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mtTW ftAZETTE-NEWS p, Associated Press Service. B Is In Every Respect Complete, Member Audit Bureau Circulation. Weather forecast. CLOUDY AND WARMER, , v0T.TTMEXXLNO250. ASHEVILLE, N. C, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 1, 1915. PRICE 2 CENTS0" rr'liM 5 ctc jiOUMANIA NAMES HER FIGHTING CONDITIONS Will Send Ultimatum to Aus- jia as Soon as Allies Con centrate 500,000 Men in Balkans, Says Report. ATTITUDE IS GIVEN CONCERN TO TEUTONS Situation Is Balanced by Al lies' Uneasiness Over Greece's Refusal to Accede to Entente Demands. m Senate Democrats Again Consider Cloture Rule RETIREMENTS III RFTEB POSTOFFICE Washington, Dec. l.s-Senate demo crats today wrestled further with the problem of cloture when they resum ed their caucus, and at the same time the democrats of the house ways and means committee continued to work on their task of readjusting committees because of the enlarged republican minority. The senate caucus proceedings gave promlsie of being enlivened, when Chairman Owen of the special rules committee submitted his report rec ommending a modified form of - clo ture rule for limiting debate. London, Dec. 1. Roumania trill deliver an ultimatum to Austria as soon as the entente allies have concentrated 500,000 men in the Balkans, says a re port from Bucharest contained in a Central News dispatch. VIEHH CABINET Austrian Minister of Interior, Commerce and Finance, .Pre-'.' ; sent Their Resignation to to Francis Joseph. HAVE BEEN APPCiNTED Olthough Senator Owen expressed the belief that the cloture rule would be approved, opposition w consid ered certain from som of the demo crats on the ground that the ques- SUCCESSORS ALR.F.A7' uon snould not be made a party issue and that the senate should not bind Itself with , restrictions similar to those in the house. Although the house ways and means committee had not half com pleted its work, Chairman Kltchin said that he expected it would be fin ished by Friday. The work must be done in time for the house democratic caucus on Saturday night. FOR W. ASHEVILLE 1 . . ;'. J Congressman Britt Reauests Postoffice Department to Es tablish New Office. Fourteen Dead Miners Discovered After Blast London, Dec. 1. The Balkan states continue to dominate both the military land diplo matic situation in Europe. Rou mania' s attitude apparently is causing the central powers great uneasiness, while the re fusal of Greece to limit her mili tary efficiency is of equal con sorn to the allies. Roumania is said to be only awaiting tjie presence in the Balkans of pre ponderant entente military forces before dispatching an ul timatum to Austria, and Ger man military critics, according to dispatches reaching London, are expressing considerable dis satisfaction with conditions in the Balkans, predicting both military and diplomatic diffi culties for the central powers despite the brilliant successes nf Field Marshal von Macken- sen in Serbia. Moreover, it is reported that Austria is opposed to the possi hility of Bulgarian domination of the Balkan states and it if BiO'stod that the desire to forestall anv friction in this connection was responsible for the German emperor's visit to Vienna recently. Oiveco steadfastly refuses to concede to the entente powers' demands for unrestricted use "f the Greek port of Saloniki ns n base and furthermore de fines to remove her army from Macedonia. Kxcept, for the capture of Prisrend by the Bulgarians remains, notwithstanding defin ite reports thnt neutral consuls lmd arranged to turn the city over to the Bulgarians after the Withdrawal of the Serbian I'irces; but later dispatches stated that telegraphic com munication was still maintain ed, indicating that the place una not been entirely evacu ated. Un the eastern front there has been comparative quiet "unmans are reported to have lieen greatly strengthened 'ng the Riga line, and to bo imbued with confidence that they ran shatter the German de fenses whenever a forward movement is deemed expedient , Vienna reports that the tal 'ans seem determined to cap ture Qorizia, but progress gainst the defenses of the city exceedingly Blow. Hnar Law Confident. noon. Duo. l.r-Andrew Bonar ,?rr,tTr for th. colonies, pr d.i llMt n'M M tn Pt. Andrew.- . " ' w-wi U Kill II V I V I V "r hop.ful a to th. outoom of th -. wnn n h4 m to Boomer, . West, Va-, Dec. 1. The bodies of ; 14 miners who lost their lives in the Boomer Coal and Coke company's mine by the explosion of a J blow-out shot, which yesterday imper iled the lives of 300 men, were brought to the surface today and taken to the temporary morgue nearby. Soon af terward rescuers appeared with five other miners who had been buried far underground, and though still alive were in a critical condition. were hurriedly taken to the hospital. Other parties who had been search ing the mine working throughout the night came out with reports that they had been unable to locate any of the five of six miners still missing, and their places were taken by fresh volunteers. Washington, Dec. 1. Representa tive T-v ay requested the post' at West Asheville. Assistant 1 ATTEMPTS TO RTTftW rusiiiiuHirr uenerni ttoper, it WATSON IKES POWDER BUSTS' PIEAJO JIB! Accused Publisher Say Way He Used Words Alleged to Be Obscene Kept Them Out of That Class. MYSTERY Investigators Have Made Little Progress in Determining Origin of Explosion at Du Pont Plant. Resignations of Retiring Minis ters Accepted Provided They Will Still Assist Their Government. HendersonviUe Couple Under Arrest In Venn. Special to The Gazette-News. , Chester, Penn., Dec. 1. Andrews Tulounes was arrested yesterday In company wtyh Lola Leverette, a 16 year old girl, with who he had eloped from HendersonviUe, N. C. ' Tulounes is 30 years old and will be held under the Mann white slave act. It is ex pected the parents of the girl, who looks to be about 19 years of age, will come here to prosecute the man-an4 take their daughter home."The min ister of a local Baptist church received a letter from a minister 1n Hender- Amsterdam, Dec. 1. Reports that several members of the Austrian cabi net have resigned is confirmed by an autograph letter from Kmperor Fran cis Joseph published in the Wiener Zeituntr of Vienna. The emnerni. hn rhey ; accented the resignations nf rr Wnrl ! Heinold D'Udynski, minister of the j interior; Dr. Rudolf Schuster von ; Bonnott, minister of commerce; and Baron Engel Von Malnfeldon, minis ter of finance. The acceptance of the resignations was qualified with the proviso that the services of the retiring ministers were to be available Is required. Dr. Heinold and Dr. Engel have been appointed members nf the upper house, while the rank of freiherr is conferred on Von Bonnott. Prince Hohenlohe Schilling Fuerst, president of the Supreme court has been ap pointed as minister of the interior. Ritter Von Ieth, governor of the pos. tal savings banks, is named minister of finance. Herr Von Spitzminller, director of the Kredlt Anstalt, be comes minister of commerce. sonville, requesting him to Investigate the case, and th communication was turned over to Chief of Police Vance who took action. The couple, it is alleged, Tiave been living here aB husband and wife. After they had arrested Hulounes, the girl told the chief that they had sent a letter to her father asking consent to their- marriage but received no reply. Dr. R. S. Carroll Expelled From Medical Society AFTER KlISCHnRGE Wonderfully Brave, Yet Fool hardy Deed, Recalls the Light Brigade at Balaklava. is un derstood, promised that the office should be opened at an early date. Major Charles M. Stedman today urged Assistant Secretary of War Breekenridge to establish the proposed citizens training camp which is to be located in North Carolina at Greens boro. The major said the Gate City offered unusual advantages In sites and railway facilities and told the de partment that a most suitable location could be secured. Mr. Breekenridge told the fifth district congressman that his request would be given seri ous consideration. Upon his return to his office Major Stedman found a letter from Paul Sohenck of the Guilford Battleground association offering to let the govern ment have the use of this historic bat tlefield if the camp is located at Greensboro. He also found a letter from J. C. Forester, of the chamber of commerce, urging him to do what he could to have Greensboro selected as the camp site. The letters of Messrs. Schcnck and Forester will be presented to Mr. Breekenridge tomorrow. The fact that the battlefield can be had is a decided point in favor of Greensboro. Senator Overman took the matter of selecting a camp site in North Carolina to the war department some months ago. It is practically certain that one of the North Carolina cities will be selected and the Gate City has an equal, if not tetter chance, than any of the others mentioned. Senators Simmons 'd Overman talked with Attorney General Gregory today with reference to the proposed removal of ,C. C. Daniels, brother of the secretary of the navy, as special attorney for the White Earth Indians in Minnesota. As already stated in this correspondence the secretary's brother has not given satisfactory ser vice atid-uniess a place of lesser im portance can be found for Mr. Daniels he will not be retained in the service of the department of justice. RELIGIOUS PREJUDICE Charges Prosecution With At tempting to Protect Roman Catholic Church in Hand ling the Case. COST THE LIVES OF THIRTY-ONE PEOPLE Detectives Discredit Report? That Teuton Employes Had Been Warned Not to Work for Company. Augusta, Ga., Dec. 1. Thomas E. Watson, on trial here in the federal court on charges of sending obscene matter through the mails made ills Wilmington, Del., Dec. 1. Al though investigation into the cause of the disaster was started by officials nf the Du Pont Powder company lm- ...... . , au,,,ua, ,k ,,,6 "iB mediately after the explosion yester- According to action taken by mem bers of the Buncombe County Medical society at a meeting Monday night, Dr. Robert S. Carroll, proprietor of Highland hospital of ZiUlcoa street, against whom charges of immorality were preferred some time ago, was ex pelled nrom the society. It Is stated that the action of the society, which was taken with a large court. number of the members present, was unanimous. Before the final action was taken, It is stated that several members of the society made talks re garding certain phases of the case. It is understood that the charges against Dr. Carroll in the society werT preferred by his wife, Mrs. Lydia, who recently secured a divorce from him on statutory charges, in Superior newspapers that he had said Great Britain was on the point of bank ruptcy, Mr. Law said the rountry was a long way from it but that he did not pretend that it would go on In definitely on the present scale. But the wealth of Great Britain, he added, had not even been touched us yet and she could bear the strain for a far longer period than her enemies. Speaking of the great armies which Great Hrllaln had raised, Mr. Law said the number of men killed or wounded up to the present was three fold greater than the entire expedi tionary force at the outbreak of the war. Referring to the condition of affairs In the near east, the colonial secre tary snld It was no. better than could be gathered from the newspapers. He expressed the opinion that there was nothing further to fear In either the western or eastern thea ters of war, adding:' "In Plnndnri we are now able not only to fire shell for shell, but two for the enemy'h one. A similar condi tion will soon prevail at the Russian front and I firmly believe the danger of invasion will not arise again In that quarter." DISAGREE OVER POLICY Dispatch Says Earl Wanted Greece to Enter War For Allies for month east. t-unnu la Owiuj Klti'honcr to 8c Colleague. London, Dec. 1. Earl Kitchener will meet his colleagues In the war council of the cabinet on Thursday. At that time he will convey to them the results of hie observations on the various battle fronta and his confer ences at th ecapltals of the countries he visited. The visit of War Secretary Kitch ener to the Antao region of. th Oal llpoll front I described In a pre dis patch from Alexandria. No announce ment had been made In advance, cept to member of th staff, but news of Earl Kitchener landing prean Ilk wildfire. Holdler rushed from their dugout, tumbling over on an other In their hast to reach th beach. Th moment Eart Kitchener tep ped ashor ther was a great outburst of cheering. The war secretary spoke to th soldiers of King George appr. elation of their ervlc saying thy had don even better than had been uot4. SANITATION RULES FOR SER00L5 III 40 STATES Berlin. Dee. 1. A difference of opinion arose when Field Marshall Kitchener, British war minister, and Deny Cochin, French minister with out portfolio, met In Athens, say the Overseas News agency. Press dis patches from Athens by way of Bud apest, given out by the agency, assert that Earl Kitchener desired that Greece enter the war with th allies. whereas M. Cochin merely asked for safe passage for the French and Brit ish force which might have to re treat from Macedonia Into Greece. This explains, the agency say, why Premier Bkouloudla of Greece dwelt on the sympathy which Greece feels for Franc. Earl Kitchener, considering th gain lost went to Italy to request as sistance for the British In Egypt, which now seem to be the only country which Interest England since the Balkan failure, th agency conclude. KKftKilitltttlt It CITY NEWS. t French broad council, Junior Order United American Mechanic will hold an election of officer on Thursday evening, December I, at the council hall. South rack square and Blltmor avenue. A social period and nUrtalnment will follow th election. A smoker and refreshment wlU b enjoyed. The Dardanelles, Dec. 1. Some fresh details regarding the famous charge of the Australian Light Horse Brigade against the Turks on the Nek, In which the best part of three Aus tralian regiments participated and only one man returned alive, have Just reachcr British headquarters through a Turkish prisoner. The prisoner was able to state posi tively, what many Australians who witnessed the charge had suspected that during t ho attack the Turks lost not a single man. They received a special complimen tary order from their general and sev eral medals and a good many promo tions. The Australians' charge followed a long period of bombardment. "As soon as the bomburdment stopped," said the T"iklsh prisoner, "the Eng lish (the Turks call all the British troops, whether home or Cnlnniul, by the name Kngllsh) leaped over their parapet and charged down upon us. They came on very well. As soon as they appeared, every rllle In the place opened upon them direct across the Nek, and a machine gun with It cross tire from the right swept them sheer oft the face of the earth. Three of them managed to reach our trench and fell deud over the parapet into the bottom of it." As for the men of the Light Horse Brigade after three months In the trenches, with marly of them sick and some of them weak, with every officer and man ut his appointed place, the instant the word wus given they leap ed from their trench and rushed on death the first line may nut have known It was death the third lino must have known It. And they died. Legal Step3 Taken to Safe guard Health of Children Measures Increasing. which he u.ed certain words called obscene by the prosecution kept them from being in that class, and drew from the prosecution the denial that the government attorneys were pro tecting the Koman Catholic church. Watson concluded his statement to the Jurors by saying that In their hands rested the banner of demo cratic institutions, republican princi ples and religious liberty. Previously on motion of the prose cution the court had ruled that the only questions as to whether Watson was responsible for mailing the ar ticles mentioned in the indictment and whether or not they were ob scene were at issue. On objection from the prosecution on Watson's line of argument In ref erence to other features Judge W. W. Lamdln again said that he had so ruled and would state In his charge to the Jury that It was not to consld- r any motive behind the prosecu tion of there was one. Watson returned to his home at Thomson early In the night. - Shortly after 6 o'clock the Jury re ported that It was "Irreconcilably apart" and had "made no progress. The jury had been two and a half hours at that time. Watson's case, which begun Friday, went to the jury yesterday afternoon, the earlier part of the day having been taken up In closing arguments by both sides and by the judge's charge to the Jury. The prosecution succeeded In having the issue kept solely upon the grounds of Watson's responsibility for mailing the publications referred to in the in dictment, and the question of whether or not the language used was obscene. Watson had stated In court that he did not wish to avoid responsibility for mailing the publications, and in his charge Judge ambdln solnformed the Jury, Instructing them that the sole ssue before them was whether or not the language was obscene or other wise objectionable. day which caused the loss of 31 lives and the serious injury of six persona in the upper Hagler yards of thu plant here, nothing tangible had been discovered today. Jivery employe of the company who was near the building destroyed was put through a thorough examina tion, but without any light being cast on the mystery. Not one of the twenty-six men working in the "pellet" packing house escaped and now thore is only a big hole where the building stood. Tho investigators admit there is little pos sibility of finding out where the blame for the disaster should be placed and company officials admit they are without a shred of evidence on which to base the hope that its origin would ever be discovered. Keports that notices were found nailed to trees and fences along roads leading to the Du Pont plants at Up per Hagler and at Carney's Point warning employers of Teutonlo origin at the plant that they would Imperil'' their Jives by , continuing to . work, there, received the attention of big forces of detectives today. The ' re ports were discredited by the investi gators. After the reports had gained considerable circulation several days ago, company officials made a thor ough investigation and declared they found nothing to substantiate them. Men accustomed to travel the roads In the vicinity of the plants said they had seen the notices but stated that they had remained in position only a few hours at a time. The theory most widely credited Is that the explosion was caused by sparks made by a horseshoe striking a stone or metal, or by a small car ' running over some grains of powder which had been spilled in the yard of the plant. DON JAIME ISAGI Spanish Pretender Under Ar rest Last Year Charged With French Partisan Activities. GOV. BEEKMAN DECLINES MR. FORD'S INVITATION Providence, n, I., Deo. 1. Gov ernor Beecknian announced today that he had declined Henry Ford Invitation to accompany hi proposed peace commission to Europe, Washington, Dec. 1. Forty states of thu union have taken some legal action toward safeguarding the san itation of public school buildings ac cording to u bulletin on "Hehoolnouse Sanitation," Just issued by the bu reau of education of the United States department of the interior. "Probably nine-tenths of the exist ing regulation of this sort has come within the past decade," declares the bulletin, "Kach state profits by the experience of forty-soven others. A law passed In one extreme of the country today is copied next month or next yeur by a stale 2, Out) or 1,000 miles distant." . Thirty-eight states have some le gal provision retarding the school site, according to the bulletin. Nearly all of these provisions are state-wide In their application, and are manda tory in character. These provision im nine mo pru.Miiiuy oi nuisances , Fans, Dec. 1-The Journal says availability of the site, and size of 'that Dun Jaime of Bourbon, pretend the site. MiieU'.'i states have laws er to the Spunlsh throne, has again prohibiting the locations of school been arrested in Austria. According buildings within a specified distance to this account, Don Jaime, who hud from places where liquor la sold, from. been living in Italy, requested per gumhllng houses, houses of prnstltu-1 mission of Kmperor Francis Joseph to Hon, and noisy or sn.oky factories. visit his estates ul Frohsdorf, Austria. Thirty of the states have sought' It Is said ho waa Informed that he to regulate the water supply of the might travel freely anywhere in Aus publlc school. "The revolt r.ghlnst tho trla, but that the day after his arrival cc.mmon drinking cup" sat the bul- at Frohsdorf he was placed under r letln, "h:is come vithln tho past flvo rest, to be held In restraint until the years. Kannas was the plcneer, but end of the war. He has been Inform other slates followed rapidly, (o that ed, the Journal aays, that any officer now half of th entire number have who visits him will be dismissed from either a law or a regulation regard-, the army. Ing the drinking cups." j Don Jaime wa arrested at Frohs- Home form of protection against . jorf Inst year for addressing to his Are and panio Is founft In thirty-six partisan an appeal to aide with France states. Blanket regulations or the n the war, lie was released on con power to make such regulations, exist ditlon that he would leave the country. In twelve state. General or special VICTIM OF WRECK IS Henry Talley Is Worse Gard ner Said to Be Much . Improved (Salisbury. Nov. 30. The condition of Henry Talley, one of the most seri ously injured people In the train wreck here Wednesday night, when two per sons were killed and 22 wounded, wa reported today to be worse. Surgeon at the local hospital where he Is be ing treated, announced that his left leg had been amputated In an effort to save his life. The condition of (. Max Gardner of Shelby, another victim of the wreck who has been critically 111, is reported, to be considerably Improved. THE LARGEST Advertisement appearing lu Th Gaitlte-News today are Uios of THE ASHEVILLE POWER & LIGHT CO. and THE ELECTRICAL INTERESTS OF ASHEVILLE tailing attention to thing Electrical. construction with a view to fire pre vention I dealt with In ten state. Thirteen of th states have ma Kitchener Return. Ijndon, Nov, JO. Field Marshal Karl Kitchener, British secretary for thing to say a to corridor and Inner war, returned to Ixindnn today from stairways: twenty-tour have regula-1 hi trip to the near cast ' Hons as to exits, and twenty-five as' to exterior escapes: ten mention alnrni tltl(lttltllltiltite((tl(t Roumania, Refuse. land fire fighting apparatus; and elev. It cn state provide by law or regula- It tlons for fire drill. Leas than half It the states, according to the bulletin, t London, Dec. 1. According to I have any legal word on ventilation. t a telegram from Bucharest, llou ; Thirty cubic feet of fresh air per It mania ha notified Russia that pupil per minute I th conventional It she earnestly desire to remain jamount apeclfled. - ;H neutral, ay a Copenh igen dls- In the matter of cleaning and dl. H patch to th Exchange Tele Infecting, slightly tnor than one-' It graph company. CjnsequemUy fourth of th stales have regulation It Uusslan warship will not l al whlrh control condition to any de- It lowed to enter th Danube, rre outside the district themselves. It which. It la emphasised, ha been Home of th law and regulation r t mined. a'rnost model: other are wholly In- t J adequate. Jt VILLA RAS DISAPPEARED AFTER DECISIVE DEFEATS Nogales, Arts., Dec. 1. HI force defeated and scattered by the Car ranza army of General Manuel iJle Kuex at llermoslllo, Francisco Villa has disappeared, according to re port received here by General Obre gun, Carranza military chief. The re. port are based apparently on state ment of prisoner. General Dleguex' victory at Hermo slllo 1 said to have been complete. Three hundred Villa solder were found wounded after th bet tie. Hlx hundred were said to have surrender ed south of Magdalena, while 200 more gave up their arm yesterday at Llano, Th remainder of Villa' force, ex cepting thoe commanded by General Jose Kodrlgues, are declared to be demoralised and surrendering In small group. Their train, with two loco motives, war reported to have been abandoned at Magdalena, ill mile north of UermoaUl. , .
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