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Daily- Free Press. '' ..,,, i I M i , , , . . - , III ! v PUBLISHED BZERY RFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDRY VOL. XVI -NO 134 KINSTON, N. O. FRIDAY. MARCH 29, 1914 PRICE TWO CENT? ' . ' . "' " . I ... I I I l.i- I II I "l"! m H .1 - . I , I.I i, I f 1 HEVTO OF THE WORLD HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST AT HOME AND ABROAD GATHERED FROM ALL SOURCES Brief Chronicle of the Day's Events in All the Nations of the Earth to Keep Readers Abreast of the Times. Milwaukee.. Wis.. March 19. Nearly forty guests of the Winso Hotel escaped safely today when they fled before fire that destroy the hotel building and damaged near by structures. The property loss was said to be $200,000. Detroit, Mieh., March 19. Tw bodies have been recovered and third is believed be in the ruin of a five-story brick building, swop late today by tire. Two men were injured and two score of employes including a number of young women scaped from the blazing buildin The property loss was estimated a $100,000. Chicago, 111., March 19. Oatmea manufacturers joined to put an arbi trary priec on their product prior to the &ssatr of the Sherman act uncording to the testimony of II. F Dousman today, the first, witness the government's dissolution suit against the Quaker Oats Company and the Great Western Cereal Com pany. James H. Wilkerson, DistrU Attorney, announced that be would seek to prove that the Quker Oat: Company was but the continuation of the pool that formally fixed th ' prices. Trinidad, Col., March If). Stat troops today prevented a party o striking coal miners from restoring the tents in the. lower Forbes Colony recently demolished by militia. The strickers had erected four tents when the troops arrived. These were torn down and the union men were told they would not be permitted to re occupy the lower colony. The strik ers left the scene without attempting to resist. Among the, strickers were some of the sixteen men released yesterday by the militia after being held in connection with the killing of a non-union miner near the Forbes colony. St. Louis, March 19. His calls lor a' drink oi water today led to the rescue of Thomas Burke from ruins of the St. Louis Seed company's building 37 hours after the structure collapsed under the weight of a fal len wall of the burned Missouri Ath letic club building. Rescuers who had been digging in the ruins all night were workhlg td extricate a body when they were startled by Burke's -call for help. After 80 men had worked for half an hour they found Burke pinned under a section of flooring. He was rushed to a hos pital where he was treated for in juries to his feet. Masonic Reunion Ends. New Bern, March 20. The reun ion for the Valley of New Bern of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonary, in progress nere for three days, came to an end last night. Degrees conferred yesterday ranged .from thg 15th through the 30th, that ciV Knight nnuusn. me imposing -- niuaiisuc work wh enhanced-by classic reli gious music by the local Masonic choir - Plain Truth that's Worth Money. Using Foley's Honey and Tar for a cough or cold may save both sick ness and money. F. F. Monnhan, Menomonie, Wis., says: "I. am ex posed to all kind of wither and I find Foley's . Honey and Tar Com pound always ' fixes me np in. good shape when I catch cold or have n bad cough. I recommend it gladly.'' Refuse substitutes. J. E. Hood & Co. DEMOCRATS SPLIT ON REPEAL Stubborn Opposition Develops in Both HousesTo te Decided Soon. The President Confers With Sena tor Jones. Washington March 19. Moro stubborn than anything that has arisen to stir the tranquility of the Democratic majority since the party came into control of the National government, is the opposition " to President Wilson's plea for repeal of the toll exemption provision for Aerienn siiips in the Panama canal act. With the time almost at hand when the question is to be decided, the unyielding opposition of Demo crats who believe it will be an econo mic mistake to reverse the policy of the ogvermnet on the tolls question, becomes more active and in senate and house the discussion is certain to be the most vigorous that has been pareipitated by any issue the Democratic congress has had be fore it. Wilson Confers With Jones. President Wilson today conferred with Senator Jones, of Washington, informing the senator that there was absolutely no ha-i for conclusion he had referred to in a senate speech Wednesday, to the effect that the toll, repeal was the price to be paid as a result of negotiations with Great Britain for non-interference by for eign powers in Mexico, and for Eng land's defense of the Monroe Doe trine. The President told the senator that he "was skating on thin ice" in 'circulating such conclusion after reading tlieai in some publication. OVERMAN IS FOR SMITH'S BILL Noth Carolinian Says New York Market Is Selling Middling Cotton it Doesn't Have Deliver Inferior Grade. Washington, March 19. Senator Overman urged the senate today to adopt the Smith bill establishing gov ernment standard grades of cotton. The bill will be called up tomorrow and it is believed ill be speedily (Missed. Senator Overman declared the bill was or vital importance to south ern cotton growers and manufactur ers and, he said, ho hoped the senate would pass the measure as soon as practicable. "On March 5 good middling was quoted for March on the New York cotton market at 12.19 when it was selling spot cotton that the manu facturers have to pay 13 3-4 for. If you buy good middling on the New York market they cannot sell it to you because they haven't got it. Yet they agree to sell it to you and when you demand it they give you a low grade. " "Where they ar0 selling 70,000,000 bales a year ag was stated once be fore on this floor they had only 164 bales on hand. If ii man buys good middling cotton on trftit market this dogtail cotton which they have on hand is delivered." Killed n Sawmill. Jacksonville, March 20. 20. Ewell Gurganus, 40, was killed in a lumber plant at Harris Creek, near here, when astride a log on a car riage, he was carried against a saw as the machinery was unexpectedly started. His right arm and right leg were severed. A wife and five children survive him. M. C. Brooks, a .Confederate vet eran, aged 70, is dead at his home near here. ' Stephen William Brown, T4r died of old age at his country place in Onslow county. Go'dsboro, March ; 19. Robert Pennington of Mount Olive, was shot three titties lust night by Willie Swih son. proprietor of the Manhattan cr.fe, lu''wing a row' over an order for s!c, It was claimed by Swin-so-; tluii- Pennington was in a drunk en oiidJion and attacked him with a knife. Pennington is in a hospital. Ill OLD II0MH STATE NEWS FROM MURPHY, TO MAN TE0 AND BETWEEN TAR HEEL HAPPENINGS OFA DAI Many North Carolina Items Con densed in Brief Paragraphs for Benefit of Busy People Goodanc Bad News from all Over State. . .Winston-Salem, March 19. The campaign on here to raise forty thou sand dollars for a Young Women's Christian Association building is pro ducing much enthusiasm. Two days' canvass has resulted in passing $25, 000 mark. Asheville, March 19. The grand jury ut present term of the Bun combe county superior court yester day returned a true bill against Jim Cnpps, charging him with the mur der of his wife, Mrs. Bessie Capps. It is understood that the case will come up for trial the first part of next week. Capps, it is claimed, while iu a drunken rage shot his wife and then turned the pistol upon him self. Elizabeth City, March 19. The grand jury, in session yesterday af ternoon, returned a bill of indict ment against the Pasquotank county commissioners, upon the charge of neglect of duty in failing to make improvements in the county court house ordered by a. former grand jury. Judge Turner of the county ourt thitf morning issued warrants for the members of the board and the case will coine up in recorder's court next Monday morning. Asheville, March 19. Barry O' Neil, familiar on motion pictures screens in every city of any size in the country, accompanied by u cast of twelve players, were Ashe ville visitors yesterday en route to Bat Cave where the players of the Lubin Moving Picture Manufactur ing Company will enact "The Wolf" th.. benefit of the lovers of the "movies' throughout tjlie Vc'uhtry. The Lubin players were sent to West North Carolina for the picture be cause of the rugged scenery of this section of the state, the scenic ef fects of the picture to be produced demanding mountains land. New Bern, March 19. William. Watkins, a ten-year-old white boy, was placed under arrest in this city yesterday charged with burglary and breaking a safe. The lad recently came to New Bern with his parents from Richmond, Va., and has res'ded T- . . IT 1 ,1 on nurn street, ne was empioyeu by J. L. McDaniel, who operates a mercantile establishment on lower Middle street, and it was there that the robbery occurred. Entrance to the store was gained through a rear window, and the lad then broke into the safe and stole therefrom about $17 in cash and a number of cheeks. lie was accused of the crime and finally confessed and the money was found in the ashes of a stove used in heating the building. Coast Survey at New River Inlet Jacksonville, N. C, March 20. The coast and geodetic survey ship Pleasure is charting the waters in the vicinity of New river and Bogue inlets. Previous surveys were made in 1888 and 1805. Just Right for Backache and Rheu matism. . Foley Kidney Pills are so thor oughly effective for bachachej rheu matism, swollen, aching joints, kid ney and bladder ailments that they are recommended evenvherc. A. A Jeffords, MeGrew, Xebr., says: "My druggist recommended Foley Kidncj Pills fortius in my back, and be fore I finished one Lottie,- my oU trouble entirely dL appeared." J. h Hood & Co. . (adv) THE FUNERAL OF III. CAILLAUX Police Have No Difficulty in Quieting Demonstrations of the Students Against Retiring Minister More Trouble. Paris, March 19. French public opinion continues to be deeply oc cupied with the Calmettc tragedy and the resultant political agitation, al though interest wus less outwardly manifested tody. A few excited students iu Paris and Versailles attempted demonstra tions against J.L, Caillaux. but the police had no (jiffieulty in dispersing them. The principal development of the day was! the resignation of Ernest Monis from the ministry of marine, and it now is understood his with drawal from the cabinet will be per manent, whatever the finding of the investigating committee. While some kind of a dcuionstru tion by the anti-Republicans is cer tain to be attempted at the funeral of M. Calmettc tomorrow, the police authorities do not anticipate serious trouble. Nevertheless, M. llcnniou, the prefect of Paris, has made exten sive preparations to preserve order. Saint l.arae prison, where Mine. Caillaux occupies a cell, again was an object of interest today to many hundred of persons who watched those who passed within its doors. Mine. Caillaux, it is said, is showing the effects of her imprisonment. Her husband and her attorney, M. Lnbori, called on her this afternoon and found her depressed and nerv ous. M. Labori informed Mine. Caillaux, it is said, that she had no alter native but to throw herself on the mercy of the court. FIGHT LOST BY SUFFRAGETTES Resolution to Amend Constitution Defeated Leaders of "Cause" Point With Joy to Majority Vote in Their Favor. Washington, March 19. Woman suffrage advocates today lost their tight in the I'nited States senate for a resolution proposing an amend ment to the Federal Constitution, giving women the ballot. The vote was 35 for the measure to '.1 4 against it, a two-thirds affirmative vote be ing required for passage, and when it was over suffragist leaders jubil antly pointed to the major!' n,' one as conclusive proof T.i.u their cause had socred a triumph in defeat, and wr.s immeasurably stronger than its opponents ever had been willing to concede. Today's action, following weeks of debate on the floor of the senate, marked the climax of a spirited cam paign launched here the day before inauguration of President Wilson. Immediately after the vote, Sen ator Sliafroth, of Colorado, sought to introduce a new resolution for Constitutional amendment requiring each state to vote on granting suf frage to women, on petition from five per cent, of its voters. The senate went into executive session before the senator could get the floor, and the resolution will be offered later. Ayden Youth Killed in Chicago. Ayden, March 20. When Archie L. Tripp, a young man formerly of Ayden, lost his balance as he stop ped an elevator which he was ope rating in the Congress hotel, Chica go, he inadvertently pulled the lev er, the elevator suddenly shot up ward and he w as pinioned partly in and partly out of the cage against the floor above. He died an hour later. The . remains were brought here for burial. Dr. Bruce Payne at Greenville. Greenville, -March 20. Df. Bruct Ii. Payne, of George Peabody College for Teachers' at Nashville, Tenn., yesterday impected the East Caro lina Teachers' Training College hero. He is visiting nt Grifton, hid wife's old home. , .'..'. KILLED HHP ROBBED BODY OF LOGGING CAMP CLERK FOUND IN WOODS PROBABLE SLAYER CAME HERE Alfred Lynch, Believed to Be Mur derer, Boldly Rode Into Kinston in Automobile Before Authorities Were Notified; Escaped. Kinston was ihursuay evening the scene of action growing out of a tragedy in a logwoods 40 miles away. That morning Manly Hatch about 28, the white clerk in charge of the comnimissary at the Gold- boro Lumber Company's timber camp seven miles from ltichlands, was slain and robbed. Alfred Lynch, u negro, believed to have killed Hatch, came here in the afternoon and hj since been sought by the police at sheriffs force, while the agencie of the law in very county in the sec tion are on the alert for bis appre hension. Thursday morning early a butch ers bov drov.. from Kichlands to the commissary in the logging tamp to deliver meat. The little store shack was locked. The bov sought the keeper about the camp, but un able to locate him, returned to the town and reported to his employer that Hatch was gone. The com missary keejier's young wife, living in Kichlands, .had not seen him, and a search was organized. Near the camp, on a road, blood mid signs of i) struggle were found at 3 p. m. No efforts had been made to conceal the signs, and an easily followed trail showed .where a body hud been dragged across the road and into the woods. Twenty paces away, in a clump of bushes, was the corpse, the head uluiost severed from the body. Hutch's body lay face down, and across one arm was an open razor. All red Lynch, until three vears ago a resident of Kinston, had been an employe at the cainp until Satur day, lie was discharged then. Lynch's disposition was .rjemarked amiable, but he wus a careless liver and continually in debt at the commissary. Always he lived just up to his wages. He had been em ployed about the camp long enough to be acquainted with Hatch's habits, and was well aware that the clerk frequently had large sums of money about his- person. Lynch had not been seen at the camp since being discharged until early Thursday morning, when he loitered about the place until after 7. The butcher's boy returning to Kichlands passed 'him on the highway, and Lynch asked him for a cigarette. H. A. Daugherty, who operates an automobile livery at Kichlands, was greeted by Lynch at 1 p. m. The bl&k told Daugherty that he was to be married in Kinston, and he de sired to arrive here as oon as possi ble. Daugherty charged $10 for the service, and Lynch immediately pro duced the money. The trip was ra ther leisurely, and the negro, calm and self-contained, at no time urged haste. On the road a rural mail carrier's horse became frightened at Duugherty's machine and there was a spill. Lynch alighted and assisted the currier to upright his overturned buggy. At about 4:30 Daugherty and the black drove into Kinston, straight down Queen street, and Stopped at the Richard Caswell monument. There Lynch left the automobile and got into another operated by a negro chauffeur. They drovei to the house of a sister of Ls nch in the outskirts. The ne gro left his suitcase there. The police later secured this. After remaining awhile in his sister's home the ne rro came downtown to North street, lie went into a shqp and had a $ WILSON WELCOMES PARLEYING Progressive Representative in Con gress Urges Every Congressman to Stand Shoulder to Shoulder in Mexico Case The Toll of Wor. Washington, March 19. The Unit ed States government will welcome a re-opening of negotiations with The Huertu government or the Constitu tionalists und will be glad to con sider uny proposal that will tend to draw the vaious factions"fogether into a plan for the restoration of peace in Mexico. This is , the attitude President Wilson revealed today after reports reached here saying S'enor Portillo . y Kojas, minister for foreign af fairs, in the Hueiiu cabinet hud gone to meet John Lind, Mr. Wilson's personal representative, to seek u resumption of the eaee parleys. Sen or Kojus has been mentioned as the man who would succeed Huertu if he retired and the object of the visit to Mr. Lind, it was reported, was to acquaint the President's envoy with bis personality. What War Would Mean. "War with Mexico means a war of exhaustion the moment our troops pass the frontier the Mexicans will drop their quarrel and make com mon cause against the hated Grin goes," declared Representative Hid ings, of Pennslyvnnia-, Progressive, today, in the house. He declared it was the duty of congressmen to stand shoulder to shoulder iu the Mexican situation; that he believed order would never be reored in Mexico save by a strong man sup ported by a force superior to the factions now hurrying the country, and that there was no such force in Mexico. "I believe the time must come, if it has not already arrived,'' he ad ded, "when it will be the imperative duty of this, government to announce to the world that present conditions in Mexico must cease, and thut un less, by a given time, the Mexicans themselves shall have made pacific arrangements to cease hostilities, the United States, in the interest of Im munity, will undertake, to restore peace and good order.'' note hanged. At a meat shop he purchased two pounds of meat, care lessly threw down n $1 hill and told the man who waited on him to keep the change. An hour or later after he arrived here the police and sheriff's office received word to arrest him, tele phoned from the Goldsboro Lumber Company's office at Dover. The two forces cooperated and trailed the black successfully for some time, but a search which lasted far into the night was fruitless. This morn ing the two departments worked separately. The police were confi dent that Lynch had left town, as two trains departed after his arriv al before they were notified. The sheriff had information that he had been seen here at 0 a. m. today. An employe at the A. C. L. depot stated that at. 4:25 Thursday afternoon a negro answering the description given of Lynch ran into the station and called for a ticket; but the truiu which he wished to take was pulling out and he boarded it without wait ing for a ticket. Policemen travelled on night trains in the hope of pick ing Lynch up if he boarded the cars at an outlying point. Alfred Lynch is one-quarter In dian; his hair is less inclined to kinkiness than that of the average negro or mulatto: his color is an unusual mixture of those of the mu latto and black; his height is about six feet ; his age is 20, and he is not of very heavy build. He has no pro minent scars or other marks. The sheriff here hu offered a personal reward of $25. Lynch is said to have robbed the body of Hutch of varying Rums, ranging from $100 to $2S0. One n (ort says that $14 was .found in the vietim'n clothing when the corpse wns fonnd. ! Si ii i ri' I
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