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HH: Site.-h (famtttriSim WEATHER FORECAST. FAIR AND COLDER TONIGHT. XX. NO. 225 VOLUME MOTHER ANGLO-FRENCH CPEDITIONA NNiNCEB Berlin Dispatch Indicates That British and French Troops Have Been Sent to Ser bia From Turkey. BOUMANIA ABOUT TO ENTER WAR, IT IS SAID Changed Tone Noticed in Greek Government Organs Ar ticles More Friendly to Entente Allies. Amsterdam, Nov. 2. A new Anglo-French expedition to the Balkans has been announced by tlie Berlin Tageblatt. The pa nor riiiMislies a. telegram from Sofia which states the British and French transports have ap peared at Kavala in Greece. Kavala is on the north coast of the Aegean sea in Greece, iiljout '20 miles weM of the Bul garian border and 80 miles northeast of the Greek port of Saloniki, where the first detach ments of Anglo-French troops were landed for the Serbian aampaiim. Kavala is the nearest Greek port to the GallipOli peninsula and might be selected as a land ing place in case the French and British troops were with drawn from the peninsula for service in Serbia against the Bulgarians. A Berlin dispatch i vost,.r,l iv sni.l that entente troops were now on the Serbian front sent in by way of Saloniki, . London, Nov. 2. Public in terest is divided today between Premier Asquith's speech in the house of commons and Rou niania's intention of throwing licr lot with the allies. News received by way of Faris lends support to the growing impres sion that Kou mania is prepar ing to enter the war. By a royal decree the new class of Roumanian recruits are being mobilized. Vienna reports that a "grave situation" may arise between Austria and'Roumania in con nection with the proposal to use the lower Danube for the trans portation of Russian troops sent to the aid of Serbia. Little news has come from Bucharest, owing to the strict censorship, but it is known that agitation in favor of entering tne war is spreading through the Roumanian army. Austrian, German and Bul garian troops are drawing the net closer about Nish. In south era Serbia the French assert that they have inflicted consid wable losses on the Bulgarians, ho are reported to have been thrown back to tho right bank we Vardar.. The only political develop cnt of note in the Balkans is tno chantred tone of iha mna Vs press in Athens, which Publishes apparently inspired articles of a nature friendly to he allies, although still insist ng that Greece must maintain : I'vwy oi Denevoient neu trality. thst f ,on now b"n P""hed, Is onn.. ' Oriental railway, tils ! "lrri with Constantino th ... ,Bmou Balkan route which imS'LT!'?' wwl" to lh. mln,n. This way follows Cu.lhr0"h rrnulr lowland '"''. ana thenc take It Thirteen Persons Lose Lives In Tenement Fire New York, Nov. 2.-Thlrteen people six men, three women and four chil dren lost their lives In a fire which today destroyed a three-story tene ment building, No. 66, North Sixth street, near the river front in Brook lyn. Most of the" victims were over come by gas, which leaked from a broken pipe in the building, and it is believed thoy became unconscious be fore the fire started. Smoke com pleted the asphyxiation and many were found dead I ntheir beds. All the victims were Poles. The building was occupied by fami lies having as boarders laborers em ployed in a sugar factory. Gas which filled the lower part of the house ex German Crown Prince Again Is Reported Dead Turin, Italy, Nov, 2. Crown Prince Frederick William of Germany " is ; (lend nennvdinp In a. Tinme disnn toh ! to the Gazetta del Popolo, whose cor-1 The last previous report of the 1 tne election in Ohio and other states respondent asserts that the informa- death of the German crown prince amI ,oef 1 ,ssues ln New J"sey, Missis tion was given him by a diplomat ac- was in March last, although prior to:s,P-P1- Virginia and .Michigan. roriltorl (h.-Vntlnnn The newo wn. thnt there hnrl heen frennent rKnnrta Generally fair a lid ITllld Weather said to have been received by the sec- i retary of state in a cipher message j in September that he had broken down from the papal nuncio at Vienna, ' as tho result of the strain of the qf Monslgnor Scahineli. The diplomat la fenslve taken in the Argonne by the said to have refused to give further j troops under his command. $1 00,000 Insurance Left By Edward L. Pretorius St. Louis, Nov. 2. Life ' Insurance I underwriters estimate that,: J 1011,000 insurance becomes payable on the death of Edward L. Pretorius, presi dent of the German-American Press neanntnllnn tnhn enm tvt i 1 1 Afl SUllelrfA ! yesterday. One half of the amount j so,s 10 tne wiaowrr tne deceased ana Mr, Pretorius will be buried tomor row. St. Louis. Nov. 1. Edward L. Pre torius, president of the German-Amer- Bulgarians and Greeks Still On Friendly Terms London, Nov. 2. Continued friend-'from ly reJatlons between Greece and Bui-'the , , ,, . . . .. . garia are Indicated by the success of the Greek commission which recent-i ly went to Solia to negotiate for the purchase of wheat for Greece. Ac- cording to the Times' Bucharest cor- respondent, the. Bulgarian govern- ment decided to permit to export of, wheat to Greece by way of De - deaghatch-Salontkl railroad. i A dispatch reaching Bucharest President And Mrs. Gait To Marry Washington, Nov. 2. Formal an nouncement was made at the wnite house today that the marriage of Pres ident Wilson and Mrs. Norman Gait will take place near the close of De cember. The wedding will be private and will take place at the home of Mrs. Gait. The following statement was Issued by Secretary Tumulty. "In order to quiet speculation, tne course along the valley of the Marltzo, through central Bulgaria, to Mustafa Pasa and Adrlanople. whence, running south and east, It crosses the Mar'tn and follows a well protected course through the center of European Tur key to Constantinople. The only link In this famous over land route of Europe's to the orient, which was not under the control of the allies of the central powers, was that within Servla. This 5'nk repre sents a stretch of about 175 mile, be ing about 126 miles from Belgrade tr, r"lsh and abou: 40 mlet frm Mtih to the Bulgarian frontier. N srlv the wlio'.i course of the Biilgarla-!oni.tan-llnoplf route 1 paralleled bv chains of hills irU mountains, capO!e'of m01 stubborn defense, and, for the most part the exposed Hinterland to the west and south fotms a rutirrt 1lf flcult region of complex mountain pat tern. The way of this route of so great present Importance In the war Is dim cult of attack from Its enterance Into Bulgaria until at that part of Its course where It crosses the Marltsa. The Rhodope mountain wMch form the Bulgarian boundary toward Greece, above Saloniki, are outposts between SO and 70 miles to the south of the way through Marltsa. These moun tains, also, but little back from the ASHEVILLE. N. C. TUESDAY AT "'itNOON, NOVEMBER 2, 1915. ploded, spreading the flames and cut ting off the exit of the inmates by the halls. Those who were not overcome by the gas and smoke held to the Are escapes. . The firemen were unable to eoter the building until after the flames had been extinguished, and one oil entering an upper room found several bodies on beds and other women and chil dren, whoEO position Indicated that they had fled to the windows and halls but were overcome either by the gas or smoke. One man, a spectator, died of heart disease as a result of excitement. The explosion was attributed to a lamp which had been left burning in the hall. details, "but assured the correspondent that the news was authentic. ' that he had been killed. It was stated'! lean Press association, which publishes tlrH 'TJHies anffJTne westnehe Post, committed suicide at his home here this morning. His body was found in his bathroom where he had shot him- Self. Poor henlth is Said to llRVfi heGn the cause of the act. air. pretorius spent last summer in Asheville, X. C, and when his at tempt to resume the directions of his papers this fall Indicated that he was far from well, his wife planned to re turn with him to North Carolina. Sofia says an extra session of sobranje (parliament) which was scheduled for October 28 wus adjourn- p(1 )ntu Decembor 28. Another dispatch savs the Bulgar- ians In cNpectation of another attack on their c.est, are removing gunboats. merchant shipping, dredges and tugs to Lake Devna, which is connected with the sea by a canal. Measures' have been taken to sink all shipping If the Russians succeed in effecting a landing. Late In Dec. president and Mr. Gait today author ize the announcement that their mar riage will take place near the close of December. It Is planned to have a very simple ceremony which will be quietly performed at Mrs. Gait's resi dence." No Invitations will be Issued and it is expected that the only guests will be members of the two families. Bulgarian Aegean seacoast, guard this part of the exposed frontier. From ICnos, where the allies have a military base to the orient line at Demotikl, Turkey, In Europe,, Is about CO miles. The land In between, howover, Is marshy with nothing of the dignity of a road, cuts the little Turkish port city from the Interior. Nevertheless, this forms probably the most vulnera ble section of the way. Klsewhere, In Servla, In Bulgaria, and throughout Its lower courso In Turkey, the Im portant pathway of the Orient railroad Is sheltered by formidable natural de fenses. FEDERATION OF LABOR IN SESSION AT RALEIGH Raleigh, November 1. With 40 del egates present the North Carolina Federation ot Labor opened Its ses sions todsy, the purpose1 of the pres ent meeting being the rejuvenation of the organization, which although It has held Its charter has been Inactive for some time. O. K. Jarrett of Ashe ville 1 president of the stsate organisation. K INTEREST IS 1 SUFFRAGE Among Ten States Holding Elections Suffrage Is Issue In New York, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. MARYLAND, KENTUCKY BALLOT FOR GOVERNOR State-Wide Prohibition Feature In Ohio Important Local Issues In Some States Good Weather. The chief interest in the elections to be held in ton states today appeared to be centered in the proposals to grant suffrage to women, which was sub mitted to the voters of New York, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. The voters of Massachusetts, Maryland and Kentucky also balloted for governor and other state officers, while state i wide prohibition was the feature of Prevailed throughout New York state and a heavy early vote has been re ported from many parts of the state. In all sections there was interest in woman's suffrage as the chief issue and tho . proposed new constitution ranked second. In New York city there were women watchers at every polling booth. Mild, fair weather preva'led throughout Massachusetts and a heavy early vote was reported. The women continued their campaign during tho day. . Early reports indicated a large vote In Pennsylvania where the suffrage suwortefj: Jiaye beejuactiyeV..Aspir ited mayoralty contest In Philadelphia added to the Interest in the election. There is much interest in the guber natorial contest in Kentucky and be cause of this in conjunction with the warm weather throughout the state political predicted that the vote would be considerably above normal. There are to lie. elected in New Jer sey six state senators and the entire lower house. Although state-wide prohibition was tho chief issue in Ohio, the voters of many cities and towns were balloting on important legal question.). The Mississippi voters chose a full set of stale, county and district olli- cers and members of both branches of the legislature. In Virginia a legislature was elected which will enact a law to make opera tive September, 1916, an amendment to the state constitution prohibiting th.i sale of intoxicants. Washington, Nov. 2. President II- son lelt hero early this morning for Princeton, X .J., to vote in the statu o.ection. He will return to Washing ton immediately alter casting his bul lot. New York. Nov. 2. Suffragists of New York slate yesterday closed their IlKht lr the UMlot today with all the machinery of their organization run ning at full speed. Undismayed by the defeat of the suffrage amendment in New Jtrsey two weeks ago, suffrage leaders today declared that the larg er state would grant women the vote. Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, chair man ot tlio Empire state campaign committee, said that the suffragists nau mane a nuu iu nuuno uuu - palgn all over tne state ana mat mis was the basis for the declaration that ono million women In Now York wanted to vote. Loaders of the numerous women's organizations opposed to woman suf frage predicted that the amendment would be defeateil by a large major ity. Mrs. Arthur M. Dodge, president of the National Association Opposed to Woman .Suflrage, and Miss Alice Crittenden, president of the New York Anti-SulYrnge association, said they thought New York city would give a majority of 100,000 ngalnst the pro posed amendment with much smaller majorities outside of the-clty. Sixty automobiles with speakers for suffrage loft the Battery yesterday for a final effort which was to continue until midnight. Ten vans car rying huge slRns lettered with suf frage appears traversing the streets. TorHilo Bont Sunk. London, Nov. 2. The British ad miralty has announced that the Brit ish torpedo boat No.. 96, was sunk at Gibraltar yesterday after being ln a collision. Makes Statement. IT, M. Moody who wait taken to the Meriwether hospital ttunday night following injuries he received thatihave IR; liiincoinbe follows with 7; night, states that he was not found ln a drunken condition on Church street. Ss was reported but that he was In jured ln his room on Church street. G. I. A. Meeting. The Mrs. J. n. Crittenden, grand vice president of the O, I. A. will be the guest of the local order of the O. I. A. to the.!!, of L. K. at the meotlnR to be held tomorrow after- noon at the Dhrumor building. GREAT SERMON BY EVANGELIST Rev. Dr, Chapman Gives Im mense Audience Realization of What It Means to Be Lost. r MANY DECISIONS MADE AT EVENING SERVICE Sermon This Afternoon, "Your Most Important Service"; Tonight, "Is There Really a Personal Devil." "If you are lost It will be In spite ! of God's love, in spite of Calvary, in spite of your mother's prayers, in spite of your wife's tears." With this con clusion to a remarkable sermon on "Is There a Hell," Rev. Dr. J. Wilbur Chapman mismlssed the congregation without giving any invitation to the impenitent. No man should say, de clared the evangelist, that he had ap pealed to the fears of his audience to secure their acceptance of Jesus. At the beginning of the service Rev. Dr. Chapman gave the unsaved and those who wished to connect themselves with some church for the first time or by letter from their home church an opportunity to sign cards. Many also came forward and gave the minister their hands in token that they desired to make a decision for Christ. Service to Remember. It was a sermon and service to re member. Those who had expected from the eloquent preacher a picture of hell drawn after manner of Jona than Edwards, with the congregation shrieking in terror at the terrible por- Hrayal of the wrath of angry God, heard Instead a warning given in sor row and saw a picture, startling to be sure, but drawn by a hand anxious to save. The congregation appeared to Charles M. Alexander a little slow In its singing In tho early part of the service so the choir leader called for "Old Hundred," "How Firm a Foun dation" and "Amazing Grace." These old hymns thawed out any preliminary chill and by the time Albert Brown sang the beautiful song - written by Henry Bnrraclough, "Ivory Palaces," the religious fervor glowed. A large body of the Methodist stew ards and ottlccrs came in delegation, as did the Baraca class of Haywood Street Methodist church. John H. Cathcy, speaking for the finance committee, stated that $2,200 has been raised in collections toward payment for the tabernacle, $600 be ing secured last evening. Tills is known as conference week. A number of ministers from neighbor ing towns have expressed their inten tion of attending the services and u special appeal to Asheville people Is made to be present. The general topic is evaiiueli.im; the afternoon sermon, j printed in full below, is entitled "Ymirj Your Most Important Service Tonight the subject mill be "Is There Heftlly a Personal Devil." This AfUTiloon. This afternoon's sermon follows: Text: "He first flndeth his own brother." St. John 1:41. "This is a most important and sug gestive text. And the service it sug- I . .. , ..,,' ,. t II 'l,.l.. ulm, It IU 1 trllP that it Ik often ensller to w with stranucrrs than with inose, wno know us wed, mil tnis ooes not ex cuse us from attempting to Influence lor Christ. Those who live In our own no,,, ...... ... '" most freouent social Intercousre. The text reads slightly different In the re (Coiitlnued on Page FIveK NINETY CGUK1IES (RE 1 1 AT Chnpcl Hill, Nov. 2. A complotellst the county. an. of tho students regislereu in the iegii-1 'j-no Wilkes people have been down tine of Villa's wounded was brought lar session of the university shows ajereand put up a pleu that was pret-jto Do'iglas for treatment. Two others total of 80 counties represented. Out' ty mr(j to beat. They didn't stampede ; WPre seen to full when a shrapnel of the 1,122 indents registered for unl-jthe commission into Immediate action shell burst over them. A shell burst verslty work this fall only 4 or B -1 0 . ,ut hsve accomplished enough to get on one of the field pieces putting the per cent of them come from outside ( , re-hearing. It Is strongly eon-! Rm, out of action, the state. The largest delegations tended by high authority In Wilkes What appeared to be a genfrnj ad from outside the state rank as follows: Itbnt North Wilkesboro Is greatly biir-;Vsnce begun at 6:30 o'clock Inst night South Carolina, 24; Florida, 10; Vlr - glnla. 10, in mis numner is lo ie found one student from Cuba and one from Japan. Wake county displaces Mecklenburg with the largest delegation a total of , commission, but politicians from Agua Prieta and began to Gig them 52. Mecklenburg and orange f ch ; u ilkes county who coino here and Vlv In. uullford witn ; ami wayne wun The following counties have 10 and over: Alamance, 20; lieiiufort, 10; llurke, 14; I aldwell, 16; Catawba, 11; Chatham, 10; Cleveland. II; Craven, 17; Cumberland, 10; Davidson, 12; Duplin, 13; Durham, It; Edgecombe, 13; Forsyth, 29; Gaston. 17; Granville, 14; Mallfnx, IS; Iredell, 12; Johnston, 17; Inolr 12; Nnsh 12; New Hanover, li Tilt, 12; Hocklngham, It; Itobeson, 11; nowan, 13; Burry, It; L'nion, 1; 4WII k'llson, 1). PAPERS ASSIST NIGHT SCHOOLS One Hundred Agree to Print the Lessons to Be Taught Illiterate People by "Moonlight" Plan. MOONLGHT SCHOOL MONTH HAS STARTED County Papers Have Agreed to Send Issue to Each of Illiterate In Their Territory. (By W. T. Bost). Raleigh, Nov. 2. Dr. James Y. Joy ner began his Moonlight School month yesterday with more than 100 papers "signed up" to print the les sons to be distributed among the Illit erates to whom the lessons are being taugh't. The novel plan of presenting these lessons through the county paper was announced by him when he spoke at the summer meeting of the North Car olina Press association. Members pres ent agreed to take to take the matter but finding it so great a demand upon their space interested the manufac turer of "patent insides" in preparing the type and are setting this down on their best pages. Many of the lessons have been gotten out and sent to Ral eigh to show by samples how clever an Idea the head of the system in the state fathered. The country papers carrying this novel publicity have agreed to send an issue each to the illiterates found in their territory. They are not to be outdone by Superintendent Joyner. He gets up the lessons and sends them to the plate factory. The owners of the papers send them to the benighted communities. Dr. Joyner's purpose was to stimulate newspaper reading. Each student will get his lesson from a teacher anil going back will find it in his county paper. He will get the habit, will contract the contagion or the germ and become a reader of the paper. There are twelve lessons to be print ed. As tho newspapers have agreed to take them and to send these to the untaught persons, it means that if the 132.000 who cannot read or write be found Just that number of papers will be circulated several times until the campaign is finished. It is regarded significant that the great state-wide campaign during 1015 should have be gun weeks ago and made November the great month. The North Carolina day was this year made moonlight school day. Alderman Changes Subject. Dr. Clarence Poe, president of the North' Carolina Literary and Histori cal association, has received a letter from President Kdwin A. Alderman of the Cniversity of Virginia, announcing a change of subject for his address here. 1 r' rtioenimns smueci m i v .,,. i I'emocracy ise iTgumxeu . n m or t 'oaled rucsiiuy evening, .oveuiner the opening date being Monday even ing, November S, when Secretary Franklin Lane of the d- partment of the interior will make the annual ad dress. The address of Secretary Lane and the awarding of the Patf rson cup for ih,. best work liublishcd during the I vear will be the first features. I n spite of a good rumor that Dr. Clarence Pot- is lo receive the cup ngnin tb.s -ar . and take it as a lasting memorial. Dr. Poe has declined lo allow his recent work on "When Farmers Co-operate , i)im,e Profits" to go into compe- 81111 ... ...... ..,.. , tUm. litii. n because lie Holds oiuce in wit- soclety. The boon would doubtless have been n contender as the first edi tion has been exhausted and tho sec .i,l of 111.000 called for. It h:u been ailoptcd in many Institutions mid wonjpnt Intention of ihattcrlng the barbed praise, from Mr Horace 1 iiniheii on tho other side. Tho corporation commission tins re- ferred the petition of the :sorin Wilkesboro township people to the county commissioners lo determine - whether that township is taxed out of all proportion to the remainder of; ,ie,Hd nt the expense of another por .(un of the country oine l"oiitn-ni miercm. It Is not understood mat sucn prr- sure hits been brought against the talk to outsiders admit that the dem i.j.,crats stand in great uunger oi msing that county again If the assessment stands. Of course, hardly any democrat ex- pected to carry Wilkes even If the' commission had exempted all the! voters from paying any lax. The re- publicans could not have considered that a fair trade In the light of re- further consideration of plana forth publican prosperity and Kurrtpean December poultry show, K. R. Frsdy wsr, lint Wilkes men fear that the Kill continue his discussion of mrth million republican majority might be ods of conditioning birds' for exhibit (Continued on l'ae Twoi. lUun. v , ... t . . PRICE 2 CENTS n Tra,n 5Ct RENEW ATTACK ON AGUA PITA Forces of Villa Resume Assault Begun Last Night for Pos session of Important Sonora Town. BOTH SIDES SUFFER CONSIDERABLE LOSSES,' Five Persons Wounded onj; American Side by Bullets of Combatants Villa's Forces Reinforced. Douglas, Ariz., Nov. 2. Genera!? Francisco Villa's army reinforced by! troops from Naco early today renewed!' the attack begun last nisght against! Agua Prieta, which is defended byj Carranza forces under the command! of General P. Ellas Calles. The losses on both sides are believed to be conV siderable. ' About 1 o'clock" Villa's forces start' ed a general attack with artillery south and west of Agua Prieta and the Carranza garrison replied with machine guns, rifles and explosive mines on the front over which Villa'4 charge would take place. After mora than an hour's engagement the firina ceased. Bullets reaching the American side of the border wounded five men, ac cording to reports available early to day. .;. The wounded are: Louis F. Taylor, restaurant employe, shot in the spine; paralysed. Corporal J. II. Jones, Company G, Seventh infantry, shot through both thighs. ' Ollie Y. Whlddon, private in Com pany A, Seventh Infantry, shot In tho neck. 4 , - v, " H. K. Jones, a letter carrier, wound ed in the shoulder. Eight years old Mexican boy, wounded In the stomach. Taylor was in the United States cus tom house during the fighting yester day afternoon and was struck as he was running to cover. A fiiRilade of bullets endangered the lives of a throng of American soldiers, Mexican women and children gather ed there. Widdon was on guard at a railway station several blocks from the fight ins. if. K. Jones was standing ln front of his homo on Seventh street when h0 was hit by a stray bullet. Villa men are said to be suffering greatly from lack of food and water. Major General Funston arrived hero this morning at 7:45 o'clock to assume command of the American forces. At that hour the bring had ceased on the Mexican battlefield. Douglas, Ariz., Nov. 2. Within two hours alter the first gun was fired in General Villa's long expected attack on Agua J'rieta machine gun bullets i.ml shell fragments showered over American territory, seriously wound ing liouis F. Taylor, a restaurant waiter und endangering scores of American soldiers in trenches two miles south of Douglas. Taylor was shot down in front ot the I'nlted States customs house, where more than 70 machine gun bullets sped among a throng of sol diers and Mexican women and child ren who were coming across the line. General Thomas F. Davis, com manding the six thousand American troops on dutv at the border, prompt- ly warned the commander of both Mexican factions to change the di rection of their fire, and citizens on the American side were not endanger ed thereafter. n the Mexican side losses could not be definitely ascertained up to night fall which hrounht a lull in the combat, but Villa artillery, firing suc cessive enhos, played on the defenses or me .iexican town, with the apuar- i Wre entanglements and destroying 1 1 hi- trenches preparatory to u rush on the giirrlson of General Calles. Three houses on tho west side of Agua Prieta were blown up by shells nn, according to Carranza 'reports, one man was killed and eight other persons wounded, including one worn- - .when the Villa forces opened a heavy fire from all sides of the town. The firing, however, ceased when me urn troops had reached the wire entanglements on the eust side of - , Meanwhile the Carranza garrison was sweeping all approaches with rlflo and machine gun volleys guided hy searchlights. poultry Meeting. The AsheWlle roultry and ret Stock association will meet this even, Ing nt o'clock In the city hall foi