North Carolina Newspapers

v ; . . . - THE GAZETTE-NEWS H, the Associated Press Service. J, B in Every Respect Complete. THE HOME PAPER Of AshevHle and Western N. C "A paper In the home ta worth a thousand la the highway." Marshall Field. LAST EDITION V0L.XXNOU0 ASHEVILE, N. C. SATURDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 19, 1915. PRICE 2 CENTS P"' More. RUSSIANS RETIRE FROM i . LAST LINE OF DEFENSE MEYER GERHARD mm REPOR Muscovites Line Only 16 Miles prom Galician Capital, tne Russian War Office Admits n ITALIANS ATTACKING WITH GREAT ENERGY German Positons North of 4rras Threatened Bulgaria Receives Satisfactory Terms, Is Report Kaiser Quoted as Saying Peace Mav Come Soon Petrotirad, June 19. An offi cial war office statement issued ast night admits that the Rus sians have retired beyond the line of the Grodek lake, less than 10 miles west of Lemberg, thoir last line oi aetense in front of the Galician capital. Paris, June 19. Extracts from a letter said to have been sent by Em peror William to a person connected with the Bavarian court and published in Spain, are reproduced by the Matin. Emperor William is quoted as saying: Our only object Is a peace profita ble for the German states. Peace may be concluded sooner than is thought." "If it gave for the time being only T Informs German Foreign Office Heads of State of U. S. , Opinion Concerning Lusltania an incomplete result at least It would serve as a reparation for the luture. It could be signed tomorrow If I wished. 'When my , august grandfather placed the empire on its present ba sis, he did not pretend that he had realized the complete work. The em pire is always susceptable of growth. What is not achieved today can be achieved later." WILL ALSO TALK WITH IMPERIAL CHANCELLOR SERIOUS 'DISSENSION IN - RANFS OF CARRANZA'S SUORTEJRS REPORTED U. S. Is Not Considered An Acceptable Mediator Kansas City Warned to Get Ready for Floods Kansas City, Mo., June 19. The weather bureau warned, the residents of the east and west bottoms of Kan sas City today to move immediately from the first to second floors of the homes and to be prepared for a flood. Nothing Is Known as to What Character of German Re ply Will Be Con ferences Necessary Berlin, June 19.r A Washington dispatch to the Cologne Gazette Bay ing that the question of peace is be ing discussed in the Amorican capi tal has drawn the assertion from the Morgen Post that Americans know full well that self constituted peace makers are never welcome, conse quently they will not be likely to force advice where it Is not wanted. Dr. Ignatz Jastrow, professor of political economy at the University of Reports from the storm swept sea Hons of Missouri, Kansas and Okla homa continue to tell of property damage and narrow escapes from flmall tornadoes but the death list of 19 has not been increased. , Cabinet Crisis May Seriously Affect Carranza Movement and Mexican Affair as Whole Berlin, discusses In the Tageblatt the impossibility of accepting the United States as an arbiter so long as Amer icans deliver weapons to the oppon ents of Germany. "Insomuch as every state can for bid the export of arms it is a won der how Americans can fail to see that they are prolonging the war," says Professor Jastrow; "and how ithey can believe it possible for them I to act as peace mediators." OBREGON AND CARRANZA HAVE DIFFERENCES: Home, June 18, via. Paris, June 19. The assertion is made in Rome newspapers that the Italian army now occupies 10,000 square kilometers of un redeemed territory and more than twice as much as Austria offered Italy to remain neutral. Amsterdam, June 19.Allied airmen dropped bombs on a German balloon shed at Brus sels, causing slight damage, ac cording to the Maasbode. 5UT0N ILL I GRANT RESPITE Will Decide on Death or Com mutation for Frank By Tuesday ES HE IS IGNORED Declares President Conferred With Him on All Depart ment Matters Berlin, June 19. The Ger man war office announces that the village of Ebermenil,, about 30 miles east of Nancy, has been captured by the Ger mans. The French had forti fied the villages. London, June. 19. Russian forces are at bay along the Gro dek line in Galicia where, with their flank well protected by the marshes of the Dneister they will defend Lemberg, cap ital of Galicia. Neither side re ports much activity during the past 2-4 hours, the outstanding claim lif'mg Petrograd's asser tion that the Austro-Gennans have been hurled back into Austrian territory between the Dneister and Pruth rivers. The French, according to latest reports are holding the Germans north of Arras, and now occupy positions on three sides of Souchez. Britsh ob servers say that very soon they may make the German po sitions on that front untenable, The Italian army is attack ing the Austrian frontier de fenses with energy, but the only evidence of an advance is the report of the shelling of the railway station at Gorizia, hich indicate that the Italian battery has been considerably advanced. Rumors as plentifully as they are contradictory emanate from tlio Balkans, that the Entente allies have . offered Bulgaria generous territorial terms, hirh a special dispatch from Sofia declares to be absolutely satisfactory. Nevertheless, it is evident that no actual alliance ha been sitmed or will be sign ed until Bulgaria's neighbors make the- concessions which Bulgaria lias been consistently demandling. Steamer Diilrte Bunk. windon, June II. The 1000-ton "rltlsh steamer Dulcle wu torpedoed o sunk ott Suffolk today. Members ' ,h crew, with on exception, were "a. , The Dulcle was 2TB feet long, urn! -M ism report, as arriving May , n Tyne from. Rouen, Itance. Atlanta, June 19. Governor Slatoi. was at his country home near this city early today and continued his exhaus tive study of the evidence and court records in the case of Leo M. Frank und"r sentence to be handed Tuesday for the murder of Mary Phagan. Gov ernor Slaton stated over the telephone that he probably would not be pre pared to announce his decision on Frank's application for commutation of sentence to life Imprisonment until Monday afternoon or Tuesday morn ing, lie said positively that no respite would be granted in the Frank case but that by Tuesday he would decide whether he would commute the sen tence or decline to interfere. "The Judgment of the court," said Governor Slaton, "should cause the prisoner to be prepared for death. In the event the decision is adverse to him, he has had ample time for pre paration. SOUTHERN STftTE BANK Moved to 423 Depot St Building Being Remodel edNew Vault Washington, June 1. President Wilson calleiat the homo of former Secretary of State Bryan yesterday to bid good bye to Mr. and Mrs. Bryan before they depart for a southern trip. The visit was described as entirely so cial and there was no reference to tha international situation. Secretary Mo Adoo called later. During the afternoon Mr. Bryan made public a statement denying re ports that he had been ignored by President Wilson while secretary of state. He said there never were any material differences on questions of policy between himself and the presi dent until the foreign submarine oon troversy arose. "I am glad to make refutation,' said Mr. Bryan, "and to say that the President has done me the honor to confer with me about everything done in connection with the state depart ment. Not a single statement has been Issued by the president, or prepared by him, about which I have not had the privilege of conferring with him beforehand, and the opportunity to offer suggestions after it was prepared. 'I may add that we have never had any material difference on any ques tion of policy until the submarine con troversy arose, and our 'notes my note of resignation and his note ac cepting It have clearly and distinctly set forth the only dinerence mat ex isted on this matter." Todav Mr. Bryan will go to New York to deliver a peace address In Carnsrle hall. He will return here Sunday and at night leave, with Mrs. Bryan, for Asheville, N. C. Berlin, June 19. Dr. Anton Meyer- Gerhard, whose long report to For eign Minister , Von Jagow, Ir. Alfred Zimmerman, under secretary of for eign affairs, and Count Montdelas, head of the American section of for eign affairs, acquainted these officials fully with the status of public opin ion in the United States, will be given an opportunity to make a similar re port to the Imperial chancellor Von Bethmann-Hollweg before the actual preparation of the German reply to the United States in regard to sub marine war is begun. Whether he will visit headquarters and personal ly present the facts to the emperor has not been decided. In any case the German reply will probably not be sent for at least ten days. Extensive conferences between the representatives of the various depart ments concerned will be required to unify the opinions of the ; foreign office, the ministry of marine and the naval general staff as to the form of the note to be presented to the United States. The conferences have not yet begun and there is nothing to show the di rection of the current the German policy may take. : It Is stm an open question a to whether the German re ply will be a definite rejoinder or not. It may be stated with regard to Ger hard's report that the information contained in it has little that is new to the foreign office, and Its chief value lies in the presentation of hla report on the strength of public opin ion In the United States, and in his declaration that the attitude of Pres ident Wl'son and his advisors, in the most positive and convincing form, Is the position outlined In the written communication. Dr. Gerhard is un derstood to have made it clear that there is no doubt but that the Ameri can people are behind the president In his Insistence for guarantees against a repetition of such an incident as the shifting of the Lusitanla, and equally little doubt that no important section of the American people desires war if it can be avoided honorably. HOE ID HUGE OPEN E Splendid Location on Patton Ave Store Fitted in Very Best Fixtures IN BETTER BUG E. D. Weaver and J. A. Arey Return From Campaign at Fairview President Wilson Will Defer Acting Definitely in Re gard to New Mexi can Policy uooae ana Hago, Inc., will open Monday, In the building on Patton avenue, formerly occupied by Brown Book company, a modern and up-to-date drug store in every respect. The building has been remodeled, redec orated and now presents a most pleas ing appearance. All of the fixtures and stock of the new concern are ab Announcement Is made by the Southern State bank that the present i.,.nic hna been moved from o. uo nnot street to No. 423 Depot streot The new place Is being remodeled and will be fixed up In the very best manner for a modern banking build ing. According to an official of the bank it became necessary to movo In order to seek larger and more desirable quarters. A new vault, of a very late pattern, will at once be Installed and everything done to make the Institu tion up-to-date and alive In every re spect. Ohio Man Shoots Every Mem ber of Family Except Boy Ared 11 ONE OF 10 BIGGEST Arizona Launched at Brooklyn Navy Yard Wine and Water Used ACTION Blllffll IS ONLY CHANGE solutely new and of the very best. On entering the building on the right is a modern soda fountain, made by Lippincott, while Just be yond the fountain, on the same side Is a tea room, something entirely new In . drugstores In Asheville. This tea. room Is built In an arbor affect, with posts at each corner and artificial flowers over the top of the arbor. It presents a beautiful effect and there is space for five tables in the room. On the left of the building on en tering, first comes the soda booths, the perfumery department and then the pntent medicine section. i . . i i . three-fourths the way back and to the rear of this Is the prescription department. All of the fixtures used in the building are mahog- .iy, this ap plying to the fixtures In the tea room, the soda booths, the cases for the stock and the partition. At the fountain all drinks will be served In sanitary cups and cleanll. ness will be the chief motto of the firm in handling its goods, together with quality and right prices. The building Is well lighted, a large skylight being In the left center of the building and several windows In the rear. Messrs. Goode and Hage were for merly employed at the Smith drug store and are well known In the city, having hosts of friends. Both are ex perienced drug men. Farm Demonstration Agent E. D. Weaver kept his Saturday office hours today conferring with farmer? in re gard to agricultural matters and dis tributing literature to those who called. Mr. Weaver stated that he had just returned from a visit to the Fairview township with J. A. Arey of the dairy division of the federal de partment of agriculture. Mr. Arey is co-operatlr.g with the North Carolina department of agricul ture In arousing interest in better dai rying methods and in the establish ment of cream routes. . Mr. Weaver and Mr. Arey have visited practically all of the townships In Buncombe county and Mr. Arey Is canvassing all of the western counties. In Fairview ' township Mr. Weaver states that the people were greatly Interested In the lectures and stereop- tlcon illustrations of silo apparatus, cream separators and types of th best cattle for dairying purposes, and that the prospect Is good for the es tablishment of a cream route in this territory at an early date. Routes have already established In the Leicester and Hominy sections and the route in Big Ivy will be opened on June 28, Mr. Weaver said. The people of r.eems' creek are also about ready i to begin preparing cream In largo quantities for the market. Washington, June 19. Difference! between Carranza and Obregon, hit principal commander, dissension in the Carranza cabinet and Carranza'l removal of his headquarters to th isolated safety of Fort San Juan Uolt in the harbor at Vera Cruz, all re ported to the state department to day, brought the Mexican situatiot : into a new focus. State department dispatches Bay these development! " threaten the solidarity of the Car. ranza movement. The occupation ol Mexico City by Carranza troops Un der the command of General Pablo Gonzalez has been postponed pending the reorganization of the Carranza cabinet. Ofllclals here have no complete In dicatlon as yet of the meaning of th dablnet crisis, but overnight dis patches said that a new situation had arisen which may have import ant effects on the Mexican problem whole, Late advices say that foul Becker Must Die Unless Man Who Prosecuted Him Grants Pardon "TOE GIRL FROM OUT of the eight cabinet members resign ed and that Obregon insisted,. In a tel- , egraphio message to Carranza, thai they be retained and that a flftn member, the minister of public In struction, be dismissed. A newspaper article by the latter, attacking some of his colleagues In the cabinet, le said to have led to the break up. Officials here were concerned to know whether questions of policy are involved, but all information thus fat received Indicates that the trouble was of a personal nature. President Wilson has indicated that he will wait several weeks to see H the situation takes clearer shape be fore definitely deciding on what Btepi to take in the new policy outlined In his recent statement on the Mexican ituatlon. UPHOLDS OREDR FOR GIVING THAW TRIAL Hackett-Long Players Will Present Play Here .for First Time Upper Sandusky. Ohio, June Harvey O. Dysinger. aged 40. a rich farmer, shot and fatally Injured hli wife, killed hla daughter Esther, aged 18, wounded hla son, Herbert, aged II and then committed milclde at his home near Forest. No reason Is known for the act Tha only member of .the family to escape unlnjure waa tha youngest child Kenneth, aged 11. who waa ea 4 by Herbert. Tha Utter la not serl ously hurt, , w New York. June 19. The now hat tlcshlp Aiteona waa successfully launched today at the Brooklyn navy yard. The Arlrona ahares with her sister ship, the Pennsylvania recent ly launched at Newport News, the honor of being the biggest battleship In tha world. Both wine and water were used In the christening cere monies. Miss Esther Rom waa sponaor. Gov- ernor Hunt pf Arlxona, secretary Danleta and a number of army anil navy offlclala were present. FLOWERS' FOR STRANGERS D1S1RIBUTED TOMORHQW Osslnlng, N. Y.( June 19. Charles Becker, sentenced to die next month for the murder of Herman Kosenthal, was visited In his cell today by his counsel Martin T. Manton of New York, who remained with the prisoner for a half hour, discussing, it Is In ferred, the plan to appeal to Governor Whitman for clemency. This la be lieved to be virtually Becker'a only hope of escaping the electric chair, since the court of appeals yesterduy declined to grant a re-argument on his appeal from his second conviction. 'I have nothing to say now; per haps later," w-a all Mr. Manton would say aa he left the prison. Albany, N. Y., June 19. The court of appeals has denied the application of Charlos Becker for a re-argument on Ha decision affirming hla aentence of death. Becker, convicted of Inspir ing the murder of Herman Rosenthal, la in the Sing Sing death houne, sen tenced to die during the week of July II. Intervention by Governor Whitman, or tne united btates bu preme court alone can save him, ac cording to legal authorities. Little hone is expressed that the federal court will act favorably or that the governor, who prosecuted tne former police officer, will d inciinea to grunt him clemency. There waa no written opinion in tne case handed down yesterday. Beck er'a attorneys alleged In the applica tion for re-argument that Justice Pea bury, who presided at the second trial In Instructing the Jury, failed to pre sent fully the defense'a testimony. Albany, June 19. The court of ap peals has upheld the order of Supreme Court Justice Hendrick directing a Jury trial to test the sanity of Harry K. Thaw. The Court of Appeals was unanl mous In its decision, which held that Justice Hendrick did not attempt to evade responsibility in directing a Jury trial, but merely wished to obtain the advice of a Jury. The decision holds that Thaw has no mandatory rignt to a jury inui but that It was In the discretion of the trial Judge to decide whether such u request should be granted. Washington, June 19. Gilbert Teanhl of Oklahoma City, superin tendent of a Mexican mine, was killed while Interferrlng In a private quarrel near Charcas, Mexico, Wednesday. Dispatches to the state department from Consul Bonney at San Luis Po tosl announce that three arrests hive been made. CHOLERA SPREADING IN AUSTRIAN CAPITAL All persona who have flowera to give away to atrangera In tha city are requested to leave them at Rayaor's drug atora befora 10:0 o'clock to morrow mcning. Tloaea, aweet peaa, n-lrtl.ima and other vtrletlee will k. Bn(tile. Tha at ems should be wrapped with moist paper or cotton. KltKKKKKKttltttKKKK THE WEATHER It rnoUADiiY SHOWKItS The Norman llackett-Bllly Long company of associate players will next week present at the Majestic theater for the entire week, "The Girl From Out Yonder" This play Is of the ro mantle comedy drama type and press criticisms cf It have been very favor able. Those who witnessed the perform ances given ty the company durlr.j the past two weeks havo been more than complimentary of the work, not only of Mr. Hackett and Miss Long, who head the company and have long ago established themselves In favor with the theatergoing public of the country, but with the individual mem. hers of the company. Each seems to put hla or her whole soul Into the work and the detaila are always work ed out. It la expected that the play for next week will prove equally ns popular as "Spendthrift" and "Alloa Jimmy Val entine," which have already heen given at the Majestic. Next week tho usual matinees will be given on Wednesday and Saturday afternoona. Manager J. P. Goring of the com pany states thnt he has several rnre treats In store for the people of thf city, In that he will soon present at the Majestic several playa that hern tofore have not been aeen outside the hlg cities. He states that he desires always to be first and to present to tha public only the best of everything In tha theatrical lino. Geneva, June 19. The Tribune has a dispatch from InnBbruck, which says that cholera Is spreading In Vienna and that the authorities there have found It necessary to adopt more severe measures In trying to control the (llseose. STATE BANKERS ELECTjEFICEfiS Convention of Association Closes Today Several Inter esting Addresses Heard Wrlghtsvllle Bench, June' 1. Tin North 'a nil Ina Bunkers association, which has been In Its nineteenth con vcnt!on here, closes Its sessions todaj after n most Interesting meeting ttl which several instructive addressoi havo been heard. Included In thl morning program was an address bj William Ingle of Richmond. The following otllcers were rhosea Atlanta, Go., June 19 During tho yesterday for the ensuing year: month- of May, Southern Hallway, v Ice premoent nr .-orin uarouna oi operated 13, 803 passenger trains of the American Bnnk-ra ossoclatlnn. which 12,632 or 91 per cent made Thomas E. cooper, retiring preeiucn. schedule time. The number leaving of the state association; delegate M and arriving all polnta on time waa, the national convention at Seattle, v. SOUTHERN RAILWAY'S STATISTICS ON TRAINS 12,103 or 88 per cent. Especially good time waa made In handling the 11,695 local trains run during the month. 10,824 or 93 per cent having made schedule time and 10,4(17 or 89 per cent being on time at all stations. Of tho 2,108 limited trnlns, nearly all of which are long distance trains with one or both termlnn beyond the rails of Southern Hallways. 1.79 or 85 per cent made echedute time while op Southern Railway and 1.638 or 78 por cent were on time at all stations. Rev. Wllllnm II. Holloway of Talladega, Ala., and a professor of Talladega college, will preach for Rev. C. B. Dueenbiiry, at 11 a. m., Sunday in Calvary Presbyterian church, (colored). Tha speaker la a graduate of Yale college and a noted educator and race man. Coma out and hear him. A. Hunt; vice president of the i-anv pany section, E. O. Anderson or Char lotte; J. P. Ramsey, Rocky Mo-lli president; George A. Norwood. Oo'.d boro. vice president; W. B. Btracrmn, Salisbury, secretary and treasurer ol the federal reserve bank section. The features of the sessions yster day were addresses by President Coop, er, W. P. O. Harding of tha federal reserve board and former I Ued States Senator Mcluvin of bout Carolina. President Cooper advocated tha es tablishment of a land bank In th state with a capital of $5,000,000. Mr. Harding described the working of Iht federal reserve system and urged better aystem of cotton warehouse! under which tho holder of warhous receipts could reallsa on them. Sen ator McLnurln also considered ihl benefits of a cotton warehouaa aye It tn.