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If You Have Anything to Sell, Advertise it. HICKORY jRecomd Record Want Ads Bring Re sults. VOL- 1. NO. 168 HICKORY, N. C, THURSDAY EVENING MARCH 23, 1916 Price Two Cents LARGE AREA OF AUGUSTA IS DESTROYED BY FIRE VOLUNTEERS FORiFRE HAS ESTABLISHED NEW RECRUITING BASE POSSIBLE NCH HOLDING S ANNUA! BANUUETi VILLA TO SECTION SATURDAY i Over 600 Residences and Six Business Blocks 5 Burned in Worst Fire in City's History Both Newspaper Plants Destroy ed Other Big Fires. ' (By the Associated Press) ' 'Augusta. Ga., March 23. Twenty blocks in the residence- section of Au gusta today presented the appearance of awidswept prairie and the bare walls of six business blocks gave testimony to the most disastrous con flagration in the history of this city. : The (ire which raged for more than nine hours last night, causing a loss estimated at from $5,000,000 to $9,-j 000,000, was brought to a halt early thla morning. An area of about 1 1 square miles was burned. The Augusta firemen were helpless and aid was sent from Columbia, Charleston, Savannah, At lanta and other cities. The wind made lighting the blaze difficult. Starting at a store on Broad street, the fire spread rapidly to "cotton row" in the rear, swept around the Empire Light building and then by leaps and bounds destroyed block af ter Mock except the sixth on P.road street. The (lames cut a w ide swath on Broad street to East Boundary, the end of the city. The (lames swept across P.road street and cut their way through to Green street. Estimates today placed the number Of residences destroyed at between 600 and 700, including som of iho finest homes in Augusta No esti mates could be placed on the loss. Today practically 3.000 persons were homeless. There were many narrow escapes, but nobody was seriously in jured. Several firemen were taken to hospitals suffering from bruises. Officials of the (ire department to day bcagn an investigation, but have not determined the cause of the tire. The ollice building occupied by the Augusta Chronicle was destroyed. The Herald building also was burned. (Cotton amounting to $2,000,000 was burned in warehouses along the river fron Several small buildings here were destroyed. The Chronicle established an oflice in a commercial printing house and issued a paper this morning. The T fa vi 1,1 will unix'!!!' thi sifternnnn (13y Associated Press.) 5,000 MOMELKSS Nashville, Ma rich 23; Citizens, civic and church organizations to- BIG DROP IN CRIME OBSERVED IN BRITAIN (By Associated Tress.) London. March 23. A reduction in the prison estimates of the British Isles for the comng year of $500,000 or about 12 per cent and the shut ting up, in whole or in part of a score of prisons are some of the vis ible evidences of the reduction of crime owing to the war. according of prisons. Of the twenty prisons closed or in process of being closed eleven have been closed entirely, all been ituated in towns of moderate ize like Chelmsford. Hereford. Staf ford, St. Albans, etc. - )The biggest drop in crime was no ticed in the year ending March, 1915 when the percentage was 281 per 100,000 population. The fiscal year now drawing to a close is expected to ghow a still further decrease in "crime, the report says. ItIG I EE FOR LAWYERS London, March 23. Sir John Si mon, who retired from the British cabinet because he could not agree with hs assoliates on the question of military compulsion, has returned to the bar as a private practitioner. His first big case, a suit between two in surance companies, will come up shortly in the chancery divsion. His retaining fee in ths case, $35,000, is aa llustration of the enormous re wards which are possible to a high class lawyer in England. li'llllllllSIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIIIIL'llllllllllllllllilllllinilllllllli:! New Registration An entirely new registration is required to vote either in the primary election Monday or the bond elec tion Monday week. All who want to vote should have their names placed on the books. Mr. A. C. Henderson has the registration books and it would be well to see him at the Mutual Building & Loan Association. Remember that a new registration is required for everybody. The hooks will close Saturday at sun down. .iu,.:!.,!;;,.;;.,!, i;;: n;;,!;, .;, ; ;-;;::i!r';;:;.i;:. day were caring for 5,000 persons made homeless by the fire that swept cast Nashville late yesterday destroy ing 000 residences and causing one death and a property loss of $1,500, 000. The one fatality was that of a negro. Many injuries were re ported. The flames started from a lighted ball of yarn thrown into a grassy va cant lot by a small boy. A plaining mill first was destroycjl. The flames next reached into a negro set tlement where, fanned by a high wind, they quickly consumed every house in the quarter. The confla gration then broke into 26' places. An area of 35 blocks was swept clean. Many of the costliest church es of the city were destroyed. SEVEN LARGE FIRES; LARGE AMOUNT DAMAGE I' 'ire at Spray. Rockingham county, yesterday afternoon caused damage amounting to about $30,000 in the business section of the town before the flames were under control. Augusta, (in., last night and this mornino- sustained a loss estimated to be between $5,000,000 and 8,000. 000 when fire raged in the business district. Atlanta sent aparatus to Augusta on a special train. A i.mall ball of yam, lighted and thrown by a small boy into the grass in a vacant lot, started a blaze in Nashville, Tenn., yesterday that ren dered 3 000 homeless and destroyed property to the value of $1,500,000. Many families were separated during the night, but it was thought all would be reunited today. The Natchez. Miss, dressed beef plant late yesterday, the damage being about $30,000. Three persons lost their lives as the result of the Paris, Texas, fire which caused property damage amounting to $10,000,000.' Approximately $200,000 damage has been caused by prarie fires which have swept over Oklahoma in the vi- j cmitv of Tulsa. The McDonald Hotel at Rocking ham, Richmond county, was destroy ed by iire, which spread to an ad joining cottage anil burned that. The loss is estimated at ..8,000. The ho tel was a two-story wooden building. The smokestack of the Univer ity power plant at Chapel Hill was blown down in a windstorm last night and the machinery partly demolish ed. The plant hail been condemned by the insurance department. and plans were drawn for a new plant. TO DISCUSS CREDITS AT KILLIAN S SCHOOL Persons who go to Killian's school house tomorrow night for the rural credits meeting not only will have the I opportunity of hearing a live subject , discussed, but also will be privileg ed to enjoy ice cream, which will be served by the ladies of the commu nity. Several speakers will be pres , ent from Hickory, and it is hoped to i make the meeting profitable and en joyable. Saturday night rural credits will be ' discussed at Voder's school house. i ENGLAND NOW SAVING MATERIAL FOK GAS (By the Associated Press) I Osaka. Japan. March 23. Accord I ing to the Mainichi, Japan is export- ing to Great Britain large quanti ties of bromide which is used in the production of poison gas. Germany ' has inexhaustible rock-salt beds from : which bromide is obtained; Japan has j no rock-salt but has great areas of j salt farms in the southern districts j of the empire. The brine which is I left after the table-salt is extract i ed has had a limited use in the oast as a fertilizer and as an ingredient ! in bean custard. ! The war which stopped the impor tation of dyestuffs and drugs from ! Germany caused manufacturers here j to start chemical factories and one of these discovered that bromide i could be had from brine. A sample I was sent to England and Japanese ; bromide-making is now a regular and j fruitful industry. in;,:': j-iiiu::''!!'.?;:.::,!:1:'!!,,.;::''!!;!.;:':'1 i;.:.!1:'!!,:,!;;; E Unmarried men between the ages of 18 and 35 who would like to go to Mexico in the event the national guard service are requested to write to Capt. Geo. L. Lyerly. Co. A, Hick ory, at once. Captain Lyerly said this after noon that 80 per cent of his company, composed of 65 members peace strength would serve the government in case of a call, but that the com pany would have to be recruited to its full war strength of 150 men. He will need between 75 and 90 men. Members of Co. A believe that they will be called out, but they are not ! ure when the order for their preparation will be received here If Se natoi- Sherman's resolution passes congress, the call will come imme diately, it is believed. Once the guard is placed on the border, it most likely will do hard work in Mex ico. RELIEF OF BELGIANS Appearing under the auspices of the Belgian relief committee, the Belgium Relief Minstrels" will be heard at the Ifub theatre tomorrow night, March 24. offically proc laimed as "Belgium Day", Dr. S. West ray Battle is chairman of the committee. The minstrel, which is presented by John Hawes, will ap pear n all the leading cities and towns of the state in aid of the move ment to extend succor to the needy in the sorely stricken land of the Belgians. That the need is great is shown by the testimony of F. C. Wolcott. who was sent by the Rockefeller founda tion to investigate the work of the commission for relief in Belgium and who, in his report, says: "There would be wholesale starvation within four weeks if the importation of food into Belgium were stopped. The clothing situation in Belgium and noi thern France demands very seri ous consideration. Unless the work of providing clothing is kept up at a regular rate there is bound to be serious suffering. Of the 7,000,000 inhabitants of Belgium. Mr. Wolcott says 3.000.000 are virtually destitute and daily one meal, consisting of three slices of bread and a pint of soup. I have seen thousands of them, he said, lined up in snow or rain, soaked and chilly, waiting for bread and soup. Picture, he says, the mental condi" tion of people without work for more than a year and a half and daily face to face with starvation. The "Bel gium Relief Minstrels" have been specially organized for this tour and are reported to have a corps of ex cellent singers. PETITION GRANTED TO HEAR POWER CASE Raleie-h, March 23. The supreme court of North Carolina handed down yesterday afternoon in 16 appeals, only a few of which are of more than local importance. In the case of the Blue Ridge Interurban Com pany vs. Hendersonville Light & Power Company in which the defen dant received a verdict for $10,000 damages under condemnation pro ceedings, the supreme court granted the petition to rehear the case and finds no error in the ruling of the lower court. It finds nothing in the record to sustain the contention of the defendant that the plaintiff is a trust, or part of one. nor that it is controlled by the Dukes or he South ern Power Company. tin Starling vs. Selma Cotton Mills, where the plaintiff sued for wrong ful death of a child, the supreme court granted a new trial because the trial judge. W. M. Boyd, was not fair to the plaintiff but was clearly bias ed toward the defendant HEAVY WINDSTORM (By the Associated Press) Wilson. N. C March 23 Houses !were unroofed in this section, out- i. . .: i i : .. ... i . t , i , ,i ounumgs uemojisnea. windows mown in and chimneys destroyed in this section last night by a heavy wind storm, according to reports received here today .No reports of loss of lives or injuries were received. A HUMANE THING To the Editor of the Record: Whatever may be our individual opinion of the action of our governor in commuting the sentence of Mrs. Ida Ball Warren, it is our duty to refrain from intemperate criticism of the governor. The position he occu pied in this particular case was a most trying one. If he erred it was on the side of mercy. I believe that the governor did the humane thing. The end of justice has been met, the state has her record not stained with the blood of a woman. The state did not give life to this woman and it is a question, if the state has a right to take it away. She is practically dead to the state, but she is not dead to the opportu nity to make her peace with a mer ciful Saviour. Let us reflect before we indulge in undue criticism of Gov ernor Craig. J. L. MURPHY. -REPAIRING COLLEGE CHAPEL 1 The work of repairing Claremont g College from the damage done by the jj fire is being pushed rapidly and with M in a short time the chapel will be MINSTREL SHOW FOR WILSON COUNTY ready for use. OF HILL (By Associated Press.) The French are still clinging to a part of the hill of Haucourt south west of Lamancourt on which the Germans gained a footing last even ing pn attack on the front along the Avocourt wood and Lamancourt northwest of Verdun. Paris announces today that the German infantry attack in this sec tion was not resumed during the night and that the ' artillery action has diminished. The bombardment east of the Meuse was continued with undimini shed intensity. The presistence with which the French are bombard ing this section indicates that they fear the Germans are preparing for another attack there. Besides driving off the Germlans along the Dvins and the Dvinsk re gion, where Petrograd reports nota ble successes have been scored, the Russians are exhibiting activty in Galicia. The Austrians report re pulse of Russian troops in this sec tor. Sinking of the Norwegian steam er, bound from Portland ,Ore., for British ports, was announced from London. Thirty members of the crew were rescued. Another ship torpedoed was the Pougainville, twenty-thee of her crew being saved. nntt M ARKETS NEW YORK STOCKS (By the Associated Press) New York, March 23. Mexican af fairs again projected themselves in to the stock market at the opening today, overnight developments over the border affecting Mexican Petrol eum, wihle the balance were firm. COTTON FUTURES (By the Associated Press) New York, March 23. Reports of rain in the southwest caused consid erable scattered selling- in the cotton market here early today. The open ing was barely steady at a dcline of five to ten points, with the active months about seven to ten points un der last night's close. The market closed steady. Open Close May 11.94 11.88 July 12.05 12.03 October 12.13 12.14 December 12.30 12.28 anuary 12.35 12.32 HICKORY MARKETS Cotton 11 Wheat $1.20 CHICAGO GRAIN (By the Associated Press) Chicago. March 23. Rain reports from the southwest tended today to weaken the wheat market. After opening lower to a shade ad vance with May at 1.08 1-2 and July at 1.07 1-8 to 3-8, prices rallied to a moderate extent and tnen under went another sag. THE WEATHER For North Carolina: Fair tonight, with frost probably. Friday fair, slightly warmer, moderate norther ly and northeasterly winds. COMPARATIVE WEATHER March 22. ' 1916 1915 Maximum 79 43 Minimum. 56 28 Mean 67y2 35 RELIEVING SUFFERERS (By the Associated Press) Paris, Texas, March 23. Work of relieving the sufferetrs and the homeless in Paris after the fire Tues day night was carried along today. Money raised in Paris and in cities nearby came in and provisions were distributed to the needy. The 8,000 homeless were cared for by the cit izens and n pulbic places. The death list remained at three. TENNESSEE HOUSE . AGITATES QUESTION ( By Associated Press.) Nashville, Tenn, March 23. In the Tennessee house of representati ves a resolution was offered by Re prsentative W7est, Republican, to support the Sherman measure for a call for 50,000 troops. Endorse ment of J?,residenjt Wilson's policy towards Mexico were given by Demo crats during the debate. The re solution failed to carry when the rules were not suspended. Nl T Mr. F. O. LaFevers of Statesville cha; rman of the entertainment com mittee of the telegraphers of the Asheville division, was in the city to day making final arrangements for the annual banquet Saturday night of the boys at Hotel Huffry. The dorrs will be thrown open at 7:30 o'clock. Mr. II. F. Payne of Morganton will be toast-master and toasts will be re sponded to by Mr. W. C. Feimster of Newton. Mr. W. A. Self and Rev. J. G. Garth of Hickory and Mr. L C. Caldwell of Statesville. Between 50 and 60 operators and their guests will be present, and the occasion promises to be a most pleas ant one. TAT LAND IS (By the Associated Press) The Hague, Netherlands, March 23. The war so far cost Holland a clear $140,000,000. Further, reck oning the demands of the interven ing period at $8,000,000 a month, the new minister of finance, Doctor An ton van Gyn, estimates that by Au gust 1 next a sum of $180,000,000 will have been spent on the mobilized land and sea forces and in meeting the various other extraordinary de mands made on the treasury by the war crisis. Of the amount mentioned' $110. 000,000 was raised by a five per cent loan issued after the first three or four months of war, and the problem now facing this country is how to provide the balance of $70,000,000. Three bills have just been presented to the Dutch parliament embodying a straightforward and fairly bold so lution. The new minister of finance therein proposes to raise as much as 32.000,000 bv a special levy, to obtain another $18,000,000 by a tax on war profits, and to have recourse to a loan for the balance of $20,000. 000. The actual loan, however, is to amount to $50,000,000 out of which, assuming the war is over, the extra $30,000,000 will be utilized to consoli date the floating debt accuirng from the ordinary budget of 1914, 1915 and 1916. Seeing that the floating debt of the Netherlands East Indies will also have to be consolidated shortly, it is evident that heavy demands will be made on the money market here be fore long. As, however, it is large ly a matter of replacing floating by a fixed debt, it is not expected that the market will be greatly influenced and the powerful position of the Ne therlands bank whose gold stocks now amount to $196.000.000 and the general plentifulness of money here, renders the prospects of the coming loans bright. ONE KILLED AND TWO INJURED AT MARSHALL Marshall. N. C. March 23. Yes terday was a day of railroad acci dents here. The record is one man killed, another injured, and a nine-year-old boy crushed by freight trains. ' Baird Henderson was killed in stnatly while working on the railroad tracks. His body was horribly man gled, and he died instantly. Andrew Peek, who was with Hen derson., was struck at the same time, but escaped with serious in juries. Just how seriously Peek is hurt has not yet been determined, but it is expected he will live. Caney Smith, a nine-year-old boy, has a leg badly crushed. He was struck by a freight engine and his escape from instant death is consid ered remarkable. 'He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Mark Smith of Mar shall. It is not believed that the boy's injuries are fatal. (By tne Associated Press) London, March 23. Abandonment of Czernowitz, capital of Bukowina, by the Austrians is reported unof fical wireless dispatch received here today from Rome. BAPTIST WOMEN IN CONVENTION The Woman's Missionary Union, auxiliary to the Baptist State Con vention, is in session in Winston-Salem this week. There are nearly 600 delegates present. The First Baptist church of this city is represented by Mrs. W R. Bradshaw, Mrs. J. L. Latta, Mrs. J. D. Harte and Misses Eva Penny and Ellen White. Miss May Edwards and Mrs. Johnson are the delegates from Brookford. The sessions will continue through Friday. The most important bus iness, after the annual reports, will be the election of a new president to succeed the lamented Miss Fannie E. Heck of Raleigh, and a corres ponding secretary to succeed Miss Blanche Barrus, resigned. TO PRESERVE THEATRE (By the Associated Press) ' Washington, March 23. For the upkeep of the house opposite the old 1 Ford's Theatre nere m wnicn presi dent Abraham Lincoln died after be- jing shot by John Wilkes Booth, con gress appropriates $200 yearly. THOUGH WAR H LOSING AUSTRIANS ABANDON BUCKOWINIAN CAPITAL Former Carranza General Herrera Reported Marching Northward to Join Bandit Ameri can Officials Worried Other Mexi can War News. (By Associated Press.) El Paso, March 23. Francisco Villa has established a base westward of Namiqupa to reorganize his com mand and recruit new men for his army, it was reported here today. At this new base it was reported Villa would cooperate with General Herrera, who is understood to have renounced the de facto government. The general is reported as having carried his army to the Villa side. General Herrera is said to be mov ing northward to effect a juncture with Villa, and the movement has occasioned much concern to officers at El Paso. So gTave was the situation regard" ed here that the military authorities planned today to take steps to re lieve all Mexicans in El Paso of all arms that they might have conceal ed in their homes, and to prevent an outbreak on this side of the border. It is understood that government officials here have sent to Washing ton a recommendation couched in the strongest terms urging that steps be taken to disarm all Mexi cans frlong the border, taking the right of forcible entry and search. The Washington authorities here tofore have opposed this step on the grounds that it would be misinter preted by the Mexicans as a discrim ination against them in violation of their rights. It is the opinion of local authorities that this is no time to regard sensitive natures. Whatever may happen in Juarez there i,s no supposition here that any attack would be made on El Paso from the other side of the riv er but there is the greatest appre hension that an outbreak on one side would be followed on the other. There are about 31,000 Mexicans in El Paso out of a population of 75,000. BRITISH VESSEL T (By the Associated Press) London, March 23j, The British steamer Sea Serpent has been sunk. LENOIR SCRUBS LOSE BATTLE IN SANDSTORM Gastonia. March 23. The Linwood College club defeated the Lenoir Col lege scrubs on Loray Park here yes terdayafternoon 12 to 8. Owing to the fact that the wind was blowing a gale and that 'the ground wa!s covered with an inch of dust and sand, neither team could do any field ing. The first baseman and right fielder could be seen only at intervals by the crowd in the grand stand on account of the clouds of dust. It resembled the Sahara desert in a sandstorm; consequently the large score. Linwood played the "varsity" and included several ex-leafuers, Howard and Lindsey. so it was quite an achievement of the Lenoir scrubs to hold them to the score they did. R. H. E. Lenoir 8 12 4 Linwood 12 14 5 Batteries: Lenoir, Davis and Gil bert; Linwood, Slaughter and Car penter. Tomorrow the Lenoir bantams play Cherryville high school at Cherry ville; Friday, Shelby highs at Shel by; Saturday. Piedmont school at Lawndale. WOMEN MAIL DRIVERS (By the Associative Press) Berlin, March 23. Three hundred women are now driving horse-drawn mail wagons in Berlin, according to an announcement by the postoffice authorities. WAS SUNK AY Chamber of Commerce Meeting at 8 Tonight to Act on Constitution A meeting of all the members of the Hickory Chamber of Commerce has been called for tonight at 8 o'clock to act upon the revised constitution of that organization. Practically all ! the amendments incorporated in the revised constitution were agreed up- on at the annual membership meet ing, but the governing board thought it best to have the constitution thor oughly revised so as to have it con form perfectl-" to the new plan of bu reau representation. To this end, at the meeting of the governing board February 8, a committee con sisting of J. C. DeRhodes. Geo. E. Bisanar and W. A. Self was appoint NEWS NOT CONFIRMED (By the Associated Press) Washington, March 23. Confirma tion of the report that the Carranza garrison under tjhej command! of Louis Herrera at Chihuahua had re volted and joined Vilfla was IstjiH lacking today at the war department, although a dispatch to that effect was past last night by the censors at Columbus. The dispatch stated merely that the revolt was reported and that there was no confirmation. No new advices had reached the department, officials said, and there was no indication since the Ameri can expedition entered Mexico that the troops had fired a shot or had been fired upon. Secretary Baker when asked today if the 25th cavalry and 24th infan try were ordered to join General Pershing, said, "I think I will not answer that question." Wants More Flyers General Funston today asked for eight more aeroplanes. He wants four to go to Columbus to fly with Brigadier General Pershing's column tind four others 'to remain at his headquarters. ' The disposition to agitate the Mex ican situation in congress was evident to Chairman Stone of the foreign re lations committee when Senator Johnston of Soith Dakota read k telegram from his state offering a company from his state to the army. Senator Stone said the introduc tion of resolutions was not timely. He said: "The situation in Mexico, as we all know, is acute and whatever tends to agitate it is to be avoided." NORSE STEAMER IS SENT TO (By the Associated Press) London, March 23; The Norwe gian steamer Annik was sunk Wed nesday night, according to a dis patch to Lloyds from Havre. The crew was saved. CROWDED MUCH ACTION IN VERY SHORT SPACE Mr. E. L. Shuford who rturned today from a ten day's business trip, crowded almost as much ac tion in a short space of time as one man might reasonably do. He escaped from the second story of the Imperial Hotdl at KnoxviHe Tues day morning with his baggage; vis ited Morristown and saw Mr. Olin Marshall, formerly of Hickory, pros pering in the lumber business; paid a visit to Johnston City and learned of the prosperity of Mr. Carl Mar shall, also an old Hickory boy; vis ited Andy Johnston's tailoring shop at Greenville. Tenn. and learned that business was Jfiferallly huming &n, that secton, and to cap it all won a lawsuit in Marietta, Ga., that had been hanging fire for over thirty years. At Morristown Mr. Shuford visit j ed the creamery, which is doing well. In Atlanta they told him the Duke i interurban ought to run from Green- ville, S. C.. there and then extend up into this section of North Caroli ! na. Many believe this will be done j eventually. ed to make the revision. This com mittee accomplished its work, report ed to the Governing Board at its reg ular monthly meeting March 9. and the report of the committee unani mously adopted and referred to the members of the body as a whole for ratification. Arrangements had beeen made to have Mr. J. C. Forester, secretaryo f the State Board of Publicity, at tend this meeting .but Mr. Forester was compelled to cancel an engage ment here after he learned that a dinner would be given in Greensboro tomorrow night in honor of Dr. Jos eph Hyde Pratt and other road ex perts,,rHe .will come later, he said. TNI
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