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il'.'ME D AILY-WEE PUBLISHED IZBRY KPTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDRY' VOL. nVI. NO 194 KINSTON. N.CL WEDNESDAY APRIL 1, 1914 PRICE4 TWO' CENOT. So IIEIVSOFTHEVVORLD " - : ; " V". ' 'v- :. ;; V-"'v'' .? HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST AT HOME AND ABROAD 7 GATHERED FROM Ml SOURCES Brief Chronicle of the Day's Events 4 In All the Nations of the Earth to "Keep Readers Abreast of the , Times. 7X7:'7;.7-7 London,; March 31.A Cfiiro des patch to the Central News days that ' James Gordon Bennett, the propne 7r of the New York Herald, after fcTinwine considerable improve inett m i is physical condition, has become w,ik It adds that j)hyiip.aiuv tv.t m attendance throughout the ni-'ht. Chicago, March 31. The 11th wnnmn in two years to be acquitted in Chicacro' on the charge of murder ing a man, was , freed today when Judge Kersten took from a jury the case of Miss Maude Oberg, accused 1 of having murdered Edward Bresch. Bresch was stabbed to death by the woman December 2o, 1913, during a fight.. Luxine-ton. Kv.. March 31. Re Dorta reaching here today from the mountain section stated that while t.h torrential rains that pelted that section during the Hast four days lad stopped, Hazard, Ky., was m undated and that Beattyyille, Salors- ville and West Liberty, Ky. were ' threatened because .the rivers con tinue to rise. " . Harrisburr. Pa., March 31. Will iam R. Baum, aged 30, a mail clerk in the Harrisburg postofflce, was Arrested today, charged with having stolen $20,000 from the mails. It is alleged that two packages, each con taining $10,000 in currency, were , taken from the mails op J.ily 5, 1912. Tne money was being sent from St '. ., Paul ( n bani in Nrf- York. - Muskogee, OkIa, March . 31. Marie Scott, a negro woman who ' Sunday night killed Lemuel , Peace, a young . white man, by driving a . knife into .his heart, was taken out of the Wagoner cduntyk jail early to day and hanged to a telephone pole nearby. The mob was masked, over, powered he jailer. " A - one-armed man threw a rope over the woman a head , and dragged her out of the jail. ' - New York, March .31. Wireless stations at Sea Gate, the Brooklyn navy yard and the Bush Terminal in South Brooklyn, got in touch today .with all the big ships at sea which they could reach, in an effort to find a trace of two young men, Thomas : Jordan, 19 years of age, and Clar ence Brown,. 22, who left their club on Gravesend bay at norc Sunday in an eighteen-foot canof. Reports came back that no trace of the canoe had been found Toledo, O., March 31 Thousands of citizeng of Toledo continued to ride free today on cars operated by l the Toledo Railways aud Light com pany, the city solicitor having . ad - vised that passengers refuse to pay a fare of more than three cents as .. . i. provided by an ordinance that re cently went into effect and the com pany declining .to accept' anything ' but & fare of five cents. Persons who insisted they would pay no more than : . the Aree cent fare were allowed to ride free, the company declining to (receive .the ordinance over which litigation has Seen initiated. Children's Diseases Very Prevalent TIT1 i i . ... "wljiug cougn is aDoui every where. Measles audfarlet fever al i as bad. Use Foley's Honey . nr Tar Compound for inflamed " throats and coughing. Mrs. I. C. Hostler; Grand Island, Nebr. says. three children had severe at- acks of whooping cough, and a very few doses of Foley honey and Tar great relief." j.E. Hood & Co. - ' (adv) TORREON REPORTED CAPTURED Jaurez and El Paso Thrown Into . State of Excitement By Supposed Telegram From Consul Letcher to Secretary Bryan. I;; Juarez, Mex., March 31. -General Carranza stated positively at 8 p. m. tonight - that while; there was- every reason to hope for the early 'capture or .Torreon, the town had not fallen, and that tluv position' of the troops had not changed materially in the last 24 hours. .': ' This city wr.s thrown into a state of Ligh excitement late today when it was . rumored that Torreon had fullen, but the report failed of vert ficatiort or denial. The first report was that Marion Letcher, United States Consul at Chiliuahua, had transmitted to W. J Bryan, Sectary of State, a report from Georf Carothers, vice-consul. who has been at the front with Vil la," that Torreon was " captured at 1.30 o'clock this afternoon. Bryan Didn't Get Message. Washington, March 31 Secretary Bryan said tonight he had received no message from Consul Letcher announcing the fall of Torreon, and that no important news from Mexico had come to the state department during the day. Counterfeiting Money. Agua Prieta, Sonoru, Mex., March 31. Orders prohibiting further cir culation of so-called Villa currency were received here today from Ser apio Aurirrefl secretary of the treas ury of the Carranza cabinet, who in structed Constitutionalist officials in Agua Prieta to transmit them to all insurgent officials in Sbnora. The principal reason for the or ders was said to be the issuance by counterfeiters of bogus "Villa" bills amounting to 1,000,000 pesos. Federal Reinforcements Beaten. Eagle Pass, Texas, March 31. American ranehmen arriving here to day from the interior reported that the Constitutionalist force under Gen. Hurgia has repulsed Federal reinforcements under Col. Acosta, trying to enter Torreon. Col. Acosta is aid to have commanded about 900 men. ! Three Federal soldiers from the Federal garrison at Piedras Negras attempted to desert today by swim ming the Rio Grande. They succeed ed in crossing the river, but, sight ing a patrol of American soldiers attempted to swim back across the river. One of them was drowned and the other two captured by a Federal outpost. ' Shortage of Oil. Mexico City, March 31. A short age of fuel oil,, caused by inability to reopen the line between Tainpieo and San Luis Potosi, has resulted in the 'suspension of freight traffic on all National lines except that between the capital and Vera Cruz. Not even foodstuffs are accepted, the railway management conserving the oil for the movement of passenger and mili tary trains. The capital still is with out news from Torreon. Brownsville, Texas, March 31 Bernardo Calero, brother of the for mer Mexican ambassador to the Unit ed States. Manuel Calero, was found not guilty of .being a spy in the em ploy of the Huerta government by a . Constitutionalist court martial in Matamoras today.'- , ', Big Shad Shipments.; ; - Washington, N. C, April 1. The largest consignment of. shad , from the Pamlico Yiver fishing grounds this season was brought to the local market yesterday. There were-,- 800 fish, and they are being ex pressed to every section of the coun try at unusually high prices.- Wilmington. March 21. Frank Dauffherty. of New York, fell from a forty-foot derrick on the top of the ten-story Murchison building through the frame work to the fourth floor and lives. Both arms and several are the result. 1 He may die. ' ' ' WOULD NOT HAVE HIM LiKCHED Peering Through Bars of Cell Rev. Mr, Beecher Extends His Hand to Lad Who Confessed to Slaying of His paughter. - : Herkimer, N. Y., March 31. After making a complete confession of the killing of Miss Lyda Beecher, ' his teacher at the Poland school and lat er making other statements; to Cor oner R. P, Huyck, Jean GianinL.16, early this morning had a talk with his victim's father, the Rey. Will iam A.' Beecher, a kindly old 'gray haired man. ' . Later the father visited the scene of the murder, and the people of Poland village told him the murderer would be lynched. . 'My friends," the father replied, I'two wrpnga never make the right I would have no mob law rule. Lynch law is always to be deplored. Let the law take its course." ' " Peering through the steel bars earlier in the day at the slayer of his daughter, the Rev. Mr. Beecher ex tended his hand to the youthful mur derer and cried out: "My boy, were you with my daugh ter Friday night " "Yes, sir," was the faint response. The Rev. Mr. Beecher then left the jail and hurried to catch a train to Poland. Arriving there he went to the Gianini home, where he met the boy's father. "I cannot believe my son is a mur derer," said Mr. Gianini; "But if he is I would nither be in your place than in minp," he added sadly. The two men clasped hands silently for a few seconds and then parted. Today the funeral of Miss Beecher was held in the village of Poland. There were brief . exercises at the undertaking parlors Where her body lay. The elder Gianini, after, visiting his son in jail, said the accused youth was mentally unbalanced. MASTER MIND INFLUENCED HIM Judge and Jury Listened Fascinated to Extraordinary Psychological ! Study of One Man's Domination 5 Over Another Story Convincing. New York, March 31. In the con viction for grand' larceny of Philip S. Saitta, a lawyer, Judge Sufann and the jury listened, fascinated today by the evidence which revealed an extraordinary psychological study of the .subjection of one man to the domination of another; of n -man named Salvator E. Gatto, who blind ly followed Saitta's dictation. So convincingly was the story that Gat to told of his career as Saitta's slave that after the jury had rendered its verdict Judge Swann . said : 'Gatto palpably had become nri automaton, under the influence of a master mind. Unquestionably he has felt the irresistable compulsion to perform whatever act he was bidden to perform. The case developed an instance in real life of one person being 'Svengalized' by the influence of a superior mind." r Saitta- was on trial' for having duped Itjalian lemon growers into sending consignments of fruit to a dummy firm, using the name of Gat tp and leading the exporters to be lieve it to be the old and well known commission house of Ferdinand Gat to, of this city. ' Saitta made Gatto sign for the con signments, and then. turn them over to him."'." - ' . " Mr. J. C Holloway, of Raleigh,' spent yesterday here. - Reliable-FoTey's Honey and Tar Com pound. . Just be sure that yon buy Foley'B Honey and. Tar Compound it is a reliable ' medicine for coughs, colds, croup, whooping coughs, , bronchial and lagrippe coughs, which are weak ening to the system.' It also give's prompt - and - definite ' results ' for hoarseness tickling' throaf and stuf fy wheezy breathing. J. E. Hood & Co. ' ' (adv) COilinEE CONCLUDES PUNS The Reserve System Nearly Com plete Geographical Limits to the ' Districts Are Finished Only Few Details Remain. . j ? Washington, March 30. After three months of consideration,1 the reserve bank organization commit tee Secretaries McAdoo and Hous ton and Comptroller of the Currency Williams charged with laying the ground work for the new currency system is about ready to define geo graphically the limits of the Federal reserve districts into which the con tinental United States are to be di vided for banking purposes, and at the same- time name the cities In each district where reserve banks are to be located. It is the' general expectation here that the announce ment of these conclusions will be made about April 1st, for the com mittee is known to have reached a Iolnt in its deliberations where lit tle remains to be done. The committee has taken precau tions to keep its conclusions Becret, and has announced that any lists made previous to their official pub lication are merely speculative. De spite this fact there has been great interest here in the doings, of the committee and volumes talked by those in official life who are now en tirely within the inner circles. Opinion is not unanimous among those persons as to the number of banks to be esta Wished. The law permits the establishment of not less than eight and not more than twelve banks. There is apparently little ground for believing that the commit tee will name only eight cities, and many persons are confident that they wifl select the full number allowed. The expectation seems to be quite general that there will be at least four cities on the Atlantic seaboard In this section Boston, New York Philadelphia have been named many times and Richmond and Atlanta, Baltimore and Washington have been put down on many of the unofficial lists. Between the Allegheny Moun tains and the Rockies many .agree Chicago, St. Louis and Kansas City are practically certain to be chosen and many add Minneapolis, Cincin nati and New Orleans or Dallus, PATTERNS AFTER OLD BERNE Three Copper Bears Will Grace New Bern's City Hall. New Bern, April 1. Three large bears have arrived and" will be placed on the second story of New Bern's remodeled city halL Just behind the mayor's bench in city hall hangs, encased in glass a great, gaudy silk banner bearing the coat of arms of Berne in Switzer land. In 1891 that city celebrated the 700th anniversary of its found ing. By special invitation New Bern, U. S'. A., sent its mayor, who received many honors in the parent city. Three years later city couued adopted the armorial bearings and cplors of old Berne, and in 1896 the council of burgesses of Berne pre sented the banner to this city Swiss minister to the United' Stately brought it here. The bear is em blematic of Berne, and is the central figure in the coat-of-arms. The bronze bears of old Berne's municipal hall are world-famed and' have been the subjects of prose and poem by many a gifted author. ' r The singing class of the Oxfdrd Masonic orphanage will give a con cert here on the evening of Tuesday, April 7. ... ; When -run down with kidney trou ble, backache, rheumatism or blad der weakness, turn quickly for help to Foley Kidney' Pills. You cannot take them into your system without haying goods results. Chas. N. Fox, Himrod, N. Y., says; "Foley Kidney Pills have done me more good than $150 worth of medicine." - They give yoa good results. J, E., Hood & Co. T ' ' , . (Odv) VICTORY TO ADMINISTRATION Repeal Bill Passes House by Large ' Majority Decisive Vote of , 247 to 161 Notable Legislative Bat tle, v ;.; ; ; v . Washington. D. C, March 31. The national holuse of Representatives today, aftecpue of the most spectac ular '-legislative struggles in the his tory of the nation, voted to 'tepenl the provision of the Panama Canal act exempting American vessels from the payment of tolls. The vote on the repeal bill was 247 to 161, a majori ty of 86 votes, in support of the per sonal plea of Woodrow Wilson, Pre sident of the United States. .' "'. This verdict on the issue which has absorbed congress for many eeks came at the close of a stirring day, made memorable in the annals of the house by a party division whjch found Speaker Champ Clark, Majority Leader Underwood, and other Democratic chieftains lined up in open opposition to the President on an issue which the latter had de clared vital to . his conduct of the nation's foreign policy. Today's result was the first strug gle within the party since Demo cracy took control of the government a year ago. Tomorrow the bill goes to the senate, where the fight will be renewed with all the vigor and do termination that' attended it in the lower hogse. On the final vote 220 Democrats in the house stood by the President, giving him in "ungrttdging measure" what he had asked "for the honor of the nation" in its foreign relations, Twenty-fiVe Republicans and two Progressives also voted to sustain the President. Fifty-two , Democrats followed Speaker Clark and Leader Underwood to defeat. i Washington, March 31. The scene in the house chamber when Speak er Clark yielded the gavel to Repre sentative Underwood, the majority lender, to defend his course in the great controversy, probably was un rivalled in the history of American legislation. Never before, within the recollection of the oldest members, had the galleries been so packed with interested spectators. 1 T; Even the senate had adjourned and Scores of senators occupied s"eats on the floor. , , - It was a rare political stage set ting that this throng witnessed. Standing before them, while Republi can and Democratic members cheer ed him to the echo, was the sturdy big-framed, silverWhaired Speaker with resolution beaming on hig coun tenance, his thin lips clinched tight ly, his face pale and stern. At the outset the Speaker read his address, but soon he got into his old time oratorical swing and was hammering home with sweeping ges tures his deliberately delivered words. When he praised the patriotic motives of President Wilson he was interrupted by. applause. ' The Speaker minced no words s he attacked newspapers which he de clared had assailed him in this fight, and in referring to the charge that h; was "bolting the President," he "Merciful God! what an idiotic phrase.'? Throughout the speech there was not a dull moment. , Repeatedly he was cheered, and the echoes of the plauditg rang through the' reverber ating halls of the Capitol in frequent waves. ; ,v-'5;:-''.WV-V : The house listened attentively to the speakers - argument against the tolls repeal, his assertion that he believed the President was mistaken, his argument that the Canadian Pa cific Railroad and. the Tenhauntepec National Railway would most profit by the toll" exemption, and his elo quent ' appeal against yielding any thing to Great Britain holding the interest to the end. The speaker re mained, a commanding figure, inter rupted" by opplauseaa he proceeded v Almost prayerfully, be concluded lowering, his voice to say: , "Now, may the God of our fath- era who nerved 3,000,000 backward III OLD IIORIH SUITE NEWS FROM MURPHY TO MAN. TEO AND BETWEEN r TAR HEEL HAPPENINGS OFA DA! Many North Carolina Items" Con densed In Brief Paragraphs for Benefit of Busy People Good and Bad News from all Over State. Elisabeth City March 31. Burs glars robbed the store of P. W. Me lick Company last night of five hun dred dollars worth of fountain pens and cutlery, jeosting 'of pocket knives, razors,' scissors and carving sets, and then stole a leather dress suit case left .in the store by a cus tomer to take the plunder away in. Wilmington, March 31. Taking the place of the handsome passenger carrying steamer, Cherokee, the Clyde Lino steamer Algiers, a freight steamer, arrived here today from New York. The Cherokee hag been put on temporarily between New York and Tampa and Mobile and will later be placed on her' regular run, it is stated. ' '. '. - - ' . -, v Asheville, March 31. DSck Camp, charged with deserting his wife and several small children at Asheville, has been located at Cleveland,' Tennt, according to a message which was received at the office of the she or Buncombe county. unaay aim noon. It ia stated ' that ' Camp h expressed a willingness to. return this city' without requisition papers and an officer will be sent for, him. immediately. . ' High Point, March 31. One hun dred thousand dollars would be the approximate cost of ' putting the Southern Railway under ground so as to free High PointB main thorough- fare of the constant passage ; of freight and passenger trains. " The double tracks would necessarily have to be lowered for at least three quar- . ters of. a mile, but this would give an underground station room with an access as convenient as the present site. While a guest of the city last week President B'airfax Harrison, of the Southern, promised that this feasible and greatly desirable pro position would be given due consider ation. ' , Raleigh, March 31. The splendid supreme court roorti in the new state building was thronged this morning with people gathered for the cere mony characterizing the presentation of an oil painting of the late Patrick Henry Winston, father of Hon. Francis Winston, George T. Winston and ex-Judge R. W. Winston, distin guished citizens in this generation as their honored eire was in his. Mrs. S. F. Spruill, a daughter, was also here. In the company were a number of grandchildren of Patrick Henry Winston. To Governor Craig was accorded the honor of making the speech in presentation of the portrait, Chief Justice Clark accept ing it in fitting terms and gracious manner. ' Americans to fling their gageof bat tle into the face of the mightiest monarch in the, world, who guided the hand of Jefferson in writing the . ; charter of. Liberty, who " sustained " Washington" and his . ragged and . ' starving army amid the awful hor- . rors at Valley Forge, and who gave -them complete victoiy on the blood stained heights of Yorktown, may He lead members to. vote o as to pre vent this stupendous folly this un--, 1 questionable degradation of the American republic." ' A f Speaker Clark had finished. Ah he walked from his place, the house en masse, Democrats, Republicans, and Progressive alike,, arose and cheered him. V " . ,. Mr C. Ilines, of New Bern, was a Kinston visitor venter '. i v.
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