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News." lalli WEATHER Fair in vesVtlearing in, east portion today, cooler, The News A paper for all the people and for the . people all the time -Read it and keep posted. Friday fair. ."A. VOL. m. NO. 164 LAST EDITION GEEENSBOKO, N. C, THURSDAY, APEIL 16, 1908 LAST EDITION PRICE FIVE CENTS If i t 1 m t i j .1 5 LAKE BOAT CO. nmpcp nmnrn J . UIIIULII.UUIULU U) LILLEY PROBE New Turn Is Given to the Hearing of Charges In Submarine Boat Affairs. DICTATED THE QUESTIONS ASKED BY CONGRESSMAN Washington Representative of Lake Concern and Former Senator Thurs ton. General Counsel of Company, Aided in Preparation of Inquiries. Washington, D. C, April 15. The Lake Torpedoboat Company was placed in the attitude of a prosecutor of the Electrio Boat Company in the investi gation now being conducted by a special committee of the House of Representa tives of charges preferred against the Electric company by Representative Lil ley, of Connecticut. This was brought out at today's ses sion of the committee when Abner R. Neff, the Washington representative of the Lake company, and former Senator John H. Thurston, general counsel of that company, admitted that they had prepared most of the questions that had been submitted to the committee by Mr. Lilley to be asked the witnesses for the Electric company, as well as a number of statements that Mr. Lilley had pre sented to the committee. Mr. Neff stated that the Lake com pany had data in its possession from which he framed a large number of technical questions that were asked the various witnesses and that others had been suggested to him by rumors, news paper articles, etc. He said he had con ferred frequently with Mr. Lilley in the preparation of these questions, and that (Continued on Page Two.) E WILL REJECT FOREST RESERVE BILL AS Committee Will Take Final Action On the Measure on Friday Next NO RIfi HT TO BUY LAND ' ; BY JOHN E. MONK. I Washington, D. C, April 15. The In- dications are that the bill proposing to create forest reserves in the southern Appalachian region and in the White - Trmv;- will fail of passage at this session. No measure now pending has been woum lam w. mm vuumra. .... gates ana electors sura muvptcu . more strongly indorsed than this one, Amid scenes tense and dramatic he form. The platform reads as follows: and practically all of the delegations first appealed to the convention to re- The friend 0f William J. Bryan today from New England and fma the south- fuse to sanction the majority report otdecided to abanaon the idea of present era states, .through which the Appa- the committee, and followed tins P i i,lg a minority report to the Democratic lachians run, are insistent that the re- with deliberate defiance of those who, lie gtat(J convention from the committee on erves as propjud shall be treated not said, were excluding him from the P1'" resolutions favoring an instructed del only for the preservation of extensive n the party councils to which he had tion for-Mr, Bryan from New York, forests, but for me eonwrvuMoa 01 tu i r, " water supply of the .-ast. I He .threatened the Tam-nany The Senate eommittco on agriculture delegates with the statement that if the has reported the f.-rest reserve bill, but plans to put him outside the party lines the House committee on the Juuciary were carried out, no one in the conven has been Usc.iMin!r its cocstituticnality tion hall would live long enough to see the better part of the session. the election of another Democrats The report of Chairman Jenkins de-1 mayor of New York. . daring unconstitutional the forestry bill was by him submitted today to the .. . ... . ' HouseVidar; taxe xiuuae juui i mm:tt - session, and when the committee ad- journed at the call of JMJH-tb. indication was it would be concurred in by at least ten of the nineteen mem bers. '... Mr. Littlefleld, of Maine, also sub mitted a report holding the bill to be unconstitutional. Mr. Brantley, of (Continued on Page Two.) DISTRICT EETT1HG BILL PASSES' SENATE UEASUBB PROHIBITS BETTING OK SACKS AND. GAMES OF VA KIOUS ENDS, ' Washington, D. O, April 15. The Senate devoted its entire, time today in considering bills on theealendar. Among the measures passed were those sup pressing betting on racing and games of various kinds in the Dintriet of Colum bia i providing for the purchase of land 1 between Pennsylvania avenue, and the Mall in this city, as sites for govern ment buildings creating a bison range In Montana, and enlarged homesteads : of non-irrigable lands. , The swamp land reclamation bill was - considered for a time and was mads the . unfinished business of the Senate. At 6.08 p. m. the Senate adjourned until , Fridaj ;Jv,,N;.v:.'--i- , s 'J?'-.'.' ',v''"-yii ':r::'!.'" ''t's-"" ''';;'' SMITH'S STORY OF THE SHOOTING 0FJ.1HENDRIX Goes ron Witness Stand In Own Behalf and Tells of His Movements. MAKES EMPHATIC DENIA7T OF COMPLICITY IN DEED Will Be Subjected to Severe Cross-Ex-amination Today By District Attor ney Holton Case Probably Goes to Jury Some Time This Afternoon. Jim Smith, went upon the witness stand yesterday afternoon to testify in his own behalf in the case charging him with conspiracy and the killing of Deputy Collector J. W. Hendrix. In emphatic language he denied that he j shot at Hendrix. but said that he was ' running, and that two snots were urea at him, meaning himself. Smith was the last witness examined yesterday afternoon. It was 5.30 o'clock when Judge Bynum concluded the direct examination, and District Attorney Hol ton stated that it would take him at least half an hour to conduct the cross examination. Court adjourned until ten o'clock this morning, when Smith will again go upon the witness stand to go through the ordeal of cross-fire at the hands of the district attorney. . f When Smith took the stand every seat in the courtroom was occupied, and many were standing in the aisles. He said that he was raised in what is known as Smithtown, and has lived there all his life with the exception of twelve months, which he spent in Mis souri. He was at home on the morn ing of December 20, when Frank Lawson notified him that the revenue officers, (Continued on page Eight) NEW YORK DELEGATES v SENT UN INSTRUCTED; McCARREN IS OUSTED Leader of Kings County Democracy Unseated After One of the Most Remarkable Fights in the History Even of New York's Turbulent Politics. , New York, April 15. State Senator I Tttfriok H. MeCarren. leader of the: King's county Democracy, was unseated toninht as a delegate to the party's state convention in Carnegie hall to select reoresentatives to the Denver con- vention, after a two days bitter contest before the committee on credentials. He was alternately greeted with cheers and derisive cries when he finally ud.'resscd the convention, and once was insulted bv a man on the platform near him. Ine senator instantly told this man that he , " tne time ne enterea na, air. j MeCarren received the cheers of his loyal frllmvor hut th maiontv were ftffiUnst ' powers, but the majority were against him, and the counter demonstrations ' . . . jj.t i . . .. ... . ... Wfc iit. BJUU auu uioumc, i" uv.u hub Carren men and their opponents par ticipated. The business for which the conven tion was assembled, the selection of del egates to the national convention,- the nomination of presidential electors and METROPOLITAN RACING SEASON EF 191 PENS DAY'S PROGRAM CARRIED OUT WITHOUT INTERFERENCE, AND IITTLE CHANGE IN BETTING. New York, April 15. The Metropoli tan racing season of 1908 opened today at Aqueduct park, and tne . day's pro gram was carried out without interfer ence, and- With only slight changes in the usual system of betting.. Of the fields, the Carter handicap, with its rich price of $10,000, was the feature The race went to Jack Atkin, Barney Sckreiber's ' good tiorse Bed River beingvseoond and Chapultepec, the favorite, third. Jack Atkin was held at 8 to 1 in the betUni to I, and Cha finished fourth and IJrOokdale Nymph fifth, both at 8 to 1. , v ,1 ' J Th time was 1.27 4-6 for the seven furlongs. Weather rainy, track Heavy, DANVILLE VOTES OOT SALOONS BY MAJORITY OF 45 Each Side In the Virgl Jlty Election Carrie? Ward ' PROHIBIT aIED BEFORE IN 1903 City Went Wet Again In 1905 Yester day's Result the Culmination of a Campaign that Has Been Hotly Waged For More Than a Fortnight Danville, Va., April 15. Following Drobablv the most warmly contested campaign ever held in the history ot the city, Danville was voted dry today by a majority of forty-five votes, out of a total vote of nine hundred and thirtv-seven cast. The fifth and six wards, or that section of the city form erlv known as Neapolis. had no voice in the election, having been annexed with the agreement that it should remain ary. The vote polled today was the largest in the history of the city, and there were probably not more than twenty people who were entitled to vote who remained away from the polls. The election today means that eight een saloons and two breweries will cease business on Mav 1, at which time the annual liquor licenses expire. Danville, after having been wet since its earliest history, was' voted dry in April 1903, and after two years of local option reign, voted wet again in September, 1905.. For months the prohibitionists, with the Anti-Saloon League at the head, have been marshalling their forces, and they left practically nothing undone to carry out their aims. The prohibition (Continued on Page Two.) the adoption of a platform, was almost iprgoiten in ine excitement over we mC Carren contest. When the vote was announced Me Carren, with his followers, rose and left the hall. Bird S. Coler, of Kings, and his fellow-delegates, at once entered and replaced the MeCarren men. Sena tor MeCarren said that he would carry his fight to the Denver convention. After the settlement of the MeCar ren and other contests, the convention proceeded with its task and named dele- and the supporters of the Nebraskan made no fight on the floor of the con vention. "The Democracy of the State of New York, in convention assembled, hereby declares as follows: - "We believe that the Democracy of the nation by the strength of its po sition on questions of great pubSe im portance and by the blunders and ex travagance of the Republican party, has this year presented to it an unusual opportunity to return to the control of the government of the country, and to that end we believe that every sacrifice which patriotism may suggest or publio sentiment require should be, made by all members of the party in order to again put Democratic principles into actual operation in the administration of the affairs of the government. "We believe that as the country is greater than the party so is the party greater, than any of its members, and, therefore, personal ambition and indi vidual preferment must give way to the good of the many and the triumph of the cause. "We hold that Democratic traditions, bound up as they are with much that is greatest in the history of the coun try, require that national conventions should be gatherings of the best intel lect, the ripest judgment and the moBt unselfish patriotism of the party for the purpose or studying tne needs and striving for the welfare of the country at large. ... "And. therefore, we.' repreeentini the party in the greatest state of the Union, a state wnose electoral vote is essential to Democratic victory, with no animos ity or hostility for any candidate, and animated only by devotion to tne prin ciples of the party, call, upon the Dem ocracy of the country to send to Den ver in July next, unpledged,' unfettered and uninstructed, their ablest, strong est and most representative men, to tha end thflt'Aut. of the ' dlihrution ig. Red. River at 3,ftn(j consultation of such men there may , B. .a- Meehek be then and there nominated a ticket which will rally to Its support tne judg ment, conscience and vote of a major Continued on- Bags Two.) ! WITH JANGLING WRANGLING D EFTLYAN G LI N G Are Guilford Democrats for Peace and Harmony Among Factions. CHAIRMAN BROWN REFUSES TO CALL THE COMMITTEE But Squire Collins, He of the Forceful Yet Persuasive Way, Takes Law in Own Hands and Invites Committee To Gather. Guilford county Democrats are about to raise a disturbance over the time for holding the primaries to test the strength of the candidates for governor, congressman and solicitor. E, A. Brown, the county chairman, is an outspoken supporter of Locke Craig for the guber natorial nomination. It is claimed that the majority of the county executive committee favor the candidacy of Con gressman VV. W. Kitchin and are clamor ing for an early primary. The Craig supporters want to postpone the pri maries and the county convention to as late a date as possible, feeling assured that the Buncombe man is constantly gaining favor with Guilford Democrats. Twenty of the twenty-seven members of the county executive committee made a written request to Chairman Brown to call a meeting of the committee to be held next Saturday for the purpose of naming the day for the primaries and the county convention. Brown refused to make the call, whereupon Kitchin supporters appealed to the secretary, D. H. Collins. Mr. Collins has issued the call for the meeting of the executive committee to be held in the courthouse next Saturday, ignoring the county chairman entirely. The Kitchin men say that at least twenty, and probably twenty-five of the committeemen will be on hand and will call the county convention and the pri maries at an arly date,' following the wishes of the Kitchin supporters. This action is probaly without prece dent in Guilford politics' and shows the animosity and bitterness existing in the Democratic party in the county. Early in the campaign it was thought that Congressman Kitchin would have little opposition in this county to the nomi nation for governor,' but some of the strong leaders of the party have come out into the open for the nomination of Craig. Among these are such men as County Chairman E. A. Brown, Col. W. H. Osborne, John N. Wilson, ex-Judge T. J. Shaw, A. M. Scales, J. I. Scales and State Senator J. Allen Holt. On the other hand, it is claimed that the Democrats of the rural districts are standing by Kitchin. The contest over the nomination of Democratic candidate for Congress is responsible, in a considerable degree, for (Continued on Page Two.) KILLED IN NICARAGUA IN BUSjrWARFARE Mosquito Indians Attack Small Town and Are Repulsed After Heavy Loss. WAR WAGED WITHOUT MERCY New Orleans, La., April 15. A report that about sixty whites and Indians have been killed in Nicaragua in bloody bush warfares waged by Mosquito In dians was brought here today by W. R. Coffman, of Bloomington, 111., who was a passenger on the steamer Dictator from Central American ports. The death list of whites numbers about twenty. The fighting started over a month ago on the Caribbean coast, where the In dians live. Late in February about 100 Indians attacked Prinzapolca Ber, a small town. They hid behind bushes, trees and other shelter, pouring into the village a fire which killed two men. A long, hard fight resulted, soldiers and citizens volunteers finally driving the attackers back, about a dozen of the Indians being killed or mortally wound ed. The other Indians fled, but many of them were captured, and after being severely beaten with rawhides, balls and chains were placed about their legs and they were imprisoned in an improvised stockade. Another engagement took place at Cape Gracias, near the border of Nica ragua and Spanish Honduras. Here the casualties among the troops were five, but the Mosquitos were no more suc cessful than before and were finally driven back to the mountains. Many troops have been sent into the Mosquito district, and several skirm ishes have occurred. It is reported that treachery and cunning have been used on both sides. Wherever a party, of white men get a chance they generally kill the Indians without mercy, and the Indians have slain several soldiers Whom they caught along the forest, r .. HOUSE REJECTS PRESIDENTS PLEA FOR BATTLESHIPS By Vote of 199 to 83 Program For Two Ships, as Recommended by Committee on Naval Affairs, Is Adoplea Longworih Makes Able Plea That Mr. Roosevelt 's Hands Be Upheld. Washington, D. C, April 15 By a vote of 199 to 83 the House of Repre sentatives today decided against the President's program for four battleships and adhered to the recommendation of its committee on naval affairs for two vessels of that type. This result was reached after a debate which lasted for four hours, and was received with ap plause. The entire session was devoted to a consideration of the navy increase pro vision of the naval appropriation bill. As this increase was provided for in the last section ol the bill, the measure was practically concluded with the disposi tion of the provision. The committee o; the whole comhiditl its work and will report to the Hoiise tomorrow for a liuil volu r.n its ran-age. The piovi&ion fr battleships was the chief subject of interest, the committee's recommendation for two ships of that type prevailing by a decisive vote after a : hard-fought effort to increase the number to four. The increase was op posed by Mr. Tawney, chairman of the committee on appropriations; Mr. Foss, chairman of the committee on naval af fairs; Mr. Williams, minority leader, and many others, and was advocated by Mr. Hobson, of Alabama, who declared that in relation to the increase of other 5,830 BLUEJACKETS AND FLEETJNJ.fi PARADE Line Extends for More Than Two Miles Through San Diego Streets. v THE CITY TAKES A HOLIDAY San Diego, Cat,' April 15. A parade of bluejackets and marines landed from the American battleship fleet, 5,000 fighting men fresh from a cruise of more than 13,000 miles, marked today the ceremonies of official welcome to the State of California. Sixty-four com panies of. sailors in their togs of the sea, with sixteen companies of marines, formed this most notable of the navy's land display. ,T1m tirnrnasinn t.tint. t.TlA men of the navy formed was more than two miles long. They marched from the water front to the city park over three miles of streets canopied with decorations which combined the red, white and blue of the nation, and the gold and white of the state. San Diego took a holiday to see the martial pageant, and the side walks paralleling the asphalted road ways were crowded. The enthusiasm of the vast throng was explosive, the appearance of the bluejackets and marines calling forth long-sustained cheering. At tne city part the sailors passed in review before Rear-Admirals Thomas, Sperry and Emery and Governor Gillette and his staff. Three thousand school children waving flags and banners were massed directly in front of the review ing stand, and their songs and cheers were one of the prettiest reatures oi the day's celebration. Governor Gillette in a brief speech supplemented his words of welcome spoken yes'terday on the Connecticut, and Rear-Admiral Thomas made formal response, saying in part: "It is with xtreme pleasure that I, on behalf of the commander-in-chief who, (Continued on Page Two.) T SIiPSSPARTt NEGRO KILLED; WIFE HURT AND ENORMOUS DAMAGE IS DONE. Spartanburg, S. C, April 15. A disas trous Storm passed over the southern section of Spartanburg late today, doing great damage. A negro was killed at West Springs, bis wife seriously injured and a number of others reported injured. Many buildings were blown away. The path of the atom extended over fifteen miles. ' A terriflo rainfall preceded the wind, and the roads have been practically washed away in some places. Some dam- watering plaoa -,, ;, ; .;. :, ... .. , nations four ,: battleships would only keep the American navy abreast of other great navies. : Mr. Longworth, of Ohio, in a vigorous speech told the House that the President was more in terested in this increase than in any other question before Congress, and as practically all of them had in the last election declared they had supported him, this was h good opportunity to live up to that declaration. Refuse to Cut It To One. An amendment by Mr. Tawney to re duce the number of new battleships to one was voted down by an even more decided majority than was Mr. Hobson's proposition for an increase to four, A provision for two fleet colliers of sixteen knots, and of 12,500 tons capac ity, costing $1,800,000 each, was adopted. Amendments were adopted that one of the battleships and cue of the colliers shall be built in a navy-yard. The bill as it stands authorizes ex penditures of $107 837,000. The House at 5.30 p. m. took a recess until 11.30 o'clock tomorrow. ; When the provision for the increase of the navy was reached by the House today in the consideration of the naval appropriation, Mr. Burton, of Ohio, (Continued on Page Five.) STRONG EFFORTTD FORCE ACTION ON M PULP AND PRINT PPER DUTY Matter Will Be Urged In Repub lican Caucus to Be Held Next Week. REVISION SEEMS PROBABLE BY JOHN Ei MONK. Washington, D. C, "April .15. That a determined effort will be made in the caucus to be held by the House Repub- j licans early next week on the subject of currency legislation to force the party to take some action on the pending bills proposing that wood pulp and print pa per shall be placed on the free list, is assured. Western Republicans are insistent that this subject shall be no longer ig nored by the House leaders, and in the caucus they propose to move that the ways and means committee shall be in structed to report a bill submitting wood pulp and print paper free of duty at American ports. Discussion of this question is likely to develop a great deal of bitterness. Representative Sereno E. Payne, of New York, chairman of the ways and means committee, and his first lieutenant, John Dalzell, of Pennsylvania, are opposed to modifying the Dingley law in any particular at this session, declaring that if the tariff question is opened up by a proposal that wood pulp and print paper shall be placed on the free list, an interminable debate , might follow that would indefinitely postpone the ad journment of the Congress. This is one of the reasons actuating Payne and Dalzell in their opposition to the wood pulp bills. Their opposition to them is based primarily on their belief that the tariff should not be revised piece meal, and that no action should be taken at all until Congress is ready to enter upon a general revision. However, sentiment in the House fa vorable to the wood pulp bills is grow- i ing, and there is a strong probability that it will crystauze at tne .Republi can caucus to be held next week. PENSACOLA STREET CARS OPERATEDJLL DAY .' ' ..'...,. BUSINESS SUSPENDS WITH COMING OF DARKNESS MILITIA STILL ON THE JOB. Pensacola, Fla., April 15. Cars were operated on aU the Unes of . the Pen sacola Electrio Company today," pro tected by state troops, which were sta tioned aU over the city. At dark, how ever, all ears were sent to the barns and no attempt made to run ears to night. ' ' . , ' ." : f: ' '.. . ' There were no serious disturbances during the day, and aside from tha oc casional explosion-' of a torpedo placed on the tracks, causing momentary ex citement, gooa order prevailed, y KILLS DAUGHTER HIMSELF GIRLSJCHOOL Physician Commits Double Crime In Normal and Collegiate In stltute. Asheville. ENRAGED BY HER PART IN APRIL FOOL PRANK His Victim, With Number of Other Stfl dents, Absented Herself From School and Father, Once Prominent New York Physician, Brooded Over Escapade. Asheville, N. 0, April 15. Enraged afl his sixteen-year-old daughter, Nellie, because of a harmless school-girl prank. Dr. C O. Swinney, who recently came ' here from New York, fired two shots at her, fatally wounding her, and then turning the revolver on himself, bo placed the muzzle in his mouth and pulled the trigger, dying almost in stantly. Badly wounded as she was, with two bullets embedded in her skull, " Miss Swinney rin from the room and up stairs to the principal's room before she fell , The tragedy occurred in the reception-room of the Normal Collegiate In stitute, a large girls boarding school in this city, where Miss Swinney had been a pupil for the past session. Just what occurred prior to the shooting is not known, as there were no witnesses, and the girl, while still conscious, could give but a vague account. Dr. Swin ney, who up to a few years ago had ; been a prominent physician in New York, has for some time past been in poor health, and of late, it is alleged, his mind has been unbalanced. Recently his daughter was one of s number of the schoolgirls who, as an April fool's joke, absented themselves from school, and the father brooded over tie little escapade until it- assumed to ' him the proportions of. actual wrong doing. When Dr. Swinney called on his daughter at the school this afternoon about three o'clock he was shown into the reception room, and few minutes later his daughter came down and went into the room, closing the door behind her. She sat down at the piano, hex father sitting beside her. Half an hour later girls and teachers were startled by the sound of four shots, and a second afterwards Mis Swinney, with blood streaming from the wounds in her head, came rushing from tha room. In a few minutes the wildest ; confusion reigned, schoolgirls and women teachers running here and there, but Miss Robinson, the principal, speedily re stored order and hastily summoned a physician. Miss Swinney was desperately wounded, and there is little chance for her recovery. The room in which the tragedy oo curred showed signs of a hard strug- -gle. r Chairs were overturned, and the piano stool with one leg broken was lying in the middle of the room. The father was lying on the floor, at one side of the room, faced downward with the re volver, with four chambers empty, un der him. The attempted murder and suicide were evidently deliberately planned, as before going to the school Dr. Swinney bought a revolver and two rounds of cartridges at a pawn shop. Although it is said his mind has been Unbalanced for some time, he had never been violent and his family were totally unprepared for the dreadful tragedy. He was a father-in-law of Dr. J. A. Sin clair, a prominent dentist of this city, , and since his return from New York a few weeks ago, Dr. Swinney had made his home with him. OFFICER KILLS NEGRO WHO RESISTS ARREST Tampla, Fla., April 15. Resisting ai rest, an unknown negro on the river front today seized f atrolman A. S. Thompson's club and felled the officer with two blows. When the officer arose the negro again attacked him, but tha officer fired three shots, killing his as sailant. Thompson has been on the force ten years and this is the first time he hat used a pistol. IL BARS U GAMES CHILDREN ATTENDING SCHOOLS UNDER ITS JURISDICTION OS-v ? DERED TO STOP PRACTICE, . . London April 15. The eounty eounet! has issued an ordinance forbidding chil dren attending eounty council tcbo to play games fa which kissing for a part. The hoad teachers are Jnstru to ses that such games, ars, disco ned.. ,;,vwvCs vv,S foS'y-V,''.;, .. ; Tle reason for the prohibition i ,j tairied i V sentence of - the or ' readings '?On medical gronmU V tics is considered un ! " i . '..!" y'.'i; "; i ..."