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5 ' .v . T -i . - t 1 . . . . r Patriot i V I PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY I1 esTABLISHED 1821 1 ! GREENSBORO, N. C, MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 1915 VOL. 94 NO. 7 r.t-i tJSliEENSBORD tinnrn TIT nmtin nAnll I LOCAL m m DftiM ruMi a fT? TVTKRRHT Tfl TTTR MATT.tw J-l REAl . . " ' FAKAiyuxiJiMV. I Won UAAt T1 ri di en. . Traveims w - ror Tual meeuub .i:nrr AT ItTKHI. 1 .lllllir.l 111 T r 1 4. J1 a I ,-;dh ommercmi iraveiera i the Luul . . be nem w was J I w-ott-Hujjne. iyii . iiiiici own no ... a i i . rt I Thursday night at tne uuiue ui rvev. P Walker, on Asueuuru sireei, t-n nerlOI illtrli me v i w j . i -r i-p, New Job Mr. Lex O'Brien, .i, vnnwn Dharmacist, who at in " time held a position with Con- ow kes has acceptea a posi- vi in cgipm lecture on e . . w t v -in -i n ?on. ot tne li- Jnf,,.iatini, T- i nt. cieiaeieu i x" . J. ."" I ture m the Jamestown nign scaoox auditorium iriua.y in&nc -m v. Lee. the Gentleman." 'Robert Scutch Lecturer. Rev. Dr. Hugh ii-rk- a noted Scotch minister and lecturer, delivered an entertaining lecture at the State Normal and In dustrial College Friday night on imprica Through Scotch Spec tacles." Pied Saturday Night. Mrs. C. L. sPVAell died Saturday night at her j.ome at McArloo heights, a short dis- f,rfP north of the city. She is sur- UU'. vivtd by her husband and two chil dren: her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Fields: three brothers and a sister. Aged Woman Dead. Mrs. Austin ( . oble, one of the oldest women of southeastern Guilford, died at her hone Friday morning. She was 80 vmm old and had been in feeble health for some time. She is sur vived by three sons and a daughter. ThP funeral was held at Low's church Saturday at 11 o'clock. -iiris many disagreeable days in Greens boro during the present winter, but yesterday just about the worst. A combination of sleet and rain that beean falling about 11 o'clock in the forenoon continued until after night fall, and this morning found the '-'round covered with a coating of ice that made walking both difficult and dacgerou Heath of Infant. The 12-months- o!d son of Mr. and Mrs. James R Young died Thursday in New York, where it hud been carried for surgi cal treatment. The funeral was neld baturday afternoon from the home of the parents on Tate street and in terment made in Greene Hill ceme tery. The services were conducted by Rev. Dr. Melton Clark and Rev. R. Murphy Williams. Hiatt Barker Wpfldino- Mr TP H. Hiatt. a well known vnnn? man residing near High Point, and Miss Gypsie Barker, who has been a teacher in the GlenwnnH Krhnni were married Friday night at the borne of Rev. J. Clyde Turner, who Performed the rpremnnv Mrs Hiatt is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E n RarL-x f t,.u ji -iivi , vj 1 uui iictixi. eiiiii 1 a an 1 aomplished young woman lair People Meet. Renresenta- Iivs of a numhpr r,f m. oht,q 1&irs held a meeting here Saturday ---'-' 11 J 4 til Cb 1 VtlUU aril entrain iry , ,. , -c--o--i in o. f,ciici ixi u lauusaiuu 1 matters relating to the business. r "'as decided to ask the legislature fo: fprtQm x.. certain legislation for the protec- of fairs in this Rtat An Ua'ion was formed by the election l"ar B. Moore, of Charlotte, as President; Garland Daniel, of Greens- 1 'T0, secretary and treasurer, sral vice presidents. and "ek (roes Home Clarence Pan ".0t( a member of Greensboro's r - v 1 ST;, - . I f, . 11- rnucty iuumiii& Mw York, from which he will Saturday for his native land to m the Greek army. In order in 111s citizenship as a Greek ' -J"'1- t is necessary for Panagio- - ePort ior military auty Dy Jry 15, and being a loyal sub- ",c 01 Greece, ue um uuuhjm for immoral purposes. ine if.. 'tatp to rptnrn tn hia native land . " " 1 picsunuea penoa 01 bc"1 J 'he Krmv Ui I flO ri f., j , J m--wrinn I ... IX. KrltniinrVo Haa r Mr XV . K.. I ' i onds, a well known young law- " t High Point and formerly Se of jjie recorder's court in that 1 , j d'ed of tuberculosis Thursday ew Mexico, to which state he had sone for the benefit of his health eral months ago. Shortly before h 18 health hrokP Hwn Mr Edmonds married to a daughter of ex- Sberiff nnH m o Tr - Uovnoa nf Airy. Tho; is en roule to Mt. a;,. . .. . . . .! 1 j iur tne iunerai auu mioi- Mnilaii ra..! -r j . i 70; arrested here Saturdav nifrht . " Sheriff Stafford and Deputy Joe PMpps on the strength of a message from t. hftHf nr " v - - . uwtiauu VW UlilJ statins: that the nH " x uo nauvcu -- tfte murder of his hrnthor o """"" V xaurmDurg on December 22. On be , t . . ... . I ttixcoteu ucticu coniessea that he the man wanted, saying he had killed his hmthftr in calf Aafrc. I a - -w u. wvii UC1CUSC. I waa piaceu in jail to await the tv . . I wea at Kipe um Age Mrs. Emily jdue weiKer, wnose aeath at her I iui ill ouutucasiciu UUlllUrU last I Wednesday, was briefly mentioned Thursday's Patriot, was the vid the late Rev. George W. Welk- uu jccio ui ner ueam resulted from a stroke of paralysis. She is survived by two sons and two uaufciiicio lucoai B. JUIUtiSL H.nil t . I w k f fiaRtpr aiHifnrH Mr- F- Coble and Mrs. Mary Lidell, of Burlineton. Th funprat t.h intPr. a T,rc,0 tt, Hone church. Y. M. C. A. Meeting. Greensboro will send several delegates to the twelfth annual convention of the Carolina Young Men's Christian As- sociations. which will be held at Winston-Salem, January 29, 30 and 31. The convention will be compos ed of delegates from all the associa tion in both of the Carolinas. The meeting promises to be one of the largest yet held and it is expected that the greatest number of dele- gates will attend of any of the pre- vious meetings held since the asso- ciation was organized. Given Seven Years. James John- son, alias "Portland Ned," one of the most notorious postof fice robbers in the country, who spent several months in the Guilford county jail last summer and fall, was found guilty in the United States court at Raleigh Friday of robbing the post- office at Siler City last April. Upon conviction- Johnson entered a plea of guilty to the charge of having robbed the postoffice at Plymouth 17 years ago. He was given five years in the federal penitentiary at Atlanta for the Siler City robbery and two years for the Plymouth job. T. A. Conway, "Portland Neds ac- complice in the Siler City robbery, was sentenced to the penitentiary for five years. LARGEST VERDICT EVER GIVEN IN THIS COUNTY. The January civil term of Guil ford Superior court came to an end Saturday and this morning Judge Lyon convened a week's criminal term. What is said to be the largest ver- diet ever returned in a damage suit in Guilford county was given in case brought against the Southern Railway by John T. Hunt, adminis- trator of P. M. Hunt, who was run over and killed by a train at the fair grounds crossing last summer. The plaintiff sued for $30,000 and was 1 1 given a verdict for $15,000. W. C. Lewis. Who brOUKht SUit - 1 against the North Carolina fUDiic Service Company for $3,000 for al- i . leged personal injuries, was given a verdict for $300. I The iurv gave Robert L. rMewton n I a verdict for one cent in a $b,uuu damage suit against the Southern Rniiwav for nersonal iniuries alleg- Railway for personal injuries alleg- ed to have been receivea wnue m the employ of the company. Double Life Brings Arrest. T.nrivs Triton Rogers. the New York lawyer whose matrimonial and love affairs have been under inves- rwniinr k 1 ik ijclc um. Tm.wi- Mrg Ida Walters, motner or nis two children, poisoned the children and herseiff was arrested Friday after the grand jury returned an indict mant A?Ajn8t him. The indictment charges him with violati0n of the penal code in in- .lipinr Mn, Walters to live with i i, PF -,- oo o folnnv law ciaBoiiitja nits uucuoc to , the maximum penalty tor wnicn 1a I. . a. m r. n c ..... . ... imprisonment iur jeais xi c mi J 1 v. nnnaltv Q ii t u nne. xiits uiiuiuiuui icxi.T tWQ years. imprisonment. t ttoo VioiH in 47 K00 bail. .v.i-,i, v. xxroa nnohio tn furnish, and was locked up. wuivu uc n no umwi.w ' Rural Credits. Although there may be no opportunity to enact rur, credits legislation at this session or Congress, senate Democrats have re- sumed activity on ubject w th o iHow to renortins: a bill in the near BULLET W0ONDPR0YED FATAL JOHN SWAIM DIED SATURDAY NIGHT TWO SUSPECTS UNDER ARREST. Mr. John Swaim, of Pleasant Gar den, who was waylaid and shot by , , . LWU sroes last weanesaay evening about 7 o'clock at .a point on the Al- man OP. rhlimh rnaH n on r Hnn h Rnf. ' " ' vuvu ia,lu weeni uieu at iu o ciock satur- -i . was reaiizea irom tne first that the wuuuu was OI a very serious nature wv ii'j un.iiiiia nciu. uui, Diigui uPe oi recovery The fatal bullet struck Mr. Swaim in the ri&ht side and penetrated the " iau ucciupcu Pneumonia after being carried to the hospital Pleasant Garden section and enioved " " " auuviu m lac the confidence of the public. He was member of the Jr. O. U. A. M. and the members of the Pleasant rr den council of that order will attend tne funeral today in a body Mr- waim was a son of the late we&ster bwaim, who died about tnree years ago as the result of an acciaent - we is survived by his wid- ow and one child TWO NEGROES ARRESTED AS ALLEGED SLAYERS. Ed. Walker and Jesse Dorsett, both colored, are in jail charged with the assault on Mr. Swaim. They were arrested Thursday afternoon and the officers think thev have a strong case against both of them. The evidence aeainst Walker in particular is regarded as ptetty strong. He had on when arrested a pair of shoes with peculiar heels. He denied having been in the sec- tion of the country where Mr. Swaim was shot at any recent time, but when his shoes were carried to the place of the attack and other places along Buffalo creek, where tracks of the men led, the shoes worn by Walker were found to fit well into the tracks that were there found. Al- so near the place of the shooting was found a notebook which was the nroperty of the negro and an anrdi- cation for accident insurance with his name on it. He had no exnlana- tion to offer as to how these got to that point. The other set of tracks did not fit the shoes Dorsett wore at the time of his arrest, but the officers have learned that he had on another pair of shoes Wednesday afternoon. Both negroes dropped their caps near the scene of the assault, and these are expected to play an important part in working up the evidence. Death of Thomas L. Johnson. Mr. Thomas L. Johnson, a Confed- erate veteran and a respected citizen of the summerfield section, died at his home Friday morning at 10.30 Gclock He was 74 years of age and had always made his home in Guil ford county Mr. Johnson served L,ritVi the firuth Hiirin? the war be- m iiw 0 Uween the states, and was a member of the Guilford Camp of the United Confederate Veterans. The funeral was held Saturday afternoon at Cen tpr rhnrc.h. Rev. Mr. Johnson, of the Methodist church, conducted the services. Mr. Johnson was a consis- Tr.t momhpr of the Methodist tent member of church. 1 The deceased had a number of rel atives in Greensboro and a large cir cle of acquaintances here. Mrs. I. B Hudson, of this city, is his sister, and he was a brother of Mr. B. W Johnson, of Stokesdale, Mr. J, W. Johnson ' of Brown Summit, and a half-brother of Mr. Sterling John son, of Winston-Salem. Mr. Ha Johnson, who is in the government service here, is a son of the deceas ed and other children arj Mrs. W. C. Ogburn, of Greensboro and Miss Notre Johnson, of the old home place. A Filibuster. Republican opposi tion to the government ship pur chase bill has taken on all the evi dences of a filibuster. Senator Bur ton, who talked the rivers and har bors bill to death at the last session, leads the attack. City Employes Fired. The mayor of Terre Haute, Ind., who is under indictment for election frauds, has fired from office all the city employ es who plead guilty to similar in dictments. The virtuou3 mayor says he won't retain in office men who plead guilty of crime. . . v n . , i YOUNG WOMAN FACES - CHARGE OF LARCENY. The case charging Miss Loula M. Riley with the larceny of several ar ticles from the store of Ellis, Stone & Co., where she was formerly em ployed as a clerk, was called in Mu nicipal court Saturday morning and had not been concluded when the court adjourned late in the after noon. It will be finished todav. No case tried in Greensboro in a long while has aroused so much pub lic interest. The hearing was at tended by a large crowd, a number of ladies being in the audience. Re cently Miss Riley entered suit in the Superior court of Lee county against Ellis, Stone & Co. for $15,000 dam ages for having charged her with theft, and about the time the sum mons was served the head of the firm swore out the warrant charging Miss Riley with larceny. Evidence introduced by the state tended to show that Miss Riley had taken several articles from the store, including two wash rags, a piece of silk and a pair of hose. She was charged with the theft on the even ing of December 4 and when her room was searched several other ar ticles were found and identified as having fome from the store. Miss Riley went on the witness stand and denied the larceny charge in toto. She explained that she hatd not made a charge ticket for the two wash rags and a piece of silk found n ner handbag on the evening of December 2 on account of beiner in terrupted by a customer before the transaction was completed. Several citizens of Sanford, where Miss Riley resides, testified to her good character. Messrs. A. L. Brooks and E. D. Kuykendall are appearing for the prosecution, miss uuey is repre sented by Col. John A. Barringer and ex-Judge W. P. Bynum. PAGE DENOUNCES THE - - v GREENSBORO DAILY NEWS Raleigh, Jan. 23. A storm of ap plause swept through the house of representatives this morning when Representative Henry A. Page, de nounced on the floor of the house an editorial in the Greensboro Daily News of Friday as both false and mancious. ine editorial tnat was being especially denounced was that charging that Speaker Wooten had made finance committee appoint ments of "stand-patters" in return for the retirement of Representative Bowie from the speakership contest the arch offense being the naming oi Doughton as chairman and the sub sequent agreement of the joint fin ance committee to sit steady in matters of tax revision and appro priations. Mr. Page declared that the fact was that Chairman Dough- ton was much the most progressive speaker in connection with the joint finance committee conference in question. He said that he wanted to emphasize the declaraiton that in every case the editorial statements were false and the inferences malic ious. Mr. Page was tendered a vote o: thanks for the denunciation, on mo tion or Kepresentative (Jurrie, ana then Chairman Doughton took hand and, in the course of a digni fied statement, stirred another out burst of applause when :e character ized the editorials as "dreams of man who would injure a great poiit ical party." He added that his com mittee would "undertake to save money to the taxpayers and would not be deterred by poln cal dream ers." American Official Reported Shot. George C. Carothers, American state department representative, who has been accompanying Gen. Villa in Mexico since early in the revolution against former President Huerta, was shot and seriously wounded Friday at Aguas Calientes, Mex. according to a report received at tbje Carranza agency in El Paso. Texa. The report ridiculed by Vil la oflicials in El Paso and in Juarez, who idmit, however, lack of positive information. Efforts to communi cate ,with Aguas Calientes, which is nearly 800 miles south of Juarez, were retarded because the wires were given over to military dis- patcles governing troop movements and operations in the Villa armies. Inhibit Liauor Ads. A bill has been introduced in the Alabama leg- islatkre to prohibit whiskey adver- UseAents in the newspapers in that. staU N THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY PROCEEDINGS OF THE STATE'S LAWMAKERS IN THE SENATE AND HOUSE. Charging that the Wilmingtcnand Weldon railroad has flagrantly dis regarded the condition under which the road was authorized by statute to consolidate with other railroads n the formation of the Atlantic Coast Line railroad in its having merged further into the Atlantic Coast Line of Virginia and claiming to be non-resident and not subject to the jurisdiction of the state courts, Senator Gilliam has intro duced in the senate a bill to repeal the acts of 18 9 3 and 1899 authoriz ing the mergers and directing that the attorney general of the state in stitute suit in the name of the state for the dissolution of the mer gers effected in the consolidation in this state and proceed to have re ceivers appointed and the individ ual lines of the system in this state sold. The bill went to the commit tee on railroads. The senate has passed the Allen ill from the house providing that for the future any rules of contempt issued bv a judge, except in cases of acts in the presence of the court. must be returnable before some dge other than the one issuing the rule. The Miller bill to make it unlaw ful to give liquor to minors was pass ed after having been forced over by objection from the previous day's session. A bill backed by the recommenda tion of Governor Craig has been introduced by Mintz, of Wayne, to create a board of managers to han dle the finances of the state insti tutions, except the penitentiary, three members to receive $3,000 each and take the place of the vari ous institutional directorates. - Roberto, of Buncombe, fca iutror duced an Australian ballot bill m which will be held in committee un til Senator Hobgood introduces one somewhat similar in the senate, so that the two can be considered to gether. Representative Roberts, of Bun combe, has introduced in the house a bill "to provide for the reclamation and training of juvenile delinquents, youthful violators of the law and their proper custody and the proba tion system." It would apply to children up to 18 years and include dependent destitute children, home less or abandoned. Recorders or oth er city courts and Superior courts would under the bill have jurisdic lion. f rouanon omcers to act as big brothers or sisters are provided, as well as ultimate commitment to a reformatory or institution if pro bation fails. Investigations are to be entirely separate from courts and have no semblance to court proceed ings. The Dunning bill for the division of the state into an eastern and a western circuit of Superior courts, instead of the long-established pres ent system of one circuit and state wide rotation of the judges, was car ried in the house by an overwhelm ing majority, after being strenuously opposed by numbers of the represen tatives as tending to decrease the in termingling of the people of the two sections and the creation of some thing of a Mason and Dixon line in North Carolina. On the other hand advocates of the measure argued that the making of two circuits was no more than having two religious conferences, dioceses or other divi sions for the better prosecution of the work to be furthered. Representative Roberts has intro duced the regular State Forestry As sociation bill for protection of the forests of the state from fires through provision for fire wardens and designed to induce federal co operative work in this service. Senator Miller has introduced a bill to amend the revenue act so as to eliminate double taxes in the case of mortgaged property through the mortgagee payyng on the solvent credit and the mortgagor on the nroperty involved. Woman suffrage bills were intro duced in both houses of the legisla ture Saturday, Senator Hobgood be ing the medium in the senate and Representative Roberts, of Bun combe, In the house. The bills have what Senator Hobgood terms a "granamotner clause to protect the . votes of the women until 1918, much jas the famous grandfather clause for men operated in the elimination of jthe negro vote. In fact, it is an amendment for the grandfather clause to apply to women voters un til 1918. Just what strength the bills will muster is problematical, ac cording to leading members of th assembly. That there is not the ghost of a chance for passage is gen erally conceded. STUBBORN BATTLE IN PROGRESS IN ALSACE Except in Alsace, where a stub born battle has been in progress fof several days, the fighting has been comparatively light in both eastern and western fronts. These have been heavy gun bombardments and a fight for a trench here and there, but no battle considered worthy of extended mention. Siege warfare continues and ac cording to the opinion of the mili tary experts, it will go on until the ground hardens sufficiently to en able one of the commanders to move a large body of men with a snepd that will permit him to surprise his opponent and enable him to find & weak spot in the line. In the east along the old front from the lower Vistula to Galicia and in the Carpathians the two arm ies remain in about the same posi tions as two months ago, all efforts of the Germans to break down the Russian resistance seemingly having failed and the Russian attempt to drive the Austro-German back to Cracow having met a similar fate. In the north, however, the new Russian offensive apparently have carried them well toward the Ger man frontier, without meeting se rious resistance. The Russian advance into Tran sylvania is reported checked by a large Austrian force in the moun tains, while snow prevents the Mus covites going farther through the Carpathians, although they hold ail the- passes in readiness for the day when the weather will permit re sumption of the. forward -eaevemeat. No mention has been 'mad od Br ing the last few days of the fate of the remnants of the Turkish arm ies which Russian reports previous ly said had been defeated in the Caucasus, but military men here be lieve the Russians, having use for their men elsewhere, have decided not to push on to Erzerum. The Russian fleet, according to re ports, still is busy in the Black Sea sinking Turkish sailing ships. This is taken as evidence that re ports that the Turkish cruiser Goe ben had been put out of action were not exaggerated. Another German Attack on England Fails. London, Jan. 24. An attempt by a German cruiser squadron to repeat the recent attack on Scarborough, the Hartlepools and other British coast towns, was frustrated today Dy the British patrolling squadron, and in a running fight the German arm ored cruiser Bluecher was sunk and two German battle cruisers seriously damaged. The British ships suffered only slight injury. So far as is knowu only 123 of the Bluecher's crew of 8S5 were saved. A battle also occurred between the light cruisers and destroyers accom panying the bigger ships, bu the result of the engagement has not yet reached the admiralty. The British were superior in i?bips engaged, weight of armament and speed and the flight of the German ships into the mine and submarine infested field possibly saved them from further losses. Agree on Ship Purchae Bill. Washington, Jan. 23. Senate Democrats in caucus late today reached final agreement on the ship purchase bill and adopted a resolu tion making it a party measure. Three Democrats voted against it, but later it was made unanimous. No material amendments to the bill as perfected in previous caucuses were advanced. The principal differ ences of opinion arose on Senator Hoke Smith's amendment to provide that the government, after restora tion of normal world conditions, should lease purchased ships to pri vate concerns instead of operating them through a government-controlled corporation. The amendment was defeated after prolonged debate. Chairman Kern announced tCat the caucus that two-thirds of the Democrats had oted for the resolu tion to make the bill a party meas ure. Several Democrats, hoirerer, were not present when that action w&s taken. - . '1 v: v3 si -s.i t i V -'It 4 v n- future. V
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