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She THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES LAST EDITION 4:00 P. M. Weather n rorecast: Warmjer. Fair and VOL. XV. NO. 223. ASHEVILLE, N. C, WEDESDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 26, 1910. 3c PER COPT. LIST 'm STANDS 111 iu3 King Emmanuel Visits Naples to Help in the Work of Relief and Is Greeted by People With Wild Enthusiasm. THEIR LAURELS QUICKLY FADE Balloon America II. Is Reported To Have Been Seen Last Tuesday "Til! mm HIGHEST PLACE IS SHinillED"j FOR II NEGRO THOUSANDS WITHOUT HOMES; FOOD SUPPLY IS A PROBLEM Movement of Supplies U Difficult, on Account of Condition of Roads Eighty Persons Perished at Cetara Alone. NAPLES, Oft. 2. Kin Eminnmiol arrived Iv nounced today. The I ne Victor here unan- coming of the king was not wholly unexpected, however, for wherever widespread fluttering exist.", his majesty Is sure to he found sympathizing with the af flicted and directing relief work. He was acclaimed by the populace with wild enthusiasm. The known dead from the cyclone, tidal wave and accompanying erup tions of Mount Vesuvius and Mount Epomee are 18!. The greatest loss of life was at Cetara, where 80 perished. Thousands are homeless; it is problem to provide lor them. The movement of supplies is difficult, because of bad roads. ADVANCING OF RATES IN TRANSIT UNLAWFUL Decision Rendered Today in Two Cases by the Interstate Commerce Commission. Washington. Oct. 26. By a decision todny the Interstate commerce com mission holds that It Is not lawful for interstate freight carriers to advance rates on shipments during the period of their transportation. The decision was rendered in two rases, one Instituted by the Southern Cotton company against the Atlantic Coast Une and one against the Cen tral ot Georgia. It Is held that legal rates applicable on reshlpments were the rates In effect at the time the shipments started from the points of origin. other Kates Suspended. An order is Issued by the commls lon suspending until March 1! next the tariffs on staves headings and lumber, recently filed by the transcon tinental freight bureaus' agents. The agent proposed considerable advanc es over present rates from all eastern points to destinations as far west as the Pacific coast. The commission also suspended proposed advances In rates on cement tiled by some of the western roads and on live-stock be tween Missouri and Mississippi river transfer points and Chicago. HUGH RICHARDS GARDEN DIES AT AGE OF SEVENTY lie Was Captain and Organiser Of Famous Confederate Palmetto Battery. New York. Oct. 16. News of the death of Hugh Richards Garden, or ganizer and captain of the famous Confederate Palmetto battery, reach ed here today from Southport, N. C. .Death was caused by apoplexy. ("apt. Garden was 70 years old. and was lKrn In Columbia. 8. C. lie was n lawyer In New York for 25 years. He married Elisabeth Richardson, the daughter of Judge Richardson, of Virginia. A It HI COT EXPECTED TODAY. Three Men Suspeeted of Dynamiting Los Angeles Times IV Taken When Mall Liner Kearln- Apulco. Han Francisco, Oct. S4. A Los An geles dispatch to a local paper says that three men suspected in connec tion with the dynamiting of the Los Angeles Times building will be ar rested today when the Pacific Mall liner Ban Juan reaches Acapulco. on the Mexican coast. Tribesmen of Mindanao Run Amuck. Manila, Oct. tS. Two bands of Manobes tribesmen are depredating the west coast of Davao. Mindanao Island, and have killed several plant ers. All available troops were order ed to the scene today. Aviator Falls 100 Fret and Is Killed Paris, Oct. it. M. Blanchard, an aviator, fell from a height of 100 feet today, and was Instantly killed, lie was atttmptlng to deacsnd at lasy Des Records Made by Aviators at Belmont Park Only to Be Broken Wright Machine Rises 7303 Feet. A SNAPPING NORTH WIND PREVENTS EARLY FLYING None of the Aviators Ventured Out To dayThey May Have Some "Good Air'' Toward Sunset, However. B ELMONT Park, New York, Oct. 26. A snapping norther, blow ing at 30 to 35 miles an hour. kept aviators this afternoon from ven turing out. When the sun begins to sink there may lie an hour or so of good air. The American altitude record that J. Armstrong Drexel so proudly brought down out of the clouds .Mon day afternoon in his Blerlot mono plane, was snatched from his grasp yesterday by Ralph Johnstone, In a headless Wright climber. Drexel reached 7,105 feet, hut Johnstone topped him by 198 feet with a new mark of 7,303 feet. He came down chilled to the bone, and his goggles rimmed with frost. For half an hour he had battled with a snowstorm above the clouds, seeking still higher levels. The undemonstrative Wilbur Wright danced with joy when he glanced at the barograph. "It's bet ter than 2000 meters," he cried and began to prance again. He knew that the fourth duy of the international aviation meet at Belmont Park had brought him his share of honors. Latham the Fancy. Hubert Latham in an Antoinette monoplane, frightened the crowd when he began to do aerial flip-flaps under the edge of a nasty lookliiK storm cloud, half a rails np In the air lie righted and then shot to earth In one steep, rushing swoop. The edges of a tree brushed his descent, and punctured one of his wing sur faces, but be landed with only minor injuries to his machine and none to himself. When the meet began, with the hourly competition for distance that regularly opens the day's program, the banging of the bomb found Gra-hame-WhIte out for his daily prome nade around tha track. Latham was his only competitor, and when engine trouble forced Orahame - White's Farms n biplane off the field, it look ed as if Latham, in his flying fish, Antoinette, would have the event to himself. Rut Orahame-White was not to be caught napping. He saw that the scantiest score whatsoever would bring him second place, and. late In the hour tinkered up his col- lleky engine to last two rounds and took down the easiest hundred dol lars of the tournament Altitude Trials. Hoxsey and Johnstone both went up for altitude. Johnstone had en tered for distance, but Just before he left th ground, Wilbur Wright In struct' d him to go after altitude. In the haste of the moment they both forgot that he was without a baro graph, the Instrument which reoorda height, and when he came down from the upper levels he had nothing to show for his effort and was left un placed. The Frenchman DeLesseps pointed up much later than the Wright pupils, but caught them both and soaring above them brought down the prise for the first hour. The second hourly event was a pur suit race. Orahame-White tried his Farman again, found It unreliable, took It off the field for repairs and during his absence saw the lead he gained by his watchful promptness steadily cut down by speedier rivals who had started later. Hopeless of getting his Farman into running order again Grahams-White took out his fast lilerlot monoplane, the first time he haB been saen In It here In com nelttlnn. He gained steadily on Mc Curdy in c Curtlas biplane, but the latter finished nrst with a lap to me good. It turned out, however, that McCurdy had fouled twice In trying to cut the corners fine and the forfeit tort him Hrst place. In the meantime Hoxsey and John atone had gone up for altitude again, accompanied this time by Latham In his Antoinette. The wind had rang ed stadlly all afternoon at between fiom I to 11 miles an hour, but now aAgry looking clouds began to bank lip In the north, and soon there was a patter of rain. The Antoinette, most beautiful of monoplanes, was soaring right at the edge oi a pr ii, rk hlack cloud. Its perfect pro- ..i.. i,. .ham outline a picture of .HIV rut. assured poise. ifnmev. rluht over the center of ih. nld. seemed the higher, though and Johnstone, far out beyond the hark' of the grand stand, hidden from those In the boxes and on the benches, waa weaving his way In and out of the clouds, now half hidden In mist, now lost completely and again glinting bright In the sun i I -J mmv vXfy"&$- Li I TO si . Louis. Oct. 36. An abandoned balloon basket Iius been found nn the shore of Luke Superior, near Port Ar thur, out., according to a message re ceived here. Port Arthur, Ont., Oct. 2. Gov ernment forest rangers sent word here today (li.it a balloon was seen de scending In i be forent between here mid Bin ok sturgeon lake early tills i iiorn Inn A relief party will Ite sent to lind It. IT AW A, Oct. L'G. The outlook for obtaining information of tli he whereabouts of the balloon America II. grows less encouraging every hour, according to Edmond II. Stratton, representative ot the Aero club of America, who is in charge of the search. Regarding the lighted balloon which was reported as having been seen last night at a height of about a mile, by a mail clerk on the Canadian Paclllc and two others, near Fort William, Stratton suld that if It was a balloon It must have been a derelict, as the America could not have been afloat with passengers us late as yesterday. The search for the missing aeronauts, however, will continue with unabated seal. RAILROAD BUSINESS BETTER THAN FARMING Better Investment, Is the Position Taken bf Shippers in Freight Rate Hearing. Chicago, Oct. 2G. That the rall rouds get better return from their In vestment than the farmer, despite the tatter's much talked of ability to buy automobiles, was the position taken In a rate hearing today, when shippers who oppose the proposed advances In freight tariffs put H. C. Wallace of Des Moines, la., on the stand as their Hrst witness. Mr. Wallace, a farmer and editor, wns elected president of the national conservation congress at St. Paul re cently. C. H. MACKAY IS MOVING HIS STUD FROM KENTUCKY sci ere Blow to Breeding In SJO0.0OO Worth of Horse Flesh Is Being SIdpped to France. Ixlngton, Ky Oct. 26. Clarence H. MaclCay today started moving his Kingston stud to France, where he will establish a great breeding plant near Paris. Forty-nine thorough breds, rscers and brood mares, valued st $200,000 left this afternoon for New York. The move Is the severest blow to Kentucky breeding Interests sines the recent New York race track legislation. Slayer of Ed. Garrard Gets 15 Years, Durham. Oct. 28. Rufus Sultt, the slayer of Ed Oarrard, who waa one of a family whose long-time troubles with Sultt had amounted to feud, submitted, after forty hours of dead i,...k r an Orance county Jury, to SHOWING ROUTl, OF BALLOONS COTW,,N TTO SEARCH TORTO aXS!1" lnty SJ&rVMCH jxjR THE Wllwaukce, Oct. 26 That the bal loon America J I. was lost on msc Superior is the belief of W. C. Dever eaux, weather forecaster of Milwau kee. "There was a low barometer mov Inir this wav when the balloon started from St. Units," said he, "and this sun barometer enured the wind to blow south about the time the bal loons reached Inko Michigan. This south wind of course took the Amer ica II. directlv north, as is proved by the message from Hawley." sighted Tuesday Mght. St. lyiuls). Oct. 26. Lewis Hpindler, representative of the Aero club of St liouls In the search for Allan R. Haw lev and August 1'ost. the missing pi' lots of the America- II., wjtlch left Ht. Louis In the International balloon race on October 1". last night started from Toronto to Champleau, Ont., accord Ing to a telgram he sent to the Aero club officers, lie said that Jotin a Rogers, chief of the Ontario provin cial police, hail assured him of the authenticity of the report that the America 11. was seen at Champleau Tuesday night, October 18. Acting on this Information, Mr. JUITEJBOBABLE And With Germany at That-but It Will Be Only a Commercial One, Over Potash. Uerlln, Oct. 26. The diplomatic controversy between the United states and Germany concerning re cent legislation regulating the potash industry, and which takes from Americans all advantages of existing contracts, has reached an acute stage. The German Kovernment has asked for delay until Suturday In which to reply to the latest representations from Washington. If It nnos nsen unable to accept the American view, commercial hostilities appear Inevi table. MORNING POST BALLOON STARTS ACROSS CHANNEL Nantes, France, Oct 86. The mili tary dirigible balloon. "Mornlnt, Post," built in France and presented to the Rritlsh army by the London Morning Post, left Molsson this morning for Aldershot, Knglund. She soon disap peared above the English channel The dirigible Is convoyed by an Eng lish destroyer. Two Cabinet Members to Help In Ohio Washington. Oct. 26 President Taft decides to send two cabinet mem bers to Ohio to take part In the last week of the campaign for the repub lican ticket. Secretary Knox speaks !at Cincinnati and Columbus; Secretary WAR NOW APPEARS Hpindler will spend ills time at Chum- pleau and Sudbury, Ont. nie Amer ica II. was reported as passing me former town at ll o'clock Tuesday night. The Aero club of St. Louis does not ac .it the Ptatemeiu oi infjinniiuwc weather bureau that there is a prob ability thut Hawley and Tost were caught In a contrary wind on I-akc Superior Tuesday night and forced to descend In the take. It Is probable that Captain Louis Phul and James O'Reilly, crew of the Million club bal loon to start from Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., as a relief party In neurch of the New Yorkers will be abandoned. There is wide divergence of opinion concerning the practicability ot the plan to send Von Phul and O'Reilly out In another balloon to search for Hawley and Post. Von Phul said thut he was still preparing for the trip. Various Unmors. Ottawa. Oct. 2C. Various rumors have leached the bureau established here by Edmond I'. Straton, repre senting the Aero club of America, but when silted down, they produced nothing that would indicate with any degree of dellnlteness the where abouts of the aeronauts. What appeared to be a promis ing clue developed earlv in the day when a dispatch from Huntsvllle stated that a guide, Richard Cole, and a hunting party hod seen a bal loon on Thursray, 20 miles north of Risen. Ont. This Item of news, ta ken In connection with the fact that all of the other balloons In the con test were known to have come to earth on Wendesday, Inspired great hopes that something definite to work on had been obtained. Later In the dav. however. It was learned from a hunting party, that the guide (Continued on page 8.) INDICTMENT RETURNED AGAINST THREE JUDGES Men Who Conducted Primary Election in Court House Precinct of Norfolk Aug. 23. Norfolk, Oct. 26. indictments were returned today against Edward Wil cox, James T. Hannon and Frank Kelllnger, Judges of election In the court house precinct of Norfolk city, charging them wtlh "wilful neglect of duty and corrupt conduct in an elec tion." A true bill will result In an Investigation of alleged frauds In the recent second district democratic con gressional primary of August 23. Because of the frauds the state committee ordered a second primary for the election of delegates to a nom inating convention. Holland of Suf folk, was named at this convention. GUNBOAT IS LOST AT SEA; SEVENTY PROBABLY DROWNED Included Among Victims Were Ten (Jenermto Cause of Disaster Was Explosion Vessel wan Halllen. Port Au Prince, Taltl, Oct. 26 The Haltien gunbout Liberto has been lost at sea off Port Depalx. following an explosion. It Is estimated that 75 of those aboard her were killed or drown ed; and 20 others were rescued. Among those lost were ten Haltien generals on their way to take com mand of several divisions of troops In the depfirment of the north. Mrs. Elisabeth Petes-kin Dead Richmond, Oct. 16. Mrs Elisabeth Peterkln, mother of Right Rev. George W. Peterkln, Episcopal bishop of West Virginia, is dead at her home So Writes a Representative of Holders ot About $1,500,000 Worth of North State Bonds. VICE PRESIDENT J. S. SHERMAN THE GUEST OF RALEIGH TODAY Will Be Entertained by Col. A. B. Andrews at Dinner TonightVar ious Items of State News. Gazette-News Bureau, Chamber of Commerce Rooms, Hollemon Building, Raleigh, Oct. 2fi. C. C. McDonald of Raleigh, who is probably more Intimately associated with stock and bond conditions than any other man In North Carolina, nas any oiner man in jnocui Carolina, n t AS1IINGTON, Oct. 26. Presl recelved a very significant letter from W dpU Taf, waa gtated today a bin New York securities corpora- V V hBa rt...nd .... . f.ftn.llU- Itlon bearing on a large block of the famouM North Carolina special tax lionds, declared by the state authorl- lies to be fraudulent and forbidden ! lie paid, by the state constitution, unless so voted by the people at the polls In an election called for the pur pose. This New York concern, which has no connection with the "special tax bond syndicate" that has been try ing to give blocks of this class of bonds to different states with a view to having North Carolina Bued for their payment in the hope of getting un entering wedge for a settlement for the whole Issue, or at least of their holdings, explains to Mr. Mc Donald that it owns or represents about $1,500,000, par value of tUese bonds, practically all purchased by the corporation of Its Immediate cus tomers at the time or about the time of issue, as they express it, "in the belief thut they were legally Issued and that an investment of Northern funds In them would be a benefit to our southern friends. We never dreamed for a minute, of course, but that every requirement had been ful ly lived up to and that the bonds were an absolute obligation of the state of North Carolina." This letter makes the following further signifi cant comments on the situation. Have Xevcr Given or Offered Any of Them. "We, have never taken any stops to enforce imyment with the exception that we Joined with Morton, Hliss Co. In the suit to prove what seemed patent to us, namely, their legality, etc. We have never donated or of fered to donate any bonds to anyone, stale or otherwise, with the Idea of enforcing payment; neither have we ever Joined with any committee of bondholders nor deposited our bonds anywhere except In our own safety boxes. We have felt that the state of North Carolina had inflicted upon our customers and ourselves, a very serious injury and severe loss In mon ey, hut that sooner or later It would be proved that the majority of the citizens of the state would be in fa vor of liquidating bonds for which a good price wus paid, at the time of their issue, by their northern friends. 1 confess our patience has been sore ly tried und bitter, unjust, untrue ar ticles us to facts, such as some of those I have lately read, are most conducive of a closer feeling between the north and the south. Does the state realise that if, as stated In some of the articles, some of these bonds have been purchased at a few cents on the dollar, they have probably been purchased from some poor wid ow or orphan who originally paid full value and suffered a very serious loss owing to North Carolina's refusal to recognie this obligation? It Is al ways popular with a certain class of people to escape from the payment of all obligtalons, but I don't wish to be lieve that the majority of North Car olinians are In that class. It seems to me that our quiet and constant faith In the people of your state deserves some recognition. Will Dine Sherman Tonight. Col. A. B. Andrews has Issued In i nations to a few friends to a dinner party to be given at 6 o'clock this ev ening at hla home on Blount street in honor of Vice President Sherman of the United States, who Is to make a political speech here tonight under the auspices of the state republican executive committee. The dinner will be a limited but Informal affair. There will also be an Informal reception at the YurborouKh hotel In the after noon. Mr. Sherman will reach here from Ooldaboro this afternoon on the 4:06 train. His other speeches in the state will be at Greensboro and Ashe- vllle. Major O. A. Graham, commissioner of agriculture, has been moderator for The South Fork Missionary Uaptlst association for the past 32 years and he has gone to Mt. Zlon church In Le nolr county to attend the annual ses- slon of the association over Which he will preside this week. Ths assocla Hon consists of 65 churches and over 6000 communicants In Lincoln, Oas ton and Catawba counties. Hearing Postponed. A revised southern classification of freights affective for Interstate busi ness October 1 requires to the North Carolina corporation commission for that bod;- to make the same regula tion applicable to shipments of Moves In intrastate shipments was to Le heard yesterday of this wee)., but at the request of the railroad authorl William H. Lewis of Boston to Be Given Biggest Place in Feder al Government Ever Held by One of His Race. ill WILL BE MADE ASSISTANT TO U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL Is Now Assistant District Attorney at Boston A Harvard Man, Fam- ous on Football Field. ' sham, to appoint a colored man to the highest office In the executive branch of the government ever held by a nigger. William H. Lewis, assistant district attorney at Roston, is to be made an assistant attorney general of tha United States. Lewis Is a graduate of Amherst and of Harvard; played on the Har vard football team as center rush and enjoyed the reputation of being one of the best players In that position Harvard ever had. This appointment is In line with President Taft's policy of recognizing colored men but taking these ap pointments as far as possible out of the southern states where friction has been caused in the past by colored federal office holders. ADAM S-WESTFELDT JURY IS STILL OUT Case Given Them at 9 O'clock Last Night Some Now Believe There Will Be a Mistrial. Special to The Gazette-News. Waynesvllle, Oct. S6. The Jury In the suit of the North Carolina Mining company against the Westfeldt's seems unable to agree. The case went to the jury about 9 o'clock last night after Judge .Instil e had delivered his charge of over an hour in length. Ar gument was completed about 6 o'clock last night. The fact that the jury has been unable to agree has created con siderable talk here today and it Is now believed in some quarters that a mis trial of the case will be the outcome. There have also been rumors of Jury bribing floating around this time as at the previous trials of the case. Judge Justice's charge was regarded as fair. Considerable Interest Is being taken in the coming of Senator Overman who is to speak here Friday at 2 p. m. It is expected that a large crowd of people from all sections of the coun ty will gather here on this occasion as Senator Overman is regarded as one of the best speakers In the state. TABLET 10 THE MEMORY OF GREAT GEOGRAPHER Unveiling of Mauqr Memorial at Rich mond Exercises Presided Over by Governor Mann. Richmond, Oct. 26 Marking at residence here during the war period of Commodore Matthew Fontaine Maury, the noted officer of the United States navy, later of the Confederate navy, a tablet w is unveiled today by the Confederate Memorial Literary society. Appropriate exercises were presided over by Governor Mann. The unveiling waa perforated by Mrs. Jsmes R. Worth, a daughter of ths commodore. For years the society baa been en (Unvorlna to secure federal recogni tion of the scientific attainments of th celebrated officer whose efforts helped to produce great reforms In the navy, and brought about the es tablishment of tbe naval academy and tha hydrographlc office. ANTI-PROHIBITION MAYOR OF T0PEKA TALKS TOO MUCH sain to Per Cm, ot Oris, And HtCmNMhMBs! Mtutg of Protest Catted.
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