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I.- ( .1 WEATHER i Clear and cold today and Monday, -. SIXTEEN PAGES WITH NOVEL SUPPLEMENT VOL. H, NO 159 LAST EDITION. GB EENSBORO v X O., SUNDAY, APRIL 14, 1907. LAST EDITION. PRICE: FIVE CENTS -1 nCAROLlIS Dan Chamberlain Succumbs to Cancer of Stomach at Charlottesville. OFFICIAL ACTS WON REGARD OF BOTH PARTIES Kef used to Recognize Election of Gen eral Hampton as Governor and Held Executive Mansion With Federal Bay onet Wat Seventy-Two Years Old. Charlotteiville, Va., April 13. Dan Chamberlain, who was governor of South Carolina during , the turbulent timet immediately following the recon struction era, died at the home of Wil liam C. Chamberlain, near the Univer sity of Virginia. He was taken ill of cancer of the stomach last fall upon his return from a- pleasure trip to Egypt. He had re cently disposed of his properties in Mas sachusetts with a view to locating in Virginia. He was a graduate of Tale and of Harvard law school, and was seventy two years old. CAREER OF CHAMbERLAIN . AS SOUTHERN GOVERNOR ' Charleston, S. O., April 13. Daniel H. Chamberlain waa born in West Brookfleld, Mass., June 23, 1855, grad uated from Yale in 1862, and a year later from, the Harvard law school. En tering the army as a lieutenant of a negro cavalry troop, he saw service in several states, and at the end of hostil ities was captain. He earns to South Carolina in 1868 as a planter, but soon gave his attention to politics, being a delegate to the state eenstitational convention in 1868 and ' becoming attorney-general the same rr. Retiring from this office in 1872 took vp the practice of law at Co lumbia. In 1875 he was elected gover nor by the Republicans. .While governor. Chamberlain made an earnest effort to give a decent, orderly government, bending his efforts to pre- - (Continued on Page Two.) : : I testifies juror ms Identifies Utter Which Lead to Exchange of Statements by President and Himself. PROSECUTION COMPLETED New York, April 13. E. H. Harriman appeared in the Tombs police court to day as a witness against Frank W. Hill, bis former stenographer who is charged with having sold for publication the fa j nous Sidney Webster letter written by Mr. Harriman. The publication of this letter led to an exchange of statements between President Roossvelt and Mr. Harriman. '; 8amuel B. Ranck, a newspaper man, and Walter L. Rathbons, a lawyer, tes titled that HiU called at a certain news. paper office in this city and offered the fetter for sals, that he read the letter from his stenographic notes in their presence and then swore. under oath as to the authenticity ol tne transcript. When Mr. Harriman was called to the stand he Identified the Sidney Webster ', letter and it was placed in evidence. "Did you ever authorise the publics' tion of this letter!" he was asked. No." . ,Did yon ever give permission to let tne latter go out oi your racer "No. sir Mr. Harriman said that Hill had been formerly in his employ, but had been discharged Sams months neiore tne pun . Ueatios f tka letter. STATE'S HEW BOARD OF PBJ3K2P1S ; UTT , TO , EXAMINE AND LICENSE PBACTI- . . , HONS. - Rilelgh, 2T. C April 13-The state board of osteopathy, recently . created bf legislative act, organised hers today mm Vr. W, p. Moaehaav AshevMe, f resident; A. R. Tockar, Durham, eeeretaxyi Dr. (H, C, Rky, Charlotte. rMsv."';' w.f."";:r'-t '-. '.' -".'..;.' r of fhe principal duties of ! the ' l'wi3be'te examine and license . ,-.( 'm9 ft ' -wi to ptiee ANOTHER VAUTARE SUSPECT CROPS UP NEAR UNION Man Said to Be S. A. Ward. Sus. pected ol Being Palmist. Seen. WILL SEEK TO HOLD MAN, FOR GREENSBORO POLICE Man Answering to Description of Palm ist Who "Did" Women of this City, Spends Day With Negroes Near South '. Carolina City. Special to Daily Industrial News. Union, S. C, April 13. A telephone special from Mt. Tabor, ten miles east of here, today, says that a man closely resembling the description of S. A. Ward who was - suspected at least of being Earl Vautare, who it is alleged relieved Greensboro women of valuables to a large amount, was in that community and acting in a very suspicious manner Thursday and yesterday. The only difference in the man's de scription as described by those who saw him here, is that he had a black or brown mustache and hair. ' The first prson, as far as is known, who saw him around there was Pete Sims, a negro, who very early Thurs day morning saw him in some pines around Mt. Tabor Presbyterian church. Suspicious Actions. The stranger Called to Pete to come to him, but the negro would not do so. When the man, after asking if he thought anyone would bother his horse, which was a poor looking black animal hitched to a top buggy, finally came to the. road, and after talking with Pete, they drove to Pete's house, where the stranger got some eggs and meat. He then went into some pines in the rear of the negro's home, and remained there all nay. That evening he went to the home of another negro named George McMahon, where he got some supper. While eating some of the family came in, when the stranger seemed very much startled and asked quickly who it was. After eating he went to his buggy, and it is stated slept in it all night.. (Continued on Psge Two.) DEMOCRATS OF NATION CELEBRATE BIRTHDAY OF THOMAS JEFFERSON Societies and Clubs In All Parts of the Country Honor the Former Leader New New York, April 18. Democratic so cieties and club's in all parts of Greater New York tonight celebrated "Jefferson Cay." The Democratic Club ueld its an nual banquet at 'the Waldorf-Astoria, the Woman's Democratic Club of the city met at the Hoffman house,; the In dependence League had as its guests William R. Hearst and Attorney -Gen eral Jackson. The principal speaker at the Demo cratic Club's banquet was Senator Ray ner, of Maryland. Ho responded to the toast i "What should be the proper policy of the Democratic party and -what is true Democracy!" Former Supreme Court Justice Mor gan J. O'Brien presided. Col. ueorge a. jm. Harvey - in tne course of an address, denounced those Democrats "who eat the. crumbs of pat ronage from the hand that smooths them and Uck the boot whose impact they have felt." He referred also to the "peerless leader" who hobbles like a cripple in the wake of his success! ul rival, garn ering as he goes the few soraps that are left of his own fallacies." He said the President's policy had already caused the abandonment of large commercial undertakings . that everv one that had anything at stake "thank God in their hearts for the promise to forego a third term and de 7 PRISONERS KILLED GUARDS FORCED TO FIRE ON IN ; MATES OF RIGA INSTI TUTION. Riga, Russia, April 13. There was serious ; mutiny in the prison today. Thirty-three Inmates attacked and over came the superintendent and the "war dens of the establishment. Troops were summoned and they tired, killing seven of the mutineers and wounding twelve. ' Nine eoWiefs attained wounds in the affray, which "lasted one hour. : The su r.rintndent of the prison was badly J A FOUNOuUIlM T U. S. Circuit Court at Chicago Finds Trust Culpable on 1 463 Counts. IS LIABLE TO A FINE OF $29,260,000 IN ALL Pending New Trial Application for Which Will be Made Immediately, No Penalty Will be Fixed by the Court in - the Case. Chicago, April 13. The Standard Oil Company, of Indiana, which has been on trial for six weeks before Judge K. M. Landis, of the United States Dis trict Court, tonight was found guilty on 1,463 counts of receiving rebates from the Chicago and Alton railroad on ship ments of oil from Whiting, Ind., to East St. Louis, 111. There were origin ally 1,903 counts in the ' indictments, 440 counts failing on errors. If the verdict is sustained, the oil company is liable to a maximum fine of 129,260,000, as the . Elkins law, which the indictment charged the company with violating, provides a fine of $1,000 to $20,000 for each offense. Pending a new .trial, which John S. Miller, chief coun sel tor tne aeiense, announcea wouia be. made immediately, no penalty will be fixed by the court. Each count rolated to a carload shipment. When the case came to trial, the at torneys for the defense endeavored to have all the counts m the indictment thrown out on technicalities, but the court ordered that each count be taken up and considered separately, which was doner The 440 counts in which er rors were found were dropped. The defense then put all its efforts toward proving that they '.were unaware of the fact that the six cent rate had not been filed with the interstate commerce commission as provided by the Elkins law. . : Evidence was offered by the govern ment showing that it was the duty of the company's officers to see whether the rate was in the hands of the inter state commerce commission. Rayner Speaks In York. voutly stay through with no little mis givings for the keeping of the pledge." BRYAN SPEAKS AT UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA Charlottesville, Va., :: April 13. The chief event of Founder's Day at the University of Virginia, was the visit and address of William J. Bryan. He -was the guest of Dr. C W. Kent, with whom he and Judge Duke drove to Monticello. This evening Mr. Bryan was greeted by a great audience in Cabell hall and spoke for nearly two hours. He discussed Thomas Jefferson and his political philosophy and incidental ly put it in vivid contrast with Hamil ton's. The vice in Hamilton's plans, he said, was lack of sympathy with the people at large and his unwillingness to trust tnem. oenerson, for his day, (Continued on Page Two.) GOLD INJURES FfiUlT IN WEST AND SOUTH REPORTS FROM , TENNESSEE, OHIO AND KANSAS, TELL OF DAM AGED CROPS. Nashville, Tenn., April 13. Snow has been falling here for several hours. The thermometer , registers at the freezing point. Advices from Mouths rn Ken tucky and north Alabama indicate that early fruit has been killed by the snow and oold. Columbus, O., April 13. Reports from farmers iln central Ohio are "that the fruit crop has been badly damaged by the cold -weather of last night. Today it snowed and a freese tonight is -predicted. - ::':'.',.,;-.-' i-.r ---.'.'..' v ;"v.'- '".'t Wiohita, - Kan., ' April !.13.-Small and large fruit and 'garden in Kansas Were injured last night by, frost, .. It if fce- STANDARD KING SOOTH'S RICHEST MEN NDIGTED PART IN LOTTERY Five Men Worth In All $100,000, 000 Held for Share In Hon duras Came. MANY ARE APPREHENDED AND GIVE THEIR BOND Remarkable Haul Made on Charge of Alleged Conspiracy to Defeat Lottery Laws Several of Men Indicted Sur render Themselves. Mobile, Ala., April 13 A federal grand jury today issued twenty-four in dictments for alleged conspiracy in vio lating the lottery; 'law. The following havo been arrested, ami have given bond, among them .being a number of millionaires of New Orleans, Los An geles, Boston and other places: Albert Baldwiu, Sr., president, of the New Orleans National Bank; Chapman H-yams; Frank T. Howard, receiver of the New Orleans waterworks; David Hennen Morris, Albert Hennen Morris, r.uwara ii. Jfcnnac, Lewis S. Graham, Paul Conrad, William P. Johnstone, C. W. Bredow, James Kea. E. J. Dcmares, W. F. Demarst and John M. Demarst, all of New Orleans; Robert K. Thomp son, Mobile, Ala.; William C. Hender son, Harry W. Henderson, formerly liv ing In Brooklyn, N. Y., but now resi dents of New Orleans; Francis Fitzpat rick, Boston; James L. Shaw, Washing ton ; Gen. William L. Cobell, Dallas. United States District-Attorney W. H. Armbrecht refused to give the names ol the others indicted until they should be arrested. Five of those indicted are estimated to be worth $100,000,000. Three hours after the indictments wcro issued by the' grand jury yesterday, tlm parties were under arrest and .allowed to give bonds. Francis X. Fitzpatrick, of Boston, pleaded guilty today and sentence will be passed the fourth Monday in May. New Orleans. April 13.-Mr. Baldwin and Mr. Ilyama immediately on hearing ot tne irinii'tments returned against them at Mobile, surrendered to an of ficer and appeared before United State Commissioner Chiapella. Both pleaded not guilty, waived examination and wero released on $10,000 bonds to ap pear at the court at Mobile. Mr. Baldwin in speaking of the lot tery company, said for himself and Mr. Hyams: "We do not own a share of stock in it and we do not know a thing about the matter." The indictments grew out of a recent raid by the federal authorities on the Mobile office of the Honduras Lotterj Company. Mr. Baldwin is commodore of the Southern Yacht Club and is one of the wealthiest and' most prominent elMjens A Hem VUim. . MICHIGAN SPLITS WITH OTHER WESTERN COLLEGES Chicago, 111., April 13. All athletic relations between the University of Michigan and the other colleges compos ing the Western Athlctio College Con ference (Big Nine) 'were severed todav because t of the indisposition of Michi gan to observe the rules of the confer ence adopted at the close of the foot ball season of 190o, limiting the time of athletes to three years and the number of football games to not more than flve.-. ' COMMISSIONER YERKES QUITS FEDERAL SERVICE Washington. D. C, April 13. John W. Yerkes, commissioner of internal reve nue, has resigned and his resignation has been accepted by the President. lie leaves the service of the government to enter the practice of the law. : His successor has not been named. FORTY-SECOND ANNIVERSARY OF OF BURNING OF CITY RECALLED BY MANY. Special to Daily Industrial News. . Salisbury, N. C, April 13. These days are marking the forty -second anni versary of the Stoneman raid and yes terday was the date of the burning of Salisbury, a circumstance .recalled . by many people living here, then and now. Capt. John A. Ramsy first brought the news of the surrender of General Lee riding all. the way on horseback from Appomattox to Salisbury, and actually sleeping in the saddle. This town once appeared completely doomed, but only half of it -was consumed by fire, other buildings and institutions being "shot up", but not burned. The confederate arsenal and the Southern station were fired. , ' .--' .There were many prayers yesterday, not ha.t Stoneman would annear. but thai a portion of history would repeat itself, in other : words.' a new - tatton ' - 1 1 built,;: i:(Vvi.rt'-,v;-',,'y - YO UNG NESBITSA YS HE LIED FOR SAKE OF THAW'S VICTIM Letter Written to Prisoner By His Wife's Brother Made Public by Former's Attorneys Declares He "Thought It Would Be He roic to Stand by Man Whose Memory Was So Precious." Application for Thaw's Re lease to Be Made By His Lawyers, Which Applica tion Jerome Will Fight to the End, He Declares. Family of Young Man Ready to Pay Any Amount For Freedom. New York, April 13. Setting at rest all --rumors lis to their present inten tions, J. Russell Pcabodv, associated with Dolphin Jl. Delma, chief counsel lor Harry a. -maw, said. -today,- after a forty-five minute conference with the prisoner, that an application for Thaw's release on bail would be made. He de clined to go into details regarding this action. There -were various rumors during to day that habeas corpus proceedings might bo brought, and it was reported that Thaw's family stands ready to fur nish bail in almost any amount to se cure the young mans release. District-Attornoy Jerome announced that he would make a strong light against the granting of bail to the pris oner, and added to this statement that he intended to prosecute him for mur der in the first degree, this latter asser tion coming in reply to a suggestion that he had compromised with the de fendant's counsel on a plea of insanity and would agree to send Thaw to Mat teawan. The next interesting development of the day came when Mr. Pcabody left inaw alter a late visit and said in re ply to questions as to the stories that Ihaiw had changed his counsel: No Change in Counsel. "Mr. Thaw authorizes me to say that up to the present time he has made no change of counsel. You may say that as emphatically as you please. Of course we don't know what will happen next week." . ' "How does Thaw take the situation?" the lawyer was asked. 'Jle is very much distressed and feels badly about, it," Mr. Peabody replied. Asked as to the program for next week he said: "We have no fixed pro gram. On Monday we shall get together and doide what is best to be done." lr. Dclmas held a long conference with Thaw today, and Mrs. Thaw sawi her husband during visiting hours. I Altogether Harrv Thaw spent a auieti day in the Tombs. The influx of mail at all deliveries, winch has kept him busy since he first went to cell, di minished somewhat today. Instead of the 100 letters which he received every morning up to the day of the verdict only twenty-nine came in this fore noon and the other deliveries had also fallen off. Mrs. Thaw Breaks Down. Mrs. Harry K. Thaw was somewhat wan and worn when she appeared at the Tombs, and broke down completely while she was taking leave of her hus band today. They were standing be fore the door of Thaw's cell talking when the young woman buried her faoe in her hands and began to sob. Thaw tried to comfort her, but she could not control her emotion. She was still weeping when Commis (Continued on Page Two.) TWO BELIEVED LOST IN SEA NEAR WILMINGTON YOUNG MEN EMPLOYED IN THE CITY THOUGHT TO HAVE BEEN DROWNED. Wilmington, N. 0, April 13, W. C. Ly nley, of Powder Springs, Ga, and Lloyd Andrews, of Seven Springs, N. C both young men employed hero as industrial insurance solicitors, are be lieved to have been swept out to sea and drowned in a fifteen-foot launch which was found today stranded on the beach near the middle of the sound, twelve miles below Wilmington. With a party of friends they were at the sound for an oyster roast and rowed out yesterday morning to gun for marsh hens.. They were seen to ap proach the inlet and are believed to have been caught In . tha strong current and carried out where their boat wis cap sized bj nkti' btiv' :i -S V- ,:tZ? " -s -Tel :i3 Mm 'f-.i'vif'. it -Ji HOWARD NESBIT, Brother of Thaw's Wife, Who Declares That He Lied in Stanford White's Favor Because He Thought "It Would Be Heroic to Stand by the Man Whose Memory to Me Was so Pre cious. L E. HUG VIRTUALLY T Contest for Municipal Office Now ' Between A. H. Boyden and T. H. Var.derlord. GIVES NO REASON FOR ACT Special to Daily Industrial News. Salisbury, N. C, April 13. The may oralty contest which has an agonizing end Tuesday, sprang the sensation of the campaign this afternoon when Al derman L. . E. Heilig, candidate for mayor, announced that he will relinquish all those pledged to hts support. Mr. Heilig gave no especial reason for his action, and what effect it will have on the result is conjectural purely. The fight is now between A. H. Boyden and T. H ; Vanderford. Tho virtual with drawal of Mr. Heilig leaves his support for the partizans of either to fight over. Mr. Heilig has all the while been en antiadministrationist, but his leaving the race (for that is what it is) does not mean support of Vanderford. It has a tendency to encourage both old war horses and the race is growing hourly hotter. PLftNS AFOOT FOR PEACE DING THE REPUBLICS OE GENII AMERICA Navy Department Receives Dis patch Relative to Conference of Zelaya and Flguera. WILL MEET ON U. S. GUNBOAT Washington, D. C, April 13. The navy department today received from Commander Doyle, of the United States gunboat Chicago, which is in Pacific waters off Central America, an import ant dispatch relative to plans for a con ference between Presidents Zelaya, of Nicaragua, and Figuera, of Salvador, looking to the settlement of the Nicaragua-Honduras-Salvador war. The dispatch was sent to the state department, and there followed a con ference between Assistant, secretary Du ron and Minister Cores, of Nicaragua. Commander Doyle stated that General Sierra, of the Honduran procinvlal gov ernment, which was set up by Honduran revolutionists after the defeat and flight of President Bonilla as the re sult of his several engagements with the Niearaguan forces, is to be command ant of Amapala. The conference between Presidents Zefeya and Figuera Will take place at Amapala or on board a United States gunboat to be anchored at Amapala. The fact that a Honduran general, who was one of the candidates of the revo lutionists for the presidency against Bonilla, is to be in command at Ama pala during the conference is regarded here as at least a partial reeognitkm of , tho provisional government set up after tho rout of tho Honduran forces. If this proves to be true a settlement of the dispute, it is believed, will be easily accomplished at the coming con ference. ' " -' i Whan the dispatch was sent Amapala had not fuBy completed its surrender. Thar ware Salvadorean troop in Ama pala, and in regard to these it has -been agreed that they should be permitted to embark vf or La Union, Salvador, tak- vvV, ;"-- Tw 4?"" DAVIDSON 0 TAKE THE PLUMS FROMUAKERS An Even Game on a Tie for Five Innings and Then A STREAK OF BATTING DOES THE BUSINESS Few Individual Features of Interest, With Effective Service for Both Teams, a Home Run for Lanford and Good Stick Work by Hobbs. It is a cold day when Guilford gets left at baseboll according to the col lege tradition--but yesterday was the unlucky thirteenth of a very uncertain month, weatlienvise, and when the Quakers met the Davidsons they went down in the last inning to the cheerless tune of 6 to 3. The market for heat ing apparatus, top coats and wraps was an active one at Cone park yesterday afternoon, and possibly 400 spectators applauded at times and shivered all through the game, which might have been a better one under more tavoring conditions. In fact, it was difficult for the players to warm up to their work, and while the game was snappy in sec tions, it was yet rather ragged and patchy in spots, despite the five succes sive innings in wnicu racn team pre sented a selected tow of ciphers to the other, and when the score was standing at evens. Davidson tallied in each of the first throe innings, running her total up to three; two of these runs wore assisted in the making by indifferent fielding both in and out, but when Lanford went to bat in the third he lifted the ball ' over the fence back of the ceuterfield and ambled around the bases to the home plate in the same complacent way in which the circus pony trots around the ring just because he's accustomed to it. But barely had the cheering echoes for Davidson died down when the Quakers found a chanoe to expand their lungs in a frigid atmosphere and became very chesty over a gain of two bases, including a long drive to center by Pitcher Hobbs, and over a batting streak before and after the big twirler, the result being three runs that in the aggregate cannot come under the designation of earned. Then the two teams settled down to business. Battery work on both sides was generally effective, with occasional : but not serious lapses at the receiving ends, and while the intielding was not particularly flawless, the errors were not expensive in any one case and be tween the third and the ninth inning not a runner touched the plate, al- (Continued on Page Six.) WILL EXPLAIN BENEFITS OE CIVIL SERVICE SYSTEM TO PEOPLEGFTHE SOUTH Commissioner McIIheney Say We Have Wrong Impres sion About It. WHITES CAIN THEREUNDER Washington, D. C, April 13. Civil Servioe Commissioner McIIheney, who is a southerner and a Democrat, is -entering upon what he terms a cam-' paign of education in the south in re gard to the function and character ol the commission. He found that one of the greatest dif ficulties in securing efficient service foe the government in the south was the fact that the whites haive conceived ttw idea that that service is meant espe cially for the negroes, and as a conse quence when an examination lor posi tions is held it is generaly attended largely by negroes. This condition it not regard od Vv the com mission at wholesome, and Mr) Mollheney has set ntmssli strenuously to oountentc it. . While in Louisiana recently he con. forred with the state authorities and addressed the state teachers' aseocia. tion, explaining the situation, with the result that he scoured a promise that eonrse should De established m the schools looking to the preparation of applicants for civil service employment He also found tnat there was a reel.1 inr that only Republicans eould eeeuri ' publio position under the govemmenl regardless of the law, and found oppor tunity to oorreot hie view. "We are not seeking to discredit th negro," tie saldjj'but rather to let th whites right. We want to comet en rooeoos reports and to administer tt law impartially to all white and black) Democrats and Republicans. ' Sight Burned la Oil Fire. . i Dsnlsen, Tex,: iail. !Cta m sons were burned to death early tcs near Gunter, Tex. ' Mrs. Pleree a tempted to start a fire wi v r the " eecidefrt ' .oemmd. " ' wre l -
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