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IT Isn't the size or toe beau ty of a "Lost and Found1' advertisement that makes It valuable. - - It'a the paid for circulation and known advertising value of the newspaper In which It Is printed that counts. - ESTABLISHED 1876. RALEIGH, N. C, FBIDAY MARCH 25, 1910. PRICE 5 CENTS. ' Double the Number of Paid Subscribers in jUhe City of Raleigh :Any Other Newspaper. LAST EDITIOIi eruptionof mount eim TERRIFYING Stream of Lara b Headed For Catania a City of 150,000 People PEOPLE TERRIFIED - Mt. Etna Eruption One of tlie Worst In Years Fully 5,000 People Are Are Homeless and a Stream of Lava 1,200 Feet Wide and 24 Feet High is Sweeping Down the Moun tain With Catania, a City of 150, OOO People Directly in its Path . Many Smaller Town Already De stroyed. (By Cable to The Times.) Catania, Sicily, March 25 A red hot river of lava, 1,200 feet wide and 24 feet high, swept aown the slopes of Mount Etna today, destroying all life In its path and turning the fer tile country into a scene of desoia- Hon. ' .. : ,:' Fully 5,000 people are already homeless, their homes destroyed or menaced by the sweep of the lava. i In twenty-four hours it has ad vanced six miles, and half a dozen villages and settlements have been wldep out of existence or abandoned and thousands of acres of cultivated land turned into a smoking waste,' covered with the molten mass that pours from a dozen craters. - A slight diminution in the flow of lava was noticed this morning and the news ;. brought rejoicing to tiie scores of villages in which terror stricken crowds have been praying constantly. This respite, however, was of short duration. The constant rumblings which hnvo marked the emotion since it started increased in volume today and the earthquakes became more frequent. The ground is in an al most constant tremble. More than seventy distinct shocks have been re corded. : ;. Troops are rushing to the threat ened towns to quell the panic and aid In saving the helpless. Reports re ceived here today stated that eight soldiers bad been killed at San Leo and Rimazzi, and that scores of in habitants were Injured lt those towns when the lava reached them, after (Continued on Page Six.) WHITE DOVE OF PEACE ON CAPITOL V .' , ;, I (By Leased Wire to The Times) Washington, March 25 The white dove of peace perched victoriously on the capttol building today, but kept a weather-eye open for any missiles that might be thrown that way. The democrats and republicans having selected their representatives on the rules committee , for formal election today, everybody breathed a sigh of relief and then began to look around to ascertain what the outcome ot the recent revolution in Washing ton will be. Ten days will decide the fate of the Taft legislation now be fore congress. What its fate will be is hard to tefl with the insurgents and democrats holding the whip hand, but It Is safe to say that most of it will be passed. The election ' of the democratic members of the recorganized rules committee has smoothed the way for the formation of that body as' out lined by the resolution the insurgents and democrats forced down the throat of Speaker Cannon. : The quiet tone of the democratic caucus and the election of Representative John J. Fitzgerald in spite of a strong opposi tion to him because of his flop to Cannon a year ago, Is taken as an indication of the general armistice. The election of the four minority members: Champ Clark, of Missouri; Oscar Underwood, of Alabama, Lin coln Dixon, ot Indiana, and, Fitzger ald, on the first ballot was unexpect ed and caused much comment today. . The indications now are that Mr. Dalzell, of Pennsylvania, will be made chairman of the rules commit tee, In aplte of his being a lieutenant of Speaker Cannon. He Is the senior member, and was- originally appoint ed to tho old committee hy Sponkor Heed, . . SEVERAL DIE INCHICACO FIRE TODAY Fire . Traps Girls In Furniture Store And Several Perish - ' v In Flames TWENTY ARE DEAD Fire Breaks Out in Building in Which Thirty Girls Are. at Work on the Top Floor-Twenty Girls and Three Men Believed to Have Perish " ed in the Flames Elevator Broke Down and Girls . Were Trapped on the Moor Above Girls Rush to Windows Where One by One They Succumbed to Suffocation. (By Leased Wire to The Times) Chicago, March 25 Twenty or more girls and three men, according to the estimates of firemen and em ployes, were burned to death todfry in a tire which destroyed tne six-story building of the L. Fish Furniture Company, 1906 Wabash avenue. Owing to the large amount of high ly inflammable material with which the building was filled, the flames spread with incredible rapidity. One death was caused by a girl leaping from the sixth story window as the flames swept about her. The flameB trapped, the girls at the windows, where they ran and Bcream- ed for aid after escape by the stair ways had been cut off. The elevator, too, went put of commission with the first blast of flame. Hundreds, of persons, unable to lift their" hands in aid, saw the girls one by one drop back from the windows into the flames. - Isaac Fish, of the furniture firm, stated that there were seventy-five girls in the building when the fire broke out. He declared that the lives of the girls who ran to the windows on the fourth floor could have been saved had the firemen raised ladders from the roof of the three-story building adjoining on the south. Others severely condemned the fire department for what they called de lay in getting the first streams Of wa ter on the blaze and for, failure to put out life nets to catch the men and women who could be seen in the up per windows, screaming for hefp. The unfortunate victims, watting In vain for the life nets to be spread, allowing them to jump, could be seen to fall, back, one by one, into the fiery furnace as the long tongues of flames reached them. Many specta tors said that life nets would have saved most, if not all of the victims. Crazed by the fire behind her, which had cut off escape by the stair ways, one girl. Miss Ethel Lichten stein, hung out of the fifth floor win dow for fully half an hour, while the firemen made not .-'she slightest at tempt to rescue her, accbrding to eye witnesses. -Some of the crowd niad,e a rush, captured a long extension lad der from the truck, put it against the side of the building and attempt ed to climb up to rescue the girl. They were driven away by the fire men, who took the ladder down and threatened them with arrest but did nothing themselves to save the 8creaminK girl. Several times the crowd attempted to regain the ladder and make the rescue, but each time, it is said, the Bremen drove them away,:.: - . Finally the firemen, spurred to ac tion by the Indignation of the crowd, put up an extension ladder, which broke a window just under where Miss LIchtenstein hung. A dense vol ume of black smoke poured out in her face and she lost her hold and fell to her death, A white man whose wife and three children slept in rooms on the third floor of an adjoining building, res cued them with the aid of a negro named Wlngate. The two men crawl ed up the stairs and through the stif ling smoke. Though scorched ' and singed by the flames, they made their way at last to the rooniB occupied by the family. They found all four un conscious. . The janitor ' carried out his wife and baby, while the brave negro crawled through the Bmoke and flames with the two other children in his arms. When Chief of the Fire Depart ment Hqran heard the charges against the. firemen, he demanded an explanation of Battalion Chief O'Con nor, who was tae nrst commanding officer to reach the flre.v , 1 'When wo got there." replied - (Continued on Page Six.) SOME PEOPLE Supreme Court Justice W. O. How ard, who does not hesitate to rap his own party if he thinks It is needed. At a dinner of the Sons of St. Pat rick in Troy, N. Y Judge Howard condemned Senator Root and all of the legislators who are connected with the bribery scandal at Albany. TRUST BUSTING IS BAD POUCY (By Leased Wire to The Times.) " New York, March 25 Europe looks upon the American agitation against the trusts as bad business policy, ac cording to Daniel Guggenheim,) presi dent of the American Smelting and Re fining Company, who with his brother. Isaac, . returned today on the Lusitania after a six weeks trip abroad. Mr. Guggenheim said that the anti trust suits pending In the supreme court have weakened the market for American securities abroad and that Europe fears to invest In anything but gtlt-enge securities pending the deel ions in the Standard Oil and Tobacco trust enses. "German merchants are talking bear ish copper.". Mr. Guggenheim said. The reason for this is that they are trying to obtain all their copper from America at the Very lowest prices. The demand is very strong abroad owing to the poor business conditions' which exist in England. ' Business men of Germany look upon the American agitation against combin ations of capital with curiosity. They are reversing our methods. The govern ment is doing everything in Its power to encourage all forms of combinations to that the highest possible prices can be obtained from German products. I found on my trip that tho agi tation and many legal proceedings be fore the supreme court have had a decided effect. upon the mind of Europe This policy, they believe, is proving a detriment to the progress of our na tion, and they look upon It as bad business policy." NEW COMMITTEE OX RILES. .Meets and Elects Jalzell Chairman Iteudy For Business. (By Leased Wire to The Times.) Washington, March 25 The new house) committee on rules met this afternoon and organized. Represen tative Dalzell, of Pennsylvania, re ceived five votes for chairman and Representative Clark, of Missouri, three votes. Mr, Dalzell was declar ed elected chairman..- The committee on accounts will provide for a clerk for the new committee. A room for the committee's use-will be assigned today or tomorrow, after which It will meet and hegin consideration of business now pending.; Cabinet Held Meeting. (By Leased. Wire to Tho Times.) Washington, March 25 The cabi net held a meeting today for the first time since President Taft returned from iii3 recent trip. While nothing was officially given out concerning the meeting, it was learned that the Canadian tariff situation was the chief matter considered. ' . Assassin of Prince Ito Executed. (By Cable to The Times.) Harbin,. Manchuria.. March 2,5 The assassin of Prince Ito, Inchanan gan, the Korean fanatic, was execut ed today, at Port Arthur. He shot tho cider statesman here on October 2. , - WHO ARE BEING TALKED ABOUT ' VMS I fiea jmmm Representative John Dalzell was Speaker Cannon's right who hand man In the .fight waged against "Uncle Joe" , in Congress. The Speaker generally calls Mr. Dalzell to preside when he has occasion to tem porarily leave the chair. , ssfcS( 11 i m if Nik v 1 Ella Wheelejr Wilcox, tae author, is the latest matrimonial desideratum who during a recent tour through of Count iioni de Castellane, the crst Tunis and Algiers astonished the while husband of Anna Gould, now Arabs greatljV She has considerable knowledge of palmistry and tried it on an old Arab, telling him how many wives and. how many children he had and also a number of events in his life. The old fellow told his friends and Mrs. Wilcox came near to being mobbed by . men and women, who wanted her to tell their fortunes. COTTONSUPPLYFOR SIX MONTHS PERIOD (By Leased Wire to The Times) Washington, March 25 .The- census report issued today shows a total supply of cotton for the six months period end ing February 28, 1910 to have been 11, 552,361 running bales, made up as fol lows: 1,483,585 held September 1, 1: ginned during period 9,974,998; net im ports 93.T7S. The distribution is 2,526,983 bales con sumed: 4,599,682 bales exported;; 1,674,331 bales held in mills.' 1,932,521 bales held In Independent warehouses; other stocks 818.S44. HEARTY WELCOME BRITISH EXPLORER (By. Leased Wire to The Times) New York, March 25 America today gave a hearty welcome to a foreign ex plorer, whim Sir Ernest Shackleton, who got nearer to the South Pole than any other man, reached here. He came on the liner Lusitania, accom panied by Lady Shackleton. "I beg to be excused," said Sir Ernest, when asked for his opinion of Dr. Frederick A. Cook's claim to hav ing discovered the North Pole, but he gave an enthusiastic tribute and full credit to Commander Robert E. Peary. Asked when he would make his next try for the South Pole, the British ex plorer said tliut 'he would not head any expedition while Captain Scott is attempting if. i "I have no doubt that the captain will sueeed in reaching the coveted goal," he declared. The Shackletons hurried to Wash ington where they are to be the guests tf Ambassador Biyco of Great Britain till Sunday, after which the British ex plorer wll begin a lecture tour. Many honors have been arranged for Sir Ernest. He wfll.be' presented with a gold medal by President Taft,' given by the National Geographic Society. Another medal will be presented Mon day evening, when Sir Ernest willtbe the guest of the Pilgrim's ' Club here. This medal Is presented by the Ameri can Geographical Society. Many clubs and societies will enter tain the Shackletons while they are in America, and a score or luncheons and dinners have been arranged for them. - . Commander. Peary will take a prom inent part in the entertaining of, his BritlBh colleagues He will formally welcome-Sir Ernest at -the latter's first lecture, to be given in Carnegie Hall, with Joseph' H. Choate presiding. if '-'SHaW"' mmmms Miss Anne Morgan, daughter ot J. Pierrepont Morgan, the famous finan- tier, who, according to cabled report. the Duciiesse de Telleyrand. r BRODIE L DUKE WINS NOTE CASE (Special to The Times.) Durham, March 25 The jury In the Brodle'L, Duke case last night about six o'clock returned a verdict answering every issue in favor of Mr. Duke. The deliberation of something like twenty-six hours had various Causes for its existence. From the start then: was a big majority for Mr. Duke and when they arose yesterday nurning it leaked out that there were nine for the defendant and three for the plain tiff. If that happened to be true, there were ten later in the morning against two. There were also rumors that the ratio was exactly reversed. They Were ill all likelihood untrue. The jury filed in court twlre to receive additional light, some of them -desiring--to know what " in due course' ..'meant.' There were seven issues submitted to them. Some of these read in such a way that the triers did not know in whose favor they were written. The result of the long wrangle was a verdict that gave the bank a set-back. There Is of course the right, of appeal. The one thing operating most potently In favor of tile defendant- was Ine fact that the adventuress, who had success fully worked the bank before she knew Mr. Duke, used the rich man tint to se cure more money,' but to validate some of the notes she had previously' .ex ecuted and to save herself from prose cution. The hank's attorneys did good work to get 'the. case so deeply into the minds of the Jury is'. to give it worrl ment. . The date set for the various usury cases Is tomorrow. If they come up. Attorney A. K. Holtnu "of Winston Salem, will be here to assist his brother in their trial. All of these eases, rive In number, are anpils from magis trate's courts, one of them being an ap peal by both sides. SWITCHMEN- l)ISPI,E.Si:i. One Crowd Gets Three Viiis Raise and the Other Only Two t'enls. -.-......- (By Leased Wire to 'Hie Times.) Chicago, March 25 The granting of switchmen of one organization an increase of three cents an hour and those of another only two cents in separate arbitration proceedings to day caused a threatening controversy. The switchmen of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen demand that the wage scale for cities west of Chi cago be made on the basis of the 3 cent raise -granted the rival organi zation, the Switchmen's Union of America. A lengthy meeting was held with the railroad general man agers. The railroad officials said they would submit- the new proposi tion to their corporations. Will of Thomas C. Piatt. Oswego,-N. Y., March 25 The will of former United States Senator T. C. Piatt, who died March ti, was ad mitted to probate today by Surrogate George F. Andrews,, of Tioga county. The will, one of the. briefest ever ril ed In , this county, makes Mr. Piatt's three sons, Edward T., Frank H., and Henry B. Piatt, full heirs and' execu tors. The value of the estate Is not given. , i I BALLliMR WANTED TO GO ON STAND Brandeis Sprang a Surprise By Asking That The Sec retary Be Called VERTREES OBJECTS Attorney For flluvis Wanted llnllin iser to (Jo on the Stand Tins Af ternoon Said the-Secretary Was Willing to Appear, Itut His Attor ney Objected to His (Jolng on the Stand at This Time and Committee Will Decide the Matter in Executive Session Stephen I!. IJirch the first Witness Today. (By Leased Wire to The Times) , Washington, March 25 When the Bulllnger-Pinchot joint investigating committee resumed its session this morning Attorney Brandeis, who rep resents L. R. Glavis, sprang a sur prise by asking that Secretary Bal linger he . summoned to appear, this afternoon. Mr. , Brandeis explained that he desired lo prove certain let ters, papers and other documents, by the secretary. Attorney Vcrtreos, for Secretary Ballinger, entered an objection, de claring that Mr. Ballinger was the person most interested and that he (Vertrees) ought to have the dis cretion-given him to call the secre tary when he saw fit to do so. In reply to a question by Senator Sputherland, of Utah, Mr. Brandeis aiiinitted he regarded Secretary Bal linger - as a material witness, and would very likely question him upon other matters than the papers and documents referred to. "In other words, then," said Sena tor Southerland, "you wish to cross- examine him before he testifies on the direct examination?" "Well, 1 would not put it exactly that way," replleh Mr. Brandeis, "but Secretary Ballinger has indicated his willingness to appear before the com mittee and testify at this time." Alter Mr. Brandeis had been given in opportunity to state why he wanted Mr. Ballinger to appear.' this ernoon the committee decided to dispose of the question of calling Mr. Ballinger in executive session. , Stephen D. Birch, representative of the Alaska syndicate who testi fied recently before the senate com mittee on territories that the Gug genheims had an option on the Cun ningham coal claims in Alaska, was then called as u witness by Mr. Brandeis. Mr. Birch, in answer to questions. said he was managing director of the Alaska syndicate. This syndicate was composed of .!. I'. Morgan & Co., and members of the firm of M. Guggcn heims & Sons. It. was founded in March, litoii. Asked what companies the syndi cate was interested in, Mr. Birch said the-, Northwestern Commercial Com pany, the Northwestern .Fisheries Company, the Copper River and Northwestern Railway Company, the Alaska Steamship Company, the Kenne-Colt Mines Company.' and the Kattala Company. "Are they all controlled by the Morgan-Guggenheim .syndicate'.''' asked Mr. Denhy. ' Some of them are controlled by the syndicate and In some of them the syndicate Is only interested." Mr. Birch said that the syndicate owned about 4(i per cent, of the stock of the Northwestern Commercial Company in all i:j.8(i4 of the :,!(), DOti shares of the company'. The capital of the Northwestern 'Commercial Company was $;!, OOO.OOi), It was more of a holding company than anything else, he said, alt hough It did operate a cunning company at Nome and held 82 per cent, of the stock of the Alaska Steamship Com pany. The capital of the hitter company was $3,o(io,0()i. The cap ital of the. Northwestern Fisheries Company was $1,000,000. all held by, the Northwestern Commerlcial Com pany. The Kenne-Colt Mines Com pany "owned by the Bonanza claims and mines and all of its stock was In turn' owned by the syndicate. He could not give the capital stock of the Copper River Railroad Company. The Kattala Company, he said, was a construction company. There were some minor concerns which the ayn 1 (Continued on Page Five.) HEARING IN THE ROTTEN MEAT CASES Case of City Against Meat' Men Proceeds In Judge Stronachs Court STORY OF THE MEAT Witnesses Toll of the Discovery of the Rotten .Meat Market Keeper Mi ltary, Dr. Roberts and Others Testify Alderman Vpcliurch Says He Had Not Wanted Any Meat Since He Saw That in the Market House, Which tlie Keeper Had Condemned Dr. Crisman on the Stand. This morning at 11 o'clock the trial of Swift & Co. and W. D. Vaughn for selling a pig to Sam Townes, which was unfit for food, was resumed, City Attorney Clark served notice that he would take up the other two cases immediately after this one was completed. All the evidence introduced this morning was by the defendant, and there were several Interesting dis closures made, particularly when Mr. Nowell said ho had seen hogs sold there in the market in as bad condition as the Townes hog. On cross-examination he was asked if he would have sold a hog in the condition testified to by witness yes terday, and he said he would. Bob Hill. Col. Hinsdale announced that Bob Hill made a mistake while testifying for the state yesterday, and wanted to correct it. This was objected to unless the defense made him their witness and the court, sustained the objection. Hill went on the stand and said he made a mistake when he said the Townes pig was weighed by Mr. .Vaughn,' as it was Mr. C. D. Bar- bee who weighed it. On cross-examination he said his attention was called to it by Mr. Barbee, who told him yesterday evening that he (Bar ljee), and not Vaughn, had weighed it, and he thought it right and said so. This retresnea nis memory anu he recollected it. ; Mr. W. D. Vauj-lin. Mr. W. D. Vaughn, one of the de fendants, was next called to the stand. He said he: was an agent ot : (Continued From Page Seven.) CHARGES BROUGHT AGAINST MR. TATE Illy Leased Wire to The Times) Washington, March 25 United States District Attorney Carter Tale, of Atlanta, is here for the purpose of meeting charges that have been filed against him with the department of justice; through Robert S. Ramsey, an investigator of the-department. At the department of justice it. was said that nothing could be made public, at this time as to the exact, charges further than that they are the result of his "failure to indict certain persons". '.'.-., . A member of congress, however, who is a (lose friend of Mr.Tate, hut who would not permit. .his-, mime to he used at this time, said:, "I do not care to say anything about the matter just now, further than that the charges against, Mr. Tate are trivial and without founda tion, as Will be shown in due time. I will add, however, that political jealousy is back of the charges and nothing else. When former Presi dent Roosevelt appointed Mr, Tate United States district attorney at At lanta, three or four republicans down there were very much disgruntled, for they wanted the position for some republican friend of theirs and re sented the. .appointment of a. demo crat. In the hope that they may get Mr. Tate's official head and thus se cure the appointment of one of their republican friends they have Insti gated the present charges. That Is all there is to it." Thrty-three Indictments. , (By Leased Wire to The Times) Pittsburg, Pa., March 25-5-Trie grand jury returned 33 graft Indict ments this afternoon. Thirty-one lire new and two old.
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