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Vol. 9-No. 171 EX-PRES. lUfMEE Mayor of City Not Connected With Reception tuc Din QTIP1 NIL U1U UIIUU Milwaukee, Sept. 8. The Germans had their day with ex-President Roose velt yesterday. Beginning the day with a tiff with Milwaukee's Socialist mayor, Emil Seidel, who is a German, Colonel Roosevelt put in the succeed ing hours of his visit here by roaming about the city at will, making his own programs as he went- He inspected the city's trade schools, attended two luncheons and a dinner, took an au tomobile ride to White Fish Bax and addressed two huge audiences last night. Late in the evening he went to his car to start early this morning for Freeport, 111., where he spoke to day, and for Chicago, which he is to visit later in the day. The Milwaukee Press Club had the Colonel in hand. The club got out the first and last edition of the "Big Stick," a newspaper devoted exclu sively to Colonel Roosevelt's affairs, in honor of the day. In a contribution to the "Big Stick" for this occasion, Mayor Seidel stated that "if Mr. Roosevelt comes to Mil waukee holding the same Ideas which lie expressed in an article published by him March 20, 1909, It Is clear that he cannot serve the cause xf honesty and decency in American -political life." "It is possible that I have misunder stood the article," stated Mayor Seidel, "but inasmuch as I am a Socialist and as he has designated "Socialism as a thing which is against morals and re ligion, 'abhorrent, revolting which would replace the family and home life by a glorious Btate of free lunch counters and a state founding asylum' I am sure that he will be pleased tcr know that I am not personally con nected with his reception in the city." Charging the Colonel "with a cun ning and deliberate purpose to create a false impression," he declared that the visitoT ""could lay no claim tothe right of preaching either morality or religion or civic righteousness." "In the speaking tour of Mr. Roose velt through the West," said Mr. Seidel, "I fail to ee anything of im portance beyond political plans and designs. As such, of course, it is of no special service to the present city administration. The problems that now confront our city are of much the same nature as those the nation faces." Roosevelt "Replies. Upon being shown, this statement, Colonel Roosevelt said: -v "On this trip I have made no par tisan political speeches and of course shall not break through the rule now ly discussing either the State party matters or the municipal party mat ters and at present, of course, the dominant municipal party. If any one wishes to know my views on what is usually called socialism, they .win find them set out in such fashion that It is lmpossibleto misinterpret or mis understand , them in the articles . to which the mayor in his letter refers, - and I advise tem to read the articles themselves a id. not what the mayor says of them." The Colonel said that the fact that . . . . - . , .. . uic vtj auuuuuuauuii was 11 OL rtJlr- - resented in the ceremonies did not trouble him. : ' r The Big Stick. ,. ; The' Press Club's special publication. "The Big Stick," especially disavowed responsibility for the mayor's utter ance, saying that "Mr. Roosevelt wil Understand that Milwaukee's welcome ids none the less whole-hearted hard mayor has seen fit to voice a socialis tic dislike for the former head of the nation." , - .. The original program for the day in cluded six "speeches and visit to a dozen places. Colonel Roosevelt look ed it over, cast the program aside and made out one for himself. At the boys' trade school, the Col onel spent nearly an hour questioning the instructors and students about their work. He went through the place questioning boys who were learning plumbing, carpentering and engine making. - "It is important that each man should do a little more than pull his own weight' in the world," he said as the boys gathered around him. "And it is of vital consequence to him to have him trained so that he can begin early instead of leaving him to be trained in a haphazard way. hat is what this school is doing." Players Ignore National Commission. Chicago, Sept. 8. Baseball players of the National and American Leagues who were selected to take part in the all-star games following the world's series intend to ignore the orders re cently issued by the National Commis sion forbidding them to participate. With the exception of Walsh, of the White Sox; Hans Wagner, of Pitts burg, and Roger Bresnahan, of St. Louis, all the men have signed and will compete according to the agree ment they have made with D. A. Fletcher, of Cincinnati. The men who have signed the con tracts to take part in ten games are as follows: National League Konetchy, first base; Elvers, second Dase; Devlin, third base; Hofman, center field; Kling, catcher; Leach, center field; Magee, left field; Mitchell, right field; Bescher, left field; -Gibson, catcher; Mathewson, pitcher; "Brown, - pitcher; Overall, pitcher; Rucker, pitcher; McGraw, manager; Bancroft, secre tary. American League Chase, first base; Lajoie, second base; Lord, third base; Bush, shortstop; Collins, second base; Street, catcher; Stanage, catcher; Car rigan, catcher; Milan, left field; Cobb, right field; Crawford, center field; Mullin, pitcher; Bender, pitcher; Johnson, pitcher. THE RESULTS YESTERDAY. Eastern Carolina League. Fayetteville 3; Rocky Mount 2. 20 FOR GRIFFIN Zeb Griffin! Submits to Sentence in Penitentiary National League. Brooklyn 3; Philadelphia 4. Cincinnati 6; Chicago 7. . First game St. Louis 6; Pittsburg 11. Second game S. Louis 3 1 Pitts burg 11. American . League. New York 1; Washington 2. Philadelphia 2; Boston 1. Detrolit 3; Cleveland 4. Chicago-St. Louis, rain; both games. TRIAL STOPPED EARLY The trial of Zeb. Griffin, charged with the murder of Calvin Thome, in Old Fields township last month, came to a sudden end this morning . when the attorneys for the defense agreed to submit to a verdict of murder in the second degree, whereupon Judge Peebles sentenced the prisoner to. twenty years hard labor in the State penitentiary. . ... - . This morning this case, the most im portant of this term of court, was call ed, a special venire of one hundred having been summonsed from whom to select a jury, and after devoting the forenoon in an effort to secure a jury, the above submittal was agreed to and the case suddenly terminated. -The State was represented by Solici tor C. C. Daniels, assisted by Pou and Finch for the prosecution, while Lucas and Spruill and Woodard and Hassell represented the defense. Had the trial proceeded it would" have been hard fought and consumed most of the re mainder of the term. The verdict and sentence is satisfactory to all parties. Grilfin and Calvin Thorne were drinking cider the day' of the killing, according to the evidence given at the coroner's inquest, and walked to Griffin's home arm in arm, seemingly in the friendliest spirit, two neighbors being with them. On arriving at Griffin's home, ' his wife - began to quarrel with Thorne and Griffin picked up an axe and from behind struck Thorne with it, knocking him down7 and then striking him . again, the blows causing his death. Griffin escaped and spent several days in Washington, N. C, where he worked in a saw mill and in . the woods, but afterwards returned to the scene of the crime and surrendered to the deputy sheriff of Nash county, Mr. Noah Lamm, at Middlesex." At the coroner's inquest the evidence was of such a nature that the jury recom mended that Griffin, if caught, be held without bail. After he surrendered and piacea in jail here a - pre liminary hearing was waived and. he was held without bail until trial today when the case came to a sudden end as stated above. Washington, D. C, Sept. 7. If the railroads, of the country have suffered in revenue from agitation surround ing thS passage of the railroad bill at the last session of Congress, the figures given out at the Interstate Commerce Commission tell a queer tale. According to these figures, the gain of the railroads in net revenues for the first 11 months of the last fiscal year was something more than $100,000,000 over the net gain for a like period "of the preceding fiscal year, - The May bulletin on operating rev enues and expenses of all the steam roads in the country has been issued by the Commission. This makes it possible to show what the railroads have done during all but one month of the . year just closed Operating revenue for the 11 months were $2,- 542,210,713 and operating expenses were $1,680,908,118, leaving a balance of $861,302,595 with which to pay taxes, dividends and interest on fund ed debt. At the close of the first 11 months of the fiscal year ended June 30, 1909, the railroads had net operating rev enues of $750,799,214 with which to pay taxes, dividends and interest on funded debt, The exact increase for 4. ' the first 11 months of the fiscal year ended June 20, 1910, over the first 11 months of the year ended June 30, 1909 is $110,503,381. In other words the net profits" from the operation of all the lines are bigger by more than $110,000,000. Southern League. Mobile 5; Nashville 2. (11 innings.) New Orleans 0; Birmingham 3. No other games scheduled. Virginia League. First game Lynchburg J 3 ; Roan oke 1. Second game Lynchburg 1 ; Roanoke 2. (Last game of the seasos for Roanoke. Danville 3; Richmond 2. First game Petersburg 2; Norfolk 0. Second game Petersburg 1; Nor folk 1. (10 innings; darkness.) Narrowly Escaped Inciseration. New Orleans Wins Southern Pennant. ""Memphis, Tenn., . Sept. 7.- As a re sult of yesterday's games in the South ern League, NewOrleans has clinched the pennant, alttiougbTthe ending will not be recorded until September 17th. The Crescent City aggregation, which is managed byCharles Frank, obtain ed an ea rly , lead, and has rarely "been pressed, although three, weeks ago It lookd like Atlanta had a , chance to head the Pelicans. - "L ' - The attendance throughput the sea son has caused complaint from a ma jority of club owners. .The sale of players 'and those ' drafted ' also 1 de crease 3 c cm pared with fomer years. - -f - . v Salisbury, N.- C, Sept. 8. Fire, which had a mysterious origin in Sal isbury-yesterday, destroyed the J resi dence owned by Mrs. Julia Cuthrell, and occupied by S. W. Whisnant and family, entailing a loss of about three thousand dollars, -; with one thousand insurance. The houshold goods of Mr. Whisnant were also totally destroyed with a loss of about one thouand dol lars. - r "V-S::- ' W. J. Ray, who occupied a room in the.Durned: building, had a narrow escape from burning to death, jump ing from the second story to : the ground. - ' . ' He was - picked up in a semi-con scious condition and taken to a hos pital an d his condition is still preca rious. A combustion of gas is said to have caused the fire. COTTON. The cotton -market jit, noon today was as - foUowsV January, 12.92; March, 13.01? May, 13.04; "September, 13.54; December, 12.93; ; " ;, - . ? The market closed at 3 p. in. as f ol lows:-; January, ,12.93; March, 13.03; May 13.04;"" September, 13.55; October 12.93; December, 12.95. Good Year For Railroads. Democratic Outlook Bright! -Raleigh, Sept. 8. United States Senator F. M. Simmons, Congressman E. W. Pou, Congressman Robert N. Page and Governor Kitchin were among quite a number of callers at State Democratic headquarters here this week, each manifesting gratifica tion at the general political outlook in this State as they observe it. The Governor was just back from Rock ingham and says he found conditions there in fine shape" for Democracy. Senator Simmons has been for some time in New Bern and on his Jones county farm, is in fine health and will devote considerable time, under the direction of the State Chairman, to the Democratic - party in cam paigning. Congressman Pou and Congress man Page both brought gratifying news from their districts, there not being the slightest chance of any really serious fight in the matter of their re-election. Mr. Pou says of his opponent, Mr. Cooley, of Nash," that he has for years had the most friendly relations with him and has had his support for Congress even right up to the last Democratic Congressional Convention, in which Mr. Cooley made the motion to make his (Pou's) nomi nation unanimous. He proposes to make no fight whatever on Cooley un less the latter starts it, he says. The opinion is being advanced here by a number of experienced politicians that Mr. Pou will be without an opponent before the campaign closes. THE REUNION IS North Carolina Con- feder ate Veterans Meeting Over Boddie-Thompson. Nashville, Sept. 8. A- pretty home wedding- took place at Nashville yes terday morning at the home of the bride; when Miss Mary C. Boddie, second, ' daughter , of , Mr. C. Frank Boddie. and Mr. George ' P. Thompson, of Mayesville, S.. C, plighted their troth. The words that made the two man and wife weer said by Rev. S. T. Moyle, of Conway, and an uncle of the bride. -The bride was becoming ly attired in a traveling gown of blue with hat and gloves to match. The home was attractively decorated, for the occasion with ferns and potted plants. Mrs. Thompson Is one of Nashville's attractive and cultured young women. She was educated at the State Nor mal and has a host of friends here and elsewhere in the State. Mr Thompson is a native of Moore coun- . this , State, but is now living in South Carolina, where he is a promi nent young lumberman. The mar riage is the culmination of a romance begun at Sanford five years ago when Miss Boddie was the guest of her uncle, Rev. S. T. Moyle, who was the officiating minister yesterday. Direct ly after the ceremony the young peo ple left for their future home a Mayesville. S. C. Two Die In a Well. Lancaster, S. C, Sept. 8. Jim Shields and Buster Craig, two nnfort unate negroes, lost their lives Tuesday by foul air in a well on S. P. Crim inger's place, two miles east of Heath Springs The men were preparing to clean out the.-well when Craig's hat falling in he went down to get it. Not returning - Shields ..was also lowered into the well to find out what the trouble was. He likewise failed to make any response to those at the top. .His brother, Sam Shields, then started down in the bucket, to .-which he was securely tied. After being owered some distance he made a sign oi distress , ana was at once drawn, up. When taken out of the bucket he was in an unconscious -con dition, but later revived. Foul air int the well was the cause of ; the double tragedy. " Cotton Letter. New York, Sept. 7. After the first half hour yesterday liquidation of the cotton market' seemed to be over and prices - showed a distinct tendency to recover. Spot sales sixteen thousand bales "at ten points decline.- :"' LATHAM. ALEXANDER & CO. - Turns Against Crippen; London, Sept 8. Ethel Le Neve has confessed to all that she knows con cerning the fate of Belle Elmore, the wife of Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen, whom he is charged with slaying, apd the girl for love of whom the physi cian is said to have committed the crime. She will be the chief witness against him, according' tor a report that is gaining general credence to day. - When the preliminary hearing . of the prisoners, which was postponed until tomorrow, is continued, this re port says, Miss Le Neve's confession. which is in affidavit form, will be pre sented as the principal evidence of the prosecution. It is understood that Prosecutor Humphrey will then con sent to have the girl released on bail, provided that she can find a bonds man. The powerful influence brought to bear upon the young woman by her family and the King's prosecutors has finally broken down the girl's resolu tion to stand by the physician, and she has turned upon him. By doing this she has escaped possible punish ment of death, or at least twenty years' imprisonment, which - is the penalty dealt out to a person con victed of being an accessory after the fact. Now it Is believed she will es cape with a nominal sentence. Barney Oldfield Is Speed King. Brighton Beach, N. Y., Sept. 7. Barney Oldfield, in his famous 200- horse power Blitzen Benz, smashed two world's records for a 1-mile cir cular track before 8,000 spectators yesterday. - v -In the first of the 1-mile speed trials Oldfield tore around the eclipse in 50 2-5 seconds,- clipping two-fifths of a second from the record made by Ralph de Palma at St, Paul. In the second trial during the ' afternoon the Benz again won first place with 50 4-5 seconds, but Oldfield, not satisfied, got permission to attempt to lower his own record, and 'to the amazement of the. crowd, he covered the mile in 49 4-5, bettering his mark set earlier in the day by threefifths of a, second. Weather Over Cotton Belt Yesterday. 1 Local showers are reported In the Mobile, VIcksburg, New Orleansf Lit tle Rock, Houston and Oklahoma dis tricts. .. Moderate temperatures have continued in Oklahoma and' there has been a. slight moderation in Texas? THE WEATHER. Washington." D. C Sept. 8. Un settled weather with showers tonlgh or Friday; 'cooler Friday afternoon or night, with light variable winds. 1,500 111 THE PARADE Norfolk, Va., Sept. 8. "The Old North State Forever; Hooray, Hoo ray," with shouts of "Dixie" quickly succeeding" this tribute to their native State,-the Confederate veterans of North Carolina made things Interest ng as they passed through the prin cipal streets of Norfolk in their an nual reunion parade yesterday. Slower of step than the Federal and State troops, which preceded them in the imposing pageant, they more than offset with enthusiasm their lack ' of speed and carried the day as they marched before thousands who throng ed the sidewalks from one end of the ine of march to the other to cheer the remnant of "Tar Heel" fighters-. who were "First at Bethel and Last at Appomattox." " Fifteen hundred veterans took part n the parade, and while at first it was feared that tiSear-jofv-tt-d?y would be too much for them, few were unable to complete the march. In line were half, a dozen or more aged men who lost their limbs in battle and had to walk With the aid of crude wooden pegs and sticks. A feature was the Raleigh Drum and Fife corps, who have maintained their organization since the surrender at Appomattox. The weather was perfect. With the adoption of resolutions appreciative of the hospitable manner in which the veterans were received on Virginia " soil, the reunion came to a close. A love feast" took place last night at the Cumberland Street Methodist church. . , i Serious Accident At Raleigh. Raleigh, N. C, Sept, 8. Nothing short of a miracle, it is believed, saved the life of Miss Isabelle Brown, the 14-year old daughter of Fabius B, Brown, prominent business man here, from terrible Injury .and probably death in an accident in which the big street sprinkler crashed into the bug gy. in '.fhich were Miss Brown and J.' H. Mitchell. The accident was on a r- steep incline on South street. The horse became frightened and backed on to the street car track. The horse broke away and dragged Mr. Mitchell nearly a square and the buggy, smash ed to pieces almost, was dragged a square with Miss Brown clinging he roically to the dashboard. Every one who saw the accident fully expected to find the girl dead, but she came out of the tangle uninjured. The se riousness of the accident and drag- ging of the buggy with Miss Brown so far by the car is charged, to have been due to the motorman running his car down that very dangerous grade without being under control. Mr J Mitchell was badly bruised up in the' dragging he had when the horse broke away from the buggy. Post-Season Series Is Off. Danville, Va., Sept. 8-Jrospects " of a post-season series between the new and old champions seenrgone a glim mering, "according to - Secretary Snead's talk , today. Danville will hardly have sufficient men to fill the stations. - Mayberry leaves tonight for Cleveland J Bussey is going on Satur day to'Kew York; Gaston is 'going home, and Priest will report to his new owners. " Mulllnlx was "taken - ill after the game; Murray andLRIckert will not be able to play again , this season. It looks now as if the games between the rivals will have to t called off.
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