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he Daily Fr THE WEATHER For N C. UnNttltd tonight Thursday, probably occmioo l rain YOUR HOME PAPER PUBLISHED EVERY HFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. VOL. XVI. No. 254 KINSTON, N. C FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1915 PRICE TWO CENTS " - , "" i 1 : GERMAN ADVANCE TO COAST IN BELGIUM HAS BEEN CHECKED BY THE ALLIES IS THE REPORT FROM FRENCH HEADQUARTERS VERY LITTLE NEWS IS GIVEN OUT BY WAR DEPARTMENT BUT IT IS FELT THAT IMPORTANT DEVELOPMENTS ARE TAKING PLACE ALONG LINES. BRITISH CRUISER HAWK VICTIM OF GERMAN TORPEDO An Old Ship Used For Patrol Dutq Survivors French Advance in Vosges Passes Despite Heavy Fall of Snow Germans Said to Have Been Forced to Abandon Im portant Entrenchments That Are Flooded. (By the United Press.) Paris, Oct. 16. The war office is silent regarding developments in Bel gium. Its only statement Is that the German advance toward the coast has been checked, and this leads to a general feeling that the officials are withholding important news of con ditions around Ostend. It is report ed that important developments are expected in the region of Lorraine. The French continue to advance in the Vosges district, despite the fact that snow is already on the ground. They have obtained footholds in the more important passes. Officials re port successful advances against the German lines south of Metz. The Germans are reported to have been forced to abandon important centers and first line entrenchments because of their inability to drain them. BRITISH CRUISER HAWK SUNK BY TORPEDO London, Oct. 16 England has lost another cruiser through the activity of German submarines. The cruiser Hawk, used for scouting purposes off the German naval base in the North Sea, was torpedoed yesterday after noon. The cruiser was steaming along when hit amidships by tor pedo and literally torn to pieces. Three officers and forty men of the crew of 544 were saved. The Hawk was an old armored cruiser, 360 feet long, commissioned in 1891. GERMANY SAYS CONDITIONS ARE EXCELLENT. Berlin, Oct. 16. It is officially an nounced this afternoon that the situ ation on the battle lines both east and west is excellent. The Allies have not succeeded in making an advance at any point, except where the Ger mans withdrew for strategical rea sons, especially is this the case in the trenches, abandoned for sanitary rea sons. ALLIES EXTEND BATTLE LINES Paris, Oct. 16. It is officially an nounced that the Allies now hold lines extending from Yores to the sea, and are thereby able to prevent any flanking movement by new German forces in Belgium. The Allies are making progress at every point on th battle lines. BULLETINS ITALIAN FOREIGN MINISTER DIED TODAY. Romefi Oct. 16. Disan Guili ano, Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs, died today. VIOLENT FIGHTING IN WEST Washington, Oct lb, The French Embassy has been official ly advised that there has been violent fighting northwest of Lens and Vermelles, in which the French won. The French forces have taken Hannescamps, south west of Arras. HONOLULU WIRELESS STATION ORDERED CLOSED Washington, ' Oct. 16. Orders hare been issued to close the Mar. coni wireless station at Honolulu within 24 hours, unless a satis- factory explanation can be given , 'Concerning a dispatch from a vtrman gunboat, The adminis-,'- rion holds that handling the mefcage wa9 a violation of neu- ! tralft, Succumbs to Submarine Very tew JAPANESE ARRIVES FOR WORK AT FAIR. (By the United Press.) San Francisco, Oct. 16. Goichi Takeda, Japanese architect, who drew the plans for the Japanese pavilion at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, arrived here on the liner Tenyo Maru. The Japanese pavilion will be a reproduction of the temple of Kin Ka Ku Ji at Kioto. Much of the work is being done in Japan, and but little time will be required to assemble the timbers on the expo sition grounds. "The materials for the Japanese buildings are ready to be shipped," said S. Ishi, Japanese commissioner to the exposition here today. "The first shipment of building materials, stones and trees for the garden, left Kobe October 8, on the ship Shinyo Maru." CYCLONE LEAVES MILE PATH OF DESTRUCTION IN HEART OF CONCORD. Concord, N. C, Oct. 15. Crashing through the heart of Concord, a cy clone this afternoon at 3 o'clock left a path a mile long and 150 feet wide that looked like the mark of an ac curate siege gun. Over 100 houses were unroofed and otherwise damag ed, 15 of them being total wrecks. j Many people were blown down on the streets or struck by flying splinters in their homes, but none was serious ly hurt. A mother and her three-day old infant were blown out on the stret from their home, which an in stant later collapsed. Rescued by neighbors from the debris, neither seemed the worse for the mishap. The damage will reach several thou sand dollars. SENATE PUTS ASIDE COTTON RELIEF AND HURRIES ON WAR TAX. Washington, Oct. 15. Despite ef forts of southern senators to divert discussion to cotton relief legislation, the Senate made material progress today on the war revenue bill. Many important sections were agreed to after the proposed amendment au thorizing a $250,000,000 bond issue to aid cotton producers had been de bated and a vote deferred. STATE BANKERS MEET AT RALEIGH, OCTOBER 23 Richmond, Va., Oct. 15. The exe-1 cutive committee of the North Caro-! lina Bankers' Association met here today and decided to call a meeting of. the association for Friday, Octo ber 23, at Raleigh, for the purpose of considering the plan of Festus J. Wadeof St. Louis, for the relief of cotton growers of the South. MAY LOCATE COLONIES IN EASTERN COUNTIES New Bern, Oct. 15. The Southern Settlement and Development Com pany of Baltimore, Md., contemplates starting several colonies in Eastern North Carolina, and two of their rep resentatives today began a tour of inspection of the lands along the route of the Norfolk Southern Rail way. STALLINGS TURNS DOWN BIG VAUDEVILLE OFFER. Boston, Oct. 15. George T. Stall- ings, manager of the world's cham pion Braves, today refused an offer of $15,000 for six weeks in vaude ville. ' He will leave tomorrow for his plantation in Haddock, Ga. GERMANS EXPECTED TO USl LATER GUNS THAN AT ANTWERP. KRUPP WORKS ARE SAID TO HAVE TURNED A MORE EFFECTIVE ONE. WOULD GUARD CHANNEL British Admiralty Feel Confident That Battleships Would Be Equal to Occasion. Germany Would Have Great Advantage London, Oct. 16. The Germans are planning to plant the newest, largest guns on the Belgian seacoast so a to force the British warships to stay oft shore. They already have these guns on trains on the Belgian fron tier ready to rush to the coast. The admiralty insists that the fleet will be able to block this plan. The biggest German guns are the latest product of the Krupp works and are a big im provement over the siege guns used at Liege and Antwerp. It is claim ed they can le sighted as easy as ri fles, and it is declared that a success ful test of these guns was the real cause for the change in the campaign plans of the Germans It is declared the effectiveness of the guns exceeded the expectations of German experts, and in spite of their enormous calibre, they are marvels of execution. They will endeavor to keep the British fleet away from the coast. If this plan by the Germans works out. and British military and naval experts doubt it, the Germans will be able to move their submarines by rail and launch them in the chan nel. British authorities believe the English navy will make it impossi ble, even if the Germans take Ostend or other coast cities, for them to hold any such point of advantage long enough to mount the guns. British warships are constantly ready at the rendezvous to strike at any point within a couple of hours' notice. Air scouts report every move of the Ger- mans, giving timely warning of all movements of troops. MURDERER WALKS TO HIS DEATH SMILING. (By the United Press' Michigan City, Ind., Oct. 16. Rob ert Collier. 2!i, negro, today walked to death in the electric chair smiling. "I'd rather die than spend my life I in prison, he sam. Collier shot to death Patrolman John Cain, white, apparently without provocation. He was on parole for a crime at the time. The shooting oc curred in Evansville, Ind., June 14th of this year. Collier chuckled when I the death sentence was pronounced. DENVER VOTING ON OFFICIAL'S RECALL. (By the United Press.) Denver, Oct. 16. The voters of Denver today are deciding whether Alexander Nisbet. one of the five commissioners who govern Denver, shall continue as commissioner of public safety or shall be retired. A special election ordered last month by the city council is being held. The principal candidate against Nisbet is Attorney W. C. Danks, who was put up by the petitioners for Nisbet's re call. Nisbet is charged with having fail ed to enforce the laws forbidding gambling and regulating saloons and with having failed to furnish ade quate police protection. The council originally set this date for the elec tion and then voted to change it to Novembefr 17. The petitioners went into court, however, and got an in junction preventing the change, on the ground that it was illegal. BANKERS TAKE BOAT TRIP. Richmond, Oct. 16. A boat trip down the historic James river, with a pilgrimage to Jamestown Island, vis its to Newport News and a return here by train tonight, was the sight seeing and entertainment program enjoyed today by bankers at the Am erican Bankers Association ,onven-tion. EE PREPARATIONS ARE NOW BEING MADE CHAMBER'S MEETING 100 FARMERS FROM LENOIR, WAYNE, DUPLIN AND OTHER COUNTIES ARE COMING. BANQUET ON WEDNESDAY Spread Will Probably Be Held in the Recreation Room of the Gordon Street Christian Church Speakers From Distance. The Chamber of Commerce will en tertain 100 farmers from Lenoir, Wayne, Duplin, Onslow, Jones, Pitt, Greene and Craven counties on the occasion of its annual meeting next Wednesday evening. Preparations are being made to entertain the visit ing planters at a banquet, which may be held in the social rooms of the Gordon Street Christian Church. Nearly 150 Kinston business men will sit at table with the men from the country and discuss with them a sub ject of interest to both classes, "Ag riculture." J. H. Young, president of the Nor folk Southern, and C. I. Millard, pres ident of the Kinston-Carolina Rail road, have assured the chamber that they will make strenuous efforts to come from Norfolk to speak at the meeting. A number of leading local men find planters are on the program fir addresses and short talks. THREATENING FLOODS IN WESTERN CAROLINA. Asheville, Oct. 15. After three days' Steady rains, small streams in Western North Carolina mountains today became raging torrents and be gan to show the effects of the heav iest precipitation since the memor able flood of four years ago. Rising waters in the surrounding mountains worked a great hardship on the Southern Railway Company and aug mented wrecking crews tonight are working on all sides of Asheville in an effort to combat the high waters. A serious landslide between Old Fort and Ridge Crest resulted in the an nulment of trains on that portion of the Southern's lines while heavy rains on the Spartanburg division have called for a large force of work men on those tracks to repair disas trous washouts. BANKERS' ASS'N TO SEND COMMITTEE TO CAPITAL Richmond, Va., Oct. 15. The Am erican Bankers' Association today de termined to send a committee to Washington to confer with the Fed eral Reserve Board over changes in the banking law, which it contends would make membership in the new system more attractive to state insti tutions. Some of the changes pro posed would permit state banks upon entering the system to continue their business along present lines and au thorize examination by regional bank flicials who understand local condi tions. PROPOSE MONUMENT TO MORGAN ON CANAL ZONE. Washington, Oct. 15. A joint res olution granting permission to the Southern Commercial Congress to erect a memorial to the late Senator John T. Morgan, at Balboa, Panama canal zone, was adopted by the Sen ate today. Senator Morgan was in strumental in committing the United States to the construction of the Panama Canal. CANADIAN FACES DEATH FOR TREASON. Montreal, Oct. 15. Israel Schroe der, a steamship ticket agent, was arrested here today on a charge of high treason. The police claim that Schroeder sold tickets to Austrian reservists and advised' them to say they were Roumanians in order to evade the law prohibiting belligerents from leaving Canada. A person con victed of high treason may be sen tenced to death. Press. MRS. FELIX HARVEY OF THIS CITY WAS ELECTED BY U. D. C. WILL SERVE ANOTHER TERM AS REGISTRAR OF STATE ASSOCIATION. MRS. LITTLE IS PRESIDENT Mrs. Archbell, Editor of Official Or gan of Daughters, Offered to Sell Part of the Holdings to As sociation Stock Company. Among officers elected by the North Carolina Daughters of the Confeder acy in annual meeting at Raleigh on Thursday was Mrs. C. Felix Harvey, of Kinston, who was named for an other term as registrar. Mrs. Eugene Little of Wadesboro was elected pres ident to succeed Mrs. Marshall Wil liams of Faison. Mrs. Lillie Archbell, editor of Car olina and the Southern Cross, the offi cial State organ, published here, pre sented a scheme to put the magazine upon a stock company basis, with a part of the stock in the hands of the editor, and part in the-bands of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, Mrs. Archbell as editor to retain, 51 per cent, of the stock. This was re ferred to a committee of seven mem bers. FIRST THREE-GUN TURRETS FOR WARSHIPS (By the United Press.) Boston, Oct. 16 Within a few days there will be installed on the new battleship Nevada at the Fore River shipyards, the first three-gun turret ever placed on an American battle ship. They will be the best protected of any in the world and will be the heaviest ever set up, weighing on the average of about 80 tons, or some 11 tons heavier than the turrets on the Argentine battleship Rivadavia, which was considered the "last word" in naval construction. Each of Nevada's turrets will have three 14-inch guns, the most power ful on any United States battleships and rivalled only by a few in the Brit ish and German fleets. They will weigh about 147,500 pounds each, will be 53 feet long and will throw a pro jectile weighing 1400 pounds. The latter will entry a much larger amount of high explosives than the 875-pound projectiles of the 12-inch pieces. Two of these three-guns turrets will be installed, one on the forecastle deck and one on the quarterdeck, with a two-gun turret behind and slightly above each other so there will be five 14-inch guns pointing ahead and a .similar number facing astern. Thus the fire of all ten guns may be concentrated at either side or almost directly ahead or astern. The advantage of such an arrange ment has deeply impressed naval au thorities the world over. The New York and Texas, the only American ships now in commission with 14-inch guns, carry them mounted in five two-gun turrets instead ot Tour as on the Nevada and her sister ship, the Oklahoma. It is estimated the about three more months will be needed in which to complete the work of laying on the Nevada's side armor. Because of the fact that she will use only oil for fuel there will be but one smoke stack and the boilers can be concen trated in the middle of the ship. The boilers can thus be given heretofore unknown security in the form of the heaviest armor ever employed for this purpose. THE ROCK ISLAND GRAB NOW BEING INVESTIGATED (By the United Press.) Washington, Oct. 16. The Inter state Commerce Commission today began an investigation of the alleged looting of the Rock Island system of twenty million dollars. MORE VICTIMS OF PICKPOCKETS ARE REPORTED TO POLICE TOTAL OF SIX WHITE PEOPLE WERE IMPOSED UPON BY CROOKS THURSDAY. OTHER CROOKS PRESENT Bogus Ticket Sellers, the Man Who Wanted Change, to Get Rid of Some Silver and Other Well Known Tricks Worked. Five white men and one boy, so far as the authorities have learned, were the victims of pickpockets and confi dence men Thursday at Athletic Park, where the Robinson circus showed on that day. Young Jeter Taylor of Jones coun ty had his pockets picked of $47. He did not recover the money. A man named White of Jones coun ty, lost $60 in the same manner, and did not recover it. A. W. Oakes and his son, A. C. Oakes Green county men, were short changed by a bogus ticket agent who operated on the outside of the circus. The elder Oakes lost $9 and the son $2. W. N. Perry of Greene county was asked by a vendor on the outside of the circus to give him paper money in exchange for silver with which he pretended to be overburdened. "I have only a $10 bill," said Perry, handing the bill to the other. The man palmed the $10 and said: "Much obliged; but I wanted only $1 bills." He cleverly substituted a folded $1 for the $10 and gave it to Perry, who unwittingly put it in his pocket. He learned that he had been victimizes some time afteVward. Tull Jarman of the city was accost ed by a "con." man, who asked him for a $5 bill in exchange for five sil ver dollars. "Give me the silver first," said Jarman. "Y'ou're not the man I'm looking for," said the Strang-- er, passing on. A little later A. L. Rhodes of Greene county suffered the loss of $19 in the same manner as W. N. Perry lost $9, receiving $1 back for a $20 bill. Patrolman Felix Skinner, armed with a John Doe warrant, went with Perry and Rhodes to the circus grounds late Thursday night to at tempt to locate the man who had de frauded them. The search was un availing, and Skinner went with the warrant to the manager. "I'v got to have that man or a $200 cash bond for him," said Skinner. Whether the manager swallowed the bluff or not, he made good their losses to the Greene county men. He stated that a man answering the description giv en by Rhodes and Perry had been dis charged from the circus that morn ing. FARMING HAS BEEN HURT BY CONSTANT RAINS Under the direction of the expert located here, numerous Lenoir coun ty planters are inoculating cloverseed as an experiment, and quantities of over are being planted throughout the county as a cover crop. The in oculation, liquid is furnished by the government in quantities sufficient for the germinating of two acres. For two weeks weather conditions have been so bad as to seriously in terfere with farming operations in the county, and little demonstration work has been accomplished by the agricultural agent. Since Monday morning around five inches of rain has fallen here. There will be a considerable re duction of the cotton acreage in Le noir county next year, it is certain, and much more grain will be plant ed than is customary. TOOK BICHLORIDE OF MERCURY BY MISTAKE. Asheville, Oct. 15. A. G. Bradley, a bookkeeper for a local quarry firm, is in a serious condition at a local hospital as a result of swallowing a bichloride of mercury tablet taken through mistake.
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