attempt last night to lynch two negroes accused of snatching purses from white women. The at tempted lynching was foiled by Sheriff Nellis and his deputies who opened fire on the mob as it advanced to storm the jail, killing one man and wounding eleven. Fearing the renewal of the mob's at (Continued on Page Two.) SENATOR TILLMAN IS CRITICALLY ILL - S '''-""'V': (By Leased Wire to The Times) Washington, Feb. 18 At Senator Tillman's apartments at 1:15 o'clock this afternoon it was stated that the senator's condition is extremely criti cal. The end may come at any tinio, Relatives of the senator have been telegraphed for. V The members of Senator Tillman's ' family who have been sent, for are Henry C. Tillman and Miss Sallie Mea Tillman, of Greenwood, S. C. The other members of the family are now here and will remain until the out come of the senator's condition is de :''."' termined. It is said that at a consultation of physicians held this afternoon it was decided that Senator Tillman is suf fering from Arterial sclerosis and that while a decided change may not come forth It may, bo looked for within a day or two. Karthouake At Malta. (By Cabla to The Times.) Malta, Feb. 18 Slight earthquake bliocks were telt here today. JUSTICE WRIGHT. k: s P 4 ' -( S Of the federal court of the District of Columbia, who has just establish ed a" precedent thai may stir up. all kinds of legislative and judicial strife. Te has ordered the house committee on printing to appear be fore him and show cause why they should not award the contract for cer tain government supplies to a lower Didder.. I he congressmen are in censed over what they think a usur pation of their authority. SUPT. JOYNER BACK Has Returned From a Trip To Boston and New York National Educational Association Will .Meet In Boston in July Pres ident Taft Will Address the Meet ing North Carolina is Kxpected to Send a Large Delegation. State 'Superintendent Joyner, presi dent of the National Educational As sociation, returned from Boston and Xow York Wednesday morning. He held a conference in New York Friday and Saturday of last week with the department president of the National Educational A.1.. Nation for the ar- angenumt of the departmental programs. Kightoon of these presi- (loirs' from all parts-.. of -'the country were in esent. He states that excel lent: departmental programs have b n arranged.. - He is now at work on the irrangement of the -general program. The next meeting of the National Educational Association will be held In Boston, .Inly: 4th-8lh. 1M0. . ... . After the conference in New York. the secretary of the National '.ducat iou)'- Association, 'Dr. -Irwin Shepherd, of Winona, Minneapolis, and Mr. Joyner went to Huston, Where they held a conference on Monday with 'resident Lowell, of Harvard Univers ity, Huporinlciidont Brooks, of the Boston city schools, and others, in re gard to tin; preliminary arangements for the Boston meeting of the N. E. A. in July; .The association has not .met in Boston since l!H)3. At that meet ing thirty-four thousand teachers from air parts of the country were registered and not less ' than forty thousand vere probably in attendance. .Mr. Joyner says that all sings point to as .large attendance next July. He has assurance from the state superin tendents and others that there will be an unusually large attendance of teach ers from the southern states this year. It is confidently expected that there will be a large delegation from North Carolina. A number of railroads have already given a special rate of one fare for the round trip, and assurances have been given that attractive reduced rates will be given by the other rail roads. Mr. Joyner stopped in Washington Tuesday On his way home and extended an invitation to President Taft to ad dress the teachers in the Stadium of Harvard University on the 4th of July, and reports that the president gracious ly accepted the invitation. Mr. Joyner was much pleased with the kindly re ception and acceptance of the Invita tion by President Taft. v Earthquake at Crete. (By Cable to The Times) Athens, Feb. 18 A terrific earth quake today shook Crete. A village was destroyed, according to advices received here an the population of the entire island is in panic. The extent of 'oss of life is not known but is bo. ud to have been heavy. HoMiitii! Destroyed. (By Cable to The Times.) I Liverpool, Feb. 18 Fire today de stroyed the hospital for infectious diseases. Twenty patients were tiirown into panic but all were res cued bv nurses and doctors, aided by tiie police and liremeu. 1 DEMOCRATIC FOLLY Fails to Seize the Opportuni ties The Republicans Made So Says John Temple Graves Who Writes From Washington Rcpuh lican Party Split in Twain Hut Democrats Lack Leadership of the I Right Kind to Seize Advantage. (By JOHN TKMPLH GRAVKS.) Washington, Feb. 18 Whenever a .,..n: 1...: , .... I political louviucuct ui iiiLt;u tut; I skies with promise for the democratic 1 party the democratic leaders may bo relied on to becloud the prospect with stupidity and folly. At this purlieu lar time the democratic party fronts Ithe most substantial out look -for sue cess that it has known within the de cade. And this promise conies not as the result of anything tiie democratic leaders have done or 'deserved, but simply and solely because of tiie stu pidity, cupidity and dissension in the republican party. The republican party has just pass ed an insincere and unsatisfactory tariff bill, and in the history of oui politics for the quarter century no party has failed to he defeated in the general elections following a nev tariff bill, save only the Dingley tar iff, in which the Spanish-American war alone saved McKinley and the re publican party from the unbroken re cord. . The republican party has builded a cumulative monument of trusts and selfish privileges which bears at least the odium of parentage to the most scandalous prices which ave been de manded in the world's history for the commodities of life. The republican party has erected in legislation an oligarchy of auto cratic power and privilege expressed in Canuonisiu against which the whole wide country has rebelled. The republican party is split to the centre, with the west in revolt, and the ablest and freshest figures in its ranks leading a successful insurrec tion against the old regime. Through the only rift in these sombre clouds the sunshine . fairly streams in promise upon any sort of wise and patriotic democratic con duct in our public affairs. And yet and yet instead of the triumphant : note of . intelligent American leadership there sounds the ancient and unmistakable bray, and the. long ears of the traditional don key flop in the breeze of opportunity, while the crop of thistles awaits its accustomed harvester. The democrats in congress do not seem to have the wisdom to keep their mouths shut. Silence might have been their shield and apathy their buckler, but they have opened their mouths and put their feet in thorn. - The only democratic expression of the session .- has been to declare against the two battleships pledged in the Taft and Roosevelt programme and to rush in practical opposition to the bill for an American merchant marine, in the last matter the Geor gia delegation, one of the ablest in the democratic rank, lias actually made this opposition indiscriminate by failing to indicate even an inter est in any possible "democratic sulr stitute for the Humphrey bill. If the democratic congressmen had gone de liberately to work to seek out a method of party suicide they could not have chosen two more effective mistakes than these. : The whole sentiment of the Ameri can people has been,"knd is now, with DR. COOK THROWS ASIDE HIS ALIAS By Leased Wire to The Times) ', Santiago de Chile, Feb. 18 Dr. Fred erick A. Cook, the discredited ex plorer, today cast aside all pretense of attempting to shield his identity, and admitted that he was the man branded as faker. He made this move after conferring with M.. ltyssebcrghe, a Belgium en gineer. They were companions in 1897-8 on the Belgium Antarctic expe dition, and the engineer came here on the steamer from Valdlvia With Cook. POSTAL SAVINGS HANK. Dill Will Not Re Called l'p In the House Before Senate Disposes it. (By Leased Wire to The Times) Washington, Feb. 18-rChairnian Weeks of the house committee on postofftces and postronds, will not call up the postal savings bank bill, now pending before his committee, until the senate his disposed of that measure, which is among the unfin ished business before that body. Friends of the postal savings bank bill In the house believe that unless a, caucus Is helr to line up the ma jority the bill will not gel through this session, . MARY; MANNERIXG. Mary Manncrlng, the aru'css who litis just receivedtn unci loculorv decree ot divorce from lier husband, James K. Hackett. '1 he ll, I V.C licxo been - hanging fire for .over -'a- year, and il was the 'general opinion ihat initial proceedings luid been aban doned and the couple would become reconciled. Friends said "(heir five- year-old child Elsie would be the means of reuniting the parents. Mr. Hackett believed so himself last sum mer, but later Miss Manneriiig cabled answer to an inquiry that hope of re conciliation was .futile. The parties to the suit were married in 1897 and starred, together "Oi'-'seveval seasons. Roosevelt and Taft in the fight for a navy ample . to protect both our ocean coasts and to command peace by being prepared for war. Against this sell-respecting, self- protecting and" essential American policy the democratic congress, through its representative committee, now arrays itself in the most foolish and unnecessary way. SEYLORS GO BACK Accused of Murder of Jane Adams Bh Men Sin Statements, One !- lying That He Saw Jane Adams That Night and 'the Other Saying He Left Tlieni Together. - (By Leased Wire to The Times) Richmond,. V;i., Feb. IS Detec tive Miller 'ami" Smalseede -. passed turough here at noon today carrying William and Oryis Seyler to Atlantic City. Detective Miller told a report er here today that he had signed statements from both men that will kill the efforts-" of-their relatives in Atlantic City from proving an alibi. Neither knew that the other had made any statement, William deny ing liiat he saw .lane Adams on the night of the murder -and. Orvis ac knowledging iliat he left his brother and Jane together on the pier when he carried Alice Adams home. When told of the plans of the At lantic City' authorities to take the Seyler brothers to the scene of the murder on the pier on their arrival tonight, Detective Miller remarked significant ly: "That won t be neces sary at all." Third Degree For Sejiers. ( liy Leased Wire to The Times.) Atlantic City. N. J., Feb. IS The most dramatic ordeal and third degree examination In police history is being prepared by the police today for Wil liam and Orvis Seyler, the fugitive brothers arrested at Petersburg, Va., In connection with the death of Jane Adams, the million dollar pier trag- dy ictim in this city. I'pon their irrival here they will be put through a grilling examination on the spot where the girl died face to face with Alice Adams, the sister of the pretty victim. : Thev will be given no opportunity to rest after their arrival here from Petersburg in company with Detec tives Smalseede and Miller. They will immediately be taken out on the pier 1,000 feet from the shore and there at the spot where Jane Adams was slain, with only the glimmer of (Contluued on Page Seven.). FIGHT FOR REFORM Socialists are Still Fighting The Police lland-to-Haiul ('millicls Mark the . Rioting in Germany over Franchise Reform Belief Growing That the Chancellor Will be Swept From Power. (By Cable to The Times) Berlin, Feb. 1 8 Hand-to-hand lighting between the social-democrats iind the police at .-. Frankfort-on-thr Main marked the riot that began last night and raged until early this morn ing. Dispatches received today placed the number of injured at at least 100. Chancellor Von Beth mann-Hollweg, alarmed by the situ ation today, held a long conference with his advisers, at which every phase of franchise' reform and the disorders that have neen brought about by the government's stand on that subject were discussed. The be lief is growing daily that the chancel lor will be swept from power by (his crisis. Only real reform an alter ation of the-three classes of voters and the complete concession of the secret ballot such as is used in the United States K'an check the social ists and such changes would alienate the conservatives from the chancel- lor. ;.-'::'-' Details of the fighting at Frankfort received today show ;ae struggle was the most bitter and serious of all that, have arlsci from the electoral question. The police were 'unable' to cope W'ith it and had to call on the troops for aid. Again and again the police and military charged the mobs in the lace of storms of missiles, and the. blows of cudgels." Showers of pepper were hurled in Hie faces of the troops and from the tops of buildings nianifest ants cast brickbats and everything else they could lay their hands on into the ranks. The most ferocious fighters of I he radicals were the women. One girl, waving a red flag, stood at the fore front of a group of rioters which fought back a detachment of police for half an hour at one of the city's principal corners. In almost every other gathering and rank of the manifestanls were women. Not till the authorities turned off the lights were the crowes dispersed. Even then individuals lighted torch es, but these merely served to attract the attacks of police to small groups. Battling continued in some sec tions till dawn. -.- . . Wholesale arrests were made dur ing the disorders and after the jails were crowded. '..More than a dozen of the injured, civilians and police, in hospitals, today were declared to be in a serious condition. : It was declared today that 'the 'government-' would forbid further .-mass meetings of the socialists. Disorder is reported again from Neuniinslcr, Ciisscl -arid other towns, Revolt In India. Calcutta, Feb. 18 Thousands of native rebels today surround Jagdal aptir and threaten to massacre the in habitants, - Reinforcements have been rushed to the aid of the small white force there. The situation is the most serious that has developed in years and It is feared the restlessness ot the native population will cause it to spread. The Bastar tribesmen are still in revolt. BURLESON SHOWSUP COTTON EXCHANGE Washington. Feb. IS Rcpresrntatie Burleson, of Texas, resumed his argu ment this morning on his bill to pre- ent dealing in cotton futures before the house committee on agriculture. He contended that the exchange serves but one purpose, that of "hedg ing". "The exchanges do not sell a bale of cotton," he said, "but sell con tracts for delivery of cotton. He claimed the contracts were sup plied by the law of. supply md demand and that the ex change was no protection for the pro ducer or spinner. He exhibited to the committee samples of various grades of manufactured cotton, an charged that cotton held in the New York warehouses, as claimed by the New York exchange was the poorest grade, practically worthless and that the high grade cotton never reached the exchange warehouses as. claimed. He made u detailed statement as to what constitutes "hedging" and quoted from the report made by Com missioner of Corporations Herbert Knox Smith. "At the conclusion of his argument the committee heard arguments from Representative of various boards of trade, Including Walter Fitch of Chi cago; John L. Messmore, St. Louis; F. A. Hallett of Minneapolis and J. C. F. Merrill, Chicago. WADE 1JLL1S. Wade Ellis, Assistant Attorney General and "trust buster" of the Taft. administration,' who has resign ed from the Department of Justice to assume .the chairmanship of the Re publican State Executive Committee of Ohio. It is said that this is the first move on the part of President Taft to . recapture Ohio from the Democrats and eliminate Judge Har mon from the presidential field of 1012. GLAVIS ON STAND Still Undergoing Cross Exami nation By Vertrees Attempt Will he Made to Impeach His lestimony Willi ilolph tielircos ol Seattle Who is Kxpected to Deny a Part of His Story. (f!y Leased Wire to The Times.) . - Yyusiiington, Feb. 1 s That Attor ney' Vert rees, .representing Secretary Ballingcr, will .'make an attempt to impeach the testimony of Louis R. (Mavis was made evident when the Ballinger-Pinchoi investigation com mittee .liior this -'morning and Mr. Ver trees asked for a .subpoena for Atlolph- Hehrens, of Seattle.' Behrens was . brought into'.-, the case by tiie statement, of (ilavis Hint- lie was a coal claimant, living in Seattle, that, lie. had told Glavis t.h.at lie had trans acted private business for Land Commissioner Dennett and that when Dennett, arrived in Seattle lie denied all knowledge. 'of Beiirens. yet on the following day. (ilavis sa.w Dennett and Belirens lunching together. Vertrees said he ..hoped -to .imv -by Behrens thai lie did noj Know Hen -lift t ; that ho had no . comci-saiion with him and hud not lunched will) him. He said lie had Behrens affi davit tii this, effect. ..The .'.cross-examination . ol".- (ilavis was resumed as to his 'statement that Secretary Ballingcr when Land Com missioner had changed the ; regula tions affecting coal entries in Alaska! Vertrees asked (ilavis what was im proper in this connection. "Do you think that change was improper?" '.he asked. "Not that alone; not that, one act itself',' -replied (ilavis. Verlrees. "Well, then, : why did you present' it. to the coiiiniii lie?" (ilavis. "Because it was a part of his conduct when he was land com missioner." Continuing. Glavis said he had told of these changes made by Ballinger to allow the committee to judge whether they were good or bad. The change to which he referred partic ularly he thought was bad, Glavis' answers did not altogether please Mr. Vertrees and he protested thai, every response had "a string tied to it," while he wanted simply a di rect answer. This criticism of the witness led to a discussion bet ween Chairman Nelson and Representative Graham, in which the chairman sided with Vertrees, but nevertheless allowed the witness to proceed with his expla nations. - . Vertrees insisted that, lie wauled to get at the molive of the witness in the statements he made. "There is no inolie," iulerjeclcd Attorney Brandeis, counsel for Glavis, "except the motive of tellng the truth. He is simply btating facts as fads." Vertrees then proceeded to ques tion Glavis as to what Mr. Ballinger had done during the time he was out of office, March I, ISrtS, to March 1. 1000. from which 'ho said Glavis (Continued on Page Seven.) JUDGE THOS. B. WOMACK DIEDTODAY A Great Citizen and Lawyer of Raleigh Passed Away This Morning FUNERAL TOMORROW Thomas Brown Womack Died This Morning at Rex Hospital at 7:45 O'clock Funeral Will Take Place at Pittsboro Tomorrow Afternoon. Was a Superior Court Judge in 18IJ0 Was Chairman of the Com mittee on the "Revisal of 1905" One of the State's Greatest Men and Lawyers Has Passed. Thomas Brown Womack, great cit izen and lawyer, died this morning at Rex Hospital at 7:45 o'clock. While it has been expected for sev eral days, yet the announcement of his death cast a gloom over the en tire city, and expressions of sorrow are heard on every side. Judge Womack had been in bad health for about two years, but was able to be at his office at least a por tion of the day until a few weeks igo, when lie became worse and was taken to Rex Hospital. Was Fifty-live Years Old. Judge Womack was just in that period of life when the full developed brain of a great, man Is most useful, having celebrated his fifty-fifth birth day the 12th of this month. . Funeral Tomorrow. , Tomorrow- murniug-at 11 o'clock the body will be borne to Pittsboro, his old home, on a special train, for burial. Representatives from the Raleigh bar. the Hiram Lodge, A. F. & A. M., Ciianiber of Commerce and many citizens will accompany the re mains, Raleigh Bar to Meet. There will be a meeting of the Raleigh bar in the court house this afternoon. at 4 o'clock to make ar rangements for the funeral and ap point committees. Sketch of His Life. "Thomas' Brown Womack- was born in Chatham county, .February. 112, 1S55.:- He was a descendant of Gen. Thomas Brown, of Revolutionary lame, on his mother's side, and ot Bishop Womack, of England, on his father's side.'-'.His, father was John Archibald'. Woninck, .a piorcliant-far-lucr f Ciialiiain eounl.v. His father, as most all southerners, lost his property in Hie Civil War, which deprived young ' Thomas, nl a collegiate cdilcat ion. lie attended school at the Pittsboro Academy for a lew years. At the age of fifteen lie accepted a position wth a store, where he sold goods and kept the books. When he was nineteen years of age he had saved $2,111. He began the study of law under his neighbor, the Hon. John Manning, and obtained (Continued on Page Eight.) UNDERWOOD'S VIEWS ON HIGH PRICES (By. Leased Wire to The Times) Milwaukee, Wis.. Feb. IS "As a matter of fact Americans are bad losers. Some of us try to pretend we do not mind when we lose, but wo do just the same,' said President Un derwood of the Ki ie Railroad in giving his views as to the r;auss of high prices. "The unspecializcd men are having a hard time just now. All they can do is talk when they are hit by natural conditions which bring high prices, as is the case now. "There used to be too many peo ple producing food commodities and loo few eating them. Now tho re verse is true. . "What are we going to do about it? Pay the prices. "There is no monopoly in farm pro ducts. This is simply guff. It Is the non-specmlist who is to bear the brunt. He has to take what is left after the specialist Is through. His only weapon is his tongue. He either talks or writes about it, but he offers no remedy. In fact thero are only three things which he can do to better his condition; go back to the land and be a producer himself, or bear the ilbi he bus. The farmer of today is u manufacturer of commodities."
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