THE WEATHER:
FAIR.
VOL. XXVI. NO. 10.
II BAND OF REBELS
DEFIES POWER OF
L
Make Off With Torpedo Boat
And Engage Warships And
Batteries In Battle
ONLY THREE HUNDRED
IN MUTINOUS CREW
Government Will be Lenient
And Take Them Back If
They Give up
ATHENS. Oct. 29. After ill moat
2,000 years when Th niiato Irs gain,
ed a memorable victory over the IVr
slons Salami again today was the
scene of a naval battle.
The correspondent of The Assoei
' aled Press has Just returned here
from Hearamanga, where he wlliuns
ed twenty minute' of lighting this af
ternoon between Meld batteries and
big warships on the one side and the
mutinous band of naval officers
Which quitted the capital Wednesday
with torpedo boats, on the other.
The first shots were lired soon after
four o'clock and a sharp exchange of
siyll followed. Some of the project
iles struck the arsenal buildings hut
the correspondent saw only onu shell
hit a torpedo boat (he Sphendona,
which Immediately was enveloped In
a cloud of smoke.
During the action the torpedo
boats gradually retired steaming,
backwards until they obtained the.
shelter of the headland when the fir
ing ceased. The rebel vessels while
the engagement was in progress, re
turned the lire of the warships and
field batteries, but apparently little
damage was done on either side. The
rebels led by lieutenant Tibaldos are
reported to have numbered .'100 men.
Feeling Intense.
Athens Is quiet tonight but muen
suppressed excitement yrevails. An of
ficial statement has been issued stat
ing that the arsenal which was in
the hands of the rebels has been re
captured and that the mutinous tor
pedo boots are expected to surrender.
Lieutenant Tibaldos appears to have
been actuated by his disapproval of
" the tactics of the military league and
the. Junior naval officers In consent
ing to negotiate a compromise of the
ultimatum recently issued by the mil
itary league for the enactment of an
ordinance suspending all promotion
(Continued on page foinv)
NEW YORK TO ATLANTA
CARS ARE SPEEDING ON
WAYTHRDUGHTHESTATE
Towns on Route ive Them
Hearty Welcome and Old
North State Hospitality
TY COBB THE STAR
WINSTON-SALEM, N. C Oct 29.
The NeW York Herald-Atlanta
Journal good roads automobile party,
enrouto from Neew York to Atlanta,
made a tint- run from Uoanoke to
Winston-Salem today, a distance' of
12,r miles. The checking car left
Roanoke at C a. in., stopped one lour
at Martinsville for lunch and arrived
here at 3.4.r. The roads were found
in splendid condition. At .Martins
ville the citizens tuned out en masse
and gave the visitors an enthusiastic
welcome.
Ty Cobb, as usual, was the star
attraction all along the route.
flreat throngs of -Trta'-ns greeted
the visitors upon tlyir arrival here
and much eagerness was manifested
to see the famous baseball player.
Tonight a reception and smoker was
tendered the highway autoists at Ho
tel Zinzindorf. Ky request Ty Cobb
made a short talk on basi-bea II.
other members of the party also
spoke.
The party leav s tomorrow morn
ing for Charlotte, where they will
spend Sunday. The noon stop will
be at Lexington, where they will be
tendered a big reception, the feature
of which will be nn oll-fasliloneil
b:rbeeue. with a good roads rally
schedule 1.
Two can v i rp put out of romm'i
slon this morning. The Franklin,
entered from Jacksonville. Fla.. ran
into a farmer's waumi four milis out
from Roanoke and sustained damages
which resulted ill indefinite delay.
The farmer is reported to have been
badly Injured. While crossing
Chitnut creek, thirty-five miles out
from Roanoke, a pin in the Maxwell
blew out.
The two cars may rejoin the other
tourists at Charlotte Sunday.
WHOLEGREEKNAVY
THE
GREAT MATCH
F
WORLD IS SETTLED
Jeffries And Johnson Sign Artl
oles For Forty Five Rounds
or More
CONTEST TO COME OFF
BEFORE JULY 5 NEXT
White Man Got All Stipula
tions he Wanted Inserted
In The Agreement
NEW YORK, Oct. 29. Jack John
son and James J. Jeffries for the
iv'vro insisted that as present cham
pion his name should go lirst signed
a.tiehs in New York late this after
noon binding them to tight forty-live
or more rounds to a tlnish not later
'bin July 6. 1910, before the club of
ftring the best financial Inducement,
the winnter to take a side bet of 10,
(OMI and seventy-live percent of the
purse, the loser to take twenty-live
per cent.
The preliminary discussion was
scheduled for three o'clock in the
banquet ball of tin' Hotel Albany.
Jeffries and bis manager were punc
tual to the minute, but Johnson el
bowed his way diffidently through the
crowd ten minutes late.
Jeffries eyed the negro cautiously
(hut did not meet his glance. John-
!son was affable, but Bhowed his ner
vousness by his frequent grins and his
constant clicking of two red dice which
: he carried half concealed In the palm
I of his right hand. Iloth principals
posd for the photographer and when
j the smoke of the flashlights had
j cleared, promptly got down to bus
l i'less.
I Jeff tictx Demands.
Jeffries u t lierger, his manager, no
his talking, but Johnson broke In fre
quently on bis manager with sugges
tions and objections.
Nevertheless It was renin rued as
tlie articles took form that Jeffries
n-is winning nearly every point for
which he contended. It was ngrped
without dispute that the men would
box for "the heavyweight champlon
sh'p of the, world."
At this point Jolliuion instated that
the present champion's name should
preceded the retired -undefeated cham
pion's name In the wr'tten agreement.
To this Jeffries quickly assented.
l',rgi-r then suggested that fhe fight
' io to the club making the highest
(Continued on page four.)
CHICAGO EXPRESSES
ITS CONFIDENCE EN
Dclares That He Was Un
fairly Treated ami Char
ges Against Him Trivial
WILL BANQUET IIIM
CHICAC.O, Oct. 29. An Invitation
signed by fifty Chlcagoans. who are
lenders in the city's commercial, pro
fessional and social endeavors, was
sent today to Chark Tt. Crane, whose
resignation as minister designate to
China recently attracted attention.
Mr. Crane, at present in New York, is
asked to be the guest of honor at a
dinner to be given at Mr. Crane's
eon enienee.
The Invit-itmn speaks of the recall
of tlie formi r minister designate, up
holding hi attitude In every respect.
Among the names attai bed to it are
the following: C. T. Hutchinson.
David It. l'organ. II. li. Kohlsaat.
Harry l'ratt Judson, Cbaib-s C
Daw.-s. (Jeorge K. Roberts, ticorgc It.
I'ock, D. H. Rurnham. James . l'or
gan. S. M. Feon, A. J. Karling. and
Victory F. I-iwson.
The Invitation reads in pari:
"We desire in th's public manner
to express our appreciation of your
character and d iinlcrcst -d public
scrvici y. We n-gatd at not the least
:f tli.-se s i v.ces your vigorous ad
vocacy of the protection and xu-n-sion
of American commercial and po
1'tieal inicrois i'l tne Orient, in full
ae . rd with the w li known views of
President Taft .inc with his epoch
making speech at Shanghai In 1 ! 0 7
"Your unusual discretion, prudence,
wisdom, and modesty had been de
termined to us l an acquaintance
extending- over tweflly-five yuars of
an active business and social life. So
far no'conduct of your own has di
minished our confidence in your fit
ness. We believe that the published
circumstances, trivial in themselves,
were unfairly made torn of in an at
tempt to humiliate you without ade
quate cause; and we wish by this
means, publicly to protest against
such methods which cannot fail to
have a tendency to discourage promi
nent private citizei.s from accepting
public office."
CHAMPIONSHIP
ASHEVIEEE CITIZEN.
SCHEDULE FOR THE
MISSISSIPPI TRIP
ALL OUT OF HITCH
r.., i ,m
President Taft Finds River
Navigation a Primitive
Sort of Science
REST OF FLOTILLA
OVERTAKES HIS BOAT
Declares River Like a Beauti
ful Woman Needs Care
ful Handling
NATCHEZ, Miss., Oct. 29. Arriv
ing here on the Oleander at !M0
o'clock this morning, two hours and
forty minutes behind schedule lime.
l'residcnt Taft and his personal par
ty left again at noon, three hours be
hind schedule time.
Eight of the other vessels of the
waterways fleet were In sight when
the oleander pointed her nose Into
the bank. This was due to the fact
that the oleander, which shook off
all the other Imats yesterday In .the
run to Yicksburg and caused the gov
ernors and congressmen temporarily
to desert their steamers for a special
train, got into difficulties heself last
night and could not make her usual
speed. One of the regular firemen
had to put ashore at Memphis on ac
count of illness and a green hand ut
the fires succeeded In choking them,
llnch liluniCM the Other.
Another reason for the long delay
In reaching here was due to the fact
that the boats arriving at Yicksburg
after the Oleander Inst night crowded
into the harbor canal in direct viola
tion of the orders and blocked the
exit uf the president.
There Is quite a controversy (ill as
to who arranged the schedule to New
Orleans. Some blame It on Wash
ington, some on the St. Louis com
mittee, and some on various other
people.
President Taft was greeted here by
Mayor Benbrook and a reception
committee. The mayor made a brief
address of welcome and the president
made a happy response, leaving the
steamer the president and many of
the visiting governors who arrived
on the stnimer St. Paul were taken
for an automobile drive through the
city. The ride ended at a court of
(Continued on pake four.)
MISS GAZZAM DENIES
HER INFATUATION WITH
THE ASTROLOGER NJBLO
Also Says That IIi8 Alleged
Wife is Not His Wife and
Has No Right to Sue
PAID IIIM II rs FEES
NEW YORK, Oct. 29 Miss An
toinette (iazzam, the millionaire
Pennsylvania heiress who has a mar
ble palace at Corn w all-on-the-I I udson
has finally filed her answer in a suit
for $150,0(10 damages brought
against her by Mrs. Marshall Clark,
who charge the alienntlon of the af
fections of her husband, "Professor
Niblo." of New York. Chicago, and
Ios Angr.les.
In many respects Miss fiazzam's an
swer follows the amended bill by
"Professor Nible" Clarke in a suit
for divorce, which is pending. She
denies e very charge made by Mrs.
Clark that she spent a fortune to
win the love of the mystic; that she
had been indiscrete with him at the
Hotel Lankershelm In Dos Angeles,
and that she had any Idea of marry
ing him under any circumstances.
Miss Oazssam sets up the defense
that 'Mine. Mispah," as Mrs. Clark
was known among palmists atld clair
voyants, is not and never has been
the legal wife of Marshall Clark. Sh
asserts that Mrs. Clark was neviT le
gally divorced from Jackson H. Dor
sey, her s. eond husband, although
there was a form of divorce In Illi
nois In 1!02.
This is tlie point In which the de
fense of Miss Oazzam most particu
larly agrees. Mrs. Clark's lawyers
have declared that they will prove
her Dorsey divorce absolutely legal
In every respect.
Miss Ouzzam's answer admitted
that she had met and nonsuited Clak
or "professor Niblo," In Iis Angeles,
in March of this yenr. She sets forth
that she was in mourning for her
mother and troubled in mind over
sew-nil matters.
She deebtr- further that hr eon
sultation with the handsome man who
reads the stars was always at his of
fice and during his regularly adver
tised office hours. She denies that
she ever saw him at the Ilotel Lan-
kershln In Ixw Angeles, either In her
apartment or in his.
asiie villi; n. c, Saturday morning, October 30, iooo.
EPIDEMIC OF
BREAKS
Three Almost Closed By Great Number of Students Made 111 from Eating bad West
era Meats. Federal Government Will be Asked to
Make Investigation ,
ATLANTA. Oa., Oct. 28. With ono
Southern college closed, the student
body of another all but depleted, and
the work of a third seriously Impaired
by the simultaneous appearance In
these Institutions of a strange malady,
apparently of an epidemic nature,
which for a time battled physicians,
but which is nowIn two of these
schools at least declared to be pto
maine poisoning, due to the eating
of Impure Western meats, a serious
situation hag developed for the con
sideration of the federal and state
pure food authorities.
This announcement was made here
tonight In connection with the Illness
of mors than tWty cadets at the Geor
gia Military Academy at College Park,
tight miles from Atlanta, the majority
of whom were yesterday rushed to
Atlanta hospitals seriously III. The
other schools affected are tho La
grange Female eollege, Lagrange, la.,
with two hundred students, which has
left but sixty students, and the Athens
Female college, Athens, Ala., with one
hundred students, which closed early
In the week.
Had Roneles 11am.
The eating of boiled boneless ham
by the cadets of the Georgia Military
Academy is believed to be directly re
sponsible for the development of pto
maine poison In that Institution. As
Atlanta Is the distributing renter of
a large section of the South, It Is
suggested by an official of the military
SHERIFF SHOT TRYING
TO CAPTURE CONVICT
Office. Started to Crawl Un
der Hoi iso After Him and
Met Bullet Coming Out
MCItPIlV. N. C, Oct. 29. Hill
Loudsrmtlk, who was serving a three
year senteii e on the county chain
gang ami wlio broke Jail here about
two months since, was located this
morning under his father's resilience
by Sheriff Coffey. Coffey started to
crawl under Uie floor to arrint I.oiid
ernillk and was shot by some one
supposed to bo the boy. The ball
en bred his eve. It Is claimed that
Coffey Is seriously hurt. Burgeon
wenUto him early today and he has
not since b- n heard from. This oc
curred In extreme western part of
county.
COt LI' NT KILL HIM.
WINSTON -HALKM, N. C. Oct. 29.
Thomas Imrliam, a negro, fell from
the sixth story of the It. J. Jteynolds
tobacco fjet'-ry to the ground today.
Though b'ully shaken up It Is thought
that he ill recover.
WA8HINOTON, Oct. 2.
North Curolina: Haturd"
day, not much cha"
lure: moderate 1 -
coming yaHa'
-Forecast :
rid 8un-impera-1n,
be-
Hallowe'en.
up My mino yQQQVV
which i want we wpnrj
PTOMAINE POISONING
OUT IN GEORGIA COLLEGES
school that the diseased meats found
their way from Atlanta to the other
Institutions affected.
"It Is an alarming situation," ha a ti
ded . "and calls for a vigorous Inves
tigation by the authoritlea who have
supervision over the food supplies
which are shipped Into Atlanta from
the packing centers." j
Taken Violently III. " !
At the Georgia Military : Academy
a number of tha cadets ate heartily
ot the bolted bam Saturdar and Suit,
d-ty. Two wins of president Wood
ward were the first taken III and ft
score or more . - wer eoraplalnfng
Monday morning. Tuesday,;;, tprtjfc
three were violently III, necessitating
the removal yesterday of most of
'hem to Atlanta hospitals, after the
college Infirmary was filled to capao
i'.y. The afflicted boys were first strick
en with chills, followed tiy vomiting,
with pulse low and temperature sub
normal. This condition continued with
severe headaches and pains In the
muscles and limbs developing on the
third day.
School Will Not Close.
Vive of tha hoys have recovered suf
fleiently to go to their homes, while
twenty-five are still In local hospitals
nd eight in tho colleeg Inflrmury.
Several others are confined to tholr
i ooms.
The student roll at tho military
academy shows an attendance of 18 5.
The school will not close down, the
WHITE SLAVERY CANNOT
BE CHARCED TO PARTIES
Prof. Jenks Declares it Does
Exist in New York to a'
Menacing Degree
NEW YOI1K, Oct. 29. Jeremiah
W. Jenks, professor of political econ
omy at Cornell, gave out a statement
here today In which he says that
"white slavery" does exist In Now
York as charged by a recent anti
Tammany magazine article, but he
does not hold any political organi
zation responsible for the traffic.
Professor Jenks, who was a member
of the commission appointed by con
gress to Investigate Immigration con
ditions, says In part:
"J have no knowledge as to wheth
er the traffic Is greater in New York
than In I'aris. However, I believe
that It Is greater In New York than
elsewhere in the United Ktates, be
cause, first, New Yerk Is the largest
city; second, because It Is the chief
port of entry. Women Imported for
immoral purposes for Chicago and
Seattle largely come through New
York and many of the deulers are
here. There is no question that the
traffic exists on a large seal') In New
York and that from New York many
women are sent to other states, and
even some to foreign countries."
WOMEN DO NOT
WANT SUFFRAGE
NASHVILLE, Tenn.. Oct.. 29 Mrs.
rt. Wt McDowell general retary
of the Woman's board of hwiio mis
sions of the Methodist episcopal
church South, today aiwtrtivl that
the woman's board, which, recently
met In Savannah, Ob., was misrepre
sented In the statement that it had de
clared In favor of woman's suffrage.
Mrs. McIXwe4l states that tho board
not only did not take such nation,
but not fne word was tittered on tho
subject during the session. h
rut Micnrfj
authorities believing that tha present
situation 1 welt In hand and'ere""not
apprehensive of the development of
flirt her cases of the Illness.
The temperature ot tha patients In
the local hospitals tonight la stated
to rang between 180 and 104, al
though the condition of no one of
thorn' Is considered serious, ' '
'.- Disease naming-. '
r A meeting of the board of trus
tees of tha Lagrange college was held
tonight at Lagrange, at which the alt-
uatkm ' we discussed; 'The president
declined to make any statement fu
publication, saying that it was the de
Mre of the eollege' that the newspa
pers publish nothing concerning the
sickness until the nature of It had been
determined. He admitted, however,
that not more than sixty student!
were still In attendance upon the col
lgo duties. A number have gone to
their homes and other are under
Aire of physicians, It has not been
determined just whut the nature of
the Illness at Lagrange Is, though a
prominent local physician who talk
ed with one of the students after
her return home state It as his belief
I hat the sickness was similar In every
rorpect to that prevailing at the
Georgia Military Academy.
Kvery possible attention fa being
given the students at these Institu
tions Hnd It Is not believed there will
be any lose of life. '
SAMNAHTEAMIP
Passengers Searched but the
(Juilty ono Escapes the
Inquisition
SAVANNAH, Oa., Oct. 29. While
passengers were held on board the
Ocean Steamship company's steamer
City of Savannah as It reached Its
dock lu re early today officers con
ducted a search for diamonds and
money which it was said disappeared
from tho belongings of several pas
sengers after the steamer left New
York on the trip to Savannah. Sev
eral suspects were Interrogated but
no arrest was made.
Among the officers was a deputy
I'nlted States marshal who would
have had to make the arrest, as it
was said the robberies were commit
ted on the high seas. The gang plunks
were guarded for more than an hour
while the officers sought the missing
valuables, but the search was futile.
One woman passenger. It was said,
was among the victims of the thieves,
NIGHT RIDERS ARE
AGAIN ON WARPATH
LEXI.VflTON, Ky., Oct.. 2. Ad
vices from Mason county today are
that excitement rsver night rades Is at
fever heat and that troops may be
requested from governor Wlllson.
After tho raldes on homes of Benja
min Longnecker ami George Krelts!,
wealthy farmers, Wednesday night,
every tobacco grower who did not
enter the Hurley tobacco society -f ool
armed themselves.
SENTENCED TO DEATH
PIONEER, la., Oct., 2. Tom Hill
anil Jou Gelford, negToes were con
victed and sentenced to be hanged to
day for the murder of Vloses Brock,
a well known planter of this Parish.
Brock was. killed near his home nt
! Floyd, ."La., last Saturday and for a
time tho lynchlnsT of HUl and Oelford
was threatened.
Associated Press J
Leased Wire Reports.
price five cents.;
IN COTTON PRICES
FUMFIED?
While Estimate of Small Crop '
Is Probably Fair Will Con-, .
sumption be Large? ;
BIO SPECULATORS
BOOSTING MARKET
High Record Prices May Car
ry Large Element of Dan
erln Spite of Bulls
NEW YORK. Oct. J0.-.H has been
a wild week In cotton with a Jump
of IS to t,a bale. Thla waa based
on a growing conviction that It la a
short crop, and that there Is nothing
for It but much higher price before
'Da season la ended. Whether this
advance will culminate by tha end
s)t the calendar year la of course a,
matter for the f utura to determine,
but " bulls ars taking a crop of only
10,000,009 to 10.t00.000 bale and a
Consumption of 11,000,000 to IS, 800,
009 though to many it . la not clsnr
how tha consumption Can reach such
a quantity unles tha preaent crop
estimates are too-low..;';? 'i-J'.-1;..:-..:
Only-1,400,000 bales of Amarlcan
cotton war carried ovar from last sea.
son. 'But while thara may be a ' dis
agreement as to tha' precise slie of
the crop hnd tha consumption tha
Ifrf is almoat unlversul that tho yield
la at any rate only moderste and in
adequate to thw needs of tha world's
cotton trad. It la argued, too, that
If tha- cotton orop of the South la to
be worth thla year soma Hoo, 000,000.
tha purchasing power of the South
will b greatly Increased With tha high
pride which Western farmer ara ob
taining for their grain It will greatly
stimulate the ut of ' cotton good.
1 ' Strong Bull Clique.
It la aatd Patten, date. Ilavne.
Scales, Brown end -other" Interests
hsve been Mb buyer and ' thou r it
tiklhg profits from time to time still
remain very bullish in their convie-
ttonse-'"Many ether 'nratra itr cn
cairo, Naw Orleans, Memphis, Wall
street and Liverpool have also bought
followed by the general public. The
Waldorf-Astoria contlngept and peo
ple In the tobacco and metal trades
have also, It appears, been buying.
Export have been large, cotton goods
active and rising and Liverpool trad-
dfer In some esse at least appear
to have got hold of the hot end of
the poker. In other words, It I aatd
there was a very large amount of
thla arbitrage business originally don
by selling in New York and buying
In Liverpool. ' The liquidation of inch
straddle by buying here and telling
In Liverpool exclaim In part tha
strength of late price here and the
sluggishness or weakness of Liverpool.
May Be Toplieavy. ,
On the other hand it I feared .that
this speculation I too much of a
wildfire affair. There Is said to ba lee
pyramiding than there was last spring
and summer but for all that the mar :
ket is by many considered dangerous.
'they seriously doubt whether there
eent advance I Justified, Price are
some 935 a bale higher than a, year
ago and the actual else of the crop
I n yet underestimated. Receipt at
the ports are targe and tha weekly
movement Into sight suggest to soane
the Idea that the crop Is being under
estimated. The stock It rapidly-Increasing.
Though the movement to
curtail production hat thus far failed
In the North of any very substantial
results some 160 Georgia mill have
agreed to reduce per cent and It la
urarued that It I only a question of
time if price continue to advance
when widespread curtailment will be
Imperative,
THEIR COTTOK IN INDIA
The Unheard-of lias Hap
pened and South is Buy
ing its Staple. v,
ANDERSON, 8. C, Oct. 29. A ft
result of the prevailing high price
of American cotton, Southern mill
for the first time In their history, ar
purchasing cotton grown In India
President H. C. Townsend of tho
Townnsend Twine Mills, and Presi
dent Ellison A. Smyths of the Pelaer
cotton mills, have placed order Tot
r.everal hundred bales of Indian cot
ton and It Is understood that other
mills In the Piedmont section of South
Carolina have done likewise, . The In
dian cotton Li of a shorter taple
'h.in the upland domestic cotton but
s as white and smooth. Thfr mill
are going to experiment with thla cot
ton and If It provea satisfactory, a
the mill men are confident it will.
large order will be placed at one.
The Indian cotton wa bought at
TT THI cents f. 0. b. New YorteTho
freight to Anderson la flfty-slx cents I
prr hundred pounds. This cotton can,
therefore, be laid down here for about
fl 3-4 cent while the American cot- ;
ton Is bringing 14 1-4 cent here
now. -" ' 7
IS RAPID ADVANC