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-T'- Tinr ii iimh ii iimn "'n nwmmmMij i.imimwunir!i.nwam-iMUi-ii.ii niinrTu i iiw n iiir i 1 MM IMM mn u lji.mmjilllbjuill.iii awini mi i iin 1 1 tiiittii i m m mi 1 C Year, In Adranca. . " FOR GOD, FOR COUNTRY AND FOR TRUTH. " Stagta Cfy J ICesS VOL. XX. PLYMOUTH, Nr C FRIDAY cFULY 23, 1909. NO. 7. Statement Is Given Out At White House Setting Forth In Detail What The President Had To Say To Twenty-Three Members of Con gress Who Called To Protest Washington, Special. All doubt as to relieve President Taft stands with rord to the downward revision of the tariff was swept away Friday when a statement was given out at the White House setting forth in de tail what the President had to say to 23 Republican members of Congress who called to protest against. putting raw material on the free list. The President declarese that the Republican party is committed to a downward revision ; that he has nev er hcd any other idea of the Chicago platform, and that he personally has promised a downward revision to the people. This statement was interpreted in some quarters here Friday night as a direct notification to the conferees on the tariff bill that if the measure they finally agree upon does not con stitute a material reduction in spe cific duties, the President will veto it. "The President said that he was not committed to the principle of free raw material, but that he was com mitted to the principle of a down ward revision of the tariff, which he Lad promised, and that he was obliged to look at the matter, not from the standpoint of any particu lar district, but from the standpoint of responsibility for the entire Re MRS. EVELYN NESBIT THAW TELLS OF THE THREAT White Plains, N. Y., Special Har ry K. Thaw's wife, formerly the chorus girl, Evelyn Nesbifc, went on the stand here Thursday and gave damaging testimony against him. It was the strongest point scored so far by' the State in its fight to keep Thaw in the asylum for the criminal insane at Matteawan. When Thurs day's session was concluded, ad journment was taken until July 26. "Did Harry K. Thaw threaten to take your life?" she was asked di rectly by Deputy Attorney General Clarke. , The court room was hushed and Evelyn Thaw turned appealingly to Justice Mills. She begged to be al lowed not to answer because she said she knew she would incur his ever lasting animosity. But the court ruled that the only possible grounds upon which she could decline to answer were that it would tend to incriminate her, and he added that he did not see how that would be applicable to her sit uation. - " Yes, he did," she said in a low voice. "What were his exact words?" demanded Mr. Clarke. "He said: 'When I get out of here I suppose I will have to kill you.' " EIGHTEEN MEET THEIR DEATH WHEN WALLS CRASH Philadelphia, Special. Eighteen persons were killed in the collapse of the Archambault Building, at Eleventh and Market n streets, at 1 o'clock Thursday afternoon. At 2 o'clock ten bodies had been taken from the ruins, and twenty of the seriously injured- had been re moved to hispitals. It is believed there are at least fifteen or twenty other persons in the 'ruins. Policemen and firemen were work ing like beavers in their attempt to " tear down the debris. Ropes, with block and tackle, are employed in the endeavor to get under the ruins and raise the mass of wreckage from the bodies of the victims. With the exception of Peter Fritz, foreman of the workmen, who was THE BOLL WEEVIL AND BAD Yew York, Special. One of the most remarkable breaks in the his tory of the New York cotton market occurred Friday as a result' of. a spe cial report on the boll weevil situa tion by the government entomologist, Dr. Hunter. At the end of the decline cotton for new crop delivery was sell TO ISSUE $40,C00,0C0.CO BONDS FOR. PANAMA CANAL Washington, Special. Congress will be asked at the instance of Pres ident Taft to authorize the issuance of bonds to the extent of the latest estimate of the cost of the Panama canal. This issue would be' in lieu of that proposed in the rider to the Payne tariff bill (stricken out in the Senate) authorizing the issuance of $40,000,000 in bonds to reimburse the general fund of the treasury for the purchase of the canal property This decision was reacnea inurs dav i a luncheon conf erenea at the publican party. He said the ques tion in each case was a question of fact to be determined by evidence, as to whether the present duty was needed for protection or whether the rate was excessive, ' so that a downward revision or putting the article on the free list , would not injury the in dustry. "lie repeated the platform of the Republican party and said he had al ways understood that it meant a dowward revision in many instances, though perhaps in some few instances an increase might be needed; that he reached this construction of the plat form on what he understood to be the principle of protection and its Trusti fication, namely, that after an indus try was protected by a duty equal to the difference between the cost or production abroad and the cost in this country, including a fair profit to the manufacturer, the en ergy and enterprise of American bus iness men and capitalists, the effec tiveness of Amercian labor and the ingenuity of American inventors un der the impulse of competition be hind the tariff wall, would reduce the cost of production, and that, with the reduction and the cost of production the tariff rate would become unnec essarily high and ought to be reduced. "Why did he say that?'' "We were discussing his mental condition. I had asked him what he meant, and he said: 'You know I was not crazy on the night that I shot white.' I asked him again and he said: 'You . know that I missed White by two minutes on the day be fore.' " Thaw, when asked about his wife's testimony after court, said he was not surprised at her attitude but de nied that he ever threatened her life. Before leaving White Plains Thurs day night, Evelyn Thaw said: "If the Thaw family had done the right thing by me I would never have taken the stand to testify against my husband. But they wouldn't guar antee me the allowance I asked for. "I must go out and get a living some how. I can't go back to the stage. My notoriety would prohibit that. I will try to get work as a : model. I can do it, too, I am sure. "Often I feel sorry I ever saw the ( stage at all. . As a model I can be a good girl and earn enough to keep me. I can hope for nothing from my husband's family. "I don't know whether or not my husband will harm me if he is re leased. He has made one threat, though, and that has terrified me." identified by a numbered tag, none of the dead at the morgue had been identified up to a late hour in the afternoon. All are horribly crushed, making identification difficult. With a crash that could be heard for blocks, the walls of the building which is being renovated by the United Gas Improvement Company, fell, carrying with them ten work men who had just returned to work from the noon hour, and burying a score or more pedestrians who were passing through tho busy thorough fare. When the huge cloud dust rose, the bricks and mortar were seen piled in the streets as far out as the car tracks, a mass twentv feet high. Un derneath the ruins could be heard the groans and shrieks of those who had been imprisoned. SEASON SCARE SUBSIDES ing at $2 a bale less than the closing price on Thursday. The break was marked by panicky liquidation and excitement seldom equaled except in times of complete demoralization. Within half an hour prices declined fully 35 points; and while the market recovered a few points of the loss, the close was bare ly steady. White House in which President Taft, Senator Aldrich, Chairman Payne, of the House ways and means committee, Secretary of the Treas ury MacVeah and Assistant Secre tary Norton participated. The Goethals' estimate of $397, 000,000 as the cost of the canal com plete, was used as a basis for the proposed bond issue.. The Secretary of the Treasury would be empowered to issue the bonds from time to time as the mon ey is needed, at interest not to ex- ceed 3 per cent. MRS. HAYES DEAD Last of Family of the President oi the Confederate .States Succumbs to Combination of ' Diseases Suc ceeded Her Younger Sister as "Daughter of the Confederacy." Colorado Springs, Col., Special. Mrs. J. Addison Hayes, daughter of Jefferson Davis, President of the Con federacy, died Sunday night at her home after an illness of six months. Mrs. Haj'es, 54 years old, was the wife of J. Addison Hayes, president of the First National Bank of Colo rado Springs. Friends throughout the country had gained the impression that Mrs. Hayes suffered from cancer, but the cause of her death was announced by at tending physicians as a complication of diseases. Mrs. Hayes, the last of the family of the only President of the Confed eracy, after the death' of her sister, Miss Winnie Davis, in New York city, made a trip through the South a few years ago, when she was made the "Daughter of the Confederacy" in. her sister's stead. Her mother, widow of the Southern President, died in New York about two years ago. Mrs. Hayes is survived by two sons, Jefferson Hayes Davis and William Hayes, and two daughters, Lucy Hayes and Mrs. Virginia Webb, wife of Dr. Gerald B. Webb, of Colorado Springs. Jefferson Hayes Davis bears the name of his grandfather through a special act of the Legislature. It is expected that official notice of her death will be given at once by the heads of the various Confederate organizations of the South, and a fit ting tribute paid by them to her memory. Only a short time ago, Mrs. W. J. Behan, of New Orleans, one of the leaders of the Daughters of the Con federacy, received a letter from Mrs. Hayes, thanking the former for her efforts to bring, about the restoration on Cabin John Bridge, near Washing ton of the name of Mr. Davis, which had been chiseled off after his acces sion to the presidency of the Con federac.y. Motor Cycle Spreads Death. Berlin, By Cable Four persons were killed, more than twenty seriously injured, and a dozen others slightly, injured as the result of the explosion of a motor cycle, and a fire which followed it, during a cycle race at the old botanic gardens Sunday evening. Thousands of spectators had gathered around the track which was opened for the first time a few days ago. During an endurance race, the tire of one of the pacemakers' motor cy cle burst and the rider lost control The benzine exploded in a burst of flame and the machine leaped into the air. The rider was thrown off and fell against other competitors. So teriffic was the speed of the mo tor cycle that it continued on its course after the explosion, crashing ininto the public stand, hurling specta tors right and left, and setting on fire several women's dresses. Two women were instantly killed and their bodies, satuated with flaming ben zine, were burned to cinders. The wooden stand caught fire, and the flames flashed in the. faces of by standers, who, with clothing ablaze rushed about shrieking with pain and fear. A panic ensued, in which a great number of persons, including children, were badly trampled. Eighteen men and four women were seriously injured, two of the men having since died, he hospital sur geons say-that several others are in a hopeless condition. Big Fire at Rocky Mount. Rocky Mount, Special. Fire was discovered in a room on the sec ond floor of the Hammond Hotel Saturday morning at 4 o'clock. The building was crowded, containing about 100 guests. Rare presence of mind caused the opening of a tap on the third floor by the first fireman who reached the burning building. This preserved the stairway until the third floor occupants could hurry from the building in their night clothes. The loss is reported at about $20, 000 on the building, without insur ance; furnishings about $3,500, part ly insured. Sixteen Perish in Water. New York, Special. Sixteen per sons, five of them women, met death by drowning in the waters either sur rounding or in the vicinity of New York Sunday. Ten of the victims per ished after the capsizing of the ex cursion sloop Koxana, carrying 22 passengers, which was struck by a sudden squall in lower New York bay, midway between Coney Island Point and Hoffman Island, late Sun day afternoon. Of the survivors, one woman, Mrs. C. Knudson, of Brook lyn, is in such a serious condition that she probably will die. Her two daughters were drowned. POWER PLANT SOLD The Property of Rockingham Power Co. Disposed Of. TO BE PUSHED TO COMPLETION. If the Court Approves' the Sale Plant Will Be Pushed to Immediate Com pletionWill Furnish Thirty Thou sand Horse-Power Undertaking, Which Began , So Auspiciously Handicapped by Continual Litiga tion History of the Enterprise. Wadesboro, Special. The entire plant and all property of the Rock ingham Power Company now building a hydro-electric power plant at Blew etts Falls, on Pee Dee river, was sold by order of the United States Circuit Court at noon Wednesday. Commis sioner W. A. Leland conducted the sale and announced that only one qualified bidder was present. D. H. Thomas, representing the bondhold ers, deposited $100,000 in bonds and bid in the property for $1,000,000. The proposed plant will furnish when completed, thirty thousand horse power and many transmission lines to towns in the two Carolinas have been contracted for and work was in progress on several when litigation commenced. It is generally under stood that if the court approves this sale that the plant will be pushed to immediate completion. The Rockingham Power Company was organized for the purpose of de-. veloping hydro-electric power at Blewetts Falls on the Pee Dee river, fifteen miles east of Wadesboro. Large tracts of land were purchased and work begun three years ago. The work was pushed rapidly until the fall of 1908, when the panic caused the failure of the Knickerbocker Trust Company, of New York City, which corporation was furnishing the neeessany capital for the work. The suspension of this company stopped work for a time but arrangements were made and the work re-begun. Then some months later the litigation between rivarl interests caused an other suspension and finally resulted in the orclsr of sale upon the applica tion of the S. Morgan Smith Com pany, who hold a claim of $83,301.79 for machinery and materials. The work which has been done has cost more than two millions of dol lars and it is estimated that it will take about half of that amount to complete the plant. The Wilmington firm of Hugh McRae & Company hold bonds to the amount of $310,000 and are the largest subscribers to the bonds of the company. That Womanly Devotion. Blairsville, Pa., Special. Clasping her 12-year-old boy to her heart and with the tears streaming down her cheeks, Mrs. L. Cora Miller, wife of Dr. W. L. Miller, now being held on a charge of killing J. B. Sayler last Sunday night, told her story of the affair Wednesday- "I have known of my husband's intimacy with this wo man for two years, and, like Mr. Say ler, rather than let the world put shame on my boy, I kept slient. I plead with this woman to let my hus band return to his family and was laughed at. For two years Mrs. Say ler ran after mp husband and turned him away from his family. I love him still and stand ready to go to him. I left Crescent City only last Wednesday a week ago and thought that if I stayed here quietly with my mother, perhaps my husband would miss me and want me back. The doctor's business affairs are tangled. However, I will stand by him to the last for I love him bet ter than I do my life." New German Chancellor. Berlin, By Cable. Dr. Von Beth mann Hollwisr, Vice Chancellor of the German Empire, was formally install ed in the ofTk-e of Chancellor Wednes day succeeding Prince" Von Buelow, retired. The Kaiser took farewell of the former in the palace and shortly afterwards received the new Chancel lor and they walked together in the imperial gardens while crowds on the outside looked on and cheered. Aid Ficht on Tubeculods. Atlanta, Ga., Special. The Nation al Association of Bill rosters voted this afternoon in convention to do nate to the anli-tuberculosis fight $1, 200,000 worth of publicity. This means that all over tho United States and Canada they will give not only space upon till boards, but the labor of posting as well, to hints and cau tions to those -who have, or may be exposed to, the white plaeuc. On the heels of this generous offer, the Pos ter Printers Association donated $200,000 worth of work upon paper to be printed for the campaign. ella gingkucquitted Jury That Frees Irish Lace Maker Says That the Charges Against Miss Agnes Barrette Are Without Foundation. Chicago, Special Ella Gingles was cleared Monday night of the charge of stealing lace from Miss Agnes Bar rette, her former employer, but the story she told on the witness stand to the effect that an attempt was made to force her into white slavery was denounced as untrue by the jury that freed her. The verdict was as follows : "We, the jury, find the defendant not guilty and we, the jury, further find that the charges made against Miss Barrette were unfounded and are untrue." The basis of the defense made by Miss Gingles' counsel was that Mis3 Barrette and others had attacked her and mistreated her in the Wellington Hotel on two occasions last winter, and that the object of these attacks and of the theft charge was to force her to be sold to an unnamed man in French Lick Springs, Ind. Miss Gingles shook hands with, the jurors. Juror Thomas Mackey, the oldest man on the panel, said: "Now, be a good girl, Ella. Go back to your home in Ireland and be a good girl." The girl nodded her head and turn ed away. ' . It was annaunced by Assistant State's Attorney Furthman that the question of whether indictments for perjury would be asked against Miss Gingles would be taken up later. Instructing the jury, Judge Breti tano said that the girl's story of tor ture in the Wellington Hotel was to be legarded by the jurors as a tc.it of the credibility of the defendant's testimony. At one time the taking of pertin ent evidence was halted long enough to give Thomas Taggart, of Indiana, iormer chairman of the Democratic rational committee, an opportunity to declare from the witness si and that he had no knowledge of Ella Gingles, save what he had read in the newspapers. His name had been men tioned by Ella Gingles as one which was spoken while she was subjected to the imaginary abuse at the hotel. Announce Mrs. Hayes Death. New Orleans, Special. Official an nouncement of the death of Mrs. J. Addison Hayes, the last surviving child'of President Jefferson Davis, of the Confederate States of America, was made to the United Confederate Veterans in a general order issued Monday afternoon from the head quarters of that organization in this city. The order, issued by command of Gen. Clement A. Evans, commander-in-chief, is as follows: "With extreme sorrow the general commanding makes official announce ment of the death of the last mem ber of the immediate household of Jefferson Davis, our beloved and only President. Mrs. J. Addison (Marga ret Davis) Hayes, died at 'her home in Colorado Springs late Sunday af ternoon. "Like her distinguished mother, Mrs. Hayes did not enjoy the 'best of health and was on this account de nied the pleasure of attending the reunions of the U. C. V. to the same extent as her charming sister 'Win nie.' Yet she was often able to be present at these annual gatherings, and the 'boys' of the Confederate armies ever greeted her with that hearty affection that they felt for her immortal father. "Gifted in mind, charming in man ner, winning in behavior, she won the affections of all who knew her in timately. She will long be remem bered by all the members of this or der." The body of Mrs. Hayes was cre mated at the Riverside preamatorv, Denver, Colo., Monday afternoon. The cremation was private and an effort was made to keep it n secret. French Aviator Fails. Calais, Special. Herbert Latham, the French aviator, made a daring but unsuccessful attempt to cross the English channel in his monoplane Monday morning. He got away splendidly under perfect conditions, for the top of the chalk cliffe at San gatte, and had covered over half the distance at an average height, of 500 fept when the motor slowed down and he was obliged to descend. Appeal for Missionaries. Boston, -Special. An appeal to President Taft in behalf of the Rev. Dr. William Morrison and the Rev. W. B. Shcppard, the American mis sionaries in the Congo region, whose trial fcr alleged "cahiminous denun ciation" of officers of the Kasai Com pany, a commercial organization ope rating near the mission station at Lucbo, is to bo held at Leopoldvilie, July 30, has been prepared by the Swiss League. for the defense of Con go natives. The appeal characterizes the treatment of the missionaries as "persecution." NEWS IN BRIEF Items of Interest Gathered By Wire and Cable GLEANINGS FROM DAY TO DAY Live Items Covering Events of Mor or Less Interest at Heme ajul Abroad. John W. Hodges and Rufws Lu cas, well-to-do farmers, at Oliver, Ga., fought an impromptu duel last Saturday over a trivial affair, result ing in the death of Hodges and the fatal wounding of Lucas. John D. Roekefellow has recently added $10,000,000 to his former gifts of $42,000,000 to the General Educational Board. Arne Boerner, a Belgian, offers to build for the United States govern ment an airship that will carry 200) men a distance of 3,000 miles with out landing. He figures the cost of the trip at $600,000 but will build it unaided if the government will pay him $1,200,000 for it when conditions are fully met. Herman Wilcox of Chicago, not knowing that Good Time lake near Pensacola, Fla., contained aligators, went swimming in its waters last week. Four days later his bones were found. The aligators had de voured him. Miss Lois Campbell traveling with her father, the president of the "Frisco" system, in a condition of somnambulatism rose from her berth and walked off of the coach that was running 40 miles an hour early last Friday. When she came to from the shock she found heself alone on the prairie. " She fortun ately had on a skirt that had some red and flagged a freight train. . By this time all train crews were run ning slow along that part of the road looking for her. When the freight arrived at Sweetwater, she saw her distressed father on the plat form and surprised him by her ca resses. State Auditor Kenehan, of Colo rado docks the salary of Governor and all other State officials for the time they are out of the State. He goes further and makes out bills against former officers for the time of absence which was not docked by his predecessors. The German Reichstag has com pleted the tax law which provide higher rates on tobacco, beer, tea, and eoffee and imposes a stamp tar on checks. Two hundred and fifty-one Ameri can wood pulp mills in 1908 con sumed 3,346,106 cords of wood val ued at $28,000,000. "Petrol Butter" is the latest pro duction of the Standard Oil Compa ny. Its color is brown and it does not get rancid from age. Wyatt H. Ingram, Jr., a New Or leans banker, just married, has been arrested on charges of being a de faulter to the extent of $100,000. A big cave near . Mason town, ; W Va., is being explored and 250 per sons who went in Sunday did not see it all. The tunnels of the Pennsylvania Railroad under the Hudson river and . Berge Hill to New York city are finished and the work of electrifi cation and tracklaying will begin at once. About Governenr, N. Y., Jast Sun day there was a heavy storm that dropped young frogs. Pedestrians could scarcely proceed on, the side walks and the frogs lay so ihick on the railroad track that the wheels slipped with the slimy mash. Bristol, Va., went "wet" by 32 votes in -the late election but the Virginia law forbids issuing license v to any b'.it qualified voters of the county. There will be some business, disappointments. Washington News Note3. William J. Bryan has written to President Taft urging him to allow popular vote for Senators. The Cabinet decided upon the new form of the corporation income tax Tuesday. President Taft has the use of the trowel and at a corner-stone laying recently spread morter for about 15 minutes. Chairman Payne is standing firmly for the lower House rates in the tar iff conference. Mr, Taft last Saturday reassured Senators Taylor and Frazier in re gard to census appointments in the South. Summoning Thursday Aldrich and Payne to the White House Thursday, tho President insisted upon the re tention of the corporation tax. President Taft spoke last Satur day nt the laying of the corner stone of Ingram Memorial Congregational Church which is to have a swimming pool, gymnasium, bewluis Jlejr and club rooms.
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