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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-05-12
Who tie Girl Is.
(Bv the Associated Press.)


Atlanta Ga, May 11.-An investi-
CATION developed the fact that the
young woman referred to in the above
dispatch from Paris is Miss Belle
Crane, of Decatur. Ga, who went to
London about a year ago to give con-
cert readings Miss Crane was well
known here, having attended Agnes
Scott institute, well known college
for women. Her father is b. S. Crane,
who holds a prominent position with
the Virginia Carolina Chemical COM
pany. He has heard nothing from his
daughter for several weeks, but about
eight days ago in response to cable
gram from American Consul General
Gowdy that Miss Crane was in Paris
and wished to return home and he
cabled $500 to pay the expenses of her
return passage.
Miss Crane went to Europe in COM
pany with party of friends from
Cincinnati. She had contracted with
a Mr.. Angel, an American, who was
going to Europe accompanied by his
wife to give a series of concert read
ings but upon the death of Mrs. An
gel the plan was dropped, and Miss
Crane went to live with a Miss Les
trade in London. Several weeks ago
she left London for Paris. The Asso-
ciated Press brought Mr.. Crane the
first information of the sensational in
cident in Paris.
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HAITI REPORTED TRANQUIL.
A Number OF Germans. English and
Americans in Prison.
(Rv the Associated Press }

Washington, May 11.-Minister
Leger of Haiti, tonight communi-
Gated the following statement to the
Associated Press:
According to a telegram just re-
ceived from the President of the Re-
public there is no trouble at all in
Haiti, there is not even any fear of
an uprising. the country is perfectly
quiet.
Mr.. Leger cabIed his President re-
questing to be fully advised as to the
situation in that country. The min
lister had no intimation of impending
trouble there, although he knew that
his government was prosecuting a
number of cases growing out of the
Taytien national bank scandal. AS a
result of this prosecution ii is said
number of Germans, English and
Americans have been imprisoned.
Whether they are still incarcerated or
or are out on bail is not known here.
They are charged with issuing false
bonds to the amount of $2,000,000.
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INTERNATIONAL Y. Nj. c. A.
The Thirty-E'ifth Annual Convention
i'm Session at Buffalo.
CBv the Associated Press }

Buffalo, n. Y, May 11.-Fourteen
hundred delegates assembled here to-
day TO take part in the 3Sth interna-
tional convention of the Young Mems
Christian Association of North
America. Two sessions were held to-
day at which the delegates were well
coined to the city and permanent or
ganization of the convention was
effected under the presidency of H.
B. f. MacFarland, president of the
board of commissioners of the Dis
trict of Columbia. This evening the
delegates attended a banquet in con-
vention hall, at which 1000 persons
were present. A letter of regret from
President Roosevelt was read.
The following officers of the con-
vention were unanimously chosen:
President, Hon. Henry b. F. McFar-
land, president of the board of COM
missioners of the District of Columbia;
presidents, G. Il. Williams, of
Montreal; a. E. Hayes, Of Minnesota;
Frank ID. Sickles, of Buffalo; Frank
Strange, of Kansas; William E. Swett
of Colorado; Joseph Ramsay, Jr., of
the Wabash railroad; .ecra-l"y, W. y.
Stone, Portland, Oregon: assistant
secretaries f. II. Burt. o. Illinois, ana
G.. e. Williams, of Quebec.
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BoOKER's PUPILS UNRELIABLE
No Good as Servants. Says DR.. Ohm
stcd-WIat a ''Reconstructed
Yankee" Thinks.
(By the Associated Press.)

Atlanta, Ga, May Ill have
heard from several Atlanta ladies of
their experience with negro women
taught at Booker Washington school
at Tuskegee, and have been told that
women educated at this school are to-
tally unreliable as servants This
statement was made by Dr. j. G. Ohm
sted, a prominent physician of At
lanta, at the meeting of the Georgia
State Sociological Society here today,
and was among others of similar ma
ture, which precipitated a lively dis
cussion at the meeting. The discus
sion at the time followed the reading
of a paper by DR.. w. r. Jones of this
city, on THE Reliability of the Ne
gro
Another statement made by DIR.
OlmSted was that the negro was bet
ter off mentally, physically as Il slave.
number of the delegates to the
meeting of the Sociological Society
took part in the discussion, among
them being Rev. c. A. Langston and
DR.. T. E. Oertel. DIR. Oertel charac-
teriZed himself as a reconstructed
Yankee" and spoke on the subject OF
the negro as an agent for the spread
of disease"
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AN ANTLERED HOST
Fourth Annual Reunion
of the EIks of North
Carolina.
(special to News and Observer. }

Especial to News ana ODSSrNeT.)
Winston Salem. N. c., May 1.-THE
fourth annual reunion of the Elks Of
North Carolina sot in motion last
night when at the conclusion of the
regular business meeting of the local
lodge an informal social session was
held in the beautiful room in the new
auditorium building. The visitors be-
gan ar ng last evening and have
been ing in on every train today
Purph Ad white are very much in
evidenc in this city. Members of the
order are wearing badges, houses are
decorated and show windows of the
stores bear signs in large letters of
Hello Bill
The dedication of the Elks building
was down on the program to take
place tonight, but owing to the un-
avoidable absence of Grand Exalted
Ruler Joseph r. Tanning, of Indianap-
oils, Ind, it has been postponed to
some future date. A letter was re-
ceived here today from Mr.. Tanning.
stating that much to his regret he
would be unable to keep his appoint
ment in Winston Salem, as his politi-
cal duties imperatively required his
presence in his own State at this time.
He is chairman of the Democratic
State Executive cOlnlnlJtee OF lnuldlld
Some changes were necessarily
made in the program tonight there
was a business session of the State as
sociation, followed by stag social ses-
sion. The drive around the city see
ing winston Salem, scheduled for to-
morrow was given this afternoon.
Tomorrow will be the big day.
There will be another business session
of the State association at 10 a. M, at
2 %. M. the barbecue and brunswick
stew will be given at Nissen Park. A
drove of pigs and flock of sheep Will
be slaughtered for the occasion. Sew
eraI poultry yards will be depopulated
and a few truck farms cleared of vege-
tables. All of these will be sacrificed
to make an Elk feast and holiday.
Tomorrow night the crowning func-
ton and the final event of the reun-
ion will take place. A ladies social ses-
sion will be given at p. m. Elabo-
rate preparations are being made for
this. A Raleigh orchestra will furnish
music and there will be dancing.
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MEMORIAL DAY AT KINSTON.
Grafton by Ex-Gov. L. j. Jarvis-A
Grand Tribute to the Confederate
soldiers.
fsnacia, to News and Observer.

lNll
Kinston. n. c., May 1.-THE me-
mortal exercises in the city yesterday,
under the auspices OF the =, IN M " Wad a
Confederacy, we're a grand tribute to
the ronnoory Of the soldiers who gave
their lives for the lost cause an old ExGoy 1staT"n
b;,orole ond an eloquent speaker, de-
livered the address at the court house,
and a beautiful program nnnSfrna of music r5y by
trained voices was s. rem Penderegi ! q CHE The
nth m Jr., and Dr. +. II. Lewis of Raj
The gaiIows is being eonstruoted psris bies for
'iS eAec''' -, Thursday of next week
Nav Ma, 'as9 7sth p''Th The execution will be pri-
vate-in the JAN ,,o CHARGED wiz,
viii Harry, sstick into the "shoo-hy"
.lroWlils a. a night. was bound over to
train train sumaay ,,mdar 500 10 bond today and in
default def,u WAS was committed to Jail.
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War Material for Port Arthur.
(By the Associated Press.l

(By the Associated Press.
st. Petersburg, May 11.-General
Kuropatkin has telegraphed to the
Emperor that train loaded with war
material from Lao Yang has arrived
at Port Arthur.
The text of General Kuropatkin's S
dispatch follows:
Reconnaissance between Salitszai-
pudza and Feng- -Wang-Cheng, failed
to. discover Japanese troops"
a Japanese column of considerable
strength advanced from Feng- Wang
Cheng May Sth, in the direction of
Hai-Cheng.
''Pulen-Cheng station is opened by
our frontier guards and the damage
to the railway by the Japanese so far
as Sanchilipu has been repaired. All
the work was carried out under the
supervision of Lieutenant Colonel
Spiridonoff of the fourth railway bat
talon. This gallant officer undertook
to get through to Port Arthur train
full of ammunition, which had ar
rived at Liao-Yang after the landing
of the japanese at Pitsewo. Every
preparation was made to blow uD the
train in case of necessity in order to
prevent it's falling into the hands of
the Japanese.
'.The task was carried out and the
self-sacrifice of the men of the fourth
railway battalion was crowned with
complete success.
SHORTY after four o'clock in the
afternoon the train arrived at jim
Shau station (forty miles from Port
Arthur) where it was handed over to
General Jokoff who Immediately dis
patched it under proper protection to
Port Arthur. Lieutenant Colonel
Spiridonof returned on a locomotive.
AFTER landing at Pitsewo the Jap
anese began marching toward Kin
Chau. On the night of May 10 their
forward guard, consisting of about two
regiments of infantry passed the night
on the heights above Sanchilipu Con
the railroad about sixty miles from
Port Arthur.)
about thirty Japanese, vessels are
lying north of Cape Terminal Con the
east coast of the Liao-Lung peninsula
below Pitsewo.)"
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WILL SPEND MILLIONS.
The Southern Places an Order for a
Number of New Engines.
Especial to News and Observer

Especial to News and Observer
Washington, ID. c., May 11.--An-
nouncement was made today that the
Southern railway had placed an order
for new equipment costing several
million dollars. Ten new Pacific en-
gines, the type now used in the roads
Florida traffic, are contracted for. the
first of them to be delivered early in
June. They will be used on the DAN
vile division, which has double track,
and it is said this type of engine may
finally displace all other passenger e..
gines on the line. The contract also
calls for twenty heavv switch engines
and the first of twenty large freight
engines are now being delivered. A
number of passenger coaches and dim
ing cars are also to be added to the
equipment of the road.
A North Carolina girl, Miss Emma
Mcintosh, will graduate next Tuesday
as a trained nurse from the Column
bian University hospital here.
Wilhelmina Blackwell (colored), of
New Bern, received a diploma as a
trained nurse this week from the
Freedmen's Hospital school, this city.
The Fish commission will this week
send one of its cars to North Carolina
to distribute a large number of shad
in the waters of that State.
FRED L. MERRITT.
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force consisting of about a division
of infantry intended to march of Sal
NADIA with forty guns and 1,5OO cav
airy
From reports received from the
River Daza, it may be concluded that
the Japanese army is concentrated in
three groups, the two southern groups
being on the lower section of the
River Tayang at Hondouhanya on the
left bank of the river at Dayan and
at Donamyo in the same locality and
the northern group opposite Habalina
on the road from Feng-W -Wang-Cheng
to Salidaza fourteen to sixteen miles
from ang-Cheng.
1T is difficult TO obtain information
from the local Chinese. In one case
we discovered that the Chinese had
warned Japanese troops of an ambus-
cade, which had been arranged by
COSSa ciSS. -
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-05-12
SUMMONS THE BAR
Judge PEBBLES Cites At.
torneys of Robson to
Appear Before Him.
Especial to News and Observer

Especial to News and Observer
Lumberton, n. c., May 11.-upon an
affidavit made by Mr.. j. a. Pal ker a
justice of the peace of Jackson, he-
fore Mr.. j. T. Flyth, Clerk of the Su-
perior Court of Northampton county,
Judge PEBBLES today notified y. A.
Mclean, b. F. Mclean, y. w. Nc
Lean, ]. CT. Mccormick, 5. Mcintyre,
j. II. Cook, r. c. Lawrence. e. j.
Britt Wade Wishart T.. E. Lee and
r. B. Morrison, members of the Robe
son bar to appear before him in Fay
etteville, Saturday, May 14th, and
show cause why they should not be
attached for contempt.
The representatives of the bar
will hold a consultation with their at
torneyS in Raleigh tomorrow, Messrs.
G. w. Tillet, of Charlotte; G. M. Bus
bee, of Raleigh; j. ID. Shaw, Jr, of
Laurinburg. and Robinson and Shaw,
of Fayetteville, have been retained by
the Robeson bar. Other attorneys
will appear with these.
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For Roosevelt and Fairbanks.
(By the Associated Press.)

Birmingham, Ala, May 11.-The
Republican convention adjourned to-
day after electing four delegates at
large to the national conventions
nominating the presidential electors
at large, naming a new State commit
tee, largely composed of anti-Lily
whites and adopting a platform en-
dorsing President Roosevelt for the
presidency and declaring in favor of
Senator Fairbanks, of Indiana, for
vice-presidential nominee; demand
is made for the protection and per-
manency of all civil and political
rights OF our citizens without discrimi-
nation as to race or color"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-05-12
HOT TIMES IN INDIANA.
Twenty-four Delegates for Parker. Ten
for Hearst-A Row Brewing,
(By the Associated Press !

Indianapolis, May 11.-Twenty-fou
delegates favorable to the nomination
of Judge Alton b. Parker. of New
York, for the Presidency We're select
ed tonight by district caucuses while
ten were chosen who are advocates
of the nomination of William r
Hearst any of these reconvened
and the Hearst people have started
a movement to bolt the convention to-
morrow and hold rump con-
vention that viii send a complete
set of Hearst delegates to the National
convention. Rump caucuses were held
tonight in the Second and Tenth dis
tricts Immediately following the reg
ular caucuses, and it was reported
late tonight that the Hearst delegates
from other districts held a full slate of
delegates and convention officers.
The scenes attending several of the
caucuses We're extremely riotous.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-05-12
BUSHES BLAzED,
SEVENTEEN FELL
Two Officers and Fifteen
Men Were Slain.
Am BUSHED BY MOROS
First Lieutenant H. A. Woodruff OF In
diana and Second Lieutenant ].
H. Hall of Alabama the Off
GERS Killed by the
Treacher0us Foe.
(By the Associated Press.)

Manila, May 11.-Lieutenant Win
field Harper and thirty-nine men of
States infantry, were caught on May
Sth, in an ambush by several hundred
Moros. First Lieutenant Harry A.
Woodruff and Second Lieutenant
Joseph H. Hall and fifteen men were
killed and five men were wounded.
The ambush occurred at Simpatem on
the east shore of Lake Liguaran,
Island of Mindanao.
Lieutenant Woodruff was born in
Indiana and entered the service from
the State of New York Lieutenant
Hall was born in Alabama and was
promoted TO his lieutenancy from the
ranks
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-05-12
An Attack BY Cossacks Rcpulsed.
(By the Associated Press

(By the Associated Press.)
Toxic, May III p. m.-Details of
the attack by Russian Cossacks at An
iu. Korea, yesterday morning were re-
ceived here today.
The Russian cavalry numbered 200
men. and their attack was spirited
The Japanese garrison resisted stoutly
and succeeded in driving off the ene-
my. Later Japanese reinforcements
arrived from Ping Yang. Indications
point to the presence of a Russian
force at Yong Byong, between Anju
and Unsan, but it probably is small.
1t is evident that these Russian cav
alrymen were sent South for the pur-
pose of harrassing the Japanese flanks
and lines of communications.
The japanese report of the fighting
at Anju does not give any losses.
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DIR. KILGO is APPLAUDED.
Declares No One Could Love the Stars
and Stripes More Than We Do.
CBv the Associated Pres,

Lose Angeles, Cal, May 11.-Prac-
tically no business was transacted by
the Methodist General conference
today.
After rescess the duty of receiving
and welcoming fraternal delegates was
taken up and addresses were made
by Rev. WILLIAM DCdson, fraternaI
delegate from Canada, and Rev. j. c..
Kilgol of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, South. DR.. Kilgo aroused the
enthusiasm of the delegates to a de-
gree not before reached in the con-
ference by his eloquent peroration in
which he asserted that no one could
love the Stars and Stripes more than
the people of the South.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-05-12
TRAGEDY AT A SAW MILL.
Tom Curtis, of AsheviiIe, Killed in
the CataIoOchee Mountains.
Especial to News and Observer.)

NSpeCietl " NEWS anu obSCINSl.J
= Asheville, n. c., May 11.-Sheriff
Reed received a telephone message
from Newport, Tenn, this morning
to the effect that a man named Tom
Curtis from Asheville had been killed
at saw mill, near the North Caro-
lima and Tennessee line, in the Cata-
loochee mountains last night. The
message stated that Curtis had been
shot and killed by d fellow work
man named Dunk Murray. and that
the dead mans body had been taken
to Newport, and that the authorities
of that place wanted to know what
disposition should be made of the re-
mains. The message stated that the
murdered man had a brother here
named Rees Curtis, and the sheriff
was asked to locate the brother ana
notify him of the killing.
The cause of the homicide is un-
known. 1t is learned that the muir
dered man was from the Hominy sec
tioH Of this county.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-05-12
MEBANE CHOSEN A DELEGATE.
The Man Indicted in Connection With
the NhisIzey Frauds.
Especial to News and Observer)

Especial to News and Observer.)
Greensboro, n. c., May 11.-At the
Republican County convention held
here last Saturday, there was selected
as a delegate to the State convention
Mr.. w y. Mebane, who is indicted in
the Federal court, and is now out on
a $4,000 bond, charged with false re-
turns as q rectifying governbent gau
ger in connection with the Milton and
Reidsville liquor frauds cases, in which
the parties were convicted last week
and sentenced to the penitentiary one
of those convicted and sentenced be-
ing A. j. Davis, the gauger, for false
returns in connection with the same
parties.
There has been considerable COM
ment among Republicans here over
the action of the convention, for while
everybody sympathizes with Mr.. Me-
bane personally, many are saying that
this action of the convention was i'll
advised.
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IN THE HANDS OF THE MIKADo.
He Will. Apparently, Soon Control the
Lao Tung Peninsula.
(By the Associated Press.)

ST Petersburg, May 12.-3:35 a. m.
- (Thursday) Impending events of
Importance to the military situation
in Manchuria are foreshadowed in
official dispatches given out late last
night by the War Commission.
On May 8 the Japanese forces eau
tiously moved from Feng-Wang-
Cheng towards Hai-Cheng, which is
thirty-two miles east by north of
New Chwang, and it is the opinion of
the general staff that they should GER
tainly reach their destination within
two days. If the Japanese occupy
Hai-Cheng, with Port Arthur effective
Continued on Second Page.)
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VuEtures of the Battlefield.
(By the Associated Press.)

Wy tITc 1hs-.'OSt t''oeS 4 e.7'7'7
London. May 12-CThursday) "A
message from the Daily Mails cor
respondent at Japanese headquarters
says
1.-The censorship is becoming sever
er l am forbidden to transmit the
names of divisions and units or to re-
veal where our headquarters are >es-
tablished.
"a painful incident of the Yalu
battle was the robbery of the Russian
dead and wounded. After the action
many Chinese roamed the battlefield,
stripping the Russians. The Japan
ese general is greatly grieved, and is
establishing a system of patrols to
check a repetition of the occurrence
and threatens severe punishment"
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.Asheville and the Baptist Convention.

Asheville, n. c., Nav AT a meet
ing this morning of the officers of the
First Baptist church and the directors
of the Board of Trade it was decided
to send a delegation to Nashville,
Tenn, for the purpose of securing, if
possible the selection of Asheville as
a permanent meeting place for the
Southern Baptist convention. 1t is not
unlikely that this city will secure the
convention permanently.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-05-12
THE BILL is QUASHED.
Charger Union Men With Conspiracy
for Black Listing Lumber Dealer
Especial to News and Observer)

N'1PNNItAI % 4F~FF '0IIVI
Salisbury, n c., May lin Row
an Superior court Judge M. ii. Justice
quashed the sensational bill of indict-
ment against A. Van Pelt and others
for conspiracy against c. A. Rice, a
lumber dealer of this city, who had
been black listed by the carpenters
and joiners' union for refusing to en-
ploy union men. The State gave no.
tice of appeal to the Supreme court.
Counsel for Ernest Murphy, who
has been i'm Jail here under charge of
shooting Chief of Police J. f. Miller,
secured his release today on condi-
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Taliaferro is Nominated.
(By the Associated Press }

Jacksonville, Fla, May 11.-Re-
turns so far received make no change
in the situation as stated last night.
Taliaferro has so far a small majority
over all for the Senate and has prob
ably been nominated. Davis and
Broward will have to run again for
governor.
Sparkman has a decided majority
in the First district and Lamar had no
opposition in the Third.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-05-12
Winston Will Invite the Doctors.

Especial to News and Observer
WinSton-SaIem, n. c.. May Ii
The Forsyth Medical Society has in
structed its delegate to invite the
North Carolina Medical Society. which
meets in Raleigh on the Gath inst. to
meet in this city in 1905 and urge
the acceptance of the invitation.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-05-12
Democratic Primaries Called.
Especial to News and Observer.)

Especial 10 NtWo dIIU VUSVI NVI'1
Wilson, n. c., May 11.-Mr.
George w. Connor, chairman of
the Wilson County Democratic COM
mittee has requested voters to meet in
their respective precincts May 29th,
to select delegates to the county con-
vention. which will be held in the
court house here June 1st
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Four Delegates to Chicago.

Baltimore, May 1.-THE Mary
land Republican State convention met
here today and elected four delegates
at large to the Chicago convention.
The platform condemns the election
laws passed by the Democratic Legis-
lature of Maryland to restrict the suf-
frage as 'illegal and criminal"
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+. Advance of the Japanese.

St Petersburg. May 11.-Lieuten-
ant General Sakharoff sent a dispatch
to the general staff today, communi-
eating a report of Lieutenant General
Zassalitch dated May 10. as follows:
Troops which appeared to be a di-
vision of the Japanese guard have
been advancing for the last two days
from Feng- -Wang-Cheng westerly in
the direction of Hai-Cheng.
''It is reported that a Japanese