THE- SHEHLEE IZEN. TUB WEATHER: " FAIR. Associated Press r . Leased Wire Reports. - VOL. XXVI., NO. 36. ASIIEV1LLE, N. C, THURSDAY MOKNING, NOVEMBER 25, M P1UCE F1VJ3 CENTS. SUSPECTED GIRL MIRE'S MILLS PRESIDENT BUSY DRAFTING LAWS Uncle Sam's Thanksgiving. AFTER INTERESTS IN NORTH STATE When Term Ends as Presi dent of Brooklyn Will Come to N.Carolina SCENE OF GRIME FOR THE SESSION Mystery Surrouods Murder Trial of former Cashier Shows Loosely Managed Busi Will Recommend Legislation to Stop "White Slave Traf fic" In States of Employer Whom She Is Accused of Slaying ness in Institution COLFR WILL FOUND HIDING AT DREWATPLEASURE ON BATTLE S BANK SHE DECLARES TH AT HE COMMITTED SUICIDE Strange Actions of Widow Compel Police to Hold An other Theory of Grime WAITHAM, Hm, Nov. 24. Minn Hattle Leblanc. the seventeen-yeai -old domestic whom Clarence F. Glover, her employer, charged with hooting him before he died, was found late last night In the Glovr home. The girl "was questioned and then formally placed under arresr. All manner of theories were set forth aa to the cause of the murder bringing In nearly every conceivable possibility. The attitude of Mr.j. Glover in refusing to visit her hus band when he was dying and in dis claiming relationship with the Le blanc girl, although the latter's sis ters claimed they were cousins, h;td caused the authorities to seek ) explanation from her. . Cowering Under Bed. The suspicions of an undertaker aroused by something he had seen or heard In the house while prepar ing Glover's body for burial, led the authorities today to search the house for the girl. Mrs. Glover whs .not consulted. It was In a room on the first floor, entirely apart from the flat which the Glovers occupied on the second floor that the girl was found. ' Mr. Glover had used this room solely during his life. The oili er rooms on this floor are occupied by a minister and his family. Lying prostrate and closo to the wall, tho girl wu found under the only bed in the room. She shrunk away as tha police attempted io reach for . her, but when they seized her dress she came from under the bed. Without Informing Mrs. Glover of their discovery the officers hurried the girl to the police station. Then Jtf it 9 Pu-t srovwd the house. "At lh"tatlon the girl was put through, ait 'exhaustive -questioning. An Interpreter was necessary, as tho girl speaks, but little English, matins the Inquiry a laborious one. Widow Guarded. After their inquiry the police "re unable to place any credence in the (Continued on page four.) E PAYSPENALTY DFCRIME ATTHE HANDS QFAMOBi Drove Farmer From Home j Assaulted His Wife and TIwmi Lav Down to Sleep I HUSBAND liAN VOU All) ANNISTON. Ala., Nov. 2t .Ut.r repented criminal assaults on 'Mrs ' W. C. Cheatwood, wile of a farmer I ii. in npr Kdwardsvllle. Ray Rnl-, nine ston. a negro, was hunted down '. a posse of citizens yesterday and af ter being riddled with shot, the bods was burned. Mrs. Cheatwood is In a critical condition. The negro went to the CheatwooJ home, and after battering down the door, seised Cheatwood saying: "We've got yon 'now and we're going to kill you." Cheatwood s eaped and tied through the window to arouse his neighbors. While b. was absent Rolston attacked M". Cheatwood. The brute then dragged his victim by her hair to the woods nearby and there repeated the rtult after beating her over the head with sticks and rocks. Finger prints on her neck also showed where If tried to choke her into insensibility The negro, according to the statc- . i-oooiveri then laid down n".c his victim and went to sleep. Ur recovering consciousness Cheatwood crassied back to ...., nhre she notified her Af Mrs. her has- band and friends who had gather.., The posse quickly found the neg and ridded his body with bullets and burned it t, Cheaiwood's three small children fled from the house when the negro entered. It had been raining an i was sold and they were In an ex hausted condition when found sev eral hours later. WAERENTON NOT ENTIRELY DESTROYED WABRENTON. Va.. Nov.. 14 Lest the outside world should think that Monday night's fire took War renton completely off the map. a com mittee of cUlsens got together today and iwued a statement to reassure very body thut the best part of Wnrfento is still left and what -ai turned will rebuilt in a ubstnntlal fashion, , WITNESS DECLARES ONE NOTE SPURIOUS Judge Boyd WU! ' Suspend Trial to Observe 1 hanks glvlng Day GREENSUORO, X. C, Nov. 24. The third days' trial of Lee H. Battle, former cashier of the City National bunk, of this city, Indicted by Ihe Federal court in connection with the failure of that institution - was re sumed this morning. Most of the evidence offered by the government today was confined to ex aminations of the individual ac counts of Lee II. Ifattlo and the Pomona cotton mill, of which tha defendant was president and treas urer. These accounts showed over drafts of Battle's personal account running for two years and ranging in umounts of from hundreds to thou sands of dollars, while me personal account of the mill showed constant overdrafts from a thousand to as high as sixty thousand with an occasional credit balance. Ilenies Nolo In Genuine. The cross-examination of the wit ness showed, however, thut the mill had a credit balance or over thirty thousand dollars on the day the doors of the Bank were closed by the gov ernment. The principal witness of the day was J. Allen Holt, a former director of the defunct bunk. He de clared most emphatically that a note for 3,000 supiMiMtid to have been giv en by him and entered upon the books as an asset was fictitious, stating positively that he. had never seen" the paper before today and de nying that he had given Instructions to any one to -nil Out MMr -i letPPd hy -the defendant. "' Judge Boyd announced Just befoitf adjournment that the jury, court of ficials, government experts and wlt nesses here for the trial would he allowed to observe tomorrow (Thanksgiving day) 111 accordance with the proclamation Issued by President (Taft. The case will be taken up ngsln Fridaiy morning. DIFFICULT TO GET JURY TO TRY THE LEftDERS OF REELFODT NIGHTRIDERS lint Four of .Seven K'emaiu When Counsel for State Got Through with-them OTHEIJS INDICTED rxiux CITY", Teiin . Not 2 1. When court adjourned late toduv four jurors remained of the original , leniallvelv accented to li'-ar the case of Arthur I'loar anil (Jurrett Johnson, the alleged leaders of the "night riders." band of Keelfoot Lake, charged with the murder of Captain Quenton Itankln. Today Jurors llefllln and Johnson were ex cused from service because of state ments they are credited with having made in connection with the case and when the trial Is resumed Frl ,i,.e Tom Kennard. one of the four remaining, must explain charges of Ineorrmetencv because of alleged statements. liefer? adjournment was taken until Friday. a special venire of two hundred men was or dered summoned. Ileinio was Mccused of having sulil that the night riders sjiould have killed every member of the lipd company to which Rankin belonged, llettlin had no recollection of msikinu this remark. Indictments were returned by the grand jury today against Ilud Mor ris. Tid Iturtnn. Hoy Ransom. Ifob Huffman. Sam Applewhite' and F,l Marshall, charging each of them with the murder of Captain Quenton Rankin, tho night of October 1 V 1908, near Walnut Log, on Reelfoot Lake. All of those Indicted, with the ..,.iinn nf Marshall, were trie! and found guilty and with the excep tion of Tid Burton and Hoy Ransom. who were given twenty years in me penitentiary. ,were sentenced to tie h.n.il Their cases wefe reversed by the Supreme court and sent back for a new trial. CHICAGO CKTS MARRIKO. euieifin TTiv 24. Cuoid !!! i. h,. .-hief celebrant in Chicago's Thnnkseivinc tomorrow. According to the clerk of Jtie Cook county mar riage license bureau, more than I.0OC i persons will be married on the nnii rtav. AMENDMENTS TO INTERSTATE LAWS Would Prohibit Railroads Prom Owning Interest In Competing Lines WASHINGTON, Nov. 24. 'resi dent Taft devoted the entire after noon today to a series of important conferences covering the subjects of proposed amendments to the Inter state commerce laws, legislation look ing to the suppression of the so-called white slave" traffic, and the ap pointment of a new governor of lbs territory of New Mexico. Those present at the conference with regard to the Interstate com merce law changes were Attorney General Wlckcrsham, Chairman Knapp and Commissioner Lane of the interstate commerce commission; District Attorney IC. W. .Sims of Chi cago who conducted the government's prosecution In the famous 129,009.- 000 Standurd Oil case and who has been prominent In other cases. dealing lantl-trust laws, and Representative Mann of Illinois, chairman of thj house committee on foreign and in terstate commerce. White Slave Truffle. 11 was with Mr. Sims and Mj-. Munn that the president also took up the "white slave" question, Mr. Mann Is to introduce a bill on this subject at the coming session of congress. He believes the government can prevent this truffle, through the exercise of lis power to control Interstate and for cifM ei.inniercc. The bill which Mr. Mann has draft ed, ami In which the president today rxprvscd !ls deep Interest provides a heavy penalty for the enticement of a woman or girl from one place to another Tor immoral purposes and thchbyi!auB her to go as a passen ger over (iti.v transportation line en gaged In interstate of foreign com merce. "The investigations in Chicago un der Ihe direction of District Attorney Sims, ami elsewhere," said Mr. Mann today, 'have disclosed a situation startling In Its nature as to the ex- (Cnmiiiiicd on page four.) ATTORNEY tS WITNESS THAT CAUSED TRAGEDY Trial of Ellis for Murder of His Wife's First Hushand Begins INSANITY DEFENSE LITTLK Ito'CK, Ark., No . 21 Tile odd spectacle of all attorney ad dressing the jury from the witness stand developed In the trial of "W. V. Kllis. charged with the murder of N. I Willis, of Indianapolis. In tho Clr i ult court here today, when Judye A. Mustin, or fine ISluff, called us the first witness for the defense, re hearsed on the stand tin nieeeh he made as counsel for Kills In Jndc Folk's eourt st the hearing which terminated fatally for Willis. The defense Is pleading temporary in sanity caused by brooding over the ifed iierseeul ions of Mrs. Kllis by A'lllls. her former husband, and the speech of Judge Mustin, which. In effect, outlined these troubles and alleged wrongs, was admitted by .the ourt on the ground that their recital before Kllis might havo had an ef fect on his sanity. The state made out a simple prima fa vie case, showing that Willis was shot down by the defendant, appar ently without provocation Judge Ouy Folk anil Iieptity Cir nit Clerk Lorendo J. Oibson. i-yi- witnesses to the tragedy, were the principal witnesses for the state. They detailed the manner In whim ivim -i,ii killed leHincr how as an order whs being made out by J mire Fulk, giving Willis temporary con- tody of Mary Francis Willis, .h". child In controversy, Ellis drew a revolver, fired wild once and then breaking away from Gibson, wli rrntinled with him. took deliberate aim and shot down the Indiana man. They said he was apparently calm and collected. Court will continue all day Thanksgiving. SHOT FOK IVRCLT. LoriSVlIJ.K. Ky., Nov. 24 William E. Pria-tor. republican can didate for the city auditor in the re cent election was shot today by It. M. Culley. Culley claims irocior Insulted his wife. Proctor died without recovering consclout-ness. " t :.'. DEATH POSE OF MINE VICTIMS TELLS OF THEIR A WFUL STRUGGLE FOR LIFE Hundred and Fifty Bodies Found in Groups But Cannot Be Removed Because of Fire. Ghastly Scenes Speak Mutely of Horrors That Must Have Been En- dured Before Kindly Death Came to Their Relief. . CHKKHV, Ills., Nov. 24, After more than luO bodies hud .been dis covered in the Kt.'1'aul mine, efforts to carry them ' to the surface were temporarily nbamloned while nn ef fort was made to cheek a lire which again threatened the main shaft. If the efforts to control the fire ure not successful tomorrow. It la' probable thai the inlnu will be sealed and will remuin so for weeks. That no men survive In the mint now Is gnnerally pma-eded. The only part of tho 'mine as yet unexplored apd In which living jmen (posidbly could i tovnA Httf --ost working of the second Vein at ths'entrnnce of which the fire is burnin fiercely. An accurate account of tho victims has not been made, but It Is now be lived all but a score of the missing men have been accounted for. The bodies discovered today were found live hundred feet from the main shaft, on an elevated surface, where they had retrsuted before the advancing water and filial black damp. They died alter a struggle thai may have continued for two days. McsscagcM scrawled on wood and the natural slate cropping from the walls, placed tin number of dead at 100 or 108. One message read. ' We are all lu re to die together." This Is aecepli d by mine off li lajs as indicating; thai many men whose escape from the second vein had been cut off by tire had descended to the lowest level and that less than a don- (iovcnioi-Kitcliin Aililicsscsj OjM'ii Lctti'i-Asking Tin-in Cooperation ItAI-KKUI. N i Nov. 24. On b--hall oT sanltan S iiiibiy. November :'S, (Sovcriior Kiteliln has addresw-d a letter to the North Carolina asso ilatlon for tin- Prevention of TiiIhi- euliiKis In which le suys: "I feel sore 'hai the ininisters of lh.- state will I" ilad to co-operate with your organization In flu- cru sade against t ule i Miosis. Their ac tivity In the mall' i and tlielr diseus sion of It will i 1 ill In very great good to the pi' !,!, of this slate. I am vers glui! thai you ime io m ministers In an effort to enlist (heir u.relee. In behalf 't Ihe IHlbllc health. Let no ac.ilu assure you of a layman, he wishes to indicate Ih.l ins thorough siu.eathy with you bis own altitude and that of his as louchlng tills subject." jsoi'latis, though vitally conccrncil, ;KT IM A WASHINGTON. L. Uuvellpnrl, fir: IOV JOIt. Nov. 24. Jann i ' deputy commis- sinner of penHions, has been selected for the office of c ..mmisslotier, made vacant by the pasiuii Warner ri yinnutlon of f Illinois. Vc WAKH1NOTON. Nov. H Fore cast: North Carolina: Fair Thurs day, slightly warmer; Friday,, fair. warmer: moderate nortn to norin east winds. on bodies will bo found In other N0 tlons of the mine. ' !; ' Today's exploring party of four, led by Anton lodlyclelil, were in the gal lery for more thau' an hour before the bodies svVre found. They had waded In water waist deep through the circular tunnel, making their way toward the levutlon of w shaft or "ridge" where they had expected lo find tlio men, living; of dead, Hoillcs lIM lit llcnjirf. ' ', "When we climbed up ' un the ridge. said Jodlyelent. "wti almost stepped UPOV ,tho bodies, jilled up pn,, J. - .. ... Kt i'. .. .i top or eiu-n oilier in, iivups. nuiiiu uu their lieiuls rested on, ffildoil nrnjs as If asleep. Others were lying across each other, nnd some were sitting as If resting a gill nst the wall." Nnilcd to the wall svere two fans, made of timbering tied about pick handles. Under tho fans the largest heaps of bodies were found. llrl Struggling. "One mun had his blind up holding the ran. I think he died us he was turning It. Another had a busket In his hand. Me wns flut on his buck and must havo died as he climbed up on the ridge. The bucket was half Ailed with blackwliter that he must have gone some distance to get. "The bluek damp surely killed thern Ions; before the water reached them. We had been In the shaft more than an hour then, and though the air was fairly good we knew It was time for us to get out. STANDARD APPEALS JUST TO SETTLE SHERMAN ACT Alti uislii' in its Dcttiro to Si-c Law 'oiistriu d for Public's Jlcnclit I NliW YOKK, Nov. IK William 1 Iti" kc feller, u s lei--,resldeiit and n ! director as well as one of tho large 'shareholders In the Standard Oil ' guve n, ilifTeieuf color today l tlei uieal which Mortimer V. Klllott, jt1(. v,,mvy n general solicitor, ban alreidy announced Is to be taken from lb" decree of the 1'nlted Stales circuit court. The legul affairs of tin- company. Mr. lioekefeller said, ; would continue to remain In tho hands of its legal department, bul jn for purely selfish reasons, had also "s shuro of altruism, "II seems to mo desirable," be said. i' nol only for my own Interests and I those of my associates, but for th I public at large and for all other r it business venttirns, that the Khermari act should bo finally set beyond con tention as Interpreted by the ffii pn me court of the I'nited Ktati s. rndoubleifly our use w ill be appeal ed, and for this reason. "I am not a lawyer and ' cannot discuss ine decree of the Circuit i ourt. but Mr. Klllott has said thf.t an appeal will be taken and the m il ler Is entirely In tho hands of coun sel of the company. j "In this comVrctlon I want to say las a largo stockholder, that, however the case eventuates, there will Ihi no i unwillingness to comply fully, t not only with the letter but the spirit the law as It shall be settled by the Hupreme eourt." .. ; . , "We didn't slop to examine any of the boil Us or try to Identify thorn although we prohubly obuld have if re had had nroro time." IlluwhT of OffiHuK ' ' . No evidence that the iiH'ti had at tempts! to barricade themselves from the bluek damp wns seen. Many of tho former worker: in the mlnn protested angrily after they discov ered Hint, the men would have been afu front tho deadly gas had not tho .ventilating fan of the, mine -been reversed nhortjy . after" the discovery Vf ilr. They scrt (hat tht in,i had retreated to the f,rUlg where upder orUinarjlurifio't)s'tlia "noxious gas es would flot have reuchad them, and believing thenuiclses In no danger, merely had fortllled themselves against hunger, thirst and the sup posedly lesser danger of gai that nat urally would bo generated after a tew days 6f Imprisonment. ' ' TallliKi up V'litlina, ' Itobert 8lmw another member ot tho exploring ' party that found ths bodies, told of reading a piece of slate on which one of the victims had checked off tho totals of tho groups who clambered upon the rldgn ' tit their hist sland for life. Tho writ ing as remembered by him was: "Thirty or morn came In. 24 mope. 14 more. 120 hero how." Other' figures which were not to talled on the written tally but -hastily computed by Khaw, Indicated that the number exceeded 150 when the tally ended. BY THE SUPREME COURT Seventeen Appeals DiHpoNi'd of by Opinion or Other wine lv Ktate Tribunal KALL'Kilt. N. C Nov. 24. Opinions were delivered this' evening by tho Su preme court In seventeen appetls from many purls of the slate. Th'y follow : yuarry vs. 'onstrui llon company, lliiivan. iillirmcd; Huff vs. Hcnboard Air Line Hallway company, Franklin, affirmed : Kennedy vs. Douglass Itrunswbk, alllrmed; Htate vs. Hay, Alamance, new trial: Copeland vs. Fowler, Durham, error; Craven vs North Manufacturing company, Ran dolph, ufllrmed: White vs. Power company, Dasfdson, new trial; Htate vs. Mitchell, Forsyth, affirmed: KIioo company vs. Hetifrow, Forsyth, new trial; Htnte vs. Mitchell, Forsyth, af firmed; Jordan vs. insurance coiu pmiy, Forsyth, no error; Alexander vs. Furrow, Forsyth, error; Htato vs, Klmbrelt, Mecklenburg, affirmed: Holtou vs. Andrews, Mecklenburg, error; Water Commissioners vs. Chap man, Cabarrus, motion to dismiss up peal, allowed: Lenoir Mills vs. Rall- way, Cnldwnll, dismissed under ruU 17; Htato vs. Hlackman, Mecklenburg, per curiam, affirmed; Lumber com pany vs. Southern railway, Alamance, j W curiam, alflrmed TEN, COII'KH IMV1UKNO. NF.W YOKK.- Nov. 24. The Ten nessee Copper company today resum ed the payment of dividends on Its stock, declaring a dividend Of It. 2 5 a share. The last previous dividend was in September 1101. and was of the same amoiint as that declared to day. SAYS CHARGES A0A1NST HIM ARE SWEWDRK Interested In Syndicate That Owns Gas And Power ! Hants jtjran.bbro OltEliNHBuno, N. C Novell. Bird 8. Coler, president of the bur ough of Ilrooklyn. arrived In Greens boro today , from Charlotte, t : When , shown a 1 New York . dts patch to the effect, that he had ben charged with alleged neglect of duty, ' mismanagement, exlravggancs sutd, ' political favoritlstn In selecting sub- ' ordlnates, Mr, Coler aald: , " -f .. ' . "Things like that am always hsp penlng In New York political realms ' and this Is merely on ot the tmuiy Instances of personal polltol grltivt snc.es of the retaliating kind In HI- - gated by the , spite of Ulsppotjitd and disgruntled small ' men, . nl . amounts to nothing save cheap no torlely." i t m. -, v , . "Afttjr ' January lst,"i he said, -when my term as president of the - borough of Ilrooklyn expires, 1 shall take a rent i and spend most of nix j time in .i, the, Month with Oreenshor'n as hesdiiunrlers, assisting In the. div velopment of uome flno rwsourcrs m ; : this section." . . i , . . i k Will jH-vHop .. Iiitoresta. ' , , Mr, Coler left hero, tonight for.. Brooklyn., I lo-. said be would tiil:sr. Up the clirgev preferred ugulnst , him upon hie arrival In Kev .Yovl., , Discussing 4il visit ! tho Houtli, Mr. WoWr wld: , , , "At present llm 'public utilities of . trolley, vleotrlt) power- and . gut do- , velopment si Greensboro utid , Illvh , Point, , N. C iilto cnintnundlng' pric , tloBlljr all f 'triy 'ultentlvn, ; but as. soon us llieso" plnlis , arw a completed,,., ' the large plans of Interurban triilb y . and power uevelopment' will bit nc-".1 tlvely pushed' by myself and ,aso- elates." - Kir. Coler declined to ssy that hi -. syndicate was kh-ntlcnl with' the In terests that are projecting a two , hundred mile Interurban trolley line , from Anderson, H, ., ' via Charlotttt . to Greensboro which is backed bv, the Dukes, but It lssald that tho, Qreensbor and High tnlw ' JSlectrto ilervloe at the head of-which Is Vf. , Coler, has just completed an etpen-. ' slve sub-station here nnd the sftes of th Hoothorn Power company hava .. been strung to this station. , . GETS 3 YEARS III JAIL Made Good Defalcation but-' Solicitor Declined to Drop I'roMeeutLon CHARLOTTE. N. C, NoV, . ' Charles It, May, former treasurer of tho city of Hock Hill, H. C who was Indicted by the yprk t-otintr grand Jury this week for breach of trust with fraudulent Intent, plead guilty this afternoon to thrf charge and wav sentenced by Hpeclat Judge Moor at Vorkvillh, H. C, to thret' years In the county lull find begun jienlwnce at nee. May wns short In his accounts, and though friends raised the money and made good the shortuge the sollc Itor declined to nol pros the charge, May Is a mwmber of a i prominent South Carolina family. STILL LOOKING FOR BELLE OUNNES3 ifiiiiT WORTH. Terus. Nov.. 24. Hherlff W. K. Antlss of l-iortc, ind, and former aherlft A. W. HmuUer, of tho same plsre, .who -rame io on j Worth today to Investigate Ihe report that Mrs. ftelle (Sunness. who won the title of Arch murderess was living and In hiding near this city, reiurnen home tonight . empty handed, the . woman under usnli Ion not answering ,, In any respect the description of Mrs, , Ounness. - "Mrs. Ounness Is dead, of that there Is no doubt In my mind" said Sheriff Antics. HAS EVENTFUL THANKSGIVINGS noAVfigK Vs.. Nov.. 24.- At . Tawwell, Va- today a nol prosequi was entered in the ease in u. Lawson on an Indictment charging him with shooting nt an officer at Pocahontas last Thanksgiving Day ahd striking police c.JiwMre , Owens. Lawson was Indicted ftr killing Frank Hull at Pocahontas lat Thanksgiving and subsequently releas ed by a Jury.- The nolle entered to day dispose of one of the most fa mous criminal trials of the county.