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; ' fcP F'P ... It'; : 111110, n Ji .'lTJL-rf v.. PUBLISHED: TWICE A WEEK WED N ESDAYS AND SATURDAYS VOLTXXXVI. No. 9 i SSfc; fiy belief ComiiiSttee Today lliSSffi FOR THE i ! WlimATPiiY SENTOTAY ; M mmm m , . - . Mr N. J. House of the State ReliefCommittce for the llobd sufferers of Western North Carolina has forvvarded $1$ td the committee headquarters at Raleigh to be put to immediate service in giving assistance' to the stricken neoDle. ; Daily ifetforts will- be made and the "money .sub- T1, .r 1 ... ii . rrt rilT V.a cant fnrwnrrl Rfv that the suffering ana distress. may. re ueviww ly as possible. " - This piorning Vat -a conference be tween KsS. :"Rouso and Douglass, it was deddcd to appoint a canvassing committSee of young ladie to solicit Subscription. Those named era as foUffffs t ..'- ' ';' ; ; !: wv- Mrs. J. OF. Parrott and Mrs. H . H . Crtn$'H&;-Misses y Lucile Djxon, Mvgret Goodson, Virginia Copcland; Ann Hyman Harvey, Susie Csnady. Trxy Mitchell, Suzanne Mar- tin. Jfattsa Fleming,, juugenia wit- Katie Cobb, Natal- i. sui, Lalla Daughety, Eolme raa rick, Mary Hooker, Agnes Quinerly, Mary Priagwi, Irtna Tapp, Vida West an fa K committee . . i ! . - . .... . W. D. Hi Oettinger Furniture Store... C. OetfcmRer .. CA J Ckaa A. Waters G. V. Cowper Prof. J. H. Sampson (col'd). LOO . 5.00 . 2.00 . 2.00 , 2.00 . 2.00 . 1.00 Previously reported: 1 II J5. Moseley (Name omitted UTonda?) v. ". 10.00 N.'i. Rouse i ?20-W W. C. Fields ;. .'. 5.00 W Canady. & Son J. It. Hood &Co. ... J. J. Stevenson .... W. G. Jbnos Daa Qulneriy .. .... Cash ;. . . -Quinn & Miller ; . T. V. Mosetey 10.00 5.00 1.00 1.00 .2.00 1.00 5.00 1.00 D. L, titart ;V 1-00 JeftM G'. Brown . 1.00 Edwards' 4' Harper . . 6.00 Dr. AHMt Parrott 1-00 Barrett its Hartsfield .5.00 W. ft. pouglass 2.00 (Continued on i Mnir tmr i ii t T i ' " i ilLii I Uiul DllitiLItu n ;J, v. r Trade Will Be, .Transferretl to ;Bonafide. American Con cerns Not Under. the Bandit Isi SaidrrIycotted JFirms Maintained, German Business Rclatin3 ,;Wtth outh America, Pointed Out List Is the Hardest Blow Yet to Teuton Cdtnmcrcc, If Authoritative Statement, Made Todji is Bbrne Out Banking Men IcsisteiTtetOnly Men Ilaving Direct Trading Relations, With. Germany Should Be Tabooed, Stated , j 'i'7 !.,.-'... r (Bytiia Usfted Ptegs) - -V oWashlntt. iJuIV, 25. Tat the 'Britisn blacklist' of American firms was wot published untff the'accjfuiescenceJ if not the approval, of several large New York banking instittitions was first asanrwl he United.Press today an good authority. : Th fact fs we are tniM we turn them over to bonsidered responsible for there not being more firms drt' other compares of the regiment," the list Banker approached argued that only those ,a chaplain. "They aw scat housed havingdire-ct trading relations with Germany and i tered throughout the Wisconsin AhdAvhoso business was'primarHy of military vahie to:?; . . 'Germans, should he Wrotted. The banks Were convinc - : fed thst the . nited States South American trade would be ; PeipejT.-ratner than Sutler. ; ' .J Uge wagona and all kinds of gs ' It WS.3 pointed OUt that mapy Of the blacklisted firms t,, take u8 Bp to church next Sunday." l ad been J maintaining Germany's trade relations with But i couldn't imagine I was any South America, being in. a position tO do SO Only because whera but ra. the American army. they were domiciled in a nputral country. '" such a thing 'couldn't happen in any British facials' argued that business done by the other army in the world, or in any than Ametica. Wiscon- 'im.n.jvHJ 111 Ui& WUUIU illtflfclV L'V U dIUlCJ J m w LfVXinivv .tesrican Urms riot blacklisted. . pact this afternoon at' 3 o'clock at .the home of Mrs. Parrott to perfect its canvassing arrangements, and it will probably start later this afternoon or first thing in the morning to make a systematic "canvas. vs It is hoped that Kinston and Len oir will furnish at least $500 of the $50,000 which tfie State Relief Com mittee aims to raise, and as much of that as possible' be in hand to be re ported to the committee at its meet ing to be held in Raleigh Wednesday afternoon. - ' The subscriptions which have come in today (no soliciting has been done) are: -: ;..., . J. T. Kennedy t. C. L. Ellington J. T. Skinner & Son . . . J. P. Nunn J. B. Meacham . .... Dr. and Mrs. MoNatry 2.00 . 1.00 . 2.00 . 1.00 . 1.00 10.00 Total .$32.00 Robt. H. Rousa.- '5.00 F. C. Dunn 5.00 J. F. Taylor ;.....,;....',. 10.00 Robt. C. Srtrong .. '. 5-00 Jamea D. Grady . . ...... , 1-00 L. Harvey & Son Co. .. 10.00 C. F. Harvey, Jr., " 100 C. M. Jordan ... H. Stadiem .. . . . Dr. Ira M. Hardy J. H. PaTham . . K. R. Curtis .. H. H. Grainger . . 1.00 2.00 10.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 4.oo Hardy Hill Hines Bros. Lumber Co. ..... W;00 H. Gait Braxton . . 1.00 i -t Total .. Grand otal .$141.60 .173.0 Page Three) i i M - was a statement made to LLOYD-GEORGE AND ASQUITH THREATEN TO LEAVE CABINET Irish Question Cause of the Trouble In Coalition Ministry LITTLE HOPE ADJUSTMENT Members Would Not Acqui esce in Proposition to Na tionalists Redmond Charges Bad Faith, Mak ing Matters Worse (By the United Press London, July 25. The coalition ca binet is endangered' by the Irish queslion. David Lloyd-George, min ister of war and originator , of the compromise plan for settlement of the problem, is quoted as having of fered to resign dn view of the failure of the cabinet to acquiesce in a pro posal to the Irish Nationalists. ' Asquith is reported to bo ready to step down if Lloyd-George does. The only hope of averting a break is the chance that the Irish Nationalists will submit to further negotiations. The hope is admittedly weak in view of Redmond's charges of bad faith. IRON EXPLODED; MAN BURNED. New Bern, July 25.M. W. Fodrie was Blightl burned at a pressing club yesterday when an electric iron exploded. ONLY HEAL AIRlGAIl' REGIH FROM MIDDLE WEST DOfi'T LIKE : THE JIM GROW LAWS OF TEXAS By WILLIAM G SHEPHERD, (United' Press Staff Correspondent) San Antonio, Texas, July 24. That variegated army which I saw in Sa lonika a few months ago, consisting of French, English, Serbian atshrdla Australians, , Cochin-Chinans and Montenegrins, looked like a mass of blood broth&rs compared With the middle western militia. , ' Having the enemy before thorn gave the Salonika troops one com mon thought. There's a Polish -company K. of Milwaukee, First ' Wisconsin, for in stance. It was 'organized fifty years ago by Theodore Resinski. If is known as Kosciusko's Company. Tor ty per cent.lof its 120 members were; sure American regiment in the entire born in Poland. ' I sat in the tent of tot The odier regiments havo got Chaplain Henry PaiSecki and ' iried i all kinds of folks in them, but we're to imagine I 'was back at the British,! all the same. 'We are" so American French or Austrian front and talking j that we obey the San' Antonio laws with an officer of one of those f arm-1 and ride in separate compartments of les, and he ' said it was an ancient the street car. The other day custom of his company not to permit .when the army Y. M. C. A. put up any but Pole to join, and that they that big frame building right on the kspt up the custom out of deference - t hundreds of previous now dead.' ' members, I uSo man' Poles try to join now ' : "B Iuur Vu - n ttinr together automobae r slans claim the American govern- "WEDNESDAY7JUtY26, 1916 NEGaO MILITIAMEN DROBlD IN HGHT WITH O. S. TROOPS Provost Guard of Regulars Attacked Blacks Who V Wouttn't Disperse - had Abused white man Followed San Antonio Law yer Into a Barroom to Mistreat Him Resisted the Guard; Four Were Wounded (By the United Press) San Antopio, July 25. Three ne- pro soldiers of Company E, Eighth I'linols infantry, are in a hospital as the result of bullet wounds' (received when they were fired upon by a pro vost guard last night after attack ing H, G. Henne, a lawyer. A fourth was taken ill a tent All the wounds if slight' The trouble strted when Stone hit fTennes" machine as he passed a irroup of militiamen. Hennes went tiack to investigate, and was receiv ed with invectives and threats. He ran toward a nearby saloon. Forty black militiamen followed. At this juncture the Nineteenth infantry (re gulars) provost guard, forced the ne groes into th streets ;. and clubbed them, with guns. Upon their repeat ed refusal to return to quarters' the regulars fired. Army officials are in vestigating. mwrr foitnb in the neuse. New Bern, July 25. The body of DcCato Jones, colored, drowned while fishing in the Neuse river some days ago, has been recovered. ' , I : : t ment had declared the Wisconsin mi litia to be the model for the country. This Polish company' for three years in succession has taken . the first Wisconsin prize for field work. Splen did soldiers, t thoroughly American, but adding variegation to Uncle Sam's storm coat. : ', . . ' , . Chicago's colored regiment, the Eighth, adds variety and evgn snap pincss. It is hard for Chicago's col ored troops to ride in the Jim Crow section of the street cars, San Anto nio southern style. Today I encoun tered Col. F. A. Dennison, colored, chief of the negro regiment, who said:. "I think we have the only dead- dge of the camp and arranged for a Twfiite Y. m. C. A. J couldn t vouch men got at it . "I couldn't keep them from tear ing it down and I wouldn't. . . ' "The Y, M. C. A. people under stood, and one of them told me pri vate, 'I respect you for your action,' " Softs of the 'Typical Americans' Get la Trouble. : j -" :;? San Antonio, Tex July 24 Four negro soldiers, members of the Eighth niinois National Guard, were shot to night fcy a squad of the Guard that had come to the rescue of a white man the soldiers were attacking near the militia camp. None were sen ously injured, all the bullets striking i-i the legs. , SANTEE FLOOD NOW AT ITS WORST BUT BRIDGES ARE FST Iligh Water Covers A. C. U Tracks Mother and Ba by - Are Drowned With Four Score Other Vic tints of Awful Disaster (By the United Press) Durham, N. C, July 25 Many bridges are down and high waters have flooded the cornfields to a depth of three feet A wide area was inundated today following the .collapse of the ten-thousand, dollar Little River Manufactur ing Company dam. The river has risen three feet as the result of three days' rains. There is heavy damage. . , - . Lenoir, July 24 Two of the sad dest deaths reported o far for this county was the tragic drowning ', of Mrs. Arney Shumake and little babo in Johns river Saturday night The Shumake family lived a few miles up above Collettesville about McLean's creek. The house was Wilt In close to the stream; a mountain arose very abruptly just back of the house. A landslide from this mountain some time during the night completely de molished the house and knocked the entire building in the river.... Catawba Still Rising. Charlotte, July 24. Jontintious heavy rains in this section since Sat urday have caused small creeks to overflow and greatly damaged grow- crops in the lowlands. Two small creeks coursing sections of this city this morning are at flood tide, forcing numbers of colored families to leave their homes. The Catawba (river 12 miles away at Mount Holly Is report ed rising again and giving trouble to railroad construction forces building temporary bridges wasijed away in the flood last week. Crest of Santee's Rise. Charleston,' S. C, July 24. The crest of the flood in the Santee river is reported tonight to have reached St. Stephen's, but bridges along the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad are said to be holding High water covering the track in many sections have caus ed all trains to be detoured. TEMPORARY RECRUITING STATION FOR THE NAVY A representative of the navy re cruiting service will be in Kinston on Thursday. He will answer all ques tions regarding life in the navy, and if there are any young Americans be tween the ages of 17 and 30 wishing to take the physical examination they can do so on that day by seeing the agent at the postoflic between the hours of 12 and 5. Any wishing to join the navy will be sent by him to Norfolk, Chief Machinist's Mate Charles CI Jones notifies The Free Press from the Richmond recruiting station. ' : NORFOLK SOUTHERN TO i TAKE PART STANDARD OIL PLANT SITE, SAID The Norfolk Southern Railroad has laid'' claim to a part -of the ground in Southeast Kinston on. which is lo cated the local plant of the Standard Oil Convoany, and the latter is pre paring to move, it is reported from a reliable source. What use the prop erty will be put to by the railroad, which tias during the year recovered much land in the city said to have been deeded to it many years ago, and since occupied by squatters, is not definitely known. The Standard Oil Company is said not to havo se cured a new sita yet f A SOLDIER FROM CAMP GLENN TYPHOID VICTIM. New Dern, Juiy 25. Roland Ed wards of Goldabqro, a member of the Second N. C. Infantry, sent here from Camp Glenn for typhoid treat ment, died in a hospital, ne was critically i!l when "brought here. ,The remains were sent to GolJsboro FLOODS IN KINSTON SECTION LIKELY TO APPROXIMATE THAT j WARNING SOUNDED BY Neuse Out of Bounds and Rising Inch an Hoar, Which Is Enormous Increase in Flat Country, With Water ..'Al- ..... I : . ...... .",.t V"? ready Spreading Through lowlands Other Streams 1 Threaten DamageCrops Suffering Heavy Rains All Through Region North Carolina Having Floods In All . Sections at One'TimeTtnusnai'utiim in.Sjtati" Railroads Guarding Against Washouts Similar te That Which Developed Hero at Havelock ' Seven .cars anot a caboose of a freight train are reported td have gone through a flood-weakened trestle on the Norfolk Southern's Raleigh Washington line at a point near Grimesland shortly before noon. Fjve of the cars were emp- . ty, one 'rock-laden and' one loaded with merch- andise. No one was injured, it is reported, 1 , Three bridges, two 'of them on the Central ' . Highway, are down in Craven county. t The Neuse here at 11 a. nt. was rising 11-2 . inches an hour, Weather Observer Peebles re ported. The rivers arc "just beginning to rise" in this section, a railroad source has it' Neuse river was out of 'bounds at points above here ; this morning, according to reports, and was rising at the rate of an inch an hour here at 10 a. m. Little or nodam age has been done to stock and crops, but , ; every in aication points to serious floods in the low country; 'There was a prospect that the stream might go over the Dank on the opposite side from Kinston. ' ' ' -The flood waters from the recent rains up the country -have not come down. They are on their way in great vol ume, however, and it is fronrthe upstream freshets that damage is feared. Five and 96 one-hundredths inches of rain have failed here during themonth, added to the re cord precipitation of 9.14 inches hi June Monday night J.55 inches fell, most of it from daybreak to 8 a. m. Ihe narrow river above here cannot possibly hold all the mass of water that is now rushing eastward. -The stream bun-, day night rose five feet and went beyond the banks in the low places. It is from the fact that it is spreading out and submerging the lowlands that Ueports from the rural sections of Lenoir county vary, as to the damags done crops. All indicate some align damage from the general heavy rains especially to cotton. Some pessimis tic accounts put the harm done at a reduction of 15 per cent, or more in the production. With 'the. prospect for, bright weather today or tomor row, however, it is believed that the crops will quickly recuperate and that tobacco and cotton will hold their own. Damage in Other Counties. The unusually heavy precipitation has done harm in other counties it is known. Carteret and Pitt admit quite heavy crop losses. . Planters all along tho Neuso, Moc casin, Tar and Roanoke rivers are guarding stock with care. Few ani mals have been left 'in tJie lowlands to be caught by the threatening floods. .. . ;;;... , -y .- With tha eastern rivers overflowing North Carolina is experiencing a sit uation without precedent in its his tory,' practically tho entire state, more than 600 miles from end to end, suffering flood damage at one time. Negro Saved Passenger Train. Tho Norfolk Southern railroad is still having to transfer passengers around a washout at Havelock, vlreije a bridge went by the board Sunday. Reconstruction of tho bridge is unde way and is expected to bo completed Wednesday. Passenger train No. 9 on the Norfolk Southern, due here at 8:14 p. m.j did iot arrivo Monday night until about 11:30. Affc-r the bridge went down Sunday a negro named W. L. Lawhorn sent hla wife in one direction from the Lreak and he went another, tho two standing puard to warn approaching trah- . Law- horn flagged down a train from Beau fort, undoubtedly saving tho lives of many' passengers. The train was crowded with excursionists returning from the seashore to Kinston and other points. They made up a purse af $31 and rewarded Lawhorn, con gratulating him and making a ero of him. The story of LawhoniV ded was flashed to Northern newspapers Monday. ' Railroad track walkers on all lines iii this part of tho state are exercis Inar unusual vizilancc, watcliitrs for washouts and possibly wr?clic j'a : Of EIGHTMSS AGO, WEATHER OBS'RV'B the rise i&noc so rapiu. - CITIZEN OF A WEST GAROJOWNlPO'TS CONDITIONS ARE BAD Brother of Dr. McNairy De- glares , Lenoir : - Escaped Great Damage In Floods, But Provisions Are Run ning Low, ' Dr. C. B.' McNairy, superintend- erit of Caswell Training School, 'is in receipt of a letter from his broth er,' who lives at Lenoir, nd M des cription the flood's, devastation is but emphawaiog tW terrible predic ament that the unfortunate people of the mountain secbipn have been left in. - ; - ' , (Continued ot Page-Three) in Ae roadbeds, uonof which oast of the main line of t&e A. CL ore of (especially substantial contracts on. Peebles tssucsi Warning? f ? v J Local WeaAcr 'Observer .11. C.,V Peebles today gav out the following? statement:" Vi," ,'C:''i; '',? s V-'.' : 7. "July 2. .04 inch; lOtli . 08 inch; Kth, .22 inch"; lDth, .&J inch; 21st, ,10 inch; 22nd, '5 inch;, 23sd, U5 inches; 24th,' 10 inches; 25th, to 8 a. m., 1J! inches, total," ZM inches. . "As tiio rains thi eocra if bo gc.i cral over the state, and especially alej.-s tl.o vralerohcda thatdrai into. Neuse river, are heavy and cirtinu ous, we may expect very nigh wfrter probably approximating the flood of 1908. On the night of tiie 23rd the river rose about 5 feet, and it is now rising at the rsto ot one inch n hour. Which means two feet every 24 hours. With the water spreading out into the lowlands a it is now doing, an inch an hour in a tremen dous rise in a level country as this. ' "I warn those who lave stock in the low grounds and crops ia lanJs subject to overflow ta preparo i.t il.3 word" . J
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