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4 Sfie Ailet ilk ( TXIS AZ200I1TSO . PRESS DISPATCHES LAST EDITION 4:00 P.M. Weather Forecast: :- FAIR. ,-..- VOL. XVI. NO. 198. ASHEVILLE, N. C, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON , SEPTEMBER 27, 1911. 3o PER COPY feetfe & SKIPS OF WAR ' RF'H. TRIPOLI Italian Vessels tionary Force Are 'ttf Lying Off the African - Coast. EUROPEANS IN PANIC : FEARING A MASSACRE Many Flee Country, Special Steamships Conveying Ref ugees to Malta Turkish Force Inadequate. ( London. Sent, 27. A Paris R . dispatch says that Italy today sent an ultimatum to Turkey K saying tliat the latter must ' agree to an Italian occupation of Tripoli. Unlet a reply in received by tomorrow Italy, will proceed lnimodlately with the threat- cnetl occupation. ' Malta, Sept. 27. A private mes sage from Tripoli aaya that Italian warships with an expeditionary force are lying off Tripoli and there la a panic among the Italians there. It la feared that If troopa are land ed a massacre of Europeans will remit. From all sources cornea the Infor mation that lUly la preparing to force a compliance with her demands by the mobilization of her army and navy and the movement of warships toward Tripoli. The Turkish force at Tripoli Is va flously estimated at from 20,000 to 110.000 men. described as badly equip ped and unable to offer serious op- Dosltion to Italian landing parties, who would ba protected by the guns of the .navy. - , - ' ' PranceriT"tr tpacted. will not In terfere In an way with Italy, while Oreat Britain would also be only an Interested spectator. Germany would be most seriously affected. There Is a general exodus of Ital ians and other Europeans from Trip oil. Steamships have been especially engaged to expedite the passage of refugees. , f Turkey I Vara Dismemberment. Constantlnoote. Sept ST. -Public 1 opinion here Is much excited, as It Is felt that tha occupation of Tripoli by Italian forces will Induce England to proclaim British sovereignty In Egypt. Austria to reoocupy the SandJak of Novibaxar and the Albanians and Cre tans to strike for Independence. A boycott of Italian stores) In the Perm quarter has been started. Hay Mnk American Intervention. Bellport. I I.. Sept 17. Zla Hey Pascha, the Turkish ambassador to the United States, told a represent" tlve of the Associated Press lust nlg..t that be had received no Instructions from the ports' to Invoke the good offices of the American government In the way of restraining Italy from hostile 'action In Tripoli, but should such Instructions be received the am bassador said he would not be sur prised, for It would be entirely In ac cord with tha treaty of Parts of IIS . to which tha United States subscribed , and by which the powers undertook ) to guarantee tha Integrity of the Ot I toman empire. The guaranty of Integrity contained ' la the treaty -of Paris, which con ; eluded the Crimean war. was relter- ated In ths treaty signed at Berlin I In 187. i i "Tripoli Is a region of northern Afrl j Included among the Barbary States I and constitutes a province of the ' Turkish empire. The Trlpolitans were chastised by ths United States at the opening o( tse nineteenth century., i Ten years ago Italy. In return for declaring herself disinterested In V Tunis, where she had considerable Influence, obtained French recogni tion of her nredomlnant rights In ' Trlneli. From that time It has been generally understood that In the long j expected division of ths Ottoman, em f Plre Italy would demand Tripoli as I her share. Now that France and Germany have. It Is supposed, reached I ca Included among the Barbary States I tha only territory left for Italy to on ! tain ,ln order to prevent her being (shut-up -In ths Mediterranean Is Tripoli. . Two weeks ago Italy notified Tur key .that i unless she was ready to I recognise ItsMsn Influence over Tripoli la soma i form of a protectorate the .only recourse would be military oo 1 oupatlon. . . . FRENCH PROPOSITIONS ACCEPTED BY GERMANY . Tarts. Sept IT, Ths Osrman min ister of foreign affairs. Klderlen Waechter, received French Ambassa dor Csmbon In Berlin at noon today and Informed him that Germany hd accepted the latest French, proposals concerning Morocco. ' Arkansas Bank Suspends. I.lttle Rork, Sept. 27. Upon the pi-tstl.-in of D. A. Krayser of Memphis, r.-. . . r f r the All NUiht and Imy I, . . r ( i , Hv. (.'imnrelhir Mn'H- Scenes of Flood in Hankow 1 WliX? it o- 1 The TAiPiNd ixts The buxtd, Presented herewith nre some Interesting pliotograjihs of recent flood scenes in China. The upper view shows the HaipinK road, Hankow, the dividing line between the Chinese city and the forelun concession. There were from IS to 20 Inches of water on the thorounhfure at different times of the Hood. Tho lower picture shows the famous Bund at Hankow, close by the custom house, in Hood time. GIRL IS POISONED; A SISTER Fourth Mysterious Death in New Orleans Family , . Causes Police to Suspect Beneficiary of Insurance Policies Analysis Reveals Opi um as Agent Used. New Orleans, Sept. 27. Following the report that the stomach of Elsie Crawford, who died suddenly a few diiva ago. contained opium, Miss An nie Crawford, a sistetf of the dead woman, was arrested, lie ponce as sert there is evidence ' to warrant holding her. Elide Is the fourth member of the Crawford family to die under myster- JAMES RQLPH ELECTED AS MAYOR OF T Soup Kitchen Man Wins Deci sive Victory in City's First Direct Primary Election. San Francisco, Sept 27. James Rolph, Jr., ycBterday elected mayor of San Francisco, Is widely known as the man who kept soup kitchens In the mission district" following the great Are of 190. Rolph fed hundreds of lomeleas and hungry men, women and children. Bolph Is 42 years old. Ho Is presl lent of the Shipowners association. He is also president 6( two banks. He stariud In life poor. Rolph'i plurality. It Is suld, ap proximates 27.000 out of a total vote of 80.000. The vote was tlie biggest ever cart here. I Tuesday's was the first direct prl i.tinn in determine the per sonnel of municipal officers of the city and county. NEW ORLEANS STATION PRACTICALLY CLOSED . v Washington. Sept. 27. Unmoved by k. ..i.,.r crititlitn in the south, the U) V HU . V -V navy department Is steadily carrying out the plans projectea oy onrnwr Meyer- for the practical closing of .,thrn navv vards. This was made evident by an order published detach ing CBptaln Ja M. iieim as com mander of the New Orleans yard and assigning him to general court martial duty. Captain Helm will be the last commissioned officer ot. ihe navy to perform duty In the New Orleans navy yard If the present plan continues In force. That yard Is placed In charge of Chief Carpenter Joel A. Davis, who will be actually a caretaker and noth ing morei This action marks the extent or the nr th swrwtarv of the navy to suppress the Now Orleans plant As the yard was creaiea oy an act w congress It must continue to be a ...ni .iui,lihmrnt until congress shall see fit to direct its abandonment and imle. . However, the secretary l y withholding all nival wmk from the IMirl i.'i.l .'. "'u"!)!" t'v- f." fT "n- v A z kqa - d , kantcctw. ' K i I,: hanjcctw. ARRESTED ious circumstances in 14 months. In the case of the death of her1 father, mothur and another slater, no Inves tigation was made. Annie Crawford Is the beneficiary named in the insurance policies on the life of her sister, Elsie,, and It Is said, wan named as benellclary of policies on the lives of her mother, father and the sister who died last year. THREE MEN WQUNDED IN ELECTION FIGHTS Ten Thousand Bluecoats Are Unable to Check Disorder in New York. New York,. Sept 27. Primary elec tion contests In the Fifteenth assem bly dUtrlct In New York city yester day developed Into a fight. In which fists and bullets were used as well as ballots. Thrse men In a crowd ot voters In an east side polling place were shot and seriously wounded, and a number of other district warring factions came to blows. Sheriff Shea had mobilised his en tire force of 1000 deputies and Police Commissioner Waldo had assigned practically his full army of 10,000 bluecoats to keep order, but all to no avail. In connection with the primary fights the Information came from St. Luke's hospital that James Ahearn, a Tammany, district leader who was having a bitter ngnt to Keep nis power from going to James J. Hlnes, a for mer blacksmith, is In that Institution suffering from a broken arm and other Injulres. JURY IS IMPANELLED IN SETII WOOD CASE Special fo Ths Gsaette-News. waynesville, Sept 27. Two hours and five minutes was required to get a Jury In ths Beth Woods case today. The jurors are O. w. Justice and W. R. Boyd, two regulars: J. H. Downs S. A. Calie. M. A. Howell, J. R. Mc Clure, J. II. Creasman, F. D. Robin son' John Mule, A. C. Messer, W. L. Mnhaffey and A. C. Downs. Ths boy's mother, father and slater are with him. Woods Is accused of kilting Cal Stamey at Canton some months ago. ItiimMlqiie Cleared of Wreckage, Toulon, Sept. 27. The tremendous force of th explosion which destroyed the battleship I.I her te Monday was aKuin Indicated today wh-t a piece of the I,l!Tt"' armor plate was lifted l(.m the sMn of the Imt l l.-nh 1 1) kepub ii i v I '. h It f ). 4 DIE III FIGHT. FIFTiryp CHED Arkansas Sheriff and Deputy Slay Two and Are Them selves I Shot to Death. - MOB ENTERS PRISON AND HANGS SURVIVOR Charles Malpass, Himself Wounded in the Battle, Strung up by Enraged Citiz ens. Pumas. Ark.,. Sept. 27. Breaking into the county jail this forenoon and overpowering the officers, a mob of 100 men took Charles Malpass, sr., a white man, to a water tank and lynched him.: The lynching followed a battle yea- terday at the Malpass home, where Sheriff Preston, Deputy Sheriff Stlel and two mulatto sons of Malpass were killed and Malpass was wounded. Officers had gone to the Malpass home to arrest the sons. The wife of Charles Malpass, sr., a negress, and Malpass' younger son es- aped during the fight. DECLARE WOMAN AIDED IN ESCAPEJF LYMAN Said to Have Taken Him in Automobile from San Fran cisco Hospital Los Angeles, Cal., Sept. 27. That a woman friend of Dr, J. Grant Ly man, promoter of the allegedly bogus Panama Development company, who was arrested at San Francisco, where he escaped from a hospital, aided In his escape Is the Information. sent the police In that city by the local officials. After Dr. Lyman left .this city the woman was shadowed. ' It is suld she took him from the San Francisco hos pital In an automobile. The police refuse to divulge her name, but have detailed two men from the 'ocal de partment to aid the federal officers to locate her. THE PRESIDENT VISITS THREE KANSAS CITIES Topeka, Kas., Sapt. 27 President Taft spent six hours In Topeka today, beginning his third day In Kansas. The president's train reached here at So'clock and at 7 o'clock the presi dent and party were driven to the Country club for breakfast. Later he attended the dedication of a soldiers' nav pole at Washburn college. The program Included a parade, the laying of the corner stone of the Sol diers' memorial building and an ad dress. From Topeka, the president traveled this afternoon to Atchison and Leav enworth, where he made brief stops. MOVE TO STOP FIGHT Injunction Prevents Use of Building for Jotinsoii-weua Match In London. London, Sept. 27. A court today granted the application of ths District Railway company, tha ground land lord nf Eartar court for an Injunction ! against tha lessees of tha building to stop the proposed Johnson-Wells fight, subject to damages If the deci sion against ths fight is reversed on trial. , . AFTER BAILEY'S POST ' Austin, Tex., Sept, 27. Thomas H, Ball, prohibiting leader In ths recent statewide election, today announced his candidacy to succeed United States Senator Joseph W. Bailey. -Bailey soon will retire to the prac tice of law. Refuse to Postpone Mexican Elections, Mexico City, Sept. 27. Mexico's presidential election will be held on "Oct 1. the date fixed by official de cres. Petitions for postponement I were rejected last night by ths senate and by the chamber of deputies. ' In both houses ths majority against delaying the election was large, that In ths chamber being 146. . Charter for Supply Company. Oasetts-News Bureou, Ths Hotel Raleigh, Raleigh, Sept 27. A Charter la inmid to the Bun rombe t'ounly Vnrnu rs I'nlun Rupply Ctim "V of A'"V!H", ftulhm i ffip Prince of Wales as "Middy" 1 lilliiiiiliii' ilpiIliip ' kJU,,.lJ.J,,,. j,X-,. s, , 3ftjsa&ta?; j . This may, perhaps, he described heir to the British throne taken since to the Hindustan last month. The life as a"mlddy" and is extremely IN GARB OF PRIEST LURES 60 Mexican Officer, Impersonating Confession of Widespread Revolutionary Plot in Mex ico Sixty Men Implicated Are Shot by Soldiery. Los Angeles. Sept. 27. A story rnnrhea here of a voutlir Mexican army officer uncovering a Magonlsta revolutionary plot ana oi ins execu tion In rnnflpnltAnPA nf 60 Mexican revolutionists of Ouana Juata. The officer shaved his head and In thA frnrk tt r nrlcjtt ohtAlned the confession of 20 Magonlstaa who had HEALTH OFFICER STARTS CAMPAIGN Refused Admittance to County Institutions, Will Obtain Writ of Mandamus. Qasette-Ne's Bureau, 1 ie Hotel Raleigh, Raleigh1, Sept. 27. Dr. J. J. L. McCuliers, whose elec tion as county superintendent of health Is hot recognized by the board of county commissioners, took the first steps today to enforce his authority. He left with the sheriff and Jailer a copy of the resolutions adopted by the board of health and went on an Inspection of the convict camps. He was not admitted of course, tho com- nlssloners having given orders to pre vent his entering any of the county Institutions. Dr. McCuliers' next step will be ths swearing out of a writ of mandamus and this will be heard after proper notice has been given. Ralph McQInnls, a two-year-oia son of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. McOinnls, was allowed to go to sleep last night after being kept awake since ten o clock in ths morning. Ralph was rummaging around in a washstand drawer and found a bottle of laudanum. Hs drank nearly a tablespoonful of ths stuff and a physician was with htm all after noon. Joe Cobb, a young negro, allowed himself to be arrested and carried be fore a Justice of ths peace In order to befriend his comrade, Charlie John son. Little did Joe reck that the con stable who arrested him for Charlie Johnson had a warrant for him charging vagrancy, and he felt quite serene when he told the magistrate that the constable arrested the wrong man. It happened that the eonstabst had warrant for Joe, and he was convicted of vagrancy and sentenced to 03 days. Chsrlle has sktppeJ. . Judgs Peebles has Instructed the sheriff to summon a special venl-e of 71 men to try L. J. Norrle Friday on the charge of murdering J. B. Blssett Norrle will endeavor to prove an alibi. A large number of cases are being disposed of at this term of court. CLERKS OUT AT CAIRO Entire Force Quit When Railroad v Refuses to Recognise Uie Federation, Cairo, III., Sept. 27. The enlr force of freight and yard clerks in the Illinois iitr;.l rsllron'l ofii.'i' c'. . ! .,. r . ' . u as the first "studio" portrait of the he was gazetted as a midshipman prince, it is suld, thoroughly enjoys his popular. TO DEATH Catholic Father, Obtains been told they were about to be shot. They confessed to a wide-spread revo lutionary plot and implicated 40 other Mexicans of the vicinity. The Jefe politico then had the other Magonls taa arrested with those who con fessed, and the 40 were executed by federal soldiers last week before large crowd In Guana Juata. OPENED THE SAFE T No Trace of Robbers of a Greensboro Grocery Store Enter by Window. Gazette-News Bureau, Daily News Building. Oreensboro. Kent 27. A bold robbery was committed here some time Monday night when a bur glar or burglars entered the grocery store of John Sockwell at the corner of Greene and West Market streets, opened the Iron safe and stole (116 In cash. It was evidently the coin and only coin that the robbers were after, since they bothered nothing else in the store, not even risking anything by taking checks found in the safe or other papers. The burglary! was not discovered until yesterday when Mr. Sockwell went to his place ot business and found that the safe had been broken Into. The night before he had placed 149 In cash and drafts In the safe and turned on the night lock In stead of ths full combination. The burglars carefully separated the mon ey from the drafts, taking ths 1116 cash and leaving the drafts on top of the safe. The store was entered from the rear window. The window pane was broken, a small piece of granite block wrapped in cloth to deaden the sound being used. Once Inside tha store nothing was disturbed except the safe, to get Into which required either an expert safeman pr some one who might have been familiar with ,ths night lock. Ths polics were Informed of the robbery but thus far have ac complished little, the burglars leav ing absolutely no clue to their Identity. Thomas Harris, an old negro living near tha Battleground, was loading fodder yesterday when from amongst the fodder cams a bussing sound and the next thing that Harris knew hs had been bitten by a poisonous rep tile. Ths negro was given medical attention and while desperately HI from ths snake bite for a time, It Is believed that he will recover. The snake w.4 a moccasin, whose bite Is dangerous, John M. Nyrlck, for a number of years connected with the Oreensboro Loan and Trust company, has reslsned to accept a responsible position with the Fourth National bank of Atlanta. Ha expects to leave within a few days to assume ths duties of his new post Hon. ., . - Fx-iovornor Irotr Peail. Vi . i'f. AND WW II TO BP STEEL Effect of Corporation's An nouncement It Would Not Dissolve Voluntarily Electrical. VOLUME OF TRADING IN ISSUES ENORMOUS Scenes of Great Confusion on the Floor, 600,000 Shares Changing Hands in Hour. New York, Sept. 27. A wild rush to buy stocks sent up prices at the opening of the stock market todav. The effect of the United States steel corporation's statement that it would not dissolve voluntarily was elec trical. Trading In , steel, stocks was on an unprecedented scale. The opening transaction was a block of 39,000 shares at a gain of 6 points. Within the first 15 minutes 190,000 shares of this stock was traded In. The scene around the steel pit on the exchange floor was one of wild confusion. Deal ing In preferred stock of the steel corporation, while on a smaller scale, resulted In equally large gains. Throughout the morning session, transactions were on an enormous scale. Not even during the violent declines last week was the amount of business swollen to such abnormal proportions as during this morning's trading. Transactions In the first hour exceeded 60,000 shares and by noon the total was above 800,000 sharea During the second hour the decline became rapid and opening gains were either eliminated or re duced to nominal proportions. Steel Corporation Statement. ' The following statement was Issued by the steel corporation concerning current businessr-; ":, . ' .- - "Existing conditions are " affecting business to the extent that Instead of contract bookings for forward de livery, customers are buying only for Immediate requirements. Nevertheless strange as It may see, the volume of prompt business is larger than usual, specifications running upwards of SO. 000 tons per day. Of the 4,500,000 tons on the books, of which 920,000 tons Is in the inter-company business, it may be said from the standpoint of mill operations, It is better business than an old-time contract order book of double the tonnage, inasmuch as it represents a business capable of spec ifications in sufficient volume to op erate our mills on the present basis for some months to come." POSTMASTER GENERAL IN AEROPLANE FLIGHT Frank II. Hiuhcock Deliver Pouch of Mail Matter night Without Mishap. New York, Sept. 27. Frank H. Hitchcock, postmaster general of the United States, qualified as an aerial mall carrier on Long Island late yesterday. While a large crowd cheered vociferously, the postmaster general took a seat beside Captain Paul Beck, of the United States army. in the latter'a aeroplane at the Nas sau boulevard aerodrome, carrying It pounds of mail matter. Without the slightest mishap the two made a seven minute flight to Mlneola, where upon signal, the postmaster general drop ped the mail sack to one of Uncle Sam's mall carriers. When the postmaster general re turned to the aerodrome he was roundly cheered and the large crowd rushed onto the field to greet him. "The time la certainly coming," he said enthusiastically, "when we must depend upon the aeroplane for car rying mall. It Is not effective yet, but It Is being developed in a marvelous way, and I think ws shall soon find It practical." GEESE FIND GOLD. Discovery of Nuggets In tike Craws of Fowls Staru California Rash. Santa Barbara, CM., Sept 27. Thirty gold nuggets were taken yes terday from the craws of six geese raised by Mrs. Slrael Alpsehul of this city. . ' Ths news of the find started ft small gold rush and neighbors panned out several small nuggets in the sand, but they were not so successful In placer mining as were the geese. . Aged Woman Dies. Correspondence of The Qasette-News. Waynesville. Sept 27. Mrs. Elmlra Turpln, the aged widow ot John B. Turpln, had a third strbiie of t.ralysis and died Sunday night at I o'clock at, her home near Turpln's chapel. The funeral was held at the chapel at 2:30 p. m. Monday. She leaves a large fr;!'y of children, all grown. C Jl. Holmes of Chattanooga Is as sisting In ths register's. otttce. Dr. J. H. Smathers left for a vilt to Colorado. Oonnressmnn J. M. fln.lr.r. Jr. hr. Bticnditir f t ... I
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