THE ASHEV1LLE CITIZEN. THE WEATHER: FAIR 4 Associated Presi Leased Wire Reports. ASIIKVILLE.N.C, THURSDAY MORN I X( J, MAY y., iWh VOL. XXV. NO. 205. VUWK FIVE CENTS. Mr. Masher And The Peach-Basket Bonnet Or the REVELATION OF THE DARK SECRET. T DELAYED JUSTICE TREACHERY LOST NICEPOSITIITO AMENDMENTS ARE highhoiohshl-d EMPQRIZE WHEN BISHOP GALLOWAY TOTHEMEMORYOF BY NATIVE SffflTE All Public Business Will Be LIKELYTO GARRY Senator Aldrtch Will Not Risk MPT. HENRY WIHZ Monument at Andersonvllle OLD NORTH STATE y a. - I rrAfcvV jjjr fint t'f j lifv Suspended Today as Tribute to Him MOST DISTINGUISHED BISHOP IN CHURCH Reputation as a Divine. Pub- Heist And Pulpit Orator National In Its Scope. (By AwwiaU'd Press.) JACKSON, Miss.. May 12 Bishop Charles B. Galloway, of the Methodist Episcopal church, south, died of pneumonia at hiH home here at 5 a. in., today. Bishop Galloway, Mississippi's most distinguished divine and best known publicist, for the lust twenty years held rank among the greatest pulpit orators of America. His illness, of several days duration, was a mild form of pneumonia, complicated with heart trouble. The bishop was taken ill la-st Fri day enroute from Nashville where he had attended the annual session of the college of bishrfps. No alarm over his condition was felt until Monday night when pneumonia developed in one lung. The patient grew worse rapidly. During the final -twelve hours he was unconscious. Orders have been Issued for all de partments of the federal, state, county and municipal government to remain closed tomorrow, and Mayor Crowder Issued a proclamation urging all the business houses to close for the day. Bishop Galloway was possibly the most prominent of the bishops of the Methodist Episcopal church, South, He was born at Kosciusko, Miss., September 1, 1849, and graduated In 1886 from the University of Mississ ippi. The degree of doctor of laws was later conferred upon him by the Northwestern university and by Tu lane university. He entered the mln. lstry In 16J, Bishop Galloway's writing covered a wider range Perhaps than those of any other person connected with the Methodist Episcopal church. South, and he had traveled extensively. For a number of years he took an active Interest In the prohibition of eam pnigns In Mississippi and other South ern states. He was president of the (Continued on page Six.) T ETHICS AI GAMBLING THEMES OF CONGRESS Preachers Differ as to What the Religious Obliga tions of Genius Are. OUR MONTE CARLOS (By Associated Press.) BOSTON. May I.'. Discussion an.1 debate on topics of ptTtlnent Interest to the church were continued at the second days session of th" national Episcopal congress today, "the in compatibility ot genius and ortho doxy" being the subject considered at the forenoon session. Papers were read by Rev. Snmu 'l D. McConnell of Kaston. Md.. and ti e Rev. William Austin Smith of Milwau kee on today's subject were read. Ek". McOonnell denounced ortho doxy as an obstruction to thought and truth and said that It remained for genius to break down its wall He claimed that it was Impossible for a man of genius to be orthodox while that spirit has always opposed snd always will be opposed to the spirit of truth. Mr. Smith spoke In a similar vein, although his address was more con servative. John Dewltt Warner of New York fhen addressed the Con gress. He arguad that genius and or thodoxy are not Incompatible. Evil of Rambling. "The. ethical aspects nf gambling" was the topfe discussed tonight by two will krtown vsrritvrs and twr prominent New York residents. Rev. Flavels 8. Luther. I J. D.. pres ident lof Trinity college. Hartford Conn., was the opening speaker and was followed by Sereno s Pratt, sec retary of the chamber of commerce. New York. Mr. Pratt sald that the only time that Abraham Lincoln used strong language in the white house was in referring to the Wall street gambline In gold during the Civil war When we see the gamblers In Wall street gambling on the hazards of the na tion." sld Mr. Pratt, "snd deliberate ly depreciating the values of other people's property or manipulating eornera, by. which consumers are made to pay exorbitant prices for the ne cessities ol life; when we see them Vote on Any Doubtful Proposition SIMMONS WOULD CUT TARIFF ON CLASS Senator Crawford's Strong Appeal For Conservation of Natural Resources (By Aftflociated Press,) VASHIXOT( N. May 1 2. Senator Simmons today offered an amendment ttt the window kU.hh schedule of the triff bill reducing th ratf-H InUovv those suggested by Senator Cummins In his amendment to the 8am e j-iura-graiih yesterday. " The rates proposed by you are the rates of the Wilson bill are they not?" Inquired Mr. Aldrleh, addressing the senator from North Carolina. "Weiyireplted Mr. Sinimujin, smil ing and Hesitating, "that should not be an argument ugalnHt them. 1 think if that is the case it would rather be a commendation." Mr. Simmons says he did not know whether his rates were the sam as those of the VlU..n bill, but Mr. Al drleh replied that h. bad compared them and thought they were almost identical with the rates of the demo cratic Wilson art. Mr. Simmons then addressed the senate at some length upon the win dow glass industry to demonstrate that the glass manufacturers could prosper with duties much below those provided in the pending meumre. The section was temporarily passed over. C.ore lM'femlH Jt.ler. Mr. Smoot gave more Instances of what he declared were undue profits reaped by retail merchants. Mr. (ore, the blind senator from Oklahoma, delivered an Impassioned defense of retail dealers against aHT I charge of extortion. t "This senate," declared Mr. Gore "has turned lteself Into a grand jury and Is here ready to return a verdict against the retail dealers for the high prices of articles used by the Ameri can people and the senator from Maine has constituted himself fore man of this Jury. The manufacturers and trusts are undertaking to hold up the mldddle men and retailers as a shield to protect themselves against (Continued on page three.) PURPOSE TO ENFORCE LAWS AGAINST TRUSTS Culberson Suggests that To bacco Trust Is Fit Sub ject for Prosecution. FOR FRFK HAND TWIST (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON. May 12. Pleading for an amendment to the tariff bill to permit the producers of tobacco to sell hand twist tobacco without pay ment of a duty or six cents per pound, Senator Paynter, of Kentucky, today laid before the Senate a history of the tobacco industry in this country. What the tobacco grower de. sires." set id Mr Pay titer, 'is the privi lege of selling Ills tobacco in the nat ural b af to th- consumers: tbat this privilege niav be exercised by selling it to tobacco dealers and they be per mitted to sell it to the consumers without the payment of tax "The evidence conduces to show that the tobacco growers business has not been prosperous. Mr. Paynter declared that the to-liai-cii growers believe they are in the "grasp of a conscienceless monopoly" anil gave a history of the so-called tobacco trust, lie averted, to ttie to bai troubles in K.nluck and ex- pressed the hope that the enactment; of the proposed amendment would! remove the causes which have pro. voked these troubles. W hen Senator I'aynb-r concluded, Senator Culberson made brief com- ! ments on the recent curt decision m litigation against the tobacco cor- j poration instituted by the department I of justice. He said that four circuit Judges of the I'liited States had ex pressed the opinion that this "trust" was a monopoly and existed in viola tion to the laws of the 1'nlted Slates. "I do not know what may be the purpose of the present attorney-general in respect to this suit" said Mr Culberson, but he has made a speech recently In New York in which great doubt is thrown upon the course he proposes to take with reference to the enforcement of this anti-trust law. "I want to call attention to the fact tlist the attorney. general of the t'm ted States in a case brought by his (Continued on pax three.) Unveiled by Daughters of Confedracy ORATORS RELATE HIS ACTS OF KINDNESS Horrors of Military Prison Be yond His Power to Pre vent or Remedy (By Associated Press.) ANDEP.SONVILLE. Oa May 12. Under the stars ami stripes ami, the confederate, stars and bars, there was dedicated here today the monument to Captain Henry Win, commander of Andersonvllle prison and executed at Washington at the end of the war on the order of a military cnmmlalon which tried him for murder and flag rant cruelty martyred, not execut ed, said the Georgia laughters of the Confederacy who unveiled the monu ment today In the hope that It will stand to Wlrst memory In time consid ered everywhere In a friendly light. The national significance of these exercises was not lost upon the throng whieh crowded about the monument, so Kreat lu numbers that not All could hear the speakers voices dis tinctly. A blazing south Georgia sun looked down upon the scene, the sleepy little village of Andff rsonvllli lay in the background, and the na tional cemetery and prison park where 13.000 "boys in blue" laid down their lives, stood In Impressive si lence nearby. Over the hushed throng scarcely a wound rippled and tears sprang to hundreds of eye' as Mrs. Perrln, of Natchez, Miss., only living daughter of the dead commander loosed the veil from the tall, straight white monolith. Spring time fiowert were heaped upon the monument, andspenkers who loved and refj(ected theToST'ease" stood near Sits bas under the oce rival nags and torn many Incidents in the career of Wins. stories of kindness to Northern pris oners and of attempts to secure foi them friod and shelter which lu could not get. Win Was No Tyrant. Pleasant A. Stoveall, editor of The Savannah Press, said that the dedica tion was not intended to re-open ques tions long since settled, but to do an 'Continued on page four.V WHAT BECAME OE DAVIS BOOTY IS MYSTERY TOO BAFFLING FOR POLICE Cleverly Concealed All His Expenditures by Draw ing Money in Cash. GRAND JURY HAS CASE (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, May 12 Thi grand Jury's Investigation Into the large financial transactions of John C. Davis, the Washington attorney, and his brother Martin T. Davis, sec retary of the Potomac Building and Loan association was completed today and that body will reports Its finding tomorrow. The grand Jury heard the conclu sion or tile story of Thomas A. Owens the river pilot, who claims to hav. signed a number of blank notes for John C. Dav is. to be used, as hi thought. In the course of business, as Davis was acting as the financial backer of Owens. Dr. Wllkens and W K. Slsson, both of Alexandria, also told the grand Jury how John Davis op. -rated In Alexandria, where It Is said, he ob talned rrom investors various sums aggregating J .u.iiuh. Hypnotism Is advanced by at least two former clients of John C Da i- as the means adopted by him for sc. curing advances for investments from them A charge of forgery against Johr. C. Davis Is made In a suit in eqult iiled todav tn the district Supremr court by- Mrs Alice K. Carraher, wh alleges that Davis secured from her for Investment, not only the Jl.OOn insurance money Bhe received on ac count of her husband's death, but all the money she possessed. The district attorney and the polic are baffled so far In their efforts lc find how John Davis spent his money. (VCnen his check books were seized they expected to gain some informa tlon from that source, but the evi dence from these books has only In creased their difficulties. Nearly all of the checks, it is understood, that were drawn by Davis, were made payable to "self" and were caahed by him, and the "money disbursed- TWENTY PERSONS .BLOWN Torn and Mangled Bodies Hurled Hundreds of Feet, and Boxes Harrowing Scenes When the Dead from the Quarry. (By AMorlated Prcee. ) ALBANY, N. Y., TnTy-II. At least twenty men were killed y a prema ture blast ot dynamite In a stone quarry operated by the cailanan Itoad Improvement company near South. Bethlehem, ' eleven miles south west of Albany. The dead are;. John Hoyt Cailanan, vkM president and general manager of th com pany. , . Charles IJ. Cailanan. a Brother of the manger. Leroy iMcMJUan, assistant super intendent. John Hendrlckson, steam driller. TIFT UNO WISH A FORMIDABLE TEAM The Prosidcirt and Former: Champion Partners on Chew Chase Links. (By AstHMiiited Press.) WAHHINOTo.V May 12. 1'rcsldenl Taft this afternoon on the Chevy Chase club links with Walter J. Tra vis, former natl'im l and International champion, for hi partner, helped defeat by a score f one up, the op posing team, composed during the first seven holes of play of General Clarence 't. Edwards and K. nden Ljlortsmann. whone place was taken after tht seventh hole by Captain Archibald Putt. The feature r the game wii u remarkable drive made by the pres ident, who on tic- eighteenth hole. d with a loni; straight drive t within three feet i.r the home green hole. The hiindrcls of members of the chili, Ijoth men and women, wh i were gfithcr.-d around the home green broke Into lonif ripi'lause at the pres ent's extraorilin.tf v play. rnforto- nately he foozt' .1 i.i putt And m.-ole the hole In three. At tile seventh hob. the preHiit' nt .- two up: but I' n captaln Mutt won ing the si ore on- 'resident and r. ndlvtidunt score of and that of Mr. ami Mr. Travis a . t eral Edwards and the eighteenth. m;i up In favfir of th Travis. The tola! Mr. Travis was T Taft 92. MRS. W1I.MIV8 WILL. , MOBIL, :, Ala. May 12. The will of Augusta Kvans Wilson, the novel ist who died Hun. lay. was filed .todnv for probate. T I ' r public benest consist of $1.0101 each to Kt. Plan ts street M'thodist church. Protestant Orphan asylum an I non sectarian In firmary. . $i00 dollars to the Y. M. . A. library of Mobile. , Bperlal be. qnests to relativ-s amount to about r.fty thousand dollars. WAHHINOTON. May 12. Forecast North Carolina: fair Thursday and LKrlday; light south to southwest Winds. ft' A j Pi t Jj" 'juo1 (I) i en, a THovmtioPMmy tvr pid'wt i rai ' IN AN EXPLOSION Fred Hnyder, master mechanic. James Maloney, blacksmith. William Hauines, fireman. " Fred Zappert, agent of the National Power company. New York. Twelve Italian wrmen. One thousand pound of dynamite exploded, and the bodice of the vic tims were hurled hundreds of faot by the concussion and so badly mutil ated as to be almost beyond recog nition. As darkness was railing a wagon drew up In the engine huaeu loaded with the bodies that had bsen picked up back on the quarry hill. A crowd of grief stricken relatives gsthered around eager to Identify the TURPENTINE MEN FIND TECHNICAL DEFENSE Failure of Jury to,finl nR to! Some Defendants May In validate Verdict. ti.y Associated Preea.) j KAVA.VNAH, ilu , May 18. Con tending that the verdict rendered by 'the Jury In the so-culled "turpentine trust'' case is Incomplete and void, and (lull no valid Judgment inn be ren-l 'd. red on It. the live men convicted In j lbe,.tiiiil of the nisi Just ended, to day t!l' H motion In aires! of Judg J ' menl lu th- Culled Slates court here I Thi- defendant base their cJteli-j ; Hon upon the failure of the Jury to1 make a lindlng as to the America!! j Naval Stores company or the National! , Ti anspoi tn: ion and Terminal com-i i puny, llmt the Jury was discharged i without agreeing on a verdict, as to all the defendants Indicted or without teporilng a disagreement. The de feilo ll Is claim they can not lie found guilty unleHH the corporations are and ; that the corporations are ellmlnuteil from the i asc hy the Jury .lu.lg. William II HhcppMrd. who 'presided at Hi!- trial of the case, tool: th- oiiilion under advisement after Judge Samuel II. Adam Tor the de f. ns. and Assistant District Attorney A1'X Aki-noaa for the prose!-utloli r gue.i It this ainrno'n. if.- win ren der his decision probably tomorrow-, lie will not sentence tie- five men found gntltv until this motion Is ills pose, I f It is said that should Judge Hhep pard .litre, with t h-e contention of the defense, th" . gy efTcct Wolll'l I" e.piival.nt to a ycrdlit of not guilty and would place tin- live men beyo- ,! dang' r of Indl. trn.-nt on the. same charges base. I on the same fact. again. Th.- motion Indicates that the case will be hard fought until ever;. I' Sai effort has Im I'll made to obtain l. lief from the verd.-t of th- Jury CASES DECIDED IN SUPREME COURT P.Al.EIGH. N. .. Carolina Supreme e nine appeal today v othcrw bc aw folio Khlngle company. versed, Newton vs. affirmed;. State vs. May 12. North Hirt disposed of ith opinions and or liaillere vs i-w Hanover, re- llrown. Pender. Mine. Catawba. error. .Maunev vs. leather company McDowell, affirmed; Pool vs, Ander son. McDowell, affirmed: Crawford ys. Railroad. McDowell, new trial! State ris. Ianlel,McDow II. per curiam, af firmed; Snttle vs. Lumber company. Huncombe county, dlsmlssvd under rule 17; illllesple, Transylvania, dla mlssed for failure to Me brief. TO ATOMS OF D YN AMITE Afterward Collected Were Brought in in dead, only to turn away At the sick ening sight. Italians with shovels found here and there portions of bodies and brought their gruesome load In box es to the engine house which served aa a temporary morgue. The workmen had placed heavy charges In six holes and were working on the seventh 'when a percuasliln cp was prematurely discharged. A tr rifle explosion followed which hurled tone of rock Into the lr and scatter ed the bodies of the vtctlms In all directions. The officers were standing nearby at the time ditwtlng the work.. SOUTHERN BAPTISTS TO BEGIN SESSION TODAY Sentiment Against Aieept mice of Carnegie Fund -on the Terms Prem-rilied. (By Associated Press.) IiOIHVlI.LK, May 12. Report of committees and statements of the works of the auxiliary to the Southern Ititptlsts' convention which open to morrow night were the business of today's gathering of fi.000 Itaptlsts from nil pari of the I'nlted State Joshua Leveling, 'if naltlmot". was re-elected president of the board of trustees of the Southern Hnpllsi Theological seminary of Louisville, which is holding Its silver jubilee. A.x-ordlng to the repott of T P Itny, secretary of the foreign mission ary board during DION organized 70'J mission study classes In all parts of the world, with a membership of ten thousand ami two hundred study i lasses have been begun In lluptlsl (olbge with a membership of I wo I tiousa nd W D. Powell, of Louisville, secre tary of th'1 state mission boaid, re ported that the Ilapllsis In Kentucky now numbered .'i 1 'I.O'i'l. exceeding any otti.r dcnominal Ion. Lx-l'overnor Northern, of Atlanta lia , urrlved last night and will pre side over the kiyini-im' session. Joshua. Levering also proli.it.lv will he re-elected president of (tie general convention. Tlw It. v. Lansing llur rows, of Oeorglfi. ami th Oregory. of Virginia, hu lie i i: oi-.e served a- f the e.invefl- re. ..rdlrig seerctjirl llon for t w rit v v en y ears rind Wo'V will also retain their positions An Hlm.ii't unanimous sentiment t - reject tile Offer of the Carnegie foil', dstion fund, providing money to see tarlan schools that will drop th.-lt sectarianism, was the spirit at a ban iliiet tonight or the Southern liaptle education society In conne. tlon with the Southern Itaptlst convention whl"h opens here tomorrow ntght. The most prominent edueatorw of the South were prnsent at the ban'tuet held at the Halt Housei. The plea for the unification of the liaptlst college entrance, requirements was prominent in the speeches be fore the society, which will lect of fleer tomorrow. In an address before tha Baptist Young people' anion, the Rev. O. C n. Wallace of Baltimore attacked what he tsrma "fastldleu Baptist" whose sensibilities do not permit thm to approve tha Immersion practices. Followers of Chairman Adams Claim He Was Double Crossed by Leaders DISSENSIONS RIFE AAeyJG REPUBLICANS Committeemen Duncan And Judge Prltchard Charged WHhNofTotlnFalr" MY TAVJ " WAHHINOTON, May ll.Tha BP polntm. pt of Judge Connor to tha fed erul bench In the Eastern district at Nui lh (.'aniline, following closely upon the appointment of Royall B, Cabell, of Richmond, n commissioner of III. tcrnal revenue to succeed uommi- sluner Capers, has., thrown the Taft Heel republicans Into a frensy, anil bus given lis.' tn bitter dlenl0ll III the republican camp In that atate. It has also brought forth accusation ut treachery, of double dealing, of Jeal ousy and of "dog-in-the-mangar" on tlm part of the prominent leader, which threaten to disrupt th once close corporation of republican poli tics lu the state. " The party Waders, State Chairman Apcncer 11. Adams, had'hle eye on tills particular plum, Tha poaltlott ha alwuys been conceded to tha South, and Mr. Adam one wa practically offered th place before) Mr. Capers hud tendered hll resign. tlon. Knter t'(Miinilttenan Jamn. IC. C Duncan conceived a longing for the position himself, and et about uUgnlng hi , fores against Adanus and for himself. Mr. Duncan' fo lowing belong to the cloae. but pom erful coterie of the party of whtoK Judge J. C. Prltchard, of Athevlll, i the admitted and racogntaad head. Thi coterie soon .let I be known at the white houaa that Mr. AdmB ap polntment to the position waa Impoe. slble, and at th ame tlme .let U be known that Mr, Duncan' appointment to the job wa very delralil from l party standpoint. . ' But It appears that Preddent Taft has a line on republican politic In the Tar Heel stats himself, for when the fight became between the two s plrants became ton warm, he solved the whole problem by going over lnt Virginia and appointing Mr. Cabell. Went up a Howl. Thereupon, the Adamalts set up ) howl of trcucliery, They declrtr that Mr. Duncan and Judge Prltchard by their stand against Mr. Adam mad It Impossible for this atate to secure the commlsslonershlp. They charge Hint Mr Duncan went to Richmond to confer with Judge Prltchard, and that between them the rule or rufn policy was concocted and put Into ef fect. I MEMORIALS OF CIVIL? WAR OVER TO NElrV JERSET (Uv. Vovt mid Party Pres ent at Dedieation of Iloody Angle Monument. RKTURN BATTLE FLAG (Pr Associated Pre.) I liKDKItlCKSIIUlin, Va. May 12. - A memorial tablet on the battle field of ' P.loudy Angle" and a monu ment at Salem church. In memory of the New Jersey "volunteer, who fell on ttie rat th tieiiis ot npoitsyivania untv In the Civil war, were unveil. ed here toibiv. ol K c Massey. representing Gov ernor Swanson. delivered the address f welcome at the tablet unveiling. (lenerai Joseph Plume then transfer- 1 the memorial and monument to the slat, of New Jersey and Governor rt. of that state, made a speech ac. ptlng and transferring It again to t lie fifteenth New Jersey volunteer t.r.iris association. An address on b. lialf of lli.-ialr.T body wa delivered bv Tin oiiore K. Swayaee, of Washlng i .n. D Similar addressee of pre sentation snd acceptance were mad at the unveiling of the monument. Miss l-na Itowe and Mine Oran Jones, of this city, and Mis Jennie) 'awby and Miss Miriam Gordon, of New Jersey, Jointly drew the cord which disclosed the memorial to public view. on.- of the events which excited most Interest was the return of tha haitle flag of the Fourteenth Georgia Hegiment. Representative Parker and Col. A. W Whltchesd made speech i. Alsiut four hundred member of th New Jersey veteran aunodatlon war In attendance. .-" v- ' '-' The entire party, eprelng It de light In Virginia hospitality extended. returned to Fredericksburg and to night left an special train - fof Washington, enroute to Gettysburg to spemf'a day psfor returning bom. ,j (Cenilaued on page three.)

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