North Carolina Newspapers

5 rfiiBi , No, 148 NEW BERN. N. C, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14 1913 FIRSTSECTION 35th YEAR mtn STEPPED IN FRONT OP GUN-CORONER CALLED IN Pamlico County Negro Killed Late Yesterday After noon. Had Been Squirrel Hunting With A Com panion. May Not Have Been Accidental A long distance telephone message received last night by the Journal from its correspondent at Kershaw, Pamlico county, told of an accident which occurred there late yesterday afternoon in which Perkins Hicks, colored, the sixteen year old son of Anthony Hicks, was instantly killed. Hicks was killed when a load of shot from a gun in the hands of Ernest Wilson, also colored, was discharged Hicks and Wilson had been out squirrel hunting and were returning home when the accident occurred. In some unexplained way Hicks got in front of the weapon just as it was discharged and the entire load of shot entered his head. Whether the killing was accidental is not definitely known. Hicks and Wilson had not been the best of friends during the past few weeks and there are many who think that the gun was not accidentally fired. However, Wilson has not been placed under arrest late last night and it is probable that no action will be taken until the coroner makes an investigation of the case. CHICAGO WOMAN LURED TO DEATH BY NEGRO Art Students Watch, Pawned By Murder Is Found ,f. By the Police-Alleged Slayer Denies Knowledge Of Affair Chicago, Oct. 9. That a negro who made it a practice to lure young women to death or attack through advertise ments he or they inserted in newspapers offering or seeking positions, murdered Miss Ida G. Leegson, art student, teacher and former student at the Uni versity of Chicago, became a certainty today when the watch of the dead woman was found in Nierman's pawn shop, Twentieth and State streets. It has been pawned by a copper colored nc.;ro on Sunday, the day the teacher's almost nude bddy was found in a lonely up-it on the western city limits. The case is almost identical with that of. Mrs. Emma M. Robinson, a trained nurse who answered an advertisement offering a position as nurse and was told over the phone to come to No. 3128 Michigan avenue. When she reached the 'ouse the door was opened by a negro a ill as she entered she was seized and tortured. Miss Leegson advertised for a position as nurse andwas lured over the tele phone to an address not existing. Two men whose names the police have not made public saw Miss Leegson walking with a negro near where the body was found. It is supposed he told her he had been sent to escort her to the ad dress where she intended to nurse a maternity case. J. H. Oliver, a negro janitor, who was arrested in connection with the Robin son case was arrested tonight but he said he is not the man who pawned Miss Leegson's jewelry. "I am sure the woman was Miss Leeg son," one man said. "I thought it was strange to see the white woman with the negro, so I noticed her particularly, When I read of this murder and saw the pictures of the woman I knew that she was the one whom I saw." CHEAPER WATER AND ELECTRICITY Substantial Reduction Given Consumers Of City Wa ter And Current. ALL METERS FURNISHED FREE SUPPOSEDLY WORTHLESS STOCK IS VERY VALUABLB New Bern Citizens Agreeably Surprised To Learn Tha Wireless Telegraph Stock Is Worth One Hundred Cents On the Dollar Large Quantity Sold Here Board Of Aldermen Transacted Many Important Matters Last Night. The Board of Aldermen held a re cess meeting last night for the purpose of concluding the business which had been held over from the regular meeting held last Tuesday night. There were many important matters brought before the Board and the session was quite a length one. One of the most important matters brought before the Board was that of the reduction in the cost of water and elec tricity furnished by the city. The cost Lof water and lights has been put on a -V- XiWRninV hasli and in the furtue will cost consumers considerably less than in the past. Bills will be rendered at the first of each month and if these are paid by the tenth of the month a discount of ten! per cent, will be allowed. If not paid by the fifteenth the service will be cut off and a charge will be made for cutting it on again. All meters will be furnished rJatrons free of cost. O. J. Rock, of Bridgeton, appeared before the Board and asked that the tax on his automobile, which he uses as a public conveyance be reduced. Mr, Rock stated that since the Ncusc river bridge was washed away he has had but few calls for his machine and that he thinks the tax is too large. Alderman Blades stated that he thought that if the tax on public auto mobiles was reduced that there would be a number of them placed in commis sion on the streets of the city. The matter was finally referred to the li cense committee. Upon motion of Alderman Ellis vote of thanks was extended Con gressman Jno. M. Faison for the inter est he has taken in securing an appro priation for the Improvement of the National cemetery road. CUiiens here wjll remember with a J With al the ,egal entan(ements and tuxcy in n n ' i im i, anu some wun a remembrance of a vivid variety, of the sale ' in' 'New Bern some years ago of several hundred shares of stock in the United Wireless Tele graph Co., and the subsequent discom fiture of the purchasers over the bankruptcy of the company, at which time it was thought that the money had been sunk in a bottomless hole. Yesterday local stockholders were treated to pleasant litt e thrills eman ating from the information carried in the circular letter from the directors of the Wireless Liquidating Co., of New . York, the purchasers of the de funct company, which stated that ar rangements had been made with the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Co., of America, by which the latter should absorb the former, if two-thirds of the dearth of dividends from the concern the stockholders far removed from the metropolis quite naturally concluded that they had been, intentionally or otherwise "stung" by the promoters of the corporation. It would appear, however, that the directors, in spite of the difficulties, have been pegging away for several years trying to make the company re turn the money invested, at least, if not dividends. The Marconi Interests were enlist ed, and the prospective outcome is bright for the stockholders. The pro position is that the Marconi company buy the Liquidating Company, paying with stock of the former. This stock as is well known, is not only good, but has brilliant prospects. The men employed on the city's street cleaning force presented a peti tion asking that they be allowed to work full time. That they were not making enough to live on at present , effect of foul air. In 1905 the rpremt. were tlft .lSX 70 stockholders are willing. The eager- , ,0O ,k . 1ft0 oil in In 1912 there were 227,944 messages in' ta with which the local holders are affixing their John Hancocks to the necessary documents and shooting them back to New York would argue that they are willing excessively so. The United Company the original bankrupt,! an(' tbe Wireless Li quidating Co., formed for the purpose, took over the assets of the former. of 3,863,098 words, 450 American ships, practically all, are equipped with Marconi wireless apparatus, and there are about 50 stations on the Atlantic and Pacific codbts. Therefore, the stockholders feel bet ter now than they did the day before yesterday. LULLING A NEW NORTH CARO LINA. In an arricle in the Progressive Farmer, entitled, "The Men Who Are Building A New North Carolina," Clarence " Poe sounds, to all who are interested in the upbuilding of the State. A new State is in the making, Mr. Poe says and urges all to enlist in the good work. There is something of a thrill in the following: "We are on the job of building a new North Carolina, men and breth ren by "we' I mean all the folks who arc working for better farming, rurul co-upcration, belter schools, bet ter roads, worthier cities, a better ad justment of race relations, new ideals of focial service, and for giving a more practical turn to education and re ?g, n. The North Carolina of twenty - rs hence must be, a different State yt'am the North Carolina of today. roIn fact the men who are helping rward the great tasks I have just ounted, may well regard themselves mpire builders at least as men may be empire builders if they but the vision and the will. North Carolina in yet but a State t making, a pioneer (oir.mon " a State larger In irea, be it tmbcred, than England or Scotland reecty and which may well :. hlevc he providence of God, a civilisation r.th, varied and historic ac tl.elrs. ( oing on Mr. Po recites at length he many things that are being done tward making this a better State and among them he mentions the fact tnat craven county was the hrst to establish a farm life school. We have always believed that hte way to keep the boys on the farm is to educate them there. The city possesses a sort of lure to the average country boy and when he must be sent to the cities to get his education the chances are that he never comes back. The farm is too slow for him. The remey is to educate him on the farm and that is what Craven county is trying to do THE KENTUCKY RACES. Ross B. Defeats Anvil in Free-for-All Good Races. Lexington, Ky., Oct. II. The Oc tober prise for free-for-all trotters to day proved a surprise when Ross B owned by J. H. Richford, defeated Anvil, the heavy favorite, winning the second aid third heats after losing tne hrst to the favorite. The. 2:12 pace, unfinished Thursday went six heats. Hydric, which had two heats to his credit yesterday, cap turefl tne sixth and decisive heat. Don Labor, driven by Mr. F. j mes, won me :m trot, amateurs driving, in straight heats, and the 2:20 pace, also a straight driving heat con tost, went to Great Scott. fj The championship stallion stake wa dered to get busy on this at once. Concrete floors will be placed on the lower floor and a section of the front will be made of plate glass. Numerous other improvements will be made and the entire appearance of the building will be changed. A bill of $20.50 presented by Caleb Bartlingand Robert Hawk for distri buting circulars for the City's Health Physician, was held up for further investigation. ' COLDS' HOW THEY CAUGHT. ARE 'Colds' are undoubtedly 'catch ing.' They may be taken from those afflicted with them, or we may even catch them from ourselves. Of course we can also get our mucous membranes congested by undue exposure in severe weather and have a 'cold' without 'catching' it from any one else or reinfecting ourselves. But probably most of our colds are caught from others or from germs that we are carrying about with us. ".We catch our colds from others bj" having them sneeze or cough near us without using a handkerchief, by using the same drinking cup or the same towel used by persons with colds, by kissing them and by being crowded with them in overheated or badly ventilated rooms. "We catch colds from ourselves by reinfection. Often germs arc carried in the mouth, nose, throat or tonsils when we arc not as careful as we should be to keep those localities clean. Then if we get below par from any cause, as from becoming over chilled, those germs get a foot hold and spread. 1 hat is one oi the reasons why it is so important always to keep the mouth teeth and throat well brushed and wash ed. "One of the most frequent causes of colds, other than infection from other persons, is the lowering of the temper ature of the bedroom during the night. Many persons are in the habit of re tiring in the winter in a room that has had a fire in it for many hours and is overheated and not sufficiently venti lated. In the night the fire goes out and the room becomes very much colder. Naturally, while the air was warm, soon after going to bed, the bedclothes were partially kicked down. Then the sleeper does not awake to pull them up until after he is thoroughly chilled, and the harm is done. Moreover, most people who are so incautious also neglect to open the windows on retiring, and to the undue change of temperature there is added the bad Ocean Liner Bums Many n-ivmntn jirt 5nKt. m.u Lives Lost The Steamship Volturno Burns In Mid .Ocean One Hundred and Thirty Six Passengers Are Missing The Wire less Brings T en Rescue Ships And Five Hundred and Twenty One Are Saved 9" nd that it was absolutely necessary that they get more money. This matter was referred to the Streets Committee. M. D. W. Stevenson appeared before the Board in regard to the sidewalk on lower Craven street. Mr. Stevenson stated that when the city was having the sidewalks of that section of the street paved with concerte that there was a board walk there and that this was not taken up. During the recent storm this walk was washed away and the sidewalk is now bare. He stated that if the city would furnish men to do this work he would furnish a part of the cement and the bricks. After consideration the Aldermen agreed to do this. The Railroad Committee which have in charge the petition of citizens living along Griffith and Queen streets asking that the Atlantic Coast Line Railway Company be forced to cease so much shifting along that street, reported that they had not been able to get up with the company's attorney and asked for further time. This was granted. Alderman Ellis presented a petition from the citizens living along South Front street, near the Southern Ex press Company's "liquor dispensary" asking that the Board pass an ordi nance prohibiting hack drivers from hauling whiskey around in their con . .. j veyances. An ordinance was orawn up to this effect and this will be publish ed for ten days. Any hackman violating this ordinance will have his license revoked. I Dr. E. G. Hargett, city veterinarian, made his report, which was accepted. Dr. Hargett recommended to the Board that the city have a slaughter house built out near the city limits and that all beef and cattle be salughtered there. No action was taken in this matter. Mayor Bangert, chairman of the Board, recommended that a police sub-station be erected in the Smith's hall section. He said that fully eighty per cent, of the crimes committed in the city took place in that section snd that a station was badly needed there. The Board thought favorably of this recommendation and ordered that the station be erected at once The City Tax Collector stated that there were three hundred dogs in the cltv and that the licenses had been paid on only about one hundred and fiftv of these. After consideration the Board employed J. D. McCoy for period of thirty days to serve warrants on the dog owners who have not ;ald taxes snd he will begin his wor!: this mornrhg. The charter of the city hn been so changed that it will be possible for the Aldernun to remodel the City Hall and the Building Committee was or "The best line of defense against colds is to avoid contagion from others as much as possible, and to keep up our own physical resistance. We should live and work in well-ventilated rooms, get out in the open sir as much as possible, sleep with all the bedroom windows open or, better still, out of doors if practicable, bathe rcuglarly and carefully, keeping up the cold spong bath, at least around the chest and shoulders, every morning, eat regularly and moderately, exercise daily in the open, in dulge in no undue ex posures, and n ot allow the body to cool too rapidl y when heated. Try this plan and enjoy a winter without colds, grip, pneumonia or patent medi cines. Its worth while." Health Bulletin. The legislature has passed a law making Sampson county subject to stock law, which seems to be against the will of the people of that county We think stock law is a good thing, but we think that the matter ought to be left to the people to decide for themselves. We agree with the Charlotte Obscr vcr that too much time is spent up at Raleigh in trying to manufacture political capital. It is unfortunate for the State that a senatorial race is to be pulled off next year. Too many are li ok:ne forward to that and arc spending thur lime jockeying for posi tion and at the same time losing sight of the best interests of the State. (By Cable to the Jourial.) Liverpool, Oc. 11. 'the. steam ship Yolturno, of the Uranum line, was . destroyed by fire yesterday in mid-ocean and one hunded and thirty-six of the passengers were lost. The Volturno was burned to the water's edge and sank in latitude 48.25, longitude 34.33 West, not far from the spot where the Titanic was lost in the spring of 1912. The Volturno sailed from Rotter dam for New York via Halifax on October 2. Thursday morning fire was discovered in the boiler room and it gained such rapid he away that at noon the first S. (). S. signal, the International marine call for help, was sent out. Ten, vessels, eight of them liners, and two freighters caught the call and turned In the direction of the Volturno, arriving on the scene a few hours after the call for assist ance had been sent out. The pas senger list of the stricken vessel numbered six hundred and fifty seven, of whom five hundred and forty were of the steerage. The rescuing ships arrived on the scene late Thursday, but because of the heavy seas were unable to reach the Volturno. Thousands of passengers were forced to remain on the ships and watch the passen gers on the burning vessel huddled aft, awaiting the slow progress of the flames. Of the one hundred and thirty- six passengers missing, the major ity lost their lives when the boats of the Volturno were overturned by being dashed against the sides of the vessel as they were being launched. The rescued were taken off Friday morning, after the other ships had vainly stood by during the night. The Carmania, of the Cunard Line was the hrst vessel on tne scene Captain Barr having driven his vessel a rate of twenty knots from the moment he received the distress call One the Carmania's boats was lowered nd made its way towards the Volturno ut was forced to put back. In an effort get a line aboard, Captain Barr forced the Carmania to within one hundred feet of the blazing craft. At dawn Friday morning the flames reached the boilers of the Volturno and they exploded with a concussion which almost broke the ship in two This explosion is believed to have blown several passengers from the deck of the vessel. For a few minutes the watchers feared the ship would sink immediately and their race with death would be lost Beyond settling a little deeper, however there was no change, and the Voltur no's passengers soon took heart again After the explosion all efforts to fight the fire were abandoned and the pas senders and crew crowded the deck to await the dawn . received here, the scene during the time that the doomed ship was burning was indeed a horrible one. Women were screaming and the prayers of hundreds rent the air. Many were overcome by the dense smoke and time and time again was it found' necessary for the passengers to breathe through damp ened cloths. The Volturno carried life boats and rafts to accommodate all, but to have launched a raft in the heavy sea would have meant destruction for those on board. While the disaster was not great as that of the loss of the Ti- nic, it has cast a gloom over this city where many of the crew whom were lost have families. SHOT AND KILLED NEGRO HIGH WAYMAN. Richmond, Va., Oct. 11. While re turning home with his wife late tonight from the State fair, Robert O. Bell, president of a book publishing com pany, shot and killed a negro highway man who held him up and demanded his money. The negro, who was later dentified as Otto Brown, grappled with Bell for a moment. With Brown's fingers in this throat, Bell managed draw his revolver and fired five times. to It's all over. The legislature has accepted the proposition of the rail roads and there's no use for further kicking. The port cities will have to put up with it and wait for time to vindicate them in their contentions We admire the way the Wilmington people have accepted the inevitable Instead of putting on a grouch they arc going right ahead boosting the city as if nothing had happened. KINSTON FIREMEN WILL TEND FAIR. AT- Kinston, Oct. 11. Teams from Cas well and East Klnston fire companies will practice on East Gordon street Monday afternoon at 4:30 in prepare for the firemen's tournament to be held in New Bern during the fair week. Whenever You Need a Oeneral Tonic Take Grove's The Old Standard Grove's Tasteless chill Tonic is equally valuable as General Tonic because it contains the well known tonic properties of QUININE snd IRON. It acts on the Liver. Drives out Malaria, Enriches the Blood and Bnilds up the Whole System. 90 ried to the courts, as it surely will be, and be humiliated by their decision? You ere penalizing motherhood. If you do not want to have married teachers, all right, bi:t d not, I beg of you, make law allow:' i: them to marry, but not to bear childre i." Abraham Stern, who submitted the resolution declaring .Irs. Peixotto dis charged, answered some of Dr. Wile's a gufnents. Max Strern said: "Dr. Wile spoke of allowing persons with meurasthenia and other i diseasejf."v,-j to have time off, but this is an entirely different proposition. To my mind the case is no different from that of a per son who would set sail on a steamer, knowing that the steamer would not return in time for the school session. "The question at issue is: Does the eacher do as efficient work and does the child get all the attention that is due it? The board is not against moth erhood. Our decision will not precipi tate any serious decrease in the popu lation, and even if it docs we must TEACHERS CANNOT BEAR CHILDREN New York's Female Instructors Who Are Married Are Up Against It. ONE WOMAN IS DISMISSED Education Board Claims Child ren Take Up Too Much Of Teacher's Time. WOMAN KILLED 81 TRAIN NEW HAVEN EXPRESS CRUSHES LIFE OUT OF ONE WOUNDS ANOTHER. In the cabins of the rescue ship prayers were offered for those in dangsi Before Thursday night ten ships had answered the call and were grouped around the burning vessel. To prevent any further disaster it was agreed by the captains over their wireless, that the Carmania's searchlight should be the only one in action and until Friday morning, the great arc was kept going while the thousands of passengers on the ships watched the battle betw sen man and the elements. At daybreak the storm had abated and life boats were once more launched, but it was hours before they could reach the Volturno so heavy was the sea. When one tiny craft finally succeeded in reaching the ship and get ting away with a load of women snd children, a great cheer arose from the watching thousands. It took several hours to transfer the five hundred and twenty-one who are saved. The Volturno was built in 1906. She was three hundred and forty feet long and forty-three feet wide, and a gross tonnage of two thousand five hundred and eighty one. The Carmania is due to reach Liverpool on October 12 and will be followed by the La Tourainc, another of the rescue ship of the French line. According to the wireless messages New York, Oct. 11. The board of education has finally decided teachers may marry and still retain their posi tions, but they must not bear children Any woman who stays away from school for that purpose is guilty of neglect of duty and subject to dismissal. So Mrs. Bridget C. Peixotto, in charge of public school No. 14, the Bronx, who absented herself from her classes February 3 last and remained absent until suspended, April 22, having given birth to a child on April 7, was dismissed yesterday by a vote of 27 to 5. The case of Mrs. Peixotto had been carried over for the past two meetings of the board, so when a motion was made to again defer action the motion was not even seconded. All attention was centered on Dr. Ira S. Wile, when he fired the opening gun in Mrs. Peix otto's defense. "We are about to discuss the case which has caused the finger of scorn throughout the whole country to be pointed at our State for the attitude It has taken regarding married women teachers bearing children," he said "Here we have a woman who has been a splendid teacher for 18 years, who in two or more years would be entitled to a pension, suspended because she re mained away to give birth to a child. What if her communication to the proper authorities was that she suffered from an affection of the ears and eyes? It is true she did not have those affections. Mrs. Peixotto has been accused of neglect of duty in remaining away dur ing the months of pregnancy, bufjykiak- of the numerous and protracted-absences of neurasthenic women or rhftiafc.ea validn which might bo urged eimiterly as the basis of dismissal. Last year' we allowed one woman a year ot to take an invalid father abroad. Another wo man had a five months' leave of ab sence to go west and nurse a sick other. "The fact that a teacher is a mother with her sympathy awakened, U far more aptto make her better able to un derstand her pupils. One of the largest and most select private schools in this city employs only married teachers, and give them leave of absence as may b required. Do you want this case car New York, Oct. 11 In sight of fully four hundred persons, many of them women, Miss Anna Beltz, of Southington, Conn., was struck and instantly killed at 6 o'clock last even ing by the Eastbound Hartford ex press of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railway as it passed the Co lumbus avenue station, Mount Vernon. Miss Anna Weckworth of Plantsville, Conn., a chum of Miss Beltz, was tossed twenty feet by the locomotive. She was cut on the head and Doay ana was hurried to the hospital: The young wo men had been attending the harvest home festival of the Wartberg Farm School, as had many of those who witnessed the tragedy. In a statement made last night to Coroner James Dunn of Yonkers, Miss Weckworth at the hospital said that she and her companion had been told to walk down the Westbound platform and cross to the other side of the tracks if they desired to take an Eastbound train. Instead of walking down the platform however, Miss Beltz, who had evi dently misunderstood the instruc tions, started to waix tne trestle over Columbus avenue. The structure car ries four tracks, two of which are used by express trains. Miss Weckworth told the Cornoer that she followed along, thinking that after all Miss Belts might be right. Passengers on the crowded platform saw Miss Weckworth look up suddenly and attempt to push her companion from the track. Next instant they realized her motive, for the express, tearing along at nearly sixty miles an hour, had ground one of the young women beneath its wheels and thrown the other diagonally over onto the local tracks. Several women fainted and others be came hysterical. In the excitement no one could give the station attaches an ntelligent idea of what had happened, and a second express came thundering along and passed over Miss Belts's body before it could be removed. Miss Belts was twenty-one years of age Miss Weckwroth is twenty. Coroner Duan at once began an investigation into the accident, and after he went to the hospital and took the statement of Mis Weckworth he also got the statements of several of those who had witnessed t'le accident. The Coroner said the accident was not the. feu of the engineer of the flyer, um ajper as he had been able to learn the railroad company was in no way responsible. He ordered the body of the dead young woman sent to her hone in Southington. With the administration adopting a three battleship policy it looks like our Josephas has put one over on Mr. Bryan. As to Uacle Joe's okanging his poli tic we think the old gent is getting oM enough to reform if he expects to reach the Promised Land. Judge to drink beer. Headline. Sack incidents, fortunately, asw fart. Geoette News. I The judge would prokflMr have written it, "unfortunately.