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I i! mG3 MOUNTAIN HERALD, ENM MOUNTAIN, Ur.'tT 'e' .'r-.'j ,'v-. i-.. ( INCREASED TAXES ON ALL LIQUORS OVER THE OLD NORTH: STATE Brief Note Covering Happenings In ThU Stat That Are of Intsrest to All the. Peopl. FORCE THE STRAITS Graham ha organised a ch&afkVr of commerce, CAPTAIN DIES OF HEART FAIL- TURKS OFFERED STUBBORN RE SISTANCE BUT TROOPS WERE LANDED. 1 IS PROPOSAL OF DAVID LLOYD OEORQE IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. Strawberries, are now1 moving from . URE At A RESULT OF THE th Chadbouriisecnoa, SHOCK ,1 J. C. Rogers?wAed 77, a Confeder rii?ed 77, a ate veteran of Asbeville, Is dead. TORPEDO STRIKES AMERICAN OIL SHIP A 13- V .'..IV I ' L - 1 ' II FEW OF THE DETAILS KNOWN Ouiniht It Struck Off Scllly Islands, Washington Believes It Was Accident London. The American oil tank steamer Oulfllght which sailed from Port Arthur, Texas, April 10. for Rouen, France, was torpedoed off the Sicily Inlands, according to a Central News dispatch. The captain of the Oulfllght, accord lng to the same advices, died of heart failure as a result of shock. Two sea men jumped overboard and were drowned. The other members of the crew were taken off by a patrol boat. The Teasel was towed Into Crow Sound and beached. The Oulfllght was a steel vessel, of 1.202 tons net and waa built at Cam den, N. J., In 1914. She was owned br the Oulf Refining Company. The vessel was 383 feet long, 61 feet beam and 30 feet deep. She was equipped with wireless apparatus. Washington. Press reports of the torpedoing of the Ameilcan steamer Oulfllght and the loss of her captain and some members of the crew creat ed a stir In official circles here. The course of the United States In the case of the Oulfllght Is not likely to be determined for several day as some time probably wtl be required to get the facts. The possibility of any action other than a demand for damages la considered remote because of the belief of officials that the at tack on the Oulfllght probably will be found to have been accidental. FIRST PLACE IN FINANCE. America May Lead World at End m Great War. Philadelphia First place In the field of International finance may come to the United Stats as a cone quence of the European war, W. P. O. Harding, member of the Federal Re serve Hoard, said In an address to the session of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. To obtain the pre-eminence In Inter' national finance, however, Mr. Hard' lng warned his hearers that the Uni ted States must resist any tendency tward Inflation, and a wild temporary boom, such as history has shown fre quently follows the conclusion o) great wars. He declared the nation now was In a commanding position as the only great world power not in volved In war, and pointed to the big trade balance that has been In favor of the United States. This balance he predicted might reach (2,000,000,00? by the end of 1915. Condition Are Better. Waahlngton. General Improvement in business conditions with "return' lng confidence" Is announced In the Federal Reserve Board's digest of re port! of agents tn the 12 reserve dl trk-ts Into which the country la dlvld ed. Development of considerable ac tivity In certain Industries: In connec tion with the war are pointed out. Colon Fire Lou $2,000,000. Colon. The city of Colon, half o which waa destroyed by Are, present' ed a scene of desolation. According to police records, 10 persona, two o whom were Panama policemen, per ished and many were Injured. Thi loss la atlll estimated at 2,000,00k i ne American consulate was anion the buildings destroyed. Charles E. Llttlefleld Dead. New York. Charles E. Llttlefleld, former representative from , Maine, ciea in a Hospital here, after an opera tion Mr. Llttlefleld was born In 1861, He was a Republican. Switzerland Preparing. Berne, Swttterland. The Federal Council decided to call out the sixth division of the Swiss army. . Inert Rural Mall 8rvlc. wasnington. Plana for a general readjustment of the rural postal ser vice through the country by July to provide mall facilities for a million persona not Included in the present routing system, were announced by Postmaster General Burleson. Motor vehicles will be provided under the new plan where highways will per mit -"Rural service will be extended to exery farmer reasonably entitled to fy said Mr. Burleson, "as rapidly as the new adjustments can be made." Meat Price Are Lower. Washington. Prices of meat ani mals were lower on April IB than for two years previous, thougn they still were higher than In 1911 and 1912, the Department . of Agriculture an nounced. , Producers . received an av erage of 16.69 a hundred pounds, com pared with $7.40 last year, 7.35 in 1913, $6.30 In 1912, $5.80 in 1911 and 11.74 in 1910. Farmers sold beef cat tle at $5.96 a hundred this year, a de crease of 33 cents from last year; veal calves $7.31, a decrease of 37 cents'; bogs $6.48, a decrease of $1.32. Hi M DR. LOUIS E. VAN NORMAN Dr. Louis E. Van Norman, who for ten years has bsen In charge of the foreign department of the American Review of Review,' ha bn mad editor In chief of Th Nation's Bual net, th official magailn of th Chamber of Comma rc of th United State Issued In Waahlngton. FRENCH CRUISER IS SUNK AUSTRIAN SUBMARINE 8END8 CRUISER LEON QA MB ETTA TO BOTTOM. cruising at Entrance of th Otranto Canal. All Officer Perished at Thlr Posts. Paris The French armored cruiser Leon Qambetta baa been torpedoed and sunk In the Ionian Sea with the loss of all of her officers and all ex cept 136 members of ber crew, accord ing to an official announcement by the French Ministry of Marine. The number of the crew was not a-lven but it was believed the warship car ried 760. . From this It was estimated that about 600 men perished. While the French communication did not aay by what the cruiser was torpedoed an official from Vienna said the warship was sent down by Aus tna submarine U-S, commanded by Lieut. George Hitter von Trapp. The communication Issued by the Ministry of Marine was as follows: "The armored cruiser Leon Gam. betta, cruising at the entrance of the Otranto Cabal, was torpedoed the night of April 26-27 and went to the bottom in 10 minutes. "All the officers on board perished at their posts. One hundred and thirty-six members of the crew, in- ciuuing ii unaer-omcers were res-1 cued by vessels sent out promptly to tneir help by the Italian authorities. "The list of survivors has not yet been received at the Ministry of Ma rine. SUFFERS FROM LONG DRUQHT. Forty-Year : Record Broken, Truck Crops Suffering. Waahlngton. The ' longest early spring drought In mora than 40 years now exists over eastern United States, anounced The National Week ly Weather and Crop Bulletin. ' Cotton and truck crops in th Southeaat are suffering. "In Texas and Oklahoma excessive rain greatly hindered farm work," say the bulletin, "fields were badly washed, bottom lands were flooded, and much land already planted to cot ton and corn will have to be replant ed, while the wet soil will further de lay cotton planting which 1 generally cosldered as sevsral weeks late. . 'In the principal trucking districts to the eastward of the Mississippi most crops art suffering for rain, especially In the South Atlantic coast districts. Early planted corn la coming up, but later planted over the Southern States east of th Mississippi ha not germinated well ; on account of drought Labor Must Co-operate. Muskogee, Okla. Closer relation between the employer and employe, crop diversification and more liberal treatment for the small farmer were urged by speakers at the Southern Commercial Congress as essential to the commercial development of the South. .' .. .. ' Details of Persian Massacre. New York. Details of the recent massacre of native Christians at Tlru mlah, Persia! by Kurds, received by the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions, state that not, less than 800 have been murdered there and that not less than 2,000. have perished from disease. The attacks It would appear, have not been confined to Kurds, but have been made, in at least one 4n- stai ie. by Turkish soldiers. Crucifixion and burning of Christians alive have bet 'i revived, missionaries reported to th board. HEAVY LOSSES REPORTED Some Sensational Hsppsnlnas. Turk ish Troop Ship I Sunk and Big Warthlp Bat on Fir. London. After serious fighting In which the Turks offered a stubborn resistance, British troops, according to an official statement issued have established themselves on the Gall! poll Peninsula and advanced a con siderable distance toward the Nar rows of the Dardanelles, while the French have cleared Cape Kum Kaleh on the Asiatic side of tb Straits, of Turks. Thus, it may be said, that the sec ond and most serious attempt to force the Dardanelles has been fairly launched. The Turks under German officers .placed every obstacle In the way of tb Invader but against th Ore of the Allied fleet and the gal lan try of the army they were forced to fall back. The British forces lost heavily In the operation. Six points were selected for the landings, which began at daylight of April 25. At live points they were successful immediately but at the sixth near Seddul Bahr the troops were unable to advance until the evening. The Australians and New Zealanders landed on the west coast of the Oalllpoli Peninsula, directly across the country from the strongly fortified Narrows. The other British troops disembarked at the ' extreme end of the peninsula and by the twenty-eighth when It was decided to give the men a rest and time to en able the positions to be consolidated, they had reached Krlthla, on the road which runs along the peninsula and over which they will join their comrades from the dominions. The French took possession of Cap Kum Kaleh after they had previous' ly attacked toward Teni Shehr to the south on the Asia-Minor coast While this was proceeding the fleet, besides covering the landing of the troops kept np a bombardment of the forts in the Dardanelles and pre vented reinforcement from reaching Turkey from the Sea of Marmora, One Turkish troop ship was sunk by the Queen Elizabeth which is be lieved again to have fired her big guns across the peninsula, directed by air men. The troop ship was sunk off Maidos a town well Inside the Nar rows, which later the battleship Tri umph bombarded and set on fire. FLETCHER PRESIDENT AO A IN. Re-elected Head of Southern Com- merical Congress. Muskogee, Of la. Senator Duncan V. Fletcher of Flor'da waa re-elected president of the Southern Commercial Congress here by the board of direc tors. The other officers also were re-elected. Senator Fletcher had served three previous terms, Dr. Clarence J. Owen, Washington, was re-elected managing director; T. S. Southgate, Norfolk, Vs., first! vice president; Albert P. Bush, Jr., Mobile, Ala., second vice president and William H. Saunders, Washington, treasurer. Mr. Louis Llndsley, Nashville, Tenn was. re elected president-general of the women's auxiliary to the Congress. Views regarding the effect of gov ernmental Influence upon business widely at variance with those express ed by George W. Perkins of New York were voioed by Edwin F. Sweet, Assistant Secretary of Commerce, at the final session of the Congress. England Must Pay Losses. Washington. Senator Hoke Smith, after a call at the state department, declared that unless the cotton ships from the United States now held in English ports were allowed to proceed on their neutral destinations Great Britain "would be forced to pay very heavy damages." . . Wilson Will Stay In Washington. Washington; President Wilson plans not to establish ad office at the summer Whke House at Cornish, N. but to spend most of hm time In Washington, He will make several brief trips to Cornish to visit Ms fam ily and short cruises on the yacht Mayflower. It was said at the Whke House that these plans were made not because the president looks on th European or, Mexican ' situations as specially critical, but because he thinks it his duty to remain In Waeh, lngton as much as possible. Abltratlon Award 8lgned. , S Chicago, An arbitration award ad vancing to some' extent the pay of 64, 000 locomotive engineers, firemen and hostlers on 98 Western railroads was signed here by officials. A dissenting opinion was filed on . behalf of the Brotherhood of Engtnemen,, in whic) the arbitration waa branded as a fail ure' and tlie Newlands ISw qndea which K was arranged, an Inadequate device for settlement of industrial dl putes. The awatJ effective May lv and binding tor on year only. .- ft. MRS. R. L JEFFREY ' Mrs. Robtrt Emmtt Jffry I th wlf of th newly appointed mlnltr to Uruguay. Mr. Jeffrey was Miss Nlta Hooas of Hbr Spring, Ark, before hr marrlag to th minister, SOUNDEST IN THE WORLD COUNTRY 8MILINO WITH PROS PERITY A8 RESULT OF NEW BANKING ACT. Agriculture a a Setlonal Problem. Problem, Rallroada, Markets, Are Leading Topic Before Congress. Muskogee, Okla. The country is smiling with prosperity as a result of 'he Federal Reserve Bank act and as the system grows older th (mile will grow into a laugh, according to Chas. S. Hamlin, governor of the Federal Re serve Board, who spoke before the Southern Commercial Congress here. Mr. Hamlin pointed out that while formerly "we had the worst financial system In the civilised world, we now have the soundest." He answered advocates of a single centralised bank by asserting that be cause of the lam terrilorv Involved 1J decentralised banks are preferable to one centralised band and that the Fed eral Reserve Board hold all the au thority of a centralised bank. "A financial panic such aa that of 1907 Is now Impossible," Mr. Hamlin continued. "In view of financial stringency, a farmer deserving of credit can get H. We have a real elastic, a real local, liquid currency. The Federal Reserve Board la em powered at such times to put out enor mous sums sufficient to disnute anv raea or panic's Dr. Chartes Brand, chief of the divi sion of markets and rural organiza tion of th United States Department of Agriculture declared that the South ern farmer and ranchman ha realized tne need of being more provident The time is passing, he said, when nro- ducts of the farm and ranch are ship ped to market and then brought back as foodstuffs. THE NEW JAPANESE DEMANDS. President Yuan Ha Not Reached De cision Regarding Them. Peking. With the new draft of the Japanese demand on China Interest is aroused in th nature of the modifica tion of the modification Japan has made in the original document Pres ident Yuan Shi Kat and his adviser have examined the demands aa amend ed, but no decision has been rached and they are likely to be the subject for further discussions. Grouo one and group four of the original demands hare not been altered from the form to which th Chinese Government al ready has agreed. Group on relates to Shan-Tung Province and group four relates to refusing a third Power, any Island, port or harbor along th China coast Storatad Responsible For Colllsslon. Montreal. The Admiralty Court In a decision held th collier S tors tad re sponsible for th collision with the liner Empress of Ireland in the St Lawrence May 29, 1914, which coat approximately 1,000 Uvea In the sink ing of the liner with nearly all aboard. No blame whatever waa attached to the captain or crew of the liner, the court held. Kitchener Scores Gas Bombs. London. War Secretary Kitchener In the House of Lords referred to the use by the German Armies In the West of asphyxiating bombs. He declared that uermany bad stooped to acts which surely will stain indelibly her military history." , . Joyner Delivers Annual Address. Chattanooga, Tenn. The ' Southern Conference for Education and Indus try held a four days' session ' here with delegates from throughout the South In attendance. Among subjects under discussion were school work. women's part In the social and econo- mic development of the rural dis tricts, educational progress in the South and conditions In rural com munities. J..Y. Joyner of North Car olina, president of the conference, de livered bis annual address., J SOME OF MEMBERS PROTEST There I Some Opposition to th Measure. First Division In House Since War Began, London. Resolutions introduced in the House of Commons bv David Lloyd-George, 'Chancellor of the Ex chequer, to double the duty on spirits, quadruple the duties on wines and to Institute aa Increase by graduated tax on beer to encourage the uae of ugnter beers were strongly opposed and it is generally believed that the new takes will have to be moderated before Parliament will accept them. The O'Brienltea, as protest against an additional taxation on Irish whis kies and beers, brought about th first division In the House since the out break of the war, by voting against the provisional resolutions which would bring the taxes into force at once so as to prevent spirits being taken out of bond while Parliament Is dealing with the resolutions. The resolution relating to spirits was passed by a vote of 89 to 5, the minority being composed of O'Brien ites. The Nationalists also protested against the measure, but did not vote. The Unionists who withheld criticism until all the fact could be placed before them alao abstained from voting. The provisional resolutions impos ing taxes on beer and wine also were passed, the Unionist abstaining from voting and th OBrlentte opposing the beer tax. . Usually these provisional resolu tion are carried -without division, for should Parliament refuse to sanction the taxes, they are refunded to those who 'may have paid. The Laborltes promised to reply to the Chancellor's charges that a minor ity of the workmen, lured away by drink, were not putting their best' Into the work of producing war ma terial. GENERAL MANAGER RED CR08S. President Appolnta General Carroll A. Deval. Washington. President Wilson as head of the American Red Cross has appointed Brig. Gen. Carroll A. Devol, U. S. A., general manager of the Red Cross, a newly-created position. General Devol, now attached to the General Staff, was given three months leave of absence on May 1 to assume his new, office and become active head of the Red Cross. He ha not determined whether he will remain in the position permanently. To do so he would have to resign from the army at the expiration of the three months leave as he will not reach the age of retirement for several years. Expect Early Recognition. Washington. Unofficial advices that General Carranta expected early recognition by the United Statea at tracted widespread attention in offi cial and diplomatic circles here. Carranza representatives here have been very active recently. The United States, It Is said, has been advisd in detail of the Carranxa plans. It was said at the state department, how ever, that the question of recognition had not been formally considered. Dim's gs at Frldrichhafn. Geneva, Switzerland,, via Paris. Of the six bomb dropped on Zep pelin dirigible belaan worksbeds at Frtedrtchahafen by : Allied aviators four fell on empty ' sheds and one truck a building In which was the framework of a new Zeppelin. The French aviator who dropped J: th bomb was nnder heavy fire. Henry W. Millar Vie President Raleigh. Henry W. Miller of At lanta, assistant to th president of the Southern Railway, has been pro moted to the vice presidency of the road, it was announced here. t Told How He Stopped- Panic Syracuse, N. T. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt was excused from the wit ness stand In the 160,000 suit for al leged libel which William Barnes has brought against him after he had told hi own story of how he ended the panic of 1907 and had Identified a letter in which Governor Charles S, Whitman, then District Attorney of New York, wrote that he thought the time was ripe to rid the state of the kind of party control mainly respon sible for corrupt condition. - Big Fire at Vancouver. Vancouver, B. C. Fire.' held by some police officials to be part of a plot to burn the city, started simul taneously In' the Camble and Gran ville street bridges, connecting the business and residence parts of Van couver. The loss was $300,000. Aside from the bridges, . however, . no at tempts at arson ; were - discovered. Thousands of persons blocked on their way to work watched the flames soar from the wood and tar pavement of the Great Connaught bridge at Camble street The chief damage waa here. Tb Statesvllle Merchants Associa tion Is contemplating a Fourth of July celebration. . .. , The announcement has Just been made that passenger service would be inagorated on the Mount Mitchell railway tbis summer. Tne program for A in program for A. M. com mencement has Just been Issued from the office of President D. H, Hill. Hon. W. B. Wilson, Secretry of La-, for, will deliver the commencement address. Klnston's celebrated Incubator baby, according to a statement by her physician, at the age of seven months weighs 15 pounds, a little in excess of the average sven-month-old baby's avoirdupois. The money for the Lovelady Town ship, Caldwell county, road Improve ment bonds has been received, Terry, Brlggs A Slayton, of Toledo, making the purchase. The 125.000 Issue brought a premium of $326. Suing J. H. Michael, colored, prlnct pal, of the Hill street school, Ashevllle for damages lh the sum of $5,000, Flora Nichols, colored, formerly em ployed as a teacher at the school was awarded damages In the sum of $50. It waa decided at a meeting of the Wbltevlll Commercial Club to erect at once a tobacco warehouse to cost approxlmtely $6,000, assuring White. rill one of the beat markets in UQ section of the state with a full oortJ of buyers. - ' i Two car loads of sewer pipe reach ed Southport the past week. Other material will arrive In a few days and work will be pushed on the new $40,- 000 water and sewerage plant. It Is the plan to have the whole system In stalled within the next four or five months. All the street-cars of Wilmington In a short time are to be painted a I cream . white, the Tidewater Power Company having decided upon this hade after an Investigation extend- lng over America and Europe. Th ' shade la to be an almost exact dupli- . cate of the tramcars of The Hague, ' . Holland. .- Goldsboro gets the next annual con- vention of the Baraca-Phllathea Aao elation of North Carolina, according ; to the decision of the executive com jnlttee of the organization as announc ed after the Joint session In the Taber nacle Baptist ohurch at Raleigh. Dur- : lng the day officers for all branches ' of the convention were thosen - and with the monster parade the mass- -meeting in the city autdlorlum and a final session In the Tabernacle Baptist church, the fifth annual convention ; ended. - . NORTH CAROLINA MARKET. Prices of Cotton, Corn, Oats, Psas, Buttsr, Eggs, Eta, on North Caro 1 Una Market During Part ,v Wk. .y. Ahoskle Cotton, 9c: corn. Hfo-fl b1 oats. 75c bu: soy beans. 12. 2S bu: dmi. $2 bu: sweet potatoes. 76c-tl bu: West ern oreamery butter, 93c lb; eas, 17.250. dos. Charlotte Cotton, 10c; corn, II bn; : oats, 70-72O bu; sweet potatoes, 11.17 11.32 bu; ess. 18c dos. Greensboro Cotton, 10c; corn, 81b bu; oata, 71o bu; sweet potatoes, 21.10 bu; Western creamery butter, 82o lb; IT. C. creamery butter, 12c lb; ercs,'I8e do.- Hamlet Cotton, Sc; com, $1.06 buj'-' au, 75c bu; peas, 12.00 bu; sweet pota toes, 1. 2S bu; Western creamery butter, " !c lb; N. C. creamery butter, lEo lb; eggs, 20c dos. - t 1 v., HenderaonviHe Corn, 80a Vtt; oftts, 73o : bu; peas, 22.25 bu; soy beans, 12.25 bu; N. C. creamery butter, 12c lb; eggs, 14 15o dos. Lumberton Cotton, c; corn, $1 bu; . sweat potatoes, 80c bu; eggs, 20c dos. . Maxton Cotton, tttc; corn,. $1 bu;--oata, 75c bu; soy beans, 12 bu; peas, 12.25; ' sweet potatoes, 86o bu; Western oream ery butter, I5e; N. C. creamery butter, tOc lb; ess, 15o dos. ' Monroe Cotton. 10c: corn, tl tin- 70c bu; soy beans, 12 bu; peas, 2.25 bu; sweet potatoes, $1,60 bu; N. c, creamery butter, too lb; sens, IScdoa. New Bern Corn, 80c bu; soy beans, I1.80 bu: peaa, $2.26 bu; sweet potatoes, 80c bu; esrs. 18-20c do. ' Nwtnn ( nf fnn inn- nnrn SI Kn m, 12.26 bu: sweat Dotatoee. B&n hit- n is Ralelah Cotton. Vie:' com, 2o bu: St bll- ftWMt MtalM. oata. 67q bu; peaa, $2 bu; $1. 40-21.60 bu: Western ereamrv ter, 86o lb; N. C. creamery butter, 82-lto lb: e-rit, 17H-20O dos. t Rlgavbee Cotton. Ho: clrn, $1 Bu; oats, 70c bu; soy beans, 12 bu; peas, $2.50 bu: sweet Dotatoea. 81 bu: sul lE.san doa. Salisbury Cotton, do; corn, 81 bu;; oata. 75c bu; soy beans, $2 bu; peaa. ii.is du; in. i;, creamery Butter, 10c lb; njs. lee aos. r Scotland Neck Cotton. SUn- enrn sja.' 1 K... u Ifu. 1 . 1 7 -1 . . . peaa, $2 bu; tweet potatoes, $1 bu; West ern creamery butter, 85o lb; N. C. cream- ; err butter, S5o; lb; eggs, 20c dos. ' Shelby Cotton. 10c; corn, $1 bu; oats; 75c bu: Deaa. 81.75 hn: awMt mtitu. si bu; N. C. creamery butter. l?-Ji: etn. 17c Aos. . . Vanceboro Cotton. Snf .vi LB,., uu; uniB, ou; moy mm a-,! bu peaa, $2.S5 bu; aweet potatt, -,. an bu: egea. 1S-15C dos. . j nuCTuwa cotton, "4c; corn. 9Srf bu; oata, 68c bu; peas. $2 bu: eweet ootaJ toes, $1.76 'bo IN. C. creamery butter, 20o lb: rm. 1$-M4e doa. ' Wilson Cotton. Hcf com. 604-' bu: ' ' ont, 70c bu; aoy beans, $L75 bu; asks! -, 15c dos. .. ; .. Woodland Cotton. -9i4ci com. sivi .. fern, lfic doa. .... - ernre .Va. cotton. .S8-9.75c Chlca.E-0. Ill No. 1 Whltn mm, n.n. " (delivered in Halel-rh 2H-94o); No. 1 eigit tm-9SHc, ' " . Vhicasa ka, 19-1 1
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