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BRING SUMMER BOARDERS
VOL XX NO 273
ASHBVILLB N. C, SATURDAY MURN1NG AUGUST 19, 1905
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
PASSING OF ABSOLUTE MONARCHY IN MAN
IFESTO OF
( OF FREEDOM FOR DOWNTRODDEN PEOPLE
Emperor NlGholas Issues Ukasd Fixing Time For
Meeting of Representative Assembly Thus
Recognizing the Right of the People to
Participate in the Administration
of the Government
IS MORE MOMENTOUS EVENT THAN
' THE LIBERATION OF THE SERFS
rieretofore Unlimited Power of Czar May be Held
in Check by Doumai, in WhiGh Peasantry are
Represented -First Convocation Will be
Held In Mid-January According to
Order Issued Yesterday
St. Petersburg, Aug. 18. Russia's
national representative assembly, the
fruit of decade of stress and striving
for reform, which endows the Rus
sian people with the right of being
consulted, through their chosen rep
resentatives. In the suggestion, prepa
ration and repeal of legislation, today
takes its place among the fundamental
Institutions of the empire.
In a solemn manifesto Emperor
Nicholas announces this morning to
his subjects the ftultlon of his plans
summoning the represents, lees of the
people as outlined by him In a rescript
Issued on March 3 last, and fixes the
date for the first convocation as mld
January, and In a ukase addressed to
the eenaite-formally orders that body
to" register os the imperial will a law
project fofmulating the nature, pow
er and procedure of the new gov
ernmental organization.
Momentous Event.
The manifesto, ukase "and project
ate published ithls morning in special
editions of the Official Messenger in
St. Petersburg and Moscow. They
will be given out for publication at
noon to all the newspapers through
out the empire, many of iwhtch are
preparing to Issue extra editl."V 0
slgnallae a momentous historical
event, overshadowing In importance
the liberation of the serfs In 1861.
, The national assembly will be i
consultative organization In connec
tion wkh the council of the empire,
and not a legislative body. The pow
ri" of owipcr-r m tin theoret
ically absolute. As the emperor is
Uk. supniue iaw iver and autocrat,
the decisions of the Doumai have only
a recommendatory and not a binding
force, though the rejecti on of any
legislative -measure by a two-thirds
majority of both houses Is sufficient
to prevent a measure from becoming
a. law.
People to Be Heard.
The representatives of the people
Will have not only the right to bo
heard on any legislation proposed by
the government, but can also voice
their views on new laws and will
have the right to exercise a certain
supervision over budgetary appiopri
atlons. ' The reprcsenta.rjri, is not universal,
it Is based on property qualification,
the peasantry bavins a vote through
members in communal organizations.
A considerable pottion of ths resi
dents of cities possessing no lands, to
gether with- utomen. soldiers, civil
functionaries, etc., are without suf
frage, "
The Imperial manifesto fays in part:
"We reserve to ourselves en.irely the
care of perfecting the organiatlon of
the Doumt ini4 when the course of
events shall have shown the necessity
for changes corresponding completely
to the needs of the time? and the wel
fare of It he empire we shall not fall
O give t the proper moment the'nee
essary directions.
"We are convinced that those who
shall . have been elected by the confi
dence cf the f.oople and who will thus
be callei upon to participate in the
legislative work of the government will
how themselves in the eyes of all Rus
sia io bei worthy of the imperial trust
nd that in perfect harmohy with other
Institutions and authorities of the state
established by us they will contribute
profitably and ealbusly to. our labors
,forJhe strengthening of the unity, the
security and the greatness, oth" em-
SALESMAN, DISPLAYING HIS GOODS, IS
FATALLY WOUNDED BY INSANE BOY
I lbanon, Va., Aug. If. W. T. Boyd,
a traveling salesman for Armstrong,
Cater Co.. of, Baltimore, Is lying at
the point of dea h in this town from
wounds receive! by blng struck over
the bead wlih a ha.ihet in the hands. of
Dr, Walter K. Aidersnn, of Lebanon.
The assault occurred thlr morning at
t o'clock, and this afternoon Dr. Alder
eon waa declared ptrson of unsound
Blind and was -r,t . the asylum at
RUSSIAN CZAR
plre, as well as for the trann.uiU.llty
and prosperity of the people."
iThe manifesto lonrludcs by express
Ing the hope that "Russia will emerge
triumphant from the trying ordeals
through which she Is now passing atd
would be born again In the strength
the greatness and the glory of bur his
tory, extending through a thousand
years."
AUTO RUNS INTO
A POND OF WATER
Machine
Minute
Atoms-
Driven at a M'le a
Rate Smashed to
-Jay May Die
Buffalo, N. Y.. Aug. IS. Webb Jay,
of Cleveland, was probably fatally In
jured at Kenllworlh Park today In the
ien-rplle automobile race. At the three
nuarters of the fourth mile Jay's ma
chine crashed through the fence, down
an embankment of ilfteen feet, and into
a pond of water. What caused the ac
cident is not known. It is believed,
however, that Jay was blinded by dust
and steered into- the fence. He was
driving about a mile a minute when
the accident happened. .
Jay, unconscious, would have been
drowned had not two spectators sit
ing on the fence near by, gone to his
rescue and dragged him out. He was
taken to the German hospital, where it
was found that his right arm and nine
ribs are broken, one of his lungs is
punctured and his right femur is frac
tured. HUSBAND SHOOTS
WIFE BY MISTAKE
Knoxville, Tenn., Aug. 18. Harvey
Mize. a citizen of H?mie:t, Tenn., a
little mining ton. in Campbell coun
ty; near LaKollotto, Tenn;, shot and
Instantly killed his wife at an early
hour this, morning, mistaking her for
i burglar. Mrs. Mize had gone up la
the rear of the house to secure a drink
of water for her little girl, who was
ill. While letting down a window,
the noise awoke her husband, who
was sleeping on a couch in the room.
Seeing the sTitdow of a person before
him, he seiserL a 45-caHbre pistol and
fired. His wife, fell to the floor gasp
ing for breath and died without being
able to speak a word. The father and
little daughter ar craned with grief.
THREE HANGED.
Memphis. Tenn., Aug. 18. James
Norfieet, Jihn Champion tuld General
Bone, three negro murderers, wer
hanged here" today. Trey killed wo
men of their own race, ,,- t
Marlon. It l no known what caused
the assault, which occurred In the store
of C. C. Alderson, one of the most
prominent business men in Russell
county. Mr., Boyd was making a dis
play of his imllllinery goods, when
young Alderson picked up a hatchet
nnd truck h m a 'severe blow on the
head. His condition was precarious
from the starrt and at o'clock tonight
Boyd was4 ni t expected to survive.
MARKS DAWN
CITY OFFICIALS '
UP FOR BLACKMAIL
Another Case of Wholesale
Corruption Said to Have
Been Unearthed in Florida
Tampa. Fla.. Aug. J8. Wlmt threat
ens to develop into a wholesale cx-
posturc of official misonduct In Ybor
I'l y was precipitated t mlay by the ar
rest of I'onslubles N. Mudrugu and
Louis (,'allcntserg on the charges of
Attempting to extort blaekniall from
the proprietor!) of bullta, or Cuban
lottery names. The' warrants were
sworn out liy I)( puty Sheriff J. J.
Stephens and the prisoners were re
leased in $1,000 bail inch. It Is stal
ed that this is but the first step In
the exposure of an elaborate, system
of blackmail.
LEGISLATURE IN
FIGHT TO THE END
Atlanta. Oa., Aug. 18. Georgia's
legislature adjourned at 9:45 o'clock
tonight, closing Its session constitu
tionally limited 10 liO days.
UrXll almost the last moment the
tight lasting for several days between
the twi branches of the legislature
continued over a bill fixing the gen
eral state liijuos license, the senate
contending for J3IMI and the house for
1500. The former figure was agreed
upon.
WILLIAMS IS FOUND ,
GUILTY OF MURDER
Pensacola Fla., Aug. IS. After re
maining in the jury room for only a
few hours, the jury In the case of Will
iam F. Williams, charged with the
murder of John White and Edtvin CC.
Drinsby, re urned a verdict tonight of
guilty of murder In the first degree,
with a recommendation for mercy at
the hands of the court.
Williams- was tried for the murder of
White and the charge of having mur
dered Dansby Is still against him, and
may be called at once.
Unci Sam If I could get rid
TUCKER WILL
BE PRESIDENT
Distinguished Lawyer Chosen
President of Jamestown
Exposition
HIS ACCEPTANCE IS
CERTAIN' TO FOLLOW
Successor to General Lee Is
Unanimously Selected
by Directors
Norfok, Val, Aim. IK.- lion. Henry St
Oeorge Tucket . .It .in of Hie n hool of
law nnd dlplonia.'.v of lieoi ge Washing
ton t'nlverslly. formerly Columbian
University, wiis unanimously eleicd
president of th J ,i use town Exposition
company this after noon by the board
of directors. Vim
of the cotr,?an. M
if Mr. Ticker v
he said that lh a
tlrully certain. A
pointed to ge to V.
Mr. Tucker of hi.
ni' of the officials
Kleley, was asked
id take the place
optancf was prac
onnnltlee was ap
InnHtoa nnd notify
l'c ion.
nrmlttee today ad-
1 he notification
dressed the follow Inn;
o Mr. Tucker:
i;-omted by the
f the Jamestown
The committe, a p.
board of directors o
Exposition company to notify you of
your election to the presidency of the
company wined you as follows:
At a meeting of the directors of the
Jamestown Exposition company, Just
held, you Were unanimously elected
president to fl!l the vacancy occasioned
by the death of den. Fitzhugh I,ee.
Your acceptance will maintain the high
his ortcal and educational standard of
he exposition, which if our cardinal
ambition, and thereby make It a fitting
ommemoratloti of the three hundredth
annnlversary of tr.c nation's birth.' '
"We beg to conllrm this telegram.
Rarely, if ever, has the state of Vir
ginia demanded a leader' for an enter
prise as great - the one you have been
chosen to direct. The' story of our greut
commonwealth teems with romance1
and bristles : with derisive Incidents.
The plain tah of stale . an, epic, her
story a drami, - whose climaxes have
been Jlmlte.'t OTfeVy by occasion.
GOVERNOR IN WRECK.
New York, Aug.. 18.--An autombil
1st. said to he Governor" Kruzler ti
Tennessee, suffered a wreck today on
a steep hill at a point near W. K.
Vand'erbiir Mlehour estn'.e at Oak
dale, L. I. The automoblllst was
burled In a snampund esaped severe
Injury because of the soft mud.
. vir PROJECT;' APPROVED.
Mexico city. Aug. IS. The Italian
royal maritime commission has ap
proved a project to establish a steam
ship communication between Italy and
this country.
of yo pests, I'd hava It yellow fever
MANY CASES
ARE REPORTED
Yeliow Fever Is roii.id In
Many Parishes Through
out Louisiana
SITUATION IN NEW
ORLEANS UNCHANGED
Spread of Disease Continues
Unchecked Death Rate
Still Low
YESTERDAY'8 RECORD.
.
New Or leans. Aug. IS.--Official
report it to tj p. ru.:
Nrw cas.n, fi'J; total to date,
l.t-'sr,. Deaths. S, total ;o dale.
New I H'i, Iti: total to
date. 27. Number of case s
under I ivatim nt. 4 1 .V
New Orleans. Aug. is. -The figures
fur the day show nothing of special in
tcrost. Kl von of the sixteen foci ate
above Canal strie . Two more cases
have appeared In the French asylum
on St. Ann and Derbigny streets, mak
ing live In aU- Thai Is the only 'asylum
affected up to date. Of the deaths
two were lit the charity hospital and
two In the emergency hospital v One oc
eurred In Algiers.
News Unfavorable.
News from ou slde the city continues
unfavorable. Dr. Brady, the medical
Inspector of the board of health, who
was also health oflVer of Jefferson
cO
Ish, spent most of the day In his
parish on a still hunt, and found gev
era I cases. He found one case In Han
son City, just above Kenner; two cases
In Shrew.-bury, five miles from New Or
leans, and one case in McOonovllle,
across the river from. New Orleans. Dr.
Brady also visited Pecan drove planta
tion, In St. Charles Parish, and found
live cases In two houses.
Pa'terson reports ix new cases and
no death?. .Alexandria's one patient
died today.
"Dr.' Ooidberger, of the marine hos
pital service, hns been assigned to take
charge of the work at Alexandria. Dr
T. A Devron left for Thlbodoaux th Is
noinlng to visit the nest of Infection
it the taou'h of Bayou Ii Fourche. It
will be Impossible to hear from him, for
at least three days. There nre no new
cases at Mississippi City. .
ALABAMA SHUTS HER
DOORS TO TRAVELLERS
Montgomery, Ala., Aug. IS, State
Health Officer Sunders said today that
persons from infected yellow fever dis
tricts In other states who want to come
i my system,
. ' ,
HIGH HOPES
REPLACED
OF BLACKEST PESSIMISM
through Alabama going to other stat
will no: be allowed in Alabama until
their- seven days detention are up, even
If they do not top within the border
of Alabama.
FEVER AT STARKEVILLE.
M .bile. Ala., Aug. IS. Dr. Kckford,
city health officer of Starkevllle, .Miss
a n noiinei s a well developed, case of
vellow fever at that place. The case
Is that of a mm named Clark who
came from Mississippi City. The Mo
Ml' Ohio has annulled all lialnsoi
the Starkevllle branch until they can
make further arrangements.
PRESIDENT MAKES
A FINAL ATTEMPT
Thought That Russian Envoy
Will be Called to Oyster
Bay for Conference
Portsmouth. N. H.. Aug. IS. At mid
night Assistant Secretary Pelrce was
hurriedly called te the Hotel Went
worth, where a message was awaiting
him from the president. He Immedl
ntely wrote a lengthy reply. . Later he
was called to the telegraph Instrument
and for half an hour carried on a con
versation by telegraph with the presi
dent, who was at he other end of the
wire at Oyster Bay.
The Associated Press has reason to
believe that the 'purpose of the presl
denl's conversation with Mr. ePelree
was to arrange for one of the Russians
to go 10 Oyster Bay. The president
Is understood to be already In com
munlcatlon with the Japanese through
Baron Kanoako. The president Is re
solved to induce the warring coun
tries to compromise.
FUNNEL IN TALC
GIVEN TO RIVER
MARINE DIVERS REFUSE TO
EN
TER FLOODED SHAFT.
Was
tife Risking Job to Work
der Water 300 Feet From
8haft.
To stop the leak in the roof of a
leep tunnel by which the wa,ter of tli
Xantuhala river cume down and Hooded
a small part of the Hewitt talc mines
Hewitt's Station was too much of an
undertaking, even for the experienced
marine divers whom president F. H.
Hewitt, of the North Carolina Talc and
.Valuing company, had brought for this
purpose from Norfolk. '
The divers wlth their diving ults, in
which tho hud many times been un
der the surface of the ocean and In
'unken ships, took a look at the situa
tion. The tunnel ,a big horizontal hole
running under the liver level for 300
feet, was full of water, and at the far
ther end was a fissure which was let
ting in water faster thaa the pumps
could take ii out. The divers declined
to try to stop the leak, saying that
the long distance from the air puirop
and the mud in the bottom of the tun
nel made the work too hnxardou".
This tunnel will now be abandoned
and the bed of talc which it reaches
will b cupped by finking another tun-,
nel, whlfh wit b I'-rpJ through a
mass of murhif to le'c'n the talc be
yond It.
SHOT FROM AMBUSH.
Huntington. W. Va.. Aug. 18. Rob
ert Murphy, a deputy sherlfr from
Buckingham county, Va., was shot
from ambush and Instantly killed
while riding on a railroad velocipede
between Logan and Holden. Murphy
had just brought Henry Harmon, who
was arrested In Virginia, to Logan for
trial, and It is supposed tlitt ithe act
was committed by soms friend of
Harmon's.'
ELECTED SECRETARY.
Duluth, Minn.. Aug. 1. J times Mo-
Fall of Rounoke, Va., was today,
elected secretary of the International
Association of Fire Knglnecrs. . I
NEW YORK BANKERS RECEIVE INFERNAL -
MACHINES BUT BOTH ESCAPE UNINJURED
New York. Aus IS. Two small In-
fernal machines were sent to proral-
nent New Tm k brokers today. Jnfipb
II. Hchleff. the banker, was the tatfjvnarked as V coming from ifilwara VIL
. . . i.
fet of the nrre dangerous
of
the
machines, a . contrivance capable
-
.'uusing death. The other was re--elvrd
by M. Guggenheim's Sons, and
was directed to the office ef the Amer
ican Smelting A Refining company.
. Mr. Fchliff was absent from
tha
city, being at Bar Harbor,
lug Arm of Kuhn, Lob
T 4' bank-
V Co., of
OF PEACE
BY A FEELING'
Thought That Envoys WU
Meet In "Seance d'Adleu'
Tuesday
FINAL EFFORT WILL BE ;
MM)E FOR COMPROMISE
Powers will Not Let Chance
of Peace Slip by Without
Final Effort
Portsmouth, N. H., Aug. 18. Black
pessimism reigns at Portsmouth to
night. The prevailing view Is that the
fate of the pence conference Is already
sealed: that it has ended In failure
and that all that now remains Is for
the iilcnlpotentlarlea to meet on Tues
day, to which duy they adjourned thla
afternoon upon completing the seriatim,
consideration of the Japanese terms,
sign the final protocol, go through the
conventions und bid each other fare
well; In other words that the meeting
Tuesday will be what diplomacy colla
the "seance d'adieu," but there Is still
room for hope of a compromise. Neith
er President Roosevelt nor the powera
will see the chance . of peace ship
wrecked without a final effort and iat
pro-sure is being exerted especially at
loklo to induce Japan to moderate her
terms is beyond question. Just what la
being done, or Is to be done, has not
transpired. King Edward Is understood
to be now lending a helping hand and
the financiers of the world are known
to be exerting all their Influences.
Japs Unyielding. .,
At Toklo and St. Petersburg the final
Issue will be decided. The Japanese
have been implacable throughout the
six days' sittings. They have listened
and explained, but they have yielded
not one lota of the substanee of their
original demands. Mr. Witte accepted
outright seven of the twelve Japanese
conditions, one in principle and four, ,
Including fhe main tissues. Indemnity
and Sakhalin, he rejected. The other
two limitation of naval power and the
surrender of Interned warships, might
have been arranged had there been any
prospect of agreement on the two
points upon which the divergence teem
ed irreconcilable.
In the oral discussion of the term ;
Mr. Wltte yielded upon two articles,
but substantially the refult of thirteen .
sittings of the envoys has only been
to emphasize the position taken by Mr.
Wltte In the written reply he presented
last Saturday lo the Japanese terms.
and now both sides turn to home for-,
he last word before the cards are
thrown face upward upon the table
next Tuesday, for the Impasse reached
today by the plenipotentiaries Is rec
ognised to be only a diplomatic fiction
If In the Interim fresh Instruction are
received by either side compromise la s.
yet possible. But the chances are rec
ognized to be slim.
(So far as the Russian plenipotentiar
ies are concerned there never wa a
chance of their yielding both Indemnity
and Sakhalin. The cession of Sakhalin
without Indemnity was, according to
the best Intlde Information, the ex
treme limit to which Mr. Wltte would ;
ever consent to go, and the emperor has
pot yet given the word to even- concede . '
that, and tonight suddenly new fac- '
ior has been Introduced which In the
opinion of those most competent to
Judge lessens materially the 'chances
lhat he might do so, namely, the Is
suance of his manifesto granting a poip
tilar representative body to his subjects.
The bearings of tills "historic docu
ment" as Mr. Wltte described It a few
flays ago. upon the Issue are exceeding-
y comprehensible. It is bound to
ameliorate the internal situation . In
Russia. The manifesto Is Emperor
Nicholas' answer to the Japanese de
mand for the payment of a war tribute.
The grant of this broad reform la re- ,.l
garded 1s virtually an appeal to the
Russian people for support to resist It,
At IToklo It Is Impossible to tell what
View will be taken, peace probably can t
be .even now secured by the sacrifice
of the Indemlnty. Vague Intimations
tonight come from the Japanese side
lhat "The demand for the cost of the
war" might be moderated, but Mr.
Wltte'a reply Is that he will pay liber
ally tor the maintenance of the Russian
prisons In Japan but "not a copeck for
tribute." . - ; ' ' ' . '
Tonight the situation can be summed
Continued on page Four)
which he Is a member, received hf
mall a wooden box about six Inchea
long addressed to Mr. BchiefT and
WU liiinreuiMieiy tuniru um lo mc
ponce, tm removal oi ine wooaen
cover discovered only" an, Innocent
looking package, wrapped In some pa
per bearing stock quotations, but la
side was a contrivance arranged, at
the least rough handling, to di.K-hare
tiro cartridges loaded with S2-c '.
bullets and packed about with ;. '.
slues.
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