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PUBLISHED E3ZERY H FT ERNOQN EXCEPT SUNDRY. VOL. XVI-Nor. 290 SECOND EDITION KINSTON, N. C, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1915 FOUR PAGES TODAY PRICE TWO CENTO il I ICQ Will mm MANY THEORIES FOR tUAALu ill Hr"HH ' YOUNG NEGRO'S DEATH up mm M GERMANY, THEY :SAY - Coroner's Jury J la , Awaiting Devel ' epment of Further Evidence In j . ,v Mysterious Death Sunday .;. Morning- Negro Held. The coroner's jury called Monday 1 night for an Inquest into the death of ATTORNEYS "HAVE AGREED ON PLAN FOR RECORDER'S COURT "BEGINNING OF THE END" Civil Jurisdiction Retained, and Salary of Judge to be $l,800-iPeople toEIecUn Regular May Election Further Conferences uv.. ,The people of Lenoir county will in all probability be called upon to elect Retaliatory Blockage Will Be' "Most Complete' Ever' Paul mil, colored, whose body , was Attempted ; Norfolk Southern train near Caswell Station Sunday morning, postponed their investigation until more evi dence can be secured. The killing of Hill remains a mys tery. Leslie. Mason, a young negro, TJif ?aVi "RpAnhlTP Trenches hos coma 'ward with the statement British recapture irencnusi hejiaw John g, a Wack( TVanrkH,rpnrh lilin-l umio-ht for his knowledge of the af- ct'i tv i ' fair fter tha tragedy. Mason claims the recorder of the county" court ners DlltJUUi , oik ,: Ci that Sanderson, who has completely on Tuesday, May 4t haa" -A - CorreSD0ndentldl8PPeareJ' 4014 him ne ,eft Th-Br. Association met in the of- """" ' I Will P.ta r.niJv nnur in th I - . . xtr'A . r.-- 7 Lv" n T. Ormond, one of the Says iVUBSiana vv in Blcu w , " "' 11 memberS, Monday afternoon about sleep at the station, and that when o'clock, to discuss the bill for the pro- he awoke both were gone.. Officers I posed court for the third, and possi regard Mason's story as a xaonca- bly the last time. The' association tion pure and simple. : : - , ajrreed u th& w count bill rft i r i . t i. a. i w uenaoy, in jau yen bucks vu iu witn nmon,Imot- fA !. ,,;. story that he left Sanderson asleep t- . . tn ,.,,, i,,.,,... beside the track some distance this tim as wen as criminal, and deter sue oi me station ana am mwi on mined upon the saary of ine ena oi a crixssue. , . The theory is now; entertained by some that Sanderson,, who Canady C0,pS HAY QUIT VILLIAII B. GASKINS SS SERIOUS CRISIS IN IPED. IN IUSE i, IS REPORT AT JOHNSON'S POINT Every Member of Directorate Asked to Attend Necemary for Quirk Action to Get Bill Before This Legialatare' KtLA UNb OF U.S. & GERMANY FEARED 0 Hv No Extra Session If Ship- Younff Alan of New Bern pinff and Appropriation vBilIsPass SHIP PURCHASE NEEDED i .. . m in Was Well Known In Kin- ston, Where He Had a NUmbeif of Kinspcoph Body Recovered Every member of the Chamber of Ritter Feelini? Airainst Am- commerce la requested by its (B the 'UWted Press) London, Feb. 16. England awaits the coming of the German blockade with simreme .confidence. Officials accept the eivforcement of the block ade, which commences Thursday , as the "beginning of the . end. ,-It Is felt that It -will be Germany's last great Wow," as her Zezzelins ; have A .W fleet has been cotn- oeHed to remain behind the land for- admita had threatened to kill Hill, . . . I 1 . 1 J 1 MnH I. A n!o.A A Uflcations. It is consiuerea certain i muruereu io u i"u that the combined Brittsh ,i French iron used in, repairing railroad track, cun wa will in retaliation The severe abrasion on Hill's head ..fn. wmst eomo'.ete blockade indicates that he was struck with ever attempted. It is the intention a sharp implement. The sheriff, f fh d-nvamment to entirely cut leaning in his belief to Canady's fl -11 r.-rmn norts from shiDPiusr. f statement that Sandersonwas too rHi Ourhtlne Zone EnUrged. drunk to kill HU1, and that he has offniAuHnrnl deDartment or I simply gone into hiding because ai der 4earing upon the foot and mouth J ter viewing the body he surmised that l0;fiion haa been issued, ne migni do accuseo . oi me crime, er or judge, which is to be $1,800 per annum. A smaller sum Would not be reasonable compensation for. a man who, in case he were a, lawyer,, would be required .to give up his . entire practice in both lines, the attorneys present decided. The Wayne county bill is regarded by the majority of the Kinston law yers as a model. Certain sections will have to be changed, of course, before the act would be acceptable to the people of this county, but, these will not be many, and capable men are now going over the bill to make Lave stock shipments, except . for j etill thinks that the victim was struck changes determined upon at the slaughter within forty-eight hours, ate prohibited, from all the territory est,ofthe,.Mis8is8ippi and north' of Tennessee.. Snow' Hinders Operationa in Alsaee and Yosgft. A . Parifl, , Fpb 16Lr-'Heavy snows In terfere with the fighting in Upper Alsace ami Voegea.- The attempted German offensive has been checked in that reirion. An extensive move ment of troops ia reported to be in progress from the Aisne northward, and it is believed en effort to retake the ground north of the Aisne ceded by the Germans will soon be under-. taken. German artillery, continues the bombardment of Soissons. In. flammable shells have destroyed, sev- by an early morning train. A new idea advanced now is that might have" been the victim; of other negroes at the party which he ! had. attended in the company of San- I derson and Canady. This is not like- ( Continued on (age Four) '''v.i'ni, i ii. )' 'ii I', ' ii m SOCIETY WILL TAKE ITS ANNUAL LAYOFF, BEGINNING ON 17TH meeting. The judge of the county court will assume all the jurisdiction of the mayor. That official will, if the Leg. islature passes the bill sent to Speak- er Wooten, Lenoir's : representative, lose all his power as a trial magis trate. The bill's passage in the Gen. eral Assembly is practically assured, of course; no opposition will develop there, The idea in having the election of the recorder on the first Tuesday in May is to obviate the necessity for two separate elections in Kinston in the spring. The bi-ennial muni cipal election of a mayor and alder men is held on that day, and so the neonle of the city will be given the r eral blocks and ruined buildings in gJj Wednesday ' the First j chance to vote on the recorder at the same time, ana tne voters in ine va- the center of the city. AOied Gunners Tut Big Krupps Out of Commission. A.Pari.t Feb.v.l0-The British es saying, the offensive between St. EH- oe; and uie Ypres canal have recap tured two lines of outlying trenches ureviously taken from them by the Germans. t French artillery has sil enced the" German artillery: in tho Sou- aine and Artronne t reeions. French artillery all along the line is silenc ing the big German guns. The gen eral situation is declared to bo satis- i factory. Bar Lenten Season Is Observed Throughout the World by tne Lithurgical Churches BULLETINS (By the United Press) GERMAN BREWERIES MUST CURTAIL USE OF. BARLEY. (I Berlin, feb; 16.-I6 ia announc ed that breweries- shall again cur tail the use of malt for beer in : order that more barley be left , for the Dublie. A, correspondent for fhe pokat Anzeiger, just re turned from he eastern fighting zone, declared today that in the recent fighting eleven Russian army divisions had been either annihilated dr. defeated. rious rural precincts cast their bal lots for the recorder alone at their usunl polling places. The boards of aldermen and coun ty commissioners will pass upon the bill in a few days, and with their en dorsement, it will be considered com pleted and sent on to Raleigh. It is not expected as likely that any more changes will be made in the text be fore .this ratification by the city and county boards, but if any are pro posed it will be before they are called upon to recommend the measure. The Ear Association -. expects the alder men and commissioners to meet- in joint session to consider the draft. Chairman Churchill of the county board, today declared his willingness io call the commissioners together FRANCE TO PUT UNEMPLOYED IN THE FIELD. PJiris; Felt 'It. Thy mobiliz' tion of the unemployed Will be conducted ander the direct orders of the minister offpublie works, as tjhe latest' plan for the defease ' of the station. Week, the . last week of the lenten season, contains Good Friday, com memorative of thday on which the Saviour hung for six hoars upon file cross, While the blood for the "heSl insr of the nations" flowed from the wounds on His body.f; Holy Thursday, the day before Good Friday, is also observed with great solemnity. On )ij Inst nitrht nf Win sninurn Christ London, Feb. 15. I hope . you r&thered Bit discides about him and will let your friends in America un-1 instituted the Holy Communion. The oerstand that we m England compre-1 Knights. TempUr observei a sacra hend the "difficulty , and delicacy . inlment&l service on that nisrht. . . .. which a neutral rower finds itself. I On f"w1 Friifni hlwk ia prevalent and we do not complain at It for call- J in many churches; all colors are ban ing our attention to questions of in-l ished. ? ! -: ternational law such as always havel At the end of .the season comes oeen raised during a maritime war," Easter. "Christ is Risen!" Glad wid y lacount Bxyce, former British SOngs fill the air and from tens of Ambassador to the United States in thousands of sanctuaries sinners re- letter read today at a dinner given! joking in new found hope, give voice by American women at the Lyceum , to their gladness. . Easter Sunday oc- . curs this year on April 4 Tomorrow, known among the litur gical churches as Ash Wednesday, marks the beginning of the most sol emn season m the Christian calendar, Lent For forty days, until the sea son ends with the Feast of the Resur rection, prayers will be said daily in sanctuaries throughout the Christian world, and the hearts and minds of men and women will be turned toward the suffering of Jesus Christ, through whose vicarious atonement the world is to be brought back to fellowship tnv . whetl-he is asked by . ... . ..... n. n.-i I i services win oe neiu iij,.ou iuai I ITnSanAMnl m1ii.m1i nf 1030 a TT1 ATA .owi-n. v..uu 1 .mmA nnxt irnt-nrk TA 7:45 p. m. IMMiKlJ KUI IKItlJ 1U of the lenten season. Following the AmAULI d'lLlWrVU) lUL baptism of Jesus He went up into i - - - i, i f the wilderness and prayea ana last ed forty days and nights. -1 Smithfield, Feb. 15. About 11:30 There are many days" set apart in I this morning, Cephas Cole, a negro Lent for the saying of special pray-J boy of eighteen, is alleged to have era. Each Friday during the period j criminally assaulted Cleo, the three i is a day of special services. Holy I and half-year-old daughter of John Every Day Need Grows, President William B. Gaskins, a well known TVw.1 rtv, t young man of New Bern was drown- .u .f wu- r . , . .... It. w .... . t . . .... ei Mjnday mgnt in JNeuse river, near I go" TO naieign immediately in ofucers to be present at the special meeting this evening at 7:30 o'clock, to consider the bill for a good roads I bond issue for Lenoir county. It is very necessary that, if the directors accept the draft and give its presentation to the General Assem bly their official endorsement, the bill cricans Is Spreading Throughout Empire PRESS IS ANTAGONISTIC f ' J SM , ,i reKoa -WJVies A ax on UieiJohnFon's Point, about fifteen miles Preachers : New " Hoof I be,ow Jgew Bern "elatves hero were informed late Monday. Young Oils kins' body was found some hours lut- and Mouth Quarantine order that it may be passed at the present session. The meeting will be held in Secretary Sutttpn's office. (By the United Press.) Washington Feb. 10. .President Wilson today made' it clear that if the shipping and appropriation bills are passed there will be no extra ses sion. He declared new evidence is accumulating every day, showing the necessity for the. shipping bill. Ministers Taxed for Relief of Needy. . aP8 That he struck something which rendered him unconscious or Gaskins, in company with Lyle Smith, also known to many hereand a member of the crew of a lumbir barge, were en route to New Bern from Oriental in a power boat The unfortunate- youth went forward to ; attend to some detail of the work connected with the craft's operation, leu over the side and was not seen COTTON EXPORTS INCREASED BY 300,000 BALES IN JANUARY. Allies Are Using American- Made Arms to "Advan tage, - Kaiser's Soldiers Say Amsterdam , Says Note Will Be Answered ' Washington, D. G,' Feb. 15. Cot ton exports were beyond normal oro- portiona during January, being; morel w throughout ? Germany than 300,000 bales greater than last I Americans ; is spreading. year, according to the monthly r port of the Census Bureau issued to day. ,i - i-: Cotton used Was less than the usu al January total, as 500,000 fewer spindles were operated during.) the According to a dispatch from Mex ico City, Obregon, Carranza's mili tary commander in Mexico,' has lev ied a contribution of 500,000 pesos on the clergy of the Mexico City dis- trict, which is being distributed to the poor. , month. . Manufacturing establish. injuied him so that he co-ild not keep ments held less , cotton Jan. 31 than afloat is surmised, since he 13 reiiuled they did a year ago, but in independ ent warehouses, the quantity on hand was greater by 1,800,000 bales. to have been an excellent swimmer. i H'ts absence was noted nlmoit im mediately by Smith, a youn,f .-1low of model character, and the seaman. They stopped the boat and made a thorough but unavailing search for the body in tho water. Finally, civ ingr up hope of finding it, they left an oil can as a buoy to mark the spot and continued -on their way to New Bern, .. . Before - searching parties reached the place Monday about mid- GENERAL ASSEMBLY RESOLVES PURCHASE OF SHIPS CORRECT "Slap in Face te Kitchin," McMichael ; iTestily ' Ac cuses North Carolinians Have Right to Differ "Wifh Tnrlor Savo WarA vicUm'a family. ...... " . . ... v. 1 n f,,.a ,1 JUDGE BOYD ENTITLED TO RETIRE PUT . WONT j Greensboro, Feb. ; 15 Judge James j E. Boyd of the Federal Court, who! was seventy years old yesterday and entitled to retire, will not do so for many moons yet to come, according V (By the United Press) ' Berlin, Feb. 10. The bitter feel- against Officials and American citisens fear some in cident will occur to lead to a serious emis. Wounded Germans returning from the front declare their lossej are becoming much greater now that the French arc using American man ufactured nms and ammunition. Berlin paper are publishing state ments which aro creating an ti-American sentiment Germany Will Insist Upon "RighU." Amsterdam, Feb. 16. Berlin ad vices say tne German reply to Am erica's note protesting against ;., the planned submarine blockade of the British Isles ia expected to be for warded today. It is declared the an swer i will be i couched in friendly terms, but very firm and positively insist upon the right of Gormany to t.n thn nnininn. nf ,hi,4 fplAnila. i .Tlas day the body had come to the surface judBe ta Ja ,he Usti ot health and ap. declare the waters around England parently much younger than the rec ords make him, alntost alongside the oil can. Several parties of searchers," in cluding naval reserves in ' a steam launch,- put out for Johnson's Point as suonas Smith and his remaining companion made known the news of the mishap to young Gaskins. The first boat to arrive took on board the remains. The chief of police was ask ed by Smith to communicate with the G0LDSB0RO WILL HAVE HEARING BY SUPREME COURT E,, Spear, Mrs. Claud Ballard, Mrs, L. P. Elliott, Mrs. Thurman Cox and numerous others. He frequent ly visited this city, and was very pop ular with his kinspeople here. A number from here attended the fun eral this afternoon. William Wood of Meadow Township, countv commissioner, who was in Smithfield on business at that time. The little girl was at the barn lot and as the negro passed to the field he took her over the fence and towards the, woods. J. Mangood, a grown brother, was some distance, off . and heard "his sister cry out ., in V He started toward them and the negro came' meeting him,; disclaim ing any wrong doing, saying he was picking flowers .for, the little, girl. Wood beat him with a stick and the negro ran te the house and; told Mrs. Wood he had done nothing.; The child had gone to the house crying, and was clinging to her mother's knees. She examined, her child , and found mute evidence of attempted crime. Sheriff Moore carried the negro by Benson and hence - to Smithfield, where he was lodged, in jail, where he is tonight WAYNE COUNTY NEGRO PLANTER SUICIDES. Goldsboro, . Feb. 15. In Stoncy Creek township, General Best, a well to-do negro farmer of this section, owning his own farm, hung himself in his buggy shed at an early hour before day this morning, his dead body being discovered by members of his .family when they arose to go about their daily work. Ill health is assigned as the cause of his self des truction. , (By W. J. Martin.) Raleigh, Fob. 18. The Senate and House both passed a joint resolution today endorsing the administration ship purchase bill .pending in the United States Senate.' ' Senator Mc Michael opposed this "slap in the face" for Congressman Kitchin, the floor leader of the House. Senator Ward, author of the bill, insisted that no reflection upon Mri Kitchin was intended, but that he and others in North Carolina had a right to differ with him on any measure. Senator Weaver withdrew his child labor bill from , the calendar, where it -was a special order, for noon to day. This was at the request of Governor Craig, who, believes that within the next few days there can be an agreement preached between the advocates of further child labor legislation and manufacturers. Weav er is sunoorted and bjiv.i he intends to ,t.nd ... (.r in io.p:U by 23 AMERICAN SOLDIERS ., " STI"".M;?.'" t WOUNDED BY PANAMANS boards in Wake and New Hanover counties by the people in spite of the State policy of legislative appoint ment of such boards, were : set as special orders for Friday. ;y The House took up at noon the Sea well bill for the State Department of Insurance to have the power to raise or lower rates of fire insurance and generally revise State ' Insurance laws. The House argued until after! 2 o'clock on the bill and adjourned until 10:30 ' Wednesday, without reaching a votev ' ':.v,;i: The Senate passed the Ward bill for the reclamation of juvenile de linquents, the Nash bill, to provide! for co-operative organization (model of Wisconsin law), and the - McRae bill to designate a North Carolina "Arbor Day.", '.' wife are the parents of the young victim. He was connected directly or by reason of to a number of Kinstpnians, includ- amous Contempt Lase In ing Mrs. I'aul Hembyr Mrs. Charles a war sons. T. R. Gets the Blame f or ," Curious Plat. .v; -i Berlin, Feb. 16. The Berliner Zei- tung yesterday published a pamph let which charged that former Presi dent Roosevelt is urging the United States to joiir the Allies to crursh Germany, i, Americans throughout Germany are no longer wearing, the tiny American flags in their button holes that were so noticeable and so generally applauded in the early days of the war. Gerard Says "Be Calm." Brilliant Array of Coun sel for Both Sides A imMmIiiiiS . 4m Vt A T nLnl A vri nn StltUted By Judge Peebles James W. Gerard, the American am- T li:U Ibaasador, sees no cause for alarm in Before High Tribunal Lftnnwtinn wlth tVlB n,Mpnt tions between the United States and Germany, growing out of the subma rine blockade. ' Dutchera Inclined to Be Excited : v- About Blockade. . Berlin, Feb. 16. The beginning of the German submarine operations in British waters is anxiously awaited. The Germans have been warned not to be too anxious for results. It ia -pointed out that it will be several days after the blockade takes effect before any news will be received. WHEAT UP FEW POINTS AGAIN THIS HORNING (By the United Press) Chicago, Feb. 16. Wheat is again. May wheat sold today f 1.G3 3-4 a bushel" up at! Washington, D. C, Feb. 15. De tails of the Panama carnival riot in which a Panama policeman was kill ed ; and twenty-five ' persons, twenty- three American soldiers and two civ ilians, were wounded Saturday, came to the department today in a report from ' Brig.-Gen, Clarence Edwards, commanding the Canal ; Zone garri son. All the wounded are expected to recover, the general said. "The Soldiers were without arms of any kind," the report says. "Am ericans Dotn soldiers - and civilians, were, fired on by the Panama police and mob. A few soldiers took small 22-calibre target rifles from a near by shooting gallery in the tenderloin and fired a few shots. They were immediately disarmed by Lieutenant Edgerly, who turned them over to the police and then summoned all non commissioned officers and' with a small provost guard, locked arms and pushed alt soldiers and Americans back. The police and mob moved the other way. I have forbidden soldiers during the remaining days of ! the carnival to vLsit the city of Panama. Do not anticipate further trouble." The famous case of Judge R. B. Peebles, who is presiding over the spring terms-pf Superior Court here, against Charles A. and George W. Brown, is up in the Supreme Court at Raleigh today. The Browns are he editors of a Goldsboro weekly pa- ' , e adjudged in contempt, ( f v Judge Peebles in 1914 at a hear ing In Jackson, his home town, and sentenced to sixty days in jail and fined $500 each. Their appeal devel oped one of the most interesting cases to come before the Supreme Court at this : term. The Browns charged Judge Peebles in editorials with im proper, conduct over-indulgence in drink, etc., and the venerable jurist strenuously objected to and emphnt icalld denied the accusations. The array of legal talent on both sides is large and probably expensive. Representing the defendants are Matt II. Allen, son of Judge Oliver Allen of Kinston; Ex-Judge W. S. O'B. Robinson and W. F. Taylor of Golds boro. The State and the Judge are represented by Attorney General Bickett, G. C. Peebles and F. R Har ris, the latter two prominent attor neys of Northampton county a The outcome, needless to say, is be ing awaited with eagerness by : the legal fraternity, jurists of the Supe rior Court bench, newspaper editors and others throughout' the State. , VA.LMBERRAIEO.Xy I C COMMISSION SAYS (By the United Press) Washington, , Feb. ' 16. Sixteer cents hundred pounds, the rate er carload lots of lumber from Virginia producing territory to Pittsburgh and Columbus, Ohio, was today declared reasonable by the Interstate Com merce Commission. ANOTHER EARTHQUAKE .... IN CENTER OF ITALY. Rome, Feb. 15. Renewed earth shocks- occurred today in parts of Central Italy visited by seismic dis turbances several weeks ago. One person was killed and six in jured in the collapse of a house at Nazahanoi t , At Rocca Sinibaldi, the belfry of the convent of Santa Maria, fell upon several houses, burying ten persons, Citladucale was wrecked and at Verolis several houses were rendered uninhabitable. ' - Since the recent disaster the dis trict' has been shaken almost daily. SHIPS PURCHASE STANDS NO CHANCE IN THIS TERM. Washington, D. C, Feb. 15. Char ges and counter-charges from Demo cratic and Republican sources con cerning influences for and against the government ship puii-hoso bill. hl.:h have smouldered about the rapilol for weeks, were maJo the suhje -t of a sjecial invesMsn!iin tnday by tL-i Seiiate. ' ' : V;' The decision, to inquire into alleg ed lobbying1 by agents of the ''ship ping trust" against the bill and into intimations of negotiations for' op tions on belligerent ships to Bell to the government was unanimous. With the decision departed the last hope of some of the most earnest champions of the shipping, measure that the bill could be passed in the Senate ly March 4.