North Carolina Newspapers

THZ ASSOCIATED PSESS DISPATCHES LAST EDITION 4:00 P.M. Weat&er rorecut: Partly Cloudy. VOL. XV. NO. 166. ASHEVILLE, N. C , SATURDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 20, 1910. Sc PER COPY of the Drivers in 24 Hours Race at Brighton Beach mm -A COTTON M ON 1 RAMPAbE IN CLIMPLrtir Speculative Shorts Start a Sen sation by Effort to Cover and August Goes Boom ing up. GRIP OF BULL LEADERS APPARENTLY HOLDING FAST New Crop Months, Starting up Slowly, Sell up to a Net Gain of Be tween 10 and 20 Points. N EW YOP.K, Aug. 20 The cot ton market today had another phase of the big bull campaign Which hag been In progress since last whiter under the leadership of south ern hull operators. There was a sen sational advance In price of August cotton. .Speculative shorts' who, despite big prices reached In May and July "were waiting until the last moment, hop ing the new crop movement In the southwest would lead to liquidation- of bull holdings, became active buyers. There was no Indication the bull lead ers were loosening their grip upon the situation. It Is now too late to 'Start shipments here from the south with any certainty that the cotton will nr- rive In time for delivery before the end of the month. Shorts Kelso Opportunity, lii'iiuiining short Interest stnrted covering thlB morning when reports of scattered showers In the southwest drought sections appeared likely to render the Tongs more willing sellers. The offerings were very small and af ter opening at 15.90 August deliveries sold quickly up to 16.42, about $2.50 per bale above the closing price of yesterday and at a new high record for the season. It was estimated the shorts were not able to buy over 2000 or 3000 bales on this big advance and rumors that the total Interest remain- Tendered the whole market nervous. . Net Gain for New Crop. New crop months followed the Au KUKt advance rather slowly owing to talk of hetter weather in Texas, but gradually sold up to a net of between 10 ami 20 points, as mnny private wires received claimed that showers had not been in the sections most In need of moisture. CHOLERA SITUATION IS DISCUSSEDJY CABINET Doctors Fighting Progress of Plague in Stricken Italian Provinces. Home, Aug. 20. Premier Luzzattl has arrived In Home from Turin for the purpose of convoking a meeting of the cabinet ministers at which the cholera situation In Apulia was thor oughly discussed today. Apulia com prises the provinces of Barl Foggla and Jjrcet In southwestern Italy. All measures to combat and overcome the epidemic were approved at the council and the premier learned with satis faction, since doctors had been sent to the stricken district, they had fought the spread of the disease which now seems to be confined to the few places where it first broke out. The cholera continues to be the most severe at Tranl, a seaport on the Adriatic sea, where within the last twenty-four hours nineteen new cases and twelve deaths are reported. Out side of this town the latest cases re ported are: Three casts and one death at An una; three deaths at Marietta, one case and one death at Marguerita; one case and no deaths at Cerlgnola; one death at Trlnltapoll; two cases and one death at Biscogllc, ape one case and one death at Bitonto. CONDITION OF GAYNOR , REPORTERS EXCELLENT 11iynlclan Relieve He Has FasMHl angcr Point Will Go to Adl. rondst'ks KltorUy. New Tork, Aug. 10. Mayor Gay nor's condition was excellent this morning and his physicians believe he has passed the danger point He will o to the Adirondack shortly to com plete his recovery. Propped up with pillows.' Muyor Qaynor sat up In bed for mors than an hour yesterday reading and. talking to his seven years old daughter, Ruth. Toni the child's lips he heard the latest news from his country home at ct. James, U I , NEW ENGLAND WOMAN LEADS LONDON SWIMMING MATCH London, Aug. 20. Miss Flsls Ay- kroyda, a New England women ama t'ur, was first to pass Hammersmith h'ldge In the swimming match on Thnmes thrniiKli lyimlon tods v. The lenelh of the me In IS miles. Iht'iu wrre ii utarter. SUPPORT PLEDGED TO MR.ROOSEVELT National Negro Business Men's League is for Him for Pres . ident in 1912. New York, Aug. 20. Colonel Roose velt, former 'president of the United States, speaking yesterday before 1,100 delegates to the National Negro Business Men's League, who cheered him and pledged him the support of the negro electorate for a possible third term, counselled his hearers to make tho most of their opportunities. The white man ol the south," said Mr. Roosevelt, "Is the vital man to have sympathy with the negro. When your neighbor likes und respects you, you have won your battle. The white man of the north does his worst work In Interfering between the two peoples of the south and his best work when he Improves their relations. . 'I would not slup over the Injustice with which colored men are treated, but I feel that the really substantial way ot ooimuHtlsir injustice to 4a Uajn your people so that the white . man will, willingly recognize In his colored neighbor a desirable neighbor. Every down-at-the-heel, ram-sha kle negro cabin Is not only luul for '.he people who live In it, but is a reflection on the race. The man who lives a ne er-uo- well life of Idleness is doing not only ill to himself but to his people. I be lieve In this league. As I wrote five years ago, when I whs president, 1 believe In It because it is out of poli tics. You also stimulate among your people principles of business enter prise. That is well. You recognize that you should build a firm founda tion before you can erect your super structures. In Mombasa we were shown much courtesy by un American colored man who was serving there as a doctor. At a government experiement station 1 found a Jamtilcun negro In charge. An abyss of nearly ten thousand years seemed to separate these two men from the naked savages I had seen,, yet the abyss was not more than two hundred years. In your advance there have been haltlngs and short comings, short rtlngs on the purt of the whites as well as on your part. Nevertheless there has been prog ress. "It takes some time to make a re former think that an outlook Is not one of unalloyed gloom. You some times see a reformer who thinks If he says a good word about anything he will be set down as a hopeless reac tionary. "You colored men and women must set your faces like flint against those who would preach to you only the gospel of hate, envy and- bitterness. Realize that the only way to help your race Is not by preaching vlndtc tiveness and hatred, but by leading your people up to prosperty through good citizenship." EDITOR OF COMMONER S VERY BADLY BEATEN Hitchcock Wini Thret to Ona-Dahl man's Majority lor Governor Will Bb About 1000 Votes. Omaha. Aug. 20. Mayor "Jim Dahlman's majority for ths democraUc nomination for governor has been considerably reduced, from the first estimate but will bs about 1000 votes. Returns give ' Congressman Hitch cock for United States senator on the democratic ticket more than three times ttw vote of his nearest compet itor, Richard l Metcalf, editor of William Jennings Bryan's paper, the Commoner. WIIKAT VOn FRANCE. Million RnslicU of American Grain Has Hecn Nought for Export Within I'sst Ten Days. New Tork. Aug. 20. The market report for the past (en days shows that during tnat lime i.uuu.uuu ouan els of American wheat was purchased for exportation to France. The l-'roi.rh whist crop bn shown deilclt of atoet 07,000,000 bushels. HE FELL ASLEEP ON THE T And When Capt. Parkins Was Aroused He Found an $800 Check Had Disappeared. Beaufort, N. C, Aug. 20. Capt. James M. Parkins of Morchead City, N. C, cashed un eight hundred dollar check at Newborn, N. C, yesterday and while returning home on the Nor folk Southern truin fell asleep. When aroused he was in a stupor and his money gone. HIS FAMILY HISTORY Spent Day in Homes and Haunts of An cestorsRelatives Gathered to Shake His Hand. ' . ' Beverly, Mass., Aug. 20. Forget ting for the moment the troubles and worries of politics and politicians. President Tuft spent the greater purt of yesterday In the homes and haunts of his ancestors. The president rum maged Into his own family history and met scores of relatives. Some were so remote as hardly to be count ed, hut they were all Tafts or Torreys and the most distinguished member of the family seemed glad to he able to shako the hands of all. -All Kinds or Tart, There were lung Tafts and short Tafts, big Tafts and 'little Tafts, blonde, brunettes and red-hulred, "We hud all sorts In the family," laughed the president. It was over at Motion and Bridge and that vicinity that the Tafts set tled way back in KiSO. Robert Taft was the llrst of the Tafts to come over from England. Then In direct line of descent, the generations lead down to the president us follows: Joseph H. Taft. Peter Taft, Aaron Tuft, Peter Rawson Tdft, Alphonso Tuft and William Howard Taft The president's Robert is the eighth gen eration. In the genealogical analysis that the day brought forth It was discov ered that through an ancient strain (Continued on page S.) FAGT1 AGREE 0NPEACE TERMS So Say Cablegrams Received in New Orleans by the Steamship Companies. New Orleans. Aug. 20. Cablegrams received from Rlueilelds by local steumshiD companies state thnt the revolution .In Nicaragua Is ended and that Madrlt and Estrada factions have agreed upon terms of peace. FORMER SENATOR CALL OF FLORIDA IS DYING y Taken from Home In Washington to Emergency Hospital This After v noon 86 Years Old. Washington. Aug. 20. Former United Rtates Benstor Wilkinson Call of Florida was taken from his home to the emergency hospital this after noon In oa apparently dying condition, He Is l years old. THE WxVATHKH. For Ashevllle and vicinity: Partly cloudy weather tonight and Bundtiy, For North Carolina: Fair In the In terior showers on the coiuit tonight or Hominy. LONQWORTH SAVED POLITICAL SCALP By Repudiating1 Cannon Some of the Cincinnati Republicans Say Charles Taft's Paper Prints Longworth State ment Under a Eight-Column Headline. New York Herald Syndicate special. Cincinnati, O., Aug. 20. That Rep resentative Nicholas I.nngworth has saved his political scalp by declaring against Speaker Joseph C. Cannon for re-election and that this will bring thousands of votes over to his side of the ticket In November is the assertion nude here by prominent republicans. Wesley ('. Rlppey, councilman, who Is acknowledged to be Mr. Longworth's chief aid In politics and business, said that the assumption by Mr. longworth of the insurgency colors will mean that none of the- democrats will be able to find any grounds tor contend ing his election. Prominent politicians say Mr. lougworth's majority will EmpHatic Denials 1 OYSTER HAY, Aug. L(). Theodore Roosevelt to day denied emphatically that le had sent iin ultimatum to 'resident Tuft demanding that the president break with Vice- Population Increased WASHINGTON, Aug. 20. The thirteenth census returns show the population of Atlanta, Ga., is 154,339, an iu- crease of G4,!)(!7, or 72.3 per New Cases of Are Reported in Italy IV I ART, ITALY, Aug. 20, 1V1 Several new cases and deaths have been reiiorted rom Trani, where the cholera epidemic continues with men acing effect uiHHi the popula tion. n RAISE DUTY DN COTTON SEED OIL Minister to Uraguay, Morgan, Has Hope of Prevailing on That Govern ment not to Do So. Washington, Aug. 0. The efforts of Edwin V. Morgan, American minister to Uruguay, to Induce that govern ment not to Incresse the duty on cot ton seed oil has met with some en couragement, according to a dispatch received at the state department from Montevideo. Minister Morgan states that the duty will not bo Increased until after fullest consideration by the Uruguayan oongreas. Placet! Wreath on Lnfayctte's Tomb. Paris, Aug. 20. The Virginia dele gation, headed by Colonel James Mann, which cam here for the dedi cation August II of the bron is replica of the Houdorr ststue of Washington presented to Krone by Virginia, totliiy pliti-ed a wrrath on I41 Fayette's tomb on the snnlveiflary of IiIh d uth. i Jump to ten thousand In his district for tho six thoutand wlilth it usually gives. "The democratic candidate in the Fir.Ht Ohio district was making great preinitlonp. to defeat him on this one point," suld Mr. Itippey, "but now that point has been taken from him he has very little to argue in his campaign speeches." George V.. Cox would say nothing about the declination. Charles P. Taft's newspaper printed Mr. long worth's dcclirution under an "ight column heading, and by this It is taken to mean that the move was one of important concern and wholly sanc tioned by President Taft. President Slierinan. He also denied the report Hint Lloyd (!. Cirisconi was to Ko to the summer enpitot to "carry terms of peace between Beverlv and Sagamore Hill." of Atlanta 72.3 Per Ct. cent, compared with H!),!77 in 1910. Wnterhury, Conn., has 141, an increase of U7.-S7 Ii!).5 per cent. -or Cholera Strict Measures Ordered in France. Paris, Aug. 20. Premier Briand has ordered the strict est precautionary measures of insjM'ction along the Italian frontier on account of the out break of cholera in Italy. WIFE SUES FOR DIVORCE; TS Member of Prominent Virginia Family Blows Off Top of His Head With Shotgun. Norfolk, Aug. 20. Bued for divorce by his wife and with all their six chil dren reported to be oh the side of the mother, Hunter James, aged 68, today committed suicide with shotgun. He blew off tho top of his head. James was a nephew of the late Col. Edward James, formerly promi nent In the Virginia legislature, and a cousin of E. W. James who bequeathed $250,000 to 'the university of Virgin's. Florence Nightingale's Funeral toilet. London, Aug. 20. Florence Night ingale. "Ansrel of the Crimea," who died August 13th, was burled this flf ternoon beside the bodies of her fatlv er and mother. The ceremonies were of a quiet na ture. ; 4 mi j.f'J3 r F ARE UNDERARREST Arraigned Charged With De frauding Illinois Central Out of $1,500,000. Chicago, Aug. 20. Three former executive officers of the Illinois Cen tral Kuilroud company were arrested yesterday on warrants in connection with the alleged frauds by means of which the railroad was defrauded, it is said, of $1,500,000. The men ar rested are: Frank Ii. Harriman, formerly gen eral manager of the road; Charles U Ewing, formerly manager -of lines north of the Ohio river; John M. Tay lor, formerly generul storekeeper of the roud. The warrants sworn to by T. J. Hurrahan, president of the Illinois Central railroad, charge the three men with conspiracy to cheat and de fraud the railroad by false pretenses and with operating a confidence game. Harriman and Ewlng were taken to the Harrison street police station. Their bonds of $10,000 each were ajKned by a professional bondsman. The allegations In the ' graft case are startling. The investigation be- ruii a ycur ago. It reached a crisis last spring when President Harrahan began actions to recover sums said to aggregate more than $1,000,000 al leged to Imve been taken from the road by cut repair companies In con nivance with high officials of the road. Hurrimuii, Ewlng, Taylor and many others of less magnitude re signed their positions. Much of the money Is said to have been repaid privately. The name of Ira O. Kawn, who resigned the vice presidency of the Illinois Central road to become president of the Monon system, and who was found dead re cently at his home with a bullet wound In his breast, was brought into the scandal. Murray Nelson, jr., at torney for the Illinois Central, said that Rawn's death headed oft war rants which would have been Issued for him. Private detectives working under the direction of President Harrahan ire said to have unearthed frauds other than those connected with pad tied car repair bills. These are said to involve the diverting of $1,000,000 or more from new construction funds. The Investigators say they have pro cured several confessions, which will be used In their attempt to fasten guilt on culpable persons. The day's developments brought tne name of Ewlng into the case for the first time. "I have never been ap proached by any attorney or detec tive engaged in this case," said Mr. Harriman. "I am perfectly Innocent of any and nil charges made against me. I will admit that I have been awnlHiiz some such action as tnis in order to refute the charges. I am glad of the opportunity to clear my name.' An official of the Illinois Central road Intimated that other warrants would follow those Issued. FREIGHT CARS DERAILED; And Passenger Train No. 1 3 Delayed About Six Hours Last Evening Near Landrunvt S. C. As a result of the derailment of two freight cars near Landrum, 8. C, late svsterday afternoon several hundred feet of track was torn up; passenger train No. IS.'due here early last even ins was about six hours lata and Con ductor Mears of the freight suffered a bruised leg. The train was muklng about 20 miles an hour when the cars left the track, turned over and drag' ged (00 feet, tearing up the track as they went along. Conductor Mears was In the caboose when the accident occurred ntu In some manner sunored a alight Injury to the leg. A wrerklng train was sent out from here and the track was clear ed and traffic resumed shortly before t o'clock this morning. A 1250,000 Lumber Yard Fire. t'nlontown. Pa., Aug. 20. Fire In McKarluttd's lumber plant today caused a loss of $20,000. OB 0 Say Freight Rates on Coal to South Carolina Are Too High from the Tennessee Field. AN ADVANCE OF 15 CENTS WAS EFFECTIVE AUGUST 15 .1L..;ifji A New Proposition as to the Reason ableness of a Freight Rate Pre sented to Interstate Commission. IINGTON. Aug. 20. South Carolina cotton mill men are complaining of the rates on cor steam coal from various fields which supply them- fuel. The Victor Man- ' ufacturlng company of Oreers, 8. C, and other large cotton operators In South Carolina have instituted com plaint before the Interstate commerce commission against the Southern Rail way company and other carriers urg ing that the present rates of coal from ' the Coal Creek region In Tennessee are unjust and unreasonable and re cent advances made In those rates are ur lawful and discriminatory. Increased August 15. The Southern Railway filed In July a tariff on coal from the Coal Creek, region in Tennessee to South Caro lina points, including Spartanburg as a basing point, increasing rates about IS cents a ton. Tariff became effective August 15. The complaints now ask that the recent advances be suspended. This could not be done by the com mission as the tariffs had become ef fective. The New Proposition. Complaintants advance the proposl-, tlor. that the cost of transportation of coal to them from the nVld should not exceed their ability to pay, pro vided the carriers receive fair return for the services rendered. This Is a new phase of Uve transportation prob lem applying to - fuwU and what tho comminution may do with It Is the sub- eel of conjecture. The old rate from the Coal Creek field to South Carolina points is $1.80 a ton. The complaint ants maintain the rates should not ex- eed $1.55 a ton. The advanced rate is $1.!5 a ton to the basing point In South Carolina. The commission Is urged to fix a rate as a proper and lawful charge. SIX PERSONS KILLED III II GASOLINE Explosion Occurred on Ferry Boat and Many Were Blown Into Water Shook the Bay. Curling, N. F.. Aug. 20. Six per sons were killed and four Injured yes terday by an explosion on a gasoline ferry boat midway between St. Georges and Sandy Point The boat was wrecked. The explosion shook the bay, and pieces of iron and woodwork were scattered for several hundred feet in every direction. The upper deck was torn to pieces. Several passengers were thrown into. the water. They were not seriously injured, but of those who remained aboard only one escaped. Amang the victims were two wo men tourists. The Injured were frightfully burn ed. After being treated at St. Georges they were taken to the hospital at St. Johns. The boat was new and had only been on the route two months. The exact cause of the explosion ha not yet been determined, but an Investi gation Is In progress. ' AN ITALIAN ARMY AVIATOR, VIVALDI, KILLED BY A FALL Rome. Aug. 20. Lieut. Vivaldi of the Italian army was killed this morn ing by a fall from hia aeroplane. He made a trip from the military aviation field on the Mediterranean aea and was returning to Rome when the ma chine dasned to earth, killing the pilot. O. K. ON DREXUL'S FEAT. Sclcntlllc Approval of Ills Claim to Record Aeropla m Flight of t75S, Rased on Instrument. London, Aug. 20. Scientific ap proval was placed upon the world's altitude record for aeroplane, S7S2 fdrt, established by J. Armstrong Drexel. the American aviator, when the Kew observatory, after testing Drexel's barograph. Issued a certificate of Its accuracy. Funeral of Montt August SS. Berlin, Aug. 20. The funeral of the late Preoldent Pedro Montt of Chile, who died suddenly at liremen August 1, after his arrival f-om New York, will be held here Thursday, August 25. Emperor William will attend.