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I For, Raleigh . and , yVklnUyj Fair tonight and Friday. " For North . Carolina: Fair tonight and Friday; light 'west winds. . - , ' . . - .ESTABLISHED 1871 EALEIGH, N. C, THURSDAY, JUNE 2, 1910. PRICE 5 CENTS. Doub!e.the..,Nuhiber of Paid Subscribers in "the City of Raleigh' of Other Newspaper. wimm THE OVERLII OIL A T m IS. DOXEY OiY STAND t li Asii-IrjunctioaBiillaccrpcra Government s Fight Against Tells Story of Her Life With TAFT SPEAKS ed In Railroad Pill the Railroads Dr. Doxey PRESIDENT Si Ally. General Wickershas Haceuyers In Suit Against Causes Talk EFFECT ON THE MARKE There 1 Ugly Talk. In Wasbln'Ktoii Regarding the Manner In Which . tlie-Bringing of the Injunction Suits Against the Kailroadi. Wt Used by Certain interests to Take Advantage of the Stock Market and "Clean Up". Thousands of Dollars Investigation and Scandal May Kesult Wivkeraham Says He Made the Misleading Statements for Purposes 'of ; Secrecy Rail' roads Planning Action.. (By Leased '.Wire to The Times.) Washington, June 2 There is ug ly talk In Washington regarding the ' manner 'in which the fact of the in stitution of the injunction suits in Hannibal,' Mo., by the government against twenty-five railroads was used- b"V certain powerful- interests and individuals to take. advantage of the stock market and thereby "clean up' no one, of course, knows how much, but from the drop in railroad - and other stocks it is ''believed amounted to hundreds of thousands of dollars. Pn Tuesday, - morning Attorney i General Wlckersham made the fol , lowing public statement to the press, in referring to the request of a num ber of Important shippers that . he ' take action to prevent :. twenty-five railroads from , Increasing freight rates commencing June 1: "I do not t'aink It will be neces sary to take any action In this mat ter immediately, nor do I think it will be wise for the president to send any special message to congress to day on the matter as was urged by the delegation of shippers whom I saw yesterday." Notwithstanding this direct state ment Attorney General Wlckersham yesterday openly admitted that as long ago as last Friday be had de cided to Institute injunction proceed ings against the twenty-five railroads - at issue, In the federal court at St. Louis, while at midnight of Saturday he sent Assistant Attorney General Grosvener to St. Louis for the pur pose of filing the necegsary papers In the suit. Again, on Saturday, in re plying to the delegation of shippers who called on him to urge that suit . be brought, he said, "It seems to me that you gentlemen have waited un til the last minute to demand that I take action. You cannot expect me to bring suit in Chicago or some other city in the west upon such short notice, can you?" ' ;h , It is pointed out that the Intima tion glren the shippers by the attor? nay general on Saturday and the add , ed declaration to the newspapers on Tuesday that he "did not think It ne- , cessary to bring any action Imme diately," although he had decided on Friday to bring such action, had the effect of reassuring the' stejek" mar- ' (Continued, On Page Five.) ( INVESTIGATION OF SUBWAY WRECK (By Leased Wire to The Times) ; New York,, June The public ser vice commission today began an in vestigation Into the collision of two subway trains last night In which thirty, persons - were . hurt and . 1,000 thrown Into panic in the. smoke-choked tube. . The probe will take In all the details of the worst accident the sub way has had, with particular attention being given the clouding of Bignals by mok at the automatic pumping sta tlon just where the southbound tracks begin the passage, under, the Harlem ' River. It was there that one south bound express chashed Into another at ' the Mott Avenue station. - John Cummins, elevator man at the station was today declared the hero of the affair, having made 25 trips with his car, refusing to. carry a man until the women iinrt chilrlron were safe on the streot. ' - r ': Bill to Prevent Federal Courts Ifroui . Enjoiniiig Action Taken .Under State Xaws Commodities Clause . Amendment Rejected. (By Leased Wire to The Times.) Washington, June 2 With a fair prospect that a final vote- will reached on. the railroad bill today the measure was' taken up in the senate again today. Senator Crawford, of South Da kota, called up als amendment which Meks to perfect the commodities Clause of the Hepburn act. Which the supreme court held to be Ineffective. Ms amendment Is slightly different from that presented yesterday - by Senator' Bailey, of Texas, which was rejected, After an hour's debate this morning the Crawford amendment was also rejected. By a vote of 33 to 28 tiie senate this afternoon incorporated In the railroad bill the Overman anti-in junction bill which seeks to restrain the federal courts from enjoining ac tion taken under state laws. It pro vides that no Interlocutory injunction suspending the execution of a state status by restraining the action of any state officer in the execution of such law Bhall be Issued by a federal judge on the ground of tiie unconati tutionality of such statute unless the application shall be presented and heard and determined by three judges, one of whom shall be a jus tice of. the supreme court, and un less a majority shall concur. When ever such application is made to a justice of the supreme court or judge he is to call immediately two other judges to assist in determin ing the issue.-; The application shall not be heard before at least five days notice is' given to the governor and the attorney general of .the' state, it is further provided that If of tiie opinion that irreparable loss or dam age -could result, a temporary re straining order may be . issued, but this order is to remain in force un til the hearing on- the application. Senator La toilette, of Wisconsin, offered an amendment designed to give shippers the right of appeal to the court of commerce to enjoin in creases in rates. He contended that the court is now open under the terms of the, bill only to carriers and that his amendment would allow the same right to shopper. , '. . The amendment was defeated by a vote of 33 to 29. : THE ROOSEVELT ' SPEECH. Still the Subject of Discussion in London Caustic Comments.' (By Cable to The Times.) London, June 2- Grave fears for the result of. Theodore Roosevelt's Guild Hall speech on Egypt are felt by the liberal leaders. While it Is re ported in authoritative circles taat the attack on the policies to a certain extent pleased Ksing George, whose sympathies are with the conesrva- tlves, the effect of the ex-president's denunciation upon the Egyptian na tionalists is looked forward to with anxiety. ,.' With Mr. Roosevelt already the ob ject of the nationalists' hatred be cause of his Cairo speech attacking them, further demonstrations are looked forward, to by those familiar with the situation, especially in view of the fact that the speech was given at the moment when Mr. Roosevelt was being honored by London. .The comment today on the Guild Hall speech Is more caustic than that of yesterday. William Stead, the ed itor of the English Review of Re views, says: ' "Since I .tried to teach my grand mother how. to suck eggs I have not seed anything quite like It. From the viewpoint bf a circus it Is abso lutely beyond praise." - , The Liberal leaders today express ed gratification that two prominent Americans, William R. Hearst ' and William J. Bryan, had expressed -eon. demnation of the Roosevelt utter ances. Mr. Hearst's statement, issued In Paris, 16 given prominence In tbe London papers. The fact that. Mr. Hearst calls Mr. Roosevelt " a tin soldier,"- and declares that, having shocked and outraged patriotic Amer icans he should' return to, his own land; is the subject of much com ment. ,-' ..' 1 ;v ., Mr. Bryan's milder strictures were delivered at a young Men's Christian , Association meeting at Bradford. . if ""i t l 1 V IK n Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, wife of the former president, who, if plans now under, way are carried out, will review the parade In honor of her husband when he returns on June 18. The pluu for Mr. Roosevelt to review the parade has been proposed and is being fostered by Mrs. Donald Mc Lean, president of the 1. A. R. COTTON CROP REPORT Acreage Planted This Year Greater Than Last Area. Planted is 2. Per Cent Greater Thau I.at Yearr Average Condi tion 82 as Compared With 81. t at This Date Last Year. (By Leased Wire to The' Times) Washington, June 2 -The follow ing cotton report was issued today at noon by the board of statistics or tne department of agriculture: It shows that the area planted this year in the United States Is about 02.8 per- cent of the area planted last year, equivalent .to 33,196,000 acres, as compared with 32,292.000 acres Indicated by the bureaus re vised estimate of last year's planted area, an increase of about 904,000 acres, or 2.8 per cent The condition of the growing crop on May 2a was .82 of the normal condition, as compared with 81. l at the corresponding date of 1909, . and 0.9 tbe average condition for tne past 10 years on May 25. 10 Yr States. Acres. 34,09!) 1,177,0.10 2, 00 1,000 4,811.000 270,000 3,641,000 3,312,000 1,089,000 10,504,000 2,446,000 777,000 88,000 2,128,000 '18.000 1910. Aver Virginia . . 90 84 " 7S 81 80 S3 82 76 83 81 86 87 84. 90 82.0 86 83 ' 82 82 87 80 80 80 78 82 83 85 84 . Carolina Carolina Georgia Florida Alabama . Mississippi Louisiana' . Texas . . , Arkansas. . Tennessee . Missouri . . Oklahoma ". California . United States33,196,000 80.9 BCHUXOTOX AFTER XEW HOSPITAL, Sits Proposed Committee Are at . Work on' the Project. (Special to The Times. ) ; .' Burlington, H. C, June , 2 The matter of establishing a hospital in Alamance county has for a long time been a live topic and has now become reality." At a recent meeting of in terested parties throughout the coun ty an association was formed and a committee to select a site . was ap pointed. Yesterday this committee reported two available sites, either of which is desirable. One. Is situated between Burlington and Graham and the other is the former home, bf ex Governor Holt, near Haw River. Three Men. Killed in Blast. (By Leased Wire to The 'f lines) , 1 Allentown, Pa., June 2 Three men were instantly killed, three oth ers Injured and three are missing, as result of; a premature explosion of blast in a Btone quarry of the Le- hlgh-Portland . Cement Company at Wet .coplay, Pa., today. The three missing men, It Is feared, nrc-burled nder the mass of rock. . Injunction Suit Against Western Lines a Tfest ; Case The Govern ment Has In- Preparation Suits to' , Dissolve Every Similar Railroad Combination in tiie Country. (By Leased Wire tif The Times) Washington, : J'une ? The United States government is upon the verge of a war against the railroads of even greater breadth and significance than the fights against the Standard Oil Company and the tobacco trust. It is understood that the injunction suit to prevent the western trunk line committee from raising freight rates on the western lines is but a test case, the government having m preparation suits for the dissolution of every similar railroad body in he country. The department of justice is mak ing a triple attack, on the railroads. The first step is the injiinc::on grain ed at Hannibal, Mo., restraining t:io roads from enforcing the Increases. The second will be an equity suit for the dissolution of the trunk; line committee. The third is a proceed ings for contempt of court for viola tion of the injunction granted sev eral .days ago in the trans-Mississlppl freight case. By far the most Important Is the dissolution suit. The government has already scored victory over the roads, in that It has so manoeuvered the case that the burden of proof has fallen upon the defendants in the injunction suit. According to the officials of the de partment -of justice, the roads must prove that the injunction should be dissolved, instead of the govern ment's proving that it must be sus tained, when the case comes uu for hearing, under the expediting act, before the circuit CoiirRt St. Louis, me prosecution .to tne hands ot Frederick N. .Judson, who appeared as special assistant attorney-general in the preliminaries of securing the injunction, and tbe dissolution fight, which is to be conducted in the same manner as the oil and tobacco trust cases and the Harriman merger, will be left under his direction. The government is today prepar ing for a fight that will extend over many months, bringing the case cer tainly well into 1911. The first step after the filing of the dissolution suit will be the appointment of an exam iner, who will take the testimony. Upon the completion of the testimony-taking the case will be laid be fore the circuit court of the eighth district. The eighth court, according to Attorney-general Wiekersham, has been chosen because of its familiarity with the Sherman law and the anti-trust statute. An interesting- feature of the situ ation, which today attracted consid erable attention here, is that In the. administration railroad bill there was a provision legalizing the making of agreements by the roads, subject to the approval of the inter-state com merce commission. This clause was stricken out. The government is how proceeding under the Sherman anti trust law to halt the alleged illegal rate-making. Bubonic Plague. (By Cable to The Times) , LaGuayra. Venezuela, June 2 Bu bonic plague has broken out again here. One hundred are stricken and the town's .12.000 Inhabitants are :n terror. Cases were reported today from Caracas, six miles south. KING GEORGE. PAYS HONORS TO PEARY (Hy Cable to The Times.) London, June 2 King George today paid unusual honors to Commander Robert 12. Peary, discoverer of the Horth pole, summoning him to Marl borough for an aualenee. The Ameri can took the occuslon to wish England. through the crown, success In the hunt for the south pole, for which the Scott expedition ship. Tcrranova, left London yesterday. Commander Peary express ed his keen disappointment that the plans for a simultaneous American ex pedition had fallen through. The king also declared that the failure of the. proposed race had caused him regret. The , scientist was taken -to Marl borough House by Ambassador Reid. iFm more than half an hour Command er Peary remained with the king. Most Of 'the time was taken' up with a re cital of the events of the north pole hunt that ended successfully. ' Mrs. I:.'iull Mi-Lcim, president of the Diiuxhtci-s of the American Rev olution in Neiv York, who has pro posed that .Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt shall review the parade in honor of her husband upon his arrival in Xew York June 18. Airs. .McLean is work ing to gain favor for her idea with the. reccpticn committees.' t . RELEASED JT MISTAKE Hub Holt Served Only Two of a Fifteen Year Sentence In Making Entry on Record His Sent ence Was llecorih'd To leurs When it Should Have Been Fifteen Was Ueleiis-ed About a Month Ago. Through an error made in eulerlng the sentence on the prison record Hub -Holt, colored, is today a free man. Holt was sentenced to the State's Prison for 15 years from Davidson county for an . attempted criminal assault .upon a white woman and begun to serve his term about May 1, 1908. in copying the com mitment' the sentence was recorded at the State's Prison to be for two years instead of 15. When the two .veins were up, about the first of las) month the . present' officials, going by the record, refejsed Holt, and noth ing more was thought of the matter. Holt, after being released, re turned home. This early return caused those who knew of the 15-year sentence to make inquiries, and It was found that while the commit ment called for the correct sentence, the prison record only called for a sentence of two yours, The officials of Davidson county were notified, but Holt had disappeared, and so far has not been recaptured!' '. ft is supposed that the clerk had several commitments bvfore him when he was making the entry on the record, and by mistake placed two years alter Holt's name, instead of 15. Of course the present officials knew nothing about the case and fol lowed the record, with the result that Holt is a free man with 13 years of sentence unserved. T.HK KtiYPTIAXS ARK MAD. Severely Denounce-Roosevelt's Latest Outbreak Against Them. (By Cable to The Times.) Cairo, June 2 Distinct uneasiuess is felt here as the result of Theodore Roosevelt's attach on the National ists and the character of the Egypt ians in his London speech. It is known that the police have materially strengthened their posi tion in expectation of demonstrations. Mr. Roosevelt is the object of a storm of denunciation from the National ists, uttered In I lie native press and by speakers. Mass meetings have been held In several quarters of the city attacking him. The most radical of. the Nationalists demand a con certed move now for a native assem bly and a constitution. Sheikh Yous seff All, editor of the' Elmoyad, the chief Moslem paper, condemns Roose velt, expressing surprise that., an American 6aould hold such, view as he professes... Dr. Nilme Doyen, an other powerful editor, and All Bey Fahmy Kamel also attack the ex president severely. Was n Constant I'ser of Morphine Her Husband Did Xot Try to Cure Her but (iuve Her the Drug Con stunlly I'ntii She Left Him. By Leased Wire to. The Times.) St. Louis. Mo., June 1 Mrs. Dora K. Doxey took the witness stand today in her own behalf to assert her Innocence of the charge of murdering William J. Krder, the husband she Is ulleged to have married bigamously. The witness appeared pale but culm and answered ((uestions In a calm, un broken voice. She lowered her eyes lre(uently to avoid the stare "f the many women who crowded ' into the court room. Many were disappointed yesterday when the woman dirt not testily and those who failed to gain entrance to tbe room yesterday arrived earlier to day to be sure of timlins a seat. Mrs. Elder first told of her early life. Main' questions were placed in guiding her through a maze of formalities lead ing up to her alleged bigamous niar riage and the death of her second hus band. Kvery effort, is being extended to bring the case to a close not later than Saturday when the present term ex pires. If it Is carried over to the next term the proceeding will be nulli fied by stetute. After answering the preliminary questions of Mrs. Doxey's counsel, former Governor Johnson, aiked. "what was the extent of morphine you began taking 1W7 when you first became ad dicted to its use'."' : 'That will be hard to say," replied the witness. '"I. don't think I ever took less than one half to three fourths of a grain a day at a time and some times Dr. Doxey would give it to me every hour In this quantity. I took it in tablet form and hypodermirally. other times I would not tuke so much, but I should say that at times I was taking not les than ten to fifteen grains daily." . "When did you and Dr. Doxey sep arate?" "Sometime in April, 19U9." "What was the cause ot the separa tion?" "Dr. Doxey treated ' me' with mor phine and several times I begged him to break me of the habit. I had prom ised my lather to try every means to break myself of the habit. Dr. Doxey, when I begged him to cure me, would say he Would do the best he could. He would be pretending to give me other medicine, but all the time it was mor phine." '''".,." Mrs. Doxey brought her father into the story, showing- he had made many trips from his home to Iowa where the Doxey's lived, to induce Dr. Doxey to cease giving her the drug. Always the doctor promised., only, to increase the doses alter her father had departed. All these things she urged as show ing under what circumstances she made her boasts of expected wealthy, of mythical relatives, of estates and in surance from which she expected large returns. All these circumstances she explained as vapors of the mind sup plied from the constant Use of mor phine. When it came to the administration of arsenic to Krder, she denied that this had ever been done, either in or outside the 'Influence of the druc or that she or Dr. Doxey had conspired to kill Krder tor his life insurance. Heginning with her birth; near the little country town of Joy, ill., she testified to her life, which was laid open like a book, and sparing her im prisoned husband nothing, moved the spectators to tears. SALK OF STRKKT CAR 'PLANT. . .1. S. Newton, An Attorney, Purchases the System Will Improve the Plant. (Special to The Times.) Fayetteville, N. C.. June - The commissioner's sale of the Consoli dated Power and Street Railway Com pany of Fayetteville took place at noon today. Col. Henry T. Dec.iat, of Philadelphia, representing the bond holders, and Mr. J. Sprunt. Newton and associates were the only two bid ders who deposited the $6.1100 re quired of all prospective bidders. When bids were asked for Col. Dechat bid $(15,000. Mr. Newton raised it to $G5,500. and as Col. De- chat indicated that his first bid wai as far as he would go, Mr. Newton was declared the purchaser at $63, 600. Mr. Newton and associates in tend to greatly improve the. street railway system in the near future. Coal Miners Ktrlke. (Hy Leased Wire to The Times) Wilkesbarre. Pa., Juno 2 Oue thousand miners of the Temple Coal' & Iron Company struck today, mak ing 13,000 men out in this field, 12,- jOO of whom are employed by the Pennsylvania Coal Company. - The strikers' leaders declare the walkout will spread until the whole section Is tied up. ON WO A Delivers a Striking Address on the Higher Education of Women SPOKE AtIrYN MAVifR I'ttereil a' Flattering Endorsement of the New Woman and at the Same Time Kxtolled the Family Life Professions to Which Women Are Fitted Are Increasing in Number and the Opportunity for Profes sional Work' Coining to Women in (ireat Degree Says Academic I'M. ucation Does Not Cniit Man or Wo man for Business. (By Leased Wire to The Times.) Philadelphia, Pa., June 2 In a a striking address on higher educa tion for- women, delivered at the graduating exercises of Bryn Mawr College here today, President Taft uttered a flattering endorsement of the new woman, at the same time he extolled the family life, the happiness of which, he declared, was brighten ed by placing woman on an intellect ual equality with man. On tuts point the president said: , ' . "The professions to which women ' are fitted are increasing in number and the. opportunity for professional work is coming to women in a far greater degree than ever before in the history of the world, and for the women who are to engage in the pro fessions, the prime qualifications for , success is the solid foundation of an academic education. Professional: men and women have suceeded with- ' out this but the voice of every great educator is raised in favor of the thorough academic education of those, whether men or women, who are called upon to teach in the sec ondary and primary schools of the nation. And no one who knows the exigencies and trials of the profes sions of medicine, law or theology: can doubt the advantage of the men tal training and discipline that a col legiate education gives to those who enter; them. "1 dissent from the view that an academic education unfits a man or woman for business. It maybe that the tastes that lead one to an acad emic education are not those which insure business success but that the mental discipline, the power of rea soning, the cultivation and compari son of ideas, are not of assistance in business transactions in which the nighest qualities of the mind are acutely in action, can hardly be true. But it is said that women are not all going into the professions and that the education necessary as a basis for a professional career is not needed by those women who have a competency or who look forward to marriage and motherhood as the chief end of woman. . "It is even suggested that the high er education of women rather unfits them to discharge the duties of a wife and mother, that in some way or other it robs them of a charm and gives them an intellectual independ ence that is inconsistent with their (Continued on Page Six.) DEDICATED TODAY (By Leused Wire to The Tlmesl Frankfort, Ky., Juno 2 Ken tucky's new $2,110(1,0110 capital was dodiraled here today with impressive, .Ceremonies.". The principal speakers were Governor A. E. Willsou and I'hited Stales Senator W. O. Hfad ley. The handsome building wa8 dec orated only with (lowers. The program, beginning with the firing of a salute, included an Invoca tion by Bishop L..W. Burton, a wel- come address by Mayor J. H. Pots grove, singing by the girls of the Louisville Girls High School and the benediction by. Father T. S. Major. ' . The public reception and Inspection was arranged for the afternoon, with an old-fashioned Kentucky house- -warming scheduled for the evening.
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