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1 I A THE ASSOCIATED -PRESS . . DISPATCHES LAST EDITION ' 1 4:00 P. 11. Weather Forecast. FAIR AD FREEZING! VOL. XVII. . NO. 38. ASHEVILLE, N. C., MONDAY AFTERNOON, :MARCH 25, 1912. So PES COPT r.;MTI III The Maine Goes to Her Final Resting Place in Deep Sea ,,,. vi nil REUMID OF till f v a- v is J- m y r j i & i i it i j i Tiin C I NULL I HILL S within comb .' ... Possemen Again Advance "on , the Supposed Hiding Place I Sidna Allen and Nephews. EDWARDS IS LODGED IN JAIL AT ROANOKE Admits Passing Pistol to His Uncle, But Insists He Did ' Not Fire a Shot. Hlllsville, Vs., Mareh 25. Another diiy'fi hunt for the Allen gang -is pro gressing with th6 hunters confident that liy Wednesday they will have In custody three of the four men wanted. A night's sleep 'iii the foothills was badly needed after yesterday's strenu ous although futile tramping through the mountain brush In a drizzling rain nn(T put the detectives In shape for to day's work. The entira force made, for the mountain soon after daylight. Hue outlaw, Claude Swnnson Allen, son of Floyd Allen, It Is believed, gnc ceeded In distancing his pursuers and leaving thin section. His uncle, Ski mi Allen, and his cousins, Wesley Ed wards and Frlel Allen, are supposedly hemmed in the narrow space on tho south side of the Blue Ridge against which tho detectives are centering their present efforts. Several times these men, tit Is said, have been nut far distant from the posse. It been me known today that Jack Allen, the youngest fugitive, made H III. Ill I. - - , .... :EJS:,.:. Si;i: jgf, 5" ; v - T f THE MAINE BEING 1DWEO OUT TO. SEA FOR OURiAl KILL BANK CASHIER AflO MAKE ESCAPE French Automobile' Bandits Obtain $8000 Three Men Vs Are Slain. Paris,. March 20. Four brigands In an automobile rode Into Chantill to day armed with revolvers, entered a bunk and shot the cashier and another employe dead, They then seized ft box containing 8000. ; ""."'" l)ifore the Chantllly robbery the automobile' bandits killed the clinuf fenr of a private motor car. ' DISREGARDS LINES IN , RAIL RATE MAKING Cnmnilsxion Knys Kates Must ' VIUllablo llcgwdlcso of iAM'al . - OrdcTH. ; . Be horseback Tide through the mountains Saturday. Sldnti Edwards, captured and placed in Jail Friday, Is safely in Jail at Roanoke with the other three prisoners. Detective Felts says Ed wards Admitted passing a pistol to his Fncle FVvrt ut the eourthouse door the day of th shottting. The.irlsoner' Insisted he did not fire a shot himself. .Miens Hard Pressed. Claiax;" Vrf-;March'' ' 25.Afelaude Kwanson Allen, the 11 year old son of Floyd Allen and one of those indicted lor the Hlllsville courthouse murders has cleanly eluded all pursuers, but his uncle. Skin Allen, and cousins, Wesley. ICdwards and Frlel Allen are so closely pressed on the south side of the Blue . Ridge that they probably will be captured shortly. This information nune yesterday from leaders of the hunt for the gang who on March 14 swooped down on the Carroll county court, killed Judge Massle, Trosecutor Foster, Sherlfl Webb, Juror Fowler and Miss Nancy Ayres, and wounded two by-standers. Claude Allen, who once attended a military school at Raleigh and knows more of the outside world than the average mountaineer. It was learned today, took a, pocket full of gold from the family cash drawer on the night of the tragedy, put on his best clothing and vanished on horseback beyond the Mirth .Carolina line. . . Hope of finding him In the nioun tain region has now been Abandoned. Not so. however, with the three other outlaws who are dodging" about in the erevlces of the Blue Ridge bs tween here, and Mt Airy, N. Cr They have been seen at a distance, detec tives hnving been within 30 minutes of them. "I hope they will give them' selves up, they had better do' it for they have no ehance at all," was the frank comment of Sidna Edwards, likewise indicted for murjur, who was taken for safe keeping to the Roan ' oke Jail yhere he Joined his Uncle Floyd Allen, his cousin Victor Allen and his chum Rvrd Marlon, all In dieted for complicity ln1he;onrthouse shooting. F.dwardx Iloard Train. Edwards swung his tall, robust fig ure into the train at Ualax about noon He was brought here from Hlllsville under a heavy guard. ' With him was Sergeant White of the state militia He arrived in Roanoke tonight seem ingly as csrefree es a school boy on a lark. From fifty miles around the country-side gathered at the railroad stations to catch a glimpse of the prisoner. They had no difficulty, for Edwards projected his braid shoul rters through the train window and waved, to each group, not a few of whom were his friends or- relatives for Carroll county's population Is com posed, largely of Aliens or their kin folk. There was a plaintive note' in the boy's voice, however, when Henry Allen, a enusln, attired In the blue un Ifornrof tfn officer of the law stepped aboard the train st Ryllshey. They fihook hands and eyed each other i Mlence for n. moment. ' ' "I'm sorry to see you In a lind scrape Ilka this." sighed Allen. 'Well, sir. I'm sorry to be In It but I Jest couldn't help It," was the meek - reply. Edwards reiterated his protest or Innocence. "I had a hard time of It," he said, "for two weeks 1 had been In bed with - Pneumoniavnnd thev all dragged me ""U to come to court to be a witness congmwilonal In Fncle Floyd's trial, I wlnh now t bailn't gone. The shooting btKiin all of a sudden and the room was tilled wllh Munkn in a second, bullets were "vlnK from one side to the other like ' IlKhtlllng. I K(, out BH fnwt in I could. v I,. . Hiiw I hi irrt thev f ll.Ti PI ell h! 1 - !:l Washington, March 25. yThe inter state commerce commission, in, an oplnton made public yesterday estab llshed the far reaching principal that railroad must so adjust . Its rates t,hat Justice will bi don ; fcetweejj communities regardless of state lines. If a railroad makes a low rate upon traffic wholly within the state, even when forced to do so by a, state com mission, It must actord the same rate the Interstate traltic moving un er substantially similar conditions. The principle was laid down by I ote of four to three. The minority held that the powers pf congress were usurped by the majority opinion nd that the remedy for such a sltua lion should be applied through addi tional legislation. The decision was in the case of the railroad commission of triiuisiana against the St. LnuiH and Southwestern railway and other car rlers operating between IOUliana and Texas. The caBe practically precipitated i conflict between federal and state au thorlty over the control of the major ity of the Interstate commerce com mission, prepared and handed down by Commissioner Ijine, Is a definite assertion of the supremacy of national regulatory authority oyer the powers exercised by any state. It is the first time this assertion has been made dis tlnctly by the commission. In making it. Chairman Proudy and Commission ers Clark, and Meyer, concurred with Commissioner Lane and Commlssione rs Clements, Harlan and McChord dis sented. R. F.WYNNE "Fighting Murine" Well 1 Known AHhcvllle, Passe Away In ; Washington, D. C. . In li - ' )Y ( ft'.-, , - . . . - J G0TT0HPB1GESUP BESULTOF STRIKE Lawrence Labor War Ends- Consumer Pays for Big Wage Advance. THE MAINE TAKING THE. LAST PLUNC7E . I' B supplyof CfllTOS Six Million Bales on Hand Feb. 29, End of Six Months ' , Period. ' . DN STATE "LfLY WHITES" Executive Committee of State Colored Organization Will Meet on -April 1. Washington, Marh 25.-Roli rt Wynne, former captain In the United States marine corns, known In th service as "the fighting marine," died here yesterday at the home of his fath er, lormer Postmaster General Robert J. Wynne. Captain Wynne was 38 years old, He died of tuberculosis, contracted in China during the campaign against the Boxers. Captain Wynne had a spectaclar career that earned for him his nick name. t He served In Cuba, the Phil ippines and China, and received the thanks of congress and several medals before he left the corps. He resigned from the service after a dramatic court-martial several years ago. Former , President Roosevelt ac cepted the resignation because of Cap tain Wynne's splendid record. Ills friends beliuve his gradual decline In health was due largely to his forced retirement. Washington, March 25 The prelim inary report of the Bureau of the'Cen- .4ns on the supply and distribution of cotton for the six-month period,. Sep tember 1 to February 29, of the cot ton year -of 1911, with comparative, statistics for the same period of the cotton year of 1910, as announqpd at 10 a. m., today, wns as follows: Supply 1911 1910 Total 16,723,221 12,788,572 Storks held at be- glnlng of period 1.37G.031 1,040.040 Ginning ...... 15.279.522 11.612,951 Net Imports: 68,668 135,618 Distribution: Bxports ... 8,007.814 fi.S37,968 Consumption . : 2,623.379. 2,402,032 tn cotton seed 1,350,622 1.186,347 In other states 1.272,757 1,215,685 -Ilnek held at end ' of period ... 6,092.028 4,048.572 ' I5v manufacturers, 1911', 1.542,639;! 1910, 1,54,952. In cotton states. 1911, 733,406; 19V0 ")83,512.- ' In all other states, 1911. 809,233; 910, 941,440. , In independent warehouses, 1911, 2,280,866; 1910, 1,787,006. In cotton states. 1911, 2.089.805; 1910. 1,471,116. 1 In all other states, 1911, 191,061; 1910, 315,890. Elsewhere, 1911, 2,268,523; 1910, The itnttstlea are In running bales, nclud'nar Hnters. except foreign cotton and exports have been reduced, to 600 nound bales. . Returns of cotton consumed and of ' .. ... . stocks held at mills ana in inaepenu cnt warehouses and public storage ulaces were collected through can vasses by agents and by mall. The stocks shown under the classification "elsewhere" were not secured through actual canvass but by deduction; this utianllty being the differences between the total supply and the sum of the exnorts and that consumed during the period and held by manufacturers ana warehousemen at me cioee hi me ic rlod. , Gazette-News Bureau, t The Hotel Raleigh, Raleigh. March 25. What will surely prove a vigorous protest to the "Illy white" republican party will be a meeting here Monday, April 1, of the executive committee of the republican party of North Car olina to take under advisement the present political situation and "adopt such a course as may lie deemed wise." This Is a colored organiza tion and Ita representatives have not nnthered since 1908. 11. P. Taylor Is chairman and Charles N. Hunter sec retary. Capt. Wynne spent much of the Inst two yeurs In Ashevllle, where he has many friends who will. regret to learn of his death. He returned to Wash ington last autumn. - Indiana Primary Results. S 'ran ' w.idj.i .Indianapolis, March 25. According to complete but unofficial returns from the republican primaries held In In dlanft Friday and Saturday, Roosevelt won In six and Taft In seven of, the districts and the 1434 delegates In the slate convention, which meots here Tuesday .to elecl four delegates at large to the national convention In Chicago, Taft v. ill lie supported by 784 1-42 and Roosevelt n majority of 117 1-21 dele- Tart. Aernrdliijj to these ft Mm. old have e";hteen nf . i- I, , I I i . n .V t " , ' ile'.. 1 1 i l.i the na 1)4 H 14 2, for T THE HATF1ELDS WILLING TO IMJITBE jlLENS Noted Kentucky Feudist Of fers Service of His Clan to 1 Governor Mann, Eastern Railroads Declare They Are Unable to Increase the Wages of Locomotive Drivers BROTHERHOOD'S CHIEF MAKING NO FORECAST How the Employes Will Take Rejection of Their Request Is Not Known. Ronton, March 26. A hundred and twenty thousand textile operatives in Niew England today received a gen eral advance in wages when the in creases recently announced by many ! cotton and woolen manufacturers be came effective. Advices varied from general managers of the railroads. to 10 per cent. I The railroads state the proposed tn. The great Lawrence strike which 'crease, they say, would be equivalent brought lu Its train Increased . to placing a lien on their properties of wages for 275,000 textile work- i88,oo,uoo of four per cent aecurl- England, waa offU i ties which would have preference over New York, Match 25. Fifty rail roads comprising practically all the lines east of Chicago and north of the Norfolk & Western today refused to grant the Increase In wages de manded by the locomotive engineers. The engineer's demands, presented on January 22; was for , an Increase amounting to about If per cent a year. The railroad's declare they are finan cially unable to bear the Increased expense. The reply was presented at a Joint meeting of committees repre senting the brotherhood of locomotive engineers and 12 vie presidents and ers In . New Illll.l Her Husband Talks Freely and . Bitterly of the i Shooting. Rluefleld. W. Va.,: March 25. The Hatllelds are willing go Into Virginia and assist Jn the search for the Allen gang, according to Captain Hatfield, the oldest son of "Anse" Hatneia, leader of the clan. He declared he would organise a band and trail the Allans if Governor Mann desired nis assistance, - BATTLE OVER UNSEATING STEPBEKOi IS Atlanta, March 25. Mrs. Daisy Ople Grace returned from Philadel phia last night to be greeted at the station by one of the largest crowds ever assembled there to meet an In coming train. So great was the Jam in the main corridors and train shed that Mrs. Grace was secretly taken from . the train to elude the curious and ruBhed to a watting taxicab. Worn out by the excitement of the farewell to her relatives In Philadel phia and the long trip, Mrs. Grace was taken to a local hotel for the night, but later she will seek more se cluded quarters pending her prelim inary bearing on the charge of snoot ing her husband, Eugene Grace, which Is set for next Thursday. Mrs. Grace had not seen the Inter view given by her husband while he was being removed from the Atlanta hospital to his. home at Newman, and further than to ask about his condi tion after the trip, had no comment to make. Heretofore she has insisted that the statements coming from the hospital and attributed to Grace have been Incited by members of his fam ily and his attorneys. The repetition of "the charges against her, in a di rect Interview from Grace, is ex- uected to out a new aspect on the case. According to Dr. Thomas S. liailey of Newman, Grace has shown no 111 effects from his trip and is in good spirits. A stream of his fellow towns men visited the sick room and ror the first time since he was ahot on March 5 Grace talked freely and without reserve of the shooting. He is reported aa exceedingly bitter In his denunciation of his wife. ' Grace will not be tn condition to attend his wife' trial on Thursday, but Mrs. Grace Is said to be anxious for the hearing. dully declared off at all the mills In Lawrence yesterday, having ac complished Its purpose in the opin ion of the leaders. In this connection It Is generally believed, too, that advances in wages or reduction in hours to paper mill employes, bagging and burlap work ers,, machinists and operatives In other industries are all traceable, di rectnly or Indirectly, to the movement which had its origin in the Lawrence mills. , .... : , The total number . of persons thus to be benefited is considerably up ward of 100,000, Advances in the prtee " of -wrdolen' Irhtl ' Sotton fcoodsi which have been made or which are In prospect, will probably place upon the ultimate consumer much of the burden of the additional cost to the textile workers. This will aggregate between 110,000,000 and $12,000,000 during the next year, it is estimated Mill agents tn announcing advances In prices have frankly said that the upward trend In the result of wage advances. The rise In the price of cotton goods, announced up to today is com paratively small, fraction of a cent a yard In most cases, but selling agents predict that the net advance to the retailer may ultimately reach two cents a yard. Some increased prices also have been quoted on woolen goods and dealers freely predict high er prices for next season. New Bedford, where the manulac turers of the finer grades of cotton goods have refused to accede to the demands of their employes for an ad ditional five per cent has displaced Lawrence aa the center of Interest in the situation. Unless the mill owners give the Increase demanded within few days it Is feared a strike of from 20,000 to 30,000 operatives will fol low. While an Increase of five per cent has been offered the New Bed ford operatives are insistent that they receive 10 per cent . Secretary Devoll of the manurac turers association has promised that the mill owners will decide early In the week hither this will be granted. first mortgage bonds. The railroads say to Just that extent would be les sened the ability of the roads to make Improvements necessary to increase efficiency and Insure greater safety to the public and employes. Grand Chief Stone of the locomotive brotherhood, when informed that de mands were refused, said he had no predictions to make. . When Stone came from the confer ence he said he and the other repre sentatives of the brotherhood would hola a meeting this afternoon, after which they might make a statement. h'r: mm shoots police ;: U COMMITS SUICIDE Boy's Heroism Prevents Kefl- tuckian from Slaying His Entire Family. ltattleolilp Milk Coasting Vessel. Ilerlln. March 25 The German battleship Elsnss collided with . and rank the Swedish, coasting steamer Pollux between Norway and Jutland on March 23. The crew of the Pol lux was rescued. . Minimum Wage plmnsslon, Postponed. London, March 25. Discussion of a minimum wage bill for miners has been postponed until tomorrow. Ne gotiation, are still proceeding between the mine owners and miner. Hon Adjourn. l.i Washington, March 25. The house met at noon tmliiy and ailjourned at r.' :'il out i.f repert for thn memory f i" ' I'. preventative Hlnghum nl IV'.. i. First of Several Speeches on the Subject Made in Senate. NO ACTION IS TAKEN BY THE MINE WORKERS Executive Board Awaits the Outcome of Conference Scheduled for Tomorrow. REPLIES TO BRYAN Harmon Man Resents Statement Ttiat ' Ohio Executive Is Wall Street's -Candidate. Washington, March 5. Replying to the declaration of William Jen nings Bryan that If Governor Har mon was endorsed by the Nebraska primaries he would not to to the Bal timore convention as a delegate, Sen ator Hitchcock of Nebraska charac w..i.i..in. u..A-ir.Tk. ho in. Iterlsed the Bryan eta tem en t as an In the senate 'over the right of Sena- attempt at dictatorship "which Ne- . .... . ..... ' Knailra vntolHi Wfill M Tint trlHHlA ' Cleveland, March 25. The policy committee and executive board of the United Mine Workers of America at a meeting today decided to take abso lutely no action in the coal situation at present pending the outcome or conference of operators and mlnerB of the bituminous fields tomorrow. Would Investigate Fire Companies. Insurance Washington. March 25. Represen tatlve Jackson today urged before the house Interstate commerce committee his resolution for an Investigation of all fire insurance companies, declaring they had the country "by the throat.' Harrodsburg, Ky., March 25. In sane from drink, Edward Moore at tempted to murder his wife and fam ily, seriously wounded two- officers who went to the rescue, and then committed suicide at hy home here yesterday. According to his wife Moore be came violent about daylight, destroyed clothing and furniture and aimed a gun at a man he saw through a win dow. His 14 years old stepson, Frank Votaw, deflected the barrel, which so enraged Moore that he attacked mem bers of the family. The boy heroical ly centered the madman's attention on himself by hurling a chair at Moore. The iwo ran out of the door and neighbors summoned the police. The appearance of Chief of Police K. C. Smith and Workhouse Keeper William Davenport brought about a battle between the officers and Moore, who retreated behind the swinging kitchen door. Aa the door swung to and fro the man fired and Smith's right arm waa shattered, while Dav enport received a bullet Just over the heart. The Officers retreated across the street, but when they returned to the attack they found Moore dying from a self-inflicted wound. On a table in the kitchen were three revolvers, a rifle, shotgun, bowle knife, and 2500 cartridges. , OHIO RIVER RISING Considerable Damage Done to Proper ty at Cleveland by Water Flood Stage Pained. Cincinnati. March 25. The Ohio river passed the flood stage this morn ing and continues rising at 7 o'clock this morning the stage waa 60.1 feet. Considerable damage has been done and many cellars and houses . are Hooded. Three Killed tn Train Wreck. Sand Point, Ida., March 25. Thres trainmen were killed when a west bound Great Northern freight ran Into a rock slide here today. The en gine and three csrs rolled over an embankment Into the river. tor Stephenson of Wisconsin to his seat, opened today with the first of a program of speeches that may delay the flnnl vote several daya It would take a two-thirds vote to actually de prive Stephenson of his seat. - Illinois 1Celsliiture Meets. Chlciigo, March 25. Governor De neen called the M lie legislature speelill pension toil to iiiH a prefeT et,tj:, pre- ' ' n! ! ! " v net eff iCr uve for a t .e i 1 1 ., A, . il M," ' braaka voters would not tolerate. "The assertion made by. Mr. Bryan that Harmon haa the support of Wall street,'' said Senator Hitchcock, "Is utterly without proof or foundation mi far aa I know. Whenever Mr. Pry an Is opposed to a man he first ,-m.tmes and then assorts that Wall street ta for that man. Certainly Wall street has tin reason to be for Harmon. As governor of Ohio Har mon has shifted $3,000,000 of taxes a yeiiroff of the people on to the rail roads, which are lnrgely owned by Wall street Interests." ,. - , UT CZCICl FOR PRSCIDIST If I conld Select tl Maa I Would Nam Nam... ...-r.va Aauress. . . , ....- E I.1T.SI f Cnt this tleket oat and mnO U to The GasetleNewa, or tnn.l it i.. t tills office. 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