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W.UMEXX. NO. 220.
ASHEVILLE. N. C. WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 27, 1915,
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Jimoti Forces
In Serbia
Oh
Established
2
DISPATCH OF MUNITIONS
TO TURKEY IS EXPECTED
TO BEGIN IN FEW DAYS
Desperate Plight of Serbia, De
scribed as Affair of National
Life and Death, No Longer
Rhetorical Phrase.
BULGARS AND TEUTONS
ONLY FEW MILES APART
British Government Indicates
Assistance Allies Can Render
Serbia Will Not Meet
Her Needs.
London, Oct. 27. Communi
cation between the Austro-Ger-
man and Bulgarian forces in
vading Serbia is on the point of
being established and the dis
patch of munitions to Constan
tinople is expected to begin
within a few days, according to
information from Turn Severin,
Roumania, sent to the Times by
its correspondent at Bucharest
Communication is , being ef-j
footed in the northeast corner
of Serbia, where the distance
between the Hungarian and
Bulgarian frontiers is only 40
miles in a direct line.
The dispatch describes the
Austrian occupation of Tekia,
which was, accomplished after
a bombardment lasting many
hours, the Austrian troops
crossing the Danube river in 86
boats.
The advance on Kladovo im
mediately followed at 4 o'clock
Tuesday morning. Kladovo
was in flames, the Serbians
having started many fires. Ref
ugees from Kladovo who reach
ed the Roumanian shores of
the Danube included many
civilian officials and several
Serbian officers.
The expected junction of
Austro - German - Bulgarian
forces is an event of the high
est importance. Military critics
in Germany have for weeks
contended that if the armies of
the central powers could some
how join hands, in northeast
sorbin, it would mean, ulti
match-, a German empire reach
ing from Ostcnd and the Bel
gium const, to the Suez canal
and Egypt. ' It is admitted
now, in Paris and London, thnt
this is the significance of the
Balkan battles, and that Ger
man aggression can only be de
bated by sendinir vast numbers
of English and French troops
to the near east. Some have
felt that the war, on the Serb
ian front, would mean the
grave of German ambitions, or
,i unusQ Dopes.
London, Oct 27. The des
prate plight of Serbia, which
has been described ever since
'Jo beginning of the Austro-
;rman and Bulgarian inva
"ions as an affair of national'
mo or death, fa vu.i
rhetorical phrase, but tho liter
ih outcome of t1, Bnlknn
."luatioa vk-Uich. has been Colo
ed by reports of the determined
resistance of the Serbians and
the difficulties which the invad
ers are meeting, has yielded to
the conviction that it will take
something in the nature of a
miracle to avert disaster for
Serbia.
Lord Lansdowne's exposition
of the Macedonian campaign
in the house of lords yesterday
is regarded as an indication
that the assistance that the al
lies are able to offer Serbia at
this time is not sufficient to
meet her needs. The appeal of
the Serbian premier to do
"everything you can to ensure
your troops reaching us as soon
as possible" is taken as an in-
timation that the resistance of
the Serbians is near the last
stage.
The Anstro-German and Bul
garian forces are now witbin
20 miles of each other. In the
southwest and southeast the
Bulgarian invaders are advanc
ing along a front of 100 mUes,
25 to 40 miles south of the Dan
ube river.
AnnlvHla of the situation in regard
to the Beltrrade-Nish-saioniKi rail
road shows that the Germans are in
control of the first 60 miles rrom uei
eradoe: the Serbians of the next 160;
the Bulgarians of the next 100 miles
and the French the last B0 miles to
the Greek frontier.
No details have been received nere
concerning the reported recapture by
the Serbians of Veles. Whether free
communication between Hungary and
Bulgaria by way of the Danube has
yet been established Is doubtful, but
the proximity of the forces of the
two countries makes such communi
cation at least imminent.
All dispatches continue to describe
he intensely stubborn resistance of
he Serbians. According to accounts
which have reached Ixmdon concern
ing the capture of Uskup, the Serbians
defended every foot of ground rurious
ly and no quarter was given by either
side.
Although the Bulgarian forces out
numbered the Serbians ten to one, It
Is said, only
were taken.
600 Serbian prisoners
the others fighting to
rtoftth.
Field Marshal Von Hlndenhunrs
tremendous offensive against Dvinsk
continues, but his advance has not
been sufficient to shake tno Hussian
defenses. South of the Prlpet rlvor the
Austrian are struggling to regain tne
Inltlatlfe.
The situs tlon on the other fronts
shows no material change.
T
Torreon, Mex., Oct IB. via Laredo,
Oct 17. Austria-Hungary was uie
first European nation to recognise the
Carrania government . Notification
that Austria-Hungary had recognised
Carranza was received today In a mes
sage to the Austrian charge d'affaires
at Mexico City.
General Carrania Is continuing nis
conferences with his military advisers,
arranging the details of his govern-
ment in this part of the country.
will remain here two or three days
longer. His plans for a military cam-
pjtlgn are being carried out in me
north and west General Mugurla hav
ing left, today with a considerable
force for the state of Durango. which
is almost entirely under the control
of the government
m mwvMtKKCK WITH ILU'FT.
K Derllng. Oct IT. Ambassador J
It Oerard declined today to discus
t for publication his conference JJ.
It yesterday with Emperor William.
It The conference which took place
t at roUdam. lasted an hour.
-. x ,vmewvi
TO
WHICH GERMANY
WILL CONSIDER PEACE
Reported Von Buelow Will
Present Documents to Pres
ident and King of Spain. '
' London, Oct. 27. Reports reached
here today that Prince von Buelow,
former German chancellor, will short
ly submit to President Wilson and
King Alfonso of Spain an outline of
the; conditions under which Ger-
many might be disposed to discuss
terms of peace. 'The report is con
tained in a Reuter's dispatch from
Madrid and has not been corroborated
from any other source.
The dispatch gives as authority
Prince Camporeale, an Italian noble
man and brother-in-law of Prince von
Buelow. The report was first publish
ed in Madrid, the correspondent says,
In the form of a message from Rome.
The last report concerning Prince
von Buelow said that he was ill. This
was a message from Berlin Sunday
which said that he was confined to his
room at Cologne as the result of a
slight indisposition. He was on his
way to Baden-Baden.
fcrt- -r c :
IS
Automobile Belonging to En-
gene Cannon Found, But
no Trace Yet of Man,
New Bern, Oct. 27. Tha failure of
city and county authorities to find any
trace of Eugene Cannon, the young
Aden man, whose automobile was
found Monday morning hanging on
the edge of the bridge over the Trent
river, further sustains the theory held
by the police that Cannon was foully
dealt with and his body disposed of by
his assailants.
The young men left Aden Sunday
night about 8 o'clock and early Mon
day the keeper of the draw of the
Trent river county bridge said he
heard an automobile going by his
home at a high rate of speed. Later
he found the automobile half off the
edge of the bridge. In the car was a
hat which friends identified as one
which Cannon was wearing when last
men. The llconse number identified
thst car as Cannon's and friends later
said it was his car.
11-INCH SHELL JUST
MISSES REPAIR
Large Projectile From Proving
Grounds Passes Directly
Over the Panther.
New York, Oct. 16. The repair ship
Panther of the United States navy nar
rowly escaped being hit today by a 14
Inch shell fired from the proving
grounds at Sandy Hook. The Panther
with a number of other vessels taking
part In the maneuvers off the coast
composed the fleet of defense at the
entrance, of New York Harbor. Early
todsy the Tassel came within range of
a 14-Inch gun that was being tested at
the proving ground and a large projeo
tile passed directly over the Panther
and struck the ocean naif a nine De
yond. The commander of the Panther
Immediately sent a
wireless report or
the Incident to the commanding officer
r
ES
RESPITE COM
TO
Mrs. Warren and Sam Christy
Will Not Die In November
Because Appeal Was
Docketed Too Late.
CHARGED WITH MURDER
OF WOMAN'S HUSBAND
Question of Medlin School
Children, Held to Be White,
Again Pestering Wake
School Officials.
(By W. T. Bost)
Raleigh, Oct. 87. Mrs. Ida Ball
Warren and Samuel Preston Christy
hacl luck-when the combined tenth and
eleventh diatricta were called for argu
ment before the Supreme court yester
day and their appeal from a judgment
of murder in the first degree had been
so tardily docketed that it will not be
heard until the foot of the list Is
reached. . .
These defendants were convicted In
the summer in Winston-Salem of mur
dering Q. J. Warren, husband of the
defendant and sentenced to death in
the electric chair. . The execution was
set late enough In November to have
allowed the Supreme court to pass
judgment had the .cane ;gon on , the
docket -in tlme --Asit A thr eaitwljl
not be heard until the twentieth dis
trict appeals have been disposed of un
less an agreement between counsel for
the woman and her paramour and the
state can agree upon an earlier date.
It at least makes certain the deferring
of the execution until the new year if
It takes place at all. :
The case has not come to the atten
tion of Governor Craig officially and
during the summer he was so busy in
Asheville that It was tried, the woman
and man convicted and sentenced
without his knowledge. When he
came back to Raeligh he did not know
that he should have to pass upon the
death sentence of a woman. That ho
will have this delicate duty is fairly
certain because the defendants have
little upon which to hope.
The murder trial in Winston-Salem
has become so famous that criminal
literatures have immortalized the mys-1
tery that had its origins in the city of
Winston-Salem and at the creek out
from town and stretched all the way
to Texas. It Is an uncommonly sordid
story wth a woman the chef cause of
the murder and a ready Instrument in
its execution. The state is interested
in it not so much because of the other
wise very obscure persons, but because
one is a white woman and the first to
be sentenced to die in the electric
chair. The fact that reservations
around the chair have been sought
early is an index to that interest
Governor Craig has made requisition
upon Governor Ctuart of Winston-Salem
for Harve Puckett who is wanted
in Gastonia for selling liquor and gam
bling. He is now in Danville and will
be brought back to North Carolina by
J. A. Wagstaff.
Adjutant General Young announces
the commissioning of Adolphus Man
gum Webb as second lieutenant of the
Fifth Company . Coast Artillery of
Charlotte; and Carl Dana Moore as
first lieutenant of the same company.
John W. Harrelson Is made first
lieutenant of the First company of the
Coast Artillery corps of Raleigh' and
John Blanton Uelk of "llendorson as
first lieutenat of the Sixth company of
this corps.
Governor Craig today received de
partmental notice of $401.21 which
conies back to the state for the forest
reserve, Mt. Pisgah getting the bulk, of
the "comeback" which isn't explained
to his excellency.
Superintendent D. F. Giles Is the
Inheritor of a vast trouble that began
months ago In the Wake schools when
the children of J. It. Medlin of Mount
Vernon school were asked to absent
themselves from school on the ground
that they have negro blood In them.
The case went to the Superior court
of Wake county and Mr. Medlin, who
Is undlsputedly white, won. Then the
board of education carried the case up
and Chief Justice Clark writing the
opinion thought the findings of the
jury were correct The court was dl
vidod. Judge Walker writing a copious
opinion on the subject
The children was declared all white
and returned to school. This year
trouble has begun. The parents of
that district talk of boycotting the
school and the subject la delicate. Mr.
Giles cannot stop the children from
going to school. The court has held
against the boyco'.ter whose children
are under the operation of ocmpvlsory
attendance law. Should the children
of Medlin be barred the board is liable
J for contempt of court
The Jury try-
ing the case did the work,
CONDEMNED
SIEB RELATES
PLOT DETAILS
Tells of Selling Explosive
Chemicals to German Lieu
tenant Fay and Implicates
Kienzle and Brietung.
CONSPIRACY MAY BE
STILL MORE SERIOUS
Intimated That Plot to Blow
Up Ships May Prove Most
Serious Uncovered in U. S.
Since the War Began.
New York, Oct. 27. Agents of the
federal secret service today continued
their investigation into the stories of
Lieutenant Robert Fay of the Ger
man army and others alleged to be
concerned in a plot to blow up war
munitions vessels at sea or supply
plants in America. Meanwhile they
awaited the arrival of Max Brietung,
named in the complaint filed by Chief
Flynn of the secret service as one of
the alleged conspirators.
Brietung left Chicago yesterday. It
was reported today that after Brie
tung was 1b custody further disclos
ures might be made, indicating that
the conspiracy , was tha most serious
plot'' uncovered in this country since
the' beginning of the war.
None of the federal officials would
admit thac any person "higher up"
was sought
Paul -Bleb, who has lived In New
York under the name of Karl F. Ope
gaarde since last January and who
acted as broker in the sale of some
of the explosive Ingredients for bombs
sold to Fay is quoted as saying that
two or three months ago Max Brie
tung asked htm to buy 360 pounds of
potassium chlorate. Sleb said he slold
the chemical to Brietung for $110.
Two weeks ago, Sleb said, Dr. Her
bert Kienzle ssked him to buy 100
pounds of trl-nitro-tuluol for Fay and
that Dr. Kienzle Introduce him to
Fay. He said he obtained about 25
pounds of the chemical and sold it
to Fay.
OF
y
New York. Oct. 27. Henry K. Mc
Harg and Frederick F. Brewster, di
rectors of tho Now York, New TIaven
and Hartford railroad, now on trial
with nine former directors of the road
under the Sherman anti-trust law,
have resigned from the New Haven
directorate.
Their resignations became known
after yesterday's session of the trial
now concluding its second week, had
adjourned. They will be formally pre
sented to the New Haven stockholders
at their annual meeting to be held in
New Haven today. It was learned.
While no formal statement as to the
reason for their retirement was obtain
able, it was said on behalf of the New
Haven company that their action un
doubtedly was due to a desire not to
embarrass the present New Haven
management on account of their status
as alleged violators of the law being
a matter still to be determined by a
jury-
Messrs. McHarg and Brewster en
tered the board together May 81, 1907.
They figure In the case at a time when
the New Haven was busy In taking
over steamship Hues and trolley prop
erties. .
i ria "M
GULL FOR OVERTHROW OF
Amsterdam, Oct 17. Calls for the
overthrow of Premier Urallano of
Roumanla were shouted at a meeting
Monday In Bucharest presided over
by Former Ministers Take Jonescu and
Flllpsco, In which resolutions were
adopted favoring Roumanian Inter
vention In the war,1 according to a
telegram from Bucharest The amo
tions demanded mobilisation and "Im-
meuiftie action 10 prevent me junc
tion of Germany, Hungary and But
garla, which would threaten the ex
istence of Roumanla,"
A procession was formed. It la said,
but the police barred the road.
BANDIES LOOT
M.K.&T. T
Ten or More Masked Men Hold
Up Passenger Train In Okla
homa and Blow Open
Express Car Safe.
NO ATTEMPT MADE
TO ROB PASSENGERS
Bandits Gave Careful Atten
tion to Prevention of Wreck
By. Flagging Trains
Behind Passenger.
Oklahoma City, Okla., Oct, 27. The
southbound Missouri, Kansas & Texas
train, No. 9 was held up and robbed at.
2 o'clock this morning two miles south
of Onapa and nine miles south cf Euf
ala on the main line from Parson to
Donison. Ten or more masked men
blew open a safe in one of the express
cars, obtained an unknown amount of
money and valuable and escaped with
out attempting to rob the passenfT2rs.
Tne bandits boarded the train at
Checotah or some point north of the
scene of the robbery, climbed over -.ha
baggage and mall cars and forced the
engineer at the- point of rifles to stop
the train. They then went back to the
coaches, found the conductor ard
forced him to open an express cur. For
more than an hour they worked and
Ave charges of nltro-glycerine were
exploded before the safe was opened.
One safe was attempted in the second
express car and two in the third, but
neither would yield.
A dozen or more shots were fired l y
the bandits. A portion of the band
guarded the train crew, who were
lined up along the track. Others
guarded th epassenger coaches and
still others ran back along the track
to stop a freight train running he hind
the passenger train.
A brakeman on the robbed train
was shot through the finger when he
tried to escape.
The engineer of the freight train
behind escaped from his captors and
ran to Onapa and gave the alaram.
After abandoning their work the
robbers are said to have thanked the
members of the train crew and wish
ing them goodnight disappeared In the
darkness apparently on foot.
Express officials refused to tell the
amount of loot taken by the robbers,
who escaping into the marches in that
region are being pursued by tho peace
officers of a dozen counties and hun
dreds of citizens In posses.
The train robbbd often carries l.irae
amounts of money and securities. Af
ter passing unupa, a station without
telegrapHi facilities at night, the
track lies in a sparsely settled territory
near the Canadian river, remote from
interference and affording wild forests
and marshes for the escape of th rob
bers. All the care of trained railroad men
was exercised in preventing a wreck.
The bandits undoubtedly aware that
they were on the main line, vent
guards to flag any train that mlj.;ht
approach.
THREE OF ESCAPED
COilETSiyPIUBED
Negroes Sawed Their Way to
Liberty From the County
Jail at Knoxville.
Knoxvuie, Oct. it. will Crosby, a
negro, capture.1 by the sheriff's forces
near here today makes the third es
caped man who has been taken since
the delivery at the Knox county jail
last night when II negroes sawed
thelr way to liberty.
Deputies are scouring the country
side searching for the remaining con
victs at large and other capture are
expected soon.
Rewards of 126 have been offered
for the arrest of each of the fugitive
except Deadertck Segulno, who I un
der death sentence for the murder- of
Chief of Polio Qeorg F. Campbell of
Johnson City, and 1 100 Is offered for
his capture. Heguines Is said to hav
led the negroea in their escape, which
was effected about o'clock last night.
They sang lustily to drown th sound
of the sawing. ,
RAIN
SECOND WEEK S
SERVICES SHOW
MUCH INTEREST
Large Attendance Recorded
Yesterday at Drawing Room
Meeting and Two Ser
vices at Tabernacle.
MUSIC AN IMPORTANT ;
FEATURE OF MEETINGS
I Sermon Today On "The Result
of Power"; This Even
ing's Subject Will Be
"Your Sins,"
The second week of the Chapman
Alexander revival campaign is mark
ed by growing interest both among
church members and those who have
never before been concerned about
the spiritual condition of their lives.
As an evangelist Rev. Dr. J. Wilbur
Chapman is earnest, convincing, and
persuasive without using any sensa
tional methods of arousing interest in!
the large congregations that assembloi
twice daily. , ;
'One of the most important factors--'
In this finely organized religious cam
paign is the music led by Charles M.j
Alexander at every meeting. The choir
of 450 voices and the sunbeam chorus
of 150 follow the music conductor In
perfect harmony and under this Inspi
ration the congregational singing Is a '
thing to be remembered. The solo
work of Albert Brown needs no com
ment to those who last evening heard
him sing, "How They Crucified My
Lord." As for the instrumental ac-;
companiments, the performance of
Henry Barraclough at tho piano with
out any notes to guide him, is a
source of continual wonder to those
who attend the meetings.
Special Delegations.
As special delegations entered thef
tabernacle last night Mr. Alexander
led the chorus in "Onward Christian
Soldiers." The members of the Baptist
and Christian churches, the employes'
of the Brownhurst green houses led by"
K. E. Brown and the students of
Weaver college Inst night attended In .
bodies. Many conversions were re
corded last night; a nine-year-old gtrl .
led a special prayer for Ood's mere
to her.
Announcement was made last night
that the Associated Charities and the
Young Women's Christian association
will conduct a nursery on Haywood
street opposite the tabernacle tat
children whose mothers desire to at
tend the services but would be kept
at home by the care of babies. A!
drawing room service yesterday at tha
home of Mrs. George A. Shuford on
Orange street was largely attended. '
Rev. Dr. Chapman preached yesterj
day nfternoon on "The Secret of Pow
er;" in the evening on "The Agony of
Christ." This afternoon the subject
will be "The Result of Power;" thl
evening "Your Sins" will be the sub.,
Ject of the sermon. Reports of yester
day's sermons are given below.
F.lsewhere In todny's Onsette-New
appears one of the Alexander hymn
and a story written by Mr. Alexander.1
This Afternoon
The sermon for this afternoon fol
low. "Th Holy Spirit UlMTty In Mvlnx"
Test: "Where the Spirit of the
lord is. there 1 . . . . II Corin-
thians 3:17. -
My message today has to do with
the Holy Spirit as He affect our liv
ing, and a He make it possible for
us to have what we can only be spok
en of as the most glorious liberty.
It Is true that this Is HI dispen.
satlon. and that He 1 now specially
working, but of course He ha been
In the world sine the very beginning.
I have a friend In New York who
ays that wherever In the Bible you
find a reference to a dove, you will
find at the same tlmo some special
teaching concerning the Holy Spirit
for the dove la one of th most strlk'
Ing emblem of th Holy Spirit and.
my friend called attention to the
fact that when Nosh opened th win
dow of the ark, th little dova fleW
forth from hi outstrerhad hand, and
flying hither and thlthr, found no
resting plac for th Hole of hi feet;
nd so came back to Noah' hand
for rest He opened the wlndo
of the ark the second time and th
little dov ffw forth and found
'o1
ollv leaf. -which la th symbol
peace, and h bore that bark h(
came to rest for th aecond time ti
Voah's hand. But he opened til
window of tha ark th third tin
and found a h flaw forth a rUn
(.Continued on; P( Five),