THEENTER.PR.ISE
Published Weekly.
WILLIAMSTON, NORTH CAROLINA
„ A crying baby Is simply developing
Its lungs.
On eome of the tight skirts one 8.
R. O. sign should be hung.
Anyway, the grandmothers of the
oflee boys have thus tar not died la
vain.
There would be fewer failures
eould baseball enthusiasm be carried
Into bualness.
Germany Is trying to take the tang
out of the tango by sending those who
dance It to prison.
Joy-riding la one of the things that
ought to be done soberly—which, man-
Ifeetly, is Impossible.
The housemaids having organized,
the "copper" will now exchange the
back porch for the parlor.
It is always interesting at this time
of the year to find out In how many
new places the old garden hose leaks
The painted gown is the latest
fashion from Paris. It is to be hdped
it la not intended to match the face.
At that, no one ever has attempted
to describe a girl riding on the aft seat
of a motorcycle as particularly charm
ing
It begins to look an if the time had !
arrived when no elopement can be con
sgent.
A Chicago girl lost two of her
teeth In biting a footpad who tried
to rob her. Beyond question he was
» tough.
The prudent Englishman now looks
under his chair before sitting down to
dinner, and under hlB bed before going
to sleep.
According to a college professor,
baseball is a nerve Irritant. Still, the
borne team can't be expected to win
always.
Now there Is to be an astronomical
trust. • If poetical Justice is dealt out
to it the new combination ought to
lee stars.
The new British ambassador is a
baseball fan, which is certainly better
than devotion to the tennis court or
even golfing.
Broadway, says an intrepid woman
explorer, is more in need of mission
aries than darkest Africa. And yet It
has Its angels.
Orville Wright says aviating is Just
as safe as motoring. Which assuredly
joes a long way toward bolstering up
aur motoring nerve.
A New Jersey school Is to teach the
art of milking cows. The pretty girl
to doing Is to become a fair fact in
life as well as In song.
At last all hazy notions of the value
Df a Missouri husband and a Missouri
mule have been Bwept aside. A Mis
souri woman has traded the one for
the other.
Chicago policemen view with pe
culiar approval the organization of
the housemaids' union in that city and
the subsequent grant of the use of j
the front parlor.
- A Pennsylvania husband of ninety
was sent to Jail recently for not sup
porting his wife. It is terrible the
way these youngsters will disregard
their responsibilities.
"Silt skirts' have been forbidden in
I»s Angeles schools, the old fogy au
thorities having an idea that their pu
pils should improve their understand
ings by other methods.
They want to know who first used
the slang term, "1 should worry?"
When they tlnd him they should not
be too rough. Many a man If allowed
to live learns to repent.
Some word is required to denote the
place where the aviator ka*9ps bis ma
chine, and "hangar' Is objected to as
(trained. Why not "nest" or "roost,"
aa befits the tribe of aves?
It is said that there are enough tel
ephone wires In this country to make
50 lines to thfe moon. But who wants
to talk to the man in the moon,
when he cjn talk to Venus over a lo
ca| wire? ■' ''
Countless mothers throughout the
country will refuse to accept the re
port that the perfect baby has been
found on the lower East side, New
York. They know their baby has
never been there.
We had supposed that the fly's
character had been painted about as
black as it could be, but now a physi
cian Indicts the fly cs a carrier of
infant" paralysis. Of what use la a
fly anyway?
The young man in New York who
pleads that he la so absent-minded
that when be married n young woman
recently he quite forgot that h« had
another wife living will doubtlesa be
relegated to an institution where ae
eluaioa and quiet furnish the beet
treatment tor nek lone of memory.
GOO SOLDIERS DEAD
Oil FIELD OF BUTTLE
CRUSHING DEFEAT 18 INFLICTED
ON THE HUERTA FORCES
BY THE REBELB.
RAILWAY LINES ARE TIED UP
All the Outlying Troops Called In to
Defend the City of
Chihuahua.
El Paso, Texas.—Six hundred fed
erals were killed or wounded In a
battle at Sanslllo, according to re
ports reaching here from southern
Chihuahua state.
After this victory over more than
1,200 federals, the Insurgents, under
Generals Villa, Chae and Hernandez,
marched north toward the state capi
tal, whence the Parral garrison had
retreated. They are reported as hav
ing taken Cusihuirachlo, a mining
town, west of Chihuahua City.
The four hundred federals, who evac
uated Madera, were met by Villa's
men at Bustlllos. The rebels poured a
hot Are Into the federal troops train,
killing the engineer and fireman. The
train retired.
General Mercado, acting military
governor, lias called in all other out
lying garrisons to the defense of the
capital. The Insurgents are maneuv
ering to prevent these movements.
Some Ave hundred federals at Juarez
alone remain unaffected by the gen
eral's orders. Juarez is threatened
by a movement of constitutionalists
from the Ojinaga district below the
Texas border, according to military re
ports received at Fort Bliss, Texas.
Practically every railway line In the
state is out of commission, as a re
sult of rebel activities. There is no
traffic on the Mexican Central north
or south of the state capital. The Mex
ican Northwestern railway is operat
ing below the border only as far as
Casas Grandes.
The only armed force of conse
qeunce in the Casas Grnndes district
Is led by Colonel Costello, a mutineer, (
from the federal ranks. He has pro
claimed for the Vasquez Gomez rev
olution, which is not connected with
the constitutional movement.
24 PERSONS HURT IN WRECK
Victims Mostly Women and Children.
Some of Them Will Die.
St. Louis, Mo. —Twenty-four persons
—mostly women and children —were
Injured In a rear-end trolley car col
lision on the Grove Couer Lake line
in St. Louis county. Two of them,
Mrs. Dora Bingham and Mrs. ltegina
A. Carouthers, will probably die. A
score of others were bruised and cut
by falling glass, bjit refused to go to
the aospltal.
. The accident occurred near Over
land. Park, and both were open-air cars
crowded with picnickers. The trolley
of til eflrst car came off as it rounded
u curve, leaving the car In darkness,
and the second cat, running forty
miles an hour, crashed into it.
The cars were interlocked, and both
telescoped. A passenger ran a mile
to telephone for a wrecker. Nineteen
of the injured were taken to the Mis
souri Haptlsf''sanitarium and five were
treated by physicians at Overland. The
others helped each other bandage up
their wounds and were brought into
town on the wrecker.
The crash knocked women and chil
dren out from either side of the cars
Into the gulley beside the tracks.
The shrieks of the children, frantic
mothers and the injured passengers
brought farmers and suburbanites to
the scene from a radius of half a mile.
The open-air cars were twice the
length of the city street cars nnd had
only awnings as roofs.
The forward end of one car and the
rear half of the other were reduced to
splinters. A similar accident occurred
on the same curve two years ago.
Women Policemen at Newport.
Newport, H. I.—For the first time in
the history of the famous Newport
Itaech twV) women policemen were
placed on duty there. They wore as
uniforms blue blouses with brass but
tons, blue skirts and sailor straw
hats. They are appointed at the re
quest of the Newport Clvfc League,
and will be on duty all summer.
Urged to Save Livee of Bablea.
Washington.—Warning every com
munity in the nation that the great
death rate of babies is due to dis
eases which to a large extent are
preventable, the children's bureau of
the department of labor has prepared
a compilation of the steps which va
rious up-to-date cities are taking to
protect child life, and will circulate
it in a national campaign of diffus
ing child welfare Ideas. This bulle
tin, which will be a feature of the
children's bureau, exhorts every com
munity to wage summer campaigns.
Crowded Auto Struck by Train.
Chattanooga, Tenn.—When a South
ern railway passenger train struck an
automobile near Ooltewah', sixteen
miles from this c.lty, Finis Plumlee,
43, well-known Chattanoogan, was kill
ed. His wife received serious cuts
and bruises about the face and head.
Miss Willie Newton and Leo Chamber
lain, the also were bfdly
hurt. The dead and wounded were
brought to this city. The automobile
In which the party was riding was
thrown fifty feet and crushed to splin
ter*.
JUDGE R. C. FLANNIGAN
-i ■:.-. ;'L \ ?Zl'^-.?2i2MtL3!£A
Judge Richard C. Flannlgan or leh
pemlng, Mich., la tha magistrate be
fora whom tha Rooaavalt-Nawatt llbal
caaa waa triad.
TURK GRAND VIZIER KILLED
MAHMOUD 3CHEFKET AND AIDE
DE CAMP ARE SHOT DOWN
WHILE MOTORING,
Official Account of tha Asaaaaination
la Qivan Out—Ten Bhota Wara
Fired by Aeeaaalna.
Constantinople.—Mahmoud Bchefket
Pasha, the Turkish grand vliler and
minister of war, was shot and killed
by assassins. His aide-de-camp, Lieut.
Ibrahim Bey, was also killed.
Prince Said Hallm, foreign minis
ter and ex-president of the council
of state, has been appointed grand
vizier ad Interim. All the other mln
isters retain their portfolloa.
The following official account of the
assassination has been Issued:
"On leaving the minister of war, the
grand vizier entered a motor, car with
the Intention of proceeding to the
sublime porte. Hut the car waa oblig
ed to atop while going through Bay
czld and Divan Yolu square because
the road was torn up. Some persons
in another car, whose Identity has
not been established, fired ten shots
at the car. The grand »izler, who was
severely wounded, was taken back to
the ministry of war. where he died
half an hour later.
"Lieut. Ibrahim Bey. who was ac
companying Mahmour Schefket Pasha,
also was hit by some of the bullets
and subsequently died."
A man named Topal Tew Ilk, has
been arrested; he 1b suspected of be
ing one of the assassins. He had in
ills possession two revolvers and some
cartridges.
PASS WOMAN SUFFRAGE BILL
Governor Will Sign Measure Giving
Women Right to Vote.
Springfield, lll.—The woman'* suf
frage bill, granting women the right
to vote for all statutory offices in
the state of Illinois, was passed by
the house by a vote of 83 ayes to
68 nays.
Tending notice of a motion to re
consider the v"» by which the bill
was passed, It I remain in posses
sion of the house. Unless the house
reconsiders its vote, which is consid
ered not likely, the suffrage bill will
be up to Governor Dunne by the lat
ter part of the present week for exec
utive approval or vote.
In order to give notice of a motion
to reconsider, Representative McCarty,
Democrat, of Chicago, changed his
vote from "nay' 'to "aye." He gave
the formal notice that on the next
legislative day he would move a re
consideration.
Snowfall in North Carolina
Bristol, Va.—-A special from Bakers
ville, N. C., says that three inches of
snow fell in Mitchell county. The
weather in this entire mountain sec
tion has been the coldest three days
that has ever been known In June.
Cattle owners in western North Caro
lina report that t.hey will be compell
ed to pen their cattle and feed them.
Troops to Give Battle to Byltan.
Manila, P. I—Brig. Gen. John Per
shing, commander of the department
of Mindanao, has made arrangement*
to engage in a decisive fight against
the rebellious Moras entrenched at
Bagsag, under the sultan of Jolo. A
stubborn resistance to the advance of
the American troops was expected,
and a strong force had therefore been
assembled, consisting of a company
of regular Infantry, a' troop of cavalry,
seven companies of scouts,- two com
panies of constabulary with a batte
ry of four mountain guns.
Powers to Preserve Peace.
- London.—With the "little white fa
ther of all the slavs" warning the
Balkan states of wrath to come and
beseeching them to avoid a fratricidal
war, and France keeping the war chest
closed tight, the chances of preserv
ing peace among the allies is im
proving. But the situation is still crit
ical. The powers may Join the Rus
sian emperor In the Remand that the
alliea demobollse while Russia arbi
trates, but one of the chief dangers
of Russian Arbitration Is that it may
precipitate another European crisis.
FIGHT E BREWING
Oil MONEY REFORM
HENRY ALLEGES WALL STREET
18 BACKING CURRENCY
LEGISLATION.
OPPOSITION TO THE MEASURE
The Administration Monty Measure
Now Ready to Bo Proaontod
to the Houao.
Washington.—An undercurrent of
opposition among a considerable num
ber of house Democrats to this ses
sion of congress took definite shape,
when Representative Henry of Texas,
chairman of the powerful rules com
mittee, openly charged that Wall
street was back of the propaganda for
currency legislation.
While favoring revision of the bank
ing and currency laws at the next ses
sion of congress, Mr. Henry insisted
that further investigation of the so
called "money trust" should be imme
diately pressed. The Pujo committee,
he declared, barely scratched the sur
face of the facts underlying the con
centration of control of money and
credit, because the controller of the
currency refused access to his records,
making it Impossible for the investi
gators "to completely expose the ex
isting relations between the Wall
street' bankers and their allies with
the trusts and monopolies, stock gam
blers and financial conspirators."
"Wall street bankers," he added,
"now are demanding legislation on the
currency question in order that they
may make a market for their com
mercial paper, much of It based on
rotten securities, and have curren
cy Issued on their asests."
Mr. Henry introduced a bill to
amend the banking laws, so as to
make banking associations subject to
the vlsitorial powers, "exercised or di
rected," by congress or by either
house of congress."
While this was going on, it became
known that the administration meas
ure, representing the combined views
of President Wilson, Secretary of the
Navy McAdoo, Senator Owen of Okla
homa, chairman of the senate bank
ing and currency committee, and Rep
resentative Glass, chairman of the
house banking and currency commit
tee of the house probably would meet
to take up the bill. President Wilson
is expected to send a message on the
subject. Mr. Qlass had a long con
ference with • Secretary McAdoo, go
ing over the details of the bill.
$88,000,000 LEFT BY ASTOR
la the Largest Estate Ever Appraised
in the United Statea.
New York. —The estate of Col. John
Jacob Astor, who perished in the Ti
tanic disaster, was officially appraised
at close to 188,000,000, of which Vin
cent Astor receives $68,964,499; Mrs.
Madeline Force Astor $7,678,896; Mur
iel Astor $4,856,758, and John Jacob
Astor.son of his Becond marriage, $21,-
#22,672.
The estate is declared to be the
largest ever appraised in this coun
try.
Aside from the announcement of
the amounts that revert to the heirs,
there are two features of special in
terest in the a| praisal.
One is the affidavit of the examin
ers that the property embraces in the
antenuptial agreement for Mrß. Ava
Willing Astor, amounting to about sl,-
738,000, which was to have reverted
to her at the time of her husband's
death, now terminates and goes to
Vincent Astor, for the reason that the
youth's mother, although once Colonel
Astor's wife, was not his widow. Mrs.
Ava Willing Astor divorced her hus
band, whose legal widow is Mrs. Mad
eline Astor. ,
Two Birdmen Are Killed,
London. —Lieut. James R. B. Kenne
dy of the naval wing of the royal
flying corps, was killed, and C. Gor
don Bell, another aviator, seriously
injured in the fall of a monoplane
near the Brookland's aerodrome. Bell
was driving the machine with Ken
nedy as a passenger. The monoplane
at a height of about 30 feet was go
ing at the race of 80 miles an hour
when Bell essayed a turn and banked
the machine at too great an angle.
Gonzales Minister to Cuba.
Washington. President Wilson
made the following nominations: Min
ister to Cuba, William E. Gonzales, of
South CaVollna; minister to Nicara
gua, Benjamin L. Jefferson of Colo
rado; minister to Costa Rica, Edward
J. Hale of North Carolina; assistant
treasurer of the United States at St.
Louis, Wlllard D. Vandiver. Major
Hale was formerly Democratic state
chairman in North Carolina and was
once consul at Manchester, England-
He has been active in North Carolina
politics and is a friend of Bryan. '
Fierce Battle in Philippines.
Washington.-—"Probably no flfercer
battle since American occupation," is
the rescription by Brigadier General
Pershing of the battle with the Moros
in his report by cable to the war de
partment The Moros made desperate
attempts to rush the American Hnes,
but were finally beaten back and over
whelmed. Their leader, Amil, and sev
eral other noted outlaws, were report
ed killed, bat the total loos of the Mo
ros was not reported. One American
officer, Taylor A. Nicholas of the Phil
ippine court, waa killed. «*.
MISS OLGA SHEPPARD
Mlaa Olga Sheppard, alatar of Sana
tor Morrla Shappard of Taxaa, la aoon
to becoma tha brlda of Cullan Thomaa
of Texarkana.
STRIKE WAR UNDER PROBE
CONDITIONS WHICH HAVE KEPT
THE STATE IN CIVIL STRIFE
FOR YEAR INVESTIGATED.
United Statea Government to Deter
mine Who la Reaponaible for the
Conditiona That Exiat.
Charleston, W. Va. —The power and
authority of the government of the
United States came to West Virginia
to determine who is responsible for
the conditions which have kept the
state in virtual civil war for more
than a year. Opening the investlga
tlon of the coal mine strike which
has dealt death and destruction in the
Paint Creek and Cabin Creek mining
sections, the senate mine strike lnves
tigating committee called upon the
military authorities for the recorda of
the proceedings prior to and under
the declaration of martial law in the
strike territory.
Judge Advocate General George S.
Wallace, Adjutant General Charles D.
Elliott, Major James I. Pratt, Captain
Charles Morgan and Captain Samuel
L. Walker were summoned before the
committee to produce the state rec
ords regarding the declaration of
martial law and the proceedings of the
military committee which was placed
in authority in the strike district. Sen
ator Borah of Idaho desired their tes
timony and their records as the basts
for the branch of the inquiry which
he is conducting as to the charge
that citizens have been "arrested, tried
and convicted in violation of the Con
stitution and the law of the United
Statea."
WOMAN IS KILLED IN RIOT
Seven Peraone Wounded When Pickets
Interfere With Workmen.
Ipswich, Mass. —One woman was
shot and killed, .seven other persons
were wounded by bullets and many
others, including several policemen,
were hurt by flying missiles in a strike
riot outside of the Ipswich Hosiery
mills. Fifteen persons were arrested.
The dead woman was Nocoletta Pau
delopeulou, aged 27, a spectator of the
light. Five of the wounded were hur
ried to the Salem hospital in an auto
mobile. All are expected to recover.
Officers were rushesd here In auto
mobiles from Salem, but order had
been restored, before their arrival. The
actual fighting did not last more than
Ave minutes.
The trouble started when pickets
who have conducted a strike aglnet
the hosiery mills for seven weeks to
gain an increase in wages, interfered
with the 500 English-speaking em
ployees as they left the mills.
Publicity Law Valid.
Washington.—As interpreted by it,
the Supreme court upheld the consti
tutlonality of the newspaper publicity
law enacted as a part of the postal
appropriation act of 1912. The partic
ular section attacked was to bar ev
ery newspaper and periodical from the
mails unless the editors or owners
filed with the postal authorities setai
annual sworn statements giving the
names of the editors, owners, stock
holders anlT' bondholders. It Also tor
bade publication of paid-for articles
unless marked "advertisement."
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Ford Named Government Printer.
Washington.—Cornelius J. Ford ol
New Jersey, a labor leader, was nom
inated by President Wilson to be pub
lic printer. The president also nomi
nated J. C. French as postmaster at
Memphis. Among other nominations
was that of Charles M. Galloway ol
South Carolina, as civil service com
missioner, and H. J. Geary, poetmas
ter at Lake Charles, La. Ford has been
at the head of organized labor ol
New Jersey as president of the New
Jersey Federation of Labor,
a -'
PUBLIC OPINION
TO DECIDE ISSUE
WILL PRESENT THE CURRENCY
•ILL ANO AWAIT VERDICT
PROM THE PEOPLE.
BELIEVES IN THE PEOPLE
PrwldMt Believes Strongly That the
Country Will Sack Him Up In Hi*
View* That Currency System Should
Bo Reformed.
Washington.—Public opinion, the
aoverlgn voice in law making, la to
decide whether there ahall be cur
rency legislation during the present
session of Congress.
This is the view Representative
Underwood, the representative leader
in the House, took after a conference
with President Wilson at the White
House.
In the face of conflicting express
sions from prominent Democrats in
Congress as to the necessity for cur
rency reform during the present ses
sion, it is the avowed purpose of the
Administration to launch a currency
bill in the House and Senate, which
will be accompanied or followed by
the Presidfent's message describing
what he believes to toe the necessity
for banking reform. Then, according
to Mr. Underwood, the plan of the
House will be to rest on Its oars, and
await the expression of the newspa
per* of the country and the opinion
of the bankers and business men gen
erally as to the merits of the Demo
cratic proposals. Should the discus
sion of the bill in Congress toe back
ed up by an insistent demand from
the country at large for an immediate
revt3ion of the currency systeip, it is
the belief of the Administration that
Senators and Congressmen will yield
their pleas of personal discomfort in
the approaching toot weather.
The President believes strongly that
the country will back him up in his
views that the currency system ought
to be reformed so as to alleviate any
stringency that might follow the pas
sage of the tariff bill. Representa
tive Underwood, after his conference
with the President, said that while the
Democratic party had made up its
mind what ought to be done on the
tariff, currency reform was practically
a new question and it would be im
possible to predict how long the House
woud take for a discussion of the bill
Wilson Still After McCombs.
Washington.—President Wilson i*
still holding open the ambassadorship
to France for William F. McCombs,
chairman of the Democratic National
Committee. Within tJhe last few days
President Wilson cabled MV. Mc-
Combs. inquiring whether after his
sojourn In France he had changed his
mind about taking the Paris Embassy
No reply was received.
Upholds 2 Cent Rate In Three States.
Washington.—Validity of 2-cent pas
senger laws and maximum freight
rates in Arkansas, Missouri and West
Virginia were upheld by the supreme
court in another series of decisions in
the late state rate cases. No decision
was announced in the Kentucky case.
In the Missouri case the great major
ity of rates contested toy the railroads
as confiscatory, were iheld valid. State
freight rates established In Oregon
were also approved. All claims that
?tate laws attacked interfered with in
erstate commerce were swept aside,
following the precedent set in the
Minnesota rate decision a week ago.
Moroa Routed, 6 American* Killed.
Manila.—Complete rout of the re
bellious Moros on Mount Baksak was
accomplished by the American forces
with the loss of six men killed and
seven wounded. Reiports of the en
gagement reaching here by wireless
from the Island of Jolo are very mea
gre. All of the Americans killed were
members.of the several companies of
ecouts. In the first advance upon the
mountain six Americans were killed.
The number of dead among the Moros
is not known.
Want Convention to Make Reforms.
Washington.—Vl embers of the
"Conciliation committee" of progres
«ive Republicans who recently made
demands upon the Republican nation
al committee for a national conven
tion this year, have decided to oppose
any action by the national committee
to effect proposed reforms without a
party convention. At conferences to
be renewed later questions of reduc
ing Southern representation in na
tional conventions, recognizing dele
gates chosen in primaries, and the
'unK rule" are to be considered.
Civil Riflhta Act Unconstitutional.
Washington.—The "civil rights act"
of 1876, held unconstitutional as to
the states many years figo was de
clared by the supreme court likewise
null and void as to the territories, the
District of Columbia, the navigable,
wafers of the United States and the
a£. The point was decided in the
ase of Mary F. Butts, a negress, who
sued the Merchants' and Miners'
Transportation Company for dan
ages because she was required to ejrt'
at a second clans table, although she
a flrft claaa ticket ,