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---v;. ; v ,v.- ;,: ;: ...:-;S v? ,'-;. : 'v: ' -' ft V: " ; !V- WEATHER Rain todays partly cloudy Thursday vith, showers; fresh variable winds. . VOL. m. NO. 180 STATE MATTERS ARE DISCUSSED Feminine Frivolities Find Place In Program of Fed erated Clubs. No RECEPTION LAST NIGHT BY MRS. E. P. WHARTON Mrs. Sharpe Delivers Address of Welcome, Which Is Responded to by Mrs. Eugene Reilley Miss Gibson Discusses Civic and Economic Questions. Much rustling of silks and swishing of skirts was audible in the rooms of the Elks' Club yesterday afternoon. The occasion of this demonstration of fem ininity was the sixth annual meeting of the Federation of Women's Clubs of North Carolina. , About 150 were present for the first session of the convention, and they seemed' to greatly enjoy its proceedings. No such matters as "Merry Widow" hats and the latest things in waists and skirts were considered, but such subjects as child-labor laws, the prevention of tuberculosis, compulsory education, pure food, national forestry, civic improve ment and other Jiings of like character were discussed by the speakers and at tentively heard by the audience. The meeting; was set for 3.30 p. m but it was 4 p. m. when the president, Miss Margaret Lovell Uibson, or WH mington, rapped the convention to order in the handsome lodge room of the Elks' building. Mrs. Lucy H. Robertson, of the Greensboro Femnle College, in language chaste and appropriate, invoked , (Continued on page Eight.) PEOPLE FOUND IN THE ID 0FJN1NII HOUSE Woman Who Lived at Scene of Crimes Was Burned With Her Three Children. OUt MAN IS UNDER ARREST l Porte, Ind., May 5. One of the most grewsome murder mysteries ever unearthed in this section of the country came to light when the bodies of five persons, all of them murdered, were found in the yard of the home of Mrs. Bella Guiness, who, with three of her children, was burned to death on the night of April 28. So far, only two of the bodies have been identified. These aro Andrew Helgelein, who came to this city from Mansfield, S. D., for the purpose of marrying Mrs. Guiness, whose acquaint ance he had made through a matrimon ial bureau. The other is that of Jennie Olson Guiness, a Chicago girl, who had been adopted by Mrs. Guiness. She dis appeared in September, 1900, and it was mid had srone to Los Angeles to attend school. '' The other bodies were those of a man and two children. None of them has been identified. The body of Helgelein was dismembered and "the arms, legs, trunk and head were buried in different parts of the yard. It is believed by the authorities that Guv Lamphere. who has been .under ar- rest since the burning of the Guiness home, on the charge of murdering Mrs, Guiness and her family, committed the Helgelein crime. Lamphere is a car center and the manner in which the tody of Helgelein was dismembered, leads to the belief that it was done by somebody laminar wim me use oi saw. In some quarters it is believed that Mrs. Guiness may nave Known some' thing of the murder of the five peo nle. There have been rumors that Jen nie Olsen Guiness had knowledge of the murder in which the first husband of Mrs. Guiness came to his death in Chi ;go. Little is known, however, on this subject. It is known that Helgelein had loaned $1,600 to Mrs. Guiness, and that he had another $1,500 in his possession just prior to his death. It is believed that he was killed by Mrs. Guiness or by Lamp- here, or by both of them, in order to procure the cash he bad and to avoid . . ., iL. 1 1 - ne necessity oi repaying me ju ue bad made. . ii v Lamphere. against whom a strong case of circumstantial evidence exists, in connection With the burning of the Guiness' home and death of Mrs. Gui ness and her three children, denies all knowledge of the bodies found. He has siiid) however, on other occasions that Mrs. Guiness ' was anxious to send him to an insane asylum because of his knowledge of her career. It was cur- .rent gossip, however,' that Lamphere was insanely jealous of Mrs. Guiness and of Helgelenr, and it is well known that th woman Stood greatly ft fear of Qbntinued on Page Two,) BY CLUB WOMEN w (Etta LAST EDITION SEVERELY SCORED THE HOUSE Referred to Repeatedly as "Doctor Wood, the Commanding Gen eral in the Philippines." HIS RECOMMENDATIONS SET SCANT CONSIDERATION Lively Debate Kept Up All Day In the House on the Provisions of the Sun dry Civil Appropriations Bill Mine Inspection Appropriation Defeated. Washington, D. C, May 5. A lively debate was kept up all day in the House on the sundry civil appropriations bill. Repeated efforts were made. by Gaines, of Tennessee, and Chaney, of Indiana, supported by many other members, to procure an appropriation for an in vestigation looking to increasing safety in milling and . they had about got Chairman Tawney to the point where he would consent to an appropriation of $50,000, when Mr. Underwood, of Ala bama, objected and the proposition, for the time at least, was defeated. ; A provision in the bill for the pur chase of over six thousand acres of land as an addition to Fort McKinley, Philippine Islands, based on u reoom-fl-.endalion by General Leonard Wood, elicited severe criticism of that officer by Messrs. Fitzgerald, of New York and .Butler, of Pennsylvania, the former con tinually referring to him as "Dr. Wood." The provision, ort motion of Mr. Hay, of Virginia, was stricken out by an unanimous vote. Tie additions to the bill today wero $100,000 for (lie military prison at Fort Leavenworth, I'm., and $16,.)00 for an . (Continued on Page Threo.) LEONARD WOOD SPEAKER CANNON, IN REPUBLICAN CAUCUS, URGES VREELANDBILL Declares Himself Warmly in Which Measure is Based Caucus Will Con vene Again Tonight. Washington, D. C, May 5. The Re-1 publican members of the House wero in caucus for three hours tonight in an effort to agree upon a plan for currency legislation, but. adjourned at eleven o'clock without achieving any definite result. The meeting was early resolved into a . conference and proceeded with the understanding that the result, what ever might be, should not bo binding upon members. There was a large attendance, but no very marked enthusiasm except of a personal character when Speaker Can non took the lloor. It was evident from the beginning that there were so many members who would desire to be heard that it would be impossible to reach a conclusion at one sitting, and it was unanimously agreed ; to adjourn at eleven o'clock tonight until eight o'clock tomorrow night. The discussion was based upon the following resolution, which was introduced by Representative Bennett, of New York: "Rosolved, That the conference ap proves the underlying principles of the Vreeland bill, namely the recognition of commercial paper through clearing house associations as a safe and logical asset for emergency currency, and also approves the proposition for a currency commission; and be it further resolved, that a committee of five be appointed to perfect the bill, such committee to re TOM JOHNSON LOSES HIS FICHT IN OHIO LOSES HIS FIGHT FOR CONTROL OF THE DEMOCRATIC STATE C0N . " VENTI0N. j. Columbus, Ohio, May 5. By a close vote and after a stormy session, Mayor Tom L. Johnson, of Cleveland, lost his fight tonight for the control of the Democratic state convention, which to morrow will nominate a state ticket, a candidate for .United States senator and four delegates at large to the national convention at Denver. , A test of the relative strength of the Johnson, and anti-Johnson factions of the party, the latter led by Harvey C. Garber, Chairman, of the Democratic state central committee, and William L. Fin ley, state oil inspector,, was taken on a minority report which proposed to scat a -contesting delegation from Lucas county which was favorable to Johnson. The report was rejected by a vote of 403 to 430. With the twenty-seven vote from Lucas county, the a nti-Johnson fol lowers have a total of 490 Votes, or six teen more than a majority. GBEENSBOBO, DELEGATES FROM :o Republicans Iry invention Trenton '.v jown Resolu- ,n for Tart. .vV at EXPRESS SYMPATHY WITH CLEVELAND IN ILLNESS ! Platform Indorses Administration of President Roosevelt, but Convention Declines to Favor Him for a Renomina tion Murphy for Vice-Presidency. Trenton, N. J., May 5. The Repub liean state convention to select delegates to attend the national convention at Chicago named a delegation that "i un instructed. The convention abu voted down resolutions indorsing the candidacy of secretary latt tor 1 resident and sav oring the . renomination of President Roosevelt. A resolution favoring former Governor Franklin Murphy for Vice-President was adopted without opposition. The following were elected delegates at large to the Chicago convention: Governor Fort, I'nitcd States Senators Frank O. Briggs and John Kean and State Assessor David Baird. Alternates were chosen us : follows: David S. Vorhees. Morris county; Walter E. Edge, Atlantic; C. Edward Murray, Mercer; Lewis S. Thompson, Monmouth. United States Senator Briggs intro duced a resolution expressing sympathy for former President Grover Cleveland in his present illness and hoping for his quick recovery. The resolution was adopted by a rising vote. The convention was clearly in the hands of the. Republican leaders in New (Continued on Page Two.) Favor of the Principle Upon port the perfected bill at an adjourned meeting to be held in five days. A number of speeches for and against the resolution were heard, notably one by Speaker Cannon warmly supporting it. .. When the caucus had been called to order Mr. Sherman, of New York, was made chairman on motion of Mr. Wat son, of 1 Indiana. Mr. Burke, of Penn sylvania, was made secretary. After Mr. Bennett had introduced his resolution, Representatives Vreeland, Fowler, Hill, of Connecticut; Burton, of Ohio; Waldo, Weeks, of Massachusetts; Campbell, of Kansas, and Speaker Can non, spoke in the order named, alter nately for and against the Bennett reso lution. The Speaker gave the resolution his unreserved support, saying he was warmly in favor of the principle upon which the Vreeland bill was based. The unpopularity of tho Aldrich will was due, he said, to tho Teserve amendment and the amendment adopted by tho Sen ate at the suggestion of Senator La Fol lette. These provisions he regarded as deservedly unpopular, and said that his colleagues, Mr. Prince, Mr. Fowler and a few other members, had used thoso features of that measure "to hoodoo the country." The Vreeland bill was in tended, he said, to present an emergency (Continued on Page Two.) . GIRL'S "MERRY WIDOW" ABLAZE ON HER HEAD LEANED OVER TO PICK UP VEIL AND GAS JET SET FIRE ' TO HAT. Corning, N. Y., May 5. Leaning over W'piok up a veil she had dropped, Miss Edna Market's "Merry Widow" hat touclied the flame of an unshaded gas jet and in an instant was all ablaze to day, v It was intended to be Coming's bis - goat and most dawling "Merry Widow" and had justreached town from New York. Miss Market was getting ready to go shopping and astound the natives with her newest millinery acquisition, She was almost prepared for this ex peditiou when the accident occurred and, unable to quickly extract the- hatpins, she ran downstairs with her head seem ingly all ablaze. Finally tearing off the hat she smothered the flames with a rug. N'o greater piece) of destruction in millinery could be imagined. Than Miss Market sat down and wept. bhe dida t go shopping NEW JERSEY Will CO I N STR I UU UIIIIIU I II' K. C, WEDNESDAY, RIDICULES WORK OF FORESTERS Idaho Man Makes Extended At tack Upon the Whole System. CHIEF FORESTER, HE SAYS, IS PROPHESYING FALSELY Criticises the Practice of Speaking of "Any Man's Policy," Saying That the Only Policies of Government Not Fic titious Are Wriiten in Laws of Land. Washington, May 5. An extended speech in opposition to the forestry ser vice was made by Senator Hcyburn, of Idaho, in the Senate today, while the agriculture appropriation bill was under consideration. Mr. Hcyburn ridiculed the charts of the forestry service, one of which he had exhibited on the wall of the Senate chamber, marked with such legends as "About twenty years' supply left," and declared that the chief forester had un dertaken to prophesy concerning the life of the forests in a way that would re quire more wisdom than was possessed by the sages of old. He said such men forget that forests grow, and added that there is as much forest growth today as there ever haft been in the history of the world. Mr. lleyburn spoke upon his amend ment to the bill excepting the forest reserves of Idaho from those from which timber mav.be cut by permit. of t'he sec retary of agriculture and exported from the state. Senator Warner, of Missouri, continued his speech on the Brownsville affray, but did not conclude. On resuming consideration of the agri cultural appropriation in the Senate to day, Mr. Warren stated that as he had received a communication from the sec retary of agricultur,, saying that he would be able to take care ot tue pure, food law without an additional appro Driation. he would not offer the amend ments for that purpose which he had intended. On a point of order by Senator Clark, of Wyoming, the amendment autnonz ing the secretary of agriculture "to ad vise the owners of woodlands as to their proper care" was stricken from the bill. Suggesting an amendment excepting Idaho from states which the secretary of agriculture may give permits for the exportation of timber from forest re serves. Senator Hevburn ridiculed a chart of the forestry division, which was swung on the wall of the Senate chamber, marked with statements as to the rumber of years the forests in various parts of the country would last. Thi forestry division, he said, was launching into the realm of prophecy in a way that vould require greater wisdom than that possessed by the sages of old when it declared that a certain scctitn v-ould be shorn of its forests in twenty, thirty or forty years. They forget, he said, that timber grows, and he declared that "the supply of timber is as great today as ever in the world's history. "There was," lie said, "Ho dngcr of a timber famine. "I can prove," retorted Senator Smoot, "not by prophecy but by abso lute figures, that the timber of this country is being destroyed rapidly and there is not anything like the amount of timber in this country that there was twenty or even ten years ago." Mr." Heyburn said he objected to the government retting up a lumber yard and selling timber in any state. Rending fiom a document concern ing expenses of the forest reserve, he criticized statements of expenses as in definite. Senator Smoot said if the senator would refer to any itom of expense he would five him the details. Senator Clark, of Wyoming, said that (Continued on Page Two.) TO PROTECT OHIO T S THREATS TO BURN ABERDEEN AND HIGGINSP0RT GROW OUT OF TOBACCO WAR. ColumbuR, Ohio, May 5. Threats to burn the towns of Aberdeen and Higgins port emanating from unknown sources, but resulting from the bitter warfare in the hurley tobacco district of Ohio and Kentucky, are largely responsible for an 1 order issued by Governor Harris tonight 1 to Adjutsnt-Genernl Critchfield to dis ! Ptftn troops to the towns mentioned, t Cd?!!." Vtown j collnty, who was here in conference with 1 the governor and adjutant -general for j the greater part ot the day. .Receiver For Inman & Co. Atlanta, Ga., May 6. Judge Adams, late today, appointed A. L. Waldo, of Atlanta, as co-receiver for the cotton firm of Inman & Co., of Augusta. His boi.d was fixed at $15,000. Mr. Waldo will co to Augusta and-act with Re eeiver Barr- who was appointed yes terday. T EY MAY 6, 1908 . . : "V ...y" Evans Again Assumes Command r , '. I - ml f Admiral Evans and His Favorite Grandson, Who Died Sunday in Washington of Typhoid Fever. IS 0N1H0 TlilSCO He is Carried From Train to Launch and Hoisted on Deck of Flagship In Chair. WALKS DOWN THE LADDER Santa Cruz, Cal., May 5. The At, lantic battleship fleet sailed at 3 p. in. for San Francisco, with Rear-Admiral Roblcy D. Evans in command, closely followed by ' the torpedo flotilla. At 8.30 a. m. the Connecticut went to Monterey, to which point Admiral Evans had come by train. He was met at the wharf by a launch from the nag ship. Four picked seamen lifted the admiral from the train and placed him in an invalid chair and rolled him to the launch waiting at the end of the wharf. He walked down the ladder to the launch, leaning on a crutch and aided by two seamen, who assisted him at every step. The moment he was on board, the launch shoved off and in a few minutes was alongside the Connecti cut. Everything on the flagship was in readiness "and the moment the launch came alongside ropes were lowered, attached to a chair, and the admiral was hoisted into the air, the guy hauled in and the fleet commander was gently deposited on the deck of his old ship. fian Francisco. May 5. The battleship fleet was sighted off' Point Pedro at 8.30 tonight. Point Pedro is twenty miles south of the Golden Gate. The fleet came to anchor at nine o'clock and will remain anchored until tomorrow noon, when it will make its entry into San Francisco bay. ': . ' 18 VOTES IN TOWN OF 23 ALSO SEVEN BREWERY AGENCIES IN BENBOW CITY, WETTEST ILLINOIS VILLAGE. Benbow City, 111., May .5. Benbow City, the town which has grown up around the Standard Oil Company's new refinery, eight miles south of Alton, is the wettest town in Illinois, and be cause it is the wettest it is also the richest. It began its cornorate existence as a village Monday with eighteen registered voters and twenty-three saloons, with in the corporate limits of Benbow City there are 300 persons and one saloon for every thirteen inhabitants. In addition to the twenty-three saloons, there are seven brewery agencies, and each dram shop and each agency psys $500 a year license. . . Payments for- the coming year have already been made, and the little vil lage starts out in life with a $15,000 nest egg. The per capita wealth by reason of this revenue from the , liquor interests is greater than that of any town or city in me umtca Mates. LAST EDITION NINETY-SECOND SESSION N. C. DIOCESE CONVENES AT STATCAPITflL TOflftT Preliminary Sermon ' by the Rev. Dr. Swope. of Blltmore. Last Night MEETING WOMAN'S AUXILIARY Raleigh, N. C, May 5. Delegates came in on every train today for the ninety -second annual convention of the Diocese of North Carolina, Protestant Episcopal Church, which convenes with the Church of the Good Shepherd on Wednesday morning with the prelimi nary sermon Tuesday evening by the Rev. Dr. Swope, rector of All Soul's church, Biltmore, Western Carolina dio cese. There will be two hundred or more delegates, including the ladies who come for the convention of the Woman's Auxiliary, which meets at the same time. As to the auxiliary it is a notable fact that since its organization twenty- six years ago, it 1ms grown from 119 members to 2432, and the moneys raised from $261 to about $1,000 for mission ary purposes. there are lOo churches and chapels under the jurisdiction of the Diocese of Xorth Carolina, and about sixty minis ters. The parochial property is valued at about $500,000, and the annual dis bursements for dioivsan work aggre gates about $75,000. The Rt. Rev. dames Mount Cheshire, D. D., 'bishop of the diocese, will preside, and tho convcnti' will continue through Wednesday and during the 'forenoon .of Thursday. A verdict for . $3 ,000 has been ren dered by the jury against the Southern Railway Company i.. tho. suit. by Mrs. J. I. Eatman for damages for the death (Continued on Pago Two.) TWO MEN FIRED SHOTS THAT KILLED STUCKEYS SUBSEQUENT REPORT ON SHOOT- ING SHOWS THAT IT WAS NOT A ONE MAN AFFRAY. Eastman. Ga., May 5. Oscar and Wal ter Stuckey were shot by Tom Spiers and Steve Boutw ell and not by Spiers alone, as first reported. The difficulty is said to have arisen about some mis understanding growing out of the rent of land by Spiers and Boutwell from the Stuckcys. Steve Boutwell is now in tho Dodge county jail. Spiers is still at large. Neither of the Stuekeys are dead, but both are in a critical condition and arc not expected to live, being riddled with buckshot. Commencement at Princeton. Princeton, N. J., May 5. The ninety sixth annual commencement exercises of the Princeton' Theological Seminary were held today. The Rev. Robert S. Ingles, of Newark, N. J., mude the prin cipal address of the day. Forty-four men were graduated. The News A paper for ' all the people and for the people all the time Read it and keep posted. PRICE FIVE CENTS L RECEIVES GIFT Andrew Carnegie, the Steel Mag nate, to Make Donation of $50,000. SURVEY OF SITE IS NOW BEING MADE Institution Will Receive $5,000 Yearly From State for Benefit of Poor Boys. B. Frank Mebane Largely Responsi ble for Establishment of School. As told in this paper, yesterday the School of Technology, which is to be established at Spray, Rockingham coun- ' ty, is to receive a gitt of $50,000 trom Andrew Carnegie, the well-known steel magnate of Pittsburg, New York and Skibo Custle, Scotland. Lawrence McRae, treasurer of the Rhode Island Cotton Mills and the Spray Woolen Mills, was in the city last night and gave a News man some de tails concerning this proposed school. Some years ago a charter was ob tained for the establishment of a tex tile school at Spray, and the legislature of 1907 passed a bill appropriating the sum of .$5,000 annually as a contribu tion towards the maintenance of the in stitution. The state appropriation is to be given upon the condition that those who are behind the project will give a ; suitable site and spend at least $30,000 in buildings and equipment. A turther condition, is that as soon as the institu is ready to open that it be turned over to the state and run as a state school. It is provided in the bill that every member of the legislature has the priv ilege of appointing from his county a student, who gets free tuition at the school, and that each student be guar anteed enough work by the manufac turing industries of SpTay to pay his current, expenses. This provision of the bill will afford an opportunity to many boys to get an education, who would have but little chance of getting it else where, SJJf'jJS .- In addition to textile instruction it is proposed to give every student . a : good common school education and an opportunity to take a business course and to learn stenography and type writing. . An original idea with the founders of the proposed School of Technology is to teach the South American languages and also Japanese. The object of this is to further the interests of North (Continued on page Eight.) URGE THE IMPORTANCE OF ATLANTA AND GREAT TERN CANAL PROJECT Favorable Report on the Bacon Bill is Urged Upon House Committee. A GIGANTIC PIECE OF WORK SPRIT OF TEC 10 LOGY Washington, May 5. A favorrMo re port on the Bacon bill, appropriating $75,000 for a survey preliminary to the construction of the. Atlanta and Great Western canal, designed to connect the Atlantic Ocean with all the tributaries-, of the Mississippi river, which has passed the Senate, was urged today .before the House' committee 011. railways ami canals . by a delegation from Atlanta, intro duced by Representative Brantley, of Georgia. The' committee was addressed by Asa G. Candler, chairman of tho delegation; Walter G. Cooper, secretary of the chamber of commerce and of the Atlanta and Great Western Canal Association; C. A. Caverley, chairman of tho canal committee of the chamW of commerce; Col. C. P. Goodyear, of Columbia, S. C; Representative Burnett, of Alabama, and Senator Bacon, of Georgia. The object of the proposed canal, as stated to the committee, is to connect - the food-producing states ot Illinois, In diana and Ohio with the labor-employing . mineral and cotton belts 01 the soutn. The canal would have its northern ter minus near Cairo, 111., and its southern end at Brunswick, Ga. Prohibition Choir for Salisbury. Salisbury, N. C, May 5. The prohibi- tion forces in Salisbury are organizing a big choir to furnish music in the ag-J gressive temperance campaign here dur- ing the coming two weeKs. ITor. A. 1. Ruby, of Ohio, has been employed to direct the music for the aerie of mam moth temperance meetings to be con ducted by the Rev. George Stewart, of Tennessee; the liev. n. w. J. Mom, ot' Georgia, and W. T. Rutledge, of New , York. - :' j 1.1 I. 1 . .-. Secretary Wilson to Speak at Sumter. Washington, D. C, May 5. Secretary of Agriculture Wilson, accompanied by Representative Lever, of South Caro lina, will leave here Thursday for Sum ter, that state, , where he Is scheduled to deliver an address on Friday, - -' . -f- . '.'' TV
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