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VOL. XVI. No. 258
ALLIES REPORTED TO HAVE SUCCEEDED IN
CUTTING THE GERMAN COMMUNICATION
BRUGES AND GHENT AFTER STRUGGLE
GUERILLAS OF ALLIES TROUBLING REAR OF GERMAN LINES, AND
ARE SAID TO HAVE "SNIPED" GREAT NUMBERS
OF THE GERMAN SOLDIERS.
KAISER'S MEN IN EAST IN
Russian Cavalry Annoying Retreating
Which Have Been Mired in the Flight German Losses, Accord
ing to Petrograd Dispatches, Will Total Two Hun
dred Thousand Killed, Wounded and Prisoners.
The Hague, Oct. 23. -It is report
ed that the Allies have succeeded in
cutting the German communication
between Burges and Ghent. Fighting
in that section is declared to be in
creasing. Bands of franctireurs
(puerillas) are operating in the rear
of the German lines and have "snip
ed" hundreds of Germans.
GERMAN AND ALLIED FORCES
FIGHTING VIOLENTLY.
Paris, Oct. 23. It is reported that
the Germans have withdrawn east
ward from Hariskerke and Middle
Kirke. The Germans have entrench
ed the east Main Highway which con
nects Ostend and Nieuport and forti
fied the line from Wilskerke south
east of Thorout. The German head
quarters in the north have been mov
ed to Ghistells. The Germans are act
ivp alone the heiehts and there is
violent fighting along the center.
GERMANS COMPLETELY
ROUTED AT WARSAW.
. Petrograd, Oct. 23. The general
staff has announced that the German
forces are in full retreat from the vi
cinity of Warsaw. At several points
the retreat has taken the proportions
of complete rout. Many German
heavy guns have been mired and con
sequently captured by the Kussians.
The German retreat was so precipi
tate as to force them to abandon all
wounded and large quantities of hos
pital supplies. The Russian cavalry
is harassing the retreating army and
taking numerous prisoners. Reports
reaching the military headquarters
state the German losses in killed,
wounded and prisoners taken, total
two hundred thousand. Fighting is
still in progress along the line of the
Vistula, and is constantly increasing
in magnitude.
MONTENEGRINS ON
THE OFFENSIVE
AGAINST AUSTRIANS.
Cettinje, Oct. 23 Fighting of most
severe character is in progress be
tween a large force of Austrians and
Montenegrins. The Austrians have
been defeated at every point, accord
ing to an official statement. The
statement follows: "The Austrians'
superior force fiercely attacked our
forces, their efforts being directed
against our right wing. The stub
bornness of the fighting is best shown
by the fact that a Montenegrin bat
tery fired seventeen hundred rounds in
two days. A large body of Austrians
was surrounded near Fotche and com
pletely decimated. Everywhere we
are on the offensive."
GERMANY WILL NOT CALL
FOR VOLUNTEERS NOW.
Berlin (Via Wireless), Oct. 23.
The German press bureau has an
nounced that there will be no call for
volunteers at present because the en
tire reserve force has not been called
into active service. It is stated that
the number of troops in Landwhr and
Ersatz Moran are sufficient to fill the
gaps in the first line. It is claimed
that many inhabitants of Antwerp are
returning to their homes. It is an
nounced that the Reichstag will con
vene early in December. v It is official
ly denied that the shots fired at the
Danish submarine "Havmanden" were
by German vessels.
German Prince is -
killed in action.
London, Oct 23. The press bu
reau has announced that Prince Max
Hesse, nephew of the Kaiser, was
Tdlled in action in Mont Deseat re
fioa. , He was buried in the monas
tery grounds. It is declared that the
operations in North France are ham
pered by heavy mists, which makes
PUBLISHED
RETREAT FROM WARSAW
Forces and Taking Many Heavy Guns,
impossible the operations of artillery
and aerial corps, which previously
were most important factor.
The Germans stubbornly resisted
the advance of the Allies with fre
quent hand-to-hand fighting. The nu
merous dykes south' of Lyes necessi
tate transporting planks and ladders
J to be utilized in crossing work. The
burying of dead has been left most
ly to the inhabitants, as the troops are
too busy. The peasants take special
rare with craves, which are marked
with crosses.
BELGIAN KING ON FIRING LINE
Hazebrouck, Via HavrOct. 23.
"My skin is of no more value to my
country than yours," was the courag
eous reply of King Albert of Belgium
when he was urged not to .stay on the
firing line. The Belgians' general
staff admits that the German attack
in Southwestern Belgium is most vio
lent of the war. The Germans plainly
planned to sweep right through Bel
gium and take Dunkirk with a rush,
The Belgians made a final stand at
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Nieuport, and urged on by their King,
fought like demons.
HOUSTON WOMEN START
CAMPAIGN FOR THRIFT
j daughter, Elizabeth, followed, and
Houston, Texas, Oct. 23. Led by made a splendid witness for her moth
Mrs. Henry B. Fall, president of the j er. The girl said after hearing the
State Federation of Women's Clubs, shot she ran upstairs and found her
the housewives of Houston have in
augurated a thrift campaign. The
high cost of living is to be reduced.
The women are going to lower prices,
not by boycotting merchants nor by
legislation but by observing the sug
gestions made at the great meeting
at which the campaign was launched.
Among the suggestions were the
following:
"It is the women's business to buy
what goes into the home. She should
know her business. Too many wo
man trust the buying to their ser
vants. There are many housewives
who do not know what they have in
their pantry. Housewives should do
their own marketing. They should
carry their bundles home. House
wives pay delivery charges without
realizing it. Keep a good scale and
dry measures in the house to make
sure the merchant has not cheated.
Bring the producer and consumer to
gether through the medium of the
ward market. Make cheaper beef
possible in the future by refusing to
buy veal now. Make it impossible
for middlemen to make four or five
times as much as the producer. Do
not encourage the use of fancy labels,
They cost money."
DINNER CLOSES BAR
ASSOCIATION'S
MEETING.
Washington, Ort. 22.A d'nncr to-
: ight in honor of the United Slates
Supreme Court and commemorative
of its 125th anniversary, presided over
by former President W. H. Taft, and
attended by Chief Justice White and
associate justices, closed the annual
meeting of the American Ear Asso
ciation. .
William Bynum of Greensboro, N.
C, was elected a member of the ex
ecutive committee.
Y. M. C. A. CONFERENCE OPENS.
Morristown, . Oct 23. With the
theme for discussion "The Quest of
the Best" the annual Young Men's
Christian Association State boy's
conference began here today, and will
continue until Sunday. There are
everal hundred delegates in attend
ance from all sections of the State,
and some noted speakers are sched
uled to address the conference.
BiZBRY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDRY,
KINSTON, N. C, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1914
CARMAN WAS
UNSHAKEN BY LONG
CROSS EXAMINATION
DENIED FLATLY HAVING SEEN
NEGRESS IN KITCHEN ON
NIGHT OF MURDER.
DAUGHTER GOOD WITNESS
Suspicions Aroused Because Husband
Had Reputation of Being "Some
Devil With Women" Nothing
Learned from Dictograph.
(By the United Press.)
Mineola, L I., Oct 23. Mrs. Car
man faced the ordeal of cross exam
ination this morning.
Mineola, N. Y., Oct. 23. Mrs. Car
man, when she took the stand yester
day in her own defense, enterecf a
sweeping denial of the charge that ihe
murdered Mrs. Louise Bailey. Ghe
was on the stand an hour, and dur
ing that time declared false every
statement made by the negress, Celia
Coleman, who was in the employ of
the Carmans at the time of the mur
der. Mrs. Carman faid she was mar
ried in 1892.
On the night of June 30, she . said,
she returned to Freeport from New
York. She had a headache, and went
right to bed. She answered the door
once and admitted a man she did not
know. She had retired when Mrs.
Powell came up and informed her
that some woman had been shot in
the doctor's office.
With her testimony unshaken de
spite a searching cross-examination
lasting more than hour, Mrs. Flor
ence Carman was excused from wit-
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answered that she had heard that he
was "some devil with women' but
said she had heard nothing on the
dictograph to make her jealous. Her
mother in bed.
ARIZONA WOMEN TO
"REBUKE" OPPONENTS
Phoenix, Ariz., Oct. 23. By wield
ing weapons placed in their hands by
the granting of women's suffrage,
Arizona women have undertaken the
task of disciplining statesmen, poli
ticians and others who had the te
merity to oppose the equal suffrage
amendment before the polls.
BULLETINS
(By the United Press.)
Paris, Oct. 23. It is officially
declared that gaps between the
Allies' lines in the north have
been filled. The greatest activ
ity prevails in the vicinity of Ar
ras. The general situation is
about the same.
WANTS MORE MEN AND
BIGGER GUNS ON COAST.
Washington, Oct. 22. An urgent
plea for more men to garrison the
country's coast defenses was made by
Brigadier General E. M. Weaver,
chief of coast artillery, in his annual
report today to Secretary Garrison.
No new fortifications were asked for
in addition to the proposed fort at
Cape Henry, to command the entrance
to Chesapeake Bay.
Calling attention to the larger guns
of foreign battleships of latest! de
sign, General Weaver asked tha( 16
inch guns be provided for Cape Hen
ry.
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HORSES NOW SCARCE
ON KANSAS FARMS.
- Topeka, Kan., Oct. 23. Motor cars
and trucks have replaced 70,000
horses in Kansas during the last four
years. Where from fifty to seventy
five horses were required on the big
farms in western Kansas, now only
a half a dozen are to be found. Big
gasoline tractors plow the fields, gas
oline trucks do the heavy hauling and
motor cars in the State-
Free
MEXICAN REBEL
HAS WITHDRAWN
TROOPS FROM NACO
NOW SIX MILES FROM AMERI
CAN BORDER AND LESS
DANGEROUS.
CONGRESS IS DEADLOCKED
Leaders in Senate Successful With
Filibuster and Prevent Adjourn-
ment Leaders Confer With
President Wilson.
(By the United Press.)
Washington, Oct. 23. The war of
fice has been informed that General
Maytorena has withdrawn his troops,
lrom Naco, six miles south of the
American border. The firing vesler
day between trenches was more se
vere than usual.
Senate and House leaders told Pres
ident Wilson that Congress is hope
lessly deadlocked on the question of
adjournment. The President doesn t
approve the use of power by major
ity to adjourn the Congress.
Washington, Oct. 23 Filibuster by
Southern Democrats fighting for leg
islation to relieve the cotton situation
upset plans for adjournment of Con
gress at 6 o'clock Thursday night.
Led by Senator Hoke Smith of
Georgia, Southern members at the
last moment prevented action in the
Senate on a joint resolution to ad
journ sine die, already passed by the
House, and it appeared tonight un
less an agreement could be reached
tomorrow for a recess until after the
November electiosn, Congress would
stay in session indefinitely without a
quorum.
The collapse of the adjournment
came after every hope of its success
had been held out, and supreme ef
forts made to conclude the session af
ter adoption in both houses of the
conference report on the war tax bill.
COLORADO IN THROES
OF PROHIBITION FIGHT
Denver, Colo., Oct. 23. Whether
Colorado will be wet or dry is the
question almost overshadowing r. 11
others at the election to be held No
vember 3 throughout Colorado. One
of the bitterest campaigns in the
State's histry is being made by the
anti-saloon forces. The foes of li
quor are supremely confident that
they will reverse the result of the
last liquor election in Colorado sever
al years ago, when the "wets" won by
a vote of nearly 2 to 1. One of the
principal arguments used by the
"wets" is that voting the State "d.y"
would paralyze the tourist business
everywhere in Colorado, as travelers
would refuse to visit a State in which
they could not get a drink. This con
tention is denied by the "drys," who
declare that Colorado Springs, one
of the principal centers for tourist
travel in Colorado is already "dry"
territory. They declare the absence
of saloons has not had any effect on
tourist travel. Rev. "Billy" Sunday,
baseball player-evangelist, took a
hand in the campaign during his re
cent revival by preaching a series of
powerful sermons on the liquor evil,
and urging his hearers to vote for
prohibition.
FATHER OF MANY AND
PRESIDENT OBJECTS
OF MUTUAL CURIOSITY.
Washington, Oct. 22. President
Wilson today congratulated J. E,
Duckworth, a North Carolina moun
taineer, on his record as the father of
twenty-five children, and for, having
voted the Democratic ticket for sixty
five years. Mr. Duckworth, who had
never seen a President before, was in
troduced to Mr. Wilson by Senator
Overman.,
PEACE PRAYER ON SOCKS.
Los Angeles, Oct. 23. Stitched to
each shirt and sock that the women
of Los Angeles are making for the
men who are fighting Europe's bat
tles, is a prayer for peace. The work
furnishes employment daily to scores
of women and girls.
CAMPAIGNERS WILL
HOLD. BIG RALLY AT
LAGRANGE SATURDAY
SPEAKERS AT TULL'S MILL IN
TRENT TOWNSHIP MEET
FAIR-SIZED CROWD.
QUESTIONS FOR VOTERS
The Electors Will Have to Decide
Whether They Want to Continue
Present Rule of, By and for
the People.
The county Democratic candidates
this morning motored twelve miles
over exceedingly bad roads to Trull's
Mill, in Trent township,, where, in
spite of the inclemency, a fair crowd
of partisans greeted them. Accom
panying the nominees was Solicitor
Henry E. Shaw, who, with Hon. N. J.
Rouse, was featured on the speaking
program at Woodington Thursday.
Hon. E. R. Wooten, candidate for
re-election to the house of represen
tatives, was the expounder of the pfo
posed constitutional amendments to
the Trent people today. At least one
speaker at each meeting in the coun
ty is delegated to discuss the amend
ments, and Mr. Rouse it was who sub
stituted for Representative Wooten,
whose stated task it is, at Wooding
ton.
Tomorrow at LaGrange the most
important meeting of the campaign
aside from that which closes the cam
paign here next Saturday, will be
held. This will be about the only cam
paign event for LaGrange, which will
be touched by none of the State Exe
cutive Committee's orators.
Chairman Cowper had intended ac
companying the nominees to Trent
today, but was prevented by business
for State headquarters. At the re
quest of State Chairman Warren he
forwarded to the Raleigh offices in
formation of the campaign's progress
in Lenoir county, and his idea of
about what strength would be turned
out by the Democrats in the county
on November 3.
The voters of the county are being
hrihded among other literature at the
precinct rallies a list of "questions"
which they will be required to an
swer on election day, as follows: Are
you with Wall Street or the Demo
cratic party? Are you for Cannon-
ism or the Democratic party? Would
you take a backward step on the par
cel post? (The Wilson administra
tion has extended the system and re
duced the cost of transportation, the
leaflet informs the reader.) Are you
for Woodrow Wilson or the lobbyists
(the paid devotees of special privil
ege who were driven from Washing
ton by the President) ? Are you for
a tax on necessities or a tax on
wealth ? Would you restore Schedule
K to the Payne-Aldrich-Smoot tariff
(stated to be panic-breeding law)?
Would you return to the dark days
of Butlerism, fusionism and negroism
(the Democratic party having restor
ed white supremacy in the State)?
REDFIELD GETS BUSY
WHEN HE HEARS SUGAR
MAY GO TO 15 CENTS.
Washington, Oct. 22. Secretary
Redfield, in response to a Senate res
olution, today began investigation of
reports that immense quantities of
raw sugar are beingweid in storage
in New York and Philadelphia "in the
expectation that Great Britain and
France will soon be strong competi
tors for Cuban sugar, and that the
price of raw .sugar will reach such
a figure that the refined product in
January and February may. go to 15
cents a pound."
The resolution, submitted by Sena
tor Thomas, maintained that such re
ported holding constituted a viola
tion of the law.
DURHAMITE NEW
HEAD STATE FAIR.
Raleigh, Oct 22. The North Caro
lina Agricultural Society, which has
for more than half a century been
holding the annual State fairs, to
night elected E. J. Parrish of Dur
ham president to succeed J. A. Mills
of Raleigh. "
PRICE TWO CENTS
JUDGE JAS.G. COX
DIED AT HIS HOME
THIS AFTERNOON
VENERABLE CITIZEN PASSES
AWAY AFTER LINGERING
ILLNESS.
OF WELL KNOWN FAMILY
His Father Was a Pioneer Citizen of
Community Survived by Wife,
Sister and Four Children
Funeraliice Later.
Judge James Gabriel Cox, one of
Kinston's best. nown older citi
zens, died shortly before 2 o'clock
this afternoon, in his 73rd yearM at
his home on South Heritage street.
Judge Cox was for many years a
familiar figure on the streets of thd
city. He was a popular magistrate,
and held a record for officiating at
marriages. He was the son of James
W. Cox, a pioneer Kinstonian.
The infirmities of old age caused
his death. Judge Cox's last appear
ance in public was in September at
the 'opening of the Kennedy Memo
rial Home, When the over-exertion
occasioned by his visit to the institu
tion caused a relapse, since which
time he has been gradualling sink
ing daily.
Besides the widow, one sister, Mrs.
Hutchins of Chapel Hill, and the fol-
lowing sons and daughters survive:
James W. Cox of Elm City; John G.
Cox, Roy A. Cox and Mrs. George
Suggs of the city. Mr. J. W. Cox was
at his father's bedside this morning,
and had returned to Elm City only
three hours before the Grim Messen
ger claimed the fine old gentleman.
UTILIZING PARCEL POST TO
CARRY FARM PRODUCTS
(By Burton K. Standish.)
(Written for the United Press.) .
Washington, Oct. 23. The plan of
Postmaster Otto Praeger of Wash
ington of utilizing the parcel post for
the delivery of farm produce to city
consumers has spread throughout the
country. Scores of State and coun
ty fairs, with parcel post exhibits
among their well-advertised "strik
ing and novel features," have already
been held or are now in progress, ac
cording to reports reaching the Post-
office Department.
A statement issued by the Postoffice
Department declares that "Postmas
ter General Burleson's suggestion
that postmasters the county over
join in giving the public ocular dem
onstrations of the advantage and the
best methods of using the parcel post
has been adopted on a huge scale."
The State and county fair exhibits
have been installed under postal aus
pices pursuant to the direct approval
of this plan of further educating the
general public in the use of the par
cel post.
POU'S SON GOES TO
SCHOOL WHILE
ON GOVERNMENT PAYROLL.
Washington, D. C, Oct. 22. The
publication in the Philadelphia In
quirer today of a story giving the
names of senators and members of
Congress who carried members of
their families on the government pay-
rool caused not a few members of
Congress some uneasiness. The most
interesting part of the story to North
Carolinians was that part which re
ferred to Representative E. W. Pou
of North Carolina.
The Fourth district congressman
was charged with keeping his son,
George R. Pou, on the pay-roll as
an assistant clerk to the committee
on claims, of which Congressman Pou
is chairman, and at the same time al
lowing his son to attend the Univer
sity of North Carolina. Young Pou,
though attending the State Univer
sity, is receiving a government sal
ary of 1,600. t
A. & M. DEFEATS
U. OF W. VA. ELEVEN,
Raleigh, Oct. 22. North Carolina
Agricultural and Mechanical College
here today defeated the University
of West Virginia at football, 26 to 23.