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Shop In Salisbury Throw Away the Mail Order Catalog LOCAL WEATHER FORECAST: FAIR TONKJHT AND Till RSI) A Y ; WARMER THE POST RECEIVES IN ITS OFFICE DAILY LEASED WIRE REPORTS OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. NEWS SOURCES ARE NOT EXCELLED BY ANY NEWS PAPER IN NORTH CAROLINA. fcumfy Eversmo SPEAK OUT! LET POST WANT ADS ACT AS TOUR SPOKES, MAN WHEN YOU WANT HELP. WANT TO SELL, OR WANT TO BUY. THEY GO HOME. ! . ' VOL. 12. NO. 221. SALISBURY. NORTH CAROLINA, WEUNESDW, SKIT. 20. 19)6. PRICE TWO CENTS gP VILLA REPORTED TO HAVE CAPTURED CHIHAUHAU CITY Second Attack on City Was Made Last Night and Was Preceeded By Mutiny of Many Men In Garrison, it is Said Gen. Bell Says "The Garrison North Will Have to Look Out" Will Have Charge Mexican Railway. (By Associ:' t i Tress.) HI Pii-o, Texas, Sipt. (1.- Runi::r.s ii.'e cisi rent lo.l iy i.iat t'!i h'l.ihui ('it;, ),.is een dp: im ed ly Villa in ;i sei-on '. attack la ni;:iit. Mexican j( fi.'ials at Chihuahua declare tae min ers are with.uit foundation. Acco:ding to the rjinur the nttt.k was preceedsd by the mutiny of a large pa;-; jf the garrison. The oan ilits are sai i to occu.;y the municipal and federal palaces, the penitential y and two fortified hills. In Juarez it i.s maintained that though Aire communication is ham p.rtd, messages receive, earlier indi cate quiet in v. Mnuahna ( ily. May Cut Communication Line. San Antonio, Texas, Sept. 20. Be lief that V'iila will soon cut the Car ranza line :f conini jiiication between Chihuahua City and Juarez, if he has not already done so, was suggested by General Funston today after reading the report on Villa's Chihuahua en gagement leciived from General Bell at El Paso. Stor.es gathtred by General Bell fiom pe.sons reaching El Paso fram interior are that General Trevino's forces were dr en out of Chihuahua City in Villa's Saturday attack and that they toak statbns on a large hill outside the city from necessity and not from choice as previously re ported. F.ora this hill they succeed ed ty the use of artillery in dialog ing the Villastas. General Funstcn refused to give out ail d eta Is of Gemral Bell's re port for publication but confessed that previous accoUii;s oi the battle hr.d indicated even more serious con ditions than were admitted by the Carranzists. General Bell's report said the Vil la forces last Saturday were estimat ed at from 500 to 1,700 men. General Funston 'believes this force has grown since the first Chihuahua battle. He said in this case the logi cal step for Villa to take would be the severing of the lines of communi cation between Chihuahua City and Juarez. This would give him control of the Mexican Northwestern Rail way an, the general added, tne gar risons to the""horth would have to look out." SENATOR OVERMAN SPEAKS AT HIGH POINT. Greensboro, Sept. 19. It is an nounced from County Democratic Headquarters that Senator Lee S. Overman of Salisbury will open the campaign in High Point for the Dem ocrats next Tuesday night, Septem ber 26. High Point people are very fond of Senator Overman, and it was at their request that he was invited to spepk in the furniture city. A great meeting is being planned, and people from all sections of the county are expected to be in attendance. Al ready a number of Greensboro people are planning to go to High Point that night. SALISBURIAN IS PROMOTED. Mr. Stephen Richard Receives Deserv ed Promotion at Norfolk Yard. Ny The following is taken from the 1 Norfolk, Va., Landmark of Sunday, ' and will be of interest in Salisbury and Spencer. Mr. Richard is a Salis bury boy and formerly worked at the Spencer shops: The following machinist leading men have been appointed in the ma chinery division as a result of the competit ve examination recently h:ld: Stephen Dozier. Richard and Charlie When a married couple gets along well, the neighboring women say "Oh, his wife knows how to manage him." Ever notice how easy it is for a person afflicted with insomnia to go to sleep when it is time to get up? When it comes to calling men from their beds, the fire bell puts it all over the church belL Go to a friend for advice, to a stranger for charity, and to a rela tive for nothing. WHITMAN LEADS .Most of the Progressives in New York Who Voted for Governor Whitman and Republicans are Fiattd Over the Outcome ol Prim ary. (By Associated Press.) New York, Sept. 20. Republicans are today attachin : great significance to the success in the New Y'ork prim aries of Governor Wh'tman in win ning the Progressive nomination over Samuel Seabury, who was the unop posed Democratic candidate. I Republican leaders are declaring that Whitman's victory in the Pro gressive fight proves that the bulk of the Progressive vote in New York state will be with the Republican can d'dates in the November election. Whitman Leads in Piogressive Votes. New York, Sept. 19. A close con test between Gov. Charles S. Whit man, Republican and Judge Samuel Seabury, Democrat, for the Progres sive endorsement of the gubernatorial nomination Was indicated Uy early re turns tonight from the State-wide prima' y. The indications were that Whitman would be tne vctor. William M. Calder, Republican, and William F. MoCombs, Democrat, ap parently were assured of the nomina tions far United States Senator. Calder ha: received 17,692 votes from 759 cistricts out of a total in the State of 5.718, as against 12,596 for Bacon; McComflbs had polled 5.027 votes in 317 districts as against 2, 72fi f r Conway. Wh'tman had polled 884 Progres sive votes bs against 778 for Seabury in 334 districts out of a total of 5, 719 in the state. ,VA. Southern to Install Twenty-Stall Roundhouse and One Hundred Foot Tiirnable and Otherwise Enlarge Terminal at Virginia Point. Alexandria, Va., Sept. 19. Modern engine terminal facilities consisting of a 20-stall roundhouse and 100-foo: turntable capable of handlinsr the heaviest locomotives, mechanical coal handling plant with 100.000 tons stor age capacity, electrically operated cinder pits, water tank, sand plant, small shop for running repairs, store houses for oil and other supplies, wash and looker room for employes, together with the necessary tracks are to be constructed immediately by the Southern railway at Alexandria Va., on the property ownec just south of the National cemetery. These facilities wilt take the place of the present small roundhouse and light turntable which cannot accom modate the heavy locomotives now in use, the old-fash'ohed wooden coal chute whi-h cannot oe operated economically, all located on an area too restricted to permit enlargement. The new facilities will take care of the heaviest locomotive now in use and planned for the future, will make operating economies possible, and will enable the Southern to secure the grratest possible benefit from its increased track capacity resulting frrm the construction of double track between Washington and Atlanta. Contract for the foundation work for the roundhouse and turnable has been awarded to J. P. Pettyjohn and company of Lynchburg, Va. Mr. Henry Smith, a son of Mr. William Sm'th and an employe at the Spencer shops, who has been confined to his room several days, suffering from asthma, is able to fce out. As an evidence of the hopelessness of Turkey, the sultain is said to havi written to poem. High Point Enterprise. ALEXANDRIA NEW P. O. HEADSMAN. John C. Koons. who twenty years ago enteied the post office depart i ment as a railway mail clerk at a I salary of $1,000 a year, is now first i assistant postmaster general. In that position he has the selection of many i unimportant postmasters, and his hand will likely be felt during the campaign. E CWJulluWE.NET Police Department Hu Canght Near ly Three Hundred Automobilists Who Exceeded the Limit in Run ning Their Cars. Reeotly the Iboari of aldermen In structed Sergeant Cauble of the po lice force to r'gidly enforce the law regarding the fast 'riving of automo biles. This order went forth on com plaint from a number of citizens liv ing in residential sections where the streets are invit'ng for the fast driv ing of machines, and the board decid ed to tighten the lines before it was too late before some serious accident with probable death resulted. So th head of the police got his orders, and he is proceeding to carry them out. Not only the regular force but what is comonly known as "spoilers" hate cen on the job with stop watches and a keen eye, with the result that the officers now are in possession of a list of names of automobile drivers that runs up into the hundreds. To be exact it had rr ached 286 Jast night. There have been no indictments yet, but here will be. Some morning there'll be a special automobile court that will make Justice John's Rich mond court look I ke a country cross road affair. The officers have the names cf the' drivers of the machine, the exact place on the street where the speed was maintained and the number of the ears, so there is no escape. And that list would atrrprfse you. They say it contains the names of men and women, business men, pro fessional men, just ordinary every day men, lawyers, and some say there are even officers of the law included. And the end is not yet. NEW CORPORATIONS. Charters were issued' yesterday from the office of the Secretary of State for the following corporations to do business in North Carolina: dendenin & Sanders Wheat Cereal Company, of Greensboro. Capital stock, $25,000. Subscribed stock, 11,200. Incorporators: H. W. Clen denin, J. P. Sanders and H. Bell, all of Greensboro. Empire Drug Company, of Salis bury. Capital stock, $50,000. Sub scribed stock, $2,000. Incorporators: J. B. Marsh, Salisbury; S. O. Brew er, Salisbury, and A. J. Kluttx, Greens boro. ' . "Charter of the Kinston Free Press Company was amended to allow the issuance of seven per cent cumula tive p--rferred stock not to exceed $10,000. . The boys and girla of the city are preparing for the opening of the pub lic -schools nert Monday, September aotn, ana a is expected that the en rollment ihe coming session will sur-j pass, ty many, any previous school year. greene sheriff DIES SUDDENLY Appoplexy Brought on By Arrest of Negro Caused Death of Of ficer W. H. Williams. NEGRO HAD FIRED ON AN AUTOMOBILE PARTY Aaooilant f Portv XfaA a flrnlrrA Against One Man Two T.adie3 Injured by Negro. (Hy Associated I'i'ss.i Snow Hill, N. C, Sept. '(). Wil liani H. Williams, sheritl of Greene I county, died ut hi?. hr;rc I. ere early ' today an the result of a strui.e of u. I poplexy suffered last night after the lanest of William Sasser, un lK-vejr- j j old negro who is charged with havinr J fired upon and w. inded with birdshot j four white persons in an automobile i near here. I Sas3er was arrested but the deputy I sheriff having him in charge did not I report immediately and Sheriff Wil liams, it is said, became uneasy, fear ing the prisoner had been taken away from the .officers. It is believed the stroke was in duced by the excitement incident to the arrest of the negro. Mrs. Cleon Jon.", Miss Blanche Jones, Zeb Jones and Troy Dail were in the car fired upon. None of these were seriously injured. The negro, it is said, bore a grudge against Mr. Dail. COOL WEATHER HURTS COTTON Crop in North and South Carolina Suffers Slight Damage Most of Tobacco Crop is Being Cured. (By Associated Press.) Washington, Sept. 20. Cool weath er .in Nvrth Carolina and parts of South Carolina has caused some dam age to ootton but picking and ginning is iJroceecTinjf nder favorable condi tion in most of the Southern States, according to the weekly crop bulle tin issued by the agricultural depart ment. It adds that most- of the to bacco crop in Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee is being cured. Southern Labor Conference. (By Associated Press.) Memphis, Tenn., Sept. 20. About two hundred delegates were on hand when the Southern Labor Conference convened here today. Fourteen South ern States were represented. The convention will continue throughout the week. BLACK MAIL CASE Chicago Agent of the Department of Justice Goes to Capital to Consult With Attorney General Gregory. (By Associated Press.) Chicago, Sept. 20. Investigation of the alleged blacVmail syndicate ac :used of swindling wealthy persons in various parts of the country out of large sums of money was transferred temporarily today to Washington Ly the departure of Hinton G. Claljaugh, local agent of the Department of Jus tice, for a consultation w'th Attorney General Gregory. William C. Woodward, wanted by the government in connection with the alleged swindling, surrendered last night and was released on a $2, 500 bond. Three of those arrested were discharged yesterrHy on account of hck of evidence. The four othsrs still held will be given an examination before a United States Cora'ssioner Bakera Assert That Unless Exporta tion is Stopped Bread Will Go to Twenty Cents a Loaf To Aak President to Call Extra Session of Congress. (By Associated Press.) New York, Sept. 20. fires dent Wilson will le asked to call a special . r. j i VI W UCilftrC ttll 1 baryo on the exportation of wheat and Federal and State investigations of the increased price of flour will be demanded by a resolution adopted by two hundred bakers of Brooklyn to- day. , It is asserted that flour will be sold at fourteen dollars a barrel and bread at twenty cents a loaf next spring unless an embargo is imposed, TDK W NT MISSOURI TO SHOW THEM. , - . - 1 - Lymmmr '""" '" . ! wwwiwi.uj.wD!aip MRS.ERNEiTim Mrs. Krnest E'tix and Mrs. W. C. Fordycc of St. Louis, are in active charge of the suffrage campaign in their slate, at leist in active charge of the work of raising money for the EFFORTS TO STOP Committee of Business Men in New York Endeavor to Head Off Industrial Tieup. STRIKE ORDER WITHHELD TILL AFTER THURSDAY A Night of Rioting in the Metro- polis When Strikers Bombard Cars and Injure Passengers. (By Associated Press.) New York City, September 30. Despite attempted intervention of a committee of business men there seems to i':e little prospect today of averting a general strike in sympathy with the striking street railway em ployes. Labor leaders assert that the proposed walkout will involve 700,000 workers. A second conference of business men with the mayor and chairman of the public commission was called to day but it was the feeling of those concerned that the situation haJ reached an absolute deadlock. Union leaders promised to withhold the order for1 a sympathetic str ke un til after Thursday, and in the mean time the city authorities and business men will endeavor to find a way to prevent a tieup of a considerable part of the city's industries. Attempted operation of surface cars last night resulted in the worst riot'ng since the striae began, but officials of the transportation com panies say the service in the day is improving steadily. Throughout the night elevated and subway trains at points where they ran on elevated structures were subjected to bom bardment with (j ricks and bottles, car windows were battered in and a num ber of passengers injured. Today there were several attacks by str'kers and. their sympathizers on surface cars and the police reserves were re peatedly called out. During the fore-n-.m attacks on s:face cars contin ued. The last twenty-four hours witness ed the most extendei disturbance of the strike, police reports showing the arrest of twenty men who are declar- ed to be former employes of the com- panies, fifteen of these se accuse'' of f elony and attacks on trains ana cars. SOLDIERS READY TO DEPART. North Carolina National Guard Will Probably Leave Camp Glena Late Thursday for Mexicaa Border. (By Associated Press.) Morchead City, Sept 20. Indica- ;. tnAarr aura that, tha first train ' " " " J " ' - " ' ' 1" f North Carolina National guardsmen would leave Camp Glen t r.orrow for El Paso, General Young having received nothing to- day to change the orders received last night The unite which are expected to leave tomorrow are brigade head- muirtors. cavalry troops A and B, first field hospitil corps, ambulance corps No. 1, and the first infantry, ,.;; i 0. STRIKE - fe 4. a .jIA T'-.'r.----w;-Jii mm I V It iwwmwi m i Wild Max. ULCsmtevt ! furtherance of the suffrage campaign ! They want Missouriani to show them j just how much interest the take la ; suffrage for women by contributing very largo sum to the cause. After a Conference With Presi dent . McGoraick . Announces President Will Answer. WILL UHOE ON CONGRESS THE PROGRAM SUBMITTED The President Will Not Make a Campaign Tour as Was Re ported He Would Make. (By Associated Press.) Long Branch, Seyt. 20. Presidmt Wilson and Chairman Vance McCor mick in a conference today mapped . out a program to meet the attack of : Charles E. Hughes on the 8-hour a day law. Chairman McCormick asserted that the President will show that he la d before Congress a complete program to meet the strike situation, and as serted that Mr. Wilson will urge on the next Congress the enactment Into law of this program. Will Make No Campaign Tour. Lon? Branch, N. J., Sept 19. President Wilson announced tonight that he has no intention of making ony campaign tour but that he w'M carry out plan alreidy tentatively made for several speeches on pub lic owsticTs before non-partisan or ganizations. This announcement fol lowed a conference between Mr. Wilson and Vance MoCormick, chair- man 0f the Democratic National Com- niittee Both the President and Mt. Me Cormick expressed indignat on over stories nritrted to v to the effect that as a. result of uneasiness over the Republican campaign, Mr. Wilson had changed his plans and would stump the country. Secretary Tumulty authorized the following statement: "The President has no intention of making any campaign tour. He does not intend to change the .program al rcsly agreed upon f-y those fn change cf his campaign to accept invitations from non-Dartisan organizations to discuss political questions." In addition to the speeches in diff- erent parts of the country, the Pret- ident plans to make addresses on the norch of Sha 'ow Lawn to delegations from var'ous States who will call up- on him. The first of these speeches will le made Saturday afternoon to a delegation of business men, with whom Mr. Wilson will discuss the record of buainMs legislation made by. his. administration. . - ) Te""l Th f Wri'sh nd French. B?rlin. hy "rle to Siville. L. Cant 90 RrttUti Dfut French loaMS " " " ' - . j , PRESIDENTWILSON 8-HOUR LAW in the bsttle of the somme nave " ;t "ipu reerhed about 600.000 men. the Over-: although: the artillery on both sides -eas News Agency estimates, ' f00 ,t0,BeJ' 1aTV2!p0rt ttrntd , ; to i relleMe droto-naoc sources In German Trenchea Captured. .? If?0" M te evacuate London, Sept 20. British troops j Tneac ' '. , north of Arras yestetday captured .. J ' ' t i 200 yards of German trenches, says I - A u Jrt " - the official statement Issued today try " the British army headquarters. to. EAST THE SCENE I OF BIG FIGHTING According to the Report! Ger many Haa Shifted Torces to the East. TEUTONS CLAIM THEY HAVE THE ADVANTAGE IN EAST Little Activity Along French and Belgium Fronts While Macedo nia ii Center of Interest. ' (By Associated Press.) Fighting on a huge scale is in prog ress all along the Eastern front to which interest has shifted sines the ht up along the Somme. Interest has accumulated that the Central powers are devoting their main enegries to the east, concentrat ing large forces against. Rumania and putting forth all possible effort to stop the Russian advance on Lent- berg and to stop the Russian and Ru-. mnnian drive in Galicia and Transyl vania. Both Berlin and Sofia report the development of a great battle on the une ot tne uooruaja to aeiena tne railway line into the interior of Ru man a. The engagement, according to these reports, is turning In favor of the Central Dowers. The latest reports from Volnahia and Galcia shows the Teuton re o h ti'n sive and are claiming an advantage. As has frequently been the esse when developments art lacking Ptro. grad Is quiet on the situation along the Russian front, only reporting that' nothing Is happen'ng of any Import anee. Turkish troops appear to have play ed an important part in strengthen ing the Teutons in the east and have been successful in their operaUint, according to announcement fro-a Won stantinople today.. According to h a . t)i Tu viral r mit rth-i mm v-rvs vsj vuv a irnvv nvif auviauav- ful In 48 hours battle against the Russians. In Macedonia the trend it hi' favor ' of the Allies. The Serbian army is " reported to be in considerable force , along the western end of the; Mace donian line; -'1 Greece again amepars as probable new factor in the Balkan field. It is ' reported that Greece fias sent an (jl-1 timatum to Germany deman 'lng the return of the .Greek troops taken at -Kavala by the Beulgarians and sent ' to Gor many for Internment . H. Comparative qufet 'prevails along, the Somme region. Paris sends news that a German attack on Hill No, 76 north ipf the river, was repulsed by the French. , , ... . . , , Flirh ting Among Snow -clad Peaks., in tne Lttdowa region of the Car pathians the ' Russians have gained, some new position In the flghtlng among the snow-clad peaks. , ; i f ah The war chancellories at Berin Sofia and Vienna -record .victories for Teutonic, allies over the Rumanians in Transylvania and Dodrudja. - In southern Transylvania near Hatsteg, according to Berlin, the invading Ru manians have Ceen repulsed and are '-' beinr pursued by the Autsro-Ger-mans, while 'n Dobruc'ja the new line i farmed by the Russians south of the Conrtanza railway and run ning from the Black lea to the Dan ube has been penetrated -at some points and several villages captured. Mart righting In Macedonia. In Macedonia, hard fighting con tinues at various points but with ae 'mportant changes in positions re ported. Two counter attacks by the Bulgarians against the Serbians on the left wing were unsuccecssful ao cdrding to Paris, while Sofla reports : -that attacks by Russian, French and ' L Serbian troops on Bulgarian positions ' around Florida were repulsed, as like wise was an offensive west of LeJVe ' Ostrovo. Artillery engagements for the most part' are gong i on along both the British and French sectors In France and Belgium, there has bem violent artillery activity en the Somme and Veriun fronts and around Diimude. A local German attacks - on British trenches east of Martin- . puich, north of the Somme, was re pulsed, north of the Somme, was re pulsed. Berlin admits the relinqu'ah-' ment to the Entente forces of the trenches east of Gincty and near Com les, which had been previously demolished bf the enemy artillery. Preparkg to Evacaste Triest The infantry fighting between the Italians and AurTians on the Sorso , , t . .. , . . . uwi at hbomw 1 'V