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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-14
UNIVERSAL ToB Aceo CO. CASE.
An Effort to Effect settlement Tails-.-lhe
Hearing Continued.
CBv the Associated Press.)

Newark. N j. Aug. 12.-Betore the re
sumption of argument today TO show cause
why n receiver should not be appointed
for the Universal Tobacco Company, Vice
Chancellor Pitnpy called counsel ON both
sides together in an endeavor to erect a
settlement. pointing out that II he should
appoint temporary receiver the matter
would go to the Federal Court ana that
il President Butler and his friends press
ed their claims the company would be-
come insolvent.
AS the lawyers appeared unable or I'M
willing to come TO any agreement the near
ing was continued and Julian f. Dawes,
counsel for the compliments, continued
the argument begun by him yesterday.
He said the application for receiver
had been made to protect the preferred
stockholders who were the real owners
of the company He claimed that the COM
pany was not insolvent but said It's affairs
must be taken out of the hands of the
present management If any OF the money
invested was to be saved
After recess Attorney General McCarter
opened for the defense He said:
st will be demonstrated that Batter did
not form the company, but that men by
the name of Tilford and Wilson, Wall
Street operators, organized the concern
They suggested that a Turko-Russian to-
bacco company be purchased and come
to Butler. A syndicate was formed with
Tilford and Wilson az managers, and ON
February 81 an agreement made that the
rights of the common stock were to be
vested in voting trust For this they
received as commission ten thousand
shares"
Butler, Mr.. Carter asserted, would not
go into the scheme which might involve
a sale to the tobacco trust unless there
was voting trust the intention being
to pub in men whom he could rely on, and
to become a rival to the trust.
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PJWE8s MUST INTERVENE.
Hiss it is Feared a Massacre of Christians is
Inevitable
(By the Associated Press. J


Sofia. Bulgaria. August 1.-THE Bulga
ran Foreign Office has received very dis
quieting news from its agent at Uskub.
The Mussulmans there are daily gathering
in the mosques and it is feared that
massacre of the Christians is impend
ing.
Officials here express the belief that
the Intervention of the powers alone can
prevent disaster.
Meanwhile the government continues to
maintain its peaceful attitude, but it be-
heves that sudden development of af
fairs across the border may at any mo
ment render the authorities powerless to
prevent war.
The reports from Bulgarian official
agents IN Macedonia show that affairs
are rapidly growing worse. The fact that
the Mussulman population is becoming
excited and congregating in the mosques
il regarded as a bad feature indicating
the possibility that a massacre may occur
within a very short time.
1t is everywhere declared that the pres
ent ministry is doing its utmost to check
the revolutionary movement but the sit
uation * reaching a point where cir
cumstances may prove too strong for the
cabinet The growing economic depression
in the country constitutes a dangerou
factor in the situation. The commercial
classes declare that the present condition
OF affairs is no longer endurable.
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Spray, American
.eSsel, Chased Over
the Line.
TWENTY SHOTS STRUCK
captain Chau viii Report the Affair to the State
D.partm ,ni---4e Declares He Was
Not Poaching on Canadian
Waters.
(By the Associated Press

Erie. Pa, August 12.-The Silver
Spray, fishing boat, owned here. came
INTO Port this afternoon in a badly shat
tered condition, due to an encounter in
md-lake about noon with the Canadian
revenue cutter Petrol.
The Canadian authorities have had
trouble with American fishermen fol
years. who were poaching on their side
OF the lake, and the Petrol is kept con-
stantly on the lookout for them.
About noon she came upon the Silver
Spray on the Canadian side of the lake
and at once ordered Captain Chris Chau
TO stop. Captain Chau started ahead al
tull speed. The captain OF the Petre.
wien he saw that the Silver Spray was
trying to get away, opened fire with
all the guns he had on board, and be-
fore he ceased firing some twenty shots
had struck her. One passed through tho
smokestack into the pilot house in which
Chau stood at the Wheel and two more
struck the pilot house, one of which came
within few inches of him. scattering
a myriad OF splinters around his head.
The chase was kept up for some little
time before Captain Chau got across the
dividing line and the Petrol gave up the
pursuit.
Captain Chau will report the affair to
the State Department at Washington, as
no says he was only looking Tor some
OF his nets which had drifted from this
toward the Canadian shore.
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0UGHTER SEE JEpF SKIP ROPE
And do Stunts as Clog ranctr, Getting Ready
to Wallop Corbett
(By the ssociated Press.)

San Francisco, Cal, August 12.-Betting
on the heavy weight championship battle
continues to be hight, contrary TO expec-
tatlons. Jeffries remains to favorite.
A report from Los Angeles, the home of
Jeffries, states that the champion is a 8 to
choice there
Jeffries, accompanied by his brother,
Jack Jeffres, Billy Delaney and Joe Ken
nedy. are now CHARTERED at rooms OF the
Reliance Club in Oakland, where they will
remain until Friday evening. Last night
he was in the gymnasium until 10 o'clock
His work consisted of boxing ten rounds
with his brother Jack and Joe Kennedy,
skipping the rope twelve hundred times
and finishing with a clog dance. Then
he had rub down and retired, sleeping
nine solid hours. When he awoke he felt
so well that he went on the road. To-
morrow he will have warm up and
on Friday he will rest the entire day
All he hard work is over at the Cor
bett camp. Thr ex-champion punched tue
light bag for a few rounds tins morning
and then SPARED with saSn Berger and
YanH KoEiedy His exercise this after
noon osnsistsa Of walking ana running.
The advance xsie of seats fuR the cen
test indicates Il $4,000 house.
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with a fraud and with having only ia
votes The executive committee decided
the contest in favor of Bernard, who IS
favorable to Zimmerman.
Forty delegates wnO held second con-
vention this afternoon, after the Demo
cratic county convention had adjourned
have called a public meeting for next Fri
dav night. 1t is specified that one OF the
objects of the meeting is to protest
against the leadership of Lewis G. Ber-
nard. who is charged with controlling the
local organization through an alliance with
George B. Cox, the local Republican
leader.
The dissenting delegates appointed a
committee to report on a plan for bring
ing the contests of Hamilton county, first
before the Democratic State Central Com
mttee and afterwards before the commit
tee on credentials and the State conven-
ton.
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Two FOB FEDERAL COURT
Charles z. Mangum and Bill McGles of New
light Township.

Two more yiolators of the government
liquor laws have been sent on to the
next term of Federal court by United
States Commissioner John Nichols. They
are Charles e. Mangum and Bill Me-
Chez, of New Light township. Mangunl
was sent to Jail and McGhee bound ovor
in the sum of 800.
Both men were tried yesterday morn
ing The evidence showed that Mangum
had been dstiling Liquor in GO-gallon
kettle and that McGhee had been offer
ing liquor for sale without license. 1t
could not be proved positively that he
had sold any but he had offered 1T for
sale. McGhee gave the bond and re
turned to- his native hauTs.
The two men were. arrested at noon
or Tuesday by Deputy Marshals Merritt
and Merlin. Man9um reported the still
thnt was learred afterwards 10 be his
own ''lottle."
IL is saateA that Nargurs has a gHeat
at-al to teN later on. The nassR moon
sinner of the New Light district 10 said
to be etil operating. and the efhceis
were close to him on fnesday' pW ne
got Inc tip in Some way. He mas served
i, the penitenaiary before.
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srRAXGLIEG IN MID-AIF.
Negro Hanged by Mob Cut Dowd by Officers
the Mob Pursues.
(By the Associated Press. ,


Whitesboro, Tex, August 12.--Eight ne
groes were arrested for an attempted
criminal assault on Mrs. Hart. a white
woman here today. Seven were released
and the eighth man was held for identifi-
cation. A mob appeared at the Jail to-
night took the negro and hanged him to
tree nearby. Before he became uncon.
scious officers appeared and rescued the
negro and are hurrying him to Sherman
for safe keeping
The mob is gathering to pursue the
prisoner, and it is said other communities
will Join the mob
After the negro Brown had been for
chilly taken from the mob, its members
turned their attention to the colored resi-
dents of the town. Guns were fired pro-
mscously in the negro section and the ter
ror-stricken negroes when they came from
their houses were ordered to leave town
at once. No violence further than this in
timidati0h has been offered so far.
As a result outgoing trains on all roads
are crowded with negroes.
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DASHED ON THE ROCKS
Plates OF the Battleship Mas
sachusetts Cracked by
the Impact.
(By the Associated Press-)

Bar Harbor, Me-, Aug. 12.-While leoy-
mig the harbor during thick fog about
noon today In company wkh other yes
sels of the North Atlantic squadron, the
battLeship Massachusetts, sustained cenr-
siderable damage by striking on ledge
of rocks off the western end OF Egg Rock.
The big vessel slipped over the rocks into
deep water, but the two forward bulk
heads soon flied and it was subsequently
found that several plates forward had
been cracked Bhe Massachusetts, was
headed back into harbor with consider
lble difficulty, accompanied by her sister
vessel, the Indiana and the gunb0at Scor-
Dion. She will remain here until Captain
Manning, her commander, receives orders
from Washington, when it is expected that
she VIII proceed to Brooklyn to be dry
locked.
The squadron had no sooner started than
dense fog which had been hanging off
shore all the morning, rolled in and with
in ten minutes it was impossible to see
more than fifty yards 1t is believed that
the accident was due to miscasculation
Of the Massachusetts, plotting on the part
Of the navigating officer. When the big
battleship struck she was going at the
rate Of about nine and a half Knots and
Though she was drawing twenty-six feet
If water and there was less than twenty
five feet on the ledge her progress was
but little retarded and she at once passed
,ver into deeper water. Her officers stat
ed tonight that if she had been fifty feet
y
the ledge.
The collision siren was Immediately
counded and the Massachusetts bulkhead
ioors closed tight. The Indiana and Soor-
pion which We're Immediately behind her
ran alongside to render assistance. The
vessel then returned to harber
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SPECIAL RATES CHA S. A. L. RY.
SEATS Raleigh to Los Angeles or San Fran.
cisco, Cal, account National En-
campment Grand Army of the Re-
public August IL to %. Tickets
sold July 81 to August 18th, final
limit October 18th.
$685. Raleigh to Washington, D. c., and
return, account Grand Fountain
United True Reformers, Washing
on, d. c., September to Sth. Tick
cts sold August 30th., Sept. 1st and
End, final limit Sept. 10th.
$3.50 Raleigh to Charlotte, N. c. and re-
turn, account Womans Mite Mis-
sionary Convention, August 27-30.
Tickets sold August 25, &c and 81.
final limit Sept. 1st.
$730-Raleigh to Charlotte and return
account of Woman's Mite Missionary
Convention, Charlotte, August 27th-SOth;
tickets to be sold August 25th, 26th and
9th, with final limit September 1st.
$S.30-Plus rs cents Raleigh to Wash
ington, D. c.. and return account of
Grand Fountain United Order True Re
formers, Washington, D. c., September
1st-Sth, with final limit September 10TH
For further information address
c. H. GATTIS, G. p. G. T. A.,
Raleigh, N. C.
H. S. Lizard, T. P. A.,
Raleigh, N. c.
Raleigh. N. G.
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The BEGI ERs CONVICTED.
The sor Be ltenced 10 Die. the Father 10 I'm
prisonmsnt for Life.
(By the Associated Press.)

Wilmington, n. c., August 1s.-Jasel
Register and his father H. B. Register,
we're convicted at Whitevilh, Columbus
,ounty, today, of the murder of Jesse
Sales and jim Stally last March, and
turning their house down upon their
bodies after robbing the premises OF
omethmg over 81 900. The younger Reg
ster was sentenced to be hanged on Oc-
ober 9th. and the father Was sentenced
o the penitentiary for life. Cross Ed
nunds. whose confession implicated the
Registers and secured their conviction,
was sentenced to six years Register
counsel gave notice of an appeal to the
Supreme court.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-14
A TOBACCO FACTORY
FOR K|NSTON.
Fatal Work of Lightning. In
crease in Tax Valuation
81 Per Cent.
fSpecial to News and Observer. J

Kinston N. c., August 12.-Kinston Is
10 have a smoking tobacco factory and
it is said that it will be in operation IN
sixty days.
Mr.. NJ. s. Hamlin is soliciting subscrip
ton Cor stock and secured subscriptions
to the amount of $S,0e0.
The men behind the enterprise now arc
principally warehousemen and those in
terested in tobacco, but a canvass OF the
whole business interests of the town will
be made.
The plans of the promoters and mon
behind the new enterprise are not matured
yet, but it is learned that tobacco will be
manufactured by the Klnston concern to
meet the demands of the trade, both rs
to cheap tobacco TO compete with the
cheap grades of the trust and higher
grades also.
Twenty to twenty-five thousand dollars
are needed to place the contemplated en-
teyprise on its feet, though less amount
will. it is said, start smoking tobacco
factory, and it is thought by those back
of i hat this amount can be gotten un
easi.y.
One man who has taken a good block
and who is in a position to make good
his word, has said that the factory Will
be if he has to take all the stock himself
The lightning struck the fence dividing
the lots of Mr.. O. NJ. FoIdhan and Mr.
J. S. Brown, Monday evening, and Killed
three chickens that were near the fence
Tho current OF electricity stunned Mrs
Wade. who Hives near, and who Ind to b1
rubh,ed for nome time 10 revive her.
MI. ". ]. Horton died in this city yes
tersay of consumption after an illness ot
two years His remains were taken to
Goldsbore this morning for interment' Mr.
Horton was sixty-four years old and leaves
widow and seven children.
Mrs. Julia 9. Stroud, wife of Mr.. Jesse
F. Stroud, died this morning at IL O'Clock
at her home on South Queen street, after
an illness of some time, of gastritis.
Mira. Stroud has been IN feeble health
for a long time and great sufferer She
leaves a husband and Six children IN tins
place.
The burial will take place at the GENE
terry tomorrow afternoon at O'Clock.
Register OF Deets Suggs has completed
making out the returns OF the tax asses
sors and list takers for the county and
computing the taxes for 1903.
The increase in the tax valuation OF
prororty ia the county over the assess
ment of 1902 is about 90 per cent, and Is
believed to BE as large as M any county III
the State The gveatest increase ls IN
the town of Kmston, which is 100 per cent.
of the incomes given in for taxation
in the county amounting to rewards oil
SIS, eOe only one man outside of Mnstor
gave ia anything in excess OF the $l'oo'
oxen ption by the State.
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FIFTY wRITHE IN AGONY.
Remarkable Case of Ptomalae Poisoning at
Ashburn, Virginia
(By the Associated Press


Washington. Aug. ia remarkable
case of ptomaine poisoning is reported to
night from Ashburn. Va, some twenty
niles outside of Washington. A large
number of persons had gathered to at
tend sale of the dairy farm owned by
Senator Stewart, OF Nevada. The Senator
served the prospective buyers light
luncheon consisting Of coffee. ham and
beef sandwiches Shortly afterwards at
least fifty persons were taken violently
i'll, suffering from Pcmaine poisoning.
One after another they fell TO the ground,
w1'fthing In agony. HotseUan were dis
patched in all directions foF doctors, and
= number responded and took prompt
measures to relieve the sufferers. In a
statement issued at II o'clock tonight.
the doctors report their patients out OF
danger. although many are quite i'll. An
investigation developed the fact that the
beef, which had been purchased in Wash
ington and kept in cold storage on the
farm for several days, was the cause of the
trouble
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Rabbit ANSWERS GRAVES.
At the Mob Conference Held at Chautaugua
New York.
tBy the Asoafnted Press.>

{By the Asosshhted Press>
CKtuSanqna. N. T., Aug. 1f-Rev. DR..
B9an Richmond Banbfts rector OF Tire
Ohrreh OF the Epiphany. Brooklyn. an.
swered John Temple Graves, OF Georgia,
in aa elaborate address today at the Char
tanqua assembly ON iynchfngs and mebs
from an American standpoint. DIR. Bah
bitt's address was the chief one of today
on mobs. He contraSed the view of lynch
ing Justified by Mr.. Graves. with what
he called 1.-The more general and the bet
ter view of che American nation" and
showed the prevalence and increasing vio-
leRce of the mob spirit, its tendency TO
leap the coloc line and to lynch for minor
offences than rape and murder. He dwelt
upon the psychology OF the mob and gave
the Wilmington lynehing of the negro
White as typical and denounced this Off
Gals who refused to protect any prisoner
of any color or for any crime He paid a
glowing tribute to order and law as rep
resented in Governors Durbln and Yates.
OF Indiana and Illinois, respectively, and
upheld President Roosevelt in his recent
! letter on lynching. Lynehers. the speak
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ar declared, We're plain, brutal, savage
murderers, should be treated as such by
the authorities and by all worthy to veal
the name of American citizens
More morality, less prejudice, strictel
law quickly applied fair play to negro and
white and both the race question and the
mob problem will assume less dangerous
dimensions. said Dr. Rabbit in conchs
ION
with thousands of Southerners at Chau
tauqua, the mob conference audiences are
decidedly bipartisan. 1t is believed that
never before have mobs, lynclfings and
strikes received such fair-minded discus
SION IN meetings having equal representa-.
ton OF extreme partisan supporters.
This afternoon General John b. Cor
don delivered his lecture OH THE Last
Days Of the Confederacy."
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The Printers Select St. louis
(By the Associated Press

Washington. August 12.--The Interna
tional Typographical Union today decided
unanimously to hold its meeting in 1904 in
st. Louis. A proposition prohibiting mem
bers of subordinate unions from voting
upon change Of the scale of prices un.
less he has been a member for at least six
months, was adopted
The provision in the general laws pro
hbiting members of the union from ac-
cepting work in offices where the proprie.
tors imposes a task or dead line" was
stricken out.
The principal feature of interest in the
proceedings of the Womans auxiliary to
the Typographical Union was decision
not to hear an address in support OF fe-
male suffrage which Mrs. Belva A. Lock
wood requested the privilege of delivering.
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A Political Stew in Hamilton.
(By the Associated Press.)

Cincinnati, Aug. 12-The Democratic
Convention of Hamilton county tooay Sc
lected forty-two delegates TO tne f'ate
convention A ma iority are for John l..
Zimmerman for governor as against Mayor
johnson The feature Of the convention
was the fight on Lewis T. f'ern"iu' VINO
has been the local leader for 'ni1oy yea ;.
At the PRIMARIES last wight nsnl0eis %
the county executive committee were
elected. In the second ward LEWIS "
Bernard and A. G.. Turripseed eacn oa cram,
ed 215 votes. Each charged tie o'he'
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A Hundred and Fifty Killed.
(By the Associated Press.)

(By the ASSoclateu PTeSs.J
Corstantinople, August Zone hundred
and fifty revolutionists were killed IN the
fighting at Sorovitch, August 8. according
to official Turkish reports. The same dis
patches, which have been communicated
to the Russian and Austrian embassies,
state that the insurrectionary movement
is increasing daily.
kilograms received today from Monastls
announce that the town of Krushevo is
still occupied by the insurgents. -Four
hundred Turkish troops with artillery
surround the town and are preparing to
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High Winds in Cuba.
(By the Associated Press :

Havana, August 12.-While high winds
and threatening conditions prevail IN all
the provinces of Cuba. there have been
no reports, up to tonight of any i+npor-
tant damage The land telegraph connec-
ton with Santiago, which was repeatedly
Interrupted, has been restored. There was
ONE destruction of crops and snrfll build
ings in the province of Pinar Del Rio,
where the wind appears to have been
strongest The cable connections with
ali the islands of the West Indies Is in
act with the exception of Jamaica, Mar
Unique, Guadalupe and Dominica.
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Will Batson Establish an Alibi.
(By the Associated Press

New Orleans, La. August 12.-There
was an important development in the
Batson case today. His attorneys will
go to Baton Rouge to lay before Gov
erner Heard come new evidence which
they say has been discovered. The ma
ture of this evidence IL not known but it
is eaid to bear on the question of an alibi.
Batson was charged with numbering an
entire family of six persons in st. Charles
parish some months ago.
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sible, re-take the pc
Led Destruction of Village.
(By the Associated Press

(By the Associated Press.)
Salonica, Aug 12.-It is reported that
the Turkish troops on Monday bombarded
and destroyed the village of Ekshisu, 2S
miles south of Monastir
According to another runner the insur-
gents who have occupied Krushevo, after
repulsing two assaults by tlk Turkish
troops, offered conditional surrender
Instructions were asked from CONSTANT
nople and in reply the Turkish commander
received orders to give no quarter.
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Cleveland, Ohio, August 12.-The Clevc-
land Furnace Company's plant was late
tonight the scene of an accident in which
three mems lives were instantly crushed
out. The men were inside the stack lay
ing the last course of material when
without an instant's warning the huge six
ton bell at the top of the stack crushed
down upon them.
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The MAYORS Harvt st.

Mayor Powell yesterday fined Charles
Williams, colored, 1925 for being drunk
end disorderly.
Belle CASTOR charged Carrie Page with
being disorderly and abusive, but could
not praye it, and was charged up with
the costs.
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Farmers State Alliance

The meeting of the Farmers State Al
lance at Hillsboro is reported as being
very largely attended and full OF enthu
siasm. Farmers are in attendance from
all parts of the State, and they mean
business. This is crucial year for their
interests, and the alliance is straning
every nerve to meet the call. Today is
the last day of the great convention.
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Back From Camp.

Capt. w. ]. Moore, with several mem
bers of the Raleigh Light Infantry, re-
turned yesterday morning from the en-
campment at Greensboro. Most of the
boys, however, stopped over in Durham
to take in the Firemen's Tournament.