THE MSHETILBE CITIZEN.
THE WEATHER
'SHOWERS
Associated Press
Leased Wire Reports.
VOL. XXV. NO. 193.
ASUEVILLE N., C., SATURDAY MORNING, MAY 1,
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
DEATH LIST OF THE STORM
OF YESTERDAY SWELLING
WITH
Ovei One Hundred Persons Known to Have Perished In Various Towns
NEWS IS MEAGER OWING TO
TROUBLE WITH THE WIRES
No Communication With The West And Only
Intermittent Dispatches Could Be Sent
Through Last Night From East.
The storm whk-h on Thursday swept through Ihe middle Males from
(lie LsUtes to tlie Gulf, yesterday moved eastward and broke over Aslie
dle about mW-momlng. The fury of tlie hurricane had spent Hxelf
against the mountains apparently for when It reached here there was
nothing but m drenching rain left, but there was plenty of tliat. KlxrwlH-rc
the reports received over Tlie Assoclntctl I'i-cmm wires lust iilicht though
meager because of wire trouble. Indicated tliat the storm was a wide
spread and disastrous In every direction except the South.
There were report of disaster from Knoxvllle, Tenn., but It was not
possible to reach that city last nlsht either by telephone or telegraph.
To the East the U'tagraph wires were in commission only at Intervals while
The service of The Associated Trail Western connection was cut off ex
rated that the storm was wide-ess was badly crippled, and It was
only through the most desperate efforts to llnd a lino oicii Hint enough
pews could be got through to linll the columns of The Clllxcu Oils morn
ing. LOTJISVIIXE, Ky., April 80. Tcsatchcs gathered through the South
by the Associated Press tonight Indicate tluit one hundred and fourteen
persons met sudden death in the great wind that spread havoc throughout
the region south of the Ohio. The number of Injured Is probably three
fold that of the killed. It Is substantiated that sixty persons were killed in
Tennessee, distributed among the following towns:
Tennessess: Young's Crossing, live; Faycttcvllle, nfteen; WoblcRvlllc, one;
Hardeman county, one; Medina, four; ClarksviUe. mc: Oentrevllle. one;
Franklin, one; Hlllsboro, four; Somcrvllle, three; Uiconla, two; I tails, two;
Quito, eight j Giles county, twelve.
br Th Associated Press tonight Indict was Horn Lake, wliere eighteen mt
iltNitli &
Arkansas reports a total of twelve dead and ninety Injured.
Alabama has four dead near Hartsell.
t' . MISMMTr Im seven killed at Somervllle and eleven at Golden.
U')8l.-"-i4urf.t'-OantlmM p- tavfn.y
IDICTINTS AGAINST
MANY ALLEGED TIGERS
REPOHTED BY THE JURY
List of Twenty-Two True
Bills Returned on Last t
Day of Jury's Sitting.
'APRIL TERM ADJOURNS
"Called and failed to appear. Let
Scl Fa Issue."
This was the order of the Superior
court In a ntimbero f cases yester
day In which the defendants are miss
ing. Let the Judgment of the scl fa be
made, absolute, was the order In many
other cases, and this meant that the
hnniii rivn for the appearance of de
fendants were forfeited.
And it was because the court had so
many of these orders to give that
there was nothing for it to d.; yester
day, and therefore, after receiving a
batch of indictments from the grand
jury that body was discharged with
the thanks of the court and the April
criminal term came to an end.
The labors of tho grand Jury were
not made evident until after adjourn
ment Inasmuch as practically all the
Indictment found against alleged re
tallers were withheld until the last
day.
New Indictments.
In addition to those cases which
have been tried during the term, the
following were Indicted for retailing:
i i. T.ur,eter W. A. Finland and
the British American club; Joe Mer-
rill E A Reteecker and Carl Byerly,
Hlx 8outh-y and Fred Wantel. Jas.
Bwlnney and John O-Dnnnell, Ped
Zoder, John Ward, Dudley Ward and
Charley Miller, John Ward and Den-
nis Ward John Herman, Clarence
. f T,ihn I. like
sji.1 Tihn Ijuiie. and r. V. Allman
in .HrfHInn in these Wiley S. ItlacK
and George Alexander were indicted
for perjury.
in it. nr.ui hmirs nf leniency the
rt .tr.i, out a. form. r sentence
against J. W. Moore and reduced his
term to four months. It also changed
Its order of Thursday requiring a bond
of five hundred dollars In the appea
. j
of the case of Will Swink,
the case or win .'brought from the Philippine:
retailing, and permitted the appeal , ( n(I d RivlnK , hlsjiiife.
of
to be taken without bond.
COJCVICTE6 OP Ml RDEIt.
1. trlct attorney. 1 hill, on long siapie oouon ano uwier
(By Associated Press.) j ..'itlona!." replied the witness, j Southern products. .
LYNCH BUBO, Va., April 30 -S. t -, pra, Ha)ng was closely questioned "How would you cherish a nelgh
nest Wade, who shot and. killed Isaac neerator regarding the varl-1 jor," anker Mr. Fletcher, "who would
tUgringftotham. his. sister's awi eel-( r actlon, of his son after the cap- sodbag all fthe Industries ht the
heart here January 12. when Higgtng-! ,,, from the Philippines and: country in order that hie constituents
fc..u- T-otnmlnr rrom
bPM the Kirl. was today found guilty
f second degree murder and sen
tenced to eighteen years la pruton.
INCOMING
In Tennessee Alone.' Other States Send In
Similar Reports of Disaster.
THORNTON RAINS TELLS
OE INCIDENTS PRIOR TO
THE SLAYING OF ANNIS
Dramatic Scene Ensues
When Attorney Recalls
Former Tragedy.
MEETING ACCIDENTAL
Hy Associated Press.)
FLUSH IN5, N. V., April 30. Inci
dents of the ilay, August 15, 1!09
leading up to th" shooting of William
.;, Annis at ihe Hayslde Yacht club by
Captain Peter c. Mains, jr., I -. H. A .
were graphically reviewed on the wit
ness stand bv Thornton Jenkins Hains.
the defendants' brother, at the trial
before Justice Carrctson, In the Su
preme court here.
District Attorney Pewitt had not
reached the day of the tragedy in hi
cross-examination of Thornton Hams
at the close of the day's proceedings.
There was a dramatic scene In
court when Ihe district attorney, at
the very beginning of his cross-examination
advanced toward the witness
and said:
On June 1, 11101. did you shoot and
kill one Kdward Hannlgan?
The lawyers for the defense wer on
.i,..ir feet Instantly. Mr. Melntyre con-
. ......i ihe district attorney ask
ed the question without any
right.
i,.,v..i..i? full well that
Thornton
Hains was exonerated of th
charge
of killing llannigan
it portress moii-
(Ja rretson ordered
roe. va. jusu
tnf. nrstlon stricken from the rfrnr
j The witness particularly .mpnasiwrt
tn.tt t a.s pur.lv by acd.l.nt that
tn captaln met Annis at the yacht
clui,.
Thl. rroPB-examlnatl"n of (.enerai
Ivtor r Main. Ihi father of ( aptain
l'eter C. Hains. Jr
was resiim'-'l ny
District Attorn-y iwwiti wnen
rourt convened. The distrl. t attorney
nicked UP the thread or me wnm
story where he droppec
Dr,,i ked him about th
it yesterday
alleged con-
, fession
of the captain's wire in m-r
t.,.i,nH At that time, wuness m
irrational.
Ihe
runtain apiieari-o
ieneral Hains stated mat nis son n.i
rationally about the children
. . i
and about some things wnn n ne ni..
es and In
When he went back to Washing-
'ton did you consider the captain ra-
.. . .. . i i , i. ,! i .
tional or irrational. unneu .tic
m the shooting. Some bad im
pressed the parent as Irrational, while
others appeared rational enough.
REPORTS
NINE BURNED TO DEATH
IN TENEMENT FIRE,
OCCUPIED BT ITALIANS
Blaze Followed Refusal of
Blackhand Demand for
One Thousand Dollars.
SIX WERE CHILDREN
(By Associated Ircss.)
NEW YORK, April 30. Nine per
sons, six of thorn children worn burn
ed to death, and thirteen others were
Injured, some fatally. In an Incendiary
tire escapes or Jumped from the wln
Sprlng street, occupied by twenty
Italian families, early today. The blaxe
followed a demand by members of a
so-called blackhand society for the
payment of $1,000 blackmail. It
spread through the building with
starlllnB rapidity as the hallways
were soaked with kerosene oil by the
blackmailers.
Tenants fought their way down the
Are escpaes or Jumped from the win
dows while babies were thrown from
wndows Into tho arms of policemen
on the sidewalk.
Ofthe Injured, Ave of whom two are
children, are not expected to recover.
Several tenants were Injured by
falling from the escapes and the po
lice had to club the men to keep them
back and save the womea and chil
dren. , , t
The loss was about 11,4,
SENATE SUBSTITUTE EOR
FEATURE REPORTED
Gives President Power to
Apply Kates to Any Coun
try bv Proclamation.
STILL TALK LUMBER
(lly Awtoclatod Press.)
WASIIINCTON. April 20. An ex
tended speech hy K'-nator McCumber,
favoring free lumber, occupied sever
al hours In the senate- today. His re
marks provoked an extended contro
versy among ndwocatea of a tariff on
lumiier. Mr. McCumber said while
he was a thorough protectionist, he
would not agree to a tariff on prod
ucts such as coal, iron ore, lumber
and oil that are being exhausted and
cannot be replaced.
Senator MK'umber contended that
the Southern democrats are making
stronger appeals for protection than
the republicans of the old school, and
Senator Tillman Interrupted him to
say:
We are getting so badly mixed
here that it is hard to tell the hogs
from the goats and I am afraid that
before we g-t through there won't
be trough enough for all the hogs
to get their scraps."
Senator Aldrlch reported from 'th"
committee on finance additional
amendments to the tariff bill and th"
senate adopted a motion fby him that
until further notice the senate shall
iner t at 1 1 o'clock dally.
The senate finance committee sub
stitute for the Payne tariff' bill max
imum and minimum prowdon, re
ported to the senate by Senator Al
drlch. chairman of the eomml'"
puts In effect after March II. 110,
the maximum provision for an ad
dltkmaJ 25 per cent ad valorem on
all of the rates of the senate bill an 1
then gives to the president the pos
er to apply minimum rates to anv
crmntry or section of country by prne.
iBma(ion.
It provides for a duty of five cents
on coffee and ten cents an tea Import
ed from the countries In which maxi
mum rates are applied. The section
also gives the president power to em
piny a tarirr commission, ror rno pur
pose of gathering information, only.
Favoring a tariff fr revenue only.
Senator Fletcher of Florida today
.poke In favor sf retaining the tax on
: . , 1. .. .uA ninsl.,u
, lumoer, now i"e-n 17 me
might ret protection for manufact
urers, and yet pay free prices for all
hla luppUeer v
" ! tt LOOKS 6000 X jiujI
milfA ill f. j if1 )
HUSBAND KILLS NEPHEW
V 1 HAD DISHONORED HIS HOME
f
Tragedy Occurred in Courtroom Where the Guilty Couple Were Under Arrest.
Wife Is Alleged to Have Confessed Her Relations With the Boy Whom
? Her Husband Had Befriended.
(By AsemcislC'd Trim.)
DKTnoiT. Aprti -Dr. A. K.
Boyajlun an Armenian, May ahoiand"
fatally autmtm hk acpnw, ar
loon Gastanlan,' irhllo th l4Ur W
being arralgaed bl Poe Wttrt With
his aunt, th physl4an'9 yiito, on a
statutory charge. i ,., , .
Dr. Boyajla flred four ahota at his
nephow, thre ot whleir Touna ,xneir
mark. He then turned tn revolver
on his wife nd flred th two re-
malnlna bullet at hdr. A-Jiewspaper
artkrt aav thiwiwa-WH paWta W" H dwlaroa that ahs
FLORIDA WOULD LIMIT
SUFFRICETO WHITES
Senate Passes Joint Rosolu
tion for Constitutional
Amendment.
(By Associated Press.)
TAL1.A11ASSKIC, Kla., April .10.
lly a vote of 20 to 10 the senate to
day adopted the Heard Joint resolu
tion which submits to the voters of
Florida a constitutional amendment
providing that the voters of the state
shall be "white, mule persons of the
age of twenty-one years and up
wards." This resolution, which in
similar to one which passed the senate
two years ago, but was killed In the
house, now gueK to the house, for con
sideration. Senator Heard, of Pensaeola, author
of tho resolution read a letter from
Senator Money, of Mississippi, com
mending the uttempt to regulate the
negro vote.
NEW TRIAL GRANTED
DUKE'S EX-WIFE
(Rj Associated Pros.)
CHICAGO, April 0. Mrs. Alice
Webb, former wife of Hrodle I..
Duke, the tobacco manufacturer, to
day was granted a new trial. The ac
tion was based largely on the plea of
her attorney thai at the time She was
convicted on a charge of passing a
worthless check, she was too 111 prop
erly to plead her eauso.
TAFT WILL HELP
PARTY IN VIRGINIA
WASHINGTON. April 30.--l'res-dent
Taft today Informed Represen
tative sienip. of Vlrglna when the
latter called at the White house that
the administration would gkidly ren
der any assistance t could to the re
publicans or Virginia in the forth
coming campaign, and he added that
ho would auk one of his cabinet tu 1
cers to attend and epeok at the Vir
ginia state republican convention to
bo held Juiy 2S
WASHINGTON. April JO -Forecast
for North Carolina.: Showers and
cooler Saturday with brisk west to
northwest winds, Sunday fair.
&H0WER&
The Convention City.
;:
Ing her into a vacant Jury ronl. ,
Mrs. Eoyajlan, whn to twenty-lght
and her twenty-thrae yar old nephew
were arresUd lat night " Boyajlan
told m rmarkab! itory of him dia
eowry of the alleged relations bo
iwwn hi wife and nepheir whom he
had brought from hi hom4 at lawn,
Uaat. asd ' w educating In local
medk-at n1le. Hie suspicions were
first arotatrd by hearing hi wife mur-
mur hi nrphwc nam .In hr lnp,
The Oootor aumanoneq a wwyor anu
CUSTOMS APPEAL COURT
PBOyillEDjy SENATE
Provides Nice Soft Berths
For Many Faithful G. O.
I Lawyers.
(Hy Asmx lnled Prrss.)
WASIIIMIT'iN, April .11 The es
tabllMhiiient of a I nlted Hlntes court
of customs nppeals and the appoint
ment of an additional asslHtant attorney-general
for the prosecution and
trial of all caws of appeal from de
cisions of the board of general ap
praisers are provided for In the
amendments to the customs adminis
trative act reported by the senate
finance committee today. The salaries
of the nine general appraisers ha .e
been Increased from $7,000 to $9,000.
The court of customs appeals will
consist of a presiding Judge and four
associate judKCS Nine
cnits are prolded for.
places deslgriHl'-d being
Judicial clr
iimong the
;.'ew Orleans
and lialvcslon.
Ihe Judges will receive a salary of
$10,000 a year and the clerk will re
ceive $4,000 a year.
Tin court wilt have the services of
the I'lilied Slates marshals In toe va
rious districts in whbh the session
windows into Ihe linns of pollcem. 11
KEPT EVIDENCE
READY AT HIS HAND
SAN I'ltANCISCO. !.. April :S0
Progress mail'' this week has en
couraged a belief that lb" end of Pat
rick Calhoun's trial may be reachle il
soon- lime during May James I-'
Kelly, probabh the ol b si number of
the disgraced S( Inn II . board of sup' r-
isors ,was cro-s-cxamnicd by Kar.1
ItoK' rs, today Mr lingers drew front
K'lly an admission that since lh
lime of his loiifesslon before the grand
Jury In llioi; he has carried with him
a verbatim copy of bis statement. In
or.br. as be admitted, that he might
recall the material points of his con
reunion when any of Ihe bribery graft
trials made It necessary fur him to
testify.
NATIOVWi APTO KHOW.
ATLANTA. April 30 The national
automobile show at which the 1910
models will be placed 00 exhibition
rr the first time In the l.'nltcd States
will be held In Atlanta at the audito
rium armory, November 27 to Decern
bcr 4. Inclusive. These, dates w.r
decided upon here today at a con
ference between 8. A. Miles of New
fJork. general manager of the na
tional association of automobile man
ufacturers. Alfred Reeves, general
manager of the American Motor Car
Manufacturers' association.
WHO
made a full confession. He then
swore out warrant for the couples
arrest. When the case was called to'
day and Justice Jeffries ordered Baa
tanlaa to rise, Boyajlan whipped out
the revolver and flred. One bullet en-
tared the young man'a back, Another
penetrated hk wrist and third his
hand.' Ha fell to thi hoor as th doc
tor turnod the revolver toward hi
wife. The wlldcmt ' excrement pre
vailed In the court room a bytadn?
r and offtter Jumped for th mad
dpned husband who Wa 4 : tUTatd
Oastsnlsn dlM tonHtht. -;-
CHARLOTTE 0RESS1NC UP
Immense Reviewing Stand
Erected for President
Tuft to Speak From.
(Kc-lal to The Otlson
CHAHItTTE. N. C. April 30 It
has been arranged definitely that
president William II. Taft will de
liver his address on the twentieth of
May. at which time this city will cele
brate the 1.14th anniversary of tha
signing of tb Mecklenburg declara
tion or Independence, from the re
viewing stand which Is now being
erected In rront of Mecklenburg coun
ty court bouse and surrounding the
monument commemorating the sign
ing of Ibis Immortal document. This
stand will perhaps be the largest ever
erected In the state and the Indica
tions tire that It will be crowded to
its inmost capacity, Judging from the
. 1 r, , 1 for tickets from Charlotte as
well as other towns of North and
South Carolina. fleneral admission
the stand will be. $1.00 and to re
served seats $2.00. the latter giving
the occupants an opportunity to be
near the president during tho parade
ami while he Is makln his address
i,r,l,.. f,,r seals mav be sent to Mr.
I no. It l!os, treasurer or tlie review
lug stand committee, or 10 inn aoc.ro
larv of Ihe Crcater Charlotte club.
The committees In charge of the
ce. bratlon are making every effort to
,.riai'.re for lieeomOllll t iollS for the
.n-riini"' for accommodations for the
visitors who will be hen- on this his
toric occasion. With the excellent ho
le! facilities r the city In addition In
the several hundred boarding houses
there is no fear on the part of theceti
central committee that Charlotte will
l.e amply prepared to care for all who
1 nil committee but that Charlotte wll
gun decorating for the event, thi
prospects being that several days be
fore the celebration the streets will
be a blaze of glory for the reception
of Ihe troop wh will reach here sev
eral days before, th arrival of Presi
dent Taft.
AMKIUCAN JIIITV.
NEW YORK. April 30 A verdict
of guilty of criminal libel was found
today against the War company, pub
lishers of The New York American
on an Indictment charging the publl
cation of an article libeling John D
Kockcfcller, Jr. A flno of $500 was
assessed.
rjKK I LI MBKIl VIMST.
NORFOLK. Va., April 30. Fire at
1 a. m , this morning broke out in
the lumber plant of the Roper-Jack
son-Whits Lumber company. Tha big
plant Is probably doomed.. Tha eom
pany Is said to have between 171,00
and $100,000 InresUd la th plant.
5
USED BYTRUST TO
II
witnesses Testify to Fraud
ulont Adulteration By
Turpentine Men
COURT REPRIMANDS
COMPANY SECRETARY
Was Nodding Head And Mak
ing Demonstrations To
wards witness on Stand '
By Associated Press.)
SAVANNAH, Oa., April lO.Thd
trial of the officers of th American
Naval mores company In th United
mates court for alleged Violation of
the Hherman anti-trust act proceeded
rapidly today. ,
N. . Graves of Philadelphia who
la In the varnish business, gave tes
timony as to th business method
of tha Philadelphia branch of th
American Naval tor : company,
which was In faot. tat h wn
quoted a price on which supplies could
hu bought, tut when tha company
found he could not get rrxtln any
where islae, the Quoted prlo Wa
materially raised. II was narainsd
at length hy the attorney for tha
defense regarding th ethic of th
business,
Evidence Intended to hoW that
rosin which was shipped by th
American Naval Atom company
to soap and varnish manufacturer
had been up-graded and that an ap
paratus designed to heat naval atorea
in the Jacksonville, Kla., yard had
been experimented with, its object be
ing to Increase th volume of spirit
by expansion wa offered by th pros
ecution, ' C. A. Holt, an electrtolan
of Jacksonville, wa asked about th
apparatus and stated that h con
structed such an apparatus for Calr
strttcted audi an apparatus for: Carl
experimented With In a firty-fiv gal
lon ttuncntlno tank. ' Further than
this, however, th government wak
Urtahts to v '
C, A. Uereomb, laundry a-oap manor
facturer of Milwaukee, declared he
"didn't get th grades 4 rain he or-'
derd and paid fr" from . th dor'
fehdant company, ' He brought am
ple of the rosin he received to gar
vannah tn b analysed by govern
ment experts. During the session
Judge Hheppsrd, who I presiding, orr
dered Charles J. De Loach, ona of
the dnfemlanta and aecretary of th
American Naval Htor company to ,
move his sent, stating that ha had
notice htm shaking his head. OP, nod
ding It vigorously at time while Mr
Moyt was on ' the stsnd, Mr. t
I.oach staled that he must have dons
so unconsciouslyand th court at th
close of the discussion of tho incident,
stated that he did not intend to
Mr. Dcliach was conscious of what
he wat d .ing. , .
COMPLETESITS WOBK
fun Been Investigating Cas
vh of Alleged Bondage in
Various Southern States.
(lly Associated Pre.)
PKNHACOIvA, Kla., April 30.
Congressional peonage Commission,
composed of Representative Henett
or New York and Burnett of Alabama
which bus been conducting an Inves
tigation Into the several cases of al
leged peonage which have coma be
fore the United Htate court her dur
ing the past several year concluded
their Investigation tonight and left
for Alabama points, where their work
will be continued.
Court officials, attorney and Other
freely rurnlshed such Information a '
the commission desired regarding thl
'location.
MOB LYNCHES THREE
NEGRO MURDERERS
(My Anstx-iated Press.)
MAIiHMAIU Texas. April 30. A
mob entered the county Jail her
early today, secured three negroes,
Creole Moss, t'ln Hill and Mat Chase
and lynched all of them. The ne
groes were charged with snooting an I
killing Deputy Hherlff Mark Huffman
and wounding Constable Alex CarglU,
a few days ago while the officer wer
raiding a crap game.
COUPLE DROWN
IN SUDDEN SQUALL
(By AsMNdated Pre.)
ATLANTA. On., April 30. William
and Pesrl Wlthrow. two youqg peo
ple, brother and sister, were drowned
her this afternoon a a result of th
boat capalxing In which they wwf
rowing on Lakewood, a email lake
near th elty. The boat wa om
distance from the landing and when
miniature squall struck th boat n
over-turned and the occupant wer
drowned befor aid could reach them.
DEVICES
MARKET IS nOSI