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THE ASHE VILEE CITIZEN. THE WEATHER: CLOUDY. Associated Press. Leased Wire Reports. VOL XXVI. NO. 4. ASIIEVILLE, N. C, SATURDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 23, 1909. PRICE FIVE CENTS.' GOflGRESS blamed FQRTHEBOTGH IN President Favors a Systema tie rlan of Development of Rivers APPROVES COASTAL SAN ALS PROJECT Would be Means of Holding Down The Railroads to Reasonable Rates . CORPUS OHRISTI, Texas. Oct 22. Announcing himself as an inthu slaatlc advocate of deep waterways, when such projects can be shown to he practicable ami necessary, and de claring that the piece-meal "proces sion by jdrks" policy of congress In the past with reference to such Im provements should le replaced with a definite general plan for opening up great avenues of commerce. President Tait aroused the delegates to the convention of the International In land Waterways league. In session here today, to an enthusiastic demon stration of aproval. ' Continuing the president said that In addition to extending commerce, deep Inland waterways would serve as the best means of controlling rail road rates. In the meantime, however, he, urged the amendment to the In terstate commerce laws to make their provisions more effective. Mr. Taft added, however, that he did not favor radical legislation ; that his purpose merely was to keep railroad com panies within the bounds of the law and down to reasonable rates. He said the railroads should be encouraged. In this connection he took occasion to refer to the fact that in some local ities there, is a disposition to do in justice to the railroads and to drive the corporations to a system of econ omy, which prevents the development of the country through which they pass. Puts Blame on Cmgres. Tho president declared that the halting, sporadic system of river and harbor Improvements in the past was not due to the army engineers, but was the work of the committees in congress, who hail responded ti clamor from home and to party con siderations. The time, has come, he' declared, for a change In this system. A nine foot Inter-coastal canal was (Continued on e Three.) Pi FOR IN SIX LIVES Fast Pennsylvania Train Crashes into Freight on Open Switch PASSENOKRS ESC AIM RICHMOND, Ind., Oct. 22. Six persons and possibly more wi re killed In a wreck on the Panhandle division of the Pennsylvania railroad near Colllnsvllle, Ohio, today, when a South-bound passenger train ran into a freight train on an open siding. A relief train with medical aid was sent from Richmond. The passenger tram which die s not stop at Colllnsvllle, was said In have been running fifty miles an hour when the crash came. According to reports the switch was open and the passen ger and freight trains collided bead on. The dead are: K. G. Webb, Richmond, fireman, of passenger train. O. O. Raines, Kokomo. mall clerk. I.ouis Marshall, Richmond, engi neer of freight train. K. H. Ilattneid, Green Fork, Ind.. mall clerk. Klmer TSrowfl. Ixigansport, Ind.. en gineer of passenger train. C. A. Johnson, Raton, Ohio, mail clerk. It is said that none of the passen gers was killed but that several men In the smoking car were Injured. "GIVE NO QUARTER AND ASK NO FAVOR" BOSTON, Oct.. 22. "Give no quar ter and ask no favor" wan the adUce which I'nlted States Senator Thomas P. Oore, the blind statesman of Okla hama, gave to the pupil.! at the Per kins Institub? for the blind In an ad dress today. "When you go out Into the world," he said, "you will find that struggle for existence is flerce. Quali fy yourselves for this battle and fight it honorably." Senator Gore ' was warmly applauded by several hundred blind boys and girls. ' , .....-, . OUR ITEIYS M'CHEN GAME TO Ei DISMISSES HIS JfSIGHS Succumbs to Operation For Appendicitis After Fight With Death WAS PICTURESQUE FIGURE IN POLITICS Controllod Political Destinies of Brooklyn Since Mc Laughlin's Death NEW YORK. Oct. 22. Patrick H. McCarren, state senator and demo cratic leader of Jirooklyn died at St. Catherine's hospital, llrooklyn at 1.15 o'clock this morning, never having completely rallied from the effects of an operation for appendicitis which was performed on October 13. His death was not unexpected, In fact, the senator himself realized throughout the afternoon and the earlier part of the night that his end was near. Senator .McCarren remained fully conscious all dav. lie said to the phy sicians In consultation over him to day: "Gentlemen, I konw what you have come here for. There is no need for a consultation. I knew I was dy ing the day I walked into this hospit al. 1 have made a study of my own ease, and I lind that my trouble is an old heart and an old stomach. If you replace them with new ones there might be a chance of my getting bet ter.' One of the pathetic features of Sen ator MeCarren's death was that hi aged mother was not apprised of his condition. She thought that the cam laign had kept him from home and Senator McCarren had insisted that she be kept In ignorance for fear that the shock would be too great for her. Picturesque Figure. Patrick Henry McCarren, by trade a cooper, by profession a lawyer, and by vocation a politician, was one of thi most picturesque figures in the political history of greater New York. No leader was ever more roundly con demned, yet at the close of sixty-one years of his life, he was probably the most strongly entrenched leader In Knv York state and had even wielded some influence in national politics. nutor McCnmn first became rec ognized as a coming lender In the iftiys whin lavid It. Hill was at the htight of his power. In 1903 he (Continued on page four.) MS OF UNEMPLOYED ENGLAND GROWING AT All ALARMING RATE (Jovernnient of The King Feels That It Is Facing ( i rave Conditions ABLK-UODIKI) MVS WASHINGTON, Oct. 22. The ar my of unemployed in Great llritain has grown steadily and has now leached proportions that are causing the government great uneasiness. In a special report. John I Griffiths, I'nlted States consul-general at I.on don, gives extracts from a special statement Just issued by the royal commission on the poor law and re lief of distress. The commission says that during the fiscal year ending March !1. last the number of those who were with out work and who sought government aid totalled thirty-one persons in ev ery thousand of the population, al though in the fiscal year preceding only fourteen out of each thousand made application for assistance. The number of men who applied for re lief in the lust fiscal year constituted 4.1 per cent of the workingmen of j K n k I, mil and Wales. Ourlng the year ending March 31, 1908 they constitut iii 2.1 and the year preceding only 1.9 per cent. The destitution and absence of work for the unemployed is not con fined to London, but Is general In practically all of the manufacturing cities and towns in the I'nlted King dom. All Record Broken. Consul Benjamin F. Chase of Leeds reports that in that city the registra tion last month, during the first two days the books were opened, broke all records since the unemployed act was put in force. A striking feature of the situation is that the men seek ing work are, for the most part. In the prime of life, only 9 per cent being either under twenty years or more than sixty years of age. Plans are being considered where by the employers and the? working men may be brought closer together. The government is also seeking to discover some means of cutting oft the supply of unskilled and unlntelfl- gent labor by training boys to enter regular and permanent work, DAUGHTERS ELECT S. THEIfi PRESIDENT North Carolina Woman Only Other Nominee And She Polled Good Vote UNSEEMLY DISCORD DID NOT DEVELOP Annual Convention Adjourns After Three Days Session at Houston HOUSTON, Texas, Oct. 22. With tho selection of Little Jtock, Ark., as tho convention city In 1910 and the election of the general officers for the year, the sixteenth annual convention of the I'nlted Daughters of the Con federacy adjourned sine die tonight. The following general officers were elected : President general, Mrs. Virginia McSherry, of West Virginia. First vice president general, Mrs. L. C. Hall of Arkansas; second vice pres ident general Mrs. M. E. Bryan of Texas; third vice president general Mrs. Thomas T. Stevens of Georgia; recording secretary general Mrs. A. L. Dowdell of Alabama; corresponding secretary general Miss Childress of Louisiana: treasurer general Mrs. C. U. Tate of Virginia; registrar general Mrs. James B. Gantt of Missouri; historian general Mrs. J. Kndols Kob Inson of Virginia; custodian of cross of honor Mrs. I.. H. Raines of Geor gia; custodlun of Hag Mrs. V. A. Walk of Virginia. Honorary presidents Mrs. J. W. Tench of Florida and Mrs. N. B. Ran dolph of Virginia. Mrs. FhIkoii Named. In contrast to general expectations no contest developed over the elec tion of general officers. A tenseness was discernable following the reading of delayed reports as the time for the election approached. As the gavel of the president-general fell for calling the election Mrs. Lizzie George Hen derson mt Mississippi, a past president general secured the floor and nomi nated Mrs. J. VV. I'aisun of North Car olina, a former president of that di vision, and the motion was seconded by Alabama, Arkansas and Tennessee,. Immediately fi. Mowing. Mrs. Tate of Virginia, obtained the floor and plnc- d In nomination the name of Mrs. Virginia Faulkner McSherry of West Virginia. Maryland, Florida and the (Continued on page; Three.) WRIGHTS ASK COURT TO EIBITING MACHINE Intimate That They Will (jive Flying Exhibitions Themselves Later INFRINGES PATENT NEW YORK, Oct. 22. Wilbur Wright, In behalf Of his brother Or ville and himself, asked the I'nlted States Circuit court yesterday to re strain ltalph Saulnler, the American representative of IiloH"t, from exhib iting In America the duplicate of the monoplane, which Hew over the Eng lish channel, alleging that by such proceeding Saulnler would deprive them of a large amount of revenue which they would derive from making public exhibition flights in the ma chine they invented. The fact that the Wrights contem- I plate making exhibition flights will come as a surprise to most persons who have followed their activities as thi-y have heretofore avoided any thing savoring of a show proposition. This was the reason they advanced for not entering the ltheims meet. In asking the court to restrain Saulnler from either selling or exhi biting the Hlerlot machine in America they base their plea on the claim that the Frenchman's flyer infringes their patent. No. 821.39:1. This is the same pattern which they say Curtiss violates. Its main finture is the me chanism by which they control flight v hi n the aeroplane navigates around a curve. It Is comparatively easy for a cor rectly constructed series of planes diiven by any kind of power to fly in a straight line. Hut the warping of the edges of the planes, together with the horizontal planes in front of the main planes and the rtidder, con sisting of the rear vertical planes, is a feature which the Wrights claim to have discovered themselves. In a re cent Interview Wilbur Wright said that he and his brother made the dis covery by watching the flight of the vulture. By availing themselves of it the Wrights say they unlocked the secret of flight and made It possible for human beings to fly In mechant (Continued on page four.) MSIORlnS MRS. REED EXPLAINS WHAT OFFER Was Willing to Contribute Attempted to Bribe The political sensation caused by th published statement of Congress man John Q. Grant that Mrs. Julia Ueed had sought to bribe him to re- Un her In office and therefore he had liled with the postoftlce deimrtment mdavits to that effect made by him self, wife and daughter, and Mrs. Reed's vehement denial in every part ticular of the congressman's state ment, continues to uttract widespread interest. Mrs. Reed said yesterday that she had jeait the cortfcresemhn's state ntent which she characterized as cruel and false," but was unwilling to make a formal statement since she was so shocked and grieved at the ittack that she old not feel like en- erlng into a public controversy She said she hail hardly recovered from her amazement at the attack nd could only n pcat her statement bat she had never In an way tried bribe the congressman or sought y any offer to Induce him to retain her In office. Must Conic Across. Mrs. Reed H.iei "l do not see how Mr. Gra.nt's conscience will per mit him to do what he has done." She said that the conversation she had with Mr. Grant was after his election, and lh.it he complained that nhe had not contributed to his cam paign. She was asked if tho congressman had then asked her to contribute to the expenses of a cumpalgn which was over. Her reply was: BY SHORTAGE OF CARS Coal Famine Impending Tn Maryland Because of Lack of Equipment. nAITIMORK. M.I.. Oct. 22. A threatened shortage of coal cars In the mining district of Maryland and West Virginia Is lu re, and the rull- rnaas seem powerless to relieve the situation, according to leaders In the coal trade. Mining operators In those states are calling loudly for cars, but the only answer the railroads give Is that thousands of new cars and hundreds of new locomotives have been ordered ami will be hurried to points where they are most needed as fast as they are received from the builders. How serious the situation has become may be better understood when It is stated that the Consoli dation Coal company is now one hun dred thousand tons behind In Its de liveries because of the lack of cars. Other big mining companies in Mary land and West Virginia are declared to be suffering Just as much as the Consolidation Coal company and for tho same reason. WASHINGTON. Oct. 22. Forecast for North Carolina: Partly " cloudy Saturday; Sunday fair and 'colder; modecate to brisk Southwest shifting to Northeast winds, . . The Full Mud Pail! THE FULL DIMMER . PAIL BEAT rl L VlSj! M' UPHl ram SHE MADE TO MR. GRANT MEANT to Party Funds According to Anybody., Calls Oongresaman'a Statement "Cruel and False." "lie said that officeholder would have to come scross." Mrs. Heed was then an officeholder, ' Willing to Buy fitock. Republican State Chairman 8. B. Adams is quoted as saying that he received the letter from Mrs, Reed which Mr. Orant says contained an offer to briber the state chairman, and that as he recollects it the sub stance war that Mrs. Reed '.replied that she would be willing to take stock In Tb Qreensboro fndiistrhtt News If she was assured that she would "he allowed to retain the post ollice. Mr. C. H. Moore state that ho wrote this letter for Mrs. Reed whom he was advising In a friendly way In her efforts to retain the office, and that It contained no offer to bribe or any suggestion of any. Suit Against Congressman? It was stated in various quarters yesterday that Mrs. Heed will either sue tho congressman for libel or In stitute criminal proceedings against him. When asked If she would pur sue either of these courses Mrs. Heed said tl.at she could not say until she had advised with friends. A well known lawyer said yesterday that on on tho basis of what hud been pub lished Mrs. Heed could ,' maintain either action or both. Bald he: "Mr. Grant's statement does not bear nut his charge that Mrs. Reed attempted to brlbu him. After mak ing this charge he claims us evidence of It that she offered to pay cam PICKPOCKETS ACTIVE AT STATE FAIR TILL CAU9HT "Touched" Fifteen Persons for .Various Hums and Captured After Chase. RALEIGH, N. C, Oct. 22. Fifteen cases of losses by pickpockets were reported today during the great Jam of people for tho State Fair and Bar num and Ilailey. circus, some of the losses being as heavy as two hundred dollars. Two pals were detected at work In the dense crowds at the prin cipal street car Junction and were captured after sensational races In which officers and citizens joined. Both were genteel looking fellows, fine gave his name as Alfred Scott, Norfolk and the other as John Lo gan. He claimed to be from Chatta nooga. Hcott stated falsely that he has a wife and children at the Yarbor ough hotel. He fought desperately to keep from being locked up, being covered with blood at the finish. Ho was of a bunch of crooks that had !een ordered to leavo town this morning by State Fair detectives. A. AXI M. WIN VICTonV. COLUMBUS, Oct. 22. Showing no mercy on their opponents, tlio A. and M. college football team completely swamped the lads from the South western Presbyterian university this afternoon, defeating them by a score of 31 to 0, The A. and M. team out classed their opponents at every point. KUXKD BY TIIAIX. RALEIGH, N. C, Oct. 22. W. R. Hunnycutt of Clayton, was probably fatally' Injured this morning by a Seaboard Air Line passenger train. He was walking close by the track Intoxicated. HI head was terribly bruised. Chest crushed In and num ber of riba broken. - v. Usage, But Denies That She paign Contribution, lut this doe not constitute bribery. Furthermore, he claim that the letter to State Chair mail Adam w an offer to bribe the chairman, The chairman doe not ay thl but -the contrary. He eald that Mr.' Reed war willing to take stock In the party piper Ij phVl)VJ lowed to reraWornjoe,; Unle the let ter hpwp. differently t from thl Mr; Orant ha- placed himself " la a bad predicament." Political Ride. While of course the many friend of Mrs. Heed wire considering the situation purely in a personal way and denouncing the congressman for making grave charge against a lady, and a widow at that, charge to which sho was given no opportunity to re ply, the politicians are regarding the nutter from Its political side. Those opposed to Congressman Orant de claro that the matter properly pr' seated to the republican voter would srve to defeat him for re-nomlna- Hon. of course many of these have at ways been opposed to Mr. Grant. On the other hand the Orant supporters have nothing to say on the subject nnd flee from any discussion of It. Tbey are. still for the congressman but realizing tho danger of tuklng up arms against a lady, writhe In silence wlille the opposition 1 denouncing their leader. TALKED IN MILLIONS AND SWINDLED FIFTY CENTS Two Clever Sharps Had Fayetteville Seeing .Vis ions of Prosperity. CHARLOTTE, N. C Oct 22. The story avnt out from Fayettovlllo a few days ago to the effect that the American Pressed Steel Rail company had closed a deal for a water front site on which It would erect a plant giving employment to flv hundred men, turns out to be a clever swindle. Two men representing themselves as William Hearing, chief engineer, and J. P. Jones, superintendent of con struction, of the Pittsburg concern, well dressed and smooth, selected the site and prepared to sign deeds. First however, twenty feet must be exca vated to be sure of solid foundation. Advertisement was made for laborers of every description at high figure and each wo required to pay fifty cents for his check, on which was his name and number. Today the two men disappeared, leaving unpaid board, livery and other bills, and seventy-five laborers are each out fifty cent and two day work. NEAR-BEER HEN ABE BARBED BY 1.0. 0.F KNOXVILLE, Tenn.,' Oct., 12. The Tennessee grand lodge of the Indepen. dent Order of Odd Fellow, 1 today adopted, a resolution denying member, ship in the order to dealer In near beer and also to men who conduct so called "soft drink" stands. , Blnc the exclusion of the liquor traffic from the state last July the sala of near beef In soft drink stand ha become widespread. ' The Odd Fellows had previously barred saloon-keeper. COURT PUZZLED Br E Husband of Slain Woman And His Friend Are Sentenc- ed to Prison CLAIM THEY THOUGH r SHE WAS INTRUDER Court in Pronouncing Sen tence Admits That Whole Case is a Mystery CHARLESTON, S. C, , Oct JJ.. "Uullty of manslaughter," read th verdict returned at 4.15 o'olocjt thl afternoon at Georgetown, 8. C In the ttlaj of Dr. a. C, nigham and A. B. Avant, charged with the killing of the oungwlf of Dr, Bighorn at Mur rell' Inlet on the evening of Septem ber 4.' A motion for a new trial waa ovtr-ruted and the . Judge sentenced th defendant to a term of three and a hah year at hard labor In the pen itentiary' The prisoner were admit tor to ball in the sum of $1,600 pend ing an appeal to the Supreme court. Ktory of Tragedy. , Mr.: nigham waa shot to death by Avant while h wat walking toward the beach where h intended to go In the urf, It almost dark and the defendant claimed that .when they received no response from her when ' called upon ly, them to explain who' he wa and what she wanted, they believed . It . wa some one who had beon ' engaged In some . unlawful act and was trying to escape. - ' According to the two men, neither knew it wa the wife of Ulghum at whom the fatal shot wa fired. Both claim that they had no knowledge of the Identity of the woman that wulkml Bppn the beach' shortly, after sundown on September 4..;, V,v V-Vsa-. : With her, life cut short within two minute of the. firing of the gun, the woman had no -ehsnea to-' tell .the STRANG TRAGEDY VERDICT IS GUILTY world of th manner of th shooting. . Hha could not tell to tho who hasten ed to her tide at th aound of the report who shot her nor give a mo tive, if motive there wa - for th hooting, i " . ' Case Enveloped In Mystery. , But from th Up of Avant himself . It ha developed that he fired th gun. -It wa he who sent to her death th wife of hi friend. But why he klllpd her has not been established. The theorie a to her death range -.from . th possibility of a cold blooded mur ; der to that of mere accident, - From : the moment the husband cried out " . In agony on the beach, "Oh, Ood, you have killed my little wife," to the time . when the trial ended,' the affair ha - remained a mystery. , ' . : The state put up four witness's and In nearly all details the wltne statements agreed. That Dlgham and o Avant were together on the evening of the tragedy, walked to Bunnyslde, th home of Avant, out on the beach of Murrell's Inlet, followed an object that passed from around th home and when not receiving a response to their (U a to what it wished, the gun wa . ft red by Avant at the request of Big hum, are statement made by th de fendant on the night of th shooting. Thl and other explanation of varlou . ' details of the affair mad by the state' witnesses. The main feature of th state' position wa to show that it wa not sufficiently dark for one t lose range not to have been able to ditcern object on the beach, ' Juilge Mystlflfidi Tr. pronouncing sentence Judge , Watt stated that the. case wa one of , the most mysterious and unsatisfac tory he had ever tried, ana that wnu did not believe th killing wa mal icious, he would not hav been aur , prised had the verdict been either ae qtitttal or conviction for murder: Great recklessness ha been shown, he said. nd the defendant had been rattled OF DR. CARLISLE TO GRAVE 'rom'Distnguished to Hum-; blist, All Paid Him Last Honors. - ' 4- SPARTANBURG. "8. C, Oct II. ; A crowd numbering about t,90t who had come from all section of the state, gathered on the campus of Wofford college her thl afternoon for the funeral service over the body , of Dr. James H. Carlisle, late prel , dent emeritus of th institution. Pres ident of all th college in th state aisa were In attendance, and more than MOO chooi-ehHlre held po!-, tlon on the street traversed By tne funeral procession. Among the most ncere mourners at the funeral were about 1,000 negroes.-who attended the service to honor the memory of one of th greatest friends to the race in the state. -v ? - AH stores and office in the city were closed during th hour for the funeral. while the cotton mill also suspended operation that the operative might attend th services.
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