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ILLE CITIZEN ! Tf N PAGES. , ' TEN PAGES. i i PART ONE ' PAGES 1 TO VOL XX KO 244 ASHBVILLB N. C, WEDNESDAY MORNING JULY 19, 1905 PRICE FIVE CENTS CHIEF STATISTICIAN SHOT AT HIS JAPAN LOOKS FOR FAILURE : , SPECIAL CALL TO COTTON MEN HUNDREDS ARE VICTIMS : a f- mcm m nrcfiifiT reflection OF TERRIBLE HEAT WAVE kUUllU 111 1IUUUJ1 THE ASHEV Says His Ofllco Is Not Worth tho Fight Necessary to Retain It HYDE'S RESIGNATION IS AT ONCE ACCEPTED Durham Man Fires Into Mir- ror Five Times at Sup posed Assailant Wilson Compllmen s the S'a- tlsilclan on His Acurate Reports Washington, Jul 18. The resignation of John Hyde, vtattrticlun und chief of the bureau of tatlatlcs of the depart meat of agriculture, wan handed to Sec retary Wilson today and promptly ac cepted. WllleU N. Hay a. ihe asslrt ant secretary of agriculture, has been placed In charge of the bureau tempo rarily, and will continue to net pending the Investigation of the ronton scandal and until a competent statistician Is found. Mr .Hyde's withdrawal from thv de partment created wide Interest. Sec retary Wilson and other officials of the department have stated that Mr. Hyde hai not b en Implicated In any manner In Ihe Irrcguhrltles that re sulted In the dlfmlssal of Kdwln S. Holmes. There Is considerable apecuja- subscriber for "TOWN TOPIC INVFSTIf.ATFn v a a av ,.. . . . KLuAKrvAuLt otKIto Or iwrmFwrc pcvpn cn tvum vi wiiooiiiiy CVIUOltLC In h e B ac' mailing Case strangcr Wrote LeUers tQ B3gun by Krotel New York. July IN. An Investigation of the affairs of "Town Topic." grow ing out of th urn-si of Charles H. Ahlc, on churgon of hla. kmall preferred by Edwin M. I'osi. of the New York B ock Exchange, was begun today by Assistant IMslrlc Attorney Paul Kru- tel. Mr. Krolel declined to my any thing about hi investigation, but I: was uitlmuted ihai the matter will tie brought to 'h- attention of the grand Jury. Moses Kill, Wonster. member of the Society Kdl tors' Association, who got up "Fads aiul Fancies" and also "Amerlcj's Hniart Set." called on Mr. Krotel today and furnlfhed him with a copy of the much 'talked of agreement betw en the Town Topic Publishing company and himself. The agreement shows hat Wooster engaged to secure Fads and Fancies, Capitalists Asking Them to Visit City Uon as to the .probable ucc sor of JH subscription contracts to be in the Mr. Hyde. One name that has been ' name of the Town Topic Publishing suggested Is D. W. Snow, of Chicago, I company, and hat Wooster was to re- statlctlclan for well known farm Jour-, " ,ve commissions of 10 per rent, on iwta, and. once an assistant statistician subscriptions v;- to S'O.Ouo. and 20 per under J. R. Dodge, who was chief of cent, on all excess of hat amount, the Hi V. ll d the bureau about twelve years ago. Mr. Dodg- was In charge at the time the present system of gathering crop sta tistics was devised. CoL Henry Hefter, seere ary of the New Orleans Cotton Exchange, In a conversation with Secretary Wllsoii contend. d that the salary paid by the department Is Inadequate io get the right kind of men for. the place. The following Is the text of Mr. Hyde's lett.r of acceptance and Secre tary Wilson's reply thereto: "Wnehlngton, D. C, July 1, 1805. VVtur Mr. Becretary: During .tho lust four, years, or since I succeed d In making tie crop reports of the de partment-, reasonably accurate and cor respondingly valuable to the agiicul- J ,tural and commercial Interests of the country my administration of the offlc-1 I have the honor to hold has been con stantly under fire from one side of the . market or the other.. Five times It has been investigated, and on every oc-1 caslon I have been vindicated. On Jan Mary t I wis awarded 12,500 damages In a libel suit against a .prominent Arm of cotton brokers by a Jury of their own friends and felow citizens. These rsults have been very gratifying to me, but I have the highest medical au thority for (he ata.ement that the con tinued fight UPon me bus alreudy con siderably, shorened my life. At the present tlm- It , is an accepted fact that a powerful organization Is bent upon bringing about my retirement, by one means or another. Now, I do not think the position I hold Is worth the fight necessary to Ita retention end the organisation in question is welcom- to whatever satisfaction It can derive from my withdrawal from the unequal struggle. If any of my friends 'think tthat I ought not to retire under fire I would have them remember that fh re la never a time when I am not un der fire. I hive the honor, therefore, to tender you 'herewith my resignation of my appointment aa statistician and hief of the bureau of statistics of this department. - I "With much appreciation of the unl jform coUrtwy and kindliness you have shown me and of the many tokens of confidence t have received from you, I sun, most respectfully yours, -, , "(Signed JOHN" HYDE. U , "Washington, July 18, 190n, . "Mr. John Hyde, Statistician Dear Sir: I ara In receipt of your resigna tion as statistician of this department. nl accepting It I cheerfully testify to the ability with which you have dis charged :h heavy and difficult duties of the office since you were first ap pointed.'.. The accuracy of your reports has been recognized "by the public gen erally, and I am. glad to be able to tes tify with r gard to the charges made gainst ihe Integrity of the bureau of statistics that no facts have been brought to my attention implicating you In any way. i "I am familiar with your devoilon to your work and with the untiring efforts you have made to render the bureau of the 'highest i .rvice to the growers, manufacturersan d consumers of farm products in our country, and I regret that falling health should compel t net profit to be equally divided be- ween the parties then to. Wooter further told Mr. Krotel that th. re wa- no fixed price for subscrip tions to the book. He ilso de hired tha.; the subscription of a woman very prominent In socle y cost her 110,000, ana mat while the minimum rate was 11,500, son.e subscribers had paid as high as $3,000 and otherR as high as $7,000 for the book. This increased the amount obtain d for the production of "Fui. and Fancies" from $150,000 to more . than $200,000. CROP CONDITIONS ARE IMPROVING Washington. July 18. The weekly Duilettn of the weather bureau on crop conditions says: While too rapid growth of cotton and light fiultlng are generally re potted throughout the cotton belt, an linorovement in indicated in manv dis tricts. The crop continues' ;o suffer I vert, nfenager of the Western Union of from lack of cultivation, esneclally in flee1, refused to send the messages tin.' llf .tiu.'f he 1 bought the figure rvllcct ra lu me mirror ivpoMte htm was a man bent on his destruction, J. ft. Carr of Durham, N. C. last night deliber ately drew a revolver und fired five shots at his own reflection, landing hlms If In 'the police sta ion and put ting an end to one of the most remark able series of Inexplicable actions re corded In the history of the Hotel Herkeley, of this city. Carr's career In i his city has b en n short one. but In ll have been packed many Incidents-, beginning with the Insertion of an ,id vertlsement for 2ml men to carry on some unknown work, including the ending of telegrams to n dozen of -he most proinln nt- capitalists of the country, Inviting them to this city, and ending with the shooting affair In room 87 at the Herkvley hotel last evening. The explanation for this series of ec- entrlc actions, according to the opinion of the majority of tho.-e w ho are famil iar with the f.cts. is in be found in the one word insanity. Carr registered at the Berkeley last Friday and was as-lncd to room 37, where he deposite.l his haggige, a grip and a typewriter, and set out to trans act some business, lie visited the of fice of the ifternonn paper Monday and Inserted hn adv r.tsement for 200 men for Immediate employment, neglecting. or not wishing to Mate, however, what this employment is. All of this time the employes at the llerk ley noticed that the man's actions were strange and that he semed preoccupied, hbt thought of the matter until yesterday morning, wh n the second of the re markable occurrences took place. Sends Letters. , A porter was sent for from room 37 and. given a dozen telegrams, ad dressed to Nan Patterson, New York; the Rev. Sam Jonei-, Clio. Ga.: D. I.. Duke, Durham, N. C.: L. Banks Holt, Graham. N. C: Dr. Wakefield, Char lotte, N. C; J. P. Morgan. Moorehead City. N. C; Andrew Carnegie, Virginia Beach, Va.; W. D. Bhepard, Edenton, N. C and John D. Rockefeller, Atlan tic City, N. J. All of the messages were worded as follows: "Com? to Ashcvllle mt once," and would no doubt have caused the recipients some, little cause for speculation had not Mr. Cal- Hayashal Says Mis Country Is Not Confident of Fa vorable Outcome "PUBLIC EVIDENTLY THINKS JAPS ANGELS" Demands of Plenipotentiaries Will Not be Moderato as Reported l-ondon. July l.s tile Japanese minis . Assnriatf d Press tod h id appointed roo ! pfi nlpotentla-tles. N. -M Witte and IJ.n ... Icpl-id Japan niiN favorable outcome "f 'We do not know.' ded. "what powers In ed to thtm, and afte Itiiou lluyashl. to IV. s.liil lo the tlir lUlKMia men as peace riln li ss. even it" n hid not i onliiencc in a lie- iicgoiiaions. h niln.ster ml- v.- been ilelegat i- the events President of American Cotton j Manufacturers' Association Wires Sec'y Wilson DEPARTMENT REPORT IS TO BE REVISED No Attempt at Coercion: Just Want the Facts in the Gase the central and western portions of the belt, where.however, the weather of the pust week has beerf favorable for cleaning the fields, a work which- has been, pursued vigorously. In Missis sippi, Louisiana and Aikansa repoits of abandoned fields continue. Damage by boll weevil In Texas, generally, is no: great, though considerable In lo calities. Too much rain has caused Injury to tobacco In Kentucky, Vir ginia and Maryland, where the crop has suffered from lack of cultivation. but notwithstanding these conditions, the outlook in Kentucky is promising. A matk'ed Improvement is noted in Oho, Pennsylvania and New York The crop is doing well in Indiana and Wisconsin. CuiiiiK is progjessmg in the' Carolina, where the yield Is be' low the average. , Continued on page four the past 18 months J.ipan puts faith onlv In accomplished f.u -:s. The term will be communicated only at ihe con fer ncc Then 'e will discover what poweis the Russian plenipotentiaries pnss ss. The Associated Press ivpr soulallve 'suggested that the uviit ial opinion Is that the Japnnese temis will he mod erate. 1 cannot s.'e win)'- Hi - m ople n such an Idea., iri.l-.l the minister. 'The public evidently in stake the apanes" far angels." Minister Ilayaslii intimated ' that Japan was ready to continue the war unless she receives suii.ihle terms. He t'alle.l attention to the fact that prac tleally ihe entire sum rcallxed by the last two loans was unexpended, and said ihe capture of the Island of Htikhalln was. not precipitated by III. approach of ,the conference, hut wa. a natural sequence of the Japanese campaign, tho plans for which had not been altered since tiunsln ncced.d to the conference. All ca ller attack on the islam! was not undertaken princi pally because of . the severe m Inter and because the summer deason was pre feruble fivr i MiiijTrilgiilng and the es tablishment o't"a new government In the Island. EQUITABLE HOLDINGS TRANSFERRED BY RYAN New York. July 18. The majorl y slock,' carrying the controlling interest in the Kuitable Life Assurance Society, which was acquired by Thomas F. Ryan by purchase from James Ilazn Hyde, has been formally transferr d to the board of trustees,, which Is head ed by ejt-Presldent (.'level md. Charlotte. X. '., July 18. President Miller, of the American Cotton Manil la' liners' Association, today wired Secret ny ot Agriculture Wilson as fol lows: "An extraordinary mee.lng of the board of governors of the American Cotton .Manufacturers' Association called to meet In this city July 20. to consider the proiHisillon of the Sou hern Co ton Growers' Association and others to renp-n and revise the figures on acre age ns promulgated by the June re port of your department. The eo'ton manufacturers of the world using American grown cotton have confidence In the report of your bureau until such unbiased tvldence Is produced as will have a tendency to shnke this confi dence. The mnnfncturers of eo ton de sire only t'he true facts and .ire op posed to any attempt at coercion of any character whatsoev r. The object of our proposed meeting Is for the pur pose of sebvlng a committee, not to exceed three In number, which will pro ceed to Washington promptly to eon- f r with you In about the same ca pacity is other Interests In common as now being presented and repeetfully ask 'that you grnnt such an audience as is craved herein before any final decision is determln d upon by you towards revising your June report. If such revision Is conleinplated by you. " e also request that you ivame a date In the near future which will bei sgre able to you to receive this com mittee." Reports are Lost. I. it tie . Hock, Ark., July 18. A special o th C.asef.e from Dardonelle siys: . A letter (later from Washington, D. C, July'll. 'from John Hyde, chief of the bureau of statistic, who has been nvestlgntlng the southern cotton situa tion, has been received by W. C. Hunt, of this place. Mr. Hunt is the r-porter or Yell county. of the cotton conditions. Mr. Hyde s ntes In this letter that he his failed to receive reports from Mr. Hunt and asks why he has discontinued theni and requests thnt h resume the work. Mr. Hunt has been sending In his re ports regularly. His last report gave the coi ton conditions of the county at 80 per cent and the reduction of acre age throughout the country at 26 p r cut. und that of this locality at SO per rent. CLERK SHOOTS HIS EMPLOYER Then Turns Gun on Fellow Employes Because Fears Being Discharged reiisaiola, Ha.. July Is Ciared with drink and th thought that he was t he dl-cha ge.l. Wlllluin R Wll iiams, a siiiesin in In the clnlnlug store f John White, late this afternoon milked up to the offl.'e where M While was s.itliig reading and shot 'iltn dinil. He turned his revolvi r up n another salesman. Kd Dansby, and Indicted a mortal wound In Ihe back: thin fired upon James White, toe na nagcr and sen of the proprietor. the bullet passing through the lungs ml causing a wound ftom which It I that h' will die. oilier employe was tymi upon. lint five bullet went Wide of the mark It w llr-Ustat. d that Williams, who lad been cNlnklng of late, had been icensed by Juims White of approprl itlng mon.jf from the cash drawer. '.Vllliains at once began to Imbibe to oich an extent that It was noticed ibost Ihe store and some reimrk was n.-ide by the proprietor. This Infurl l ed Williams, it seems, and, without i word, be walked to his coat, look herrfiom a new revolver and walk lift up t'i Mr. While fired, the bullet 'trlklng him near the right ear and mssug out on the left, slil!. White lever moved, the paper he was rend ing dropping from his grasp, Kd Xiitsby, a clerk, was waiting upon a 'ustomnr when the infuriated, mini limed and died a' shot Into his back. fam-.s White lushed to the assistance f hts father, when the revolver was (gain discharged, the bullet entering the young mans chist. Eastern and New England States Suffer From Unu sual Temperature TWENTY-THREE DIE IN NEW YORK DURING DAY Other Cities Also StrlcKeo. Philadelphia's Death Rec ord Being 50 New v.nk, July 18.An area of oppressive heat that brings ta.jnmd with unpleasant vlvldnesa tbm nwmJ breaking summer of 1S01 baa aettlesl down over the eastern and New Eng land stales, already numbering hun dreds among Its victims and arising Indescribable suffering to thousands in tilts and other cities. From ail pulnia tonight came the story of the hottest day of ihe summer, attended with ftequent piostratlons and not a few deaths. Philadelphia reDoited a mast. mum temperature of Sg.S. the highest figure officially noted. In this . city the weather bureau's high mark was 86. while In Iloston, where the aun'a ' rays nrP wont to be tempered by aju east wind, a temperature of 84 was recorded. ' Following are the maximum temper- aim es officially lecorded In the larger llles with the known rases ot proa- rat ion nnd death: . P rostra. Deal ha. New York . . Philadelphia ltalljinorc . . Washington Boston Pittsburg . .. Huffnlo ..... 88.1 9.VS .". 84 93 78 187 18 4 tt .. J J8 10 .1 ,8 '1 II t WtlUsms was overpowered after a struggle and arrested and lodged In all. The only sWitement Williams could make was lhat If Mr. While had ittendtd to hta own business he would lever have been killed. Mr. John Vhl-te was one of- the best known c't sens of this -olty -flnrturery hlghljMM peeled. SECTION CREW CAUSES WRECK CARLTON HELD FOR GRAND LARCENY Xew York, July 18. An indictment charging grand larceny In the firm de gree was returned by the Kings county grand jury in Brooklyn today against Frederick E. Carlton, who wa arrest 'd several days ago on complaint of Hen rv J. B. Schaub. Schaub, who Is one of the engineers of the submarine boat Porpoise, charged that Carlton obtained $1,300 from him by a fraudulent real estate transaction. Carlton Is In Jail in default of 2,000 bill In the case and District Attorney Clarke, of Kings county, said today that ne would ase; that this amount be Increased. , His request would be In a measure due to the fact, he said, that an official inres- you to bring your work io and end.) tla;:lon Is to b? made into 1he manner Very truly yourt " ' I which Carlton's second wife, Mary tt "(Signed) JAMES WILSON. Sec." L'aritdn, came to her death. AERONAUT KILLED WHILE DIRECTING AREOPLANE 3,000 FEET IN THE AIR San Jose, CsU July 18. Daniel Maloney, who had made numerous successful ascensions with Prof. Mont gomery's aeroplane, today fell 8,000 feet to his death at Santa CUra. - Maloney made an ascension ftom the grounds ot the Santa Clara col lege, a boat 1,00 persons watching with Interest (he machine as It shot up ward from the college gardff attached to a huge balloon. At a height of e.eoa f.t Maloney cnt loose from the balloon and began manornrerina; the aeroplane. He sailed gracefully about, then essayed a deep plunge. Suddenly th machine swerved ami then turned over. It righted Itself, sank down a considerable distance and turned over again. Maloney was clinging desper ately to his seat and evidently en deavoring to regain control of the aeroplane, but all his efforts were In vain. Again the aeroplane turned In the air. the wings came together and the man and machine plunged straight downward, while the horrified spec tators gsxed helplessly. A number of cadets carried him to the college hos pttal. His skull was fiartvredt and blood was flowing from his ear and mouth. He died within a short time. The aeroplane was demolished. j NOT A NIBBLE. . ' Uncle 8am (nodding) By ginawl I can't rccmmbr when l ever ire suth quktwde abeut thia pise. Lynchburg, Va., July 18. An excur- Ion train composed of eight well filled oaehea nd a baggage car, on -which 00 tiersons wer- returning to Ttlchmond nd Norfolk nf'.er three days' outing In Roanoke, was wrecked this nfter tioon nt Prospect, forty miles cast of Lynchburg. The baggage car nnd four conches left the track while runnnlng it a rate of thirty mil s an hour, and Ihe escape of .the excursionists wan miraculous. One woman su tallied a broken rib and another a slight strain of her wrist. Their names cannot be ascertained here. This, aside from a numbT of fainting and hysterical worn- en and children, was the extent of the caeual'tlBS. It Is said that a section gang, which did not know of the coming of the ex- "urslon Iraln, hid jueked one side of the track up for rii;m!rv and this threw the coaches from th il racks. Equip ment was dispatched from here and the excursionists continued on their way home after nearly three hours' de lay,,... , . - , ' . ' Jake" Cook, keeper of the monkey house at Central pat k. famous ll in elephant trainer and the Idol of the children who frequent the "Zoo," , wa among to lay's victim. ,The other-keepi-is complained of the heat, and Coak. volunteering to help them with, their duties, 'over exerted himself, stricken and died. : F-arly In the day the' hot tfefe. In vaded the stock exchange and Jta ef feet was quickly appsrerrt npon the iriiticrs. Many of the leading oper ators deseited the floor and the mar ket became listless and dull. To .add to the unavoidable physical suffering Urooklyn was threatened nlth a water famine, while the .whole city was startled by the prospect of a strike of , tlie Ice men; An expected strike In Manhattan did not materialise. A few. Ice wagon drivers stopped work.., but deliveries continued. '. " Prompt measures weie taken today by Jh police and . park ..commission urs'to alleviate In some degtee 'that suffering of the public,, -Orders were Issued keeping open throughout - the nlsrtit the , park , gates, and tonight thousands of men, women and children deserted crowded and sliding apart ments for a bed upon Ihe cool grass. ALSO HOT IN WEST, WOULD DEPOSE CZAR; AND HAVE REGENCY 8t. Petersburg. July 18.-12:05 p. m. A sensational rumor Is current here to day thit a large party of Zcmstvols's and Douinalsts at Moscow are In favor of the proclamation of the deposition 'jf Emperor Nlcholu and the :tabllsh- ment of. a regency for the Orand Duke AlexIs-Nlkolalevl'-ch (the Infant son of he emperor snd heir to the thronej tinder four grand dukes, Chicago, July 18 This waa the hot test day of 'the year, for Chicago, th,e mercury registering 85 degrees for I wo hour's this afternoon. Cities through out th Northwest also retport much ' suffering from it he heat. Up to 19 o'clock tonight four deaths and seven teen prostrations had been reported to the police. s LEFT CHILD AT STRANGER'S DOOR (Special to The Citlsen.) Hallsbuty, July 18. A four-year-old child, supposed lo have been kidnap ped from an unknown but well-to-do family; was left at (be home of W. 8. Qreen at Cooleemee, Davie county. ve:y eurly yesterday morn-ina;' by) a stranger giving his name as Jackson, The man asked for lodging y.-hlle,walt-, Ing for Ihe westbound train, and, both the visitors went to sleep. The child was nfatly dressed In .bog'n clothlna;, button examination by Mrs.. Oreen Jia closed the fact that the child (a a girl, who later, gave her name as Flo ale.-. Nothing more could be . learned of her as to- wheie (the came from. Jackson soon suspiclimed trouble and skipped the town, leaving the child be hind. The whole affair Is a. mystery Strenu It is allot d that for this reason the -neeUng of the all-Russian Zemstvolsts . and has created a sensatipn.. rinnmalii fnnrrcM which wns o mis efforts are being made to ascertain take place tomorrow at Moscow, has 1 the home of the-clld, as well aa to th been prohibited. , ; I kidnapper, w f fled the county. ;' i iOVERNOR JELKS SENDS SQUADRON TO PROTECT NEGRO FROM LYNCHING Montgomery, All., July 18. After re viving a telegram from, the authori ties In Linden thax : the lynching of ttobert Richardson, a negro confined In he Marengo county jail th re, was lm- ninent, Governor Jelks, through; hu private te. retary, J. Kirk. Jackson, this veil Ing ordered Mayor V. B. .Atkins, n command of the cavilry squadron t Helms, to pi st once to the scene. n less than an hour aft-r the order Has Issued by the governor e received roressge from Major At kin, who tsted that Vm squadron bad been got- en toge her And bad left In a special rain for Und n. ' lf Richardson Is one of the two suspect ed of the murder ot Dr. Fosoue, Bear I Jnden, a few weeks ago. He ia been) in the jail at Linden for some time and thv rumor of a lynching Is due to the ab-euce of the sheriff and all his diip u;tes from the county eat.,, There wa 4 Jail delivery at Linden a day or two ago and the assumption Is that the, sheriff and bis force are Jn pursuit of the prison ra who escaped. This wouht explain their absence and the antlclps t ton of an auark en the (ill at this time. The governor. It Is understood, has given Wsjor Atkins, who Is iryor of Selma, complete control of the t-,-.a- t!on on his arrival at M-a.-n.