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y ... ' r - 'f . r , r. DOUBLE THE CIRCULATION IN THE CITY OF RALEIGH OF ANY OTHER NEWSPAPER, There Is No Speculation in Newspaper Advertising, if Use Tho Times. a Jl H3TABI1SHED 1871 RALEIGH, N. C ; THURSDAY, JANUARY 6, 1910. PRICE S CENT3 LAST, .V, -0 VICKERSHAM HITS GLAVIS HARD LICKS Attorney General Submits His . Report cn the Pinchot ' . Ballinger Row SEVERE ON GLAVIS Report of Attorney General On His . Investigation of the Charges Made by L. R. Qlavis Against Secretary of the Interior Ballinger . Was Transmitted to Congress by Presi. . dent Taft Today Report is a Com plete Exoneration of Secretary Bal linger GlavU Is Flayed With Un usual Severity for a Public Docu- - ment Shaft Aimed at Pint-hot. (By Leased Wire to The Times) Washington, D. Q., Jan. 6 The report of Attorney General Wicker sham oh his investigation of ' the charges made by L. R. Glavls against Secretary of the Interior Ballinger was transmitted to congress by Pres ident Taft today. The report is a complete exoneration of Mr. Wicker sham's fellow cabinet members as to the charges from which the Ballin-ger-Pinchot row started, but is chlef - ly remarkable for its treatment or Glavls, who is flayed with a severity seldom equalled in public documents. The report also alms a shaft at Chief forester Pinchot, friend and ap pointee of Theodore Roosevelt, whose intervention m. the affair is declared to hare-' been unnecessary. . Glavls charged that Secretary Bal linger aided the government's foes in the fight over Cunningham Alas kan coal mines, which are generally believed to be desired by the Gug genheim interests.- It has been esti mated that 11,600,000,000. is involv ed by the precedent this case will es tablish, and the case itself. ' , In concluding ,hls report, which is nearly 60,000 words in length, the attorney general, after charging Glavls with -conduct tantamount to the suppresion of documents needed in the investigation, delivers the ex coriation. ". "Glavls' action appears ' to have been founded upon a wholly exagger ated sense of his own importance' and a desire for personal advancement rather than on any genuine desire to protect the Interests of the govern ment and this species of megalomania has finally led him to submit to you charges of Improper motives and con duct against his official superiors, tniun, in my opinion, are so unjust tid unfounded as to merit his i mine- late separation from the service." The Glavls charges were the most ksatlonal in the shower of accusa- db that has marked the Ballinger- lnchot controversy. Glavls was for merly inspector of the general land office, and chief of the field division. He had in charge the Investigation of the Cunningham affair. He was removed some time ago by Secretary Ballinger. . 1 Glavls charged officially, and in Informal statement . and writings, that certain influences were at work in an attempt to rush the hearings of the" Cunningham claims case be fore the government was ready to adequately defend its Side. ' - Glavls accused, besides Secretary Ballinger, Commissioner of the Land Office Dennet and Chief of Field Di vision Schwartz, both of whom are cleared by Wlckersham with the sec retary. '. . On August 10, last, Glavls took a summary of bis charges to Chief For ester Plnchot, who advised bim to (Continued on Page Seven.) .;' VEALTI1Y ITALIAN SHOT AND KILLED (By Leased Wire, to The Times) Chicago, Jan. ft Beneditto Oihene. a wealthy clothier and leader In the Italian colony, .was shot to death by three assassins as he lay asleep"- in his bedroom early today. The tragedy !b thought to be the fulfillment of a decree of the black'; hand , . society, Cinene having received and ignored, many letters from that society de manding money. The assassins after threatening to kill lira. Cinene If she followed, made their escape. Following ,the murder,, which aroused the colony to a dangerous frefuy, fifty police and a dozen detectives were detailed from the 'Chicago avenue station to take lin the hunt for jtfto assassins MRS. CYNTHIS ALDEN. J . V . L. Mrs. Cynthia Aldcn, the president of tlie International Sunshine Society, who has been critically watching the various methods of charitable distri bution during the holiduy season She thinks the scheme of the metrpp' oli tan newspapers through which 12,- OOO dinners and 18,000 toys were dis. tributed. is the ideal method that would have been chosen' by her or ganization had it all the meants at its command. FORTY-ONE MEN CLAIMED BY SEA (By Leased Wire to The Times) Halifax, N. S., an. 6 Forty-one fish ermen have ' been- claimed as victims of the sea, acording to reports received today from the fleet of steamers that is cruising Nova Scottan waters in a wide hunt for eight of the boats driven to sea at the height of the storm that is still ranging. More ships were sent on rescue, cruises today. Twelve boats were missing when the tally was taken; four have been found, but there is no hope for the others among those whoknpw the ways of the sea in the north. Four of the missing boats, all of which belonged to the Haddock fleet, hailed from Dover, the other four from Whitehead. In the former were 19 men, in the latter 22. Most of the missing craft are no longer than twenty feet. Without cabins, they afford little refuge to the mariners trapped in such a storm as has ranged along he northern coasts for several days. At least one of the missing vessels Is known to have met disaster. Her wreck was seen on Dokflsh rock by another of her fleet which was scud ding to haven. The crew, of this ship, the . William Feltmate. 'were rescued when they were being driven to sea in a dory. All were in a serious con dltlon from exTOSure. They told a pitiful story of almost reaching safely when they hurled on the rock by wave, wind and. tide. Along the coast, much damage has been done on land by the storm. Re ports are being received slowly but the total loss will be enormous. MOTORMAN WAS KILLED. And the Train Sped Along Without Anyone to Guide It. (By Leased Wire to The Times.) ' Washington, Jan. 6 Unaware of their peril, due to the fact that the motorman, Archie Fornshill, had in some mysterious way been killed, and his body had fallen Into a creek, a quarter of a mile back, many tour ists from here bound for Mount Ver non spend along yesterday afternoon on a train of the Washington, Alex andria & Mount Vernon Railway. The discovery of the absence of the motorman was made by Conduc tor Hutzler. He had Just given a signal for a Stop,' and, on failing to get a response, from the cab, he made an investigation. He found the cab vacant and the train running along of Its own accord. He brought the train t a stop. ' X'.'- The body was found a short dis tance back partially submerged in ice and water in .Little Hunting Creek, near Mount Vernon. The. skull had been ' fractured and ; there, were bruises on the bead. v'i ' It is believed Fornshill was Jarred from his cab. , ' . . COMMISSIONERS NOMINATED. President Ignores Custom and Nomi nate Two Republicans for District Commissioners. .' ; '.' K". ! (By Leased Wife to The Times.) y Washington! Jan. 6 President Taft. today nominated Guno H. Ru dolph and General John A. Johnston, U. 8. A., retired, both republicans, as commissioners of the District of Co lumbia. The president '-ignored the custom of appointing- one commis sioner from the. democratic. party. C. H. ACKER! OF SOUTHERN WILL RESIGN Vice President and General Manager of Southern to go With Western Road A CAPABLE MANAGER President Finlcy Announces Resig nation of Mr. C, H. Ackert, Who Has Been With Southern Road For Many Years Will be Succeeded by Mr. E. HV Coapnian, Now Man ager, Who Has Risen As a Result of Faithful and Efficient Work Mr. Ackert Says There is No Ground For Rumor That He Will Accept Presidency of New Road. - - York (By Leased Wire to The Times) Washington, Jan. 6 The following statement was Issued today from the general offices of the Southern Rail way: "President Finley, of the Southern Railway Company, announced today the resignation of Mr. C. H. Ackert, vice-president and general manager of that company, to accept an official position ..with another railroad com pany the resignation to take effect on January 15. He also announces that Mr. E. H. Coapman, manager, had been pro moted to the position of general man ager, reporting to the president the promotion to become effective, on January 16. The office of manager will be abolished on that date. No other changes are contemplated. "In announcing the resignation of Mr. Ackert and the promotion of Mr. Coapnian, President Finley said: "Mr. Ackert is a very capable man ager. He has served the Southern Railway Company loyally and effic iently, and the good wishes of the management go. with him to his new field of usefulness. : 7" "Mr. Coapman, as division superin tendent, general superintendent, and manager, has shown high efficiency, and his appointment as general man ager is In pursuance of the policy of the company to promote its worthy employes as vacancies occur." ' When. Mr, Ackert was asked by a reporter for the National News Asso ciation later if it was true that he In tends to accept the presidency of the Interborough-Metropolitan Rapid Transit Company, of New York, suc ceeding Mr. Theodore P. Shonts as president, as was rumored several days ago, he said: That report is incorrect. I in tend Joining a railroad in the middle west. I do not care to mention the name of this road this morning, but may do so later in the dajl1! My po sition there, will be that of vice-president. I shall sever my connection with the Southern Railway on Janu ary 16." . GEORGIA A HOQDOO. Battleship Has Had Three Mishaps Within a Month. (By Leased Wire to The Times) Norfolk, Va., Jan. fl While pass ing down Elizabeth River yesterday afternoon the battleship Georgia grounded on the shoal between Lam berts Point and Craney Island light house. It was the third mishap which befell the Georgia within a month and navy superstition calls the vessel a hoodoo. Three weeks ago, the. Georgia,. while at anchor in Hampton Roads, had several holes cut through her outer hull by the propeller of the collier Vestal and a Bhort time be fore that the vessel was in collision with the battleship Nebraska on the southern drill grounds. The shoal on which the Georgia grounded is a dangesous one. IDAHO AGROUND. Battleship Ashore On Pea Patch Shoals, Oft Fort Delaware. (By. Leased Wire to The Times.) Philadelphia, Pa.i Jan. 6 The bat tleship Idaho ran aground today In the Delaware river, on Pea Patch Shoals, off Fort Delaware, where the auxiliary cruiser Prairie went aground when she-started for Pana ma with 700 marines a month ago. it Is reported that the Idaho has lit tle chance of getting free soon. V Steps for her Immediate ' release were taken at the League - Island, THE CZAR OF RUSSIA. t ' j r '.v v rr J Photo hSt J ummnonx It i Jfi The Czar of Russia, against whose life another .plot was recently dis covered and foiled. ' The Czar is the most plotted against ruler jn the world. The latest, attempt was the placing of bombs in the basement of i the house in Moscow, to be used when the Czar and Czarina should visit that city.. ;, ; ',;'.'-:..;., ARMED MEN HOLD UP BANK f- v . (By Leased Wlr to The Times) New York,' Jani 6 Four armed men attempted toi rob the banking establishment of H. Korn, at 1020 Manhattan avenue, Green Point, in broad daylight tday. ' ,i Samuel Korn..i:.-i' otAfl bank er, and chief clerk, was shot through the chest defending the Bafe and will probably die. The four men were Tfaptured after a chase of more than a quarter of a mile, down crowded Manhattan avenue, in which police men, citizens and even school chil dren took part, The daring attempt to rob the bank took place during the noon hour. The four men had evidently chosen a time when they knew that the other clerks would have just gone out for luncheon. They walked quietly up to the counter, and as Samuel Korn glanced up, he found himself facing four re volvers. ' "Hand out the money in that safe!" commanded one of the men. Instead of reaching for the money Korn dodged suddenly and called to his brother. Then the shooting be gan. Although the range was very short the two Korns rushed at the men and evidently contusett tneir aim, for more than a dozen shot were fired only one took effect. Samuel Korn was shot through the left side of the chest in the heart re gion and dropped to the floor. The noise they had made in firing and the yells of the other Korn alarmed the bandits and they dashed down the streets. The uproad attracted the attention of dozens of men on the streets and headed by policemen they gave chase to the bandits. A large public school in the neighborhood had just turned the children- out for the noon, recess and hundreds of these joined in the pursuit in the crowded street. All four of the men were cut off and captured within five or Bix blocks and taken to the Manhattan avenue station. Here they refused to give their names. An ambulance was called and Korn was taken to St. . Mary's Hospital. He is not expected to live. , STATE DEPARTMENT IS ANTAGONISTIC (By Leased Wire to The Times.) Washington, Jan. 6 -Although the state department has assumed a slightly more antagonistic attitude against the Madi-ix . administration owing -to despatches received from Vice Consul Caldera at Managua, telling , of a con-. temptuous reference to American naval officers at Grenada, there is no dispo sition on the part of Secretary of the State Knox to force .matters for the time being. Confidence ' In - General Estrada Increases as detailed state ments of his 'military movements are received., The reports .sent out from Managua and' thought Vo be Inspired that he is now seeking peace and may be willing to retire fron the field) in favor of Madrls are not credited here-) in view of hlflat rejection of such offers from , his- opponents . only a few daya ago, w .LVji'i': THE COUNTRY IN GRIP OF SLEET STORM Storm Threatens to Outdo the Christinas Blizzard In Havoc WIRES PROSTRATED Property Damage Runs Into Millions. Railroad Business is Demoralized and Telegraph Wires Are Prostrat- : ed ( Jrcater New York a Vast 1 Skating Rink Toduy Hundreds of , People Injured and the Town Did Its Work With the Greatest Dif-1 Acuity Every Hospital in the City Kept Busy Fuel Famine In Chi- : cago. (By Leased Wire to The Times) New York. Jim. 6 The north,, east ahd south are . in the grip of a sleet, rain and snow storm that threatens to: outdo in bavoc the great Christmas' blizzard. The property damage runs Into the millions, railroad schedules have been upset and telegraph wires prostrated. Greater New York, from the out skirts of Brooklyn to -.upper'- Haliem and the outskirts of the Bronx, was a vast skating rink today. With tho streets for mile upon mile covered with A thin blanket of glassy Ice; hundreds of persons were injured, traffic seriously crippled, and the town did its work under tho reatest difficulty. Every; nospitai m the city was kept busy, i So severe was the storm that he ! port instead of sailing, as was planned, after its holiday here. In the North Kiver tne Dig Datiesnips nucKea tne heavy ice floes, tugging at their an- chors. The Hudson for a third of its length was one mile floe; for the rest; i u;e-uuveieu. reiver u-tuuu auuui r New York was seriously hampered. Raging with terrific fury throughout the night, the storm created suffering among the poor and hundreds of home less were driven, to any available shelter. The Municipal lodging house was again crowded. Although the cold snap had some what abated this morning and rain was falling, the best the weather man could do today was to promise the possibility of relief from the ice pave ments later on. Early in the day a low, sinister fog, overhung tho bay and the two rivers that grasp Manhattan, and thousands of commuters and Brooklynites wero delayed. Ferry boats poked along at minimum speed and the damp af fected the subways and tho elevated lines. No ship that could -be hid In porl ventured out at the height of the storm. The example of the Albert a and the Madonna, the first victims .of the storm, bave warning. The Alberta running to tho Constable Hook, N. Y., was thrown ashore at Governors Island and pulled off with difficulty. The Madonna, of the Fabre Line, ran ashore . Buttermilk. Channel, off South Brooklyn. A fleet of tugs was work ing to help her off today. Fuel Famine In Chicago. Chicago, Jan. 6 With the thermom eter four degrees below aero and pros pects of continued cold, Chicago today is in tho grip of a fuel famine as a result of the worst sleet storm and blizzard In 25 years. With every train coming into Chi cago today from ten minutes to twenty hours late, the freak storm of rain and sleet has managed to tie up the transportation lines worse than any previous storm of the winter. Railroad schedules cannot be restored for sev eral days. Coal dealers assert that they are ex periencing great difficulty In filling orders. A forty percent increase in total consumption, inability of the railroads to make prompt deliveries and the neceslty for unlouding tho teams on account of slippery condition of the streets are assigned as causes of the famine. Only an abatement of present weather conditions, which are perhaps tho moBt severe since the winter of 18S5. and the coining of warm weatherman pro vent great suffering. "Elareback" In Washington. Washington, Jan. 6 The sleet-cover ed streets, which late yesterday practl cally tied up all but street car traffic height of 30 feet Aviator Mell, an In Washington, was the cause 'of a Englishman, was badjy hurt today at number of accidents during the after-I'Cannes. His aeroplane was demol noon and night, . Thel frozen particles ished. Mell was -. making a test which came from the sky, were like those which preceded the disastrous "fjareback" of March , 4th last. . iiey accumulated upon the street and pave, ments, giving them, an, icy covering tohtchi made travelling difficulty, for man 'and beast alike. , Humane drivers unhitched -their, horse leaving th ve- hlcles standing In the streets. Heeding IvouUuiWi on Page Civ.l , Tk)8 OS McK. TWOMBLY. Hamilton Mcli. Twoinbly, who is seriously ill. He is a son-in-law of the late William H. Yanderbilt,' by whom lie was inducted into the tiiian cial world of the Vanderbills and kept there ever since. He is known s tt mod-heurted financier, ' SERIOUS FIRE IN RICHMOND (By Leased Wire to The Times) Richmond, Va.. an. 6 Fire which started in tho dental department of the third floor of the University Col- lege 0f Medicine shortly before 4 o'clock this morning utterly wrecked that big lce coated. By the most heroic work the Virginia Hospital which Is separat- e(j"from the college only by a bridge wafl saved. Between thirty and forty ''terror - stricken patients were hurriedly removed to residences in the neighbor- no0(j w,je others were picked Up bodily by the first people arriving and the hospital attendants and removed safely to the Sheltering Arms Hospi tal. Some of tho patients, ill with pneu monia, were brought down to the ground floor to be carried out in the event that the flames spread to the building. In a. way, the fire 'was the moat dangerous the department was ever called to subdue. Within an hour or so. however, the flames were under control. Several cases of heroism among the nurses helped to prevent a panic In the hos pital. j It is. estimated that the total loss will roach jl Eiu.Mio or Kiuo.ouo. MAV K.TKXI SCOl'K Inveslifjiiiiou Committee (o Aunculliiral Department. or the (l!y Leased Wire to The Times.) . .Washington, '.Jan. li It is, under stood thai, the house may endeavor In fuilargo (lie scope of the Humph rev 'resolution- providing for an in vestigation of the department, of the interior, the general land office and the bureau of forestry, so as to pro vide for a general investigation of the agricultural department instead of limiting it to the bureau of fores try. Senators contend that if an in quiry into the conduct into the affairs of the entire agricultural department he thought advisable, that matter should lie left to a separate com mittee, else the labor imposed upon the joint committee to be appointed will be so great that its task cannot be completed in time1 to be of value in assisting in the enactment of ne cessary legislation. Antarctic Expedition.-. . (By Cable to The Times) London, Jan. n Official an nouncement was made today that the government lias contributed $100,000 for the British Antarctic expedition of 1910, which is to be headed by Captain Scott. In other ways the government will do its utmost) to gain for Britain the honor of discov ering tho south pole. Hurled From Aeroplane. : (By Cable to The Times) Paris, Jan. 6 Hurled from a flight 'ith a Bleriot plane. Rain in Alabama. (By Leased' Wire to' The TinieB) Birmingham, AUw Jan. 6-rRaln, which, set . in last night at .dusk is still falling here and streams, are swollen. No drop in temperature has occurred. THEDEJANON GIRLHASBECiJ KIDNAPPED Letter Has Been Received by Grandfather of Roberta de Janon Demanding Ranso GIVEN TO POLICE Mr. Ituist Would Not Divulge Con tents of the Communication Po lice Were Called in and it Was De- . cided to Ignore the Demand, tor Ransom and Redouble Efforts to Locate Missing Girl Wife of Cohen, the" Waiter, Would Not Show Detective the Letters Which it is Said Were Written by Miss Do Janon to Cohen. (By Leased Wire to The Times) Philadelphia, Pa., Jan. 8 A letter demanding a ransom for Roberta De Janon, tho $10,000,000 heiress who eloped with waiter Cohen, was received today by Robert Buist millionaire grandfather of the girl. ' Mr. Buist would not divulge the con tents of the communication further than to let It be known that a ransom had been demanded. As soon as he received it he communicated with, hia lawyer, Henry F. Walton, who noti fied Superintendent of Police OLeary. Buist, Walton and OLeary then held a conference at which it was decided , to ignore the demand for a ransom and redouble the efforts to locate Cohen and the girl. . - Mrs. Henrietta Cohen, wife -of 'the, waiter , defied ;tl,e'i liolld"(lepartment j when detectives called on h'ef .At he ? home In that city and demanded . the love letters alleged ' to bave been written to Cohen by Miss De Janon. 'Those letters are locked up in my trunk," said Mrs. Cohen, "You shall shall not have them. I will not even let you look at them." The detective then told her that it had been said that the leters were forgeries and he wanted to see them and satisfy himself as to whether the girl wrote them. . "1 do not care what you want to- satisfy yourself about," Mrs, Cohen replied, "Thlse letters are going to re main in my possession and you shall not take them away,' The detective then gave up his efforts to get possession of them. Superintendent OLeary declared when he learned of the stand taken by Mrs. Cohen, that he believed she only had one letter written by Miss De Janon in her possession. "And that is not a love letter" added O'Leary. "It is a note she wrote to the waiter about serving meals to her." The Philadelphia police learned to day that Cohen was a race-track gambler, and owned an Interest in a horse at the Tampa track. The search for the missing pair was extended to the south as a result of this discovery : but. it was in no way lessoned In tho other parts of the country. THAW SELLS GRAVE PLOT. Sold Plot In Pittsburg Cemetery to His Sister. (By Leased Wire to The Times.) New York, Jan. 5-Creditors of Harry K. Thaw, now In Matteawan, today received from William R. Blair, the referee in his bankruptcy proceedings in Pittsburg, a notice of the sale of Thaw's various assets to his sister, Alice Copley Thaw, yho was the Countess of Yarmouth,, and wi'Ui the list of assets sold her Is, one item. Thaw's own grave in the Alle gheny cemetery.- , , Thaw held a one-fifth interest in the family burying plot, that interest meaning the little stretch of sod in which he would be buried at death. This he sells to the former countess for $50. ACCUMtlULATED GAS IN OVEN EXPLODES Jamestown, N. Y., Jan, 6 Ga ac cumulated in. the drying, ovens in the ' enamelling department of , ths A1 strom Metal Door Co. and exploded early today. The blast killed,, one. man, fatally injured two others, and caused -lesser Injuries to a dozen others,The dead, Gust Johnson, night, .foreman, ; ' ,Fa.talIy injured: William Smith; Bernard. Magnussen. . , -1 '', The explosion occurred at an early1 hour when only a': few men were in the plant, or the loss of life Would have ' been. heavy, ;.. ,,'., )'-r. t " v . A section of , the- roof fifty fet square,,, was blown from the1 bull ?, -'-and the force of the concussion was
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