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VOL. XVII. No. 225
SECOND EDITION
KINSTON, N. O, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1916
FOUR PAGES
PRICE TWO CENTS
FIVK CENTS ON THAIX3
WO SHIPS IN RUSSI
RUSSIANS NOW HOLD
NINE OUTER FORTS
BERLIN'S DECISION
NOTED PROHIBITION
SPEAKER AT GORDON
ST. ClI'RCII TONIGHT
WITNESS TELLS THE
CiTOBliiS
ACTED QUEST'NABLY
IER DESTROYED BY FIRE OF
ON LUSITANIA HAD
ARlfilN AT NEW YORK;
AT CAPITAL TODAY
AN SERVICE I'O BIG
PBRWOPNT
MEXICAN REPORTS
Lost Heavily in Past Two
Months Agents ' of the
Administration Have Not
; tien Iaid-Anoiher Re-
volt Could' Be Started
SUSPICIOUS
FRONTING
ftomb on Bolton Castle May Have Caused Explosion That
tarted Cdstty BlazeSteamer Pacific Shared "Fate of
Other VesselLoWed With Combustibles rr6r ' Rus
8ianohs Million and Half boHars' Damage By "Big
Blaze' in Business District of Fall River-iAttcmpt Ho
Burn Evidence Being Held Against Capture of Jean
Crones Discovered in Chicago City Hall ' v
(By the United Press)
Fall River, Massi, Feb. 16. Fire causing damage of
$1,500,000 swept the business district here today.:- The
flames were checked by the aid of firemen from nearby
cities. They started in the basement of the Steiger De
partment Store. ' 1
Four Million Dollar Fire In New York; 2 Ships Burned.
"New3, York, Feb. 16. -The steamer Bolton- Castle and
Prcific Were burned to the water's edge and the pier at
which they were laying, with four million dollars' dam
age today, under suspicious circumstances.
Both ships were serving the Russians. The first was
loaded with paraffine, oils and gasoline, and the second
.was half loaded. The Bolton Castle burst into flames,
which quickly spread to the pier and Pacific. The pier
contained a million dollars worth of merchandise.
fThe blaze was started by an explosion on the Bolton
Castle, perhaps from a bomb. A Federal investigation
by Justice Department agents and the customs and neu
trality squad has been started, "t T :
Effort to Burn Evidence Against Crones.
Chicago, Feb.' 16.-A mysterious fire, believed to have
been incendiary, was found in the City Hall, near a lab
oratory containing poison evidence against Jean Crones,
Amiispd of the noisoned soup nlot. today. There was lit
tle damage. , v . k. - -American
Cub at Toronto Burned.
Toronto, Feb. 16. An explosion started a fire and
- completely destroyed the big American Club here today.
4 One person was killed and two injured. A Teutonic plot
- is hinted at. t v
PINK HILL IS RARE
SORT OF A VILLAGE
Relieved to Be Only Round Tewn In
! e World Story of a Hustling
i,enoir County Community That
Has Everything Surrounded En
tirely by a Circle New State High
School
The hustling town of Pink Hill is
n't straight, nor is it crooked in
any sense. It's the roundest town in
the world, and even Lenoir county of
ficials were not aware of the fact
nil today, when a citizen of that
plaee brought to the Courthouse a
map of the town to give those con
cerned an idea of just where the new
State High School to be established
there will be located.
Pink Hill's corporate line is singu
lar in number it is just one line in
perfect circle. The distance across
" the tevm in any direction is precisely
1,200 yards; rThe; ticket office in the
Carolina R. R. station, is the exact,
center-of the ;vUlge. , The papulation
of r several" hundred persons is con-,
tained within that circle and not one
house laps over. The streets, how
ever, extend beyond the circle in some
directions, "although "there isht any
thing but trees in .the "suburbs."
The lata Hon. George Turner was
the "father". f Fink HiUsThe land
occupied .by the town originally was
his property every men of it' He
gave , the land necessary", for., public
: purposes. ' Pink HU1 was incorporat
ed about It) years go.;y There was a
board f commissioners; town clerk,
. etc. The "administration" lagged n
without anything to do until the al-
wuues hu mu iorgoi vuafc mey wc'
A -public servants and when election
time came no one bothered- aboot
electing them over..' Five years -ago
.-. or such a matter the eitizent acquir
ed remarkable civic spirit, and riant
Pink . Hill has a business like town
v covenmient and a Chamber of Co-tnerce-
that is said to he thinking
, about organizing a brass band. Geo.
J5. Willard, i banker, ' the present
Mayor; of the roundest town in Ipie
world. He is one of the squarest nwn
in the; community, bis, admirer a
aert. ' . . vt .' , -,
The town bag given two blocks,
about 4 1-16 acres of ground, for the
State High School. ' The building,
KINSTON SEAT ONLY
TOY FACTORY IN N. C.
One-Man Plant In East Kinston Is
Thriving and Will "Branch Out"
Doll Furniture to Be Made for the
Local Market for Coming Christ
mas Product O. K., Say Interest
ed Persons
'Kinston has had a toy factory, the
only one in the State, probably, all
the time, it now crops out.
Some time ago Mr. E. W. J. Prof
fitt of New England in an address to
the Chamber of Commeroe called the
attention of the business men to the
facts that since Germany's toy man
ufacturers have lost the world mon
opoly in that line Japan hes entered
the market and is likely to acquire
the monopoly unless this country gets
move on, and that' enough wood
products are wasted in this vicinity
to supply the United States 'with
wooden Chnistma3 goods. He said
the same things in New Bern, and
considerable interest was aroused In
fcfcth cities, There has been earnest
consideration, it is known, of his sug
gestion that Northern capitalists be
invited to come to. the section to look
over the opportunities.. ; '
Today Mr. John C. Hay, a cabinet
maker of 109 South Tiffany avenue,
told The Free Press (that he has been
making wooden toys . -for months:
Quite a bit of tuff has, been . turned
out from his one-man' factory, ..locat
ed conveniently near a sawmill from
which Mr. Hay gets, his raw material.
scrap wood from the mill yards. He
haa confined his efforts solely to doll
furniture, cradles, bedsteads, ward
robes,, bureaus, etc, but is contem
plating branching -oftt into, the lines
of novelties, ,wheeled ' toys, , etc. His
business o far as it goes, has been
printable," 'Mr. Hay said Tle "pro
duct of the "plant" is not lacking in
paint and varnish, and persons who
have teen, specimens say the goods
are as substantial and nicely finished
as any on the market ', Mr.-' Hay is
to make up large quantities . this
spring and sxrmmer in the hope of
supplying the local toy dealers, and
those Id "neighboring" towns with the
wooden goods for holiday trade.
w,ork-on which is expected "to com-
mence about March 1, will cost be
tween ? 1,000 and ?5,000.
(By the United Press)
Washington, Feb. 16. The Car
ranza government is in desperate
straits, mail advices from Mexico
tat. Carranza has lost immensely
in the past sixty days, and it needs
ibut a strong leader to start a new
revolt. Many consuls and interior officials
are unpaid, it is claimed.
BIG STEAMER SINKS
OFF BRITISH COAST
Tergestea Was Probably Seized From
Austrians Early In War and Had
Been Employed by English as a
Freighter Was of 4,200 Tons and
Not Very Old Vessel Crew Re
ported Safe
(By the United Press)
fcondon, Feb. 16. The steamer
Tergestea of 430 tons, has been
sunk on the east coast. The crew is
safe. The ship was built in 1911,
and registered in Austria. 'She was
probably captured by the British
fearly in the war. The vessel had
been serving as a British freighter.
FOUR OF SEVENTEEN
ALL OPPOSED TO THE
KEATING BILL, SAID
(By the United Press)
Washington, Feb. 16. Passage
of the child labor bill is inevita
ble, Senator Newlands, chairman
of the Interstate Commerce Com
mittee, today told S. F. Patter
son of Roanoke Rapids, N. C. . ,
Washington, Feb. 16. A speedy
report and vote on the child labor
bill is expected following the hear
ings of the Senate Interstate Com
mittee. Only four of the committee
of seventeen are unfavorable to the
measure."
THIRD WRECK FLA.
LIKED IN lIGHT
' DA YS ONE KILLED
(Special to The Free Press)
iRialeigh,, Feb. 16.-Jame3 Hollo
well, a cololed fireman was killed,
and H. J. Wells and Frank Stock
well, engineers, were injured, the for
mer seriously, when the Seaboard
Air Line Florida Limited from New
York to the South crashed into a
freight train at a awitch near Frank
linterc yesterday. Wells and Stock
well both live here.
It was the third wreck of the Flo
rida Limited in -eight days. A weckj
ago its engineer, David K. Wright of
Raleign, was killed ' near (Southern
Pines.
NEp OF THE DAY IN
? f NEIGHBORING PLACES
x
Bethel school ' district, in Pit;
countyi as well as Griftony is to hold
a bond, election for a new building.
The voters are to be asked' to pass
on a $20,000 issue, -as at Grifton.
The bonds in each case would be for
twenty years, interest payable icroi
enmially t not more than 6 per cent,
per annum. : -
y The funeral of Mrs. ' Katherine
Mumford, toho died in Greenvill?,
was held at Grifton Tuesday, -. .
i It was four degrees warmer ; at
New Bern Tuesday .ttorning than in
KinstoJwl7 and 13 degrees above,
respectively. At .Raleigh it was nine
above. '.' - ,,; . ; ''.f ' : :
- Bishop T. C. Darst has confirmed
a class of 10 in the Episcopal chtnch
at Beaufort, besides " baptizing 16.
Drove Turks Out With Ba
yonets In Charges In
Zero Weather
GAINS ARE IMPORTANT
Fortress Has Heretofore
Proved Bulwark Against
Advances of Slavs Cap
itulation might Mean the
Defeat of Ottoman Govt.
(By the Ur.Hed Press)
PctroKrad. Feb. lti. The hufre
Turkish fortress of Erzerum, the
bulwark that stopped Russian inva
sions in previous wars, ,5s threat
ened with capture by Grand Duke
Nicholas. Nine of the outer forts
are now in Russian hands, it is offi
cially taken at the point of bayon
ets in struggles in zero weather on
the mountain siedes. The capture of
the fortress would be more import
ant than that of Przernysl, paving
the way for a spring drive into Ar
menia and possibly forcing Turkey to
sue for peace.
Britain's Soul in the War.
London, Feb. 10. England if put
ting her soul into the war. The or
ders for assuming control of nearly
all merchantmen and banning impor
tation of all materials used fo" man
ufacturing paper and tobacco are be
ing applauded.
SHALL BE NO PEACE
(MIL BELGIUM HAS
BEEN SAVED. STATE
Allies Will Not Desert Lit
tle Nation All Renew
Pledges and Ministers
Convey Them to Kin? Al
bert In Ceremony
(By the United Press)
Havre, Feb. 16. The Allies have
formally renewed their pledges never
to consent to peace until Belgium's
political and economical existence has
;cen completely re-established.
The message was conveyed with
ceremony by the Allies' ministers to
the Belgian government at the gov
ernment's seat here. The Entente
diplomats went in a body to present
th message.
KILLED, EMB ALMED
AND BURIED WIFE;
FORGED THE PERMIT
(By the United Press)
New York, Feb. W. Harry
Schroeffcl, an undertaker, con
fessed today that he .killed , his
wife on December 29, because of
her louH talking, embalmed - and
buried her, and forged the death
certificate, ' The woman's disap
pearance was not discovered for.
several weeks. .
- Schroef fel , was , arrested as the
result of anonymous letters . to
the police, telling of his wife'
screams!.
AYDEN TO HAVE NEW
MORNING NEWSPAPER
(Speciato The Free Press)
' Ayden, Feb. i5-i-Five "thousand
dollars has been subscribed toward a
morning! paper ior fthls ; town. The
Chamber of Comnwrca ia backing the
move. H.'D Ufley of Ayden will be
manager and editor. ,It is under
stood that an order has been placed
fpr-a linotype and other equipment.
Publication is expected to be started
by March 10. '
Publication Won't Be Made
Until Friday, It Is An
nounced ORDER VS. ARMED SHIPS
May Not Be Approved by
U. S., But No Action Like
ly to Betaken Until Re
turn of Col. House, Not
Due for Several Weeks
(By the United Press)
Washington. Feb. 16. Ger
many's latest Liisitania proposal
is up tothe President. It was
delivered to Secretary LanRing
today by Von Bernstorff. Both
Refused to comment. It is be
lieved Lansing and the President
will confer.
Washington, Feb. 16 What Am
erica will say and do regarding Ger
many's plan to sink armed merchant
men is unlikely tj be determined un
til Col. House returns from London,
lie was given advance information of
the plan, it is learned. Ambassador
Von Bernstorf was due at the State
Department at noon, bringing Ger
many's dicislon on the Lusitania
matter. Tho note will bo published
Friday, the time that the American
note reaches Berlin.
Col. House is not due for several
weeks. ,-.
. It is possible that action on the
armed merchantmen Orders in the
Senate will be postponed, since the
Senate foreiern relations committee
today decided not to meet.
U. S. Won't Approve Austro-German
Policy.
Washington, Feb. 16. It is believ
ed here that the United States will
not under any circumstances give
formal approval to the Berlin ajhd
Vienna orders to the navies of Au
stria and Germany to sink all armed
merchantmen as vessels of war af
ter March 1. Some high officials are
satisfied that the Austro-German po
sition is justified, however. Tha
Government, though, is apt to concede
that the Allies are within their rights
under prevailing international law
in arming ships for defensive purpos
es, no matter what the conditions on
the seas.
HOW THE FIRST DRAFT
OF DERBY VOLUNTEERS
ANSWERED THE SUMMONS
By WILBUR S. FORREST,
London, Feb. 5. (By Mail) The
first drafts of England's Derby ar
my mobilized today. Youths of
year ranging from nineteen to
twetity-'two who, weeks ago, answer
ed Lord Derby's group system of en
listment, gathered throughout Eng
land to get into khaki. They camo
from workshops, bonk desks, depart
ment stores and other walks of life.
They are now being distributed in
scores of training camps learning to
form fours, salute their officers prop
erly and wield the shovel and rifle.
There were remarkable scenes in
London .today. Recruits had been
instructed to come in shifts at two
hour intervals. They flocked to the
groat central recruiting : depot in
Whitehall. The first recruit was a
little early. He came from a big
banking establishment where he bad
just bade fellow clerks farewell. He
had been instructed to appear in his
oldest elothes in order that they
could be (thrown away when he don
ned, hit suit of khaki.; V"; ;
Tha boy followed instructions. His
coat and trousers might nave been
worn by weary willie. ' His ahoes
were run down at the Iteel. - Yesier
day he wore a morning coat and ebi
ny silk : kat . to the bank. - He had
borrowed today togs. A fcrlef med
ical examination: followed bis arriv
al m Whitehall Ten minutes later
he left for a railroad station to join
a regiment to .which.' he had been
nsznGd. ' ,'-.''"!' , ; t ,
Dr. Sam Small to Lecture in
the Anti-Saloon League's
Cause Famous Orator
and Humorist Interde
nominational Meeting; I
It is probable that a house-filling
audience will hear Dr. Sam W. Small,
the noted Georgia evangelist, epcak
in Cordon Street church tonight. Dt.
Small comes to Kinston under the
auspices of the North Carolina Anti
Saloon League. H,e is to visit nearly
all the important cities and towns in
the State, and Kinston is one of the
first places in his itinerary. i
The meeting will open promptly at
8 o'clock. Dr. J. M. Parrott will in
troduce the speaker. An interde
nominational committee has charge
of the arrangements for tho occa
sion. ' ,
Dr. Small is one of the liquor
traffic's most deadly and active foes.
He is a captivating orator of the
old school, with a wonderful com
mand of words, an effective use of
figures, an albility to mingle humor
with seriousness. He is a great force
in the fight for prohibition, and has
had a wonderful influence for the
success of that cause.
The choir of Gordon Street church
will lead the music.;
BULLETINS
(By the United Press)
JAP STEAMER SUNK. ,
London, Feb. 16. The Japan
ese steamer-Kenkoa Maru, No.
11, of 3,500 tons, has foundered
in a storm. The crew Was land
ed at Plymouth.
ORPET'S DEFENSE:
GIRL DECEIVED HIM.
Chicago, Feb. 16 William Or
pet's defense will be that Mari
on Lambert, the girl he la accus
ed of poisoning, deceived him.
Orpet had a third sweetheart in
Madron, it was learned today.
NEWSPAPER TRIBUTE
TO D AVID K. WRIGHT
Tho Raltiigh News & Observer says
of David Wright, Seaboard Air Line
engineer killed in a wreck last week
who was brother-in-law of Mrs.- W.
B. Douglass of this city: He was "a
mnn of high character and sterling
worth. He was noted for his effic
ency, attention to duty, level head,
strength of character and courage.
Ho was a man who stood high with
the Seaboard management."
The paper gives half a Column of
space to ita eulogy of the engineer
and in the concluding paragraph
states -that "he was a man good and
true. He met life with determina
tion in his heart and a smile on. his
face. He made friends, for his friend
ship was worth while. And his go
ing leaves many a heart sad." i
BRAZIL WlNTS HIGHER
TARIFF ON AMERICAN
GOODS, GOVT LEARNS
Rio De Janeiro, Feb. 6. (By Mail),
Because they believed , American
flour and other American products
imported by Brazil are crippling the
home industries here, Brazilian busi
ness interests have asked he Brazil
ian federal senate to build up the
tariff wall ,and keep United -1 States
manufacturers from , running ' away
with the Brazilian domestic market.
Certain American goods now pay
20 per-cent, lesa import duty into
Brazil than is paid on the same class
of goods imported into Brazil from
other countries. This favor i shown
to these American goods because the
United States abandoned the idea of
charging a 3-cent duty on coffee im
ported into the United Statea from
Brazil.
The Brazilian flour
.N..
Winslow, Shoe - Machinery
Man, Cross Examined it
By Senators ' -;
WOULD NOT TAKE IT BACK
President's Friends . Start
Movement to Beat Brya'n
to Nomination. Tearing
That to Be Plan of Com
moner Root Unheeded.
(By the United Tress) ,
Washington, Fab. 16. Tha Bran
deis committee today cross-examined
S. W. Winslow, president of the
United Shoe Machinery Co., tout fail
ed to make him retract a statement .
of his belief that Brandeis acted 'dis
honorably in forming "shoe trust
end then trying to1 attack the latter.
Wilson and Bryaw. ; r
A "Beat-Bryan-to-It" movement
has been started by friends of ' the
President who fear Bryan will eb
candidate for the presidency, oppos
ing Mr. Wilson, President Wilson
will make no reply to Root.
ROOTS SPEECH FKSI ;
' CAMPAIGN LITERATURE
Spoke In the New York Republican
Convention Tuesday' 'Night, 1 Ar-1
raignlng Wilson and the-Administration
-May Be Endorsee1 fetf No-miastion-Sourtded
Battle try f
Conservative H. '
(By tha United Preas) f .
New York, Feb, 1. The battle ,
cry of tha conservative Republicans
was "sounded by Elihu Root' speech ,
to the State, conventjon here last eve
ning, attacking Wilson and the Ad- -ministration's
foreign -policy ana1 tari .
iff. 1 'T " - 1 -
Copies of the speech will - be the
first campaign document, . Endorse
ment of Root for the presidency by
the convention is possible. ,
POLITE MH EDWARDS
WSTIpTED.TO
NICE TO THE MAYOR
Mayor Sutton, in 'Greensboro Son
day night, almost kidnapped Mr'ft.
T. Edwards, who nas been ti Greens
boro attending the Laymen's Cbnvcn- :
tion as representative? of The Free
Press.; It reminded" me of the. joke'
about the man in s car whe gave vp
his seat to a woman, as the thought,
oad when she declined to accept It
and tried to shove him back, insist
ed ihat it was his.atop. and that he
wanted .to get off," said the Mayor.'
"I was in an automobile wkh" ny
brother-in-law, headed for the vW
tion Ho come' home3'I s4w iMf. Ed
wards n the street, and called him.
He rode on to the station w4th me.
Then I hustled him out of - ftie car, -and
into the ticket office. I thought
he was coming home. Up t the
wicket "he protested, 'But, Mr. Sut
ton, , I'm' not going home yetnot
tonight, and then it dawned Upon me
that he hadn't ' said anything' at all
about coming back to Kinstoa"-' Mr.
Edwards had permitted the courteous
other Kinstonian to drag Hm all the
wy tol the depot just to be nice.
THE DAY ON LOCAL
"".COTTON EXCUSE
About 151 bales of cotton were sold
here today, 11 cents being the best
price paid,; New York futures quo
tations were: 1 ' Open 1 Close
March -:, . v i . .v. V. . , 11.75
May ,J v. .. ..'.12.00
July , i . ; . . . U . . 12.18
11.71
11.93
12.11
12.22
i2.r
December
.12.21
tlie Commeri'Lil .A
ill now y