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-V TITT ir. A- re- THE WEA.THBR VOL. XVH- No-182 SECOND EDITION KINSTON, N. (TUESDAY, DECEMBER li, 1 FOUR PAGES TODAY PRICK TWO CENTS FIVE CENTS' ON TRAINS IES IHE ICI FjEB cnirru miiMTimcrii 10TS 0F SPIES IN- wmm. up cases POLICE TO NB7ESTJ7AY YET.

HENRY, WIUIAHSL 5 SENTENCED TO SERVE1 CHIEF ATTORNEY OF HEARD) KICKING; AGAINST. AUSTRIAN 'v lv So. CoL Rodman Himself! Says Thought Railroad Company's! Right to.E-Kinston ProDerty Was Clearly Apparent Col. W. B.

Rodman head of the, Norfolk Southern legal department, ia in the city. He said this morning that, his visit has ino-connectiou with the property, mix-, up in the Eastern purt xf, the where the raiirosd claims consider- able renl restate which has-been held, by individuals for 1 Colonel Rodman' he knew of no ovtfr the The raiU-otvd'B ownership of tho. land proy.ed tot. indfsputably, he. thinksj Ho assumes the gentlemen; rev-f to.

individuals who have, some of them, thrf atened to "fight to the List ditch" the carrier's claim, do not intend to resist the -Norfolk Southern's request' that' they vacate tho property. The Norfolk Southern: has allowed thtf individual! to use-the. property it'? and Colonel Rodmanr dismissed the-' subject with an air of finality, i v' The lawyer, had nob heard, of. any; threatened he and) professed ignorance of the fact that even so much, as resent or attempt refute the railroad's claim, or ac-. tual ownership.

SMAll'DfKlNSTOir About 55 bales of today's sales had beeir, weighed at the cotton- platform-by 8 o'clock this afternoon; Deliver ies from prior days' sales brought the total number up to about 95. The. best, price, paid, today. was 11.621-2. January 12.08 Mach ms May .....12.51 12.03 1226 12.49.

12.60 12.19 i July ....12.62 October PRISONER: FROU1 HPpFPdfll LINE Allies- Retreat Masterly- BulffeSlowIy Following; and' Bombrtihrglr Anglo French From Serbian Side Now (By the United Press.) Athens. Dec. ex peditionary force Is how four miles inside tho. Greek frontier, falling: bfeonKGieygeli and Doiran. The Bulgarians' shells are -falling on Creek territory.

Fighting is expected, on. Greek. aoiL. Retreat, Brilliant Rome, Dec. 14.

The retreat fwxmf the Balkans is. declared to be one aft the mast brilliant of; the war. The Italian press is enthusiastic over the-' resumption of the- Bal-lean campaign. SIX BABIES CALIE TO hopewCl during fire (By tJe Eastern Prose') New Deci 14. Hopewell, vVa i 'Hoo much for' Frank Jordan, here' eh'TOute to his home in On slow 4 Jordan says that Hopewell's population wasv increased by ix the recant fire.TOne of the young sters "came to a woman, serving sentence in jaiL Another, was born in a box tar.

si of the "fire ba hies witl live, Jordan learned be fore his departure Tur kvrnr iC6AST1SSN0VB0UND Traffic In New England' States De moralised -White Blank Over Entire-; Region Deeidedly-. Colder IA. New York Follpwbg. Northeast Galei Which Brought Fleecy Preci pitation the United Press) New York Dec 14. The entire cast- const iji snmwKminH fvfov.

All New England tram nvor stalled The northwest; gale resulted- ih' a big drop. in. the temperature today. Boston Im.Grip Secere Boston is deluged by rain and snow. The wind, reached ft -velocity of 70 miless an hour there, and wire communication is, cutoifiA high tide has flooded the low sections.

All the crack to. New are snowbound. The property loss, is great TH3E BURNED' TO DEATH IN' CHICAGO (By the United Press)-. Chicago, Dec. 14.

Two mert and a woman were burned to death and six injured in a boarding-house fire here today. 1 BULLQ tBy the United Press.) IS RUSSIA HAYING SERIOUS INTERNAL TROUBLE? Berlin, Tfeel dom- estie dist urbane in Raasia have .1 of Phlc communication Stockholm reports. FORD PARTY DUE AT CKRISTIANA- TOtttt. New T3.e peace ip, Oscar. JL ia expecttd ri at Christiania Norway, late today.

AN'x SAYS, MINORITY PRESENTATIYES FARE. GOOD. Washington, Dec. If. TI.e "'Pendent Republic; Mra will be tre 1 Fu'l it m'emmittoe jiseigmhwt jounced by Repres, ana ay.

SELLS NOW of i uuuiu iimuiuiiiia COTTON SOLID' FRONT Way, Hv Rountree of New York the SituaHonDincus-t aion by Experts of. Recent Crop-Estimate -l- Conditions In Newt Domestic Consumption i (Special to The Free Press) New York, Dec. H. Roun-tree Co'sJ cotton for De cember i "The annual government, crop es timate of bales, exclusive of linters, was received today. In view of the that the ginning figures on Wednesday showed only a little over 9,7000,000 bales ginned, or about 400,000 bales less than1 in 1910, when the crop' proved 12,000,, 000 bales, the estimate of today would appear to be one of the fairest ever issued by the Department in Wash ingtoa In it would not have; surprwed the average openftor- to have had a guess of even slightly less thar bales, as tfce.

tendency, of the authorities is to slightly underestimate, rather than overestimate, each season's "growth. "Taking consideration the high price of cotton seed, which would end to accelerate the and the fact that owing to improved mn chinery the percentage of linters in each crop tends "to increase, any one tutempting to make a guess as to the year's production would have been led inevitably, to place the crop somewhere around the total received from Washington today. Unlike many? reports we have known in the there, was ho disposition to the- figure in any way and; to that extent, we feel that the DepartmentL has a record for the season that places, it above any, sus- (Continued on Page Four) WOitAIT BURNED BY, GAS 1 EXPLOSION CHARITY BAZAAR Elizabetit' City, Dec-ftlS-While assisting at a charity bazaar in the Hinton building Mrs. Fearing, jof this cityf was painfully, but not seriously bnrned-by a' gasoline explosion. Her hands, face and neck were scorched by.

the flame and the upper part, of her was burned WlNSlrRINCIPLE, HILTON CLARK' DESISTS Greensboro, Dec" 13. -Rev. Miltom dark," whoi was put off the train at. Jamestown'S November 24 by a Southern Railway conductor because a ticket agent at Salisbury had made mistake in his -ticket, has abandoned; the suit intended, to bring against the railroad company for He comes out in a signed statement in which he says that he was not after fnoneyA but was contending or a principle; that he wantodw the. same kand that would have been, givens a woman or.

child thait had no money; that the company has conceded that the was in the wrong and that is all he cares for, DONT THINK! BILL BY CHMIBERLAIN WILL WIN Untimely and Unpolitic, But Pleases Officers of the Army, It Is Said ''Would Have Conscription of for Great Citizen Army Officials Interested In Senator's Unique Bill (By. the United Press) (-Washington. Dec. 14.Senator Chamberlain's compulsory conscrip tion citizen army- bill today, absorbed the attention of 'Administration cir It is described as untimely and unpolitic, but it pleases army officers. No one expects its NATIONAL; LEAGUE MAGNATES IN.

ANNUAL MEETING TODAY. Jew YOrki 14. The big ea-sion of the winter; baseball season is on. here todayt With, the heads of all Natiohalj League many Amerr ican- moguls and scores- of minor magnates on the. job, the annual rating of the Tener circuit was to furnish 'real fan fodder.

The annual meeting of the Board1 Dir. tors of the. National League to ordei1 by President; Tents- i and the full league meet-i was scheduled for 2Vclock a al AMERICAN ARMY, SAYS Former Soldier Believer Every ment ns. Its Foreign Agent, and System Extends, Even to the Nations! Guard Ne-Way to Keep Men From Enlisting In "Melting Pot at Nations The-arrest of a private soldier at Fortress Monroe for allowing visit ors to photograph a battery over which he was standing sentry, caus ed a former non-commissioned officer in the army who read the storyMon- day In a local hotel to remark that "the united services are, literally honeycombed with Teuton spies." He doubted if the prisoner at Fortress Monroe, who' took money; from the people with ths camera, was the egent of a foreign government. He took too few pains to hide his com wgimont inthe army, in the militia has he said, and are more than' apt to find a' few men of.f German op Austrian nativity in c-vpry coast defense post, except in the new ones in Hawaii and the where 1 have heard, they cuir 'the companies.

The foreign governments take good pains to get a line on every general officer, colonel and major in i the land forces. The records are kept; in the war offices with: considerable attention to detail. Army officers know that this business has gone on ever since- the United, States became a world power. But they can't stop them from, enlisting. There are.

not infrequently instances where men are isolated without requesting transfer, and pains are taken-to conceal the facts. Not. but every man in the army knows the evil exists, or believes it does. WILY YUAN SKI KAI IS' -v DOING IT ALL FOR CHINA Peking- China, Deo. 13.

The- Chinese cabinet went to, the palace in a body today to congratulate President Yuan" Shi Kai on his forthcoming accession: to the throne. The president said condolences would be more in order, as he had assumed the gravest responsibilities for himself and his family. SUFFRAGETTES SOUTH, .4.: A NAME NEW OFFICERS Richmond, Dec. 13. The con vention of the Southern States Suffrage.

Association closed here today with a- business session for the report, of i the nominations com mittee, election of, officers and ad op-' tion. of final resolutions. Mise Kate Gordon of Louisiana. was elected president; Miss Laura Clay of Kentucky, vice-president, at large; O. F.

Ellington of Arkansas, recording sewetary; Miss Louise Collins of New Orleans, corresponding secretary; Mrs. H. B. Bartlett, New Orleans, treasurer; auditors, Mrs. W.

Mt Stoner- of Washington, and Mrs. M. Ellicott of Maryland. GOVERNMENT SHOULD OWN THE RAILROADS German Minister of Rattroads Says Government Ownership of Transportation Facilities Is Vital Step Toward Preparedness for Any NationAdvises America to Adopt System. By CARL W.

ACKERMAN, (United- Press Staff Correspondent) Berlin, Dec. 14. Government ownership of railroads is a vital step toward the preparedness of. any nation, Minister of Railroads Von Brei-tenbaeh today, declared. He said the United States should adopt the system.

complete the committee's business. Progressives Show Discontent. Washington, Dec 14. The Southern Republicans are being organized by the "regulars' orders to nominate Root or Weeks, the progressives charge. They say the regulars have nearly enough, with the Atlantic seaboard and the Southern committeemen, to their choice.

The Republicans are attempting to conciliate the Progressives, and will probably accede to their wishes for Chicago as the conention'city and June 7 as the datet i TWO YEARS ON ROADS Henry Williams in Superior Court Monday was found guilty by a jury of retailing liquor, and-his sentence was' fixed at two-years, to be spent on the county roadsa William tWill liams was found not guilty, on the. same offense. Cleveland Barfield was fined 1 and the cost for carnal know ledge of girl under. 14 years of age; Herbert Sutton, Marcellua Sutton, and Will Jones pled guilty to a charge of forcible trespass and were assessed the cost, judgment being suspended; Lewis' Hughes was taxed the costs for. resisting an of ficer; Grainger; Cunningham was: let off with and a bond for- one- year's sobriety in a case, of assault and battery.

with, a -deadly. weapon; Morris, fined 25 costs for assault with a deadly weapon; Randolph, Davis $10 and posts for carrying a weappn; Cy case nolo contendre, was assessed the costs, and Raymond Taylorj" who pled guilty- to a charge of cruel ty to animals, was permitted to pay the costs with suspension of Jim Jones was found not guilty of. lar Excellent progress is being made by the Court, in clearing, away, the docket, which at, the opening of, the term Monday contained, almost, a hundred cases. 1 REPUBLICAN NAT'L COMMITTEE MEET'G WASII1NGT0M0DAY Five Cities Want 191 vention-n3eems- to Be Re- union of Old.fiuard Re- duce Representation Southern States of (By the United Tress) i 1 Waahington-, Dec. 14.

Hughes Roosevelt, the i only two absent from today's meeting of the- Republican executive are. the most talked-of for the. Republican nomination. Tho committee opened a way for the lattor's return at a banquet last night and assured him a wel come. i Forces Gathered for Meeting.

Washington, Dec. 14 The G. P. here today launched its 1916 The Republicans- National Committee met to Beleet the time and place for the National Convention, following the meeting last Tuesday of the Democratic Presidential booms overshadowed the actual business of the Republic an leaders. Political lightning rods were hoisted.

regarding the 1916 standard bearer was expected to largely crystallize at today's conclave. In selecting. the convention city the committee had before it bids from Chicago Str Louis, Philadel-phia, San Francisco and Honolulu. It was regarded pertain, that Republican convention will be held a week after, the Democratic meeting. or about the middle of June.

A week may intervene between the conventions. The G. O. P. mobilization today had many aspects of a reunion pf the Old Discussion of Progressive amalgamation, prospects of Roosevelts return to the fold, md overaires to thai Progressives was rife, Much in evidence were Boise- Pen rose, William Barnes, Charles Warren of Michigan, Senator Smoot, former Governor Saunders of Tennessee, former Senator William Murray Crane and other veteran war- horses.

The committee was also expected to. adopt the; new convention, repre sentation plan, by which delegations from-Southern Democratic States are to- be reduced. This plan has been ratified. by conventions or primaries of more than two-thirds of the States. Charles D.

HHle of New York. former President. Taft's 4 secretary, called the committee to order at 11 a. m. Secretary James B.

Reynolds read the call. Two or three days, it waa expected, would be required to When a oase. alleged to contain beer was rayed to. the home of Sal. lie Williams, colored, on McLewean street Monday, Patrolman Claud Sura, rell followed.

it: Sumrell.had, dis covered that a bottle of the contents was at; th, expresa offloe Tien he entered the woman's home his nose's was confirmed. and Sallie'waa found to be the pos-. sessor of four, dozen pints of whisky, instead of beer. A Five other cases similar to the one had by Sallie Williams arrived here about the' same time, the police discovered. Three- of them were locat ed and more than 140 pints of.

whisky confiscated. In, connection with the seizures, Enoch Harrison, Joseph Harper and Joe Moore, its well as the Williams woman, were arrested, and alL sentenced by Recorder Woot- en. to one year's service on the roads save the who will be kept in jail or hired out, SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS i JUDGMENT IN UNIQUE SUIT Washington, Dec 13. The Supreme Court today Affirmed a $16,000 judg- ment for the heirs. of T.

Bigger who was caught in a. cloudburst while changing: cars Texas, took a cold and died, MORE THAN HALF; A MILLION BALES OF 'R Consumed -Were 514,534 Running Bales, Against 420,706 in Same Month in 1914J According, to Census Reborts (By the, United press) Washington, 14. Census re ports show cotton exclusive of linters consumed in November to have been 614,534 running bales, as compared with 420,706. ins November, 1914, of which bales was con sumed in the cotton-growing States in 1915, and. 236,465 in 1914,, Cotton held in consuming-' estab lishments on November 30 was 1,613,110 bales, as compared with in 1914; in public storago and.

at compresses, bales in. 191.5 and 4,998,414 jn 1914. Exports, linters, wore 527,625 running, bales in the month of. November, 1915, against 760,929 in- the same month of. 1914..

Cotton advice on November 31 was 497,435 bales against 425,797 bales on the last day of November in 1914. DISCHARGED PLAYERS TO SUE, Greenville, Decf 14. The Reflector says A. Benway, a player in the William, Todd, vaudeville ehow, has entered suit against Todd for salary he alleges is due him. According to BenwayV statement, it is a custom with Todd to dismiss his performers just before going into winter quarters with the information that hecannot pay.

them. -t Todd, intends to -winter' at Ayden, Benway says. Six recently discharged employes are penniless, it is alleged. A. Mills, another performer, is expected to be party to the suit, which local attorneys have agreed to conduct, PUT FORESTRY MEETING ttNUARYOFFAWEEK (Special to The Free Press.) ChapeL Hill, Dec.

14. The annual convention of the North Carolina Forestry- to- have been held in New Bern, on January (18th and 19thHhas been postponedto Jan uary 25th and 26th. Two big. nation- forestry and drainage, meetings will be held en the. former two days, and the New Bern meeting was postponed in deference to the more im OFFICIALS' FoirnsiE President A Ancona Matter Out otthe Way First Thing NOTE TO' PARIS GOVTiiENT Britain Likely to Lift Em-bargo From Jamaica, to the United States Buch- anan Would Have Y.

1 Dist, Attorney Impeached (By the United Press) Washington, Dee. 14. The Presi dent is. holding up the onsa of Zwel-Oinik and yon Nuber until after the Ancona matter is settled. He' told the cabinet as much today.

Secretary Gregory is understood to have presented recommendations for conspiracy legislation. The cabinet read the new note to France on the Descartes matter. -Modification of British Embargo. British embassy1 officials expect the horns- government to lift the embar go on hardwood and. dyes, from Jam aica to the United States.

Wants Impeached, Washington Dec, 14. Representa tive Buchanan of Illinois today introduced a resolution seeking to impeach District Attorney Marshall of New York, for failure to prosecute illegal explosives shipping. 3 -v-V 'V; AUSTRIA; HAD, GREAT SURPRISE IN THE: U. S. NOTE, Scorching.

Message On An cona Matter Not Been Anticipated, It Is Said- Washington Looks for Reply In a-Week (By the United Press) Washington, Dec. 14. The- tense feeling against Austria will be reliev ed, it is believed, by the fact that the trouble the Ancona is to be re moved by unofficial negotiations preceding the backdown, of Vienna Not Prepared for It. Geneva, Dec 14. The 1 greatest surprise yet has been occasioned by the American In Vienna it was not expected official circles.

Reply In a Few Days, Washington, Dec. 13. Austria-Hungary's reply to the American note on the sinking of. Italian Ancona looked, for by State Department officials the end of this week. This expectation was expressed today after Baron.

Erich Swiedinek, charge of the Austro-Hungarian. embassy, had conferred with Lansing regarding the note and attempted, it was understood, to. gain informally for the information of his government, an understanding of what would, satisfy the, United States. ENGLAND TO PURCHASE; ARIERICANSECURITIES London, Dee. 13.

After an explanation by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Reginald McKenna, and a short debate, the House of Commons passed this evening the second reading of the- bill empowering the government to mobilize American and Canadian securities by purchase or by borrowing them, to be used primarily as collateral for loans, or in case of necessity to be sold to meet liabilities in the United States. The scheme is an entirely voluntary, one and tha chancellor made, it clear that the government had no intention of swamping, the-American market with securities which would be unfair to holders here as they were to be bid for at the market REPORTED ESCAPED FROM; COURT -n Will Sumrell, colored, sentenced-to- six monthH'On the roads from the Re-. corders Court for trafficking whis. 1 ky, had no business being. on.r-the according-- to.

his lawyer in Superior Court Monday. The attor-'- 'neys in Superior Court. Monday." Thet attorney stated that Sumrell t. had gone to the roads in spite-of an ap- peal. Jij-io Connor ordered the man brought into court.

When Bryant. Tayloi -the--super-" inlend-'irt- of roads, brought-'-Sumrelt into-town-and the couple entered the-- court-rocm, the. black- acted suspic-ioualy and had' to be- called down inv open court, by Taylor. The. man.

wall-ed too far ahead, of Taylor. He was left in the prisoners' dock. When court adjourned Will Sumrell made himself made himself one of the crowd ofA darkies evacuating the courtroom. The officers -were paying no attention to. him.

SumiU! went out? withi the. crowd. He-. haa. not been seen since-.

OFFICERS OF Ar ATHLHES AND STARS; (Specials to The Free-Press) West Raileigh, Dec. 14. O. f. Anthony of has.

been president of the A. JVL.Athlfltio As sociation, and. W. B. Sumner of Ashe-ville elected vice-president; An- nouncement is made that stars have been awarded to Captain H.

E. Winston, O. Seifert, R. C. Young, J.

E. Anthony, J. H. Bon- -ner and W. W.

Riddick. Monograms have been given to G. B. McCoy, P. Rand, C.

D. Kirkptitrickfr Weathers, and R. H. Hill manager -Mr. C.

Gardner of Rocky, Mount was elected manager for the. season- of Assistants elected were A. llartmann, baaeball; 17. basltttball, and Hicks and E. portant sessions..