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t : J y V jgTCents the Copy. INDEPENDENCE IN ALL THINGS. SuHscription Price, $1.00 Per Year in Advance. COLUMBUS, N. Ci, THURSDAY, DECEMBER !3, 1906. VOL XII. NO. 33. NT mm miMLii bher Rear-End Crash and Negligence me .iau&e 0 TRAINMEN ARE VICT MS Kinnev. of Thomas- (Sue, Brother of the Engineer Who W Such Narrow Escape Thanks- J 1 v . 1 ' '.TT T Day, ana liraxeman w. x. Killed Outright No. 34 Tel- WviUe Fire Follows the Wreck La Number Injured, of Whom at Least One WiU.Die. Dinville, . - Va., Special Another ;ad horror on the Southern J irh in many respects resemDies mat Lawyers nine days ago, which re- r was enacted in the yards here .nv'nv morning at about 4 o'clock. ro persons . were killed outright, if a dozen more or less injured, on3 i wliom will die as a result of their -.juries. . ; Train No. 34, northbound, a solid illrcaa and passenger train, crash- u tne rear 01 ireignt iram iv. r which was standing on the main ne. The engine ploughed through cabooso and demolished several he Jars ahead of it. Fir8 followed the treck and the local department was ailed out.. Four or five cars were Esumed and others badly damag The Dead and Injured. Engineer George C. Kinney, of No. IL was scalded to death and urate- an W. B. King burned to a- crisp . ! 4 L - 1 i.1 .,e uome oi rvinney, wno is a. uroiucr if -Will A. Kinney, the engineer on e train that crashed into Spencer's it. is at Thoniasville, N.;C.l King's ome is in Danville. The seriously injured are: H. M. 'itterson, of Ckathamr brakeman, in about the head and shoulders Li leg broken. ' . 0. J. Mull, of Columbia, S. C, flag pan oi 2o. az.- DacK sprained ana art about the head. 0. O. Mailer, postal clerk, slightly ;:rt. .... Robert Ford, colored fireman on p. 34, injured internally and will lieiv die. Several of his bones were taken. The blame for the wreck rests np n two employes of the Southern flagman Mull, of No. 82, who was in jured, and one or the other of tne op erators at Danville and Nearjolu Hock stations. -When the freight came to a standstill it was' the duty ot the flagman to go back and place a danger signal for any approaching train and the information so far shows that Mull did not do this. Operator Skenille, at Danville, and Operator Clellons, at .Neapolis, make Muradietory statements regarding 'iie sending and. receiving, of orders. f a dear block for No. 34 and only official investigation will bring out to real, facts! Dispatcher Skenille, t Danville black station, was former at Ruiuroon and was succeeded by 'lattox, who is held responsible for tbe-ref'cnt big wreck at Lawyers. An investigation hv the local police au- thoritifs v.ill be" held in the mayor's wurt Tuesday-morning CD - -- Wreck at China Grove. fhinav Grove, Special. Several px-cars of southbound freight train Ko. i) were derailed here. A num- were comnlptelv f1molislifd. hut ier Nobody Vas hurt ho nhinf ' fpfltiir w the wreck was the inconvenience J Mssp'niro,. 4- : ti.. is to ppmpletely blocked, and unable. Pass at 11:30. Discharge.!' Ne? Soldiers Armlv for Ec-Enlistment. Vv'nshington, Special At the in- stai fe of .Secretary Taf t Sergeant awis and Private Elmer Brown, of tile Tivnnfv T..r....r - .nLj -x xi.ui xiiiauii, tuiuicu, (I . U1(i.vith the military secretary "ap Pbeations for re-enlistment in the arijiv One of these has "been.-refer-(! to the President in order , that he lay determine whether or not any of Tf.tn of the Twentv-fifth Infantry 'were recently discharged with al honor shall be re-enlisted and if S(J what conditions. Y;pn2 Men Ueeded-For the Navy. aslnno-ton, Special. "We want . 1'irr nnen to command the ships X lmvV said Admiral Dewey, u -r an interview with the president, . and the only way to accomplish it . retne officers early. " This re fls S0"Sht to, be attained by the na went of the naval personnel bill d ifVl,e - Admiral discussed with the resident. REVIEW OF WORK OF CONGRESS What Our National Lawmakers Are Doing From Day to Day Taft to Give Information. The resolution of Senator Penrose calling the President or all the facts regarding the discharge of the negro troops belonging to the Twenty-fifth Infantry, was ; received at the White House and at onea turned over by the resident to Secretary Taft, who will furnish the information desired. The Foraker resolution, which also was passed at the same time, but which is directed to the Secretary of War, had not been received by Secretary raft up to a late hour Friday. Sec retary Taft , said, however, upon re turning from I the cabinet meeting, that he would 'comply with both reso lutions to the fullest extent. Simplified Spelling. V Simplified spelling received a hard bolw in the legislative bill for 1908 reported to the House by the com mittee on appropriations, which says: Hereafter m printing documents authorized -by low or ordered by Congress or either branch thereof the Government Printing: Office shall follow the rules of orthography es tablished by Webster's or other gen erally accepted dictionaries of the English language. ' ' The bill carries an appropriation of $31,215,525, which is $685,842 less than the estimates made for the leg islative, judicial and executive De partments of the government. An increase from $1,200 to $1,000 is made in the allowance to members of the House for clerk hire, and th requirement that ... members certify they have spent this amount is omit ted. " Efforts to take up the bill confer ring citizenship upon the citizens of Porto Rico, reported . from the com mittee on insular affairs of the House were defeated by objections of the' Democrats. An Important" Measure. During th3 three hours the House was in session it passed a bill which has the enthusiastic endorsement of labor as well as manufacturers gen erally, repealing that, portion of v the Wilson inter-state 5 commerosThill re lating to convict-made goods and pointing the several States to regu late their competition with "free labor." made grods. The bill was introduced by Mr. Hunt, of Missouri, himself a practi cal stonemason. Under the Wilson bill, which became a law in 1890, con vinct labor-made goods may enter in to active competition with the goods manufactured by "free labor" and under this Federal law a State could not pass a law that would prevent the shipping into the State prison made goods of other States. The law which was passsd abrogates the inter State commerce law as at present ap plied to convict-made goods, thereby affording to the , different States and Terril orias the , right to inhibit the shipping of convict-made goods with in the confines of any State or Terri tory. ' " Senator Simmons gave further at tention to the case which he. is to make out against Federal officehold ers in North Carolina, who have been perniciously active- in political mat ters. He confered- with Mr. Degraw, Fourth Assistant Postmaster general concerning the specific charges which have been made against Daggerhart, the rural free delivery carrier, who, it is alleged, tried to break up a meet ing in Iredell county, at which Mr. Hackett was to speak. Mr. Djjgraw said that the inspector assigned to look into this matter had not yet com pleted his report, but he thought it would be at hand in a very few days. Mr. Degraw enfirmed the report given out by the civil service 4 commission that an agent would be sent from tho department to accompany Commit sioner Green when he smarts on his tour of investigation to the State to look into charges against Federal of fice holders. . Minority leader John Sharp Wil liams declared it to be his intention to recommend Representative Small for membership on the rivers and har bors committee, a recognition that is being urgadby the entire North Car olina delegation. Mr. Williams is re puted to have said that Mr. Small wa3 his first choice, and that if Speaker Cannon did not approve or this recommendation he would . next endorse Representative Ellerbe South Carolina.' v Japs Want Naturalization. Washington, Special., Favorable actioiv, by Congress on the recommen dation of the president in his last an nual message - that an -act be "passed specifically providing for the natural, ization of Japanese who corns to the United States intending to become American. citizens, will go far toward securing a continuance . of , .tjietradit-. ional friendly relations between this CGontry and Japan, in the opinion of Viscount Aoki. the Japanese ambas- sador. . '. f I Items of Interest Prom Many Parts of the State MINOR HATTERS OF STATE NEWS Happeniags of More or Less Import ance Told in Paragraphs The Got ton Markets. State Auditor Submits Report. Raleigh, Special. State Auditor B. F. Dixon transmitted to Governor Glenn his annual report and recom mendations for the year just past. The principal recommendation re garding the inconsistency of 45 coun ties of the State receiving more mon ey, for schools, etc., than they pay in in taxes.' Mr. Dixon urges that kind of a tax commission be estab lished to equalize the tax valuation. As it is, in one county tax there may be a tax valuation of 80 per cent of the cash valuation, while in another only 40 per cent. In other words some counties as it is now, are paying twice as much as others. According to the report of the State auditor, a general summary of the State finances shows a balance on hand, general fund, to Dec. 1st, of $338,882, and an educational fund of $56,525, . making a grand total of $394,698. The total debt of the State, inter est and non-interest" bearing, is $6,879,450.- r Investments of the State aggregate $323,550. During the past year the State has paid to the old soldiers in pensions $273,479. These payments are to 14035 old soldiers, an increase in pensioners over last year of 719. There are now 116 old veterans.be ing cared for at the Soldier's Home, and there is a balance due them in the treasury of $2,793 from last year's appropriation. An Increase of $886.45 Charlotte Postal . Sales. ' . l.harlotter -Special.-The . receipts of the post office last month from the sale of stamps, stamped envelopes, postal cards and postage on second class matter amounted to $8,312.99. For the same month last year they were $7,426.54, showing an increase of $SS6.4o. The money order depart ment deposited during November $29,200.50, for the corresponding month last year $2o,400, making an increase of $3,400. Rural carriers handled during the past month 29,627 peices of first class, 26,224 pieces of second class matter and 14,038 circulars or odd matter, making a total of 69,8S9. Run Over and Killed. Raleigh, Special. W. A. Stuhkle, a prominent young business man of this city, was run over and instantly killed by a, dray wagon early Thurs day morning. One side of his head was crushed and the shaft of the wag on also penerating the back of his head. He was ridinsr a bicycle, and. turning a corner sharply, . collided with the dray. He was a member of the firm of W: A. Stunkle & Co., steam fitters and plumbers -and was well thought of here. Case Workers Meet. Winston-Salem, Special. - The North Carolina Case Workers' AssO ciation met in this city Wednesday the session being held in the assem bly room of Hotel Zinzendorf. There was a large attendance of manufacr turers and after a thorough discus sion it was deciced that if the manu facturers would make a profit on cap ital they have invested it would be necessary to advance present prices on account, of the continued, advances in the cost of material and timber. The Rice Crop, x Washington, Special. -The Census bulletin says the capital invested in rice clearing and polishing establish ments for the calendar year, 1904, aggregate $8,821,099. Products were valued at $16,296,916. The rough x-.e milled was valued at $12,631,1 from which $15,357,133 worth of clean rice and $SS5,200 by-products is obtained. To Build New JaiL - Asheville, Special. The Buncombe county commissioners have decided to build a new jail to replace the present very unsatisfactory struc ture. .The. estimated cost of the new building will be in the neighborhood of $40,000. A; committee will be appointed to visit, the jails in many of the larger cities and towns," with view of obtaining -information in regard to? modern structures of this character, so that new features may be incorporated in the. new building. BULLET FELLS EX-SENATOR. Artarar Bro-vrn, Tonner, United States C Einator Prom Utah Shot and Seri- ously Wounded by Mrs. Anna 21. Bradley, of Salt Lake City. Washington, D. C, Special. Form er United. States Senator Arthur Brown, of Utah, lies in a critical con dition in Emergency Hospital, from a pistol shot wound in the abdomen inflicted by Mrs. Anna M. Bradley, of Salt Lake, ,who arrived here Saturday from that ; city. The shooting occur red in Senator 'Brown's apartments in he 'Hotel Raleigh, where Mrs. Brad- e'y ' also had registered under the name of "A. B. Brown." She was taken in custody and was locked up for the night in the matron's room of the First Precinct police station. Two shots were fired, one glazing Brown 's left hand ahd the other en- ering the- abdomen and lodging in he pelvic cavity. After working over him for nearly two hours, the sur geons decided that for the present at east they would make no further at empt to find the bullet. It was stat ed that while Senator Brown's con dition was critical, his wounds are not necessarily fatal. No Witness to Shooting. Mrs. Bradley arrived here shortly after noon. After being assigned a room she immediately went to Sena tor Brown's apartment. There were no witnesses to the shooting, but a floor maid heard the shots and noti fied the management. According to her statement, Mrs. Bradley came to Washington to demand that Senator Brown . marry her. She said that their relations were well known in Salt Lake. "I asked him if he was going to do the right thing by. "me," she said, maintaining a remarkable t S TT a 1 composure, "ills reply was tnatne put on his overcoat and started to leave the room .and I shot him." I ab hor acts of this character, but in this case it was fully justified." t Whilexpressing no' sorrdwf or her act, she was glad to know that Sena tor tsrown might recover. l was practically penniless when I got hera today, ' ' she , said, 1 ' having only $1.25, and after paying" the cabman, all the money I had in the world was $1.00." She said she urged Senator BrOwn to marry her, that he had been mstru mental in the divorce between her husband and herself, and that as his wife was dead he now could "do the right thing" by her. This she said he positively refused to do. Tells Senator Her Story. Mrs. Bradley is a brunette,- about 38 years old, and" frail of statue. Her first act after being taken to the po lice station was to send for Senator Sutherland, of Utah, who called on her. Senator Sutherland regretted be ing brought into the case, but said that Mrs. Bradley had sent for him because he was the ony man here whom she knew. To him she told the story of 'her .relations'1 with Senator Brown. She alleged that two of her children owe their parentage to Sen ator Brown and that she had nam ed one of them after him. Mrs. Bradley was reluctant, to speak of her former husband, but questioning brought out the facts that he now is living in Nevada with a second Wife. Further' questioning disclosed the fact that Mrs. Bradley for two years, 1900 and 1902, had served in the ca pacity of secretary to the Utah State Republican committee and also at on.1 time was editor of the official organ of the State Federation of Women's lilies, one declared tnat sne nad a. sister in the newspaper business in Salt Lake City, but that she would not communicate with memberr of her family because she knew that they would come to her assistance Manager Talty, of .the Raleigh, "was notified of the shooting within two or three minutes after, it occurred. He hurried to Senator Brown's apart ment to ascertain the facts. Brown Retains Consciousness. ' Senator Brown, despite the serious ness and shock of the wound, retained consciousness and was perfectly calm and collected. He made no state ment to Mr. Talty beyond saying that he had bean shot by Mrs. Bradley. The woman continued in the room while Mr. Ttatly was attending to Senator Brown, but offered no - as sistance. Finally, ' Mr. Tat'ly ordered her to leave the room. She declined with absolute coolness to comply with the order. "I will remain here," she said, "ll am the mother of two of his chil dren." J .. An officer from the first precinct J police station placed Mrs. Bradley un der, arrest. She made no resistance and offered no further explanation of the shooting. .She Vwas asked for a statement of the incident, but referred all those who , inquired to Senator Sutherland, of Utah. - CORNELL BOYS DIE . ' IN GHAPTER HOUSE FIRE Three Prominent Ithacans, Vol unteer Firemen, Also Perish. .SEVER STUDENTS WERE HURT Members of Oil Psi Fraternity. Sacri fice Their Own Lives to Rescue Comrades Penned in Upper Sto riesVictims Trapped Asleep. Ithaca, N. Y.r Four men students of Cornell University and three mem bers of the Volunteer Fire Depart ment of Ithaca were killed and seven students were injured in the burning of the Chi Psi Fraternity house on Cornell campus. Two bodies remain in the ruins. Thirty students lodged in the house, which originally was the Mc- Graw-Fiske mansion, and was the most palatial fraternity lodge at any college in the United States. All ex cept three escaped when the fire was discovered roaring up both stairways at 4 o'clock a. m. Two of the victims died as heroes, returning to rescue comrades, and the three firemen were killed together under a falling wall. Students Dead. Grelle, Ferdinand W., twenty, South Orange, N. J., freshman in en gineering school; body missing. McCutcheon, James, Jr., Pittsburg, halfback on Cornell eleven, sopho more class; died in hospital. . Nichols, William Holes. Chicago, s6nior class; body not positively iden tified. Schmuck, Oliver Leroy, Hanover. Pa., senior class; jumped from third story after trying to rescue Nichols; died in hospital. Volunteer Firemen Dead. Landon, E. J., salesman, Ithaca. Robinson,. Alfred S.. lawyer, Ith aca, graduate of Cornell. Rumsey, John C, hardware mer chant, Ithaca. Students Injured. Pope. Clarence J., East Orange, N. J., freshman; football eleven; went back to rescue comrade; probably fa tally burned. ; - ; , , : Curry; Henry M., Pittsburg; burned attempting with,. Pope to rescue a comrade. DeCamp, H. S.. New York. : Goetz, W. W., Milwaukee. Powers, R. R., Atlanta. Sailor, G. R., Pittsburg. Uiblein, H. -A., Milwaukee. The fire started in the kitchen, and when H. S. DeCamp, a New York student, who lodged on the third floor, was awakened by smoke , and gave ' the alarm, the flames had reached the hall on the first floor and started up both stairways, cutting off escape from the upper floors. DeCamp shouted to awaken the men on the third floor and ran through the blinding smoke to the attic. From a window he slid down the vines and ran to another chapter house and a student, there sent in an alarm from the nearest box on the campus. v Most'of the students roomed on the third floor, and they were confronted by injury if they jumped, death if they remained. Oliver Schmuck got safely out of the building before he discovered that his roommate, Nichols, had not followed him. He dashed back through the flames, but could not find his friend. DriveD, finally, to save himself, he had to jump from a third-story window. His - charred body was unconscious when carried away and he died within a few hours. McCutcheon gave his life, too, "re maining too long to assist other boys to "-escape He roomed with Curry and Pope. -McCutcheon was made helpless, before he would consent to flee. Then his comrades put him on the coping outside, a ; window, and having nothing with which to lower him to the ground, had to leave him there while, xo save their lives they escaped from the flame3 that drovo them out of a window. When men from a neighboring fraternity house got a ladder up to the window Mc Cutcheon was nearly dead. Grelle and Nichols finally retreated to the tower, where from a window they called for help. The volunteer firemen had arrived by this time, hav ing taken a half hour to get their apparatus up the steep hills that arc everywhere in Itnaca. They were stringing a hose alongside the tower when the two students appeared there. It was impossible to rescue them, and they hesitated to jump. Firemen and , student3 in horror watched the farnes, fanned by a forty-mile gale, lick up the structure be low the helpless boys. Suddenly the tower crumbled, the two penned-in victims fell .-.with it, and underneath were three of the firemen volunteers. Charged With Embezzlement. Embezzlement of about S6S, 000 is charged against J. E. Hutchinson, former " sacretarvt treasurer of the J Delta Cotton Company at Memphis. Tenn Russian Seamen Strike. Eleven thousand seamen at Odessa, Russa,-. struck because of the sup rression by the Government of the Seamen's Union. v . , Italians Improve Railways. The Ita'inn Govevirrnent asked'for $1S2.000,COO to Improve the; railr roads. n RUSSIA'S FINE HORROR About 20,000,000 People Face to Face With Starvation Crops in Seven Provinces Fail and in Twenty-one Har rests Are Very Poor Parents Sell Girls. .-, St. Petersburg, Russia. Princes G. E. Lvoff and Orbeliani, the repre sentatives of the Moscow1 zemstvo famine relief organization, who have -just returned from the stricken tricts, have . given the following de- '. scriptlon s of the conditions: in i tlur f amine provinces: - . - '.' The crops in seven provinces. Sa mara, Saratov, Bembirskr Kazan, , Penza, Tambov and Ufa, were prac tically total failures. In twenty-one-provinces - the har vests-.were very poor. - About twenty million people will need assistance for from four to ten months to stave off starvation, until the new crops are available. Contrasted with other years the pres ent famine is the largest since 1891, that of 1905, though affecting eigh teen million persons, being far less intense. In some regions the inhabitants have been suffering from starvation for ten years, passable crops having been gathered in only two out ot the ten years. Prince Lvoff believes the Government estimate of $50,000,000 for famine relief Is inadequate. The Moscow zemstvo relief organization calculates that $75,000, 000x and pos sibly more will be necessary. ' Though the conditions in the fam ine regions are now most distressing, the real terrors vill begin in Janu ary. The zemstvo Organization funds. $300,000, will then be exhausted, and the Relief Committee will be compelled to cease their ; efforts to save the lives of the starving peas ants. Prince Lvoff complained that the local officials, for political rea sons, are interfering with the estab lishment of soup kitchens and the rendering of medical, assistance. He reported a number of cases where petty functionaries prohibited assist ance being given to famine sufferers. . The villages are convulsed by agrarian troubles, though the inhab itants are actually In the greatest need of food. Hunger, and epidemics of typhus and scurvy, which usually begin in February, have already -ap peared in these provinces, Tula. Kazan and Samara, and as the win ter progresses more epidemics are an ticipated. . "' On the strength of his practical knowledge Prince Lvoff reaffirmed the.truth of the report, lately official ly denied, that girls in Kazan Prov ince had been sold into slavery , and, taken to Mohammedan harems in the Caucasus. He said the sales were masked under the guise of entering domestic service, but that did not affect the truth of the first statements made. Hundreds of families in the Volga provinces, the Prince added were flocking to the already over- populated towns, ' : Prince Orbeliani, who extended his trip to the Turgai steppes, said that a famine was raging among the Kir ghiz and the Bashkir tribes. The horses, and cattle of these nomad tribes were perishing from hunger and the owners were killins: them for their hides. The tribesmen, accord-. ipg to the Prince, will face complete ruin next year. - -,4 SHIP CAPTAIN FROZEN. r Died After Reaching Shore With Crew SrJlor Lost. Digby, N. S. Captain Berry; of the three-masted schooner Emma. Il. Har vey, was frozen to death near "here after the Harvey had gone to pieces, and he and all but one of hi3 crew had forced their way through the, breakers to land. One seaman was. drowned, but the other, members -of the crew found shelter and were re vived. The Harvey, of Bucksport, Me., sailed from Applesland, N. S., bound for New York, -with a cargo of lum ber. Coming down the western coast or Nova Scotia she had a constant fight, with wind and wave, and- en countered a terrific gale. Driven be fore the northweste, with the tern--perature hovering 'about the zero mark, the Harvey- reached a point just off Sloan's Cove, eight miles east of Digby Gut, when a ? tremendous gust of wind hurled the three-master ashore and every man on board was thrown into the water. The captain came ashore with the others, but fell on the beach some distance away and was frozen to death. One seaman was drowned after the vessel went to pieces. ; ' TOWN RUINED BY FLOOD. Clifton, Ariz., Dam.IJreaks, Destroy ing Life and Property. ' Bisbee, Ariz, j Anywhere from seven to twenty persons are reported drowned in the flood that came down the San Francisco River and Chase Creek and struck! the town of' Clifton. The principaLbusiness section of the town was almost ruined. The flood was caused by the bursting of the Detroit dam. Mrs. Joseph Throm was caught in a falling building and killed. The other members of the family had narrow escapes. One' bf the saloons which was washed away carried several men into the raging: water and they are believed to hava been drowned. A woman and a child 'were lost in a small restaurant which was dashed to pieces in the . flood .4 i , I ! .:.- ' I 1