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TUB ajLEBTTE-XlCWa BAM TBS MOBT BXTKHBIVM ABSnctATMO PRS8M tkB tick in ram cahoumaz. Weather Farecas FAIR AND COLDER. VOLUME XIX. NO. 20 PRICE FIVE CI ASHEVILLE, N. C, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 5, 1914 RIO JANEIRO IN STATE OF SEIGE Resut of Revolutionary Move ment in Three Brazilian States Fighting Still In Progress. STRICT CENSORSHIP ON ALL DESPATCHES Racial Differences Said To Have Been The Cause of Disaffection of The Revolutionists. ISuenos Aires, Argentine, March B . A state of siege was proclaimed in Kio Janeiro, Brazil, today, accord ing to dispatches reaching here from that city. It is understood that a strict cen Sorshlp has been imposed on dls patches from Brazil. Reports have been current or some time that a revolutionary movement ernment service lsl.ll DISSATISFIED ? H1HI MATTER ONLY DELAYED Halt in Investigation of Brit on's Death and Bauch Dis appearance Is Only Temporary. Stories Persist That Counsel lor of State Resigned Be cause of Lack of Har mony With Chiefs. Washington, March 6. John Bas sette Moore's resignation was effec tive today and the state department was without a counsellor. Mr. Moore prepared to take up his work for the Carnegie endowment for international peace and later to resume his place as head of the department of interna tional law at Columbia university. Although' the official correspond ence between President Wilson, Secre tary Bryan arid Mr. Moore announc ing the resignation emphasized that the counsellor was leaving the gov- only because the CARRANZA BEGINS HIS INVESTIGATION CANDIDATES TOSS HATSjNTHERING Eleven Democrats Make Form al Announcement of Their Candidacy Today. ROBERT R. REYNOLDS IS OUT FOR CONGRESS CHURCH RAIDERS IRE IN TROUBLE Majority of "Army of Unem ployed" in Jail Leader Is Held For Inciting A Riot. Unless Results Are Satisfac tory, It Is Not Likely that U. S. Will Remain Silent. Swain and Styles Announce For so licitor Practically All County Officers Represented In List. DIVERS WEAPONS ARE FOUND IN CHURCH was in existence in the Brazilian states of Pernambuco, Ceara and Para and that fighting was In pro gress between local forces and the government authorities. The causes, of the disaffection were said to have been racial differences. In the last week of February a body of fanatics was reported to be march ing on Rio Janeiro. Confirmed. London, March 5. Confirmation of the report that a state of siege had been proclaimed In Rio Janeiro was it ived here from that city today. Slartial law has been proclaimed In Nlctheroy, five miles cast of the cap ital and in Petropolls, capital ofthe state of Rio Janeiro. The situation in the various states was reported as becoming worse, es pecially in Ceara. Business was said to be virtually , suspended In several states, chiefly hose where the negro population was very numerous. The state of Ceara at the last census had a population of about 850,000; Para 450,000 and Pernambuco 1,200,- UUO. Message to Ambassador. Washington, March 5. Senor da Gama, ambassador from Brazil, re ceived a brief dispatch from his gov ernment today directing him to as- (ure legations and consular offices in this country "not to feel any uneasi ness because of rumors." There were no advices to supplement it, the am bassador said, and his only Informa tion of what the dispatch related to Was eontained in the news dispatches telling of a state of siege at Rio and revolutionary troubles In some of the Brazilian states. News that Rio was under siege and reports of an uprising in the northern Hates of Para, Pernambuco and I Ceara perplexed state department of i fielals. as tho interests of the north ern provinces and the southern dis tricts including Rio are quite distinct. Tin southern urovlnces are consider ed the more progressive; contain most of the railroads and are the center of extensive coffee Interests. In the northern provinces, such of those from which the latest outbreak is reported, the negro population pre dominates. Karly in the year meager reports I reached the department of hostilities ' then said to be confined to Pernam- buco and the neighboring state of ' earn, but the cause of the uprising Was not stated. Business Men Uninformed. N'ew York, March 5. No members of the New York coffee exchange had received any direct Information today retarding the reported outbreak at Illo Janeiro. Hermann Rleycken, of a firm of Coffee brokers and hankers, said he pad a cablegram from Rio Janeiro this; morning which gave no Intima tion of trouble In ihat city. "There Pave been repeated exaggerated u j mom of rebellion and trouble," he I added, "which have proved untrue." term for which he had promised to serve was at an end, there was con tinued discussion in official and dip lomatic circles of lack of harmony between Secretary Bryan and Coun sellor Moore and persistent stories of how Mr. Moore became dissatisfied with the arrangement of his duties In the state department. While it was admitted that Mr. Mooree's views on the recognition of theHuerta government and the ad ministration's course in other foreign affairs differed from those of the chiefs, all of these took pains to say that the counsellor had carried out administration policies when once agreed upon. One phase of the resig nation Being widely discussed was that Mr. Moore at the end of his ad ministration found himself perform ing duties usually assigned to offi cials far below the rank of counsellor, and at times learned much regarding the administration's policies from news dispatches. . One . f . . suoh . in stances being referred tp today was when Mr. Moore first heard of the sending of John Llnd to Mexico through the newspapers. Possible Successors. Disccssion of possible successors continued without any announcement of a selection. Hannas Taylor, former minister to Spain, John Lond, now the president's personal representa tive In Mexico, and Henry White, for mer ambassador to France, were be ing mentioned. The office of solictor of the de partment also Is vacant, no successor having been chosen to Joseph W, Folk, who resigned to become chief counsel to the interstate commerce commission. Washington, March 6. The appar ent halt on the part of the United States in pursuing Its Inquiry into the Benton killing and into the mysteri ous disappearance of Gustav Bauch is only temporary, according to those well Informed of the intentions of the Washington administration. The United States, it was explained today, simply is awaiting the outcome of the Carranza investigation of both cases. Outwardly it was apparent that Car ranza's determination to supply Infor mation about the Benton case, though technically denying the United States the right to ask it, was favorably re ceived here. Upon results of the Investigation and General Carranza's subsequent action depend in a large measure the American government's policy toward the constitutionalists. Much evidence of a conclusive character about Ben ton's death already has been gathered Should the Carranza commission con trovert important points satisfactorily proved here, it is unlikely the Wash ington government will remain silent . j. '. formal announcements uauui w na whiiiuiii uiuiuutcu ujs it; ANOTHER TUMULT IN AUSTRIAN PARLIAMENT Sessions Again Suspended by Disorders of Anti German F actio. . GEN. TAYLOR IS MAKING PLANS FOR HIS DEATH Philadelphia, March 6. General John p. Taylor, veteran of the war of he states and member of the National Monument commlsslrr. althour h ap parently In good health. Is making advanced preparations for his funeral. H has placed an order for a golld bronze c offln to be cast from old con nn and a vault has been sunk In the i rlvste Taylor burying ground on his state near Reedsvllle, Pa. Then gen eral plans to have this covered by a "'ft granite block to be surmounted "y a bronse status of himself : "eneral Taylor despite his X years, 'hjoy a horseback ride almost dally. Iluffua Iteration Kuyod. Will Valley, N. y.. March I. , 8- ('o'lln, attorney for Mrs. )'nith Huffum, ronvlrted of the mur jg' of her husband and sentenced to Vienna, March B. The lower house of the Austrian parliament, whose sessions were suspended on January 30 owing to the violent obstruction of the Caech deputies, reassembled today but was again brought to an abrupt stop by the tumulat raised by opposi tion members. The speakers once morn suspended the sessions. The obstruction of the Czech depu ties was brought about by the attitude adopted by the government In the settlement of German and Ciech dif ferences In Bohemia which the Czechs regarded as unduly favoring the Germans. ported, a satisfactory explanation and punishment c.f the offenders will be demanded. Persons familiar with the inaccessi bility of the territory through which General Carranza will be Isolated for the next 10 days during his overland journey to Juarez do not expect there will be any rep'ort on the subject for another fortnight. Though Huerta has promised a full explanation of the reported killing of Clemente Vergara, an American citi zen, nothing of a satisfactory nature has as yet been received by the state department. El Paso, Tex., March 5. Investiga tion into the execution by General Villa pf William S. Benton, the British subject and into the disappearance of Gustav Bauch, the German American, was begun at Juarez today by the Mexican commission appointed by General Carranza, chief of the consti tutionalists. The commission will en deavor to ascertain whether the ar rest and conviction of Benton was made according to due form of law and Justice. It is not expected that an examination will be made of the Briton's body. An attempt will be made by the Mexican commissioners to learn whether Bauch was executed or Is still alive. The Anglo-American commission still was awaiting instructions from Washington. General Carranza and members of his cabinet were expected to leave No gales for Juarez today. arr.'nmi Anxious to Clear Matter. Nogales, Sonora, Mexico, March 5. Appointment of a Mexican com mission to investigate the Benton case resulted, it was made known today The democratic political pot, which has been simmering slowly for the past few weeks, began to boil today and from 'now until the primaries are held there is not likely to be any dearth of interest In the campaign. The campaign Is opened this after noon by 11 formal announcements in The Gazette-News of candidates for offices from congress to township constable. The political situation has developed very slowly this year, for causes unknown, but now that the lid is removed developments are expected very rapidly and numbers of other announcements may be expected at any time. The congressional campaign le opened today by the formal an nouncement of Solicitor Robert R. Reynolds that he will seek the nomi nation at' the hands of the democrats of the tenth congressional district. Statements have been given out by Mr. Reynolds previous to this time that he would be in the race, but this is the first formal announcement of his candidacy. He opposed Congress man James M. Gudger Jr., In the primaries two years ago and consid erable Interest has been attached for the past few weeks to the poss'blllties of his entering the race again. The fight for the sollcitorshlp In the nineteenth judicial district, com prising Buncombe and Madison coun ties, is likewise launched today with by J . E . Swain, at present chairman of the Bttrrcombe county democratic execu tive committee, and J. Scroop Styles, until recently connected with the United States department of justice. It has been generally known for a short time that these men would be candidates but their formal an nouncements of their candidacies come out for the first time today. Formal announcements are like wise made today for prectlcally every one of the county offices. Those an nouncing are: Marcus Erwin, for clerk of the Superior court of Bun combe county; J.J. Mackey, for reg ister of deeds; B. A. Pattoh, for county tax collector; T. M. Duckett, for treasurer; N. A. Reynolds, for chairman of the board of county commissioners; E. M. Lyda, for county auditor; E. M. Mitchell, for sheriff; and Charles B. Joyner, for constable of Ashevllle township. Messrs. Erwin, Mackey, Patton, MessraDuckett and Lyda are ask ing for re-election. Mr. Reynolds was appointed since the last regular election as chairman of the board of commissioners and is now asking that he be elected to that position for the next two years. Mr. Mitchell is ask ing for the office of sheriff, to suc ceed Bheriff C. F. Williams, who will not be a candidate for re-election this year. He has served for several years past as deputy under Sheriff Williams. Mr. Joyner was appointed some time ago as constable of Ashe vllle township to fill out the unex pired term of Mack Jones and Is now asking that he be elevted by the dem ocrats of the township to serve the next two years. The men who open the campaign today are all well known and enjoy Police Commissioner Says He Will Brook no Repetition Of Rioting in The Churches. V ILSON URGES TOLLS REPEAL ilRiitl TO SOUTI AMERICA Arrangements Not Mature Exact Itinerary Has Not Been Determined. In Message to Congress Presi dent Earnestly Opposses Exemption of Coastwise Vessels. OUTBURST OF APPLAUSE GREETS THE PRESIDENT from some difference of opinion; and enviame amount or popularity among General Carranza' s advisers. , In the county and section. Those who While It was asserted those surround- Me ascking for re-election are bas ing the constitutionalists commander Ing their claims on service performed FLORIDA VEGETABLES INJURED BY FROSx Jacksonville, Kin . March 6. Mall reports from south Florida Indicate that the vegetable crop was injured from 50 to 76 per cent by the recent frosts. Around Fort Lauderdale Ice formed on the lakes and the damage Is great. At Danla most of the beans, cabbage, peas, tomatoes and lettuce waa frosted and but little will be fit to market. It Is said. Already the prices ars oaring here and people In the north may expect to pay much higher prices for all green goods from Florida. I ami Typhus Cfcso. Now York, March ft . The death of a Mrssk steerage passenger from ty phus fever caused the bsaJtb officers to bold the Cunard line steamship Pannonla for observation when she arrived late yesterdsy from Mediter ranean porta Mors than too other In chief realized his delicate position as a result of the Briton's death, they had argued that his act In refusing Information to the Washington gov ernment had created a false impres sion In the United States and England in regard to his Implied meaning. From those in close touch with Carranza it was learned that the ap pointment of the Benton commission wss but the first step In a series of acts ca.oulated to do away with what was considered a misunderstanding. The hr.pc was expressed that the work of the commission would convince the world of the good Intentions of tlen- In the past, while those seeking elec tion for the first time are depending on their past record In public or prl xate life as their recommendation for the various positions sought. All are strong men. z CREW OF POTOMAC ON WAY TO NEW YORK Washington, March S. The crew of the navy tug boat Pofmac which was abandoned In shore Ice after a futile relief expedition to Bay of Ill- New York, March D. Leaders of the Industrial Workers of the World gathered today at Jefferson market court where Frank Tannenbaum and 54 of his followers waited arraign ment In connection with their raid on St. Alphonosus Roman Catholic church last night. "The whole affair is a frame up," declared William D. Haywood head of the organization. "Police Commissioner McKay could have rounded up any of the unem ployed two days ago if he had wanted to but he waited until the mayor re turned and gave him authority. Now they are after Tannebaum's blood. I can't see that he's done anything to be arrested for. It is not the men who are on trial but the Mitchel adminis tration and the churches." Jane Roulston, secretary of the mixed locals of the I. W. W., said she was ready to furnish $1000 bail for Tannebaum If the authorities would reduce his bond to that amount. The most woelbegone of the pris oners Is Hyman Kinkelstein, who when arrested in the church last night had $750 in his possession. Kinkelstein said he had no idea of the nature of the demonstration in which he was participating. "I was watching the meeting In Rutgers squares," he said, "when somebody said 'come on; we're all going to eat! So I followed the crowd." New York, March 5. A majority of the army of unemployed that has been demanding food and shelter in raids on church meetings are today confined In several down town jails. The 190 men and one woman are held in $1000 ball for hearings late today on charges of disorderly conduct. Frank Tannen baum, youthful leader of the army, faces a charge of inciting to riot, which is a felony. His bail was fixed at $5000. The arrest of Tannenbaum and the greater part of his army, organized under the auspices of tho Industrl.il Workers of the World, occurred in St. Alphonsus Roman Catholic church in West Broadway, where Father John G. Schneider refused the demand for food and ordered the Invaders to leave If they had not come to worship. Douglas I. McKay, police commls sloner, who ordered the arrests, said ! he would brook no repetition of riot ing in churches. After the army had been led away the police declared that blackjacks, knives, razors and pieces of iron were found in the vacated pews of the church. William D. Haywood, head of the Industrial Workers of the World, said after the arrest of Tannenbaum and his followers that he was not sur prised. "The police followed the ad vice given them by the newspapers." he said, "and that was to be expected. The result will be that the public will learn that the problem of the unem ployed Is not a myth." Rev. W. Montague Goer, vicar of St. Paul's chapel, who acted as host to Tannebaum's army on Tuesday night, defended his action and declared that he might Invite the unemployed men to be his guests again. Dr. Oeer com plimented the men's conduct, laying especial stress on their appointing live of their number to put the chapel In order. A search of those arrested revealed but one man with money enough to pay for (i meal. This one Hyman Kinkelstein produced $760 In bills. He offered no explanation of his pref erence for the comradeship of men lees fortunate. Washington. March 5. Plans for Secretary Bryan's trip to South America at the time of the Pan American conference next September were going forward today in the Pan American union and the state depart ment, but oficlals declared they were yet Immatured and that no exact Itinerary now could be made. Secretary Bryan's announcement to the Pan-American union aroused the greatest interest among the Latin American diplomats here who recall ed the visits of Mr. Bryan's predeces sors. Secretaries Root and Knox. Senor Suarez, minister from Chile, extended the invitation and President Wilson readily approved the plan. While Mr. Bryan plans to leave here in July, going down the west coast visiting nations there and to return on the east coast, visiting Argentine, Ur uguay and Brazil, arrangements have not been sufficiently advanced to make It certain whether the secretary will go by the Panama canal route, although he might as the waterway will be ready for ships at that time. Considerable interest was aroused over whether Mr. Bryan would touch in Mexico during his trip but it was pointed out that it probably would depend upon conditions there at the time. That Congress Will Accede to His Wishes Now Consid ered to Be Practic ally Certain. ELEVATOR MEN ARE SCORED BY LAWYER Washington, March 5. Hearings on the Manahan resolution for congres sional Investigation of the alleged combination of Chicago, Dtiluth and Minneapolis grain elevator men and its influence upon wheat prices will be concluded on Saturday. After that the company will decide whether a recommendation for the appointment of a Bpecial committe of inquiry is warranted. Benjamin Drake, counsel for the Equity Co-operative exchange of Min neapolis, today continued argument in support of his charge that the Min neapolis chamber of commerce is a private monopoly conducted in opposi tion to the Itnerests of wheat growers. He declared the result of the alleged monopoly had so forced down prices to the farmer that growing wheat now was a profitless industry. Washington, March 5. President Wilson personally appealed to con gress, assembled in Joint session today, to sustain the national honor of the United States in upholding treaty ob ligations by repealing the Panama tolls exemption against which Great Britain protests. He asked congress to do that "In support of the foreign policy of the administration," and ' added that an exemption for American ships not only was "a mistaken' eco nomic policy" but was In contraven tion of the Hay-Pauncefote treaty. "I shall not know how to deal with other matters of even greater delicacy and nearer consequence if you do not grant it to me in ungrudging meas ure," said the president. "The large thing to do Is the only thing we can afford to do; a voluntary withdrawal from a position every where questioned and misunderstood. We ought to reverse our action with out raising the question whether we were right or wrong, and so once more deserve our reputation for generosity and the redemption of every obligation without quibble or hesitation." President Wilson's address, the shortest he has yet delivered to con gress exactly 420 words was as follows: Gentlemen of the Congress: I have come to you upon an errand which can be very briefly performed, but I beg that you will not measure Its importance by the number of sen tences in which I state it. No com munication I have addressed to the congress carried with it graver or more far-reaching implications to the interest of- the country, and I come now to speak upon a matter with re gard to which' 1 a mcharged in a pe culiar degree, by which the Constitu tion itself, with persona. 'espousi blllty. 1 have come to ask for the repeal of that provision of the Panama Ca nal act of August 24th, 1912, which exempts vessels engaged In the coast (Continued on page 9) eral Carranza toward the welfare of I ands, N. F.. were on their way to day by train from Nova Scotia to New York. News of their departure yesterday was received at the navy department. Two of the orew hofttawsln Wllklnaon and alt Individual foreigners In Mexlro. It was explained that the appoint ment of a Mexican commission In stead of the operations of one rom poaed of forelgnera at this time In Mexico, would eliminate danger of a Lelss, fireman were reported to hnve condition which would be undesirable been stricken aerloualy 111 after their to all sides. The gravity of the sitna-1 atrugVlee In the Ice locked north, tlnn was not denied hers, although They will be sent to a hospital and hope waa expressed that developments! the ejamalnder of the crew will go MRS. LOIS RANTOUL IS DENIED DIVORCE soon would allay any danger of a ! aboard a receiving ahlp at Brunkjyn breach of international good feeling. 1 An attempt to release the Potomac, IMai Denlem Revolutionary Intention,, it nan said, depended upon Ice condl- New York. March R . General tlona. , Felix Dlaa. who la stopping with frlenda here, claimed today that he i . , . T"tt was not acquainted with Pedro Del AVALANCHE KILLS Vllar and Cecllo Ocon. who. through atUPHTlfK ROT niVBC Boston, Maas., March 6. Mrs. Lola Burnett Kantoul, a granddaughter of James ltuaseil Iwell, waa denied a George I divorce from Edward L. Hantoul by Judge Hardy today. Mra Rantnul al leged cruel and abusive treatment. The defense claimed that the trou hlea of the two were due to the wife admitted affeotlon for Chester Clutpln Kumrlll of Upiingfleld. The best word picture of the Panama Canal COUPON Save it for a Copy of DANAMACANAI I r" I? Frederic J. Hakin AJ ty Frederic J. 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