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t CITIZEN! ! THE AS JHW WEATHER, AL THE NEWS ." Of the World All the Tim. ' " , v v- MUCH COLDER HEY VOL XXI NO 91 . . '..' .. , ASHBVILLB'N. C TUESDAY MORNING JANUARY 23 19C6 f : PRICE FIVE CENTS Theplily Associated Press Newspaper in Western North Carolina V ' i' ; 1 : : : DOWN CARRYING THREE , HUNDRED MEN TO DEATH MELDRIM NEAR TO GETTING A HEALTHY FINE SENATE TALKS ; ON RAILROAD RATE QUESTION Masfr a W VWtM " Was MIVI Acquldaban and only One Officer Is Sav'eU. FOUR REAR-ADMIRALS ARE AMONG DROWNED Minister of Marine and His v Entire Staff Were Among - Those on Board. ' ' (By -Associated Press.) RIO JANEHiO, Braull, Jan- 22. The Brazilian .turret ship Acuuldabun, ban been -sunk at Por( Jacarepague, south ot Rio Janeft as the resulrtif an ex plpulon on board." It is reported that tfrree hundred of jier crew perished, and that only one officer wa saved. -Four rear-admirals perished on - board too AcquMabatit which had been used for the accommodation of a num . ber. of supernunw-ry officers and men attached! to th flotilla escorting the Barroso.. The Barroso had oil board , the. minister of marine and his staff, who- were Inspecting tho'sitc propos . ed for a new arsenal. The explosion "on the Acquldaban occurred m th powder, magazine. The . Vesset, sank In three minutes. HOUSE WASTES TIME FUSSING ABOUT CANAL But Court Accepts His Expla nation After Intensely Dramatic Scene . MELDRIM STATES THE DEFENDANT'S CASE Members " Discuss Eight-Hour Proposition Before It Is Necessary. HEARST PRAISED FOR . ' FIGHT ON TRUSTS Declares Not One Dollar ol Government Money Went to Carter or Westcott. WAS BUILT IN ENGLAND. The Aoqufldaban was of 4,000 tons - displacement, - and 6,200 horsepower. She jwa built In 1985 In England at i ooet of $1,725,000. - Th armament con Hinted of ffmr .sinch- guns ami four 5-lnch guns and a number of smaller s I W8 . . She. JttVl SVfc tflrpedo tubes. Her crewiiuiHlwieO 350 officers and men V'::- (By-Associated Prats.) . JIO JANEIRO. Brazil, Jan. 22. The foltowlns; .members of the commission which left the arsenal on board the Acquldaban, accompanying the minis ter of marine, were drowned: REAR .ADMIRAL ROOIGO JOSE DA ROCHA, M u- a v r a I IM I Pf 4 I . KKAIVI'IMI'll CALHERTOB BRAZIL. CAFTAIN AX.VE3S DELLARIGO. Two commanders, two German oho tograjfhfrs, and one reported also were -uwwnea Jwn, RAILROAD COMPANY WINS IN RATE CASE (if Associated Press.) v WASHINGTON. Jan. 22. The Inter state -commerce commission today In the case of the Griffin. Grocery com. papy, of Griffin, Ga., against the Southern Railway company and the Central of Georgia railroad company, dismissed the complaint. - The complaint alleged unjustly high er freight rates from Chicago and St. Louis to Griffin, than .to Macon, Amer- The commission holds that no undue prejudice against Griffin on account of the long or short haul clause, is shown. BANK WHICH FAILED ; PAID MORE THAN PAR (By Associates) Press.) , MACOX, Ga.. Jan. 22. Receiver W. J. .Buller, of 4he defunct First Na tional' Bank,' Which failed eighteen months ago, 'and involved the euicide of R, H. Plant, the president, today declared Its tost dividend of S per cent, with 2.1-2 per cent (interest. As a result tho depositors' receive par and more. . . : i COLDER TODAY. ' (By Associated Press.) WAEIUNOTOX. Jan. 22. Forecast for Tuesday and Wednesday: North Carolina Rain and much cojder Tues day; Wednesday fair, colder on the coast Fresh west winds. by Contract But 0 tiers Differ (By Associated Press.) SAVANNAH, Ga., Jan. 22. CjI. Meldriin, Iciwllng couus4 for Greene and Gaynoir, narrowly mlswed In the Federal court today slmrlng tho expo lietK'e of liln ossoclate, A. A. Unv- rence, who lajit week was nnud 100 for contempt of court. Judge Emory Speer cHwtrued ccr- UU. WllliamS oayS Viq UllCni order and iii contempt of court, but accepted the explanation and passed the matter, thus closing an intensely dramatic cene. " .. The point was reached In the trial where the. . examination of witnesses ttegan. Major Glllelte took the stand and had1 answered a fjw. preliminary questions when objection was raised to lila answering the question of Mr. Er- wiln as to nvhat fartei had said to him In Wasihliigton, upon the conspiracy that Major Gillette afterwards disK'OV- I ered listed In Bavannah. , Objection Overruled. After argument the court overruled the objection, i Adjournment was taken and the question will' doubtless be answered by Major Gillette upon the rcc7iven lug of court tomorrow morning. Col. Meklrlm ' today made a state ment of the , defendants rfde of the case. He said that It ' was true that Greene and Carter were on term of friendship, as the ' prosecuting attor ney, Mr. Brwin, has aeserted, tout that there was nothing .-surDrletnir In that, as Greene, too, had been .an" army of ficer and In the engineer corps. He scouted the Idea that Carter was a dupe, a weak tool, pliable clay in the hands of Greene.- Meldrim's Challenge. Col. Meldrlnv challenged the gov ernment to prove that G-reene . and Gaynor ever loaned Carter a cent, and that the only loan' was one of 21,600 made iln 1886 by Green. "Which Carter had . repaid .within a year's- time In (By Associated IWss.) WASHINGTON. Jan. 22. With point of order impending the eight-hour clause of the Panama canal item In the urgent deficiency bllL was buffeted about In debate during tlhe greaterpart f today;s session of the.hquse. The debate was "general, however, and the point of order can only be made when the section is considered for amendment. - , , While the eight-hour provision of the Panama,- part of the bill Is what is ob jected to most strenuously, speeches were rrmde for and against ,t he adoiln- latratlon'e canal policy. Mr. WIMiaqis. the minority leader, declared: the work of digging ought to be done by con tract. Mr. D'Armond (Mo.) immedl ately contended that this eould not' be done successfully. Mr. Burton (Ohio) urged that Congress should scrutinise appropriations. Mr. Hepburn (Iowa) urged the necessity of centralization; in responsibility, and wanted the pres ident held responsible for Uie work. . Mr. Hearst' (N. Y.) was eulogised by Mr. Gaines (Tenn.) As having made the greatest fight against the trusts of any living man. "I am not a Hearst man," he continued, "but I believe we should render unto Caesar the' things I drn,iet,8 that a na Pdabo ' - 1 Mr. Littauer said that the work sof- actual excavation of the Panama canal was to begin between next April and July. The present work, he, said, was making the canal xone sanirarjt. Mr. Williams, the minority leader, made a general complaint against the methods of making appropriations. He advocated "Digging the ditch"'by con tract and said If this was done in stead of allowing politicians 4o do the work, it could be completed in from three to Ave years. The whole thing, he saidr-wa beginning to smell strong ly of the old French methods. The house adjourned until tomor row.- - No -fill! Yet Introduced to that Effect, but Solons ' are V Anticipating. - CHICAGO GETS INTO THE TEETH OF BIG STORM CLAY DOES MOST lOF THE TALKING Aldrich Says Hearst Is Author of Bill to Create Interstate Commission. ... - It was dlputedi that Carter adver tised for bid on contracts for mrh shorteir- periods than the regulations required, and said It was the custom isnsr-,r - ------ -- ------- (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOdR) ;(By Aeaociated Press.) WAHHINGTuK. J,u. 22 The ques tion of regtjhUli'g railroad rales oc cupled practlcaqy nil the time of the Senate today, iiliNtandhig tlial no bill with that eW in view, had been reported from, the imer-stat com- mene committee. Th dlsi-usAon, ol' the subject was In immw jou with Mr. I'lay's speech,'- Aliwrs. Alditch, For aker, Bailey am) Newlaivls being the principal parflcinantn In addition to Mr. Clay himself. Mr. Clay advocated the passage 'of a bill which would give the lntor-tiUi n.iuniliMlou power to regulato rates A hen nmiplulned of and said that if tlnre was no !egis latlou along that lino the commission might count uxmi an agitation oi ho quekn.. of ;the KovemmenJ owner ship. He-referred to tlie large sup port given to -Mr. Hearst In the late .New. Work'-municipal 'election as an Indication of the popularity of munM pal ownersnlp. ' Mr. ?lay used statements mttrte ear lier In thc-sestfion by Mr. Foraker'lh opposition, to "tho constitutional right Of congress to' delegate its authority to regulate Inter-state commerce, say ing that on, acoiwiit of the vast num ber of complaint liable to arise it would fee ttnpos!Me fop Congress with its other, pressing bwlnera to glye any thing like fr-iuat. attention to them. - Not foe Hearst. Referring to the agitation for the mayoralty, he suid: . "I shall never be a foHower of Hiarst. The suong fol lowing which he developed : In tint race was not caused by the man, It was the pjatfoi-m.. I do not believe in the government ownership of railroads. I recognise the. fact that the hirse number of einphy. engaged In oper ating and building, these railroads would be larger - under the n ty In power In control or tne government. 8Uch power would enable the power in control; to hold it for ail time to come. The only way to turn public attention from public control is gov ernment regulation iby lam." Traffic In Business Section of City Restored by ActDf Heroism. TELEPHONE AND TELE GRAPH WIRES DISABLED Railroads Also Suffer and Many Electric, Lines are (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) In Desperate Straits. - " in ' (By Associated Prees.) CHICAGO, Jan. 22. A severe storlil of alternating rain, sleet and snow, which commenced Just before. midnight last night, tied up elevaled roads, crip pled other transportation an4 stopped wire communication for tnapy hours today. Traffic In theb uslness section of the" elevated roads was opened by a workman who hazzarded his life by holding a scraper on the third rati just In front of the transmission shoe, while the! train was moving. y this means some of the ice was cleared, and when the trip had been made half a dozen times. It was possible to move trains around the loop in a creeping fashion, the greut difficulty being that new ice and sleet would form almost as rapidly us the old could be re moved. Schedule service on all elevated roads was resumed this evening. Telegraph and telephone communica tion rvmytenred to suffer during the night when the rain changed to sleet, and the wires commenced to sag. By this morning nearly all of the wires leading out of the city were down, with the exception of a few toward the north, and communication :ln this di rection was uncertain. Large commis sion and-brokerage houses which ordi narily siset rom tweity to thirty wires leading to nil parts of the country; were unable this morning to send a message in any direction, and were without advices regarding the situa tion In other parts of the country. The railroads, although In much bet ter condition tor contend against sleet nnd snow than the electric lines, were nt times during the early part of the day hi desperate straits, on some of the lines running east from here hun dreds of ml!es of wire were down, and the dispatchers were having a most serious time In moving trains. Great (trouble , was experienced this morning by people who use the elec tric lines In : the outlying sections of the city, to reach their plaees of work: The lines were, wUh few exceptions: out of business and It was Impossible to reach any place except on foot, crnr m nr rni rvri niirrrv jiivLrti'i ur uuLu rLvvvLiJ INTO COFFERS OF TOWN TOPICS FROM MONEY KINGS i v v v waa j w w w s Warming Things Up For WASHOUT ON SOUTHERN RY. DELAYS TRAINS ncessant Rain Causes Dam age In Vicinity of Saluda and Fletcher. TRANSYLVANIA HAS ONE AT.TOXAWAY r : Evening Trains en Spartan burg Division Are Com pelled to Return to City. FIRES HIS PRISON; FATALLY BURNED . v . (8pcial to The Citizen.) SALISBURY, N. C. Jan. . 22. Wil liam Russell, a young white man of 23, set Are to the solitary cell in the calaboose. In which he was confined, at New London Stanley county, twen ty-four miles from Salisbury, Saturday evening and was so badly burned that he will die. Russell was arrested Sat urday for disorderly conduct andl locked up In the town prison, a minia ture affair. In his cell was a quantity I of straw.and he lighted the pile. Hisl cries of alarm could not be heard un til the building was partially consumed nd those who rushed to. the rewcue were unable to locate the lock. With sledge hammers they succeeded in tear ing the door downrnd ran -for their lives as volumes of moke rushed upon them. 1 he imprisonment man managed to get out and feO at the entrance of tlig calaboose. He wss given medical attention immediately but no hope for his IRovery is entertained. The build ing was' destroyed, - ONE HUNDRED NEGROES LEAVE COLLEG E BECAUSE OF OBJECTION TO SUPERINTENDENT V TALLADEGA, Ala Jan. 22. Over 1,000 students let Talladega college (colored) today because a Southern white man, L. O. Parks, of this county, 1 was employed as superintendent of ' the college farm. The stuqenia ae- ' manded his discharge, and that was determination to leave college if Mr. , refused by President B. M'. Nice. They Parka, was retained, and the faculty. appealed. to jyr, s. ti. tsarro. secre:ary wnicn is lor me mosi parr eomposea of the American Miseionarr six-ietr, of' of Torthern white people, were as de- New York, which fosters Talladega termined that he ehould stay. college. Dr. Baird upheld President Nice, end as the result the students left college. The main objection to Mr. Parks, it Is alleged, was that he was a Southern white man. The students were quiet and orderly, but never wavered In their I y ' ;. r : ' ' - " ' ' - t ' 'l - ; ' ..." ; ). The K aiser I hope yu notice that I'm a much ihandsomer man than the froa'eaUrs. As a result of the Incessant rain of yesterday It was reported last night that considerable damage had ten done to the Southern's line in the vi cinity of Fletcher, and that a wash out, and a Very serious one, had oc curred at the foot of Saluda mountain. The particulars could not i be ascer tained beyohd the mere report, so that lr M Impossible to give the extent of da mo (re doue. This, however,- may bs more than Is conjectured, for at 11 o'clock last nlghit It was also said that in the cotton mill district some fam ilies left their homes because of the river's rising, H touching -4he railroad track In several places. Inquiries developed that ithe officials, probably because of the condition of the waters, were unnble to advise would-be passengers As to whether Hie Kpnrtnnburg road could be used today, 1 hey were sure, however, that no mis hnp Iws occurred on the Salisbury line. One at Toxsway. , That these washouts are serious was evinced In the .return of passengers who left yesterday on the Spartanburg di vision, the damage being such at Catnpliell St Blake's mill that they were mm sure of a passenger on that road today.- News wa flislli received of a considerable washout at Toxaway, on the Transylvania, alLhough nothing In the way of particulars could be ascer tained. It Is safe to predict, however, that 'no train will run today on either of these lines. Many other awouims are not 4hotighl Improbable because such a day's ralu can have none other than a dangerous effect 'on the mountain streams and hills. Inquiries of the. train dispatcher at a late hour brought (forth anything but sattHfantoryTPpllegTo TriecnizeTr quest after news, and the public can only wait and hear. At 2 o'clock this morning the waters were reported up to the railroad In the cotton mill section. , ' " ( , CITIZEN'S WIRES PUT OUTOF COMMISSION Plaintiff. Edltorpann. i GOULDS AND VANDERBUTS FED THE VAMPIRE Scandal Sheet Waxed Fat Off ' m m . a m ... rirnn mnsnr nnsn mnn. - ey Paid to It. The Citizen's leased wire, used for the transmission of Associated Press news to this office, was put out of commission by the storm, last night. AH news had to be taken at the West ern union Teiegrapn onice ana tor- warded by messenger to The Citizen Office, a fact which caused a great deal of delay" In preparing It for the linotype machines. ; All the rltles In the country seem to be suffering from wire troubles. Re ports from Chicago, Cincinnati, ana other large cllles say that their com munication with he outside world is limited to the comparatively few wires which have withstood the storm, ; (By Associated Press.) NEW YORK, Jan. 22. Col. W. 1). Mann, editor of frown Topics, testified at the Hapgotd criminal libel trial to day that he had' borrowed nearl two hundred thousand dollars from J. P.1. Morgan, James R.- Keene, W. K. Van- derbllt. William C. Whitney and other prominent financiers. - Many of those loans were never repaid, so far as Col. Mann could recall, and others were re paid In stock in the Town Topics com pany at 11.000 per share. Among the others named by Col. Mann In the list of men from whom he had borrowed large sums were Col li P. Huntington. Charles W. Hchwab. Howard Gould, George Uould, Thomas F. Ryan, and John W. Gates. The largest single loan was obtained from James R. Keene, who loaned the Town Topics editor 190,000. From W. K. Van- derbllt, Col. Mann obtained I2S.000: from J. P. Morgan $2,500; from W. C. Whitney, $l0,000t from Collis P. Hunt ington, 5,0()0;; JohnW. Gaites, 120.000; Charles M. Schwab, 110,000 j Thomas F.; Kyan, f 10,000. . ; ;. u . i Ten Dollars a Share, '. i When Col. Matin teatlfled that mnaiy of these loanj. were paid In Town Top ics stock at $1,000 a ahnre,"James W, Osborne, couiisel' for Mr. Hapgood, asked if the par value of the stock was not $1(1 a ha.re. COl. Majin replied that $10 n share In the par value. Asked whether, he evsr stopped the Town Topics prfss to 'Suppress) an ar UUle, about Loyal Smith, Col. Manit snld that uch ah article wast taken from the paper, aitu that' a man who came: with. Smith placed a $1,200 'd vmi lljement In- Town Topics. ; A contract was, produced (mowing I hot $2,500 wo paid by William J. White rf Cleveland, for a aubstn-lp-tlon to Kads and Fancies. Col. Miinn , tea tilled that he might have made the remark that scandal was sent to the office of Town Topic. Asked 'who went it, tie replied that It came,, from the reporttsrs, society people, club-men and others. Col. Miinn denied that there was any agreement that W. K, Vanderbllt's name was never to be printed In Town Topics. . t . "LMd you not 'have t'he story of the row In the riultableT" be was asked. ,"Long before it became ptibllo?" ('And did you not suppress tihata tory be causp ofyour friendly relaitlorts with Mr. Hyde, or for other reasons?" he " was aaked, :- "No." - - ' . Millionaire Stockholders. ' The atock of Town Topics, Ool. Mann testified, are W. K. Vandl-tibiit. 23 shares; John Wr Gates, 20 ehares; Howard Gould, 30; Dr. Seward Webb. 20; and the balance of the slSuree are owned by Justice Joseph M.Deuhl. Col. Mann and his- wife andl daughter. Col. Mann said that he hlrneelf owned but one share of the stock. In account ing for Jus-Wee Iwahl's connection with! Town Topic., he sald:' '.. "He had been kind to us. my daugh ter aiw myself, and we felt that when we could repay him wwhould and we did It by giving him share of our own stock." Just before leaving the stand, Cot. Maury said: ' ; : .. "t forgot to say that W. K. Vnnder- bilt sent irm hack my Twite and later leturned m the Mock. ' The wttnes had previounly testified (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) FRENCH AND GERMAN ENVOYS ENTERTAIN DELEGATES AT CONFERENCE" WITH SKIRMISH ES (By AssocUtsd Press.) ALGECIRAS, Spain, Jan. 22. Th plenipotentiaries were entertained at today's sitting of the Moroccan confer ence by almost continuous skirmishes between M. Revoll, head of the French delegation, and Count Von Tattenbach, the second of Germany's delegates. Today was the beginning of fresh con troversies between France and Ger many, which are likely to be long pro tracted and of Increasing earnestness. The two ijenlpotentlaries draw apart outside the council room. It will be difficult for either .to yield. nhe conference today adopted of the sixteen report of ahe committee on contra band arms. Then, as (he sitting h.id lasted two and a half hours, discos- be Ave slon of the remaining articles went over until Wednesday. The discussion brought out a lengthy discourse from Sldl Mohammed KI Mokhrl, the second of the' Moroccan delegates, concerning Morocco's gen eral attitude towards the conference. As he spoke In Arabic the delegates listened silently, not comprehendlsg a word. When M. Revoll, answering the Moor's reqeust for time, to refer cer tain features of the report to the sul tan, remarked that the Moors appeared deslrkius to Tefer some portion hut not to refer others. Thereupon Sldl Mohammed declared they were obliged to refer everything without eo'pUoii to the sultan. This bmusrv'f on a 1 - that they ail wer f. r J to refer tmpoitv-5 - ective gov'"
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