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E WLLE CITIZEN THE WEATNEft FRIDAY SHOWERS. ' a. CAST YOUR VOTE IN fOPU- LARITY CONTEST TODAY. ' VOL XX HO 254 ASBBVUXB N. C, BRIDAY MORNING JULY 28, 1905 PRICq FTVB CENTS THE ASH SUCCESSFUL ENDING TO FIGlIT AGAINST DREAD YELLOW FEVER EXPECTED Health Authorities In, New Orleans Believe End Is In Sight MAY PROVE BLESSING IN DISGUISE TO CITY Alan?" Lessons Ih Disease Fighting Learned From Fight This YW New Orleans. Julv 27 All the force engaged In the yellow fever acoorage toddy Joined In expressing the bkef that, while Hie situation has been ami Is set lous, enough success has already boon achieved by the method a pulled as a result of the work of the Reed commission In Cirha to Justify the ppc lh:it for the first (Imc In the htslory of the country what .threatened to be a niallgnunt epidemic of yellow fever will be stamped out before frost conieB, and that New Oi leans-will be BparejLthe horror of the -epidemics of 18GS, 1887 and 1878 In New 'Orleans and of a century ago in New York and Phila delphia. Bleating in. Disguise. It Is the opinion of Dr. J. H. White. In charge of tho- marine hospital forces, and of the state and city health officer that If destruction of the stegomylu cheeks the spread pf .the disease, the present visitation of the plugue will have; been a blessing In disguise, since It will have demon stiated the ability of science to con trol a virulent outbreak of yellow fever. ' r With the cae reported today the aggregate since July 18 runs close to 209 ease. These are included in rroin 29 to $5 centers. The first center In cluded Jhe quarter around the French market, where the fever nrst ap peared, and where a large proportion of the cases and fatalities have oc- pinefl'Thl aitafler tuns from St. Ann street te Barracks street and from Chartres street to the river, m- cludlh about 40 city blocks. Italians In this region are notoriously prone to avoid physicians, and the fever got a foothold' In the aettlement before It became known to the health depart ment, No precautions were taken to destroy the mosquitoes, and the scourge spread .with, such rapidity that, out of the cheap and crowded lodging houses, the Italians who could get away fled In terror, some going to friends In other parts of ihe city, somi going by rail to surrounding- towns and, some by, boats Into settlement!' along tho coast. The result Is the appearance of rases of yellow fever In various parts of New Orleans, - but particularly southeast of Canal street in neighbor hoods of the poorer classes. Six hun dred groceries and saloons In New Or leans are owned by Italians, and many of thess shops readily gave shelter to fear stricken com pad lots. Spread by Wallans. . Almost every Instance of a new fever center outside of the j-renen market district Is that of an Italian who escaped thence or of some one of a different nationality whose business was In that quarter. There have been ten fever centers above Canal street traceable to the original center, and one In Algiers, across the Mississippi river. The Xlgclrs case was of ' an American boy, proving fatal, whose employment was In the Infected quar ter. No subsequent case has appeared In Algiers., So far as the health authorities were able to discover today, v case har thus far developed from the outlying infection centers, and, with few ex ceptions, the cases and deaths have been among the Italians. The absencr of a spread of the disease to outside centers is held to be due entirely to the fact that the patients have been perfectly screened and scientifically treated, while the premises have' been thoroughly disinfected after death or recovery. '-; Six Death. - Reports to the state board of health for the past Z4 ' hours (how 11 new cases, three suspicious cases and six deaths, mostly among Italians. De tention camp established by the mit rine hospital service to enable per sona to leave the city for regions quar antined against Orleans, were! opened tody. ' - ' , .. .- Leek Car. ' It Is next to Impossible to get Into Mississippi, Louisiana. Alabama or antlnea are made constantly more rig Id since the board of health began to LARGEST CO At COMPANY IN THE WORLD FORMED BY NORTHERN CORPORATIONS Columbus. Ohio, July ST. Coal, rail road and dock propertic. said "to be worth f SO.OOO.AM, ; largely owned In Columbus, were, combined Into one company at a meeting held today In New York, according to advices from the metropolis. The combination will h on of the largest coal corporations k th world, and. will be known a Uie Sunday Creek company. ' The headquarters of the corporation make public the number of case and deaths. Every passenger on trains Is examined and the tickets of through passengers are scrutinised to prevent any one trying to gel Into Mississippi by surreptlous menus. The doors of the cars are locked and there is "no chance given u passenger to leave the train until the line is reached. Kf foris have been made by men of In fluence on the gulf coast and In New Orleans to Induce Governor Varda man of Mississippi to relax the quar antine regulations so far us communi cation between summer tesorts on the Mississippi sound and New Orleans is concerned. The governor, however, answered that It would be preferable to suspend business throughout the state for SO days than one case of yel low fever should be permitted to get Into the state. New eases today, twenty-six: deiiths, two; cases to date, 206: death' to dut , for y-four: otal foci, twenty-seven. The apparent Increase In the number of case Is due to discovery and trans fer to the em rgency hospital of eleven cases which tud not been previously reported. That Institution was In full blan: today and the screened- ambu lun e which has been put Into rervlee was k pt busy hauling the unrortun ates to the Institution. Missionary Work. The members of the Italjin Socle y's commV tee. who have been doing mis sionary work among their peopl are responsible for the discovery of several of these cases. The rule of Infection among the Ital an element contlnu s. There have been very few cares among people of other natlonall les'ond only two negroes have been found with the illness. Yellow f er does no as a rule atta k negroes the hl-tory ft all epidemics being that as a rule they have be n immune. One of the ngroes reported today Is a quad roon. Ho h or these men worked in saloons iind restaurants In the Italian quair.er. JAPANESE HONOR MISS ROOSEVELT Merchants and Bankers of Toklo Give Dinner to TafCs Party Americans Cheered Toklo. July 27 The bankers and merchants of Toklo en ertained Secre tary Tuft and Miss Roosevelt at the Maple Club tonight at a Japanese din ner, during which th re was gelha dancing. The club house was hand somely de:orated and Illuminated and American and Japanese flags crowed were displayed throughout the building. Shiba Park was illuml-naed and the driveways wer thronged with crowds tlwit cheered Miss Roosevelt and Secre tary Taft as they arrived and depart- d fromv the club house. The. streets from the c nter of r.he capital were Il luminated and there w"as a brilliant dis play of fireworks In honor of the Amer icans. The popular demonstration and officials" private courtesies shown the visl:ora has been the most remarkable ev'r shown foreigners. Mlnlsi or Griscom gave a garden par ty In honor of Secretary Taft thla eve ning. About 1,000 persons were present, including Princes Funhlml, Sr., Fu shlml, Jr., and Premier Katsura, elder stiitesm n, members of the cablnet,and Americans. WAR PARTY AGAIN MAKING HEADWAY St. Petersburg, July 27. The war par ty is again making heidway, drawing capital from General Llnevltch's op timistic telegrams, one of w-htch with the . mperor'a reply declaring thaC the mlsfor une? of war have not shaken his belief In tb.e courage and devotion of the army nd' containing a glowing wish that the troop may bring the war to happy conclusion. Is published In all r.he papers. No further new has be n received here of the landing of Japanese troops on the toast of Siberia or of the operations in Korci. Though acrompjanled by constant skirmishing, the steady preerure of the Japanese northward has not develop d any ser loucs flghttn; ye. The paper mention the purchase by Japan -of eight steamer from Russian and German owners. Which ressels are suppored to be Intended for the trans portation of prisoner of war. , y will be In charge of John H. Wfrater, who was elected president and general manager. The companies Included in the Sunday Creek company are: Sunday Creek Cowl - company, the Buckeye Coal and Railway company, Ohio Land ' and Railway' corn puny. Continental roal company, Ranawaha Coal company. Hocking Coal company. Boot on Coul and Dork Wharf com pany. - GRAND JURORS STRIKE SNAti j B New York Broker Refuses to Answer Questions About Transactions MUST ANSWER TODAY . OR GO BEFORE COURT Man Who Defies Jury Was Intimate Friend of Holmes and Van Riper .Washington, July 27. K. A. Peck- ham, a New York bioker, today re mseu io answer questions as to his dealings in agricultural products be fore the grand Jury Investigating ih cotton report leakage. Mr. Peckham was tnereupon told by I'nlted States Dlstllct Attorney Reach that unless he (Peckham) changed Ills mind by tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock, when he grand Jury convenes for the dav his recancltrancy would be mmtiail to Judge Wright of the Sunn me coin of the District of Columbia, who al ready has given public notice of his mention to punish any witness r-- fuslng to teply to proper questions. The penalty Is -Imprisonment. When questioned tonight Mr. Beach, who has steadfastly refused to discuss developments in his Inquiry, declined to admit 'the probability of proceed ings against Mr. Peckham. Secretary Wilson. In his report on the examina tion Into the wffairs of his department by the seciet set vice men, referred to Mr. Peckham at some length, saying: "Mr. Peckham was interviewed at the Hotel Breslln In New York t;y. He was shown the above series of let ters and asked for an explanation of tlielr contents. Mr. Peckham stated ;hat the only explanation he had to give was that at the time the letter were written he was trying to make some money in the cotton market. Fuither than this Mr. Peckham re fused to give any information annul his relations lth Mr. Holmes, Mr. Haas or Mr. Van Riper that coulu bring any light on the matter under consideration. "Shortly after Mr. Peckham was Interviewed he "left .New York, , for Washington? and linn.ieilla(ely oh his arrival In the city held a conversa tion with Holmes over the telephone, In which he Inquired whether Mr. Holmes intended to resign his posi tion or whether he expected to be dis missed front the government service. Mr. Pec kham was Intel viewed again at the Hotel Bresnq in iew York after his trip, but declined to glv any further information concern ing his relations with Mr. noimes. ' "When Mr. Holmes was quesuoneo ibout his relations with Mr. Peckham . . nt 1. .. 1.1 that thv and Air. van rvipei,,,m- w Continued on page lour. KPfmiH n': . :Thi idea mrld mak a big hit 1 - hurry horrVPv Ja--" ' '"" ( WVRRV! 5'fcETHfr J, LI ! QRAtfD PtfCe ' ( y- CONFERENCE- r , . . JMiHOW . . ' f . ttrr rVinri rfiffn ,. a 1 k LEAKAGES IN PLANT BUREAU Another Branch of Depart ment of Agriculture Investigated WIFE OWNS BONDS AND HUSBAND DOES REST ... Another Case of Tampering With Government Reports Charged Washington, July - At a hearing today at the department of .igrlculture. at which S cretary iison, ASHstuni Seretary Hnye. Prof. Calloway, chief of Ihe bureau of plant Imlu" ry; George Moore, of that bureau. . ml two rep resentatives of an agricultural publica tion were present. The two last nam d made charge tlUV. the wife of one or he -dentist In he plant bureau owned i3 block of stock In an eastern concern mnnufacturiiiK culture for soil noculatlon. whll'-the s, iuntls was pre paring and revising bulletins regarding he enrichment of farms and portray ng the culture as containing virulent forms of bacteria for n iking poor land Ich. It was alleged that publl atlons re- ised by the official tended to direct the farm rs to a commercial concern supplying the material because of the exhaustion, of the -'upply by the de pigment. At today's hearing the scientist In- olved in the allegations admitted that his wife own d the sto k. ;hat the to. k was to come :o him in the event that e severed his connection with the de partment nnd became i he bacteriologist of tho -oncern,',bUt tha,- In the lat:er part of April he decided to stay with the department ud that the stock was no longer held M his family. Ir was bUo allegxl lhat the culttrre had be n supplied bv the department to Ihe concern mentioned In undue quan tities, the employ mentioned being charged with shipping seventeen pound In a silngl day, hlself repaying ex penses. It I said thai- today he ad mitted this and fiber ablpasents. The charge ore under Investigation by the department. Assistant Secre ary Hiyes order d an Investigation Into (he whole question of the vnjue of the culture. CONTINUE ADVANCE. Kuanchangtsu. Manchuria. July 2". According to reports from Korea, rhe Japtnese ontimie advancing ulong n forty-mile front Their vanguard Is now ubnut eiish mile fro mthe mouth df the Tumen river. The Kor ans es timate tre stretiKih of the Japanese at about 40,000 men. (Their main forte Is concentrated at Kenchen.) - WMY NOTf - and entertain urn but at tha m time MANY DIE IN A (MISSION First Accident on English Electric Line Is a Terri ble Affair FIRE CONSUMES DEAD AND DYING VICTIMS Empty Train on Main Track Said to be Cause of the Costly Accident Liverpool. July 27. An electric ex press train on the Lancashire A York shire railroad, bound from Llv rpool to Soulhport. collided this evening with an empty stationary i rain u; the Hall royd station, causing the death of twenty three persons and the Injury of many. The first .-or of the express, which was crowded. va smashed to pi oes ,ind only six of I s o. cupnnt escaped. The road was recently given on elec tric equipment. Thl is the flr serious nccldent that has occurred on an electric railway In Kngland and It filled with horror the numerous waiting pissengers standing nt the Hall Road station, who were pectators of the dlsas.er. The collis ion lifted the first car of th express completely off the steel frame and crashed t: down again on the unfor tunate passengers, twenty of whom were killed outright. More or th m would huve been killed but for the presence of mind of a Liverpool archi tect, who seeing that a collision was Inevitable shots: d to his fellow passen gers :o throw themselves upon the floor of the car. Almost Immediately after the crash the wreckage burst Into flames. The manglt-d bodl s oT the dead nnd he cries of the Injured vain ly bejeec-hlng that they be extricated from the burning wreckage .form d a terrible scene and many women on the platform falnled. The victims Included several women and children. Fortunately Ihe badly Injur d number comparatively few. The cuuse of the collision Is unknown. YELLOW JACK IS FOUND IN TAMPA Tampa, Fl'i., July 2". Dr, Joseph Y. Porter, state health offlc r, ha- iRpued an official statement to ithe effect' that Victor Vitello, an Italian who arrived here last Saturday from New Oiiean, Is suffering from a mild attack of yel low fever. The pat -nt has been iso Ih, ed alid every effonti Is being made to prevent the spread of the disease. ' , help RuMia pay Mdemnit. WANT RECEIVER NAMED TO ASSUME THE CONTROL OF EQUITABLE AFFAIRS GREAT CHANGE IS PREDICTED Material Alteration In Man churlan Conditions are Probable PORT ARTHUR IS NOT TO BE REF0RT1FIED If Russia 'Agrees to the Ncu trallty of Vladlvostock Other Rumors Washlnglon. July 27. As a clearer Idea Is gained of Japan's peace terms, whose general character was outlined In the Associated Press dispatches last Milght, the skepticism with whlc'i Washington received the European reports that Japan would demand the neutralization of Vladlvostock ' lessened; In fact, It Is learned that not only Is this likely to constitute one of Japan's demands, but It will be ac companied by a startling confer pro posal. In effect, accordingly to a seemingly well Informed souiee, Japan will propose In return for the neutrali zation of this last Russian port on 'hi- Pacific' not o fortify Port Arthur. Should, this Information prove cor rect. It will enlitely change the view which has prevailed In official circles that the uucstlon of Vlodlvostock's neutralisation could not reasonably be made a part of Japan's peace price. It was pointed out that, while the war has demonstrated that Pirt Ar thur was a military blumlr r, never theless this great fortification 'connl! totes a tremendous political Influence In the far eastern question,' and Its abandonmf nf as a stronghold Is a concession of such magnitude that It Is not felt Russia con refuse to meet It. On the other hand, Japan's sacri fice would not be so great as seems at first, because her fortification of the Straits of Korea would offset the loss of Port Arthur as a atragctlc point. It Is believed here that the ques tlon of VladlvoKlnuk will prove to be one of the most difficult which the conference will face, as Russia Ins not concealed her disinclination to per mit It to enter lnlo the negotiations. In this connection un Interesting atory is current In diplomatic circle regard Ing the selection of Baton Komura s Japan's chief envoy. According to this story, Japan bad hardly less trouble than did Russia in finding an official willing to undertake Ihls dell cafe mission. Baron Komura was finally Induced to accept It, with the stipulation that before the conference assembled the following things should be done: - First Tho flotation of a new loan, n order that Japan should be pre pared to continue the war In the event that the effort for peace failed.' Second The occupation of the Is land of Sakhalin. Third An advance against Vladl vostock. Fourth That Oyama should strike a decisive mow at live nussmn bimij In Manuhuria. , ! The fact that the first three stlpu- hitlons have been fulfilled, while ad vices from the front indicate the Im minence of a general engagement. would Indicate that the story Is wei! founded. CAPTURE BOYS WHO DERAILED A TRAIN (Special to The Citlsen.) . Salisbury, N. C July !7. Jacob Morgan and John Brady, each 117 years of ag, or ttooKweii, nowsn county, ha been lodged In Jail nere on the charge of wrecking a passen ger train on the Tadkln branch of the Southern railway on June Zitn. t a spike was placed on the rail In such manner as to derail the train. De tective Halney. who has been work ing on the case since the Incident, has strong evidence against me young men. who fled the country, out nave inc been captured. ALLEGED INSTIGATOR OF . FEIGNS SICKNESS TO AVOID HIS TRIAL Vatdosla. Ga., July 27. In the case of Alf Moore, the negro accomplice In the murder of the Carter children. a reraici oi gumy wuowue. rrv-um-mendatlon was returned today. The evidence was the same that was In troduced in th case against the Rawlings. The case of J. It Rawlings. the al- Irsed Instigator of the crime, was called this afternoon, but h refused Move Made to Place $42 1. 000.000 Assets In Hands of the Court OVER FORTY POLICY , HOLDERS PLAINTIFFS 1 ,j ; Rnird nf nintrinr MaVa Rfn Cuts In Pensions for Zxm.t,. Employes New York. July 27. -In the form ' of an amended complaint to a bill , filed last April, suit was begun In tha I'nlted States Circuit court for th Southern New Yo:k district to throw the entire $4:1.000.000 assets of the Kqullable Life Assurance society Into he hands of receivers, who shall "take possession of all the funds, as sets nnd property held by the de fendant society of every character and description, ana administer ine same as they may be directed by th court." More than 40 policy holder in tha Equitable, representing a dosen dif ferent states, are Included a com- ' plalnants In the present suit, which la based in part upon the allegation that the society ha no funds with Which -to meet Its enormous losses, and la Insolvent. Brown the Leader. With J. Wilcox Brown of Maryland. the holder of a 123.00 policy, a com-, pl.ilnant. papers were filed last April to compel a distribution of the 184, , ooo.ooi) surplus fund of the society to compel the management to make an iccountlng to the policy . holder, and for the apilntmcnt of receiver for the surplus fund pending judicial a ; certalnment of tile right of the policy holder thereto. Since the filing of that bill permis sion was Obtained to' file' an amended complaint. Bine the original bill wa Hied 44 other policy holdei bar in tervened In the suit. . ntervenlng petitioners were . filed last Wednesday. These, together with the amounts of (lie policies they hold In the Equitable, are: John 8. Williams of Richmond, Va., f.000: Oscar A. Daube of New York, f 10,000: Henry S. Black of Philadel phia. $1,200: Thomas I. Water of . New York, $5,000: Horatio Q. Gibson ' of Washington, D. C.k $6,000, and Charles 8. Davis of Oklahoma, $5,000. v Thomas J. Barry, a lawyer of BoMon, has also filed Interv nlng ptltlona In behalf of Benjamin Dellheim, $1,000. and Julian B. Hart, $10,000. both or Bo ton. .' ' ' : Sweeping Chargaa. In the amended bill, which I far more sweeping In Is charge and in Its appeal for r llef than waa tha orig inal bill tf last April, nhere are Incor porated many citations from tha Frlck and Hendrlck reports, published some ., month later, The bill allege thrU Ihe society has been guilty of mismanage ment In syndicate transaction; that "unreasonable and excessive" salaries have been pMd, and that ''large sums of money, ranging ...from $20,000 10 3T. 000.000, belonging to the said asuurano fund o fthe society, were allowed by It to remain uninvested on : deposit . W banks and trust companies, wlrtout ad- -, equate Interest, In many of which bank and trust compunles the ald offlc rr and director of the society, or many of ; them, were large stockholders. ,for. the purpose of securing pecunlnry benefit, v to such officers and director Individ ually, and such undu and unreasona ble cash balance existed since at lent Ihe year 1900. " . . ., Th Complaint. HKitlngr the purchase of the Hyde stock by Thomas F. Ryan, the com plaint then relates ithe action of direc tors who are not stockholder of th society. The complaint goes on: "Tte assurance funds held by the o clety hire been fraudulently and negll- gently, and are being waded and mis managed tto the extent of many mil- -lion of dollar: It I without a legally choaen board of directors and the real value of th- property held, by It la un known and speculitlve." . ' ' Reverting to a statement that the de fendant society ."has wilfully and neg ligently and -fraudulently mismanaged through Its' officer and agenta. and mlsaprropr'uted th.-'. assurance funds, rhe complaint assert that "the said de- . -fendant l? wholly unable to repay the amount of such wasted and misappro priated monies to ld fund for th (Continued on page. .),... TWO MURDERS to Come from the prison on account of alleged slcknee. He was finally taken to the court room and Dr. Burton and Rouse made an examina tion. They declared he was. well, enough to proceed with the trial, and that he waa only suffering from fright. The court ordered the trial to proce-el and the work, of (electing a Jury was bexun. The case will continue t-morrow.
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