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FULL ASSOCIATED PRESS S22VIC2 BY LEASED WTRI, Lr'il II IL Yw II fl II It . II II II A A 7 .. u mm m LAST EDITION ; 4:00 P.M. , :. Weather Forecast PAIR AN DWARMKR. VOL. XVIII, NO. 30. ASHEVILLE, N. C, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 18, 1913. PRICE THREE CENTS ASSASSINATED TILLMAN SUSPECTS "DEAL" IN SENATE WILSQH FAVORS Hi-lien SLAIIi AT 5ALQN1KI Was in Personal Command of His .Troops During the ' s Earlier Months of the , -Balkan Campaign. POPULARITY ENHANCED BY SUCCESS.IN WAR BUDGET SYSTEM INDICT ELEVEN IN BANK FRAUD One of His Chief Hopes' Is to '.Set Government Finances , in Better Order. South Carolinian'3 Uterance, When He Found Martin Had DIRECT SENATORIAL Abandoned Leadership Contest for Appropriations Chairmanship Becomes Public. Murdered Ruler Was Brother Queen Mother Alexan der of England Con- . stantine Successor. By Associated Press. Saloniki , March ' 18 King (Jeorgeof Greece was assassi nated here this afternoon. King George, who had taken personal command of his troops during the earlier per iod of the war, had been here since December, when 'the Trakish fortress was occupied by the Greeks after a short siege.. . The queen of Greece also has been there and has paid great attention, to the care of the sick and wounded. ' ' King George in December had a meeting here with King Ferdinand of Bulgaria to dis cuss the fate of the captured Turkish ... territory after the war. :. .By Associated Press. , Washington, March 18.: Senator Tillman's unusual speech In the demo cratic caucus last Friday when he fail ed of acceptance as chairman for the appropriations '' committee became public today when It was printed In full under authority of the : senate. References to Senator Martin's activi ties leading up to his selection for the appropriations chairmanship- have aroused general discussion in congres sional circles. Senator Tillman declared he was unable to understand why Mr. Martin should have withdrawn from the con test for party leader and should then huve been given the most Important chairmanship In the senate. ELECTION IS URGED that The President Insists that New ' would hate to believe there has T.,.t 'Di-ftirl,r An been anv understanding or anv nrom. 'vlur"J """f11 have not proof. I must perforce leave KeSOlUtlOn IOr anv noellHAtinna linnnlfl Tnf T nnnnnl help the suspicion that there, must . KelOTOl, have been a deal of some kind or Sen ator Martin would , not have retired without a show down.'.' Mr. Tillman said he had given up 1 ''. : Associated rrc.HB, his plan to deliver a Vitriolic speech Washington,. March 18. President because he wanted to promote party Wilson is in favoir of a budget system harmony. ' ' for the conduct" of the government of action are more necessary at this nnanoes. He made public today a let time than anything 1 know of," he tcr written on January 30 from Tren said. "IJemocrutlc discipline is also ton to Senator TUlman' expressing the neeaec. very mucn ror as compareo . thRt & bu(g(.t gyaUm miffht be with, the republicans we are an un trained mob.' Woman Again Conscious After 19 Years "Sleep By Associated Press. Atlanta, Ga., March 18," Local physicians are, puzzled today over the case Of Mrs. Carrie B. Jordan of this city, who yesterday suddenly regained control of her mental faculties after suffering for 19 years from a form of aberration which rendered her entire ly oblivious of her surroundings. Mrs. Jordan "awoke" at a local hospital where she was recovering from an ab dominal operation performed five worked out after: he got to Washing ton. President Wilson wrote In part: "Ever since I was a youngster 1 have been deeply Interested in our method "of financial legislation. One of the objects I shall have most In mind when 1 set to. Washington will be conferences with my legislative col leagues there with a view to bringing some budget system into existence. rphlu kMUfn..uo tf ttutlilincr tin t Via 0V. weeks ago. She said that the 19 years! ' - , , , during which her faculties Were be- Penses. of the nation, piece by piece, clouded Is an utter blank although she . will certainly lead us to error and remembers vividly things that oc perhaps embarrassment." Cox and Cincinnati Associates Accused of Misapplication of ' ; $115,000 and the Abstraction of $352,500 Note from Trust Company Make Bond. IIMPIER DETOIIIT By Associated Press. Cincinnati, )., March 1.8. George R. Cox, former president of the Cin cinnati Trust company, two former officers of the company and eight members of the board of directors were named In the sealed indictments returned by the Hamilton grand jury yesterday. The envelopes containing the indictments were opened by Com mon Pleas Judge Cosgrove today. Nine counts charge the "misapplica tion" of $115,000 of the bank's money through alleged illegal loans to the Ford & Johnson Chair company, now in the hands of receivers. Five counts charge the abstraction of a $362,500 note by three officers of the bank with intent to injure and de. f;nud the Cincinnati Trust company. ... Those against whom indictments were returned for illegal loans to the Ford & Johnson company are: George B. Cox, Charles H. Davis, Norman G. Kenan, James F. Heady, James M. Hutton. C. N, Miller, N. S. Keith, and F, It. Williams. The following were indicted on the charge of abstracting the $352,500 note: . George B. Co, J. M. Crawford, Charles H. Davis', David C. Edwards, James F. Heady, James H. Hutton, N. S. Keith, F..R. Williams and O. V. Fairish. Note Fraudulently Cancelled. The Indictment charging abstrac tion of the note alleges that the men This promises to be a quiet week curreil befor her mind became af- Mrs! Jordan's first request was that'f cfy at tl'e,7h'fe Pres' her daughter, whom she had last,d.ent W1'8on w " observe holy week "seen" as a two weeks old baby, be hroughfto her. The daughter Is now Mrs. Pansy Rowe of Atlanta and is FETCHES fl BISHOP WHISKEY 111 HOTEL King George was in his sixty-eighth year and had ruled BO years. He was a brother of Queen Mother Alexandra of England and a son of the late king of Denmark, He vas chosen king of the Hellenes in 1863. in succession to Otho I. A previous attempt to assassinate him was made in 1898. It was un successful. . ... .King George was married in Octo ber, 1867, to Princess Olga, eld est daughter of the Grand Duke Con Htantlne of Russia, a brother of the late Emperor Alexander II. Crown Prince Constantlne, who has been In active command of the Greek troops throughout the Balkan hostil ities and who was at the head of the army which recently captured the Turkish fortress of Janlna, with its , garrison of 82,000 men, will be the successor of his father. His wife Is Princess Sophia, a sister to the Ger man emperor. . ' 1 No Word'at Washington. Washington, March 18. The Greek legation here had received no official word of the assassination of Kin) George up to S o'clock this afternoon and the press report caused the great est surprise. Members of the lega tion spoke of the king as greatly be loved by . his people, this sentiment having been further developed by his active participation In directing affairs of Greece through the recent critical a flu Irs of the Balkan conflict. The state department similarly was without official advices. Sent for a Drink, He Brings Firewater, to the Dismay of Kansas Town. By Associated Press.' Lawrence, Kans., March 18. A ho tel porter's mistake in. assuming that a Methodist bishop who complained of being thirsty wanted whiskey Instead of water has started an -investigation that probably will lead to the expo sure of persons here engaged In the illegal sale of Intoxicants., "I am thirsty; - please get me a drink," the bishop ald to the porter who showed him to his room In a local hotel yesterday. "Certainly, sir," replied the porter. Five minutes later he returned and handed the churchman a bottle of whiskey. .Tho incident was reported to the city and county officials, who have taken steps to learn who supplied the liquor. , - ... herself the mother of two children. P8BGBE55WE5 WILL KEEP T Will Have Nothing to Do With Republicans Appoi'nt . ments by Simmons T 'S Says Wilson Did Not Send Him , to Illinois in Senatorial Contest. ' 80 SILL VESSELS SOUDROIED By Associated Press. Hamburg, March 18. Eighty ships, mainly small craft, were sunk oft this city early today In a southwestern hurricane. Twelve deaths nave Deen reported and it Is thought that the death list may reach 60 persons. DIXIE FLYER WRECKED filx Person Slightly Injured When Fast Train Is Ditched Near Macon. (lty Assoclutcd Press) Bnrlnulleld. 111.. March 18. Wll liam J. Bryan, secretary of state, had no "secret mcssatfe" from President Wilson concerning the Illinois legis lature today. Mr. Bryan asserted he rnme more as a private citizen, "speaking to those who are Invested wl'h great responsibility,'" than as ,. .),. In I. Only In th most general terms did Mr. r.vnn refer to the complex Illi nois political problem. "I sm not here to tell yon wnur. you ought to do," he snld. "I de cline to tell, even If I am asked, for two reasons. In the first place, the lewioiislblllly Is not Upon me. It is in ip .ui. In the second place, your hrowleilKe must be more complete tb-, mine.". Bprlngtleld.v III., March Id The eleventh J'il"t ballot on the long teri.i lor frilled Willi. senator resulted In no clioli i'. By Associated Press. Macon, da. March 18.--Six persons were slightly Injured . this morning when three sleepers and one day coach of the Dixie Flyer, Chicago to Jack sonville, were ditched 23 mile south of this placo on the Georgia Southern and Florida tracts, I.KMKXCY TO KI KFIlAiI.7rTI-S IS t'IUTICISKI IN COMMONS . By Associated Press. London, March 18. Methods of the government in dealing with mili tant suffraglsis were discussed in heated fashion fn the house of com mons today, t'ne of the unionist members. Harold pmlth. declared thnt the punsivo submission of the authori ties to hunner strikes end subterfuges hml l.rmiKht ridicule on the adinlnls- Uull'in "r the law. The count ry fi-vs nmb rule." lie in Ki il. "mill ctiiiTCi-ncy nica-iircs tire lie. e..:.;iiv. Gazette-News JSureau, ? Wyatt Building, Washington, March. 18 The progressive members of the house those electedson the Roosevelt ticket last fall will act as the repre sentatives of a separate political party during the life of the sixty-third con gress. The will nominate a speaker and, other officials at the opening of the extra session. In other words, there will be two minorities in the house when the special session of the sixty-third congress 'assembles for work April 7. rFloor Leader Underwood of the democrats has given definite assurance to Congressman Hlnebaugh of Illinois, t peaking as a progressive party mem ber, that the progressive party men would not only be allowed committees, but would be put on some of the most Important committee assignments. In tnc new house there will be about 20 progressives. The new party men will nominate .Victor Murdock of Kansas for speaker. Of course he will be de feated, but by . virtue of that nomina tion he will be the bull moose leader In the house. "Jim" Mann will be one minority leader and Murdock another. The fact that the progressives will not align themselves with the repub lican party has a deep significance. For one thing It means that the pro gressive party is to be kept very much alive and thatt hey will have nothing to do with the reactionary republl cans.- All talk of a compromise is called off and the bull mooSe people Will fight their own battles. Senator Simmons, chairman of the finance committee, announces that he has made the following appointments on his committee: Col. A. D. Watts, chief clerk; Capt. 8. -A. Ashe, assist ant clerk; William Lelnstr, assistant clerk and stenographer, ad Herbert Sink and Cortes Wright, assistant clerks Col. Watts' appointment, is temporary. 8obn after the extra ses sion beiiins Senator Simmons will InamA n inriff avnnrt I A aiirPMfl Wfttttt. Senators Simmons and Overman do not expect to return to the state be fore the extra session begins. Sena. tor Simmons is busily engaged with tariff matters and Senator Overman, v.'ho Is the new chairman of the sen ate rules committee, Is busily engaged making arrangement to take care of the extra session. Senator Simmons does not expect to go to North Caro lina until he goes to Newbern to at tend the marriage of his daughter, Miss iFHbelle, to lr. Joseph F. Patter run. Ho wrote a letter to a friend today i declining an invitation to a theater. ! saying that he would be glad to go some other time than this week, which by so many people Is especially devot ed to the more, serious concern of re ligion. '., ' "-:, ; ( Four ihundred school girls were to be received lri-hi ea,?t room f the White House tiifiay. T Secretary fted- field of the department of commerce arranged to escort -one party from Brooklyn. Other school delegatlonf from Northborough and Kramlngham, Mass., and the girls of the Normal school of- Newark, N. J., also were to meet the president It became known today that the president not only telegraphed to democratic leaders in the New Jersej slate senate yeiterday to secure the passage of the Jury reform bill, but that he had urged the prompt adop tion of the resolution providing for tho direct election of United States senators. Telegrams were received at the White Houso today from State Senate Leader Davis stating that the jury reform bill would go through the senate without the referendum amend ment and would be so presented for reconsideration to the house, By Associated Press. New York, March 18. College base ball already started with some minor games, will get Into lull swing in the south before the week is up. Prince ton, the first of the b!s college teams to get into action this year, will open Its season' tomorrow with the North Carolina, university team at Raleigh. Other' games Tor" the day include. openers" for Lafayette and. George town and Holy Cross and Virginia. On Thursday Pennsylvania State One Killed In Iowa Wreck. Py Associated Presr, . Marshnlltown, Iowa, March 18. One nuin was killed anil 14 person tnlureil. secern! eerloiiMly, when fl rur.lli bound .Mlnneiipolis nnd St l.niiiw p:iHN,.iKer truin ciuhIhmI IIii-iuikI a Io-IiIkc north of this city today. FLIGHT I! MEAN OF 31,11 Human Hair Importer No where to Be Found Big Fraud Suspected. By Associated Press. New York, March 18. Private de tectlves are scouring the country to day in search for Anto'nlo Muslca and his son Philip, who disappeared re cently coincident with the discovery of alleged Irregularities In connection with Importations of human hair. Behind the transactions, according to banks concerned, lurks a possible loss of S 300.000 here and abroad. The American Bankers' association, acting for the complainants, the Rank of Manhattan, the Anglo-South Amerl can bank and the Bank of Montreal, is prosecuting the search. So far only one bank, the Anglo South American, has fixed Its exact loss. To cover this an attachment for $134,687 was Issued against the firm of A. Muslca Son. - Antonio Muslca, the father. Is TO years of age and formerly was cheese Importer. As such he was charged with underwclghlng fraud bv the government some time ago, but the son, Philip. 30 years old, took all the blame and was sentenced to year's Imprisonment Subsequently this Was commuted by President Taft. Since ther. both father and son have specialized In hair goods. Not only have the two male mem hers of the family disappeared, but two daughters, Ioulse and Grace, are not to be found. , Wilson May Attend Unveiling. By Associated Press. Washington, March 18. President Wllcn today took under advlseiren an invitation to attend the unvellln of n memorial to thu heroes of th Imttlexhlp Maine, In New York I e coral Ion day. The preHldent be II. veil lie mlKlit be Blile to uttend lie ea"M- i" i . n ation liny In a lenul holl' named In the Indictment, having con trol of thfe funds of the company, con verted to their own use a promissory note of the trust company for J.152, 500 and that the men who were liable for the note cancelled it and entered It as paid in the company's books when it had not been paid. Each of the nine counts in the in dictment charging misapplication of funds related to a separte loan to the Ford & Johnson Chair company of which President Cox, of the trust company also was a director. . The total amount of the, nine loans was $115,000. It was also claimed that the notes set out in the Indict ment comprised a part of thoBe made to the chair company. , . i All the defendants except Heady, who Is ill, and Hutton, who Is out of the city, were In court when the in dlctments were read. They were pre pared. It was said, to give bonds of $5000 on each indictment. August Herrman appeared at the court house with Mr. Cox and signed his bonds, $5000 for each indlstment. This was the second grand Jury te port of the affairs of the trust com pahyj the former reporting December 9 and returning indictments against Keith and Williams. Thet rust company was capitalized at $5 00,000 anil under the state laws could not lesally loan more ; than $10(1,000 to any Individual, firm or corporation. Plans for Utilizing 56,000 Horse Power from Green River Immense Dam -' at Potts Shoals. GREAT COTTON MILL SAID TO BE CONSIDERED Rumor Also Has It That Elec tric Railway from Ruther- ; fordton to Asheville Will Be Built. ollege Baseball Season Getting into Full Swing opens with North Carolina. Yale be gins Its season on Friday with Wash ington and Lee. The first game in the north will be played on Saturday, when the college of the City of New York opens at Fordham. On the same day the naval cadets and Pennsylvania will open their seasons at Annapolis. Harvard wiTl be the last'of the big colleges to get into action, opening with the Bos ton American League team in Boston on April 8. . . , Seventy New Warrants Issued for " Firebugs By Associated Press. Chicago, March 18. The remark able extent of the arson frauds by means of which insurance companies have buen swindled out of millions of dollars wan disclosed today, when Judge Wade In the municipal court issued 70 warrants for persons impli cated by evidence in the hands of As sistant State's Attorney J. Johnston. Johnston said that at least an equal number of warrants would be taken out later and declared that the public would be further amazed when the full story of the operations of the "arson ring" Is known. The warrants charge "burning and arson to defraud," but the names of the defendants were suppressed for the time being. After the arrests a special grand Jury will be called to act on the evidence. Special to The Gazette-News. Hendersonville, March 18. Big hy dro-electric power development and electrical railway construction are to ' be expected in this Immediate section In the near future, unless all signs fail and rumor is utterly discredited. It is stated and your correspond ent believes the authority to be mainly reliable that the company of capital ists who have purchased several thou- sand acres of land lying along Green river having finally won out in the. courts are now in actual possession of the properties. These lands includ the immense water, power of Green river at, above and below Potts shoals, Including ."the Narrows," and it Is understood that the company will proceed to develop this tremendous power, building a dam 164 feet high and 370 feet long at Potts Shoals, and then conveying this water through huge steel pipes or flumes down thar deep declivity for a mile or more, thus obtaining a fall of 800 feet all told. Practically all the water of Green river will be utilized, and 56,000 horse power generated, according to - tho estimates. The dam location is seven miles from Hendersonville, and near the railway, so that a spur can bo easily constructed to convey building material. It is estimated that a year will be required to complete the vast bulk of concrete masonry, f '- :-' . A Million Dollar Cotton Mill. Contingent, upon this power devel opment, it is understood, a great cot ton mill, an investment of a million dollars. Is to be built near Flat Rock. The transmission of power to large industrial enterprises in the Green ville and Spartanburg sections is also In contemplation. ' ( Klex'trlo Railway. Equally 'reliable ' Information, ap parently, is to the effect that the North Carolina Interurban Railway company will proceed, at no very dis tant time, to construct an electric line from Rutherfordton to Asheville. via Chimney Rock, to cross there on bridge more than 100 feet high. Thence it runs up Reedy Catch creek to a point near Slick Rock inn; thence CLEVELAND MEMORIAL DEDIGATEORT CALDWELL PRACTICAL JOKE RESULTS III DEATH FROM RABIES Ceremonies Take Place Manse Where Late Presi dent Was Born. at Fifteen Years Old Boy Saves Many Lives and Loses His Own. By Associated Press. Caldwell, N. J., March 18. The wooden house where Grover Cleve land was born was dedicated today as permanent memorial to the dead president The day's formal program began with the transfer of a purse of 117.610 In payment for. the house, ourchased by the "Grover Cleveland Birthplace Memorial association" from he trustees of the Flrst-Presbyterlan church. Richard F. Cleveland, the presi- ient's son, was selected to receive the key and open the front door, while his sister, Esther, was chosen as the irst of the official visitors to enter the room wnere her father saw the Icht just 78 years ago, nnd decorate t with flowers. Her mother, now Mrs. r. J. Preston, was among the spec ators. The Cleveland memorial Is the Presbyterian manse which the preol Jent's family occupied when his father ivas pastor of the Caldwell Presby terian church. For Its purchase the memorial association raised $25,000. K movement Is on foot to raise $25,000 ;nore by popular subscription to pro vide for Irs care. Until this money Is obtained the manse will continue to be nccupled by the present pastor of the church. The memorial Is a two-story frame trueture, set buck from the rod be hind two big elms. The association Intends to point It white with green trimmings sod olherwlsn lo restore It in the condition when occupied by th t'levlnnds. tin the adjoining lot a memorial library will be erected. An trew I'n ru en I e has promised $7500 for th.H l.ull'iinK. By Associated Press. Chicago, March 18. Fred Plephcr, 15 years old, died of rabies in a hos pital today, the victim of a practical Joke a Joke which might have cost the lives of 20 other pupils In the schoolroom with him had he not risked his. He is now called the hero of Btraussburg, III. Two of Pleoher's boy schoolmates brought a stray white poodle dog into the schoolroom as a Joke. Piepher noticed that the dog was foaming at the mouth and he pushed back a llttl girl as she was about to pat the an! mal. While he was carrying the dog from the room It bit him. The next day the dog bit four pigs and a horse all of which later died of rabies. The boy's parents became alarmed and after treating him with horn remedies for several weeks brought him to a specialist In Chicago, Th ca.se was too far developed and alt that could be done was to temporarll relieve his siifferlnt,'. 130 MEN ENTOMBED It Is Believed Miners Trapped In Ken tmky Shaft Will Be Item-timl, without' Fatalities. Py Associated Press. Henderson, Ky.. March 18. One hundred and thirty miners are Im primmed today In a coal mine of th Pittsburgh coul company at Bnskerts. near here, because of a cre-ln whle has clogveil the mouth of the shut' Iteports from the mine slate th;it n though they huve been un;ililr to innl. Ihelr wny out Mii-oiir the ulrHh;,,' there biue I. cert no f.i l ulltien. It w, el.. i,., I the men oil!.! be r 1 111:) .-li let liooll. It loops and gradually climbs along side and around Bear Wallow moun tain, at an elevation of 250 feet above the valley, going on to Hickory N.ut gap and through it by a cut 40 feet deep. Direct from there it goes to , Fairvlew, then to Blltmore, parallel ing the Southern railway a short dis tance, passing up near 8t. Genevieve's college, crossing Southslde avenue near Oates field, thence up the street to the Coxe estate building, with a terminal station in front of the South ern Express office. Commissioners Are Still Unde cided as to Course They Will Pursue The county commissioners at their special meeting yesterday did not make any definite decision as to wnai course they wlll take to care for the notes which' the county has outstand ing and to secure money to complete me road system of the county, coun ty Attorney 3. E. Bwalu was engaged in a law suit In Superior court and could not be with the commissioners, and It was decided to have another meeting Saturday,; when the financial matters will be further discussed. As stated yesterday the commissioners asked Representative Gallatin Roberts 10 hnvo the legislature authorize them to issue bonds to the amount of I (). 000 to take care of something less than 8S0.O00 In notes and to completo the roads that the people sre clamor ing for, and Mr. Roberts did not do this because he snld the commlwlon irs already have the power to r-aue such bonds, slnee they are for tiecew ary expenses. The commissioners knew thev hud the power. It Is stated, hut could have disposed of the homln to better advantage by having the 1 sue authorised; therefore It le n"t known nuw whether the hori'ls will Ijb'H or not. It Is known hnt the roiiinii... . ... ' - .ire very anxious to t.nllil a f' w i miles of roa-l. V'lieri the If -, ir -lie rotu.lv 1 1 old i e I "! i - ' ntlrelv to r.ei '
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