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VOL.1. NO. 58.
FAYETTEVIIXE. N. C SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 23, 1916.
PRICE, J4.C0 PER YEAR
RED LIGHTS GR
NG
BRIGHTER
9
msmm--mmsam
IMessrs Hall and McCas-
Wll Would Brin Suit
Ajrainst Marshall
Cut It Terminates In the Fact
- That Marshall Is Not
Itespoiwble Ikcaus
No Bond.
It will be remembered that the
News carried an account a few day
ago of the arrest and detention at
police headquarter! of two young men,
Messrs. liall anal HcCaskill, who were
alleged to have been engaged in the
business of smuggling wbiakey into
Jl'ayetteville.
Following the arrest, when the
: police were unable to prove their
charges and were forced to allow the
young men to go, they at one began
preparations to institute auit against
Policeman Marshall, who it waa al
leged had falsely arrested them.
Yesterday Lawyer D. M. Stringfield
addressed the following letter to the
mayor, which i self-explanatory:
"ilr. Jno. C. Cibbs, Mayor,
t "Fayetteville, N. C.
"My Dear Sir: I have been csulted
1 y a number of "people within the last
few week bo desired for roe to ait
for them in bringing a suit against
PtMireman Marshall for fulse arrest,
abuse of process, assault and various
other actionable wrongs alleged to
. have been committed ly him in the
supposed discharge of his duty as a
police ollicer of the pity. And today
jut as I was preparing to i;ti!ute
auit fur damagea in behalf of Uie par
ties, Messrs. Met a.-kill and Hall,
whia i!iir.ihill arrested the other
night at the river bridge, I waa as
tonished (though upon second thought
I need not have been) to learn that
tve had never been required to execute
the bond as such officer, which the
laws of North Carolina and the city
of Fayetteville demand before he
could even enter upon the discharge
of duty. Would it seem possible that
those whose- duty it is to first have
safely filed in the city's valuable docu
ments a bond with good and sufficient
eurety before a police office ever goes
tjpon duty, could so far have neglected
this exceedingly important duty as to
allow this man to go on and on to this
late date restrained only by his own
bent and inclination and responsible
for not limit and to nobody? It is like
wise passing strange that Mr. Mar
shall seems to have been made the ex
ception, aa I am informed that the
other members of the force are under
bond, such as is required by law.
"It has come to a pretty pass here
where we live under a constitution and
laws when, while citizens of the State
in their orderly and lawful travel from
place to place, are to be halted at
pistol point, arrested thus without a
warrant or other process, snatched to
polite headquarters and detained for
night, totally without authority in law
or otherwise and that without rem
edy. Very truly vours,
D. M. STRfNGFIELD.
TRINCIPAL OK SCHOOL,
SHOT FROM AMBUSH
Wilmington, N. .C, Jan. 22. W. F.
Livingstone, principal of the Gad.lys
viile public hchool. in Kobeson county,
brother of J. A. Livingston, city edi
tor of the Wilmington Morning Star,
was shot and seriously founded in
wodos back of the school, apparently
by some one who had' been lying in
wait tor him, accordmjr to news re
ceived hre.
Truf. Livingstone thinks some one
hired a negro to shoot him because of
trouble growing out of the recent ex
pulsion of several pupils. Mrs. Liv
ingstone is her husband's assistant in
the school.
LYON'S, HI ANCE NOW
MONTENEGRIN CAPITAL
Kome, Jan. 22. The Montenegrin
Covenmient has been removed to
Lyons, France, it was officially an
nounced yesterday at the Montenegrin
legation.
There are now three seats of gov
ernment in France, the French, Bel
gian and Montenegrin.
AN ACCIDENT
Owing to an accident to
the News press, the paper
is unable to appear in eight
pages today. For the last
three days the News has
been issued from the
presses of the Judge Print
ing Co., through the cour
tesy of the manager, Mr.
Judge.
firaFJLLEGISi
A M. BY A. C. L.
He Was Killed
Mumford Street
Crosgiiu?
at
Caught the Train at I lay Street
and Was Pragged to Mum
ford Street Where He Fell
Beneath the Cars.
unknown negro attempted to eaten
train No. 85, at Hay street exosa
ir.g, but in some way he slipped and
was dragged to Mumford street cross
ing where he fell from the cars. lie
waa so mutilated that no one could
recognize him.
-The negro waa completely torn to
pieces, and at different places along
the track was a knee cap and different
parts of the negro's limbs.
He had on a new pair of shoes and
$7 in money in bis pockets.
ARIZONA CITY IS
UNDER THE WATER
Yuma, Arix., Jan. 22. Yuma is un
der from two to six feet of water to
night as a result of the breaking of
the levee of the Colorado river and
the overflow of the Gila river cast of
this city today. A number of oil
buildings that hav been standing
since frontier duys have crumbled.
3V0
UNDERTAKERS SING
-WHEN I EE AVE WORLD"
New York, Jan. 22.-A chorus of
?00 undertakers sang "When I Iave
the W orld Behind"- at a house-warming
in the new plan of a cottin com
pany at Astoria last night.
300.000 GEKM4NS
ijjst in
CHAMPAGNE
Jaris. Jan. 22. The Journal, quot
ing Swiss military evperts, states that
the Germans lost 300.001 me in the
battle of Champagne last September.
PEACE TERMS
NOW UNDERWAY
WITH AUSTRIA
Berlin, Jan. 22. Peace negotiations
between Austria and Montenegro, ac
cording to a statement received from
headquarters of the Austrian govern
ment at Viennt have not jet
begun and will not begin
until the arrival of the Austrian dele
gate, Herr Otco.
The statement says: "Negotiations
regarding the places at whii h the
Montenegrins are to lay down their
arms will be closed with n a few
hours. An agreement will le reported
as soon as it has been concluded."
It is further stated that King
Nicholas in his manifesto to his peo
ple urges (hat the people of ( ettinje
receive Emperor Francis Josef's army
with popular rejoi. ing since this is the
kings wish. Hocunient dealing with
the capitulation of the Montenegrins
was signed ty all the ministers.
PRESIDENT IS
INVITED HERE
The Chamber of Commerce yester
day took the initiative and prepared
an invitation to President Wilson, ask
ing him that he take Fayetteville into
consideration before finally deciding
upon a place in which to speak when
ne visus norm e.arouna.
The invitation was sitrned bv a num
ber of the leading representative citi
zens ot uie town and I'V the heads
of a number of business hrms. It will
be sent to Congressman Godwin to
night, who wilL in turn, present it to
the Iresident.
The invitation points out the advan
tages which Fayetteville has to offer,
and cites the surrounding territory
from which a huge gathering could be
drawn.
DID NOT ENOW THE
WAR WAS ON IN' EUROPE
New Y'ork, Jan. 22. The police have
discovered a man who hadn't heard of
the war in Europe.' He is Andrew
Kirsky, miner, of Morgan ton, I'a.
Mr. Albert Slocumb, Jr., left last
night for New Y'ork. Mr. Slocumb
may remain in New York for some in
definite period.
Biggest
BIG ROBBERY HERE
MUTED WST
WEEK
What is regarded as mi ef
boldest robberies ever pulled off to the
South occurred here last Saturday
morning when two women. auriru-,al
;U be inmate of the red light district,
axe aijesed to hac taken
from
'a aoutr.bouni tram three suit rases
contain. ng valuables and eecuntiea
amounting to over JlO.tiOO.
At a late hour last night nothing
definite could be learned of the affair.
however, it was ttatei to a reporter
I fur tho News that a U irns detective
had arrived here and that he would
probe the case.
It was said that a millionaire, com
ing from the North for a visit to the
South, was sleeping in his berth when
the two women got his suit cases by
telling the porter that they owned
them.
It was stated that the officers had
reason to believe that the Women left
the train at Fayetteville. i
CHICKEN" THIEF WAS
FORCE!) TO I LEE
This morning Mr. Williams, police
man, heard a chicken Hopping' Its
wings iier the Uuy Bee cafe. Upon
investigation he saw a negro, who,
when be saw the officer;,, threw the
chicken down and made his escape,
iefpite the efforts of the officer to
cairn r.im.
HUSBAND JAILED AS
OIKL-WILE'S ASSASSIN
; Satibury, N. C, Jan. 22 Mrs. An-'
nie Overcai-h, 17, girl-wife of Houston
Ovenruh. a vouii frm!. ? 1 'V
rntintv. ttkn uu, ,.Kr,r Ihrmmh Bi'n
duw at the home of her parents Sun
day night, died yesterday. The hus
band in being held in jail without bail
accused of her assassination.
The couple had been married iss
tnan a year and had been separated
several months.
TOMMY CHIRON S MAY
EIGHT Gl'S CHKIi
TIE
Milwaukee, Jan. 22. Len Rowlands,
local welterweight, yesterday accept
ed terms to meet Mike O'Dowd at St.
Paul February 4, ten rounds.
Gus Christie, local middleweight,
practically agreed to meet Tommv
Gibbons, of St. Paul, at Winniueg,
February 14, in a 12-round match.
FIRE AT EATONTON"
DESTROYS SCHOOLS
Eat.tnton, Ca., Jan. 22. Eatonton
is without a school building, following
a tire which occurred early Thursdav
morning. The main school building
and two annexes were burned. The
origin of the (ire is unknown.
it v officials are considering a bond
issue for the erection of new buildings
of bri.-k. The old buildings were in
sured for i.i.l',!Nt. The ninin l..i!.l,..
bad uni si; n-iirnr f;,r 21 ve.-irs.
ROOK STORE HERE
OPEN PRETTY SOON
It became known vesteiday
good authority, that the store
, up..:
buiL;
ing next to . K. Kin.iley Company
is being equipped and ma.ie rea.lv for
a book store which will le owned by
Messrs. Fry & Clayton. It is under
stood that Miss Jessie Simpson will
1 in charge of 'the book store, ar.d
that it will be opened up in the near
future.
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v.-. i ..v,. Mit, i m IL WAR
,
1 OrK. .Inn V Vnol.n..
the German University U.-.cii rrf
A. II, Faust, of Cornell, said thl i;
per cent of the nation is German born
or t.erman ancestry, against 30 per
cent English and Scotch and 18
c mere were olio l.erman
bm officers on the Union side in the
Civil War. he continued, an. I 'Mo 0,1,1
enlisted men, although the (erman
population in the country then was
only 1,270.000.
BOYC CLUB ASSOCIATION-
HAVE ADOPTED MOTTO
Y.lr T.. 00 i.xr-.: . . 1
1 t.. n ruing lo uie
Boys Club Association, which is try
ing to raise S500.000. Thmxiora R,
velt said: "You could have no better
motto for the association than 'Never
be neutral between right and wrong.' "
The boya have adopted the motto as
their slogan.
MenaceIChe
EIGHT AttE8IGAHS;D0ES POLICE
ABE KILLED Ifi
IWo-c!. A r-i , Jan 22 tonnrtm
reaching lure late today told of the
aanging of eight Americana near
Eieutla br Mexicana. (In-of the
sources of this report an Andrew
I rum no. an engineer, una arrived
here today. Trumbo, with his wile,
was riding pat the place and aaw
the bodies swinging from trees, he
ssid. --
They srere so badly mutilated that
identification waa imiMW.Kit.le. lie
said that the Mexicans told him of
the hanging and said that the dead
were Americana. The hanging hap
pened about three month ago. Trent,
bo reported that the train on which
he was riding was fired upon, but no
Americans were injured. A pasxenger
train which preceded the train on
which he was riding, was dynamited
near i'urlblo and twenty -three Mexi
cans killed. .
Washington. Jan. 22. Secretary of
Slate Lansing flatly denied today that
he had received any confidential r-p'.-rts
concerning- the, hanginir. of
American miners near Ejcutla, ilex.
FIVE PERSONS ARE
, KILLED IN WRECK
Seattle, Wash., Jan. 22. Five per
sona were killed and a number injured
l.-d-iv uhen th, Wftliotiiid Casciede
"ifcmTted train of the Great Northern
struck a snow slide at Corea station.
An avalanche of thousands of tons
of snow and ice almost completely
wrecked the train, threw two- of the
, ,, "A
ground belaw, a fail of seventy-five
over an
1 feet.
The avalanche struck the train at
He dep-1 aid h jr'ed it from the rails
O.jrea u -wVmt ffreen miles east of
Seattle. T:.' accident occurred on a
rjrve, the i. fated train beim? on the
uppr awe. The avalanche struck the
train at mid-center, tearing the
bner and baggage coach from their
-ouphrtgs ar.d hurling them ovtr the
bank sevenry-fiv feet be'ew.
It was at this point that a similar
ae-cident caused, the loss of life among
many persons about six years ago a
number of the dead in that accident
having been cause'! by beinp sorTocnt
ed by the weight of snow and ice that
followed them down the bank.
GERMANY MAY
BE AFTER PEACE
WITH RELGilUM
Washington. Jan. 2. Information
has been received in diplomatic cir
cles that fiermany is considering mak
ing Belgium a proposal for separate
peace. An evacuation of all llelgtan
territory would follow. It is uiuK r
slood that the proposition whirh 'Aill
l-e made to in.-lu-ie mm offer to iay
for all damages. 0:i;eia!s in cl.e
touch with the (ierriiin e!i.l'-i-y c
1 ressed the . pillion to-lav that the of-
for probably would be accepted,
j IVlgium is ro t one of the signa
tories to the di.cumer.t whi.-h Sir
ji-'dwnr.l (Jrey obtai:.c! the MC".i!:-n-I
of the French an. I K.s.iun and t;it-r
j the Italian government' ami hi, h
hinds those nations hot to eonelu.le a
separate peace. The restoration of
i Helgium would leave the allies no
, room for protest in the opion oT otli
jeials, inasmuch n it has been this one
j point on which the aliies have been
; insistent as a condition of peace. It
jean be stated that question of foreign I
jtvranny withdrawing from ail of the j
j occupied positions of Belgium, on the j
j conditions that Helgium will first con- j
nt to conclude
jthe Central powers, is now heing care
separate fieuce w un
fully consulered in official cirel
Merlin.
STEAMER IS HIT RY
UNKNOWN CRAFT
New Y'ork, Jan. 22. The steamer
Brazos en route to San Juan collided
with an unknown steamer off Barne
jat this evening. A big hole was stove
in the side of the vessel, and she was
turned back to port.
RESTAURANT M AN
SERIOUSLY BURNED
Chester. S. C Jan. 22. Wallace
Mclliley. a restaurant man of New j the New Y ork police department ihan trict. You'll only mak enemies for
York City, while on a visit to his 'ever before. In the last vear there',-.,,.. i a- . M
mother, Mrs. Sallie Bailey, received was a saving of 5.050 days of sick)7 " ' K' away from t
severe burns on his body while stand- 'leave as compared with li14, which is I .V1w ' bat it does not appear
ing before a fire clad only in his bath-
robe. lie ia in serious condition, la
ITS PART FOR RIGHT
!
The News begins publication today of a series of articles which'"
wiU sho that th? red light, or segregated districts, of Fayette
vilie is the bigtst menace, or stumbling block, in the pathway of
the town'j progress. These articles have been written and care
fully veriCcd before publication. The News is not directing them
to that element of citizenship which patronizes the "hell holes
of eorrcptioc," as a prominent North Carolina judge once termed
the red L'ht houses of another city not so far removed from
rayetteviUe.
A statement which some will probably doubt, but which is never
theless true is this: There are more bad women in Layetteville,
compared with its population, than there are in New York City,,
compared with its population. A recent investigation by a repre
sentative of the ews revealed the fact that there were sixteen
bad women in what is known as the segregated district. This
does not probably include all that are in Fayetteville. Three
houses that were visited had the following numbers: First, four,
women and a landlady; second, five women; third, three women.
In other houses four more women were found. Whiskey or beer
can be bought at will in these houses, it is stated, from persons...
who have visited them.
The greatest factor is that pertaining to the police of the city.
The force does not seem to be able to cope with the ditiiculty aris
ing? from this segregated district.. Raids are some time made, but
it is tsaid that they are always made between the hours of seven
and nine at night.. The women have been warned and when the .
police appear on the scene to make an inspection they probably
find a quart of whiskey and one or two dozen bottle of beer.
VERIDCT IX FAVOR
UNITED FRUIT CO.
Philadelphia,. Jan. 22. A verdict in
favor of the tWluodant was returned
iaie todav by th jury in the -suit of
the liiuefield Steamship Company
against the United Fruit CompiOiy.
The jury was out fifty hours. The
uit was known us the "Banana
Trust" case. Three weeks were re
quired to try the case.
COL. HOUSE IN
PARIS YESTERDAY
Paris, Jan. 22 Col. E. M. House,
President Wilson's representative of
a special missior., arrived here today
conferred with Amuussnuur
rp.
fused to discuss his mission. He said
"I did not see any French ministers
in London or in Paris. I have not
seen anyone in Paris except Ambassa
dor Sharp."
Col. House flatly refused to discuss
the contemplated Hritish blockade. He
was also silent when asked if Chair
man Holmes would continue as the
head of the National Democratic com
mittee. WAR TELEGRAMS
Berlin, Jan. 22. The official state
ment issued today states: "The enemy
fheiied our positions between Mulleste
And Iosees us well as the villages be
hind our front without success, tin
the eastern front, there were inter
mittent artillery due's."
don, Jan. J. An Athens
hs-
j i ati
I Kmc
to the r.vemiig Nc-w
Con stantine in an Hi
says that
1 lew o' -upproii.-h-iiiu-er
n;no
red that if his n.m.stw
hi ni with a proposition
: ;ia! law that he w o.;!.i
ppi-civc it.
ncli war
')i;i ii-ir
or. tin
icrne anu
a as calm
Paris, Jan.
;'i, e -taienu
22. The
nt todav
artillery
go.im. t I
th.
It OUI
enemy m le
the oss-eiTes.
mp:
the nigr
the fronts.
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noys
( I t II ASSOCI TlOS
OF NEW YORK CITY
York. Jan. 22. The child wel
tird has just granted the first
fare 1
w idows' pt-nsion here. To Hl w-omen
carine for more than ;u0 children
will go checks by mail direet from
the city auditor's office, with no pro
fessional charity worker to interfere
and perhaps humiliate the poor moth
er. it h each check goes, too. a
kindly letter notifying the mother that
she receives the money fro her ser
vices to the. State.
LESS SICKNESS THAN EVER
BEFORE IN N. Y. PtLICE DEiT.
V...1 1 -, : . . i
1 1
erenseJ sanitation in" stations " edv-.-a- '' , n,embt r l,f the was re
tion along health lines and raore cently overheard te'ling another one
(rvmnasiums. there is less sickn.s. in
equivalent to more than thirteen men
day for active police duty.
$3
3
City -Knows
FORCE PLA11
A COLLECTING POINT.
Fayetteville appears to l.c a Collect
ing point between Columbia in the
South and Richmond in the North.
Women, driven from the towns of
-5uut.il Carolina Come to FsyetteviUaa
the same thing applies to the North.
They seldom stay in ore place for
more tbun two or three weeks when
they move on to some other point.
Recently when a campaign was
waged in the city of Wilson, it is au
thoritatively stated that a large per
centage of them came straight to
Fayetteville.
DISEASE PREVALENT
It is known that disease is usually
prevalent in these bwdy houses. Un
like the bad women of Europe, they
are not license! an'j governed under
medical inspection. In Germany7
France, England, Russia, Sweden,
Norway ond Denmark, and, in fact,
all European countries, the segregated
districts are inspected by a govern
ment health officer at least once a
week. Certificates of cleanliness are
then given to the women with the re
sult that the percentage of disease is
much smaller.
There is not any medical inspection
in this State with the result that those
who contract any disease whatsoever
go right on spreading it until they be
come insane or other diseased to such
a point tl at the State has to take care
of them.
w.srir.n hfki:
Tiie lei hght district !'rir:i;s many
people to Faye! teviiU- from the small
-irr, ir i:no Thus it r:ot only
piay- t-.j oc wi'h the r,i y;;ng men
an! l.o. but Fayei'cviiio. is -then put
to i..i yr.r
sec! ion-,
the bla.-k
-s thu, iiroi
.1 tca.vns
It g.-..
eye ant!
ct res;. its
te i oisu i
- the
a bad
from
t; t.
.haulier s;.,
1 egreg
ALL CONTROXTF.ll
Fvery town of importance u
m. i.;o.! with just si, h cohditn
-t here. Some of them are
i'V their tight against it e.f.
l-..rh;m. for intanct, rtvenily
ns
as
ntuk
ttive. tart
sired 'Cia-
e.l a campaiiri! which had the d
esl'eet In Durham the civic as
tions i f the :!y hea.te ! by the best
women of the t,.n( brought so much
pressure to hear on the authorities
that the red light district was cleared
up. 1: i - argued' by those opposed to
the red 1 ,' ' district that what Dur
ham t n do "or its own benefit' and
fut r. v . ;:'.. re, Fayetteville can d.
Pt LICE INTERFERENCE
il --s the police, want to interfere
wit:: .he segregated district of Fay-
; . ill
th
is the question being put
One
i"not to bother aSout the re,) li,.ht ,ti-
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