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EflLX,E 1 TIZ'ENi:. , THE WEATHER . SHOWERS. . BOAROINO HOUSE ADS. RINO SUMMER BOARDERS ASHBVIIXB N. C, WEDNESDAY MORNING AUGUST 9, 1905 PRICB FIVB CENTS. cr FIGHT AGAINST LOCAL -MEAT" DEALERS GALLED OFF BY THE BEEF TRUST Visions of Cheap Steaks and oiher Things Fade Into Thin Al Local independents SCORE EASY VICTORY ' General Manaoer Jerome Holds Conference with Above Results Those who reveled In visions of Juicy steak at half price will And tha'. they have another think coming this morn . Ing by reiaon of the fact that the beef .(rust has called oft Iti fight against the Ashevllle meat dealers. This agreetr.en was reached ye.terday at a conference between General Managor Jerome,' of the Armour Flicking company, and committee, of four from the looal meat men. There Mr. Jerome stated that the recent fight was not janc'loned by the Chicago headquarters, but had been the fcork of one Individual. F was not the policy of 'his people, he said, to wag t war .igalnst the local trade. Last night Word was passed around the meat fra itefcnlty that the old prices would here after prevail at the Hill meat stand and all chore in the city market. It w learned, however, that the local dealer- will be able to buy the Armour beef half a cent a pound cheaper than they formerly did. Whe her or not the peo ple of Ashevllle will get the benefit of the cut-remains to be seen. So ends the beefy warfare which sr. oriE tiros threatened to assume grave proportions. When the Independent dealers were led to believe that :he fight Was on In earnest they organize! for., Mr. j Trust . and were preipnred In, put up ittie battle of their lives. The sentiment of the people of Ashevllle Was mostly with ..he independents, and hud the war continued' It Is probable that there would have been tome dex terous carving of beef. It Is probuble that '.he flaming circulars whic h were recently' issued Announcing a bonamui for housekeeper will be preserved as curios to adorn Carnegie museums In the nxt century. CORDELE CITY NOW ALARMED C&rdele. Gnl, Aug. 8. The city of Cor dele his quarantined agaliT. t all points In Louisiana and Mississippi and also against Montgomery, Mobile and some other points in Alabama. The quaran tine will be rigid and will be enforced by Inspectors, who will meet the tmins outside he city, lock the doors and go through, them. . Cprdele has not been alarmed over the situation, but owing to the heavy travel through this place It waw thought best that :he city take no chances. The quarantine officers will require health certificates of all persons wishing to stop herti These certificates must show the holders ure not from Infected points for twenty-one days. HAY COMPROMISE NOTORIOUS CASE District Attorney Bernard Gives Himself Up and Is Released on S5.000 Bond (Special : The cTlien.) IUlelgh, Aug. 8. United States Die trlct At orney Claude Hernnrd. who has been wanted here for nearly two months to answer to a suit for $20,000 damages for the seduction of young Berta Howell, ruddenly returned today, coming from Hamle , accompanied by B. t Lackey. Bernard Surrendered. v.i? arreaed and gave 13.000 bond for his appearance in October. There are signs of a compromise of tha notor ious tase, Which caused one of the greatest sensations ever known here, the shooting of Tolled States Deputy Marshal John Dockery by Policeman I roc Rogers beln gone branch of It. TWO ELECTRIC CARS ' COLLIDE AT NORFOLK Norfolk, Va Aug. 8. A head-on col lision between electric trains of the Greenvley division of the Norfolk Rail way and Light company system this evening resulted In thed eath of Motor man Sydney Thomas, formerly of Lynchburg, and 'he '.-light Injury of Robert Tait anil wife, of this city: Charles Glbbs, of Berkley, and John Orlnstead, all passenger?. The railroad uthorltles say the collision was due to dltobodieiice of orders. Both trains were badly damaged. PEACE ENVOYS TO MEET TODAY Credentials of PJfilpotcnU- arles Will be First Ex . amined ... RECEPTION TENDERED ENVOYS YESTERDAY Landing at Portsmouth Re plete With Expressions of Good Will 1 CANADA-IS LEADING "; IN GOLF TOURNAMENT Chi ago, Aug. 8. With one half the qualifying round of the t'nlted States Golf Association chirncJonshM com pleted odny at the links of 'the' Chicago golf club at Whea."n, Ilf.- Canadian nd Olympian golf champion George S. Lyon, of Toronto, Ont., leads the field t 121 players who turned hi cards, with score of 76 for the eighteen holes. Two ftrokes behind Lyon Is W. S. Fownes. champion of the Western ennsylvaniu Association team that yesterday won the Olympian earn cup, hlle the two youngsters, Hugh, Camp bell, 17 years old .of the Whoaton golf ub, and T. M. Sherman, of Ttlea, N. are tied at 79. COTTON IMPROVED. Portsmouth, N. H., Aug. 8. The Russian and Japanese peace missions have submitted themselves to Intro duction and likewise to all of the Ceremonies of welcome and reception jn the part of the I'nlted Stale gov ernment and the state of New Hamp shire and tonight are on the eve of facing each other for the purpose of ndlng the war in the Far East and If possible consummating a permanent peace between the two great nations. Tomorrow, they will meet In the navai stores building of the Portsmouth navy yard. The Russian plenipotentiaries will tomorrow examine the cie lentlals and powers which the emperor of 'Japan ins delegated to Baron Komura, and Minister Tftknhlra will In turn scruti nise those of M. Wltte and Baron Rosen.--The second day's session, to take place Thursday or Friday, I! is said, will be devoted either to a con sideration of the Japanese terms or a proposition for an armistice by he Russian plenipotentiaries. The landing and reception of the nvoys today was replete with cere mony, and the dignity of the nation's salutes were contrasted with the ex pressions of good will of thousand of people who thronged the streets of Portsmouth. The representatives of both Japan and Russia were much af fected by the expression of good will of the American public. M. Wltte and Karon Rosen, In the first carriage, re mained almost constantly uncovered icknowledglng the cheers of the crowds. In the carriage following were liie two Japanese envoys, and they too were not amiss in respond ing tft.tjte, hurrahs of the-crowds. The envoys were met at the court house by Third Assistant Secretary of State Pierce, who first presented M. Wltte to Governor McLane and then Baron Xomuta. The senior Russian com Tilssloner presented his suite to the chief executive of New Hampshire, and the Japanese plenipotentiaries did Mkewlse. Governor MoLane's formal speech of welcome was responded to by a profound bow by both parties. While there are no official state ments or predictions regarding the outcome of the forthcoming negot tloni, tonight the prevalence of a gen eral good feeling Is noticeable hroughout the environs of the peace missions. FASHIONABLE CHURCH BURNS St. Thomas Episcopal Wreck ed by Flames Loss Will be $250,000 COSTLY RESIDENCES THREATENED BY FIRE High Tower threatcnened to Fall on J. D. Rockefeller's Mansion BIG STORE COLLAPSES Terrible Accident Occurs in Albany In Which Thirty are Killed ENTIRE BUILDINO A MASS OF WRECRAGE Hours of Work Required to Get Out the Score of Dead and Injured New York, Aug. St. Thomas Epkeopal ehuroh, at Fifth avenue and Fifty-third stree one of the most rlch ly furnished religious edifices In Amer ica, was wrecked by lire today. The Hotel St. Regis la -f.irccly one black j.hist. r and awny and sccre of llf fit et cl y hjir.es 20 and 30 i Albany. N. V.. Aug. 8.-The mid dle section of the big department store of the John G. Myers company, on North Pearl street, collapsed early today, currying down with It over 100 persons, i aught in a chaos of brick, I wooden beams, between men. women and children In Amerlra are In t section af which 'met ihath. Twelve hours of frantic the church was pra tjcnlly the renter. The fire wu confined to the t-hurch. Defetlve electric" wiring Is suppled ;o have started the lire. 1 :.e loss Is estimated by Fire chief t'roker at a least a quarter of n million dollars, only a mere shell of stemc walls was left standing and many very valuable paintings and bas reliefs were ruined. Sumptuous altar and ch nice furnish ings. Including ix $3.f'fl0 organ, were destroyed by the fire. ' Jfhn D. Rockefeller's noire was threatened. Firemen u !-o stood with their hose lines In the windows of Mr. Rockefeller's home om en rated the streams of water on the 208-foot stone tower of the church, which for a time threatened to topple over on the Rock efeller home, owing to the In vnse heat at the gwer's base. SANFORD JURY CANNOT AGREE Rome, Aug. 8j-The Sanford Jury has notified. Judge Wright hnt it can not agree ona.t'Verdlet. Apparently there Is no hope ot-anythlng but mis trial. Late te.nlg.jit the court has not announced what-courTO It will take ns to keeplnjrfluroiss .ogether or dis hirg Ing them. j v HEAVY RAIN WASHED OUT LARGE MILL DAM (Special to The ClMieu.) Democrat, Auk. S.-i-The heavy riln which occurred here yesterday after noon washed out the unflnfe-hed ,mlll dtim of A. T. Ingle, of Barnardsvllle. The dam was iiciiiiig comple'.lon, but was unable to withstand the pressure of the wuter. The loss will be about J2,'200. work on the part of rescuers disen tangled BO people, six of them deod and many of the rest badly injurd. Three unilles were In sight at a late iioui tonight, but many hours' work III be rcciulrcd to get them out. Anything like a complete list of the killed and injured will be unobtain able until the workers have made tin ir way to the v ry bottom of the mass of wreckage. With frw exceptions those caught In. the ruins were employes, a large majority of them girls. The catastrophe occurred shortly after tin' opening hour, when barely a score of shoppers were In the store. A clock found In the debris had stop, ped at 12 minutes before 9, showing when the crash came. The best account Of the event that probably caused tiie ruin is given by Hie head of the crockery, glass and drug department, which occupies the basement : "The workmen wire sawing at a wooden Minor beam," said he, "which i uns underneath one of th central lars in the niludk' of the store, Kx eavatlon for the cellar was going on about 'he base of this pilar, and I believe, that the Jurrlng of the beam beneath It displaced tlu foundation of the pillar. The first thing I knew two of the counters near lh plac where the men were working, began, to sag and several pieces of glassware slid off on to the floor with a crash. "I yelled to my clerks to run for the front of the store. The words were not out nf iny mouth when thcie came a creaking and everything around u began to fall. The wreck came slow ly, however, mid 1 think every one n my department escaped, as well as t'. workmen." Fell Four Stories. Ine pillar which drew away sup ported the ends of two giant girders, and whin It fell the main support of the central part of the building was gone. With a noise that could b? heard blocks away and which shook the adjoining buildings, nearly 1 half YELLOW FEVER SPREADS.., RAPIDLY IN SPITE OE THE FEDERAL AUTHORITIES the great structure from cellur to roof and extending from one side wall to another came grinding down. Into this cavern fell scores of employe who weru working on the four floors Jtiove and lncke.l the winning which enabled tlios In the basement to escape. Some, however, were ap prised of thv danger by falling plaster and saved themselves by rushing to the front of the store or to the fire escape In the rear. Clouds of dust which shot out of the front entrance caused those outside to believe that the store was a lire, and a fire alarm was Immediately turned In. When toe fire department arrived they had plenty to do In rescuing those who were pinned under the top wieckage They were Joined by scores of volun teer rescuers and within an hour 16 or 20 persons were carried out, none of them fatally injured. Some one hundred persons are . atlll unaccount ed for. WILL CALL A88EMBLY. Sfvterbburg, Aug. 8. The Russian national assembly, v he first gathering of Mw-rcfcrcsrirrtutlves of the Muscovite people since Emperor Alexis Mlchaelo vltch. the seond of the Romanoffs, summoned the lust Zem,ky Bobero, In tha seventeenth ocn:ry, will be pro claimed on Sunday next EDITOR DEAD. "NoYfVrt";.'; Vo.. Auir, $, Charles P. fiapp, editor of the Xorfolk Virglnlan Pllot, Cici at St. Vincent's hospital, this city, today. . ... ?; ; Washington, Aug. 8. The weeWy bulletin of the weather bureau jays: 'Cotton shows some improvement in Tennessee, Western North Carolina, northern Alabama, Mississippi, Ar kansas, Oklahoma and Indian Terri tories, northeastern Tetas and por tions of Loutsianan. but elsewhere er the cotton belt the crop has de teriorated." The prevalence of rust Is very gen erally reported from the eastern dis tricts. Boll weevils and boll worms are doing considerable damage In Texas and western Louisiana, but in the first named state they are less numerous. Picking Is general In southein Texas and In some central counties of that State, an has com menced over the sourthern portion of the eastern districts. Tobacco has , done well generally, but needs rain and cultivation in Kentucky and sun shine In Virginia. TAKE OFF TRAIN. Memphis, Tenn., Aug. 8. Incoming pasensger trains are suffering great in convenience by reason of the quarantine regulation now in force. The truffle has fallen off considerably. The South- tern failway will discontinue train No. t. which runs between Memphis and Washington. - This train leaves Mem phis at 11 o'clock at- night THEODORE H? PRICE' DENIES TtfAT HE IS ' BENT ON DESTRUCTION OF COTTON MEN The following telegram wa received by The Cltlsen yesterday from The " odore H. Price, the rnillionolre cotton " broker of New York. Similar messages re thought to har been sen to every ' large paper In th" South. The message aaya: - I noticed tn the "New Tork Son this morning a dispatch dated Sherman, Tet.. in wbk-h CoL B. EL Smith, of the Southern Cotton Association, If repor ed to have received i telegram from bis New Orleans representative, sta Ing In substance that 'Theodore H. Price had wired parties In- New Orleans to the effe-1 that he had Wall street solid at ' hi back In a determined effort to force rot on . to Dine cents nnd lower thl week." .' The dispatch. It Is said, was concluded by the statement that the Southern (lot on Association must be crushed now. Permit me to say that I have sen; no such dispatch nor have I in any way so expressed myself. On the Contrary. I believe tttit the Southern Cotton Growera" Association, Jf that Is the organisation that Colonel Smith rcpresen' a, ran be made very effect ive sidt t the Southern planters In the handling of tbeir crop. Further t Urn not engaged In any effort to depress the (o ton market, whk-h now seem In ks In i condition of equipoise and stability, so tha' it ought to be equally satisfactory to both producers and con. rumer If maintained. THEODORE H. PRICE. t i i : IT MV9T IE 'VERY -LONELVON ' HIS VAST POSSESSIONS." VOTE $43,000 IN BONDS FOR ROAD Hendersonvllle Township De clares In Favor of Electric Line to Ashevllle (Special to The Cltlien.) Hendersonvllle, Aug. 8, At an elec tion held here today the people of Hen-1 derson township voted In favor of th belling of of (15,000 bonds to raise money for the construction of the electric road that I- to run from this city so Aslie vlllo and to Gaffnef, S. C. The" rain kept many perrons from the polls, but the bonds were voted by a good ma jority, Elections were also held In Mills Riv er, Edneyvllle und Clear Creek own ships and the following bond Issues voted by Inrtfe- siaj.isltlesy 'MWsTMVeiy $10,000; Ktineyvllle, ll,000lear Craek, $8 OrO. The voting" of these bonds U ali en to as ure the construction of the road as the example of thee four town ships will probably be followed In oth' r townships in this and other counties through which the road will run. Number of New r Cases and Sub Toct Greater Than Any Previous Day NO EXPLANATIONS GIVEN BY WORKERS Decided to Call Upon State Troops to Enforce Proper Quarantine SOUTHERN TENNIS PLAYERS AT WORK Atlanta, On., Aug. 8. PI'iy In tha South A'.luntlc states tennnls tourna meat continued today, evernl Interest ing mutches being decided during the dny. A. W. Post. New Orleans, beat Bradley Walker. 6-3. 12-10. Farrell. of Nlishvllle, won from Mc t'orvey, of Mobile, In a long drawn out match, 7 5, B 7. 108. J. H. Elliott, of New Orleans. beHt C. L. Rum, 85. 3-2. Other matches during the morning were played between local players. Rain Interfered with the afternoon play. STEAMER IS STRANDED OFF FLORIDA COAST Miami, Kin., Aug. 8. The Ward line steamer City of Washington Is stranded on the reefs, five miles south of Koway Rock light. Wreckers have gone to her assistance. It Is staed that the boat ts lying lh,a very dangerous tosltlon and Unlesi boats of large slie come to her Jslst ance there Is little hope of getting her off. U is said the boat has a. large and vatiabie freight cargo. ' 1. New Orleans, Aug. . Following ia the corrrcted record (official) up to p. m. : . .. 1 New cases, 10; total cases to data, (16: deaths, 4; total deaths. Ill; aew ub-focl, 17: total sub-loci, 118. These figures vary slightly from -those that have been sent out lately, but ar the ifllclnl record which . Was ,v todtf checked up and corrected to date. Tae large number of new cases and sub foci is surprising, but no attempt la bring made to account for 1t. Of tae new sub-foci three are up town and the balance down town. Two dead men were found In a shanty in the woods and It was found that they had died of yellow fever. They were Italians who had died from lack of attention. . ,;-. r '' j 1 i Call Out Traepa. The state board of health " today took up the question of enforcing a sensible system of quarantine In the state and In accordance, with the state law. The board decided to call upon the governor for the militia to ' protect' travelers through such par shea as have Imposed drastic quaran-. inis. A case' of quarantine brutality' was reported to the .state board , or , health today by Judge J. A. Gaudot. He went fmm Jefferson to his home In St. John and was there set upon by several guards and brutally beat an, and lhe,.parjs)j. health .offloer re fusad to irreortihse . the health' CertM-"'" eate which he brought from the par-' ' Ish health officer of Jefferson that he had not boen near any Infection : for . six days. The Judge also reports that a Indy and her cl)lld were man acled and conveyed to a detention camp which was unfit for human hab itation. . v . Surgeon White of the marine tioa- " pita! service will take over the forces of the city board of health within a. few days. He Is awaiting the arrival of officers detailed by the surgeon i general. - . , Chapped Recovering. Archbishop Chappelle , passed t tha . crisis In his lllnesf today and is now regarded as on the road to recovery. ' One new case of fever developed on ' Ellsubeth plantation, in Ibervlila par- Ish, where an Italian died about two weeks ago. ' No other new case have developed In the atate, as far as Is . known, except at Patterson, ' whera there are now 26 cases. Dr. Brady - Investigated the suspicious illness In ,. . Jackson, West Feliciana parish, and found that there were four cases of typhoid fever, and no yellow fever. OLDFIELD HAS A NARROW ESCAPE Detroit, Aug. 8. Barney Oldflcld had an almost miraculous escape from death this afternoon at th automoblla races at Grosse Point rack, whan Dan Wurgis , of Lansing, Mich., cot- Id ed with his care tn the three-quar ters stretch during r the first aalle at the five , mile open event.' QJdfleld nd his car went through the fence Into he infield and Oldneld received " badly lacerated scalp and a severely bruised shoulder. Wurgis also went off the tiack, but was not Injured. REPUBLICANS MEET IN VIRGINIA TO 4 I PLACE A FULL TICKET IN THE FIELO Roanoke, Va., Aug. 8. One of the (urges t Republican state conventions in he history of the state met here today to nominate a full state ticket. It Is almost exclusively a whl e man's meet ing, there being very few negroes pres ent. .- . ' ; ' , : ' : : . ;' D. Laurence Groner. of Norfolk, was chosen permanent chairman and ' ar. sumed the gitveL After Mr. Groner's speech of acceptance Congressman Campbell Slemp. the only Republican congressman from Virginia, was Intro duced to be convention, and he in turu Introduced Secretary of the Treasury Leslie M. Shaw, who had been Invited to nme o Ho'noke to address the con vention. Mr. Shaw vw greeted with a storm of cheers. . "My ippeal to you. and through you o every voter of Virginia. 1 that you so vo e aa (o conserve the peace and Integrity of the commonwealth and the het Interests of every other cltlen. All ask ia th.-tt the elector be. If not as great, certa'nly as corHsrlenttous ind as rue a rtatesnian at the polls a' he de- irands his representative to be in the halls of legislation." The secretary touched upon the growth und development of the United States and Virginia's resources, and , continued: , . '. f f "The spirit of the last half century was republican;' It wa progressive. The wlrtt of the twentieth century will be republican: 1t will be progressive. I come to, preach he gospel of American progrers and to teach those principles and policies which have made as what we are, and which will carry us to yet higher planes and to grander achieve ments whenever, under God, the brains of the Sou h, the North, the Kaat and the West rtiali be allied for affirmative a. tlon and whan no portion of our com mon country shall be longer held wed ded to negative traditions which tend only to retard. "The dominant party appeals to the producer. It promises him 4he best market In the world In which to buy. Chop products of labor meaji cheap la bor." At the conclusion of Mr. Shaw's ad dress the convention adjourned until tomlrrow morning, when the commi'.'.ee 'on resolutions will report.
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