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1 Irate lew to: pa Associated Press Service E Associated Press Service Vol. LXX. No. 72. The Weather PAIK. RALEIGH, N. C, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1911. LAST EDITION PRICE FIVC CENTS Double the Number of Paid Subscribers in FLaleigh of any Other Newspaper TERRIBLE : ' '- ' : . V: - ON FRENCH WARSHIP Three Hundred or More Sai lors Die As Result of Fire and Explosion VESSEL GOES But Fire Gained cHndwuy ami Reached Magazines, Which Hiitl . Xot Been Flooded Explosion Fol lowed, Which Almost Tore the Vesnel in Pieces Scores of .Men Thrown High Into the Air, To gether With Fragments of Frame Work, Armor uiitl Bursting Shells Vessel Sunk. Teuton, France. Sept. . 25. More than half or her crew of 79:1 officers and men met, death early today, when fire broke out in the ammuni tion hold of the battleship Liberie. One of the llnesl vessels In the, French navy. Explosions wuieh fol lowed wrecked the great ship. The lire was discovered at live o'clock. At llr.st it was not thought to be serious, but it gained great head way over the sailors' lighting it, Suddenly it readied the magazines, which hud not been Hooded, owing apparently to the slight nature of the blaze. The explosions were ter rific, shaking the vessel fore and aft. Each was seemingly stronger than the preceding. They opened up great fissures in the armor and frame work. The vessel immediately be came a mass of fire and smoke, and soon sank to tile bottom of Toulon harbor. At an early hour unofficial esti mates placed the number of dead at. five hundred. The estimates by nav al men vary. There is no doubt thai the loss of life was as hig.i as throe hundred. Scores of seamen died in their berths. A few dr.zen saved them selves by jumping overboard. Many of those injured leaped into the wa ter and drowned before other boats iu the roailsted could reach them. Two hundred of the crew escaped death, because they were on shore leave. Commander Jauers, was not aboard. The explosions carnage was worse than could ever occur in actual naval warfare. The first crash came when the crew dispersed to various suc tions of the vessel. The explosion was without warning. Scores . were hurled high Into the air, accompan ied by great fragments of frame work, armor, bursting shells and blinding powder smoke, while the men below were killed in their sleep. Others, awakened by the explosion, started to jump overboard, and were caught by a second detonation. Mauy vessels were in the harbor at the time, Including several warships. There were three tremors of the explosion in quick succession after the Are reached the magazines. A hundrd men Baved themselves by tumolng. Scores of others would have escaped but for the rigid dis cipline which held them at their posts. When awakened and about to throw themselves overboard an order calling them to their stations FLEMING CHILDREN NOW WITH MOTHER Dr. Arthur H. Fleming of Louis burg, ordered by Judge R. B. Peebles to return the Fleming children to their mother, arrived1 In the city last evening with George Mortimer and Nelle Bryan Fleming and de livered them into the custody of their mother, Mrs. Nelle1 Claire Flem ing. Mr. Percy B. Fleming accom panied his brother with the children to the house. The father Is given the privilege of seeing the children nre a month, but la not permitted to take them away from the house. A street car Saturday arternoon struck a hack driven by Andrew Simmons, coolred, and did consider able damage. Several colored women -were In th hack. The accldeut oc curred pn FayettevlUe street. . EXPLOSION -''V"-" rang out. These men were blown to pieces a few seconds later. Accurate estimates of the dead and injured are unavailable late this afternoon. They may not greatly ex ceed 2110. Series of Disasters. Paris, Sept. 25 The news of the explosion of the Liberte's magazines was a stunning blow to the French public and naval officers. It is the climax of a long series of the French navy's disasters. Accounts, vary widely. The most authentic dis patches state the battleship sank two hours after fire was discovered in the forward hole. Another account stated the ship broke in half from the force of the explosions, sinking twenty minutes lated. It is estimated the dead numbers between three and four hundred. The Liberte was 1 4 , i) (i 0 tons displacement, over all length 452 feet, and carried a crew of 7!)3 men. more four twelve inch guns, and ten guns of the French 7.0 inch type. ! She also had twenty-three small guns and four torpedo boats She was completed in 1897 at a cost of seven million dollars. Between three hundred and three hundred and fifty of the Liberte' crew and about a hundred men from other warshipps, sent to held ex tingulsh fire disappeared. The Detn ocratie lost twenty dead, and fifty in jured. A piece of armor plate, blown from the Liberte struck the cruise Republiuue on the port side with great force, damaging her plates Thinks Powder Bad. Washington, Sept. 23. Based up on the first reports of the naval dis aster in Toulon harbor, tiie Navy Department experts are disposed to (Continued en Page Two.) sii iioh huh Negro Boy Receives Bullet In His Mouth Mystery Covers Whole Affair Some Declare Shot Came From Outside Others Say It Was Inside Burlx-r Sho Not Seriously Wounded I'n less Complications Set In. (SKciai to The Times.) Scotland Neck, Sept. 25. There was considerable excitement in the northern section of the business por tioii of the town Saturday night, when It was reported that: Scooney ICtenganiu, a colored boy; had been snot In the rear of a colored barber shop. A large crowd soon gathered on the street in front of the barber shop, while Scooney was carried to the oflice of Dr. O. F. Smith, who rendered the wounded boy all ne- cessary medical and surgical aid. The doctor found that the boy w. s shot in the mouth, the ball entering on the left side of the lower lip, knock ing- out one tooth and shattering the lower jaw bone. Dr. Smith said the ball must have been a 38 calibre. He also said that the wound was not at all dangerous, but was a possibility of complications that would produce dangerous results. Scooney declared he did not know who shot him saying that he and his brother, John Etenganie were in the rear of the barber shop, which is cut off by a curtain, counting money when he was shot from the outside, and John told about' the same story, but later said there were three or four present. Several persons who heard the report of the pistal say they were sure It was fired from the inside. One white men said he saw a negro run out of the front door immediately after the shot was fired. John Etengame, who was pretty well tanked up, was arrested and Hon. 1 A. Powell Kltchln questioned him,, but we learn he told conflicting stories, and1 was flnallys locked up. After he sobers up a little he will be further questioned as to how his brother was shot. It seems to be the belief among the people that the boys were In the back foom fooling with a plstolr, John being dru,nk, when it was fired accidentally and that the boys being so badly frightened they would not tell the truth about the affair, ' There are several negro joints in the building, and we have heard that the engage In all kinds of games, and (Continued on Page Three.) i saajr jib S)l Davis Negro, Captured After Lively Chase After Successfully Eluding officers fr Several Days Davis Whs Cap lured on Witccuiiinw River Search and Seizure Law Tested Quantity of llcer, Kut Xo Whiskey, Found. .(Special to The Times. ) Wilmington.. X. ('.. Sept. 25- - Af ter successfully eluding officers lor several days following his murder in this city several nights -ago of Will Stephens, and the wounding of Alice Sutton. Sol. Davis, the young nerro accused of the crimes. ..was .captured early yesterday morning while in a boat on Waccamaw river, a short dis tance from Lake Waccamaw. There were n number of officers' in ".he posse after Davis. The negro was first sighted in the boat by. I'nitod States Deputy Benton, of 'Whiteville, The1 latter ordered the darkey to come iisiiore,. having the negro "un der cover." ,. In a short time Police men A.pi.ilebiiry n :nl Leon George, of thls.clly, hud the 'man hi charge. In the searching parly there were Slier Iff Cowan, Deputies' A. I.; Kellv, W Harvey Cox. and Melvin Home and Special Officer Tom (.'room. The en tire party reached here with the nc cused murderer on the noon tram from the south ycslerduv . Davis was incarcerated in the county .jail and it is very probable tha: an effort will be made to try him for the diabolical murder of which he stands accused The afternoon .paper Saturday told of the location of Davis in a house at Lake Waccamaw and of the departure of the police 'and county officers of this city to capture. 'him, if possible . When 1hey arrived at the house they found that Davis had left. A mattress sowed signs of hav ing been recently used. hid. McNeil (Continued on Page Five.).: an. mam resigns Pastor of Tabernacle Church to Leave Raleigh Hands His Resignation to Church Sunday Morning at Conclusion of Regular Service His Work Dur hig Three Years Pastorate (Joes to Itnincsvillc ia., October 1.1th. The congrotaion of the Tabernacle Baptist church were shocked yester day morning, when at the conclusion of the regular service, Rev, Adiel J. Moncrlef, the pastor, offered his re signation to take effect on October 15th. ;"'.' Some time ago it was reported through The Daily Times that the popular pastor of this church had re ceived several very Mattering offers from other fields, as well as the presidency of L'nion College, in Ten nesessee, but the church asked him to remain and as the time passed without any other notice of it, it was lelt that he had decided to remain, and his resignation came as a bolt ot lightning, all unexpected, while the church regretted to lose him, they accepted because they knew it was final, several expressing their sin- sere regrets. It came at. the conclusion of one ot the most powerful sermons ever de (Coutlsued on Page Two.) FREIGHT TRAIN ON A. C. L. JUMPED TRACK (Special to The Times.) FayettevlUe, Sept. 25. Nine cars were derailed and traffic 'impeded for some hours when the Atlantic Coast Line nortbound freight No. 208, Jumped the track early this morningjust below Hope Mills, sev en miles from this place. No one was Injured.! The wreck from what can be learned at this hour, was caused by a defective flange of a car wheel. ; The wreckage will probably be cleared away by four o'clock this af ternoon. In the meantime, traffic carried by mall and passenger trains due to pass this city, is being trans ferred to trains made up here. A woman Is afraid only of the things she knows won't hurt her. judge PEEBLES io en jury Laws Are All Right, He Says In Charge, Though Juries Sometimes Fail to Do Right SEPTEMBER TERM COURT .ICDiiE PKEHLKii. Deputy Clerk Itoykiei ToiioM'ski is Filling Court Kooiir Story mid Mr. Geo. His Place in of the $!..-.() Pig's and $1.10 Witnesses Chil. (lien Should lie Tnuwlit What is Right al Wrong .Many Indict ments (iiven Grand Jury The ; Progioss Today.,' In charging the, is rami jury today, Judge R. B. Peebles', who is pro-1 siding over , a two week's term of court for the trial of criminal cases, said that it was not the fault of North Carolina's laws that -criminals' often go unwhipt of justice but often times of weak petit juries. lie thought the measure of punishment demanded is usually about right, but he did not think lurch of juries who would allow a murderer to got off light. To allow a man to go un whipt of justice, sa'.d the judge, is to encourage violations of law. Judge Peebles laid stress on. the importance of magistrate's getting a few -material witnesses, taking their testimony and turning it over to the solicitor. Useless witnesses he. .condemned,' and cited a case that came before .him" in Johnson comity. A man was indicted for whipping t wo little pigs that hail root.ed up - his garden. The pigs ,,,fe wor'h -.$1 .50 a piece, but 17 witnesses' were 'sum moned' and those pigs cost the. 'county $150:. . . ''. In 'enumerating' the crimes. Judge Peebles said that much -sintering might be avoided if parents would lake their children in hand, teach them what they might do and what they might not. "Bring .the hoys to the courthouse and let them hear the charge to the grand jury," he sug gested. He said he did not believe many boys who committed crimes knew what they were doing. For instance there was no .malice in the placing of obstruct ions on railroad tracks in the case- of many young sters, yet where this causes loss oi life the crime . is punished with death; otherwise by. .'imprisonment' for ten years. Tench lloys What is Wrong. An. instance of placing an obstruc tion oh a - railroad track: occurred in Randolph comity. : The young soil ot a poor widow was hauled up in court on this charge. The boy was young and did not know What he had done. Judge Peebles suggested to the mother that she had not warned her boy against such a thing and she said she had not. that she never thought her boy would do such a thing. Thei he told her it she would whip the child in the presence of the sheriff the boy would be turned loose. The woman became indignant, at the id of whipping her son at the sugges tion of a judge or anybody else. AH right, -madam.. .Mr. Clerk make the entry ten years in the state's prison. The Hoy Was Whipped After sleeping over the - mutter the woman decided to give the youngster a good whipping..-.- This she did, and so far as Judge Peebles has heard the boy has been all tire better for it. ' '',' His honor called attention to the fact that the I'ellw who acts as go between in the purchase of liquor is guilty of violating the law himself. If a man gives a hackman or any body' else a dollar to buy liquor the hackman is guilty of selling, even though he does not make a cent on the transaction, but does it for accommodation, as is most often the case. . " Judge Peebles called attention to the fact : that cigarettes or the "makings" cannot be sold to minors. He got after dealers in Johnston county last term. : Sir. ltoyster Sick. Mr. Virtruvis Royster, deputy clerk of the superior court, w'aB Un able to be present today and his duties in the court room were at tended to by Mr, Geo. Tonnoffski, deputy clerk of the. United States, court. Mr. Millard Mial, the clerk, swore In the grand jurors bo that (Continued on Page Five.) . 1 '.Ft "Two Hopeful Tendencies of Our Times" the Subject Tremendous , Crowd Heard Trinity's Educator Lust Night t iistoni Si t by Dr. Kilgo, W hen President of College Absorption ,,' Colored Insurance onipuuics. . I Special to The Times, j -Durham, Sept. 25 Following .'i precedent of, many years and- n rus t'lin widespread a lining, 'the-'colleges; 1 resident-''William P. Few last night addressed the student'.'" body - tipon ' '! til Ilopelul Tcud;'!icii'S,: of .Our 'i in.e." ;-- ' .'. During '. tli" 'presidency ,' of liishop Jsi i t o, lie s-'poke m hepteuiher ol each ar to the boys and girls of 'Trinity and. President- I'my: lias, made his sec, o iii-Lad dress ;of this nature. lie h ;i 1 a tremendous audience last nii;!,!. that 'nearly -filled big Craven .M orial Hall, and a musical -programme by . I hi' best voices of the ci t.y.',c-ln.)j i' -s. SW'S. -very" delight 1'u.l. . . X'nder thiV di rection of .Vr. T. Kdgar ('): .1 sang "lie -Thou Kxalted''. and " Trent, and Marvelous . Are. Thy . Works ' in style finite vur'i.v el' tie- r.:ai.'!ii':,-'t.i n us 'u- of comiiii'iicenioiif.. .SUi dary I. von Duk'.', daughter ot lierja min X. Duke, t li" co ! lews' greatest friend, Si'tig "O Divine Redeemer'' ;.:il P' i ieorf.e Sexton of Washington, made t lie prayer. . A number of the churches hud an r.euncement that they would ha services and enjoined the con.:: fions to hear -'President". 1-e.w -,-. ' i!. .The . lecture was to ' students, primarily, because . t In per ciasstiien had heard hint the ii3 i r.n- 1.1 "W. an- 'y.iar he: ore. And it was a large V : Li.e o! .first, year men and woni"'i -w' I ist t ed thron gh th e t : cut y -ti v win tiles' recitation of .the two e.i)tonr;Vg im; . tendencies: :of the day. ." .-''! iiefi (Continued on Page Two ) T Preparations Being Made For Biggest In Its History Cleat Henl of .ci ii dug til ing Done For I' 'airSynod ,,' c-i':i h.i l'ri . hyleiian Cliiircb, Colored, Closed Sessions 1'i'i'icc Cule t'ri i iel"r Tried lor Sciuug Fire to Ids Place. . '' (Special to The Tillies,) (Ireenshoro, Sept. L'S Tlie t'enti'al Carolina Fair Associal ion is doing a great, dinvl of advert Isfng-foi' the f a i r of this year: and t lie" -Indications-, point to tin- most, largely at tended gath ering the associiit ton lias ever had. Among the' feature,.' will be a t'urtiss biplane, which will be handled by Jlr. Thoriiwoll Andrews, of- this city, who is connected with the Lindsey Hopkins.'. Aviation Company of tliis city, the first corporation of the kind to be lormed in North Carolina. Two llights will be given every day. Mr. Andrews will also give exhibitions in other fairs of the state this fall. The Synod of Catawba I'resby been in session here since Thursday, closed yesterday. More than "Oil negro laymen and ministers were in both interesting and'-. -profitable. A number of addresses were made, some of them by white churchmen, but tlie most of them by negro min . , .(Continued', on Page Three. ) Spartanburg. S. ('., Sept. 2."i The state officials have determined not to call out troops which yesterday were ordered to hold themselves ready to act in the street car strike situation. Few tars were operated today. There . was no disorder in the early hours of the day. The strike was precipitated, it was de clared, by the discharge of sixteen motormen and conductors who re fused to sign an alleged agreement diawn up by the company, promising not to affiliate with any labor organ ization, . Fire Maniac. Minneapolis, . Sept. 25. Albert Smith, under arrest, admits tiring twenty buildings In the past six weeks. He offers no explanation to throw light: on his favorite past- time. . Ds.w.p.FfH'SABDRfss CAUSED DEATH 8 ORPSIER Engine of Lumber CompuJolen and Abandoned On Track Nbut Vaughan. N. C, Yesterday H. D. LATHAN MANGLED Cn inei'i' Weill in Search of stolen l iopcrlv and Kim lulu II on Curve Wounded Mmi Died at orliiia Is He Was Rcing Hushed tit Ral eigh I or 'I real nienl Roily Carried I'd Willi.'iinstiiii for lillii.ll I tod I, V linilly ( rushed, Retween His L'u gine anil Othci o Clue. Because sojne' parties .-stole an en gine belonging to the Urceiileal. John sou. Luniher t'oiuiuiiiy iif . .Norfolk, V.i. nt . for. a j.o i'ide Sunday ;ovr the stiiall . road near and ahamUined :the Vaiighiln, .'.: .engine on i lie I ' rack y. : II. 1), La'il'.tn.. I'oi'liieriv of Wiiliatnstou.. Mai-tin cotniiy, an en gineer, is dead ill Jialeigh, .he hu'Cing biieh cnisheil between the coal tender ol his engine a ltd the. stolen" .-engine. The... first engine was borrowed yes terday and Kimineer Lathan went out this 'morning in search of - ins j.uimpnny's .'property.'-- The engi':'- Y'aJ been ie.t't. standing on a curve, and the engineer crashed, into it wi.hout wa.r'ii-ltig'.. . ile was "crushed througn lie.- groins ami theil at .orlii:'i .is he was beitig . rushed to. lt;il 'ij;ii for treat tiient . ' Accotijpanying'Mr. Latliiun to Ii;tl i.'tgh :,: were Dr.. It. A. Vaughan of iuiglian anil Mr. J... I, trims, a tneni- ber of tiie lumber cotupanv. It :, (.Coin ihued on I'age Two; ) Reports That Whiting Manu- factoring Co. Has Closed Claimed that Fully .",00 People are Tlirouii Out of employment, Itul Company Denies il-l'copl,. Alollscd (hrr Negro's Dentil lliiing Con. Vict Labor for Komi Work. I Special to The Times. ) .Asheville. .X: ('.. rfept: '2ft People coining' to Ashevllle Iroiii , (iraham co u u l. v lia.'e liroiight. reports lii. the efl'cu.'f t hai i he . VVli it ing .l ami fact it r ing co hi pa n ppcrat in g in . (!ra ham comity, -tnts sfoppt'ii opr.rat.ions- 111- definilidy. and thai- several hundred men were i brown out. ot' employment, it was further reported I lint t he men are leaving. Uobhinsv iile . and . the camp ami. that some ol' theni shed tears over the loss of employment. The reports were that the London company who was to advance the money lor the operations of the com pany on bonds had held up the money because ol a change which the com pany proposed, to make in. t ho route of a rail road ; and t hat the company had used up the -available logs. There is also a .''rumor of a possible sale of the .property io ii Detroit, concern.: W. S. Whiting of the Whiting Man ufacturing company sair that, these reports tire not true. Ho. denied that on tneii .are thrown out of oiiiploy- hioitl and . stated t hat .the.-'company; had closed .down t ho . logging plant unt ii it v. as 'decided whether. a cer tain riiilroiul is to. be built ; that tlie pltiiiiing and saw -mills are.'still run ning.. Asked ..when the :. ; company; would start . up. .-logging 'Operations again Jlr. W luting stated that It would be about tin days, as soon as they could get the report of the en gineer on the route for the railroad, when it will be decided if the railroad Is to he built. -.'Concerning', the re ports of trouble with the Kuglish financiers and the reputed sale of the property he satd there is nothing in it. Tlie 'Whiting Manufacturing Com pany somo months ago created quite a sensation in. the business world by practically liuyitig tip the town of Hobbinsvlllo, and operations on a largo scale have been going on, and still greater were planned. The de velopments included the building of a railroad to get out the lumber, Arrivals frm Ilendersonville today state that the people ot Fletchers are very much concerned of the death (Continued on Page Two.). 1 I PHY VISIT Col. Collier and Mr. Dawe to Visit Capital City On Tuesday, October 3 FOR TOURIST TRAVEL Their Purpose is to Divert Through South Noi-tbern Tourists to Pana ma Imposition Community of In terests for Southern People Have Jteceiveil Hearty Co-operation n Cities Thus Far Visited Megan at Tuscon anil Will Km! at MeniplU.i Will Also Stop at Ashevllle. Col. D. C. Collier, director general of the Panama-California Industrial Imposition and Mr. G. Grosvenor Dawe, .managing director of the suthen Commercial Congress, at Washington, will visit Raleigh Tues day, October 3, for the purpose of tukii.g steps to divert Pacific coast tourist travel from northern lluee through the south. The following spfc'al from Washington gives in octiiil the movements and objects of these gentlemen : Washington, Sept. 25--Tliat the s .ath has eargerly seized on the sug gestion that it can benefit the hold ing of the expositions In celebration ol the opening of the Panama Canal is evidenced by the enthusiasm a vakened by the tour througu the south now in progress by Q. ijros eiior Dawe, Managing director of th? Southern Commercial Congress, a'ul Col. D, C. Collier, director gen eral of the Panama-Californlv In ternational Exposition. To Visit Kalelgh. These gentlemen started eastward from Tucson, Ariz., on the 11th Inst,, stepping at: KI Paso, San Antonla, Houston, Dallas, Little Rock, Tox argana, Shreveport, Monroe, Vicks hurg and Jackson. They we.-e in Meridian the 22nd, and thence they bit for "'Birmingham, Elmore, Wetunika, .Montgomery, MobiLi, New Orleans, Pensacola, Jacksonville, Savannah. Charleston, Selma, Ual eigh, Asheville, Knoxville, Chatta nooga, Nashville, and Memphis. The lurpose. The purpose of the tour by these energetic gentlemen is to awaken interest and to secure cooperation in directing travel to the big exposi tions of lt15 through the sunny south. Col. Collier of the San Diego Exposition saw that such a plan would redound to the great benefit of the south, and that by getting the south Interested he would have valu able assistance in luring travelers to "see San Diego first" of all the in teresting places on the Pacific Coast. It was clearly a "community of In terests," and both Col. Dawe and Col. Collier enlisted unreservedly in pro moting the idea, Community Interest. From every city thus far visited come assurances that the meetings have been enthusiastic and largely attended. In fact, many cities not 011 the intinerary have appealed for the gospel of the community of in terests to be preached there. Since congress gave its approval. by action of the house, to the San Diego Exposition, there can not be any doubt of its importance ami tuc- cess. it lias already received the sympathetic support of the south. SLAYER OF STOLYPIN PAID PENALTY TODAY Kiev, Russia. Sept. 25. Dmitry Hogroft', Premier Stoylpln's assassin, who was condemned to death by court martial, was hanged today. Be tor his execution, BogrofT asked that he -might 'see a Rabbi, but refused this consolation when informed that the Interview might be in an official's presence. To liiilnrge llrooklyii Navy Yard. New York, Sept. 25.- Plans tor enlarging the brooklyn navy yard, involving the expenditures of four teen million dollars, making it tha world's greatest naval station have been completed by Engineer Harris and Naval Constructor broesbeck, and will be forwarded to the Navy Department.
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