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..-. ""- .". r SIXTEEN PAGES WnH NOVEL SUPPLEMEHT WEATHER t . Fair and warmer today. ' Monday fair, colder. VOL. II, NO 136 IA$T EDITION. GKEEN8BOEO, K. d, SUND AY, MARCH 17, 1907. LAST EDITION. PKICE: FIVE CENTS 20 DEAD. PROPERTY LOSS SI .011,111 DUE TO FLOODS STOCK TAKES (ET President Honors Theo. H. Burton DEIEEfl LIKELY TO EHTEB THE RACE FOR PRESIDENCY ON ITS L ASPECT LEGISLiVrURE DID SAlifiOVEiOR DEFENDANT ILI CAUSES A SF IN HA TRIAL IRI NORMA Fearful Havoc Wrought By High Water In Western Penn- MANUFACTURING PLANTS ARE RESUMING WORK More Than Ten Square Miles in Pitts burg Alone Were Covered by Flood, Doing Enormous Damage Extent of ' loss Still Undetermined. Pittsburg, Pa,, March 16. After three flays of business stagnation 'caused by a remarkably rapid rise in the Mononcra hsla, Allegheny and Ohio rivers, which in undated more than ten square miles of this city, conditions nave about as Sumed their normal trend and by Mori' day, at least, i mu be possible. least, a complete resumption TM water is receding even more quickly than It rose. With the excep tton or lowlands below the eity, the water has subsided to its natural course. Since afternoon the water has fallen three feet, and by tomorrow a stage of a little over ten leet is calculated. Several mills and manufacturing es eablishments began operation tonight, and an endeavor will be made to make up for the time lost. Within two or three days it is thought all the mills will nave resumed. Loss in Pittsburg $10,000,000. The loss in the Pittsburg district is estimated at $10,000,000. Reports from up river points inorease the damage done by the flood in Western Pennsylvania at least so.ouo.ooo more. The exact number of fatalities caused by the high water has not been ascer tained. A score of persons are known - to have met death in the flood, but to day additional, reports of many deaths were received by the coroner -from sur rounding towns. The work of relief in Pittsburg, AUa- , gheny. and MdKeesport is being .carried on In axoellent shape. The councils of McKeesport appropriated $2,500 to take care of the flood victims of that city, and this amount was greatly increased br nrivate subscribers. In Pittsburg and Allegheny the charities departments! are oaring for the . sunerers. uiectric light plants were repaired today and after two days of darkness street lamps were lighted tonight. Street Car Service Resumed. " The street car service is almost in full operation with the assurance that a complete resumption will be possible by Monday. The filtration plant, Pittsburg's new waterworks now under construction at Arpinwall, a suburb valued at several million of dollars, is said to have es caped damage. It was believed the plant had been seriously crippled. River interests claim that their losses are not heavy,' although a careful ac counting will be necessary accurately to judge. Coal shipments will be made tomor row when several big tows of coal will tart South. There were about 10,000, 000 bushels of coal in the harbor dur ing the flood, but no losses are reported. DEFENSE IN BEASLEY - TO ESTABLISH ALIBI Direct Examinations of Witnesses Ended In Trial at Elizabeth City. WIFE OF ACCUSED ON STAND XHabetb C. V. C, March 16. The Oaf com in the trial of Josuah Harrison, Saraed with kidnapping and (murdering Kanewth Beasley, the nine-year-old son f State Senator 6. H. Beasley, of Cur wkner ccanty, rested today. Mr. Hamsoc, wife of I the defendant testified taat her husband was at borne fell day Monday, 4he day on which the toy disappeared. A large number of bneseea, Uetffytag to an alibi for Hairiaon, said they saw him on the two days following, and other witnesses won that the person in the buggy, seen tiding away from the sahoolhouse -with a boy, was not Harrison, nor was the boy Kenneth Bautay. " Mrs. S. M. Beasley, mother of iihs lost boy. called in rebuttal, testified thai Mi. Ben-ison srktted her -week after the boy disappeared and gave as her rea son fcr doing eo that Mr. Harrison 2d bean away all fee week. The etmci thai, adjourned until Monday moraine;. CASS AGAINST YOUNG - FAIRBANKS IS DROPPED etenbenrUle, O, March It-" diotmsat against Frederick Fairbanks, ana of Vloe-Prasident Fairbanks, accus al. Mm of ewearinc falsely to obtain fc mZm nn which he was recently mar l-a m not nrossed today by Judge gjjf- The case U.now cerea Says Legislators Earnestly Tried to 0o Duty as They Saw It, DECLARES TIME WILL Sow He Also Hopes that Railroads Won't Spoil Things By Refusing to Give New Lavs a Fair Trial and Hake Suit Necessary. . ". ' Raleigh, N. O.. March 16 5overnt.. Glenn said today that m 8 opinion the hast legislature was composed of patriotic men, who earnestly desired to do their duty as they saw it, and he believed that when all of their acts are carefully considered, that no legislature that has assembled in many years has come nearer to keeping tne pledges made the people than this one. They promised -to care for the insane, to reduce passenger and freight rates; to enlarge the powers of the corpora tion commission; to help the old sol diers, to advance the cause of educa tion, and to pass an antitrust law, and they have kept their pledge, besides do ing murfi that was very good, to which they were not pledged. The governor said that the antitrust law o much discussed, was in many re spects a good one, and would afford great protection; that 'he felt that in that it foiled to prevent unlawful agree ments to lower the price of articles that the trusts desired to buy, that it did not give to the fanners the protection that it should, but that after studying the bill carefully, ihe believed that, re enforced as it is by the common law and the Holt supplemental bill, all such violations f the law could 'be indicted, and that if any such unlawful agree ments should be found to exist in the state, he hoped it would be brought to bis attention and to Che attention ot the solicitors of th"3 various districts, to. the end that partios making such unlaw ful agreement's should be dealt with. His idea, he said, of an antitrust law was one, that would in no sense injure or cripple any person, business, or cor poration carrying on a legiumaia busi ness, but at the same time would reach every person or -Jsiness corporation un lawfully making agreements to the in jury of trade. That if people acted log ally, they would not be hurt, and if they acted illegally they deserved to be injured and should be indicted, regard less of She class to wnich they belong. Being asked if he thought the rail roads would fight the reduction of freight and passenger rates, he said he hoped they would not, that North Caro- i i t i i ..i v : . una legislation on wis ouujuct, was nut nearly as drastic as that passed by other states, and that he hoped the rail roads would at least give it a fair trial before they objected to the rates fixed, and if after giving it a lair trial it was seen and could be shown that they were greafcty injured, the people of North Carolina are just and would give them relief; 'but that if the railroads went into the courts without giving it a fair (Continued on Page Two.) IS TO RESULTOF HIS THIAL In High Spirits When Relatives Call Upon Him In the Tombs. PLANS FOR THE NINTH WEEK New York, March 16. -Attorney Dolphin M. Delmas conferred with his associates in the defense of Harry K. Thaw today, mapping out plans for the rebuttal work at the' trial, which on Monday will enter its ninth week. Ap S cation, were made today to tne ais ot-attornev's office for several addi tional subpoenas for the defense, but just whom they .were for could not be learned. ' From the plans laid today, it eeems thai the better part of next , week will be consumed by the defense, and that the case mar not bo to the jury until some time during the week beginning Monday, March as. When court convenes on Monday Mr. Jerome win present the last bit of evi dence he has for the prosecution. He will renew his request or late UTiday aft noon tost Justice Fitzgerald ad mit in evidence the photographio and carbon copies of the affidavit Evelyn Keabit Is said to have made in Abraham Hummers office. In it the young woman is said to have swprn that the stories concerning White were untrue, and'1 that Harry Thaw beat her when the told htm that there was no truth In the statement. . Justice Fltzrerald. bavins permitted Hummel and hit clerk to testify as to gT Two-l Mr. Hasty Iri-yspltal Threatened With An Attack of Pneu monia. HOPES TO BE ABLE TO ATTEND COURT MONDAY No Session of Court Yesterday and Jury is Excused Until Monday After noon Several Witnesses Return to Their Homes. J. W. Hasty, who has been on trial in United States District Court, during the last week for alleged violations of the internal "revenue -laws,, is confined to St. Leo's hospital with a severe cold, which threatens to develop into pneu monia. On 'this account there was no session of court, yesterday and the trial of the case may be delayed several days. -' .' ..-.. Mr. "Hasty had been suffering from a cold for several days, and while on the witness stand Friday morning broke down and asked the court to excuse him. This was during the .cross-examination ly air. Holton, which was not finished. He was unible to attend court Friday afternoon, but with consent of counsel four or five witnesses for the defend ant were examined. When court convened yesterday morn ing it "was announced that Mr. Hasty was not able to be present, and Judge Boyd thereupon adjourned court until Monday -morning at ten o'clock. Several of the jurors stated that they desired to go home and they were excused until to- ( morrow afternoon at twee ociock. Mr. llastv was quite sick during the day yesterday and his physician advised hintto keep quiet. He hopes to be able to eet to eourt tomorrow, but it is doubtful whether or not he will bo able to do so. He and his attorneys are (very lefirious of trying the case at tins time. and in order to do so wont ahead through two of their most important witnesses were sick. There are several witnesses for the defendants who have been summoned, but not examined. The government will probably not offer any more testimony. It is thought! that if Mr.' Hasty is able to return to court Monday the caso can be given to the jury Wednesday or Thursday. IN PANIC CAUSED BY FIRE, EIGHTEEN AT LEAST Screams For Help of Doomed Wheeling, W. Va., March 16. Eigh teen persons are known to have lost their lives in the early morning fire that occurred today at the plant of the War wick Pottery Company, which is located in the flooded district. Following is a ", partial lost of those who were drowned: Mike Bretries, aged thirty, storekeeper; Rosa Bcrtas, aged twenty-three, single; Ellis Mitchell, aged eighteen months; Allen Bertas, aged two years; Frank Holmes, watchman at tho pottery; Simon Elias, proprietor of a drygoods store; Julia Moses, aged seven years; Waider Moses, aged seven years; Charles Matthews, Watchman. Because of the water surrounding the burned district, it was impossible for the fire apparatus to reach the scene. The firemen pressed into service all the boats that could be secured and carried the lines of hose to the burning build ing in this way. The crew of a boat that was moored TWENTY BURIED IN SEWER: NONE DEAD FIVE HOSE OR LESS SERIOUSLY INJURED BY FALL OF . EARTH. Chicago, EL, March 16. Five men were injured, one of them aeriously, to day by the collapse of a -sewer in which they were working atthe intersection of Evaniton and Lawrence avenue. About twenty men ware in the aewer, when about thirty feet of it fell in upon them. The majority of the men were nenned in br the debris, and when it waa cleared away thev were found un injured. The five men who were hurt were cut1 about the head and severely braised about the body. For tint it was believed that all 6f the men who were in the sewer at the time the wall fell had been killed, and police ambulances were hurried to the scene in frantic haste, , Further Recovery From Thurs. day's Panicky Conditions Take Place. FRIDAY'S SETTLEMENT NEXT LARGEST IN HISTORY Clearing House Exchanges Rose to $678,719,315, Which Figures Have Only Once Been Exceeded in the An nals of the Exchange. . New York, March 16. There was further volatile recovery in the stock market prices today from the depres sion of Thursday's market. An over extended bear account was an influence in the ebulhency of the late iipshoot. The day's business, however, showed a very large and confident absorption of stocks going on and confidence in the situation seemed to be restored. The complexion of the bank state ment had something to do with this. Tl.o reduction of the deposit item by scaling down of loans proved sufficient to reduce the reserve requirements more than proportionately to the cash reduc tion, and so to conserve an addition to the surplus. ". The dimensions of yesterday's' money settlements are indicated by today's huge clearing house exchanges, which rose to $678J19,315. The only time this figure has ever been exceeded in.- the ' history of the Kew York clearing house!1"18 dedcided to appoint and report a . . . o lmu- ...1 ,l. i comprehensive plan for the improvement was on January .5, ltXM, when the an-1 .' . , . ' , , " , nual settlements resulted in exchanges of .$6811,844,081. Stirling exchange . rujed at yester day's level today,; indicating the -power of New York to withdraw gold from London, unless that step should be deemed impolitic Funds were more freely offered in time loans today, with the restoration of confidence, and a rise (Continued on Page Fifteen.) ARE DROWNED AT FLOODED WHEELING, W. VA. Persons Are Heard by Th msands Watching Blaze a Mile Away One Hundred Are Ferried to Safety by Men Who Decline across the river building manned I from . the burning , yawl, and rescued about 100 persons. The men were offered all kinds of re wards and big sums of money for the work they had done,' but they refused j to-accept' a '"cent.. At times the big yawl was filled to overflowing, and it was with difficulty that the rivcrmcn prevented the franctic Syrians from upsetting the craft. During the fire the scene was most frightful. The screams for help' of those in the building could be heard as far as the steel bridge, a mile north, whore thousands of porsons, unablo to lend any assistance, watched the blaze. The work of rescuing the bodies of those who were drowned has been going on all day. Tho current has been very swift, and the impression is that more bodies will ho recovered when the flood subsides. The buildings occupied by the unfortunates were not touched by the flames. No sooner had the report of the explosion occurred than people com menced leaping from the windows into the water. Not all of those who met SCISSORS, TOUR YEARS LEFT IN ABDOMINAL CAVITY AF TER OPERATION, TAKEN OUT OF THIGH. Wichita, Kan., March 16. A pair.iof five-inch surgeon's scissors were taken from the thigh of Mrs. W. B, White, of Braman, OkUu, at tiae Wichita hos pital today. She was operated on for a tumor four years ago, and the scissors were left in the abdominal cavity. The scissors worked through her body to the thigh, causing exoruuating pain. They were discovered with the aid of the X-ray. New General Agent for Mexican Central CHy of Mexico, March 16. H. J. Snyder, was appointed general agent of the Mexican Central railway today, with headquarters at an Francisco. ' ' ' j REPRESENTATIVE BURTON. TO RELIEVE RAILWAY CONGESTION BY MEANS OF RIVER BETTERMENT "JTf'ITT"1'!)'' President Appoints An Inland Waterways Commission Prepare Plans Burton Is Chair man. Washington, TV C, March 16. Com plying with petitions presented by num erous .commercial oi-jrainizations of - the Mississippi Valley, President Roosevelt united -Mates. . . Eight public men have been asked to serve on the commission and Representa tive Theodore E. Burton, p.f'.phuv. chair-, man of the rivers tind harbors commit tee in the last Congress, is to be chair man of the commission. In a letter which he has addressed to each of these persons the President sets out that he is influenced in creating the commission by broad consideration of national policy; that the railroads lore no longer able to move crops and manu- All Offers of Remuneration. death were drowned by jumping into the water. Five of them wore drowned by the upsetting of a boat that was car rying them to a place of safety. The majority of the persons living in tho vicinity of the wholesale drowning are Sj'rians, and after the fire they re fused to return to their homes. They are being taken care of in the city hall and county jail. There is scarcely a family that did not lose a member, and the survivors are frantic, WHEELING SUFFERED WORST FLOOD IN TWENTY YEARS Wheeling, W. Va., March 16. The waters of the highest flood this section Of the Ohio Valley has seen for twenty vears are receding tonight, leaving Wheeling covered with wreckage. The debris is so great that it will be days before business can be resumed. It is estimated that the damage suS' taincd in Wheeling will exceed $3,000,. 000. So great has the damage been to local industrial plant that is will be weeks before thoy will be able to re sume operations. There is a great deal of suffering and T IS COLONISTS FORCED TO FLEE FOR THEIR LIVES, LOSING THEIR BELONGINGS. Englewood, N. J., March 16. Helicon Hall, the home of Upton Sinclair's col ony, was destroyed by flre today. The blaze was preceded by an explosion which seemed to occur in the ballroom which was at the extreme end of the building from the bofler room. The flames spread with such rapidity that the fifty-are colonists had to flee for their lives without having time to save any 01 therr belongings. Home 01 the colonists were injured in jumping from windows. A workman named Briggs is said to be missing. The Sinclair cooperative colony was established last October and included a number of educator and men and woman engaged in literary pursuit. to - , . ., , , . t factures rapidly enouffh to seoure the prompt -transaction, of the 'business of the nation, and that there appears to be; hut etna rrmnlof n wimrirlv -t ho HniMkn. but one complete remedy the develop nicnt of a complementary system of transportation by water. Mr. Bankhead, of Alabama, one of the members of tne commission, ias just finished his tenth term in Congress from Alabama. The other members are General-Mockensac, chief of engineers of tihe army; F. H. Newell, director of the United States reclamation service; Cifford Pinchot, chief forester ' of the United States; Herbert K. Smith, com missioner of corporations, and W. J. MoCee. an anthropologist and geologist, formerly in charge of the bureau of American ethonology and formerly pres ident of the national geographic society. prompt steps have been taken to alle viato this. . PEOPLE ON HILLS BAKING BREAD FOR FLOOD SUFFERERS Cincinnati, O., March 16. Tho people are in direct distress, as nearly all of the groceries 111 the town have been flooded. Flour is delivered to the peo pie on the hill who are baking bread for those who have been driven irom their homes. At Portsmouth two levecs broke, lev ting the water encroach on territory not heretofore flooded. .The other levees have been weakened by the water sweep ing through'' and may also go. DEPARMNT HOPES TO IMPROVE MAIL SERVICE Tfl SOUTH CITIES New Orleans Complains That Conditions Now Arc Thor oughly Bad. Washington, D. C, March 16. Ma terial improvement in the railway mail service for New Orleans, and, incident ally, for other cities in the outh and southwest is projected by the postofflce department. Serious complaint has reached the department from business men in New Orleans both of the delay in the arrival of mail trains and in the handling of tint mails after their ar rival in th citv. Voicing this complaint. Representative Meyer, of Louisiana, in a letter to ins department, saw tnat -sixteen ouv the twenty-four trains entering New Orleans daily arrive late on an average of more than an hour, and is some eases nearly an entire day. which ha brought about a complete demoralisation of the mails, subjecting very interest in New Orleans to heavy loss." Postmaster -General Meyer said today the department had made a thorough in vestigation of the situation, end m a result it was found to be inadvisable to establish a new railway mail divis- (Continued en Pag Tw4 Called to White House for Con ference With Mr. Roose- velt. TAFT AND ILLINOIS MAN AGAINST RttD Indications Are That Governor or Sec retary Will Have the Indorsement of the Administration as Against All .-'Comers. ; . .-.affiupa-' BY JOHN E. MONK. Washington, D. C., March 16-aor-srnor Charles S. Deneen, of Illinois, had a conference at the White House this afternoon that may prove of farreach ing and important political effect. Nominally- the Illinois executive was sum moned to Washington by President Boosevelt for a consultation relative to railroad matters, but in reality it i said the prime object of the conference jwas to estafclisa friendly reiationa oe- tween the ITesldent and tne govern oa looking to Important moves on the po litical oheckerboard within the next yean. As one result, Govern an Deneen may appear in the list of candidates for the Republican presidential nomination. It has bean well known among Deneen's oleic friends that he has harbored presi dential aspirations, and that he has not looked with favor on the proposition to make Speaker Cannon the candidate from Illinois. Deneen does no took up on Cannon ss a presidential possibility 1 - M 4.1. - VMIM 9A DGCnU&e Ul VUO SUCH.! O vu.ot.www ft. " . . Ana. f 5 rilmnf. ahraild " . nnmnl:mBnt Cannon witih the t t , 'rt if it i9 not expected that . T . he will be nominated. In a word, Governor Deneen is in much the frame of mind as was the famous Texan character, who kicked a jaokrab bit out of his path with the objurga tion: 'Met out of the way, and let some one run as can run." However, Deneen has felt heretofore' that be ha not enjoyed the consideration from the national administration to wfcioh he waa entitled. His summons to Washington, it is understood, was to reassure him on that point. The covernor is regarded very favor ablv bv the President, and it was made clear to him this afternoon that the ad ministration will at least give him an even break so far as federal favors go in playing the game of politics. By no meant tne least eignincant iea ture of tho Deneen conference, however, is the fact that Secretary Taft and his brother, Charles P. Taft, of Cincinnati, were called in and presented to the gov ernor before he left the White House. It was the first time Secretary Taft had met the governor of Dlinois. All this indicates strongly that Sec retary Taftfa interests as a presidential candidate will be linked with any activ ity by Deneen that may develop laten, Deneen delegates from Illinois to the Republican national convention will be men who will vote for Secretary Taft once it is apparent that ' Deneen can not he nominated. Or, in the event Deneen does not become an active can didate himself, he will tee that his friends get on the Illinois delegation, and that, after the complimentary vote for Cannon, the delegation cannot be thrown to Fairbanks or any other candi date of the anti-Roosevelt wing of th party. -. ' . It has been hinted frequently thai Speaker Cannon's candidacy was a mere (Continued on Pago Two.) LARGEST CRUISER III THE WORLD LAUNCHES BY Bears Same Relation to Other Cruisers As Dreadnought to Battleships. London, March 18. The Indomitable, the first ot the new class of armored cruisers of which the Inflexible and the Inrvinsible are also nearing completion, and which compared with the old ar mored cruiser a th Dreadnought doe to the older battleships, wai success fully launched in the Clyde today. She i of 17,260 tons, it 660 feet long exceeding the older armored cruiser by, 60 feet, hat turbine engine and It ex pected to attain the high spaed of twen. ty-five knot an hour. Th armament of the new cruiser includes eight twelve inch guns, aim oat equaling th msix battery of th Dreadnought. By ipoial order of Ut admiralty th greatest secrecy it beingt maintained ooneenuiur th details of th eoaatruc tion of this, th largest croir in the world. The cost of tat erir Is about $8,728,000, While ostensibly a cruiser, her actual statu has act beta definitely set forth, and it H believed th ap ptoeobet nearer t a battleship in armor and armament. , - ' i
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