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VOL. XIV. Nb. 279. ASHEVILLE, N. C, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, DE EMBER 31, 1909. Jo PER COPY PASSEHGEHS SCHOONER DAVIS PALMER "KlllCffl" NIECE OF PRESIDENT TAFT, WW POSillOOS LIES IN 42 FEET OF WA TER WHO WEDDED YESTERDA V mm TAKES HIS TOLL M K SITE That Many Enumerators Will Fearful Wreck of Row'iand Road Today, Which Ha Cost Several Lives. ANOTHER FATAL ACCIDENT 1 . , : - , . " ON THE NEW YORK CENTRAL Latter Wat a Collision; in Former, Cars Jumped from' Track, and the Cause Is not Known. Trenton, Mo., Dec 31. The Chica go Rock V Island ; Paclllc : passenger train, No. 3, a, , California special which left Chicago at 9 o'clock last night for California points, went into a ditch tliree miles north of Trenton this morning. The engine and all cars turned over. '. .. Trenton, Mo., Dec. 31. Five per sons are known to be killed, and nine Injured In a Rock Island wreck. Three'cars were bui ne&t The cause of accident Is not known. The train was running at a high Bpeed. The heavy engine jumped the track, the cars following all left the track, and the Pullman cars broke away, and caught flrei .. .The crash came without warning and t)Ve passengers were unable to ex tricate themselves. It-'. Is', believed most , of those In the blazing Pull man's were burned to death. " The scene of the wreck Is In the country. . Neither apparatus to fight the flames, por aid for the Injured, wag ,at nana, ine frrouno: w cam- ered with snow and Ice, causing suf fering to passengers, and lnterferred wiin rescuers. - -f : ' A late message Is to the effect that the twelve occupants of the tourist sleeping car were burned to death. Two Unidentified Women's Bodies. Topeka, Kans., Dec. 31. General Superintendent Smally reports that the bodies of two unidentified women have been taken from under the Pull man car at tho Trenton wreck; The .body of the fireman has been recov ered. SI'EXCEU THANK, TIIK I1AXKKH, KILLKl) ON N. V. CKXTRAI, Tliret; Others IteHrted killed, and Several Were froltubly Fatally ."..''. . Injured. New York, Dec, 31. Spencer Trask, the New York banker, was killed In a rear-end collision on the New York Central, at Croton, today. A southbound freight ran Into a Mon treal express, telescoping the last sleeper of the express. Several other passengers were Injured. Three other passengers are report ed killed. Several persons were In jured, probably fatally. The victims were In a rear sleeper of the Mon treal express, which had been halted by signal, when the freight crashed Into It, telescoping the sleeper. ' HELD IS II U Seized Along With Still and Other Things 'She Aided by Drinking V, the Slop. TVevehua Agent It. B. Sams today received notification of the destruc tion of ait illicit distillery In Franklin county, Va., by Deputy Collector Oray and the capture of a large amount of collateral property. ., , , Among the things captured along with the distillery were two lots of "moonshine" whiskey, two wagons and teams and a yoke of oxen and a cow. Asked why the cow was captured Rev enue Agent Bams replied: "She was aiding and abetting In the operation of the dlstllleryhy drinking the still lop." "" " " , " ... THE WEATHER: Forecast until S p. m.,. Saturday, for Asheville and vicinity: Fair to rdghl; Huturdny Increasing cloudiness: le. i :. 'y warmer. . ' p- - , v , , V , A V," : , ' 1.1 t ; THE . DAVIS PALMER. Wreck Discovered in Broad Sound by Captain of Steam ship Belfast. Boston, Dec. .11. All doubt us to the fate of the five masted schooner tht DhvIm Palmer and her. captain, Leroy McKown, and crew or eleven mm, has been Ret at rest. The Bchooner lies In Jlrixtd Sound on her side and at low tide the live masts project ubove the water about IS feet. She Is two and a half mili s from the shore and In 'l feet of water. The Bea.' were smooth ami were swept by glames for miles from tugs that cruis ed about the wreck, but no bodies were seen. , Captain l-'rank Hrown of the steam ship Belfast, of the Kastern Stramship company, when entering the harbor from Winlerport, Me., saw the live masts protruding from the water near Commission! r's Ledge, and brought the news to the city. There aro two theories as among sea-faring men as to the cause of the wrut k . one is that the Davis Palmer In rounding Into the harbor was driven upon the outer course and then drifted to where sho' lies, and the other is that she was at anchor, and, drawing JQ, feeta.otjvater BoUu.4L.'lbVt"V.kt until urn sank. TMENT THE TOBACCO TRUST The Attorney General Is of the Opinion That the Scope of the Proseciion Should Be Broadened. Washington, Dec. 31. In a printed brief of 2B8 'pages Attorney (leneral WickcrMham and hix xpccial nxwlBlunt, J. C. Iteynolds, baa presented to the Supremo court the case of the govern ment in the famous tobacco trust cases, which will lie argued next week In that court. The attorney general takes the posl tlon that these findings, sweeping an they seem to have been, were not bread enough and auks the St. r n- court to extend them as to so widen their scope a to take In the foreign companies and some individuals who wire relieved from the operation of the verdict. After showing that In lSflO competi tion was free the various common are traced In the document and fact are giren to :how that the combina tion has grown until Its combined bm ets amount to 400,00o,000. It la as serted that the combination manufao tures all of the cigarettes for export and almost three-fourths of the smok ing tobacco and cigarettes for domes tic sale, more than three-fourths of the plug and twlnt and Hue cut tobacco and almost all of the snuff and cigars that are made. It Is asserted that the "defendant have persistently exer cised duress, have practiced wicked nnd unfair methods, and used their great powcf In oppressive was. Further, It Is asserted that they have hern actuated by. a'nxed purpose to destroy cometltion and obtain mon opolies "Competitors have gradually disappeared and the combination now strongly entrenched, unduly restricts tho business or those In tho trade and mver.ta others from entering." Coming to speclllc Instances relative. to the operations or tne irusi, declared ihut substantially all estab lished Jobber In New Kngianu were Induced to throw out Independent pro. ducts, as were those of Philadelphia. New York and many other spoeiilcd places. Prospers Bright for 1010. New York, Dec 31. Despatches to Dun's Review Indicate a temporary lull In trade activity, owing to the .i. rnstontary with this sea son, and the recent storm lnterferred with ths distribution of merchandise; but In every direction prospects for 1910 exceedingly bright. Mother of Four Huriicd to Death. Rattle Creek, Mich.. Dec. II. Mrs. Chas. Spenor. the mother children, was found burned to death today, after nre had destroyed n hed nt the rear of her home, i , CAPTj ItBOY rvlf KOWT E ENT Mr. Foster, Well Known Here, Resigns Position With the Norfolk and Southern. Norfolk, Yn., Die, 31. The Norfolk K Southern railway toduy made Vir gin Walker superintendent of lln Pamlico,' Knlclch ami Hcniifort div'- Binim, w'th hendiiunrters at Newhern, N. C 1'leo K. I. Koster, resigned,' i i m i 1 Imorotant Matters Transacted, and Hope Held Out of Early Start in Work. ' The stockholders and directors of the South Atlantic .Trans-continental railroad held a meeting lu re today ut which important business matters were transacted which tend to show that construction work will soon be lirRim. A resolution was passed au thorizing (he printing in French and KngllKh or t.'U.Ouo.OOU first mortgage bonds of tho Transcontinental, which it Is said bankers .In France have ar ranged to ilnnt. Another Important matter wns the election of II. R. Nelk er.on of New York as a vice president of the railroad and A. It. Henry of New York us assistant secretary. Tlvse two nun aro said to be repre sentative of McArthur Hros. con tractors, who. It is said, have tho con tract for building the Transcontinental road. The tloctioir of C. J. Harris of Itlllsboro and-Dr. K. It. Olenn or Asbelle as members of ihe board of directors was confirmed. Col. Jones is of tho opinion that early In the spring actual construc tion work will be begun; thut while there has s-en some technicality which has rendered Illegal some of tlie calls for elections In eastern counties, new elections have been called and ho has great hopes of the bonds being voted soon. Regarding the route of the road through Hun combe county, ol. Jones stated that li uns not vet settled: that It now seems possible that a settlement of III differences between the Transconti nental and the Appalachian Inlerur ban could be made, and the road built as originally planned. In case, how ever, that the differences could not I- settled, engineers would decide lllllkll it noile and nil election will be railed ill lllincombe. Following Is the statement . lasued today by Col.. Jones, president of the Transcontinental: . "The South Atlantic Trans-onllnen' lal railroad stockholders anil direc tors met here this morning, and con. Ilrnied the bond Issue to tho French bank for construction money and or deted mortgages and bonds prluted In French and Knglish, mid esrly In th .nf.r work will be Marled. Ono delav has been th i Interurban matter, which seems favorable to settlement. Other wise a new bond Issue will be, called.' w-ll.Ii DIYIDK I'AOI IC KM--.KT. MAKIMi TWO ORGANIZATIONS will lie Known as Hie Asiatic J'M'I nod Ihe other us the I'aclllc ct. irton. Dee. It. On .account nt the if rosing Importance of Amerl ,.n Interests In the far est and the difficulty of admlnlslrstlon the whole net ns now constituted, the navy de- partment has decided to divide the I'aclllc Meet inio iwo sepsrsm h-, ... lu, known as the Asiatic Beet and the rnclfle fleet. WALKER I SUPERINTEND Several Persons Are Dying in Pittsburg and Section of Pennsylvania irotn Ef-; fee's of Blizzard. ORANGE T ft EES jBjlljL VE D . . TO HiVE tSTAPEO FREEZE - I ' ' '"-. " :' - -4 . - Asheville Weather, Moderated Rapidly This Morning White Forecast Is ' for Warmer Tomorrow Other Sections. riltsliiirg, I'A., 'te'.- .31. "King Acni" Imik H large loll In Petumylva nlii IwNt niglil. several imyhoiin dying fn.ni (lie cffeclN of tilt; bllixard, wlUiii swept Hie Alleglittiiy ' iiiouittaln and Hie Ohio valley. . ,:?'. It Ik (ieHIng WwriiHr. Washington, Der. -r 31. The :. ex treme cold spell whkiv gripped nlmiiHt the entire, east t n south Is on the verge of ,U-Ing brikiii, according to the government foreeant. liy tonight the teuiiM-ralure will I (pive .-'greatly moderated. ''"Warmer ' tonight and Saturday" Is the gefiural ''prediction for the two seetienH.J The cold wave lit 'the. south con tinues today. . In Florida', the temper ature was below frorslng this morn ing, but the foi-eennter . predicted' I moderation '.before night. Tim Ornugin Hafc. .Louisville, Ky., Dim-. 31. The cold wave is central today .liver Florida, with Tampa showing V temperature of 2K degrees, and Jacksonville 2 8. It In believed that no damage, has been done to the orange trees, as nap is low In the trees.' Warmer weather fs promised for Florida tomorrow. the north and the west even .Mictions of the . soutl south ore (till held firm in the grip of the stortit king Asheville lody.v cjjmJitii Jt'ji W,K tlpv,ve(the. moderated rapidly sljter daybreak, the nun cnnin up bright and cheerful and ut 11 o'clock tno kiosk on the square indicated u maximum temperature of 3ft with continued rising temperature. The lowest the mercury fell last night was seven degrees above r.ero, four degrees better than was shown yi- terday. In Wilmington the minimum temperature Was given ut IK above, at'kHonvilht I!, Montgomery '.', Meridian 30. Portland, ,. was the coldeat place In tho country last night with u minimum temperature of two degrees below sero. The weather bureau today gives out the pleasing Information that It will be decidedly warmer here tomorrow with increasing cloudiness. In re erring to general conditions during the past 24 hours the bureau says: An area of high barometric prcs- ure has uuvanceit irom me muiuie Mississippi valley ,to Hie Florida peninsula, with freeslng temperature reported southward to southern Flor- dn. Fair, cold wenther is now gen eral throughout easterrT districts, with the exception of the lower lake re gion, where light snow continues. A storm of some Intensity lias ap peared over northern .Montana anil n conaequenco of Its prnltahlo east ward progress the temperature will rise decidedly In this vicinity. Fair weather will continue tonicht, follow- d by Increasing cloudiness Saturday. U. T LINDIjKY. observer. JAiL TERMS SHORTENED IN SHIPPETALS. CASES The Tennesseeans Will Get Usual Com mutation Allowed for Good - Behavior. Washington, Dee. SI. Although s Utile lain, the Supreme court of tne United States has made a Christmas present to the Tennesseaiis confined In the Jail of the District of Columbia on a charge of contempt of that court. In consultation today the court decided that the men were en- tilled to the five days a. month com mutation allowed for good Irtdiavlor under Ihn codo of the District. This in revolt In reducing the terms of the two months' prisoners to the ex tent of ten days, and will Insure their freedom next Tucsduy. January . The three month' men will each re- celve a reduction or la nays, termi nating their sentences on the nrst or February. The men who will la lib erated on Tuesday are Jeremiah Olb the deputy sheriff; Henry Pd- relt end Richard Mayso. Sheriff KhliMi. Luther Williams and Nick tin- Inn. the 88 days men, will reo,ulr l to continue In- prison until the first of February. , ' I lUcon Presents Cretlenllals. Paris. Dec. II. Robert Bacon former secretary of state, who suc ceeds Henry White ns United States ambassador to Franoe, presented his credentials to Tresldont Kallleres this afU'rnoon. ..... r I' rr n ' xxn,-'. ' ' .y.r-' " JJ WIIKN Ooorge 1Ioi;k Snnwden, now a millionaire lumberman of Senttle, wax In Yale he U;id as chnm Wulhridgc Tint, the brother of Mlns lxuise Wnltirldg.. Taft. lie thus became acipiiiinti d with the young lady, who Is the president's home at mi. nil, in lime. Tli.it is bow ding was a feature, began. I'ri;mii:m' tait hick in Washington. WiislilUKton. lac. .11. Vresident Taft returned to 'Washington at H o'clock Ibis morning Irom New York, where he went to attend the wed ding of bis niece. Miss Louise Taft. lie traveled In a private car attached to the second section of Ihe regular midnluht train from New York. Also aboard Ihe train were Vice l'rislihiit and Mrs. Sherman, J. I'lerpont Mor gan ami l'ostmasler (iem ril I litchcock. . Mqdriz Government Needs Money Badly A Loan Considered Madriz People Expect Zelaya to Attack Managua Prisoners Being Fed from U. S. S. Prai rieStatus of New Regime. Washington, Dec. j. Heports ro'i cerning the pressing need for th. Madris government to obtain a loan have been received In Washiimton. The state department itself is In re ceipt of a dlsp. itch from Vli c t'oiisul Caldera stating that a loan is being given cnnxlilcrnllon by the Xicuragunn government. Tlie vice consul adds that military preparations continue to be made In .Managua, Indicallug the evident belle!' on tin- mrt of Madrlx and his follower that General Ks trada will alte:npt. In the immediate future, to rapture the city. Dispntchca from Coinnmndcr Shit ley at lilpcllNds continue In portrny strenuous ellorts heiug put forlh to relieve the suffering or the captured army of .elnvauK. one dispatch slat ed that IDIIU loaves of bread are link ed flatly on the rolled States cruiser Prairl" to feed prisoners, on account of unfavorable weather lit ions WITNESS TELLS STORIES OF Ugly Facts Brought Out in Investigation of the City Prison in Atlanta. Atlanta. Dec. 31. Stories of inhu man cruelly to" prisoners were ioiu today to the committee Investigating charges against the management of the elly prison, or stockade, llcrschel Ivy, a former guard, swore that Mow Johnson, a negro, -told Superintend ent Vlnelng Hint be was too III b work. Vlnelng Is said to have ordered him whipped. After the whipping tin nemo collapsed and was seiil lo a hospital, whore he died a week Inter. The witness saiil he saw a young whlto girl, lliihy tlaitber, chained to tlie wall by her hands until she ratal ed. Witness said she was left there unconscious SO minutes. She went Into convulsions snd frothed at the mouth. Whlto women, he declared, were fed from scraps. Distillers and To Test the Liquor Law Nushvllle, Dec. St. Distillers and brewers must close down their plants st midnight tonight, as at that lime tlie new Tennesss law forh'ddlng the -S--' ill- fretpieiulv visiting the Tuft tlie story, of which yesterday's wed difficulty has been encountered lauding lied t'ross stores sent In to the liliiellehls from Panama, aboard Prairie. Will Nol lie Itccogiilxcd nt ITesent. The stale department will refrain for the present from recognising the Madrlx government. Should Henor Lois 'ores, now In Washington, be di -signaled hy Madrlx as special en voy lo ihe I'nlted States, as Is re ported lo he tlie plan, it Is under stood h" w'll be received informally exiully In the same capacity as that lienor Salvador Caslrlllo, representa tive of Kslrada, is received as the agent of a faction, Consul Ollvarles left Washington fast night for Mana gua, to take charge or the diplomatic situation there. Ilo is expected to ar rive at Sallna Crux, on the southern const oi Mexico, January 7, and will be taken lo Corinto on hoard a naval vessel. HALF MILLION DOLLARS FIRE LOSSJ NEW YORK Office of American Express Company Destroyed and Many Parcels Go up in Smoke. New York, Dec. 31. Valuable ex prefs parcels in large number went up in smoke today. In a lire that do iryed the American Express com pany's oHlee. near the llrand Central stuliou. causing a Ions estimated at ."iiin.oii'i. N OWKIt TO llt'Y PKAUVS 4IUTIC KTKAMKK IWUNED Treasury licpnrlinenl Holds on to Vevtcl In W hich Polar Journey Was Made. Washington. Ice. SI, An offer to puichnsc the steamer Roosevelt. In which Commander, Peary mada his Instttrip to the Arctic! regions, pre p.trnlory lo his dash lo the north pole, bar b"cii declined by the treasury de partment. Brewers Are manufacture of Intoxicating ' bever isges In this state becomes effective, The whiskey manufscturers say the law will be tested In the courts. Be Appointed for Taking the Census 68,000 In All to Be Chosen. EXAMINATION OR "TEST , TO BE GIVEN FEBRUARY, 5 Applications Must Be Filed by January 25 Scarcity of Applicants in Cities Indi caieu. I Special to The, inzcttc-Xews. V ' '. Washington, D. C, Dec. 3. Fifteen, "H' hundred census enumerators are to 1 -' employed for the taking of the census lln North Carolina, nnd those who de sire these positions must have thslr applications eiv tile with the super visors in the respective congressional districts by January 25. Only resi dents or congressional districts In which application Is made will bo chosen. The examination or "test" for enumerators will be held Febru ary 5th. Those applicants who give notice of their candidacy prior to. January 25 will receive cards Irom tlie supervisors Informing them of tho dnte of (he "test." Trouble is being encountered in ob taining applicants In Ihe cities, al though such conditions are not antic ipated In rural communities. There, nre HH.oan enumerators lo lie chosen. They wll begin their count of the peo ple of the nation next April. The em. Idoyment of enumerators will last lor two or tnren weeks. Need Not Fear "Test." Census Director Durand emphati cally states that persons desiring to hold such positions should not stand . In fear of Ihe "test" to be ma do. Any person of average public-school edu- manii it nu cuu ruo pminiy anu reas onably fast m go through the "test" with "colors i'ving." lu XacC the i "test" Is Intended simply to help the supervisors pick suitable persons and ' to enable the director of the census to exercise Intelligently his power of ap proval of those whom the supervi sors designate for appointment ji. nui intuit' in? minis;. in ui auner a sample population schedule, by those who will make the count In the cities, or of both a sample population and agricultural schedule, by candl- " dates who will enumerate the coun try. To prepare the way and to Insure , every applicant being given a fair chance, the supervisors will send In ' advance to each snd every candidate a set of printed Instructions for Mllng In these sample schedules. "We consider that a very Imports nt point," said Actlnf Census Director Wllloughby today, "not only In treat ing these candidates fairly and giving them a chance to answer the questions . properly, but also as a means of educa tion of tho candidates who are after wards to be appointed. "They will study more thoroughly the Instructions for filling In these schedules If they realise their chances of appointment depend upon that study than If they were appointed first ' and had to do the studying after wards. , You will see, therefore, that this test Is not an appalling thing. It is not for the purpose of keeping people out of the places. It Is applied simply to ensble the director to ellml- . nato those who aro plainly Incompe tent, Any person of good Judgment . im iiiuiiihtji i uiiiuii'ii-OT 111,11 nii'-- tlon for the work requires some lit tle thinking power en easily paaa the test." Jobs Will IV Olrrn fly March. Hetween February 5 and February 22 the supervisors will go through the "test" papers, satisfy themselves as the qualifications of those who have ,, passed, and make their designation -or recommendations to the census di rector. The nest step will be the dl- rector's appreval, and then the super visors will Issue the commissions to the enumerators. Director Durstid expects to hsve th.e army of 67,000 or more enumerators picked, tested, designated, and com missioned hy the middle or latter part of March. From thsn on until April IS the supervisors will send the enu merators drculsrs and books of In structions, concerning the meaning of the schedule questions and the way the enumerators should writ tn tho answers obtained from the people of the country. It Is very probable that census special airents msy be assigned to cer tain supervisors' districts for the pur pose of meeting the enumerators per sonally and giving them additional In formation concerning th character of their duties. , ' Application forms, with compute directions concerning the method of preparing them, can be secured by writing at once to th supervisor named tn the list appended whose district (unbraces the place of resi dence of the applicant. North Carolina First district. Jer emiah C Meeklns, sr., Columbia. Tyr rell county; Second district, James M. Mewhoorne. Klnston, Denolr county; Third district. Henry F. Brown, Com fort, Jones county; Fourth dls'H. t. William C. Pesrson. Raleigh. V -- county: Fifth district. David H. T Wlnston-Balem. Forsvth c Hlxlh district. Irvln B. TurVf-r. V vllle, Columbus county; i Continued on rf " t-
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