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or AE Q M GHT A AND EVENING CHRONICLE PAGES TODAY EDITION t t GREATER CHARLOTTE'S HOME NEWSPAPER 5 5 avoTTK NEWS Estamisnea, Lauy isss sunaay iio. CHARLOTTE, N. C. SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 26, 1914. CHRONICLE Established 1903. THE CHARLOTTE NEWS J Consolidated J p;nn. HoiKr Qiinrlav THE EVENING CHRONICLE May 8. 1914 f X flCe . Uaiiy OUIUiay OC. 1 Tr:fhnr NEWS N I told Wave Of Marked Severity Has The Whole Country In Its Grip Today pvy Rains With Danger from Floods Are Checked by Freez ing Weather Coldest Weather of the Season is Reported Throughout North Carolina While in Many Other Parts of the Country Temperatures Far Below Zero Are Reported The Coldest Point is Barre, Vermont, Where 52 Degrees Below Was Recorded. Press. 26. Raleigh today was AMERICANS ADVISED NOT TO HETURi T 1X0 By .W in Tie z rea'i W :ica!ly s jif Oii ti Do-: p of the coldest December ince 1909. The weather bu- m.-imerpr at i - o cioc tnis jered today in the grip of the season's coldest weather. Temperatures drop ped to four degrees above zero and the wind blustered 30 miles an hour. ' Ogdensburg reported 32 below and at i , j xji 111.13 TT,. , , registered IS degrees above : u - DetOT two hours later was prac-J 52 Degrees Below. ; nonary. A thin coating of! St. Albans, Vt., Dec. 2G. The low and sidewalks made est temperature in Vermont fifty two (fk-iilt for man and beast. degrees below zero was reported to ri ru r a tlay in Barre- That broke all previous Floods onecKea. (December records. Here it was 20 be dden cold spell after more low, at Rutland 22, at Montepelier 30 enty-iour nours or continuous and at Burlinston 16. thr eastern and central por- sin ovrr lion? o' o: :it Carolina, it is believeu, h"as effectually checked flccd that e:e tea1. cel. Over two inches of rain eil in this section yesterday causing rier? to rise rapidly. In New England. J Boston. IK'. 26. Zero or lower tern-' ;?ran:s prevailed today all over New Sz'and. with the exception of the ex reie southeastern section. Green rile. Mo., recorded 16 below. . Ther aometev? recorded six below at Port land and two below at Boston. Pnilacfelphia Freezing. Fiulauflpiiia, Pa., Dec. 26. "With the asperature at 9 degrees above zero it ' o'clock this morning, this was ie colde-r December 26th in Phil saelnri.. s?r.ee the weather bureau be gsJKVvns: records forty years ago. !n Northern New York. Wi,:?nowu. N. Y., Dec. 26. North er: New York shivered today with the co&st wpather of the winter. The E.ial thermometer registered 24 be !ot Z'rio during the night in Water re. Temperatures from 30 to 40 he ir have len reported from several jdcts in the Aidrondacks. In New York City. X-iv York Dec. 26. New York shiv- noon, December says the "situa ged at Piedras H BUS ESS In Knoxville. Knoxville, Tenn., Dec. 26. The min imum temperature in Knoxville this morning was 21 degrees. Since 7 a. m. the mercury has been very grad ually rising and fair weather is on its way according to . the local weather bureau. Higher temperature is fore casted. . In Missouri. Kansas City, Decj 26. Extreme cold last night sent the mercury below zero over virtually all the northern half of Missouri and the states north. South of Kansas City, where it was two be low at dawn, the temperature was higher. At Springfield, Mo., it was eight degrees above. Oklahoma City experienced an unusually low tempera ture for that locality, the thermometer reaching eight above zero- In the sur rounding territory the temperature was comparatively higher. At Fort Smith, Ark., the lowest temperature recorded was 22. Chicago Frost Bitten. Chicago, Dec. 26. Fog came to the rescue of frost bitten Chicago today, but in the suburbs removed from the lake the mercury remained in the minus column. In the city the tem perature rose from four degrees below zero to nine above. Twenty miles away the cold measured 16 degrees below. Daniels Asks If Turks 8 Threats Of Violence ainst American Sailors By Associated Press. Washington, Dec. 26 The- pro visional government in Mexico City has issued a decree extending to March 31, the time for re-validation of mining titles, according to a Mexi co City dispatch today to' the state department. A message dated 24, from Eagle Pass tion remains unchan Negras." A mail report from the American vice consul at Ensenada, Lower Cali fornia, states that "while there , have been some political disturbances of late, conditions in general are improv ing and the district is quiet." He adds that the bitter feeling against Americans noticeable last snrina: ap parently has disappeared, and that 175 or 200 Americans now are in the dis trict. In that connection, however, the state department announced that it "does not advise Americans to return to Mexico and those who do so sro there on their own responsibility." The Carranza agency here announced receipt of the following message from General Carranza's secretary at Vera Cruz: "General Villareal at Monterey in forms us that he recently had a con ference at . Sal'tillo with General Al varez, the Gutierrez governor of the state of San Luis Potosi, who informed him that Eulalio Gutierrez had sent him to inform Villareal that he had demanded from Villa that he eliminate himself from political activity, but that Villa had not complied and that Gutierrez was disposed to enroll him self and his troops once again under the banner of the First Chief and the Plan of Guadaloupe." ENERAL KELLY- KENNI. NOTED R, DEAD vlad Panici; today called on Captain Oman, Wacliingron. Dec. 26. Secretary .' essee both are at Beirut today, the Tennessee having gone to that port from Jaffa after deDositin.se sold. Bei- tomtnander of the armored cruiser rut is 40 miles south of Tripoli where the disorders were said to have oc curred. One report was the Turkish au thorities sought to prevent the de parture of American. British and 1 French consuls, and that the attack vonh Carolina, to report whether '.'i violence had been made - at Tripoli against American 5" Turks ailorj. Alheii? lespatches published today s an American warship had threat enefi a bombardment as a result. T'ie North Carolina and the Tenn- of the American crew of a commer cial ship and the threatened bom bardment of Tripoli by the 'American man of war followed. By Associated Press. London, Dec. 26. 9:30 a". m.-Gen-eral Sir Thomas Kelly-Kenny, former ly adjutant general of the British forces, is dead. His home was at Doolough Lodge, in County Clare, where he lived since his retirement in 1907. General Kelly-Kenny had seen ac tive service in many foreign, fields. In 1S60 he was mentioned in despatch es for valorous action at the capture of the Tang-Ku and Taku forts and for that received the service medal. Again in Abyssinia in 1S67-68 he was men tioned in despatches and received an other medal for bis services while in command of a division of the trans port train.- , After a ong tour of home duties he again saw active service in South Africa where he was lieutenant gen eral of the staff. In 1905 General Kelly-Kenny, by ap pointment accompanied Prince Arthur of Connaught on a special mission to the Mikado. He visited the United States in 1909 after he had retired. General Kelly-Kenny was nearly 75 years old. FIRM FOR 1915 Thomas Grocery Company, New Business, Which Janu ary 1 Will Find Launched in Charlotte Prominent Busi ness Men Form Partnership Location South College." The new year will Inaugurate a bus iness change on South College street of interest not only to this city, but to communities of this section which are allied closely with Charlotte bus iness interest. This is the organiza tion of a new firm to be styled tlie Thomas Grocery Company, and to be located in the building, Nq, 201 South College, formerly occupied by the Kuester-Lowe Company, before it mov ed to its present building on Church and First streets. The members of the new firm are: W. J. Thomas, R. T. Boyd and J. Mar shall Davenport all of whom have been connected with the firm of the W. I. Henderson Grocery Co., at 14 North College street. Mr. Thomas has been with the W. I. Hendeerson Company for 18 years, Mr. Boyd for ten years and Mr. Da venport for eight years. Prompted by a desire to establish a business of their own, after years of valuable service and rich experience under Mr. Henderson, these three men of business formed a partnership, Mr. Henderson aiding and abetting to the utmost of his ability, the result being the organization of the Thomas Grocery Company. , All three men are known in business Circles of this city and section as men of splendid business ability, and long established success. Mr. Thomas was connected with Mr. Henderson in the grocery busi ness for eight years, and then for 10 years has been secretary and treasury and traveling salesman for the W. I. Henderson Grocery Co. He will be president and treasurer of the new organization The Thom as Grocery Company, and will 'also travel for the firm. Mr. Boyd, who has been with the W. I. Henderson company, as book keeper since its organization will be secretary of the new concern. Mr. Davenport will be city salesman. Both of these young men are experienced in the grocery business and well known lo the trade. - The-new firm will be ready for bus iness .Tan. 1. Mr. W. I. Henderson, who has been the main stockholder in . the firm of WKL, Henderson & Company, will con tinue to do-business ; at the place he has been located for a great many years, 14 JNortli college street, on the same scale as heretofore. Mr. J. H. Fidler, who was formerly connect ed with the firm for a long period, will come back to the firm as book keeper, while Mr. Herbert Irwin, who was also with the firm formerly will join it again. There will be one or two other additions to the firm. Mr. Henderson has been in the grovery business in Charlotte for 24 years and has been oiv of its most successful business firms in that line of endeav er. For eight years he was head of the firm of W. I. Henderson & Broth er, then for eight years the firm was W. I. Henderson alone and for the last ten years it has been W. I. Hen derson & Company. , With men of ability and success at the head of both old and new firms the continued success of the one and the success to be achieved, of the other, is assured. To both the News extends New Years greetings and bids them good luck in adding suc cess and prestige to the city's busi ness interest. ombar n CO' ort dment Was Turkish Threatened merican By Cruiser E 1 in AS N TAX IT APPLIES TO BRUSSELS By Associated Pres. . - s Paris, Dec. 26, 5:30 a. m. "German proclamations announcing a levy of 500,000,000 francs ($100,000,000) in demnity at Brussels have been pasted over," says The Journal, "and the re port is current that the measure was withdrawn by the German governor as the result of representations by the American secretary of state, William J. Bryan, through Minister .Brand Whitlock, pointing out that the tax was in violation of the Hague conven tion. "It is announced that the Germans have imposed a tax of 25 francs on all unmarried persons over 27 years of age in Brussels." Bryan Issues Statement. Washington, Dec. 26. Secretary Bryan reiterated today that if Brand Whitlock, American minister to Bel gium, had taken any action to dis suade the German military authorities from collecting a warJevy on Brussels he had been acting entirely in a per sonal and unofficial capacity and with out any instructions from the Ameri can government. . The secretary said he had no information that Mr. WThit lock had been concerned. Trouble Arose When Turks Attacked the Crew of an Americar Merchantman on Which British and French Citizens; De sired to Depart When Commander of the Battleship Made Threat the Trouble Stopped Fog Interferes With Opera tions in Flanders In the East Germans Are Still Making Effort to Break Through to Warsaw No Great Activity or Christmas Day. Bombardment by an American cruiser of the Turkish port of Tripoli, Syria, was said at Athens to have been threatened because of an attack by Turks on the crew of an American merchantman on which British and French citizens desired to depart. Incomplete reports from Athens state the threat of the warship's commander quelled the attack. The cruiser Tennessee has been in the eastern Mediterranean for several months and was last reported not far from Tripoli. Italy's occupation of the Albanian port of Avlona was believed to ppen possibilities of complications which might make it difficult for the Rome government to maintain neutrality. Rumania's attitude, also, was more than ever a matter of doubt, on account of reports from Paris that the only obstacle which prevented her from joining with the triple entente: had been removed. Bulgaria was represented as having given assurance's that she would remain neutral, relieving Rumania from the fear of an at tack from that quarter should she enter the war. Despatches from Chile stated that the last of what was once Ger many's Pacific squadron was fighting to escape the fate which overtook her four companion cruisers when they met the British. The Germar cruiser Prinz Eitel Friedrich were cruiser Prinz Fitel Friedrich were said to have been engaged by the British cruiser Newcastle near Val , paraiso. PEROR OF RUSSIA THE FRONT Christmas .Day Was Quiet. London, Dec. 26, 11:56 a. m. While there was no Christmas cessation of military activity, nevertheless no de cisive action occurred along either of the great battle fronts- A spectac-1 province jular element of the recent news was i ommiiArl on oM'i'ol final 1 of YXTCJr Q T By Associated Press. Moscow, via Petrograd, Dec. 25. Members of the Russian-imperial fam ily who have been here for several days left today, the Emperor start ing for the battle front and the Em press Alexandra leaving for Tsarskoe Selo with their son and two daugh ters. Today the Imperial guests visited several hospitals and the Emperor inspected the military school. At the Kremlin palace the Emperor receiv ed several delegations, among them various religious associations belong ing to the Orthodox faith and dele gates from Jewish congragations who paid their homage and presented $7,500 for army needs. j supplied by an aerial duel between a j German air craft and two English bi planes over the Thames. That oc curred Christmas day and was wit nessed by several thousand persons. The German escaped. in the East. Petrograd reported the Russians had resumed the offensive at several points in Poland and had captured no fewer than 11,000 prisoners. To offset this, however, Berlin reports in activity along the Polish front. An Austrian army continues a courageous effort to strike down the valley of the Nida in the direction of Carnow. Brit- isu uuseivers uuiik mat muvfiiieiiL will be too late if it is a fact that the Austro-German attack in the centre has really received its reported check. Germans Move Towards Warsaw. Generol von Hindenburg, German commander in the east, still keeps his ?rM -5r- -V.. -V- 0 -"-- -V' - THE WEATHER. p Forecast For North Carolina. :'f Partly cloudy and somewhat colder tonight. Sunday fair. Strong north winds, diminishing. vV U -V. -Tf, St . ST "A" ""A" 7V "Vi UT TO CONSPIR- T ELECTION LAWS Associated Press. fo'-iisnapolis, Ind., Dec. 26. Arrests Tre Haute of forty-six men indict- Federal grand ury charged (cnspiracy to violate the election 18,1 had created a sensation today -'Oiuical circles. More ar- expected, and it was said ' ftUl'flbfil mio-lit roo rJ- -rrtn-wa. than ' nuadred. Wwa! District Attorney Daley, who tn r.ed the investigation before the :iU J-ii-y said today he would im taKe up the Indianapolis if woe- fila-TmoH -PraiiHa ri ' tom fitted at the November elec- ppn Lvansville complaints have 'Ho,! Wlla tne district attorney Jon rands at the November elec- 1TICE LAMAR . CONSIDERS J rpiiiiK iddciii ' h t i ii mu it hi i i mi ' Mllim III I 1.IIL. Ass jf iated Press. t .u6ion, juec. 26. Justice amar sPreme court still had under !. p,rrf tion today the petition of Leo -ucin nun sb jN.ewiuaa .lo release him on habeas corpus writ. The petition had been presented in Frank's behalf on Thursday by Louis Marshall, of his counsel. It was not known whether Justice Lamar's decision would be forthcom ing late today or Monday. Belgian Children, to Whom American Aid is Going'. WW WOOD, SECRETARY OF -OBSERVER GO. To succeed the late Mr. D. A. Tompkins as secretary of the Observer Company, the publisher of the Char lotte-Observer, Mr. Word H. Wood, treasurer of the American Trust Com pany, h'as been elected. This action was taken by the board of directors following the death of Mr. Tompkins who had been secretary from the organization of the company when the late Mr. J. P. Caldwell was president. Mr. Wood was elected treasurer in 1911 when Mr. George Stephens was elected president and Mr. Tompkins was re-elected secretary, following the death, of Mr. Caldwell. This organiza tion continued until the death of Mr. Tompkins when Mr. A. S. Tompkins was elected director of the Observer Company to represent the Tompkins estate. The board of directors is composed of Mr. Stevens, Mr. Wood and Mr. Tompkins. - These changes in the ownership do not effect the general managership of the, Charlotte Observer, that officer be ing Mr. J. V. Simms, and the editorship held bx Mx. WhAb EL Harris. kv 7u I f v Mi i? e r - ..Jl pa : t J?M r' js. a , 4 - J&??7. ; :h&J& y M tn M I 1 L DEWEY CELEBRATES TO By Associated Press. Washington, Dec. 26. Admiral Dewey was 77 years old today. Secre tary Daniels, his aides and members of the navy general boafd, called on him at his home and found him 'in good spirits and health. "I feel very proud of the fact," said Secretary Daniels to the admiral,, "ttiat you were appointed to the naval acad emy by a secretary of the navy from North Carolina, Mr. Deey." "I suppose," returned the admiral, "that's why I have been a democrat ever since." He added he was enjoy ing life but that Henry Gassaway Davis had told him he slept too much. "What time do you go to bed, Mr. secretary," asked the admiral. "Before I came to Washington, when I edited a morning newspaper I used to get to sleep about 3 a. m.," said Mr. Daniels. "I have reformed." "I have been retiring every night at 10 o'clock," said Admiral Dewey, "ana I am up at 5 o'clock every morning, reading the newspapers before any body else in Washington. Mr. Davis, however, who is 92 years old arid says I'm a mere boy, thinks I'm missing half of life by going to bed so early." The admiral took his customary drive during the morning, then re ceived a number of officials and friends. ' bull dog grip on the Vistula, and seenu to be making his present movemen1. towards Warsaw from Thorn which i: northwest of the Polish capital in th; of West Prussia. In the West. In the west Paris reports slight pro gress from Nieuport, while Berlin bal ances that with the claim that tht. Germans have taken some British trenches- The French, on their side., again claim the capture of a trench, near Puisaleine, which they .held in spite of several counter attacks. Americans Attacked. From Athens comes an incomplete report of the refusal of the Turkisl: authorities to permit the departure from Tripoli, in Syria, of the British and French consuls and a number ol ; British and French citizens on ar American merchant ship under convoy fof an American cruiser. That refusal is said to have resulted in an attack, by a Turkish crowd on the crew o! the merchantman while the sailors were embarking some Frenchmen This attack ceased, however, when tht warship threatened a bombardment. The cruiser subsequently escorted this vessel to Dedeagatch, north of the Dardanelles in " Turkey. French Official Statement. .French Statement. Paris, Dec. 26, 2:50 p. ra. The offi cial announcement given out by th French war office this afternoon re-" lates that fogs in the north have in terfered with the operations in Fla.i ders. Counter attacks on the part ol the Germans have been repulsed at a number of points. There was artillery fighting near the sea and at Perthes. Progress was made also in upper Al sace on Christmas day. The text oi the communication follows: 4 - ?::--A H 4 -. These are the type of Belgian children . to whom aid from the United States has been sent during the past month. The pair with their dog were driven from their home in thenorth of Belgium on the entry of the Germans, and, packing up the few belongings they could carry, started out on the road with their faithful dog. They had no new home in . prospect, but were wholly dependent on the charity of those they found along the road. Hundreds of thousands or them moved into Hoiiana, wnere tney were carea for. Others went toward the' north and were sent to England. There thousands of them ae. being cared for now ; , - ' j '' RUSSIA TRADES WITH JAPAN FOR BIG GUNS By Associated Press. Washington, Dec. 26. The Jap anese embassy today received official advices from Tokio that Russia has ceded to Japan its half of the Island of Sakhalin for some heavy gum The island was officially Russian until Sep tember, 1905. The southern half was ceded to Japan by the terms of the Paris, Dec. 26, 2:50 p. m. Tht French war office this afternoon gavt out an official announcement as fol lows: ' "There have been moderate artillery exchanges on the front from the sea to ; the Lys. On the Lys itself a heavy fog has made operations impossible. "Between the Lys and the Oi.se we have repulsed several counter attacks of the enemy, notably at Noulettes to the west of Lens, .at Boisselle north east of Albert, and at Lihons, to the west of Chaulnes where a trench cap tured from the enemy was lost, and then recaptured by us after a spir ited . engagement. "Between the Oise and the xMsne, reports from this locality declare that during the day of December 24 a very strong German attack was repulsed at Chivy, to the northeast of Soupir. "In the region of Perthes our artill ery silenced . the batteries of the en emy which were bombarding the trenches recently occupied by our troops. Two strong German coun ter attacks were repulsed during the ; night of December 24-25. "Yesterday, December 25, a further counter attack of particular severity, delivered on a front of 1500 yards with important bodies of troops, was com pletely checked. "In the Argonne and between the Meuse and the Moselle there s noth-' ing to report. "In -upper Alsace, December 25 was marked by perceptible progress in front , of Cernay.. We reached the outskirts ; of the forest of the hills to the west ; of the town and here we held our po sitions in spite of several counter at tacks. We occupy also the outskirts of Aspach, the valley and the heights which dominate Aspach on the west. "Russia: The Germans who succeed ed in forcing their way across the Bzura river to the south of Sochaczew, were driven back after having suffered considerable loss. All the German at tacks on Bolimow resulted in failure. In the region of Inowlodz, on the-Pi Ilea river and to the south of this lo cality, stubborn fighting continues. Along'1 the entire course of the Nida river and to the south of the Vistula the fighting Is going on under condi- 1 .-
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