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THE GAZETTE-NEWS . Has the Associated Press Service. It to In Every Itespect Complete. N Member Audit Bureau Circulations. WEATHER FOEECAST. IiOCAIi SHOWERS. VOLUME XX. NO 159. ASHEVILLE N. C, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 17, 1915. PRICE 2 CENTS on Tl,n 6cU I he Body of Leo FronkV M Is Found Hanging 3eti2 FRANK TAKEN ALMOST IN SIGHT OF FORMER HOME OF PHAGANS, LYNCHED Small But Well Organized Mob, After Breaking Into Prison, Carry Prisoner 100 Miles In Auto. CROWDS OF PEOPLE GO TO yiEW BODY Remains Discovered After Re turn to Marietta of Auto mobiles Which Arouse Officers Suspicion. Marietta, G a., Aug. 17. A Wall but well organized mob took Leo M. Frank from the ptate prison farm at Milledge ville late last night, brought liim 100 miles to almost in sight of 'the" former 'home of "Mary iPhagan, 'the girl he was con- IVicted of killing, and - hanged liim to a tree. No shots were fired. ' .; )''.;..,; , The body, barefooted and iclothed only in the prison grousers and shirt, was found two miles from Marietta about (8:30 o'clock this morning. It ;ps behoved the lynching was '(accomplished about daylight. While officers searched the country about Marietta early jjtoday, local officers viewed as significant fact" that ' several 'automobiles, well loaded, had left the town last night in the (direction of Milledgeville. Af jter the return of some of these machines this morning, officers parted out on the road the machines were believed to Ihave traveled. They had gone jonly two miles when they saw ,lhe body not more than 150 ifeet from the roadside. I The news that the body hud seen found sped rapidly through the town and sur rounding country. In a short time hundreds of people had crowded the Roswell road mak ing a trip to view the body., f At 9:15 o'clock this morning ho effort had been made to cut down the body. Sheriff Hicks wa, not in town and the cor oner took no immediate action. I It is believed now that the top over the bridge on Little iver near Eatonton, when the nob members talked loudly uid fired 8hots,was a ruse to lelay any persons that might e pursuing the automobile in vhich Frank was carried. If uch was the intention t suo ocded, as the ground in the icinity of the bridge was thor- nghly serachod. At the time of the search- at 'is place it is .probable . . that rank had already met his ath. Ths mob was orderly, but worked ih quick precision. Elrht automo s took the men to within a short tanre of the prison. First sll wires m the prison. First all wires from i prlaon and all except oaa from l1gv1lle were cut. s on the night Frank was at . nh' twv guard jrer on duty. British Irattspo Prison Superintendent Relates Graphic Story ' of Mob Removing Frank Mllledgerillo, Ga., Ang. 17. "I was called down just as I was prepar-l ing to retire," said Captain J. M. Burke, superintendent of the Georgia I prison farm, in telling of the delivery of Lo M. iiniiik, from the prison I by the mob which hanged him. "When I passed the threshold two strong men grabbed me and instantly snapped handejuffs on my wrists and four other men stood guard over me, two with shot guns and two with pistols. 1 "When I remonstrated with them, they declared It was no use for me to squirm, as they had come for Frank and were going to get him. I told them Frank was not In my home. They said they knew , this but that they were going to take me where they knew Frank was quartered. "I was marched to the penitentiary building by my guards which were redoubled as we proceeded. When w6 reached the building the men with me demanded that the gate be opened, and when the 'trusty' of the prison awaited my orders one of the men began to cut the wires and informed the prisoner he would be killed as soon as they filtered. "After effecting an entrance S. Heston, a night guard, was found, but he was Immediately covered and ordered to throw up his hands, Half way up the steps I was halted, while half a dozen men rushed by hie and made a dash for Frank's room. I "One prisoner who witnesses the scene declared four men seized Frank by his arms and legs, while a fifth grabbed him by the hair. They dragged him out of the room, bumping liim down the stone steps. "With me looking on Frank never uttered a word but apparently he was suffering intensely, and he groaned with tile pain Inflicted in handling him In his wounded condition. ' "Paring the entire performance I was handcuffed and under guard. When the crowd brought Frank down who had snapped the handcuffs on sardonically and said If I would accompany them they would take tlie handcuffs off. " "The whole proceeding was timed as a well ordered and methodical proposition and only a few words were, spoken. This had evidently been agreed on. A leader did all the talklrf. ' 'I ( "Only two of the men Were masked but I did not recognize any of them. Just as they started off, the leader said, 'Now, boys, for the swamps.' "Then In less time than it takes to tell it they were off and I could see their lights flashing as they went over the hill toward Meriwether." Submarine Sinks British Transport Royal Edward London, Aug. 17. The Brit ish transport Royal Edward has been torpedoed and sunk by a' German submarine. An announcement to this effect was. made officially today. Six hundred were saved out of 1350 troops and 220 others aboard the transport. Berlin, Aug. 16. Field Mar shal von Mackensen, continu MoreThan 2000 Americans With Canadian Troops London, Aug. 17. No flwer than 2,000 Americans are In the ranks of the Canadian military contingents,! according to Major General Sampel Hughes, the Canadian' minister of militia, at a meeting of Americana here. I "I have already written letters of gratitude and sympathy to the The mob culokly overpowered Chief Night -Guard Hester and the other man .on duty,' proceeded to the dormi tory and within a few minutes seised Frank and rushed him back to the automobiles. Those who had been holding Smith and Burke left as soon as Frarfk was brought out and joined their fellows. The automobiles were then started In the 'direction of Eatonton. Nothing more bad been heard of them hours after, tneys left. , For the first few weeks after Frank was taken to the state' prison farm, ruroors ot plans to take Dim out of prison were heard almost daily then and not' only were roads protected but a larre force of guards was kept on duty at the prison. One persistent report that a crowd was ocmlng from Mixrietta resulted In the local company of militia being held In readiness to guard tba prison. Such reports had not been hard In the past few. weeks, and fewer pre cautions were taken. and . started off I asked the fellow me to remove them. The men laughed ing his pursuit of the retreat ing Russians from the south toward Brest-Litovsk, has oc cupied CiaTe and Flawatycze, according to the German offi cial statement issued today, which also says that the army of Prince Leopold of Bavaria, pressing the Russians from the west, has occupied Losyce and Miedzyrzec. mothers of more than 100 American boys," said General Hughes, "who fell while fighting alongside Cana dians In Flanders. More than 1,000 enlisted and we could have had more if we had wished. "Any number of West Pointers of fered their services and some of them are now with us." Sacramento Delayed. New Orleans, Aug. II. The gun boat Sacramento, bringing Jose M. Car dso de Ollvelra, the Brasillan min ister to Mexico, and his family from Vera Crus to the United States, sarly today was anchored In the gulf west of Southwest Pass, waiting from the heavy winds to abate so a pilot could beMnt to bring the boat across the bar into the Mississippi. This in formation was contained In a wire less from ths Sacramento which was received. ', Reports received by telephone said that at the mouth of the river a strong hurricane was blowing and that seas were running so high an at tempt to cross the bar at this time would be extremely perilous. Judging from present conditions port authorities predict that the Bao ratnenta will be unable to. reach New Orleans before this sfUiooon or to night; and la such event it is believed the Braslllaa minister will not depart for Washington before tomorrow morttlna) INCH COTTON Entente Powers and Belgium Agree to Put Staple on Con traband List to Keep It . From Germany. ORDERS IN COUNCIL METHOD NONEFFECTIVE Great Britain Has Twice Re fused to Recognize Cotton as Contraband Pleads Changed Conditions. Washington, Aug. 17. The allies' Intention to declare cotton contraband has been communicated unofficially but authoritatively to the state de partment The department's advices are that the decision has bpem reach ed and the delay in making an an nouncement is due to the necessity of arranging uniform treatment of. the subject by air the allies. The step has been agreed on by Great Britain, France, Russia, and Belgium, but Japan's attitude has not been defined.- She mar decide no ac tion is railed for from her at this time, because of the elimination of the only German colony In the far east from the military problem and the absence of any reason for a blockade. Ever since the application of, the British orders In council to cotton, among other American produces, the entente allies have felt that some more effective and less burdensome method must be found for dealing with cotton, and preventing Its entry Into Germany and Austria. The allies contend that American cotton ship pers. In many eases alleged to be backed by German capital, have been shipping cotton to Germany through neutral ports. Under the orders In council such a cargo. If captured, was merely taken Into a British port and pnld for by the British government. The allies contend that under these conditions much cotton ' got throue-h Sweden, Denmark, and Holland Into Germany From the allies' point of view the orders In council were Ineffective be cause they obliged the British gov ernment to buy cotton and at the same time offered an incentive to blockade runners. - - According to the advices reaching Washington the pressure In England, Franco and Germany has compelled a change. The British .' government, originally regarded cotton as non- contraband and expressed a desi.B to avoid Inflicting hardship upon the southern planter-, and Tu avoid devel opment of an anti-British .fueling In this country. The change to, contra band will be defended as authorized by international ''aw. Great Britain protested again he American block ade of outgoing cotton from the south during the civil war, and had refused to recognize It as contraband during the Russo-Japanese war, bot will now contend that radical changes ! in the conditions of warfare since that time Justify a change in atti tude. The entente powers, according to advices received here expect that the state department will resist making cotton contraband and are preparing to base their action on American pre cedents. The advices reaching here Indicate tbey Intend to argue that both Presidents Lincoln and Johnson In formal proclamations Issued in April, Msy and June, 1166, went on record as maintaining as contraband "ma terials for the fabrication of ammu nition i" That cotton baa taken the place of salt petre, always recognized as absolute contraband. In the manu facture of gunpowder, will be held to be sn established fact and by way of convincing ths state department to that effect, attention probably will be directed to a letter by Secretary Hay to W. W. RockhlU, American minis ter to China, during the Russo-Japan-ese war, ststlng that the American ordnanos officers whom he had call ed Into consultation regarding the Japanese blockade orders had advised him that cotton was used In the man ufacture of smokeless powder and so must properly be regarded as contra band. . It Is expected that some srranre ment will he proposed by which the allies will allow cotton to travel unmo. lested to neutral countries In quanti ties Jn "proportion to their- normal Continued en Page Two). OPTIMSM IN RUSSIA GROWS Apparent Weakness of German Flank Removes Fear That Russian Army Will Be Bottled Up. GERMANS CHECKED AT CROSSINGS OF RIVERS Fierce Battles Expected Be tween Nurec and Narew Rivers and at Crossings of Bug River. Petrograd, (via London) Aug. 17. The military situation Is viewed by Russian army officers with optimism, owing to the manner in which the Germans have been checked in at tempts to cross the river Ltwlec and KJma east of the Seldlce-Ludlow front where the invaders lost 800 prisoners in addition to the killed and wounded Confidence is felt that the Russians will make any further progress by the invaders very costly. Fierce battles are looked for be tween the Nurec and the NareW rivers and at the crossing of the Bug. The immediate German objective is believ ed to be the double-track railway which parallels the present .fighting line running from Ossowet to Bialy stock Brest-Litovsk and Kovel. The road is protected by dence forests and the marshes of the upper Narew. The apparent weakness of the German flank has removed the fear that the Russian army might be bot tled up. Evidence of this feeling of lack of offensive power is found in the reported removal of a portion of the German troops from the Sledlce Lukow front to the Baltic regions. Paris, Aug. 16. A Havaa dispatch from Nish, Serbia, dated Sunday, says that on August IS the Serbians with a few shells stopped the enemy from working on trenches at the village ,-if Dobria on the Danube; and that on the same day the Serbian artillery be fore Dellcocelo, near Belgrade en gaged in a duel with a hostile battery stationed at the village of Starcheve, and at the twelfth shot reduced to silence the enemy's guns which had fired 60 shells. SCHOOL CHILDREN TO ASSIST IN HARVEST London, Aug. 17. To assist in the harvest, the education committee of released ,.. , mn hiiiiran v.nt hn been caUed the garden of England, and Is devoted largely to orchards. berry farms and hop fields. Mexicans In Force Cross Border, Attack Outpost . Brownsville, Texas, Aug. J7. Arm ed Mexicans In force crossed the Rio Grande at a ford near Mercedes aat night, attacking an outpost of half a doen cavalrymen at Saens. Ranger IJeutenant Reynau at Mer cedes, telephoned State Adjutant Gen eral Hutchlnas here that Corporal Wllman of Troop C, Twelth cavalry, was killed In this light and Lieuten ant Roy O. Henry and two privates of the same troop were wounded. Reynnu' said he understood J70 Mexicans had crossed and that they were coming to attack MereVdes. Reynau reported that the Mexl-'ai a Salaries Much Reduced Nashville, Tenn., Aug. 17. Chan cel'or John Allison, In whose court ths oases growing out of the city hall scsndals were heard, has ordered sweeping reductions In the salaries of city officials and employes. Chancel lor Allison also allowed the city of Nashville to borrow 1117,000 for mu nicipal expenses. She mayor's salary was reduced marietta: 97 L NOTEHGOURAGED Representative of Suffrage Congressional Union at Ral eigh, Not In Accord With State League DIFFER OF QUESTION OF STATE'S RIGHTS Pretty Leader Persists In Cam paign North Carolina Congressman Marked For Slaughter. (By W. T. Bost). Raleigh, Aug. 17. When Miss Ennl K. Perry, assigned to North Carolina by the Congressional Union fnr Woman Suffrage, opened her campaign here yesterday she found I it . I c Kth thfl nerBel contending against both the UocaX anQ Btate leagues which are pledged to the state's rights way. She had not held her first witer vlew with any suffragist of either gender when the Raleigh league pub licly put itself on record as .oppos ing the whole scheme of the federal ists who work independently and with Washington as the basing pofrit. When Miss Perry saw the repudiation of her plans she smiled and was un changed. The radical differences grew out of long standing disputes among the wo- mnn nrnPITDrH Ins 1 1 11 1 1 1 II Lit wnicn pretty Miss Perry belongs has mark - ed numberless congressmen for the slaughter when the next chance comes and in North Carolina pretty nearly the entire delegation stands badly with the central body. But Congress man Yates Webb has offended most and to him most must be forgiven. The Congressional union desires to reach North Carolina congressmen because the biggest congressional posts are held by the state's repre sentatives. Simmons leads the senate and Overman Is next up. Kltchln leads the house and Tates Webb Is among the high and mighty. Page, Small, Pou and Godwin are old timers and high standers. Brltt, republican, alone Is committed to "the cause," and he is very new. Miss Perry has therefore a man's Job before corverslon of this delega tion. It does not seem to frighten her and the fact that she lacks feminine support here worries her not. She be lieves the federal way is the logical wav, albeit she understands that ' North Carolina rhetoric may be more ieflectlvo at times than ieaerai logic. She cannot coalesce with her sisters in Raleleh and the delegation that (Continued on Page Two). had crossed the border In three bands and were advancing toward Mercedi. About seventy United States cavalry men and a half dozen Texas rangers are stationed at Mercedes. Reynau said It was reported that in addition to the Mexicans who had crossed a large number of others wore assembled on the Mexican side. Reinforcements of rangers and sol diers from Harllngen were ordered rushed to Mercedes by. automobile Harltngton Is about fifteen miles from Morcedea The Mexicans have seven or eight miles to coVer before they reach Mercedes, If that town is thtlr objective. MISS by Nashville Court from 11,000 to 14,000 and those of the city commissioners from 1 5, 000 to 14.000. The reductions for employes generally amounted to about 15 per cent, . The old salary basis Is to be re stored as soon as revenue are com Ing In In sufficient volume. The court also directed that the use of automobile by city officials and employes be greatly curtaUid. 0 Lost- GALVESTON CUT OFF BY STORM; MUCH ANXIETY Texas Gulf City Still Isolated by Hurricane Which Lashed Coast Yesterday and Last Night. LESS ANIETY ABOUT HOUSTON, BEAUMONT Railroad Officails Have Report That 100 Feet of Galveston Causeway Is Wash- . ed Away. Galveston, Tex., (by wireless to For Houston and by telephone to Saj Antonio) Aug. 17. Galveston tod 04 had passed through its worst storn in the past fifteen years and now i ready to begin repairing the damage There Was Ave feet of .water in th city and it Is now slowly receding. Two fires started this morning an are yet to be got under control. Tlie transport McClcllan last nigh broke away from its moorings am drifted a half mile out to sea. The Commercial wireless station a Port Arthur is out of commission am ! the big aerial at Fort Crockett 1 .Dallas, Tex., Aug. 17. News froa Galveston, the Isolated Texas city i the, gulf coast, Is anxiously awaited Telephone and telegraph compani officials believe wire communlcatloi Interrupted with by the tropical tors which struck the city yesterday iftei noon, would soon be restored. While Houston and eBaumont wer similarly cut oft from outside com ' munlcation and more or less in th path of the hurricane, little anxiet was felt about those cities as ther e situated some distance from the gul coast and practically safe from big! water. These two cities not only are cut ol . from communication with the nutsM world, but while they are not a r.na distance apart they are also Isolate from each other, at least so far as tel ephone communication are concern t Missouri, Kansas and Texas rallwai company officials at Waco had a rt p.rt from the Galveston offloes ear today that 100 feet of the cousewit had been washed away. A West Indian hurricane lashed th Texas gulf coast last night, the win reaching a velocity of 70 miles ai hour, but up to a late hour no lot of life or serious property damage hsj been reported, ashore or afloat. Sabine, Tex., reported a wind fl 65 miles and at Port Arthur the gai reached a velocity of 45 miles at o'clock. The majority of the residents, a Sabine and Sabine Pass as well as .h numerous summer camps and resort along the coast moved to places c safety yesterday. At Galveston rasl dents along the beach abandoned thel homes and spent the night In th more secure buildings In ths buslnei district. Late last night a newspaper com spondent attempted to go from P01 Arthur to Sabine In an automobile b was forced to abandon the trip. "The wind would have blown ttn machine away If we had continued th trip," he declared: KfTorts to charter a boat to resj Sabine were futile, sailors refusing 1 make the trip. ".It HI 1 1, tt It t It It K It It K Kb ownsvllle, TH, Aug. 17. I It H P.rownVI H The border sHoat.on In ths lower I !Rio Grande Valley has assumed I t ugly aspects. The gathering of t t Mexicans In force last night at I It Progress and their daring attack 1 It across the river on a troop of I t United States cavalry,. Is not the I K only aggravating feature of the It situation. . Authorities here have I received reports that tt horses I It Including some rGrf;.:,,l as anl- I 1 i!ni1s stolen during recent raid I t of Mexican bandits, had been de- I It llvered this week to Matsmorea ' ! the Mexican twon orPsl her I It which Is hl by Caransa tron- ' lit'.
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