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Vol. XX No 4.
Price Five Coenli
ASHEVILLE. N. C. THURSDAY MORNING SEPTEMBER, 29 1904
Only Associated Press Newspaper in Western North Carolina
BRILLIANT MEN TO
VANDALS ARE
LOOSE AGAIN
WESTERN BRANCH
NOT NECESSARY
VOCABULARY IS
DIVORCE EVIL WILL
MURDERED IN
COLD BLOOD
Marshal of Oliver Springs.
Tenn.. Killed on Street '
1 1
STUMP COUNTRY
SURELY TAXED LEAD T0 BARBARISM
BOURKE COCKRAN, C. A. TOWNE,
INDICATjONfl NOW ARE THAT
CAMPAIGN WILL HAVE
ONLY HEAD OFFICE.
SUCH IS BISHOP POTTER'S
TERANCE IN HIS AN
NUAL REPORT,
UT
Oct After Jap Fce In Earn
J. M. HEAD AND OTHERS
TO CO OUT AT ONCE.
Russian Exhibit at the Fair
Mutilated
Charges are Many and Varied
est at Benslhu
Against Officers
COSSACKS DO
A FAST STUNT
Mi
r.
RUSSIAN CAVALRY HAS
SENT IN STRONG JABS
oyama ls Advancing Slowly
and Cautiously ,
KUROPATKIN ASKS AUTHORI
TIES FOR MORE OFFICERS
HE NOW HAS HIS.. BEST
EYE WELL FOCUSED.
sr. Petersburg,' Sept. 29.-3 u. m.
Movements nt the front bo fur us dls
, Inn 11 Iiy the meagre dispatches re
ceived here are confined almost en
tirely tn continuous outpost sklrmiHhes
l,y means of which General Kuroputkin
is keeping In close touch with the Jap
anese .--'ong the whole of the front.
Ki hi Marshal Oyama's advance ap-it-
us to he extremely deliberate. There
are no indications us yet that lie has
begun lo overlap Russian position.
The superiority of th ltussbin cav
alry Is beginning to lie apparent. They
h.'ne hail the best of It in 11 number of
minor encounters.
It apears thai General Rennen
k:iniif's movement to the southward on
September 19, extended beyond the dis
tance indlented by fire reports. His
Cossacks mnde a rapid HWrtp on Sep
tember 22. and struck a Japanese fore
at IVnslhu, threatening their com
munications and causing considerable
excitement. Reinforcements are rapid
ly arriving at Mukden, and many con
valescents ure already returning to
duty.
II Is reported that General Kurnpnt
li in has made a refitiestlon upon the
Hiithoiltles here for additional officers
tn make up the heavy loss s In killed
find wounded in the battle of Liao
Yang.
TRAIN WRECKER HAS
BEEN CAUGHT AGAIN
John Kennedy, uondemnea to ueetn
i ,
Who Escaped From Roanokf,
' H . ' i i '
,, Again in Toils.
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Koanoko, Va., Sept. 28. William (!.
Baldwin, president of the railway spe
cial agents of the United States and
Canada, with headquarters here, re-r-ived
a telegram today from the au
thorities at Danville, 111., which staled
Unit John Kennedy, the condemned
train wrecker, has been arrested at
that place.
Kennedy escaped from the Staunton.
Va.. Jail several months ago, after
having received the death sentence.
TVPHOID EPIDEMIC
FOR GREATER NEW YORK
New York., Sept., 28. Greater New
York is at present threatened with
what may be the severest epidemic of
typhoid fever in its history. Not only
are the number of typhoid cases re
ported for the three weeks of Sep
tember ending last Saturday greater
than that of any month last year, but
sin-e the beginning of the summer
the death rate has been so mucht high
er than formerly that the health de
partment is now thoroughly alarmed
and is bending every effort to check
ing the disease.
When it Is considered that the
spread of typhoid last year was great
er than it had been for many years
he gravity of the present situation Is
indicated. For the three weeks Just
ended the total number of cases re
ported at the, health department was
H. The fatalities number- 74, or a
death of nearly twenty per cent.
Last year during the worst month
that of October tho largest number
or casts in New York was 324, and the
highest death rate at any time dur
ing lh year was 13.4 per cent.
PLUNGER HARROUN
PLEADS NOT GUILTY
Kansas City, Mo., S-pt. 28. W. II.
Harroun, the grain plunger, was ar
Migned today In the criminal court, on
the charge of issuing fraudulent ware
house receipts. Through his attorney
he pleaded not guilty, and he was re
leased on bond for J2.500. The sp cifle
tharge against Herroun Is that he, as
president of the Belt Elevator com
pany, issued a warehouse receipt for
J'W.ooo bushels of wheat and to be in
the elevator, when, ns a matter of fact
the information sets forth, the wheat
was not there. -
FUNSTON TAKES COMMAND.
Chicago. Kept, 28. Brigadier Gen
era! Frederick Funstnn. . arrived In
Chicago today and succeeded Briga
dier Frederick Grant as commander of
th department ot the lake. -
New York, Sept. Arrangement
ure rapidly being completed for the as
signiucnt of Democratic speakers: V
liourke Cockran of New York. am
James Head of T miesa- e, are to speak
at the Academy of Music in Phlladol
phla, October S. .Mr. Cock ran Is a fan
hilled for New Haven November
Charles A. Tow ne sneaks October 1 at
Lima, Ohio, October 3 at Sandusky inn
October 13 at New Hav 'n, Conn. For
mer Assistant Secretary pt the Treas
ury Charles S. Hamlin will speak at
Fort Wayne, Ind., tomorrow evenln
Representative Morrln Sheppaid of
Texas will enter th Wisconsin cam
palgn with a speech at Madison tomor
row evening and will remain in the
state until October 8. Senator Joseph
W. Iiailey of Texas has been engaged
for a spech at 'hnrle.slon, W. Va
Former 'iingressinaii John S. Crosby.
of Massnhuset ts, and Fomier Cionp
troller Bird ('olir, of linioklyn will
speak at Hartford. Conn.. October
ltepresci(i nl Ive Oscar I'nderwood
Alaliama, is to speak at I leinpstc id.
I., tomorrow evt ntng.
JUDGE PARKER A
VERY BUSY MAN
Many Notables Call to See
Democratic Nominee
BIGGEST RUSH OF VISIT
TOOK PLACE YESTERDAY
It is Definitely Stated Ho Will
Make no Tour
WILL ONLY RECEIVE PELEGA
TIONS WHO CALL AT HIS
ESOPUS HOME TWO
, TALKS A WEEK.
New York, Sept. 2S. At no time pince
Juds- Parker was imaged as the candi
date "f the Democratic party for pres.1
ident has he mot so many members of
his party who occupy li i jjtIj positions
politically and commercially as on bis
present visit to Now York. The can
didate's rooms at the Hotel Si vil c
whii h wore well filled yesterday were
over-run with visitors today. Many
came to discuss subjects of interest in
campaign work and otheis to im i
view the judge on his letter of accep
tance and his campaign generally.
For breakfast and luncheon he went
to the main dining room of his hotel
but in the ev ning he ' accompanied
Howard Taylor, prominent in the or
ganization of Parker Constitution
clubs, to the I'nion club, where they
hud dinner. Mr. T.iylor's only guest at
dinner was William Travers Jerome,
district attorney, of New York.
Among Judge Pnrk'i's callers were
Senator Kayner, Governor Warflcld
and II. W. Husk, all of .Maryland. Mr
Rusk Is chairman of the Baltimore
Democratic committee. As on former
occasions when Judge Parker has vis
ited New York he has be -n urged to
undeitake an extensive speaking cam
paign on his own behalf. It is under
stood that he his now- declared final
his decision not to make politic il
speches except to delegations whi h
may call on him at his home at Fsopus.
It seems likely now 'he will accede to
a request that he make two speeches
each week, each speech confined to one
tonic callable of more than one political
interpretation.
SENATOR RAYNOR WILL
STUMP FOR PARKER
New York, Sept. 2S.-Senator-eIect
Isador Ttnynor. who was elected I nite.i
States senator from Maryland last win
t r, was at the national headquarters
today and saw Messrs. Sheehan. Tag
gart Belmont and David It. Hill, who
was nlso a caller. After these gentle
men had been in conference for some
tJm the announcement was made that
Senitor Ravnor .would take an acllv-part-ln
the national campaign and
would speak in New York on Tuesday
of next week. He will make speeches
In New Jers y and Indiana.
IROQUOIS THEATRE MEN.
WANT CHANGE OF VENUE
Chicago. Sept, 2S.-Whrn the ease
of Will J. Divis and others charged
with manslaughter in connection with
the Iroquois theatre fire were called In
Judge Kerstens court today the at
torney for the defense asked for a
change of venue.
Tt-u !i,ii..iirned this evening
no decision on the motion for a change
of venue had been reached.
CZAR-S FINE PICTURES
TORN AND DEMOLISHED!
His Features Stamped Upon
and Disfigured
WHEN EXHIBIT WAS OPENED TO
PUBLIC UNEXPECTED CON
DITION WAS BROUGHT
TO LIGHT.
St. Louis. Sept. 2X. When the Kus-
sl in exhibit in the varied industries
building nt the world's fair nan opened
today it was discovered that several
Unable oil paintings of Kmpeior
Nicholas had been torn ftoni the wall
md mutilated by some uniueutilicd
icrson or persons.
A either porlrnil of the 'emperor, a
handsome and valuable panel done tn
co! led silk, has liecn lorn I rout its
support and subjected lo the greatest
Indignity.' The oil paintings were torn
ind there wer marks showing that l:i"
features of the emperor had been
Uainped upon.
The vandalism was. reported at once
to the exposition authorities and an in
vestigation order d. Both Jeff-rsoti
guards ami members of the World's
Fair detective fore have been assigned
to the case. The ofllcials in charge of
tho exhibit have h on assigned to the
ape. The ofllclals in charge of the
xhlblt have engaged private detectives
and every effort Is being made by both
th exhibitors and the World's Fill
minorities to discover the guilty per
son or persons.
WOMAN BURNED TO DEATH
Memphis, Teiin., Sept., '2S. Mrs.
Herman, Welder was burned to death
ite today by the accidental' ignition of
taaollhe vapor in her room.
NEW ORLEANS MAN
HELO IN ST. LOUIS
Joseph F Edward, Charged With
Embezzling Big Sum, Will be ' :
Returned South.
St. Iiuis, Seid. 2 Joseph F. Ed
wards, is at The Four Courts, where
he will remain until The orlieers who
have him in iharge, start with him for
w iirleaiis, where h' is to answer to
lie charge of embezzlement of $12,(100
ml ngtaining $:!,H00 by forgery.
Kilwards was In charge of the busi
ness of llie Atomic 1'iow company ni
N'ew Orleans. He was arrest -d it1
Denver.
UNSLE SAM I think I'll take
IN. -
-An apparent
sent of toe qucs
n:ent of west r;i
rlrrs was an
i I i o-iins today.
nounccd at lbs naii
like mem bora Of He i u.ive comnnt
hic said' no such h -, 1 1 'in. liters woiiM
b ( ttablished, and riim inan Tap.garl
I said lhat letter and li-lcgi-ams receiv
ed today ma di it appear that the es
tablishment pffsuch headquarters was
unnecessary. J .
Mr. TuKK.irt jfxpei Is to so west anu
i.lso lo visit sach other points as s en
necessary, butiiulcss something at
present unforeseen nccurrcs there will
be no regular ivesteru briin-'i and tne
campaign Wlll.-be manage, from this
city.
DONNELLY QUICK
TO DENY CHARGE
Declares
lie Received no
Such Letter From Teddy
TOILER ARTICLE HAS
CAUSED MUCH WORRY
Even the Socialist Party
Makes a Denial
ALSO SECRETARY LOEB. WAS
CALLED ON TO EXPLAIN
1 THAT ROUGH RIDER
NEVER SAID IT. -'; ''.
Chicago, Sept 2S. President Mh-had
Donnelly, of tho Amalgamated Meal
Cutters and JJinrtiera union, flatly de
nied today ever having received u let
ter purporting to come from rresid nt
Uoosevelt.
SOCIALIST PARTY HAD
NO HAND IN AFFAIR
Chicago, Sept.. 28. William Mailly,
national secretary of the Socialist
Party, Issued a statement today in
which he says:
"The Socialist Parly has no share
in the responsibility incurred by the
to have been written to Michael Don
nelly by i'residenl Roosevelt . The
letter bears o:i Its face the evidence
of its . spiiM'iiisness, for, even if the
president i-n'ertalned the views at
tributed to him. It would hive been
eminently t o (less and foolish for bin
(Continued on pare 2)
a transfer-. Thia volcano ia liable to
Now York,' Sept.
settlement for t'-ie 1 1
tlon of the istabla :
I lemocratic -' 'he idii i
STATESBORO MOB AFFAIR
REBOUNDS WITH A THUD
Judge Advocate Napier Ready
for Court Martial
CAPTAIN HITCH, LIEUTENANTS
MELL, MORRISON AND
GRINER HAVE MUCH
TO EXPLAIN.
Atlanta, lla., Sept. 2N. Judge Advo
cate Napier of Ihe Statestioro court
martial, which will conven in Savan
nah, k'tober 10, served the officers to
day with the fottn il charges on which
they will lie tried. Captain It. M.
Hitch 'will be tried on the following
charges:
'Cross neglect of duty, incHleh ncy
and misbehaviour before a riotous mob
In violation of the sixty-second article
of war."
"Conduct to the prejudice of good or
er nud military discipline in violation
of the sixty-second nrtlele of war."
The charges against Lieutenant Mell
ire: "('loss negiiH't of duly, in IfUlen-
cy and misbehaviour belore a riotous
mob."
"Conduct to the prejudice of military
discipline ami good order."
Against Lieutenant Morrison: "Con
duet to the prejudice of good order and
military discipline."
Against Lieutenant (.liivr: "Quil
ting his guard without leave."
"Shamefully abandoning his post."
"Conduct to the prejudice of good
oiiler and military discipline."
Against Lieutenant Cone: "Quitting
his guard without leave.":; j
"Conduct to prejudice of good order
and military discipline,"
The officers will begin at once pre
paring their defence. i .
BUBONIC. PLAQUE,,, ...
ABOARD A STEAMSHIP
Bishopsgata Arrives at London From
Hamburg, and Is Sent to
Quarantine." '
London, Sept. 28. Bubonic plague, II
is otlicially .announced has broken out
on board the steamship liishopsgate.
which arrived in the river Tyne today
from Hamburg. When the Itishopsgat
was discharging her cargo from itosa
rio, Argentina, ut Hamlnirg recently, a
number of rats thai had died of the
plague were found on board, tin tin
arrival ot the steamer at Jarrow thi
boatswain was III and was removed tc
a floating hospital. The case proved t
be undoubtedly Ilubonic plague.
break looaa any tima.
New York, Sept. 28. Bishop Henry
C. Toiler attacked divorce in vigorous
terms in his report today in the annual
convention of th Protestant Kplscopni
Diocese of New York. He declared
lhat unless the church sets itself
against the spread of the evil, society
would relapse into a stale of pructlcai
barbarism, and he urged the clergy to
set Itself against divorce, which Jle
characterized as a "Oodles license,
which lllngs aside the most sacred
vows because of vexlous uncongental
Ity." NEW YORK POST RESPONSIBLE.
New York, Sept. 28. The letter al
leged to have been written by Michael
Donnelly, the leader of the meat strike,
purporting lo be one sent by President
Itoosevelt, was copied from an editorial
in the New York Evening Post of Aug
ust 1.
FOSTER FAVORS
A SMALLER NAVY
Says He Hopes Secretary of
Navy Was Misquoted
THIS IS IN REGARD TO
BIGGEST NAVY POSSIBLE
Former State Secretary Would
Advice Disarmament
MAKES ADDRESS BEFORE LAW
YERS AT WORLD'S FAIR IN
WHICH ARBITRATION
IS FOUNDATION, '
St. Louis, Sept. 28. The first univer
sal congress of lawyers and Jurists held
under the auspices of the American
liar Association, convened today in
Festival ball at the conclusion of the
American Bar Association. Lawyer?
and jurists from nil over the world
were present. The congress was call. I
to order by F. L. Lehman, of the c -post
linn committee on conr:euses
President Francis of th exn ;U
welcomed the congress, and '. '.ro' 1
!ho president of the enngro.in, lien.
David Itrewer, associate j n -t "
Cnited States suprr- i oi:rt. .Tn ' r,
iJrewer was received with applause,
lie spoke briefly.
Navy is Big Enough.
Fin men- S ecretary of State John W.
Foster wan introduced and made the
irlnelpnl address on the subject of in
erne I tonal arbitration and The Hague
ribunal. He said in part: .
"It has been reixirted in the press
hat the secretary of the navy has an
lounced himself as in favor of a navy
ciunl to the greatest navy In thn world,
f trust he has been misquoted. Our
;overnment should hold Itself ready to
mter Into an agreement for Interna
ional disarmament and not to the in-r-ase
of the navy. This country should
mid Itself to other and far more pence
'ul pursuits In the settlement of strife
ban to the making of Implements of
'estruitlon and death."
He then entered Into an explanation
of the failure of The Hague conference
to effect an agreement on tho subject
of international disarmament. He ex
pressed deep regret that tho fruits of
war made necessary the permanent In
crease of the American army and called
Into the prosp-ctlve large increase in
the annual expenditures of the govern
ment for the navy.
NAVY YARD OFFICIALS
ADMIT THE ATTEMPT
New York., Sep!.. 2S. At the New
Pork Navy yard today armed marines
patrolled the enclosure wherein the fl
nal preparations for the launching of
the battleship, Connecticut, are un
der way. Naval Constructor Baxter
who Has general charge of the ship
building plant, said today:
II is true that un obstiuction was
found qnthe ways down which the
Connecticut is to slide Into the water.
It was sufficient to check the vessel.
I will not s.iy that It would have
wrecked the Connecticut if It had not
been discovered and exactly what
would have happened I am unable to
tell. The obstruction was not a pile
and no dynamite was found. It was.
how.ever, nothing lhat could have drop.
ped from the ship or come there by ac
cident." An officer of the navy yard declared
today that whoever made the attempt
did a clumsy Job. "The most lax man
agement." he said, "could not help but
hiiv discovered the obstruction
and there was never any chance of
the thing getting as far as a catastro
phe. The scheme could not have been
formed by anyone familiar with navy
yard methods."
MANY WITNESSED DEED, h
BUT COULDN'T PREVENT
Son of Prominent Physician
Wielded Weapon
OFFICER HAD ARRESTED YOU NO
MAN AND IT IS SUPPOSED -HE
HELO GRUDGE
HE SURRENDERED. " ' .
Knoxvllle, Tenn.. SepJ. $8. H., ?
Cash, town marshal of Oliver Bprlngi, ,
Tenn., was shot and killed tonight lit
that place by William West. aon Of .
Dr. T. West, a druggist at OHvar
Springs. The tragedy which waa
cold-blooded one wal witnessed by 4
member of people, but bo quickly w -the
shooting done thai none had an,
opportunity to Interfere. Th marshal
leading his six-year-old' adn By' tilt ,
hand was enroute to kri entertainment
While passing the West tare: West
stepped in front of the officer, pulled .
his pistol and fired four time, all tha
shots taking effect. The marshall aank.
to the ground and died tn, eight mln-
utes.
West surrendered, but, would ' irtaka
no statement. West had .been irreat
ed several time by the officer anA for
this reason Is supposed to hav born -a
grudge against him. ,
ITS ALL SETTLED, NOW.
Mexico City, tiept Cbriijresa hiJ
made a formal proclamation., df thi f
election of Dint n president and .'wf l
ral as ylee-presldept. Both the candl-,
dates have returned lthnnk to their
fellow eltUeng and to public rhrb '
which Interested themselves, in their
i i.oininatlon, ' , ':
THEODOKET HAS BUST '
DAY OF STATE AFFAIRS
Washington, Sojpt,., 28. mi "trig
i -; i 1 - - v w ' Ai 4 .
one of the busleat days President
Itoosevelt has hud for several weekat
I4ecretary Taft called In company ytilf
Major General Corbln, who haa been
, assigned to the command of the .dK
vision of the Philippines. , General
t'o-blii b.ido the president , farewell
:ie'lnilnary to hla departure from thla
city. He will sail from San Francisco ,
for Manila October IS. , ... r
Ho retary and Postmaster Genera
Payne had brief conference with tha
president on departmental mattera, t
1 " e " . e
BOOKER T. ADMITS
DR. STRANGE'S WORDS
- - .'.I-,'. t
Ha Alto Saya Amalgamation
Raea Would ba
Failure.
of
(HI
New York, Sept. 28. Before art addU
ence that filled St. Thomas Protestant
Kplseopal church and In the present of
Booker T. Washington tonight the Rev,
Dr. Strange, bishop coadjutor-elect of
the diocese of South Carolina, declared
that one set factor In any, real and
practical solution of the negro problem
was the entire separation of the race
in social, scholastic, religious and do
mestic affairs. . ,
When Mr. Washington arose to Itpeajt
he virtually agreed with the bishop
by saying the problem could not M
settled by amalgamation or by depor
tation of the negroes, hut by ettfnpat
sympathy and co-operation Of '- th4
races, although his chief argument waa
for Increased facilities for ed,ucatioli
and encouragement for thogij of Bla
people In the south. '
POSTAL IS REACHING OUT.. '
Pern or, Colo., Sept.. 28. Wmlath H.
Bake-, vice-president and geherflt
man i.Tr of the Postal Telegraph cor
pany and p.. j. fJaiiy, general super
l:itoM !cnt of the Western division Of
the company, were hete today for th
purpose of opening up the new Postal
line to Salt Lake. The completion
of this new line gives tha Postal conl
puny three through routes to tha Pi-
cific coast. . . .
T
BEVER1DGE OPENS
AT IIOOSIER CAPITAL
Indianapolis, Ind., Eept. 28. The first
Republican meeting of tha campaign
in Indianapolis was held In Tomllnaon
hall tonight. An Illuminated proces
sion escorted Senator Albert J., Bever
ide and Congressman Overatreet to tba
hall, which waa well filled. Congress
man Overstreet presided, and In at brief
address Introduced Senator Bevartdg.
who spoke brilliantly for mors than aa
hour.