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THE ASHEflLLE CITIZEN. THE WEATHZB SHOWERS Associated Presa Leased Wire Reports. VOL. XXVj NOU99. ASHEVILLE, N. C, SATURDAY, MORNING, MAY 8, 190!). THICK FIVE CENTS. KIL1S LfFELONG PEOPLE FIT SEVEN E DISCOVERED CSRM OF TRACHOMA. AlllCH SLAVES FORTUNE SHIFTS HUNDRED PERCENT PART Dr HIS GRAFT E E TO THE FIT OMNSANITY 01! TARIFF DUTIES SULTAN POSTED "T I - V,; nkukOitaBh FRIENDiriSUDDEN TO GRATIFY ME IN NEWYORKBANK DELIGHT IN POWER DEMOCRATIC CAMP Then Fires SeVeral Bullets Into Body of His Clerk For' No Cause SHOWED SYMPTOMS OF DERANGEMENT Son of Slayer Was Only Wit ness of Tragedy In Father's Store (By Associated Press.) HUNTSVILLE, Ala., May 7 J Hubert Jones, senior member of (he insurance Arm of Jones anil Risun was shot and killed this afternoon by William L.' Haisey, president of the Halsey Wholesale Grocery company A. D. McDowell, shipping clerk of the Halsey establishment was fatally shot and is expected to die. Mr. Halsey Is in jail and la said to be Insane. The shooting; occurred In the Hal sey store, where Mr. Jones had gone to adjust some matters relative to in bu ranee. No quarrel occurred so far as Is known and the shooting was as unexpected . to Mr. Jones as to William U Halsey, jr., son of the slayer, who sat In the office and was the sole witness besides McDowell. McDowell was shot several minutes after Mr. Jones -was killed. He had telephoned for a doctor for J nes and the perceiving that Mr. Halsey had gone Insane attempted to escape from htm He was shot In the back, the bullet coming out In his abdomen. Halsey Jia been under treatment for incipient lnsanitl for some time and his affairs ha been manage 1 by his sons. Before going to see him Jones said he was ("afraid of the Job." The two men were school boys together an 1 have been lifelong friends and busi ness Associates. McDowell who is a young married man, has been emloyed by Halsry sevtwri, jynf; tnr, -was ' favorite with him. TWO REINSTATED. CINCINNATI, May 7. Chairman Hermann of the National baseball commission announced this afternoon that Pitcher Walch. of the Chleagi Americans and Second Baseman Ev ers "of the Chicago Nationals have been reinstated and again can play with their respective clubs. PEONAGE SENTENCES MUST STAND. IS ORDER OF THE SUPREME COURT Justice Harlan's Nephew Among Them Must Serve Eighteen Months. ALL ARE PROMINENT (By Associated Press.) PENSACOLA, Fla., May 7. Man ager W. S. Harlan, of the Jackson Lumber company of Lockhart. Ala.. Robert Gallagher, assistant superin tendent and three others connected with the company will have to serve terms In the Atlanta federal prison, to which they were sentenced on the charge of conspiracy to commit peon age. The United f Supreme court, according to telegrams received here today by local court official, has de nied the writ of certiorari by which it was sought to have reviewed the de cision of the Court of Appeals, which denied a ne whearlng. As soon as the mandate of the Supreme court reaches here the defendants will be taken Into custody and taken to At lanta. Manager Harlan Is one of the most prominent lumbermen of the South and the mills at Lockhart where It was alleged foreigners were held as peons, are the largest In this section. Mr. Harlan I a nephew of Justice Harlan, of the United States Supreme court. The aentences of the trial court are: Manager W. S. Harlan, eighteen montha and a fine of live thousand dollars. Assistant Superintendent Robert Gallagher, fifteen months an a fine of one thousand dollars. Dr7 W. E. Grace, a veternarlan, and Foremen C. C. Hilton and S. E. Hug-gins,- thirteen months and a fine of one thousand dollars each. K TILLED BY PLAYMATES. ANNISTON. .Ala,. May 1 Hose Wright aged twelve died here th.s afternoon a the result. It la alleged, of a fight With playmat ot about hbi own age. His head was badly mtrtHated with atones. Compllca tlons set In before ha died. Every Dollar Collected By Government Costs Consum er Seven on Tayed Article BACON OF GEORGIA ATTACKS THE SYSTEM Lead Schedule Is Finally Re duced to Same Rate As Provided In Dlngley Bill (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, May 7. Just b.' fore adjournment today the senate voted to fix the duly on lead con talned In ore at one and one-half cents a pound, which Is the rate of the Dlngley law, and of the pending bill as It was Dassed by the house of representatives. rirty-tnree senators Including a number of republicans and Senator Push of Colorado and McEnery of Louisiana, voted in favor of the duty nd nineteen democratic senators voted against It. This particular par. aragraph has not been opposed by the low tariff republicans and the vole was not significant. People Bear Burden. Many Senators took part In the dis cussion on the lead schedule and there was a fair prospect of reaching vote when Senator Bacon of Geor gia took the floor and proceeded to discuss the general principles of the protective tariff system. He declared that by a conservative Estimate f.r every dollar collected at the custom houses on the country. $7 was placed as a burden upon the people In the way of increased prices of the article! they consume compared to what they would pay If there were no duty. So that to raise (300.001.000 results In a burden of about 12,000. 000, 000 on th American people. If the benefits of this system, he said, could be dtstrib oted equally to the, people who "have to pay the Increase there would be greater justice in it, but he contend ed that the benefits go entirely to the producers of the articles affected. In response to a question from Mr. Oalllnger Mr. Bacon wjcaredi that nder a tariff for revenue only, a uty equal to twenty-five of thlrtv per cent ad valorem would be neces sary to support the government which would reduce the 2. 000. 000. 000 to the extent of about one-fourth. I DEFENDANTS TESTIFT IN SUITS ACAINST THE NAVAL STORES COMPANY Give Their Version of Stor age Charges and Deny Smothering Competition. ONE INDICTED BEFORE (By Associated Press.) SAVANNAH. Ga.. May T. The de fense got In considerable lesiimoiif today In the trial In the United tSates court, of the American Naval Storos company Tor anegea violation m u. Sherman anti-trust law L. M. Le- hardv. of Savannah, cotton factor. said it was customary to re-grade cot ton upon reaching the warehouse yards. He stated on cross-examina tion that there were no sworn in spectors of cotton as In the case oi naval stores. Spencer I Shotter, chairman or the board of directors of tne American Naval Stores company and the largest naval stores producer In me woria according to his own statement, wa called to (the stand, and when he had given testimony at the arternoon ses sion, four out of live of the individual defendants who were being tried, had been witnesses. Mr. Shotter displayed an intimate knowledge of even minute details or the corporations work. n,c staiea, and the statement caused surprise that he is not a citizen of the united States, though he has resided In Sa vannah thirty years, and before mat In Wilmintrton. N. C. but he was b- in Canada, and Is yet a subject of the British king. Mr Shotter told of the contract between his corporations and the Coa solldated Naval Stores company and the West, Flynn and Harris company, about which so much has been said during the trial. He stated that Wal ter F Coachman, vice-president of the Consolidated, expressed himself ss gratified with the contract when It was signed. Mr. Shotter said that the stor age charges made by the American was the consideration the American received for purchasing naval stores in Jacksonville. Fla, He stated that Jacksonville has not sufficient water to permit of loading large steamer for shipment abroad, and the Amerl- - i. -n-,-1-1- Continued on pact four.) Ten Millions Traced to Var lous Financial Houses In Germany LOST CONFIDENCE IN FRENCH YEARS AGO Capt. Putnam Bradley Strong Among The Followers Of New Sultan (By Associated Press.) OON'STANTINOPLK, May 7. The parliamentary commission which taking an Inventory of the contents of the Imperial palace at Yildix has learned that Albdul Ham Id deposited during recent months considerable sums of money In New York banks through a confidential agent. Tho amounts thus sent to America and the names of the Institutions holding them are, however, strictly withheld. It appears that Abdul Hamld ha In the neighborhood of tlO.000,000 In Grecian banks. An examination of the accounts of the deposed sultan ndlcate that "els confidence In French banks diminished several years ago, then passed successfully to Great Brit aln and Germany and was recently beginning to be reposed In American houses. Mehemed V drove today to the Mosque of the Dolmabagtsche palace for the customary ceremony of say Ing his prayers. After his devotions he drove 'to Masllk, his summer residence a mile outside the city. Following the Selamllk a drag hunt was participated In by Chief Envoy Bey, Putnam Bradley Strong of New York and about twenty others. The Younar Turks have organized a per inanent clulb for following tlrehounds, It Is expected another series of ex am Inst Ions will take place tomorrow and that probably twelve persons will be put to death. Gl'ILTY OF MANSLAUGHTER WASHINGTON, Ga., May 7. James M. Ptrlhblings was found guilty voluntary manslaughter tn his trial here today for killing Paul Dunaway sued e s-htcen. a ween ago. ne wu sentenced to serve three years. A new trial has heen aflked. TO HAVE CONE DOWN WITH PASSENCERS AND CREW Wreckage Belonging to Craft Found Over Place She was Last Sighted. HAD 21 PASSENGERS DUL.UTII, Minn., May 7. Advices received tonight are to the effect that the steamer Shores, six days over-due at Duluth, went down off Whlteftsh Point In I.ake Superior with all on board. The crew and passengers num. bered twenty-one. News of the probable destruction of the Shores was brought to Duluth tonight by sailors of the steamer Northland. They say that as the Northland was passing that point they discovered wreckage strewn all over the lake. In their opinion It be longs o the Shores. The Adella shores belonged to the Manx Transit company of Cleveland and was up ibound from Michigan with salt. Ru mor says that her passengers and crew numbered twenty-one but this cannot be verified. The steamship Shores was com manded by Captain S. Holmes, of Mil waukee, his crew numbered thirteen. On April 2 9, Captain Holmes reported his vessel passing safely thiough the Soo canal and since that time no word has Ween received fro mhlm. TO ABOLISH RACE GAMBLING IN FLA. (By Associated Press.) TALLAHASSEE. Fla., May 7 By a vote of 20 to 4. the Florida state senate today refused to Indefinitely postpone the Sloan anti-race track gambling bill and passed It from sec ond to third reading. The bill was unfavorably reported upon by the committee to which It was assigned. Senator Sloan of Lakeland spoke In favor of his measure, and Senator Mc Mullen of Tampa presented resolu tions from Tampa city council asking It passage. Senator Ruckman of Jacksonville made a vigorous fight against the bill and endeavored to amend It so that the antl-gambllng feature would apply to bridge whist. It 1 predicted the bill will pas the house easily. ' Prof.. Richard Greeff, who is atached to the eye hospital of the Berlin onlYersityrnas announced the discovery of the germ of trachoma. The dis covery the result of experiments mat tne so-caned. Egyptian eye disease and mat auer treatment nas begun tne surface. SEN. CLAPP SEVERELY SCORES CONFRERES Declared People Understood to Mean That Tariff Would Be Revised Downward. (By Associated PreM WASHINGTON, Way T;Mr. Olapp, republican, of Minnesota, in the sen ate today commented upon the policy of protection and referred to dlstlne- ions between a protective tariff and tariff for revenue only. The promises of the republican party, Mr. Clapp said, was that the tariff should be revised downward; and he asserted, that this promise hnd been made In resiKinse to a positive demand. lie said that the position on the part of the protective Interests was thnt we should let well enough alone and on the part of the consum ers that the tariff should be revised Y6u can't tell me." he said, "that the latter demand did not mean that the tariff should be revised ilnnwwurd. To take any other position Is mere boys piny, not him; less than a farce, and if I did not believe the duties were to be lowered in response to this exaction I would pack my Krli and go home, for us a senator, I nm nit required to participate In such a farce as the mere re-enactment of the Dlng ley rates. The people understood that' BASKET ON TRAMOAR ickiup of ( lock Kcvcalcil Its Presence Supply of Vegetables. BITENOS AVItKS. May 7. The ex plosion of a lioiiili at the coiner oi Corrlentes and ' rrito streets loihn njure'l twenty jfnons, four of tlum riously and c:io-d great exeiicmeui r a time. The bomb was hidden in basket of -k tables which was pluced on the pl;ii:orm of a tram cur, presumably by some one In sympathy ith the strike inaugurated on M::y day. A passenger heard a noise like he ticking of a lock coming from the basket and informed the police. The basket was r- moved by an officer nd the explosion followed almost im mediately. Anion;,' the Injured Is In. ictor Aguilar, an under commissioner of police anil time police agents A little girl, who was passing by had both legs fractured und other persons were more or lees I'ljureil. ne arrest has lie. n mode In connei - on with the affair. Business Is at a stand still and com merce has suffer I enormously as a result of the strike. SHOWER& WASHINGTON. May 7. Forecast: North Carolina: Shower Saturday, fair and warmer Sunday; moderate north to northeast wind. on apes. The professor also announce is contagious only In Us first stager mrectiouB germ disappear beneath tiu Party Platform Last Fall we wore to bays a revision downward the men who made the platform ttj,. derstood It; we understood It. Every body understood It, and no amount ot sophistry can other wise explain th popular demand and the party prom ise. "If this promise," he aald, "wsi for a revision that would tricar maintenance of the Dlngley rate then we lire confronted by the ridiculous. lies of the chief executive calllnr congress toxcthcr to revise' somethin that should stand unchanged until th end of time. "When the people made the demand for a tariff revision downward then was no suggestion that theee Indus tries were not sufficiently protected If the demand for revision did no1 mean cliuriKlnK the duties downward ll did not mean anything and we an indulging in a farce now." Declaring that if congress shouli' fall now to lower the tariff rates, th democratic, party would be put Ir position to so revise It two year. hence. E AS THEY OID DF THAW If Found Insane Jury Mav be Called to Pass Pii'sciil Condition. on ( lly AsMwIjitefl Press.) ri.CSIIIMS, N. V.. May 7. Aftel a l-rief breathing spell of two day tomorrow anil Sunday, the Ilalns trla will reiieh tlie beginning of the end (in Monday both sides will sum U .- fill Justiee c.arri tson will charge th( jury Tuesday. Thereafter the fati of Captain Peter C Mains Jr., C. K. A. on trial for the murder of William E Annis will be in the hands of twelv men. Three hours will be allowed eacl side for the final appeal to the Jury. Ah the trial nertrs its end Inith pros eeutlon anil defense profess conlidenc as to the outeonie. Most of the day's session was taken up with the testimony of the state't three insanity experts. They all ex pressed the opinion, predicted on the hypothetical question prepared by thi prosecution that Captain Ilalns wa sane at the time ne snot ana Kinea Annls. The belief prevails that If Captain H;ilns Is acquitted on the ground ol insanity the court may deem It neces- J Kiry lo iiiiii r a lunacy umi iibioii in inijuire into bis present mental con dition. This suggests. though ol course it Is hut a surmlso at present, the possibility of Captain Halns go- Ing the wav of Harry K. Thaw, to an Institution for the criminal Insane. The prisoner has sat throughout the trial with scarcely an Indication that he realized what was going on around him. He appeared at times more llte an automaton, moved about and sat down each day by bl keep ers, than a human being. His Three Score And Eight Yoars Forgotten In Guid ing Motive of His Life SHAPING TARIFF BILL TREMENDOUS STRAIN Has Lived Through All Hon- ors That Can Come to Him In Long Public Service ( By Sheldon S. nine.) YVASH1NUTON. May ".When one recalls that Nelson W. Aldrlch, sena tor from Ithoile Island, Is S8 year of age one wumlers why hn Is willing to undertake so huge a tUHk ns steer ing a tariff bill Ihruugh the senate. A man half his yearn might w. II quail before the purely physical lubor In volved, to say nothing of tho tre mendous mental strain. It cannot be ambition thnt keeps the Rhode Island senator at his tusk, for he already had all the glory which was to be gotten out of tho handling of a tariff bill. In the ease of Serene E. Payne, chairman of the house way and means committee, who Is only two years the Junior of Senator Aldrlch, the explanation may well be found In ambition. He regards the management In the house of the tar iff bill and the' affixing of his mime to the measure as the crowning ichlevement of his 26 years In con gress. It I the thing he has waited for and labored for these many years. But Senator Aldrlch ho tested every lepth and shoal ot honor that may ome from the handling of a tariff bill. The venerable Henator Morrill, if Vermont, was chairman of the lenate finance committee when the Dlngley act was passed, but he Was 'Ighty years of age and that the bur- len of the task fell on th shoulders if Henator Aldrlab, who ws the Unking republican member next to the chairman, waa a matter of com mon knowledge. ' The remodeling of he Dlngley. bill In the senate was luat a much recognised as the work f AJVIrlch as hn been the remodel ing of the bill which henrs the name f Mr. Payne. i iovo of Power. If not ambition, then It must be love if power which hns made Ald- 'Ich willing again to undertake the herculean task. Men as a rule don't 'Ike lo let go of power once they lathered it Into their hands, and here appears no reason why Senator Milrleh should he regarded a an ex- eptlon to the rule. Power he ter- nlnly has In abundance. It probably would not bo fair, how- ver, to write dtiwn hive of power as the sole motive with which Mr. Aid- rich Is animated. He I an apostle tnd a high prlnst of protection and II admittedly true that there la no ither man In the senate so well quipped to light the battle of the ilgh protectionists. Possibly he re tards It as the solemn duty to cap tain the gun trained not only against he democrat but against those mum- (Continued on page four.) STRANG HAS NARROW ESCAPE FROM DEATH Mae: line Wrecked on Spot His Partner Was lien Killed Last Fall. (fly Associated Press ) niRMINOIIAM, Alii., May 7 -a hundred feet of where -Wlth-Kmtlc Strieker, his partner, was dashed to leath In a twenty-four hour race las' fan. I wls 'Htfrang. 'this afternoon, narrowly escaped the grasp of the ,-rlm reaper. It occurred In the fifty- second mile of the one hundred mile vent of the automobile races and at time when Strang had the feature f the progrnm well In hand. Just as he rounded the curve where Strieker was killed last full, the ! lachuhle rim of the rluht front wheel ran off, hurling the machine Into tin- fence. Strang managed with difficulty to extricate himself and escapeil with nothing more serious than a number if severe bruises. Tllford Oowell of Montgomery In a Chalmers-Detroit, was awarded the one hundred mile event at the conclu ilon of the fifty-fifth mile. PROMINENT MAN DIES ON PULLMAN MONTOOMKR. Ala., May 7 Belled with a hemorrhage. Louis Washer, a well known' merchant of New York city died sudilenly near Greenville this morning on a Pullman car of s Iulswllle and Nashville train whlh arrived In thl city from Mobile about S.JO o'clock. lAccompanled by hi son and daughter, Mr. Washer waa en rout to hi home In New York from New Orleans. Now Said That Judge Connors Is Man to Bo Made Purnell's Successor G.O.P. MACHINE IS SORELY TROUBLED Cannot Conceive How Repu llcan President Can Walk Over All Precedent (BY TAV.) WASHINGTON, May T. The race for the North Carolina Judgeship, ln vnlvlng the appointment of v ucoe ' sor to the late Judge Purnsl!, I slowly but surely simmering down to a definite phase, and now the mlle of fortune seems to hover over the head of Judge Connor, a leading; dem ocrat front the eastern part ot the state, and a lawyer of Indisputable" a lil l rty. If he Is not appointed by the time this dispatch appears In print, the tar Heels Interested here will be eur prlssd. At any rate, It I a generally accepted fact that th appointment will be made before Tuesday. As I recently stated In a dispatch, to The t'ltlxen, it Wsa theft pretty certain that either the Hon. Tho. Settle, of Asheyllle, would be appoint, ed or else a democrat The big re publican gun front' North Carolina raised heaven and earth to stave alt the appointment of a democrat, even agreeing, It la said, to allow the nam ot r. Settle to go up In preference to a democrat getting the place. That Is, some of them ao Mated, but tub ' roaa H waa known that Mr, Betlls's ' appointment would be a bitter pill for the "machine crowd" that ha so often stood in the way of the brilliant Ashe vllle lawyer's Justly merited reward.' It ll known, too, the President Tift knows haw welt Mr, Mettle 1 ftttsd for the place, bat he live In the wrong? section of the Mate. And there II tands. "- ' ' v"-fc The republican machinist are egad ing venom at the prospect of. Con ner's appointment; ' To them It i In ! conceivable how a republican presl I dent can set aside precedent and give a valuable slice of pie outside the aa' a red circles of the federal crowd ot North Carolina. , CUBAN PRESIDENT WILL PAY US VISIT (Ity Associated Press.) NEW OKM0AN8, May 7.-Rettirn Ing today from Havana, where h wont to Investigate the health condi tions, President Harvey Dillon, of the Louisiana (Hate board of health, said thnt President domes of Cuba will soon make an extensive tour of the United Mates, although no definite date has been set. In a conversation with Pr. Dillon, the Cuban executive aald the health condition on the Island were excellent and that no fear was entertained of yellow fever this summer. DEFENCE WILL ASK FDR MRS. BDTLE1 ACQUITTAL Will Offer no Evidence and Rely Upon Failure of State's Proof. (fly AaHorlated Pre.) MKItCKIt, Pa., May T. Itelylng en tirely upon their contention that the Pennsylvania court have no Jurisdic tion In her case, counsel for Mr. James Boyle, on trial charged with aiding and abetting the kidnapping of "Hilly Whltla, today refused to of fer any evidence In her Behalf. Ar guments will he made tomorrow. Th claim of the prosecution that Mr. It.. vie participated while in thl ' 4e In the formation of a conspiracy to kidnap the boy, which will endeavor to have her released In Pennsylvania and turned over to th authorities at Cleveland. The state completed it testimony this afternoon. It was mainly th same a tnut given yeaieraay in in tn il or James Uoyle. but there were some additional witnesses summoned for the purpose of connecting Mr. Uoyle with the abduction. On Of the Cleveland policemen who took part In the arrest testified she ald: "I am the frail little woman who planned the whole thing." The find ing of the ransom money secreted In her clothing was also testified to. During the trial today Hoyle n- deavored to tell more than he had been asked- "I want to tell the whole truth about thl case now," said he. I want the whole thing cleared up. I was not to blame. The whole blame was on some one else." Tonight la her cell In jail Mrs. Boyle said; . . "Both Jlmmle and myself have tried to tell the whole story In connection with thl ease. . W have sot been permitted lo do eo. - It la not justice.