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-L. (je Ash LAST EDITION. 4:00 P. M. Weather Forecast: Continued fair mid warm. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES 3c PER COPY VOL. XV. NO. 20. ASHEVILLE, N. O, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 3, 1910. Universal Strike is Proclaimed FAVORABLE REPORT DEATH TOLL MOB OF 5000 MEN To Begin Tommorrow at Midnight Q y pjj g E exrille Qfette .New. HIS LOSS IS EIGHT D LYNCHES NEGRO in mm Details of the Crushing Dett. ol Chamorra Have at Last Leaked Out. CHAMORRA LOST, ALL TOLD, EIGHT HUNDRED MEN He Might not Have Been Defeated. However but for the Fact That His Ammunition Became Exhausted. TlluetUidg, Nicaragua, March 3. News of the crushing defeat of Gen eral Chamorro, at Tisma, February 22. leaked out today, and was official ly conflrmed. Chamorro's force was wiped out, and he barely escaped with h handful of followers. His loss in killed, captured and wounded w'as 800. Ills opponents lost 1000. His defeat was due to the fact that his cartridge! became- exhausted. As a military menace the provision al array now merits no higher consid eration than guerrillas. SURVEY OF STATE FROM THE Governor Declines the Responsibility of Naming Ashboro Triplets. The Gazette-News Rureuu, Chamber of Commerce Uuonis, Hollemon ISullding, Raleigh. March 3. The remodeling anil ciikuge munt of the Kalelgh union passenger station Is, according to Superintendent J. M. Shade iff the Seaboard Air Line, to begin Just as soon as the contractor ran get here and to be completed within 90 days, the improvements to cost nearly 315,000. Armcliu Lynch of Ashboro writes Governor Kltchin that she is the proud mother of three line little girl Lodes and asking 11 there is not some reward offered by the state or Bome nne else for trlpletB. She also askeil the governor to name the three girls. However he declined to undertake the naming of triplets and expressed his regret that he knew of no avail able reward for the mother. The oldest man In the North Caro-1 Una soldier's home is John Pool, a j native of Wake county, who has Just celebrated his ninety-eighth birthday and insists that he will live to pass his hundredth birthday. He is re markably hale and hearty for hi vinrs, being able to walk from the home to the business lection of the city at will, this being a tramp of more than a mile. "Musical" War. Kalelgh has had In a quiet way for seme time something of a union and non-union conflict in a musical way. Prof. J. Levin hua for quite a while been a member of the Musician's union of Raleigh until a leu months ago. when differences arose over cut prlcea made by Levin to the detriment at union musicians not associated with him Ip orchestra and other work. The result was that Levin "walked the plank" and found himself on the out side of the organisation. At the same time he has a contract for a specified term to furnish the music for the season at the Academy of Music. The result Is that when theatrical com panies having musical directors thai are in the union come along Pror. 1-evln has to stand aside and cannot take his part of the orchestral work except between acts when the curtain Is down. There seems to be no pos sibility of adjusting the trouble so as t renew affiliations. The union mu sicians are now demanding that the Academy management cancel Its con tract with Levin. A mass meeting of business men of Kalelgh last night discussed pro nnd eon and at great length the question of the advisability of Inviting the democratic state convention to Ral eigh this summer and in the end merely decided to appoint a commlt lee to confer with similar committees from the aldermen, the chamber of ommerce and the Merchant's asso latlnn as to whether Raleigh shuuld make an effort for the convention. A strong sentiment developed against attempting to handle the state con tention until the new auditorium ir icady and the hotel facilities enlarg ed, as they will be this summer and fall by enlarging and remodeling the Yarborough. erection of the new Glersch hotel and the completion of Wright's hotel. Howevtr, there are "any eager to try for the approach ing convention, which will he In June or Jul)., and the Invitation may be ex tended with aaaurance of providing "dequate entertainment. Cot. Bullitt Dead Itlmore. March . Cel. Thomas BuUll, a prominent lawyer of CAPITAL An Attempt May Be Made to Lynch Two Others Now in Dallas, Tex., Jail. THREW HIM FROM WINDOW. BROKE NECK. THEN HANGED All Available Militia, Policemen ami rircmru Called Out I'urt of Mob arc Negroes. rrrrrrrrfrrrrvirrrrv t Dallas, March 3. The mob R R has stormed the Jail and en- R R denvored to batter down the R R doors with heavy railroad ties, R R shouting the names of the R R other two negroes. The officers R R tried to pacify the m.ib, aasur- R R Ing them that both negroes R St were taken to Port Worth. R I R M RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRj Dallas. Tex., March 3. Allen I I Brooks, a negro, charged with assault- I : ing a three years old white girl last j I ween, was lynched Here today, by a j mob of five thousand men. , Following the lynching of the ne I gro. Brooks, the mob mar'-hed to the jail and it is feared they may try to lynch two other negro murderers. Ruirell Mates and Sol Aranoff. All : available militiamen, policemen ant' ; liremcn have been ordered to protect j the jail. The mayor has Issued or j ders closing the saloons. A number of negroes participated in the lynching of Rrooks. He wai in the court room awaiting trial when the mob surged past the officers on guard and threw the negro from a second story windn, , breaking his neck. 4 Tjjp A rope was then slipped around his nock, he was dragged down Main street ten blocks and then strung up. The police prevented the body be ing burned. When the attack was made the militia and extra poller were ordered out. but before they could reach the scene the mob hud secured possession of the negro. TRAINMEN REJECT Men of the B. & 0. Will Have None the Company's Proposition to Ar bitrate Differences. of Baltimore, Md March 3. The con ductors anil trainmen of the Balti more and Ohio overwhelmingly re jected the company's proposition to submit their differences to arbitra tion. The railroad men demunded hlg-hcr wages. The tralnmens' gen eral committee will determine wheth er a strike shall be declared. DANIELS WILL OFFSET TESTIMONY OF MOE And Then Allds Will Take the Stand and Deny the Testimony That Has Been Given by Conger. Albany, N. Y., March 3. The end of the senate bribery investigation came Into sight when Attorney Little ton announced that Senator Allds would tuke the stand as the last wit ness for the defense. The case prob ably will be summed up not later than next Thursday und a verdict reached before the senate adjourns on Friday. The defense still has to call In ad dition to Allds an officer of the Groton bank, which Issued the $6,600 check that Conger alleges was the source of the boodle fund Hlrum Q. Moe brought to Albany und distributed to Allds, Speaker Nixon and Jean L. Uurnett. of the assembly. Allds' testimony will lie an alieolute denial of Conger's charges concerning the alleged bribe, a description of his attitude toward highway legislation and hostility toward the bridge com pany nnd also a narration of his movements on the day when Conger iii. nv thev delivered to him th bridge company's 11,000. Allds' attorneys prepared the way for their client when thy placed on the stand Harvey J. Daniels, assistant postmaster at Norwich, Allds' home town. Daniels, It developed, was as much "man Friday to Alius as Hiram O. Moe had Ix-en to Conger. He had known the accused senator ror iwen- ty-five years and was Indebted to him for numerous favors. Am witness for the defense Daniels proved as Important as Moe has been for the prosecution He deolan I that he remembered in detail that occurred In the ways and mi committee on the morning of il and declared positively that n Alldi THE PROPOSITI H BMBmhwrh'' - I R I .iialagHE3 Hii 5flV a mm m I WmmWHFmMMMwiSkiL MmmBMuu sCfl I ROCKEFELLER TO BE THE HEAD Young Man May Devote all His Time to Philanthropic Work Undertaken by His Father. .'ew York, March John D. KockeTeller, jr., probably will become the active head of the new lloekefel Icr foundation, and devote his enlin time to the philanthropic work un dertaken by his father. To this end. he resigned us director of the Stand ard oil company. The bill for the purpose of Incor porating the foundation was intro duced by Senator Cullinger and was relerred to the committee on Judlci ury. The purpose of the foundation Is to provide for a general organiza tion to conduct philanthropic work along all lines. !t Is understood that the foundation will bo endowed large ly by John D. Rockefeller, and thai he takes this means 'o dispose of a large part of his enormous wealth. The Incorporators named in the bill are John D. Rockefeller,' John D. Koekefetler, jr.. Fred T. dates. Starr J. Murphy and Charles ( ). Kejfdt These Incorporators are authorized to select associates not to exceed a total i f t, and it is provided that there shull not be at any time less than live. It was stated by Senator Callinger that Mr. Koekefeller already had given away ."-'. 0(M. 000 and that be was seeking a method of disposing of his fortune thut would benellt man kind. The Rockefeller foundatlor will be authorized to receive and dis perse gifts Of money other than those obtained from the original endow ments, the umount of w '!ch has not been Mxid. TAYLOR WAKES WARM DISUSING LEE STATUE Does Not Mention Heyburn's Name. But Handles Him Roughly, All the Same. W'sshingtoi Mi rch 3. Hennlo i Itoberl I.. 'Ii f lor f Tennessee. In ;t llerv speech today upheld the action of Virginia Jn placing a statue of lien. Hubert i: l.ee In Statuary hall at the capltol. The senator's speech was provoked through recent criticism of Virginia bv Henator Heyburn of Idaho. Mr. Taylor did not mention Hey burn's name, but his utterances left no doubt hi the minds of his hearers that I It was tin. Idaho senator toward whom , his denunciation was directed "Men who w ire the gray." he de- i lured, "are i roud to honor men who wore thi bin : and .net them on the it' to fight out a problem r, when tne republic was at I Labor Leaders Today Marie Final Pre parations to Execute Propcred Strike Order. MAYOR WILL RECOMMEND THAT COUNCIL DO NOTHING Will Point our Law That Permits the Coiuis in Handle (he situation. Philadelphia, Murch Mayor Reyburn will iccomtMnd to the city council this nrtcrnosh Unit no action be tKen in the trolley strike. The mayor will cui: attention to an old ia.v pennlttlng tin tourt to handle the situation. All Philadelphia Is anxiously awaiting the outcome of the council's meeting this afternoon in consider ways and no ans of .bringing about the termina tion of the strike of the street car men, which has been stilling trade and causing I.:. silicas stagnation the last' 12 days. Tha Central libor union has made final preparations to execute the threatened sympathetic strike order. According to present plans the big strike begins at mid night Friday. Traction officials be lieve that only a small per cent, ol the one hundnd thousand workmen will obey tin- strike order. A universal strike of all union workers and their sympathisers, to begin at I'lidnlght Friday, was proclaimed lj the Centrnl abur Union of Phil nli'lphla und vicinity at a meeting In -1 night. The strike lend ers (lochi'" Hi :i 100.800 men will stop work at that Innir If the Rapid Transit company shall not In the meantime have consented to arbitrate Its differ ence with the striking carmen. As surances Iiiim been received, they say, from hundreds of unorganized wage earners that iliev will join in the movement. Kenllntciil Xpparrntly Unanimous. 'I he meeting at Which the strike order wai? promulgated was large and sentiment w is apparently unanimous in favor "i the general strike Spiechcs by .bdin O. Murphy, presi dent of the Central l-ibor I'nlon: Clarence i. Pmtt, leader of the strik ing carmen. ml William Malum, president of ilia International Car men's association, stirred the dele gates In a high pitch of enthusiasm. Tel, grams were read from the Chi cago and s.i ii Francisco Federations or Labor, Willi 250,000 end I Tii.ooo members nsp tlvery, pledging their moral and 'ii metal support to tin (Continued on page r. i Sixteen Railway Officials Will Be Asked to Testify (luthrie, k In.. March 3. Sixteen rullwa oflicInK Including several of the most prominent In the lintel States, will hi :"iye& with PMbpeonae a Ty" Cobb Will Draw Nine Thousand a Year Augusta. ia Match 3. Cyrus celvi 1 1 ubJk FLOOOCONOITIONS ARE iT IMPROVED At Wilkesbarre. Pa.. Many Families Be came Alarmed Today and Have Vacated Their Homes. Wilkes barrO, Pa., March ".Flood conditions In the Wyoming valley arc not Improved today. The Susquehan na is IS feet, three Inches above the low water mark. Many families in the lower part alarmed today of the city became and vacated their homes. CMriatlMM in Washington. Spokane. March ::. Almost unpre cedented Rood conditions are report",! throughout the surrounding country. M lei eland. Cleveland. (.. March :i. Two hun dred additional families were forced to li-ive their homes today, following the rrrvT'i he steady rise in the M llskingglllll Many small towns and farms are under many feet of water. At Yotingstown many factories still are Idle. The people here fe:ir that the levee will break, and the water rush down Into tie- wt stern part of the city. HE ill HE RUN OF THE TOWN London Court of Common Council Re solves That Mr. Roosevelt Must Feel at Home While There. London. Mar, ii 3. The court of common council unanimously adopted ii resolution confer-!1": the honorary freedom of the city on Theouore Roosevelt. The Roosevelt's will reach London the middle of May. No Change In PlaiiM. V.iple. March 3. Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt and her daughter,' Ethel, returning from Capri, found a mes Kaise from Colonel Roosevelt. suyhiK he had made no change In his plans. He arrives here the first week In April. today by the Oklahoma corporation i commission, demanding their presence I here March I.', as witnesses in the ; freight rate Investigation. 1 league baseball club. Tha contract provides a salary or $lt0f0 'for three year. nnnuallv Ordered by Senate Committee - Sav ings Bank Bill Under Eighty-four Persons Killed, it Consideration. j is Now Estimated, by Slide ANTI-OPTION HEARING IS RESUMED BY COMMITTEE Ailioinlinenl Offered to lliiludc Cable Lines in Scope of Proposed Mcusurc. Washington, March 3. The Hal- linger mail pay bill, provtdtitg lor the establishment of mail steamship lines between the Inked States and South ! America, the Philippines. Japan, Chl- 1 na anil Australia, is ordered favorably ; l eom ted jto the senate. The senate has taken up the ad- ; mimsLraticii postal savings liank bill. litKd it will probably be disposed!' lie- fore tile close Of the da Anll-Optioo Bill Hearing. When the nui-option I. ill hearing v.ua resumed before the house com- j mtttee on agriculture Representative Thomas W. Hardwick of Georgia of- j iered an amendment to the Scott bill, to include wllliln its scone cable lines i us wcl ?tl as telegraph anil telephone I lines. Mr. llardwick's amendment is i aimed at the Liverpool cotton market j particularly. Some members bedieve the exchange will readjust their I methods under the spur of this pro I potted legislation. Attacking the management of the j New York cotton exchunge and de claring its revision committee had no I right or power to justify the action il j takes. Attwood Viob-tte of New York J appeared In opposition to the Scott bill, PresiiV-nt Thomson uT the New I Orleans cotton exchange was a wit- ness this afternoon. Peary's Case Discussed. The proponed rewards for Hubert F. Peary, discoverer of the north Willi were discussed by the house naval Biib-commlttee. Itenresentative Alex ander addressed the committee favor ing retiring Commander Peary with tho rank anil pay of a rear ndmirnl. Sub-marine signals will be establish ed uniler the light house board's su pervision along the coast line of the United States, if a bill reported from the senate committee on commerce become law. JOINED HANDS UNDER BANNERS OF ECONEMY Both Republicans and Democrats Re vert to Subject When it is Proposed to Build Revenue Cutters. Washington, March 2. Rills nu- : thniizing the issuulice of i : I worth of certificates of indebtedness lor tne completion oi Irrigation pro- ; I jects already begun und providing for t ' the purchase of tlO.OVO.000 worth ol ; real estate in Washington for the fu- 1 tore uses of the government were! passed by the senate yesterday. Senators Heyburn. Uradley und Sutherland spoke upon the postal saving bunk bill, the lust named two j luvorlng the passage of that measure While Senator Heyburn proposed a .substitute for the pending bill. The 1,111 may be voted upon by the senate tomorrow. in the house various bills upn the. calendar were considered. The house voted down a proposition to provide 1 rcBidences In foreign capitals for dip lomatic officials. Severn! republicans and democrats joined hands under the banner of! economy In the house when Hepre sentative Mann, one of the most con spicuous economists in the body, championed an appropriation of for the construction of two ' revenue cutters for the coast of Flor blu to take the place of old time 'craft. The bill wa finally passed. "This Is not the time for congress to make any unnecessary appropria tions," exclaimed Representative I'n- i derwood from the midst of the south- trn democrats. "The administration as well as this , house Is trying to keep down expendl- ture," shouted hgfgft Chairman Taw ney, who claimed that the appropria tions committee had uasurancca from the treasury department that it would oc informed when more revenue cut ter were mandatory. Mr. Tawney Insisted upon u roll call upon hi motion to strike out thi ; enacting elans-, which motion was i lost 134 to 144. l"pon motion of representative Hugh of New Jersey the hill was ami.nded to provide for the eonstruu- tlo:i of thoe v el under the eight hour law. Wolgast Willing in t.lvc Return Date. Nelson l.o Angeb s. March 3. Ad WtsV gat, the light-weight champion, upon hla arrival here declared: "I eertaln j ly will give Ruining Nelson a return ! match any time h ewanta It" Eaten by Wohe. I Springfield. Mo., March Smith, a I wolvea of Snow and Dirt. MEN BRING BCK TALES OF HER0ISH The Exact Number of the Dead, it Now Thought, Will not be Known for Weeks. is R R R R R R R R R R R R R. R R R R R R. R i IR R R. I Spokane. March 3. It is rumored in Spokane that a second avalanche at the Scenic pass has covered the rescuers engaged in lakinj; out bodies, causing a further loss of life. R R R r R IR r VI Everett. VTnsh.. March 3. It m "ins now certain that the death toll In the . ... ..., ,.,irH.(1 .,,.,. nlc two great Northern trains. and swen steam ana electric locomotives,, win total eighty-four. Few believe any of the sixty-seven listed as missing will be found alive, for forty hours have past since they ware bunod be neath tons of snow and Ice and twtoled wreckage thut swept over the ledge cud dropped in a heap at the bottom of the canyon. Men making the trip to the seem bring back remarkable tales of hero ism displayed by survivors, wii es caped the avalanche. The exact nam' her of dead will not be known fur weeks until the snow, now forty-feet deep In the canyon, has melted. Workmen digging In the snow ami wreckage report the finding of dis membered bodies and severed arm i I and hands. j Tiescne parties are working ib-sper-I ately to recov er the passengers from the buried coaches. The ilny couch und the smoking car have been found. They were smashed Hat. II Is said. One woman was rescued rroir. a Pullman after twelve hours imprison ment under I lie snow. Prakeioan Duncan and Conductora Purcell and Clary, who were in one of the eurs that was smashed to splin ters, escaped with slight bruises. In hare feet they worked for hours help ing the injured and suvlng those caught under the wreckage. .Mrs. M. A. Oovington ol Seattle, who j is missing. r;)s on her way to cele 1 bralc tier golden wedding. Mm. Stur i rett oi (ii mainua, H. C. and one child wele saved but two of her children I were killed All the Injured are being cared for at Wellington and Scenic. It is j thought all will recover. It Is now said that the reason the train was not kept In the tunnel, w here it would have escaped the slide, was thut passengers feared they would be blocked In and suffocated there. The nearest telegraph station. Scen ic Mot Springs, Is three miles below Wellington, down u precipitous grade that Is covered with a deep blunket of snow that may slide down the mountain at any moment. The Wellington telegraph operator arrived at Scenic Hot Springs almost insane from the scenes he hud wit-ne.ssed MRS. LOGAN SWQPE GIVES HER DEPOSITION I Colonel Swope. She Said. Was Ex , tremely Eccentric, and Drank Stead ily for Twenty-Five Years. Kansas City. March 1 After weeks of delay, occasioned hy squabble be tween attorneys and her prrxenc be fore the grand Jury. Mrs. i.ognn . Swope. the guiding hand In the Inves tigation of the Swope mystery, gave her deposition In the ,lander suit ol her son in i.nv Dr. ft. C. Hyde, against John O. Paxton. an executor for the 'ol Thus. H. Swope estate. There was nothing startling In Mrs. HtfptWV story. , Colonel Swope, according to Mr. Sw ipe, hi niece by marriage, was extremely eccentric. Conatantly rear ing denth. he had talked of hla do mlse for veins before the end cani. V'or twenty-five yeara he drank, be coming "tipsy," us he expressed It, during the latter part of each uTter noon He suffered greatly from stom ach trouble until short lime before his death, when he appeared to Im prove. She said that Col. Swope. never took j any or "Doctor" Jordun's herb, bo: nil the other mcmlwrs of the fainll n used Ihein She said that the medl i iin which .lor. Ian, the negro heHi doctor, left at the house wa thrown iii)' by her along with a largo amount of other medicine at the re quest of Dr. Q. T. Twvmun who tool charge of the In the Swope dismissal. Tablet. e which James J imong
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