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VOL. XXVI., NO. 26.
AS11EVJLLE, N. C, MONDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER .15, 1901).
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
STILL ANOTHER IS
SACRIFICED TOTHE
'1TIHL GAME"
Archer Christian Injured Sat
urday Dies of Injuries at
The Hospital
SPECIAL JURY HAS
BEEN SUMMONED
Entire Body of Undergraduates
Kneel And Pray For Re
prise of Comrade's Soul .
WASHINGTON. Nov. 14. Football
ha claimed another victim In Ar
cher Christian, the eighteen-year-old
left halfback of the University of
Virginia, whose Injury in the game
with Georgetown university yesterday
afternoon .waa followed by his death
at Qeorgetown university hospital
this morning. The body was taken
to Richmond this afternoon for
burial.
An autopsy disclosed that death
was due to cerebral hemorrhage, fol
lowing concussion.
Profoundly stirred by the fatality,
the district coroner has sworn a spe
cial jury "of prominent citizens whose
duty It will be to suggest if possible
some modification of the rougher
features of the game and to look into
the question of alleged police brutal
ity and indifference following the ac
cident. End Peaceful.
Death came to the injured man
peacefully. His parents, Mir. and
Mrs. Andrew Christian, and his
brother, also a football player, were
with him , when the end came. Sin
cere sympathy is manifested for
them, and this morning in the uni
versity chapel the entire undergrad
uate body knelt and prayed for the
repose of the soul of young Chris
tian, Accompanying the body to Rich
mond, In addition to the relatives,
were a number of students of the uni
veralty who had come to Washington
to witness-the game, Captain Thomas
Stuart, of the Qeorgetown team, and
ReVJga' J..,CarTln, president of the
Georgetown athletic association. The
football team of Georgetown is mak
ing arrangements to attend the fu
neral. Coroner Nevlt's special Jury is made j
up as follows: Dr. W. P. Carr. for a
number of year coroner Dr. Logan
Owen, formerly a well known player
(Continued on page six.)
EASY HATTER FOR THE
RICH TO GET DIVORCES
IN LITTiEOLDNEWYORK
Judges and Lawyers Con
demo Practice of Secret
Hearings for Wealthy.
ASTOR CASE IN POINT.
NEW YORK, Nov. 14. The ease
and secrecy with which the i ich and
prominent in New York state may ob
tain divorce, Illustrated In New York
flty on Monday, when Mrs. John Ja
cob Astor obtained a decree from Col
onel Astor without the name of either
being mentioned In court, v.ns con
demned by some prominent lawyers
here yesterday. It was upheld by
some of the Justices of the Supreme
court, on the other hand, as preferable
to the publication of the dttalls In
such cases.
All were agreed that th.- divorce
evil should be checked, If possible, but
not all believed that publicity would
do so to such nn extent as to Justiffy
the publication of details In the news
papers. Ijiw Seems to Aid Them.
Former Justice Roger A. Pryor was
one of those who said that society
was being Injured a thousand times
more by the spectacle of the rich and
influential obtaining divorces In secret
with the law seemingly aiding them,
than by . the publication of the testi
mony In divorce cases, lie declared
that hundreds, and even thousands,
of the cases now before referees, with
the cloak of secrecy thrown about
them and the law furnishing the lub
rication with which they slip noise
lessly along, would never have been
brought at all if the parties to them
thought the details would be made
public.
Denounces Collusive Divorce.
"I am not opposed to divorce on the
one ground nn which It Is obtainable
in .this state," said Mr. Pryor, "but I
am opposed to the granting of dlvor
in thA numerous cases where the
parties to the suit are getting t solely
to be able to marry again as soon n
free, and where the opposing lawyer;!
aYe In collusion to get the decree, the
defense being nothing more man a
farce, so that the testimony may be
heard In secret Instead of In open
court.','
Justice Gerard, presiding when the
suit oX Helen Maloney to have her
(Continued on pag three.)
DEAD AND DYING
LIE IN THE SMOKE-
FILLED
Not Believed That Any HaveSur
vived The Thirty Hours Impris
onment in The Cherry Coal
Mine. Stories of Het oism.
CHERRY, Ills. Nov. 14. Nearly
four hundred men and boys, It Is
believed tonight, are dead or perish
ing in the St. Paul 'mane as a result
of yesterday's Are, though experts
who penetrated the smoke filled air
shaft t a di-pths of three hundred
feet early tonight returned with a ray
of hope for the (grief-stricken rela
tives of the entombed miners. That
the Are is extinguished is the report
of mining experts sent by Governor
Deneen to Investigate the calamity
and its cause.
For more than thirty hours the
prisoners hadbeen cut off from fresh
air before the shaft was entered to
night and undoubtedly they have
been subjected to smoke and gases.
That life-could exla: under the ter
rible condition Is doubted by many:
but because no trace of high temper
ature was found In the depths of the
mine tonight, friends of the miners
and even officers of the company re
newed some of their falling hope.
Kiicxwraglnft Iteixnt.
A. J. Earllng, president of the Chi
cago, Milwaukee and St. Paul rail
road company which owns tho.rnil)e
received an encouraging report after
heroic efforts had been made totfjiyto
open the mine for the recovery of
the entombed men.
From John Reld. son of one of the
missing men, Mr. Karling heard that
a concussion of the earth had been
felt by farmers half a mile south of
the main shaft. This report wns sent
first to Henry Burke, an officer of
the mining company. Hurke rushed
to President Karling and exclaimed:
"I've heard signals from the men.
John Reld's boy says that he anil
farmers whose land is over the south
ern end of the mine felt several cun-
uhkIoiis of the earth this afternoon.
There were several shocks and the
mon who felt them are convinced
that they were shots fired by the Im
prisoned men to signal to the people
above that they st4il live."
'Would the shots mean that or
that the miners had committed sul
clde to end their agony?" asked the
railroad president.
"The men report." replied Rurke,
"that the signals were distinct and
that they were meant for an aasur
amv that at least some of them live."
After the third attempt to explore
the shaft today, rt. V. Williams of
the United States geological survey,
BAGGAGE MAN ADMITS
SOUTHERN FOR A YEAR
Estimated That He Has j
Taken $20,000 "Worth of '
Jewelrv and Valuables.
LIVES ,7N CHARLOTTE.
WASH1NOTON, Nov. 14. Fifty-
seven varieties of trunk keys found In
a valise which he carelessly lost in
Charlotte. N. C, betrayed George L.
. . I
I'.rown a boggagemusler on the Soutn-
ern railway, wno mane a compie,.
confession to Inspector RoHTdman yes
terday of a series of robberies from
trunks Intrusted to his care, which ex
tend over p. period of more than a
year and Include articles to the value
of about $20,000.
Three thousand dollars worth ot
jewelry was recovered from the local
pawnshops by the central office detec
tives this morning. The remainder
f the stolen articles have not yet been
traced, and It Is not believed many
if them will be recovered.
Ill-own is twenty-six years of age
and has been in the employ of the
Southern railway six or eight years.
He told Inspector Boardman this
morning that the idea of robbing
trunks intrusted to hin as baggage
maMter occurred to .him about a year
and a half ago. He secured keys
and had a small steel Jimmy which he
used effectively. Reports of thefts
were received from time to time by
the railroad officials and Investigation
made by them, but nothing was ever
discovered to lead to the identity of
the robber. With the past few weeks
the robberies were more frequent and
the Plnkerton detective agency was
called to- assist the railroad police.
Last week report was made to the
local office of the sale of twenty-five
unset diamonds to a local pawnbroker.
An investigation of the sale was made
and the police were convinced the dia
monds were sold by the thief. The
Southern railway officials in the mean
time, suspected Rrown. but did not
have sufficient evidence to make a
case against him.
Brown's' sphere of operations was
the stretch of the Southern between
Washington and Charlotte, N. O.. the
length of his run aa baggage master.
.Yesterday in .C harlotte he lost ,MS
his!
VVaVaMssyssssj
(Continued on pace six.)
AIR SHAFT
who superintended the work of vol
unteer ri)IUria wicftin;ni"i .."..
oxygen caps and ether apparatus.
Three Attempts.
Three times Mr. Williams and
Henry Smith, a volunteer, were low
ered Into the nne In a bucket. Each
time they penetratea aeeper. i ii"
temperature was bearable, but the at
mosphro was intolerable.
When explorations were abandoned
tonight It was announced that men
fitted wit oxygen armor would prob
ably penetrate to the bottom of the
mine tomorrow.
The list of the missing miners was
compiled today and li reached th.
total of 3K5, Including the dead
whose charred bodies were taken
from the burning cajfes Saturday. H
was declared to be probable that this
list might be Increased.
One. hundred and seventy men who
entered the mine Saturday morning
have been accounted for. Most of
those entombed are foreign born.
Nearly all the miners hud their homes
In Cherry or In the surrounding towns
and most of the men had families.
"Thousands of persons Came flocking
to Cherry today. Scores of wives
whose husbands are believed to have
been burled alive and hundreds of
children who may be fatherless
roamed mournfully about the mine.
STORY OF IIKKOEK.
CHERRY, Ills., Nov. 14 The
story of the thirteen heroes who went
down to their death In the blazing
shaft of the Cherry mine and of the
one man who came back scarred and
blackened by smoke to tell the ghast
ly tale, was related today In all Its
details.
Standing out above all the others
Is the ,itory of Dr. L. B. Howe, the
man who came back, the only onet of
the heroic fourteen who survived to
tell what happened. Seven times be
fore the other rescuers began to go
dow fiito the burning shaft, he de
scended alone In a life .and each time
brought to the surface; his quota ot
saved. Twenty-flvc miners owe their
lives to him.
Dr. Howe's hands are badly burned
but he chows no other scars.
Unknown Itrave.
The disaster brought to light many
unnamed heroes. Among these were
(Continued on page three.)
RAD ALREADY LOST HER
Will Make Relations Be
tween "Niblo" and Wife
Part of Defense.
SUIT IIKAK1) TODAY.
NEW YORK, Nov. 14. The latesl
u....
'of Mrs. Marshall Clark, wife of a
I Chicago astrologlst. against Miss An-
I II. tirn Anil ..II .ui Hun an 1 1
lomeue .r-nzaoein uaaum, n.j
thy Cornwall hein-sn, is the later's al
legation that Mrs. Clark signed away
all her marital and oilier claims oi
Clark, and only retained the righ
tio obtain a divorce.
Mrs. Clark recelv.il n ''valuabh
consideration" for relinquishing he,
claim, on Clark, Ml.su (iazzam asserts
and he will make that alleged foci
a part of her defense to the aliena
tion suit. What the consideration wa:
and by whom paM is not set forth by
the Cornwall helietw, but the infer
ence Is that it was mtney.
In The original a-omplaJnt filed by
Mrs. Clark, she alleged that large
sums f nVbney had been given to
Clarke by Miss (iazzam.
Miss flazzam deelnres also that both
Mr. and Mrs. Clark nad contemplated
divorce proceedings liefore she be
came acquainted with Clark at Lot
Angeles in the early part of thb
year.
Arguments on one angle of the cas
will be made In Chicago Monday.
when a demurrer riled by Attorney
Samuel Hell Thomas, of New York,
and Attorney Frank Commerford, ol
Chicago, will be disposed of' by th
Circuit court of Cook county. Law
hvrs for i 'lark allege that he wa:
never legally married to Mrs. Clark
because of a supposed defect In tin
divorce she obtained from her firs'
husband. Mr. Thomas demurred t
that allegation, and will leave foi
Chicago today. The suit begun b;
Clark In Chicago is Intimately con
nected with the alienation suit.
Mrs. Clark will leave a Battle Creel
sanitarium to direct the legal con
lest in Chicago:
. "Mrs. Clark waa cruel and tyrannl
cab and because of her treatment het
husband had withdrawn hi love and
lnjXTUl uUVioi sm "I T fa 1f1 "'"rTr
(Continued on page four.)
- ' s
AFTER THE
NORFOLK THINKS PRESIDENT HAS
BEEN 'POSSUMED ENOUGH IN SOUTH
So She Will Give the Big Man " Oysters' in Every Pom
WiU Go to
I
NORFOLK. Va.. Iov. 14 Satisfied
that President Taft, has been sated
1th " 'poflsum and' sweet potatoes"
during his recent trip through the
South, the elty of Norfolk Is prepar
ing to make oyter the piece A. re
sistance durlna Mr. Taft's visit here
this week to. attend the convention
of the Atlantlo Deeper Waterway!
association, y ,i
The cresldent will arrive Friday
morning on hta yacht Mayflower, and
the program or reception prepare.
for him In, th flim ela&orata ever
attempted by this -ly. ,' ' . '
SALOONS AND H ARE
DISCUSSEDBY LEADERS
Mitchell Saws Organized
Labor Doing Much to
Promote Temperance.
TORONTO, nt , Nov. 14 The
question-of labor and the saloon was
discussed this afternoon by prominent
labor leaders at a big mass meeting
Among the speakers were Vice Pre
ident John Mitchell and Treasurer
John H. Lennon of the Americun eeu
eration of Labor and President Thom
as L, Lewis of the United Mine Work
ers of Amerlra.
Mr. Mitchell declared that organize!!
labor In its fight for better conditions
for the wage earner. Is doing more to
promote temperance than any other
oganlzatlon. "He refuted the conten
tion that shorter hours of labor and
Increased wages result In added prof
Its to the saloons.
Mr. Lennon said that the liquor bus
iness lowers the Htandnrd of elllclen
cy of the working man and prophe
sied that the time would come when
the forces of labor would be arrajed
against the saloon.
NAVY QUARTERBACK
NOT RESTING WEli-U
ANNAPOL1H
Mil., Nov. 14. The
iMhlpman Karl I)
iieiback of the tinvs
vho has been pura
n. rk down. followiiiK
- spine following th.
Karne four weekt
i. so satlHfartoi'v to
-ii since the operation
List Sunday. The In
Ik not so stroll
lias been no Improve-
condition of ''
Wilson, the i j i
football team,
tyeil from hit
an Injury to I 1
Nuvy-Yilla-N" i
igo, Is not nil
.lay us It has I"
wa performed
lured midship"
tonight. There
ment In the pa aKsIs hut no dei-l.l,
change for th.- worse Is manifest.
CUII.ISLK ILL.
WAKHINCToN. Nov. 14. John O.
Carlisle, who a is secretary of the
treasury under President Cleveland
was reported today as resting more
comfortably ai St. Vincent's hospital
where he lies s.-rloualy III with acute
Intestinal trout. ..
OLOUBK
WASHINGTON. Nov. . 14. Fore
cast: ' North Carolina: Partly cloudy
Monday and Tuesday; .polder.Tuewday
in Interior;' light to moderate north
east winds, becoming variable, . -
The Foot-ball Hero.
1
GAME.
IN
Attend the Waterways Convention. Goes
l. ln JIayflower Friday, . .
While the convention has. Its for
mal openlrnf Wednesday, the real In
terest in the meeting center on Fri
day, when President Taft, Andrew
Carnegie, Charlea M. Schwab, Lewi
Nlxon, and a number f other prom
inent In business and political life Wilt
addreM th delegates. A targe dele,
nation of member of congress, rep
resenting; district close to th Atlan
tic aeaboard, also wlH apeak befor
the convention. The president ,wlll
be met frlday morning by a flotilla,
headed by the naval tuft Mohawk and
will be escorted to the revlewln
TAKESJTWO VICTIMS
Chief of Police and His
Secretary AsHassinatetl at
Buenos Ayres.
Hl'lCNOg A Y H EH, Nov, 14. The
chief of police of lluenos Ayres. flenor
I'Hlcoh, and the police secretary, were
assassinated today while driving In
Calluo street.
A man, supposed to be a Russian
anarchist, but not yet Identified, sud
denly sprang from a secluded spot
where he had been In waiting and
threw a bomb directly under the car
riage. The vehicle was blown to pie
ces and Tloth flenor Falcon and the
secretary were terribly injured. They
were carried to the sidewalk and later
were transferred to a hospital, but
both died shortly afterwards.
Immediately on throwing the bomb
the assassin drew a revolver and shot
himself. His wound, however, Is not
cxptcted to prove fatal.
MAY ORDER CHEAT STRIKE
PlaiiK for Two Weeks' Sym
pathy Strike Discussed in
Philadelphia Yesterday.
PHII.ADKLI'HIA, Nov. 14. Plans
for u general ajrlki- Ty wage workers
throughout the i country for a period
of two weeks beginning on the day
the officers of the American Federa
tion of Ijibor are Imprisoned for con
tempt of court, were Inaugurated
hern today at a meeting of the Central
Ijibor union.,
Resolutions to this eff.-et were
unanlmouely adopted by the union
which repr enLs aiiout seventy-five
thousand worker In many lines of
employment In this city.
POLICEMAN KILLS
HIS FOURTH VICTIM.
MONROE, La., Nov. 14. K. I.
j New man, a member of the Monroe
j police force, wiw arrested and placed
' in Jull late last night charged with
the killing of Kitty A. Watson, a ne
; gro woman.
According to the police, Newman
who was off duty last night, Went to
the woman home, and finding a man
there who made his escape fired four
shots Into the ( woman's body, aiu h
taking effect.
This maker the fourth negro who
has died as a result of pUtol wounds
Inrrtc.ted bv Newman since he Iihs
been a police officer.
CLASS.
Known to the Epicure.
stand amid a thunder of ftina from
th navy yard and th artillery park
d on th Inner harbor. ( will r
iflew tn parade and later be taken
in a special train to Cap Henry for
th oyster roaat, . Friday evening the
president will b th guest of honor
at a emoker arranged fur th visiting
newspaper men, after which ha will
pnf the night at the hum ot jtyr
u Held,' In Ohent.' He will return
Rnttirdny to Washington, -. :
THREE DEAD AND FIVE
NJUf.EC IN EARLY FIRE
Polish Lodging Houfie Goes
Up In Flames, Claiming a
Hfavy Sacrifice.
PITTftnimO, Pa., Nov. 14, Three
unidentified men. all foreigner, ar
dead; five other are seriously Injured
and twelve women are suffering from
bruise and shock, the result of an
early morning fire in Polish lodging
house on the river front today. When
rr fdonm ul-o td"noarh aos. . trl IT
about thirty persons were asleep In
the building. Firemen aroused the
occupants of the place and carried the
women and children to safely.
The bodies of the unidentified for
eigners, known to be street laborers,
were not discovered until this after
noon when persons were clearing
away the fire debri found their char
red hones under a stairway.
The damage to the lodging house
Is In excess of 110.000.
On account of the mysterious origin
of the blaze the police are conduct
ing a rigid examination.
SMASHED AIRSHIP
TO SAVE THE BABY.
NEW YORK, Nov. 14 The first
Instance of an accident that may be
common enough In the near future
occurred at Morris park today when"
run i
an aeroplane was dellherutely
Into a fence and smashed to avoid a
collision with a man who had a baby
In his arms.
Dr. William Oreen was about to
alight from a practice Might thl af
ternoon when he saw a mun with a
baby in Ills arms crossing his path.
Helzlng the tiller he brought his ma
chine about and crashed Into a fence.
The bl-plnne was smashed but Ir.
tlreen stepped out of the wreckage
unhurt as the crowd of spectators
cheered him.
FRANK DE ROSA'S
BODY IS FOUND
NEW YORK, Nov. 14. Tho body
of llve-year-old Frank ie Koa, who
It was supposed hail been kldnupped
ton ilivi mn anil for whom wide
.learch had been made, was found to
day Jammed In the top of a chimney
at his aunt's house on East Sixty
third street, where he had been vis
iting with his mother when he sud
denly disappeared. It was the coro
ners opinion that the boy had been
strangled and pushed down the chim
ney. "MARGE" ILLINOTON
MARRIES AFFINITY.
RENO, New. Nov. li, Miss Mar
gnret Illlngton. a former actress who
wa divorced on Wednesday from
JunM Frohman, a New Yerk theat
rics! menaaer. 'was married last
night to Rdwln J- Howes, a million
aire real estate-dealer of Tacoma.
TILLMAN
EPISODE
Si
PALMETTO
EDITOR TO REPLY
Can Handle Pitchfork a Utile
Himself In Touching up
The fepator h
TAFT LUNCHEON STIK5 UP
OLD POLITICAL Ft UDS
Committeemen Tartly Remind
Tillman That he Is no Ward
M'Calllslef of State
COLUMBIA. 8. 0..' Nov. 14,Th
Incident of th refusal of HemUbr Till
man to attend th luncheon given
President Taft In .Columbia, th ub
jtct of newspaper discussion through
out Bouth Carolina, - had ' a aecond
chapter In a statement mad today by
William ' B. QoiumUs, editor of Th'
State, .who with Oovernbr Ansel and.
Mayor Reamer of Columbia, consti
tute th central committee in charg
cf th president' entertainment. 4
Senator Tillman alleged that In In
viting him to pay ten dollar for hi
plate, ''decency" and .lllt respecting
hospitality" were violated. In a pub
lic address ah rvFrtdy ; lat Senator.
Tillman repeated these allegations.
Nobody Msc Objected.
Th committee declined to apeak'
until th president had com and gone.
In 'hi statement Mr.-, Qonsalv says,
he objected to th entertainment of.
th president at th governor' man
sion, as Governor Ansel proposed, be
cause Mr, Taft had .been Invited here
by state : and elty and Jtl entertain
ment should, b state wide in It sig
nificance. . A-subtltul proposal of a
publlo function, with officials, th Ju
diciary, men Ot learning and of wor
thy achievement from all uurta of the
slat to he Invited, to be host wa ae-'
oapted. There were no ."auwts" ex
cept th president party.
This,, according to . the rommltee
idea, would be an additional honor .
the president and an honor for the
hostsv None objected but Tillman.
That Columbia did not stand upon
th cost. I shown, f curding to Oon
zules, in tlio cheerful expenditure of 1
many thousand dollar In other man
ifestations of sTeellni; to the tire!-:
dent .' - ; -i ' .
Can Vm Pitchfork Too. '
Th committee tartly censure Sen
ator Tillman's letter, considering "gru- '
tesque" hi "eseeylng the role of a
Ward McAlllUr.H ;
Mr, Qonsaie recall that the aena-'
tor iienueo nanquet in nis nonor in
Charleston and according to hi own
account, "took the hid oft til host, s
snd rubbed In salt." ,lf also says;
something; about a "notorious lack of J
courtesy and refinement," and con-i'
eludes; . ,,,' ,.'
"When It comes to maintaining th -good
name of . South . Carolina . for ;
which h now essay to bs jealous,
Tillman' display of an appetlt f or :
getting omething for nothm; or
much for little which had It Incipient
manifestation when he waa governor
In the cultivation of a private rat crop
at publlo expense, and It development '
In
the Oregon land affair, might he
detailed startling Inconsistency b-
tween th word and the deed."
RICE FORMS HALF DF V .
WORLD'S CEREAL SUPPLY
Wheat the Other Half,
According to Government
Bulletin Just Received. ,
WASHINGTON, Nov. 14. Itlrt
fl)rm lne ehlef cereal food of about
one-nan oi iiiu wunil population
and wheat the chief cereal food of
the other half. Curiously enough, the
quantity of these two cereal pro
duced apparently differs but little,
the latest estimate placing the world
rice crop at about 176,000,000, Oftd
pounds and the wheat crop at about
190.000.000,000 pounds.
The above facts are presented In
bulletin from the department of com
merce and labor dealing with the re
markable increase in rice production
In this country and With the markets
offered for th!.i particular commodity.
especially In countries commercially
adjacent to the United Htates.
In the last decade the rice proditc- '
tlon in the United Hfiites has equalled .
that of the half century Immediately
preceding. ' Over six hundred million .
pounds were produced In 1I0, Louis- -,
tana and Texa together raisin; mor '
than 80 per cent, of the total. Even
during the recent period of large do-, . ,
mestlc production, importation have)
continued, at about th same rat a.i
in former years, while' the exports,. .
save In one or two exceptionally
heavy years, have been comparatively .
small, thus suggesting a largely In
creased home consumption. . .
OK. MATT TO RET1RK.
CLEVELAND, i 0. Wov. 14 Rev.
Dr. Caspar WUtar Mlatt, pustor of
the Euclid avenue Congregational
church, for thirteen yeara known a
a leader In the Congregational church
la America, announced his forthcom
ing retirement from the pulpit today.
He did pot make Tsnown hi future'