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THE ASHEVILLE CITIZEN P THE WEATHER: FAIR. Associated Press. ' Leased Wire Reports. VOL. XXV. NO. 358. ASHKYILLK, N. 0., TUESDAY MOUX1XO OCTOBKR 12, 1!M!). J'RKT, FIVE CENTS. TIGERS LOST BUT flEVER GAVEUPTILL (IS PLAYED Buccaneers Got Long Lead of Five Runs In First Inning Off Summers GAME WAS PLAYED IN WRETCHED WEATHER Detroit Batted Maddox Hard In Final Innings But Could Not Catch up DETROIT, Get 11. Pittsburg de feated Detroit hy the score of 8 to C hero today In one of the most spec tacular and fiercely contested games ever played In a world's championship series. This gives Pittsburg the mar gin of two games to one in the series and the National league champions are correspondingly Jubilant. Detroit, however, showed in the final innings of the battle that it is far l.ora a hopelessly beaten team. Weather conditions were frightful. Rain fell frequently during the nine innings, several times In hard showers of several minutes duration. Clouds made the atmosphere so dark during the last wo innings that It was hard for both players and spectators to fol low the ball. Despite the wretched weather, the attendance, t8,?77, broke all local records for. the world'B se ries. Five In First Inning. Pittsburg Jumped into the lead Im mediately this afternoon by scoring 5 runs in the first inning. They batted Summers out of the box, aided by some poor fielding. Another run in the second inning gave Pittsburg a lead of six, and the game then ap peared to be safe for the visitors. Detroit .however, ' came to the fore with one of the gamest rallies ever made -with four runs In the seventh Inning, batting Maddox hard and playing like fiends. With the score 6 to t, Pittsburg connected with some of Works' curves in the ninth for two run. With the score eight to four vmtttjmtii, 6 jjttolt4iMv then did not realise tha it was Beaten and mashed out twomore tuns In the last Inning. Had Sam Crawford been able to hit up to his usual mart this af ternoon there would have been a dif ferent story to tell. KuiiiinerH Hail to Quit. Detroit outbutted Pittsburg by a marten of one hit, getting twelve to the winners' eleven. Summers started (Continued on page ix A TO DASTARDLY GRIME Letter Carrier Makes fjru some Find Hidden in Dress Suit. Case. NEWSPAPER A CLUE TIVERTON, R. I., Oct. 11. The finding of the severed legs of a woman In a dress suit case among some bush es in an outlying section or this town tod:iy brought to light what the au thorities are convinced Is a case of murder. The discovery of a New Hedford newspaper of yesterday's date with the portions of the limns Is re garded as the most important clue thus rur obtained, indicating possi bly the place or the murder. If murder there was. The authorities tonight were of the opinion that the woman w.-is murdered in New Hedford. that the legs were placed In the suit case there and brought by team or auto mobile to Tlv erton las! night Accord ing to the nodical examiner, I r. John Stimson, the supposed murder was committed not more than twelve or fifteen hours before the suit case was- discovered That a murder was committed and that the citing was not done by the experien d hands of a surgeon or by a no-itii ;,l student is the belief or the edleal examiner, who says that apparently a common hand saw was used to sever the legs from the trunk. A search for the olher portions of the body In the woods ii. mi by is being made. The l"idv loighl liiiic lain undiscov ered 'for days had not a rural letter carrier, George Poller, chan 1 to go to the spot this afternoon. Potter was waking his rounds, passing along the road, when he noticed throe portions of human legs partly wrapped in newspapers In the case. (.atcr inves tigation hy the medical Examiner showed that the suit case contained the upper portion of a right leg. that from the thigh to the knee, and the entire left leg. cut In two pieces at i he knee. The nedlivil examiner, sfter taking measurements of the limb estimated that the woman, or girl, probably was live feet three In height and weighed perhaps 120 pounds. SWEPT BY STORM FLORIDA COAST IS PILE OF WRECK A GE Homes And Factories Destroyed in Key West And Troops Call ed Out to Patrol City. Other Cities Damaged. KEY WKST, Fl:i., net. 11. f As a result of the hurricane which struck the Southern f Coast of Florida thia morning, Key West tonight Is a mass of wreckage and the damage tu property is estimated at J 2,- 000,000. Martial law was pro- -f Claimed by the mayor ut six -f o'clock and the Key West -t- guardB arc patrolling the city. The United .States govern- merit hus been asked to de- 4 spatch troops here without de- lay, to UHHi.Mt in patrolling the storm swept area. - Chaos reigns on every hand and few people remain in their homes, hundreds of which have either been totally wrecked or damaged. It is Impossible f- at thin hour to say whether there has been loss of life, but it is feared that many lives have been claimed along the coast. While the hurricane is the worst hat Key West has ever experienced. the local weather observer announced tonight tlint the indications are that the entire east coast !' Florida will suffer terribly tonight. Of one hundred vessels in the har bor this morning but five remain at anchor, the others having either gone to sea or been washed upon the beaches. The streets along the water front ure a mass of wreckage. Ittiildiiigx Destroyed. Brick as well as frame buildings throughout the city suffered alike from the fury of the heivy wind and many miraculous escapes from death or serious Injury have been reported. Besides the several score of residen ces either totally wrecked or blown from their pillars, njrva locturJea were partially destroyed. Including the vana-Amcrican, Martinez, Nichols, Ruy I.ope:, Manuel Lopest, Fleltas Tor ris, Corteii and Wolf cigar manufac tories. I Number on" and number three en- pine bouses of I lie city lire department: were destroyed, the llrmen narrowly escaping. 1 ti t several of the horses I being killed. The top of the First I National bank was blown off, the post- 1 PROMINENT PEOPLE IN moihgjtay away Negro Ex-congressman Has Chance to Kscape Trial on Forgery Charge. DELAYS REQUISITION COLUMBIA. Oct. 11. The extradi tion of (ieorge Murray, tin- colored i Congressman, is causing unite, u stir over in Sumter. Mr. J. U Grady. ; g.-i, I for the slate, who conveyed the r ipiisition papers from the office of Governor Ansel, has returned without the prisoner. The governor "f HH i.. is has given Murray thirty days of tr.u-c, and in the meantime efforts nr.- being made to present a petition tr. Governor Ansel for the conditional p. mom of Murray or the withdrawal ot the reipisition papers from the j. 'Vi rniir of Illinois. Governor Ansel is out or the city today, and. therefore. ;ln expression c mid not be bad from him as to his -tand in the matter. Hut it is a will established rule with the governor that he iloes not pardon a man unless Hie man actually begins serving Ills sentence and then seldom ever II now appi ars thai ill Sim n t it there are many people who sre opposed to II. e extradition of Murray, and that a petition will be presented shortly to Governor Ansel. There are also inter-sted in Murray's case a number ,.f prominent men in Chicago, where lie row resides. The requisition will It. honored by the governor of Illi nois in the fogev case, unless some thing is done within the thirty days i;iv.n Murray by order or the gover -I nor of that stale. Murray was tried and convicted on the charge of forgery and sentenced to pay a tine f f $2H0 and serve three years in the penitentiary. Ho took Ihe case on appeal to the Supreme nun i. w hich alTirnnil Ihe der ision of the lower court. Murray, who was out on bond pending the determina tion of his appeal, left the state when the decision or the Supreme court was published, thereby forfeiting his bond of $1,000. This bond was es. treated and after some delay his bondsmen made a compromise settle ment with the. county, paying over to tho clerk of the court J2.&00. The (Continued on page two) of the government coaling station were wrecked. It is kno.wp that many have re ceived more or lees serious Injury and reports are current that several livf. have been lost but tliet.e have not been verified. Ihe storm reached lis height at I o'clock this afternoon, when the wind reached un estimated velocity of one bundled miles an hour. There was u hard, steady blow from S a. in., to : p. in., when the wind began to die down and by four o'clock the enter of the hurricane had passed this point. Kcry telephone and electric light pole on I nival street, the principal thoroughfare of the city, were blown down. As soon as the wtnd hud subsided plundering began. The city police force was unable to cope with the situatln and the mayor decided to lake stringent mi ufliires to suppress th looting, his proclamation of mar tial law resulting. A most every nationality Is repre sented among the city's population of un re than twenty thousand, about one half of whom are employed In the. cigar manufactories, sponge fish eries and salvage companies. JACKSON VII-U-: ANXIOUS. J.MKSONV1I.1.K, Fla., Oct. 11. At this hour (7.15 p. m.) heavy i loudt, are coming up from the south. On board the Clyde steamer Mohawk, (he barometer reads 29.68, while af 5 o'clock this afternoon the harome ter ir the office oT tliu Clyde line registered 29.&1. The weather ob-. scrvir here calculates that there is danger of the storm striking Jack sonville .some time between midnight and dawn. FEAR FOK STEAMKlt. , NEW ORLEANS, Oct 11 Accord ing ,'lf: It 'schedule the steamer Anti tog of" the Morgan line bound from New Orleans to New York was proba bly in tl:e teeth or the gale off the llicida coast tonight. It Is one of (he sturdiest vessels or the Morgan line, however, and officials of th company entertain no doubt that It will pass through the hurricane vllhout mishap, on the other hand. (O.iitiini.n on page four.) IHE 5 VEEP5 HAVANA LEAVING TRACK OF DEVASTATION Storm Which Struck Florida Reached Island of Culm and did (Ireat Damage SEVERAL LIVES LOST HAVANA. iol 11. The most ser ious cyclone sin.- the big blow o! ( '.ober IT, lillit;. struck Cuba earlv this morning, causing extensive dam age through the whole western por tion or the island In the city ol lli'.vana many minor buildings were blown down or unroofed; almost all the trees were uprooted and live per sons were killed, one by an el. etrh wire and the others hy filling tim ber! About twenty-live persons were injured. The greatest damage done was In the harbor where forty or tifty light ers, launches and small tugs wen cither sunk or blow ashore. The total damage in Havana and vicinity is estimated at $1,000,000. The greatest Individual loss has been iaiacd b the destruction or hair tin e.ial elevator conveyors or the Ha ana Coal company at Casa lilanca. Itiimateil at $.'110.1)00. It will be pos sible to raise the greater number "I the wrecked lighters and other craft. Communication Willi the Interior of the island has been interrupted except Willi parts or Havana and 1'or to Del Corta provinces In the orange and other fruit crops suffereii se verely. The tobacco crop has not been seriously affected. beyond the washing out of the seed beds which nt this season of the year are capa ble of renewal. I" dlowing the heavy rains or the pa.xt few days a gale began at two o'clock this morning which rapidly, increased In intensity and reached cyclonic proportions t 5.40 a. m.. whin the velocity or the wind wa about 120 miles an hour. The gale came from the South. Southwest am the vortex of the cyclone was a short dltlance west of Havana. The storm continue,! with unabated fury until g o'clock. The wind subsided tonight and the Indications are for clearing weather. Poring the fietgnt of the storm a small Spanish .-brig struck the wreck of the battleship Maine and remained fastened to it until pulled off by tugs. Willie CO UR T FA VORS WIDE LA TITUDE FOR PRESS IN POLITICAL Judge Anderson Intimates stance of President Roosevelt and Others Involves Largely Political Questions.. Argument in Case Proceeds. INDIANAPOLIS, lml., Oct 11. That the so-called Panama libel case wufl "more or less of a political mat ter ", wa the comment of judge A. II. Anderson of the United States district court, at the close -of argument Unlay In the hearing of Charles K. Williams and Delevan Smith proprietor of The Indianapolis News, whom tho govern ment Is seeking; to .remove to the Dis trict of Columbia for trial on the charge of criminally libelling former President Kooeevelt. President Taft, Oharles P. Taft, WHIlaw Nelson Crptn- well, J. fterpont- murrgan, uwugiw Kohlnson and other Probable C'flui. The court said that It wished not to give an impression that It had formed an opinion on the merits of the case, but that It desired to point out tne trend of the argument towards Its fur ther enlightenment as to whether or not there was probable cause for in- llclment of Msrs Williams and Smith by the federal grand Jury d the District of Columbia for Criminal MAKES LEftPF0R LIBERTY lust Welcjisnl From Prison Escaped I'loin Officers who Had Him in Charge. TlVilLI. N. V . Oct. 11. I'M ward Davis, alias King, a negro convict, jumped irom a .n-v nirK einiai 1 r ess train near lo re today and dis i Pi cured. He v .n discharged from Dannemora v . st' i lay and was being laien by a wanl n to a rvonn aro lini prison, fr.oo which he had es- I'lpid. The tlaoi nail sioweo oovwi. d King, not vv ; listandlng that he was hiiiulculTed, ' -imped rrom a ilnt- iorm or a sleeong car. He rolled vi- and over, l-'.t regained his feet ind dlsapiiear. 'l in the Tog. Tin vardeii jumped a""r him but was too laoly cut and lo "cd to give pursuit. King escaped t m the state risoii at ItalelKh. N ' . six yi-ars ago. while awaiting : . 1 1 for murder. He was afterward .nested In Brooklyn and sent to D..unemora for live Vil I K NOTKD I.VWVKR IUj. r.Ain.Moi;.:. I'oe, one of tie this city and stm the residence of Alfred Tyler, hi county, Maryland a stroke of apop has been the rur works, and Is nl Maryland unlvei net. 11. John P leading lawyers ol . Is critically ill at bis daughter, Mrs kuxton, Baltimore Mr. POe suffered xy yesterday, lie pller of many legal o the dean of the ity school df law. (FAIR WASHINGTON. Oct. 11. Forecast for North Carolina: Fair In west rain In oat portions Tuesday, colder 1 'u-sday, Wednesday fair and colder: brisk to high shifting wild on the ct aid. . Had A Bad Dream Last Too Manv Peanuts and Red Lemonade. That Proceeding in Libel Against Newspapers at libel in their having published ar ticles intimating It hat thdre wbm a "graft" of $28,000,000 In the sale of t'anuma canal Kone to the United States by the French company. . Whole Mutter Political. "What la the guilty Intent to bo Hhown on the part of these defend ants?" the court asked Stuart Me Naniara, special attorney for the de partment ot justice In charge, of the proceedings. The judge went on to explain that he ha a doubt that it could h shown' that th defendants had maltcloua forethought W 1!bm "The whole Panama oanal project I a grrout political project" said the court. "and there has been and Is much JioiieU expression of opinion as to the advisability of having chosen the panama route In preference to the Nicaragua route, and now since the cost of building the canal Is so much lamer than nt first estimated, a to whether or not tho United States should own any Atlantic- Pacific ca nal. HER NAME ON TICKET Thinks She Knows How to Make Laws and Will Take Her Case to Court. l:IVriMOHB, Mil, Oct. II. tin- I tlsrnayed by the action of tho eloc loii supervisors, In denying her a lac, on the official ballot as a can didate for the legislature, Mrs. Ada huiilli I .a ni,'. a deti rmlned young so- ialiHl, who has her own Ideas as to now laws should be made, Is going to i. Hike a light to compel the author ities to iul her name on the ticket. Mrs. Lang Is tin- only woman cumu late In Maryland this fall, and the ml." one who has announced herself in many years. Hie came nut some weeks ago, told of her lb-termination to go before the ei pe for their suffrages, and, If Ho led to a seal In the house of di l utes at Annapolis, how she would ihovv thn mere man legislators what i.-avt- to make. She asked tho super- h.iis to put her name on tho ticket. The supervisors conferred with coun- e, and late last night reached a le. ision unfavorable to the appllca lon or the woman candidate. To morrow she will go Into thn courts in-) Blurt her light In earnest. Counsel ror the board or super visors In advising that bisly made the lowing statement: "A woman Is ab solutely ineligible to sit as a member of the legislature of Maryland, and for this reason I am decidedly of th'i opinion that no court would direct that a woman's name be placed on the ballot as a candidate. There are runny cases sujportlng this view of ihe subject, and I am of the opinion that Mrs. Adit Smith I-ang'a name should not be printed or In any way placed by yur board of election sup ervisors on the official ballot that the law requires you, us a board, to print :md present to the voters of the city." In regard to the action of the sup i rv.rmrs. Mrs. Ijing said: "I am sorry the board of super vftors decided In this manner, but the socialist party was prepared for it end will take an appeal to the courts on Monday. The papers are ready, and the party will make a strong fight for me. Had It been left t.- me personally, I would have abid ed" by the hoard's decision, but the party will tight for the name of Mrs. Iang to appear on the ballot, and I Rill fight with them." Night DISCUSSIONS In- ' "The press ha a duty to perform and In political discussions It enema to me that thn conception of libel should bo greatly different from the conception that should apply to'a.caa of libel on a ' person private char acter." Mr, MoNamar in fiia argument during the day, maintained, that) oop- Ic of The Indlanopollr New, being ok in .Washington, the crimp . was committed In. Washington jr'rtl . eieewhere." McNamara laid that he thought the flrwt court In which an action wa brought should have Jurisdiction. The Judge hereupon suggested that If this view was of the matter were adopted the question would arise whether or not a proceeding for libel might He In a hundred different juris diction. Argument will be continued tomorrow. 5HIPP MAKING HIS LAST T Famous Tennessee, Con tempt OaRe Comes Up for Ileitriiif?. ' WASHINGTON, Oct.- 11. Attorney A. H. Cllft, of Tennessee, today pre senled lo the Hupreme court of the I'ruled Htates the last of a number of briefs heurliiK on the petition of Joseph K. Hhlpp and a number of oihir residents or (.'hultantioKa charg ed wllh complicity In lynching a ne Bro, K. Johnson, nrter the Supreme iiuirt had taken cok'ilzance of his C.I.HC, There were orlttlnally about twenty-five of the defendant, but Ihe num ber gradually reduced until tho last term of court when seven or eight of I hern were pronounced guilty. These Included Mr. Hhlpp, who was sheriff of the county and ids deputy, Jere m'ah fJlliMon, who was the county Jalkr. In his brief Mr. Cllft charges thnt the court erred In many respects In reaching Its conclusions, and he espe cially assert that when Johnson's bridling oceurrud he was not 111 the custody of the Federal court, hut of tho state authorities'. Mr. Clirt especially sets up In his brief that he appears a the friend and not as the paid attorney of hi cll nts. He speuks of them as "old Confederate soldiers and men of high standing," in their community. NO CIIANfiK IV OFF1CEKS. SAVANNAH, On., Oct. 11. No change was made In the officer and director of the Central of Georgia railway company at the annual meet Ing ot stockholder which wa held here today. At the annual meeting of the Ocean Steamship company, which I owned by the Central of Georgia, J. T. Harahan of Chicago, president of the Illinois Central rail road, was elected a director. TIlACTlOfyOO. SAIJl ANDERSON, B. C, Oct 11. In compliance with an order of Federal Judge Prltchard. the properties of the Andorson Traction company will be old under the hammer here tomor row. An upset price of 1170,000 hsff been named. The company owns eighteen mile of city and Interurban track; and equipment . . BAGKTQPR SONAS FORTUNE EIRE Morso Must Ser V43 1 1 f kcen Yea rs Sentence Unless Supreme Court Acts WAS REHABILITATING HIS WRECKED FORTUNE Wife Stands by film And Finds Comfort in Partial De cision in His Favor t NEW YOltK, Oct. 11. Unles thV H'.ipunio court o( the United HtatM reverse the decision, or tha presi dent of the United,. State Interfere. Charles W, Morse, one -tla ."Ic , K'inrf," coastwise teiunshlp line or gnrlieer, banker and capitalist, will servo fifteen year at hard labor In tho federal prison at Atlanta, Qa., After having been at liberty - under' tm.,000 halt sine Jun. It last, h I back In the Tomb prison tonight wheru he can ponder, tha decision of ( the United Htate Clrualt.Courtof Ap- : peal, rendered today, auatalning tha . which found him guilty In Novem ber last of violating tha i national , banking law, i ' K There wa aolao In tha decision of tha Court bf Appeal today, however;' in that only ten of th nrty-trtree in dlotmenu on which he was eonvlctd are sustained and on the strength ( thl hi counsel, Martin W. Littleton, will immediately carry the 1 sae- be fore the United State Supreme court cn a writ f certiorari. ; To thl end the United State Court of 'Appeal granted a forty day stay of exrou , Hon and pending a decision by the Supreme court, application 'will be made to have th prisoner again ad- -muted to ball,' ' llrav Utile Woman. - -. Morse took today's decision calm-' ly. though he wa plainly grlef-strlok. en and surprised. ; J ,' ', '' ' , Mr. Mora wae with her" husband In the Marhui's office during the eft tor, morning."'' Whorr word j-nme that the decision wo against ;, him she aid: : , A ' . I ' ". "All along we had the utmost conn fldence that a new . trial would be ; granted. The decision today came as a surprise to u. . But my husband Is brave and he will continue to strug gle for his liberty," , , Wa Iroprlng Again. wne mumB nverjrsi iriin v being forced to return to firiaon , W the Interruption of tils beaver-like struggle to rebuild tils, fortune. Sine hi l.beratlon under bail he had been re elected president ot the Metropol itan Steamship company, new wtiiv land corporation; and of the Hudson Nuvlgatlng company, operating a Una or i-nai on me nuusun. no : lied with having discharged the built of his debt. From the two big transportation lines that had within the week elected Moras s their pros blent, there wa no official statement forthcoming after today' decision. T LUND BEGINS SESSIONS Kuprem,o jCourt 'Bench Rcr dueed by Illness of Sever al Judges, Gets to Work tv AtiriiNUTON. Oet. 11.- After a rtctrs of more than four month, and with only Chief Justice Fuller ana Justice Harlan, Brewer, White, M.N-Atina and Dav uresent. th BU- prem court of the United State to day began the regular term ror ui next twelve months. Justices Peek ham and Moody were both abirent on account of Mines, reaucing im court to unusually small proportions. Ordinarily the court devote th first day of its sitting to a call of state upon the president, but the ab sence of that high official rendering thl procedure Impracticable, bulnea wa proceeded with as rar as ponsi""" a i n,,n,i,ui. ,.t n-imoiiH for writ of certiorari the purpose of which wn to procure the review uy mo -prerne court of cases decided adverse ly by the various United Slates Court of Appeal, were presented . One of the petitions, that of Ma jors vs. Williamson, dealt with the right to enforce the collection of a note given to pa a debt Incurred In speculation. Williamson contracted tho debt speculating ' cottpa through Majors, in Memphis, Tenn.. and In payment made a not, which wa se- v... ai oBOtta located In Mm- curcu . " - . . phi. H8 nerru...r,. r-. the note On the ground that H waa given to pay a gambling debt., gam bling being prohibited In Tennessee and Mem phi. The United States Circuit court tof the district of Mem phi gave Judgnlent against William son, but the Court of Appeal for the niih circuit reversed that finding In accordance with Williamson's conten tion. ""-. '., ' Ihe court took all the application under advisemunt. BEGANTO SMILE LING