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VOL. XVIII. NO. 300.
ASHEVILLE, N. C., WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 28, 914.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
U SHIPS
RUSHJO HAITI
Inarchy Feared by Powers in
Republic Whence President .
Oreste Fled to Save
5 " His Life.
LIARINES LAND AND
GUARD LEGATIONS
.usilades Continued Through
f Night at Port ou Prince
I Numerous Attempts
Y'"-' At Pillage.
j Port Au . Prince, Haiti, Jan. 28.
American Bailors from the J cruiser
Montana were today on guard at the
American legation, the cable, station
and the French hospital. German
bluejackets and marines were placed
on duty at the other foreign legations
and at the German stores,
i Large landing parties wore sent
ashore yesterday when President
Michel Oreste iled for refuge to the
German cruiser Vineta, after fighting
broke out In tho capital. . , . ;.'
i Fusillades continued in all quarters
uf the city throughout the night and
there were numerous attempts at pil
lage of houses and stores but these
were quickly suppressed. . The city
, Was quiet today. , ' '
Anarchy Threatened,
f' Washington, Jan. 28. Under forced
( draft the battleship South Carolina
today is rushing across the windward
, passage for Port Au Prince, Haiti,
where he bluejackets and marines will
Join with forces of the ' armored
cruiser oMntana for the protection ot
Americans and .other foreigners.;
'. Left without a government by the
midden abdication of President Oreste
who fled to a German warship yes
tetdayoJie. ..island republic)! -thrfcal-i
net iWlth anarchy- by Its 'latest' revo
lution. , . : v, ...... ' -
Captain Ruseel of the South Caro
lina, will take whatever measures he
deems necessary for the protection of
foreigners and their, property.
Cruiser at Port An Prince.
- Paris, Jan. 28. The French cruiser
Conde now In Mexican waters was to
day placed at the disposal of the
French consul at Portv Au Prince,
Haiti, where the situation caused by
the revolution and the flight, of
President Michel Oreste is regarded
as serious.
MM VESSELS RRE TIED
f UP BY THE DENSE FDG
1 Port of New York Closed
Thousands of Passengers
" Are Delayed.
' New Vork. Jan. 28. The dense fog
that shut down over the c'lty and
harbor last night and early today he
Kan to lift ahortly after 8 o'clock this
morning and vessels were able to pro
ceed to and from port.
Kleven trans-Atlantic liners, fog do
J layed yesterday and lust night, came
j.tip to their piers during the forenoon.
New Vork, Jan. 58. Vo which
' closed the port of New York continued
la density ail night and had not lifted
sudlclently today to release sevtn
steamers and many smaller craft at
anchor off Bandy Hook. The fog-
, bound fleet which includes the Minne
tonku, California, ltotterdam, Ha
vana and the Christopher, had on
i board morn than 4000 cabin and steer
Bgc passengers.
At their piers waiting for a chance
In be Kin therl trips are tho Cincinnati,
tho Nonrdum and many coastwise ves
sels. The Campania missed her regu
lar sajllnlf time at 1 o'clock this morn
ing and 'wlU not leave her pier until
tho fog lifts. Klght sound steamers
from Nfew Knglaud ports also were
fog-bound at Claiwon Point. Brvernl
hundred passengers were brought
ashore at BoKego Point, where they
took trolley cars into the city. ,
Kerry service between New York
and New Jersey, Htaten Island and
Drooklyn points was greatly curtailed
nd In eoveral Instances suspended to
day. Elevated trains and surface cars
slso were operated on slow echedules,
adding to tho Inconvenience of the
early rush to business.
VTOHJI MAY HAVE DONE
MOKE UOOO THAN HARM
Fun Franclvo, Cal., Jan. I ruin
flniiug wi Vanishing and high water
t'lluldlng early today throughout Cal
ifornia and from all parts of the state
I .una reports that the worst storm of
lie erason had done more good Wisp
unit. Grain land, otvlmrdit. Irr!
inn nservolr s'ld plneer mining up
v n tors lime pruflled hy thu uun
I'lur. v
CANADA PAID FOR
"READING MATTER
President of Western Newspaper Union Testifies That Gov
ernment Employed Him to Insert Matter in "Pat-
ent Insides" Says It Was Marked "Ad."
Washington, Jan. 28. George A.
Josyln, president of the Western
Newspaper Union, testified today be
fore the senate .lobby commute that
that Canadian government had em
ployed his organization to Insert In
"patented insides" for country news
papers reading matter designed to in
duce Americans to emigrate to Can
ada. .It was - marked "advertise
ment'', he said. , . :.
He identified as matter he sent out
an article which members . of the
commute had . denounced as a mis
representation. . : .
Alfred Washington, advertising
manager, of the union,, testified that
for sixteen years the department of
the interior had paid his organiza
Militants Try to Get
Into Cabinet Meeting
London, Jan. 28. Militant, suffra
gettes today made a bold attempt to
break into a meeting of the British
cabinet council sitting tit the official
residence of Premier Asqulth - in
Downing: street. '
An automobile belonging to the
Women's Social and Political union
with a woman chauffeur at the wheel
and tilled with suffragettes dashed into
Downing stroet before polieo stationed
A REPETITION OF
RIOTS.THRERTENEfl
Crowds.rflf Unemployed Chi(i
; go Garmsnt Workers at
. ' The Police Station. V
Chicago, Jan. 28. Repetition of
last night s disorders among tho un
employed In the Wcstslde Ghetto was
threatened today when large crowds
congregated , In front of the Maxwell
street police station where those ar
rested last night were to be arraigned,
and at Worklngmon's hall.
At the police station the crowd
seemed bent on entering tho churl
room. Detectives were posted In the
crowd whilo policemen restrained the
press In the direction of the
room. . . . '
Chicago, Jan. 28. To prevent a rep
etition of last night's riot of hundreds
of , unemployed . garment workers,
sijuuds of police rcsorves still were on
duty in tho Ghetto districts early to
day. , The rioting begun after speeches
had been mudn by Morris Bernstein
and Harry Wishnewslcy, who say they
represent the Industrial Workers of
the World.
After Ilernstcin had been placed tin
der arrest, the police with drawn re
volvers nnd amid threatening shouts
of "lynch tho police!" hurried him to
elation house. The crowd followed
and Wlshnewsky began a speech, de
claring Bernstein should be released.
After a. rough and tumble fight, the
police succeeded in dragging the sec
ond speaker into the station. Six ad
ditional prisoners were taken.
For several days bands of unem
ployed garment workers have paraded
the Ghetto district bogging food from
stores. Thuy would then take the
food to a hail where it was divided.
The warm winter weather Is said to
have thrown thousands of garment
workers out of employment, because
factories have been shut down.
LATE PLANTING TO
CONTROL WEEVIL
Washington, Jan. !8, Tho theory
that the bool weevil can be more ef
fectually controlled In cotton that Is
planted late than In an early crops
has been exploded by . experiments.
conducted In I,oullan by the govern
ment of bureau of entomology.
HecausM advocates of lute planting
contended that the . experiments of
the department had no tbecn con
ducted, on sufficiently large scale, nn
unusually large experiment was ton
ducted In Louisiana last spring.
"The observations" says the depart
ment, "provo definitely that late
planted crops are sure to be Injured
more severely than crops planted
early." .
AKHANGF.MKXTB I'OIt A. A M.
TO I1.AY OICOKGETOWN TEAM
Washington, Jan. 21. Arrange
menu practically have . been com
pleted whereby the North (Virolins
Agricultural and , Mechanical ccllenc
will Uka Virginia's pluee- on the
Cieursetiitvn footh.ill schedule. It wss
iiiiiU'iitI etorit;iy that probably Ihe
lla'.-lgli eleven would play here on
Nunbur 14.
tion for circulating Candian emigra
tion reading matter. For the last
twelve years, he said, the pay aver
egd $42,000 a year.
"Didn't It ever occure to. you as
unpatriotic to print this kind of mat
ter?" asked Senator Nelson.
Senator Cummins said he was not
so surprised that the union circled
the matter as he was at the fact that
the Candian government would ask
to have it circulated.
W. 'J. White, Canadian official in
charge United States Immigration
agencies, testifying voluntarily, said
his government paid $70,000 a year
for advertising in this country, lie de
clared ho was careful not to publish
antagonistic advertising. '
outside the Asquith residence realized
what was going on. .-'.j
When the driver refused to obey the I
police order to retire from the street:
tha atlHru r.nrtv itf Wftmen WAR filliceri '
under arrest and taken In their car tojporation had been paying dividends
Scotland yard. The women's automo-1 for a long terra of years, when on
touting ufrnlnut thtv fnlvitilo fuprtinEr ftf
oiiftVao-otto nrlBinara anil rtom a m in
that the cabinet cease the "torture nt'for the company. At the time, accord-
women in England jails." 1
KILLEOBY A MOB
Made ' Partial '.Confession .to
Murder of Mrs. Lynch
Near Wendell, N.C.
Raleigh, Jan. 28. "Jim Wilson, a
negro, alleged to nave contessea to
i murdering Mrs.' William Lynch last
i Saturday night, was lynched late yes -
terday near Wendell, N. C, at the!
point where the murder was commit -
ted.'
A crowd of nearly a thousand men
and women crowded about a store
house from which he was dragged out
and swung from a tree limb. Making
NEGRO WILSON IS
signs ho wanted to' speak he was let0usly Insulted
countdown and Implicated In the muruer
lunother negro named Saunders now
under, arrest at Wendell. He was
swung up again and his body riddled
with bullets. .
Wilson was, caught last night be
tween Selma and Warsaw. He Is suld
to have .made a partial confession at
Selma. A big crowd there demanded
he bo taken to tho scene of his crime.
Governor Craig was telephoned and
ordered the Raleigh military company
to Wendell. Twenty-five soldiers In
automobiles went but when In half a
mllo fit the scene learned the lynching
was over and returned.
Mrs. Lynch, was the wife of a well
......,..., n, w.-.. wu iii ...oi.B.cu jSpecr of tne southern District of
body covered with underbrush on hlsjGeorBla , were eonfltent tod
return homo Saturday night. that the i,Parng, this city would
MORE IMMIGRANTS
ARE BEING DEBARRED
Washington, Jan. 28. Morelmml
grants are being debarred from this
country than last year, according to
figures by the bureau of Immigration
made public today. During December
and the first six- months of the pres
ent fiscal year more than two per
cent of those applying for admission
were turned back. Drying the first
six months of the year from July to
December Inclusive, 14,785 were de
nied admittance. In the previous fis
cal year only 1.6 per cent were de
barred of 19,938.
Almost 35 per cent more Immi
grants, however, were admitted In the j
first six months of this fiscal year;
than last, 735,079 against C43.43S.
FOREIGNERS SETTLE ON
NEW ENGLAND FARMS
Boston, Jan. 18. Foreign settlers
are ousting the Yankee from the
farms of New England, according to
a report by the state board of agri
culture today The Invaders, It Is said,
nro making a living "whore our citi
zens have failed."
I'se of machinery and of more sci
entific methods are suggested as the
only things that still may "save the
Qa' for native Americana"
Urges Flour Ilnttleelilpe,
Washington. Jan. 21. Construction
of four battleships Instead of the two
recommended by Kecretary Daniels
were urged upon the house navnl com
mittee today by Hr,r Admiral C. K.
Vrceland of the nf.vy general board,
speaking fur Admiral Dewey.
WRECKED
P
V.-Presidsnt Ga. Central R'y.l
Testifies Accused Jurist
Issued "Midnight Or
der" For Receivers.
THAT ROAD'S CREDIT
WAS THUS DESTROYED
Also That Compsting. Company
Became Beneficiary Owner
Judge Interrupts the 1
Hearing Again."
Savannah, Jan.
that Federal Judge
2 S. Charges
mory Speer
wrecked the Central of Georgia rail
road and banking company In 1892
yesterday were made before congres
sional committee Investigating charges
of official misconduct against the
Jurist by A. Tl. Lawton, vice president
of the Central of Georgia railroad.
The'witnes3 testified that the cor-
March 4, 1892, Judge Bpeer issued a
I "midnight Order
naming receivers
ling to the witness, the par value of
i the corporation s stock was siuo and
lis market value $110. '
The naming of a temporary receiver
which was made permanent a few
days later, Mr. Lawton iestifled, abso
lutely destroyed the credit of the com
pany. The witness
was impossible to
claimed that
ro-organlze the
company for more than two years and
that w hen the reorganization finally
was effected a competing company
became the benenclary ljwficr..
Judge1 Speer "interrupted' the pro
ceedings ngain during the testi
mony of H. W. Meldrlm, a local at
torney, Mr. Meldrlm said that during i
the trial of the Greene-Gaynor case
ho called the judge's attention to cer
tain exceptions which he had taken
under consideration and had never
passed on.
Judge Speer replied, Mr. Meldrlm
! continued, "I have long known your
1 peculiar views, and I cannot reconcile
them with ,the oath you took when
i you began to practice In this court."
In reply to further queries of Judge
Spcer's counsel Mr. Meldrlm said:
"My views were those of a southern
gentleman, a democrat and one who
is loyal to his stute and I was gnev-
nt tho cowardly re-
marks of Judge Sneer.
Judge Speer sprang from his 'chair
and asserted, "the insolence of the
checked. It Is inconceivably wrongi
that you fcwlll permit a witness to
speak of my conduct as cowardly. It
should not be permitted."
Chairman Webb rapped repeatedly
for order and announced finally that
more temperate language must be
used or he would order the offenders
ejected from the court room.
Savannah, Ga., Jan. 28. Members
of the congressional committee in
vestigating charges of official mis
conduct against Federal Judge Emory
be concluded this week.
Attorney General Thomas S. Felder
of Georgia was tho first witness be
fore the committee today.
BY
PRESIDENT, "WITH PAT"
Clearence L. George .Serving
Sentence for Writing Let
ters About Superiors.
Washington. Jan. 28, "Pardoned
with pay, W. W." With these words
written In pencil on a memorandum
President Wilson today gave freedom
to Private Clarence K George of the
army signal corps who has served four
months of a year's sentence at Fort
Leavenworth, Kaa. ,
George's offense consisted of writing
letters abuut his superiors to Hecretary
Tumulty. He had been having diffi
culties over being court martlall
and thought an Injustice was being
done him.
The letters never reached Mr. Tu
multy but were referred to Georges
commanding officers who court mar
tlullcd htm for breach of discipline.
Secretary Tumulty appealed to the
president to pardon Oenrge on the
ground that the fuilure of the letters
to reach him for consideration was In
a way responsible for the man's Im
prisonment. George if home 1 In
CharlutUsvliH, Va. ;
PROTEST AGAINST
in A m T T
)JJLd jtx JL ,1 IS
bneTessman Frear Intimates
gressman of Charges Made by Mayor Grace Was
White-wash Mr. Borchers Also Protests.
Washlngton, Jan. 28. Discussion ofjseating Whaley unde- the committee
the report favoring the seating :'. of !
Representative Richard S. Whaley of
South Carolina, against whom charges
had been filed by Mayor Grace of
Charleston, was resumed in the house
yesterday. Defending minority report
against sealing of Whaley, Represen
tative Borchers of Illinois declared
that If the charge ot Mayor Grace
were true Wha'ey should be expelled
from the house. Mr. Borchers quoted
from allegations made by Grace con
tending that the matter had not been
thorojughly sifted and that it was
wrong for the house to permit Whaley
to remalp without further challenge.
Xtepresentative Frear of Wisconsin
also protested against the committee's
majority report. He said that the
house ought to go into the investiga
tion, that the inquiry by the commlt-
i . .... . . ,.- . .,
white-wash.
Members who protested against
Youth Confesses Part In
Sixteen Bomb Outrages
. Kew York. Jan. 28. Alfred Leeh
man, an "pudersized youth, sat in the
witness chair yesterday confessing to I
having partaken in sixteen bomb out
rages, revealed knowledge or eighty,'
cleared up the mystery of two mur
ders and furnished information con
cerning a number of lesser crimes.
Leehmau was testifying in the trial
of Angalo Sylvester, accused of one
lt,nf the bombard outrages. Leehman
j told the court ot the burning of two
i Brooklyn houses for the insurance.
He said the bomb outrages usually
brought the perpetrators $50.
IFATE UNKNOWN OF
I
Position, if on Outsr-most
Rocks, Is Considered Ex
tremely Perilous.
New York, Jan. 28. Frederick W.
Vanderbllt and party, among them the
Duko and Duchess of Manchester will
come direct to New York on board the
United Fruit steamer Almlrante, leav
Ing the Vanderbllt yacht Warrior j
stranded off the northwest coast of
Colombia. ' j
"F. W. Vanderbllt and party none
the worse for mishap," a message j
stated . "Say Warrior caught on coral
reef. Believe she can bo saved. Party i
decided continue New York on Almlr- i
ante." '
; New York, Jan. 28. No direct word
from Fdererlck W. Vanderbllt, wnose
steam yacht Warrior was stranded on j
the rocky coast of Colombia near'
Cape Aguatla yesterday, had been re- j
eelved by friends here early today.
They were relieved, however, by the
Information conveyed In press dls- j
patches that Mr. and Mrs. Vanderbllt I
and their guests, the Duke and
Duchess of Manchester and Lord Ar- i
thur George Keith-Falconer, son and I
heir of the Earl of Kintore, were safe I
and on their way to Colon. The posl j
tlnn of the yacht, according to seamen
who know the Colombian coast Is ex-'
tremely perilous If she lies on the out- '
er most rocks of Cape Aguatla. as the
dispatches so far received Indicate. '
Fourth Officer David Richards of
the Royal Mall liner Carrlbean, who
has sailed thot const for years and
knows Its dangers Intimately, was In-;
cllned to doubt today whether the'
yacht would get off without serious'
damage. t
The Warrior Is of steel construe-'
Hon, 282 feet long, has twin screws'
and Is equipped with wireless. She!
wss built at a cost of 3(00,000 in!
1904.
New Orleans, Jan. 28. All during
the night and early today the wireless,
here was silent as to the fate of Fred- j
eric W. Vanderbllt's yacht Warrior,!
which went aground on tho coast ol
Colombia Monday. Operators heard 1
vessels In the gulf calling the War
rior almost continuously but caught
no answer. This was not taken to be
significant, however, aa the Warrior's
wireless apparatus has not self power
to communicate with stations that
usually operate with New Orleans.
Negro Caitnrcd.
Tyro, Miss., Jan. 28. Duncan John
m.n, a negro alleged to have shot J, K.
Ingram, a wealthy lumberman Htind.iy
was raptured by a pome of 200 men
early today In a swamp near here and
placed In jail.
VANDERBlLT
TT 7 T T A T T77
v VV 1 jC jj X
Renort Exonerating Con-
declared tne nouse unuoumeu
ly would rest its vote upon the dls
! cussion on the floor. At their instance
the house was , called to order sev
eral times so that all the members
could hear the speeches. Grace
charged that Whaley spent $60,000 In
his campaign, that he bought votes
and that he made five false affidav
its. '. - ' --. f -v..
Representative Frear said that the
procedure under the corrupt practices
act governing the election of mem
bers had so far been " a fraud and
sham" and declared that Whaley had
been proved by the testimony before
the committee to have used $60,000
to buy votes In the primaries preced
ing his election.
"Under your present law," he said,
"no matter how corrupt conditions
might be in the southern states, and
they could be no more corrupt than
they have been in Whaley's case, this
house could do nothing in the mat
ter." .
One robbery in which a Chinese was
muredered, he said, netted him $2,
while the two men with him, who, he
said, killed the Chinese got the same
amount.
Leehman said he had personally
planted sixteen or, eighteen bombs,
causing much damage.
"The gang I worked for," he said,
"were blackhanders. The boss would
write letters demanding money under
I threats of death, to well-to-do Ital
; ians. When they did hot 'come across'
I was sent with a bomb. They usually
paid up after the explosion. If they
didn't we went after 'em again.
LARGEST OIL SHIP
. IS SAFELY LAUNCHED
Newport News. Va., Jan. 28. The
bulk oil carrying steamer John D.
Archlbold, the largest of her class ever
launched on the Atlantic coast, which
is under construction here for the
standard oil company of New Jersey,
was successfully launched this morn
ing. Mrs. M. M. Van Buren of Nte
York, daughter or John u. Archbold,
after whom the steamer is named,
christened the vessel. The sponsor ac
companied by hef maids of honor, her
father and about SO guests arrived this
morning on a special train.
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S. AFRICA II
MEN DEPORTED
Ten Labor Leaders Quietly
' Sent From Cape Town on
Account of the Recent
Big Strike.
CREATES EXCITEMENT
IN GREAT BRITTAIN
The Scottish Labor Conference
Demands Recall of Gover- J
nor
General ' Because ,
Of Action,
Cape Town, Union of South Africa.
Jan. 28. The deportation from South
Africa of ten prominent labor' leaders
was carried out so. quietly last night
that little was known of the occur
rence today. . The men who had taken
a prominent part in the recent strike)
arrived In Durban - under a strong. .
guard. At midnight they were placed
on board the steamer Umgenl which
sailed immediately for England.
The secret deportation by the South
African government of the strike lead
ers has aroused widespread comment
In England. Doubt is expressed as to
Whether the ; men will be permitted
asylum in England. Well Informed,
London newspapers insist -that- the
drastic action of the Botha govern- '
ment Indicates that the strike was not
an ordinary industrial conflict but an
attempted revolution.
Demand Gladstone's Rex-all.
Glasgow, Scotland, Jan. 28. The
annual Scottish labor conference, sit
ting here today, passed a peremptory
resolution demanding that the FSrltfsh
government -recall Viscount Gladstone,
governor general of South Africa, be
cause of the deportation of labor lead
era at Cape Town. Speakers de
nounced the "violation of ' the most
elementary tights of British citizen
ship" by General ' Louis Botha, ' pre
mier . of South Africa.
James Ramsay MacDonald, a soc
ialist and labor member of parlia
ment, described the South African
government's action as a "very cynic
al conclusion to the South .African
war." ,
Another comment loudly aipplauded
was: "It .'i a worse scandal than that
of Chinese labor," referring to the
South African government ordinance
by. which Asiatic laborers were
brought to South Africa under Con
tract at low wages to work In the
mines but which was later ,' repealed.
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