1 THE ASHEVILEE CITIZEN. THE WEATHER: SHOWERS Associated Press Leased Wire Reports. VOL. XXVI. NO. 0. AHHKVLLL&X.C, MONDAY MORNING, OtTOBKR 2r, liKH). PRICE FIVE CENTS. VICTIM OF SECRET GRIEF HEIRESS mm LIFE Life Palled on Leah Oppen helmer.Rich Helress.After Letter Came IT WAS ADDRESSED IN MAN'S WRITING She Locks Herself In Bath room And Then Fires The Fatal Shot NEW YORK. Oct. 24 No light has yet been shell on the strange suicide of Miss Leah Oppenhelmer, of Hutte, Mont., an heiress of large, fortunr, who shot herself yesterday in n bath room at the Kosemary. The woman was thirty-live years old and In r beauty was ho striking that many in I lie neighbor!! I was attracted by it. She dressed in splen did taste and it was her custom to take a walk every attcrnuon. Yester day she went to her room to dress for her daily stroll and one of the Sy mmi'a maid, Kate Sipila. stalled to help her with her toilet. Miss ippen helmer dismissed the maid, however, put on a kiniona and went to her bath room. Shot Startles Servants. In a very few minutes Die servants heard a shot and the maid, Kate, ran to sue what had happened. The bath room, door was locked. A small win dow in the upiwT panel was broken and the woman was seen lying on the floor. Thinking her mistress was ill. she SiMlt otttKOf the ineiiervants for Dr. J. V. SchJperlNc.. Hi West Ninety-third strcetTand .Miss nppcti heimer's brother. Louis ( ipponlielmer a cigar Jobber, of No. 4:10 Knot Ninety first street, was telephoned for. When Dr. Schelport reached the 4k apartment the brother had arrived. The ibathroom door was broken open. Th doctor went and raised Miss )p penheimer's head. In doing so he brushed back the folds of the klmona and saw that the chemise was black ened. He made an examination and discovered a bullet wound In the left breast over the heart. A revolver was under the body. That Miss iippenhel mer was firmly rival In her purpose . to take her life was evidenced by lie fact that the revolver missed tire the (Continued on page four.) REVENUE GUTTER AFTER T Was Directly in Path of Shipping and a Menace lo Coastwise Vessels CREW WERE SAVED WASHINGTON. Oct. 24. Warned away by a revenue cutler's lights, thirty-live miles off shore from the Se ijiiin light in Maine, several marine cvali cruising coastwise had a narrow escape from disaster through collis ion with a substantial derelict on a "pitch dark" night last week. Right In the path of navigation lay tl:i abandoned wreck and if she b id not been located and lelllo.ed It is likely that several schooners, tows an 1 other vessels that pass.-d within lie Immediate vicinity dining last Tues day night would have struck thy hall submerged hulk and caused great damage ami probable loss of life. The ot'.eial narration of the incident that thiilled the shipping interests in ami about the Caseo Ray seetion. up and down the coast for miles, has just n ached the treasury department in a r. i rt from Captain F. S. Van Itos ktrk, commanding the revenue cutter Woodbury at Portland, whose cxp ri enees in rescuing the craft wen' most remarkable. The derelict was the s hooncr Tin -r. sa Wolf, of Wiscass.1. Me. Her crew had been taVeii off by the Rop hnm Beach life saving crew when fif teen miles east of the coast. Captain Van Hoskerck. in the Woodbury started out to whore the derelict was b. In ved to have drifted. Finally the tvvo were abreast. Towed to Port. The schooner's stern and top gal lpnt forecastle were awash, anil the fore and mainmasts were gone Til" seas were breaking on board, but the vs!Pl appeared to be in remarkably gofd condition and worth saving. A boat was lowered from the (ut ter and the first lieutenant went n board the wreck. The state of the sen rendered the dynamiting of til" wreck a hazardous and dlflh olt work, thm-fore a hawser was run to the titts on the schooner's port quarter, ai d the Woodbury, with the derelict ROOSE VELTA T ONE DOLLAR PER WORD, 'SPRINGS OLD STOR 1 Account of "My Adventure With Leopard Was Published by New York World in 1896. Chicago Papers Fooled. (I'rnin The World of Nov. IS, tMttfi.) London, Nov. 14. Prof. I . O. El liott, the leader of the expedition hit i Africa from the Field Columbian Museum of v'hicugo, sailed for home nil the steamship St. Louis today, af ter a sojourn in regions unknown to Kuropeans and never before traversed by a naturalist. While the explorer's caravan of sisty-elght men, all armed with Snl ders and Winchesters, and ninoty eiKht camels, was Journeying through Soinaliland, ('. A. Akeley, head of the taxidermist department, was furiously attacked by a wounded leopard. lie was nearly torn to pieces. Me bears fourteen wounds on bis I'IkM arm and hand as mementos of the elrug Kh He escaped through remarkable pri senee of mind and i iness In litt rally suffocating the beast by kneeling on its hint;. Tlw for, fnlng "deadly parallel" h diavvu on Mr. Roosevelt by The New York World, in connection with lib huuliiiK article in Scribr.er's Maga zine I'art of the president's narra tive was printed in l-'rhlay morning's Citizen, and it will be recalled that ihe story was so written as to lead one ro believe that "my friend Ake l,v" bad just killed a leopard with bis hare hand, and was still suffrin from bis terrible wounds. As will be t;een above. The New York World I ublished .Mr. AkeieV's remarkable adventure thirteen years ago. The Cbicaiio newspapers were eompletely tai.eii iu by tin- leopard story, accord ing to the following dispatch: Related Story. Chicago, let. 23. "Heast Attacks Akeley!" "Chlcagoan's Rrave Act!" "Carl Akeley. After Fierce Struggle, Kills Leopard Rarehanded!" all In heavy black type, were headlines that greeted the readers of Chicago news papers today. It was all actually true, only n news It was somewhat belated. Thci New York World printed the story some thirteen vears ago. II remained for .Mr. Roosevelt to spring It afresh on the world in Ihe doll ar a-w ord tab- of bis ndvenluroH he is vvritilll for Seril.ner's Magazine. As for Carl K. Akeley, eliief taxi dermist of the Field Columbian Mu seum, whose adventure the mighty COURSE OF TRUE LOVE DOES NOT RUN SMOOTH FOR AGED MRS. SUFFERN Threatened Now With Al location Suit for Tnk inr Another's Fiance POTII DISAPPEAR MOW YOUK. Met. 24. Miss Jean-. r,(lte SulTern or is she .Mrs. "iisth r Rob" lliscoi k ? At any rate, that :tt'in,- llllil Jersey heiress doesn't seen! able. dospile her sixty-four years and her wealth and her intense longing to set lie down and remain married to anv or. i man. Something always turns up. Miss Suffern married "iislbr Hob," , rip io . ,1,-serled by him and to Hud that he bad another wife living Tii.ii sin tried to wed Simon Apgar. I -it lli. v disagr 1 over how much she should pay for a new shirt for l.itn to wear at the ceremony Then sh. jumped from Jersey to Conne.ti ni and Thursday night became the l.i ale of "Chauffeur Frank," brother t. "iislbr Hob" That marriage, from Thursday nulil until yesterday morning, waa apparently a very happy one. but Mrs. Jennie Quackonbush, re:d ill are No. f.HH Lenox avenue, state of lit.-, widow; and claiming to be the (iamee of "Chauffeur Frank" llis ,. k. read of the ceremony in tin m .ruing papers yesterday, v ,1vv. , slu h:.d been deceived and that lo-r h.aii bad been broken, and at once visited an attorney. "Institute for me," she said, "a suit nn.inst Miss Jean. tte Suffern. or Mrs :..! ,-rt or Mrs. Frank Ilisr ock. or whatever her name Is. for alienating the alTcitions of the man I was to mairy. Institute also a suit against Flank llisco. k for breach of promise to marry. And sue for heavy dam ages'" 'inon nt her home, Mrs. Quacken bush. who Is just thirty-two (half 3d is Suffern's age and by no means unattractive plaintively unfolded her woes as follows: Last May I had a room at Ninth avenue and Fifty-eight street. In the same boarding house where Frank Il.scock lived. Me was .1 chauffeur for the Stearns Conffiany. We fell In love with each other at first sight. (Continued on page four.) Friend Akley's" i hunted Injects into his narrative In a Scrl liner's M a ".a line. Nov.. I MM.) My friend, furl Akely. of Chicago, actually killed bare-handed a leop ard which sprang on him. He had already wounded the beast twice, crippling it in one front and hind paw, whereupon It charged, followed him as he tried to dodge the charge, and struck him full Just as he turned. It bit him in one arm, biting again and again as it worked up the arm from the wrist to the elbow. Tint Akely threw It, holding its throat with the oil-.er hand, and flinging Its body to one side. 11 luckily fell on ita side with Us two wounded less upper most, so that it could not tear him lie fell forward with It and crushed in its chest with his knees until he distinctly felt one of its ribs crack; this, said Akely, was the tlrst mo m nt when he felt he might conquer. Kcdouhling nisi efforts, with knees and hands, he actually choked and crushed the lite out of it, although his arm was badly bitten. fashion that led Chicago journalists ' i Imagine their fellow-townsman lust recovering from his wounds un der the burning rays of an African sun, he Is somewhere in the I'nlted States, alive and well. The possibilities suggested by Col. lioosevelt's latest exploit are dazzling, and every Chicago newspaper report er who could get the time has been de'ving Industriously Into the ennt Ings of nature fakers, or scan hlng the old llh-H of The World and other pa pi rs In the hope of some time either being president or going to shoot In Africa. The latest rumor Is that (iecrge Ade and some other spnee grabbers at high figure are getting ready to head African expeditions. HOMICIDE IN A CONSTRUCTION CAMP WINSTON SALEM, N. C Oct., 24 Following a quarrel early last evening at construction i-anip No. I on the new Southbound railroad. Frank Wilson was shot and killed by Joe Cotton. Hoth vv ere members of the construc tion force. Following the shooting Cotton drew his vvagei and disappear ed. It is said thai Wilson attacked Cotton with a sti.k when the latter fired two bullets taking effect. IMS WIFE TRIES TO PLOT Accuses His Affinity of Sending Poisoned Oan dv and has her Arrested QUEER SORT ()' WOMEN ST. Liil'IS. (ut. 2.1. Mrs. Nanette Lilian) confessed Ibis afternoon that she deliberately put strychnine into a box of candy that she herself bought aral then had .VI i s Maud Lldley, a Iv.ndsome young widow, arrested on the charge of attempting to poison her. She admitted that she played t lie ruse in a desperate attempt to win back the love of her young hus band, a wi ll-known newspaper man. " ho. sin- says, was infatuated witli Mis. Cidley. Mrs. I'idiey was released loday. Tie- confession was as dramatic as the original charge. Mrs. Llllard went to Police Captain Cafiney a few days ago, handed him a box of candy, told him It bad been i inn ln-r by the woman who was wrecking her home nnd demanded that Mrs. Hidby be locked up. A i le niist's examination showed that e.o h pi. ee of candy contained enough st-M inline to cause instant death, and yesterday Mrs. Kldley was taken from lo r home, in a fashionable apartment house, and lodg. d in jail, despite her fr;ntie denials She admitted, how ever, that she lov.-d Llllard. Todav Captain (laffney became Slls pi.ioiiH of the wife's story. He lenrn ed from J- liorne, a drug store clerk, that hi: had sold Mrs. Llllard the very box of candy she offered as proof of th alleged poison plot. Confronted nt Headquarter. Mrs Lilian! was brought to I'ollce h r.dipiarters. Sin- reiterated her charges against Mrs. ltldb-y. Captain fh.ffney brought the clerk Into the rum and asked: "Is this the woman who bought that box of candy from you?" "She Is the woman," said I'orne, "I know her well." Mrs. Llllard fell to the floor In a faint. Then she broke down and con fessed Ijilcr she Issued a signed pub lic statement. In which she said: "Mv husband loved Mrs. Kldley more than me. I knew gh was tak (Continued on page four.) S- GwAig, BEAT r, j A?' You've BtiH' f SHOOTS HTS CHORUS GIRL WIFE WHO PREFERRED STAGE TO LIFE WITH HIM Shoots Her Down in Union Station, Washington, as She Tries to Flee From Him and Then Turns Pistol to His Own Head. Had Been Pris oner in Sing Sing. WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 Rnraged because Ills chorus gill wife preferred a life on the stag" to Ills compan ionship, William II. Short of New Yurk city, today shot and perhaps fatally wounded her in the west por tico of the Union slat ion here, and thi ll si-lit a bullet crashlMM through his temph. He died an hour later at Casualty hospital The tragedy followed a series of quarrels -between tho couple. Mrs. Short had just alighted from' a cab, which was also occupied by her hus band and Miss Cddwell, a. girl friend, and 'iu hurrying; to catch a train for Pittsburg, when Short, without warning, whipped a revolver from hl ixicket nnd final three bullets into hl wlfe'e hack. The woman who now lies near deatli in the Casualty hos pital, Is know n to the stage as Kvelv n llowanf. and played In Washington last week with the "Motor Girl" com pany. She was formerly Evelyn Ijcwis.' of Jacksonville, Fla., and married Short, who Is a. native of Livingston, Alabama, ubout seven year ago. Hud Ili-cn In ' I'rlMOii. They lived In New York where he was employed ns a book-keeper In a batik, but soon after their marriage. ON MARYLAND TICKET For First Time in Stale 'h History Voters May Cast Their Ballots for Woman ItALTIMoltl-:, Mu, Oct. 24. Judge ,S.ockhrid;e In the city court yestcr- h.y rendered a derision under which the board of supervisors of elections ill be compel:-! to place on tho tu kit lo be voted next month the tu me of Mrs. Anna Smith Lang as candidate for tin- socialist party for tin- house of i. legates of the Mary land li'Kislatui ,-. ihe board having re fused to place I. i name on the ticket because of her h.x. Judge Sto. k- biidge declare. I Ho- board of super visors Is without power to pass upon the questions of i indldates, that func tion resting, I" the case of Mrs. Lang, entirely wilh tie house of delegabs at the sole .1 1 1 1 1 1 of the iicstloris of those elected to that body. The r.n hI i i ii t Inn or Man land gives women no riijht to bo el" Ml to olllco. 1HMH l CIMHCII. LIKHON. del. . I A isimb was to day found in ih ' hurch of the irodi Dominicans In i ". Tho sacristan ex- tlnguirtlo'd th. t i.-e Two persons wci. urrerded on foe-ia. ion of having car ried the bomb inlo the edlllot. SH0WER& WASHINGTON. Oct, 24, Weather forecast for North Carolina: Fair Mon day followed by showers In west; Toeeday rising tenipirrature moderate variable wimln. Oh, Look Who's Here! the man got Into tho clutches of (lis law, through alleged misappropriation of funds, Mrs. Short told thu police w hen she regained consciousness at ttie hospital, and aerved u, term In Sing Sing. Trough sheor necessity Mrs, Short said she drifted to the tue us a means of UvJIhood. Short recently was paroled from prison, Mrs. Short sold and inado n new start In life. When he declined to return to him, ha followed her here. She persisted In her refusal. Aeooimwnhxl by Miss M said a Cald well , another member of the oom pnny she left her hotel thla morning for the station. She vainly trliMl to elude her husband, who followed her and pled with her again to turn from Hie stage. When they reached tho station Short made Ills final entreaty and when he was again rebuffed the tragedy ensued. Tried to I '.hide Him. To eye witnesses It appeared that Mrs. Short much terrified, had jumped from the cab drawn up at the west portico of the station, and had at tempted to run. when Short pulled his revolver and, rushing at the woman, llred a bullet Into her shoulder. She FOR VARIETY OF DISEASES AntliraeiioHe, However,. Af fects Cotton nnd in No Kin to Pellagra WARHINC.TON, Oct. 24 -Unnecessary alarm, In the Judgment of the c.llon experts of tho department of ai;i leiillure, Is manifested by cotton planters over the ravages of anthrac nose. Jtecently, It has been reported that the disease Is costing the cotton mowers ef two states In the cotton belt about $10,000. 000 a year. "This statement." said Professor W. j V in ton, pathologist of the bureau of plant Industry of the department o. agriculture, 'manifestly Is Impos sible, No Htieh loss as that rould oc cur In any una state, or In uny two slates, from anthracnose. In a sense, it is a sporadic disease which Is likely lo affect seriously a limited territory, but It Is ipiltn unlikely that II could a'n-ct any particular state to such an e: tent. "The dlseusn Is prevalent In all lotion districts every season, but ia-ily causes serious Injury. In wet seasons it does cause loss s here and th--rc amounting sometimes to one. fourth or even one-half of the cotton -op. Tho aggregate, loss, while large v In n tho whole c ountry Is considered d-iis not make In any one year a se rious Inroad on the total crop. "In Alabama, for Instance, the loss in particular fields, may be one-half of the crop; yet a few miles away there will be little if any evidence of It The sections that suffer from tho loss usually are limited. "Anthracnoae appeara on the bolls as dark spots, which enlarge and be come somewhat shrunken In the cen ters and are of pink or reddish brow n." W. A. Ollhert, of the bureau of plant Industry, is bow In the South making a study of anthracnose and It Is expected that he will make a com parative, report on the subject within a few weeks. i fell at the tlrst alio), and 4he man stood over bur and sent two mors bullets through her body. Without a moment's lieslluthm, evidently beilev lug ho had killed his wife. Short turned the revolver upon himself, and sent a bullet Into his right temple. Ho fell at the feet of his unconscious wife. Mlsa Caldwell was detained by tha police aa an eye witness, but upon Short's death aoon afterward! aha wan released and was permitted to pro ced with her company to Pittsburg. Jn tho ioom In wtirtrrt mtort occu pied at the hotel, the police discover ed a card, bearing thu following words : "Wllllum H. Short, representing the Autollte Manufacturing company, self lighting cigarettes. 830-41 Sixth avenue, Newark, N. J." Short was apparently without funds. He had made two Ineffectual attempts to get checks cashed, It la aald. Mrs. Mary Lewis, living at No. 2 East 111 street, New York city, who is believed to be the mother of Mra, Bhort. waa notified of the tragedy and is expected here lute tonight. (CnntlnufMl on pftffO E BIGGER THANEVER BEFORE Opens Tuesday and Will jUHt Until Friday, With New Attractions CHARLOTTE, N. C, Oct. J4.- With an anticipated nttendunca dur ing tho four days of tho event and with exhibitions that will far surpass those, of previous years In quantity and quality, the ninth Mecklenburg fair, which will open Tuesday and last through Friday of this week promises to ecllpsu all the fairs that have 'been held here before. The management has booked an en tire ''ostrich farm' for fair week, und It Is also proposed to march the birds of stately plumage through the streets dally, also over the grounds, so that everybody may have an opportunity to see these Interesting birds. The ostriches are this week on exhibition at italelgh and are declared to bo one of Ihe drawing cards of the fair there. The entries for the races closed last night with a long Mrlmg of good horses booked for the numerous events of the win k. The books show that (hero will be from 8 to 1 ! en-trli-s In each of the open-class races which closed the night of the 19th. In addition there will be the stake races entries for which were previ ously closed. In these, rates there are from 12 to 15 entries, the purses for tho races aggregating about $1,000. Already tho building at the grounds are scenes of busy activity and the decorators and exhibitors are engag ed In getting everything In shape for next week. The lights have been turned on at night and much of the work Is being done after night. Bev- Aral siH I n minl nf nil t-of-town exhibits have been received and everything Is moving ahead spienuiuiy. The fair association Is anxious that It be stenernlly known that no exhib its will be received after midnight of Monday. October SB.' . 4 JUSTICE PECKHAM ECOURT DIES ATJIS HOME succumbs to Lingering Illness of Which he Has Suffer ed Since May LAST APPOINTWENT MADE BY CLEVELAND Had Distinguished Career In Own State And In Highest Court of The Land ALHANY. N. Y Oct. 24, Hufu W. l'ookluim, associate Jimtlce of the i'nlted Slates Supreme court, died at H IS o'clock tonight at Coolmoore, hia summer hiunu at AJtamont, Albany county. Death Was due to a compli cation of diseases, heart trouble, br Ignis disease and hardening of the arteries contributing. Justice Peck ham had been In III health for soma time, but hia condition was not eon muereii aerioua until recently, r allow ing adjournment of the May term of the United States Supreme court he came on from Washington with Mra. I'eckham to spend the aummer M AI tumont, expecting to return for the beginning of the October ternh A few days ago hia condition became aueh that hia physician Mid he waa likely to din at any time or might linger for several months. Up to a few day a,ro Justice Peck ham exhibited con siderable strength and wag able to be a .wu u. . rr,., tu...f..nM. J t nuuui inv iiuiin, too virvuivry un" turbance which contributed to h) death was first noticed about tlx years t)IHTIN(illlSHF.l) CAniSEll. ' WA81UNOTON, Oct, 14. Th P nouncement of the death of Justice Peckham, while expected,- came aa a shock to his associates on tha bench , and In political circle and every where expressions of regret were heard. , ., t Justice Peckham was a democrat and before taking a seat on the bench gave considerable attention to poll ties In Newjrorgv jwui born In Albany, N. Y.. November I,. 4138. and had been on the bench, state and federal, for twrnty-six years. He eame from the court of ftppealli ot hia native elate, a position which hia fath er before him had occupied. ' ' Mr, Peck ham's flmt office wan that of district attorney for Albany county. Ha was elected to that position In 1868. He afterward became In U0 cession corporation counsel for tha city of Albany, member of th Su preme court of the state and oaso- eisia buttles of th state- Court of Ad- , peals. He was the laat of Frealdent Cleveland's democratic appointee to ' the Federal Supreme court, Chief Jug- tloe Fuller and Jualee White being tha other two. He took hia seat In Jan uary 1804. .. ' , A nistlngnlslied Jurist. - His chief distinction was that of giving his time exclusively to the du-tb-s of the court. He accepted no -outside appointments and undertook no work not connected with the high tribunal of which he waa a member, He was In constant attendance on the court and he gave th most care WyrfrfVWiISllSI (Continued on page six.) PRESIDENT ZELAYA IS DEFEATED IN BATTLE One Hundred Killed and Three Hundred Wounded y Usurper's Force ( 1 0 V E UN M ENT LOSING TiLUEKIELDH, Nicaragua, Oct. 14 (by wireless telegraph via Colon).- Ihe tug Hlnnca, which haa arrived here from Qreytown brings newa of the first Important battle of the rev olution. General Chamorro'a foreea rnuy.ht an engagement on Friday with 1.000 of President Zelaya's troop at a point below Boca Carlos, on the San Juan river. The revolutionist won a decisive victory, one hundred of the government troops being killed and three hundred wounded. General Chamorro' loseee were slight. Th Insurgents captured two Krttpp U?ei guns and four hundred rifles. This defeat for President Zelfty will doubtless have a deterrent affect upon recruiting tor me service nt Managua and Is likely alM to bring additional reinforcements to the standards of the tnaurgent. Gen cral Chamorro I now advancing "'"thb" steamer Tulr be4ongln to tha Fmery company, also- ha reached here with the detail of the capture by the revolutionise of Cape Or acta A-Pole. The port wa easily taken, not more than flv or els ni beln killed and a email number wounded. This give th revolutionists control of tho rntlre Atlantic coast F RDM (Continued on Page Two.)