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"r7 tut qittrtt-xx- an tbm uon ffSVarrn abbochtkd rxsaa - nct ff TBS CASOUSAM. Weather Forecast: !, FAIR WEATHER. -mm . VOL. XVin. NO. 261. ASHEVILLE, N. C, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 12, 1913. PRICE 5 CENTS UK. BP1I VISIT ASHEVILLE resident Wilson Must Go To Some Milder Climate ' Within the Next Few Days. ..' Iand OF THE SKY UNDER CONSIDERATION s Being Urged to Come Here By Senator Overman Political Gossip at1 Capital.. . BOMB BY EXPRESS KILLS YOUNG LADY homas ;McCabe, Employe inPackage Was Addressed to T Bottle Works, Who Was InjuredAnother Em ploye Was Cut by The Flying Glass. TYPHOID BANISHED FROMJHE ARMY Only One Case in the First Eleven Months of the Present Year. New York, Dec. 12. A bomb sent by express ' exploded and Instantly killed a young woman employe in an uptown bottling works today and In jured two men employes. The girl's Head was nearly torn oft. In the confusion there was delay In identifying the girl. The package was addressed to Thomas McCabe, one of the office force. He was standing near the girl when she opened It. His left ear was torn off, and Michael Ryan, another employe, was cut by flying glass. ..'v.. Gazette-News Bureau, .' Wyatt Building, Washington, Dec. 12. 'wkmmmmwmm'mmmmmmfcw.m'.mmm."..mwm.mmm'.mwm.mm.mmm Cimex Lectularius Most Terrible Sort of Insect Asheville may , have the honor of Saving for her guest aunng we hristmas holidays tne president ui L United States. According to a Lii.fnnnded rumor here last night friends of the president consider it Operative that he should spend his kcation In a climate milder than Washington and points farther north, La that Asheville is bieng seriously Considered for the president's place if rest wnne congress is uuns -ess for the holidays. Senator Over nan called at tne White House today o talk the matter over with Mr. Wll- on, but owing to the fact mat but. ilson was kept in bed won a com he junior senator did not have an op- ortunity to talk witn mm. mr. uvei- lan will see the presiaent eany next eek and urge him to go to Asheville r some other point in the state for his vacation. He will ten me presi rtont nf the delightful climate in west' era North Carolina especially,, and of he fine golf course and hotel faculties it Asheville. V '; .'V Senator Overman stated that Secre tary Bryan has made the' positive statement that Whitehead Klutzs of Salisbury will be given a good berth hot later than January 16. i ( Kemp Doughton of Lenoir, ' son of former Lieutenant Governor Dough ton, has been recommended by, Sena tors Simmons and Overman for bank leiaminer to succeed Fred A.( Hull. Before Doughton can i be appointed, however, he will have to take an ex amination which is prescribed by the treasury department The Job is not under civil service, but the rules of jthe department provide that before an appointment can be made the ap plicant must pass a certain examlna ilon to show that he is qualified to hold the Job. E. C. Morgan, who was given a free Strip to Washington for having pro aucea l lie dcbi cum uii n ground, reached Washington last night and Is the guest of Mr. Godwin. Mor gan raised 127.8 bushels of corn at a cost of 11 cents per bushel on an acre of land. 1 , John Menlus has been ' appointed Tiral delivery carrier from Rookvllle, Rowan county. He was recommend ed by Senator Overman and Represen tative Doughton. Senator Simmons announced last night that he will not oppose the nomination of J. R. Swann as post' master at Marshall should the presi dent send his nomination to the sen ate. Swann was . recommended for appointment early, last summer,, but his nomination was not sent in pend ing an Investigation of protests made to Senator Simmons against his ap pointment - ' Thomas E. Cooper, vice president of the American National bank of Wil mington, and Wade Hampton Cooper, president of the United States Savings bank of Waahlntgon, wers elected members of the board of directors of the Union Savings hank . of Washing ton, one of the oldest and strongest savings banks in the nation's capital. New York, Dec. 12. The cimex lec-1 tularlus, less elegantly but more famil iarly known as the bed bug, is a, still more dangerous insect than .is gen erally supposed. It is a potent factor in the transmission of tuberculosis, ac cording, to Dr. J. Walling -Beverldge, who has presented a paper on the subject to the conference on safety and sanitation which is being held In this city. " He said that it was only recently that the bed bug had been given seri ous considered as a carrier of germs but that lately a number of authorities were agreeing upon the possibility that leprosy and spinal meningitis germs were carried by this household peat and that numerous cases had recently been cited where tuberculosis infec tion had been seemingly caused by the bed bug. It has been discovered that -the bug is able to live 229 days without food, he remarked Incidentally, in urging that a publicity campaign be conduct ed to warn housewives of the grave consequences which might result In I permitting the bed bug to live. - DEFEAT OF MRS. YOUNG II Strike of Chicago School Chil- dren Suggested as Way of Protest. E GOVERNMENT FORESTS Hope For Future ffeat Sup ply in Report of Fores- ter Graves. ' " DEFINES POSITION ON WF.TE SLAVERY VS . Senator Kern In' There Has Been no Relaxation in the Certain ProsecutiC ,of Such Cases in Reply Statements to The Contrary. to REBEL FORCES I I iCJiicagflrvJDoo,., 9.-r Nn .sJngJ tocJ. dent of the politics of reoent a44 this city has caused such excitement forced retirement of Ella Flagg- Toung as superintendent of schools,. according to political leaders. an,d, th.e. subject, it Is said. Is bound to assume importance in the aldermanlo elections next spring. Barrett O'Hara, lieutenant governor of Illinois, has suggested a strike of school children as a protest against the action of the school board, and club women say the mass meeting called for tomorrow night will have a large attendance. Mrs. Toung wasJ engaged far into the night and again today receiving callers who come sing ly and in delegations to voice tneir in dlgnation. . She has accepted a position as edu catlonal editor of the Chicago 'TribUrie and said, that under the law her suc cessor had been legally elected and she saw no way to compel her pwn reinstatement. ' . - 11 HERS TIED, OE RECORD 32 MILES Washington, Dec. 1!. Compulsory vaccination for the prevention of ty phoid fever in the United States Army has given the country practically an Immunized", fighting force but one case of the mseaBe maaing us ap pearance during the first 11 months of 1913, according to reports Just od- tained from the office of Surgeon General Torney of the war depart ment. The one , soldier became ill during November, but five days after he had enlisted and before he had been immunized. In no other army is anti-typhoid vaccination mandatory. So efficacious has been -the treatment in the army that the navy has adopt ed the precedent, and it . is today im munized with vaccine prepared in the laboratory' of : the army medical school. In commenting on the record for the first 11 months of 1913. Alton G. Grinnell of the-office- of the surgeon general of the war department, in a communication to the National Geo graphic society, says, , "This record, compared with that of any year previ ous to the beginning of vaccination, seems little short of miraculous." . He enclosed the following table of sta tistics, showing the incidence of ty phoid in the United States army from 1903 to 191J,rwhicb-tells the story in a nutshell: I Five years prior' to 1908 (average per year, 180; two years after vacci nation had begun (1911), 44; three years ' after vaccination had , begun (1912), 18. Since 1908 a prodigious amount of work has been ; accom plished. , : '. :, Mr. Grinnell goes on to say: , , "The various -steps in' the production of each dose of vaccine have been as carefully supervised, as though it was to-be used upon the president of the United States. Before it leaves the laboratory' 1t. is attested upon guinea waspinswra, ue-a. nope torcrtetPi.nn(r uie statistics arjove quorea Washington, Dec. 12. Direct denial from the department of Justice that there has been any relaxation in the prosecution of white slave cases was laid before the senatet oday by Sena tor Kern4. "No order to stop white slave prose cutions in cases not Involving com mercialism has been Issued, and no new regulations as to the enforce ment of the. act have been made since the Incumbency of the new 'attorney general," said the department of Jus tice memorandum. "On the contrary, the department of Justice has adhered to the prac-; tlce adopted immediately after the passage of the law and followed dur ing the previous administration." - Senator Jones insisted, however, that reputable attorneys in the state of Washington had received informa tion of an apparently authentic char acter that only cases of an Interna tional character were being prose cuted. ' Federal Commander at Tarn- ; prio Reports That Attack ing Army Has Been ; ; Kepuisea. )( y N1RRE WEST POINT ENTRANCE EASIER FINDS CONDITIONS REBEBLS ATTACK ON OJINAGO EXPECTED The Regulation for Admission Changed by Substituting r Equivalents. , . v Trtfu're meat supply -of the country is .held out. in. the annual report of Henry S, Graves, chief of the United States "forestry service, made public .today,,. .M. Graves declares that the National forests under his supervision 'furnish abundant forage supplies, op portunity, for-the adoption of the best methods and freedom from live stock diseases. . The forage resources of the national forests, the report continues, contrib ute' to the maintenance of more than. 20,00,000 head of live stock. The re ceipts from grazing, while second to those from timbering, last year were more than SI, 000,000 and showed an increase -over the previous year. The total revenue of the service,. ac cording to the report, wag slightly less than 12,500,000, which, however, was an Increase of 14 per cent over 1912, The total expenditure for administra tion and forest protection was a little more than 14,600,000, showing a de crease of 2 per cent Corry-Walker Team, Catches Leaders One Team Has Retired. , New Tork, Dec. 12. At I o'clock !xlay. the 104th hour of the six day Wcycle race, ten teams were tied for "rst place, the Corry-WaJker team having gained a lap early today. The waders at that hour had traversed 047 miles, six laps, which Is 32 miles, our laps ahead of the record. The Clark-Urenda. Carman-Came- 'on and Mitten-Thomas combinations still one lap behind and the "p)y-KMf team u lift miles In " roar of the leaders, 't a announced that ths Ander n-lliinn tram had rotlred from j' rare. They were five laps behind. inoy wrr, decia,,,! officially out at . ra. PREPARING FOR RUSH IT REWRITING Of FICE The local United States recruiting office. In charge of Sergeant E. W, Bonney, Is making preparations for the -iarts number of recruits mat ai ways apply for admission in . tne armies of -Uncle Sam Just after the holidays. Sergeant Bonney says that December is usually a poor montn, but after Christmas applicants com mence to pour in and until about the latter part of May the flics is very busy. This December Is about on the average of other Decembers that have passed, in the number of men who have applied for admission Into the different branches of the service. Of the applicants at the local office during ths last few days, three have been turned down owing to illiteracy and each of the men said that he was going back horns and study and come again in a few months to try the pre liminary examinations that are given at the local office. According to Ser geant Bonney, men are turned down almost every month for illiteracy and In most cases they go home, study. and return to try it again, and a large majority of them succeed the aecond time. Yesterday there came to the recruit er office a man who had lived in Buncombe county and enlisted here three years ago, going to the Philip pines, who had been out of the ser vice, only about three weeks .but he told the officer in charge that he did not believe that be could stay away, even through Christmas, as he Is homesick to get back Ito the army. This man during his three years' ser vice has saved over f 700 and whan he ra-enllsts he wtll get an Increase of about 15 per month. About 10 per cent of the men who apply at the local office are repected. It per cent tor Illiteracy, and the othei 65 per cent for various reasons. New Tork, Dec. 12. A coroner's physician began today an Investigation of the death of Mrs. Helens L. Mac kay, widow of the Rev. Donald Sage Mackay, for many years pastor of the Collegiate "Church of St. Nicholas on Fifth avenue and president of the general synod of the Reformed church In America. ' Mrs. Mackey died yester day afternoon under the Influence of ether on an operating table in a pri vate hospital where she had registered a few hours before as Mrs. J. H. Stone of Boston. A scrap of paper in her handbag, -upon which she had scribbled her name and address led to her Identifi cation. The belief that she was suf fering from an incurable disease led her to visit ths hospital for an exam ination, according to the theory of the coronor. Ether was given her at her own request and for the purpose of aiding In the examination. Heart failure under the anaesthetic caused death. , , Until early today the body lay un claimed. Then a daughter sought to have the body removed to a nundre takers. She was not permitted to do so until the coroner's examination should have been completed. Mrs. Mackay was a daughter of the late 3. Gregor Smith, one time governor of Vermont, from whom she inherited a large, fortune. She was promlnnt In New Tork society. Dr. Mackay died suddenly In a railroad station in Portland, Me., in August. 1908. show the .results ot this painstaking, care. Large quantities have been tif nlshed ,to. the Various departments of the government; to the militia, and to number of civil' institutions. As soon as Its success was assured tne larger drug firms of the country sent representatives to Washington . 16 learn the formula - and to study the process of manufacture. . -, The same vaccine is now; prepared by ' these Arms and sold to the medical profes sion of the country at a reasonable rate." - . Mr. Grinnell paints -an encouraging picture when he says, "As the typhoid bacillus can live but a limited time In water, soil and other substances, It iz obvious that if new pollution is not added from time to time .epidemics will be prevented. The general use( of the prophylactic will, probably, ex tinguish the disease, since the vacci nation of an entire community abso lutely prevents the 'carriers' and 'all others from giving off the typhoid bacilli, and the focus from which new infection would ordinarily radiate is eliminated. "The United States Reclamation service decided to use the typhoid pro phylactic early In the year among Its Held force, which Is scattered over a large area In the west It was not mads compulsory, but circulars were sent to the various camps describing the treatment and the results obtain ed in the army. One of the circulars contained the following Ingenious pro-. nouncement: "Typhoid fever can be prevented. You .can aid by .beinc vaccinated. Prevention beats the phy sician and undertaker. Healthy per sons may have typhoid tomorrow. Only those . vaccinated or those wno have had typhoid are Immune. Im munity lasts three years. Don't hesi tate. Volunteer today." Over 600 persons volunteered tor treatment Shortly after this an epi demic of typhoid fever broke out in the town of Malta, Montana, most of the cases developing In a hotel, where four of the Reclamation service men were taking their meals. Of these four one had refused to be vocclnated, one had had typhoid fever and two were Immunised by vaccination. The unvacclnated man contracted a severe case of the disease, the other three Meaning. The sequel was that the townspeople made arrangements to secure a supply of the vaccine. . t Washington, Dec. 12. Regulations for admission to the Military academy at West Point have been modified so that without lowering the entrance requirments prospective cadets may be matriculated by substituting equiv alents for some of the units of study hitherto insisted upon. The effects of this change, made public tday In or ders from the yar department, will be that a youth need not In the fu ture pursu a special West Point pre paratory course which would not be of special advantage in after life or an. other educational Institution, provld ed he failed of appointment to West Point. . . Hereafter a candidate, fqr admission may b-excused - from- mental exam Inflttcn .upon. presentation ol ceruncaie that he is a regularly enrolled student ftr good standing in a- university, col' lege or technological school, the en' trance' requirements of whfch include proficiency In mathematics and Eng lish as outlined by the college entrance examination .board; .or. a. . certificate that he has graduated from a pre paratory school meeting the require menu of that board; or a certificate that he has passed 14 units of the en trance examinations required by the board, including mathematics, Eng. Ilsh and history. It. Emma Franklin has filed suit In the office of the clerk ot Superior court asalnst J. H. Franklin, In which she sks a divorce on grounds. CANADIAN INDEX FIG V RE FOR riilCES SIIOW8 IN'CREASE Ottawa, Ont, iDeo. 12. The gov ernment's Index figure for wholesale prices during November is 138.4 compared with 136. 8 In November last year, an increase which la at tribtiled to ths heavy exports to the United Htates following the enactment of the new tariff. In detail the In- creime la shown mainly In grains, beef, statutory rattle, sheep, dairy products and ' fresh vegotablea TO PRESENT FLAG ANR BIBLE TO NEW S Local Chapters, Jr. 0. U. A. M, To Have Ceremony at Hillcrest Sunday. v. HE TO DD WITH Several members of Asheville coun ell' No. 6 and French Broad council, No, 97, Jr. O. U. "A. M., will leave here next Sunday to be present at the Hillcrest school, when the councils will present the school with ai Bible and flag. .The, presentation Is sched uled to take place at 10 o'clock, the flag to be presented by R. R. Wll Hams and the Bible by W. Cloyd Pen nell. Zeb F. Curtis will represent th school in accepting the Bible an flag. ' It is planned that the members leaving Asheville go out to Luthers on the 8:80 o'clock train and then from Luthers to the school building, which will- give them plenty of time to arrive at the school for the cere' monies. The presentation of flags and Bibles to schools Is one of the cardinal prln clples of the Junior Order and the order hopes to see a Bible and flag at every school house in Buncombe county. Recently it was delded the local lodges that they present Bible and flag to every new school that Is started In Buncombe county rirfd the 'gKlng of ths flag' and Bible to the H merest school, is the begin ning' of this' order) ' GOOD IN SOUTH resident Harrison of Southern Says Year Was Highly Prosperous. Villa Believed to Be Waiting for Reinforcements .j Refugees Taken on 'jp Gunboat. i Washington, Dec. 12. President Harrison, of the Southern Railway company, speaking today of the busi ness outlook In the South, said: Conditions throughout the territory traversed by Southern railway lines are generally favorable. Ths farmers of the southeast except In restricted localities where they suffered from drought, have had a highly prosperous year. The ginning reports or the United States Census Bureau indicate that the cotton crop of the States east the Mississippi river will exceed that of last year, and current prices are above those of a year ago. While the estimate of the total corn crop of the United States,, recently issued by the total corn crop- of the-- United States, recently Issued by the United States department of agriculture, shows a falling off, compared with last year,' of 661,729,000 bushels, the crop in the nine southeastern states tra versed by the Southern railway is, within twenty-one million bushels as large as last year,-the only South eastern states showing decreased yields on account of the drought be ing Kentucky and Tennessee. Other crops, including forage, have turned out well, and, taking the territory as a whole, I doubt whether the farmers of the southeast have ever had a more favorable year. 'Largely growing out of the pros perous condition oi me, iarmei-B, wholesale and retail trade throughout the southeast Is generally In good condition. 'Manufacturers in most lines arc enlovina- a srood demand for their products, and their . establishments are running on full time, though some claskening of production is to be ex pected during the holiday season. The reports of cotton mill and knitting mill development are particularly noteworthy." Presidio, Tex., Dec. 12. The situa tion at OJinaga, Mex., where the Mex-; . lean federal troops have concentrated, today was one of waiting in anticipa tion of a rebel attack. Rebel bands ' were reported to be Increasing . In , num"'er outside the village but were believed to be waiting for reinforce ments which General Francisco Villa has sent from Chihuahua. The fed erals probably will be under siege but will have the advantage of being able to obtain provisions and clothing from the United States side. OJinaga has suddenly attained a population from almost nothing to six or seven thousand.) The federal sol diers and civilian refugees who have not crossed the river are crowded Into a few adobe houses. General Salva- dor Mercado's headquarters Is marked by a dry goods box.' Many temporary stores have, been v erected in Presidio to meet the great ' demand for provisions. All the goods ' have to be hauled from Marts, Tex., . the nearest railroad station. ' Message from Fletcher. : Washington, Dec. ' 12. Wireless , dispatches from Rear Admiral Fletch-" er at Tampico on 'board the-UnirexV ' States Steamship Tacoma sent at' p. ? m. yesterday say the Mexican federal '. ttnboat Bravo was then shelling the rW"' rocU.cn; ! hut there w: n no change In the relative position of the ' combatants and that the United States ship Wheeling was In the liver close to ' the figthing. j ' ., , -. . The federal garrison was estimated'. at 3,000 while the rebels' claimed about 6,000. Rear Admiral Fletcher also reported that 150 refugees were on the American gunboats, 160 of the British steamer Logician, 350 on the Kronprincess Cecilia, a German vessel, . and 600 in the buildings ashore In the 1 neutral sone. APPEAL TO MODIFY El STORES WILL BE OPEN EOH EM SHOPPERS Beginning Monday, Ashsville Stores Will Remain Open At Night. COM LAW Indianapolis Commerce Board Will Ask Congress to Suspend Section. Beginning next Monday night, prac tically every store In Asheville will remain open laic every night until Christmas, a period of nine days. In order that the early shoppers may have ample opportunity to secure their purchases and avoid the rush of Indianapolis, Ind., Dec. 12. The In dianapolis chamber of commerce has started a movement for a nation wide appeal to congress to suspend or modify the provisions of the Income tax law providing deduction of the tax at the source and the substitution of methods enabling the government to obtain at. the source information for enforcing correct returns from tax payers. More than one thousand let ters, containing a copy of a memorial recently adopted by the chamber. were sent to many cities advocating the change and soliciting co-operation. The memorial declared "that 'the law has been made unnecessarily ob noxious by unreasonable and Imprac- a one night's shopping on Christmas eve. No definite hour of "f'tlcable requirements for deduction a't A 1. h. n mt at aA that IflA BlnreAi ..... iibiucu, ....w the source and that the enforcement of Its requirements "will have dls- REPUBLICAN CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE HAS MEETING Indianapolis, Ind., Dec. 12. Gover nor Samuel Ralston has I69.1B4.8 on deposit to his credit in a local bank and la worried about what he can do with the money. He cannot spend It, aVid as it would be a hopeless task to try to give It back to the thousands nf neranna who contributed the amount, he said today hs probably would aak the next session of the legislature to aid him in finding way to dispose of the money. The thousands of dollars are part of the fund contributed for the relief of flood sufferers In Indiana during the spring months of this yeaf. The fund originally amounted to 1141,085, and 5,14 was not used. Washington, Dec. 12. The republi can congressional committee met to day for the first time since the last elections. Pluns for the campaign preceding the coming congressional elections were discussed. The meet ing was held at a headquarters Just established, where Secretary John Eversman has Installed a corps of assftant to conduct an educational campaign for voters. Tennis -MrKee has filed papers In the office of the clerk of Superior court asking to be allowed to bring suit as next beat friend of Morse V:. McKee, a minor, against the Southern Railway company, and she also sska that she be allowed to sua In forme pauperis. will, remain open until the rush of business Is over. It will therefore rest with the shoppers as to how much time they will be given to make their purchases. The spirit of early shopping has been growing In Asheville for the past several years and the great rush of the Christmas business In one or two days has'been largely overcome. There are still rVany, however, who persist In waiting until th elast moment to make their holiday purchases. With aatrous results to American securities entailing losses which will probably run Into hundreds of millions of dol lars through the demorallatlon of the foreign market for American bonds." ! The memorial further declares that the requirements far deduction at the source are Impracticable, that the law Is unjust and that It is bewildering In ' Its complexities. A special committee has been an- tho arrangement that I. mads this r .I year by the merchants, the people oil ,mmr,.i the city can co-operate In such a man- organisations . . W iwaW tlfnr I J . ,.,'11, i nrmmM ., memorial before the directors of the, m.rh"n7fVhebCh?urtm '. chamber of commerce of , he United themselves. FIRE DF.STROV8 miLDINfiR VALUED AT HALF MILLION Cohoes, N. Y., Dec. 13. Fire which broke out In the heart of this city's business section early today was sub dued shortly before I o'clock after a dosen buildings and Immediate action In favor of the cam paign begun by the local organisa tion. ' . Berlin, Dec. 12. It was decided to day to withdraw the bill for the ap propriation of 1500,000 for Oermnn representation at the Panama-Parlt r manufacturing exposition at Ban Francisco. Th: plants had been destroyed with a Inas.step was taken owing to the stron of half a million dollars. One fire, objections raised by several stats, ruin man was badly hurt by a falling wall I Urtera,
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