HON. J. W. BABLEY WILL ADDRESS LENOIR VOTERS TUESDAY AT NOON, COURT. HOUSE KINSTON
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GERMANS REPORTED
TO BE WITHIN TEN
MILES OF DUNKIRK
HIGHWAYMEN ARE
SHEPHERD TELLS
HOW FRENCH NOW
JUDGE DANIELS
CHARGES JURY ON
PROHIBITION LAWS
TRIAL WAS BEGUN
TODAY AT MINEOLA
GIVING TOBACCO
FARMERS TROUBLE
OF CITY CHURCHES
WELL ATTENDED
UNION SERVICES
THEY HAVE BIG SIEGE GUNS
WITH WHICH TO ATTACK
FORTIFICATIONS.
ANTI-GERMAN RIOTS START
Britishers Attack AU Germans and
Those Against Whom There is
Any Suspicion of Having Ger
man Tendencies in London.
(By the United Press.)
London, Oct. 19. The Rotterdam
correspondent wires that Berlin re
ports that the Germans have suc
ceeded in crossing the Belgian border
alongside the coast, and are now on
ly ten miles from Dunkirk. Their
forces were accompanied by heavy
siege guns, it is understood with
the intent to attack the Dunkirk forts
cnnn.
There is no confirmation of a Cet-
tinje dispatch of the reported sinking
of an Austrian destroyer by a French
cruiser north of Cattaro.
ALLIES SAY THEIR TROOPS
DRIVING GERMANS NORTH.
Paris, Oct. 19. The Allies contin
ue to drive the Germans back in the
north, according to a war office an
nouncement. In Belgium the forces
concentrated along the new line in
side of the frontier have driven the
German forces before Rouler to a
point thirteen miles northwest of
Coutrai. The allied left wing is ad
vancing toward Lille and encounter
intr severe fiehtina: in the neighbor
hood of Labasses and Ablain. In St.
.Nazair and vicinity, it is stated, the
German opposition ensountered was
so formidable that the allies were
compelled to advance from house to
house. There has been "incessant
fighting for ten days." A German
counter attack has been repulsed at
Chaulness.
GERMANS AND ALLIES FIGHT
CONTINUOUSLY ON RIGHT.
Berlin, Via Hague, Oct. 19. It is
officially stated that the general sit
uation in Belgium arid France is un
changed. The troops have been re
assigned new positions. There is con
tinuous fighting on the right wing,
especially at points south of Ostend,
the rest of the troops having been
moved south.
The Russians have vainly essayed
to resume the offensive in' the east,
but nowhere have they been success
ful. ANTI-GERMAN RIOTS IN LONDON
London, Oct. 19. There have been
additional anti-German riots in the
suburbs. The Deptford district was
the center of the trouble. Every shop
owned by Germans or people of Ger
man descent was wrecked, and one
burned. Dock workers led the riot
ing. Many persons were injured at
Saffren. The mob stormed the home
of Walben Alderman, claiming that
he harbored Germans. The mobs are
becoming increasingly bitter, and it
is feared the riots will spread to oth
er citie.s
BULLETINS
(By the United P:ess.)
RUSSIANS SAID TO HAVE
LOST FORTY THOUSAND.
Vienna, via Amsterdam, Oct.
19. It is officially stated that the
Russians have already lost for
ty thousand men in unsuccessful
attempts to storm Przemysl. It
is declared that they continue to
lose heavily and are being driven
back from the southern forts
across the San river.
JAPANESE CRUISER
SUNK BY MINE.
Tokio, Oct 19. It is officially
announced that the Japanese
light cruiser Takachiho has hit a
mine off Kiao Chou and sunk.
Thirteen of the crew were saved,
and 344 drowned. The Takachiho
was an old ship, built in 1885,
and remodelled in 1900. She was
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BEAUTIFUL WIFE OF PHYSICIAN
TO MAKE STRENUOUS FIGHT
FOR HER LIFE.
SENTIMENT IN HER FAVOR
Thd Dictagraph to Figure Prominent
ly in State's Case Several Sur
prises Also Promised from
the District Attorney.
(By the United Press.)
Mineola, Oct. 19 Automobile par
ties of fashionably gowned women are
attending the trial of Mrs. Florence
Carman. Doctor Carman said he is
confident of his wife's acquittal. Pub
lic opinion favors the defendant. Mrs,
Jennie Duryear, mother of the mur
dered Mrs. Louis Bailey, has declar
ed she retains no malice for the de
fendant.
District Attorney Smith asked the
prospective jurors whether the fact
that the prisoner is a woman will in
fluence their decision, or if they ob
jected to capital punishment. Mrs.
Carman's counsel, Graham, put ques
tions to them in a confidential, semi
humorous vein, and asked whether
Mrs. Carman's use of the dictagraph
would influence their decision. Only
once did Mrs. Carman sho wthe least
sign of weakening. While Smith was
asking about punishment, her chin
trembled a moment, but she seeming
ly conquered an inward struggle, and
straightened with an aggressive
movement.
Owing to the number of talismen
subpoenaed for the panel from which
to select the jury, but few spectators
were able to gain admittance to the
court room. As soon as the court
room was comfortably filled the doors
were ordered closed.
Showing slight paleness and wear
ing a plain but becoming blue suit
and white shirt waist, Mrs. Carmen
entered the court room with a depu
ty sheriff. The courthouse yard and
corridors were filled with curious peo
ple. For the first time in America in
court annals, a dictograph will play
the central part in a murder trial
that opens here today. Mrs. Florence
Carman, the beautiful wife of a prom
inent Freeport, L. I. physician, goes
on trial for her life on a charge of
having shot and killed Mrs. Louise
Bailey, a patient of her husband while
she was calling on the doctor in his
office. The murder occurred June 30.
The dictagraph that will figure in
the trial was found in Dr. Carmaji's
office after the murder. Mrs. Carman,
soon after the murder and before she
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SECOND MEETING OF
LIVE STOCK ASSOCIATION
To Be Held in County Court House
Saturday Government Experts
Will Talk of Tick Eradication
and Other Matters.
The newly formed live stock grow
ers' association of the Lenoir county
planters end herders will meet in the
Courthouse here Saturday, to hear
discussions by Drs. Jennings and
Foos, representatives of the National
Department of Agriculture engaged
in tick eradication work in the county,
and .transact other business.
It is probable that about half a doz
en members will represent the asso
ciation at the State Fair this week.
The delegates will inspect the show
ing of live stock there and note the
methods employed for better breed
ing in Western Carolina and other
sections of the State, where more at
tention has been given the industry
than here. In 1913, local stock grow
ers say, Lenoir county will be expect
ed to make a creditable exhibit at
the big fair.
The government agents say the Le
noir farmers have the proper spirit
and they foresee big results from
their now organized efforts. In a
number of, localities in the county
this wintef adequate housing facili
SEVERAL PITT COUNTY MEN
HAVE LOST THEIR MONEY
ON WAY HOME.
CARRYING CASH IS RISKY
A Negro Is Suspected and Officer
May Be Able to Implicate Others.
One Man Lost Eighty-five and
Another Seventy-five Dollars.
Highwaymen operating in the vi
cinity of Red Banks Primitive Bap
tist church, in Pitt county, have in
the past seventy-two hours held up
and robbed several people. A man
named Paramore, returning to his
farm from one of the tobacco mark
ets, where he had sold a quantity of
weed, lost $85. Another man, name
unknown, was relieved of $75.
One negro is suspected, and others
may be implicated. It is supposed
that the victims were watched at the
tobacco sales and followed to the re
mote country church. The Paramore
man was held up by an individual, a
large framed man, believed to have
been colored, who was armed with
a pocket knife.
Banks in the tobacco town reports
that many of the farmers demand
cash for their checks, and often car
ry considerable sums home with them,
which is an inducement for robbery.
PACKERS TIRED OF
BEING MADE "GOAT."
(By the United Press.)
Chicago, Oct, 19. Resolutions de
ploring the tendency of the American
people to blame the high cost of
meats on the packers were certain
of adoption when the American Meat
Packers' Association opened its an
nual three-day convention fn the Ho
tel La Salle today. The packers were
prepared to show by statistics that
the production of cattle has not kept
pace with the increase in population
and to shift the blame for high prices
to the law of supply and demand.
DEMOCRATIC PARTY THE
COUNTRY'S MAINSTAY.
ty the United Press)
Washington, Oct. 18. President
Wilson made public today a letter to
Majority Leader Underwood of the
House in which he reviewed the
achievements of his administration,
outlined the program for the next
session of Congress, and declared
"the Democratic party is now in fact
that only instrument ready to the
country's hand by which anything can
be accomplished."
AGED MAN SUCCUMBS TO
ATTACK HEART FAILURE
Dave Hollcman, Recent Comer, Dies
Without Friends in Local Board
ing House Undertaker Hold
ing Remains for C'lamiant.
Dave Holloman, appearing to be
about 70 years of age, died suddenly
in the boarding-house of Mrs. F. A.
Moore, 402 North Heritage street, at
C:45 a. m. Sunday.
Holloman had been in the house but
a short time. He came here from
Pink Hill, where he had been in ques
of work, unsuccessfully. His home
is not known. Mrs. Moore saw the
aged man stagger in the hallway of
her house and asked him what was
the matter. "I have a pain in my
breast," said Holloman. He fell, and
in ten minutes was dead. No one has
claimed the remains, which are in an
undertaking establishment.
FEDERATION EXPECTED
TO O. K. SUFFRAGE MOVE
Youngstown, O., Oct. 19. Formal
approval of the proposed woman suf
frage amendment to Ohio's constitu
tion is expected at the Ohio Federa
tion of Woman's Clubs, which con
vened here today.
ties for cattle will be had for
first time in history.
the
SUPERINTENDENT DAVIS OF
THE ANTI-SALOON LEAGUE
i THE SPEAKER.
LAW TO STOP SHIPMENTS
Mr. Davis Explained the Provisions
of Bill Which Temperance People
Hope to Have Enacted at the
Next Legislature.
An audience of between 600 and
700 people, of all denominations,
heard Rev. R. L. Davis, superintend
ent of the North Carolina Anti-Sa
loon League, at a temperance mass
meeting in Queen Street Methodist
church Sunday evening. Most of the
pastors in the city were present, and
nearly all evangelical services had
been dispensed with to allow the va
rious congregations to hear Mr. Da
vis, who is one of the foremost tem
perance advocates in' the country.
The superintendent spoke for more
than an hour, having as his general
subject prohibition. He reviewed the
effect of the present North Carolina
laws and discussed the advantages of
absolute temperance from all sides.
Mr. Davis also explained the propos
ed law which the Anti-Saloon League
is agitating, that would prevent com
mon carriers in North Carolina from
delivering liquor except by a tedious
legal process, and that only for me
dicinal or scientific purposes.
It was the first visit of the famous
anti-saloonist to Kinston in many
months, and he was pleased to learn
of th progress that has been made
locally for the eradication of the whis
ky evil in the interim. Mr. Davis pre
dicts national prohibition before
many years.
COMMISSION HEARING
RAILROADS' PETITION
Would Increase Freight Rates Five
Per Cent. Flat Account of War
Congressman Henry Delays
Action on War Measure.
(By the United Press.)
Washington, Oct. 19. The Inter
state Commerce Commission today
started rehearing the application for
freight increases of 132 eastern rail
roads. The railroads asking for a
five per cent, advance, contend that
the war brought on a crisis in rail
road affairs, and that immediately
increased revenue is imperative.
Representative Henry continued the
cotton filibuster against the war tax
bill, postponing action until tomor
row. COLLECTOR J. W. BAILEY
WILL SPEAK TUESDAY
Well Known Democratic Leader Will
Address Lenoir Voters at Court
House in Kinston at Noon
Is Very Able Speaker.
J. VV. Bailey, one of North Caro
lina's best known orators, will speak
in behalf of the Democratic State
organization at the. Courthouse to
morrow at noon. Mr. Bailey will be
the only representative of the State
Executive Committee to visit Kin
ston during this week, planned to be
the period of greatest activity of the
campaign.
Mr. Bailey has visited several of
the eastern counties snice the opening
of the campaign, and has been heard
by big crowds everywhere. His com
ing to Kinston has been extensively
advertised by the local organization,
and the hour for the address put at
12 o'clock, the most convenient time
for the tobacco planters court- at
attendance who visit the city tomor
row. The noted campaigner's speech
will be about the leading event of the
political program here this fall.
Mr. Bailey was in the last Legis
lature with E. R. Wooten, Lenoir's
candidate for re-election to the House
of Representatives.
NAPOLEON'S BITTER ENEMIES
ARE LOOKED UPON TO SAVE
THE FRENCH CAPITAL.
FRENCH AIR MEN HEROIC
The Question Is Asked Where They
Are, and the Impression Is That
They Have Already Sacrificed
Their Lives for the Cause.
By William G. Shepherd)
(United Press Staff Correspondent.)
Paris, Sept. 29. (By Mail to New
York.) A little man all bundled up
in coats drove up this very street one
December day a century ago, and
rushing into a building in this very
park, tore through the halls, dashed
Into a certain room and there threw
his arms around the Empress of
France. He was Napoleon, back from
Moscow, where the Russians had all
but shattered him. Two days later
he told the story and France shud
dered at the name of Russia.
But today when I saw this street,
France was thrilling with hope at
the thought that somewhere, in the
fog of war, huge Cossacks from Mos
cow itself, perhaps, were coming? by
land or by sea, with their wild horses,
to save this street and palace and the
great art galleries and Paris and
France itself from the Germans. The
street was almost deserted. The
great Tuilleries gardens lay in the
golden autumn sunshine as empty and
silent as if they had been farms in
Iowa, after crop time, instead of the
most famous park in the irld. . The
Louvre art gallery was locked. I
don't know whether its art treasures
remain there or not. A soldier at one
door told me he didn't know either.
The wonderful pieces of marble and
painting which. Napoleon when mas
ter of Europe, seized as he pleased
and took as war booty to his great
and powerful Paris, have been hidden
away perhaps ere now or will be
when the sound of German guns which
I heard booming to the northwest this
afternoon grows louder. Here's the
great building right here; the great
Louvre gallery. Stand and look at it
this September afternoon, and then
listen to the cannon, not many miles
away, and you'll have a thrill you'll
never forget. We cross the river. I
want to see Napoleon's tomb. We
pass great railroad stations that are
closed; somewhere the steel lines that
run out from them have been cut by
the Germans, and the trains are not
running. Here we are at the Inva
lides, the old soldiers' home. I can't
go in. I can't even go near the old
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PUBLISHER TOMPKINS
ANSWERS LAST SUMMONS
One of Founders of Charlotte Ob
server Died Sunday at His Sum
mer Home in the Mountains
Well Known in Nation.
Charlotte, Oct. 18. Daniel Augus
tus Tompkins, who with the late Jos
eph P. Caldwell, re-established the
Charlotte Observer in 18!2, and who
for thirty years was one of the lead
ing men in the South, and was known
from Maine to Texas, died today at
12:45 o'clock at his summer home
at Montreat. Death was due to par
alysis, from which he had suffered
for four years.
OBSERVE
"PEGGY
STEWART"
DAY.
(By the United Press.)
Annapolis, Md., Oct. 1!). "Peg,
Stewart" day was celebrated tooa.
all over Maryland and Virginia by
historical and patriotic societies, this
being the anniversary of the burning
in Annapolis harbor October 19, 1774,
of the brig "Peggy Stewart" because
the ship's owners paid a duty on a
cargo of tea, which enraged Mary
landers opposing the tea tax. Today
was also the anniversary of the sur
render of General Comwallis o Gen
eral George Washington in 1781 at
VrlrtMim- !
A NUMBER OF ALLEGED ILLICIT
DEALERS TO BE TRIED AT
THIS TERM.
6-DAY COURT TERM BEGINS
Both Civil and Criminal Cases Will
Be Heard More Than 200 Civil
and 177 Criminal Cases on
Week's Docket.
Superior Court convened today for
a six-days' term, with 177 cases on
the criminal docket, and more than
200 civil causes listed. It is prob
able that few civil matters will be
heard, because of the large criminal
docket to be tried in such a short
term.
A large number of the criminal
cases docketed are against retailers
of whisky, etc., and Judge Frank
Daniels, presiding, took the liquor
traffic as the theme for his admirable
charge to the jury this morning. He
discoursed at length upon the effects
of the illegal traffic in the rural com
munities and cities, and stated that
no person, who engaged in it, was
ever instrumental in uplift. Whisky,
he declared, combats the resultB of
the pulpit, the home and the school,
and no person dealing in it can co
operate with those influences for
good.
The jury listened attentively to
Judge Daniels' remarks. They were
typically intelligent body of towns
men and Lenoir county planters, and
displayed an interest in the remarks
from the bench which presaged ener
getic action by this court in upholding
the prohibition laws.
Judge Daniels expounded the senti
ment in North Carolina which actu
ated prohibition and which now pre
dominates throughout the civilized
world, that regards liquor as the
greatest menace to civilization that
exists, he declared.
Judge Daniels again called atten
tion to the bawdy house evil, which
he so persistently attacked when he
conducted his first court here several
weeks ago, that a number of women
were banished from the State. He
dwelt upon the harm that this ele
ment does in the city, and urged its
abolition. He called attention to the
salient points of the law and urged
the entire elimination of the segre
gated district. The citizens and the
agents of the law, he said, should co
operate to this end.
U. S. SUPREME COURT
RENDERS DECISIONS
First Cases of Fall Term Expected to
He Handed Down Today.
(By the United Press.)
Washington, Oct. 19. The
preme Court, in order to carry
the regular order, advanced the hear
ing of argument in the celebrajdju
Harry K. Thaw extradition casA.tov'
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Washington, Oct. 19. MeutL.g 'f,,r
the first time since the sumjHef veceaP'
for the purpose of han(lrg, dovvrr de
cisions, the Supreme Vour oflhe
United States has a docket f already
argued cases of Bfrc-V'-Jmjflrtance.
None of the casjff f ' nls pt interest
several of thosaf"--; .'d down last sea
son. But the$ 1 14 a number of knot
ty problem,! I. 2 secernent of which
there is Kfiij r.iost Intense interest in
a numb
r J localities.
tveae is the Maryland
J' case. This law would
On
.fciicgroes from voting for
: cJfcers, but in state and mu-
, infections provides that, among
I. tr iflings, a man can vote if his an
ctqtdrs voted prior to January 1, 18(58,
or oefore negroes were enfranchised.
This was applied in Annapolis, capital
of Maryland and four negroes have
appealed the case to the . Supreme
Court, in that it does not bar negroes,
even in its practical working out, from
voting for President and congressmen.
Another race question decision
which will be handed down in the near
future, probably, if not today, will be
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