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1 WMTHEB' Wednesday THE HETILLE CITIZEN rry the CITIZEN WantA They Bring Resit . Fair. Vol XIX No. 237 ASHFV7XLE, N. C, WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 29, 1904 Price Five Cents (My Associated Press Newspaper in Western North Caroling AS OFFICIALS OF ILL-FATED SLOCUM HELD RESPONSIBLE Coroner's Jury Finds DIrec tors Guilty of Negligence MATE FLANAGAN CHARGED WITH GROSS COWARDICE Capt. Van Schalk Singled Out For Censure CONDITIONS ARE NOW DIS-COV CRED WHEN ALL LEGAL PRO , CE88 CANNOT BRING !. BACK THE DEAD New York, June 28. The Inquiry con ducted by Corouer Berry and a Jury into the General Slocum disaster was concluded today, and after nearly four hours deliberation a verdict was leu dered In which the directors of the Knickerbocker Steamboat company the captain of the Slocum, Captain Pease, the commodore of the company's fleet, and others were held criminally responsible. Warrants for tlielr artes were issued. The mate of the Slocum, according tn Jury, acted In a cowardly manner, and the misconduct of Steamboat Inspectoi Lundberg, It was recommended should be brought to the attention of the Fed eral authorities. . The charge In each case was man slaughter in the second degree. Ball was fixed by the coroner in amounts varying from $1,000 to J5.0O0. The directors or the company are Frank A. Barnaby, president; Charles B. Hill, vice-president; James K. Atk inson secretary; C. D. Lacey Evans. Robert K. Story, Floyd 8. Corbin and Frank G. Pester. When the assistant district attorney moved that warrants be Issued aftci the verdict had been given, Mr. Mc Manus, counsel for the steamboat com pany, protested that such procedure was unnecessary as all the men were ready to appear and give ball when called for. The protest was of no avail. The mate, Edwaid Flannagan, who was under detention, as a witness, was the first arraigned. He p'eaded not guilty and hfs ball was fixed at $1,000 No bondsmen being on hand, he was committed to Jail. Inspector Lundberg pleaded not guil ty and was released on 11,000 ball. Ball was fixed at $5,000 each for President Barnaby and Secretary Atkinson and bonds were furnished at once. Captain VanSchalk is a prisoner In the I,cban don Hospital, Captain I'ease may not be arrested until toino row when. It i? expected that the directors of the com pany will also be taken Into custody. At the assistant district attorney's request the coroner committed the as sistant engineer, Edwin Br.indnw, and the deckhands, Coaklcy and Trembly, as witnesses, sending them to the House of Detention. New Tork, June 28. The coroner's Jury in the Slocum inquest has return ed a verdict finding: "That the immense loss of life on the General Slocum was due to the mis conduct of the directors of the Knicker bocker Steamship company. ( "That Captain VanSchalk Is chlml nally responsible. "That Captain Pease of the Grand Republic, as captain of the steamboat company's fleet is crimlnalfy responsi ble ini that he failed to properly equip the- Slocum with tire apparatus. "That Mate Flannagan acted In a cowardly ma-nner." imc O.V.WUH ui inspector i.unti terg should be brought to tho attention of the Federal authorities." , Coroner Bmy has Issued warrants for the arrest of the directors aqd offi cials of the Knickerbocker Steamboat company. Inspector Lundberg and Mite Flannagan, have been held in li.OOO bail each. DEFAULTING CASHIER ONLY TOOK $470,000 Mexico City, June 28. Assistant Cashier Coboa, of Hi Central bank, has again admitted his guilt and ex pressed regrets that other bank em ployes were held as he alone plun dered the bank of nbout $470,000, he having abstracted $300,000 from ths bank's deHslts on May 10 and 31 The value of all the property pur chased by Cobos out of the proceeds of his thefts. Is small comarcd with the amount of money taken and an inves tigation Is being made In the hope of recovering at least part of It. A new assistant cusliior was ap pointed today. SEN. GORMAN DENIES REPORTED COMBINE Says Ha is Not Party to Alleged Con splracy to Bring About Parker's Defeat. Baltimore, Md., June 28. Senatot Gorman today made the following statement regarding the report that he with National Committeeman Uuffrey, of 1'hilndcliiliia; McLean, of Ohio. mlth of New Jersey, and others, held conference here fSrvthc purpose of as certaining how many votes could pi omblned In the convention against Parker, the object being to secure mor thaHbne-third of the convention' li order to prevent his nomination: The persistency and regularity wltl which statements of this charactei have recently appeared would seem t' Indicate a studied creslre to mis-repre sent me. The fact Is that all the con- foences I have attended have related solely to the proper organization of the onvention which It Is the duty of th' members of the national committee t' onsidcr. So far as I am concerned I have not been a party to any arrange ment for effecting a combine to ob struct the efforts of any candidate for the nomination. The Maryland dele gates Have not yet determined the ourse they will puisne In negard to the amlldates at St. Louis and wouM probably not reach any conclusion tin tn after their arrival at St. Louis and fter an opportunity to confer with tln- lcgatcs from other states. 'As for the two-thirds rule It. Is nec essary where the unit .rule obtains as In Democratic conventions, but In no case since the adoption of tho two-thirds ule has any nomination he prevented hen a candidate has had a clear and undouted majority of the convent lo.r and where that majority is composed doiegntes from Democratic states 4hey have nlways controlled the con- erttioiK I have perfect confidence that that convention will adopt a sound. onservatlve platform and nominate n ticket which will command the confi dence of the country." MISCREANT CUT BIG AIR-SHIP Dumont's Aerial Maclilno Tut Out of Commission ASCENSION SCHEDULED FOR JULY 4 ABANDON El KUROPATKIN . AND KUROKI MEET TODAY Machine Was Destroyed Dur Ing the Night VANDAL CUT GAS BAG OF THE AIRSHIP IN TWENTY DIF FERENT PLACES NO CLUE. 'PAT" MAY WITHDRAW World's Fair Grounds, St. Louis June IX. Home time dining the night he gus bag of Santos-1 turnout's all ihip was cut and flashed In such manner as to pccludc all Hissllillly of ita being repaired In .time to allow jn ascension on July 4. The work was apparently done with a Jack knife. There are irt least twenty long rips In the bug, and Prof. Carl Myers. who has charge of the aeruautlc con- crts, declares today that It will take at H int two weeks to repair the dam age. The big gas bag had not yet been taken from the crate in which it came rrom Paris. KfliHT-Alhcslve material he bag was hunghr folds from slats ailed near the top of the crate. There ere several folds of the bag over ach slat and the vandal drew his nife across these culling through from one to 'four thicknesses of the material' with each slash. The work evidently done In haste as there were about a dozen slats covered with the folds of the bag and only four or five of them were cut. When the dam- ige was discovered a messenger was ifnt Irt Mr. Dumont and he hurried to the scene. Well," he said, after a critical ex- mlnatlon of the damaged bag, "It Is Hist as I told the fair people. This Hacc Is not secure enough." What will you do?" was asked. I do not know." was the reply. "I niur.t first see Just how much damage las been done. It will be impossible get a new bag and If an ascension mad" this one must be repaired. I an think of no reason why any "one liould want to destroy my airship.' Itfavy Engagement Expected Nrv:ir Sla Mochcng JAPANESE ARE "ONLY TWENTY MILES AWAY" "SOLDIER OF THE GEORGIA JUDGE SAVES DAY AND NIGHT" lUFfipn fpam cuk w tfaiin General Kurokl. It Is Said. Must Now Fight MANY RUMORS OF HEAVY EN GAGEMENT3 AFLOAT ANOTH ER RUSSIAN DEFEAT AT FEN SHUI LING. Passes Away on Battleground of Far East II. J. MIDDLETON. NEWS- FAPEKMAM. DIES AT POST ALLEGED ASSASSIN PLACED IN "HOCK" llai Cheng, June I'S. The war p'c- ne has 'l i K ly changed, th inks ti t& t Mineral i iiroKl s movements, a heavy tfaKcincnt Is ex'pccled tomorrow nc u th village of Hl.-i Mochcng. tlliccn mile- southeast of Hal Cheng and an cipi il distance due east of the railroad. Tin Japanese have now paused Dalln Ilil iinl are twenty miles south of (lie litis I. m position. The Assn, lafd Press inn c.-pniidoni icturned hive from Ta a 'In- Klao at i.iwn today. A terrific rain i oiidi-rcd the roads almost Impassable. The Itu - sian neplmcnts are camped on high ground, Signal tires front the hill top.' are constantly passing ami repassing. The Itust-laii tronpH me In excellent ondltlen. c General Ku opatliln and I, is staff are apparently quite easy In tli'lr minds The Japanese have given I lie lli'.-ti in:. I Inn to strengthen their base and 11 ink wl General KurcAi is nrtt its ccui' is formerly from a Hank attach. General Kuroki canffM get urnutid the-F-Ufian position without forclm; a fight ANOTHER RUSSIAN DEFEAT EMPEROR WILLIAM MAY TAKE A HAND Kiel, June 28. Many rumors are cur cut in diplomatic circles to the effect that the jecent conference bctwen the German Emperor and King Edward will result In active efforts on the part of the former to bring about an early termination of the Russo-Japanese war. The P.ritlsh King, it Is said. urged the German monarch to use his ?ood offices to the end that peace may be restored. " l'llllt.1 Gnrilii Plu Tiiiia uh...lr I . , 1 . , . . I - ' ' . wtib wur ujrrcsponucni ror ki.mw rm.ioii to,iny u. s. wmdhat.., of Piintu (lotd.i, charged with the as sassltiMtion of Marshall llowmau Windham1 was taken to Arciidl.i Jail. A mini named Cooper has been- sen tenced to hung fi the same offense August C. Public sentiment Is that more than one Is connected with the assassination. The evidence In which ! the nriest was made Is unknown The warrant was sworn out by a man named Clark, who recently swore out n warrant charging George llattleshy with the assassination. ludliam s preliminary trial Is set for July 5. fiver fifty witnesses have been summoned. tire Associated Press YOUNC MA NOF UNUSUAL BRIL LIANCE VIVID DESCRIPTIVE WRITER WAS DORN IN LONDON, ENG. till v i'Iibimis, .liincl'T. It. J. Middle- -;: c i:tlcl P cs: 1 n 11 pinlenl the KiiHslan liea'tiiiat tern near 1 V" V iiik. in M i iuui i, lied Sunday li'inii eiiiric 1 t.i nlei y. Henry John Mlddiiton, the lirst of the Amciican war orrcsiindcuts to lose Ida Hi- at the front in ilie present conllict, was ri'pi cs til in;: tlie Al,u ed l'ii'i;s ill ticiical 1 iirnpat kin's liead iliiMilcis iar Liao Vang, lie' La: . bout years of age. unmarried and a.s hoi it in Loiiiffin. Mr. Middletnii .was a vivid desci iptlv, writer, a linguist, a student and one l' il.'c li'sl ported pf men on Intern. i- ll.ci.il affairs. SAM JONES SPURNS NATIONAL HONORS ONt MORE REPORTED. Tien i'sin, iii. . 2S. It is reported that lMw:trd I'MCniKlit, the coriespoud- ent of the Ignition Mornine- Pnst. with Ilie J;iialic.';e army, wan killed at Wa- itiK-ticn. KUROPATKIN'S "REGULAR" Catoosa Springs, lin , June 28. With 'he nomination for vice-president on the national prohibition ticket practl i.ilty within his grasp, Hev. Sam. P, Jones, says: "I ain't got tlrtie for a little Job like thai. 1 can sit on the front end of my own shebang nnd do my own drivlii'; ami I like that belter than crawlln;r up behind some other fellow." Toklo, June US. 1 a. in. After a hot light which lasted for six hours yes terday morning, Juti" 27, the Tnkush an1 division of the Japanese army, completely defeated five battailous Of Kiisslan Infantry, which, supported by two regiments of cavalry anil sixteen gunn, occupied l-"ti Shui Ling, some iwenly miles northwest of Slu Yen. The fcusslatiH finally fell back ill tho direction of Hhi Muclieiig. The Jap anese casualties aggregated about 100 k,ii:"I ly a w a ited. killed and wounded. I.e. ivy tiKhiing it. Peier.s'liiirg, June 28. The em peror lias received the following dis patch from Getii-ral Kuropatklii, dated ian Yang, June '7; "The Japanese attacked our forces -ciipylng Mo 'lieu, I'Vii Shul and Ta asses. June 2fi. t lur Infantry nnd tvalry tetreatcl, persuaded that the lv::ncing iliisiins of tho Japanese were stronger I liuu our. detaeb,muts. In Hie nltacl: on Ta riass, tho Jaiian- giiard: and oilier ngiments par- llcilialed. The Japatif made a front al ami Hanking attack In considerable force on liolli sides of this position, i'he Japanese troops occupied Ken Shui and Mo Tien passes during the inoriiinK "f .lane L'7" SUMMER SCHOOL NOW OPEN AT KNOXVILLE no Municipal Courts Have Power to Sentence Violators DECISION INVOLVES COURT EVERYWHERE JudgoSpeers Denounces the Chain Gang Methods MANY RUMORS AFLOAT Major battle. Uba wa.i killed during the Ht. Petersburg, .June 21. 1:50 it. m. No tin: li'-' advices from the front had lice;, iiirived i:n to midnight, though news fiten Ci-iier.ii Kiiro-ivntklit and Itear-Ailinii ii Willioft (in command of the naval fon-c ;it Port Arthur) was I'he usual rumors of vailed the city, but V We I tile l iseil wholly m the fact rinies arc ill close touch. St. Petersburg, June 28. The As sociated Press Is informed on good authority that General Kuropatkln has decided to withdraw northward. This move gives the Russians the advan tage of being nearer to their base of supplies and places the Japanese at the disadvantage of having longer lines of communication. It is poln-d out that Kuropatkln no longer pre vents a Junction of the enemy's forces by remaining at Ta Tche Kiao, as he might thereby imperil the safety of his own troops, as the desperate character of the fighting at Ta pass and Fen Shui pass June 27, shows the Japanese are In strong force, uncomfortabjy near the Russian flank. CHARLES A! GUTKE, ST. LOUIS BOODLER. MAKES FULL CONFESSION TO FOLK St. Louis. Mo., June 28. It was an nounced today that Charles A. Gutke farmer member of the House of Iele teg, convicted on a charge of bribery nd soon to be tried on another slm toda'r ma,1e complete" confej. ton to Clrctfit Attorney Joseph n,'m.. tUw wh,ch h declared T L"!' C1,ar- Kclley k.fl told him k had received $50,000 i.7T T for going to Europe when his presence In St. Louis Jeopardized men of prom inence. h'elley- Is also resting under one conviction and Is ooii to be tried In another case. Circuit Attorney Folk attaches great Importance to the revelatioi which have been made by Gutke. When he came from the circuit attorney's office Gutke handed out for publication written extracts from his confession. MILL OWNED AND OPERATED BY NEGROES SOLD UNDER THE HAMMER Charlotte. N. C June 28.-The Cole- Cotton mill, at Concord was boI,j public auction under an execution two mortgngr. held by the Dukes. Durham. N. C. The property was n for the mortgagees at Jlo.OOfj. 10e concern owes $30,000. The Coleman mill was the first li. North Carolina to run with colored help. The organiser of the mill was Warren Coleman, a well-known negro of Convd. He had considerable means and It In said that the failure of venture cost him most of his prop erty. Coleman died some months ago. V " . ' " ' - """"d; i .wir Knowllle. Tenn., June 2S- The third inniial sitiumcr school of the 4otith opened here this morning nnd wl 1 con tinue through to August 10. The ag gregate attendance Is expected to reach I. aim to 2,WKi. The school is an outcome of the work of the General lOdticntton Hoard of the South, headed by itobert i'. figden and others of New York City. Tin- opening exercises this morning w ere fiiilnwed liy hit roditctory addiess es by Or. Charles W. Dabney and oth ers. This afternoon the class work was begun. i'oinorriivv inoriilnif the first I'lihlic lei lure will lie delivered by Dr. John Dewey, of Ilie liilverslty of Chi cago, oilier leitiiri'is for this week are Dr. Henry Nelson Snyder, presi dent of YVoffoid College, Spartanburg, S. ('.: Dr. Charles W. Kent, of the diversity of Virginia, and Dr. Lincoln lluliey, of liiicknell University. The school's faculty Is made up of emiio'til educators from all the leading ii nivei sit les of the country. The school la being held at the diversity of Ten nessee. Hvery slate In the south will he represented In the enrollment. WEALTHY CHICAGOAN TO BUILD MANSION HERE Mr. K. K. PJoblnsnn, of Chicago, spent a few hours In Asheville yesterday on his way to Savannah, w here he is cull d on business. Mr. Kohinsnn is vnn- ii' cleil in a liiiiiniial way with V . T. Verkes in his Chicago si ' eel railway system, and a man of great w;i all h. lie expects to spend the greater part of his lime in Asheville and will bring his family here within a few weeks, lie has almost closed a deal for the pos session of property on a mountain overlooking the city, and will erect a ma iislon ' I o cost approximately a half million doiars. When seen at the Itat terv Park last eveiili";' Mr. ttohinr"ii dlllittcil tlw above fa. I". .ut .IV. in to the fad that tie- deed (,,. i;v , . irty lias i:ot hecn mad., won!. I n..: viaw- the lucatton. He cxt'- ts I" b- ,i" work tin' improvciiiciits of his piopcrty .iust as soon as he o::;c..' iat" i";:al poss"Ssion. MRS. LAMBUTH DEAD. Nashville, Tenn.. June 28. The Hoard of Missions of the Methodist Rplscopal church. Smith, Is In receipt of a telegram from Soo Chow. China, stating that Mrs. Mary Isabel l.am- liuth died then- on .lime 2C The de ceased was the widow of I ir. J. "V . 1aruhtith. and was m f the women missionaries of the church in China. She had lived in the cast fur over fifty years and was 72 years old. PRESIDENT I Do Wish People Wouldn't Write Letters. MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN CANNOT IE CONSIGN CO TO BARBARIC PUNIdHMCNT FOR TRIVIAL OF- FEN8ES. Macon, Ga., June II United States District Judge Kmory 8peer. of Iks Western division of the Southern dis trict of Georgia, today rendered an opinion of far-reaching- tin port a nc In- voivtng the authority of municipal murts all over the country to aentencs violators of municipal ordinances 'to local chain gangs. The case ram b fwe Judge Speer on a writ of habeas corpus, applied for by Henry Jamleson. a negro, for release from the custody of . A. Wimblah, superintendent -of the lilbb county. Oa.. chain anff. Judge Swht in a lengthy opinion da- Ided that the superintendent was without authority to hold the prisoner and directed his immediate release. In passing on the case Judge Bpeer' ailed attention to the fact that th committment from the recorder's court Was a sentence and iiothlnaT mors'" ai d that there was no finding of guilt r Innocence by the recorder. TIm Tuc: dun Involved, aald Judge Spser, "la whether the recorder of Jdacon. caau ituiHJt any sort of criminal pleading. ind without the intervention of a Jisr, onvlct a (it lien twice for violation sf municipal ordinance and aentonca him to seven months at hard labor on the public chain gang;, the puntahment to be Buffered in a breach of th panl- trntiury." , . , Continuing, he aald: "Can It bo main tained in the light of the constitution (hat one man under any form of pro cedure devised or to be devised by iocal legislation can consign men, women and children to a chain gang for auoh trivial offenses as are within the Juris diction of a police magistrate?" . . Judge Speer severely scored the chain" ' gang methods and aald: "Indeed It ! may be with entire accuracy declared j that the voluminous and exhaustive preparation of the city attorney and i the subsequent examination by ''the ' court has evoked no ohread of author- " Ity, either American or English,' whelfe a sentence by a police magistrate to 'a public chalngnng, with the Ignominious accessories of fettens, the stripes, dash and of the degredatlon of convict Itfe has been sustained or even palliated-. Under the American system the chain gang has no place In the Jurisdiction and procedure of police courts where trial by Jury Is not a right of tho ac cused." '. II He then decl.rred the sentence of the recorder void, for want of duo process of law nnd because one nuui cunnol Judge infamy. Plaint of ths Meek and Lowly' . "Like thousands of the oppressed and down-trodden," he said, "through all thi! centuries since that glorious day In the history of the humatn liberty when the great charter made .fo'revG impossible the principle of unlawful imprisonment, he applies for the great writ of tight the writ of habeas corpus, and he humbly seeks the portals of the court whose Judges are sworn to know no dlff-urence between the rich and ths poor; where Justice ever bends the list ening ear to catch the plaint of tho humble and the lowly." "If." he said further, "tho prayer of the petitioner must bo denied, (hen th statute., authorizing the Pnlted ' States courts and the Judges thereof to tsauo the writ of habeas corpus to prevent the rights of the citizens guaranteed by the national constitution have been successfully nullified." No Distinction. Judge Speer declared that the argu ment had been advanced by a roa'd onimissloner that while a sentence to the chain gang would forever ruin a ..bile man previously respectable. It had no such effect on a respectable mv ' !:ro. He held that such considerations do not appeal to a court charged with the eiual enforcement of the law, and lie did not believe they met approba tion of the best people of the Southern states, nor were thy conducive to the wi Ifare of the South or hopeful for Its future. ' ' ' ' . Judge Speer concludes with an axgf iiKiiit made by him twenty years' ;o ami which lie reaffirms. In this he said that "Though the color line expert may so declare, this Is no color Tine fjaae. It is a negro today. If will be' a Vhrt iiai aye a white child and a wtirtw woman tomorrow. In this court to law is eiual and for all." . - : DAN EMMETT, COMPOSER OF "DIXIE;. n r HEARS THE LAST TRUMfEt CAll Columbus, Ohio. June A telephone message received tonight from Mount Vernon, Ohio, announced the sudJe:. death la that city of Dan Emmett. the old-time minstrel, and famous as the composer of "Dlale." " Emmet ' about it years old. HU'lat p'ubJi'Vp peamnce was mad four yeajs &ro hen he toured the states with a mlB- strcal company. -
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