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t,-f...:.T The News A paper for all the people and for the people all the time. Read it and keep posted. WEATHER Local showers today; somewhat cooler in west portion; Monday fair. VOL. m. NO. 267 , STATE EDITION GBEENSBOBO, N. C. SUNDAY, AUGUST 1(5, 1908 STATE EDITION. PRICE FIVE CENTS TUFT POPULAR SOUTHLAND SAYS DR. RAY Well-Known Divine Says Mr. Taft Will Poll Heavy Vote Hereabouts. DUTIES CARRY HIM ALL THROUGH SOUTH .Dr. Gray, a Democrat, is Recording Sec retary of the Home Mission Board of Southern Baptist Church, and Has Felt Southern Pulse. Baltimore. Md., Aug. 15. Predicting that William H. Taft will receive the largest vote in the south ever polled by a Republican candidate for Presi dent, the Rev. Dr. B. D. Gray, of Atlan ta, Ga., corresponding secretary of the Home Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Church, arrived in Baltimore re cently after an extended trip through many of the southern states. Dr. Gray registered at the Rennert, and will re main in the city for several days. Politically, the southern divine is a Democrat!, but he is one of those Demo crats who do not believe that Mr. Bryan has any chance of success at the polls in November. Sitting in his room at the Rennert Dr. Gray did not hesitate to say to reporters that Taft would win an easy victory and that more votes would be cast for him by the people south of Mason and Dixon's line than have ever gone to the support of a Re publican candidate in the south since the party was organized. The Republican candidate, Dr. Gray went on to explain, was considered a (Continued on Page Three.) AMERICAN FLEET OFF AFTER STAY OF SEVERAL ' DAYS INJEW ZEALAND Splendid Scene as Atlantic Squad ron Sails Out of Sydney's v Harbor. BANDS PLAY NATIONS' AIRS Auckland, N. Z., Aug. 15. The Amer-1 ican Atlantic fleet departed from Sydney at 8.15 o'clock this morning. The weather was fine and large crowds were ashore and afloat to bid farewell to the Americans. Excursion craft loaded to the rails dotted the harbor. As anchors were hoisted and the flagship pointed lier nose toward the mouth of the harbor, pandemonium reigned. The shore bat teries belched forth parting salutes which were answered by the American ships, and the whistles and sirens on the ex cursion flotilla resounded across the har bor and were reechoed by the distant Americans. The American ships were kept buBy dipping their flags to answer to the salu tations of the New Zcalanders. The fleet steamed with precision of alignment out of . the harbor and many of the excursion craft followed it far to sea. The sight when the .ships left the anchorage was a magnifieient one, the flagship Connecticut turning and steam ing between the lines of battleships, which turnwr in order and followed her to sea. Sir Joseph Ward, the premier and a large number of officials were aboard the government steamer, and as each battleship passed Sir Joseph led the rousing cheers for the Americans. The battleship Kentucky, which was the last in line, responded lustily with cheers for New Zealand and the bands on both vessels played the British and (Continued on Page Two.) THREE LIFE CONVICTS ESCHPEF MADE THEIR BREAK MIDWAY BE TWEEN TWO GUARD STATIONS. NOT RECAPTURED. Columbus, Ga., Aug. 14. Three life convicts, negroes, escaped today from the camp at the Muscogee Brick Com pany, in this county, although fired at several times by the guards. The convicts mide' their break at a point midway between the two guard stations and about fifty yards from each guard Thy ,unet4ed in epring ing into a ditch, dodged their way through some tall cotton, and then lost themselves in the woods nearby. The negroes were chained, but not , akwely. M. A. Chandler, a ton of Gov rsor Chandler, is warden of the ounp, SPRINGFIELD HAS MARTIAL LAW A S RESULT Three Are Dead, Including One Negro Who Was Brutqiynched, a White Man and a Third fl Lung by a Stt ay Bullet Several Are Injured. Springfield, 111., Aug. 15. The ',.'' city is under martial law today, following the reign of riot, arson and slaughter last night, which resulted in the death of three men, the wounding of fifty more and the destruction of hundreds of thou sands of dollars worth of property by an infuriated mob. Charles Hunter, a negro porter, has been lynched. Throughout the night live thousand men searched the negro quarters in an attempt to find the negro assail.. nt of a white woman. The negro had been spir ited out of town, and when they learned of this fact, the mob turned in fury upon the other blacks of the city. . The negro quarters were fired and when the fire department responded to the alarm the rioters kept them from fight ing the flames. Police and special dep uties were overawed, and not until the arrival this morning of companies of militia from Peoria, Pekin and Decatur to reinforce the local company, which had already been called out, was even the semblance of order restored. The dead are: Charles Hunter, a ne gro, lynched; Louis Johnson, shot in head, and M. D. Scott, shot through the lung by a stray bullet. Injured: Albert Sidener, shot in the face; John Caldwell, shot, stomach; Rob ert Oakley, negro, shot in head; Louis Hahen, shot in face and chest; W. H. IS SHOT AND KILLED BY H Y A CAPTAIN OF U.S. William E. Annls Charged With Improper Relations With Slayer's Wife. CAPTAIN HAINS ARRESTED Bayside, L. I., Aug. 15 Capt. Peter C'onover Hains, Jr., U. S. A., son of Brig-Gen. Peter Conover Hains, U. S. A., retired, fired five bullets from a revolver into William E. Annis, owner and pub lisher of Burr-Mclntosh's Monthly and other magazines, late today on the land ing stage of the Bayside Yacht Club, Flushing, and Annis, whom Captain Hains brought here, and whom he had accused ot having been improperly at tentive to the captain's wifeti died in the Flushing hospital a few hours after the shooting. ' A crowd of gaily dressed women and yachtsmen, among whom was Mrs. An nis, witnessed the tragedy. Captain Hains, accompanied by his brother, Thornton Jenkins HaiiiB, well known as an author and amateifr yachts man, walked to the landing stage of the club as Annis anda club member named ltarwuy were disembarking from a boat, and at once opened fire upon the man whom he holds responsible for the dis dupting of his home. Annis attempted to get behind Harway, but Captain Hains reached under Harway's arm and emptied his revolver upon his enemy. Immediately there was commotion on the clubhouse veranda. Mrs. Annis fainted and a dozen yachtsmen rushed to the float to the assistance of Annis. Be fore they could get to the side of the wounded man, however, T. J. Hains, thee aptain's brother, whipped a revolver ' (Continued on Page Two.) .: JOHN RICHARDS OF MURDER OF M. K. FRANCIS Floyd County School Teacher Jury Exposure Roanoke, Va., Aug. 14 The fifth trial in Floyd county of John Richards, the school teacher charged with the murder of his rival in love, Maurice K, Francis, of Roanoke, ended today in acquittal. The first, second and fourth trials re sulted in disagreement. The ; third trial resulted in conviction o' murder in the first ciejiee and Richards was sentenced to be hanged. The Supreme Francis was killed while on his' way to see Miss Oracle Link, his fiance, to set a date for their wedding. Richards had been a nuitor for bar -hand aaeVh v.. ananAAfoH fit fit Uilltntf - . ImuWfat-)! t the end. of tV third OF RIOTS Sh in the Head ,i Shot Through Bow, shot in right lung; Patrick Camp bell, policeman, beaten by negroes. Throughout the early hours today ad ditional troops reached the city by spe cial trains. It is believed the" situation is now under control and that there will be no further outbreaks. The commun ity, however, is still at fever heat. All the saloons are closed today. Taking in -a long rectangular section of the city the mob burned every; home occupied by a negro. The mob was starting to fire the houses of the better class of negroes when the soldiers ar rived and the first bloodshed followed. The troops ordered the mob back. Two volleys were fired overhead, but the mad dened crowd came on. A third volley was then nred into the mass of rioters, the soldiers aiming low so that they would not kill. Immediately following came me lyncning' ot Hunter. I he ne gro was set upon by the crowd and badly beaten. He then drew a revolver and fired. The mob swept him down in a jiffy, a rope was secured, tossed over the limb of a dead tree and be mis erable wretch swung into eternity. One of those injured was Eugene W. Chafin, prohibition candidate for the presidency, who was struck on the side of the head with a brick while trying to protect an escaping negro. Plans were made early today by Gov ernor Dcneen for caring for negroes whose homes have been destroyed. The state arsenal will be thrown open and tents will be pitched for their accom modation. Guards will be placed about them. '. , - Negro's Brutal Crime. The woman assaulted was Mrs. Hal- lam, whose, husband works at night. She , i r . i i i i i . was urajtgea iruin me nouse ac minnigni and outraged. There had been a number of crimes in the city by blacks, and this last thoroughly aroused the people and they went on the warpath at once. The lynching of Hunter was the most atrocious act of the night and a fitting climax to the maddened and infuriated barbarity that grew greater as the mob became drunken with frenzy and liquor. Hunter was accused of shooting a white man named Jim Hayes. He escaped and it was shortly, after two this morning when he was seen standing in the door way of his home. A bystander describ ed what followed: "There was no one near while a man (Continued on Page Two.) IT BUFFALO XT Ml END EMPIRE STATE STAKES OF $10,000 EASILY WON BY M'BINNEY STALLION. Buffalo, "N. Y., Aug. 15.--The two days' grand circuit meet here closed to day with Hie running of three stake events. The feature was the $10,000 Empire state Btake for 2.11 trotters. This big race was won handily by the speedy McKinney stallion, Carlokin, owned and driven by W. G. Durfee, the California horseman. The California horse had to step the first mile in 2.08 1-4, equalling his record made in Peoria, to beat the challenger, Locust Jack, in a fine struggle in the stretch. 2.16 class trot, stake, $2,000 Alaste won in four heats; Aquin, second; Raf fles, third. Best time, 2.09 1-2. 2.11 class trot, Empire State stakes, $10,000 Carlokin, won in straight heats; Dewitt, second; Locust Jack, third. Best time, 2.08 1-4. , ACQUITTED Not Guilty of Killing Rival, Says Kills Family, trial of Richards, his father, mother and eldest brother all died of pneumo' nia within period of week as a re suit of exposure in attending the trial. The parents were buried on tie same day, but the prisoner was not allowed to attend the funerals for fear of lynch' ing. : . . The case has been one of the most re markable in the history of Virginia courts. Hallsburj Defeats Covenanters. " Tne ' CovenaWrs ' Wball . teain -of this city, went to Hallsburg, si miles south of Greensboro and played famoAyeatexfUyv or waa StoJ,,, itM ,m akrt, vpw uilt out a fa favor of Hallibwg. Views of Lovelace T? . -. - i is . .- . - & T',,,, I t CAPT. THOMAS T. LOVELACE, Who Was Injured By the Explosion of His Balloon. FIRE DESTROYS ODELL Four Other Buildings In Imminent Danger. But They Were v Saved. FIRE CAUSED BY HOT BOX Concord, N. C, Aug. 15.Mill Ko. 4 of the Odell Manufacturing Comany lo cated here was burned to t'he ground this morning at 11.45 o'clock entailing a loss of about $450,000, including build ing and machinery, fully covered by in surance. The four other buildings were in imminent danger of the flames for an hour or more, but they were saved. The 'burned building contained between 32,000 and 35,000 spindles on the third floor and about 1.3(H) looms on the sec ond floor and basement. It was the newest addition to the string of several mills. . . The fire originated in a hot box in the old basement of the building and went like a flash through the belt hole into t'he third floor. The employes, ac cording to custom on baturday, were at the time engaged . iri sweeping , up for the week and a large quantity of linters was broadcast over . the -floor. This gave the flames speedy headway and within a minute the; entire third floor was afire. The blase soon spread to the second floor and again to the basement, and it was seen at once by the nre'hghters that tue entire mulct inc was doomed. : The city fire department assisted by the well-equipped department ' of the mills Kept a stream ui . water uii me east end of . the dye-house, near the burning building, and thereby saved the other mills. It required heroic and swift work to keep the flames from snreadinir from window .to, window on account of the nearness of .the several buildings. The sheet roofing on Mill No. 4 also helped to prevent the spreading of the flames. It is stated that the entire plant of the Odells is fully insured. The five buildings are valued at $200,000 and the machinery at ...$850,000, the burned building being valued at about, one-half of the total amount.- The Odell Mills would have been sold at public auction in Concord on the 16th of next month following a decree of he United States circuit court for the west ern district of North Carolina. Ceasar Cone, of Greensboro, was appointed re ceiver for the mills about two years ago. . ' - ' ' The Odell Mills proper, consist of Mills Kos. 1 to 5, inclusive, situated at the head of North I'nion street and con tain together 28,192 spindles, 1,775 looms, with it he necessary subsidiary machinery, power plants, etc. The real estate upon which these mills are situ ated and to be sold with them, contains about 100 acres, and on it are the com pany's stores and warehouses, office buildings, etc. The mill buildings are substantial brick structures and vary in height from one to four stories. The Buffalo Mill is a brick structure containing three stories and basement, with 15,616 spindles and the necessary and usual subsidiary machinery, power plant, etc., with about thirty acres of land, on which is situated 26 tenement houses, warehouses, etc. The properties mentioned under first and 'seeoiid Items all lie within-the oity limits. Buffalo Mill ia located immedi ately upon the main line of the Southern Railway Company, with sidetrack run ning into tha property. , The OdellvMill V H Ml k ME : If '.tv? . BIB and Dirigible Balloon Which Burst i'2v CAPTAIN AND MRS. LOVELACE. MEETING OF CREDITORS OF THAW POSTPONED NDEFINITELY BY COURT No One Enters Appearance for Thaw and Referee Could Not Proceed. SOME OBSTACLE IN . WAY Pittsburg, Pa., Aug. 14. Because no one entered an appearance for Harry K, Thaw when his petition in bankruptcy was called ueiore neieree wmiam n. ..... n r T Blair today,, the fixing of a. date for the first hearing of creditors was postponed indefinitely and, it is said, will not now be considered until his attorney or some one else interested makes application to have the time fixed. Roger O'Mara, appointed, receiver for Thaw's estate when the petition was filed, and in a sense the local personal representative of Thaw, was not in the city today. He went to Poughkeepsie the early part of the week to confer with the prisoner and was last heard from in Philadelphia, where he stopped en route home. He ia presumed to be detained there by some feature of the case. - Former Gov. William A. Stone, Thaw's Pittsburg attorney, declined, to discuss any phase of the case today. There is a report current tonight that the attorneys have found in the pro ceedings up to date a serious obstacle, and 'that they feel .it is . necessary go overcome this obstacle before further proceedings are had, less it interfere with the plan to have Thaw brought here to face his creditors. Just what this obstacle is is not disclosed, but it is said that it concerns the eastern cred itors of Thaw. Burlington Shuts Out Gibsonville. Burlington, N. C, Aug. 15. Gibson ville was defeated PJ , the Burlington nin in fast game of baseball here this afternoon 'by the score of 1 to 0. The feature of the game was the pitching og Nowell for the local team and Smith lor the visitors. lubspnYiUe ha u strong Umrd ftwananasy task. for Bur JtoSlo--deWrtW- " - 31 S3 .tvfii n 4f tsv Ha .c y ill t r 1f M,ll( t) "itr i' Showing Comparative Site of Airship, and Its Appearance After Accident Last Year in Hampton Roads. : NEW YORK DEMOCRATS WILL HOLD CONVENTION IN ROCHESTER SEP. 15 Executive Committee Indorses Bryan and Kern and Nation al Platform. CONNERS QUITE CONFIDENT New York, Aug, 14. The Democratic state committee, in a ten-miuute session this afternoon voted to issue a call for the. Democratic state convention'; to be held in Rochester, September 15. The committee also adopted unanimously a resolution indorsing the : 'candidacy of VV. J. Bryan and John W. Kern and ex pressing the approbation of the plat form of the Denver convention. The resolutions were as follows: 1 "The state committee of the Demo cratic party of the Slate of New York, in meeting asseiubled, cordially-ratifies, approves and indorses" the action of the national convention at Denver in select ing as the standard-bearers of the party in the national campaign William .1. Bryan, of Nebraska, and John Y. Kern, of. Indiana. We believe that Jlr. Bryan stands out among the public men ..of the country as the embodiment of hon est'v.' integrity. 'patriotism and the other . Sum qualities which go to make up an ideal Tins was the result of the dclibera American statesman, and that in Mr. tions of the. county executive com nut tea Kern he has a worthy running mate! which met in this city yesterday at and one who sizes up well to the great j eleven o'clock in the county courthouse office of Vice-President. "We. strongly commend the platform adopted at Denver and believe that it well sets forth the principles of progressive-Democracy. "In the face of the great extrava gance of the present Republican admin istration, and its plain disregard of the best interests of the people we see on every side evidence of 'Democratic har mony and we call upon the voters of the State of New. York, regardless of party, to rally to the support of Bryan and (Continued on Page Two.) LONG BRUNCH BANKER SERIOUSLY INJURED THROWN FROM AUTOMOBILE WHEN IT COLLIDED WITH A CARRIAGE, Long Branch, N. J., Aug. !4. E. R. Durham, N. C, Aug. 15. Gen. Julian Thomas, former banker and race horse jS. Carr has received a letter from Gen. owner, was seriously injured here to- J Bennett H. Young, of Louisville, Ky., night when his automobile struck and!w,, told General Carr that he was com wrecked a carriage containing several Nw Yorkers who were on a pleasure drive. The horses attached to the car riage were fciUtd outright, the occupants of the carriage were thrown violently to the ground and Mr. Thomas and his chauffeur "were lurled twenty feet to - o Wf way. Mr. i nomas left. fcfi WM broken at tha luwe. CHAIRMAN ADAMS ONIiONS ISTEiC OF DEMOCRATS Shows That While They Abuse Trusts Will Do Nothing to Remedy Evl' WHEN GIVEN CHANCE FAIL TO PASS LAWS State Chairman in Addressing Wakt Convention at Raleigh, Discusses State and National Affairs Ticke Named. : . Raleigh, X. C, Aug. 15. The court house this afternoon contained a swel tering crowd of some several hundred iiien, almost all in their shirt sleeves mid with sollars omitted, the attrac tion being the speech of State Chair man Spencer i!. Adams before the coun ty Republican convention, which was made after the committees had retired for consultation. ; V. P. Barrow, a very active worker in the Republican club, presided,--' ..and introduced Judge Adams. hairman Adams said he would first devote his attention to state matters, and took up the legislature of 1D07. He declared that the Democrats had mada a great howl about trusts and combina tions, but lie bad not heard of a single solicitor drawing a bill against any of these. William AV. Kitchin had been in Congress twelve long years, but nobody had ever heard of his doing anything against the trusts, but on the contrary he hail done all in his power to obstruct all legislation sought to be enacted for the glory of this country. Then Chairman Adams ridiculed the railway rate war and said that Gover nor Glenn, whom he termed the double action and perpetual motion governor, had said he would drench the state in blood but what the taw should be en forced, Chairman Adams being afraid t one time he would be drafted into the army. Then he referred to Senator Reid and his bill against trusts, declar ing that the Democrats in the legisla ture had killed this and told Reid thev did not mean what they said, yet if Reid's bill had been made law and had been enforced, it would have broken up the trusts. Discusses National Matters. Passing on to national matters, Mr. Adams said that the pockets of Demo crats were full of petitions for federal jobs. He ridiculed Bryan and said the latter had actually selected his cabinet (Continued on Page Five.) CONVENTION SET FOR SEPTEIWBEB 1 2 Democratic County Committee ISets September 5 for Primaries. Convention Week Later. The Democratic primaries for Guilford county will be held on September 5 and the convention which will ratify the work of the primaries will be. on Sep tember 12, one week later. in answer to a call of Chairman E. A. Brown. - After the convention was called to or der a roll-call by Secretary Collins re vealed the fact, that' twenty-four pre cincts out of twenty-seven in the coun ty were represented. On motion of T. J. Murphy a committee of five was ap pointed to retire and select dates for the primaries and convention and to rec ommend rules for conducting the pri maries. The committee consisted of A. M. Bevill, E. D. Broadhurst, T. J. Mur- (Continued on Page Two.) GEN. DENNET H. YOUNC COMMANDER OF KENTUCKY Dl VISION OF U. C. V. TO BE AT MEETING IN TWIN CITY. I ing to tne annual reunion of tne JNortn Carolina division of the United Con federate Veterans to be held in Winston-Salem on August 19-20. General Young h major-general commanding the Kentucky division of the United Confed erate Veterans and when the national reunion was held in Louisville he enter tained, at his own expense, every vis iting veteran who was not able to pay for hit entertainment V
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