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VOL. XVII. No. 197
SECOND EDITION
KINSTON, N.G, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1916
FOUR PAGES TODAY , r1 TW0 CENTS
WU 4 ' JIVE CENTS ON TRAINS
MONTENEGRINS ARE
TROOPS WILL KEEP
WATCHFUL WAITING
MAY GIVE PLACE TO
NATIONAL BANKS OF
HOPES TO DAVE DIG
FORT ERECTED FDR
HAIKU ACCUSED DY
WAYNE COUNTY FOLK
INVOKE LYNCH LAW
FOR NM SLAYER
John Richards Strung Up
Today; Confessed to , the
Murder of White Man
siioN ioio.se fin
CITY HAD EXCELLENT
SUTLER VIOLATING
FED. ELECTION LAWS
f CETT1NJE, SAID
FROM PASSING ONE
BUSINESS, REPORTED
PROTECTION OF BAY
ANGRY
mm
Austrians Take Mountain
Only Nine Miles From
the Capital
FAILURE OF THE GERMANS
Attempted On Sunday to
Repeat .the French Off en
sive . of September, Stat
ed, and Lost 25,000 Men
Allies' Guns' Awful Work
,By. Henry Wood
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
Rome, Jan. 12.-VThe earl fall of
Cettinje, capital of Montenegro is
forecasted by the fall of Mount Low
cen. the "Gibraltar of the Adriatic,'
which dominated the main road to
the capital, seven miles distant. The
military evacuation of Cettinje be
gan Sunday.
Mount Lowcen fell after five days'
terrific bomjbardment by an Austrian
squadron of 'siege guns. The little
Montenegrin army is being terrifical
ly pounced on all fronts.
Germans' Fearful Losses Sunday.
Paris, Jan. l?.-The Germans lost
niore than twenty-five thousand men
by their onslaughts upon the French
lines in the Champaigne Sunday.
': Prisoners say theGermans attempted
C to rival the French offensive of Sep
- tember, butfaed. The main artillery
was unable to silence the French bat-
terieej whicn blew the attacking col
umns to pieces when they charged.
The Kinston Manufacturing Com
pany's plant will, resume operations
Thursday morning, ,'with the entire
force at work, it was stated at the
office In Southwest Kinston today.
Logs are nqw being brought to the
city on a train sent out to the woods
. south of here' Tuesday, it is thought.
r , The .terms of the, agreement be
tween J. T. Deal, dominating spirit
of Jthe,. Jinston Manufacturing Com
pany, arid ' oigcials of the Norfolk
Southern, interested in the plant of
the Kinston-iCarolina Railroad and
Lumber Company, of which the K. M
mpany was iintil recently the les
see for about four years, had not
this morning been' disclosed, and the
management of the : mill is yet "in
the dark!? as to whether the contract
will be renewed by the Deal inter
ests of the plant lost to the city.
There is ,an optimistic spirit in evi
dence, however. It is expected that
the mill will Jbts operated on full time
at least until something definite is
stated. . Mr; Deal is in Norfolk.
TROUBLE IN THE CAMP
-WONTS DELAWARE
Wilmington, Del., . Jan. 11.- The
fight among the 'stockholders of the
DuPont Power Company over the
transfer of the securities of the cor
poration formerly owned by T.' Cole
man iDuponti ' valued at .about' $65
000,000,' reached an interesting stag
today .when official 'announcement
-was made that Alfred I.. DuPont had
heen deposed as vice-president and
general manager of the company by
the directors at a meeting held yesterday-'..
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The announcement of the action of
the directors followed closely the
filing of the.U. S. district court here
yesterday of a petition by Alfred I.
Dupont, asking permission to become
a party to the suit filed by Philip F.
DuPont against Pierre S.: DuPont,
president of the company certain di
rectors, and others interested in the
concern. - -
El Paso, Texas, Jan. 11. The con
dition of Gen. Victoriana .HuerU was
sported by his physician tonight as
..changed. Slight hope jfor his re
covery was caressed. 'v :
To Take Summary Ven
geance on Mexicans Who
Slew Many in Outrage
A HORRIBLE MASSACRE
Twelve to .Sixteen United
States , Citizens Taken
From Train by Villistas,
Stripped and Murdered
Government Angry
(By the United Press)
El Piaso, Jan. 12. Precautions were
taken by United States troops on the
Mexican border today to- restrain
Ranchmen and Mining ' men from
crossing the border to wreak ven
geance on Villa's bandits for the re
ported outrage in which 12 to 16
Americans are said to have been
slain near Chihuahua by men believ
ed to be under the command of Rod
riguez, a Villa general.
The men were taken from a train,
stripped and shot according to a story
by. Thomas M. Holmes, believed to be
the only survivor. He hid in a la
vatory on- a car when the band halted
the train.
Carranza Held .Responsible.
Washington, Jan. 12. Indignation
over the murder of the Americans by
Villistas in Mexico swept the capital
today. Prompt and vigorous action
for redress and assurance against
further outrages will be set in mo
tion by the President and State De
partment Sharp and urgent. repre
sentations to Carranza will be the
seriouh results of his failure to pro.
tect Americans. Carranza is to be
held responsible. Customs collector
Cobb at El Paso wired confirmation
of the massacre this morning.
Dead .May Number Eighteen.
Washington, Jan. 12. Leon Can
ove, chief of the division of Mexican
affairs, today declared that Ameri
cans repeatedly . have' been warned
against entering1 Mexico, especially
Chihuahua, and that all passports
have been refused. The names of the
dead have been wired the State De
partment, and there is a possibility
that it will be the final count.
Said Rodriguez .Men to Blame.
El Paso. Tex.. Jan. 11. The Am
erican Smelting and Refining Com
pany representatives here received a
telegram from Chihuahua city to
day, stating that it was reported
there that a trainload of employes
which left the capital yesterday for
Western Chihuahua, had been held
up by Villa bandits, and all the Am
ericans killed. According" to one re
port here, there were forty mining
men on the train of which 15 were
Americans who were taken off and
shot It is surmised that the shoot
ing was done by troops of General
Jose Ridriguez.
Unite States Condemns Villa.
WWngton, Jan. 11. Reports
from El Paso that fifteen Americans
were killed west of Chihuahua by
Villa i bandits will, if confirmed, re
sult in urgent representations by the
United States to Carranza to in
crease his efforts to capture Villa or
destroy his forces. Ho official ad
vices regarding the affair had been
received at the State Department
tonight
AYDEN'S NEW LIGHT
PLANT NEARLY MM
(Special to The .Free Press)
Ayden, Jan. 12-Ayden's new
electric light plant will be put in ope
ration on Saturday or Sunday night
The: building is being rushed to com
pletion. All night lighting will be
supplied, but day current is not in
tended at present :
ILast year's building boom here is
continuing into 1916, with announce
ments of two fine new structures al
ready. Work is soon to be eommenc-
erj on the hotel to be put up by local
men. and the Odd Fellows are about
to contract' for a two-story lodge
home, it ii reported. -. ; . j
Resolution In Senate Call
ing for Invasion Mexico
By United States
QUESTION TO PRESIDENT
Dyer Asks If the Adminis
tration Policy Should Not
Be Ended State De
partment Declares Amer
icans Were Warned
(By the United Press)
Washington, Jan. 12. Representa
tive Dyer of Missouri . today intro
duced a resolution asking the Presi
dent to advise Congress if the policy
of watchful waiting should not be
ended. The State Department is
sued a statement declaring that the
strongest instructions were issued in
October calling upon the consul in
Chihuahua and Sonora to use every
means to persuade Americans to
leave the unsettled territory. Every
step will be taken to see that the
perpetrators are apprehended and
punished.
Senator Sherman introduced a res
olution demanding' armed interven
tion and the establishment of repre
sentative government with immedi
ate evacuation after this has been
accomplished.
MOOSERS AND REPUBS.
TO MEET SAME DATE
Union of Parties Expected by Pro-
gressive Leaders When Conven
tions Are Held in Chicago in June.
Want Roosevelt, Say Also Desire
Getting Together of the Other
Leaders
(By the United Press)
Chicago, Jan. 12. The Bull Moos-
ers are ready to join the Republicans,
Progressive leaders today confessed
They wish to unite the leaders of
both parties. Most of all, they want
Roosevelt. The meeting of both con
ventions here on June 7, points the
way to a union, it is believed.
47 States Represented.
(Chicago, Jan. 11. The Progres
sive National Convention will be held
in Chicago, June 7, the week of the
Republican convention here. This
was decided today by the Progres
sive National Committee in session
here. The action by the committee
was taken in the hope that both par
ties may agree on the same candi
date far President.
Forty-seven of the forty-eight
States were represented at the meet
ing.
POTASH SITUATION
INVESTIGATION ASKED
Washington, Jan. 11 Scarcity of
potash for fertilizer now .seriously
threatens the cotton crop, Senator
Smith of South Carolina, told the
Senate today in submitting a resol
ution calling upon the Secretary of
Agriculture for a report on the
amount of potash available in this
country.
Senator Smith said that unless
some action was taken to replenish
the potash supply the production of
cotton may be reduced 50 per cent
The resolution, which was adopted,
also calls for a report on the price of
potash now as compared with 1913.
AGESOFSIN DEATH"
' ON DEAD GIRL'S DRESS
Jailet. Ill; Jan. 10 Mrs. Lillian
Pfeiffer, a waitress who said her
father is William Ogden, of Rich
mond, .VSn today shot Robert Robert-head
of the .Robert Welding
Works, while .', he was in his office
here, and then shot herself through
the head, dying soon afterward.
Pinned to the young woman's
clothing was a note with the quota
tion, "The wages of sin is death."
Directors of National Bank
of Kinston and First Na
tional and Officers of the
Former Re-elected Big
Profits and Resources
In compliance with a national
banking luw, the stockholders of both
the national bunks here held their
anpuul meetings Tuesdiiy afternoon,
that day being the second Tuesday in
the year. The directorates of both
the First National and the National
Bank of Kinston were re-elected.
Those comprising the directorate of
the former are: W. L. Kennedy, Dr.
Henry Tull, J. H. Canady, J. F.
Taylor, H. H. McCoy. S. II. Isler,
N. J. Rouse, C. Felix Harvey, Da
vid Oettinger and H. E. Moseley.
The National Bank of Kinston's di
rectors are: R. C Strong, T. W.
Newborn. J E. Hood, 1). V. Dixon,
W. C. Fields, E. B. Marston. Pla
to Collins, S. H. Abbott ami R. L.
Crisp. The directors of the National
Bank of Kinston met after the stock
holders' session and re-elected the
officers, who are: Mr. Strong, presi
dent, Mr. Hood, Vice-President, nnd
J. J. Stevenson. Cashier. The First
National Bank's directors will meet
probably on Friday for the formal
reorganization and election of offi
cers. The present officers are: Mr.
Rouse, president; Dr. II. Tull, vice
president; D. F. Wooten, cashier,
and J. J. Bizzell, assistant cashier.
FD..CA shrdlu attasthrdluu atah hla
Both banks reported excellent bus
iness during the past year. Espec
ially (luring the latter part of 1915,
Cashier Wooten of the First Na
tional stated today, did that insti
tution experience "very satisfactory
business." President Strong of the
National Bank of Kinston read the
report of condition of the bank at the
lose of business on December 31.
which statement is to be forwarded
to the Comptroller of the Currency
at Washington, and stated that there
is improvement over the business sit
uation a year ago. That institution's
total of resources on the last day of
the year was $(i!0,33!)-53, with a pro
fit that is expected to attain 17 per
cent, by the end of the fiscal year,
March 1.
The First National Bank declared
a semi-annual dividend of 5 per cent,
on the capital stock.
The stockholders of the Farmers
and Merchants Bank will meet next
week. That institution, too, is be
lieved to have had a very good year
of it in 1915.
(By the United Press)
ITALIAN KING BACK IN ROME.
Rome, Jan. 12. After eight
months at the front, King Victor
Emanuel returned to Rome today
unexpectedly.
SHIP ESCAPED FROM
SUBMARINE.
Barcelona, Jan. 12The Brit
ish steamer Tafna eluded a Ger
man submarine which pursued
her for several miles in the Med
iterranean, and arrived here, to
day. REPORTED CROWN PRINCE
MAY ACT FOR KAISER,
Rome, Jan. 12. Unconfirmed
Swiss reports say the German
Crown Prince has been recalled
to assume the regency during the
Kaiser's illness.
STATE OPENED JN
MOHR CASE TODAY
(By the United Press)
Providence, Jan. 12 The State
opened in the Mohr trial today, call
ing Henry Sharpe Chaffee, who gave
the details of his meeting with a ear
in the road following the shooting of
Dr. Mohr. Celia Cross, a profession
al nurse, told of the arrival of the
victim at tha hospital. ! ,
Garrison to Ask for Mon
ster Fortification at
Cape Henry
'ENORMOUSLY POWERFUL'
Would Have $20,000,000
Expended Each Year for
Four Years to Strength
en Entire System Coast
Defenses, Tells Senators
(By the United Press)
Washington, Jan. 12. Secretary
of War Garrison today presented Con
gress with the Administration Dan
for strengthening the United States
Coast defenses.
He proposes to spend twenty mil
lion dollars annually for four years,
he told the Senate Military Affairs
Committee, and also proposes the
building of a new "enormously pow
erful" fort at Cape Henry, to guard
the entrance to Chesapeake Bay,
Strengthening of the defenses of
San Francisco, Los Angeles and other
harbors to be asked for
SHORTER SCHOOL HOURS
ON DAYS OF BAD WEATHER
(By the Eastern Press)
New Bern. Jan. 12. The local su
perintendent of schools has inaugur
ated a bad weather schedule by
which the schools will be dismissed
at 2 o'clock on rainy days, with no
noon recess. This, he thinks, will
save the pupils unnecessary exposure
to the weather.
ROCKEFELLER DENIES
CHARGES OF FLYNN
Youngstown, O., Jan. 11. John D.
Rockefeller, Jr., in a telegram re-
eived here late today, denied char
ges made by Thomas H. Flynn, gen.
eral organizer for the American Fed
eration of Labor, that the Rockefel-
er interests were in any way inter
ested in the proposed merger of big
independent steel interests or were
indirectly responsible for the rioting
in East Youngstown last Friday
DUTCH MAY NOT JOIN
IN FORD'S MOVEMENT
(By the United Press)
The Hague, Jan. 12. Officers of
Holland's foremost peace society say
it is unlikely the Dutch will co-operate
with the Ford party.
CHAMPION TRAP-SHOOTER
OF WORLD, LYON, DEAD.
(Special to The Free Press)
Durham, N. C, Jan. 12. George
L. Lyon of this city, champion trap
shooter of the world, whose record
has never been equalled in that
sport, is dead of tuberculosis at Al
berquenpe, N. M. Lyon was a na
tive of Durham
NORFOLK WARDEN LET
WALTER GRIMES ESCAPE
(By the Eastern Press)
,,NewBern, Jan. 12. The. Norfolk
county, Va., authorities allowed Wal
ter Grimes, colored, wanted here for
murder, to walk away at the conclu
sion of a short term he was .serving
there, just before an officer who had
gone to f ortsmoutn irom tnis city
arrived to get him. They .had been
repeatedly informed by the New Bern
officials that Grimes was. wan ted here
for the" alaying of his wife. Solicitor
Abernethy is worked up' over the
affair. An effort will be made to dis
cover why the Virginia ' authorities
acted as they did. It is presumed
that carelessness was the reason.
Grimes is alleged to have killed his
wife, a Kinston negress of good char
acter, in cold blood, following her re
fusal to live with him after repeat
ed domestic brawls. f. " , , j
Former Fusion Senator
Called at White House
Today With Charges
ARMED WITH AFFIDAVITS
Tells President's Secretary
District Attorney Remov
ed Ballot Boxes in Ran
dolph County In the Last
Congressional Election
(By the United Press)
Washington, Jan. 12. Charges of
violation of the Federal election laws
hy District Attorney Hammer of
North Carolina were laid before Sec
retary Tumulty today by former Sen
ator Marion Butler.
Butler said he had affidavits of
prominent Democrats and Republi
cans of Randolph county to the effect
that Hammer ordered the removal of
ballot boxes in the last congression
al election.
TO KEEP THE KINSTON
TERMINAL CO. ALIVE
The stockholders of the Kinston
Terminal Company, originally char
tered for railroad construction and
operation, held their annual meeting
Tuesday afternoon, re-electing the di
rectorate almost without change, as
well as the officers, as follow. Presi
dent, L. Hines; Vice-President, J. II,
Canady; Secretary and Treasurer, Qt
V. Cowper; Directors, Messrs. Hines,
Canady, R. C." Strong, J;. F. Tay
lor, C. F. Harvey, T, W. Mewborn,
D. F. Wooten, II. C. Riley of Phil
adelphia, II. E. Moseley, F. C.
Dunn, E. B. Marston, J. T. Deal of
Norfolk and Dr. H. Tull. Mr. Cow
per succeeded Director Dunn as sea
retary and treasurer.
It was decided at the meeting to
keep the organization alive, al
though it was determined some time
since that it was not necessary to
pursue the purpose for which it was
primarily i intended, and also to
preserve the charter and fran
chise. The company was chartered
to assist a big local enterprise which
was threatened with transportation
difficulties, it is said, which did not
develop.
W. S. YOUNG, THE MAN
E
SOClAli THRONE NOW
(By the United Press)
Washington, Jan. 12. Warren S.
Young. Ever hear of him? He's the
"man behind the throne" in Washing
ton. About sixty, wearing a com
fortable old black working coat, he
is the man who decides who shall
and shall not attend affairs of State
in the White House. He knows all
the high brows, the elite, the old fam
ilies and the "climbers" in Washing
ton and how to treat them. His is
the order upon which invitations are
extended to all guests of the Execu
tive Mansion, and his is the order
which excludes hundreds. His is the
task of deciding with whom to place
the Greek minister at the coming
diplomatic dinners. There is one
dinner for the Allies and one for the
central powers. Young, for the first
time in his official experience, was
sorely perplexed.
msm THE LOCAL
COTTON EXCHANGE
Fifty-one bales of cotton had been
sold here today hy 3:15 o'clock, prices
ranging from 10 1-2 to 11 6-8.
New York futures quotations were:
- . ' ' - 10:40 3:03
January . .......... 12.28 " 12.28
March .. ....12.61 12.55
May ... ... .... J . . . . .12.12 12.78
July .. ............ ..12.87 -12.91
October .. 12.62 12.68
WELL-ORGANIZED PARTY
Black Who Killed Anderson
Gurley, Aged Planter, for
His Money, Was the First
Victim of Lynchers in the
State This Year
(Special to The Free Press)
Gildsboro, Jan. 12. More than
100 men, said to have been masked
and well organized, entered the coun
ty jail here this morning an hour or
two after midnight, removed John
Richards, colored, took him to a point
on Little river, near the city, and
lynched him. The jailer was quick-
ly overpowered. It is said at the
sheriff's office that pie jailer tried to
use his revolver. No undue noise
was made and the city generally did
not know of the lynching until after
daybreak.
Richards had confessed to the mur
der for robbery of Anderson Gurley,(
a planter of Wayne county. The of
ficials here believed neighbors of Gur
ley comprised the lynching party.
It was told The Free press thia af
ternoon from the Sheriff's office at
Gold&boro that no especial effort is
being made to identify the lynchers.
In fact, it, was stated from the of
fice, there is general "satisfaction,"
over the fate of Richards. '
Story m Heard Here. x
J. W. Mann, a Goldsboro . citizen
today, stated that .from what he had
gathered from reports on the streets
before leaving there early .this morn
ing, about 200 men from the neigh
borhood in which Gurley lived, six or
eight miles from Goldsboro,'' rode in
to the city in wagons this morning
about 2 o'clock, surrounded the Wayne
county jail, took .Richards who was
about 21 years of age : and of bad
character, out of .the prison, carried
him to the "scene of the murder at
Little river a short distance from the
city, strung him up and riddled the
body with bullets. The party then
went back towards their homes. It
was very quiet in Goldsboro when
Mann left. 1
-Mr, Mann heard late Tuesday, he
said, that Richards had confessed that
he had planned with two other ne
groes, also in the jail; to hold Gur
ley up and rob him. i The others were
to seize the elderly planter and .hold
him while Richard relieved hira of his
money. Richards knew that Gurley
had just sold cotton and had a con
siderable sum in his pockets. The
plan, Mann heard thet Richards con
fessed, was carried out in all details
except that Richards thought it was
necessary to render the victom insen
sible. This he proceeded to do, strik
ing him three blows with an iron
pipe. The Hows killed Gurley, whose
body wa3 thrown into the river. The
two "oged accomplices were not -
molested by the lynchers, who prob
ably were not aware of their impli
cation as attested to by . Richards.
About $35 was taken from the dead
man by .Richards and the others, he
said. ' k
Nothing Like That, Sheriff Had Said.
Monday afternoon the Sheriff of
Wayne county stated over ihe tele
phone to The Free Press that there
was absolutely no danger, he thought, .
of a lyinching, and -that newspaper
reports to that effect were greatly
exaggerated. Why, he said, he had
gone to bed in the face, of the ru-
mors, so satisfied was he, that no one
had ever seriously thought of taking
one of his prisoners out of jail. Just
how far the Sheriff missed in his
guess was made apparent by today's
act of the Wayne county farmer .folk.
STEAMER SUBMARINE TICTOI
London. Jan. 11. The British
steamer Clan JIcFarlane, ef 4,823
tons, has .been sunk In the Mediter
ranean Sea. .. .......