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prSENDS HOT NOTE Beuut Ma4r>e Said United States PrtUaged far ia Nicaeraaga. TOOK IMMEDIATE ACTION K ? Tbf Secretary or Mate In an OtUcial filMtoment Outlined the Govern* ment'.t I'oUcy Toward the Two Fx<Uom Madri^'a lYutest He paired Sp?r?'Utl Action. A dispatch from Washington says Madriz has drawn from this government a sharp reply to the protest he made to President Taft, claiming that the Untted Staffs had prolonged the war- In tftoaragura because it refused to allow the bombardment of UluefletdB, or eveo to allow the Venus to maintain the blockade there. Consul OUveree at Managua has been furnished with a statement which the codbuI has been directed to hand to Madriz. It tersely observes that if any violation of netraiity has occurred, it was when the Venn* sailed from New Orleans or an- expedition of the Madriz faction. Madriz protested not to the United States alone, but to all the South American and Central American republics. The statements which he set forth in his telegrams are construed by the state department as nothing less than an effort to place In a false light the policy the United States ha* adopted with dealing with the Nlcar&guan affairs. apposition tlV-reocmfwy etaoinslir Some of the governments which received his protests have asked for mrormation irom wasntugton upon which to bane their replies, and there has been au exchange of telegrams between President Diaz ot Mexico and President Taft. President ?tu, it is explained, merely asked for Information and President Taft. replying in a cordial manner, seut U> the government of Mexico City the same statement that Consul Oliveres has been directed to hand to Mudrir.. Secretary Knox Immediately decided that the Madriz protested required the special notice of this go\'ernm'nt because the allegations made evidently were founded on error as to the actual facts and the ' applicable principals of international law. "A reply was demanded," an / flcial statement Issued today say -? "because the United States would hesitate to allow to pass unchal1 longed a statement from any source which might tend, to however slight a degree, place its position In a false light." The statement which Consul Oliveres has been instructed to hand to with Secretary Knox's policy of keeping both factions informed of this government's attitude has also been sent to the Estrada faction, is as fplows: ij?e poucy or tne united states remains as set forth In the secretary of 'atat'a letter of Dec. 1, 1909. to Mr. Rodrtguee. then charge d'aifalre whereby relations with the Zelaya govern ment were broken off. That letter and statement 01 the consistent applications of the same policy to conditions as they arose were duly published. "As to the statement made in the telegram of Dr. Madriz to the President, the government of the United States took only the customary step of prohibiting bombardment or lighting by either faction within the unfortified or ungarrisoned commercial city of Blueflelds, thus prot cting the prepoudering American and other foreign interests just us the British commander had done at (Ireytown where there are large Hriti&n Interests. The government of United States has acknowledged the right of ?ach faction to maintain a blockade but has refused to permit vessels illegaty and clandestinely filed out in American waters, to interfere with American commerce. "The government of the United States simply insists that each faction shall collect duties only for t.r ritory under its* de facto cntrl, and refuses to permit tha collection of double duties. "If any violation of neutrality baa occured, It was in conectlon witb the sMling of the Venus from New Orleans as an expedition of the Madriz faction. Attempts Suicide. Leaving a note in which he declared that ,'the wages of Bin is death, Horace O. Noon, aged 16. who registered at an Atlanta hotel from New York city, but who claims that his home is in the state of Washington attempted to commit suicide Fridaj afternoon la his roo mat the hole by shooting He is in a serious con ditien at a hospital. ' Tlonih Bursts ?t IVurvn*. 'A bomb was exploded with fata results in a squad of gendarmes a the Gorzisk station on the Wnn railroad, thirty miles from Warsaw Russian Poland, Friday. One of th gerndarmes was killed and four r? helved mortal wounds. The bom thrower was arrested. DYING IN HOSPITAL HIT SAVED PASSENGERS FROM LIVE WIRE. Motormnn Endeavored to Save the PtUMtngfTH of lli<< Car, While Himself Sustaining Fatal Injuries. Charles Diver, a motoruian, lies from injuries he sustained Sunday while endeavoring to save passengeiB on his ear from t.he deadly electric fluid of a broken feed wire. The car, with others, had been stopped where overhead wires were In progress on the Cabin John Hridfee line. The passengers had ieft the car and were walking about. Two young women approach- < cd too near the sputtering feed wire. ] Diver saw their danger, leaper for- < ward, bi ashed them aside, and with t | a newspaper in his hand, seized the ; I wire. The current hurled him back i against his car and his clothing t burst iuto flames. I As scores of people looked on | shuddering at the spectacle of the j burning man, some one sprung forward and smothered the flames with * a coat. Diver was then litted and j borne to the bank of the Potomac > river nearby where water was thrown on him and fruitless efforts < made to bring him back to con- t sciousness. It was long after he t reached t.he hospital that he regain- i ed consciousness. His wife, who had been a mother but two weeks \ and w ho had risen and come to his s side, was told that there was little < chance of his recovery. It.\INS Hl'ltT COTTON. Favorable Week Iteported for Crop Fvropt in Three States. The Commercial-Appeal of Memphis. T'-nn., Monday published the following summary of the cotton crop conditions: "The past week was favorable to the cotton crop except iu the two Carolinas and parts of Oeorgin, where the rainfall was excessive, washing the liehls and d* laying cultivation so that grass is feared. The Carolina fields were damaged by flooding. Otherwise it appeared that a week of bright w? ather will repair much of the loss. "The crop has rot grown rapidly and is still small for the season, the nlant ei s.?..iti. ? hqwever. and would grow very last ' with high temperature day and | night. In many sections wher there are complaints, correspondents ' anticipate much l?etter reports next week it' the weather is warm. it * would seem that a week of dry I weather would put the crop in ex- 1 cellev.t shape as to cultivation over 1 the South. "In Texas the soil is dry hut as yet little hurt has been received. Moisture is needed, however, to stimulate plant growth. Boll weevils do not app-ar numerous, although in .Mississippi ai:d some sections of Ixiuisiuna they are more so. In general dry. warm weather is needed in east I'exus and Oklahoma, while rains would be ben fieial in these two states." * COMIRMNKD NKtlHO KM AI'KS. All in livuditusH tor His Kxecution He K.srap?sl. All preparations had been made to hang (1 orge Fields, a negro, at West i'alm Beach, Kla., Friday. The scaffold was erected, the rope had been teste.; and the witnesses invited. The only t.'iing luekinc was the min He escaped from Jail at St. Augustine Thursday night, where he had been held for safe, keeping. In the meantime, not knowing of th escape. Gov. Gilchrist wired a respite of u week pending investigation into newly discovered evidence in the ease. T.he negro esc ped by overpowering a deputy duriug a religions service being conducted in preparation for his death. * rucked Alive in Trunk. Th?* police of New York are apparently balked at the skilfully planned murder of Moses Sachs, Lbe aged jeweler, who was murdered for $3,000 worth of dlanion is and $M00 lo bank bills and then stuff* d into a trunk which was found Saturday. It is the hope of the police that bue trunk can be traced to the debtor and thence to the purchaser. The autopsy shows bhal the old man was phokril into ir*zi nalMllfv u??<l .?% put alive in the trunk. by < 'ar Wheel*. Marcus C'ulp, a negro about six' teen years oid, while attempting to i boaril a freight train, at Manchester , Mill, near Hock Ifill. Saturday, fell f und?T the ears and had both legs 1 mashed to a pulp. He was carried to llock Hill for medical att- ntion. ' The boy never recovered from the shock sufficiently to be operated on. I Pint Writ ins to Husband. a While sitting at a writing table r, addressing a letter to her husband e Mrs. Thomas Humphries, of Wash' ington Ga., died suddenly Monday U morning at 10..10 o'clock at Ute hom of her father. MAKES REPORT Baj4-"rack Case Naw With Gareriar Aisel Far Decision I TESTIMONY REVIEWED Assistant Adjutant Onerul William T. Hi-ook exonerated of Political Charges.?It Is Thought that the I Office Will He .Made an Appointive . One in the Next Few Years. 2 The court of inquiry sitting Kriiay night exonerated William T. ' flroek. the assistant adjutant generul. ' >f the charge of acting a political 1 raitor to J. C. Boyd, the adjutant ] p neral, but eondemued his actions . n several iustanres with reference o the tiling of expense accounts and j lis expenses Incident to the iusp'c- j ions of the State tuilitlu during the >aat several years. I The court in its report severely , jriticisr d the general system of til- j tig -xpense accounts as practiced by , Tol. Brock. All of the testimony taken by the rourt is reviewed in detail. The . ourt reached no decision as to what4 j >teps should he taken, hut simpiy \ , reported the facts in the case. It is left with Uov. Ansel as to . ( what action will be taken. (?ov. Au-J. tel instructed the members of the , rourts to make the report public. | jov. Ansel will no doubt make souie ( innouucement when lie returns to he State. , As to Col. Brock's expenses while , n Columbia during the period of , nspection, the court holds that by 1 io rule can this charge to the State' , ?e justified. With reference to the letter of ; Jeneral Boyd, in which he charged i hat Col. Brock "has wantonly wast- ( d the State's money,' it is held by 1 ( :ho coiirt that the evidence fails to iisclose any criminal intent on the tart of Col. Brock, hut "that he was infortunately ignorant of the rospon- i nihility of the high trust reposed in liiu and careless and extravagant in ? j.o uuiiiiiiidii uuuii i?1 int' fl'UHt. In reviewing the ru^'enge hook harges as to the number of mileage , >ooks used by Col. Brook, the court lays: "It appears to tho court that Jie public business did not .cmami | ?o much travel on the part of the ?ccused ofllc r." Concerning the filing of expense : accounts by (Jol. Brock with the | comptroller general, the court says: 'If such has heen the custom of t.he jflice it is to b-% condemned, but we fail to see wherein this eau justify Col. Brock in filing in the office of the comptroller general accounts containing items which were false and whicJi he knew to be false at the . time." The members of tho court who j were appointed by Gov. Ansel are. | Wilie Jones, brigadier general; t*;l. William W. Ivewis. of the Firs. regiment. Col. Bdwin 11. Cox. of the Second regiment and Col. Julius K. Cogswoll of the Third regiment. Gen. Jones was the president of the court and Col. CogswelJ t-h* recorder. \ The court was to have met Fri-j day morning at 9 o'cb>ck. It was found that Col. Lewis would be unable to attend, so the session wur postponed until 9 o'clock Friday n ight. Se veral weeks ago Adjt. Gen. Boyd announced that he would not offer for reelection. Following this announcemet W. T. Brock, the assistant adjutant general, announced his ir.t ntion of entering the race for adjutant general. For several days tli.ire was noil;-' ing said concerning the situation in the adjutant general's office. G n. Boyd went to Charleston nml Grunge- I burg. When lie returned - ^1 - ? I very bitter toward Col. Brock and issued a slatem -nt to the press to which he charged that his assistant had acted as a political traitor.. When the first statement was issued Col. Brock was making the animal inspection of the State militia. He Immediut' ly directed a letter to Gov. Ansel, asking that he appoint a court of inquiry to Investigate the charges of Adjutant General Boyd. Gov. Ansel took the matter under ad\ isj^ment and did not appoint the court at that time. While Gov. Ansel was considering the matter ol' appointing a court of | inqutry, Ad.It. Gen. Boyd went to him with a statement as to the Itemized expanse account of Col. Brock. I.ater Gen. Boyd Issue J a statement in which he charged Col. Brock with wasting the money of the State while making the annual inspections of tile State militia during the past four years. Several other charges were made in the letter , "v*u I iu an unofficial way called upon Gov. Ansel to appoint a court of inquiry , to investigate the expense accounts 'of Col. Brock Again Gov. Ansel | took this charge under advisement [in au unofficial way. in the meantime Col. Brock completed the inspections of the State militia and r turned to Columbia. Before Gen. Boyd made public his I charges. Col. Brock went to Governor Ansel and asked If a paper j\ad not ' been filed with him by Gen. Boyd ^Gor. Ansel explained the charges ol Gea. Boyd as to the expense account / ~ * CITIES PROVIDED FOR PUBLIC BUILDING MKASIKK RK PORTKD TO HOUSK. Conference* He(?t>en l.t-adcrs Intfi c?tf thnt I'usMtfte of Bill Is As *uml. An omnibus public building bill carrying authoridutiocs for unuro pt'Laiions aggregating $ 19,288.500 with $.'{.0ST..000 additional, for con tinuing contracts aver varying per iods, was reported to the House oi Saturday. This action, while anticipated foi jeveral months, is unusual during : session when a river and harbor ap propriation bill has been passed Itoth measures are popularly calle* "l>ork barrejs." ai\d they have hut in unbroken history of altcrnutini irn the past. Congress never passini both at the same session. Conferences that have been hel? between President Taft and leader )f both houses of Congress, inciu-' ing Speaker Cannou, apparently as sure the enactment of the bill iut< law. The bill makes liberal proviitc.i for plans for new and imposing pub lie buildings in Washington city where the Government now pay $500,000 in annual rentals to privati vwners. It authorizes the prepara ation of designs and estimates fo three new department buil lings, oi sites previously actjuir-nl?f ?r tti departments of Stat'. jtts.*c? and i?; bor v hose ultimate cost is liraite* to 18.000.000; for a new city post uflico building at the new t itort sti? lion, at $3,000,000, and i n?.?d t ifV.ee building, to accommodate t'?< geological survey. Indit i i* i?.n*t*?: nil mines bureaus, at $2,500,000 The appropriation for South C>n liu.i were Henuettsville. $ >'? 00ti ['am.Ion, $50,000; Columbia. $75, poo. iiKAIt IH.OWN OK P. No One Knows Mow Young huniic Met Tragic Knd. Carter Parks. a young former re tiding over the North Carolina line ?:i VH - ! .liwliotnk 1 - ?? .. !?!? ?? ? u i | v ill I <tl IM'ilhUT, SO! >f M. Alutdey Parks of Lancuste tummy, met with a mysterious am tragic death last week. On Wednes Jay afternoon he left his home on ; short business errand, and not re turning, a search was instituted b, family and fri nds. Nothing wa seen or heard of -him until Frida morning, when his dead body wa found near the spring on his place His head was nearly shot off N further particulars are to be obtai ed. (. vrniDis Hat I Narrow Kscape. A dispatch front Louisville. Ky says Closer no is of four states ha narrow cscup s Sunday while ridi 11 from Versailes to Frankfort in a automobile, when lightning twic struck near them. Those who wer In tlit? party included (!ov, Hadle; of Missouri, ai d his wife; (!ov. Ai sel, of South Carolina; Gov. Sloat of Arizona, and Gov. Wilson, of Ket tucky. and his wife. At oue pt?ii the lightning struck a railroad ra near them ami sparks were throw over them. I.cg Shattered by Itullct. K. A. Fuller, of .McCorniick. traveling salesman, was accidental sb< t in the leg 1>> .lames F. Ki mnnils on Stevens creek Saturdi afternoon. The bull t. which wi from a Winchester rille. struck M Fullers leg between the knee ai the a nle, shattering both t?f tl hones. Train Wrecks Auto. Italijlt C. I'roudfit, *2S years ol and lis nephew, Kenneth I'roudt: 22 y.irs old, were instantly kill? and liv others in the machine wii them were serionsly injured Su day right at Chicago when an (Ili ois Central r.?u down It. C. I'rou fit's auto. To Gov. Ansel Col. Brock gave a ss isfactcry explanation., j When the charges of wasting tl ! State s money was mad-* pnblie 1 Gen. Boyd. Col. Brock went to Go I Arsel and insisted upon a t.horouj i investigation of his entire record assistant adjutant and inspector ge |er:?l ol' the State. 'Jo". Acs I after taking the matt , mi vr advisement for some time. a pointed the court of inquiry. At t hearing before the court of inquii which was appointed to get the fat in the case, many matt rs of int< est were developed. The most i I portaut matter brought out was f I lax business system of the otllce adjutant and inspector general. | It is very probable that the oft I of adjutant general will be made I appointive one This opinion 1 been expressed fr ely in military t e|es of the Stat<? and si nee the sin I tion in the adjutant general's oil i j h is been so thoroughly aired and ' j people have been shown jnst how . 1 ol".ce is run. it Is expected that wl . | In the next two years the militia f th" State will ask that the legislat make the otllce appointive. " TEDDY'S HOME Vast Crnwd Welcomes Hutcr Back From Elbaesqae Jungles. AROUSING WELCOME >len I'runiintut In nil Walks of Life i and from all Parts of the COun> | try Were On Hand to Hid Him l Welcome. Will Have NothlnK to i i Say About Politics. I r Theodore Roosevelt set foot on 1 i home shores for the first time In ( - about fifteen mouths and received | a rousing welcome on Saturday us i 1 he landed at New York. ( j The sharp crack of the familiar r presldentlan salute awakened Mr. 1 ] Roosevelt at seven o'clock as his I ship, the Kaiserin Auguste Victoria. i ^ drew into the harbor. From the t H mists of early morning emerged the l drab hull of the battleship South t Carolina, two lean, swift destroyers < ^ and two torpedo boats b> hind her. ; Then spoke the guns. Illue clad i sailors lined the decks in close packed ranks, while massed on the i quarter deck of the South Carolina 1 ! stood the marine band, a solid splash i ^ of searlet coats, pounding out ' The i Star Spangled Banner." < It did not take the colonel long I J to get on the bridge, dressed for the formalities of the dav in a frock ? p coat and a top hat. For a moment 1 j ive stood bare-headed and waved to the men in silent answer to their cheers. Then the sight of the South i , Carolina touched a heart string. n "Ry (leorge, that's one of my \ slfkps. he exolaitued. "doesn't she < look good. 1 built her and those i torpedo boats, too." < He bore with his usual hoyancy a I day of heavy fatigue, public duties I , ind private emotions coutiugled and \ it 4:40 o'clock that afternoon left the city ho had surveyed the same < morning from afloat, reviewed in ' parade ashore and greeted by ex- i 1 pliclt word of mouth to be welcome t more intimately by his life-long 1 neighbors at Oyster Hay, L. 1., that II i W \\ t As a private citizen he was still the same vigorous man the city has 1 known for .*50 years in various public offices from assemblyman to president. He had an expainslve smile for everybody, a cheery word for "the j boys." his old friends the newspaper men, a pat an? odote for politicians, especial greetings of affection for his old o< mtnand, the Rough Riders, , and a quick eye for absolutely every"o j thing. "Roosevelt good luck" still folc ( lowed its namesake. Though hot and suiry. t'te weather held fair until the murine parade, the exercises at the battery and the march up Hroadway and Fifth avenu* to ^ (Central park had been carried K through with punctuality and precis11 ion. Then it rained great guns. A '** torretntial t.hunder shower, accom4> pauied by a high wind that did much damage, swept suddenly down <?n th-? homeward bound visitors, but ' cleared again shortly before tive o'clock. 11 I The welcome of Roosevelt was shot through with a damatlc expec11 taucy which long ago found popular expression in the typical phases, "the return from Klba." His welcome brought, men proma incut in' all walks of life from ail >' parts of the country?therefore it i- was national. i.v The lirst zest of public, curiosity ?s sutistied, speculation now turns on r. what share Roosevelt will take in id ait acute political situation within !?' na n hurt v ll*\t ^v.? * speculation must rest unsatisfied. The Col. has positively declared hfs intentions by wireless th?' night bed, fore: "I shall .have nothing whatever it, to say in the immediate future about d politics." He kept his word. 11. -T herefore there was nothing in n- the only speech he made at New n- York Saturday that could be cond strued as. applying specifically to this or that phase of immediate ? State or uational issues. That he d- vCill be importuned to take a hand in the New York campaign this fall he is a foregone conclusion, but by by ills own declaration he will not rotalV mif himself to any expression of sh opinion until he has acquainted hlmas self at first hand with Just how thn political Isimd shapes itself. cr Another Aeroplane Hecord. Watter llrooklns. in a Wright bihe rj. plane, at Indianopolis, Ind., broke the world's aeroplane record for al,r. Yldue Friday when he soared to a n height of 4.SOU feet. according to the measurement of the altimeter. (>t- His motor stopped as he was descending. and he made a glide of two j miles. landing easily in a wheat an flo'dKlS ! .j,._ i Saw <'ompanion Hmwn. ns?. Several days ago John Kerby, a negro man working for the constructs Hon gang IS miles north of Wadesthe Uj'oro, N. (*., was drowed while atth ftemptlng to cross the river. Three of i other negro men were on the bank ure | not over ten feet away when Kirby , was drowned, but did not offer aid.* *Y FEIGNS TRAGIC SUICIDE WORKS OrT DKTAIL8 Of' GRIM DRAMA. Buys Drug. TeJLs Krirndt (rood-hya and Lies Down to IMe.?Curtaim Kalis on Tragedy. Because his wife left him ten days igo and has never Informed him of here whereabouts. Charlie Kelly, living at No. 408 West I'almer St.. Uharlotte, N. C., bade his friends goodbye, and made .his neighbors oelieve he had attempted to end hu? life by the laudanum route. His jlans were indeed true to moderndav itories. He lay prostrate on the bed iur urealn and on the floor beside the tn*d lay an empty laudmum. A threatening note graced he table. Neighbors stood around his deathbed and others gathered iu expecting :o look upon one Charles Kelly, deceased. when the physician Inserted the stomach pump. Kelly could no longer stand tdne tickling sensatioh on his insides as the learned doctor pumped whiskey from hi? ilimentary canal. He instantly forgot the sleeping effect the laudanum which he poured out of the window rdiould have had on him and hw burst forth in vilest vituperation aui abuse, waving his attendants aside and wishing them to leave him to lie so his soul could restrain iu 'he bottomless pits of Hades. Kelly works for the l.adew I,eatn?r Melting Company on South College street. He is noted lor his bib ulous capacity and it may b th-,c for this reason his wife left blan ten days ago. She has not b- < n heard from since and Kelly ru.u'o threats to kill her and himself. Me a rote a note to h- r sister asKing her if she knew anything about his wauiering life. He thought that, sinee bis wife's sister seemed eonteut over uer leaving, she evidently knew ^ where she was and he threatened to 'let the cat out of the water' if she lid not throw some light oa a??r whereabouts. This letter was never nailed hn u.-?>v..i- J he table beside the dying (?) niau % >ed. THIIKK KMKJH.WTS kll.l,Kf>. 1'iuiii l/<>iid<Mt \N i111 Homo S?*ekers (Vashes Into liuroinutirr. A passenger train loa<!ed with etcigrants, enroute to the Wes'.. running as the second section of No. "i, the Chicago l,imit<d, on the Ontario & Western railway, was wrecked 1 .*> miles southeast ot' Norwich. N. Y., at 2.15 o'clock Sunday uornrug. Three passengers were killed and 25 injured. The wreck aeuvred when the emigrant train crashed into a locomotive running light. The engineer, and fireman of the traia escaped serious Injury as if hy a miracle.. The train was made up af eight coaches and an engine, and worried o7l emigrants. It was roaming about thirty miles and up the hoary grade, and the light engine Making about 25 miles struck it Ue?4-on. When the collision occurred the first passenger coach, an old one, immediately behind the engine, was crushed to ph-ees. the tender of the engine passing nearly half through it. All the Injured were in this car, as the other seven couches of the train remained on tho track STOItM K1IJ.S MANY. Nearly Thiv?? Hundred are kilh-d in II unwary. Nearly H00 persons were killed and several villag??s annihilated by a cloudburst at K rasso-S/.?.reny, a county ot' iliniKHry. bordering ot Transylvania. Roumania and Scrvla. The capital of the county, which Is mainly populated by Roumanians, is Rugose It Is expected that the death roll will be greatly Increased woecommunication, which has te-sa almost completely cut off, Is restored. Bridges. telegraph and telephone wires in the district have been destroyed and it Is felt that many of the survivors of the flood will die of starvation or exposure before it 1* possible to send assistance.. * Convicted of Assault, Gregorla Sala, the Italian arrested at Ormond Kla last week, cbarwd with attempted criminal assault upon Miss Klehart, a wealthy spinster near that plaie, was convicted In the criminal court at Deland, and ? licenced to twenty years at hard lobor in tbo State penitentiary. Heat Kills Three. At Chicago Sudey there wero t.hree deaths resulting from heat prostrations although the maximum than on h three days preceeding. Lack of breeze, J except for a short suffering from the beat. < 'hinamen Arrested. Seventeen Chinamen, believed to have been smuggled into this country from Mexico, were found by emigration officers at San Marclai, Tex., Friday, hidden in a box car loaded with hay. They will be held pending an Investigation.