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17 -: . nn T-rw ' jt T ft T A4 f i Jr : It "t 1 nr if dispatches 4:CDP. II. i T7t&tr Tortctit: FAIB AND COLDER. VOL. XVII. NO. 28. ASHEVILLE, NO., WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 13, 1912. ''Ik, :, ' 'I I'll- So PER COPY TO KEEP HQS St7tBB ?ea.: Dl New Orleans Princess KILLS IIOITS Loses Appeal to Rome Fiio!jnExicn?'rcr'gaj;aracipuT:nii;Tii i New York Millionaire Says He 55 HUM SIUCLLIID Senate Committee, on Taft's Recommendation, Takes Swift Action to Insure Neutrality. Would Lynch Those Who Insinuate Husband's Guilt. PRESIDENT HAMPERED BY LAX MEASURES REWARD IS INCREASED FOR AIKEN ASSILANT Heavy Penalties Provided for ' ' - - Violation of Statute Propos ed by Foreign Relations Committee. I Friends of Beach Assert He Can Prove Alibi If Arrest ed in South Carolina Mystery. i Aiken, S. C. March.. 3. C. Oliver Iselln. of New ; York and Aiken him I announced nl-or hlu ittiniitilF In n let- wasnrngmn. Murcn 13. i ne unit- t,.r to MllV01. Gyles that he would take oil Stales government tntlny, assuming I pleasure In participating In the lynch - a position of strict neutrality, dealt a I of the persons who are responsible severe l.low to the cause of the Mexl- l"r e taw inat .na neen current nere I sin pa inn tnnrnAFniii a turn tilt wn mm p an revolution! by taking steps to cut llnon Mr FrrtBP.u n. Reach two off the In tier's supply. of munitions of weeks ago to the effect that Mr. Bench war from this country. Urgently re- himself slashed his wife's throat and ipnvsted by the Mexican federal gov-1 that he and his friends have conspired einment to revise the present neutral-1 to hide his guilt by charging an un- lly laws, President Taft pointed out known negro with the crime. inadequacies In the statutes to mem- The occasion of Mr. Iselin's state lu rs of the senate foreign relations ment was his offer of a reward In ad committee and they Immediately re-ldition to that already offered by the turned to the capitol and drafted a 1 city for the apprehension of the guilty concurrent resolution, to meet the sit-1 person. nation. In effect the resolution would I Friends of Mr. Beach have been authorize the president to stop the ex-1 very active in denouncing the story port of arms or niunttlons of war that. Is going the rounds and which from any -'place In the United States was given fresh impetus when a New to any American country where in York society journal reached the city, his opinion domestic violence exists, and Mr. Beach has retained two of Tin- resolution was temporarily tabled the leading attorneys of Aiken. , In the senate with the understanding He has also had a detective from that It could be considered later to-vew York, but the detective has re- day. While the house also must act 1 ported to Mayor Gyles that he had on the measure, instructions, it if I been unable to find out anything and said, have been sent customs officials 1 would return to New York. to hold tin all shipments of arms I The police have not made any pre destined to points In Mexico. The gress toward discovering the assailant, action of the United . States, accord-1 although Investigation has followed lag to the Mexican ambassador, will I investigation. Pear! Hamptoni the strengthen the opinion that this eoun-,1 negro woman who was stuck with a try is disposed to friendship with Its 1 fence railing in the Beach yard a few mithern neighbor.: ' i I minutes-before Mrs. Beach was at- Wnshlngton, - llarch - JJ.r-Prftsldtiu I ta&Mk ia-bi grWte eeveral tiroes. Tiffl today pointed out to member of I Each time she has contradicted her the senate foreign relations committee I own gtorles, but. she stoutly refuses and tlK Texas congressional delega- jto- disclose her knowledge of the uf tion at White House conference to-I fair. day thnt the neutrality laws of the I 11 1. eaA t;,at Mr. Beach's friends United States were not specific enough I could establish an alibi for him should and is reported to have scitd that un- I he ,e arrested charged with the as- less congress enacted new measures sait UDOn hla. wife. Mayor Gyles. it would he difficult to preserve peace wno jjag personally taken the investl- wttn Mexico. I cation in hand, this afternoon de clared his intention of going to tne M. f New Orleans Woman Faces Charge of Having Poisoned Her Sister With1 ; Morphine. HOPE TO GET A JURY BEFORE THE DAY ENDS Killing Alleged to Have Been Done for Insurance Other StrangjDeathsIin " ' -.- VI . Family i ': ... ... UBS. FSEDEEICK 0. BEACH. Iesmore in hawkins case Mrs. Shafts and Mrs. Britt of Asheville Former Taken ' to Hendersonville. New flrlenns, Lp, March 13. The trial of Annli Crawford for the al leged mupderof her oister began to day. The seleflrn of the '-Jury was the first step.1 JVjunael are hopeful of lining the jury bo before night The prosecution will depend upon a chemist's report that nearly nine grains of morphine were found in the dead girl's stomach. An Insurance policy on Elsie Crawford's life is al leged to have been the motive for the murder. . ' . . The case promises to he a sensa tional one. Several other members of the Crawford family died mysteri ously, all leaving Insurance by which the accused woman Is claimed to have benefited. :' fi S ' Express Messenger, Covered by Gun, Brains. His Guard With Mallet and Seizes Revolver. SHOOTS OTHER LOOTER AND RECOVERS BOOTY Overawed Southern Pacific Crew Then Couples Detach ed Sections the Train Proceeds. After the White House conference! the senate foreign relations oommiliec 1 root , 0jj tne mntter and If possible held a meeting and framed a Jntnf I (.hnrarlnsr the nrulltv man with the resolution which would prohibit the ormei no matter who he may be. shipment or arms rrom tne unueu Ktntes into any state "on the American continent which is in a condition of disorder. The resolution would Im pose heavy penalties. It IS the In tention to make it immediately appli cable to the Mexican situation. The resolution was adopted unani mously In committee and was report ed to the senate Immediately. IISSIOKi IN PERIL WHILE CHINESE BATTLE 'There was an undercurrent of feel lng In the city yesterday among those Vh.o, are' Interested,' that there : was "something doing" In the Hawkins case, a feeling that the base of oper utions was being transferred by the of ficials working on the case, to Ash- ville,: at least - temporarily. - uonse- fluently When the activities of the Hen dersonville snjL the JocaL offieeraif resulted- hi; -the "rr- f -1 rs. LfatxTe' Shaft and Mrs.. Nora Brltt of this city on the charge of being connected with the case or -of having some knowledge of how Myrtle Hawkins met her death, there was comparatively little surprise felt, 'although there were probably none who guessed Just what turn the case would take. Mrs. Brltt was ar rested yesterday - afternoon . at her home on-View street about 6:30 o' clock by Deputy Sheriffs Lyda and Mitchell, and the arrest of Mrs. Shaft, who Is charged with being party to the Illegal operation by which-the voting girl came t her death, took place about two hours later at the; home of her son-in-law, Nathan stepp, in iChun'g cove. Mrs. Shaft was ar rested on a warrant brought here from Ilcmlersonvllle by Chief of Police Gar- ren and she was taken to Henderson MEET 10 ADJUST L CDA Important ' Conferences Are Under Way, itt N.ewjyprk 'and London, New iYork, March .11. With con ferences on today in JIew York and London, steps may be taken leading towards an adjustment of the world wide situation which rinds a million coal minerB on strik In Great Britain, a miners' walkout -1n Germany and many thousands of hard and soft con miners In this country threatening to. strike. The possibilities of a strike in the United States has already made Itself felt in premiums of one dollar per ton on anthracite. Distress in Wttaln Acute. London, March 13. The distress which has been caused throughout Word comes from Borne that the tribunal of the Rota has reiected the appeal of Princess Marie Rosplgllosl, npe Held, asking for a new trial of the Parkburst-lleiu marriage case. runceRS Rospigliosl is an American, horn in New Orleans In 1870. She was Miss Mnry jPnnn(?g Rdd, and In her youth went to Washington, where she marripj jIr. parkhurst of Bangor, Me., who later divorced her, keeping the custody Df their two children. She then went xo Rome, where her remarkable beauty caused a sensation and It was not long before she became engaged to rrmee Giuseppe RosplgllOBi, head of a famous historic house dating back to man. Both being Catholics, they wished to lie married by a religious cere mony, but the church, not recognizing divorce, refused the prince's applica tion! They were married civilly at the chateau of Ijimporecchio on Sep tember 2, .1901. . i J 1 ' A ' l..r Geologist Scouts Report Volcano Threatens Canal San Antonio, Tox.. March .: IS. David A. Tronsdale.an express messen- senger, balked the robbery of a South ern Pacific train near Sam'.arson this : morning when he trapped two high waymen and killed them. The rob bers boarded the train a few miles east of Sanderson. The mall and ex- '; press cars and the locomotive were detached from the passenger coaches. The engineer under cover of the rob bers' guns was compelled to run the detached cars ahead. . . , , - One of the robbers took Trousdale ' back to the train and kept him under guard while the other robber covered the crew in the cars ahead and started to rifle the safe and express boxes. Trousdale employed the old ruse of signaling an Imaginary person back ( his captor. When the robber turned Trousdale grasped a mallet and be fore the highwayman could shoot , dashed out his brains. Then arming himself with the dead robber's gun, Trousdale waited for the other bandits to return. After rifling the express boxes the second man returned to the coaches. Step ping from cover, Trousdale killed him. All the stolen property was recovered and the train proceeded. Trousdale is a young man who lives here; ".'.''-' The" libbers ''BbaieB-' were -taken Sanderson. They have not been Iden tified. ' : - New York, Marcil 13 -A sic-eping volcano, dormant for; centuries, 'is threatening the Panama canal, ac cording to special dispatches from Colon, published here today. The vol cano is said to underlie Culehra cut. Clouds of steam and blue smoke arising from the new(y turned ground are responsible for tjie report. The division engineer In a report says that in the past five days the temperature in the vents has increased and that the sides of two vents were encrusted with a yellow powder, apparently sul phur. The canal commission's geolo gist scouts the volcano Idea, declaring the steam and smoke nre duo only to the oxidation of pyrites. Br S SMI I 111 TRIPOLI FIGHT Great Province on the Verge of Anarchy U. S. Monitor at Canton. 1 Hong Kang. March 13. almost prevails everywhere -Anarchy in the Tien Gnnhasl. March ll Over 100 Cnlnese urovince of Kwang Tung. Arabs were killed and another 100 I Korty men. were killed and 60 wound wounded, according to Italian aavloes I ed in a battle Saturday at Chow-Yang. when the Italians yesterday stormedlThfl united States monitor Montero and occupied bases situated northeast I g at Canton.. Several missionaries of Foriat which were strongly en-1 nHd narrow escapes from tlymg pui trenched nnd held by a large force ofleta. Arabs. The Arabs defended their ,...ntnAH .t.V, . Vw. i.tmnot hPQVAT- hilt i""1"1 .. I n , , ir were flnully routed by tne Italian I WI1KK IS UNJJK WAI troops at the point of the bayonr. I ... ftTJ MR W BATTLESHIPS Over 400 Arab -corpses were left on I " the battlefield. ,. Italian officers re-l port an enormous number carried on i ini-iiuuiig me kihhhii u.m ly the retreating enemy. The Italian- troops' loss was three officers and 25 soldiers killed, while seven officers and 5fi soldiers- were wounded. . ? ' Six (ilHiil War Vessels ro Nmv Building. MRS. OSWALL SMITH Tormer AsheIIIo Woman Died Satur day at Washington Court IIouno. ' Nw hus been received here of the drath of Mrs. Oswall Smith which took place Saturday night at her home at Washington Court House Vn. The cause of the death was heart failure. Mrs. Smith was well known In Asheville, having spent manv years GIVEN LONG TERM Washington, March 13. The names of the super-dveadnaughts Oklahoma and Nevada, contracts for which re cently were let by the navy depurt- tnelit, made their first appearance on the monthly progress report issued by the bureau of construction and repair today, making a total of six battle shins under construction. Two are rapidly nenrlng completion. On March 1 the Wyoming was 3.5 per cent com uleted andi the Arkansas- 90.8. Tn New York and Texas were respective Iv 2B.S and f4.1 per cent completed. Averaire progress was reeorneu lor h'eliriiiirv on all naval vessels now building. SUFFRAGE ADVOCATES PLEAD WITH CONGRESS England, Scotland and Wales by the yna nM- u n n r gtrke ,s becomnK acute llle on the night train Mrs ?5r,1" particularly in Wales where the whole Ijc-ll. II ....... .- I,., - . L. n.m.a ...iniln i.t.nn thl) IIIU III HIP JD.I UC7Kcl'ua "- coal Industry. The conference between the British coal mine owners and striking miners' representatives, presided over by Premier Asquith, was resumed this morning at the foreign office. It is said satisfactory progress Is being made In the negotiations. i ' ... JUDGE DECLINES TO FREE THE ACCUSED riGKEIS The Jury Is to Decide Whether Trade Restraining Con spiracy Existed. Mill Strike Committee Accepts Company s Terms was arrested on sued by. Judge B. F. Long and she is now confined in the Buncombe county lull. The arrests were kept very quiet nd few people had learned of them at a lute hour last night Mrs. Brltt Tnlkeil, The arrest of both women appears have been caused by the fact that Mrs. Britt has done considerable talk nir about the case to various people, declaring that she knew all about It ut would not tell until the proper time came; thnt she knew now me mdy.catne to be in the lake, and knew who the man vas who mnae tne ar rangements for the operation; that she could make some people stuvKe ii aha wanted to." Her statement to the officers at tne time of her arrest served to throw some light on the case. She is quoted a saying, "What are you arresting me for? You ought to get the woman who killed the girl. Llzale Shaft per m-med the oneration. I dldn I. If vou want the woman who causea Myrtle Hawkins' death go to the wom an thnt performed the operation. Slio Ifail lleon Kxpectlng n Mrs. Shaft took her arrest very cool- Lawrence, Mass., March 13. The lives of the American Woolen com end of the great textile strike is near, pany's four mills that the wage sched-jwere eI)acted t ne general siriKe committee toaay uie onerea oy tne corporation oe ac oted to recommend to the Idle opera- cepted. xcoc IG RAILWAY (111 PIGEON RIVER Canton' to Sunburst Line Should be Completed by August, Col. Boyd Says. defendants are guilty or Innocent. STOLE FOR SICK SON Railway Mall Clerk, With Inblcni IhImhI Rworrt for 24 Years, Ar rested for $i: Tlieft. Ten Window Smashing KnrTrn'joltos Sentenced to Prison for lour to Six Mom lis. Women Appear Before Senate and House Coiniilltice to Advix'BlP Tbclti Caiise. k London. March 13. Ten sufTra RUes were tmlav sentenced to lerri- ranging from 4 to 6 months Imprison ment for participating In the window (mushing fi,Hade of March 1. Dealt I'm-kelS. d- u i! h 1 3. A blow i"l with r Washington, March 13. Today vns 'suffragette dny" at the capitol. The senate women suffrage committee sn.l the house judloliry conimHtn heard women advocates of pending bills to s,inend the constitution to give womn the right to vote. , - lviio io Cualfinalii. Chicago, March 13. United States District Judge George A. Carpenter ly and she must have known that she yesterday refused to take from the was under suspicion. On seeing tne jury xne cu m "'," officers it is said she remarked. "Well; charged with "Imina violation of the ' ' r. . h0v vn..? t Sherman law. and discharge the de- you inivi vuiuo tu. I . - k . . -..ii-. I- have teen expecting th s arrest for a lenounw. m e.i-i ... - il.ni HZ" IZ am not surprised. I that the Jury will decide whether the have nothing to say," She then toin the officers to do what they liked witn her. The officers have heard reports to the effect that Myrtle Hawkins was seen at the home of Mrs. Shaft about three dav before her disappearance. This Is not the first time tout tne nnmpft OI tnese WUinvil unvc i.ru.w m (he case. Last summer the tocat hi,.. Knnrinrted a rather vigorous Louisville. March 13. After serv examination of both of them hut could inB 24 years with unblemished record Lnrn nothing, that seemed to ne 01 in the railway man service, Ann d. value. It was found that the two Terrell, aged 63, today confessed to women had gone to, Henderson coun-lsecret service men that he had stolen .. .kn.ii the im of the tracedy. but In total of 1-13 dollars from registered according to the Information as to the! letters to buy Christmas presents and time they were said to have gone, tne medicine for nis son wno nan tuner nn ii-.m pniiUl not see how lliey could I culosis. have been connected with the case. . Terrell was arrested yesterday after Since trjen there have been many more completing his run rnmnra retard nil tne anair ana tne local officers went to work on the Mrs. Groeo's Trial Postponed. nmA Miles. Mrs. Shaft has a rather unenvlahle Atlanta, March 13. Instead or De notation with regard to nmttrrs or ling taken to a court room tor a pre- th h kind ano in tne comments nearu 1 iiminury iron vn tnaisw in row... ii.n irt ihmii the case this morn-1 lng Iv'r husband, Eugene H. Grace, tnir no surprise was expressed at her while he lay In ben at their rasnion ! 1 11. i 1 h.i.. on 1 l,v ,v. I nrrcnt. It Is sheri'l s Inn e 1 . rU - t 1 stnted this morning at the oil ire Ihst the local officers n working nn tills end of the several weeks and were gia.l-...-,th.'i- ini'ci -in.ition i mi 1 :) tlilo home on March 6, Mrs. Daisy tlple (irace will spend toilny In lull I'ostponenient of the trial to Marc 11 w h h line to the unimproved condl Hon of liince. So fur nothing hus I out 1,1 If I to lift (I.:- - ll of in- si 't y Confederates Are Pensioned and Women Are Given Lim ited Suffrage. . BUILD Special to The Oazette-News. Canton, March 13. Col. David I floyd of Waynesvllle the veteran rail road contractor lof Western North Carolina will begin work here today on the railroad up Pigeon river from Canton to Sunburst, for the Cham plon Lumber company. Work will be legun on the Joseph Smnthers place about half a mile from Canton s Hm PITNEY IS UNDER DEMOCRATIC FIRE Close Vote Is Expected on Con firmation of Supreme Court Nomination. Frankfort, . Ky.. March 13. The general assembly adjourned sine flie this morning. Many Important bills Including measures pensioning Confederate veterans, the extension of suffrage to women in school elections, and prohibiting the purchase or gift of liquor In dry ter ritory. BIG COMPANY FORMED it niiPiv iinii'JTii ft DLAUI UUUillKII . Sneed Adams One of Incor porators of $300,000 Devel opment Concern. Washington, March 13. The con firmation of Chancellor Mahlen Pit ney of New Jersey us associate Justice I Oaxette-News Bureau, of the I'nlted States Supreme Court I The Hotel Ttulclgh. to succeed the late Justice Harlan I , Raleigh, March 13. will be voted upon at 4 o'clock thls a charter was Issued to the High- ufternoon. After three hours of I iand Spruce company of Black Moun- slormy debate yesterday behind closed Itain today to deal In timber, real es- . doors of the senate agreed to take noliiite and develOD mines. The author- further consideration of the Pitneyhzed capital is $350,000 with I150.0UK Its. The Jury to condemn and ap- appointment at noon today. Lending I subscribed by F. A. Drury and H. U praise the right of way through the Bert Smathers land was sworn In yes terday at Waynesvllle and today will go over the ground and assess damag es for the right of way. Thus at last actual work of final construction has begun In earnest on the much talked of railroad up rigeon river, the grading for which for the most part, was done a few years ago, after which work was ceased, and suspended until now. Col Boyd put 'Bud" Cahe to work yesterday after noon buying teams to be used on the grade Just as goon as he had closed a deal with J. C. Arbogast by which Col. Boyd became superintendent of construction of the 16 miles from Can ton to Sunburst. To a Gazette-News representative, Col. Boyd stated that, with favorable weather, the road to Sunburst should he completed and trains running In four months, or by August 1. With only one exception of heavy rock work the line will be easy, by far the greater portion of the work being the regrud ing and reshaping of the former grad ed line. This road, It Is understood, is to he called the T. & N. C. U. U. and Is being built by the Champion Lumber company for the purpose, of gotHfe; both nuln and hicw imm democrats' determination to attempt I FoHter of Worcester. Mass, und John to defeat the Pitney nomination be-s, Adams. cause of his record on labor decisions! was apparent. A close vote Isl expected. Washington, March 13. The senate this afternoon conllrmed Mahlon Pit ney of New Jersey as associate Jus tice k or the Vnlted Slates Supreme court. Imperialists Moving on IVkln. Rescued Vrom Wrecked Ship. Ocean City. Md., March 13. Captain Bennett and six men were rescued In a breeches buoy by Ocean City life savers from Wilmington, Del.-, today, from the three masted schooner John V. Hall. The vessel was stranded three miles south of here while bound from Wilmington to New York with a cargo of lumber. The schooner was Pekln, March IS. General Sheng- V.m hunil. mono frnnna mnrchlne from Kanotl province to Pekin to re- a total loss. The rescues were effected ...tit. JlrH..nlrv store the emperor io tne inrone. , iwnn ricwi w.h.vm.. UY CH0IC3 TOR PRESIDENT It I could Bclert the Mm I Would Name Name. Address Oit this ticket out and mall It to The Gaieit News, or l.jnl 1. Q el iUn their big lioumlry of tl'.Wf In nils on I'lgeon. , tills office. II you do not cure to write your tinmo on me i.hio,,. can write It in a rct-Mry b"k provided at tbo ofli.-e. H.wnll wHI Ifl 1 .la- 1 from limn to time, nod In 1111 11 -e name of C o voter I n ('1.11 out bhIi-.s ho n-ieii i' -l. ! J
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