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Tuesday Rlight, February 22nd at the Chamber of Commerce (Rooms--Remember f WEATHER FORECAST FAIR TONIGHT AND CLOl'DY, Sl.KiHTLY WARMER. SalS&toiuflry Evesniim g Posit THE TOST receives in lU IBca dally a leased wire report of Tho Aaaoclated Press. Ita sews sourc es are not excelled by any news, paper in North Carolina. ' . . VOL. 12. NO. .11. SALISBURY. NORTH CAROLINA THI RSDAY, FEB. 17. 1916. PBICI TWO CENTO SPEAK OLT! Let a POST want ad. act as your spokesman when you want help, want to aell, or want to buy. THEY GO HOME. D. L BEASLEY IE ;e HOSEY COOK FOl Nl) (il'ILTY OF MURDER IN SECOND DEtiKEE IN KILLING JEFFRIES. Househurning Case is Attracting Much Attention and Many Wit nesses are Being Examined Thin Case Closes Criminal l.rkct of February Term Next Week the Civil Docket Will Be Taken BEASLY CI II.TY. Cook gets 7 years on the county roads, (he sentence be ing passed by Judge Furgesm this afternoon. The jury came in after 3 o'clock with a ver dict of Kuillv in Beasly's case. He was given two years on the county roads. The Bos;y Cook murder ru.se completed Wednesday aft . moon was the case consuming the entire day and .'oing to the jury hife in thf ter nonn. Thut !y was out all night and before court ope-id this morning h was stated that the jury hud agreed on a verdict. When curt convened the verdi.t wa- taken and was guilty of murder in the secon i decree. So licitor Clement had asked only for a verdict of this kind, although the de fendant was first indicted for murder in the first degree. As soo.i as the verdict was announced the prsone? i ,tence latea The court can givj from i two to twenty years in the peniten tiary for murder in the second dei Cook killed Gamewell Jeffries (Iranite Quarry a year ago. Beasley Case Now On. As soon as the murder case wa dispose.! of the case against 1). I.. Beasley, the well known wh't? man. was called. Beasley is indicted on a charge of houscfiurning, it being con tended that he burned an unoccupied house just north of Spencer, on March 7, 1914, in order to conceal a crime of stealing goods from a Southern freight car. Or of thp rhripf State witnesses s Howard Jones, who is now serving time for car robber", and who was brought here from the State camp rear Whifney to ta-sti'y in this case. Jones related to the jury this morn imz of how he and Beasley robbed a car by throwing out near this house after hav'ng broken into a car at a small station across the river and con cealed themselves in the same. Then they, so Jones says, carried the goods to the old unoccupied house. Later, he states Beasley toll him he got soared and fired the housa. Present at this trial is Deputy Insurant-; Commissioner Scott. Beasley is represented by R. Lee Wright, Esq., wh'le Solicitor Clement is being assited byiL. H. . Climent, Esq. The case, which is' the last on the criminal docket, will consume all of today and may run into Friday. Next week the civil docket w 11 be taken up. Grand Jury's Report. The following is the report of the grand jury for the February term of Rowan Super'or court which com plete its -work Wednesday after noon ! To His Honor, Judge Ferguson. Pre . aiding: We, the grand jury of the Febru ary term beg to report as follows: We have acted on all bills of indict mtji'. presented by the Soli -itor and I o ill other matters brought to out aVrrtion. IV comimttee we inspected the sheriff's oftVe. office of the Superior court, treasurer, register of deed and county auditor and found the same in a clean, neat and sanitary condition. In a body we visited the county jail and found same in a clean and neat condition. W find the county home . well kept wnd every th ng in good order; the mm tea are well cared for. We find the matron an efficient manager and I a 1 - ti . iL 1 A.X. - ? I BURNING A NOW oenpre wnc fins to weuarc uk tae in- NO FICTION COMMAND, THEY SAY ' ' - - H & J" - ' i V if f General Goethals. General Goethals, buinrer of the Panama Canal, and General Edwards, n command of the United States troops there, have come back to th ited States for a visit. This photo - A SEABOARD AIR LINE IS WRECKED Engine and Tender Jumps Track and j Precipiates Cars Down Steep Em bankment None Killed But Num bers are Injured. (By Associated Press.) Richmond, Va., Fefo. 17.-Seaboard j Air Line Florida limited No. 10, run- i ning at htirh -peed, was wrecked at i Kinirsland Bridge while running thru! Dn i niontotn t in-M nVWk ' his morning. The engine and tender jumped the track making a gap in the j-ails arei ties and this threw the coadhes down a steep embankment. Reports from the scene state that by a miracle r.o one was killed, but that 1 A I . .- .! ' . - I I I I Kill stll..(l ill if , . . . u . i les, senously :ruured. The '"Jred were seni wj a xvrtinivnu m-ojiwu. Anyhow when Secretary Garrison resigned, he did not head at once for Lincoln, Neb., or Detroit, Mich. Bos ton Record. mates and home at heart There are 16 inmates at the home. The roof and doors of several build ings are in a very bad condition, also the floors of two rooma. ".We recom mend that the needed repairs be at tended to at once. We sugigest that the county buy two milch cows for the home. There are. five boys and three wo men at the workhouse. They are in good cheer and seem to be well cared for. The work houe is in good con dition. By committee we visited the two convict camps. At No. 1 we found four white and 21 colored convicts. They are well fa.l and clothed. The camp is in good condition. The sleeping depart-'jnent-. is very good. There are 19 mules in rood condition. At eamp No. 2 we recommend a J anger cooking department and a new itove at once. Everything else it in good contrition. There Vre four white and 19 colored convicts. They are well fed and clothed. There are IS mules in good condition. Respecbfirlly submitted, . j'P. D. PATTERSON, Ftoreman Grand Jury. IN PANAMA General Edwards. photoffraph was taken to show thi t j reports of discord between them ar j not true. They seemed to be the bes; j of friends when tthey decided to face. ; the camera togethei. ffiXS SHIP READY FOR HER TRIAL The Big Super-Dreadnaught, Penn sylvania, Leaves for Her Speed and Standardizatign Trial Off the Ccvst of Maine la the Most Pow erful Sea-Fighters Afloat. (By Associated Press.) Newport News, Feb. 17. The su- per-dreadnaught Pennsylvania, the largest battleship yet built for the United States navy left the pUnt of he Newport News Shipbuilding and i,Irj Dock Co., for Rockland, Maine there to remain until she bens the official government speed test and un dergo requ red trial. The first two days -of her voyage will be devoted to tests by hsc builders and the govern ment test is set for February 22nd w'hen the standardization trial over a measured course off the Maine coast n . . . , . . , , The Pennsylvania with her battery f 12 14-inch r'ftes, mounted in four turrets is declared to be the most powerful sea fighter yet afloat. A broadside from her big guns is said to be greater than from tie Queen Elizabeth, which mounts 8 15-inch guns. The Pensylawnia is 600 fee Ion? and will have a full load displacement Lof nearly 3300 tons. She is 97 pe- cent completed and will be ready for delivery in a few months. 10 Die in Theatre Collapse. Mexia. Tex., Feb. 17. Ten person? were killed here earjy last night ir the collapse of the opera house bu'ld ing, which was Ifollowed by a gas ex plosion and' fire that for a time threatened' the bsuiness section of the town. Numerous persons were injur ed. PRESIDENT INVITED TO N. C. Washington, Feb. 17. Presi dent Wilson was asked by Sena tors Simmons and Overman to day to vieit AsheviUe to attend a gathering of governors of the States near NqrtV Carolina on a date to e selected. He said he would acept if possible. The Senators told the Presi dent ho woild be invited to visit Char lotto ok May 20th. ! THOUSANDS ARE HOMELESS AND FOOD IS SCARCE CREVASSES IX THE LEVEE CAUSE OVERFLOW OF THE MISSISSIPPI. Three Known to Have Bern I.okI ir the Floodx and Rescue Partir; nr. Out After ThoMe Marooned Ne groes Housted in (Vtton -' m-r Scarce of Fo4d St. Joseph, Louis iana is Flooded. (By Associated Pr.s-.) New Orleans, Feb. IT- Floods of a water from the' Crevasses i:i ti'n Mississippi river at llibui !i Rid.re an near the town ol bt. Joseph. 1 1 it to or- are,.s or volunteers are jo ning to or- i ganize parties for the relief of ma rooned person nd take them tr places of safety. A scarcity of boab mukes the work hard and food is a jrdblem at Newelton. There several 'housand negroes refugees are ''loused in cotton gins and out houses with scarcely food for one .lay. Below Ntw Orleans at Ostricj vhere the crevasses were reoorted last night orly slight damages is re oorted. Natchez, M'ss., Feb. Hi. -Approx-matfly seventy-five thousand acre? of farm land are inundated, three per sons are known to have been drownei1 arr',1 several thousand refugees are marooned in the overflowed area to--ight as a result of breaks yesterday in the Mississippi river levee near NeweHon, La. All of the dead are natrons. M. Jacoby, a merchant at Nswf.uin. in a telephone message late todiy made an urgent appeal to rescue per sons cut off from escape in isolated sections in the vicinity of the cre vasse. "We are in a desperate condition," Mr. Jacoby sail. "Water range from six inches to six feet in Newel ton and fheire is only one motoHSouf available to rescue a thousand or more persons marooned on the oppo site side of Lake St. Joseph. The boat made trips back and forth last night and today, bringing the refu gees here and continued tonight, but the means of rescue are inadequate. Since the water swept over the rail road tracks we are without means of scape and boats to remove those of the residents who did not leave yes terday are anxiously awaited. Many of those here are wom-n and chil dren. "From this side of the lake houses an be seen floating aiwy in the flood. Whether they are occupied is not known. Many head of livestock have been- carried away in the over flow." The government steamer La Fourche left Natchez today with a numi'jer of small boats and rescue crews. The levee board local committee has established a refugee camp hei" and Governor Hall, of Lou'siana, has been askeli to secure funds to providf for the refugees. N. C. to Have More Boys at Annapo iis. Washington, Feb. 16. North Oaro lina will get twelve mor? boys at Annapolis because of the Oill passed by Congress last week. Senator Ov erman made his nominations today. Turner Wiesley Battle, son of Jac ob Bottle, of Rocky Mount, is princ -pal; Raleigh Staaton Hales, of Wil son, first alternate, and Francis Rog ers York, Of Charlotte, second alter nate. Representative Page has named Albert Ray Turner, of Hamlet, prin cipal; Harry E. Hood, of Waxhaw, first alternate. The examinations will be .hell June 18. Other appointments will be made within a few days. The hotel clerk will tell you that he sometime has difficulty in get ting a rise out of a guest who leaves an early call. A novel should have s happy end ing, oven though it may be necessary to divorce the hero and heroine in the last chapter. v INTEREST IN THE WAR OPERATIONS A SHIFTED THE ( AP' PLACES IT RE OF EREERI M A NEW PHASE ON 'I'll E SITUATION. 1 nolliciiil Advicen Report That the Troops arr Fleeing Westward kiishiu Keporiefl in lluve Lost l ive Thousand Men in the Three Days Fighting. (By Associated Press.) Willi tihe capture of Krezerum b t he Russians interest i:i the war op erations has shifted ts center mom entarilly to the field of warfare i' Armenia, Persia and Messapotamia where the campaign is eiepected to hi i ni,t ''"'y influenzal in its course bj full of the Turkish strongholds. The current Turk sh official state mwt gives no clue to the course of events following the capture of th' fortress and indeed does not recorr' that happening. The only mention mude in Ohe operations in this wai section is the declaration that Ru sin n the lighting of three days pre ceeding lost iVOOO lead and (10 prison ers. Unofficial advices from Petrograc say the Turkish army is fleeing west ward from Erezcrum through diflVul mountain regions. The figlSting on the west front has lessened in ntensity. probably be cause of bad weather and similar con ditions in Russia. L F IT IS HIS BODY FAMILY OF CONSUL ROBER1 McNEEI.Y F ELI EVE HIS BODY FOUND. T Phe Finding of a Body Near Alexan der, Egypt, Thought to beThat of the Young Monroe Man Revive Interest in the Catie of the Consul Monroe Thinks it Was His Body. Brother Expresses Same Opinion. Wednesday's dispatches reported the finiing of a body near Alexan dria. Egypt, Bhought to be that of Rabert Ney McNeely, the young at torney from Monroe, who was on hir wav to Aden to become United Uates Consul when the ship on which .ie sailed, the Persia, was torpedoed and sunk. Bodies of many of tihe lost on the Persia were found but no trace of McNeely, dead or alive had been found. It was not until the report came that a body washed ashore is believed to be that of McNeely that any thing had been heard. On Wed nesday WaMnigton' dispatches re ported the body found. Brother Thinks it McNeely's Body. Concord, Feb. 17. G. R. MbNedy, of Monroe, a brother of the late Rob ert Ney McNeely, Consul to Aden, who was lost when the Persia was sunk some time ago, is visiting in th s city. Today Mr. McNeely stated that he believes the body washed ashore near Alexandria to be that of his brother. Certain it is McNeely. Monroe, Feb. 16. Friends of Rob ert Ney McNeely, the American, con sult lost in the sinking of the Persia, feel sure that the body reported as washed ashore near Alexandria is his, and parts of his apparel and the watch described in press disptrhes have been identified. Carl Griffin, manager of a local furnishing store, says he soli to Mc Neely all the clothing mentioned with tihe except:on of the trousers. Clayton Laney, a former roommate j of MicNeely, says the latter left here with the watch reported. Rufe Mc Lellan states that he traded this wach to SlcNeely and that McNeely placed a photograph of his mother in the back of it. CONSU M NELLY S AMILY THINKS SECRETARY LANSING ACCEPTS LATEST BIT Ol WANTS (i EH MA NY TO HOI. F IN HER POLICY TO AT TACK MERCHANTMEN. 7 Her Position Forbids Her Aire;llnz Latent SuggcHlion of the United Stales, So ll Ih Said (Jues.ion Ah to What CoiiHtitiiteN Delense Arma ment to Co nit Up l.nler. (By Associated Picks) Washington. Feb. 17. Secretary Lansing has accept-d t ie I.usitaniu igreement as acceptable to the United States in so fai as it relates to that rase, but has asked Count Berrttorff for assurances tha Germany will not carry out her policy to uttack mer hantmen without warning to the iners even if they carry defense armament. The question of what con stitutes defense armament will be de termined later in a way not yet ugreed on. It is suggested thut the United -States may propose that guns mount ed on the stern of ships and capubb of being swung from 15 to .'SO de rm's in either direction might come in that class. It is stated authoratively that Ger many, because of her unusual posi Lion, cannot and will not accept the suggestion of tho United States as i now stands, that liners carrying irms be immune irom attack under irevious assurances. TR1-STATE MEDICAL SOCIETY. Meeting in Richmond, Vs., Closes and, Durham is Selected as Next Meet ing Place. (By Assoc ated Press.) Durham, Feb. 17. The Tri-SUte Medical Society in session at Rich mond, Va., tor the past three days late last night selected Duitham as the meeting pla'.e for 1917. A3h ville was Durham's chief opponent. The society is romtposeil of V'rg nia, South Carolina and North Carolina, The North Carolina Medical So ciety will 'hold its annual convention in Durham in April in 1910. U. S. Flier up 9,000 Feet With Three Passengers. San Diego, Oal., Feb. lfl.---Avistor Floyd Smith at the Unted States aviation field at North Island cstab lished what is declared to be I world's altitude record for pilot and three passengers in a seaplane to day by reaching a height of 9,(500 feet. Smith used a 120-Oiorse power hi droaeroplane and was up two hours and ten minutes. Last Friday he es tablished a record for a hydroaero plane with two passengers ascending 9,544 feet AND THEN MAKE ESCAPE Joseph McL'.whorn, of Reidsville, Struck in H ad With a Pick Axe Assailant nd Six Others Make Escape. (By Associated, Press.) Reidsville, Fdb. 17. Joseph Mc- Law..orn, a convict guardt died here last nitgl.. of injuries received yester day when he was struck in the head by a pick axe in the hands of Dove Evans. Evans anrl s:x other con victs working on a road near hear, made their escape. It is believed they are surrounded in a swamp near here and a hundred armed men have gone to the scene. ADJT. GEN. YOUNG EN DORSED. ' Washington, Feb. 17. Laur ence W Young, adjutant gen eral of th North Carolina Na tional Guard, was suggested to PerJdeat Wilson todsy by Sena tors Simmons and Overman for assistant ecretary of war. HIP AGREEMENT WHOLESALE ESCAPE OF STATE CONVICTS IN SALISBURY YARD LOWE DANIELS AMONG THE NUMBER TO MAKE A GET-AWAY WEDNESDAY. T White Convicts at Badin Being Tak en to Western Section of State and Places Being Filled by Negroes Sherman P. Stamen, Who Assault ed Ticket Agent Brown, Also De parts. There wan a wholesale escape of State convict in Siliirbury last ngiht and as a result today e'ght prison ers are ait large, some of them noted criminals with long tennis ahead of them. Hhe escape was made while the men were being transferred from the State camp at Baiin to the wes tern part of the State, all of he whit convicts being removed from he alum inum works down the river and their places being filled wltlh nejro prison ers a car load of whfrh went dowi yesterday to relieve the whitt men. A car was attached to the incom ing Yadkin train last evening, arriv ing here about 7 o'clock and, this tut' ront,iine,l 81 whte convicts. The were in ciiarge of two guards, one at' either owl of the car. The convitts attracted a great deal of attention at ' th station, from the fact that several noted prisoners were among them,' some of them having local history. The escape is said to have been duo to an intoxicated guard who left h's place on the car and who w,m aftor- . ward found in the waiting room In a drunken condition, thia being after the car had been attached to Western No. 35 ar.J it had departed. The escape of the men may have ' been discovered last night, though nothnK wis taM about it to Salis bury officers until thia morning, that is they were not notified and then the sheriff and other officers set out to recapture the men, bloodhounds being brrught into play but so far as could be learned when the Post went to;. press all of the men were still At large. The most noted prisoner to make a' get-away was Lowe Daniels, h Ran. dolph county murderer, who was serv-. ing a SB year term for th kill ng of his brother-in-law and h's wBrVs , sister and shooting his wife's arm oft. He made his escape one time before, after servtrtg less (than a year of h's time, and was captured in Salisbury about a month ago by Captain of Po ll: e Cau'jle, after having been recog nized by a street car conductor. He was ordered to the camp at Badin and Mr. Arthur Thompson left at once with him. He statai that fne guess he would stay th'.s time, but this de claration was accompanied by a smile which indicated that all he needed was an opportunity to escape. AnoUhor man to get away was Sherman P. S tames who was serving a .ten year sentence for assaulting . night ticket agent Kenneth Brown of the Southern and rdbbing the ticket office. Tom Jones, a Rowan man, serving a two and a half year term for car robbery, is also among the missing. The ihi8tory of the crimes of the t others and their terms are not known, ' , though there is probably some long termers in the bunch. Lt is aU Daniels, Stames and Jones wore 'ail three chained together st the time of escap. Queer thing about our bills. They ' have a habit of running a long tim ' without getting any farther away from us. Colonel Roosevelt always goes into retirement with th furtive, pussy foot air of a circus parade. Chicago- . - News. ' .; , BOY LOSES BOTH LEGS. Hickory, Feb. 17---01i Raw ey, of Hickory, 20 years of age. was ru over by a freigh train at States!!! last night and both legs were cat off. '
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