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(By Cable to The Times.) Brussels, Aug. 15 Careful esti mates made this afternoon by the Belgian exposition officials put the1 to tal amount of damage done by fire last night and early today at $200. 000,000. This makes it one qf the most destructive, fires in the history of the world. The loss In the de struction of San Francisco in 1906 was less than 1500,000,000. The in sirrance on the exhibitions here will cover but a fraction of the loss, It is believed, yet several French compa nies which handled most of. the Insur ance are reported hurd hit.- v:' . Only two bodies had been received noon when, Ue known dead w.ere ; officially- announced. . The list was 'dwelled, however, by the. many r iona miaslntr. s, -' It was 'announced today that the exposition would continue, open with ? the tew buildings remaining, efforts being made to repair such as were : not entirely destroyed. ; Details of Fire. - The smoking ruins of the White CHy, Brussels' 1910 exposition, to day are practically under martial law. Not a building in the magnificent fair grounds escaped damage or destruc tion in the flames which swept on with panic spreading speed last night. It is believed that twenty persons have been killed by fire, panic, or In clashes between the military and looters, while fully 100 were injured. When the tire was finally under control today, officials of the exposi tion estimated the damage at a minimum'-'-'..of $75,000. 'It prob ably will be double that. Some of the wild animals that es caped from the menagerlea were to day still at large. Others had been captured 'and some had 'been shot down in Jungle-like hunts ' in the outer districts of terrorized 'Brus sels. Sparks carried by a high wind not . .(Continued on Page Seven) ' CHEERED &Y HEWS (By Leased Wire to The Times.) Indianapolis, Ind., Aug. 16 John Mitchell, former ' president of the United tSates Mine-Workers Union ,. nhnerpil lodav at the special ses sion called by President Lewis when . he declared that he lntenaea xo ao everything Iri his . power to prevent the disruption of the org-aniiatjon which had grown under his adminis tration. "To: the.largest, best, grav est and most harmonious labor organi sation in the wmM,":- i ' ' 1 Factional lines were strengthened a. Kr,t'h BlHpa hOOflt that over auiiuaj . - - - - all-Is. -in readiness for the battle to begin. - - , . The Illinois delegation,, headed- by nlalms to have lined UUIIIl " " , . : up 780 delegates In support of the in dorsement or tne ..Illinois , .., ' That President Lewis ordered lnter i anrotarv-TTeasurer Edwin imuuuai v . j - Perry out of his office Saturday after noon beosroe generally unuwi. tn WenRlfv -the situation, the breach between Lewis and Perry , was started whfen tne lauer roou iini ,ni thn orsatitzatlon be fore the convention jlast week which were embodied charges of gross negll Aimit . Lewis. When Perry . (oi.o t jnri' . nfflcn a sauabble en sued whloh resulted In President Lewis ordering Perry out. rerry wn mediately but declared Lewis, .would i ,hMj nnn Hutu the chance of try- Ing t6 throw 4ilra out, as. he Intended DFflTIST KILLS TWO Dr, durance Pickens Shoots Down Two lien in5 ' the Street Dispute Arose Over Some House Rent ' Due the Capps Boys - and They Use Knives and Stones . on Him Shouts in Self-defense Very Prominent Dentist. (Special to The Times.) Ashevllle. N. C. Aug. 15 The quiet pcacefulness of the little subur ban town of Aeaverville. eight miles north of Ashevllle was fudely broken Saturday night about 8:30 o'clock in a double tragedy, in which Dr. Clar, ence Pickens, a young dentist of Weaverville, shot and almost instant ly killed Jerome and Furman Caps In what , wan niinnnnnit ta "he ft dtsDUfe over a small amount 'of rent. As a i-panlt nf this trivial affair two men are dead, wives are widowed and live small children deprived of father and an old and broken father and mother are bereaved. "I had to do it," Dr. Pickens stat ed to the man to whom he surren dered. "They were both on me with knives and rocks. I couldn't help It." According to reports, Dr. ficKens and the father of the two dead men had a-dispute over some rent of a house owned by the older Capps and occupied by Dr. Pickens. They reached- no agreement although it is said that Dr. Pickens offered to arbitrate the case. It seems that Pickens, who is a young man very : favorably known here, had started Into Weaverville io set some groceries (tie lives about a mile out of town) and met the two Capps men coming from a store, where they had bought a sack of flour among other things. . There were no witnesses to what followed, but ac cording-to Dr.i Pickens stcrjv Uiay both jumped on him with ; knives ana stones t It seems that he got away f ram them and went about . thirty steps farther wherf he was set upon again. It was then that the deady shooting was done. Rome Capps was shot through the head and died in stantly. Furman was shot through the chest near the heart and was dead In a few minutes after being found. Pickens' clothes- were almost cut off of him, but the cuts on his body were neither deep nor dangerous. His nose had. been bleeding and he complained with his head. He was very, composed when he went to the home of Will Parker and gaVe him self up, telling him to send for a doc tor and the sheriff. "I guess 1 ve kiled them, but I couldn't help it." Only two shots Were tired, me weapon was a 38 calibre Colts re volver. -.. Pickens has a good dental practice In Weaverville, has a young wife and two small children. He is very quiet, has many friends and was never be fore in any trouble. The Capps boys, as they were call ed, were well liked, too. They were known as being "good grit." Almost one year ago, their brother, joe Capps, was shot and killed by young Ben Morris, who is now serving a year's sentence in the" state peniten tiary for manslaughter... ; - The Inquest has not been held. Pickens is in custody of a deputy sheriff. ; , - LEBLANC IS LEADING. Barring Accident Will Win Aviation tv-'V-t'iConteat. ' (By Cable to -The Times) ... Amiens'. France. Aug.' 15 Blown out of their course by a stor.m .and at times narrowly escaping being dashed to death, three ot the daring aviators contesting In, the , 489f mile rac tor $5X000. arrived here this morning from Doual, approximately oy. miies distant , . The passage , from . Doual was made through A severe gale, but despite this the., leader made good Urn?- , :;. r. ,. ' ' -r X i-K- ' '. reaving Doual at 5:10 k. m. Le- blano. arrived., ftere at. 6: 20. Aubrun at 7, and Legagneux at v:ib. f tibv set off from Doual together on the fifth lap,-hut the wirrt and danger of -collision compelled , them to . follow widely v Mparated paths. with hut one - Ian to, cover that from Amiens to Paris, ? almost 70 miles the elapsed time of the two leaders today when they landed here was: Leblanc, 10 hours, 12 minutes, 20 seconds; Aubrun, 11 hours, 52 minutes, 45 seconds. Barring accident Leblanc will Win the1 race. Virtue has ty ba Its own reward tin tlrely too 'often,-:, ., , , ', i s - y l -S"'- n ' s?. ! : Z" '"IN : I J". V If j Miss Virginia Wardlnw, one of the thwe sisters chargetl -with the allpg- ed murder of Occy W. M. Snead, who died recently in the House of Deten tion,. Newark,' from general break down, after having starved herself for. weeks, She had repeatedly ex pressed a wish to f'ie. The circum stances' warranting accusation were' stronger against her tluiit the sisters because she hud iKissed a week in a house alone with the alleged niurder cd woman before her death. Sfh ac knowledged site knew Mrs. Snnd Was dead twenty-four hours before she notified the authorities. She be lieved that, If she were out of . the way the: murder ''charge nxainst her sisters would fall.. So she ret used to eat a-d wasted , away to a shadow. Her istersMrH. Caroline, It. Martin nndVilrs. Mary' W.Sneud, were not pcrpiitted to see her before her deatW,.; . TRIAL OF 1U! (By Leased Wire to The Times) F.ddyvllle, , Ky;, Aug. 15 'Although the streets are patrolled by soldiers. citizens of this town were in,, terror today as the hearing of eight alleged night riders began before the grand Jury. The town is crowded with strangers. Threats of disorder are heard on all sides., Every witness is guarded by soldiers and a cordon of military constantly surrounds the Jail. Many Inhabitants of tb! surrounding country are fleeing here for safety. The prisoners are accused of the as sassination of a man named Cooper In Lyon county. The civil authorities maintain, that the killing was the re sult of a brawl. The military officers Insist it was the outcome of a con spiracy, . - The first witness today Was Sergeant Major GOoch, who told of hearing de tails of , the alleged plot by telephone In a call from Rock Castle to another phone near the home of. Milton Oliver, who was previously shot from am bush after telling of a night rider plot In which he . was Implicated. Gooch. also told'' of Cooper having Been warned not to attend the barbe cue A which he was killed. , The prosecutors today declared that before this case is closed, the entire night rider system will be bared, hun dreds of persons being involved. A rush of confessions t secure Im munity' Is predicted. ; Mlltn Oliver has. been given a guard of two troopers who never leave him. "I am ready to tell all." he said to day, "and I think I am doing right, even if It proves fatal to me and my family." " ', Oliver Is putting his tobacco crop In order, working In the field with a re volver strapped to him and the armed soldiers beside him. .-.; .. ; MK8, ilcKlM OKTS DIVORCE. v Goes to. Honolulu for Rest Would : :v'-Not Discuss' Case.f ; 'vf By Leased Wire to f he Times.) , ', Wanri Vev: -Alls'. 1 IS Mrs. V Smith Hollins Mcklrh who won her divorce Saturday has left here for Sort Fran- clrco' Where she will take a -steamer Tuesday'-.for Honolulu.- : . She, will . be-accompanfed by a com panlon,: Baroness 'Dp Chaboulon. They will return to New. York Jn September n 1 mat,-. Mrs McK m's father ana later go oH a hunting trip In the Sierra Nevada mountains. Mrs. McKim re fused ' to -aiscuss her marital troubles or her future plana Asked If' It was true ; that she was to marry' young Vanderbllt - during the t coming Winter, he refused to1 reply -or discuss the matter, in any way, even to admit that she expected her husband to carry the case higher. . ' . . . "I'm going to Honolulu ' to get a .. 1 1 .. . . I .11 Hkn 4fe.Alil kn If UJlipiVlV B VBk WllV (til nMiM i GUARD SHOT At!D KILLED -THE COUVICI Edward ' Nickolson Serving Term on Roads Killed When He Tried to Escape TENCE3 THURSDAY Edwin Nieluilsnii . 1liKtanty.: ;-. Killed While Trying to Make iii Ksci Prom the Convict Suuail en. Hills lioro Koad TJuard R. f. Samlet Ordered the Fugitive toTJtop, Thtl Shot, the .flS-callbre ualKEiifr- Ing the Back- of the Heftd, .CatWng Instant Death Had Only 8erVl.a Few Daya of a Sin -Months ent, ence For Attempting to Hot the Cash .Register of ,;,W. B. Jann's Store. .' This afternoon Just befce 1:00 o'clock Edwin Nicholson, . negro convict, was sfcot and Insta'tb' killed bv Guard R. M. Sander? In West Raleigh. The convlet mfle a dash down Hlllsboro road rewards the city, and when command to halt refused, whereupon MrSanders sent abullet crashing intone back of his heM, killing him istantly. The matter has been . rented to the country o cialsr wh will doubtless exonerate the guard' (.f .v ,' ' The'-wWUBg.'-." A"- force &buv1eta (roin the Wake county -Voi'Otorce: Btarted ,to wertf' wiin)ng''7lll8D','o-"'"eaer0m Park - avenue tfthe West Raleigh Drug Store tte morning. At noon the squad an the guards repaired to the woods t the edge of Cameron field for dlnne Ten or fifteen min utes after themeal, and just before returning to fork, a colored hack driver drove in the road, just, In front of wherehe convicts were rest ing, and gaveiome money to one of .the prisoners Nicholson immedi ately made a ash across the street, placing the ca-iage between hiniseff and the guard and turned bis flight eastward, tovrds the capltol. . He had gained 5 Or 75 yards start when. Guard Sander yelled at the fleeing negro three times to halt. He looked back or his shoulder and in creased his peed. Mr., Sanders asked Forema S. L. Lee whether to shoot or not and Mr.- Lee said Shoot". M) Sanders, leveled his rifle, a : .32-llbre Winchester, and fired, the balentering. the back of "Nicholson's hd and he fell dead in front of the liidence of Prof. B. W, Kllgore. Wh the shot was fired Guard Sandeiwas standing on the bank at the brth side of the , car track at the ge of the woods and the negro waai the sidewalk on the (Continu on Page Five.) ELEVEN KNDRED DID III FLOODS (By Calito The Times) Toklo, Augl 5 Eleven ' hundred persons 'are rirted dead and more than 50,000 lieless and starving as the result of t floods.. Though tlie situation tod t appeared somewhat better at timtthe waters fluctu ated, and repe irom tne upper parts of the mida indicated that the crisis was.t yet past for Toklo The situation 'the outlying regions la desperate, prding-(o the reports furnished by military expeditions sent out to so the victims. TO BIO HARMONi. Effort to Heihe Plnchot-Ballinger ... ' . " jreach. ' , (By Leasec'lre to The Times.) : WashlngtolAug. 15 With a view of brlnR about harmony in the work of forestry service and the land offldnd what may be re garded as anpmpt to heal the Pln-Chot-Balllngej-each between the two services Vesentatlves t these bureaus are j leave Washington -next Thursdalr- Denver. .They are to be accomked by the solicitor - i k . yjf -iWJ . X j .CA fix Mrs. Marv Scott Haitje, oiie" of the central figures in tlje fiunous divorce case hroiifilit against her husbund the inillioiiaii-e Augustus Hurtje, of i'ittK hurg, anil who won a victory recently in the courts. The sensational case Is ended by the filing, of a bond of $100,000 by Hartje as nil assurance that he would pay Sirs. Hartje $0,000 annually. for the department of . argiculture and will visit the six district offices of the forestry service and the var ious local land offices wltiiin that ter ritory. .' '; . . During the conferences which are scheduled to be held an effort will be made to bring about a thorough un derstanding of the duties of the offi cers representing' the. two " services and of the Instructions and regula tions which are continually being is sued from , Washington regarding their work in the west, v- FIFTY MEN CAUGHT UNDER FALLING EMU (By Leased Wire to The Times.) , Ogdenburg; N. Y., Aug. 15 De' spatches received here today say that fifty men have been entombed, and all probably killed, by a cave-in at Massena. Relief has been sent from nearby points. Massena is a town of 2,000, thirty- eight miles east northeast of here, In St. Lawrence county. It has many paper, pulp and saw mills, whose power is furnished by tiie St. Law rence river, on the northwest of the town and the Grass and Requeue rivers, which run through It. The accident was caused by the giving away of a wall in a concrete dam; being built for the St. Lawrence River Power Company by the T. A Gillespie Company. -. The east wall crumbled with a road and several hundred tons of sand and gravel were hurled on top of the men In the bottom of, the pit. They had no time to escape. The first rescuers got out three men alive and two dead. No hope was entertained for the others. ' . .. ' Continual slides hampered the ves- cuers, endangering them and appar ently precluding the possibility of reaching any of the entombed men In time to save their lives. All of the victims were said to be foreigners. DEL VAL RESPOXSIWLE. Papal Secretary of State Held Re. sensible For Trouble. (By Cable to The Times.) Madrid, Aug. 15 Cardinal Merry Del Val, papal secretary of state. Is held responsible for the rupture between the Vatican and Madrid in a semi-of ficial note Issued today. This is be lleved to be the first step toward con sidering proposals of peace from Card inal Rarnpolla, noW ln charge In Rome, understood to be, on their way to Madrid. Such a conclusion Is also drawn from the statementthat Del Val did not consult the congregation of extraordinary ecclesiastical affairs. .- Census Figures (By Leased Wire to The Times.) Washington, Aug. 15 The census bureau 'today made public the fol lowing population returns: : , Pennsylvania Pittsburg, 533,905; last census 451,512 (this Included Al leghany with Pittsburg, which is now one district) increase. 18,!L ' , New YorkSyracuse 1 3 7,2 4 9. last census "to 8,3 7 4,' increase i 26.6, . j. THE CRIPPEN INQUEST New Inquest Will be Neces sary Over Remains Coroner's Jury Reconvened Today to Continue Hearing in the Famous Case Some New Evidence Intro duced. (By Cable to The Times.) London. Aug. 15 An entirely new Inquest will be necessary Qver the remains believed to be those of Belle Elmore,, for whose murder Dr, H. H. Crippen and Ethel Clare Le- Neve are under arrest In Quebec. 'I nls wa sannounced today by Coro ner Schroeder when the first inquest was resumed. The recent death of Coroner Danforth Thomas necessi tates the retracing of all ground. : A great crowd was gathered at Is lington this afternoon for resump' tion of the inquiry which was put over on July 18 after meager testi mony had been given. Superintendent. Froest, of Scotland Yard, was on hand with Solicitors Newton and Watts .representing re spectively Crippen and Miss LeNeve, The announcement that a new in quest would be necessary caused sur prise among all save the officials. Al though there had been some doubt as to the status of the Inquest, It was believed that Coroner Thomas' death would not make a complete rehear ing necessary. Tills probably will cause delay in the trial. Almost without exception the Wit nesses of July 18 were present, to gether with many others. This further delay gives the an thorities a strong advantage in that it postpones the time when the dis closure of the prosecution's case will be necessary. Just what Prof.' Pep pier, the home : office analyist,,has discovered in regard to the mutilat ed remains found in the Crippen home basement, has not been official ly announced. It was expected that this feature would be cleared up to day. . -''.:.: It was declared probable by the of ficials that no definite attempt' to con tinue the Inquest to the crucial point Involving Pepper's testimony would oe made until Ciipivu bus again r-r ched London. f "The Inquest will not be protract ed," said Coroner Schroeder. "There is a large amount of evi dence to be submitted." "I ask that the evidence be kept brief till I have had tinie"tt consult my client," requested Solicitor New ton. Schroeder agreed to take only formal evidence. John E. Nash, theatrical manager, whose wife was one of the last per sons to see Belle Elmore, repeated his evidence gi .en at the previous hearing, in which he told of the growth of suspicions' and the inquiry into the supposed death of Belle El more in America. Miss Melinda May; secretary of the London Music Hall Artists Guild, of which Mrs. Crippen was treasurer, testified that she last saw Belle El more at the Guild on January 26. A point in Miss May's testimony to which significance was attached, was made when the witness said that about Christmas, more than a month before her disappearance, Belle El more complained of a 'strangling sen sation. "I feel as If I were going to die," she said. On February 2, Ethel LeNeve went to the Guild rooms with a passbook, chackbook and a letter in Crippen's handwriting, asking Miss May to see to the , election of aiiother honorary treasurer as Mrs. Crippen was away for. a few months. This testimony caused another sensation. Policeman Gooch described the digging in the cellar of 39 Hilldrop Crescent, North London, from 4 p. m. till 11 p. m. when the mutilated body was discovered. Police Surgeon Marshall, who at the first hearing said the body was that of a woman, testified today that the remains were 'undoubtedly hu man." Superintendent Froest, taking the stand, said: 'Inspector Dew and Sergeant Mitchell, with the prisoners, will be in England in about three weeks." 'His examination was brief. ,-' Blood In Good Condition. (By Leased Wire to The Times.) New York, Aug. 15 A test of Mayor GaynorV blood made today by Dr. W. G. Sullivan, showed It to be in good condition, with absolutely no signs of infection from the bullet wound inflicted six days ago. AMD DISORDER Conditions Rapid(jr Approach Anarchy and Troops Needed Again to Preserve Order 4 CARS "ARE CALLED For 'the First Time in Three Weeks There Were Daylight , Mobs Cam, :Were Culled In Early Lost Night, But There Was Still Much Rioting and Police Fired on Mob lu One Instance Dynamite Bomb Thrown on , Car Bjiitis Conductor Shot Man AVho Called Him a "Scab".' V (By Leased Wire to The Times) Columbus, O., Aug. 15 Street . car strike conditions are rapidly ap proaching anarchy and it is said that the return of troops cannot long be averted If a reign of terror Is to be avoided. Two regiments are un der arms ready to move at a mo ment's notice. For the first time in the three weeks of the street car strike the police were forced yesterday to. cope with daylight mobs. Rioting broke loose at 3:30 p. ni. in the north and south portions of the city and soon spread in every direction. . , , Eighteen arrests was , the -record made, nine persons were injured' and 25 reports of disturbances were re ceived at-the city orlsdn-.i-yrhi..eit serious disturbances wer? attempts to blow up the South and West barns; two riots which occurred in the af ternoon near Schiller Park, and a riot at night in Mount. Vernon ave nue. . . Had not street cars been taken to the barns earlier in the night than usual; judging from the temper of the rioters, last nights riots would have been the worst of the strike. Two thousand rioters at Mount Vfcr- non and St. Clair avenues were cowed after two hours of rioting last night only when patrolmen, and de tectives drew their revolvers and fired a volley. The men .intentionally fired high and no one waa hurt, but a wild scramble ensued to get out of range and the backbone of the riot was bro ken. . ' i With a deafening roar and a de tonation that shook houses a mile : away, an explosive said to have been a. dynamite bomb, alleged to have been thrown from a roor or window nearby, exploded on the roof or the south High street car barns at 9:55 last night and did considerable dam age.. ;'...-'.. A hole two -feet across was torn n the shed roof and windows of neigh boring residences shattered. A third attempt was made yester ( Continued on Page Six.) RUNAWAY ENGINE ENDANGER PEOPLE (By Leased Wire to The Times.) Columbia. S. C, Aug. 15 Superin tendent Williams, of Columbia divi sion, Southern Railway, Is investigating- a case apparently of malicious mischief which might have caused loss of ninny lives at an early hour today. Two heavy locomotives coupled together ready to take out trains were started by a person unknown from Blanding Street round house and had gathered speed forty miles an hour when they passed through union sta tion. By a cross over which beyond the station they were derailed and after tearing up a hundred ' yards of track came to rest, one engine turn ing over. Had the runaway occurred half an hour earlier It would have struck an excursion train bringing sev eral hundYeU people back from a week end outing at Charleston. Dead 111 Wreck. 1 (By Cable to The Times) Bordeaux, France, Aug. 15 The death of three more school girls to day brought the total of dead In the Saujon railroad Wreck up to 35. Investigation4 showed . that an ex press was barely saved from plough ing into the wreck of the freight and excursion trains which collided. Two ambulance train reached Bordeaux today with more thai 100 injured. to come back. . j , , t