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n 4 Associated Press Service alii Associated Press Service Vol. LXX.. No. 45. The Weather FAIR. RALEIGH, N. C THURSDAY, AUGUST 24, 1911. LAST EDITION PRICE JIVE CENTS Double the Number of Paid Subscribers in R.aleigh of any Other Newspaper ATWOOD HAS II BREAK DOWN Within 25 Miles of the End of His Remarkable Trip He Has to Stop LANDED FOR REPAIRS The Journey Held l'p Until Tomor row The Aviator llroke All Rec ords for Cross-Country instance Flying, When He Passed Rhine, cliff, at :( This Morning For mer Distance Was 1,104 ifiiles Atuood Had Made 1,177 When He Passed That Place. New York, Aug. 24. Atwood suf fered an accident to his aeroplane at eleven this morning witliin twenty flve miles of the finish of his recorU breaking aeroplane flight trom St. Louis to New York. He landed here tor repairs. It is doubt! nl if lie con tinues to New York until tomorrow. Has Broken Distance Itecord. Rlilnecliff, N. Y Aug. 24. Harry N. Atwood, the aviator, broke all records for distance in cross-country aeroplane flying, wfien he passed over Kfngstone .opposite here, at eighty thirty-nine this morning, in his St. Louis to New York aeroplane Atwood exceeded by thirteen mllus the record of 1,164 miles previously made by aeroplane aeronauts. Atwood's distance from St. Louis when he passed here was 1,177 miles He proceeded southward, headed for West Point and New York. ' Granger Skip ' With Team Retried At Wadesboro Stable. Wadesboro, Aug. 24 A youtiK looking man. a stranger in these parts, hired a horse and buggy Mon day from Mr. D. D. Coward, a livery man, and agreed to return it Tues day, but as yet he has not turned up The man was seemingly young clean- i-haven. and weighed about 140 pounds. Mr. Coward hired him a large black horse age 4 years, which w.-is hitched to a sidespring btisgy Mr. Coward phoned to the nearbv towns today, but found no trace it the horse and buggy. Alabama Governor tJoes North. Montgomery, Ala., Aug. 24. Gov ernor O'Neal, of Alabama, left the capital today for a northern trip ot several weeks. He will speak at the meeting of the American bar Asso ciation in Boston next week, and later will attend the conference of the house of governors at Spring Lake, N, J. He will also confer with New York financiers regarding the loan of $100,000 which will be need ed by the State In October. ' Purade of Negro Pytliiuns. Indianapolis, lnd., Aug. 24. Fif teen thousand colored Knights of Pythias ,the majority of them In uni form, accompanied by twenty-live bands, inarched through the streets of Indianapolis today in the big pa rade which formed the spectacular feature of the supreme lodge meet ing and national encampment of the order, which are being held here this week. TO MEET IN RALEIGH Raleigh seems to be the conven tion city next year. Already scores of different organizations have de cided to hold their annual conven tion In the Capital City next year. This morning: comes the announce ment that the State Council Junior Crder will be added to the list of conventions for Wlde-a-Wake Ral eigh. ' The following telegram was re ceived today: Asnevllle, N. C. Aug. 24, 1911 Raleigh Daily Times, Raleigh, N. ('. State Council Junior Order will meet in Raleigh next year. W. W. WILLSON. Mr. Wlllson Is one of the dalopates from the local lodge to the State Councfl, which is being held In Ashe vllle and only had to present the name of "Widera-Wake Raleigh," and tell of its handsome new audi lorlum, which will soon be ready Tor occupancy, RaleigTi will welcome the the State Council Junior Order with-, in ef borders, ..;.".' -. TO HOLDJPRELIMINARY L J. Norris Case to Be Heard Tomorrow .Man Accused of Having Murdered J. It. liissett Nearly Twit Weeks Ago, Will Have opportunity or racing His Accusers Nothing New in the Case. " L. J. Norris will tomorrow at 10 o'clock be given a preliminary hear Ing before Police Justice Walter L Watson on the charge of having murdered J. B. Bissett, near the Soldier's Home, on Saturday night August 12. Solicitor Herbert E Norris and Col. J. C. L. Harris will prosecute and Mr. Bart M. Gutlnig will defend the prisoner. Interest in this case has been In tense, and it Is expected that the police court room will not be able to contain the crowd. On account of the heat, the large number of wit nesses and interest In the case, it is likely that the preliminary will be held In the court house. Nothing new has developed in the case in the last few .days, and both sides, so far as the public knows are standing pat with the evidence they have. The prosecution expects to prove a motive for the killing and to show that Norris had a pistol of the calibre which caused the death of Bissett. Ten Thousand Moose In Parade. Detroit, Mich., Aug. 24 The loyal Order of the Moose- held (he princi pal legislative session today. Kan sas City, Denver, Los Angeles and Seattle, arc contesting for the next convention Ten thousand Moose participated In last night's parade. IN THE DISMAL SWAMP Rival Lumber Companies' Agents Meet In Forest Case AguiiiNt T. N. Davenport and Seventeen Other Men to be Argued llefore Supreme Court Sixty Young Men Kxpected to Apply lor License. Thirty-four men, agents of the Cedar Works Company, bore down on the camps of the Roper Lumber Company, in the Great Dismal swamp, drove' the occupants from their possession, chopped tho cabins down and applied the torch. This is in brief the contention of the prosecution in the case of the state against T. S. Davenport and 17 others, which will be argued be fore the supreme court Tuesday, when appeals from the first district will be heard. The appeal Is from Gates county. In the brief just pre pared by Assistant Attorney General Jones it is contended that these 34 men, bearing axes and weapons, marched Into the swamp, seized the camp of the Roper Lumber Com pany, drove the agents of this com pany therefrom, and proceeded to lay waste with axe and fire to all evidence of possession. Davenport and his men were agents of the Cedar Works Company, a rival corpora tion, which was claiming title to the same timber rights. The judge placed fines on the In vading party and the appeal Is from his judgment. The defandants in their exceptions stress the point that they and their principals held the title to the property. The court ruled that the Invasion and destruc tion of the property of the rival com pany constituted a criminal offense and the defendants were convicted. The fall term of the supreme court will convene Monday, and ex aminations will be given about slxtv young men who desire to practice law in this state. FIGURING ON FALL TRADE. Summaries of the Outlok by Interior Mercantile Community. Chicago, Ills., Aug. 24 In the minds of many of the Chicago bank ers and business men, trade has reached the point where its volume must expand a little. They are not expecting anything big in the way of continued gains but they-' believe that it is time for at least a spurt of early autumn activity. Consump tion of goods Is going on, produc tion has been held, down '-all sum mer, and while crops are not expect ed to be large, as a whole, some sec tions have big yields to partially off set the lean ones In other sections. Then, while there win be lesa corn, theer wjll, barring accident, be much The Henry Clay Beattie Wife-Murder Case ii 'pits;:, m 1 I- . 4 . .'-i i H 1 Henry ( lay I lea (lie, Jr., and us lile, charged with killniK for Ins more cotton, and the excess of the latter is expected to ko tar toward producing better busineSH. It means an Immense export business and command over foreign capital and gold. , . Caution is, however, impressed on the minds ot all merchants to un un usual extent ns a result of the long- continued dullness; and. of course along with crop disappointments, there is complaint of the federal in vesications and hints that their con tlnuanre in the future will hurt things. Tarlft agitation and the presidential election are also tradi tional stumbling blocks in the wav of . rauid .letni n ot commercial ac tivity. This week has been a most active one with the jobbers and retailer's here: it was ' aviation week" and "buyers' week" at the same time Hie run from the southwest, west and other sections, which started last week, was largely increased bv the addition of havers Irom other sec tions, and it has been the big vveel. of the season. It is. indeed, not ex pected to be exceeded bv nnv other A noticeable I act was that while the orders were numerous thev were m the main of moderate size. Convention ot Catholic Ldiloi-s tlolumbus. (). Aug. 24. I he lirst convention of editors and managers of Catholic newspaper ever held in America opened here today In con nection with the meeting of the Am erican Federation ol Catholic Socie ties. The convention discussed plans for organization ol a Catholic press assoclatlop and various questions re lating to advertising, circulation and editorial policy. FATAL EPIDEMIC OF MEASLES IN SAMOA San Francisco, Aug. 24 Advices from Tutulla, Samoa, state as a re sult of an epidemic of measles ,1a the Islands of American Samoa 21!) deaths occurred. Ten percent of the population is affected by disease. William P. Slmins Dead. Atchison, Kus., Aug. 24 William P. SImms, who in Civil War was was imprisoned because he refused to Join the federal army,, died today, aged eighty-three. He served two years In the Confederate army, re-, turning to Kansas after the war, pen niless.. He owned, 1,500 acres of land at his death Ship Abandoned Off Hatteras. Norfolk, Aug. 24 Abandoned as complete wreck, the Thomaston, Maine chooner, Willie H. Child, which went ashore off the dangerous HatteraS coast, while enroute . to Jacksonville to load lumber; has ben stripped and sold. r ,W '.Tii t- i ) j the interior of the ( lieslei-held ( I'unlv, his wile. READY FORJIG RACE Annual Stock Chasis Road Races at Elgin Races lie-in Tomorrow ami Last Two Days Last car There Were 10, 1100 Tail Admissions mid It Is pected There Will lie 80,000 This Year I'ri.is .Aggreniile $15,000. -Chicago--Aug. 2-1.--Everything n4 m .readiness- for the running ot the American Automobile Association s second annual national stock chassis road rai-es at Hlgin, 111., under tue auspices ot the Chhago Motor ('lull, August 2"i.ili.'' and "til h. Last." year there - were -in. not) paid admissions to the event and tills vear H is ex pected that the attendance"' will roach Mi. nno. Willi I'avul-alile weather conditions several trai-k records may he hrokoii hi the oinion ot experts and the course is now considered one ol tins laslest, in the world. Ten thous and dollars has been expended -.in improving the course since the last race meet. Seventy thousand gal lons ol ml have been put on the course in the past month, which has had the elleil ol hardening the sur lace and inaliing It practically dust- less: .Th! -Multi track is KL:. miles f ... iii length over a Iruingle course, and lor most of the distance is ." I leet wide. The roads leading to hlkin I rum Chicago and other adjaceal cities have' been treated with a dust prool liquid lor the benefit ol the thous ands who will go to the races In au tomobiles. Prizes aggregating la, 000 will he distributed among the winners ol'thu luur events. Persons Interested in automobile racing trom nearly every state in the linlon will attend. The program lor the two davs' racing meet with the list of entries, is as follows: Frulav, August 25, 'll a. m.: Illin ois Cup, distance 200 miles. , First prize 'Trophy valued at , (Continued on Pago Four.) O O O O O O 0 :f. O O .ft O O O ft ft For Vance Statue. ft ft (Special to The Times.) ft Washington, D. C, Aug. 24 -Jerome Connor, a New York sculptor, left here this morning for Raleigh, where he will con fer with Governor Kitchin.and other officials in connection with securing the contract for the statue of Vance which Is to ft be placed in statuar yhall at ft Washington. . 0 ft Trial Now On In Emt At Clitcr lielil Court House OWEN AN EARLY WITNESS I lieKterlield - .Court .lloii:.'.e. Va., A ii 8.- zi- Henrv flav heatue, ,1 r a. trial tor wile murder beeaii in earn est with the opening ol l he (ivosecu I inn s case. i he ti I'Mt I iine ;,i lice hie ar rest over a ; month' ap,o I'.i-j a ie rl-p( a ay fi our Kieliiuoiid jail hu;i nlj iil, . coiirl liouve where lie is on trial occupying .a cot in the -brick lock-up near t lie court house. One ol . the first witnesses called bv tin- common wealth, this morning, alter tho court preliminaries were concluded, was Thomas Owen, the murdered young wiles uncle, who was summoned to testily how Dcattic brought the body o! his wite to the Owen home with the storv til a man. in the roitdway tiring into his automobile, killing his v He. Ik-ulah Hin lord . (he seventoeii-vcar-old girl, who is said to have come between the prisoner and his wile, remains m jail at. Ilichmond ya'u material witness. Her testimony probably will not be introduced un till tomorrow or next ilav. The prose cution at the convening ot court had reaov its list of more than seventv witnesses. The deiense will, call more than a score. .Court opened at ten-thirty o'clock. The prisoner took his seat. .promptly. Today was the lirst. anniversary of his marriage to the woman lie is ac cused ol murdering. Shortly be I ore court opened, the blood stained auto mobile in winch Heatlie's wile met. her death, was driven into the court house, yard.. The prisoner-was on the lawn when the '.machine arrived. Heattie calmly inspected it. His lather raised the cushion of the trout seat..-revealing blood spots on the wooden work. With lew ex ceptions the counsel agreed lo ex clude all witnesses when nfcit testi fying. Thomas Owen took the stand nt 1 1 : it). ... . Tho prisoner gazed tixedtv at him. Owen told how Heat tie drove up to his house on the night of the murder and took his young wile into the car, returning an hour later with the dead body beside him,, and (Continued on Page Two.) ON LOCAL OPTION Hirniinghain, Ala., Aug. 24 The polls throughout Jefferson county opened today, tho people voting on option. Local optionists "dry" tick et claim victory by tho thousand majority. Freight Kates on Fruits Ueduced. San Francisco. Cal., Aug. 24. The Western Pacific road today put into effect a new tariff reducing material ly the rates on both citrus and de ciduous trults Irom California points to the Black Hills country, embrac ing a number ol important distribut ing points in Wyoming, Nebraska, and houth, Dakota. President At Itoverly. Boston, Mass., Aug. 24 Presi dent Taft arrived at 9:15 this morn ing and entered an automobile and started for Beverly, where he plann ed to spend most of the day playing golf on Myopia links, - : t MAGNATES TO Alii Trust Organizers Will Meet Senate Committee ( oiilerence Will He Held to. Assist in I raining Acts to 'Supplant Inter state din uicrce Holes and Sher man Ann-Trust Law Hoi kelrllei anil .Morgan to lie invited Must 'I uke Some Action. Washington, Aug.- '4. I he Ki't-at trust i i-fanizcrs ot tlie country are to invited by the senate commit tee on interstate coiuinei ce to assist in . training a law lo meet the busi ness conditions 61 ' the present day. Iliev are Ui meet with the leaders of labor and suggest to the commit tee Idas I luii 1 1 1 a v lead to the train ing ot a law which is to supplant both the ..Sherman anti-trust law and the interstate commerce laws. The question to he determined is w hi-! her is it belter tor the coin iiler- cial health ul the country thai -combinations iii-iw .iii restraint of trade be legalized or whether Ibev shall he dissolved, making unrestricted coinpeletioii. John Ii. KocUetellor, .1. 1'ierpont Morgan, (ii-uige W. Perkins, h,lbrt H. Oary. representing, the capitalists; Samuel CiOinpers and other labur leaders are to be brought together in n Iriendlv wav to give their views as to needed changes in existing law. Tho senate committee, Moses Clapp chairman; has turned the .: details Of preparation tor the investigation over to .special subcommittee, of which Senator Cummins is chairman. The Iowa n is arranging lor the inter (Continued on Page Two.) TO ARREST ALL OF THEM Authorities Will Arrest All Who Saw Lynching District .Attorney hmcourngcd by Fail ure ot Habeas Corpus Ca.se of One Of Accused Another Hoy m Cust ody Kvideiice at Inquiry Shows Tluit .Mol Was l,ed by Six Armed Men. Coatesville, Pa., : .Aug. 24 The opinion handed down by Judge But ler, id the habeas corpus .proceedings In which he refused to grant the freedom of Ceorge Stahl, one ol those charged with .-murder in con nection with the lynching ot Zack Walker, has greall.V encouraged l)is trict .'Attorney (iawthrop in his In vestigal ions, and he announced this evening that wholesale arrests may be expected within the next lew days;. Clvde Woodward IS years old, :i son of Joseph Woodward, a local liackman, was taken into custody this atternoou lullowing a session ot the investigators that lasted several hours. Woodward Is charged with murder bv the district attorney, an l was lodged In the local jail here for the night instead of being taken to West Chester, as were the others. Mr. (Iawthrop was verv guarded in his announcement with respect to I uture arrests. "We are going to arrest every one who was in the crowd which went from Coatesville to the hospital, and then followed the lynchers down over the lawn to the lire, ' he declared. "We have rounded up considerable evidence, and we will arrest the guilty parties just as last as we can." It is probable that more than 100 men miiv yet be taken into custody. Judgjt. Butler stated in his opinion, handed down at West Chester this morning in the Stahl case, that those who associate themselves willingly with others who nre ."committing crime are equally guilty with those w ho commit the act. . Hisinct Attorney Gawthrop Is working on the assumption that those .vho went to the scene of the lynch ing mtrely as sympathizers with those who committed the crime are guilty ol. murder and liable to ar rest. The opinion of Judge B':tler Is ko portentous that many peopic who were at the lynching, but who have had nothing to fear so far, have suddenly become fearful. According to the district attorney, Woodward, who was arrested today, admitted to the probers that he was with the crowd when It left the corner of First avenue and Main street with the intention of lynohtng (he negro; that he followed it to the (Con.tiauad on Page Sixl 'BIT PUPILS E Eighty Percent of the Raleigh School Children Were Vaccinated Against Smallpox FALL TERM SEPTEMBER 11 Children and Teachers Are Getting Heady for Another Successful Vear -Miss Cross Coining Next Week Mrs. Sherwood in Moun tains School Notes of Interest to Parents and Children. About eighty percent Of the school children of Raleigh have responded to the request of the school board to be vaccinated and ns a result Dr. T. M. Jordan, city health officer, and Mr. Frank M. Harper, superintend ent of schools, are very much grat ified. There are 3,421 children In Raleigh of Bchool age and of these 2.221 are white and 1,200 are col ored. . : Dr. Jordan has been meeting the children at the various schools and exannnating their vaccination scars, Practically all of the children have taken a deep interest in vaccination and no child" was ever prouder of any toy than some of the little boys and girls are of their scars. Many of them, on meeting their teachers or superintendent on the streets, bare their arms and produce their scars. Master Robert Holloway, the small son of Mr. S. W, Holloway. was vaccinated this summer and will enter the first grade of the Wiley school. 'I dot tree ,tars," he pqoudly dudared, as' he 'rollfd up Ms sleeve. Some of the arms did not 'take," this being due to the fact thai tfctf , virus was defective. Vaceine point should be kept on lce.:durlng',the summer months, and if this Is not done, the points are apt to lose their effectiveness. Practically all of the physicians in Raleigh have co-operated with the school authorities in their efforts to protect the children and the health of the community. Doctors realize that they can do more with their patients than school authorities fan. and most of them have gladly exert ed a wholesome Influence in this di rection. Fall Term September. II. The fall term of the public schools will begin Monday, Septem ber 11, and teachers and publls are preparing for another good school year. Miss Pearl Cross,; the new principal of the Murphey school, will come to Raleigh next week from her home-at. -Wake. Forest. Miss Cross was educated at Indiana State Nor mal School, taught In that state and has had three years' experience In North Carolina. This summer she assisted in Institute work at Wilson. Miss Cross Is well qualified for the duties and will keep the Murphy school up to its high standard. Mrs. M. B. Sherwood, principal of the Wiley . school, Is spending ten days In -the-mountains of western North Carolina. She will return greatly refreshed and enthused for another vear of good Work, Superintendent. Harper has been at work all the summer In prepara tion for tho fall term. HAVE CONFIDENCE IN PURE FOOD EXPERT Duluth, Aug. 24 A telegram ex pressing confidence in Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, and promising to support his official acts, was sent President Tift by delegates of the. fifteenth annual coi.vention, association stace and national tood and dairy depart ""Hat1;, The convention has been divided into Wiley and Wilson faction-!. Capture of Washington. " Washington, D. C, Aug. 24.- To day saw the ninety-seventh anniver sary of the capture of Washington by the British army under Uen. Koss. Un the day previous the capital had been; abandoned to the Invaders, President Madison and other officials having fled before the approach of the red coats. A feature or the blier occupancy of the city by the. Invading army was the burning of a. number of public buildings, Including the con gressional library and the many valu able documents It contained., v '.'i-;...,. .'y'v..... -'-a.. ... 'i. . ..i','v,. . HEED V
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