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SALISBURY, NORTH CAROLINA, MONDAY, JULY 10. 1916.
PRICE TWO CENTS
J'
A BIG GERMAN SUBMARINE AT BALTIMORE
OTHERS ARE TO CROSS AT INTERVALS
IE
gPiDSl
A NOTED YEGGWIAN
GERMANS CHECK II
ARRESTED HERE
RUSSIAN ADVAtiGE
Deputy Sheriffs Nash end Gra
ham Capture J. W. Farlow
Escaped From Lynchburg.
BELIEVED TO BE ROBBER
OF SPENCER POSTOFFICE
Given a Hearing Before Commis
sioner Hobson and Held in Ten
Thousand Dollar Bond.
I here was arrested in this city yes
terday afternoon whut is believed to
He one of the most noted yeggm n
jiow operat'ng in this country and
whose name is Jerry Farlow.
Farlow is said to lie wante at a
numbsr of places and there, is evi
dence to connect him with the Mow
ing of the safe and roV ing t'-.e
Spencer postoffice on the night of
January 7 last.. He is also wanted
for blowing a safe at a small post
office near Chattanoocra, Tenn., and
confesses that he escaped from the
Georgia penitentiary where hs was
serving a ten year sentence for mur
der. The man was apprehended i'i
Lynchburg. Va.. several days ago on
a charge of robbing the poftoffire in
Tennessee and was given a pre'imi-,
nary hearing and was bein? 'Veld in
the Lynchburg jail. He mid hi
escape Friday morning and offb-rs
were at once notified to be on the
lookout for him, among those reced
ing such information, together wi'h
r'escriptions bemg Sheriff Krid?r. j
Yesterday afternoon Deputy SherilT
Archie Nash was Fitting on his front
portf'i :'n East Spencer when he no-,
ticed a young white man pass, walk-;
ing up the street toward S-.li?' ury. !
The man gave Mr. Nash a susoicious !
look and passed on. Archie Nash i3
hard to fool, and although knowing
nothing of the warning sent to Sheriff
Krider a short time before, he got
. busv. Pick'ng uz his teletx'-one he j
ct'.led up Sh:riff Krider and told him !
what he had observed and gave a
hurried description of the man and
aske: the sheriff if such a man was
wanted. The sheriff told him 'be
wanted that man and wanted him
bad. Mr. Nash then hurried to Salis- ,
bury, was met by Sherff Krider a-H !
Deputy David Graham. The sheriT
went up the railroad toward the ice
plant to catch the man if h? had gone
in a southerly direction, while Dew
ties Nash and Graham went up the (
Western, road and thev enie' the mn !
Siting under Shober'g bridge. Mr. ;
Nash walked up to hm, keeping a .
ibjg pillar under the bridge .between
him and Farlow and was on the man
before he knew it -He covered iMm
with his gun and then examined h'm.
finding the initials ''J. W. r" tatooed
on the back of one hand and drectlv
urn-'er them two dice also tatooed.
This' clinched the identity and Firlow
remarked "it's d m tough luck."
setrr-hed iv hid two botftes in
bis hip pocket and when the officer
removed these the prisoner told
them if they valued their lives thev
had better handle that stuff carefully.
It was afterward'ascertained Wat the
botles conatied , niro-glycerine.
. . , , ..aJ nnwfinll ff
enougn to mow inp f" " ;
the town. The man also hai some
thing over nine dollars in money and
a watch. He was brought to the city
and placed in jail and the nitre-glycerine
placed in the vault in the
Fhe-iff's office and there was some
t";iVV careful handling of tiSos? bot-.
ties, too. I
Postoffice Inspector R. W. Hodg.n,
Grponsboro, was notified and came,
t Salisbury to be present at the hear-
tnr riven , Farlow before
United
fifrte Commissioner and Squire W.
! W.
this
T Rav in the latter's office
mnrnin?. the charge on
which the
rinsoner was- given
a ncanng oem
. , t
that- of rpbbine the Spencer postoffice,
( Inspector Hodgin brought with him
pome of the effects found in Farlow's
home at Derniid, a suburb of Lynch-
f (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 3.)
PERU AND VENEZUELA
., MAY WAR COLOMBIA.
! Washington, July 10. Offi
" rial, dispatches received today
'la 1 Latin-America diplomatic
ft .mm! T,iiint
'l quartern j
has been made between FerB
f and Venezuela with the objoct
of taking vast tracks of land
. ' the rightful possession of which
Wv disoute with Colombia and
Equader. ' Grave f ears, for the j
peace ef the nations Involved is ;
entertained.' ' '. .
i ' . ' . .
The Surprise of the Hour is the Big German Under-Sea Liner That Crossed the Atlantic With a Lare
Cargo of Valuable Goods and Will Return With Large Shipment of Goods Germany Wants of
U. S. Captain Konig Says That Others Are to Follow the Deutschland and That
They Will Ply Regularly and Carry on Commerce With the United States.
ENGLAND'S SEA
KCLE ENDS.
Baltimore. Md., July 10.
upon delivering his Hhip'g pa
pers to the office of the North
German Lloyd line today Cap
tain Konig, of the Fuhmirine
merchantman Deutschland, is
8ued a formal statement de
claring Irs voyage across the
Atlantic had broken England's
rule of the seas.
At fbe -mie time the Cap
tain denied emphatically the
report that he carried a mes
sage from Emperor William to
President Wilson. The state
ment announced that the
Deutrhland was the first" of
several submarines built for
t-'nsportatiwi in Atlantic trade
and would be followed by (he
Bremen.
(By Associated Press.)
BALTIMORE, July 10. The Gi
gantic merchantman DeutschWnd
ended her voyage across the Atlantic
t moining at 6:40 when she docked
at a pier just out of Baltimore.
It was announced that a state
ment would be made regarding the
extraordinary voyage of the under
sea ship by officials of the North
German Lloyd Company later in the
dav.
It was announced that the Deutsch
land is the first of a fleet of such
crafts built to ply regularly in the
trans-Atlantic trade. This announce
ment was made by Captain Paul
Konig master of the super-submar-in?
"This is not the only one that is
coming," said Captain Konig. "Just
wait, there will be more here soon,
and we are going back for another
cargo. We are going to have a reg
ular line of such boats in operation."
It was to port officials that the
Captain talked most freely as his
boat moved to the dock. He spoke
most freely to the officers and laugh
ed over his feat. To the newspaper
men who shouted questions to him
over the ships side he was not so
Companies of Coast Artillery, Includ
ing Salisbury Militia, Having Lit
tle to do in Wilmington.
Asheville, July 10( Gover
nor Craig said today that he
would " withdraw the militia
from Wilmington when advifed
by Judge Stacy and Sheriff
Cowan that they are no longer
needed to preserve order
Wilmington, June 9. -Although in
continuous session since 11 o'clock
this morning, entertaining proposals
and counter proposals from each ?r
ty to the street car, strike with a view
oif compromising the d'fferences, ths
' citisens'. committee .. recently - consti
tuted unfer a resolution of" tne city
council, was still at a late hour to
night, in session without having been
able to effect a settlement between
the men and the local itiract'on com
pany. Cars were operated on both
city and suftunban lines today as; us
ual with military guards, the city
, cars, however, having fteen suspended
at nightfall. There has been ho vio
lence and the committee of ' mediation
has not finally abandoned hope of a
j settlement. - A telegram authorised
by a mass meetttg of citizens last
night was forwarded today to the
governor protesting against the pres
ence here of state troops, declaring
I mil me necessity jur niun
out never existed arrf asking for their
withdrawal No reply has been re-
ceived tonight from the governor,
The following is trom the Wilming-
''communicative, and explained that a
' , formal statement would be made by
the representative of his owners.
, To the municipal health oflicers the
1 skipper presented his bill of health
, ' issued by the I nited States consul at
, i Bremen, on June 14th. This docu-
ment said that the Deuttuhland is "a
, vessel in the freight trade between
Bremen and Boston and other Atlan-
I tic ports."
One thing the boarding health ofli
! cer noted was that there were no
; torpedoes on the Deutschland that
' were visible. ' They had been inform
ed that she carried two small cilibre
' guns for defense, but the officers are
convinced that the big submarine is
' totally unarmed.
It was learned that, the boat left,
Bremen with her cargo of 750 tons of
dye stuff. At Heligoland she waited
nine days, leaving there on the 23 of
June to play her way deep beneath
the surface of the North Sea and to'
escape the watchful eye of the two
watching allied ships. Captain Kair-'
ig intimated that his long delay at , world, for nsver before has a su'imar
Heligoland was for the purpose of de- 1 jne crossed the ocean. The DLutsch
ceiving the enemies. land evaded the ships of the AIHjs,
"We stopped there," said Ciptain , running the blockade of Germany and
Konig," for good reasons." ""j crossing the Atlantic brought her
A large number of longshoremen valuable cargo to it's destination,
were on hand ready to unload the Chased by French and British war
cargo which will be shipped as soon ships the -big Undsir-sea cra'ft passed
as possible to the purchasers. New i :n the capes at 1:46 Sunday morning
York chemical companies. Probably an., proceeded on hor way to Balti
only a few days will be required to; more. She was four days over due
unload the cargo and then the sub-! on account of bad weather and having
marine will take on a consignment of to retrace to avoid hostile ships. The
nickle and crude rubber which has al- submarine traveled 4,180 miles to
ready been stored at the pier ware-
houses for the return trip. When the
, return will be made is unknown,
j British and French Take Notice.
Washington, ; July 10. The Brit'sh
and French ambassadors to lay offi
j cially called the State Department's
attention to the arrival of the Ger
i man submarine Deutschland and ask
' ed tlhis government to assure itself of
j the vessel's character. This will be
! done, it was announced, '':y the as-
signment of naval experts to assist
the Treasury Department.
Collector Ryan, at Baltimore, re-
ported informally today that the
Deutschland d'd not carry guns, was
manned bv a merchant crew, and car-'
ton Star of Sunday mornin:
; 1 Tde four companies of mili.tia from
Charlotte, Salisbury, Greensboro and j
Raleigh arrived in Wilmington on a
ftnerial trn'n vest.prrlAV mnrnintr nf fi
o'clock and were soon quartered in 'Newspaper Publishers Association,
the big tabernacle, used for the recent 5 will be called to order here tomor-Chapman-Alexandf-r
meetings, on"w morning for a three days ses
Fount, street, in the Southern part 'on- lt is Pectl that more than
of Wilmington. During the after-
noon and evening, squads of the foil
companies were (placed along the su
burban lines of the Tidewater Pow
r Comipany and also at differen'
poipts in the city. If the soldier;
were expecting to participate in mnr
tial strife they weire cMsappointed
for Hhere was no disorder, althou?v
crowds thronged .the 'streets in th
afternono and evening.
The Salislbury boys are addine
pleasure to military duty while in the
strike city. . Letters and cards tc
home folks say. they are faring well:
are housed in the big -Chapman-Alex-ander
tabernacle and many of them
have gone over to Wrightsville wher
ojffhityj bayihsr ben rel'eved a'
times by other copmanies. They dc
not know just when they will b
home, but the general impression 1
that they will not be kept in Wil
mini? ton any considerable, length of
time.
A FLORIDA OFFICER HERE.
An officer, from Tampa, Florida
came here yesterday after a yoc-v
man by Khe name of Josie Cone, who
i said to be wanted there for steal
ing cow. Officers here received
word some days ego to the effect
that it was believed Cone was in this
city or section and it was not lorw
until Policeman Mmgue located him
working with a force rebuking St
John's Lutheran church.
ried a cargo and was not a warship.
A written report ia expected later.
INE
Big German Ship Comes (her and is
the Bearer of Valuable Cargo ot
DyestufT, Chemicals and Mails
Ran the All'ed Blockade and Reach
ed Baltimore Safely.
The world's first submarine mer-
l ,. ,l n , .
i nuiiiiiiuu, me vjri'iuau uiiuci naici ,
liner Deutschland, is in this country,
anchoring below Baltimore with a t
valuable cargo of costly chemicals,
mails and dyestuff. It is also said j
that the commander has a message
from the German Emperor for Prcs- j
jjent Wilson.
In reaching the American shores
this under sea boat completed a most'
remarkablp trip and astounded the- j
reach America.
The tug Timmins had been, waiting
for her eleven days, and when the
under-water craft arrived thfs morn
ing she was met by th!s tug and con
voyed into Hampton Roads.' She re
mained here for three hours, receiv
ing orders, from Captain Hinsch, un
der whose directions she is now be
ing piloted up the 'bay. Captain
H'nsch also made a report and receiv-
I cd one from Captain Kanrig, ot tne
submarine.
Two foreign warships had hung
around the Virginia capes for over a
I week Waiting for the arrival of the
j German submarine. They made it so
uncomfortable for the tug Timm ns
SOUTHERN NEWSPAPER
PUBLISHERS MEET TODAY
Asheville, July 9. The fourteenth
annual convention of the Southern
memoers wui ob m ni.. "
Among the speakers scheduled to
. "V
. Mr. Newell ef Charlotte was a can
didate for Congress from she Ninth
District In the recent primary. He
was defeated by Mr. Chas, E.' Greene
f Mitchell county.
3 1 t
that the oraft was forcul to stay well
within the three mile limit. Captain
Zt-'h Culison, in the hope of throw
ing suspiicon from his vessel, gave
! out a statement that his tug wad
wait ng for the Italian bark Coslella,
j but the foreign ships still hung
around and ntver went any further
than thirty miles off the rapes.
It was while the Deutschland was
endeavoring to pick up the Timmins,
which was acting as a sort of buoy
'for the submarine, that the underwa
: ter boat wm sighted by the foreign
j warships on Friday. The Deutsch-
land was obliged to submerge an:
j change her course.
her course. When she
' again came u me suriace
she was
nearly 1G0 miles south of the Capes
and it was dark. She then proceeded
towards the cares and sujeaeded in
passing in at 1:45 o'clock this morn
ing. She was piloted through the capes
by Capt. Fred D. Cock of the Virgin-
. ia Pilots' Association. Capt. Hinscli,
I whose presence on the Timmins was
I not known until Friday, declared the
I ti-in nf tho nputarhlnnd wna the moat
remarkable thin; that has ever hap
pene! in marine circles in the history
of the world.
REACHES BALTIMORE.
Baltimore, July 9. The world's
first submarine merchantman, the
German underwater linr Deutsch
land, anchored below Baltimore to
night after voyaging safely across
the Atlantic, passing the allied block
ad ng sqvadron and eluding enemy
cruisers watching for htr off the
American . coast. She carried mail
and a cargo of 750 tons of costly
chemicals and dyestuffs, and is to car
ry home a similar amount of nice)
and crude rubber-i sorely needed by
the German army.
Sixteen days out from Breimerhav
en to Baltimore,, tne submarine reach
ed safely between the. Virgin' capes
at 1:45 o'clock this, morning, passing
in on the' .Surface covered by a heavy
pall of darkness which Settled oVer
the entrance ef the 'ray with the let
ting of atcll-tale half moon. Once in
side, the visitor threw caution aside
and began shr'eking his siren, signal-
apear is Wiliam G. Shepherd, war
correspondent for an American Press
Asociation, who has just returned
from Europe, the subject of his ad
dress being: "With the Armies in
Europe." N. C Kingsbury, fourth
vice president of the American Bell
Telephone Company, will speak on
"Spinners of Speech."
Several golf tournaments have been
arranged for members of the asso
ciation and their families. The con
vention wil colse Wednesday night
with, the election of jficers, to bo
followed by a banquet
HOG CHOLERA WORK
TO BE CONTINUED.
Raleigh, July 9. State Veterinar
ian B. B. Flow announces that he has
succeeded ' in inducing hte United
States Department of, -Agriculture to
continue its work Jln co-operation
with the State Department of Agri
culture in hog cholera prevention that
has, been carried on so successfully
for several years.
The Federal Department had de
cided to withdraw from the work to
devote its funds to other lines of ex
tension endeavor, but a visit by Doc
tor Flow to Washington brought
about change of plana and the
Federal Government will continue to
have Dr. F. D. Owen in this State
devoting special attention to the hog
cholera work.
DETROIT WINS MEETING
OF YOUNGER BAPTISTS.
Chicago, July - .The . Baptist
Young People's Union in session here
today chose Detroit for the 1917
meeting place; and Pxiladelpbia for
the convention of 1918. -
AH truths are not to be tokLHer
bert.' .
ing a pilot and at the same time at
tracting the attention of the tug
Thomas F. Timmins which had been
waitinir in the lower bav for nearlv
two weeks to greet the Deutschland
and convoy her into port.
Three hours later, at 4:45 o'clock
this morning, ths b g submarine
started up the bay with the German
merchant flag flying under own pow
r, piloted by Captain Frederick D.j
Cocke, of the Virginia Pik.U' Aso-J
elation, tai convoyed by the Tim-
mins. She was making more than . ette farm and the village ox carieux
12 knot an hour and could have dock- by German troops was announced to
ed in Baltimore tonight, but arrange- day by the war .office In a report on
imnta had been made for recehin? operations along the western front
her with formal ceremonies tomorrow British Make a New Advance,
,r,A dm ..ntntn ur. ni-riarwt tn watt' London. July 10. British tTOOpS
in the lower harbor. He and his crew
of 29 men remained aboard their
crEft.
Regarding h s vessel as a mer-
chantman subject to no unusual re-
strictions, the skipper, whose name
is said to be Captain Kairig, went up
the Chesapeake without 'waiting to
notify local customs and quarantine
authorises of his presence. He was
five hours away before Normsn Ham- j nouncing tihe capture of trenchu over
ilton, collector of Norfolk-Newport a front of 500 metres.
News, heard the news, and started on ' On the Somms front the French
his trail aboard the coast guard cut-, took a line' of German positions in
ter Onondaga. At last reporti to-; the neighborhood of Barleux. In this
night the cutter had not approached section 950 Germane were captured
the submarine and it is understood i yesterday and last night
that she merely was ordered, out to , The Germane made 1 attacks at
keep the Strang craft under eurveik three points e'multaneously In the
lance as a neutrality precaatiott. j .Vosges but all of their assaults were
Quarantine and port regulation wHV-fteekd - completely". TyCthe;..flre of
be complied .with wW tne yeseel French machine june,, '
move up to her dock tomorrow. .j .
Little wa known here tonijrfvt WOMEN MAY NOMINATE.
bout What happened during: th A SUFFRAGE CANDIDATE
epoch-making- cruise across the ocean
which in a small measure at least Washintrton, July 9. The' women
breaks the blockade on German trade of; the, CongmsionaL'Unib fof Wo
with the rest of the.worW. None of man's Suffrage are 1 threatening to
the sWbmarine's crew had lam 'fed and nominate a candidate or Prident
the agthts of "hear owners had rtceiv- from their own ranks, unless they
ed only, meagire reports. . Such In- get better assurances from the Re
formation, as was available, came in- publicans.
d'rectly from tht pilot and from Cap- "If the Republican party 'continues
tain Hans F. Hinsch, ' ofthe North to dresm it has nothing to'do but
German Lloyd liner Decfcar,' laii up
here since the beginning of the war.
Captain Hinsch boarded the Deutsch-
land from the Timmins and made the
trip up the bay wllfe her.
,GA:,
Ocmulgee River Out of Its Banks and
Property la Threatened Rains
Continue to Fall Over Georgia and
Alabama.
(By Associated Press.)
Macon, Ga., July 10. The Ocnrnl
gee river was far out of its banks and
water had surrounded several sewer
pipes and ibrick plants. Railroad
bridges, crops and highways are re
ported badly damaged. Many ani
mals are lost. . . .;
Conditions , were rapidly approaching-
normal at Birmingham but the
flood siage for tfce Alabama river at
Montgomery was, forecasted., Streams
m. the central and -southern' part of
ute,cace are reported rising lanw
' rtn ' A ' T 1 III -
The . Louisville & Nashville rail
road yards and manufacturing" plants
in North Montgomery are' threaten
ed with overflow.
Rain has eonti.nr.ed to fall over
large sections of Alabama and Geor
gia today, forcing streams farther
out of their banks and resulting in
increased damage to crops, railroads,
telephone and telegraph lines and
small buildings and loss of live stock.
Inhabitants in places net seriously
affected until today -had - plenty, of
warning of the approach of high
water and in most instances moved
out 'No additional loss of life Js re
ported.. '., i "'V-
Macon appears as a new center of
the danger. v - ? ' ',.",
A woman Is apt to change her mind,
several t:roes before she marries, an?i
then some. ,
Czar's Troops Moving Toward
the Second Line Were Every
where Repulsed,
BRITISH MAKE ADVANCE
NEAR CONTALMAISON
Three Additional Guni and Three
Hundred Priioneri Taken In
This Last Move. ,
(By Associated Press.) '
Berlin, via London, 'July 10'.-The
Germans have checked the , Russian
trct In their advance In Volhynli
1 1" the direction of Kovel, the War of-
c announced tousy.
The Russian troops moving toward
the Stockhod Hne were everywhere
repulsed. ' i .
Germans Recapture Positions.
Berlin, via London," July luWThe
recapture of Trones woof, Ltmais-
have made a new advance northwest
of Contalmaison in the field of their
"offensive north of the Somme, it was
officially announced thle afternoon.
Three additional guns ana iuu prion-
era were taken.
French Launch New Attack.
Paris, July 10. A new attack was
launched in the Champagne , by the
French lest nisit, the war office an.
sit tight and profit by the Democratic
mistakes in regard to the Susan B.
Anthony amendment it (f destined to
a sad awakeninKJ
said
Mrfc, Alice
Paul
"Miss Carpenter and I vent to
Coventor Hughes to tell him of the
State organisations of the women's
party already complete In the 12 suf
frage states where 4,000,000 women
can vote in National, elections. In
many of these states as, fix. instance
in Arizona and Wyoming ts' organ
isation already ia complete in 'every
county."
.FOURTEEN MORE DEATIIS.
Infantile Paralysis Is Not Materially
Checked in New York and One Hun
dred and Three New Cases Appear.
, (By Associated Press.) i
New York, July A 10. Rain ' and
cooler weather failed to s materially
check the epidemic of infantile para-
1..-,' . Mrtilnt. ailiM If. tnMnftAI fwft
IJF B HIIIUI . ,.v IM . ---,'''- ...
, . . t ti j ooa i r
weeKS ago nss ciaimeu .o ucs iu
New York City. During the 24 hours
ending at 10 o'clock this morning 14
deaths and 103 new cases were re
ported. About the only exercise some fel
lows get comes from turning v over
new leaves. :- - ,
A bachelor says that matrimony is
one of the blanks in love's lottery,
VILLAN BANDITS
. - NORTHWARD.
t , , . - -.
Washington. July 10- A sec
ond warning that Villa bandits
are headed for the Big Bend
district of Texas was given to
the State Department today
by the Mexican ambassador.
He .told Acting Secretary Polk
his government had definite
Information that bandits are
now moving northward loard
BoquiUas, Texas, snd prongs
the eo-operstio of the Carran
sa forces.