Mjis jig8 M PUBLISHED TWICE-A WEEK-WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS VOL. XXX V No. 58 KINSTON, N. C SATURDAY, JANUARY 15, 1916 PRICE FIVE CENTS WAY 10 RIOTING; Pertting Declares Martial Law Thonsands Mexicans SeDfif )fef Citjh-Organiz Mob Tfcreitcbs f tross BorJ?2cJ Avenge Butchery If Wasltectf aSJ' Car ranza D6 Nit Act Sqon- CbnjesYedA&ii-. tration Maf Not Be Able to Hold Intteck Ipe of Aqjer Spreading Thrb'ngb CapitoAniericans Tn the Nirth of Mexicoxning t oely 6f Texas-Villa May Oriler iassacre Tbroighout Abe Dangerlone-Hnited Stales steals In WStateSeailed ' (By the United Press) EL' PASO, Jan. 14.-AMartial law was declared here today byi General John Pershing, t commanding United States troops in jthe. Department of Texas, following sev eral 'hours' street" fighting between Mexicans and infuri ated Americans. ' ftegulaTS dispersed the crowds, searched -Mexicans for arms and patrolled the international bridge. The hospitals are filled with wounded Mexicans. Rage over the massacre was expected here, but it overran all bounds Mexicans are, being, deported by the wholesale: to avoid mobs. " The Mexican quarter is guarded by sol diers with loaded rifles. . Americans are reported to be organizing a regiment of volunteers to invade Mexico if Washington and Car ranza "do not take immediate steps to avenge the slau'gn ter. A mob of a thousand cans were gathering in -another part of the city, and made a rush. The Eighth Regiment, from Fort Bliss, arrived ust in time to halt them. Rxh-i?aez and Almeida Detd. Reports of further massacres con tinue . to' filter in. David 1 Kramer, father of Bert Kramer, previously reported killed, is reported to have 'been executed.''. . .-. B ,-.' . The 'death of General i Rodriguez, the Villiata chief,, is confirmed, by "'Carransa' authorities. .With 40 aids, Rodriguez attempted to burn the Pnai-cnn tninfnir nlknt at Mladero. They twere surrounded by Mexicans ; and : Americans, .and .Rodriguez and -Almeida "were executed. ,Their fol lowers, are expected to meet the '.same fate. , CONGRESS WROtTGHT. UP. Washington. D. O, Jan. 14. Offi- cial Washington is seething over the Mexican' affair. The repotted parti- rfeaUon by American employes on ithe Hearst rtnch, in Mexico, at Al meida -of- forty men, it is feared, will i deliberately provoke the Villistas' -generaf to attack the Americans. - General Funston is under orders , to halt all border raids and depreda tions. Indignant over the massacre of the eighteen mining men, Congress is at ' white heat. An avalanche of reso - Intions and speeches are in prospect The administratis is Said to be pre t pared, to head off hot-headed action. ' The, administration is considering the ' withdrawing bf air American -officials i from Chlhuahoa j 'Durango ' and So ' nora. . It Is reported hat most of the few. hundred Americans still in the North of '3texk are fleeing for the i border. Administration leaders are ; seriously concerned oyer the political ; effects of an attack on the adminis- tratfon's -policy., t is reported that Carranea is to send an: army to wipe out the ban- dits.' ;J Pliaefer Oceujtetien. ' ( Washington, Jan. ,14-It would take 270,000 meff to clean op Mexi coras Cuba was cleaned up, according to the war colleen dans. .The force would be omprised -of, 60,009 regu Uafs, &0,e00 volunteers - and 20,000 marines. The regulars 5 would bear the brunt Of . the work and -the voIuti- i tears would he the amy of ccupc tion. Xn expedition would start for the- sooth 'from .Texas, the other in land from"-Vera Crui. , : No EipwIiUon, "IVllsea JJeterniined. -Tl,n'ed troops -V'll-be sent , acTVJi tne border at nrnh. ever,, the President indicated today, following a conference with Senator Stone. State Department dispatches say all Americana : in Madera bt afe, disposing of a rumor that; 12 more had been killed. ' British Embassy Asks 1iat U. S. V Hi Do. .. -. . - Washington, Jaa. 14. The' British EL armed men heard that .Mexi embassy ia preparing a request to the State Department for information regarding lihe United States' intend ed action in Mexico, it is learned. British Representative Holder at Mexico City has reported that one British subject, has been killed and property damaged. Up to Congress, Says Works. Washington, Jan. 14. Sen. Works today introduced a resolution declar ing that the responsibility for the United States action in Mexico rest ed with Congress and not the Chief Executive. It declared for interven tion. It was the signal for hot de bate by Lodge, Gall ingar and Stone, Carranza After Bandits. Carranza, in a message to Ambas sador Arrenondoi today declared that the bandits who massacred the Amer icans are being pursued, -nd will meet With condign punishment. COTTON SALES ON 'LOCAL EXCHANGE (Daily Free Press 14th) About 75 bales of cotton had been sold here today by 3 o'clock, accord ing to weighers. Buyers stated prices to have been 10 1-2 to 11 3-4. 5 JNew were: January March . May ... July,.. October York ; futures quotations Open .12.25 ..12.45 ..12.64 ..12.78 ..12.59 Close 12.30 12.58 12.74 12.85 12.68 BRYAN WONT OPPOSE WILSON ON ONE GROUND One-Term Plank Wili Not Be Rea son: If. Commoner Fights Presi dent's Renomination. Declares Bai ley, Who Is Intimate Friend of the Nebraskan, in . Washington Slate meht Washihigton, 'Jan.: 14. Bryan has no intention of fighting Wilson's re nomination because . of the one-term plank, Representative Bailey, a close friend of the Commoner, today de clared. - '.'-'-(.. NEBRASKANSSELL f WOOD -ft) STOCKS : Lincoln, Neb. Jan. i 14. Munition makers in the ast are not the only ones to whom tiie European war is bringing increased incomes. Nebras ka landowners who have walnut trees about their homes or walnut timber along the creeks . on their land Are reaping a harvest. '-- PASO GIVES ARTIAL LAW OLD KING NICHOLAS WEEPS AS HE SIGNS TRUCE FOR NATION Montenegro Virtually Out of War; May Become Austrian Territory HE WOULD RATHER FIGHT Advisors Persuade- Ruler to Save -His Country From Horrors That Befell Ser bia Teuton Gunners Had Range On Cettinje (By the United Press) .-Rome, Jan. 14. With Austrian ar tillery trained .upon Cettinje, and the gunners ready to lay the Monteneg rin capital, in ruins, King Nicholas has signed an armistice which virtu ally eliminates the little country from the war. The. aged ruler, wept as he agreed upon the truce, which prob ably mearis Montenegro's entire sur render, and that the country is going under Austrian suzerainty. The King . wanted to take to the mountains ' and fight , His advisors said "that actionL would make the lit tie country a second Serbia. ESCAPED GERMAN SAILORS LOCATED Quartet Who . Escaped From Intem- red Ships at Newport News Ar rested Near DliPont Works in Del aware, Says Report From Wilming ton Were .Working As Laborers In the Vicinity Wilmington, Del., Jan. 14. Four German sailors who escaped from in terned veswels at . Newport News have been arrested working near the DuPont works. YOUNG WOMAN TAKES OWN LIFE WITH DRUG IN DUPLIN COUNTY (Daily Free Press 14th) Daisy Wilson, white, suicided at the home of a family named William son in Duplin county late Thursday, says a report which gave few of the details. It is said quicksilver was taken by the girl, who was about 24 or 25 years of age, and that she died after physicians, who were helpless in the case, had arrived. She was a native of Wayne county, and was staying with the Williamsons as a maid or cook, it is said. Persons in Pink Hill, the nearest town to the scene of the supposed suicide, knew very little about it to day. They stated that the William son family resided six miles from Pink Hill. The causes for Miss Wil son's act has not been ascribed so far as is known. BULLETINS (By the United Press) TWO BRITISH SHIPS AGROUND. Norfolk, Jan. 14. Three tugs are endeavoring to pull the Brit ish steamer Oilfield off a bar in Hampton .Roads, where ahe la aground. The British steamer Priestfield Is also ashore, near Cape fleary. THREATEN STRIKE IF v CONSCRIPTION PASSES. Lodon,-Jam..l4-The Nation- ; al Railway Men's Union, one of the strongest labor organiza tions, today defied the govern ment -to enact the conscription -, hUl wlten it passed a drastic res-. lotion, threatening a strike. . NO -SENSATION WILL FOLLOWlQUEST AT G0LDSB0R0, STATED . . a t . :! Coroner Terms Reports of Lynching f Richards "Rot" NO ARRESTS EXPECTED No one But Members of the Mob Know Who Strung Negro Up Northern Press Overdid Account of Affair (Special to The Free Press) Goldsiboro., Jan. 14. Coroner Stan ley today expressed regret over what he terms "rot" printed in State m- pers to the effect that he would ex pose a number of the lynchers of John Richards, confessed murderer of Anderson T. Gurley. The official told the editor of the Daily Argus here tiiat it was impossible for him to name anyone connected with' the lynching on Wednesday morning. There i not the slightest thing to base an accusation even of suspects opon. The stringing up of the ne gro occurred at an hour when the streets were clear of all persons ex cept a few policemen and the lynch ers. No one, the coroner is quoted as saying, other than members of the mob, knows who comprised the party. The coroner's jury ia to meet to dlay to conclude the inquest. The jury had not assembled at noon. The verdict, there is every reason to be lieve, will be that Richards came to his death at the hands of parties un known.' - ' "" ; The story sent out that steel-jack-st bullets had been dug out of the tree upon which Richards was hanged, indicating that militia rifles has been used in shooting at the victim, is de clared to be the farthest thing from the truth. No government-owned ri fle has been taken from either of the j local armories, omcers, who are in dignant over the report, say. There are other makes of ammunition, they point out, that is steel-jacketed. Reports of the- lynching printed in Northern papers are creating amuse ment here. How 500 men, masked and armed to the teeth, overpowered the Sheriff and his deputies, Jtook Richards to a point near town and lynched him while he screamed, for the murder of a wealthy planter, is told by one report printed in many papers. "There was wild excitement," according to the story. Gurley was not wealthy, there was not more than a hundred and fifty men in the party, the lynching was so quiet that not a person living around the jail or the place where the man was hanged knew it was going on, and no one has been heard to testify that the negro screamed. There was certainly lit tle excitment. The one officer the moib encountered gave them little trouble. Richards, it is now about conclud ed, was shot to death before the rope got in its work,' although the man was hanging before he was fired at. Have Been Few Lynchings in This Section. ILenoir county officials today recall ed that there have been very few lynchings in this immediate part of North Carolina during the past half century. Beaufort and Craven coun ties have had their share. . Following an awful crime in Greene county dur ing Reconstruction times a mob took a party of seven or eight blacks and a white man who were 'accused of as ssjlting two white women, mother and daughter, to the bridge over Moo cas: on river at Snow Hill and broke the skulls of all with a hatchet The bodies were thrown into the stream. One of the victims recovered con sciousness and made his way to the shore. It was bitter cold, and the man cried for help. It was not help that he received. The mob finished its work. At a bridge over Neuse ri ver about where the "Iron bridge now is, during the tame year, it is said, although those who remember the occasion are not certain, of the date .nor the number of victims, four MAN CHARGED WITH POISONING' TATE IS t JAILED IN -CRAVEN W. R. Hopewell Alleged to Have Given Woman Poi son last Summer BURIED IN THIS COUNTY Prisoner Won't Talk Mar ried in Few Months' Time Rumor That New Wife Put First Husband Out of Way Being Investigated (Special to The Free Press) New Bern, Jan. 14. Drs. Joseph F. Patterson and Raymond Pollock, appointed Ijy Superior Court to ex hume the body of Mrs. W. R. Hope well, alleged to have been the victim of poison administered by her hus band, are expected to go to a point six rn'iies from Kinston. wnere it is buried, on Saturday. Hopewell refuses to say a word about the . affair except to declare that there is "absolutely nothing to the charge." His present wife, who has been suspected of the murder of her former husband, M. F. Pugh, by poisoning, has not been arrested. No evidence to confirm the reports about her has been secured. Details of Alleged Crime. New Born, Jan. 14. W. R. Hope well is in the Craven county jail here charged with poisoning his wife last summer. The crime is alleged to have occurred in June, but Hopewell, a Bridgeton- man, was not arrested until Wednesday night. The grand jury had spent a considerable time in ves titrating Mrs. Hopewell's death and returned a true bill against the husband. There had been gossip concerning Hopewell ana tne wom an's death for some time. Mrs. Hopewell was before her marriage in 1901 Miss ltachel 1'ar sons of Lenoir county. She was ill four or five days before death. Her life was insured. The insuring com panies are understood to have hesi fnieil over payment of the policies. In October Hopewell and Mrs. Han nah Pugh, a widow, were married. The first Mrs. Hopewell was buried in Lenoir county. It is intimated that Mrs. Pugh also poisoned her husband. Mai. F. Pugh. The grand jury is investigating. Hopewell declines to talk about the case, which has called to mind the famous Casey case of a few years ago, in which Leona Casey was sen tenced to State's prison for the poi soning of her first husband, Joseph Whitty, in order that she might mar ry Buyill Casey. Casey also was convicted and sent to the peniten tiary. Hopewell, it is charged, gave his wife arsenic. It is understood that the body will be exhumed for an ex amination. A commission has been appointed to do this. Counsel for the accused has expressed willingness for it, in order, it is stated, that the client's case may be strengthened. CAPT. AHRENS DEAD. Charlotte, Jan. 13. Capt. F. W. Ahrens, mayor of Charlotte from 1867 to 1869, and prominent here, died at his home this morning at 3 o'clock. or five men were lynched. They were the members of an outlaw gang, most or all of them negroes. The whole sale lynching terminated a career of crime which would shock the Nation in th period of history. They, too, wer "brained" by hatchets in the hands of a mob. Once, about SO yean ago, a party came here from a rural township in this county to lynch a rapist. A big dance was in progress, however an all night af fair with hundreds present. The mer rymaker saw from the windows of the second story of the Courthouse, where the dance was being held, that the would-be lynchers had gathered in front of the jail. The officials were notified, and nipped the attempt in the bud. ' . . . i ,' . ,- : 6LANKENBURG AND J ITCH EL fM ATTEND ANNUAL CONVENTION DFHAYORS OF THE CAROLINA!) HERE DURING COMING SPRING t Infinite Announcement of Selection of Kinston for the Meeting Place of Carolina Municipal 'Association Nearly Hundred Chief Burgesses, CeoncUmcn" and Commissioners Expected to Be Here Chamber of Commerce to Entertain Kinston to Make Big Show, Especially of Remarkable Paving Program One of the Most Influential Organizations of Local Officials In the Nation DEATH CLAIMS GRIM OLD HUERTA, BALKS AMERICAN JUSTICE Passed Out On Night of Day Set for Trial On ' Conspiracy Charge EVENTFUL CAREER ENDS "Efficient atchful Wait ing," He Said When Sol diers Took Him Left Great Fortune Grave for Enemies (By the United Press) El Puso, Jan. 14Victoriano Huer ta, former dictator 'ofMwrtCo7 dfed here last night A recent operation bnd old age combined caused his death. He was under virtual arrest for his part in an alleged conspiracy to start a revolution from American soil, and his trial, which his condi tion would not permit to be called, was to have been started yesterday. With elaborate irony Huerta had remarked when arrested by Federal officers and soldiers at Newman, Texas, "Ah, American soldiers to jrroet me. That is very nice. Efn- ient watchful waiting!" With the passing of the grizzled soldier, tne meteoric career of Mexico's last dic tator who sought to rule with a mail ed fist ibecomes history. Huerta be lieved -the best place for an enemy was the grave. He loved whisky. Pain held no terror for him. Once a cataract over one eye blinded him. No anesthetic was applied at the op eration. "Cut it off!" he command ed. Huerta. after' the trouble with the United States at Vera Cruz, relin quished the dictatorship in June, 1914, going to Paris. He is said to have left $60,000,000 in Paris. Huerta was born in 1857 of well-to-do parents of Spanish and Indian ancestry. He was educated at Cha pultepee military academy. He be came' a general between 1892 and 1902, which years he. spent in sur veying in Mexico. He declared him self provisional president February 18, 1913. Madero and Suarez were slain during his incumbency. GOING ON IN NEARBY TOWNS AND COUNTIES (Daily Free Press 14th) Craven county has no coroner. Dr. Walter Watson, who held the posi tion, resigned some weeks ago. His successor will be chosen next month, probably. A new steamer line is to be estab lished between Washington and Swan Quarter by the New Holland Boat Line, Inc. ' Clayton Lancaster of Vancebore, who was charged with store-breaking at that town has been cleared in Superior Court at New Bern. Lan caster Is white. V Big meat packing concerns are writing farm demonstrators in 'this section to request them to encourage the raising of hogs for Northern and Western markets, ' especially in the winter months. i (Daily Free Press 14th) Mayor John Purroy Mitchel of New York or Mayor Blankenburg f Phil adelphia, or possibly both of them, will attend the annual convention of the Carolina Municipal Association to be held here in the coming Spring, it is expected. The first intimation that the big meeting would, be held here was given to the public today, when Mayor Fred. Sutton, who ia treasurer of the Association, stated to The Free Press that it .had been definitely decided to honor, Kin ston with the presence of nearly 100 officials of North and South Caroli na cities for a two or three days' gathering. Both Mayors Blaokenburg and Mitchell will be invited, as well as other persons . of national note. Officials of the Association have every reason to believe, says Mayor Sutton, that both the. New York and Philadelphia chief burges ses will accept. Mayor Mitchell ia called "the boy mayor,", and i prin cipally f known for. his courage and cleanness as a politician. Mayor Blankenburg's municipality ' has tk enjnany Jrtgpj . orwftrdjiacaJbia ten- -. ure of office. The police foree -snider three separate teonnhtsBionsT-fc0llce. public service and parks 4s, accept ed to be the most perfect , in the country. Health education meetings are held in all, parts of 'the city, the traffic regulations, are a standard for the nation, and .safety aonea on the streets are the Mayor's especial hob by, it is said, as well as municipal concerts and other things. in, which he takes an interest. -.- ' The executive committee of the as sociation will meet in a few days to perfect '-the program andf set the dates. Kington's Chamber, of Com merce will take the matter of enter tainment in hand. There will he au tomobile trips over the good roods of the county,, shad and brunswkk stews, oyster roasts and barbecues for the mayors and others. The -ses sion will be he'l in a public place. At the lust annual conventions-held in Charlotte, there were about ; 60 mayors present. This "year it ia in tended to urge the attendance of mayors pro tem, and councikaen, commissioners, , etc., so that, every city, and town of .any importance in the two Carolirms can be represent ed. It is the first time that the r As sociation has condescended to meet in a city of this size, but then,. Kin ston has been in thet public eye; for the past year or two. And the city, says Mayor Sutton, , will, d itself proud. It will act for the occasion as did Singletary, the U. ofN. C. football star, who before ' a famous game with. U.. of Pa. i declared, ;that though he weighed only 175 r 180 pounds, he would make every man he tackled think he weighed 250. r Sin gletary broke five ritw. Kinston will burst clear out of harness if, neces sary to look large in the eyes of the . hosts. , , ; . ' The Carolina municipal . Associa tion is one of the most influential or ganizationa of its kind in the oun try. A large number of farmer may- ors are among its-members. -.Mayor T. J. Murphy of Greensboro is firesi-' dent. For the first 'time. Eastern Carolina officials re expected do be ' in attendance ia aome number upon a meeting. .; ,v . ... ' Kinston has some things that will interest them to shew 'the men, who will be its guests, too. They will sea - : under construction the -most extens ive paving program undertaken.iy a town Of this size solely on its ewn m sources in the world during the, pasj .decade. - ' - . v." " - Subscribe to The Free Press,