North Carolina Newspapers

v .t-' ' 1: ,4 '(. A -. ..:'. ..; -3 .$ -. iii:ad it FIRST IN THE JOURNAL wnr mil a wrwfk 1 3. . .Tl NEW BERN, N. C; WEDNESDAY MORNING JULY 29, 1914 YOL. LXII.No. 11 V FIVE CENTS PER COPY u u Km A fai 4- 0 Jr. Sjgrfest; Stfftpp and . Tfec Delay ollhc Servians Proves Fatal to all : Peace KegoUUons-The Aiufrian Fleet Dais -r Been Ordered to Concentrate and get Ready For. Action-lie Whole World Looking on. VIENNA. : July i28f Officiaf, noti- 'ficitioiof thV a3araYidnjof kw was; - " Hupganatt.yefnmeirt. . ,,s ' - bT.. ,,",Stmer Seized. . NISH. SERVIA, July 28. The Ser-V- -vlan ateamers Deligrad and Merava :v fwer aeiaed today : at Oraova on the , " Danube 1y J Austrian8.i The ' Servian V oiora were hauled down and. the Aua t " Ariaa Bag ' hoisted. The passengers wercdetained. " '-:'fO Way Inevitable. : -: - VIENNA, ' July" 287 The imperial . : Austro-Hungarian foreign office de ' '. clared today that even should Seryia , : now comply with the demands contain , - ed in the note, the government of the dual monarchy would not be satisfied. Officials at the ministery stated that -r .Servia's reply had made it impossible : ; forAustra-Hungary to adhere to her for . ;-f - ner standpoint " and compliance by f Servia with the demands made on her icould no longer Influence the course , of action of ' the Austro-Hungarian L em- ..". " - Troop to the Front.' ',, """BERLIN,- July 28-Reports from the Austrian border today, state - that ; the transport of the eighth and ninth Austrian amy corps v froH) Bohemia ' - , toward the Servian frontier began; Slon day, an4,hat there was no 'other traf 6c, on jJitiBoheoiian railroads', -except - , that of troops trains. J J , , 1 t t , , ; ; tThe two iiorps- consist of 42, battal- ' ions of fnfantryi with a large dumber of jtjipt.-firing machine guns; six regiments " A calvary, two Tegiments of Betd ar A tiUery,-and two regiments of the artoy, ' - i service corps. " f u , . f " A t r Tle Powers See It.-r. ' LONP0 " July W.rThe j' refusal "by Grermany and Austna-Hungary to . " participate in mediation conferrence on ;.vthe Austro-Servian.conflictr reports of fythe; rapid -movement iof r AustrorHun . garian troops and a persistent down :'ward trend of European stock markets were the outstanding, developments of . sthr European situatioan.""!, : -K tietting .Keaajt. Preparations for ,war' proceeded on , all sides. Even England s battle squad ; - rons have all been mobilized in readiness ,,for eventualities, and .the publication - -of official news as to their movements V : has ceased. ' The first and second bat ,1 : tie squadrons have taken on war stores and ready to slip their anchors at a mom- ents notice, the, destroyer" flotillas aroundJthe coast have been prepared and armed guards were placed today around t all the magazines and depots. i -H ..Germany's definite dicision against participation in the ambassadorial con Terence proposed by Sir Edward Grey, "the British foreign secretary, in an effort i' ; to maintain 'peace, js regarded here as ' tantamount to a declaration of Ger , many's determination that . Austria- Hungary shall have an entirely free hand in chastising .Servia . unless, the t Balkan k'. gdom accedes iuH to xfe- man-'- ' ""narchy; . "" : .. i : .: - : .. . : h-. , BELGRADE, July 28. Many Ser-, vian fani.acs have l.t the capital for 'the country districts in spite Of the ad- "vice of the authorities while 'there has been a great exodus of Austrians and Hungarians from Erade and , pLhor parts of Servia. - Tit order prevails in the capi tal, t' c police duties having been un c' ' ii by a corps of volunteers com--. " t nts. - , ... ... , .. Ttions are being car i ) -!-; h activity. J " i ! r "ttf i i i f t- SEVERAL - BEFORE THE !UYU DISORDERLY CONDUCT CHIEF V CHARGE AG AINST THE ' LAW BREAKERS Charlie Willis and James Barfield, colored, were arranged before Mayor Bangert at Police Court yesterday af ternoon charged with being disorderly in the city limits. . The defendents were mere boys be ing fourteen and sixteen . years of age respectively, and neither was serious ly hurt in the altercation in which they participated. After hearing the evidence and considering that . their fathers are highly- respected colored citizens, the mayor suspended judg ment upon the payment of the cost. ' Judgement was suspended upon the payment of the cost in the case against George Gidds, colored,, charged with driving a vehicle between. passenger train, and the Union Passenger Station, on Queen street. Nat Lewis, white; and his eleven year, old son,. Millard Lewis, were ar ranged in police court yesterday af ternoon charged ; with disorderly con duct.; As the boy was extremely young the J 'Mayor discharged him Waving it with his father to administer the pun- ishmentS-As the trouble all originated in a family affair between Mr, Levis and his next door neignDor, ana tne .Vital lys h ' iiui. v . o-i.vw iiwi,u 1. r. . m Funn.i. fiat nrd judgment. '-wa s suspended en tne pays ment of the cost,, but later, after thj defendant and the prosecutor had talkt ed the matter over an made up the case was reconsidered and the charges withdrawn. v - , LILLIAN RUSSELL WINS OUT OVER PNEUMONIA Former"- Opera stars vv Vitality " Brings Quick Recovery - t Atlantic City.' Atlantic city,' July 2a. it has just become known that Lillian Russell, comic opera starand now the wife of Alexander-P. Moore, publisher Of the Pittsburg Leader, has been acutely ill at the summer -home in. Ventnor,- At lantic City but that the fine vitality which has so wonderfully, preserved, her youth has brought about a. quick re covery. . " ' -v - T , 5 T U What began ten days ago as appar ently Only a cold soon developed symp toms Of pneumonia.. Her own physician from New York and Dr. C L. Schil decker of Pittsburgh were sent by Mr. Moore to assist the local physicians, who had ordered their noted patient to take her to bed. v . t - A nurse was installed,-and today.it waa announced- at Mrs. Moore's home that she is entirely out of danger:.". ? MRS FISH HAS A CURE, s : . . ' . ........ ... . if. -.r1.. : ' v..j- 5 ! , '' FOR THE DIVORCE EVIL, Let Women Go To Market and Re " ' form Their Present Style of t y , Dress, She Saye. ' , NEWPORT, July 28. Mrs. Stuyve sant Fish talked vigorously about pre sent day styles in. women's dress in the Ca sino here this morning. Her subject v t short skirts and tight-fitting gar t I Fi .h never has worn clothes r i mo 1. It become apparent t j f ; i c'o: en'st believe any oilier ' ' '1 r l mar' et an ! IDAHO US IF ' Three Factions "Ent'ors State Wide Prohibition. SOCIALISTS ALSO ENDORSE IT Democratic Legislature Certain Of Election In The Fall. .... BOISE, IDAHO, July 28. Idaho has the distinction of having three prohi bition parties in the field this year. Whether Republicans, Uemocrats or Progressives carry the election in November. State-wide prohibition - is certain to come either at once through legislative enactment or eventually through constitutional amendment. In any event, whichever way the election goes, the licensed soloon seems doomed. - . Platform conventions were held by the four plolitical parties, including the Socialists,, under the terms of the new primary election law. f5C.JTheje conventions were made up of the dele gates from all the conuties three times as many as the number of Leg islators. - They all met on the same day and all filed their platforms on the dame day with the Secretary of State. ' Excerps From Platforms. On the liquor issue the Republican convention indorsed the cause of ' na tional prohibition and then said "We hereby declare in favor of State-wide prohibition within the State of Idaho',- nad to that 'end favor the .submission to the voters of this State buy the next legislature assembly of a constitutional amendment- em bodying that . provision; and in the event of the failure of the Republican party to secure the two-thirds vaote necessary to the passage of a resolu tion of submission, we pledge our members of the Legislature to the passage of a direct prohibition legis lative enactment." ; The Progressives. The Progressives inserted this plank. w',"We declare for State-wide pro hibition 'of the liquor traffic to be Xa jr3t by legislative enact T i i ment, and second, by submission to the people for their approval of a constitutional amendment. We pledge our Senators and Representatives in Congress -to work and vote for na tional prohibition." f In the Democratic convention there f was a hard fight for silence on the question.:; "There was' also a strong sentiment for a municipal unit plank. fThe following was finally adoptedd "We" favor the submission to the yoters of the State of a constitutional amendment . forever prohibiting the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors therein, and pledge our candi dates to the next Legislature to the submission of such amendment in 1916." v -" -i ':';. : There it this distinction . - While the Republicans and i Progressives are pledged to the enactment of a law, as well as. the submission of a Constitu tional amendment,' the- Democrats are pledged only to the submission of an amendment. " ';"': " For1 this reason,, it is thought heret is a strong likelihood of the election of a Democratic Legislature next fall. The "wets" are expected to favor the Democrats, for a Democratic Legisla ture would give them two. years longer in which to transact business and more time to. prepare-to fight the constitu tional amendment.- iit,s. ; ; ; USING MUClt WATER PressureAt Plant Down To Jfhlrty W ":.:Pounaa.' 'At- This hot weather is an excellent time to use water and judging from the fact that therer was onfy thirty pounds pres sure t the water "plant, last night at 9 o'clock, someone was certainly using However," water- consumers J should not waste the Water.' In case. of fire the firemen would be, badly' handicapped, and a heavy Joss of property would pro bably be the results " The supply, is hot any t o r -'tt at present, a'nd all water r , ; r -qurited to help in pre- PARTIES L READY TO ATTEND THE Tl Will Leave New Bern Morning. . on Sunday FOUR COMPANIES ARE GOING. To Make Concerted Effort To Land The 1915 Meet ing. New Bern will be well represented at the State Firemens' Tournament which is to be held at Winston-Salem next week, hour ot the local hose wagon teams are planning to participate in the horse hose wagon races to be held on Wednesday and in addition to the Wednesday and in addition to the mem bers of the four companies, numbering about eighty who will attend the annual meet, a large number of enthusiastic "fire fans" will make the trip to the twin city and be on hand to lend their aid in cheering the New Bern lads. Hose wagon teams from the Atlantic Steam Fire Engine Company, New Bern Steam Fire Engine Company, No. 1, the Riverside Hose Wagon Company and the Fourth Ward Hose Wagon Oompany will participate in the races. Some of the members of the different companies with their horses and wagons will leave New Bern on Saturday night while others will make their departure early Sunday ttioming. New Bern wants the 1915 tournament and every effort will be made ro land it. The Board of Aldermen have exten ded to the State Firemens' Association an invitation to hold their next meeting here and the local fireman are so certain that this invitation will be. accepted that they jiave already begun to prepare to make up the largest list of premiums ever offered at any tournament held in the State. They are loaded to the brim with attractive advertising matter which be used in the Twin City. Some of this consists of attractive tags on which are the words "Meet Me in New Bern in 1915. The home of a big time.". There will be other methods brought into use also to put New Bern before the. public and there is every reason to believe that , the 1915 tournament will be landed. ' 100 FALL INTO OCEAN AS PO COLLAPSES MOST "OF THEM WOMEN WHO WANTED TO SEE MOV ING PICTURES. NEW YORK, July 28.While 500 men, women and children were standing upon a lightly built pier extending into the ocean at Blue Point, L. I., yesterday morning, crowding together so as to get, into a moving picture that was being taken of bathers and yatchmen in the water, a section of the pier collapsed. More than; 100 persons mainly wo men 'in summer finery were thrown into the surf. The water where they fell wafl only three or four feet deep, so no one was injured, though there was a lot of excitement and considerable tear shedding over .mined frocksT ' Many well know New York women were among', those who took , the in voluntary dip V Some of them were Mrs. Henry Ziegler and her , daughters Misses' Natalie, 'and . Helena " Zeigler; the Misses Mildred and Irene Schrag, the Misses Irene May and Edna Cash- man,, Miss Millicent Horton, Miss Louise Paterson and , Miss Florence ScarbOro. .-.., 1 An unidentified fat man was the only one who really, suffered.. When he fel into the water he couldn't rise and had. to be helped to his feet by several bathers. It SCHMIDT WANTS NEW TRIAL ' NEW YORKJuly 28TMIan8 Schmidt under death sentence -for ; the murder or Anna -Mueller, applied today for a - new -trial.'. Schmidt's counsel as serts' the girl wis not murdered, but died after ' an -operation, and that Sch- Ut cut up her body to prevent : 1.. ... & s'?nnal.' 'and to protect .the sur geon who' performed the operation Ai r't on the application will be l ' C ' r 5. FIREMEN 1UR1ENT LOCAL RAILWAY MEN 1Y GET INCREASE SIX MONTHS ASKED FOR COMES TO A CLOSE SAT URDAY. Next Saturday, August 1, is the date on which it is believed the Norfolk Southern Railway Company will take up with the men employed in the local shops, the matter of making a final set tlement in regards to the difference which existed six months ago in re gard to higher wages. At that time a near-strike was averted when Presi dent Hix and Superintendent Witt told a committee of local railway men who had gone to Norfolk to confer with the officials, that they would take some de finite steps within the course of six months. This period comes to a close on Au gust 1 and the general public is await ing with interest to see what steos will be taken. Just what the railway men intend doing is not known. Thev have adopted a reticence which is mark ed and the public is not aware of their intentions. However, it is quite pro bable that the committee 'will again go to Norfolk and confer with president Young. There is not much probability of a strike as the men are now receiving good wages and are working on full time. NEW INDUSTRY BEAUFORT MEN TO OPEN PLANT AT SOUTHPORT. SOUTHPORT, July 28. An impor tant new fertilizer industry is to be start ed, about three miles west of South- port. The company to operate is com posed of Beaufort, N. C. , men, who are in the csame business at that place, and being shown the advantages of establish ing a plant on theCape Fear, were offer ed a fine site up the Elizabeth river about two miles from where it enters the Cape Fear river, below this city, and up on visiting the place bought it. The place is known locally as Frazier's Neck, and has several hundred acres. The new company here will be call ed the Southport Fishscrap & Oil Co., and will operate their own fish boats of which they have a number. Or ders to build factory and other con structions are given, and the company will push the work so as to get into operation at an early date. It is said that $50,000 will be spent on the plant, this not to include any boats, nets, etc., which the company now has. TIE ELOPERS HAPPILY SPOONING IN HALIFAX DOPED DAUGHTER WIRES PAR ENTS THAT SHE IS VERY HAPPY. SAVANNAH, July 28. It was all a mistake , it seems. Mrs. Florence Pickard Harrison, daughter of Dr. W. L. Pickard, president of Mercer Uni versity, who flouted her fiance to elope with the sweetheart of the younger days, is a s happy as a bride should be according to a message from the elop ers in Halifax. Mrs.Harriso n has not repented of he hasty bargain, and the hopes of Karl Karsten, the jilted fiance are faded. The Pickard family , is busy today explaining the situation. At first Dr. Pickared and other members of the family were foremost in denouncing Harrison, who had persuaded Miss Pickard to wed him, although she was formally ; engaged to another man. Now. they declare- they put the wrong construction on a message that came from the bride in New York, and that alt rumors of unhappiness had sprung frOm their misconception of her tele gram for money. " This explanation was 3ue upon re ceipt of ' a dispatch telling haw Very happy the elopers were. They arrived in Halifax by steamer ' and plan to remain all summer. Both bride and bridegroom .said -the honeymoon trip was wonderful, and they sent joint letters to her parents and to Mr. Karsten. They 'received a hearty tel egram of congratulations from Kara ten . . ' It Is explained that , when the mes sage came from the . bride, that she wished for her mother, and asked for money, the Pickard -family-and-Kar ten construed it to mean that she was unhappy and wanted to return home. CLUE TO LIGHT NELMS CASE Police of Country Are Still Mak ing Search For Miss ing Girl. ATLANTA, July 28. Discovery to day by Atlanta postal officials of a let ter bearing the signature of "Mrs. V. E. Innes" furnished the first means the detectives have had of learning if Mrs. Innes is the mysterious "Margaret Mims" or "Mary Hardman," who is said to have been in Atlanta with Vic tor Innes to get large sums of money from Mrs. Eloise Nelms Dennis, or if they are separate identities. The letter was mailed from San An tonio June 3, and contained a request that all mail addressed either to her self or Victor Innes be forwarded at once to Box 1278 in San Antonio. Comparison immediatedly was made with the signature of "Mrs. M. M. Hardman" and "Levina Hardman" ap pearing on the Scoville Hotel register May 19, and marked similarities were found. The two names on the hotel register were written by the same hand and are known to have been the names under which the Mims woman and El oise Dennis went when they were there together. The hand writing corresponds iri many important particulars to that in the letter just uncovered by the postal. authorities, and investigators expressed confidence that the Mims woman and the woman who wrote for Mrs. Innes' mail were one of the same. , At the time of this developmente there came to Atlanta the news that tho government, recalling its refusal td interest itself in the case, had decide to investigate in six cities of the Unite States the relations of Victor Innes an Eloise Dennis, acting under the genera authority of the Mann "Whits Slave'l act. This decision was reached after a conference in Washington between Mar shall Nelms, Congressman William Schlev Howard and officials of the De partment of Justice. It is under-stoofd that the machinery of the department at once will be selt in motion. New Possibilities Opened. Several possibilities are opened up by the discovery of the new postoffice evidence. Mrs. J. W. Nelms, theaAtln ta wonan. They advance, however, q the possibility that it was not Mrs Innes who wrote the forwarding letter from San Antonio, but the woman who went under the names of Mims and Hardman, who assumed for the time the name of Innse' wife guarding against the possibility of the real Mrs. Innes getting the frowarded letters by having them sent to a private post office box. ' Mrs. Innes' Letter. Q Specimens of Mrs. Innes' handwrit ing will be obtained to compare with that in this letter signed with her name, and also to compare with the names of the hotel register. The letter from San Antonio war discovered by a forwarding clerk in the Atlanta postoffice and immediately was turned over to Inspector R. E. Barry. San Antonio was misspelled. Th e letter said "San Antonio, Tex., June 3, 1914. "Postmaster, Atlanta , Georgisa "Dear Sir Any and all mail that may be held in your postoffice for Mrs. V. E. Innes, Mr. V. E. Innes, Mrs. I. M. Innes (general delivery) please forward to P. O. Box 1278, San Antonio, Tex. "Oblige. Respectfully, "Mrs. V. E. (I. M.) INNES. ". Dispatches from San Antonio'' said' that Mrs. Innes rented the box in the postoffice there on March 10. Mail was ordered forwarded; to Box' 1075 in Portland on June 29. In renting the . box in San Antonio, she gave J. S. Roberta and Georgis Austin, both of t San Francjsco, as references. - Dissatisfaction with the inactivity of the Portland (Oreg.) " police force , and the firm conviction ' that 'Victor ANOTHER COMES E. Innes knows more of the circura- stances than he has told, led to a Con- . ; ference between Attorney Reuben Ar-; v nold and Mrs. J. W. Nelms on tne ad ; visabilitv of emolovinir , a private de- .: . tective kgency to trace the career of the : .. lawyer for "the last year or more and to v ., "shadow'' 'his present movements.' ' -t : a: Attorney Arnold is outspoken la' his disappointment at the attitude "of the- ; Portland "ploice and in his belief that immediate action it necessary. -