Danville Register and Bee from Danville, Virginia (2024)

March 28, 1909

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Sunday, March 28, 1909

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OUNDED EBRUARY 1847 NO 8455 A DANVILLE VA SUNDAY MORJggft MARCH 28 1909 SINGLE COPIES THREE CENTS ZAYAS SPEAKS AT PHILADEIPHIA CHICAGO IREMAN LEAVE8 OR j4 iSTAKM ORDERS CAUSE WOMArADIIITSRELATIOIISHiP dfarea Gov States Con MOTHER AND CHILDREN BURN Ing IN SEARCH POLE for similar child LAST PANIC TRYING city SCHWAB ON TARI ARRESTED OR CDMSPIRACY CHESS MATCH' MRTAT TAKES A HOLIDAY BATTLE WITH INDIANS AMERICAN WEDS JAP Emery of California Becomes Hamlin broke CUTS THROATS prevent such a union UNION OICER DEAD Col EXPLOSION AT STEEL PLANT a Um irttl of TIm Botto fllOh 'de the WEWILLHOLD IMSES SESSIONS WM dls ni whp politl Penn Acad 1 THREE KIHEI) III WILL TfiOlLEYACCIOEIT AID MRS BOYLE It a irti ii tv nwir urwivva Miss Bride of oreigner in Seattle Seattle Washn March 27 With Rev Gowan as the officiating clergyman assisted by Rev A Patter son Gunjiro Aokl a Japanese and Miss Helen Gladys Emery the dangh er of Archdeacon John Emery of the Episcopal Diocese of California were married at Trinity Church today They have traveled for more than 1000 miles to become legally united as man and wife as the laws of Califor nia where the girl was born and rear ed A EDITOR SHOOTS WIE A ai L1 Boston Man Then Turns Weapon On Self Ending Existence Boston March A startling tragedywas enacted in the public garden nes IS trance of the Hoyl eton Street subway tonight the early evening suburban rush wo at Its height Suffering from ner vous trouble with which he had been afflicted for Several years Lawrence Boyle a well known newspaper manfl shot and Instantly killed hie wife and the nended his own lite' by the same means Mrs Boyle was shot through 'the mouth and her husband through the left breast Doth died almost tag mediately Wie wu about AO yearx a 'Revision De Neither Steel ''Nor "Sugar Are Affected by Payne Bill Christiana Thursday March 18 Capatin Raold Amundsen lias now completed arrangements for his drift ing expedition in search of the North Pole in famous "ship the ram He has selected as his cap tain Lieutenant Engelstad oC the Nor wegian Army The ramis being overhauled and strengthened and she probably will be ready to leave Chris tiana early next' year Captain Amundsen will accompany tfie steam er but of the iord but will return and later proceed to America and thence to Nome" Alaska where the ram which goes by way of Cafe Horn will pick him up rom Nome the expedition will enter the Arctic Ocean through Hering Strait5 Captain Auundsen Will Search CASES March ive this afternoon and cells in the' city conspiracy to se PRESIDENT CUBA PRIN CIK'SPEAKER AT NOTABLE GATHERING MERCER ACCOMPANIED BY ATTORNEY Race at Jacksonville Jacksonville la March 2f With large attendance the initial race meeting of the State air Association of lorida opened auspiciously at the new Moncrief track today Large Reids and close cantesta were a fea ture' Long shts carried off the hon RMb 90lT two favorites Winning The heavy njaklpg fast' time Mother Then Attempts to Murder Oth er Two inally Setting House Afire Des Moines Jowa March 27 In a fit of despondency resulting from a long Illness Mrs John Lynch living on a farm near Cedar Rapids this afternoon cut the throats of her five weeks old baby 'her three year old son and her four year old girl The fren zied mother then attacked her two other children but they escaped to a neighbor's house When help arrived Mrs Lynch her own throat and set her house afire Neighbors rescued the little girl who may sur vive The thouse was burned to the ground aqd the two bodies were In cmeratea ho nusoana oi inc merited woman was absent at time 7 of Cubans Wood and Wilson Among Speakers OR BETTER POSTAL ROADS i a Representative Adamson of Georgia Introduces Bill to That Effect Wash i gton DJJW a rcb2 In or der to provide better postal roads in the States and territories Represen tative Adamson (Ga) has introduced a bill authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to make an account of fund in the Treasuryat the end of each fiscal year and after deducting the mounts required by the law to be kept in the treasury he is required to declare the remainder a surplus which is to be distributed per capita among the States and territories and the Dis trict of Columbia according to the last general census Three Members of Posse Killed Alarm Being Spread 1 Oklahoma City Marc 27 In a pitched battle at Hickory Ground tonight between a posse of five offi ccrs and twenty Creek Indians of the Snake clan otfleers lidward Baum of Checotah Herman Odom of Checo tah and rank Swift of Muskogee were killed rank Jones and Wil liam Carr the other members of the posse escaped without injury and fled to the settlements where the news of the battle was telephoned to Sheriff Odom of McIntosh county attempts to kill family Motorman Then' Turns Weapon On Self Blowing Out Brains Pittsburg Pa March After fir ing two bullets at his wife pointing a revolver at his mother in law when she attempted to help her' daughter and trying vainly to get his little daughterout of" a neighboring house that he might kill' her Harry Smith aged 31year8 a motorman living at Coraopolis near here 'today sent I a bullet through the brain of his six year old son Russell killing the boy instantly and then shot himself through tie dying in 4 Jew mo ments The cause of the tragedy' Is said to be liquor apd jealousy?" Smith who has been married for thirteen years came home from work this afternoon and upbraided his wife about a domestic matter earing ru ble the woman sent the two children to the home of a neighbor During the argument which tmsued Smith is said Vo have drawn a revolver and fired two shots at his wife who ran from the house He then pointed the revolver at ms' motber ih law who tried to quiet him but he did not pull the trigger and left the house going to the home of the neighbor where the children had been sent? He called to his girl tos cyme to him but thechild did not respond Hearing his father's voice Russell came to the door and was shown a bag of peanuts which Smith offered to give him Un suspectingly the boy ran to his father but the latter instead of giving the lad the peanuts drew his revolver and fired a shot through the brain Without pausing the man turned the weapon upon himself and setn a bul let Into his temple falling beside the ooay or pis murdered sen and dy almost instantly McKiney Platt and Pittsburg Pa March 27 Three persons were killed twoprobably fatally hurt and fifteenothers sus tained injuries late this'afternoon In a head on collision between two elec tric cars on the Pittsburg and Butler Street Railway near Brayton station this county List of Casualties The dead: 7 aged 35 years of Mars Pa conductor of the south bound car died of internal injuriep while being removed to a hospital ALRED SNYDER aged 27 years purchasing agent of the Pitts burg Butler Street Railways Com lany his home being at New Haven Conn fc ALBERT pged 40 years of this city fare collector ofthe northbound car Probably totally injured: Lon Kelly motorman of the south bound car right leg fractured and probably internally injured Meyers Bellevue! Pa a pas senger right leg broken thought to" be injured internally Snyder and Heindman were stand 1 ing with tile motorman on the north bound car when the? accident occur red and it is remarkable thgt Kelly was not killed outright Misunoerstanding of Orders The accident is said to have been caused" by a mistake in orders given the southbound car The northbound car crashed into the on coming limit ed at a curve throwing the trucks tf both tars off the rails Had the cars themselves left the tracks they would undoubtedly have gone over a steep embankment along the road at that point wijiich would have meant death to all the passengers and employes on the cars Doctors were: quickly hurried to the scene of the wreck and the dead and seriously' injured removed to a hos pital at Butler 1 ire Destroyed Home of rank Miller i With atal Result Lexington Pa March Three persons Mrs Anna Miller wife of rank Miller and her tg children a son Hite and a baby are dead from hurnssustained as a result of a fire which destroyed their home on Ker ris Creek in Rockbridge county near here yesterday The fire which origi nated in the kitchen gained such pro portions before discovery that Mrs Millers devoted all of her energies in tying to save her children and in doing so she and two of them re ceived fatal injuries Another Elizabeth escaped injury our Supposed to Have Perished And Others Badly Injured Joliet Ills March 27 our people arc supposed to have been killed and six others badly if not fatally injur ed inan explosion at the plant of the Illinois Steel Company tonight The whole City felt the shock or the ex plosion The accident was caused by a In No blast furnace which forced a heavy charge of gas into the engine and boiler room A large gang was put to work searching the ruins The injured as found were taken to Silver Cross Hospital The name of only one of dead Is known The body of Louis Johnson the oiler was loiino william Tei Buick Cars Win Atlanta Ga March 28 Tn the auto mobile climb here today distance nine tenth of a mile Buick cars won four events Strang driving in two Hurmgti one and Dewitt one Strang made? the distance in 58 3 5 seconds in each race? time was 1 4dk A White steamer driven by 1 amber' won the for all Time 461 5 seconds Goorgia Member Contends Payne THE HAVIIIE BHilSIKI! IVE LOCKED IN SEPARATE 1 CELLS OR CONSPIRACY IN GRAT San rancisco men were arrestedlocked in separateprison accused of cure confidential records and trans cripts ofevidehce of Value to the de fense hi the graft cases from offices of the district attor ney i The men arrestdd are: Reed Hamlin confidential employe of Dis trict" Attorney Langdon and for two years private secretary to William JBurns A William Corbin A Joseph Van Wormer Alter nis arrest down and made a confession of his jpartjof the affair He was the only man'in" the district office who possessed a key to desk and also tjie combination to the safe It? is alleged that Hamlin for a con sidaration of $200 a month has been in Bhepractice of transcribing rec ords antTdocumentsr which he thought would be of importance to the graft defense and turning them over to MoKlney who is declared to have acted as a go between About two months ago Bums became suspicious of Hamlin and since then: he has been allowed to handle nothing of Importance Plwtt Is alleged to have sold reports of investigations of members of the grand jury panels in the graft cases and the others are said to be impli cated as intermediaries fin the matter Pittsburgh Pa March William McDermott "the retired Chicago fire man who believes that $Irs James Doyle one of the alleged kidnap pers of WilliejWhitla' is his daughter has refracted his declaration made yesterday that he would hot assist the girl and on his arrival Jin this City today is said to have'retained an attorney to look after the caae Me Dermott no L'getn chance to see Mrs Boyle as the woman had been taken away After the departure of the prisoner it was learned that her sudden removal from this city was due to a fear on part of the de tecti with tbe case JhatMcDermott 'would institute habeas coir pus proceedings to secure the release of the girl he believes is his daugh ter i McDermott is thought to have gone to fiercer a lawyer accomapnying him A special to the jGazzete Times of this city from Mercer Pa tonight say that Mrs Boyle admitted to the correspondent that she was Anna Mc Dermott and that her father was Wil liam McDermott of Chicago Woman Attempts to Escape Pittsburg March Making a sen sational and foolhardy attempt to tsj cape from a train going at the rate of thirty miles an hour denying that she had a hand in the kidnapping of iittl Willie Whitla asserting that she Is not Anna McDermott of Chicago saying that numerous other stories arc absolutely incorrect and through itAlLiStricUy maintaining the great air of mystery that has surrounded ffier Mrs James Boyle wife of the man who kidnapped the Whitla boy left Pittsburg today for the jail at Mercer Although three officers accompanied Mrs Boyle on the train from this city to Mercer she scared them so badly in an attempt to either escape or in jure herself that the experience will never be forgotten Both Boyle and his wife are now locked up in the jail at Mercer here they will remain un til brought to trial for the kidnapping It is likely that he prisoners will be given a preliminary hearing before Squire McLain early next week but the date has not been divulgedby those in charge of the case Sydden Removal of Prisoner rom Pittsburg Due to ear on Part of Detectives? That Parent Would In stitute Habeas Corpus Proceedings to Secure Her Release Mrs Boyle Attempts to Jump from Train Poinier Succumbs to Illness at Spartanburg Spartanburg March CoL Poinier a native of CincinpaXl Ohio who for twenty one years was postmaster at tills city died tonight aged 71 years His death followed a second stroke of paralysis suffered three davs ago After serving in the Union army ho runic to Spartanburg almost immediately upon the close of the war between the States He will lie buried at Charleston Mon day next ormer Governor Magoon Declares Cubans Are Capable of Self ernment Claims United Annex Island Without British Teams Carry Off Victory Winning our of ive Games New York March 27 Complete re versal of form on the part of the players in the eleventh American Chess Match today allowed the Brit ish team to carry off the victory by a scores of 5 games to 4 with one un finished game which according to the experts will also result in a loss upon adjudication by Baron Albert De Rothschild of Vienna to whom the position will be sent as referee Starting with a lead of two wins the results of the efforts of A Hodges and Voight on riday the American side added only one more victory scored by rank Marshall at the expense of Blackburn our Americans were defeated two of these most unexpectedly How ell New York State champion took liberties with a drawn position and drifted in to a losing line of play while Ht Shelms wlth'a decisive ad vantage over his opponent entered upon an unsound combination and lost the He held out un til 6:30 tonight when he re signe dto Mitchell rather than have the game go to the referee This decided the match in favor of the British BALTIMORE CONERENCE Bishop Candler Deciares Movemoots to Live Like Christ ailunri Baltimore Md March 27 Warren A Candler presiding the "Baltimore Conference of Methodist Episcopal Church South in session here today declared against' the "livc like movements started in several Cities of the coun try recently of these so called movements to make people like like what they think Christ would live have been a he said Tfiomas A Kempls down all who have tried such plans have ended by becoming morbid These campaigns do no Bishop Candler pleaded for a per sonal religion and was specially se vere in condemning ministers who preach series of sermons otr English literature and kindred subjects cv j' 4 Y' BYHATOWICK Northbound Car Into j)n Coming Limited At a Curse Throw ing Both Cars rom Doc tors Hurried to Scehe of Wreck from Removing Injured to Butler Hospital Philadelphia March With the Hon Alfredo Zayas vice president of Cuba as the principal speaker the American Academy of Political and Social Science held a notable meeting in" Witherspoon Hail here tonight at which the past and present conditions and the prospects for the future in Cuba ahd the Philippines were dis cussed Dr Rowe professor of cal science at the University of sylvania and president of the einy in introducing "Vice President Zayas said that rightly or wrongly Cuba is now looked upon as the test ing ground of popular institutions and the hopes and wishes of the people are with the present government on that island Among the other speakers were Maj General Leonard Wood and Gen James H7 Wilson ormer Governor Charles Ma goon of Cuba under the second In tervention was unable to attend the meeting because of illness but the ad dress se had prepared was read by Dr Rowe Capable of Seif Government ormer Governor Magoon in his address said the two question? most frequently heard about Cuba4were: the present government of the island continue to be stable?" and the United States annex Cu The dangers imperil the stability of the Cuban government the address says arising from the ra cial characteristics of the two and a ha 1 Tttil I ohfT of Cuban a Ye bee fi changed by administering their gov a ernment for two and half years There fore the address says the question as to whether that government will prove stable cannot be answered except by the test of time The former governor said he had no hesitation in declaring that the Cu bans are capable rnf self government On the question of annexation the address says that the United States will not and cannot annex Cuba ex cept' with the full consent of the Cu bans am glad to say the former gov ernor concludes the thought of annexing the Island of Cuba is enter tained by but few Americans7 It is and for a number of generations will continue to be an irridescent dream Wasbinglon March 27 In order toexpedite discussion of the tariff bill in the House 'unanimous consent to day was given that the sessions here after shall begin at ten of eleven a tn that a recess sfiould be taken at 6 and that resum ing at 8 clock the session should ccptinue until 30 each day reJuesf fo unanimous consent was madejiy Mr who there already were forty dr fifty who had indicated their de sire to speak Mr Clark (Mo) the Democratic leader asked how long general de bate would continue He said he was much embarrassed by his lack of in orinat ionT WheiWhis7 Democratic colleagues asked for time in which tiT speak he found ft difficult to make allotments Mr Payne replied that she was suffering under a similar embarrassment but did not supply the information desired Without any intimation been given as to when the general debate on the measure shall cease the bill waq laid before the House Hardwick Bilj Mr Hardwick (Georgia) maintain ed that the South still condemns and denounces protection in spite of what has been said to the contrary sain ne was opposed to the Payne bill as a whede He contended thatIt is revision upward He also de clared that it was not true that theSouth is turning to Taft me assume you today as a rep resentative of the South a resident of one of her smaller towns in he very heart of her great xotton paid Mr Hai wick the South of today is no more inclined to bless the system that loads her down with great and grevious burdens than she has ever been Human nature Is about the same in the South as any where else and there are doubtless many men and many interests in that section who be willing to see all the rates and schedules raised Until they kiss the skies provided on 1 ly they can get their own particular schedules fixed to suit themselves 'These men by no meansspeak for tpillng unfavored and unprivileged millions They speak for themselves and for their own pockets thisbe clearly understood and you ill get a pretty clear Idea about the worthlessness of all this talk ao of ten heard and so often seen in print that the South is turning toward Taft is eager to embrace Republi canism and is hungering for the flesh pots of protection Taft the man we like immensely Taft the statesman we respect and admire even while disagreeing with him or4 the honest Republican we have the respect which one manly man enter tains for another with whom he can net agree Protection we still con demn and denounce as wd have al ways tried to condemn and denounce wrong and injustice whenever and wherever it may be Trusts Not Affected by Measure Mr Hardwick asserted that neith er the sugar trust nor the steel trust was sorely afflicted by the Payne bill He contended' that the tariff on sugar results in a clean gift to the trust of67000000 per annum That the Payne bill 'discriminates against the cotton farmer of the South and In favor ofthe whfeat grower of tbe West by placing' binding twine the free list and taxing jute bag ging at a rate equal to five cents for hogging sufficient to cover one bale ot cotton he strenuously contended He claimed that the duties on cotton? goods are excessively and unjust when viewed from the standpoint of tbe cot tdn producer While Mt Gardner was arguing tor tff7 1CUilUUll IJfc LUV UUIJ uu iajulnd shoes andv keeping bides on fc free list jChamp Clark wanted to know If he would support a bill which wotald' compel the shoe manufactur ere to stamp on the shoes they make a Statement showing theIngredients that enter Into their manufacure HI vote for Mr Gardner replied take my head off down in my district for ioing It The gentleman Is a b' National Wealth Doubled That the National wealth has been doubled te one of the effects which Mr Kelfer (Ohid) attributed to the operation of the Dingley bill Speaking of the placing of certainraw materials on the free list of the PMrne bUl Mr Ketfer favored a rea askable duty on hides hides are not to bg made" dutiable then boots and ahoea aad leather manufacturers must go on the tree he said Mt the raiser breeder aod feMar at dottle have the same pnKsetton ou thole products as is giv 4 Ik A MthAA Maraowon atiusMk Iva I UTURE CUBA DISCUSSED ENJOYS GAME GOL AT CHEVY CHASE YESTERDAY ALTHOUGH BEATEN Washington March President Taft castaslde official duties this af ternoon to have his first real play and recreation since his Inauguration He I played golf at the Chevy Chase Club Vice President Sherman Brigadier General Clarence Ed wards chief of the Insular Bureau and Captain Arcnibold Butt the military aide were in the foursome The President played golf practically all winter Tong first at Hot Springs and later at Augusta Ga He has missed the game greatly Since he became President At the end of an play the scores revealed that President Taft and Vice President Snerman who were matched against Gen Edwards and Captain Butt in a foursome had been beaten by four points at the sixteenth hole The game was filled with spectacular plays the President displaying excellent form despite his several weeks absence from the links The match was hotly contested and during the first halt it seemed prob able that Taft and Sherman would defeat the army officers with ease 1 It is piobable the President will bo seen on the links more frequeutlv hereafter as ho is said to have ex pressed to his friends a desire to have the in action three or four times a week INORDER TO ALLOW WHO "DESIRE TO SPEAK ON BILL TO DO MISS LANGHORNE TO WED Young Virginia Girl to Marry Eng lishmaiK Richmond VarNterch' 276o! Chiswell DabneyXanghorne of Mi rador Albermarle county today an nounced the engagement of his young est daughter Nora to Payl Phipps of England Miss Langhorne was a debutante of last year She possesses all the charm and beauty of her sisters Mrs Moncure Perkins of this city Mrs Charles Dana Gibson qf New York Mrs Reginald Brooks of Long Island and Mrs William Waldorf Astor of England 2 No time or place has yet been an nounced for the wedding 'Trusts South is Turning yin av or of Taft cAftS COLLIDE HEAD ON PITTSBURG WITH ATAL RESULTS President of Steel Co Declares Amer ican Labor Can Stand Cut Chicago March 27 the tariff on steel or anything you please American labor can stand it I said Charles Schwab pres ident of the Bethlehem Steel Com pany today as he stood in the lobby of a local hotel waiting for a train believe in a I feel just as Andrew Carnegie doesvon that matter American labor can make the best steel in the world and with it we can complete with the world I know' nothing about other lines that is technically but I have enough confidence in American labor to be lieev that the tariff can be cut with out injuring business been in contact with labor of all kinds for many years and I know what It can do I know that American workmen can produce more steel in a given time than any others in the world We have nothing to fear from a cut in duties because we have the best goods It is true that we pay our workmen more money tha nother" nations but you always have'' to pay skillful workmen the highest wages Therefore the high est paid laborer is the most profit abl eto the employer The skillful man makes money fbr his AR TROUBLE SPRINGIELD Local Option Campaign Creates Stir in Illinois City Negroes Indoors Springfield Ills27 a week of strenuous local option cam paigning culminating in a monster pa rade of 8000 school children the lo cal authorities spent many anxious hours tonight fearing an outbreak which would rival the trouble of a few years ago Shortly after the great parade was held an order went around compelling the closing of the saloons at 8 As the doors closed and the arguments over the situation became more heated the day force of the police was kept busy mov ing the debaters The negroes were cautioned to keep in doors and with in a short time bad disappeared from the streets? Sheriff Lawrence summoned ills de puties shortly afterwards word frpm Dalton and the surrounding towng indicated that some one had given an order for the mobilization of the troops These rumors "could not be confirmed" vt TO SAIL OR PANAMA Secretary of Wr Will Inspect Canal Site on Trip Washington March 27 A thorough inspection of the Panama Canal will lo made Secretary of War Dickinson: ho will sail from Charleston 8 on the Mayflower ApriJ 20th Jie proceed directly to Colon Mr Dickinson said that he visit on the isthmus but 'ennvson engineer I lotig enough to thortutthh A was probably fatally burned 4 himself with tire? wtOs Says John in April Issue of New York March While cau tion in expressing an opinion as ro the quick tevival of business John Rockefeller has no doubt of the future The setback of the panic of 1907 will lead ho believes to safer institutions and more conservative management in business operations 'Part of Mr Rockefeller's reminis cences hi' the April issue of The Work deals with the last and other panics The last he says was the most trying of allANo one es caped it great or small i ANDERSON DISCHARGED 1 Only One implicated In the Powhatan to Escape Sentence 4 Powhatan Va March No true bill was brought in by the grand jury in the case of John Anderson charg ed with being implicated in the Skip with and John murder and arson case Anderson was discharged He Is the only one implicated thus far to escape the death chair He was held how ever as a witness against six others to be ried at the next term of court win mu.

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