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BUBLINGTOX. ALAMANCK COUNTY, NtHSTH CAKOLIXA, FK IDA Y, .MARCH 1», 1915.
dr S. WitRSHIPS Wia PEEBLES . LOSES TWO
SEE THAT NEXIGAN CONrEMrT CASES IN
niRT ilEMAINS OPEN I THE SUPREME COURT
Wilsott Tells Carranza jle Catt Not _4_ and G, W. Bron'a, of GoldBiMro,
Ctoai Fmgreso and That Des M«ne.
WIU Enforce Ord^r if Necessaiir—
No Time Is Lost in Obeying U. S.'
I>einan4s—Blockade Is Raised and
Two Amcricau Ships Ijiden Wilii
Sisal Sail—Situation in Capital is
Imprured. 
GEN. BLOCKADE AGAINST
GERMANY GOES INTO
EffECT
Uet Decisioa:—Sentenced t>? Peebles
—^oktebora Newspaper Men Had
Bwn Fined $250 Each and Srat to
Pri^A—Reflected on the Judge~
It W.HS Charged “Judge Peebles Fre
quently Went to Sleep oh the Beach
and Woke Up a^ Played Hell;”
Also Drank Too Much.
SFRlNt; .MILLINEBY OPESIMG TO-
; DAY.
The city is thronged today for the
Spring Millinery Opening, which be-
brn today Bnd continues tomorroiv.
—^— Much intei-est is being manifested over
Britain .Makes Public Entire Text of gpring models and never in the
Order Declaring AbsA«ite Block- history of these popular esi^blish-
nde of AM German Ports—Tio Ships
Are .Allowed to Enter Enemy Ports
—Ships Which Sail^ After March
nients have hats been more beautiful.
The Icjding colors are blue, browns,
lattJe.^hip gray, sand and black and
X, for German Ports, WiU Be Stop- •ivhitc. More flowers are used th.in
ped and Cargo Taken Before Prize
Court.
anything else and all kinds of fruits.
The opening will continue through
Siiturday.
GERMANS MAXING DE
SPERATE LUNOES ON
LINES IN WEST
H.XRACA CLASS TO BE ORGAN
IZED.
Special Program Will Be Rendered at
Elmira Presbyterian Church.
Next Sunday afternoon at 2:30, tho
—o—' Suiiilay Si-hool of the Elmira Presby-
Krench Itepuiw Kaiser’s Attacks in terian Church, will hold its roguiar
Cliampagiie and the Argonn* Dis* .sessioi'., which will be followed by a
tricis, Says Paris—British Adnit Hpecial program tu bt rendered by the
SUght Haverses .JNmt Ypree-^Bel- young men. Addresses oxi t^e Organ-
gi»n Armye Adire Asain, Pro- isr.ed Class and the Baraca Movement
gresses Against Germans in Bend «>f will be jnade. Special music, vocal and
Yser River—-Fighting in The East Is instrumental, wiH be .“endered. Im-
Fierce.
EX-PRESIDENT TAFT GUEST OF
U.VIYERSITY,
■ ■ ^-0— .■ .
Urges f^npport of Mr. Wilson in This
Critical Periad of:Nation's History-
-^Should Defer Criticism.
Chipel Hill, Mar. 17.-^TSic united
support -of .the country for tha ^li-:
cies of President Wilson in “this «rit-
ical period” o.f the nation’s history
was urged here tonight by former
President William Howard Taft, who
delivered the first of A series of three
lec^res to students of the Univsrsity
of North Carolina on the Presidency.
Mr. Taft declared that the office of
I’resident' is representative of the dig
nity of the American people and that
at bucli u time ;s this it must have the
heai'ty «pprovJil of the whole people
if that dimity is to be preserved.
Whatever party criticism there might
be of the present policies, he said,
should he deferred until the crisis i?
passed.
Emphasizing what he termed the
seneness and conservati.sm which char
acterized the framers of the consti
tution in their work, the former Pres
ident entered a vigorous protesi
against a constitutional convention to
amend the nation’s fundamental law.
"There are those,” he declared, “who
think they can impi ove the constitu
tion by blowing it up. Fortunately,
they ar',5 in the minority."
With the statement that 6&.000 law.s
have been enacted by Congress in the
past five years, the speaker charac-
tprizcd the flood of legislature as s
tendency to yield the “magic," “Be iv
Enacted,” and advocated a rest for
the coimtry from legislation.
Mr. Taft reiterated his belief iti- a’
single term of from six to seven yenrf
for the President.
aERHl,« CONm ANOi'
Biw
THE PENNSYLVANIA
TAKES la WATER
purged VVilh Conspiracy to. Induce
American to .Sell Dry Dock Cdnp-
■ny Secrets—American IJndef .\r-
resl.
OfTHiUL MOTHER ACC'»;SES
FATHER.
■ -—o— . . ;
Hixteeii-Veiir.Old Girl Says Her Fa(h- :
er Is in Turn Father of Her Child. ' ' ^~o-^
Eiizaabeth City, Mar. 17.—Nona Witlf a Praper for Peace and a Wisk
THREAT TO BLOW UP THE PRIXZ
EiFEl. FRIEOKICH.
NeVl'pi.i't Ne.vs; Va.,-51ar. I?,—-Vs
the reiMli of threatening letters said
to have- been received by converted
cruisc-J Eitel Friedrich, prec;iu-
iiciiar>-.iiu.ysures were taken tonight
to guard asRir;.^t any attempt to de
stroy ti-e .ship. The captain at .first
Fcoffed ill the iinunymous oommuiiic-
tioiis, but when it was pointed out to
him ho’.v easy it “would be to blow him
up in the dead hours of the night he
decided, ii said, to take every pva-
caution.
The j iei- at -»-lijeh the Eitel Fried
rich is lied up has been fencod in,
guards piitroi the pier and a shart
Rtlfe, sixtcen-year-pld apd a mother j
v. ith a'child six w'eek.s o!d in her arms, i
testified on the witness stand, in Su- !
perior Court here yestei-day that hei;
father, Joshua Relfe, of this county,
ivds the fathei' of her babe. j
Noni Relfe \vus the first- vjitnesi ,
i'f>r ..the State in the case against,'
Joshua Rslfe, H'ho was under a fifteen ,
hundred dollar bond for his appearance •
at this term of Superior Court -jn !
a- charge of willfully and fleoniously
c .nipelliJig. his own daughter lo be hi' I
pL:r-artiour. Her testimony vras.c6n-i-
vii’.cingly told and not .only did a half :
hour's gruelliiiiT cross-examination by ■
ex-Judge George W. Ward, who with i
•J. B. Ixjigh was representing the de-1
fei-dant, fail tu shake it, but even j
the testimony of the witnesses put on ; „ jvgyer That She May Prove ,
From Fresldcnt 'That Machine .Mtty
Xev-.T Be Nc^ed, LauiwUng Take*
Placc—Oor Navy Ready to Figlit
Says Secretary Daniels-^Believes in
Peac^‘. But Als^ Thinks NatiM
Should Be "Up To Fightin’”; AmCT-
ican Xavy Leads The World in the
Building of Powerful SubmariBes,
As W'ell As Strongest Big Ships;
\ew Craft can Hurl Fifteen Tans
of Si^l at Touch of One ^ver—
"Sweeiest Girl in Pennsylvania''
Crashes Bottle of Wine on Pro*-,
While Captain of German Cruiser
Joins in Shout Frbm Ten Thousand
Throats.
THE NEW VVJVSSHIP.
' lij stand yesterday by i^ie defens
appeared rather ty strengthen than l-ti
lookout j.s kept on board. In addition, j woaken the girl’.s story.
iin unnsuii'ly bright light tonigiht il
luminates the stern, which is nearest
the river, and the water in that direc
tion ic constantly watched by mem-
biirs of the crew.
One of the letter received by tht;
Prinz Eitei captain demanded that hi?
leave this }>ort at once or his vessel
wouid be (ivnaniited.
MRS. UOBERl'A JAMES DEAD.
Meliane, March 17.—Mrs. Roberta
James (I’ied about midnight Tuesday
night .'t the home of her daughter, | ing to find relief through them, the
Kelfo was arrested in April, :
ini a Warrant svvorri out b yhls daagii-1
tor and was Hiraigncd in police court i
on Saturday, Mar 2nd, before Judge i
Turner, The girl told at that time [
uf how she had been forced to Jive with '
her father *‘just, a? if she were his;
wife” and of how she had gone tj hi“:
si.'ter, her aunt, Mrs. J, H. iJumly,!
it this city, and complait'.ed of tho
shamsfu! relation between them. H'jr
itunt a;id her grandmother, however,
would not believer her story, and fail-
inediately foUowing the program a i
liaraca Class will be organised. Thej \v'[LI t’lJElCH TO .MUTES
t« attend this meet-
ITALY LINGERS ON iup and the yoiing nien of West Bu, l-| T.ilinshast, «f ISurhan. Will Be
EDGE OF CONFLICT
Mrt; L.- S. Str!iufs,'hn, ia Meiyanf?. Sev-
ciTi! w-;eks ago Mrs. Janies fell, injur
ing or fracturing her hip. She neve;
ftdly recovered from this. Catchiti;;
(■(lid, after which complications set in,
and the restiUs of her injury caused
h. She iiicl-pii only two days lie-
.cirl ran away from home and canic to
Eltz»beth City, determined herself to
a))peiil tci the court for pi'Otecti-.m. Af
ter having niiide the complaint against
lii.r father, .‘(he went to Norfulli to live
and xiyf. that .“inco tiiat time she has
been worMiin- for a Mrs. Wadsteir., a
ingtoii arc
present.
flspecialiy isiviled to Ihj
Hires' i.*! I>ickering Over
Drmuiids on .\ustria  or rert'iior) - ■
ijipioiuacj^ f?!ra!s:r.g-r-Von R!>e-
ICXECUTIVK COMMITTEE MEETS.
The Esfecutive Committee of the Ba-
i aca-Plliiat«c-ii City ‘
Here at KpiscoDul Church Sunday.
Miss Koltbie Tiiiinghast, of Duriiani,
i!;jiighter of Prof. V. R. Tiiiinghast, o£
Morganion, N. C„ who is doing mis
sionary w'ork umphg the detif mutes
ing 70 years of age. Besides ;he ■ ■'camstre.'.s on Wake .street, in Imi
dmighter, Mr.'i. Straughn, .she is sur-jfily. itwasnt Mrs. W'adstein » hunic
fcw W hispers in One Ear and Allies chxxrch last Tuesday nipht. A
SB Otfceir; No Cnsiice/O*. Austria Giv- volume of business pertiumng
moetinsr at the | liiirlintrtoa this week :ind on Sundity
ing All Asked, While Allies Promise
All for Help, Nothing For Neutral-
itr.
COTTON RONS UP EX
CITEDLY AND OVER
COMES DROP
—o
The Mills uf This Country Arc Con
suming a l^igs Amount and IJver-
pss! Is 5::”!)“? flsnvilyi The Close
b StesAy With ». fC«a«anabIe Rise.
lo the work of the union was trans
acted. The various standing commit
tees were elected and a delegate and
alternate to the State Convention Lt
Raleigh, were nominated. This com
mittee is; cotnposed of the officers and
chairmen of standing committees of
the union and one member from eaeii
class* belonging to the Union. "Hie
Committee meets quarterly for the
transaction of the business of the or
ganization.
MBS. PORCH’S BODY FOUND.
lihc will prcach to then! at ths lipis-
copal Church.
Miss Tillinghast is thoroughly ir.
love %vith her work and has devoted
iter life to unlift of the deaf mutes
of the State, one of the nobiest sitcri-
fices a woman ever ftiade.
She will spent Tomorrow in visitinp
among the mutes of the vicinity and
get them to come to the meeting on
Sunday.
She .taik.s to them in the sign !ai'.-
gaage, and as each sign means a word,
!-he can deiiver a sermon as qufckly
a.-i a per.?on who uses the tongue.
Miss Tiilinghast is not a mute hci-
vivi'd by one son, William .James, of
Scrogslxjro, and threii sisters, Mis.T
Sliirtha Clay, of Mebane, Mrs. T.
'fhaxton, of Scrc>gsboro, and Miss Sa-
\v!is a fsicitiitc'- of Mcbane Baptist
('hiii'ch and had been a niemtior of U’.e
church for mort> thnn 40 years. The
iiilevirjent took piai‘(- this afternoon j iiired i/i poltoc court and complained of
i;i the Jame.s burial >rrim>'ii near JIi,!?h-jh..i- faihe:’.-! treatment, Mrs. Bu:i-
litwors in Caswell county. | dy wor-d of the girl's story to her
mother, Mr.s. Russcil, who got Mr.
‘iic claims, that her i)abe was born.
Other witnesses put or. the stand
yoKterday wore Mrs. Bundy, a Mr. Me-
I’her.son, of tliis county; RiiSfe hijii-
~ if. -inu :;•? tr-O'Mi-r, -7?|!S=,.1!.';;!I'
wiiiiesscs for the defense. Mi\~. i!u:;-
(i:iy inliiiits Uwt thi^ iriri ‘-r.nir *■'. H.t
a few veek-S before the scandivl wa.s
YOUNG MAN. KI-IRTIN’G. KILLED
BY A TRAIN’.
West P()jnt. Ga. Mar. Itj.—While
ilirtinp; with some young gitl.s in
Langs Cotton Mills this morning, Kar-
■y M. Kendrick, a young man or iff, j
SScPher.son, a neighbor, to tiikc her
out to Relfe’s home. Mrs. Russell ten-
titied that she »sked Nona i\-hy she,
Nona had ioid so aivful a story ok
Messenger of Peace Rather Than
Engine of W'ur Ship Is Launched
i’ensylvania Slips Down the Ways
into the Historic James—ls Largest
Fighting Ship in the W'orid—Ktek» ^
German Cruiser—Swell Created b.v*^
Her Phmgf into the W'ater Make-s
Eitel Boh Up and Down—i0,000
The Launching—By Orders of Her
Commander the German Sea Raid
er, I’rini Eitel, Joins in Noisy Wel
come lo the Great Fighting Craft.
.Neivpoct News, Va., Ma.-. IG.—The
largest tiphting ship in the world, the
Uiiiteii States superdreudnought Penn
sylvania, was launched here today. A
prayer that she might prove a meii-
senger of peace r»th*r than, an en
gine of destruction went with her as
.“ihc glid«l down the inclined w’ays in
to the James river.
As the triggers wvrc .‘fprung at -i
signal from Secretary of the Navy
Daniels and the 1.5,000 ton red hull
was ielea.-ed. Miss Ei!/.aocL?i Kulb, oS
Germantown, J*a., nan'ined the .ship for
her native Slate, by cra.‘hing a bot
tle of wine against the steel prow.
When the hulk plunged iMo the water,
it cieat=!!l u swell which rocked the
?hin ;i nstion now at war, Che.
tli'i'maji converted i-mioei rn,-.i. Tk-i!
ntoore^l f*v a r,;^r 'less that'.
100 yards away.
Capt. Jfax Thierichens, commander
of this famous sea vaUlcr, which tiui
a few weeks ago had sunk a«i Ameri
can ship in the S(iuth Atlantic, and
had S(>i;ght refugo in this American
port from its enemy ships, was pres
ent on the launching platform and
jejiied with 10,000 other .spectators in
her father and the girl replied that cheering the new warship. By his c,v-
sho did it in order to get free of him dcrs, the raider's whistle also assbt-
was run over and killed, nad his com- i cai‘e of his children, her ffl in the noisy welcome which nearby
panion, W. A. Knikht, was knocked
1 half
1
csthers and sistrs. McPh^r- sii-nm craft gave the Pennsylvania.
>fr. W. J. Spencer, the man who j self, hut has grown into Ihe work from
found body, says; )>'er iisaotmtior. vfitV. her T’alher,-vvh;
“Mrs. Porch’s body was found on been teaching in the Noith Caro-
the beach, about west or southwest of ‘ina School for the Deaf at Morganton
fov a number of years.
down and his right arm cut off by : sen testified that the girl admitted that; The German commander, in. full
freight train on the (Chattahoochee j , tiniform, reached the launching plat-
Valley Railway at a poi?\t. near the , f“>™ earlyan d mingled jovially with
jhaii iiiadiv this f.tatan’ORt whpn court American naval o!f.cer.«; throughout
HOR-NE’S shop BROKEN INTO.
L«st night some time during the where the boat was anchored and
night some one broke into Horne’s where Mr. D-jdson’s body was found.
Ijicycle Shop cutting the window pro- We found the body about seven feet 1
adjourned yesterday ovcniug at about che ceremony,
.si-’c o‘c!ofk. The ca.se will be oontiiio-'
STGREOPTiCON LECTURES.
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tpctor and by some way getting the above average water, showing that i
window raised and taking about ^i50 she went ashore seven or ei^t days.” | The third stereopticon lecture on
worth of repairs, otc., and got away A Mr. Cherry, of Newbern, who j Life of Christ” was delivered at
and the robbery was not dis(;oyered viewed the body in the undertaking ihe Church of the Holy Comforter on
until this morning. It is supposed estahJishmsnf, says that anyone who j Monday night, last by Rev. John Ben-
that the same party on the night be- ver knew her could recognize her at | i:ers GibWe.
fore made an atteia.pt to break into cnee in the corpse. j This w'as especially interesting, li-
Raahut’s, Shop, but did not succeed. ; Mr. J. W. Murray’s body has not iustrated the many parables and mir-
. been found.
The track.s ‘f the Wc.st Point Route
and C. V. railway run parallel with
e..ch other. The young men saw a today and the verdict is expected ^
I>»rth bound freight on the A. & %v. jj\Vo!f and Miss Bessie Gordon, sisters,
I', road and .steppcil on the C. V. j Rofe m the stand protested his in ^ ^}„,y (}^„y been bequeathed ?50,00tl
tiaek. They did not see the switch j i^'cence and claimcKi that the girl ran ' hungry,
engine which was backing comet reiu.'ii way fi-om home because she could |^,,, i at their door four year.s ago
•ars into the Lanneu Miil.s Yard. I'.ot submit to restraint. At the time ' ^ ,.sked for food.
OSBORN'S YACHT IN DISTRESS.:
Beaufort, Mar. 17.—The ship in dis-
Miss Fearless & Co., a comedy in
Sress late last night offi this part, was three acts, will be given by the teach-
Herbert Osborn’s power yncht La- crs and ladies of the Maywood Cotn-
Vedettaft from Miami to N-ew York, manity at Maywood School House Sat-
The coast guards from Fort Macon urday, March 27, 1915-, beginning at
■station took off the crew, but replaced eight P. M. Admission 10 and 20 j
them on the LaVadette today when the c^nts.. The proceeds will go for thejicxt, 22nd. inst., at 8 p. m., to which
yacht was towed into Beaufort. benefit of the sdsocl. j all the most cordially invited. '
scles, and other touching scenes.
Among the artists represented were
Tissot.
The stereopticon is operated by Mr.
Hobart Steele, the Assistant Sunday
School Superintendent.
The fourth lecture of this series will
be at the chiirch on Monday aight.
Dondrick was lcivackef down und^jr
i!ic train and his head comple*.e!y sev
ered and Knight had liis right arm cui
The railroad surgeons that that
Knighl -vill recovcr.
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PLAY AT GRADED SCHOOL.
A play composed of about 12 young
men was given at the graded school
i.iiditorium iast Friday night. The
play was in the nature of a negro miii-
strel, and was entirely local talent
and reflected muoh credit upon the
younff men of our town.
the case (irst came up he was employ- j v. illiam Popper, son of a Prague
(d .-,s a “squatter- by the i-'oremm,-1 R^hentia, art dealer, was the man
Blades Lumber Co., and lived back t^ey befriended. He told Mrs.
from the road in a small three-room ^volf and her sister that he was to,,
house, eleven miles from town. his people know his con-
r.or any of hi.s family can read jje was given clothing, shel-
i tor and medical attention. In 1911 ha
The Relfc case wont to the jury '.it ; returned to Bohemia, advising the
si.stors that when he died he wwuld
o’clock this afternoon, but no vcr-
dict had been reached .it a late hour; "remember them in hi.s will.”
tonight. Rvimor has it that the jury j "The sisters were notified of the be-
stands ten to two for conviction, but quest through Chicago attorneys com-
a mistrial is predicted. General sen-! missjoner by an atiorjiey in Prsigus
liment r.ppears to be against ReKe. j to find them—Chicago Evening Pos^.
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