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t - hMLEIGHM LAST EDITIOPJ miu ollaM to Doughnut tlie , . ' wife saw It advertised in the Evening Times. ESTABLISHED 1876.. EALEIGH, N. C, TUESDAY, MARCH 8, 1910. PRICE 5 CENTS. Double the Number of Paid Subscribers in-the City of Raleigh of Any 'SW Newspaper. aCtae BUT LITTLE CHANGE IN SITUATION The Strike Proceeds Along Peaceful Lines With No Dis order or Rioting THE END NOT IN SIGHT Employers Will Take the Offensive mid Cany the War Directly Into the Camp of the I'nions Number of Workers on Strike Variously Km timuted from 12,000 to 120,000 Believed Now That There Will be No Stute-whlc Strike Lust Night Was Quiet and the Day Opened Practically I'ncliaiiKCd I'luns to Organize Thoroughly, City Work ers. (By Leased Wire to The Times.) Philadelphia, March 8 The gen eral strike today spread to Cramp's Shipyard, stopping work-on. four ves sels. Two hundred heater boys walked out, forcing several hundred rivetters. holers-on, molders and core workers to stop work and tying up the Kensington Shipbuldiug Com pany's drydock. Sympathetic Strikers Deserting. The sympathetic strikers bee-nn to desert this afternoon, according -to employers, Ten chauffeurs 'returned to the Quaker City Cab Company, and 50 will report tomorrow, the com pany announced. The Bergdol Tuxl Company said that mauy hud promised to return to morrow. The labor leaders denied any ma terial loss. 130,000 Men Out. C. O. Pratt, national organizer of the car men's union, declared at 1:30 p. m. today that 130,000 men were on strike at that time. The General Situation. Philadelphia, Pa., March S The employers of labor suffering from the general strike are to take the offen sive, carrying the war directly into the camp of the unions and making a struggle to give union power its death blow in Philadelphia. While the number of workers on strike to day the fourth of the general strike varies from the estimate of 12,000 men by Mayor John E. Keyburn ana the 20,000 of Director or Public Safe ty Clay to the 125,000 or more claimed by the strike leaders, the one fact stands out I hut many big em ployers have picked up the gauntlet and unless the men return lo work speedily, non-union men will be brought in to take their places. In dustries are badly crippled despite the city officials' claim. The eyes of the city and the stale as well were turned today to New Castle in the westetrn part of the state, where the Pennsylvania Feder ation of Labor opened its biennial meeting. The possibility of a general strike throughout Pennsylvania (Continued On Page Seven.)' WASHINGTON MAN HELDUPANDROBBED (Special to The Times.) Washington, N. C, March 8. A very bold holdup and highway robbery was committed on the streets of this city on last Saturday night ubout twelve o'clock when Mr. S. R. Phillips of this city was waylaid und robbed by three. unknown men. Mr. Phillips operates a small grocery store on the corner of Market and Tenth streets and it seems that. Just before closing his store on! Saturday night he counted up his cash sales for the day and put the money In his pocket to take to his home. He then locked, up his store and after j traversing about two blocks, hearing a, suspicious noise, behind him he turned back, when three men sprang upon him. and two of them threw him flown SfJSWbut-2 atu; wTnTcwh' Then before he could give anv alarm the robbers succeeded In making their esenpe. Mr. Phillips says be thinks two of his assailants were negroes and the other a white man, but it was too dark to distinguish their Identity. The local police are at work on the case but so far there, are no) TlfiJKK STKIK1C LEADKKS. T -ami. ' i Three of the leaders in the great car strike now on in Philadelphia. From top to bottom: C. O. Pratt, who is conducting the strike: H. C. Gruenwad, President State Federa tion of Labor; and W. D. Mahon, In ternational President of Street . Car Unions. They are considered among the ablest and most conservative union men of the country. LABOR MEN MEET Pennsylvania State Federation of Labor In Session May Call, a General Strike for Hie Kntiie State If This is Done ;!()0,. OOO Men Will lie Out Uso Talk of Forming a Labor Party ami Go ing Into Politics. ( By Leased Wire to The Times. ) New Castle, Pa., March 8 Their attention engrossed by the Philadel phia situation and the tentative plans for a Labor Party the -delegates of the State Federation of Labor gath ered iiero today for -the . biennial meeting of the state body. The chief matter to come 'up is. the question of a state-wide strike to aid the Phila delphia strikers;. If this is called it will involve 300,000 more men. Among the first arrivals was Pres ident Greenawalt, who hurried into conference with other leaders. He was enthusiastically greeted by the delegates. Word spread that Wharton Bar ker, financier and politicianwould arrive-before the day was out, with perfected plans for the organization of a Labor Party. . Barker was once the rival of Wil liam Jennings Bryan fpr the demo cratic presidential candidacy and later founded the American party. The Central Labor Union of Philadel phia gave him credentials. "The convention here will have completed authority to call a state wide strike If It sees fit," said Pres ident Greenawalt, "but as to the likelihood of such action, I cannot commit myself. The contention represents 300,000 organizeii working-neb of this state a majority of whom are employed in Philadelphia and Pittsburg. There are about 100,000 in Pittsburg. ' The situation in Philadelphia is extremely revolution Vile git-ttL aiiiciunu vaa Btnrtpit thpro and it mlerht be no 8trange thing if another one did so Q baiiot8 instead of bullets, "The state federation will go into politics with a vim. Candidates ,wli; be t forward in every congressional and jn g(ate assembly and Benatorla. districts and campaigns are to be waged wit:, extraordinary vigor. The nominations will appeal not. only to organized workers but to a wage-workers alike." . . -rue difference between slender and skinny WOmen Is a matter ot dollars . .. KnilR0. FIRST BLOOD FOR A. T. The A.T. Company's Demurer Sustained by Judge Connor fudge Connor Hands Down His De cision in the Ware-Kramer vs. American Tobacco Compuiiay Case. Will Have to be Tried I'mler Slier man Anti-Trust Law and by a Jury. Judge Henry G. Connor today liled his decision in the $2,o00,0U0 case of the Wave-Kramer Compaany against the American Tobacco Company, in which the defendant draws first blood in this famous suit. The decision, which is an exhaust ive one, goes into the arguments in detail and quotes a long line of au thorities. If sustains the demurrer to the complaint and holds that the plaintiff can only proceed under the Sherman anti-trust..'" law, thereby striking out a million dollars claimed in the complaint. The decision also orders that all outside exhibits be stricken from tue complaint, and left the case to be tried by a jury under t.ie Sherman anti-tvust law, for sued damages as the plaintiff has actually sustained, to be trebled under the provisions of that law. The plaintiff is allowed ten days to file an amended complaint and the defendant is alowed thirty days thereafter to answer or demur. Thus the American Tobacco Com pany gets first blood in this famous case. The Ware-Kramer Company is represented by Messrs. Daniels ' & Daniels and F. A. Woodard and the American Tobacco Company is rep resented by Messrs'. -.Ayeock and Win ston, Fuller and Parker. This action was brought against the American Tobacco Company by the Ware-Kramer Company, ' who asued for damages to the amount of $2,500,000, claiming that the de fendant by illegal methods had dam aged them to that amount. The de fendant demurred to the complaint, and asked that certain exhibits be stricken out on the grounds of being irrelevant and immaterial to the case at issue. -The -"attorneys also ar gued that It was a matter subect to trial under the Sherman anti-trust law. In his opinion today Judge Connor sustains practically all of the defendant's positions. The case will now take its place on the calendar and will be tried at some future term of the federal court.. Dl'X'IDI-: AIJOl'T CO.W EXTIOX. The arions. Coniniiltces Will Meet Tomorrow At la O'clock. The four 'committees will have a joint, .meeting 'in the rooms of the Chamber of Commerce tomorrow ai 12 o'clock for the purpose of decid ing about inviting the next Demo cratic State Convention. The following committees have al ready been appointed: Mayor J. S, Jynne, Joseph C.'. Brown and Waiter Clark, Jr., for the city; It. W. Win ston, C. W. Gold and F. W. Ilabcl, for the citizens meeting: .1. V. hinitns, J. U. Ball and li. K. liroiighlon, for the Merchants' Association. -The Chamber of Commerce will name its committee tonight. The democratic executive commit tee will meet here Thursday night for the purpose of naming the time and the place for the next convention and those cities wanting this convention will send delegates to urge their claims. OFFICER C. W.DUNN WAS BURIED TODAY (Special to The Tillies) Scotland Neck, March S There were no new developments in the tragedy today. Mr. Kitchin and Sen ator Travis are doing well. Officer C. W. Dunn was buried to day. During the funeral hour every business house was closed. The larg est crowd ever seen at a funeral here was present and the grave was banked wth a profusion of flowers. The letter referred to by Powell was found among a bunch of papers Senator Travis' office, unopened, and it is supposed he had overlooked IK The i 'ter is as follows: "Scotland Neck, N! C, "July 23, 1909. Mr. Travis: "Please let me know by lei ter, as soon as you receive this if you are employed against my son, Aquilla P. Powell, in a small affray which comes off this court. If not let me know aiHut dav I cqu see jou by. coming to JOHX I). ROCKKFKLLF.il, JK. 5 ZT I ?Znmi Mwimiiiiii ii'wii mi TT John D. Rockefeller. Jr.. who has just resigned from the dtrecMirate of the I'nited States Steel -Corporation, because, as he announced m a for mal statement, "the holdinu of stocks in the company bv the members of his family is not. sufficient Iv large to justify his giving anv tune or atten tion to the affairs ol t.ie corpora tion." Mr. Rockefeller. Sr.. and J. P. Morgan clashed at several sessions of the directorate over the policy. 'of paying dividends or retaining them as surplus. Mr. Morgan always won. Halifax next week. Any day will suit me, except on Saturday. . "Respectfully, . "K. K. I'OWKi.l.." , I'owell is-Morose. : I'oweM, here in the Males prison, has begun to 'reiilir.u what lie has done and has become despondent. 'and weeps a good deal. He si ill refuses to tall; of the shootintt. It is said that he is not wealthy as was first reported, but rims a smuli store. He has paid om u great deal of money on his boys,! who huye been in trouble often. ' f . . People who know hm stiy that he has been called queer, but' was never supposed to be insane, THE BRIBERY CASE Letter From Conger to Allds Creates Sensation Let ter Was Written in 1!OI jind Spoke in High Appreciation of (lie Senator From Chenango Allds' Financial Condition.." Albany. N. Y., .March H Senator Aids was asked 10 reveal more details of his financial condition when' re called to the stand by his counsel. Attorney Littleton, when the senate resumed ' the .bribery hearing today. His diretl .examination.- was ended Willi a seusaiioii when Attorney Lit tleton presented a -'loiter from Sena tor Conger to Senator Allds, dated May 21, llio I. It was identified by senate financial clerk K. R. Ford as having been .-'signed by Senator Con ger. This was one month after the alleged bribery. It was dated at Gro ton and was as follows: "My Dear Assemblyman: Your letter of May 1 v is received. 1 was (Continued on Page Five.) SIMS PREPARED TO PUSH INDICTMENTS (By Leu seil W ire to The Times.) Chicago, .Maivli '8. Prepared to push indictments against the Chicago pack ers now under investigation by the federal grand jury and anxious to in vestigate the. ex-tent :nf the alleged de predations of tile oleomargarine busi ness and the. "moonshiners" and place the matter before the federal inquisi torial body, l aited States District At torney Sims, returned to Chicago to day. Special Assistant 1'iiited States Dis Iriet Attorney James Wllkerson, who accompanied him . to ... Washington to discuss matters connected with the "beet" inquiry." -returned with him. Both men 'hurried to the otllees in the federal building and Immediately went into . conference with Assistant District Attorney Chillis in charge, of the oleomargarine inquiry. Southern Railway ISiiying Rails. .-.Birmingham. Ala., March 8 The Southern Railway Company has just placed an order with the Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad Company for 4 2,000 tons of steel rail, to be used along the Southerns' system. Many miles of the present rail is to be re ylaced,. ' . i -i - CITIZENS AROUSED Two Negroes Tried For Purse Snatching in Charlotte Purse Snatching Has liecoine An F.p idemic Circumstantial Kvidence Very Strong Against One X'egro,, Who Was Tried on a Charge ol liurtdaiy in the First Dource Will io Hard With Oneiiilors if Convicted. I Special lo I he 1 lines I Charlotte. .March is As a result ol the epidemic ol purse snatching which has been widespread in this city for the last few davs. Charlie Johnson, colored, was tried in the recorders court yesterday afternoon at .j o clock on ihe charge ol burg larv in the first degree and bound over to superior court under $.iU0 bond. Johnson, is suspected ot being the one who. last I uesduv light, threw a rock through the window in the home ol .Mr. . C. Unison and. reaching his arm through the opening, stole the purse belonging to Mrs. Hinson from the hall rack. .The evidence against the defendant, was mainly cir cumstantial, but there were some very strong links. Tracks made by a man wearing rubbers were found in ihe yard of the Hinson home, and when a pair of rubbers belonging to Johnson were carried out and placed in them 'a pcrfct lit was secured, a peculiarity in one of the tracks cor responding to a worn place in tin rubber.. Several witnesses were examined who testified lo having seen a negro in the neighborhood shortly befon the robbery occurred. Among them was Miss Ona Spillinan, who said a negro man followed her from the cai tracks until she met her mother who she bad -phoned -to meet her. Both Mrs. Spilliuan and her daugh ter said that in size and general ap pearance the prisoner resembled the negro who passed them. They stated, however, that he wore a small cap. Johnson, in court, had a brown derby, but the chief of police and several officers who had known the defend ant for some time testified that ho generally wore a cap corrosponditu to the one described by .Mrs. Splll nian and her daughter. : Allen Patten. Ihe. negro who wav arrested -Sal urday afternoon suspect ed of being the one who knocked down and robbed Mrs. J. C: Allen that morning in Dilwort.li, was dis charged yesterday, lie was carried before Mrs; ".Allen for identification and she staled that he was not the one who made the attack on her. The citizens were considerably aroused by the attack which occurred in broad daylight and only a short distance from the car line in one ol the most thickly settled suburbs ol the city. Mrs. Allen is about .".o years old and was on her way lo the home, of one of her neighbors' when she met a negro man. After mitt ler jng some indistinct- .lenience he sud denly grabbed her by I be arm aim jerked her to the ground. Then lit grabbed her purse, which contained about, $." and made off... The -emptj purse was later found only a short dstance from the scene. Officers are still working on the case, but so far. have no clue to the identity of the guilty party. MACON OPPOSES HONORS FOR PEARY ( Hy Leased Wire to The Time's.) Washington, M,areb S. Representa tive Macon, of Arkansas, a member ol the house sub-eomniittee on naval af fairs, today said he intends to strenu ously oppose any action by tin sub committee when it meets tomorrow to ward recoinmending that any reward lie given Commander R. K. Peary, t". X., for bis discovery of the N'oi tb I 'oh-. .Sir. Macon Is preparing an aiKUioeni which he will deliver before the sub eommittee which is understood to bo a red-hot arraignment of Teary for re fusing to submit bis proofs to the sub committee. "It is a question." said Mr. Maeon this morning, "nbi;ther or not Poury can be forced to submit his vroof While it is true that he was in the gov ernment's employ when his polar voy ages were made, still the North Pole expedition was not made under gov ernment hut private auspices. He can 1e forced t show that part of the rec ords of the work which he did as a government officer for the coast and geodetic survey. I am unalterably op posed to giving him any honors or pro motion unless he shows his proofs. In Hhls attitude I have many. Bupeorteis. ' C()Ri:i.M S V AXDF.RISILT. ' "''f " ' ";; !f&N'Vl! Vjr"f , -ii Cornelias ' andorhjit. who lias been named bv Aiavor davuor. ol New York, as chairman ul the committee that is to arranue a rousing welcome to Colonel Roosevelt when lie returns from his Ali'leau )iuntum; trip -next .lime. Tuts is t.ie iirsl tune that Mr. Vunderbilt has been. di'Mgnaied ,. to take so prominent a nart m public affairs, ids rule. being to gfnerall.v-.get as tar a wav Iroin ihe .-limelight as liossible. . THE COST OF LIVING Senate Committee Holds Its First Public Hearing luciea-o in Di'inaml and Decrease ill . Supply Are ( biel utiles ol Ibe In crease, Accordion lo. Witnesses -( omntiltee lleanl two Prominent Local Retail Merchants. I liV l.e ,.o;t I ashiimlou: .'i demaiitl and deci I In- clind'. CUM." lood proiiiiets aei who appeared -i! hearing m i he .-i -0 1 1 1 III It lee. - - I lie I1IMI 10 !"ee f lo ! He I lllH'Sl i nil s I in ; ease tn ea -e in suppiv are ol lnu h prices ol 1 1 1 due.: to w it Pi'SSI'S a i .at In" liv:"l open I na v. en.. I ll ui-j ilea rd i w o promi luen ha ti t f, a Iter It. Walker. Thev it prices showing llelll loc.tl I'row II and sain vano: ill h 11 ll t material :ab nin es durum' the past I a vears. -all hough Mr. lirowii contended that tin- a.Uaine lias not been great during i lie pas tlVe Ve.i-rs. e as Ins explanation I: mil prices l he tart -pa.--,; in ea ;s there it iiii ii-ie'i ol nrhiin Mr. Ot alKer s.i t or I lie MSI II! that iliiriiig lue lias bi.on a :.:k-. population: and-increa.-e el mod coiiinrv (!:st nets There, wen- not a corresponding (lib ( is in : t IK' T HI) nun I H 1 1 and. ;'..'MHi,u said, in :' he colli slandlllg I be si a I U llsou. than I in"-. ' less hogs. lie i - I uila '. . no! wit li nen I III .N'rre: al V were 1 o veal's ago. " I Ins wa-. i t he increase- in and lor oilier rln responsible lor (eel ,'llid pork- pl-ICCS. ii!iin:(i!l 1 1 les. heeaiis;1 ol the sea rcil v ol t lies' had (iiK'ii iiicren-'ed io advances in rent . He contended thai, ants, while on 1 1 god t' prices, u i re not ma km I w o.- . Prices reason ol tne retail men li-i-harge- high - as large net prohts as I hcv wet t I 0 cars ago. He tbongiil the lairer shun tanners were getting a ol mollis than hi'reio- toi'e. and . i.liiu 'Within the nexr iwo vears there would be a lead pisi incut of prices bv reason ol large nil in hers returning to the count rv bv the at tractions ol i lie high prices ol farm products. The increased production "would he slow, he thouglM. because tanners were killing oh their breeding stock to sell at the high prices. Cleveland. O.. Maxell S At the I moil stock ards today porkers ami heavies were bruigiug ? 10.40 per 100 pounds. MOB ATTACK ON LEGATION LASTNIGHT The American Legation At Bogota Stoned By Dis orderly Crowd CAUSE OF THE RIOT American Leegation is tinier Heavy (iiaril 'today s the Result of All Attack bv Mob litiilduig Was Stormed and Superficial Damage Was Done Rut No Member of the Legation Was Hurt Rioting Caus ed by yuarrel lletween Policeman and Manager of Street Cur Line Owned by Americans. (Hy Cable to The Times.) liogota. Colombia, Alarch b The iiieiican legation is under heavy guard toilav as ihe result of an at tack made on it bv a mob last night. Ihe building was stoned and superfi cial .damage done, but all the mem bers of-the legation are sale. . Ihe noting was caused by a quar rel between a - policeman and the iiianauor ol a .streetcar line owned bv Americans, 'J he manager was ar resietl and the mob attacked the roll ing stock, i he crowd surged about the Amer ican consulate and in spite of a re serve lorce ol police rushed there, stoned the building. Driven Irom the vicinity ol the le gation, the mob continued disorderly, and sporadic lighting occurred throiiga the night. . - Reserve troops were drawn on, and a strong force thrown about the m roots. . Minister Llliott .Northcott has been stationed here since last summer. He was tormer iudge . ot the district court in West liginia. J he lean l ton secretary is Balkan! N-hover. ; , .News At W asliinglou. lliv Leased W ire lo The i lines.) 'Washington. March !s-r-At the stale 'department tins morning it was said unit no advices have been re ceived concernnm the reported ston ing ol the American legation at Bo-., got a. ( olombia. last night, during a street riot, ihe oimiion was express ed 1 hiif (lie allair may have been in cident to the riot referred to and t hat it has no 'particular political sig- -: nilicanee. ( odilv I'oslal liiiivs. . I li Leased W ire lo The I lines. I Washinglon. .Marca S Cnairnian eeks. ot the postolhce and post roads committee; said todav that as. soon as the postoltice appropriation bill is passed his committee will take ii iv the bill to codify-tlie postal laws.. Ihe committee will also consider the senate lull to establish postal savings Imiius.-' It is possible both measures will be ready to be leported to the house In the first week in April. FIVE DEAD AS RESULT RACE WAR n;v hi inp Leased Wire to The .Times.) ,i. Via. . March S.--The result of i- 'War al Palmetto in Manatee ol sundav night and Monday while men 'i.ad. three negroes aiulv ; two il 1 and one white - man mortally wounded. All is ipuet today, but ne-lii-oes are 1,-avliig the county, which is a trucking' .-center and their absenuo will ciipple He- trucking industry, . l-"ollov ing- the shooting' to death of. Joe nil- eiordnv morning after the light at Little Manatee bridge near Willow, .John KM is was run through Hie coiiinrv with dogs and shot down as lie tried to on t -dista nee Ins pursuers- after a chase ol twenty miles. Tin- third negro, whose, name Is un known was killed In the country lata Sundav evening, bv Henry Wasgamc, a farmer. Wasgume, came into Plal-: met to late last night and told the sheriff that be had seen ii negro, arm ed going through the country at a brouk-nrclc speed. He believed the man to have been the. murderer of Foreman strililiiuc and hulled him. The negro dodged into a clump of palmettoes. Wasganie fired into the clump hii feared to penetrate the thicket, re. knowing whether be bud hit: I Ii man or not. it was ait ar ,1 I luliJ, that the man was tUwd. Vi t . T U MIS ivf. v
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