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WEATHER Local rains arid thunder storms today and Satur-; day; light winds, mostly southerly. , The only paper In' Greensboro that has the Full Associated Press News. "The' Daily Indus trial News" prints it the day it happens. VOL. I, NO. 265 PBICE: FIVE CENTS. LAST EDITION. GEEENSBOKO, . N. C, FBI DAY, AUGUST 17, 1906 LAST EDITION. CANNON SO UNDS KE YNO TE OF CONGRESSIONAL CAMPAIGN Speaker in Accepting Nom ination for Congress at Hands of Republican Con vention of Eighteenth Illi nois District, Points to Party's Record as Reason for Maintaining it Power. in HIS PRESIDENTIAL v BOOM IS LA UNCHED Comoares Present "With Conditions Under Cleve . land; Shows Advantages of Protection; Lauds President Roosevelt and Takes Issue With Gom pers on the Labor QueS' Hon. Danville, 111., August 16. The conven tion of the Republicans of tlie Eighteenth Illinois congressional district here today renominated Hon. Joseph G. Cannon for the eighth consecutive time. There, was the greatest enthusiasm, especially over the prospective candidacy of Mr. Cannon for president. Mr. Cannon had not intended to launch a boom for president at this, convention, but the pressure of his supporters was so great as to sweep away his wishes in the matter. Mr. Cannon's supporters in his own district probably will urge the state convention to make similar indorse ment. The resolution indorsing Mr. Cannon for president was adopted amid the greatest enthusiasm. Mr. Cannon said v "The' resolution which you have just' adopted, coming as it does from those I hare represented in the national house of representatives for over thirty years, touches me profoundly. I would be less than human did I not appreciate your expression of compliment, when you mention my name with approval in con nection with the highest office in the gift of the people. I would not ex change your confidence for the gratifi cation of any ambition I might have. It is proper for me to say, however, that we are on the eve of a campaign for the election of a national house of representatives, which may involve one third of the personnel of the United States 6enate, to say nothing of the campaign in the respective states. "As you are aware, the election will be held in November next. In politics as well as in other matters, it is best not to cross a stream until you come to it. The first stream to cross is in November next and it is necessary that ' we should be successful in crossing it before we attempt to gef over the river in 1908. If in November the interests of the Republican party shall again be clothed with power in the national con gress and the first session of the Six tieth congress can succeed in making ap proximately as good a record as was made by the first session of the Fifty ninth congress, which has just come to a close, coupled with the addition of a wise administration by the chief execu tive and the impartial enforcement of the law, the party will deserve, and, in my judgment will receive the approval of the people in 1008. "It is too early to determine the per sonnel of the national ticket for the presidential election. So far as the Re- publican party is concerned it will no doubt, in convention assembled perform that duty wisely when the time comes, and whoever is chosen for leadership will surely receive the hearty support of those who believe in the policies of the Republican party, of which I am an humble member. "These policies are vital for the best interests and welfare of all the people. No man would refuse the nomination at the hands of a great party for the highest office in the republic, but such a nomination is not to be had for seek ing." . In his formal speech accepting the nomination for congress, Mr. Cannon said: , Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the 'Convention: I thonk you for this ex- firesslon of confidence and I contrratu ate you on the prosperous condition of the country under Republican ad ministration. The Republican party hug followed the teachings In the parable of the wise servant who returned to his master the talent entrusted to his care multiplied ten fold. Clothed with responsibility for the administration of the government of 8o,00Q,000 people, ve have sought to make a return that will benefit those who entrusted the talent to our care. We have succeeded In making two blades of grass grow luxuriantly tinder KepuDiican aamlnls . tratlon where one grew feebly before under the Democratic admlnlntratlon. Rlnce the election of William Me- Klnley as president, the business of the -.- country has doubled and the material Interests of all the people have become better than ever before In our history; ye, better than the condition of any people anywhere on earth In any time 5 since history began. This Is under the policies of the Republican party as en ' acted into law by congress and executed by the president. Attribute this con- " (Concluded on page 4.). C4j: :;,:ri-5 1 i" . .f-'W' ' l , J I f ' ' 'I ."Sit '1 L ii V , " 4 5 t J tf LIi lmsn- tif STILL THROWING S One Hundred and Fifty Persons Wounded In Warsaw Alone.,' St. Petersburg, August' 10. Today's dispatches from Poland are hardly less grave than those of last night. At Lodz, after the police station had been blown up and burned, Cossacks and other : troops fired : volleys into the crowds and more or less street fighting followed. The casualties are not given. At Warsaw, also, street fighting oc curred today, especially in the Jewish quarter, the revolutionitsts using bombs against the police and troops. One hun dred and fifty persons are reported to have been wounded by rifle fire and thirty by bombs. A boy threw a bomb at 9 o'clock this evening into a procession which was passing through Cholodna street, War saw, on its return from a pilgrimage to the shrine 01 the Holy Virgin at Kokit no, near Warsaw, wounding two. The explosion attracted a patrol of infan try who without warning fired a voljey, wounding thirty persons A band of revolutionists today at tacked a government alcohol store and shot and killed a clerk and wounded two other persons. The band tried to rob the cash drawer. A patrol of in fantry surrounded the house and the revolutionists ,hred from the windows, but all of them were arrested. The Polska Gazetta and the Dzvon Polska, organs of the Polish national ists, today published strong articles de nouncing the state ot anarchy which the socialists are producing in Poland. Their object, ''the papers declare, is not the attainment ot ...freedom, but the bringing about of a civil war. At Plock last night five policemen were killed and two wounded. J. he as 8as.4tis escaped. TEXAS AGAIN 10 HAVE A NATIVE EQVERNOR For Second Time In State's His tory. Man Born Therein Is Chosen. Dallas, Tex., August 10. Thomas M. Campbell, a native of Rusk, Texas, the place of nativity of former Governor James Hogg.t this afternoon was nomi nated by the Democratic party for gov ernor of Texas. He will be the second native governor of Texas. There were four candidates for the nomination and each had certain dele gates pledged by the primary law to vote as instructed on the lirst ballot. The first ballot was started last night and completed today. Judge Brooks, receiving the smallest number of votes, was dropped. ' Mr. Campbell, 0. B. Colquitt and Judge C. K. Bell were the remaining candidates. On the second ballot, the delegates were freed .from the primary 'instructions. When the roll call had been on for two and a half hours and was about one-fourth completed, Mr. Colquitt withdrew his name in favor of Colonel Campbell. When the roll was almost finished, and it was evident that Campbell would have a large ma' jority, Judge Bell withdrew hi name. BOMB POLAND JOSEPH G. CANNON, Speaker of the House of Representatives 1 DEAD; 1 two Men Overcome and Would be Rescuers Are Overpow ered by Gases. Asheville, N. C, August 16. As a re sult of a serious accident at the llans Rees Tannery, near the passenger sta tion this morning, one employe of the tannery is dead and three others are at the hospital, one of whom is not expected to live. - : The dead man is Zaney Saxton, color ed. W. S. McLain, white, is in a critical condition, while Rocket and E. W. Robin son are expected to recover. This morning it became necessary to flush one of the vats. Two of the men were sent into the vat, which contained probably two feet of fluid. They were overcome by the poisonous gases and sank to their knees. Other men hurried to tho rescue and as fast as they entered the vat were overcome. In all six men got into the poisonous hole. The foreman,- realizing the danger of going into the vat, literally drove the rescuers back. Two of the men came Out unaided. The other four were hauled out by means of a hook. All were immediately taken to tho hospital, where Saxton died shortly afterward. PRESIDENT'S SON VISITS ; HIS FATHER'S OLD RANCH Deadwood, S. D., August 18. Kermit Roosevelt, with his young friend, John Heard, arrived today for a visit with Captain Seth Bullock, United States marshal. The ''feature of the visit will be an overland7 trip by way of Belle Fourche to President Roosevelt's old ranch near Mcdora, on the Little Mis souri river. The party consists of Captain Bul loch, his son Stanley, Paul Martin, son of Congressman Martin, Kermit Roose velt and John Heard. - They will travel with a complete camping outfit'and will be gone for a week or ten days. CONVICTS GUT GUARD'S THB0AT10 ESCAPES Feign Sickness. Call for Water and Overpowers Keeper.; Charleston, S. C, August 16. Feigning illness, three negroes, Alonzo Goodwin, Hammond Wilson and' George Kenny, convicts, serving long terms on the chain gang of the sanitary and drainage 'com mission work near Ashley Junction, stop ped in the stockade today and about 2 ' o'clock having asked for water, seized and overpowered H. C. Stello,-the white guard, and cut his throat with a butcher knife. Two "trusties" at the stockade were locked in by the men who ransacked the guards' rooms, donned civilian clothes and escaped into the nearby swamps. The men, contrary to rules, were not chained in the stockade. The trusties broke out and- spread the alarm. A sheriff's posse is scouring the woods with bloodhounds. . , Mantle Aspires to Senate Again. Butte, Mont., August ' 16. Former United States Senator Lee Mantle, of Butte, today announced his candidacy I for United States senator. 1 OM T FUMES NEGRO IS LYNGHED, GQVERNOR VAINLY PLEADS WITH IB South Carolina's Chief Executive Makes Strong Speech With Frenzied Crowd. MOB CHEERS HIM AND THEN KILLS THE NEGRO Troops From the Section of State Where Violence Occurred Were Encamped at Chickamauga and No Militia Was at Hand. Columbia, S. C, August 1(1. Within the shadow of the home of liis victim, Miss Jennie Brooks, after having been identified by her, and utter Governor 1). C. Heyward, who .today went to tlis scene of the trouble 'had 'addressed the mob in vain, Rob Davis, the negro who on Monday murderously attacked' Miss Urooks, and who afterward attacked n negro girl t14 years old, was lynched about 7:30 o'clock this evening.. Gover nor Heyward reached the sreno shortly after the negro had been captured.'.: A platform was erected in a fence corner on the premises of the victim's father from which Governor Heyward addressed the mob in an efl'ort to pre vent the lynching. The governor urad the mob not'to lynch Davis, but in vJin. At the conclusion of his speech the governor was vociferously cheered. The mob then removed the prisoner from the view ot the-governor, and within a short distance of the home of his vic tim, the negro was -riddled with bullets. It is impossible to estimate tho crowd, as citizens from several counties had gathered at the scene and for two days had been in pursuit of the negro, but it is certain that hundreds of bullets were sent through his body. The militia in that section of the 3tate is now encamped at Chickaniauga and there were no nearby troopa to be galled upon, lhe dovornors (aiards and the Richland Volunteers, of this city, had been 'ordered to hold them selves in readiness in the event that their services were needed, -but the mob was' determined, and it is doubtful if the presence of Soldiers could have pre vented the lynching. Victim Identifies Negro. The mob erected a platform near the home of Miss Brooks for the governor to address them. He pleaded with the mob not to stain the fair . name of Greenwood county and the state of South Carolina. His words were cheered lustily and when he had finished the mob took-their prisoner a few hundred yards away and shot him to death, Governor Heyward viewed tho horritilo spectacle from a distance. The negro was captured in a creek, tied hand and foot, brought to his '-victim's home and identified. When they arrived at the gate of the Brooks''. homo a great crowd gathered there. "Let's wash his face, boys, before we take him into the house," said someone, but the crowd was too impatient. Four men were delegated to' escort him to the house. There the young lady lying on her bed with a deep gash in her throat, turned her eyes toward the negro as he stood there between his captors, his hand tightly tied with rope. His jet black face all in a blaze, his blear eyes rolling from right to left. "That's the scoundrel," she said, "I know him by his eyes." The negro was removed outside the house, '-where the platform had been erected for the gov ernor. 'Hoar the governor," said someone; and he began in his clear voice a most impassioned appeal. Governor Makes Plea. "I know," he said, "that nothing could (Concluded on page column 2.) - BROWNSVILLE FEARS TROUBLE WITH NEGROES Citizens Guard - of 150 Men Threatens ta Shoot if Colored Troops Leave Garrison, Houston, Tex., August 16. A special fmtn TtriMieillv Tpy. 'fifivs? . Further trouble is feared here with the negro troops. A citizens guard or im men is stationed along the road between this city and Fort Brown and if the negroes attempt to leave tho garrison it is the avowed purpose of the citizens to shoot them. Four hundred rifles were sold to citi zens yesterday. The report that the officers of the garrison are themselves afraid of the negro troops has1 determined the citizens to take no chance. Many people are leaving their homes on the side of the city near Fort Brown. . Business is nearly suspended in the city. It is thought by some that the negro raiders committed the recent acts in Brownsville in retaliation for the re ported intention of Texas militiamen to use ball cartridges in ,the event me United States permitted the negro troops to participate in the - Camp Mabry maneuvers. Adjutant-General Hulin considers it Raleigh's New Postmaster ' ' ' ' ' ' 1 .ill?-; WILLIS G. BRIGGS Who Was Yesterday Appointed Postmaster at Raleigh by President Roosevelt. Mil 01 MINER FATALLY STABBED Union Men Formerly Employed by Pittsburg Firm. Attack Men Who Displace Them. Pittsburg, August 1(1. As the remilt of a battle last night at Butler Junc tion, Pa., between union and nonunion miners, Stcf Reaway, a nonunionist, was 'fatally stabbed and Steven Moscly is missing and is supposed to have been killed. Twenty-five others were more or less seriously hurt. : About- three weeks ago the mines of the Pittsburg Plate .Class . Company were changed from Union to nonunion. At that time, an outbreak was appre hended and tho sherill and deputies' were, notified to be in readiness. There was -no trouble until last evening when about thirty nonunion miners assembled at Butler Junction and were enjoying themselves in a quiet way, when they were attacked by the men whom they supplanted at the mines. , . Sticks, stones and knives were used as the attacking weapons with the re sult that nearly every one of the non union miners sustained some kind of an injurv. Finally the assailants, re tired, and it was found"" that Reaway been fatally wounded and Moscly was missing, woven arrests ot suspects were made today, STRIKE LASTING TWO YEARS TO BE CALLED OFF MONDAY Birmingham, Ala., August 10. A special from Wylan, in the heart Of the Piatt mines district, says that pro visions wore distributed today as ii-mal to tjie striking miners, but the minors wore, informed that this would be the last distribution and that the strike at the mines of tho four big furnace companies, which ha3 been mi for two years, will be called olT next Monday. " The strike has cost the miners' or ganization over a million dollars.: 1 unwise lo send statu-troops to. Brow ns - VlllO. j WASHINGTON GETS THE OFFICIAL STORY Washington, August 16. The follow ing dispatch Was received by General Ainsworth, the military secretary, from Major Penrose, commanding the bat talion of the Twenty-fifth infantry, ne gro troops, stationed- at Fort Brown, Tex., and gives the" first official informa tion concerning the disturbance at Brownsville, which was alleged to have been caused by the presence of negro soldiers. Major Penrose was ; not in possession of all the facts when he sent the dispatch, which follows: "Reference your telegram yesterday:1 A shooting occurred in Brownsville about 12:10 morning of 14th, in which one civilian was killed and tho chief of police wounded in right arm, which had to be amputated. Believe shooting was done by enlisted men of this post, but have not' as yet been able to de- (Concluded on page 2, column i.) SPLIT AT RIO ON E General Discord Among Mem bers of Conference Having Matter in Charge. Rio de Janeiro, August .10. General difcord prevails among the members of the committee of the international con fcrence.yhnving the Drago. doctrine res olution Under consideration. : Central America, I'raguay and Colombia desire the elimination of the whole subject from the programme and Brazil, the United States and Mexico desire its recommendation to The "Hague tribunal without comment. Argentina is vocillat itn;.,- The commerce committce''s partial re port was adopted today. It recommends that an expert work out a plan for uni fying the .customs and shipping laws of Pan-America; the bureau of American republics to supply the statistics. The Pan-American railway committee is combining on a report recommending that the railway be constructed by each of the countries interested, who shall es tablish a central bureau which will transmit information and advising that a uniform gauge be decided upon. The American delegation has submit ted a report urging the adoption of Banitary precautions against yellow fever and tuberculosis and recommend ing the appointment of a Pan-American sanitary commission . MANUFACTURER SHOOTS GAS WORKS SUPERINTENDENT Birmingham, .ia., August Hi. In a personal altercation today, M. K. James, superintendent .of. the pis works of th Birmingham Railway.'-. Light and Power Company, was hhot and perhaps- fatally wounded by W. 11. Rogers, a prominent paint manufacturer. . James hit Rogers on tho head with a heavy wrench, inflicting severo in juries. Both are in the hospital. ISIS OVER EIGHJrQND TENTH Senator Chairman Not Enthu siastic About Democratic Prospects In Districts. (From Our Regular Correspondent.) Washington, D. C; August 16. Senator-Chairman Simmon's-, arrived today, lie spent several hours -at'' Democratic headquarters,-, where, he talked of. elect ing ten Democratic congressmen The senator is said to be very much con cerned 'about the result in the Eighth qnd Tonth districts, where it is recog nized that the Republicans have the best of it. . . ALLEGED MURDERESS IS NOT GOVERNOR'S NIECE. DOGTRIN New Orleans, August 16. The state ment sent out from Brookhaven, Miss., August 1.1, that Mrs. Agnes Birdsong, charged with killing Dr. Thomas 11. Butler at Monticello, Miss., is a niece of ex-Governor Longino, is entirely - un founded. She is not related to or con nected with him in any way. The man she is charged with killing was the gov ernor's nephew. i BRIGGS NAMED TMASTEH BY THE PRESIDENT Newspaper Man Is Appointed to Office at State Capital. HAS LONG BEEN ARDENT PARTY WORKER Cast First Vote For McKinley and Since That Time Has Done All In His Power to Aid Cause of Republicanism in State. -, ' Washington, August 16. Willis G. Briggs was today appointed postmaster at Raleigh, X. C. , -. Mr. Briggs will take charge Septem ber 1st. Mr. Briggs's Career. Willis Grandy Briggs, whose appoint ment by President Koosevelt to the po sition of postmaster at the North Caro lina capital was announced yesterday, is the hrst- postmaster recommended by Judge .Spencer B. Adams since his re cent election to the state chairmanship. since the postmaster at Kaleigh is the paymaster for all the rural free deliv ery carriers in the state, he is, in a measure, the head of the postal system in North Carolina. The appointee to this important posi tion is a popular and ; talented young newspaper man, who is now the city editor qf the Raleigh Evening Times. Mr. uriggs comes irom one ol the best families in Wake county. His fore fathers have lived in Raleigh since the foundation of the city. His father, Thomas H. Briggs, is a hardware mer chant and business man, the treasurer of Wake Forest College and a factor in many local corporations. Mr. isriggs was educated at wako Forest College and graduated with high honors in i the 1806 class, which num bered thirty,two young men. A com mittee from the faculty awarded him the senior oratorical medal, offered by an alumnus, Thomas Dixon, the author and lecturer. He was also first debater fiom the Euzelian society and was one of the five commencement day speakers. . Early Became a Republican. ' Although from a Democratic family, . Mr. Briggs allied himself with the Re publican party before he became of age. Ife -was strongly opposed to free silver and the theories championed by William Jennings Bryan. He reached his ma jority just in lime to cast his ballot for William Jennings .Bryan.-. He: re William McKinley and the Republican candidates in the memorable 1806 cam paign. The following winter a Repub lican daily newspaper, The Tribune, was started in Raleigh to aid United States Senator Jeter C. Pritchard in his cam paign for reelection by the 1897 legisla ture. Mr. Briggs was induced to resign the position he then held and take up newspaper work as city editor of The Tribune, although in , adopting this course he brooked the strong opposition of his intimate friends. The Tribune ceased publication after the adjournment of the legislature, which had chosen Senator Frilchard as his own successor. Mr. Briggs has since that time been continuously employed on Raleigh newspapers and as correspondent at the state capital for outside papers. He was city editor of. The Morning Post lintil November last; when it Svas con solidated with the Kaleigh ICveniug Times and he continued in the same capacity on tho latter-paper,-. He has also taken a keen interest in the study of local history and has mode some interestim; contributions along this lino to the press. Knows Many Public Men. Newspaper work at the state capital for eight years has given Mr. Briggs a personal acquaintance with practically every man in public lifo in North Caro lina. No young man in Raleigh,' it is cafe: -to say, has-n inure intimate knowl edge of the people and a wider acquaint ance iir the city and in the county. Tho new posi master is a factor in the social life of 'llulcigh. is n '.member of the Capi tal Club and holds membership in four secret orders.. . While always interested in political questions and public nien, Mr. Briggs has . not : sought, office. Judge Thomas R. Puniell appoint eil him United States jury. commissioner mid he held this posi tion for four years until a Republican -bccanie, clerk of the court, whereupon Mr. Briggs. resigned, since the law re quires that the jury commissioner and the-clerk jhall be of opposite political parties. his position' seems 'to be a mascot for it hits heretofore proven the stepping stone to. high honors. The ia te Judge Seymour was jury commissioner in this district when ap pointed to the federal -bench; Judgo Thomas R. Puriiell held, the same posi tion when ' he donned the ermine; Air. C. Thomas Bailey stepped from the of fice of jury commissioner to postmaster at Raleigh, and upon his voluntary re tirement after two terms' service, he is succeeded by Mr. Briggs, who had pre viously succeeded him as jury commis sioner. Mr. Briggs has been secretary in his precinct in several campaigns. He was a delegate from Wake to the recent Republican state convention and was made secretary of the caucus held hv the supporters of Judge Adams for th chairmanship. ; The new postmaster at Raleigh, as may be conjectured from this sketch, was strongly backed and indorsed for this position by a host of political and -personal friends and by business ia terests in this citf . , , OS . 4 t f ;'i ' . '