WEATHER probably local rains tonight -and Tut silay. Strong uunueast wmas. Dispatch illll :" - - - '-. v- : - - . ".. rt - ! 3! VOL. XXII. NO. 283 Government Figures Show This State Manufactures MuchXotton CONSUMPTION AHEAD OF THAT LAST YEAR Over Seven Million Bales Us- id During Last Cotton Year in United States North Carolina Consumed Over One Million. ( By GEORGE H. MANNING.) Washington, D. C, Oct. 23. The consumption of cotton in American mills during the cotton year ended July 31. 1916, was 7,278,529 bales of cotton and 880,916 bales of linters, it is announced today by -Director Sam uel L. Rogers, of the Census Bureau, Department of Commerce. - Tins was an increase or 14.3 per. cent in consumption over tne year 191".. when 5,597,362 bales of cotton j and 411.S45 bales of linters were con sumed, and an increase of 14.7 per cent over the cotton year "!14, when .',,."77.405 bales of cotton and 207,325 bales of -linters were used. The enormous increase in consup tion of linters in 1916 which repre sents an increase of 113.9 per c-"l over 1915, and 186.6 per cent over con sumption in 1914, due to the very large increase in the use of this pro duct in the manufacture of explosives. The number of cotton spindles active during the cotton year 1916 throughout the United States was 32, S0."),SS3, representirigincreases of -2.6 per cent and 2.2 per cent, respectively, as compared with the corresponding figures for the cotton years 1915 and 1914. North Carolina retained her posi tion as second largest consumer of i cotton of any of th States, her con sumption being exceeded only by Mas sachusetts. -" T ( North Carolina . also showed in- '.'oas?s in the. number jot active, spi dies, and in consumption of cotton and linters. There were 3,988,098 active spindles in North Carolina in 1916, compared with 3,823,298 in 1915. The bales of cotton consumed in the State in 1916 were 1,067,288, compared with 910,154 ; in 1915. Linters consumed were 0,272 compared with in 1916 3,758 in 1915. Massachusetts was again the great est consumer of cotton, with North Carolina second and South Carolina third. Massachusetts employed 10,896,774 spindles and consumed 1,462,888 bales of cotton and 58,960 bales of linters. WOMAN ACCUSED OF SLAYING HUSBAND Newark, N. J., Oct. 23. The case of Mrs. Margaret C. Beuttinger,. the Caldwell society woman under indict ment for the murder of her husband, came up for trial today in the Court of Oyar and Terminer in this city. The tragedy which led to the indict ment of Mis. Beuttinger on -a first upgree mr.rder charge occurred in the T!i!t linger home on July 11, last. Ac coming io evidence at the prelimi nary hearing of the case Mrs. Beut tinger had had several quarrels with her husband before the shooting and she claimed that he tried to cnoke her and nearly gouged out one of her, eyes. After that she bought a revol ver and kept it under her pillow. When her husband entered the room -i -iy on the morning of July .1 she s: iv! :-he feared he was going to kill ,! Mid she shot him five times, kill '" nirr instantly. Ever since the the tragedy Mrs. Beuttinger has J e n confined in jail. Self-defense v.'in he the plea at the trial. COAL REACHES ITS HIGHEST PRICES TODAY Pittsburgh, Oct. 23 Bituminous foal reached $4.25 a ton at the mines here today, $2.65 a ton higher than the customary price and probably the highest price it ever demanded. Xew York, Oct. 23. Strike activi ties in the city transit service was re sumed today, when a Third Avenue elevated was bombarded with stones thrown fromroof tops in the Harlem district. Two passengers were injur ed. . ::- .v. -.jf COTTON STILL JUMPING. " It begins to look as if the sky ; is the limit for cotton. Today :' the fleecy staple took another upward bound and at the close - 'oday spot was quoted on the ': Wilmington - market at 18 1-4, which, of course, again breaks ) 'lie altitude record. KflDTU PffDnilBI'fl'- NOT A SEEPING BEAUTY NOR A BEAUTY SLEEP , 111 llll l Rll l IIP 1 1 flllB"" Tlllfin ' ! in I II "I I H iil II lliIU vrJI': s r pwaww nil Iff I II iill II ill H H II II H I HI In -1 v- uiiiii umiuLiiuii 4&fT ? ; , " 44 l lIUIUIrllxIIHIVlU nflUL IIILHI STILL SECOMI LISfl ; :M:'M0r& m BACKS IfiiSI ILL - ; -m .s-''Jy' - DISPATCH JD. GETS BOTH TEAMS OUT' M BLUE RIBBON lMmi OF THE RUINING Awarded First Honors in Con test thataCavered Almost Entire U. S. Demonstrating -conclusively the high artistic character of Dispatch advertisements, as well as their value otherwise to the advertisers, it is not amiss to mention .that in a contest participated in by many papers, that brought to bear all the-ingenuity and dexterity of. their advertising experts, as well as their latest and most ex pensive novelties in the way of me chanical adornments; a Dispatch ad- vertisement came under the wire , first. The real brilliancy of this achievement, one which all Wilming ton should feel proud of, as The Dis patch is a Wilmington institution, a Wilmington industry, is found in the fact that the contest covered almost the entire United States and there I were almost one thousand contest ants. Yet The Dispatch has been awarded first honors. It was an advertising contest pre sented by the noted Craddock-Terry Company, and the radius was fromi Maine to Texas and from the Atlantic seaboard to Colorado. The Dispatch ' entered simply because it had the!M . , T D r chance and the pleasure of publishing ! National Republican Commit the advertisement for the Wilmington Shoe Company. Much care ys spent upon the designing and the make-up of the advertisement, i but that was only according to custom, as each ad vertisement that comes into this of- fjce is carefully considered and plenty of time taken by expert ad. men in its construction and presentation. The i Wilmington Shoe Company submitted j - fdg andth -oJteniretters tell the happy -tale: Wilmington, Feb. 21, 1916. The Wilmington Dispatca, City. Advertising Manager. Dear Sir: It is with pleasure that we can inform you that the Red Rid- ing Hood ad. that appeared in your paper recently won the prize offered by the Craddock-Terry Co., Lynch-, burg, Va. In addition to the enclosed letter they write as follows: "This contest was very widely in dulged in and we really think you ought to feel right much set up that you won the prize in this contest. "The contest extended into our ter ritory, which is from Maine to Texas and from the Atlantic coast to Colo rado." We wish to compliment you on set ting this up as you did and also state that our sales on the Red Riding Hood Pla-Shu has been very satisfac tory indeed. Assuring you of our appreciation of the assistance you gave us in winning this prize, we beg to remain, Yours very truly, WILMINGTON SHOE CO. L. W. Wesseii, Manager. Lynchburg, Va., Oct. 17. Mr. L. W. Wessell, Care Wilmington Shoe Co., , Wilmington, N. C. Dear Sir: The judges in the Red Riding Hood Ad Writing Contest have awarded you first prize in Class B and we take great pleasure in handing you herewith our check for $20 and have to advise also that the prize in this class for the best window went to Mr. J. R. North of the Graham-Fagg: Co., Greenville, Texas. Thanking you for the interest man ifested in this contest, and with cor dial good wishes, Yours very truly, CRADDOCK-TERRY CO. R. Winston Harvey, Advertising Manager. The moral to this story is plain, and 'should be appreciated by the ad vertising public. It is: Dispatch ad vertisements are bound to command attention, because they, are the acme of artistic design, representing the careful work of a skillea advertise ment department, headed by one of the best-known '. experts, Mr. C. A? Wootton. So presented in most at tractive form, that catches and de- liehts the eye, and offered to thou- sands and thousands of daily reaaers, i a Dispatch advertisement is mnd to , i i. JA-n hartroel tn th'p WISP liUlU UUl a guiucu uaii-K, advertising reaper. BIG AUTO. CONCERN ' FOR THE QUEEN CITY Raleigh, N. C, Oct. 23. The Cen tral Motor Company, of Charlotte, with capital stock of $100,000, filed application for a charter with the Sec- retary of State today. The concern proposes to build, repair ana seu automobiles. WILMINGTONNORTH CAROLINA, MONDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 23, 1916 It isn't often that one of the boys in the trenches has opportunity to emulate the "Sleeping Beauty" or to enjoy a "beauty sleep," but this English Tommy is doing both with the utmost unconcern amid scenes of rack and ruin. Sometimes, contrary to general belief, the fortunes of war turn up the comforts of home and in this instance "Tommy" has taken advantage I i wreckage isn't exactly a discomfortafter several months spent in the trenches, as may be easily imagined. RIIMMC MA m nm i in si i mi i ii i w mm mm i r w a B mm TAR HELL ORATORS TD HELP THEM tee Has Drafted Many Speakers of This State THEY ARE ASSIGNED TRAIL DEMOCRATS . - Only , a Few1 Republican , Spellbinders Left ' to Do Dutjfethe Old Noilh . State Raleigh, N. C, Oct. 23 Political observers of North Carolina find as the campaign enters its last twoi weeks perceptible loss of confidence among the Republicans who hoped for two congressional districts, six new senatorial districts and 15 new Re publican counties. The Republicans are responsible for j the hope. While they are fighting in spots just as apparently hard as ever, the steady exodus of North Carolina campaigners to other states has been remarked upon so often that it looks significant to Democrats. Gilliam Grissbm and Frank Linney are still here and Grissom has been left with the bag to hold. For the last several days the papers have been carrying nsws of Settle, Meekins, Butler and lesser ones in other states and it looks good to Dem ocracy from any attitude. If Hughes needs these three from North Caro lina it makes Wilson Democrats feel good and if they have concluded that the job of showing North Carolina's government to be extravagant and in competent, is too big for them, Dem-1 ocracy wonders what must be the con tract that those remaining have essay ed to carry out. But such it is. Settle has been in Virginia, the newspapers have carried the story of Senator Butler in Balti- more and Ike MeeKins is aoing tne i speak to them as usual. He made bloodhound to Josephus Daniels. If, his first address to a negro audience Ike finds nothing in the trail worth three years ago at this fair and made following then some other North Car- j SUCh a hit as to fix him perpetually oliniian will be assigned to the task : as the midweek orator. The Gov of throwing sand in the secretary's ( ernor missed about twenty-five years eyes. But Settle, Butler and Meekins j0f his life in beginning so late to have been outside the state leaving j speak to the colored audience, the inside to Grissom and his indif-j ferent help. Various explanations are offered.; Most anybody can guess Ike Meek-' in's reasons for leaving the state. Sen-! ator Butjer's convention here in March pleased - nobody less than Ike j and Dr. Cy Thompson and Carl Dun-J can were right here. Ike Meekins has j tried to Dersuade North Carolina! when Senator Butler wasn't the issue. , The. Elizabeth City song bird pannot Aing when such men as Dr. Cy and - Mr. Duncan agree that the former sen ator is the issue and find concurrence among a thousand Democrats who satj in the auditorium and saw them fight- ing as plainly as tne wart upon a nose obtrudes Itselt upon hls vision. So Ike Meekins had no busi- BeSS here- MAN WHO KILLED LECTURER ON TRIAL ' rtoivaetmi Oct.. 23. The Tenth Ju dicial Court was crowded today for th opening of the trial of John Cope-J land of Marshall, in connection with j th killing of William Black, an anti- J Catholic lecturer in a hotel of that city 'February 3, 1915. i . -V 1 ".. THE LARGEST CIRCULATION IN WILMINGTON. of this rather extraordinary turn of STATE FAIR BIG SUCCESS Number of Records Broken On Different Days Col ored Fair This Week Raleigh, Oct. 23. The State Fair has not finished casting up accounts and does not know ibw much money it did 'take in.bufc was a great go and laid all others itf&he; shade. The good Fridayhich closed t jshowed; jjLoret money as was taken : m the same day last year. The Thursday preceding banked $94 more than Thursday of last year and the day was half bad. The fair made money this year. It is hefty It did so well that it now has'miSSion came after seven bodies of resolved -to ask the legislature for an appropriation of $10,000 next year. Some Republicans don't like that. They heartily disapproved of the man agement's consent to the Wake coun ty Democracy to rig up a float and flaunt politics in the faces of those who watched the parade on Wake County Day. Visiting Republicans and exhibitors concurred, but they understood that the State paid for this "Democratic bad taste." It is a mistake, of course, tb.e Wake county candidates did that. But the $10,000 is the thing. Guilford county oiueau nerself. Last year sne anu Haywood contended mightily for the mastery. This year Guilford was an easy winner. She took all that her capacious hands could pick up in red and blue rib bons and both the first prizes among ; the counties and among the girls' can ning clubs went to that county. Mt. Airy apples ranked highest, but were t run a clogp race by others The colored 'people have their fair this week. They have hitherto claim ed "the first rainy week after the white folks fair" as their time. They begin Tuesday and run through Fri day. Governor Locke Craig will WILL NOT CHANGE GOVT. POLICIES Killing of Prime Minister Not of a Political Nature- Private Character Vienna,-Oct. 12 (Via London), Oct. J. i 1 3 hn t?5 Z Z , whlch to no n-c intorW A,vith t.hft nnlip.ipa or the YT lOO liitVll-Vlv courseof the war. This statement was made to a correspondent of the Associated Press by a person high in official quarters. It is pointed ut that at the time that the assassin stands alone. His act is disavowed by Socialists and by press. The city , is quiet. The murder, while of national interest, is regarded as purely a private wuw. . - - v events. A feather bed among shell Y LOST THEIR LIVES WHEN SHIPS HIT BY STORM Owners of the Steamer Merida. Admit That Ship Has Gone down ENTIRE CREW WAS LIKELY DROWNED I Those On the Steamer L. Ed ward Hines Drowned WJien Hurricane Hit Cleveland, Ohio, Oct. 23. Local managers of the steamer Merida cpn ceded today that the ship was lost in Friday's gale on Lake Erie. The ad- the crew had been picked up in mid lake by two other steamers. So far as is known, not a man of the crew of 23 survived the tragedy. The loss of the Merida makes the fourth lake steamer which went down in the gale. The total loss of life is supposed to be about fifty. Steamer Lost in Hurricane. New Orleans, La., Oct. 23. Sixteen members of the crew of the steamer f L. ' Edward Hines, including her cap- tain, wfire drowned when the steamer sunk in the Carribean sea, 45 miles east of Belize, British Honduras, in the tropical hurricane of October 15, according to" a wireless message re ceived here today. Only three mem bers of the crew were saved, the mes sage stated. EIGHTEEN MEN LOST LIVES IN ACCIDENT Sixteen Bodies Have Been Brought from Mine in Alabama Marvel, Ala., Oct. 23. Eighteen men lost their lives as the result of an explosion in the Roden coal mines here yesterday, and early today res cuers had brought 16 bodies to the surface. Six were negroes. Two men are still in' the mine and all hope of their ..being saved alive has been aban doned. Later. The last of the 18 bodies were brought to the surface shortly before noon. Of those who lost their lives seven were negroes. FIFTY KILLED IN News of Fatal Crash in Mexico Just Reached The Bor der Today Laredo, Texas, Oct. 23. Fifty per sons were kUIed and a great number injured in a rear-end collision of a freigjjt and passenger train at Ram os Arispe, Mexico, on last Friday, ac cording to a report that reached the border today. The scene of the acci dent" was between SaltHlo and Tor reon. '"' MAN IAIN COLLISION ' v ' T 'I -if; . v. - ( . j A Neither Carolina Nor Virgina Can Secure Southern Foot ball Championship Raleigh, Oct. 23 Georgia Techs' 10 to 6 victory over -North Carolina, in Atlanta, and Georgia's 13 to 7 de feat of Virginia, at Charlottesville, Saturday, were the two events around j which North Carolina football enthu- siasts centered great interest. The j defeat of both North Carolina and 1 Virginia, that were considered two j of the strongest elevens in the South, j eliminates them in the race for the championship. Washington and Lee j is now the only representative of the j Virginia-Carolina section. ! The Georgia Techs' victory over North Carolina was not an easy one, the game being won by hard work The Tar Heels played a brilliant, game, but a little ragged work hurt their chances. The Citadel's holding Davidson to a 7 to 7 tie at Davidson, after David son had defeated A. & M. 16 to 0, was the surprise of the games played. Davidson had anticipated a victory, not by overwhelming odds, but the game played by the Citadel eleven 7" u lttucl U1CVC" tion of fighting in the Cerna river re unlooked for Skill m handling gion southeri.,t MonaStir, on the I was forward passes and heavy weight in the line were responsible for the good game. ALSO MAKES OE But Admitted That Hughes Had a Conference With the O'Leary Crowd ! New York, Oct. 23. A telegram from Frank Seiberlich, of Boston, was given out today by the Republi can National Committee in support of Khe denouncement of Charles Evans Hughes last night of the Democratic National Committee's charge that the Republican nominee entered into a secret agreement with the American Independent's conference, of which Seiberlich and Jereiaiah O'Leary are members. The telegram said f "The statement made by Mr. KHughes relative to a conference with a committee of the American Inde pendent's conference is absolutely "true. Mr. Hughes saw the commit tee, of which I was a member, madej no promises, did not criticize Theo-; dore Roosevelt and made the state ment tjiat he stood for all American ! rights." William R. Willcox, Republican Na ' tional chairman, said the telegram was voluntary. y The charge of the Depaocratic Na tional committee contained what pur-j ported to be a repetition of a report j made by Mr. O'Leary at a session of J the conference of what occurred be-1 tween Mr. Hughes and tne commit- 'tee headed by Mr. O'Leary. WHEAT TAKES YET f ANOTHER JUMP Chicago, Oct. 23. Wheat made a prenomenal jump of 5 cents per bush el here today. The December option reached 1.75 7-8, and May 1.75 3-4, as against, respectively , 1.70 1-2 to 1.70 3-4 and 1.701-2 to 1.70 7-8 at the finish on Saturday. STEEL MADE A NEW HIGH RECORD ' New York, Oct. 23 Urited States Steel made a new high record in this morning's strong and . active market, a block of 3,100 shares changing hands at 120 3-4. Other industrial shares, particularly the steel, iron and sugar, Central Leather and moderate priced rails were higher 2 to 6 points. Steel ascended to tthe new high mark of 121 3-4 during the noon hour for the first time in its history TAKE IMPORTANT RUMANIAN FORT. Berlin (Via London), Oct. 23. The Rumanian fort of Con- stanza has been captured by the Germans, the war office an- nounced today. i I nial! PRICE 5; CENTS Teutonic Forces Push the Rus so-Rumanian " Armies to Their Last Line CONFLICTING REPORTS FROM CERNA REGION French Make Successful Ad vance Along the Somme-Pe-trbgracl Reports Slackening of Battle in Part of the Ga lician Theatre of Strife ' The Teutonic drive at the' Ruma nian front has pushed the Ilusso-Itu-manian armies approximately to. their last possible line of resistance south of the railway leading to internal Ru mania. The entente resistance in Dobrudja is declared by Sofia to have been broken. Petrograd admits the continuance of the Russo-Ruma-nian retreat in Dobrudja, declaring, however, that the Russian and Ruma nian forces are offering stubborn re sistance as they fall back. On (he north, where the Teutonic pressure is being applied, the success of the operations seem less pro nounced. The Rumanians are mak ing successful stands in the various passes leading from Transylvania to Rumanian territory. In some of the hilly regions Rumanian forces are reported by Petrograd to have driven the Teutonic troops slightly back ward. Conflicting reports of the resump Macedonian front, come from the op posing camps. Sofia announces a suc cessful deevlopment of the Bulga rians' counter attack, while the Bulga rians failed to regain lost ground in the battle for Monastir, is the entente, war office statement. On the western front along tha Somme the French have made a suc cessful push in the vicinity of the Perronne-Bapaume road, capturing HnfeaknowTf- as" 128,' according to T today's Paris bulletin. ; Petrograd reports the slackening of the battle in the Narayuvka river re erion. in Galicia. whpro Ttarlin anrt Vienna yesterday announced that im portant Teutonic victories had been gained. The repulse of the Teutonic attempt to cross the Voldurka, north of Brody, in the district northeast of Lemberg, is claimed. HELD IN VIRGINIA But Richmond Is Supporting Raleigh for the Farm Loan Bank Location Richmond, Va., Oct. 23. The Feder al Farmers' Loan Board opened its hearings here today with agriculture, banking and commerce in strength represented. 'All members but Secre tary McAdoo were present. Although Petersburg, Va., is a vig- orous applicant, Richmond Is support- ing Raleigh, N. C, which supported Richmond in its fight for the Region- al Reserve Bank. SOCIAL SERVICE .IS Board From House of Bishops to Co-operate With House Deputies St. Louis, Oct. 23. Announcement of the appointment of a standing so cial service committee was made 'to day by the House of Bishops of the' Protestant Episcopal general conven tion in session here. The committee will cooperate with a similar committee from the House of Deputies, the lower body of the' convention. Today marked the beginning of the ' final week of the convention's discus sion on the advisability of changing !'the method of representatives in the - House of Deputies. The House of Bishops will debate today on the prop osition to open the sessions to the public. Washington, Oct. 23. The weather bureau's report indicated the pres- ence of another storm 200 miles off , the North Florida coast and moving Tmrtliwnrrt Storm WaniittgS haV6 ' 'been ordered displayed irom For- tress Monroe to Charleston. HEARING BEING COM 1 ! i 5 ! 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