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- iTr YOUR KOBE PAPER j DAILY EE THE WEATHER Fair loakht aui TJy ' ck Mldartoawt (fk awtlmmal wind PUBLISHED E3ERY HFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. VOL.XVI.No.276 KINSTON, N. C. MONDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1914 PRICE TWO CENTS ' . 4 ' 1 j i v V 'v.' t" Y1. 7 'sp ALLIES' COUNTER FINDS A ISTANCE Hand-to-Hand and Bloody Fighting Is Report from Western Arena AUSTRIANS ARE DEFEATED Russians Defending Lovicz Have Cut Forces of Gen eral Mackenzie to Pieces. Struggle Goes On With Terrible Fierceness (By the United Press) Paris, Dec. 14. Desperate fighting is in progress on the extreme western battle front in the region of Ypres, through Afmentieres and Labasse. The allied counter offensive met very strong resistance which resulted in bloody hand-to-hand fighting. In a charge by the Allies on the Labassee canal at Endre the German remnant there was practically wiped out Point of Germans' Advance Swept Away Short range fighting is going on in the Lowicz region. The German ad vance north of the Vistula from Mlwa to the Przasnysz region has been destroyed. French Attempt to Flank St Mihiel. In serious fighting in the Woevre region (he French are making a flanking Movement against the Ger mane holding St Mihiel. A German attack 6n Asbach has been repulsed. German Bulletin Saya Defence Holds Berlin, Dec. 14. It is officially an nounced that light French attacks on the line between the Meuse and Vos ges were easily repulsed. German Trenches Rained by Shells. Paris, Dec. 14. German trenches were destroyed during heavy cannon ading in the Souanir region. Ad vances were made in the Lagurerie woods by mining. Hussians Strike Hard at Invaders Petrograd, Dec. 14. The Russians defending the Lowicz region have in flicted serious losses upon the forces of Genera Mackenzen, whose lines must be re-formed before he can at tempt another offensive movement Servians Successful in Clash With Invaders. London, Dec. 14, An official report from Nlsh says that in the direction of Milanowitz and Belgrade the Ser vian advance was successful. In the battle which followed their meeting with the Austrians the Servians cap tured seven officers and more than 2,100 men. French Troops Still Advancing. Paris, Dec. 14. An official com munique says there is a continued ad nnee by the French forces. Five hmdred yards of trenches were tak- the French in an attack in the rtan of Woevre, forcing the German Jwment northward in a diagonal line between the Meuse line or fort ress and Metz. BULLETINS (By the United Press.) RUSSIANS DRIVE ENEMY BEYOND EUPHRATES Petrograd, Dec 14. An official statement of fighting In front of , Tillages Pyrousk, , Esmer and . Doutak says the enemy was re pulsed and pursued beyond the Euphrates river with severe los- wo Austrian torpedo BOATS SUNK BY MINES V . Rome, pee. 14-A message from Trlente says two Austrian ' torpedo boats are reported sunk the Adriatic. They struck ines aad both crews and ships e bst . BRmSH SUBMARINE , 8IS TURKISH SHIP ' ' Uodon. Dec 14, British Bub e B-11 is reported to hare wpedoed the Turkish battleship sBduui In Dardanelles. B-ll Bder five rows of mea-of-Punching without difficulty torpedo, which struck the Tur-rpjnU- The submarine es- ! OFFENSIVE STRONG RES AMERICAN TROOPS MAY BE COMPELLED TO CROSS THE LINE To Stop Firing from Mexi- can Side, Which Continues Despite All Warning CARRANZA'S NOTE TO U. S. Tells Bryan He Will Regard Use of Force By This Government as a Hostile Act Executioners Shoot Down Five Persons (By the United Press.) Washington, Dec. 14. Despite the withdrawal of the Mexican conven tion forces, bullets still land north of the boundary line. Each faction blames the other. It is accepted n official quarters that a continuation of the carelessness will force the United States to act Carranza Warns the United States. General Carranza officially inform ed Secretary Bryan that the use of force by the United States at Naco will be considered an act of hostility. Five Shot to Death by Firing Squad. Special Agent Silliman today wir ed the State Department that Gener al Fuentes, whose son is the husband of Huerta's daughter, and four min or officials were executed by a firing squad in the Spanish cemetery at Mexico City. Carranza stated that although he considered it impossible for constitu tionalist troops a tNaco to wound Am' ericans for the reason that the con stitutionalists are fighting with their backs to the American side, he had given instructions to General Hill to avoid such firing as would endanger the lives of Americans. Carranza de clared any hostile act by the United States at Naco would directly siding with Villa. Two Americans Killed in Sonora. Washington, Dec. 14. Two Ameri cans were killed by Mexicans between Agua Prieta and Naceozari, in the State of Sonora, the consular agent at Cananea has reported to the State Department. H. Perry Meaker, an Englishman, is imprisoned at Navajo, Sonora, charged with ' transporting enemies of the dominant powers in an automobile. Vera Cruz street rail way employes are on a strike. No cars are running. DRESDEN FLEEING TO WATERS OF PACIFIC Sole Remaining Ship of Von Spee's Squadron Eludes Pursuing Brit ish Ships and Passes Punta Arenas Under Full Speed. (By the United Press) Buenos Aires, Dec. 14. The Ger man consulate at. Punta Arenas to day reported that the cruiser Dres den, of Admiral Von Spee's squad ron, passed that port escaping from the British fleet uninjured. A cruis er reported aground at the mouth of the Galegos river is not the Dresden, but is believed to be a British cruis er. The Argentine government has announced that the cruiser has de parted. Two British dreadnoughts and six cruisers were engaged against the fleet of Admiral Von Spee. Pun ta Arenas is four hundred miles from the Falkland Islands. It is believed the Dresden was headed for the Pa cific .. LEADING LADY IN A REAL LIFE DRAMA. Goldsboro, Dec 13. The piercing I screams of a woman, which caused a I I Mnd deal of excitement at a local boarding house last night about 11 o'clock, proved to be the hysterical emotions of Miss Edna Elizabeth Mnmhv. the leadinr woman of the Gordon stock company, which is play- ing an engagement at the Crystal Theater in this city, caused by the a 1 receipt of a telegram announcing the death of her fiancee in Virginia, t ol- lowing the screams of Miss Murphy, other female members present when -R.thr paradoxical are the charges 1 the sale of "made in America" prod she received the message, so it is al-1 made by ; Mrs. Elizabeth Russell I ucts will be used to employ destitute leged, fainted, and for a while the I little' boardinf house was a scene of I a meiodmama mat was exciung. . FULL DOCKET FOR CLOSING TERM OF Two Hundred and Eleven Cases Before the Bar of Justice JUDGE DANIELS PRESIDING His Last Sitting Here for a Long Time Berns' and Convict Whipping Test Cases Probably Most In teresting on the List With 211 cases docketed, Judge Frank Daniels this morning at 10 o' clock opened the last term of Supe rior Court of the year for Lenoir county. Incidentally, under the pres ent plan of rotation, it will be Judge Daniels' last sitting here in ten years, except by exchange or special ap pointment. He has conducted the courts of six months in Kinston with one exception, when he exchanged with Judge George Rountree. The term is for one week and the trial of criminal cases only. Although the docket is large, there are no cases of more than passing interest David Berns, a palmist, will be arraigned for defrauding a farmer of money. Berns' case attracted considerable at tention several weeks ago when he was arrested, it being alleged that he had by a systematic artifice swindled a Cove City man named Heath out of more than $50. E. W. Mintchew's ap peal from a magistrate's fine of $25 will be heard. Mintchew, a convict guard, was assessed the fine for whip ping" Elvin Sparrow, a young white convict, for repeated violation of san itary rules of the camp. The case is a test, County Commissioners and the superintendent of roads taking the View that Mintchew's action was war ranted. Diminutive black Annie Mc Gee, who some months ago shot to death "Big Boy," her consort, in a North street house, will be tried for murder, but it is not expected that she will get more than a minimum sen tence. Clerk of the Court Jesse T. Heath sat in the courtroom for the first time. The new clerk called the jur ors and attended his multifarious oth er duties in a snappy, business-like manner. He has already proven him self efficient st far as his work in the court is concerned. In his charge to the jury Judge Daniels Spoke for two hours, reiter ating his views, expressed at previous courts here, on vice segregation, blind tigers and fornication and adul tery. He devoted some time to a dis cussion of gambling. He criticized some local conditions, including the submitting of misdemeanors out of police court and also touched upon night sessions of that court, for which, however, there is a precedent of long standing and contended by municipal authorities to be prefer' able for all concerned over day ses sions. GOOD ROADS SHOW OPEN. Chicago, Dec. 14 With expert road j builders from nearly every important city in the United States represented and with exhibits of ideal streets and roads and road-making machinery, the annual Good Roads Show and Congress opened at the International Amphitheater today. The convention will be in session for the entire week. The opening of the show and the exhibition of moving pictures pictur ing the finest highways of the coun try is the program scheduled for to day. Exhibits from the federal gov ernment the various states and col- Wes showing methods and materials of constructing are being shown, A feature which is attracting most attention is a section of a modern bou levard, in the arena of the exposition building twenty feet wide and about 400 feet long, constructed of the dif ferent kinds of materials used in mod ern highway engineering. DEAF MUTE "USED ABUSIVE I LANGUAGE" TO HIS WIFE J San Bernardino, CaL, December 13. 1 against John Wilson Russell in her I mit for divorce, filed in the Superior I uurt. - CRIMINAL COURT TERROR OF NAVIGATORS Tbls big steel ball is one of the deadly mines that are feared by all navigators. It was washed ashore at Sizewell, Suffolk, aud its explosives were removed by a torpedo instructor Many of these mines have been beached along the coast of England. r REMARKABLE EXPERIENCE OF NOTED LAWBREAKER Assumed Name Almost Cost Him Life Term ?n Atlanta, and Did Result In Execution of Four teen Yeir Sentence Jonah Houston, who about fifteen years ago fired Jnto a posse of Feder al officers who raided his still near here, wounding F. Trumbo Harper, was Saturday evening taken from here to the Edgecombe county roads to begin a sentence of fourteen years. Houston is a most remarkable pris oner. Mr. Harper, who accompanied the officers upon the eventful raid as a posseman, is, now a man carrier working out of the local postoffice. Houston was brought here, with four negroesj from Jones county Superior Court at Trenton. After the capture of Houston in the raid in which Harper was wounded, the moonshiner was sentenced to three years in Atlanta Federal penitentiary, At the expiration of his sentence he came back to North Carolina and got into trouble in Jones county. This netted him a sentence of fourteen years, with the alternative of banish ment from the State. He chose the latter, but in time returned and lo cated around Elizabeth City, where he went under the name of a life termer with whom he had become ac quainted in Atlanta prison. Some time afterward the life-termer escap ed, and Houston's neighbors marked the similarity of the names. He was arrested and taken to Atlanta. In the prison a strange thing hap pened. The warden positively iden tified Houston as the life-termer, and sent him to a cell to stay the remain der of 4iis mortal existence. This forced Jonah Houston to reveal his identity and ask that the sheriff of Jones county be sent for to confirm it The sheriff arrived, satisfied the war den, and Houston was brought back to Jones county. Last week at Tren ton he was re-sentenced. At the conclusion of his sentence in Edgecombe, in all probaility, Hous ton win oe returned to answer to a murder charge. He is suspected of slaying James Burney, a negro of Jones county. QUAKER CITY OPENS THREE-DAY RELIEF FETE Philadelphia, Dec. 14. Although Philadelphians have already contrib uted a cargo of Christmas gifts for the war orphans of Europe and do nated over $20,000 to the Red Cross for relief work on the battlefields, the first . large-scale endeavor to assist the victims of the European conflict both the poor in this country and abroad was launched here today by the Emergency Aid Committee when a three-day fete opened at Horticul tural Hall. Many products "made in America" and donated or secured at cost prices, were put on sale. That the campaign would be international in scope, a "booth of nations," containing , pro ducts of all foreign countries, was ar ranged. These were presided over by representatives of the various con- sulates. Part of the money received from men and women, who will be set to work making garments for the war victims. .. . , SCHOOL LEADERS ARE GETTING READY FOR 1ST COMMENCEMENT . Lenoir Will Join Other Pro- gressive Counties of State In the Spring IS SPLENDID INCENTIVE Has Already Stimulated In terest of Large Boys and Girls Proposed "Rural School Day" For Lenoir Fair Next Fall (Contributed.) About the second week in April, 1915, the rural schools of Lenoir coun ty will hold their first county com mencement At the January meeting of the Lenoir County Teachers' Asso ciation de.nite plans and dates will be arranged for holding the commence ment The many expressions from teach ers, patrons and friends show their interest already in the coming event This year 41 counties in North Car olina held county commencements in which 75,000 school children partici pated in parades, exhibits, and other events, and at which 2,500 received certificates for the completion of the seven elementary grades, The effect of this movement has been tremendous in awakening the educational consciousness of the coun ties. They have stimulated county pride, school spirit, community riv alry, and above all things elce, they have given incentive to the school children to remain in school until the high school at least is reached Lenoir county should witness the parade of all its school children down Queen street, hear bands playing, see flags flying, catch the light of inspi ration on the faces of the leaders of tomorrow and get in line for 1915. Join the sixty counties of the one hundred already planning for similar splendid county events. The features ol the county com mencement may have an illimitable number of variations, so that every county may have some distinctive features peculiar to itself. The es sential element, however, and the ele ment without which it is really not a "commencement," is the awarding of county certificates to students. This certificate furnishes a goal toward which the child in elementary school will strive, and is a great inspiration to better and more continuous work on his part The parade is a striking feature of the commencement, and has a great effect upon public sentiment. It awakens the business men of the county to a conception of the past, pressing and everlasting need of pub, lie education. Hundreds of children will assemble and march in the parade, school by school, township by township, bands playing, banners flying and the light of a great inspiration shining on their brieht young faces. No one who has ever seen such a procession will be, able to forget it Other events of the commencement day, and all of them of great influ ence upon both pupils and public, are the exhibits, the recitations, and any number of other kinds of contests. The essential benefit of all these feat ures lies in the spirit of rivalry and school loyalty on the part of the chil dren and increased capacity in the line of literary endeavor. The exhibits will be arranged ac cording to schools, and will be placed in some convenient public hall for the continuous inspection of the pub lic. Attention of both pupils and the teachers should be given to this early in the term, so that best specimens of work may be preserved for this pur pose. Following are some suggestions in regard to materials for exhibits: 1. Photographs of school building, teachers, trustees, children, any in teresting subject connected with school life 2. Hand Crafts. Needlework, paper-folding, domestic utensils, . free hand paper cutting, etc Suggestion: Make a doll house by partitioning a soap box and furnish it with furniture made by primary pupils: make bed, I chairs etc, ..from cardboard, weave . (Continued on Page Three) J FRIENDS OF CAPE LOOKOUT PROJECT NOT APPREHENSIVE No Use for Further Appro- nriation Now. Is En- rineer's Oninion " t PENNSYLVANIA'S CONTROL Rumor Afloat That Bier System of East is Looking Over Norfolk Southern Properties With View to Adding Latter to System No surprise attaches to the fact that no appropriation has been made this fall for the harbor of refuge at Cape Lookout, engineers say. A mil lion and four hundred thousand dol lars is already available for the big undertaking, and this is sufficient to run the work for more than a year, As it will take from six to eight months to build the railroad which it is thought will be constructed from the mainland to the cape, and which the government desires, work on the great breakwater is not likely to be started before August or September, 1915, at the earliest. Hence only a small sum of the $1,400,000 will have been used when Congress meets next fall, and another rivers and harbors bill is brought up. It would have been poor business policy for the gov ernment to have tied up $2,100,000 more, which will be needed to com plete the undertaking, tor many months before it was needed, it it- pointed out The failure to make the additional appropriation did not in dicate any lack of interest by Con gress, but simply was a piece of good policy. The contract for the work will be let early in February. Bid? will be opened on January 6. Will the Pennsylvania Railroad take over the Norfolk Southern in 1915? is the question that has again arisen in connection witn tne apc Lookout seawall. The facts that Pennsylvania officials have this yeai gone over the Norfolk Southern lines and that Pennsylvania surveyors tr the summer spent some time taking observations in the vicinity of th cape have led many to anticipate this With the Pennsy. in control of th Norfolk Southern, Eastern Carolim would soon have one of the bes equipped railroad systems in th country, and the development of Capi Lookout, due east of and within eas reach of Kinston, as a great coaling station and commercial basis as wel as harbor of refuge, would become t certainty. The government, as was mad known some time ago, will spend $17, 000 in dureine a turning basis i; Beaufort harbor. Should it becom a commercial as well as refuge har bor, millions of dollars would be spen fortifications at the cape and garrison of several nunarea me would augment the civilian popula tion. WHY GOETHALS ASKED FOR MAN-OF-WAR PATROl Panama, Dec. 13. Colonel Georg W. Goethals, governor of the Pans ma canal zone, announced today tha his request that two swift America torpedo boat destroyers be stationer at tha entrances of the canal wa prompted by recent activity of wai ships and colliers of the belligeren European nations in the vicinity o the waterway. The action of the Australian col lier Mallina in leaving Balboa with out clearance papers, and the lac that other colliers have shown a dis position to disregard canal zone ship Dinar laws convinced Colonel Goe thals that decisive measures shoul be taken to preserve the neutrality o the canal. STRANGE SHIP ASHORE SOUTH OF HAHERA! (By the United Press.) Norfolk, Va, Dec. 14. An uniden tified steamer is ashore two mile; oath of Cat Hatteras Inlet Call for assistance sent revenue cutter to her aid. The Cape Hatteras life saving crew is attempting to rescw the ship's crew. ; . WITHDRAWS SUIT PENDING AGAINST. HIS FATHER-IN-LAW LaG range Bridegroom Pav ing Way for Reconcilia tion With Bride's Folks W4 i ACTION WAS UNSOLICITED Bride, Who Was Miss Le moine Rouse, Is With the Groom's Family Awaiting ' Outcome of Peace Propos als and So Forth - ' :. , U. S. Page, the twenty-three-year-old LaGrange policeman who, Wed nesday night, eloped with young Miss Lemoine Rouse and caused a sensa tion, afterward driving with the young woman fifty-four miles in an auto mobile, followed by her father and two brothers with shotguns, made another newspaper story hero today, when he arrived from Lumberton, N. C, by withdrawing a suit which he had instituted against his father-in-law, John H. Rouse. Page and Miss Rouse, after coming by way of Sev en Springs to Kinston on Wednesday night, drove through Heritage street and out to the Iron bridge, ..where they stopped for gasoline, and then took a road to Mount Olive, where they boarded a train. They , finally landed in the home of E. E. Page, the groom's father, in, Lumberton, and were married. Mr. Page, the elder, :. is a prominent man, secretary and treasurer of the LaFayetU Mutual Life Insurance Company and an ex revenue officer. ' , The suit which Page instituted against John H. Rouse, Constable George Waters and Raymond Joy ner, colored, all of LaGrange, follow ed the policeman's arrest and alleged malicious and frivolous prosecution. Mr. Rouse was said to have been in strumental In having Waters, ' who had a private grudge against the for mer United States sailor and now po liceman, who was paying court, against the wishes of her family, to Mr. Rouse's daughter, arrest Page for some misdemeanor. Joyner, it is charged, testified falsely in the ease. The three were sued jointly for about" $5,000 damages. The suit against Waters and Joyner will proceed. Page stated to The Free Press that he did not stop the proceeding against Mr. Rouse because of pressure from any source, but because it "didn't look right for him to be suing his father- in-law." Mrs. Page, whose relatives declar ed she was only seventeen years of age, is now in the home of Page's parents at Lumberton. "You can state that we will take up our resi dence in LaGrange in a few days," the bridegroom said. Page said that a part of the time, when Mrs. Page's relatives and the sheriff and his offi cers were scouring the roads tor them on the night of the elopement, he and the girl were in Kinston, al though they avoidejd the principal streets, and in the darkness were not identified by anyone except friends who would not betray them. Page has not approached his wife's relatives in person for a reconcilia tion, Mr. Page, senior, sent Mr. Rouse but a newspaper clipping con taining an account of the wedding, and a letter, in a friendly but dig- " nified strain, in which he said that he hoped they could come to terms. "He , has such a bulldog tact about him that he is not afraid of anything," the letter said. "There is but one way you could manage him that is ' - to kill him," Mr. E. E. Page wrote. , "I certainly would not want him to kill you or anyone of your family; " neither would I want you to kill him." ' Young Page "apologised" to his fath er-in-law in a letter and declared, "I , am very sorrw we had to do, as wo . did, but it was our only hope and," we thought, the surest way!" 5 - New Bern, Dec. 14. The gunboat Elf rida, headquarters ship for the Nortn Carolina naval militia, now be- ing overhauled at Portsmouth navy, yard, will soon be returned here thor oughly' overhauled from top to bot tom and as good as new. : A 40-foot launch of the newest naval type will augment the naval militia's best equipment
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