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TT H THE WEATHER FAIR CITIZEN WANT ADS BHINO RESULTS ASIIEVILLE, N. C, SATURDAY MORNING, JUNE 28, 1913. VOL. XXIX., NO. 248. PRICE FIVE CENT? B ICITIZEN AS ME V MULTIMILLIONAIRE E: Henry Clay Ward, of Pontlac, Is Arrested on Warrant Sworn Out by Wife HAS BEEN HERE SEVERAL MONTHS Two Officers Constantly in Charge of Him Sensa tions Are Promised Sesatlonal developments are expect ed to gTow out of the arrest, on an Insanity warrant, of Henry Clay Ward, a Pontlac, Mich., millionaire, who 1b now confined in R. S, Carrol's panltarium, on ZILlcoa street, by or 'der of Marcus Erwin, clerk of the superior court. A. J. Tripp and Rem bert Kent, two court officer from Pontlac who have been in charge of Mr. Ward since his arrival in the city several months ago, protested against the proceedings, which were Institut ed by Mrs. Ward, but their efforts Were unavailing. Mr. Ward, attended by the two of ficers, came to Ashevllle about three months ago, and rented a house In the northern ,part of the city. Yesterday Tripp and Kent exhibited credentials to show that they were appointed custodians of Mr. Ward by Judge K. P. Rockwell, of Pontlac, and c'aim ed that they were ordered to produce their charge in court at Pontiac on July - 12. They telegraphed Judge Rockwell last night for Instructions, and until theee instructions arrive will .make no further move In the case. Mrs. Ward arrived in the city Thursday, securing a suite of rooms ; at the Langren, engaged counsel and , Immediately instituted Insanity pro ceedings against her husband. Mr. Ward, who is about 82 years of age, appeared before Clerk of the Superior Court Marcus Erwin, was officially , adjudged insane, and was remanded tp, the custody of the sheriff to be confined In the Carroll sanitarium, . Mrs. Ward left the city last night. The proceedings Instituted here, It is claimed, are the culmination of a long drawn out struggle in the Mlch- lgan courts, in which it was sought to have Mr. Ward declared Insane. It wtij during these proceedings that Tripp and Kent were appointed guar dians of Mr. Ward, and they hive been with him ever since. They ac companied him every where, and Mr. Ward has never been seen on the streets of Ashevlilo without the pres ence of both the officers. It is claimed that these two men receive an al lowance of $1,000 a month for the .care of , the patient, and that this amount was excessive. The Michigan men are in a quan dary, ,as they claim they have not " been relieved of the responsibility for (Continued on Page Seven) TWO HUNDRED TONS BF FUEL OIL EXPLGDES ON STUlDjlL STEAMER Two Persons Killed and Six Injured by the Explosion. OILER BLAMED NEW YORK. June 27. Two hun dred tons of fuel oil on board the steel tank steamer Mohawk, owned bv the Standard Oil company, exploded with a terrific roar and burst of flames this afternoon while the vessel was at anchor off Tomkinsvtlle, Saten Island, In New York bay, killing five persons and injuring six others. A dozen more are unaccounted for but are believed to have been rescued. Two bodies were floating in the hold while fire boats were still pouring streams of water Into the wrecked steamer late tonight. The other three victims probably were blown to pieces. The dead; Edward Donahue. SB, srteam fitter, Brooklyn; John Donavon, 2S a ma chinist helper, Brooklyn; two uniden tified sailors, members of the Mo hawk's crew; Fourth Engineer of the Mohawk, a foreigner, name not ob tainable. Gustave Elmgren, 40, a pipe fitter, was probably fatally burned, whllo Philip Leplc, 32 sailor, and Herman Welaman, II sailor, received serious injuries. Percy Payne, a machinist, and Third Engineer Vandegried. of the Mohawk, were slightly burned. I A i:a.rtfrnnaa ft TnnTi!nlot'- ha n. jrer was reported to have caused the explosion, irt.y men, including the crew and twenty machinists, whe were making repairs preparatory tt the' Mohawk's departure for Tuxpan, Mexico, tomorrow morning were on hoard. A helper waj declared tn "TlffVe aTop'ped a washer Into the hold below ths-fire room. Seeking to, re cover it, he is believed to have carried a lighted candle, which caused com bustion among gas generated In the bold. DECLARED I'll S SANITARIUM GREAT ADDRESSES HEARD A T THE BIG M. E. CONFERENCE Shdwers of Rain Fail to Dampen Enthusiasm of Delegates Who Fill the Great Auditorium at Lake Junaluska. (By Rons! till. Wilson) WAYNE8VILLE? June 27. (Spe cial) On the program for the third evening of the general missionary conference of the Southern Methodist church were addresses by Dr. Egbert W. Smith, of Louisville, the executive secretary of the foreign mission com mittee of the Southern Presbyterian, church, his subject being "Steward ship," and Mr. W. T. Ellis, the fa mous leader In and writer on Sunday school work, whoso subject was "The Turning of Nations." Again with a perfect night typical of the Carolina mountains, a great crowd thronged the great auditorium at Lake Juna luska to hear the addresses on sun- jects upon which the speakers were experts. At the afternoon session Bishop W. R. Lambuth took the place of Blrthop E. E. Hoss, who was unable to ,be present and spoke on Brazil, and the work that is being done there by the Southern Methodist church. Bishop Lambuth. Bishop Lambuth recently returned from that country where he stopped after a trip through Africa and In telling of the work that Is being done there and the needs of the field h spoke with a knowledge that enabled him to Illuminate his remarks witn speciflo data carrying on the work ot enlightenment This evening Bishop Alpheus W. Wilson, the venerable and loved old man of the Southern church, arrived from Baltimore as did also Bishop J. H. McCoy, one of th younger mem bers of the Episcopacy Both of these will address the conference on either tomorrow or Sunday. Morning Session. The heavy artillery of the confer ence began this morning with ad dresses by two of the bishops of the Southern Methodist church, 'an ad dress by 'a missionary bishop of the Northern Methodist church and a nymber of other addresses by apeak' ers scarcely less notable. The crowds on the assembly grounds at Lake Jun, aluska were not es iarg-4his mrn ing as on yesterday though the deep' ening Interest In the conference was manifest In the spirit of those attend Ing. Another perfect morning had proved a little too strong In Its worldly appeal to many and the liv ery stables of the town were kept busy transporting people to the places of Int5rest near Waynesville. Notwithstanding the attractions of' fored by nature so alluringly the Lake Junaluska auditorium was nearly filled when the conference session be gan shortly after nine o'clock with Rev, W. N. Ainsworth presiding. The T Big Feed Wire Had Fallen During Storm, Charg ing Smaller One. NEGRO'S BODY BLAZED CHARLOTTE. N. C, June 27. Cliff Wheeler, a colored man, was in stantly electrocuted tonight at t u l-iwr un nouin jBouievaru, just a short distance from the rear of the home of T. C. Guthrie, when he touched a dead wire, charged with contact from ono of the big feed wires overhead which had "broken down during the storm and fallen across the smaller wire. He was frightfully burned. There is a vacant, space between tne sidewalk and curbstones 1nt. here and in order to get crass grow- ' ing on tne strip, w;res wore strung' about the plot on short posts. It I was against one of these that the! unfortunate man either leaned or carelessly threw his hand, lie fell across the wire and was dead in a few minutes. ! From his left shoulder to midway his body on the left side there was a icash which lay bare ail his vital or gans in Its path, for the flesh was burned clean, as If cut with a great saw. It Is said iy thobe who saw the victim before the current was taken oft and the body removed that long blue blazes were running from his body with a glare which could be seen more than a square away. Four prominent young men of the city were tonight summoned to cburt tc answer to the charge of standing in the ninth floor of the Realty build li.g and throwing a beer bottle anil electric light globe at a policeman standing on that sacred spot, the bronze tablet erected to the signers of the Mecklenburg declaration of ln rependeiKe. THE WEATHER. WASHINGTON, June 27. Fore- cast; North Carolina) FrobaMT fair .- , - . . " . " datnraay and vadayt Oght variable devotional exercises were conducted by Rev. 0. E. Goddard. The feature of the morning session was the unusually strong address de livered by Bishop H. It, Hendrlx on "Mexfco." The problems in this near by country whloh have beon facing tho Southern Methodist church In Its work in the republic have been many times multiplied during the past oou ple of years by the constant suite of revolution which has swept Mexico, drenching many sections of It in blood. Blsliop nndrlx. . Bishop Hendrlx has personally vis ited the many mission stations of his church in Mexico and this morning he told with first-hand knowledge of the difficulties of the Christian work there and especially the difficulties which have been added to the work of the Southern Methodist church. But while the work has been and Is now being prosecuted under handi caps that are discouraging, at the same time he pointed out the wonder ful results which have been, obtained and was most sanguine regarding the ultimate success ot the endeavors in this mission field. Workers and money are both needed for this field, and the needs were forcefully shown by the speaker, though there was no appeal fur direct aid at this time on the part of those attending the con ference. This address has made prob ably the deepest impression of any yet delivered here. Hardly second to the discussion of the situation in Mexico was the ad dress of Bishop W. B. Murrab, on "The Orient," Bishop Murrah was elected to the Eplsoopacy at the gen' eral conference of the church held In Ashevlilo In 1910, at that time being the president of MlUsapa college in Mississippi. He was almost at once sent on an inspection tour of the Methodist mission work In the Orient and to the study of conditions there he carried the painstaking mind ot an earnest student As a result he has returned to this - country albla to tell fully and most Interestingly of the general mission situation In the coun tries of the Far East. Like Bishop Hendrlx, while he told of the diffi culties under which the workers In thi mission fields labor, at the same time his address was one of inspired hope, a message showing that the work being accomplished is so great that it must of necessity be aided by the Divine Creator and fostered by His care. The work In these fields as presented by the two bishops who (Continued on Pago Five) SENATOR J. HAM LEWIS Says Wilson's Relations With Senate Differ from Former President DOUGLAS MONUMENT BTUNDON, VL, June 27. Senator James Hamilton Lewis, of Illinois, speaking at the unveiling today of a statue of Stephen A. Douglas, re ferred to President Wilson's relations with the senate and compared them with conditions when President Bucn anan and ."Senator Douglas Joined is sue. He said in part: "Scrm.tor IXiuglas signalled his en trance to the United States senate by a break with the president of thej United States James Buchanan. j DoUKlas demanded the distribution of pu'bllr rf(T,ren In Hupport of his poli cies. President Buchanan differed from Douglas and permitted the pat ronage to be uwd against Douglas. "President Wilson presents the op posite attitude. He puts the publlo good above the publlo office and de clines either to give oat offtons to senators as compensation for their support, or to penalize those who op pose him by denying them public pat rnnne. Buchanan went to defeat In trying to retaliate upon senators Who oppei his policies and went to po litical dissrrace In trying to dejrtrey senators because they would not sup port "his policies. "President Wilson Is attempting to Inaugurate the system that James Monroe put Into effect with, success In the era of goed feeling In 1123 and seeks to emulate the course of George Washington In recognizing no party organization as having any right to urge its existence as a mere agency of ' political offices. "James Buchanan was on trial tJ test wJiether the dootrlne of retalia tion upon senators could succeed. It failed. "President Wilson declines to al turn t!g iH'WgnmiTy WTrTluTITnTraCrHlo: but under exactly similar conditions as surrounded Buchainq on the slav ery and admlasiom ef new states Is- I luos, ,MUTU T Wt-t vt- I reoer and tariff petioles (s putttai- j MY HAT IS " $T) " y Miil &e- mm PRESIDENT WILSON POSTPONES CORNISH TRIP TO EXAMINE THE f NEW Is Interested in the Tentative Plan Reached by Attorney Genera) McReynoMs and X V WASHINGTON, June z7.' dent Wilson today brushed aside all plans for the week's trip to Cornish, N. H., the summer capital to ex amine Immediately the tentative agreement reached between Attorney General McReyqplds and the railroad attorneys for th dissolution of thf Union Pacific djergw In order to prevent. It possible the railroad combination fro it being thrown Into the hands ot a I, receiver. . Unless a Method ot dismembering the Union raclfto' JMl-iMt)r--P!toi satis factory to the Judges of the United States court for the eighth circuit Is submitted by July 1, the United States court bas ordered the disso lution of the merger by government receivership. Supreme Effort. A supreme effort is being made by the president and the attorney-general to prevent this drastic alternative by an agreement on a plan adequate to meet the demands of the Sherman anti-trust law and the mandate ot the supreme court. Officials tonight freely predicted that the government and the railroad would present an agreed plan to the oourt within the time limit, although It was stated that the government's approval In all probability would be qualified. In submitting the plan to the court H Is proposed to ask the Judges to give a limited time before entering a final decree within which objections dis played In the light of further study of the proposition may be Bled by the government or any of the parties Interested. It Is understood- that the agree ment will incorporate, as one step in the dissolution, thn previously pro posed plan for transferring $31,000, 000 of Southern Paclfio stock held by the Union Pacific to the Pennsyl vania railroad In exchange for the tatter's holdings of Baltimore & Ohio. The remaining H8,000,000 of the total $126,008,000 of Southern Pacific own ed by the Union Pacific it is said, will be placed In the hands of a trust company to sold within a definite period of time and In such manner as to Insure that no substantial propor tion of the stock will be sold to the shareholders of the Union Pacific. Paul D. Cravath, counsel for the Union Pacific, held a long confer- ence with the attorney-general this j means of lappets, swlwel and other j his Inaugural sddress to both branch aftrnoon and although he had attachments to form figured or fancy: es of the legislature assembled In Joint planned to return to New York to- 1 effeits, mm stricken out, leaving such sennlon. .. HUNS DEES' IS FILE (Hi ON RATES Declare Before Interstate Commerce Commission That Bates Are Excessive (Ijr Oxrrge Tf, Maiming) WASHINGTON, Jane 17 (&?UX) . Hans Baef Bona, of Aafrevllle, to day filed complaint with the Inter state oemnwoo commission of alleg ed unjuet, unreasonable and discrim inatory rates charged by the Beathem Railway company tor the taansiior tatlen ef tan bark from Iaf Rio, Ten nessee, to Anhavilla, i The complaint, declares that In connection with the tanning ef leath er at Ashevlllc, It purohases from van ri"u points larfo quantities of (an bark, and that by a rate of ( coots per hundred pounds from. Pel Rlq tq Ashevllle, put into effect lout OctWhw, it is Droa!tltet from buvlnir ai ' DkI The eerntntMlen Is eiuwtd to de clare a gig eefit rata tmseaapnatle and name a Proper rate whlsli eompUilu- esft deetopes bootd not be la mxamm ut ftfc ewqta J tmrdsed. peande, eowH Welcome To Our City. U.P. RAILROAD Union PacificTariff Bill Is Amended Thread Free of Duty. nlght, decided attar today's develop ments, to remain here until the ques tion is settled. The president suspended consider ation of the railway problem long enough to motor to the station to say good-bye to Mrs. Wilson and his youngest daughter, Miss Eleanor, who left for New Hampshire on scheduled time. While It Is doubtful when ths president Will Join his family In Cornish, he said today he expecUd to Thread on Vrtm fiat. . WAfTI 1 1 NO TON, June 17, Wielding the axe again on the tariff revision bill for the bonetlt of the household, the senate democratic caucus tonight determined to put cotton sewing thread on the free list. This action followed a spirited de bate and was can ed by one vote over the protest of members of the finance committee, who defended tho 16 per cent, duty whVch wii carried In the bill as It passed the house and which the senate majority on tho finance committee did not altsr. Those Who championed thtot favor to the housewife argued thst the emie to be derived from wlng thread was inconsequential and that to be consistent In their effort to lower the cost of living the senate should not quibble. Ijookln up the estimates they found that the estimated revenue to be derived we about $225,000 a year. This, they figured, was a small amount to worry sibout and on tho free list cotton thread went, while committee members objected strenu' ously. May Bo Reopened. Following the action there were re' ports current that members of ths committee would Insist upon reopen ing the matter tomorrow when larger number of senators will be present. All the smendme-nts to the cotton schedule suggested by the committee, except one, were adopted, including the Increase on yarns, snd the opposi tion was less than had been antici pated, since the cotton schedule Is the only one which the committee in creased over the Underwood bill rates. One amendment which provided a oer ewt duty on cotton goods $0 which contain thread Interwoven by, II. S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Will Take Up This Question. WAHinNGTON, June 27, -A change In the attitude of the United States toward the warring factlnns In Mexico was urt'ed In the senate today with the result tliat he foreign relations committee of that tudy Is to take up the question Immediately. 8e.nator Iflall, of New Weiico, attacked the preaent policy and asked for the re peal of the so-calU.'d neutrality reso lution of the last t'stiKress. 1'nder this authority, he said, arms were permitted to go across tho border ta te Huerta faction, but wer prevent ed iiy the armed furces of the United (Hates from going to the factions op- poxod to. Huerta. administration for refining to recogr nlso what he teemed the "assasskms pf the president uf Mextoa,' as the Dublin, and dMhuwl the ptctoe el - -- . . . .. . . AGREEMENT hy Making goods to carry ths duty on the yarn oontsnt only. ! ' Senator Simmons, chairman of ths committee, said after ths lute ad Journment, that hs hoped to have ths bill through ths cauous by Monday night. It will then go to ths full finance commutes, and probably be reported Wednesday or Thursday. Ths majority of the committee met late tonight and agreed Upon an ad mlnlstrauve amendment to the In' come tax section, providing for l( ad ditional deputy collectors ot Internal revenue and other additional am ployes necessary to carrying out the terms of the sections. All employee are to be appointed by the commie sinner of Internal revenue with the approval of the, secretary of the treasury for two-year terms and with out compliance to the terms of the civil service Jaw. The estimated cost of collecting the Income tax is fixed at $1,200,000 a year. ' GKKTKCDE BIIAW OUT. LONDON, June tl. Gertrude Rhaw, who last Sunday hurled brick through a window of the B-iot land Yard polios headquarters, and subsequently was sent to prison for three weeks, was released on license today, fihe had been On a hunger strike. SHOOTIKO AFFRAY. PETERSnTTlO, Va,. June 17. George Nunally Is dead at a local boarding house and Waverly Planks lies trt a fatal condition 1n a hospital, as a result of a ahoortnr affray to night. N'unally shot Blanks In the abdo men and then tired a bullet through his own heart, killing himself instant ly. Both men were engineers on the Norfolk Western railroad. GKOrtGIA'S NKW GOVFJlXOIt. ATLANTA, June 27. The Inaugur ation of John M. Slaton, as governor of Ooorgla, succeeding Governor Joe eiph M. Brown, Is echeduled to take place in th chamber of the house of i representatives at noon tomorrow, 'when the new executive I to deliver KEEP, IRE MSIGR1 Are at Capital in Connec tion with Proposed Drain ing of Lake. . (By Gentge H. Manning.) WAHHLVOTON, D. C, June 2T. jpoelal.) tat Chairman Charles Webb, ef Ashevllle, and Culonel J, P. Kerr, private secretary to Gov ernor Craig, are here In connection with the project to drain , Mattamu skeet lake in which both are deeply Interested. - O. K. Holding, candidate for pest master at Wake Forest, arrived here today to refuto the . charges made against his appointment. Congressman Page today recom mended the appointment of John P. Hiiuhdors to be postmaster at Troy. trip. with (be sxcHlftlun, of Asheboia, John H. email, )c, son (it ' Don- f ressroan Small, atvived bese. today pn, hie. fy toack nuacullitf In Cecn nectWt J 11 , r.mM . eryt fyf MJSTIl 0. WATTS L I Nomination Sent to Senate by. President and Is Quick ly Confirmed s REACHED CHAMBER LATE IN EVENING Watts Was strongly Opposeo by Certain Democrats but Senators Pulled for Him (By (iconta H, Maunlnf.) , WASHINGTON, P. C, June $7., Austin D. Watts, of StiUesvlUe, was' nominated by President Wilson lata this afternoon to be collector of in ternal revenue tor the western die-' trlct of North Carolina. . , r The nomination sent; to th senate today ends a long and bltWr fight against Watts on the part of certain dsmocrots In the slate whose chief ar-j t ument was that Watte had opposed) and successfully defeated the passage of progressive legislation In the North Carolina legislature. , t Watt's nomination did not go to the senate In the first Satcrt today which reached there at t o'clock, and rl was feared that as President Wllsonl was leaving fur Cornish today it would be some time before the nom-1 Illation was made. But along abuut I e'olook another batch was sent up J including thai of Colonel Watts, Sen-I ator Overman Immediately made a1 poll of the members of the finance committee, to which tha nomination! was referred, and received their ap-l proval. , He then called the matter upj on the floor of the eonate and ee-l cured unanimous consent to have the nomination confirmed Immediately: There was not the suspicion ot a dis senting voice and the nomination waa rushed to the treasury department. Secretary MoAdoo , will . arrange Watte' bond -.t tumorroif fend h,uv President Wilson sign hit commis sion. .The new collector will leave, for fHatesvllle tomorrow night, and! make arrangements to take over the business ot the office on July 1, thej beginning of the fiscal year. This will enable him to start business with an absolutely clean slats. Watts Is Happy, f Colonel Watts, when sesn tonight. was In a very happy frame of mind Hs has felt very restlese of late and! has had a lunging to get back toj North Carolina as soon as possible. "I'm certaluly glad I have been ap-4 pointed," said Colonel Watts, tonight, "because X sure do want to go back home. I'm very thankful to all my friends who have stood so strongly by me through all this agitation. 1 surely appreciate the efforts of Sen ators Simmons and Overman," 0o- ernor Craig and all the other good folks who have endorsed me and been my .friends. I'm going to try to fix up my bond and other things andl leave here tomorrow night and start In on my new Job Tuesday morning. North Carolina sure will look good after all this hard work on the tariff bill." MEXIH FE0E1S 1 By General Ojeda and Hist Army Driven Back to Guaymas. - r WELL FORTIFIED DOUGLAS, Arl., June 27. Anj nouncomcnts of Honors state official of a victory over the Mexican federal1 above Guaymas, at Hist Questioned,! were continued today from various! Independent sources, The federal) governor of Hnora admitted thatl ojnda'a forces had returned to the California gulf port after their iproj tractod campaign to the north, Oeni eral Oregon, In commend of the state insurgents, telegraphed tonight that a detachment under Major Tru Jlllo had occupied San Joee de Quay mas, a suburb of strategic Import ance, six miles from the center ef the city, Constitutionalist reports thai tha federals had abandoned their ar tillery, provisions, prisoners and wounded, were horns out ty private navies from Hermoslllo,, the state capital, and other Interior pohria, En--ceurHKod iif their auo:es In prevent Ing OJeda's march toward the capital,' ths stute leaders plan an Immediate investment ot Gtiaymas. Th town, however, presents a dif ficult problem because of its natural advantages tor fortification. Guaymas. rnp-ftf-nmr"afi!t from the tay Mexican gunboats In ths vi cinity may assist m Its defense, l was to offset the gunboats that the. Insurgents had planned to use IH.IW-e ttaason's snrut'latve, but the t'r ISNEWCQL ECTOR FORTH SD lull
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