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yOUB HO"E PAPER i; 0.0 DAILY FREE THE WEATHER pair toniaht nj Stut U? PUBLISHED EERY HFTBRNOON' EXCEPT SUNDRY, VOL XVI No. 291 SECOND EDITION KINSTON, N. C, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1915 FOUR PAGES TODAY PRICp TjyO CENTS GROUND IN FRONT OF WORKS IS COVERED WITH DEAD SOLDIERS Sharp Ffghting on Meuse Heights and Around Perthes NEW GENERAL BATTLE ON Trenches , Taken and Re taken Three Times ; in Two DaysRussians Re; pulsed in. ; Mountains 1 Austrians Successful (By the United Press) Paris, Feb. 19. In a . series of en gagements which have' progressed to the proportions of a general battlo, the Germans are endeavoring to re tain trenches captured from, them earlier in the week, on the' Heights of the Meuse, in the vicinity of Espar ges. The Germans have taken sever al outlying trenches with heavy los- ses. In the champagne region they continue their efforts to re-take a se ries of parallel trenches captured by French Africans. Several important positions in the vicinity of Perthes have been taken and retaken three times daring the last two days. The ground fronting the trenches are cov ered with dead and wounded, and it ; is impossible to remove them in the face of the terrific artillery fire. . . " Austro-German Successes in the East Vienna, Feb. 19. Russian attacks in the passes of the Carpathians have been repulsed with heavy losses.' The Russians, reinforced, ' are trying" to check the forward movement of the Austro-Germans in Southern Galicia The Austrians have retaken Czerno- witz, the capital of Bukowina. The Russians have been driven across the Prues with heavy losses. AH Rus sian entrenchments were captured. Germans Claim to Hold Many Prisoners. Berlin, Feb. 19. Along . the road from Arras to Lille the French have evacuated trenches captured early in the week. In the Champagne region renewed French assaults have been H repelled. Hundreds weri taken pvta oners. The Germans have captured naarly five hundred prisoners in the French attacks along Boureuills Vuaqudis road. Daring Allied Airman Attacks Two of Enemy's Tlyers. London, Feb. ,10. Severe German attacus are ueing made in the region southeast of Ypres. At certain points the Germans have , captured . ome British trenches. A German trench was Mown ud and the" dead covered the field In front A numter of the survivors were made prisoners. One English aviator in the neighbor hood attacked two German aeroplanes in succession. The first was driven off and the second brought down by artillery. ANOTHER ZEPPELIN FOULED BY A GALE, LANDS ifTDENiMARK L4 Was In Danger of Be ing Blown to Sea Four of Crew Lost Second Big Dirigible Xdst With- in the Past Week i GERMANS SEl SLEIGHS AS AMBULANCES BOLD ROBBERY OF A C. L ""FLORIDA FLYER" Express Manager of Fast Train Was Bound BetweenWsBhingto and Richmond, Safe Thrown Off Carr and Men' Escaped. (By the United Press.) Washington, J'b. JL9 The At lantic Coast IintJ Florida Fyer was robbed near Fraconialast night Ex press Messenger Chambliss was over powered, bound and gagged, the rob bers tumbled the safe Into a ditch, jumped from the car and escaped. A , posse of armed men are searching the woodland between Washington and Richmond. Three suspects are held at Alexandria. The safe was not found. BIG LAYMEN'S MEETING AT CHARLOTTE CLOSES Charlotte, Feb, 18-dosing Its three days biennial session in this wty tonight, the Laymen's Missionary Convention of the Southern Presby terian Church East of the Mississip pi left the matter of date and place ,f next meeting with the executive eommittee. - (By United Press) i ; Copenhagen, Denmark, Feb. 19. The Germans have lost two Zeppe lins In connection with an attempted enforcement of the British blockade. L-2 Was' destroyed . Wednesday. L-4 of the Schutle-Lansee type, was des troyed last night She was one of the biggest of the pre-war Zeppelins. The L-4 was taught in a snowstorm and carried such extra weight that, to avoid being swept to the sea, the captain steered into Danish territory to Save the lives of the crew. The captain and ten of the crew were cap tured. Four are missing. The ship drifted to sea after being abandoned 18-YEAR-OLD GIRL EST JAIL FOR INFANTICIDE. Asheville. Feb. ' t8.--Jessie May Carver,' aged eighteen, a member of a well known, family of the Fairview section of Buncombe county, was held for the Superior Court without bail this afternoon by a magistrate who heard the evidence of the case in which she is charged with murdering her infant on the morning of Janu ary 21. Although the ground was covered with snow at that time, the evidence indicated that the young wo man left the home of her mother and that the child was born, in the woods a short distance awa,y. Returning to the ' house, relatives suspected that something was ' wrong and visiting the woods found the child frozen in the snow. TECH. CLUBS TO MEET. Pittsburgh, Feb. 19. Economical and political conditions in Europe and the United States will be discussed to night at the third annual dinner of the Technology clubs, associated, at which President A. Lawrence Lowell of Harvard and President Richard C Mackauris of Massachusetts Tech, will be speakers. FIVE NEGROES WHO ON ROAD GANG ESCAPED THURSDAY One Undertook to Get Gun From Guard and All Made Successful Break During Confusion Sheriff Offers 'Reward for Their Capture --p.-aaiwaaij1aiHBHII.aiuaMI4IIUIUiiaHUI The Germans are a1d to be having a hard time in thj snowy lands or the eastern theater of war. They use pIfIkI-s rd slopes a ambulances to convey the woundel to hosnltula SHIP PURCHASE BILL IN ABEYANCE FOR TEN DAYS Washington, D .C, Feb. 18 Block ed in their efforts to get a vote on the House ship purchase bill, Demo cratic Senators today agreed to take up appropriation bills, and sent the shipping measure to conference un til February 27, when it must take it chancas of being filibustered to its death on March 4. Repul'ik-an Senators , en iered into a "gentleman's agreement wi'-h dem ocratic leaders to let the bill go to conference on condition that appro priation measures be passed within the next ten days to avoid an extra session. MANN SAYS GIVE WILSON FREE HAND IN ORIENT Washington, D. Cj Feb. 18. Far eastern affairs were brought up again in the House late today by Represen tative Hobson, who has resolutions pending which refer to the Japanese demands on China. Republican Leader Mann, and Chairman Flood of the foreign affairs committee, both protested that the subject should not be cclnplicated, and that President Wilson should be left with a free hand in dealing with the situation. OKLAHOMA CONSERVES NATURAL RESOURCES. Five negro convicts who escaped from the county roads gang Thurs day evening shortly after dark, are still at large today, with a force of officers searching for them through out this part of the county. j. The force was being moved from a locality where work on the roads had been carried on during the day to the stockade south of the city, the winter quarters. . There were more than 70 men in the crowd, traveling in a procession partly on wagons and partly afoot 1 ' The five who escaped were in the rear. Just beyond the Iron Bridge, Pettie Teachey, on ,the wagon with a guard named Woolard, whose full name is unknown to the authorities here, seized the ; guard's rifle when the opportunity presented and drag ged the latter from the wagon in his effort to wrest the weapon from him. In this he was unsuccessful, and giv ing up the attempt to secure the rifle, Teachey broke and ran. Ejur others followed him, and the quintet made good their escape, being under cover by the time a fusilade of bullets was fired in the direction they took, by guards. . .'.-;: Guards could not be spared from the gang to chase the fugitives, and it was an hour before word was had here of the affair. " With the hour start, the negroes, scattering in the (Continued on Page 3) Oklahoma City, Ok., Feb. 19. Tak ing of crude oil or petroleum from Oklahoma at a time when there is no great demand for the product or a fair price, is prohibited Hi the "oil conservation" bill, passed by the State Legislature. The Corporation Com mission is empowered to fix the price of oil, the law stating that the actual value shall be the average value as near as may be ascertained in the United States at retail of the by-pro ducts of such crude oil when refined, less the cost and a reasonable profit in the business of transporting, re fining and marketing the same. Overproduction in the State oil fields last season, resulting in the price per barrel dropping below 50 cents, resulted in the passage of the bill. ' UNITED FRUIT CO. SHIP AT MERCY OF WAVES (By the United Press.) .New York. 1 s b. 19. A - : VJ ' a wireless mfasage, th .Unll?.l lYmt Company's sr:amer Sar. 3 Marta is in distress in . heavy sea off Cape Hatteras. The vessel is at the mer cy of the seas. Help is going. FORTY-FIVE HUNDRED MORE FOR CARRANZA Forces of Olivia Znazua Moving to the North to Assist Old Constitu tionalist in Assault Upon K Convention Stronghold. , (By the United Press.) ' Washington, Feb. 19. Forty-five hundred troops under the command of Generals Oliva and Zuazua are moving north to join the main body of Carrwiza's troops in a general at tack upon Monterey. V ENGLAND EVIDENTLY TAKES DEATH ZONE DECREE SERIOUSLY All Travel From Islands to the Continent Ordered Suspended ; MUZZLE ON THE PRESS No Reports Allowed of Sub marines' Activities Un der Sea Boats Beginning to Get In Work Disobe dient Ships Are Doomed (By the United Press) Washington, s Feb. 19. The State Department was advised today that all travel between England and the continent had been suspended by or der of the Admiralty until further notice. This order is taken to moan that England regards Germany's death zone around the British Isles seriously. The British steamer Nit ka, chartered by the Standard Oil Co., and laden with a Stariard Oil cargo, has been seized by the British at Malta while en route to Grecian and Bulgarian ports. : French Merchantman Torpedoed. Paris, Feb. 19. German submar ine U-16 today torpedoed the French cargo steamer Dinorah, eh route from Havre to Dunkirk, off Dieppe. No warning was given. The vessel was not sunk, but used her steam pumps and kept afloat until towed into port. It is .believed this was,, the opening of the real German campaign against French shipping. Populace Given No News. London, Feb. 19. England waits anxiously reports of losses to the merchant fleet The government has prohibited publication" of reports dealing with the presence of subma rines for activit i nthe rines for activity in the-Channel. Traffic continues. A,' hundred vessels are due within the German "prohib ited zone" before Monday. It is be lieved certain some will fall victims to torpedoes. , 5- : .. The Norwegian tank steamer Bel ridge, from New Orleans to Amster dam, today struck a mine in the Straits of Dover and Sank. Her crew was saved. ;-'v . " Leave Behind Your Hope, AD Ye ' Who Enter Herein, ;V"- Berlin, Feb. 19. The Lokal Ansie ger, which reflect the viewpoint of the highest government officials, in its leading editorial today, declared that the Germans are now fighting without regard to consequences. There is no intention to wage a com mercial war, but "any neutral ship ping whatever that enters the danger sone must expect to perish therein." 300 TARHEELS AT WASHINGTON BANQUET Washington D. O, Feb. 18. The North Carolina Society of Washing ton, more than, 300 strong, held its annual banquet tonight at Rauscher's, where , an ambitious menu, coupled with music and pure oratory from na tive speakers served to speed the hours always too short for the num erous Tar Heels in the capital to be come acquainted. Secretary of the Navy Daniels, Dr. P. P. Claxton, U. S. Commissioner of Education, and Representatives Robert N. Page and Charles . Stedman were the speak ers of the evening. Rocky Mount, Feb. 18 Complet ing the plans for the tour into Cen tral Carolina, the local baseball com mittee, which has this matter in charge, is pretty well assuring that the Down Homers will be away from this city for the week of April 12 to 17, inclusive. FRISCO FAIR WILL ; ... OPEN TOMORROW San Francisco, Feb. 19. Early to morrow, fife and drum corps will tra verse all sections of the city playing martial airs, and arousing the people from bleep' . . Thi' population will immediately march up Van Ness avenue and through the gates of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, and the great San Francisco Fair will be on. .. This is the principal ceremony that will mark the opening of the exposi tion. The idea was adopted by the directors of the fair in order to "do something different" The exposition officials confidently predict that three hundred thousand men', women and children will res pond to the call and participate in the "1915 Grand March," as tho parede will be known. There will be no' grand marshal, no regular formation to the procession. It will be a parade of "poyful disorder," as President C. Moore of the Exposition Company ex pressed it The only city official who will be in the parade in his official ca pacity will be Mayor James Rolph. At the request of the business men of the city, a legal holiday has been de clared in this city. . : t , ,. , . , . SWAT THE ROOSTER ; CAMPAIGN IN IOWA. Dea Moines, la., Feb. 19. Iowa's Legislature is considering a bill to create a State poultry department. Poultry 'men assert Iowa' hens pro duced 106,000,000 eggs'last year, an average of 72 per hen, and took three monies' vacation, too. Carl Barrah told the House agricultural commit tee that 17 per cent of the egg yield is wasted in marketing through im proper handling, most of which loss falls on: the farmer. A campaign to "swat the. rooster" and thus secure unfertile eggs' for cold storage in May and June for delivery to consumers in the winter months is proposed. FROM NEWSPAPER SHOP Reputed to Have Been Thousand Dol lars In Chicago Daily Newa Branch Office, Robbed This : Morning Robbers Escape BILL IN SENATE BY WARD TO LEGALIZE CITY'S BOND ISSUE Roberts of Buncombe Sits i.: - In the Speaker's Chair: Omission In Bill By Grier Would Make New Prohi bition Measure Drastic . (By the United Press) Chicago, Feb! 19. A branch office of the Daily News, in South Racine street, was robbed this morning. Three employes were bound and gag ged "and the safe dynamited. More than a thousand dollars in cash was. stolen. The robbers escaped." (By W. J. Martin.) Raleigh, Feb. 19. The Senate ad journed at noon in respect to En grossing Clerk Aycock, who lost his life in an, automobile accident last night, after having named a commit tee to accompany the remains to Fre mont and agreed for the Senate in a body to accompany the remains to the Union Station at 12:30 o'clock. New bills introduced in the Senate included one by Ward to Legalize the $100,000 bond issue for Kinston. The House, with Representative Roberts of Buncombe in the chair, in stead of Speaker Wooten. who was dangerously injured in the early morning automobile accident, ' in which Clerk Aycock was killed, voted down a motion by Representative Cameron to displace the Grier anti jug bill as a special ordor for today to Wednesday of next week. The House took up the Grier bill. Dough ton of Alleghany directed the atten-i tion of the House to "for hire" hav ing been omitted from the bill as printed, so that not only would It cut' off all shipments and deliveries in the course of business, but would pre-, vent one friend from bringing anoth-( State and giving it to liim in this( er a bottle of liquor from another State. : Williams of Cabarrus offered an amendment to let' the people vote on: the ratification of the act The House settled down to a long discussion of the, bill. Bowie Speaker Pro Tern. ( Raleigh, Feb. 19. The House pass ed the Grier bill prohibiting shipment1 and delivery of intoxicating liquors( by a vote of 100 to 6. The amend-) ment to refer it to a vote of tho peo ple wai defeated; The Housf elect ed Representative Bowie of Ashe county, Speaker pro tern, to preside' while Speaker Wooten is recovering. 1 REFEREES CONCLUBE TESTIMONY IN CAPEMND GASES Findings Will Probably Not Be Handed Down for Two Months Records of the Hearing Are Voluminous 2 Months to Consider Findings in the matter of the Capo Lookout land cases, collectively known as the "Million Dollar Mys tery," will not be made within two months at the very earliest. Refer ees G. V. Cowper and Zeb. V. Rawls concluded the hearing of witnesses, who numbered fifty, in Beaufort on Thursday afternoon. Mr. Cowper, who returned to his home here today, declares it will take his colleague and himself not loss than two months to go through all the papers in the case, and have the evidence typewritten, etc. The case will not be re-opaned unless in their discretion the referees consider it necessary, except for the taking of depositions from parties out Of the State, connected with one set et the heirs, numbering about 100, who lay claim to a big acreage on the Cape through an ancient grant The prin cipals at the conclusion of the case asked the referees to hold 'the matter open for other evidence. Messrs. Cowper and Rawls, declaring it un necessary, declined. There are, roughly estimating, ISO litigants directly and indirectly. The land at stake, beach property which became of value after the Gov-t ernment adopted the idea of a harbor of refuge in the Capt harbor and it became known that a railroad and coaling Station were probabilities,, is valued at from $300,000 to $400,000 and comprises about lJW acres. EMMET WOOTEN HAD NARROW ESCAPE IN AUTOMOBILE MISHAP h- appened Thurs day Night Near Raleigh Country Club WILLIAM AYCOCK KILLED Nephew of Former Gover nor Victim of Smashup Senator Johnson Slightly Hurt Wooten's Condi tion Not So Favorable (By W. J. Martin.) , Raleigh, Feb. 19. Attending phy sicians say that the condition of Speaker Emmett R. Wooten of the House of Representatives is found this morning to I aerioua but pot necessarily critical. H a at Rex Hospital suffering Kwnftriea sus tained about 1 o'clock this morning, in an automobile accident when tho, t steering gear of the machine broke, and the machine turned turtle. Wil liam Aycock. engrossing clerk of the Senate, nephew of Late Governor C B. Aycock, was instantly killed ana Senator Johnson of Duplin and Mr, Wooten narrowly escaped death. The machine waa being driven by a negro chauffeur named Tuma Matthews. who was also badly injured. . Dr. . Hubert Roysfer, in charge of 4ha treatment of Speaker Wooten . f aya the ereneral condition of nil patient is good; that he seemed bright and caned for food and drink with relish, but that ithera developed toward noon today evidences of internal Injury, probably to his right kidney, the se riousness of which can only be ascer tained bv ' further developments. Dr. Royster Is hopeful that the Internal t injury can be counteracted and that the natient will mill through i all right He has several broken ribs on his right side. In being thrown from the car Senator Johnson was thrown on top of him when they landed in the road. The accident occurred when the machine struck the street car track at a crossing on the coun try club line at Bloomsbury. Tha nartv had been for a spin to the country club and were returning to the city. . - MRS. WOOTEN AT BEDSIDE OF HUSBAND IN RALEIGH Left on Morning Train for Capital After Hearing of Serioua Acci dent to Her Husband in An Automobile Smash-Up. Sneaker Emmett R. Wooten, Lenoir county's representative and head of the lower House of the General as- semhlv was hurt in an automobile ac cident in Raleigh late Thursday night at the same time that William Ay cock was killed. Mrs. Wooten. who was at her homo on South McLewean street here when the accident to ner husband occurred, war not notified until about 1 o'clock this morning. People at Raleigh tried to get in communication with ' her immediately after the unfortunate oc currence but failed. Tom Matthews, the negro chauffeur of a car in which were riding Aycock, Mr. Wooten and Senator Johnson of Duplin county, lost control of the ma chine as it passed over a street car crossing and it was ditched. Ay cock. who was engrossing clerk of the Senate and a member of a prom inent Wayne county family, was in stantly killed. He was a nephew of the great educational governor, Hon. Charles Brantley Aycock. Speaker Wooten sustained one or two broken ribs and Senator John son was gainfully bruised. The Speaker was hurried to a hospital, where, after a hurried examination. the doctors declared turn to be in no danger. Mr. Wooten was called over the teleDhone by his wife from their home here soon after she learned the news and assured her that his condi tion is in nowise serious , Mrs. Wooten left here at 10 o'clock for Raleigh. , ; ; Mr. Wooten's mother, Mrs. M ary Wooten. is also at his bedside, hav ing gone to Raleigh on the same train with his wife. 1
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