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1 1 4 4 THE OAZETTB-NBWS HAS THB ASSOCIATED PRJtSS BERVICB. IT 18 IN EVERT tt RESPECT COMPLETE. TVEATHEE FORECAST FAIR TONIGHT. , 'OLUMEjXX. NO. 16. ASHEVILLE, N. C, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 2, 1915. PRICE FIVE CENTS BIG ANARCHIST President Believes Allies Have FLEETS BATTER PLOT UNVEILED INNER FORTS RUIN HZ. M F T M H ?lan Balked to Cause Reign of Terror in New York Equal to French Revolution Days, Police Say. WEALTHY MEN TO BE KILLED WITH BOMBS PROGRESS FOR SUPPLY BILLS Signal of Murderers to Be the Blowing up of St. Patrick's Cathedral Which Was Attempted Today. Congress Leaders Agree Big Appropriation Measures Are as far Advanc ed as Usual. BILLS PASSED TO DATE AGGREGATE $314,411,223 New York, March 2. An attempt to low up St Patrick's cathedral today and the arrest of two men by detec tives who had been t Informed for months concerning their activities was followed at police headquarters by the Announcement that the arrests had balked an anarchists' plot to kill with bombs Andrew Carnegie, John D.. Rockefeller, sr., John D. Rockefeller, yr., and other wealthy men of New York. The anarchists, according to the po- lleo, had planned to cause In New lYork a reign of terror comparable nly to the days of the French revolu tion. Tt was part of the plot, the police assert, for gangs of men, armed with rifles and revolvers, to appear simul taneously at various parts of the city and to shoot and pillage. The biggest of the banks of New York were to l-e blown up, and many wealthy men sere to be slain. The wrecking of the cathedral was to be the signal for the beginning o an elaborate campaign of murder and looting. The next move, according to the authorities, was to be the placing of bombs In the homes of Andrew Car negie, tho Rockefellers and Cornelius Yaiulerbllt. Tor. months a office detective had been working within the inner circles of the anar chists, according to the police. Detective Frank .Baldo assisted In the making of the bombs and attended the man who attempted to blow up the cathedral. The detective accom panied the bomb thrower to the edifice and sat with him while he lighted the bomb and hurled it at the altar. Im mediately the cathedral, in which there were about 800 people, was alive with detectives. Baldo, sitting beside the bomb thrower, placed him under arrest, while detectives sitting In pews Just behind, dashed up the aisle and extinguished the sputtering bomb fuse. The congregation hardly realized what had happened until It was all over. At police headquarters the alleged bomb thrower said his name was Frank Abarno, a lithographer, 21 years old. Soon after he was taken to headquarters, detectives, acting on In formation secured by Baldo, arrested Charles Carbone, 18 years old, charged with complicity In the plot and with helping to manufacture the bombs. When Abarno entered the cathedral door he was met by a whlte-wlggrd priest, who was In reality a sergeant of police, and accompanied to a seat. Two scrub women, on their knees In the vestibule, were also detectives. Other detectives followed Abarno to the church. House Yields in Number of Submarines Republicans Prevent Action of Ship Purchase Bill Exceeded Rights In Drastic Sfsp Says No Nation Has Right to Change Rules of Warfare Because Methods Have" Changed .. U. S. Will Send Notes to England and France Inquiring What Means They Will Use to Enforce "Blockade" of Germany Neutrals Placed in Delicate Position. SENATE DEFERS VOTE ON THE LIQUOR BILL Great Crowd Packs Galleries Until This Morning Wait ing for Senate Action. Washington, March 2. Both houses of congress worked until a late hour last night, administration leaders straining every rescource to expedite legislation that must be enacted be fore adjournment Thursday noon. Rural credit legislation as an amendment to the agricultural appro priation bill held the house in session far into the night. The senate, after devoting a second day to appropria tion tangles in the $11,000,000 Indian supply bill, laid the bill aside in the evening for an executive session and to take up general calendar bills. A compromise on the naval build ing program was one of the Important developments of the day. Conferees agreed to two submarines, of the sea going type, and sixteen coast defense submarines. The house conferees yielded to "the senate's demand for central the sixteen coast defense vessels, but would not agree to five of the ocean going type. The senate proposal for a new hospital ship and a new gun boat was eliminated. The provision for two battleships wns unchanged. Leaders of both houses concen trated their efforts on conference re ports on unfinished appropriation bills throughout the day and evening and it was generally agreed the big sup ply measures were as far advanced as they usually arc In the closing days of a congress. Army, naval, agricul tural and post office measures still were In conference, but It was expect ed that all would be reported today and Wednesday. Up to date the appropriation bills ready for the president aggregate an outlay of $314,411,223. These Include the sundry civil, fortifications, Dis trict of Columbia, and military acade my bills. Nine other bills, excluding the river and harbor bill,- as passed by the senate aggregate $674,029,120. Added to these. In all probability, will be a Joint resolution appropriating a lump sum of $26,000,000 to $30,000, 000 for river and harbor Improvement which would bring to total appropria tion for the next fiscal year to more than a billion dollars. A filibuster by house republicans against consideration of the confer ence report on the ship purchase bill prevented action on the measure. An other effort to get th report ap proved may be made today. Washington, March 2. The United States will send notes to Great Britain and France inquiring what means they in tend to use to carry out their policy of holding up supplies being taken to and from Ger many. President Wilson told callers today that the British and French note as presented yes terday outlined in very gener al terms the policy they intend ed to pursue but that it was not definite concerning the means they meant to employ to effect it. The president re fused to discuss 'the subject in detail. President Wilson declared that no nation has a right t8 change the rules of warfare because the methods of : war have changed. 'He indicated that the United States would not change its previously an nounced position to continue efforts to have the belligerents respect American non-contraband slapping. The president said it was not clear in his own mind whether the new action of the British and French govern ments established a blockade ill though that would be the trenei'al effect. He indicated that even though a real block ade was established no ques tion affecting the neutrality of the United States would be precipitated by the continued voyageing of American ships to Germany , Identical notes presented by the French and British ambassadors In formed the United States of the dras tlo step by the allies in reply to Ger many's war zone proclamation. If this policy Is enforced it no long er will be possible to ship cotton HOUSE PASSES MACHINERY RET consideration. Washington Displeased. Displeasure over the latest develop- mcnts was not concealed in state de partment circles, where the stopping Measure Goes Through Third or commerce to and from uermany Report Says Forts Guarding! Narrowest Part of Darda nelles Are Destroyed ( Russians Join Fleet. manufactured articles and commodi- was viewed as much more serious than a blockade since it interferred also with cargoes presumed to be bound to a belligerent while in transit to a neutral country. Whereas the doctrine of continuous voyage pre- ties hitherto of - a non-contraband ; viously has been invoked in the pres- i character from the Lnlted States to ent war by Great Britain to sustain Germany directly or indirectly, and j her right to detain cargoes at any from Germany the supply of dye-stuffs' stage in their journey if proved ulti and other merchandise for consump-, mately to be destined to a belligerent. tion in this country will be cut oft. such a presumption is understood now The impression was general in offi-lto include all articles of merchandise, cial circles that a strong protest such as machinery and implements, as would be made. The allies' action was well as cotton, bound between the regarded a& an ' unprecedented and ; United States and neutral countries,' novel step. Officials pointed out that ; unless an embargo on re-exportation In the reprisals which the belliger-s put into effect by the neutrals to ; ents were making toward each other! whom the products are consigned. I there was singular forgetfulness ofl Tn approaching the question of the; the fact that whatever might be the ground on which the United States; violatilons of International customs as , should enter a protest against the ac-' Reading With Only Few Unimportant But Neces sary Amendments. THOMAS C. BOWIE ELECTED SPEAKER between the United States and coun tries with which she was at peace. Possibly Temporary. Assurances given by Great Britain that yesterday's note was not a reply to the recent proposals of the United States for an adjustment of the en tire situation gave ground for hopes that the measures taken might be only. temporary. In this connection the tion of the allies, officials were , doubtful as to whether they would ; make their argument on the theory -, that a blackade In reality was being i attempted or whether they would I Effort Made to Have Divorce Bill Reconsidered Car Loads of People Ask ing Legislation. 100,000 FOR DEFENSE OF ISLAM'S CAPITAL Grecian Dispatches Say Turks Have Mines, Submarines, and 100,000 Men Strung Along the Coast. (By W. T. Host.) T?lrt!o-V A.lnnnU O Pk. VI-. contend for the uninterrupted passage ' " " "' x , v f v,olo. thi. trv .T,d!act W0'1 iMr wading in the house belligerents not listed as contraband, cl" ""Ptant amend- . menTR wnien rtonnmn noiouaa nn oo Neutral's Position Delicate. Officials realized that except for state department issues the following ; diplomatic correspondence the points statement: ' of which might be easily exhausted It was regarded ns virtually epr-1 without remedy, there was no way count of the Supreme court decision last week governing the application of the Inheritance tax. It went through the house with only tain that the United States would ' for neutral governments to enforce1' "' ,, """ jaaer nrnllv hmnlrs g tn hniv ttio sten , that onrl Qfill tnalntnln tfcelr : "'" JS lliai. Lnairman was to be carried into practice. Officials and diplomats were curious on reading the text to know what would be the disposition of cargoes hitherto not listed as contraband, such as cotton, which, if destined to Germany, the allied fleets propose to take into British or French ports. An Intimation was conveyed, in Erltiah quarters that the-jU'es. Intended to buy outright all such cargoes, but tt was said that such a promise would not affect the determination of the United States to Insist on Its right to send non-contraband articles to Ger many when the question Is argued in further diplomatic correspondence. From Great Britain not a ward has neutrality. The general disregard of precedents, it was ponlted out, has Houghton of the finance committee of the lower hedy, put the bill through ... - . -i . i in ;iiiiiiivr dyhptiv ina oa rm a on n r it i t- maile the position or neutrals more'-" - . ..., ....v,.c un.i rlelleale In the present circumstances , tnp committee prepared It and the than ever before, though a somewhat mpfs"re Is expectel to pass the senate similar situation which led to m-jw'J; llltle opposition. bariroes bv the United States and the! i nomas l. Howie, speaker pro tern. non-intercourse act, arose In the ; as elected unanimously to succeed earlv part of the nlnetenth century j Kmmett Tt. Wooten, deceased speaker, during the Napoleonic war'. ln 'one memory the house adjourned The entire subject probably will he 1 terday as it closed the deliberations laid before the cabinet today by;of t,,e morning session. Mr. Bowie President Wlson. I naa ht'en Presiding since Saturday fol- One of the chief concerns of the"nwinS tn accident of February IS, administration In retrard to England's-, which resulted In the death of William latest note was understood to be ln j Aycoik and the subsequent death of :vir. ooten. connection with cotton shipments. Cotton has formed the rreat bulk of come ' In several days, until today's i trade between the United States and statement that the matter was tinder Germany recently. NEEDED POWERS 6! COMMnTEE ACCEPTEM GERMANY Reply Suggests That Importa tion of Raw Materials Be Permitted. Resolution Governs Carter-Ab-ernethy Hearing and Wa3 Rushed Through. OF 27S CUTTLE IN VIRGINIA KILL") One Hundred and Twenty-five Had Developed Foot and Mouth Disease. (liy W. T. Host). Raleigh, March 2. The Carter Abernathy committee went Into an other executive sewion yesterday af ternoon and discussed the procedure ln the proposed Inquiry. The letter of Judge Carter to t. people of the state did much to bvln the case to Immediate action. The sympathy Is almost wholly with him In the demand for an early hearing, the reasons that he gave being used as perfectly just ones. Both Judge Carter and Solicitor Abemathy are slopping at the same hotel, but they have not been together. When the committee met yesterday afternoon It found that It had no pow ers and prepared a resolution for last night which will govern the hear ing. At 10:80 last night the house passed this resolution and sent It by COMWIITTEESGORES GQLOHADO Mill For Treatment of Striking Miners and Families in the Coal Strike District. (By W. T. Host). Halelgh, March 2. Ths senate is.de a futile effort to vote on the cti-Jug law. and settle the action of the house more than a week ago but It adjourned this morning at 11:80 o'clock without letting Its views be known. The test rote by which the elder body deferred action Indicates un comfortable closeness for the meas ure. If Indeed It does ont prove that the anti-Jug law will be referred to the people. The growth of the ref erendum sentiment the past several days has startled the friends of the Crier bill and when the vote Is token Tuesday at noon nobody will be sur prised If a popular election will de termine the Issue. All speeches at the night session were moderate and In good taste. They were made before packed nal Isrles and stuffed halls and floor ways. Hundreds oould not enter at all and remained there three hours. The crowd wanted the vote taken but It was dangerous. The final, bal lot for adjournment without senatori al expression was 24 to 22. This does ot reliably reflect the sentiment of the senate It approximates Its tern- Berlin, March 2. -(Via London) Germany's reply to the American note concerning the naval war sone has been handed to Ambassador Gerard. It correxponds ln general with the forecast of some days ago. The foreign office characterizes the German reply as "acceptance with few modifications" of the American proposals. Ths reply suggests that. In accord ance with the principles of Interna tional law the importation should be permitted not only for foodstuffs, but also of such raw materials as are urg ently necessary for the peaceful civil ian population. The American note and the German reply probably will be published here this afternoon. special .messenger to the senate which or, Stuart's recent proclamation i Immediately put it on Its several pernor. The oth ftergeant Henry C. Qoesch, who has been In charge of the local branch of the recruiting service since the In spection trip of the regular officer, Rergeant lionney, has returned to the Charlotte office of the service. Ser geant Ooesch will soon receive his honorable discharge, papers for his laM term of service but expects to re-snUst, readings. The resolution provides that mem bers shall have all the powers given by law to Investigating commltees to employ counsel, fix compensation and subpoena witnesses, allowing wit nesses per diem of 11.80 with 8 cents for mileage. The members of the committee shall receive the same per diem as members of the general as sembly. Unless otherwise ordered the com mittee will sit In Ilalelgh and tne hearings will be public It shall be the sole Judge of the competency of witnesses and may refuse to order witness fees for testimony that Is not material. Witnesses receive pay only for two days at the hearing. The members were unable last nlsht to say definitely whfth'r the present general assembly can reach these charges. Chairman Doughtnn declares his committee will do all that It can but the session Is now crowded and must work nlirht and day. The general Impression 'Is that Raleigh will be the place of hearing. . . Robert Plercy, a member of the Ashevtlle Plre department is If! at the oentrsi station. Richmond, March 2. Federal, state and county authorities have combined In an effort to prevent the spread of foot and mouth disease discovered in a dairy herd of cows near this ctty. Yesterday the entire herd of 275, of which 125 had fully developed cases of the scourge was killed and the car casses destroyed. No other cases have been discovered, but a most rigid quarantine Is being maintained about the Infected furm and all other local dairies. State Veterinarian J. G. Fer neyhough said last night that he be lieved the situation was under con trol . Assistant Attorney General C. B. Garnett went before the city circuit court and applied for an Injunction restraining all railroads and steam ship lines entering Richmond from hauling cattle or cattle feed Into this territory. Two of the railway com panies denied that they hsd "flag rantly violated" the terms of Govern- as er companies ssked time to present proof of their Innocence and the court will hear arguments today,' Washington, March 2. A scathing The house had a featureless session until the motion to drag out the di vorce bill which passed Saturday was made by somo of the absent members. The house did not reconsider. t could not, but it recalled the bill which had gone to the senate. News papers and men, most active arnon whom were Vann, democrat of Union, and Ieonard, republican of Davidson, had worked unceasingly for the de feat of the Bynnm bill headed toward law. The News and Observer gave up Its first column of front page space to opinions of ministers and the editorial columns carried more editorials on the subject. It will take two-thirds to re consider, hut the house will pretty nearly have It. m-r Committor Hearings. The Interest In committee meetings was vastly greater than that ln the acts of the wholo body. Salisbury came down In a private Pullman to carry the Blind Institute Paris, March 2. The bom- i bardment of the inner forts of the Dardanelles was resumed i at 10 o'clock yesterday, accord ing to dispatches to the Havas : agency. A Russian admiral has joined the allied fleet in , the strait. Dispatches from Salonica state that mines and subma rines designed for the defense of Dedeagatch have arrived at that port. According to the Havas dispatch the fire from' the guns of the allied fleet has destroyed the batteries of Ki lid, Bahr and Sultania (Chanek Kalesi) which guard the en trance to the narrowest part of the strait. ,' Information has been re ceived from Mityleno and Te nedos that 100,000 Turks havo been posted along the coast of the Gallipolis peninsula, near the sea of Marmora, about 130 miles from Constantinople. arraignment of the Colorado militia j back to the Rowan capital. It came for its treatment of striking miners n,8 wl(h offers of the banks to lend and their families is made by the j "Vr??nt ' monpy1 .... complete the building and seemed to noiie ionium nunuuniiHiuri niut.ii 1,1 i have the edge on nnv delegation. vestlgatea conaitions in tne i oioraao -wh.n the Midislmrinn. nn,i a.,..,.i. coal fields In a report today. While j ianded nere ,hrv found tnnt ,hp,r Hconng conuiuons generimy in uie , hnnrlnir Is set for Ti.oa.Inv. .n.n.m.n coin neias ana crmcsing many acts of the mine operators Including al leged violation of state laws, the com and many of them returned. Then a vust delegation came over frnirl Sinmntmri 1i,t,ihftilnn ir.ra.ti mlttee reports that no evidence was , aml JonnRtlin eomU,. t0 the found of conspiracy In restraint of ral anomUy ,Q make JarvU Wiiun iu mini inn uiupui in nits iiiiiirn j0j, jp nor conclusive proof of the existence! Th(m . fc wn t0 hftVB ftn. of peonage. The strike was settled 0h Somebody wants to elect ong before the comml tee completed aj(tlonal numbers of the county its report but no specific recommend- ; commlKRlonors, Th(.re aro now vey ltil"tin hit iiiuiir. i iifj -iimiUUi,t"s. np penlK however, for iirbltrntlon In unrh .I4..nl. 11 J 1 .. I JI..1...L anees ore nation-wld ln their Im- . th .nni,ln,m, ... ... .,. nnl'.nnA. Un. t. . n 1 ..... ... ... ..... " ... iii.i ,rt,i-,it. ri ii- ment Is the only power competent to c!eol with them on dafter referring to the testimony of John D. Rocke feller, Jr., who disclaimed responsi bility for Colorado conditions, pdds: DETECTIVE AGENCY IS " FORMED BY LOCAL MEN' ' i N. C. Detective and Collecting:', Agency Organized Here 6 Offices in Revell Bldg. The North Carolina Detective sji4' Collecting agency, with headquarters in Ashevllle, has Just been Incorpor ated by the secretary of state, with an authorized capital of $500, with, $200 paid ln by W. F. Rogers, O. B. Joyner and J. W. McElroy of this city. I At a recent meeting of these men Mr. Rogers was elected president; Mr. Joyner secretary and Mr. McElroy I treasurer. Offices will be maintained!' at Nrs. 23 and 24 Revell building, and they propose to do a general dc- tccllve and collecting business. The Incorporation papers state that ! the company has the right to open j branch offices In any city ln North Carolina and the limit of the lncor( I came Into the hall ready to fight the DR. FLETCHER'S SUBJECTS FDR WEEK H10E "Absentee owners or directors, byi their absence from the scene of such j disturbances, cannot escape their' i dltlonat members. The new commls- . sioners aro not News and Observer i and Ralley people. But the fight was postponed. A train load enme over from the western part of the county where Ernest T. Mills, one of the proposed members lives. Palley holds that the people had a moral responsibility for conditions tn V V". , "-"'l." 1'" 7 ' board had a chance to elect The Itev. Oliver H. Fletcher, of Brooklyn, now a guest ln the city Is peaking every evening at 7:30 o'cloc k at the French Broad Baptist church. . listener Is here for a rest from arduous labors In connection with his great church, the South Brooklyn Baptist, but his friends have prevailed on him to deliver the following series of gospel addresses at the French Broad church this week: "The Chris tian's IJfe"; "The Christians Assur ance"; "The Christian's Growth"; Ths Christian's Hervlos"; "The Chris tian's Hope." He will, no doubt, have a Urge hearing at French Broad this evening, and the fallowing evenings of the week. elect a new county attorney and failed. The board would have the election of tn asses sors and a largo lltrllul!on of pat ronage. Iesplte the able-liodleil pa trloiism of Wake democrats, this i not to be despised and It Isn't. poratlon Is placed at 60 years. i The men who are well known here,) Mr. Rogers having been connected with several commercial enterprises,) while Mr. Joyner was for sometime, constable ri Ashevlllo twonshlp and Mr. McKlroy was for several years ' deputy I'nltod States marshal 1 for this district. SI OVER CENSUS PLACE ! and shout properties In which are Interests. " Liberal extracts from Ihe S.flOft aires of testimony taken by the com es are emhodled In the report with this comment: "Considerable testimony on both sides of the rontroversv. we believe unreliable and no confidence should be plneed In It." Colorodo had good mining laws snd such that ought to afford protection to the miner If they are enforced yet) In this state ths percentage of fa talities Is larger than snv other show- Ing there Is undoubtedly somethlnr , , . - ., v- ....,. ..!., wf-. " Special to The (Inxette-New. ment of Its mines. " '"" '""' '-Thl" I noon sbout o clock a trsln consist ing of about 14 cars passed through The body of Ellas J. Falk, who -here loaded with mules and horses, died at the Halyburton boarding There was a southern Vullmnn car house in the depot section yesterday attsnhed to the rear. Did It contain mornlnt Was sent to his home tn'alllee or Hermans T Ths (ruin wss go- Tar Heel Candidate Meets With Secretary Redfield and Director Harris. TRAIN OF HORSES AND MULES PASS THROUGH Wepokoneto. O., last hlght according, Ing through Greensboro snd possibly to Instructions received from his rela-' to Norfolk, a very good shipping lives there. jpolnt Gssette-News Bureau, , Wystt Building. Washington, March 5. At the request of Frnator Hlmmnns. Samuel I Rogers, of Mnron county, came here yesterday and conferred with Secretary of Commerce Redflell '.and Director of Census Harris. Mr. Rogers Is slated to succeed Mr. Harris as director of the census. The Macon county man said after wards that he had had a very pleasant talk with Mesrs. Redfield and Harrlx. He does not know what tht result will be but he feels hopeful. It Is bellevt, thet Rogers Is certain to get the t'ls-- unlem, as stated some days ago, Red-j 1 field blocks his OfifOilntmsnt,
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