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IT JT T""V- nib PUBLISHED TWICE-A-WEEK WEDNESQAYS AND SATURDAYS, S70L. XSXIIINQ 67 KENSTON, N. 0. SATURDAY JANUARY 17. 1914. PRICE FIVE CENTJa HEWS OF THE WORLD HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST AT HOME AND ABROAD GATHERED FROM ALL SOURCES Brief Chronicle of the Day's Events In All the Nations of the Earth to Keep Readers Abreast of the Times. Washington, Jan. 15. President Wilson as head of the American Red Cross late today issued an appeal to the American people for funds to assist the people of Jupan, who, tire suffering not only from the earth quake but from failure of crops. Washington, Jan. lo. Bankers from Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Southern West Virginia united today in requesting the organization committee of the Federal Reserve Bankers to locate a reserve- bank in Richmond, Virginia. Leghorn, Italy, Jan. 1). Six vio lent earth shocks caused a panic among inhabitants here today. Peo ple rushed in terror into the streets and gathered in groups on squares and other open pkces. The shocks Insted five hours. No casualties were reported. New York, Jan. 15. The directors of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad today ratified the agreement recently entered into by Attorney General MeReynolds. and Chairman Howard Elliott, for the dissolution of the -New Haven sys em by divorce of .the Boston and "" ''Maine and Boston and Albany Hair roads, all its trolley lines and some steamship lines . New York. -Jam 15. With her bridge torn away by a giant sea and hef decks deep in ice, the White Star Liner Oceanic came in today from Southampton, 2,6 hours late. She brought 362 passengers.-It was on Tuesday during a'gale of sleet, hall and snow that the big sea came aboard. It tore, Its way along the forward deck ahd mounted to and over the bridge. JFor two hours the rudder could not be operated from the bridge. Memphis, Tenn., Jan.' 15. Pros perity, in the South, as it is spelled by bumper cotton crops, grain crops, cattle production and general busi ness conditions that as ft whole ex cel any other section of the country, was celebrated here tonight at a banquet given by tbe Business Men's Club of this city. More than 400 guests, including many prominent men, were in attendance. Officials of railroads in this territory predo minated amonsr the out-of-town guests. New York. Jan. 15. The murder of Ivan Martysewiea, whose body, crammed in a trunk, was left in the street by two push-cart men Decem ber 29, was described today by Stef- ania Kiviakowska, a young Polish woman, one of the six persons under arrest in connection" with the crime. She said that two men now in pris- - on killed Martysewiez with a drink of poisoned beer. The murderers, she said, lured their victim to a house where sho was anv inmate with a promise of work. They suggested that he celebrate his good fortune by buying a drink, and when he'ebn rented set before him a glass that had been "drugged,' The motive was robbery, .he saSlhiit .nil the mur derers obtained was 2. " "; - Wake Forset, Jan. 14. The senior . tlass has decided to .wear caps and gowns' at all public Junctions , this spring.- They will firt-f appear in a. body wearing the, caps and gowns on the anniversary celebration, which come9 off February 0, Chief Marshals. Middietoa and - Neal are negotiating with, the Nor folk marine band" to f unfUh the j riiiMerftr ihU cccasion. LANGFORD WAS NOT A SUICIDE Vice-President of Southern Acci dentally Killed Friends Declare Death Was Caused by Accidentally Turning on Gas Jet. is'ew York, Jan. 1."). Richard 1). Lanford, a vice president and secre tary of the Southern Railway, wui found dead from gus asphyxiation iu his bachelor apartments in Brook lyn today. The police and the coro ner decided he had committed sui cide, but Inter developments cast doubt on this theory. F.-.Cure to establish a motive for suicide is mainly responsible for the cnpluitie assertion of his friends and Miss Nellie Patterson, a Brooklyn society girl, whom he was to have married Saturday, that his death was accidental. Mr. Lankford was 46 years old. The body was found in the bath room. A physician said lite had been extinct for several hours. Pillow under the head, an other pillow on tin? .-ill of the bath room window and towel hanging over the door-knob are said to have su'4 gested suicide. Gas was streaming from a jet and in I lie samo bracket au electric lamp was burning. This has caused Mr. Lankf'ord's friends to believe the gas p't had been open ed accidentally by him while switch ing on the electric I'glit. They also held that Mr. Lani;iWd placed the pillow on the window sill for the cold, and that the towel wu-. hung on the door knob as a matter of ourse. No note enylhing was found to indicate nun isiakaMy .t suicidal purpose. INDUSTRIAL WAR NAFUNG END White Flag Is HoistedLabor Men in Hall Send Message tdtiencral Botha; They Must Surrender. Johannesburg, Jan. 15. Although the struggle between employers and trades unionists in South Africa con tinued doggedly today there were indications that the strikers were losing ground. Secretary Bain of the Trades Fed eration who, with 300 followers, is besieged by police in a trades hall, sent an emissary this morning to Cen. Louis Botha, prime minister of the Union of South Afil.a. The government regarded this aft an of fer to surrender and replied merely that the control officer of the re gion, under the provisions of mar tial law, had orders to arrest every one in the hall and to use the most drastic measures .neces :y if, after wnrnino- had been riven them, the occupants uot surrender wi noiu violence. The situation in tlie Rend is re ported satisfactory to the govern ment. Although laborers of all trades in the Transvaal and Orange Free State have joined strike, workmen of Cape Colony and Natal still are at their occupations. There is evi dently some lack of sympathy with the revolutionary platform of the synttieattist strikers, who corres pond to the industrialists (industrial worker.- of the world) of the United States. Bain and Ilisband surrendered un conditionally to the police today af ter a ,seven-pouiid field gun had been ..trained in the trades hall and the occupants Iwid been given 1" minutes to-capitulate. Bain ami ten lenders were lodged in jail. Work Better Than Social Whirl. Washington, Jan. 15. 31 rs. Rich ard Coke Burleson, suffragist leader and wife of Lieutenant Burleson of the third field artillery, who renounc ed a social leadership last fall to Be come a student at George Wash ington University to make herself of greater use to the cause of woman suffrage, declares she is much hap pier at study than in the whirl of pital soeiety. ' . "I feel that I anr doing some work worth while said Mrs. Burleson to day," 'Probably later I can return to ' society and play. Ill OLD NORTH STATE NEWS FROM MURPHY TO MAf TEO AND BETWEEN ' TAR HEEL HAPPENINGS OF A DAI Many North Carolina Items Con densed In Brief Paragraphs fo Benefit of Busy People Good an Bad News from all Over Stats. Greensboro, Jan. 15.' The North Carolina Bottlers' Association mot today with about forty bottlers of soft drinks present. j Fayetteville, Jim. 15. A call hai been issued by the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company for bids on the grading work for double tracking between Selma and Parkton on the main line of that sjstem. Beaufort ,Jan. 15. Wmd has been received here of the burning to death of Mrs. Georgia Murphy, wife of Guy Murphy, at her home fit D:ivis, a small town e.ist of Beaufort. The woman attempted to revive a Mugsish fire with gasoline. j Pinehurst, Jan. 15. R. M. F.uvesj of Woodland, Miiss., and 'Harold, Slater, of Foxhills, L. I., were thi winners in today's semi-finals of ihi annual tourr'inient of the winter gol league. They will meet tomorrow play for the league championship. 1 Durham, Jan. 15. Gaston Will iams, a white man of the Edgemont section of the city, committed suicide this afternoon by hanging himself to his bedpost. Williams had been suf fering from pellagra for tlupast 12 months and it was despondency over his failure to improve which probably caused him to decide to end his life. Wilmington, .J.m l.r.- The ty coimcil in regular session yesterday morning adopted a resolution calling an election to decide the question of a bond issue of not exceeding $150, 000 to be used in a acquiring munici pal docks and wharves and fixing March 5 as the date for the election. This step was taken following the presentation of a petition of several hundred citizens asking 'that an elec tion be called. Durham, Jan. 15. Lemon RJjer- son, a white man in jail for retailing Clarence Woods, a negro, and Alfon so Tendall, were detected Jn an at tempt to break jail just before clos ing time tonight. The men were working a hole in the w!l of the second story, and had made a hole nearly large enough for a man to get through when people the un ion sta'iui i saw the brick fH'Hng out and notified the sheriff. Wilmington, Jan. 15. The sui-tion dredge Atlantic, one of the lurest in tlio Government ser. '", .mlved from New York ycstcn'iytand will begin work on the Cape Fear river. The dredge loads over 4,0t)0 cubic yards, employing a twenty-inch --uc-tion pipe, cd draw- eighteen feet of water. Some ;!me ero the en gineers rejected n'f bids for doing dredging work on the river bcct.ise they were exco.; We in price. The government w ill do the work with government -owned vessels. Wilmington, Jan. 15. There now aniieurs to be little doubt that the movement looking to tiff formation of a drainage district in this county for the purpose of draining a large territory lying east of Wilmington w5l succeed. The moveniout has been under way for some time and a preliminary hearing on the matter will be held in the office of the clerk of the superior court on January 21 when all interested will be given an opportunity to be heard in the matter.'-, -The proposition involves the drainage of 200 acres of land, part of which is now under water. V Snickers and gigg!e scrm to h-ve taken the place of the good old f3sfiicncd hearty laugh. " . NOTED HFRNITYJIIES IN ITALY Carrie Rand Herron, for Whom So cialist Professor Put Aside Wife, . Expires in Florence Both Were Ostracised. . New York, Jan. 15. The sudden death of Mrs. Carrie Rand Herron, iu Florence, Italy, ended an "affinity" story which was the talk of this country more than a decade ago. Because he put iway his first wife, persuaded her to divorce him and then married in an unconventional way a young woman who had re placed her in his affectrons Prof. D. Herron was deposed from the college professorship and the congregational ministry, shunned by the friends, furiously attacked, kept off the lec ture platform, prevented from es tnblishing a socialist colony in Met- lichen, N. J., and finally driven to seelt a home for himself and his new family in Italy. There they stayed, though the hard feeling abated to .-ueh an extent that when the Her rons visited Metuchen last year they were received with ope. arms. In the "JOs Herron was pastor of a congregation church in Burlington, la. He wu.-- an eloquent socialist who had "advanced ideas" a? to mar riage. Prof. Herron and Miss Carrie Rand, a member of his church, found out that they were ideal companions. . In May, 1001, M- s Rand and Dr. Herron were married in a New York apartment house by the Rev. William T. Brown, a Socialist, and pastor of Plymouth church, at Rochester. Sev eral radical thinkers who were loyal to Dr. Herron, among them Edward Markhnm and Richard I.e Gallienne, were present. Dr. HeiTon and Miss Ruiid each declared: "We intend to live togeth er as man and wife.?' The Rev. Mr. Brown said just enough to make the1 marriage legal. He "announced" in- stead of "pronounced" them, man and wife. ,- Mrs. Herron was 40 years old. She died of cancer. She leaves two sons, aged 12 and 4. , THE INTERC0ASTAL WATERWAY Divided Into Links Front Boston to Jacksonville Congress Urged to Appropriate Money for the Work by Prominent Men Washington, Jan. 1 Appropri". tions for the construct!":! seven Jinks that would connect existing waterways and establish an inter coastal canal from Boston to South Atlantic coast points, were urged by numerous witness before the house rivers and harbors commiitee today. Guy. Webb, president of the board of trade of Norfolk, .-n;d Virginians anxiously hoped for a canal twelve fcit deep with a bottom width of 125 feet along tlu eiiUm Atlantic coai-'. but accepted '.iic 'orree'ion of Repr'-;cnrntie Humphrey that lie meant coinecthur links, of which there would be seven, between lios ton and Jacksonville. Gowrnor Miller, of Delaware, said commerce would havrt, Immense ad vantage through shortening tf the distance between Atlantic seaboard citic.-s, a 'id that the canal would be of inestimable value ivtime" of war. General Fjlix. -Vnius, or Baltimore, told the committee that he had been nssuredh.it the iqitial pure.ua9,cost of thelites apeake and jtMuware canel would not eeed $00,000. He said that, the British never would have invaded Washington if the canal had been built at that time. Parliament Dissolved. Sofia, Bulgaria, Jan. ? 14. The Bulgarian parliament' was dissolved today by the premier Dr.rY. Rado slavofi, because it refused to pass a provisional" appropriation - bilL A new chamber must be elected within two months according to the consti tution. Ever notice how little attention i paid to people who talk too much? Even when money talks a won.an .vnraHy get- the last word. ' , LAYMEN'S MEETING OPENS TWO DAYS' SESSION IN QUEEN STREET M. E. CHURCH PROMINENT SPEAKERS ATTEND interesting Discussion on World-Wide Movement Begun at Opening Ses sion and Continues Throughout the Conference. (Daily Free Press, Kith). The united missionary campaign conference began it sessions last night in the Queen Street Methodist church in this city. The first se sion was marked by two excellent addresses and shorter talks of much value. Rev, Bernard P. Smith, pas tor of the Christian church, as pre sident of the conference, presided at the meeting. The opening prayer was tnude by Mr. J. M. Me wborn followed Jiy scripture reading by Rev. Mr Smith and prayer by Rev. II. Griffith, rector of St. Mary's. A period of silent prayer followed with a few short uudiblo prayers closed by Superintendent S. B. Tnderwood. Mr. Smith presented to the audience Ke.v. II. A. Humble, the pastor of the Methodist church, and then Prof. R. K. Gaines, of Richmond College. Prof. Gains is field secretary of the laymen', missionary ' movement and is leader of the visiting team that is conducting the conference in this city. Prof. Gaines stated that it was neoesary to vary slightly from the printed program for the evening and have the 'afffff of President W. J. Martin during the evek instead of on Friday, as sthecruled. Tin- first speaker presented wa Rev. W. Ii. Beauchuoip, D. D., pasi :r of the Methodist jBurch,: of DafivTUo, Va., "The Field White Unto Harvest. He pleased earnestly for a broader vision that we miht see th conditions around us and realize that the har vest-time is now at baud. Our pray er should be, said he. Hint the Joors flight be opened that God may enter. He made a survey of the field. The world under nineteenth century. conditions haa become just one big neighborhood, but the duty of the twentieth century is to make, it a brotherhood." He dwelt &;p6euilly on conditions prevailing in Japan; Korea and Chinav Christianity has lost a great opportunity in Japan. Twenty years ago or more the con quest might' have been very much easier and more successful than is now the case. Japan is moving away from her old faith, but whitehr is the question. Korea has been oened and i rapidly turning to Christ as the one who can satisfy her soul yearning of today. China furnishes Christianity the greatest opportunity of !j11 history, greater than that enjoyeiT by St. Paul when he accomplished his great work. And such being the cne it is the duty of Christians to open every avenue of it to the gospel of JCsus Christ. Then God is bringing1 to our very doors the great migratory nations of the earth. These afford us a splendid opportunity here rt home and this opportunity must Ik? nili. ed before the conquest of the world can. be completed. The next speaker was President Martin, of Davidson College' He ad dressed the audience on. litt surcject "Men and ;the Kingdom.'' Christ taught us' to pray, fjd he, "Thy Kingdom Coine," and it U through men thai tfiSa petition. "Biurt he reaU ixei. . World evangelization must be gin in oar own hearts. We must be ready for service as well as for sacri fice. Tie Kingdom of God is coming upon earth. That, is certaia. ". We may retard it, but ?. can't prevent it Tndfcd ve aud our forefathers, i,1 .i't- metl.s have ;nd are rcta'dini.', . Y haT cot been true (C ...:aued o. page .) ; FLOOD IN POTOMAC'S VALLEY Breaking of Mill Dam Disastrous to Property No Uves Lost People Warned by Telegraph and Fled to Hills. .; Cumberland, Md., Jan. 15. Hud dled in rude shacks and about bias ing camp fires hundreds of flood re fugees tonight watched and waitcil in West Virginia while the northern branch of the Potomac river, swollen lt an icy flood, swept through their homes in the tofffis that dot the val ley below. A wall of water, starting from the broken dam of tho West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company on Stoncy Creek, moved down to the Potomac inundated the town of Schell, W. Va., where the two streams meet, and started a Hood wave, laden with wreckage and ice down the Poton.aa valley. Warnings of the approaching flood sent the residents of small towns along the river scurrying to safety iu the hills where tonight from van tage points they peered through the -darkness in an icey gale 'toward swollen waters below. Telegraph and telephone communi cation M-as cut off by the flood during the day, but was re-established to night. Rumors of several men caught in the Hood waters at Shaw, West Virginia, 20 miles from Schell,' which could not be confirmed, were the only reports of casualties attend ing the flood. The flood wave apparently expend ed its energy in a mad twenty-mile dash down the valley of the Stoney Schell This valley, however, wu virtually uninhabited. ALL TAKEN OFF C0BEQUID Passengers and Crew Well ' After Long Siege iq Ice and Wind. St. John, New Brunswick, Jan. 1). Captain Hawson and eleven men who remained on the steamer Cobe quid last night when 96 passengers and members of the crew were res cued by the steamer West fort, were taken off the wreck:, today by the steamer Aberdeen and are on their way here. A wireless message re ported Third Officer Powell was in jured during the night and needed medical attention. All Landed Safely. Yarmouth, Jan. 1& Twenty four passengers and seventy-two members of the steamer Cobequid were comfortably housed here this morning and are recovering from the effects of their long experience in the icy winds and waves. The Cobo quid, impaled on Trinity rock, sir .miles off mftin land; was badly smashed and coated with ice by the terriffle weather, but the captain's cabin remained intact. Captain McKinnon of the steamer West Port, which rescued the steam er's passengers and crew, said today he found all 'the iassenger8 and crew in the cuptaiu's cabin, the only dry spot on the Cobequid. Seas were breaking over the main deck, notwithstanding the gale and a boiling sea, transfer was accom plished within two hours without ac cident. Ninp women and children among the passengers were the first taken off. Trade Report. Richmond, Va., Jan. J5. Brad- street's tomorrow will say for Rich mond and .vicinity: ? Travellers in most lines have re sumed their duties following thcv holidays and a Tiir Volume of orders are being , recti"; d. Cold weather has .stimulated sales of sea sonable commodities, ; particularly r wearing apparel. ( Stocks are gene rally, reported low " and ilealer ciil cipate larger orders', and improved business j condition as the, spring Reason approaches. . Building opera v lions eontinuo" quiet. Retail trade is: fair and collections slow. Too often a roaa's iuiportauce is tbacd on what his grandfather did. ii-; t i i
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