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VOL. XXV.
INDICTMENT FOR
MELLEN. 18 OTHERS
CONSPIRACY IS ALLEGED IN IN
DICTMENT RETURNED 3Y THE
GRAND JURY.
MORE CHARGES ARE MADE
Eighteen Persons Indicted Under a
Number of Different Counts. Two
Banks Are Included.
Cambridge, Mass. Eighteen per
sons, including Charles S Mellen, for
mer president of the New York, New
Haven & Hartford and the Boston &
Maine Railroad Companies, Frederick
S. Mosely of F. S. . Moseley & Co.,
Boston brokers, the late Ralph D. Gil
lett of Westfield, and the investment
committees of the two savings banks
of this city, were indicted by the
Middlesex County grand jury on var
ious charges in connection with the
financing of the Hampden Railroad
from Bondsville to Springfield. Mr.
Gillett was president of the Hamp
den Railroad.
, The railroad was built a year ago
as a link to connect the Central
Massachusetts division of the Boston
& Maine with the New York, New
Haven & Hartford Railroad, but
never has been operated, an attempt
to obtain the Legislatures consent
to its lease to the Boston & Maine
having failed.
The indictments against Messrs.
Mellen, Moseley and Oillett allege
conspiracy to induce the investment
committees of the two banks to lend
a total of $45,000 to the corporation.
The notes securing the loans were
endorsed by the Hampden Invest
ment Company , organized by Mr.
Gillett to finance the construction of
the railroad, which cost approxi
mately $4,000,000. . '
The Investment committee of the
East Cambridge Savings Bank is
indicted on three counts of con
spiracy to lend sums of $20,000,
$16,000 ard $5,000 to the Hampden
Railroad Company. Similar indict
ments were returned against the in
vestment committee of the Cambridge
Savings Bank, the amounts named be
ing $25,000 and $20,250.
Frederick S. Moseley was Indicted
also on six counts Involving the alleg
ed larceny of sums amounting to
$112,500 from the banks, and Mr.
Mellen was indicted as an accessory
before the fact on five of these counts.
Ten other counts allege that Mr.
Mellen, Moseley and Gillett, "con
spired to steal and did steal," various
amounts involved in the transactions
with the two banks. Members of the
Moseley brokerage firm were indict
ed on eight counts charging conspir
acy to steal.
District Attorney Corcoran said that
the actual amount loaned by the two
banks to the Hampden Railroad Cor
poration was only $45,000 but as each
of the notes had been renewed several
times, a separate indictment had been
returned for each renewal.
BRITISH WILL LEAVE MEXICO.
British Minister Advises Compatriots
to Leave the Country.
Mexico City. Sir Lionel Carden,
British Minister, advised all British
subjects temporarily to leave Mexico.
He said the shortage of fuel used in
the operation of trains was becoming
more acute daily and that the trains
probably soon would stop running
which would make difficult the depart
ure of persons in the interior.
Sir' Lionel said he believed it to be
"his duty tr urge all British subjects
to leave the Capital immediately. He
especially advised that the women and
children be removed.- The Minister
declared he had no desire to frighten
the members of the British colony.
He said he had not ordered them to
go, such a course only being advised.
Eight hundred British subjects are
registered at the legation as now re
siding in Mexico City.
The legation was crowded with
British subjects. A meeting of the
members of the British' colony was
called for the afternoon with the ob
ject of making arrangements for those
who decided to depart.
Fletcher In Washington.
Washington. Rear Admiral Fletch
r reported to Secretary Daniels on
liis return from Vera Cruz and was
later received by President Wilson.
The Admiral takes command . of the
Atlantic fleet, succeeding Rear Ad
miral Badger on August 1. Admiral
Fletcher was greeted very warmly by
President Wilson .who told him he
greatly admired his conduct at Vera
Cruz and the conduct ,of all the offi
cers and men under him. Secretary
Daniels siaid Admiral Fletcher would
remain In Washington.
-FOR GOD, FOR COUNTRY AND FOR TRUTH."
SEN0RITA HUERTA
.'.ST.-S'.X. -V WSA
- This charming young miss is the
third daughter of General Huerta. She
Is bright and lively and too young to
be oppressed by the political troubles
of her father.
SALEM, iSS. HAS
$2010.000 FIRE
ONE THOUSAND BUILDINGS DE
STROYED, 10,000 RESIDENTS
Made. Homeless.
FIREMEN ARE POWERLESS
Conflagration Started From Explosion
in Leather , Factory and High
Winds Carried Sparks.
Salem, Mass. Nearly half the "Old
Witch City" of Salem, rich In historic
buildings and tradition, was devastated
by a fire that caused an estimated'
loss of $20,000,000. A thousand build
ings were destroyed, including a score
of manufacturing establishments and
made 10,000 of the 45,000 residents
homeless.
The fire originated in the Korn
Leather Facctory on the west side of
the city about 2 o'clock In the after
noon and swept through the shoe and
leather manufacturing district, ruining
every building in a curving path two
miles long and more than a half-mile
wide.
Burning embers, carried by a strong
northwest wind, started fires in two
other sections, the fashionable resi
dential district adjacent to the La
fayette street, and a manufacturing
and tenement house district on the
peninsula, bounded by Palmer's Cove,
South River and the water front.
Late in the evening brands kindled
a fourth fire in the plant of the Salem
Oil Company in Mason street. The oil
tanks blew up with a terrific report
and showers of sparks fell threaten
ingly on a part of the town that be
fore had not been in imminent dan
ger. This Are, however, was checked
after it had destroyed the oil com
pany's plant and 13 houses.
When the flames were under control
at 11 o'clock at night all the historic
and literary landmarks had escaped
destruction. These included the Pea
body Museum, Essex Institute, custom
house, where Nathaniel Hawthorne
did much of his literary work and the
"House of the Seven Gables" made
famous by the novelistr
Thousands of homeless were camp
ed on Salem common and the city
was policed by militiamen.
The great distraction was due to
poor water pressure.
The burned buildings include the
plants of & score f manufacturing
companies, among them the" big fac
tory of the Naumkeag Cotton Mills,
twice as many business places, St.
Joseph's Roman Catholic Church, re
cently erected at a cost of a quarter
of a million dollars, the Orphan
Asylum and more than 200 residences
and tenement buildings. Among
these residences were colonial houses
which artists have declared to be the
finest type of that architecture In the
country.
Wounded by Mayor Mitchel's Pistol.
New York. W. H. Reynolds, a form
er state senator, may be confined to
St. Luke's Hospital fo ra week or
more by the wound Inflicted by the
accidental discharge of Mayor Mitch
el's Pistol, which slipped from its hol-
stej and fell to the sidewalk. The bul
let entered Reynold's left thigh and
shattered the bone of a finger. The
mayor explained; that he was with a
party which had been shooting at a
target and that the accident occurred
later upon alighting from an automo
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PLYMOUTH, N. C,
GAHZA HITS
TIITO CONSIDER
HAS REPLIED TO THE INVITATION
TO ENTER INTO AN INFORMAL
CONFERENCE.
THE TEXT OF HIS REPLY
Wants to Have Consultation With His
Generals Before Announcing Medi
ation Policy.
Washington. Gen. Venustiano Car
ranza, first chief of the Mexican Con
stitutionalists, has replied to the invi
tation extended for participation by
his agents in an informal conference
with representatives of General Huer
ta and the United States, concerning
plans for a provisional government to
Mexico, asking that he be given time
to consult with his generals. ' v
General Carranza, it was learned
here, informed the mediators in his
latest communication that because of
the plan "of Guadaloupe under which
he was chosen first chief of the Con
stitutionalists, it would be necessary
for him to confer with his associates
before entering such important nego
tiations. .
Acceptance of any proposed provis
ional government to succeed Huerta,
he said, necessltarlly might require
some change in the terms of the
Guadaloupe plan and this could not
be done without the consent of va
rious military leaders in the Constitu
tionalist movement.
General Carranza is said to have
assured the mediators he would has
ten the proposed consultation with his
chiefs. Some of the Constitutional
ists representatives in Washington
still insist that General Carranza has
been influenced to look with favor on
the proposal to confer with the United
States commissioners and Huerta
representatives. Others, however, are
not so certain of this outcome and
they insist that, whatever happens,
the military campaign against Huerta
will be pursued with renewed vigor
toward Mexico City, with Aguas
Calientes, San Luis Potosi and Quere
taro as the next objective points of
the revolutionists' armies.
Many perplexing' elements have de
veloped in the situation, however,
anng them being the apparent dis
agreement between Carranza's agents
here over the recent break with Villa
and the publication of the statement
attacking General Angeles, authorized
by Alfredo Bracenda, General Car
ranza's personal aide, who came to
Washington from Saltillo for this pur
pose. HEIR TO THRONE KILLED.
Arch Duke Francis Ferdinand and
Wife Victims of an As
sassin. Sarajevo, Bosnia. Archduke Fran
cis Ferdinand, heir to . Austria-Hungarian
throne, ' and the Dutchess of
Hohenberg, his morganic wife, were
shot dead by a student in the main
street of the Bosnian Capital, a short
time after they had escaped death
from a bomb hurled at the royal auto
mobile. The two were slain as they
were passing through the city on their
annual isit to the annexed provinces
of Bosnia, and Herzegovinia.
The archduke was struck full in the
face and the Princess was shot
through the abdomen and throat.
They died a few minutes after reach
ing the palace to which they were
hurried.
Those responsible for the assassina
tion too kcare that it should prove
effective.
Prlnzip and a fellow conspirator, a
compositor from Treblnje named
Gabrinovch, barely escaped lynching
by the infuriated spectators. They
finally wore seized by the police. Both
are natives of the annexed province
of Herzegovnla. ' 1
Negro Excursion Train Wreced.
HooVinsville, Ky Two trainmen
were killed, one perhaps fatally in
jured and many negroes hurt when a
negro excursion train on the Louis
ville & Nashville Railroad, was
wrecked by spreading rails three
miles south of Trenton, Ky.
..Paris. Frank Moran, of Pittsburg,
'ho was defeated on points by Jack
Jthnson here in a 20-round bout for
tl'e world's heavyweight champion
ship rested today at his camp. John
son also remained at his training
qufrters, nursing a badly , swollen
hand. He received many 1 visitors.
JohAson attributed his injured fist to
the fact that he wore for the first
time four-ounce instead of five-ounce
gloves.' Johnson has agreed to fight
Sam Langford in October. For this
battle he will receive $30,000, win,
lose or draw.
FRIDAY, JULY 3, 1914.
DR. R. H. VAN ESDORF
Dr. Von Esdorf, who is now in Tam
pico helping to make it healthful, is
one of the great malaria experts of
the American public health service.
He went to Mexico from the command
of the Naval Hospital at Mobile.
TERMS OF PEACE
HAVEJEEJ1DE
PROTOCOL SIGNED BY ALL PAR
TIES EMBODIES DIPLOMATIC
RELATIONS.
UP TO THE BELL1GERANTS
No Opposition to the Plan of Settle
ment is Expected From the Con
stitutionalists. Niagara Falls, Ont. Terms for
composing all internal differences be
tween the United States and Mexico
have been concluded. The conditions
under which diplomatic relations will
be resumed were embodied In a pro
tocol signed by the Ambassadors from
Brazil, the Ministers of Chile and
Argentina and the American and
Huerta delegates.
The character of settlement is not
expected to-arouse opposition from
the Constitutionalists, who would par
ticipate in it and to a large degree,
it would mould the adjustment of all
internal disputes!
When a new provisional Govern
ment is established to succeed that
headed by General Huerta Jthe result
of mediation recognized as a tri
umph for Pan-American diplomacy
will become effective.
Coincidentally with the action taken
it was announced that the actual se
lection of a provisional pbsident and
the organization of the jfew Govern
ment, will be left to an Informal con
ference representatives of the Con
stitutionalists Luis Cabera, Rafael
Zubaran and Jose Vasconcelos and
the Huerta delegates to the mediation
conference.
The single outstanding proviso in
the protocol is that the International
problem shall be declared adjusted
on the establishment of a new provis
ional Government. The protocol sets
forth.
"That the United States and Ar
gentina, Brazil and Chile the me
diating countries shall recognize the
new provisional Government and that
thenceforth diplomatic relations be
tween the United States and Mexico
shall Se resumed.
i " "ThatNhe United States demands
no 'indemnity and does not further
exact satisfaction for any of the Inci
dents connected with the patrol of
Mexican waters and invasion of the
country.
"That a commission shall be ap
pointed to adjust private claims
growing out of the revolution and
international Incidents."
Defer Reserve Bank Opening.
Washington. Although August 1 is
the date originally set by treasury de
partment officials for organization of
the Federal reserve banks, it now
seems likely that the organization will
be not earlier than September 1. The
senate's delay in the confirmation of
members of the Federal reserve board
and delay in the choice of directors for
the reserve banks will defeat the plan
to open on August 1. The organiza
tion committee now is busily engag
ed compiling lists of nominations for
irectorships In the 12 reserve banks.
V'
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VILLA- CARRANZA
SPLiTDiSCUSSED
ESTRANGEMENT OF TWO LEAD
ERS IS REOPENED BY AGENT
PESQUEI RA.
' IT IS USELESS TO DENY"
Villa's Statement That he Did Not
Cause Arrests, Was Not Believed
By Any.
El Paso, Texas. Discussion of the
Carranza-Villa estrangment was re
opened by Roberto Pesqueira confi
denital agent for the Constitutional
ists here. He gave out the text of a
telegram in a series of communica
tions with General Villa, in which he
crriticised the Northern military zone
commander for denying the arrests by
his troops of National Constitution
alist officials at Juarez and the confis
cation of National treasury funds
there.
Pesqueira told General Villa that he
considered It useless to deny "the
actual facts so well known here at
the border." General Villa's answer
to this telegram, sent June 20, has
not yet arrived. Pesqueira also is
sued a statement asserting Villa was
surrounded by certain persons, some
of whom were the direct cause of the
disasters that befell the administra
tion of President Madero." '
Pesquelra's telegram to Villa fol
lows: "Your telegram coufirms my belief
in your loyalty and patriotism. The
incidents that have caused comment
in the press have been the violent
arrests of employes of the gobernation
and the treasury departments and the
fact that military, authorities of
Juarez have taken possession of the
funds that , rightfully belong to the
general treasury, so that It is hard to
convince rightful thinking people of
the consistency of your declaration,
so inconsistent with the actual facts
as known here at the border. I verily
believe that if you liberate the em
ployes row held and if the funds of
the treasury are returned the excite
ment and doubt that now prevails
will disappear."
"UndDubtedly due to the many pre
occupations of General Villa incident
to his victorious Zacaecas campaign
he has not had time to answer this
telegram," Mr. Pesqueira said. , "But
I have positive information that he
already has given orders that all
Constitutionalist employes carried to
Chihuahua as prisoners will be al
lowed immediately to return to exer
cise their respective functions at
Juarez and also that he has ordered
that all funds and valuables which
rightfully belong to the National Con
stitutionalist treasury be returned at
once.
$5,000 FOR CHARACTER.
Atlanta Man Recovers For False Ar
rest Instigated by Another.
Atlanta, Ga. J. P. Bateman of At
lanta was awarded damages amount
ing to $5,000 against Frank Rothleut
ner, a Nebraskan who sought to ob
tain a verdict for $20,000 against Mr.
Bateman for an alleged fake pool
room operation., The verdict was
rendered by a jury in the Superior
Court on a counter suit filed by Bate
man. Rothleutn?r charged that Bateman
wa sthj head of a chain of fake pool
rooms in Atlanta, Miami, Palm Beach
and other cities. He represented that
he lost $20,000 on a fake bet in one
of the alleged pool rooms.
Bateman was arrested at the in
stance of Routhleutner but on Septem
ber 24, 1913, all charges against him
were dismissed. ,
Enforce Prohibition in West Virginia.
Fairmont, W. Va. Activity attend
ing preparations for enforcement of
the pronibition amendment was in
creased here when officers, acting un
der ordoii of the state tax commis
sioner, raided the fashionable Fair
mont Country Club. The steward was
arrested, a wagon load of fine wines
confiscated and the lockers of many
prominent members forced and their
contents removed. The raid was
made under the existing law.
Sick Rate on Decrease.
Washington. The sick rate among
the troops at Vera Cruz for the week
ended June 24 was 2.03 per cent for
the army and 2.30 per cent for the
marines, a decrease under the pre
vious week "An analysis of the latest
reports," said a statement from the
war department, "show3 43 sick in
hispitals, 17 sick in quarters, total 60.
Of those sick, 52 are Incapacitated by
disease and eight by injury. There is
a decrease la those suffering from
malaria and a marked decrease In the
intestinal diseases.
Stagfe Ce S CmS
HO.l
proposes ref0rl1
If jury systehi
PRESIDENT ROLLINS OF BAR AS
SOCIATION FAVORS MAJORITY
VERDICT.
THIS APPLIES TO CIVILCASES
Five-Sixths, or Three-Fourths Vote t
Be Required Workmen's Com
pensation, Many Speeches.
Wrightssville Beach. The first ses
sion of the sixteenth annual meeting
of the North Carolina Bar Association
convened here with over 100 lawyer
of the state in attendance. The
meeting was presided over by the.
president, Thomas S. Rollins of the
Asheville bar. He Introduced George
B. Elliott of the Wilmington bar, who
In a short and witty address welcom
ed the visitors to Wilmington and the
beach.
The response was made by Zebulon
Curtis of Asheville, who most cordial
ly reciprocated the kind sentiments
expressel by Mr. Elliott.
Following the addresses of welcome.
President Rollins delivered the presi
dent's annual address, making im
portant recommendations as to the
legal machinery of the state.
Many of the members of the asso
ciation are accompanied by their
families and this will add much to the
pleasure of the meeting. While the
program includes address by notable
speakers, ample provision has been
made for the social features.
There was an address by Chief
Justice Walter Clark on "Reform in
Judicial Procedure." This was fol
lowed by an address by A. L. Brooks
of Greensboro on "The Southern
Lawyer, His Traditions and Oppor
tunities. At the evening session
there was an address by Hon. A. J.
Montague of Richmond, Va.
Rome G. Brown of Minneapolis,
Minn., delivered an address on "Muck
raking the Constitution." This was
followed by reports of committees and
the annual election of officers. The
meeting then adjourned.
NEGRO MURDERER IN JAIL.
Slayer of Sarah Walker is Arrested in
Hickory and . Brought to
Charlotte.
Charlotte. Arrested in" Hickory by
Deputy Sheriff C. L. Gilbert of States
ville and Chief of Police E. W. Lent
of Hickory, Will Stephenson, ' negro,
made a full confession of the murder
of Sarah Walker, colored, while he
was being brought back to this city,
according to Chief of Police Horace
Moore who met him at Statesville
and accompanied him here in an auto
mobile. The negro was placed in the
county jail.
That he dreamed a dream in which
he had killed Sarah Walker, the young
colored woman who was living with
him, and pictured himself as inex
tricably bound in chains from head
to foot; that he awoke to find Sarah
fussing at him, and that .therefore he
drew his pistol from under his pillow
and emptied its contents into her
body, then giving chase and ending
the deadly work with an axe such
is the narrative which the negro re
lated to the head of the Charlotte
police department. For some time,
he claimed, Sarah had been going with
other -men and he had attempted to
persuade her to marry him and give
up all others, but she refused.
"I was on my way to see my
girl, Margaret Barringer," said Steph
enson, whose name has been various
ly given as Stevenson, Stevens and
Stephens. "She lives in Hickory.
Then I was going to go back to Char-
lotte, sit down in the depot and say,
T'm your man.' I know I would be
elctrocuted but all I cared about was
to see my girl one more time." But,
as the fates willed it, he did not see
her.
Wreck at Statesville Kills Two.
Statesville. A serious freight wreck
which occurred about six miles east
of Statesville, resulted in the death of
Thomas Brown, a young man from
Dayton, Tenn., and the probable fatal
Injury of Fred Teasley, also from Day
ton. Both were beating rides.
Continue Prayers For Rafn.
DavId3on. The Davidson people, at
least a portion of them, are sun nop
Ing and praying for rain. Pastor Rich
ards in Yds prayer and thought lead
ing to it made reference to the fact
that the outlook in the heavens was
less promising than it had been since
the noon meetings had begun, that
the weather forecast gave little sup
port to any expectation for rain and
that therefore it was the privilege of
Christian people to appeal to the Al
mighty in humble submission to HL
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