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i f til '"LA- I I ...... ... J. ,.v,.. 4 . 111 it KID " , . , ' " - ' " . - ' ' ' ' ' - , ' , ' !y ! ' " PUBLISHED TWICE A WEEK-WEDN ESPAYS AND SATURDAY , ' ' ' "v. VOL. XXXVNp. 68 y hUZ ' KINSTON, N. C SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1916 " '. , PRICjEJ CpNTS Li,, j ' i .;-, , ' , . , .,1,1. . 1 ' " VICTORIOUS SLAVS THREATEN REVENGE AGAINST THE For Persecution of Armpn ians4EfpMed Execute tjuilty Pffipfals CONQUERORS ADVANCING ' id - i Make Very Rapid Marches through Asiatic Turkey. Within 50 Miles of Sea port of Trebizond An cient Town Taken (By the United Press) London, Feb. 18. The Russians' right wing of Grand Duke Nicholas' Caucasus army is. only 60 miles from the Tiiiportant Turkish Black Sea port of Trebizond, dispatches today said. The ancient city of Bairburt, between Erzerum and Trebizond, has been '."tWi. The Slavs are "nwMn through ithe mountains to capture frebizond, which is expected to fall within a fortnight. . The Russians are planning to ame liorate ,!the condition of the Armeni ans, and are expected to execute Turk civil officials responsible for the mas sacre, "A. definite statement of the nu'miber of prisoners and guns is dai ly expected. Quiet In West Again. , Palis, Feb. 18.--The violent activ ity qp. the western front has almost entirely cfeajffsd, wys.. Jhc war office. There was. utter1 calm along the en tire (front! last night ' ; ; .Berlin, Feb. 18. The Bitish lost heavily in n attempt to regain trenches in' Ypres, it is said ait the wff'oflSce. IITAlIt l NOT m CONGRESS -MEXICAN REPORTS Washington, Feb. 17. President Wilson sent to the Senate today his response to the FaH resolution, TP questing'him .to report on facts lead ingf'up to recognition by ithe United States of the Carrapza government of Mexico. It was in the form of a letter froni gjecretary Lapsing sum marising the events which preceded recognition and transmitting a great volume of data. Tne President, through Mr. Lans ing, declined to comply with that part of the Fall resolution asking for diplomatic and consular reports on political conditions and events in Mexico. tmm APPEAL FROM " SWEDEN TO AMERICA Washington, Feb. 17. Another note from Sweden, has been address ed to the State Department, asking co-operation with the Swedish gov ernment to maintain ithe preserva tion of 'tules ,of international law concerning the protection of neutral commerce and navigation. Action is proposed particularly against Great . Britain. NEW -PARK- HAS ITS NAME BEFORE DECORATED (Daily Free Press 18) f The unica An -tha Norfolk South' TURKS ern yards near the intersection , of : Queen and Blountjstreets, where the , cotton weighers platform stood un til" this week is to be parked, it is ' understood,' and fenced in with won pipes. 'The name "Central Park" has already been bestowed ODon it by a business man Jn the neighborhood. J Ctty officials do not laugh at the - Dame nor th nArlcinv iHm. h mffpwr. - . - r rr. jQAnd aay that trees, grasa and flowers Csn'd'seaU will be had, the owner will ing, if the city has to furnish the mdney and men for the work. . Lexington, Va- Feb, 17 In a good game of; basketball played here this afternoon,-V. M. I. was defeated by Wake Forest College by the co-e of 4016. . ... LETTERS FRQM CRQNES ' TO NEW YORK POLICE ;i Taunting Missives Spur Detectives On In Search for Soup Plotter Be lieved He Is Planning Further Mis chiefAnarchistic Newspapers to Be Barred From the Mailn, Expected. (By the United Press) New York, Feb. 18. Spurred on by letters taunting the police, de tectives are today combing the city to find Jean Crones, the Anarchist soup pott?r. The police believe he is mingling -with crowds and plan ning further attempts. Nation-Wide Campaign Against Anarchism. Chicago, Feb. 18. Several anar chistic . newspapers are expected to be barred from the mails at the ope ning of a campaign to check the nation-wide anarchistic plot. GOING ON IN OTHER TOWNS AND COUNTIES OF EASTERN CAROLINA (Daily Free Press 18) When Harrison Gray and Dock Stamps, colored men, appeared against Annie Bryant, a negress, as plaintiff and witness, respectively, in the City Court at New Bern, the ta bles were turned and the couple found themselves in jail at the end ofthe trial. The woman was found fnno cept of the charge against her and Gray was ordered to pay the costs-. Failing (to prpenre 'the mppey . ho went to prison, and Stamps, jacked up on the instant for vagrancy, .went with him, , ' ' Hele,n Keller, the famous deaf and blind woman, is to lecture in New Bern early in May. ' Craven county jury in the case of Florence Simpkms fiy her next friend vs. John Miller, decided that Miller, with whom the girl, a minor, was living, had a right to chastise her- Miss Sijr.pk.ins, a la-year-old orphan, had been spanked or other Wise "corrected' and asked $1,000 damages. Rev. J. R. Matthews, rector of St. Paul's Episcopal church, Green ville, is conducting a mission in Au gusta, Ga. BULLETINS (By the United. Press) ATTEMPT TO BLOW UP COAL SHIPS. Madrid, Feb. 18. Two dyna mite cartridges, sufficient to blow the vessel to bits, were found on the British steamer Rosebank, from Baltimore to England, says a Valencia dispatch. The ship js carrying coaL KAISER ASKS BIG SUMS FOR RAILROADS. Berlin, Feb. 18. The Govern ment has introduced a bill in the Prussian House of Commons call- ' ing for the expenditure of eighty raiNipns in railroad construction The Hungarian Minister of Fin ance has concluded a loan of thirty-five millions from a group of German banks. U. S. STEEL BUYS BACK BONDS FROM BRITAIN. New York, Feb. 18. The U. S. Steel Corporation is buying back $2,800,000 of its bonds from preat Britain. NO HOPE OF. FINDING LP1BERT POISON VJAL Bottle Disappeared Authorities Had Depended Upon f wdng it as i-asi Link In Chain of Evidence Against Collegia" Orpet, Held for Girl's Murder Youth to Attend inquesx Wnnkeiran. Ill- Feb. 18. Officials have lost, hope of finding the bottle that contained the poison whicn kui A Miriam Lambert, for whose mur der William Orpet, of the University of Wisconsin, is held. The botue was to have been the last link of evidence against Orpet, it is declared. Orpet is expected to attend but not testify ai the inquest. " . BRITISH GUARDING AGAIT SURPRISE DN THE jEAS TODAY Anniversary Inauguration of Plan Submarine War fare by Tirpitz REVIEW OF T(IE CAMPAIGN Admiralty Chief's Order Resulted in Sinking of 800 Vessels, Loss of Many Non-Combatants, Quar rels With U. S. . (By the United Press) London, Feb. 18. The Germans have built a hundred new submorsi bles and are preparing to renew ag gressive submarine warfare, accord ing to the Geneva Journal. British Shipping Takes Precautions. London, Feb. 18. Extraordinary precautions to guard against subma rines have leen taken by command ws of British ships in ithe war zpne. Today is the anniversary of Von Tir- pitz's campaign which resulted in the sinking of 800 vessels with a tonnage of 1,400,000, and the killing of 2,000 non-coabatantS including: 118 Am ericans. ; . , ' ! The sinking of eighteen to forty submarines by the Allies, most of ithem trapped in nets, declaration by England of tbe actual blockade in reprisal, and the involving of Ger many in serious controversies with America all resulted from the campaign- s YOUNG FARMERS WJLL - BOOST WINTER COURSE AT k & M. COLLEGE (Special to The Free Press) , West Raleigh, Feb. 18. The four weeks course in Agriculture, which has just closed at the A, &. M. Col lege, will be of benefit to far more than the 27 men actually enrolled. These students have organized a "Progressive Association of Farmers" for the ensuing year, the purpose of which is to spread throughout the State a knowledge of improved farm ing methods taught in the Winter Course at the College. In that way it is hoped that the work of the Winter Course will reach hundreds of farm ers whom it is impossible for tho college to reach directly. new wmm mark ACROSS ALLEGHANIES r ' (Special to The Free Press) Pittsburgh, Feb. 18. With the peaks of the Alleghenies covered by a glare of ice, and the hollows full of drifted snow, Ray McNamara, in a 25-horse power Maxwell has amaz ed all Pennsylvania motordom by driving from Philadelphia io Pitts burgh 294 miles in eight hours,. nineteen minutes. The former record, set last June by J. G. Vincent in a high-powered 12-eylindcr car was nine hours, twenty minutes. McNamara's run was thoroughly checked by newspaper men at both ends and at New York, Bedford and Ligonier along the route. THOSE CONTEMPLATING -SJ)CpTpNpJ!CE (By the United Press) ,i Amsterdam, Feb. 18. If it is neces sary to commit suicide, please drown or hang yourself." Thus reads a pla card by the burgomaster of Boites ford, a small village near Brussels. The German military authorities re cenUy fined the village $1,250 because a citizen so far forgot himself as to suicide by shooting. The Belgians are forbidden to have firearms. The burgomaster paid the fine but to save the town treasury he appealed to the villagers, to die, if die they must. sans bullets. .;. ; DEMOCRATS ASSERT REPUBLICANS WAIjJT TO GET U. S. IN IB No Other Interpretation Could Ue Put On Root's Speech, Say Leaders, Planning Series to An swer the Address (By the United Press) Washington, Feb. 18. Democratic leaders are planning to answer the Republican campaign keynote, sound ed in the spnech of Elihu Root this week, plan a series of speeches in the Capital and country. Ths Democrats accuse the Repub licans of favoring war with Germa ny and Mexico anil insist that th:it pan be the only interpretation put up on Root's speech. Barnes Planning Trip to West New York, Feb. 18. With Roose velt safely away in the West Indibs for six weeks, William Barnes is planning for a presidential raid in the West to get delegates favoring a conservative candidate, it is report ed. REPpJlTS TO GERMANY AY HINDUS IN EGYPT ROSE, SSof OFFICERS (By the United Press) Berlin, Feb 18. A whole re- ' giment of Hindus have mutinied and joined other dissatisfied sol diers, .threatening s serjous UP risipg, say Cairo reports to the Cpjone Gazette It is paid a "Prii . hc ""tlwcgra yrcn kill- -ejl, and the rest fled to the des ert. Thy killed 12 officers. VU-PDfS SLAYER MAY HE HEADED EOI KINSTON, IS BELIEF Pitt County Sheriff Says It's Likely That Crazy Evans Will Try to Get Train Here for New Bern De nies Report Shooting (Special to The Free Press) Greenville, Feb. 18. Sheriff Joe McLawhorn, a distant relative of the roads superintendent killed by Da vid Evans, thinks it likely that Ev ans has gone towards New Bern by yay of Kinpton. Evans was arrested in Kington some months ago for some misdemeanor or other and re leased. i. McLawhorn pays no attention .to a report that some of the convicts hq escaped- with. Evans, passed through Grainger last night. .He. be lieves all are headed toward the Pam lico river save Evans., The Sheriff says the report that one man had been killed at Grimes land was without truth. Local Authorities On Alert Following a report f rom"Ayden that a part of the negroes who escap ed Jrpra the Pitt county roads gang Wednesday were believed to have come through that town in an auto mobile late Thursday, headed toward Kinston, the local authorities were on the watch all night for the men. The Ayden report said that the ma chine's curtains were drawn, that the rattle of chains ;was plainly heard, and that the driver did not slack up. No sight was had of the party, and the report js believed to have been groundless. v y,."; . - ' From Greenville this morning it was learned that no trace' had been had of David Evans, leader of the mutiny and slayer of Joe McLaw horn, superintendent of the' gang. Fran, ss rtold in Thursday's Free Press, broke McLawhoprn's skull with a mattock. He is negro preacher TO THE CHAIR THIS MORNING Former Priest Paid Penal ty for Murder of His Sweetheart PROTESTED INNOCENCE Said An Illegal Operation Caused Her Death Last Thought Was of His Mo therTold Those He Left In Cells Good-Bye (Hy the United Press) Ossipinir, N. Y., l ib. 18. Striding boldly ahfad of atttudunt" and stop ping on the brink of dvaU to express . last fondness for his mother, Hans Schmidt, the unfrocked New York priest, convicted of the murder of An na Aumuller, was electrocuted today at dawn. Schmidit died protesting his inno- cence. In a statement, hc said the girl was killed :by an illegal opera tion. He shouted good-byes to the inmates of death cells, lie died in eijjhjt minutes after going in , the chair. The chaplain, Father Fashlin. claiimed the body, to bury k for Schmidt's mother. SERBIAN ARMY WIPED BEFcjRE A GIFT FROM N. C. ARRIYpD By William G. Shepherd (United Press Staff Correspondent) Salonica, Greece, Jan. 20. (By Mail) The batterdest package that ever arrived for wounded soldiers on any battlefield has at last reached Salonica. This will be of interest to the ladies of Flat Rock, North Caro lina, who sent it. Its wrappings are torn, its wax seals broken and smashed, but its contents, twelve pounds of cotton bandages, carefully prepared by the Southern ladies, are intact. The stamps and other markings tell he story of its travels. It was mail ed at Flat Rock on noon, August 23. It reched New York two days later and was put on the Greek steamship "Alhpnai." At sea the steamship took fire. All the passengers were saved and so was the mail. There is a (typewritten paster on the package which says, "The Damage to this package occurred on board the S. S.Ath'mai, which vessel was on fire ami abandoned at sea September 19. All the mail was saved. E. M. Morgan, postmaster, New York iCity." Again the package was started from New York on another luckier boat and after a long, long journey it has reached the American consulate at jgajonjea. The Fat Rock ladies in tended the bandages for gervian sol diers, but with the exception of in acessible Servian troops in Montene gro, the Servian army is dispersed. Since tho. Flat Rock ladies put their package into the Flat Rock post of fice last August the Servian army has practically been wiped out. The French Red Cross has taken the pack age and it.. prill be used to staunch French instead of Servian blood. BJWEIS COMMITTEE AQJ(11NS JILL MONDAY (By the United Press) Washington. . Feb. 18. Because there were no witnesses today, the Senate Brandeis committee adjourn ed until ; Tuesday. - By ; then the at torneys opposed to Brandeis must file a list of charges and witnesses. of unsound mind. No more of the fugitives" had been captured aince the arrest of three Thursday afternoon. One of these waa reported to have been killed at Grimssland when he at- attempted to gat away from his cap tors.. Nine in all escaped. . v , It is believed that the entire party headed toward Grimesland and Cho cowinity and that none came in the direction of Kinston, MAYORS EXPECTED TO . TALK PREPAREDNESS National Security League Trying to Interest Municipal Officials In the Subject, and Thut May Be a Prin cipal Topic at Spring Convention of Carolina Association Here, It Is Stated National defense will be one of the big issues at the meeting of the Ca rolina Municipal Association here in May. According to R. S. Winters, a Durham newspaperman, "the Na tional Security League will present the merits of preparedness" and "ithe powerful lover" of the mayors and other municipal officials of the two Carolines "jivill be sought to wield a sure and effective stroke for the cause. The National Conference pf Mayors, leftled to meet in St. Louis on March .3 and 4, is a forerunner of the movement ithE sea ultima Stn'e munic Mayor Johfc i.mihhIiT-"'1T wU as MaymTilankcifburg of Phil adelphia, will be invited to address the Carolina chief burgesses and oth er officials here. It is well known that Mayor Mitchell is a staunch pre paredness advocate, and should he ac cept the invitation to speak here it is not unlikely that he will have that for his topic. The Tarheel mayors hold out strong hope that Mr. Mit chell will come. THEY WANTED ALL THAT WAS COMING TO 'EM, ALLR They live in squalor equal to any that can be found in tho slums of New York, or even London, probab ly right here in Kinston.. - They are a family, ithe man with tuberculosis, the woman a very uninteresting spe cimen and the children dirty. Church people early in the week found that there wasn't enough covering on the beds if heaped up to keep an infant comfortable in such weather, with the icy win:! blowing ithrough dozens of panelesa windows and chinks and cracks. An automobile was pressed into service, and the people from the other, half of the world in a few hours' time had set that family up for housekeeping. There were blan kets a-plenty, all kinds of clothes and enough groceries for a week carted in. But poverty breeds the pauper spirit under certain conditions, and the pauper spirit is like dopeing it's a hard habit to break. Next day a child of the family call d upon one of lha benefactors. One of her parents had sent her to say to the gentleman that they needed wood. "Very well," was the res ponse. "And don't forget the shirt, waist for So-and-So." "All right." And, turning back still again as she was leaving, "An' we haven't got any sheets and pillow cases." DIt. SMALL AT GRIFTON HAD LARGE AUDIENCE (Daily Free Press 18) Dr. Sam Small, the Georgia pro hibition lecturer who made an address in this city , Wednesday n'ght, was heard by a full house ait Grif ton Thursday night. The lecture was given in the Methodist chuTch there. Dr. Small, who returned to Kinston to spend today, stated that his re. ception at Grifton was a very agree able one to him. He was to leave at 4:10 for Ayden G. O. P. MEETINGS WERE NOT VERY ENTHUSIASTIC The local leaders of the Republic an party confessed today that the precinct meetings held throughout the county Thursday were scantily ajttepded. The convention in the Courthouse Saturday afternoon at 1 o'clock is expected to be attended by about a hundred of the old liners. CHICAGO WILL SAVE "MRS; WARREN 1FUEW ' EVIDENCE" IS 0. K. Chicago, Feb. 18 The Anti-Ca-pital Punishment Society expects new evidence, to save Mrs. -Ida Ball Warren of WListon-Salem, N. C, sentenced to die on March 1. Officers of the society say the woman's confession, obtained by the' third degree, will be retracted. LODGE SAYS IP STATES SHOULJ) NOT AGREE TO 'PIRACY' "Inconceivable" That Arm ed Merchantmen Order Should Be Accepted WARNING FROM STERLING V Decree Means New Crisis for American Relations With Teutons, Declares) (By the United Press) Washington, Feb. 18. Germany and Austria propose piracy, declar ed Senator Lodge today, n the Sen ate. .It is inconceivable, he said, that America will accept the plan to sink armed tnerchantment without Warn ing. Precedents allow arming, and America has approved the arming of merchant vessels recently, ho stated. Afeandonmemt of the right to arm is incredible, he aaiu. - ' - Senator Sterling warned that tho decnee constitutes America's gravest international crisis. Senator Thomas replied that Ster ling's and Lodge's speechea were not baaed on facts nor a desire to better international affairs. He-said "they were political. Senaitor' Stone prom ised an answer to the Root attack on ithe administration next week.' - FUNERAL QF MR?. C. KNOX THIS MORNING (Daily' Free Press 18) The funeral of the late Mrs. W.- C. Knox was held in Afaplewood ceme tery this morning at 10:30 o'clock. The iservice announced to be held in the Caswell Hotel ', was abandoned, and all the rites conducted hit the grave, . Rev. u, yv. JJiancnara oi tne First Baptist church, Mrs. Knox's pastor, and Rev, J. H. Griffith, rec tor of St. Maryjs Episcopal church, conducted the service. The ' pall bearers were Messrs. W.' M. Herbert, C. W. Pridgen, F. Clyde Dupn. J. II. Canady, Will Hood, E. B. Mars ton, James Ppwersv and R. C. Strong. The funeral was largely attended, and the floral tributes were unusual- ly numerous and handsome. NEW CROSSING SIGN AT PRINCIPAL CORNER A new style pf crossing sign has been placed at the intersection of ' Queen and Gordon streets. There are three arms, two of them calling, upon chauffeurs and drivers to keep to the right and the other exclaiming "Safety first." The sign, a substan tial affair painted in white with black lettering, replaces the : old .i red and black "traffic cop" that stood in the center of that crossing formerly. The idea was Street Commissioner Webb s. More of the signs are to be put up, it is understood. , NEGRO MURRELL DIED FROM EXPOSURE, AGREE The Craven County authorities end. a coroner's jury have accepted v the theory that Walter Murrell, a color ed man, whose body Was found by Norfolk Southern trainmen in a ditch between Cove City and Dover sever al days ago, died from exposure to the severe cplL. It is thought that Murrell, who had been drinking, fell into the ditch and was too near over come by the'cold- to make any effort to get up again, laying there until he succumbed. ! . ' ' COTTON pCijANGE ' .I. i . - - , . , About ?0 bales of cotton were mar keted here today by 2:30 v'clock, ac cording to buyers' reports. Prices were from 9 to 11 cents. New York futures quotations were: Open 2:20 Mawh .. .... 11.43 11.49 May-"., .......... ...Al.CS 11.73 July .. ...... Uf 11.PI cvl,Vr' ....... Deer-' .... V : . "hi X as ni a k "it. 11 1 fU .TV X ''V Br i V 1 1 fl f -, ;
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