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I I THE ASSOCIATED ". PRESS'.:;':; DISPATCHES LAST EDITION 4:00 P. XL Weather riarecast: Fair Weather. VOL XV. NO. 143. ASHEVILLE, N. C, MONDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 25, 1910. 3c PER COPY OPPOSED SOLUTION .OF IN HIS STATE ? THE BIS STfliKE HURLED BOMB AT RIDGEWAY MAYOR B Active Campaign Against Disease Is Now on in North Caro- u h lina Or. Ferrell in Charge. I EDITOR WHO RIDICULED WORK HAS THE DISEASE Prnected That a Field Worker Will Be Placed in Each of 19 Dis tricts In the State Soil Pollution Cause. t Gaxette-News Bureau Chamber of Commerce Rooms, Hollemon Building. Raleigh, July 23. A' N active campaign against me hookworm is now on in Norm Carolina. The first work began March 12 when Dr. John A. Ferrell was appointed secretary for this state. Two fieldexperts are In the'work and third will Join in it next month. The state has been divided,. Into -19 districts. Public sentiment is being aroused so that there will later be a field worker .In each district It Is found that the type of this disease In the United States Is the same as that on the west coast of . Africa,: from which section of the world almost all the slaves came to this country. The lirst slaves were brought 250 years ago. Bo far very few. negroes have been examined - for hookworm, be cause of the fact , that they show the effects of the poison In a much less degree than the whites. The negroes are ureat polluters of the soil, and examinations of them are to be made In their schools when the next session begins, as then they will be In a mass and the examinations ,can oe-. raurc -wttytUulc. Thwvexpertt nave visit ed a thousand homes 'of negroes and whites in the rural districts, with a view to ascertaining the sanitary con. dltlon of affairs existing on the prem Ises of some whites. Thus the ne. groes are a menace In general In the country districts, and so are some of the whites. The first effort has been to' enlist In the campaign against this disease doctors, school teachers, editors; local Improvement.. leaguer and other po tent factors. Dr. Ferrell' says the siinnnrt li verv ratifying. There is an immense amount of talk and writ lng about this disease. One or two editors have ridiculed the matter, but a physician reports that one of these iiMhtiivpr haa the disease, and he has been asked to allow himself to os examined. - Campaign In Three States. Dr. Ferrell says the campaign Is now active In three states, the two others belns Vlrainia and South Car olina. and all the counties In this state except eight have been visited and the disease found In' every one, thoueh It Is more prevalent nearer the coast than elsewhere. The re- suit of Investigations of nine coast counties showed two-thirds of those umh.j h inf.wteri: the nercent-1 in ih. aat central belt, from Virginia to South Carolina, being so, and In a smaller belt of piedmont counties 50 per cent As showing the great effect of a sewerage system In eliminating this disease It may be stated that an examination of stu dents In the sohools of seven of the largest places In the state show only 17 per cent Infected, yet In the rural districts In the counties in which such points are located, there Is as much Infection as another similarly located counties. Soldier Boys Examined, An Interesting part of the work In this state has been the examination of members of the' national guard while In camp, and more than 1500 examinations were" made. So far as results had been announced, the per centase Infected runs from 10 to 35 In every hundred. There are different types of the hookworm, and while it Is verv nrevalent In Italy, but very little of the European type has been found in this section: to which few toreluners come, and the only sort found la tho Italian. Dr. Ferrell says the preachment he la making is to prevent soil-pollution and thus stamp out the cause of the disease, rather than to treat cases, though in the latter line of effort a vast deal will he. done. The elimination, of . soll- pollutlon will really stamp out not only this disease but also typhoid fever. Cochin China dysentery . and amoebic dysentery. The work Is he- lng engaged in most enthusiastically nd the outlook Is encouraging. THE WEATHER, Forecast until t p. m. Tuesday for Ashevllle and vicinity: Fair weather, ith moderate temperature tonight ana Tuesday. I I in ' eor North Carolina: Generally fair na continued warm tonight and ueanay. UrlBk (outhweet and west , Ohio RopuMlcaua Ua ibex-lug. Columbus, O., July 25. ran leaders snd delegates Repuhll- are arrlv- "is to attend the i-'inv.nil,,,, i. h lata ropuhlii-an Unknown Man Last Night Assaslnated Chie, Executive Virginia Town while He Slept. mayor's legs were horribly MUTILIATEO BY EXPLOLING BOMB In the Excitement Tliat Prevailed the Assassin Made Good His Eh-. rape The Motive. - Ridgeway, Va July 26. Mayor A. H. Rousman was assassinated by a dynamite bomb thrown from the street under a hammock In which ' he was lying last night. He died on haur after the explosion. There is no clue to the Identity of the murderer or tho cause of crime ascertained. Was Sleeping; In Hammock. Mayor Bouemnn had been spending tho hot evening sleeping in a ham mock swung between two trees on the lawn In front his residence. ' Without warning about. 10 o'clock a dynamite bomb was thrown by some one passing along the street. It landed In the hammock ut liis feet and in un instant exploded. ' . ' ' " , Feet Town Away. The mayor's feet were torn away by the bursting shell. His legs were frightfully mutilated, and he died in rct agony. The town authorities wer notified, and made every effort to discover the assassin. No clue was found. Ho escaped without being seen by anyone. . - The news quickly spread about town and excitement ran high. It is be lieved the perpetrator of the assassi nation ils caught he will be summarily dealt wlth.-i i Killed for Revenge. Mayor ' Buusman presided over po lice court, trying petty cases. It is thought some person upon whom Bousman passed sentence,, of jjunlsh mont hrtd d grudge, against, him and awaited an opportunity to "wreak" vio lence on the mayor. ' ' !' ' Incitement Great. The bomb' terrific report attracted many persons to the scene, but excite ment was. so great apparently no one thought to search for the assassin un til he made-his escape undetected. PRESIDENT S INKLE Rett Did Much to Reduce Swelling President Made Brief Stop at Dark Harbor. Rockland. Me.. July 25. The May. flower, with. President Taft aboard, was sighted off Dark harbor at 10:15 this morning, after being held up dur ing the night by a heavy for which enveloped the Majne coast. The yacht anchored off Beauchamp Point. Wire' less advices stated that the President's ankle Is rapidly Improving. His rest did much to reduce the swelling. The president made a brief stop at Dark harbor. He visits Rockland tomor row where he lands at 11 o'clock for a drive through the city. NEGRO WOMAN TAKEN FROM JAIL THROWN INTO RIVER ? Muoroe, I., Jail Entered by Unlden titled Men Laxt Nlglilwomau Had Robbed White Men. Munroe. I.. July 25. Unidentified men broke Into the Jail here last night carrying off Laura Porter, a .negro woman prisoner and keeper m a re aort where aevoral white men, it was .inrtri. were rubbed. It Is believed ahe wa. thrown Into the Ouachita riVer and drowned. Protect British Interest at Blue. Held K I nut on. Jamaica. July IB. me British cYulser Scylla sailed for Blue fields, Nicaragua, under orders to pro tec t British Interests at mat post which Is In possession of the Insur gents. Peruvian Cabinet May Resign. Uma. Peru. July 25. A resigns tlnn of the cabinet Is Imminent The ministry was formed March 14 nth Dr. Xavler Prado Ugartche as premier land minister of home affairs. Negro Customs Officer Dead. Newport News, Va,, July 15,-John a Mitchell, a fiegro, collector of cus- tma at Yorktown, Va., sines 1185, dead. Roosevelt Preparing Bpeerlies, ' Oyster Bay. July 25. Theodore Roosevelt spent today preparing speeches for his' western trip, Many Jews Impelled. Jul v 25. .f 1 1 1 v New York Herald and The Gazette "DO YOU THINK I MR. PEARSON DECLINES; PUTS GAFF INTO TAFT ssjMsMsaasJMslaBajSjsjajsssjefj,,!, jbbjsjbbbbbbbj m - Says Hepannot Jlun, Sit, or Stand for Nomination for State Senator for the Plain Reason That,.He Cannot .Endorse Deftod, Justify or, Explain' Persistent and .U-i-j, Obstinate Insults WMk;Presii$ j ,.v - Republicans in South. H' ON. RICHMOND PEARSON to day addressed to The Gasette News a letter which, it would be trite to say. Is self-explanatory: Editor of The Gaaette-Newa: I am surprised to learn that -the republican primaries held in this county on the 23d instant, declared for me with practical unanimity for the state senate. . My surprise Is all the greater In view of the fact that on the 16th In stant Hon.' J. J. Brltt. the - present state senator, T. F. Roland, the coun ty chairman, and T. J. Harklns, chair man of the city executive committee, called In a body -at my house and asked If I would accept the nomina tion for the state senate; and I told these gentlemen emphatically , and unequivocally that I could not accept the nomination for reasons , which I stated to them frankly, but which I am now constrained to state publicly to the republicans who have honored me by this renewed expression of confidence, for which I am unaffect edly and cordially grateful. I cannot run, or stand, or sit for the office In quertion for the plain reason that I cannot, endorse, or defend, or Justify, or explain, or extenuate, or understand the persistent and obsu- Expresses' Opinion That Democratic Prospects Look Good Gives .Reason. Senator Lee R Overman of Salis bury,, togother with Mrs. Overman, are guest of the Battery Park hotel where they expect to remain for a week or ten days. Mrs. Overman, who enjoys a wide' popularity' In Washington as cll as In her home state, -has relatives and numerous friends In Aihovllle. ' Senator Overman has come to the mountains for a rest, and spent most of today enjoying the view from, and the perennial breee that Is to be found on the Battery Park verandas. Senator Overman did not think that the most enthusiastic summer resort press agent would ever succeed In exaggerating the attractions of the scenery that fills the - eye from 'the Battery Park hill, and he will remain as long as possible. Being here. for a rest the senator Is not liu HtMd to take politics serlnusly, in a gentrar way, nowever, be ex pressed the confident opinion that democratic prospects looked good, ow ing to what he regards as the failure of congress to revise the tariff In keeping with republican mid by retiHun of the wll'- promises, rfd din- H W III. t In r. SENATOR OVU IS HERE FOR REST - News. HAVE FALtEN -AWAY MUCH, UNCLE SAM?' nate Insults which the actual presi dent and head of . the party has heaped upon the - twelve hundred thousand white republicans of the southern states, who honored him by their confidence and. their suffrages at the last election. - ' - ' .This naked and ; undeniable fact would make my position as a candi date not simply untenable but impos sible. So that my self-respect, ss well as my obligations to the party, force me to stand aside until a differ ent posture of affairs shall be pre sented. The rumblings In the Sixth district of Missouri and the cataclysms In the Fourteenth Massachusetts and in the Thirty-second New York districts seem to have had no. effect upon Mr. Taft and he will probably con tinue In his fatuous course until the elections In next November reveal the fact that he has lost friends in our party and gained neither votes nor thanks from the other. - RICHMOND PEARSON. July 25, 1010. . As to OUiers. Among other things, It would seem that the foregoing Is nothing If not candid. H definitely removes Mr. fturson from the political equation, WILL OPERATE TRAINS despite THREATS Grand Trunk Railroad Officials Deter mined to Resume Freight and Passenger Service. South Bend, Ind., July 25. Despite threatening mob violence the Grand Trunk . railroad 'onViials are deter mined to resume train service through this city today at any cost - This In cludes the operation of passenger and freight trains. f .' JEFFRIES SAYS "SOMETHING WAS THE MATTER WITH ME" llrwt Kipreaslou "From Defeated Champion on Iletio Affair Made Today Will All Coine Out Asklon, Catalina Island, Cal., July 25.. "There was something the mat ter with me. They sure did something to irve and It will all come out some dsy." These words are the first Jim Jeffries has uttered In connection with the Reno fight since he was taken to Oakland, a beaten man. , Not An Illegal Sale Liquor Recorded in New York, July Zfi.. -Not one com I 1 h,t r,f lh 111. I In of li'iunr In so far as running for office In the approaching campaign is concerned, and gives the Buncombe political sit uation a new twist The obvious pro gram had been to dragoon, or con script Messrs. Pearson, Rollins and Brown, and the belief that they would feel Impelled to yield under properly directed pressure seems to have been father to the thought In the primary held In the Third precinct Saturday night Mr. Rollins, as chairman, untied a vote against instructions, and Mr. Brown said today that he had noth ing to add to the letter recently pub lished In this paper. Mr. Brown ad mitted that he felt under deep obliga tions to a party that honored him, but added that there were times when a man was warranted in declining to peiform what his friends considered a party service, and he felt that such a situation had now arisen. Two phy tlc'rini, said Mr. Brown, had advised him against such a course, and this advice he feels he should not be ask ed to disregard. "I will not," said Mr. Brown, "run for any office this year." There is e ery Indication that the re publican slate makers will be com pelled to call something like an ex traordinary session in the near fu ture. T Five Deaths Result from the Heat, While Thousands Flee to the Parks. New York, July 25. Five deaths In the last 24 hours are attributed to heat' Thousands of tenement dwell ers, unable to stand the heat of the crowded districts, last night fled to the parks and open spaces. Tester day was the hottest day of the sea son, the thermometer reaching 14. Motor Boat Burned as Result of Ex plosion. New York, July 25. An explosion of an oil stove aboard the big motor boat Don Quixote, set the craft ablaxe, burning her to the water's edge within sn hour off Bergen Beach. Arthur Ralsey of Brooklyn and wife, sleeping on the boat had a harrow escape from death. N.Y.Sunday - 1 night. This condition is unprecedent In I ed nnd is a rlltnat to the three 01 DAY NEW YORK CITY Indications Are That His Erstwhile Political Friends Have De- serted Him. - DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION WILL . NOT LIKELY ADOPT HIS PLAN County Option Plank In Platform, Which Bryan Advocates, WUI Meet Defeat Tomorrow. Grand Island, Neb., July 25. Demo crata of Nebraska will hold their plat form convention in this city tomorrow and K promises to be of greater In terest than any gathering of the kind held In this state for many years. That there will be a contest to secure a county option plank In the platform is admitted by every leader in the democratic state organization. And that contest will be carried on be tween leaders who heretofore have agreed In every way on what demo cratic platform should contain. Wll Ham J. Bryan, for the first time Blnce he took up the leadership of the dem ocratic party, will be opposed by for mer associates within his own state. The fight for and against county option has become an open one. Mr. Bryan and his friends are actively en gugea in an attempt to secure a county option plank while Congress man Hitchcock of Omaha and Mayor James U. Dahlman also of that city, supported by Governor Shallenberger are equally active ia an, effort to se cure a aeciaration against such a plank. The situation Is considered an un usual one because the men who at present are most actively opposing Mr. Bryan were formerly his strong est supporters. This condition, con sldered with the fact that the cam paign for the selection of a state ticket and United States senator has taken on many different angles, has given Impetus to. thei politllal struggle In Nebraska seldom it ever witnessed be fore. . , . , ., , ., Congressman Hitchcock "has .been for several months an avowed candi date for United States senator and has been organizing his forces throughout the state With a view to securing the support of the rank and file of his party. Ho has stated his position as bWng opposed to county option until the people of the statev under an initiative and referendum law shall declare specifically for It There Is little doubt that the anti county option men will present such a plank and that it will be heartily opposed by Mr. Bryan and his friends, Mr. tsryan nas always been given a place' on the resolutions committee when he attended the state conven tions and his. policies have always pre vailed In the writing of platforms. inai ne win De. accorded the same courtesy of appointment at Tuesday's convention is generally admitted, al though It Is believed that there will be an overwhelming majority opposed to him on the question of county op tion. It Is now apparent that he will carry the fight to the floor of the con vention and there make a plea for a straight county option plank. Six hundred of the eight hundred dele gates to the convention are either in structed or are known to be opposed to such a plank and extreme Interest centers . on wbt effect Mr. Bryan'h speech on the convention floor will have on the majority. Richard L. Metcalfe, associated with Mr. Bryan in the publication of the latter's psper, announced his candi dacy for United States senator at the last moment In opposition to Con gressman Hitchcock. He has received the uqualihed endorsement of Mr. Bryan, who expresses the belief that Metcalf can poll more votes than any other democrat, himself not excluded. Both Bryan and Metcalfe were form erly employed by Mr. Hitchcock. II three have been closely associated In the political world until now, and by many democratic leaders it Is believed the coming state convention will mark the parting of the ways." mere still remains in Nebraska a great number of prominent democrats who have always styled themselvet gold democrats" and who have never been reconciled to Mr. Bryan. These leaders, one of whom, Constantlne J smytn, an Omaha attorney and a forceful orator, will be temporary chairman of the convention are ap parently in control of the state organ isatlon and have made common cause with Congressman Hitchcock, Gov ernor Shallenberger and Mayor Dahl man. Many of them believe that cry an should no longer attempt to con trol the party In this state and openly declare that he will be invited to sUp aside from the position aa party leader. Three candidates for making a fight for the gubernatorial nomination, are Governor Shallenberger Mayor Dahl man of Omaha and W. R. Patrick of South Omaha, a member of the last legislature. Patrick Is the Bryan can dldate. Governor Shallenberger mjaklng a particularly strong fight against county option. The primaries occur August 2, a week after the con vention. Another Important state Issue Is the question of capital retnovaL. There la a somewhat general feollng that the atate capltol should be located at a point near the center of the state, and Mr. Dahlman has declared himself openly aa favoring such action aa will take the executive offices away from Lincoln. This proposition of course, strongly oppowd by the people of Lin coln an'l I'V p nnv ,-.-,!nty opditn 1vn Grand Tpunk Officials Are of the Opinion That Their Troub- . t . les Are Nearing ; anFnrl -v . - BUT THE STRIKE LEADERS EXPRESS THEIR CONFIDENCE They Apparently Feel they Will Be Able to Dietate Terms of Any Agree ment ThatMay Be Made. 1VT WTREAL, July 25. The so lution of the Grand Trunk Railroad strike situation Is probable, according to the - com pany's officials. It neither - in-' eludes, they say, arbitration, nor fur- , ther negotiations with the five thou sand conductors and trainmen who etrucke a week ago for a wage scale higher thun 25 per cent Increase, a warded by the , conciliation board. The strike leaders express the utmost confidence I nthe steadfastness of their ranks, and the ability to force th-J. railroad to terms by Irremediable freight paralysis. The railroad officials began the week with an ambitious program. It was announced that all kinds of ,.aIi1.1 1.1,1 Kn tanmnaA f rW IwimA- dtete shlpmcnt. The 8hons that closed a week ago re-opened todaj'. Ten thousand employe hsve return ed to their places. Several minor wrecks, alleged to be due to tampering with switches by unauthorised per- : sons, have been reported. Strike lead ers say these were .accidents resulting from handling trains by inexperienced men. . - ... The traffic returns of the -Grand Trunk last week show, a decrease of 105,000 in net earnings -compared wiith the week previous."-' Freight Traffic Resumed. ' Detroit ' Julir-' 2 5 Freight traffic . was resumed on the Grand Trams; rail road yesterday for the first time since ,, the strike began. The freight move ments did not incite the strikers to rioting. The police had no trouble malning order. HI CELEBRATING CITY'S DI-CENTEilAL Griffin Memorial Building Dedicated Today Hannis Taylor Chief , Speaker. Newbern, July 25. The celebration of the Newbern bl-centennial. re-enacting stirring events of the city's his- , jry, began this morning with the dedication of Griffin memorial build ing. Hannis Taylor, a native of this city and former minister to Spain, was ths principal speaker. The city is a-flutter with flags. The city Is thronged with visitors witnesslne the historical pageant ENGINEER AND BRAKEMEN KILLED IN FREIGHT WRECK Freight - Plunged , Through Switch Near Nllea, o and Overturn- ' ed In Ditch. Nlles. O., July S 5. Engineer George Nayer and Brakeman W. A. Reddout of an extra eastbnund Frle freight were Instantly killed this morning when the freight plunged through a switch near here. The engine, tender and one car overturned In t ditch along the track. MldHhlpmsut Taken I1L Washington. July 26. Midshipman William Harrison Saunders of Bump- ter, 8. C, was taken HI with pneu monia while the practice squadron of 500 midshipmen was at Gibraltar and was removed to the Royal Naval hos pital before the ships cleared for Ma derla yesterday, according to report from Captain Clark, commanding. Saunders was appointed to the Naval , academy In 11. The fleet complete! a ten thousand mile cruise at Hamp ton Roads about August 12. General Alarm Sent Ooat New York. July 25. A general alarm Is sent the police throughout the southern states and Canada for the arrest of Erwln Wider, cashier of the Russo-Chlnese bank, charged with is I taking 170,000 In bonds from a safety deposit box. Chilean President at Panama. Panama, July 26. The Chilean cruiser, Esmeralda, having aboard President Montt of Chile, who to on his way to fiurope via the United States, anchored in the harbor this morning. Veteran of Two Ware Ded. Washington, July S5. Hwr mlral Thomm II. l.. k. r. n v ff thli :in K' I I' ' r . -r 1 - -. - r A I- ! to July fi'm Ki i i I; -li i 1 II I w ,., ., , ,,, i ,., v -i .,:-! i f Myr Uaynor'a cat.-s v -1 i . I R 1 i a .1 v ! mi I f. ) i.i i i I, ,.f !,, :; the exi lw.
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