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ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS. Carried By The Evening Dispatch, Together With Extensive Special Correspondence. VOLUME TWENTY-ONE. WILMINGTON, NORTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1915. PRICE THREE CENTS. buJ8k MILLION ITiiniufliSi ' iQ t tj r & id j:a kt. mm" : - - 1 -v v n f FIRE For Second Time Plant of The News and Observer Consumed By Flames THIS TIME IS Big Printing House of Uzzell and Company Burned State Loses Many Valuable Papers In the Con- V ration Several Firemen and flag Buriness Manager of News and Observer Injured. Raleigh, X. C November 6. For the second time since Josephus Dan iels became Secretary of the Navy in the Wilson cabinet the plant of his newspaper, the Raleigh News and Ob server, was destroyed early today in a fire which swept half, a block, caus ing a property loss estimated . at a quarter of a million dollars. Tlie printing house of E. M. Uzzell Co.. State printers, is also a total loss. In thw-1'zzell plant was a ware house containing many copies of Su preme Court reports and North Caro lina laws, the property of the State of North ( i'rolina. According to a statement of the Secretary of State tiierc is none, of the State papers lost that cannot be duplicated. " ' The loss to the State in . papers, Htockand printing supplies is esti-, mated by Secretary of State J. Bryan Crimes at approximately $70000. About. :!! pur cent, is covered by in-: swrancf. The lire started in (he plant of Uz zell & Co. and shortly afterwards an rxplosion. which firemen attributed to j plant of lhe Raieigh Evening Times uhs. sent the flames into the adjoining j and the newspaper will be issued lo ,,ml(iinf; morrow as usual. Tlie editorial and mechanical forces j Secretary Daniels was notified by oi Tht News and Observer had left telephone of the fire and immediately i-iily a short time before the fire was ' left Washington to arrive here late h:( D rod. Some of tlie men had j this afternoon. just reached their homes. The store of tlie Wake Shoe Coni- I'nictically nothing was saved from pany, a retail concern, is a complete The News and Observer and Uzzeil loss, as is the Crystal Theatre, a mov plants. The News and Observer saved ing picture house. ouly ..copies of the mailing list, the J. L. O'Quinn & Co., florists, lose gall.; y pi-oof even being destroyed. -heavily in stock and fixtures. Ob regen Reaches Agua Prieta , to Take Charge of the j Campaign. j WILL WAGE RELENTLESS WARFARE, IT IS SAID Carranza Forces Will be Al lowed to Cross Over Ameri can Soil, But Must Come Without Equipment. Uouglas, Arizona, Nov. 6. General iviiro Obregoa, Carranza's principal I - ... I -''Uitary commander, reached Agua i'licta today, to inaugurate a cam- Jkuku to drive Villa out of Sonora. i 1 lie General came via Douglas from i-l Paso on board a special car, which carried across the border. Concentrating For Attack. Washington, Nov. 6. Carranza forces to the north and south of Villa's " treating army are concentrating for n blow which the de facto government h-adors believe will end the strife in Northern Mexico. Major General Funston reported to' (l;i.v that General Obregon, Carranza's ''net commander, would arrive at Douglas tomorrow to begin a formid able campaign. Carranza troopers. 1 '-a veiling unarmed, will be brought 'S RALEIGH LOSS COMPLETE r Two firemen were slightly injured and were removed to a hospital. W. H. Bagley, business manager of The News and Observer, was severely cut about the left arm and side, eing caught in a door of the editorial room while attempting to leave the build ing with books. The Uzzell company carried large contracts for State printing and one of the apartments of the building was used as a storeroom for State papers. Edward R. Brirtnn pdirnr nf Thp News and Obsehver, stated that the S loss to The News and Observer will probably exceed $100,000 and probahly half of this amount is. covered "by in surance. ' Mr. Britten stated that ho -had hopes that some' of th" earlier files of T.'he News and Observer in the basement of the building could bei recovered. The previous fire, nearly three years ago, was only a partial loss to Tho News and Observer. This one is complete. Only the front wa'l . i of the building is left standing. Temporary offices of The News and Observer are beinc nublished in the M VILLA NORTH JIKKO t flf ji it f 1 ! 4 f $ WILL DISSOLVE PARLIA- MENT. Athens, Greece, Nov. 6. fr Parliament will be dissolved by 4 King Constantine and the resig- nation of M, Zaimis will not take effect in the interim before the general election, is the opinion G .4 expressed in an authoritative , t , thQt A! 4 quarter here. all but two of the ministers of the Zainiis cabinet will retain their nnrtf olios in the new cabi- net. 4. over the American railway from Laredo to Douglas. They will be un- able to take the field for some days, .n ' 4. however, as they will arrive without equipment. Political Leader Weds. Albany, Mr Y. JNovemoer o.--ieu- erick U. Tanner, cnairman oi me publican State committee, will today ing of tne London streets has provid take as his bride Miss Jane Ogden, of ed a new occupation for tne small boy. Albany. The ceremony will take place iArmed wIth a small electric fiash in the State Street Presbyterian l D h take his DOsition soon af. church, this city. Miss Olive Whit-.ter j j i o .1, rim.nrTinr -will maii, u-iuguier ui me " be flower girl. Among the ushers isof u. a. senator james w. yyuBui . Many State officials will attend. Delicle.us Oyster Roasts now served At the Lumina Oyster r'l Kestnnrant.i AdYt. - WAR SECETARY TO NEAR EAST Kitchener Said to Have Depar t ed On An Important Mission. London, November 6. The Post says that Earl Kitchener, Secretary of War, has been entrusted with impor tant mission to the near east and has already departed from London.. In an official statement' issued in London yestriltyi Jeiual wag made of jthe report that "Field Marshal 'Kitchen, er naa retired and it was said that Premier AsxiiitM hifafe. id charge of the war office during the temporary ab sence of the field marshal. This was the first intimation that the war sec retary had departed from London." The policy of the British govern ment in respect to the Dardanelles and the Serbian campaign has been subjected to severe criticism in Eng- land and if the statement of The Post! is correct the war secretary has been J with serum more than 1,800 hogs be sent to the near east to determine J longing to George A. Holderness, Tar by personal inspection the proper pol- J boro banker and farmer arid former icy for Great Britain or to supervise some movement of importance al ready decided upon. GERMANS DEFEAT THE RUSSIANS While French Repulsed the Teutons According to Claims Today. Berlin, Nov. 6. (By wireless to Sayville) The Austro-German forces in Gallcia are said by the war office to have won a further victory over the Kussiaus along the Stripa river. The Russians were thrown back to their old positions on the east bank of the river. In recent fighting there ;"0 officers and 0,000 Russians have been cap tured . Fresh German Attack Repulsed. Paris, Nov. G. A fresh German at tack against tlie French position at LaCourtine had resulted in failure, at cording to an announcement made this afternoon by the French war office . NATIONAL HORSE SHOW BIG EVENT New York Nov. 6. The National Horse Show, which opens today in Madison Square Garden, will be thi only great indoor horseshow in tha world . The variety of prizes, the high class entries, the enthusiasm" of lead ing horsemen and horsewomen, anc the wonderful scheme of decoration which makes the Garden a bower of I "11UC11 a uu"u ul.nhamhPrs Riihsrrihinfr the $300 neces- , beauty, all contrive to make the event, a notobie one in the horse world. Thp. int.firinr dfirnrations have trans-l traA rioT-rin into o foirtrionri I Ivycovered arches, fountains, mina ture lakes, banks of growing plants and flowers are on every side. Under the direction of E. T. Stotesbury, the Philadelphia millionaire, who is presi dent of the association, three thousand .dollars a day will be spent for floral decorations . The show will have an international Panada ha-? ent I aspect this- year . nf it het horse rt h in.vote, Chairman Travis and Commis- led some of her best judges, including ! Lady Beck, a qualified judge of sad- j die horses. Prizes and trophies, many in number and of great value, have been offered by the Vanderbilts and other patrons of the show. Lord Decies has given a trophy for a new military class in the judging. Another trophy for the army men is the Canadian Challenge Cup given by Sir Adam Beck. The National Horseshow will con tinue alt next Week, and the judging j will take nlace from dav to dav.- bv i classes. SmaM Boy Finds New Play London, November 6. The darken nightfall at the suburban subway ... . - station and careiuily scans the faces i arriving passengers. "Espying a atranser . h Advances, and flashing his little lamp, offers to conduct the stranwr fiv'Jif rtsHnaHrm Thp nH(p of theervice, which is generally eag- 1 v"tatrn nrivft.nta.fra nf is tfvn of fif- teeiK, cents, according to the distance, f . Will lift : LAST TAKE NlSW Tfl Rjilfi HIK FISIUTIFR I ' " " ; " " - , 1U HftlUJllUc U1U 1 llfilllUlljll TU BI10S js What One Man in 'm Eastern North Carolina is Doing in ThisWayl .1 Nearly Two Thousand Hogs Treated In This Way In, Edjjecombe County Raleigh Banker dives a Banquet North Carolina Literary and His. toricai Society Ready for Annual Report. 1 V I Dispatch NeVs Bureau, Raleigh, Nk C, Nov . 6th Dr. B .B. Flowe has returned from Edgecombe county where he treated president of the North Carolina Bank ers' Association. ' ' Doctor Flowe went to the Holder ness farm and found that about 55 of the big planter's hogs had evidences of cholera. Of the lot Containing near ly 20 carloads, 13 had died but in juries in shipment appear to have done more damage than disease . The treat ment of the diseased;-pigs, went on j with remarkable rapidity -and; the vet ermarian believes that lie nas saved many of these now sic. Both he and Holderness have invjncibfei faith in the serum and expect fevo prevent any spread . The iiaproven - 6f the animals trtarrt :-iQ' . Mr . Hoii?rMiiSB& combe farmers h hog and hominy. His pigs range in weight from 90 to 140 pounds and he expects to put just 100,000 pounds of, meat on that lot just treated. He has several hundred acres of ground in peanuts and soy I beans upon uwhich the' herd grazes daily and uplanders who go down there and see these pigs fed on a diet thac costs men 15 cents a pint come back and declare Mr. Holderness a man of great humauitarianism toward hog. the The banker puts the animals in a pen j when be lays on the last fat and then butchers them. And being a man of sense he makes his hog investments - bring him more than a whole town ship of cotton acreage. The W. R. Bonsai Co., of Hamlet, was chartered today with authorized capital of $200,000, all of which is paid in by W. H. Bonsai, O. L. Cloud and S. C. Bauersfeld. The business is varied, real estate, general merchan dise, development of lands, mining and many other things being allowed. The National Play Ground Supply i Company of Durham-, a corporation or-j ganized to make paraphernalia for sport and recreation of varied char acter, is-chartered with B. Byrd, J. Southeate Jones and Sidney C. t malr DeginninR. The busi- .g c italized at $100,000. Want New Depot. The Corporation Commission has an application from citizens of Asho county asking for a depot two miles west of North Jefferson. The old fight is revived. The op ponents of this depot when the ques tion was up last year for the estab lishment of a station accessible to the Jefferson people, won out before tho Corporation Commission by a divided ioner, L;e voting with Speaker ! Bowie's adherents in the contest for a site and Judge Bell dissenting. Thd commission thought that in spite of the town of the new site, the roads were much better and greater con venience would result. The application for the new depot is understood to have been made with a view eventually of getting one at the old site contended for last year. fight before the commission and won it to his reasoning. His opponents declare, however, that the site advo cated by, Mr. Bowie is two and a quar ter miles from the corporate limits of the town and that the one now pro posed is three quarters of a mile. The ground upon which the new combination freight and passenger sta tion is sought is that a big tannic acid plant is to be huilt there and a ji A in'i ; j- ueyot wm ue couvemcui Banker Gives Dinner. Joseph G. Brown, president of the Citizens National Bank' celebrated his twentv - one vearS as the President of! his institution with a dinner to hla J forces in the narent institution' arid . (Continued on Page Two.) J INJECTS Well Known Traction Mag nate and Former Political Leader Passes. Philadelphia, November 6. P. A. B. Widener, the widely known financier, died at his home at Elkins Park, near here, today. Death is believed to have been due to advanced age.. For sev eral years past Mr. Widener had been gradually withdrawing from the direc torships of a number of. corporations in wbieh hehad fdrherl bfaetive. He was born in this city November 12th, 1834. After receiving, a public school education he - started his ' busi ness career as a butcher. He soon became interested in politics and for" more than twenty year's bore a part in all tbe important political move--ments of this city. In 1874 he was defeated for the nomination of mayor and this incident practically closed! his active political career. It was ! then he entered upon the life which made him conspicuous in financial af fairs. He began by buying a few shares of street railway stock here and there and finally became a con trolling factor of all the Philadelphia street railways and accumulated a fortune estimated at more than sixty million dollars. Aside from gaining control of many traction companies, Mr. Widener was active in formation of the United States Steel Corporation and the American Tobacco Company. Mr. Widener was a great lover of art and his collection of paintings, is said to be one of the largest and most valu able in the world. IS TO ORGANIZE New York, Nov. 6. The "Sing Sing Alumni Association" is complet ing plans for a permanent organiza tion. The charter members are send ing out invitations to all "graduates" nf f)i institution rnndnr.tfid bv Thomas Mott Osborne, outlining the benefits j anu social uuvaMtagutt ui luu uuw ui -i . 1 i . i r I sahization One of the first things m view i.j thp establishment of an emnlovment bureau fQr the .graduates to m(1 employment for men as they leave their alma mater. Because of the wide variance of training and adapta bility of the Sing Sing "graduates," the committee will have its hands full to find just the right job for each man . Then there will be established a club-room. On the reading table, of course, the "Star of Hope," the peri odical now published in Sing Sing, will find prominent place, with other peri odicals of the day . Comfortable chairs I will he provided, so that the "old grads can sit and talk over the good , i ;. Then again, it is planned to' have an annual banquet, at which their former jailers will 'be the guests of honor. ' ! ' "Though it may sound strange," says Deputy Warden Church of Sing Sing, "there is a good, sound theory under lying the proposition . These men have decided to make a clean breast of their records before the public, and to help other ex-prisoners who might otherwise fall into the old paths . They will consider their Sing Sing training as an asset With nothing to hide, ' it can at least ue saiu iuai yiuuo- , bility of the men going straight will be greatly increased." SOUTHPORT WILL SEND A DELEGATE ' Special to The Dispatch. Southport, N. C, Nov. 6. Thifi little city is moving these days and every fortnight a mass meeting an enthusiastic one, too is held in the interest of the town. Southport has gone with a vim after the Edison research laboratory in this way and last night a mass meeting darned a delegate, the citizens to pay: named a delegate, the citizens to pay Deeper Waterways convention at Sa vannah. Captain J. J. Adkins was named, as Southport's representative to this important convention . Humane Convention. St. Augustine, Fla., November, 6. The 39th annual convention of the American Humane Association, which will open here on Monday, has attracted-, many humanitarians from all sections of the United States. Nearly all the anti-cruelty societies will be reDresented at the convention, atid many individuals mterested-Tfl tlje j prevention, of cruelty to children, 'arid;. animals will attend. Days Fighting Results in Victory For the Invaders GERMANS ALSO CAPTURE TOWNS Second Largest City of Serbia Falls Before the Onslaught Only Sev enty Miles Now Open for Retreat of the Defenders Into Montenegro Drawing the Cord About Them. Berlin, November 6 (By wireless to Sayville). The capture of Nish, Ser bia, by the 'Bulgarians, was announc ed officially here today. Capture of Varvarin, on the Morava i river in Serbia, northwest of Nish, also was announced today by the Ger man war office. More than three i thousand Serbians, were taken prison-! ers. The town of Tralievo, thirty-five miles southwest of Kraguyevatz, also has been captured by tbe Germans, who pursued the Serbians to the east . . of that point. The Germans have reached the Zupanyevac district and iu the Morava valley and pursued the Serbians beyond Obrezsiciriza. ... The Bufeanans. effected, the capture i of :Wisfe.ftfteKree dayheOT;to gariahs captured 350 two cannon. Serbians, and Near Lukovo the Bulgarians defeat ed the Serbians and in the vicinity of Sokobanya also they won a victory, taking more than 500 prisoners and six cannon. The Bulgarian and Ger- man forces sot in touch east of Pri v A v 11 1 i More than half of Serbia is now in possession of the invaders, who also ; have taken a great part of the coun try's railway system. The new junc- tion effected between the Austro-Ger- j mi BOHB CAUS NEWEST BATTLESHIP READY FOR TRIAL Rockland, Me., Nov. 6. The bat tleship Nevada, nevt of trie heavy first-line fighting ships to be added to the United States Navy, will be giv en her official trials off this port next week. She must make at least 20-1-2 knots , per hour for four hours con tinuously. The Nevada should have been completed some months ago but I for trouble with the type of engine at first installed. The Navy Department gave its consent to a change in the type of machinery. The Nevada is of 27,500 tons disi j placement, or 500 tons larger than tho Texas or tbe New York. She is a sister snip oi me utuanoma. one carries fourteen-inch guns in three gun turrets. While the Nevada is one of the world's largest and most power ful battleships, she will soon be sur passed in size by the seven battleships now under construction, some of which are nearly ready to be commissioned. The Arizona and the Pennsylvania are the nearest ready, and they are of 31a 400 tons displacement. The Californ ia, Idaho, Mississippi and two others which have been authorized but not yet named will be of 32,000 tons each. AMERICAN PHYSICIANS NOT SLAIN BY MEXICANS Naco, Ariz., November 6. H. R. Thigpen and James Miller, the Amer ican doctors, and two .chauffeurs, A. L. Wilson and' J. D. Pykn Reported by General Villa as shpt arrived to day from Villaverde, 22 miles south of 1 Sonora. Visit The Oyster J restaurant at Lumina. Advt. J ; . ' - - ;i.-v . - . -- ."'i'V', . man and Bulgarian forces, reported by Berlin tocl completed the semi circling wall of hostile armies about A the retreating Serbians. - Several days ago the Austrians, who invaded Serbia from Bosnia, Join ed forces with their comrades, who ad- nced from the north. The line now extends from the border of Visahegra east along the railway to Varvarin, thence south to Uskup. The Bulgari ans, however, have advanced consid- "i u u ,m. ivi laiiwo v aim cu e uiu iu uu Liiieamu I ing Pristina. ! Tho wIioIa mnvpmfiiit rpiirRRnt- n great closing in on the Serbiana 'f rom the northeast and south and the formation is that so often employed- by-ihe Teutons. ult 4a said,fln, Berlin A less than 70, miles for retreat into Montenegro. Should they, seek to re treat into that country they would be menaced by the Austrian forces which, have already begun to attack along the northern and western Montene grin frontier. With the exception of Belgrade, Nish is the largest city in Serbia-. Soon after the outbreak of tlie war the capital was transferred from Bel grade to Nish. There thegovernment remained until that city was threaten- ed by the invaders. In the last month various towns have been mentioned as the temporary seat of government. mm Ship ThaIMifed Sugar In New York Got Ablaze on The Ocean PUT INTO HALIFAX AFIRE LAST NIGHT Flames Now Extinguished and Steamer Will Proceed on Voyage British Ship Load ed With Sugar From Amer ica Was the Victim. Halifax, N. S., November 6. Tho fire in the cargo of sugar on the . British steamer, Rio Lages, which put in here late last night with the flames still smouldering, was : caused by an incendiary bomb, according to a state ment today by Captain BelJ, of the steamer. The fire is now' virtually OUt. - . , , j ;.jji . , Captain Bell said the cargo, consign ed to the British Sugar Commission at Queenstown, had been loaded by ' Austrian and German . stevedores at Yonkers,. N. Y., and there was ample -opportunity for a-spy to place an in cendiary, bomb in a sugar bag. lie , added that spontaneous combustion in such a cargo as his vessel carried was almost unknown. Washington, November 6.-1-Senator Underwood,, of Alabama, former ma jority leader: of the House,- called at ; the White House today and arranged ' - J-a conference with President. Wilson - for .next Wednesday on National - pre- parednesslz-feJ? lW'yZji?'iP;: - Em - 6 .,11 -'V ' .M 11 - t'2 i it i r 1 rl h i 'i1 in li i! ! f 1 1 1 l; Ill i,i i y Ti .1' i I. 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