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WEATHER Showers today; $Unday " fair; fresh to brisk south to west winds. 1 The News A paper for all the people and for the people all the time. Read it and keep posted. VOL. m. NO. 172 LAST EDITION GKEENSBOKO, N. C, SUNDAY, APRIL 26, 1908 LAST EDITION ' PRICE rrvE CENTS JUDGE PRITGHARD DELIVERS SPEECH Not a Large Crowd at the Opera house Yesterday to Hear Distinguished Speaker. CAMPAIGN POLITICAL, BUT IS NOT PARTIZAM Banishment of Whisky From the Com munity Helps Business, Said the Speaker, in a Masterful Plea for the Enactment of State Prohibition Law. Yesterday afternoon at the Grand opera house Judge Pritchard filled the appoint ment made for him by the temperance forces to 'deliver a prohibition address to the citizens of Guilford county. At 2.30 o'clock A. W. Oook, chairman of the central prohibition committee, called the meeting to order and the Rev. J. Li. White, pastor of the First Baptist church, invoked divine blessings upon the assembly, and upon the cause repre sented, after which Chairman Cooke pre sented K. J. Justice, who in appropriate terms introduced '.'. the distinguished speaker of the occasion,. Judge Peter C. Pritehnrd, who proceeded to deliver a very able and forceful appeal in behalf of the adoption of a state prohibition law. by tlie people of North Carolina. The judge started out by expressing pleasure at the opportunity to talk to ilifi people of Guilford county. He said it was unusual for one in his position to Uifce part in a campaign, but the people bad been kind to him and he felt it his duty to aid in this movement in their interest. If the campaign is political it is not (Continued on Page Two.) LilLEf IESTIGATDRS OF Special Committee Enters Order For Their Production Argu ment Thereon Monday. SECRETARY PUT ON THE RACK Washington, April 25. The special committee of the House investigating charges against the Electric Boat Com pany this afternoon entered an order for the production of the books and papers of the Electric Boat Company, the Lake - Torpedoboat Company and copies of certain letters signed with Representative Lilley's name. The. order on the Lake company was made ' to include books concerning its general business, including the cost of construction of all the Lake boats gold to foreign governments, the price re ceived and the division of profit. Argu ment on this order will be made Monday by counsel for the parties interested. Benjamin Webster, the private secre tary to Representative Lilley, was re called today and questions regarding the drafting of the resolution of inquiry which Mr. Lilley introduced. The latter has testified that he talked to no one but his secretary regarding this resolu tion previous to its introduction, that he told Mr. Webster to prepare it and then left the city. Mr. Webster today testified that after freparing the resolution he took it to Loyal Thompson, secretary to Senator Bulkeley, of Connecticut, who made some changes in it. This, he said, was either on Saturday or Monday. The resolution was introduced Thurs day, February 20. TWO NEGROES LYNCHED BY A FLORIDA MOB OAXEIf FROM OFFICERS AND SHOT ,,- (TO PIECES FURTHER TROUBLE FEARED. Jacksonville, Fla., April 25. A special from Millville, a small town on the Gulf coast near Bt. Andrews, states that two negross wera lynched there Friday night bj a mob of white men. 1 The negroes, it is alleged, entered a store and began firing at a white man beoause of some set of his s few hours earlier. The negroes fled, but were cap tured a short while-afterwards by of ficers,, who were taking them to jail, when they met the mob. The negroes were langjd to a nearby tree and their bodies riddled witn outlets. Excitement prevails among the ne Eoes in th settlement, and an upris g is feared. PRQH 6IT10N OF PAPER TRUST BY The House Committee Commences Hearings of Publishers' Asso ciation Committee. INDUSTRY MENACED, SAYS JOHN NORRIS Business Manager of New York Times Calls Paper Crowd an Extraordinary Aggregation of Lawbreakers and Says They Threaten Business. Washington, April 25. The actual in vestigation' of the wood pulp and print paper eovHon involving in prospect an examinutVn into the affairs of the paper tn. ' to determine whether or not it is, as ..ilcgcd by the American News paper Piu .ichors' Association, a combina tion in rus'.rnint of trade and maintain ing a iuoii.-ifdy of the print paper supply in the U .Ued States, was begun today by th.; s.-!-ct committee appointed by Speaker Cannon, whose chairman is Representatives James R. Mann, of Illi nois, and the. other memTieis of which aro Representatives Miller, Kansas; Ban- non, t.iiio; Matloril, Wisconsin; Sims, Tennessee, ami Ryan, New York. Representatives of a committee of fifty,' appointed by the American Xcws pa per Publ iters' Association, arrived in Washington today in response to a tele gram sent yvterday by Chairman Mann to President Herman Bidder, of the as sociation, anil General Manager Melville E. Stone, of the Associated Press, in viting testimony. The delegation from the committee appeared before the in vestigating body at two o'clock in the (Continual on Pago Two.) FOUR BATTLESHIP PLAN JILL SEDEFEiTEO IS SEMITE, POLL S S No Change In Sentiment In That Body as a Result of the Debate. THE WAR TALK IS CRITICIZED Washington, April 25. Another day was spent by the Senate in considering the four battleship amendment to the naval appropriation bill, but a vote was not reached. At the close of the dis cussion, which was participated in by a dozen senators, Mr. Hale secured an agreement for a vote before adjournment of the Senate on Monday. A canvass of the Senate made during the ' day indicates that the four-ship program will be defeated and that the debate lias ennnged practically no votes. Much of the discussion today was devo ted to the improbability of war being forced upon the United States. Senators Beveridge and Piles were sharply criticized by Senators Aldrieh, ferkins and McCumber tor their state ments yesterday and several heated col loquies occurred. Mr. Beveridge will re ply on Monday. At the conclusion of the debate a number of minor bills were passed, and at 5.15 p. m. the Senate adjourned until eleven 0 clock on .Monday. ' The naval appropriation bill came up in the Senate today with the 'Piles amendment for four battleships the pending business. Senator Culberson moved an amendment requiring contrac' tors constructing the battleships to work their men but eight hours a day. Mr. Aldrieh deprecated all talk of a (Continued on Page Two.) GIRL REPAIRS WHEEL; AT WIIILL'S TOP CLIMBS SLENDER LADDER, EIGHTY FEET, AFTER GALE ROUTS . WORKMEN. Wilkesbarre, Pa., April 25. Miss Let tie Boody, of Rupert, near here, daringly climbed a slender ladder to the top of a windmill, eighty feet from the ground, and repaired a wheel, after two men had tried, lost their nerve end descended. A wheel 'was out of orderf and Miss Boody's father sent bis gardners, Kline and Summers, to repair it. Each man climbed about half way up the slender ladder, but a1 high wind was blowing and they flared not go further. ' When they came down Miss . Lettie pushed them aside and climbed without hesitation to the 'top, repaired the wheel and descended, cheered by, all who saw her feat. INVESTIGATION CONGRESS BEGINS E GETS THE BILL FOR CIVIL The Measure as Reported r- ,s $105.715.369-Reductir: ,er Amounts As'iw CHAIRMAN TA. MS STATEMENT Shows Why Estimates of $141,284,266 Were Cut to the Figures In the Bill, as Presented Sending of Secret Ser vice" Men Forbidden. Washington, D. C, April 25. The sundry civil appropriation bill was 10 ported to the House today by the ap propriations committee. It carries $105,715,31)9. A statement of the bill was authorized by Chairman Tawney, and follows in part: "The estimates submitted by the dif ferent departments of the government for sundry civil expenses for the next fiscal year far exceeded the estimates for like expenditures in any previous year in our history, aggregating $141, 284,266. These estimates were prepared for siibmittaiiee to Congress last Sep tember, when the revenues of the gov ernment were far in excess of current expenditures. Before Congress convened the Hnnncial stringency came on, re sulting in 11 very material falling oil ill the government "revenues.' This ne cessitated a thorough' examination of the estimates with a view of ascer taining the amounts actually required to continue the service usually provided for in the "sundry civil bill, and Mso to continue the public works previously authorized until the next appropriation shall become available. "The - amounts .recommended by the committee are ample to provide for the continuance during tin: next fiscal year of ail the public service usually provided for in the sundry civil bill, ana tor tne continuance of all public works hereto- fore authorized until the next appro priations become available. 'Included in the appropriations rec ommended in the sundry civil bill is the sum ot )p:27,ii2.,00t lor the isthmian canal, which amount is rciinbursiblo to the treasury from the proceeds of the sale of bonds authorized. The bill car ries for the improvement of rivers and harbors under contract authorizations, $17,092,045:' in connection with the appropriation for suppressing counterfeiting and other crimes, the following limitation is made by the bill: "No person employed in the secret service division of the treasury depart ment or under the appropriation tor suppressing counterfeiting and other crimes, who is detailed, furloughed, granted leave of abscuee, dismissed or otherwise temporarily or finally sepa rated from the service of such division and is thereafter employed under any other branch of the public service, shall be restored or paid compensation for service or expenses in the secret service for two years aftor the termination of his employment under much other branch of the government." This limitation is designed to do away with the alleged practice of lend ing secret service employes to other de partments and to individuals for pri vate detective work. An echo of the recent investigation of the government printing office. by the President's direc tion is heard in the following imposed limitation: - '"The public printer shall submit for the fiscal year 1010, and annually there after, estimates for all clerks and other employes additional to the , foregoing (scheduled) who hiay be required in the oxecutive or administrative offices of the government printing office, and no funds other than those specifically ap propriated under said estimates, shall be used during said fiscal year for ser vice in the government printing office of the character specified in 'said esti mates and appropriated for thereun der." HOUSE HEBS EULOGIES OE MORGAN AND PETTUS IN LEGISLATIVE SESSION BUT TWO HOURS INCREASES PAY OF CUSTOMS EMPLOYES. Washington, April 25. The House was in legislative session for but two hours today, during which time, after considerable discussion, it passed the bill reclassifying and increasing the pay of certain officials and employes of the cus toms service. The remainder of the day was , devoted to eulogies on the life, character and public services of Senators Morgan and Pettus, of Alabama, both of whom died last summer. A a further mark of respect tha House at 5.15 p. m took a recess until 11.30 a. m, Monday. . t s APPROPRIATIONS Nobleman Who Died on Honeymoon, and His Widow Duke d'Chaulnes and His Bride of Two Months, Formerly Miss Theodora Shonts. 1 1 life (kinP CrP - ' , V' . DUKE D'CHAULNES. L REVOLTS RfFflRTEfl IN I 0 DUCHESS D'CHAULNES, Formerly Miss Theodora Shonts, of Washington and New York, Whose Hus band Died In Pans. LINER RAMS AND SINKS BiyTISH CRUISER; TWENTY TO THIRTY REPORTED DEAD Collision Occurs Off Isle of Wight In Blinding Snowstoim No One On Liner Is Killed or Injured Navy Drill Prevents Greater Los9 of Life On Man-of-War. Southampton, April 25. Tho Ameri- can line steamship St. Paul, which left: Southampton on her regular voyage bound for New York this afternoon, in a dense snowstorm, rammed and - de stroyed the British second-class cruiser Gladiator oft the Isle of Wight. The first reports stated that- from twenty to thirty of tho Gladiator's crew had been drowned, but later intelligence reduces the number of casualties greatly. Tho ex act extent of the disaster, however, can not be accurately known until tomor row. . No one on the St. Paul was killed or injured, hut the bodies of Steward Widg ery, Waiter Cowdry and a Maltese stew ard named Diebras, all attached to the cruiser, have been brought ashore; one officer, ieut. William G. P. Graves, an T.-! o li n n .1 ..-I. ra 1 1 inn ii 4 ml n av!m irt lanu, is missing, nna eigne injured nave been taken to tho military hospital at Golden Hill for treatment. It is be lieved that only a few others aro unac counted for. The St. Paul left Southampton at 12.30 o'clock. She was an hour behind J her usual time of sailing, the delay be-. ing due to the belated arrival of the; passenger tram which was blocked by snowdrifts on the trip from London. Im mediately the St. Paul turned into the Solent, which runs parallel to the Isle of Wight, she encountered a tenillic snowstorm. Captain Passow and hiu chief otlicer, with the American line's regular pilot, were on the bridge, and a lookout man was posted in the lwws. Suddenly a ship appeared immediately in front of them. It was the Gladia tor at anchor. Orders were given on the instant for full speed astern, but it was too late. The St. Paul's sharp stem rammed the anchored vessel amidships; she quivered and reeled and the passenirers rushed on deck in great alarm, ..The oflicirs and i crew acted with tho greatest coolness and allayed tlie terror of the passen gers. Five lifeboats were lowered with in a few minutes to rescue the crew of the Gladiator, which had -sustained a death blow. The cruiser began to sink almost at one. At the captain's com mand the crew formed in lino on the deck and stood in ranks while . the cruiser settled down. In obedience to orders, successive batches marched to the gangways and entered the St Paul's lioats until" practically the whole crew had been taken off and landed at Yar mouth, Isla ot Wight 1 ri y IS? SRGFNTINF PRRillNHFp! '. The Gladiator's crew numbered 450 men, and Captain Walter l.umsden, true to naval -traditions, was the last to leavo his ship. 1 he Gladiator soon settled down. Only her upper works aro now visible. The St. Paul returned to Southampton and her passengers 'were put atiiore, seeking accommodations at the various hotels. They, will sail by the Teutonic on Wednesday. The St. Pntil's injuries were tempor arily rejwired before putting back to Southampton. ' The storm, which was responsible for the collision, extended along the whole southeast coast of England, and is de scribed as the worst since the blizzard of 1881. The Gladiator was a twin-screw pro tected cruiser of the second-class. She was of 5.750 tons, and was 320 feet in length. She was built at Portsmouth in 18!Hi. : PENS ACOLA CARS RUN DURING THE NIGHT Tensaeola, Fin., April 23. With new police officers sworn in and riding on the cars to protect tho non-union men, cars of tho Pensacola Electric Company continued to run tonight instead of stopping at seven o'clock, as heretofore. The only attempt at violence occurred late today, when some one hurled a brick into a car as it was passing along East Government street. 30,000 COTTON MILL FOLK WILL BE OUT OF WORK Spartanburg, S. C, April 25. The "hwini' down of the cotton mills of North and South Carolina on July 1. which was decided upon at a meeting of representatives of nil mills here today, will throw 30,000 or more people out of work. It wan resolved that the mills accept no further orders for cloth at present prices. .'-- . 1' i- . 'i Held for Double Shooting. Roanoke, Va., April 25. John Hamlett Phillips, aged twenty years, was tonight arrested charged with the killing last night of Walter Bell and the wounding of Hunt Lester. Phillips confessed, say ing he shot the men in self-defense. Phillips was with a woman when, it is said, Bell and Lester accosted her and their conduct was resented by her companioib wj" 4 J j ,. 'zS". ffrt-Z 1 1 ANARCHY IS FEARED Corrlentes and Santiago In In surrection and Trouble Is Feared. GOVERNOR i ASSASSINATED Buenos Avres, April 25. Xmvs iiasl been received here of a serious situation j m tlie province of Loinentes. I he pro-1 vincial chamber of deputies has ap-j proved a motion that the governor of; the province be arraigned before a local court on charges of treason, and the press predicts that anarchy may be ex pected in Corrientes. Furthermore a revolutionary out break has taken place in the province of Santiago. A bund of revolutionists attacked the. governor of the province, drove him and his ministers from the state and proclaimed a provisional gov ernor. The governor was wounded and his brother was killed in the encounter. Troops-Avere summoned and put un end to the uprising. The revolutionists have been dis armed. . COMMENCEMENT AT THE N. C. MEDICAL COLLEGE Charlotte. K. C, April 25. The invita tions for commencement 'at- the North Carolina Medical College have' been issued and these, with, a list of the graduates, are being sent out to tho friends of the institution all over tho stale and south. The college, is completing its first year in Charlotte, having been opened for the admission ot tii(Ients in the upper classes last -fall, after its removal from Davidson. ' The baccalaureate sermon will be de livered by Dr. W. M. Kincaid, pastor of the First Presbyterian church, in the church on May 19, and on Monday eve ning. May 11, the literary address will be delivered by Dr. C. A. Julian, of Thomasville, X. C. Tho commencement marshals are: I). M. Seymour, chief; J. F. Crawford, as sistant chief; M. J. Brawley, C. J. 'Pur vey and R. W. Spicer. . MULTITUDE GREETS THE FLEET AT SAfjTA BARBARA ALL OF THE is.ooo RESIDENTS OF THE PLACE VIEW THE SPECTACLE. Santa Barbara, Cal., April 25.-Tnto another picturesque port of California the Atlantic licet of battleships sailed today, admired by a multitude gathered from a long the wave-washed shores. The coming of the fleet was made a holiday nnd every, shop in Santa Bar bara was closed throughout tlie, after- i noon. All of the 12,000 residents of tho place, more thousands from the sur rounding towns and a host of winter visitors went to the shore to view the long-heralded spectacle. Santa Monica, Cal.. April 23. Sailing away into a summer lnize that hung over the bay of Santa Monica, the bat tleships of the Atlantic, fleet slowly passed Point Duma shortly after nine o'clock this morninsr. With a hundred thousand people assembled along the shores to extend them a reluctant fare well. 500 SLAIN; 100 FATALLY HURT; 1,000 INJURED BY TORNADOES Property Loss In Texas. Oklahoma Arkansas. Louisiana. Missis sippi. Alabama and Geor gia Is Enormous. STORMS LEAVE WAKE OF DESOLATION AND WANT Mississippi Bears the Brunt. Loss of Life There Being Greater Than Elsewhere. 300 DEAD THERE. 1.000 HURT CRIPPLED FACILITIES FOH COMMU NICATION STILL PREVENT ANY THING LIKE AN ADEQUATE SUMMARY OF DISASTER. Xew Orleans, La., April 25. Probably, half a thousand lives lost, a hundred or more persons fatally injured, and many turn's this number painfully hurt, together with a property loss running up in the millions, is the record so far of a series of tornadoes that originated1 in the west "two days ago, sweeping across 'lexis, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louis lana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia yesterday, and last: night it left a pat n ot deatli. desolation and xennt in its wake, serious! v interrupted communication between citiee in the south and brought, about chaotio condi tions in many smaller towns. Mississippi bore the brant of th storm. Reports from that state indi cate that the loss of life will be by far the greatest of any section through which the storm passed. Estimates of those who lit their lives as a result of tornadoes in Missis sippi place the death list near :;00, with a thousand or more injured. In Texas, Louisiana, Alabama and Georgia death lists are also In rue,' with, loss of .life in Arknnsas and Tennessee. Authentic in formation is, in many instances, lack ing owing to the crippled facilities for communication and the lack of time to form anything like accurate estimate of ti.a damage. Utter Destitution at Purvis. The most utter misery of every sort was found today at Purvis, Miss., by relief parties. Despite the fact that of the 2500 inhabitants which this little town boasted yesterday morning, thera remained only about "000 today, still there were not sufficient accommodations in the wrecked village for i-.ven tha wounded. Old negro mammies and little black children lay wounded and helpless under the broiling southern sun. Some had broken bones, some . were partly crushed and others had been wounded by Sticks and splinters. There was not enough shelter in the town to protect them from the sun, and many of the walls which remained standing had no roofs, and, by a queer freak of the tornado, many of the trees which hail not been uprooted had been snapped oft a lew icet aiiove tno ground. A grova of pines was mutiliated in this manner, so that it appeared as if a giant scytha had swept through the grove about twenty feet above the ground. The greater part of Purvis' population, today were refugees in Hattieshurg ami Luiiilierton, Miss,, about 150 of them be ing badly injured. Of those who re mained in town many appeared distract ed and told remarkable stories of the number of their fellow-townspeople who (Continued on Page Two.) AT BB WINS WIFE 30; THEN NE6LECTS HER OLD HUSBAND, WHO WOOED AR DENTLY, MUST PAY IXB DOLLAR A WEEK. Pittsburg, Pa., April 25. Through eight-six years old, John Granger was an ardent lovemakcr and a constant wooer. When he poured into his sweet heart's ear . his ardent protestations of love, with all the endearing tarms ho had learned through bis long career, the woman, almost eighty years old, oould not resist, and said: "I will." . A church wedding followed, and tha faces of the old pair were aglow with happiness. Little did any one then real- . ize that the spirit of discontent would ever creep into their domestic life. But it did. Yesterday Mrs. Mary Granger appear ed before Judge John D. Shafer, in Quar- -ter Sessions Court, against her husband, whom she charged with non-support. Tha suit was fought, but the court ordered Granger to pay bis wife (1 a weak. r : . 1
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