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1 I: 'IT- FULL IXrOCULTZD PRESS EESVICa BY LEASED 7IS2i ' A A (iii nnTii LAST EDITION 4:00 F. XI. ' Weather Forecast FAIR. VOL. XVIII. 70. 68. ASHEVILLE, N. C, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 1, 1913. PRICE THREE CENTS GOVmNOR IS NEGRO SLAYER ELUDES POSSE WELL (MM r i v ii 11 it in COMING HERE Expects to Arrive Tonight To Aid in Reaching Set tlement of the Strike. MUCH DISORDER T Demonstration at Company's Building, with . Windows ; Smahed Seven Ar- rests. City authorities are In a quandary, Mill manifestly they lire troubled over lh; Kitiiatlon created by the strike of the car men of the Ashevillo Power am? Light company, ami the spirit of mob violent e in evidence -last lilglit: and tliey ami at a Jons to know what is best to do. Mayor Rankin has telephoned to Governor , Craig iilvlsin;; him to the trouble last night, and It Is expected that Governor t'rais will arrive In the city tonight in mi. effort to aid in the settlement of the strike. ' At his office at noon today Mayor Itaiikin said he had no statement to make as to his course of aitlon. He had just received a. letter from the Aslievllle Power and Light company, aguln calling iiKn him to furnish tlii'in protection, saying that the trou ble occurred because of the fact tliat a largo crowd of men and boys were allowed to congregute on the streets. In n statement for the press General 1 Jl ... viiii L'u illUt If t.llA lllla iMorhies had been able, to quell the apparently lawless .spirit at it Incep tion in the afternoon he Is satisfied there would have been no trouble, whatever. Chief Lycrly- and Sheriff Williams are trying to get more men, and say they can handle the situation if they tan get them. Ten cars are running on regular schedule, and have not been molested. .. . Mr. Pliimmcrs Statement. "At noon we are running ten cars, and matters seem to be progressing as satisfactorily hh could be'expected un der the circumstances. The storm of last night, while resulting in compara tively little damage, assumed the mag nitude that It did owing to the fact Hint the crowd was allowed to grad ually increase until it had assumed the proportion and semblance of a howl ing mob. If the authorities had been able to niell the opparently lawless spirit at its Inception in the arternoon, we arc satislled there would have been no trouble whatever. - "It seem-i that this will be the nat u nil view, and It unquestionably is the opinion of the thinking people of the city, so far as I have been able to de termine. "I'otslbly the most deplorable phase of the situation, aside from the pos Fiblo loss of human life that would ii.tiK. from unbridled lawlessness, Is the imminent and permanent dlsas trims results that will accrue to Ashe vllle's business prosperity. Truly it Is a deplorable situation, possibly more xi'fnr us than for any other single in feros! : w are doing what can to alleviate the situation, but as we have siiid before. It is Op to the authorities to prohibit these lawless acts." Ietter to the Mayor. General Manager Plummcr sent the following letter to Mayor Rankin to day: . '.lion. J. E. Itankln, "Mayor of Ashevllle. "Owing to the fact that on the night of April 30. 1913, a large crowd of men and boys were allowed to con grcaate'nn the streets of the city and remain In great disorder for several hours, and further that said parties engaged In throwing stones, brick imd other mUMles through the win; ilows or the office and car barn of this company, endangering the lives of the occupants of the building and Injuring the company's property, we again call on you to take any and all measures that may be necessary to safeguard the lives and persons of the passengers and employe; of this company and to prevent further damage to its property situated In the city of Ashevllle. "Mort respectfully yours, "ASIIKVIU.E POWER AND LIGHT COMPANY, ' "By H. W. FLUMMER. "Vice Pres. A Gen. Manssrer." Mvtht Attack on Company's llulliling. A mob variously estlmsted between 100 and ilOO. mostly boys and young men, attacked the building of the Ashevllle Power and Light company lHst night, throwing bricks and stones against the sides of the building and rmashlng several of the windows. Both plate glans windows on the Patton ave l:uo side were broken. The police made seven arrests and about 1 o'clock the crowd dispersed. The attack whs made at Intervals, beginning on the Asheland avenue side, where most of the windows wero covered with wire , nutting, which did not always. protect the gins.' The officers finally drove the rrowd out of Asheland svenne, end lliter they began to Ismibsrd the Pat ton avenue side, where the windows Were unprotected Th'Ta was great DURING THE NIGH noise and Bhoutlng. There were probably 300 or 400 "people who took no part in the bombardment. Some one on the inside shot five times and the crowd quickly scattered, but a few minutes later returned to the at Instructions Not Carried Out. Notwithstanding the order of the chief of police to his men yesterday morn ing that they were not to allow any crowds to congTegat anywhere In the dty, the people, most of them harm less loafers, began . to gather on the square about noon, and no arrests were made.- The police stood and chatted with the members of the crowd. The only apparent- effort which was made to keep the people moving was by the order of Captain W.- H. Byrd of the sanitary depart ment, who had a sprinkler driven through the crowd on the square and around the cars while they stopped on the square. -In the afternoon, how ever, . Alderman Fltzpatrlclc strenuous- J ly objected to this, on the ground that i it was "making the people mad" and that they were not doing any harm, and It was stopped. There were those in the crowd who admitted that they were trying to make up a mob to pull the strikebreakers from the cars, and at least one of these was passing the word that the police would not "do anything," and that no one would be harmed If he attacked the ;. strike breakers. : : . ' . , :: Begun to Be Boisterous. . ' Hut the people on the square were entirely quiet until : night, . Shortly after dark, they began to be boisterous and later they marched In a body to the corner of Patton and Asheland avenes, followed by some of the offi cers. This crowd had increased sinew darkness until there were possibly 500., The crowd was led by ubout 150 boys and young men, who took up their position at the entrance to the car shod on Asheland avenue. This street Is not very well lighted and part of the mob were able to dispose them selves in the darkness. At first they confined their activities tot howjsj' and shouts and to making noise In various ways.-. Some of them found ii big wa ter heater and they rolled this up and down the pavement creating a great din. Finally a brick was thrown against the building, afterwhlch there was a shower f missiles, and several windows were broken. Stones were also aimed at t.he; arc light, which, however, was not hit. The officers then got busy and made seven ar rests. ' Shortly before 12 o'clock 'Chief Lyerly ordered Asheland avenue clear ed, which was soon done; but the peo ple stopped on Patton avenue; and a short time later the missiles were di rected against this side, and the plate glass windows were broken. It was about this time that someone ln?ldc fired a pistol several times; which had the effect of scattering the crowd. But they soon came together again and remained until after 1 o'clock. Inside the building were several offi cers with the strikebreakers; and they made ready to reslRt attack In case the, mob should attempt to break Into the building. .Instructions were given as to the course of defense in this event. Chief Discusses Criticism of tlic Force Chief Lyerly was told this morning that there had been criticism that his men had not obeyed orders In keeping tne crowd moving and off the streets yesterday and last night He replied that the officers had not carried out his orders as he had meant for them to; but that the situation Is unprece dented and ho recognized that the men were at a loss to know what was best to do under the circumstances. With reference to the damage that was done last night he said that It was unlooked for, and that most of the time the crowd was quiet and good natured, so that his men did not expect them to begin any disorder. He said that he disliked the Idea of having the militia called out. that he could handle the crowd with the prop er number of men, If he could get them. He declared that he was hav ing troille getting the men he need ed; that few people wished to serve as special officers; and that It looked ed now as If he would have to compel men to serve whether they desired to or not. He stated that the company has so much property to look after and protect that he did not know last night where it would be best to con centrate his forces; and that he was not expecting any trouble at the car sheds. ' Attempt to Plunge City In Darkness. An attempt was made by some per son or persons last night about o'clock to plunge the city In darkness. One' of the transmission wires of th North Carolina Electrical company, which furnishes light to the city was onrtlv milled down. A rope was thrown over the wire, and ' It wa lerked from the hole. But the at- tempt to break it was not successful Resolution That W III Ho oirerra Following Is the text of resolution that will be offered at the mass meet Ing tonight for adoption: We the Citizens of the City of Ashe vllle snd County , of Buncombe In Mass-Meeting .Assembled, and Re cognizing that, Whereas. Orave disturbances an differences have taken place and ar now Mxlutlnff between the A1 vlll Stret Hallway company, and r f mcr employes, motormen anil con doctors, to the rtlent that slrlk now cxImIs. ii fid btisln.-i l iiIiimimI par (('oiiiliHHMl o.i I'ji y a ) HERE I AM E nuIIC0 Widespread Disorder, Increas ed. Tax Levies and Worth- less Currency Issues Reported. , (By Associated Press r Washington, May 1. Foreign mer chants Jn Cludad Porfirio Diaa,' Sabl- nas, Allcnde, Muzqul and other towns In Coahuila, will close their shops be cause of General Carranza's decree forcing his paper money Into circula tion. Taxes have been raised 20 per cent to finance the Carranxa cam paign. ' The situation in Acapulco is repre sented as grave. . There Is widespread disorder throughout the state of Mich- ioacan. , Reports in ' Porfirio THm indicate that the administration forces under Generals Lopez and Cheche Campos are slowly marching north on Mon- colva. General Trucy Aubert Is said to b at Lampasos. No opposition worthy of mention is reported to have been made by the Carranzalstas. JII1T HH in OBI Powers Are Considering a Fur ther Demonstration Against King Nicholas. ' By Associated Press; London, May 1. A proposal that the Montenegrin seaports of Antlvarl and Dulclgno shall be occupied by a joint International force of Austrian, Italian and British troops us a fur ther demonstration to King Nicholas that the powers are resolved to carry out their decision In regard to Scutari was made at today's meeting of the ambassadors In London. Should Austria-Hungary accept this middle eourse, Its adoption would al low time K4r, further pressure on Montenegro and for an arrangement to provide heT with compensation of some kind. The reply of Montenegro to the de mand of European evacuation of Scutari was Tecelvel today by the powers. It Is non-commltal In character and keeps the door open for further nego tiations. " The little kingdom tells Its big neighbors that' It hat the greatest deference for them and declares the cautpre of Scutari to be In no way a defiance of their announced decision to give the former Turkish fortress to Albania. At the same time Montene irio suggests that thrr Is room for iiMciisvlon and reservlm the rlnht of I riKlng up the question of Scutari i the courss of the peace , negotiations. SITUATION CI AT LAST EXTRA SESSION Governor's Words at Close of Railroad Conference Tak en to Indicate This Possibility. APPEAL TO PEOPLE ON ISSUES INVOLVED Intense ' Feeling Evidenced of the Shippers Members of ' Commission Deeply . Disappointed, Special to The Gaette-News. Raleigh, May 1. Governor Craig, in adjourning the freight rate conference yesterday afternoon, told the railroad representatives that V the people, of North Carolina would get Justice by lawful manner and pledged himself to appeal to the people on the Issues in volved. ! This ; declaration followed several hours of fruitless consideration of mere objections offered by the carriers to the state's proposition for a settle ment, the railroads not offering any thing In return. The intense feeling on the part of the hundred shippers here Tuesday and yesterday was more In evidence at the close of the confer ence than at any .time previous, the fact that their trouble and that of the special commission had been wasted. that the railroads had violated the let ter and spirit of their representations February 26 and that all that the car riers had offered were fallacious ob jections to honest efforts to correct al leged great Injustices had been treated as coldly as If the state was asking for a favor rather than for Justice. Chairman E. L. Travis of the cor poration commission, E. K. Preston of Charlotte, Norman Johnson .of Lymjh burg. Representative E. J. Justice and Judge W. B. Council all made short addresws deploring the fact that the carriers had not decided to treat the state fairly. Mr. Justice disclaimed displaying any Bplrit of vlndlctlvenessi' He thought J. Norment Powell, general counsel of the Cllnchfleld, had tried to do something and he wished that Mr, Powell had plenary power to treat, but Mr. Justice realized that Mr. Pow- , ell wan up agfelnst a stiff proposition In hu associates. The member of tne commission reviewed the whole mat ter and declared that If he had con strued the suggestions of General Counsel Thorn of the Southern like the railroad men hero today construe It, thai he would not be here unless .fori the purpose of giving the people jan object lesson as to the manner In which the railroads treat the public (und state, Editor Johnson thought the fallurrl I of the roilrmid4 Was nothing short of (''cillllnuerl (.11 pnso i) RAILROADS SEEK H BATEMT1CREASE Lines , in Eastern' , Territory Want Five' Percent , . Raise in Tolls; t By Associated Press. New York, . May 1. Railroads of the eastern terrltqry having discussed the freight rate problem, have decided to aslf the interstate, commerce com mission to allow a five per cent In crease on' freight of all character. This was made known today In a statement Issued by President Wlllard of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad. "When the matter of an Increase in rates of freight was considered three years ago," says Mr. Wlllard's statement, "It was proposed by the railroada to Increase generally the so called class rates and some of the commodity rates.. It was urged by those opposed to the suggested ad vances that a fairer and better-way to obtain an Increase, If necessary, would be by a small advance on all rates In states In which advances are proposed, and It has been very clearly brought out that the relation of rates between localities Is of much greater Import ance to- the : shipping public than the actual rate per se. "With this In mind, the carriers now hooe to obtain the consent of the commission for an advance of 'five per cent on freight of all character and It la believed that such an advance. It granted, will create little If any dis turbance In commercial conditions. "Unless the carriers are enabled to increase their revenue In some man ner, and the plan above proposed seems likely to meet with less opposi tion thnn any other, their ability al ready limited to provide such addi tional equipment and facilities as will be necessary to take care of the grow Ing demands of the country will be very seriously Impaired. Killed In Duel. (By. Associated Press) Oklahoma City, May 1. As an out growth of the Jay county seat con troversy. Harvey Johnson and Colum bus Moore, farmers ' living near Grove, fought a duel last night in which Moore was shot through the heart and Instantly killed. He was on Johnson's, farm at the time. Two Burned In House, By Associated Press. . Oswego, N. Y., May 1. Two men were burned to death and three fat ally Injured in a Are which partly dostroyed the Healy house, a three story structure, here today. The vie tlms were trapped In their rooms on the top floor. - Buffalo Store Employes Strike. ny Associated Press. Buffalo, N. Y., May 1. Over 2500 department store employes. Involving very store of the kind In Buffalo, went on strike this morning for In creawd wsges and shorter hours. Em ployes of hardware and Ave and ten ci nt stores jiartlclpnted In tho strike,. TO PUT FRANK 01 THE STAND Suspected Atlanta Man Grilled as to His Knowledge of Girl's Death. . By Associated Press.' Atlanta, Ga., May 1. Important de velopments are looked for by Coroner Donehoo and Chief of Detectives Lan ford when investigation of the death of 14 years old Mary Phagan Is re sumed at the inquest this afternoon. Leo M. Frank, superintendent of the National Pencil company, where the body of the murdered girl was found, Sunday morning, is expected to be called to the stand and his examina tion will probably occupy most of the Jury's time. : Frank ia under arrest in connection with the case and has been repeatedly examined by detectives. A new turn was given the case at the hearing yes terday, when George Epps, 16 years old, a friend of the Phagan girl, told the Jury that Mary had said she was getting afraid of Frank because of his attentions. Eight or more witnesses probably will be called by the coroner and more light Is expected on the movements of the dead girl Saturday afternoon. Without reaching a verdict as to the mysterious death of ' Mary Phagan, whose mutilated body was found Sun day morning in the. National Pencil company's plant, the coroner's inquest was adjourned early last, night until this afternoon. The inquest was begun Monday, but witnesses were heard for the first time at sessions this morning and evening. . At the afternoon session of the in quest interest centered chiefly in the testimony of G. W. Epps, a 15 years old newsboy. Epps testified that Mary Phagan had requested him to call by the pencil factory on several occasions because, she told htm, Mr. Frank had sometimes rushed out of the factory ahead of her and. winked at her as she went past. ... Lee M. Frank, supertn tendent of the factory. Is under arrest in connection with the case, , but did not testify yesterday before the In quest.. . . , Young Epps, who lives near the home' of Mary Phagan, testified that ho came to the city with the girl Sat urday morning. According to hiia tes timony they parted on Forsyth street. only a short distance from the pencil factory, with the understanding that she was to go there, secure wages amounting to $1.60 due her, and meet Epps at.Peachtree street and Five Points, where they planned to witness the memorial day parade. The witness tcstilied that he waited at the rendesvoua for more than two hours, but that he never saw the girl alive again. - At 7 o'clock Saturday evening he went to the girl's home to ascertain why she had failed to meet him and found . J. W. Coleman, the girl's stepfather, Just leaving, the house to look for the girl. Young Epps described the clothes worn by the girl Saturday and later Identified the blood-stained garments found on the body of the girl as the same she wore Saturday morning. Only one witness introduced who knew the Phagan girl testified that he saw her after the hour she reached the pencil factory last Saturday. Ed gar L Sentell, a grocery wagon driver. testified that he saw the girl on For syth street about midnight In company with a young man he believed to be Arthur Mullinax. Mulllnax is under arrest Miss Pearl Robinson testified that she went to a theater with Mul llnax Saturday night. R. P. Barrett, an employe at the pencil factory, told of finding blood stains on a lathe In tne pencil fac tory-. He also testified that he found blood spots on the floor of the machine room In the factory and that an at tempt apparently had been made to obliterate the stains with white wash. Newt Lee, negro night watchman at the National Pencil factory, was the principal witness of .the morning. Lee said Frank's actions on Saturday were unusual, For instance, he Imd told him to come to work at 4 o'clock and when he had arrived he told him to go away and come back at 6 o'clock. That night he said Frank had called him up on the telephone and asked him If everything was all right. He said that" the . superintendent had never called htm u'p at night before. RODNEY'S MISTAKE A 12-Year-Old Connects High Ball with Golf Ball Stomach Pump Raves Hlin. . By Associated Press. Wilmington, Del, May 1. Rodney Warren a 12 years old caddie who heard players at the Wilmington Coun try club discussing "high balls" yes terday, gathered the Idea, that the drink was In some way connected with the golf ball, He cut open one of the balls and found It filled with a liquid which he drank. A stomach pump saved his life. The doctor found the liquid in the ball Was highly Impreg nated with arsenic. Four Sailors Drowned. By Associated Press. Cuxhaven, Oprmany, Msy I. Four of the crew of the Swedish steamer Mora were drowned when that vensol sank today aTter a collision here with the PrltlHli stcjurier Motf.' Black Run Amuck Makes Way Through Cordon and Then . Plunges into Savan nah Swamps. TWO DEAD, ANOTHER DYING FROM WOUNDS Still Others Wounded in Des : perate Encounter With Assailant of South .,. -. .... Carolina Woman. (By Associated Press) Columbia, S. C, May 1. Advices re ceived here shortly after noon from Etlll say that Kb bard II. Austin, the negro murderer, escaped from a pond surrounded by 400 men and Is making- for the Savannah riven and the GeorgQa line, hotly pursued - , Augusta, Ga May 1. According to a. telephone message from B. J. Hlers of Allendale, S. C, Richard Henry Austin, murderer of two and would-be slayer of four other white men, evaded the posses that surround ed the little swamp in which he took refuge Wednesday night, and the ne gro Is now supposed to be in the dense Savannah river swamps, which are only three or four miles from the place where Austin made his first stand and where Frank Bowers and B. H. Edenfleld were killed and a quartet of others wounded. Mr. Hiers says that big fires , had been built on the outer edge of the 2-acre swamp in which Austin was hiding and that, negroes In the vicinity helped keep the tires going by cutting wood, and piling it on the fires. Aus tin walked out of the swamp unob served and mingled with the other ne groes about , 4 o'clock this morning. His gun, he hid under his coat so that only a small portion of It was visible and In the light, of the fire it passed for an axe handle.,' Sudden-' ly someone recognized Austin's voice, but before he could be seized or shot he made a break for another swamp! A fusillade' of shots wei73 fir ed at him', but evidently noft'e took ef fect and he made i good his escape, temporarily at least. V Bloodhounds from the South Carolina penitentiary were put on the : trail at daybreak but the negro had not been captured up until 9:30 Thursday morning. The bodies of Mr. Bowers and Mag-. lstrate Edenfleld were taken from the swamp late Wednesday night. A long distance telephone message from Hampton, S. C to the Augusta Herald at 9 o'clock was to the effpc;. that the negro had not been captur ed, according to the best Information available at that time. A posse Is scouring the swamps for the negro and he Is said to be in hiding In the dense Savannah river swamps 20 miles from Hampton. The little town is In great excitement over the killing of Frank Bowers and Magis: trate F. H. Edenfleld and the shoot ing of Dr. E. C. .Moore, McTecr Bowers, George Hanna and another white man The Injured, with the ex ception of Dr. Moore, who was rush to Columbia, will . recover it Is thought .Deputy Sheriff J. P. Bow ers of Hampton county and Sheriff J. B. Morris of Barnwell county, are leading posses In the search. Blood hounds are assisting the searchers for the negro. The distance from Hamp- ton to the swamp where the negro was In hiding is oft such length that it was possible, according to the Her ald's Informant, for the negro to have -been captured during the early morning hours and the news not reached Hampton by A. M. It was not believed that the negro had much more ammunition and that It would be a question of Just a short time before he would be captured. After midnight It was thought un likely that he would be captured be fore daybreak. ' Two Hampton- county white men were killed and several wounded In a pitched battle yesterday afternoon and last night with Richard Henry Austin, a negro, accused of attempting to , criminally assault a white woman at Luray, 8. C. The dead are J. STank Bowers, a Hampton county planter. Magistrate F. H. Edenfleld of Allen dale. 8. C. The wounded lncludo George Hanna, McTeer Bowers, an unidentified white men and Dr. S. C. Moore. Dr. Moore and an unknown men are probably fatally Injured. Austin Is alleged to have gone to' the home of a well known cltisen of Luray and attempted an assault upon a young woman, about 4 o'clock In the afternon. Cries of his Intended victim are said to have attracted passersby. The negro escaped and sought refuge In a thick woods. He was armed with a shot gun, a bag tilled with shells, a large revolver and a belt filled with cartridges. When the pursuers approached the negro In the woods he penetrated fur. ther to a little bay nearly entirely surrounded by heavy undergrowth. An attempt was made to follow by the white men and the negro opened fire. In the first exchange of shots J. Frank Bowers was killed. Dr. Moore fatally wounded and Georgs Hanna was shot In the bark. About t o'clock last night Magis trate F. H. Edenfleld, of Allendale, who had Joined the posse, attempted to lead a dash Into the swamp. He was shot and Instantly killed and an unidentified man with him was prob ably fatally wounded. Cordon was drawn around the section of the swamp where the negro was at bay and reinforcements sent for. V i V