mtmsmiia m tma EWART OF EASTSRM ^aara CAROLINA, it has A FOPVLATION OF FOUR THOUSAND, ONE HUNDRED AND ONE, AND /S SUR ROUNDED BY THE BEST FARMING COUNTRY. INDVSTR13S OF ALL KINDS ARE INVITED TO LOCATE HERE FOR WE HAVE EVERYTHING TO OFFER IN THE VFAY OF LABOR, CAPITAL AND TmBUTABT FACIUTIE8, WE HAVE AN UP-TO-DATE W9 AND ivmwBPAPmm mABT. B AfifrtltaM to 0« SMrt Um Swt laiOlkMk *• Wmt MU a* WatftagM*. WE ha;wb a onK}wm- TION OF TWELVE BUB^ DRED AMONG THE BEST PEOPLE IN THE EASTERN PART OF NORTH CARO LINA ANL> INVITE THO.'iE WHO WISH TO GET BET TER ACqUAlNTED Wllil THESE GOOD PEOPLE IN i BUSINESS WAY TO TAKE A FE W INCHES SPACE AND TELL THEM WHAT YOG HAVE TO BRING TO TBEIR ATTENTION. OUR ADVERTISING HATES ARE LOW AND GAN BE HAD UPON APPUQA- TIOH. rtumm xxxn. eilBEITlliLB, K. r, FBIDAT APRIL », 1915. M MBKK n 40,000 Troops Engaged In What Promises To Be Decisive Battle beat StriggiB BegvR Between the Villa asil Carranza Factions miu BUILDS AIR CASHES fireenville Citizens Hear treat Orator In Interest of National rrohibitim Auiiouuciiii; What He Expect»> to Do Should He Defeat The Force* of (Jen. Ubregon South of Irapnato Washington, April 7—A battle with 40,000 troops enBagcd which may be a decisive action in the war between the Carranza and Villa factions in Mexico, is in progress or impending near Irapnato, in the State of Guana juato. State Department doKpatcheb today, dated April 5th, said the tight would take place aeon. That was construed to mean Villa bad assembled a force strong enough to meet General Obre- gun's army and was moving south from Torrean along the National Rail way. Obregon wa.s last reported at Quure-- taro, and was said to have bunt a coU luiin against San Luis Potosi while he protected its march with a second col umn and a third column under General Kill moved toward Morelia, capital of Micboacan. Obregon is understood by odicials here to have 20,000 men and it is said Villa bos gathcrel an equal number. Irapuato is the junction of the Mexi can Central and the National Railway toward which Obergon's forces are ad vancing. Mtate Depurtnieut Summari/e-s Sitiui- tion. The State Department issued this summary of the situation: “Tho department is informed that General Villa has announced that if he is Buccessful in defeating the forces of (General Obregon south of Iraputo he will immediately open the lines of com munication to Mexico City. The de partment's advices indicate that should the forces of General Carranza be defeated in this expected engage ment, his important strongholds will be Vera Ouz, Tampico and Matamoros.” Advices to the Carranza agency said the Carranza gunboat Guerrero reach ed Guaynias Monday night and her conmiandcre notified foreigner to leave as he intended to open a bombardment. .Mobs in Gauynias and Herniosillo, the agency statement added were looting business houses. Sharp Fif^htiiig >'oar Tampleo The agency also reported that Gen eral Maytorena faiU'd to check Car ranza troops marching from both north and south and was defeated yes terday at Navajoa. Sharp lipliting ciiiitinuos at KbMtio. near Taiui)ico. 'Ilie eli'niciit siipi>i>rtins (lemral C.iitii’! rcz as iirovisioiKil pri siili’P.t. to day made piiblii.- here Ihf pap'^rs i:iv iiiir llu‘ appointuieut tty (Iiitii rrez o! Viiscoiiceliis as .■^pei ial envoy a( Wasliiimton. ami the ;,lalcineut pre- .sciiti'il )).v Vascoiii'flos to Secri'tary lirvati I'n March -4. The suili'meiit i-eviews M.‘\ii;in af fairs from the lluevta s with drawal. and maintains that Gulirre: is the regularly chdHen pri)vision:«l president by virtue ot the Aguascal- ienies convention. The tJutierrez sea) of government is said to be estahlish- «'d at Doctor Arroyo, Neuvo l.‘'Oii from which place, the statement says. (Jutierrez “is directing aflaii's and ha' under his command a considerahlf army." It adds: “President Gutierrez That prince of prohibition orators, •Fohn G. Woolley, and Rev. G. W. Morrow. D. U., national lecturers for the Anti-Saloon League, will reach North Carolina on the tenth for a ten day’s campaign. A partial list of ap pointments has been arranged as fol lows : April lltli. Klizabi'th City and Herl- tbrd. April IL’th.. Washington, April Kith.. Tarboro. April 14th.. Greenville. April 13th.. Kinston. April 16th., Goldsboro. Mr. Woolley was reclaimed from the curse of drink over twenty-tive years ago and since then has conse- cated his great power and ability t j the temperance cause. For many years, he was the leader of the prohi bition party and. in I'JOO, was nomiat- ed by this party for I’resiednt of the I’nited States. For the past live yeais he has been a national lecturer for the Anti-Saloon l.A!ague and. as such, made a campaign of North Carolina in 1912. He has spoken to more peo ple on the temperance subject than any other living American, his audienc es sometime reaching from five thou sands to ten thousand. Dr. Morrow has been in the anti saloon league work for ten years. For several years, he was Superintendent of the Michigan Anti-Saloon League, but because of his splendid ability as a campaigner and pulpit orator, he was called into the work as a nation al lecturer. North Carolina will be delighted to welcome these distinguish ed vistors and will hear them gladly. Information has been given us that the river measured K!.4 feet this morn ing at 8 o'clock. will at the tirst opportunity re-as- semble the convention of Agausi-iU- entes, and before that legal body he will offer to resign his power, in order to leave the convention free to elect as president any nian who may answer to the necessities and rights of all of the Mexican people." Keinforw Itenieeers of Miitani«ro>i. IJrownsvilh'. Tex., April 7—After ton days waiting, some of the rcinl'orce- ments expected by the Villa troop.s for the siege id Motomoros arriveil out side that (■it\ toilay. These reinforce ments were the advance guard only the main forre eonsisting of cannon still heilisr dela.ved hy lack ra.lni.id facllitSes. !n Maianierii" .-■i|nads cd’siddier,--- are t'i!i!y a! WiirU en w!ia! apf.i'a'-. h' additioniil i!('r"’> tii'en Month In l’n> S' i'.es I’l I’.-i.'-'i). Anr. T I'lnni-iseo ):^. ijai ro V'iila'.s si‘i-retary d' tinanei'. l;as de. eieed that all mining jiroperties w:ll lie given but i."ie iiii'iitli of ura‘ e al'ier March "1. in whieh t'l pay thier ta.xe.: M'he Mexiian mining laws eall for confisi'ation > ip St. Mihiel. The German offlciai re- poi's claim all French attacks were reoi.J.sed but a .semi-official starement from Berlin says that accordi i.: to "a prearranged plan the eGrmai out- post.-i retreati-.l from UegnievUie an(’. Fey-Pit-Ka.v’ T’.te .►ielgia s have regaim d some ground ihev i> s* in Flanderti, b'lt e'.f’'’- whei j there i as been no uiange in iho V'e;’.: In Africa Ceneral Ilotha's i'nion of South Africa forces continue their victorious march along the railways but thus far have not overtaken the main Germany army. Doit'a Fear For Dardanelles. Constantinople, April 7. — Via The. Hague and London, April 7.—“1 am | fonvineed the Dardanelles cannot he ' forced. The brave condvict of Ihe Turkish troops in the recent opera tions permits me to conclude fh' ( al though the allies u.se every means at their disposal they will be tinahle to j achieve their purpose." 1 Thus spoke Melimed V. Sultan ofj Ttirkey and First Cauiph of the Mnp-* leni world, today in an audience grant ed to (lie .'\.ssoi inted Press cori esi)irid • lit. The Sultan throughout the aii.lN > ni'e cxpri'ssed the greatest ( onfidei i (' ill Tiir'-Vs -ibilily to witlii- ta’nl the ep .'-hincht of the* alll'-d foree . r.r ! fo' lowed will) liei ii interest a descrii.t Ion of the allie:-' operations ol aMre'i ag.iinst the Dardanelles I'urts. ‘. iv ''i liy the eorre^poiidetlt of ll’.i' d Press who acted a-* spoke-ina'i ti r !|iu I* \h<' had liei n aeonied ihe an li- SiilfiMi Sniile>i Man.- ,n -its nlntel h> tn.' i or respoiileiii. I.iought to the Sultans face s.itus ot . atisfactioi. j- tion an 1 anniscpmnt. V’> the cor- responder,, [.ad been aldi'/' 1 : ' make ii linst/ ji'!r«ai when K-it ■ lUat'ie wiis r“H • le I 1 V the alli-‘i shells ap- IH-ared (o ! «• td '■peci.^tl >'jtere*>* . H. L Machine shops at firlsBouth is Complete loss by Fire Portsmouth, Va., April 7.—Fire to tally destroyed the machine shop and blacksmith shop of the Seaboard Air Line Railway in this city last night, entailing a loss w’hich will probably reach 1300.000, covered by insurance to the extent of $250,000. How the fire luid its origin could not be as certained last night. Shop Men Fight Fire I 'When the firemen arrived theyjUs lound the shop force of fire fighters already engaged in combating their spread to other buildings. All hope of saving the machine and blacksmith shops and the erecting department had been given up. but a thick brick protecting wall did finally halt the progress of the flames into the erect ing shed. It is well, too, that the flames were stopped by this wall, for in the shed when the fire broke out 'viTe a dozen or more valuable loca- raotlves undergoing repairs The clectric current conno(!ted with the shops lighting system was cut off shortly after the fire started, for fear that falling wires might injure the firemen. The failure of the Burrent ntade is impossible to take the loco motives from the erecting shed. The tran.ifer table, operated by electricity, could not be handled at all. and con sequently. tho equipment had to re main in the buring structure. The firemen succeeded, behind thi' protection of tho brick separative wall betwen th machino shop and erecting abed. in preventing the spread of the fiames into the latter department. In less than half an hour alter the fire broke out the roof on the big structure fell in. leaving only the side walls standing. May Send Work to Haleigh. The loss of the machine shop and the blacksmith department is a se vere blow to the shops, whure work was already being carried forward in a curtailed schedule. It will throw possibly 200 men out of employement, and aside from that, obliterates prac- ticajly tho most important depart ments in the shop nystem. Kmergency repair work on the equipment of the road will have to he trans'Vrred to one of the othe' shops (d the line probably to Raleigh. The fact that an independent fire fighting system, with powerful pumps on the ground, had been installed at the shops aided materially in confin ing the flames to the big structure in whhh they origninted The shop’s ':y''iyor Hope called at the shops I'ir.'ig the pre'j-e>-■ n, the lire, ami had severa' nh.-*Uitte n;-,! -olt ■;‘ ii as- sitrncd to dntv there -.t "le >iiU'st of Seaboard ofP-iais. Tle'V v.'i re place ! en duty for t'l ■ tun :io.'. (>r g”i>rdii'K •".■'l>ist inc 'VI T.' I.’;;-,, s in Other ile- I.artments from rp.irl.s ;r.>!n iin- r:.i . > ' h , . ;..-d I -to I tear 1 > .n d ;;ll p.■'-.-.O’' ■ w I ■■ ii id r.r >■ , 1 . ■ t!i r'. Th'.; w:; ihe I'l !' ■■ a. n I ,\r\ \\ e "I Aldermen Purchase Fire Motor Truck For The City of Greenville OFFICERS FWD fRlerestlng SessioD Held at Mimif IMPORIANI MUriEIIS Result Ttie Latter Receives Pistol Rail Ihrough (lis Stomach ONE OFFICER m SIIQi A pistol du>i ill which Police Ofh- cers lirewcr and island had as their adversary tho notorious criminal • Jim” lirown came very near result ing in a serious fatality this morning about 10:30 o’clock. In the rapid fire and exchange of shots biUween the officers and the desperate ni'gro law breaker ()flicer Warren lirewer receiv ed two wounds, one taking effect in his left .“fioiikjer near [he collar hone and the other a slight llesh wound on the first linger of iiis riglit hand. As a lesiilt of Ihe negroe's sudden madness he now lies in jail with two bullet wounds fro;ii the pistol ■!' .illiee,- lirewer. ",lim" Urowu is not an unfamiliar name with ofhecrs here but has been considered a violent and dangerous tiegro for a long while. It was only a few months ago when his son Wil liam Urown, about whom today’s trou ble arose, resisted offlcer Warren Morgan when the latter went to ar rest him for riding a bycicle on the side-walk It was at this lime that W’iiliam ran away in order to escape arrest by the officer and he had not been seen any more until last night when he was spied entering his father’s house down near the river. The of- f.cers were on the alert and early i!\is morning, about .^•:i0 Pol:'-'» (Mlic.-r Bland and Krewe; went do'v i with a search warrant. The young Hrown who was there with his wile took lo the river upon h' aring i'.e offic s coining True 10 suspicion a large oiianiity of whiskey was found in Urown's lunise. Th(> whiskey was taken and oflicer lliand and lir'wer together with Chief- of-Pidiee Smith, si'Oi started to the river to look for the >ounger Ifrowii. Chief Siiiilh n niainel a* the wharf and Hrrwer and liland took alter tile iieLiio b> the canoe r.Mie and V ere soon on his trail 'ihe,'' soon mi l ■•.liin " I’.ruwii. the I'alhi r. ,:i's! a I'ltle ah.ad of them aiul direct n lli.ni and the hind.ini; id' 111 r I r llii V. 11. on .. ■! I, d'llN 111! "I V. (ii;‘!c 'ii ■ ' ( ‘1(110 in !>ai!;i-\ Ti.\.. \pr. '■ ’1'.. ■ .ai. i ' vn ers of Texsa.. inOni'tu-lied by u ■ K’um- .!■« mar’,el I'l; li^.'.t i-attl< . are piaiin ingto taKe I'D i-aille ciu’-in^ on a hi’-'i'i'r .‘■■ale t'i;in ever ''Mire. The rtduetion in cotton aor.'t'gc the c. ni ■'ng sen.'^oi' V "I lie a hi.; boom to ihe cattle Midi' I:; throughout Ihe state, it i-i predicte I The oi tpui is e\- neeted lo di'c'di- iluring the next year. IMooded caiili Is being brought into the state, and ii'fention wiM I.e paid lUoie eloselv t(i ’ locdjiig. 1, 1.,,' r'sl’ ! him lo •I' 11' Dili , .1 u I'll l'.\ the Ili-:' 'cuir r<-- . ’ ■ .1;: I ! I !e- ^ hoidin.', resi :;t: 111 w le n a -!>e,i , li’ -• and • iiati hi d I’.i.: i-- (Kiek. i \\ e. riand ;imi ruled, told him lo le;ivi' iiis tile I anoi'. When wi told insider hinisidf under arrest, 11' I I'Sid Iiis pistol and lus first fire Iwa- lh(- beginning id' the exchange of liids. 1 i ri'd live times and Hlainl 'car titiics. I was hit first in th>' left shoulder ind next ew Fiuniture, Ktc„ Ordered i'uriha> ed For The Mayor's Oflice. Citj Klection to He Held on First .Monday in ilune. The Hoard of Aldermen niei iii,-' night and took up the business of thcii regular meeting of last week al whicis t ine they niet ;ind adjourned on ai couiit of the District Ctmvention of Odd Fellows being in session her« Several important matter were brought up and passed upon last night. The •Mayor and Ihe entire Hoard w.-re pr< sent. The first matter lo be taken up b' the Hoard was in regard to the list ing of taxes by Capt. J. .1 .Liiughing- buuse. The report of the committee was called lor, whereupon Capt l.aughiiighoijse askiMi lo be hoard . He requested that the Hoard rescind it-- former action. .\t the end of the dis eussion it w;is moved and carrienl h\ vote that he be relievt-d of 191.' tr.xes and that he be required to pa> the taxes due from the year PU4. The .Alotor Fire Truck proposition ne-xt l ame up and Fire Chief Overton and several citizens made short talks in favor of the purchase of a truck .-V committee of three, consisting of Aldctrmen Hardee, Smith and Filing ton was appointed to investigate and purchase a motor truck if their judg ment so directed them, Mr. L. W. Tucker appeared befon the Board and asked for an appro priation of ^fiO.OO to help defray thi expenses of a dinner for th(> Old Sold iers at the celebration on the lltb of May. A motion to this effect was made and carried by a unanimous vote. The sum was later raised $2.'i.OO mak ing the total $75.00, The reports of tho Regular l ommit tees were next called for. The Financ.- Committee filed a report and the sam.- was adopted. 'Ihe Water and Uighl. Ordinance, Cemetery and Market Com niittees had no report to make. The report of the Purchasing Coiii inittee stated that chairs ha*l b«;eii I ordered for the Mayor’s Otfice. Thi j committee in its report also reconi- ! mended tho purchase of a desk for the Mayor and suggested that the Mayor'.^ OfTicc be renovated, A motion was made and carried as to the pureJiase of the 1 hairs and the desk, ■Mdernian lOlliiigton suhni;it' ! liiiit,k forms for repcuts to be mad- bv the City Manager, It was tiiovi i and carried that the blanks ,^ub . ;:i' d ii.i ■ I red :'i (•'ontiiuied on Page Two) ■l't:i’ i' - ra -I li . a-, aii- la-, . av y,."' > sirecr ,»dept(’d aiid tii: I ll.>'v be lli-> otliee of ’ City i ..ihn-.v .till' !'::■• Man: :.■■ ; * 1 .'i. eit. T!;e Puri ba'ini; ('i'laniii thorize.l to pureha.-i' ;t o;i' i:'i>wer for the cemetery, : level, and sp'.'ayers fur ? Iirinkler. .Mderman 7.. P. VatiDyke was ti;- poin’ed a I'ommittee of one to repre sent the Hoard on the Public I.ibtary Committep. Mr I'riley wa.s elected pdliroinnri to till the vacanty caused by Ihe n- siguiition if Mr. Clark, his electict» to date from April 1st. The Purcha>^-. ing CommiHeo was authoriziid to pur. (ConUaued tm Page Tbn6l Jj