P ;",'V mm PUBLISHED TWICE A. .WEEK-WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS : 4: VOL XXXVI.No 21 WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMB ER 6,intq ROUMANIANS HAVE BEEN KEEP? IDLE f CABMEN FROM STOPPING ALL FINESpOTNS l)gKf FACES A IS FQRE1GN. DIPLOMAT V cira AND. ROUTED HE EVER f HAD. SAYS GOMPLETEFIE-lIP OF SUSPECTED MUftDl I'lCOSlRUDJA BY BIO COUNTER INVASION OVER THE STREETS PRESIDENT WILSON STREET RAILROAD OF AN ORPHAN BOY BERLIN r aiiig ULlIlflill ... I I f " v X- mitM FRIENDLY TO BERLIN Allies- Objett to- Clauses In .Shipping:: and Revenue 6 Germans and Bulgarians" Invest 'District for Entir&Dis tance Across FrontierRussians Cross Roumania' to Aid Against Bulgars Slavs of Two Empires In Bail ' for First Time Von Ifindenburg- Hurries WestTWft , Allies Are Again- Hammering at Teutons With Full Vfgor Most Intense Cannonading Since: Somme f Of felisive Was Commenced! Fail' in Attempts to Retake It British Capture Vil lage . (By the " Berlin,' Sept 5. The Roumanians have been checked oh botl wings in- their invasion of Transylvania They are retreating bef ore the German-Bulgarians r invading wuuuiw it awuvuuauia. v ue- d near Orsua by the extreme Austrian right, say Buda pest dispatches, was checked on the left, and is progress -.mg out siowiy m the center. , Somme Offensive Resumed With Violence. ';. Paris, Sent 5. The whole Somme front todav sud denly burst into activity. Furious fighting is in progress. , The, most terrific shelling of the offensive was begun. The x Germans have been fighting desperately but in the last 4 nours have been pushed petuosity of the French. Since beginning the offensive on July 1 the Allies have captured 29 villages which the. Germans had organized : for a defensive campaign in the highest degree. Forrv- one thousand prisoners and as Weir as several hundred machine guns. ' , . . 'v Field (Marshall Von - Hindenburg has arrived on. the western front. Several unsuccessful German attempts wwu maae last mgnc w recapture grouna iosi yesteraay. Russians Fight-Bulgarians. ; ' - , , "'Petrograd, Sept. 5.The Russiaris -who have crossed ftdumahia have been in "action against Bulgarians for the nrst time m the war; it is said othcially.- 1 British GaW 1,500 Yafds. , . , u $ London: Sept.' 5. The British advanced fifteen hun ; dred yards eastward r4 and near Guillemont last4night, : capturing the village of Falfemont, General Haigi-re- . ,ioiuxxiry-gaineu a xopung in lutiuze vvooa, une- mne . northwest of Combles. , ' -;'-. " '.J Roumanians Retreat In South. ,f - Sdfia, Sept. 5. rThe Bulgarians and Gef mans crossed the whole Dobrudja frontier on a front of a hundred miles Saturday, making' great progress in the direction of Kufcthumar. The Roumanians retreated, leaving hun dreds of dead on the field. ,-)';. ' ' " Germans'Think Linei Impregnable1. , f f Headquarters of Prince Leopold of Bavaria, on the Austro-German Front, Sept. 5. The combined power of Russian and Roumanian armies-will be unable to breach the Austro-German lines in the East, Prince Leopold, commander-in-chief of the central Austro-German arm ies' in the East, todaydeciaredi "This1 sectibn of I the front, as weilas the whole eastern battle line, is impreg nable. The Russians bravely, advanced- in thick masses, but suffered gruesome losses. yThey cannot break through though. The Roumanians brought themselves into a bad situation.- They will get some unexpected blows yet; Yes, there will oe like blows for others who might follow their example." "Leopold, though seventy: years old, is in ro bust and perfect health. He takes a daily swim and in dulges in steeplechasing to keep in trim. Russians In Rou mania. ' Rome," Sept 5. A large contingent of Russians have landed at the Roumanian port of Constanza to aid in ; the Bulgarian offensive. vA part is already on the Dobrud ja frontier. . vSV--.-. k ', f .i INTERESTING LOT OLD COINS IS OMED BY ; , MGEH.C .Y.PEEBLES Magistj-ate H. C. V. Pceblea;has ni-ce little collection of old coins. It includes a half dollar of 1812, a dime o( 1324, a Spanish coin worn almost to paper thinness and with the date fong since obliterated, a Mexican sil fer piece about the siz of gold Quarter dollar, dated 18-13, and number of, pennies, English shillings And other coins, some with the dates incapable of-being deciphered. Three 8-ceht pieces of 1852 evi-ienUy were truck off in celebration of, the ad mission of Texas into . the Union, ince they are -adorned with a big single star with the United States cost of arms in the center. Mr. Pee bles has three 10-cent "ahin plast V saved by him lince he was a y. The bills are in fine condition. ; Columbia on the American coins of the early part of the last centurr is roach better-looking dame than she 13 i'tunl t W modern cuins. ere Germans' fose Ground and United Press) y I jwuiiiaiuaii. auvatice was nail steadily eastward by the im 150 cannon have been takenH BRIEFS IN THE NEWS : OF NEIGHBORING TOWNS ' Seventeen carloads of folks went from Wilmington, to New Bern on . . ..... ... ". , ' Labor Day excursion. - . , ; VH. Brimmage writes from Honolu lu to New. Bern thai he is coming back to visit that city, his old home. Recently when Mr, Brimmage land ed in China from a passenger steam er he and other travelers ran -into a Ight between Japanese soldier's and Chinese; no one was hurt. Greenville's schools . will open to morrow. - ':.''''-' :' V., She doesn't look a bit older how, but appears to have acquired a chronic grouch and ran into something head on with the result that her nose was flattened. Columbia in the 1810-1830 period was in .better health; she weighed more, was more buxom and evidently was more cheerful and motherly-like. SuWribe- to Tlie Free Press, Vehicles Must Be" Parked Station Will Probably Be Located on West Gordon Street Council Orders Phone Installed . City Council Monday night decid ed to ompel drivers of public ' ve hicles to - park their , automobiles. transfers, etc., at a place to be de termined during the next few days, probably on Gordon , street just west ;f Queen. A telephone will be install ed at the place. Persons desiring to call a transfer will thus be able al most t ar hour to secure one. Such stations have been had in the ciUes and -many of the smaller places. The ordinance must be published 'be fore the jiew ruling can go into ef fect. ' Council transacted a 'number . of minor matters,, including the accept ing of Policeman" MeDuattrell's ks ignation,' who will locate elsewhere in the lumber business, ordering safe purchased in which to keep the records of the Recorder's Court, and receiving the estimates for expend! ures on 4improvments during Aug ut Totalling $27,503.49. The meet- ng.was about the most uninteresting it the year. Only five members were present Mayor Sutton, Alder men Douglass, Happer, Rouse ' and 'art. iy'.-: U;i-f 'i:j.w.:j:y,:" THE FIRST MILITARY CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL The American Military - Institute, nc, a rjuu.uuu ew jersey corpoir- ition,' organized for' tho purpose of riving theoretical military1 instruction by" mail, is the, latest addition to thu preparedness movement, and is prob- bly the first military correspondence tchool ever organized in this country. Military tactics has been taught by mail irf some cases by the government with considerable success, , but his jchool represents the first organiza tion of an institution' engaged entire- ly in this sort of work. vThe primpal ofike of the Amcri- an Military Institute, Inc., is at 738 Broad street, Newark, N. J . , where the courses aire being prepared and where the work of students all over the 'country' wilT be handled. The or ganizer of the corporation ana tne head of the institute is Henry P. Fry, Newark lawyer, who is a gradur ste of the Virginia Military Institute, former ; officer . in the National Guard, and who was at one time com mandant of cadets at la southern mil- tary academy. ' He will be assisted in this work by eeveral retired fegu-t lar army officers, who will have en tire .charge of correcting the papers of the students. The methods of instruction will fol low those adopted by other corres-1 pondence institutions. Text books, both government ; publications ' and works by well known army officers will be placed in the hands of the student, accompanied' by explanato- lessons and questions. ALABAMA MAN KILLS it ; METHODIST MINISTER Birmingham, Sepf L The Rev, J, . C. Harrison, a Methodist minis ter, was shot and instantly killed on Saturday at Shady Cfrove, Ala4 by shots alleged to have been fixed from the home -of Will Trotter, according to a report received here today. Trot- ter,'who isTin the Troy jafl charged with murder, Is said to have confess ed to the shooting with tho claim that h "was fully justified." Harrison, who is said to have been suspended from his ministerial du ties at Shady Grove waa awaiting a hearing September. 8, before a com mittee of ministers on charges of misconduct The charges, rt is aaid. connected Harrison's alleged wrong doings with the name of Trotter's wife, organist at the minister's church. "'".'"' ' ' "(By the United Press) On Board 'the President' Special Train, Huntington. W. Va., Sept. & "These have" been the finest ireccp. tions'I evef received," said President Wilson todiy, charactorlrmg his trip through Woat Virginia and Kentucky. Ho was delighted with tlie enthusi asm at every (station. Thursday j; the f Predilcnt leaves Wn.shingtimfor Xtjnntie City, to at tend the ufyraj'e convention. lie will go to 8 umg ' Brnm-h summer Thitc House on Saturday. ; FINE RECORD MADE BY COLS EIGHT RECENTLY! After covering a rout from - the edg of the blue Pacific to a mile .in to tho ky, and ? combating ' almost every conceivable sort of road .con. anion, two Juong veacn; (Jul., - men drove-j into the camp at Pino Crest, !lv the San Bfcrnardlno MountainaKon recent Sunday momitig offer smash- ng nearly all the Southland's valley mountain road records. Driving1 a stock XJolo eight, a car thtit has cre ated new standards in the automobile world, the two pilots, II. B. Palms iiid H'. H; ii inter of the Palms Mo tor Cfltmparjv covered the' wear 95 miles from Long Ecach to the moitn tain catno in the record-breaking timd of 3 hours and 3 1-2 minutes." Their trip was simply to show the public he efficiency of their car. Reduced to minules, their timo for the , wonderful performance waa 183 ,1-2 minutes over a "route 94.7 milts ong, or an average over both moun- ain and vpllcy roads of a mil every ime tho second hand of the watch .icked to sixty twice. mm um on cops FOR RFNFFIT SPFFDFRS J Mr. E. I). Lewis wants headlights on policemen. The other nig'ht, he states, an automobile turned the cor ner at his home, Caswell and McLe- wean streets, at touch an angle that cop- at the curb was almost run iown. "Tlie car was going about 50 miles on hour, I estimate, and there wasn't a light on it- The policeman evidently did not sec it until it was almost upon him. Tie yelled but "the driver did "not stijn it." Tho police- man , of course, was at a disadvan tage.' He could, not see the nunvber,. "Strikes me tnat if we dont put lights on 'em we're going to lose a police man sooner or later," Mr." Lewis d- EDERLY WOMAN KILjS ! SEtf IN TRANSYLVANIA rhoVille, Sept. 4. Mrs. C. M. Gallimorc, aged 60 years,. ia" promi nent woman of Transylvania connity, earn mi t ted suicide at her- homo at Bpevard this .afternoon.- by .shooting hersolf through the . mouth, accord ing to information: reaching here to- jight. . Despondency over the dvath of a grandchild and the departure of her daughter and son-3n-Jaw, Mr. and. Mrs. Charles Jollay, who have gone to Chicago :t$ study evangclist ie eingjng at the Moody Institute, are believed to have- been responsible for hqr aet .'. '.i'.'; '' . llfSiScfi sup 1 S M HENRY'S HOME TOWN s ;'- (By the United Press) Louisville, Sept 5. -The usual sta tion crowd was on hand 'when the Hughes car backed into the locl de pot today. The? were no t) et, no sign3 of enthusiasm. He had or iginally planned - to make a train sjjeecM, but the crowd was missing and -the-speech was abandoned. Mr. Hughes' destination was Lexington, when? he is to make a speech today. I Subway ' and Elevated Men Meet at 3 O'clock-! Unions Demand Abrogation o AH Contracts by, Interbo- roiffeh Company : (By thot United Preai) j New York", .Sept 5. Tho dangc of a strike which would tie-up the subway and elevated systems 'of New York City appeared nearer to day than at any time during the riod since the first throat. Tho de mand of the unions that all Individ ual contract by the intcrborough Company witk its employes be abro gated, was flatly refusdo. ! The men throutenwl to strike 1 if they are aot abrogated. . Utvion lead- 'urj call ad tho meeting for 3 o'clock. COMMISSION ON WAV to mm city - (I?y the Eastern "Press) j i New -York, Si'pfc 6. W!thlho Arti eriean flag at her mithand and the r?rt,' groen and"w"hit of Mexico jlut- lering from her bowsprit, the prcsi cciitial yacht Mayflower steamed out from New York harbor today boatt-' itg the joint Mexican-American com mission, winch hopes to settle an difficulties between the United States and the do facto government at .Now London, Conn., tho . Mayflower's dew- tinntion. r V IU lit Bill HtLr I FARMERS OF COUNT The State will furnish -tho cottun arrader for which the County Com mlssioners on Monday appropriated 400, it is said at tho Courthouse, and that official's oflice will probably be Jjratrd in Kinston, although he will serve several counties possibly. Every planter In the territory will be ablo to know the exact quality t( the Ktaplo grown by him when the grader 3a installed. Samples taken frqm the gins are carefully examined, records made, and the farmers noti fied 4y,thc grader. : There are a lot of things to be said an favor of hav ing uch an export located here, ac cording to Farm Demonstrator Q. l' McCrary, and ho thinks this stap forward one-of the mo.it commenda ble taken by the Commissioners of late. BIG CELEBRATION OF ; ' I LABOR DAY SPENCER Spencer, Sopt 4.--Labor Day was celebrated on a large scale here U day and . was , featured . by an im mense' crowd comingj from all parts nf .Die $tato, a, mammoth industrial parade-, an, all-day barbecue and a stirring address from Hon. Thomas L Wilson, a member of the Wyom ing State Senate , and' vice-president of. the International Association of Machinists, who was honor' guest for isSJilLLJEOPLf iffiVECOlIiTf FAIR COMING MONTH A community fair associatioh was organized at Moss Hill schoolhouse Monday night, with these , officers: President, Prof. Melvin Robinaon; Vice-President, Mr . John C. Davis; Secretary-Treasurer, Mr.i W.. L. EXICAN WilUs Howell Hasn't Been ( ..... Seen In Weeks Foster ' Father, Tom Carter, Ac cuscd of Mistreating Him In Jail- Thomas Carter, a white landowner of the Jerusalem section of Greene county, is in jail at Snow Hill charf od, it 'is reported by a Greene county attorney, with the murder of Js adopted son, "Willis 'Howell,1 a small orphan boy. ' The HoweH boy tas net been since August 21, it is said. Carter Is said to have given the lad a ecvere whipping a few days before his disappearane. Nidfebbora who declare the chastisement was admin- stered for -trifling causes, had - the boy strip and exhibit bruiees alleged to' have been inflicted by the fostes father; Prints of heel on, Howelll's ?klo' and. 'back were plainly visibit, it ij stated., tocether with a number of other acars. ' . , , Tom Carter has tol a number of ?torieS about the boy's whereabouts, Ones he said he had sent him, to Rocky Mount via Goldsboro; another time, it is said., he stated that the youngster had gone to Durham. ... Sentiment against- Carter ; runs high. . Some persona believe that young Howell is .being ( kept under lock and key until his injuries heal, vhila others openly express belief that the farmer has slain him and se- reted ths body; Carter has-employ-d legal -counsel. J. A, Albritton, a ormer representative in the - Goner- Assembly, will have charge of the rosecution. ' ' ' DEATH OF JOSEFH t COBB MONDAY P. M. Joseph E; Cobb,- a well-known young businessman of . ths city, died Monday afternoon about 4 o'clock, in building at Queea and Blount streets i which he had apartment.. H had ben ill for months, and fremient- h ad been near to 'death. A com plication of pneumonia and: pleurisy caused, his death, v Mr. Cobb was 28 years of age, a hephew of Mr. Li Ai Cobb, with' whom he was in business ia the wholesale establiehmont of A. Cobb Co., and a young man of splendid reputation. Ha Was of a tiuiet dispositiion, Excellent .traits of character, and possessed remarked business ability. He was a Mason, r. , About 18 or 20 months ago Mr. Cobb was married to Miss Lula Lynch, daughter of Mr.5 and Mrs. 3 Lynch. She survives him. Mr. Cobb was a native of Pitt oounty, and his father, stepmother and sev- ral brothers and si3tera live in that county. ; The funeral was held at 3 p. m. today, Mr. D. P. Smith, pastor of Cordon Street Christian church, of- ciaiing. Interment was in ilsp'.c- ood 'cemetery. ' MADE SHORT UflE OP : A STOLEX BICYCLE A few nights f go a thief took (a bicycle belonging "to Mr. K, ' J,. Rouse from the north side of the L- noir Drug Store. The wheel was dis covered in the Adkin Sunday after noon by a gentleman and lady who, trolling; out that way, sat down up on the A. C -L. trestle justbeyond the silk mill, i The bicyole Was part- submerged. The presumption is that the-thief 'after riding it that far could not cross the trestle with it or else tired of it, and fearing detec tion, threw it into the atream. The wheel was identified at a bicycle store and returned to Mr. Rouse. Hardy, Jr. The fair will be held on Friday, October 13, with exhibits of farm 'products, canning, fancy work, school work, etc . The school at Mose Hill opened on Monday with 84 pupils out of a cen sus of 106 in attendance. This is con sidered a ,ne recoxd in view of the early starting date, Jislation THREAT OF A TRADE VAR Parts of Bills Interpreted as "Unfriendiy--U; S. Miht t Lose Bifc Busihesa Should England. 'Start . Retalia tion t ' ' , (By the United Press) , , Washington, Sept 6.lio 'Allied govommonta aro disuinctlytdisple.Jid with Tolaticn to ckuscs In tho ship ping bill juoi passed by Confess rfwl tl.e revenue bill soon to paua. Alliod lomats in Waeldagton are talking cf "conntr-retBliaUon. !, ', ' Tho ,clauoes nikt. be interpreted as "unfriendly, they say, and make a trade war passible, i. ( One diplomat (Said 45 per cent of the United States trade 's witTj the British Empire, and this might be lost in tho event auh a war develop ed.-. He professed that he seas evi dence of growing pro-Germanism in Amerioaj-;" vu k,r .i i , . , LANSING SPEAKS TOY c : joint coizission ,-'"-'' ' New 'York,' Sept.. 4-The' personal 1 lights and economic interests of Am ericans in Mexico must be considered reaching a'. Deananent. setUemenr 'i of the difficulties between the United States "and Mexico, Secretary of , State Lansing said here today' in -an ad dress at a luncheon attended .by the members of the -American-Mexican Joint Commission. Conferences look- ug toward a solution, of the Interna- tional problem which ecetfroet the two countries are to begin shortly at Now London, Conn. iSfi;M!; )., I'M, BH11ETINS '' (By the United Press) ROBINSON. GETS CROSS. London, S?pt. 5. King George today k ewarded.1 the Ykteria Crew ..lo,:. lieutenant , Robinson, who downed a seppelia iundaf . i pTArnnga raid over 1 LonSbA. M W 0' ll'i ' JAPAN HIAKES SECRET . DEMANDS ON CHINESE Washington, Sc'pU 4.--Secrot jfle-v mands, in addition to those publish i -today in dispatches from Peking,! are being pressed on Chiha by Japaaias , fesuit of the (recent-clash pf CW- - nese! and Japanese troops at 'Oaeng; Chiatun. .... It became known here ,tc alght that the situation is ranch snore serious than has been indicated, con fidential reports saying . the unpnt- lished demands threaten the futhori- ty of China over the whole of Inner Mongolia. , t k TODAY 0N T0BAGCO HART? PRICES FAIR i- - - . r . . . ; . Estimates which may be a. little iteap place the total of tobaeco sold here today at around 320,000 pounds. It is probable that the quarter mil lion mark was passed, and evea pcufible that more than 300,000 waa SOid. . ' v The average price was about good as Monday's, or a shade v ZQ cents, with efferinga at s the warehouses nothing to boa-.t Wet weather prevented the 1 from Lf'r.,1 xry heavy. as

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