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t m mm IZEN. THE WEATHER: FAIR CITIZEN WANT ADS BRING RESULTS ; VOL. XXVDL NO. 281 ASHEVILLE, N, C, FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 28, 1911 PRICE FIVE CENTS, SAYS THST FATHER RECEIVED S2.5D0 WILLHOLD BALANCE OF POWERIN EUROPE DECLARES ENGLAND Time to Move ROOSEVELT MAY BE SUMMONED BEFORE STEEL COMMITTEE LI Notifies Germany That She Pro poses to Stand for Her Rights in Moroccan Situation Ex-Attorney General Bona parte Sought In Regard to Tenn. C. & C. Co. onner State Senator Holts law's Son Corrobates Famous Confession the ashey: I lfff Infill 1 FOR EjBIMER VOTE TAWNEY CLEARED FROM CRITICISM Committee Will Not Require Latter to Attend to Anst w ! ti a - implied unarge WASHINGTON, July H. Express ing his firm conviction that his father, former state Senator D. W. Holatlaw, received 2,E00 from a man who offered to pay him that aum to vote for Lorlmer for the senate Herachel D. Holstlaw. of Iuka, III., today appeared before the aenate Lorlmor committee and substantiated hl father'a famous "confession." The aon was cashier ojf hla father's bank to June 6, 1908, the date the father claims to have received the money from Senator John Btderlck. and from knowledge obtained In that position and from talking- with his father, he declared today on the stand that deposit slips he put In evluence proved absolutely that hts father received th money. The son told the story of how the Holtslaw fsmlly received the blour of the fa ther's confession and of his father telling; him that every word of it was absolutely true. Deposit 8'lp Joggled. In cross examination Attorney Hanecy, representing Senator Lorl mer, declared that the deposit slips had been Juggled both at the present and at the first Lorlmer Investiga tion. In explanation, he absolved attorneys or others connected with the committee from his charge. The cross examination was terminated suddenly when Mr. Hanecy persisted in asking the witness, after he said ha had no knowledge on the subject, about Indictments brought affatnat hla father. Chairman Dillingham sug wmtA nttwtr' witnesses could alve bet- stared Mc Henecy that every witness desired' '"wtmn tmpeitea ; w attend tha hearings If possible. ) " Tawney Cleared. Former Representative James A. Tawney, of Minnesota, waa today cleared from any orltlclam growing out of the testimony of Jamas Kee- (Continued on Page five) jHd JOBAGGO CO. WILL BE EE-I TO COMPLY I T Steps Taken Towards "Re creating" Company Out of Present Element EXPECT HARMONY NEW YORK, July 27. Step to ward "re-creating" the American To bacco company out of the elements now composing It, In harmony with th decision of the Supreme court of the United States were taken today when announcement was made of the formation of protective committees by holders of the six per cent bonds, the four per cent bonds and the prefer red stock. The chairman of the alx per cent committee Is Alexander J. Hemphill, president of the Guaranty Trust com pany. His associates Include Albert H. Wlggln, president of the Chaaa National bank,, and T. DeWItt Cujrl.r, of Philadelphia. The committee's no tice refers to the desire of the Amer ican' Tobacco company to comply with the order of the Supreme court and urges united action on the part of the bondholders. Similar representations are made by th committee for the four per csnt bonds, of which Chaa. H. Bebln, vice president of the Guar- nty Trust company, is chairman, and e preferred stockholders- commlt- e, of which J. N. Wallace, president of the Central Trust company. Is chairman. The three committees Join In requesting that certificates of bonds and stocks be deposited not later than Aug. 28 next Lawyers representing the commit tees today expressed the opinion that harmony on the part of the. security holders will accelerate the dissolution and reorganization of the tobacco company, in th manner prescribed by the United States Supreme court It is understood that the protective committee were not formed until as surance were received that their ef forts would not agree with the United States circuit court to which the work of reorganising the American Tobacco com parry has been delegated by the higher tribunal. OTHERS Ml'BT COMPLY. ' WASHINGTON, July 27. The de partment of Justice Is planning Im mediate prosecution pf all trust or monopolies which do) not dissolve or (Contlnaed en Pace Fire) LONDON, July 17. The most pas aimlsttc views regarding the acute nee of the Moroccan crisis were largely conormed by the prima minis ter In the house of common today, when with a manner aa lmprestve aa his words he read from a manuscript which had been cereruity preparea a wornlntf tn lArmanT that Oreat Brit ain proposed to stand for what h considered her rights and to maintain the balance of power In Europe. Further testimony as to the gravity of the situation Is given by the fact that the prime minister obviously had taken the leader of the opposition Into the government's confidence and Mr. Balfour's declaration was no less firm than Mr. Asqulth's. The prime min ister's statement was couched in dip lomatic though not reassuring lan guage. At the very opening he said: "It la obvious that this Moroccan question has reached a point at which It will become Increasingly difficult, embarrassing and anxious unless a solution Is found." Later he said: "We thought It right from the be ginning to make clear that, falling of a settlement such a I have indi cated, we must become an active party In the discussion of the situa tion. That would be. our right as a signatory to the treaty of Algeclras, as It might be our obligation under the terms of our agreement of 1004 with Franc. It might be our duty In defense of British lnterester directly by further developments." Balfour la Firm. In promising the support of tha opposition to the government Mr. Balfour said: "If there are any who supposed that we would be wiped off the map of Europe because' we have our diffi culties at home. It may be worth while saying that they bitterly mis take the temper ana the patriotism nf ih oDoosltlon.." Such plain speaking on a question fraught with possibilities of a great European war . nni bean heard In tha British par liament In many year. Tha outcome of th situation appear to rest . . i ii . Ammuhv'i ttnuMira. Ill OBI W UUUJ WM - - . . If, a' soma German peperg say, Ger many ha reached me stage oi n itnalnnnunt where the neoe- !! nf har nnnolatten demand that he branch out Into foreign field and oonatdera this vital to nar nation al Interests, and Imposes oondltlon on Franc which Great Britain thinks threaten her vital Interests, the only SrMNML MURDER IN NEW YORK EXPECTED TO BE SOLVED QUITE S Finger Prints of Murderer Are Secured Motive Was Robbery ONE MAN DID CRIME NEW YORK, July 27. New York' latest sensational murder, the aged and deaif victim of which was apparently aroused from sleep In a central hotel of this city, during last night to be done to his death, will not be long in the solving, say po lice officiate tonight. All but th murderer's name and address are now In their hands, they believe, tn the form of many prints made by the blood stained fingers whloh choked and gagged William Henry Jackson, the Wall street broker, to his end. Jackson was a cashier fur Van gchatck Cor; brokers. He was 70 years of age. I The man or men who killed Mr. Jackson tn hts room at the Irowuois hotel in the early hours today, left behind a coarse handkerchief, stain ed with blood. Several well defined Imprints of fingers war found upon It and In the bathroom and the bed upon which the broker fought for hi life was marked with th crim son prints of his slayer's hand, and i these, too, were caught by the came ra to strengthen the net which the police say they are casting about the murderer. Although Mr. Jackson was beaten with a blackjack after ha had been choked, death was directly 'due to the coarse towel stuffed In the mouth whk-h caused strangulation as re vealed by the autopsy. In the opin ion of th coroner two men did the Job. having entered the sleeping man's bed chamber from the reef of an adjoining building. The police believe only one man figured In th crime and that entry was gained from the interior of th toullding. The motive, the police say was robbery. BCSPECT CAUGHT!. NEW YORK, JJuly 1(1 Paul Sel del, a 17-year-old boy of Hartford, Conn, who waa employed a a bell boy at th Hotel Iroquois until. Fri day last, was arrested at 11.40 o'clock this morning In connection with the murder of Wm. Henry Jtckaon, th Wall street broker, ; - , result so far as those best Informed see it, will be the oft-threatened and long averted European convulsion. That Wild Speech. German government offlolala and the majority of th German newspa pers profess to think that Chancel lor Lloyd-George's recent speech of warning waa not addressed to Ger many, but a sort of general proclama tion of principles. Mr. , Asquitch'i statement leaves no doubt and was intended plainly to leave none on that point ' While the country has no knowledge of the extent of Ger many, first conditions, the prims minister made it plain that they were such that Great Britain would not consent to them. Mr. Balfour strongly hinted at what Is th general feeling, that Germany thought she could take advantage of the crisis In Great Britain's domestic politics tn the belief that K waa so absorbing; to the country that th people would not pay attention to for elgn affairs. English newspaper are entirely united In supporting the government They strongly urge , that Germany shall not bs permitted to mak any African exouralon which would se verely threaten Great Britain's na tional interests. The politicians and the public earnestly hop that Ger many's program I not one which Great Britain will consider Impossi ble. SHERIFF AMONG THOSE INDICTED MATS LND, Ji. J., July 17. Sheriff Enoch L. Johnson of Atlantic county, was among those indicted here by a .special grand jury which Investigated frauds allseed to have reen committed In Atlantic City st the election last November. The r'tff ) charged with Illegally re " ng certain election registry looks from th office of the county ilrk. Ha pleaded not. guilty and was held In his own -cognition for trlnl !n Beptannber, Thirty tmttct moots were ; returned ; today. " Other Indited Indus Al. Gllleso, connected with th building department ' of Atlantic City. H la charged with "conspiracy to' pervert an election board," and with attempting to bribe au (lection officer." He also pleaded not guilty and entered 18,000 ball for trial. FOUR PEOPLE COLLISION OF I IUI0AICH Husband of Victim Dying of Heart Failure, Un aware of Accident ON "PENNSY" ROAD PITTSBURG, Pa.. July 27 Four persons were killed and one seriously injured tonight when a fast express train on the PonnlvnnU railroad struqk an automobile at a r,rad crossing at Wllklnsburij, a suburb. The dead: Edward 8. Bachelor, aged It, Wll klnsbarg, superintendent of the Union Stock Ysrds of this olty. Mrs. Mary F. Batolielor, aged 70, his mother Miss May Fernloy aged 21. .f Cin cinnati, O.. a niece of Mr. Bachelor and a teacher at th Margaret Mor rison Carnegie school of this city. Mrs.' John Reed, aged 41, of Wli klnsburg. Miss Blanche Rood, aged 2ft, daughter of Mrs. Reed, sustained se rious Injury. A freight train blocked the cross ing when Batchelor, who was driving the machine, reached the tracks. H topped the 'car and waited for the freight to move. A th freight got away Batchelor started across the tracks, six In number. Many "creamed to htm but he could not hear en ac count of the noise and th fast ex press crashed Into the automobile. The four victims wer burled a great dlstan 'e and met Instant death. At in Reed home Mr. Reed I dy ing of heart failure and doea not know of th accident. HEIRS TO HALF MILLION WANTED DES MOINPS. Iowa., juiy 17 . Governor Carroll has . been aaked to find the three Wright brother who have been left a half million dollar by a brother who recently died la Roaneke, Va. Mrs. J. W. Kennatt. of this city wrote to Governor Carroll that flam. Harry and Miles Wright, snpoaed to be located somewhere in Iowa, had been left a- fonun estimated at half a million dollar by their brother. In her letter she says that the broth ers left Virginia some year ago for Dee Molaea and hare not heea heard ot alnea, - ; ,1 ' -5 am . ViM-sm i5t saa . . .. ML COMPROMISE , WOOLEN TARIFF PASSES 48 to 32 Coalition of Democrats and Insurgent Republicans Bowled Over Regular Organization h Threaten to Enact Farmers' Free last Bill Aho to Put Through WASHINGTON July J7. Out of what had appeared to be a chaotic arose today a coalition of democrats and Insurgent republicans Which bowled over the regular organisation and passed a compromise bill for the revision of the woolen tariff by 48 to Si. . -', This new force In the senate United on a material reduction f tariff du ties all down tha line and flushed with victory, ionla-ht Is threatening not only to enact the so-called house farmer's free list Mil into law next Tuesday, tint to put through a cotton bill as wall, Th Insurgent want th sugar and steel scbsdulee Included in tha program. The hsa , democratic leaders ana a,kttlrag to -eooapt.Afc compromise bill as passed th sen ate teday but .there are 'mora than willing to meat the senate aanfereee. Chairman Underwood, of th house way and means committee, declared tonlht that although he would not agree to the. Ill as It passed the sen ate and that he did not thtnk the houae would agree to It .he expressed th belief that a bill satisfactory to both house was mora than likely to be agreed upon. Up to PrasSdnat. This would put th wool Issue up to President Tart and there la much ASSOGIATI0II PHQTESTS Against Proposed Reduction in the Cotton Tariff Schedule in Congress CWAJtLOTTE, N. C, July 27. R. M. Miller, Jr., chairman of th tariff committee of' the American Cotton Manufacturer' Rmeclatlon, today gave out the following official state ment en behalf of the association pro testing against the proposed reduc tion In the ootton tariff schedule. "Th so-called Underwood bill on the revision of the cotton tariff schedule Is. a bill formed apparently solaly m the Intercut of the Importer and foreigner wholly, unfair and unjust to us Ignoring entirely the In terest of the American Cotton manu facturer and th American laborer and It enactod Into a law will turn cotton mills of our country Into soup houses?" Pased upon today's prices of oo-tton yards as bsst(that I can fig ure. In order that the manufacturers of this country may meet the reduc tion In the proposed schedule and to compete with Imported yams It will necessitate a cut somewhere from ti to SO per cent In the wages of our American laborer to meet the cotton mill operatives This mum pauper wages to our Amer ican laborer to meet the pauper wages of Europo, will American labor stand for It? The American cotton manufacturers' protest against It" WASHINGTON. July 17. Forecast for North Carolina: Probably fair Friday and Saturday, not much chaog tn temperature; , moderate BOTuiesurt ana . nortn, winds. . f BILL FOR REVISION OF Cotton Bill Underwood Dissatisfied spwciuauon aa to what his course weuid be. Mr. Taft would mak no comment on th situation whtl th h in ine past na announced tno present woolen schedule ef th Payne-Aldrich law a Indefensible, there have been strong Intimation from the whit house within the past few weeks that he would not hesitate to use the vota on ny tariff schedule passed tn advano of reports passed from th tariff board. Tha assump tion of power by th demooraOc-ln- urgent combination today waa th outgrowth of a similar coalition form ed on June Jl to send the woolen bill t th flnanos committee with tn struotlon t report it baste July I Tha atandaaaaaatere then 'admittwd; that their control of the apper housa ef congress had been broken and that they would no longer hold themselves responsible. . Th finance committee shtfMng responsibility to" the floor of th senate, reported the bill back ad versely th next day. ' Show HeenntirMWit, '' Today these regular senators again showed their resentment la defeat and declared they would not serv on any oommltt of conference with th house of representative. There Is likelihood therefore that th senata oonferaes will be Senator Lafelletts, I OF USE MAIL FOR LOTTERY Officers of Southern Loan St Trust Co., of Atlanta, Arrested on Charge ATLANTA. Oa., July t7. After severs! months' Investigation by tbe officers of the department of Justice and the postofilce department. Rlch srd Purvis, Ernest O. Hslm, Ouy King and W. N. Hmlth, officers and former officers of the Southern Loan aV Trust company, were arrested hare today on charges of fraudulent uss of the malls aad using the malls to promote a lottery. The company has been doing a money lending business In all South ern states, and its operstlons hav Involved, occordlng to federal officers, between $r00.Q0 and $1,000,000. The arrests were made, by Postal Inspec tor George R. 'Cellar, who has been working with Iroy J, Bailey, of the department of Justlrs at Washington. According to Mr. Cellar, ths company has been doing a business In loan In vestment contracts." A man wishing to borrow money from the concern paid ft for a con tract which bore a number between one and one hundred. One hundred of such contracts were supposed to be held, each holder being required to pay 16 a month In addition to his original outlay. A man wishing to borrow a sum hsd to wait until each, contract holder holding a nurdber below him had obtained hla loan. When his turn cams he had the right to obtain what he wished from the company which was to he paid back with interest. Federal officers de clare those holding high numbers stood little or no chance of being 1 able to borrow. This phase, thev 1 contend, formed the basis of their j charges of conducting a lottery. Ths ' men arrested were taken before U. 8. Commissioner Walter Colquitt and gave bond. Purvis and Helm were released on 17,500 each aad King and Bmlth on $2,000 each. The prelimi nary hearing was set for Aug. It. TAKES HIS OWX UFB .... COMER, Oa,. July 17. J. T. Co mer, one of the beet known cltlsens of this section, committed sulci 3s Tupsday by shooting himself threagh the heart with, a double-barrel shot- ma loadeq with t oupksnw. -rf insurgent republican, and Senator eney and Blmmons, demoorat. oanator renrose, chairman of th committee en, finance, freely predict ed today that President Tat would veto any' wool measure that might coma out of th conference. This statement did not ruff I the dsmo orata, who announced that they would Insist on a out io rate far deeper than that proposed In th f testate measure. The dsmooratlo leader. In fact, are said to believe that their po sition politically would, be greatly strengthened If Mr. Teft vetee the bill.. What affect the tenet coalition, as perfected today, will have, upea the date of adjournment oannet b proph eeted. The nis democrat" ay frankly aosiou for th Masloa to end. They declare that the wool bUi Itself will hot cause a serious dalav In adournment, if the eeneta should take up the cotton Mil aad . oth.x schedules, however, there la a proba- oiiity ox inaeiinite prolongation. Th Insurgent senator declare ther are anxious to remain in Washington summer- 10 anaot tariff legislation. - ' Xoaurit'a BUL' Tha hill, a passed by the senate to day, was drawn by Senator Lefollette (Continued on Tag Five) ASHEVfLLE OSTEOPATH States That Tuberculosis Can be Handled Most Successfully by Osteopath CHICAGO, July 17. That pulmo nary tuberculosis can be treated mora successfully by osisopetns than by the representatives of the other school ef medicine was th state ment mad by Dr. W. B. Meaoham. of Ashevllls, N. C, in an address de livered before the American Osteo pathic association today. The speaker atscasoed th proper method of treatment In detail and eshlblted a 1 -year-old boy whom he said had been cured of th dlaeaa tn nine weeks by osteopathy. CWFaLfffO AT CKLEBJtATIOW WILMINGTON, W. C. July IT. In connection wVth the annual celebra tion of the anniversary of th battle of Moore's Creek brldg osommemo rating the first slgnsl victory In the south of the continental troop to th American revolution near Carrie, N. C, today there waa unveiled a monu ment with appropriate service. Nominate a Candidate Nomination Blanks-Good for 1,000 Votes. The Aslieville Citizen $5,640 Subscription Contest Candidate Address .. Telephone No. Only One Nomination Blank for Each ' Candidate Will Count at 1,000 Votes, v. ; ; ' Out out and bring or send to The Citizen. DIRECTED INTO OTHER CHANNELS One of Witnesses Today Will, be Late Mark Hanpa'S; Brother. UCHanha ,i NEW TORK. July IT. Further revelations regarding the Tennessee' Coal and Iron company and. 1U ab sorption by the United 1 8 tat as Steel ; corporation durlnf the financial panic a expected tomorrow be- of 1 tor are for the house of representative ep. clal committee of inquiry Into- th op era tlona of the st set trust," ; The Investigation, transferred from:' Washington to this city -today, will be directed Into many olhr channels, but the Tennessee A transaction ' will have precedence here, luinmoned to appear tomorrow In thla ooitnectloq are I C Hanna, brother ef the lata Mark Hanna and V W. Oglsbay or Cleveland, Hanna and 'Oglebay wre member of the syndicate. of l mn who took over ? the Tennessee Coal and Iron company and its vast south ern ors properties ran It a an indv nendent factor In the Steel Worud un til the merger at HOT. ' n 3 n Ag to It Vain. ' ' Mr. Henna, who with ' Orant B. Bchley, of the New - Tork - brokerage firm of Moore and Schley, acted as syniiloat 'manager of tha. Tennessee Coal and Iron company at the time of It absorption, Is expected to be th first witness. Both Hanna 'and Oglebsy are practical steal men, They will be questioned particularly re tarding the actual value of the prop erty and ore holding.' Th grharg hag been mad that when the United State Steel corporation gained con trol of the. southern ore the only great field of non-Beasemer ' ore n this oountry, it completed' kn actunl monopoly of th Iron, ores of t Llfnte1 'fi. Whether t-i ; 1 . T" "i- " " - - - -n-r r -una -n r m, -mmjun frnnilnneyl tm ltw Four) EIGHT CECflSES KILLED rn " - r;'nr 111), .U.J t. , . Excursion , Train, .Plunges Headlong" Into Freight With Faial Result t.MmtH1.ltfn . ' "'7 ' - ' 4 -,, ' ; v . , a V -' , ALL OF DUMIAII PIOHT N1.GROE , ; CHARliOTTD, H. C. Julf ITV Bearing 111 negroes from Durham bound to Charlotte for a day's out ing, an esKuralon train on th Sea board Air tine, plunged headlong into a freight train at Hamlet, sixty mile east of here at 10:40 thla morning. kJUIng eight of the excursionists. Injuring sixty seriously and twenty eight slightly. Th dead, all of Dur ham, are: ' , ' rdna Hall. , Kdith Hall. ' I ikbon Hall. , ' V, 1 -l Rose Barry. Dora Day. .' '' Bias Wbb. , ,k X Samuel Millar. t , John Ckmeron. , ; Of th sixty seriously hurt a score, may idle. Four white trainmen were badly hurt. Engineer Beev Kconce, . who .waa.rwnatT the excur; Ion engine, was mangled about the head and shoulder and Injured ln, temally; Bnglneer A. Taylor of tha, freight, injured internally and badly cut; Conductor W. H. Bowen of the excursion train had hie aid crushed and several ribs broken, and Albert LTJT-Ttrijnriiniri""" " mm . (CooUnaed on Page Free)
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