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VOL. XVIIL-No. 18 .
KINSTON, N. C TDESDAV, JULX 25, 1916
FOUR PAGES TODAY
PRICE TWO CENTS - :
FIVE CENTS ON TRAINS : f
MILITIAMEN SANTEE FLOOD NOV FLOODS IN KINSTON SECTION. LIKELY , TO
- VicSSs HM tISnsliii is 'Goal
DRUBBED IN FIGHT AT ITS WORST BUT APPROXIMATE THAT OF EIGHT TEARS AGO,
WITII U. S. TROOPS BRIDGES ARE FAST WARNING SOUNDED BY WEATHER OBS'RV'R
PRESS
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S$ FOR THE M LLPVD,
ARTfi
TIIESTATC-!!
oir SENT
ESPN
TOflAV
GEORGE AND
II THREATEN
TO LEAVE CABINET
ASQUI1
Mr. NJ.' Eouse of the State Relief pmmitteeNf or the Irish Question Cause of the
flood sufferers Western North Carolina has torwamea u : Trouble In Coalition
$150 to the committee headquarters ap k aieign 10 De; put, . .
arii a f a sprviw in mvm v assistance Xo the stricken Ministry
X lllll(ivumv , O O . " ... 1
neopie. ; uany reports wii m w iuuucv ou
scribed by; the people of Kinston will, be sent forward &o ,,TTIC iniiicTMCMT
Xthe suffering and distress may be alleviated as quick- LITTLE HOPE ADJUSTMENT
y as possible. .
met tut fusmoon at 3 o'clock at the Members Would Not Acqui
Home. I 'jars. irarrou, iu periwius
t Tbia moraini at; conference bor
. Ratios and Douglass, it
rwK -. ,
w decided to, appoint a canvassing
committee of ybung' ladies to solicit
Ascriptions. Those named are as
ivHV: - ..- -"' ' '.
( . Jlrs. J. F. Parrott and Mrs. H. H.
Grainger, chairmen; Misses Lucile
Dixon, Margaret Goodson, Virginia
Copeland, Ann Hyman Harvey, Susie
Canady, Terry Mitchell, Suzanne Mar
tip, Mattie Fleming, Eugenia Grif
fith, Susie Perry, Katie Cobb, Natal
ia Kunn. Lalla Daughety, Eoline Pad-
rlok, ary Hooker, Agnes Quinetly,'
!,. PrwJwen. Irma TaDD. Vida West
and Ina Mae lee. The committee J
W. P. Hood ,..'...
Getting" Furniture Store..'.
Ci Qefctinger
Cash "
Chaa. A. patera
V. Cowpert. . ,
Prof. J. H. Sampson (colvd).,
Provost Cuard of Regulars i High Water Covers A. C. L'. NeuscOut of Bounds and Rising Inch an Hour, Which Is
Attacked Blacks Who 1 TracksMother and Ba- Enormous Incroa in Flat rmtrv with w.w J
ready Spreading Throuirh Lowlands Other Streams !
Wouldn't Disperse
HAD ABUSED WHITE MAN
Tracks Mother and Ba-
j by Are Drowned . With
Four Score Other Vic
tims of Awful Disaster
$1.00
. 5.00
. 2.00
. 2.00
. 2.00
. S.00
. i.oo
I? Previously reported : ' .
B-'E. Moseley-(Name omitted ,
?JqnJay'i.'i ..... 10.00
M f. potise . 20.00
W. C. fields .. 5.00
K . . Canadv & Son 1 ....... 10.00
J. $. Hood A Co. ...
X J. Stevenson
W. Ji Jonea ,. ....
Baa Quinerly , . ...
Cash ..
Qutnn $ Miller ...
T. V. Moseley . .
D. I Pixon ......
Jesse G. Browa ..
Edwards & Harper
Dr. AJert Parrott .
Barrett & Hartsfield
W. B. Douglass ..
6.00
1.00
1.00
2.00
1.00
5.00
1.00
1.00
,.1.00
5.00
1.00
5.00
5 2.00
canvaasing rrangementa, and it will
probably start ldter this afternoon or
first thing in the morning to make a
systematic canvas. - ' ,
It is hoped that Kinston end Len
oir will furnish at least $500 of .the
$50,000 which the State Relief Com-
miUee turns to raise, and as much of
that as possible be in hand to be re
ported to the committee at its meet
ing to be held in Raleigh Wednesday
afternoon. '
The subscriptions which have come
in today (no soliciting has been done)
are:
J. Tr Kennedy . . 2.00
C. L. Ellington 1.00
J. T. Skinner & Son 2.00
J. P. Nunn , V 1.00
J. B . Meacham 1.00
Dr. and Mrs. MoNairy 10.00
Total
.$32.00
esce in Proppsition to Na
tionalists Redmond
Charges Bad, Faith, Mak
ing Matters Worse
(By the United Press)
iLondon,' July 25. The coalition ca
bmet is endangered by the Irish
question. David Lloyd-George, min
ister of war and originator of the
compromise plan for settlement of
the problem, is quoted as having of
fered to resign in view of the failure
of the cabinet to acquiesce in a pro
posal to the Irish Nationalists.
Asquith is reported to be ready to
step down if Lloyd-George does. The
only hope of averting a break is the
chance that the Irish Nationalists wfil
submit to further negotiations. The
hope is admittedly; weak in view of
Redmond's charges of bad faith.
Rob. H. Rouse- fi.00
F. C. Dunn-.. - 8.00
J. F. Taylor .. ........ "J-""
Robt. C. "Strong
James D. Grady .. .......
L. Harvey & Son Co
C. jF. Harvey, Jt.
C. M. Jordan
H. Stadiem ..
ih-l Ira M. Hardy
J. H. Tarham . . ;
K. R. Curtis .... .......
H.H. Grainger .. .......
Hardy Hill .. ...
Hines Bros. Lumber Co.
H. Gait Braxton
Total . .... .'. . . i
' Grand total . . i ..... .
S.00
1.00
10.00
1.00
1.00
a.oo
10.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
10.00
1.00
IRON EXPLODED; MAN BURNED.
New Bern, July 25. M. W. Fodrie
was slightly burned at a pressing
club yesterday when an electric iron
exploded.
' ".';
; -
Followed San Antonio Law
yer Into a Barroom to
Mistreat Him . Resisted
the Guard : Four Were
Wounded ,
(By the United Press)
San Antonio, July 25. Three ne
gro eoldiers of Company E, Eighth
I'linois infantry, "are in a hospital as
the result of bullet wounds received
when they were fired upon by a pro
vost guard last night after attack.
uig H. G. Ilenne, a lawyer. A fourth
was taken in a tent. All the wounds
if slight
The trouble strted when Stone hit
dennes' machine as he passed a
trroup of militiamen. Hennea went
(tack to investigate, and was receiv
ed with invectives and threats. He
ran toward a nearby saloon. Forty
black militiamen followed. At this
juncture he Nineteenth infantry (re.
gulars) provost guard, forced the ne
gToes into the streets and clubbed
them with puns. Upon their repeat-
(By the United Press)
Durham,' N.C, July 25 Many
bridges are down and high waters
have flooded the ewnfields to a
depth of three feet. A wide area
was inundated -today following
the collapse of the ten-thousand
dollar Little River Manufactur
ing Company dam. The river
has risen three feet as the result
of three days' rains. There is
heavy damage. ,
Lenoir, July 24 Two of the sad
dest deaths reported so far' for this
county was the tragic drowning of
Mrs. Arney Shumpke and littlo babe
in Johns river Saturday night. The
Shumake family lived a few miles up
above ollettisville about ' McLean's
creek. The house was built in close
to the stream; a mountain arose very
abruptly just back of the house. A I
landslide from this mountain some
time daring the night completely de
molished the house and knocked the
entire building in the river.
Catawba Still Rising.
.Charlotte, July
ready Spreading Through Lowlands Other Streams
Threaten Damage-Crops Suffering Heavy Rains All
Through Region North Carolina Having Floods Jn All
Sections at One Time; Unusual Situation . in'. State
Railroads Guarding Against Washouts Similar to That
Which Developed Hero at Havclock
f
Seven: cars and a caboose of a freight train
are reported to have gone through a .flood-weakened
trestle on the Norfolk Southern's Raleigh- J
Washington line at a point near Grimesland
' shortly before noon. Five of the cars were emp- :
, ty, one rock-laden and one loaded with merch- :
andise. No one was injured, it is reported. '
4 Three, bridges, two of them on the Central
Highway, are down in Craven county. : - ,
The Neuse here at U a m. was rising 1 1-2 . ,
inches an hour, Weather Observer Peebles re
ported, r . . i , -v u
The rivers -are "just beginning to rise" -in this :
section, a railroad source has it.
Neuse river was out of bounds at points above here
this morning,' accordinjr to reports, and was rising at the
rate of an inch an hour here at 10 a. m. Little or no dam-'
age has been done to stock and crops, but ; every in
dication points to serious floods in the low country.; There
24. Continuous was a prospect that the stream might go over the bank on
heavy rains in this section since Sat- Uie Opposite Slue irom IVinSXOn. v , . - .
urday have caused small creeks to The flood waters from the recent rams up the country
overflow and greatly damaged grow- have not come down. They are on their way in great voi-
crops in the lowlands. Two small ume. however, andat is from the upstream freshets that
ed refusal to return to quarters the "eelt9 cour9ing m'" thj" fy damage is feared. Five and 9G one-hundredths inches of
in- , " ' rain nave iauea nere aunng trie muiiui, uucu w wjc
numbers of colored lamto to leave kord precipiUtion of 9.14 inches in June. Monday night
j.,00 liienea xujx, must uj. it iiuiu uajrui,ton w w . '
narrow river above here cannot possibly hold all the mass
hf watpr that, is now rushintr eastward. The stream Sun
day night rose five feet an(? went beyond the banks in the
low places. It is from the fact that it is spreading out and
submerging the. lowianas inac ine rise is nut u myiu.
Reports from the rural fcectdons of
regulars fired.
vestigating
Army officials are
BODY FOUND IN THE NEUSE.
New Bern, July 25. The body of
DeCato Jones, colored, drowned while
fishing in the Neuse river some days
ago, has been recovered. f
iiirniniiii nrniiiriiT
mniuHii ntuiiiinn
.. .$141-00 1
...$173.00 1
nmv 'nrn
UllLi tlCHL ftll
FROM MIDDLE
THE JIM CROW LAWS OF TEXAS
their homes.
miles away at Mount Holly is report
ed rising again and giving trouble to
railroad construction forcos building
temporary bridges washed away in
the flood last week.
Crest of San tec's Rise.
Charleston, S. C, July 24. The
crest of the flood in the Santee river
is reported tonight to have reached
St. Stephen's, but bridges along the
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad are said
to be holding. High water covering
the track in many sections have caus
ed all trains to be de toured.
TEMPORARY RECRUITING
STATION FOR THE NAVY
'fCon&Dued "oh Page Three) '
4;miCAN BUSINESS WILL BENEFIT AND
MIT SKFFFfl FffflHI R RITKH Rl Af K im
yvituu Itill I I1U1II UI1IIIUII LILiilUll 'MUIf
SAID; NEW YORK BANKERS ACOUIESCEfl
, ''. '(. yj..". :'''' ' ' ,, "'-'' -'-''' : ' ' ' '' i' ".;'.'..
Trade Will Be . Transferred to Bonafidc American Con
cerns Not IJnder the Ban, It Is Said-Boycotted Firms
Maintained German Business Relations With South
America, Pointed Out List Is the Hardest Blow Yet to
Teuton Commerce, If Authoritative Statement Made per cent, of its
l0d9F is Borne Out Banking Men Insisted That Only Chaplain Henry Paisecki and tried
Men Haying Direct Trading Relations With Germany;
Should Be Tabooed, Stated
By WILLIAM G. SHEPHERD,
(United Press Staff Correspondent
San Antonio,, Texas, July 24. That
variegated army which I saw in Sa
lonika a few months ago, - consisting
Of French, English, Serbian atshrdla
Australians, Cechin-Chinans and
Montenegrins, looked, like a mass of
blood brothers compared with the
middle western militia, j
j Having he enemy . Oeiore tnem
gave .the Salonika troops one com
mon thought. ' '
There's a Polish company K. of
Milwaukee, . First Wuconsin, for in
stance. It was organized fifty years
ago by Theodore" Resinski. If: is
known as Kosciusko's Company. For-:
120 members were
eat in the tent of
to imagine I was back at the British,
French or Austrian front and talking
with an officer of one of those arm
ies, and he said it was an ancient
custom of his company not to permit
any but Poles to join, and that they
kept up the custom out of deference
to hundreds of previous members,
now dead. ' -
'So many Poles try to join "now
we are full and we turn them over to
, I, - ' - ' . (By.the United Press)
Washington, July 25. That the British 'blacklist of
American firms was not published until the acquiescence,
if not the approvaL of several large New-York banking
uiauLiupns was nrst assursa, was a 'Statement made to
he United Press todav n rood anthnritv. t Tho farf is
considered responsible for. there not being more firms on other companies of the regiment,"
the list Bankers annroached areued that ohlv those scd the chaplain. "They ar oat-
houses having direct trading relations with Germany and tered throughout the Wisconsin
those whose business was primarily of military value to irooa-
GennanV. shouH ho fawnttort Tha hanV u-pra Ynnvin... We found a Polish church v 4n
ed that the nited States' South American trade would be An"0 1t Llt
hebed rathpr than . ... are getting together automobile
ment had declared the Wisconsin mi
litia to be the model for the country.
This Polish company far three years
m succession has taken the first
Wisconsin prize for field work. Splon.
did soldiers, thoroughly American,
but adding variegation to Uncle Sam's
storm oat. :-m -s.. : '
Chicago's colored i regiment, the
Eighth, adds variety and evgn snap
piness. It k hard for Chicago's col
ored troops to ride in the Jim Crow
section of the street ears, San Anto
nio southern style. Today I encoun.
tered Col. F. A. Dennisoit, colored,
chief of the negro ; regiment, who
said:'- , ' -
"I think we have the only dead
sure American regiment in the entire
lot. The other regiments have got
all kinds of folks in them, but we're
all the same. We are so American
that we obey the San Antonio laws
and ride in separate compartments of
the street car. .The other day
A representative of the navy sre-
cruiting service will be in Kinston on
Thursday. He will answer all ques
tions regarding life in the navy, and
if there are any young Americans be-'
tweon the ages of 17 and 30 wishing
to take the physical examination they
can do so on that day by seeing the
agent at the postoflice between the
hours of 12 and 5. Any wishing to
join the navy will be aent by him to
Norfolk, ' Chief Machinist's Mate
Charles C Jones notifies The Free
Press from the Richmond recruiting
station.
NORFOLK SOUTHERN TO
TME.PART STANDARD
OIL PLANT SITE, SAID
The Norfolk Southern Railroad has
laid claim to a part of the ground j
in Southeast Kinston on which is lo
cated the local plant of the Standard 1
It uroa hAi'nt i W , U uu.a.j buggiea, wagons ana ail inu8 oi ngs
I A T V . v' . . VJ w wauuisicu lto.k us up to church neat Sunday."
raa been' maintaining Germany's trade relations , with Sut t couldn.t p, i was any-
cuutn-Amenca, neingin a position to do so only because -
where but in the American army.
Such a thing couldn't happen in any
they were domiciled in a npntra! rmintrv.
. British Officials argued - that business done y the other army in the world, or in any
blacklisted firms would merely be transferred to bonafide other place tha America, wiscon-
American firms not blacklisted. Jsians claim the American govern-
when the army Y, M C. A. put Dpj Oil Company, and tha latter la pre
paring to move, it is reported from a ,
reliable source. What use tha prop
erty will be put to by the railroad,
whkh has during the year recovered
much land in the city said to have
been deeded to it many years ago,
and -since occupied by quatters. is
hot definitely known. The Standard
Oil Company is said not to have se
cured a new site yet
that big frame building right on the
edge of the camp and arranged for a
white Y. M. C. A.-1 couldn't vouch
for the safety of the building if my
men got at it, -
' "I couldn't keep them from tear
ing it down and I wouldn't '
' The Y. M. C. A. people under
stood, and one of them told me pri
vate, 'I respect you for your action.' "
Some -of the Typical Americans' -Get
Ja Trouble.
San Antonio, Tex, July 24.jr-Four
negro soldiers, members of the Eighth
Illinois National Cfllrd, were shot to- New Dern, July 25. Roland' Ed
night by a Squad of the Cuard that Wards of Goldsboro, a member of the
had come to the rescue of a white Second N. , C. Infantry, sent here
man the soldiers were attacking near from Camp Glenn for typhoid treat-
th militia camp.' None were sen- ment, died in a' hospital. He' was
us!y injured, all the bullets strikinz critically ill when brought here. The
legs. rt'iu.us wsnj w viviuairviv,
A SOLDIER FROM CAMP .
GLENN TYPHOID VICTIM.
Lenoir county vary as to the damage
done crops-. All indicate, sorrto Blight
damage from the general heavy rains
especially to cotton. Some pessimis
tic accounts put tihe harm done at a
reduction of 15 per cent, or more in
tho production. With the prospect
for bright weather today or tomor
row, however, it Is believed that the
crops will quickly srecuperate and that
tobacco and cotton will hold their
own.
Damage in Other; Counties. ;
The unusually -heavy precipitation
has done harm In other counties it is
known. Carteret j arid Pitt admit
quite heavy crop losses. '
Planters all along the Neuse, Moc
casin, Tar and MoanoKc rivers are
guarding stock with care. Few ani-1
mals have been left in the -lowlands'
to be caught by the threatening'
floods. i
With the eastern rivers overflowing
North Carolina is experiencing a sit
uation without! precedent 4n its hie
tory, practically jtlio entire state,,
more than 500 miles from end to end,
suffering flood damage at one time.
Negro Saved Passenger Train.
Tho i Norfolk Southern raflrofed is
still havir.g to transfer passengers
around a washout at Hnvelock, where
a bridge .went by the board Sunday.
Reconstruction of the bridge is unden
way and is expected to be completed
Wednesday. Passenger train - No,
on the Norfolk Southern, due here at
8:14 p. ; m., did not arrivo ' Monday
night until about 1130. Aftr the
bridge went down Sunday 4 negro!
named W. L. Lavhorn sent his wife
in one direction from the break and he
went another, the two standing puard
to wars approaching te-abv.. Law-
horn flagged down a train from Beau
fort, undoubtedly saving tho lives of
many , passengers. Tho train wa
crowded with excursionists returning
from the seashore; to "-- Kins tort and
Other points. They made up a purs
of $31 and rewarded Lawhorn, con
gratulating him and making a ero of
hira.- The story of Lawhorn 'a deei
was flashed to Northern newspaper
Monday. - - v ; ' ' '
. Railroad track walkers on all linee
In this part of the state are exercis
ing unusual1 vigilance, watchrvr for
washouts end posslbl7 wrecked places
CITIZER OF A WEST
CmTOWNREPO'TS
CONDITIONS ARE BAD
Brother of Dr. McNairy De-.;
clares , , Lenoir . , Escaped
Great Damage In Floods,
But Provisions Are Run
ning Low
Dr. C, B. McNairy, superintend
ent of Caswell Training School, i
in receipt of a letter from hisliiroth-
er, wno lives at: xenoir,' ana ms aes-
criptlon xf the flood's devastation is
but emphasizing the terrible predio
ument that the unfortunate people of
the mountain section have been left
in. '
(Continued on page Three)
iii the 'roadbeds, none of which cast
of the main lino of the A. CL ore
of especially substantial construction,
rceblea Iasucs Warning -
Local Weather Observer ill C V.
Peebles today gave out the following
iUtement: v : "' A .
' "July 2, .04 inA; I0th, -8 inch;
14th, .22 inch; iath,'i)7 lafh; 21st,
10 inch; 22nd, .95 inch; 23rd, 1.15
belies; 24th, 1.80 inches; 25th, to ft
t. m., 1.55" mches, totbl, iJ)6 inches.
. "As tiio rains tlv accra to to cci
ral over the stao, rtk! eepecially
tloi.-s tlc TTatorslteds that drai i into
'leuse river, are heavy and ecrtinu
us, we may expect vary high witter
irobably approximating' the flood of
1908. On the night of the 23rd the
iver rose about 5 feet and it la now
ising at the rato of one inch .n
lour, which means two feet every
!4 hoars. With tha water rproadintj
rot into tlie lowlands as It is now
ioing, an inch an hour is a tremen
lous rise in a level country as this.
- "l warn those who have stock in
Ihe low grounds and crops in lands
subject to overflow to preparo for
tha worst" .