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a rl THE GAZETTE-NEWS HAS THB ASSOCIATED PRE88 SERVICE. ' IT 13 IN EVERT .. RESPECT COMPLETE. :: II I! LEATHER FOEECASTj CLOUDY; RAIN. i 3LTJME XIX. NO. 265. ASHEVILLE, N. C, SATURDAY AFTERNOON, D ECEMBER 5, 1914. PRICE FIVE ' CENTS fmi M MOST TRAGIC FIGHTING OF WAR AROUND LODZ is E SOI ghting Desperately With Bayonets Succeeded in Cut ting Way Fifteen Miles to the Main Army. Llit ERMAN FELL IN ROWS BUT KEPT CONTENDING onflict Called Bloodiest - and Most Pitiless of the War- Other Heavy Fighting Reported Near Lodz. Lodz during- the past two days oc curred in the course of the maneuver ing for a position at Lask, IS miles southwest of Lodz. On the Seczerczow line, which is 15 or 20 miles to the east of Lodz, the fighting appeared to indicate that the Germans were receiving heavy rein forcements and were' filling the japs between their right wing and the iso lated bodies of troops and making an attempt to turn the Russian left. . The German descent was on the north front along the East Prussian line and they occupied positions on the Angerapp and then north either to the Mazurlan lakes or to Angeburg. Here the Russians entrenched them selves both to the German line on the east front of the lakes and "to the Vis tula, the Russian position being slight ly back of the line of advance which was established some ten days ago. Hero both armies awaited the outcome of the battle of Lodz, the main Ger front extending above Mlawa. ' The military critic of the Bourse Gazette reckons the loss of the Austrl- ans in prisons as equal to the dead and wounded and places the Austro- Hungarian fighting strength as only two-thirds of what it was at the be ginning of the war. ; Russian Statement. Petrograd, Dec. 5. The following statement from the general staff of the Russian commander-in-chief was is sued last night: "Oon the left bank ot the Vistula Oecemher 3 there was fierce fighting on the front of Glowno-Lowtcz and also on the western roads towards Iiodz and Plotrkow. "On the other fronts there were no essential modifications in the lines. "On the fronts in the Caucasius De cember theer was no Important fight ing." PATTONJNDiCTED For Wrongfully Obtaining, and Revealing Information Sent Out by Associated Press. Petrograd, Dec. 5. Tho most agic fighting included in the derations in the vicinity of jodz thus far reported has oc- urred between Puscyn and rzemy, to the southeast of wdz. Heavy German forces hich had penetrated to Pus- p, it appears, were surround A and obliged to fight their ray to Przemy in order to lite with the main German The Russian forces essayed punter-attack after counter it tack to prevent the junction jf the German forces but the jrermans succeeaea in cutting jieir way through the press jiS Russians, fiercely fighting lth bayonets, ' for a distance f 15 miles in a conflict which fe called the bloodiest and most itiless of the entire war. Ninety per cent of the Ger pan officers were, put out. of etion and many regiments pre left with no more than 00 men each. The German m mi i ifll III literal rOWS OU menu alonir the rallwav herween jhe field, but their comrades j YPre" and Ru"ers and along the o hurl themselves against the packers which momentarily iireatened their entire destruc- ion. CHARGED M TUB MONEY Large Sums Drawn From In diana Legislature Funds, Grand Jury Finds Of-. ficials Are Indicted. LIEUT. GOV. O'NEAL AMONG THE NUMBER MIT a SHiSMEl m Convention Jsborne Sales Force Clc . With Banquet at Grove Park Inn. Gcrmnn Statement. Berlin, Dec. 5. (Via London) The French army In Flanders has re peatedly , attacked the German line, says an official statement given out by war department in Berlin yester day, which adds that the attacks were repulsed. The text of the state ment follows: . ,, "In the western theater the French attacks on our army in Flanders were repeatedly repulsed, as they were al so In the region .of Altkirk. - The French suffered considerable losses. "In the eastern arena the attacks of the Russian forces east of the plains near the Mazurlan lakes wore repulsed with heavy losses to the Russians. ', "Our offensive In Poland Is suing Its normal course. "His majesty, the emperor, arrived In Berlin yesterday for a short stay. "Signed, Chief of the army of ministration." New York, Eec. 4. A grand Jury has returned Indictments against H L. Under, James Rice and William M Patton for wrongfully obtaining pos session of and wrongfully revealin the contents of telegraphic messages sent out by the Associated Press. Such acts constitute violations of Section 652 of the penal laws of New York, Llnder, a telegraph operator em ployed by the Postal Telegraph com pany and stationed In the office of the New York Globe, was released under ball of $1,000. Rice, a telegraph man ager of the New York News Bureau was released under bail of $5,000. Patton, who conducts a sporting news service known as the Trl-Daily Sport lng Bulletin, was locked up in default of $R,000 ball. Judge Mulqueen, in the court cf general sessions, fixed Monday as tho time for the men to plead. Their cases probably will come before Judge Mi- lone as Judge Mulqueen will move to another division next week. Llnder, who says he was employed by Rice and Patton to steal news through nn arrangement perfected by "Jacking in" on The Associated Press in the Globe office, has been at liberty on $5,000 ball since lost Tuesday. He was a witness before the grand jury yesterday. While his testimony was not made public, it is believed he re peated a former confession that he was receiving pay from Patton and Rice for stealing messages. Prior to May 16 last, Patton was in charge of the Postal Telegraph com pany's branch in the Globe office. When he -resigned to start his sportlni? service' he was succeeded Sy Llnder. It was then, according to Linder, that he drat learned of the secret wire which mfide the thefts possible and was employed to take the Associated Press dispatches. Through the medium of a decjy dispatch telling of "the sinking of the pur I Russian dreadnought Fliba on Novem- oer c i , iJinaer was apprenenaeu. ne was arrested and confessed, Implicat ing Ulce and Patton. Homer L. Cook, Secretary of State, Also Charged Re port Mentions Filing of False Claims. The eleventh annual convention of the sales force of the Osborne com pany, Newark, N. J., which had been in session at Grove Park inn since Wednesday night, came to a close last night Over 100 salesmen1 of this well known art calendar com pany were in attendance upon the sessions of the convention, and the occasion was fittingly closed with a banquet at the inn. The spread was served in the main dining room. President Kdmund B. Osborne acted as toastmaster, and speeches of the evening were as follows: "The First Mile Post," Frank Wooster; "The Osborne Company," G. R. Reynolds; "The Osborne Man a World Power," Charles A. Miller; "The Field of an Advertising Man," T. V. Summers; "What it Means to be An Osborne Man." James Glm blett; Wish to Take Action of Phila delphia Bank for $15,000 From Raleigh Court to Wilmington. NEARLY $300,000 CLAIMS AGAINST THE FAMILY IKES BEPDRT an ens Report of Commissioner Ship man Shows 56 Roads Op erate in State; Mileage 4888.31; $116,301,190. 89.23 MILES CONSTRUCTED DURING THE PAST YEAR Actions Involve Genuineness Howard Craig, Negro, Electro of Signatures of Endorsers to Notes Executed by J. Sprunt Newton. (By W. T. Bost). Raleigh, Dec. 5. Before Judge! The Osborne Company, Lira- j Connor, who is holding federal court commlssio'ner of labor and printing of cuted for Criminal Assault Ex-Congressman Is Very 111 (By W. T. Bost) Raleigh, Dec. 5. M. L. Shlpman, Indianapolis, Dec. 5. Very large sums 'of money were drawn out of the Indiana treasury, during the ses sions or tne isis legislature or in- Ked." Ravmond Walker: "Our Obll- i "Kre- ln ueiense in one oi me ae- K.th r.r.lini, v,a hmlttfd th diana, according to the report made j gallon," William H. Seely; "Decern-tlaa &sainnt the Nevjtons and McAr-, folIowIng report on railroads arid em ,ate yesterday by the Marion county j - Twenty-seventh." George C. th- grand jury which indicted Lieutenant speeches wfire w J trom Rale.gh , to Wilmington. ZlfZZTeTl Governor William P. O'Neal, Homer and much enjoyed by the assembIed Th.s Philadelphia banks suit is for, lumber-roads. These L Cook, secretary of state, and 11 company. Immediately following thejlo;0- wa" bef? the Cum-1 rallroads cover a meage of g.MS.Sl. "I ,J . "7 J . . last one on the Program, a handsome ",'."? as shown by the assessment of June SO. 1914, an increase of 89.23 miles of 1913, for the alleged filing' and ' guver i0vin presenting of raise claims which were paid out of the funds of the Indiana legislature. Indianapolis, Ind., Dec. 5. Lieu tenant Governor William P, O'Neill, Homer L. Cook, speaker of the house of the 1913 legislature who recently took office as secretary of state, and other officers and members of the patronage committees of the 1913 legislature were indicted last night by a Marlon county grand Jury, g cup was presented to Mr. and Mrs. Osborne by the sales men. It was stated In the presenta tion speech that the cup was given In token of the high esteem in which the head of the company and Mrs! Osborne are held by the members of tho sales force, as well as in apprecia tion for the deep interest shown by them in the welfare of the salesmen. It was thought to be appropriate to present the cup at this time, as this year marks the twenty-fifth anniver- of jury verdict against the plaintiff Sprunt Newton. Adam McArthur and ! v" '""i?"- The assessed valuation Mrs. M. C. McArthur, alleged ln dorsers for Newton, the Philadelphia plaintiff took a non-suit and went to the federal courts. The Citizens bank of Norfolk, had won a $25,000 ver dict in the federal court here, the first action having resulted In a mis trial in which nearly all the Jury stood with the bank. The many actions involving -the is $116,301,190. The average dally wage of the dif ferent employes are given as follows, beginning with general office clerks, $ J.3G; station agents, $1.79; other sta-, tlon men, $1.25; enginemen, $4.79; firemen, $2.22; conductors, $3.3(1: other trainmen, $1.93; machinists, $3.27; carpenters, $2.41; other shop men, $1.77; section foremen, $2.02; ino indictments cnarge tnat tne,ary 0f jlr. Osborne's presidency ornciais signea warrants ior pay ior:the company. employes in excess of tho amounts j Mr, Osborne made a short speech fixed by the law and for more em-1 of acceptance on behalf of himself ployes than, provided for In tho.and Mrs. Osborne, and said that the statutes. cup will alwys remain among his Others indicted were. Mason J. Nib-I most highly prized .possessions,.., ,V Si.-TntBiitiaer--ttMpatltartietrttt1 ' All. attending the oonvention this rian of the 1913 house; Levi P :Har- year have been greatly pleased with lan, chief doorkeeper of the fstate Asheville, its accommodations and senate; Douglas Colser, principal door hospitality, and when the visitors keeper of the house; John J . Keegan ; ieaVe today they promise to take with representative; George W. Snnds, 'them many good words for this city. French Statement. Paris, Dec. 4. The French official statement concerning the war situa tion, given out In Paris yesterday la as follows: "In Belgium there have been Inter mittent but fairly spirited engage- The Situation. London, Dec. 5. While re ports continue to reach London liat the battle of Lodz result d in a Russian victory, any of icial confirmation of these re- )orts ii lacking and it appears o British observers of the con- jlitiona in Poland that the sit Jiatinn, .go far as the relative 'ositions of the two armies are 'onoerned, is virtually v the fame as it was a week asro.. . i lie details of the fio-litinc nt. , - o r-f - fmz which are now filterin through to the news centers easily prove that tho battle is h bloodiest of the war. ' f The Germans are reported to Jiive fought their way through ihe encircling Russian line ,0vpr the dead bodies of their comrades. Berlin claims the ,(,npture of a large number of prisoners, while from Kiev omes the account that, the for- ;wss is crowded with prison (irsofwar. 1 An eye witness xrlin t rrWh tho French and British fnr n French Flanders says that "vm armies aro .ending in fRe operations and that the wnnans have almost entirely "Miuonca their infantry as- "uus in lorco. . highway between Becolaure and Pass Thendaele, where the Infantry of the enemy attempted to gain ground, but was forced to retire without succe . 'At Vermelles we are continuing the work of organization in the posi tions taken by us from the enemy. "From the Somme to the An-onne there, Is quiet along the whol? front. In the Argonne there have bcn several attacks by the German Infun- try which were all repulsed bv us, particularly at La Corne, to th njrth west of the forest of Brurle. "There has been some rtlllry fire In the Woevre and In Lorraine, "There la nothing to report in Al sace. ivwt rvi.fi. """'if of th, w.r e vie hilly of A CHE BASEBALL PLAYER IS DISCOVERED Lai Tin, Captain of Honolulu Team, Secured by Chica go White Sox. ANCEIO MAN OF THE -SACREDJOllEGE DEAD Was Created Cardinal in 1893 Passed Away in Rome ' This Morning;. Chicago, Dec. 5. A full-blooded Chinese baseball player has been dis covered by the Chicago club of the American league, according to an announcement made today by offi cials of the club. He Is Lai Tin, cap tain of the Honolulu Baseball club, which la composed of Chinamen. Manager Callahan of the local club stated today that Tin had been ordered to report for practice when the club began the spring training at Paso Robles, Cal., In February. London. Dee. 6. A Central Newa dispatch from the correspondent at Home gives the Information that LCardlnal Angelo dl Plqtro Doyan of tli sacred college died toflay. uarai nl dl rietro was born May Id, 1828. He was papal nunclnn at Madrid In 1187 and was created and proclaim d cardinal In 1891. , representative; Samuel N..Qulllan, principal clerk of the house, of rep reseiitaties; George M. Ttabb, asslst nt secretary, of the senate, Paul C. Hill, nssistant clerk of the ' house; Wade H. Free, secretary of the sen nte; and George Stellborn, engross ing clerk of the house. The menu served at the banquet last night was as follows: Canape Caviar Blue Points on Half Shell Fresh Celery Clear Green Turtle Soup Salted Almonds California Olives Baked Sea Trout, Creole Chilled Cucumbers, Potatoes Lyonalse Sweetbreads, Parislenne Stuffed Tomatoes French Peas Roast Ypung Turkey Cranberry Sauce Mashed Potatoes In Ceam Baked Sweet Potatoes Asparagus on Toast Fruit Salad French Ice Cream Assorted Cake Camembert and Roquefort Cheese News of This Action Received 'Cigars Demi Tasse Cigarettes family and their large fortune, are "tner trackmen, $1.18; switch tenders suirt tn nirm-BB-nte npm-lv i aOO.000 . ! ana waicnmen, l.iu; iP.esrapn uiwr. POTGEESE. CABINET I The McArthur indorsers for Newton during his early days of apparent prosperity, testified that they had found things going wrong and that they . declined , further ,; Indorsement 'i'hey "deny their -signatures ahd have brought at great expense, expert wit nesses who testify that the signatures were forgeries. Two federal juries have been with the bank witnesses in holding the signatures genuine; and one state court Jury has decided in two cases of $10,000 each, com bined into one action, that the signa tures are not genuine. The Cumberland case Is now In the Supreme court, but that body has not handed down its opinion. Various reasons move the attorneys to ask a change of venue. Wilmington sesms to have advantages In favor of wit nesses and the case has been much less talked there. No civil action in many years In this Jurisdiction has been so widely discussed, perhaps. The first federal trial was reported In pages of print and the difficulty of getting Juroiii will not be so great tors and dispatchers, $2.44; all other . employes and laborers, $1.81. "For the information upon which the deductions of this chapter are based the department is Indebted to,.' the" tSTdrth'-CaToHria corporation com mission." Howard Craig Electrocuted. Howard Craig, the Stanly county negro convicted of criminal assault upon Miss Odessa Cogglns, made the eighteenth electrocution in the state prison and died after two shocks from the huge dynamo. Crnlg sought executive favor direct by letter but in that appeal he did not admit the crime, which depended very largely upon the young girl's ability to identify him. He confessed to Rev. J. K. Satter white, Episcopal minister in the col ored congregations, and Rev. N. F. Roberts, dean of Shaw university the ologiral school. Both ministers walk ed with him tb the chair and minis tered to him when the trappings were l being adjusted. Craig was baptized ing juioii, win noi oe bo Kreni . after It Is moved to Wilmington If It I ' . . ' ,,A .i,u lilt UfU.Ul viiamui wan iiuru ,n. witnesses for the once, two colored , in London From Lisbon Correspondent. London, Dec. 5. Dispatches to the Exchange Telegraph company from Its correspondent at Lisbon state that the Portuguese cabinet resigned to day in a body. OPTION CLAUSE BASIS OF JOHNSON SUIT Chicago, Dee. 5. The option clause of the contract between th Washing ton baseball club and Walter Johnson will be the point on which the battle for his services between the American and Federal leaguffl.wlll be waged, ac cording to a statement last night by B. B. Johnson, president of the Amer ican league. Johnson, according to B. B. John son, hat received a communication from S. 8. Miner, president of the Washington club, saying the club's at torneys had agreed that this clause would hold Johnson to organised baseball. Confiscate! Oil. Venlcs, Deo. I. (Via. London) The Austrian government haa confis cated th antlr output of oil In Austria-Hungary. Refiner hav bn for btddon to upply oil to th trad. Htoclr In tho hand of dealer will b exhausted In ten day. It I Mid. Change Data Hoston, Deo. . Th otton loan commute last Bight announoed that th confrnc her with th ehlrm nf th tn commute would b .leld l,rminr ii Inntead of Decctiibsr 15, i prvlouslr announced. Army Supplies. Washington, Dec. S. The United State army ha a six months reserve supply of clothing, shoes, camp equip ment and supplies, and In this rspact 1 tn a better atat of prepared ih than ever before, according to a ata'a ment befor th house military affairs commltte by Major General Aleahlr, quartermaster general of th army. Vienna Jubilant. Vwilea, Dc 4. (Via. London) Thr wa great jubilation In Vienna whn nw ot th occupation of Rel rad by th Affstrtan waa published and th afreet wer orortd wtlh flarn. Nwspapr wr nild with prill of th Austro-Hungarlan troop. FINAL ROUNDS TODAY IN PINEHURST GOLF CHIEF JUSTICE CLARK ILL AT RALEIGH Well Known 'Jurist Became Suddenly 111 Last Night Is C8 Years Old. Plnehurat, N. C, Dec. S. C. L. Beck er, of Auburndule, Mass., and Robert Hunter, of Stamford, Conn., meet to- I day In the final round for the first division trophy of the eleventh annual I autumn golf tournament here. Becker won from Btuyvesant Le I Roy, of Newport, Rhode Island, four up and three to play yesterday after noon. In the morning ha defeated T. J. Moran of Providence, Rhode Is land, by the same score. Hunter dpfeated Samuel Beckman, of Providence four up and three to play yesterday afternoon and Frank Rhea of Washington U up and flv to play, In the morning round. Special to The Gaiette-News. TMlelgh, Deo. 6. The people nf North Carolina will learn with keen regret of the sudden Illness last night 'at his home here of Chief Justice Wal ter Clark. Judge Clark, It Is said, was taken III about 10 o'clock and when discovered by members of his family was In an unconscious condition. Phy sicians were Immediately summoned to attend ths distinguished Jurist and out-of-town relatives have been noti fied of the Judge's Illness. Judge Clark Is 18 years old and last month completed 26 years' continuous ser vice on the Supreme court bench. CARLETON HUDSON. ADMITS HE IS BETTS Chicago, Dec. 5. Carleton Hudson, wealthy lawyer, for year a respit ed churchman and citizen here, and C. H. Betta, who fled from New Tork In 1894 when he was freed on bond charged with forgery are th asm manr Hudson, arretted Thursday at th ln,stanc nf heirs of hi former bondsman, admitted his Identity In a statement Issued last , night by his counsel, Clarenc Darrow. Hudson wa arraigned her yestar day and given a week's onntlnuanc. II wa at liberty jaat night, having been granted until today to rals II, 000 bond. goes there. There are so many of state, that every federal court town , " sldes . h ES.CP,V. finds the people talking them. Both sides having appealed in the two cases heard, there is no settlement of any of them to date. "Language Used Was Not His Lordships" Cobb Thinks Quoted Correctly. London,' Dec. 5. The "Press asso ciation announced last night that It had been Informed . officially with reference to an Interview purporting attending as witnesses. Every chair was occupied. Six came from Cabar rus and Stanly counties. W. H. Cog gins, the father, and his son. a brother of the girl, and E. C. Bost, brother-in-law, were here. He walked unattended to the chair this morning, but never spoke. He whispered half-audlhly for mercy. H would hav talked If he could. From Wilson comes the story that ex-Congressman Fred A. Woodard Is In a critical condition and haa been for a long time. The illness: that af flicts him appears to have told o ter ribly upon him that he will hardly go out again. Relatives and friends of Mr. Woodard have received letters saying that he has not been away from hlc home in weeks and will never be able to leave asiln. He wan congress man from the sveond dlctrlct befiT the revolution of I'm and hj always been one of the most delightful of eastern SCorth Carolina men. Delayed Court Opens. Judge Harry W. Whcdliee w ill enn- lo have been hud by lrvln H. Cobh 1 yen AV'nke county court her Mondav with Lord Kitchener, which was i morning In the last criminal term of printed In the United States, then tho year. Judge Whedbee having been McCoy Itrwt. WHkMbrr. Pa.. Doc. K. "Al" Mr Coy, of Nw York, hadd "Kid" Wag. ner, of Wllkesharr at night In a ten Mind bout. Both men l(-ktl atrain ' jta their punch. HAS BEEyLDlllP Transportation of the Russian Troops Along Danube Cut Off- -Tunnel Dynamited. Amsterdam, D. 5. Th great tunnel uear TyrhJrtrher ha been blown vp by dynamlt. thus sex'crlng communication between Horvla and Roumsnla, according to advices a- cld from Nlh, Bervla, today by th mtln with Lord Kitchener as exactly Rotterdam Coursnt. Th passsg nfina I could, I did not deliberately or Russian transportation of , troops wilfully mlsreprennnt him and I m along th Danub I thus rndrd quit pnaitlv that I csuiht hi mran- cabled to London and published here, "that th language Is not that of Lord Kitchener and that his lord ship's official representative ex presses surprise that It should have been regarded possible that Lord Kitchener used such expressions." The official press bureau has Issued lha following statement on the sub ject: "With reference to a so-called In terview with Mr. Cobb: "Although lord Kitchener saw Mr, Cobb a few minutes October 11, noth ing In the nature of a special Inter view was granted and the remarks' attributed to th secretary of state for war are Imaginary." Cobb Insist. New York, Deo. 6. lrvln fl. Cobb, mad this statement regarding his Interview with Ixird Kitchener: "By arrangi-ment of a third person of promlnenc In England, I did see Lord Kitchener on October kl for about 40 minutes. I used no pencil and paper during the conversation, following the custom of Interviewers. I afterward reproduced th conver lmpowtbl. her the past six months. The Wake county court house has been undergoing repairs and removal and a new building Is now taking Place of the old one. It will be a ye:ir before that room can be used. Th blggcut case before Judge Whedbee Is the News and Observer's suit against the Wake Water com pany. It Is set for December t, but the delay In the Supreme court of ths Tyson vs. Washington Water and Electric company Is embarrassing st torney for both contentions. There Ii no case that Is so nearly a parallel of th one to be tried next week and It I still unsettled In ths courts of last re sort. i Noble Kilted. London, Dee. $. In a casmallty list made public last night Captain Th Hon. Arthur Annesley, of th Tenth Hussars, I reported killed and lieu tenant Iord Charles Eafkvlll Telham Worsley missing. of what he said and I am sure thnt. 1 quoted him correctly. I hav hd mm experience an lntervlpwi'- jlng and as nearly a possible th text j and I hav a fairly good, memory." J i
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