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L. XVII.No. 246
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KINSTON, N. C FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 1916
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CARRANZA
UPp MEXICO
WAR DEPARTMENT IS INVESTIGATING.
FOUR THOUSAND REBELS MASSED ON THE
AMERICAN BORDER; CROSS LINE IN SOME
PLACES; DRIVEN OUT AGAIN BY SOLDIERS
Villa Conducting Open War Against United States
"Dead or Alive," Bandit Must Be Taken; Baker Hur
riedly Quits Cabinet Meeting to Give Order That Puts
Army Ifn Motion; Tacit Agreement by Carranza Offi
cials to "Punitive Expedition" (Jallinger Would Have
. War and Calls for Great Army Senate Primed for
Anything Messages to Washington From Every Part
of the, Country Demand Immediate Action
(By the United Tress)
WASHINGTON, March 10. The cabinet de
cided to authorize Secretary of War Baker to send a
punitive expedition into Mexico to apprehendthe
Mexican bandits who raided Columbus. Baker feft
in tli middle of the meeting, and hurried to the war
office. He is sending a message to General Funston
to ofer troops across the border.
Action is expected minutely.
Senate Resolutions for Declaration of War and
Army of Half Million Men.
Washington, March laThe Senate met today as a
man handling the trigger, but unready to fire. Gallin
ger is holding a flat declaration of war ready, and Fall
has a resolution calling for an invading army of half a
million men. All the senators had telegrams demanding
action.
McCumber introduced a resolution directing the
President to send sufficient troops to Mexico to quiet the
bandits. It recites the Villistas acts for the past two
years, and says the effprts of America for peace have em
boldened the bandits. It was referred to the Committee
on Foreign Relations.
General Revolt in Mexico? Carranza Dead or Shut Up?
Washington, March 10, Rumors this afternoon state
that Carranza is dead or imprisoned and that there is a
(ronoi-a! lohol nnwoiV T ondntr ia ftoftltr tn fftt the facts.
but could not at r o'clock this
quarters has ordered Guitterez to pursue Villa.
Villa, Dead or Alive, Administration's Aim.
t Washington, March 10, Get Villa, dead or alive, is
'l the Administration's position. , The sentiment is against
; intervention, but in favor of a punitive expedition to clean
the bandits fr6m the Northern Mexico section. The cab-
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deaths of the Americans at
nof if inn n-f f a rvnf nonro
A statement from the President outlining the Admin
istration's course is exoected hourly. ;
That Villa led the raid was confirmed today by dis
patches to Secretary Lansing. Carranza's ambassador
today gave tacit approval to American soldiers crossing
the border to get Villa. The belief is strong here that
the Americans crossed the border after the Villistas on
Thursday as the result of an understanding between Car
ranza and Lansing. '.'
Warlike Scenes On the Border.
Columbus, N.. Jit, March 10 Cowboys, militiamen and
citizens are flocking to the border towns to help the sol
diers. Reinforcements of cavalry and infantry are. mov
ing to the border stations of San Bernardino Hachita
and others. -'v,. - v-v.'-' H' .:;--lV:; '
upen vvarf are Continues; Troops Drive
Invading Bands Back, v
t Columbus, N. M., March 10. Border raids upon Am
erican ranrips a nil fawvta nA rnntinuinfr. Villista bands
last rpghtj and this morning crossed the border at several
points .between Columbus and Hachita, looting" houses
and driving out stock and destroying buildings. No Am
ericans were murdered, say the dispatches. All the guer
rilla were comtvlpf plv thvmxrn rinrk fov noon. Colonel Slo-
cum Sported. Four thousand Villistas are lurking near
the bolder, i Reinforcements have reached the threatened
garrison at-Victorio, Ni M 1 - '; -l
amcuvuii oomirs ueiurn to
, iiuuiugwu( iuaiut jlu. v oru was ieccicu hcic to-
day, that General Funston's meii who crossed the bor
der yesterday in pursuit of the 400 or' 500 .ViUistas, who
raided the town of Columbus. NL'M.. had returned to the
, American Side. -The War Dpnarfmpnt is waiting for Of-
RUMORED DEAD OR SHUT
SAID TO BE
afternoon. Carranza head
'11. I rl. I If I L V.llCLllId lillv
Columbus, and prevent a re-
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uwn aiae jume.
IN REVOLT
SUGGS' SENTENCE
IS CUT TEN YEARS
Half of Twenty Years Taken Off By
Judge Bond Because Slayer Was
Paralyzed Three In Family Af
dieted In Same Manner Convicted
Man Once Lived In Kinston
Because the convicted man was
paralyzed, Judge. W. M. Bond in
Onslow county Superior Court at
Jacksonville, changed tho sentence of
Claud Suggs, second degree murder
er, from 20 years to 10 years short
ly before the court was adjourned for
the term late Thursday. Suggs sub'
mitted to a second degree verdict
earlier in the day. About the 25th
of December last Suggs killed his
father-in-law, J. J .James. The
slayer had been in an altercation with
a b rother-in-law, and the elder
James tried to intervene. In the
heat of passion Suggs shot the old
man.
Claud Suggs lived in Kinston sev
eral years ago. He was a laborer.
Rather remarkable is the fact that
within the past few months Suggs,
his father and his mother have all
been stricken with paralysis, each be
ing afflicted in the left side of the
body.
REPORT OF TODAY'S
COTTON MARKET
About 35 bales of cotton had been
sold today by 3:45 o'clock. Prices
ranged from 10 1-2 to 11.05.
New York futures quotations were:
Open 2:40
May 11.90
July 12.10
October 12.26
December 12.444
January .....12.50
11.88
12.05
12.19
12.39
12.40
DODGERS DEVASTATE
DAYTONA'S HOTELS
(By the United Press)
Daytona, Fla., March 10. Spring
time music, the resounding boom of
the old slowball in Chief Myers mitt
rang out in Daytona today to the ac
companiment of creaking joints and
the muffled slap-slap of trainers'
paws on muscles soaked with lini
ment. The Brooklyn Dodgers, nearly
forty of 'em all told, are here for
spring training.
YOUTH ELECTROCUTED
FOR POLITICAL MURDER
Ossining, N. Y., Mar. 10 Nineteen
year-old Anttnio Impoluzzo was elec
trocuted in the death house at Sing
Sing penitentiary here at dawn today.
Impoluzzo shot to death Thomas La
monte of New York, grain merchant
and aspirant for the political leader
ship of Gotham's Little Italy, follow
ing the murder of the former leader,
Michael Angelo 5alucci. Impoluxso
fired three shots into Iimonte's back
as Lamonte stood talking ' to his
niece, Rosa Lamonte. The jury
found Impoluzzo guilty after one
hour's deliberation. .
OLDEST ALUMNUS OF
, HARVARD DIES CHICAGO
-Chicago, March 9. Samuel S.
Crealey, 92 years old, the oldest
alumnus of Harvard University, died
here today.; Mr. Crealey, a civil en
gineer, was graduated in the class of
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LINER LOUISIANA SINKS;
1 PROBABLY; TORPEDOED
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Paris, Mar. i0. The transatlantic
steamer Louisiana, said to have beea
torpedoed ill the open sea. sunk at
Havre at midnight. There was little
or nd loss of life. ' " y
GOING ON IN OTHER
. L CAROLINA PLACES
Greene County's Roada Weatherproof
Report of Chemist In Hopewell
Case Due Saturday Business Fine,
Saya Southern Official Unusual
Strike at Never son Quarries
Greene county's new sand clay
roads have stood up well under the
bad weather of the winter. The high
ways built by the county superin
tendent are suporior to those con
structed by contractors, it is said.
An old-fashioned spelling: bee at
Bynum's school, Greene county, with
Bynum's and Lizzie schools compet
ing, resulted in a victory for the for
mer. Ihe match was neck and neck
and the decision was awarded when
the Lizzie spellers fell down on
"zephyr." Each school now has won
a match, and there is to lie a rubber.
It is stated that a report on the ex
amination for poison traces of the
viscera of Mrs. Rachel Hopewell,
whose husband, W. R. Hopewell, is
held for her murder, will be made by
the State chemist who conducted the
examination to Solicitor Abcrnethy
at New Bern Saturday. Mrs. Hope
well was buried half a dozen miles
from' Kinston. The crime is alleged
to have -occurred in Craven county.
General Supt. J. D. Stack of the
Norfolk Southern Railroad, on this
division to attend to business, says
that ' traffic, both passenger and
freight, is nil that could be hoped
for.
The will of the late Miss Sarah Ann
Davis, well-known .proprietress of a
Beaufort hotel, shows that Miss Da
wis was not as well-to-do as was gen
erally believed. The exact value of
the estate has mot been determined.
Miss Davis was nearly 86 years of
age.
There has been a strike at the Nev-
crson rock quarries of the Norfolk
Southern, railroad men say. More
than half a hundred negroes walked
out after 'the arrest of a negress for
drunkenness. The quarrrymen de
clared they would not work until she
was released. They remained out
two days, until the case of the wom
an had been settled to their satisfac
tion. BULLETINS
(By the United Press)
TWO BRITISH TORPEDO
VESSELS SUNK; 45 DEAD.
London, Mar. 10. The British
destroyer Coquette and torpedo
boat No, 11 have been mined and
sunk, .it is officially admitted.
There were 45 casualties, one of
ficer and 21 men from the destroy
er and three officers and 20 men
from the torpedo boat
STEAMER SUNK IN
SWEDISH W ATERS.
Copenhagen, Mar. 10. The
Swedish steamer Martha has been
mined and sunk in Falsterho
Sound, Swedish waters, according
to dispatches. The crew were
saved.
GERMANS BESTED IN
AIR BATTLES.
Paris, March 10. Two Ger
man aeroplanes were dostroy.ed
and 13 others which dropped be
hind the German lines seemed
damaged, as the result of a se
ries of air battles at Verdun, say
- dispatches from the Champagne
sector. '
STEAMER RAMS TUG;
ONE BELIEVED LOST.
Norfolk, Va March 9. One mart is
believed to have been ;drowned, four
were injured, and twelve had narrow
escapes from death, when the ' Old
Dominion" ' steamer Madison rammed
and sank the tug Daniel Willard, off
Craney Island, today. -
THE NATIONAL. FISHERIES
MEETING FOR WILMINGTON
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, Chapel Hill, March 9. The annua!
njeetiog'oi ihe National Association
of Fisheries Commissioners will be
held at Wilmington, April 18, 19 and
KINSTON HAS BEEN
LONG-SUFFERING IN
THE DEPOT MATTER
Secretary Sutton of Cham
ber of Commerce Tells
Cprporation Commission.
City Wants the Promised
Station Before Winter
In compliance with tho decision of
the Chamber of Commerce on Tues-
1ay night to urge tho Corporation
Commission to action in the mutter
of :he Kinston union passenger sta
tion, Secretary F. I. Sutton has sent
Secretary E. L. Travis of the Com
mission the following letter, made
public here today:
"1 was instructed to again take up
with you the matter of the union pas
senger station for Kinston, and re
quest you to order tho roads to begin
work at once if possible.
"We are besieged by the travelling
public and citizens who are very anx
ious to know when they can expect
passenger depot facilities.
"We do not wish to trouble your
honorable body unnecessarily in this
matter, since we appreciate the mag
nitude cf the work you are doing and
ithe large number of cases you have
to pass upon, "but our people have
been long-suffering and feel ithat
they are entitled ' to adequate facili
ties, certainly before the cold weather
sets in again." "1 '
The 'Commission's answer is not ex
pected for several day3 yet. The
railroads were several months ago
ordered to erect ithe building, but no
date for commencing the work was
specified. ' The probability is that the
Commission will now set a date by
which tho construction must be start
ed. THE WAR IS MAKING
. JAPANESE MILLIONAIRES
(By the United Press).
Tokio, Japan, Mar. 1. The Euro
pean war has brought undreamed of
prosperity to Japan. Evidence of
this is found not only in the enor
mous increase in the gold reserve,
but in the fact that the Japanese
newspapers are busy chronicling the
rise of many new-made millionaires,
who plunged early in the war and
emerged with .riches. The leading
shipyards of Japan have filed orders
which will keep them busy for three
years. Thanks to the withdrawal of
German vessels, Japanese shipping is
enjoying 'the greatest prosperity in
its history. Shipping men are pre
dicting that Japan will in a few years
have a mercantile marine second only
to that of England. Japan's gold re
serve has increased by $100,000,000.
She now has iu reserve $250,000,000.
THE ODDEST STORY IN
THE NEWS OF THE DAY
(By the United Press)
Dallas, Texas, March 10, Sam
Harris, of Farmersville has almost
realized his greatest ambition. He
has only to increase his girth another
inch to have the same circumference
as altitude, ana ties six lcet, iwo
inches tall.
"I'll measure up or weigh up with
Jess Willard any day, for the heavy
weight championship, surveyors' tape
and hay scales preferred." said Sam
today. Sam is 42. He's 69 inches
around his chest, 73 inches around
the waist, 82 inches around the hips.
47 inches around the thigh, 27 incite.
around the calf, and requited 25 1-2
inch'armholes in his vest. He wears
a 10 1-2' size shoe. v
DESPONDENT, THREW SELF
; UNDER CAR WHEELS, DIED.
Kansas City, Mo.,' March 9. Louis
IL Carpenter,, 30 years old, of Bir
mingham, Ali, an ore tniner out of
work and money.., committed suicide
oday in', the business ' district by
crawling under the wheels of a trol
ley car. Scores of shoppers saw the
tragedy. ' - - k '
NOTHING HALF BONE
IN OBSERVANCE OF
BABY WEEK IN CITY
Kinston Kids Have Had a
Full Share of Attention
For Seven Days Wind
Up of Program With Il
lustrated Lecture Tonight
TODAY'S PROGRAM.
IlliiMtrated address in Caswell
Street Methodist Church at 7:30
p. m. by Dr. Ira M. Hardy; sub
ject, "Development of the Child."
Baby Week in tho Nation ends to
night. Scientists in the centers of
population estimate that the lives of
thousands of youngsters have been
saved and the health of tens of thou
sands bettered because of the great
campaign waged, principally by the
vvumen's clubs, ministers and doc
tors, in the United States during the
past seven days. '
In Kinston, it is safe to assert, hun
dreds of children and mothers have
been benetied by the week's obser
vance. Kinston has not done the ithing
up after a half-handed fashion, but
with a very brief time in which to
prepare has planned and carried out
a program ainexcelled by any town of
the size. Addresses on children's
health subject have been delivered by
five experts, and the child in the com
munity was the keynote of at least!
one or two sermons last Sunday. ' .
The sixth and last public address
will be delivered this evening at 7:30
o'clock. Dr, Ira M. Hardy will be
the speaker. Dr. Hardy is well-known
as an authority on eugenics. He will
illustrate his discussion of "Develop
ment of the Child" with stereopticon
slides. The Caswell Street Metho
dist church, only two blocks off of
Queen street, has been tendered for
the occasion, and a large audience is
expected to hear Dr. Hardy.
AMATEUR BASEBALL MEN
: MEETING IN CINCINNATI
Cincinnati, O., March 10.-A clean
cut definition of precisely what con
stitutes an amateur baseball player,
and a 1916 schedule of amateur
games are the two things expected to
bo accomplished at the constitutional
convention meeting of the new Na
tional Baseball Federation of the
United Stales, which began here to
day. WILL ORGANIZE THE
TRAVELERS TONIGHT
Kinston Local of the T. P. A Ex
pected to Be Called Post V The
Chances Are Good for a Splendid
Outfit Here Officers of the Asso
ciation From Several Towns Cities
Here for the Meeting
A committee representing the
State organization of the T. P. A.
is here "today, preparing for the or
ganization of a post in this city to
night. Already received or expected
are George S. Edwards, State vice
president, of Rocky Mount; D. C.
CrutchfieJd. State Secretary, of Win
stoniSalem; W. W. Burgess, secre
tary of High Point post; E. I. Flem
ing, secretary of the Rocky Mount
post; A. C. Bardin, president of the
Wilson post, and J.J. Norman of
WinstonSalem, State membership
chairman. . .
The visitors are today canvassing
men eligible to membership, includ
ing the Jobbers and wholesalers and
commercial travelers of the city.
There are how a number of T. P. A.
men here, and more than 20, the min
imum number that a post can be or
ganized with, are expected to join
tonight. ' Ultimately the membership
should be between 50 and 100, the
Slate officers say. The local post is
expected to be named Post V.Jt will
be the twenty-second In the State.
Organization of the local is expected
to take place between 8 and. 9 o'
clock, in the Tull Hotel. 7 )
GERMANS BELIEVED
TO BE MAKING LAST
ATTEMPT AT VERDUN
Begin Terrific Third As
sault Upon the French
Stronghold
DEYAUX CENTER STRIFE
Teutons Bending Every Ef
fort to Capture . Position
In Middle of Front Be
fore City Turks Evacu
ate Town Before Slavs
By Robert W. Simma '
Paris, Mar. 10. Blasting with a
hurricane of artillery and furious in
fantry attacks, the Germans are op
ening its third,' and perhaps the final
stage, at Verdun. They' are attack
ing today," the I'Yench center fort of
Devaux, on ithe loft bank of the iMsuse.
and the French lines Southeast of
Verdun. 1
Russians Continue March Through
Persia.
Petrograd, Mar. 10. Turkish and,
Persian forces 1 commanded by Ger
man officers are evacuating; the Per
sian city of Ispahan before the ad
vancing Russians. Ispahan is two
hundred miles South of Teheran. It
was formerly the Persian Metropolis.
Situation Unchanged During Nifiht
rPris,.AaEw40TI:''itHtiii..Aii
the iMeuse was unchanged Jast night
says todayV official report. The wf
office denied a statement that the Ger-"
mans had captured fort Devaux and
adjoining positions, but reaffirmed the
report that the enemy had ', entered'
Vaiix village and were driven nt,
Russians Nearing Trebizond.
Petrograd, Mar. 10. The Russians
have arrived within 30 miles of the
Turkish Black Sea port of Trebizond,
say Tiflis dispatches. .
LAD HANGING BY NECK;
FELLOWS THOtt HE
SHAttW: WILL LIVE
(By the Eastern Press)
Washington, N. C, Mar. 19.
Playmates late yesterday discovered
Harry Mcllhenny, 11, son of W. W.
Mcllhenny and wife, hanging by a
swing rope which had become entangl
ed about !the boy's neck."1 His 'feet
were touching the 'ground", the body'
swaying at an angle. They- cut him
down and started spanking him wth.
paddles, thinking he was trying to.
fool them.
A man passing saw that the boy
was not shamming. He summoned i
doctor. The victim was unconscious
seven hours. He will recover. '
CHARLOTTE-PINEHURST-RALEIGH
MODEL HIGHWAY
Albemarle, March 9. The meeting;
here today of the boosters for the
Charlotte - Pinehurst V Raleigh high
way was a complete success with
large delegations from Mecklenburg,
Cabarrus and Montgomery counties.
This organization is to secure the
services of a State engineer and lo
cate the highway and procure the
promise of the commissioners of the
counties through which the proposed
road passes to start to work and fin
ish the road at once,
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BODY MOBILE SOCIETY
MAN FOUND IN RIVER
v Mobile, Alai, Mar." 10. The body of
H. W. Shields, Jr., grain merchant
and social leader, was' today found
floating in the river here, his pockets
filled with rocks. Shields is said to
have suicided.) He disappeared on
February 27. Business cares preyed
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