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THE ASHEHIxCE CITIZEN. Associated Press' Leased Wire Reports. TIIE WEATHER: FAIR, VOL. XXVI., NO. 64. , ASIIEVILLE, N. C., THURSDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 23, liW9. PRICK FIVE CENTS. ZELAYA S FORGES ADMIRAL SCHLEY HIGH OFFICIALS OF THREE COUNTRIES ARE ASSASSIN A TED A New spirant. DEFEATED, ARMY ST I FA TH ' ?w' ah. air down C&xv TTlU I US THIS! THAI (fP''NCe II X MAY SURRENDER Demands That Peary Submit His ordto Unlvers H Ity Scientists IS SOMETIDNO OF ARCTIC "EXPLORER HIMSELF Declares Danes Best Quali fied to Pass Upon feary 's Data WASHINGTON, Dec. 22. Re-af-flrmlng hlff complete confidence in Dr. Cook, Her-Admlral W. 8. Schley, re tired, today .called publicly upon Com mander iPeary to ubmlt his proofH that he reached the North pole to aome scientific body other than Hie National iGeographle society. This the ,admiral declare, ahould be done at once In the interests or Justice, and to establish beyond nidation the claim 6t Peary. The admiral believe that the same body which threw out and repudiated Cook'a data ahould be permitted to paaa upon the data aubmltted by Peary to, the geographic society. The Dane are the beat posted body pf men in. the world on Arctic mat tera," b Bald. "Tha consistory of the University of Copenhagen ahould be fgiven the opportunity to examine Mr. Peary a proofs, for in mat way tn y would lie, aubmltted to the same test that waa applied to those of Cook." Moreover Admiral Schley believes that submission of the proofs to Co penhagen ahould be insisted upon by Peary, despite whatever the National Qeogranhlo society attitude may be. PccHne to Otv Reasons. AdmlraJ Schley declines to say on what grounds he took exceptions to the finding of the scientists of the University of Copenhagen that Cook had pot (beeli at the North pole. He marelte-aftlrmed. .his belief in the explorer,, adding that he believed also that Feanv ioo;,rnar gained the top of the earth.', - i. The lavposiaac, o rhe- admiral's de. man d Is Increased by the fact thit he haa had wide experience In the far north,, In 1S84 he was in com mand of tho Thetis expedition, which resulted In tha. rescue of Lieutenant Greely and six . nietv who had been cast away at Cape Sabine and whom the civiMaed World -had practically (Continued on page 4) BROKAiV WILL ADMIT HE CALLED WfFE UELYNAME IT Testimony Confined to show, ing That He Cannot Pay Alimony Demanded" IDS WIFE WORRIED NEW YORK, Dec. 22. W. Could Brokaw did not take the stand today in hi own defense as hud leen ex pected. Instead, his counsel contin ued to Introduce testimony designed to show that the demands of Mrs. BrokaW who is suing for separation with alimony of $00,000 a year, lire unreasonable. In view of the hue band' diminished fortune. John F. Mclntyre. Mr. Brokaw's lawyer, explained that one of his as sociates who had the minutes of the trial had been detained and that the cuse could not well go on without him. An early, adjournment was therefore granted' with the understanding that Mr. Brokaw wll testify tomorrow. John F. Mclntyre declared today that Mr. Brokaw in his testimony would not deny that he had called hi wife a "little fool," and a "stupid idiot" and other names "which the occasion demanded." but that It would be shown that there had been abundant provocation for Iocs of tem per oii the part of his client. The attorney declared also that he woiiid show that James A. Blair, Mrs. Bro kaw's father, had interfered in the iirnlraw famllv affairs. and had threatened to hold Mr. Brokaw to ac-1 count If the latter s conduct made Mrs. Brokaw unhappy. Mr. Brokaw, paced up and down the corridor of. the court hotiBe to day, herTTp moving rapidly as If he were rehearsing' the testimony be would ha called upon to give. Much. of the court's time today was takeri 'up with testimony of North Carolinian called to show how Mr. Brokaw' health had diminished of recent year, making demands for such alimon? as hi wife has asked unreasonable. The Illness ot Mrs. Brokaw's moth er, Mr. James A. Blair, who has been stricken with pneumonia at her home in Weatbury. ha given her worn and deprived her of the supporting presence in eourt or her inner, i m together wRh continued tale of cig arette smokln and cocktail drtnkui which tha trial ha developed, KM served to 1reak the splendid poise which ahe so long maintained. Premier of Korea, Chief of Rus sian Police, Andan English Chief Magistrate in India all Meet Violent Deaths. Three high government olftclals, the most notable being Premier Yl, of the Korean cabinet, met horrible deaths, at the hands of political assassins, today. The. crimes committed were In widely separated portions of the world and include in addition to Pre mier Yl, Colonel Karpoff, chief of the secret police In St. Peters burg, Russia, and Arthur Id. T. Jackson in Bombay, British In dia, the chief magistrate of Nujiik. In 8eoul, Korea, the prime min ister of the Korean cabinet was stabbed to death as an apparent result of the Intense feeling In Korea agaliiBt Japanese influence Colonel Karpoff was blown to pieces by the explosion of n bomb thrown supposedly by an - anarchist. Arthur M. T. Jackson was as sassinated by a native for re venge and presumably as a part of the seditious mowment against British official authority. In each of the countries, the governing authority is menaced by a dangerous element directed against the existing regime. STABBET by christian. SRoUL. Korea, Dec. 22. Premier Yl, tho bend of the Korean cabinet, was stabbed to death early day by Yiechaim Yong, a Korean. The attack occurred at 10 o'clock In the morning. The assailant was a young Christian who Was for many years a resident of the United States. The premier was riding in his Jinrik sha when the assussin came up with a long kitchen knife in his hand. He drove this twice into the .abdomen of the premier and once Into the latter's lung. The assassin then turned on the premier's Jinrlksha man whom he stabbed and Instantly killed. The assassin was immediately ar rested, .Ji,4a a youth of about twenty years and Is believed to be a member of . a political secret society.- - Yl was always credited with fos tering anti-Japanese sentiment In Ko rea, He bitterly opposed the factior, among the Koreans which favored annexation to Japan and refused to present a petition for annexation to the Korean emperor. Notwithstand ing Yl's known sentiments in regard to the relations between Japan und Korea, Marquis Ito regarded Yi as an honest and conscientious patriot and OF EINJ Had Just Recovered Ap parently From Attack of Ptomaine Poisoning I ITS LONG SERVICE JACKSON. Miss., Dec. 22. United States Sentator A. J. McLaurin died suddenly tonight at his home In Brandon. Death was due to an attack of heart failure and came without the slightest warning. a 6.35 o'clock. When the fatal stroke came upon him Senator McLaurln was seated In a rocking chair iu front of the lire place in his library. He suddenly fell forward, without speaking a word, ilfe was extinct when mcmis-rs of his family reached his side. The swift summons of death followed within a moments a remark by Senator Mc Laurln that he was tlw-n feeling better than lie had felt at any time since his recent severe Illness, resulting from an attack of ptomaine poison ing. As to a successor to Senator McLau rln. It is pointed out, that an ap tocrintment might be immediately made by Governor Neal, or selected by the state legislature which will convene early In January. Senator McLaurln, who was sixty- one years olfl, negan nis iirsiieriii in the senate in 1884 but was elected governor of Mississippi In 189 and served In that olTire four years. He was elected again to the senate In 1900 and served one term. He then returned for the term which began on March 4, 10T. His present term of office would have expired on March 3, 113. Senator McLaurln was a lawyer by profession, and began the atudy of law In 1868, after he had served through the Civil ar a a private in the Confederate army. He was born on March 36. 148. at Brandon, Miss., and was raise I on a farm- He entered th- Confederate rmy when he was sixteen year ld. Seven children sur vive him. - " refused to listen to the premier's ji-e-peuted requests that he be ullowed to resign his office. ' It la believed that the assassination is the result of political Intrigue. KILLED IN THEATRIC. BOMBAY, British India, lHc.,22 Arthur Mason Tlppette Jackson,. cilcf magistrate of Naslk, in the presiden cy of Bombay, was assassinated by, a native while attending the theatrical performanoe last night. The motive of the murder Is sup posed to have been a wish for reveng upon the magistrate, who had recent ly sentenced a criminal to life im prisonment. Naslk Is u hotbed of sedition Jackson had been In the Biltlsh In dian service since 1888. BLOWN VP BY BOMB. 8T. PETERSBURG, Dec. 22. fJoi onel Karpoff, chief of tha secret' po lice of Si. Petersburg, was assassin ated early today. He had been en ticed to a modest apartment in a remote street of the Vlborg dlstrkt and there as blown to pieces bv a boinli exploded, supposedly by his host, one Michael Vosskressensky. The murderer rushed into the street following the explosion and was cap tured. An assistant of Karpoff who had accompanied him was severely Injured. Karpoff was appointed from BakJ where he had been chief of the secret police. i CHOSE SITE FOR BATTLE ABBEY RICHMOND, Va., Dec. 22. The executive committee of the Confeder ate ..Memorial association, which con elsts of General Robert. W. White, of Wet Virginia, chairman, Col. Thomas 8-KVnan"Jf-North Carollnna Qui J. M. Hickey. of Washington, D. C and Judge George L. Christian and Lieut. Gov. J. Taylor Ellyson of Richmond met here today and unanimously 'ap proved the site recently chosen by the city for the proposed confederate bat tle Abbey. The site Is a triangular piece of ground bounded 'by Monu ment avenue, Went PiankHn street and Cleveland street. BODY OF KING LEOPOLD L POMP Holiday Proclaimed and Subjects Lined Streets to See Royal Pageant Pass- SCENE IMPRESSIVE BRl'SSELS, Dec. 22. The body r Leopold II, king of the Belgluns, whs placed today in the royal burial vault In the church of St. Mary at Laeken, tne suburban resfHence of the roy.l family. Near it rests the body of his queen, Marie TTenriette, the Princess Josephine noil the young Duke or Krabsnt. The funeral anil burial were con ducted with all the pomp anil cere mony of which the state was capable, despite the wish expressed by the monarch In his will that the obsequies should be simple. A holiday had been proclaimed and thousands or persons tilled the streets during the services. Karly ir- the day the body was taken from the roytii cathedral or Kt. Michael and Ste. On dule where impressive runeral rites were held rrom the church. From the church the cortege moved to Laeken where repose the bones ot Leopold I. Queen Louise and those of Leo pold's immediate family whom he had survived. The scene was Impressive as the cortege passed through the streets whose crowds massed on the side walks, at the windows and upon the balconies and roofs, paid respectful homage. I 1 More Impressive as a spectacle, however, was the scene at the Cathe dral of St. Michael and Ste. Oudule that magnificent Gothic pile which from the city's eminence dominates the many architectural beauties of un cient Brussels. In the body of the church wcr grouped foreign princes, diplomats, delegations and government official. The cortege entered the transept portal headed by omcera of the srmv and civic guard In full uniform Behind the velvet covered casket walked Prince Albert who wore the uniform of general. A solemn requiem mas wa cele oratea oyine caruuii. nmsiiliirvciiiij asu " - c7 a IX.' eompanlment, Profandis? "Dies Irane," and DRUNKEH NEGRO SLASHES Makes Unprovoked Attack; Tragedy. An unprovoked outrage such a has seldom blotted the" police annals of the city occurred lost night on West Haywood near Depot tret when an unknown negro whipped put a knife or raxor and cut tb throat of young Lloyd Morris Inflicting a long and dangerous wound. i Dr. G. D Gardner Winder prompt attention to the wound and ok the young man to the Mission - hospital where Dr. C. Si Jordan aewei up t" gash. Both physklans; report thai whu the wntind la r-wsarr tt should not prove, fatal .unless compli cations set In. Xegro Was Drunk Morris and. a yung man named McCa riles were going out Haywood street about 7.30, when according to TO WIRELESS STATIONS Navy Plans to Extend Use So as to Keep in Touch With Ships Anywhere WASHINTON, Dec 22. A sweep ing plan for extension of wireless tel egraphic service for the navy has been submitted to congress by Rear-Admiral Cowles. chief of the bureau of equipment. "Wireless apparatus of the latest type" he says. Is to be supplied in nil the vessels of the navy. Includ ing destroyers and sll auxiliaries as thislater class of vessel has proved very valuable In establishing wireless chains across long stretches of ocean without the necessity of disrupting the (Vghtlng fleet. Pnlll It may become possible to entrust all coastwise ser vice to the commercial companies, the bureau Is obliged to keep the coast chain of stations In the most efficient condition possible not only for military service but to warn ma riners. 'Another shore station lis contem plated at Dutch liariior, aissku. io carry wireless to Bering Bea. connect ing with the Caie Nome station, per mitting vessels from Nome- o lower California to keep in touch with the world. After the contemplated high powered station In Washington hi been completed. It is believed, a sim ilar station will be round necessary In the following localities: The west coast of the United States, the Pana ma Canal zone. Hawaii and Philip- pities. With stations of such power at theae places, vessels will o wunin call while going to or from or while in practically all waters where navii ooeratlona of Interest to the t'nited States might lie expected. Each sta tion. It is estimated will cost lion.unn. 1 oniimvrrMC TW ft Forecast cold Thursday -and Friday; Bght to moderate, northeast to worth;.. winds. MAN 'S THR OA on Lloyd Morris Which Barely Misses Developing Into Negro Escapes and Police H ave No Clue to His Identity. t the story told by Morris. -they met two negroes. On of the negroes was drunk and staggering, and whan tin passed the young men,, he staggered into Morrla, who told him to mind whom he wa' Pushing off the aids walk. Th negro turned Immediately whipped out ft knlf ami mod a slash at Morris, the knlf etching hlm;un der the ear, and cutting a gash llyo inches long, and so deep that it pen' etrated the esophagus.' The negroes theiTran! if. frt -diwloi'.jt WT 'JthO Wgjfwtf.s'.;' .-..--'- w'i'i ko. r- Ooaid Identify llim." ' , Morris knew neither of th negroes but says they were both tall, anil he thinks he would be able to recognise the one who cut him Is he should see mm again. GIVES HALF MILLION TO FIGHT Henry Phipps Makes New Gift to University of Pennsylvania PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 22.T-The trustees of the University of Pennsyl vania announce that Henry Phipps, founfler of the Phipps Institute In this city, had given 1500.000 to the university to carry on the fight waged against tuberculosis. The present In stitute will be placed In charge of the university trustees und a new hospital will be constructed at Seventh and Uimbard streets here where the study, treatment and prevention of tubercu losis will be continued. Puns for the new building are now belns drawn by a New York architect. Mr. Phipps bought this property two years ago, paying $1,000,000 for It. The hospital will occupy a squin ? block and will be situated In the most densely populated part of this city. The Phipps Institute was founded by the I'lltsburg millionaire for the purpose of warring on consumption. Hoon after the hospital was opened It was found that It would Ife unable to accommodate all those who were In need of treatment, and Mr. Phipps offered, at a dinner tendered hlfh In appreciation of hi gift to this city, to pay 'to every general hospital here that would take tuberculosis sufferers 1 a day for a year. Kvery hospital turned down the offer. Mr. Phipps' gifts to the cause total over $3,000,000 so far a records how For many years, ever since the discus:.- Inspired the formation or national or ganization to fight It. he hit taken a deep interest in Its study. In ! h selected a commission of leading res idents of New York to find a site suit able ror the erection of apartments for worklngmen that would be models of cleanliness. He then gave them a check for $1,000,000 for the construc tion of these house. The Johns Hopkins university In Baltimore received $80,000 from Mr Phipps In 1907 with which to es tablish a tuberculosis hospital. COULD NOT FACE EMPTY STOCKINGS ATLANTA. Oa., Dec, 22. Lack of money to give hi wife and two chil dren their accustomed happy Chrlst- . .. . . , .. ....I . mas m oenevea io nunc ! i.f Jnmes L. Mock, formerly of Newark. . N. J., who shot himself ihrmikh' the head at hi home here this morning, dying a few hour later. Mock cam to Atlanta, about four months ago aa agent for a typewriter concern. YOUNG T WITH KNIFE The police were notified at one and started out m , th trail of th negroes, but they had little descrip tion to go on and had hot been ahl last night to pot'aa?" on. .!i i Morrl I gbout twenyr. yar -old and I the son of Mrs. J, T. Morris hn IIvm af is 1bi1 st roe t. Ths Mci egoless boy wh wa with Morrt at the time I said tn be ven younger. ' Th ' tinprrfvoaed ' assault "Caused smt4Miaa4inw h tft Wt n of the city ram wgni ana mere wer plenty of volunteers to hid In the search for th ngro Tn fioUet are Inclined' to think that th negro Is one of th railroad, hands, and If he I. It wlt he hard to catch mm. ;e sisters FOR SNEIO MURDER ? -.'' Charged as Principals Also With Driving Her to Take Own Life NEW YORK. Dec. 12. Th three mysterious Wardlaw sisters must face trial In Esse county, New Jersey, all charged with the murder of Ocey W. M. Hnead, th East Orange bath tub victim. Much a a matter of course the Kssex county grand Jury tiled into court at Newark this afternoon and ited that two Indictment . had been found against all, three. one Indictment charge each of th sisters with being the principal In causing Mrs. Bnead's death bv drown Ing and charge each lstcr also with being an accessory. The other Indict ment charge the three sister collcc lively with causing Mr. Hnead "to lommlt elf murder." The three sis ters nr Mr. Caroline B. Martin, the mother of Mrs. Snead; Mr. Wardlaw, aunt of the victim and also htr moth er-in-law, and Miss Virginia Ward law. an aunt. The latter Is in the Essex county Jail here and the two former are in custody In New Tork The proceeding before the grand Jury were brief. Chief of Police Bell of Kast orange told of finding III body; Winiam J. Kinsley, a handwrlt Ing expert, told of the "suicide note' he had examined, but Just what he swore to wa not made public whil physicians testified as to the condl tlon of the body. DENIFJ INSURANCE 8'IOBY. PALISADE, Col., Dec. ?i. In or der, a he states, to atop the stories connecting him with the Snead mys tery In Bast Orange, N. J., A C. Snead a brother In law of Mrs. ocey uneau, today made a statement declaring no Insurance had ever been paid on tin life. The statement follows: "The statement that an Ineurancs policy ha been paid on my life Is an unqualified falsehood. In March, 1904. I took out two Insurance pol Icles on my llf. each for 1.00 In a New York company In favor of m mother. Mrs. Mary Hnead. After com in tn Psllsade and investing In rn orchard. I decided that It would better to out les money Into life Insurunce and more Into my orchard and accordingly I let one of my pon rie lapse. I still carry one policy for $1,000 in favor of my mother. 1 hve never had any insurance on my 1U other than the two policies , abov mentioned, nor hav I ever applied to any Insurant company or fraternal order for any other insurance. Estrada Victorious In Battle In Which Many Lives Were Lost ZELAYA RAILS AGAINST THE UNITED STATES Resigned to Save Nicaragua From Humiliation of. Intervention WASHINGTON. Dec,,' Opnllr. . mutlon of Associated Press dispatches from Nicaragua of , Kstradna victory were received today' at the naty de partment In a cablegram from ' Cap tain Shipley of th Xiv Moines now at Bhiefleld dated at. o'clock, this morning. The additional Information Is given In' the department' ad vkW that Oenernl Caatrlllo,' four piece" of nehi artillery, 1.GQ0 rifle jid one mil lion, round of ammunition would h ' Included In th mirrender.- ' ' ." No fore ha been landed from thn American warship. Captain Shipley aaya, Relay Iosm In killed, wounded and captured 'I' about 1.000. , . An earlier telegram tram Captain Shipley dated th twenty-first gays that the revolutionary force . In In Nicaragua had rained decisive vlu- tory over the government force ut Rama. , ;' , ! v Arniy May Surrender. . The telegram atate that EMrftdu,' army on the twentieth began an or ganised attack on the government po-' itlon. The outpost of .- th , Zrlnyn force, under Donsale wer defeated and routed. The, fighting continued Tuesday. Qeiteral Vaaquet, of the government force I aald to be u, pru oner at Managua, but th cause of hi arrest I not known at hf seat (1. partiiient. , . ' . ','.,'. , f Captain Bhrpleys telegram .add that th surrender ot U.nUre, gov., rrnment force wa expviHd yesterday nd that , Estrudu - Is-T-fililUleht of complete ucces. l;i3pialn .Shipley ay if urther. that th i United State gunboat "Eagle". i within th har bor and 'Is prepared at any moment to land It blue Jackets, but It alt probability such a cours - will b unnecessary. '''. ., ', 1 . ZV.hM'A I'ROTKRTS. MANAOUA, NlcraguK, Dec, IS. Ex. President Ze)ya today tssuod manifesto declaring that hi surrender of the presidency wa rtuted by a desire to av Nicaragua the humilia tion of outrage threatened by a iw-, erfui organised nation which la now Inaugurating' a tfccUlv , influence over, the destiny of Nicaragua. , He- cause of hi resistance . agalnat the Imposition of tutek-g which was the forerunner of th conversion of th Latin nation of thl contnent Into de pendencle of the United States, 'he had Incurred th hatred of that gdv--ernment, and whn h defeat of th revolutionist appeared certain . the United State government inexplicably sjverod relation with Nlcarasua Secretary Knox' letter to the charge d'affaires. . : r , ' He protested to ths world agalnat th meddling of th United . State nd the- threat to land marine,. - Th former presldetit declared that the Americans, Cannon and a roc, Wre executud according to law. Thl tiretext for Intervention, he a- serts, Is lmllar to that which accur red when the United State first In tervened in Cuba for thar wa proof that the Main w bln up by Spaniard; yet thl wa takn a i cause for action. Nor la there any prof that Cannon and Gore wer not pui to death lawfully, ' . , JAIL T All Quiet at Magnolia where blacks Outnumber Whites Fifty to One , ! MAGNOLIA, Ala., De. HI The situation here tonight l quiei anu no further violence la anticipated a result of the bitter feeling between the negroes and white of tne com munity following th killing, of th ydung white wan, Lewi, Saturday night, by the Montgomery negroes. With the ringleader among th ne groe. forty-two In number behind the bar pf th county Jail at Unden, It I believed, that the threatened attack upon the white by th negroes ha been effectually restrained. The ne groe In this section, however, out number the white nfty to one. nd the tljhtet overt act on their part will meet with prompt and teni measures by local authorities, Th! forty-two negroe taken -to Unden today are charged with carry. Ing concealed weapon and making threats of violence. At Lamlnson to day a relative? of tho Montgomery hrofhere w arrested after- having made threata against th Whites.
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