THE WEATHER:
FAIR
VOL. XXVII,, NO. 80.
Testimony May Lead to Ar
rests For Murder of Mary
land Couple
COULD HARDLY HAVE
BEEN DOUBLE SUICIDE
Mystery Still Shrouds Tragic
Deaths on Eve of Mar
riage CUMBERLAND. Md., Jai!. 7.
With the conclusion early yesterday
morning of the dramatic Inquest,
which tended to prove conclusively
that Miss M. Grace Eloaser and
Charles Edward Twigg could not
have taken their lives either in a
suicide pact or by giving the deadly
drug to each other and then to Ihem
seives, the police authorities of Cum
berland have begun anew tljo search
for clues that may eventually lead
to the arrest of some one for the
crime.
That there is a, third party in the
tragedy of last Saturday afternoon
the day prior to the wedding of Miss
E lessor, . of South Cumberland, and
Twigg, pf Keyser, W. Va., is the be
lief of practically every person pres
ent at the lnquestcd, the verdict of
which is that the bridal couple met
their deaths by means of cyanide
poisoning, administered to them In a
manner and by whom unknown to
the Jury.
Surprise bi Testimony.
Unter the minute cross-examination
of all the witnesses by David A.
Itobb, state's attorney for Allegheny
county, the Jurors and a large crowd
of newspaper men, who were the only
strangers admitted to the Inquest,
heard testimony that was never
dreamed of before that night. Mem
bers of the Elosser family contra
dicted themselves on Several salient
points. Mr. Robb tried to get them
to say that some one In the house
- nmnvni , o irav tt timimii fwi
the piano before the physicians ar
rived, but all his efforts along that
were futile.
One physician, Dr. W. P.. Ford,
testified that when Miss May Elos
ser, sister of the dead girl, fainted
near the body of Twigg, the symp
toms she displayed resembled those
of a person who had been given
(Continued on Page Four.)
Tl
FOR FOAM'S SESSION
Newly Elected-State Offi
cers Will be Inaugurated
On Seventeenth
FIGHT OVER SPEAKER
COLUMBIA, S. C, Jan. S. The
legislature of South Carolina con
venes Tuesday for a forty days' ses
sion. Wilth the liquor question ap
parently side tracked for the prewent,
it is probable that various administra
tive reform schemes will he proposed.
All In all the present session promises
to be one of considerable work with
out any sensational features.
The first question which comes be
fore the house when it convenes, af
ter many new members are sworn,
will be the election of a speaker. It
seems probable that M. I Smith of
Camden, a former speaker, promi
nent in politics for some years, will
be elected speaker. The senate, which
has also many new members, will
el"ct a president pro tern, the former
occupant having retired. After the
organisation the two houses will re
ceive the annual message from Gov
ernor M. K. Ansel, the retiring exe
cutive. On January 17, Cole L. Please, gov
ernor, and C. A. Smith, lieutenant
governor elect, will be inaugurated.
That day will mark the official begin
ning of the new administration.
Aside from routine business and or
dinary elections the legislature this
year will have to consider for con- !
frmation the 'constitutional amend
ments which were adopted at the last
general election and will also elect a
fourth associate Justice, as provided
for.
NO MORK FOOTBALL
WASHINGTON, Jan. 8. George
Washington university will not be
represented on the gridiron here
after, according to a notice receiv
ed by Captain-elect Wayne Hart of
the I'll football team from the
board of trustees of the university.
The athletic council also has been
abolished and It la believed the In
stitution now will withdraw from
Ml forma of inter-colleglate sport
Financial difficulties of the footlrfill
team it Is said brought about the,1
action of the board of trustees.
INQUEST &HQWS BRIBERY CHARGES
DEADLYPOISDNWAS AGAINST LORIMER
CONCEALED IN CAKE REVIEWED IfJ DETAIL
THE
Were There Corrupt Methods
or Practices Employed In
His Election?
CASE WILL BE FOUGHT
ON FLOOR OF SENATE
Evidence That Large Sums
Were Spent to Elect Ill
inois Senator
WASHINGTON, Jan., 8. The vi
tal issue which confronts the t'nltcd
States senate In the Lorlnicr- case is
this:
Whether In the election of Mr.
Lorimer "there were used or employ
ed corrupt methods or practices."
Btate Senator D. W. HoJUluw of
Illinois appeared before the senate
committee duly appointed to take
testimony in thw case and on his
onth declared that Statu Senator
Jonh , Broderlck (another member of
the legislature which elected Mr.
Lorimer) promised him money If he
would vote for Lrimer. The witness
testified that on the next morning af
ter this promise, on May '26, 1 90S, he
voted for Lorimer, and that on the
16thl day of June, 1909, In Chicago,
III., John Hroaderick paid him 2,500
in currency, and he deposited the
same with the state bank of Chica
go, 111., to the credit of the Holtslaw
bank, of Luka, 111. He Is confirmed
by the bank officers who received
the money, Jarvis O. Newton, and
by the deposit slip of the stale bank
of Chicago, June 16, 1909, showing.
that this amount was deposited in
currency.
Broderlck was called before the
committee but refused to answer
questions on the ground that he
might Incriminate himself, and is
under Indictment at Springfield, 111.,
for bribery in the Lorimer case.
H. J. C. Beckeymeyer appeared be
fore the senate committee and made
oath that after entering Into a cor
rupt arrangement; .with Lee O'Neill
Urmm UMuUx-tOf Jhj Town f na
tion of 87 members Of thle democrat
ic party in the lower Illinois house),
he noted for Lorimer on May 26, and
received; on June 21, at the Southern
hotel In St. Louis, Mo., $1,000 from
Lee O'Neill Browne for his vote for
Lorimer, and that on July 15, at the
Southern hotel, he received $ !( 0
from Robert E. Wilson, the Intimate
(Continued on page sis.)
FEWER AND BETTER LAWS
SLOGAN OF LEGISLATURE
TO CONVENE IN TEXAS
Question of State Prohibit
ion Will be Submitted to
Vote
FOR CULBERSON
AUSTIN, Tex., Jan. 8. Tine legis
lature of Texas will be eonvenel in
thirty-second session Tuesday at
noon to adopt "fewer and better
laws" if general expressions of two
days in advance can be taken as In
dicative. The prohibition question will be
the first 'of the more imp. riant meas
ures to be disposal of. In jidariee
It has been tentatively r od by tho
opposing sides that tho iuetlon
should lo put up to the voters at tin
early date. A bill providing for the
the summer will be introduced this
week, it is announced.
Considerable interest is manifested
In the tight for the speakership.
flovernor-clect Colquitt will be In
ougurated January 17 and m the fol
lowing Tuesday I'nited States Sena
tor ('has. A. Culberson will he for
mally re-elected.
unhappyTnYove
so took morphine
NEW YOHK, Jan. li - Unhappy
over a love affair, Charles A.
Hughes; a young art student from
Columbia, Tenn., died in a hospital
tonight of morphine poisoning. He
was taken to the Institution from a
boarding house last night charged
with attempted suicide. A man who
said he was Wm. E. Hugh's, jr., a
lieutenant in the signal corps, I'nited
States army, stationed at i'.edloe's
Island, New York harbor, culled at
the hospital tonight and asked for
a letter which physicians found In
the young man's clothes. lie was
told it had been turned over to the
coroner.
RrXXEB MADE MANY POINTS
NEW YORK, Jan. . Melvin W.
Sheppard, the middle distance run
ner, was the strongest point getter
for the Irish-American Athletic club
In 1910. The annual reoort Issued
today shows that hs gathered 122
points, " ; '
ASHEYILIjE CITIZEN
ASHEVILLE, N.
ALL W CAN GET
Committee Will Dig Deep Into
Tangled Freight Rate
Question
WHAT CONSTITUTES
REASONABLE RATES
Contended That Proper Basis
is Actual Investment or
The Carrier
WASHINGTON, Jan., 8. "It Is
evident that there Is no presumption
one way or the other that the cur
riers efficiently and economically
operate, and as the burden rests upon
fhein under the Interstate commerce
act to prove their case, to prove it
they .must stiww efficient manage
ment". This is one of the Important prop
ositions laid down in the brief filed
with the interstate commerce com
mission by Wm. Imfr-liaynes oind H.
C. Lust on behalf of the Illinois
Manufacturing association in the
pending Investigation by tho com
mission of the proposed advances In
freight rates by the railroads. It Is
maintained In tho brief that proof of
efficient and economical management
sinews the same evils today as many
years ago, 'when It became neces
sary to institute governmental regu
lation of the carriers."
General Advance, j
Whilp the brief deals generally
with the rate situation throughout
the country, it makes the more par
ticular reference to the proposed ad
vances by the roads in western trunk
line territory. These are not ad
vances on class rates but on com
modity rates, approximately sixty
commodities being selected to bear
the proposed Increase. It Is urged In
the brief that a part of the burden
of proof. is to show that the rates as
to particular commodities affected
are reasonable. This It is submitted
has been done.
, Reasonable Rate.
. Much of the argument is on the
question as to what constitutes a
reasonable rate. "Tho railroad n
tcmi", asserts tho brief, "that It Is
the value of the service to the ship
per, namely, all that tho traffic will
hear. We maintain that all the car
rier Ik entitled to earn Is a return of
not to exceed six percent upon the
amount actually Invested In good
(Continued on page four.)
TO NEXT CONFRONT THE
TENNESSEE LEGISLATURE
Recalcitrant Members Un
der Agreement to be
Sworn Today
MANY CANDIDATES
NASHVILLE, Tenn., Jan. 8. The
burning question before the legisla
ture, which will be fully organized
tomorrow when tho regulars, who
have been out, have been sworn in, Is
as to when balloting shall begin for
United Stales senator to succeed Jas.
li. Frailer. Tho f unionists Insist
that tho house, was organised last
Monday and hnlolling for senator, un-
ler the luw, miit begin in each house
on Tuesday next.
The regulars and some fuslonlst
leaders express doubt on this point.
They insist that the house has never
been constitutionally organized be
cause 1t bus never had a quorum of
its members and that the mutter of
organization must be done over to
morrow when the full house assem
bles. The re .il' iitrant members under
the agreement signed Saturday by A.
li. John.von and W. ). Vertrees. repre
senting the respective ructions, will
be sworn in tomorrow and business
will then proceed. The governor's
tneaage will probably be delivered on
Tuesday Th" canvass of the vote
for governor may be taken this week
followed by the inauguration of B.
W. Hooper as governor early next
veek.
CHAMPIONSHIP FIGHT
ARRANGED IN CHIC.
CHICAGO, Jan 8. Charles Gar
vey manager of owen Moran, British
lightweight and T. E. Jones, man
ager of Ad Wolgast, lightweight
champion of the world, signed an
agreement today for a championship
fight the date of which will be set
tled within sixty day. It was agreed
that tho boxers should weigh 1SJ
TinniMlii ,Ti.rinir t hf Fin . Wf.
gast has reifumed training at his
home In Cadillac, Mich., In order' to
strengthen his left arm which has
Shrunken an Inch and a half in size
sine It was broken, .- - -
CLAIM
IS WORTH
C, MONDAY MORNING,
iThere Really Must he Some
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TREATY WITH ENGLAND PROVIDES
THAT AMERICA MA Y FORTIFY CANAL
Senator Foraker Publishes Letter Reviewing Hay-Paunchforte Treaty and Showing
TtW Ample Provision is Made For AM Necessary Fortifications
Along Panama Canal. "
WASHINGTON, Jan. . A contri
bution designedi to clarify the con
fused situation Which has arisen over
the question of the United States to
fortify the Panama canal wii sub
mitted today by! former Senator For
aker of Ohio tqf President Taft, who
made it public, f Throughout the pe
riod during wlijlch the Hay-Paunce-fort
treaty was negotiated and rati
fied by both Jh United States and
Great Britain! Senator Forakor ad
vised with Jofttt Hay, then secretary
of state, and J$h many of the sug
gestions Which were ineorport(TtM
the treaty preserving to this govern
ment the right to take such means
as It deemed necessary to protect
tho canal property and shipping with
out speclfllcally authorising fortifica
tions. Foraker' Letter
Senator Forakcr's letter to Presi
dent Taft, which Is made public now
apparently because it undertakes to
dispose of tho question of tho right
of this government to construct such
fortifications as It may deom neces
sary for the protection of the canal
property, reviews the acts of the sen
ate In connection with treaty mak
ing with England and laws passed
subsequently to the ratification of the
existing Hay-Pauncefort treaty. The
letter steils of the ratification of a
treaty by the senate December 20.
! !00. which was rejected by the
Hrltish government. When that treaty
was presented to the senate it con
tained a provision against fortifica
tion of the efcnal and ther was a great
ES
BATTLE JflflTH SOLDIERS
Ely Will Attempt to Land
on Battleship With Bi
plane SAN FKAN''IS', Cat, Jan. a.
Owing lo dangerous cross mrrinls
of wind that swa p! across the penin
sular today, the aviators at Camp
Relfrklge were forced to give a tame
exhibition to the immense, crowd In
that plare, gathered to Witness the
flights. Tbe only spe'tucular event
of the day was a sham battle be
tween soldiers of the second bat
talion of the Thirteenth l'nited Stales
Infantry and aviators lirooklns and
Parmalee in Wright biplanes From
1 helnht of 4'irt fuel tbe aviators
dropped mock burnt on the soldiers.
vvhllo the soldiers oereniieo iriern
srlvcs by shooting blank cartridges
t the Intruders.
The cruiser ' Pennsylvania came
down from Mure island and dropped
anchor In the South tay. F5he ts
equipped with a platform on which
Eugene Ely will attempt to land In
a biplane.
Ely will make his trial when the
weather Is favorable, probably to
morrow. WASHINGTON. Jatl., . Fore-
cast: North Carolina; fare and cold
er Monday; Tuesday fair, brisk west
winds. . '
3
JANUARY' , 1911.
deal of criticism of Secretary Hay
because of that fact.
Drifting Into a general discussion
of the whole subject Senator For
aker and Secretary Hay, It appears,
agreed that It would be Idle to under
take to secure the ratification of any
treaty that flatly prohibited fortifica
tion by the United Btate or involved
this government in any obligation to
consult any other government as to
the protection of Ha own property.
Senator Foraker suggested several
Tmrrores" from tho- eon ventlort Whir
had been rejected by Great Britain,
monr them new matter and some
transpositions that would Soften the
effect. They Included the following
provision:
"The canal shall never bo blockaded
nor shall any right of war be exer
cised nor any act of hostility bo
committed within it. Tho United
States, however, shall bo at liberty to
maintain such mllltury protection
along tho canal rs may be necessary
to ported It against lawlessness and
disorder."
Changi1 Made
Senator Forakor said that he mark
ed these changes in a copy of the first
Hay-l'auncefort treaty, which was
banded to him by Mr. Hay. who took
if away with him and In tho fall of
the same year, a August 88, 1901,
.rote to the senator In confidence
I hat he hoped lo conclude the new
treaty with England In line with "all
the suggestions which you kindly
maV to me "
REVOLUTIONISTS CAPTURE
ISLAND FROM HONDURAS
Gunboat Hornet is Still
Mixed up in Central
American Revolution
WASHINGTON, Jan. 1 Th Island
of liiiatan, off the eosiit of Honduras,
is held by the llondurnn revolu
tionists, according to cable advices
ret elved at the state department to
day from American Consul Dawson
at Puerto Cortex. The United States
gunboat Tmoma Is Investigating the
matter. He say that tho governor
jit Puerto Cortex reports quiet In
the int. rior. and thai no revolutio
nary a'tivlty exists In that neigh
borhood. The Hornet is reported to be at
Ifatati, according to information sent
to the department by American Min
ister Mofteary.
MEMBER OF HOUSE
DIES VERY SUDDENLY
KALEIGH, N. C Jan.. 8. John
L. Stewart, member of the North
Carolina general assembly from
Montgomery county died at Ttex hos
pital this afternoon aged 9 years.
Ills remains will be carried to Star
for Interment tomorrow.
He was carried to th! hospital last
evening suffering from a deep cold
and congestion of the lungs. He
dliii of anglo neurutlc aldenia of the
throat. He was a confederate veter
an and left a leg on one of the bat
tle fields of Virginia.
FAMOUS Rl'ItOfiON lIKS
SYRACUSE. N. Y., Jan. . Pr
Darwln Colvln, who perfoimd the
first successful trepanning operation
In this country, died at his home
at Clyde today, aged 88 years. Dr.
Colvln wa one of the mst promi
nent physician In northern Jfew
York.
Mistake,
That treaty was negotiated and sent
to the senate in December DOl, and
was ratified without amendment and
In due time was ratified by Great
Britain and became a binding agree
ment In his letter to the president
Senator Foraker shows that he had no
doubt that the united States was re
serving the right to fortify the canal.
From th provision for the estabr
lisltment of a military force on the
canal, Senator Foraker y ft weald
follow as matter ot course that
svoh .as-sanitary-Nre tuld - have-
right to do whatever was necessary In
the way of entrenching Itself, "or In
plainer words, fortifying itself
against attack." Ho adds that the
Idea was with the canal constructed
at a cost of hundreds of millions of
dollars no one would ever question
our right to do whatever might be
necessary In our Judgment to uphold
our authority and protect our pro.
perty and commercial rights,"
Quoting from the Hpooner law pro
viding for the construction of the
canal and from the trety with Pan
ama, Senator Foraker shows it to
have been, sot forth clearly that it
was the Intention of th united
States to protect ths canal and har
bors. Tho Panama treaty uses th
words 'The United States shall have
the right to establish fortifications,"
cits tho fact that th British goy
nment did not raise any question as
to the Hpooner law or th Panama
treaty being a contravention of the
Hay-Pauncefort treaty.
Records for The National
League of Last Season are
Finally Compiled
WASHINGTON, Jan. 1 Miller
Hugglns, second buscmnn of Ilia Ht.
Irfiuls club, received morn bases on
balls lust season than any other play
er In the National league. Th of
ficial records compiled by Secretory
John A. Ifaydlcr show that Hugglns
drew 1l posses In 151 games, while
Johnny Evers, of Chicago, who play
ed In 21 less contests was given 108
baseR on balls snd probably was the
hardest mun In the league to pitch
to.
Tho player wh.i struck out often
est last season was John Hummel,
of Brooklyn; he fanned t times.
Lobert, of Cincinnati, who li to be
with Philadelphia this yesr, wa
charged with only nine strllio outs
In ninety games: Magco ,lhe lead
ing batsman In the National, fanned
, 3fi times.
Hugglns was St. Louis' best pas
i collector: Evers. Chicago; Brldwell,
i New York; Bescher, Cincinnati;
! U.ul,-. T) V, O n a t r . V. I .a 1 1 . - - Tl.
burg; T. Smith, Brooklyn; Sweeney,
Boston.
In strikes Ellis led Ht. Louis; Dover
led New York; Schulte, Chicago;
Bcschor, Cincinnati; Doolan. Phila
delphia; Wilson. Pittsburg; Hummel,
Brooklyn, and Beck, Boston.
EIGHT INJURED
KANSAS CITY, M Jan. . Eight
persons were injured tonight when a
west bound street car on the eleva
ted road at the Union station Jumped
the track,:. . ,
Failure ot th airbrake to work
properly Is said to have caused the
accident. -Non of ths Injured will
Citizen- Want Ads Bring
Results.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
T
Sunday Night Conference Held
to Save Madison Trust
Company
MORGAN HAS GAINED
BY ROBIN'S FAILURE
Threatened Institutions Will
be Consolidated With ;
Others
NEW YOHK. Jan., I.A meeting
at representatives of several large
financial Interests, bankers, snd othV
ers wus held tonight at th horn of
Paul D. Cravatn, a lawyer, and steps
were taken to prevent th closing of
th Madison Trust company" (former
ly th Van Norden Trust company),
th Twelfth Ward bank and Nine
teenth Ward bank , which to-.
gethor with their branches, muk
nine banks throughout th city,
Ampl capital was prurHdod to meet
all emergencies to whkftt these banks
might b subjected. The three ln
titutlons had formor close affili
ation with th Carnegi Trust com
pany, closed yesterday, as aa Indi
rect result of th operations of Jos.
0. Robin, th. fallen banker now In
prison, 1 ; . , ,. f '. ,
Among th Interests represented
at the conference wr J. Plerpont
Morgan and company, repressntsd
by Henry P, Davidson; New York
York Clearing Hous association, rep
resented by A. ' Barton Hepburn,
ireldent, and also president of th
Cru National bank; ' Lawrence
Phhpps. Jr., wild to represent th
Utandard Oil company; Equitable
Llfd. ' Assurance cocloty by
Paul Morton. There were also pres
ent O, H, Cheney, state superintend,
ent of banks, and several bankers.
It was announced that a radical
trhangs will be made 4n th Madison
Trust company that Institution be
ing taken over by ' the - Equitable
Trust company and that' certain
change will bo mad In th director-
at. ' ,
Late tonight the following state
ment was authorised by Bupt, Chen
ey; . c
"I have been In close touch with
th sltuatln in the Madison Trust
company, " Nineteenth Ward - sank,
and Twelfth Ward bank, I have ob
jected to certain of tbe assets and :
soma of th loans. ' In my opinion It
beoam nacesaary to : consult with) '
prominent bankers so that steps have
been taken to allay publto apprehen
sion which might arise after th clos
ing the Carnegi Trust company. As
a result of oonfereno with bankers
and other interested, I am able to
announce that In my Judgment ar
rangements now being completed '
ars such as to efTect that result.
"The assets to which I have ob
jected have been taken out of the
two banks and substituted with cash,.
The Madison Trust oomoanv Is to be
acquired by merger with th Eqult-'
able Trust snd arreagsments tetve
been made with Messrs J. Plerpont
Morgan snd company to provide fi
nancial assistance to the bank a In
my opinion the result of the forego
lng arrangement Is that these three
Institutions are In aound condition,"
One Man Killed and Nnm
ber of Others Injured as
Heavy Signs Fall ,
CHICAGO, Jan. i. One man was
killed, one other fatally hurt and
much damage was don to electric
signs and windows today by a wind
storm. The wind, which came from th
west, gained In velocity until a Z
mlle gal was blowing, The wind ,
kept at its high point for some time,
dropping et night lo a velocity of
40 miles an hour, which weather
bureau officials said would be main
tained until morning.
The wind was accompanied by a
drop in temperature, the thermom
eter falling from 40 degrees . above''
at o'clock to It degrees t night-,
fall. A further drop to 19 degrees
was predicted.
A large Iron sign, protruding from
tho third floor Of a building In Hal
stead street was torn from Its fast
enings. On Its 'drop, to th street,
the sign caught a smaller sign and '
boht fU with a. crash, ' c
An unidentified man was caught "
under the larger sign and Instantly
killed. Michael Morlarlty was struck ;
by the smaller sign. Mis skull was
fractured and he suffered other in
juries, which may prove fatal. ' Bor
ers! other had narrow escapes.
An eleqtrto sign at tho Blackston
theatre was thrown to th ground,
breaking a number of windows and
slightly Injuring sererat. Th wind
caused such a storm on Lake Michi
gan that no boats ventured out of
Chicago. . ,: t u.l'i
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