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imii ii i in mm TE3 ASSOCIATED pre: j DISPATCHII LAST EDITION 4:00 P.M. Weather Forecast: FAIR; COLDER TOMORROW. mwm itmt ASHEVILLE, N. C., THURSDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 1, 1912. 3c PER COPY U. S. CITIZENS CANADA WANTS S12QT TO DEATH RECIPROCITY mm Garrison at Juarez and Takes Possession of City Two Americans Killed, Three Wounded. WILD NIGHT FOLLOWS OUTBREAK OF TROOPS Drunken Malcontents Roam the Town, Looting Stores and Residences, Shoot ing Promiscuously. El Paso, Tex., Feb. 1. Daylight found Juarez, Mexico, dazed from the effects of a night, of debauch follow ing the revolt last night of 300 for-, mer followers ofi President Madero. Desultory fighting- has practically, ceased, but intoxicated malcontents' continue staggering about the streets' looting saloons, stores and private , residences, j ' . Reports place the casualties among Americans at two dead and three wounded. Troops C and L, Fourth United States cavalry, communded by Colonel Stever, guarded the Interna tional bridge across the Hio Grande throughout the night. The neutrality laws are strictly enforced. The revo lutionists continue In possession of the custom house. .lull Kinptied of IVIsonors. Eight were killed and nine wound ed In Juarez during the night accord ing to. a careful count this morning. The mutineers burned all the papers In the jail and court house adjoining after freeing the prisoners. Colonel 'Estrada, commandant of troops, and Colonel Gallu, chief of police, impris oned lust night are nt liberty. Among the prlwoncrs liberated was George Monroe, a negro charged with nmr , dcrlitg Jesse P.urtcliell at tin; Juarez race, track a year ug ; No. attempt has yet been made to carry out a threat to dynamite the ... vault and secure-government fund. V. -A. f ull report-of tbn- mt i.ruk was " forwarded to Washington by Consul j,' Edwards. ' , . . The garrison of Juarez rose In re volt at t:20 o'clock last night and In half an hour was In possession of the city. Looting and promiscuous shoot ing prevailed for hours. The com mander of the garrison was thrown Into prison with the chief of police while other prisoners were released. American Citizens nee. American residents and many Mex ican officials and citizens fled to the American side. Two Americans, Gus Kuhnke and Fred Leyva, employed In a gambling resort, were wounded when the building was riddled with bullets. Other gambling houses were tired upon. A passenger train about to depart over the Mexican Central for Chihua hua and the City of Mexico was de tained by the malcontents. Four troopp of cavalry from Fort Bliss were rush ed to the American bank of the Rio Grande to protect citizens and pre serve neutrality. Guards were stutloncd at the street car and the railroad bridges and at the two big bridges of the smelter a mile west of El Paso. Refugees were assisted across the bridges and the fordable places along the river. Dismissal of Troops ft Cause. As near a can now be ascertained the uorising was due to a report print ed In a Chihuahua newspaper which stated that General Pascual Orosco, one of the leaders of the Madero revo lution, had resigned his military posi tion at Chihuahua and to the dis charge of 100 men of the Juarez gar rison. The dismissal of these troopi was taken AS confirmation of the Orozco reoort. -It was said that troops were being embarked at Chihuahua for Juares. Uuon hearing this the mutineers de dared they would fight the invaders. Their voices rsng with cries of "down with Madero." and "Viva Zapata." The Utter. Emlllano Zapata, was leader of the rebellion In the south airalnst Diaz. . The revolt at Juares is regarded at the most 'serious episode which hat occurred since Madero was Inaug urated president to succeed Porflrlo Dlaa. Officials Taken by Surprise. Col. AuEiistln Estrada, commander of thn omrrltton. and Honor Gallo, chiel of police, had long been on the look for trniiiiie. but their suspicions be came less active after the arrest of Gnnaral Revel and the revolt IOOK them bv aurnrise. The Americans who were ahead th detained tutsxenger train were escort ed to the International bridge by those of the mutineers who retained then coolness. V Americans who were caught In the uprising were sent back to El Paso. It was explained that this was done , to prevent their being Injured by fly ing bullets. CAN'T BUILD GUNBOAT Constructors Kay Attempt to Comply With Kxx lib atlons for $500,000 Would Moan Ihmm. Washington, Feb. 1. Bids for the construction of the "gunboat Kacra-ini-nto, opened at the navy department today, were higher than the $500,000 upropriallon. Cramp & Sons of Phil adelphia, hid $718,000 and submitted an Hlti-rtiHtlw proposition for a small er Hiip for S 4 s r 000.' The New York ( n 'm n y sefvword HILLES FUSEES FOR TUFT In First Authorized State ment, He Makes Confident ' Claims foy President. Washington, Feb. 1. In the first authorized statement he has issued In connection with the Taft campaign, Charles D. Hilles, the president's pri vate secretary today, predicted that Tuft would be nominated and elected. The statement says: "President Taffs nomlnatfon in June is as certain as anything can be. I am confident there will be compara tively little opposition to him in the national convention and when the nomination is made the republicans of the country will rally to the party standard and win a great victory In November. I would not make this prediction did I not feel that my In formation from ull parts of the coun try warranted me in doing so. It is easy to muke big claims and try to deceive the- people, and I think that man who does so without facts and figures to Justify is guilty of deception. 'A month ago, before I had gotten in touch with republicans in all the states, I would not have said this much. In that month I have seen nes drawn closer and closer. In the last week the situation has cleared wonderfully, with republicans in all directions falling into line fur the president and manifesting a determin ation to bring about his nomination. "It is useless to spcuK. In general terms or to undertake at short notice go into conditions in each state, but developments in three big stutes within a few days ought to point con clusively. to the present trend." Millcs reviews conditions in New oik, Ohio and Indiana, claiming that Taft had received indorsements in those states Indicating that they will give delegations to him In the con- e n Mod, ; : .- .. -..'.-"' II 1M0BE If IfiEY TRUST Clark and Underwood Oppose It Bryan Believed to Want An Inquiry. Washington, Feb. 1. Developments In the proposed congressional inqui ries into the "money trust" shipping combine and other Interests have sur rounded these investigations with un- ertalnty. Common report has it that the "money trust" probe will be baited until after " the presidential elections. Representative Lindbergh, author of a resolution directing the investigation, declared he had not been consulted about the postpone ment. Chairman Henry of the rules committee, who has been active in de manding the investigation against tne wishes of Speaker Clark and Majority Leader Underwood, it is said, an nounced he would issue a statement today defining his position. Borne democrats opposed to a 'money trust" Investigation, charged that the persistent movement for its prosecution Is instigated by William J. Bryan. I , TEAR OEMS FROM EARS AND NECK OF WOMAN Masked Burglars Enter Uio Hedrooni of Mrs. Charles II. M tiller or Fltsburgli. Plttsbureh. Feb. 1. Two masked burglars entered Charles B. Muller' auarlment and going to a bedroom milled the diamond earrings irom Mrs. Muller'B ears and a diamond brooch from her neck. She collupsed and is now under a physician's caro. The burglars escaped. , OIL PRICES GO UP Standard Ilus Math) Three 'Advances This Ynir Mild Another Is Thought Likely. . .- j New York, Feb. 1 Oil prices have her-n advancing steadily since the su preme court's decroo for thu dissolu tion of tho oil trust and a standard oil company representative today said prices probably will go higher. Three times this year uie oianunrii u vnm-til orices. TUure has beti a cor responding Increase in wholesale and retail ouotatloiis fr kerosene, gaso line and other Mined preducta. I'l'lolcuu llcforo Coinmlttew Again Washington, W:. i A. P. Prlo loan, a South Carolina nt. appear ed before, .ttiJ- house- elections com ViGTORY mittee today to contest tho seal oi tieorgo H. Lrgare, democrat. The fonti-ntant contends the affidavits of voters diow he wns elected. I- . . .- i i oot. -;ih by I'rlolomt have ; mm Jr. mm, New York. Herald and The Gazette - "SOMETIMES FHH GUILTY Of MURDERING WIFE Letters,, o .Another? Wqman JC .TVS. -" - Help Convict Jersey Cyan- ide Poisoner. Newark, Feb. 1. The Jury. in the case of Allison M. MacKirlund, oh trial for the murder of his wife by cyanide poisoning returned a verdict of guilty of murder in the first de gree shortly before midnight last night. The verdict came as a surprise to attorneys for the defense as well as those in the court room. It had been rumored all through the evening that the Jury was either hopelessly divided or that all but one Juryman favored acquittal. ' The conviction of MacFarland was mainly on circumstantial' evidence. His wife met death on the night of Octoher 17, last, when MacFurland was absent from home by taking cya nide of potassium which the state alleged MacFarland had deliberately substituted for headache medicine which Mrs. MacFarland's declarations that he had told his wife about the fcyanlde and that if she took it by ihistake It was by her own careless ness were greatly off -set by more than seventy letters which passed between MacFarland and hjs former stenogrn- , pher in Philadelphia. Florence Brom- ley. III uiuci lu mai i j " iiuiii ...w alleged that MacFarland planned to get rid of his wife. NEWSPAPER ATTACKS KNOX AS ANTI-GERMAN Cliarglng Attenipt to Inaugurate Tar iff KetMisal. the Seretarys Polh'lcs Are Assailed. Berlin, Feb. 1. The Kreuse Zeltung couples with a dispatch giving tne substance of the speeches of Secretary Knox and German ambassador, Count Von Bernsdorff, at the National rress club In Washington a half column at tack upon the American secretary oi state us ono of the most bitter ene mies In the United States "as snown in his recent attempt to Inaugurate nntl.Oerman tariff reprisals. "Those well Informed on. American e,, millions." says' the paper, "assen that Mr. Knox- Is' chlelly responsible for the strong anti-German irena which Is now and then manifested In the official American policy." The Kreuse Zejtung says mat tne very manner of taking up the arbitra tion treaties Indicates that President Tuft and Hecrelnry Knox are lmorcm- ed first and foremost In conciuuing the French and British- treaties, to hold as a club over Germany. Amer ican comment on tho visit of the iik nr Connaught. It adds, shows that American statesmen are more In clined to an alliance with Great Bri tain than to friendship with nrmaiiy, Prominent Banker Dead. Cincinnati. Feb. I. Clarence W, Kuhn, member of the former banking nrm of H. Kuhn .brothers, ana cousin of the head of the banking firm of Kuhn. Locb & Co. of New York, died -here toduy, following an operation. , ' . ; . Weighs Forty pounds at Birth. . lirldKeport, Conn.. Feb, l.-i-A ..baby measuring four feot and two Inches at lilrlh and weighing 40 pounds Is doing w-eii. ! H " eoml vi ruffe born In If .: News. OL' BRER WOLF WATTERSDN SAYS HARVEY TO SPEAK Harvey -WilSctf'ReconciHa-tion" Brings New. Statement from the Kentuckian. Columbia, S. C, Feb, 1. Col. Henry Watterson, enroute to his winter home in Florida, Issued the following state ment yesterday afternoon on the Wilson-Harvey-Watterson controversy: "Touching tho Harvey-Wilson let ter given out yesterday, I have to say that from llrst to last I have been act ing not only with Col. Harvey's full knowledge and approval but upon his Insistence; that, from the beginning, he was most Impatient of delay, send ing a personal representative to me at Atlanta the 24th of December, and ayaln the same representative to Rich mond the 31st of December, urging me to take the initiative; that he was unqualified In endorsing my statement of the Manhattan olub incident, wir ing forthwith to declare it 'perfect,' and he was with me at the New Wll- lurd in Washington up to last Sun day night, sharing all I dtd and had done. "The refusal of Gov. Wilson to sub mit an Issue of veracity raised by him self to a tribunal having due regard for tho rights of their parties, which I proposed, should and, I think, will be regarded by fairmlnded people as confession that he aare not iace me facts. "As to those democrats who have made a hero of Wilson because of his break with Harvey, how shall they square themselves with the eternal verities now that they learn that Wil son and Harvey are weeping upon one another's bosoms?' Mr. Watterson would add nothing to his statement, saying it covered the facts, and he thought an interview or amplification unnecessary. EDWIN HAWLEY DEAD Wcll-Kuown Kailroad Magnate Suf fered m Relapse After an At tack of tho Grip. New York. Feb. 1. Edwin Hawlcy, chairman of the board of directors of the Minneapolis & St. Louis railroad and one of the country's leading rail road magnates, died today after an Illness of several week from nervous indigestion. Early In the -winter Haw ley had an attack of lagrippo and re turned to work before he had suffi ciently recovered. As a result, he suf fered a relapse and physicians- oritorca a long rest. Iluwley was 62 years old. Mrs. Ethan A. lDkhcock Dead. St. IjouIb, Feb. 1. Mrs. Margarot Hitchcock, widow of Ethan Allen Hitchcock, former secretary of the In terior, died at her home here yester day. Phe was 78 years -old and Is sur vived 1 by three daughtrs, Including Mrs. S. S. Sims, wife of Captain Slmt of tho United States navy. , Dlglit Drowned When Tug Caustics. .Hamborn. Germany, Feb. 1. A tug loaded -with workmen capsized vlien it collided with a freighter in cross ing the Rhine today. Eight were dmwncd. A hmvy nmustnrm obscur ed tln vc-eu And . ! V-i roH- V CHlClto,.., ' HE GIT LEFT" MR. TAFT THINKS VISIT STRENGTHENED HIS PARTY The Presidents Id kow 'Speed: ing from Ohio to Wash ' ington. Pittsburgh Feb.' 1. Confident that his three days visit in Ohio was suc cessful and that ho strengthened the republican party in his own Btate. President Taft passed here today on his way east. President Taft Is due In Washington at 6 o'clock tonight. Akron, O., Feb. I. President Taft brought his trip through northern and central Ohio to an end here last night with a reception and a dinner given by the Akron' chamber, of commerce In his honor. The president spoke on the tariff board at the dinner and gave his reasons .for wishing its continued existence, threatened, he said, by a democratic house of representatives for the first time In the memory of members of his party. In leading up to a discussion of the tariff board, the president spoke of the relations of the federal govern ment to business. He made it clear that his administration, to force the anti-trust law, favored the enactment of a federal incorporation act to en able great corporations to operate un. der the "shield of a national charter.' But said the president, whether we have a national incorporation law or not, we have an anti-trust law on the statute books. That law Is not going to be repealed. The president said his hearers had doubtless heard 25 lectures with 25 different laws to replace the Sherman act. "All different and none better than that law." "Probably the best thing to do," said Mr. Taft. "is to take this law that has stood the test more than 20 years and do our best with It." The president concluded with an en dorsement of the plan for currency reform proposed by the national mon etary commission and with a plea for the arbitration treaties. BRITT TO QUAKER CITY TO DELIVER ADDRESS WUl Sneak at Periodical Association IMnm Tomorrow w llson ana LaFolletto Other Speakers. - Gaxctte-News Bureau, Wyatt Building, . Washington, Feb. 1 Third Assistant Postmaster General James J. Britt goes from Washington to Philadelphia tomorrow, at tho invl tatlon of the Periodical Association of America, to deliver an address at the annual banquet of the association, to morrow evening. The other speakers will be Gov ernor Woodrow Wilson of New Jersey and Senator Robert M. LaFolletto of Wisconsin. .. .. KILLED WRONG MAN Twelve Years Old Boy Kills Brother of One who Insulted Ills Sister. Annlslon, Ala., Feb. 1. James Hooper, aged 13, was brought here last night from Piedmont on the charge of killing Aaa King, aged 30 The Hooper boy and a younger broth cr, it was stated, hunted King and his brother all day yesterday for sn lered Insult to the Hoopers' sister. Young Hooper, It Is said, admits th t-ii'infr, but says ire- got' tlip wrm li-Uier. BURNS IS BITTER EI Threatens to Attack Hanecy's Character Committee Checks Lawyer's Insults Washington, Feb. 1. Wordy hostil ities between Detective William J. Burns and Attorney Hanecy, Senator Lorlmer's counsel, were renewed when Burns continued under cross examination today before the senate committee investigating Lorimer's election. Burns attacked the credi bility of Charles McGoan, a witness for Lorimer, who testified relative to alleged conversations about a $100, 000 jackpot fund to "put Lorimer over." Hanecy and ; Burns got Into a wrangle as soon as the examination began. "This man has been Insulting me " began Burns, when Chairman Dilling ham requested him not to Interfere In discussion between counsel. "You' call him off or I will stop him," retorted Burns. "I will do just as (i please," the chairman announced. "Can't a witness protect himself?" said Senator Kenyon, as he turned toward the chairman. "This man has been bully-ragging everybody who has been on the wit ness stand," insisted Burns. "I don't propose to be Insulted; if he keeps on I'll tell something about his reputa tion." . "Oh, I guess my reputation is all right," interposed Hanecy. The committee decided the attor ney must cease using Insulting , lan guage. Hanecy wanted to know whether Bums had given the information on which an Associated Press dispatch of January 21. 1912, which announced hlswork mi. the- ease -had been , lamed. Burns said he had not. Attorney Hanecy twitted Burns for believing what a private detective told him. . ' -. The lawyers have not been able to convince you that all detectives are crooked?" asked Hanecy. No, Include lawyers with crooked detectives," said Burns. , The attorney asked whether detec tive agencies at times employed yegg- men. Yes, sometimes for crooked law yers to blow up safes and get papers the lawyers want," retorted Burns. "By the way, Mr. Burns, you have boasted publicly since you have been in Washington that you lie to news paper men and others," suggested the attorney. We call it finessing or using sub terfuge," said Burns. Ordinary iiu-i call It lying," re plied Hanecy. You do It yourself," retorted Burns, Burn's cross-examination was con cluded Just before the recess. IS McNamara Counsel Must Plead to the Two Indictments on Saturday. Los Angeles, Feb. 1. Clarence 8. Darrow, former chief counsel for the McNamara brothers, was arraigned before Judge Hutton today on two In dictments charging Jury bribery dur ing the dynamite trial. Judge Hut- ton designated next Saturday aff date for entering pleas to both Indict ments. ,nk Morrison How $225,000 Was Spent Indianapolis, Feb. 1. Questions about how the $225,000 McNamara defense fund was used, it is believed, were asked Frank Morrison, secretary of the American Federation of Labor, who was before the grand Jury Inves tigating the dynamite conspiracy to day. Morrison arrived from Wash ington today with the federation's financial records, particularly with reference to the defense fund raised after McNamara' arrest on April 22 He conferred with District Attorney Miller. Morrison said the disposition of the fund will be explained in detail. GAMBLING ON DEATH TEN MEN FORM CLUB First Member to Die Will be Buried Free Expensive tor Final Survivor. South Norwalk, Conn., Feb. 1. A member of the Norwalk Cremation club has to die to win. The club was formed here with - ten member, Ui Idea being that lta jurv Ivors pay the funeral expenses of each member. According U the program the final survivor, besides paying a portion of the exr-ensea of the first eight to dlo. will have to bear the entire cost of burial of the semi-final survivor an TOWARD ATTORN his estate wlil have to ry hi - w n. Washington Hears Public Pressure May Force Borden Government to Reverse Its Attitude. PRAIRIE PROVINCES CLAMOR FOR MARKET Rusian Overtures to Dominion for Agreement Regarded as Effort to Move United States. Washington, Feb. 1. SurprMng news that the Borden government in Canada is Inclining toward reciprocity with the United States has come to Washington through an unofficial but well informed channel. The general disposition has been to regard reci procity as dead, for a few years at least, as the Borden government gain ed office on an anti-reciprocity plat form last September. It ia now said that the prairie provinces of western Canada, with' a vast and valuable wheat crop on their hands and with a car famine, are yearning as never before for the American-market which the adoption of reciprocity would have opened. As result the pressure on the Ottawa government in -favor of better trade relations with the United States is growing. . One of the chief arguments of the conservative party against reciprocity was that its advantages would be giv en to Canada ultimately by demo cratic free, trade legislation without Canada yielding any concession. This nas nui nappenea ana is not lively to happen. . One phase of the information from Canada Is that Mr. Borden already has indicated a willingness to enter Into a trade agreement with the Unit ed States less extensive than that re- gottatd a .-year ago v by.-tho 12uir government. Whether he has dono so and whether there have been exi changes on the subject cannot be offl- dally confirmed here. It would be difficult for the admin istration to obtain any amendment of the reciprocity offer which stands on the statute books. It is known to be the belief of Sir Wilfrid Laurler. now leader of the opposition In Canada, that time will ultimately bring the Canadian people actively to favor reci procity, but Washington was scarcely prepared to hear that Mr. Borden was swinging in that direction. It has been noted, however, that he has made no effort officially to reject the reciprocity offer by definite legisla tion. Canada is in the attitude mere ly of having not enacted the legisla tion necessary to give the agreement effect. Russia's overtures to Canada for an agreement on agricultural machinery are believed to be designed to fright en the United States into a belief that the Russian market for American ma chinery-will suffer. This would be a natural move In conection with nego tiations of a new Russo-American commercial treaty. PROHIBITION LEADER CALLS NATIONAL MEET Convention Will Bo Held In Atlantic City In July Tlie Basis of Representation. Chicago, Feb. 1. Prospects for vic tory of the cause of national prohibi tion of the liquor traffic are declared to be bright by Charles R. Jones, chairman of the prohibition national committee, in the official call for his party's national convention, which he Issued yesterday. The convention will meet In the Steel Pier at Atlantic City, N. J., in July, next. A candidate for president and vice president will be nominated. The basis of representation as filed by the committee follows: Each state and territory Is entitled to four delegates at large. Each state is entitled to an addi tional delegate for each two hundred votes, or major fraction thereof, cast for Eugene W. Chafln for president in 1908. The District of Columbia is entitled to two delegates. Each state,, territory and the Dis trict of Columbia Is entitled to atf many alternates as its number of dele gates. , WOMEN SENTENCED FOR REVOLVER DUEL Given Option of Two Yean Jail Sen tence or I leaving Waynetivllle and the State. Special to The Oaaette-News. Waynesvllle, Feb. 1. Minnie Shep herd and May Cope, two Women of questionable reputation living In Way nesvllle, yesterday afternoon pleaded guilty to the charge of shooting at each other with revolvers. The epi sode occurred about a month ago, after the Cope woman had accused the Shepherd woman of stealing a sum of money from her. ' Judge Lane Imposed on ea-h a sen tence of two years In jail, or to leave the state and not return for five ears. John Felmet and Lloyd Payne, youths In their teens, charge-! vs. f Ii haVng dltiiibd a reili-lons p.-- at TiiHrntn, ( i,. : v , re n ucr!. i I
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