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LINA FAIi . ; i : 3W IN: PROGRESS - WEEGOIvIJ it r r 1 r , f ,7 ' ' I P 'A -77 r f ' h Jr. '. ' -J 1 VOL LXII.-No, 160 SPEED. "BEMONS; TO BEt EfiSIEi BUM : , '!' --i :!- . ". ' -. . I IS A' FODAY 1 "V 'v)epectMTliai"theAt'tenaaMlUSuri8sTliat of the Past A s Three Day8---Thrilling Motorcycle and Hose Wagon - Jo - i Races Last Chance to See Exhibits Grounds fiot Open Tonight . " Another day :ot ideal weather y esr terday is attributable to the fact that ,"an eVen larger cr.owd than on the pre - vious day attended the Third Eastern . 1 Carolina Fair in progress here this week and "that" each and every one of the many thousands- went away profuse in iheir pcaise of. the' great exhibit, and declaring that they would be on hand again today the .last day of the event, i. - As on the previous days the midway and the various exhibit .buildings wereman who acknowledged shooting Clara packed during the forenoon and the . .attractions on- the former did a rushing business while the latter, was litterally y-i-:Yr''m. sea of humanity. In the main exhi Tbit building are seen the most inter . gating displays andthese are of real . irterit." and , not a person visited the ' grounds without' looking these over. The hrse acing yesierday" was ex . . cellentt in fect it can easily be said that ( the speed teats "werel&etter than on ."Tiny' one of 'the' previous days and" the A' large grandstand was packed wth v (eager spectators. i The Last Day Today .fa'-the'.-lait'Vlay of tne Fair .'and as the grounds will not be open to . night aifother record breaking crowd will be in attendance. The chief at traction of the day wilf be the. motor cycle racing which will take place at 2:30 o'clock. In this race there will be two riders 'from, Wilmington, two from Vanceboro and three local boys. -The -. half mile track is in excellent condition , -and some thrilling racing is expected. The two younjg pien from, Wilmington are aid to be the holders of the racing .'record in New Hanover county and only a few weeks ago attained, a speed of 64 , miles art. hour, .on their, machines. ' i'V Every- precaution has been taken, to "$3 prevent an accident on the track dur- ' ing uie racci miu 11 is pruuauic mat uic riders will come out without any mis hap. , .r . .. i. .: Auto Raclni It is planned to have an automobile v' race and one machine' has already been. entered for this but as no other driver . ' lias yet showed up it is not assured that this race will be held.' - However, if .-one or more additional! machine ow ners want lo get in the game they will be allowed to do sol " .-r " T T, . Hose Wagon Racing Today is to, be officially known as "Firemen's Day.', and all of, the nre- men of the city will be on hand. The Fourth : Ward 'and the Riverside Hose . wagon ' teams - will give , an -.- exhibi tion race in front of- thg grandstand ; immediately- after ' the conclusion of ' the -motorcycle , races and as there is ' considerable rivalry between these two companies, this exhibition is expected to, prove thrilling and of much inter est. - . - ' The Norfolk Southern Railway Com- . pany will operate their ' shuttle train -to the Fair Grounds again today, annd theft will also-e a large number of ' boats and automobiles in operation and there will be ample facilities Tor all to 'reach the grounds and get baclc 14-f thev'cify at any time they desire'. Remember! This is the last day of - the Fair. Go today or never. Don't - miss this great event and next week wish that you had attended when the ,next door neighbor tells you of the "big time" they had or the things they saw. TIIS WEATHER 11 e er y t for. New Bern and is f.Ur. Gentle to ' w t winds. 1 in the city at- EAfe GROUNDS! TO CLOSE YOUliiS THOMPSON HELD ' FOR SUPERIOR COURT would-be-slayer of scarlet WOMAN SENT BACK TO HIS CELL. Jasper Thompson the voung white Kimball, a woman of ill fame at Pem broke, Wednesday night , was given a preliminary hearing yesterday morn- ing before Justice of the Peace Walter Fulford, and held for court without bail. Reports from Fairview Sanatorium last night were that the woman was resting well but. was still in a serious condition. Although he wound has been probed deep the: bullet has not yet been located, and Dr; Bonner, who has the case in charge, stated that i might not be located for several days, He also stated that the bullet entered the right breast, apparently, from an angle which would make it possible for the right lung to have been pene trated, and the ball continued its course into the left, and if such is the case recovery will be doubtful. Dr. Bonner said that .it would be several days be fore an opinion could be expressed as to whether or not the wound will prove fatal. PUT HALF THE TOWN EARLY MORNING: BLAZE CON- BIG STOCK I AND BURNS SEABOARD DEPOT CLA&KSTON, N. C Oct. 29 When the ins of Clarkston were awakened this Swning about ,3 -o'clock, hy the loud noise of an explosion, they found the big store of the O. L. Clark Com pany almost entirely wrapped in flames The entire building and the. immense stock, the largest in this section of the State, were quickly and totally de stroyed,? and only partially covered by insurance on building-and goods, i Mr, O. L. - Clark, ' president : and ' largest stockholder, in the company, , was at Hickory 'attending the North Carolina Presbyterian Synod. - . The' flames" spread from the Clark store and destroyed the Seaboard Air Line passenger depot and freight ware house, the "agent, Mr, Huffman, i be ing ; unable .to save even 1 his Office records .The store ?' owned by - Dr, Clark and . occupied by W." S. Clark Company was also destroyed with the stock the latter amounting to $1,500. Another house of Dr. Clark's occu pied by John .Smith as a market, was burned, ad was also the warehouse of D. h Clark. J ; By hard work? the-flames wre stop ped on the east at the new brick drug store, this building being a good new one and of brick made it possible to save the rest on that side of the street . The store of N. A. Currie & Co., and the stable of E. J. Cox & Co., both were in great danger much "of the time. The O. L. Clark Compaay's building seems to have caught from the inside somewhere near the back' part of. the store, where there was a large tank of kerosene oil, and also a tank full of compressed air which was used for lit,'"' "is? purposes, and as soon as. this ploded the f .uiies enveloped the en tire ImUtUr.i s quickly that not even I Gil NEW BERN, N. C., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1914 TOMORROW TO W DEMDGRATiC DAU IN GRAVEN CD, Party Leaders Will Deliver esting Addresses at a Number of Towns, and Villages. Intefi SEVERAL COUNTY OFFICERS . ON SPEAKERS' LIST. Probable That a Big Mass Meeting Will be Held In New Bern on "Next Mon day Night. Tomorrow October 31, will be a big day for the Democrats of Craven county. Chairman Stephen H. Lane has arranged to have public speaking at various points in the county. and these speeches will be made by men who are known all over the State and who: ari in addition to this, most brilliant orators and thoroughly familiar with the principles of the Democratic party. Chairman Lane has arranged to have the following speakers at the places named below: Vanceboro, I.. I. Moors and B. B. Hurst. Fort Barnwell, C. R. Thomas and S. H. Fowler.'' Dover, R. A. Nunn and R. B. Lane. Cove City, E. M. Green and W4). Flanner. Croatan, C. D. Bradham and Walter Watson. At Bridgeton, to night, October the thirtieth, a general mass meeting will be held at which a number of speech es will be made by prominent men While complete arrangements vejern route to Dunkirk and Calais im not been made it is probable that a big passable may shift t0 the south with mass meeting will be held in New Bern , B , ag the ob:ective. v 1 I. . XT ...... 1 r I on Monday night, November 2, and at that time speeches will be made by a a number of the most prominent Demo crats in this section. FOR ARMOR PLATE OVER 750,000 SAVED ON PUR CHASES FOR THREE NEW DREADNOUGHTS. Washington, October 29. Contracts for $10,674,1 12 worth of armor plate and steel for. the. new battleships Califor nia, Mississippi and Idaho were awarded to-day by the Navy Department to the Bethelehem and Midvale Steel com pa nies. The Betheleham contracts are for material for two vessels aggregating $7,122,708, and the Midvale contract for the other at $3,551,404. , A statement issued by the Nayy De partment to-night said a reduction in process secured through - the efforts of Secretary. Daniels had resulted in a saving of $759,542 on these contracts. Mr. Daniels persuaded the compaines to accept 1 contracts on the basis ot total supply for construction of the three vessels at the lowest prices they had specified for limited quantities of the materials, j 5 ; .: ST. PAULS SCHOOL - TEAM THE , i WINNERS. The : baseball team of St. Paul's school yesterday ' afternoon ' defeated the East Front street team by a 'score of 30 to 15. The game was a swat festifrom start to finish but wa's ex citing' to the youngsters engaged in It. ' ' ' u" 1 L. B. Ennett, of Cedar Point, and who is superintendent of die public schools of Carteret county,' is in ' the city attending the Fair, .1 ' were those present able to open the door. This entire building; and every thing in and near it was a complete loss. , J. SEEN AT THE AT 2 O'CLOCK ALLIES HOIDIIIC T FourteenthtDay of the Battle West Flanders Finds Thetn Fighting of TEMPORARY LULL IN FIGHTING WEDNESDAY News From South Africa and Other Points Is Rather Vague in Many Details LONDON, Oct. 29 The fourteenth day of the battle of West Flanders, which is being fought over an area hardly greater than a good sized farm in the state of Iowa, found the Allies holding their ground to the west of the Yser and the Germans apparently bringing up more reinforcements to re peat their furious attempts to break through and reach the coast of France. All dispatches seem to agree that there was a temporary lull yesterday in the fighting- between Nieupoijt and Ypres, but the reports are far from una nimous as to whether this was due to an armistice to bury the dead and re move the wounded, which must thickly cover tne neld, or wtietaer it was caused by the exhaustion of the con tending forces or the German lack of: ammunition. The London press hazards all three j guesses and contends at any rate that the position of the allies is, satisfactory. The public is warned, however, that the struggle in this qOarter is not yet over, fnr thp fiprmans if thev find thp nnrrh- It was at Boulogne that Napoleon waited in vain for his troops to embark for England, and the taking df this city by the Germans would stir the people as nothing else could. - Berlin claims that there has been no recent progress in the struggle in Flanders and, as if explaining this, says sixteen British warships are op erating on the coast. This number never has been con firmed by British sources but a dis patch from Dover reports that a bat tleship equipped. with twelve-inch guns has gone to the ' assistance of the British monitors, which have been shelling the Germans on the shore. Other, reports speak of heavy firing in the North Sea, as if a big naval engage ment had taken place, but the admiralty here is silent. Taken as a whole the English interpretation of the news this morning was cheerful. From . South Africa came a state ment that General Botha had in flicted -a sharp defeat upon General Beyers, the latest recruit to the revo lutionary movement in the Union of South Africa. . In the eastern arena of the war in Europe the , Russians appear to have 'driven the "German right wing as a fortnight ago they shattered the left before Warsaw. In confirmation of this is the German official admission that . their 'troops, together with the Austnans, had retreated in Poland, . Beginning today . the ' British court goes . into mourning for three weeks for Prince M&tirice of Battenburg, the first .member of the royal family to be sacrificed the war. The Prince was a cousin o.f ; King George and a son of Prince Henry of Batten berg. He held Cdm mission in the King's ' Royal Rifle, iporps" and died of wounds received' in battle. Royal con dolences' already ' have been sent to his sister," the , Queen of, Spain, who but a few days agd gave birth to a son. There are recurring reports that the Germans are constructing sheds ' on the Belgian coast' for the housing of Zeppelin airships; a" local, newspaper is offering free insurance against Zeppelins to its subscribers - ', . V There is no official; confirmation of the reported German invasion of Por-1 tuguese West Africa. '',' ' ' -' Holland is still on edge as ' regards a possible violation of her neutrality. TERRIBLE UNITED STATES TO BULL Agree to Let Great Britain Look Over Cargoes Of Vessels Flying U. S. Flag. DID THIS IN ORDER TO AVOID ANY TROUBLE. Prince Louis of Batteburg Resigns As Head Of The Brit ish Admi ralty. Washington, Oct. 2. The State Department, through acting secretary Lansing, announced tonight government wont I ;vquicsr: Britain's stan! iv: mling right i .n- -n sels . i-v .-. T'-'n a CI- - .T.- ( I: that this to ',ro:t ' - -.-ri.-n-l afi.-r l .i ii- sing "" RC 'tF.SIGNS. PRINCE LOVI.S BATTF.ni London, Oct. 2'. A c issued tonight announces Louis of Matteberg has res the admiralty. This ends t'- -: circular at Prince ;ned from campaign pf villification directed against, the first sea lord of the Britis'i navy from the beginning of the war. Prince Louis is a native- German and his father was a Prussian officer. THE GREEKS LAND LARGE NUMBER TROOPS. ALLOW JOHN W SEARCH SHIPS Rome. Oct. 29. A report that Greece! as a model young man, possessed of has landed 1,200 soldiers at Santin" bad habits and of a genial cheerful Quaranta, in Southern Alcania, is j disposition. causing a profound impression in Rome as this step is strongly opposed to the London conference. TWENTY FOUR REBELS LAY DOWN THEIR ARMS. London, Oct. 29. The Press Bureau announces tonight that the South Af rican government reports that Col. Vandevanter states that twenty-four rebels surrendered at Brandvlei. Gen eral Mackenize rounded up the rebels in that district. CONFIRMATION OF THE REPORT OF SHIPS SINKING. London, Oct. 29. Confirmation of the report that a British ship had struck a German land battery off the Belgian coast was contained in. a press associa tion dispatch from Dover tonight. It is stated that eight British seamen were killed in a coast battle there. NO IMPORTANT NEWS FROM FRENCH CAPITAL. Paris, Oct. 29. An official statement issued at midnight says that according to the latest information there is no important news to announce. NEGROES WANT BETTER RAIL ROAD SERVICE IN N. C. Raleigh, N. C, October 29. A score of negro men, representing fra ternal and religious organizations in the State, called on the Corporation Commission today and petitioned for better railroad, service Jas. B. Dud ley, president ' of the ' colored Agri cultural and Mechanical College, was the spokesman.1 The commission pro mised to look into the matter at once. DESTROYER PAULDING IS STILL AGROUND. Norfolk, Va., October 29. The de stroyer Paulding aground in Lynn Haven inlet, has settled 1 deeper in the sand. Wreckers are at work try ing to float her,' m rv , 7" i : ? The first boat load of food for Bel gium under American supervision left London today.' ' l , FIVE CENTS PER COPY TODAY CITY OF ATLANTA O. V. Willaims of Middlesex Brooded Over a Plot to Disgrace His Name and Killed Self TWO CARBOLIC ACID BOTTLES ARE FOUND Was Employed in the Louisville and Nashville Yards as Train Dis patcher ATLANTA, Oct. 2 -Kneeling be side his lied, apparently in priyer, . Wiliiains : ! !n,!'ad-. a 10 year oh i disc i 1 ' M:irv ( 'i rlh ("aro- v:i dead by i iiii.i n, no. Mr VI, reel . IV 'mi n ( !-! !i- ,i ; ' is and a " 1 1 ; 'I' l-it'" -1 r ' l .v .!. r of the ;'i i. i.iy in l:u- llnnr n.-ir lii.n and told ! 'n- s' nrv. ; Investigation revv ih'd a pathetic story of his iiroodiiu; owr what he believeil to lie a plot to disgrace him. This and an overwhelming homesick ness a craving to see his friends and the old home place in the little town of Middlesex, N. ('.. are the only rea sons that can be ascribed for the deed by his most intimate friendsj Young Williams, who came here from North Carolina several months ago, was employed in the Louisville and Nashville Railroad yards as a dispatcher, and was regarded by rail road officials and all who knew him Accused of Robbery A short time ago his friends were astonished when a man stopping in a downtown hotel accused young Wil liams of robbing him. The youth pleaded that there must be some mis take and protested his absolute in nocence. He was arrested, however and bound over in bond of $1,000. His brother came here and engaged At torney Thomas F. Scott to defend the youth and on a showing by Attorney Scott Solicitor Dorsen reduced the bond to $500. Two weeks ago Williams planned! to visit his home to see his brother be fore his case should be called for trial in the Criminal Court, but, to his in tense disappointment, he found that he would be unable to leave his work at this time. Although he maintained his cheerful spirits, it was seen that he was worried. He had seemed parti cularly anxious to see his friends and assure them of his innocence of the charge against him. Hurt Deeply by Charge Attorney Scott and all who knew Williams were unanimous in their tribute to the dead youth. Mr. Scott said the idea that he had been wrong fully accused had hurt the boy deeply The youth is said to have been a close reader of the Bible, and to have been very religious in his general demeanor. "I don't believe I ever saw a finer young man," said Attorney Scott. The body was removed to, the un- dertaing parlors of A. O. &; Roy Done hoo, where Coroner Donehoo will hold and inquest. FIRE on roundtree yesterday STREET A fire which pratially destroyed the home of Ike Davenport, colored, oir Roundtree street, originated i from un known Cause yesterday afternoon about three o'clock. The. alarm was turned in from- box forty-two which is located at Five Points,, and the firemen were quick to respond, i The blaze was soon extinguished and the damage was not -: very heavy, , , CAROLINA BOY SUICIDES 1 : I
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