North Carolina Newspapers

10 EE FAFR THE DAK f THE WEATHER Futtr rfoixH tonfah Wd.wdar PUBLISHED , EMERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDRY, VOL. XVI No. 286 SECOND EDITION KINSTON, N. O, TUESDAY, JANUARY 26, 1915 FOUR PAGES TODAY PRICE TWO CENTS STEAMSHIP SUNK BY UNKNOWN CRAFT OFF COAST OF VIRGINIA Schooner That Collided With Washingtonian Left Crew of 40 to Fate Lightship Picked Up 39 and One Was Drowned ! 0NLYM ON PRESENT DOCKET OF SUPERIOR COURT Judge Peebles Is Making A Favorable Impression Progress of Court for the First Day and a Half Has Been Satisfactory KILLED IN THIS SECTION Mark Sutton, Near LaGrange, Killed Fine Poland China Porker, Dress in 700 Pounds Another Large One Killed Near there. Judge R. B. Peebles, sitting over (By the United Press) NorfolK, Jan. une man was SuDerior Court here, la makinir a verv drowned and tnirty-nine others res- favorable impression upon the coun cued with difficulty, when an un- gel, court officers and spectators in known schponer collided with and court. - The judge is making fair sunk the American-Hawaiian steam- progress with the heavy docket, and er Washingtonian off Fenwick Island, gaining in popularity fast, although fifty miles fron Cape Henry, last, this is pnly the second day of his first silting nere. ne is in appearance a night. The Washingtonian was proceeding slowly in the dark when the smash occurred. The unidentified schooner immediately made off. The collision tore a great hole in the Washington ian. The crew, in a panic, manned the boats. Some jumped overboard. A few minutes afterwards the steam er foundered. The lightship from Fenwick Island rescued thirty-nine from the water. One unidentified member of the crew was drowned, ac. cording to dispatches. Schooner Abandoned at Sea. The schooner Mary L. Baxter was abandoned tbirty-five miles south of CaDe Henry today. Her crew was taken off by a revenue cutter. The Old Dominion liner Hamilton stood by to assist the Washington ian's passengers and crew. Survivors on Way to New York. New York, Jan. 26. Fifty-two sur survivors of the steamer Washing tonian, m collision off the Virginia coast early today, aboard the Old Do minion liner Hamilton, are due here this afternoon. One sailor named My ers, a member of the Washington ian's crew, was drowned. The Ham ilton messaged that boats from Fen wick Lighthouse .rescued forty-five others. - ON 27TII; ENGLAND EXPECTING TROUBLE I01SSSK NEUSE RIVER STILL HOUSE PASSES BILL 1UL bIWUIbli M WLUUH . ' . Uli AMI LIKELY, ALLOWING WUMtN IU Th RFjru nrrnnn'Rr inrriDiR fnnnv u . iiLiuu iiLUUiiu LiL nuiaiuLu luuni Novel Action of Chief Justice Berger In Special Grand Jury Probe of Roosevelt Strikers Slaying Investigation Commenced. (Special to The Free Press.) LaGrange, N. C, Jan. 27. Mr. Mark Sutton, who lives about two miles from LaGrange, killed a hog last week that dressed 700 pounds net. So far, this is the largest hog ever reported killed in this section. Some time ago Mr. Sutton's brother killed fPPlVTAWS FAH EH IM WEQT iurv before thev beein hearing the ... UIjIUUIUIU IVUiliU 111 HLJl - T - Britons Prepare Against Teuton's 'Celebration of the Anniversary yuy unium i reus; rkTJ I: .. m.!1. C i nmL New Brunswick. N. J.. Jan. 26.- v,u VVI ttiui terriber, 1908, Mark will The special grand jury probe of the shooting of two strikers at Roose velt begun today. Supreme Court Jhstice Bnrgen announced that he will take an unusual step in charging the I a pig one year younger thun this one which weighed 547 pounds. The hogs were the big bone Polund China type. evidence. FARMER ACCUSED OF MOONSHINIXG, GIVES HIMSELF UP TO LAW. MOVIE FILMS TAKE THE PLACE OF SCHOOL BOOKS Cleveland, Jan. 26. Education und er forced draught, founded on the theory that "seeing is believing" and taught exclusively with motion pict nre films is the purpose of the latest institution of learnning here. Reading, writing, arithmatic, ge ography, domestic Bcience with all its ranches and many other subjects will be taught with the aid of films. Pupils will be enrollea as in other schools Pencils and paper will be used only for examination at Various iintervals and all papers will be graded in the custo mary manner. The scheme is headed by C. G. Thompson, manager of a film service and is backed by repre sentative business men. . SEVENTY FERTILIZER WORKERS QUIT LABOR (By the United Press) Elizabeth, N. J., Jan. 26. Seventy employes of the Bowker Fertilizer Co, struck today, and more are expected to walk out SIXTH VICTIM OF THE SAN DIEGO EXPLOSION. Sen Diego, Jan. 25. Darrell L. Varnardo of -port Arthur, Texas, a fireman, died today of burns received Thursday last, when boiler tube blew out on the cruiser San Diego. The casualty list now stands six dead and seven injured. A board of in quiry is investigating the accident. NEWS MEN WHO KEPT, . f .THE FAITH GO FREE. Washington, Jan. 25. Contempt of court sentences imposed on William L. Curtiiv and George Burdick of the New York Tribune, because they re fused to divulge sources of informa tion of a printed story of grand jury investigations of Customs frauds in New York were set aside today br the Supremo Court. - j I - The court did not pass upon wheth er the men could" be compelled He jurist of the old school, deliberate considerate and approachable, but em inently just in serving the State as well as the defendant. His Honor's health a week or two ago was not so good as usual, attorneys state, but he appears to be recuperating nicely. The docket is comprised by insig nificant cases principally. On Mon day1 many were continued. The ab sence of Representative Emmett R. Wooten had a marked effect on the docket the first day. Nearly two score eases in which the Speaker of the House of Representatives, now in the General Assembly, at Raleigh, is em ployed as counsel had to be continued because of his inability to attend court. John Stanley and Lewis Lee were fined $20 and costs for carrying con cealed weapons at Monday's 'session. George Arthur, tried for cruelty to animals, was found not guilty. The bill of larceny against Julius Parker, a small black boy, was changed to forcible trespass, and the case was dismissed upon the payment of costs after the prisoner had plead guilty. Fayetteville, Jan. 25. John Smith, prominent farmer, wanted on the charge of abetting in the operation of a whiskey still, telephoned to Sheriff McGeachy here today and announced that he was coming to the city to give Driven Bafk VVith Terrible pQQj, np 20 pR CENT.; Attempt!1 to .Resume" WAG 'N IN ENGLAND fensive Belgians Retake Trenches They Had Lost Be- Equalled and Maybe! Passed Parrott's Bridge Looks the Part, "Unsafe" Neuse river is this afternoon quiet ly but gradually swelling and nearing the Understanding That Governor Appoint But Une Until Constitu tionality Is Conhrmed-7-Other Bills (By W. J. Martin) Raleigh, Jan. 20. The Houso de- (By United Press) London, Jan. 26. The Kaiser will mmself up. He later rode into town celebrate his fifty-sixth birthday to in his automobile and surrendered to morrow. England is prepared for a oiiieers. He gave bond this afternoon. Zeppelin raid. The admiralty is sil- entas to Berlin's claim that two Brit- STENOGRAPHERS SEEK (By the United Press) London, Jan. 26. Food prices have advanced twenty per cent, in England since the outbreak of the war. The suffering among the poor is terrible. There has been wholesale reduction of salaries. the high water mark of September 1,' bttted two hour8 todav ovep Sen 1!)08, when the record flood occurred. I . - A. . The water is now still five and a half: bill to empower th. Governor to or six feet below the board nailed to ! appoint but one woman under the a tree on the east side of the river, I then voted 56 to 48 for the passage of near Parrott's bridge, which marked, the bill, which is now ready for rati- 23 BLACKS DIE TO 10 WHITES IN DURHAM. ish destroyers and a battle cruiser JOBS WITH UNCLE SAM , were sunk in the North Sea engage- "urnarn, Jan. ,:.. a special meet . ' mpnf ollniftV i i ing of the board of health was held the crest of the rise in 1908, but there is an immense volume of water in the stream above here which has not yet fication. It is passed with the under standing that Governor Craig will not Washington, Jan. 20. Stenograph- Fifty of Bluecher's Company Landed, ers and typewriters for the govern- J . Leith, Scotland, Jan. 20. Fifty mont service are being examined German Survivors of the Bluecher throughout the country today. The ' were landed by two British destroyers entrance salary averages $720 a year. ' that participated in Sunday's battle. Thousands are being examined. are suffering from Twenty-three wounds. t : Conditions in Western War Zone. ' j Paris, Jan. 26. A German attack BRITISH CARGO BOATS BEING CAREFULLY GUARDED Berlin, Jan. 26 British cargo boats upon English positions west of La in the North Sea are now convoyed , basse and in the region from the Lys by torpedo boat destroyers for fear to the Oise was repulsed with f right of r.nmnn Ruhmarine attark. nepord- ful German losses. The Germans are today for the purpose of hearing the yearly report of Dr. Arch Cheatham, health officer for the city and county of Durham. This report showed that the death rate for the white people of the county was 10.10 per thousand population, and that of the colored people about 23 per thousand. CONVERTED WARSHIP LOST WITH ALL CREW TODAY IS A GREAT DAY FOR BIRTHDAYS ' Washington, Jan. 26. Today is the birthday of a state library, and a sen ator. Michigan is the state, being admitted into the Union on Jan. 26, 1837. The library is the Library of Congress, the most Complete insti tution of its kind in the world. Con gress bought Thomas Jefferson's pri vate library of 7,000 volumes for the use of Congress on Jan. 26, 1815. Ren ator Oliver of Pennsylvania is cele brating his 66th birthday. And in addition to these, the Caledonnian Club and other Scottish organiza tions will honor tonight the memory of . Robert Burns, today being his birthday. ing to announcement made by Ger man press dispatches. PORTUGAL'S' WAR MINISTER RESIGNS. Lisbon, Jan. 26.-Clashes with oth er cabinet officers over the manner of attempting to resume the offensive from the seacoast south to Arras. German attacks upon Givenchy and Cuinchy have been repulsed with very heavy losses. Three hundred Ger mans died in Jin infantry attack east of Ypres. South of Nieuport the Bel- conducting Portugal's campaign in K'ans nave lorcea tne uermans w Angola, is understood to have caused , witnuraw tneir guns irom positions the resignatio of the Portuguese War Minister, General Eea. Nogreat sur prise was manifested here. BARON JOHN A. FISHER IF THIS CANAL WON'T DO, BUILD NEW ONE, W. J. 67S PROPOSAL Goethal's Statement That Landslides May Prevent Naval Parade Worries Washington and Calls for Sarcasm from Secretary (By the United Press) Washington, Jan. 26. Colonel Goe- thals' admission that the Panama Ca nal probably will not be open for na val vessels' passage in March, owing to slides, has caused considerable an xiety in official circles. Secretary Bryan sarcastically suggests that the United States build another canai in Nicaragua or Costa Rica to guard against the present "uneestainties. SAIL YACHT POUNDING ON DIAMOND SHOALS. Jan. 25. Reports hr v- , V- V 5 f , 5 a y 3 r v , ViVifTrf 1 f J v ' ,, " ' ' 4 previously held by . the Belgians. Fierce fighting in Alsace continues. The Germans are bombarding Thnnn, Lcmbcch and Sennheim. German Progress Reported from Berlin. Berlin, Jan. 26. The Kaiser's sol diers have captured strong British po sitions on roads west of Lnbnsse and southeastof . Laon. They have also taken several strong French posi tions on the heights of Craonne. Two infantry charges drove the French from their positions. French attacks in Argonne have, been repulsed. In the eastern theater the Russians have been halted m their advance upon Kielce. ; BULLETINS (By the United Press) AUSTRIAN BATTLESHIP REPORTED SUNK Rome, Jan, 26. It i rumored ' from Vienna that an Austrian dreadnaught struck a mine off the "Austrian naval base of Pqla and was sunk. BRITISH SHELL KILLS THE BURGOMASTER OF WESTENDE. Berlin, Jaiil 26. British war ships bombarded Middlekirk and Westende, killing and wounding many. : The Burgomaster of Westende was killed. London, Jan. 25. It was officially announced at the admiralty today thot the British armored merchant vessel Vikner had been lost off Ireland wit Ireland, with all hands. The vessel, it was stated, either struck a mine or foundered. Tho admiralty statement says: "She has been missing - for some days, and must he accepted as lost with all her officers and men. Tho cause of her loss is uncertain, but as some bodies and wreckage have been washed ashore On the north coast of Ireland, it is presumed that during the reeent bad weather she either foundered or, being carried out of her course, struck a mine in seas where the Germans are known to have laid them." The Vikner was the Viking before commandeered by the admiralty. She was in charge of Commander Ernest O. Ballantyne. The number of her crew cannot be ascertained. reached this point. The freshets from J PPoint, but one woman under tho Sunday's rains will send the level two ' law until tho Supreme Court has had time to pass on the constitutionality of the act This ia as a precaution against having great numbers of in valid notary instruments all over Vhe State. Representative ; Roberts introduced a bill to have expert witnesses Select ed by presiding judges', and compen sation fixed after trial by the Judge instead of allowing either side to of- : fer experts on its own choosing as at present. Roberta also offered a bill to include women freeholders in pe titions for ordering elections to pro vide an assessment or levy taxes on realty. i In the Senate Senators Hobgood and Weaver offered i joint bill to pro vide for- legalised primary. All par tfes oh i common day under the same regulations would be allowed a secret ballot. ..- APPEALS TO WILSON'S IMAGINATION TO TALK ACROSS THE CONTINENT. It Guanas? iooaari AMERICAN CONSUL'S WOUNDING CONFIRMED Paris, Jan, 26. Benjamin Mor el, American consular agent at Dunkirk, was slightly wounded in the head by a bomb dropped by a German aviator, which partially wrecked the consulate. The bomb exploded within ten feet of Mor el's house. . .Admiral Sir John Fisher, First Sea j Lord of the British Navy. He Is in the seventies and is still hale and state the sour-es of their informs T iner. She is too far from shore to but he has the confidence of his men tion. ' - ;k make out her name and the weather! and the populace, even thoagh he is vy .. . . . i -r m . It sustained, their refusal to testify beforo a grand jury on the ground that they might have incriminated themselves, despite lit fact that pres idential pardons had been prepared for them. The newspaper men refus ed to accept the pardons. Norfolk.- Va, from Diamond Shoals late today nearly. Mis suoorainaies, talcing or where a schooner yacht was said to dera direct from him, are worked ac have stranded yesterday, are that n-1 eordingly. He is considered VTiard ly one mast of the vessel is now stand- task master and strict disciplinarian, "ToLSON LUMBER CO. IN AUSTRIAN MINISTER JOINS THE KAISER Berlin. Jan. 26. Baron Burian Rajecz, the new Austrian Minis ter, has joined the Kaiser at field headquarters, it was announced today. HANDS OF RECEIVERS. is too rough for the life-savers to not very popular, j His arm or tho New Bern, Jan. zo-ne oison go but j English defense has come in for more Lumber and Manufacturing Company, The revenue cutter Seminole piro-'or less criticism on account of the of which L. C. Tolson, well-known in ceeded' to sea late today in response ' German raids, but the success of the lumber circles throughout the see to wireless calls to assist an unknown British ships In Sunday's engagements tion, is general manager, has gone in- ii flattens have restored him in the rood traces, to the hands oi a receiyer. viyue Washington, D. C, Jan. 25. Presi dent Wilson today inaugurated the first trans-continental telephone sys tem by speaking directly to President Moore of the Panama-Pacific Exposi tion in San Francisco. With Mr. Moore, Alexander Gram Bell, the in ventor of the telephone, and Presi dent Vail of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company on the wire at different points, the President ex tended congratulations on the achieve ment. V "It appeals to the imagination to speak across the continent," said the President to Mr. Moore. SOUTH BETHLEHEM, PA, HAS DESTRUCTIVE FIRE or three feet higher, well-versed riv men say, and there are a few who who are pessimistic enough to assert that the 1908 record will be equalled. All admit thot another heavy precipi tation within a few days would ac complish this. '; Last night the river rose throe or four inches. That was a considerable rise for the stream here, it i asserted by men who have watched its behav ior under Similar conditions before. On the west side of Parrott's bridge from the city the roadway is blocked by several inches of water.' Parrott's park is flooded in spots. A11 the way up the river for some miles the low grounds are flooded, and the tide has gradually crept up into fields at some places. Stock is being driven out of the swamps to high ground. One man this morning reported seeing the des truction of a flock of chickens. Half a dozen hens and a rooBter were al most isolated on a little dry spot, and took no notice of the water which encircled their tiny island. HO re turned to the place a couple of hours later to see the last of the hens being washed off. Parrott's bridge ' now looks every thing that is implied by the sign which greets the pedestrian as he steps upon it from the land, "Unsafe," But the dipalidated looking old struc ture is hot even "groaning" under the pressure of the water pouring down against and eddying around its piloa "If it continues to get up, she's apt to go this time?" was asked one of the river frequenters this morning. He grunted disavowal. "Stood it be. fore," he said. The current is swifter than at any time in four or five years, it is said, BELIEF IN THAT ENGLAND LOST TWO OR MORE SHIPS War Office at Berlin Reiter ates Sinking of the Battle Cruiser Crew of Airship Declare They Saw Twa Destroyed (By the-United Press) South Bethlehem, Pa., Jan. 26. Fire, fanned by a high wind, threaten ed to destroy the business section of this city today. The authorities wir ed for apparatus from Bethlehem and other neighboring towns. The flames were under control at 7 o'clock this morning, after the damage had reach ed $50,000. yacht reported ashore shoals. of his fellow-countrymen. ' Eby has been appointed receiver. SOUTH CAROLINA A STEP NEARER TO PROHIBITION Columbia, S. G, Jan. 25. Without a roll-call, the Sooth Carolina House today passed to third reading a bill designed to take advantage of the Webb law provisions giving the State (By the United Press) , Berlin, Jan. 2G. Repeating the claim that a British battle cruiser was sunk in the battle in the North S;a Sunday, the German war office today declared that two British destroyers were sunk also, and another English ship badly damaged." There are contradicting reports of the sinking of British battle cruisers. A German airship cruising off the coast while the battle was being fought says two British ships were sunk. Berlin papers declare ' the North Sea engagement was a bril liant victory for the German squad ron. There Is anxiety over the fato of the crew and captain of the Bleu cher. " " . r. EX-PRESIDENT TAFT FLAYS THE SOCIALISTS : New ' York, Jan, 26. Beforo One , thousand members of the Metropoli tan Life Insurance Company, assem bled at tho annual banquet of the or ganization in the main banquet hall of the Hotel 'i Astor I last Saturday night, former President William H. Taft bitterly flayed tho Socialist for their activities as regards attributing tho present industrial depression to the greed of capital, says the Brook lyn Eagle. Judge Taft, who was the main speaker at the dinner and who had among his auditors men of na tional prominence, somewhat startled the diners by the vehemence of his attack upon Socialism and the Social- ' ists,' ' ; '."4i,;fl "Socialism should be wiped out," said the former head of the nation.' "The theory and those who advance . it are a hindrance to the country. Their philosophy is wrong, and their charges that capital is to blame for the present industrial depression are altogether without foundation.": He talked at length on the persist-! ence of the Socialists in advancing their theories and declared that the nation finally reject the Marxian philosophy in a way that cannot be mistaken. T. R. TO LECTURE FOR . . UNEMPLOYED BENEFIT New York, Jan. 26. Col. Theodore Roosevelt lectures tonight on South America at the Metropolitan opera house for the benefit of the unemploy ed. He will preface' his lecture with remarks upon unemployment; .The Colonel .visited the Municipal Lodg ing House recently and it was there he got the, idea for tonight's lecture, nre. ROCKY MOUNT GETS A VA. LEAGUE FRANCHISE 12-YEAR-OLD BOY LOSES HAND WHILE HUNTING. Fayetteville, Jan. 25. The twelve-year-old son of J. C Adams of Lin- authority over interstate shipment of den, this county, accidentally shot liquor. The bill would require every himself while hunting near his fath- one who orders liquor from without er's home this morning-, -and -was the State to secure a permit from the brought to a hospital here, where bta clerk of the court. : hand was amputated. ,. ;; Norfolk, Va, Jan. 25 Rocky Mount, N. C, was admitted to the Virginia League today to take the place made vacant by the withdrawal of the Richmond team,! which will make an effort to secure the franchise of Baltimore International League. . Rocky Mount put up a cash bond as a guarantee that the team would finish the season. There were appli cations from several other cities, in cluding Lynchburg, Va, and Eliza beth City, N. C, ,