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0 VOL XL NO. 9 WILMINGTON, N. C, JANUARY 29, 1907 $1.00 PER YEAR I 7 t V 1 rv 'HUMOUS CURRENT 01 Differences Existing in the Thaw Family. MISS H'KEHZIE THE CSliSE Efforts Being fjiatie for Settle' went of Trou'si: i r lJ. ill :iily Objected to Intimacy Existing lielween Miss McKcnzb and Mrs. Harry Thaw Report Denied That Tliair had Received Threatening f-otters Since His Imprisonment I'kms of Defence Not ei Definitely Developed, but it is Relieved it Will be Emotional Disunity. Now York, January 2G. Rumor.; :u" dif$rences between Mrs. Harry K. Thaw on one side and Mrs. William Thaw and the Countess of Yarmouth, mother and sister respectively, of Har ry K. Thaw, on the other, which were started yesterday, continued to be cir culated today, despite a denial by Thaw's counsel that any such differ ences existed. Tho reported differences are said to have risen over the contin ued pr-eeence in the court room of Miss 'Mao McKenzie, the former chorus sin, who invariably accompanies Mrs. Eve lyn Thaw and sits by her during hc session of the court. Miss McKenzie is aid to have been the younger Ala Thaw's constant companion since Har ry Thaw sliot Stanford White. It was reported today that Deiphin M. Deinias, the SanFraneisco 'lawyer. who came east to defend Thaw, went to the hotel Lorraine, where the rela tives of Harry Thaw are staying, the hope of reconciling any differences wnicn might have arisen between the women. It was said that Evelyn Thaw made the first step to placate liar mother-in-Law and sister-in-law, and tli at Mr. Delmas only consented w try to smooth over their misunderstand ings on the agreement that Miss Mc Kenzie shoaild discontinue her appear ance in court. Harry Thaw is said to have discus.se 1 this matter with A. Russell Peabody, of vounsel, when Mr. Peabody visited iej in the Tombs prison today. After falrd Mr. Peabody said: "I don't believe that Mr. Delmas known that Miss McKenzie is in the court roam. He is there to work and I don't believe he gives the woman a thought "EJarly last summer, when Evelyn Thaw was practically all alone, Miss 'MoKenzie was with her most of the time. It is only natural to suppose that Mre. Thaw wants to have Miss McKenzie with her now even if the other members of her husband's family are with her". He was then asked to state whether there is any truth in the stories that Thaw has rceived many threatening lotters stince he has been in the Tombs. "I want to talk to counsel about this matter before I say anything about it, it is possible that I may have something to say later", said Mr. Peabody. j si&j client has received hundreds of eJLirs duriing the time ho had been awaiting trial in th Tombs and I have seea. nearly all of them. None of the missives sent by others than relatives could be- classed as threatening. About one in a hundred of the letters contain ed what my be described as unfavorable (omment and that is a light per cent age, as letter writing cranks, as a rule, use strong words in their uncalled for communications". The jurors w-ere. kept under close surveillance at their hotel today. Tha wires of two of them called last night but their guards only permit conversa tions in the presence of another juror and one o f the guards. Mr. Peabody said that Miss McKen zie "bad proved herself one of the If ct friends Mrs. Evelyn Thaw everhid and that she took care of Mrs. Thaw last summer when the young woman was "suffering agony greater than that borne by any woman iri New York" and has been devoted ever since. j "Is it to be expected that now Mrs.; Harry Thaw would cast her friend aside just few the sake of appearances?'' j Mr. Peabody asked. j He declared that there was no more1 irutta in t.ne report man otner renuvos, truth in the report that other relatives . itmw oecause oi ner rrienasnip lor iOsB McKenzie. He said that Mrs. 'William Thaw and her daughters have rtever had the slightest objection to the klwj y ana iuai ui- pe i the Countess of Yarmouth, who! he said, had not been in court for (the past three days because she was so overwrought by the first day's pro ceedings that she had to stay in the hotel to recuperate. He promised tm-t she would bo in court Monday if she had recovered. Mr. Peabody said that the report that Mr. Delmas had delivered an ulti matum that he would withdraw from the case unless May McKenzie was kept out of the court rorrai, is absolute ; ly without foundation and he said that Mr. Delmas had not declared at the Yale Club that either he or Miss Mc Kenzie would have ro keep cut or the court room. Mr. Peabody also declared that t he report that Harry Thaw and his wife were contemplating a divorce if Thaw is acquitted is also false. He said that Thaw and his wife "are more insepar ably bound together today than before the tragedy". It was raid today that evidence will be put before the jury to prove that ever since the Madison Square Garden tragedy last June, the entire living ex penscs ot May juciveime nave usen i paid by some one connected witii the I Thaw i'amilv. The distri strict attorney is; of bills paid on j said to have copies Miss McKenzie's account at the Fctel Ivorraine. Miss McKenzie will appear as a witness for the prosecution dur ing the triali, having been subpoenaed by the district attorney. One of the reports in ciiculatiovi to day dealing with Thaw's motive for shooting Stanford White was to the effect that on the night before the shooting, Thaw called on White and exacted from him a promise that he would never try to communicate with! Evelyn Thaw again. It was also re ported that while at dinner in the Cafe Martin, four hours befor? the tragedy, Thaw intercepted a note from White asking Mrs. Thaw to meet him. Rooms are reported to have been engaged in this city for eight Pitts burg witnesses for Thaw to be brought iaj mho v,u,y - "-'j O'Mara, the Pittsburg detective. ! The seven jurors are comfortably housed at the Broadvay Central Hotel seven rooms with baths and a private dining room having been engaged for fthem. The jurors so far selected are accepting the situation in a philosoph ical manner. The plans of the defense, while they have not definitely vei - ved. are believed to be as at first; supposed, emotional insanity ana an appeal to the so-called "higher law" Only the faintest indication in thb di rection has appeared at the trial thus far, and that was yesterday when Clif ford W. Hartridge, chief counsel for Thaw, asked a prospective juror this question: "'Would you take into con sideration all the evidence tending to show the condition of this man's (Thaw's) mind at the time of the kill ing of Stanford White?" ASSOCIATION ELECT OFFICERS. Pa.ss.cd Resolution Urging Increase of Salary for Superintendent of Pnblic Instruction. ' (Special to The essenger.) Raleigh, X. C, January 20. Tht North Carolina Association of City School superintendents elected W. S. Snipes, of Winston, president; I. C. Griffin, of Salisbury, vice president; C. W. Wilson, of Scotland Neck, secretary. A resolution was uanimously adopted urging the legislature to so increase the salary of the state superintendent of public instruction as to put it on a footing with that of other state offi cers. A resolution of regret at Charles D. Mclver's death were adopted. The state text book commission de cides to ador.t D. H. Hill's primary history of North Carolina and W. J. Pele's book n civics. State Treasurer Lacy appoints H. M. Reece. teller, to succeed Doughton re signed. Reece has been a Seaboard Air Lino engineer until a year ao, whn he was hurt in an accident. He is a native of Guilford. COXf I RESSIOXAL SUMMARY. Fov Rills of Minor Importance Passed by Senate House Devoted the Day to the Agricultural Appropriation Rill. Washington, January 2C The S n ate was in session today only for a little more than an hour, the early ad journment being taken to permit at tendance on the fun?ral of the late Senator Alger. A few bills of minor importance were passed, but rr.o?t of the time of the sitting was. devot d to further discussion of Senator Hale's resolution providing for an inquiry in to the personal interest manifested by naval officers in the navy personnel bill. The resolution was ultimately re ferred to the committee on naval af fairs. The house spent the greater port of the day debating the agricultural ap propriation bill and it was still unGer consideration when adjournment was taken. The question of free distribu tion of garden seeds continued to hold thA most nrominent nlace with the SDeerfl makersalthough action on the provision 0f the bill by a vote of 71 to C9 wag postponed until Monday. The senate bill incorporating the Interna tional Sunday School Association oi America, was passed. Vig Gaylorr! Monday white sale 10 to 12 o'clock, Mennen's powder 10c MERRIMENT REIGNED SUPREME Annual Winter Dinner of the Grid iron Club. J'KOMINKXT I'KltSOXS IMtKSKXT. I'cn ut tire of Evening's Entertainment Was a Burlesque on Centrals zation. Guests Were Roasted in .Manner I'e euliar to the Famous Organization. Washington, January 2G Centrali zation was the major motif in the pii tertainment furnished tonight by that famous association of Washington newspaper correspondents, the Gridiron Club at their annual winter dinner Wen at the New Wiliard. Th new president of the club, Samuel G. Blithe, of the New York World, directed the entertainment. In the presence of the presidenr of the United States and the vice president and representatives from the co-ordi nate branches of the government, a host of literary and newspaper men, before statesmen and many cf the cap tains of industry those who have donei and ate still doing things, an empire was' erected with all the splendor attendant thereof. The scene was laid in Wash ington and the time nineteen hundred and seventeen (ten years hence). The kingly power was surrounded with all the officers of state with eour- tiei.s and ,pages, a herald who looksd more like "Happy Jack Falstaff" than anything else and a numerous court to complete the gorgeous picture and theZT T . fun these men of the Gridiron club got j Tis wn Llh "f ,mt aifa.irs out of the "skit" to say nothing of the Lhl enjoyment cf the guests, showed how keenly tlje assemblage appreciated the satire. And there was a iestpr too. ivno, cioinect in nis motiev, spoke rn epilogue which served as theinrrodue tion of President Roosevelt, who made The grand procession was welcomed by "God Save the King" rendered by a section of the marine band. But the! i Inn"4 ivnc fin-cillr nr.l f V r.'-tn . " r '" - "i1 cminiy juuges noL on time to .?j"Sansled Bani . open court Monday 550 unless with phy- I ii i iT 1 1 - iii - i "i i' 1 1 i a i it t n ex nan r r i l -i tion act the king asked one of the ministers "has Japan conquered the Philippines?" The chancellor of the ex chequer replying "No1, your majesty; they now offer to give them back to us for a coaling station at Guam" The initiation of Clifford K Berry man, the cartoonist and creator of the "Teddy Bear," afforded an opportunity to introduce two enormous cinnamon bears, played of course by two mem bers, and between the president and Mr. Benyman the club had a lot of sport over the bear incident. A show man who had the bears in charge, explained that he bad taught them the language of man; that they could "think as quickly, speak as rapid ly and spell as badly as the president of the United States". Mr. Berry man with the aid of his bears made a num ber of cartoons. One of the bears re quested that he draw a picture of the man whom the senate loves most, and a striking likeness of the president ap peared. A picture of Senator Foraker showed up when the cartoonist was asked to draw a picture cf the senator whom the president loved moat Th picture of the next vice president o the United States was a composite one starting with David B. Hill and- being changed into Fairbanks. The cartoon! of the next republican candidate hegan with Taft, was changed into Fairbanks and ended with a speaking likeness of Joseph G. Cannon. Songs to Associate Justice Harlan of the supreme court, to Vice President Fairbanks and Speaker Cannon, served as introductions to speeches from these gentlemen wnne ... . . . ins j- - it -.. ; dinner enorts were uuiue vrcucn Horace Porter. Secretary Root, Henry, roT.TirT.-r. rf TT?-n-PnTi. nniversitv. Rer U-i-rj 1 vv. , t a. x " j j resentative Adam Bede, ot Minnesota.! and Francis D. Cushman, of Washing-; j a book of nearly sixty pages was pre-; seated to each guest, its title being " VTV " T ,i rV "Who's Who in Gridiron Prose and with Solicitor Jones and all ere fa-, Rhvme", dealing with historic charac-j arable to the biii. The on- eircrs ted portrayed with a profusion of' not replying, were tnrse nv,n3,m the cSs. Governors Warfield, of Mar land districts represented 'by MessriL Dojfl. and Swanson, of Virginia, were rep- Turlington and I Harsh aw hese So . ZZi othPr :1sIicit-rs being Cia-ksoii. Hauler -nd . reseiiieu ii.- aptaivuib v j follows: "Savs the Gov'r of Maland to his friend of Virgyneh "I will mix you somethings that are good to put in yeh." "Says the Gov'r of Virginyeh. prefer not to wait "WTien time may be saved by taliins them straight' Killed by Dynamite Explosion. Pearisburg. Va., Januarj- 26. A premature dynamite explosion oc curred on the tidewater railway today, on the works of P. J. Millett. on which nine men, all foreigners, were killed almost in an instant. The mangled bod yof one of them was thrown nearly across New river and lodged on an is land. It seems that the men were eating their dinner on the grade, and were thawing dynamite by a fire when the dynamite exploded, causing the4r death as above described. TO PUT SOLICITORS Ofi SALARY Bill Passed Final Reading in the - House. tciixer wants judges fixed. Considerable lebate on Resolution He gart.au; .voIiitors to (live Amount -. - Fees Received Iist ear Additional Appropriation Voted Tor Jamestown Exposition. (Special to The Messenger.) Raaeigh, X. C, January :C la the senate prayer was offered by Senator Brown, from. Yadkin. Kills-were introduced as follows: !!y Burton. to validate marriages hereto fore solemnized by unauthorized min isters; .by Klutlz, to amend Chapter rji) of the Kevisal regarding" fire insurance policies and losses thereunder: by Webb. tO e-tenrl ihp Hnio (r ! grants for land entries;' by Drewrv, to enlarge .the capitol, providing rooms ,for the supreme court and library and for state officers; by Graham, to give permission to towns to sell their elec tric and power plants when desired. Th following bills passed third read ing! To appropriate $20,000 additional to the Jamestown exposition. Tjiere was considerable debate on a resolution offered by Webb to ascertain from solicitors what was the amount of their fees received last year. Mason opposed tuts resolution, saying that formed that Solicitor Clarkson of the Charlotte district was the only solicitor opposed to tho bill. Pharr and Mason said Clarkson had not told them of any,. such opposition. The resolution' was: adopted, however, and solicitors are'to be notified to give the informa- I101- desired. Bills passed amending the revisal so as to compel water companies to supply the public with good water Senator Turner tried airain tn rrt , , . 1 a D1J nmng. Lurn" siciars certificate for sickness. Many senators said it would be an indignity to the judges. It was laid on tabie by vote of 19 to 4. HOUSE. The House was called to order at 10:30 by Speaker Justice, Rev. Dr. Tyree offering prayer. Vestal present ed a petition from firemen for an ap propriation for the North Carolina As sociation of Firemen. Bills were in troduced. as follows: By Mull, to so amend the revisal as to appropriate the revenue from the liquor traffic to the public schools. By McRae, to allow Maxton ti issue bands. By McCrack en, to incorporate Clarendon, Colum bus county. By Parsons to amend the law punishing burglary, also to put the state on an equality in criminal actions with defendants in selecting juries; al so to regulate the hours of labor in factories and to forbid labor of chil dren in factories at night. By Hayne regarding pay of jurors in justice trials By Winnrne to punish trusts and conspiracies: : a 'so to confer addi tional power on county cor.imiss'.oners; dso to .Tcnte .k orth Carolina Fish Commission. The house took up Justice's salary bill, enlarging the powers of the at torney general, giving him the aid of solicitors in investigating violations of law by trusts and giving solicitors $2,500 salary. The bill was on third reading and amendments were offered by Turlington, Dowd and Harshaw. Morton took the chair and Justice ilsfled the vote on the bill Thursday ai'uui in- uiu, ...i. was the deliberate judgment of the , members of the house after a debate n u i- i large mai)i:'.' and that 1-e would not make further argument, cr eep f. to -.: that j'- he "V ; Linney. Turlington's amendment that Solicit ors should be on sfionjs. bit that un til the fees paid into the State Tras ury by them reached $!.') iic ilaiy should be the amour.1 of fees so turn ed in was adopted by a roll call vote of C3 to 43. The result was receivd with applause. Tb oir wan thus amended passed ihird redoing n 0 viva voce, only one no being heard. Bank Clearances New York, January 26. The state ment of clearing house bank for the week shows that the banks hold $15, 5G2.S00O more than the legal reserve requirements. This is a decrease 01 $2,897,900 as compared with 1as week. Two day sale of bankrupt millinery stock Princess street, goods must go. DESTROYED BY 11111'. Four Operatives Uurnctl to Death. Los 1 1st 1 muted at S:,OO.oOO. Dover, N. H.. January 2G. Dover's most disastrous fire, which occurred today, cost the lives of four and pron probably five young mill operative ami a property loss of half a million dollars. The fire destroyed mill No. 1, of the Cocheco Ma - ' pany. The horfl nf fn.ir. io of re beyond recognition, were found in j v . w . uv;, I.UJI- the smoking ruins and as five boys are known to he missing, it is believ ed that another body will be recover I Several of the injured were hurr while descending by ropes. The fire broke out in the mill cor long after "the 500 mill operatives hn assembled for their work. Friction from a belt generator caused sparks wri:h lodged in a mass of cotton, the iliiucs quicnly spread throueh the - - -v The exits soon became Mocked by the struggling mass of mill hands" and many were obliged to jump from tho windows. Others secured ropes and descended to the ground. There were several daring rescues L firemen. Four imprisoned men on the luumi uvui vtere laiien out Ol a window, though not until they had climbed, one by one, down a stout pole wheh the firemen had made fast to the top of a ladder too short to reach tpc window sill. The total Joss is $50V 000, covered by insurance. FAI LITHE IX CLINTON. A. AY. Airan, Merchant. Makes Assign ment Liabilities $30,000. Assets $100,000. (Special to The Messenger.) Clinton',, N. C, January 2C Business circles hete were subjected to a shock when it was announced yesterday that A. W. Aman, general merchant and re tiring sheriff and treasurer of Sampson county, had made a deed of assignment. He conducted a large dry goods store and owned the grocery business con ducted under the name of The Clinton Supply Company. It is rumored that his mercanri'c liabilities are about $15,000 and tin he is behind as county treasurer abou an equal amount, making his total liabilities about $30,000 as estinnt-?!. His assets will approximate $10,000. consisting of mercantile stock and ac counts. On his bond as sheriff and treasurer are some fifty of the leading farmers of the county, so that their loss, if any will not be individually great, Th worst feature of it all is the tangle into which the county finances will be temporarily thrown. F. R. Coop?- is named as assignee. IMMIGRANTS FOR THE SOUTH Georgia Association Making Arrange ments to Bring Over Several Hun dred Scotchmen and Swedes. Augusta, Ga., January 2C The Geor gia Immigration association announces today that arrangements are making with representatives of two steamship lines to bring to this county within the next three weeks several hundred Scottish and Swedish immigrants to relieve the very urgent demand for help in this section. The matter lias been taken up with Commissioner Hudson and the request made that the state lend all its aid which will be complied with. The immigrants are to be landed at Savannah. The asso- foreign representatives to the policy of bringing only a class of immigrants against whom no obpection can be found. Details for further extension of the movement will be perfected at the state immigration conference to be held in Macon, February 19 and 20. PAXAMA CANAL AWARD. Conference Held at Whlto House An-jtnc nouncemeni on Made Monday. Subject Will be Washington, January 2G. eScretary nasnmgton, januarj- 2b. -ecreMry , announcement respecting the award j of the contract for the construction of S tho Panama canal. He made this j TT . r . statement as the conclusion of a con ference at the White House toiay. He said no announcement on the subject will be made before Monday. He d clined to indicate what might be the conclusion of the President and his advisors. It is surmised that addition al information is awaited on various features of the proposition and that pending the receipt cf this, final action I is not to be taken. In addition to I the president and Secretary Taft. tere ! were present becretary lioot, I'ostmas- ter General Cortelyou, Assistant Secrc rary of State Bacon and James K. Garfield, commissioner of corporations and for a portion of the time Chairman Knapp of the interstate commerce commission. 23c colored organdy 9c at Gaylord's Monday white sale. II PUYSGI1 SHOT Dr. Charles V. Tornnnd Probably Fdlall; Voundetf. m IN TSM Assassin Believed to Have Been Actuated by Revere. ked Man Wiiu .. ii,.r- -it J-arly Hour -W m . 1 lXlll Ystcrdio Monuin-. i orcxxl Hint to ;et ,,,. M,ot Hi, Tuiiv iind Made His i:M;,,H,)r Toun.en,, ciai.u. to Kllow (llo Mtt' Will not Hexeal His .Nam,. Nv York, January 20. Dr. ChuWn ' 'lwwnseud, one of th ihw, W Physicians and surgeons on stntrn , " v "agre oetalls which have "en permitted to leak out by Thl officia s ,t is believd that the doctor the victim of a man who sought 'v" fPUm ,,n mU r fUC' Dr. Townsend at first declared that hia wounds were fnlllctt-d by u ur- Who d d it. "L know perfectly we!, no shot me," he told h iii t n s t uul not tell his nam. I do not want the man arretted. Tir nu.l .r ... There is life" han:icing still another A cab man named Silverman, who answered the description given by j)r Towmxnd. of ljis assailant. w.,a ar rested. When he was taken to th, bedside of tho dying man, however, th.. doctor refused to identify him "i didn't OU t was 8i:-e. :.:,. th.-,, shot me." iuxid the doctor to the offi cer who made tho arrest. "I merely said my assailant looked like this man. Silverman is a friend of mine and he Is not the man who fired tho shots at me." Dr. Townsend's home L a handsomr residence a block from tho New Brigh ton railroad station. Tho doctor and his wife occupied tho front room, on the second floor, his aged mother slept in a room in tho rear of tho doctor's and his four children in another room on the same floor. About 3:45 this morning tho doctor' wife was awakened by some noiso and saw a strange man In tho room. In one hand the Intruder carried a light ed match and in the other a revolver. The lower part of tho face was covered with a handkedchlef. Mrs. Townsend screamed and her husband awoke. Tho stranger advanced on tho doctor and declared that ho was going to kill him. He forced Dr. Townsend to get up and It is understood that he said something but what it was tho coroner will not reveal. Dr. Townsend was In a half siting position when tho Intruder fired. Th bullet strucn the dactor a glancing blow Jn the stomach and then buried itself in the bed clothes. Again the stranger fired, and this tlmo tho bul let hit the doctor In the abdomen and pierced the Intestines. As soon ts he had fired the Becond shot the assailant fled from tho room and ran down stalra and escaped. The intruder gained tajmlsslon try KOmo by forcing a window In the , doctor's offlw on tho ground floor. Tracks also were found leading from the house to tho water's edge and It 13 lir.m.vfw! that the assailant, after hi raade liLs cscar in a which had been provided in advance for the purpose. New York'. January 27. Charles W. u . . . - i Townsend, "who v.-ti sut early jc.?ter- day, died this morning. Train Crashed Into Street CUr. Dayton, O., January 20. A r trr-ct car fla. 'b thf, easthound Cleveland. Chi- cago, Cincinnati and St. ixjuis (Hit: Four) railroad and before the train could be stopped the car was carried nearly a square. Ml.-s Lillian ltui was killed and sixteen other panstrs srlously Injured, two of whom will pro- bablv die. They are Profensor Mercer. a - cistant principal of public Hchools of iunt Ore chief "rlambV of" ttl. city. At leat a dozen more pafsnfTrH were badly bruised. Bluefield, W. Va., Jantu-y 16 A.i earthquake shock lasting almoet a minute, waa felt here at 1 o'clock thU morning. Houses were badly shaken and people jumped from thdr beds in fright. No serious damage re3ultel. however. SHI ".ami was sht an,l i.robablv moruik New Urlghtou. s. I.. ,y. Tbt case is surround. 1 l.v