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SHUT OUT PLAY Mayor of Raleigh Barred an Immoral Drama from the Stage. CLOSED UP THE HOUSE I The Girl front Rector's" Was Too Smutty for Public Exhibition au'l Fifty Blue Touted Policemen Cleared the Theatre and Barred the Door to All Coiners. Wednesday, after a conference with ther City Attorney, Walter Clark, Jr.. the Mayor of Raleigh, N. C., issued the following order to the chief of police. My dear sir: Taking notice of the general reputation for indecency and immorality of the play known as * The Girl from Hector's," as reported in the public press, uud of the indecent and immoral character of the advertising of said play, I on February 15, gave notice to the manager of the Academy of Music at Raleigh and the manager of the said play that 1 would not permit the said play to be given here. As mayor and chief executive of the city of ltaliegh, 1 hereby order yon as chief of police to station sullicicnt policemen at the opera house known as the Academy of Music so as to prevent the performance of the play known as "The Girl From Rector's," and 1 hereby authorize you to arrest any one who attempts to pro ct-ed with this preformance. J. S. Wynne, Mayor. All day most of the talk at Raleigh was about the show and the positive attitude of the mayor towards it. The theater manager employed three lawyer, among them exGovernor Aycock. The chief of police and a score or patrolmen entered the Academy ..f Music nearly an hour before tne time set for the performance and before the performers had arrived and when there were only a handful of people in the seats, cleared out every body including the manager and took posession. Chief Stall re niaiued inside and a row of patrolmen stood in front of the great folding doors of the main entrance, wbicn were closed. A crowd of several (hundred quietly gathered, but therwas no demonstration beyond clivers, which were intended to ridicule the * city authorities. Nearly the entire crowd were young men. Four false alarms of lire were turned In. In quick succession. The patrol wagon was kept near the theater so as to be ready for use. An attempt was made at Lilllngton to induce Judge Oliver Allen to grant an order restraining the mayor and chief of police from interfering with the performance, but the judge declined. The trip to Lillington was made by a ltaleigh attorney in an automobile. (For nearly two hours not a fewpeople hung around the theater, thinking something might turn up, but nothing happened. It is asserted that a suit for damages against the mayor and the city will grow out of the closing of the house. It was said that if the police had waited until the curtain rose and then stopped the show some one was to rise and personally denounce the mayor. This statement was heard from several persons, but no one would say who was to make the attack. Only two arrests were made, one of the theatre electricians by Chief St ell at the side door and the other a negro employe. The police left the theatre at 10 o'clock. SIIOltT IX HIS CASH. Clerk of Robeson Court Accused of n Shortage. The report of the board of auditors of the finances of Robeson county, N. C., has just been completed and contains some startling findings as regards the clerk of the superior court's office. The report shows that Clerk VV. H. Humphrey owes the county over $12,902.25, which indebtedness is covered Id part only by notes, mortgages, etc., made payable to himself, the amount of cash on hand being $1,566.15. The clerk says he can explain the matter. lb'iitli of Editor Ford. Mr. Arthur P. Ford, for many jears editor of the Aiken Recorder, passed away lasi ween. air. rorn was a native of Charleston, but had lived In Aiken for several years. He was an excellent gentleman nnd th? g announcement of his death will carry sadness to his many friends. Rescued at Sea. ^ The Rritlsh schooner Silver Hen] arrived at Mobile Wednesday report! 9 the rescue of J. P. Roberts, tht f keeper of the Rebecca Shore ILch house. Roberts was found driftlm "in a small boat about twenty-tw< miles from Sandy Key and was near 9 ly exhausted from exposure, want o food and water. i iku.. GAVE UP THEIR LIVES ^ IX AX EFFORT TO RESCUE SURVIVORS FROM A WRECK. Four Brave Sailors Drowned Before Efforts Were Abandoned to Save 81 dp wrecked People. A dispatch from Aniond, Chile, says the Chilean cruiser Ministro and five steamers on the Pacific Navigation companys line aro racing south iu the forlorn hope that they may save the 88 persons who, when last reported, were clinging to the stern of the British steamer Lima as the vessel was pounding herself to pieces on n rppf tn tho fitnlfu nf \lncrr?I_ Ian. Two hundred and Ave persons were taken from the wreck by the Hritish steamer liatumet and four of the llatumets crew sacrificed their lives before their captair commanded his crew to cease their efforts. The liatumet has arrived at Amand, Chile, and her captain said: When we sighted the wreck we put out our small boats, which closely approached the stern of the Lima, where passengers and crew had gathered. We made a connection between the two vessels with 500 fathoms of cable and were successful in lowering 105 persons into our small boats, and in getting them upon the liatumet. "Heavy seas made the work of rescue perilous and finally the Lima's end of the cable slipped from her stern and became entangled in the rocks. Without the aid of the cable we could not reach the wreck. But for this accident all would have In. en rescued. In the increasing seas our boats made futile efforts to reach the wreck. The Lima threw out another line, which our chief mate made a daring attempt to pick up. "The second connection was eventually made, but the line, suddenly tightening upset one of our small boats and our chief mate, ship's carpenter, the fourth engineer and a Spanish steward was drowned. My. l?oat rescued the others of the small boat's crew. "I signalled the captain of the Lima that we had but one small boat left and that as this was badly strained we had better proceed to Ancud for further assitance. We were delayed off Ancud by a dense fog." FLAT liOAT SINKS. In Roanoke Ilivor and Two Men Meet n Watery Grave. A dispatch from Scotland, Neck, N. 0., says there was a sad and distressing accident Sunday at Hills terry near Palmyra on the Roanoke river, in which two persons were drowned, a white man named Octavius Hyman, son of Mr. E. Hyman of that place, and a colored man named Richard Whedbee of Portsmouth, Va. Edward Boswell, who was ttkinfi a drove of horses from Rocky I Mount hack to Virginia, was transporting them across Roanoke river on a flat boat. He was accompanied ly a ferryman, Frank Slaten, Whedbee and Hyman. It is said that the ferryman and the young white man was somewhat under the Influence of liquor, and by some irregular handling the horses all gathered to one corner of the flat, which caused it to dip water and sink. I,.\I'KKXS STABLES BURNED. Sixteen Horses and Mules Perish in Enrv Morniiiir Kirn. The livery stables of Nichols, Rop?r'& Roper, together with sixteen nead of stock, the entire stock of f? eti stuffs, buggies and harness, and several adjoining and neighboring buildings were completely destroyed by fire Thursday morning about two Vclock. The cause of the fire is unknown, although it is stated that its origin was in the rear of the stable. ltefore the fire company could reach the spot, which is about 200 yards from the city station the stable was all aflame, and all effort to release the horse and mules was futile. The doors of the stable were never opened. Ill'ltliKI) FROM TRAIN. The Wend Rody of n Young Rahy Found by the Track. Wednesday morning Coroner Peafork of Thomasville, N. C., received a telegram from Llnwood stating that a dead baby had been found between the two tracks half a mile below Holtsburg toward Yadkin river. I)r. ! Peacock went to the scene and held ' } p inquest and the following was the " finding of the jury: "That the white male Infant had been dropped or thrown from some moving northbound train and that t tald infant came to its death from 5 having been thrown or dropped from the train and striking an extention t cross-tie. That sa'd Infant was new? ly born and had not been bathed or 3 dressed. That said Infant came tc - its deaths at the hands of some unf Known person, said person being or J one of the early northbound trains." V A BUNCOE GAME I Republicans Getting Ready to Try to Fool the People as to the CAUSE OF HIGH PRICES Senator Stone Tulks Out lMuinly and . Warns the Country of the White- c Washing Scheme Proposed by the '' Friends of the Recently Adopted n Tariff. r t In a recent speech in the Senate d Senator Stone of Missouri, said as ' <1 H.I1 t'Yiimiilt* of npwsiiniipr rnmmnnt 4 , t 1 quote the following from the Washington Post of February 3: ,1 "Frankly admitting the fear that h v prolonged investigation of the in- a creased cost of living by the Ways c and Means Committee of the HouBe, a or as provided for by any of th? ^ rival resolutions, might drag through ^ out the summer and work to the 0 disadvantage of the Republicans in c the elections next fall, the Senate ,, Finance Committee yesterday formulated a programme for a quick, ^ sharp inquiry of the subject in all | of its phases. Senator Lodge intro- t. duced in the Senate a resolution pro- r viding for the appointment of a com- ^ mittee of live Senators to do the c work. "So problem, it is said, has proven x so embarrasing to the Republican a party. When thu majority members , of the Finance Committee met yester- i lay consideration was given to demands from every section of the i, country that something be done to 0 restore normal prices. Several Senators declared the high prices would be attributed directly to the tariff, and unless something was done to refute these charges the Republican * party would be compelled to bear the brunt of the attack." This is from one of the most Intel gently contucted newspapers in the d country and a paper whose partial- w ity for the administration Is well and s< widely known. If it be true that the f scheme is to exonerate the new tar S iff law from blame well and cood. a for I know of nothing that stands in 1 greater need of a deep-laid coating ? of whitewash. Would it not be a v misnomer to call such a thing an "investigation?" Think of it, Mr. g President, a plan projected and or- 7 ganized not for a broad and impar- ii tial inquiry, but for the primary pur- t pose of proving that the new tariff : law is in no wise responsible for a the untoward conditions which have 5: stirred the people to demand both e information and relief. If this in- i vestigation is to he made by the men s who framed it and forced this tariff 1 iniquity through Congress, will the r investigation be worth the price the 1 I taxpayers must pay for it? i I venture to conjecture that our 1 friends who are engineering this business will find it difficult to hood- 1 wink a majority of the American i people. They may succeed in doing 1 it, but they will find it a difficult 1 task. i Mr. President, that a material and ' marked advance has been made in 1 the prices of the necessaries of life, < not only in food stuffs, but in other necessaries, since the Payne-Aldrich i law was enacted is so manifest and universally known as to he beyond intelligent dispute. Whether this en iKiiu i-iut'ui in curreni prices Is due in any measure to the tariff may bo the subject of dispute, hut the fact of the rise in prices since the enact- < ment of the law is beyond the realm of disputation. I see it reported in the press within the last few days that Dr. II. \V. Wiley, of the Agricultural Department, is accredited with suggesting at a public hearing before the District Commissioners that the American hen 1b largely to blame for the increase in the cost of foodstuffs. Ho is reported as saying that the American hen is being bred for commercial purposes and taught to lay smaller eggs and more of them, lie seemed to think the hen might be trained to lay smaller eggs, but he doubted her capacity to materially increase the supply. Yes. Mr. President, the causes for the increase in prices may be problematical, but the fact is indisputable. No flmiltt thorn nro ' HI-- T>k A ..... .....V nil mini .1 I1IVU UUCIU1 Wiley who stand ready to accuse the American hen more vehemently than the American tariff. Again, Mr. President, the Senator from Masschusetts In his speech explains the rise of prices partly by what he states to be the fact that the demand for commodities has increased without a corresponding increase in production and partly by the^fact that the world's cold supply had been augmented beyond the needs of business and the arts. Narrowing the inquiry for the moment to the actual point involved in what I am saying, it certainly will not be contended that any marked difference in demand and supply for commodities in general has occurred since the President signed the new tarifT law on . August 5, 1009, and therefore the quick rise in^ prices since that dat? > can not be attributed to that onus". . Secondly, while the argument of the i Senator respecting the effect on ' prices of the increased supply of' TURNED TO STONE IODY OF MAN BURIED THREE i YEARS AGO PETRIFIED Ifmainfi of S. T. Blaskey, of Georgetown, When Taken Up, \Vu? Found to be a Solid Mus. A special to The State says an scldent which aroused considerable urlosity in Georgetown came to ght Wednesday afternoon when the pmuln? of ^ T nio ... ~ Jl x/t K/. * . I? 4U.-I ac> were UIH* :Herred from his grave in Elmwood emetary, where he was buried morn han three years ago. It was the esire of relatives of the deceased hat his body be removed and ? ? iterred in another spot of the cemtery. Arrangements were made for the isenterment Wednesday evening . lien several of the friends and r^ltives of the deceased went to th' emetery for the purpose. When an .ttempt was made to raise the caset from the grave it was found that he combined strength of several m?n ould not raise it. and others were ailed to aid in removing the cas:et from the grave. When the casket was taken from he grave and opened it was found hat the body of Mr. Rlaskey had ompletely petrified. It was fully ecognizable with the exception that lis face had turned rather dark. Evn the burial clothes appeared intact. Mr. Itlaskey lived here several ears and was engnged in tailoring nd was of foreign nationality. The iody was of solid stone and still had he resemblance of Mr. Itlaskev. The '< trification of the body is attributed iy many to stratification of th? arth where the grave was. F1KM) CHASED AND CAUGHT. ,ntcml a Lady's Itoom and was Han ^ Down With Hloodhonnds. Honry fiivens, a black fie id. Tuesay night entered the bed room of a hite lady at the Healing Spring ettlemenf nea?* Blackville, but w-?s tightened away when she screamed, upervisor Jack Morris was notified, nd at once went on the trail with 'oodhounds. The negro was tracVI "ome. caitght and taken to Bunell, where he confesed. The white woman whom the nero atacked was sleeping in her home 'uesday night with the light burntig. Her husband was away at the ime. The negro entered the room n his bare feet, blew out the light nd Beized the sleeping woman's arm. ^he awoke at once, and thinking onto of her family had been taken 11, called each by name. Her two ister, who were in another room, leard her calls, and hastened to her oom. At their coming the negro led, brushing against one of them n the doorway and nearly knocking ler down. By his tracts it was found that he "ad left his shoes behind the barn II the rear of the house, and after eaving the house bad stormed in mo them on again before resuming his flight. The hounds traced him hrongh a wood, and followed ths tracts to his house, where he was captured. After being carried to Barnwell he confessed his crime. So quietly did Supervisor Morris work that not till next morning that news of the attempted assnult become generally known in Blaekville. By that time the negro had been safely lodged in jail at Barnwell, and there was no excitement. Tug Given I'p. An atmosphere of gloom pervaded the navy department at Washington Tuesday when the messages received failed to disclose any word regarding the whereabouts of the missing navy tug Nina and the 32 men aboard. gold in recent years may be well founded, it can not he contended that that cause h is operated to any appreciable extent on the increase of prices which immediately followed uj?on the enactment of the new law. The Senator from Massachusetts made this statement: i "Gold is the standard by which other commodities are measured. If gold grows scarcer and dearer, a'l other commodities fall in price. If on the other hand, gold increases more rapidly than the demand of business and the arts requires, it will become cheap and more plentiful, and the prices of all the other commodities which it measures will rise." I feel sure, Mr. President, that the Sonator from Massachusetts must have extracted that quotation from aome speech made hy Mr. Bryan or some other Democrat during the memorable campaign of 1896. That campaign was anterior to th> new discoveries?enormous discoveries ? of gold since made in our Western States, in Alaska, Africa, Australia, and elsewhere, and at that time thj estimated per capita clrculat'on of the country was !ar below thn: of the present. The actual amount of mon ey then supposed to he in the country was little more than one-half of what it is supposed to he at th's time, even if the whole of our poasi| hie clreulatlon at that period had been available. VOTED IT DOWN Slate Senate Tables Resolution Calling for Resignation of THE ASYLUM OFFICIALS Vote Reached lutte Thursday Afternoon and Resulted in Decisive Yietory for the Friends of Dr. Bahcock and the Hoard of Regent of the State Hospital for the Insane. The Senate of South Carolina by a vote of 27 to 9 has tabled the resolution calling for the resignation of I)r. James \V. Balicock, superintendent of the State Hospital for the Insane, and the board of regents. The vote came late Thursday after noon, after the matter had been dis cussed pro and con for nearly three legislative days. By the Senate's action Dr. Babcock and the members of the board of regents are vindicated from the charges of mismanagement brough upon the lloor of the Senate by thost yho favored the resolution. It wij an unconscious battle between th Kindness and humaneness of the Hospital and the crying needs of that institution on the one hand against the conditions as pictured by the legislative committee supporting an indictment against those oflicials touching methods in vogue at th? Asylum on the other hand. That Dr. Babcock had given his whole soul to the work of the unfortunates of this State, that he had made noble sacrifices in behalf of the inmates of the Asylum, that on many occasions the needs of the institution had been pointed out by him and by others were contentious that had their weight in the Senate. If the whole matter could be summed up in one sentence as explaining the majority of the Senate's L>|iniiiMi 11 wuuki read: "We are as much to blame as any one for the conditions at the Asy lam; then why blame Dr. Babcock and the regents?" Of course, there was strong argument supporting the contention ol the majority of the legislative committee. and the Senators favoring rhe resolution that the officials were responsible for certain matters. Senator Clifton made a statement for the judiciary committee. He said the committee did not consider that the superintendent or the board of regents had the administrative or executive ability to handle the in stitution along business-like lines; that the committee hail no intention of bringing into the discussion the personal character of the superintendent or the board of regents. "I would not say anything to reflect on their worth and character, but they were not of sufficient business ability to carry on the work. This is best shown hv the conditions existing. We feel that the gentlenmn now in charge would themselves a favor to not have charge of any plan we might now institute." Senator Weston moved that the icsolution be laid on the table. The vote resulted; Yeas?Appelt, Bass, fllack. Carpenter, Crosson, Earle. Forrest, Griffin, Hamrick, Hardin Harvey, Hough, Johnson, Johnstone, Laney, Lide, McGown, McKeithan, Montgomery. Walkt-r, Muckenfuss,, Rainsford, Rogers, Spivey, Summers, Weston, Wharton ? 27. Nays?Rates,. Chrlstensen, Clifton, Graydon, Kelley, Slnkler, Townsend. Walter, Williams?9. Pairs?Carlisle with Stewart voting nay and yea, respectively; Mauldin with Sullivan, ditto. CLOTII Pr.DM.KK (JILLS MANY Anderson Tailors Annoyed l?y Cle\rr Swindler Anderson tailors have been mm I tormented during the past f -w la>?hecause of the operations of a sli.lt swindler, who has been peddling suit patterns through the county. His game is one of the slickest that has come to light in some time, an I has no doubt, resulted in bringing much coin into his pockets. The swindler carries a big assortment of cotton ades and other cheap fabrics, worth up to SO cents or $1 per yard. He approaches the unsuspecting person; offers the goods for sale, charging $1 to $2 per yard, and putting forth the argument that a tailor in An derson is making up the clothes al $:t.7r? per suit ? with exit a pair I trousers. The scheme has worked well. There have been a number ol those who have been taken in, conn to the city, bringing the goods anr calling on the tailor, whose nam* was given them by the swindler. Ir each case the game has, of course proven almost a total loss to tin man taken in. Arrested on Serious Charge. At Lancaster Henry Ttrooks, a ne gro carpenter was arrested and lodg ed In jail Sunday afternoon on th charge of criminally assaulting small colored girl about 10 years o age. / - . \ THEY COME HIGH FXI'EXSE OF INVESTIGATING IjU NATIC ASYLUM. According to the Ileport Filed With the Generul Assembly It Cost Just $d,U10.20. Following is the statement of expenses of the commission which iu\estigated affairs at the State Hospital for the Insane: Per diem and mileage of committee members: N. Christensen $ 463.60 P. L.. Hardin 158.00 Geo. II. Hates 126.40 Geo. W. Dick 286.70 J. P. Carey 287.75 \V. C. Harrison 541..75 Olin Sawyer 262.65 $2,126.45 Expenses and per diem Dr. F. H. Wines $ 95.65 Committee miscellaneous expenses: Telephones and telograms..$ 20.09 Stationery 2.05 Stamps 6.07 Use of hotel room for committee work 21.75 Stenographer?report, correspondence and affidavits 51.25 Express 2.68 Copy of Act 1.00 $ 104.89 1 he State Company: Letter heads and envelopes 8.00 Subpoena tickets and writs 7.50 Checks and warrants 11.50 Circular letters and blanks 15.25 Proofs and corrections... 7.39 To 19 etchings and halftones. 192.32 Mr. Hlanchard, 11 plates.... 61.50 Mr. Howie, six plates 9.00 Messrs. Gadsen & Shand? architects 400.00 Mr. J. F. Grady, marshal. . . . 72.90 Mr. A. D. McFadden, stenographer, taking and transcribing testimony and minutes 4 02.15 Witnesses 60.60 Interest on loan from Columbia Savings Dank and Trust Company 6.54 Miscellaneous 37.62 $3,619.26 Amount appropriated 3,000.00 Balance $ 619.26 Senator Neils Christensen is chairman and Dr. G<k). W. Dick is secretray of ihe committee. Dl'KL FOUGHT IN STREET. Cieorgetow n Man Fatally Wounds Ills llrotlior-in-Lnw. In n pistol duel on the streets of Georgetown Thursday G. O. Keigler shot and fatally wounded his brother-in-law, Walter Vining. Roth men a.re well connected, and the shooting created a sensation. It is stated that the men had been on had terms for a long time and that they met in Gay's store and quarrelled. It is a lso stated that Keigler accosted Vining and struck him with ai walking cane, whereupon Vining drew his pistol and began firing ait close range. His bullets went wild and Keigler drew his pistol and began shooting. One bullet took effect in \ ining's neck. Keigler surrendered .. to the proper authorities and is he'd pending the termination of Vining's Injury. GIVES FIVE THOI'SAXn I.ady Donates That Sum to Carlisle .Memorial ait WoofTord. The Spartanburg Journal says t'o fund that is being raised for the Car1 s!e Memorial Hall of W .ford College is growing in leaps and ho mds. | iho latest donation to 'his fun 1 be. rig $r?.000 which was Riven l>y a lady of Anderson county. In offering her eift slio wrote Dr. H. N. Syn'ler. tlie nrcsident of the .dirge, as fobows: "I am glad to bo able to make this donation, and I consent to make it public only through the hope . f 'i spiring others to uivo of their means to your public institution." I?r. Snyder when askt.i 'o tho ramc of the Anderson lady vi 1 ho was not prepared at present to make public the name of the lady, though announcement will he made at an early date. The gift h s;.id is being d< voted to the fund that is being raised for tho purpose of er<c'ing a lirtll to the memory of Dr. Jau. II. Carlisle. The fund of the Carlisb Memorial t It all started several months *go by r F. \j. Archer, a friend and graduate i of Wofford College, who gave $10, r j ooo. i Thirteen l>rowned. From Knoshima, II. C., the steam1 er Sueveric Tuesday brought news of the drowning of thirteen students, ? whose boat, while r- turning from an outing, was capsized by heavy *ens. The drowned students wer?, most of them, sons of naval officers. One of w the students, clinging to an oar, - reached the beach, but died on the e sand after being landed. a f Self-made or never-made is natures inexorable law.