North Carolina Newspapers

- THE" ASHEILLE -CITIZEN. : THE WEATHER J FAQ. Complete Associated Press Reports , ASIIEVILLE, N. C, SATU RDAY MOKKIXG, MARCH 18, 1911 PRICE FIVE CENTS I 0 IVIFEAriD DAUGHTER FORCEDTD DISROBE ill THE LUSIIftl Wealthy Southern Woman Sub jected to Great Jngnlty by Customs Officials RECEIVED FALSE TIP ON HIDDEN JEWELRY Statement of Ladles Disre garded and They are Both I Stripped to the Skin NEW YORK. March 1 7. The wife and daughter of Joseph Hull, of Sa vannah, Oa.. one of the wealthiest and moat influential men In the South, were required to disrobe In their stateroom aboard the ateamahlp Lusitanla today while a customs ln spectress, acting on a mysterious tip, subsequently found to be false, made vain search fo a diamond necklace thought to have been - purchased bread, The search proving futile, Mr. Hull nd the daughter, ElUa' La mar Hull, ware Allowed to proceed to their hotel,, where another' daughter, Nina W convsleslng from an attack of typhoid fever,, had preceded them without having been ' subjected to search. . The necklace , rumor dis missed, customs-Inspectors scrutinized the family bsggage, and, charging un dervaluations In the case of Mrs. Hull and the daughter. Etlxa L., seised the articles in question. Mother and daughter maintained they had acted In good faith, but their explanations were not considered sufficient to Col lector Loeb, and the articles were ' seised.. They consist entirely of wear ing apparel and will be held until "the borne value," that Is the foreign cost, plus duty. Is paid. Joseph Hull, the husband and father, was on the pier to greet his wife and daughter, aa was a son, Dan iel, a cotton broker in this city. All were indignant at the proceedings and, threatened to carry the matter to the court if necessary. i v - Took Stockings 0. ' "We were made-to take off even our. stockings," said Mrs. Hull. "Every stitch of our clothing was searched and even our' hair did not M.4cap,;: I consider1 thla treatment aa , outrage, and T had no 1 Idea such a y thing could" happen on American SOIL" It was explained for the family that the report concerning the necklace probably come from Savannah, i wherein hcr was Jealousy over the fact that the Hulls were fortunate enough to enjoy foreign luxuries and finery. ' As to the undervaluation charge, Daniel Hull said: . "My lister Eliza was the only one of the three who had previously been abroad, so yesterday my father sent a wireless warning mother and the girls to be very cautious and particu lar In making their declarations. As to the alleged undervaluation, the to tal can be no more than $150, and that was due to' the Ignorance of my mother and sisters, and was done with no malicious Intent. "My sister Ella has a diamond necklace which she jyjrchased five years ago In Savannah A customs (Continued on pagft five.) PBESIDENT TIKES TRIP OF SEVENTY-FIVE MILES III HIS HEWIUTOHLE On the Way He Stops and Hears Shiloh Negro Or phans Singing Hymns WEXRS SHAMROCK A . . 'A, G a., March 17. Presi dent '..:it made a seventy-flve-mlle trip In his new auto this afternoon to Waynesboro, Ga., and. return. The routs lay through a part of the rich cotton belt of the state and Mr. Taft saw many workers In the field pre ' irlng the soil for planting. On his way out of the city the pres ent stopped for a few minutes at the 8hil6h negro orphan school. The children sang for him and one led In a fervent prayer which the others fol lowed, sentence by sentence. One of the songs, "We Greet Our President" Was especially arranged for the occa sion. Mrs, Taft and a party of friends , accompanied . the president. At Waynesboro they were guests at tea of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Wllklns. When the president went to the golf links this morning there was a sprig of green on his coat in honor of t Patrick's day. ,- The president's vacation is ending "V be desired, - Very few state papers wfiavs been forwarded to him from "-"Washington. Jdr. Taft has left the details of the Mexico situation entlre . ly to the officials at the capital. ALLOWS srNDAT BALL MONTGOMERY, -Ala:. Mar. IT. Th estate senate this afternoon by a vote of It to 11 passed the house bill allowing Sunday baseball in Mobil. LITTLE BOY KILLED BY AUTOMOBILE ON PHILLIP STREET Four-y ear-Old taken By Car S treetNever spiousness After Being Struck. Never regaining consciousness after being struck by a big touring car driven by Garland Cathey on Phillip street at t.JI yesterday afternoon lit tle Carey Lyerly, the four and a half- year-old son of Capt. ,W. ft. Lyerly, conductor on the Southern railway, (Med at the Merrlwether hospital yes terday evening at t.ii In the presence 01 nia lamer ana moiner ana proiea slonal nurses, who wept as the soul of the little child winged its flight. The accident, which stirred the en tire city last night, was witnessed by Mrs.. A. Dukes and Mrs. Conyers. Driven; by Garland Cathey, aecompa nled by Thomas Denton; the car was coming from Grove street on Phillip when at a point half- way between French Broad and Grove the child at-. tempted to cross the street Ha was atruck by the car which croWd over the little fellow's abdomen., Cathey stopped hi car and. picking up the form of the unconscious child. he placed it 'in the automobile and rushed away to Dr. Merrtwether hos pital near at hand. There It was seen that the best medical skill could not save the child's life. Meanwhile Capt. Lyerly. who has been a conductor on the Southern railway for twenty years, running be tween this city and 8partanbur'g, was speeding toward Ashevllle, totally ig norant of the fate which had over taken his young son. Twenty minutes after the boy had fallen before the advancing automobile the father'a trr-n arrived here an was met by the same car that had run over his boy. Young Cathey, after breaking the news, took the father to the hospital, where the child's life was slowly ebb ing away. - . '' Examination at the hospital re vealed the fact that no bones were broken. The left side of the child's head wse struck by the fender before the wheels of the machine passed over him.. The intestines and spinal cord war also Injured to such an extent that no operation could have availed. ' - ' - Whndjatn earns Mr. and, Mrs. Lyerly, two sisters and a brother' were at th. bedside. Evea the nurses who have looked unnusred on death In va rious forms, ; mingled their tears with those of the sorrowing parents as the end came. Cathey, who waa much distressed last night over the child's death, stated that he Wd not see the boy until the car was almost-on him. He did not believe that be was going at an unusual speed. He is employed at the garage of the Standard Motor company on Patton avenue, and the car which he was driving In company with Thomas Denton, also an employe of the Standard company. Is the prop erty of Dr. Carl V. Reynolds. Cathey stated that he had taken the car to go after another machine which had "stalled" In aome section of the city. The accident occurred near the home of the dead boy. 44 Phillip street. Mrs. Lyerly did not see ber boy fall but she heard his screams and was on the scene as the uncon scious forth was lifted Into the ma chine. Her cries deeply touched the spectators who pothered. WEST AND STETSON ARE OF SHERIFF West, First Degree. Sen tenced to Die in Electric Chair at State Capital STETSON'S 30 YEARS WILSON, N. C. Mar. IT. After three hours deliberation the jury In the case of I.ouls West and John Stetson on trial for the murder of Deputy Geo. Mumford returned a verdict of first degree murder as to the former and murder in the second degree as to the latter. The date for West's electrocution and sentence of Stetson will be named by Judge Adams tomorrow. The max imum penalty for second degree mur der in this state is thirty .years. No demonstration was made when the eagerly awaited verdict was an nounced. The crowd that filled the court room and extended out Into the streets heeding the warning of the court that arrests would follow any demonstration of feeling. The ver dict of second degree In Stetaon's case came as s great surprise to the crowd. After the verdict six of the remain ing 1 members of the alleged gang of which West waa the leader were arraigned. The condemned murder- ; er was the chief witness offered by the state, he willingly taking the! stand and giving evidence against his former Data, as he said, in hopes of mSklng everything right with God. I All were convicted before adjourn ment of offenses for which th max-, Imum penalty la Ave years. Carey Lyerly Over- As He Crosses the R e covers Con- ' Garland Catiiey'W Statement. Mr. Cathey when seen by a Cltisen reporter last night said: "I was going French Broad avenue. On account of the fact that the entrance of Grove street to Phillip makes It .very dan gerous to drive a car fast on that street, I waa going at avery slow rate of speed, not over six miles sn hour. I blew my horn several times before reaching .Grove street in order to avoid any collision with a car that might be traveling on that street. .1 saw the child: playing on the lert side of the road and saw that he had seen me, aa ha looked up when I blew the horn, His sister or some other little girl wss on the right side of the street or rather; In the ditch at the .right Another little boy was running down the car tine In the same direction that I was going. I anticipated no trouble when suddenly the little girl at the right of the road called to the boy and he attempted to cross the street. .He saw; the car, I am sure, but he evidently became frightened as he ran Into the left fender and was knocked down. J do not know how he was run ever but I am of the opinion that he fell or was thrown under the left rear wheel of the ma chine. I felt no jar but heard the girl scream and stopped the car and picked up the child.. His mother cams out and we rushed him to the hospital... I stopped the car within the space of ten feet I am sure there would have been no accident had the boy not become panic-stricken, as the automobile was going at no great rate of speed, and I had it under perfect control." Mrs, A. Dukes, who lives on Ash land avenue, stated, that she was go ing towards 'Ashland from South French Broad, She did not notice the children in the street, but was passed by the automobile. It passed her at a high rate of speed but she had no Idea just how fast It was going. It might have been six miles an hour or It might have .been thirty mllee an hour. She had passed the scene of the accident several yards when she' heard the little wlrl scream, followed by S aefeath. from "the boy. ' One of ihi men Jumped from tha car, which was stdppea Immediately; and picked up th child. Mrs. Lyerly ran' from the house and got in the machine. which was driven to the hospital. Mr. Ljrerly's Statement. Mr. Lyerly stated that he was not at home at the time of the accident and did not know how it happened He had been told that the automobile waa aolns In the direction of Boutn French Broad and that his son had started to Aston park to play, ne had a habit of going to the park each afternoon and always went down the rtaht aide of the street In crossing tha automobile ran him down. Mr, Lyerly had been unable to learn Just how fast the machine was going. -nthv was arrested last night ana charged with reckless driving, ne was placed under a isuu oonu or Judge P. C. Cocke, pending a near- Ine- Tuesday morning, me cnua funeral will be held Sunday from the home of his parents on Phillip street DAY OF IRISH SMITH IL Governor Blease and Other Notables Attend the Ban quet of the Hibernians SHERMAN THE GUEST CHARLESTON, S. C. March 17. With Vice President Sherman in the city as the guest of the Hibernian society and the chief speaker at the annual Hibernian banquet tonight, th Irishmen of Charleston celebrat ed St Patrick's day with all their accustomed enthusiasm. The lead ing events of the celebration were a parade of the various Irish socie ties Iri , the morning, the banquet of the Hibernian and Bt. Patrick's so cieties at night and a number of entertainments at which Mr. Sher man waa the guest of honor. Governor Coleman L. Blease of South Carolina and John H. Ingram of Richmond, and Major J. C Hemphill, editor of The Richmond TlmesiDiapatch, were the other guests, who came from other cities to attend the Hibernian banquet Mr. Sherman arrived about-l.lt this, morning, his train being an hour and a half late. He was met at the Union station by Congressman Geo, S. Legree, Mayor R. G. Rett and a delegation of the Hibernian society. The Charleston Light Dragoons acted as his escort as he was drKn In an automobile to the house of Con greasman Legare. During the day a luncheon was given I nhls honor by E. W. Hughes, an ex-president of the Hibernian so ciety, while he was also guest of honor at a tea at th Country club la tha afternoon. 'fit 551 Zt LIMANTOUR ON MISSION If Htt Seeks to Influence Diaz Toward Peaceful End it is be , t 1 ' MEXICO 'CITT. ' March ' . 17-f Minister of Finance - Llmantour ,.' Is coming to tha capital with the in tentlon of inducing ' President Diss to listen to terms proposed by the Insurrectos for cessation of hostiH ties, his efforts will prove fruitless. While th administration no longer denies that a condition of war ex ists, it is nbt admitted toy the gov ernment that the Insurrection exists in all portions of the "republic as the revolutionists contend but only In the north, chiefly In Chihuahua. Tha ' spasmodta outbreak In other states are '., not regarded as a ': part or the inaurrectleoi -.-r-r , , During the entire campaign, .ac cording to a statement mad at th war department , today, . "the rebels have not won single decisive bat tle." - . - To yield to the rebels in any one of their demands for peace under these conditions, would! be most absurd, said officials high In the gontrnment If Mlnissbr Llmantour has some other plan, other than suggested In the dispatches from New Yotk, he may receive eo-operatlon from Gen eral Diaz. That the administration would be willing to grant terms was regarded as a strong probability, but only af ter the rebels had laid down their arms. That President Dlas would agree to declare his recent election void waa deojared to be absurd. That changes are probably In the cabinet Is not denied, though no of ficer would state when tfiey might occur. Minister of Foreign Affairs Creel has declared that It was un likely they would take place until after the revolution ceased. The people of Mexico seem to know as little about why Llmantour Is coming here as Americans, His GUILTY OF VIOLATION OF FEDERAL -FREIGHT LI Merchant & Miners' Trans portation Company Given Fine of Two Thousand Savannah, Ga., Mar. 17. The Mer chants', end Miners' Transportation company was found guilty today of violating the federal law forbidding discrimination in freight charges. Tha Atlantic Coast Line railroad and the -Seaboard Air Line pleaded guilty to the same charge and were fined $2,000 each. U F. Miller and Hons, of Philadel phia, alleged to have been the bene ficiary under the illegal rate did not enter a plea today. The firm will go to trial under the indictment against It- The transportation -company. was found guilty on 14 counts, the penalty being from $1,000 to 120.000 on each count The cases grew out of grain shipments from Philadelphia to Sa vannah and other points In this ter ritory. WASHINGTON, Marck 17. Fore- North Carolina Fair, except prob ably rain In northwest portion Sat urdays Sunday generally fair. The Harbor At Last! SPEEDING TOWARDMEXICO UNKNOWN TOTHE SCRIBES Fruite$9.i-State of Rebellion Not Yet Admitted. coming has created unusual Interest and much speculation. 4 ..... , HK WILL NOT TALUj, DALiM, tVi. March- ifThat Jos Yves Llmantour, Mexican; minis ter of finance, , en route fo ' Mexlto City has" abandoned bl reported in tention" to travel all th way, by rail and instead may go b steamer to Vera Crus Is Indicated, In tealghts dispatches reporting th progress of the prlvat r car Hidalgo., through Texas.; U':!,.:A-.hfiJf. W'&yd'.v.-'L Benor Llmantour could not b seen and members, oXyhli. party, would not talk. The statement that -Galveston Is the destination. of the car was volun teered by th car porter at Marshall, Tex., late today. , . Before the Texas A Pacific train, to which, the car was attached, left Tex arkana' this sfternoon a messenger was sent to prospective interviewers to 'tell the gentlemen that we have no news to give out nor will w talk at all." ' At each ' station newspaper men were an hand but nothing was forth coming from the party. At Marshall two of the party came to the rear platform. One declared Llmantour waa In the car, but a moment later corrected himself, saying that it was the car of Senof La Madrid. They were told that a report had it that the Insurrectos had planned to burn bridges to hinder the Minister's trip. The Information brought a frown, but no comment. A dispatch from Longvlew, through which the car passed early tonight, said a report had gained credence that the car Hidalgo Is now traveling as a ruse, that the minister preceded It on a special train and was met here yesterday by Mr. Freeman, of the In ternational . Great. Northern rail- BEFORE CiMISSION Held That it Applies to "All Rates and Fares of the Same Kind, etc." WASHINTON. March 17. The long and short haul provision of the Interstate commerce act, the Inter state commerce commission today held, applies to all rates and fares but In determining whether It is contravened, rates and fares of the same kind should be compared with one another that Is, trans-shipment rates; proportional rates with pro portional rates, etc. Th commission holds "It would be a violation of the long and short haul provision if a proportional rate to or from, a given point were lower than the regular rale from an Interned late point." It also Is held that the law Is flo lat'ed "wherein the absorption of a switching charge it result that the total transportation charge from a more distant point is leas than the total than the transportation from or o an Intermediate point, owing how ever, to the very general practice of absorbing switching (harges from competitive and not from non-rom-petltlve stations. BCWOOMBE CORPORATION, RALEIGH, K. C. March 1 7. The French Broad Manufacturing com pany, of Craggy, Buncombe county. Is chartered with 1260,000 authorized capital, and f 600 subscribed. The In corporators: F. I.. Fuller, John T. Wiley, S. W, Minor, C, B. Tlnkel and L. B. Stewart the corporation having power to conduct a general textile manufacturing and finishing business for cotton, wool, silks snd other fab ric. - ""';-' "" F r . . ..... Believed That Hie Trip Wil is road, In Ills prlvat car which pro ceeded toward th border after tak ing Benor Llmantour aboard. If the minister Is going to take ship at 0a veston he should roach th city by noon tomorrow. , Ko sailings are re ported from Oal veston ; for Mexican ports tomorrow. ' - AEROPLANE FLIGHT. ' BAN ANTONIO, Tea.,: March 17,- A successful , aeroplane maneuver! wigwagging, -, heilographlng, camp platting and other activities attracted crowd to tha maneuver camp today but did not solve the question "what is It all about?. ' ;v.t i.i-- ', Th engineering corps la busily en gaged In caulking . .leaky pontoons. Four, thousand maps ( Mexico, ad vance copies of which hav been re ceived, will ba sent her from Wash- ington. and the Southern Paolflo Is holding 100 freight and stock pars on aiding In tha vicinity of thts city. These facts furnished food for spec- ulatlon. Meanwhile it wss stated that first and last, about 1,000 national guardsmen are expectea to take In struction hers during th next four monthe. ' Ma J. George O. Squire, commanding the signal corps, went to Leon Springs. Constructive! th major was a division of troops. Between him and Gen. Carter's division here there was a hypothetical enemy eon- trolling every means of communica tion except the air. Lieut Fulols waa given a message from Oen. Carter to deliver to Leon Springs. Parmale took hold of th controlling lvr of th aeroplane and Fulols sat Beside him. ' Parmalee started to go in straight line over th enemy's head at a height wher h was, eonstructtaly. comparatively safe, Th flight to Leon Springs wss mad without a hitch. On th return a detour was made at about 1.009 feet attitude. LORD PREY REVISES HIS SPEECH HBITBnTl Says That . Some of His No wFamous Utterances Have Been Misconstrued LONDON, Mar. IT. Sir Edward Gray at the annual banguet tonight of the International Arbitration leagu corrected some misapprehen sions, which 'had arisen regarding hie now. famous speech In the house of commons In which he gave support to the suggestion of President Taft for sn Anglo-American treaty. "I observe," ssld the foreign secre terv," that some of the words thst I used the other day are being constru ed as If a general arbitration treaty between two great nations would ba tantamount to a defensive alliance be tween them, If a general arbitration treaty were mede between two gre imiy were nirue unwnn iwo Sr nations and became firmly rooted & the feelings of the people of both countries and if on of them was in the eourse of time, mode th object of am attack In a dispute with a third power la. which arbitration had been offered to and refused by the third power .certainly I think there would be a strtmg sympathy between th two powers who made the gen era y arbitration treaty. ' But that Is a matter which depend upen public opinion and in which public opinion will take care of Itself. PANKK8 ALIjOWKU MONTGOMERY, Als,T Mar. IT. After debating an day the veto or Governor O'Nell on the newspaper pass bill, th house this afternoon sus tained his action by a rot o 47 to WASHING PM DESTROY er corny pr Plumbers WorKlng On Drains ; of Park Start Flames Which 7 Quickly Spread ' . FOUR FRAME BUILDINGS ARE ALSO WIPED OUT Loss loPark Estimated at $20.. 000 Which Is Partly Cover-, ed by Insurance WASHINGTON'.' March It.-A plumber"! blow lamp and a roat wind taused a fir her today that, destroyed th American league baa' ball park and four frame buildings. : formerly a part of the Freedmen'a , hospital but used a a storehouse fof an adjoining lumber jard. t . t Fkimbr at work en th drain' pip or th baseball park bad tem-t porarlty shut off tha water supply and by th tlm fire apyaratua arrived th grandstand and blsachara were mass' of flames. The loss to th park was estimated at 110,009, about 111, ' 009 of which was eoversd by tnsur i anoe. . i . . Thomas C Noyea. president ef tha -Washington baseball club; called a masting of th board of directors 1st today and announced that work would ba begun immediately on the con- ; structlon of steel stand. H said that . If sufficient progress had not beany made by the opening of the lesson. . April It,' tha opening fames might b transferred to other ' league points. H figured that th new standi and . repairs to th diamond would requlra , a axpandttur of 110,000. Th gr- doners had just been engaged in roll , Ins; th has line when today' lira, marred their toll of many weeks. ' PRISONERS RECAPTt' RED . . ' BRUNSWICK. a.. Mer. ' 1T.---AII but on of nine prisoners who escap-, ed from th Olynn county jail today , war recaptured before they got, he- yond th city limit, f Th nilfi'nf man, am' Brown, aerrt her from P pllng eounty for murder-jumped Into, th bay. sA;i:-; ?.,,-'; ; Th mn made thai break for lib- ertr this morning, when the jailor . with two bailiffs weft to th jail to -take tha men to th colurt house for ' trial. As Jhey opened tha cell door th prisoners mad a nich at thsm. In th ruch on of th prisoners, a negro, was shot and seriously Injured. MOBILE WI.S MOBILI5, ' ' Ala.. March ' IT. Th Mobil Southern Leagu team this afternoon daf sated th . regulars itt.fi th Detroit Tlgsn by the cor o. Ty Cobb's portion for tha afternoon waa a home run over tha left field fence, his first time upj a bas on - balls, ' th second - a . strlk out ' t , third, with two msn on basea and an Infield out tha last time up. COCA COLA FIGHTIL'6 FCH r ; ITSUFEIJTHElillG'; BEFOREMGOEEliT., -'-'",..;:" v' '.'' " '- ' f s;i ;j' Medical Experts Declare That Cafeine Is Part of Its Composition , ;. DRUG AS A HABIT CHATTANOOGA, Tsnn., March IT. Some of tne most prominent medi cal men of th United States war witnesses today In th case of th gov ernment against several barrel and kegs of coca-cola, on trial In the fed eral court here. The following av , testimony:' '..."; ,',;..'!. :" - Jr. Oliver T. Osborne, professor af materia t me4lca, therapeutics and clinical medicine In Tale medical school; Dr. S. Bolls Cohen, professor of clinical medicine, Jefferson medical college, Philadelphia; Dr. John H. Mii seer, professor of clinical medicine University of Pennsylvania. ' ' " The evidence of the day all fended to show that caffeine waa and la com ponent part of- the drink, coca-cola.'- - - . - - - - !op" f ,t4 th" ""V U.m drug, that It Is poisonous in tts tend-' racy find that rsffein a Served in the drink, coca-cola, would hav the ctlon of a drug and would b harm ful; that th average dose of caffeine was one-fourth ef a grain for a child five years of age and. one-half grain ' for a child ten year old and on grain for an adult , He stated as a fact that a glass of coca-cola contained shout one and one-fourth grains of ealTslna and tingla glaas taken- by a' child would b harmful. H Considered th us of caffeine In coca -col, it tk en continuously, would ba harmful, CHICAGO vicToniors NEW ORLEANS, ' Ma Schulte and Hoffman. t OMtfleld, did tt bt 1. Chlcars Nationals t- ' Orleans was defea' ED v ... J