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Weather Forecast
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PRICE FIVE CENTS
ASHEVILLE, N. C, MONDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 9, 1914
MANY PEOPLEME
DIE IN FIREMJMIk
E HURT
III MAKING ESCAPE
tt ipwnMMMl V. Trn . 11
nuuse j.xoppcu vy xuuiies
Exact Number of the
Dead Unknown.
1 1 i i lj as- a.' u a n nn n u run n i
BE MORE THAN MILLION
Or Missing Heroic Work
Of Manager, Wife and
Telephone Boy.
St. Louis, Mo., March
DYNAMITERS
LOSE
IB THEIR APPEAL
TO SUPREME COURT
Washington, March 9. The Su
preme court today refused to gnant
a review of the conviction of the "dy
namiting cases" of Frank M. Rvan
23 other members of the Bridge
ahd'
n writers union, only a
now keep the convicted
the penitentiary.
pardon can
men out of
WEBB LEAVES FOR
MAKING TfinyHMJ RlflHI ITAI IAN TRflflPQ
ifinixiiiu u L iuui i ilvv num. imuui u
HOME! SUGAR TARIFF CHARGE RIOTERS
Mrs. Vanderbilt Says She Pre
fers Returning Here for
Indefinite Stay on the
Biltmore Estate.
NO CHANGES IN THE
ESTATE'S MANAGEMENT
Funeral Services Were Held
In Washington Today
Several Asheville Men
Attending.
lana
Supreme Court Grants Louis-
Permifsion to Ap
ply For an Injunction
Against McAdoo.
Washington, March 9. The Su
preme court today granted the state
of Louisiana permission to file an ap
plication for an injunction against Sec
retary McOdoo enforcing the reduced
sugar rates of the Underwood tariff
act.
Cavalry Attacks Immense
Mass of Turbulent Strik
ers Wounding Several
of Demonstrators.
ACTION FOLLOWED
MEETING AND RIOT
RALEIGH
TONIGNT
Important Meeting of State
Democratic Executive Com
mittee Tomorrow Night.
9. Three
dozens of
m l' s i ii? in, n can in a,).
i ..-i ll rppr -1 ii.i vv i, vhi in, . ,i. ......
At R o'clock this morning beslds
Issourl Athletic club fire officers of
unaccounted for. These were
IS In Building.
The exact number of dead in the
urns in imc magnificent ciun House
it be known for. several days.
ii i. . : ill hp -lii, , in,.,, aci i., iK..
,1.1 ,i liiiruiiiu ii. !,.. 1... I. ....
v' JKwr ,,, i,ci UUIIUIUK
I,.. ,1... . l .. i vn . .
ni
One hundred and thirty-five persons
'Pie TIL' 1 si i rti1 nt IVlrt olllK loctt nlrrVit
inn ii.i m wirn in in,, i i i ii u ui inc. nvnr mni n n nu. nr
nriMi. ii- in i-o?-r, n ,nn i.,.. t . i.
Tlic victims whose dead bodies have
' ii recovered are:
John Martin Aickcy of St. Paul.
num.
I la mage KKtimated at $1,000,000.
The property damage 1b estimated
I niiilr thun II nOn OnO in thn i-iiillu
Hi- liank covered by the ruins are
MRS
BERTHA iT
Gazette-News Bureau
Wyatt Building,
Washington, March 9.
Messrs. Van Winkle, Wheeler,
Beadle, Ravelen and Reece, were here
for the funeral of Mr. Vanderbilt to
day at noon. Dr. Battle, who has neen
in Florida for several days, wan to !
arrive today. Dr. Swope, who con- j
ducted the service, arrived yesterday
morning greatly fatigued from his
journey, and the shock which he felt j
upon hearing of Mr. Vanderbllt's !
death. While wholly unprepared for I
the death of her husband, Mrs. Van-1
derbilt is feeling stronger now.
At the Vanderbilt residence on K
street, Dr. Swope last night told the
writer that Mrs. Vanderbilt would
Raleigh to attend j doubtless be glad to say through The
committee, to be I Gazette-News that she regarded the j
home ami
Just before
COMMITS
SUICIDE
Young Spencer Woman Took
Her Life Here Yesterday
Morning.
One Hundred Thousand La
borers Meet and Demand
Changes in Conduct of
The Hospitals.
HO RETURNED
VERGARA'S BODY
KELLEY AND 1700
MEN ARE DEPORTED
Unemployed Army Sent Out
Of Sacramento on Special
Train Guarded.
Mystery Surrounds Expedition
Into Mex. Which Returned
Remains of American
Killed Recently.
Sacramento, Cal., March 9. Three
mllltla companies stood guard today
to see that "General" Kelley and 1700
unemployed men obeyed the orders
when a special train was made up to
carry them out of the city. It was
planned to ship them back to San
Francisco.
The marchers, who left San Fran-
TJonie March 9 Snimrtrnnq nf eiv- Cisco last week tor tne purpose, 11
airy charged and dispersed crowds of i was announced, of going to Washing
on
Chairman Charles A. Webb of the
state democratic executive committee
leaves tonight for
a meeting of the
held there tomorrow night at 8:30 ' Biltmore house as her
o'clock. This will be ono of the most i would continue to do so
Important meetings of the committee i The Gazette-News representative call
during the year. Mr. Webb will ten-' ed, sold Dr. Swope, Mrs. Vanderbilt
der his resignation as chairman and 1 said that she would be glad to get
his successor will lie named. In addl- back to Biltmore, there to remain in
Mrs. Bertha Rufty, 28 years of age,
wife of Arthur Rufty, yaidmaster lor
the Southern Railway company at
Snencer. committed suicide here ves- !
terday morning about 11:30 o'clock
at the home of her cousin, John li".
Keener, 184 Bartlett street. Mrs. Ruf
ty shot herself twice in the left side
with a 38 calibre revolver, presum
ably after making an attempt to take
her life by cutting her throat with a
razor. Both the revolver and the razor
were found on the bathroom floor,
where the deed was committed. An
turbulent strikers in the streets of
Rome today, wounding several of the
demonstrators. The action of the
troops followed rioting between the
strikers and police after an immense
demonstration on the Piazza Del Pop
olo. In these disturbances several
policemen and manifestants had been
badly injured.
Rome, March 9. A meeting of 100,
000 Italian workmen, who started a
THERE WERE ONLY 9
MEN IN THE PARTY
Body Was Turned Over to
Rangers at Border Capt.
Refuses to Tell Who ,
Delivered It.
ton, D. C, have been camped
Southern Pacific property.
The situation at the "army" camp
Sunday was both ludricous and
threatening. Baseball games, boxing
matches, and impassioned oratory
were features. Thousands of persons
viewed the camp. ,
Sanitation was becoming bad. city
health authorities said and it was as
jserted that if the army was permitted
tion to this, the committee will ntsne ; definitely. From time to time it has inquest over, the body was held at the
the dates for holding the various j been reported, generally in New York
county conventions and for the state papers, that Mrs. Vanderbilt did not
convention. care for the quiet life at the Biltrrfore
Mr. Webb was asked this morning '. mansion, but at the residence here
by a Gazette-News reporter if he has ! last night, assurances were given that
any idea as 10 who will bo named tyiMrs. Yariderljilt had no such feeling,
succeed him as chairman. fJTpliedipWeri-lng the life at Biltmore, Mr,
that the only man who has an- ' Vanderbilt said last night that she
nounced himself as a candidate for ; would have preferred to see the rc
the position is Thomas D. Warren , mains of her husband Interred at
of Newbern. He would not say, how-: Biltmore, but that Interment would
Warren will : be at Staten Island in the family
vaults, In obedience to a request
A number of men have been men- which Mr. anderbllt had made some
tioned for the place since it was an- j time ago.
nounced that Mr. Webb would have Dr. Swope stated that there was
to resign, owing to his appointment j little reason to apprehend any materl
as United States marshal. Among : al chants In the management of the
these were: A. W. McLean of Ruth- Biltmore estate, that not only would
erfordton, J. O. Carr of Wilmington, Mrs. Vanderbilt continue to look up
J. M. Pearsall of Newbern, Cameron ! on the Biltmore house as her pcr
Morrison of Charlotte, Editor Brlt-jmanent home, but there was the fur
tain of the Raleigh News and Ob- tUer consideration that the estate was
ore in:, o i inn i on m ..,,,1
","0 in coin. At daylight only part
'i me ironi ana rear wai s remainea.
niiu niur '.iii. ii.iii
ouapsi (i, irom the roof to the ground
por which la occupied by the bank.
When tiremen arrived flames were
no, it llf out nf thi. . 1 ..I .1..
I,, ...... ,inu n,i , in-
jumping from windows or
Many Injured
More lhan a dozen Jumped several
wiJ'n.,i,,n UM 1.14,,1K.
uiuK.ll iibi UI ll'Wn Bfl l-
OUg illinrinu Thnu whn Du.Bnl m,.
nun ran about the street In nlehl
loM iuiy carrieo inio ncignnoring
The fire fighters repeatedly dodged
"' fillip? Willi nnlv to flnrt Ih.m.
ei.i under another tottering mass
nicodre levy. of Ixiulsville. Kv..
prapsed him about the waist and car
f'eil him down a ladder. Ivy said
Hu or ih.. ....... i , 1 1 1
- nmil "HO O.IO I..M3H II II I,' II
nail clung.
As walls and floors collapsed thev
rut down showers of hugs embers
roofs of neighboring buildings
nd for a time threatened to cause a
Hier.il conflagration In the heart of
n retail district. All fire righting ap
Paratti. f iheMy waa brought lo
the ,,. if
Thre Heroes.
Hubert C. Mulll rn.n.r.r .( l,0
luh. and hi wife were aroused by
Jnr moke. They discovered the fire
Hie dining room on the third floor
belorc .(..Lin, ik.l. ... . i.
"hed up and down the halls waktoa
Hi. i.. Iloth wars ba.llv ,i.,l
The telephone nnanlnr. twiv r.
mnlned at hi. poat on the ground floor
"en after the firemen began pouring
ler into thB building. Many of the
flle.t. , redlted their In hlm
At 8 O'clock f Vila I.I.. tfn...
Jiniir. after the in., had been dlacov-tli-
tiluan waa believed to have
" "'"'' control. Half au hour
"r. however, the hollers In the base-
"Kill I., tun to . ...I...1.. .....I ., ..
.. ,,,,,, ,, i ni,
,1 . " lh ""men under orders of
Ini ' u wl,n,,rw from the aired
'mrnedlalely In front of the building
" red the laat two remaining
, "0u,d collapse and bury them
'"dge c Orrlok Mabop. aaaUtant
'r'ult attorney, roomed on the Hath
server and Mr. Warren. All of these
except Mr. Warren have denied that
they are candidates for the place.
The state convention this year, the
date for which will be decided upon
tomorrow night, will be for the pur-;
pose of nominating one candidate for
the state corporation commission,
several Superior court Judges and a
United States senator. The latter will
either be appointed by this conven
tion or his nomination confirmed
from the primaries. The committee
will decide tomorrow night whether
or not the selection of a senatorial
candidate shall bo left to a primary
vote.
This year will be the first time that
a United States senator will be select
ed from North Carolina by popular
vote. Senator Bacon of Oeorgia was
the first In the country' to be so se-
looted, and Senator I,ee of Maryland
I was the second. Considerable inter
jeet attaches to the question of the
manner of nomination In this state,
undertaking establishment of Noland
Brown & Co., last night, the Jury re
turning a Verdict of suicide.' The body
was- shipped to the home in Spencer
this morning for interment.
The StaaeeI4tt. no messag-a .tellr.
Ing why she committed the rash act,
although she made the statement to j
Miss Mullah Hoffman, who resides
next door to the Keenrf home, that j
she was in trouble. HI health is said j
to have been the cause of the suicide, I
friends being th authority for the i
statement tat Mrs. Rufty had been
suffering physical and mental ills for
about a year. She was the mother of
four children, the youngest of whom
Is only eight months old. She had
been suffering from an hallucination
for some time, It Is said, that tho
baby was to be taken from her.
The scrluusnejs of her condition I
had been known to relatives and j
now being profitably conducted, friends for some time and a close
Neither business nor social consider- watch was maintained over her In the
atlons would demand any' radical 'fear that she might attempt lo take
change in the management of the es- her life. Yesterday morning, however,
tate. In the opinion of those perfectly j all members of the family left the
familiar with the estate's affairs. house to attend church, leaving Mrs.
Mr. Waddell had to leave last night Rufty and her baby alone. Miss Hoff-
for Hendersonvllle on court business. man was asked to keep watch over
Mr. Beadle agrees with Dr. Swope In j her. The latter went over and talked
the belief that no radical changes will , with her for a while, It Is slated,
be made In estate management. when Mrs. Rufty told her that she
(By AsHMiatl l'ri'Ns). 1 might return home as no assistance
great strike today took place on the
Piazza Del l'opolo this morning. Fiery
I speeches were delivered but there was
no disorder. The meeting merely
passed a resolution demanding that
the public hospitals be reorganized for
the benefit of the working classes.
The ostensible reason for the strike
I was to protest against changes re
cently introduced in the hospitals. The
authorities, however, believed lie
movement to be thf outgrowth of a
desire of the leaders of the workmen
to test the strength of their organiza
tions.
The entire garrison and police force
were kept in readiness. Besides these
15,000 men, several regiments were
brought in from the provinces. Every
strngrtlc.T point ill the city was oc
cupied with soldiers and cavalry pa
trolled the main thoroughfares.
to remain it would become a menace
to health. James Rolph, Jr.. mayor,
said today regarding the plan to re
turn 1,700 unemployed men from
Sacramento that he would pursue a
policy of "watchfulw aiting."
The mayor called attention to the
California statutes of 1091 under
which It is a misdemeanor for any
person, firm or corporation to bring
into a city or county any person who
might become an indigent.
lilTMITS OF KIISA
LORD DERBY IS LILY
TO PROVE
Revolt Against Government
! Officials Autonomous Gov
ernment Proclaimed.
Picked by Many For Premier
If Unionists Are Return
ed to Power.
Athens, Greece, March 3. Dis
patches today from Korltsa, where the
Albanians had stationed government
officials, say the Inhabitants of the
town have revolted and driven out the
Albanians. The people afterward pro
claimed an autonomous government.
Iiaredo, Tex., March . Reeoerdoe
"Remembrance" written on a card
attached to a shovel that protruded
from an open grave was the single
trace found today of th party of men
who mysteriously entered Hidalgo and
returned It to Texas. Vergara's body
was carried across the Rio Grande 45
miles above Daredo early Sunday
morning and there it was found by a
federal official, a state officer and a
county deputy sheriff. Who was re
sponsible for Its removal from Mexico
was a question still unanswerable. The
body was here today awaiting an ex
aminatlen which state authorities hope
may disclose something to aid them In
placing blame for the ranchman's vio
lent death after he was taken prisoner
by Mexican federals.
A superficial examination of the
body disclosed two gunshot wounds in
the head, one in the neck, a blow as If
from a rifle butt which crushed the
skull and the mutilated left hand,
twisted and charred by fire, suggested
that torture had been inflicted before
Vergara was executed.
Texas rangers of the troop of Cap
tain .1. J. Sanders were first declared
responsible for tho return of Vergara's
body, but later this was denied. Cap
tain Sanders was one of the men who
"were informed" that the body could
be found at a designated parv The
other two were American Consul Gar
rett of Nuevo Laredo. Mex., and Dep
uty Sheriff Petty. They went to the
scene ostensibly to secure further In
formation on the Vergara case but ad -mltted
later that they had been told
that the body had been returned. Who
were tholr informants was one of
numerous questions each of the offi
cials in turn refused to answer. They
did say, however, that neither United
States nor state officials had any part
In the actual trip Into Mexico.
Later rumors had it that former
employes of the Vergara ranch, chaf
ing at delay in securing the body for
proper In.erment. had taken matters
Into their own hands.
(Continued on Page Nine).
Funeral Sonlcen.
Washington, March 9. -Funeral
services for George W. Vanderbilt
took place here today and his body
was taken to New Dorp, Staten Island,
N. Y., for burial at the old Vander
bilt home. The services were simple
and brief and only close friends and
relatives attended.
Senor Rlano. ambassador from
Spain. C. D. Beadle. Arthur Wlllet,
Cifford Pinchot, Overtone Price. Hen
ry White, Herbert Putnam. Charles sine
D. Walcott, secretary of the Smith- later
Was needed Just then. Miss Hoffman
left the house and In a short time
heard groans from the Keener home.
She rushed over and found Mrs. Ruf
ty In the bath room, partly undressed, ' leadership of th
on.l Ihn mvolvpr nn.l razor lvlna- on I Ixird Derby en
the floor. The baby was In a room '
downstairs. Dr. at. B. Glenn was call
ed and Mrs. Rufty was rushed to the
Meriwether hospital, where an oper
ation was performed by Drs. Glenn,
llnnii-iitt ami Lynch in an attcfut to
her life. She died two hours
since the method decided on this year ynnlan Institution: and Mnlor General
will doubtless serve aa a precedent Leonard Wood, chief of staff of the
for succeeding years. army, were honorary pallbearers.
WYATT IN RACE EDR DISTURBANCES FOLLOW
MRS J.H. WEAVER DIES
AT HOME IN MONROE
W. H. Wyatt, Former Police- Riot in Province of Malaga;
man, Announces His Can
didacy Today.
Two Policemen and
Citizens Hurt.
Wife of Rev. Dr. Weaver, For
mer Pastor of Central
Church Is Dead.
News has Just been received In the
city of tho death at Monroe, N. C of
Mrs. J. H. Weaver, wife of Rev. Dr.
W. II. Wyatt announces , himself; Madrid, Spain, March IMsturb- J. H. Weaver, who was formerly pas-
through the columns of The Gazette-. ances In connection with the general tor of the Central Methodist church
Newt today aa a candidate for the I parliamentary elections yesterday In In this city. Detail of the death have
office of constable for Asheville town- Spain are reported from various , not been' learned, but It Is stated mat
ship, subject to the action of the dem j places. jahs died ssvejal days sgo.
o. mil. primary. He will npposs A riot al Bonagalbon in the prov-' For several years Dr. and Mrs.
i harlis B. Joyner, the present con- Ince of Malaga resulted In the wound- Weaver were residents of this city and
stable, who announced himself sever-, lng of two policemen and a score of they have hot of friends here who
citizens. one policeman In missing
al days ago.
Mr Wyall la well known in the city and probably
'us killed
limn aa a patrolman on the Aaheville
police force. He Is now In business in
West Knd.
incurred The chief of police anil n
number of Holer received aoverii In
Juries.
Miss Anne Meads.has returned to
her home on Montford avenue from
a tan days' visit to friends In
Orleans.
New
M. P. Ilavenel leaves tonight for
Washington to attend the funeral of
George W. Vanderbilt.
will learn with sorrow or her pass
ling. Hhe waa u womnn of many fine
qualities mid wu a ronstatent church
, worker.
Rev. Dr. William TAieodllus Capera.
former rector of Trinity rhurch,
Ashevllln. will aeume the duties of
his new bishopric In western Texas In
May.
I.ondon, March 9. Lord Ierby is
being picked by many political ob
servers as likely to prove "dark horse"
In the contest for the premiership
when the unionists return to power.
Those who most ardently supported
Bonar Law are now believing that, his
leadership has proved a failure. Il- is
over 19 years of age and he is a liberal-unionist,
a party association
which has never helped a man to thc
t'nlonists.
the oihet hand, who
has been unionist leader in the Ixin
rushire for many years, has never as
sociated himself with the tariff reform
whicl has helped lo defeat the union
ists a three successive general elec- j
Hons. He is a "free feeder," like most
ljincastrians, and has further streng-'
J thened hi position by taking a strong ,
stand against thoo who threatened
I civil war If the home rule bill Is
passed. While a staunch anti-home
; ruler. xrd Derby spoke strongly '
! against the Ulster men, should they i
rise against law and order. Against
I the denounced attempts to revive the
I royal Vto, When a section of his partv
suggested that the King should be
petitioned to withhold hi signature
i from the home rule bill. Ho therefore
gained the reputation of being a strong
constitutionalist.
The lincahlre leader has the ad
vantage of having served In the l
r)f commons and ha Imd considerable
experience In the cabinet. He started
hi career as a inemher of the ataff of
the governor-general of Canada: was
chief pre censor and private secre
tary to Lord Robert during the South
African war, and was twice men
tioned in dispatches for conspicuous
sendees. I'pon return lo Kngland he
became one nf the lords nf tho treas
ury, snd later financial secretary to
the war offlrc, where he remained un
til he entered the cabinet aa poatmas-ter-gnral.
He had to retire from the house of
common, where he represented the
West Houghton division of Incushlre
for It years, on tin- death of his fath
er In l'"" bul be hu continued hi
interest iii politic. If not actually
premier when llm unionists return to
power he sure lo till one of the cab
inet "ih - His great wealth will of
course help hint, but uf even greater
assistance Is his Intimacy with King
George.
I to
"und of names crackling Ilko.M ' t.i
Continued on page t, , Holly II
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ret tinted
she ha
Mrs. Kd-
Miss Maty Jordsn of Greensboro I
v isltlnn her uncle snd aunt, Mr. and
Mr. 1). C. Waddell, Jr., al lllelr
hufllii on Grove street.
Mi Frances Dates has returned
from a visit of two months to rsla
jtlvea In Rlrmlnaham and Charlotte
I Mi Dale waa the recipient uf mark'
led social uttentlon while, away.
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