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SECOND EDITION
VOL. XYIL-No. 44
KINSTON, N. G, THURSDAY, JULY 20, 1916
FOUR PAGES TODAY
PRICE TWO CENTS
FIVE CENTS ON TRAINS
go WW if floods took wfiisii
DRENCHING THE STOCKS WILL GO ON
EUROPE TO ATTACK
BIG GOLD RESERVE
AMERICA AFTER VAR
Kt; NipilT MORE THAN SEVENTY
f .. , . .. 5 ..-,. ....
WEAKENING TEUTONS REPLY LISTLESSLY OF 'TWENTY-FOURTH
THE TVEATIIE3
" Ceni'i . !y Fair
METHODICALLY
llbREil'D fcltV TEAM
Spectacular Conclusion of
Hose Yfayqn Race at the
State tournament
J. W. Kilpatrick, Hred U- The umJbe'r of Victims fo
wl Three Tunes, Wants! , creases With Every Re-
V
V-
TEAMS TO RACEU OVER
Two Kinston;' Squads ' and
Advice About Carrying a
4iig, (innAppeals to the
Authorities
port From Upstate
it h -
MISSING m. WMB0US;
... T7i, M;.An Pitn inspector in uie employ or me
l, , i . .. I State and the Federal Bureau of An-
D.n1r Kwn anH T.pnn trip
,v . imal Indu8try in DUpi,n countyf
Field Thirteen v Teams I where night ridew have committed
Rllled Out' Wednesday frequent outrages recently, Wednes
day auernooa, appealed to Solicitor
Henlry E. Shaw in this city for pro-
J. w, Kilpatrick, an - animal qui Body of Bridge Construc
tion Foreman Found
His Companions Probably
LostTwo Towns Were
Wiped Out
Kaisers Armies In West Seem to Be On Last, Legs The Case Will fome Up As
irencn dv ouccessiui AiiacKs Dirauouen xneir jinvs "wwuiwi, jo muHU,u
!to Conform With Those of Victorious Allies to the
North Terrific High-Explosive Bombardment Being
Directed by English Aircraft, Which Meet With .No
Resistance From EnemyGerman Artillery men ices
nond Only Occasionally to British New Assault In
Preparation '
There Has Been Doubt-
Alleged Lyncher's Not So
Popular at Home '
at
(By WILJSUR E. FORREST)
Samuel Stocks , will be tried
Kw.ansvilie next week.
f
Tiiat much was announced Wednes:
day afterntwn.. gome persona : had
doubted that the State could prepare
by then fr trial of the man held
Caswell Fire- Company, , Kinston.1 tection.
274 seconds. .
fa st Kinston Cofrnpany,
'' ditto. . - i I ;
Morehead City Fire Company No.
1, ditto.
Asheville, July 20-lAdditional bod
ies found Wednesday to widely sep-
WUli tfcn nrUicVi Armv.in Nnrt.hern France. JulV 20.! after an invcstigaUon here week be-
ilverv foot or new uerman posmons uwuim nic niico
rantaired bv the British north of the Somme ' is being
-v ... I ' ' - w vuuvouaj Ul T 1UV1I BCLT L - m.l 1 l- l
. ,w i xm one occawon, ne atateo:, be was arated . . . M . arafuiiv and slowlv drenched witn a aestrucuve mgu-
iqiuston. ahot at at a point "three mHes soBth- brought th n,m f -fi,a ovniAivA fire in nrenaration for a new attack. ' The roar
of J, b, Moreadith-s store." the recent floods ud to -73 with 9 Lf onina is continuous. The Germans are replying: only
Twice on June 28th he was fired t oersons missino- kMmA hJ l?,"flioi. tliov'tirA sprinnslv OUt-ffUnned ; Or
i. JaneiMoaJ I . , .i f . IiJ fPV, T3t.U5cV airohmfl " Wlt.hnilt
savmir wieir amniuxnuun. jjivo ...
i v . V. A1Hq1 firo
"Jin front of Jim Jones' home. Jones I dead.
I Kvc about etoht miles east of Chin-1 Several of th flnivl vm j: .4-::' tW"AHWT firo
Beports from Raleigh Wednesday I, ,. 1 rnm moiesiauon, '6
r to death of Joseph . Black, the
Greone, county negro lynched near
herft for ii.cendiary remarks and
threats following a criminal assault
upon a white chjld by his son, Will
Black, to be electrocuted in State's
prison at KaieijVi Friday.
Solicitor II. E. Shaw stated that
nkbt told of a spectacular resultjn
the "State hose wagon" raee at Ra
Jeigh, wlre the -North Carolina Vol
onteer Fiwpien'i Association is now
ing its annual convention and "tour
nament, late Wednesday afternoon
. The hose wagon race was the first
event of three-day aeries of races,
which include hand Jreel, "grab'' reel,
hook and ladder, pompier, 'ateam en
gine and automobile engine contests.
3Je two Kinston companies repre-
. j a; . j : lT-
seneij by racing squaii uev - wiui
tie o. t squad from Morehead City
for first money. This was even bet-
4a. fton urns PYnwtH ibftck home. !
thourfi every year one or the other 'WCM?ei1 of the ,aw' now
or hotk ampanies succeed in finish
ing among the prize-winners. y yha
record at the conclusion of Wednes-
day's race showed that the, two Kin-
eicti companies crews were unexcel
led by any in the State, and . that
neither Kinston squad had surpassed
the other,
jt is expected that the tie will be
run off late today.
.Also running in the hose wagon
rsce were Morehead City No. 2,
three teams from New Bern, one
from 'Burlington, one from Winston
oaiem, one irom Mooresvuie, , one
from Henderson, one from Statesville
and one from East Spencer. Thir
teen other companies competing were
ruled out, so exacting are the regn
kypns governing-the tournament in
this State.
The Winston-Salem team succeed
ed in making the slowest time, 35
seconds.
The cwirse was over 200 yards on
Blount street, in the Capital City 'H. ' Pinnix, a . Greenaboro real
and the time recorded for each com-1 estate man, is here investigating
pany -included, everything from -the farm lands with the intention, it is
starting gong to the appearance f understood, of getting options on 25
water at the nozzle. A throng of or 30 places for West Carolina farm
thousands witnessed the race.. lew who are leaving a section along
Alderman H. P. Fort. Mr. J. the Catawba river being developed
icnnouy and Mr. J. B. Meacham for hydro-electric purposes by a big
were among those who went - from! power company,
vus city to see the spectacular event; I The. company has purchased the
"ey, declare the race a thrilling af-1 places- of the farmew in question, it
Wr. No record -was hrnlr An. hnw. i is said, and the are looking .to this
part of iNorth : Carolina, with its
arge areas of practically virgin, un
occupied soil, for pew homes.
Foreign Trade Council Ad-
biea the House Judiciary .,
Committee
URGES THE WEBB. BILL'
Would Legalize Co-opera
ive Effort as Weapon of
Same Kind as the Coun
: tries Over the Ocean Will
Employ
(By the United Press) - '
Washington, July 20 America's
vast gold reserve will Jbe the chief
point of attack by Europe, to be de
pleted of gold and staggering under
the weight of the inflated bank and
government (-paper after " the war,1 ;
according to Frank A. Vanderlip,
head of the National City Bank. .
The prophecy was made today in 'a
statement of the foreign Trade
Council to -the House Judiciary Com
mittee in urging the passage of the
ave beard that Jule Jones and I tne overflow of the Yadkin river. renen iViaKC lilg Vnains; -- ; . county authorities it had been deeid
u . . . rn . . v-k t i r r mi. - iiua a w MAdtimnn i riu in i i.mim vr iiii s
Enoch Staes both saw the man who were in two nouses cast ashore rHS, d Uiy ZU. 1 ne r rezicn cbuuicm f ed to go rhea.l . with the case. Ho
shot at me on June 28," he said. , Honda, after having been washed both sides 01 the SOmme last mgni, anu nidue 0"Oi would not giva any particulaw of the
Kilpatrick told the Solicitor that ia mues flm the P01nt whore ey fuJ drive against the liermanS nortnweht U1U suuiuwcon i prosecution's plans. Judge . Bond,
ha hoJ .nnaoinj 4 44. t.t I originally stood. - I j t T?.n. hnnHrori (iprmnns were ulKeil vi w'" I nnwti th invMUmdnn .t
the latter advised him to put 4he I ine other deaths occurred to the j Q a(JvanceS straightened the lines tO COniOrm Wui the week of July 24 for the time and Wobb bill legalising co-operative ef-
matter op to Ool. Shaw. Do. yqul "-"'" mjnney -xvock raoniUuA nru?qU a(JvanceS Kenansvnie lor he place or the trial, fort by exporters.
On tliP Vprdun front the French have Captured Strong- No very strong array of legal Ul- The Council warned that , Europe
, iJnf?fi0I Flpnrv Works 'with 150 prisoners. An aa-1 cnt will represent Stotks at Jienans- , also will try to get the export .trade
v. - ' , . - f ville. It is known that his neighbors
vance aiSO wa? wuc - have not raiiied very enthusiastical
Russians Halted. ,; - . , , ny to ne auegea lyncher. Thuj as
Rprlin Tlllv 20 -The liUSSianS nave ueen uuauic ikch ny some xo indicate innocence
advise me to carry a pistol when on soutneas': or. Ashevuie, where the
duty In this county?" he inquired of toad river raged through a parrow
the , State's attjomey.
-i nave neard or a good many
threats to kill me," the inspector said.
The night riders, he declared, 'cut
pasture fences most every night"
Kilpatrick's connection with the en-
in
force in Duplin to the dissatisfaction
of many cattle owners, has evidently!
earned him thef enmity of the night!
riders, supposed to be comprised of
persons of the " dissatisfied element
i: '(,v -til !.: w-r "a-;..-;. -J ' 1 E
MAY BRING CATAWBjl
RIVER PEOPLE lift
TO ABIDE ON FARMS
Greensboro ' Realty Man Is
Said to Be After Options
for 25 orO Families Who
Sell Homes to a Power
Company
progress further against the Austrian right wing in the of th. mcWw
garfathians, the Austrian ;War, oflice today reported. p,..
river, north of Charlotte, of William
Brotherton, Jr., while trying to sal
vage a bale of cotton floating down
the stream. - .- .
The body of H. B. Griflin of Char
lotte, roadway superintendent and su
pervisor of the Southern. Railway,
was brought to Charlotte late . this
afternoon, having been found today
floating in an eddy of the Catawba
river, a short distance helow where
ever.
EIGHT LITI1E BANITSy
SOON TiPE'li EE NONE
Chihuahua, - 4xico, July 10. iA
hand fqf Jflla r banjos attacked ;. a
Ft5
train on the Mexico Northwestern
near 6ana Ysabel,1 about 150 miles
west ot her yesterday, according to
a report to General Trevmo today. . I
HMIilpBiARKS TRAILED A BRITISH
DELAWARE CAPES WM W
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i ; ,v J (E the United Press) . , -
' Philadelphia, July 2i4-Hundreds of sharks, some
welye to fourteen feet long, were sighted Off.the .Virginia
An ad
valley Sunday, carrying everything
before it, and near 'Belmont, on the
Catawba river. ,
Nine of Bridge Crew r
Unaccounted For, t; .
Charlotte, N. C, July 19 News
reached here today of the drowning
near Beattie'a Ford on the Catawba I t : J-? t TT,,nn.nvr Vixr Cmnll PnfPP
. . . invasiUH VX lluiiKaij -"" - 7 i , j ,i
London, July ZU.-1 ne uussian iux ce u .
Carpathians and invaaea nungary was "f,;rr;
ment, .Fetrogfad dispatches.today said N ndicatior
has been had that infantry has penetrated Hungary.- -
4 "o- Tti;ona With .Rocks." " ' !v
ViVnna Julv 20 Hurling great piles of rocks down j at the trial that Stocks i not strong-
I Vio .Italian Ii.. - ij -u a v
unnn the enemv. tne Austrian? nave aww vv . lv '-i""0"1. wmk-uw
upuu uic cue j, Tfjiliana had nrenar- h ,
Oltensive in me Dercuirt ocv-wi.
ed with a heavy artiUery bombardment. v -
the Belmont ibridze was washed awav I rJiiL Da1a' lifi-n mi nil. ,
Sunday afternoon, taking Griffin and London July 20. Some more ground taKen oy uie
a number of other bridge workers sL-iu;.)- innnfpr-nffpnsive at Longueval
and in Delville wood, has beer
General Haig reported today
Well-to-do
having -had
and had
Stocks, ' of little j or . no oans, been
amongst them, they would have spar
ed no expense td "see him through,"
is & theory advanced. However,
friends of the defense -who have not
been informed on this score will pro
vide necessary funds when it is shown
MOVED BUILDING OYER
WATER WELL AS LAND
that America has built up during the
great war. The statement explained
Europe's efforts will he along co-operative
lines, and therefore co-operation
should be permitted here. . .
with it. This leaves nine bridge vic
tims still unaccounted for.
Two Towns Wiped Out. -
Asheville, July 19. It was stated
tonight by persons returning from
the 'Bat Cave section that nine lives
had been lost in y villages of Bat TI lA,aiH in t.hfi OuffH-ArSOnOVlths region.
Petrograd, July 20-Russian troops have occupied the
Vlllace OI iVUffl, It IS unuaa.u.y ttiuwu"U .
Cave and Chimney .lock, both
which were said to have been almost
destroyed in the flood Sunday. '
V
EIGHT THOUSAND OF
AMERICA'S BUSINES
MEN ON BLACK LIST
DEUTSCHLAND GETS
Wfl 111
OPEN OCEAN
1UUAY
Pie British steamship Copac reported today c
. hungry inonstert followed. so close all the way
HSvkfcWfW capes that the sailors hit many with
clocks of wood.. .. ". ; ; - . : . 4 . .
Jle creatures are believed to be of a species native to
Je West Indian seas, similar to: those . which have killed
several bathers off the North Atlantic coast recently. . ;
Every Indication a inat
Others Will Be Added If Submarine l?reignier win
Public Will Stand For It, we In a Few Hours-Reported-Will
Be Pub- Carefully Guarded-The
i "m.T . ...
licJiPfl Frnm Tim in liremen A Car
Time, Said
- - . (By CARL CROAT) .
ir 1a : T.il t Of! Jtnwn inilaiT
(By the United Press) aiumu.c .
New York, July . 80. That the f onnd the Deutscnlana , SWH at aer
British blacklist against American pier, flanked by obscuring barges and
firms with fiermn connections is not the protecting tug Timmins. A run
complete, hut jnclijdes in fact, 8,000 fot Uie papes before nightfall, how
names which, will be published from ...
u ii-iii i n a,t ver, seems logical and probable,
time to tune, is a statement attrioot- ' ' . '
ed to a promuient banker by the Jour- -Qptaln . Hinsch, manager for . the
nal of Commerce, v ' : new" Jreighter, whispered to friends
, The .blatklistipg of other 'Ameri- that the Bremen will dock fcy Satur-
cans, it is said, depends on hhw the y-
Home of Lighthousekeepcr Near
Georgetown, S. C, Taken Intact.
Chimneys and All, Over Bay to
New Location Family Occupied It
All the Time
(By the. United rress)
(Georgetown Light Station, S. C,
July 20. The remarkable feat ; of
moving, intact, ! a frame dwelling
across land and water, to a mew loca
tion, was accomplished here ; when
the lighthouse keeper's cottage, with
porch on four silos, and two brick
chimneys, was moved across Winyah
Bay fronv South Island to North
Island. The house was 61 by 56 feet
in dimensions and weighed 115 tons.
The house was rolled on skids 500
j'i?i i'fij'i- ?, leeiwa westie over tne tay, wmcn
If Republicans Suggest It, spanned two lighters. The lighters
rr piacea in sucn a position at eou
Democrats Will FlX Time tide, that at rising water the' house
In December for Vote on was lifted dear of the trestle, it
- i was towed across Aha bav bv tenders.
the Child Labor Bill, It is to a similar trestle on North Island.
TWO NEGROES SHOT
BY A BUCK
. ON EXCURSION TRMN
Two persona were shot by -an, un
identified negro, who made his escape
through a car window, near Winter
ville on an excursion train returning '
here from Richmond this morning.
The victims, Webster Orum and Wy
lie Joyner, both received - - thigh
wounds. They were given medical
attention and declared to be in no
danger. . .'. . ..y v , ( r
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LETtOiRESSOUIT:.
MUCH EARLIER DATE
Stated
receives Jhj jt JisJ.
r
BULLETINS
.t.iV. (Efy the United Press)
BRITISH SIEZE U. S. MAILS- ,
. Berlin. July". 10. The British
hare .confiscated all first class
' mail matter ' from the United
. States aboard the liner Nopr
4am, Amsterdam reports . today
: said. , . "... ,
FOUR HLQ PJ MURDER
" Fayetteville, July 19-Four per
sons,' all negroes, arc being held in
jail, or under bond' by Cumberland
county authorities in connection with
the killing of Cus McLean, colored,
by Will Jackson Sunday night, and
of Will Murphy, negro, by Will Mc
Allister' Monday morning. -
(By the United Press)
Washington, July 20. Faced with
a filibuster oa the child labor bill,
pemocratic Senate Leade; Kern to
day tpld President' Wilson that if a
compromise is proposed by the Re
publicans, the Democrats are to set
date early in December, for a. vote,
Proponents of the compromiso say
this, would take the bill out of poli
tics and "result in much earlier ad
journment.", -- ! ., ...
G0LDSB0R0 MAN GIVES
UP LIFE IN THE NEUSE
i : ;'. , '
roldsboro, July 19. Carl Swinson,
35 years old, conductor of a dairy and
a fish merchant here, was drowned in
N'euse river at 6 o'clock this , after
noon. Late tonight his body had not
been recovered, though a party had
been searching for it since the tra
gedy occurred. ;Swinson was bath
inff. ''-. . . ,
From here the building was rolled
400 feet to its new site on ' the
Georgetown reservation.
The keeper's family occupied the
dwelling during the-opeations No
damage was done to the structure in
transit. ; .
JLAVE SHIP OF HALF .
CeiTURV. AGO SCENE
OF A MODERN DANCE
' Special to The Free Press) '
Ocracoke, N. C, July 20. A ship
among many here with histories is
the Matchless, a handsome survey
schooner in Government service. She
was built in 1850, every inch of her
from mahogany, a cargo of which,
was cast up on the Florida coast Sha
was a -slaver and brought to Key
West the last load of negroes landed
in the States. At the close of the
War Between the States she was 'a
pirate vessel, cruising in the Carib
bean. A man-of-war took her, and '
ever since the Matchless, now as sea
worthy and a3 fine a sailer as ever,
has been in possession of the Govern
ment. 1
On the schooner's spotless decks
the other night, under an awning
spread from amidships to tho taffrail.
a houseparty of local, Washington
and 'Fayetteville folks danced ndl
dined as guests of the ship's officers.
J CRIME WAVE SWPS GERMAN CAPITAL; A
SENSATIONAL MURDR OC'URS EVERY DAY
OR TWO; INSANITY; POOR NDURISilMENT
. (Ey the United Press) ? ' .
The Hacrue. Julv 20.A irhast.1v
( ther crimes of horrible character is sweeping .Berlin.
Mental depression and insanity, due in some instances f n
loss of relatives in the war, and others to the lack of pro
per food, are held by criminologists and alienists to bo
responsible. -,','- :- i -'' :
. During the past fev; weeks a sensational murder or
suicide has occurred nearly every other day. Many have
been hushed up, and others ret scant attention because of
the space devoted by th? rvwrcpers to 'war r.cv-T,