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TflflB ' HOKE . PAPER THE DAILY , ; i - Q) 0) TC THEmi ,m PUBLISHED AFTERNOON EXCEPT ' SUNDRY. VOL. XVI-No. 293 SECOND EDITION KINSTQN, N. C SATURDAY, MARCH A 1915 SIX PAGES TODAY 1TOCE TWO CENTO T6URAINE LA AT SEA, STEAMSHIPS RUSHING TO RESCUE Biff French Liner Carries Many Passengers, Mostly Americans i.i ' ::'! ' LOdinY IS' UNCERTAIN Some Reports Say Distress ed , Craft Is ; Off Brest; Others, Ireland Doctors and War Nurses Are On Board the Vessel , . - (By United Press) . London, March 6.-A wireless dis patch today announced that French liner La Touraine, Captain Caussina, bound from New York to Havre, is burning at sea. Some accounts cay the ship is off Brest, others state she ; sisting desperately. iMliinirrc IOIIT lrnmsTiTrTPiiPTrro rnrrur 'rnmrrv id mi m i.i miry iuiiisi ni v i hum t-fx isum- wy -, i in uv it i ...kv.iuJilUUUJil HUIIililllIi llllKllUJI UllLLllLi tJUIJllII III " t t i ; ' RUSSIAN FLEET; NOW ON WAY TO TURKEY . . & . . ' . ' . Bombardment of Fortifica tions Only 18 Miles From Constantinople Expected to Be Commenced Some Time During: Tomorrow (By the United Press.) Petrograd, March 6. It is reported thai three Russian dreadnoughts have joined the Russian black Sea fleet sailing to attack the Eosphorus. It is expected that by Sunday the fleet will begin the .bombardment of de fenses eighteen milca from .Constan tinople. - ij-Xr- :' ' Mine Siveepors Work Slowly. " Paris, March . Meager new from the Dardanelles today indicated that the progress of the. , Allies' mine sweepers is slow. The scene of the fleet's operation is now twelve miles within .the Strait, with the Turks re- Ihe admirals in- is off the Irish coast. ' Other steum i ships re rushing to her aid. La Touraine carried many pasaen , gers, mostly Americans, , .including five doctors and ten nurses bound, for the war zone. It U believed the res cuers will arrive in time to save all on board. Cause of Fire Unexplained. , - v ... - .. -t ... . London, March C. French Line of '..:, ficials say the cause of the La Tour aine's fire is unexplained. 4,500 Cases Cartridges On Board. New York, March 6, -It is: learned .that the Tounline'a cargo included 4,500 cases of cartridges. It is fear? ; ed that if the flames reach .these an ' explosion will ensue rendering rescue impassible. , tend to bottle, the Turkish squadron up, after which the Anglo-French Mediterranean and Russian Black Sea fleets will annihilate it. : . . , SUBMARINES HORDED THE GIANT LUSHMA Great Ship Arrives Safely at Liver- r pool No Lights In Danger Zone . ' Except to Enable Passengers to Find Their Beds :" - (By the United Press) c Liverpool, March 6. -The Lusitania ' arrived today with 475 passengers. t Captain Dow was informed that Gor man submarines were seeking the sWd. which traversed th without lights except for a half hour to permit the passengers to retire. ; PASSENGERS SAW SINKING OF TRAMP WITH NO FLAG. 'f ' (By, the' United Press.) New York, Mar. 6. Passengers On the steamship Ryndham, ar riving today reported seeing a big freighter blown up by a mine or submarine off Dover on Feb ruary 24, She carried no flag. A warship rescued the crew. BIGGEST COLLEGE MEET ' AT MADISON SQUARE TODAY (By the United Press.) . New York, March 6. Star athletes from all Eastern colleges and ama teur' clubs were to compete today in the indoor games of the Intercolle giate Association of ; Amateur Ath letes of America, at Madison Square Garden. - - The meet was expected to bring together the greatest . collection of college athletes ever seen at an indoor competition. Manager Berry-had re ports early in the week that 2,000 athletes - were training for the pre liminaries. . Matt Halpin, chairman of the ath letic committee of the New York Athletic Club, has been ''selected as pistol handler for tfhe relay carnival. This is the first. time in more thaVi twenty years that a professional starter has not -been employed. . . MAY BE BIG STRIKE ON OVER THE WATER Censors Supposed .to Be Withhold ing News of j Difficulties That Have Kept Sailings of Ves- ; . i sels Held .Up.- FOR; INSTITUTIONS FORGING AHEAD IN OF STATE TODAY ROAD CONSTRUCTION Leslie' Weil Succeeds Woot- $110,000 Bonil Issue Is Be- , cn On University Board New Members of JBoard of School for the Feeble-Minded By W. J. Martin.) Raleigh, March 6.A joint resolu tion today passed both Houses pro viding ior special legislative repre sentation at the inauguration of Dr. Graham as president of tho Univer- tty on April 21. v The joint committee on trustees of the University offered a recommend ation that Leslie Weil of Goldsboro, sufceed the late Emmett R. Wo.t9n, and Graham Woodard of Wilson suc ceed E. A. Woodard, resigned, as trustees of the University. .Those were confirmed in a joint session held at 2 o'clock. ' Nominations were confirmed of trustees of the State Normal College, the State School for the Blind, the State hospitals at Morganton, Raleigh and Goldsboro. the , School for the Deaf and Dumb at Morganton, the School for the Feeble-Minded, or Cas well Training School, to which the name is being changed, the State Board of Geological Survey and the A. & Mi College. , The nominations for trustees of the School for the Feeble-Minded fol low: W. C. Newland, Caldwell county; D. F. Wooten, Lenoir; W. A. Thomp son, Beaufort county; J. Rj Baggett, Harnett;' Mark Majette,. Tyrrell, to succeed A. C. Davis; J. D. Boushall of Wako county. Both houses are' passing many lo cal bills. Afternoon and night scs soins will be held for the purpose of clearing off the principal business to night and Monday and adjourning for the session Tuesday. ing Employed In Building of , 135 Miles i High Crade Sand-Clay Thoroughfare. Good Stock TAXES J.IUST BE PAID BY APRIL FIRST OH STAND PROSECUTION (By the United Press.) New York, March 6. Confidential English advices indicate that the Brit ish censors are suppressing news of a serious labor situation. Shipping ex perts say eleven days' suspension of Anglo-American sailings are unques tionably due to a strike. It is also re called that . influential labor leaders were opposed to the war. It is be lieved these have initiated an anti- military campaign. . - NORFOLK SOUTHERN MAY GET HAULING OF ROCK FOR CAPE LOOKOUT BREAKWATER Rumors emanating from New Bem 'say the Norfolk Southern Railroad may handle the thousands of tons of rock that, will be used in the con fitructiort of the great breakwater in tte harH 'refuge at Cape Look out. VfntY the contract for its con struction was first let it was announc ed that the material would come from point in Maryland by boat The government however, at the time dis couraged the transportation of the material by boat, it is said, because the government was anxious o have a rail line constructed from the main land to je Cr.pe, where eventually a big coaling station is to be put up nd fortifications to e-uard the har- - t . bor and tha coal works.. , . ' ... j . It is said that estimates mnde prove that t;;e rock can be handled chesper by rail than by water. The plan now advanced is to haul the rock in gon dolas asar as Morehead City, barge it to Shackleford Banks, and then transport it by rail over a line built by the contracting concern, a Medi na , (New York) . company. .Norfolk Southern officials are hav ing nothing to say with regard to ex tending their line from Beaufort to the Cape. It is understood that they have been looking around for suitable wharfage at ilorehead Gty ;nd Beaufort, however, upon which to dump the rock in the event they do not build across the Sound. It k re garded by some people as a safe bet that the extension will be made, how ever. At least, the Norfolk South ern has made no statement to refute the oft-repeated rumor to that cf-1 feet TROOPS OF THE CZAR HAVE CROSSED LINE INTO KAISER'S LAND Cossacks Venture Into Ger many Near Friedrichs hof Main Body Within Three Miles of Border Minor Changes In West (By United Press) Petrograd, Mar. 6. The advancing Russians aif now within three miles of the German frontier. Scouting Cossacks have actually crossed near Friedrichshof. . ; In Galicia the Austro-German for ces following a defeat have resumed attacking the Russians near Boberka. Changes in West of Minor Importance Paris. March 6-It is officially stat ed that itoday'a changes in the fight ing zone are unimportant Artillery is active. Owing to floods entrench ments is impossible in the extreme north. . ' . VALUABLE CATTLE ARE1 SHOT BY INSPECTORS V Owners Recompensed for J4A0UO Worth of Animals Destroyed By Government Agents Because of Dreaded Malady. (By the United Press.) Haddonfield, N. J- March 6. Gov ernment inspectors today shot $42,000 worth of cattle from here, infected with the foot and mouth disease. The owners have been recompensed. - CHIFEDS START SPRING TRAINING Chicago, March 6. The Chifeds were to leave today for Shreveport. to begin spring training. Greene county Is building a magni ficent system of good roads. Accord ing to H. C. Scott, one of the men preparing the coming Opportunity Edition of The Free Press, it will be one of the model systems of this part of the State. Mr. Scott was' taken over some miles of the improved road- was Friday by . R. Pennell and R. t i M. Johnson, the engineer and assist ant engineer in charge of the work. The highways that have been sand- clayed, he says, are admirably adapt ed to motoring as well as to wagon and buggy traffic . Various townnjjtipa of Greene voted. a total of $110,000 in bonds for the roads improvements. There will be 135 miles of wide, beautifully-surfac ed, durable roads in the county when the work is completed. There will be seven splendid main roads running from Snow Hill to all parts of Greene county, connecting, ' some of thorn, with "modern highways extending to the boundary line from other counties. One of the fine , highways will ulti mately connect Snow Hill with Kin ston. - - Greene county, with a population considerably less than 15,000, - has shown more progressivenees Jn the way of good roads than any of the smaller counties In the East The people are fond of their etock, Mr Scott noted, and he "cognized" just what the people of this section have known all the time, that there isn't a road too good for a Greene county planter's thoroughbreds. ,v , , ; , MINERS GREETED BY FAMILIESJTII JOY Had Been in the Chamber, Free From Gas and Fire, Four Days and Nights Saved Now Numbers 47 (By tho United Press.) Layland, W. Va, March 6. After four days and nights entombed in the New River and I Pocahontas Consoli dated Coal Company's mine, No. S, on Quinnmonte Mountain, where an explosion trapped 182 men Tuesday, fourteen miners were rescued alivo and well today. They' found a cham ber free of gas and flame, end await ed the searchers. Their families, which supposed the men were cer tainly dead, received them with hys terical joy. Hinton, W. Va. March- 6 More rescues from the Layland mine today brought the total of saved up to 47. Sheriff Says State Is Badly In Need of Its Share, and He Is Anxious to Accom modate the State ' Treas urer Promptly , Lenoir county is up against it in the matter of tax collection. ' There re mors than a thousand delinquents many more than . in any .previous year within the past two decades. The tax collectors are raising a bowl, too, and say they will get the money at any cost The State, Sheriff Taylor says tho Treasurer, Ben Lacy tells him, is far behind in collections. Many of the counties usually prompt in turn ing over the State's share have fail ed to remit It is to satisfy the Stats that the local authorities are so anx ious to get the money in. On the first day of . April advertisement will be made without the o rain si on of a sin gle favored one, end the coats will be added to each delinquent's assess ment i The sheriff realizes "that the people simply irent rolling in wealth. In fact he knows, he asserts, that "things are in a devil of a fix' the statements 1 of - the ultra-optimistic poets to the contrary. But he can't help the matter any, rlf he were a millionaire he would dig up the stuff right off and let the backsliders pay up when they could; but that's only eupposnv. The county isn't o badly off. It Can meet its bills. Lenoir county Is wealthy. Itls the State that causes all the trouble right, now. ' v' ' f ,,. ZEPPELIN STRUCK TREE ' Seclin, March 6. The war of. fice today denied reports lhat e ' German Zeppelin wss destroy ed. It is said the ship hit a tree was slightly damaged. ENLARGEMENT THIS SCHOOL DISTRICT IS BEING UNDERTAKEN Bill Now Pending Before Legislature to Make Pos sible Another Election In volving Territory Around Kinston Pay Tuition THE ODDEST STORY . i IN THE DAY'S NEWS Pittsburgh, March 6 John Wigley, recruit fireman of Truck No., 6, has no use for bedbugs, but he dearly love cockroaches. He considers them among man's est menus, ? ; When he joined the company some of the vamps decided to start a bed- ?an in hi KmI.- 2nhn. Inntcincr like a man with a rash after a sleep- j less night went to a restaurant and He vvwu . turned them loose among the "h-hs." In two days he was assured peaceful sleep. , ' Forty-eight of the cochroaches, hej declared, he returned to the kind res taurant keeper with thanks. The other fifty-two died from overeating. The success of the bill to restore the Old School District No. 1, in the General Assembly, is expected to re sult in a special election in conjunc tion .with the Municipal election in May and the inclusion, if the issue carries, of the territory for' about a mile or so on each side of Kinston in the city school district Chaicman J. W. Goodson of the Board of Trustees has had no word today concerning the bill, but it is stated in other circles that it is certain to become an act Under the present conditions the children of the territory immediately contiguous to Kinston are permitted to attend the city schools through an arrangement of the county board with the local board, the expenses being furnished the local trustees. The enlarged district was the sub ject of a special election two years ago, held apart from the city elec tion. Indifference defeated it It re quired a majority of the registered voters to carry , it but the majority did not go to the polls. There was little actual opposition, and only 17 ballots Vers : cast against : it The chances for its success now are much more favorable; m fact friends of the- bill do not entertain the slightest idea that the issue will fail at the POllS. ' . : Some scores of children without hand than the city buildings will be I (Continued on Page Six) HAY CANCEL MARCH CIVIL COURT TERM ACCOUNT LAMS Death of Speaker Weoten and Necessary Absence of : House and Land and T. C. Wooten Greatly Reduces Triable Cases "The Lenoir County Bar Association today expects to ask Judge R. B. Pee bles to cancel the March term of civil court here. At a meeting of the law-' yers 'Friday evonin gthey attempted to arrange a calendar for the term, scheduled to start on the 22d and con tinue through two weeks. J It was found that the death of Speaker Wooten and the . connection of Rouse and Land and T. C Wooten with the Garter-Abernethy investiga tion, as counsel for the latter, made the holding of the court impractica ble. Emmett Woo ten's clientage jus); prior to his death was largo. No ar rangements have yet been .made to, dispose of his business with the liti gants and court Messrs, Rouse and Land are employed in many causes.' The deduction of those cases in which Messrs. Wooten, Rouse and Land were to appear would not leave enough, ac cording to one member of the, bar, to justify Judge Peebles' coming here and convening the term. ' As is gen erally known, the famous Carter-Ab ernethy matter come up in Raleigh during the part of the month when the court here would be on. Lenoir county has not had a term of civil court this year, The January term was called off by Judge Peebles at the instance of the Bar Association, requesting that his fellow-lawyers be allowed to accompany Mr. Wooten to Raleigh to see him elected Speaker of the House of Representatives, and ad vancing other reasons. There are about 190 civil matters docketed now, many of these having, been postponed from the January an nulled court What Judge Peebles' attitude in the matter will be, ' of- course, Is not now known. SIMMS iRSEipffltY OF DCfl RAPIDLY ' ' i ; '-... ... T '- ' :;- ..; ' ' rmmmmmmm , . ':' ftfotmg Momentarily Ex pected to Ureak Out In the Capital NO WORDFROriCARRANZA Warned He Must Protect ' Foreigners The Presi dent Won't Co., to JFxisco Until Fall Page to Inves , tfgate Seizure POSTPONED A.UT0 CLASSIC ON TODAY Vanderbilt Cup Race Oa At tha San Francisco Expos'tioo Seeaty : Six Laps and Over 294 Miles . - To Be Covered Today . (By tho United Press.) Exposition Grounds, San Francisco, March 6. The hundred - thousand spectators who gathered about the exposition auto race tracks this morn ing hoped for fair skies when the starter's pistol sent off the classy field of drivers entered in the Van derbilt Cup race. . Originally scheduled for February 22, the race was postponed nntfl today because the track was not in shape on the former date. . The distance to be covered today was 294,062 miies, (here being 76 laps to the race. If De Palma, the early favorite today, won the, race, he would attain permanent . possession of the trophy and the race would be removed from America's list of speed classics. CONFERENCE BETWEEN ' CHINA AND JAPAN ON Secrecy Guards Developments of the Meeting to Thresh Out Justifce : tion of Island Empire's Claim ' - to Susetaiaty la China (By the United Press.) Tokio, March 6 A conference has been opened relative to Japan's recent demands on China, reported as con stituting a claim to practical suzer ainty. . There if the greatest secrecy, but indications are that the outcome will be of capital importance to the Orient's future. w Washington, Mar. 6.-Government advices from "Mexico city say the sit uation is growing hourly sronss. Slots an momentarily f eared. The, admin istration is anxiously awaiting Car ranaa's reply to the warning itath must protect foreigner.'''".' President Postpones Faig Trip,. , Though not officially announced, it is admitted that ihe President .has abandoned visiting tha San. Francisco exposition in March, owing to the Eu ropean situations. He "will probably go in the falL Amjerica Will Protest Pacific' Detention. , The amb&ssador at London has been ordered to strictly investigate the British seizure of the American steamship Pacifls. It is stated that her cargo was absolutely non--contra band, America will protest strongly. Daniels Will. Reach Panama on Jqy 4 Secretary JJanlete today said he r. will, leave Washington July 1 to 'jUn the fleet and hoped to arrive at the Panama Canal on the Fourth of July. ' .'. He, will accompany the' ahipa as far. as Paget Sound. ' -, ' , BailroadsVBeeeipto Fall Off. ' : yk' The Jnterstate Commerce Commis sion announced, that January railroad . receipts were more than twenty-two million dollars less 'than in the aamo , month of the preceding year. Jtil road men attributed the falling off to the. .general stagnation. SHERIFF TAYLOU WAS. FIRED ON BY DESPERADO Attempted A crest of Joh William! draught Exchange of Shsts From . Officer '. and Man Nobody r - Hit Negro At Large '..'V' a " . tawMMM. -".'';'..' f-' ;' " . t John Williams, colored, who is "be lieved to be ifhe person who on last Saturday night pointed a pistol - at three whits men on the Dam road south of the -city and fired three shots at them when tfhey, attempted to seize him, was located by Sheriff A. W. Taylor, Deputy H. H. Allen and 6am Taylor, ons of the three men who bad the run-in with him on the Dam road, Thursday morning, near tm Grove, about eight miles from here. Allen had taken up a position near a house, and Taylor had gone to watch another dwelling, some distance off. The sheriff found Williams working in a ditch. He told the negro to throvj up his liands. Instead of complying the black started backing away, and managed to draw hi revolver. He fired two shots at tha ehamff, who im mediately returned the fire. The c fa car iirod four times at Williams, none taking effect Williams found ready refuge in scrub .woods and v"s lost to the officers by the time the other two had joined the sheriff. The trio remained in the vicinity all day after the duel, which was about 11 o'clock. They were informed that the outlaw had returned ito the rlty about evening, and about 10: 3D re turned to town and made a thorough search of the section in which it was supposed Williams had found . Williams is a dsera'e t'-ck. is accused of several r1 Vr-'c. r said to be willing to ' rt- e ' anything when under the ir" whiskey. lie will be cv: v i' . iff asserts, if every inch of t' c has to be tJire.O. pJ ovfr t f (Contlaucl I i I) u-n. Ha 1 U
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