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TBM aASBTTM-SBWB HAS TBM MOST BXfBsarrm asbocutbd wm In. TICS IN TBM CABOUHAM. ' Weather Forecast: SUNDAY FAIR. VOL. XVIII. NO. 291. ASHEVILLE, N. C., SATURDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 17, 1914. PRICE 5 CENTS TWO ERUPTIONS FURTHER OCCUR Added Disaster Strikes Japan In Eruptions of Sakura- . Jima, Causing Much More Damage. RETURNED INHABITANTS AGAIN FLEE IN TERROR Loss of Life Greater Than at First IndicatedMr ch : Suffering in Famine District. Kagoshlma, Japan, Jan. 17. Two further violent eruptions of the vol cano Sakura-Jima accompanied by a severe earthquake occurred late last night, causing the collapse of many more buildings. NumberB of the In habitants if Kagoshlma who had re turned fled again in terror from the city. Ashes are falling thickly today. The sun looked like a ball of blood over Kagoshlma today. Darkness was such that' night signals were employed on the railroads. Flying dust was so thick that the few pedestrians had to cover their mouths and ' noses with towels to prevent suffocation. The sea In the gulf of Kagoshlma seemed to be boiling and the quantity of float ing pumice stone was so great that It prevented navigation. ' Bluejackets from the Japanese fleet today discovered a native craft con taining - sixteen starving refugees. They reported that owing to the float ing masses or pumice stone and tne high seas they had been unable to uteer their boat and had spent three days adrift The bluejackets were tible to reach them only by using a wedge shaped raft with which they pieced a field of pumlo stone .resembling Ice floes.' Lava today wa flowing steadily " down the sides of the volcano Inereas ing the area of the Island as 'It solidl fled on reaching the sea. " ' It is still impossible to give any thing like en approximate estimate of the number of victims of the recent eruptions and tidal waves. ' Some officials here express the hope that almost all escaped from Sa kura. Others are less optimistic. Professor Fusaklchi Omori, . tho (felsmogrist, pointing today to the vil- lage of Yokohama on Sakura, where 400 houses lie burled In lava said "are the people burled there as In Pompeii?" and- answered himself "only the future can reply." ; Many refugees are reported to have Depn driven insane from terror and exposure. Over a million letters" and eight thousand telegrams are held up In Kagoshlma. Toklo, Jan. 17. Indications that loss of life In the Island ,of Sakura, devested by the eruption of the vol cano Sakura-Jima may be much larg er than had been supposed was re ceived here today from an official who was wnt to Kagoshlma to Investigate. He reports that 9,000 out of Sakura'a estimated population of 19,000 had been accounted for up to the even ing of Janurry-16. .;" Other refugees, it Is expected, will be found In other directions, but the loss of life evidently .was extreme . ly heavy. ' Ine sufferers In the north and vol cano victims In the country are rapid ly iVsumlng shape, now that the ex tent of the dlseaster is more, definitely known. , A relief ' association, national In scope, has been organlxed here and has Issued an appeal for help. Wshop Walter Andrews of the Eng lish church' In Hok-Kaldo, the famine stricken district, writes that suffering everywhere Is Intense. The farmers, he says, r Q lilt hardest Their fami lies are earing-soups made of chopped Htraw, leaves and rotten potatoes and meat taken from cats, dogs and fish. The most fortunate have a thin gruel muds of rice or wheat. The net results, he writes, are many deaths from cold and starvation nnd an increase of crime. Many girls ho declared, have been sold Into slav ery. He tolls p: miuiy children falnt (Continued on page 8) Charged With Bigamy Woman Danville, 111.; Jan, 17. Mrs. Clara D. aillia died here today after taking poison with sulclrinl Intent when con fronted Thursday with the allega tion that shs had two hus1anda living. The police amert that although Mrs. Clllls Is only 2) years old, she has had live husbands, three of whom she di vorced. The woman refused to mnke any statement before she dld. Mrs. tJlllls ws shown a phottivraph cf herself as the hrldo of Lilwnrfl MitifceS of Hotith t. I'uul. Mlim. .Ulnars In a lttc to n local ni'iitir GREAT SQUTHERH GAHAL PROPOSED Waterway From Choctawhat chee Bay, Fla., to Rio Grande, Texas. Washington, Jan. 17. The federal government's construction In con nection with the chain of Inland waterways proposed for the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of a flv-foot draft continuous Inland waterway from the Choctawhatchee bay, Fla., to the Rio Grande in Texas at a total estimated cost of 3$, 632, 910 for first construc tion in sums of at least $800,000 an nually was recommended to congress today by the war department.' H ACCOUNT OF To Prevent Surgeons From Sewing Them up in Their Patients. Chicago, Jan. 17. So that surgeons may escape the humiliating experi ence Of leaving sponges sewed up in the bodies of patients, a new meth od of accounting is being, employed with success, according to the current Issue of the Journal of the American Medical association. Sponges which measure a yard in length and two and four Inches wide are being used. To the end of each is securely sewed a piece of - narrow- tnpe...elht.or-..ten inches long. To this the nurse ties a numbered metal check," the size of a sllve dollar. -. By arranging the sponges consecutively on, a separate table the nurse may account for every sponge at the end of the operation. Few Burgeons of large experience have escaped the experience of lav ing sponges in incisions according to the article. ' - BEARD5LEY OPENS FIRE Beleaguered Farmer Refuses To Let Them Approach . Stronghold. Mayville, N. T., Jan. 17. The fifth day of the siege of Edward Beardsley near Summerdale was ushered In by rapid tiring from the Besrdsley stronghold. Timothy Van Clse and William Walker who have acted as "go-betweens" In the parleys between Sheriff Anderson and the beleaguered farmer, approached the house this morning. Immediately they were halted by the whlzxlng-of bullets. "Oet out of here and stay out Tou are trying to trap me. Tou can't come here any more," shouted Beardaley. The two men withdrew. . They had gone to tell Beardaley that the police Of Tltusvllle, Pa., would not allow his brother to take the Beards ley children Into that state because they might become a public charge. All immediate hope of a peaceful solution of the knotty problem facing the sheriff and his posse has been abandoned. Beardsley's wife and chll dren are In the house with him. (Area's Nomination Prepared, Washington, Jan. flfl. The nomlna tinn of Colonel William C. Gorgas of the Isthmian canal commission to be surgeon general of the army waa pre pared at the White House today for formal presentation to the senate. Drinks Poison stated that he had married "Miss' Gillie In St Paul, December SO, and that she left him suddenly on Decern ber It with the explanation trial her uncle in Danville was 111. A few days later the woman sunt him word that she would not return. Mtnges wrote that he feared his bride would contract debts In his name. lie enclosed the photograph which was Identified by Mrs. Olllls hiixlnind. Mm. Ulllls denied that she hiicl married Ml'igi when confrontid ly thr rjn'tr yitenly and then allowed the polHoii. ILL Oil BOARD 1ML0ST No Doubt Remains of Fate of 50 Passengers and Crew Of 48 of German ' Steamer, BODIES OF TWO OF OFFICERS PICKED UP Lampasas Passengers Arrive i On San Jaciento Crew Of Fuller Palmer on The Marinee. Hamburg, Germany, Jan.' 17. No doubt remains that the : German steamer Acllia Is lost with Its crew of 48 and 50 passengers. -. A telegram from Punta Arenas, - Chile, received here today says that the bodies of two of her officers were, picked up today among a mass of wrecking in Moats channel, north of Picton island Tlerra Del Fuego. Indians in the vicin ity declare that a big steamer sank there sometime ago. The AciHa was a vessel of. 3,600 tons net built In 1900 and chartered by Koamos line. She left Corral, Chile, on October '27 for Hamburg. A telegram from Valpariaso on Wednesday last reported the flndtng of two of the Acllia's boats in Agutrre bay, Tlerra Del Fuego, containing the bodies of her second mate and two seamen. Ship Arrives. Key West, Fla., Jan. 17. The Mal lory line steamer Jaciento arrived here today with the passengers of the steamer LampasaB which went aground near Dry Tortugas yesterday. All of the passengers of the Lampasas were transferred early today from the Lampasas to the. San Jacleto. ..' The tahlpasag 'ar-wa.Joj.iiev;, era! hours latr, paying been... .pulled off the middle grounds by-the revenue cutter Miami. The San Jaciento will take the cargo arid passengers of the Lampasas to New York. A survey of the Lampasas will be made to ascer tain the damage. . ' ' Crew Saved. Norfolk. Va., Jan. 17. The British steamer Marinee passed in the Vir ginia capes at 9:40 this morning hav ing . aboard . Captain Clark and the crew of the fve masted schooner Fuller Palmer, which was abandoned at sea. All are well and will be land ed at Baltimore. The Palmer sailed from Norfolk for Boston January 4 coal laden. t Schooner Abandoned. Portland, Me., Jan. 17. The five masted schooner Fuller Palmer which has been missing for several days was abandoned at sea In a sinking condi tion. All hands were saved and are on their way to Baltimore In a steamer which picked them up. A MUTTON FJHIEJ5' PREDICTED!! U. POOLE Tells Wool Growers Too Many Lambs Have Been Marketed. . Salt Lake City, Utah, Jan. 17. A mutton famine was predicted here to day by J. E. Poole, editor of the Chi cago Livestock World In an address before the National Wool Growers as sociation. Mr. Poole said that for the last five years the west had recklessly been marketing ewe lambs. Oood authori ties, he said, estimated 80 per cent of the ewe flocks of the west were over aged and that a bad winter would scatter their carcasses over the ranges, thus precipitating a mutton scarcity that in any event cannot tong be de layed. "One short lamb crop," said Mr. Poole, "would put both, lamb and mutton In the same category as lob ster and terrapin." NOT A TRACE OF BRITISH SUBMARINE Plymouth, England. Jan. 17 Not at trace had been found up to late this afternoon of the British subma rine "A-7" which was lost in Whlte and bay o.i the shore of Plymouth sound yesterday afternoon. Attack on Itetra. Washington, Jan. 17. The city and traffla bureau of Nashville today en tered complaint with the Interstate commerce commission against the Louisville and Nashville and other roads alleging t' ('. thry have been utijneted to unreasonable rates for witching services. I E Another Case of Awful Disease Reached New York From Trieste. ) t New York, Jan. 17. Another case of dreaded typhus fever Reached port today on the steamship Belvedere from Trieste. A steerage passenger was the victim and symptoms noted in another passenger Indicated that he too was suffering with the disease. Both were removed to Swinburne Is- lland, where they win be. isolated and the shin war held for fitmlirnHnn it is possible that other passengers who were exposca win oe retained, OF DEATH DFGES; DROZCO No Details Given Huerta is Arranging to Establish Wireless Stations. Washington. Jan. IT. Reports of the death of General Orozco," who fought with Madero in his revolution against Diaz, but who. for sometime had been enrolled under Huerta' 3 banner, have been received by General Parker, commanding the first cavalry brigade on the border, according to a message received by the war depart ment today from General Bliss. No details as to the time or place or Oroz- co'e. reported death were given. The last officials here heard Orozco was supposed to be in Quatro Ciengas, Coahuila. . , . ; Wireless Station. Berlin, Jan., 17. A German wire less telegraph company today secured a contract for the erection of a wire less station in Mexico Cty to enable provisional Psosldent IV. -?ta to main-i DREADED VPHDS SHIP STEERAG taln f comtnnrtica-tlon- inh' -:'Ieerrivihr troops "bperatftg in various parts of the country. General Huerta finds it necessary to use wireless telegraphy because the ordinary telegraphe wires are so frequently cut. , . T OF Charged With Terrorizing and Robbing W. & A. Pass engers Last Night. , Atlanta, Ga,, Jan. 17. Local police today expressed confidence that the man they arrested last night and who now is in Jail here is the bandit who early last night terrorized passengers on a southbound Western and Ala bama passenger train near here and robbed them of several hundred dol lars. . The prisoner, who waa cap tured near tho scene of the holdup, gave his name as John Jones and said he lived In Atlanta. The police, how ever, claim that his name Is James Nolan of Des Moines, la., and insist that if he did not actually rob the passengers, he played a prominent part in the holdup. Jones of Nolan was captured near Bolton, Ga., at which place the bandit left the train after engaging In a pistol duel with Carl C. Heard, county po liceman, who. was a passenger and who was slightly wounded during tho encounter. The man when arrested told the police that he was a carpenter and had gone to Bolton In search of work. ' He claimed to know nothing of the robbery, and no trace of property taken from the passengers was found in his possession. He waa locked up as a suspect RADIUM PATIENT IN SERIOUS CONDITION Baltimore, Md., Jam 17. The con dition of Miss Margaret Quayle, daughter of Bishop Quayle of the Methodist Episcopal cjiurch, who la being given the radium treatment here was reported to be serious to day. Miss Quayle' showed signs of Im provement after . the treatment was started, but she has been suffering with the disease for about 13 year and it Is said to be In an advanced stage, RESERVE ORGANZATION OFF ON LONG TRIP Washington, Jan. 17. The reserve bank organization committee left here today for a five weeks trip during which It will huar arguments by bank ers from most of the big cities west of the Allegheny mountains who are In the fight to secure federal reserve hanks. The committee Is due to re- jrn to Washington February II nf ter a hearing at Atlanta. GREAT MM TO ATM HIIFflTA III IIIWII IIWkM III rnnn Army of 25,000 Rebels Are to Be Hurled Against Fed eral Strongholds in Southern Mexico. OJINAGA REFUGEES ARE MARCHING TO MARFA To Be Transported to Fort Bliss Salazar Arrested : Miscellaneous Mexi can Matters. . Chjcliuuhua City, Jan. 17 Twenty-five- thousand rebel soldiers will be hurled into the campaign against Iluorta strongholds in central and southern states of Mexico, according to a declaration yesterday made by General Villa constitutionalist mili tary chief. On the southern march Villa said he would attempt to unite his forces with those of General Carranza, the constitutionalist leader and that they would I. ad toward the capital the largest ' u. ifled rebel army ever as sembled in Mexico. : ' Huertistas, it was said here today, had burned all bridges in Torreon and Bermojillo and had retired to Torreon after having been defeated by Urbima near Maplmi. Presidio, Tex., Jan. 16. All the 3300 Mexican federal soldiers and the 1,000 women refugees who sought safety in the United States after the capture of OJinaga had left Presidio today for the four day march to Mar fa, whence they are to be transported by railroad to Fort Bliss, near EI Paso, - The ragged army was scattered for 6 7. .miles along the mountain road, closely guarded by United StateB Cav- until recently Huerta's military chief in northern Mexico, rode in an auto mobile with General Francisco Cas tro. The federal generals rode on horses. The common soldiers and women refugees, many of them car rying children in their arms made the march afoot. Never had there been seen on the border so picturesque a migration. Report Denied. Berlin, Jan. 16. Authoritative de nial was given at the foreign office this afternoon of the report publish ed by the Lokal Anzeiger that an in terchange of views on the Mexican suspension of interest payments was taking place among the powers. The Lokay Anzeiger says the Ger man government has taken the Ini tiative in an Interchange of views among Germany, France,- England and the United States on the queston of making a strong Joint representa tion to Mexico against 'the recently decreed suspension of the payment of Interest on its debts. Matter Not Stirred. ..Washington, Jan. 16. The senate showed a disposition not to stir the Mexican situation today, when resolu tions providing for investigation of the condition of American citizens In Mexico, were shelved under a rule by which they cannot again be brought up without formal vote. Salazar Arrested. Sanderson, Ttx, Jan. 1C. General Ynez Salazar, commander of Mexican Federal volunteers, who was driven out of Ojinnaga, Mex., by the rebels was arrested here today. IS DESTROYED 6T FIRE School Buildings and Church Burned Origin ot the . Fire Unknown: , Winston-Salem, N. C, Jan. 17. Fire of unknow origin early today de stroyed Oak Ridge Institute and the Methodist Protestant church located near the school buildings. The damage Is estimate n fSO.OOO, partially cov ered by insurance. CONSPIRACY CHARGED; TO RESTRICT TRADE ( Washington, Jan. 17. "Conspiracy" between the Ixnilsville and Nashville railroad and the Evansvllle and Bowl ing Green Packet company to deprive the city of Bowling Oreen, Ky.; of the benefits of competition and restrict to a great extent Its market to Evans vllle, Is charged In a complaint to the interstate commerce commission made today by the Bowling Gr-en Business Man's Protective association. It charges that the I'ackxt compuny and the rallroutee centering at Kvans vll In refuse to issue through hills of lading from a number of primary markets named to Bowling Green. CANTEEN GRAFT TRIALS BEGIN KILLED, FIVE INJURED IN FIRE The Exits of Apartment House Blocked by Flames Life Nets Stretched. Brockton, Mass., Jan. IT Four per sons were killed and Ave injured in an apartment house fire here today. ' The dead: Mrs. Mary J. Monahan. . Bernard Monahan, her son. Crawford Lininthal. Unidentified lodger in the Lininthal home. They had been suffocated by smoke as they slept. It is feared two1 of the Injured will die. ' The fire was in a three-story apart ment house. When the firemen ar- ribed .exits were blocked by. flames. Lite rtfets'were strentched and several persons jumped from upper floors. ELLIS DOESN'T BELIEVE PAUL CJRSHOT HIM Declares Alleged Confession of Youth and His Story "All Rot." New York, Jan. 17. Monroe F. Ellis, wealthy New Jersey lumber merchant, who was mysteriously shot three years ago while 8V ber in his home, declared toda;' hd not believe the alleged confer " B- Paul ..Cart. 2.0TitlV that her hr- A, V bullet which threatened for wbEmm t'J ' gf Ove, fatal. " According to private detectives, Carl admitted he shot the lumberman be cause he was engaged to do so by a woman "near and dear" to him. The woman, the confession stated, told Carl that Mr. Ellis had wronged her. Carl was taken from the Somervllle, N. J., Jail last night to Ellis' home, where he was questioned by Ellis-and county officials. After the interview, Mr. Ellis gave out a statement say ing: "These confessions are all rot. I am convinced that this boy whom I know and once employed in my of fice did not shoot me and did not hear any such yarn as he is said to have been told by a woman." Today is the day. Save this coupon. Procrastination did not dig the Panama Canal. bCOUPONs Save it for THE Gazette-News DANAMA.CANAI I fT h Frederic J- Has kin Colonel Goethals soys: Accurate and Dependable HOW TO GET THIS BOOK On account of the education value and patriotic appeal of this book. 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The Gasette-News will cheerfully refund the price of the boo to any purchases who la not satisfied with it Present Six Coupons of Consecutive Dates HFTKKN CENTS K.XTKA V BENT 1Y MAIL Cases Charging Bribery on Part of British Officers And Civilians Create Great Interest. SIXTEEN MEN ARE INVOLVED IN CASES Prosecutor Charges Bribery And Corruption Have v Been Going On For' - Ten Years. London, Jan. 17. For many years no suit has aroused such widespread , interest in the British Isles as proceed lngs which were opened today against eight officers of the British army and eight civilians on charges of wholesale graft in connection with purchases for the army "canteens." . . Thirteen of the accused men appear- , ed when the magistrate called the case today. Two of the officers failed to answer the summonses, while ona of the civilians and two non-commls- . stoned officers are involved. All are connected with the quartermaster's . department of the war office. All the officers have arisen recently from the ranks. The eight civilians are all em ployes of Lipton Limited, of which Sir Thomas Lipton is managing director. They include John Cansfleid, general manager and director of the company; James Craig, general manager of the military department of the company, and the former and present managers of the company at the military head quarters in Ireland and at A.l lerihot and Salisbury plain, . According to the speech of the prosecutor, "bribery . and corruption have been going on for upward of ten years, and it may be necessary to add other means to the list of those ac cused fiere. ; At-' the same time several officers are being dealt with by mili tary tribunals." Several weeks ago it was announced that a general court martial had b?en convened to try five quarter masters with a view "to testing the accuracy of statements as to the existence ot a system of bribery and corruption in the conduct of canteens In the army," Sen. Tillman Better. Washington, Jan. 17. Reports of the condition of Senator Tillman, of South Carolina, who suffered an at tack of erysipelas. Indicated this morning that he would not be confin ed to his home more than a day or two. a Copy of Saturday Jan,