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VOL. XVI. No. 260
BOER REVOLT NOT SERIOUSLY MENACING
SOUTH AFRICAN UNION AS THE LOYALISTS
HAVE THE SITUATION WELL IN HAND NOW
PREMIER BOTHA PREPARED A SURPRISE AND ROUTED THE
REBEL GENERAL BEYERS IN WESTERN TRANSVAAL
DEWET TRYING TO RESTORE DUTCH UNION.
THE EMDEN USES JAP COLO
Russian Cruiser and French Destroyer
sical Exhaustion Causes Slight Cessation In Hgnung iwo
Hundred and Fifty Troops Killed and Pieces of Flesh
Thrown Miles When German Gun Exploded.
(By the United Press.)
London, Oct. 29. The Boer revolt
is well ij hand. Premier Botha has
prepared a surprise for the enemy and
loyal troops have routed General
Christian Beyers in the Western
Transvaal. The outbreak is now no
menace to the Union of South Africa.
The rebels have issued a proclamation
to the inhabitants. It says: "We want
to re-establish the Dutch republic."
The Boers are called to rally to the
support of General Dewet
BIG GERMAN GUN EXPLODED,
KILLING 250 MEN.
Madrid, Oct 29. A German forty
tnn centimeter srun exploded when
overcharged, instantly killing the
srunners and 250 troops in the vicin
ity, according to a newspaper dispatch
from the front The ''mangled bod
ies and Kmb3 of cavalrymen and frag
merits of shells sprayed the infantry
trenches for seven miles."
CRUISER EMDEN STILL GIVING
THE ALLIES TROUBLE.
London. Oct 29. A Tokio news
agency reports that the British am
bassador has been informed that the
German cruiser Emden, 'flying the
Japanese flag, slipped into the port
of Penang in the Straits Settlements,
and torpedoed the Russain cruiser
Jemtchug and a French destroyer in
the harbor, both sunk with consider
able loss of life. A press association
dispatch from Fleetwood, Eng., says
a steamer was lost off Malinhead, on
the North coast of Ireland by strik
ing a German mine.
EXHAUSTION HALTS FIGHTING
GERMANS REINFORCE.
Paris, Oct. 29. Actual physical ex
haustion has seriously interfered with
the operations in Northern France
Both sides are contenting themselves
with an artillery duel along the en
tire line.
The Germans are still bringing up
fresh reinforcements. It is expected
that the Germans will soon attempt
to advance between Lille and Arras.
ALLIES MAKING SOME PROGRESS
Paris, Oct 29. The Allies are con
tinuing to make progress, especially
in the region of the Ypres and Arras,
where the allies have taken a' num
ber of German trenches by a series pf
brilliant' operations, according to,tO'
day's official statement The Allies
are advancing in the Argonne region
in the forest of Apremont Elsewhere
conditions are unchanged.
According to official statement,
there is "nothing new from the Nieu-port-Dixmude
line. None of the Ger
man partial attacks in the north have
succeeded."
MORE COPPER LADEN SHIPS
!? HELD.
Washington, Oct. 29. The seizure
at Gibraltar by British authorities of
two Italian vessels carrying cargoes
; f American copper is reported to the
State Department ' by the shippers,
. New York copper companies.
GERMANS ADMIT
, , RETREAT IN POLAND
J Berlin, yia The Hague, Oct 29.
,The war office has admitted the forc
ed retreat from Russian Poland, be
cause of the number of th$ Russians.
It states, "We are again- resuming
J the offensive." However it is under
stood that strong reinforcements are
being sent east . ':"!.
I RUSSIANS AGAIN OFFENSIVE:
Petrograd, Oct 29. The Russians
lve resumed the offensive. Austri
in troops are enveloped Eythe" Rus
sian left, while the center and right is
driving the Germans back to their ad
vanced lines inside the East Prussian
frontier., Przemysl fortress presents
the objective for the Russian left's
advance. In the fortress medical and
food supplies are low. -
PUBLISHED
RS AND HURLS TORPEDOES
Victims of German Strategy Phy
THREE QUARTS OF WINE
GOT BOYS IN TROUBLE
Kitt Richard and Jim Cross, East
Kinston youths, had a glorious time
on the Dam road late Wednesday
while hunting. According to the
couple, George Hawkins and Bob Baa
den, at the Iron Bridge, sold them
three quarts of wine. Richard and
and Cross profess to having shot a
squirrel and gone into one of the
"sloughs" after it; at any' rate they
were wet when arrested, Cross for
mutilating signs on the roadside and
Richard for pointing his shotgun at
an innocent passerby."
"See that 'S' on that sign?" Rich
ard asked Cross. Cross saw it. "Shoot
it or I'll shoot your feet off," Rich
ard threatened. In spite of his con
dition, Cross shot at the letter with
effect.
Jake Sutton came riding by on a
bicycle, at a speed satisfactory to
himself, but not to Richard. "IH as
sist you," said Richard, or words to
that effect; "Rfcle faster!" When Sut
ton saw Richard shoving cartridges
into his gun he rode faster straight
to the sheriff's office.
When the men had been arrested
and taken to the sheriff's office a fire
was built by which they might dry.
Soon they became too warm, and were
allowed to sit in the back door of the
Courthouse to cool off. They sat for
a time, and then Cross leaped a fence
and started home. Richard also put
out, up Caswell street, but after run
ning a block reconsidered and return
ed. Cross was afterward rearrested
at his home, and is in jail. Richard
gave bond.
A warrant was issued for Hawkins
and Basden for selling the wine.
BROCKWELL AND LADDIES
GUESTS OF CHIEF MOSELEY
Following Fire Marshal's Lecture At
City Hall Wednesday Night the
Party Partook of Refreshments
At SkinnerV Emporium.
Sherwood Brockwell, the 'fire pre
vention agent of the State Insurance
Department now here, Wednesday af
ternoon had a handful of member of
hose companies Nos. 1 and 2 at work
at the east end of the' Courthouse, in
structing them in the use of the va
rious ladders With which the local de
partment is equipped, how to properly
handle hose, and in the rescue and
first-aid rudiments.
Brockwell, who wore, the chief's
badge of the Raleigh department be
fore going with Commissioner Young,
took the hook and ladder truck of the
Kinston firemen and did some things
with its equipment of which they were
nearly entirely ignorant. He showed
them how to ascend and descend with
the minimum of danger, and how ; to
bring injured or suffocated persons
out of upper story windows.
At evening a number of firemen
were lectured to by the efficient fire
prevention man in the City Hall, and
afterward, as the guests cf Chief Tom
Moseley, more than a 'score ; were
served refreshments at Skinner's.
Mr. Brockwell may conclude his
stay in Kinston after another lecture
to the firemen tonight He will com
plete an inspection of the" city fire
district before he leaves, and report
to the Insurance Department in s
short time. He is endeavoring to sow
the seeds for regular practice under
modern methods of the volunteer com.
panies of the fire department, and has
made a large number of converts. to
his ideas. !
EVERY HITERNOON EXCEPT, SUNDAY.
KINSTON, N. C, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1914
UNCLE SAM MAY
TAKE THE COLORADO
MINES UNDER WING
PRESIDENT ASKS ATTORNEY
GENERAL ABOUT LEGALITY
OF PROCEDURE.
MORE SHIPS ARE HELD UP
Copper Company Reports Two Others
Detained at Gibraltar Final Ar
guments of Eastern Roads
Presented Today.
(By the United Press.)
Washington, Oct. 29. It is inti
mated in high official sources that
President Wilson has questioned At
torney General Gregory as to the le
gality of taking the Colorado mines
under federal supervision.
FINAL ARGUMENTS IN
RATE INCREASE
Washington, Oct. 29. Arguments
in the Eastern railroad's appeal for a
five per cent, freight rate increase
were today started and will conclude
tomorrow.
MEXICAN REBEL GETS
READY TO RESUME SCRAP
Fourteen Carloads of Reinforcements
Now En Route to Join His
Forces May Name Provision
al President Today..
(By the United Press.)
Washington, Oct. 29. Fourteen
carloads reinforcements are aowdul j
in Nogalcs, so that General Maytor- j
na may renew his attack, the War De-1
partment has been informed. The
Aguas Calientes conference is expect-1
ed to name a provisional president of
Mexico this afternoon.
GERMANS RUSHING
HEAVY REINFORCEMENTS
- (By the United Press.)
Paris, Oct. 29. Air scouts report
that the Germans are bringing heavy
reinforcements from Aix-la-Chapelle
and from the right of the center to
reinforce the lines between Lille and
the Belgian frontier.
HIS CONFIDENCE IN
STRANGER BETRAYED
New Bern, Oct. 29. A. N. Green
of Camp Perry, who belongs to the
class of whom Barnum said, "There's
one born every two minutes," last
night purchased three tickets from
Lee Morris, whom he did not know,
which he was told would admit the
holders to the East Carolina fair
grounds. The tickets were for last
June's home-coming week celebration.
Green afterwards could not find Mor
ris, nor could the police.
BULLETINS
(By the United Press.)
TORPEDO BOAT DESTROYER.
STILL STUCK.
Norfolk, Va., Oct 29. The
crews of two naval tugs and the
auxiliary cruiser Panther made
little progress toward raising the
stranded torpedo boat destroyer
. Paulding, which is buried in six
feet of sand. .Today the Pauld
ing's crew was transferred to the
'Panther. .A naval board of in
quiry will begin investigation
tomorrow.
GERMANS DRIVE ENGLISH
CITIZENS FROM BERLIN.
London, Oct 29. It is report
ed that Berlin officials, learning
of the severe restrictions imposed
on Germans in London, have hi
stitoted reprisals and cleaned the
cltyof Englishmen.
TAXI BANDITS RESUME
OPERATIONS IN NEW YORK.
New York, Oct 29, Four taxi
cab bandits today held up two
men with $4,000, for the payroll
of the Stanley Soap Company and
then escaped.
Free
business houses
,R.R.
SERVICE STOPPED
I-
BIG FIRE RAGING IN NORTH
TONAWANDA, NEW YORK,
TODAY.
SPECTATOR LOST A LEG
Neighboring Cities , Lend Assistance
and Send Fire Apparatus Loss
Already Approximately Half
Million Dollars.
(Br the United Press.)
North Tonawanda. N. Y., Oct 29.
An incendiary fire raging in the lum
ber yards of Brady Brothers, has al
ready destroyed several business
plants. The tracks of the New York
Central and Erie Railroads were
swept by the flames, and no trains are
able to pass. The rails of the Lock-
port trolley line were warped by the
heat A spectator was 1 run over by
a switch engine and had his leg cut
off. The North Tonawanda. Tonawan
da and Niagara Falls fire depart
ments are fighting the flames. The
loss already is estimated at $400,000.
KEEPING BAD COMPANY
HAS USUAL TERMINUS
Youth Jn Jail for Shooting Woman of
Underworld at Pembroke, Craven
County Whisky Played It .
' ; Accustomed Part
New Bern, Oct 29. Shortly after
10 o'clock last night, Jasper W.
Thompson, 18 years of agq, shot and
probably fatally: wounded Clara Kim
ball, a woman of the onderworld, at
Pembroke. The woman is in a hospi
tal here and Thompson is in the Cra
ven county jail.
The sheriff and chief of police found
Clara Kimball lying on a bed in her
house, her body and clothing covered
with blood from a pistol bullet
wound in her breast. Thompson, in
toxicated, with the revolver still in
his hand, was located outside the
house. "She treated me wrong," he
said, not denying the crime.
Thompson was employed in a press
ing club here, and is a telegraph ope
rator by trade. Clara Kimball had
been here but a few weeks. She says
Richmond is her home.
REPUBLICANS SPLIT IN
MINNESOTA, IS CLAIM.
(By the United Press.)
St. Paul, Oct 29. With the Demo
crats claiming a split In the Repub
lican party over a quarrel concern
ing alleged support of Republicans in
the primary race for1 the general elec
tion November1 3, William E. Lee; Re
publican, will be pitted against W.
S. Hammond, Democrat, who has
just returned from Washington to
take the stump in his candidacy for
the office for governor. After a fight
that went through the courts of Min
nesota and a contest that went
through a part of the State, Jacob A.
O. Preus will be on the Republican
ticket for State auditor. Nelson
Burgheim will oppose him on the
Democratic side.
SLANDER CASE WILL
BE HEARD WEDNESDAY
Papers have been served upon Ray
mond Jackson and his wife, Mary
Jackson of Vance township, in a slan
der case which promises to be sensa
tional. The complainant is Richard
Heath, also, of Vance, and . a large
proportion of the' township's- popula
tion has been summoned to appear as
witnesses in the trial here next Wed
nesday. Heath and the Jacksons are
well-known people, rather prominent
in their neighborhood.
' Raymond Jackson and Mrs. Jack
son are accused in the warrant in part
of "maliciously attempting to des
troy the reputation and good name
and virtue of Eunice Heath, an inno
cent woman." Miss Heath is a daugh
ter of the plaintiff. The Jacksons are
alleged to have indulged in gossip
with others to an extreme detrimental
to the girl's character.
ENDANGERED
INTERIOR WALL
OF NEW THEATER
DECLARED UNSAFE
STATE INSPECTOR SEES POSSI
BILITY OF DANGER; SAYS
LAW IS VIOLATED.
COMMISSION APPEALED TO
Laths and Plaster on Sides of Stage
Must Be Replaced With Fire-.
Proof Material, Says the Fire
Prevention Man.
Sherwood Brockwell of the Bureau of
Fire Prevention of the State Depart
ment of Insurance, declared today
that the State and municipal laws
were being violated"in the construc
tion of the new theater on North
Queen street. A partition between
the stage and auditoriam he pro
nounced unsafe. The contractors im
mediately called in the architect C
E. Hartges of Raleigh. Hartgea ap
pealed Broekwell's decision to Insur
ance Commissioner Young, who wlil
hear both sides in Raleigh Saturday.
"Every big theater fire of which
there is record of loss of life," Brock
well says, "originated on the stage.
A fireproof brick wall between the
stage and auditorium is required by
the laws. The builders of this thea
ter have complied so far as asbestos
curtain is concerned, but the walls to
each side of the stage are not satis
factory. Fire Chief Moseley had before call
ed attention to the violation of the
city code by the construction of the
building within the fire lines with oth
er than fireproof materials. The walls
objected to is of laths and plaster.
The fine prevention man will with
draw his objection if fireproof walls
with self-closing fireproof doors are
constructed in accordance with certain
specifications. The alteration may
cost the owners as much as (1,000.
Contrary to rumors which found
circulation, there was no actual con
demnation of the existing wall.
SEMINARY FOUNDER'S
DAY OBSERVED.
Pennington, N. J., Oct. 29 Found
er's Day was observed by Pennington
Seminary this afternoon with appro
priate ceremonies on the campus and
in the chapel of the school.
EXPRESS CO, TO TRANSMIT
RED CROSS MONEY FREE
All Donations for Washington Bureau
of Benevolent Organization Will Be
Handled Without Assessing the
Usual Money Order Fees.
J. S. May, local agent of the South
ern Express Company, has received
the following letter from the district
headquarters in Norfolk:
"Norfolk, Va., Oct. 27, 1914.
"Money orders for American Red
Cross Society, Washington, D. C.
"Agent, Kinston, N. C:
"Donations of money for charitable
purposes of the Red Cross Society
may be transmitted free of charge by
the use of this company's money or
der system.
"You are authorized to waive
charges on our money orders when
they are sold for remittance to the
American Red Cross Society at Wash
ington, D. C, such money orders in
all cases to be made payable to the
Red Cross Society.
"W. EGLESTON, Supt."
BIG INCREASE IN
COTTON GINNED
The tabulation of the separate re
turns from ginners for the October
18 report shows there were 3,295 bales
of cotton, counting round as half
bales, ginned in Lenoir county from
the crop of 1914 prior to that date,
as compared with"T5,501 bales ginned
prior to October 18, 1914. An in
crease in the staple ginned over the
corresponding time last year is gen
eral throughout the South, indicat
ing a bumper crop, in spite of the
low pries.
' THE WEATHER
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'warmer central Midi ww pat'.
Mn Fridur fair
PRICE TWO CENTS
YOU ARE INVITED
TO DEMOCRACY'S
RALLY TONIGHT
WINSTON AND BRINSON WILL
DISCUSS CAMPAIGN ISSUES
AT THE COURTHOUSE. '
MEETING STARTS 8 P. M.
Ladies Are Invited to Hear These
Distinguished Gentlemen Local
Campaign Progressing Encourag
ingly Amendments Having
Very Little Opposition.
The county Democratic candidates
were greeted by a fair crowd for that
sparsely settled precinct in Vance
township Wednesday. Today they are
on Contentnea Neck township. Fri
day they go to Institute township, the
last of the rural precincts to be vis
ited. Institute is the home township
of Sheriff Taylor, seeking his second
term, and according to the other can
didates, the sheriff is a "devil in his
iwn home town," borrowed from a
popular song.
This evening the feature of the ,
campaign in Lenoir will be pulled off
in the Courthouse. Ex-Judge Fran- '
cis D. Winston, one of the most capa
ble of the orators in the service of
the State Democratic committee, and
S, M. Brinson of New Bern, will ad
dress the voters of Kinston and a
considerable number who are expect
ed to come from the country pre
cincts. Ladies are invited to hoar
them. The speaking will commence
at 8 o'clock.
The campaign will close at noon
Saturday with a general rally in the
Courthouse, at which all the county
candidates and possibly the State
Senatorial nominees will make short '
talks. This will be the first oppor
tunity for the people of Kinston to
hear Representative E. R. Wooten
expound the proposed constitutional
amendments.
The amendments, the nominees who
have canvassed the county say, will
have about the same majority that the
Democratic county ticket has. There
is practically no opposition to them
so far as the party leaders have
learned, except that of the Progres
sives in the county to the tenth
amendment. This opposition, of
course, is insignificant.
NEWPORT RIVER BRIDGE
CASE IS SETTLED; N. S.
TAXED WITH THE COSTS.
New Bern, Oct. 29. The Norfolk
Southern Railroad in United States
Court here yesterday plead guilty to
blocking traffic on Newport river
some months ago by improper han
dling of the draw of its bridge over
that stream between Morehead City
and Beaufort. Protests were entered
by masters of merchant vessels and
man-of-war commanders.
The nuisance has ceased, the com
pany set forth, and the court was ask
ed for leniency. The negligent keep
er of the drawbridge was discharged
soon after the complaints were en
tered. Judge Connor ruled that the Nor
folk Southern pay the costs of the
action.
MICHIGAN TEACHERS
IN SESSION.
(By the United Press.)
Kalamazoo, Mich., Oct. 29 Schools
all over Michigan were closed today
and the students celebrated while the
teachers met in Kalamazoo for the
annual convention of the Michigan
State Teachers' Association. The
school holiday will last through to
morrow. MECHANICS'
SESSION
ENDS TODAY.
(By the United Press.)
Atlantic City, Oct. 29. The second
and final day's session of the 46th an
nual convention of the Junior Order
United American Mechanics of New
Jersey began here today in the Sea
side Hotel with the election of new
officers engrossing the attention "of .
the delegates. . v