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NEW BERN, N. C.',. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1914
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U'ci! flfS Aged 'in
First Time Sucft an Act-Haa'Occurred. This .Govern
ment Won't Interfere With Great Britain and France
In any Action She May Take Toward Teaching Col
! ombia Ecuador That Neutrality Must Be Observed.
' - Athens, Greece,' Nov. 1 13. Turk
ish authorities today broke into and
'searched' the buildings occupied, by
the American, British, French' ."and
Russian embassies. ' The American
' ambassador and the Italian ambassar
-dar hare lodge'd bitter protests against
outrage. ' ,
nisiiTrn STATFS'TO
- - KEEP HER hXNDS OFr.
' ' Washington,, D. C, Nov. 13.-The
'United States will not interrere witn
Great Britain or France should they
decide to "settle with Colombia and
" Eouador for an alleged violation of
v. the neutrality law by permitting wire-
' less stations there to-give news to
' German warships. This was learned
tonigh upon good authority. Le
gations of both governments tonight
denied" that there was ,any: grounds
for complaint on the part of Great
Britain! France said' she was taking
every- precaution ..to preserve neu
trality. , , '.
GERMAN SUBMARINE BOAT-
SUNK BY FRENCH VESSEL,
Paris, - Nov. 13. A special . frqra
, Punkirk states that a French tor
- pedo.boat suak a German submarine
' off Westends, Belgium, The 'sub-
j marine, it appears, was trying to tor-
pedo the French Warship when the
latter's commander caught sight of
her periscope, put on full speed, and
i: charged down on- the enemy which
i disappeared. 1 A large quantity of oil
rose to the surface, marking the spot
where the submarine sank. k ' ,
J The torpedo boat Sustained only
. slight damage and returned to, port
for repairs. ' , . . '
THE GERMAN ACTION
f v REPORTED LESS VIGOROUS.
Paris, Nov' 13'. The offioial state
ment issued at midnight says 'from
he sea to Lys the German action
has been less vigorous and upon some
parts of the front we, ourselves, have
'undertaken the, offensive. t We have
progressed south of Bixsohoote and
east of the Ypres we have re-taken
in a counter attack a hamlet pre
viously lost.' South of ihe" Tpre's
an attack by a Prussian guard wai
repulsed. ;' There is nothing but can
nonading : on the rest of the front."
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EIGHTY THOUSAND MEN
PRISONERS IN VIENNA.
. London, NOV. 13.-A telegram
from Vienna states that 731 officers
and 79,314 men pro prisoners of , war
, in the Austriua conceutrallon eamps,
Bays "an Amsterdam dispatch to Rou
ter's Telegrajn Company. -..
"The enemy's wounded are being
treated like our own soldiers." the
telegram acjd.s, "wlule the" officers
who are prisoner ..re interned in
oasllos and in -f re. t ; private housos
and the captured men in barracks.
:;s;sid to lj
i faring to
REVOLT.
rost,
to tli
Nov. 13. Newspapers
it a revolt of the Turk
' ;t the Germans is
:' o of ; these;-officers
') and three at Ad-
! ::,-d. ' .
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SHOCKING CRIME TAKES
: x PLACE IfJ FLORIDA.
PHOTOGRAPHER KILLED AND I
, HIS WIFE ASSAULTED. ,
, BY 'NEGROES. -
St: Petersburg, Fla.i Nov. 13. Ed
ward F. Sherman, a pho'tographer.with
studios in Camden and Wildwood, N.
J., and a winter resident of St. Peters
burg was murdered at 9:30 o'clock last
night by . two. negroes, who afjterr,
wards -criminally ' abused his, wife
and left her for dead. . The tragedy
occurred at the. Sherman home, at
John's Pass road and Twenty-ninth
street, several miles out, but - did
hot become. known until the halWead
woman had dragged herself a mile to
the house of the nearest neighbor and
given the alarm, at 3 o'clock this morn
ing. s
' Sherman was shot through an open
window while he slept, and the entire
top of his head was litterally. blown
off. - His wife who was sitting in an
other room, wa's immediately attacked
by two negroes' who broke their way
through the door." She was dragged to
an out house, 100 feet from the resi
dence, where she' was outraged by both
men, her skull fractured and her body
bruised and out. She Was left for dead
Before she was dragged from the house
she was robbed of $102 from a pocket
of her skirt.. ;--" y: "3 ';0.":--; .'v.
iMrs. Sherman lies in Augusta Me
morial Hospital in a precarious condi
tion! but with a chance f recovery.
tMore than 100 men tonight are
scouring. the entire Pinellas peninsula
in search, for the negroes; whose ulti
mate escape is regarded as impossible
The search has continued throughout
the day. Several suspects were arrest
ed and taken before the surviving vic
tim for identification, but without suc
cess? The body of the dead man is
held awaiting the arrival of ; W. c P.,
Welsh, of Camden, a business asso
ciate in the -developement 'of a local
sub-division' about the scene of the
tragedy. . . , ' " i f -After
her punishment at. the hands
of the assassins, Mrs. Sherman man
aged to get back into (the house. She
pulled herself to the foot of the bed
where her hand came in contact with
the.feetgf her husband,. already cold
in death, and she famted again., She
revived, Struggled into a raincoat and
dragged herself to the house of a
neighbor, fainting many times on the
way. , , . 1 " " . ,
, Feeling has run high here all day,
Both" the murdered man and his wife
were among the most popular mem
bers of "the winter colony' from "Phila
delphia and vicinity1. - kT - , -
NARROW ESCAPE.
Royston Elandford Thrown From
J His Bicycle..
Art accident . occurred Thurdsay
afternoon, in which providence seems
to have been the only prevention
of a sorioiis affair, Royston, the nine
year old son of ?.lr. and Mrs. W. B. H.
I ' " 1, waa riding his bicycle
down Craven street, and jtfst as he
par.- H ia front of the Ford Gar-
r 'e a i ) otmo out in a car, striking
C o r' : ' 1 of tho l-icyole. The
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JUS PROTESTS
Villa Pronounced Vee-y a A Study
In Character; He Fights, He Smiles
General Villa is said to be leading his followers on
Tampico, Mexico, and in order to keep this port open
the United States has dispatched the cruiser Texas to
the scene and will endeavor to maintain order there.
A REBUKE TO THE
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JOURNAL STORY 'ATTRACTS
THE .EYE OF COL. AL.
s FAIRBROTIIER.
t Several "days ago the Journal car
ried i a story telling of the cleaning
up,, of -the building on South Front
streetr occupied for fifty years by the
Hall, Brothers nd of their devotion
to ' each"; other durin? this . time.
Commenting on this the Greensboro
Everything says:
"Down at New Bern they are tear
ing down a, building where the Hall
Brothers, . locksmiths, conducted their
business for fifty years, y These two
brothers builded up a trade in repair
ing locks and main springs and such
kind of work, and for seventy-fivei
years worked together and were
never separated but once, when one
of them was taken a prisoner of 'war
for some months; The elder broth
er J. T. Hall, died about a year ago
and the younger, "J.. P. Hall, al
though an old man, concluded to quit
the business. He has enough' money
saved, to see, him through, and by
reason, of 'his upright and honorable
life ' has scqres' of 'friends ; in New
Bern and other towns. , He will pass
his declining years in. a well . earned
vacation.-.,-'-M'.ir
"But ; think of it! Two brothers
plodding along together hand ; in
hand, as it were, journeying down
the path of lif e, . repairing looks and
making a living and being entirely
happy. No great things, were theirs
to dono ' affairs of State no poli
tics ;' no , big business Vorries-7-but
for seventy-five years each day work
ing on broken locks or , repairing a
main spring for a gun or pistol. Nat
urally you would think' that: one or
the other would hear the call of the
Great World-' and make 'a plunge'
naturally you -n'ouhl . think ! they
would l;i vo -solved partnership
'( - fiber concluded -he
' T.nng but .. they
'-ers but were
friends and partners.
"If 'all of us were to find something
and aqt.tle down; stick to our knit
ting like the Hall brothers, of course
there would be no big things accom
plished in the world but it would
fbe like the world 'w3 in its twilight
dawn like it was .when Abraham on
the far plains pitched his tents and
lived to be old enough to enjoy life
and perhaps know something. Seventy-five
years and fifty years in one
building. . Great story this a re
buke to what we call the wanderlust
that appears in man." ,
ATTEMPT
TWO; CONSTITUTIONALIST
. SOLDIERS FIRE ON PRESI
DENT'S PERSONAL RE-
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Mexico City, N,oy' 13. Tw Con
stitutionalist 'soldiers this afternoon
attempted to jsassinate . John R. ,
SillimanvPresidpjib '.Wilson's personal
envoy,': with; thJ''Garranza govern-
The. .attack tlace at ;-. Tacuba
yaa in the subur( th& city. Mr.
SilUman with hretary and two
ladies were ouLiil61ring , when, the
two soldiers j wiftife ; apparently
under t the' 'ni'':ap.f..-iiiabrt. fired
four 'shots' ini)ie'')Kutomobile.A j .
; Fortunately n f ''her of the party
was injured buM irfAdies were very
badlxfrihtenel;' , ., '
-'vAt the timet 4 lje aocident he
machine "was !,liSfe!-. the ; Mexican
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THE LEATHER.
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todu -wlh moderate.
1 Rain todu
to fresh so
the weather
Bps-a and vi
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THE U.. S. TEXAS
GETS ORDERS TO
GO TO TIN
Hurried Message Dispatched to
Her Commander Last Night.
Ship Now at
Galveston.
MEAN TO KEEP TAM-
PICO AN OPEN PORT.
Decision Reached When It Was
Learned Villa and His
Troops Were Marching
Toward Place.
Washington, D. C, Nov. 13
Hurried orders were tnnirfht dlvpn
I the battleship Texas, now at Gal
veston, Texas, to proceed Immed
iately to Tampico.
This abrupt action of the Navy
Department was made known
after news was received that Gen
era Villa with his forces was march
Ing from San Lufs Potosi to Cap
ture Tampico.
Secretary William J.Bryan con
ferred with President Wilson about
the matter and then talked it
over with Secretary Joseph us Dan
iels of the Navy Department.
The action taken is also due to
the government's stand that Tam
pico shall be a free port which
will be kept open at all hazards.
BUST OF C ASTON
TO BE UNVEILED
LIKENESS, OF NEW BERN MAN
TO BE PLACED IN HOUSE
OF REPRESENTATIVES.
The committee consisting of Cle
ment Manly, of Winston; Chairman
R. A. Nunn, New Bern; Bishop
Leo'S. Haid, Belmont; Mrs. W. E.
Shipp, Raleigh; Mrs C. M. Bushbee,
Raleigh; Judge W. R. Allen, Golds
boro and Judge (Jeo. II. Brown of
Washington, which was appointed
by the North Carolina Bar Associa
tion for the unveiling of the bust
of Judge William Gaston, have fixed
as the time and place for the unveiling
and presentation of the bust to the
State, Tuesday, 24th of November,
1914, at 8: o'clock, p. m., in the House
of Representatives, Raleigh, N. C.
Hon. H. G. Connor, United State
District Judge, will present the bust
to the State and deliver his address
on Judge Gaston. It will be received
by Governor Locke Craig on behalf
of the State.
Many citizens of New Bern con
tributed to the expense and cost
of obtaining this bust, which was
made by a well known sculptor and
will be placed in the new State build
ing at Raleigh.
Judge Gaston's home was in New!
Bern. He was one of the most il-'
lustrious men who ever lived in North
Carolina. The public is invited to
attend the unveiling ceremony.
CALDWELL YDUNC
BURNED TO DEATH
CLAUDE GRAGG, INVALID, PER
ISHES WHEN MOTHER'S
HOME IS DESTROYED.
Lenoir, Nov. 131 News has just
been received here that the home of
Mrs. Coma Oragg, who lives in the
Globe settlement in the northern
part of Caldwell county, was des
troyed by fire early last Saturday
morning, and that her son Claude
Gragg, had perished in the flames.
The son was about 18 years old and
had been an invalid for many years.
While the origin of the fire is unknown
it is supposed to have started in the
room where the poor unfortunate boy
was confined, and the flames spread so
rapidly that itr was impossible to res
cue him, though the alarm was given
immediately by a daughter of Mrs,
Gragg, who was attending tov the
regular morning work in the kitchen
wnen me connagrauon, rwas, aisoov-.
ered. 'The body -of young Gragg was
taken from the ruins,. bhed beyond
all recognition. V
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if Miss Clarabell Pefietier. of Stella
is spending a few days ift the city
visiting Miss Lena McGinn on Na
tional avenue.' f, v " - : ' - ' '
BELIEVE
TEOTOfi
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Conviction in Paris Is That The
German Strategic Offensive
Is Rapidly Drawing
To An End.
WAR IS ABOUT TO
ENTER ITS THIRD PHASE.
Present Violent Effort In The
Ypres Region Has Not By
Any Means Broken The
Allies Lines.
Paris, Nov. 13. The conviction
is growing here that the period of
the German strategic offensive is
drawing to a close and that the war
on b'h the western and eastern
fronts5 is about to enter its third
phase. .
The present violent effort in the
Ypres region, while it may have suc
ceeded in bending the allies' line
in a few places, has not yet, accord
ing to either French or German
reports succeeded in breaking it,
and it seems impossible that the at
tempt can be repeated under the same
conditions. Even success at this
point might prove merely momentary,
like that at St. Mihiel on the Meuae
six weeks ao.
But General Joffre, the French
commander in -chief is fully alive
to the importance of this position
and according to an officer just re
turned from Ypres, that eventuality
had been prepared for.
At Ypres and its environs, although
the artillery of the Germans is formi
dable, that of the allies is still more
so and Aiuses carnage in the enemys'
trenches. The fighting in this region
is largely an artillery duel with in
fantry remaining in the trenches.
They can only approach the enemy
by boring tunnels which are convert
ed into trenches by piercing the roof.
However important the operations
Flanders may be they are now
overshadowed both in extent and the
infl"en'' ,hfy ,lavp 0,1 1
u- war as a
whole by the eastern campaign.
Col, Feyler, editor of the Swiss
Military Review, and one of the best
known military specialists, declares
that Russia is now ai:ut to bring to
bear all her effectives, nr if it is
realized, she intervenes at a moment
that is critical. German levies of
the third line, young soldiers with
six weeks' training, are being brought
into action, the full significance of
the operations n the eastern front
will be recognized.
"Three Austro-German armies," he
continues, "are advancing toward
tho angles of Thorn and Cracow,
The Russian commander seems to be
accentuating the defense in the lat
ter direction. If he succeeds the re
sult will be far-reaching. The Aus
trian army will be cut off from the
Germans and forced to accept bat-
tie with their backs against the Car
pathians.
In addition, there is prospect of n
battle in the centre of the line from
Posin to Breslau, toward whieh the
German army of Silesia seems to be
directed in retreat, arid at a more or
less early rate West Prussia will bo
threatened by way of Thorn."
BOLD ROBBER.
Locks Banker In Safe
Steals Money.
and
'Saint Louis, Mo., Nov. 13.
An armed robber, today enter-
ed the Gravois Bank near here
and after Jochini the presl-
dent and cashier In th vault.
escaped with fifteen -hundred
dollars in cash. The offficials
were rescued by the bank's
watchman. The author!-
ties, are in pursuit of the rob-
ber. '' '
JAPANESE TORPEDO BOAT DE-
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Ttokio, ' Nov. 13. The ; Japanese
torpedo boat No. 33 was, destroyed
While sweeping for mines-at the en
trance to Kiao-Chau Bay; .She strui -a
mine, but most of her" crew v e e ,
saved. 1 "