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TWELVE PACKS. - , PART ONE mm - TWELVE PAGE. .. - , PAGES 1 TO , VOL XX NO 256 ASHBVTLLB N C, SUNDAY MORNING JULY 3D, 1905 PRICB FIVB CENTS; HEROIC MEASURES BEING TAKEN TO PREVENT THE CHANCE TO GET THE WHITEWASH JAPS MAY CUT -" cm ENGLAND IS YELLOW FEVER: IN NEW YORK OFF SEAPORT IN THE DARK MOORE MAY BE PROSECUTED Department or Justice Will Make Investigation of Re cent Scandal SPREAD OF Clcravmcn Called Upon to Urge Citizens to Action From Pulpit AREA OF INFECTION IS GROWING SMALLER Panicky Feeling Exists Louisiana Cities Near New Orleans In New Orleans, July 29. Although a considerable Increase In the number of deaths In .the twenty-four hours end ing at' 6 o'clock this evening, the yellow fever situation tonight I not regarded as unusually alarming. Tonight clo.ned the first week of the campaign sine? autopslcal Investigation disclosed the prevailing sickness to be yellow fever and It' was the belief of those engaged in .the work of trying to save New Orleans from an actual epidemic and of demonstrating by the slow eradica tion of the disease the correctness of the mosquito theory .that progress has been made. There Is n large addition :o the num ber of case prevailing below Canal street, with a considerable distribution of new centers, and there h ive ap peared during the week a doxen case? above Canal m'.reet, but no reports are at hand of a spread of 'the disease from the outlying Infection and i'.he new cases can still be traced to the original Rource. The success of physicians In preventing serious outbreaks in new neighborhoods In which the dlsea-e has appeared Is, of course, taken to mean it hat practical results are obtaining ithrough the thorough system of screen ing which Is now In vogue. So thor oughly has the work been systemat ized that as soon as a case K- reported representatives of the board , armed with screens and disinfectants, are hur ried to the house of the sufferers, and every precaution Is thereafter taken to .maka him or bar .immune to the attacks' of tho stegomyla. Fight Has Results. Good resukts are showing from the es tablishment of the emergency hospital, which Is serving lo relieve certain quar ters of serious cases, 'and thereby en abling expeditious dislnfec Ion of Infect ed premises. Much hope Is drawn from comparison of conditions now and thae of 1878, when a serious epidemic occurred. The first case to appear then was brought by ship and landed neir St. Mary's market. From that center the fever rapUHy spread Into different parts of the city and Into Louisiana and Mississippi, besides reaching Mem phis, Tenn., and Cairo, 111. Memphis was then almo-t depopulated and 4.000 lives were swept away. The present fever has now admitted ly been In New Orleans for three weeks In a severe -form, but the spread out fide of the Italian quarter hag been so slight that ithere are not seventy-five cases of the 230 or more reported .out side of the original sone of .Infection. Call on Clergyy. . Pr. Beverly Warner today sent a message te many clergymen, appealing, to them for assistance In ithe present emergency by speaking to congrega tions on Sunday in favor of the work now beln gcarrled on by the health au now being carried on by the health au prleats urge church attendants, whether they believe In the mosquito theory or not, to give hearty assistance to the authorities in stomping out the mosqui to as at least one source of infection. Dr. Warner asserts that some house holders refuse permission to the oilers and scientists to oil iand screen cisterns and pools. ; j General Clean Up. In connection with street cleaning the mayor has under consideration a pro posal to set aside two special days next week to be called street cleaning days, wnenaii tne wrw now ciihuhcu in '"- nation will be supplemented by lionai neners ill nil vuuri iu wiiiiien? the work. A panicky feeling exists In. many places outside of N'ew Orleans and promises .still- further to burden the railways. Every day a half dosen vil lages are scratched off the list of open itowns and very often the embargo is clapped on so suddenly that passengers are caught with tickets already pur chased to leave. ( Mississippi' Barred. Local representatives of railroad lines which run through Mississippi were ad vised hv talee-rams todav that no per son from New Orleans would be per-j muted to travel in a tram rnrougn mat atate without a health certificate This affects- through passengers bound for c the north, east and wet:. Before they had received these orders ticket agents Y0UN6 COUPLE GO DRIVING AT WEBSTER; ' ON RETURN TO ANNOUNCE THEIR MARRAGE (Special to Tne Cticen.) Dlilsbore. N. C. July IS. Mr. Henry V. Cunningham, of Franklin, and Mb Elizabeth O Kelly, of Durham, ' were married at Webid o.i the n.ornlng of (he Mth. Miss O'Kelly was vislti.i? the family tf Urt. A. M. IJUU, t C'fh-boro, and on Si-lday. warning we.i; for a drive with Mr. Cunningham. On their return trout th drive they ai r"unced thelr DREAD FEVER had sold large numbers of ticket to people Intending to leave tomorrow and Monday. - No further points of Infection have been discovered outside the city except neir waggaman, In Jefferson parish where Dr. Hrndy was sen! by the state board. 'Louisiana will not quarantine against that town. The followmg Is the report up to ( p. m. today: " New rases, 79: eases to ditc, Jr6 deaths today 7; denhs to dale ui; new foci 2, Deducting the number of deaths and the (lumber of recoveries. It Is believed that there are not more than "5 cases under treatment, If that many. Considerable en'oumgement Is drawn from the fact that only two new fool have developed. Due of these Is nurt-e who attended a patient at a hos plUl. and the other Is In the vicinity or Mllnlburg, where there had been a auspicious case recently, hut which had been spirited away before the authorl ties got hold of It. TENNESSEE CLOSES DOORS TO REFUGEES Memphis, Tenn.. July 20 Follow ing the quarantine established by Memphis and Chattanooga, the entire state of Tennessee this afternoon closed I s doors ntninst N'ew Orleans ami all other points where yellow fe ver is prevalent. Tills action was tak en at a Joint mct'tltig here of the slate, city anil county board or health. After the meeting this evening Sec retary Haas of the local board o' health save out the following state ment: ' "We require a certificate or affidavit to the effect that a person has not been In the Infected district In the jiast six days. This certificate must be acceptable In every patticular before a person Is allowed to enter the south ern districts." - SEVEN DAYS' DETENTION. Mobile. Ala.. Ju'v 2i.. The board if helalh this afternoon adopted M, regu lation requiring persons from New Or leans und other Ihfected places to un dergo seven days' detention before be ing allowed ,o enter Alabama. This is applicable to Immune as well as non immunes. TEXAS TAKES IT OFF. Hot ton, Tex., July 29. State Health Officer Tabor today lifted the quaran tine against the state of Louisiana, with ,'he exception of New Orleans and the town of Bunkte. Dr. Tabor states that his decision was taken because of the quarantine aganlst New Orleans and other points established by .the Louisiana state boards. ANOTHER TIE PARTY IN TEXAS Dallas, Tex., July 29. An unknown negro wno nttemptea to assault two white women was lynched today near the own of Avery by a mob of several hundred men. The negro atlacked the two women last Thursday. He was frightened away In his first attempt and later waylaid a Mrs. Aydelotte. Her screams attracted her husband, who was near by. When the latter -arrived on the scene he was knocked down by the negro. Mrs. Aydelotte was so utruck over the head. The negro then fled, but was captured today on Sulphur river by a posse. After being iposltlvely Identified by the two women he was taken Into the woods and hanged to a tree. I . ... niTCIIPn 1 UI add-lKAlN Ul I OH til AND MANY ARE INJURED Little Rock, Ark., July 29: The west bound passenger train of the Iron Mountain which left Little Rock at :30 o'clock last night was derailed at Osark Junction; 111 miles wex:. of Little Rock ,today. Jfo one was killed, but the dt-patchea five the names of forty five persons whfi were injured more or less seriously. The track w s soft at the point wnere me wr k occurred and orders to .trains to pi ceed at a rate not ex ceding ten ml an hour had been is sued. It la eaSJ that failure to regard the order caused the wreck. marriage, which was confirmed by a telephone message from 'he officiating n tglstrate. Ttihi marriage come a a great sur prise to all th friend -t the,' young couple, aa they lad been acquainted but on week. Mlasj O'Kelly-Was a student at Peace Institute. Mr. Cunningham is a traveling' salesman and will aa ar range his tcirt'iiry as to mike his home at some point on the M iri hy brtfnch. Cotton Leak Witnesses Won't Have to Tell Everything They Know CAN KEEP MUM ON CERTAIN POINTS First Witness Was Excused From Giving Pointers on the Oily Holmes Washington, July 20. Iiecalcltraiv witnesses In the cotton report Irak In vestigation win not oe required to an jwv-r any questions which may tend lo Incrlmlna'e them which mav be asked by District Attorney Beach In, th- proceedings before the grand jury Questions, of a non-lncrlminatlng character must be answ red ami all Inquiries concerning which there in n be a doubt must be submitted to Jus- Ice Wticlit of the Criminal court of the District of Columbia. Such u.is he decision of Justice Wright today. when the case of Mos s Hans came before him. The ruliitK was as to questions already propounded ;n the grand Jury room. The witmss was llrected to answer the Inquiry as to whether h-' had ever lived In Wash ington and hail been employed by the epartment of ag: ictilture. He was excused from saying wlu-'her he knew Edwin S. Holmes, th dismissed as- iclate statistician of the department f agriculture, against whom the rand jury investigation presumably being directed, and whether he new F. A. Ptckliam, who has been ssoclated, by Hie repot t of the for mer investigation made, by the direc tion of Secretary Wilson, with Holmes l the manipulation of ihe cotton' es mates. The district attorn gave notice to Mr. Haas that he would expect him to ppear before ting rand Jury Tins- ay next, and ne iniormou juugc Wright that it is probable that other questions will he brought to his at tention as the inquiry proceeds. "STAR GAR" ACT DECLARED VOID Talllahassee, Fla., July 29. I tie su preme court toitay nanuea now r. u ue- clsion ufHrinlng the decision of the ctr- ult court in the Patterson case. 1 ms decision held the recent act requiring e separation of the race1.' In street cars unconstitutional because it permitted negro nurses In charge of white chll- ren or invalids to ride with the whites, hus, In the opinion of the court, ats- erlmlnatlng between persons. Making Move to Get Between the Russian Army and Vladlvostock LAND FORCES AT MANY POINTS ALONG COAST Typhus Fever Gaining Hold on Russians Army In Bad Health Khersu, Manchuria, Jul L'ti The Jap anese are apparently concentrating In considerable force far o the east ward with the aim of oi" r uing against Kirln and Nlnguta, cin.l getting in be tween Vladivostok and the Husslan Mnmhurlan army. It Is reuirted that the Japanese h-ive lauded at several place- In the Siberian Littoral between .Nlchol.ii. vsk and IH- Kastrles, and that the t legrauh line to Nicholalevsk has -been cut These to ue landings, however, are reported to ue by L-inall forces. The rains are moderating and the ro::ds are (Kissablo. The weaiher and gieat heat ure affecting the heal h of the army and Intestinal trouble among the troopa Is Increasing. Some cases of typhus have b. en reported, but the disease Is not' epidemic. FLYER WRECKED; MANY ARE HURT Cannon Ball" Strikes Mis placed Switch Causing Dis astrous Smash Up Diaa. Ark., July 29, Fast train No. 5, southbound, on the f(rv4w, Iran Mountain and Southern railroad, was wrecked here today by tunning into i misplaced switch. Two employes were killed and J.I persons sustained Injurli s. The dead : WILLIAM Hi H'STDX, engiiit ccr. of Little Rock. JOHN DOOLIN, fireman, of Popu lar Hluir, Mo. The train is known as. the "Cannon Thill," and left St. liuls last niglir for Texas points. Th.- engine, upon strik ing the misplaced switch, rolled over. Ihe cars crashing upon the engine. The wrecked cars caught Are and sev eral burned. A relief train arrived from Little Hock and conveyed the injured to that i:y. EVEN THE WORM WILL TURN. ABUNDANT EVIDENCE REPORTED ON HAND Roosevelt Makes Public the Correspondence In "Cul ture" Case Oyster Boy, N. Y., July 29. An Inves tlga Ion of the cae of Dr. George T. Mooie, physiologist and algologlst of the departnTent of air, culture, who re signed yes onlay, b to bt made by the department of Justice to daiermine whether a prosvullun Is warranted by the facts. This was iim le dear tonight In correspondence between the presi dent an 1 Hi'cretai v 'AYn'.n, the publi cation ot -. hi h was i it liorlxed by the president. It a:vta:y liiini this and i tho ue. oinmii vloir i.:it.erti th-i! the flrt I " suggestion toward looking Into the bu- reau In which Dr. Moore was employed came III a letter to l're-ldent ltoose- velt from T. N. Harm in. nmnager of the National S ocknmil nnd Farmer, under the date of July last. In his letter Mr. Harman says he has ahund an? evidence that employes of the d lirtment have been unduly In erested in firms which have been organized to develop and -ell nllro-cultures to farm ers and others tit exorbitant prices. This letter was referred to Secretary Wilson, who replied by transmitting Moore's resignation, saying that the pa pers had been sent to the department of Justice to determine whether the ease rqulres net Ion. TWO ARE KILLED IN AN EXPLOSKN Charleston, W. Va., July 2S. In an explosion of a gusollne launch at Mont gomery tonight Hubert and Otto Hud dletotr wr. killed and Kljner Smith and John Morrison escaped death by swimming ashore after the explosion. The qiim ette were In the middle of the Kanawha river when the craft was blown to splinters. The occupants were thrown high into the riir and felll Into the water. The Huddlestons were un able to swim owing to Injuries received. The other occupants were not seriously injured. PILGRIMMAGE ARRIVES. Home, July 28. An American p;I grlmmiiKc of about 100 persons ar rived here today. Hlahop Kleley of Savannah, Oa., Is the spiritual ill-rector. Cannot Understand Motive of German Emperor's Re cent Moves BALANCE OF POWER BEING READJUSTED r Alliance With Franco Thought to bo a Necessary Precaution London, July 2. The British gov rnmeiit Is still In complete Ignorance is lo the motives ot Kmperor Wil liam's nci-nt manoeuvres, hut I as uircd that Ills effoi Is ultimately will Ue directed toward a readjustment of he equilibrium of Kurope, which was llsturlied by the removal of Russia 'mm the scale as a sea power. A high illlelnl said to the Associated Press oday: "The alarm created hy the press of Kurope dm ing the past week was un lue. The situation Is not warlike, hough it naturally requires that Ircat Itrilaln shall make n move to ireveiit Its becoming dangerous. The Irltlsh government Is convinced that my alignment of the pawi-rs ar anged by Kmpcrot William would be m the opposite side of the scale from Great lliltaln. and makes no secret of her desires to effect an agreement ,1th France, declaring that such an igreement would preclude the menace f any alliance Kmpirnr William could then tiling about." Whether or not tills project has been formally broached to France, the Associated Press was unable to ascer ulu, but Indications are that the 'reach government Is awaiting dl ,'ulgence of the (ierman emperor's irogiam. "France," said an official to the Associated Press today, "should tmt irally he aligned with liberal govern ments rather than with autocracies, vlth the character of which her peo le are not sympathetic." KAWLINGS CASE GIVEN TO JURY Viildosta, fia.. July 29. The jury In he Kawllngs murder case retired at I o'clock this evening to consider Its verdict. It had not returned at 11 '('clock and a mistrial was considered probable by some. . Kawlings went on the stand to de ny the testimony that he had tried to hire two negroes to kill 'Carter, the ratner or tne two cniluren who were killed. The defense offered no other evidence. Rawllngs Found Guilty Valdosta, (u July 29. The Jury re turned u verdict in the Rawllngs case at 11:45 o'clock tonight. Hndlng the de fendant guilty of murder In the first de gree, without recommendation to mer cy. EAOAN SUCCESSFULLY DEFENDS HIS TITLE Chicago, July 29. If. Chandler En- Kan of Kxmoor today successfully de fended his title of western golf citnm plon by defeating his cousin, Walter Kngan, 2 up, 3 to play. ln the seventh annual tourney at the Olenvlew links. Next month at the Chicago (lolf club the young champion will defend his J title of national amateur champion against the best players in the land ALABAMA RATES TO BE REDUCED Montgomery, Ala., July 29. Substan tial reductions in freight, rates were or dered today by the Alabama railroad commission for all railroads entering the state. The reductions are on both class and commodity rates and affect many of tho most tcommonly used things In this state. These changes go Into effect at once. KILLED BY A SHARK. Norfolk, Va., July 29. While wal ing wsist deep In the sea at Heuu fort, N. C, today Button Davis. U years ot age, was seised by a shark and drowned In full view of a large crowd of bathers. DATE OF COTTON GROWERS ASSOCIATION CONVENTION CHANCED TO SEPTEMBER 6 The dote for . the Southern Cotton Growers' Association convention , has been changed from August Id to Sep tember 1 Proprietor E. B. Moore, of Kenilwo'rth Inn, received a letter from Secretary Cheatham last Thursday, Thursday, staling that uch a change would be necessary owing to the fact Health Officers Detain 25 Passengers Who May Havs Yellow Jack MOST DANGEROUS OF ALL FORMS FEARED Patient May Have Ambulant Type. In Which Fever Is Rapidly Spread New Tork, July !. With no lea , thnn 25 cases of possible yellow fever detained under observation Jon tho quarantine Island. Dr. A. H. Doty, health officer of the port, said tonight that 24 hours must elapse before it could be absolutely determined1, fey bacteriological tests, whether any of the suspects were Infected with th dread plague. ' ' Two sailors, both apparently. e rlously III, were taken today from the steamer Seguianca, which arrived from Colon, and Isolated In the pest house on Swinburne Island, Bight more of the crew, who had been 111 during the voyage, but were conva lescent, and ?ven passengers, ' two from the first cabin, all of whom showed Increased femperatures, were taken to Hoffman Island for deten tion until the results of blond exam- . inatlons are known. In addition tot these, two suspects were taken to; Huffman Island, It is said, from the steumer Kl Dorado, from New Or leans, and there remain on the Island six cases " from the steamer Avonla,. which arrived from Colon, All the suspects held yesterday from the stunner Alamo, from Galves ton, Tex., were released today. ' None , of the patients now under detention Is' regarded as being dangerously I1L There is apprehension that there may exist among them cases of an insid iously dangerous form of yellow fever, the ambulant stage, in which the suf ferer walks abroad feeling only alight- 1 ly 111, but Impel lllng all with whom he comes In contact. -. y . ' ' The health officials tonight are : making .the moat- thorough' testa tor v: this type of yellow fever among the ten members of the Seguranca's 'erew, ' because four of this erew were taiutn off at Calon actually suffering v with yellow Jack. Health Officer Doty be lieves that within 24 hours his testa will show that the remaining sick' from the Segurunca are merely suf fering from an epidemic of low fever, ' which Is quite common on board ships arriving In New York from the Isth mus. , . .-- ' i . : VARDAMAN SCORES HEALTH OFFICERS Mississippi Governor Says the News of Yellow Fever Cases Was Withheld too LongT Jackson, Miss., July 29. Oovernos Vurdaman this afternon made reply to the Interview of Governor Blanch- ard of Louisiana, In which the latter called upon Oovetnur Vardaman to prove his charges against the health boards of Louisiana and New Or leans. Governor Vardaman said? "I can hardly think that the gov ernor of Louisiana needs any proof of the charges against the health officials of Louisiana. I believe, and I think everybody else believes, that they ' knew there were many cases of yel low fever in the city of New Orleans long before the official announcement was made, one week ago today. This was a very serious matter, which af fects Mississippi as well as Louisiana. If this threatened plague shall spread over Mississippi, Alabama and the rural districts of Louisiana, It will be due, in my judgment, to the failure of the health officers of New Orleans and the chief health officers of the state of Louisiana to sound the note of warning when It should have fctp'n sounded. I would not do any man an Injustice, but I feel that the wrong done the people of Mississippi is 'due ' to the neglect of duty or the lncompe tence of these men." FAILS TO BREAK RECORD. Cape May, N. X, July 21 Under favorable conditions Walter Christie ' today made an effort to break the world's record for automoblbj'drivlng. His time for 1,780 -yards was 18 2-5 . seconds, four, seconds - below s the." woild's record. that mos: of the otton growers Would be picking the staple about that time. Mr. Moore expects about JO dele gates at the convention, and among Vhem will be President Harvey Jordan und Secretary Cheatham. ,The latter. It will be recalled, was the man who un covered, the falsification of. the cotton acreage reports. v;
Asheville Citizen (Asheville, N.C.)
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