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NEW BERN SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL NEW BEHftvHORTH CAROLINA JULY 27 1915 AHOY! (MS MAM SEARCHING IN VAIN FOR A SUBMARINE POOR WIDOW GETS TITLE TO GRODNO WORTH $250,000 German Craft Visible from Newspaper Office, Nat ives Never Seen it Bangor, Me.. July 34. Those Gor man submarines that haw been sight-f ed from a New York newspaper oM flee cruuing about Ptnobteot Bayi off Castine and close inshore are not visible from the old town itself, which circumstance rather puzzles the na tives and must be added to the list of things that never happened. On Sat urday of hut week, when the alarm first spread, earnest investigators who expected to find the ancient town of Castine in an uproar over the daring invasion of the bay by von Tirpitz's torpedo sharks were astonished and mueh disappointed to find that no one there had even heard of any subma rines being about no one but a negro servant girl at a small hotel, who couldn't remember where she had heard the story. First of all, it was stated from New York that Prof. Von Mach, who has a summer home at West Brooksville, opposite Castine, probably knew some thing about the invading commerce destroyers, but the professor .is a harmless and gentle old fellow who is more interested in digging up Indian relies than he is in naval affaire, and he was astonished and grieved to learn that even a peaceful antiquar ian should not be free from suspicion He and Prof. Moorehead of Andover Academy have been carrying oh these efccaVatldhs for years around Penob- leot Say and RivQr, and they have unearthed enough stone spears and arrowheads to sink a battleship. Next came the story that a Mrs Helen Wallace, a wealthy New York woman, who had arrived In Castine on Saturday in her yaeht, had act ually sighted not one submanbe, but several, during her trip up the bay, and that they were German boats. Just how she knew .the nationality of the boats is not stated, nor even how she knew they were submarines at all, but it was worth investigating, and so reporters chased all over Cas tine from the upper landing to Dyce's Head looking for the wealthy Mrs. Helen Wallace and her yacht, It was found that there were no yachtsjn thejiaibor, that none had ftiTiwdVott Saturday no? on any other day recently, that Mrs. Wallace came in the regular steamer w:th her hus band, and that neither she nor he had seen anything at ail resembling a submarine, and that the whole yarn was news to them Finally ; it was found that a servant girl named Wallace had heard some one say that some 'one eise had xaid that there waas a story in some ne ws paper to the bffct that "the old Ger man over at Brooksville (meaning Prof; Von Mach),was hot (here to dig up Indian arrows, but to maintain a supply station for German submarin es,'' and that the Government was after hjm. That was all there was to it, and the excitement which -hadn't created even a Hpple at Castine, the story noW being known in the principal summer houses and the hotels, subsided in the kitchen of the Dome of the Rock, where it started. The idea of a German submarine base on the coast of Maine excites the ridioule and -sarcasm of the na tives, In the first place, Castine is at the head of Penobscot Bay, two or three hundred miles from the Atlan tic steamer lines. In the second place, there isn't a spot in that nigh borhood fit for such a purpose, and even if there were ample facilities it would be impossible to maintain any , thing like secrecy, every foot of the coast, on mainland and islands, being occupied either by settlers or at this time of year by cottagers. It is declared .that since the sum mer visitors began to- swarm in there "Squatter" on it Till Steel Trust Created City RECREANT HUBBIES RICHMOND HAS WON'T BE BOTHERED ANOTHER MYSTERY Richmond Don't Intend to Young Woman Dies Under Waste Time and Money on Them Unusual Circum stances Chicago, July 24. Squatter's sov ereignty in Lake County. Ind., ha been upheld by the highest courts in a decision which gives a poor woman title to 143 acres of land adjoining the growing city op uary, ina. Mrs. Drusilla Carr, sixty, is the woman. The value of the tract is estimated at $250,000. It has been in litigation ever since the city of Gary was built by the United States Steel Company twelve years ago. Before that period the land had no value. It is largely made up of sand dunes lying along the shore of Lake Michigan, near the mouth of the Little Calumet River. Forty years ago Mrs. Carr, then a widow with two sons, settled on it and mad, her living by fishing and giving fish dinners. No one disturbed her during the many years she occu pied the land previous to the advent of the steel company and the creation of the city of Gary. Then a number of claimants appeared. One of these was Mrs. Jessie Phil- bin, wife of Justice Eugene A. Philbin of the New 'York State Supreme Court. Another was Mrs. Nettie Tyler of Washington, a descendant of President Tyler. Other Eastern peo ple also made claims. They wanted title through one William Holiday, whb was said to have purchased the land from an Indian trader named Entwine for $12. This was in 1836. Mrs. Rose Hitt, Asa Hilt, W. W. Hall, and Mrs. Mary B. Mathews claimed title as heirs of the late Congressman Hitt of Illinois, whb, it was alleged obtained the land through a deed from the Government. . Attempts to oust Mrs. Carr and her two sons failed. Then she brought suit for absolute title. The Country Court of Lake County in Laporte gave a verdict in favor of Mrs. Carr. The case was appealed to the Appellate Court at Indianapolis. After a long series of delays that court found for the fisherwomah. The only further possible litigation is through intervention by the Fed eral courts. Mrs. Carr1 lawyers say there are no grounds for. such an ac tion, The city of Gary wana the tract for park purpose!;. It wail said that the Steel Company would buy when title was perfected. The company's improvements have been, constructed to a point within a short distance of the tract' Ah 'amusement syndicate that has b'eeh trying tb obtain pos session met with failure. There arc no improvements On the land unless the small shack at the mouth of the L tile Culumei, where tie poisislent widow spread her lish nets, ban be called an improvement. Mrs. Carr also claims title to an other tract near Gary and has brought suit against ot her clajmat s. The value of this tract is put at $50,000 "The best part of my life is yet to come," said Mrs, Carr. "I have not been well, owing to the strain of this suit, but I am going to get well now I have always wanted to own an au tomobile, and if I can get one now I will be happy, I do not care for ex pensive clothes or jewels, but I would like to own a model farm. Myself and my two boys have worked hard all our lives and I would like to see them independent. Many real es tate men have called on me to get long-time options on the most valu able parts of the land, but I would not give any options. I don't want to get mixed up in any mare suits. ' , "I had a hard time to keep others off this land, and many a night I have sat up with a shot gun in my hands. A man named Bingham was Richmond. Va., July 24. It will' Richmond, Ve- July 24 The be a cold day in August before 111 body of Lily Myer Bos at the Vir let the State's money be spent in finis. Hospital awaiting the result bringing back wife deserters from of a autopsy, whist will be held other States," said Police Justice by Coroner Taylor tail morning. Miss Cruet hfield today. Myer went to the Virginia Hospital The One loan was referring to the . Thursday for trtstsadnt. The physi nf man now in a Northern at that place did what the t , . a .a . .... citv whose wife is anxious to Mt the uid, but about I JU o clock last State to bring him back to Rich mond. Under the new law a wife deserter may be brought back from other States provided the wife or other pri vate parties is willing to stand for the expense, and in extraordinary cases the State may put up the coin itself. k In the case at issue, which was laid before Justice Crutchfield, the woman "declared that she was not able to stand any of the expense. It was said to be the first case upon which Justice Crutchfield was called for a ruling since the new law went into effect. The One John, who is determined to save the State just as muoh money as possible, made it clear that he did not intend to apply his ruling to ab solutely every case- brought to his at tention. In some instances, he said, he would probably agree to let the Commonwealth- pay the cost. ' - But he epected those instances to be rare. The new status gives the judge the option of either putting the wife TO OUR OUT OF TCW1 CUSTOMERS -Weolonfer have ft fagular man on the road soliciting job work and collecting subscription. So don't hold your work gr money Ant Us, but send same in at once and we will give yor or ders prompt attentidn and mail you receipt for any money received. All Subscribers whose subscription is due are requested to .send us check or money order at once- I E. J. Land Printing Co. PUBLISHERS THE JOURNAL Phone 8 45 Pollock St. New Bern, N. G. coast, from Kittcry to Quoddy Head, where a bather in nature's own garb would be safe from observing eyes. Then, again, it is as muoh as the old native pilots can do to navigate the .waters of Penobscot Bay without bumping some of the million rooks or grounding on some of the shoals or flats, and a foreigner, especially in thick weather, would be almost certain to come to grief. A submarine would stand about as muoh ohanoe among the rooks and shoals of the Maine coast as a blind man in a saw mill. It is suggested in shipping circles that sonru one more used to green fields than blue seas may have seen a can buoy or , dere lict beer keg and taken it for the periscope of a German raider. has not been a plane on the entire here before me, but it is nearly forty Secretary Daniels of the United States Navy believes that the latest note to Germany will have the de sired afreet, that the Kaiser will at last see that Uncle Sam means busi ness and will oeaae warfare on ships bearing American oitisens. Secre tary Daniels' opinion is held by many and when the answer comes back, it is very probable that the concess ions, if sueh they may be termed, made by the Germans, will be entirely years since he left. He had been here only a short time. I had the property surveyed and have paid, taxes on it since they bogan to assess me. Lake Michigan onoe covered this land, and that not so long ago, either. No one ever came here to look at the land or put in a claim Of title until Gary was started. Then there arose a hundred claimants. The original owners were the Pbttawattomie Indians. They had it seventy-five years ago." night she expired. Coroner Taylor was called at onoe. He notified polioe headquarters, and Detectives Kellam um Wiley were de tailed to look into the matter. They are still working on the case. Late last night nothing had been discovered which might lead to the arrest of any one. Coroner Taylor will begin inquest today. He said last night he could give no informa tion until he had held an autopsy, and had inquired further into the case. The detectives are now busy looking into every phase of the affair. TWENTY THREE HUNDRED MEN ' W(MN AND CHILDREN DID J. H. Wadsley, wkh, has for several days been in charge of the fountain at Bradham's Broad street drug store, left last night fqr Winston-Salem where he will spend a few days before going out on the roaid for the Pepsi- Cola Company. deserter and non-supports on proba tion for the first offense or sending them to the roads. Under the old law probation was compulsory in ease of the first offense. 1 The Struggle oi the Giants The Journal's suggestion that the Board of Aldermen at their next meeting appoint a milk and meat inspector for this city, seems to have met with pretty general approval and several prominent citizens yes terday 'expressed to us an opinion that such should be done. The sal ary of such a man would not be large tJbi the benefits to be derived would be a hundred fold. At present it is passible to sell contaminated meats fend milk in New Bern without be ing detected and consequently the Hfe of every citizen is in danger. With an inspector who would at tend to his duties, this danger could be greatly decreased if not entirely avoided. It is indeed a matte for ( onsideratloh and action. (By C. C. Anderson) It has beet! Said that Russia and Polland are Overflowing with Jews. Laws are enacted by which a Jew must follow the trade of his father. He must not move from his village with out official consent. He is not at liberty to go Where he will. Officers of the law forever keep track of him It is remarkable that, with all these, restrictions on his daily life he does not migrate. But he does not. There is some strong-attraction that holds him to his habitat. How did he come to be in Russia and Poland in such numbers? A few years ago, a lynching took place in the oity of Kief, in Russia. Jews were lynched numbers of them. Why? The report went out that the Jews had sacrificed a Gentile boy aooording to a secret religious cus tom of these people. All history proves that if the Jewish religion taught anything', it taught the utter abomination of pagan rites and sac rifices. Moloch was a god, to whom human sacrifice was offered by the surrounding heathens of Palestine. God warned the chosen people against it. He thundered against it and de manded the most terrible punish ments against it, and yet those very people were lynched for that par ticular offense. So great was Rus sian indignation at the supposed crime that the Russian Government, in mercy to the Jews, drove them ou t of the country in thousands. In spite of the gift of thousands of sq uare miles of territory by the British Government in South Africa, in spite of free homes in the land of pr omise, they came to the United States en masse and swarm in our oities, in quarters called the Lazaretto. The Russian and Polish Jews are poor beyond our dreams. The Ger man Jew, not to numerous, seems to prosper here and in Germany. Why? The Jew never begs. Ms is not a burden on the rarely a criminal, nor is common among his women. With half a showing be will make his liv ing and become a useful citizen of his oommuaiiy. A few are generous in giving to the public good liberal to the needy iti gifts of charity, broad- minded in judgment and sharp as the devil himself in trade. The Jew is not stingy. He is a good liver when financially able to be. He Is quick to extend a helping hand when some poor fellow is strug gling to get on his financial feet The Jew does not confine his good works to Jews. He it equally as free in his kindness to Gentiles. The Jew is grateful. Help him in mis fortune and he will remember you or yours in like circumstances. Where he setttos down the com munity prospers. Why? The best sign of investment for profit in oities or towns is the Jew sign. Look for the name of Abraham, Isaac or Ja cob. If found be content. Invest your money. There will be dividends The Jew knows the good places. His ancestor, Jacob, knew before him and handed his wisdom through centur ies to his descendents. The Jew has no country no home He never says "our country our flag." If caught as a soldier in war where he resides he does not shrink from the ordeal. v He will not grumble. He will not sulk. He will fight and fight bravely. He seems to have every quality for citizenship but seems to claim no country as his own. He is a wanderer. Ever has been and ever, will be. Why? The Jew was detested by the Egyp tians, by the Greeks, by the Baby lonians, Syrians and Persians and by the Romans. Tacitus tells this gives us the reason. He wrote about the time of Christ. He says the Jews were driven from Egypt and not permitted but made to go. What a wonderful people. Does the reader know what is the Septuagentf Whatever it is, the Jews gave it to us translated it for us and we have our Old Testament today. The world is richer by it. We know the past, because Jewish literature tells us. His religious cult is the foundation upon which Christianity is built. A Jewish millionaire is a different affair from a Rockefeller, a Carne gie and a J. P. Morgan. The world benefits by his millions. Excursion Steamer Capsizes at Chicago With Fatal Results- Passengers Caught Like Rats in a Iran. Vessel Was Overload ed. Work of Recov ering Bodies in Pro gress All Night. Chicago. III., July 24 It te estimated that two thousand and three hundred men, women a nd children met death when the steamer Eastland sunk here to day. The estimate of the loss of life was made by the Coroner and nhysidan Joseph Stringer and was based on the fact that six teen hundred bodies have already been recovered. Scores, if not hundreds of the victims are known to be still in the overturned hulk or pinned beneath the vessel in the river. Many other bodies have drifted down stream and may not be re covered for several days. In some instance whole families were wiped out by the disaster and the work of identification will be slow. Thousands of spe-c tators are watching the work and the police are forced to clear a passage way for endless funeral procession. Two hundred or more 'bodies e believed to be wedded in between the mud and the vessel on the dock side. All night long the work of recovering the bo dies will do on. Late this after noon posts were erected on the hull of the boat and hlgh power electric wires were strunk to the ship and tonight the water for hundreds of feet around is Ilium Inated with a bright glare and the work is going on without in terruption. . The Eastland was loaded with a crowd estimated at 3,700 which was 1,200 more thaw her capacity. Chicago, July 24. The steamer Eastland, of the Michigan Transpor tation Line, with 2,900 passengers on board, suddenly listed as she was lea ving the. BaSflft 'Htl '1" eral huadred-wwro thrown, in the"rivT WHEN STEAMER TURN ) OVER Itak, her husband, was pulled out o ' taMf sp a nimn ,ber LNliLlj Artftj JS URCL ON ALL 11VJ EMHt Want Government to De calre It a Contraband of War "1 could not believe the boat was turning over, V an tax said. About dozen of the 150 persons on the upper deck jumped. The rest were thrown into the riv r. I did not see my wife and child ren after tne boat turned. Tney were carried into the river with the crowd. Someone grabbed me around the neck and kept pulling me. It a woman but I could not save her." Policeman Henry Sesher, one of the first to go the rescue, said: "I saw scores of men and women, many holding children, plunge into ' Plan to Cut Out All Ship- the water. 1 jumped into a rowboat ments of the Staple and pulled out to the the drowning. I A.n Tiifn think I got about fifty ashore. "The fire boat and tugs hurried to 1 the scene and picked up more than a I hundred people." The Eastland was filled to capa city and hundreds were turned to other boats, according to S. Q. Hall, AGAINST GERMANY London, July 24. The Times and the Daily Mail again today urge the government to declare cotton contraband and to undertake the purchase scheme outlined by the one of the excursionists. He esti- limes yesteraay. lnis plan oontem- mated that seven thousand tickets Plates purchase by the government had been distributed to the Western i from tne southern ootton exchanges Electric emDlovees and that more 1 01 ne amount 01 cotton tnatc normally than 3,500 were crowded on the Eeast-land. SAVES ALL COIN THAT HE FINDS would have gone to Germany and Austria-Hungary, and stoppage of cotton exports to Holland, Den mark, Norway, Sweden and Swit zerland, at the same time declaring cotton absolute contraband. The Daily Graphic also complains of the inaction of the government on this question and says the matter' is becoming a grave danger, as unless Well Known Citizen Never something is done before the'ne"w Disposes of Money - Picked Up Freeman S. Ernul, one of New Bern's most estimable citizens, is probably the only man in North cotton crop is available, Germany will be able to get all the ootton she requires: The Daily Mail in an editorial says. "It will be a gross public scandal Carolina that has saved every cent 11 tms malwr 18 no1 aea" n3T that he has found during the three fore parliament rises to Save oursol- score and more years of his life. It diers. is traditionary with Mr. Ernul's The Times in an editorial dealing family to save all the money that with the position of the United they find. Years and years ago his States, generally refers to President fiTeat-erandfather started the Dlan Wilson's third note to Germany and and it has come on down through the I declares that "it seems likely that generations. "My grand father tried j Wilhelm Strasse will again take out the plan and when he died they I refuge in the evasive and dilatory tao found money was divided up among I tics hitherto employed there." we children. There were seven of I The newspaper adds that these is Us and my share was about forty-1 a limit to the successful employment five cents." "Well, how much have of such maneuvers and declares you saved?" Mr. Ernul was asked. I "Germany is presuming on Amerioan I don't exactly know, but so far I patience and pacifism as she presum- the amount is not large." Mr. Er- ed upon British patience and paci- nul keeps this cash carefully laid (ism last year." away and when he gives up the fight Thf) editorial protests against in this, vale , tf,, tears an,4 answered Wasjhington's., iumatkn fto Great h&CW the hoarded .treasure wilf 37513. 75 ay on the Slanting flCeks. . ff 1AiviA.A onA tAnt; ... i:PJ, hv t.lil.:... .- uv71 "-vi.-Ii. , r r. j I lernauonai law as miuerw wuhwio- er stay Officials and the harbor master's office estimated that perhaps 2000 of the passengers were drowned. The steamer was bound for Michigan City on a Saturday excursion. Scores of people were saved by rescue boats and rushed- to a hospital. Another Report Chicago, July 24. Two thousand and fifty are known to. have been drowned, and three hundred or more are believed dead or imprisoned in staterooms on the steamer Eastland, which sank in the Chicago river to day. The estimato is by Deputy Police Superintendent Schuettlor, who personally oounted the bodies The cries of imprisoned passengers can plainly be heard ashore above the noise of the drills being used to cut away the sides of the ship. Many victims are women and children. All available pulmotors have been rushed to the scene. The river was covered with floating bodies. Private automo biles aided the police patrols in car rying the dead and the unconscious to the hospitals. Big stores loaned de livery wagons. The excursion was for the annual picnic of employes ofthe Western Electric Company. Passengers said women carrying babies were beaten down and trampled by men in the wild rush over the decks. Many wo men's clothes were torn off. Several causes for the sinking are . . ., i ' ..i given, uaptain Jfeaorson saia a oro- ken air chute let in water." Passen gers said it was caused by the sys tem of water ballast used. Captain 3. . Talbirt, .who has been in charge of the local branch of the Salvation Army for several years, has-been transferred to High Point, N. C, and he with his family will leave Tuesday to take charge of the new field. Captain Talbirt will bo succeeded by Captain L. V. Egmond, of Durham, N. C, who is expected to arrive in the city during the next few days. Since he ha been in New Bern, Captain Talbirt has done a great work among the poor of the city and he has made a host of friends in all circles who wish him success in his new charge. who remain here. TO INSPECT MILITIA North Carolina Sailor-Soldiers To Be Looked Over ed. This stand the paper regards as manifestly exoessive, and hot in ac cordance with the example set by the American government and Amer ican courts during the Amerioan civil war. The Times concludes by. ex- Dressing hope that when the British co vernment decides on this point the Washington, u. July .54. an- United States will give whatever ac- sign F. G. Blasdel, U. S. N., who is at-1 twn jg taken sympathetic and friend- tached to the Division of Naval mi- iv consideration. I'tio .iff-iirc in fh Wlivv T"!eTn.rtmont. I ..hi nr.. i .... i..i.. 07 I in anoiner arucie. uwuu wira will leave vv miuiikwu on j uiv i on a .... . v - , 1 .n.r, f xwth rv, the dissatisfaction in Lancashire olina naval militia and to assist the through the action of the govern- Ktt ,thnrit.iM in the installation of ent Pcin restrictions OU shlp- a comprehensive and a proper system mnt V8 to neutEftl 0 r tfco mf.Anntiio. and are nf Fed. W16S, me limes vB. eral property loaned to the State of North Carolina for the use of the naval militia. Ensign Blasdel will first confer with "Rightly or wrongly, the govern ment believes cloth suitable for air craft has been getting through to Germany, and undoubtedly a deter- the Adjutant General at Raleigh and W effort. 18 bein made ' to will Ulor wn.nv the Arfiiitant. ") enirjr ui -uj General on an inspection of the naval P1 to as8ist the enemy militia at New Bern, Washington, Belhaven, Hertford and Elizabeth City. Chief Yeoman Eley, U. S. N., will accompany Ensign Blasdel on the trip, and will . be assigned for duty with the naval militia of North Caro lina temporary under the supervision of the inpeetor-smtructor, Lieut. A. H . Conner, IL.a. N. THE SITUATION AT BAYONNE IS TENSE Miss Ethel Dawson, of Alliance, passed through the eity yesterday enroute homo from Greenville, N. C. where she has been attending a HMhets' summer school. Survivor Talks Mrs. Paul no Vantank, mother of three childrenn, was among the CAN'T SELL "WINE Bayonne, July 24. The situation of the Standard Oil strike is breaking point. Sheriff Ki ied by the night's work, day that he ist the limit resources, unless Governor tense to the of his re- Fielder sends troops. The strikers are short Cramh, e tion. Mrs. J. Sergeant well-known social worker, ,aM Amos Pinchot today saio nai aiier. as in vestigation their sympathy is wholly with the strikers. I ' The citizens of Craven county won't countenance the violation of L food and UMole to b tne law oy nav.ng wine soiam is. i ddg county ana wnen w . n. uewis, wno lives near Bridge ton, was placed on trial before Squire S. R. Street yes terday afternoon charged with re tailing the juice of the grape, he en tered a plea of not guilty. Probable cause was found in the case and he was sent over to Superior Court 1 Th undome motor boat. Neuse under a bond of fifty dollars. Lewis I -v constructed at Morehead emphatically denied that he had ou- tor th(. UM the United 8tats sold at any time a quantity less than enKiner at this place, will be brought two ana a nau gallons oi wine ana t0 New Bern this weak and Will ts that the liquid that he did sell wasjthe future j, located f this port his own produot. The evidence, thtt nsa of U. . Enjtaesjr however, was so strong that Squire H T Peterson and other govern- Ntreet had no alternative but to I ., ..ffinaars. The encitaeeriag hold the defendant. e .... 1 ,i., mBt have lons been in need of a oraft of this variety and it will -.-i j i ftll a lone felt want. Tit- three ehlldrenn. was among the The expert, who claimed drowned. Her children wereW' Thaw was a bad nut found that he -jj tarth ed to have boon lost. Henry Vaa cracked after all.
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