; . ' : -...-.' , . - : ' ' v ,' 1 1 v - ' ' - ,'-,! MTTi'TLJTTr , JIE-. ;boce TJKB " v P r-. ID)A1L Pi TUB olar ..-. .w1 'a ' xd t V i t-OL. XVII-No. 228 SECOND EDITION KINSTON, N. C, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1916 FOUR PAGES , PRICE TWO CENTS ' fJVE CEtfTS ON. TRAINS V PRESS 1 1' I VICTORIOUS SLAVS THREATEN REVENG AGAINST THE TURKS J . v 1 , For Persecution of Armen ians Expected Execute Guilty Officials CONQUERORS ADVANCING . , ; . Make Very Rapid Marches Through Asiatic Turkey. Within 50 Miles of Sea port of Trehizond An cient Town Taken (By the United Press) London, Feb. 18. The Russians' right wing of Grand Duke Nicholas' Crteaaus army is only 60 miles from the important Turkish Black Sea port of Trebizond, dispatches today said. The ancient city of Bairburt, between ferterum and Trebizond, has been captured. The Slavs are rushing through ithe mountains to capture , Trebizond, Which i expected to v fall trithiti a fortnight. . The Russians are planning to ame liorate the condition of the Armeni ans, and are expected to execute Turk civil officials responsible for the mas- sacres. A definite statement of the number of prisoners and guns is dai ly expected. ,-. Quiet III West Again. , Paris Feb.(18. The violent activ ity on the western front has almost entirely ceased, says, the Wa." office, i There .was utter calm along the en tire tfronit last night. , i Berlin, Feb. 18. The British lost , heavily in an attempt to regain Frenches; in Ypres, it is 'said ait the war office. " . ' y .'. , RESIDENT WOULD 1 NOTGIVECONGRESS MEXICAN REPORTS Washington, Feb. 17. President Wilson sent to the Senate today his response to the Fall resolution, re questing him to report on facts lead ing up to recognition by ithe United State of the Carranza government ef -Mexico. It was in the form of a letter tfrom Secretary Lansing sum marizing the events Which preceded recognition and transmitting a great Volume of data. f!he (President, through Mr. Lans ing, declined to comply with that part of the Fall resolution asking for diplomatic and consular "reports on political conditions and events in Mexico. JJOTHE APPEAL FROM ! SWEDEN TO AMERICA Washington, Feb. 17. Another note from Sweden has been address ed to the State Department, asking eo-operation with the- Swedish gov ernment to maintain ithe , preserva tion of rules of international law concerning the protection ,of neutral commerce and Navigation. Action is proposed particularly against Great Britain, , t. NEW "PARK" HAS ITS i NAME. BEFORE. DECORATED The apace on the Norfolk " South ern yards near the intersection of Queen and Blount streets, where, the - cotton w.eighers platform stood nn , til Uiis week is to be parked,, it Is vaderstood, ,and fenced in with iron Pipes. The name 'Central Park' has jtready been bestowed upon it by a sinesa man in the neighborhood, f&ity . officials do not' laugh at '0 the name nor the parking idea, however, ad say that trees, grass and flowers and seats wifl be had, the owner will Ing, if the itylnas to furnish the money end men for the work,' - W.-F. DEFEATS V. M. L ' Lexington, Va, Feb. 17 In a good game of basketball played here this afternoon, V. M. I. -was defeated by Wake Forest College by the score of 4016. LETTERS FROM CRONES uTOWf0ffiWICE Taunting Missives Spur Detectives On In Search for Soup PoUr-rBe-lieved He la Planning Further Mia chief Anarchistic Newspapers, to Be Barred From the Malls. Ex pected. , ., ..... . ;l . (By the United Press) New York, Feb. 18.. Spurred on by letters taunting the police, de tectives are today combing the city to find Jean Crones, the Anarchist soup plotter.' The police believe he is mingling with crowds and plan ning further attempts. Nation-Wide Campaign Against Anarchism. Chicago, Feb. 18. Several anar chistic newspapers are expected to be, barred from the mails at the ope ning of a campaign to check the na tion-wide anarchistic plot. GOING ON IN OTHER ' TOWNS AND COUNTIES OF EASTERN CAROLINA When Harrison Gray and Dock Stamps, colored men, appeared against Annie iBryant, a negress. as plaintiff and witness, respectively, in the City Court at New Bern, the ta bles were turned and the couple found themselves in jail at the end of the trial. The woman was found inno cent of the charge against her and Gray was ordered to pay the costs. Failing ito procure the money he went to prison, and Stamps, jacked up on the instant for vagrancy, went with him. . . ',, '. . iHelpn,, Keller, the fattious deaf and blind. woman, is' to lecture in New Bern early in May. A Craven county jury in the case of Florence Simpkins ?by her nexit friend vs. John Miller, decided that Miller, with whom the girl, a minor was living, had a right to chastise her. Miss Simpkins, a 16-year-old orphan, had. 'been spanked or other wise "corrected," and asked $1,000 damages. Rev. J . R . Matthews, rector of St. Paul's Episcopal church, Green ville, is conducting a mission in Au gusta, Ga. (By the United Press) ATTEMPT TO BLOW UP COAL, SHIPS. Madrid, Feb. 18. Two dyna mite cartridges, sufficient to blow ithe vessel to bits, were found pn the British steamer. Rosebahk, from Baltimore to England, says a Valencia dispatch. The ship is carrying coat KAISER ASKS BIG SUMS FOR RAILROADS. . .Berlin, Feb. 18. The Govern ment has introduced a bill in the Prussian House of Commons call ing for the 'expenditure of eighty ' millions in railroad construction. Tha Hungarian Minister of ,Fin " ance has concluded a loan of thir typv mllljons from .agrpups of German bfnks. U. S. STEEL BUYS BACK BONDS FROM BRITAIN. New York, Feb. 18. The U. S. Steel Corporation is buying back $22,800,000 of its bonds from Great BriUin.' ' NOHOPE OFHNDING iAf'iBERT POISON YIAL Bottle Disappeared Authorities Had Depended Upon, Finding It As Last Lirdi Lti Chain of Evidence Against Collegian Orpet, Held , for GirJ's ' Murder Youth'to Attend Inquest " 5 (By the United Press) Waukeean; IlL, ;Feb. 18. Ofllcials have lost hope of Ending the bottle thai contained the poison which kill ed Miriam Lambert, for whose, mur der William Orpai, of the University of Wisconsin, is held.- The bottle was to have been' the last link of. evidence against' Orpet, 't is declared. , Orpet is expected to attend but ot testify at the iwjuest. BULLETINS nij Giif g Mm Sfrise ON tlir SEAS TOM Anniversary Inauguration of Plan Submarine War " ' fare by Tirpitz REVIEW OF THE CAMPAIGN Admiralty Chiefs Order ' Resulted in Sinking of 800 Vessels, Loss of Many Non-Combatants, Quar rels With U. S. (By the United Press) London, Feb. 18. The Germans have built a hundred new submersi bles and are preparing to renew ag gressive submarine warfare, accord ing to the Geneva Journal. British Shipping Takes Precautions. London, Feb. 18. Extraordinary precautions to guard against subma rines have been taken by command ers of British ships in ithe war zone. Today is the anniversary of Von Tir pitz's campaign which resulted in the sinking of 800 vessels with a tonnage of 1,400,000, and the killing of 2t000 non-combatants, including 118 Am ericans. The sinking of eighteen to forty submarines by the Allies, most of lihem trapped in nets, declaration by England of the actual blockade in raprisal, and the involving . of Ger many in serious controversies with America all resulted from the cam paign. YOUNG FARMERS WILL ' MOST WINTER COURSE 1 " A T JL A M. COLLEGE (Special ito The Free Press) West Raleigh, Feb. 18. The four weeks course in Agriculture, which has just closed at the A. &. M. Col lege, will be of benefit to far more than the 27 men actually enrolled. These students have organized a "Progressive Association of Farmers" for the ensuing year, the purpose of which is to spread throughout the State a knowledge of improved farm ing methods taught in the Winter Course at the College. In that way it is hoped that the work of the Winter Course will reach hundreds of farm ers whom it is impossible for the college to reach directly. NEW AUTOMOBILE MARK ALLEGHANIES . (Special to The Free Press) Pittsburgh, Feb. .18. With the peaks' of the Alle.ghenies covered by a glare, "of ice, and the hollows full of drifted snow, Ray McNamaro, in a 25-horse power-Maxwell, has amaz ed- all Pennsylvania motordom by driving from Philadelphia ito Pitts burgh 294 , milesin eight hours, nineteen minutes. The, former record, 'set last June by. J.'G. .Vincent in a high-powered 12ryiinder car was nine hours, twenty, minutes. .' MeNamara's run was thoroughly checked , by newspaper men at both ends and at New York, Bedford and Ligonier, along, the route. , IHOS? CONTEMPLATING l 'SUICIDE TAKE NOTICE '." I t f ' M ' ' V (By the United Press) Amsterdam, Feb. 18-If it ia neces sary to commit .suicide, please drown or hang yourself." Thus reads a pla card by the burgomaster -of; Boitea ford,"a small Tillage hear Brussels The .German military authorities re cently fined the village f L250 because s cit3en so far forgot himself as to suicide by ahooting. i The Belgians are forbidden to have firearm. The burgomaster paid the fine but to 'save the town treasury he appealed to the villagers ' to die, if die they must, suns 1u!!cts. DEMOCRATS ASSERT REPUBLICANS WANT TO GET U. 8. IN WAR No Other Interpretation Could Be Put On Root's Speech, Say Leaders, Planning; Series to An swer the Address (By the United Press) Washington, Feb. 18. Democratic leaders are planning to answer the Republican campaign keynote, sound ed in the speech of Elihu Root this week, plan a series of -speeches in the. Capital and country. Tha Democrats accuse the Repub licans of favoring war with Germa ny and Mexico and insist that that can be the Only interpretation put up on Romt's speech. Rarnes Planning Trip to West. New York, Feb. 18. With Roose velt safely away in the West Indies for six weeks, William Barnes is plunning for a presidential raid in the West to get delegates favoring a conservative candidate, it is report ed. REPORTS TO GERMANY f SAY HlNtftlS IN EGYPT ROSE, SHOT OFFICERS (By the United Press) Berlin, Feb 18. A whole re gimettt of Hindus have mutinied and joined other dissatisfied sol diers, threatening a serious up-' rising, say Cairo reports to the Cologne Gazette. It is said a part of the mutineers were kill ed, and the rest fled to the des ert They killed 12 officers. MOTRN'S SLAYE MAY BE HEADED FOR KINSTONJS BELIEF Pitt County Sheriff Says It's Likely That Crazy Evans Will Try to Get Train Here for New Bern De nies Report Shooting (Special to The Free Press) Greenville, Feb. 18. Sheriff Joe McLawhorn, a distant relative of the roads superintendent killed by Da vid Evans, thinks it likely that Ev ans has gone towards New Bern by way of Kinnton. Evans was arrested in Kineton some months ago for some misdemeanor or other and re leased. McLawhorn pays no attention .to a report that some , of the convicts who escaped, with. Evans, passed through Grainger last night. ."He be lieves all are headed toward the Pam lico river save Evans. The Sheriff says the report that one man had been killed at Grimes- land was without truth. Local Authorities On Alert. Following a Teportfrom"Ayden that a part of the negroes -who escap ed from the Pitt county roads gang Wednesday . were believed i to have come through that town in an auto mobile late Thursday, headed toward Kinston, the; local authorities were on the watch all night for the men. The Ayden report "said that the ma chine's curtains were drawn, that the rattle cf , chains was plainly , heard, and that the driver did Jiot slack up. No sight was had of the party, and the report is believed to have been groundless. - : , From Greenville this morning it was learned that joo trace had been had of David Evans, leader of the mutiny and flayer of . Joe McLaw horn. u'periandent of the gar.g. Evans, as 4old in Ti'ir-.lay's Free Press, 1to;;o J.T.Tjt. 1 .-n's t-;'.l vl'.h a n:attitK. li? h r : r HANS SCHMIDT WENT TO THE CHAIR THIS Former Priest Paid Penal ty for Murder of His Sweetheart PROTESTED INNOCENCE Said An Illegal Operation Caused Her Death Last Thought Was of His Mo therTold Those He Left In Cells Good-Bye (By the United Press) Ossining, N. V., Feb. 18. Striding boldly ahead of attendants and stop ping on the brink of death to express a last fondness for his mother, Hans Schmidt, the unfrocked New York priest, convicted of the murder of An na Aumuir6r, was electrocuted today at dawn. Sehmidit died protesting his inno cence. In a statement, he said the girl was killed !by art illegal opera tion. He shouted good-byes to the inmates of death cells. He died in eljfhb minutes after going in the chair. The chaplain, Father Fashlin. claimed the body, to bury it for Schmidt's -mother. - SERBIAN ARMY WIPED FROM C. ARRIVED By William G. Shepherd (United Press Staff Correspondent) Salonica, Gruece, Jan. 20. (By Mail) The batterdest package that ever arrived for wounded soldiers on any battlefield has at last reached Salonica. This will he of interest to the ladies of Flat Rock, North Caro lina, ,who semt it. Its wrappings aro torn, its wax seals broken and smashed, but its contents, twelve pound of cotton bandages, carefully prepared by the Southern ladies, ore intact. The stamps and other markings tell Jhe story of its travels. ' It was mail ed at Flat Rock on noon, August 23. It reched New York two days later and was put on the Greek steamship "Athenai." At sea the steamship took fire. All the passengers were I saved and so was the mail. There is (typewritten paster on the package which says, "The Damage to this package occurred on board the S. S. Athonai, which vessel was on fire and abandoned at soa September 19. All the mail was' saved. E. M. Morgan, postmaster, New York iClty." Again the package was started from New York on another luckier boat and after a long long journey it has reached the American consulate at Salonica. The .(Flat Rock ladies in tended the bandages for Servian sol diers, but with the exception of in acessible Servian troops in, Montene gro, the Servian army is dispersed. Since the Flat Rock ladies put their package into the Flat Rock post of fice last Aujrustthe Servian army has practically been wipod out. The French Red Cross has taken the pack age and it will be used to staunch French instead of Servian blood. BRANDEIS COMMITTEE MUKNS TILL MONDAY (By the United Press) Washington, Feb. 18. Because there were no witnesses today, the Senate Brandeis committee adjourn ed .until Tuesday. By then the at torneys opposed to Brandeis must file a list of charges and witnesses. of, unsound mind.; No ,: more of the fugitives had been captured since the arrest cf three, Thursday afternoon One of these was reported . to have been killed at Grimesland when he at- attempted to gpt away front his cap tors. Nine in all escaped, i . It is believed that the entire party headed toward Grimesland and Cho otv,vin;ty nnd that none came in the 1 rf K1"1"1. HORNING DAYBREAK MAYORS EXPECTED TO TALK PREPAREDNESS National Security Leajrue Trying to Interebt Municipal Oflicials In the Subject, and That May Be n Prin cipal Topic at Spring Convention of Carolina Association Here, It l Stated National defense will be one of the big issues at the meeting of the Ca rolina Municipal Association here in May. According to R. S. Winters, a Durham newspaperman, "the Na tional Security League will present the merits of preparedness" and "'the powerful levor" of the mayors and other municipal ofllcials of the two Carolinas "will be sought to wield a sure and effective stroke for the eati.-se. The National Conference of Mayors, Icaled to meet in St. Louis on March 3 ami 4, is a forerunner of tho movement ithat will identify it self ultimately with tht local and Slate municipal leaders." Mayor John J'urroy Mitchell, as well ns Mayor Wunkeivburg of Phil adelphia, will be invited to address the Carolina chief burgesses and oth er ofllcials hare. It is well known that Mayor Mitchell is n sitaunch pre paredness advocate, and should he ac cept the invitation to speak here it is not unlikely thut ho will have that for his topic. The Tarheel mayors held, out strong hopes that Mr. Mit chell will come. THEY WANTED ALL THAt WAS COMING 1 TO 'EM, ALL RIGHT rr They live in squalor equal to any that can be found in the - slums of New York, or even London, probab lyright here in Kinston. They are a family, ithe man with tuberculosis, the woman a very uninteresting spe cimen and the children dirty. Church people early in the week found that there wasn't enough covering on tha bed3 if heaped up to keep an infant comfortable ui such weather, with the icy wind blowing through doaens of puneless( windows and chinks and cracks. An automobile Avas pressed into service, and tho people from the other half of the world in a few hours' time had set that family up for housekeeping. -There were blan kets a-plenty, all kinds of elothes and enoush groceries for a Week carted In. But poverty breeds the pauper spirit ..under certain .conditions, and the paupor. spirit is like dopeing it's, a hard habit to break. . . , Next day a child pt the family call ed upon one of tha benefactors. One of her parents had sent her to say to the gentleman (that they needed wood. "Very well," was the res ponse. "And don't forget the shirt, waist for So-and-o." "All right." And, turning baek'etiil again as she was -leaving, "An' we haven't got any sheets and pillow eases." , DR. SMALL AT GRIFTON HAD LARGE AUDIENCE Dr. Sam Small, the Georgia pro hibition lecturer who made an iaddress in this city Wednesday . night, was heard by a full house ait Grifton Thursday night. " The lecture was given in the Methodist church there. Dr. Small, who returned to Kinston to spend today, stated that his re ception at Grifton was a very agree able one to him. He was to leave at 4:10 for Ayden- . , G. O. P. MEETINGS WERE NOT VERY (ENTHUSIASTIC The local leaders of the Republic an party confessed today that the precinct meetings held throughout tha county Thursday were scantily attended. The convention in the Courthouse Saturday afternoon at 1 o'clock is expected to be attended by about a hundred of the old liners. . CHICAGO WILL SAVE "MRS. WARREN IF HEW EVIDENCE' IS O. K. (By the United Press) Chicago, Feb, IS the Anti-Car pital Punishment Society expects new evidence to eave Mrs. Ida Ball Warren, of, Winston-Salem, ,.N'C, sentenced to die on Mareh , 1. Officers of the society y say . the woman's confession, obtained by the third degree, 'will be re, trsctod. LODGE SAYS UNITED STATES SHOULD NOT AGREE TO Wit i i i "Inconceivable That Arm ed Merchantmen Order' Should Be Accepted' WARNING FROM STERLING Decree Means New Crisis for American Relations With Teutons, Declares- This Nation Has Approv ed the Right to Arm (By the United Press) Washington, Feb. 18,-Germany and Austria propose piracy, deolar ed Sunaitor .Lodge today, in the Sen ate. .It is inconceivable, he said, that. America will accept the plan t sink . armed merehantmont without wsrn ir;g. Precedents allow arming, and America has approved the arming of :: merchant vessels recently, he stated. Abandonment of the right to arm ia incredible, he eaid. . Senator Stealing warned that the y decree constitutes, America's, gravest international crisis. .,. K j, t Senator Thomas replied that Ster , ' ting's and Lodge's speeches were not based on facts nor a desire to better . International affairs. He said they .' ' were political. Senator Stone prom''. ised an answer to the Root attack on the administration next week. FUNERAL OF MRS. W. ; ' C'KNOXlHIS'M'flRNING rv .,U.,, ? vi '. J . vy Tha funeral of the iate Mrs. W. C. Knox was held-, in Maplewood ceme tery this morning at: 10:30 o'clock. The service anrtounced to be held. in the Caswell Hotel was abandoned. and all the rites conducted ait J tho ; grave. i- Rev. C. W. Blanohard of the ; First Baptist church, Mrs. Knox's pastor, and, Rev. J.. II. Griffith, ree tor of St. Mary's Episcopal - ehurch conducted the service. . The , pall , bearers were .Messrs. W. M. -Herbert, C, W. Pridgen, F. Clyde Dunn, J. t H. Canady, Will Hood.'E.. B. Mars ton, James Powers', and R. C. Strong. ' The funeral was largely attended, and the floral tributes were unusual ly numerous and handsome. : NEW CROSSING SIGN AT PRINCIPAL CORNER A new style of crossing sign has been placed at the intersection . of ; Queen and Gordon sitreets. There are three arms, two of them calling upon chauffeurs and drivers -to keep to the right and the other exclaiming "Safety first," The sign, a atAioton tial affair painted in white with black. lettering, , Tcplaces the old red ".and black "traffic cop'! that stood in the center of that crossing forraerlyThe idea was Street Commissioner Webb's.-Voro-of the signs are to be put up, it is understood. NEGRO MURRELL DIED FROM EXPOSURE, AGREE The Craven County authorities and a coroner's! jury have accepted theory that Walter , Murrell, a color ed man, whose body was found fey Norfolk Southern trainmen in a ditch between Cove City and Dover sever. ' si days ago, died from exposure to the severe cold, ? It is theught than' Murrell, who had been drinking, fell into the ditch and was too near over come by the cold to make any effort to get up again, laying there until he succumbed. " ,. " ' - - . TODAY'S SALES N THE ; -;'-C0TI0NfflCHAi;GE . M - - - About 20 bales of cotton were mar keted here today "y 5:30. o'clock, c cording to . buyers' reports. Prices were from 9, to 11 cents. New York; futures quotations were; Open 2:20 March 4..V. .... .1L45 11.49 May .. ......... ...,.ll.C!i 11.71 Ja!y .'.......11.S3 ll.Pl October .'. 12 t I " 1 i 3' ! u1 r fill1. .1 ' i-