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pus. A-octowa pre. sen. . II R'VhV W -A. ,VV I H -A. .. ' A V WEATHER FORECAST. VOLUME XXNajL75. ASHEVTLLE N. C. SATURDAY AFT'TCP'NrftfYN' stWDT,ii'Tvr-n,iPi a 101 PEICE 2 CENTS 0,1 Trta 5c,- KEEN INTEREST SHOWN IN TALK OF PEACE BY OFFICIALS OF ENGLAND I it Is Plain That' 'Proper Peace Overtures" on Part of Ger many Would Receive Consideration. SERBIA'S REPLY AS TO v CONCESSIONS READY little- Hope That Serbia Has Conceded Whole of Mace donia Which Bulgaria v Has Demanded. London Sept. 4. In the ab sence of any marked changes on any of the battle fronts the Ensrlisli public are again turn ing their cittention to the diplo matic situation in the near-east and to rumors of tentative ef forts .toward .peace .negotia tions. - - . It is announced officially from Xish, Serbia, that the final draft of Serbia's reply to the note of the quadruple entente is ready and will be presented shortly. Presumably the an swer will be favorable in re gard to the concessions to Bul garia, although little hope is entertained that Serbia has granted her late enemy all the territorial concessions in Mace donia which Bulgaria demand ed. Advices from Sofia indicato that unless the "whole of Mace donia is conceded there is lit tle chance of re-establishing the Balkan league. Compliance with the program of the en tente powers mean Bulgaria's participation in the war, "while agreement to the requests of the central powers implies merely friendly neutrality, ex pressed by permitting the ship ment through Bulgaria of muni tions of war for the Turks. Although it . is established rather defiintely that England lias no part in initiating peace aiscussions, it is plain that Brit ish official circles are kenlv in wrested in news of activity in toat direction. Straws in the wind indicate jtat what is designated as proper peace overtures" , on we part of Germany would meet with, consideration here however, the general public, so well informed as prema wre, - . "While diplomats are seeking " enlarge the sphere of the war Jjd while talk of peace is in Joe air, the great struggle con tinues on all front without in terruption, ' The Russians are fighting oesperately along the Dvina Tluch protects the road to Pet fl. ' The Russians are 'de , oping a counter attack be- Vilna which evidently, is signed to threaten FieldMar- flank11 Uindenbur'8 nnt huh artill7 is pounding ie i German trenches on the nJrn front. ioW' Particularly took t5 artllIcry engagements an?eye9terday northeast Bnd South nf A J ' i. ! K'tho Oiso and "noUnccmont ulS7 London), lho German trnnrxi crman troojTsjUeoi,!. ait calm. "Hero" of Zabern Incident Has Been Killed In Action Berlin, Sept. 4. Lieutenant Baron von Forstner, who gained notoriety as a result of the "Zabern incident." has been killed In action. ' lieutenant von Forstner was re ported to have been killed near Lou vain in September, 1914, but official confirmation of his death was lack ing. The "Zabern incident" occurred at Zabern, in Alsace, where the Ninety-ninth infantry, under the com mand of Colonel von Reuter, was Ty Cobb Has Recovered From His Baiting Slump Chicago, Sept 4. Tyrus Cobb has! recovered from, his batting slump, ac cording to averages made public to day, and still safely leads American league sluggers with a percentage of .875. ' American leaguers : trailing the Georgian in hitting are Speaker of Boston, with .329; Crawford it De troit, with .327;- Jackson of Chicago, with .326, and E. Collins of Chicago, with .819. Detroit, with an average of .270, leaJs' the American league clubs In hitting. Cobb leads in stolen . bases, : with 78. Crawford leads in total bases. with 240, but Cobb is still at the front as the best runmaker, with 120 scored. Burns of Detroit leads In home runs, with five circuit drives. ' Pitchers of the American league in the .600 class are led try ' Toster of Boston, with eighteen victories and five defeats. National League. Luderus of Philadelphia has batted himself into the lead of the National league batters, with an average of Another Crimp Put In Alabama Liquor Traffic Montgomery, Ala., Sept. 4. Prohi bition put another strangle hold on the liquor traffic in this state late 'ast night when the senate passed a regu lating shipping measure by a vote of 26 to one. The biU provides that de liveries of whiskey may only be made between the hours of 6 a. m. and 6 p. m. Agents of transportation companies must ercognlze the signature of the British Transport Sinks With Loss of About 2000 Berlin, Sept S. "Telegrams from Sofia, Bulgaria," says the Overseas News agency today, "state that off the entrance of the Dardanelles a British which are advancing on the im portant Russian port of Kiga in the Baltic section have made further material gains. It is officially announced that they have captured a position northwest of Friedrichstadt, which is about forty miles from Riga. ' Berlin (by Wireless to Tuck ton, N. J.), Sept. 3. The army of Field Marshal von Hinden burg has captured Grodno. , The capture of Grodno by the Germans makes the twelfth Russian fortress to be taken within a month, beginning with the fall of Warsaw, August 5. Grodno is the last Russian fort ress in Poland to hold out. It beoaJne - untenable when the Germans cut the Grodno-Vilna railroad line, to the northeast while - fighting their way to ward the stronghold from the west and south. Martial Law In italtl. Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Bept 4. near Admiral Caperton, commander of the American expeditionary force 1 In Haiti.' today proclaimed martial law In Fort-au-Prlnce and other districts occupied by Amarlcaa troops. Tht stationed In 1913. The civilians at that time had difficulties with the; soldiers and showed strong antl-j German feeling. .' ' Lieutenant von Forstner provoked! several clashes between bin men and' the lnhabiants of Zabern and told j mum ua.y unci, ctiiyuiio VVIIU EIMUUIU insult the German flag. He himself sabered a lame shoemaker, and for this exploit he was tried and sen tenced to forty-three days' imprison ment, although he was strongly up held by his colonel, Von Reuter. 326. Doyle of New Tork Is next, with .324, and Daubert of Brooklyn is third, with .313. Snyder of St Louis has dropped to fourth place.. St. Louis leads in club batting, with .257. - ' Cravath of Philadelphia leads in runs scored, with 74; In total bases. with 208, and in home runs, with 10. Carey of Pittsburgh leads in base stealing, with 30 pilfered bags. Mamaux of Pittsburgh, with 19 games wen and 6 lost, leads National league pitchers. . - Federal league. H. Kauff of Brooklyn, with an av erage of .34 8, leads Federal league batters. Brooklyn leads In club bat ting, with .270. Berghammer of Pittsburgh leads in the number of runs made, with 7ST K.oneicny leads m total bases, with 282, and Chase of Buffalo, with 13 home runs, leads in that division. Kau IT is the leading base-steal er of the Federal league, with 42. Reulbach of Newark leads the Fed eral pitchers, with 16, games won and 7 lost consignee or the signature must be witnessed. Bonuses are also allowed officers when liquor Is seized In raids. Druggists are the only Arms or cor. porations that may receive liquor. Ministers may receive five gallons of wine per month for sacramental pur poses. Liquor In small bottles la tabooed. If a gallon (the monthly limit) ts ordered It must be In a gallon pack age. transport struck a mine and sank with 820 officers, I860 soldiers and 800 members of the crew, all of whom were drowned. Six hundred bodies have been recovered. DEFINITE STEP TO AID PLANTERS OF SOUTH " an,nlon: oep ,-.-"""m "eIa lfK!" L " the treasury department, to extend aid to cotton producers of the south and to clear the way for handling the fall crop without the uncertainty and difficulty experienced last year. The board Issued new regulations authorising federal reserve banks to give special rediscount rates on prom issory notes secured by warehouse re ceipts for staple agricultural products with the restriction that member banks must not charge more than six per cent to the borrower. Secretary McAdoo announced he would soon deposit $8,000,000 In gold as an Initial deposit In each of the Fedtral reserve banks at Richmond, Atlanta and Dallas. Fifteen million more to be deposited later. In a state ment he said that If conditions showed the need of deposits elsewhere to aid in handling any other crop he would extend similar government aid. ALABAMA LEGISLATURE . PRAISES PRESIDENT Montgomery. Sept 4. In a Joint resoutlon the house and senate of the Alabama Ittglslatura has sent words of congratulation to Preotdent Wilson for the stand he has taken In record to German submarine warfare and In praise of his efforts to obtain rate conduct for Americans oa soan liners. ', k d ENGLAND WANTS $1,000,000,000 I X . . - - - i Indications Are That Great Britain Will Try to Borrow One Million Dollars In United States. TEMPORARY LOAN OP 50 TO 100 MILLION SECURED ... ,. . . e , It Is Said Bankers ThrOUffhoUt Country Will Be Called Upon to Contribute a Big War Loan. New Tork, Sept. 4. All Indications tend to confirm a report current in Wall street that Great Britain has borrowed from 85.0,000,000 to $100, 000,000 temporarily in this market to Sl.irL!! shall reach New York and consum mate negotiations looking toward the flotation of a much larger credit loan here. There was no confirmation or denial of this report by the big men of New York's linanlai world. Two of the shipments of collateral on which this preliminary loan was issued, totaling about $55,000,000, were brought from Great Britain to Halifax, it was reported, aboard Brit ish men-of-war and shipped thence to New York,' with about $40,000,000 in gold,; within the past thirty days. i ne oiner secunues were saiu 10 nave arrived here yesterday on the Adri atic and St Paul. Spurred by an unseen stimulant, rates rallied in a srectacular manner yesterday, sterling soarihg ten cents or more at the opening of the mar ket1 They fell back later, but on the day's transaction 'A substantial gain of three and one-iialf cents was re corded. Sterling closed at $4.66. Conservative estimates of Great Britain's needs here ' In the form of credit placed the sum yesterday at a minimum of half a billion dollars, with twice that sum mentioned as an outside total. A billion-dollar credit loan. If floated, would not it was thought, be raised on one huge issue. But a half-billion dollar loan, it was thought might , be floated. To furnish this staggering sum, It was said, the bankers of all the chief cities of the country would be called on to participate. All reserve centers and some cities whero there are no reserve bans would be represented in conference with New York. They would be asked to contribute their share to insure uninterrupted contin uance of America's export trade. Whether Great Britain could fur nish sufficient American securities at present to serve as collateral for this big losn was another question con sidered. It was thought that should she not be able to raise this sum, Ca nadian and South American securi ties government bonds and even high-class railway bonds, would be thought sufficiently stable to serve as collateral for a part of the loan. Today's recoveries In rates were at tributed by leading ' bankers here chiefly to a normal return to real value from fictitious low prices re spiting from speculation. Once steady, the exchange market yester day showed few changea GARRANZA TO RELEASE T Vera Cru, Sept. 4. Henry W. PVfinHa ft nnwnnanffr rnrrMnnnr1nt who was imorlMoned August 10 by or- der of General Carransa on th. charge of distributing news in the United States unfavorable to the . Carranza party, will be released tonight General Carransa having Issued an order. to that effect No explanation at to the circumstances which led to the release order was riven. , The state" department twice made demands for the release of Francis. The most recent ' representations on August 27 are said to have been of a vigorous character. Francis is a British subject but was In Mexico for an American concern. SPECTACULAR ACTION IN MONEY MARKET New Tork, Bept. 8. Foreign money value soared from low to high and bsck again In frantic and erratlo fashion today. All ballast was thrown overboard at the opening of the mar ket and values under the leadership of sterling, shot swiftly upward for an extreme rise of ten cents over last night's quotations. ' Within an hour It had settled with many falls- and rebounds two cents above yesterday's close. In the spectacular flight values t,eld only to the general sense of di rection upward. Cohesion was utter ly lacking. The first figure showed unequal margin of difference mounting to as much as five cents. An hour after th opening, quotations various bankers were as muoh as on and haJX ct&u fc&axv NEWSJrfi THE SUiE CAPITAL Supreme Court Makes Decision in Case Involving Contest oyer Register's Office in Currituck. TRULL WENT TO DEATH WITHOUT FALTERING General Young Back In Raleigh From Asheville Davie Man Convicted of Burn ing Store. (By W. T. Boat) Raleigh, Sept. 4. Currituck eoun ty s election contest, Involving the office of register of deeds, has been "" the Supreme court with P. Bray, defeated or counted out. na the partisans present it, relator against T. W. Baxter, the gentleman who draws the salary. The issue is between democrats who have no opposition in Currituck and get on bad terms with themselves to experience the biennial thrill in No vember. Mr. Bray had held the offioe several terms but in the election Inst year was denied thp certificate of elec tion, and T. W. Baxter was seated. Judge Justice was riding that district then and appointed J. Burwell Leigh ntee to take the evidence in the litigation. The relator, who Is Mr. Gray, the appellant, excepts to numerous find ings of Mr. Leigh which Judge H. W. Whedbee accepted as correct when he heard the conclusion of the case In March. , These exceptions are larsfiy matters of fact. - The Judges of the election threw rfut four rotes in one precinct because the tickets had more names on them than the electors were allowed lo vote for. and the refre finding three such tickets threw thm out and allowed only one vote to be counted for Mr. Bray. To this finding the appellant's at torneys object and say that in the No. vember election there were no counry officers nominated and that a'll who wanted to run for office had their names put on the ballots ' allowing those who wished to vote for a .'an dtdate to do so and to mark out the names of those for whom they did not wish to vote. The relator also contends sharply against the voting of one H. D. Doxoy who is shown to have lived in one precinct while voting in the other. The referee held that he should have voted in a certain precinct but it appearing that Doxey had always voted where he last cast his ballot he should be allowed to vote In that precinct and this challenge was not sustained. The appellant argues that this was an 11 legal vote and that It cannot be Justi fled by continued error. " Charles E. Trull walked aplomb Into hte death chamber at the state prison yesterday and was electrocuted before the largest number of witnesses who have sat in the semi-circular space about the chair. It was perhaps the most featureless of all the executions that have taken p'lace. Jim Wilcox, who has run the dynamo at all electrocutions until a year ago when tubercular trouDles retired htm for a time, was at the old place and made a perfect job of his work. Trull walked gingerly with an at - tendnnt before and behind him but needed no help. Garrulous with pen aijd In speech for many weeks, he came xrom nis waru wncrw n it?n a trifle of his breakfast and sat down without a word. He had left his con fession In thp hands of his pastor, Rev. J. W.. Potter and made hi first truth ful statement his last will and testa ment The young fellow had more th'in the ordinary vitality and In the grtat abundance of car the current was three times turned upon him. There was no indication of torture or hitch of any character and two currents are often employed. Thre ar Infre quently necessary. After th young fellow had nerved himself to the hour and fallen upon spiritual hope he ap peered to be greatly relieved and the prison officials found htm an agree able prisoner. Trull was neither the most self' possessed nor th most affrighted of the men who have gone to th cham ber of horror. H wa normal. Cobb, hi last whit predecessor who died for th same crime, murdering a mer chant, walked Jauntily to th chair, aided in strapping himself to the n gin of death and mad himself the most unaffected man in th house. A colored prisoner afterward trotted down the death Ian laughing fare wells to hi mates and sat radiantly Into th chair. II appeared to like It Trull behaved admirably. The stripling ,wa not allowed to know that he win be burled here. Ills father wired that he would com for Trull body and burr It In Raleigh but the boy did not know how his people would meet th disgrace which he brought to them. He died In the hop of going back to the home which I so near to th far country from which the prodigal wandered. 1 Injunction Hearing Kept 13. ' The eHtboard's Injunction to pre .(Continued en hr Two), 511 10 i 1 POPE liiltS k NIGHT SCHOOLS TEUTONS WOULD Moonlight School Movement Has Numerous Volunteers Who Would Act Part of Instructors. FORMULAS FOR LESSONS BEING WORKED OUT Not Even Kentucky Will Be In North Carolina's Class When State Is Organized. For Work. Raleigh, Sept. 4. When the "moon light school" committee met today it had before it the formula for the gen eral lessons to be taught the adult il literates who are to be brought quickly rrom their unlettered plight. The committee in the absence of Dr. J. Y, Joyner has never worked out this important detail but the time for beginning the schools was not at hand. With the beginning of September and the return of long nights, schools in every county in isortti Carolina are planned and teachers stand ready to work. The moonlight movement now has more than 5000 volunteers, more than 6000 who wish only to have the op portunity to present the first lessons to all who have been deprived by any circumstance from learning to read and write. These teachers constitute the best half of the white teaching forces of North Carolina. The first volunteers came from the university summer school when 132 signed the pledge. Since then teachers have roll ed in and grown-up illiteracy will be routed If It comes out from Its hid ing. Dr. Joyner was amazed when he discovered such a colossal force for 'he eradication of his worst enemy. Honest illiteracy has been the biggest of his barriers, the conscientious man who opposed special tax districts and insisted upon his right to rear his chil dren as he had been reared. ; A few thousand teachers working on the banishment of such illiteracy would make a formidable public opinion in support of better teachers, better wages and longer terms. The state is not organized but when work is tut for the size of Its Instruc tors not even Kentucky will be In North Carolina's class. Mrs. Cora Wilson Stewart, the high priestess of the moonlight movement, fears North Carolina only, she says, and she put in motion tbe force that has driven Ken tucky adult Illiteracy to the wall. The state board of health, which has been driven to its utmost to sup ply the state the typhoid vaccine in Its great campaign now closing, is soon to begin the manufacture of vaccine for diphtheria, tetanus and smallpox. The State Laboratory of Hygiene has done the work of furnishing the vaccine and will build Its laboratory which is to turn out these health pro moters. The laboratory has prepared enough vaccine to immunizen 152,000 North Carolinians In the last fifteen months. This is perhaps a fourth of the population which needs such treat ment as children under five and grown-ups over fifty years are not gen erally vacinated. The state Is becom ing immunized against typhoid fever, smallpox and other diseases and the good done will be shown In the next report on vital statistics. CRIPPLED SOLDIERS TO SECURE GOOD POSITIONS Paris, Sept 4. The minister of the Interior has taken cognizance of the assertion that crlppel soldiers will not be employed In public service, without Inquiry Into their political opinions. The minister has announced that the govetnment has deermined to reserve for uuch men a large number or places without regard to their pollt1. ca or religious beliefs because all have a right to equal recognition. The announcement Is regardel In Purls s further evidence of the pre manence of the "sacred union," unit ing all professions of faith and politics. Thr are already employed 'n public service departments many one-legged and one-armed .solders. ADVERTISE THE SOUTH Th first of a series of advertise ments prepared for the members of th Bouthern Newspaper Publishers' association to point out to advertiser of the United Btatea the splendid field afforded by the south through It newspapers appear In today's lssu of The Oaiette-News. Borne Interesting facts ar brought In th advertisement and th rest of the series promises to b equally Important. - r. W OF PERCE Message to President Givea Basis For Belief That Cen- ' tral Powers Would Dis cuss Peace Terms. u S. WILL ACT ONLY IF BOTH PARTIES REQUEST Washington Will Do Nothing to Endanger Position as : Friend to All Belliger- . ' ent Nations. ' Washington, Sept. 4. The United States will make no further efforts toward peace in Europe until the government has received information that its good offices will be welcomed by both sides engaged in the conflict, it was said authoritatively in official discussion of the message of Pope Benedict de'livered Thursday to Pres ident Wilson by Cardinal Gibbons. From the fact that tbe Vatican is in close touch with Austria, the con struction placed by officials on the message is that the Germanic powers would be willing to discuss peace at this time ' It was stated by those In closest touch with the administration that similar word would have to be re ceived from Great Britain and her allies before the president would mnke any further move. President Wilson has made it clear several times that the original offer of his services to bring about pence . still stands and that he will do every thing possible to further the peace movement. The United States will do nothing, however, that will be likely to endanger its position as a friend of all the belligerents. - The message of the pope will , not be made public by this government. EonuR.h of the contents of the message Is known, however, to give basis for indfeations that Austria, Germany and Turkey are not adverse to dis cussing peace. REPARATION FOR LIVES LOST NOT FIXED YET Washington, Sept. 4. The Ameri can position toward a method of fix ing reparation for the live and prop erty of Americans lost in German submarine operations, such as the sinking of the Lusitanla and Arabic, has not been finally determined, but It is probable that there will be no , objection to fixing the amount of re paration by arbitration. Arbitration, however, could cover only the extent of the damages and not the questions of principle that unarmed merchantmen must not b sunk without warning and opportun ity for the escape of non-combatants. APPROVAL GIVEN FOR Ran Francisco, Sept. S. The pro posal to erect by Alexandria Masons of a half million dollar memorial building at Alexandria, Va., to be dedi cated to "George Washington, the Mason aml'Man." was approved by th general grand chapter of Royal Arch Masons at the concluding session yes terday of the biennial convocation, th next session of which will be held In Washington. E OF Senile. France, Bept 4. -Th anni versary of German entry Into this city and the execution of Mayor Eugene Odey and seventeen civilians was com memorated yesterday with simple cere monies. After religious services at the cathedral the people of Uenlls gathered before th soldi' monu ment In the cemetery and listened to addresses In which tribute wsa paid to th heroism of th mayor, by Dep uty Mayor d Parslval and Deputy Palsant MAJOR EARLE 07 S. 0. DIES FROM WOUND Greenville, 8. C, Bept l.John TT. Earle, major of the First South Car olina Infantry in th Bpanlsh-Amer-lesn War, who shot himself Wednes day night, died this morning. M,e Kail ws the on of th lat Unit l -i . - 4 1 - t f i . . 4 1nimrn r"winr ium t(i n, ennv t
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