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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-10-08
THE CHICAGO BONE MILL
7 IE GREATs'LEuTGERT TRIAL DRAWING
T0ACLOSE.
The Bones of Two of Defendants Witnesses
Ground to Power at Yesterdays
Hearing.

Chicago. H., Oct. 7.-0ne more day
of evidence and then the finish Of the
Luetgert murder trial will be in sight.
The State announced to-day that it has
but few more witnesses and that it
would get through with them without
much delay tomorrow. An adjourn
ment will then be taken until Monday
when the defense. viii offer a small u
mount of rebuttaI and then the way viii
be clear for the arguments of the attor-
neys which will take about one week
II was a bad day for the defense. The
evidence of two of their chief witnesses
was almost destroyed Mary Siemmer-
ing and VIM. Charles, Luetgerfs busi,
ness partner were the Sufferers. Wit
ness af er witness came upon the stand
and swere than when Mary Siemmering
had denied THAI she had admitted improp-
or relations with I.uetgert she had not
told the truth. They said she had ad-
mitted it and in the most unequivocal
manner. Most of these witnesses were
members of the grand jury which had
inuIcted Luetgert and their evidence was
crushing. They all told the same story
and the most desperate efforts of the
defense could not shake one Of them.
Prominent business men who had deal
ings with Charles, and bankers with
whom he had done business, sworc that
he could not be believed under oath, and
told of shady business transactions of
which he had been guilty. In this case
as in that of Mary Siemmering, the de-
fense made frantic efforts to save the
chara cter of their witness, but were not
able to accomplish anything.
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Leads all Oh0r NOrh Carolina Ca88 in BOl News and CG7
SPANISH CABINET.
Agree That the System of Cuban War
fare Must be Changed

London, Oct. THE Madrid cores
pondent of the Times referring to the
cabinet council yesterday (Thursday!
says:
''The cabinet was unanimous in the
opinion that the system of warfare in
Cuba must be completely changed. Spe-
cial attention was drawn to the deplora-
BILE condition of the sick and wounded
soldiers now arriving. This aspect of the
case was considered at the direct insti-
CATION of the Queen regent.
Regarding the finances, although the
optinist views of the recent Minister
of France do not appear to have been
justified, it is believed that with pru-
dence sufficient resources may be count
ed upon, at least. until the Cortes meets
in the spring to authorize supplies"
The Daily Mails Madrid correspon-
dent says that the Premier announced
to the cabinet that the anarchists now
In prison at Fortress Montiuich, for
the bomb throwing outrage at Barcelona
during the procession Of Corpus Christi.
will he Immediately sent into exile or re-
leased.
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PUSHING PEDDLES.
Jimmy Michael Makes a Mile That
SInashes the Bike Record.

Philadelphia, Pa, Oct. 7.-"Jimmy"
Michael, the little Welsh wheelman, on
the Willow Grove track to-day Clipped
21-5 seconds from the best American
record for one mile paced. The record
was 1:3S Is, made by Eddie McDuffe,
of Boston, about six weeks ago on the
ST. Charles track at Boston. Michaers
time to-day was :36. The fastest time
for one mile was by j. S. Stocks,
in England about one month ago, when
he covered the distance in 1876 2-5.
Stocks was paced by motor cycles and
mis- time was not recognized by the L..
A. W., on account of the character of
the pace-makers.
Michael was paced by a sextette aud
a quad and established the record after
one trial in which he equalled the track
record of ] :3S 4-5 made by Arthur Gard
iner on the occasion OF the National l..
A. w. meet of last August.
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WHAT WILL SPAIN SAY?
To President McKinley's Note to the
Duke of Tetuan.


Madrid, Oct. IA cabinet council
at which the Queen regent presided, was
held here to-day. When the ministers
separated the Premier, Senor Sagasta
announced to the newspaper men that no
final decision had been taken in regard
to the reply which Spain will make to
the note of the United States handed to
the Duke of Tetuan, when he was Min
lister for Foreign Affairs, by the United
States Minister, General Stewart l..
Woodford.
The impartial, however, says it learns
that the reply of Spain will satisfy Span
ish susceptibilities in making clear to
President Mckinley the resolute attitude
which Spain maintains in regard to Gu
ba.
According to El Heraldo, Spain's reply
to the United States will point out that
if American interests suffer by reason
of the war in Cuba they (the Amer;cans)
are themselves to blame for it, mas
much as the insurrection is assisted from
the United States.
El Heraldo says also:
1--WE understand that the government
win express its confidence that the new
policy to be pursued with regard to Cuba
will produce change in the attitude of
the United States"
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TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS

Flint, Mich, Oct. 7.-Lester r, Rrr
ton murdered his wife at four o'cIonk
this afternoon by firing three bniIota
into her body and finished the +roaoIS
by shooting himself dead. The acts &C. go
committed in the parlor of the Davtor
hotel. lay ION
London, Oct. IA dispatch r. 4ho
Daily Mail from Cape Town saws +bne
Dr. Jameson, the leader of the Trena
v1aal raid, will seek a seat in the Cano
Assembly at the next general eIect;npp pe
The chief plank in his platform win Win
be; Federation for South Africa "iN
winnipeg, Man., Oct. Am tba .ne
fering and loss of property caused '@ar %a.-
SATURDAYS prairie fire are not NOT rct Dx
known. The devastation seems n bSv
been widespread. A Miss Price dauah
Ter or a farmer near st. Laurent So-
,ame insane from the effects OF tbe e.
lnd left her home. 1t is feared that she
wandered away and perished in +ho
lanes. She was betrothed to Mr- re. G
iolm, whose dead body was founa =
he track Of the fire. "u !"
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HE HIT HOTELS HARD
A NEW YORK DUDE SPECULAT0R BEATS
HIS BOARD.
Emmett c. Gibson Mills Building Tenuans
Arrested For EmbuzzIing Hotels and
.-rr~ Other Victims.

New York, Oct. THE police say fhGG
Emmett G.. Gibson, also known as Geo.
A. Sherin, who was arrested to-day and
is now prisoner at police headquarters.
is the most accomplished bogus check
and hotel swindler in the country.
Gibson, according to the police, haa
succeeded by means of forgery, bogus
checks and dealing in stocks and bonds
and playing his wilcs upon first class
hotel keepers during the last four years
in getting and spending in the neighbor-
hood of $4,000.
Among his victims, according to police
Captain McCluskey, are Henry Clews
and John Wannamaker.
The police had been getting complaints
from different first class hotels in this
city for many days back. Bogus checks
We're laid down by Gibson in payment OF
board bills. The checks were hOnored in
almost every case, their wOrthliness only
coming to light when he had made him-
self scarce. Complaints reached head
quarters from the police officers, both
in the East and West, and the police re.
cognized Gibson's handiwork.
Detectives were put on the Clews case
and they located Gibson at the hotei
Bartholdi. They did not find him in
when they went to the hotel yesterday
to bag the game. He was, however,
found in the Grand Hotel.
The detectives saw q tall, slim, sharp
featured man, with blue eyes, high
forehead and blonde whiskers. He was
well dressed and very cool when the Of
ticers invited him to take a stroll to
police headquarters, protesting that the
police had made a mistake.
AT police headquarters he described
himself as Emmett G. Gibson.
unmarried, thirty nine years Of
age, of the Bartholdi hotel,
and native of this country. He said
he was vice-president of the Akron
Street Railway Company, of Akron,
Ohio, lawyer and once upon a time
judge in and Ohio town.
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PLAYING FOR FUN.
The Bean-Eaters and the Birds Play an
Exhibition Game of Ball.

Worcester, Mass, Oct. THE Boston
and Baltimore League teams played here
to-day. The game was not exactly the
sort to make the "rooter'' grow enthusi-
astic, for it was merely an exhibition
centest and in consequence the men
played rather listlessly. Nevertheless,
some sharp playing was done, and the
thirty-fve hundred spectators enjoyed the
exhibition.
Both teams INDUCED in hard hitting.
Hickman, who pitched for Boston, led
in that respect, getting home run and
a three-bagger in addition to a single.
Hughey Jennings, when he stepped to
the plate in the second inning, was pre-
sented with gold headed cane by Holy
Cross College students.
The two teams play tomorrow in
Springfield. Score:
Baltimore, 2O2211O21-11 IA 3
Boston, 40001011-1O 13 .
Batteries: Pond and Bowerman; Hick-
man and Yeager. Umpire, Emslie and
Hurst. Time, 1:40
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He TOOK THE TOWN.
Evangelist Lee Stirred up Winston and
has Left for Charlotte.

Winston, N. c., Oct. 7.-(SpeciaD-
Evangelist Lee, who has been conduct
ing a tent meeting here for nearly n
month, part of the time for whites and
then the colored, left this evening for
Charlotte, where he begins a meeting
Sunday.
His revival here was success, there
being more than three hundred profes-
sions. Besides the organization of two
anti Saloon leagues, the white one hav
ing membership of twelve hundred and
colored eight hundred. Two WOman's
Christian Temperance Unions were also
organized with large memberships. The
evangelist was given $500 for his work
here. A large crowd was at the depot
to bid him goodbye.
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IN BEHRlNG SEA MATTERS
BRITAIN WILL NOT PLAY
WITH RUSSIANS AND JAPS.
UNITED STATES WANTS THEM
A Conference Of Experts Soon to be Held to
Fix Basis For Devding the Poor
Unfortunate Seals.

Washington, Oct. THE State De-
partment has received full information
as to the position of the British gov
ernment on the proposed Bering sea
conference. This proves to be much more
complete than the brief cable reports
from London indicate, as the department
has been advised of Great Brita;n's de-
clination to enter a conference unless it
is limited to the experts of the United
States, Great Britain and Canada.
The British view as laid before the
State Department is that at no stage Of
the negotiations has the British govern
ment agreed to q conference except that
between the experts of Great Britain
Canada and the United States. 1t is not
questioned that Secretary Sherman and
Ambassador Hay made suggestions that
the conference should be between "the
powers interested" and that some of the
notes from the United States authoriti IS
expressed a desire to have Russia anil
Japan take part in the conference. But
it is pointed out that these suggestions
came from the United States and until
accepted have no effect in determining
the nature of the conference. So far as
the suggestions were accepted, the note
of Lord Salisbury, of July 2S is said to
stand alone and this note, it is stated,
mentioned only a conference between the
experts of the United States, Great
Britain and Canada.
The latest correspondence on the sub
jeet leads to considerable doubt as to who
will participate in the coming meetings.
1t has been understood that Tie differ.
ences would be bridged over by holding
two meetings, in one of which Russia
and Japan would participate without
Great Britain, while a second meeting
would be held between the experts of
Great Britain and the United States. 1t
is understood that Ambassador Hay was
directed to effect such an arrangement in
case Great Britain declined to enter the
general conference. But three is now
some question whether the British author
tiles will participate until definite de-
cision is reached as to who will take
part in the general conference as there is
understood to be reluctance on the
part of the British to join a dual confer
ence and some doubt whether the Br-
tish experts will 1eaSe for this country,
to attend either a general or limited con-
ference, until an understanding is reach
cd on the entire subject. As the CON
ference is so near at hand-the first
plan having been to hold it October %
the negotiations are necessarily con-
Quoted by cable and 10y this means a
satisfactory adjustment may vet be
reached
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ABSTAINING a BANKERS.
No Wine Served ut kentucky Banker.
Banquet.

Frankfort, Ky, Oct. THE Kentucky
Bankers Association before adiourning
its annual session to-day unanimously
adopted u resolution complimenting anL
endorsing the local mankers for keeping
wine off the table ut the annual banuue,
last night, saying that it was recognized
as pleasing advancement and resolving
that at all the annual banQuets hereafter
ladies should be among the guests, las
the only stimulants there" 1t is the
first action of the kind ever taken by n
Kentucky association of similar char
acter and is exciting comment, coming
from an organization at whose previous
annual banquets wine has been as free
as water and more freely consumed. The
associations closing business was the
election of officers, Hon. ]. d. Powers.
Of Owensboro succeeding as president
Capt. j. II. Leathers.
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BUNCOMBE BANKERS
The Officials of Ashville Bust
ed Bank Arrested.
ON NEW INDICTMENTS
CHARGED IN FEDERAL COURT
WITH EMBEZZLEMENT AND
CONSPIRACY.
SOME STARTLING DISCOVERIES
Made by Bank Examiner Moxey--Two Humid
redand Fifty thousand Dollars Of Ia
solvent Accommodation Notes,

Asheville, N. c., Oct 7.-(Special)-
William Z. Breeze, president, w. III.
Penland, cashier and j. u. Dickerson,
a director of the broken First National
Bank Of Asheville were arrested at
seven o'clock this morning on indict-
ment returned yesterday from the Uni
ted States Court at Greensboro, charg-
ing them with embezzlement and con-
spiracy.
Thirty thousand dollars bail was re-
Quired from each Breeze, the president
gave bail at 2 o'clock. Penland and
Dickerson were placed in jail until a
o'clock when they succeeded in securing
bondsmen. These men have been under
five thousand dollar bonds ever since
shortly after closing of bank July 81
for violating National Banking law.
Since then the government bank exam
liner Moxey has been here and made
some startling discoveries. 1t is said that
he has found $25O,000 of .'accommoda-
tion notes." signed by insolvent per-
sons, all filed out by officials of the
bank for sums varying from 5000 to
S., ZOO, these are all in the bank besides
some forged papers Many of these notea
were re-discounted in other banks.
G.. b. Leonard, who secured for the
bank official the signatures Of janitors,
street car motormen, plasterers, carpen-
ters, etc, to these blank notes fled to
Mexico a week ago
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DROUGHT UNPRECEDENTED,

Chattanooga, Tenn, Oct. THE
drought in this section is unprecedented
Late crops have been literally burned
up, ordinarily large streams of water
having run dry and complaints numer-
Gus and mOurnful come in from all
points in the territory adjacent to Chat
tanooga. Since August 23rd, the rain
fall has amounted to only seven hum
dredths OF an inch. The Tennessee Riv-
er at this point, ordinarily at a good
boating stage at this season, shows a
depth of only five tenths of a foot.
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A COSTLY LUNCH
Three Thousand Dollars Stolen While
Bank Officers Dined.

Louisville, Ky, Oct. IA special to
the Post from Morganfield, Ky, says:
Thieves entered the office of the
Union County Bank today during the
lunch hour and secured over three thou
sand dollars in currencywhich had been
left in the cash drawer. When the bank
officials returned they found the drawer
had been rified. The vault was closed
and locked. so the thieves had no chance
to get the money in it without detection.
The robbers made good their escape,
leaving no clew behind them.
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HORSES BEAT CYCLERs.
Six Thoroughbreds Win Five-Mile Re
lay Heat in Nine Minutes.

Philadelphia, Pa, Oct. IA relay of
six thoroughbred horses from the sta
bles Of Thomas w. South, raced five
miles today on the Tioga bicycle track
against four crack bicyclists, and the
horses won in nine minutes and fifty
two seconds, with the wheelmen only
five yards behind. The race was the
feature event of an afternoons program
of amateur bicycle races. The quad
team was Frank Starbuck, Robert Nc
Curdy, Charley Church and B. B. Stew
ems, while the horses were the we'll
known Romeo, Aida Kirk, Tamauua,
Effie s, Helen T and Statesman.
In order to facilitate matters the
jockeys were to pick up each relay on
the straight away. Romeo made the
race for the first mile with Jockey Mer-
rick as his mount. In the stretch the
quad team was right behind, but Camp
BELLS bad pickup of Romeo on Aida
Kirk forced the quad away to the out
side of the track and ten yards were
lost. This was added to by Aida Kirk
fast running, for her distance of two
thirds of mile which brought the next
relay, Tamaqua, with Heinriches in the
saddle, in the lead about fifty yards.
Tamaqua kept the pace for the next
mile when Effie s, with Chick Neel rid
ing, ran for the next two-thirds of a
mile. The quad made no material gain
until in the stretch COudrier was slow
in bringing in the other relay, Helen II,
and the quad made gain of 35 yards
in that mile. Statesman was the last re-
lay and Ashburn ran the two-thirds at a
rapid gait. The quad had begun to in
crease its pace and was drawing closer
to Statesman, but the horse crossed the
tape first by five yards.
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PLATT COMPLETES HIS TICKET.

New York, Oct. 1.-THE Republican
convention of New York county tonight
nominated this ticket:
Judges of the Supreme Court-Chas.
II. Van Brunt and Thomas Allison.
Judges of the City Court-Elisha K.
Camp and Henry G. Boety.
Sherif-Thomas l.. Hamilton.
County Clerk-General James r.
Obeirne.
Register-George Fl. Van Setback.
District Attorney-Wm. X. Olcott, 4
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GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP.

Berne. Switzerland, Oct. THE ma
tional council, by vote of % to 20.
has adopted hill providing for the pur-
chase Of the five principal railroads OF
Switzerlnnd at cost approaching
billion francs, or S200,0O00OO for which
purpose loan is projected.
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GUITEAU's PISTOL RECOVERED.
The Weapon With Which he AssassiE-
ated Garfield has Been Found.

Washington, Oct. THE police have
recovered what they believe to be the
pistol with which Guiteau shot Presi-
dent Garfield and have put it in the cab
met at headquarters for safe keeping. IL
is an ordinary British bulldog revolvsG
of Al calibre and of cheap make, the
handle being set with pieces of wood
instead of bone or ivory. Property clerk
Sylvester said that it had been obtain
ed from citizen who had had il in his
possession for a number Of years. T4Ae
pistol was taken from police headduar-
ters July 2, 1881. the day President
Garfield was shot, by Col. George r..
Corkhill, then district attorney. Subse-
quently it disappeared. and trace OF n
was obtained only recently,
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WILL COME TO SEE US.
New England Cotton Mill Men to Take
a Peep at Southern Mills.

Washington, Oct. THE Southern
Railway Company has extended an invi-
tation to the New England Cotton Mae
ufacturers Association to visit the cotton
mill centers of the South located along
that system of railway and it is ex-
pected large number of the members
of the association will accept the invita-
tion. About $50 cetton mills are located
on the line Of the Southern Railway and
the number is Increasing.
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CODY BROTHERS RELEASED.

Butte, Montana, Oct. THE Cody
brothers, held at Red Lodge for the
North Carolina authorities, have been
released on habeas corpus on the ground
of the insufficiency in the sheriff's re-
turn. The men are under sentence of
death for burglary in North Carolina.
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BISHOPS VISIT THE SOUTH.

Washington. Oct. 7.-BishOp Potter
and several English bishops left Wash
ington tonight by the Southern Railway,
via Asheville and Hot Springs, N. c.,
for Sewanee, Tenn, the seat of the I'm
iversity of Tennessee. After n short
stay at this point, the distinguished di.
vines will proceed via Cincinnati to Buff
falo, N. Y. to attend the annual meet
ing of the Brotherhood of st. Andrew.
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SAD DEATH IN ASHEBORO

Asheboro, N. c., Oct 7.-(Special.)-
Miss Virginia Worth. the S-year-old
daughter of Mr.. =. G. Worth, died here
last night Of appendicitis. An operation
was performed by the doctor. from the
effects Of which she never recovered.
She was very sweet and lovely young
girl.
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THE USUAL FARCE.
The Little Goldites Split Into TIVE
Cackling Factions.

New York, Oct. THE Nationsf
Gold Democracy, which failed to make
nominations last week on account OF a
rumored deal with Tammany Hall. held
its city, county and borough conveu-
tons tonight in Cooper Union. TIE
city convention endorses the nominees
of the Citizens Union for city officers
and the borough and county conventions
endorsed the nominees of Tammany
Hall. This latter action was taken he
cause corporation counsel Scott had been
nominated for judge of the Suprepe
court by Tammany Hall
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GERMANS FOR TAMMANY

New York, Oct. AT a meeting N.
night Of the United German Societiev
the Iammany ticket for city and comfy
was indorsed as awhole. The vote wSs
not unanimous, but the motion Yves
easily carried by a majority.
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A GEORGIA TRAGEDY.

. Macon, Ga, Oct IA special to the
Telegraph from Moultrie. Ga, says:
This morning w. H Harris and his
son Robert met J. II. Neismith in the
public road and shot him to death. Ex-
citement is intense, as the provocation
fro the crime was slight.
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Havana, Oct. 7.-El Dirairo De In
Marino in n leading editorial to-day
makes violent attack upon all who
have been demonstrating in honor Of
Captain General Weyler.
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Detroit. Mlch., Oct. 7.-Careful esti-
mates of the losses caused by tn.s morn
ing's great fire placed the total ficures
at $4,000 with $685., 900 insurance.
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SAFE IN JAIL.

Newport, KY, Oct. 7.-Official advices
received by wire from Maysville, Ky,
late tonight are that ten identified as
sailants of Mrs. Gleason arrived there
safely and were securely allied. The
sheriff of Campbell county with deputies
and several Newport policemen are at
Maysville. There are no visible symp-
toms of dangerous excitement in Mays
vile tonight. VIM. Croxton, who was
detained at Newport, was identified by
Mrs. Gleason tonight as one of her as
sailants. He is in Newport Jail, but will
be taken to Maysvile tomorrow. Dan
gerous excitement has subsided in New
port, for the present at least.