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- i . . . . , THE THE WEATHER. ' ; , . '. IHOWIRS.' : Cot yur el In FepuUrHy Contest tefy. - , . VOL XX NO 240 ASHBVHLB N. C. WEDNESDAY MORNING JULY 12, 1905 PRICE FIVE CENTS ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY DAROAN TAKES WILSON WILL mi EWUjIM G BIG ASHEVILLE DAM 'BREAKS SCHOOL,:, I t t . i i 1 1 , UNDER THE ! DEADLY POISON INFORM PUBLIC RYAN CONTROLS TWO CONCERNS Washington Insurance Com pany Also Managed by SOULS HURLED TO ETERNITY 4 ! '.' BY EXPLOSION IN WALES Tcrrlblo Catastrophe Strikes Welsh Coal Mine In the Rhondda Valley FIFTY-NINE BODIES HAVE BEEN DISCOVERED Nows Spread Rapidly and Mouth of Mine Is Crowded With ReiaUvcs PREFECT OF POLICE i IS ASSASSINATED Another Russian Official Falls by the Bullot of a Murderer Is Under Arrest farrilfr Wu Ipm. Jniv 11 An cvnloaion of firedamp In No. 1 pit of the rolled' National colll-ry company at Watb- town. In the Rhondda vallty. the cen-. ir nt t.ho rn wnUh mil iiirta thin revolver and morning Lb believed to have resulted in the loss or at least 120 live. The f.x plosion was followed Immedl aely by the belching of clouds of smoke and dust from the pit shaft, In which 160 meri were working. .The force of the explosion wrecked the machinery at the mouth of the pit.. AH communica tion with th doomed men In this di rection Is completely cut off. No. 1 shaft, adjoining, has ordinarily afforded communication with No. 2i The 800 men In No. 1 and the few who escaped from No. 2 were drawn up, A relief party descended, but Us work wos seriously Imped d by the foul nir and the falling masses of earth dis lodged by the. explosion. Altogether fifty-nine bodies have been reepvered. Herole efforts have been made for hours to reach the ntombed men, but late to nlgkt Ibe absence of all sound from the Interior of the mine (old the tale of the worst disaster that has t'iken plac In South Wales since 1894. ,Tne news of the. explosion spread rap Idly and hundreds of women and chil dren and thousand of men thronged the head of the pit seeking n formation. Th mountain roadways were crowded nil the afternoon and there are now streams of people In the neighborhood of the mine all contributing to tHe piti ful scenes. Efforts at rescue were still In progr ss at midnight and currents of freuh air were being driven through the haft, but the rescuers arc now 'work ing without hope of reducing the list of falmios. ' - SHOULD MUTES USE HANDS OR MOUTH? Moscow, July II Major (icncral fount Hhouv iloff, prefect of police here, and formerly attached to the ministry of tin- Inteilor, was .assassi nated this morning while receiving pe t-lton. One of the petitioners drew a gred five limes at the prefect, who fell r ad. The assassin was an.ested. The ussissln awaited in the ante room of the prefecture till the other pell loners had been received and then enter ntc the audience room he ad vanced towards fount Shouvaloff, fir ing fives hots at close range. The bullets passed through the body of thej prefect. The assassin, who was drossed as a pesant, has not been Identified. He was once arrested, as a political suspect, but escaped. President of Bankrupt Oil Company Ends Troubles Wlih Carbolic Acid COMPANY REPORTED TO BE SHORT $700,000 Startling Developments Ex pected In Darlington Fi nancial Circles Was Political Crime St. Petersburg, July 11. Tb' assassin- atlon of the prefect of police, Count Shouvaloff, of Moscow, today. Is con sidered to be u purely political crime, as the count was not yet 40 years old and way regarded as being of 1be best typ of the Russian official. He came from one of the most famous families in Russia. The count was a son of Count Peter Shouviloff, the statesman who represented Russia at the Berlin conference, was formerly colonel of th guard regiment known as the St. Pe tersburg and was one of Emperor Nlch. olas' personal friends. A prefect of Odessu, where h" succeeded General Ze- tcnot, who was extremely severe, Count ShouvaloiT earned the esteem of all by his firm but lenient courser mMking him if popular with the students." The Impression exists here that the count was killed for preserving order. Teachers at Morganton Con vention Have Heated Dis cussion on This Question Moraanton, N. C July 11. The ques tion as to whether doaf people shall ex press their thoughts with their hands or with tholr mouths was was the prin cipal topic of discussion at the-National Convention of Instructors of the Deaf here today, as h has been In one form or another at the sessions for two yeirs past. The discussion was a h ated one, both methods of conveying thoughts be ing advocated by different delegations. INVESTIGATION ; TO BEGIN TODAY Cotton Leakage Matter Will be Sifted Out by Hoyt and Beach at Once Charleston, 8. t. July 11. A spuria I from Darlington tonight says Unit It. Keith Durgnn, formerly president of the Indep ndent Cotton Oil company and the Darlington Trust company, I committed suicide there today by drink ing four ounces of carbolic ncld. . Dargan was talking to his brother a short time before hc deed van don' and seemed In good spirits, although the failure of the mi. s and the closing of the trust com j nny's lmrs were it:t urally weighing upon his mind, lie I ft a note, which the coroner has tak en. In which it Is known that he men- Secretary Says all Facts In Connection With Leakage Shall be Known OTHER PRODUCTS ARE BECOMING INVOLVED Alleged That Tobacco Repor Plgures'AIso Given Out In Advanco Washington, July 1 1 are new dejrelopnnn Honed the financial troubles and state! that he Intended to kill himself. The Oil company was capitalised at one million dolars. and It is rumored that th deficiency will reach 1700,000. The properties are In the hands of re ceivers and star. ling developments are anticipated. Dargan was a man of about 40 years of age and had a v ry large family con nection In Darlington, ind adjoining cosnties. NEW SECRETXRY WILL NOT USE THEIR PASSES 'Many Thanks," Says Bonaparte, "But I Can't Accept Your Cour tesy Just Now." Woshlngtn, July It. It is slated at the navy department that Secretary Boiuparte has evinced his disinclina tion to accept passes for free trans portation on the railroads' by return ing passes tliat have been sent to him. with thanks for the courtesy, but stating that by reason of the public position which he occupies he feels unable to avail himself of such consideration. MRS. MARSHALL DIES. (Spe.-lal'to The CI I Is n.) I Raleigh, July 11 Mrs. Marshall, wife1 of the Rev. Dr. Matthew M. Marshall, rector of Christ Protectant Episcopal church, Raleigh, died at her home this lfternoon after a long Illness. She was a sis er of the lat Bishop Wlngfield, of California. I I'nless there n connection nlth .lie cotton 1,-ik Investigation relary Wilson sold to.l.iy lh.it In proposed to stand on ihe rcHirt 1' the seciel service offli i r lie expected, however, that Ihe m . : lei ion would give ilse to various rumor ind stn ries of Irreguriritli s in connection with the departnifii reports on oth er ptodurts, but that where there was the slightest tangible . .l.-nee to work HI on he would go to Hie hot nil of every complaint and puliltsh ijie re soils of his Investigation. Already, he said, Ihe allegitlon li.nl been made that- theDtobacrn llgurcs had been manipulated, anil tin- ma I r would l looked Into. Hut fot the present he had nothing further to say. The system of prcp.uiug he month ly r.p reporfc dev.snl since the rot ton Inveslgatlon b.can. was put In force today. Tht report was mad public late' this evening and the sec retaiv believes that the steps taken to safeguard the figures were well nigh perfect. JCarly In lie day Assistant Sectetary Hayes, Chief Statistician Hyde and sever.il experts of the de partment were placed in a room un der lock and key and they were not to be permitted to come out until 4 o clock In tnt niternoon. i ne tele phones In the .room were disconnected mtl a careful Scrutiny was kept or the windows to avoid the possibility of n leak hrougli private signals. No com-- mtinlc itlons of any sort have been re ceived fiom )lr. Price or his attor ney, and the Secretary Inlleves that so fur as the eotton Investigation .report Is concerned J'. is a closed Incident. NEGRO KILLED ON JOURNEY TO PRISON Jackson, Mis?.. July 11. Davis Col lins, a negro, who was convicted of at tempted criminal assault on .Miss Hogg, at a spoclal term of the Copla county court, and today sent need to ten yen's In the penitentiary, was killed on Ihe way to prison by Mr. Dickey, a brother-in-law of Mls Hogg. The killing oc curred ut Crystal Springs. Hyde's Successor STRESS OF ANGRY FATCH I! Li METHOD OF GAINING UPPER HAND SHOWN Interesting Facts Disclosed In Connection With Equit able Muddle New York. July U. The Evening Post today snya that Thomas P. Hyuii, in addition to his purchase'of the Hyde stock of th - l)uultah!e Life Assurance So, tety, Wso controls, with his associ ate, another life insurance company. Ihe Kveiiing I'ost says: 'When the intention of the financial world was nttinsted to Thomas K. Ity- an. met ion operator ui.t luture tiuim er of subways, by his purchase from James II. Hyde of Ih 60 Sslinres of lock which controlled Ihe affairs of he Kiiuitable I.lfe Assurance Society. I was not known that Mr. It. van and his associates already controlled one other life Insurance company. Since January 1 of the present year he affairs of the Washington IJfe In- uranee company have been managed entirely In accordance with the desires f Mr. K.v in and others who wer- nsso- Itited with him In the Rqultable pur-hase. In February Inst general attention was attracted to the affairs of the Washington IJfe ty the report made to Hstrlct Atinrn'y Jerome by State Su perintendent of Insurance Hendricks, who declared that the mismanagement f Its affairs had been seriously Incom- reuenslble. One of th- first ilscoverlos made the 'Investigators was that the com- nny not only was Involved to the ex- ent thnt Its surplus was wiped out. ut its enpltal stock was Impaired. lowever, under lt. charter It was pos- hle for the capital of the company to b- Increased to ()0,000. nnd this was done, the company Ihus being given t.l7S.ooo worth of stock to offer for sale." The Kvenlng Tost says that this addi tional stock was bought by Ryiii, Ievl I'. Morton and Harry Payne Whitney lor $ti:,8.2r,0. and that the original stock of (125.000 wns acquired by Ryan at par. or $r,0 a share. Resignations of the Washington Life offlc-rs were then placed in Ityan's hands and the bal ances of the company were transferred to Ihe Morton Trust company. . . ' I DIRECTORS ELECTED BY THREE TRUSTEES ARMED LUNATIC CAPTURES BOAT 1 Heavy Rainfall In Ragsdala Creek Causes Earthwork to Let Go Negro Drives Crowds of Pas sengers Before Him In Ter- ror Until He Is Captured .Norfolk, a. July 11. Jusl before tile New Vhik. Philadelphia and Nor folk steamship Peniisylvnnl l left Cnne Charles f.v Norfolk today James Mon roe, ail Insane negro, came abnj?f trew two long knives from beneath his coat and ran amuck among the himdrtil or more pissengers. many of ufcmi were women. A panic ensued among ihe passengers, who tan from one end or the boat to ihe other o escape. The efforts of the Pennsyl vanla officers to quiet Moivoe and to force hint to give up Ills weapons were unsuccessful, the man threatening death to all who approached hlin. As sistinre from the police of Cape I Charles was then asked, and Patrol man Thomas was sent to the boat. As he started for Monroe, the negro made a lunge at his with a knife and Thomas opened fire. The bullet struck the negio In Ihe nee. He was ear rled to a hospital. It Is thought he will not recover. HOMINY CREEK AND ' FRENCH BROAD RISING Report at Midnight Shows Rise of Sixty-five Inches j at Smith's Bridge : t by New York, July 11. iThe sufficient number of directors to carry on the business of the Kqultnble Life Assur- Continued on page four Washington. July 11. Acting At'or- ney Oen ral Hoyt received from Sec retary of Agriculture Wilson today the papers In the cotton report Investlga tlon. Subsequently the paper were placed In the bunds of Unit d Sate District At orney Morgan H. Beach, who will probe Into the whole subject and make a thorough Inquiry embrac rw -c n ur, f th Unrnninn.ini every aeian conneciea wun ine .hnAl h.rf' twent'v-flve deaf children ! compilation of the statistics Involve. repeat the P alms, hymns and prayers. I Mr. Hoyt and Mr. Beach hav? already Met sild 1'hanl.v Rolls, of Ontario ' been In communication and it wHl tbe who Is tnt.llv d-af. hut ran sneak flu-. determined whether there Is any statut nraferred the sum language, as unaer wnicn a crino.iai inmuuU.i may. De airecieu asaiiiei r-uwio o. Holmes, the form- r associate statistic ian of the department of agriculture, who was dismissed, It Is alleged, be oiuse he "Juggled" the figures In the government crop estimate and fur nished advance Information to New York brokers, and against any others that may be found Implicated. In case criminal prosecution Is not possible some other way to reich the guilty parties Is to be sought. eittly, did several other speakers. A reception wis tendered the dele gates tonight by the ladies of Morgan ton. .', ' r-'-j MORTON WANTS TO r ifAlTARBELL New York, July lL-Chalrman Mor ton, of the Equitable Life Assurance Soafetv. announced this afternoon that hehte-ded to retain the rervlces of gjbnd Vice President Gage E. Tarbell. He rnys'be baa a promts of Mr. !Tar bella hippy co-opej-atlon in the reor ganisation of th society's business and. that. Mr. Tarbells promise. If carried oat;, will help in no small degree to wards the recovery of much or the TREAT THEM AS CRIMINALS. St. Petersburg, July ii, The gov ernment will commence regular" pro ceedings for Ihe extradition of the crew of the Kniaz Potemklne as or dinary crlmfhals. In the diplomatic earhanges on tbe subject the Russian foreign office ' pointed out that Rou- ma nil's promise to give the mutln eers an asylum was made before Rou , mania had been aDDrlsed of the other . .L -. , i - i k- 1 .i -r ' . . . . , Business ioi nu irciiu i .-v.. cnimes commuted oy me nusnan sail half year. ; V. Mr. Morton also said thit the resig nation of Archibald C Haynes, local agent for tbe Equitable, will not be ac cepted. V ,.-!.'":-:'"'" - ors. . . v ' Besides the foreign office reminded Roumanla that, according to the Rou munlm law, deserters" are extradit able. WISCONSIN GRAND JURY RETURNS 67 ; $ INDICTMENTS CHARGING BRIBERY Milwaukee, Wis.. July 11. Sixty-e-en Indictments against twenty-five In dividuals, moat of whom ar? former county efOcMla. wera banded down L tbe Milwaukee grand Jury late today In the municipal court. Todays batch of true bills, added to the thirty-eight re turned ten days so, "makes a lotal of 106 thua far. wtib the expectation toot furtbT probing will result In many more Indictments being brought la lat er. Today's list contains twenty out of the twenty-one names returned In the last batch, there being but five can didates not before r ported. Nearly alt of the Indictments charge bribery, the amounts. It la alleged hav ing been paid 'to present or former rou re y officials In connection with the. awarding of county contracts for tbe -rection of an addition to' tbe county oospnai several years ago. lJ KILLED A MAN BUT FORGETS HIS NAME Norfolk, Vn.. July 11. The rise of John 14 McCallnm. arrested here on the charge of murdering n nvm In North Carolina several years ago, was clled In Ihe police court today tind continued untl July 22, pending Ihe a rival of the Ninth Carolina author ities, who have been notified by wire. McCtill.-iin admits that he killed a man in Rowland, N. C, In 1898, but he claims that Ihe killing was done .in self defense. He s.ys that he and the murdered man, whose name he cannot remember, qunrreled over a woman. McCallam declares he fired the fatal shot as the man drew n rasor and ad vanced toward him. - no views r "HOT DA.Y.' yl JEALOUSY CAUSE OF DOUBLE CRIME Atlantic City. N. J., July 11, A murder and suicide this evening end ed the lives of Edward O. Doughty and Mela S. Clyde of Philadelphia. Doughty, the murderer, was Insanely Jealous of the woman, and she In turn, desirous of discarding him, stirred his fieice Jealousy by taking a walk with another man. Doughty met her on the street and upbraided her for being false. Drawing a revolver he chased her Into a crowded grocery store st BnlHc and North Carolina avenues. Hhe ran behind (the counter nnd' tiled to hide, but he followed and there sent several bullets into her breast. 8he expired within a short time. Doughty had a room In the building over the siore, and he at once went upstairs and dellberitely shot himself In the breast. He died Instantly. As a result of Ihe remarkably bear ruins thit have ben falling In ,'tb Hominy section during the past few days, raising nil of the creeks go that they are bank .'ull, the dam at th Ashevllle school, unable longer to stand the strain of the water, broke last vs nlng mi 7:30 o'clock, releasing all of tha pent up water In Ragsdale crack Into Hominy creek and the French Broad river. The giving way of th? dam was expected for seme tlms before, th no tunl break occurred, and a large Bum ber of (he residents of th Ash 'Till school neighborhood were present at lb time. Signs of weakness had been shown for some time and as the creek, swollen! by the rains, poured Its cone tents Into th pond In ever Increasing amount and the water line on the dam roe steadily It was seen that th? newly constructed work would be destroyed If relief in the shape of dry weather did not soon come. . ' : Las: evening at T:M the pr ssure of the water was sufficient to overcome Ihe resistance of the dam and a ao lion of It guv way, releasing th wa. - era in th pond with a roar Into tb lower channel. Thence the water run Into Hominy creek amd from Hominy lino the French Broad river about three miles iibove the city. It is xp"ted . that the. sudden releare of such a large amount of water, collected In th Ashe vllle school nond for several month, will r suit In some damage along the banks of Hominy and the. French Bread and will raise the witer: It the' river :; several Inches.' . At atMMUusvte. The dam f'th echobl we completed but a few months ago and this was -the first hard test It had to f tend. It was constructed across RvgsdaD creek nnd backed the water In the creek up for about a quarter of a mile, making a good slsed pond ror the- use ol the school boys. There was a road run ntng across the top of the dam and passu ge along this highway .- will too doubt b interrupted until a temporary bridge Is constructed. ' : j . 5 The effects of the breiklng of the dam write to to be seen along the rler here last night about mldnght. At that time the river had risen about 6! Inches and was still rising slowly,. There Is at present. It was reported. tittle danger of great damage to the lower section of the town, but should the heavy nlns continue the bridge i would be In danger nnd t material losses might .uesnlt. ', - ' . f r r- SCOTT SPECIAL, SETS NEW RECORD COL. 0. H. BLOCHER DIES AT OLD FORT Suddtn Death of Well Known fUl dnt Shook to Community. -jm M - SOME HOT-WEATHER VAGARIES. (Special to The Cltlxen.) Old Fort, N. C July 11. At :J5 this afternoon Col. O. H. Blocker, an old resident of this place, died suddenly after a prolonged Illness, aged 3 years. Colonel Blocker was a highly respected cltlsen and memb r of Old Fort Ma sonic lodge nd his loss w ill be greatly among those who knewhlm., v t Chicago, July ll.Wlth every car blackened by a' delirious record break lug- run from Los Angele to Chicago, the Walter Scott special on the Santa Fe railroad nrrli-ed here &i 11:45 a. m., having beaten all previous record by hours as well ss bettering the ape rial tniln's own exartlng s hedule. t Consisting of a baggage car, diner and piivate living cir. tbe train which left Los Angeles -at I p. nv Sunday came Info the Polk street station to day almost at top speed, having: made the run of 2.244 1-2 mile In 44 hour and 54 minutes. This Is 23 hours and five minutes faster than the time of the regular Pmta Fe HmHedi!- It 1 three hours' and four mlnote1 faster than the original contract called for. which was 48 hours, snd beat evert the later schedule of 4S bdura by lz minutes. f . - .i" ' CATHOLICS SET OUT. New York. July 1L A party of 104 Rdman Catholics on n .'American Catholic pilgrimage sailed.-today for Ilaly on te stcamshlp avonla ,' i. ' MAYOR HELMBOLD MUST ANSWER TO y. i: JUDGE FOR FIGHT OVER POWERS CELL4 Cincinnati, t July U. Jailer Ploeger and three other men are out on bah after arrt by order of Miyor Helm bold, of Newport, Ky. Poilccmeu Fly and Ratlcan are out on ball, having been arrested t-hargel -with teslstlng Untied Slates officers in Ahe -llscnarge of their duty and the mayor hiintelf wa today bound ov-r to ppe-r In court Thursday and in ike answer to charges of resisting L'nl'ed Plale offi cers. Thse were among the results of an a Kempt nf the some of Mi frl.vH of Caleb Porn, former secretin' ef ial of Kentucky, under lnjlctn.nt for com plicity In. the murder of Wltirm tlr-e-hel. to furnish the cc whlcn tb pils- oner wa to occupy wi' b monr cunfor! f direct to the court. than usually fall to the V C Inmstei of the Newport Jail. . ,v .. Caleb Powers, ihru H Into ft stnaH c'll ' last night, whllo Mayr Helmhold wa In e'.arge, was I'iken ups'.aln when Jailer Ploeger regalnel cnarg of th Jail and the furniture whion bad tteit Iukn from th:- cell re'j'i.'i. Ju.- g Cochrane tod y d're'lei th la- rnattCe of -irrants cVtrgt.ig c-intcmpt' of ihe Federal court agiintt Mayor Heirrbold, of Newport, anl Poilcemen Kath-an and Flynn. at. result rf the! actions In eonne-tl!i with the commit m fit it Caleb Power t" '.he Nowtort Jail tut night. Tbe bval offlciuls w l have to answtr to thii adii' ional charge
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