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folk mm. Subscription Price, $1.00 Per Year in Advance, COLUMBUS, N. C.,f THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 1907. VOL XII. NO. 38. Three Cents the Copy. INDEPENDENCE in ALL THINGS. IOWA MOB HANGS E Preachers and Women in Crowd at diaries City Jail. VICTIM WAS FEEBLu .MINDED James Gallon, Sixty rears of ge, a Tender ce Fanatic, Taken From a Colliaud HangeJ ou a Bridge. Waterloo, Iowa. It is estimated that 1000 persons, .some of -whom "were women and one or two preach ers, were in the mob that took James Cullen from the County Jail at Charles City and lynched him. Cul len was hustled to a bridge that spans tho Cedar Rivev and strung up there. The jail- forco was inade quate to keep out the lynching part. Cullen, who was sixty years old, and for years had been weak-minded, had been imprisoned for murdering his wife and his stepso There had "been a general impression in the country roundabout that Cullen might escape the full .penalty, as it was recalled that Louis Busse, a wife murd::er, -iad twice been reprieved, with a final commutation of his sen tence to Itie imprisonment' The prisoner was first taken to a vacant lo4- two blocks away from Cie main part of the city and told to say his prayers, as his time was short. Some of the crowd joined in the pray er with him. After praying Cullen -was hurried to the bridge. Practically the whole town followed the mob and their victim. No effort was made to stop fche lynching. Ar riving at the bridge the crowd halted. There was silence a moment. Some one offered another grayer, after "which a rope was placed about Cul len's neck and he wa: pushed over the bridge. Then the mob dispersed. Cullen's brother, i'.ichard Cullen, a hanker, of Warren, 111., was in the city at the time, but did not know anything' about the 1; aching until it was all over. The man had married three times, his former two wives both parting "from him. He h.d accumulated $50, 000. Men who participated In the affair said that they did not fear prosecu tion. They declared that they dis liked mob violence, but considered that if summary execution was ever justifiable it was in the case of Cul len. They declared that the estate of $5 0,000 would have been used to fight his case in the courts and that it would have been years before he would have met punishment, if ever. Cullen was always known as a man of bad temper and was eccen tric. He was a fanatic on the . ub ject of temperance and boasted that he had never taken a drink of liquor in his life. PABST HEIRS FINED $49,050.83. State Gets Judgment For Delay in Paying Inheritance ??ax. Milwaukee, Wis. Judgment of $195,245.62 has been granted-the State by Judge Carpenter against the estate of Captain Frederick Pabst in the inheritance tax proceeding. All of the heirs, except the widow, Tiaria Pabst, have to pay heavy penalties for failure to pay the inheritance tax within a year, as prescribed by stat ute. The penalty prescribed is ten per. cent. Mrs. Pabst, the widow, paid $2823. IS as the inheritance tax on her share. The total penalty which the State will receive is $49,650.S3. LICORICE COMPANIES GUILTY. But the Two Presidents, Also Indict ed, Escape. New York City. After deliberat ing three hours and a .half the jury in the United States Circuit Court found the MacAndrews & Forbes Company, of this city, and the J. S. Young Company, of Baltimore, guilty of forming an illegal combination and obtaining a monopoly of the lic orice paste business in the United States. At the same time the jury held the presidents of tbj defendant corporations. Karl Juiigbluth and Howard E. Young, no guilty of the same offences. FORMER QUEEN rlARY DEAD. Princess Alexandra ary Wilhelmina Succumbs to aU Operation. Gmunden, Upp'-V Austria. The Princess Mary of t uxe-Altenblrg, for mer Queen of HviT.over, who hd been suffering from, inguinal hernia, ne cessitating an operation, which was performed January 6, is dead. Princess Alexandra Mary Wilhel mina of Saxe-Altenburg was born in Hildburghausen, April 14, 1818. DUG HIS GRAVE. Cemetery Sexton Then Ended His Life by Shooting. Columbus, Ohio. Joseph Love, sixty yers. old, sexton of the ceme tery af Dresden, Ohio, committed suicide by shooting himself. Before doing so he went to the family lot and dug his own grave. His skull was injured in a boiler explosion years ago and he has been more or less mentally -unbalanced since. - ... IMF MURDERER STEAWSHIPTONCE 15 SAFE Tramp Tows Missing Liner Into Hamilton, Bermuda. Practically Given Up For Lost With Fifty-nine Aboard Found Drift ing With Tail Shaft Broken. :L. - ' Hamilton, Eermuda. After all hope had virtually been abandoned for her, the steamship Ponce, of the New York and Puerto Rico line, elev en days overdue from Puerto Rico, has at last been heard from and is safe. She was sighted off Hamilton in tow of the steamship Elizabeth Rickmers, having apparently been disabled and picked up on the high seas. Every one of the fifty-nine person? on board the Ponce is in good health. The officers, crew and passengers had a trying experience while the t.'-ip was drifting around before rescue came, but no fatalities occurred. The Elizabeth Rickmers will get about $100,000 for her salvage job. She towed th; Ponce for five days. The sea was smooth throughout, but the Elizabeth Rickmers, a craft much smaller than the Ponce, had all she could do to lug the crippled liner along. That the Ponce was safe became known at 9 o'clock, a. m., when the marine observer at the head of Mur ray's Anchorage sighted the smoke of a steamer in the offing. Within ten minutes it was seen that a tramp steamer had a larger vessel in tow, and the observer pres ently discovered the yellow and black funnel of the Ponce. The latter had no signal set, but there was no re taking her. Bermuda has been a haven for dis abled ships for some years. But the arrival of no crippled vessel made such an impression upon the people here as when the Ponce was towed in. Whistles were blown and flags were hoisted in her honor. The passengers oh board are: D. A. Fox and H. Bates, of New York; P. T. Kidd, of Westwood, N. J.; G D. Campbell, of Eoboken; Henry W. Rogers, of Philadelphia; Gregorio Santiago and Maria Mayoral, of Ponce, .orto Rico. To the correspondent who went aboard the Ponce, Captain Harvey said that the tail shaft of the vessel H . . jrHVn .1 )orfn . i -'Q v v i was four days out of Ponc. tp Chief Engineer James McMeikan, with his assistants, Dean and Way man, tried to make repairs but with out success. The vessel saw two sail ing vessels between the time thaJ, she left Puerto Rico and her breakdown. One of these was the ship Shenan doah. The Ponce drifted to the east ward for days without seeing any vessels until the Elizabeth Rickmers came along. Captain Harvey stated that In his opinion repairs to his vessel would require a week's time. The hull of the ship is in good condition and her cargo is undamaged. The seven pas sengers on board sent cables to their relatives at the expense of the com panjf. STRIKERS FLEE TO MOUNTAINS. Property Ruined at Oribaza Worth $1,500,000 Two Spaniards Killed. City of Mexico, Mexico. A tele gram from Oribaza says that the value of the mill property destroyed by the strikers totals $1,500,000. All of the property was owned by Ed uardo Garcin, a citizen of France. The strikers who escaped the soldiers have fled to the nearby mountains and are being hunted by the gen darmes and troops. So far as kno.wn none of the 26,000 textile workers has returned to work. An incident which may take on an international aspect, was the killing by the strikers of two citizens oi Spain. -.- m SANTA FE IS INDICTED. "9 Accused of Giving Rebates to an Ari zona Lime Concern. Los Angeles, Cal. The Federal Grand Jury returned two indictments against the Santa Fe Railroad Com pany, containing seventy-six counts. The railroad is charged in the first indictment with granting certain con cessions to the Grand Canyon Line and Cement Company, on shipments of lime from Nelson, Arizona, to cer tain California points and to John F. Shirlen. The seCond indictment charges the railroad company with giving rebates on lime. Two indictments were returned also against the Grand Canyon Lime and Cement Company for accepting rebates. pay: ASSASSIN EXECUTED. Eead of the Victim Preserved For mtification. St. Petersburg, RussiaThe as sassin of Liejutenaat-Gneral Pavloff, the Military Procurator of St. Peters burg, was executed at Lisynos, near Cronstadt. He refused to take the sacrament and died unidentified ana with the usual ehder for the revolu tion on his lips. The head of assassin was removed and preserved at the headquarters of the Political Police for possible indentification later. - No Excessive Stocks. The new year opens bright with promise in business circles, no exces sive stocks being carried over. KENTUCKY FEUDISTS STOP TRIAL FOR MURDER Mount ameers Threaten the Breat hitt County Court JUDGE CALLS FOR THE MILITIA f rial of Judge James Hargis, of Jack son, For Complicity in Assassin- ation of Dr. Cox Suspended to Avoid Bloodshed. Louisville, Ky. The trial of ex County Judge James Hargis, accused of complicity in tho assassination of Dr. B. D. Cox, has been postponed by an order issued by the Appellate Court at Frankfort, restraining Spe cial Judge Carnes from proceeding with the hearing of the case at the town of Jackson, in Breathitt Coun ty. When the order of the higher court arrived and was communicated to Judge Carnes, the little commun ity where the trial was to take place1 was being cleared is the battlefield for two opposing factions in the feud which has raged between Hargis and his enemies. The streets of the usu ally quiet village were full of moun taineers, heavily armed and ready to shoot. Before the postponement was or dered, Judge Carnes had been threat ened with death if he adhered to his determination to go on with the trial. Threats had also been made against the counsel for both sides and the talesmen in the case. Many expressed their unwillingness to serve as jury men, because of the certainty that, no matter what their decision, they would become marks for the bullets of one faction or the other. Realizing the danger of the situa tion and fearing bloodshed, Judge Carnes announced before adjourning court "that he had called upon Gover nor Beckham for troops to preserve order. The scene in the trial room as the Judge made this announce ment was significant of the excited state of feeling ovSr the case. The walls were lined by a score of mountaineers, who looked on and lis tened with faces that gave no sign of their intent ionsv r Yet their presence ih. -v. TBask, romtoundorstood by any Vn,4x-'ia2i -21 by the Judge him self. The jury box was empty, and nei ther the defendant or his attorneys were present in court. The attorneys for the Commonwealth and those closely allied with the prosecution were also absent. The obtaining of the writ followed a conference between the attorneys for the Commonwealth and others concerned with the prosecution. In urging that a writ be granted removing Snecir.l Judge Carnes, it was alleged thatj he refused a con tinuance asked by the prosecution in order Jthat absent witnesses might be procured; that he refused to quash the indictments requested by the prosecution in order that another might be secured; that he oruered that a jury be selected from bystand ers instead of chosen in the ordinary manner, and that he be appointed a special elisor to act in place of the County Sheriff in summoning by standers for the jury. Chicago's Share of Traction Receipts. Chicago's share of the net receipts from the traction companies provid ed for under the proposed settlement ordinances has averaged $3645.07 a day since the first of January. This average would mean $1,330, 43-0.55 a year. Both traction companies opened new books the first of the year with the city as a partner in the transpor tation business. BURNHAM BEATS CHURCHILL. New Hampshire Senator tb Have An other Term. Concord, N. H. Henry E. Burn ham, of Manchester, was renomin ated for United States Senator by the Republican legislative caucus, insur ing his election. His renomination was opposed by Winston Churchill's Lincoln Repub lican Club, which put forward Con gressman Frank D. Currier, of Ca naan; George B. Leighton, of Dub lin, and ex-Congressman Henry M. Baker, of Bow. He had 194 votes to seventy-nine divided among the oth ers, i The present Senator has had the support of the. Boston and Maine Railroad element in State politics. MAY MAKE CHICAGO BETTER. Great Wave of Spiritual Revival Spreading Over the City. Chicago. The revival fever has spread over the entire city, and in continuation of the services inaugu rated by Evangelists Tprrey and Gyp sy Smith, local pastors Aiave arranged to hold similar meetings at more than thirty points. It is reported that written records have been made of more than 500 conversions within the last four days through the meetings held in the Au ditorium, the Great Northern Thea tre, the First Congregational Church and the Moody Church. Root Wants Santo Domingo. Secretary Root tjfed a Senate com mittee that the United States must see Santo Domingo through its debt trouble or we will have to deal with a foreign intervention. , , , STEELWORKERS CREMATED 111 MOLTEN METAL Pittsburg Furnace Explodes and Victims Caught in Fiery Rain. ONLY CHARRED BONES REMAIN But One Man Escapes Uninjured Officials Lock Gates Police Drive Back Widows and Orphans Who Strive to Reach Their Dead. Pittsburg. The worst mill disaster in the Pittsburg district in years oc curred at 6.30 p. m., when an explo sion threw the entire contents of the Elixa blast furnace of the Jones & Laughlin Steel Company high into the air, raining white hot cinders and metal on the scores of workmen employed there: Three bodies have been recovered, half a dozen men are believed to have been incinerated, and a dozen victims are in the Mercy Hospital. Several of these will die. The entire plant took fire, addine to the horror, and two alarms called a dozen fire companies to the scene. Assistant Fire Chief Peter Snyder, in directing the work of his men, fell with a collapsing trestle and was probably fatally injured. Several fire men were overcome by the fumes, and a second explosion hurt many. The night shift, composed of about sixty men, had hardly gone to work when the explosion occurred. With out warning the acumulation of gas Was let go, blowing the top off the furnace and scattering the fiery con tents over a radius of 300 yards. The workmen in the. mil yard below were caught in the rain of molten iron. The frame buildings about the fur nace were ablaze in an instant, as were the miles of high trestle work from which the cars of ore, coke, etc., are unloaded. In a moment the greatest excite ment prevailed. Men with their faces burned to a crisp, and some with even their hands burned off, ran wild ly about, their shrieks of agony sounding above the roar of flames. To add to the confusion, hundreds of wives, mothers and friends of the workmen who lived in the neighbor hood hurried to the scene. 7aowin mil well the terrible results, ory nace explosion. While the shrieks of the injured filled the mill yard, the cries and wails of those battling at the gates could be heard for blocks. The managers refused admittance to any one and for a time bedlam reigned. The injured were placed on board the cars and hurried to Mercy Hos pital. One man died on the way, and after the injured had been Uiken from the car it continued to the morgue with his body. This was the first Intimation the morgue officials had that any accident had occurred. Deputy Coroner Hugh Dempsey was at first refused admittance. At the base of the furnace he found the charred leg of a man protruding from the pile of still red-hot. cinders. He at once ordered that a search be made for other victims. A gang of men was put to work, and within a few minutes two more bodies were un earthed. All three of the bodies were burned beyond recognition, only stumps of the arms and legs remaining. One was not yet dead, though apparently only half of a man. Dempsey believes that there are .at least half a dozen other victims whose bodies will never be recovered. Caught under the thickest of the fiery shower, they were no doubt burned to ashes that mixed with the cinders thrown from the furnace. Several pieces of charred human bones were found, which indicates that this the ory is correct. TO CLOSE CARLISLE SCHOOL. Senate Sub-Committee Strikes Out the Appropriation For It. Washington, D. C. Carlisle Insti tute, which was established at Car lisle, Pa., in 1879, for the higher ed ucation of the Indian, may be abol ished. The sub-committee of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs has agreed to report an amendment to the Indian Appropriation bill striking out the appropriation for this school. They say that a school so far away from Indian reservations is not so effective as the Western in stitutions, and that not many Indians have benefited by the higher educa tion, i The appropriation bill, as it passed the House, carried $169,000 for the support of the school for the year. GRIP AFFLICTS BALTIMORE. Mild Weather Responsible For tho 100,000 Estimated Patients. Baltimore, Md. There are 100, 000 sneezing, snuffling, feverish per son's in Baltimore, according to the estimates of Health Commissioner Bosley. Grip in a mild form is epi demic, and physicians have their hands full. Pneumonia is also preva lent. Kaleidoscopic weather changes are responsible. The mercury rose to seventy-four, the highest in any Jan uary of the records of the local Weather Bureau. A severe thunder storm, a peculiar phenomenon for January, startled the citizens. Ten days ago the river and bay were full of ice. Freezing weather prevaile'd all oyer the State. THE SHAH OF PERSIA DEAD Eldest Son Succeeds to the Throne at Teheran. The New Shah Was Born in 1872 and is Liberally Educated in French and English. 7 Teheran, Persia. Official an nouncement of the death of the Shah was made from the office of the grand vizier. The news was received quietly. The heir apparent and the Minis ters were summoned. The women of the palace also began preparations for mourning. Soon after sunset the doors of the harem were closed. This was the sign that all was over. Muzaffar-ed-Din. late Shah of Per sia, was born at Teheran March 25, 1853, and succeeded his father, Nasr-ed-Din, on the death of the latter on May 1, 1896. MuzafTar-ed-Din was the second son of Nasr-ed-Din, but had been appointed heir to the throne. Previous to his accession he was Governor-General of the Prov ince of Azorbaijan, his elder brother, Masud-Mirza, being Governor of Isp ahan. Nasr-ed-Din was assassinated in the mosque of Abdul Azim, near Teheran. While Muzaffar-ed-Din as cended the throne the same day, it was not until June 8 following that he was formally invested with sover eign power. The late Shah visited Europe in 1900, and while in Paris an unsuc cessful attempt upon his life was made by an anarchist. He again went to Europe in 1902, visiting Germany, England, France and Russia. In 1905 he made another European trip, visiting the Czar at St. Petersburg. Long before that reports were cir culated that the Shah -jvas suffering from melancholia. He had a fainting spell owing to the heat while in Paris July 6, 1905, and in February, 1906, it was reported that he had a stroke of apoplexy. Last May he was again reported seriously ill. Last August, as the result of long continued agitation and many dis turbances of a serious nature, the Shah granted a constitution to Per sia, with a national Assembly and other reforms. J The late Shah leaves many chil dren, and is succeeded on the throne r :Bu 1 -con, Mohammed All Mi, until now Governor of the Province of Azorbaijan. The new Shah was born in 1872. He has shown strong force of charac ter and marked energy and ability. He is a devoted sportsman, being par ticularly attached to motoring and hunting, and he received an excellent education, both Persian and Euro pean. Muzaffar-ed-Din's fortune is re ported to amount to $10,000,000, most of it represented by diamonds, the largest, the Derya-i-Nur, of 186 carats, and the Taj-i-Mah, of 146 carats, being among the crown jewels. PAVLOFF SLAIN BY TERRORIST. Czar's Procurator Long Marked For " Death. St. Petersburg, Russia. General Pavloff, Chief Military Public Prose cutor, was shot and killed at 9 o'clock a. m. in the courtyard of the Military Tribunal, where he had his official residence. The assassin, who was disguised as a private in the Army Service Corps, fired three times with a revolver and then ran down an ad joining street. He killed a police man and wounded another and in jured several other persons before he was arrested. The name of General Pavloff was among those of the twenty-seven functionaries condemned to death by the Terrorists, a list of whom was found by the police in the series of domiciliary visits they made In St Petersburg and Moscow last month. After the murder of General von der Launitz, the Prefect of St. Peters burg, on January 3, the revolution aries succeeded in circulating a man ifesto declaring that their dictates would be carried out and that the work of extermination would be pros ecuted until the last remnants of the present regime had been destroyed. SUITS AGAINST GOULD MERGERS. Attorney-General of Missouri Moves Against Wabash and Other Roads. Jefferson City, Mo. Suits to dis solve fthe alleged merger of the Wa bash, Missouri Pacific and Iron Moun tain railway companies and the Pa cific Express Company, and to revoke the licenses and chancers of the Pa cific Express Company, American Re frigerator Transit Company, Western Coal and Mining Company, Rich Hill Coal Mining Company and Kansas Missouri Elevator Company were filed in the Supreme Court by Attorney-General Had ley. The petition alleges the stocks of the companies named areowned by the same interests, the GouldsrkLyio lation of the provisions of the Co stitution and laws of Missouri. TO INVESTIGA p. ALLEY. Resolution in the Texas Legislature Signed by Twenty-eight Members. Austin, Texas. A resolution pro viding for a sweeping investigation of the conduct of United States Senator J. W. Bailey was introduced in the House of . Representatives of the State Legislature. -r It is signed by twenty-eight mem bers of the Legislature. Senator Bailey's term expires on March . STATE AS PLAINTIFF TRIES TO POST MAYOR New York's New Attorney-General Brings Suit Against McClellan. RESULT MAY SEAT HEARST Jackson in His Petition Calls Present Incumbent Usurper of Office Clarence J. Shearn Made Special Deputy to Try the Case. Albany, N. Y. Attorney-General Jackson, under Section 1948 of the Code of Civil Procedure, has begun a quo warranto proceeding onvhls own motion to test Mayor McClellan's ti tle to his office. Thus he avoids Jus tice Fitts' writ of prohibition granted in the quo warranto action started upon the application of W. R. Hearst. The section of the code applicable permits a quo warranto action to be commenced upon the application of the claimant candidate, but the Attorney-General need not wait for aa outside application and may com mence an action upon his own mo tion. In View of Jnstir.fi Fitts' nrrw aibitive order, the Attornev-fl decided to act under the alternative provision of the code permitting him to oegin an action without the inter vention of a private person. ihe summons and comnlaint was served upon Mayor McClellan, and the Attqrney-Generalat once appoint ed Clarence J. Shearn, Mr. Hearst's personal counsel, as a special attor ney to prosecute the actions Mayor McClellan has twenty days n which to answer the comnlaint. and he may ask for an additional twenty days at the expiration of that time,, and then he may get a further wenty days In which to file an amended answer, so that Mr Shearn figures that the issues would bo framed so that the case can get into court within a couple of months. Mr. Hearst s counsel figures that mean while commissioners could be ap pointed to count the ballots. This action on the part of Attorney-General Jackson has the same effect as though he had heard arguments upon the original Hearst quo war ranto application filed on New Year's Day and had decided upon permit- :ing the action to be brought. The effect of Attorney-General Jackson's bringing this action upon his own motion makes the costs of the proceedings, In case Mr. Hearst loses on a recount, a State charge. whereas if tne action was brought upon Mr. Hearst's first application Mr. Hearst would have had to eive a )ond to stand the costs of the suit. if he lost the suit it is estimated it ivould have cost him thousands of iollars. COURT UPHOLDS STOCK TAX. Decision Throws About $7,000,000 Into New York Treasury. Washington, D. C. Throwing ibout $7,000,000 a year into New fork State's coffers, the United Ltates Supreme Court ruled that State's Stock Transfer Tax law was not un jonstitutional, and therefore the rev enues intended to be raised under it must be paid. It overrode one by one ill the objectlonsto the statute made oy Albert J. Hatch, a Connecticut broker, shedding interesting light on :he inaccuracy of his contention that the law interfered with interstate commerce and that it was against the constitution because it taxed alike stocks of different values. The result )f the decision is that a legal stamp must be affixed .o every transfer of stock made in New York, and the income of the State is increased by a at amount. New York's own Court of Appeals sustained the law, and now the dispute has been settled by the highest Federal tribunal. KILLS MOTHER AND HIMSELF. Son Insane From Grip Commits Mur der and Suicide. Providence, R. I. Becoming tem porarily insane as a result of his suf fering from the grip for several weeks, William R. Rhodes, forty-one years old, one of the best known real estate operators in this city, shot and killed his mother, Mrs. Harriet C. Rhodes, and th)en committed suicide by firing a hunet into his brain. The v shooting took place in the Hotel Franklin, where Mrs. Rhodes, her son and her daughter, as well as the dauehter's husband, lived. For sev eral weeks both Mrs. Rhodes and her son had been suffering from grip. The . Rhodes family came from Westerly., where they were prominent in society. Both Mrs. Rhodes and ber son were wealthy. DIE OF HYDROPHOBIA. Boy and Man Victims of Wandering Dogs. ,Rocky Hill, Conn. Ronald Rug fgles Huntington, the three-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel G. Hun- Ntington, died of hydrophobia, just fifty hours after the symptoms were first seen. The child was bitten by a tramj? dog on November 23. The dognppeared during the morning and seemed in a starved condition, and during the1 day was fed at sev eral different houses. New Haven, Conn. Oscar Wilson, of this city, died of hydrophobia, a week after he was bitten by a wan dering dog. He was engineer on m local tugboat. ; s
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