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VOL. LIV—NO. 69 ALLEN OUTLAW BANDIS SURROUNDE Posse of Forty Has Formed Cordon About Them and Messenger Sent For More Men PLANNING TO MAKE AN ATTACK AT DAYLIGHT Desperadoes Located at Squirrel's Spur, Which is a Natunl} Fortress—Posse Trailed Cousin of the Allens—Governor | of Virginia Increases Reward For Capture of Men, Dead | or Alive, to $4,000—Descriptions Sent Out Broadcast. Gretnsboms, N, €., March 18—A Jeng | istance mleyhona message from Mount Airy, N. C, late tounight, an- | rounced that 2 messenger had arrived | here usking that overy. available man ’ © sent to Squirrel’s Spur, twelve {from Mounl Airy and just in- de the Vi in border, where it was Telteved that Sidne Allen and ssverel e mie gang were snrfounded by a we of forty men Bolieved Outlaws Are Cernered. | According to the messeger, the posse | ad formed a covdon about Syuirrels ‘pur &t ten o'clock, amd the leaders | confident that the outiews were orasred. ‘An attack o% "ths plaee at tight is planned Trailed Nephew of the Alien. t'he officers came upon Wesley Ed- v a nephew ‘of Sidna and Floyd hig cabin, eight miles east of Allen’s home at Bundown. Ed- wards escaped by a hack dgor, leav- ng his rifle and pietol behind, A sis- | o tide Allen was at the houss this 1wrning badly wevaded and that he | 214 to Edwerde io come lo Squirrel's Bpur mirh The pomse toilowed Hd- rards closg and trailed h!m te ihe v endezvous, Squirrel’s Spur a Natural Fortress, Squis Spur is in the mountain ] iing past Hillsville, Tt is bie except bv foot ‘and ' ie be a natural fortress. About acrs of open space on the untein stie ts enclosed YESTERDAY'S CHASE Return Empty - Handed~Gov increases Reward to $4,000 Mer, the co 'yght the mssex ba roo Hosses ernor 13.— Another Quse assas to town | he word | fhe ! rassed over fo the she 7T snpessee line {0 be on the 1OPEFUL OF AVERTING | STRIKE OF MINERS | Both Siaes Willing to Meet Again Mfi‘ Come to Y"ms zion, Pa., ,»Lmrh 13. -1 nadle here todzy tend fo peileve | derablo the local apprehension of coa! strike Joiin T. Dempsey presidgent of Dis- rif>t No. 1 of the United Mine Work- ers, sald. “We are willlng and anxlous o meel the aperators to discuss’ this ratier of wage agreement jsut as a Wo parties h.x\mg wur:w iing to » 1d seil wq 1id get togeth r and strike Yor oI Lackawanne & strike. | 3 t oposul cartying Pt e | SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND 13 .RA\,KS TO BE ELEVATED. Tesult of Agrsement W:'rh New Haven Raiiroad Company. ad's naw Engla: this Southér oxy | con‘ending roads heve LOW by whwh the pass a.ung 0B a vieduct 300 fecét long evar the 1 '« Weight houses. MURDER CF WORKER FOR LAW AND ORDER. of Persons Anaumnnd Near Birmingham in: 18 Montis. ance and t reatls abo Score March 1§.--Arn- on was added to the the Lewisburg district Malix J. Allard, one rnen in the district, mede an enort 1o s abolizhed in the vi- t fram smbush and in- Omicers have mo. ciue s goilty persans 20 persons have been murder- s districtt in the past 18 but there Have been no convic- tor the erimes HARD ClDER TO ILAM! Birthday Party fn Oxford Ends in a Sk‘ootmg Marcl 18.—A birthddy par- v al teh home of Sylvester Chatfield, ‘n the Quaker| Farms district, begun restsrday, and«zd today with a shoot- ing, and this afternoon Constabls Wub- bell hae 3 nymber of men ont in the woods lmkhy; #or Claremce Willlams. A good dea) of hard cifer was used in drvioking/ toasts yesterday.to Mr. Chatfield’s | ehalth. 'The gathering, all negroes, ghot bolgterous during the evening. pnd early today in mix-up Brown lseld a shot gun. Chatfiels wags Oxtord, wounded !in the head and sholders, and Willianss ijn the foot, The !_n”r. may aet Uve - weods. temporarliy abandoned and Ge Mann {ssued a proclamation increasing the total 2z to $4.000 for the outtaws, ¢ live. and sent their fall descrivtions to every store, post- office and - kcross - roads for miles L areund, Posse Near Devil’s Den, { Detective w" 00k a posse off i the N this \nolnin | | z0ad ihat goes over Barbett ! of the fugitive told the posse that | ‘& \xw - | $ 1 the North Carolina sheriffs started work over toward the Ararat countfy to head the outlaws off. Reward Increased te $4.000. The difficulties of the search cause 1 for the state militia to be s ougly comnsid but that plan was .(il I' | Bk Spur end ancy Devil's Den, L Dozen Houses Searched. A few post roads be called—wind '(wtw_ecr. tion for beginr september 1, " year can nM ‘he Britisk which, 1,(*01 London, Marc 1l coal strike rers have joined in possible e the industries of urest Britain | more tl those of other are noti woodsmen as th | PURQIE W0 | Benghazi March 18-—Bombs Wille & posse W }i\npum from an oplane belnnging bl W R S (S i Italian expeditionary force 1 deaths of ten Arabs in a | 8TRIKE BREAKERS i up some distance from this ARRIVE AT BARRE | LI -— ) P Piy af Wiil Be Empleysd Today in Haulmg‘y ek degee B e ‘ep. on of the cardinals today, while Pruiuct to Cars, | speaking on cv events repeated the deep that had been Mass Mar\h 13»~l alian 1 made on I atempt 10 vorers r.e 'e u.mgh' into town quietly | sesassinste mmanitel by tontght and qnartered at the mills of | Aptonio Di Lm_ Batre Wool Combing compsny, | and opera- | Tonden, March 18—Win <n 3pencer T & raise in! Churchili, first lerd Adniralty, ¢ to be emploved to- | today Introduced in railroad sta- {, the coming year i n 1Tous: Berre Piain m loads of The approgriatiors T the mill yards, | e, amounts to $220,427,%09, thus . far to remove $1.550,009 from il are loaded ¥ L ven Swatow, Chin ment of marines frem sympathizers One vag combad 1 balss and loaded gins station 'he lcompany i wortn of finieh shipment a n joad Woeol, of some of the natives have taken house trouhie, $400,000 1 18—"The firm of Berl esat real estate bri ‘os , one of the it issued by the s are $8,000,000 tiie Ba m ese 875,000, niemi- police department, ‘*'105‘ came the 200 pol shwifls in 1 { iRISH NOT PRONE TO SOf"ALISM AND ANARCHY snarpshoolers state President Taft szs Tribute to Celtic in Boston Spesch. serving Race TWINS DROWNED i BY BREAKING ICE. ws Ware Taking a Ride on a Floating Cake, Boston, ended cuation ¥ h an andrevs to Hw,l“'l nnd a ie Feilo Rochester N Joseph Schvay ¥ Marci the \ae clud C] ?r.\nighr ess to irish -soclety tonight, praised the lvish for Charitable the president their adeptability iNage limite of a cake of lce on w Y up ling a2 ride” broke in hacoming Americaus and added a 7 ]h't lj'; w 5 i d abopt tne evident belief of that 0ld brother Aloys | race in the stability of an insti- saved by Fioyd ‘witnessed (he accident WOMAN SUICIDE LAYS BLAME ON HERSELF, However, Are in Darkness | speak ionight, however known fact that socialism and anarchy have nd no Aodgmem amung X"‘.su- Relfatives, {1 As to Her Motive, ! n gxe t_nst_m- - — I they believe New York, March 18-—Mrs. Sa mal end our Sincerbox, daughter of 2 | Biate government; they believe in the McSlvin, of Westport, C reservation of the checks and bdal- ted sulcide by taking poison ai anceg of our lfll séructure. home today husband, whao - 18 year old daughter Wilm: suicide was all her own tuul' om she | diid not explain her meoti She d rected that 2 body mother’s home in Connecticut. She left a note te! THE DAY IN "ONGREQG Bilt for Nanenar Primaries en Juiy 8 Intreduced, Wasn:gron 18, —The day in e { congress To Protect Us Ag:mn( Cholera, Shiates. Waxnington, March 18.—Warned Y4 a i the dangers with which the United| I ks States vg’u threatened by cholers An. Chairman McCumber of nansion soathern Furope last year, Surgeon commitiee announced he would try | General Dive of the public fealth ser- | {0 9lear calendar of all pension legls- vica faa b lailon this week. vice Degan preparing a vigorous cam- | ‘2LOR { vaign :!'uu'a: Lf;apmsh“r PR RAGE Senator Cumining introdulced il for against the dlsease in case of an out- j Natlonal primary law providing for the break [his vear. first mational primary July 2. Benater Lorimer's counsel submitted brlef summing uwp arzguments in Lori- mer mvestigaiion Hou Met at noon. “Resumed debats on exuiss tax bill. Speaker Clark asked that his vote | agalnst recommiiment of sugar bill ard for its passage be recorded. former (Secretery of War Wright New Havon Bride Takes Poison. Naw Flaven, March 1§—Mrs. Thomas Sheehan, aged 20 vears, uncondcious and in & crdical condition at the h“'_i pital here topight as a resuit of hav- | ing taken poison with suicidal inient. | Fha was married lasi December. (:Ql‘p.r. ons Daaqmg Taxn. Wasirington, March 18 — Cowmmis- | before Helm committes passed respon- aioner Cabell of Internal revenue says | Sibility for the non-courtmartiai of that ghout 1,000 corporations have been | Major Ray ‘e former Chief of Staff or wili be haled into court as delin- | Bsil quents in tie payment of the carpava- tion tax last year. Taxicab Robbers Plead Guilty. { XNew York, March 13-—Jess Albrozzo and Joseph Larm, indicled for the $35,- 000 taxicab hold-up of Tebruary 15, plezded guilty of robbery in the second -degree today and were remanded to the Tomhs for sentence Cardinal Farlay Guast of Henor. New York, March 18.—John dinal F‘ule;y' wae guest of honor at a dinner 100 Friendly Soms of 8t Patrick Danielson Men Representing Finance, the Law, Co‘m-‘ merce Manufacturing and - Other Interests. F " | the 014 batileship Maine. { ! Two Escaped Gonvicts Shot THIRD SAVES HIS LIFE BY SUR- RENDERING. 1 | Drive Their Wagon First to Fall | Under the Fire of the Officers. i { Omaha, Neb.,, March 18.—Two of the | cenvicts, John Dowd and John Taylor, who escaped last Thursday from the state penitentiary at Lincoln, and Roy Blunt, an innocent their murderous attempt to gum liberty, are 1 dead as the resuit of a battle between the bandits and officers of the law today. { Third Coguict Surrenders. Charles Morley, the third member of+ the trio whicn escaped from the | state prison after killing three officials | at that institution, ‘saved his life by he had a running fight over two and a half miles with horses on the gallop. Within Ten Miles of Safety. T three escaped comvicts were within striking distance of the hoped for goal of safety when the finaN struggle for liberty occurred. They | had covered the stretch from Lincoin | to within ten miles of the Omaha ity | Umits e they had expected to re- ocelve the protectien of friends. Soid Their Lives Dearly. surrendering to the officers, with whom | From the moment of their escape, the three men empleyed the same des- possz saw nene of t ig { perate thods io protsct themselves ne evidences of their presence, | PRESTON B. SIBLEY. from recapture whichh marked their kept on over Garmers creek and | e len.we from prieon and they did not Lone Ce fork to the Carolina | — e R s T hesitate at the crucial moment to tr and brought up at Mount Airy., I o ¢ll their lives as dearly as possi a dezen houses, the hemeg o b\ed P ¢ h C d sed r l It was a futile attempt, how o! the Allen clan or their | La ‘1] dqrap > on en e e I"lmS because they were ermed with were searched on the| —— guns and revelvers, while thel a trace of the outlaws| Tokio, March 18—Baron Shinitoihiro The Sunrems Court Yesterda‘f took a had a full supply of repeat- (K apanese amba u‘- d .‘,o. recess until Aprfl 1 & G 1 ion Difficult. promoted today the e - 4 Soens. emaunioation S0 (e St Al Eeadés of “Calinied Sugar were| . StxPosses on.Soens. { | reduced cents a hundved pounds| 5aTlV in the day the telephone ouer- ten : y. ¢ at Greina, about 15 miles south is city, reported the presence of vester of irty-two W instruct- | the desperate men, It had the resuit e;lr?(l,;ty'rta‘éo cl;e 33’,.‘;%’,‘"3 .ini bringing to the ')\-lxxigy six organv' past week. ized posses. They included one from 3 Omaha, another fcomposed of Sheriff Clara Morris | McShane and deputies of this 62d birthday in be county, and a third made up of Sheriif | Yonkers, N. ¥ Hyers and h dr’put;es from Lincoln. 4 : | Sherig rpy county with The Duchess of Bucceleuch, thin striking | South Omaha sent ter of the first Dt stance andg two | at Edinburgh, Sc Lo»a-'s under” Chief e Gret company early on the scene, Shot Innocent Man. mu)tms expor\ancr ico has begun te show Chief Briggs of South Omaha and s deputy, John C. Trouton, 2 yTh° Eentase VaH-y - Qrwe“” leaders in the party which finally is an enormous lak ing the highest in twenty ye Jules Vadrines, the Aviator, was beaten in the election for member of | the French chamber of deputies. | overtook and vanquished the 1 bandits and shot an innocent vietim i dash for libert ity on an early &pe ral Omaha police the miles south of It is Stated in Omaha, Net William Jennmgn Bryen is hoping for the democratic nemination | Wel e on thelr way north w for pre en, en Omaha subusd, | tion. Fcrced Youth to Act as Driver. f Briggs obtatined a fast liver at Springfieid, Sherif? Chase had s, and \Le“‘fl h Dr. Honry Wilsen SpAn vears head of th ing department of Pennsy‘n‘ama. diec Twenty Billion Dollars is the Value | £ 3 : the comvicts had | and his wife to eakfast and to furnish eam and wagon, with which to escape to Afdright and had compelied Roy Bluni, e son, to act as driver. The chase be- gan at once, pursuers being kept i 4 al telephene of Theodore Rossey Huntingten, I 1er gl t Fatric Tangiers, of rORTESH Officers Open ' Fire. re the officers & Blunt was oom- into a runm, up the pursuit n a few hundred eing desperadoes Briggs' driv balked and to drive further, re- grabbed the reins and whipped Mrs. Despard, a Notorious Enguir the horses into a gallop, When they Sqf{r:gnne. makes the prediciion that ' were hin a short distauize from the 1 be a real war betw pursued 1.en Briggs and Trouton 5(-; Tefuses to re | opened fire with their rifies. From an 28 his equal In gvery w | that time umill Morley surrendered it | { was a battie ov { couniry roads. Young Blunt First to Fall. miles of rough A Preliminary Cunsus WS [Ha‘ In t ite: un: three | train at| leld the { | | | | | i i | t e ) Finally there came a t when it“i:;fi ,‘f:fl,(’,fs‘ 0, Dereons 10 ¥64T8 | voung: Blunt toppled back - into ths fe2¢ Lnited States. | wagon, the victim of a bulleti. Chief i ” P 5 Eriggs instantly jumped from hia o }eda'i\rrdy :Ai{?u‘:{"s s;:‘in“af’bugw and taking careful alm, fired | 4 by their automobile at the men in the wagon. Meantime { olther members of the posse came up | and joined in the fusillade. Dowad was {mext to fall. According to Morley .ba.u taken his own life, with aba)ux in In a Letter ry .t | the tempie, but Chief Bri.,ga elieves ‘uee ,\'a‘u::;‘ 5:::\‘.30‘(1‘ o’f"Ds‘fbelr:, | he was & vietim of one of the bullets sealed for riglid enforcement 0”1:0!\1 the posse. Taylor was shot down American immigration Iawr as alfl"" and then Mlorlgr, the third con- mearns of preveniing furiher depopula- | Vict, threw wp h't hands in token of tion: of Ireland | surrender. { Bodiss Turned Over to Sheriff, The bodies of the convicts were turmed over to Bheriff Hyers of Lin- coln end that of young Blunt to his e'nutvrvg to evade a street car r into a t ' =legraph pole in Cincin- Mahion Pitnsy of New Jersey vester- ' day tock the oath of office and as- sumed the duties of assoctate justice of the supreme court of the Uniied States as the successor of the late | BmilY. * Jusiice Marlan. { I.inco™ on an afterncom train, President Taft Yesterday sent a ! ter to congress asking that the b { end senate adjourn Satwrday and at- | tend in a body” memorial services to be held at Washingion for the dead of - ONE OF GREATEST ASSETS OF NATION. ,G'vnrmr Baldwm Praises Loyaity of | Irish- Americans. Theodore Rosseveit, Jr.. was threai- | Hartford, Comm., March i§—Describ- ened with suffocation while aiding voi- | ing the loyalty of the Irish-Americans unteer firemen ‘in putting out a blaze | to the national 1deas of America as one ai the suburban residence of Charies|of the greatest assets of the American Clark, son of former Senator W. A. }na.tiorl Governor Simeon B Baldwin Ctari, of Montana, at San Francisco, | elso toid his hearers that it was the Sunday. loyalty of the Irish American to the land of his fathers that had now ax- | sured Ireland home rule, in his ad- |dxeu tonight at the annual banquet in this city of the Friendly Sonsz St. Patrick in homor of the day dedi- cated to the mmemory of the patron saint of Ireland. The ‘gathering was a notabie ons in { point of attendance and in addidon { to Governor Baldwin the speakers weroe Mayor Bdward L. Smith of this city, Rev. Jam J. McGuane of Noroton, Joun E. Gilman, past netional com- mander of the Grand Aemy of lhe Pe-~ white, sad Mayor Damniel P. Dimn of %mmn!mc. 80 Great Was the Rush Yesterday morning of Lawrence, Mass., mill op- eratives back to the looms and spindles | after a strike of nine weeks that sev- eral” depariments wers unadle io ac- commodate more than 2 small part of the operatives, and thousands were obilged t> re‘urn.to their homes Grace E Studiey, the 14 Year Oid runaway girl who, it is alleged, micked up ‘2n, infant from iis carriage in the vestidule of a Providence depariment store last November and kept the child for two days before shs was found and arrested, was indicied by the grand jury vesterday on a charge of kidnap- Ping. Wage Inorease in Rhods Island. Providence, R. I, March 18.—An in- creage in wages was announcaed today by three of the large potton mamufac- turing companies of Rhode Island. The miilmen would not say, however, what the ammount of the increase, which will go into effect March 25, will be, The ‘B B. & R. Knight company, the Man- ville c&z:zpnny and &m B’mdlarl were man! ers te post motices in &N thetr mills Jogeph Caruso Was Sentsnced to two menths in the house of correction by Judge Mahoney yesterday for asesmit upon Daniel’ Connell, who was stab- bed in the.neck on rhe morning of Margh -7, while trying to make his way tarough a line of pitkats to his work in the miil at Lewrence. 'Carnse ap- pealad. . Hyers took Morley back fo| of | | E { | he | i i | t i | killed, a8t Briggs him- | PRICE TWO CENTS 'Fragments of Flesh and Bone FOUND AFTER EXPLOSION OF LO COMOTIVE BOILER, AN INNOCENT VICTIM I 32 WORKMEN KILLED i ;Yauth Whom Fugitives Compelled tnlBig Mogul Shattered to Pieces When Cold Water Was Run Into Hot Boil- er—Driving Wheels Remain Intect. San Antonio, Texas, March 15.—At least 32 men were killed and parts of bodies were strewn for blocks ent when a big r loco motive in the South > shops blew up here toda The engine stood in a squa ed by the Cooper house, Dlacks I and round- house, all of whict wrecked, A portion of (be en » crashed into a house sevem.‘ biocks away and seri- ously hurt a woman. Fragments oi Flesh and Bone been to be more then a tan of hyman bones, 'I‘hug.g fragments d jammed into v:‘-v es abou. gs wrecked in the street zied in n.schincr in the The identified Dead, blacksmith 1achinist Pittsbur, Texas Texas indi ated the former thoee 8 killed e not weoels the shops it been manned Harriman eved most o €8s went killed north and eas ident Due to Ca—e.mul It is believed e explosion wes caused by the carelessness of some one of the men kilied in allowing cold w=‘e' to run into the hot bdoiler of hie locomotive. The engine was prac. tically new and it was in the shops for inspection. mogul typa It wes of the largest Lou Will Bo 200,000, Begides the 32 believed to have beas three persons wexre injured. These were for the most part in re- mote parte of the bufldings wrecked, for those close to the engine or in the msin parts of the bullding® either were killed outright by the explosien or shed when the buildings collapsed. The monetary loss will b3 about $209,~ 000. Driving Wheela Iatact, Frealks of the terrific force of the explosion were many, but one of the strangest wag that the driving wheeis of the engine were not disturbed While parts of the locomotive were driven hlocks, the wheela apparemtly did not i NO ARRESTS YET IN | THE BOMB MYSTERY New York Police Worki ng on Seweral Thcomet. New vk, }.1aar 18.—No amrests wers made today, although practically the entire police depart ored to clear he iempt Rosals A general ses- last Saturday night. the detectives had promis- they &id not divulge them, rested apparently oaly were advanced cing neazly every cage whizh the judge has tried, inciuding the Italian Maflaists, counterfeiters, the Yiddish Camorrists, |2 and of horse poison- { ers is known, and the Brandt case. The last vamed case was not mention- ed seviously in any 7 ever. A CONNECTICUT MAN FOR VICE PRESIDEYT L. G. Hohenthal of South Man- chester a Prohibitionist Candidate. Madiecn, Wis,, March 18.—Two sets of candidates for ident the pro- hibition ticket have been included in 1e presidential preferent petitions filed by Wmcuxmn pxumhh ists, she slates being as follows Eugene W. Chaffin, Tucson, Ariz., ‘Waukesha, f president, and E, L. G. lv)).nmhm, outh Man- Ychester, Conn, president, and W. Stewart 2o, for pres- 1dent, X Cumberiand and Finley C, Hendricksonm of Md., rw- vice president, Steamship Arrivals. At Glasgow: March 17, Caledenls, from New York At Naples: March 17, Carmenia, from New York; f[talia, from New York. | At New York: Geortc Tashingtom, | Palermo. At Fishguard: .vltrch 18, Maure- tania, from New York for Liverpool At Plymouth: Alarch 18, Kronprins ‘Wilhae! from New York for Che bourg and Bremen. At Naples: March 18, Venezia, from New York, Redmond Predicts Home Rule. lLondon, March 18.—John . Red- mond, leader of the Irish pariiamentary party, presiding tonight at a St Pat rick’s banqust at the Hotel Caoil, said that the home rule bill would pass the houss of commons by more than 100 majority, and inside of stwo yeer would becoms law. ¥ Biames Supreme Court for Socialism. ‘Washington, March 18.--Oscar W, Undarwood, democratis leader, in suy porting the proposed excise tax bill in the hounse today, aharged that the au- reme court by its annulment of tne tex in 1895 was responsidbie the growth of soclalism In the United Biates. Wilsen Men Claim Kansas ‘Washington, March 18.—~The Wood- row Wilson headquarters here I-uefl a statement today vil ty clai the Kansas d.lm the Bal re convemtion for Governor ving cast & balot fer Clark.