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9 till " fc New , I WEATHER Fair today and Saturday; light variable winds. The News A pacer for all the people and for the people all the time. Read it and keep posted. VOL. in. NO. 76 LAST EDITION. GKEEJsSBOKO. N. C, FRIDAY, JANUARY 3. 1908 LAST EDITION PRICE FIVE CENTS BILL SENATE Both Branches of Congress Work ing On Legislation for Re lief ol Situation. NATIONAL BANK EMERGENCY ISSUE IN BOTH SCHEMES Except For That Plans Are Different Aldrich Will Probably Offer the Senate Bill When Completed and Chances Are Excellent For Its Passage. - Washington, D. C, Jan. 2. With the approach of the reconvening of Congress there is Tcnewed talk of legislation for the relief of the financial situation. ' The subcommittee of the House com mittee on banking and currency appoint ed to frame a bill to meet the present conditions will resume its sittings early next week. The Senate committee on finance also will take up the subject immediately after resumption of the sessions of the Senate, so that it now looks as if there might be something of a rivalry between the two bodies as to which will be able to first report a bill. The Senate committee has not so far formally considered the subject, but some of its members, notably Senators Aldrich, Allison and Hale, have been working in harmony in the preparation of a bill which probably will be ready for presentation to the committee shortly. '-.- Tl, nmmitfsea of thA TWO hOUBCS BT6 WlHVVw not working on the same lines. Both have plans ior an emergen tmnmj to be issued by the national banks, but v, TTniisA committee is appar ently inclined to what is known as an asset currency, the (senate comminee (Continued on page Two.) PRESIDENT Ai TIFT OF Cirrylng It Out Would Result In Retirement of Valuable Men. WHY 350 POUNDER WALKED Washington, D. C, Jan. 2.-President Roosevelt and Secretary Taft ' toniglit ..n.soH t.hn nuestion as to what course Bhall be followed regarding army of who failed to "make good' in the recent horseback riding test prescribed by special order of the President. '. Several engineer officers in charge of river and harbor and other public works necessarily will be placed on the retired list should the report of the riding board be followed. Among this number is Col onel Marshall, in charge of the Ambrose channel improvement in New York, who failed to ride because no horse could be found heavy enough to carry him. Col onel Marshall weighs 330 pounds, and the advice of army physicians was that if he mounted a hore it probably would fall and result In the injury of the of- . jiCCr At the conclusion of tonight's confer ence Secretary Taft stated that he had no 'announcement to make regarding ; matters under consideration, because no decision had been reached. The secre tary savs that he would again see the President tomorrow and a demme an nouncement will be made at the con - . 11.. 1 i. linn ClUSlOn Ol 1118' cttuiiu-l, unxtuin. Alpha Kappsrs Adjourn. ' Augusta, lia., tian. a. nw uniiunui A convention of the Alpha Kapper, which . i si n T". - i: 1 CURRENCY FROM AND THE HOUSE Unas been in session nere two aays, aa- journed tonight after a banquet. The ' Mvt M.v.n(iAH will Ka hold nf. XpW UVAI WU , ..... " " ' Orleans. -.''. BOY, STABBED SHOCK KILLS Slayer and Slayed Only.Eiaht West of Fayetteville Fayetteville, N. C, Jan. 2. Today, five miles west of Fayetteville, an un usual homicide took place. Ollle .Manuel and his cousin, Lush Manuel, were play ing near the home of their grandmother, Mourlng Manuel, when Ollle stabbed Lush in the heart with a knife. The wounded boy, who is eight year old, ' ran into the house, and, on telling his grandmother 'what had ' occurred, fell dead. His grandmother, On realizing Yes, Advertising Does Pay. .''.'. '.: ., '"-v.:;-.. r ';. ''' . CO UNTBONIAND PRINCEL Y COUSIN ROLL IN GUTTER Elevating Scrap on Part of French ' "Nobility" Starts In Church and Winds Up In Brawl -Anna Prize a Winner. Paris, Jan. 2. Count Boni de Oastcl lane, from whom his wife, who was Mi9s Anna Gould, of New York, was recently divorced, and Prince Helie de Sagan, who on several occasions was reported to be engaged to Mme. Gould, had a personal encounter today at the Church of St. Pierre de Chaillot, while a ser vice to the memory of Lady Stanley Errington, a relative of both men, who died lately in England, was in progress. Beginning inside the , church, where Count Boni says the prince insulted both him and the sacred edifice, the encoun ter was resumed at a doorway where Count Boni, followed by his brother, Count Jean de Castellane, overtook the prince. Count Boni spat in his cousin's face. Then came the clash of canes, followed by a rough-and-tumble fight on the -pavement, which ended in the gut ter, where the men were parted by a big butcher. Count Boni at the moment of interruption was holding down the well nigh insensible prince, while Jean, ac cording to eye-witnesses, was adminis tering to him a severe kicking. When the police arrived the 'butcher was holding the two principals in the fight, who were covered with mud. The princo was bleeding profusely from a wound in the right temple, where he had been hit by Count Boni's heavy stick. With the butcher's hand on his collar, Boni was haranging a crowd which had gathered, as to why he had spat in the prince's face, when the po lice arrived. Followed by several thousand persons, PRESIDENT WILL HAME PILLSBURY TO HEAD THE Appointment Will Be Made When Senate Reconvenes and Prob ably Is Temporary. WELL FITTED FOR THE JOB Washington, D. C, Jan. 2. After a conference with President Roosevelt to day, Secretary Metcalf announced that Capt. J. E. Pillsbury had been selected as chief of the navigation bureau of the navy department. Captain Pillsbury participated in the conference between the President and the secretary , just prior to the announcement. The selection of Capt. John Elliott Pillsbury to be chief of the bureau of navigation is, at best, only a temporary one, unless the President should decide again to have recourse to the expedient of commissioning a retired officer as chief of the bureau. Captain Pillsbury was born in Lowell, Mass., December 15, 1846, and will, consequently, have to re tire on account of age, December IS, next. Captain Pillsbury occupied an exeep tional position in the navy for a man of his rank in being practically out of line for promotion to the grade of rear admiral, though in his capacity of chief of bureau of navigation he will tem porarily enjoy that title. This is owing to the conditions under winch ne en tered the Naval Academy and was grad uated. The beginning of the Spanish war found rulsbury a lieutenant-commander, and because of his tendency towards high explosives, he was placed in com mand of the dynamite cruiser Vesuvius, then regarded as extra hazardous ser vice. ..'... ' (Continued on page Two.) IN HEART, DIES; GRANDMOTHER Years of Afie Occurs Five Miles Verdict of Coroner's Jury. what had happened, she, too, fell in a faint and died three hours later. Dr. McGougan, the coroner, wa noti fied and empanelled a jury, whose ver dich is that Lush Manuel came to hi death by a knife wound in the heart inflicted by his eight-year-old cousin, Ollie Manuel, and that the old lady's death was caused by fright. No arrest was made, but the boy was placed in charge of an uncle, who is responsible for him pending future de velopment. ' .j . , ., . Common Street, Gould's Forny they were taken to thv -tation, where they made "explanations." Both Count Boni and the princo gave their own version of the quarrel, each claiming that the other was the ag gressor, but the prince alone lodged a complaint, charging the brothers with assault. "A process verbal" having been writ ten out, according to the French law, the three men signed it and then were released. The case now will go before the public prosecutor, who will decide what, it any, steps shall be taken. In view of the fact that I'rincc Helie has elected to pursue the matter in the courts, the idea oi a duel seems to be precluded. Tonight Prince Helie is laid up in bed with his head swathed in bandages, whilo Count Boni spent a part of the evening in visiting the news paper offices. W hen seen by a correspondent he was in high humor. He painted his cousin in the blackest colors, declaring that 1'rince Hene had been ostracized by his own family, not one of whom would permit him to enter the house. Lount Bom declared that the episode had nothing to do with Mme. Anna Gould, but was the result of an old grudge between him and the prince. OUR MERCHANT MARINE IS GROWING SLOWLY Washington, D. C, Jan. 2. During the calendar year 1907, the bureau of naviga tion reports 1,056 vessels of 502,508 gross tons built and officially numbered in the United States, compared with 1,045 ves sels of 308,291 tons in 1906. . During the first six months of the current fiscal year 575 vessels of 259,974 tons were built, compared with 503 ves sels of 181,043 tons during the first six months of the previous fiscal year. All Lost With Steamer But Three. Mexico City, Jan. 2. Roman Portas, second officer in command on the steamer Ibero, the vessel which has not been heard from for several weeks, has ar rived at Vera Cru. He says the vessel sank in a storm on the night of De cember 2, and aU on board were lost except three. Militia in Readiness. Indianapolis, Ind., Jan. 2. Three com panies of the Indiana national guard are being held ready in ease there should be further trouble on account of the street railway strike at Muncie, Anderson and other places along the line of the Indi ana Union Traction lines. T TALES TO EXPLAIN THE One Man. Tells How He Did It. But Forgets to Give H s Name. NO REAL CLUE IS FOUND Newark, N. J., Jan. 2. Interest n the mystery surrounding the murder of the woman whose body was found in the marshes of the Passaic river, in Har rison, one week ago today, has now rached the crank stage, and the police are deluged with letters containing al leged identifications of the dead woman, impossible suggestions as to finding her slayer, weird theories about the motive for her death and any amount of more (Continued on page Two.) EXPERTS DISACREE AS TO EXPLOSION'S CAUSE THE ALABAMA CHIEF INSPECTOR BLAMES IT ON DYNAMITE; ASSISTANTS ON DUST. Birmingham, . Ala., Jan. 2. State Mine Inspectors J. M. Gray, James Hill house and Kdward Flinn today filed with Governor Comer a full report of the ex plosion which took place in the Yolande mines last month, in which sixty men lost their lives. Chief Inspector Gray's opinion is that a miner allowed some dynamite to go off, and that this ignited the dust. . Ask ihe Man . ' - '' : . INSANITY SOLE PLEA IN DEFENSE OF HARRY T Contention. However. Will Ee jde That His Mind Is Com pletely Restored. MANY NEW WITNESSES TO TESTIFY THIS TIKE Interest in the Case Has Dropped, as Is Shown by Falling Off in Number of Applications for Seating Accommoda tions at the TriaL New York, Jan. 2. Counsel for Har ry K. Thaw consulted today and it was reported that it had been definitely agreed that the only defense to bo in troduced would be insanity at the time that Stanford White was killed. It will be contended, however, that Thaw is now sane. Those in conference were Martin W. Littleton, Daniel O'Reilly and A. Russell I'eabody. .The defense, it is said, will offer much new testimony. There will be a score of eye-witnesses to the shooting of White who have not testified before, and all v 'U testify that in their opinion Thai.' was crazed on the night of the murder. '.-. Mr. Littleton has a list of the three hundred talesmen who have been sum moned to appear Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday; in the criminal branch of the Supreme Court, and detectives are investigating the record of each. Mr. O'Reilly and Mr. I'eabody called at the Tombs today and consulted their client. There are signs that the second trial will attract mch less attern than the first did. The appplications from out-of-town newspaper representatives and press bureaus for seating accommo dations are noticeably fewer. The tel egraphic arrangements for the trans mission of the reports of the trial will be greatly curtailed. Unlcs new wit nesses open a new line bf inquiry the testimony, it is expected, will be largely a repetition of the testimony jn the fiwt trial. ' District Attorney Jerome, who will again be the chief prosecutor, with As sistant Distriot.Attorney Garvan as his aid, said tonight that the trial would surely begin before Justice Dowling next Monday morning. $15,000,000 in Dividends. New Orleans, La., Jan. 2. Divided payments of about $15,000,000 will be made in New Orleans this month. These payments show no decrease under the dividends paid a .year aeo, for although rates have been reduced in many cases, a large increase in capital invested makes up the deficit which otherwise there would be. : ROCKEFELLER'S TOTAL TO jUUUjl Has Added $2,191,000 To His Olits To That Institution It Is Announced. NEW CONDITIONAL OFFER Chicago, 111., Jan. 2. Martin A. Ry erson, president of the board of trus tees of the University of Chicago, an nounced today that John D. Rockefeller has added $2,101,000 to his gifts to the University, making the total of his benefactions over $23,000,000. It is also reported that Mr. Rocke feller has offered to treble all contribu tions to the memorial library which the university is trying to erect in honor of "William R. Harper, its first president. The trustees have already raised $135, 090' for this purpose and hope to add $05,000 to this sum, so that, with Mr. Rockefeller's , coiitribution an $800,000 structure may be erected on the cam ous. The gift is to be devoted mainly to general endowment purposes. GREENE AND GAYN0R GO TO PRISON ON SEVENTH Savannah, Ga Jan. 2. District At torney Marion Erwin today notified local counsel for Greene and Gaynor, who are in jail at Macon, that the pris oners will be taken to the federal prison at Atlanta on January 7. Kvery possi ble legal step to save the prisoners has been taken and theil counsel say they must now accept their fate. , , 1 Indian Gets West Point Cadotship. . Ardmore, pkla., Jan. 2. Lamar . lack son, a fulrblooded Choctaw Indian, of Atoka, has been appointed to a cadet ship in the United States Military Acad emy at West Point by Congressman Charles D. Carter, ol this district. ; HI Who Advertises in the Daily " ; . .."':. :'::!,'.',.: RECEIVERS ARE APPOINTED BY JUDGE PR1TCHARD FOR SEABOARD AIR LINE R Y. S. A.L. SITUATION. S. Da vies Warfield and" R. Lan caster Williams named receivers. By terms of decree they arc em powered to borrow money, if needed, to pay rental, purchase equipment and pay for labor, supplies, etc. ; They are ordered to pay install ments due on notes and certificates of S. A. L. and allied lines. ; The receivers take immediate pos session and begin operations. TO THE 100-ROflM ANNEX Rather Than Have It Remain Va cant Until Next session of Legislature. , STATE HOSPITAL.MORGANTON Raleigh, N. C, Jan. 2.The member of the state hospital commission cre ated by the last legislature, to have in hand the expenditure of the $500,000 appropriated for the enlargement or the state hospitals V the i.'sane and estab lish colony system for treatment of epi leptics and idiots, was in session here today. The commission consists of Charles A. Webb, Ashcville, chairman; Dr. J. W. McNeill, Cumberland; E. F. Aydlctt, Elizabeth City; W. A. Erwin, Durhflm, and : J. H. Wedington, Char lotte. The commission has already given the contract for a one hundred room annex to. the hospital at Raleigh and has purchased the extensive Grimes tract of land here, on which later the colony systems for epileptics will be ; estab lished. The commission, in conjunction with the council of state, today provid ed for the furnishing of the one hun dred room annext just completed at the hospital at Morganton, so that this will be available at once for patients rather than have to stand vacant Until the next session of the state legislature. J. P. Caldwell, of the board of directors of the western hospital, was here to urge this course on the part. of the council of state and the commission. Cuban Custom Receipts Largest Ever. : Havana, Jam 2.-The Cuban customs receipts for the year 1907 were the larg est in the history of the island. They amounted to $20,005,048, as against $18, 511,290 in 1906. UNKNOWN NEGRO FIRST TO BE BY Was Suspected of Having Shot and Killed a Police man. LASSOED AND TAKEN AWAY Brookhaven, Miss., Jan. 2. Probably the first lynching of 1008 occurred here today, when a mob, in broad daylight, took a negro away from police officers! and shot him. The negro, whose name was not known, either to the police- or mob, was accused of killing a police man at Oakvalc, Miss., on Tuesday night. The negro had been arretted as a sus picious person because he came to Brook haven looking for medical treatment for a gunshot wound jn the abdomen. The men got him away from the po lice by tising a lnsso, which was thrown over the negro's neck, as the officers were hurrying him to jail. The lasso ing of the negro occurred near the cen tral part of town, about three o'clock, and owing to the big gathering of crowds an nfTr,t lionif him u-na .Vtnnrlnii.i) After the shooting a city official begged the crowd not to drag the body through the street, as its members pro claimed an intention of doing. The mob is said to have been composed mostly of men from the vicinity of Oakvale. : After the lynching a negro, who saw the body, said it was that of Coot Aut inan, accused of killing a policeman in this vicinity, December 10. Wife Kills Editor. ' Hallettsville, Texas, Jan. 2. This af ternoon as he was entering his office, W. R. Beaumier, editor of tho Hallettsville Herald, was shot' and killed by his wife. She was arrested and placed under $2, 000 bail. Domestic troubles are said to be the cause of the killing.: 5. Davies Warfield and R. Lancaster Williams Are Named to Take Charge of the Property Are Au thorized to Borrow Money to Con tinue All Necessary Work RICHMOND, Vh., Jan. 2 Granting a petition filed by the Seaboard Air Line Railway vs. the Continental Trust Company, of Baltimore, Judge Jeter C. Pritchard, of North Carolina, sitting in the United States Circuit Court for the Eastern district of Virginia, today appointed R. Lancaster Wil liams and S. Davies Warfield, of Baltimore, receivers for the railway company, and they at once entered into bond of $50,000 each and took charge of all its affairs..' The action of the court caused no surprise in Richmond, at it was known hero that the petition was pre-entcd at Danville last night and would certain ly be granted. William R. Bryne, of New York, re presenting the railway interest; Samuel Untermyer, of New York, counsel for the Continental Trust Company; Judge Leigh R, Watts, of Portsmounth, general counsel for the Seaboard Air Line, and Hon. Eppa Ilunton, Jr., of Richmond, went to Danville Wednesday night, met Judge l'ritchard and returned with him to Richmond today. The matter was decided some time early in the morning and Clerk Joseph P. Brady entered the decree shortly after ten o'clock. This afternoon Attorney Edwin G. Baetjer, counsel for a committee of Baltimore bondholders, independent of the interest represented by Williams and Warfield, appeared before Judge Pritchard and submitted a motion for the ap pointment of a third receiver. He urged no objection to the appointments al ready made, but asked that Gustavus Ober, a Baltimore, banker, be made a third receiver. In continuing the motion until January 14, Judge Pritchard observed that if another receiver was to be appointed he thought he should be chosen by the court, independent of any suggestion from the interest making the application. The bill in equity filed by the railway company is a voluminous docu ment and it sets out in much detail the reasons why receivership proceedings are looked upon as necessary. RECEIVERS ARE A UTHOR1ZED TO PROCEED WITH OPERA TION Richmond, Va., Jan. 2.Judge Pritch ard, of the United States Circuit Court, entered a decree today naming S. Davies Warfield, of Baltimore and R. Lancaster Williams, of Richmond, as receivers, to take immediate possession of the prop erty of the Seaboard Air Line railroad. The bond of each was fixed at $50,000. ITS DISCOUNT RATE FROMTTOli PER CENT Improved Conditions In America and In Germany Helped Toward Action. GERMAN BANK DELAYS London, Jan. 2. The directors of the Bank of England today lowered the min imum rate of discount to 6 from 7 per cent., Which latter was established as a result of the recent American financial crisis. Improved financial conditions in America, coupled with a better monetary situation in Germany, assisted the di rectors in their decision to remove the stringent rate of discount which had handicapped trade and speculation for the past seven weekc. The effect of the reduction of the dis count rate, however, already had been largely discounted on the London stock exchange, as the absence of New York competition for Monday's gold arrivals and a sharp drop in discount rate fore shadowed an early decline in the official minimum rate of discount. No Cut in Germany Now. Berlin, Jan. ,2. The reduction in the (Continued on page Two.) . GLENN ASKS ROOSEVELT FREIGHT TRAIN WRECK TO HUNTBEARJITH Hll! ON ATLANTIU IfCKIN DATE LKFT WITH THE PRESIDENT, SEVERAL CARS TURNED OVER AND HUNT TO BE IN CARTERET TRACK BADLY TORN UP, " COUNTY. NEAR FAYETTEVILLE. '. ..; :. . . f '. ' Ralrfgh, N. C, Jan. 2. Governor Fayetteville, N. C. Jan. 2. A fre'"ht Glenn has sent to President Roosevelt . . , . v ... an invitation to come to North Carolina ,ra,n n the Atlantic and Yadkin rail some time within the next two months road was wrecked today four miles and to join him in a bear hunt in East- ah0e this citv, several cars beinir turned em Carolina. The naming of the date . .. .... . . is left with the President. The governor oyPT and the track 7 torn UP- asks the President to be his guest whilo Passengers on the westbound train, in this state, in the event he accept the from Wilmington to Greensboro, were invitation. . , . sent around by Selma. The eastbound The hunt is to be in Carteret county, . f Greensboro to Wilmington, where the governor savs he has found a ' sections of woods in which there are UP to th,s hour has not been able to bear, deer and turkeys in abundance, clear the wreckage. Industrial News. He Knows :'..:;..,.. '..'". ' By the decree the receivers are em powered to borrow money, if needful, to pay such rental as may become due, pur chase cars, etc., and pay for labor and supplies, but not for any other purpose without an order of the court having (Continued on page Two.) E HURT IN RIOT BETWEEN STRIKERS ANO SMEBREAKERS Trouble Occurs On the Streets of Muncie and Further Disturb ances Are Feared. TROOPS ARE IN READINESS Muncie, Ind., Jan. 2. Rioting occurred today on the streets of Muncie between striking employes of the Indiana Union Traction Company and strikebreakers. Miots were fired and stones and other misles were thrown. Nine persons were injured, those hurt the most seriously being Morris Maley, who received a bullet wound in the groin, and Harry Gamier, who was badly beat en. Others were hit with stone. Pars were Htnrtet! tnrlnv withrmf in terruption, each protected by from seven to nine strikebreakers. A crowd soon gathered at the interurban station and in thirty minutes two thousand persons ! surrounded the building. Cars wera I stoned as they started out. At other J part of the city cars were stopped and the strikebreakers were driven off. Two cars collided on account of the inexpe rience of the motorment and several peo ple had narrow escapes.
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