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Lit . 1 - .,. i ' i. h WEATHER FORECAST JTII FREEZING TEMPERATURE. FAIR TONIGHT AND SUNDAY V SPEAK OUT! LET POST VMM' ADS "ACT AS YOUR PO.V. MAN WHEN YOU WANT UlXiS WANT TO SELL, OR WANT TO BUY. THEY GO HOME. SALISBURY. NORTH CAROLINA. , SATURDAY, FEB. 26, 1911 pcica two crrrrj ''THE POST RECEIVES IN ITS f J " I W 4 '-1 .., , ,...., , ; gf, . , 5 --0; , - YlV ','' n OFFICE DAILY LEASED WIRE I V-J m." av -i' - 1 i-, ---!' ''J V ) ) ' m "J " ; RUSSIANS IKE ' .. ; ,, , ,,' Have Stormed and Taken the Per sian City of Kermanshah a . Place of Great Importance. THE GERMANS TAKE FORT 1DOUAUMOND AT VERDUK OUSIN OF COLONEL ROOSEVELT, .. 'AND WIFE HE .'SUES. . .'.! Berlin Reports the. Taking of Thir Important Fort Near Verdun, Germ .ana Suffer Loss. Lttidon, Feb. 2?. A Ruters dla patch from Petrograd says the Rus ians have stormt'd and taken Ker manshah, the important Persian city in the neighborhood of which1 seriou fighting has been raging for somt, weeEa. The tremendous German drive for Verdun is continuing with undimin lahed fury and Berlin today claims the breaking of the cordon of pro tecting, forts by the capture, olf Fort Douaumont, four miles northeast of Verdun. The loss of .this outlying fortification is not admitted in to. day's French official statement which declares that, despite the desperate German assault the French are main taining- their positions. All along the Verdun , front the Germans are . hurliqg their men against the French lines without re gard the sacrifice, Paris declares, ' the figrit, being particularly desperate in the region of Beaumont, almost directly north, of Verdun. j Accounts irom var oua sources agrees that the t fight has been of a degree of intensity virtually unparal leled In the war, especially is this true of the artillery work of the Teutons, they having brought up 12- iivcfo and 17-inch guns from the Ser bian ' an3 Russian campaign and blasted out the French positions with s . ..bitiless ibotnbardment of high explo sive: shells. The rain of '.iell fire in the .September offensive ht the allies was1 then without precedent lvtt cor respondents near the front declare it was a feeble effort in comparison with .the deluge of projectiles which now is being poured upon the French trenches anld , fortifications from the German battery i ' The'" progress of ae; Gernjan drive iid' beng watched with intense inter est; in, th'e' allied capitals. i The' last Paris advices reflected the ' opinion,' of miKtary experts that the .' French lines would hold out until a r counter offensive was ready to be launched. , A London dispatch said that fur ther npwj from the . situation north east of Verdun where the Germans claim the capture of fort Douaumont was being anxiously awaited as the . strategic importance of this fort was recognized. Late advices from Albania through cGprman sources predicted the early ' fall of Durazzo as a result of the de Jifeat of Italian, and 'Albanian forces ' by the Austrians and Germans and that the Italians were declared to be hurriedly 'embarking their troops from, the port. ... Germans Report the Capture of Dou aumont. XI Mi '1 STATEGUARDS AR E HEAVILY FINED Escapoi,of jOanvicts at Salisbury 1 . Results in Most Interesting ; ' , ,Tjrial in BoWan Court. WHEN A MILLIONAIRE ' PLAYS IN THE SOUTHLAND. PLEAS SUPERINTENDENT . AVERTS PRISON TERMS John Ellis Roosevelt. John Kilts Roosevelt, ared nixty- two, cousin of Theodora . Roosevelt, was almost hysterical whn he was on the stand in a Brooklyn court in his ca;e for the annulment of his marriage to his wife, aged th'rty-one. His wife said he had brainstorms during the honeymoon. the French fortress of Verdun con tinues with what Paris terms unpre cedented violence. East of the Meuse river, the fortified villages and farms of Champneuville, Cotellate, .Mar- mont, Baumont, Chambrettes and Ornes are declared by Berlin to be already in th hands of the Germans, but Paris reports at least a dozen of the German onslaughts in other poinj in the vicinity were without success,- especially at Lacote du Pov- re, about four miles north ox the lor tress, the capture of whkh .would give the Germans the vantage point for operations on both sides were. for operations against Verdun. The easaulties a nboth sides were heavy. The Germans claim to have taken 10,000 prisoners. - In Champagne the French report the capture of a Ger man . salient, south of Ste. Marle-a- Py, and the capture' of 300 prisoners. Fighting in the. Region of Verdun is ' Uabated. -Paris, Feb. 26. The fighting' in the region of Verdun continues unabated, according to the French official com munication issued thU evening. .' Sev eral Infantry attacks launched by the Germans have been repulsed. The artillery duels are going on (with great Intensity east of the Meuse, de spite a heavy snowfall. The communication said: ' "In Champagne this morning we attacked anid captured an enemy sal ient to the south of Ste. Marije-arpy. During this action was captured 800' prisoners, including 16 non-commis sioned officers and fke officers, "In the Argonne - ,'our destructive fire has been efficacious on Germain organizations to the north of Lahara- zee. ' -j 'V v . . ,, III Supervisor Stanly Fined $300 and . Costa, Guard Pope $100 and Guard Conner $50! , aw ' i ' Mrs. John EJIm Boonerelt. If KOWfJCE I TUESDAY l4 Richfield the Place and Tuesday who is serving a three, year term 11 h'M7tr i Tim. tn , from Durham county; also Jasper ,. pm.' of. the ,v most Interesting and probably, as .Judgo Carlton stateJ it after the evidence was all in, "far reaching trial as it affects the State of 'North Carolina ever hcu d in the Rowan county court," was that hcai'd this morning when the supervisor nnd two guards who were in charge? of the 'squad of white State convicts which were' being " transferred from Badin to Graphitevillo'on Februarj' 16th when eight of the men escaped after the Western train had left Sal isbury. Those under indictment were Mr. H. F. Stanly, the supervisor in charge of the convicts, Mr. H. C. Pope, a guard, and Mr. T. R. Conner, also a guard. The case was heard .before ! Judge Carlton of the county court and the prosecution was con ducted by Solicitor Haydcn Clement and County Prosecutor T. G. Furr . Here for the hearing and who took the witness stand and related some oi the 'regulations of the State peni tentiary and imparted other informa tion was Superintendent J. S. Mann of the State prison. Material wit nesses were Capt. L. D. Parker, who was in charge of the train from which j the men escaped, also Agent Phillipc and night ticket agent Kenneth Brown, of the Southern. Two other material witnesses were W. P. Tulley, one of the convicts ' on the train and ' - if -' , m,, -f . '.; Ti i " "a I' I All , ts i -t -. , it .' .-. t X 'VI 1 - j U.S. GERMANY'S REPLY i r ,- , !.' t ( ' i t i, Quieting Down of Situation in ' Congress Submarine Crisis " Shifts Back to Negotiations. Henry C. Frick. Henry C Frick, iworth so many millions that he doesn't have to work hard, has gone south. This photo graph dhows him at play on the golf links at Palm Beach. It is one of the best photographs ever taken, of Pittsburg's leading citizen. ( - Together Meeting. ROWAN AND STANLY TO ; DISCUSS DEFINITE PLAN Local dommittee' Hold a Meeting- Thursday Evening and Plan- . ed the Meeting." 4 '- The "committee named on Tuesday bight to romot4 and attend a" good reads conference at Richfield on Tues day of the coming week, thr29th held a meeting Thursday night and named 11 o'clock as the hour' for the meet- ing. , (,'' The morning houi was named so that those who wish may go down on the train and return in the after noon. It will give ample time fot getting to Richfield from each end of the line and ample time for a confer ence. to discuss the matter and form ulate some definite plan for action. , Let it be remembered that not only "In the region -to the north of Ver dun, snow has fallen in .abundance , an interett in the matter. The com- during the, day.. The activity of the mitte1. .a nnv ,an rssiblv o. IbrRnV Wnk- 2fi.-.Ifc is offlr.ia.1lv an! artillery on both sides has continued will be If others will Xiin Uimh. ' .: : 1 - . Ji : !"' JL-.-'a "". , . ..'f ' nAnMA4 fik naiiMAMf Ano I very inunests on uie wnoic m tnc iront, fA. .qTfkn AnKf h arit of the fortifications, of Verdun, was nd PP"y .to tha east of Meuse, g Abo the people along the taken by storm on yesterday and is now firmly in the hands of the Ger anans. , ' , Fort Douaumont lies 'four; miles northeast of Verdun. It is one of nearly a sce're of fortifications cir cling Verdun the North Met. Douaumont Hall, of Duplin county, serving a six year term and who was also one of the convicts who refused to escape, both he and Tulley saying they cedld hava gotten away if they had wanted I fo il .These men stated that -the talk of escape among the convicts began as soon as the train left Salisbury and the absence of Guard Pope, the man who was found drunk in the passen ger station after the train had left, was discovered and . also while the supervisor and other guard ' were asleep. Tulley says all of the men jumped from the window while the train was running fifteen or twenty miles an hour and about ten minutes after it, had left the Salisbury' sta tion. He said Harry Cobb and John Trachen ware the first Jump and were followed try Lowe . Daniels and another convict The men had a file and some of them filed their shackles while others jumped ' with them on. He said the guards were drinking. Capt L. D., Parker says after his train reached Majolica, five miles up FRB GH . .. ,. i RAIN TI MEETS DISASTER the committee is -expected to "go to Richfield,, but others who may, eel tne road, he went into the car to check it up. There was no guard at the wnere me ngnwng goes- on wiw t,i bothlh Rowan and Stanlv court. same-tenacity, -y , - Uy ,ar, expected A number" of eood Several German- v attacks with ' ia K,. lare, effectives have" been, conducted i yited up." ' ': " '' '".4 , with, unprecedented violnece La-! The byroad rail-to be hM in:AU cote, du Poivr( ( about 4 1-2 miles and is situated just to nWa o iwere iw of the railroad running to T. .. . J .:. . I ,3 1 ' 1 rs Andioar auacK on our posiuons in ,!. is one of a -I cluster oft lff D0 8 V v"cne ,n,.w,? . ki a- i r . j . - f nOIlJGQ. i ' -'-. i ffvpn Tnrrx ' nT-nrrr.inir vprniin mm , front end and he walked to the rear where he found Conners and attempt ed to waks him up but he could not. He then turned to Stanly, the super visor, and shook him, be also being asleep and drowsy, and could hardly get a reply. Finally after much ef fort he secured a block ticket for 81 men. He then counted the prisosr bemarle on the 9th of MarcJi oughj; to Land there were only 25. He inf ormed be attended by inany from Rowan and Stanly of the number' and he ' said there ought to be metre. tyTicn he we ought to go to boost the jroad from Salisbury. . ' r - -,"t J f the Mat i Thai eoncment vu kibiIa bv the right wing of the huge attacking h army which has scored the greatest ' i advantage against the fTench posi- Hon. The fortification taken . ia to -'"'ast of. the principal line of pro- ' AiM1ultifr femr miles cst of thm r rlvpr Mpiip. ' X The capture of. Douaumont is one v. omAa f7oimai. iIi4a -sV . Vntwlnn - oimv wra miu i ri v v-a Ml began, an onslaught which, for fury and weight of. men and guns has few previous equals. ' " " German Attack' Continues Violently. f Paris, Feb. 26J&he i Germans are -Continuing their most 'violent attack i lt h North of Verdun (without rej gar J ta their great sacrifice, pecord-f ing to ihe announcement -of the war office today.') ' , . - German tri! Continues." ; London, Feb. 25.-Despite a heavy snowfall, the drive of the Germans at discovered that some of his men had . 'There has. been no. infantry action t& the west of the Meuse. ' - . 'In thVosgues there has been an artillery d'uel - in the valley of the ht-.j' " ' - - The Belgian communication " majie public today -said: ( , , . : Mt has been a qufet day ' on the whe font,? - The ' following namedrinember :-if ! escaped he asked Captain Parker, to W1S.WB4IBUWI VtIl,,LVbVV " Tf lit W. glHU , Illlia RIIU W OVII,V KWII(N fto give jinjittfiation1 regarding' the This he did. Captain Parker says he trip to Richfield: ' '. - , ' ' . j never enteted the car, again until Old ti Messrs, L. Dv Peeler, A. L. Smoot, Fort was reached and was informed Ed. Overman, J.; E. Hennessee, R. Lea Mahaley, S. W. Harry, J. D. Norwood, R.' L. Avery, W. B. Duttera, H.! K. Howan. j . ' March 'DiS'fOth is) the Time Fixed for the limit ia Hearing the Ap peal in. .Case of Mra. Warrea and Chrisy.vi : -it;' .t. ' : ka-V' ? Raleigh,' Feb 26Gornor Craig in a letter to-' Judge -.B.Cens,-at Winston, indicated - that he - would , ' : v ' limit the time for the tearing -of "the petition for the commutation 'of , ;the death sentence imposed on Mrs.'. Ida Ball Warren and Sam Christy j to March 20th. The governor informed Judge Jones that. ' matters must! be arranged so as, to' coma toa head- on osbefore March f 20th, saying that the defendants should: hava ample time f4r preparation 1n case bis de cision is-a adverse one. In' th4et fer t! Governor aid that he wished ft - .understood . that ' . nothing i in the (etter tould be taken to indicate what his'jieterTuination in the case would be. . - ' '- -".-! - y- . -. -... here that several more had made their escape. . ; ' '-.''. Tulley said there were two differ ent times in which the escapes were made and that the .guards went . to sleep a second time, tills being when the second bunch got away. . , , Supervisor Stanly who has been in the service about 13 years said he had brought a squad of negro con victs from Graphite to Badin and had these two guards with him' and that they hi lost a night's sleep and had made an 18-mile march to catch a train and then started back the next day from Badin, having had. no sleep and they Wett not in physical condi tion for the task and he took several drickt and gave one of the guards a drink. lie had made an effort, he IContined on page 8.) - ; I East Bound Freight Train With Fifteen Cars Wrecked at West, Hickory No One Injured. V PRESIDENT .WILSON . ' REMAINS FIRM Still Insists That Americans Have ; Right to Travel on Ships Arm ed for Defense. " (By Associated Press.) - .26. With GREAT TADERiIACLE ERECTED III Oa Methodist Build House for th Coming Kilgo Meetings and Same Will Seat 1,000.' LADIES EERYED LUNCH , , , . - , WHILE MEN WORKEI the Washington,. Feb. apparent qulutmg down of the situ ation in Congress vhe submarine cris is shifts back to the negotiations be tween Secretary fnsing and Count Von Bernstorff. - ., J ' , - Secretary Lansing says that there was no Intention of transferring the negotiations to Berlin to be conduct ed, between Ambassador Gerard and the Berlin foreign office as was inti mated in dispatches published abroad and reiterated that the State-Depart- One Hundred or More People En gaged in '"'Raising", of Large Frame Structure. it One, of the .busiest, if not the bus lest bu'lding scene ever witnessed ii Sali.bury was that on the lot come of Jackson airJ Fisher streets toda; when the Methodists erected their bij tabernacle .building for the Kilgi meetings next month. This work o the part of those participating wa a hor of love.. It has been plannet (pr some days' to "erect this bulldin; in a day. There were soma skeptics those .who doubted whether it couU ment had heard nothing more from be done, but those who are determinec Germany on its request for a declare tion that the new submarine policy would not be conducted in. violation of previous assurances for the safety of Americans traveling on unresist ing liners. While the situation in Congress apparently is being held in check by administration leaders the State De partment costtnues to await the re- were in th great minority and the) were barked by. an iitdomnit&bl wll that won out For several days Mr. H. Lee Laz onby has been busy tuperin-tendinf the cutting Out of the timbers foi this building . and . staking off the groundr and this morning when thv workmen assembled every piece wa: ceipt of certain , appendices to th, H Med Properly and he ha w .. . 1 tttMCVf hints fri ahsna ika .m,i:, 15 CARS TURN OVER . ' ' OF TRAIN NUMBER 72 Passengers on the Western Road Had to Be Transferred, Two ' Wrecking Crewa, if,'" Hickory, JFelb. 28i--East, bound freight train No. 72 was wrecked at West Hickory two miles west of here at 4 o'clock this morning. A derail ment followed running into a broken rail, and seventeen cars were derail ed, fifteen of them turning over. - The engine and several, cars pass ed ovr the broken rait and was safe ly across the troubled spot when the others left the track. - The train was in charge of Conduc tor Bellinger, and Engineer Earn hardt,, neither of, whom - were hurt. The cars were, loaded heavily with produce and lumber., .;' ' J t f ' . Two wrecking crews -t with derricks were brought to the . scene of the Jirreck, one , from' Spencer and one rom '-"Asheville. ' Passengers . were transferred and It will be flvO o'clock this afternoon before the track- is beared and ready for use. Austro-Gtrmati notice which are in tended to demonstrate he , British armed ships have used guns offensive ly against submarines. . They are coming by tnail arrd Secretary. Lan sing has said that until he has had opportunity to study the evidence the State Department would be unable to decide exactly what its position would be. On the situation as it now stands President 'Wilson is Una In his deter- mination to insist ' on .the right . of Americana to travel on ships armed for defense only.. nE Splendid Young Man Pauses Away at Home of His Parents Manager , Brown Lining Up Base Ball Play- ,rs. Spencer, Feb, 26. Mr, Lewis Pen- everything in shape for the erection of this temporary house of worship. It was shortly before 7 o'clwk when -men began to arrive with hnm mers and other tools and pretty soon a photographer .was on the ground and a pictura of the vacant lot, with tihe exception of the lumber and early workmen, was ta4en, Then the ta-! was begun and almost masrIc-lLke tLe building began to assume propor tions. There , were present to assist ln"tha"work Contractors A. R, and H. Lee Laseniby and" Mr. N. W. Col lett, an experienced lumber man. al- so City Engineer J. W. Webb anJ a!I these gate indispensable assistance in superintending he "raising." Soon the frame began to near comolction. then the rafters were placed and .while all this was golnr on other workmen were engaged in nailing on the weatherboarding. At noon the building looked 'Vood" to those engaged in the woric and at this hour the latiies served barberno hot coffee and lunches and. at thia juncture another photograph of the incomplete building was made. Tho kl.at 1A ...... Al.l .... A. I . -. - Kw,.,u.r., parbecue was prepared by that col day at the home of h.s parents, Mr. 0rd exnart. Dalln. TL . T --t- ..mvm viivv, flaiSM iHB and Mrs, G. W, Pennington, on Yad kin avenue in Spencer. He was taken ill in December with a peculiar af fection which baffled a number of skilled physicians and it is' said it was never really determined what the "disease was.; It seemed .to be a cancerous enaction appearing at a number of places over his body and he was a great sufferer. He spent sometime at Johns Hopkins in Balti more but without relief, His condi- mests wers barbecued riarht on the ground. As soon as lunch was over 'all fell to work again and as the minutes passed the building became more and more complete and before night an-' other, photograplh will be taken and this hi expected to show the taber nacle complete. . It is 75 xlOO feet and win seat esily teorrpepola. engaged in this work .today were SUBMARINE POLICY CAUSES BIG fM Fall of Five Cents a. Bushel Co (; As Result' of Depression in New f Yerk ' Stock Market Heavy -Stock loss selling lakes fiace. ? '-;(By Associated Press. ) - Chicago, Feb.,: 26 -Wheat values broke about Ave cents a bushel here today on the active depression In. the New York stock market. -i Apparent ly many traders here jumped at tn conclusion that JVall Streat declines pointed to increased tension over -the plans of Germany tor attacking arm ed merchant" vessels. , .j May wheat dropped to 1.13 7-8 :as against 1.18 8-4 at yesterday's close. Heavy stock loss selling took place. If it wasn't for the coffee mother sed to make, many a married a man would be at a loss for.- something ' to kick about. ' - A man cin afford to ba perfectly frank If he doesnt care whether hs as any friends or eot. 5 ' . - 4 tion had been hopeless several day. " I I" " v c"r" and the end came peacefully today. trades professional Wmtni toj2,hparite Mdene ters, be.tnes., men, merchant;, Tarn rter. Mw. Marvin Roan, of Spencer. reti.n ,w thoB, ''. in all walk of life, and all told there must have been one hundred. The work was -not entirely confined to Methodist, for there wer friends of the congregation who dropped around to lend a helping hand and no fv visitors went to the scene to witness this hurried building of a big houie of worship for a great revival whK h is to be conducted ' here by . Bishop John C Kilgo next month. Those who entered into the work today were not only rendering a splendid service but all enjoyed' the occasion and it was a day well and profitably and pleasantly spent, and set afloat a i vance enthusiasm . for the com in meetings The funeral takes place ' ai the home Sunday at 8 p. m. - . That Immigration should be pro hibited! was the subject of a spirited debate at the Spencer school build ing Friday bight, between the sixth and the eigth grades. , The affirma tive represented by. the eighth grade won. -. There was a large attendance- Manager Ivey Brown of the Spen cer Baseball club is btuy these days lining up a strong team for the com ing "season.' J The first game Is to be playetj March, 11th with WhiUett which, team comes to Spencer on that date. Among the r players . already signed up with the Spencer aggrega tion is Mr. W, C. Inby, of Kannapolis, who has moved his family here. An other is Mr. E. H. Pool, of Columbia, who said to be some ball player and will bring much ' force - to the team. Other players are now negoti ating and a full nine will be an nounced in a short time. The Democratic donkey has run- many a race, but never yet has it had to compete with an elephant disguis ed as a moose. Charleston News and Courier. " " A man deserves to lose who per mits a 10-cent argument to lead him into a $10 bet. j A CALL FOR HELP ISSUED. ) People Along the Mistfssippi Cin to Levees and Housetops and I gry Assistance is Urgently ? d. (By Associated Tres Natchesj Miss-, Feb. 25.. appeal for help for Cool v the Concordia parish in v ' declared that men, wcv-. i ? ren were almost rtarr- r clinjring to the levee t housetcpg was rc "-.'"-:
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