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WEATHER Fair today and Thursday on the coast; light to fresh winds, mostly east. The News A paper for all the people and for the people all the time. Read it and keep posted. VOL. HI.' NO. 169 LAST EDITION GREENSBORO, N. C, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 1908 LAST EDITION PRICE FIVE CENTS PREACHES THE GOSPEL OF A BETTERIRLD Declares That Man Is Moving On ward and Society Is Going Higher. OPTIMISM, NOT PESSIMISM, IS NOW THE WATCHWORD Nebraskan Completes Eastern Speech Making Tour by Final Address at Cooper's Union, New York Family Arrives From Europe. ' New York, April 21. Rounding out n day that had a pleasant beginning in the welcoming of his family returning from a sojourn in Europe and then car ried him on a flying trip to Trenton, N. J., for a brief speech, William J. Bryan returned here tonight and ad dressed the Civic Forum on "The Broth erhood of Man" at one of the largest gatherings ever assembled in historic Cooper Union. Mr. Bryan's lively day was ended at midnight, when he made a brief address at the supper of the Missouri Society. ; Mr. Bryan made the trip to New York to greet his wife, his daughter, Mrs. Ruth Bryan Leavitt, and her two chil dren, Ruth and Bryan Leavitt, return ing on board the steamer Minnehaha, which arrived early today. Mrs. Bryan, Mrs. Leavitt and her family probably will leave for Nebraska tomorrow. While the steamer was in dock little Bryan Leavitt hid undeT the stateroom berth and a long search led by his anxious grandfather delayed Mr. Bryan on board and he missed his train for Trenton. A large .audience greeted Mr. Bryan (Continued on Page Two.) PENSJIGQLR STREET GftR 1 S SHOT UP BY MOB,- Probably Fatal Shooting Follows Week of Quiet In the Florida City. ,-V:. STENOGRAPHER IS FIRED ON Pensacola, Fla., April 21. After a week of quiet with the state troops present to preserve order, Pensacola was again thrown into a turmoil this after noon when a mob of twenty-five men attacked a street car in the suburbs of the city and probably fatally wounded the conductor, O. Hoffman. Following this attack, W. L. Wittich, Jr., a stenog rapher, was fired upon by unknown per sons as ha was approaching a car in the city to ride to (his home. While the city ia quiet tonight, considerable ner vousness is shown on all. sides, further outbreaks being feared. The car that was attacked had just started from one of the suburbs for the city. The mob suddenly appeared and attempted to board the car, but tho ear was started ahead at full speed. The crowd then opened fire, riddling the car as it dashed away, three bullets striking . I. unjnnfm An nla.m is-a a InmeiA in and a provisional company ui iiiuuuivu troops went double-quick to the scene. The crowd had dispersed, however, when the troops reached the scene, and no ar rests were made. - Adjutant-General Clifford R, Foster to night appealed to the labor leaders to prevent violence and disorder, and it is hoped their influence will prevent fur ther trouble,. 10,000 METHODIST LAYMEN IN SESSION FIRST MEETING OF THE CONFER ENCE OPENS AT CHATTA ' N00GA, TENN. Chattanooga, Terin., i,APr'l 21. The first session of the laymen's conference M. E. Church, South, was held in the auditorium tonight. The vast hall was crowded to its utmost capacity, fully ten thousand persons being present The meeting was opened with prayer. Following this an address of welcome was delivered by Mayor W. R. Cabtree, with response by Gen. Julian S. Carr, of North Carolina. When Ambassador James Bryce, of Great Britain, entered the auditorium the vast throng arose as on , and cheered him. Ambassador Bryce repeatedly j bowed his acknowl edgements. ' .The entertainment of Mr. Bryce to morrow will include a trip to Lookout Mountain Missionary Ridge and Cliick arasuga Park and a banquet, at which the ambassador will be the- honor-guest of Chattanooga. The laymen's confer not will be in session tomorrow. 4 - ' EXCITING FINISH OF GREENSBORO DELAWARE GAME Local League Team Defeats the Visitors by Score o 4 to 3. TOOK TEN INNINGS ; TO DECIDE CONTEST The Same Teams Play at the Park This ! Afternoon Guilford College Has Easy Victory Over St. John's, the Score Being ia to 3 in Favor of Quakers. A small crowd saw an exciting game yesterday at Cono park between Dela ware College and "Pop" McKevitt's bunch of pennant 'winners. Tim same was hotly contested from tho -first- in ning to the Inst half of the tenth, nud nobody could tell who was going to.- wm up to the nnish. Anybody that thinks the Delaware lads can't play in entitled tn another think. The".- wanted i to win bndly, and camo verW Along about the sixth things looked squally for Greensboro. The Greens boro team showed up well, however; ft is true that they need team -work, .but their individual playing was good. On.y two errors were made by (ireenubnro men, and they were not costly. Sisson dropped a fly, but he more than made up for it by a beautiful running catch, hitting like a fiend -and stealing buses whenever he felt like it. Hicks was there with the goods, and his hit in the ninth tied tho score niul gave Greens boro a chance to win the game. Thomas, at short, fumbled one, but nothing was lost by it, and he played (Continued on Page 'Si.) E PRESIDEHT H CONGRESS FOR RELIEF AGIINSTIf ER TRUST Newspaper Publishers. Members of the Associated Press. Make Urgent Appeal. CONDEMN FALSE FIGURES Now York, April 21. The following address was adopted at the annual meet ing of the Associated Press: Representatives of 774 daily newspa pers, gathered at the annual meeting of the Associated Press, respectfully ask the President and Congress to grant inv mediate relief from the exactions of com binations of papermakers. In Septem ber, 1907, and again in November, 1!)07, the attention of the authorities was di rected to the excessive prices then de manded by the paper combinations. Im mediately upon thet assembling of Con gress twenty or more bills aiming to correct these conditions and to put paper and pulp on the free list were introduced and referred to the ways and means committee. Persistent efforts to obtain a hearing have been refused. Dilatory tactics have been employed to prolong present condi; tions and to carry over to another ses sion of Congress every proposition de signed for relief. All newspapers here represented protest ngainst the delay. Attention is also directed to the false reports of news print paper prices which were recently furnished to Congress by the director of the census bureau. The newspapers here represented use approx imate 80 per cent, of the news print paper consumed in the United States. LOS ANGELES CONTINUES TO ENTERTAIN FLEET SAILORS THE GUEST OF CITY SO CIAL EVENTS FOR THE OFFICERS. Los Angles, Cal., April 21. rtos An geles continued today its long program of entertainment foi the sailors and offi cers of the American battleship fleet. Thirty-five hundred bluejackets were in the landing parties which came ashore. The sailors again were the guests of the city, and th. features of the day's en tertainment 1 the ; same as ; yesterday boxing bouts,, . barbecues, wild west shows, dancing, shooting the chutes and other forms of aniustment, occupying the time from early, morning until hits at night. --' - - .. - - For the officers there was a number of social events, including a luncheon to the higher officers by General Chaffee at the California Club. OUSE ORDERS PROBE OF PK .1V J' s Under Suspension of Rules Can non's Resolution Is Considered and Adopted. VOTE OF 184 TO 110 IS STRICTLY ON PARTY LINES Democratic Leaders Assail the Call for Investigation as Being a Sop to Pub lic Sentiment, and Declare That It Will Amount to Nothing. Washington, D. C. April 21. Under' suspension of the rules, the House to day considered and adopted the . reso lution introdiieed by Speaker Cannon in I(i9vapacity as a representative from Illinois: urovidinsr for the nnnointmcnt ii select committee of six to investi gate "The paper trust and the general "Subject of wood pulp and the manufac ture pi printing paper. Ihe vote stood 114 to 110 and was strictly On purty lines. In explanation of the resolution, Mr. Dalzell, of Pennsylvania said it was a matter of public notoriety that there had been a large increase in the price of paper. Xever, he declared, had there been such an agitation as had been aroused by the newspapers the lost few weeks. While there was a consensus of opinion, he said, as to the increase, there was no consensus as to the cause of that increase. It was, he said, cap able of mathematical demonstration that thn increase was no', due to the tariff, and, ho contended, that it would not be changed by a removal of tho tariff. However that may be, be said, there (Continued on Page Two.) E A TAFT DELEGAT Sentiment of the Delegates Strong ly for the Secretary of War At Chicago. TARIFF REVISION FAVORED Concord, N. II., April 21. Six of the eight members of the New Hampshire delegation to the Republican national convention at Chicago were selected here today at the state and Second district conventions, and the platform, which was identical in each case, contains a reso lution to the effect that "the real in terests of the party and of the presi dential candidate to be nominated at Chicago will best be served by the omis sion of instructions, specific or implied, in the form of resolutions of prefer ence." j The platform also favored an early revision of the tariff and indorsed Presi dent Roosevelt. : Tho delegates chosen were: At large: United States Senator .Ta- jcob H. Gallinger, of Concord; former Governor Chester II. Jordan, ol Lancas ter; .Attorney-General Kdwin (i. East man, of Kxeter. and Kdwin F. Jones, of Manchester. Second district: Setli M. Richards, of Xewpot, and Lester F. Thurher, of Nashua. At the state convention an amendment to the .effect" that it was the "earnest belief that tho man embodying every element of a triumphant candidate- was (Continued on Page Two.) HIT; RECOVERS; KILLED BY ANOTHER TRAIN YOUNG MAN MEETS DEATH WHILE RIDING WITH YOUNG WOMAN. Wilmington, Del., April 21.-r-Harry Welsh, a young merchant of Marshall-, ton, near here, who had just recovered from injuries received by being struck by a Baltimore and Ohio railroad train about four months ago, this evening called at the home of Miss Lillian Mc Uougall. to take her for a drive. As the pair were crossing tho Balti more and Ohio tracks at Kiamensi their vehicle was struck by an east bound freight train. Welsh, -was instantly killed and Miss MeDongall was badly hurt. She was brought to the Delaware hospitl here, and her recovery is doubtful. The horse waa killed and the vehicle demolished. Thevaccident occurred near the place where LWvlsh was first in jured. TRIIQT IIIU CORTELYOU TALKS IG0IER1ENT A10-BUSIIESS Addresses Syracure Chamber of Commerce on Federal Rela tions With Trade. DISCUSSES COMBINATIONS .ND THEIR REQUISITES Among Laws That Are Needed and Should Be in Nation's Lawbooks He Places Merchant Marine, Anti-Trust and Tariff Enactments. Syracuse, V. Y., April 21. Secretary of the Treasury 'George 1 1. ( ortclyou was It-he! guest. ' of honor and the principal speaker-at the banquet ot the .Syracuse, '.cnaniher of commerce thin evening, bis subject' being -"Government and J.usi- n.'-'." - ! Nearly -300 business men oi the city 'and invited friends surrounded tin: ta- blcs at the chamber ot commerce bun jcjiiet and gave. 'Secretary ( orielyou an j enthusiastic reception. In his address i 1m said: ! It w as my god fort line- to speak last evening in I'tica before an organization I similar in purpose to vour own the I tiea chamber of 'commerce- and I chose as my topic "Business and Citi zenship." It seemed to me not inappro priate for such a gathering, and I have thought that I' might' develop it turtlier this evening by speaking to vim upon the related subject of ''Government'-, and Business.'' : . Such an organization as yours has a vital concern not only 'with the develop ment of trade, but with the character of the government's relation to ( i';it devel opment. We live in a time of combina tion and organization. Many things have to be done on a larie scale. 'Much of the work of great undertakings must be set off by itself and allotted to the care and supervision qf those best, titled to handle it, and the inevitable. tendency has been to bring together in associa tions and oragnizations those who are working with a. common niiii. The last few years .have witnessed a surprising increase in the number of national as sociations having to do --'with-'various phases of our commercial and industrial development. I have taken occasion to say heretofore thai- the results they achieve are an illustration of the fact that it is a good thing to reason to gcther, to look on both sides of a propo sition, and to sharpen our wits by con tact with our fellows. Out of it all comef mutual confidence and .mutual helpfulness. And when such associa tions and organizations are controlled and inspired by the spirit of honest deal ing and common sense they are of ineal cuable value in their contribution to the solution of national and international problems. Not a few of our large commercial or ganizations are ineffective -in' much that they do because they are continually injecting themselves' into affairs not within their province. Several years (Continued on Page Four.) SHOT B? OFFICER AT KERNER5VILLE DIES AVinston-Salem. X. C, April 21. James Tiliy, )r., hwo shot in Keriiers- ville ..Sunday night by; Chief of Poli.-e Perdue, while approaching the officer with a shotgun and attempting to for mi the chief to release his father, Ja nes Tilly, Sr., who was under arrest, died this morning. A coroner's inquest was jiiem mis aiteriioon, me jury returning a verdict exonerating Chi' I" Perdue and j Sol Perry, who was deputized to nsit I in making the arrest. The two officers I were arrested yesterday and required to Igive $230 bonds each. PRESIDENT WILL SIGN THE LIABILITY BILL MEASURE IS DECLARED BY THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL WITHIN THE ; CONSTITUTION. Washington, April 21. As a result of an opinion rendered to tlje President by Attorney-Ceneral Bonaparte at the cab inet meeting today it is believed that the President will sign the employers' liability bill. ' - He has accepted the opinion of. the attorney-general that the bill is consti tutional, and ha waived any suspicion he might have had to the contrary. The President Is convinced that the bill will stand the test in the courts. The bill was not received from the attorney-general's office until after six o'clock this evening and, consequently, will not be laid before tho President until tomorrow. Prominent in the D. A. R. Convention "!: ; Avv'A & ('.,vi n:; r f;l t x'A T y4ZW: : i ll MRS. J. EAKIN GADSBY, Historian General. T!!E STATE CHRISTIAN E10EI11 GilVEiTiei MEETSATELDS COLLEGE Important Features of tlie Pro gram Prepared for Today's Session. FULL MEETING EXPECTED Klou College, X. C. "'pril ..-Delegates. 'have already '.lieguit'. to arrive for the, Stale Christian. Kmloavor Conven tion, which meets here tonight, 'he regit- lar business meeting beginning at ten - oMo. k tomorrow morning. , i (U' this convention, E. If. Stockton, of i.Winston-Saiem, is president; Mrs. II. A. ' Barrett, of (livensboro. secretary, ami bliss Mamie Bays, of Charlotte, trcas- urer. ..'--. -. . - -. -: j Tomorrow's program will include a ' quiet hour service, led by the. Rev. P. II. ileming. of lUirlingtcm, N. C; an ad dress of welcome, by Prof. V. T. Law I rc'iice, dean of the Elon College faculty; a responso cm -behalf of the. convention, iby Charles A. I lines, of Creciisboro. Re ; purl s from the st ale officers, : reports from unions and societies. An address on "Young People and Missions," by i tho Rev., (ii'orge II. Delwili'r, of (Jrcens jboio; an address on '.'Christian Endeavor 'and Country Churches,'.'' by' Richard A. - Ilnrris'. of r.altimore, Md.; on open ar ' liament on "One Thing I Would Like ! to See Christian Kmleavcwr D'. led by ,. A. .'Hopkins,--, of 'Winston-.Salem; an ad Iress, "t hrist ian Kndeavnr Watch- words," by Prof. William . Weaver, of t'atawbii Cuilegcj an adilvess on "Heath j ens Hi maud and Christian Kndeavor's Supply," by' the Uev. Stephen S. Myviek, iforiuallvv headmaster of Olclliain hall, siueniore Street Settlement,-'Asia, now pastor of the I'riends' meetings, of Greensboro. : :. .Miss Hayes, president of Indiana State Junior Endeavor, and secretary, of tho National .lunior Endeavor. -will be pres ent, and take the leading part in the second day's program for children on Wednesday afternoon, in a basket picnic on the college campus. From all appearances this promises to be the most successful and most prac tical of all the great state conventions yet held in North Carolina. Two in Auto Killed by Train. Dearborn, Mich., April 21. William Wolcott and Charles Wolcott, brothers, merchants of Milan, Mich., were in stantly -killed near here late today when the automobile in which they were rid ing was struck by a fust Michigan Cen tral train while they were crossing the tracks at Dorr crossing. Educational Conference at Memphis. Memphis. Teiin., April 21. Night trains brought. in huge numbers of dele gates to the conference for education in the south, which opens tomorrow. Am bassador Bryce, of (Jrent Britain, will reach the city Thursday. Detective Kills Saloonkeeper. Memphis, Tenn., April 21. M. .1. Shan ley, a saloonkeeper, was shot and killed by Detective Thomas Shea tonight. Shea, it. is stated, was endeavoring to plnee Shanley under arrest on a charge of as sault and battery, 1 . iii mm uiiii n MRS. RICHARD TAC2CSC'.. JARKER, Vice-President General From Rtioao laina, .A Chairman , of the Program Committee. I0REEMIICESROK WHISKY DEALS .TRIAL Further Damaging Statements Made by Saloon-Keepers and Others at Danville. RECORDS DESTROYED BY ONE Danville, Va., April 21. More doeu lnentary evidence. '-tracing the sale and shipment of many barrels of - alleged "crooked'' whisky w.is introduced in the Federal Coitrt here lodav in the trial of T. M. Angle, president of the Dry Fork Distilling Comjiany. charged with extensive frauds on the government. Two Danviile saloonkeepers and J..B. Stevenson, president of the Stevenson Distilling , Company, who purchased whisky iron the Dry Fork company, two -high, oflicials of the revenue service, and the. agent .of the Southern railway at '.Ringgold were placed on t he stand today. The 'records. -of. -the saloonmen and of the railway how, it is claimed, that the former received many barreU of spirits in excess of the number cbaravd ti them by the Dry Fork company. . j Col. David A, Mates, chief of the'.revp Imie agents of the I'niled States, who has been active in the investigation of mo auairs ot the j)rv i-urk coinpany. was on the stand today. A feature of the trial was the testi mony of a Danville snloonman that he had destroyed all of his books, accounts, etc., showing his transactions with the Dry Fork Distilling Company, THREE SAIEO Fiffi THEIR SINKING SHIP YACHT RESCUES FISHERMEN IN GALE OFF COAST OF SOUTH CAROLINA. V New York, April 21. The steam yacht Columbia, belonging to' J. Harvey Ladcw, arrived here today from Florida with three fishermen on board who were res cued from their sinking boat in a gale off Clmrl 'ston, S. C. -The three men sailed from Charleston in the fishing smack Star on April 17. Tbo next clay 'they wee caught in a gale, in which the smack lost most of her sails. When the derelict was sighted the sea was so iug'i that the Columbia could not lower boats. A rope was thrown the fishermen, however, and they were hauled on board the Columbia, WARNER DEFENDS THE DISCHARGE OF Missouri Senator Sustains' Action of the President In the Browns ville Incident. WILL CONTINUE HIS SPEECH TODAY Declares That Those Who Have Set At Work To Arouse Race Feeling Have Taken Upon Themselves a Heavy Re sponsibility. .-'-' "w Washington, D. C, April 21. Calling attention to the (irand Army button he wore on the lapel of his coat, and insisting that ho had no prejudice against negro soldiers, some of whom Im claimed as comrades, Senator War ner, of Missouri, in the Senate today, declared his conviction that the town of Brownsville, Texas, had been shot up by negro soldiers of the Twenty-fifth infantry m l!)0(l. Mr, Warner quoted extensively from the testimony taken in the Brownsville case and presented an argument to sustain his belief in the guilt of tho neirro soldiers. lthout concluding : his remarks, wliic.il ho will resume tomorrow, Mr. Warner gave way for the naval appro priation bill, which was read in part. An amendment was adopted making the per cent, increase in the pay of offi cers apply to those retired as well as on the letive list. Tn connection with the consideration of the naval bill the Senate entered into a long discission of the policy of send ing the naval (lent around the world. I his p' Ucy: was sharply criticized by Senator Bacon. Tha Senate adopted the cunference report on the Indian appro priation bill and at 4,55 p. m. a!iourned until tomorrow, A painstaking analysis of tl e testi money taken in the 'several investiga tions of the Brownsville affair, which led to the discharge of a number of ne- (Continued on rage Twc.) SALOON FORCES ARE GENERALLY SUCCESSFUL In the Forty or More Towns Where Ballots Were Cast Drys Make Slight Cains. THE LARGER CITIES GO "WET" Chicago, 111., April 21. Tho saloon forces were generally successful in the forty or more towns and villages of Illi nois which voted for the local option question today. Definite figures are lacking in maiiy cases, but it s s cer tain that not more than one hundred sa loons were voted out of business, the larg.T communities almost without ex ception voting to retain their licensed dranishop-v Cairo, the largest-city in whicJi the question was an issue, '.gave the Baloona a majority of 3,352. The principal ex ceptions to the general result vere Ef fingham, Thebes, Pinekneyville md Na perville.. Some thirty-tive sahnns lost their licenses in these four cities. In Cook county twelve of the villages bordering, Chicago ballotted for or against the liquor interests. In only one, however, was tfhere a change from previous- conditions. Bnrringtoi going "dry" by a small plurality. Ten other voted to retain their sa- ; (Continued on Page Two.) SCHOOL AND ROAD TAX DEFEATEOJ RALEIGH EACH PROPOSITION FAILED TO RE CEIVE A MAJORITY OF THE REGISTERED VOTERS. NEGRO SOLDERS Raleigh, X. C, April 21. The returns from several voting precincts of the township show a defeat for the propo sition to tax Raleigh township fifteen cents fur schools, and also for the issue of $50,000 in bonds for the improvement of roads. A very light vote was polled and the registered vote which was not polled counted against the measures. The total registration was 1,854, and the school tax proposition lacked 119 votes and the road bond proposition 230' votes of receiving a majority of the reg istered voters. Mrt '
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