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YNEWS KSI ,\V AFTERKOON, SEPTEMBER 7, HM6. FOUND roken NEGRO f Horrible Tragedy ?ccu"^S^f j at Belhaven.- Two Bod.es Have Been Recovered A Food automobile, . belonging to Vergil Howard, colored, and sup posed to have contained 6 pauen gera, ran off the county bridge, a crOM PSntego creek, at He! haven, last night at about Ul> o'clock, drowning all of the occupant* of I the machine. i* ' ' The bodies ot Dora Warding and Allen Mann, both colored, were found this morning. Searchers are hunting for the other bodies and ,thu car la being dragged up out il the riv.-r. P. The.iwNM ot accident it not koown. The bridge tender hnard m automobile coming along the bridge and was startled by a loud crash. He went out of his house, looked a* lose the brKU?x. but could bm do one. Thl? morning. upon Investiga tion. It wa? found that the railing on- one side of the bridge had been torn away. OU was floating on the surface of the water. It is believed that the car attempted to turn a round |>n the brldge'and^ (that the driver lost control and shot through the railing. Who the* other passengers were, is not known, but it la beMeved that there were three pther persons In the machine at the time of the accident. , (Later) ? The bodies of Vergil j Howard and Bees}e Wahab have' al so been found. Dora Harding's body was found oesr t b/ plant, over a hundred yards yway . CO* BOARD Of EiCJTION HOLDS INTERESTING MEETING At the meeting of the County Board of Education this week. Hi delegation of committeemen patrons from District No. 10. Choo owlnlty township, appeared before the board, to ask for a larger appro priation for the two braneh schools In that district than It ha<J bc?n al lowed In the board 'eeKtl mate of July. It was ordered that an ap propriation, equal to that made to one-teacher schools, not exceed lag 91 SO bedlrlded equally between the two. * Upon investigation It was found that the election for a bond issue of $ft.900 for high school facilities in Pantego High School District, had not been properly advertised and a new election was ordered for that purpojw? to be held on the 7th day of October. The petition for this election was presented by the board to the CoOnty Commissioners. A petition was presented by At torney J. D. Grimes for certain pat rons In the Psntego High School District, asking that the board lay off and establish a new district In the north end of the aforesaid High School district, the boundaries of the new district to be the same as- those of the orlginsl No, 7 district. Af ter hearing the petition, it was de clined. W. H. Hooker was appointed g member of the Aurora High School committee In place of R. L. Jonee. resigned. O. M Hooker was ap pointed a committeeman Of the Au rora graded school. .rji A petition from District No. J, l?ong Acre, signed by the patrons of the pfcblic school, asking for certain patrons and their property fo be transferred to No. 18, this school bvlng nearer than the one they have always attended, 'wrt presented fie fore the board. Action on the mat ter whs deferre<n?mi the tfbmmTttee or District No. 1 could ho heard tmn\, '? * a loan could be sefcured from loan fund for the ercctlon Uonal rdora to the pres D1 strict No 18. lW authorised Its chair ,ry to endorse a note townahlp. was heard and being sign ed by the required number of free holders, was allowe^. A district, consolidating a part of No/ 1, all Of No. 2. and roost of No. 3, In Choc owlnlty, was created. The committee waa authorised to proceed with plans for a building same tobe approved by. the county superintendent. Certain patrons of Chocowlnlty School District No. 6 appeared be fore the board and insisted that the Penny EekUn Hchool Bite was the beet adapted for the Convenience ofrj the district a* a whole. And among other things, , the Committee stated that the new site, recently purchas ed from W. L. Oodley.was within . leas than throe mlles^f the present Moore schoolhouse by the nearest traveled n>ute. It was moved and seconded That the county surveyor survey- from the Moore schoolhouse by the nearest traveled route to the said. site, purchased from W. it. Oodley and atao on the Penny Kcklln achoolhouse and. on to' the back line of W. A Blount's farm, also any dlstancea that the commit tee of said district may desire to lkave deermlned; 'said surveyor to jtve all three committeemen notice In wilting of the time of said nur vey. A full report of thhi survey to be made nt the October meeting of the board. A 8. Bobbins was appointed a school committeemen In District So. 5, Washington . in plaae of Neal Wllklnw, who In noon t^ leave the district. l ' _ -v' ? - I The white schools of the county exceptliiK tk? special tax schools, were ordered to open on the llrfct Monday in November. Th?r school* for the colored children will open Famous Stride Breaker is Being Rushed to New York in Special Train. Scenes of Disorder Have Afr^dy Taken Ptsjce. (By United Press) Chicago, Sept. 7. ? James T. Wad dell. "Boss Strike Breaker of the World." will arrive at N?w York to day to direct the strike of the ele vated and subway lines. He left here at midnight alone, and on a special Pullman train. The trip will cost $S. 000. All speed records are being broken hetween Chicago and New York in order to Rave Wad dell Id New York for the conference of the street car magnates, .whichj takes place today. Waddel! Is said to haVe 5.000 Btrike breakers- already. Illg Strike U On. New York. Sept. 7^ ? The biggest transportation strike in the history of New York is on. The surface em ployes are acting In co-operatlon with the elevated and subway men. Few car? were running this morn hng. Jitneys appeared In droves. Disorders occurred at several point* There was brick throwing on the part of some of the men. but iy> in juries are reported as yet. Thousands of strikers poured In to the Grand Central subway station today, demanding the ticket chop pers and employes to strike. Five thousand policemen are engaged in ial strike duty. Motormen in nubway are enscreened with wire netting, to protect them from mis siles. I The Interurban company have re fused to arbitrate. The men struck because the company refused to ab rogate lndlvldusl contracts, which were made following recent strike thceat The contracts bound the men to work two yearB under pres ent terms. VILLA AGAIN COMES UP IN LIMELIGHT (By United PreM J El Pano, Tex., Sept. 7.? General Pershing, meting upon the suggestion of General Funston. is reporting to be hurrying hack to .his. fluid head quarters from Columbus, N M., fol 1 owing, information given military authoritcls here that Pancho Villa, with 1,600 men, fully equipped, la lean than 100 miles from the Amer ican outposts. Fears are openly ex p reared to the effect that Villa, In desperate effort to discredit Carran la. will attack the American expe dition. ALLIES MAKE BIG GAINS ON WEST FRONT Cosnbtaa and riiaulnea, Two Vnapor i -mt < 1 1 i ? h . Am Ho# N?u Otptww, United ['rM?) Parla. *flept. 7 .^CoMWe* - Ao4 < h?uln?, two of tfie main aupports of the pri^nt 'ioroiaa UlM, hav ?almost fluecumbed to the allied ari v.ibcp' and are now near < aptorfe, -The French have throat through Bern y en feaiiterre and w?t? tn ?he outakirta of Chaulnee yeaterday. fighting In the fate of desperate re ulataoce. Numerous counter at tacks hava been mnde by the Oer mana. but without nuccese. Anoth er nharp advance by allies Will; (cut the Chanlttee-Peronae railway. The British raptured the lxm*n woods In a surprise attack while th?? 0?rman?? wer* hearllv encaged by , 'ho Frenoh on the outakirta of Con. bleu When the main body of the Gormana were drawn there. th? BrttUh .udilatfr pl.roM th? WMd ,u tn? *Mt, Htilft on ? bin h?4r of Oermans and driving Into their present positions In less than thirty minutes. French T?kp Trntrhi* Paris. Bept. 7. ? The French have tuken 1600 yprds ot first-line trench ?e, extending from Vaux Chapltre to the Cheners wood, northeast of Ver dun. Itoumanljuis Bvacunfe Tutrakao. Potrograd, , Sept. 7. ? The Russi ans are bombarding Halits. six miles southeast of Lemberg. and key to : the Teuton defenses of the Oallelan rppital from the south. An offolal Btntpment announces that Halfts la In flames. / '{*f ? r The. lioumantana have evaluated Tutf-akan. on the Danube, SI miles "set. of Bucharest It is oocu pted by the Hoffman* and Bulgarians .AftaOVNCffiMKNT. . Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Lafayette MnClees announce the marriage of their daughter Matilda Willis to Mr. Howard Wlnfleld on Wednesday. September the ^ olath nine teen handred and sixteen L*ke Junaluaka. North Carolina At Ho?. after September nftemH. 307 Market ttreei ' y NWD OVER 160,000 POUNDS SOLD ON THE LOCALMARKET TODAY Another Record Established Today. Prices Excellent. Good Qual ity of Weed is Sold. Another record was established on the local tobacco market today when over 160.000 pounds was disposed of at excellent prices. The tobacco came in early Id th* morning aud It was evident that many of those farmers who hud been holding back their loads on account qf the rainy weather, intended tak MISSING BOY IS FOUND IN 'fffflr-M :* ? x ?? ? > N (By Eeaster PreatO Rocky Mount,' Sept. 7. -^-Willie Howell, the Goldsboro boy. who dis appeared from Goldsboro about two weeks ago wan found by local police official*! la this city today. He was working in the cotton mill dlatrict. Howell wag the adopted son .of Turn Carter, a prosperous Oreeue county farmer, who has been In fjnow Hill HwaltlDg a hearing a week from today, anil who had been buh pectfd of having murdered the boy. Howell atated that Carter had bealnn him severely just before he loft his hofe, and that he had made up his mind to run away. He is being returned to Goldsboro today. To Muster Out Guardsmen From Federal Duty (By United Pre**) Washington. Sept^ 7. ? The na tional guard organisations, recently oraered into the respective State mobilisation camps, will be muster ed out of Federal service as soon as practical and will be returned to the pormal status of National Guard troops. Secretary of Wsr Baker an nounced today. CONGRESS EXPECTS TO QUIT WORK BY TOMORROW NIGHT (By United Proas) I Washington. Sept: 7. ? Congress expects to quit work late tomorrow evening after nine tnonths' session, which, In many ways, broke all leg islation records< In the greatest record smashing appropriations, they snthorlsed the appropriation or amounts totalling $I,M7,SfcB. 048.(4, which includes contracts. mrrmAOisrr* to htk k TO VJCtTRAyTV POMCY Atltntlc City. N. J., Sept. 7 Th* National Woman Suffrage associa tion hv an overwhelming vote to day decided to continue Its present poller of working for equd! right* through boiu national and state le* : islatlon. The vote was tgkep nftrr J IWf ????!?, Ing advantage of today for dispos ing of their crop. All of the warehuU!'?B were well Ailed, but th?*re were no blork talen. and everything went along smoothly Some good quality of tobacco wan brought in and everyone it? pleased I with the excellent pricey that were obtained. SUES PULLMAN COMPANY FOR "ATTACH! HER MISS KI1.A Nl.VN, WHO WAS AT. TAOICKD ON TRAIN'. WI1.I. ASK POH I.A1UJK A.MOI NT OF DAMAGES WAD VISITING AT NEW BERN (By E?M|K2L EHJ** New Bern. Sept. 7.- .Utile no def Inlte statement has > been made ft whs learned today tl.?t Mlsa EuIh Nunn, of Nashville, T^'in.. who was attacked In a Pullms- car at Ra leigh a fow days ago .?y a young whit? man. named Th<- nas, will en ter suit against the Pullman com pany for a larfce n mount. The charge is that the con;;>any did not furnish her protection while travel ling. Miss Nunn had been vlaltlng rel atives in thiK city and was en route i to her home In Nashville. Had help not been near at hand, it la believed that Thomas would have accomplish I ed his purpose. Relatives from here have gone to Raleigh to attend th*? I preliminary hearing. Visiting Her*? From TrniMMt?*e John Gray Blount of Momphia. Tennt. Is visiting relatives here. He Is stopping at the home of .Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Hoyt. Mr. Blount for merly resided In Waahlngton. but haa not be??o here for a number of years. He expremied himself as greatly surprised over the develop j nient that haa tak?*n place aince hla I last visit here. 8UBSCRIBK TO THE DAILY NKWfl TODAYS PROGRAM .....AT ? New Theatre Orrfn John*nn In "D'ARTA(J!?AX,M ft RF.RL Trtuntfte Krj Dm KmIoiv <'om1nc Halm-day \lght "TK* IH'MII (HRI? POR. TfOI.** Mnut Plrtm* nt th# Af*. AdrnMni HMnHny S5 Crmt*. Arirafcwlo* Tn*Igfct 8c mm* 1<V
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