THE ASHEYILLE CITIZEN.
Associated Press
Leased Wire Reports.
VOL. XXV. NO. 312.
VSHEVILLE, N. C, SATURDAY MO UN I NO, AUGUST 28, 1001.
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AN ENGLISHMAN WINS
GRAND PRIZE FINALLY
Little Had Been Heard of Him
Until He Made New Re
cord For Time up
BETHENY AVIATION FIELD,
RHBIMS, August 27. Henry Far-
I roan, the' English aviator, a hitherto
unknown quantity In the aviation
I content, In a b'.-plane of hlB own do
sign. oroKa tne worlds record for
duration of flight and distance in a
havier-ehan-alr machine today and
won the Grand Prix De La Cham
pagnethe endurance teat by a re
markable flight officially recorded as
180 kilometre (111.78 miles) in
three hours, four minutes, 6 2-5 sec
ond. He actually covered an extra ten
Kilometres and remained In the air
ten minutes after 7.30 o'clock this af
ternoon the hour that the timekeep
ers under the rules, eeased to keep
a record of the night.
The other contestants finished In
I the order named: Hubert Latham,
Louis Paulham, Count De Lambert,
Hubert Latham, M. Tlssandler; Roger
Sommer, M. Delagrange, M. Blerlot,
' Glenn H. Curtlss, M. Lefbvre.
.. Caught Tliem Napping.
Although Farman's brilliant record
as an aeroplanist should have warn
ed the sharps that he was a danger
ous competitor, his victory was at
complete surprise. He had been pre
paring his machine secretly and had
not Appeared upon the field until to
day except for a few practice flights,
and had been almost forgotten.
Indeed, after he started about 4.30
p.-lrt.,- keplng' close to the ground,
while Latham and others were soar
ing uyjuiMctaoulu faehlon high tn the
tir, Fat-mart attracted ao attention
until 'he had flown eighty kilometres.
Then suddenly the watchers woke jup
and began to make inquiries, only
lo discover that he had gone out car
rying petrol enough for a five hour
flight, and equipped with a self-cool
ing revolving motor built by the
Gnome company after his own de
sign.
STORM RAGING IN GULF
THREATENS TO SWEEP
OVER SOUTHERN CITIES
Report Prom Gulf Ports In
dicates That Hurricane is
Of Great Intensity.
TARPON DESTROYED.
(By Associated Press.)
NEW ORLEANS. August
four o'clock this afternoon the
r bureau substituted for the
11 At
Warning of the morning a hurricane
warning for the Texas coast. A dis
turbance of marked Intensity Is now
centered over the gulf, off the mouth
of the Rio GraBde river and Is mov
ing north if ard.
With the windows of the ptlot house
broken in, the starlKjard deck rail
ings swept away and showing other
evidences of her battle with a Wet
Indian hurricane in the Yucatan chan
nel, the United States Krlilt company's
steamer Cartago' arrived In port to
night from Bocas Del Torn. No er
rlous Injury was done the staunch
vessel.
SEVERE AT TARPON.
BROWNBVILLE, Texas, August 2 7
'After spending the night at the
quarantine station at Tarpon beach,
refugees brought to the mainland to
day by the life saving crew from Bra
sos de Santiago, tell of damage to
the Pedro and Brazos Islande as a re
sult f the gulf storm which swnpt
Inland last night. At Tarpon beach
every building except the Unlit house
snd quarantine station were, either
damaged or destroyed but, so far as
ascertainable, no lives were lost. The
greater damage. It is stated, was the
result of the high waves, the wind
not attaining a violent velocity.
MEXICO CITY. August 27 With
the most violent gales In twenty years
threshing the waters of the gulf In
the vicinity of Mexican ports and with
the wind estimated to be blowing at
a rate of from seventy-live to ninety
miles an hour Vera Cruz, Templco
and Matamoras. have escaped severe
damage only because the patch of the
hurricane followed a mean distance of
forty miles from the coast.
According to the calculations of the
local station. New Orleans will fSQjfc
th. V nrrlanA tnnlirKt. ' e;
Vrf hi
Workman Carelessly Threw
Lighted Cigarette Into
Fuse of Dynamite.
BODIES THROWN HIGH
AND TORN TO ATOMS
Total List of Casualties May
Be Swelled by Those
Injured
KEY WEST, Fla.. August 27. As
a result of the explosion at noon to
day of seven hundred pounds of
dynamite at Bocachlca, twelve miles
lrom Key West oh the Florida East
Coast railway, ten men are dead and
five probably fatally injured and a
dozen are suffering from injuries. The
explosion was caused by a member
of the railroad construction force
carelessly throwing a lighted cigar
ette Into a box of fuses.
Nine of the workmen 'met instant
death and the tenth died while being
brought to the hospital here. The
men were hurled high Into the air
nnd the bodies of the dead were al
most beyond recognition, arms and
legs being tom from the bodies of
some while the faces of others were
masses of flesh.
Were in Water.
When the explosion occurred the
workmen were standing In water
four feet deep and directly beneath
hem was the seven hundred pounds
of dynamite, ready for the blast when
the men should stop for dinner.
According to one of the wounded,
a workman one of the nine to meet
instant death threw a lighted cigar
ette to one side, not noticing that it
fell Into the box containing the fuses
which were connected wkfe the heavy
charges of explosives beneath them.
A few seconds, and the men, water
mud and tons of dirt were thrown
seventy to ninety feet In the air.
Tugs at once brought the dead and
the more seriously wounded to this
city, the latter being placed in the
Louise Maloney hospital.
Those less jterlnusly injured were
placed on Stock Island, opposite Ho-
(Continued on page four.)
MOTOR RACING CLAIMS
ANOTHER VICTIM AT THE
Mechanician is Killed and
Driver Fatally Hurt
in Collision.
HUT RACE WENT ON.
BRIO If TON BEACH MOTOR
DROME, NEW YORK, Aug 27
Louis Cole, mechanic of the Stearnes
car In the twent'yfour hour automo
bile race, was killed here tonight and
the driver, Laurent Gross, was fatally
Injured In a collision with the Acme
car shertly before midnight. Paiceke
and Maynard. the crew of the Acme.
were only slightly Injured. Both cars
were wrecked.
Gross and Cole were thrown from
their car in the collision. Cole was
almost instantlv killed; Gross' spine
was broken and he cannot recover.
The race was stopped but resumed in
ten minuteH.
Less than fifteen minutes later, to
avoid another collision at the same
point Vantlne, driving the other
Acme entry, risked death by steer
ing his car straight through the
heavy Infield fence. Both he and his
mechanician
escaped Injury and his
car was damaged
nly slightly, losing
a front wheel. The
dragged back to its
machine was
quarters and
started again In a few minutes with
a new wheel.
A short time before the accident
In which Cole wan killed, driver
Hughes of the Allen-Kingston, was
seriously burned when his clothes
caught fire from a ?laze which start
ed near his gasoline tank. The blaze
was put out by one of the other
drivers, who stopped his' car and
rolled Hughes, in the sand, while the.
mechanicians smothered the flames
In the car.
Another twenty-fnnr automobile
race, with ten dirvers of national rep
utation competing, started here to
night over a mile trark which four
weeks of careful work has made as
hard as the most exacting racer
could demand. Fifteen thousand
pectators witnessed the start.
Three Dead And One May Die
as Result of Negro's De
fiance of Posse .
MOB BURNS BODY OF
THE LYNCHED NEGRO
Search For Woman Who Har
bored Escaped Convict
Who Caused Trouble
(By AsmwuMed Press.)
SCR ANTON, a., Aug. 27 Two ne
groes lynched and a posse In pur
suit of the wife of one of the vic
tims; the killing of a prominent
planter, a member of the posse; the
probable fatal injury of the sheriff
of Montgomery county and the
wounding of four other members of
the posse, summarizes the result of
one of the most exciting man-hunts
this section has ever Known.
Ben Clark, an escaped convict from
the Bibb county chain gang, was shot
to death after a fierce battle early
today and his body burned. The ne
gro threatened to kill Nicholas Adams,
a merchant of Klbbe, and a hundred
others. John Hweeny, who harbor
ed the ex-con vlct was taken from a
passenger train a mile from Tarry-
town tonight and lynched.
Flrxl on Posse.
The posse then set out In search
of Sweeny's wife, who It Is said, was
In the neighborhood. Intense excite
ment prevails throughout this section.
James Durden, a prominent plan-
'ter and member of the posse which
captured Clark was shot and instantly
killed.
The other members of the posse
who were shot by Clurk were:
Sheriff James Lester, Walter Sim
mons and three others unknown. The
officer received an ugly wound In the
breast.
,. The posse found Clark in Sweeny's
bouse-Sweeny's wife was at home,
bnt Hweeny was absent. The sheriff
called on Clark to surrender. For an
swer ho received a 44-callbro bullet
fired from a rapid-fire gun. Durden
was shot and other members fell be
fore the torrent of lead dealt by the
negro. He continued to tire until his
ammunition was exhausted. He was
(Continued on page four.)
CELEBRATE
STACKED ARMS ANO HAIL
OF ENEMTC BULLETS
Soldiers Offer Prayers For
Repose of Their Dead in
Strange Surroundings.
WAR WILL CONTINUE.
MELIl.A, Morocco, August 27. A
solemn requiem mass, for the repose
of the souls of the large number of
Spanish officers and men killed In
ihe sanguinary battle with the Moors
July 27, was dramatically celebrated
this morning. It was attended by th
urvkors of the brigade of General
Pintos, who was killed In the engage
ment, and by officers ajid delegations
of men from all sections of the
army.
The altar was decorated with flow
ers and surrounded by four cannon,
catling guns and slacked rifles. At
the moment of the elevation of the
host, the Moors opened a fierce fire
from a distance and the guns on Fort
CameJIos roared a response. Not
withstanding the attack, however, the
religious ceremony was completed, af
ter which a defile of troops and ar
tillery diil considerable damage to the
camps of the enemy In one of them
blowing to pieces a group of iribes
ri.en and their women.
The engagement of July 27 was a
fcroely contented one, but it cost the
Spanish forces more than two hun
dred dead and wounded, their slain
including General Pintos, two lieu
tenant colonels commanding naval
contingent and a large number of
Other officers.
The enemy attacked Sidlmusa and
other of the advance Spanish posl-
t'ons Wednesday evening. The
Spanish artillery replied vigorously,
and the Moors sustained numerous
losses.
MADRID. Aug. 17. Special
despatches received here from Mc
llllla, Morocco, say that the Moorish
chiefs, aft'er further consideration of
the communication from Sultan Malla
Hafid, requesting them to cease their
hostilities against the Spaniards,
finally decided to continue the war
until the Spaniard are driven from
all their positions beyond Melilla.
HENDERSON V1LLE HORSE SHOW ENDS;
Coronation Ball at Gates Hotel Great Success. Entries For Asheville Show Close
Next Monday Night at Midnight. Parking Splices Are On Sale
Until Tuesday Morning.
Henversonvllle closed her suc
cessful show of three day's duration
yesterday afternoon and night wlh
a grand horseback tournament, nov
elty races and the grand coronation
ball at the Gates hotel, whereat the
queen and maids pt honor ware
crowned.
The coronation- ball was one of the
biggest social evejits of the present
season at Hendwraonvlllo, The big
ball room of the Ofttes hotel was
beautifully decorated with horse show
colors and evergreen. Mr. -Porta
Webb of Asheville crowned Miss Dell
Davie of HendscsSMaaiUwiittaea, ana
the following young ladles were
crownod maids of honor: First maid
of honor, Miss Llllle Fletcher of
Asheville, crowned by Mr. Harry
Theobold of Asheville; second maid
of honor, Miss Helen Craig, of Ashe-1
vllle. crowned by Mr. Buren Bustle of
Asheville; third maid of honor. Miss
May Lucille Smith of Hendersonvllle.
crowned by Mr. Harry L. Wilson of
Asheville; fourth maid of honor, Miss
Pierce Butter Mays of Charleston, S.
C crowned by Mr. ;3. Hartshot if
NEGRO PYTHfANS QUELL
RIOT WITH THEIR SWORDS
Took Stand For Order Al
though White Man Had
Broken Up Their Parade.
(By AsNocuitod Press.)
KANSAS CITY. Mo., Aug. 27
Swinging their swords above the
heads of Hie belligerents and declar
ing that unless the trouble ceased
they would use them, a company of
negro Knights of Pythias today pre
vented what promised to be a race
riot during a p:, rule of the supreme
odge of the n. ?ni Kights of Py
thian,
The trouble I
ran when . W. S.
man, occornpanled
w through the pa
wirid negro Knights,
' iitrnl strccets. 8ev-
Jarboe, a laund
by hjs wife, ilr
rnde of five tie.
at Twelfth and
nral negroes n,,i
march, seized tli
"You can't
In thu line of
bridle of the horse,
ass here" they
shouted. Mrs. J nlioe seized a whip
and struck at ne man, Instantly a
hundred exell. I negroes crowded
about th e wai-v" One wrested the
whip from the i .man, striking her
a number of i no and Inflicting
painful bruises
Many" white n m rushed to the aid
of the laundrv r hi A riot call was
sent to fhe poo headquarters, but
before the poll. , 'rived, the armed
knights had r.:i ' d order.
FAIR
WASHINGTON, August 27 Fore
cast: North Oirilina: Generally
fair Saturday and Sunday; moderate
variable winds.
ASHEVILLE'S OPENS
Asheville. The trophies were hand
some silk streamers in horse show
colors. The ball room was filled with
dancers until a lata hour,
, The contestants In that tournament
were Mr. Van Buren Bostle, Mr, Har
ry Theobold. Mr. Porter Webb and
Mr. J. Hartshot, all of AWhevJlle.
Tim Aslievtlle Klww.
Following Hendersonvllle'a success
ful show, the Midsummer Horse Show
association of Ashs villa . will open
Ms two days' show at Riverside park
next Tuesday afternoon. .As .recent-.
ly statedmost or the Uendersonvtlia
enhlbltors himjri PdjulHisaaaa
entries here, and the local entries are
coming In at a gratifying rate. The
pony races, which proved to tic the
most popular event at Hsnderson-
vllle will be a strong, drawing card
here and the children are evincing
great Interest therein.
Parking Himiccs.
Parking spaces for the Asheville
show will be sold by the secretary at
The Citizen orflce from this morn
ing until Tuesday morning. The
entry' lists for the Asheville show
PASSENCERS GET SAFELY
OFF BUT FIVE CO DOWN
Alaskan Steamer Goes to
the Bottom Quickly After
Striking Reef.
(It? Associated Press.)
SEATTLE, Wash., August 27.
Five lives were lost In the sinking
of the Alaska Steamship company's
steamer Ohio, off Steep Point, Alaska,
early today. There were 128 passen
gers on board, but ull these escaped,
the victims being employes. The loss
of the steamer and the cargo Is to
tal. The drowned are: Purser F. J.
Stephen, of Seattle, wireless operator,
George E. E. Eccles, of Winnipeg;
two seaman and the quartermaster,
the mimes are not given.
The wireless despatch says the Ohio
snnk In thr o minutes. This prolst-
bly means she was on a reef a con-
Mdcrable time am that the passen
gers were, all off before the ship slid
I Into deep water, w hich she did
rpeedlly as to carry down five of the
crew.
Some of tho passengers were taken!
sshoro In llfo boats and taken by the
llshlng boat. Kingfisher, to Swanson
Bay. Others Were taken on the Hum-
bolilt and the Kupert City. The Hum- i
boldi's rescued passengers will be
iambs) nt Ketchikan, while tho Ru-'
iTt ky is taking her passengers to '
Vancouver.
Th Dolphin, another Alaskan
Steamship company boat dde flt
Ketchikan tonight, wan ordered by
wireless to stand by In Swanson Bay
and give assistance.
The Ohio was Insured for 1220,000.
Captain John Johnson, her navigator,
was regarded as one of the most
skillful, on the Pacific coast.
! NEGROES CONDEMN
ONE OF THEIR RACE.
MONROE, 1., August 27. Several
hundred representative of Monroe to
night Issued a statement condemning
the crime of the negro, William S.
Wade, who ran amuck on the streets
of Monroe last Tuesday with a shot
gun, wounding twenty-nine citizens
before he was finally killed.. They
elso took occasion to condemn the
hiding of negro fugitives from Jus
tics by members of their race.
ON TUESDA Y
will close Monday night at mid
night Entry blank and prlie lists
can also be obtained from ths secre
tary at Ths Cltken office. Among ths
entries ao fa received from out of
town those' of ,Mr, W, W, Bur
gess, of tlreenvllle, ' B. C Mr,
Frank Burgess, : drears, 8. C, W. R.
daf fney, Sparatanburg, S. C, p. T,
McKetthan, Darlington. 8,"0.r "Mr.
WV M. Flihr, ' Spartanburg,, ; C.,
Mra,: Bakkr Edward's,' Antony ft. C.1, ft;
T.. Mills. areenvllle. B. C., ' W. ' TL
Hendorsonvllle, a. C. Hammond,
Hendersonvllle, Claude Pace, 'tender
sonviue, mxs. Frank. Hayse. Flat
Itock, and many others are expect
ed today. , '
The work of putting the grounds
Bt Riverside park In condition , , for
Tuesday's and Wednesday's Shows
will begin this morning. The exblbi
tton track will be rolled and put in
first class shape. Unless the weather
man "cuts up," the Asheville show
bids fslr to be quite a success, ,
s.
Two Members Maintain
That They Have Power to
Pass on Act.
(fty Associated Press.) ;
COLUMBIA, S C AUG. 27. Ths
dead-lock In the slate board of ran
vassors over the recent liquor elec
Hon bids fair to be broken tomor
row. Comptroller General Jones, who
left the meeting with the vote a tie.
breaking the quorum, has been or
dered to attend, Judge Hydrlck hav
ing grunted a writ of mandamus.
Another member of the board, who
bus not been present, also will at
lenil. The discussion which resulted In
Mr. Jones' leaving the meeting arose
over tho rights of the board, two
members holding mat It was within
that body's power to declare uncon
stitutional the whole act tinder
which lh election was held. The
other two members present contro
verted this assertion of rights, und
tho dead-lock
resulted. Until the
dead-lock Is broken the dlspen
siirles In the state mul remain clos
ed.
The point was ralsei
of Charleston before
court when a futile
made that the hoard
by J. P, Grace
the Supremo
attempt was
has the right
to decide whether or
constitutional. Should
clde that the act Is
the election will be
riot the act Is
I In- board de
uucoiiMtlttitlonal oll unless Ihe
Supreme court reverses
the
eclslon.
POSTAL CLERK NOT
PURVEYOR OF BOOZE
(Ily AsMH-laUfl Press.)
CHARLOTTE, N. ('., August 27.
The hearing of the case of E. C.
Plunkett, a postal clerk running from
Richmond to this city, charged with
selling whiskey and hauling same In
a mull car, was held today before
the United States commissioner and
Plunkett was discharged from cus
tody for the want of sufficient evi
dence" to hold for a higher court.
Plunkett had been suspended already
snd had been notified to show cause
why he should not be removed, be
fore the preliminary hearing was
had.
Declare Conditions In Press-
ed Steel Car Work Be
yond All Belief
ONLY FEW HUNDRED
EMPLOYES ARE LEFT
Troopers Again Mounted at
Plant to Guard Against
Spirit of Unrest
PITTSBURO, AUO. Jf. W sun
down tonight sixty stats trooper
mounted guard at ths plant of tha
Pressed Bteel Car comusnv in
Hchoenvllle, where 1,(00 employs of
that concern are striking, ant Id pat- '
ing before another twenty-four hour
a repetition of ths "bloody corner"
riots of last Sunday night
Troubls Is reared for several rea
sons, the principal ona being tha fact
that all during today Imported work
men hsvs been deserting tha Prsaaed
Stsel Cnr plant In droves of from two
to two hundred. Tha men deelart un
equivocally tuat tnsy navs Dsen mis
used, subjected to Indignities ' and
forced to work whether they ehosa or
nut.
Tonight m spirit of unrest psrvadsa
McKw's Rocks and tha striks ion,
Tha strikers declare that hfn nt rim
ing tha ' Fi-esssd Steel Car company .
will bo forced to suspend operations. ,
Hut thrwe "hundred workman were left
In the plant tonight at sundown, so '
the -desontlng workmen declare,
J" Wlt: For Wag.
The 'grounds surrounding the river ,'
gats of ths Pressed Steel Car corns
pany presented, picturesque sight,
tonight. Encamped" thsra were ovsr ,
three bundred . workmen) Who ift ,
the cag works during the day and ,
who aay they will stay osar tha oar j
plant rofnees until they get at least
a portion of tha wages dus them. Tha
en'tp.ad workmen, declare they will
stay on watch , at th car company
Kates until they are forced to retire
Btorjes told, by the workmen, wtu
hav quit their Jobs In the oar plant -are
almost ' unbelievable. Conditions, 1
according .to these workmen, r were
nraotlcmllv unbearable lnsida the ess
plant stnakade. .' r - .y. ,
Boup . prepared freiji . rotting vg- "
tables was served them, they declare
by filthy negro waiters, picked up
tmm employment agencies In (lit
slums of Pittsburg, Bed Oiled Wllh-'
vermin were' given them to sleep ob.
they declared while they were chargefT
exorbitant prices fur clothing, ' even
two cent stamps selling at four tot;
ten cents tn the car company com-.'
mlssary. These storleewere made tha
unjeci or autuaviis late loaay in ins;
government probe Into alleged peon
age conditions at the ear plant.
. Sensational developments In th
session of tho government peonage
probers was sprung tonight when sev
ere! witnesses declared- on affidavit .
that they had been "treated worse '
than dogs," had been eervstt "rotten
food," the car company bad "failed
to keep financial promises" and oar
company bosses had "threatened to ' ;
blow heads off with . revolveri." ,
Charges that gambling waa allowed
lo go on unchecked In the oar com
pany commissary were also made. ,
FOILED IN DNE CRIME
PERPETRATES ANOTHER
Posse After Necro Who
Would Be Either Rapist
or Incendiary.
i y
MERIDIAN, Miss'., Aug. 27. WltTa
the aid of bloodhounds and with the
avowed Intention of Inflicting sum
mary punishment, possee are scouring
lie wood in the vicinity of Meridian
onight in an effort to apprehend an
unidentified negro who late today at-
empted to assault tho sixteen year
old daughter of Joes ph. Williams, a
prosperous farmer, six miles from
thin city. Falling In his purpose, the
negro started a fire which destroyed
he Wllllums farm house.
The young woman was alone when
the negro approached the house end
hreatened to kill her should she
make, an outcry. She escaped by
running through the building and to a
field, where her father was at work.
When Williams reached the house the
negro had disappeared and the build
ing was In flames. Posses were
(liilckly organl7ed and Ihe chase be
gan which was still In progress at a
late hour tonight.
PltOCTII IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
COLUMBIA. S. C, August 27. Re
ports from The tttute'e correspondents
throughout South Carolina represent
lug twenty counties Indicate that tha
drouth of the past six days haa
caused a deterioration variously esti
mated froirt "ten to twenty iper cent
In the condition of the state's cotton
crop. This means a very short crop
this year.