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6 fe A n rl rl THE ASSOCIATED 1 JrJfcjrfw . . DISPATCHES LAST EDITION. . 4:00 P. XX. Wc tiler jrortrcaavi Rain; colder. mtwm ASHEVILLE, N. C. TUESDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 15, 1910. VOL. XV. NO. 6. Ie PIE COPY mil 1ST GATE Senator;SImmoti- o)$ Stale Offered a Place ohe Committee to. Make " . the Inquiry. PROVIDES SURVEY OF : FRENCH BROAD RIVER Hat Mr. Grant Been ; Breaking Into River and Harbor Pork Barell ? But Mud Creek Swamp Is Forgotten. Gazette-News Bureau, .4 Post Building, - Washington, Feb. 15. Senator Simmons has been ottered the appointment on the committee to Investigate the high Cost of living, but has not decided whether he will ac cept. It means he would have to give up his duties In the senate for most of the session. The river and harbor bill provides a survey for improvement of the French Broad river, for navigation. If Mr. Grant can get a navy yard located there, It may provide Jobs for the crowd at his heels. . ' , There have been no developments today with respect .to Tar Heel ap pointments. Those - Jnterested ' are awaiting with growing impatience the report of the inspectors who visited the western part of the state. NAVY TUG NINA It Now Feared tha Vessel, With Jjiirty-Two Men, Is at Bottom of Sea. ' .Washington, Feb. It. An atmos phere of gloom pervaded the navy department today when messages re ceived over night failed to disclose any word regarding the whereabeuts of the missing navy tug, Nina, with its human burden of thirty-two souls. Of ficials have completely lost heart at the' prospect of any of the men being alive. During the day naval officials be came satisfied the Nina did not pro ceed on her voyage any further north than Fenwlck Island light vessel, off the coast of Delaware, and orders accordingly were given to abandon search of the districts north of that territory. Vetwcls Called In, New York, Feb. 15. All govern ment vessels sent from the Brooklyn navy yard to search for the missing naval tug Nina have returned to port. Under orders from Washington, the hunt for the Nina In waters between Cap May and Block island was aban doned. ; SEVERE COLD ME IS EKPECTEDTHIS WEEK Weather Bureau Predicts -Cold Arising . in Rockies Will Reach Sea ' board Friday. Washington. Feb. 16. A general storm, followed by a cold wave which promises to be rather severe. Is the weather bureau's prediction for this week. The storm will appear over the Pacific states, cross the Rockies, jiloln states and central valleys during the middle days of the week ana reach the Atlantic seaboard by Friday. The cold wave will overspread the north Pactflo states today and reach the Atlantic seaboard by Friday or riday night. The cold weather of the latter part of the week probably will check ten dencles towards flood conditions In ja.-ts of the lake region and In the nountaln district of the middle Atlan tic and New England states, due to the extraordinary depth of snow In those districts. This afternoon the bureau says that decidedly colder went her la ex pected to follow the storm now mov ing rapidly eastward and which la due over the eastern states In the next St hours. Precipitation In rain and snow will mrak its coming in the eastern and southern states. Ths tempera ture Is expected to rise and then fall again, and severe winds will accom pany the dlstur'wnce. Btorm warnings are being dlsplsyed in the east gulf coast from Mobile to Tlorlda. Injured la Tires. new York, Fb. IS. Seven person were Injured. thi-- futility. In tw IS ST LL MISSING 1'r i'l n riu a V, fl t'l 1;IV. T t - mar!..) 1 v ) . . I y I u'i ' MARSH Bi oiithesth Vice President of the New York Cotton Exchange Explains Things to the House ; Committee. MARSH TAKES A FALL OUT , OF HERBERT KNOX SMITH Does not Think Commissioner of Cor porations Has Thrown Any ' Light on Subject of Hedging. Washington, Feb! 15. The method of delivery of cotton to fulfill con-1 tractual.: obligations, represented In the transactions of the cotton .ex change, was discussed at today's hear ing of the anti-option bill before the house committee on agriculture. Vice President Marsh of the New York Cot ton exchange, who continued on the stand, tried to make clear to the com mittee the exact nature of the trans actions on the. exchange. Says Smith noes Not Know HIh Own Mind. i . Flaying the report on cotton ex changes by Commissioner Smith, Marsh declared the members of the cotton exchange, although derided and scoffed at and called "malefactors," were sensible of their obligation to producers and were free, merchants and free citizens. He said the com missioner of corporations "does not even know his own mind, does not ven stand by his own guns. He talks constantly in his report about spot cotton, when he means middling cot ton. He makes an astounding misuse of the terms:"- :-,:'' ; , "The. re - Isn't . a word that ' Herbert Kipx Smith says in his report on cot ton exctiangos about the subject of hedging lhaX Js-w-orth anything," em phmisMlriserlnredlMArsh,. before the' Committee. Both futures and spot quotations, according to Mr. Marsh, are governed by the law of supply and demand. . He suggested that some of the members of the committee seemed to be U eve the conduct of the cotton business is a an exceedingly mechan ical basis and he Insisted that it must be understood that the cotton mer chants base their business on a mul titude of things. ' Mr. Marsh thought it was one of the most remarkable things about ithe cotton market that it often , goes up when It is expected to go down and goes down when It is expected to go p. No "dope" that is untrue can affect the price of cotton more than few hours, he said. Mayor of Raleigh Will Arrest Everyone on Stage lithe Curtain : " Goes up. , The Gatette-News Bureau, Chamber of Commerce Rooms, Hollemon Building. Raleigh, Feb. 15. Mayor Stanhope Wynne forbids the performance of "The Girl from Rec tor's" here at the Academy of Music tonight, saying he Is convinced It is not a proper show. He notifies the manager of the company and the theater manager, telling the latter if the curtain goes up every one on the stage will be arrested. CORF, OF MOSBVS RANGERS, , TO HAVE $100,0(10 MArSOLKl M He Accumulated $750,000 and Wanted Ills Tomb to Cost a Good Portion of It, Norfolk, Feb. 15. The fortune of John H. ' Core, on of the famous Mosby confederate rangers, Is devised In a Will no less remarkable than the life of the testator.' Core had accumulated 1760.000 since the war. He directs tnat mausoleum be erected to himself to cost 1100.000.. The mayor of Nor folk Is to certify that core a Doay not stolen, but has been safely de- posited In his tomb. MARTINEZ A FUGITIVE. ' Ei-Seorr-tary of Nh-araguan Treasury Flees to Port Llmon. New Orleans, Felx 18. A special from Port Union says: Benor Martlne ex-seoreJjy of the treasury of Nicaragua, has urrlved a fugitive. says his acts ss chief nf the treai were sanctioned by ronirMi: he fled beosuse he was In formed that a very heavy tax had been levied on him. , EAD WRECK REPORTED. Frb. 15, (bulletin ) A l I reported on tin- New Herald" The Gazette - Interesting Announcement Made While the Ballinger-Pinchot Hearing Is in Progress. Washington, Feb. 15. In striking contrast to the lively Interest of yesr terday's testimony, the proceedings to day in the Bnlllnger-Plnchot Investi gation were dull and featureless. Mr. Vertree, younsel for1 Secretary Ba! linger, continued the cross-examination of Louis R. G la vis. In order for him to frame some of his questions It was necessary first to wade through a mass of documentary evidence and this process consumed much time. The committee was in executive ses sion 40 minutes, discussing the admis sibility of the report from Seattle giving details pf the alleged discovery among Glavls effects of 24 letters which had' been missing from the offi cial riles of the land office there. No decision was announced. , To ascertain whether Glavls was the victim of a "frame-up" in connec tion with the findings of various miss ing official papers Attorney Vortres re quested that subpoenas issue forth with for A. Chrlstensen, Glavls' suc cesxor, and O. W. O'Neill of Seattle. The Balllnger-Plnchot congressional Inquiry begsn to bristle with Interest late yesterday when Vertree under took -the cross-examination of Glavls. The climax of the day was reached when Mr. Vertrees announced that a box belonging to Mr. Glavls and left In the grand jury room at Seattle had been broken open a few days ago and that a number of letters missing from he files of the land office in Seattle, copies of -'Which .have recently been published in a weekly paper, were found therein. . . . 8)icctators Applaud. Glavls angrily declared that If any letters had been found In his belong ings a "frame-up" had been prepared against him. His denunciation of fed eral ocera who would stoop to such a trick to win the favor of their supe riors called out a demonstration of ap plause from the. spectators, which caused Chairman Nelson to announce that a reptltlon of the outburst would result In the room being cleared. Mr. Vertrees announced that C. A. Christiansen, Glavls successor chief of the- field division, would be called to testify to ths finding of the letters. J3 In vis asserted that -he was fully convinced that the facts he had offer ed In evidence warranted the judgment that neither Secretary Balllnger nor Land Commissioner Dennett was nt to hold an office of publlo trust. As to Assistant Secretary of the In terlor Pierce, Olavia decbyred he had rendered an erroneous Interpretation of the coal land law of May, 108, adn that this decision, while not an act of wronsr doing. Indicated that he was not tit to fill the office he now holds. Dennett, Glavls declared, was nothing more than a "looll" for Balllnger. At ths afternoon session Glavls, in reply to a question by Mr. Vertrees, summed up the specific acts of wrong doing which he charges against Socre tarv Mnllinger. Ill" statement was n long fne, but was listened to with In tense Interest, snd rRlly fur tbe first In.-r. I- H e : lli-lll'lte htill I'MU'llt (f tl News. A FINISHED PERFORMANCE ARE ENGAGED IN Judge Kelly of Memphis Makes an In teresting Ruling of Interest to Pugilists. Memphis, -Felt. IB. -According to a ruling rendered yesterduy by Judge Kelly In the police court, Pugilists plying their vocation under the new Tennesse law legalizing eight round bouts, are engaged, in "legal business, as are bankers in the banking busi ness." j BURGLARS GOT AWAYi Blew Open After Binding and Gagging Night Watchman of Bank. Bloomington. Ills., Feb. 15.-"-Early today burglars blew open the safe of the Citizens bank of Chataworth with nitroglycerine, and escaped with a team, taking .JsOOO In paper money and (2000 in silver. ' The night watchman was found la ter, bound and gagged. THE FAIRBANKS EPISODE 18 CALLED A DEAD ISSUE 'Washington, Feb. 15. Archbishop Ireland called at the White House to day and arranged for an Interview with the president. When reference whs made to the Fairbanks' episode ths archbishop shrugged his should ers and remarked with a smile that it was a dead Issue. "Some people," he added, "like to play with corpses. but I do not Reports of Outrages on Amerlraiis. Washington, Feb. 15. Reported outrages against Americans in the vlf Inlty of Matagulpa, the present bat tle center in Nicaragua, are being per sonally Investigated by Consul Ollvares. Parliament Assembled , Today The Ceremony a Simple One. .". London, Feb. 15. The third parlia ment of King Edward assembled this afternoon. The ceremony was of the simplest character. The Royal pa geantry connected with the state opening was postponed to Feb. 11. Thousands of Have Voted Kew vnrk. Feb. is. Jl tmlldlnr BUSINESS Iim.I s uvlkp, u-tii-1 v n mil outlhnve voted to quit work this after i . r ... ti a, i.-i iiii . a-1 numi. w "T"' TILLMAN Court, in Decision Handed Down To day Restores the Tillman Child ren to Their Mother. Columbia, 8. C, Feb. 15. In a de cision handed down herb today the Supreme court took the two children of B. R. Tillman, Jr., from their grandfather, Senator Ben R. Tillman, and restored them to the custody of their mother. The children were deeded to the elder Tillman last December by their father, upon allegations that their mother was unfit to bring them up properly, and he was not himself able to give them such upbringing as he would like them to have. The court holds that such a deed Is Invalid with out the signatures of both parents, If both be living. Tillman Talks. Commenting upon the decision of the court In the suit for the custody of his grandchildren, Senator Tillman todny said: "The supreme Justices have lifted a great responsibility oft me, and shifted it to their own shoul ders. My only motive In accepting the guardianship was the welfare of iny little grand-daughters. I knew facts and circumstances, many which were not brought out In the hearing, and was actuated solely by a sense of duty. The final result can alone de termine whether the court acted wise ly. Fifteen years hence when I am dead and gone the character and type of women that my grand daughters will have become, will show whether it was best to- have given them to their mother or not. I pray Ood'a guidance to her In rearing them, and that He will shield them from contam inating Influences and example." The father Is denied a share In the further custody of the children, being held to have voluntarily relinquished his rights over them and acknowledg ed unfitness to rear them In his deed Mrs. Tillman, a strikingly handsome voung woman; was Informed of the decision by telephone by Clerk Brooks, before the decision was officially pub lished, and wept with delight. It Is likely the children, now at Senator Tillman's home In Trenton, 8. C, will be brought here this evening and re stored to the mother. Recovering Bodies From the General . Chanxy. 1 Cludadala, Balerlc Island, Feb. II. The work of salvaging the wreck ot the French steamer General Clianxy, and the recovery of bodies of IS J per sons wss continued today. Moat of the bodies have been made unrecog nisable through being pounded against the rocks by ths high seas. : Union Men to Quit Work 1 ened. Forty . thousand unlhn men 1 : W W . v.. B1VEUPGH1LDREN FIVE PERSONS ARE -1 W STA r JTLY K 1 LLE D Head-on Collission Occurred Yesterday Afternoon Between Passenger Trains on Georgia Southern Railroad. Macon, Ga., FeU. 15. Five persons were Instantly killed, eight seriously injured, and a score slightly injured when passenger trains No. X and No. on the Georgia Southern and Flori da railroad met head-on yesterday at o'clock, nine miles below Macon, between Wellston and Bonalr. The deud: W. J. Yates, Macon, engineer on train No. 6. Flagman A. R. Johnson, Macon. Conductor I. B. Ingalla, Macon, traveling as passenger. Conductor Dupree of Kathleen, Ga., traveling as passenger. One unknown white man. Seriously injured: Lcroy Fuss, engineer, train No. S, badly cut on the head and chin. - Robert Williams, colored, mall clerk, Macon, hurt In back. W. M. Elder, Worth, Ga., bruised In back. W. L. Wheeler, Wsllston, bruised about trunk. J.' F. Blount, Orangeburg, 8. C, travullng salesman, painfully hurt about head. George Bernhart, flagman, painful ly hurt on head. W. II. Carson, newsboy, cut on the head. Loretta Putnam, colored, badly hurt In head and side. It Is understood that the accident was caused by the crew of train No. t misreading orders to meet train No. 5 at Bonalr. A wrecking train and a relief train were sent out from Macon as soon as the news of the disaster reached the head offices of the road. The re lief train reached Macon at 11 o'clock bearing the bodies of the dead and injured. Both engines, the mall and baggage cars and two day coaches wars com pletely demolished. .The trains were not running at a great rate of speed hut they met on a curve and the engineers had little chance to prevent the accident The wreck occurred In a dismal swamp and passengers describe tns cries of the wounded and dying as most pitiful and heartrending. Sev eral hours elapsed before medical aid recahed the scene. Many women pas sengers bound the wounds of the In jured with bandages torn from their lothlng. Boy Kills rather. Yellvllle, Ark Feb. It. W. T. Davenport a prominent farmer, was shot and killed by his son, Russell Davenport, aged 17, today. The boy declares his fattier announced his In tentlon to kill him. Ill feeling exist ed between the two. Loeb Will Manage It Washington. Feb. 15. At the re quest of President Taft, Collector Loeb has iskeri upon himself srrni". ments for tbe reception of folnm-l IT SERVEJII JURY In Oklahoma Judge Pitchford Does not Propose, He Says, to "Insult White ' Men." NEGROES HAD BEEN CHOSEN AT WAGONER Judge Says the Laws of His State Pro vide Separate Schools, Trains, -Street Cars and ' Tables. . Muscogee, Okla., Feb. 15. Because four of its members were negroes the Jury was dismissed "by Judge Pitch--foTd in the District court, at Wagoner this morning. In excusing the ne groes from duty, Judge Pitchford said: "Oklahoma laws provide that negroes shall ride separately In trains and street cars; that they shall at tend separate schools, and eat at sep arate tables, and I do not propose to Insult white men by making them serve on a Jury with negroes." THE REPUBLICANS In View of Public Demand Party Lead ers Agree to Inquire Into Charges of Corruption .in All Forms. Albany, N. Y., Feb. 15. The Inves tigation of legislative. , corruption in every possible form and at any tlma since the organization of . the New "York state gov-etninenf; Is (ha pro-" gram of the Republican leaders, to satisfy the public demand, arising from the Conger-Allds bribery scandal. according to a resolution Introduced In the senate today. - . THAIS AND am FOR ROBERT L PEABY But Neither Rear-Admiral's Rank Nor Rear-Admiral's ; Pay. Washington, Feb. 15. A gold medal and the thanks of congress for Robert K. Peary, discoverer of the north pole. are contemplated in a bill Introduced today by Representative Butler of Pennsylvania, chairman of the sub committee, which a few days ago re ported adversely on the proposition -to make the explorer a rear-admiral In the United States navy. The Introduction of Butler's bill fol lowed a meeting ot the naval commit tee, which endorsed the action of the sub-committee refusing Peary tha contemplated promotion. The whole matter was referred back to the sub committee with Instructions to con sider further. It is stated the sub committee will endorse the Butler bill and it was presented to the house. 1 MINISTER'S BODY, THROAT CCT, IS FOUND IN HIS BATH TUB Relieved Rev. Oliver Stocking of Rox- borough, 1., Committed Suicide) In Fit of Insanity. , Philadelphia, Feb. 15. Rev. Oliver Stocking, pastor of the Emmanuel Methodist Episcopal church of Rox borough, was found dead today. In a bath tub at his home, with his throat cut It Is believed the clergyman com mitted suicide while temporarily in sane. DR. FABRICE OF MADRID IS UOINO TO GET A W ETTING He Expet-ta to Start Across the At lantic In an Airship About. Middle ot May. . Madrid, Feb. H. Dr. Gans Fab rice has definitely completed plana for an adventurous attempt to cross the Atlantto ocean in an airship. The date of his departure has been fixed for the middle of May. Gen. Howe AsHlgned to Work. Geo. Woods Washington, Feb. 15. Because of the continued Illness of Major Oenersl Leonard Wood, the president has di rected that Brigadier General Walter Howe be assigned to temporary com mand of the east Eight Years Old Girl Miming. New York. Frb. 15. r'nht y old Hannah Hci ihner Is m-- - r i hi-r li'imo hihI t ' v. . . i h I r n 111 INVEST GATE KOMwevf-lt. w'n l" fl'ins t' Ywlt ...i -i 41
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