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EVIL AST CITIZEN THE WEATHER SHOWERS CITIZEN WANT ADS BRING RESULTS JLJUUQ XJJLJ yOL. XXIX, NO. 320. ASHEVILLE, N. C, MONDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBERS, 1913. PRICE FIVE CENTS. IIFUMEfl 'MISSES Dramatic Chapter Written In . History of the New Japan ACTION AGAINST CHINA DEMANDED Denounces Emptiness of Dip lomacy In California and Chinese Situations TOKIO, Sept. 7. The assaalnation of Mortiaro Abe, director of politicil bureau of the Japanese foreign office, haa inflamed the masses and today a dramatic chapter In :he history of the aew Japan was written. Fifteen thousand persons gathered In a mass meeting In Hibiya paric, calling for military action against China. A majority of these marched to the foreign office and clamored for admission. They demanded the dU patch of troops to China to take such measures as were necessary to obtain eati faction for the killing of Japanese at Nanking, or failing; this, the resig nation of the minister of foreign af fairs, Baron Xobuoki Makino. Denounce Diplomacy. ' The speakers denounced the empti ness of Japanese diplomacy in con nection with the California land ques tion and China, and Insisted that the Insult to the Japanese flag at Nan king should be wiped out. The mani festation was clearly an explosion of popular resentment against the min istry In Its treatment of the California and Chinese questions., Pr-nflHnir bv the lessons of the riots which followed the conclusion of peace between Kussia ana government reduced the risk of vio lence today by refusing to allow a lpgle soldder or policeman at the Hcene. The manifestants, many of whom were students, were orderly during the early part of the proceed of aaltatora Including a girl, decried Japanese diplomacy nd declared that it had never con tributed to the upbuilding of the em pire and had always ended in the fail ure. The incidents in China were de clared to be unbearable. Suddenly the Cry td march on Che foreign office was raed and there was a general stampede, many per sons barely escaping being crushed. The crowds surged " through the streets' headed by the gesticulating leaders arri reached the foreign offlco (Continued or. Pago Three.) 1 NEGOTIATIONS M ill American Envoy is Merely Marking Time and Await ing Developments. NO PEACE IN SIGHT. VERA CRUZ, Mexico, Sept. 7. There have been no negotiations re cently between Mr. Llnd,, President Wilson's representative and General Huerta or any of Huerta's cabinet, and there appears to be no probability that a reply will be made to Foreign iMinister Gamboa's last note. Mr. Llnd is merely awaiting developments. He Is utilizing his time in acquiring In formation as to conditions In the re public. The enforced visit of the envoy and Mrs. land in Vera Cruz is not alto sether wearisome, as the battleship Louisiana is always open to them and their friends. They are good tourists and Mr.. Llnd today attended bull fight. The Information which Mr. Llnd has collected Is calculated to convince him that General Huerta Is making but little if any real progress towards the general restoration of peace and that there Is a growin un rest In the capital itself. From the capital come numerous predictions as to developments In the next thirty days. Congress will convene September 18 and the opinion most commonly ex pressed to the envoy is that General Huerta will recommend in his presi dential message a postponement f the elections under a clause In' the constitution which provides that no election shall be held In case of a too disturbed state of the country. According to, reports reaching of ficial quarter? here Ohe adherents of Zapata still are numerous In spite of the assertion by the government that the state of llorelos Is free of them; the rebels about Zacatecar and Tor reon are vigorously active : an east erly direction from th capital, Con sular advices today report that the railway between Tamplco and Mon terey has again beTut The opening of the main line of the National railway between Mexico City and Laredo by the government has only been partially successful; there has been Interruptions from time to time between San Lis Potosl and Sal- TREVINO WILL BE WAR MINISTER FOR PRESIDENT HUERTA Will not Succeed Provisional Presi dent, Allowing Him to Become Can didate for PresidencyWashing ton Hopeful for Peace. WASHINGTON, Seoit 7. -While no announcements were made at any of the government departments today of any change In the diplomatic side of the ''Mexican controversy, two phases of the situation attracted much at tention In official quarters. One was the published disclaimer on the part of Nelson O'Shaughnessy, American charge d'affaires at Mex ico City, that any positive assurance had been given him of the intentions of Vlctorlano Huerta, not to be a presidential candidate in the ap proaching elections. The other was the receipt -of private telegrams from sources close to the administration in Mexico City stating that General Ge ronlmo Trevino soon would be made minister of war, to succeed General Blanquet. It had been supposed here by many persons that Trevino was ordered back to Mexico City 'by Hu erta to be given the reins of the gov ernment as provisional president, while Huerta entered the presidential campaign. Statement Not Surprising. Mr. O'Shaughnessy' statement was not surprising here as It had been pointed out from time to time by Washington officials that they had re lied only on the repeated emphasis by Frederlco' Gairtboa, Mexican minister of foreign affairs, of the statement that Huerta was ineligible by the con stitution to succeed himself. Mr. O'Shaugnnessy Incidentally dis closed the fact that the Mexican offi cials had supplemented the argument of the second Gamboa note calling attention to Huerta's ineligibility by verbal reference to that part af the note. This further encourages Wash ington offlcals to believe that the Huerta candidacy will not materialize. They realise that Huerta could cir cumvent constitutional obstacles by resigning In advance of the election but such an act, It has been openly stated by high administration officials, would tie regarded as a breach of ! faith and they are proceeding on the assumption that Huerta has been eliminated, ...... Story Confirms Reports. The story that Trevino would be appoints' ttrtWs CttSft'teSeeral Blanquet, the present mlsiBter of war, sent to the front, is in line with va rious reports that have, reached here of the alleged infidelity of some of Huerta's military chiefs. When Hu erta recently issued an order, redis tributing his generals to various frontier points of Mexico, the move was interpreted as being of military character only, hut more recently 10 T I STAGE Completion of Dry Excava tion Ic Completed Ten Days Ahead of Time. DREDGES ARE BUSY. WASHINGTON, Sept. 7. Comple tion of dry excavation on the Panama canal yesterday, iust ten days ahead of schedule time, advanced the work on the great waterway to the final stage. Much digging and cleaning out remains to be done In Culebra cut and along the route, but this will be accomplished by , mammoth dredges floating on the surface of the canal. An army of men will he busy dur ing the next four weeks removing steam shovels and other equipment and material, Including thirty-six miles of railroad track, from the nine mile channel tn Culebra nit between Gamboa dike and Pedro Miguel looks. This is preparatory to turning the water Into the channel from Oatun lake on the Atlantic side on October 6, five days tn advance of '.ho date set for dynamiting Gamboa dike. The water will be introduced through four twenty-six inch pipes extend ing underneath the dike, and al though the five day period hardly will suffice to fill the channel to one-third the canal level, enough would be let tn bo ct as a cushion against the ex plosion when the dike is destroyed. , While the cut being cleared of railway and equipment, drilling and blasting will be going on at the hot torn of the channel, loosening up rocks and earrh for the dredges that soon will b clawing away through water. On August 1, 998,000 cubic yards remained to be taken out of the "theoretical canal prism." and since that time the steam shovels have reduced the amount to approxi mately 50,000 cubic yards, which is left for the dredges. Six of the shov els will be continued, however, In re moving material from the east a west (banks nen Culebra to lessen the danger from tSWes. The destruction of Gamboa dike will leave only one such obstruction along the canal route, the dike on whlcii the railroad crosses the Gatun Jocks and which can be removed t Anytime. Washington officials have been led to believe that Huerta fears the Instiga tion of plots and intrigues among his generals and is moving them about to prevent any . concerted action against him. General Blanquet was the rig-tit hand man of Huerta In the days just preceding the overthrow of Madero. The war departmer received a re port of the killing of Lieut. Acosta, a Mexican federal officer by Ameri can; Immigration agents Vt El Paso, Texas. The report confirmed press dispatches of the incident, stating that Acosta was killed after he had crossed to ..American territory and fired on the Americans. The affair Is In the hands . of the 'civil authorities at El Paso, though the Immigration department here will make Careful In quiry to the occurrence. DYNAMITE AUTHORIZED. WASHINGTON, Sept. 7. The state department today announced : that shipments of dynamite and other ex plosives needed for working the mines In Mexico, would be authorized as heretofore. Literally interpreted, President Wil son's Mexican message to congress In dicated that the exportation to Mexi co from the United States of explo sives, even for Industrial purposes would be discontinued. However, when representatives of the mining Interests represented to the state de partment that this would ' work a great hardship, they were told that such a step was not contemplated. Every Precaution. Every ipreoautlon will be taken by the government to . guarantee that none of the explosives permitted to be shipped from the United States shall be diverted from . district Industrial uses. It ' understood that President Wilson also will authorize the export ation of limited quantities of arms for Americans In Mexico to use for self defense, but any such orders from the white house will be exceptional. Soon after the president announced that an embargo would be placed on all arms sent out of this country, Mexi can., onsytunalls Pass, Texas, petitlonejl In behalf of Americans In that country that they be permitted to equip themselves for self defense with arms purchased in their country, "but officials doubted the disinterestedness of the motive for the constitutionalist petition and it was denied. In innumerable in stances In the past arms sent for the (iTiontlnued on Page Two) ENGINEER MILLER HID TO WORK DOUBLE TIME FOR WEEKOEFQBE WRECK .Night Before New Haven Smash-up Had Four Hours' Sleep. INQUIRY COMPLETE. NEW HAVEN, Conn.. Sept 7. Englneer August B. Miller, of the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad, had been doing two men's work for a week when he ran his train by a signal at North Haven last Tuenday rooming and wrecked the Bar Harbor express at a cost of twenty-one lives. He so testified at th redumption of the federal hear Ing here before Interstate Commerco Commissioner McChord. On the Bight before the wreck he slept only four hours, he said. The commission's public "inquiry was compleUd - last night, and Mr. McChord announced that his report would be ready In the near future. The New Haven road has under or der six steel "club cars" for wealthy commuters to New York, costing lif, 000 each, according to the evidence adduced by Commissioner McChord from General Passenger Agent A. B. Smith. These ears are to brins a rental of $4,000 a year frora-chib uaing them, In addition l the regular fares charged. They will take the place of wooden club cars now earn ing a rent of $3,000 year. "These cars," said Mr. Smith, 'grew out of a desire of a number fr younsj men, commuters on our line, to have a car where they could v.s.t with each other and play cards." "Is the general public allowed to ride on them?" asked Commissioner McChord. "No, sir." Mr. Smith said that steel cars for the regular passenger service were being delivered at the rate of twelve a month. The general manager of the Pullman company said that at present his company was building nothing else but steel cars and had 725 under order. ' THE WEATHER, WASHINGTON, Sept 7. Forecast NVrthCarollna, Jocal showers Mon diCACivChfl"l,i isf ' WHEN HE. CtAVES FOR COLLEGE REG VIA R SESSION OF CONGRESS WILL FACE AMBITIOUS PROGRAM ; OF A Anti-Trutt, Railroad and lined During Past Week Tariff Bin Will be Completed and in Joint i ' Conference This Week ' , WASHINGTON, Sept. ' 7. The progress of antl trust, railroad and currency legislation that faces con gress for the ensuing twelve months has been fairly well outlined during the last week. President Wilson and the democratic leaders In the two houses of congress apparently have agreed upon an ambitious plan of leg islative work which! will bring all of the moBt Important; reforms contem plated by the WlUsn administration within the period that ensues 'between now and the end ofjthe next regular session' of congress V; 1 Tariff to ho omilrtd.L. . ' The tariff bill will e completed and In the . hands of a conference committee of the house and senate before the end of this week. Currency legislation already has forged to the front and promises to dominate on gresHtotial activity within a few days. The prospects for immediate cur rency , legislation In the senate have Improved during the last week, but supporters of the administration bill hold to the hope that by the time the measure has passed the house, the senate committee on banking and currency will be ready to act upon It,. ' In the meantime, senate leaders are announcing that antl trust legislation, and further Important amendments to the railroad laws, are to be among the first and most important subjects taken up at the regular session " of congress next December. Twice within the last week Senator Simmons, In charge of the tariff bill In the senate has headed off almost all trust or railroad amendments on the bill, by the announcement . that these sub jects would receive prompt and ef fective consideration when the win ter session begins. Wilson's Ideas Known, President Wilson's Ideas of antl trust legislation have been well known since his effective work in New Jer sey, during the closing days of his administration as governor of that state. He has a general outline of HOT SPRINGS HOMELESS Militia on Guard Over Burned District Com mittees are Busy. HOT SPRINGS, Ark., Sept. 7. With two companies of militia polic ing the burned district citizens' com mittees devoted themselves WBay to systematizing relief measures and planning for the rehabilitation of the Are swept eastern nection of Hot Springs. Tonight's checking up shows that all of those made homeless by the fire of Friday night have been housed temporarily and their imme diate needs provided for. Supplies of bread and other necessities have arrived from Little Hock and offers of financial aid have been received from a number of citlea Of the monetary loss, estimated at 16,000,000 it Is authoritatively stated tat approximately 12,000,000 In in surance was carried. - At tile request of the the citizen's committee, the railroads entering Hot Springs refused to run special trains !lday but all of the regular trains were crowded to their capacity with sightseers. The crowd, however, was orderly and there was no disorder. The Iron Mountain railroad took the initiative In rebuilding when a force of 100 men were set to work this tnomlnif constructing a temporary wooden building near the site of their station vKOT'Wiar-amrsTs: 1 Off To College. TO? 'A4k V DM1NIS TRA TION REFORMS Currency Legislation Schedule what ha desires In the way of trust control legislation, most of it being embraced In a series of seven law enacted In New Jersey. This plan will undoubtedly undergo liberation in congress; and the Influence of re publicans as well as democrats, who have long been, active ' In the fight for mors adequate regulation of the trusts, will be felt in the making of these reforms. : Senator Cummins failed on Ms at tempt to have the tariff bill Changed so that railroads would be forbidden to give special rates to importers. This will be pressed at the next, ses sion, s part vread rats program. Senator Wmmonll an nounced yesterday that he believed Important changes would be mads in the railroad laws at the next con gress, to relieve many of the em barrassments under which the Inter state commerce commission Is not working. . Ths currency hearings begun early last week before the senate committee on banking and currency have de veloped radical expressions of opinion from many members of the senate committee, which . indicate that long d abates and discussion , within the committee will be , necessary before any general agreement can , be reached as to the merits of the ad ministration bill. Thdt measure is to come formally before the house to morrow;,and it Is tmllevdhat with the weight of party endorsement be hind It, will be passed practically without change In that body. Little- Antagonism. While little marked antagonism has developed at the senate hearings, among the democratic members to ward vital features of the administra tion bill, the Individual expressions of committee member have 'shown a wide variety of opinions as to the economic strength of certain features of the measure. Senators Hitchcock, O'Gorman, Shafroth and Reed, dem ocrats, were particularly active In their questions addressed to the rep- LATE II No Indications of Suicide in Case of Dr, Van Cleave, . Dead in Room. THRRB HAL'TE, Ind., Sept. 7. Dr. It, if. Van Cleave, of Muncle, was found dead in ' his room In a hotel her late today by relatives of Miss Lillian Brosman, of Marshall, 111., to whom he was to have been married at noon. There were no indications of suicide, and Coroner F. H. Jett announced he would hold an autopsy. On his way to Marshall. Dr. Vn Cleave arrived here last night, but minsed the-train he was to have taken this morning. He telephoned his bride-to-be he would drive thTough In an automo bile, then returned to his room in the hotel. This afternoon relatives of Miw Brosman, worried over his non arrival at Marshall, hurried here. The two were in a local hospital when Dr. Van Cleave was sn Interne, Miss Brosman being a trained nurse. HAVKMYErt DEAD. NEW YORK. Sept, 7. -William F. Havemyer, one of the managers of the American Sugar Refining com pany, which absorbed the business of the HavJrnyer brothers refineries founded by his father, died suddenly of heart disease today at the home of his son-in-law, William B. . WU- ha$ Been Fairly Well Out resentatlvee of the American Bankers' association, who held the stand last week; and have advanced many ten tative suggestions to their own views of necessary currency legisla tion, ; ' ,,!': Senator Weeks, republican, will this week attempt to force the committee to act on his resolution, putting off action on the currency bill until December 2. Administration forties are lining up to meet this issue, however, and dem osr&tlo leaders in the senate have made it plain that 'President WlUoti does not favor such -a course, and tmst frts-tBjfroenov-wtlt tif Strongly' ex erted against it. , The tariff bill as it passes the sen ate this week will repretwnt an aver age reduction of nearly Ave per cent from the rates of duty fixed In the bill as It originally passed the house of representatives. With an Increased representation on the joint conference committee, the senate leadera hope to hold most of their reductions tn the bill. ; . The final fltfhte in the senate over the free wool and free sugar duties will occur tomorrow or Tuesday, when the bill goes to the final pas sage: but the democratic forces are believed to be Intact and no modifica tions in the measure are expected. bent ov LYjrcmxa. OUTHnns, Okla., Sept. 1 with an excited mob bent on lynching their prisoner, Sheriff Mahoney, of Guth rie, and two officer rushing Lewis Green, a negro, to Perry tonight, abandoned their motor car at Mulhall and took to the brush, according to a liquor raid. The negro surrender lloe Lon 4iuxlow and Policeman Isaac It. Caldwell, were shot and killed 1o day by Green, at Green's business place where the officers went to make a liquor rade, The negro asurrender. ed when Sheriff Mahoney arrived. STREETS OF ROME ARE Of Catholic Athletes March to Mass Outbreak by Anti Clericals is Feared. ROME, Sept 7. Troops, carabi neers and police today guarded the streets of Rome Irom the Church of St. John, waere the Catholic athletes heard mass, to St, Peter's, to which edifice thi.y marched to be received by the pope. ;, . A great parade which had been planned oy the Catholic athletes Was postponed by the police on account of the threatened reprisals by the antl-clearicals. Notwithstanding the strictest measures to ensure .order a few scuIOts occurred amid cries from the Catholics of "Long Uve the pope," to which ths anti-clericals responded by shouting "Long live free think ing." ' -. ' ... . Four hours were occupied by the athletes in reaching St Peter's, where they unfurled flags, and passed Into the court of San Damaso. They knelt when the pops appeared Tin 'the bal cony surrounded by the pontifical court '.: The athletes, pilgrims and others in the assembly nuntbered 8,000, and after the apoetollo benediction had been Imparted they arose and gave a triple hurrah.. The pontiff inquired regarding the obstacles which had been placed in the war of the demon- slivlsuEVnid vrsjsjd) 'sasknuaej 'jnttdaisusu Mioni'i TOMONTREALWILL BE QUIETLY IDE No Announcement as Time of( Journey has Been Announced JEROME'S HEARING MAY BE HELD TODAY Trial on Charge of Gambling has Been Advanced to This Afternoon OOAT1COOK, Quebec, Sept. T.No word has come to Coatlcook tonight rrom the department of the ttiterlot at Ottawa as to when Harry K. Than will be taken to Montreal for nil hearing thore, September IS, before the King's tench on the writ of habeas corpus obtained by lls coun sel. The quarters here are com fortable nd the immigration agents in charge said again today that Thaw might he held until the last moment "The department does not '.desire t stir up any more excitement about the Thaw case than is absolutely necessary," said T. B. Williams, one of the immigration officers. "There has been enough already, and when Thaw is removed It will be- aa quietly a possible, We don't want any fusa" Uneventful Day, J , Thaw's Sunday was perhaps the most uneventful day since his arrival in Canada, lie had only two callers his stenographer and his local coun sel, W. U fchurtUff, Host of the day the prisoner spent reading about himself In the newspapers. The offi cers volunteered to take him for a walk, it he felt In need of exercise, but Thaw declined. " Two hero-womLlpplng girls stood beneath the barred windows : of his room for half an hour this after-, noon holding aloft bouquets end beg ging him tu show hie face. . "We want to say we've seen you once, Harry," they cried; "iust come to the window for a second." ' X guard turned and spoke to Thaw but the fugitive refused to show him self. , .. i Jtwomd Face Trial ...J'nlsw ;jwtctu,.picur. ,vaii!fl"i Tracers Jerome, especially retained by New York state to secure the return of Harry K. Thaw to Matteawan, will appear before District Magistrate Mulvsna here tomorrow afternoon to answer to a charge of gambling, His case had been set for hearing on Thursday, September 1 lt hut both sides agreed tonight to advance It, ' and Jerome announced ovr long distance telephone front : Montreal that he would be here without fall. He was on the point of leaving for New York, onder the impression that the case could nqt be called to morrow. ' Magistrate Mulvena, of Shsrbrooks, agreed to hear the case, displacing Justice of the Peaoe James McKes, who signed the warrant for Jerome's arrest and subsequently denounced him in court when Jerome left town after being admitted to (SOO bail, Jerome u as arrested last Thursday after playing poker with New York newspapermen, and was . released under ISOO ball. He went to Mon treal to prepare for the court battle when Thaw Is arraigned on a writ of habeas corpus on September II, TO STEAL I SHE TO KEEP FRO E Claude Tate, Giving His Ad dress as Forest City, N. C Taken in Washington. SEVERAL CHARGES. (By Gecvge II. Mannlnf.) WASHINGTON', Sept T.-I waa forced to steal to keep from starving."; a young man giving his name aa Claude Tate and home as Forest City, Rutherford county, N. C, told th detectives who arrested him here to day on a charge of committing 4 number of thefts and forgeries. When first arrested he said he came from Richmond, then Atlanta, and several other southern cities, but finally ad mitted his home was Forest City. He la alleged to have taken check book from ; Harrison Barker, from whom he rented a room, and admits foiglng (Barker's name to sev eral checks. Later he registered at the Ralelgn hotel as Harrison Barker, to make the check book look , good. He ordered a suit of clothes sent to the hotel, and while the porter wall ed for the money he disappeared. Next day he ordered another suit de livered at the Barker home and re turned to receive U. By that time the police had heard of the former transaction and detectives acting til dellverymen arrested him. He is alsi charged with burglary from the offloe of a dentist, where he went to have spmr teethv fixed.' - -
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