North Carolina Newspapers

E SUNDAY' CITIZEN THE WEATHER: FAIR. 28 PAGES TODAY VOL. XXVL, NO 32. ASHEVILLE, N. C, SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 21, 1909. TH DELEGATES ALL ELECTED AFTER mm SITING Conference Disposed of Trou blesome Matter In Which Was Great Rivalry WILL HOLD MEMORIAL SERVICES TODAY Several Matters of Routine Business Cleared up Dur ing Two Sessions HICKORY, N. C. Nov. 20. With t the completion oik the delegations, lay I and clerical to , attend the general ? conference of the Methodist Eplsco ' pal church at Ashevllle next May, the state conference today disposed of j one of the most troublesome matters I with which it will have to deal out j side of the appointments, j The elections yesterday left two I lay alternates and four clerical del egates to be elected. These remajnlng j Places were filled today by the elec ; tlon of J. 8. Martin and A. 8. Hayes j as alternate lay delegates, and Rev. J. C. Rowe, Rev'. H. K. Boyer, Rev. G. H. Detwller, and Rev. W. L. Sher ' ri" as clerical delegates. 1 The . conference ' ueaM several In teresting addresses at its two sessions and cleared up considerable routine business. , Morning Session. Conference ' was called to order promptly at nine o'clock by Bishop James Atkins. Rev. Z. Paris conduct ed the opening exercises. The second ballot for the clerical delegates to the general conference which, was taken yesterday, but was not announced, was announced this morning. 1 1t showed no election. The ballot taken for the lay alternates was announced and showed no election had been made. Another ballot for each was token. This ballot showed that J. S. Martin and H, A. Hayes were elected as alternate lay delegates. Bishop Atkins called questions-1? and It and the characters of the supernumerary and superannuated j4nlBters---wreu passed; : Thosa who wr present spoke to the conference. ) Three additional names were re-fein-d io tno committee on conference relations for the superannuated rela tion and one for the supernumerary relation. The tellers, of the election for the clerical delegates announced the result of the second ballot. It was as fol- (Oonttiiued on page Hirer.) PROFESSOR COULD NOT STAND BABY SORE TOOK THE POTASSIUM ROUTE Life Made Unhappy Be cause He Was Not Made for Married State. LEFT HIS HOME. URBANA, 111., Nov. 20. Professor Wilfred C. Wheeler, first assistant chemist In the engineering experi ment station of the University of Illi nois, committed suicide on the col lege campus yesterday by taking a dose of potassium. He was an expert on poisons. He left a note to his wife saying thai he was "tired of living." The suicide of the chemist, who was thirty years old, and was. abso lutely free of financial worries, was the culmination of months of brood ing. Everything discovered today about the man tended to show that he was unhappy in his married life, not the fault of Mrs. Wheeler, but be cause he was so peculiarly organized that he could not endure domestic life. Confessing to a dislike for babies. Wheeler had viewed- the arrival of a c!hlld at his home with an indiffer ence that was a scandal. This was heightened when he left his family table and took his meals at a hotel, saying that he could not stand the noise of the child. Wheeler had threatened some time ago to end his life, and 'his associates were somewhat concerned but there appeared to be no reason at all for such a deed. Last night he determined on the step, and mixed himself the poisonous dose with whlcJh, he com mitted suicide. Mrs. Wheeler, fresh from Lawrence Kan., where she met her husband when he was a student in' Kansas university, bore her lot with patience and was never heard to talk about the strange life into which she came, ghe explained her husband's Idiosyn crasies as the remit of his extreme nervousness. Not a long time ago she appeared with a badly discolored eye, which ;was Jokingly alluded to by Wheeler's associates, who accused him of being Kuilt. Their jokes ceased when it be came known that the bruise was the result of his own hand In reality. (Continued on page four.) MINERS RESCUED ALIVE AFTER WEEK IN TOMB OF DEATH Searchers Bring up Score Who Survived Awful Experience in Which Hundreds of Their Com panions Died. CHERRY. Ills.. Nov. 20 The gamut from deepest despair to an hysteria of hope was run here today when twenty miners, entombed In the St. Paul mine for a week, almost to the hour, were brought to the sur face alive. The story of their sufferings and the heroism of their resourceful lead ers Is one of the most thrilling in all the black history of mining disasters. Dawn broke with the bearers of stretchers moving from the pit mouth to the tent which served as a morgue with bodies swollen and scorched al most beyond human semblance. For ty of them had been brought up and most of them identified when the marvelous report hot through the j prostrate communityy. "They've found them alive they've found them alive!" Desert Dead for Living. In a moment the morgue was de serted scarcely to be revisited while the crowd, fairly insane with the great hope which had sprung like a miraculous Hame from the ashes of despair, rushed to tha pit. All thought was of the men who were alive. It took six hours to bring the survivors to the surface. Mean while a report spread that seventy or more men were alive in u far reach, of the mine, cut off from es cape by a bank of black damp be tween their barricade -and the main shaft. Further Search Kails. But two oxygen helmets remained at the mine, the others bavins been staiteil back to Pittsburg today and with this seanl equipment two experts began a new exploration. At 9 p. in., they emerged, their oxygen tanks be ing exhausted and reported no sue-1 cess. "There are other resourceful' lead ers among the missing and they like Walts. Clellaud, and others may have led their men to comparative safety," said States Attorney M. I Eckeit to night. "The search Is now for the liv ing." Less optimistic notes were sounded by others, but the women, with hope born afresh, refused to believe, any thing but the best and haunted the mine fur into the night, seizin? fran tically at every straw of encourage- ment. HE LAID DOWN FOR HIS WIFE HE BROKE HIMSELF Four Read in Court Show i That He Wanted All the ! Olorv and Honor. RESTRAINTS 'OX HER I ANN ARBOR, Mich., Nov. 20. When Mrs. Minnie Root was married' she promiseu to "love, honor and j obey" her husband, Frank. Hut that; was not enough for him. He laid down ten commandments for her gov ernment as a wife. She vows she has tried to obey them. But she declares, too, he has broken all the command ments that should rule the conduct of atruly good husband. So she Is suing him for divorce. Pour of his ten com mandments were read daring the trial of her suit in the Circuit court today: "First Thou shalt wed none but thine own true love, neither far money or social position, nor because thou are lazy. "Second Thou shalt look with one hundred eyes upon a man before thou marriest him, but thou shalt wear blinders after marriage. "Third Thou shalt accept thy hus band as he is. and add not to him nor take away from him thine vain Imaginings, for behold, the man thou old marry Is a good fellow and the one thou dreamest of does not ex ist "Fourth Thou shalt beat upon the cymbals and proclaim thy husband 'Master.' " It la whispered that the other In junctions in this marital decalogue are: "Fifth Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's costly gowns, nor her dia mond ear-rings, nor her sable coat, nor her silk stockings, nor her com plexion, nor her busbanit, nor any thing which is thy neighbor's. "Sixth Thou shalt not run up bills. "'SeventhThou shalt not waste kisses and aTfeeJJon upon a cat nor take to thy bo6m a ki-yl. "Eighth Jniou shall not commit thyself of uch follies as the festive cocktail an the Insidious cigarette. '. ContlUued on page four.) Fire. Breaks Out Again. At midnight a small tire uroke out in the mine, cutting off the rescue work. Fire apparatus had to be lowered and a stream of water was turned into the mine. It is feared If the lire Is not extinguished shortly many of the men supposed to be alive will perish. Up to midnight only twenty men had be'en brought to the surface. The fire appears to be spreading and the heat grew more Intense. K. E. Maxwell, a mining engineer In the rescue party .was overcome ond had to be hurriedly brought to the surface. SAVED f ROM STEAMER Over Hundivd Persons Oct Ashore From Burning Ship olT California Coast LOS ANGELES, Cal Nov. 20 The City of Topeka arrived at Hedondo ut 8 o'clock and reported passing the burning hulk of, the steamer St. Croix three miles off Point Duma at about 5 o'clock this evening. Not u person was in bIkIU in the wreck. The steamer was a iiiiikh of llafue and the city of Topeka was unable to net elosu to her. The sea was calm but? a heavy foi? had settled over the water. The city of Topeka after acertalning that no life, was aboard the doomed vessel, proceeded to Kednndo and reported the wreck. The St. Croix left San 'Pedro1 ''pf-rfl-'frVtnc this morning for Han Francisco. The St. Croix had one hundred and twenty passengers and u crew of 1 1 i i r ty - li v nT n" boa r d . A telephone message has Just been received from first officer F. Mills of the steamer St. Croix saying that all on board are safe ashore at Point Duma. E WARSHIPS WILL BE T TD PROTECT Situation Between This Country and Nicaragua Reaches Critical Stage. KNOX IMPERATIVE. WASHINGTON, Nov. 20. That the critical situation between this coun try and Nicaragua has reached the acute stage was evidenced tonight when Secretary of Slate Knox sent for his colleagues in the state department and for the acting secretary of the navy and bis aides to meet in con ference in his home. For nearly three hours the statesmen went over the situation. The result of their de liberations was not made public, but it was not denied that more warships are to be dispatched South at once. Acting Secretary Wlnthrop. flanked on either side by two rear admirals on leaving seeemingly was Impressed by the weight of the responsibility the conferees had placed on his de partment. "When does she sail?" he was heard to ask Rear-admiral Potter as he came down the steps of Secretary Knox's residence. "Monday." responded the naval of ficer laconically. Neither would ex plain the meaning of their question or answer. The others likewise infused to dwell on the result of their -deliberations. Official conflrmtaion today of the execution of l-roy Cannon and I,eon ard Oroce. Americans, by the Zelayan government In Nicaragua was fol lowed by a statement from the Nl caraguan legation here Justifying the action on the grounds that the men confessed to locating mines In order to blow up two vessels carrying gov ernment troops. The state department received a telegram today from the American vie-vonuul at MiUWgUH In which he says that the Niacaraguan minister for foreign affairs had Informed him that the Americans, wio were exe cuted on November 12 fit ten a. nr. had made a confession in which they had admitted laying mines In the sea San Juan river with the object of blowing up Nlcaragtian ships. The minister also stated that the Ameri cans were tried by court martial. fill ji mum u w POSTAL TELEGRAPH CABLE COMPANY Right'of- Way From Knoxville And Morristown to This City And Thence to Spartanburg Secured. Expects to be Operating Here in Ninety Days. Step o f Unusual Importance. The Postal Telegraph-Cable com pany will be operating in Ashevllle within nlnejly days. Such Is the statement and expecta tion of Mr. 8. II. Price, general super intendent of construction for the Pos tal company, who has been In this section for the lust two weeks, secur- Jlng the rights o way trpm Knoxville ond MorrUowtt.tAl"Viue. ana aim from AshevlUe to Sputtnhbii.l'g, the Inst "leg" of which will connect Ashe ville with the Postal service In all parts of the world. These rights have been secured, and Mr. Price will return to Ashevllle within a few days to se lect a location for the telegraph oftlces in this city, it Ih more than likely that one of the most prominent build ings on -Puttnn avenue, not a thousand miles from The Citizen offlce. will be secured for this purpose. Ollloes have already been selected at Morristown. Mr. Price says Ins company will not PRESIDENT TAKES HOLD 'FEDERATION REELECTS AS TRUSTEE OF HAPON; ALL FORMER OFFICERS Attends Meeting of Board With Many Prominent Educators. 1 RICHMOND, '.! . Nov. 20. Assum ing bis duties im 11 member of th liourd of trustees and declaring that he wished by that representation to testify to the interest of the American people In the problems being worked out by the school. President Taft spent all of today at tin- Hampton Normal Institute for Indian and negro boys and girls. lb- attended during the morning h meeting of the board, In spected the buildings and guns, re viewed the snub-tits, was entertained ut luncheon and together with a num ber, of prominent educators gathered from all sections of the country, made an address to the students and to. large gathering of white people in the school bite today. About dusk the president and party went aboard the Mayflower, weighed anchor and head ed for Washington. The president in a brief address suld he believed that is Institutions Ilk. Hampton and Tuskegej-, and the spin: of co-operation ulilch they engender ed among both white and colored people for the general uplift of hu manity, are doing more for the solu tion of the Ko-i-allcd race prob'em than any other Tutors that could be brought to bear WASHINGTON, Nov, 20. Forecast for North Carolina: Fair warmer Sunday; Monday fair moderate South to Southwest Hinds. Don't Forget The Poor, On Thanksgiving. GAINS FOOTHOLD follow the railroads entirely when It erects its poles. The best possible construction will b placed along th lights of way that have been ieeured. It Is understood that the company will buy existing telephone pole lines where Independent companies desire to sell same, but no purchase will be made by the Postal people with a view of consolidation with the Independent companies, the purchase of polo lines being made solely; to simplify this jw qulsltlon of construction route.,. Fins Kquliuatent, It Is a well known fact that the Postal Telegraph company furnishes the highest priced equipment known In the telegraph and telephone world, and Us offices are the most hundsomely appointed in the country. It is the Intention of the company to place s large olllce In Ashevllle with a strong force of operators and clerks. This city wil probably be made division headquarters with a local superintend ent. This means that Ashevllle will be made a large distributing point for this terrtory. Should this letter plan be followed out It would bring to this Three Executives May have! to Spend Large Part of Their Term' in Jail. TORONTO, tint.. Nov. 20. After tinnnimounly re-electing President Samuel (Jumpers, Vice-President John Mitchell, Secretury Frank Mlr rlson and other exeeiillve officers and selecting St. I,otils as the place for holding the next meeting, the twenty ninth annual convention of the Amer Ican Federation of Ijib'or which has been In sesKlon here for two weeks adjourned finally today. t'neertainty us to whether n ap peal to the I'nited Stutes Supreme court will be allowed In the Bucks Stove and Range company contempt proceedings and the possibility that (Jumpers, Mitchell and Morrison may have to go to jail ill the near future, tiling like a cloud over the closing days of the convention uild the re election of the trio was the signal for noisy demonstrations of approval. President tJompers In thanking the convention for Its action, declared that It meant that the principles for which he and his colleagues hud dar ed to stand, have the unanimous ap proval of the lalxir nn-n and women of the entire continent, and pointed out that the Injunction in the Ducks Stove and Ranpe company case ap plied to every one of the two million workers in the federation. Most or the delegates left here to day but the members of the execu tive council will remain over for a meeting on Monday. TECH DEFEATS UNIVERSITY OF GA. ATLANTA. CJa., Nov. 20. Georgia Tech defeated the University of Geor gia here today In one of the cleanest, hardest fought -gam ovur witii ou the local gridiron. Score 12 to G. Tech made frequent fumbles at crit ical periods, twice with the ball with in one yard of Georgia's goal llnf. The star player was loc Wilson. Tet'h's quarterback, who enlivened the plav with nensatlonal running and his successful manipulation of the forward paxson several occasions. 3 IN ASHEVILLE elly a force of high priced clerical help, and naturally a heavy puy roll.' AkIicyIIIc. to Spartanburg, The rights of way from Ashevllla to Spartanburg have been secured and ,8, fore of men will start on construction work from that point to Ashevllle when the force now working between Knoxville and Morristown starts this way from the latter city.'" When ths loop between Knoxville, . Morristown, Asheyllle and Spartanburg has been r riiumpleted H will grvo this city THr.pBl(j mittet'througfc VJha,;. Mj tele eastern j seaports, direct to the Western mar ket, without having to go through At lanta or Hlrmlnghnm as Is now ths CUM. ...jiT Ashevllle being about ths center of this loop, It naturally follows that this city will be a large relay offlce. Few people can realise at this time What an Important step this would be to ward the prosperous era which Is gen rally Anticipated, It means not only sn Important step for local Interests, but also one that makes for the nation al advertising of Ashevllle as a tele graph center. LAWYER KINOLY OFFERS TO MARRY MRS.BELMONT Her Suffrage Views Meet His and Thinks They Would he Happy. NEW YORK, Nov. 20 Mrs. Oliver II. P. Belmont hus disapproved one of the thief arguments of the antl-suff-ruglsts that the ballot for women would prove an effective non-eottduc tor to matrimony. She received an offer to matrimony yesterday as ths Immediate result of her campaign for votes for women at the suffrage head quarters, No. SOB Fifth avenue. The writer for the offer came by malt described himself as a Western lawyer, said he had been deeply Inter ested In her work for the csuse so much so, in fact, that It Had caused him great unxlety. He pointed 6ut that while women should have the ballot, no women should labor to obtain it she "should always work through a man." In order to make this possible In Mrs. Belmont's case, the lawyer told her, he was assured the 'unroh of her money and his brain would bring about a political revolution, and said h was willing to 'come on and marry her. Mrs. Helmont lust night refused td ' divulge his name. She admitted that I he had omitted to give the color of his hair and eyes, his age, height, ' weight, flnunctal position, and wheth : er he had a disposition t(f be relied !upon. i It was learned that others at the : headquarters had also received offers I of marriage since they have appeared ! on the firing line of ths suffrage' move- ment In New York. I The suffrage headquarters la now besieged with Vriifiks7who "hare-ll j manner of schemes, requiring a large I expenditure, by which the human j race may be saved. A man who has i Invented a car wheel and a woman j who wants to put up a million dollar hotel on a plot of ground at Fort j Washington are two of the most per-Is'stent. WRECKED VESSEL IS BELIEVED TO BE J.J.ASTWSYACHT Steamship Reports Sfghtlr g Submerged Wreck Off Tho Cuban Coast NO OTHER VESSEL HAS BEEN REP0R.ED MISSING Lying in Shoals so That Closer Investigation - Could Not be Made TAMPA. Fla Nov. 19 .That a sub. merged wreck. In latitude HMO. lon gitude 11 west. Is that of Colonel John Jacob Astor's yacht Nourmahal, is generally believed by Maritime men here as no other bon(. In ths path of the recent storm In Jamaican waters ha been reported missing or unae. counted for. The wreck Was siirM.,4 by the German - steamship Wotsn. which arrived hers yesterday. Captain Hans Schlalkler. of ., ths Wotan, who reported the wreck said that his ship did not approach close enough to make sn Investigation, ths wrecked vessel evidently ? being In fchiml water. With classes ha" saw what appeared to bs threa soars ahnvs ' . ths nater, one of them about fifteen ftet above. Ms Is not certain that Uis ' middle one wua a mast. . . , . '. According to tha location given by' Captain Hchlalkler, ths '. Nourmahal" wa considerably out of her course. having been reported a bound from-. Port Antonio, Jamlea, for. Bun JTuttn, P, R If this really la colonel Astor's' yacht. But In ths fierce blow recent ly .this Is readily accounted for. The, su bmerged vessel was reported lm- mediately after ths arrival of ths Wo tan at Tampa. . - . tt'lit b.m ' Tonight Ih wlruless station hers is Seeking the revenue flitter Algonquin -with instruction to proceed st once to ths point designated In ths report of Captain Schlalkler. but so far the local station, has been una bio to locate tha cutter. All other ships In -ths tons of the local station have been notified tA look out tar inv anhmrvA f or crippled vessel and reoort Imme diately by wireless, But In the pre- Vlous Instructions no locations was given, , ' i ' - According to advices received here no other vessels In the storm lone have been reported missing without being accounted for, and this lends ad- dtllnnnl pause far hellnf Ihnt tha III. fated Vessel sighted by ths Wotan Is Colonel Astor's yacht. YAMACRAW KAILS. TAMPA, Fla., . Nov. 30 At M0 o'clock tonight ths local wireless sta- tlon spoks to ths revenue cutter Yam- acraw at Charleston, giving her ths latitude and longitude of ths submerg ed vessel. Ths captain of ths Yam craw advises that hS will leavs Charleston at ones for ths spot Indi cated. Bo far ths Algonquin has not been located by wireless. CTOA SEN OH SHIP. HAVANA. Nov. f 0. When Presl- dent Qomm was appraised of ths probable loss of the Nourmahal, he said hs would: instantly dispatch naval vessel to the scene of the wreck., which Is off ths north coast of ths Island. - INCITE TCKID INDIANS TD . ILOMLInTl Man Charged With Crime Rescued from Lynching Party by Officer. DEPUTIES SENT OUT. HOBART. Okla., Nov. 0. Ths killing of A. H. Heape, a full-blooded squaw of the Tokio tribe at the To- klo Indian mission, fourteen , miles southwest of here today hai greatly Incensed the Indians and a clash b tween them and county authorities Is Imminent tonight The alayer of ths woman Is un identified. Indians, however, charge Klchard Stanley, a part Cherokes . horse trader, with the crime. Soon after the killing Indiana captured him and threatened his life.' He was rea died by Kiowa George, a government policeman and hurried away on horse back. Stanley'! wife end ten-year-old daughter weee left behind, how.,. ever, and It la feared the Indians wilt torture and possibly kill them to get revenge for tha crime they aver Stanley committed. Five special dep uty sheriffs were sent from here by Sheriff Parhara tonight to rescue the woman and her child. , The deputies are heavily armed. .