t - t - '.''.':..-'.;; . ; ' ' ' ,.,...k7 I,)... - ,.-v ,. . - J , , , ' I I ' i 'III. , , , . .... ... - VOL. XXXVI-No. 14 PRESIDENT'S NO CHANGE IN CABINET IN VlS, IS KNOWN Execntire Perfectly Satis fied With Official Family; Prepares Message WITHHOLDS ANNOUNCE! Of Future Policies Pending Receipt of Congratula tions From Hughes Make-Up Of Next HoUSe Still Uncertain- (By the United Press) 9t Paul, Nov. 13. With thir teen precincts missing and the- ma jority of the soldier vote- uncount- ed, Hughes Is leading in Minneso ta by 202. San Francisco, Nov. 13. Cali fornia was expectant today as the official count was begun in each of the 58 counties. Washington. Nov. 13. President Wilson fs back to work in Washing ton. He today faced a vast job which must be cleaned jp rapidly. Pendlnjr receipt of a message from Charles E. Hughes, conceding a Dem ocratic victory in the recent election, the President today withheld any an nouncement regarding his policies In the next four years. He intimated, however, that he will Issue a state ment upon receiving Hughes' congrab ulationa. The President Is working on the oponlpg- massage to Congress. There is continued doubt as to the composl-. tlon Qf the -House of Representatives and which party will hold the bal ance of power, as well as, to the speakership, temporarily decaying formation of proposals he wishes to make in the first message. Regard less of the makeup of the House, however, the President will urge cleaning-up program proposed when he secured the co-operation of Con gress In setUfhg the threatened rail road strike. In addition to the legis lative program which will demand immediate attention, the President must soon turn to diplomatic inter course with Great Britain and Ger many. The mall seizures of the for mer and submarine activities of the letters are stm unsettled. it any change in the cabinet results it will be from the Insistence of the member himself. The President Is entirely satisfied with his official family, it Is learned authoritatively. Cabinet Prospects. Washington, , Nov. 13. President Harry A. Garfield of Williams Col lege son of President Garfield. Sena tor Walsh of Montana and Democrat ic Chairman Vance McCormick were three names discussed here today as probable members of the cabinet af ter March 4th. That there will be one or more resignations is deemed certain, several members having ex pressed a desire to be relieved. One member's opinion Is that Henry Mor- genthau, treasurer of the Democratic National! Committee, will be likely to come from the West Opinion that the West will' furnish at least one man is responsible for consideration of Walsh, who, however, lis gener- ally believed, will succeed Senator Kern as floor leader in the Senate. HEAVY LOSSES FROM : Blfi FIRE IN HORFOLK Norfolk, Nov. 13. The damage from & fire in the wholesale district on Water street here Saturday night to today estimated at $400,000. A number of buildings were gutted. The whole fire department, aided by : Bailors and steamers' crews with bose, fought the blase, which start d n "a furniture warehouse. Four firemen Were Injured; a number ofljgjy ......19.92 others had narrow escape. JTAf CONpiON CHRISTIAN CHIEI 72nd Annual Meeting Be ing Held In Gordon Street Christian Church Pro gram Monday and Tues day Delegates Arriving (Daily Free Press 13th) The seventy-second North Carolina Christian missionary convention vi hold its first session in Gordon Street Christian church Monday night beginning at v:3U o chock. Pastor B. P. Smith of the host church will make the address of wel come, and President Manning of Wil liamston, ho will preside over the sessions of the convention, will make the response. Mr. P. B. Hall of New Bern, a former pastor of the Kinston church, wild preach the con ventlon sermon. His theme will be "The Unused Strings of Our Wond rous Harp." Mr. F. W. Burnham president of the American Christian Missionary Society of Cincinnati, will also make an address. Few delegates had come in at mid day, but large delegations are expect ed on every incoming train Monday afternoon and night nnd throughout Tuesday. Many delegates will prob ably come by automobile from the nearby churches. 'Mr. C. C. Ware of Wilson, corres ponding secretary of the State Board, is already here. Tuesday morning the first session will be called to order at 9:30 o'clock A quiet hour Service will be conducted by Mr. J. A. Saunders. The presi dent's .address, Introduction of new preachers, and short addresses by them, and reports of . the various churches, will be had. Tuesday af ternoon President Ashley S. Johnson of Johnson's E'ibJe School at Kimbcr Urn Heights, Tenn., Will make an ad dross -and the Christian Women's Board of Missions will hold a confer ence. ' TOBACCO SALES ARE FAIR IN 'QUANTITY; FINE AS TO PRICES Approximately 93,000 pounds of tobacco was sold here Monday at prices that sought the 25-cent ifoal and did not rnis-3 it so very far. Quality of the offerings ranged from good to the best, and some nifty in dividual sales were recorded. Breaks on the warehouse floors for the past several weeks have not been heavy on any day, but a satis factory daily average In quantity has been maintained, and tobacco nists assert that the crop is far from being all in. Sales of from 100,000 to 250,000 pounds will be frequent for a month or longer yet, they say. HOLD EXAMINATIONS FOR LUMBER COM'RS Washington, Nov. 15. Notice that examination, of applicants for jobs on the United States Commission which will tour Europe at the close of the war investigate European lumber markets, will be held through out the United States one week hence was given today by the Depart ment qf Commerce. Of the 150 applicant who took the first examination but three qualified. About 50 bales of cotton were sold here. Tuesday by 3 o'clock. Prices ranged from 18 1-4 to 18.87 1-2. New York futures quotations were: ' Open Close January 19.56 19.74 19.93 20.09 20.06 19.68 March ....19.70 Mav 19.89 December .. .........19.50 PUBLISHED TWICE A WEEK WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS LENOIR SOLDIERS FAVOR HOSPITAL IN A STRAW ELECTION The Lenoir county soldiers at Fort Eliss, El Paso, Texas, voted 57 to 3, for the public hospital proposition carried in the county at last Tues day's elections, as well' as gave thoir total vote to the local Democratic nominees and an overwhelming ma jonty for Wilson. The hospital vote, as was that for the candidates, was "make-believe," owing to the failure of th? State to have a law allowing its soldiers outiido its borders cast their ballots legally. Dr. Ira M. Hardy is in receipt of a letter from First Lieut. J. O. H. Taylor, Second North Carolina infantry, en closing tho hospital vote. A big sam storm raged during a part of tho lime when the men were voting. Taylor In his letter tells of being d'cwii at the International Bridge at El Paso a few days ago. It was pitiful sight, he states, to see the re fugee "women and children coming over here half naked and nearly starved. Some places along the border you have to place guards over slop cans to keep them out! Those people will never have a government without help from somebody." BULLETINS (By tho United Press) SUNDAY ON MONDAY IN BOSTON. Boston, Nov. 13. Still dynamic and forceful, Billy Sunday today held blue-blooded Boston by lis heels. ELECTION IRREGULARITIES. Chicago, Nov. 13. District At torney (line is investigating charges that business firms at tempted to coerce voting omploycs in the elections. The irregulari ties aro said to cover a large terri tory around Chicago. GERMAN CONSULAR AGENT AND AIDES UP IN BOMB CASE San Francisco, Nov. 15. Trial of member or tne uerman consular iqis and others on charge of violat- ig American neutrality is ro uegm lay in the Federal District Court. hargos of dynamating a barge load- with Russian munitions, and of mling supplies from here to a Ger- , l- .: A man sniianron aro maue ugtimsi ! defendants. Franz Bopp, Ger- . -I. TT - man consul general; t-aron iv n. vuu .Shack, vice-consul; Baron Wilhelm lirincken, German military at- nchc; Charles C. Crowley, German onsul ite secret service man; Mar- aret W. Cornell, Crowley's secre- ry; aim a numner oi ousiness men. The dynamiting of the munitions ecurred in May, 191o, as the barge being prepared to lighten the munitions far shipment to Vladivos tok. The Government contends that tho explosion was caused by a bomb planted at the Instance of the de fendants. GERMAN SUBMARINE LOITERED TWO DAYS TO SINK COLUMBIAN Paris, Nov. 12. A wireless dts tch from Madrid says that ft was t erman submarine wnicn sunn we merican steamship Columbian. According to this information the olumblan encountered the subma- ne on November 6 during a violent tempest. Tho submarine compelled the Columbian to interrupt her voy age and lie under surveillance until November 8. When the storm sub sided, the dispatch says, the subma rine ordered the crew to abandon the ship and then sank her. A Havas dispatch from Madrid quotes the newspapers of Corunna, Spain, where the crew is reported to have landed, to the effect that when the Columbian was held up the sub marine ordered the crew to disem bark, but that the storm was so se vere that this was impossible onto two days later. ' KINSTON, N. C, WEDNESDAY, NOVEjVJJJER 5f 1916 SOUTH AMERICA IS PLEASED-OVER THE RE-EL'CTION WILSON Newspapers Approve Am crican Voters' Choice; "Administration Inspired Solely By Justice," Says La Nacion By CHAS. P. STEWART, (l ulled Press Staff Correspondent) Buenos Aires, Nov. 13. Tho rc- eleciion of President Wilson evoked widespread favorablo comment all over soutn America, ine press gen- 'rally approved of tho choice. La N'acion, Argentine's most powerful daily, said editorially: "President Wilson's triumph is particularly agreeable on account of his tendency toward friendly concili ation. The Democratic program, con- Iradicting Republican imperialism, h:is made justice the basis of the in- rnnticmal policies of tho United States. The euro character of this idmini.-tration is particularly signifi- ant because it is uninspired by com mercial advantages, but solely by ustice." ROFRANO GOES FREE ON CHARGE OF MURDER New York, Nov. 12. Michael A. Rofrano, an attorney and former dep uty street cleaning commissioner of his city, was acquitted of the charge f complicity in tht murder of Mich- ael Gaimari, a political rival, by a ury here late today, after it had de-, liberated 2'i hours. Rofrano was ac- used of having ordered Gaimari's death as tho result of a political fo'id. BOTH WEAVER AND BRITT MAKES CLAIMS Ashoville, Nov. 12. Interest in the election of a Congressman from the Tenth district is -still at fever heat, with claims and counter claims being freely made by both Democrats and Republicans, anent the election of Mr. Weaver or the re-election of Cin- ressman Brit t, the Republican in cumbent. Tne Board of Canvassers. fter holding several conferences has adjourned unlil Thursday. Mr. Pritt is claiming his re-election on the face of the returns. Ho claims a majori ty of thirteen votes. Mr. Weaver ;Ktd tonight for a statement, said, More votes were cast for me than lirv besn counted ind this wi'.i be shown when a final canvass of the otes is made." THINGS THAT NEVERHAPPEN Copyright come vo4JIMMEY aT PcnalAMMA. A V H06.iBoU.t1 LEtot"AUt I I N Wajovl KOTWeS fwOOUOMT 1 CO-OPERATION NEEDED ALLEVIATE FREIGHT CAR 'SHORTAGE, STATE Tho Norfolk Southern freight of- flee here Monday morning called at tention to a letter from R. M. Al bright, manager of the North Caro lina Demurrage Bureau, stating that railroads "can materially assist in helping the stiuatlon" arising out of the nation-wido car shortage "by Im pressing upon all consignees and shippers the importance of prompt release of equipment, as It will be to their personal advantage in securing cars, as well as to the general pub lic and the railroads." Agent W. J. Nicholson exhibited a recent circular from the State Cor poration Commission in which It Is said that "shippers should endeavor to secure the prompt and full load ing of cars and consignees their prompt unloading and release." Hea vy movements of grain are responsi ble in -part for the condition. MAGGIE WEARS PANTS AND IS A GAY BIRD Will Maggie? Maggie will Will Maggie made a monkey of himself In proving that Maggie will at the re eent week-end, when, according to tho police, he got drunk, became dis orderly, and assaulted someone or other. The authorities are convinced that Maggie will do most anything. Will Maggie is anything but as effem innto as his name indlcatess. He she is or are colored. Other offenders who foil into the net during Saturday night and Sun day were Jim Allen, charged with be ing drunk and using profane lan- rua,'e; George H. Hanrahan, acens ed of larceny of $5 by trick; Sophia Redding, said to have boon 1rwk .nd disorderly and to have commiUsd an assault. All hands are colored. L ABOR WILL PROTEST ENFORCED ARBITRArN Baltimore, Nov. 13. Warning that union labor will oppose with all its, power any attempt to put throtigh Congress a compulsory arbitration bill, ns proposed by President Wil son, was given today when the exe cutive commiyee of the American Federation of Labor, at the federa tion's 36th annual convention, read its report. "The wage earners of the United States," said the report, "will op pose any proposition to Impose upon them compulsory institutions which disguise involuntary servitude. They hold that the principle Involved in voluntary institutions is the key to j personal and industrial freedom and that this principle Is of more import ance to them than any other consider- ation. . ALLIES HAVE UPPER HAND IN FIGHTING IN THE NEAR French and Serbs Make Headway In Country Alone Monastir-Florina Railway, Where Comba Continues Incessantly (By the United Press) London, Nov. 13. Continuing their pursuit of the retreating Bulgarians who were driven out from Polog, on the Cerna front, tho Serbians captur ed Ivan, north of Polog. Fighting- In this sector continues night and day, it Is officially stated. Fighting is particularly 'fierce along the Monastir Fiorina railway. 1 Violent Engagement. Paris, iNov. 13 A most violent en gagement is raging with continued success for the French and Serbians In the bend of the Cerna river, Sal onika headquarters today reported. AS STRICKEN AS GOOD NEWS WAS READ; DEAD (By the United Press) Mobile, Ala., Nov 13. Federal Judge H. T. Teoulmin, who Was stricken with paralysis Friday while reading of his re-election, died today. FOUR REGULARS MET VIOLENT DEATHS IN DAY Laredo, Texas, Nov. 12. With the finding early today of the body of Michael Headin, a private of I troop, 14th cavalry, the number of the United States soldiers who met tragic deaths 4ere yesterday and last night was increased to four. The others were Privates Jones and McKnight of K troop, 14th cavalry, who were shot and killed early yesterday by a cor poral of the same troop, who officers believe, was demented, and Paul Tor- rey, a private of the supply company of the Ninth infantry, who was truck by a train last night? and killed. Thore were no bruises on Headln'e body which was found in a road near the camp, and the cause of his death has not been determined. BEAR KILLED HUNTER IN HAVELOCK SECTION Goldaboro, N. C, Nov. 12.--Durand Morton, an aged hunter of the Have lock section, near the city of New Bern, was killed Wednesday of last week by a huge black bear, accord Ing to a report brought here by Col. W. T. Dortch, who has a hunting lfjldge near tho scene of the tragedy. Mr. Morton was killed when he went to the aid of his dogs who were being worsted In a fight with the bear, two of them also being killed. ZAPATISTAS MURDER HUNDRED SOLDIERS, WOMEN AND CHILDREN lLarodo, Texas, Nov. 12. An Indis criminate massacre of nearly 100 wo men, children and Carranza soldiers, who were traveling on a train near Contreras, state of Morelos, which was attacked by Zapata followers, is reported in Mexico City newspapers received here today. After the at tack on the train the dead lay in plies beside the cars, the papers state. WEEKLY WEATHER FORECAST Issued hy U. S. Weather Bureau, Washington, D. C, for the week be ginning Sundayfl Nov. 12, 1916: '. For South Atlantic and East Gulf States: Unsettled weather with probably rain first part of the week, latter half fair; much colder first half of the week and colder there after, with general frosts except in southern Florida. . t - 4 PKICE FIVE' GENTS II MANrailOE PRESSING HIS CASE Nothing Embarrassing to Ambassador's1 Wife In Stolen Papers, Saysh STARTLING REVELATIONS Expected -at Preliminary Trial of Noted Secret Service Man Formerly In Berlin's Employ. Hear , ing Wednesday1 (By the United Press) Washington, Nov. 13.- The sensa tion a4 ' case of Dr. Karl Armard Graves, the self-styled Grm0' spy, who was arrested her charted- WUh blackmailing- Countess Vow ' Bern- . storff, wife of the German' Ambassa dor, is scheduled for preliminary hearing Wednesday, Revelations eoa- erning the secret service methods of European governments are expected. uraves reiterates tnai ine letters ne ought to dispose of were nor "em- 'af rataing"" to the Countess, and in sist that-they are "of value" to th German Government. The embassy nslsts 'that Graves attempted; per sonal blackmail of the Countess. Graves is believed bo have obtained the Jetters from a royal courier on the .vay to the United States'. Graves d lares the embassy wttl not prosecute lim, and if they do; "Weil;, It wonkt je foolish, that all.. FUNERAL OF CYRUS WATSON HELD SUMY -if WinfltomSalem Statesman HasV Ben 111 Lonr Time Useful Career . Served- In Botfer HoiifM Lefislahir and UtA BeW Candidate- forGsw- nor sitd Senator" v-- :. (Special to The Free Press)' Winston-Salem, Nov. 13-Tha fun eral of the late Cyrus B. Watson, wh Jied at his home here Saturday, was held Sunday afternoon at 3 o' clock' from Centenary Methodist hurchr Jnterment" was in thti Salem cemetery. Death wfta preceded T? A lonjr illness. x Mr. Watson was one of the State's best-known men. He had lived hers since 1869. He was born near Ksr-' nersville in 18441 At hlT death he was president of the loeai bar assoc iation and a member of the Masonic and Odd Fellows f raternitiesT He was a Confederate veteran and' an honorary member of the First Mas sachusetts Heavy Artillery, G. A. R. r. Watson served in the State Sen He served in the State Senats In the '80c and '90s; and was-responsible for a great deal of constructive legislation. He represented Forsyth county in the House of Representa tives also, and originated' the' famous Anti-Lynch law. In 1896 the Demo crats nominated hint' for Gbvenwrrtai ; a hopeless race; In 1905 he wacJta-' dtdate for United States r Seostsr. Recently a portrait of Mr. Wctes was presented to ths Suprem Court of the State. ' ' CUBA .VS. CAROLINA OrailTH'JAffllAllY (By the United Press)' " " WiashlagtoiH- Now 13 Ths Sa r preme Court today set- laMary S for the hearing of the claim ef the Republic of Cubs against th State of North' Carolina for damages re sulting from the alleged repuul- clafmed to hare bee's fuaraatesl 1 tMrStittf ' "V- GIMVESWARNSTIIAT