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Mill CE FAFER thevvthM; mm Lihtanbt mgdti PUBLISHED KFTERNQON EXCEPT- SUNDRY, 'Jh- .it SECOND Eirrioft vol. xvi-np. m JCINSt6n, N. C THURSDAY, APIttL 8, 1915 FOUR PAGES TODAY PRICE TWa CENTS KINSTON'S SINS AND ''GREAT "iPERSISTEfff DllMORi FARMER'S 1YIEE SHOT EIGHT VESSELS ARE IMPROVEMENTS FOR AMONG SUBJECTS FOR TODAY'S SffiLMOUHWWiC THAT GERMANY AND NEGRO INTRUDER AS STRANDED ON SHOAL ELECTRIC PLANT TO VARIOUS MANDATES; HOLLAND WILL 1R HE FORCED THE DOOR OFF CAPE IIATTERAS EXCEED SHERIFF I THE QUESTION QUANDARY OVER THE SERMONS MEETINGS j Evangelist Cross wilj discuss the "Sins of Kinston" at the Christian church tonight. Dr. Roseborough wjll speak on the subject;, "The Great Question," at the. Pres byterian church. Dr. Wharton, the noted Baptist min ister front paltiraore, was greeted in his first service last night at the Lof tin Opera House by a large and apprecia tive congregation. The Queen Street Methodist meeting will probably be transferred week. A large chorus is being organized under direction of Mr. "Reed, The services ing part m the great simultaneous campaign, continue in the same stride that marked the inauguration of the meetings last Sunday. The ministers are urging upon their hearers the necessity and for deeper consecration DR. WHARTON GREETED BY LARGE CONGREGATION Noted1 Baltimore Minister Is Well Kti&Wft Here, and His" Coming Again Has Been Inspiration tft His Brethren Dr. H. M. Wharton, the noted Bal timore evangelist, preached his first sermon in Loftin's Opera House Wed nesday evening and delighted the large congregation. He took as his text the 116th Psalm, "What shall I render unto the lord for 8,11 His ben efits," and made strong appeal for indifferent Christians to wake up and make a fresh start It was a clean cut and forceful sermon from start to finish. ' Dr. Wharton is eo well known here that it is needless to iuay that there is not a dull moment In his services, end that he never keeps a congrega tion unnecessarily long. Evening service at 7:45 p. m. The day service has "teen changed from 10 a. m. to 3:30 p.m., lasting not over one hour. All cervices in the Opera House, All singers are cordially in vited, to come out and join the cho rus choir, under Prof. Bush. MR. CROSS mi DISCUSS THE SINS OF KINSTON Sermon Wednesday Night On Seven - Sins Against the Holy . Spirit Was Most Impressive and Comprehensive. - f Tonight at 7:45 o'clock Evangelist Percy Cross, who is conducting the simultaneous meetings at the Gordon Street Christian church, will preach oa ftThft Sins of Kmston." When making his announcement Wednes day night Mr. Cross expressed, a de sire that he could have before him tonight the keepers and patrons of questionable places of the city, for, i said he, "I have a message for them." Wednesday night Mr. Cross , im pressed a lafge. congregation ith his discussion of the seven sins against the Holy Spirit. . His discourse was very comprehensive an4 f ew people , If. any, who heard him left the house with, the feeling that they were en tirely free from having at some time transgressed in some of the specified particulars; To question the miracu lous conception of Jesus and His di: vinity .wag, Mr. Cross said, a sin against the Holy Spirit and those who did so were in peril of the wrath of God. He urged his hearers - to be careful about, making promises to God, whichgsi not fulfilled,' for that was lyingains tthe Holy Spirit, the sin for which, Ananias and , S phira paid the death . penalty. Be ware of trying to quench the spirit , and hesitate to grieve the Spirit were other danger points! Mr. Cross based each of the seven, sins upon Scrip- . ture passages and illustrated his points most impressively. - .-. ; -Two girls responded to the invi tation at the conclusion of the sermon and the ordinance of baptism was ad ministered to some who had made .the confession, before. ' to Mr. Brownings tent nex at the various churches ak for secret and private prayer and more personal work. QUEEN STREET MEETINGS TO BE HELD IN BIG TENT Change Will Probably Be Made From Church Next Week Later An nouncement Prayer Is Sub ject of Mogning Service, As the key to all Christian activity is prayer, Mr. Browning is at Queen Street making a special study of this great subject in his morning ser vices. At the Wednesday morning service the' Lord's prayer, as Christ'; model, was taken up for considers tion It begins with a statement and an acknowledgment of the fatherhood of God. But, declared the speaker, God is only the farther of the spirit ually reclaimed and no one can claim God as a father until . regeneration has given to him or her this high pri vilege; although it is a privilege that all' may enjoy if they will. The por tal through which entrance may be had is Christ and only to those that "receive Him to them He gave power to become the sons of God. : Heaven is given . as the dwelling place of God, and it is a fact that be heaven is everywhere that God is. If God completely fills the human heart we have a condition of- heaven here on earth. The subjectof prayer will be fur ther studied and the Lord's Praye is to be used as a basis for this con sideration. The evening hour was . a clarion call to Christians and sinners to awake, the basis for which call was found in Ephesiana 5:14: "Wherefore He saith: Awake those that sleepeth and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light. This text was developed from the standpoints of the awakening or con yiction necessary, the arising "from the dead," and the grpat promise that "Ufirist shalj give thee light." This inevitable blessing follows the "awakening" and 'arising." " : The choral music under Rev. James B. Reed, s being -steadily perfected and when Mr. Tillman arrives' it is hoped he will find a ohorus of 75 or 10Q ready f ov him,! Steps were taken to transfer the meeting tq Mr. Brown ing's tent, lEzelah," which is to be erected dn; the Pollock lot, and early next week will probably be ready for service. , SECRET PRAYER MORNING THEME DR. ROSEBOROUGH Presbyterian Evangelist. Will, Speak Tonight On the "Great Ques tion" Will Address Young People Saturday The morning services in Atkinson Memorial Presbyterian church have been , exceedingly instructive , and helpful. On yesterday morning Dr. Roseborough presented the subject of "Secret Prayer." He said that pray er is our leverage on the throne of God.". That he had known of. meet ings where there was enough of preaching, enough of singing, enough of public prayer, but that he had nev er known of one where there was enough of secret prayer. . His subject this morning," "Work ( Continued on Pegs 3) ' Both Countries Said to Be, Massing Many Troops On Frontiers BUTCH- AVMITINCr REPLY Kaiser Must Explain Seiz ure of Vessels French Attack Furiously, Gain Practically Nothing and Lose Heavily (By the Ignited Press) London, April 8. Wild reports that Germany and Holland are quiet ly massing troops along the Dutch Belgian frontier, with rumors that Germany is about to invade Holland, have reached London from English sources in Dutch cities. Amsterdam dispatches to London news agencies give similar reports. Holland is now waiting for a German answer of ex planation of the recent seizure of Dutch boats bound for England with food cargoes. German's Union Ticket Saved Tim A corporal's letter received here to day tells how when he was about to bayonet a, German, the latter fran tically waved a union card showing membership in the British Engineers' Union, which saved the German's life, Grench Gain Naught by Terrific Onslaughts, Berlin April 8. The war office to day said the French are making ter rific onslaughts between the Meuse and Moselle, but are suffering enor mous losses. Not the slightest gains have been made! It is claimed the French War office is keeping reports of losses from the people. Eighty thousand Jews have been driven from Warsaw by the Russians and are now homeless. are I AID FOR POLISH WAR VICTIMS. : New York, April 8. To secure funds for war relief work in Poland, the American Polish Relief commit tee will hold a ball tonight ,at the Hotel Biltmore. Another pageant is planned next week. ELKS REFRESHMENTS STOLEN, Elizabeth City, April 7. A sneak thief entered the Elks Home , last night, while all the members of the lodge were attending the Elks' Min strel in Alkrama Theater and stole all the refreshments which the lodge had prepared to be served after the show. The lockers were broken open and a small quantity of liquid refresh ments were also taken. When the members returned to the "Home" they did not have a thing to eat or drink. ANNUAL MEETING OF THE ROUSE BANKING COMPANY Directors and Officers All Re-EIect- ed and Cashier's Report Proved Satisfactory to Stockhold ers N. J. Rouse President (Special to Free Press) LaGrange, "N. C, April 8. The annual meeting- of the stockholders of the Rouse Banking Company was held at its office in LaGrange Wed nesday. The business for the year had been good and a dividend of 6 per. cent was declared. The members of the board of di rectors were re-elected who, upon jer ganization after the adjournment of the stockholders, elected the officers for the coming year as follows N. Rouse, president; C P. Bartoif, vice-president, and T & Bouse, cash ier; as also were the bookkeepers; Mr. John P. Joyner and Miss Ruby Tull. The report of the cashier wasj in all particulars satisfactory and en couraging for the future of the bank. Dead Man Fits Description of Sheriff s Assailant at Elm Grove MRS. HEATH WAS PLUCKY; Alone With Small Son When Necrro Demanded That Dopr Be I Opened Sher iff Agrees With the Free Press Reporter According to i report which reach ed here today, W rs. Henry Heath, the wife of a farmei at Chinquepin, Jonei, county, shot anp killed an unknown nesrro who tried to break into her home in the dark, while her husband was away. Heath, it is said, was in Kinston at the time of the shooting. From the meager information which reached this paper. Mrs. Heath was locked in thev house with one child, her 12-year-old son. "Open that door or I will break it in!" the man threatened. She siezed a shotgun and motioned to the boy to open the door. The lad complied and the woman fjred twice. The negro staggered off a short dis tance, fell and died. I The Fres Press informed the sher iff's office here that ,th viptirn, of the plucky farmer woman was probably John Williams, who several weeks agq engaged Sheriff Taylor in a pis tol duel at Elm Grove and escaped in the woods naJter 'firing . several shots at the officer. The fact that Williams had several gold teeth and that the unknown negro shot at Chin quepin, had a mouth literally "filled with gold," according to the infor mation, led the sheriff immediately to the same conclusion. ' Williams, the sheriff declared, was known to have headed towards Jones county after Elm Grove had been made too hot for him to stay in that vicinity. Sheriff Taylor is trying to get intd touch wjth Mrs, Heath, fle wants to pay her a reward offered by personally, if it really was Williams who fell a victim to her bravery. . EITEL IS FORMALLY INTERNED TO SPEND REMAINDER OF WAR Makes Last Journey From Shipyard to the Norfolk Naval Station Engine Rods Unhooked and Her Guns Arc Useless (By the United Press.) Washington, April 8. The Eitel Friedrjch made her last journey dur ing the, war when she was towed to day from Newport News to the Nor folk qa,vy yard. Arrangements for her internment were made at a con ference between Rear Admiral Beat-. ty, commandant of the Norfolk yard, Rear Admiral Helm of the battleship Alabama," and Collector Hamilton. - The breech block sof the, ship's guns will be removed and the con necting rods of the engines uncoupled. NURSE KILLED IN . -, HOSPITAL ELEVATOR, Asheville, April 1. Miss t . Ollid Bagwell, a member of the staq of nurses of the Mission Hospital, met a horrible death this afternoon when her head was caught between the flooring of the elevator and the jam ol' the door on the first floor. She was crushed to death immediately. dying before aid could reach her side, She was operating the. elevator and j no one eise was on iu Graveyard of the Atlantic - Takes Heavy Toll From Shipping; MANY CUTTERS HURRYING Rout for Villa Army Under His Personal Command Huerta's New York Trip vesication Ends (By the United Press) Washington. April 8. The coast guard service has ordered every avail able, cutter south of Boston to Dia mond Shoals, N, C, at full speed, to aid eight vessels wrecked there. Two are unidentified, stranded bottom up. One is on the bottom with only her masts showing. The schooner Alice Murphy of Thomaston, Maine, is al so ashore and capsized. The, schoon er Lizzie B. Wiley,' also of Thomas ton, is aground and water-logged. The schooner Gressy and barges Cli neola and Northwestern, are in dis tress. The cutter Seminole is on the seen?. Np reports have been made yet as to the loss of life. Obregon Puts Villa Army 1 F'ight The rout by General Obregon of General Villa's army near Celaya is claimed by the local ; Carranzista agency. Villa is said to have been in personal command. Obregon's dis patch said Villa lias lost more than 2,000 in ' killed" and wounded, '.. and much ammunition. Obregon is ' in pursuit of the retreating forces. Huerta Coming to New York. : Washington, April 8. Officials of thp State DepartmetJjfcV believe that Huerta is not making the trip to New York for "his health!" They think his visit may complicate the Mexican situation, and the belief is strong here that he intends interfering in Mexi can affairs;' No Way io Neutralize Mexico. The Wilson-Bryan plan to neutral ize Mexico City has fajled, owing to the refusals of Carranza to agree. A letter from him today said he ex pected to drive Zapata from the city and reoccupy the capital. State De partment officials are studying the laws, in , an endeavor to find how to treat Huerta when he arrived at New York Saturday., ' ' . Harvester Trust a Morgan Ides. The idea of forming the harvester trust combination was the idea of the late Pierpont Morgan, said Attorney Wilson, arguing before the Supreme Court5 today in thej harvester trust case. He said trying to restore com petition would he lake restoring the dead. ' . , , , Express Companies" Losses. ' Figures, of the nine principal ex press companies announced by the In terstate Commerce Commission to day ( showed a decrease in operating expenses for December, 1914, com pared with December, 913, and a decrease in the net operating reven ues" for 1914, compared - with 1913. The unfavorable showing in 19,14 is atributed to the competition of the parcel, post, Ship Lobby Committee Finishes Work The work of the Senate ship lobby investigating committee is concluded. Senator Walsir today said the inves tigation disproved the charges of Senator Burton that the ship pur:; chase bill was playing into the hands of German interned ship owners. FORTIETH BIRTHDAY . :. OF BELGIANS' KING , (By the. United Press.) , London, . April 8. The y fortieth birthday of King Albert of Belgium was celebrated today with, unusual ceremonies Sir Arthur Walsh eu logized the King at a big mass meetJ ing and presented the congratula tions of the' King and Queen of Eng land. . " ' . ; . . ; Cost of New Equipment Ne cessary Wilj Approximate $50,000 Provisional Qon tracts Awarded By Coun cil Wednesday The City Council wound up the bus iness of selecting the new equipment for the electric ligfit plant late Wed nesday, after having been in session almost continuously since 11 a. w. ; Contracts were awarded as follows Mcintosh K Seymour, two high speed 4-yalve engines, 180s. D W. Djlqn Boiler - Works, two 250-horsepower boilers. Morris Machine Works, twin pumps. Wostinghouse Electric Com pany, two 300-kilowatt dynamos and all the. minor machinery. None of the contracts will be sign ed within a month, because Council instead of spending about J 15,000, as it was at first supposed would be ex pended, or $25,000) or, fSQ,pqQ as Jt later on became apparent would have to be put Into the, machinery, found that, the cost of the equipment that they ordered would approximate al most 50,000, Engineer Whiter , and olh,er experts, told the members of Council that there, was absolutely nothing to the idea of buying infe rior equipment for a municipal light ing plant. Fifteen thousand dollars worth of machinery would be little improvement, they said. I The pres ent plant will ?go under" within the next year; it certainly could not stand the strain 6t another winter. The, machinery .ordered ' Wednesday will be adequate, "until 1930, unless Kinston should experience a phenom enal growth. - ; , Not a three-phase bu a two-phase plantr will result from the ' instal lation of the new engines, boilers, pumps and ynamos, since there are two of each. The equipment is of the very best. Besides Mr. White and his assistant, man who is re markably I well-posted , and "knows everything! in the world aboqt elec trical equipment,"! the reporters: con cluded, Water and Light Superintend ent. Weyhe was present throughout the meeting, and was often called in to the discussion of some particular piece of machinery1. Two practical members of the hoard, Messrs. Fort and Rouse, were also active in the discussion of the merits of the vari ous machinery The bidders' agents were called in one at a time and sub jected to a cross examination , as were the paving and sewerage bid ders in March, They were an ex tremely well-posted lot, and the bq 1 ;tiqn of engines put the members of Council up against the most tedi ous business of the day. . ; If the people sanction the Council's action with regard to the letting of the contracts on Wednesday,' early in May they will be signed. Easy terras were immediately consented to by the bidders, so that any cost above the money that is, available from the b.pnd issue for the purpose may be paid gradually out of the savings of the plants notably on fuel, etc. (By the United Press.) ALBANIAN INSURGENTS ASSAULTING DURAZZO. . Berlin, April &--Six thous and Albanian insurgents are at tacking the Albanian capital of Purazzo and shelling the city with several field pieces. FIRST PROSECUTION FOR , VIOLATION HARRISON LAW, . Charlotte, April 7. The Federal grand jury today found a true bill of Indictment against Isadora Robinson, colored, charged with keeping co caine in violation of the Harrison anti-narcotic act, which is believed to be the first indictment in the State under the new act that went into ef fect March 12. i BULLETINS Negro Sentenced tailt6atls Has Attention of Gover nor, arid Stay of Execu tion Ordered by Ilim Caused Some Confusion, There was this morning something" doing, with a lot of frills on, in Len-' , oir county officialdom. ' , What the Governor of North Caro lina said about the case of E, Wm Wads caused commotion,- , . ' Wade whq is classified as colored, but on nrs would be taken, foy, a white imin, was convicted, ak a term,; of Superior Court some time, since of fornication and adultery, and wasV sentenced to 'six months on the road's it is said. The Supreme Court re cently upheld the judgment of the ' lower- court and sent certification of its decision to Clerk of, -.. Superior Obuxt Jesse Heath hera. There, foK, lowed soon aiterwards a letter from Expellgncy t3 Governor in-., s,tructipg th uftor$te not tot puV the sentence, inty fffec ltH) he Jhad, had time ten days, it, is stated, to consider plea, for pardon. ; r . The nex move was. when Solicitor. Shaw walked into the Courthouse and demanded, that sentence bf com menced. The Governor, he is allegeiT to have' aid, has no option in the1 matter, and the Supreme Court's d' cision was final. - Counsel for Wade" about the same time warned the shorn iff, it is said, that the contrary was the fact.' One official sought .the coipty attorney, whq woijld noreni -- der a definite ppihion. t ,.t,tt ! VThe Governor will be obeyed," tht. sheriffv says, although he has not yet received a reply to a telegram t?) His, Excellency in which the Chief Execu- , tive was informed that , the SUti's' . Attorney insists . that sentence ' W commenced regardless of has letter , , "I am taking no chances,! the sher- : iff told the Free Press "If I make a misstep through obeying his instruct . tions I am sure I wil be pardoned irtj case the Solicitor takes l intq ,hSj heag to make things bad, for mp, ..." wish-" be said as a final word, "that. the, newspapers wqqld .make it toot . for Shaw," Another official said the solicitor probably was not so ceteZ-V mined as he appeared. He evidently only wanted to tell "the boys" whalJ . was right to do. , ' "i-ita It is said that the Solicitor unknow- ) ingly was trying to override thai eon- ' stitutional right of the Chief ExeeiH tive to grant reprieves, commutatiqna, and pardons in "all cases" except m peachniepts. , ' - r; " The officials had a mononolv. on all the gloom in the county for a whilet thig morning, but at the present writ ing there is a tendency to pass'We matter off as a joke, almost entirely1' at the solicitor's exipense. , V(1a ITALIAN FLEET NOW READV ,fln FOR BUSINESS IN" ADRIA1TO On the Italian frontier, via Paris, April 7. The warships of the Italian fleet departed sudd.enjy on Monday from the Mediterranean navaJI statjo.o. at Spezia4 a,nd the statiqns. at Gasta ana magaaiena, isiann. , iiiey conj CSJltflted at qgusta, Sicily and at Taranto. They re thus within a few I hours of the Adriatic . CRUISER RUSHED ' ' TO NICARAGUA. Panama, Apr 1. The United States cruiser Chattanooga was dis- . patched under rush orders today for ' Corinto, Nicaragua. Her sailing was believed here to have been due to the reported outbreak of a revolution on. the west coast of Nicaragua. MONROE MAN KILLED BETWEEN TWO CARS. Monroe, April 7. Claude Worley was killed here at 11 o'clock this morning when he fell between two cars while applying brakes. Ilia I ft arm, shoulder and arm were maa!?J. He died soon after the accident wLich occurred in the Seaboard yarJ.
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