IT IT TT- t it 1 PUBLISHED TWICE A WEEK WEDN ESDAYS AND SATURDAYS lie tVI---No. 3 WEDNKSI)AY,JjY5, J9IG , VRVmiSZWZm Peply to Washington 71 espectfak Indicates DIFFICULT! CAN BE SETTLED IF CANDOR AND PATIENCE USED - s FERSHINfr RETIRING TO BORDER FOR THE PURPOSE OF WITHDRAWAL, SAY EL PASO REPOTOIEDIATION PROPOSAL PLANNED .1.7 JUDGE BOND IIEAR'G CASES AGAINST TVVd ALLEGED LYNCHERS Says President Wilson In ...fourth of: July Address ; at Washington , WILSON MUST HAVE HELP People ;Have No Right to Take; Law In Their Own Hands, He Declares A SENSATION IS SPRUNG Mexican Ambassador So Confident of Peaceable Settle ment that He Leaves Washington for a Picnic First Chief Himself Wrote Note Conditions Bad, Admitted, But Continued Presence American Soldiers Has No Good Effect, SaysMessage Not to Be Delivered to Lansing. Until Wednesday Bolivian Minister Expect ed to Suggest Mediation to Secretary of State Ardor Anonymous fetter Suppos f TWmo T ATa TtamnonPfl ed to Contain Threat - tt : en. - j nnu: a t ternoon Jailer Allen On (Bv the United Press! I lne btanq Washington, July4. Carranza's reply was received today at the Mexicar embassy. It is conciliatory an'1, probably will avert war. It will bo delivered tomorrow to Lansing by Arredondo. The note was written bv Carranza himself. It sug gests either mediation or direct negotiations for the set- April, judge Bond, as reported in The Free Press Monday, is sitting -as a committing magistrate. Judge Bond briefly announced the purpose of the hearing to ferret out those who were responsible for the lynching. He denounced lynching and said it was unnecessary for peo ple to take the law into their own hands for crimes which any court would punish quickly and adequately. Ho said he expected to continue the investigation until the facts were Daily Free Press July 4) Judge W. M. Bond of Edenton call ed court to order about 2:40 p. m., Tuesday, for hearing evidence against alleged lynchers of Joe Black in Of People, Says Gompers A. F. of L. Building Dedi cated by Chief Executive. Labor Is Not Commodity, Says APPOINTED TO SUCCEED JUDGE ALLIES HAVE WRESTED FIFFYlSQiMES OF FRENCH TERRITOR FROM GERMANS IN PEEBLES IN THIRD I THREE DAYS OF OFFENSIVE, IT CLAIMED Former Judge Goes Back On Superior Court Bench, t It Is Announced A LEADING CAROLINIAN tlement. of the differences. The United States is asked to describe its" view of mediation. Carranza admits border conditions are bad- but says the presence of American troops in Mexico is a source of irritation. 'He makes no demand for the withdrawal of the American troops. The Mexican embassy is sure the note will be entirely satisfactory to Wilson. Arredondo today left the city with his staff for a pic nic, convinced that all danger of war is past. Bolivian Minister Gets Busy for Peace. s Washington, July 4. After delivery of Carranza's note to Lansing the Bolivian Minister is expected to sub- known. The full authority and pow mit a mediation proposal to the Secretary. i er of the state would be invoked to Pershing's Men Retiring tO Border. bring all necessary witnesses. , EI Paso, July 4. Couriers reaching here from Colo- First sensation Sprung. naDublan say Pershing's expedition is to be withdrawn ! Js Boni to,d f the receipt, of from Mexico. The Seventh and Eleventh cavalries are ' anonymous letter typewritten, crossing the desert to the border. , ."y in J The report of the withdrawal did not dampen the ar- ?r6?& 1 1 it t dor of theWh of July celebration of regulars and mil- ZtTTl tlZ itiamen On the border. ing character. Judge Bond announc- , ' , -- 1 : Lj-gsggy: that t,e author of the letter was not definitely known, but that every thing" would be done to find the auth or. He thereupon offered a reward of $50 for information lead'ng to the placing of the responsibility. Witnesses Sworn. At the conclusion of the Judge's re marks the witnesses were sworn and Sam Stocks, the first of the defend (Continued on Page Six) SECOND INFY. BAND Mm. BUT ONE Makes, Best Average of Any Unit at Camp Glenn Ed enton Company Loses On ly 20 Joshua Allen Re jected Musician , ' (By F. T. MeDerett) Camp Glenn July 4. The- Second Infantry band, from - Kinston, passed . the medical examination, late yester-day-wtftff the loss of only one man out of tho 2!J enrolled. Ha was Sergeant Joshua Allen. c Sergcaa Allen was too HghJ. This, I believe, without consult ing actatistics, is the best 'record made bjjffy unit of either regimen in cam'p7ere-. The examination for landmen is supposed to be identically the same as for line men. r 1 . , -' The band, however, stood to lose one man, anyway. The regulations restrict bands to 28 men. This bam had one extra. . Company I of Edenton, Second In fantry, also passed handsomely with NIGHT RIDERS RAZE FENCES AND SHOOT UP HOIS IN DUPLIN State and District Authori ties Get Down Behind Or ganized Gang Trouble" Over" Fence La w7 The fence law is the cause for the night riders' activity. It is in force in Duplin, although the majority'of the population is now known to be ML. T 1 ' 1a . ARE ARMED AND MASKED men opposed to the law, and their . : ' i wrath is directed to adherents. " - ' , - Judge' O. H. Allen of this city Stock Law Opponents Vent, states that news of the band's de Wrath ' OH Adherents Potions reached him while he was , . - t, . , in Dupl'm county last week. A con- Party Formed for Resist- derabl. area ovemm by ance General Sentiment 1 the riders. The majority of the pop AgainSt Band , ' . ; ulation frowning on the band's H - '-' - . - '- - i work, , Judge Allen declares. -, 1 ' ., . T , JX I Authorities Get Busy. , (Da.ly Free. Press-July 4) f Shaw Night ndors, masicea anu rraeu, are terrorizing a section of Duplin have been notified of the situation. ' Jonas Brown,whose house .was shot up "outrageously," has organiz- . . ' 11 "V" ...m. -i e9S fense an4 openly defied the nightrid tmmi a to1 - fn . Ie "Viuiet . . a. w " i. i Houses have wen snot vp, xences w He destroyed and sinister threats made. zi!iie3m ' the small loss of 20 men. - Few if any ( Men acquainted wntfc the situauon companies have done as well. ; .say it bad. :-' . cotinty not far from Efculaville, on a rail line southward from Kins ton. They are organized - and though few in number. (By the United Press) Washington, July 4. President Wilson,after reviewing the parade of labor unions today spoke at tho ded ication of the new home of the Am erican Federation of Labor here. Ev idently referring to tho' Mexican sit uation, Mr, Wilson said "Patience, candor and a desire to get together constitute the solution of all difficul ty. In the position I occupy," he said, "I am not at liberty tj think of any one class to the exclusion of other classes. Hence I am going to tae the liberty of dedicating this build ing to commoncounsel and common understanding." President Samuel Gompers was wildly cheered by the crowd of 10,000 persons when he said the people must help the President to keep out of war with any nations. I President Wilson, speaking of the Clayton anti-trust law, said he was sorry the judges had to be taught that labor was not a commodity. Was Defeated bv Man Whose Place He ?akes Has Been District Attor ney In Eastern Federal District in "State (Special to The Free Press) Raleigh, July 4. Governor Craig late yesterday announced that form er Judge Francis R. Winston, now U. S. District Attorney for the Eastern District, had been appointed Judge of the Third Judicial District, to suc ceed the late Judge R. B. Peebles, who died in Norfolk last week. Judge Peebles defeated Judge Win ston for re-election in 1902. Judge Winston has served in both houses of the General Assembly, is famous an the State as a public orator, is a mem ber of several legal and historical or ganizations, prominent In, fraternal order circles, and has been active politics many years. Made Some Progress Monday Night British Captured a Town But Were Driven Out of It, War Office AdmitS-H, Teutons Concentrating to Protect Important Railroad Center Threatened by Anglo-French Russians Take a Thousand Prisoners In Big Battle Raging In East Leopold With Hundred Thousand rfen Attempting to , Hold Back Slav Advance In Swampy Region Near.Ba- . ranovstch, Says Pctrograd Report to London - (By the United Press) LontTon, July 4. In seventy-two hours of fighting the Allies have wrested nearly 50 square miles! of French ter ritory from the Kaiser's army.- Some progress was made last night by the Anglo-French forces. , The British war office announces that English troops captured the fortified village of Thiepval, but were latef driven out by Germans. " ' ' The Germans are concentrating troops to defend the railway town of Peronne. . ', A Petrograd dispatch says General Brusiloff has cap tured a thousand prisoners and five machine guns from the Austro-Germans near HokaL An intense battle ' is rnfrinc npflr Baranovstch. where Prince Leopold of Ba- ivaria has 100,000 men strung out in this line along a marshy region. 1 ' 1 - - ; CLEVEliAND DEDICATES FINE NEW CITY HALL (By the United PTi.s)' Cleveland, July 4. Cleveland's new city hall, costing $2,9Q0.000 was for mally dedicated today. The huge structure, overlooking Lake Erie, is a part of the small group C-T civic foundings. The exterior is of lime stone, i BULLETINS (By the United Press) FORECASTS INDISCRIMINATE SUBMARINING. 1 Copenhagen. July 4. Germany is to embark on a policy of indis criminate submarining, Captain PerisuR, a Germaa naval critic, writes in the Berlin Tageblatt. KING OF SPAIN G1YES BULL-FIGHTING A BLOW Madrid, July , 4.t King Alfonso, a keen advocate of horse racing, fa taking advantage of the ' European war to popularize the port in Spain. Spanish bull-fighhing, . like Ameri can baseball, now the national past time, will have a rival within a few years Lf the' people take kindly to the King's efforts. He has purchased three English two-year-olds and has entered into competition with the Duke of Toledo, Spain's leading horse fancier. Y GIRL A SUICIDE IN HOME WEALTHY NEW YORK'R; V0UTH HELD "Teddy" Roberts Was Seek er of Bright Lights Po lice Won't Take the Story That Boy Found Her Dead GOAT ROPING CONTEST IN TEXAS CELEBRATION fan Angelo, Texas, July 4. San Angelo's goat got joose today and skidded around the town common pursued by a band of yelping, lariat swinging cowboys in the newest Fourth of July stunt. The goat-rop- (Bythe United Press) New York, July 4. "Teddy" Rob erts, an orphan girl. who sought the white lights of Broadway to escape loiiesameness, was found dead from gas asphyxiation today in the hom of Charles E. Lister, a wealthy com mission merchant of Brooklyn. List er's 21-year-old son, William, enter tained three girls, including Miss Roberts, and three boy chums at a week-end party. The police are not satisfied with young Lister's story that he discov FINAL ACTION POOL ROOM QUESTION ON WED. NIGHT, MAYBE Council, With Members Ab sent, Would Not Act Mon day Night Both Sides Prepared Against Sur prisePetitions "For ing contest enlisted cattlemen from the surrounding country and money ered the gM d(Jad lu bed afler smi. wasn't wagerea on tne norso , ... . , . that races was placed on William G. the chase for SOLDIERS' FAMILIES NEED AID; KINSTON INVITED TO ASSIST DEPENDENTS OF MEN OFF ON COUNTRY'S DUTY; URGENT CASES The committee for the relief of the families of the men called for military service has made a thorough canvass, visiting the home of each family and ascertaining the exact status of each. . 'About fif teen families have been found, which will likely have to be assisted by the community, several of these are now In distress and the need -for immediate assistance ia urgent. An announced when the com mittee was appointed, it is not the purpose at this time at least to make any canvass. Voluntary contributions will be depended upon and the committee urges' that these be made at once. Contributions may be made through Mr. E. G. Barrett, chairman of the committee, Mrl C F,' Harvey, secretary, Mr D. F. Wooten, treasurer or the newspapers, which have been designated by the com mitteeto receive for transmission to the committee and all contri bation&, . ' . , The Free Press will be glad to have such contributions reported . and left at ita office. V . - ' . '. ' : , Sabscriptions: Cash . . , . , $1.00 ing gas. homicide chargei The girl was nineteen years old. with relatives in Johnstown, N. Y. AMERICA'S GIRL CHAMP. j SWIMMERS IN CONTEST I San Francisco, July 4. Swimmers from New York and many other pastern cities competed here today in the first national girls' champion ship 100-yard swim. The competi tion is under the auspices of the A. A. U. The annual P. A. A. cham pionships are being contested at the same time. OYERZEALOUS TROOPS HIRED OWN PULLMANS; -WILL GOYERNMT PAY? (Br the United Press) Baltimore. July 4-Thq First In fantrymen who were so anxious to get to Texas that they hired their own Pullmans now ar wondering whether Uncle Sara will pay the bill. (Daily Free Press July 4) ! 'City Council at a regular meeting Monday night did not take expected action on the poolroom question. Pe- tions bearing 300 names were pre sented favoring the poolrooms, but strong delegation of ,"antis" Was present to offset these. Council cur tailed the meeting because there were mcmliers absent and it was desired to have the full Council to act upon the more important business at hand, and because of threatening weather. Another meeting, at which th poolroom matter wirll probably coma up,. will be held "Wednesday night, Council refused to allow ice-cream peddlers the use of the sidewalks, passed a resolution requiring paving in front of all garages in front ot which automobiles are allowed to stand, formally authorized the pay ing of McLewean street from Mount street to Park-aenae, which had! been tentatively agreed upon, and de cided to have he police enforce tba State law against persons under 13 . years of age driving automobiles. ' About 121,000 was the. estimate for the total expended on municipal improvements in the preceding month reported. i FAYETTEVULE NEGRO I ROBBEtf AND MURDERED Fayetteville, July 3.Sidney Mc Queen, a well known negro of this city, was found dead, apparently chok ed to death in his bed at his restau rant at Hay and Winslow streets thi morning. One hundred and fifty doU lars which McQueen had in his room is gone. There is no clue, so far', t$ the identity of tht slayer. 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