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VOL. XVI. NO. 283.
ASHEVILLE, N. C, SATURDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 6, 1912.
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WILSON-HARVEY
BREAK RUMORED
OPPOSES TAFT
EVHLT
Colonel 's Supporters Say
Fight Began with Slur on
'. Him in Steel Trust
Suit.
BATTLE PLAN FORMED
BY ROOSEVELT FORCES
They Intend to Force Compro
mise Candidate on Chica
go Convention Is Wash
ington Report. ; r
say pun bulks
THE LlOTiEY TRUST
Scheme Is Proposed to Make
Reserve Association
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Independent.
Washington, Jan.; ' President
Taft' declaration, that he is In the
nomination fight to the death and that
he Will go into, the convention if he
has but one vote at his back ha
clarified the atmosphere so far as the
Taft situation is concerned. The sup
porters ; o( the president are firmlyx
convinced now . that in the end the
convention will be compelled to ac
cept Taft for the reason that the
policies of a republican national ad
ministration are on trial and
that the head of the adminis
tration Is ' the proper candidate
to represent these policies. There are
also Taft supporters who tell you un
reservedly that the opposition to his
renomlnation will crumble .and be
shattered by the time the republicans
assemble In Chicago In June next.
The Roosevelt Flan.
The Roosevelt men already have
outlined their plan of battle. They
are, if possible, to prolong the ses
sions of the national convention. They
are to muddle things up, to stir up
: strife, to reiterate over and over again
that the president If nominated cannot
be re-elected. By means known In
political strategy they are to weaken
' the president until the situation calls
for the nomination of some republican
whose selection will as far as possible
heal the breach between the Taft and
Roosevelt forces.
The Roosevelt men were very posi
tive in their statements that Roosevelt
'' Would not4)al4.'ted If Tils nomination
was accomplished at the sacrifice of
..Tnft. "Bo tiie Roosevslt men went on
to disclose their purpose to throw the
convention into a turmoil and so to
weaken Taft by delay and strife that
In the end a compromise candidate
may be selscted. ,
Kay Reciprocity Plan Hurt Taft.
There are many, old supporters of
Roosevelt Who believe they can still
further Injure President Taft through
his reciprocity measure. They tell you
that the National Orange and the
grangers in all states have from the
start been marked In their opposition
to this reciprocity measure and that
this opposition will prove most effec
tive when the national convention as
semblea next summer. The represen
tatives of these granges are convinced
that the republican farmers will not
' support Taft If he Is renominated, and
' the Roosevelt adherents, It Is insisted.
. are now at work fanning the opposi
tion of the representatives of the
grangers to the Taft administration.'
Meantime there are republicans of dis
cernment who feel that the president,
now that Canada has rejected the reel,
proclty measure, should take some
steps to obliterate from the statute
books of the United States the reci
procity act. It is doubtful If the presi
dent will accept any such suggestion,'
notwithstanding the fact that republi
can senators und republican members
of the house of representatives are
thoroughly convinced that this meas
ure Is to 1 work damage to them in
next fall's elections.
, Roosevelt Wants Revenge.
Further Information has been elicit
ed concerning the combination be
tween Col. Roosevelt and the oppo
nents of President Taft to prevent If
possible Taft s renomlnation. It was
asset-ted by republicans who have dis
cussed the matter with Col. Roosevelt
that Immediately after Jacob M, Dick
inson, Taft's former secretary of war,
a democrat from Tennessee and a spe
cial district attorney, had filed the pa
pers in the suit against the United
States 'Steel corporation at Trenton
Roosevelt first began to send for re
publicans from this city and elsewhere
with a view to Shaping up an organl
sation both for his own nomination
and for the purpose of accomplishing
the overthrow of ,Taft.
These republicans tell you that the
ex-presldent was very angry over the
references to him In the government's
petition, wnich averred practically tliat
Roosevelt as president of the United
States had been hoodklnked when he
agreed that the steel corporation could
take over the Tennessee Coal & iron
Co. Those who have talked of this
matter Willi Roosevelt BRy that Roose
vclt was beside hlmnelf with anger
over references to himself in those
papers tiled by Mr. Iricklnson with the
authority of attorney-general Wicker
eliam. They declared that Roosevelt
had a Just cuuse for umbrage, for Mr. j
Dickinsons papers reaa more line a
political stump speech than a legal
document und practically represented
the ex-i'resideiit as little s:iort of a
business Incompetent.
Importan Tart men, whole deploring
Y'1 the reference maJe to Col. Roosevelt.
In the steel suit papers tiled at Tren
ton, iiUiiBt ttiat Col. lioosevelt's ucllv-
Washlngton, Jan. 6. The national
monetary commission yesterday vir
tually agreed upon a proposition
which it Is believed will have the
effect of preventing the exercise of
undue Influence upon the affairs of
the proposed national reserve asso
ciation by an Individual, corporation
or section of the country. . This prac
tically completed the .work of that
body.
; The great fear from the beginning
of. the commission's labors has been
that the '$30,000,000 reserve which
it is proposed to establish .would be
controlled by some financial center.
It was first believed that this dan
ger had been averted by the prohi
bition of the transfer of . stock and by
other restrictions but lately there was
the apprehension that holding com
panies or other corporations or even
individuals might gain an undesira
ble ascendency through the purchase
of stocks in banks comprising the
as&oclatlon.
Representatives Vreeland ' ' and
Weeks and former Representative
Bonynge especially have pressed this
point, and at yesterday's meeting pre
sented a proposition that proved ac
ceptable. They would restrict the
voting rights of banks in case individ
uals or corporations own stock in more
than one of them.
The effect of this provision would
be to limit-or prevent voting by banks
owned or partly owned by one stock
holder or one set of stockholders. It is
in line with the effort of the commis
sion to avoid the possibility of cen
tralization of. the power to shape the
policy of the reserve association. It
also is expeoted ' to meet the criticism
that the association might be con
trolled by such an important Center
as New York city. . , . .
New York Herald and The Gasette-Newa.
ZEBO
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MM EXPECTED
The Asheville weather bu
reau this afternoon received
the following; telegram from
the bureau at Washington:
"Cold wave; temperature
will likely fall to aero Sunday
night." ; ,
REGISTRATION FRj
111 LDUISIO GUILD
Twenty Per Cent, of Democrat
ic Voters in Arcadia.Paristi
'. Involved. ?
Crowley, La.. Jan, . Wholesale
registration frauds Involving probably
20 per cent, of the democratic voters
of Arcadia Parish Is aliegea in a se
ries of 800 suits filed in the. circuit
court here today. The suits pray for
mandamus writ to strike illegal vol
era' names from the rolls.
CHINESE REPUBLICANS
BELIEVE CAUSE GAINS
New Government Assuming a Strong
FoHitlon Desires Recognition
of the Powers.
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GOUGE GASES
BEFOBEHIGH COURT
Important Questions of Rail
road and Steamship Traffic
Come up. ; j
NEVERMORE!
RICHESQN CONEESSES HE KILLED
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AVIS LINNELLjHIS S WEETHEART
"I Hereby Confess That I Am Guilty of the Offense of Which I Stand Indicted." Reads
Statement of Minister. Made Public by His Counsel Tragic Death of Music ,
Student and Sensational Events' - Which ''Followed. v
Shanghai. Jan. 6. The republican
government is assuming a strong po
sition and now considers that China"!
future is entirely in Its hands. The
leaders believe the country is almost
unanimously In favor of the repuDlt
can movement. President Bun Yat
Son's cabinet is regarded as a. strong
one.
president Sun says his main desire
now is for peace and prompt recog
nition of the Chinese republic by for
eign powers. ". .
Grant Inspects Army Post.
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Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 6.For theiurr
pose of inspecting the army post at
Fort MePherson, Major General Fred
erick D. Grant, commander of the de
partment of the east, arrived here
y ...,,,ay. He left laut i. .lit for Fort
Oirlcthoipe, Ga., near Chattanooga,
which will conclude rtis Inspection of
ul! the army pouts In the south. In
reply to' (mentions General (irant stut
ed t!"it h had nothlnfif to do with
p - t ' ' i a. l.r'ade
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Boston, Jan. 6. Rev. C. T. V. Rlch-
eson, formerly pastor of Immanuel
Baptist church of Cambridge, has
made a written' confession that he
poisoned his former sweetheart. Avis
Unnell. The statement was given to
his counsel who made the confession
public at 1 o'clock this afternoon. The
confession, bearing Rlcheson's signa
ture, reads:
Full Text of Confession.
Th'o full text of the confession fol
lows:- .... -
"Boston, Jan. S, 1912.
'John L. Lee, Esq., William Morse,
Esq,, Philip R. Punbar, Esq,
'Gentlemen: Deeply penltenf for
my sin and earnestly desiring, as far
as in my .power lies, -to. make atone
ment, I hereby confess I am guilty of
the offense of which I stand indicted.
I am moved to this course by no
Inducement of self-benefit or leniency.
Heinous as Is my crime,. God has not
wholly abandoned me find my con
science and manhood, however I de
praved and blighted, will not amlt
of still further wringing by public
trial her whose pure young life I have
destroyed. Under the lashings of-re
morse, I have suffered and am suffer
ing the .tortures of the damned. In
this I find a measure of comfort. In
my mental anguish I recognize there
Is still, by the mercy-of the Master,
some remnant of the divine spur of
coodness still lingering1 with me.
could wish to live only because within1
some prison's walls I might In some
small measure redeem my soul, help
some other despairing soul and at last
find favor with God. '
"Yon are Instructed to deliver this
to the district attorney or to the Judge
of the court
"Sincerely yours
"CLARENCE V. RICHESON.".
Just before noon Superior court
judges and the district attorney went
into conference. An hour later rep
resentatives of the press were called
to the office of William A. Morse, the
accused clergyman's counsel. ,
District Attorney Pelletler saia:
"The trial will go on Just the same,
no matter what statement may be is
sued by Rlerison." , ( .
It gives no details.'
The Cane Sensational.
The ' crime! which Richeson con
fessed was one ojj the most sensational
in the history of Massachusetts. Avis
Unnell was found dead in a bath room
in the Y. W. C. A. building here late
In the afternoon of October 14, 1U.
and medical examination revealed
cyanide poisoning.' At tirst suicide wan
suspected, an autopsy disclosing the
fact that a physical condition existed
which was ascribed as a motive. Sus
picion soon pointed, however, at Rich
n, piidtor of Immanuel Baptist
church and a prominent future in rell
siou.i find social circles here. His
rr. -t t 'lowed. The minister stoutly
:! . ,;, i i ri-i"'", i-'-d m-'inv of his
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of the girl. The police claimed that
this poison was given Miss Linnell by
the pastor on the afternoon of her
death with, the Information that It
would relieve her condition and that
she took the deadly potion in that be
lief. .
.Richeson and Girl Engaged,
. Miss Ltnnell and Richeson first met
at Hyannls, Mass., : where Richeson
was pastor of a church. Richeson and
Miss Ltnnell became' engaged to be
married. Subsequently he moved to
Boston and Miss Llnnell also went
there, where she began a course at
the Boston Conservatory of Music.
Richeson later became engaged to Miss
Violet Edmands, wealthy in her own
right, and only daughter of a rich and
prominent Boston man. The engage
ment was announced the week before
Miss Linnell'a death. '
Miss Edmands has always maintain
ed her belief In Rlcheson's Innocence
After his arrest she left her exclusive
home to become a settlement worker.
Deaths From Cold; Poor
Suffer in the Cities
Washington, Jan. 6. "Interstate
commerce week" will be observed in
the Supreme court of the United states
beginning Monday. Practically all of
the questions to be argued that week
are connected with railroad or steam
ship traffic. v - ! '
The first case to be considered in
volves whether shippers may be in
dicted for accepting rebates unless it
Is shown that the railroad concerned
had posted the regular rates at the
railroad station at point of origin. It
was held by judge Speer of Georgia
that the posting of the regular rates
In the community in which the ship
per lived was Buch an Important
means of Information that the shipper
could not be indicted unless it was
alleged the rates had been posted.
This ruling occurred in the indictment
of Harvey C. Miller and Morris F.
Miller of Philadelphia on charge of
accepting concessions for shipments
over the Merchant's and Miner's
Transportation company, jointly with
the Seaboard Air Line and with the
Atlantic Coast Line. '
Chattanooga Rate Cases.
Another case Is the quarter-century
fight of Cincinnati shippers for lower
rates to Chattanooga and the South.
In 1894 shippers induced the Interstate
commerce commission to order a
sharp reduction of rates over the Cin
cinnati, New Orlenas and Texas Pa
cific road from Cincinnati to Chatta
nooga. Courts held that the commis
sion could hot fix a future rate. Later,
when this power was conferred upon
it, the commission reduced-first class
rates to TO cents1, and held that, while
a demand for a SO cent rate might be
reasonable on a road direct to Chat
tanooga, it would not be so on the
Louisville. & JSashyllle and connecting
lines.- 'Furthermore, the commission
held ; that to reduce the rate to 80
cents might make inequitable certain
rates from Memphis to Chattanooga
and to Atlanta, Birmingham, Mont
gomery and other southern cities.
The Cincinnati shippers made an un
successful attempt in the commerce
court to have the 70 cent rata declared
unjust and unreasonable.
Immigration Law Test.
Whether a loophole really exists in
the immigration laws such as would
allow steamship companies to shift
the responsibility for bringing in im
migrants of the excluded classes will
be argued before the court. A
New York court held that while the
purpose of congress seemingly was to
make the steamship companies pay
the cost of returning such Immigrants
as are denied entrance there was
nothing In the law to prevent the
companies from circumventing the
law by requiring these immigrants to
put up security in foreign ports to
cover the cost of returning them If
rejected.
Another question Will be whether a
special rate on coal may be
given railroads. Still other cases
Involving conflicts of jurisdiction
between th Interstate commerce com
mission and the commerce court will
be heard.
Col. Henry Watterson Is Also
Reported to Ha(ve Aban
doned the Jersey
Man's Cause.
EDITOR'S ENDORSEMENT
WAS THOUGHT HARMFUL
Wilson Asked Him to Cease
Activities, So the Story
Goes-pHarvey Started
Boom.
Trenton,, Jan.' 16. A report, said to
have originated In Newark, Is circulat
ed here that there has been a break
between Gov. Wilson and CoL George
Harvey, who ! was formerly a close
political friend and advisor of the
governor.
According to the story whispered by
politicians who professed to have In
side Information. Gov. Wilson has
gone to the length of writing a letter
to Col. Harvey suggesting that ' the
colonel's active interest in the Wilson
movement was injuring rather than
helping his cause.
Definite information as to the con
tents of the supposed letter Is lacking,
but some of Gov.. Wilson's friends are
known to have suggested that the in
dorsement of Col. Harvey was dis
pleasing to so'ne of the democrats
whom the governor is seeking to en
list. Col. Harvey has always been re
garded as the Inventor of the Wilson
boom for the presidency. The orators
who spoke for Vivian M. Lewis, the
republican opponent of Gov. Wilson in
the last gubernatorial campaign in
New Jersey, never lost an opportunity
to refer to the fact that Wilson's cam
paign was being backed by Col. Har
vey and . his paper printed in New
York. v
Editorially and in long interviews
Harper's Weekly was for a long time
full of praise of Dr.' Wllsoj.and of
suggestion of something bigger than
the Jersey governorship for him.
There was hardly a number that did
not contain some mention of the Jer
sey scholar in politics. But In the
Weekly for December 23 and Decem
ber 30 there Is no mention of Gov.
Wilson at alL
The report said that Col. Watterson
was included with Col. Harvey in the
list of those who had separated them
selves or been separated from Gov.
Wilson's boom.
Chicago, Jan. .Zero' weather
continues. : The mercury was eight
degrees below sero this morning and
it Is predicted It will drop to, 15 below
tonight. Suffering is Intense and four
deaths have resulted. Scores of fam
ilies have been routed - from their
homes by fires. The authorities have
authorised doubling the 1 usual allot
ment of goods and fuel o the needy.
- Cold wave reports from many west
ern cities shown broken records. The
j lowest point In the United States Is
Superior. Wis., where the temperature
Is SI degrees below xero. At Green
bay, Wis., it Is 26 below. There is
general snowfall throughout Illinois,
Iowa, Michigan and Missouri. The
general temperature range In the Ca
nadian northwest Is 14 to 38 degrees
below sero. . . .
, Zero Temperature In New Tork.
New York, Jan. 6. Zero tempera
ture,, accompanied by a furious gale,
caused intense suffering during the
night. The mercury in some , places
went below sero. ...
SENTENCED TO PRISON,
(.1 PLEADS FOR DEATH
American Fatally Shot
by WomanHe Abandoned
Berlin, Jan. 6. Norbert M. Rodkln
son, a prominent member of the
American colony here, was shot and
probably fatally wounded today ' by
Alwyne Slede, a milliner. . Miss Slede's
friends say the shooting was th re
sult of the interruption of long-standing
relations between her and Rodktn-
son, and -his refusal to support her
two children;
Rodklnson I a native of New Or
leans and has represented American
firms for many years In Germany.
HEROIC:,! OF EZAMEN -
PILAICZDEY -CONSUL
Letter of Tlianks to Crew of the Cot
ter Itasra Made Public at
, Wssltington.
Washington, Jan. 6. The thrilling
rescue by the revenue cutter Itasca of
SO ieimns from the British steamor
ThlijUeroy, December 3f,has brought
a letter of grateful thanks, made pub
lic today, from James Sprunt, the
Brltlah vice consul at Wilmington,
N. C.
tri-..-m- k lookout
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wrecked on the
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MAD DOQ BITES
New Jersey Village Is In Terror Fol
lowing Race of Animal
Through Streets. . . ,
Bound Brook, N. J., Jan. 6 Fif
teen persona are undergoing; Pasteur
treatment as the result of a race of a
mad dog through the main streets.
The village is in a state of terror and
the authorities are scouring the coun
tryslde for other animals bitten.
LEAVE F0HWASHISBT0:i
Lawler and Fredericks Quit
Indianapolis to Confer
with Taft. . :: '
Colorado Slayer Prefers the
Gallows to 14 to 20
Years' Term.
Greely, Col., Jan. 6. Frank Murata
convicted of killing K. Ibusuki at
Plattville, pleaded with the court to
day to sentence him to the gallows
rather than to prison, as the Japanese
consider confinement in prison more
dishonorable than death. The . court
Ignored the plea and sentenced him
to a term of from 14 to 20 years.
Indianapolis, Ind., Jan. 8. Oscar .
Lawler. anectnl uislfitiLnt in Attnrnev
General Wickers ham in the govern
ment's prosecution of the alleged dy
uaiiuiiUB vuiiBiiiMi;y, icib uvrv lui
Washington, D. C, after a three days' 1
conference with United States Attor
ney Charles W. Miller, in charge
of the federal investigation in this
UlBtrict
Mr. Lawler probably will confer
with President Taft as well as the
attorney general on the tatter's re
turn from Panama next week. Be- :
sides being able to give the president
a personal account of what the inves
tigation at Los Angeles, Cel., reveal
ed, Mr. ' Lawler now can furnish a
general resume of all the evidence
gathered here and elsewhere through
out the country, showing alleged vio
lations of federal laws In transport
ing explosives and conspiracy to vio
late the laws. He will have with him
State's Attorney John D. Fredericks of
Los Angeles county, California, pros-
here earlier yesterday for Washington.
Robbery Suspects Released.
Savannah, Ga., Jan. t. George H-
Hill and Harry Eckstorm of Balti
more, charged with robbing an Atlan
tic Coast Line train at Hardeevllle,
S. C, several weeks ago were dis
missed today. Their dismissal was
made upon the government's motion,
no case having been made out
4 FATALLY INJURED;
CAR LEAVES EIIIEC"
Tarns bomersault in Drop from Struct
ure Connecting Cincinnati
and Newport.
One Killed, 13 Hurt In Wreck.
Topeka, Jan. 6. Two Panla Fe pns-seni-r
trains collided at V. r s.t, near
Doilne f'ltv, List nli. ht. One e- ineor
whs 1 ' .'I fitnl lut-i-'-.r I ' - liUT't
New St, Louis Library Opened.
St Louts, Jan. (. The new central
public library, standing on the site
of the coliseum where William Mc
Kinley was nominated for the presi
dency in 1890, was formally opened
today. Herbert Putman, librarian of
congress, and other prominent heads
Of libraries attended. The building
vst a million and a half dollars, half
ot which was given by Andrew Carnegie.
Oilxltv-ton I- rn-f.H.
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Cincinnati,' O., Jan. 6. Four per
sons were fatally injured while an
other was seriously hurt here hint
night when a South Bellevue street cur
Jumped from the Central bridge whl'-h
connects this city with Newport. Ky.
The car landed on Front street nft.-r
turning a Bomersault In Its drop of li
feet to the pavement below.
The fatally Injured are:
Harry Wessllnir, Newport, Ky., con
ductor on the car.
Benton Sehroll, secretary-trensot r
of the Central Brldce comiiany, J -port,
Ky.
Kdwsrd Hapf.-I, C'f. miti.
Harry I'lntniti, rum -n, ., -tortnn
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