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PUBLISHED TWIC&A WEEK-WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS
VOll XXXV-No. 63
KINSTON, N. C WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1916
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KITCHENER HAY BE
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WILL BEAT ROBBERS,
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Optimists Have No Conception of Administration's Mind
i rLasi Memorandum From Berlin to. Go Before Cabi
net Today German Financiers Standing Behind Gov
eminent In Its. Refusal to Disavow Sinking, Although
Tley Have Important Interests In This Country That
Would Suffer In Event of Break American Business
Men Appearing to Gerard to Tell Teutons Wilson Is De
termined j v
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! (By the United Press)
WASHINGTON, FEB. 8. The Germans' last mem
orandum on the Lusitania is to go before the Cabinet
today, it is expected. Some optimism is pervading Ger
man official circles. In Congressional circles it has re
ceived a setback.. Statesmen and high officials of the
Germans who are optimistic have no conception of the
mind of the Administration. It is believed the Admini
stration is standing firm that Germany must make fur
ther concessions. '
Germany Money Interests Behind Kaiser.
KERLIN, Feb. 8. Leading German jankers and
financiers with large interests in America are standing
firm behind the foreign office in its refusal to disavow
rthe sinking of the Lusitania, This was learned follow
ing the adjournment of , a conference yesterday. Ameri
can business men are appealing to Ambassador Gerard
to tell them to leave off. Leading bankers hope there will
be no break; but say the government cannot admit the
sinking was illegal. -
Situation "Hopeful." - .
--Washington, - Feb. 8. Secretary Lansing conferred
with the;President today at 10 o'clock; at 11 both went
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w tne caDinec meeung. ivtiv
all Questions. From official
that the situation is hopeful. It is likely that negotiations
wilf be continued in an v event. , ' ...
'Ambassador Von Bernstorff isi see Secretary Lap
sing this afternoon. . " r '' 7 y
SEECT .DEMOCRATIC :
" CHAIRMAN IN MARCH
N Attempt Being Made to Get Con
vention Business Out of Way Sim
BlyBecaii8 Wilson Will Have fo
Opposition Likely to Be Bace for
. ? Vice-Presidency of Free-for-AH
Kind
(By the United Press) .
St JiOuis, Feb. 8. There has been
n attempt to rush proceedings pre-
slimipary to the Democratic conven
tion, despita the fact that Wilson will
in all; probability have no opposition.'
Jt ii expected that selection will be
made of a temporary' chairman in
New York next monthi An open race
for tne-'vfce-prwidency is predicted.
Alf Right to Use President's
Name In Ohio.
Washington, Feb. 8. President
WiUon will write a letter to the Ohio
Stnetary of State giving his consent
to he use of his name on the prim
ary; Uallot in that State, it is under
stood. ,
BAPTIST MINISTER
'SHOT BY ANGRY WOMAN
(By the United Presa
Sherman, ; Tex., Feb. 8. Rev. H.
- fil.'Cadle is dying and Mrs. Annie
Fau6t,.wife of a farmer, faces trial
fr shooting him as the result of a
' religious feud in the. Sherman Bap
, tist church. Each headed a faction,
j', They had words in the putlic square
, - before the woman shot the minister.
. r Woman Claimed Slander. ' -
. . : The woman palled a "revolver, from
hrv " - n f five shots into
jaiifsmg siujuk ius ueau lu
sources came information
WEEKLY COTTON LETTER
f OF ROUNTREE COMPANY
Decline of Past Fortnight Discussed.
No Basis for Bull Market at Mo-
, men t Question of. Supply On
Hand Important Item Market Ir
regular Ten Cents Predicted for
Cottonseed :
(Special to The Free Press)
New York, Feb. 7,--The decline
that started week before last, con
tinued last week, until at one time
July sold within two points of 12c,
the lowest leve 1 since the advance
started before Thanksgiving Day.
This was not only a decline .in con
tract?, but spot cotton as well has
lost ground in all Southern markets.
In fact, it was the selling of hold
ers here and there that started the
general slump. .
For two months, and more, South
ern spot markets have presented a
solid wall of strength, and this has
maintained values to such a degree
that there was no inclination to look
for any decline on the part "of trad
ers. But this week varioua spot mar
kets ' have weakened to the levels
quoted durin gthe January, liquida
tion six weeks ago, and, in some
cases, very little actual business has
been done at even these figures.
The latter part of the week cov
ering, in Liverpool 1 started an im
provement here, but the recovery of
a quarter of a cent in the contract
market failed to bring about any de
cided improvement in spots South .
Thia is .undoubtedly due to the fact
that the season -js now rapidly mov
ing oh toward the period of planting
preparation Here 'and there, hold
ers who do not desire to earry eofc-r.-i
':. srolhcr season have
; M e- bid prices. v-
- nditwns, pre
vorld, we can
e basis for a
it to be seen
i floods in the
a Mississippi
itention, and
; later this
another f or-
my to' look
enormous
i this coun
I of cotton
i, go far to
-1 't in cen
;r hand,
IN EASTERN FIELD
Rumored He Will Resign to
Oppose Von Der Goltz
In Asia
SEIZING GERMAN PRINTS
British Holding Up Lot of
War Literature London
Government May Send a
Special Representative to
This Country, Said
(Dy the United Press)
London, Feb. 8. David Lloyd
George and Lord Derby are being
mentioned as successors to Lord
Kitchener, if the latter steps out of
office. There is no confirmation of
the rumors of Kitchener's resigna
tion obtainable from any authorita
tive source. It is reported that he
may be sent to the East to oppose
Von Der Goltz.
German Literature Held Up.
England is slaughtering tons of
books, pamphlets and newspapers
printed in Germany and shipped to
Germans in neutral countries for use
in a great propaganda. Among them
ftre severar thSusaiid copies of Bry
an's speech on British rule in India
printed in Germany and addressed
persons in the United States end
South America,
tngland May Have a "Col. House
Loudon, Feb. 8. Wilson's plan of
landing- a confidential diDlomatic del
igita abroad has been so successful
that England is considering sending
a J'Col. House" of her own to America
to clear up the difficulties of the
Blockade regulations.
BRIEFS IN THE NEWS .
OF NEIGHBORING TOWNS
Craven county will build an im
proved road from the Maple Cypress
road to the Pitt county line. Plant
ers will pay a part of the expense.
Amos Stroud, 60, of Seven Springs,
nnd Miss Ella Hardy, 42, of Dover,
a couple well-known throughout this
section, are to be married, according
to the Register of Deeds at New
Bern.
Twenty-five carloads per diem are
now being hauled from the Never
son quarries to the Capt Lookout
breakwater construction site.
Claude Suggs, who killed his fa
ther-in-law at Jacksonville Christ
mas night, is to be tried before Judge
Allen in Onslow County Court next
month.
BULLETINS
: (By the United Press)
GERMANS TAKE RUSSIAN
PRISONERS.
Berlin, Feb. 8. In Pursuing
defeated Russians s Muendzil
the Germans took six hundred
prisoners.
the South ia over four and a half
million ; bales to come forward, as
shown by the Census figures of cot
ton ginned during the seasons of
1914 and 1915, and six months or
;the cottoi? Jear have already passed.
As the season advances toward the
preparations for another crop, the
question of supply on 'hand will, of
course, be a more important item,
unless the new crop gets poor
start .The market itself seems to
be an irregular affair, " with good
support on ; declines, but with the
South willinf to feed the market on
any advance in prices. - '' v
Cotton seed oil continues Hs steady
althoufh slow, advance. Ten cents is
freely predicted by the bulls. Con
ditions seem to favor a further ad
vance. '. v ; .
Coffee has had a good advance on
the rise in freight rates from Brazu
This will probably be the dominat
ing factor in fixing values in the f u
fiire. ".', v .
R. IL EOUNTP.EE & CO.
Penrose Warns Naval Com
mittee That Government
Wilt Find Manufacture of
Plate More Expensive
Because Private Patents
(By the United Press)
Washington, Feb. 8. The United
States and armor plate manufactur
ers are lined up for the biggest fight
yet. The Senate naval affairs com
mittee, which had before recommend
ed for passage a bill for the govern
ment manufaelure of armor, was
warned by Senator Penrose that pri
vate patents would add $200 per ton
to armor plate, or $24,000,000 to the
total of the present plans which then
would go out of business when the
government plant had finished.
The committee recommended the
bill. "We will beat an aggregation
of robbers," said Senator Tillman.
GERMAN FLEET MAY
BE PREPARING FOR
DASH TO NORTIi SEA
Dutch Reports Say There
Are Indications of Such a
Move Big Air Fleet to
Accompany; ;Men-of-War
On the Expedition.
(By the United Press)
London, Feb. 8. Rumors that the
German fleet is preparing for its
long expected dash into the North
Sea have reached here from Dutch
sources. All marines have been sent
to Kiel and leaves of absence to offi
cers cancelled. A great air flotilla
will aid the ships, it is expected.
WRESTLING MATCH WAS
FOLLOWfD BY KILLING
(By the Eastern Press)
Washington, N. C, Feb. 8. After
a wrestling match between the two
in the lower part of Beaufort coun
ty, Virgil Smith shot and killed Mel
ton Jones. Both men, negroes, seem
ed to be in good humor until Smith
suddenly produced the gun and shot
the other down.
INVESTIGATION FIRE
AT OTTAWA STARTED
(By the United Press)
Ottawa, Ont., Feb. 8. Investiga
tion of the destruction of the Parlia
ment buildings by fire was begun to
day. Precautions against- the en
trance of German agents from the
United States have been redoubled.
The entire border is being guarded.
DAVE WRIGHT, SEABOARD AIR LINE
ENGINEMAN, KILLED IN WRECK NEAR
SOUTHERN PINES EARLY THIS A. ll
The Seaboard Air Line's Florida Special, a fast train from New
York Jo Florida, which left New York Monday ' afternoon, was
wrecked this morning, probably, after 3:30 o'clock, near Southern
Pines, and Dave Wright, a S. A. L. engineer of Raleigh, was killed,
according to news that came to the Kins ton-Carolina Railroad office
here today. : The details were meager. ; It was presumed that the
flyer went through an open switch and crashed into freight, The
damage to the trains could not k""'d, and se far as was known
'Wright was the only victim. t
Mr. Wright was a brother-i
r-in
of Mayor Pro Tern. Doagbss of
for Raleigh. ,
Attempt to Pass All Reven
ue Legislation In One
Measure -
NOW BEING CONSIDERED
Rural Credits Bill Practic
ally Completed Work of
Moss More Than Any
one Chamber Commerce
of U. S. Is Meeting
(By the United Press)
Washington, Feb. 8. One omnibus
-bill to include all revenue legislation
in a single bill is the strategy under
consideration by administration lead
ers. The plan is to force it through
with a single vote. It will be con
sidered by the ways and means com
mittee Thursday. The bill would in
clude revision of the income tax and
a new inheritance tax, repeal the war
stamp tax, increase the duties on
whisky and cigars, tax war munitions
and create a tariff commission, con
tain an anti-dumping clause, retain
the sugar tax and repeal the tax on
mixed flour.
Rural Credits Bill.
The rural crests bill has been
practical completed Iby she banking
committee, and is to be brought be
fore the House soon. It ia chiefly
the work of Representative Moss of
Indiana.
National Chamber Commerce Meets.
Secretaries Redfleld. Garrison and
Daniels and a dosen Representatives
and Senators addressed the opening
meeting here today of the Chamber
of Commerce of the United States.
Clark and Mann Side by Side.
Washington. Feb. 7. speaker
Clark and Republican Leader Mann
fought side by side in the House to
day for adequate national defense,
with party lines obliterated, most of
the members followed their leaders
and two navy measures passed with
out a dissenting vote. One, to pro
vide for adding 300 midshipmen to
the entering class at Annapolis next
July, passed 173 to 0, and ithe other
to equip navy yards for construction
of battleships numbers 43 and 44,
passed without a roll call.
CHICAGO MAN, MIND
BLANK, TO ASHEYILLE
Asheville, Feb. 7. Leaving Chica
go a week ago Saturday, his mind in
a daze as the result of the recent
death of his five-year-old son, and his
nerves shaken by reason of incessant
application to business for the past
two years, John F. Avery, a promin
ent lace" manufacturer of Chicago,
landed in , Asheville last Tuesday
without any very definite idea of the
route taken in getting: here, and has
recovered fully through long tramps
taken over ithe mountains. Mr. Av
ery says that the mountain tramps
must have cleared his mind, and re
stored his nerves to normal
3frs. Vf. B. Douglass, wife
Mr Douglass left today
Which Their Children Are
to Attend Small Minori
ty Living: in Lenoir Part
of District Protested the
Bond Issue
Lenoir county citizens' objection
to being taxed for a new school in
Grifton, a Pitt county town, was
overcome Monday when the Board of
County Commissioners here ordered
a bond issue election for $20,000 for
the purpose, the election to be held
in the portions of the district in both
counties simultaneously, of course.
The commisioners had no alternative,
the Lenoir County Board of Educa
tion having passed favorably upon
the matter and its word being law in
such cases. There are probably six
or seven times as many people in the
district residing on the Pitt county
skle as on the Lenoir side. If the is
sue carries the $20,000 will be ex
pended for a hndsome brick graded
school building for the town of grif
ton and the rest of the Grifton dis
trict. Lenoir citizens voiced strong
disapproval of the project before the
commissioners. I '
Another claim for damages from
a road being built through private
property was presented to the Board
Monday, by John: D. Walters of La-
Grange, who asked .more than $600.
A claim for a smaller sum from
landowners in the saAe section was
refused1 by a commission a few days
ago. The same road, "the Jason-La
Grange highway, is now involved. A
committee of commissioners will in
yestigate Walters' claim.
The Board kicked out of harness
when it came to paying a water bill
presented by 'the city for the fiscal
quarter. It held that the West Con
struction Company, doing the street
paving in the city, had used water
from the Courthouse or jail to fill
the boiler of a steamahovel, and ask
ed the City Clerk to render another
bill fof the amount minus what the
construction people had used. The
City Clerk would not agree to that,
and suggested that the Board pre
sent a bill to tho West Company for
the excess. That was done. An easy
compromise was had tnis morning,
tho -West people paying about $18,
estimating the amount the county
hud used as being the same that was
consumed in the corresponding quar
ter a year ago.
NEWS OF THE DAY
TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS
Chicago, Feb. 8.No . more fine
food for civilian rookies at training
camps in the Middle West this sum
mer, according to Col. D. A.' Freder
ick, in charge of the central depart
ment today. The citizen soldiers will
have to prepare their own meals.
London Among latest treasures
added to Princess Mary's collection
of war souvenirs is an Austrian of
ficer's beauty case with mirror, bril
liantine, rouge and manicure powder.
iHarrisburgh, Pa. One of every
ten Pennsylvania farmers has an au
tomobile. The total, 22,608, is more
than 14 per cent, of tho total num
ber of licensed cars in the State last
year. 4 .
London A Sussex magistrate it
reported to be making a practice of
allowing all game poachers brought
before him, four days to decide as to
whether they would like to become
"juiper" at the front or go to jail.
Chicago W. A. Holbert, pullman
porter on A train running out of here
edits tho Pullman Porters' Review
between runs. He has a staff com
posed of pullman porters who do
much of their writing while speeding
around the country.
UP TO COURTS TO CORRECT
LYNCHING EVIL, HE SAYS
Wilson, Feb. 7 Judge H. P. Lane,
who is holding criminal court here,
during his charge to the grand jury
this morning in referring ta lyne'h
ings, stated as his opinion
lynching is a disease of the '
a contagious di?n?e that s
be spreading." ,
To letter Carriers, Deliv
ery Boys and Others,
Council Told
MATTER TO BE REMEDIED
Names of Streets May Be
Changed Ex-Richmond
Policeman Made Plumb
ing Inspector for Kins
ston Sanitation ,
Mr. 11. D. Spence addressed City -Council
at its regular monthly meet
ing Monday night, in behalf of the
city letter carriers and delivery hoys
of Kinston. He took for his text ,1
Numbers going all the way up the
multiplication table nearly and dis
proved entirely the popular belief
that a letter carrier won't talk when "
there ia occasion. Mr. Spence would
make an excellent after-dinner speak
er. The Councilmen were very much ;
amused, as well as edified, by his lit .
tie speech. In some residential sec
tions of the city, he declared, houses
are numbered so that if a United ;
States postofnee Inspector were to
get wind of it delivery would be sus
pended on certain blocks. He didn't r
understand how delivery , boys ever '
got through with their work.. Cer
tainly it was a Job for the letter car
riers. It happened this way, he un
derstood: 4 Some houses were impro
perly numbered.' At the last muni
cipal census , the census-taker, whs
was Mr. Chss; Bagby, undertook to
correct what mistakes he noticed. He
was efficient, and tore off a lot of
numbers, substituting, according to ;
his notion, the -proper numbers with .
a crayon or lead pencil. Chalk and
chaos! There was hound to be con
fusion for a little while, and when
the city did not follow up Bagby's
work and place permanent numbers
where they should be put, as Mr.
Bagby had expected, a lot of darkies ,
got the idea that they were not get
ting their mail regularly and tacked
up the old numbers: Result: Three
hundreds, five hundreds, eight hun- ,
dreds possibly all of these and
some more on the same block. Mr.
Spence was informed that the city :
intended correcting the situation.
and that the numbers had been or- .
dored and were expected to arrive
soon. ;. "
Following discussion of house
numbering, Alderman Webb sag- f
gested that the name of Hazzard
street in Northwest Kinston be chan
ged to Washingtqn street extended,
as it really should be, because the ha
zard of the present name was a per
ilous risk indeed to the residents. Mr.
Webb also gave it as his opinion that .
Washington and Lenoir streets should
be made avenues. They are oases,
he said, in a whole desert of avenues,
as Peyton, Grainger, Capitola, and :
numerous others. Mr. Henry French,
too, he stated, had asked that La
Roque's alley's name be altered to
Glenwood avenue. ' Mr. French had :
read in a paper about a man being
killed on a Glenwood avenue in an
other city, Mr. Webb said, although
he did not indicate1 that that was
Mr. French's reason for desiring the
change. . The Council has the matter
of changing the names under ' con
sideration. . -
T. A. Conway, a plumber recently '
from Louisburg, N. C, was named -plumbing
and sanitary officer t a
salary of 975. He would have the
work of inspecting all plumbing con
nections, electric light wiring, visit
ing premises to see if the sanitary
ordinances were being observed, etc
Mr. Conway, the Council had been in
formed, is a capable man. He has
served as plumbing inspector in cit
ies where there is no other duty at
tached to the ofneerhas bepn on t"
Richmond police force, ec.
Council r".'
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