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NOB HOME PAPER Daily Free jj THE WEATHER u ' . . ; H rc'J'' ll1t rUbU wind (1 PUBLISHED EiZERY HFTERNOON - EXCEPT SUNDRY, VOL. XVI. NO. 191. KINSTON, N. O, FRIDAY, JULY 24, 1914, PRICE TWO CENTS VILU'S NEW MOVE CAUSES i APPREHENSION RECRUITING DIVISION TO BIG STRENGTH. MAY ENFORCE DEMANDS Chihuahua Believes He Will Ffcht if Carranza Does. Not Grant all he Ask. GREAT WAR THREATENS WORLD PEACE 3N.Y. CLOSED BY CALMETTE DEFENDED . . DY FRIENDS AUSTRIA PREPARES TO EXCITED FOREIGNERS DRAMATIC SCENES IN ATTACK SERVIA. CLAMOR AT DOORS IN CAILLAUX TRIAL ULTIMATUM TO BELGRADE FEAR FOR THEIR SAYINGS HDL GUEYDON IN SCENE - (By the United Press.) Chihuahua, July 24. Of ficers of Villa's army today dispatched to all sections of the State oi mnuanua w nlist everv available fight ing man so that Villa's divi--sion in the north will equal the strength of all other di visions of the constitution- alist army wnen it occupies Mexico City. The recruiting- activities are viewed with misappre hension. Many believe Vil la is preparing to open hos tilities if he does not receive what he demands from the hands of Carranza. . . 7 Frenchmen who arrived today from Zacatecas expnT erated Villa' personally from1 for the execution of Catho lic priests and Christian brothers , there. They say executions were ordered by General Urbana, of Villa's : staff. It is understood that special agent of the a trench . government , is en route here to investigate the executions. WILSON GIVES IN Withdraws Name, of Jones for Reserve Board. Washington, July 23. Presidents Wilson late todav ended the bitterest tight or ma iiuuumsuauon Dy with drawing the nomination of i nos. jj. Jones, of Chicago, to be a member of the Fed eral Reserve Board. ,Mr. Jones had written urging tins action. j The message of withdraw al reached the Senate just as Senator Reed, of Missou ri, one ot the Democrats op- Tcr ivnlnwnrr ' chin TfsiT- ing a vigorous denunciation t)f the i International v Har vester Company, of which Mr. Jones is director, a mild sensation, and cut. short a debate that promised to run indefinitely. . FOURTH PLAGUE DEATH Aged Wo&an Latest victim In' New Orleans. rjNew Orleans, La., July 23. TrBubonic plague , claimed Us fourth death here today. The death occurred at the same address , from which Helen Scell, aged 10, devel oped the disease last Satur day and the victim was the child's grandmother, Regi ha Schmidt, aged 73 It is easier and hadier for nen to flatter than topraise. -Kichter. ' J ", Germany and Russia May be Involved in Hostilities Brewing in Balkans. , : (By the United Press.) . . Berlin, July 24. Unless Servia backs down from her expressed : intention of re fusing to comply with the demands of 1 Austria, Ger man officialdom believes Eu rope will soon see the begin ning of a world war. The opinion expressed in gov ernmental circles is that war or peace is up to Servia, and the action of Servia largely up to Russia. The German foreign of fice has' said that Germany will do everything possible to keep the war confined to Austria and Servia, keeping Germany's hands off. Should another country interfere, however, ; Germany will do its duty by its ally, Austria. Austria today served an ultimatum on Belgrade call-, ing on the Servian govern ment to- suppress the pan Servian movement and pun ish those responsible for the assassination of Archduke Ferdinan and wife. The ulti matum calls for a reply by 6 o'clock Saturday evening. Austria has made all prepa rations for war, and a fleet of monitors is today assem bling at Semlin, opposite Belgrade. For the past two weeks troops have been con centrating quietly, on the border. Police Herd Mobs That As- Defendant Unnerved When sail Closed Branches of Grochowski & Co. (By the United Press.) New York, July 24.- De- Witness Refuses to. Ac cept Love Letters. ( By the United Press ) Paris, July 24; Members manding their savings and of hia staff and close friends , pounding on the ! windows of Editor Calmette declared .and doors in attempts to get . -uu :n inside, three thousand fore- .f mitlhet l Mme igners todayclamored about OaiUaux that Calmette nev-la- branch of the private er dreamed of publishing bank of A. Grochowski & the personal letters' of M. Co. The bank is one of the Caillaux. three branches closed by or- They said Calmette only der of State Superintendent published such portions of of . Banks Richards. ; jthe "Thy Joe" letters as I Crowds nearly as large were of political impor tried to storm the branches tance. in Williamsburg and Jamai-r Disorder marked the trial ca. The hordes of excited today and Mme, Caillaux people extended for blocks "completely lost her compos Some were afraid that they ure o nthe disappearance of had lost their all. Police Mme. Gueydan. reserves herded them into! Mme. Gueydan -created orderly lines but made no another scene when, recall eeffort to disperse them, -'ed to the stand, she drama !Allthreebankswererunby':tically refused to receive L. W. Schwenk and subsi-back the love letters she diaries of the Grochowski gave Debori yesterday. concerned. RECEIVERSHIP OF CLAFLIN GO TO CONTINUE AGRREMENT BY THE CREDITORS. OPERATE THE BRANCHES Assets of Big Concern Which Failed are $800,000 Grea ter Than Liabilities, (By the United Press.) : New York, July 24. A decision to continue indefi nitely the receivership of the big Claflin company was reached among 500 credi tors here today. The plan for the receiver ship contemplated running on the brach stores , of the concern, scattered in many cities and towns in every section of the country. The recivers report $$800, 000 assets over the liabili ties. , ' . ' CONFERENCES MAY CONTINUE , INTO NEXT WEEK KING DETAINS CARSON AND CRAIG. , SHORTEST MEETING YET England's Sovereign Feels Sting of Criticism Over ' "Civil War" Speech BISHOF HORNER TO CONFIRM CLASSES ARMY WORM IN N. Y. TO RESCUE MEN ON ICE Hindus Realized Dominion Meant .Business. Vancouver, B. C., July 23. The Japanese steamer Ko- her load of Attacks Lawns in Metropo lis and Jersey Towns. Npw Ynrlf Jnlv 99 The armv wnrm Vina doenonrlorl magata, With upon New York City, doing 352 Hindus who resisted the heavy damage to t fawns in , Canadian t government's or Harlem. Within the last der of deportation for more tvni'Aavn tVio wnrm ovfonri.ithah three months left the BACK TO ASIA Revenue Cutter Goes to Take Off Rest' ofKar luk's Crew. Nome, Alaska, 'July 23. The revenue cutter Bear, with Capt Robert Bartlett, master of the wrecked btei- for the Artie to.take off the eighteen white men and four Eskimos 'j. of Bartlett's command who are maroon ed on Wrangell Island, Where they sought refuge after the Karluk was crush ed in the ice north of Herald Island lastwinter. The Bear wil carry provisions for nine months. OPEN ON AUGUST 15 ed its operations f to" parts ot .Brooklyn and destroyed lawns on many large es tates. ' . Thousands of the pest made their appearance yes terday in Bayoniie and oth er New Jersey ; towns and did much damage. AT 1 CENT AN ACRE Huerta Sold Great Tract to Rothschilds. Los Angeles, "CaL, July 23. That the Rothschilds oi Paris and London purchas ed 100,000 acres of Lower California lands from the Huerta government a month ago for one cent an acre and that Victoriano Huerta re ceived $500,000 for allowing the sale is charged by Gen. Carranza in a message to his agents in the U. S. RESENTED SEARCH First Ship to Pass Through Canal on That Date. Washington, July 23. Opening of the Panama Canal . Jo- the world's commerce on August 15 next was announced today by Secretary Garrison. Pro bably the'first vessel to pass through the great water way will be the Cristobal, a War Department steamer now at Colon. j Man Accused of Having Whiskey Kills Two Of- ;' ;, ficers. : Tulsa, Okla., July 23. Holmes Davidson, United States marshal for this dis trict, and William R. Plank a deputy, were shot and killed here today by William Baker, when they attempt ed to enter the latter's resi dence to search it for con traband liquor. harbor today, bounds for the Orient. The Hindu passen gers made no demonstration and the services of the local militia companies which spent the night on thewharf in anticipation of another outbreak, were not needed. DIRTYSHIP SHE WAS At St. Mary's and Christ's Churches Sunday. The Rt. Rev, Junius M. Horner, D. D., Bishop of Asheville . ? is : expected to arrive in Kinston tomorrow afternoon from Greenville, and be : the guest of the Rector of St. Mary's church,; the Kev. Jno. H, Grithth. Bishop Horner wil con firm classes in St. Mary's and Chrjst church Sunday morning and evening - re spectively, while in the af ternoon he will motor to St. John's church, five miles be yond Grifton, where he will also confirm ; a . class at 4 6'clock. On Monday evening Bis hop Horner will visit Tren ton, Jones county. CHILD WAS LOST (By the United Press.) ! London, July 24. Despite the opinion expressed by well-posted 1 men yesterday that the King's Ulster con ference had terminated, His Majesty , met c again , this morning with the party leaders at Buckingham pa lace. The conference -was the shortest yet, and .lasted only an hour: ' -' Sir; Edward Carson and Captainf Craig, 'represent- linnr f Via TTrnwiiefa amnii . ea alter tne others lett. As on the preceding days, the , conferees would say noth ing which would enlighten . the public as to the reasons for or results of the confer ences, Which it is now thought will continue into next week.' -l ' The King has felt the crit- .icis'm of the "civil war" re ference in his speech. . The . ( liberal press insists that the I phrase was a result of care-' mier, Asquith.' ' , All Kinds of Insects and Re ptiles , in Freighter's Cargo. New Orleans, La., July 23. Four snakes, eighteen tarantulas, seventy rats, enough roaches to almost fill a barrel, and millions ot bedbugs formed part of the cargo of a freight vessel sailing tropical seas and which was fumigated here yesterday in connection with the; fight 1 against ; bubonic plague5. Two of the snakes were boa constrictors more than five . feet long. Two others were of a harmless Central American variety. Seven Disorderly Efforts to place the blame for three pistol . shots in a Shine street resort early in the week were abandoned Thursday evening, when seven men were examined in city court. All denied knowledge of the , person with the gun. The seven were fined $5 and costs each for d!sorder!ines3. Tot Wandered Away From Home and the Police ' Were Called A Mrs. Puckett, of East King street, this morning called the police to aid in a search for a boy of three or four years of age. Mrs. Puckett was very much worried, and a systematic search was begun to find the child and allay the mother's fears. The police had before res cued the wanderer from a sandpile at Gordon and In dependent streets and car ried him home, and so an investigation of sandpiles and s other places was com menced in a businesslike way. After .an hour or so the truant was located at a small grocery about five blocks from his home, and carried back. p''.'-'- - Smokehouse Robbed. Thesmokehouse of Jas. Hill, in the Deep Run sec tion, was entered and rob bed a night or two ago. Sus pects are being watched. City Council May Light Queen Street With Clust er Lights City council is giving con sideration to making a white way of the business portion of Queen street, and the superintendent of water and lights has been asked to prepare estimates for the cost. The plan, which it is believ ed the council favors, is to place standards with clust ers of ornamental lights on every corner from Blount to King, or possibly tdtShine street, and about two clust ers midway of each block. The cost is roughly figur ed at $1,500, which would have to come out of the cur rent revenues, since it is be lieved using a portion of the bonds voted in June would " not be legal. THREATEN FOREIGNERS Albanians Will Spare None If Fired Upon by Fleet. Durazzo, Albania, July 23. A note threatening to destroy the capital of AI bania unless Pnnce William of Weid, adbicated the ml ership, was handed today by the " Mussulman insur gents to the representaitves of European powers here.. The insurgents added that if the warships fired at them they would spare nei ther the European nor the other inhabitants of the city. . 7'.;;;.:::'.. v .
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