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EBWABD L 10QRE ENDS inn i irr iiiitii ninTfii nlo Urt Wltn nDiuL Hotel Clerk of Rocky Mount Commits Suicide. GAPE FEAR FAIR HAS BIO FIRST 0 More Visitors in Fayetteviile Than for Years Past WM jat Out of Hospital ad Poor Everythins Points to tao Bluest Sue Health. i Supposed to Have Led to "the Act Waa Former ly la Wilmington. (Special Star Correspondence.) Rocky Mount; N. C, Oct. 27. Despon dent over bis physical condition and continued poor health, Edward L. Moore, clerk at the Ricks Hotel, this afternoon fired a bullet through his heart and death was almost instantan eous. Th deceased had only recently returned to his duties at the hotel from an extended stay at the local hospital. He was on duty during the morning and it was when he left his work for the afternoon, in accordance with his regular routine that he said a casual good-bye to friends and departed for his room at the Cambridge hotel, os tensibly for a short hap. . . Jt is believed now that he must have brooded over his physical condition and continued poor health and In a fit of despondency ended his life by firing a pistol bail from a 32-callbre revol ver Into his heart. A physician was summoned by those who were first to "learn of the act, but It was of no avail, and the young man died before or soon after they reached his bedside. . The deceased was 27 years old and Ms home is at Ninety-Six. S. C though he had not; Uved there for more than & half dozen years, during which time he has been engaged in the hotel busi- h in titis stta.t. He numbered a larg circle of friends, by whom he was held in high esteem.- : t Mr. Moore has made his home in this city for the past several years and .L.vin a? tVa Viae Vn own and most popular hotel clerks in East ern Carolina. Prior to assuming the duties here he was manager of the Xennon hotel at Goldsboro, having gone there from the position as chief cleric of the Lafayette, at Fayetteviile, after earning a promotion as clerk at the Orton in Wilmington. The deceas ed is survived by four brothers and one sister. Traveling Man "Working Road. Too many worthless checks passing Into the hands of hotel proprietors in this section has worked the undoing of a nice appearing young man, William J. Prince, who hails from Indiana an who travels the Southern states for a well known proprietary medicine company- While a sister had wired .from Charleston, S. C, that she is en route " to this city in the hope of devising eome means of helping her brother out of the trouble, the young man today declared to the officers that he had no desire to wait and asked that he be eent along to the road force to work out the 60 days given him by the local court. Theyoung man attributes his undoing to" dissipation and gambling, f o it is understood, and he now de clares that he is ready to pay the costs of his folly. The young man recently cashed a worthless .check at the Bland Hotel at Raleigh, where he spent several days in the interest of his company,' the check being for $75. Later the Farrar 'hotel at Tarboro was victimized for ene of the worthless papers to an amount of 955, while his undoing came when the Ricks hotel here cashed a third one for $30. It was on a con viction for the last check that he is now serving on the roads. FIOXEER EDITOR AND FIRST MAYOR OF DENVER IS DEAD Co. Job C. Moore Fought with the South During Civil War. Excelsior Springs, Mo Oct. 27. Colonel John C. Moore, pioneer newspa per editor and first mayor of Denver, voio., aied here toaay. He was 84 years old- Colonel Moore was one of the founders of the Old Kansas City Times.' He went to Colorado in 1857 and a little later founded the Denver Mountaineer. He also was the founder of the fueblo-Jfress. When the civil war broke out, Colo nel Moore dismantled the Denver Moun tafneer and joined the South. He serv ed through the greater part of the war en the staff of General Marmaduke, with the rank of .coionei. , Colonel Moore claimed the distinction of never having surrendered following the war. When the news of peace reached him, he was recruiting soldiers In Arkansas. "Tou can go ahead and surrender, but don't surrender me," is the words ent to oeneral Marmaduke. n men reieaeea ms recruits on parole" and waited a month before go ing to Mexico to join General Joe Shelby "hoping hostilities might break out again." ALLEGED YEGGMAN ARRESTED Held fa Charlotte in Default of $5000 Bond. (Special Star Telegram.) cnariotte, N. C., Oct. 27. James Wells, alias Brooklyn Slim, alias James uonagnue, alias James Hackett, was arrested here today by Postoffice In epector G. A. Smith. He is believed to be one of a number, of safe crackers who have operated in North Carolina and South Carolina for the past" two years. He is held in default of a 85. 000 bond for a hearing before United States Commissioner Cobb tomorrow at 11 ocjock. The evidence against him Is strong. AN UNUSUAL DISTINCTION Two Would Have Been Related to First Ladies of the Land. Bristol, va.-xenn., Oct. 27. Had she lived a tew weeics longer, Mrs.. Char lotte fayne winsion, who died here today at the age of 85, would have had the distinction of being related to two first laaies or tne land. She was cousin of Mrs. Norman Gait, who- is Boon to become the wife of President Wilson, and was a grand niece of Dolly Maaaison, wii oj -rresiaent Madison She was also a great-granddaughter of Alexander epottswooa, colonial Gov trnor of -Virginia. cess Ever Attained by a Fair at the Upper Cape Fear MetropolisFeature. P FEDERAL LEAGUES ARE TO UNITE? Story Printed in Chicago Pa pers Denied in New York Story Refers to Alleged Peace Flans Under Which the Giants Would be Purchased by OvnUa or the ' Chicago Federals. (Special Star Telegram.) jrayettevme, jN. . c, Oct. 27 The rn Fes.r ITaJr onnd todav under fav orable auspices. The receipts at tne gate were better, for the first day than for years. The agricultural display is especially good, not by Cumberland farmers alone, but by the upper Cape Fear section generally, and Sampson s especially well represented. The display jof farm products, live stock. household industries, art, and so forth, is very good. And, taking the first day as a standard, the Cape Fear fair of 1315 is a success. The parade was a typical one for first day, the band, the marshals, the fair and city officials, etc., but the crown ing feature was the procession of. up wards of 1.000 children from the city schools, each one carrying a United States flag. The attendance from out-of-town was larger than has been for years for ' .the opening day. The weather could not be improved on, the race track is in fine condition, and the prospects are for better racing than has been seen in this part of the South this year. The horses here are among the fastest that campaign in the south. Feature of the Fair. The day's festivities began at 10 o'clock in the morning with an open- air concert in Market Square by Co lasanU's Byal . Venetian Concert Band. At 11 the marshals, military compa nies, and Confederate Veterans began assembling on Green and Gillespie streets and the automobile floats and pageants on Person street. The auto mobiles, heading the procession, moved up Hay street to meet the incoming trains, and turning again east, started the march to the fair grounds. At noon all the splendid live stock on exniDit .was . aeseiuDieo. msiae tne i race course in front of - the grand stand, where the Judging took place and where the ribbons were awarded. At 1 o'clock the starters in the first race of the classiest racing meet ever held in North Qarolina were called to the post. The entries in the races this year are unusually numerous and of a uniformly high class. There are be tween 60 and 70 trotters and pacers en tered in the seven events which make up the racing programme. In the 2:17 trot Thursday, the fastest class for trotters only that has ever been staged here, there ere 18 entries. In the big free-for-all to be run on Friday, there are 21 of the fastest horses in the South Atlantic states, with horses from Maryland, .Delaware, Ohio, Indiana, New Jersey, and Massachusetts. The 2:25 trot contained 12 entries and the 2:14 pace 17. In the 2:22 pace Thurs day there -are 11 entries and 13 in the 2:18 pace, while 19 animals have been entered in the 2:19 trot, the second race on Friday's card 113 entries in all. A marked feature of the entries this year is the number of North Car olina horses. There are 30 entries with "N. C." after them on the- entry book. Among them ' the ones which arouse the most interest locally are three Fayetteviile horses Lucelle, a brown pacer owned by E. V. Eden, of jrayettevllle. but campaigned this sea son by Homer Jameson, of the Edge hill Stock farm; Gentry Dictator, own ed by C. H. Leggett, of this county, and also racing under the Edgehill col ors, and Jfrlnce Worval. W. H. Eden's grey trotter. liUcella and Gentry Dic tator have been cleaning up at Rich mond and Petersburg, the former get ting away with the very creditable feat of winning. the 2:14 pace at Rich land. The North Carolina horses in clude Ben All, the undefeated trotter from Tarboro. The Exhibits of High. Order. The agricultural and live stock ex hibits are unusually varied and credit able, while the poultry and domestic exhibits are better than ever before The amusement features on Midway are furnished by the Krause Greater Shows. There are also a number of excellent free -attractions. . . a . . . ... : . . 1 Tne peiier uaDies cuniesi in con nection with the fair opened Tuesday, when the tots r47 in number were Judged. .The awards will be announced at the fair grounds Thursday. The con test was held in the rest room of the Civic Association 4n the Old Market house. The Judges are Drs. J. A. Mac K.ethan. R. B. Hayes and J.. V. McGou- gan. - , The unusual features in connection with the fair this year are a charity barbecue to be given at the grounds on Thursday by the Fayetteviile lodge of Elks, and the Charity Masquerade ball Thursday night, which also will be under the auspices of the Elks Grainger's orchestra from Wilmington will render the musio for the mas querade ball as well as for the Mar shals'- ball Friday night. OPINIONS DELIVERED I APPEALS Judge Rountree Reversed in a Case from Lenoir County. Chicago, Oct. :27. -Chicago papers today prints a story that peace terms have been reached, under which , the Federal League . and . the . National League will unite. "The story follow ed the return of President Weeghman and Vice President Walker, of Chica-' go Federals, from New York. Mr. Weeghman. was quoted as saying he would not deny that there had been meetings in New York seeking aet-' tlement in the baseball war. "I can not advance any. information ,noWj but hope soon to be able to give out, some, news," he was quoted as saying. The peace plan, according to the story published, includes the possible purchase of the New York Nationals by Harry Sinclair, owner r of the New ark Federals, and the union of the Na tional and Federal teams in Brook lyn, St. Louis. Pittsburg and Chicago. The Giants would use the Newark grounds on Sundays. The-; Brooklyn Federal League grounds ; might be turne4 over to the International League and agreements for . the union of the clubs in Buffalo x and Kansas City with an international league 'club to go into Baltimore are included in the plan, the papers say. VERDICT AGAINST A. C. L. Colored Physician Awarded 96.000 to Personal injuries. Fayetteviile, N. G, Oct. 27. A Cum berland county Jury has awarded Dr. B. H. Henderson, a colored physician of Fayetteviile, $6,000 damages for personal injuries in a verdict returned in a suit against the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company for iso.ooo. The railroad company will appeal. On the night of the 29th of August, 1914, Henderson was , going homef walking alongside the railroad tracks. As he reached the intersection of the C. F. & Y. V. and A. C. L. roads, a freight train coming from . Greensboro sideswlped a freight train going north over the A. C. L- Flying splinters from a smashed freight car struck Henderson on the head, Inflicting dan gerous injuries. He lay for. 'a long time in IHtghsmith hospital before, recovery. DENIED IN NEW YORK. Stated No Conference Regarding Uni fication Have ' Been Held. New York. Oct. 27 At National League headquarters it was officially stated today that there had been no conferences in reference to the unifi cation of National and Federal League interests. Further an emphatic de nial was made that any conference be tween representatives of these leagues bad taken place. Secretary Foster, of the New York National League club, said: "The Giants are not for sale. There is not a word of truth in the story." "I don't believe either Mr. Weegh man or Mr. Walker ever made such a statement," paid President Gilmore, of the Federal League when shown, the report from Chicago. "There is no use in my saying anything further as I know that neither of them could have said anything of the kind." WARNS AMERICAN LEAGUERS Not to Play Post-Season Game Against Federal Players. Chicago, Oct. 2T. Players under con tract, to organized baseball were warn ed today by President Johnson of the American League,, not to , play post season games against picked teams when Federal Leaguers are engaged. Jtteports reached resident Johnson that Scott and Weaver, of'the Chicago Americans ha' played against a team which included Grover Gilmore and Felix Chouinard. Federal League Play ers. "The National commission has issued a ruling cover.ng -this -point," Johnson said, and Players who violate the or der are playing with. -lire." MR. N1MQCKS ENTERS RAGE Fayetteviile Man Formally Announces Hie Candidacy for Cougres Front Sixth District. (Special Star Correspondence.) Fayetteviile, N. C., Oct. 27. Hon. Q. K. Nimocks, former State senator and prominent lawyer of Fayetteviile, def initely announced his candidacy for Congress today. Mr. - Nimocks an nounced some time ago that he would make a survey of the' field and if the conditions were favorable . he would become a candidate for Mr. Godwin's seat. -He has made that survey and says he is convinced the . outlook is assuring. In making his announcement today, Mr. Nimocks said that if elected he would lend active support to the Na tional Democratic administration, being in full sympathy with its present leg islative' programme for rural credits; American merchant marine, and a larger, stronger army and navy for na tional defense. .Mr. Nimocks announced his willing ness to take part in Joint canvass of all the candidates of both parties before the primary next June. SHOT WIFE TO DEATH - Gaylord vs. Berry, Brunswick, Remand edLumber Company vs. Lumber ComaauyCoiuishus, Affirm ed Culbreth vs. A C. L. (Special Star Telegram.) Raleigh, N. C., Octs 27. The Su preme Court delivered' opinions this evening in 14 appeals 'as follows: Nall vs. Kelly, Lee county, reversed; Thomas vs. Bennett; Onslow, affirmed: Hill vs. Norfolk Southern Railway Co., Lenoir; reversed; Kinston Cotton Mi1 vs. Atlantic Coast Line Railway, Le noir, no error; Kemp vs. Norfolk Southern Railway (Jo., Wake, amrmed; Hardware Company, vs. Raleigh Bank ing & Trust Co.. Wake,- affirmed; Weeks, vs. Western Union Telegraph Co., Wake, no error; Raleigh Banking & Trust Co., vs. Leach and Pace, Wake, reversed;-. Glenn vs. Glenn, Wake, new trial; Culbreth vs. Atlantic Coast Line Railway, Columbus, reversed; Gaylord vs. Berry, Brunswfck,. remanded; Goins vs. School TrusteesRobeson," no error; Howell vs. Norfol Southern Railway Co., Wake, per curiam, -amrmed; Gard ner and Lacy Lumber Co., vs. White ville Lumber Co., Columbus, the court being equally divided ?n opinion, Judge. Allen not sitting, the judgment stands affirmed. In Hill, administrator, vs. Norfolk Southern, from Lenoir, order of non suit by Judge Rountree is reversed on the ground that there was evidence that should have gone to the jury tenj)g to prove that the deceased was down on the track through having fallen in an epileptic fit and should have been seen and protected by the engineer. Associated Justice Brewn files a dissenting opinion insisting that all the evidence relied on in this con nection Is "the : veriest guess work." The deceaseds was killed on the track "between Kinston and LaGrange De cember 23. 1911, close by Dawson's crossing. There will be a new trial. In Hardware Company vs. Raleigh Banking & Trust Co., the opinion af firms the lower court in a judgment for $4,000 balance on terra cotta ma terials for the splendid banking house on Fayetteviile street. The bank re. sisted payment on the ground that J. B. carr & Co., the contractors, had al ready received the full amount of the contract. Carr'A? Company were build ing the- barflcing house, the city audi torium and two buildings at the A. & M. College at the same time and doing their banking with the defendant bank, and the court holds that money advanced was partly chargeable to the other contracts they had and not all to the bank building account. ' Wake County Negro Jailed Five Call i dren. . . (Special Star Telegram.) Raleigh, N. C, Oct. 27 Will Brid gers, colored, was brought to Raleigh and 'jailed tonight for. wife murder. He shot his wife: to death tonight near Milbumie during a family row. There are ,flve children. There was another negro man at the house and Bridgers claims that his wife was unfalthf ul. The Original LINER BALTIC SAILS WITH CARGO FOR ENTENTE ALLIES Also Carries One of Largest Passenger Lists' Since War Began. To Drive Out Malaria J And Bnild Up the System Take the Old Standard GROVE'S TASTELESS chill TONIC . You know what ycu are taking, as the formula is printed on , every label, showing it is Quinine and Iron in a. tasteless form. The Quinine drives out malaria, the Iron Jmilds up. the system. CO cents. New York, Oct. 27. The White Star Line steamship Baltic sailed today for Liverpool laden with war munitions for the Entente . allies. She also had one of the largest . passenger lists of any ship since : the , outbreak of the war. : , " ' '.;?-. 'v. Lashed to the forward main deck of the Baltic were 12 aeroplanes, and with them went , five British aviators who have, been spending a furlough in- the United States. - The passengers includ ed 48 saloon, 200 second cabin, ..and 350 third cabin, v. -r , CAUTION 5gAvoki Substitutes ' 3 jsH3M.S.A OVERSEAS "AGENTS TO GO ABROAD THIS WEEK (Continued -from Page One.) partment of commerce that the cor poration was prepared to begin opera tions in . accordance with conditions outlined in the Secretary's letter' which wafc considered today at the directors' meeting in New York. - A conference win be held at the department tomorro-wto arrange the details of government . co-operation with the new enterprise. . 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Spragrue died at his fcoma i hers today alter a protracted illness, aged 84 years; bavlnV Returned . very recently from Alcflen, Tyhera;fce spent the sum mer to improve , his health thereby A native of Morganton. he married Miss Kate Badger Hale, of this city, in 1394, and she and one son survive. Mr. Sprague was widely known as a traveling salesman, having been sales manager for the Sharp & Dohme Company, manufacturing chemists, of Baltimore and New York, and president of the W. H. King Drug Company, of this city. He was a director- of the At lantic & North Carolina "railroad through appointment by Governor Craig. He made his home in Wil mington a number of years. SALE OF MATTER:. '' ' ; ' - : : The . , SOUTHERN EXPRESS COMPANY will sell, at Public Auction, for Cash, to the highest bidder, on .December 4th, 1915, unclaimed ipatter which has been on hand six months" or more. Sale conducted by F. W. Peif fer, on vacant lot next to Mur ehison National Bank building; Wilmington. N. C. W. 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