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-ft THE GAZETTE-NEWS HAS THE j ASSOCIATED PRESS SERVICE. IT IS IN EVERT :: RESPECT COMPLETE; :: "WEATHER FOUECASTi PARTLY CLOUDY; WARMER. VOLUME XIX. NO. 280. ASHEVILLE, N. C, MONDAY AFTERNOON, JANUATy 4, 1915, PRICE FIVE CENTS gin WIRELESS THICK Tuned Apparatus to 30 Miles So Vessels Outside Limit Could Not Hear Order3 to the Auxiliaries. PLOT ON CONVOY TO OVERPOWER GERMANS Wise Council Nipped Mutiny in Bud Captain Tells of the Destruction of the Lynrowan. Norfolk, Vtu, Jan. 4. Captain Ar thur Jones of the British steamship Lynrowan, In port here, to load aboard the Virginia a cargo for the Belgians, gave a stirring account of the capture and sinking at sea by the German cruiser Karlsruhe of the steamship Lynrowan, of which 'he was the master. He also told of the Uermans making his wife a prisoner and the plot of several hundred cap tives aboard one of the Karlsruhe's convoys to mutiny, put the German officers In irons and steam away with the vessel. Captain Jones also made known the names of thirteen steamships the Karlsruhe had captured and sent to the bottom of the south Atlantic. The Lynrowan, owned by Johnson, flproule and company, and hailing from Liverpool, was bound from Buenos Ayres to Liverpool with a general cargo, which Included 1,000 tons of sugar. Captain Jones had been In command of the vessel for seven years. His wife and a friend, Mrs. Davis, who had been out to the river Platte to see her daughtor, were aboard the Lynrowan. On October 7, Captain Jones said, he sighted the Karlsruhe and convoys the Rio Negro and! the Crefeld. As soon-as the cruisers' officers saw the Lynrowan they headed the war ship full speed for the British vessel, the captain said, and there was no chance for escape. The cruiser signalled the Lynrowan to stop. Captain Jones obeyed and an armed party put out from the sea ! fighter and boarded the Lynrowan. They asked for the ship's papers and told Captain Jones to order his men to gather their clothing and prepare . to leave the vessel within half an hour. "We put one- of our small boats over the side, gathered a few belong ings, and, with the two ladles, we went aboard the Crefteld. I lost some valuble accumulations of years," said Captain Jones, We were treated cour teously, but food and water were scarce. The commander was kind and did all he could .to make the ladies comrorabie. There were 419 persons aboard the Crefield. The Germans took the stores and some of the bulk sugar from the Lyn rowan and then put explosives under hor. We steamed away about three miles and watched the destruction of the ship. The explosives did not seem to do the work and the Karlsruhe tired six shots at the Lynrowan. We could not see whether the shots hit the ship for by this time we were steam lag away. - . "Them was some discontent among the sailors on .board the Crefield. They did not want to be prisoners of the Germans. They plotted to over power the .handful of . Germans In charge of the vessel and make way with her. Wiser counsel had its ef fect, and the mutiny did not gain headway. We were aboard the Cre feld from October 7. to Octiber 2S, when we were landed 'in Tenerlffe in the Canary Islands. The Karlsruhe left us on October 13, after ordering the Crefeld's captain to put Into Tenerlffe on the twenty-second. The Crefold was Interned at Tenerlffe and j ths captain tried to escape on the plea that she was a hospital ship. We all signed paroles before we were finally released. We agreed not to take up arms against the . German government." Captain Jones told of what he said was one among, the .Karlsruhe's many mares set for merchant vessels fly ing the British flag. "The Karlsruhe and her convoys ept close together at night," he said. "In the day they separated in search of spoils. They used the wire less In a tricky manner. The appara tua aboard the cruiser was arranged for a radius of thirty miles. When" one of the convoys would sight a victim word was flashed to the cruiser and the capture soon followed. By setting the wireless for a radius of thirty mile It was Impossible for easels outside that limit to pick up any messarcs. and If a British man of war had been near It could not hare been of any assistance." Up to October It the cruiser had captured or sunk thirteen vessels. . Probable cause waa found In the case against Columbus McFall, who Iwas tried Saturday afternoon before Magistrate B. U Lyda on charges of violating ths search and seizure law, and he was held for Superior court under a, bond of 1200. ILL Kil WOMAN DEAD Rev. Mother Deplanck, Mother Superior of St. Genevieve's College, Asheville, Has Passed Away. HER PASSING CAUSES A TREMENDOUS SHOCK Death Came at St. Agnes Hos pital, Baltimore Interment Here Her Life Work a Magnificent One. The body of the Rev. Mother De planck, mother superior of St Gene vieve's convent of this city, who died early yesterday morning at St. Agnes' hospital in Baltimore, arrived here this morning. The funeral arrange ments have not yet , been completed, although it was . stated that the ln tement will take, .place. In this city. The deceased had been, ill, and In the Baltlmpna hospital for several days, although her condition, did not grow serious until a few days ago, The Rev. Mother;, Deplanck was head of the Sisters of Christian Edu cation In the United States and was mother superior . of, St, . Genevieve's college of this city.' She was born at Lille, France, May 21.,' 1857, her full name being Suzanne. Josephine. Louise Deplanck. Her family waa one of wealth and prominence in northern France, When, as a young, lady, she announced her intentions of becom ing a sister of the Order of Christian Education, members of her ' family asked her to wait four. years before deciding definitely and 'during that time she was taken on extensive trips to many parts of feurope .and given" every pleasure mat was possible; but at the end of' the four years she still Insisted that she was to become a sister. So, in 1870 she entered the no vitiate, taking the final vows on Au gust 24, 1881. In 1898, she was made superior of the Hillside convent at Farnsborough, England, where she remained for 18 years, the school being one of the most prominent in Englund. Mother Deplanck first visited the United States In 1H05 and came again in 1906. It was on this last trip that she and the mother general of Bel glum visited Asheville for the first time, and In the following year, she, at the head of a volunteer band of sisters from Belgium, came to Ashe ville, where op January 6, 1908, she opened the Hillside convent on North Main street. In 1910, Victoria Inn on Victoria drive was purchased and St. Genevieve's col I ego was established, the. school during the past four years growing to be one of the best and most favorably known in the south. Her work as head of St. Genevieve's college has brought her Into close touch with the people of Asheville and It was but to know her to love her, for she was a woman who easily made friends wherever she went. The home of Mother Deplanck at Lille, France, Is in the center of the desperate fighting that Is being waged In northern France by the al lied armies and , the Germans, and the city Itself has been . In the path of the different armies almost from the beginning of the war. She had several brothers and nephews fighting In the French army and she has con stantly devoted much of her time to prayer for them. The war has weigh ed heavily on Mother Deplanck from the very beginning and she never seemed to get the terrible fighting off her mind for a moment. Restraint Is Placed on Trading, However, to Prevent Sell ing Panic. London, Jan. 4. The London stock exchange reopened this morning for th transaction of business after hav Ig been closed since July SO, the be ginning of the war In Europe. Se vere restraint wa.i placed on the trad Ing to prevent the possibility of pan Is selling, and also to prevent tha un loading of securities by holders In hos tile countries. The dealings are lim ited to between the hours of 11 a. m. nd t p. m. and ar on a strictly cash basis. Caught under a freight train near Ashevllla Saturday afternoon, Lucas Rector was Injured In on of his lags so severely that It waa necessary tu amputate the member upon his re moval to tha Mission hospital. i nun mi fxrhanrf IS OPENED AGAIN DESPERATE STRWJGLES IRussian Reports Of Vistula and Bzura Riyers-Austrians Still Flecing-French Gain and Lose. Petrograd, Jan. 4. The of - I ficial communication issued to night by the Russian general staff concerning the fighting in Poland and Galicia says that strong artillery combats are be ing fought all along the front iof the left bank of the Vistula river andthat attacks of the Germans in the region of the Bzura river have been without success. "On January 2, during the night our troops discovered the passage of the Germans across the Bzura in the vicinity of Kozloff and in the vicinity of Biskowpi. Having watched the concentration of the enemy our forces surrounded the Germans. They .fought with bayonets, not a shot being fired. In tlic hand-to-hand struggles that fol lowed, our men killed several hundred Germasn. Some saved themselves by surrendering, "About 3 p, m. on January 2 a brigade of infantry attacked our troops near Borjimow, northwest of Bolimow, but the German assault was repulsed with heavy loss by the fire from several batteries and eounter attacks with the bayonet. "There was desperate fight ing on the njght of January 2 and during the day to the TRUNK LINE WOULD Roadman of A. C. A. Suggests Trunk Line From North to North Carolina. Special to The Gazette-News. Greensboro, Jam 4. "If you had a trunk line via Greensboro from the north you would no doubt have an enormous lot of touring this way, both winter and summer," said O. M. Wiells. of New York to a Gazeite News reporter last week. Mr. Wells was en route to Asheville to write a log of all the roads radiating out from Biltmore and expressed an Interest In the Bectlon as a most delightful one through which to tour. He is chief roadman of the Automobile Club of America. He said that for touring the sec tion that includes the Shenandoah valley and battlefields of Virginia and the piedmont of the Carollnas Is ap pealing and was convinced that with a hard surfaced trunk line construct ed through them thousands of tourists from New York would come through, especially since motoring In Europe has ceased, that they wquld find vis its to this section as inviting as to any other In the country If they had the road. The advantage of having the tour ists, he said. Is of course valuable to any section. Wherever they stop they spend a good amount of money nec essarily, all of which goes Into, local circulation. Unless the people of the section named secure a trunk line there Is probability of tourist travel going via Richmond. Access to that city already Is good from New York, and from there to Durham, to Rulclgh, to Fay etteville and to Plnchurst is tolerably good road way. He places the construction of a trunk line as foremost, saying that the tributary lines will take care or themselves with the farmers realizing the advantages of good roads over which to haul their products. Fully SO tourists went through last week en route to southern points and over 600 applications have been mnde the past two months. Ths prospects are for many mora to coma through In the spring and summer months Yet not near tha number are attempt ing the trip as would do so should It "become known that a good trunk Una had been established. Among those who passed through the latter part of tha week were W. C. Kimball and wife, of Manchester, N. H..; Mrs.' flessle Mitchell and Mrs. Tuttle. of New York; H. H. Harrison wife and chauffeur of New York. BR N6THETQURISTS Speak of Violent Encounters In Region northeast of Rawa, where we succeeded in dislodging the Germans from some trenches which they had previously tak en from us. -South of the Pili ca rive rthere has been fight ing at Malarrie and at Gaschek west of Inowlodz. Also to the southeast of Malagofzcz near Zelmin, we repulsed all attacks of the enemy. "In Galicia the fighting around Gorlice adn Kakliczyn continues. "In the region of the Uzsok pass and at Rosboki (south of Liako) we have made progress. Here we drove back the enemy who fled in great disorder. We captured 2000 prisoners and some mitrailleuses. Several companies of Austrians sur rendered in a body. In the re treat tot Uzsok the Austrians abandoned arms and ammuni tion. "Our offensive in Bukowina continues." The French have gained a little ground between Albert and Roye, just north of the point" where the line turnsast":' ward and east of Rheims and southwest of Verdun, where at tempts to make untenable the German positions at St. Mihiel, Pestilence Is Reported In Przemsyl Gar rison Lemburg, Galicia, Jan. 4. (Ry wny of Petrograd and London.) There Is report of pestilence In the city and among the garrison of Przemsyl. Phz emsyl Is said to be almost entirely without provisions. Ineffectual sor 2 Ed and Will Smith Taken From Jail by Mob Ac cused of Murder. Montgomery, Ala., Jan. 4. Ed and vt 111 Smith, negroes, arrested on the accusation of being Implicated In the assassination of R. A. Rtllwell. an Kl more county farmer, Thursday, were lynched near Wetupka early today by a mob of 15 or more masked men. About 1:30 o'clock this morning the mob entered the Wetumpka Jail. Tin men overpowered and hound the sher iff and forced a negro "trustle" to un lock the eei:s of the Smiths. After binding the prisoners they left in the direction of Elmore station. Governor O'Neal ordered the Mont gomery militia mobilized and at 3 o'clock the company left for the scene ! In automobiles. Rtllwell was shot Thursday morning while he was watching his barn to pro tect It against negro thieves. Blood hounds led the authorities to the cabin of the Smiths; ad certain track around the barn fitted the shoes of the negroes. JUDGE WEBB'S RECORD AS JUDGE IS REVIEWED Special to The Gazette-News. Shelby, Jan. 4. When Judge James I Webb completes his new term as judge of the lSth judicial dlstrtct he will have served over 22 years as so licitor and Judge without any opposi tion whatever from his own party and very little from the republican party, i Ho was sworn In as Judge Friday by T. K. Harnett, a local magistrate. Judge Webb was appointed solicitor by Governor Holt to fill out the unexpired term of Frank I. Osborne. He was then elected three times for four years each and after serving 12 years was appointed Judge by Governor Aycock to nil out tha unexpired term of tha laU Judge Hoka. ' AH ALABAMA S LYNCHED on the Meuse, are proceeding! slowly. They also have made j some advance in Aln hut i have suiTere da repulse to the northwest of St. Menehould. Germans Again Active. Petrograd, Jan, 4. (Via London) Having fortified themselves along the line through Socaczew, Skiernle wice, Rawa and Opoczno, Russian Poland, the Germans again have re newed simultaneous stubborn attacks to the south and west of Warsaw. They have endeavored to cross the Vistula near Czerwlnsk, evidently de signing movement against Nowo Georgiewsk. In the south near Grolt zy they attempted an advance toward the Vistula In the region midway be tween Warsaw and Ivangorod. The German plan, according to dis patches from the front seems to pro-! speakership of that body. The speaK vlde that the Austro-German forces ' ership must be set down as bigger at near Konskie, and moving in theilnla moment than any measure that general direction of Rawa and Ivan-! wil1 come before the ussemb.y. Ai gorod, Join the' Germans around i though one of the strongest men in Groitzy in besieging Ivangorod. tn race, K. H. Allred has been Military men here now believe (written entirely out of the running, Field Marshal von Hlndenburg's real i renewed diligence on his friends' part goal Is not so much Warsaw, whose capture would give him only a moral advantage, as Nowo-Georgiewsk an I Ivangorod, points which tl-e Germans must take if they are to Keep west ern Poland. It is assured, However, that the Germans still are sixty or seventy miles from Ivangorod and that every day the probability of tak ing these places is lessoned. Although general opinion is that neither can be taken the Russians do not depre ciate the perfection of the German technique and fierceness of attack or the effect of the(GermaJis heavy ar-VlJ.VTX-'.'J4,:W ,t.;v.r,v..i. . V' . , - Turks TaUe AroVhan. Constantinople, Jan. 4. (Via Lon don) The war office yesterday Issued this communication: "Our troops took Urdnhan.fa Rus (Continued on page 9) ties still continue tot be made out of Przemsyl, but they are being less vig orously pushed, which Is probably due to the garrison's knowledge of the failure of the Austrian relief forces to break through the Russian line. TO NAME FDR MARION OFFICE Congressman Gudger Will Set tie Postoffice Contest at an Early Date. Speelnl to The Gazette-News. Washington, Jan. 4. Representative Gudger expects to recommend a man for appointment as postmaster at Ma rlon within the next ten days. The commission of the present Incumbent expires January 27. W. M. Ooodloe and J. C. L. Bird are among the most promising candidates. NORTH CAROLINA MAN IS DEAD IN EL PASO Special to The Gazette-News. Wilmington, Jan. 4. -W. O. Old- ham Jr.. son of Captain and Mrs. W. IN I Oldham, of this city, died Frldavl.m .ffi., h..n.it.. afternoon at HI Paso, Texus. follow- j Ing a brief Illness of pneumonia. Mr. Oldham was assistant paymaster of the United States urmy, stationed at Fort Hnelllng, St. Paul, Minn., but had been on duty at El Paso since last June. He was 41 years old and had been In tha army 10 years. The body will be brought to Wilmington for Interment. Mrs. Oldham, who makes her home In Raleigh, left Frl- day morning to be with her husband. A telegram was sent to her yesterday en route notifying her of his desth. and she turned back, coming to Wil mington. Zeppelin Shod Partly Destroyed. t London, Jan. 4. According to an Amsterdam dispatch to tha Exchange Telegraph company, French aviators have dropped several bombs In Brussels, partly 5 destroying a Zeppelin shed which t waa In course of construction and it killed several German soldier at IS EST ISSUE Contest for House Honor Is of Great Moment Members About Ready for Cau cus Tomorrow. - OTHER INTERESTING FIGHTS IN PROSPECT Gardner Now Has Opposition for President Pro Tern of . Senate Governor Pre pares Message. (By W. T. Bost). .. Daleigh, Jan. 4. The North Caro lina general assembly of 1015 is here and almost ready for the caucus that will determine Tuesday night the last week moves to the conviction that Allred will make others reckon with him. The, talk has been Wooten and Bowie, the first the dashing pro gressive whose county overwhelmed the opponents of constitutional light, the other the powerful protagonlBt of things as they are. Certain it Is that Bowie's name evokes all the fighting strength of his enemies, it is Bowie against the field, but Wooten has the appearance of having annexed vastly more territory. Between the anti podes come Allred and Seawell. The three opponents of Bowie are fortu nately related. They can get together. Should Bowie's followers fall with him, the question then is where his strength will fall. This Is commonly assigned to Seawell. Other places pale before this fight, but there Is vast enterprise among the disciples of Max Gardner and Frank Hobgood for president pro tempore of the state senate. Until a few days ago It was supposed that Gardner would have no opposition. T. G. Cobb, one of the legislative insti tutes has no fight for the principal clerk of the house, and R. O. Self, is to bo elected again as principal clerk in the senate. J. D. Berry of Raleigh and D. P. Dellinger of Gas ton, are asking for reading clerk ships. Seven seek places as sergeant nt arms. Governor's Message. Speculation on the governor's mes sage has not caused the chief execu tive to forecast his paper. He will advocate the primary. That much is known, and he has said that he will ask the body to do something for tho mountain forests now being denuded of the spruce and balsam. inis appeal nas come from many quarters. That the governor will have some thing to say of the tuberculosis sani tarium at Montrose Is certain. Many visitors have called upon him urging him to advocate Increased appropria tions for tubercular treatment. The Institution now accommodates at one time about 100 patients. Construction that would Increase this capacity to bOO Is sought. out Institutional Sucre. By these advocates Governor Craig Is quoted as doubting that the state will ever be able to deal with tuner culosis institutionally. He speaks well of what has actually been done at Montrose, but in the light of the IS,- 000 tuberculosis patients In the state, i ne sees no way to create an institu tion large enough to care for that ' sized sickness. He things well of; propaganda and Informing the state through headquarters of the success ful fight against tuberculosis. He will narrate the history of the Institution. Government Is Moving. The government has been moving three days and by the latter end of the IV ? It tu lif-f lha Ilia Ihtil thn U ..r4 have all departments housed. The structure has been almost made over, bearing but a semblance of Its for mer self. The government began tearing away the old Btructure.ln May of 1913 and has put about liif.0,000 In the new building. To the rear of the federal court building the county court house Is going, thus making two of the handsomest In the state side by side. The federal building is to be occu pied by the postoffice, the marshals and tha collector's offices, the dis trict attorney'a quarters and the fed eral court room. This latter feature has been very greatly Improved. Judge Henry G. Connor will hold the first term of court In the new building next week. During tha tear ing away of tha old county court house It has been necessary to hold state coures there too, and this will be done by the county during the ourrent week. Tha city schools ra-open Monday. Early In the year a campaign la to begin for the construction of two or mora large school buildings in the city's group. Raleigh has but two an- (Continued on page I) SP G T OF It ran Planning Campaign Before the General Assembly to Se cure Full Rights of Citizenship. JANE ADDAMS MAY ADDRESS LEGISLATURE Permanent Headquarters to Be Opened in Raleigh Prom- " inent Women Are to Work Actively. . v Special to The Gazette-News. Raleigh, Jan. 4. General assemblies have methere so often that the bien nial thrill has almost worn off, but'in the midst of the mighty Is a new ele ment, tne squal sufrraglsts who have come this year to ask for full right ofJ cllizenship. Today they will open per manent headquarters In one of the best places in the city and they will stay here until they have won or lost. The announcement a few days ago that William Jennings Bryan will ad dress the legislature is superseded by the story that Jane Addams, the most illustrious American woman in the view of many other women, will also address the legislature. The Addams visit will create more talk than the Bryan pilgrimage. Miss Addams Is coming here to make a refractory leg Is lature accept the inevitable woman suffrage, and it Is allowed that she cifli do the job better than any man or woman on the globe. Miss Mary Ferrand Henderson, of Salisbury, chairman of the commit tee that present the meusure to the general assembly, was to be' here to-i j day. A suffragist who has seen the ' women of all the great countries of the world, she is backed by her dis tinguished father, ex-Congressman John S. Henderson, and her brother. Dr. Archibald Henderson of the uni versity, to say nothing of Mrs. Archi bald Henderson, president of the North Carolina league and one of its most intellectual advocates. In Ral eigh Mrs. James H. Pou, Mrs. Mar garet Busbeo Shipp, Mrs. Palmer Jerome, Ir. Dixon Carroll, Mrs. Thos. P. Harrison. Miss Edith Royster and 'lb or more notables besides, will help. The North Carolina suffragists aro seeking the vote through the machin ery of the state, relying in the finality upon the worldly wisdom of the men who would control suffrage by statn enactment. There are consequently factions In the advocates now, no mil- Itants and no rank federalists. Thev, are seeking an amendment that crowns them with the vote the chfv- j airy of actuality, not of sentimentality, i The visit of Mr. Bryan Is not with- i out probable appeal for the women, i He spoke first for suffrage last summer and has since uttered anew his convlc- ; tion that women should vote. Tho j kind of speech that he is to make has, ' not been accurately guessed at. it is j said, but of course the primary will ' be his new year paramount. S THE Russia Claims Successes in the Battle Being Waged With Sultan's Forces. Petrograd, Jan. 4. This official re. port given out by the Russian general staff In the Caucasus deals with tha fighting around Parl-KmlJsh, In Trans Caucasia: "In the region of Sarl-Kamljsh, en January. 1, the great battle continues to bo waged In our favor. The enemy continues an obstinate resistance. We have captured the Fiftieth regi ment of Infantry almost complete. In cluding the commander and the other officers. Tha total Turkish losses amount to BOO private aoldlera, 40 of ficers and several surgeons. We hav also taken al xpleces of moun tain artillery, 14 machine guns and ammunition. "Tha next day tha opposing foreca ' were atlll fighting. Our troops recap tured aeveral positions which . tha Turks had taken and with them three machine guns and over 100 prison-' era. "At one point the Turkish troops ' were completely dispersed by our men i fighting with bayonets; and two Turk ish companies ware cut to places by our artillery fire. . , ' "Our troops are operating under painful conditions, owing to the snow and cold of tha high altitude. Thai morale of our men la excellent, how aver, and they right with ardor." BATTLE WITH TURK BEAR y I
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