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,izzzz ' D?TCZZ3 ill WW A ...-. ; ... 4.'") t , i 7eatlier xcrtcv: Fair. ; VOL XIV. No. 276. ASHEVILU5, N. 0., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 28, 1909. ' TIFT PHBGIL1 MISSED IIS VERY HI OF HE'S HEM He Is so Reported to Have Told Callers Has Begun Work 01 Special Message to Congress. kaw Says Telegrams of Inquiry - Were Sent, Out of Solid- f INTERSTATE COMMERCE AND TRUSTS ITS SUBJECT Idea as to Federal License for Corpor ations Will Also Be Brought . ' Forward, It Is. v ' -'. Said. U -W-: Washington, Dec. 28. President Taft today began the preparation of hlB Aral SDeclal meauira In nnnirpn The message; wiir deal with amend ment which he believes necessary In the Interstate commerce and Sher man anti-trust acts. Recent reports to the contrary notwithstanding, it Is known that the President will take up the trust act and deal with It at length. He also' will bring forward his ideas as to Issuing federal licenses to corporations. The proposed license will be a vol untary one, to be taken advantage of by such . corporations as desire to place themselves under federal Jurls ' diction, or left alone, as the directors of the , corporations see fit. The president Is said to have told callers recently that he never had any In tention of altering his legislative pro gram as outlined in his speeches on his western trip. - The president' ' message will be ready for reading in the two houses of congress Wednesday, January 5, Congress reassembles January 4. but will Immediately adjourn out of re spect to the late Senator McLaurln of Mississippi. SL VISITS NEW PRESIDENT Says His Call on Madriz Is Merely Pri . vate Millions of Graft May ; Be Restored. ' . ' Managua, Nicarugua, Dec. 28 Rear Admiral , William Wirt Kimball, in command of the American warships at Corlnto, accompanied by George T. Weltxel, secretary of the American legation at Panama, and two naval aides, arrived at Managua yesterday to pay an unofficial call upon President Madriz. A great crowd gathered at -the station and gave them a cordial greeting, after which they drove to a hotel in the presidential carriage. Several American Hags were displayed and although there was no demonstra tion considerable excitement prevailed. . It is rumored about the city that the visit might mean the recognition of President Madriz by the United States. Admiral Kimball, however, was em phatic in his assertion that he called on the president only In his private capacity. He refused to permit the gorgeously uniformed aide, whom President Madriz sent, to ride on the box of the presidential carriage. Ernisto Martinez, the former finance minister, whose arrest was ordered on the charge . of misappropriation of public funds, has made his escape to ' Granada. Joaquin Pasos, Zelaya's son-in-law, is now under arrest on a similar charge, while Joaquin Navas, a ' millionaire from Lcen, also Is in the tiniiria tt iYa Authorities. Ha ill charged with obtaining 130,000 of the publlo money from Zelaya for the sur render of the hide concession, which was Improperly granted him. The arrest of other men who' have been enriched at the expense of the country Is imminent. The belief is general that there will be a restitution of millions by the large number of person who have been permitted by the former govern ment to enjoy largo gains illegally through concessions to which they were not entitled, and in other ways. This may mean that the Imposition of a general tax will be avoided. The financial condition of the present gov ernment Is such that it has been un able to obtain credit for the purchase of Hour to provision the army. tude. New York, Dec. 28. With the re sumption of Mury Brokaw's case against W. Gould Brokaw, there was a promise of the introduction of more letters from the defendant, such as yesterday proved an evident source of embarrassment to Brokaw. ; In this correspondence reproaches, threat, accusations and expressions of affec tion were curiously Intermingled. , The defendunt was noticeably worried by the production of telegraphic messages which showed that he permitted serv ants to keep Mrs. Brokaw under es pionage. , .. ; He explains these by declaring his proceedure was inspired by solicitude for his wife's health. t Why They Broke the Door. Brokaw was questioned sharply about breaking down the door of his wife's bed room In her Great Neck home. It was Secretary Byfour who forced door, Brokaw testified. Before resorting to force, they rnpped repeat edly; without eliciting a response, and the husband feared something had happened to Mrs. Brokaw. Then came another letter, written by him to Mrs. Blair, Mrs. Brokaw's mother, In August,. 1908. Brokaw identified It. One portion read: "Some man u behind her, who Is ill advising her regarding me t" get rid of me. Well, when we are divorced, he cun have her." ' Brokaw denied that he ever took his wife to physician, to have her ex amined because he suspected her tak ing drugs. He had Mrs. Brokaw go to the doctor, he declared, that she might be examined for nervousness. Brokaw yesterday declared that his present decision was final. Tiro kaw scrutinized telegrams ' which have figured conspicuously in the trial. He said that his many tele graphic queries concerning his wife's doings were prompted only by solid tude for her health and not by sus plclons. 1 Asked If he had ever employed s detective to shadow Mrs. Brokaw he resiled-.4" ". "Tr. 7 '-. '.. '" ." "I never did. I haven't paid any bills for detective work since before my marriage." Counsel for Mrs. Brokaw Inquired why certain persons had not been subpoenaed as witnesses for the de fense, especially Brokaw's private sec retary, Ryford, for a long time Bro kaw's confidential man. Brokaw re plied that Byford had only returned from Europe last Friday. "Did you ever know of Mr. Byford sending telegrams to butlers and ser vants inquiring about Mrs. Brokaw's movements without your knowledge or any secretary who did?" asked Mr. Baldwin. "Oh, he may have wired to ask what was going In In the house," an swered the wjtness. "Then we are to understand that your secretary inquired of the ser vants and In that way found out about Mrs. Brokaw's movements?" "Well, It . was not done with the purpose of spying on Mrs. Brokaw. It was to find out what was going on In the house." v "H" wanted to Inquire about Mrs. Brokaw's health?" "Yes." ' '"He was very fond of Mrs. Rro- "Yes, I think he was." -. ! ' . miucFfi ZEUItTIIIlS Deposed Nicaragua"- President Tells His Troubles to Asso ciated Press, oniHis Ar- . rival in Mexico. SAYS AN ENEMY OF HIS HAD SENT FALSE STORIES No One Else, He Says, Would Have Act ed Differently In the Matter o( Execution of Cannon and Grace. New York Herald and The Gazette-News. "SECRET SPRINGS HAVE NO PLACE IN THESE SCALES" KILLS HIS WIFE coins SUICIDE Seriously Injures Mother-ln-Law Ma con Man, Sobering up, Be comes Maniac. DF Freight Traffic Expert, High Reading Official, Becomes Violent and Is Locked up. Teachers Meet in St. Louis, St. Louis, Mo., Dec. 28. 8t Louis is crowded, with hundreds of school teachers who have gathered here from all parts of Missouri for the an nual convention of their state associa tion. The convention had Its formal opening today and the sessions will continue over Wednesday and Thurs day. A number of educators of na tlonal prominence will address the gathering. Commercial travelers' Congress. Ban Francisco, CaL, Dec. IS. The Commercial Travelers' congress, for which preparations have been mak Ing for several months, convened in Fan Francisco today for' a two days , sfBslon, .The ol.Jct of the gathering ..is to discuss methods that will create a f'. Unif of f '.ii rilon nmong com r I i n t i.i- t l he country. 'i - : , ' . t ! ' V C !t "t Philadelphia, Dec. IB.Bernard H, vtnll. second vice president of the Phllttdelohla and Reading railway, became violently Insane in ws onice today, and after a struggle was re moved to a hospital for tne insane. Ball was considered one or, tne greatest freight traffic experts In the United States. He . rose irom in" ranks to his high position with the Reading. . MAN WHO SHOT 1118 MOTHER IS HOLDING POSSE AT BAY HE HITS MAM 10 FIGHT A DUEL ft r-r- Nicaraguan Exila Sends Peppery Tele gram to the Man Who Exiled Him. , Macon, Ga., Doc. 28. Despondent and in an ugly mood, following ex endive Intoxication, Edward B. Al ford last nlht shot and InstanUy kill ed his wife, seriously Injured his mother-in-law, Mrs. Martha Exum. then turned the pistol on himself, fir ing one bullet Into his right temple and another Into his right lung, in flicting Injuries which will result In his death. Attracted to tho place by nve suc cessive shots. Officer R. L. Thomas would huva also fallen victim before Alford's gun except for the fact that all five cartridges had been previously fired. As the officer walked up the bank to the place where the bodies luy beside a fence, Alford, prostrate upon the ground anl groaning with puln, turned and snapped hl revolver in the pollcemun s race. : At the Macon hospital at midnight the surgeons stated that Mrs. Exum would recover. She was shot through the fleshy part of the left arm and through the neck. Airord was an employe of the Mas see Felton company and was a steady workmun. He was under tne innu ence of liquor for several days re cently, but had become sober. Two months ago he attempted suicide by taking morphine. Several years ago he also attempted to take his own iuv In a like manner. After abusing his wire ana ner mothor last night he drew his pistol and stated to them h was going to kill them and hlmsoir. Tnoy neo from the house. He followed and fired upon Mrs. Exum, shooting her as she ran. The wife ran toward her husband after he had shot her moth er. He fired upon her and then turn ed his gun upon himself. The hus band fell across the body of his wife and In this position an officer found the three prostrate forma A 14 years old daughter, the only child, was ab sent from home when the tragedy oc curred. - STEAMER WAS ON FIRE; Washington, Dec. I. Dr. Mareone Velnxquex, now In Washington, has wired former President Zelnya nt Mex ico City, reciting tha lattrr'a shameless career In Nicaragua and Inviting him to the border line of the I'nlted States to fight a duel. , Veluxquet was exiled .y Zelava nine years ago. In his telegram to Zclaya, Velnxnez taunts the deposed president with in ability to exhibit himself after an "atrocious reign and ominous down fall." Velnzques, in. his dispatch to Zelayn, points with pride to the fact that Zelaya's "relatives and accom plices are rapidly dropping Into Jul), where you should have lieen long ago." I Killing Followed Quarrel aooui Money, and IM woman win Probably Die. Memphis, Deo, 2 J. James F. Roach, who shot and probably fatally wounded his mother, Mrs. name n ler, following a quarrel over money matters, this morning held a sheriff s posse at buy. hiding, well armed, In a little dwelling house. 1 - . Another Ilrokrn Rail Accident. Camden, N. J. Dec. IS. Fifteen per sons were Injured by the overturning of two passenger coaches on the West Jersey Seashore railroad, near Penn's Grove, today. The accident was due to a broken rail. PASSENGERS KNEV IT HOT Flames in Celtic's Hold from Wednes day Until Yesterday, When She , Reached Port THE WEATHER: 1 ftiVnHt until S r. m. Wednesday r,.r Axhuvllls end vicinity! Continued fair weather tonight and Wednesday. Liverpool. Dec. 88. Fire was dls covered In the hold of the White Star liner Celtic Wednesday, when the ves sel was four days out from New YorK. vhn tha liner arrived here yester day the fire was still burning, but Its oreseme was unnnown v . Th. flames started In hold No. I filled with cotton bales. Above deck there was no evidence of anything un usual. The hold had been flooded, Tho domuge Is undetermined. CARNEGIE SLIPS DOWN - ON THEIGYPAVEMENT Injured Left Knee, and Could not At tend Dinner Party Feels Better Today. LOOKS FAVORABLE FOR 11. & E.T. ROAD It Is Reported That Early Completion of Line to Galax May Be . Expected. Interesting to tho people of Ashe vllle and the north Kuncombe section Is the report current here that an early completion of the Ashevllle & Kast Tennessee roiiroud from W'euver vllle on to the forks of Ivy and thence through to Galax to connect with the C. C. & O. may be expected. The report has it that capitalize In New York have Interested themselves In the A. & K. T., and are ready to fur nish the necessury money to complete the road. While this rumor could not he ver ified, K. 8. llowland of the A. & R. T. when seen by a Gaxetle-News report er today, stated that everything seem ed very favorable for an early com pletion of' the road; that In fact It was a big project and a took consid erable time to work out the details and get everything In shape, but that now everything, excepting the weath er, looked very favorable to an early completion of the extension. Within the past month several men have been looking over the pro poaed route and several borings, etc., have been made preparatory to sub mitting bids for the construction of the railroad. WEIGH FOOTBALL ' IN THLBALAHCES Future of the Game In America Will Be 5 Decided by Intercollegiate Association. New York, Dec. 18. Andrew Car negie, who suffered a bud fall on the Icy pavement, while walking through Central park yesterday. Is much Im proved this morning. In the fall his left knee was injured. Mr. Carnegie slipped on an Icy spot while walking around the reservoir In Central park. He wss unable to be present at a dinner at his home which he gave to Governor llugnes, presi dent Hutler of Columbia university an dothers. Jersey Towns Vote on Consolidation. Sew York, Dec.- S8. Folowlng an agitation extending over a period of several years, a half doxen of the flourishing towns lying on the New Jersey side of the Hudson opposite the upper end of Manhattan are en gaged In a special election today to decide upon the adoption or rejection of a plan to consolidate. The list In cludes the towns of West Hoboken. Guttenberg. Union Hill and West New York, and the townships of West Her gen and Weehawken. If the plan goes through. Instead of six separate and distinct towns, the state of New Jersey will be furnished with a city of approximately 150,009 population Ethel Roosevelt a Bridesmaid. New York, Dec. 18. Miss Ethel Roosevelt acted as bridesmaid at the wedding of her cousin. Miss Christine Kean Roosevelt, whose marriage to Lieut James Etter Bhellsy, of the United States army, took place today in the Church of Zlon and St. Timo thy. The bride la well known In so eiety In New York and In Wanning ton. where she spent much time dur Ing the Inst sdminlHfrfl (Ion. nt only st the White ilfouse, but with her uncle, Senator Kean of New Jersey, LIVES OF 7 ARE LOSTJN FLAMES Three Other Persons Were Perhaps Fatally Injured All of the Victims Foreigners. Dubois. Pa., Dec. it. Seven chil dren, ranging In age from two to twelve years, were burned to death and three persons perhaps fatally In jured late last night, when a fire fol lowed by the explosion or powaer ae- stroyed the home of Steven nronosky, a miner, at Sykesvllle, Pa. All the victims were foreigners. PHILIP GRIFFITH NOMIXATKO A8 1cAHMON1'8 KllXKShUK New York, Dec. 28. Tho future of American football will be shaped at the meeting of the Intercollegiate Athletic BBSOciutlon of the United States, which begun Its sessions today. The attitude of the leading colleges throughout the country Is already shown by a cunvuss. Fifty Institutions favor retention of the rules of the gume, with such changes as would eliminate muss or other pluya of unusual danger to life or limb. The Institutions of the opln Ion that the rules of play are satisfac tory, perhupH, In minor details, but that plays of nn unusually dangerous churucter to life and limb should be eliminated, number seven. 8eventeen believe that the game should be su perseded by Rugby or by association. sin ker," the English call It. Captain Palmer K. Pierce, U. 8. A., president of the association, called the meeting to order nnd delivered an ucl'lnws reviewing the work of the association during the past year. Cap tain Pierce was followed by several other speakers of prominence. Chan cellor James R. Day of Syracuse unl verslty spoke on the functions of ath letics In college life, and D. A. Her gent, representing Harvard university, delivered an address on "Competition In College Athletics." Addresses by Dr. J. 11. McCurdy, of the Y. M. C. A. Training school of Bprtngfleld, Maj on "The Inter-relation of All Forms of College Athletics," and Prof. Thorn as 1'. Moran of Purdue university, on oCurtesy and Sportsmanship In In tercolleglate Athletics," occupied the remainder of the forenoon. After luncheon the delegates reas semblvd to take up the real work of the meeting, with the Ind'catlons that the sessions would run over tomor row before final adjournment would be reached. The discussion of . the football rules will come with the elec tion of a rules committee, the mem bers of which sit with the old com mittee to formulate the code. In structlons will undoubtedly be given to this committee and these Instruc tions will represent ths views of the association on the game and the changes It will hold to be necessary for the elimination, so far as possible, of undue roughness and serious ao- cldents, , ' He U RepublU siih' Candidlaie, to Op poNO C. C, Dickinson, Democrat. Duller, Mo., Dec. 18. Philip S. E. Griffith of Oreenfleld. was nominated today by tha republicans of the sixth Missouri district, as a candidate to succeed the late Congressman De Armond. - December IS the democrats noml listed C. C Dickinson. TWO GFXlUiIAX ARE BHOT, PROBABLY FATA Mi Y WOl'N!KI Tliey Were Attempting to Fore An KntraiM-n to tin Home or ix Ingtoii, (ia., Man. Lexington, Oa., Dec. 18. -While at tempting to force an entrance to the home of C, M. Donald last night, Jim Rm Ison and Hurley Pmlth were shot and probably futully wounded. Santa Lucrecla, Mexico, Dee. 18. The private car on which former President Zelayn la proceeding to Mexico city passed here today. Zelay Is accompanied by a number of his political asHoclates. . Including the former secretary or war, .Members or , the party show considerable nervous- ; ness. . . - They made uncomplimentary , re marks about the American consul and vice consul at Man.igua, Just before nklng train the party requested an In- t r,..1iwttlr,n in fttiA i ,arl...n if . Ha I liui Crus, C. Ludlow Livingston. The political situation was not dls-' cussed. Livingston having received no instructions from Washington. Salina Crus, Mexico. Dec. 18. De linking that the attitude of Secretary Knox toward him could not fall to be disapproved by all folr minded people-: and that he believed the secretary 1 udgment was warped by false reports of conditions In Nicaragua, made by an American vice-consul at Managua,' lui'imi 1 irBiiiui, .w Lit. . , tv.a ejvimj wm endeavored In an Interview here to Justify his treatment of the Americana. Cannon and Oroce as an act whlcb anyone In ' his position would have committed.; , '.,....' . - Zclaya debarked from the Mexican gunboat General Guerrero yesterday afternoon and left lost night for Mex ico City In a private cur Attorned to , tne regular passenger train ape in mat Will Spend fiix Months In Mexico. "I am going to Mexico City to re main for six months," ha said. "It the climate agrees with mu I win sena or go for my family. If it does not agree with me I will go to some place In Europe. I am going to Mexico City to thnnk President Dlai and the Mex irnn oiHclals for their kindness to me." Zeutya was accompanied on his trip hither by Luis A. Cousin, his former secretary of war; Robert C. Bowe, his secretary nnu lurmur ,iciv imiiuwu, several friends. 7-la)a to the AiMoriatcd Press. To a representative of Ths Asso ciated Press whom he received on board the gunboat, Zelaya discussed the killing of Cannon and Oroce, and the note of Secretary Knox: "Cannon and Oroce," Zelaya de clared, "were engaged by the conser vative party and were brought from Onntemala by that party which was working hand In hand with Cabrerra, As they never had any ground for ac cusing me of Infringement of the treaty adopted by the Central Ameri can republics, they attempted to cre ate a cause and began trying to Insti gate a mutiny and armed rebellion, In order to force the United Stales gov ernment to Intervene. "As regards Cannon and Oroce, no Continued on Page Tour. RFJFCTF.D 8UrmH MURDERS MAN WHO WEDDED THE GIRL Tragedy Occurred Juei After the Mar rlage. In a Remote Oeor. -gla Community. Strickland, Oa., Dec. 18. A few mln utes after he had been married to Miss Rose Butler, Oabrlel Len. ta young farmer, was shot and almost Instantly killed by Joe Jackson, a rejected suitor of the bride near Lynn yeeter day. ' The scene of the killing Is In a re mote section of this county and none of the particulars ane known. A sheriff's possee with bloodhound Is pursuing Jackson. . . . Tunnel Foreman Killed. Lynchburg. Vs., Dec. 18. George T. Kinney. forinan of a tunnel construe lion company, wss killed today by th crane falling UIop I OF HOUSE MINORITY Clark Says They Will Fight Ship Sub- sidy and Oppose Appro prlations. Washington, Dec. 18. 'The pro gram of the democrats in the house this session Is to keep down the amount of appropriations bills and vote against ship subsidy," say the minority leader, Champ ClarL of Mis souri. "The house leaden are rushing ev erything to get appropriation meas ures through, and that subject and the ship subsidy proposition seem to be about the only two things to be taken up. "We are opposed to a ship subsidy bill. . We favor a river and harbor bill. I look for the adjournment of congress In April, certainly by May." WOMAN'S BS3Y IS FGUXD; POLICE SEARCH FC3 Man Had Tried to Enter Her Home, and Was Driven Wway by Uer With a Gun. Denver, Dee. 18. The body of M Belle Rup, wife of a railroad ploye, was found In the Platto r: today. The head was crushe.l. The police are searching f r fro, who tried to force bin Mrs. Rup's houe, but m i i, the shot at him. V to cull the police t miiiln nllve.
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