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PAGE TWO THE ASH1SVILL E GAZETTE-NEWS Friday, January 9r 1914 T7 -sr n I Mil NOW GOING ON, AND CONTINUES DAILY UNTIL JANUARY 3 1st AUCTIONS A COME AND GET YOUR SHARE OF THE BARGAINS GOODS, SHOW CASES AND FIXTURES MUST BE SOLD ALL 3 SALES DAILY 10 TO 12 A. M., 3 TO 5 P. M., 7:30 TO 9:30 P. M. Good3 at Sacrifice Prices at Private Sale when Auction, is Not Going on. loWo GLASE, TH) 18 PATTON Jr. AVENUE FOR SALE Safe, stove, desk, looking glass, shelves, show cases and all fixtures. MENS? SUITS, PANTS, OVERCOATS, RAINCOATS, HATS, CAPS & FURNISHINGS-ALL SEASONABLE, HIGH-GRADE MERCHANDISE BEING CLOSED OUT TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER. FEW GASES ARE HEARD a jury. of retailing, although sentence haa not yet been passed on him. I Jim Muse was taxed with the costs! for assault and V. K. Bradley was! found not guilty of vagrancy. ft Is Still the Belief, However, j . That the Docket Will be I Cleared This Week. SUFFERERS CARRIED OUT SUICIDE PACT TO BE Very few cases were disposed of In Superior court yesterday, most of (he time being taken up with the hearing of motions from attorneys for continuances in cases. It Is expected that the docket will be cleared by Sat urday and that court will then ad journ for the terra. A large number of defendants have 1een fourwl guilty by Juries and sentence will doubtless be passed on them the last day of court. ! The cases heard yesterday are as follows: ? Carrie Atkins, the white woman who was arrested several weeks ago HJ. her home on Southside avenue charged with keeping whiskey for sale, was tried this morning and a jury found her guilty, although sentence has not yet been pronounced. Jerry Burrell was found guilty in a case of a disorderly nature but sen tence has not yet been passed on him. Wednesday afternoon the following cases were disposed of: . Carl Wilson pleaded guilty to shoot ing in the city limits and Judgement was suspended. The appeal of Fred Fore from a rhalngang sentence for retailing was dismissed and the defendant was or dered back to the roads. George Cathey was found not guilty In a charge of false arrest. Alice Cash, colored, was given a sentence of four months In the county home for trespassing and judgment was suspended in a case of a disorder ly nature. Prayer for judgments was continued In the cases against Bertha Brltt, Ger trude Smith and Nola Bradshaw, charged with vagrancy. L. A. Matthews was found guilty by New York. Jan. 8. The bodies of Joseph Shufflay, 46 years old and his tvife Amelia, a year younger, were j found last night In a gas filled room I in their home by a physician whose I call at their request was part of a I carefully arranged suicide pact. i Letters written by the couple stated that they both were suf ferers from tuberculosis and had been told they had only a few weeks to , live. Preparations to carry out the suicide pact were begun three weeks ago, when Shufflay was forced to give up his position aa Shipping clerk which he had held for 20 years. The couple owned their home and bank books showed deposits of $3000, Big Entertainment Arranged For Opening of Club Or ganized Last Fall. HOUSE ANTI-TRUST IRK COMPLETED SAM J. MORRIS DIES; WAS SHOOTING QUAIL Mobile. Jan. 9. Just after Sam uel J. Morris, a wealthy business man of Columbus, Ohio, shot a qail near Homewood, Ala., late Wednesday, he became so weak he had to rest on a log. His companion, Harrison Morri son Man-lot, went after the bird and when he returned he found Morris dead beside the log. The physician pronounced death due to apoplexy. Mr. Morris had been at Homewood three Weeks on a hunting trip. He was 42 years old and president of the Central Ohio Paper company of Co-lumbus. Invitations have been received by Secretary N. Buckner of the board of trade and Manager Sunford H. Co hen of the Greater Western North Carolina association to attend the opening of the Brevard club, which Is to be celebrated there this even ing, beginning at 8 o'clock. The program has not been announced but it Is understood that the opening will Include a very extensive entertain ment for both members and visitors. This Club was organized during the past fall and includes the leading citizens and business men of Brevard. It was organized for the purpose of affording entertainment for visitors and for the purpose of affording en tertainment for the further purpose of aiding in the commercial advance ment of the town ahd Immediate sec tion. Unbounded success Is expect ed to result from the efforts of the club. Bills Prepared Are Covering Every Phase of Question By Committee. HELD FOR SWINDLING S. Brown and M. Rotman Are Charged With Using Mails To Defraud. OFFIOEK DF.COn.TEJ FOR RESCUE OF PASSEXGERS Antwerp, Belgium, an. 9. Third officer W. Wynon of the Red Star Steamship Kroonland, an American, has been decorated by the Belgian government with the civic cross of the third class for courage in assist ing at the rescue of the survivors of the Volturno when she was burned In mid-Atlantic last October. The stew ard and six seamen of the 'Kroonland were awarded civil medals. MAJESTIC Today and Tomorrow The Princess Girl Musical Comedy Co. PRESENTS- The Quiet .Family" A Musical Farce Comedy with a Chorus FRENCH AVIATOR WENT THROUGH ROOF OF HOUSE Paris, Jan. 9. Gilbert, the French aviator, narrowly escaped death of serious injury while (lying over Paris yesterday when he descended on a roof through which his aeroplane broke and was wrecked. Gilbert was making a. trial trip In a new army monoplane carrying a heavy load with which he had ascend ed from the aerodrome at Issy-Les-Moulinea. He flew to Paris, where he circled the Eiffel tower at a height of 1000 feet. He then shut oft his motor In preparation for a glide to the earth. The aeroplane descended so rapidly that the aviator found he would be unable to avoid the buildings, and as he could not re-start his motor, he picked out the most promising landing place, the rovf of a tile factory In the southwestern suburb of Grenclle. OIL BURNING SHIP ON PACIFIC COAST 8an Francisco, Jan. 9. The Danish motorship Hlam, the first vessel driven by oil burning Internal combustion engines to visit the Pacific coast, ar rived here yesterday from Copenhagen via the straits of Magellan. The Slam has no boilers, no stoker hole, no coal bunkers, no firemen and no stack. In two tanks contalnined In her double bottom she carries fuel enough to give her a cruising radius of 30,000 miles. Her fuel consume lion for the trip averaged about nine tons of crude oil to the 24 hours as against 40 or more tons of coal for a steam driven vessel of similar place ment. 99TH ANNIVERSARY OF NEW ORLEANS BATTLE Washington, Jan. 9. The adminis tration anti-trust legislation program haa been completed so far as the preliminary word by the house com mittee on Judiciary Is concerned. Bills have been prepared covering every phase of the trust question and are ready for submission to the full com mittee soon after congress reassembles Monday. The Judiciary committee members will confer , next week with President Wilson and the , anti-trust legislation details will be made clear. Representative Clayton of Alabama, chairman of the committee, author ized the announcement that in co operation with Representative Carlin of Virginia, chairman of the sub-committee on trusts and Representative Floyd of Arkansas he had finished the preliminary work of tho committeo on the subject of trust legislation. He said that "bills touching every phase of the subject have been prepared" and that upon the- return of the full committee to the city the bills will be taken up for consideration. The views of the president and of tho democratic party as expressed In the national platform have been fol lowed in the preparation of the bills. ucording to Mr. Clayton. He declined to give the details of the proposed legislation but said the Sherman anti trust law had been left Intact. ' He also stated that one of the bills would cover Interlocking directorates. It Is known that this bill has been drawn so it would not take effect until two years after its paasage. This is to permit corporations to adjust them selves to any necessary reorganisation. Members of the Committee believe that other large Interests will follow the example of J. P. Morgan & Co. in withdrawing from directorates in other large concerns. 'OFFICER 856" RETURN Two Large Audiences Were Pleased With Presentation At the Auditorium. Philadelphia, Pa., Jan. 9. On a charge of having used the mails to defraud wholesale merchandise deal ers and manufacturers out of many thousands of dollars, Varies L. Greenfield, Samuel Brown and Miron Rotman, residents of this city, are held in heavy bail by a United States commissioner for a further hearing on January 19. The only witness to appear agalimt the accused men at today's prelim inary examination was James T. Cor telyouA chief postal Inspector for the Philadelphia district. He testified that many complaints had been re ceived against them in this and other cities. According to the postal inspectors, the accused men established the Great Western Jobbing house in St. Louts and also started a store In East St, Louis and then had goods to the value of many thousand dollars shipped to them from wholesalers and manufac turers In different parts of the coun try. The goods were then secretly shipped away, according to the postal authorities, and the men failed to pay for the goods, with the result that they were forced into bankruptcy. When the Great Western Jobbing house failed the creditors could not find any of their goods, and an Inves tigation resulted in the discovery that the merchandise had been shipped to Philadelphia and other cities. The men were taken Into custody here at their places of business. A the alleged fraudulent acts are said to have been committed In St. Louis, It Is expected the western authorities will bo asked that they bo held for removal td that city. Greenfield was held in $12,000 ball and Brown and Rotman In 110,000 each. PHIUTHERSJAVE MEET Reports Heard of Past Year Plans Made For Work This Year. FEDERAL AUTHORITIES Cleveland Concern Charged With Using The Mails To Defraud. JAY IN DEFENSE OF The muntfily business meeting of the Baraca-Philathea classes of the Blltmore Baptist church was held Tuesday evening and the enthusiasm of the large number attending the meeting indicated that the work for the coming year will be exceedingly good. Great interest was taken in the matters considered and It was voted to begin an attendance contest between the Baracas and Phllatheas for the first quarter of the year in order to still further (increase Interest in the work. At the close of the con test an entertainment will be ten dered by the losing class. The records and reports of the past year were read and showed the year to have been a most successful one. It was resolved, however, to make the coming year a far more successful one. Melvin Presley was unanimously selected as the teacher for the first six months of the year. SEAMAN'S RELATIVES TO RECEIVE $200,000 Buffalo, N. Y., Jan. 8. At a meet ing to be held here late today $200, 000 will be' distributed among the surviving relatives of the 200 Great Lakes seamen who lost' their lives on November 9, when the Grat Lakes experienced the most severe gale known in thef.? history. Eight men, four Americans and four Canadians, will decide how to disburse the fund. Vessel owners on both sides of the border have been generous In their contributions to the fund and the Canadian government gave $25,000. Over $80,000 was raised in Cleveland, where most of the victims resided. Cleveland, O., Jan. 9. Postoftice In spector Birdseye and Deputy United States Marshal Gauchat have raided the offices of the Central Stock and Grain company, 1213 Engineers build ing, Belzed books and papers of tho company and arrested Robert Howard Parker, manager, on a charge of using the mails to defraud. According to the postal authorities Parker did business all over the United States. In what he termed in his news paper advertisements, "spread auction" in grain," obtaining sums ranging! from $20 to $80 from investors. Parker is charged specifically with defrauding W. C. Painter, Pearsburg. Va., October 10, 1913. Government officers have letters from persons it many states claiming they lost money' with the concern. . Giants Beat White box. Melbourne. Australia, Jan. i. The New York Giants baseball team to day defeated the Chicago White Sox, 4 to 3, In an eleven Inning game. Tho Chicago toam In a game against a Vic toria nine won, 1$ to 3. The Ameri can visitors' forward left for Adelaide. Hardening 8 oft Iron. To harden soft Iron wet it with wa ter and scatter over its surface pow- dered yellow prussinte of potash; then heat to a cherry red heat, which1 causes the potash to melt and, coat the sur face of the soft iron: then immerse quickly in cold water and repeat the operatiou. A white heat must not bo used, as this would not harden, but oxidize the iron. Care must be taken not to use red prusslate of potash In stead ot the yellow; it will not answer. CASTOR I A lot Infants uiii Children. The Kind You Hare Always Bought Two good sized audiences attended the presentation of "Officer 6G" at the Auditorium yesterday afternoon and last night and those attending wers well pleased with the produc tion, which Is a comedy of rare quali ties. Few who attended the show had expected that ths company presenting It would bs up to ths standard of those carrying It on ths road in former years, but those carrying the leading roles acquitted themselves very credi tably and as a result ths theater-goers of tht city were highly entertained. New Orleans. Jan. I.Citliens (throughout Louisiana ars observing today ths ninety-ninth anniversary of .ths battle of New Orleans In ths war .of 111$ as a legal holiday. ! Oalveason, Tex., Jan. I.ln com i memoraslon of ths battle of New Or leans the seventh United States In fantry. ths only organisation ot the 1 regular army that participated in that , historic conflict, held the ceremony j "escort. t the colors" on the parade I ground at Fort Crockett today, i i Fsors Advance. j Nsw York, Jan. $. The New Tork ; chamber of 'commerce wsnt on record i today as favoring the proposed ad vance in railroad freight rates. BLACKHANDER TAKEN WITH DECOY PACKAGE Washington, Jan. I. As he reached behind a mall box In a rolling mill here yesterday and grasped a de coy package placed thers by county officers, Domlnlo Lombard!, a young Italian workman was arrestsd and hurried before a magistrate, who held him In $1,000 ball for sending black- inana isuers io games ursro, a weal ithy Italian merchant. Mirny per I sons In Washington county have paid toll to the Ulackhand during the past few years. Philadelphia, Jan. 8. Discussion of j governmental regulation of steel and other big business and of the deslra-! blllty of permitting monopolies In public utilities, took up a part of to day's session of the hearing In the : government's dissolution suit against , the American Telephone and Tele- j graph company. , John C. Jay, jr.. general sales; manager of the Pennsylvania Steel company and a. great grandson of Chief Justice Jay, called by the dc-: fense to give his opinion on some of, the disadvantages of competition In! the telephone business, said he be- j lieved in one water, gas or electric j light company properly regulated with l efficient service and fair rates. On cross-examination he said he favored competition if better service and low- j er rates could be secured. Taking up competition In the steel business Mr. Jay said he had come to believe there should be no competi tion In that Industry because It event ually would mean ruinous price wars. He would adopt s middle ground, he said, such as government regulation to keep a check on business. Returning to the telephone situa tion, Mr. Jay said that his company had discontinued ths use of the In dependent telephone servlcs In this city because or the expense of having two systems. Washington. Jan. I. Secretary of War Garrison conferred today with Serreary Tumutly In relation to ap peals from New Jersey or federal aid la the rehabilitate of Beabrlght which wss practical Mtro)ed by the recent Atlantt f, 25 Per Cent Reduction , ON ALL Overcoats AND Winter Suits , 6 PATT0N AVENUE 'The Little Store With, the Big Values." I -
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