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VOL. XXII. NO. 237.
sISSs
n Progressive People By The
Thousands Have Assem
bled at Chadbourn.
V ANNUAL EVENTXF
MUCH IMPORTANCE
Agricultural and Educational
Fair a Brilliant Success
Live Town -Crowded With
Enthusiastic People Some
Splendid Speeches on Tapis.
(By Staff Correspondent.)
Chadbourn, N. C, Oct. 27. Colum
bus county is today celebrating its
annual agricultural antf educational
lair in Chadbourn and at noon 3,000
people had gathered here from all
parts of the county and surrounding
territory. All during the morning the
streets have beeji thronged with fun
makers. Agricultural and school exhibits
were to be seen in" large quantities in
the Chadbourn warehouse, in firown's
.Grove, where the fair is being held.
This spacious building was crowded
since eanv tnis morninsr with no--
sons inspecting the display.
President E. W. Sikes, of Coker
College, Hartsville, S. C, made a stirr
ing education address to several
thousand people in Brown's Grove at
ll:')o o'clock. Thi& was easily the
leature of the morning's program.
Senator E. D. Smith, of South Caro
lina, telegraphed that he would be
unable to attend and a number of loc
al speakers took his place on the pro
gram. "
Prof. P. T. Wooten, county super
intendent of schools, has general
diarge of the fair and is specializing
on the educational feature. s
Miss Eliza Parker, rural school su
fifrvisor, is in charge of the. edaea-'j
tional exhibits.
.Mr. J. J. Herndon, county- farm
demonstrator, is in charge of the ag
ricultural end of the fair.
It was estimated by Professor
Wooten at noon oday that there were
at least 2,000 of Columbus county's
0,000 school children present to take
part in the exercises. Seventy-five
par cent, of the county's 90 schools
are represented.
Special trains from Wilmington
and .Mt. Tabor brought hundreds
of
persons to the fair. The regu
!
. lar train arriving here today brought
large crowds. Whiteville has possi
bly the largest representation of any
town. Six filled coaches were at
tached to the special train from Wil-
minP'tnn fhia mnrninur
Immediately after dinner, at noon,
the parade of school children moved
from the graded school, led by the
Chadbourn and WhiteVville brass
llfltlfl3 Thn nrnnacomn wViioVi too a a I
The procession, which was a'
long one, moved over the main
streets. It was viewed by thousands
of persons. Each school represented
displayed a banner.
Athletic events will be one of the
big features of the program this aft
ernoon. Besides the prize events,
open to all, there will be a baseball
game.
All during the morning the judges
were busy selecting the prize winning;
exhibits. The winners
will be an-
iiounced this afternoon. I
Ftom all sections of the county con-!
tinually arriving this morning are .
1 1 1 1 w 1 v. , 1 i rr. . . . J. J
"uiiu'tos ui people. it is esumaieu i
that there will be six thousand people
A Fine Address.
Dr.
Sikes, who was "introduced by;
. Grady, Esq., of Whiteville, made,
" uuug piea ior tne education oi mejA party Qj 35 cowboys from the Santa
children of Columbus county. HeiAnna ranchj one of the Hearst "T"
likened education to that of preparing j properties near Babicora, attacked
for the crops. "Much time s spent ' and defeated a detachment of Villa
obtained, the speaker declared. Dr-1 followers about three . miles from
Sikes asserted that education multi-i ganta Geronima, according to a re
plies chances. j port today reCeived at field headquar,
' When a boy returns from college,", ters. The number of casualties is not
lp continued, "he immediately turns ' given, but it is stated that two of the
lli; learning into dollars and cents." . bandits' officers and two prisoners
He laii great stress on the means were captured.
for educ.ing the girls. He declared'
l'iat it took both North and South j
Carolna more than one hundred years I
to rpnliQ tViot 4. A.-i-T via.
pends on th o mnman i
( oaiu, was luc wioi
"ion to realiie-this and has profit- VTi Vn thP v W c A
ed greatly automobile race in the Y. W. C. A.
I membership campaign will start and
in introducing Dr. Sike3, Mr. Grady ' every member that brings in a new
Mioke of the fact that Columbus coun 1 member will be credited with one
ty is today celebrating its 108th anni-',mile in the racje.
versary, being created from Bruns- Two rival automobile manufactur-v-
ick and Pender counties. He spoke ; ing concerns will be represented and
oi the fact that those things that are ' the Scores will daily be posted in the
Jom of poor parentage often amount - Window of Honnetfs Jewelry Store,
jo the most. He showed how Colum-j Each faction will have a captain
"us has progressed along all lines. Land "a number of lieutenants. Mrs.
The meeting was presided over by Ashley Curtis will lead the Franklin
Major ira Lennon. There were about team and Miss Mary Vann will be
;; 000 persons present. I the commander of the Chalmers out-
O. C. FILLY AW. fit.
DELAYED SLIGHTLY
Fritz Hanson Anxious to Re
turn Speaks of Col. Wal
ker Taylor's S, S. Class.
Fritz Hanson, who is known favor
ably and liked immensely by ,local
mat fans, will not come South as
early as he had 1 anticipated, accord
ing td a letter received by Gunner
James B. McGurley, of Fort Caswell,
because he is Tfnding the "pickings"
loo koou ud XNew iuneriand wav. i
Matches were offered him so fast
when it leaked out that he was in
the New England States and the
terms appealed to him so favorably
that he decided to "take on" a few
New Englanders and others who hap
pened to be in that section before
coming South. Those men whom he
v'll wre'stle in New En eland are ex
ceptionally good men and as a num
ber of them intend touring the South
it will be possible for Mr. Hanson-to
arrange a number of good matches to
be staged in Wilmington that would j
be impossible to get under other con-j
ditions. On October 25th he had four
matches arranged for the next tenj
days and had offers of matches in
Boston, New York, aitimore and
Norfolk on the trjp South.
Because: of the amount of work
mapped out for him in the North he
declined a date to work against Dr.
Roller in Columbia, S. C, this week,
and will meet his first opponent here
after leaving Norfolk. Mr. Hanson
says he expects to arrive in Wilming
ton in excellent f shape vth a lot of
good matches arranged for the sea
son. In his communication to Gunner!
McGurley, Mr. Hanson reports a fine 1
hunting tri and aflds that he Wit-
nessed a number of, the world's series
games between Brooklyn and Bos
ton., He declares that he has plenty
to do to occupy his hands and mind,
but is very anxious to get back to
Wilmington. He also speaks of Col. I
Walker Taylor's Sunday School class
and adds that he hopes to find an in
creased attendance upon his return.
Mr. Hanson also States that he is
planning a benefit ' this year to be
staged just before Thanksgiving or
Christmas for the benefit of the poor
children of the city, and says he is
planning a fine program with a num
ber of surprises for the children. Mr.
Hanson says this must go through
this year if it is his last.
Mr. Hanson concludes by saying
ht wh he and Mrs. Hanson are
enjoying the best of health and while
having a very good time, are anxious
to return to Wilmington.
COWBOYS' ATTACK
DEFEATS. BANDITS
PArtv From a Hearst Ranch
Turn Back Gang of Villa
Followers.
I iioiH TTarifi!iarters. American Pu-
... Pinn two-h. . nnt.. 27!
wtreless to Columbus, N. M.).
TO HOLD AUTO RACE.
Two Mebershjp Teams of Y. W. C. A
Will Race for Premiership
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WILMINGTON, NORTH CAROLINA, FRID S i AFTERNOON,
SENDS.
DENIAL THAT THE
CITY IS BESIEGED
Declares That Villa Forces Are
Not at Chihuahua
City.
TELEGRAM RECEIVED
BY THE CONSUL.
First Chief Also Declares False
Report That Zapata is a
Menace to Mexico
City.
New York, Oct. 28. The following
telegram from General Carranza, dat
ed Mexico City, October 27, 2:30 a.
m., was made public here ttiday by
the Mexican consul-general. The tel
egram follows:
"It is absolutely false that Villa is
besieging the city of Chihuahua and
that Zapata menaces the tranquility
of Mexico City.
"Diaz was utterly defeated in re-
! cent skirmishes with our troops and
is Jleeing to Guatemala. I shall re
main in Mexico City until I attend
the congress at Quairtsatero.
(Signed): "CARRANZA."
DEATH TODAY DF
:Mr. H. A. Burr Passed Away
at Home of Son Here This
Morning.
Hundreds of friends throughout the
Carolinas and elsewhere will be pain
ed to learn of the death of Mr. H. A.
Burr, Sr., one of Wilmington's oldest
and best known citizens, which oc
curred at 9 o'clock this - morning at
the home of his son, Mr. H. A. Burr,
Jr., 403 Dock street, after an illness of
only a few weeks of a complication
of diseases. x Many friends have call-
eu ai me gnei:siricKeii noun; iouay
to offer their condolence to the be
reaved. '
The deceased is survived by four
sons and one daughter. They are
Messrs. Alston H., H. A., r., Fred S.
and Mason G. Burr, and Mrs. W. R.
Gordon, of Charlottesville, Va.
The funeral services 'frill be con
ducted from St James' Episcopal
church tomorrow afternoon at 3 : 30
o'clock and will be in charge of Rev.
G. F. Hill, assistant pastor of the
church. Interment will be made in
Oakdale cemetery. The pallbearers
I have not as yet been selected but will
Mr.' Burr was one of Wilmington's
most successful business men. He
was president of the Standard Sup
ply Company, which was owned prin
cipally by himself arid his sons. The
Standard Supply Company is one of
the largest and most successful en
terprises of the kind in the Carolinas
and it was built up largely through
the wise management of the late Mr.
Burr.
Mr. Burr had been in failing health
only a short time. He went to New
York some weeks ago and consulted
a number of specialists, none of whom
could give him any encouragement.
He went from New York to the
mountains of Virginia, where he re
mained for several weeks with his
daughter. Realizing that the end was
drawing near and having a desire to
pass his last days
in Wilmington, '
Mr. Burr came heer some days ago,
standing the trip fairly well.
His loved ones realized that he had
but a few days to live and his death
had been expected hourly for the
past few adys. However, the realiza
tion of" his passing was none-the-less
shocking to his loved ones
friends.
and .
AUT01ST HELD BY
CORONER'S JURY
Man In Salisbury Ran Down
Traffic Officer and Killed
Him.
Salisbury, Oct., 27 Ollie Tolvert,
a. Southern Railway trainman, who,
while driving an automobile last
night, ran down and killed W. M. Lin
ker, a traffic officer, was held under
'$2,000 bond by a coroner's jury.
The verdict of the jury was that
Linker was (killed through being
struck by an .automobile driven reck
lessly byTolvert.
GARRANZA
WELL KNOWN
MN
THE LARGEST CIR IJLATION IN WILMINGTON.
MINIiiER FOUND
GUILTY OF MANY
KINDS GRIMES
Had Nine Wives and Eleven
Aliases Did Clergyman
Just Deposed. '
HAD SERVED TWO v
PRISON TERMS
Records Show That HevHad
Operated About All Over
The World fHas Now
Disappeared.
Poughkeepeie, N. Y., Oct. 7. Arthur
Worthingham, former pastor of the
Presbyterian church in Newburgh, N.
Y., was deposed yesterday from the
ministry and excommunicated from
the Presbyterian church by a trial ! and Petrograd admits a retirement to
commission of ministers and laymen wards a new line more than forty
of the North River Presbytery. He j miles north of the Constanza-Tcher-was
found guilty of bigamy, swindling, i aavora railway. The Russians and
fraud and blasphemy. j Rumanians are fighting hard as they
The evidence, secured after two ; retire, "Petrograd declares. In re-
vao ro In voof ?o"Q f inn clt Mirrl Wf f V oiotin o fVi A n otrn-flDrm one tniMicsf
" I inch q Til harl ninA wIvpq onH wqc
known under eleven "aliases. His
ri,i,t nan,0 wa samnei nw
j.J', rT. , , ,
loru. nis -recuru suoweu lie nas serv -
ed two prison sentences for fraud, one
in Auburn, N. Y., and the other in
Melbourne, Australia. His operations
covered the United States, Europe arid
the Antipodes. In his activity he se
cured on false pretense more than
$500,000, it is said. JThe deposed min-
ister disappeared from Poughkeepsie
five weeks ago.
PEOPLE ALONG THE
LINE GREET WILSON
. ,
D :J j. Ci. t cti.-
jShake Hands With Admir-
-One More Trip.
ers-
On Board the President's Special, i
Grafton, W. Va. On his way from j
Cincinnati to Long Branch today !
President Wilson made several brief j
stops in West Virginia and Mary-!
land, shaking hands with people gath-
ered at toe station. He is due to ar- j
rive at Shadow Lawn at 10 o'clock J
tonight. The President will not re-1
turn to the Middle West again bo
fore the election. His only remain
ing trip away from Shadow Lawn be
fore November 7 will take him to
Buffalo, November 1, and New York,
November 2. He plans two more
speeches at Long Branch, one tomor
row and the other November 4.
WITH DIGS
EOR HER ASSAILANT
Posse and Mob Both Scouring
I Country In Albama For
Negro.
Birmingham, Ala., Oct. 27. A sher-
iff's posse, accompanied by a mob of
rmed citizens, early today resumed
search of the Woodlawn section, near
here, for the negro who late yesterday
attacked a white woman in her home
in Woodlawn. With two bloodhoudns
the manhunters are searching the vic
inity of Gates City.
At an early hour no clue to the wo
man's assailant had been obtained.
Officers believe that the negro board
ed a train soon after committing the
crime. The woman, who was badly
beaten, by being struck on the head
with a pistol, is in a critical condi
tion. SUING FOR DAMAGES.
Bruno Case Consumed the Entire
Morning Session of Court.
The case of T. Bruno against the
W. P. Richardson Company for al
leged damages received when Bruno
was employed as a workman for the
company consumed the entire morn
ing session of the Suprerior Court.
Bruno alleges that a pipe is not a
suitable elevator weight and is ask
ing for damages in the sum of $3,000
for injuries sustained, which result
ed in a denreasjpi oJE his skull that
has rendered, hin.ujofit t& hold a po
sition for any length of time.
At the time the accident occurred
'the Richardson Company was en
gaged in building the record building
for the Atlantic ;Coas Line.
W. B. M. Turner Esq., is appear
ing for the plaintiff, while Keenau
& Wright represent the contracting
company.
OCTOBER 27, 1916.
TEUTONS KEEP
THE
ENEMY BACK
Continue Driving Russo-Ru-manian
Forces Back to The
Reaches of Danube.
FRENCH CONTINUE
TO GAIN GROUND
Have Made Further Advances
On Verdun Front-f Ber
lin Claims a Repulse
of Attackers.
Ire
Tne Teutonic forces are pressing
the retreating Russo-Rumanian army
hard in Dobrudja.
Sofia reports this army in flight to
the further reaches of the Danube,
i thrmiP'h Rumnnis frnm iYc tinrthwpsst
j the Rumanian forces are having'
mnrp s,PPSa Thp Rninn trnnns ,
I, - rr.
i uave iiiuut- lui uiei piugiess in xiu.ii
sylvania, tle Russian war office
! ports
Before Verdun, the French are driv
ing anew at the German line, after
having, according to Paris, repulsed
numerous counter-efforts to recap
ture Fort Douaumont and other posi-
! tions taken in their great drive of
, Tuesday last. In a fresh attack last
I night, the statement declares, the
i French scored again west and- south-
west of Fort Vaux, closing in further
on this important work.
Berlin declares that a French at
j tack yesterday in the region east of
j Fort Douaumont was repulsed with
j heavy losses.
Apparently the Germans' are pre-
! paring for further attacks, as Paris
reports violent bombardment of the
French line at Douaumont and Chen-
oise Wood.
- On :ihe $omme front-f , Berlin .ijan
nounces the breaking-up by German
guns of a French attack: in prepara
tion south of tne river.
In Volhynia arid elsewhere along
the Russian front the German war
office reports repulse of a Russian
attack.
FOR THE BODIES
l i o
Gruesome Work In Progress
Today at Yesterday's Scene
of Fire Tragedy.
Farnham, Quebec, Oct. 27. The
ruins of St. Elizabeth's Hospital, de
stroyed yesterday by fire, had suffi
ciently cooled today to permit a
search for bodies. The Grey Nuns,
who conducted the institution, an
nounced that an inquiry indicated that
the death list will stand at 19, includ
ing 5 children.
Farnham was under police guard
during the night, as the result of sev
eral small fires, leading to the suspicion-
that incendiaries had been at
work.
GIRL NOT TO APPEAR
AS A WITNESS
Unable to Get Important Wit
ness For Copeland
Trial.
Galveston, Texas, Oct. 27. Sadie E.
Black, adopted daughter of William
Black, the anti-Catholic lecturer, will
notvbe a witness in the case of John
Copeland, being tried here in connec
tion with the killing of Black at Mar
shall, Texas, last year, it was stated
by attorneys for the state when the
trial was resumed today.
A telegram announced the inability
of the witness to attend. Cousel for
the state said they had exhausted every
m'eans to bring the girl to Galveston,
but could not legally compel here at
tendance. Indications were that the
case would be given the jury by night.
J
-3S-"fc -X-AH
IP REPORTED ON FIRE X-
AT SEA.
New York, Oct. 27. Reports
4fr were current in shipping circles
today , that the French liner, Chi-
cago, with 300 passengers
-X- aboard, is on fire at sea and is
making toward the Azores.
"
PRESSING
SEARCHING
N
E
KILLS- HIS WIFE
His Stepchildren Tell How
Their Mother Was Slain
Today.
Raleigh, Oct. 28 Mrs. Edward
Mangum, of the Falls of the Neuse
section of Wake county, was shot and
killed early this morning by her hus
band, according to Mangum's step
children, who were the only wit
nesses of the crime. Their mother,
the . children state, was struck with
a stick and while unconscious Man-
meu .umui uou5u u liedu.
Mangu mand the woman, who was
I from Durham county, were married
from Durham county,
fie-ht months np-n Hp was hrmicht
j here and placed in the county jail.
Mangum last year was committed
to the ward for the criminally insane
in the State's prison by Wake county
authorities for disturbing public wor
ship. He. remained there some
months, but was discharged when he
apparently had regained his reason.
It is believed that he took his wife's
life during a fit of insanity.
1LLC0XG0ES
AFTER BAKER
Republican Chairman.. Issues
"ci. f ""T5 ZJ 'tA
Mexican -Situation.
New York, Oct." 28 William R.
Wil-cox, chairman of the Republican
National Committee, issued a state
ment today in reference to Secretary
Baker's statement in which he said:
"In view of Secretary Lansing's
statement in the morning papers, Mr.
Baker was guilty of amazing, stupid
ity or of an attempt to gain votes for
President Wilson by misrepresenta
tion. If Mr. Lansing is quoted cor
rectly he .went over the Baker state-
j ment, and thW Baker statement thor-
I oughly appears to De a joint product
j of Mr Wilson's cabinet officiaas. The
careful phrases of Mr. Baker show
an attempt to make political capital
out of what he appears to regard as
impending disaster on the Mexican
border."
Mr. Willcox aded that if the War
Department had information in
re-
gard to attacks, "it is the duty of the'
administration to find out the guilty
ones and to puish them,
GERMAN BOATS
TRIED A
Ten Torpedo Boats Frustrated
In Effort in The English
Channel.
London, Oct. 27. Ten German tor
pedo boat destroyers attempted to
raid British cross-channel shipping
last night, but tne attack failed, says
the official statement issued today by
the admiralty. Two of the German
destroyers were sunk and the others
fwere driven off.
One British torpedo boat destroyer,
the Flirt, is missing, the British state
ment added, and the Nubian was dis
abled by a torpedo and ran aground.
Nine members o fthe crew of the
Flirt were saved.
WILL SPEAK HERE.
Prominent Raleigh Divine Will Speak
at Brotherhood Meeting.
, Rev. W. McC. White, D. D., pastor i
of the First Presbyterian church, of J
Raleigh, will address the brotherhood r -X-
of St. Andrew's at the third of a se
ries of meetings that are being held
by the Brotherhood one Sunday in
every month.
The meetings are for men only'and
Uhe two already held were largely at-
' tended and keen interest was shown
in the work. Prior to the speaking
on each occasion the men sing the
Alexander hymns fqf twenty minutes.
Dr. White, who will be here next
Sunday, will take as his subject "Im
mortality," and all who hear him are
assured of a most pleasing address
COUNTY
MAN
PRICE 5 CENTS
Exposure by War Department;
of Mexican Intrigue Will
Probably Prevent Attack
AMERICAN FORCES
READY FOR ACTION.
Source of Information, Too
Valuable to Expose It and
Thus Damage Its Useful
ness Secretary Lansing
Advised Warning Given
Last Night.
Washington, Oct. 27. Government
officials hoped today that publication
of Secretary Baker's statement that
the War Department had' received
word that another Mexican, bandit
attack on the American border or
American troops had been planned by
enemies of the administration would
have the effect of causing abandon
ment of the plot.
The Department of Justice was in
vestigating the report in an effort
to prosecute any persons that may
be directing the plot from the Ameri
can side of the border.
War and State Department officials
refused today to disclose the sourco
of the special information on which
Secretary Baiter last night issued a
statement charging a bandit attack
on American troops in Mexico or on
American border towns had been
planned to discredit the governments
Mexican policy.
They said the channels of informa
tion "through which the report came
were so valuable that nothing could be.
given out that would injure its use
fulness. Both Secretary Lansing
and Secretary Baker today lai4 stress
upon the statement that no consider-,-ation
of domestic policies lead to tha
1&suH!ee- of hemnnnc?mKmti - -i
- Secretary Baker declared it was
"absurd" to suppose his statement
had been intended to imply that any
political interests in the United
States desired anything other than
peace on the border. "Such a thing
could not be true," he said.
Asked what interest he charged
was behind the movement, Secretary
Baker dictated this statement:
"The Mexicans who oppose the de .
facto government in Mexico would,'
of course, be glad to complicate rela
tions between the United States and
Mexico and our information is thai
they think this an appropriate time
to do so. The statement made last
night by the department ought to dis
courage any attempt on their part
in that direction.
"Everybody knows, that many Mex
icans in this country are constantly"
agitating against the de facto govern
ment. Many sympathizers may be
on the American side of the border
and the movement is wholly of this
source.
The particular information which
lead to his statement, the secretary
said, reached him yesterday after
noon. Mr. Baker, it was learned,
took the advices up with Secretary
Lansing and the latter is said to
have advised that there bo no delay
tin making public tne substance of
the information.
Secretary Baker was advised that
the information, although somewhat
indefinite as to individuals, showed a
dangerous situation along the border. -Publication
of the 4act that the gor
ernment has taken steps to check 1
such a movement, he believes, will"
go far towards preventing an attack
in or upon border towns or on Gen
eral; Pershing's forces.
Secretary Baker indicated that no
immediate movement of General
Pershing's jeolumns were contemplat
ed. He refused, however, to say
whether an order had been given to
meet the attack with retaliatory
measures. He gave the' impression
that Generals Funston and Pershing
might have been directed to take cer
tain steps of a retaliatory nature. ;
should an "attack be made on their.
forces or that the department had
such orders under consideration.
-X- -X- -X- -X- -X- 'n
PERFORMED SOME FEAT. ' .
London, Oct. 27 One of the
-x- fifteen Victoria Crossesy tne
awards of whicn are made today
in the London Gazette, is to Pri-
vate-JThomas Jones, who, accord-
ing to official accounts, killed
three snipers, who were shoot-
ing at him, entered a German
trench and single-handed dls-
armed 102 Germans, including -
three or four officers, and-
marched them back to the Brit-
-X- ish lines through a heavy m fire Jfc
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