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mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmtmmmmmmmm . . .'. 1 ".. y--' .- . :.- ' LAST EDITION 7 Fw Raleigh mid Vicinity: Unsettled weather with rain to' night or 'Tuesday; cooler -to night. . . ; For North Carolina: Unset tled weather with rain tonight. ii ESTABLISHED 1870. RALEIGH, N. C., MONDAY, JULY 18, 1910. PRICE 5 CENTS. Double the Nil Subscribers in the Gity of Raleigh of Any5&r Newspaper I I II II 'I t' 1 ' I -II I II 'II III tl I II II II II II A IV -c " RAILROAD III FRANCE General Strike Authorized by the Committee of the National Union T OUT Fifty Thousand Troops Were Today Hashed by Special Train to All Strategic Railroads in France General Strike Will Involve 100, fl(IO Men Special Meeting of the Cabinet tToday- Railroads Are Mostly Owned and Part of Them Operated by the Government. (By Cable to The Times.) ParisJuly 18 Fifty thousand troops were today rushed by special train to every strategic railroad point In France, following the authoriza tion of a general railroad strike by the National Railroaders Union cenj tral committee. Desertions from the railroad ranks at many places y"re reported today. The -general strike will involve 100, 000 men. Every mile of railroad will be protected as far as possible, the government profiting by the night attacks made during the telegraphers strike. Special trains provided with searchlights will be run over the ex posed lines at night. Minor clashes were reported within a few hours of the final action by the labor men here late last night. " It la believed Oirall Bides that fhe strike "will prove one of the worst in the history of the re public with far greater effects than the postal strike of a few months ago. " A special meeting of several cab inet officers was called today by Pre mier Briand, who, as. minister of the interior, has the situation in his hands. The ministers of commerce, labors, posts and telegraphs and war, respectively, M. Dupuy, Vlvianl, Mil lerand and General Brum, were call ed upon for Hdvice by the premier. The possibility of a peaceable solution was declared to be vague. President Fallleres is deeply interested in the bituation and requested that he be kept informed "of every development and every decision by the authorities. Prefect Lepine of the Paris police, today took unusual precautions to get the entire .force In readiness for trouble. Radical papers today bitterly at tack Premier Briand, declaring that If he had not forgotten all his for mer professions of socialism, he would iiave averted the labor strug gle. The participation of M. Miller nnd in tlx; present sltiuatjon is de clared to be an Insult to the workers by their leaders, because of his at titude in the postal strike. V (Continued on Page Six.) MAI RAILROAD ; ACCIDENTS FOR YEAR (Ry Leased Wire to The Times) Washington, July 18 The total num ber of casualitles to persons on the railways for the jear ending June 30. 1909, was 104,348, of whicli 8,722 represented, the number bf persons killed anil 95,626 the number injured, according to an announcement of the interstate commerce commission to day. Of those killed 253 were passen gers. Of the Injured 10,311 were pas sengers. The number killed while tres passing, stealing, rides or run down at railroad crossings was .5,859 and those injured 10.309. One passenger was killed for every 3,522,606 carried, and one injured for very 86.458 carried. The railroads Jhave 57.212 locomotives and 2,218,280 cars ' of which 45,694 are passenger cars. . The railroad employes last year num bered 1,502,823 Willi a pay roll that amounted to $988,323,694 for' the year. The number - of passengers carried was 891,412,425 while the tons of relght hauled numbered 1,556,559,741. ' The opVWing revenues were $2,418, 677,538 wh expenses' of $1,599,443,410. The par value of the amount of rail way capital outstanding is given at $17,487,868,935 of which $13,711,867,733 is in the hands of the public THE CRIPPEN Crippen Thought to Have Got- Hunt For the American Doctor and - His -' Companion Being . Concen trated on the Continent State ment by Father of the Woman. ' '(By Cable to The Times) London, July 18 The police to day abandoned) for theHlme being at least, all hope of finding in America or England Dr. Hawley Harvey Cr:p pen, wanted tn connection with tue murder of his wife, Belle Elmore, and the hunt for the American doctor and Ethel Clare LeNeve, his companion, is being concentrated on the continent- Paris is the center of Interest, and the British authorities have request ed Prefect Lepine, of the Parrs force, to ransack every quarter arid suburo of the French capital. The man is thought to be disguised as a woman This is the direct result of the re porting of the first definite clew the police have received since the physic ian disappeared on . June 9. Al though in some quarters the clew Is regarded of small importance the leaders of the search believe in the truth of the statement that the cou ple were seen in Dieppe on July 12 and entrained there for Paris. Though the inquest was set for to day the police had little evidence at hand upon which to act. Under the direction of Sir Melville MacNaugh ton, head of the Scotland Yard's crtm inal department, additional informa tion has been sent to the police of every continental city, and in Amer ica as well, informing them that Crip pen may have disguised himself as a woman. The first description of the fugitive said that Miss LeNeve nijght be dressed as 'a boy. The belief that Crippen may have donned skirts is based on the state ments of two persons familiar with the Crippen situation, Walter Neave, father of the stenographer- who dis appeared with Crippen, and Adelene Harrison, the dramatic writer, wno was on intimate terms with the Crip pens. The latter declares that as a joke the doctor once put on women's clothes and, plastering down his long moustache made up as a woman. So successful was he that no one not in the secret would have recognized him. . ; ' ' This was. some time before Mrs. Crippen's disappearance on February 1. It Is now thought that Crippen was deliberately experimenting with a view to flight at some future tivafJ. The father of Miss LeNeve, having made an open plea for her return, to day reiterated his belief that Crip pen had hypnotised the girl or done away with her. "If she saw my letter she would come to me," he said. His appeal reads: "Dear Ethel: "Should this letter by any chance come before your notice I fervent!y appeal to you with all a father's and mother's love fo return to London or to give yourself up to the police au thorities of whatever country you may be in. Every hour you stay away you make your situation ter ribly worse for yourself. Do wire me instanter. , I assure you of my devotion and protection through this trouble. - "Your affectionate Dad." "Crippen," said Mr. Neave this morning, "is slight and effeminate in manner and has a peculiar gait. Tht s would easily enable him to pass as a woman. If my daughter is with him, alive and well, I am positive that he is posing as her mother." As the result of severe criticism of Scotland Yardi In. allowing Crippen to'escape after having questioned him three days before the body was found, there was a; noticeable dimunitloh to day in the Willingness Of the authori ties to talk with the press. ' In some quarters It was' predicted that . Scotland Yard ould go back to Its old policy of refusing all informa tion to newspaper men. ,r .' ThlB policy Was first abandoned tn the Crippen1 pase. .'; , Tb.0 refusal of the chiefs in ' the past to co-operate with the newspa pers, in spite o$ the example of the police of other countries, has always been a matter of criticism second only, in fact to the persistent refusal of the authorities to have telephones installed in the most fumou sdetect 1ve bureau of the world. ;" John Nash, theatrical manager, at the Inquest said that he noticed the LeNeve woman wearing Belle, El more's Jewelry after the latter had supposedly gone to California. After wards he was told that Mrs. Crippen had died In California. In New York, said Nash, he saw Mme. Fred Gin net, who wired to Los Angeles In in vestigation of the Btory, (Continued on Pag Biz.) CASE rrNi. W L x1 - Mary Kenny Soott Hurtje iif I'itts bMrg. After five years of tion that attracted the utteir.',.n of the whole country, : the famous Hartje case was recently settled, Mrs. Hartje withdrew all ciinrgos of infidelity and agreed -that her husband, Augustus Hartje, (he millionaire paper manu facturer of the Smoky City, shall have charge of their son Scott, mid Mrs. Hartje will have temporary cus. tody of the daughter Mary. Louise, nged ten. Mrs. Hartje relinquished all (lower rights in consideration of $100,000 invested for her,-only .the. interest of which she is to have dur ing her life time. RACE WAR RIOT (By Leased Wire to The Times) Franltlinton, La., July lXA race war liaB broken out at Kio Junction, La., and as a result one negro has been lynched and two others fatally Eliot. One escaped to the woods and is being hunted with bloodhounds. The negroes there are arming today and a posse has been sent from here. I'he trouble started last night, when, according to the negroes, a drunken white man hit a negro. ' Four negroes, the first attacked. were in charge of officers when they were set upon by a mob of white men. The negroes had been arrested on trivial charges after the trouble caused by the alleged blow struck by the drunken white man. The mob advanced on the four prisoners, already determined to show no mercy . As it neared, the leaders cried to the officers to stand back. A moment later the demand was forced by the crowd. , As the negroes sought to escape the crowd let loose its fury, and" the popping of guns startled the entire town, bringing more negroes and whites. The former were pursued and, when captured, beaten. ' At the first volley, the four pris oners surrounded by the crowd dropp ed. While they begged for mercy the whites continued to-Are, emptying re volvers and shotguns into the victims. Then a rope was brought, and one of the four strung up while the mob fired into his body. In the excitement- a negro escaped, taking to the heavy timber outside of town, where he eluded his pursuers. The sight of the victims bodies startled all the negroes to arming. Whenever found to have weapons on them they were disarmed, but the sit uation grew steadily worse and a call for aid was sent here. Roosevelt Will Endorse Tuft. (By Leased Wire to The Times.) Oyster Bay, N. Y., July 18 Theo dore Roosevelt will come out with an endorsement of the Taft administra tion before starting on his speech making trip through the west, next month. This is the word that comes today from a semi-official source. Section Hand's Striked (By' Leased Wire to The Times) Wilkesbarre, Pa., July 18-K,'fteen hundred striking section hanrfu of the Delaware & Hudson Railro:il today agreed to suhmit their wnge deniaucs to arbitration, us delreS by the com pany. . ' . , , ; . :; - Petal Savings Bank. Washington, July 18 -The First National Bank of Balnbrldge, Qa.,' to day filed appllcatioh with the post master-general to be designated as: a depositary for postal tarings funds. MR. TAFT'S VACATION Kept Busy;. Up to Starling fTime Will Go On Yachting Trip I p the Maine Coast- .Maine Having u Hot Political Fight and the President to Sieak Thfre. , (By Leased Wire to The Times.) Beverly Mass., Julv 1.x r President Taft's real vacation begins today, Kight up to the minute of embark ing on the yaclijt Mayflower for a trip to the Maine coast, however, Mr. Tail was kept busy; there being in the morning an Ohio Day at the kii miner white house. The situation In Maine was also on the program of discussion signifi cantly, in view of the president's in tention to speak in that stale where the republicans are having a hot light. Senator Burton, of Ohio, visited the Taft house this morning, with the purpose, it is understood, of talk ing over the Ohio candidates with the president, as well as the platform situation. Senator Charles Dick and Wade H. Ellis were also callers. They presented 'a tentative Ohio re publican platform to Mr. Taft on Fri day, when he took no decisive action on it, later intimating that ho would Of. . : . . The Mayflower party is made up of the president, Mrs. Taft, Charlie Taft, Horace D. Taft, Mrs. Louis T. Moore, a sister of Mrs. Taft; Prof. Moore, secretary to the president ; H. I). Nor ton, Assistant Secretary of (he Nuvy and Mrs. WinthrOp', Miss Mabel Boar Jinan, Captain A.: W. Butt, the president's military aide: N. P. Webster and James Sloan, Jr.' Beverly will not see Mr. Taft again IIJJ July 28. " The Mayflower's first l-ort of call is Eastport, Mer, where Mr. Taft is scheduled to speak. Wed nesday the presidential yacht will reach Bar Harbor, proceeding to Ells worth, where tfm president will be entertained, oh Saturday at th'e'Iioriie of Senator Hale. Saturday afternoon lie will go uy special car to Bangor, to speak In the evening, Saturday nle;hl will be spent at Ellsworth, Sun day at Islesboro, and on Tuesday the Mayflower will reach Rockland. STORM IX KK.XTl'CKY. Damage to Crops Will Amount to 85,000,000. Louisville, Ky., July 1 S-t-More than $5,000,000 damage has beon done to the tobacco, wheat, and corn crops in Kentucky by the floods and storms, according to reports received today. It is believed that the loss of life in the mountain' regions'' will be found larger than expected, the pres ent death list Including '-two'. -persons who were killed when lightning struck a church at Paris, Census Figures. (By Leased Wire to The Times) Washington, July 18 The census bureau today announced the follow ing population figures: Lake Providence, La., 1,5 C. 8; Grand Rapids, Mich., 1 12,571 ; Ham ilton county, Tenn., 89,267, and the following counties in Texas: Hidalgo, 13,728; Lamar, 40,514, and St. Au gustine, 11,204. - GRAND JURY BEGINS BEEF INVESTIGATION : (By Cable to The Times.) Chicago, July. 18 The federal grand jury began taking testimony today In the secret beef investigation with a view to indicting officials, of the pack ing companies. ' Ralph Crews, chief counsel for the National.. Packing Company at their last tiiul was .scheduled, to be the first witness. Charles F. OeWoody, special assist ant to Attorney (ieneral Wlckersham, has been endeavoring to locate sev eral of the witnesses.- It Is learned that some of the wit nesses are In Kurope arid efforts to subpoena them so far have been un availing. V '-' Attorneys I'Jdwin Sims, James H. Wllkerson, and Klwood O. Oennan will conduct the two weeks examina tion. Stundurd Oil Plant Burned. Whiting, Ind., July 18 The Stan dard Oil grease plant here Was des troyed by fire, with a loss of $200, 000 today. For a time the whole city was threatened, but the com bined fire departments of Whiting, Hammond, Cary, and South Chicago prevented spreading of the flames, The plant was working double be cause of the recent fire In a similar plant at St Louis, ,' K f . jimrnxm --iiiMr-iM.in fjord Clviirlcs l!eiesfoi,I of Kug land, who recently delivered a rather sensatioiml uddi'e.ss before the Cecil Club in London on the condition of the Kiiglish iiriuy. The former Rear Adinirul of the liritish Xavy (reclnred that the- nation could, never he pre pared for war Unless it had a Avar staff which it - did not possess. He (liM Ussed the folly of building Itivad noughts at vast expense unless there was a complete fighting orgunia.tion from torpedo craft to big guns, His heiirers received his swech with en thusiasm and shrill cries . of "( !)n- lor!" .-; . ER ...'!V-o.,.J. (Ry Lea sod Wire to The Times) Chicago,..- July 18 Statements ami (.niiiiler-slateiii.'iits of Mit-'s Mary' Wil li, who was. with Mrs. Kmma -..Deu' I'ex Wlicn she w:is f;it:illy slpit' Fridiiy by. I'lnirles W. Itigdoh; u weallhv broker who later killed himself in a I'hicago skyscraper, have further com plicated the invsterv of the tr:ii:edv. She Was nrraingoil'l'or an exiuninatlon In the Harrison street police court today, lint told Mule. After ii.: "grilling' -"third dri;nv" i'.v imiiiatinn, she! iidniilted she was a sister of Mrs. Iligdon. lint declined to tell what Was tin- relation of her sister and Ulgdon. Mrs, Deufex is dy ing at St. Luke's Hospital. After 48 'hours, ' defectives lire no nearer the solution of the crime than they, wcie at I hi- -ixginnlng. J Hits of M iss Wilson's story, however, have led them to believe '"thai- Mrs. lieiifex is ineinher of a prominent Chicago family and 'the. mother .'of .several chil dren. She is said to have been 'inti mate, with Itigdon for nearly six years. The police assert that Kigdon's jealousy .of. .the woman Was the cause if Hie shooting in the offices of". John ('. K.'lzer. . ' '.-, - ,. - - Miss Wilson has . admit ted that - sin1' lied in her story at all points where she-'or. -her sister were involved to any great extrnt. She dec-lures the name he-Is being booked under is not her own and (hat she is only 20 years old. Site lias promised, however, to tell the truth in a few days. Rigdon's second wife lias -arrived from Iowa and taken charge of his body,. 1I:.TH AT mlli(;to.v. I'roiniiK'iit Harnelt County Citizen lics of Lockjaw Served : County for:.XiiiulK'r" of Veai-s us Treasurer Died at Highsmith Hospital. - (Special to The Tillies.) Lillinglon, N. C, July is Mr. L, 1). Matthews, of this'place, died Sat urday morning at the Higasmith Hos pital in Fayetlevillo fro "man attack of lockjaw, which was caused by get ting a nail stuck in his foot. about a week ago. ! !, '! ' Jlr. . Matt hows was one of the best known men in Harnett county. He was county treasurer for six years, in which office he served his people with fitness and ' ability and made many friends throughout the county. After u retirement for several years he had again announced his candidacy for treasurer Just the day before he was taken to the hospital. Mr. Matthews was sixty-three years of age and is survived by twp sons and three daughters! His re mains were brought here - Saturday afternoon for interment. Fire in Lumber Yard. (By Leased Wire to The Times) Pittsburg. Pa., July 18 Six fire men and two oilier men were seri ously hurt and 25 horses were burned to, death in a fire which destroyed A. S. lirellweiserV, lumber yard today, causing $75,000 damage. E Between Railroad and Men Being Held Crucial Conference Will Be Held This Afternoon in Pittsburg Rep resentatives of the I'nion Say the Things For Which They Are Con tending Will be Placed Squarely Before Road's Representatives. (By Leased Wire to The Times) : - ( By Leased Wire to The Times. ) Philadelphia. Pa., July is The crucial . conference of the employes leaders and '(ieneral Manager Myers, oi llie Pennsylvania. Railroad, con cluded at I :,'i0 this afternoon. It was rtated that the situation had partial ly cleared, but that -another confer ence Would lie necessary later this afternoon or tomorrow. All indica tions iiro now that the crisis is past and there, is. -'no further danger of a ttrike on the Pennsylvania lines. . President, Lee of the trainmen, said: "We expect to meet Mr. Myers f.gain either this afternoon or tomor row morning with our sub-committee. A whole lot of apparent misunder standings as they have been called, have been cleaned up. We are not saying whether we or the company nave been making concessions." Holding Crucial Conference. Pittsburg, Pa., July IS The cru cial", conference,.' between representa tives of the men-on the Pennsylvania lines west and General Manager G. L, Peck will be held this afternoon. L. E. Sheppard, vice president of the Order of Rail n ay Conductors, and 0. II.: Sines, vice-president of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, returned from Philadelphia today. "The things for which we are con tending will be placed squarely be fore the representatives of the com pany urtd the SH ills of the situation entered into more minutely than had been the case at any previous meet ing,'; said Sheppard. He and' Sines are understood to have been given complete instructions in Philadelphia..".-'.'-. The Men's Demands. . Philadelphia, Pa., July 18 The hope of a peaceable settlement of the dispute between the Pennsylvania Railroad and its employes grew stronger hourly today and the state ment was made this morning that when the opposing sides went Into conference at 11 o'clock a compro mise would be proposed which would clear away the last differences. . Similar action was predicted for the Pittsburg conference this morn ing. Nevertheless, the railroad went uhead with its preparations for a great struggle. Company officials' gave it out that the preparations for a light had been so thorough that tin re would be no bitch in train service -'should the'nien walk out, noii-union men 'having been recruited in .several cities in the last few days. The force of carpenters here and i-lsewliere that has been working might and main to house strike breakers and guard property, con tinued their labors unabated. President 'W. ti. Leo, of the' Train men's organization, declared this morning,-, however,, when asked his plans, that the men would make no concessions.. Leading labor leaders today re fused to comment on the report that the locomotive engineers had deter mined to join in the strike movement. This report has beep gaining strength since the conference of C M. Wilson, assistant president of the Brotherhood of Engineers, and Lee n nd President A. B, Garretson, of the Conductors' Union, last Friday. Reports that Theodore Roosevelt had intervened to bring about peace between the company and men receiv ed no confirmation here today and were not credited in view of the de nial from Oyster Bay. The rumors that, the employes would yield In their demands brought forth the following explanation of the men's demand . from President Lee: "(A) Freight conductors now working on runs for which a full day's pay is not given to be paid n minimum day's wages of at least J3.63, with overtime after ten hour, or above 100 miles, or at least 3.6 cents a mile, or 36.3 cents an hour. Other employes to be paid in propor tion, according to a so-called stand ard scale. 1 "(B) Conductors now receiving (4.04 for ten hours, or 100 miles or (Continued on Page 8(.) , COhILTLE Secretary of the Interior Has Been Unjustly Accused by1 Pinchot and Others TWO MINORTY REPORTS Bullinger is the Right Man in the Right Place Says the Majority lf the Committee Report Xot Vet Official but Findings Known Two Minority Reports Will be Filed, One by Representative Madison and the Other by the Democratic Mem bers. , (By Leased Wire to The Times.) Washington, July 18 Richard A. Ballinger is vindicated. The s ec ra ta ry of the interior has been unjustly accused by Gifford Pinchot, James Garfield and Louis Glavis. He is the right 'man in the right place and he ought to be invited to continue hold ing down the job as long as he cares to. have it; , y. This sums up the findings of the majority of the joint congressional committee, which for five months has- been making an exhaustive investiga tion of the conduct of affairs of the entire department of agriculture. The findings have not-''officially, been made public, but they are known, never theless. The investigators who concur in these 'findings, which! constitute a condemnation of the course of Gifford Pinchot, former-chief forester, James R. Garfield, former secretary of the- interior, and Louis R. Glavis, former Chief of a field division of the general land office, will be found to be the following: Senator Knute Nelson, Minnesota, chairman; Senator Frank J. Flint, California; Senator George Sutherland, Utah; Senator Elihu Root, New York; Representative Samuel V. McCall, Massachusetts, vice chairman: Representative, Edwin Den by,.-;. Michigan; Representative Marlin E. Olmstead, Pennsylvania. Minority reports disagreeing with the foregoing findings will be made by Representative Edward II. Madi son, Kansas; Senator ,W. E. Purcell, North' Dakota; Senator D. V. Fletch er, Florida; Representative Olhe M. James, Kentucky: Representative J. M. Graham, Illinois. Madison is a re publican, and the last four named are democrats. The basis of the report for the man- jority was prepared by Senator Nel iion, and fo the minority by Repre sentative James. Mr. Madison Is writing his own opinions. It is understood that the results (Continued On Page Five.) v CARRY COTTON TO NEW YORK SHORTS ""( By Leased Wire to The Times.) New Orleans, La., July 18-The. lirst of a string of special trains currying cotton' to New York, where a clear profit of more than $4 a bale is to be made, left today, carrying 3,000 bales. Before it hud steamed opt over the Illinois Central, with a. guaranteed running time of 96 hours to the destin ation, another train was being loaded at top speed, as the result ol the de mand of New York dealers for spot cotton with which to fulfill their con tracts. ' The report (hat the Georgia cotton crop w-ould be short 1,000,000 bales or 60 percent of the average crop coming at the same time as the New York crisis, has put the local cotton men In a more Jubilant frame of mind than at any other time in years, ' The Charles W. Sheppard Cotton Company, the principal shipper by fast freight. Is currently reported' to have a profit of at least $500,000 in view. All told, there will be fully 70 cars used In the train service, and besides tills the steamers Proteus and Antilles, now bound for New York, have heavy shipments and all available space -In the Conius, due to leave Wednesday, has been taken by cotton Interests. Market experts today declared that' In all probability the New York d-" mand for 0)0,000 bales, made by bears caught In the squeeze, would be filled. This, at $4 profit a bale would give, a, total net profit of $2,400,000. (
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