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- f . -5 at; VOL. XXXV E No. Hi. WILMINGTON X. C. FEBRUARY 21, 1905i. S1.00 PER TEAR e i ft 0 t FIRE IN HOTEL! Ten Lives Lost and Two Score Severely Injured ' THE CLIFTON Tc Building: Three-Story Brick Veneer Structure Was a Veritable PIre Trap-Time the Guests Were Aruused They Rushed for the Stairways, lint the Fierce Fire JHi Cut Oft all Means of Kxcape. Then There Wan a Stampede for the Windows and the Victims Were Driven by the Flame; to Jump Loss of the IleRister MakeH it Impossible to Know Actually Mow Many Are Missing There "Wan About 75 Guest. Cedar Rapids, Iowa, February 20. Ten lives, according to the best infor mation obtainable under difficulties, were -lost in a fire which this morning destroyed the Clifton Hotel in this city. Two persons were fatally injured and two score or more injured more or less severely, mostly by jumping from win dows. The work of learning the names of the dead is rendered difficult by the loss of the hotel register, which was burned. The hotel, a three story brick veneer structure, is said to have been a veritable fire trap. The flames started in a pile of rubbish in the basement, presumably ignited by defective electric light wires. The night clerk was on the third floor when the cry of fire, raised by a bell boy, startled him. He took up the cry and In an instant the kail ways were choked with frightened gueets. A rush was made for the stairways. It was then that the crowd already collected in the street heard heartrend ing cries of anguish and desperation, for the Are, feeding ravenously on the tinder-like material of the lower floor, had completely cut off escape. There followed a stampede for the windows, the only means of exit left. The street below was filled with a crowd scarcely less frantic than the despairing ones in the fast burning building. The vic tims were literally driven by the flames to jump. Nearly every one of them lingered to the last moment, urged by the people below to wait as long as pos sible in the hope of assistance. Then a ery would tell that the fire had reach ed some one or the smoke had made it Impossible to breathe, and one after another jumped to tl street, and some, more fortunate tohe roofs of buildings adjoining. In a short space of time, the street was filled with men and wo men bruised, battered, broken limbed and half crazed. All were in th-Mr night garments. In an hour St. Lukes hospital contained fifteen injured, while many more, chiefly those who had es caped with comparatively slight hurts were being cared for in buildings near the scene of the tragedy. Some who Jumped owe their lives to the fact that their falls were broken by telegraph ."wires which interposed in their down ward flight. A number of the guests who were able to converse calmly following their escape declared that they stumbled over prostrate bodies as they rushed to the windows. The flames literally wore chasing them and the smoke made it almost impossible to breathe. The proprietor of the hotel placed his estimate of the number of people in the building when the alarm was raised at between seventy and eighty. Many of them were delegatea to the state con vention of the Young Men's Christian Association wihch began ' here yester day. Those who were first to escape, where th?y were not too severely injured stood for some time barefooted" in the snow, chained to the spot and rendered unconscious of the cold by the horror of the scene. Many of them had to be led awav I'- ad N. to Hnild a Line from Knox--ville to Chnttanoogn. Knoxville. Tenn.. February 20. It is reported here that the Louisville and Nashville intends to build a line from th cits- to Chattanooga, leaving the Jellieo-Knoxville main line near Oliver Sprinjrs. crowing th0 Tennessee river near Kingston, and adhering to the east bank of the river to Chattanooga. This would give the Louisville and Nashville its own entrance into Chat tanooga from Louisville and Cincin nati and would give Knoxville a line to Chattanooga. competing with th Southern railway. Hearing on the Utley Appeal. (Special to The Messenger.) Fayetteville. N. C. February 20. Judge Cooke "will hear the Utley appeal tomorrow. In today's session of the oourt, counsel began the argument on the legal points. They will conclude tomorrow. BANK ROBBERS ESCAPE They Adopt Tracey Methods Ward Off Pursuit. to St. Louis, February 21. Special dis patches to the Post-Dispatch indicate that Bill Rudolph and Frank Lewis, the Union (Mo.) bank robbers who were located in a cabin near Richview, 111., have again escaped, and posses of citizens in addition to that of Sheriff Howe are being formed to pursue and capture them if possible. The entire community is in arms. According to reports from communi ties through which the robbers have passed they have adopted Tracey tac in s iiitirr Mating farmers and threaten ing to kill pursuers. The two men con- verse -only with women and children from whom all the details concerning them ha-ve been learned, exceDt tei general description given by a hunter who encountered them in the woods Friday. They approach a farm house and standing some distance away, call loudly until some one makes his ap pearance. If it is a man, they keep on talking to him until he comes up closer, then they throw their rifles down on him and order him to leave the premises. Like Tracey they ac company this order with a threat to massacre the entire family if any at tempt is made to summon help. In this way thy have obtained food. At one farm house they found the farmer's wife and children alone. They ordered her to get breakfast and chat ted freely while she was cooking the meal. All questions concerning them selves they parried. The man sup posed to be Rudolph stood on guard while the other attack and Lewis then acted as picket. FIND THE LOST SILVER Detectives Recover Over ZlOO Pieces Stolen by Ae;ro Durglnrs. New York, February 21. Nearly three hundred pieces of silverware which were stolen recently from one or more prominent families of Philadel phia Were displaced at police head quarters tonight, having been found by the detectives in the possession of two colored burglars who are under arrest. The silver bears the mono grams "T. H. H.' "J. C. B.", "C. H. B.", and "L. H. B." and many of the pieces are engraved with the device of a spread eagle Last Monday the police authorities here received a dispatch from the chief of police of Philadelphia asking that a lookout be kept for thieves who had stolen a large amount of silverware from families in that city. Yesterday detectives saw a colored man enter a pawn shop and try to get money on some articles of silverware, corresponding to the description of the stolen goods. They followed and ar rested him and a companion. The prisoners gave the names of Robert Williams, twenty-one years old and Arthur Kimball, 23 years old. Both described themselves as waiters. In the room of the prisoners were found three dress suit cases filled with sil ver. ANOTHER SILK FACTORY Ashley-Bailey Company Will Erect a. Plant at Fayetteville. (Special to The Messenger.) Fayetteville. ;N. C. February 21. At the meeting of the municipal light committee, Mr. N. B. Alexander, chair man. Superintendent Jones and Mr. J. C. Herbert, representing the contrac tors, the Electric Construction Com pany of Richmond, Va.. having shown the electric light plant to bo in good order, it wts formally accepted by the citv authorities, and the last payment was made for the work. . This morning the argument in the Utley appeal was concluded before Judge Cooke, and the case will come up in the supreme court in the third week of March. The Ashley-Bailey Silk Manufactur ing Company of Paterson. N. J., own ers of the Fayetteville silk mills, have bought a tract of land from Neill Black at Manchester, in the Western part of this county, where they will build still another factory. By the way, the com panv did a graceful act yesterday resenting to the Odd Fellows lodge In presenting of this city sixty yards of handsome silk and trimmings for the making of regalia. Condition of tne Improved White House. Washington, February 21. Repre sentative Gaines, of Tennessee, to. lay introduced a resolution requesting the president to transmit to the hous? at this session a detailed-statement of the character and cost of the repairing, re modeling and adding to the White I House, also requesting the president j to have the work examined by sk;lld J persons to see LL contract requirements have been met. Mr. Gaines also introduced a resolu tion directing the superintendent of public buildings to transmit to the house an inventory of all the public property in the "W hite House, giving the cost of each article, its c ondition if in use, and the disposition uf such ar ticles as have been reraed. Admiral Schley inits Jesuits Col lege. New Orleans, February 21. Admiral Schley today visited the Jesuits Col lege, where he was given an enthusias tic reception. Mayor Cap de Vellle, president of ihe college alumni society and Father Marring received the ad miral. The admiral made a happy re sponse. Andrew Carnegie III. Fernandina, Fla., February 21. An drew Carnegie who has been suffering with a slight cold for the past day or two. is reported to be much improved today. Mr. Cameeie is visiting his sister-in-law at Dunginess, Cumber land Island, and contracted a slight cold, which has caused him to be con fined to his room. , PROMINENT MAN MURDERED Ernest Haywood Shoots Ludlow Skin ner on Raleigh's Principal Street REASON FOR THE The Shooting; Occurred on Fayetteville Street in Front of the Post office and the Yarboro House It Was in the Middle of the Afternoon . and the Streets Were Crowded-Otti Account of the Prominence of Both Families, the Very Greatest Interest is Felt in the Occurrence and the Shooting Had Caused a Sensation Over all the StateTime Hayvrood billed Skinner, He Was Arrested and Taken Before a Mlcristrate Who Committed Him to Jail, Without Bail, for Murder. Ili.n Attorneys Sail They Were entirely Confident of Their Line of Defease An Autopsy Was Perfo r tried- A Formal Inquest Was Held at Night, But IVothing Developed to Show the Cause for Haywood's (Special to The Messenger.) j Raleigh, N. C. February 21. The '. greatest social and criminal sensation : Raleigh has ever known developed at 4:20 o'clock this afternoon, when on Fayetteville street, Ernest Haywood shot and killed Ludlow Skinner. The prominence of both families is mark ed. Haywood is a grandson of the late ex-Treasurer John Haywood and son of the late Dr. E. Burke Haywood and one of Raleigh's leading lawyers. Skinner was a grandson of the late Mr. Ludlow, of New York, and son of Rev. Dr. Thos. E. Skinner, of Raleigh, one of the best known and ablest Bap tists in the south. At least a hundred persons must have seen the shooting, certainly that number saw the victim of Haywood's revolver as he reeled and fell upon his face on the car track in front of the postoffice and Yarboro House and not forty yards from the court house. One witness said the expression of the dying man's face was piteous beyond all telling and that he will never for get It. A thousand persons gathered almost in a minute. The dead body was taken into a drug store. Hay wood was taken by Deputy Sherif Separk to Haywood's law office and was there for about two hours guard ed by deputies and in conference with his attorneys James H. Pou and Argo and Shaffer. Later he was taken to the court house, where Magistrate Marcon had a preliminary hearing, taking only Separk's testimony, upon which he committed Haywood to jail, without ball, for murder. Separk's evidence was that he was in the court house, heard a shot and walked out, then saw another flash and heard the second shot: that Hay wood was standing on the sidewalk in front of the postoffice. that Skinner was in the street and made a motion as if to throw his hand towards his pocket, then turned, staggered and fell on his face on the street car tracks. Separk as soon as the second shot -was fired ran toward Haywood, called the latter, who said, "All right," took Haywood by the arm; that Hay wood asked him to take him to his (Haywood's) office; that on arrival at the office he asked Haywood to give him his pistol which he did. One of Haywood's brothers was with him during the hearing. Ernvst Haywood was vers cool and sat easily in the chair, twirling a bit of paper in his fingers. He had noth ing to say, his attorneys said. One of them, Pou, said they were entirely confident of their line of defence. The body of Skinner was placed in Johnson's drug store. His wife, who is a daughter of the late Major John C. Winder, was sent for. She fainted as his body was placed in a carriage to be taken to his home. At the home. Dr. Knox, at the re quest of Dr. Jordan, the coroner, per formed an autopsy. Dr. Jordan said this showed that there was only one wound, this being on the median line of the left side, about three inches be hind the left nipple. It grazed the heart, passed through the lung and severed the aorta or great artery. It was such a wound as to cause almost Instant death; Health Officer Sale CRIME UNKNOWN gave to Coroner Jordan the pistol which he said was Skinners. One witness of the horrible affair said, he was a few minutes before it occurred in the lobby of the postoffice and he saw Skinner there reading a letter. He went out on the sidewalk and in a few moments heard a shot, turned and saw Skinner walking rapidly away across the street. Hay wood was standing on the sidewalk in a few feet of the postoffice. He saw the latter raise his pistol and aim at Skinner, who was then only a few feet from the curb of the very wide side walk, then heard Haywood fire, saw Skinner walk in an irregular way to the middle of the street, with high and wavering steps, then suddenly move in a sort of circle, stagger and fall on his face. Haywood put his pistol in hi pockets walked, south a few steps, then started back when Separk came up. It was 10 o'clock when the formal in quest began at the court house. Health Officer Sale and Chairman Green, of the board of county commissioners, were among the principal witnesses. The shots fired at Skinner were at very short interval, and the coroner said he could not say which of the two struck him. The general opinion appears to be that it was the second shot, as such wound would naturally cause death in a few moments. , Skinner was of the most honorable character, quiet and as gentle as a woman. His mother was buried yes terday. The awful occurrence today has absorbed all attentionMiere. Noth ing else is talked of. At the inquest, Officer Sale said that the pistol was found in Skinner's pocket, new and not discharged. Chairman Green testified that after the second shot he saw Skinner put his left hand to his side and a moment later fall. C. B. Edwards, Jr., saw Haywood fire the second shot; saw Skinner walking across the street, with his back towards the postofficet saw Hay wood in the act of replacing the pistol in his pocket. Haywood had, only a few minutes before the. shooting been in the office of the register of deeds and it appears was going up the street as Skinner came out of the postoffice and started across the street. Some persons say Skinner never saw Haywood when the first shot was fired and that it was certainly the shot which killed. It does not appear that there was any talk between the men or that they wen? nearer together than several yards. Nothing has yet developed in the way of testimony to show any cause j for Haywood's act. (By the Associated Press.) Charlotte, N. C February 21. A special to The Observer from Raleigh says: The greatest social and criminal sensation Raleigh has ever known de veloped at 4:20 o'clock this afternoon, when on Fayetteville street, Ernest Haywood shot and killed Ludlow Skinner. The prominence of both families is marked. Haywood is a grandson of the late State Treasurer John Haywood and son of the late Dr. E. Burke Haywood, one of Raleigh's leading lawyers. Skinner was a grand son of the late Mr. Ludlow, of New York, and a son of Rev. Dr. Thomas E. Skinner, of Raleigh, one of the best known Baptists in the south. At least a hundred persona must have seen the shooting, certainly that number saw the victim of Haywood's revolver as he reeled and fell upon his face on the car track in front of the postoffice and Yarborough House and not forty yards from the court house. Haywood was taken by Deputy Sheriff Separk to Haywood's law office and was there for about two hours guarded by deputies and in conference J witn nis attorneys, James a. Pou and Argo and Shaffer. Later he was taken to the court house where Magistrate Marcom had a preliminary hearing, taking only Separk's testimony, upon which he committed Haywood to jail without bail for murder. Skinner's wife is a daughter of the late Major John C. Winder. The rumor here is that the tragedy grew out of a reported secret mar riage in the family of one of the men concerned. Raleigh, N. C, February 21. Hay wood, who is now in jail has as yet made no statement. The testimony at the preliminary hearing before Jus tice J. C. Marcom this afternoon is as follows: Earlier in the day Skinner called at Haywood's office. What occurred there is not known. When he came out he started for the postoffice. In the meantime Haywood went to the court house. As he returned and was near the middle steps of the post office, he saw Skinner on the sidewalk, and called him, saying: "Ludlow come here, 1 want to speak to you." As Skinner approached, Haywood fired point blank at him. He missed and Skinner turned and ran. When he reached the car track, Haywood fired again, and Skinner stumbled for a second and sank to the ground. He was taken into James I. Johnson's drug store in an unconscious condi tion and died within a few minutes. Later the body was removed to his home. The wife of Skinner is pros trated with grief. PANAMA CANAL COMPANY Officials Are iveepingr Quiet Con cerning Their Plans. Paris. February 21. The officials of the Panama canal company are main taining a rigid reserve concerning their plans. One of the chief officers said it was considered of the utmost importance, owing to the delicate stage of the negotiations not to throw any thing into the discussion which might unfavorably affect the results. At the company's headquarters great activity has been shown since the re ceipts of the advices from Attorney General Knox acepting the company's offer for the sale of its property sub ject to the ratification of the United States senate. Persons in a position-to know the course of the negotiations, do not consider the attitude of the com pany antagonistic to the position of the United States. In American quar ters having exceptional m.ians of ob taining information, it is believed tbit recent developments seek to confirm the reports ofGerman interests 'n the c nal project One of the leading officers cf a French financial institution recently made it known to an American ofht ial that the private German investments in Panama securities wer-j assuming significant proportions. It was dis tinctly stated in this connection that the German government is -ntirely un connected with the movement, al though the names of important person ages in the imperial government are mentioned among those who have be come recent investors. But the view prevails among Americans here that such a foreign movement wPl be fa (Us as the officials are confident that the present obstacles to the ijegotiatJons will be overcome. FAKE LOTTERY Scheme Had Victimized Thousands all Over the Country. New York, February 21. Several de tectives and a postoffice inspector ar rested seven men today on the charge of running a "fake lottery." The police say that thousands of per sons have been victimized by the scheme. Tickets, it is alleged, were sold by agents throughout the country at from 25 cents to $2 each, and the alleged prizes ranged from $4 to $30, 000. It is charged that while great repre sentations were made by the promo tors and agents of the affair, no draw ings were ver held. The drawing place was supposed to be at Pueblo, Mexico. Representatives of the "company" were active n seeking patrons and many persons who had previously in vested their money in policy had been secured as clients. According to the police the schem has been in operations for at least two year3. Postoffice Inspector Boyle said that the government would prose cute the prisoners on a charge of misusing the mails. WANT PRIZES BACK Minister Borren Requested to Us His Good Offices With Great Britain. Washington. February 21. Minister J Bowen tonight received a cablegram signed by the "Prize sufferers, Trini dad," requesting his good offices with Great Britain in securing the return of the prizes taken by that country be fore the raising of the blockade fr" the allied powers. The cablegram is as follows: "Port of Spain, February 21, 1903. "Minister Bowen, Washington: "All prizes returned by Germany and Italy. Use kind influence with England. ' Nearly all prizes belong to poor fishermen who have lost all and are penniless here. (Signed) "PRIZE SUFFERER, Trinidad." Minister Bowen sent a cony of the cablegram to Sir Michael Herbert, the British ambassador, requesting him to transmit it to his gorvernment at nra earliest convenience. ! FOWLER BILL General Conviction That the Bill Will Not Become a Law CANAL TREATY The Senate Again Spent Nearly ttse Cntire Day In Executive Session in Considering: the Colombian Canal Treaty Mr. Morgrnn Secured Cos sent to Removal of Injunction of Secrecy from Amendments to the Treaty Which lie Has Offered The Day in the House Was Devoted to a Debate on the Fowler Currency Hill 5,000 Copies of lteport t Strike Commission, When. Com" pleted, to be Printed. Washington, February, 21. The sen ate spent nearly the entire day in exec utive session. Jt was the legislative dav of Thursday as the senate had taken recess then instead of adjourning. The senate met at 11 o'clock, opened the doors at 12 and for more than aa hour disposed of routine business. Upon resuming the executive session, the Colombian canal treaty was taken up. Senator Quay had a report read on the isthmian canal matters. The reading of the report sent up by Mr. Quay consumed about three hours of time, and after this was con cluded. Mr. Pettus made a brief speech directed principally at what he termefc the repeal of the Snooner Act by the treaty. He contended that as a Spoon er law for the purpose of securing "perpetual control" of the canal woul not be available under the treaty pro viding merely for a lease of the canal striD. He also said that the American, people would not be satisfied with any- i thing less than a thoroughly American canal, one which could be defended by us at all times, which the Panama ca nal could not be under the terms of the treaty. Senator Piatt, of Connecticut, took issue with Senator Pettus, as to the effect of the treaty, saying that he be lieved there were no legal obstacles if the treaty to the acquisition by the president of the canal zone, but he contended that if there were any such obstacles thev could be removed by an other act of congress, reappropriating the money. During the day Senator Morgan ee sured consent to the removal of the in junction of secrecy from the amend ments to the treaty which have been offered by him. Most of the important amendments have already been givem publicity, but he offered two new ones today. One of these provides for am agreement between the contracting parties that nothing contained in the treaty shall be construed to alter the terms of the Spooner Act. The other amendment is as follows: "It is agreed that in respect for the rights of citizens of the United States, under the constitution and for the pres ent humane state of the Christian re ligion, in which the ordinances and pro scriptions of the Spanish inquisition have no place or tolerance, that the provisions of the concordant of 1881, between his holiness, Pope Leo XIII and the government c. Colombia, and the laws enacted by Colombia or that shall be hereafter enacted in further ance or execution of said concordant, shall not apply to any citizen of the United States in Colombia, or to any person who shall be in the service of the United States, or to any offlcerv agent or servant of the United States who is in any way engaged In the con struction or operation of a canal or the Panama railroad, under the provisions of this treaty." The executive session closed and the senate adjourned, at 5 o'clock. THE HOUSE The day In the house was devoted ts debate upon the Fowler currency bill. Mr. Fowler, the author of the measure, spoke for over two hours. The speakers were Messrs. Thayer, Massachusetts; Lovering, Massachusetts; Lewis, Geor gia, and Prince, of Illinois. Mr. Lewis opposed the bill. The general convio tion that the bill has no chance to be come a law and the fact that there are divergent views on both sides of the houst detracted from the Interest In the debate. While Mr. Thayer was explaining the features and advantages of the minori ty bill, Mr. Cochran, of Missouri, ob- J Jected to the appellation "minority bill There is no minority bill," he said. the bill you are supporting will not command ten votes on this (th demo cratic) side." Mr. Thayer replied that the bill he was advocating was the one Introduced by Mr. Padgett, of Tennessee. A communication from the president transmitting a request of the anthra cite coal strike commission asking for authority to publish 5.000 copies of its report wLen completed was laid before the house. The message of the presi dent said he concurred In the request. The house adjourned until Monday. i r.l -4 'I i