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THE StJNBAY' CITIZEN M paces : 103 At THE WEATHER: " SHOWERS ASIIEVILLE, N. C.t SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL 24, 1910. VpL. XXVI., NO. 185. PRICE FIVE CENTS. PRESIDENT GOMEZ StlON IN COBfl Leaders In Agitation Put Un der Arrest and l hwges Preferred MOVEMENT LIKELY TO BREED REBELLIOM Secret Societies of Negroes Have J&een Drilling For an Uprising HAVANA. April 2S.The culmina tion of the recent agitation of the race question in various parts of the Island which apparently was subsid ing, was reached last night when Gen. Evarlsto Esteno the leader of the .Independent party, and four of his associates were arrested. This was followed today by the arrest of 24 more negroe In Havana, three In Orlente-nd two ill Santa Clara. Those arrested in Santa Clara are charged with making exceptionally inflamma tory speeches.: AH of the arrests were made in compliance with the de mands of President Jomes who is de termined to proceed with utmost vgor against the 'disturbers and se ditious movements calculated to de velop open revolution against the gov ernment It is likely that many more jegrues will be arrested. fii-prctary of justice, under the di rection of the president made a, re quest to the Supremo court to have Tho Audencl Judge consider the chorge3 against Gen. Estenoz and oth ers. Qtjn AJberto Ponce was appointed tojlny and immetiiutoly began the for niulnlKm of charge,, j C'lmntps Preferred. It is known that, they include the holding ofillegal (meetings, for the purpoap of arraying the blacks ugaltwi the whjtcs, ;cons,u$rft,ey with the same purpose. Incendiary anil so ilitloiiH speeches and the publication by Ketenosi in ,bis neWKnupcr FA Pre vision., of articles defamatory of the government and provocative of dls prder, iThe .rpjnoiu rs are held In ctmTminlcatf otmil 'hauving been re-' s:,iUSedfc.u.ii:,j wl6. : , J Among the negroes this afternoon, rue are wild to belong to secret socit'tii-s which are fanatically Iros llie to the whites and which have bopn practicing drills with intention (Continue) on pace four. DAUGHTERS CONTENT IN CENTRALIZED FORM OF ' THEIR DRTl! Decline to Adopt Amend- ment Permitting States to Select Regents ADJOURN FINALLY WASHINGTON, April 3. With an animated discussion of "State ItlKlits" as Its finale, the seassions of the Na tional Society of the Daughters of American Res-olutlon passed into his tory today- As the curtain was rung down on the closing session the del egates refused, as ttiey did on Thurs day, and at various preceding ses sions to amend their constitution so ns to authorise the election of slate regents and state vrce regents to in held in their respective Mates cr ter ritories. The congress confirmed tho elec tion of regents and vice regents by the state delegations for the ensuing year. Among the state resents and vice regents elected were: Aatnbama Mrs. Aurora P. Mc Cleilan (regent); Mrs. Mabel Hutton Iloode (vice regent). Georgia Mrs. Augusta Strong Gra hanx Mrs. Hoyt Brown. cntlicfcy -Mrs. Annie K. Johnson. Mrs. Jean Davis Warren. Mississippi Mrs. Mary Robinson Williamson, Mrs. Netta. Scott Fox. North Carolina Mrs. Slarj- Oates Ptrattvan Lnndingham, Mrs. Kate Bitting Reynolds. South Carolina Mrs. V. Louise ' wer, Mrs. Lurline. MclUrhamp Lig- r-. oc Mary Robertson Iay, Fifty If. Hortim. average cm m, Alice Peyton Jam repairs AMnie 5:eCue Marshall, enty-flv oing secretary general miles per U0 write a letter to the repairs at w on military reeom- rt.osi the bill provid- VVesterii iraction r of a road Jamestown via In order that places might "he Corner Lexi: BLACKENED RUINS ALL LEFT IN HEART OF LAKE CHARLES Fire Leaves Broad Trail of Destruc tion From Center to Suburbs of Louisiana Town Causing Losses Amounting-to NEW ORLEANS, April 2S Firo which broke out late thltf afternoon In Lake Charles, La., destroyed sev eral blocks, Including a Catholic eon vent. It was almost H o clock tonight when the fire, which followed a northeasterly direction from the bus iness section, finely reached the out skirts of the city, burning Itself out When It lecame apparent that the local Are department could not cope with the blase, requests for aid were wired to Beaumont and Orange, Tex as, and to Jennings, La. All four were within a radius of fifty miles of Lake Charles. The Southern Pa cific offered special trains to bring the volunteers from neighboring cit ies. Many houses In the path of tho flames were dynamited, but showers of sparks were swept beyond the gaps thus made, Uniting the build ings on the further side. Within a short tlmo the wind had driven the fire over a space two miles in length, leaving a mass of ruins In its wake. Public Buildings Hurried. - While many of the buildings de-, stroyed were merely frame cottages, scores of handsome structures also! fell prey to the flames. The city hall, the handsome Calcasieu Parish court bouse, the Clair 'hotel, church es, stores and warehouses were re duced to tin ro black walls and smoul dering heaps of .ashes within two hours after the fire started. . ' ; Blurting In the old opera, house In ' lUval street netir I'tinjo, the lire spread to adjoining buildings, burned; out the northern portion of the city business wction, "and then swept Into the residential district. Hotel Burned. "Next to the court house,-the cost-. I lest buildings destroyed were those or die Hnly Crons convent, - Catholic church iind rectory, the Ions on these buldlngx amounting to ' ftOfl.000. Three hotel, including the Claire, the Walker and Waldonwere burned which, 'with the building adjirfntn? ihum swiw wrt;;siiioitt'f' fthout $100,000. In addition to these buildings the Catholic Knights hall, the Like house and the Irew building, the city hall, the Lake Charles--Chirstian church, tthe Boudrenux market, the Braden warehouse and scores of small stores SOOTH'S PROBLEM iS TO UP WHITE INTO OF Whites Living Among an Inferior Race are Apt to Grow Lax VIEWS OF PROFESSOR NEW TORK. April 23. Dr. David G. Harrow, chancellor of the Univer sity of Georgia In speaking tonight before a gatherng of the institution's alumni, warned the whites of his state against rctrogresssion, adding that danger confronted chose people who grow content with their capacities through a false standard of compari son with a preponderance of inferiors who surround them. "I Iind In our state" be said, "a satisfaction with educational condi tions which causes anxious thought. "Unless we give a strong education to our youth the exploitation of our state by better educated people Is only a matter of time, and when we consider concentration of ownership f corporations, forest and water powers the time st-ems short. 'One tiling I can see and see very clearly. If eleven twentieths of the, population of Georgia are while and twenty twentieths of the population of another state belong to the white rave. Georgia must educate her elev en or she will be exploited. "The present problem of the floulh is not to devise means Pur keeping down the negro, but rather to spend every effort, exhaust every means for building up the while man." ANTI-FUTURE LAW IS NO PROTECTION STATESVl LLE. N. C, April 23. In the case of Carpenter. Bnggott and companv. New York brokers, axainst John F. Love, a cotton dealer of Gastonia. which was pbw-ed on trial In Federal court, here, Thursday, Che Jury brought in a verdict this even ing In favor of the plaintiff company, which brought suit against Love for 4,735, thla amount being due them on account of transactions In cotton futures which he had with tho com Millions. shops, office buildings and several hundred residences weru reduced to ashes. It is estimated that the Insurance will amount to less than one third of the total loss Incurred through the lire. In the burning r the eourt house all of the tax collector's records, and part of the records in the clerk's and assessor offces were destroyed. METHODIST BISHOP NOT EMBEZZLER CAMDEN. N. J.. ADril 23. Imme diately' after todays session of the New Jersey conference or Arrican Methodist church, th Rev. 'U. H. Msirirnn nf Ttiirdertown - arose and announced that he had withdrawn his rhnrn nf pmbiilnmpnt Against Bish op Wesley J. Gaines of Atlanta, and added that he was exceedingly sorry fur what he hod done and aKed tne liUhnii In forirlvn him. The liishon declared 'his willingness to forgive and the Incident was closed after a general handshake all around. PENSION BILL DAY IN LOWER HOUSE WASHINGTON, April 23. A large number of bills carrying pensions and print claims were -passed by the Ijjutue today. :( ; In the senate Mr. Ilorah spoke In opposition to the Klklns-Crnwford traffic provision of, tha railroad bill. Senators Hughes and Newlands op- poaed the Lodge resolution for an In creased nppmpratlon to continue the work for Influitlnjg Into the. high price Of living. Tii house wilt meet tomorrow to hem- eulogies on the late Senator Johnson of Worth Dakota, ltotli amines will be In session Monday, ; m:n pAsiKL ooixu wixl. cml telegrams to tho, members of tho Daniel family here today Indicate that Senator uniel Hi stand I in tho trip home from Florida splendidly. He will he taken to a local sanitarium Immediately upon 'his arrival here at G.?S Sunday morning. BY WILL GALLON THE KING Is Going to Rome as Scien tist and Not as a Ruler PONTIFF CHIDES HIM ROME, April 23. The proposed vlhit of the Prince of Monaco to Rome has resulted In a new protest 'from the Vatican where the Prince's act is consdered a personal offense to the pope. It whs officially announced several days ago that the prince would arrive in Rome on April 4 and would be received by the king today. His lecture on Oceanography Is ar ranged for April 26. In un exchange of communications between the Holy See and the prince iie latter explain ed that be was not coming to Home as a ruler but as a scientist to give a Iwtnre. The Vatican answered that it could not admit such sophistry nor separate the personality of a rtiler from that of a seleniist. The Vatican has no representative in the princi pality of Monaco and is only await ing the attitude of the prince while in Rome, nnd will then decide upon what form Its official protest will take. In the meantime a further commu nication has been went to the prince recalling that Catholic heads of elate ore bound by special ties to the Pon tiff nnd must uphold bis dUnlty, in dependent and right. It is pointed out that the prince might give his l.cturo elsewhere, but not in Romc. "While th efull nnd lasting independ ence of head of the church la not guaranteed. The Holy flee must pro test against the spolalion suffered by the Pontiff." ACQUITTED OF MURDER IN FEUD ftWAJNSMORO. Ga,. April 13. Arraigned on the' charge of murder as a result of the fued battle foil rot Sunday last In thii county between tha Collins and Lewis families in I which Asa Collins and his son Wilson wre killed, Jos. Lewis, his sone George Lewis and George Hurt were lottoy acquitted. SCANDAL IN COTTON MA RKET CAUSES INTERESTED ONES TO Fraudulent Bills of Lading Hit New York Firma as Well Southern Railway Tries to Ascertain How Of ficiah Are Involved. LIVERPOOL, April 23 Tho cred itors of the Alabama, coitou II rm of Knight; ITanccy . are enlisting the aid of Liverpool banks In obtain Ing redrt-ss rum. American bunks be-iM'-f 'Unmwi sustained through what 0-r alleged to havo been' unwit Islled Iilllu of Indlnr . The1 arrival of. four eonsiKiiments of eottonj presomnldy from the suspend ed American firm, served to cheer the market today and It Is now believed that considerably more thun was at first nnth!i)ata ; will be ren lined, by the creditor firms. - Sydney Chase Ihtxton, president (it tho. Iiounl Hf the trade, addressing members nf the i ntton e xchange to day, jHid .that he l4' ftvahud -f. ttcnwlwfnj narf "t W M -rhreto r4M with the cotton situation, but it the board of trade and other government ofllcer were able to assit tho of ficials -of the cotton' exchange they would go us far as they could legit imately. NKW YORK UlM W)KT. ' NKW YDUK, April 2S,--Th4 e tent of loss which may have, been caused to American cotton firms NEGRO CONVICT ATTACKS HIS FELLOW PRISONEfl Sol Sheperd in Thirty Yeara for Murler Gashes Pris onerfl' Throat with Razor RALEIGH, N. C, April !S.ol Shepherd, the desperado negro con vict, serving thirty yeers for the murder of Engineer Holt of the Sou thorn railway, at Durham, mado a murderous assault on Lewi Harris, a fellow convict In the barber ehop of the penitentiary this afternoon, cut ting Harris' threat almost from ear to ear and barely missing the Jugu lar vein. Only the fact that a guard leaped from the top of a nearby cell nnd felled htm with his club, pre vented murder, shepherd had u grudge niainut Harris, and threw a brick nt him .it In the brick yard a few days ago IfurrU was being eliaved nnd Shep herd snatched tin- raxor from the bar ber without a word having; passed. xo Ainu i k vroii ciiohi:x. WASHINGTi Thompson anil .1 . April 23. J. R i: J. Dermodv, the ur vely for the Honlli the Order of llall is. toduy notified and Dr. Neill, medl- Krdinan act, that to aicree ti iinn Ae I'ltratoi-s respee'' ern railway and nay TeieK'rm. lii Chalrman Kn:i.i tutors under the they wej-e uiimM third arbitratiir. meditator at II Tuesday of the n arbitral ion will member of Hp It Is likely that the ie exiifratlnn next 'ceesary five days ni designate the third Arbitration board. SHOWER?) WA8H INGTON, April 13. Kore eust for North Carolina; Mhowers and ciM.ler Kunduy; Monday er'iernlly fair: modornte Houfhwest to North west wind 111 HOLD UP STREET . CAR IN ATLANTA t . ., . . Jv 1 1 Vl ----- ' -iSVS4CVtfXv ,1 I , , I through fraudulent bllbi at lading marked on the continent nnd Kngland was still far from definite knowledge today, Geo. Ilrenneek, president of tho New York cotton esi ha nse. said that ho had not reached any furthe"' do talla coneerning the Liverpool frauds. "t know one llrm," said MrvJtren neck, "which hiut lost U9.009. It Is Impossible to suy how many other firms have been hit." Member of; ,tho cotton exchange and dealers In cotton nr busily en miMed today In trying to eherk up their holdings In cotton and telo Kraphlnir and writing tn their agents idt over tbs Hintry. j-tTort lo 4e:irn.V"tlV0 tp.ouiU(4.JuiU,4Jtiij enkiiiH ftn which itovr finis oi tan Inu railed. Hoi'Tiiicn.v isvivriGATiN'o WABI UNG'fON, April Jl A com- motion quite out of tho ordinary was created among official of the Sou thern railway by th announcement today of th fulliira .f Knight, Yan cey & Co.j large cotton buyers in the Mouth, doing business with Hos tou nnd Liverpool. Conferenees have SIXGUESTSTKOUGHTTO HAVE PERISHED IN FIRE Cincinnati Hotel Burned and Six Persons who were in It Are Missing CINCINNATI, April 11 Fire which broke out In the Hotel Thomae at Sixth and walnut streets it 11 o'clock tonight destroyed that struct ure and threatened adjacent property Including two theatres, The fire spread from cellar to roof with great rapidity and pedestrian who were early on the seen assisted scores of guests In escaping by win dows. Two bodies have been recovered, and It Is believed at least four more are In the ruins of the hotel. Th bodies of two more men were found In the ruined upper story, both fully dressed and they had been probably j Min'iicnteii. They have not been Idcn- I tilled. Th firemen arc working to extrl- ate svhat is believed k be the bodies ,f two women guests f the hotel and I lie hiidics of two missing employes nr.- Kiipponed to be :n the cellar, not eel CNpllfted. NOT GUILTY OP DEATH OF FATHER IN-LAW CAMILLA. Ga., April 23. M. O. Huey, jr., on trial for tin- alleged murder In Nuveinber last of hie fa-ther-ln-law. T. J. Killers, within an hour after he married the 14-year-old daughter of Sellers, will itc(iillt-d to day alter the lury hud'lx-en out all nlglil. The father of the bride loft i burcb to iii-siii. the couple when he heard the vnung man bud looped with bin daiiMbt'-r, He overtiwik the J couple but mi one save tho bride saw I ho fatal fight that followed. Airs. Iluey ii.-iH beenjvnbllne wit h her husbnnd's pwipie since tb tragedy. VOTK DRAWING NIGH. WAKHINOTON. April lo the senate and house the railroad bill was minder consideration toduy. Upon the conclusion of Hie general debuts upon the measure In the house, Mr. Mann of Illinois, announced that next Tues day the reading of the hill for amend ments under the five minute rule would begin. Ji INVESTIGATE as Those of Liverpool. Far it and its been III progress throughout the day among tho Southern railway official with a View to determining If Jwenlblo how deeply Involved the system may le In what la alleged t b th Isaue hf fraudulent Mile of Indlnir on cot ton eli I pin en te, At thle time It Is irnpoeelblu tot the company to liny definitely how manyj If any fraudu lent bills of Irtdlnn hav been Iseued or used In its name. A tboroimh inwirtlirMlon ' tit the matter htm been liistllutued hy Pres ident FlnliV ' throuKl) neneral Coun. sV ThomsVahA AuflKnr Plant.'-' IUkaA.nuiMtHr -.-.t tmilllliltfil It Wit) not oe. possible to say with eny degree of Bcenreey to what elenl the Bourn rntlwHV rtomnanv mar le Ihvolv ed. Uv dlreeUon of President Flnley, tope have len taken to prevent the use of tiny forged or fraudulent puis of lading that may have been lseuea. Thn far the comoany knows pree- tieelly little ihor of the' eltuitUon . ; u. .!..-... . ih I nun aireuoy iwr pnm uvvmukw11 the now dispatches from polnte In the Boulh and from Uverpool. if APPOINTED AS JUDGE Governor Kitchin Issues 'Commission to Col. D. L. Ward in 3d. District ItALICIQH. N, C, April HJOov. ernof Kltchln decided toduy to com mission Colonel D. I Wrd, of New born, a iudge of tne. Superior court in tho third district comprising Crav en, Jones. Pamlico, J'ltf, Oreefle, Car-te-ret countle. , ,v He make thl appointment on the ground that Ward ubmltted endoree nvnhs showing thi etrongeet follow ing In the district, and says this wa done after the friend of other spi rants had been accorded time to make epeciaJ effort to counteract thl representation of support. The new judiie has been a member of the gen eral assembly several term and I tthe author of the well known "Ward law" for local option that euperswded the Watts luw and wa. the fore runner of the stute prohibition low. Colonel Ward was a member of th state senate at that time. He Is a iwmher of Governor Kltchln' per sonal military stuff. NO FUNDS TO HUNT FOR THE SOUTH POLE WAKHINOTON. April iJ.The. ex pedition planned Jointly by the Peary Arctic club of New Vork and the National Orographic society for the discovery of 4b South pole ha been abandoned for thi year at least. Hueh en announcement was made today. The Arctic club ha .given op the Idea and tho eocMy he no tified Commander Vtary . whoi fwo- Jioscd It that It was unwilling- to make the undertaking , thl yenr. Lack of money is tha principal cause. Various cause are given for the fail ure to ralxo fund. Jl TIIK CXIMKT. 4. . - . v ',-' ef April 23. llAlley' comet trl 3.15 a. m. today and to- morrow at 1.0 a. ' m. Bun ;' rise 5. OS a. m. The comet' speed today about 1,8 mile per minute. , . Kill Motorman, and After Rob bing ; Conductor, S;hoot . Him In The BacK . . GAR HAD REACHED END OP RUN IN SUBURBS Conductor Gives Account of hnnvlnff H Afar a nt.m wewtfj wiw ( sWVVVIII .... Ina Unconscious ATLANTA Anrll ti. Conductor Pryson w kilkd . and Motorman, , Brown eerlously Injured . tonight by Vbbr who held uv their oar on th ' Druid Hill line In suburb of Atlan tal, tonight at I o'clock. . ; There -were no paeaengert on th tar, The car had Just reached th end of the line and the motorman - wm reversing hi trolley when the attack came from tho negro who had con cealed Uiemaelve behind clump of bushes. - , .- .,.', Ibitli Carmen filmt, Motorman Drown wn shot down h started to re-enter hie-car, and with revolver levelled el the oonduo ttor' head, h was ordered- to throw an hi "hands. On complying, on of th men relieved 'him of oil th cnah he had on hi person and then he was told to 'hit th grit He wa shot In the back by one of the men after he had . run about to yard and fell in his track.. Two shot penetrated hi liver, Tho Injured conductor wa rushed to hoepitul, where It wm stated that there wa t no ponlble ehfltice Of hi recovery, ' , IVtmul hy t'o-Kiitploye. The dead motiormsn and Infured Conductor were found by Motorman Ttnsley and Conductor Iloyster, who were In charge of , the car which reached the end nf the line Just (twenty mlnute Inter, itrown wa ly ing downward beside hi car, a bullet through til heart rind ' iiVong the track lift y, yard distant ,vmtt found !tryon. " . : : '" -. Jefor losing cntiwIonimeiiH, JlrvNoti tiftit or tne iitiirnf . , ..-, , "Mid'M'itittn lliuint A ehot to death by th Beixie," he etUd "and then they turned their attention to me, After taking all the, money I had tino of tho negroes yelled 'hit the grit, and while runnWig I wu shot In th back by on of the men. I didn't havt ait opportuniiy tor gvt awuy," HELD FOR iUTIaS ' ' THE IE.iWr.lO- , f - 1 " ' W -, ri;'' British Subject Alleged to Hare Aided ITicaraguan , Insurgents Unler Bond ' NBW ORLEANS, La, April J. Kollowilng a lengthy tiforlng before th United State oommlsskmer : at New Orleane, Cnptsln John J. Hyland master of the stuenner Venus,, who wa charged with violating th nu ' trallly laws, was tonight held for a furChrr hearing, hi bond .being fixed at tS.OOO. ; Louis Kohlman, a. rldnt of New Orleans, who I said to hav leased the vessel, wa also flel4 for s further hearing, HI bond wa fixed at II,- 600. Both Hyland end Kohlmun will be arraigned before tha United State commissioner next Monday morning. The arrest of Hyfand and Kohl- man was brought aoout by complaint made by General Richard Russeman, representing the Estrada faction of , Nlcsragua, He charged that the V- nu wa being fitted out with arm and ammunition for hoatll move against a country at peace with the United State and clajmed that thl wts violation of the neutrality act. Captain Hyland I ft Itrltish sub ject and the Venus i of British reg ister. Rut Captain ttyland agreed to surrender Wmself hepor the United Htftte commissioner and stand trial with Kohlman. 'v. nxi hKu w TK.xxfasst. BRISTOU April II -At the base of Clifton Height, a suburb of Bris tol, there has Just been made one of the most remarkuble dleoverle of lead known to thtt South. .Fred Dulaney, eujwrlntenilent of the elec tric car tine took from cistern which he was having lug seven ton of ga lena, or sulphite of ed which as say morn than It per cent pure , l.nd. The vclu fnr oh uncovered I six feet in . thickness. ; The property will be developed .without delay. MOfHLK IlrKUNTKH SOLD. MOBILE, April SS, Frederick I, ThompiKin, of Nw Tork city ha pur chased controlling Intere In The Mobile Register and will take charge on Monday. Ho ha riot yet announced his plans. Thompson formerly owned a large amount of stock In Th New Orleans Item Ami The Norfolk Dl patch but r-ently sold hi holdings. He Is one of the bent known adver tisers In the F.nt. The Register is the oldest dally newspaper In Alabama.
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