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FIRST EDITION pNSTON. N. C, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1916
TOUR PAGES TODAY
PRICE TWO CENTS !
FIVE CENTS ON TI4IX
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BULGARIA HAS RETAKEN NEARLY ALL OF
THE TOW
FIRST BIG BATTLE
BETWEEN LABOR ANB
V.. Mi . -
NATION INTERESTED
ARGENTINE PEOPLE
MANY WORKMEN KILLED WHEN BIG CENT'L
Jffic Midge wllls&rs'workiswst
IN MAII ELECTION;
HOLD MASS MEETING
LOST ill hOUfrMMA IN LAST BALKAN !
CAPITAL ON STAGE
BOTH SIDES BOAST
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Thanksgiving Services Being Held Throughout Country.
Russians and Roumanians Retreating Again German'
' Bulgars Take Many Prisoners and Important Fortress
ses British Begin a Counter Offensive Against Bui
. "gars From Greece Severe, Fighting Under Way Al
lies In West Make Gains and Repulse German Counters
Estimated That Gains of Central Powers In South
east More Than Offset Those of Allies in Attacks On
Germany. , , 1 ;
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Berlinfi -Sept ll.A leading local newspaper declares
the Bulgarians have now conquered practically all towns
tney were forced to surrender by tne treaty oiuucnaresi
1 to the Roumanians. Thanksgiving services are being
held throughout . Bulgaria m celebration oi the victory.
Roumania Has Lost Lot of Territory.
: Berlin, Sept. 11, More than a third of the Bulgarian
territory taken by the Roumanians at the close oi tne se
cond Balkan war; has already been reconquered py; the
German-Bulgarians.' - The Roumanians and Russians are
again retreating lowara me uanuue, auasuuniiig
tions East a'nd Southeast of the fortress of. Silstre, say
Budapest dispatches. In little more than a week the com
bined Germans and Bulgars captured far more of Rou
manian territory than the Allies have been able to take
of Ferman territory since the hegmmng of the war. two
Roumanian fortresses, ,Turkakan and Silistre have fall
en. European Roumanian and Russian prisoners numb
er thirty thousand. ' Whether a real drive on Bucharest
is planned, newspaper critics are unable to decide.
Allies-Repel Attacks in West. . -
London, Sept. Ik The Germans in Wo counter at
tacks in the night on the village of Ginchy, captured by
the Irish Saturday were driven off, it is. reported by Gen
eral Haig. An attack near Mouqueft farm also, was re
pulsed. Elsewhere all was quiet on the Somme front. Be
tween Neuvillest and Vaast and the Labasse canal, the
British, entered the enemy trenches at several points,
taking a number of prisoners: ,
British on Offensive in Balkans. , '
Paris, Sept. 11. The British have taken the offensive
in the Balkans; it is said officially here. They have cross
ed the Struma at Orljax, attacking the Bulgarians at Ni
vnljW TCarad and Jaaueil. , Heaw fighting: continues.
s The Germans in five attacks on the French lines South
o-the Somme, between Berny and a pxant Southxf -Chaul-nea
laat night used liquid tef wMhecked by. ar
tillery it is said at the war office", the Germans losing
heavily. . -' " -
Amalgamated Association
of Carmen at New York
Declare Financial Inter
csts Are Determined to
Kill Adamson Law
(By the United Press) ;
New York, Sept.- H.FThe attempt
of the New York traction companies
to crush "unionism" is the first di
rect result of the eight-hour day rail-
way legislation, it ,yas charged by
the Amalgamated Association of Car
rd ylsgaeitoatwun.sae shrdlu uatata
men today.
"Capital does not Intend that this
legislation ever be put on the statute
books," the said. The organization
declared that the New" York traction
companies are backed by the most
powerful aggregation '"'-of, capital p
the world, the same interests that
back the ail roads of the country. This"
first step in a great fight between ca
pital and organized labor, it is stat
ed. , k .. ,,
JUDGE WINSTON WAS
DEFEATED
BY A BIG
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MAJORITY
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Weldon, ,Sep.t.' 10. Unofficial re
turns of the judicial primary give J.
Kerr a majority over Judge F.
Winston of .1,700 to 1,P0 in the
district f or r judge of the Tlird Judi
cial District.4 " ',
Kerr's majority in Halifax county
will exceed 1,000.
IEAVY SALES FOR
I01AY0NT0BACC
SHOOTS FIVE; WIFE
AROUSED HIS ANGER
, . Marion, Sept.' 10,-f-Virgil Butt, a
white man; 35 years of age, shot and
jSeriously wounded five persons at the
hqme of, Thomas Monris this ' after
noon. - The wounded are Lawrence
Morris, Roland Morris, J. L. Biddix,
H. L; Miller and Mrs. Vir-
Mrs. J,
Vil, JButt,, Vifev of ,the. asailatt..- .
,. Butt's virjtfe.wafl p, co,ok, at .the home
pf Morjcis, and supposedly against his
will. About $ o'clock Butt appeared
at jth jeajr door ,of the ;MoTi8 home
rmed with r a rifle, and, shot his wife,
len wtercd xtfc hom,e lfnd Jaegan
shooting at the other occupants of the
bouse. f, f ' i
'.Mrs. J JI., X 'Miller, who .was
phot in ,th n,eck, is in a serious con
dition. The assailant escaped and is
yet at lange . with several hundred
men on lis trail, I '
Butt has been a heavy drinker and
was rejarded as dangerous when
drunk. '
MART; PRICES HIGH
Mare than 4Q.0-O0O pounds of to
bacco was sold here today, . The
breaks were exceedingly large for a
Monday, The weed on the market
was worth probably $80,000, the aver
age price on most warehouse floors
being estimated at'around 20 cents.
Offerings were of all grades,
Today's Wg sales presage, in , the
opinion of tobaccVnists, a record;
breaking week, with anything like
respectable weather. Should the
day's average be maintained two
million pounds or more would be hanr
died in the five sales days, hut Wedf
nesday's and Thursday's sales may bf
expected to at least .pass the half-million
mark. Warehou:men are very
optimijstic over the prospect. , ;
It is believed by a number of pert
sons connected with the market that
$10,000,000 pounds will .have been
sold here by October 1.
Claims 'of landslide Made
By Bot Parties; Voting
Is Heavy ,
Locil Affairs in Background
4First Spinning of Indi
- cator ,of Sentiment of
, North as to Administra
tion Policies
! By PERRY ARNOLD, .
(United I'rcsa Staff Correspondontj)
.Rnton. Scot 11. "Way Down
East", took the center of (the nation
al political stage today. Maine is ex
ercising her proud privilege of exhib
iting the sentiment of the nation as
between Democracy and RepuhliB j-
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iam. rne tTQCK-rinoea vammonyveaiui
voters are iballoting on a complelje
State, ticket, after probably the great
est preliminary overture of oratory
that ever, preceded a Maine electiofl.
r Weather and other conditions indj-
cate a record vote.., ? . .. . "
Bath sid.'s are claiming a landslld.
Local issues are playin;? little patft
and national questions are paramount.
The result will be tfie first expressiojj
of popular sentiment on Wilson's pol
icies...: .r-:- - -.
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FOR LABOR SHORTAGE
THREATENING COUNTRY
W. l A. Thompson, former Repre-
santative in the General .., Assemjly
fiwn E'oaufort county and trustee of
the Oiswell Training school, her.e Satj
urday night from Aurora, declared
that he had heard one prosperous and
very profane .old planter o! the
.VSouth-side-of-fthe-rrver" country in
Beaufort express an opinion that Wil
son was driving the nation to thp
bow-wows.. The prosperous and pro
fane old planter stated his ibelief tp
another f armer, aboyt as follows: j
.'Here I've gone and sold a pile ojf
tobacco worth $75 . : for $175. Whp
ever heard of such a blank thing f
Well, if this dodgasted business keepj!
up, 'we'll all be blank-iblank millionj
aires, an therell ho nobody to worl,
an' the country'll go smack to blank J
"Yes " he said, scratching his head
"we got to get that felter Wilson out
of politics." - : :
AGAINST BLACKLIST
Declared at Buenos Aires
That No Neutral Should
SubmittoSuch Violation
of International Law By
Belligerent
(By the United Press) 1
Buer.-w Aires, Sept ll.PThe great
est demonstration against the Eyitish
blacklist fcy any country attracted an
immense crowd to the Plaza Congress
yesterday c Ten . political organisa
tions and throngs of businessmen pro
tested the , blacklist The British
were accused of attempting to break
down the whole structure of interna
tional law; i . ' .
The mass meeting declared no neu
tral nation should submit to the
throttling of its trade by any bellig
erent Retalictory legislates passed
by the United -States . had greatly
Strengthened the hand of 'the oppon
ents to the blacklist here. A num
ber of speakers referred to the action
by the United States.
Task of Setting: It In Place Commenced Today antf Catas
trophe Came Almost Immediately World JExperts pe
signed Gigantic Section of Structure That Was to Link
Up Transcontinental Railroads and Shorten Distance
Across Canada by Several Hours Second Big Acei-
: dent on Bfidge Seventy Men Lost Lives There 1907
Placing oij Wrecked Span Had Been Heralded as One
. of the World's Greatest Engineering Feats s
REDISTRIBUTION OF
MEXICAN LANDS : IS
PROPOSED TO Ml RS
TESfflIRS AKRIVJNG;
MEET TUESDAY A. H,
Examination of pupils of the city
schools is now in progress. Practi
cally all of tbo teachers are expected:
to arrive during the day, and wil
meet at the Grainger building Tues
day morning at 9 cclijck. With pret
ty weather on the opening day, Wed
nesday, the tarnj Is expected to start
oif with a record-breaking enroll
ment . , - ' ' 1 -V. -
, (By the United Press) .
New Lo'ndon, Cpnn., Sept ll.ARe-
distribution of lands through a taxa
tion scheme which will break VP large
holdings, was suggested for one solu
tion of the Mexican internal, i prob
lems, which the Mexican commission
ers outlined to the Americans in the
peace conference today. "
Evidence of one pf Kinston's big steps forwardA street
recently, asphalted, one of many improved in a paving
program that is costing the municipality and individuals
between $400,000 and $500,000 Wide, shady, surface
, smooth enough to skate on.'
THE PRK1DPJG0ES
TO SISTER'S BEDSIDE
Long- Branch, ., Sopt.
President Wijson received word late
tonight that the condition of his ais-j.
r, Mrs. Anne Howe,-ho is critical
ly ill at Kew London, Conn., has tak
en ti:n for the worse. ' , -
The PreMcnt Immediately cancell
ed all engagements for tomorrow and
nnr.cunced ho would start for New
London early in -the morning. : t
UGRANGE SCHOOL IS
OPiuIED FOR THE TERM
The public school at LaGrange was
npened today. .D. W. Arnold of
Galdoro is the new auperintendent
in charge, and the faculty has been
charrtr 1 consiJerably from last year's.
SALE OF LAND BY MORTGA
, GEE
Under and hy" virtue of the powers
contained in thaj certain mortgage,
made by R. A. "Wooten and wife, Em
ma Wooten, to Hincs Brothers Lum
ber Company on April 18th, 1912, as
appears of record in the office of the
Register of Deed for Lenoir Coun
ty In Book 44 at ' page S61, i aid
mortgage and the indebtedness there
by secured having 4v?!y , come -. bj
transfers to. the undersigned p. F p,
Albritton, nd,, dault ; having been
made in the payment of the indebt
edness by the said mortgage secured,
the undersigned will on the 25th day
of September, 1916L lat about 12
o'clock M offer or sale to the high
est bidder for cash at tho Courthouse
door in Kinston, N. . C, the follow
ing described tract of land, which is
that described in tho said mortgage,
and is more particularly described
as follows:
Situated in the aforesaid State
and county, and in Vance township,
adjoining the lands of Mrs. L. L.
Parrot and others and bounded as
follows: .
Beginning at a stake on the West
edge of the Kinston and Snow Hill
Public Road pear a -tenant house on
J. Hymen Mewborne'a land and runs
N, 43 -E. with Mrs. L, L. Parrott'a
and W,! O. 11086168 lines 1710 feet
to a etake; thence N. 21 degrees and
38 minutes West 1893 1-2 feet to a
stake; thence N. 59 degrees and 52
minutes West 1515 feet to a stake!
thence N. 401-4 West 1633 1-2 feet
to a stake; thenco S. 79 West 723
feet to a stake in tho East edge of
said road; thence with said road S.
21-4 E 8C8. jeetf thence" S. 8Si-2
East 7C9 feet; tliencs S. 321-4 E.
1293 feet; thence S, 301-2 E. 1557
feet; thence S. 27 E. 800 feet; thence
S. 231-2 E. m-feet to tho be
ginning. J7(J and 72-1000 acres, more
or less, excepting, however, from tho
foregoing description about 80 acrof
heretofore conveyed by R. A, Woot
en to his wife, Emma Wooten, which
is situated on the South side of the
above' described tract of land, and
lying on the South sids of the lead
ditch through the Bright new ground.
This 23rd day of August, 1918.
B. F. D. Albritton,
Assignes of Mortgagee.
' . v fBv the United Press! '
. Montreal, Canada, Sept.; ll.-r-The central span of th,e
Quebec bridge, which has been under construction many
years, and which was to link the Canadian transcontin
ental railways from Halifax and 'Vancouver, fell today aj.
it was being, placed in position. ; " ' , . ' -Many
workmen were killed. The number is uncertain.
The span,, weighing five thousand tons," was towed .to
the bridge site this morning. The placing of the span hajil
been heraldejd as one of the greatest engineering feats in
the histooy of the world. - A commission of experts from
the United $tates, Great Britain and Germany worked
out the plaits." ' - ' r - ' r'
This was, the second catastrophe to the bridge. " Sev
enty lives were lost in 1907 when a section collapsed. Fol
lowing the accident, the Canadian government called in
world experts to complete the structure. The bridge wts
to be used by tight railroads, and shortened -transcontinental
trips by two hundred miles.
v It is estimated that ninety men were on the bridge at
the time the soan collapsed. Arrangements have been
made to send divers down into the St . Lawrence, to deter
mine if it is possible to raise the steel span and whether
traffic will be blocked. The death list is estimated at 25.
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