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VOL. XVIII.-No. 57 ,
NEW YORK 'SOTEET
AND RIOTING BEGINS
a. , r t
Police Commissioner Says
at this StaereGreatest
OFYIOLENCE
Tif Ptrnnfli Spvnn Th'mi:anfl Hf on Hut St a ton Island
Lines Expected to Be Halted Public Overworks Sub-
' ways and Elevated Roads
ty to Do Philadelphia Threatened With StrikeOwn
ers Gi'en- Thirty Hours to" Comply -With -Men's De
" ':S:-.'r "'., .V'- -.r,;,"ki. . : .
mands Conference May
New York, Aug. 5 incipient rioting and hundreds of
cts oi pewy violence toaay marKea ine greatest street
. ar strike in the history of the city. Seven thousand m
tui ij.iv Mi4u vuimuvvvi o- ax.
SrlwiT ' " j a .1 i . . . T1 ,' .
With the spread of the strike to the Staten Island; lines
expected hourly, it this afternoon seemed inevitable that
every suriace line in lireater
Police Commissioner Woods
cessitv for calling for troops.
cars are iammed. Automobiles are at a premium.
PhSlilolntiig Farpa n TiA-TTn
PMlortelnKia Alio- fi nffitnalfl nf t.hp Pliilnrlplnfiia T?a.
pid Transit Company were
by employes giving wnrcy nours co grant nigner pay ana
recognition of the unionr if-a conference is granted the
strike can be daleyad.
THREATOVTRAINMEN
GOVRI'T
(By the United Press)
Washington, Aug. Senator
Norris today declared that the
Impending? railroad tie-up ia the
greatest argument in favor of govern
ment ownership and operation ever
offered, and will propose legislation
for that end.'
NOTICED,THAT LENOIR
COLORED PEOPLE ARE
GIVING TO THE FUND
- "In somi Htections colored people
are making contributions to the re
lief fund," said the Raleigh- News,
and Observer Friday, in speaking of
the flood contributions' increase.
"This is noticeably in Kinston nd
in other parts of Lenoir county. Sir.
N. J. Rousii of Kinston, a member of
the State Relief Committee, who has
raised i' largo amount' of 'moWy for
the fund,, writes $.at tho colored peo
ple of tys Beckon are showing much
ally." " ,'
BORAH AND HiRDWICK
ON QIILD LABOR BILL
Washington, Aug. 4. Constitution
al arguments foiTimd 'ftgalnst thrad1
ministration child.labor bill. occupied
the Senate today, Senator Borah, Re
publican, maintainingHhat Congress
has ample authority to exclude prod
ucts of child labor from Interstate find
foreign commerce, and Senator Hard
wicW, DemocFatTinsistirig that Feder
al legislation of such a character was
clearly an infringement on the rights
of the States. ' ; -
AUTO umm GET .
BIG HAUL DETROIT
- 5 ' -
.'Detroit, Mkh., Aug.; 4. Five un
masked automobih -bandits early this
afternoon held np an automobile in
which $50,000 pay roH money ;' was
ng taken to the plant of the Bur
roughs Adding Machine Company,
nd before astonishd guards could
offer resistance snatched five bags of
in the car said to have contained
$33,000 or $40,000, and escaped. (
Although pollctmen on motorcycles
nd in automobiles were quickly eent
Pursuit of the bandiU, they had
been rounded up tonight
GOOD ARGUMENT FOR
-
CAR STRIKE SPREADS
- HUNDREDS OFACTS
Militia Isn't to Be Asked for
Tie - uii of Traffic in History of
and Automobiles Finds Plen-
. "V V,: " :-
Delay Walkout
v iia win icviaio aj. v
iNew xorK win oe aitectea.
said there was no Dresentnej
The subways and elevated
today delivered an ultimatum
TURKS START A NEW
CAMPAIGN IN EFFORT
TO TAKE THE CANAL
(By the United Press)
London, Aug. 5. Fourteen-
thousand Turks attacked British
positions at Romeni, 23 miles
east of the Suez Canal, Thursday
night, it is said officially. The
battle, is continuing intensely.
The Turks have been unable to
gain yet "
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(By the United Press)
APPROPRIATION FOR
WEST POINT.
Washington, Aug. 5 Congress
today appropriated $1,225,000
for the military academy.
SUFFS. CLAIM VICTORY
IN WEST VIRGINIA.
- Washington, Aug. 5. The only
.opposition in ""the West .Virginia i
, convention is from the brewery
, interests, says the American wo
man suffrage association. A big
. victory ia already' almost unani-
. noua, it-is said, - ',..
ROANOKE STREETS ARE
TURNED INTO RIVERS
Roanoke, Va., Aug. '4. A series of
cloudbursts which "struck this city
and section early this afternoon stop
ped all traffic in -the city for .several
hours, flooded streets and cellars, de
layed trains and inflicted property
damage to many thousand dollars.
Several of the principal streets In the
business section of the'eity resembled
small jrivera. .
DOESNT SAY IF HE
WAS FROM' GOLDSBORQ
Washington,. Aug, 5. A well-dress--d
tourist stopped; Democratic' Lead
er Kern in front of the Capitol.
"What building is that?" he asked.
- "The Capitol of the United States,"
replied Kern, with just the suggestion
of a smile. ' . , 1 '
"Well, there ain't no sijn up," re
ported Mr. Tourist. I ; '
"My dear sir, they take the sign
down in hot weatherf? answered Mr.
Kern. '' - . :" i , " '.'..''' - V-
SOUTH CAROLINA TO .
, SEND TROOPS SOUTH
Columbia, S. Auj. 4. Adju-
BUT NO NEED FOR GUARD YET
FIBST EDITION
TIDE OrBATTLE
; TURNING A LITTLE
BERLIN HEAR
Sa'd Austrians Have Upper
Hand in East and Ger
manS in the West
STIFF COMBAT AT VERDUN
Slight Gains By the Teutons
In Number Places and Al
lied Offensives Checked
for the .Instant at Least
In Others . . . .
i jjy United Pre&S)
Petrograd, Aug. 5.-Tho. Autrians
today took the initiative on both the
Gaiician and Bukowina frontiers and
iiamchsi , heavy counters, it i din-
c'aiiy said. The siavs withdrew
I u.ttle in Bukowin.
Nws Favorable for Germany
1 Berlin, Auej-,5. Confirmation .of
e abandonment the offensive by
the Russians except; at the Brody and
oirocnou ironts nas oeen received.
The British lost heivily in a suc-
essful attempt to advance in the
northern sector of Dviller and Four-
eox forest, it is officially stated.
A npw battle developed today near
Pozieics, the British launching fresh
attacks. A French attack south of
Meurope ajid.jiorth of the Somme
were repulsed,. Bitler fighting is oc
curring in the Kgion of Thiaumont,
at Verdun.
Ths Russians were repulsed in an
attempt to ovoss the Dvina near Dwe
ten. They lose in the fighting north
of Sclozza.
Big Gain by B'.itfsh.
(London, Aug. ' fi.-Gerroan second
line trenches wcie taken on a front
were two thousand yarda north of Pp
zieres in a resumption of the Somme
offensive, an official statement says.
Hundreds of" prisoners were taken.
Colonials Take Ground.
.London, Aug. 5. Positions havu
been won by the Anzacs, today "com
pletely successful," and repeated Ger
man counter attacks have been re
pulsed with heavy losses.
Paris, Aug. 5. The Germans today
furiously attacked on the Verdun
front, attempting to recapture Thiau
mont and drive the French out of
Fleury, it is officially reported. They
failed with heavy losses.
BETTER RATES FOR N.
CSOME COMMODITIES
Washington, Aug.- 4. The Inter
state Commerce Commission today,
under a fourth section order, instruct
ed tho Atlantic Coast Lins to estab
lish a rate of 19 cents per. 100 lbs.'
on lard compounds or substitutes and
oils,' cooking or edible, from Atlanta
t6 Wilmington. ' " ' " ' "J
The commission also authorized the
establishment of rates on fertilizer
and fertilizer material, carloads, from
points
in the Cincinnati-Louisville
group and related points to Lumber-
ton, Laurinburg, Rocky- Mount,' Rob
ertsonville and Scotland .Neck on the
basis of $2 per ton from Cincinnati to
Virginia cities, plus the published
rate beyond, not observing the long
and short haul provision of the act to
regulate commerce. - :;"v. . ."V:" '.'::
EXISTING POTATO ,
URATES FOUND O.K.
; (By the United Preas) L.
t Washington, Aug. 5. The L C C
today found reasonable and non-preferential
rates on potatoes from Ae-
comac and Northampton counties, Va.,
to points in North and South Caro
lina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Lou
isiana and Tennessee. .
tant General Moore this afternoon
was notified by the Department of the
East that the units of the South Car
olina National Guard, mobilized at
Styx, S. C, have been ordared to El
Paso for border duty. They will
move as soon as transportation facil
ities can be provided. .
KINSTON 'N. C., SATURDAY, AUGUST 5, 1916
ROBINS GOES OVER
TO HUGHES; THINKS
MOOSE DEAD PARTY
Roosevelt Realized as JVIuch
Says People Have Pro
tested, Declares
SOUTHS BOSS'G NATION
Domination of Democratic
Party Means Narrof ncss,
Partiality and Disrespect
for Labor, Says Chicago
Chairman
(By the United Preae)
New York, Aug. 5. Raymond Rob-
n3. "chairman of the Chicago Pro
gressive convention, today announced
allegiance to Hughes. The Progres
sive party is dead, he declared.
Robins said the 1914 elections
showod the party to be regarded in
ight of protest. Roosevelt, in refus
ing to run, correctly interpreted this,
lie said. He declared that fixed South'
rn control of the Democratic party is
individualistic in its thinking, section
al in its "sympathy, and inherits the
tradition against common labor
servile"
"The Republican party represents
the highest literacy of America," he
raid.
MAY STOP PERSONAL
PRESSAGENTING BY
WASHINGTON BUNCH
(By the United rvt
Washington, Aug. 5. That dearly
loved institution, "the leavo to print,"
under which Congressmen annually
send postage free, to their constitu
ents tons f imaginary speeches they
never mads liberally sprinkled with
mythical "laughter'' and psychologic
al "applause" is to be curtailed if a
bill considered favorably today by
both Houses, passes.
A bi-partisan report from the joint
printing committee urges these facts
n favor of the bill.
A million volumes a year, many
printed on fino paper and bound in
leather, have to bo sold as waste pa
per because no one takes the trouble
to frank them out.
Janitors and building superintend
ents complain that whole basements
are literally filled with virtual waste
paper, -so that the "government has to
rent additional space to store qoal
and wood. "-'
Private manufacturing firms, acting
in collusion with 'Senators arid mem
bers, have had printed and frankad
at public expense "pufts'V-virtual ads
though, describedaa expositions" of
their plants, factories and .industries.
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ORGANIZATION NEW
THERMOSTAT COMPTf
To Manufacture Invention of Local
Man Device for Registering In
crease or Decrease of Heat' Will
Come In Handy in Tobacco Bams
and Other Places ' . . ,
There was a meeting last night of
the incorporators of the Electrical
Thermostat Company for tho purpose
of effecting an organization of the
company, it havingbeen, as lately
noted in The Free Press, formed for
the purpose of manufacturing ther
mostats after improved .models pat
ented by Mr. R. L. Jobson. The
chapter of the company - as received
from the Secretary of State was or
dered enrolled in the office of the
Clark of the court. The incorporators
are: R. L. Jobson, H. E., Shaw. F.
I. Sutton, O. D. Jobson, O. T. Boney,
H. E. Moseley, J. TV Hill, A. W.
Taylor, C. W. Pridgen, E. V. Webb,
B. W. Spilman, Quinn & Miller, Geo.
F. Suggs, F. C. Dunn and J. J.
Stevenson. ' A temporary, organization
was effected and permanent organiza
tion wiH be made as quickly as pos
sible. It is said ty those behind the c.vn-
REPUBLICANS WERE
TOMlE FOR ACTS
OF MEXICANS, SAYS
; V." -,".' . ' '
Lewis Charges That When
They Attacked President
r Greasers Thought There
Was Split and Commcnc
cd Shooting ,
(By the United Ptm)
Washington, Aug. 5. Republican
leaders were responsible for the kill
ing of Americans in Mexico, it was
charged by Senator Lewis today in a
sen3aiional speech. The Republicans
by attacking tV President had given
the Mexicans the impression that the
country was not united, he said.
"Not until the captains of the Re
publican party shot at the President
did the Mexican outlaws shoot at
Americans," he said. .
PENNSYLVANIA GETS
READY QUARANTINE
PARALYSIS
(By the United Press) .
1 Philadelphia, August 5. Health
officials : throughout the State of
Pennsylvania were mobilized to-"
day for . an .infantiloyfaralysis '
quarantine. Eight ' Vcw,' .leases
have been discovered and, one
death has occurred in twenty-four
hours. Every train from New,
York into the city bears a, phy
sician to examine children under
sixteen years of age.
MIIIIAMC CAT)
i mi
MORE FORESTRY. LAND
Washington, Aug. 4. The House
today voted to accept the Senate
memlment to"- !T;n ..crr.'cultural bill
providing $3,000,000 for tho purchase
f land to enable the forestry service
take the necessary steps to con
serve forests at the heads of moun
tain streams, which will to a great
extent prevent a reoccurrence of the
disastrous floods that have swept
Western North Carolina and' several
other neighboring states lately.
pany that the thermostat has a wule
scope of uses,' and that there is abun
dant reason why its use will become
universal.' The thermostat was ori
ginally designed to denote only a rise
of temperature, but has recently been
perfected so that it will denote a fall
in temperature, as well; and as it is
easily adjustable, its backers predict
that it will be gladly received by to
bacco' farmers, an undesirable rise or
fall of heat in curing barns being 'im
mediately registered. It is said the
device is even more responsive than
a thermometer to changes of temper
ature. It is also pointed out that a
building may be equipped with the'
thermostat and connected with a city
fire alarm system, so ' that . a fire
breaking out at any, "time, day or
night, would automatically call the
fire department. ' ' ''
NOTICE OF PARTNERSHIP
DISSOLUTION. .
Notice is hereby given that the firm
Of Davia & Jones, heretofore exist
fng composed of the undersigned C.
A. Davis and J. M. Jones, and dcing
a general repair and garage business
at Pink Hill, N. (X, has this day dis
solved by mutual consent, the said C
K. Davis withdrawing from the firm
J. M. Jones will continue die busi
ness at the same location, has assum
ed all obligations of the said firm
and any persons indebted to the said
firm will please make payments to
the said J. M. Jones, who has taken
over the property of the said part
nership. -
This 2?th day of June, 1910.
C A. PAVIS,
J. II. JONES. .
GAINST
SIX PAGES TODAY
CORONER'S JURY AT
INQUEST ACCUS'D NO
ONE KILLING ROUSE
Liddcll Negrd victim of Per
sons Own Race, Growing
, Belief in Neighborhood-
Authorities Want a Wit
ness
It could not be said after the cor
oner's inquest Friday evening wheth
er a white man or a colored man shot
Labarua Rouse at his home in the
Liddcll section last Tuesday morning, !
the injury resulting in his death on
Friday. But whoever it was, a mem
her of a party disguised as zebras or
Fijii islanders decorated for a war
dance or something of tho sort. That
much camo out sufficiently strong iri
the evidence, nearly ' all hearsay, to
convince tha corencr's iurT that tJiere
was something "crooked" about tho
faces of the slayer and his eompan
ions. Several witnesses were exam
ined. The coroner and hie jury want
into the matter to .thresh it out as
full as possible. A ' pos-morter ex-
r.minntion was mads to avoid having
it to lo later on. ;The' load of gun-
ehotwas' shown to have entered the
sida of Rouscy.faec, scattering shots
penetrating the brain. The jury stat
ed that Rouse met death at tho hands
pf a porson or persons unknown. .
Nicey Rouse, known .to the authori
ties hcretofors as CeJia Rouse, moth
er of tho victim and a midwife, told
of the appearance at her homo of tha
murdarer, who had for a companion
a Btrijiling. . It was dark, of courso,
at tho hour, but Nic;y Rouse evident
ly thought shja would have known Jho.
Rouse, foster brother of Lazarus, had
tne nssarian; oeen tnat person, as
suspected in some quarters, in fact,
accuacg by Lazarus Rouao aftir the
shooting. The fact of the assailant
was E'troaked, according to Nicey. Af
ter shs had opened jthr door to the
man, he declared that she was wanted
at a white home in .which tJio stork
had visitedj he inquired of Lazarus
Rouse, who was lying on a bed,, the
stata of his health, and then threw
up the gunthuthe carried and put an
end altogether to the hearth which he
had been solicitous about. Then per
sons on the outside, fired a fusillade.
Sheriff, Taylor found 14 cartridge
shells that afternoon.
A FEW HINTS FOR BUSI-
NESS HOUSES
1. Have yon taken due precaution
for the handling of gasoline, naphtha.
gunpowder, explosives and dangerous
2. Do not allow an open Camo for
lighting in the basement, which may
set fire to combustible material or
may Ignite gas. .V4" V "
3. Have you provided a metal re
ceptacle for rubbish and do you see
that it is emptied each day.
4. Have you provided r' liable
chemical extinguishers and wator
pails T ."
6. , Do not allow . waste paper, ex
celsior, packing boxes, etcetera, in
your basemont.
. MACLYN ARBUCKLE y
A "Tk Reforni CaaduUU" ia th Pal"C
Paramount Picture baMd ' a bis.
pwn playlet.
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rRICE TWO CENTS
FIVE CENTS ON TRAINS
KINSTON AND ORION
EMPLOYES ENJOY A
TRIP TO MOREHEADr
Annual Outing Given by the
Management on Friday
About Four Hundred Parj
ticipated in Good Time
No Untoward Incident
About four hundred men, women
and children, three hundred an.1 sev
enty-five of whom were operatives of ,
the Kinston Cotton Mills and qrion
Knitting Mills and twenty-five were
nfficinls. -members of the' office forces
I and invited guests, were the particf-
pants in a most enjoyable outing to
Morehead City Friday. The occasion
was thJ annual "treat" of the man
agement of the mills for their em
ployes. Managers J. F. Taylor ', and
T,. V. MWlcy, assisted by Messrs. .
J. B. Meacham and D. F. Fort, the
mM superintendents, evervinu, ;
conducive to the comfort and pleasure
of the excursionists arranged, and in
"apple-pie order," and the day. ' was
ideal for the trip. ' In fact, n'othfngf
was lacking, 1 and no untoward inci
dent occurred to mar tho enjoyment
of Ihe trip to the surf.. The operat
ives of the I'jaufort mills of the same
control were also ort hand. A refresh-
meivt car was a part of the train and
the "hawkers" of . cool drrnks,. ice
cream, fruits, peanuts, etc., were
busy en -route caring for the demands.
Picnic lunches were spread at the
Scnch, and a dip in ths briny or at
least several of them rounded Out k
most pleasant day. ' ' '': 'r V
A most enjoyablo feature of the oc4
ftaaion was tVrO visit of the boys of the
Second Infantry Band, who were giv
en camp kave for the better part of ,
the day. j An anxious set 'of fellqw,
they were, too. Friday afternoon when
the "boat, which had been engaged to
onvty them back to camp, in order.
that they report on "time, was about'
35 minutes late In coming for' them. .
By quick jun tho boy3 were landed
a few minutes after! th appointed
time and double-quicked to their :
tents in preparation ( for the parade,
which was a spectacle enjoyed by
great many of the excursionists. . 3
CANDIDATE HUGHES
IS OFF ON INITIAL
TOUR TO THE WEST
By PERRY ARNOLD,
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
Bridgehampton, L. I., Aug. 5
Candidate Hughes and ' Mrs.' :.
Hughes left today on the nomin- " '
ee's 10,000-mile stumping tour to
the Pacific coast. Mr. Hughes
expects to make 2-score speech-
es and be back by Sept. 10. , For
the first time in the history of
politics a nominee ia accompanied
on a speaking tour by his wife." :
New ( York, , Aug. 5. -Republican
Nominee Hughes started his stumping
tour today. It will carry him across
the country to the Pacific coast and ..
back again, with a few days' vacation. ':
sandwiched in between times, Tit
some spot in Glacier National Park,
Montana. Governor and Mrs. Hughes,
two secretaries, ; a messenger, - the -Governor's
personal press agent, Carl
D. Sheppard, formerly a Washington I
newspaperman, and a messenger will
occupy one private car on the trip. - "
Hitched on to this will be another -private
car for politicians, local com- -
m it tees, and newspapermen. '
'Governor Hughes will make the first
set campaign speech of the season at
Detroit Monday. Tuesday he will
speak in Chicago, and then he goes to
St Paul. " '
PRESIDENT ON WEEK-
END YACHTING TRIP
Washington, Aug.rv 4Rresddent
Wilson left Washington tonighlj on
the naval yacht . Mayflower for a
week-end cruise dpwn the rpUmac
river andXaPk . Bay. It was
expected that the Mayflower wpnl j gcj
as far as Old Point, returning ta
Washington 4Monday tnoming. (
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