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Only Afternoon Paper in the State of North Carolina With a Leased Wire Service and Full Press Dispatches LAST EDITIOH ALL THE UAEKETB BLEIGfi EVENING TIME VOLtTUE 80. RALEIGH, N. THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 1908. PRICE 5 CENTS. RESTORING POPULAR.

DEADLY BATTLE ENTIRE COTTpN SUPPLY CORNERED BY BROKER KENTOCI Available Supply Lowest in Several Years IE PUZZLE POLICE Mutilated Body Found By the Chicago Officers BODY OF ALIEN BOY Brought to This Country to Dredge For Wealthy Masters Learned Secrets of Dealers in Human Chattels and Was Killed For Protec- tion. (By Leased Wire to The Times) Chicago, August 6 The most grewsome murder mystery known to the Chicago police in years wa3 Unearthed when the legs of a humaii body were found In the abandoned Michigan and Illinois Canal. A. few hours later the mutilated trunk was taken from a mud-hole under the Santa Fe bridge. The coroner's physician refused the theory that the mystery was the re sult of a medical student prank, as the evidence showed plainly to medi cal eyes that the body had never been dissected.

At first the body was believed to be that of a young woman. Later, however, it was proved to be the body of a boy about 14 years old. The police are at sea, but are investigating the disappearance of a Greek lad from his home some days ago." The boy, it is believed, was imported recently and forced to drugde by his wealthy masters. It is thought he either told the sacrets Jh.e doaj-ers In human chattels or threatened to seek redress of his wrongs at law. The police last night sought trace of Dulonisos Papadopoulos, 16 years, 1750 West Eighty-first street, who is missing.

A year ago the boy gave the federal authorities in Chicago Information '-which led to the conviction of several of the bosses of the Greek Padrone system. The reason the boy is being sought is not only that he was threatened with death at the time he gave his testimony, but on the inside of a valise found near the body were discovered the initials GRUESOR FIND Theme of Taft Address at Hot Spriogs IMPROVEMENT IN THE COURTS OF JUSTICE Mr. Taft Spoke to the Virginia Bar Association Today on the Improvement of Justice and Ita Prompt Dispatch and Cheapening of Its Machinery for the Use of the Poor ManWould Have the Codes of Procedure Simplified. (By Leased Wire to The Times) Hot Springs, Aug. 6-Wllliam H.

Taft delivered an address this morning before the Virginia Bar Association oil what he regard as -the most Important question before the American people: "The improvement- of the administration of Justice" in the matter of its prompt dispatch, and "the cheapening of its use," for the poor man. Mr. Taft made several important recommendations, which, when put into effect would, thet believes, "go far toward restoring popular confidence in the courts and putting the rich man and me poor man on a more equitame legal footing. He would have the codes simplified. He would have the great body of litigation settled in the courts of first instance and in the intermediate appellate courts, limiting appeals to the supreme court of the: United States to typical cases which are wide in their aDDUcation: such, for in stance, as cases involving of the constructing1 the United States constitution of the constitution or the constitutions or statutes of the states.

He would have a mandatory reduction of court costs and fees and higher qualifications for judges who sit to hear cases involving small pecuniary amounts. Mr. Taft suggests the enactment of a federal law providing for official arbitration, for settling awards to employes in damage cases arising in the carrying on of interstate commerce. Mr. Taft said in part: "While we may properly felicitate ourselves on the widened functions of the courts, enabling us to avoid less peaceable methods of settling important political-legal questions, have we the right to say that our present administration of justice generally insures continued popular satisfaction with its results? I think not.

"It may be true that, down to the present time, it has supplied a means of settling controversies between individuals, and of bringing to punishment those who offend against the criminal laws, sufficiently to prevent a general disturbance of the peace. "There are, however, abundant evidences that the prosecution of criminals has not been certain and thorough to the point of preventing popular protest. The existence of lynchlng in all parts of the country is directly traceable to this lack of uniformity. "I shall, not delay you, however, with a discussion as to the reform which ought to be adopted in this branch of our jurisprudence. I wish to confine myself to the delays' and Inequalities in the administration of Justice in controversies between private persons, including, of course, corporations.

"The present la a time when all our institutions are being subjected to close scrutiny. "The chief attack la on the Institution of private property and is based upon the inequalities in the dlstrbu-tlon of wealth. I believe that the Institution of private property next to that of personal liberty, has had most to do with the upbuilding and physical and moral improvement of the' whole human race. "But this scrutiny of our Institu tions, this increasing disposition to trf experiments to see whether there not some method by which human happiness may be more equally distributed than It is. ought to make those of va who really believe In our Institutions as essential to.

further progress, anxious to remove real and Juat grounda for criticisms In our political system. 'T venture to think that the evil, which baa not attracted the attention of the community at large, but (Continued on' Becond Page. COMMISSION HAS Commissioner Makes Answer Against Attacks WITNESS DISGRUNTLED Chairman of the Commission on the Stand He Attacks Testimony of ex-Convict Witnesses, Who, He Says, AVere Disgruntled Guard Jells of the Use of Strap. (By Leased Wire to The Times) Atlanta, Aug. Chairman Joseph S.

Turner, 0f the prison commission of Georgia, took the stand last night in the convict lease investigation and made answer on behalf of the commission to the attacks. He denied that the prison commission has ever violated the state law. He holds that every official act of the body were entirely within their official rights. He attacked the testimony of ex-convict witnesses.Whom he said had been convicted of murders, thefts, burglaries and other felonies and misdemeanors. He called in question the evidence of former employes of the prison commission and sought to impeach their on the ground that they) were disgruntled and disaffected by reason of their discharge.

Every member of the prison commission was in the court room during the, session. Among other witnesses heard was C. Lewis, a guard at the Durham Coal Coke Company, at the time Abe Winn, lie lifLeen-year-okl white boy was given sixty licks with a sanded Jeather strap and horribly! mutilated. He said Winn was sen to the hospital immediately after the whipping. Two months later he was carried out a corpse.

His death was given on the hospital records as due to pneumonia. The witness says the whipping was administered because Abe accidentally spilled hot coffee on a hog belonging to Warden Goode, who did the whipping. At the hospital tlie next, day after the whipping Winn "I will never get out of here. That whipping will kill me." T. S.

Price, of the Ashley-Price Lumber Company, and the Dorniiney-Price Company, a convict lesse, told of leasing convicts nnd paying an extra salary to the state's warden. The witness stated that men were allowed one and a half hours at dinner and paid them extra for the half hour cut off. "Do you think you can violate the law," said 'Mr. Price. "The convicts were willing to do the work when paid extra for it." CONDUCTOR ARRESTED.

Charged With Violating Itato Law Carrying a Passenger Free. Baltimore, Aug. 6. George H. Sommers, a conductor on the Baltimore Ohio Railroad, was arrested by United States Deputy Marshal Zimmerman on the charge of violating an act of congress by carrying a passenger free of charge on his train.

He was released on $1,000 bail for a hearing before United States Commissioner Rogers. The warrants, which charges the conductor with carrying Charles Flinder free of charge from Baltimore to Martlnsburg, was sworn out by Charles H. Poumalrat, auditor of the passenger receipts of the Baltimore Ohio. The conductor denies all knowledge of any man by the name of Flinder end says he is innocent. Rubber Plant Burned.

(By Leased Wire to The Times) Elizabeth, N. August 6 At 4:30 o'clock this morning the Jenkins Rubber Works, on Magnolia avenue, was discovered on fire, caused by the spontaneous combustion of barrels of ground rubber. The plant was almost destroyed, throwing out of employment over 10 hands. The loss will reach $75,000. The firemen saved the bronze powder works opposite.

NOT BROKEN LAW SUFFRAGETTES GO TO OYSTER BAY Threaten to Make Descent on Sagamore Illl PRESIDENT NOT AT HOME Secret Service Men Were. Unprepared to Keep Them Out of President's Grounds But They Gave No Trouble Advertised Speaking But it Failed to Materialize. (By Leased Wire to The Times) Oyster Bay, N. Aug. 6.

Four gentle suffragettes mere mollycoddles in politics, came here yesterday. They were Mrs. B. Borrman Wells, of London, England; Dr. Maude Glasgow, a New York physician; Miss Margaret Coleman, woman voter of Denver, and Miss Mary Cole-, man, a New York lawyer.

The secretary of the National Progressive Woman Suffrage Union had written to the president, asking him to receive the deputation at Saga-' more Hill. Mr. Roosevelt had answered in effect that he deeply re gfelted to say he was too busy, otherwise he would be delighted. So, of course, the secret service men. who surrounded.

4be president, knew the time the suffragettes were coming and prepared to repel the invaders should they try to go to the presidetit'3 home. But after all, the foures who believe the ballot is mntler than the pap-spoon did not even try to get at the president. They arrived in the afternoon in a thunderstorm. When the weather cleared they got Into an automobile and toured -the town, scattering pamphlets telling the villagers they would hold a meeting at 7:30 p. m.

When 7:30 p. m. came and the suffragettes appeared before a grocery store there was not a single woman there to listen to them. So Mrs. Wella announced that the meeting was postponed, that they would return next week.

Then they took a train for New York. PUB YEAR TRIAL STILL ON. Examination of Witnesses Completed. Case Probably Go to Jury Today. (Special to The Times) Oxford, August 6 At noon today the case of the State vs.

Puryear is still in progress. Many witnesses were examined, the long list being concluded In the early forenoon. Eight or ten were examined yesterday afternoon. The opening speech was made by W. B.

Snow, who is assisting the solicitor. W. A. Devine followed for the defense in an argument of some length. The case in all probability will given to the Jury late this afternoon, although several speeches remain to be heard.

The main plea of the defense Is Insanity at the time of commission of the crime, 24 years ago. The state, in rebuttal, saya that tha deed was done While the defendant was in a state of debauchery and rowdy drunkenness, he being a habitual drinker' In those days. AN UNUSUAL VISITATION. A Charming Young Yankee Girl Makes Spencer an Early Call. (Special to The Evening Times.) Spencer, N.

Aug. 6. Riding on one of the finest horses ever seen in this county, Miss M. L. Woodruff, a dharmlng Yankee girl, now a resl- i dent of Kemersvllle, N.

arrived here early this morning. She had ridden tA night, three counties, and covering nearly sixty miles of country more graceful rider and more entertaining and cultured lady has never honored our clfy by her presence. Burning Stream of Whiskey. (By Leased Wire to The Times) Midway, Aug. 6.

Fire threatened to wipe out this town today. It destroyed jive warehouses of the 8. J. Oreenbaum distilling; comnanv. en 4tt4Tfn a fum rt IVflA AAA i Bloodiest FeudistBaltle in Several Years THREE MEN ARE KILLED Many Seriously Wounded and Three Deaths in Fight Between the Taylors and the Biantons Trouble Arose Over School Election and Counting of Ballots.

(By Leased Wire to The Times) i Frankfort, Aug. 6. The bloodiest battle to occur la eastern Kentucky since the days of the as-j sassinatipns of the Varcums -In! Breathitt county and the fight be-j tween the Eversoles and Frenches in I Perry county, took place late day at Layman, on tlie Cumberland! river, 'in Harlan county, in which three persons were killed and many: seriously wounded. Those killed are: James Blanton, Pearl Blanton, 'otokley Osborne. The wounded: Lee Russell, shot twice In the neck; Taylor McRee, ehot through the abdomen; John Taylor, shot through the cheek; R.

Blanton, stabbed in the right side; Mrs. Laura Blanton. shot In the arm md hip. The trouble was caused by long rtancling enmity between the Taylors raid the Biantons, which dates back several generations. Tlie school trustee election in county last Saturday afternoon jnirnislied the means for the feud to out afresh.

The Biantons ran i'ijmdijlata. and. the Tay-I lors a candidate During the election there wore several breaks, but no shooting. The ISlant oris and Taylors and some of their relatives met at the general store of F. Howard yesterday to count the ballots and award the certificates.

During the counting of the 'ballots' the candidate of the Taylors. seemed to be getting the best of the vote when a dispute arose over a contested ballot, The Taylors accused the Biantons of attempting to cheat, and in less than time to tell it, both sides had out their guns. After the ceremony luncheon was served at home and the afternoon (pent Many handsome wedding gifts were sent by friends throughout the state. One of especial note was that given by Cobb's friends In Augusta, all of whom contributed to the list that was circulated with the request that all subscriptions be limited so "all the boys might be in on the deal." Tonight a splendid banquet will be given at the Hotel Geneva in honor of Mr. and Mrs.

Cobb by the bride's father. Covers have been ordered for thirty all intimate friends of either one or parties. The couple leave tonight at 11:30 o'clock for Detroit. advance in Georgia alone represents an aditlonal tax In freight charges of $500,000 to $1,000,000 annually. I The defendant railroads will be given 20 days In which to make reply.

The Shreveport traffic association of Shreveport, has filed a complaint against the Houston, East West Texas Railway companies alleging discrimination amounting to 100 per cent. In favor of shippers of Houston and against the merchants of Shreveport. Excursion to Wilmington. The first and only excursion of the season from Raleigh to Wilmington and Wrlghtsvllle will be operated Friday, August 21st, returning Satur day, August 22. Fare for the round trip will be $2.50 from Raleigh.

NEW YORK PRICES HAVE Young Broker Said to Have Cornered Whole Available Supply in New York In Consequence of Depressed Prices Stock Has Been Bought and Shipped Away Now There is a Rise and Cotton Scarce. Fanners' Union Has Its EiTect on Prices by Securing Pledgee. (By Leased. Wire to The Times) New York, August 6 Tha entire supply of cotton stored in New York City and vicinity available for delivery on contract is said to have been cornered by J. L.

Livermore, the young broker, who last May made more than $2,000,000 in a corner on the July option. The New York visible supply con sists of only 39,000 bales of cotton, worth about $1,800,000. During the last two weeks cotton has advanced in this market over $3.50 a bale, and the shorts have been bordering upon panic. An enormous quantity of October contracts have been sold short in New York because of the general belief of the trade in reports from the cotton states that an enormous crop would be gathered. As a consequence prices in New York have been depressed far below the commercial.

value of the cotton in the south. Iii consequence the stock at this center have been bought and shipped away so that its available supply Is the lowest in several years. Mr, Livermore and several other cotton men begun buying August contracts several weeks ago until they are said to. have acquired every bale not under contract to the spinners and other consumers. The situation has been made all the more remarkable by the fact that the Farmers' Union has secured pledges from nearly every planter In the south that he will not sell cotton prior to December below 10 cents a pound for middlings.

That this pledge is being kept is shown by the fjKt. that in southern Texas, where the crop is just beginning to make its appearance-, cotton has advanced i th in the past week 40 to 60 points. A prominent member of the cotton exchange said yesterday that the short interest in October amounts to nearly 1,000,000 bales. The actual value of this cotton would be nearly 000,000. The amount of the Livermore pool's profits could not be determined yesterday, as their holdings were acquired This cornet is said to be the first attempted in many years in New York in the face of an abundant crop.

Daniel Sully operated several sucresful corners before his collapse which was duo to the treachery of other members of the syndicate than lack, of strength in his speculative Sully put the price of cotton to 1G cents In one of his corners. COL. GRAVES IN HOSPITAL. OjH'rated On Today But Expects to be Out in a Short While Will Then Take the Stump. New York, Aug.

6. -Colonel John Temple Graves Is at the private hospital of Dr. W. Gill Wiley, No. 251 west 43 rd street, where today he will undergo a slight surgical operation.

He expects to be out in ten day3. For some weeks Mr. Graves hat suffered great physical pain. But be never yielded, going to the Chicago republican convention, to the democratic convention at Denver and later to the independence party convention which nominated him for vice-president. As soon as he Is on his feet again he will enter actively Into the campaign, making speeches In nearly every state in the union.

Explosion Kills Two, Albany, N. August 6 An at- plosion this morning which shook the suburb of North Albany wrecked the plant of the Avery Portable Gaa Company. Two men were killed and two others, seriously Injured. done to the plant la estimated at $25,000. baseball Player Was Today (By Leased Wire to The Times) Augusta, August 6 Today at high noon, Tyrus Raymond Cobb and Miss Charlie' Marlon Lombard were quietly married at "The Oaks," the country home of the bride's par-r ents, ulna miles from Augusta.

The ceremony was performed by Rev. Thomas Walker, pastor of the Wood-lawn Baptist church, of this city. Mr. William Sheron was best man and Fidelis Renkl was maid-of-honer. Only the most intimate friends and immediate members of the family were present.

Cobb arrived this morning from Atlanta and proceeded to the home of his bride-to-be without delay, not even tarrying in town to see the many friends who were 1 anxious to greet him. Georgia Shippers Complain Against Various Roads (By Leased Wire to The Times) Washington, August 6 The Inter state commerce commission has re-, celved a complaint by shippers of the state of Georgia against various rail-companies operating in that state which recently gave notice of an in-( crease in freight rates In the southeastern territory to take effect Aug ust temporarily set aside by Judge Spe8rof, the southern district of Georgia, pending a determination by the commission of the reasonableness of the proposed rates. The complaint declares that the carriers recently sought to Increase their rates through the Intervention of the southeastern freight association, described aa an organization In restraint of trade. lit la estimated that the proposed i I.