THE -'Mlfla LE CITIZEN.' fMQQ r - THE WEATHER COLD WAVE: ASIIEVILLE," X. C, MON DA MORNING, NOVEMBER 13, 19H VOL. XXVIIL, NO. 22 PRICE JIVE CENTS IT NEWYORKSTREETS LITTER ED. WITH ALL IwSii A Warning. WHITE HOUSE HAS ...mini xr&4 ALL SECTIONS GET TERRIFIC JOLTS fi : if," J TLPIDrOI ORES Hi I LI OPENED ITS DO H KINDS OF GARBAGE TO BRING BELIEF Populace Eagerly Awaiting it it , flirSouthwestern' Cotton Belt Sudden Drops of 20 to 60 Degrees Are Shown WIND BLOWS AT RATE OF 40 TO 70 MILES Small Craft In Lakes and on , Coast ' Battered; Bath Houses Damaged KBTW ORLEANS, Nov. 12. The southwestern cotton belt I In the grip of the- coldest weather experi ' anoed at thl season of the' year In many - years. VTh cold ,norwester which' wum forecasted yesterday ploughed v It way acroea Oklahoma, Arkansas, Texaa and Louisiana lee; night Jolting temperatures tn record- . breaking fashion and giving unmis takable touch . of the real bllssard, Meagre reports ahow that the .wind blew at the rate of 40 to 70 miles an hour and brought sudden drops of from 10 to (0 degrees in lomper- a tu re. StHl colder weather with con- Jiued strong winds 1a forecasted for tonight and early tomorrow. In a special .bulletin issued by the local weafher bureau tclay, wnrntng- 1 given of ' the approach, jof . another cold wave embracing tho territory between New Orleans and Houston and along the coast as ' far as Brownsville. In the sugar and truck ing .regions' of Texas and Louisiana temperatures are scheduled to drop from 4 to I degrees below freezing. ' Telegraph and telephone wires were prostrated in all directions this morning and but few were recovered during the day. The local weather bureau reports that high winds were general over the central an4 western, Mississippi valleys. At seven " o'clock thl. morn' tng temperatures' ln, southern Ala bama and' Florida were ; compara tively high but the cold wave did not veach; that ' section until later In th day. ' The height- of the gale passed New : Orleans at 0:06 a. m.. and reached Pemacola ? nearly two i hours - later. Seport .front that place show, that ' Brow of' 10' degrees" waa weord-rt Vthin few minutes after the wind tnade its sudden appearance. 3malt crafts in. the r lakes and 'elong the coasts were battered about but io erlous damage to shipping has ben reported. At Pay St. Louis, Miss., wo f Continue! on Tmtr UEM OF mUHTIC' IS BURYING 'GROUND' OF BEE WITHJER CREW Steamer Which Found Ves el Leaves Wh& Assist ance is "Assured" " 14 MEN ON BOARD NEW YORK. Nov. II. A wirsless message from the steamship Howard ays she is standing by a barge In distress on Fire Island with a crew of fourteen men on board. The barge is In bad shape and urgently needs assistance which It has been Impossi ble to give. The steamer Howard, after her roaster learned that assistance was on the way from New York, proceeded on her voyage. . Captain Chase, of the Howard, sent a wireless message say ing he ordered a boat to the rescue but on account of the heavy sea no headway could be made and ha gave up the effort. The revenue cutter Mohawk which at rated to the assistance of the im periled craft, reported by wireless on her way oat that the weather condi tions were bad and growing worse. Late tonight the Mohawk reported by wireless that she had reached the scene and cruised about, but there was no trace of the distressed vessel. The scene of the barge mystery Is what has been known as the "grave yard of the Atlantic," along the bleak ssuid dunes and treacherous shoals of the southeastern short of Long Island. APPWCATTOir FOR BAIL LEESBURQ. Oa,. Nov, 12. Appli cation for ball for Mort 8. Chllders, whose trial for the murder of his wife by administering poison resulted In a mistrial this week, was made by ihla attorneys last night. Chllders has been confined In tbe Lee county Jail for more than two months and It IS believed he will be given his freedom this week, pending a new trial. BLOCK DESTROYED BY JPTBJE MUSKOGEE," Oklai Nov. It. Al most an entire block of business buildings was consumed. In a Are of unknown origin which waa discovered at 1:10 o'clock Sunday morning and which was extingulsbed after a fierce light shortly after,' noon. Property low is estimated at S2XS.000. aavered br insurance- , :. , Street Cleaners' Strike . Has Brought on Condition Men aclng Public Health USE OF DISINFECTANTS WILL BE RESORrED TO Continuation of Rioting In City - Makes Job Not Only Diffi cult But Risky NEW YORK, Nov. li. New York's streets have become so littered with piles of garbage that street cleaning Commissioner Edwards will, begin to morrow the uaa of disinfectants. He decided upon this measure to day' after a tour of the. city with Or. Ernest B.' Lederle, commissioner of health, who - feared, that conditions were such as to menace public health Dr. Lederle said he found conditions on the east side "pretty .bad.", Rain, which Is falling Jtonlght. is expected to flush' much of the refuse away,' but It waa apparent today that It was accumulating faster than the lnade quate'force of strikebreakers was able to remove It The weather today, moreover, was of a summerllk mild hess 'which' did milch toward render ing the .decaying piles of (natter more menacing than ever. -. i ' . Rioting Continues Efforts of the department to re move the refuse on. the lower east Ida today were - comparatively suc cessful but in other parts Of the city the , work was hampered by the con tinuation of rioting. -: Although pro tected by heavy squads ' . of police, practically every cavalcade of garbage wagona that left the stables waa soon surrounded by mobs. Hoots and Jeers were followed by showers of tones, bottles and Other missile and then by chargea upon the police in efforts -to drag the strike breakers from their wagons. Gangs of east side "guerillas" Joined,, with the riot er Ifor ho other reason, apparently, tihan to wreak their vengeance on the officers of the law.. By vigorous use of tlholr club ttri police always kept the upper, .hand, put mis did net prevent many of th strikebreakers from deserting their wagons. On the upper east aids 100 police batt''1 for over' an hour with a mob. o. 800 men and boys that attacked a caval cade of wagons. TSia rioters appeared to have determined leaders and made (Continued on Page Biz) MEAT PACKERS WILL BE CO UKDEff Ajm-TflUST LAW Ten Chicago Packars Will be Placed on Trial at Chicago Today POSSIBLE PENALTY CHICAGO. Nov. 12. After more than nine years of Investigation by the government the first criminal prosecution of meat packers under the Sherman anti-trust act will begin here tomorrow before Judge A. Car penter In the United Statea district court Tsn Chicago packers, heds of the packing Industry, will be placed on trial charged with monopolising and restraining Interstate trade in fresh meats. The possible penalty. If they be found guilty, la a fine of $6,000 or one year In the county Jail, or both. The defendants are: Louis F. Swift, president of Swift 4k company and director Of the' National Packing company; Edward F. Swift, vice-president of Swift A company and direc tor of -the National Packing com pany; Chas. H. Swift, director of Swift. A compsny; Edward Tilden, president of the National Packing company; J. Ogden Armour, presi dent of Armour A company; Arthur Meeker, general manager of Armour A company; Edward Morris, president of Morris A company; Francis A. Fowler, director of Swift A company; Thomas J. Connors, superintendent of Armour A company; Louis Her man, manaier for Morris A company. A special panel of ISO men has been summoned for the Jury. Hun dreds of witnesses have been called and it is expected that the trial will proceed . . for several months. All technicalities have been swept aside, the defendants have pleaded not guilty and all that remains is the trial. , Most of the government's efforts will bo directed to show the purpose of the organisation of the National Packing company. The ' government charges that through this organisation the packers were able to control the meat Industry. : United States Senator W. 8. Ken yon will be associated as special counsel with Catted States District Attorney James H. Wllkereon la the jproaecuUoa. ' His Coming. Hoping For Cessation of Hostilities MAY EVOLVE PLAN TO END PRESENT CHAOS fhrone Willing to Accept Pen slon and Retire to Jehol. If Safety's Assured PEKING, Nov. II. Yuan Chi Kal and the government exchanged tele- grama! this morning. Yuan has agreed to come to Peking to discuss the sit uation, but he adheres to his resolve not to accept, the premiership. He la expected to arrive tomorrow and an audleiske with the regent has bean assured. The American legation does not believe Yuan Shi Kat has yet ad vised the throne to abdicate, as aome reports stated, but he may do so lat er. Yesterday Yuan sent a messaga to the government from his home In Changte-Fu. He then proceeded to ChengrChow, on the Pe Han railway where he conferred with a deputation from the Honan assembly of the pro vince's Independence, which, he said, would damage the throne's position seriously. .. Feeling of Relief The fact that' the man on whom the government depends more ' than any one else is coming to Peking has caused a general feeling of relief and of hope that ho will evolve plans to and the present chaos. ' II Is under stood that the court will remain in the forbidden city realizing that their departure how would be fatal. It is also understood that the throne Is willing to accept a pension and re tire to Jehol, if safety la assured. Prince Ching, the acting premier, does not desire to remain in office, but he continues to support the regent,, who has no other trusted adviser., , The situation at Hal-Fin. Ho- Kan province is serlbus. Ths gover nor's family left;, tor the north last night on a special train. Th gov ernor remains at Kal-Feng, but does not sleep at the yameaM Foreign r fugees whtT'hav' arrived bete from Tel-Yuen-Fu. 6han-BJ province,- re port that - no foreigners have been harmed. The governor and his wife and thirty Manchus, however, have been beheaded. The whole province of Shan-Si Is supporting the move ment. Mukden and New Chwang are (Continued on Page Six) IN FACE OF FUH1DU5 FIRE FflDM ITALIAN TRENCHES ARABS QUICKLY RETREAT Latter Had Been Making Demonstration Before Mesri and Roumeliana WERE 1,300 OP THEM TRIPOLI, Nov. 12. Thirteen hun dred Araba at 6 o'clock this morning made a demonstration before Mesrl and Roumeliana, but withdrew short ly In the face of a furioua rifle and artillery fire from the Italian trenches and warships. ANOTHER DEMONSTRATION PARI8, Nov. 12. The Tems Rome correspondent learns from what be says Is an authoritative source, that Italy will make demonstration on a big scale In the Aegean Sea and along the Turco-Aslatlc coast tomor row. FOR BREACH OF PROMI8E TROY, N. Y.. Nov. 12. Clarence F. MoMurray. a wealthy man of this olty, whose daughter. Miss Helen Mr Murray, Is being sued for 125.000 for breach of promise by Lieutenant Ed ward Stars of the Austrian . army, declared today that he would not compromise the suit but flgbt It to the end. ."There was no engagement between my daughter and Lieutenant Start," he says, "Miss McMurray Imply formed his acquaintance while abroad. He is an impecunious young man who seeks to obtain a large sum of money through this un pleasant notoriety but I will not pay him one cent, ufoless the courts com pel me." llss McMurray, with her mother, la at Lenox, Mass. MRS. VERMYLA IMPROVES CHICAGO," No. .12. Mr, toulae Vennllya, dharged with the murder by poisoning otf Policeman -Arthur Bissonette nd BUped1n eoBn'sci tlon with a number of other , deatns among members of ber household, was In a much Improved condition in the county Jail today. Her phy sicians said h now probably was oat of danger of dying of poison whicai sh administered to herself while under Uc svrvcinnc. .i i :.va7 Sr t MADI 6 ION. Wis., November 10. The official deer ' eight .WisiySnsin counties opened today at sunrise. Hunters from all parts of the country are. flocking to the northern woods, where deer are plentiful. More than one. hundedj thousand licenses to hunt have been issuedjt is estimated that theonum ber of deerslaughtered between now and November 30 will be at least six thousand. During thtf L910 season eighty-six hunters were killed. , , , . - -: WISCONSIN STORM DOLES DESTRUCTION ALL ALONG ITS PATH Not Until the Day After Were Gruesome Detail of Lives Lost,' Besides Fearful JANESVnXK.; Wla. Nov.. 12. Splintered -timbers, broken furniture, crumbled rock and plaster, scattered farm produce and dead farm animals littering the ground aver an area of quarter of a ml la width and twenty mites 1ft length indicate -ths tremrndoue- fore 'with whiahj south ern -Wisonaiirwwrst eyohtn swept path through Rock county. Kill ing eight persons,, injuring ' many more and doing damage to the ezent of nearly a million dollars. Of the injured, one Albert Schmidt, tour years eld, near Hanover, will die. "His fsther and two sisters are dead. At lnaet one more may die. The dead: . Anton Schmidt, SS years old, Han over, blown from barn and killed In stantly. .! Alice Schmidt, I years old, daughter of Anton Schmidt, blown cross the road and found nearly burled In a field. Reggie Schmidt, 4 years old. sis ter of Alice Sr-hmldt, found dead be side her sister's body. Helen Austin, five years old, Mil ton. Instantly killed. Mrs. John Crowder, who lived be tween Brnadhead and Orfordvllle. Mrs. Elisabeth Prode, residence between Brosdhead and Orfordvllle; Leo. Lents, 10 years old, Hanover, BITE CLERGYMAN'S TIL iYjyiOUNCEO Will be Called Today to Answer Grand Jury's Charge of Poisoning Girl BOSTON, Mass., Nov. 12. Tomor row, a month larking a day since Avis Linnell was found dead from cyanide of potassium, Rev. Clarence V. T. Rlcheson, to whom she had considered herself engaged, will b called in the Supreme court to the grand jury's charge that it was h who furnished her with the fatai poison. The arraignment will be a brief proceeding. Its most Immediate result. It Is believed, will be the an nouncement of the data upon which he clergyman will be , placed on trial Although the police have been quietly at work slnca the return ot the Indictment, It Is understood that they are still unable to declare cer tainly the manner in -which the poison reached Miss Linnell. The police ' say that they have learned the clergyman had actually asked a minister to marry him tc Miss Linnell on a data not fixed. WA8HINOTON. Nov. 12Foraraat: Worth Carolina: fair and voider Mon day; cold -wave in east and eaamtl portions; . ToMday fair - with rising temperataeas In west portion; brisk went wind - v rani. mria,TS yrjf 4",wi.'VAV".favimMi nrmw. Destruction to Property of Night For Grief-Stricken Survivors, blown from barn and instantly kill ed. Amy Korbln, I years old, Instantly killed, when her home was demol ished. ( , . Wr Service Down. ' Wire service was demoralised last ntght and lt-a not until tiflay that the detail ot the catastrophe, were obtained. A steady downpour of rain added to the confusion Saturday night and made Identification 'of , the dead difficult. . ; ' '. ' ' Saturday night " the thermometer dropped nearly to cero and It 'was fearful night for grief atrloken spr vlvors, many left without a roof to cover their heads. ' y ! The ryelone originated In the vi cinity of Orfordvllle, It miles 'south west of Janesvllle, travelled 'north east for several' miles and then turned to the east. The greatest damage was dona near the point of origin and at Mliton. y Lasted Bnt Few Mlnntea, - The cyclone lasted only a foW min utes. Although It . occurred at ' shout the middle of the afternoon K was dark ss night. The blinding down pour made the search for the," dead and dying a terrible task, . Of the Schmidt family, three nuarters of a mite east of Hanover, there Is only one survivor. He Is Al GDQD CITY GOVERNMENT TBI Liquor Question Among Issues Which Will be Con sideredOther Topics RICHMOND, Va.,-Nov. 12.TeI gates from widely separated seutlons of the country began arriving today to attend the seventeenth annual meeting of tha NatlonsI Municipal Lesgue snd the nineteenth nati-inal conference ior good city government which begins Its sessions tomorrjw. At the opening . meatlm tomorrow night Walter V. Flsher, secretary of the Interior, will preside, Ahllo the annual sddreas will bo ilellvere'l by Wm. Dudley Foulke. of Indiana. Chas. J. Bonaparte, former attorney general of the United States, will preside over the business session Tuesdsy. The liquor prnriljm will occupy sn Important part of the pro gram. The report of tho committee on liquor will be presented Thusdsy by CamllluB J. Kidder, of Orange, N. J.. and the prohibition movement in the south' will be discussed by Wm. H. Thomas, of Montgomery, Als. Franchises, civic surveys, munic ipal finance, heslth and m-mlclpai efficiency are iwii of the leading topics. BIDH C. S. "OOOD-BVEH WASHIVOTON. Nov. 12 Mgr. Dlo mede Falconlo today bade Varewell to capital of the United Statta where for nine years he has represented Pope Plus X. He left for New Ypjrk pnd on 'Turadsy "Witt "iali"n thn steamer Krpn Prlnzeesln Cellle for Rom to be raised formally to the rank of carilnat at the eonsistory November 77. Many of the proml mnt Cafiolic clergy and seversl hundred laymen gathered at the sta tion her to pay him an aTsctlonate fit 1 1 HUNTERS WERE K'lLED. V huntinsr season in1 thirtv- DEATH AND Catastrophe ObtainedEight Nearly $t, 000,000. J " bert Schmidt, the four-year-old boy, Physicians say he cannot ' recover, Alloa Schmidt and1 her younger ais- ter war In the house. The bodies were blown across the road, ths hous ' being demolished ovsr ihelr heads. Their necks . were - broken. sk,uUK fJ-aflUura4A4 it required two men to pull the half burled bodies from the ground. ' Anton Schmidt, the father of ths boy Albert, and a tramp, war In the barn. The tramp, who was not In jured, says Mr, Schmidt was blown through ths barn door. Hla body was found In tha hog yard, -Ths boy 'was burled In the debris ' and received Internal Injuries. Mrs, Elis abeth , Proeda, bride of few months, was instantly killed When the house was carried away. Her husband stood in tha barn door and saw tha house carrlr away and discovered tha body ot his bride after the oyelone passed. The Proedes lived If mtlea from Crawfordvllle, Lee Lents, II years old, was blown from a new barn he was , helping build. Near Milton there was on ' death, Helen Austin, five years old- daugh ter of Alfred Austin. Mrs, Austin wss seriously Injured ond It was, thought (Contlnned tm Psf Tfrr) OF COUNTRY THIS WEEK Many Sadden Changes Forecasted ' by United States Weather Bureau WASHINOTON, Nov. 13. A touch of winter will be felt over - prac tically th entire country this week and there will be many sudden change In tha weather according to the weekly forecast Issued by the weather bureau tonight. "The coming week," says the bul letln. "will .be one of pronounced weather changes and low tempera tures over practically ths entire country. The cold wave that now cov era tho middle west will advance rap Idly eastward and give the lowest temperatures of the season for (he first two dsrs of the week -throughout the Eastern snd Southern states and on these days abnormally low temperatures will continue In th In terior district east of the Rocky mountains- '- 'An extensive disturbance that Is now off the" North Pacific coast will advance slowly eastward snd be at tended the first part of tha week hy stormy 'wnthsr In th North Pacific state, it will crors th Rocky moun tains Tuesday, the,; Middle west Wodnesdsv or Thtirrdajr and th Eastern ststes the latter -part of th week; this dl'turhatc will be pre ceded by a genwra! chanse to warmer weather: be attended by rains In southern and rain " and snow in northern districts snd will be follow ed by a change to colder weather Wehr noWhrn"haJf hra try." PHILLT DEFEATED HAVANNA.. Not. !. Th Havens j baseball team defeated th Phlladel- nhla Nationals today by a scor of t aa t, '"' ' - -, "- A TOTHEPRESIDEfIT For First Time Since August 22. Nation's Executive Man. slon is Occupied : MESSAGE WILL DEMAND ; IMMEDIATE ATTENTION President Also Has Several Judicial Appointments , , to Make.1 v WASHINGTON, Nov, , U.--Th whit houss la occupied again,' Prssi dent Tafl swung down from hi tfrt. vat car tn th Union station her this, morning at CMS, exactly on Mm at th end of his 11,00 mil trip and! nftssn minutes later th flat door of th Macutlv mansion opened for, him. It was th president's first call thr sine Aug usT'jl, moapung only . for a atopbtwn, trains two wsskg Mto. , Ther wer few person in th sta- ' tlon when th prldntlal train pull-' ad In, only a few policemen and a number of v whit r hous mplaye. Mrs. Tsft, who waa eipected her be fore th president, cams tonight Th presldeat had breakfast snd lunoheon alone, attended church and spent th1 remainder f th day In resting and receiving callers. H took' a long walk through the street of th capital in th rain lat In th gftornoon. , - Thr r two nsatter bsfor Mr. Tat that he regard ss most import -anL HI third annual mssai Is yet1 to b written and although data for It has been assembled he ha not; written any part of It. In addition tn1 writing th men sag the president In. tends to glv much consideration t th appointment of a ucaesse-r to th lat Suprsm Court Justlc Harlan, and to th naming ot man to fill other Important judicial vacancies. For tha' silprem court vacancy alon ther hav been mor than forty com. mendatlons but th president hes mad no dtrmlnation a to whora h shall nam nor does h gprt to do so for several weeks; , j m ASarecasted In his speech to t'--e chambr of oommeree of Pittahurgi vrl , week ago," Mr. Taft xpct; to recommend In his mnsaga con structive legislation to strengthen and to maka mor certain th regulation of "trusts" federal ' Incorporation, which h ha recommended hereto fore, and which probably will be put up to congress. What addiUonat leg. 1 -1 ' "V fOwninswit m Psc Sl I AVIATOR RODCEfiS F.LLS I'ITH HISLH 129 : FEET rifjHO FIELD1 No Bones ' Broken, Bnt Ho . Was Bruised and Ren dered Unconscious ' MACHINE WBECKEP LOS ANOILES, Cat, Nor. ItWs an attamptsd flight today from Pav adena to' Long Beach, officially tv nd hla Atlantio-Paelfle ' JouraoyJ Aviator C. P. Rodger mat with taj worst mishap of hla earaar, falllnsn with his machln lt( feet lnt J ploughed! field, pialf way "between) the two cltie and within sight of bus 1 destination. v-.,. 1 t Although do bona were broktn.l Rodger was rendered unconsotoos.1 ,Ha was badly shaken, hi fac . scratched and torn; hi hand wer', burned by hi motor and h eom', plain of sever pain in hi sld. Htgi machine was completely wracked ' "t Rodger left Tournament Park at Pasadenn at l;t 4U eipectlng to . fly th twenty-thre miles to th beach ' In as many minute. H beoame cen- ' fued after taking 'th- air and after circling aimlessly for half an hour cam down at; Covin , Junction, , a, mil further ebm Long Beach than j the point from where h starttd. H - took th air. again snd after getting ; hi bearings wss following th track) , of th Pacific ' Electric rail-j way when th accident oworred.l This waa in an Isolated soction and?- th first learned of hla fall by thoaaj Interested waa when an automoblltst' who had teen Rodger tumble and - had dragged him out from under th wings of ' wrecked Biplane, earned tm into th office -of a pkyslclan at ' Compion. two mile away. , Pdrnra we still ' ' unconscious when Mrs- Rodger and her mother,! Mrs. R. S. Pwelfrer, who had been waftln Ms arrival at Long Beach, reached Cnwtnton. "Later h partlv regained hla aepse end -. ws,4 imt w.-rt a spoclsl train and taken to 1l bc-tel at Parden.. After an - ' mlnatlon his phretrlan announced ln- . Willi th raits of th ' scrlilcrt win not h known until Vodarors t-( eevera aaffictontlv t errilnln It. It (i believed that a control inverting th rn1rtr and heading its n angl of not t - - : - " " ( tV