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ASHBVHXB N. C, SUNDAY MORNING JULY 16, 1905
PRICE FIVE CENTS
"TEDDY" ALSO
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WIFE TAKES SIDE' "TOWN TOPICS"
AGAINST HUSBAND UNDER THE BAN
FLYER illTS
ANTI-TRUST
LAW UPHELD
THE ASHE V1LLE 0.
PAYMASTER
LOSES $5,000
TAKES A HAND
COMPLAINT MADE
BY LUMBERMEN
National Association Claims
That Railroads Dlscrlmltate
Against Lumber Interests
FREIGHT CAR
New 18 Hour Train Meets
Declares That Holmes Must
be Prosecuted If He Has
Violated Any Law
SENDS POINTED NOTE
TO ATTORNEY GENERAL
"Man Is Greater Scoundrel
Than If H6 Had Stolen
the Money"
i
Oyster Bay. L. L, July 15. Presi
dent Roosevelt has determined thnl
the scandal (rowing out of life cotton
rexji l Iraki In the department of agri
culture (hall be probed to the bot
tom. He bold that the man or men
responsible for the leaks are wen In
a greater degree culpable that they
would have been had they stolen
money outright from the government
He proposes that Assistant Bt.n l-
MHan Holmes, against whom serious
allegations are made, shall be pun
i ...... u ii it snull be found possible 10
secure his arrest and conviction un
der present laws.
. 1..- president has followed the
work of the Investigation conducted
by Secretary Wilson with keen Inter
est. The general results have been
presented to him with such recom
mendations' as Secretary Wilson had
:o make. The president '.06k. prompt
and decisive action. He referred the
matter to the department of justice,
with Instructions that It should be
given Immedla'le and careful atten
tion. In accordance with that Order
Solicitor General Hoyt la now mak
ing a thorough inquiry into the case.
To reinforce his formal order. Presi
dent Roosevelt wrote'' the following
pointed lette. '.o Attorney General
Moody:
" Vf it riaa- UnAf1v'.T moat DnmAal.
ly hope that every effort, will be made
to bring Holmes to Justice In connec
tion with the cotton report scandal.
Please go over 'the pipers yourself.
The man Is, In my Judgment, a far
greater scoundrel that If he had stolen
money from the' government, as he
used 'the government to deceive out
siders a,nd to make money for himself
' and for .'others. Sincerely yours. .
."THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
"To Hon. William H. Moody. Attor
. ney General, Boston, Mass - , -V
1 In 1 esportse Id llie ' preAileht's letter
Attorney General Moody replied:
"Boston. Mass., July -4. 1905.
"Dear Mr. President: 1 have re
ceived your letter, of July 12, anil
note with, care the anxiety you ex
press that Holmes, the offending offi
cial In the cotton case, be brought to
Justice If possible.; I have kept,
'through correspondtn'ce with the so
licitor general, in close touch with this
Investigation. It rshall receive my
most earnest personal consideration
I will not now express an opinion, as
I think it better to await the -result
of some Investigations now In pro
gress In the department of justice. At
the first seasonable moment I will
communicate ,to you the program we
have made and the prospect of in
dictments. Very respectfully,
(Signed) "WILLIAM H. MOODY.
"The President, Oyster Bay, N. T." .
Telfs How Husband Shot at
HerDurlno His Fight With New York ,,Soc,ety Edllors'
a Third Prnn naauwauuii may uci an
Airing in Court
Tampa, Flu., July 15, Sensational
features are attending the trial
In ihe criminal court of Harry Bom
fold, a prominent plumbing con
tractor, charged with the shooting of
Papt. ( I.. Park, nephew of Htate
Treasurer R. E. Park of Georgia, last
May.
Park surprised Boniford In the for
mer's house In Hyde Purk, the fash
ionable lesldetice section of this city.
with Ills wife and a duel resulted, In
which Paik was seriously wounded.
Today Mrs. Park whs on the stand
nearly all clay, denying nil charges of
intimacy with Uotnfurd. and frequent
ly giving nwn.v to tears. - She testi
fied, among other tliltiKS. that Park
shrt: at her after h ' had been shot
by Horn ford with the Intention of
killing her. While utteiidlng today's
session of court t'upl. Park received
telegram announcing the death of
his father. Maj. J. W. Park, of Ma
con, Ua., which, coming amid all nls
other troubles, almost completely un
nerved him. The trial will be con
eluded Monday.
SOCIETY LEADERS ARE
WILLING TO TESTIFY
Hand of Justice May Overtako
Dealers In Scandal
and Gossip
BOAT RAISED
AFTER TEN DAYS
New oTrk, July 15. Throe prominent
society irwivons have Informed the dis
trict oltorney's office hat if their serv
Ices are required they will appear as
complainants against ('hurl s E. Ahle.
of the Society Editors' Association, who
yesterdiy was held in ltt.r.00 bail for the
grand Jury on a churge of nt oinpted
blackmail, lodged attains! Mm by Kd
wln M. Post, a member of the New
York Stock Exchange. This announce
ment was made today by Aa-I'tunt
District Attorney Krot I. who iws been
assigned by District Attorney Jerome
to prosecute Ahle on Mr. Post's com
plaint. The allegation against Ahle Is
that he attempted to coerce Post Into
subscribing for a book dealing wl:4i the
New York sod ty, which was to be
printed and old to ubscrlbera at $MM)
CtihmarfnA PaiviriAt Rrnilftht Ir copy.
uuuiiiuiniv uiuuu. "'""K"' Mr Post alleges that Ahle told him
th.it a scandalous story involving his
name, which was In' the possession of
a New York publication, known as
"Town' Topic." would im: be printed If
'he subscribed for the book. At the
time of Ahle's iirr xt the police found
a list containing the nume of many
persons prominent socially. Opposite
euoh name were figures representing
sums ranging from $."00 to $1,000. 'Up
to i'.oday Mr. Post his stood alone as
complainant against Ahle, but now, ac
cording to Assistant District Attorney
Krotel, h l. to be reinforced by two
women and a man of he highest social
standing, wiho are ready to press corn-
Second Accident While at
a High Speed
OBSTRUCTION THROWN
FROM THE MAIN TRACK
Little Serious Dam ago Done
Engineer Injured by
Jumping
I rain No.
"ay. known
he new
i'ii Chicago
111 ac Ident
to Surface and Bodies of
Imprisoned Crew Recovered
Bixerta, Tunis, 'July IB. The subma
rine boat Farfadet, which sank .at the
entrance to th port of SIdi .Abdallah
July 6, w.js (owed Into dry dock today
after en days' hicessant efforts to raise
her. The salvage operations, wnwn
were conducted by Admiral Aubert, as
sisted by 250 sailors and a large etaff
of engln.ers, have been attended
lihpontrhoiit u-Li.h B Ian? eertes of mis-
haps. The huU of the submarine was iplalnts agonist the prisoner on the same
covered with slime, but was undam
aged. When the door of the Fflrfadet
was opened (there was a ri of nause
ous ga-f s from the decomposing bodies
of the fourteen men who hfid perished
In. her, and . great emotion--.prevailed
among the navat officers and the men
who had assisted In raising the ves
sel. Powrful deodorants were Intro
duced Into ;ihe vessel and the ventilat
ory were started.
An Inspection of the FarfiJdot shows
that her crew employed every imagin
able devices In their attempt to es
cape
grounds taken by Post.
Mr. Krotel explained, however, thai
these off rs were conditional. The per
sona were ready to .testify against Ahle
he ald only If guaranteed that no
questions War asked concornlug the
scandals on which their subscriptions
to the publlaition wer solicited by
Ahle. r
Hairlsbtirg. Fa., July I .
2 on the Pennsylvania r;ii
.a th Pennsylvania t"
cightecn-hour train be
and New York, met with
today a mile west of port i;..yal. which
fortunately did not result seriously. A
w Ht-hm nd freight tral:. hearing Port
Hoy. I tried to stop sud l. nly ami the
engineer made a too violent appill a
tltui of ;he ulr, the consequence of
which was that a car buckled nid was
thrown over to track No. 1, on which
the dyer was pe ding cast. An at
tempt was made to flag Mains In front
mid in the rear of the wreck, but .the
break occurred' almost slutultHiienu!)'
with the arrival of the tlyer and the
rai l plunged Into th.' wreck. The mo
mentum 'hrew the wrecked cur from
the track, but the flyer did not Jump
the rails. Knglneer t'ulvln Miller, of
this Ity, when he ..aw the obbstruo
Hon on lie track Jumped from ihe n
fiine and was hurt about the lie id and
back. He whs the only one Injured
on the train. Fireman Gaim.in brought
the train to a stop.
The pussengers, all of whom were In
. heir b rths, did not know there hud
been an accident untU after the train
had been implied for some I line. They
were not even shaken nnd none of th m
was Injured. The train was only slight
ly damaged.
Supremo Court of Arkansas
Decides Famous Suit.
Two Dissenting
FOURTEEN COMPANIES
MUST LEAVE STATE
Fire Insurance Firms Cannot
do Business Unless Com
bines are Broken
h.iv htn
AMERICANS STILL
WINNING AT TENNIS
BYNUM PLEADS GUILTY I
OF MURDER OF ALfORD
NEW ACREAGE REPORT
H WILL BE ISSUED SOON
Washington, July 15. Secretary
Wl'iSon was In lengthy conference to
nlght with President Jordan of the
Soutliwn Cotton association, and Sec
retary Hester of the New Orleans Cot
ton Exchange, as a result of which It
was djeclded to Issue a new cotton
acreage report to take the place of the
report lssued iln'June, provided there
were enough funds' -available to do
the work. -
Mr. Hyde, the chief statistician. It
Is said, has expressed himself In fa
vor of the Issuance of a' new report.
JORDAN CONFERS WITH
HESTER AND CHEATHAM
u . rtV
Washington, July 1J. Harvie Jordan,
president of ihe Southern Cotton Asso
ciation, arrived here today and Imme
diately went Into conference with Rich
ard Cheatham, secr.-tary of: the-same
association, and. Henry Hester, eecre
tary of tha New Orleans Cotton Ex
change, who are In the city In con
nection with the probing of. charges
that the government cotton statistics
have been jugggled for the benefit of
brokers. None of the cotton, men would
state ithe character of the business un
it; r -consideration beyond sayinjr th.it
the officials of:. ths, two organixatlons,
Contln'ujed on page four
WELFARE MEN TO
. GO TO ISTHMUS
Italelgh. N. C. July 15 R. I). By
num. under Indictment' for the mur
der of his partner, J. B. Alford, to
day pleaded guilty to murder In tlw
second degree. Sentence will be im
posed Monday, the limit being thirty
years' Imprisonment.
London, July 15, Both W. J. Cloth
ier and HoUiombe Ward Won their ten
nt marches ntthe QweetTW Clutragattwt
.'he Frenchtivn, Oermot and Decugls,
without exertion, nnd Norman E.
Brookes und A. F. Wilding, the Aus
tralians, easily accounted for C. Von
Wesley and R. Klnsel, fhe Austrian
pair.
The match of the day, however,-was
in exhibition game, In which Brookes
ind Wal'.; r t)unlap, the litter also of
the Australian team, defeated th.- Do
.orthy brothers, three sets to two. The
o.ui: of this match compllea ed the
mtlook In the contest for the Davis
rophy, as it is evid nt It the Austra
lans maintain ihelr form of today they
A'lll give .the Amerhuns trouble.
Utile Rock. Ark., July 15. In the
Hupreme com t of Arkansas today the
celebrated a n 1 1 -1 in "l ait of tile gen
eral assembly, passed nt Its recent
session, was li.i. ld In a lis: suit In-
volv.ng the vall.llly of the mac: incut.
The new l.i excludes from doing bus-
ues In Arkansas miy foreign III.'
nsuraru-e colllStl!cs that ale lllelllhels
of pools, cSinliinatlons or ngt'eeineiils
to fix pr ices aiiyu In rv, whether In
Arkiiisus 01 not. When the act be
came etTecllve March 2.1, last, the
Hartford Klre Insurance company con-
lulled 10 do business, while other for
eign fire Insurance coinninles left the
state. Attorney (Seneial R. I,. Rog
ers tile 1 sul iik itinst tin' Hartford
com pa 11 ley for penalties and forfeiture
of the light to remain In Arkansas.
In the Pulaski Circuit court t the
company was held liable to the penal
ty and judgment was glvenu accord
ingly. An appeal was then taken to
the Supreme court, pending which the
company continued business In the
stute. Limiting Ihe decision entirely
uo the facts before the couit, l ma
jority of the Supreme court today
held that the state has declared and
possesses the light to declare that
foreign Insurance companies cannot
do business 111 this state wh'e be
longing to a pool or combination
fix or effect Insurance rates any hero
Justices. Battle and Wood filed a dis
senting oplonlou.
When the new law went Into effect
In March more than fifty non-resl
dent llrel nsuiunce companies ceused
doing business In the slate,, and today
all the agents of the Hartford Klre
insurance' company In Arkansas werr
notified by the company's agents here
to write no more business in the
stale.
an. July IV Complain
tiled with the Inti-rsi.t!,
oitiini-slon h the Nation. 1
1 r l-a lets' assocl.i
illroiid ope r.i : lug ii
the "orll. lal cl.isl
' north of .!.. (!il
is and cast of thj
ami ihe 1all10.1l' 1
xdllcHllon" :.iill..r
anil rot. un. ic rlv. i
Held Up and Robbed on Rail
road Track by Two Mask
ed Highwaymen
Wholesale l.uinl
lion against ih
vi hat is known ,1
Mention tt-i'i Ho y
and Po.omac rlv
Mississippi rlv. r,
u "southern ch
souili of the 1 'lit.
and cast of he Mlsslsslpd
It Is . Ii.irn. d that the rallro id"
dWi i liniiiatc aKalnst lumber Interest
in thai an allow, uic,. of 500 pounds for
racking of gondola 01 tl.it cars is vix
en to shippers of other commodities
ami the cost of such racking Is paid
by the defendants. It Is claimed by
the lllinh. r association that he a.unc
character of rack Is employed in th
shlpincni of lumber that Is needed for
the shipment of many o, vv com
modities, and that lumber shippers
should lecelve Ihe same allowances.
COMMANDER WAS
t
DRUNK ON DUTY
B. 0. Scott, of Cruiser Detroit
Is Dismissed From Service
After a Court Martial
ONE ROBBER KILLED
AND MONIJY RECOVERED
Detectives do Quick Piece of
Work. Finding Man In
Five Minutes
TOOK THEIR MONEY.
New York, July 15. John Perry
O'Neill, a negro, whose home Is in
Newark, N. J., was arrested In Jersey
City tonight on a charg" of embessle
ment. He is treasurer of the Pullman
Palace Car Porters' and Railway Km
ployes' Association, and accused of
having appropriated to his own use
$2,000 of the funds of the organisa
tion. . .
Will Look After Opportunities
for Amusement and Recre
ation in the Canal Belt
New Tork, July 15. The welfare de
partment of .th National Civic Federa
tion his arranged with the Isthmla
canal commlflon to supply the serv
Ices of two expert welfur? managers,
who will sail with Commissioner Shonts
and Chief Engineer Stevens next Tuen
day for ne Isthmu?. vThe commissi?
desires to have thes men Investigate
th needs and the opportunities fdr re
creation on the fcithmus, recommend
their 'Conclusions and arrange to IVive
carried into ffeot such plans as are
adopted. '
These plans will Include amusement
halls .club houres afid outdoor sports
which may be adapted to the cllmitlc
conditions. The experts are Mr. Nasro,
at present the welfare munager of the
Plymouth, Mass., Cordage company.
and Edward A. Mbffatt, editor of The
Bricklayer and Mason.
LUCKY WOMAN.
Tampa, Fla.. July 15. A special to
The Tribune from Fort Myers says
that James DeLancey Driggeis and
his son. Lorenzo, well known resi
dents of Lee county, have just re
ceived notice of the death of a forrr
uncle in trance, leaving them an en
tire estate - amounting to $3,000,006.
The' heirs will leave at once for New
Tork to take steps to secure the leg
acy. Toung Drlggera was married
onl? a week ago.
POLICEMAN WHO SflOT A YOUNG GIRL
. HAS NARROW ESCAPE FROM LYNCHING
I'''--'!- -
Chicago. " July 15. Members of the
Eighth regiment, 1. N. Q., rescued a
colored policeman from crowd that
was threatening a lynching last night
In Thirty-seventh street, near the
Rock ' Island tracks. The policeman
was Fred Locke, who was appointed
recently r for stilka yluty. . In trying
to escape- from mob he opened Are
with his -revolver, shooting Julia Mc
Hugher. It years old. not. however.
Injuring her seriously. A crowd of
several hundied persons surrounded
the man. bent .on klllinc him. He was
knocked dow-4,anaf rample4 , upon. J
About twerity negro militiamen were
on their way to the Eighth regiment
armory preparatory . to leaving for
their annual encampment at Spring
Held. They heard , the shots and
rushed In the direction from whenc
the sound came. The militiamen were
in full uniform and armed with rffle
The mob was driven tit and Lock
was taken to the hospital, where His
Inlurb a were Josed. Later lie was
locked up.
The 4 rouble was due to an attempt
by Locke to disperse a crowd that was
jeering a non-union teamtter.
Washington, July 15. The court -mar
tlal record In the case of Commander I
I. O. Hcott, X'nlted States navy, has
been recelv d at .the navy department.
Commander Scott, who-was In com
mand of the cruiser Detroit, was found
guilt yof drunkenness on duty, suffering
a vessel of the navy to be run upon a
shoal ami be placed. In great danger,
and neglect of duty. H was charged
also with filling to obey a lawful order
of arrest, and with conduct to the two
Judlce of good order and discipline, but
the charger could not be proved.. ,
" Tb orten-es are alleged to hav oc
curred on board the Detroit at Puerto
Plata, on May 17. The court sentenced
Commander Hcott to dismissal from the
service, but a unanimous reeomnv na
tion .to (he clemency of the reviewing
nuthorl.y was spread upon the record.
EARTHQUAKE FELT IN
NEW ENGLAND CITIES
Portland, Me., July IB. An earth
quake shock affecting a large portion
of Maine occurred at 6:10 a. m. to
day and was noticeable for about ten
seconds. ' It was said to have been
more severe that the shocks of March
10, 1894, which occurred about 1 a. m.
Today's trembling awoke many peo
pie from sound slumber.
It was reported from Bangor to
Kittry, and from above Farrnlngton to
the coast at Rockland, and seemed
most severe In central Maine, and
especially at Augusta and Watervllle.
Two shocks were felt In Brunswick.
Thomnston and some other places, the
second being more severe than
first.
HlrmliiKh.un. Ala., July 15. L. D.
Burr, paymaster of the Slims-Shef-fl-ld
Iron and Steel company, was
held up by two masked highwaymen
tills aftern.Kin on ihe railroad ' be
tween Littleton and Hat Top and re
lieved of l.Vtmo. ivhlch was to be Used
In paying nfT the men.
l.css than five minutes afterwards
IVtectlve O.oige Bodeker. Policeman
Joe Nix and Charles Ptckaid, a Flat
Top guard, had shot and killed one
of the highwaymen and recovered the
money. The other robber effected his
escape.
Some time ago Vice President J.
McQueen of the Sloss-Sheffleld com
pany learned that an effort would be
made to hold up the paymaster. Sev
eral days ago Mr. McQueen learned
further of the plans of the robber,
and that they Intended putting their
design into effect today. - With that
Information Frank H. Oafford, mine
superintendent, requested the police
department to de:all officers 10-work
on the case. Two officers left the
city today and spent the entire morn
ing watching the riVir bank of the
Little Warrior. H was by this means
that the officers Vefto able to be on the .
scene almost Immediately after he'
robbery occurred. When confronted
one of the highwaymen offered resist
ance and was killed, while the other
made, his escape. .The money was re
covered from the man' killed. High
way robbery Is a capital offense In
Alabama.'' ' ' ' 4 ,
TOOK ITALIANS? :
- FOR LIBERlAtlS
New Tork, July 15. Mistaking the
swarthy jackles of the Italian cruiser -
Dogall, lying at the foot of West Thir
ty-fourth street, for men of Ihelr own
race, negroes started a rumor tonight
that the cruiser was a Liberia man-
of-war, commissioned to lake colored
refugee to Aft lea. The rumor spread
quickly and hundreds of negroes, ex
cited by the 1 lot of Jast night.
swarmed on the pier and were with
difficulty held In check by the Italian
sentries. The police, hearing that an
other riot was In progress, hurried to
the scene, dispersed the crowds and
arrested three colored longshoremen.
the
....
COT HI I TO THE DOOR. WILL HE GET HI M THROUGH?
LINEVITGH STOPS
OFFENSIVE WORK
Tokio, July 15. An urmy officer who
has returned from Manchuria says (hut
the expedition that General Llnevltch
would aum the ngggresslve Is dimin
ishing. . The Itussluns, who formerly
conducted the most active reeonriala
mnces. General Llnevltch with his alaff
going to the advanced line in an en
deavor to draw out the Japanese and
discover th lr positions of it'rength,
have ceased and It is believed that
General Llnevlich' tactics now are to
be non-aggressive and entirely on the
defenslv .
Reports of the existence of epldernk
and contagious dlsoises among itu
Russians continue to reach the Japan
ese army. .-' .
Iei er details from Karsakorvsk say
that the fire which continued to burn
until July 10, practically defrayed the
town. : '-'.; '
JAPS VICTORS . IN .
A SHARP ATTACK
Washington, July 15. The Japanese
legation here his received a cablegram
from Tokio detailing the action on the
Island of Sakhalin on July 10 and IV
In which the Russians were forc;d to
abandon positions. The cablegram fol
low': '
- "The-Sakhalln army report that In
pursuing the enemy It dislodged thlm
from the neighborhood of Veladlmires
ka and DHJImole, two mile west of
Veludimlr k, on the 10th of July, and
occupied both places. The enemy's main'
for;e retreated to fortified positions
northwest of Dallneye, where wild ma
chine guns a stubborn resistance was
off red. Our army commenced a vlg- .
orous attack on the 11th and routed the
enemy toward Mauku on the dawn of :
the 12'. h. Enemy's loas not obtainable,
but iprobably at leust 150."
NEAL MATCHEOi
Heattle, Wash., July 15. Frankle
Neal, the American bantam - cham
pion, haa been matched to fight Owen
Moran, the English boxer, at Butte on
Labor day. '.
FIRED ON MOI.
Lods, July 15. Three persons were
killed and six wounded by a volley ,
fired by Cossacks during an antl-ftnv- '
ernrnent demonstration in Kamlenna
stree this .evening. ; '
SHOOTS BRIDE OF SIX WEEKS IN FIT
OF JEALOUS RAGE OYER OLD LETTER
Little Rock, Ark, July 15. A spe
cial to the Oaxette from Texarkana
says:
Charles Reynolds of New Totk, In a
Bt of jealous rage, .tonight shot his J
Mde of six weeks at 1124 Wood
street, where they have been visiting
for a week past. -The bullet, a 4
nllbre, entered the left breast two.
nches above the heart. Mrs. Rey
tolds la In a critical condition. Rey--vlds
escaped after the shooting, but
"' ( t :i..-(t.. ' '
the officers are scouring t'4e town fr .-.
him. ' ,
The couple were man led In New
Tork six weeks ago and left at once .:
for the west on a "bridal tour, going. j
first to Houston. Tex. where they tr- .
malned ontil they came nere. Mrs.
Reynoldg Is a 'beautiful blonde. Si
years of age. and was a widow when j
shem anted Reynolds. The finding by'
the latr of sit old love letter writ-'
ten by a former sweet hearj., of the
lady. Is said to have caused the
trouble. ' . .