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THE WEATHER: FAIR. VOL. XXVII, NO. 141. In Speech at Birmingham Roosevelt Heartily Endorses Proposed Plan BIRMINGHAM IS ABOUT TO ADOPT THIS SYSTEM The Colonel Says Country Will Watch Experiment In This Large City BIRMINGHAM. Ala.. March 10. Strong approval of the commission form of government In municipal af fairs, but coupled with a warning that any form of government to be success mult have good citizenship to support it, characterised Colonel Roosevelt's address today to the citizen of Bir mingham. It Is the first time the col onel has ever expressed In public his view on the commission system. Birmingham Is about to experiment with the commission system. This fact was laid before the colonel today and in the course of his address to th city park open air meeting he aid: "You are the first city of the size that has Introduced the commission system In your municipal affairs. Now. I believe In the commission system and I am glad you are going to try the experiment; but I would like to ay one word of warning to you. based upon 30 years of mighty active 1 1 .1 1 1 i . I " n experience in praucm fuiiviib. . you ever Imagine that you can Invent any patent system of government which will work by Itself If you don't act' the part of good citizens. You need good laws, for if the laws are bad the beat men cannot produce very good results out of them. You need good laws and you need to -try every good governmental expedient; but after they have been adopted don't forget that the root of the matter lies In the character of the Individual cit izen." - To Illustrate his meaning and point (he warning Colonel Roosevelt called attention to South American repub lics which with governmental systems iralY fa tnat- of-tTie tTnfted Btates bad failed to establish successful gov ernment. He continued: "And now you are going to ttry an experiment which I think is fraught with infinite promise for good. For I believe in the short ballot and I be lieve In efficiency, In responsibility, end we have a right to look to you, the people of Birmingham to see that you do your duty under It and make the form of government work well." Colonel Roosevelt will spend the forenoon tomorrow at JackRon, Miss., leaving for New Orleans shortly after , Boon. GOMMISSiFORM OF GOVERNMENT IS PROGRESSIVE 1!E ID mora AND COOL MRS. HAYES TELLS STORY OF KILLINGYOUNG FLOYO Stepped Over Victim's Body for Another Pistol and UUUVWUgl JURY GETS CASE WHITEVILLE. N. C, March 10. The taking of testimony in the trial of Mrs. Rosa Hayes, charged with the murder of the medical student, Rob ert Floyd, at Mount Tabor, was com pleted today and argument was be gun. It is expected mat tne case will go to the Jury tomorrow. To though counsel had summoned forty witnesses, rested today with the testi mony of Mrs. Hayee. The examina tion of the defendant was resumed this morning. She was the coolest and most unconcerned person In the court room and made a good impres sion. After several witnesses had tes tified to her good eharaeter,-the state Introduced witnesses in rebuttal to how that after emptying the auto matic pistol Into Floyd, the woman, stepped over his prostrate body, se cured another pistol from her room end shot him twice as he lay gasping for breath. Mrs. Hayes' testimony was riddled in many essential points by the state witnesses. Several wit nesses swore to a conversation which took place immediately after the hooting between the husband and wife. In which Hayes is alleged to have told his wife to swear, if they "took her up" that Floyd was try ing to assault her. By several other witnesses, who arrived first on the cene, the state attempted to snow that the bed was not In the least dls- rvana-ait mm f-a Haves atnrv nf At tempted assault stated, and that the first shote at Floyd were fired In Just the opposite direction to that alleged by the woman. EARTHQCAKE JJf MEXICO. MEXICO CITY, March 10. Two light earthquake shocks were regis, tered here at 1.40 o'clock this morn ing. They lasted thirty seconds. THE MEXICO TO RESENT INVASION BY THE. AMERICAN TROOPS Germany Also Rises to Remark That She Will Protect Her Interests in That Country. WASHINGTON, March 10. Mexico will resent Intervention by the United States or any other country for the purpose of protecting the lives end property of their citizens resident in Mexico. ' In a statement today Senpr De I Barra, Mexican ambassador to the United States, declared that Mexico believes herself fully competent to protect all Interests In the country not only her own but those of foreigners. The statement made by Ambassador De La Barra was In part as follows: "The conditions In Mexico are nor mal with the exception . of a small portion of the state of Chihuahua, where a little body of .seditious men are carrying on a guerrilla warfare that I hope to be finished in the near future. . "The Mexican government Is fully strong enough to protect property and lives of Its own countrymen and those from foreign countries and to maintain peace. The constitution of Mexico forbids the government officials, whoever they may be. to permit foreign troops entering Mexican territory without the consent of the senate. "My government, patriotic end strong, has never and never will en tertain such an idea or thought with respect to the United States because the relations between the two coun tries are very sincere and frank and the policies of the two governments friendship and of respect of Justice. GERMANY IS AL.ERT. COLOGNE. March 11. The Col prints an inspired despatch from Berlin declaring with the American governmem. ,,nnn. alnne- the Mexican irat-iuii v. frontier and warships In the gulf of Mexico and the Pacinc ocean. "No news has reached Berlin." the despatch says, "indicating that the persons or property of Germany cit izens are endangered In Mexico: hence . n.vMM.n trnvarnment has had no' occasion to discuss what measures for their protection are necessary. "It trouble breaks out In the Mexi can porta and- it Is aeon that Mex- lean authentic are unauiu m -- German citizens, Germany would ex ercise a clear right which haa ever been unreservedly recognized by the United States to send warships thither. But this would be far different from mixing in the Internal affairs of Mex lco. "Even If the present troubles In Mexico lead to a complete revolution and even If the United States is ln ,.u.,i m annex that country, or under its annexation without the consent of Mexican authorities. Germany certain ly would not be Don Quixote and whip out the rapier. TQ MEXICO ARE ACCEPTED WITHDUTJESERVATIONS President Taft's Telegram Sets at Best All Uneasi ness in Mexico DIAZ HEALTH GOOD MEXICO CITY, March 10. Mexi cans, officials and private citizens, ap pear to have accepted the view that the mobilization of troops along the border passages no Invasion of their country. President Taft's official as surance that there was no menace In the government's step, together with the disclosure last night of Its real object, the stopping of filibustering, has apparently been accepted without reserve and with a feeling of satis faction. Officials declined to enter Into a discussion of the latest phase of the situation. Confidence was expressed anew, however, In the ability of the government to suppress the rebellion In- due time with Amerkanatdl ta the rebels cut oft It was pointed out that with the army that is already in the field and the force that Is in re serve, there Is little likelihood of af fairs taking a turn which would give excuse for Interference from outside. The health of President Diaz, which appears to have been made a factor in the situation In some quarters seemingly has not been impaired In the slightest degree by the business of the last few months. CANT SHIP DYNAMITE MEXICO CITY. March 10. Rescin ding Its order that no more dyna mite should be shipped to mines the Mexican government haa told the agents at Torreron of a French dy namite company that they may tend the explosive In whatever quantity they choose and over whatever rail road they selected. This order of the government has given much satisfaction to the mining Interests of the republic and doubt less will prevent the closing of May 1. of the American Smelting and Refin ing company's plant at Velardena and of all Its plants In Mexico on June 1. ASHEVILLE CITIZEN. ASHEVILLE, N. C. SATURDAY MORNING, MARCH UMOll. "How the American states agree or disagree Is their own affair. No dan ger threatens the Monroe Doctrine from our quarter. It make no differ ence to u whether It sleeps In tho r chleve or Is taken out and dusted." The above rips natch to the Cologne Gazette was called forth as an an swer to Insinuations of the English press that Germany was wanting for an opportunity to Interfere lit Mexico. TROOPS IN CAMP. GALVESTON. Texas. March 10. one" third of the brigade of troops to be concentrated here on the ground and the remaining two third en route on the army transports from Newport News, the army's invasion of Galves ton in the "war game" may be said to be well under way. Brigadier General A. L. Mills, who will command the brigade arrived today from Atlanta, accompanied by hi two aids and took up temporary headquarters in the building at Fort Crockett. Ho announced however, that he Intended to go Into camp with the soldiers a soon as his tents ar rived. Colonel George T. Bartiett of Atlanta haa been designated as chief of staff to General Mills and Captain C. O. Sherlll of Mobile has been ap pointed chief engineer. Eleven companies of coast artllley arrived during the day completing the first provisional regiment, which Is to be commanded by Colonel C. J. Bai ley, assistant to the chief of artillery at Washington. Colonel Bailey reached Galveston thl morning. . The companies arrived are 76th, th ard 107th. from Fort Morgan, Ala. , 7nd, 74th and 127 from Fort Scre ven, Ga. 15th, and 25th from Fort Barran cas, Fla. ,78th. 144th and 145 from Charles ton, S. C. . The two other regiment of coast artillery to be mobilized hrere as in fantry, have been recruited from northern ports. . The i4 companies should reach Gal veston within five days. The scout cruiser Salem, which er iplyid off Galveston bar last nlghr ter a fast run from Pensacola remain ed at anchor outside the harbor all day. . A report became current in Gal veston this afternoon that the Salem was to go to Taroplco, Mexico, to do blockade duty In furtherance of Pres ident Taft's plan to stop filibustering. There was no confirmation of this re port, however. "Camp Crockett." today began to take on the appearance of a real army camp, with browh tents springing up '' jj-aayafc at . aa, -VVOYy ITVWXVXfVJXAJXJI, (Continued on Page Three) IS FOR STABBING RIVAL Killed Rival Just as Wed ding Ceremony Was about to Occur REVOLUTIONIST NEW YORK, March 10. In con nection with a quiet search which the attaches of the Mexican con sulate have been making for Mexi can revolutionists In this city, the arrest was caused today of an al leged Mexican murderer, Alphone Deinhart. The suspect was arrest ed us Roberta Ursuta, who Is alleg ed to have fatally stabbed a rival suitor for a seniorlta's hand in Guadalajara two years ago. The tragedy occurred Just as the wedding of the girl was to be solemn ized. The Identification by L. Rosas, secretary of the Mexican consulate, wsa sufficient for United States Com missioner Shields to hold the man to await further Identification. APPLICATION FOR STRIPLING PARDON ATLANTA. Ga, March 10. Mormal application for a pardon for Edgar Stripling, recently arrested as an es caped murderer at Danville, Va., where he waa serving as chief of police under the name of Morris, was filed with the prison commission to day by Attorney T. T. Miller of Co lumbus', Ga, The application will be argued within the next 10 days. Sentiment Is general throughout the state -for the release of Stripling, who was captured at Danville four teen years latter he had escaped from the county Jail at Columbus. PI BLIC OWNERSHIP, BALTIMORE. March 10 "I am not an advocate of government own ership and I should advise and vote against it, but if the people of the Molted States ever seriourly consider the question I believe it wilt be adopt ed,' said Charles A. Prouty of the Interstate commerce commission at a banquet here tonight. ; J Spring. ' ' "I'll. '.' ' .' .i i .... , i..iii.iii,m, ji i , i I in ,1 ,i I i PRESIDENT TAFT TALKS OF SOUTHERN COMMERCIAL CONGRESS patHllMMnn, President of Nation Reviews ation of Sectionalism. U Vitally ATLANTA, Gav March 10. Presi dent Taft in a notable speech before the closing session of the Southern Commercial congress tonight made a plea to the young men of the new South to take up the political issues of the day from a broad and liberal standpoint end to eliminate front their consideration all narrow parti sanship and sectionalism. '"Coma fully Into our national com munion." said ; the president, "wtth the patriotic purpose of stimulating the progress of our civilization In every right direction, maintaining our coun try's prosperity and accumulating its wealth, but always hv subordination to higher ethical standards and to the'- eromotjon wtsstghtoousneM Justice." .. "Vv'Vi'i The president reviewed briefly' the accomplishments of the sixty-first congress, declaring that in Its three sessions Just closed, it had enacted more helpful legislation than any con gress since the Civil war. Mr, Taft asserted that the greatest accomplish ment of the short session ended March 4 wss the ratification of the Japanese treaty. The greatest disap pointment, he said, was the failure of congress to. ratify the reciprocity agreement with Canada. In this con nection he referred to his action In calling an extra session of congress to convene on April 4. In the hope, perhaps, that tariff legislation may he avoided st the ex tra session he today pledged himself to furnish to the democratic house at the regular meeting In December next a report from the tariff commission on schedule K of the Payne-Aldrlch act, the wool and woolens schedule. Other speakers of national promi nence at the closing session of the congress tonight were Gov. Woodrow Wilson, of New -Jersey, and Secretary of War J. M. Dickinson. The president arrived In Atlnnta shortly after 11 "a. m. today and left again at midnight for Augusta, where he la to have a nine days' vacation. From the moment of his arrival un til his departure the president was busy. He was escorted from the' ter COMPANY PUNT III T Fire Threatens Furniture District but Only One Plant is Destroyed HIGH POINT, N. C. March 10. The entire plant of the Shlpman Or gan company, was destroyed by fire this morning entailing a loss of over 180,000. - The fire caught from a hot box In the engine room and spread so quickly that many of the employes had narrow escapes. A young girl. Stella Carmlchael. her exit cut off by the flames. Jumped from the third story of the building Into a tree, from which she wss res'-ued by -firemen. She waa only slightly Injured. The fire was In the heart of the furniture fac tory district and f'r an hour a seri ous conflagration w threatened. The insurance wss (28.000. am FAIR WASHINGTON, March 10.--Kore- caat for North. Carolina fair Hatur- jflay, geneally fair Sunday, , 1, A : S , m W I Our Rapid Progress and Expresses Pleasure at Elimin Mentions Some National Issues in Which South Interested. Thousands Art Present. minal station through street! crowded with people to the auditorium, where the congress la in session. From there he went to the Capital City club for luncheon. During the afternoon there was a reception, at the govern or's mansion, a visit to the University club, dinner at the Piedmont Driving club and the address tonight at the closing session of the congress. Dur ing the afternoon the president ad-, dressed an audience of negroes at the Central Avenue If, B. church, where Col, Roosevelt spoke yesterday. The president said In part: President Taft's Hpwrh, ; "Gentlemen of the Southern Com' merclal Conn-ess i iW; I wMerymorood1y ra- celvlng an Invitation- signed by the governor of sll of the Southern states to be present and take part In your deliberations. The commercial end Industrial development of this country of the last twenty years has been so great that the statistic! star tle ue. An examination ' shows that proportionately the commercial and business growth of the South la great er than that of any other part of the country. A cotton crop that sells for a billion dollars . Insures prosperity, and when In addition to that you raise a corn crop worth half a billion dol lars, and Include the tobacco you raise, the product of your Iron Indus try, your cotton manufacturing and your truck gardening as well as the naval stores of tho Carolina and Georgia and the sugar and rice of Louisiana and Texas, the fruits and the lumber of all the Southern states, one begins to get 'a conception of the marvelous progress of the South. "For years after the war the South was poor and was engaged In a long and bitter struggle to recover from the disastrous condition In which she was left by the civil war. She could not maintain a proper modern and ad equate educational system because It, was Impossible to find taxable re-' sources of sufficient extent to raise the requisite fund to establish a broad school system. In the gloom of the days that followed the war, In tho FIRE E5T1MATF0 ATS40.000 Number of Finns Badly Damaged With Insurance Approximately of $12,000 RtmiKRrORDTON. N. C March 10. The Central hotel end the Car penter building were dettroyed by fire last night before the flames could be controlled. The Morrow building just across the alley wai badly dam aged by falling wall. The damage was estimated at HVOOO with 112,000 Insurance. ' The Baptist church snd the Carpenter residence were saved by heroic work. The Carpenter building was a modern two-story brick structure, the property of K. J. Carpenter, carrying IJ.S00 insurance. Following Is the name of the firms occupying the building and the amount of Insurance carried; Carpenter Grocery company, whole rale grocers, 12,000; J. A. Wilson A Co.. dry goods, 14,(00; M. 8. Toms Grocery company nd furniture, 12.000; J. H. Wood Co., undertak ers, stork saved; McBrayer Mc BrayerY lawyers, and ls 8. Southern. Jeweler, no Insurance. - The Central hotel was an old three-story frame building occupied by Miss May Hes ter, who caved her household good with 11,100-Insurance. Origin of the Or I unknown, , SOUTH AT reconstruction period and In the time of the slow, growing business of the Bouth, It waa lm4salble for Southern people to avol4 the resentment against the rest of the nation which the mem ories of the recent civil war engen dered and which their hard lot era phastxed. 'But with tha coming pros perity; with (he resumption of com fort in their Uvea, with growing sym pathy of the North in their working out of the serious problem confront' Ing them, and with the sense of trt umph In their success in overcoming their treat difficulties, the Southern people have mellowed. The North ern people have met them halt way and never before In the history of the eouninniay the two, sections beon so rlendly and so near,- In such com plate union as they are today. ' Horn of Our Uucstlona., "You have the race question In the South: you have the question of effi cient labor. - Both are moot serious problem, but I believe as strongly as I can believe any thing that the solu tion I to be found In a system of primary and Industrial education of fered to every youth, male and fe male, whit and black. ' " ? "It Is a great pleasur for mo to come to the South aialn. When I was here In the early part of my ad ministration ( expressed the hope that I might be permitted to do something to bring the North and the South clos er together and to convince our Houthern brethren that they were psrt of the union and part at the gov. ernment and that .we were all really Americans, with no Mason and Dixon line to divide us. . My hope ha been realized, for my appointment of Southern men to high office have been received throughout the North a well as the South as proof that birth In the South .and. participation In tho civil war on the side of the confedera cy was not the slightest bar to pre ferment to the most exalted positions of those plainly dompetent and fit. "The growth of the South In wealth, In education, In civil order and In 'Oontlnocd on Page Four) LT IN POTJISIICOJTROiERSr American Reply to Germany Now in the Hands of Ger man Ambassador WASHINGTON. March 10 With the American reply to the German note on the potash controversy In the hands of the German aanbssador It wn declared In official quarter here today that the dispute wa cap able of an amicable settlement. It wss denied that there wa any fric tion between the two government In connection with the diplomatic Inter change and state department official said that the way wa well open for an adjustment Officials of the department declined. however, to discuss the nature of the American reply. The controversy. It Is understood here, probably will be settled by-a compromise between the private In terest involved and such an adjust ment I reported to be under consid eratlon by tha parties concerned. PROVISIONS FOR 1S.A00, i SAN ANTONIO. Tex., March I. Col. John L. dent, commissary gen eral of the department of Texas, re ceived order today from Washington to procure provision for four months for 10.000. Twenty thousand troop are expected to mobilise on the bor der, but it I thought half that num ber will be detailed elsewhere than San Antonio, Complete Associated Press Reports PRICE FIVE CENTS EXPLOSION LEFT Waste of Dismantled Houses in Surrounding Country Desolate Scene 1 DEFECTIVE MACHINERY, CAUSE OF CATASTROPHE Mangled Portions of Bodyo Man Killed Found Over Half Mile Away PLEASANT PRAIHIK, Wis.. March 10, With the country Immediately surrounding the wrecked Dupou-De Nemours powder mill, which blew up last' night. wast of dismantled home, the first eutlon today, of tho resident wa to rlt the elimination of powder work front their ouumy, indignation meeting at which thl decision wa voiced were held In Pleasant Prairie and M Kenosha. Tho effort to safeguard their home I to he taken befors the Wisconsin legislature, according, to ' present plan. The destruction of the victim' homes In most instance is m calam ity, although only on life wa lost. No attsmpt we mad to accomplish anything beyond temporary patching of shattered house. ' Few women re mained' In town. Not one stove h In working ordnr. . Lack of food be cum a pressing problem ' during the day. There have been nine explosloh In' ten year at tho powder work but no disaster has compared with the pres. ent on In the extent of property damage, although more lives have been loat. In the explosion of 1101 nine men war killed. It wee ttoner ally believed tonight after .communi cation ha been established with the farm houses in the danger one and after physician had mad record of the) ease treated that Knglneer riynn I the only person seriously injured. The financial loss to the company I reuably estimated at l&OO.ooo but the total toe, due to the explosion Is too widely distributed even to be H"r.pi. edr - Pordernsn toflay In e m. tn.uj Ing the ruins 40 safeguard the com munlty against further explosions. fragment of the body of E, 0. Thompson, the only on killed In last night' explosion, wer found today In a pond half a mil from the glat mill, where he met hi death In the Initial x plosion. The hd, on arm and both log were miming. A Jury wa empaneled today by Coroner Ulantnn tn fl thai nana nf Ida ai,l. Ion, ., - ' - That the explosion started in the glass mill, where Thompson wa killed, and that It esuse waa defec tive forking of the machinery used In the delicate process of putting the last finish on giant powder were In dicated today by the statement of Knglneer Joseph Flynn, himself seri ously injured, who was a witness -of the first of the five otploalon. A piece of on of tb glaslng cylinders, a steel fragment more than three feet In diameter and ix ' feet long, hurled two mile. It crashed through the roof of a two-etory building oc cupied by H. A. King. Tha cylinder made an eight-foot hole In the roof and passing through tho structure wa burled In th cellar, ' --.t:,; CONFESSION OF WO:.!0 WHO POISONED HER SGfJ IS TOLD BY POLIGEr. fir Child Asked for Drink of Water and She Crave i Him Carbolic Add HEARS IT UNMOVED ALUAN V, N. . T., March H. Whf a crowded court room listened with breathes attention, Mr. Edith Malber eat apparently unmoved as Chief f Police J. M. Qulgley, of Ro chester, told how the accused woman had confeesed to killing her five-year- old child by 3 pouring carbolic acid . down hi throat After describing Mr. Melber't statement of her vain attempt to place the boy In a homo In Albany on the day of th alleged murder th chief gave thl version of her con fessed action: , . ' "Bhe left the Institution and walked toward the center of the ctty. - On the way she entered a drug store and ' purchased ten cents' worth of carbouo acid. ' Then she went to the' place where the body was found.''-; How eh got there ehe did not know. ...The child asked for a drink of water and she gave him th acid. She laid the child down, kissed him. turned away and went back to Schenectady.' HORTTCt'LTTRIST SHOOTS 6EXF PASGOCOULA. Misa, March 10.- , Albert Grant Delmar, a well known horticulturist, fatally shot himself In , his room at his residence here. He died at noon. It Is not known wheth. r the shooting was accidental or In- tanUonaU fTJ ITS WAKE RUITi AND DESTRUCTION
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