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LE CITIZEN CITIZEN WANT ADS BRING RESULTS THE WEATHER SHOWERS Vol. xxix., no. 28i. ASIEEYILLE, N. C, THURSDAY MORNING, JULY 31, 1913. PRICE FIVE CENTS nn-OTTTi A Cl XT. HEAT WAVE KILLS I Weather Bureau Holds Out No Hope, of Cessation of Wave NEW HIGH' RECORDS EAST OF ROCKIES Deaths and Prostrations from Heat In Large Numbers v WASHINGTON, July 30. No yromlse of relief from the heat wave lh the next twenty-four hours was held out tonight by the weather bu reau experts. They said however that local thunder showers probably would torlng lowiir temperatures tomorrow night to many of the Buffering sec tions whare the mercury climbed highest today. -. The heat was .intense today practic ally every-vhere east of the Rocky mountains, the highest temperature, according to official figures, 104 de grees, belns reported from Yuma, AH, Grand Haven, Mich., reported a new high record for that 'section 94 degrees. Davenport, Iowa, and Con oordla, Ks, with their marks of 102 held the day's record for territory amMi. nf Yia fllwnvfl tnrrirt Bouth west In the east Washington headed : the list with a maximum temperature of 7: in New Tork and Philadel- jtfhla It was 95 and In Baltimore 98. These were the official records but street thermometers were around the to mark. SCORES OF DEATHS. -t r ti "-- Tl Jfi UM.aiimmAr ? VrinHn. to many cities temper-! stnres as hiirh as 106 and making the 100 degree mark common over, IE NORTH AND MIDDLEWEST wide areas, extended throughout tn'!drea mark to between sixty ana central states today. Over Missouri, Illinois, Iowa and Southwest Ohio the heat generally was about the 100 mark. Scores of deaths and numerous pros Vations were reported. HOT, AT BAIrotORE. I ,ey wa gtreet trarflo ana telephone BALTJJIOl5, J,ujy . . Q.-!--V -mlttrvl were halted awl government mum temperature of 96 degrees was; departments ' suspended operations. recorded here today. One prostratlonj Tne wlnd wrecked a three story brick was reported. I povri at LotnsvrLLE. IiOVTBJVITjLE, July 30. Four deaths and several prostrations re eulted from tho heat here today Tne mntimiim temDerature was 101.3 maximum temperature registered at 2 o'clock this afternoon FOrR DIE IX NEW YORK. NEW YORK, July 30. Tho heat wave from the middle west struck New York with full force today, es- 'UoiiMnuod n Pncc Tight) Lies WILL CAUSE FIGHT AT GftUCAS Appropriations for More Buildings Will Cause Bat tleDemocrats Oppose. WASHINGTON, July 30. A battle for appropriations for public buildings , at the extra session of congress will i begin among house democrats tomor-1 ...'. ' ' Will IHAS U y UM7 lIlCkLtCl. x IIO .hU.U7, called on petition of members of the public building committee and other members Interested In securing public building appropriations, Is to consider a resolution instructing the appropri ations committee to include in the pending public buildings bill an item, "appropriating sufficient money .o cover the expenses of selecting sites and other deficiencies for public buildings provided for in the omnibus public buildings bill passed at the last session of the sixty-second congress. The democratic leaders undoubted ly will oppose strenuously any appro priation to Increase expenditures In uie face of their economy pledges and the caucus is expected to mar , the beginning of a bitter fight. Chairman Fitzgerald of the appr" prlations committee, was considerably wrought up over the caucus call. He declared that the committee was still considering the deficiency bill and was looking for instructions from no one Cut Out and Send to Contest Department. NOMINATION BLANK Good for 1,000 Votes. The Citizen Automobile and Pony Contest. Name Address ....... ,;. Phone No.... Only One Nomination will count as 1,000. This-4Xnte.it-4A-open-only-to-Girl and Boyi under lb years of age. TERRIFIC STORM WREMSRUMMD HAVOC Al CAPITAL Three Dead, Scores 'Injured and Hundreds of Thousands of Dol lars Worth of Property Destroyed . in Cyclonic Storm at Washington. . Great Rainfall WASHINGTON. July SO. Like "0, giant fliol, a cyclonic storm of wind, rain and hall whipped back and forth across the nation's capital today, leav ing death and ruin In its wake., Three dead, scores Injured, and hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of prop erty destroyed, was the toll recorded in the hurried canvass made when the city aroused Itself from half an hour of helplessness In the grasp of the elements. Out of a blazing sky under which the city was weltering with the tem perature at 100 degrees, came the storm, roaring from the north, driving a mass of clouds that cast a mantle of darkness over the -city. The gale, reaching a velocity of almoBt seventy miles an hour, swept the streets clear, unroofed houses, tore detached small structures from their foundations, wrecked one office building, overturn ed wagons and carriages in the sheets and swept Washington s hundred parks, tearing nuge omntnw hum. trees, and even uprooting sturay oia elms, landmarks of a century Streets Uttered. Tonight Washington's well-kept streets, with their wealth of trees were littered with broken foliage, roofs, Hl.ria nnrl ftur rfn. As the wind wreaked its havoc, the j rain "came, and In five minutes the temperature dropped from the hun- lenty. Then the rain turned to nail, j of niB men t0 ghelter Inside the big In Eastern j amt hall stones battered on roofs and i verted bowl. But Jim Boyle, John crashed through skylights and win- dows. j For half an hour tho city cowered, i paralyzed, under the beating of the iinrm everv activity suspended. Trot-1 office building occupied by the B. 8. Saul company, real estate dealers, and fifteen persons were carried down In the crash. W. E. Hilton, vice-presi-, Thomag B Fea, 65 years oldf a; , ... ..,. cierK, ana an umuriumeu nun """jmpunxs me sirunures. wnen ine entered the building to try to rescue : storm was over they crept, shaken and those caught in the wreck, were taken j bruised, to safety Inside the dome. from the ruins dead. Half a doxen were taken to hospitals seriously Injured and half a dozen men were treated for slight Injuries. Tonight the police were still digging In the HIT PflECAUTIONS AT Recent Jewel Robberies Have Caused Great Alarm Among Residents. NARRAGANSETT PIER, R. I., July 30. Thoroughly alarmed by the robberies, at "Shore Acres," and at the Rum(,ey cottage, which netted the thievef, almost a quarter of a million dollars, residents here, have adopted extraordinary precautions againBt similar losses. Large quantities of jewelry were placed in safe deposit vaults today. Much of it was shipped to New York. Many residents engaged extra watch men. It is likely that the special po lice force organized for the summer eolony some years ago and later dis banded will be re-established. The loss to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Rumsey Is variously estimated at from 73,000 to $115,000. Mr. Rum sey would add nothing today to the original announcement that jewels of sreat value had been taken, though 'rim another source came a denial wit more than one necklace had n stolen. John H. Hanan is seriously 111 at Vhore Acres." and the news of tho robbery of his wife's boudoir has heen withheld from him. Mrs. Hanan ffVintlnmnl - rn Klithn ..... ... . ... . . ..;.-.) Blank for Each. Candidate ruins fearing other bodies migfit be recovered. Lawns Devastated. The neatly kspt lawns of the white house were devastated. Three huge elm trees, uprooted by the wind, were thrown bodily across the lawn, and up to the best portico of the building, blocking the drives. President Wilson was seated In the Vexeoutlve offices when the wind crashed through sev eral windows in the white house prop- er. Secretary Tumulty hurried the president and Representative Korbly, of Indiana, with whom he was con ferring, to a sheltered Interior room, away from the searching lightning flashes. . . The captiol, set high above tho elty'. caught the brunt of the wind, rain, hall and lightning. The senate was In .session when the hall swept down with a deafening roar, beating on the glass roof of the chamber. The ,tU' mult made further business impos sible, and hurrying to the vice-president's desk, Senator Kern megaphon ed with his hands a motion to recess. The motion was put and although the senators could hear nothing, the sen ate quit work foj ten minutes In con tusion. When the storm broke, thirty-five painters were at work on the dome of the cnitol. swarming over the cury. lng surface or swinging high on shaky scaffolding. William Reese, the fore ev-imani hurried to the dome to get most Yori. Noble Bailev and Bruce Jones were too late. Bailey and Jones sue- r ceeded In sealing the dome In the! w .nd an(j rain tnd gained a sheltered i after tryiDg m vain to get 'inside. 1 9 uyit, tmd ford were aught on & J.gwinglng scaffold Just tinder the eaves of- tne dome and there they swung. buffeted by the wind, beaten by the hail and soaked by the rain, while i the flashes of blue lightning trickled around the dome, down from the f ne GoddeM of Krfedom that .... .. Punic ApiMnars. Here and there throughout the city panic appeared. Horses, driven fran- (Conttnne! on Page Eight ) DQBSEYS SENSATIONAL Declares Evidence Was "Planted" to Help Clear Frank. ONE WITNESS ATLANTA, July 30. Charges that someone acting In the interests' of the accused had deliberately "planted" evidence intended to divert suspicion from the defendant were made late today by Solicitor-General Dorsey in the trial of Leo M. Frank, charged with the murder .f Mary Phagan, a fourteen-year-ol factory girl. During the cross-examination of City Detective John Black, attorneys for the defense, produced a 'bloody shirt which was paid to have been found in a barrel at the home of Newt Lee, negro watchman, who re ported to the police the presence of the girl's body in the basement of the factory. Black Identified the shirt, and it was at this Juncture that Solicitor-General Dorsey made his sensa tional charge. He said that the state would show that the shirt had. been planted at Lee's house ' and that Frank had Subfcequently Insisted that both his home and that of the negro be searched. The solicitor-general did not Indicate, however, how he ex pected to prove his charges. Only one witness In addition to De tective . Black testified during the afternoon session, this being J. M. Gantt, a former employe and one of the men originally held as a suspect in connection with the case. Gantt testified that when he visited the fac tory on the afternoon preceding the discovery of the crime he found Frank there, and that the latter ap peared nervous and distraught. At the close of Gantt'i testimony court adourned for the day. STEAMKtl snssrsG. LONDON, July 30. The British steamer Wynerlo, which left Balti more April 6, and Barbados April IS, ported overdue, ha now been posted by Lloyds Underwriter association a : "V v I Hill PIT i ah. com? oh, j 4 U pj s 1 tay Wag i I uacu. ot s lit HI fyr If li AMBASSADOR H.I. WILSON SOME SYMPATHY WITH ON THE Senate Committee on Foreign Plans of Ambassador Senate, However, Does Not Determine Policy of the Government. , , . WASHINGTON, July 80. -Ambas-1 sador Henry Lane Wilson s conference i today with members of the senate committee on foreign relations, re sulted In stronger support for his plan to recognise the .Hljerta government In Mexico, than lie has received' at any time since reaching Washington. After three hours questioning of the ambassador, many members of the senate committee tonight . expressed the opinion that serious consideration should he given to his .recommenda tions of ft guarded and restricted rec ognition of HuertSwptjfned to bolster up the prfswnt jroVerpmenl'TUhtir elec tlons can be held, October 2. ' Doesn't Rest With Senate. The determination of the govern- ment'i main policy does not real wf.n I tne senate, However, and there ws nothing la the. situation tonight to In dicate that .President Wilson or Sec retary Bryan had wavered the deter mination not to recognise the Huerta government at present. The matter presented to the sen ate committee by the ambassador al ready had been laid before the presi dent and secretary of state and their attitude against recognition had been baaed upon information from other confidential sources, many of them at variance with the reports of Am bassador Wilson. The conference at the capltol today was distinctly a presentation of "his UKER OPERA BGUFFE Cipriano Castro, Unable to Behave, Starts Another Muddle. ANOTHER PROSPECT NEW TORK, July aO.-Ponflrma tion of reports that Clprano Castro ha begun revolutionary activities In Venezuela was received here today In ; examination of Martin M. Mulhall, a cablegram to General Jose Manuel the alleged ex-lobbylst of the National Hernandez, leader of the national ! Association of Manufacturers by law party 'In Venezuela, now , political yen for the association. In executive exile in this country. The message! -wIon the committee paHd upon dated yesterday and sent by one of;more than 200 question submitted by the general's agents at Cucula, Co lombia, near the Venetuelan border,! read: "Castro's followers have begun in vasion." "Thl Is what I expected," said General Hernandez tonight, but I have no further Information of Cas tros activities." General Hern&ndec, popularly -known as "El Mocho" I opposed both to Cavtro and the present -mez government and Is said to be arjltlng opportunity to return to hi native land and lead a revolution of his own party against President Gomez. He Issued tonight the following state ment: 'General Hernandez as the recog nized leader of the national liberal party of Venezuela ha with him the backing of the great majority of the country and In the present state of affairs he can only say he is closely watching events to see what can and must be done at the proper time and when due opportunity presents itself. "With reference to Gome and Cas tro, both are hated and distrusted both at home and abroad and there fore there 1 no doubt that both will be forced by public- opinion to dU- the country want Is not merely a ohanga of men, but cJhangein the Left Out In The Cold? RECOGNITION OF HUERTA Affairs Thinks Some Consideration Should be Given side of the case" by the ambassador to Mexico, As a result of the, generally favor able Impression he created, and the close scrutiny and tentative approval given his report by many members of tlfe committee, it Is believed the ad ministration will be-urged 'to furnish the senate cmtimlttoe at .once with Us private, Information gathered 'by 'WU Ham Bayard- Hale, Reginald del Valle and tby consular agents , at .various poHnts. ' , , '.' - r 1 Paints of Difference. , ( . V Two principal jmlnta ot ; dtfferonc hav been developed between Ambas sador Wilson and (he administration. These relate to tho present control of Huerta over Mexican affairs and to conditions that would result from the downfall of the Huerta government Ambassador Wilson-told the senate committee, that the Huerta govern ment dominated . affairs throughout the republic, and had driven the con stitutionalists out of many, of. their strongholds, Including the states of Coahuila and Nuevo Leon. V .' rresident Wilson,. It la understood, has Information which ho and Secre tary Bryan consider thoroughly re liable, which shows the constitution alist strength to be greatly In excess of the estimates of Ambassador Wil son, and Indicates that the Huerta government dominates the situation only In small part of the republic, WILL SUBJECT MIL TO CROSS-EXAMINATION Of INTERESTED LAWYERS Senate Committee, In Exec utive Session, Passes On Questions. STARTS SOON WASHINGTON, July 30. The en ate lobby Investigating committee to night cleared the way for the cross- the attorneys. Only a few were strick en out, and Mulhall will be subjected to a searching examination In an ef fort to determine the accuracy of the story of his t'n years activity and he has detailed It for the last two weeks. The committee decided that the lawyers could search the wltpes' mind for any facts bearing upon statements he made In a lettta- or In testimony he gave as they were Iden tified. He may be on the stand sev eral days. There was another report today that former Representative James E. Watson, of Indiana, mentioned fre quently by Mulhall, was seeking to secure an indictment of the lobbyist for perjury by a District of Columbia grand Jury. Watson consulted with District Attorney Wilson last week about an Indictment, but after Mulhu'l voluntarily retracted statments re flecting ujton the former congress man' public record, his friends un derstood that he did not expect to push the matter further In legal chan nels. , WOODMEN ENCAMPMENT. PUT-3N-BAT, O., July 80. Two the uniform rank, Woodmen of the World, from 26 state arc In national FINDS HIS IDEAS The need for Immediate recognl tion of the Huerta government, a, laid before the committee by the am baaaador, was based on the belief that Fresident Huerta cannot long retain control of governmental machinery under present conditions. It Is claimed the government each month is running behind financially and that American recognition Is necessary to enable Huerta to obtain credit for Im mediate governmental necessities, ' : Hhoultt Huerta Kll ' 8tio(ild the' Huerta sovemmetit talL in the Dplnioa of Ambassador Wilson, Condition In the ' republic will be worse, than at present and American Irves and iproperty will 'be In' greatest danger. The fact that many mem ber of the senate committee took the same view at the close of today's con ference, probably will result In Presi dent Wilson' submitting to the sen ate the Information in hi possession, upon which he base the belief that recognition of Huerta I not necessary to the protection of American life or property. , Ambassador Wilson made a direct recommendation for the recognition of the Mexiioan government, under certain condition . and restrictions. These would Include an agreement for an election Ootober 2(, to choose a permanent constitutional government (Oontlnnfd on Page Bight) . ENGINEER KILLED IN Two Pennsylvania Trains Crash at Tyrone Many Injured. TYRONE, P. July 80. An engi neer was killed and forty passenger were Injured In a rear-end collision of passenger train on the Pennsyl vania railroad hers this afternoon. About twenty ct the injured were severely hurt. Train No. IS, westbound, crashed Into train No. 15, Philadelphia for Pittsburgh, which was just pulling out of the Tyrone station. No. 15 was five minutes late and No. 18 waa a through train. Most of the serioutly Injured were In the parlor car at the rear of train No, 15. The first three cars on No. It were mall cars. Mail Clerk. Herb, Seltz, Flsk and Ituntzberger were Injured. The seriously Injured were taken to Altoona hospitals. THE WEATHEH. WASHINGTON, July 80. Forecast for North Carolina: Local thunder howers Thursday and Friday. Good for 5 votes if received by date printed below . 5 VOTE COUPON $2,500 Automobile and Pony Contest. The Asheville Citizen Oandidate ; 35ii.ci.,"r.T,T'"io,3! AddrCSS ;v.y.;r.vj.;;cvxr ; ". . " . ; ' ; . p , ' :" " t i ".. Not Good "After August Mrfn. i CutjOui .Neatly REPUBLICANS ARE TO START Declares Speeches Are Madf for the Purpose of Caus ing Disaster PENROSE SAYS IT HAS STARTED Says Mills In Pennsylvania Have Shut Down on Ac count of Tariff WASIUNQTON. July 10,Demo. cratj and republican of the senate clashed agu.n in debate u Under wooQ-oimmtin tarirt hill tod when 8enator Stone charged that 'the re publican were deliberately attempt ing to bring on a panic In their peeche tracking the pending mea sure. . . Republican leader denying any In- tentlon to bring about disaster, de clared they feared that uch actually would be the result Senator Oalllnger asserted he wa no "calamity howler but that he actually feared the re sults whldh he hoped would not come. If the disaster he feared dl4 come, the senator said, the glory would go to the democrat. Indiutrtal Depression? ' Senator Penrose declared that not only did he fear the proposed bill would bring on disastrous conse quences, but that Industrial deprs Ion already was upon the country. He cited Instance ot steel mills In Pennsylvania that already had closed down. : While republican ana smooratia leader were engaged In hot cu ion Senator Kenyon averred that In, nu talk ne had aiway stated he did not believe the pending bill would result In ciater and that the po pie of hi state did not bsllev either. .. . "Of course I wm not referring to the progressive republicans," said Benator Stone. "I meant that the ma jority of the minority were attempt ing to W)ue the people,", After the flurry of thl oratorical torm" and'' ths 1 later excitement caused by a hall " and wind storm. Which forced a race of the enat,' considerable progress was made In consideration nf the (till. The a.rthsn ware schedule was completed except for a few paragraph which wsre' passed and the metal schedule waa' taken up. Strong opposition to thl schedule developed, substitute being proposed by Senator Oliver for th regular republican and Senator Cum-, mini for the (Progressive republican.' Charge Broken Promise. . Charging , that demottratta leader had broken ( their 'tariff promise made to the' working people of New England bsf ore the last national elec tion, Senator' Georg P. McLean, ' of Connecticut, assailed the Underwood Simmon b'JI In th senat today. Hecmint'ng the campaign In Con necticut, directed particularly against Representative Ebensser Hill, of th way and mean committee, Senator McLean referred to passage from speeches made by Majority Leade Underwood, Secretary of Commerct Iledfield, Representative Rellly and Governor S. E. ' Baldwin, whom ha quoted a amurlng the mill worker that the democratic tariff would look? after the difference In cost of pro duction here and abroad. - The protection democrat hava tried to compromise with the 'fre trade' democrats, and this, of course, I impossible," Senator McLean said. "You cannot compromise with the arithmetic or the compass. Either you are there or you are not there. If twenty per cent doe not protect, ten per cent will not protect My com plaint la that the democratic party ha broken It sacred promise to the) people of Connecticut. Thl I hav hown from th Hp of those demo crats who alone had authority to do) the promising. If adequate protection Is found' In any rate contained in thi bill. It I there by accident only COL. HALL INJURED. LENOIR, July 80 Early yeaterdajf morning, Col. J. O. Hall had the mls fortune to stumble over chair or some obstacle in his room and waa badly hurt. The extent of hi Injury has not been fully determined by at-' tending physicians, but It la feared one of hi hip joint waa dislocated or that he has suffered the fracture of a thigh bone. After the accident he was placed In bed and had not been moved and cannot bear to be handled. Col. Hall I an old Confederate sol dier and has been In feeble health) for some time. Do KptFolflfeU 5 TRIG PANG STONE SAYS Amusing M "y caaurnmiant -AeTa,
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