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DAILY FREE THE HOME PAPEB L-- t-' '1 TH3 WEATHS1? Fair tonicbt tad (onion aw Minna VOL. VII.No. 192 SECOND EDITION KINSTON, N. MONDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1915 FOUR PAGES TODAY price two cents FIVE CENTS ON TRAINS sfH succjsss and, wholesome THE UNITED STATES THREE FIRES ON R. R.

OIL D. W. SPILMAN'S PRAYERS AND DEATH TOGETHER ON FRONT IN WEST CHRISMS llNULUEWCE CROWNED COM- Ml IFSS IMIPIHN MUNITY CHRISTMAS TREE UNDERTAKE iNCr-MANY HEARTS WERE MADE GLAD Mr ALL AMERICANS PROPERTY WITHIN A SERMON ON DEAD IN FEW HOURS SUNDAY CHRIST IMPRESSIVE -S- Monroe Doctrine as Force Chief Moseley Believes Fire Noted Sunday School Lead NEWS SINKING BIG Pcasants Held Masses in Churches of Alsace While Cannonading Continued Thousands Oangregated abou the Courthouse Friday Evening at Dusk, When the We Iccme Lights Were Flashed Upon the Pretty Cedar, Em blazoned With the Fixings of the Season and Witnessed an Impressive Celebration of the Christmas "Spirit Mo re Than a Thousand little Folks Were Gladdened Wit Bags of Goodies and the Hearts of all Were Touch ed With the Sweet Story of the Christ as told in the ongs and the Manifestation of the The Community Christmas tree, Kinston's initial attempt as a community, of the whole to give cheer to everybody within its portals and to impress upon its zejns the occasion, for the Chritmas4eelebration, was a success from every point of view. The offerings for the poor were not so numerous as they might have been and as they will be in succeeding years when the people of Kinston Have gotten: the true conception of the oppor- tunity that 13 their s. mere were, nowever, remembrances of a substantial: kind which being distributed Saturday and Sunday gave comfort and relief to many unfortunates.

street and two by two passed the tables on which the bags were stacked and as the ladies of the committee handed each a bag the gladdened countenances formed an imposing sight. -i There are yet a few bags and some nice children's chairs donated by tne Oettingsr Furniture Company, which will be given out today and tomorrow through the various churches of the city. The piano used was loaned by Quinn and Miller. EXCUSE OF THE FRENCH Gunners Said They Were Fighting for Peace on EarthOnly. Correspondent Within the Lines Was United Press Represen tative By Phillip Simma -Alsace, Dec.

27. I am the only American correspondent who has been permitted to be at the front this Christmas. The happy Alsaceian families celebrated Christmas Eve with' masses in the churches, while guns bombed across the trenches. There was no let-up or truce to atop ithe bombardment The. French ds clord they were fighting for a con tinuance of peace on earth, the creed violated by Germany.

Brtish Repulse Turks. London, Dec. 27. The Turkish forces have been defeated with heavy losses and driven back in the assault on the British Mesoptamian base, it is reported. SHOT; YOUTH WHILE HE WALKED WITH GIRLS Asheville, Dec.

26. "Step to one side I want to shoot-yoV- This was the command that greet ed John Hayes, a prominent younff farmer about, twenty-three years of age, as he was walking with two young women Ixyon Saturday; night. Failing to stand aside Hayes waa killed by Frank Foster, who had is sued the comiriand. Jealousy is believed to have been the cause of the killing, which has wrought the pea-' ile of Tryon and vicinity ta a degree. approaching frenzy, Sheriff A.

Hill, of Polk county. has every available man. the trail. of Foster, and the sheriff's, depart ment is being assisted by posses of' citizens. OKLAHOMA MILITIA BESTS LYNCHING RJOB Muskogee, Dec.

26; Com pany fy of the Oklahoma National Guard, was called out early to dis prss a mob which attempted to- enter the county pail and lynch two negroes under arrest in connection, with killing of Sam Neil, a policeman early today. l. -r A hundred men armed with a rail road rail charged through the lines militia men and battered down' the front door of the jail. They wefrj driven back. Previously th militia had charged the crowd fixed bayonets clearing the streets but the mob reformed.

1 Muskogee, Dec. 27. Homer Matthews and William Williams, negroes rescued by the militia from a lynching party, are safe in jail at Tulsa. The mob spirit has died down. The two are charged with the mur der of Patrolman Sam Neal.

i SAY KAISER JS WORSE THAN HE'S REPORTED 1 London, Dec. 26. -Alarming1 ru mors, probably of an exaggerated nature, are being circulated io Switz-" erland today concerning Emperor William's illness, according to the bug Was Active on Nor folk Southern Yard- Freight Depot and Cars Scenes of Blazes An other Alarm Today A series of fires on the Norfolk Southern Railroad yard in the central part of the city late Sunday were un doubtedly of incendiary origin; ac cording to Fire Chief Tom Moseley. He has no clue, however; The Norfolk Southern's men in charge of the local offices entertain the same belief as Ohief Moseley, but say they have not tho slightest evidence. An employe had been in the freight sta tion, the scene of the first blaze, about an hour before the department was called from box 32 to extinguish a burning desk, woodwork and Valuable records which were buring briskly at 5:30 o'clock or thereabouts.

There was no sign of a fire when the em ploye, a trusted was in the building. The damage was probably 100, by the Chiefs estimate. About 8 o'clock p. m. the firemen were called, also from box 32, to a car containing hay, which was blazing near the freight house.

One com pany handled this fire, but before it was well extinguished the East Kin ston company, waiting on the scene, had to be sent to the vicinity of Heri tage and Railroad streets, where a car of straw was afire. This was quickly out. The damage in the hay fire was about- S50, and to the straw about- $30. This morning about 7 o'clock, ac cording to the official record, the de partment was called to Macon street to put out a blaze, of unknown ori gin, in the home of E. Patterson, colored.

Patterson-said the fire oc curred around 6:30 oVlock and thati the damage was about $200, 'covered by insurance. The fir was Jn a sleepingroom. Chief Moseley put the damage at about $50 aside from broken furniture. FORD PEACE PARTY I -lev --1 J'-'' j-i mm some good YET, IT IS BELIEVED Warm Greeting for Oscar's Company at Stockholm Trying to Close Up the Breaches In Ranks to Prevent Succession of De-esrtlons By Chas. P.

StevUrt (United Press. Staff Correspondent) Stockholm, Dec, 27. The new management 'of the Ford party is endeavoring to close the ranks to prevent successions following the withdrawal of Governor Hanna and Miss Inez Milholand Boissevain. It is believed there is a chance for the mission's partial success since the warm greeting in Sweden. TOWN'S DRINKING WATER MAY BE HEALTHY, BUT- r.

(By the Eastern Press) Washington, N. Dec, 27'. The citizens of Washington are hoping for more rain. Tranter's creek, new source of the public water supply, is lower than usuaL The Vater from Pamlico and Tar rivers has crept up into the creek and that which the housewives now get from the taps in their homes is salty like old ocean's. The past three months have seen little rain, and Tranter's creek, usually a swift-running stream, is like a pond.

The officials say the trouble might not be repeated in many years. If it is a dam will have to ba constructed to keep the river water out. er of Baptist Church Ad dressed 'Large Congrega tion at Christian Church Sunday Evening Rapped So-called Prophets. Dr. B.

W. Spilman, noted Sunday school leader of the Southern Bap tist Church preached in the new Gordon Street Christian church Sun day night to a large and appreciative congregation on the subject: "The Dead in Christ Jesus." His text was 1 Thessalonians 4:16, "For the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a 'shout, with the voice of the archangel.rajCB,. with the trumpet of God: and 'the dcadln Christ shall rise There were three spans, said Dr. Spilman, after birth; Life, which was of comparative short duration, hard ly ever exceeding a hundred years; Death, which was indefinite, depend ing upon the second coming of tho Lord, the date of which no man knew, not even the angels in heaven; and tho period after the 'resurrection, which was eternal and everlasting, Dr. SpHman pointed out that there was no death to the soul or spirit of man; that the individual lived and was conscious even after; the first span -the i period called Jife-had sed and the separation called death had taken place.

These spirits, he sardft dwelt in the invisible world, (Continued on Page Tour) ALBANIANS STARVED BY THE THOUSANDS About 150,000 Perished in Past 12 Months and As Many More Will Probably Die in 1916 Population Greatly Increased by Serb RefugeesVillages Ruined by Armies (By the United Press) -Rome, Dec. 27. -One hundred and fifty thousand Albanians have starve ed to death in the past year, and an equal number is expected to die in the coming year, according to W. W. Howard, doing American relief work.

Many are homeless duo to the destruc tion of villages by Germans and Serbians. Two hundred thousand Serbian refugees have added to the population. WILSONS PLAY GOLF ON SNOW AT HOT SPRINGS (By the United Press) Hot Springs, Dec. 27. The Presidont and his bride today played snow golf with red golf balls.

The winter society colony is attempting to secure the couple's participation in skating parties. KEEPING MISSIONARY A GOOD INVESTMENT Thirteen years ago a layman and his wife, who belong to the Southern Methodist church, undertook the sup port of a missionary in Japan. The annual payment of $600 has never failed and has amounted to $7,800, and yet they say, "It is the best In vestment we ever made. There has never been a moment's regret that the money has gone that way. Each God by name, and ask that he be used day we hold 'our representative up to mightily." DOORS COSTALMOST MUCH AS SOME HOUSES (By the Eastern Press) Washington, N.

most expensive pair of doors in North Carolina are in the Federal courtroom here. Made by a special contract, a Federal inspector turned them down. The doors are of pigskin, sound-deadening, with, glass windows through which the marshal's mesenger looks to be ready when the clerk beckons. After the door were condemned another contractor went to New York and select- ful Now as Ever, Says Secretary Lansing ENTHUSIASTIC RESPONSE By Chilean Ambassador a Head of the Pan-Ameri can Congress Wilson and State Department's Head Are Warmly Com mended (By the United Press) Washington, Dec. decla- ratipn, iSejretary Lansing that the Monroe Doctrine still carries the force which left it unchallenged for foui1 decades was a feature of the open ing Pan-American Scientific Con gress here today.

The doctrine was warmly accepted by the Chilean Ambassador Suarez, chairman of the Congress. Suarez praised the Presi dent and Lansing. SEVEN MORE STATES WILL BE; DRY AFTER THE THIRTY -FIRST South Carolina, Colorado, Iowa, Washington; Oregon, Idaho-and "Arkansas Will Make the Total of Dry States 18 Virginia Nineteenth (By the United Washington, Dec. 27. South Caro- lina Colorado, Iowa, Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Arkansas liquor at high speed prepay ing for dryness when prohibition takes effect in all seven states on De cember 31 at midnight.

With Vir ginia Dry on November 1, nineteen states will be dry. BULLETINS (By the United Press) SEVEN PERISHED ON PORTO SAID. Paris, Dec. 27. Six passengers and one member of the crew per- ished in the sinking of the Italian steamer, Porto, said by an Austrian submarine in the Med iterranean 10 days ago, it was today officially stated.

PERSIAN POLICE IN FIELD, etrograd, Dec '11 Several thousand rebellious Persian Gendarmes, led by Germans, have been defeated near Teheran, it is announced. German batteries have been silenced along the Riga front. STEAMER SUBMARINED. London, Dec 27. The British steamer Had ley has been sunk.

The crew were readied. LINER WENT ASHORE, REFLOATED. London, Dec 27, The Holland American liner Nieuw Amsterdam, from New York, went ashore on the dangerous Good-wyn sands today but waa refloated after five hours' delay. PREPAREDNESS UP FIRST THING SAYS PRESIDENT (By the United Press) Hot Springs, Dec 26. Congress will be urged by President Wilson to concentrate its attention upon the administration's national defense program immediately after the Christmas holidays, BRITISH SHIP HELD BACK BY THE CENSOR Arlanza Victim Floating Mine Near Archangel 17 Days Ago Information Suppressed to Avoid ''Al arming.

Shipping Owners, New York Thinks (By the United Press) New York, Dec. 27. The big Brir tish liner Arlanza was sunk off Arch angel by a floating mine on Decemb er 10, according to shipping circles. It is understood the news was sup pressed by the British censor in the fear that ship owners would be alarmed at the danger in Russian waters. This is the largest vessel to have been sunk with the exception of the Lusitania and Arabic.

She was commendered by the Brtjsh gov ernment. SLOW DAY ON COTTON MARKET There was practically nothing doing on the local cotton market today. Hardly a bale was sold. New York futures quotations were: Open 2:45 January ,...12 12.13 March 12.35 May 12.60 July 12.75 October 12.37 1 12.45 THE MOTHER-IN-LAW OF CLEVELAND DEAD Trenton, Dec. 27.

Mrs. Emma F. Perrine, mother-in-law of the late Presiednt, Grover Cleveland, died here today. LLOYD GEORGE MAY BE PRIME IF ASQU1TH QUITS Campaign for Reorganization of Ministry Derby Plan Something of a Failure," Said Conscription Must Be Resorted to, Declared- (By London, the United Press) Dec. 27.

The Asquith under heavy fire. The for reorganization has Minitsry campaign 13 Only prompt action on the conscription issue can save the Prime Minister, the newspapers hint. Lloyd George will probably be the cabinet's new head. It is hinted in govern ment circles that the -Derby recruit- ing campaign was not an entire suc- cess. Uonscnption musi oe eniorcea to secure a large army.

SUSPICIOUS BLAZE ON BRITISH STEAMSHIP (By the United Press) New York, Dec. 27. Fire in the hold of the British steamship Inch- moor has damaged the sugar cargo $100,000 since it started. The authorities are now Chlo- Rate of Potash is believed to have been mixed with the sugar and caused the fire. Several indictments are expected.

A grand jury is investigating foreign propagandising suppos- ed connection with the blase. MINISTER Te TindertaWnff a SUCCC3 be. oaiisttf a thousand or more children were made glad by being recipients nf hao-s of confectionery, token pf the Christmas spirif and because two or tteee thousand others who gather td Christmas Eve night around the Courthouse and listened to the beau tifuf 1 songs of the Christmas Reason and the words that were spoken in prayer and otherwise and witnessed the surface manifestation of the brostttertyWndness "that dwells in the. hearts of men by reason of the examples and teachings of the Christ, were impressed as perhaps many of them had never before been. That such an impress was given is attested by the orderliness of the celebration that followed.

Not a single person was jailed during-the period of the three days celebration and the of ficere of the law give credit to" the wholesome effect of ''the Christmas tree exercises. Fortunately there1'' were bags' of confectionery in abundance. Enough and to spare aftep every boy and girl and many of" the "older people, who gathered Friday night had been served; Some of. the committee were busy Saturday and Sunday distribute ing these little bundles of good feel ing and gladness. The county, jail, where five men were forced tq spend the time because of their transgre sions, was.

visited and a word of en couragement and, a bag of goodies the. County Home and the con vict camp were no overlooked and enough bags were sent to the, Cas well Training school to supply the little subnormals there and the teachers and attaches as well. Not that fir. McNairy and his assistants hadn't already, looked after" their wants and pleasure substantially but that they might know thaf they were in the thoughts of their friends here Kinston. Volunteers took bags to the.

sick and indigent and Sunday afternoon by invitation about two Jian-dred negro children gathered" about the tree nn the Courihouft and after a short talk from Mr. II. Gait Braxton, editor of fne Free Press, iy were each given a of good things, and made to feel that their hite friends were interested in their progress and welfare. The program, arranged by 'the. Music committee of which Mrs.

N. J. House was the efficient chairman, was carried out Friday afternoon without 8 hitch. It waff as follows: Selection- the Second Infantry Band; Song, "Joy to the World," by chorus; Prayer by George Hanrahan, pastor of the Atkinson Memorial Presbyterian Church; Song by chorus, 'Silent Night;" Christmas carols aung by the young ladies of the Hjgh School choir and orchestra; tolk by Mr, H. Galf Braxton on flie Spirit of the Occasion closing Prayer by Dr.

B. W. Spilman, and attribution of gifts by the BagCom-of which" Mrs. H. G.

Braxton chairman. Tha little folks were up along the sidewalk on King WILSON COUNTY SLAYER SUICIDES IN THE HOME OF PERSON HE MURDERED Wilson, Dec. 26. This afternoon about o'clock Billie Gay, who was outlawed' on Christmas Eve for the killing of Lafayette Langley at his home six. miles out from Wilson, on the morning of December 23, commit-td suicide, in bed, at the home of.

his victinv After the killing of Mr. Langley, Mrs Langley came to her father, Mr. Golden. Walston, in this city, and had made up her mind to, and did return to the saddened home this after noon, but fortunately did not amve until Gay took hi3 own life. He had threatened to- kil her and her fath er.

It is the opinion of people in the neighborhood that Gay, went to, the house for, the purpose of carrying out his TRUSTIES' LIBERTY UP AHEAD OF TIME AsheviHe, Dec. 26. L. P. Matton and Fred Fowler, two of the negro trusties released for the Christmas holidays through the request of Gov ernor Craig, were brought mto police headquarters last night by men bers of the local police department, Matton being charged with assault with a deadly weapon, and" Fowler being charged with an over-indu! gence in "Christmas cheer," NURSE A-PLENTY BUT NEGLECT THE BABIES Says Children's Bureau of Govern ment's Policy Get Statistics of Business Ever So Often, of Infants Never Should Be Saving Future Business Men and Workingmen (By the, Uritcd Press) Washington, Dec 27.

This nation is more interested in the nursing business than in babies, the report of the Childrens' Bureau made public today, declared, discussing the high death rate' of children of i working mothers. The report pointed out that a census is taken every five years of busir ness, but none is ever had on babies and mothers. Zurich correspondent of the Exchange -Telegraph Company. The state; says the correspondent, that the Emperor's conditions is profound anxiety in Berlin. ed more than a dozen pigskins from which to get the cover for the doors.

When finally accepted the pair of doors, smaller than the ordinary doors, had cost right around $303, according to the. 1 1.