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VOL. XVI. No. 271
KINSTON, N. C. TUESDAY, NOYKMHKR 21, l'Ml
PRICK TWO CENTS
BOMB DAMAGES
U. S. CONSULATE
TWENTY ODD PEOPLE
MADAME PATTI VISITS THE WOUNDED
hut ii in ntir hut imrn
UUHiltMltNl l!Ao Urit MAN MLLtU
NO POWER TO TAKE !N FREIGHT WRECK
OVER COLO. MINES ON C .ft 0. RAILROAD
PROGRESS AGAINST
LOST IN WRECK ON
IN RUSSIAN CITY
CALIFORNIA SHORE
THE
FREE
PRESS
RUSSIANS MAKING
THIS AND GERMANS
Petrograd Claims German
Armies Are Falling Back
from Vistula Region
BERLIN STILL CONFIDENT
German-Polish Army May
Have Been Broken Al
lies Regard Situation in
Flanders Hopeful Ger
man Troops Captured
(Ry the United Press.)
Petrograd, Nov. 24. An official
statement tells of continued Russian
success in Caucassus. Several cais
sons and ammunition train have been
raptured south of Karakilisz and Al
techgcrd. In engagements against
the Kurds, reinforced regulars made
favoralile gains. The Turks were de
feated in the region of Khanessur
and on the heights of Dilman. On Ko
tous Hill part of the artillery was
captured. Between the Vistula and
the Warthe the Germans have re
treated to a line running through
Strykow, Zogiers, Sedek, Zquskawols
and Wozniki.
Berlin Says No Results in Poland.
Berlin, Via Wireless, Nov. 24. The
fighting in German Poland is with
out result. Several Belgians were
killed in the bombardment of Zee
Bruges by the English fleet. An of
ficial statement from Vienna declares
the Austro-German offensive between
Czenstochowo and Cracow continues
without decisive results. Pilicia, in
northwest Niechow, has been captur
ed, with two thousand prisoners.
Attacks By Land and Sea Facilitated
Paris, Nov. 24. German artillery
attacks have been repulsed at Ar
gonne. The Allies have gained ground
near Four-de-Paris. .Cold weather
facilitated the movement of artillery
The lifting of the fogs and cessation
of rains and snow enabled the allied
ships to aid the troops along the
coast with more regularity.
Allies Regard the f 'nation Hopefully
Paris. Nov. 24 -A thick fog on the
western battle front interfered with
operations today, except cannonading.
The French gained ground in Ar
tonne. An official statement declar
id the battle along the Warthe, in Po
and. was turning in favor of the Rus
sums.
Germans Still Have Confidence in
Army.
Berlin, Via the Hague, Nov. 24.
I he situation on the eastern frontier
is favorahle. The Russians have been
reinforced, and this has delayed the
decision of affairs in Poland. Con
fidence is still expressed over the ul
timate victory of Gen. Von Hinder
krg's army.
Germans Fall Back Before Russians
Petrograd, Nov. 24. A fierce en
gagement is in progress about Lodz
The Germans have failed back to the
west a distance of 25 miles. It is of
ficially announced that a second bom
bardment by a German fleet off Li
ban. on the Baltic Sea, has commenc
ed.
German Army Is Broken In Two.
'-Petrograd, Nov. 24. Two entire
German regiments have been captur
ed, and the
f II S
a" points. Unofficial reports as
sert that the German forces were
woken in two, one section going to
tht cnii...--J I .i ' 1 .
. ""umug uiu uie oiner wiiu
"awing to th northwest
e Covers the Germans' Positions.
Paris, Nov. 24. The bombardment
Soissons, Rheims and Ypres con
tinues. The German armies around
Dixmude and Nieuport are caught
nder a thin mantle of ice. Great
Jantities of German supplies
frozen. .
are
CARRANZA FORCE
DEFEATS VILLA TROOPS
- - j s-
(By the United Press)
Washington, Nor. 24. The consti
.ywnalist ency here today report-
, " varranza's forces have cap-
tard Tlaxcala, with a loss to Villa '
hundred wen and several
f - ' .
Dropped By Airship Sent
Over City By Invaders
of Poland
OFFICE WINDOWS BROKEN
Killing of People in Street
in Front of Building Oc
cupied by American Rep
resentative Told to State
Department Officially
(By the United Press.)
Washington, Nov. 24. According
to official dispatches to the State De
partment, a bomb dropped by a Ger
man airship exploded in front of the
American consulate in Warsaw, Rus
sia, breaking glass windows in the
office and killing and injuring persons
in the street.
NO HOPE FOR .r5 PERSONS
ABOARD SCHOONER ON REEF
(By the United Press.)
San Francisco, Cal., Nov. 2.1. Ad
vices received early tonight from
steamers standing by the passenger
schooner Hanalei, ashore on Duxbury
reef, that two bodies have come
ashore; the back of the vessel has
been broken and there is little hope
of saving the remaining 56 passen
gers and crew, still aboard.
EARTHQUAKE RECORDED
AT GEORGETOWN
(By the United Press.)
Washington, Nov. 24. An earth
quake of considerable violence at 1,200
miles distance, recorded today, may
have been in the western part of the
country. It was of more than one
hour's duration, as was registered on
the Georgetown seismographs.
FOREST FIRES RAGE
THROUGHOUT ARKANSAS
Little Rock, Ark., Nov. 23. Fan
ned by a brisk wind, forest fires are
raging in every section of Arkansas
tonight. Several large tracts of tim
ber have already been destroyed and
innumerable telephone and telegraph
poles burned. With vegetation dry
as tinder the situation is regarded as
serious.
On all railroads men are patrolling
the tracks and beating back the fires.
GREAT ORDER FROM
ENGLAND FOR U. S.
PRODUCTS AT HAND.
Chicago, 111., Nov. 23. British or
ders for more than $15,000,000 worth
of vehicles, automobiles, wagons,
sleds, harness and equipment were
brought back by Frederick S. Fish of
South Bend, Ind., who has just re
turned from England, it was announc
ed today.
ALBANY GETS READY TO
CELEBRATE BIRTHDAY
Albany, Nov. 24. Preliminary ar
rangements for the celebration of the
300th anniversary of the founding of
this city are being made by the board
of directors of the local chamber of
commerce. Albany was first settled
in 1615, but the ceremonies incident
to the tercentenary observation will
be held, it is said today, not in 1915,
but in early 1916.
WATER BOY'S COURAGE.
Odessa, Oct. 22, (By Mail to New
York). Among the wounded from
the battlefields of Galicia now in the
hospital here, is a Russian boy of
thirteen, who during the first stage
of his military career used to carry
cartridges to the soldiers going into
the firing line. Soon he acquired the
art of shooting, himself, and against
orders used to march with the ad
vance guards. In the course of an en
counter he would employ them in fir
ing upon the enemy. He participated
W eight Bkirmwnes, dmo",
wounded at Prxemysl, and always dia-
played the greatest courage and en-
irf eiriit skirmishes, before being
durance. In the hospital he has en-
d eared himself to nurses and wound-
ed alike, by his cheery optimism. : '
Schooner Hanalei Went to
Pieces on Duxberry
Reef Today
LIFESAVERS DO THEIR BEST
Five Were Rescued by the
Brave Crew and Twenty
Others Reached Shore by
Clinging to Wreckage
On the Rocks 18 Hours
(By the United Press)
San Francisco, Nov. 2 1. Having
rescued five persons from the schoon
er Hanalei at "::;( a. ni.. the Golden
Gate lifesavers are confident of sav
ing me remaining lilly-tive bel ore
many hours.
The Schooner Goes to I'ieces.
San Francisco, Nov. 24. From
twenty to thirty persons perished
when the steamer schooner Hanalei
went to pieces on Duxhury Reef, tin
vessel having pounded on the rocks
eighteen hours. Twenty persons
reached the hore on pieces of wreck
age.
NEW (TriENS' EDUCATION
DISCUSSED I5V N. Y. TEACHERS
Albany, Nov. 21. How to educate
the immigrant will he the subject for
an entire day's discussion today at
the session of the New York State
Teachers' Association convention as
sembled here.
The problem will he taken up in all
its phases; its effect upon society in
general and upon the educational ac
tivities in particular. Former Su
perintendent of Evening Schools in
New York City. Albert Shiels, will
be chairman of the meeting.
On the list of speakers are 11. II.
Wheaton, Miss Mabel Davis of Sche
nectady, and lssack Price of New
Y'ork City, II. II. Goldberger, Miss
Jane E. Bobbins and Michael Isaacs.
CORN SHOW PRESENTS
VALUE OF ENSILAG1
Walla Walla, Wash., Nov. 24.
More than (!00 exhibitors were com
peting for cash prizes of $.r00 and
numerous premiums in the corn show
held annually under the auspices of
the Oregon-Washington Railroad and
Navigation Company which opened
here today.
The exhibitors were confined to
persons living tributary to the Oregon-Washington
Company's lines.
The show, which will continue three
days, is given not so much to induce
the growth of corn as grain, but to
encourage its use as ensilage to be
fed to stock in the winter, and to in
terest the farmers in diversified
farming.
MANY KINDS OF DOGS
EXHIBITED IN BOSTON
Boston, Nov. 24. With entries in
nearly 700 different classes, the
fourth annual bench exhibit of the
Eastern Dog Club opened today in
the Mechanics Building for the three
days' show. Some of the breeds rep
resented are Sealyham and Welsh
Terriers, the German Sheep-Dogs,
Chow Chows and setters of all varie
ties. SIEGEL TO START AGAIN
AT THE LOWEST RUNG
(By the United Press.)
Geneseo, N. Y., Nov. 24.-Justice
Clark today gave Siegel, the defunct
former great merchant, until the sec
ond Monday in next June to make
good former depositions regarding his
private bank.
Siegel left immediately for Chica
go, to begin "at the bottom" again.
CO-ORDINATION DESIRED
BY TH E PRESIDENT.
Washington. Nov. 23. President
wiBOn con8idering means for re-
government expenditures next
w.n. of the war. it was learn-
. io&Kft and is aiming toward a
budget system to co-ordinate expendi- j
tores and income. - .. .
mKd&C,!J I 1 J' ' I -m'
' I -!V f . V rt'i l i
Mndamo Patti, tlie fa iih-iih sinne
I'attl ward of the Swansea hospital,
of the lielgian relief fuii'l.
PALMIST "BUCKS" AT
NEW CITY ORDINANCE
Fined $100 in Municipal Court Mon
day Nifht Appealed (o Supe
rior Court and Will (on I est
New Law, He Sajs.
The losing of two cases in Muni
cipal Court Monday nilit may have
the effect of causing I 'avid Herns,
Kinston'.s only palmi I, to suspend
business until after the Decenil-er
term of Superior Court has "vindicat
ed" him, it is said. Herns, who was
about ten days ago held for Superior
Court on the charge of defrauding a
Cove City man named Heath of $";,
was convicted Monday night of fail
ure to remove screens anil report to
the city clerk bis patrons, in compli
ance with the recently adopted ordi
nances governing the fortune-telling
profession, lie was lined $.r0 in each
case. Herns appeah.fl. and gave bond.
All three counts will come up at the
December term of Superior Court.
Herns argued that the recent ordi
nances are unconstitutional, lie de
nies the right of the municipality to
regulate his charges, etc., it is said,
and has stated that he will contest,
the law.
CLAIMS GERMANY HAS
;.OST 1,7."0,000 M EN.
London, Nov. S. Ililaire Belloc,
the writer on military affairs, calcu
lates that up to the middle of Octo
ber Germany suffered a loss of l.TTiO.
(100 men from "wastage." This in
cludes men killed, wounded, captured
and incapacitated, lie states that the
figure seems stat llingly large, hut
the estimate has been win keil out up- j
on a basis of irreducible miiiimums,
and Horn ine nest military eperi-
ence.
(Hy the United Pre?.)
BRITISH SIIII'S
SHELL ZEE HIM'GGE.
The Hague, Nov. 21. Six Ger
man submarines, under construc
tion in the harbor at Zee Brugge
are left undamaged after a ig
orous bombardment of the Bel
gian town by a British Heel off
the coast.
BRITISH RETREAT
BEFORE MOSLEM CAVALRY.
..Cairo, Nov. 21. It in reported
that in an engagement between
British and Moslem campel corps
twenty Moslems were killed be
fore the British forces retreated
to avoid their envelopment by a
superior cavalry force. The Brit
ish casualties were fourteen kill
ed and three wounded.
MEXICAN FLAG AGAIN
FLIES OVER VERA CRUZ
Vera Cruz, Nov. 23. The Mexican
flag is again flying over Vera Cruz, j
Brigadier General Eunston and his ,
command of b',000 infantrymen and
marines, which was landed here April
SO last, got under way late txxlay and
r.n..l Ai,;!ai-'u tnon fnnk ebarire of
VJ i.i ii i ui nfjuiiu. " ...-v.. -
! the city. The United States trans-
port Cristobal, bearing the first con-
tingent of Americana left the dock at
i:5o p. m. for home. .
The Mexicans inarched in oh the
heels of the departing troops, but no
serious disturbance of the city's peace
was registered, ; " . '
, viiliiiK tlio uoir.iilc il lit K-ians in the
-iho haiiK at a conceit in I.ipihImii to ;.i,i
FATHER OF MRS. L. P. TAPP
DIED AT HILLSBORO, N. C.
r. John .au -Am-
of !t.
Which He
had Reached Ripe Old
More Than (ill of
Hail Held Public
Ollice.
Mr. .John l aws, aged HI years, died
at hi;, home in I lillshor,, Monday. He
was the father of Mrs. I.. 1 Tapp r
this fit . Mr. Laws h;t I been n-.,i-.-ler
of di-i d - of Orange county for ..-ly-fou,-
years, having- assumed the of
lice when a young man. and was the
ooies, punnc otucinl Mot 11 111 ag" and
in length of service in the United
States. Pneumonia was the cause of
death. Mr. Laws had prominent and
I'Mensive family conned ions and va -well
known throughout the central
part of the Slate. He was a man of
eemplaiy character trails, and, as
ivi.linced by Mix long tenure of a
county uflice, was very high in the
(st'em of his neighbors.
W OIT.il l'UK( h asi:
M.YSION BONDS.
.1. C. Mayer .V- Co..
have otlVrcd to make
of Oini innati,
a proposition
for the V i Oil, OIK) bond issue for muni
cipal improvements. oer which the
authorities and Leach iv. Co., of New
ork. are now parleying. Leach iV
Co. have failed as y i, to make any
reply to I he refusal of the City ('nun
cil to draft new resolutions before
closing the ileal for the bonds, the
aldermen contending that, they would
be stihiicl to embarrassment if cer
tain i ni. 1 1 1 ic hi s should arise after the
'consummation of the sale. It is im!
bU.ly that a lower offer than that I ;,
Leach & Co., for par and aceiued in
I. rest, would be cnlei iaii:e, by I in-
'ouncil.
PASTOR ACCUSED OF
TAKING TAINTED COIN
(By the United Pre. .)
Akron. )., Nov. .lames T.
Lowe, former pastor of the first
United Evangelical church here will
be tried today by a con fen-nee of
i linn hir.en on charges gi owing out of
hi., acceptance of cheeks amounting
ti several hundred dollars from tin
! inimil county bottler--' and bicwcr-.'
." ni ia lion.
Lowe has spent the past two weeks
in preparing a statement of his ca e.
-My defense will be a plain state
inei l of the facts," .-aid Lowe here
lodav.
" I he money was u.-,ei! .solely to
chui' h pin poses and there never was
id a'templ on ni pari to conceal the
fact that it was given. Brewers'
money pay-; debts as readily as any
other money."
The official In aid, however, thought
it uir.vis'- I" ariiaiii. the hoard with
the source of the gift."
Two other Akron chinches and tht
Akron Y. M. :. A. have also confess
cd to accepting money from the li
qiior men's association.
C AMPAIGN EXPENDITURES
MORE THAN COLLECTIONS
Democratic County Chairman G. V.
Cowper has filed wilh the clerk of the
court his final report of expenses and
rnlWtioiis d urine1 the recent cam-
-.
paign Disbursements were 2.27.
and collections something less, or
3.17.50. The deficit was mada up
from a surplus from the 1912 fund,
Register of Deed C. W. Prldgen,
Sheriff A, W. Taylor and Clerk-eloct
Jesse Heath were the most literal
contributors, each appropriating f65.
R etc i v o rsh ip 1 nx ccd i ngs
Not Competent, Presi
dent Is Informed
SENTENCE IS COMMUTED
O. P. Storm (Jots Only I Kit)
llivs Red Cross Asks
Aid of American Univer
sities and Colleges for Re
lief Work in Kurope
(P.y the
W a-hinglon.
I'mtiil Piess.)
Nov. The
Seen
t.irv of Labor lodav informed l'resi
dent Wilson thai the United Slates
is without power to tale possession
of the Ciiloiado io.il mines through
i he medium of federal receivership
proceedings.
I'iie American Red Cross appeals
for aid from till universities am
col
leges for relief work in the European
war one.
Liipior Conspirator's Sentence
( om muled
President ii son today commuted
the scnlence to one year and a day
of (). P. Storm of Dallas, charge
with conspiracy to ship liquor into
the old Indian territory.
FRANCE TO PARTICIPATE .
IN THE EXPOSITION.
Bordeaux, Nov. :?'!. - A semi official
omrauiiicat ion announcing the gov
ernment's intention to participate in
the Panama exposition, says partici
pation will be an expression of the
good will toward the United States,
and thai it. is France's desire to draw
yet closer bonds connecting the two
gieal republics.
The communication announces that
the American government, bus placed
at the disposition of the exhibitors, a
naval vessel which will leave a port
in France early in July to transport
exhibit., to the United States free of
cha rge.
SUSPICIOUS VESSEL
HELD I P AT NORFOLK
Norfolk, Vu., Nov . .'". -The Vir
ginia I'dei ' Association has been un
titled by Collector of the Port Ham
ilton net lo Lake out of the harbor
ibe N'ol vv egian vessel Gladstone, now
at Newport News, imlil further ad
vice; from him.' It is reported that
I lie Gladstone has been sold lo a Ger
man lirrn for :! 10,000. She is being
repainted anil having wireless install
ed. It is said that she is intended for
Valparaiso, I 'bile, near w hich port a
German Heel has been operating.
The Gladstone .already has loaded
a thousand barrels of oil, iiianl it li s
of coal ai d is taking on many sup
plies. I
NEW YORK TENEMENT FIRE
DRIVES 290 INTO STREETS
United
Nov. -.!(.
o hund'c
ic today,
ml li.e
Pless.l
A tenement
ll poodle into
One tirenian
overcome by
New Yoll.
til e ib OV e ! V
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tie
e.
COTTON SHIP I ROM NEW
ORLEANS TO P.REMEN.
N.vv Orleans, Nov. iVi. Freight
brokers announced here today 'hat
;ni' American steamer Greeidiicr
would load cotton at this port direct
J for Bremen at a high rate. The
Greenbrier has a 'capacity of about
'i.OOO hales. The steamer recently
was chartered from the United Fruit
ompany by local interests and it
would ! 1'ttc.l out to carry horse
was announced at (hat time that it
to Europe.
AN ACTIVE LIVER MEWS
HEALTH.
If you want good health, a clear
complexion and freedom from Dizzb
ness. Constipation, Biliousness, Head
aches and Indigestion, lake Dr. King'
New Life rills. ..They drive out fer
menting and undigested foods, clear
the Blood and cure Constipation, Only
25c at your druggist adv. )
Northbound Train Collided'
Near Alexandria With l
Southern Rwy. Train '
POLLING STOCK DAMAGED
Caboose Burned and Several
Cars Destroyed South
em Train Was Standing
on Side Track and Other
Train Crashed Into It.
( By the United Press.)
Washington, Nov. 24. In a wreck
it Seminary, four miles from Alex
andria. Va., a northbound Chesapeake
and Ohio freight crashed into a
northbound Southern Railway freight
standing on a siding. Several freight
cats are piled no and a caboose burn
ed. One man was killed. '
OLD BUZZ WAGON IS
NEW MARINE MARVEL
Mnndan. N. D Nov. 24. Mounted
on a flat-boat, an antiquated "one
lung" automobile is furnishing the
motive power, by which F. L. Styles
and family are today floating down
I he Missouri river on their improved
house boat. They are en route from
Manduii to Miami, Florida, a distance
of S-1,000 miles.
GILBERT AND DILLION
BOX IN DENVER TOBAY
Denver, Nov. 24. Dick Gilbert of
ibis city and Jack Dillion of Indian
apolis will meet in a twenty-round
l out (.might at the Colorado Athletic
(Tub. They are light heavyweights.
ccnvict foreman;
WHIPPED PRISONER
Fined $25 by Magistrate County
Gave Permission for Use of the
Lash for Disciplinary Pur
poses Case Appealed.
E. W. Mintchew, a foreman on the
county roads force, was arraigned
before Magistrate II. C. V. Peebles at
the Courthouse this morning on the
barge of lashing Elvin Sparrow, a
.hite convict about eighteen years
f age. The father of the boy, Mack
Sparrow, caused the arrest of Fore
man Mintchew, ine elder sparrow
resides in the eity. and the son is
loing a seven-months' sentence for
issrnilt with a deadly weapon.
Superintendent Bryant Taylor and
it her road officers admitted the
whipping, and maintained that they
were .justified iii it. They stated that
igid sanitary rulings had been brok
ln by the hoy while he was confined
n u portable cell. He had been warn
d not to commit the nuisance com
plained of, and the cell had been prop-
ily equipped, they declared. Mint
In w, ti big man, at the order of Tay
lor, held the prisoner down and strap-'
lied him on his bare flesh, ten or fif
teen strokes, Sparrow testified. The
boy said the flesh was broken.
Superintendent Taylor said that
Sparrow, because of his youth and
lightness of build, had been favored
with light work. The boy was re- ,
ipnreii to do nothing of a harder na
me than driving a wagon. The
whipping, the officer said,, was not
severe, and was resorted to only as a :
iast means. A recorded resolution, of
;he Hoard of County Commissioners,
passed only a few months ago, em
powers the road officers to'-, use the- '
whip, when necessary to enforce dis
cipline or subjugation. Without such '!
authority, Taylor declared, his poai
t ion would be such a difficult one that -he
would not undertake to hold It. It
is impossible to discipline 75 prison- '
rs otherwise, guards state. : t -It
is understood that the eommis
; -Miners, or a part of them at least,
were willing to stand by Taylor and
Mintchew and fight the case to a fin
ish. They have absolute confidence
in the superintendent, it is stated, and
that one member of the board declar-.
ed that no matter what the outcome
should be the expenses should not be
borne by the defendants, ' ' '
Magistrate Peebles fined Mintchew
$25 and costs. There was no judg
ment against Taylor. The case was
appealed, '. ' :"-, ' '