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THE ASHEVI THE WEATHEB: RAIN. Associated Press; . Leased Wire Reports." TS., VOL. XXVI., NO. 126. AS1IEVILLE, N. O, THURSDAY'' MORNING, FEBRUARY 24, 1910. PRICE FIVE CENTS. IEDARE Y, POLICY OIL Is It Loaded? FOUfi ECONOM AND TOBACCO BRIDGE CONCERNS PUT ON DEFENSIVE! IN INVESTIGATION SLftinirj BLOODY BATTLEJJ TISMA Nlcaraguan War Not Usual PRESIDENT L L E WL CASES WILL TEST TRUSTS'STAlNv FIRM r ADVOCAT Opera Bouffe Conflict of Latin Americans FOUGHT HAND TO HAND WITH DEADLY MACHETES Government Forces Win After Long Fight in Which Tide Kept Turning MANAGUA, Nicaragua, Feb. 23. Xnether victory over the revolution ists, ha been announced by General Toledo, the Nlcaraguan minister of war. The announcement was based on an official dispatch received from General Rlva. In command of the government forces, who engaged the revolutionists under General Chamor ro at TUma, which is twelve miles from Masaya. General Toledo also made known the fact that the losses on both sides had- been very heavy and that the battle had lasted seven hours, result ing In the bloodiest fighting of the war.' ' The revolutionists wore com pelled to abandon their positions. The government asserts that Cham. . orro was In personal command of the enemy and admits that the engage ment, wa fought with varying for tune unttl late in the afternoon when the forces under General Lara, a gov ernment commander, were in a dis ordered condition, A request was then sent out for reinforcements, and these, arriving an hour later, turned the fide of battle, i Story of the Battle. General Rivas' dispatch was posted on the street corners; hand bills ap peared In the streets and a general celebration followed. The dispatch says: "The battle began at 8 a. m , Feb ruary 22, Lara attacking the enemy, who were then occupying Tlsrmi. Mast (of the provisional forcesl with two Maxima,, inflicted serious losses, and h advantage was with him until it p.""i'n.,' when Chavarria, and later Valde. and then Garrlda. Zelodoii, Vasquek and Agullar arrived with re inforcements from three sides. The firing ceased at 6.30, the revolution ists retiring In the direction of Tlpi tapa. "The battle Was the bloodiest yet, there being much hand-to-hand fight- tOnnthitied1 on Pnire Three..) SURPLUS QF8ANKTD PJIY And Then Young Book keeper Quietly Disap peared in Kansas City GOT ABOUT $144,000 BOSTON, Feb. 23. Following the discovery that the National City bank of Cambridge has been looted of $144,000, the doors of the institution were closed today, probably forever, by National Hank Examiner Pepper, acting on behalf of the comptroller of the currency. I,ater a warrant was issued for the arrest of Ocorge W t'oleman, the young bookkeeper of the bank, who was las heard from !n Kansas City a few days ago. Coleman Is charged with embezzlement. The institution Is Insolvent, the capital stock of 1100,000 and the surplus having been wiped out by ihe defalo ' tion. Former Governor John L. Hales the receiver will liquidate the remain ing assets. The bank officials suspected th: t Coleman's accounts might be Incor rect last Thursday and requested Mr. Pepper to go over the books. On Fri day Coleman fled to Kansas City. Among the stockholders of the bank Is Charles W. Eliot, president emeri tus of Harvard college. Bookkeeper Coleman is lventy-se -en years old and Is the son of a prom inent Cambridge business man. II" maintained two touring cars and a kennel of dogs and was regarded as a liberal spender. BURSTING BOILER CAUSES A PANIC PITTSBCRO. Feb. 23. One man It dying and a score or more persons were cut bv flying glas, the result of the explosion of a heavy holler In a department store at south Seven teenth and Carson street tonlehf. The concussion was felt for manv blocks, and neighboring bulldinew were shaken In Home Inrfances the walls being damaged. The entire neighborhood was thrown Into a pan. Ic and the' cries of women were In termingled with th crashing of fall ing glaae. In Address at Newark Tells How Government May Save Millions Qf Dollars NEEDED IMPROVEMENTS MUST GO BY THE BOARD Beautiful Tariff Law Is Bring ing In More Money For Republicans to Spend NEWARK, N. J., Feb. 21 Presi dent Taft prefaced his prepared ad dress before the Newark board of trade here tonight with a personal statement of his feelings after being a year in the white house, which brought the audience to Its feet with cheers. He took occasion to pay his respects to the newspapers, Baying he was going home to Washington and avoid them. Former Governor Franklin Mur phy, In Introducing the president, said that before Mr. Taft had gone to the white house last year, he had talked with him of the great re sponsibilities that were to be his. Mr. Taft earnestly said he wanted to "make good." Governor Murphy predicted that the president would make good and took a lllng himself at the newspa pers. "It is true I told Governor Mur phy I wanted to make good a year ago. I am not so certain of doing it now. He said something about the newspapers. When the newspa pers are prone to criticise and some times unite In hammering your ad ministration, treating It some times like contemptuous disdain and some times with patronizing friendship, it is hard to overcome tho feeling that perhaps you ought to begin all over again. ". "In vew of all that, to have re ceived the welcome whhrh I receiv ed today and which I believe to have beefi sincere gives you a little hope that perhaps the newspapers don't carry in their pockets .all of public opinion and that perhaps the American people are aide to see through something of hypercrltlclsm, something of hysteria and someth ing of hypocrisy and to have a real sympathy wllh iiie man who. under (Continued on page four.) T UK DEALERS FOUND, New Jersey Corporation Heads List of Concerns Under Disfavor of Law WARRANTS ISSUED NEW YORK. Feb. 23. The hj called milk trut was indicted In .New York today. After a grand Jury investigation extending over a peri od of weeks, a blunket Indictment was handed down in the criminal branch of the state Supreme court, naming eight of seventeen directors of the Consolidated Milk Exchange, a .'ew Jersey corporation, and charg ing that they met June 29, 190i. In New York and "conspired to gethered ami with othera to fix the wholesale price of milk, and did fix It at $1 41 for a forty quart can of milk.'" one year In prison and a fine of not more than $5,000. or both, Is the penalty., for. each offense, which is a misdemeanor. Bench warrants were Issued for the eight directors They are: Walter It. Comfort, president of the Hubert Held ! company, a director of the Aetna National hank, the Dclavan Consoli dated Milk company, and several other corporations; Fred E. Seiler. a milk dealer of Newark, N. J.; Daniel Bailey, a milk producer; John A. M Kride. a mUk dealer of Sussex, X. J., Henry F. Huntemann, of the Standard Dairy company; Jamee A. Howell, of the Howell-Demarest Hairy company; George Slaughter, of the H. F. Stevens Dairy company. The Consolidated Milk Exchange was formed under the laws of New Jersey snn after the Supreme court of this Mate annulled the charter M the old milk exchange, llmitod, If. IKS 5. Today's indictments are the first specith- results obtained by the state since it began Its Investigation of the .milk trade In greater New York. KII.I.KO ON It ML. SCRANTON, Pa., Feb. 2.1. Two persons were killed and seven Injur ed in a collision between a Delaware, Lackawana and Western railrogd train and a trolley car at Throop jnear here tonight Attorney General WloKersnam Has Linked The Two To gether in Court DIFFERENCES NOTED BETWEEN ACTIONS No Personal Responsibility Involved In Either of The Cases WASHINGTON, Feb. 23. While the Supreme court of the United States' has vouchsafed no Intimation on the subject It is generally sup posed here that the decision in the case of the American Tobacco com pany, which has already been argu ed before the court, will not be bund ed down at least until after the ar gument In the case of the Standard Oil company, which is set for March 14. Attorney General Wlokcrsham, In his motion to advance the hearing of the latter case, deecrlt... tfie two as essentially kindred, and suggested lo the court that they be considered together. lawyers here generally concur in the statement made by Mr. Wicker- sham to the court, that thoeo two cases together present for Its consid eration "practically the entire range of modern Industrial organizations In this country," and substantially ev ery feature- of the "trust question," so far as It falls within the purview of the Hherman anti-trust law. Yet they are not precisely alike; Indeed, It is said that in some particulars they are so dissimilar that tho court might find In favor of the government in one case, and against It In the other. The two ca-ses are alike In that they are proceedings In equity to en Join alleged violations of the taw of the land neither Is in Its ea. nee a criminal action; In neither does the government seek to procure either imprisonment of Individuals or ex emplary lines upon tho defendants. In both nulls the charges pressed are those alleging unlawful combination and conspiracy in restraint of Inter state trade and commerce, nnd con tinuing monopoly, or attempted mo- (Continued on Page Two.) .-ROCHE OF HER WHIP.NOW SEEKS GiOWILL Of HER PIN Much Married Lady of Four Hundred Not at End of Her Troubles SOME DAMAGE SUITS NEW YORK, Feb. 23 The lusi chapter In one of the most Interest ing divorce suits that ever made the tongues of New York society busy was probably written when Julce McCall signed the linal decree of di vorce freeing Mrs. Frances Htirl-e-Koelje Batonyl, daughter of Frank Work, from Aurel Batonyl. But there will tie an epilogue In the appeal Batonyl will make. Be fore he sailed he directed Morrlx Cukor to enter the appeal. On bis return he will prosecute the action and his suits against Frank Work. Mr. and Mrs. Peter Cooper Hewit and Frank Hturgls for alleged alienation of his wife's affections. The suits are for 1500,0000 each and Batonyl haw asserted that he will give the money to charity if he wins them. By the terms of the linal decree the plaintiff Is permitted to reassume her first husband's name. She is permit ted to marry again, hut Batonyl : forbl'lden to do so. The costs of th--court proceedings, 1 167.6 1 were as sessed on Balonyi, Mia. Burke-Roche as she will be called hereafter, will be permitted to apply for alimony at any time she sees fit. After the marriage of her daugh ter. Cynthia to Arthur Seott Burden. Mrs. Huike-ttoche announced that a year before. In August, 1905, she han been married to Batonyl, thi manager of her stock farm near New port, H. I Batonyl came to America eighteen years ago. He was an ex pert horseman and obtained employ ment In a riding school, a position which he soon abandoned for the business of riding and driving show horses He met Mrs. Hiirke-ltorhc at horse ahows, and after exhibiting sev eral of her horses, he took charge of her stock farm. , Mrs. Hurke-Kocho has always been known for big expenditures hav ing had several quarrels with her (Contlnaed on page four.) STATE POLICE CALLED INJTO QUELL RIOTS IN Less Disorder . Than When Famous Fencibles Were bn tho Job. Labor Men Ap peal to President Taft to Interfere. Qtiake City Courts Show -, . 1 Small Consideration for Those Accuse d l of 'Eioting. . , PHllnilhrHIA. Fei. 23. Thai polico officials of thla rlty today vlr tually acknowledged their Inability to cope with tha" present atrtka aitua tloii, when af requeat was made of John O. Groom, superintendent of the state police;5 that the two hun dred membera pf hta command be hrought to this city for police duty. This request was made notwithstand ing that aerlous rioting wl less fre quent today than on any day lnc tha Btrlk of th gtreet car men went Into effect oh last Saturday. Tha atnh police wttd nrw Mrrt reach here tomorrow will not bear trifling with, and if the strike aympa- thlr.ers attempt the same liberties with this body oi men that they did with the sti.te FenclbleB yesterday, there will be i serious clash For 'he first time since the present struggle, the Rapid Transit company succeeded In running its cars until six o'clock on the KrniiKToro line, which pene trates this unruly territory. Police (iuanl Cars. Four polu' inen guarded each car on this line and the pick of the city's detective force patrolled the route all day In automobiles. These men succeeded in reniiiring mi " order where the slate Fencibles had failed ignoinlnously on the day be fore. DURING SHORT TERM Invited lo Preside Over Heiialc After Few Weeks of Service in That Bod v. WAKIIINOTON, Fob. 23. One ' the burning question which Is agi tating the senate is whether Colon. I Cordon, the retiring senator from Mississippi will be permitted to delii er a farewell address In that body. Senator innlon said today that It was bis desire in say a few words In f., re retiring, hut unforseen omplh atioim 111 the shape of the election of a suc cessor hate arisen to prevent. Ail depends up'oi the construction of sen atorial pie. edente, and it is probable that It will decided In the interest of the i.i. i .'i bte M!siHipplnn. Home nl the Kenators hold that nov that Mr i n y has been elected to the senate Mr. tJordon Is without rights In that body, others contend, however. He. I he is entitled to ho!. I his seat until the certificates of Ihe Mississippi authorities testifying to the election of Mr. Percy Is present,. I to the s.ii.te. As it Is not possible that this !" iiment can reach WaMi Ington tomorrow, It is believed that Mr. OoriPm will continue to oii u.n hi seat for at least another day. Henator Hordon was today awarded the high distinction of being Invited by Ihe via- president to preside over the senate. WASHINGTON. Feb. 23. Forecast fVr North Carolina: Rain and colder Thursday; Friday fair brisk est shifting to northwest wind. THE PHILADELPHIA STRIKE la aplta t-t tha J Vtotteaci ;t Ahh police many car window wara brok en by mlasllef. thrown frohtf windowa and the company Wua finally obliged to send its ear along thl rout with sheet Iron window til place of th usual (las pane. The abopplD district On Market street In th heart of th city, was again th scene of almost continuous disturbance, (specially i ' tha noon hour. , .No one waa- mrlouly injured, however.1; :' '.i 4- M , Police I'm Kcwilvw, y Baldwin loeuaMv work wa th crne of a serlou disturbance during the lunch hour of the hun dred of employes. One employ wa shot In the foot and about fifty shot fired at laborer who sought refuge on the upper floors of the building and hurled bolts and nut at the po licemen, who were guarding car In this district. Kvr.ry time a head ap peared at a window It wa tho target for a bullet from a policeman' re volver. The one o'clock whistle, sig naling tho expiration of lunch hour, broukht hostilities to a close. Tho city high schools are, located near these Industrial plant, which have been bombarding thn car with bolts. In order not to endanger the live of the pupils who would be forc ed to ride on the cars, th board of READING GUTS DOWN HOURS Maty' .Reduction of About .Fifteen Per Cent of La bor in Hh Shops. PHII.AUK1.rmA, Feb. 2S. In the midst of the prosperity being re ported by railroads and business In terests generally came the announ cement late this afternoon that the Philadelphia and Heading company has issued an order reducing the working hours In some of Its de partment liecauae of ihe slowing up of business. The official announce, meiit of the company is lis follows: "On aeiount of faljing off In vol ume of traffic and consequent loss of revenue, the Philadelphia and Head ing Hallway company ha", e Issued orders reducing the hours of labor In all locomotive and car shops to eight hours a day beginning Monday the twenty-eighth of February, This will affect a reduction in shop ei pc rises nt about fifteen percent." LITTLE DOING IN NATIONAL CONGRESS WAHHINOTOX, Feb., 23. The Kherley bill for a uniform bankrupt cy law was passed by the house ! dey. Tho senate heard an extended argument by Henator Hrown In favor of an Income tax. Henator Ueve rldge explained the nature of the hills he had Introduced In tho present congress relating to the Alaskan coal dopoMlt. He predicted that these de posits would In time, be needed by the entire country. He estimated the total coal tonage of Alaska at fifteen billion tons. TIM, RBCnVKKINO. WASHINGTON. Feb 23. Senator Benjamin It. Tillman, of Mouth Caro lina, continued his favorable progress today, and, barring complication, It la believed hi recovery is assured. He spent a good night and hi con dition this morning showed renewed evidence of the gradual abatement of the paralysis and aphasia.. education today decided not to open tho two chw! for girl during th remainder of th week, -Leading clergymen at th City, In eluding Archbishop Ryan, hetd one. farent'o today to discus mean - tor bringing tha strike to 'm peaceabl termination. . j Imbat Apprala to Taft.j v. Telegram were Mnvfto President T ft and Benat or Fnrtie by th of ficial of th teet car: men' anion today Hying: ,'' . 1 "Union men on, trik her offer service for operation of man and newnpaper car a waa don through' out last strike. Company refuse to allow union men to continue to op erate mall car and ha today, forced them off their mall oar by aummary discharge. Interference with mall operation, therefore, come from th company and not the trlker,H The United Htate mall car wa de railed thl afternoon at Germantown avenue and Cambric street,. In the section of tho city where violence ha been so prevalent. An obstruc tion had been placed on the track and the can which wa hound to the postofflce with a load of mall wa o badly damaged that It had to be (Continued on. page four.) STOCK EXCHANGE MAKES Alerts Public Criticism hy Expelling Board Member Who Did Usual Tiling. NEW YORK, Feb, 23. Clifford M. Washburn, board member of the defunct hrokerug" house of J. M. Flske Co., today was adjudged guilty of "reck lean and unbusiness like dealings" for his firm connec tion with the Columbus and Hack ing Coul and Iron Pools by the gov ernors of the New York stock ex change and declared Ineligible for re instatement. This Is tantamount to expulsion of the firm and Is the same action as taken by the governors last week In the case of Henry 8. Ilus- klns, bourd member of the firm of I.uthrop, Ifaskln & Co., who were the managers of the pools. Counsel for J. M. Flake tc Co., Is sued a statement tonight which ays: "The action of the governors of the stock exchange comes a a great surprise and we cannot but feel the decision to be unjiwt and unwar ranted by the actual facts. Tho night before the falluro the capital wax more tha,n $21,0, MK), over and above all liabilities. If a seventy point break ,in liosklng, occurring an It did. In a few hours, can be yolnt break wnlch a llr In Hocking, occurlng rm should guard against then there might bo some founda tion for tho charge, but a move ment of this eort 1 something that no Drill can be expected to guard against." The firm goes on to deny that It waa In any way responsible for the break In the stock. MltfKU NOT LIKELY. AUOt'BTA. . Vfb. J3. Fourth Vice President A. P. Kelly, of the Brotherhood' of lyx'omottve Firemen, stated to The Associated Press tonight that, there I no likelihood at thl time of another strike of the (leorgla rail road firemen a reported In neighbor ing cities. Kelly say that the agree ment made under th Krdman act arbitration laat May I being lived up to by both parties thereto. Senator AIM'S Counsel , Char ges Them With Whole- ' 3 saiooriDory - CORRUPTED OFFICIALS;; -OP SEVERAL TOWNS When Driven to Desperation Finally Corrupted Senator -of New York Statu ALBANY, N.' b, !. Thg -flat day or Senator Jothsm P. Aliut reply to th Conger bribery charge wa Urn a defense than tin attack, Th outlln of Alld' case laid before th aenat today by hi attorney, Mar. tin W. Littleton, wa A burrt of do nunclatlon, Invectlv and aoouaation that If proved would lay the hrldg oompanl, th most important oorpoi ration In th state, open to pro.-u. tlon for both conspiracy to defraud, and legislative corruption. , in Mriklng th brldg companies Littleton hit aim Senator Bonn Conger, who, wim hi brother one tood high in th. council of th brldg building com Mn and till, it l aaid, retain an ln terert in that buslne. TluvaUMi to rrore. 1 If Littleton carrle out hi promt h will prove: First, that Conger' charge and their support by lilram O. Moe, ar untruth. , :. ( Second, that Alld' activity In upT, pressing legislation hostile to - the bridge com panic m J 903 wa due to the orders of I nltod Htate Senator I'latt, the republican Mat leader. Third, that Conger statement are. unworthy of belief and testimony ,t many of his witnesses quit a un- wurthyi because they represent cor- rtipt twrporation which, in' Little ton' own pk'tureaqu language, "bava laid a traH f-Itm'wvr five ttes., "!r'':..--' Mti Iroscrutloti. ' . .. . The afternoon session wa devoted to the examination of the. clerk of the. assembly internal affair committee of ISOtr Jfr 4"v -atftm. f y thu.t ger In that yee,r deliberately Juggle.l certain highway legislation until It cam out of the Committee In a form that aulted th bridge Interests. The charge made in Littleton' opening speech are Important because sum of th alleged unlawful act com with in tha ttut of limitation and u gent criminal prosecution. Conspiracy Alleged. ' The basis of Littleton' argument wa tha "Cleveland argument" uadec Which, he alleged, lxteen bridge con cern conspired In I 91 to rob tha town of New York, Pennsylvania Maryland. Wet Virginia, Kentucky5 Ohio, Indiana and Michigan by me.in of colluatv bidding. Littleton also mentioned Job at -Harrlahurg, Pa for a brldg over penn creek In February, ltof. Lit tleton declared that th contract prlc waa t4,7t, and the eetlmated cost I44.KOO. In thl contract Littleton' memorandum showed an Item of BOO ror "engineering." He charged that under thl head th bridge eora. bribe the local authorttle. , ' f - Hrlhwy F.vcrywher. Littleton declared that tha brtbkry of town officer w a regular cus tom of the brldg eompanie: but, by charging fifty per cent profit jfhey fConllnued on Pago Threw.) OLD no THREE YEAR OLD CHILD filled Baby to Barn . to Commit His Atrocioui and Bestial Crime DALLAS, Teg., Feb. tJ AlWn Hrooka, a negro aged fifty-eight year, wa arrested and lodged In tha county pall tonight, charged with criminally assaulting three year old child, the daughter of J. 3. Buvona. . Officer who made th arrest nd In vestigated the affair declare th crime to be the most atrocious that ha ever been committed In Dallas. . . Urooks waa employed at the R li vens home snd the officer ay he bif. ed thn baby girl Into th barn and) carried her Into th loft. A negrar also an employe nt the Huvena home, found the negro and the child In th barn and took th baby from Brook and ran with It Into the house. The child' coti'llthm I ujld to be critt cal. ' Brook hid himself in the furnac room under a nearby residence, Where he wa found by officer. Brook will be taken to Fort Worth for . keeping because of threatened mob Violence. V,'"o:v t . ' STEAMKR AGROUND. SAVANNAH. O.. Feb. II AH th local tug and. two government are pulling at th Steamer Indiana, of tha Merchant' and MnrlneraTriMporta. tlonv company. .. which today ran aground upon the north Jetty at the entrance of Savannah river. The passenger were rescued, '
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