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,VOL. XXVI., NO. 58.
BATHTUB MURD
MYSTERY IS LAID
TO THREESiSTERS
One of Those Accused Is Moth
er of Victim of Strange
Orange Tragedy
HUNDREDS OF SUICIDE
LETTERS DISCOVERED
Although Three Prisoners Aro
Now Held The Case Still
Awaits Solution
NEW YORK, Dec. 16. The three
(ten who held the life of Ocey
Snead In their hands, have one by
one come within the reach of the
law until tonight separate tells hold
them all, charged by the authorities
of East Orange, N. J., with the mur
der of their neice and daughter. Of
the girls' Immediate relatives only her
bed-ridden grandmother, JJrs. Mar
tha Wardlaw, eighty-three years old,
and Fletcher Snead, the cousin she
married, are still at large.
Events have moved swiftly within
the last twenty-four hours. Shortly
after the arraignment today of Mrs.
Caroline W. Martin, Ocey Snead's
mother, who was arrested lust nlsht
In an uptown hotel, there followed
the third arrest in the case that of
Mrs. Mary W. Snead, Mrs. MaiTm's
sister, and at once the aunt and mother-in-law
of Ocey Sneud. She was
taken to her lodgings in New York,
charged with being a fugitive from
the justice of New Jersey where u
warrant similar to that issued against
her sister was sworn out todav charg
ing murder.
The Mother Arraigned.
Mrs. Mlarttn .wasf arraigned this
morning In the Tombs police court
and committed to the Tombs prison,
pending . the arrival of extradition
papers from New Jersey. During her
examination she gave no indication
as to whether she would light ex
tradition. Mrs. Martin Is bixty-four
yean old and feeble of body. She
showed today the- same marked aver sion
to. lifting the heavy black veil
that completely concealed her fea
tures as characterised . her slater.
Virginia warataw, m Tne Hitters ex
amination at East Orange some d;iy
ago.
Mrs. Mary Snead, when taken I"
police headquarters today, vas more
erratic in her bearing than Mrs. Mar
tin, but equally reticent. Mrs. Mar
tin's pitiful Infirmity saved her the
(Continued mi I'nge I.)
SHORTAGE IN ATLANTA
OFFICE DFPHENIX FIRE
Chairman of Board Says it
Has Been Known and
will Make.no Difference
POLICY HOLDERS SAKE
NEW YORK, Dec. 16. The short
age of about $50,000 reported at the
Atlanta agency of the Phenix (Klre
Insurance company of Brooklyn by
the state Insurance department will
make nuo difference, the department
says in the general condition of the
company as recehtly reported. The
alleged shortage was taken Inti ac
count when the general report was
made.
The department m the report re
garding the Atlanta agency, says It
has not yet completed Its examina
tion of the company's home office
and knows the facts as to the At
lata situation only from testimony
taken in the progress of the investi
gation of th home office.
The department says that not more
than $20,000 can be realized on the
property turned over by Harry
Stockdell, the former general agent
at Atlanta.
Harry Evans, chairman of the ex
ecutive committee of the Phenix Kir
Insurance company of Brooklyn, for
the directors hiakes the following
statement:
"We have known of the Stockdell
shortage from the time I came into
the situation and the company has
been secured to the extent that seems
possible at this time by Mr. Stock
dcll'i turning over to It his residence
and such other property as he has.
The value of this property has not
been determined; it may be $20,000
or more.
"In any event, the amount is not
large; and without any credit from
the value of the property turned ov
er to us. I still believe that the com
pany, besides its large reserves for
unearned premiums and other liabil
ities fully stated, a capital in tact of
$1,600,000 and a net surplus of $500,
000, wnd I am willing personally to
buy the stock of the company on that
basis.
"The work of house cleaning and
rehabilitation is going on aa rapidly
(Continued on Pago A.)
ZELA I A RESIGNS
WHEN ULTIMATE
FAILURE IMPENDS
Sends Patriotic Message to Wis Congress De
claring he Cannot Fight Fate And The Uni
ted States at The Same Time.
MANAGUA, Nicaragua, Dec.
16. Jose Santos Zelay.i has
resigned from the presidency
of Nicaragua. He placed his
resignation iff the hands of
congress this morning. Ap
parently there was no other
course for him to take. The-
people were at last aroused.
The guns of the revolutionists
threatened. The warships of
the United States lay In Nica
raguan ports.
Managua has been seething
for days. The spirit of revolt
has spread even to tho gates
of the palace. Zelaya sur
rounded himself with an
armed guard. Unchecked,
the populace have marched
through the streets, crying for
the end. of the old, proclaim
ing the new regime.
Who will take up the reins
no one knows nor cares. It is
sufficient that Zelaya as dic
tator will be known no more.
There is no doubt that con
gress will act quickly on his
resignation, for the people
have demanded it.
Dr. Jose Madriz, judge of the Cen
tral American court of Justice nt
C'artago, who has been close to Ze
laya and is now his choice lor pres
ident, will arrive here on Saturday.
Madriz has his following, ptrong and
Influential, even among the revolu
tionists, but General Estrada, under
hose command the great body of
lighting Insurgents now face Vasquca's
troops at Kama will have none of
him. Estrada's word will boor
weight In the choice of a president.
Zelaya has known, too, that Madriz
is not acceptable to tho United States
and he haB sought, to learn who would
be looked on with favor by thet
government as his successor.
ZHaya's Mcwwte.
Accompanying, his resignation, Ze
laya sent the following message to
congress:
"l"ie painful circumstances in
which the country is plunged call for
acts of abnegation and patriotism -in
the part of good eitlaens who are the
witnesses of the oppression of the
republic by the heavy hand of fate.
The country is staggering under a
shameless revolution which threatens
the nation's sovereignly and a fir-
ANOTHER VICTIM ADDEO
TD LIST OF DEAD IN THE
SOOTHMIECK
Coroner's Jury Finds Acci
dent Due to Two Defects
in Peculiar Conjunction
ONE MORE MAY DIE
GliKKNSIlOI'.o, N. (., Dec. JO:
Henry J,. Slribling, a traveling sales
man, died at the hospital this morn
ing, makng the twelfth victim of thi
terrible catastrophe at Kcci.y 1'i.rl;
trestle yesterday morning, when three
day l oaches and two Pullman ears of
local passenger train No. 11 jumped
the track and plunged into the waters
of the creek and along the bank for
a distance of twenty-five feet below.
At ten o'clock tonight Information
from file hospital regartllni; the in
jured is encouraging with the excep
tion of K. -Smith, a trainman of Spen
cer, N. ('., whose condition Is critical.
All tho other injured will recover,
many of whom have returned to their
homes. The fear that other dead
bodies might be found in the debris
was removed, when thorough exami
nation today sliowed that all the bod
ies had been found yesterday.
Coroner W. W. Wood, who went to
the wreck yesterday, summoning a
Jury to examine into the cause of the
wreck, returned today and at J2
o'clock their report was made. ThU
report Is In substance that deceased
died from injuries receivea December
15, about 6.30 a. m., at or near the
trestle of the Soutnern railway across
Reedy Fork creek, one mile south of
Hrown Summit, and that the wreck
of the train was caused by the break
ing of a defective rail immediately
over a, defective cross tie, tho two de
fects being at the same point, 195 feel
north of the trestle.
Chairman of the State Commission
McNeill with other members made an
official Investigation today but beyond
saying that he found the bituation t"
correspond with the statement of tho
coroner, he would not talk. He said
he would make his official report af
ter reaching Raleigh.
Local railway officials Issued no
statement other than the list of the
dead and Injured.
ASIIEVILLE, N.
dsn nation unjustly Intervenes In oil
j affairs, publicly providing the rebels
with arms, which has only resulted
4. 1 .In their being defeated every whur
through the heroism of1 our troops,
j Ieoplo Rejoice.
T To avoid further bloodshed and
for the reason that the revolutionist?
1 have declared they would put down
j their arms when I surrender the ex
ecuttve power. I hereby place in I he
hands of the national assembly the
abandonment of the remainder of
my term of office, which is to be
filled by a substitute of their choos
ing, with the hope that this will re
sult in good to Nicaragua, the re
establishment of peace, and particu
larly the suspension of the hostility
of the United States, to which 1 dr.
not wish "to give a pretext for Inter
vention."
A commission of live deputies was
appointed to draft a bill looking to
the acceptance of Zelaya's resigna
tion, which is now considered a mere
formality. News of the president's
action Bpread through the city, and
soon great crowds moved through the
streets, shouting for the United Statea,
Estrada and the revolution.
Played His I-ant Card.
Held In control for years by .he
strong hand of Zelaya, tho people
have been quick to break through re
straint when It was certain that the
dictator could not breast the tide that
has been rising around him. During
the latter days, Zelaya has resortpd
to all known tricks and contrivances
to hold the people of Managua with
him. Keports of a government vic
tory at Kama havo been freely cir
culated and rumors that a. massacre
of revolutionists had occurred wer-
allowed to spread unchallenged and
undcnled. It finally became known
that tin so were without a shred of
(ruth and they re-bound like a boom
, rnni,-.
First one deputy and then another
took up the denunciation of Zelaya In
the chamber, and later In the public
places and soon throughout the city
demonstrations were held In which
open revolt was voiced. Jaet night,
however, a pro-Zelaya. demonstration
marked the senslon of congress, but
this bad no effect outside the walls
of the house. The rlKing was more
marked today than ever and the pres
ident decided discretion to be tin
((out limed 011 page four.)
T
MftTTEH OF DATA, FACTS
AND COST OF CLOTHES
"Nervy" Lawyers Figure
up Times she has Given
Categorical Answers
BOUGHT SOME CANDY
NEW YOltJf, Dec. 16. How to be
unhappy on $30,0110 a year was thi
burden of the testimony Introduced
at the Hrokaw separation bearing to
day. Mrs. Mary liiair Hrokaw, as evasive
in her answers as ever, was on th'
stand part of the time for the seventli
consecutive day. She was followed
by her brother, J. Milliard Mlalr, lv
gave testimony intended to rhow thai
W. Gould Hrokaw had treated tin
plaintiff cruelly and that nhe was Jus
tilled in asking for a separation with
$60,000 alimony.
Statistics figured prominently in the
trial toda) rather unique figuret
compiled concerning Mrs. !irokw'
refusal to answer questions and elab
orate lists of exjienditures In her be
half. As compiled by her busband'i
lawyer, she has, during the hearing,
evaded 1.248 important questions In
manner as follows:
"I don't remember," 293 times;
I can't tell," 11H times;
-,I could not tell you," J?7 times;
"I don't believe," 81 times;
"I don't know," 184 times;
"I think so," 125 times;
"l believe." 198 times;
"I thought," f3 times, and
"I won't swear." 49 times.
Other figures introduced by Uro
kaw's lawyer read like thos-' at th
Howard Gould suit as sidelights on
how a woman of wealth can spenH
$30,000 In a single year. Corsets rf,st
$250 a pair, and for candy Mr. Bro
kaw at one time spent $170.
It developed during the trial thai
Walter Hyford. Brokaw's private sec
retary, much sought by the plaintiff s
lawyers to testify that Brokaw actu
ally sent the numerous telegrams t.
Mrs. Brokaw, Is in Europe md cannoi
be subpoenaed.
Mrs. Brokaw enumerated some 01
the dresses her husband has bough'
her. They included six huntint
suits at about $100 each, r-;ish lineti
habits $175; riding habit $250; rid in..
boots $150.
Sidney Wood, butler at the Brokaw
place at High Point, N. C, testified
(Continued on VS" 4.)
C, FRIDAY MORNING,
KING LEOPOLD OF BELGIUM DIES
ASSURGEONS WERE MOST HOPEFUL
Aged and Waited Body Could Not Stand Strain of Operation, Although
up to Last Indi cated Steady Improvement Death Came
Quickly.
HHUSSEIJs. Dec. 17. King o-
pold died at 8.S5 o'clock thi morning,
Ms aged, wasted body being unable
to stand tho strain put upon It. The
collapse occurred suddenly and at 'a
moment when the doctor aeetnlngly
had the greatest hope 'of recovery.
Throughout yesterday bulletin Issued
from the sick room Indicated progre,-
slve improvement. The bulletin pott
ed at 0.30 i), m.i gave tue king a tei-
iporaUire, pulse. ad..rfu'nUn M
practically normal. ..Apparently me
drainage of the wound was perfect,
as no fever was present, and during
he day the king had been able to
ake nourishment.
rVlt End Coming.
The public at large was satisfied
hat the king was on the road to re
overv hut within the pavilion where
he king lay there was a feeling of
anxiety chiefly because of Ij-opoH's
OTHERSJABELY ESCAPE
Two Firemen Also Perish
hi Disastrous Fire in
Philadelphia Factory
PHILADELPHIA, Dee. 16. Two
girls are missing and fourteen others
narrowly escaped death tonight In a
re which destroyed the six story fae-
ory building of Kchrack olid Slier-
wood manufacturer of coffins and
ndertakers' supplies.
Tho damage n, the building and
ontents Is estimated at $2r.0,000. Pa-
rolman William v'lnke was over-
orne by smoke while assisting In ros-
ulng the girl." and It In a serious
condition.
The flames which originated In a
00m on the fourth floor of the
building had gained such headway
e-forc they were discovered that six
teen girls who were on the fifth floor
barely had time l rush down slairs
before the stairway was a mass of
mes. Four of them were removed
to a hospital suffering from burns re
ceived from flying embers, and Re
becca Smith is rnlxsing and it Is feared
she may have i rished.
While at -work lighting the flames
on the fourth of rno burning bulbi
ng Joseph Toner, a fireman was
urned to death and Frederick King
was probably fatally Injured. The men
were overcome bv smoke and fell to
he floor below. Toner was burned 10
ath before he 1 mud be rescued, but
King was rrannvd to a hospital,
where his condition Is regarded as
rltlcal.
King waa remow-rt to a hospital, wher
Is condition i regarded aa critical.
WASHINGTON, De. i. Forecast
for North Carolina; Fair Friday and
light t moderate variable winds.
DEC EM 13 EK 17, 1909.
Caught With The Goods.
great age. After a restful day tho pa
tient was able to sleep (or , a brief
period early In the evening. But to
warda two o'clock alarming symptoms
appeared. Suddenly the king turned
and called to Dr. Thlrlar:
"J'tonffe, docteur j'etou.tYo." (I am
suffering.)
Death Came Quickly.
Dr. Depage was summoned and the
two physician -did every tiling pos
sible t proton fit, h"t -without ,vUI
The end ram nulckly, oa;..tfter ft.
spell or weaKTU'sa, peacefully. : rrinr;..
Albert arrived at the death bid about
twenty-five minutes later He ac
companied by Princess Clementine.
Albert kissed the dead king and left
the chamber weeping. Baron O.offt-
nett, the king's secretary, started Im
j mediately for Brussels to notify the
! members of the royal family. Aa ho
1 waa entering file motor car he M
i claimed:
T
AGAINST IKE HOLIDAYS
(Jives Desultory Consider
ation to District of Co
lumbia Bill; Does Nothing
WASHINGTON, Dec, 16, The
house today devoted nearly five hours
time to the consideration of the Dis
trict of Columbia appropriation bill.
The measure carries an appropriation
of $10,150,473 for the expenses of
the district for 1911.
General debate was concluded but
tho reading of the measure paragraph
by paragraph proceeded slowly. Sev
eral members made points of order
against certain sections In the In
terest of economy and tho reading
had not concluded whim the house
adjourned at 4.55 j). m.
Mr. Macon of Arkansas had the
paragraph appropriating $2,400 for
an automobllo for the engineer com
missioner of the District of Colum
bian stricken out In eplto of the pro
tests of KepreenUrves Tawney of
Minnesota, chairman of the appropri
ations committee and Representative
Gardner of Michigan In charge of tho
bill.
Democratic applause greeted an at
tack made by Representative Hitch
cock of Nebraska on official conduct
of the Secretary of the Interior Hul
IIngT In connection with the so-called
Cunningham coal land cases, in a
cpeech demanding a congression
al investigation of the general land
office. Representative Hhfppard of
general debate on the bill urging the
house to revive the moribund com
mittees on expenditures for the var
ious departments in order that sweep
ing Investigations of the department
might be made.
During a brief session of the sen
ato today a resolution by Senator Cul
lom was adopted acting upon the ec
secretry of the interral from Informa
tion respecting mining disasters and
facilities of tho federal government
for rendering aid In such caae.
At 1.1 o'clock the aenatu adjourn
ed until next Monday.
LONG JIMP Tit FOItTUNE.
M7CHICJAN CITY, Ind., Dec.
From switch cleaner on an electric
railroad to a millionaire was the long
Btep mado by Michael Beyer today
when he received a letter frpm an
aunt at Posen, Prussia, advising that
he waa one of ten helra to an estate
valued St $20,000,000,
Bulletins
'To Ihlnk that only yesterday we
were stilt full of confldenca and now
th king .la dosd."
IC1111 Was Ilia NurMj,
It appear that the doctora wera
totally unprepared (or a lata) tornU
nation. It waa a nun, acting m a
nurse, who first noticed the '. heavy
breaUilnti of th kliitt. Bha, called' Dr.
Thlrlar to th bedside. , Potb dootora,
&MrJM Aid, D)a.,TSNrVSjLi'?.. In
jections of . morphine but the ; had
no effect. " ' -a - '
Short 1 v after tha end cam the mln
Isters were notified. Th first official
to arrive at th death chamber was
th royal chaplain. Th mlnlater
remained In the chamber for consid
erable tlrne, discussing In subdued
tones th sudden death and matter
01 si me.
STILL ANOTHEI
CAUGHT IN SUGAR
National Owen Government
About $7(30,000 According
to Investigation
WASHINGTON, Dec ls-r-Wlllltttn
I.oeb. Jr., collector of the port of New
York left suddenly for Washington
thla afternoon, presumably to confer
with President Taft and Secretary of
tho Treasury MacVeagh concerning
the ever-Increasing sugar scandals.
With the Arbueklna and the National
Sugar Refining company now Involv
ed, new avenues' of investigation have
been opi'ned up, paving tho way for
future procedure.
Concrete developments following
yesterday's payment by the Arbuckles
of nearly $700,000 to reimburse tho
United States treasury for doficlta du
to false weighing Included the an
nouncement that another of tho big
sugar refining companies waa prepar
ed to settle with the government ia
the Arbucklei had done as soon as It
had been officially Informed of the
amount tho government claimed to
bo due. This company was the Na
tional Sugar Refining company, next
to the American Sugar Refining com
pany In the extent of Its operations.
The National's president, James ft.
Post, stated that the government In
vestigators had been going over the
books of the comjjany for months
past and recently Informed him that
the company owea the government
more than $700,000 In uncollected
duties.
SOMETHING LEFT
OVER AT YEAR'S END
RALEIOH, N. C. Dec, 1. That
the state trial balance at the end of
fiscal year November 10 was $123,-
830.4$ la the finding of Iriglalatlve
examining committee which ha Just
completed its annual examination of
tho treasury. Of thla balance
112.01 1 waM general, and $10,B1 ed
ucatioant fund. General fund bal
ance brought over from previous
year waa $St.0Z0 receipts thla year
$3, 314, 017, disbursement $$,D5Z,i7.
10. Education fund shows $7,342
balance from previous year, receipt
$72,43, disbursements $S,09.4.
balance $10. 1. The committee la
now at work on book of state audi
tor. , ... ...... ",,
PitlC FIVE CENTS.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
STILL BALLOTING
E
11
WITHA D
AD LOG
Heydler Withdnws And Dark,
Horse Comes In to Contest ; 1
With Ward
HIS NAME MAY BE
PRESENTED LATER
Will Reopen Old Scandal Con-
corning Championship
Ga'moofl905 ' ;
NEW YORK, Doc. IS. No ure. r
dent of tTte National leagui) of , pro
fessional baseball club wa elected
by th club owner In their tlv hour ,
session In th Waldorf today:' oniy'
on ballot taken. This resulted
in luur vian racn tor jonn M, ward ;
and Robert W. Brown, LoulvlllV
newspaper man. John Hoydler, th
present Incumbent, rcfud tot alloy
hi nam o be presented a a cttndl-
data for rc-eleotlon with View to 1
clearing th air and determining how
Horace Pogel, who represent th !) v
owpers of the , , P.llllaihilphl oluh '
would vote. , . , .
A expected, Foget voted for Ward.
WhO Wll ItlarMft IH : MAmlnytl.lH. I,., '
Chorle II. Kbhouof Urnnklvn. ind
seconded by John T, Brush of ' New
rork. Tie other vote received bv
Ward were thoa of the Now" York,
' , Hrown a Diwk Itnrsc. ? ? ) '
Urowrt hfrtitutoro waa t onslilermt 1
oiily In the light of a , compromise
eanmae.ie nut ha received the vote
of Stanley Rnbfnson of Ht. I.outs. tin..
ry , Hermann of Cjiu:inimH, ilrn..t'
tireyfuiia of l'RUIiurg, and John 8. c.
I'ovoy of IlosUiit. Aftr this dead
lock the' mughuti'S adjourned until 1
p.. m tomorrow, having ihuie IK'lo ;
more than ascertain ijust how Hi.
Ixiuls aid I'hlluilelphltL president
tod, ;0uhn Jieyrilcr Jim by .m
means withdrawn from the preulden
tlaLracej and. hi numo ,mav lnte ba '
presented a mndldnte. Hut In or.
dw to detnrmtu tho Itne-nri ilrydk, . .
told Hermann, -owner Tr thu cimilnr
nati club not to prtaont hi nam i'
today and Hermann refrained trvm '
Th supporters of Heydler. who are '
Hermann, po-y and lireyfu,: ,
thUslastleally, and - Hobbion passively,
wer jubilant tonight over th fact
that no nresldent wjih. AhmMi am iha , -
flrat ballot. Th proHeydlor main
tain that If ther I any weakening In.
th respective force It will bemom'
the supporter of Ward., . j v
Attack fotii!Mn. ' "
During th Unproductive aesslatv
today, President fcbbett ot Brooklyn
made an Impassioned epeech against
Ben Johnson, Baying that the Amur-.
lean league president had no right nt
alt to dictate to the Jvstlonnl league
that It should not elect Ward as pre'
luent. But tn American iegu me -,
nates, most of whom started for horn
after concluding the meeting yester
day, say that they will beck Johnson
to the limit.
WILL SEND TEACHERS TO
TEAGH NEGRO TEACHERS
; '' ' .rut i,""AiAiii'
n Thin Way will Jennm
Fund for Edunation of
Negroes be Hpcnt ' ,
WAHHINCITON, Deo. i,-Prel-0
Taft presided this afternoon, at
annual meeting of th executive
hoard of the Joane fund of $1,000,
000 for the betterment of th small
rurul negro schools in thro South,
which waa hold In th cabinet, room
at the white house. -
Andrew Carnegie, Booker T. Wash
ington, Oeorff Peobady, , . Wal
ter A. Page,1 Dr. 3. H, Dlllard, of
New Orleans, and Bishop Grant wer
mong tho those who attended and
poke. It waa decided to aontlnn
work under the fund upon the plan
adopted last year, that of sending
teacher through the .South who In
reality teach tho teacher of tho ru- i
ral schools there In the power meth
ods of education, . '
The number of these teacher will
Increased from 140 to -JM.-thl tia"
lug been made possible by an unex
pected balance from last year from
Interest earned on h original en
owment; The need . of addition
funds with which to carry on th .
work was emphasised by an appeal
from one hundred negro "principal
and teacher In the Mouth. .
Th Jeanea fund teacher are di
vided Into throe class"; extentlon
teachers, supervising teacher and or
ganizing teachers. They dlvld their -
work among 1,700 school children in
the Southern tate. . -
Professor B. C . Caldwell, forme
president of the . Louisiana state
normal achool,' wa elected field ag
ent and assltant to the president of
the baord a newly crreatcd. off Ice.
Tho board adjourned to meet again
at th whit house the second Thurs
day of next December.