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TO REDUCE THE COST OF LIVING FARM PRODUCTS TO BE CARRIED DIRECT TO DOOR OF THE CONBUMER. TEN CITIES ARE SELECTED •■y Parcel Poet Postmaster General Burelaon Will Cut the Cost of s Living. Washington. Preliminary steps were taken by the postoffice depart ment to perfect Its plan for reducing 1 the cost of living by having the par cel post carry farm products direct to the door of consumer. Ten cities were selected to begin the work of establishing direct connection between producer and consumer* Postmaster General Burleson having issued an or der permitting the use of crates and boxes for butter, eggs, poultry, vegeta bles and fruit shipped by parcel post. Orders went to the postmaster at Boston, Atlanta, St. Louis, San Fran cisco, Baltimore, Detroit, LaC'rosse, Wis.; Lynn, Mass.; IJpck Island, 111., and Washington, directing them "to receive the names of persons who are willing to supply farm produce in re tall quantities by parcel post." Print ed lists of these names will be dis tributed among town and city patrons. "By the use of the lists," said First Assistant Postmaster General Roper, "the city consumer can get In touch with a farmer who will fill his weekly orders for farm produce. The consum er will receive the product fresh from the country, and the* personal relation ship established no doubt will tend to Improve the quality. The farmer will be relieved of carrying his pro duce to market, as the rural carrier will make collections at the farm er's own door of the retail shipments to city consumers. "The point has been raised that dif ficulty will be experienced in the re turn of hampers and other containers. This problem does not appear, to me to be difficult, as the farmer may use inexpensive hampers whose value would not warrant their return, or he may use the higher grade hampero for which he may lnclnde an additional charge to be credited to the consumer on the return of the hamper by par cel post." EUROPE CONTROLS RADIUM Claimed Americans Fail to Recognize Importance of Radium. Washington. —How the American people failed to recognize the import ance of radium us a cancer ?Bre until European countries hnd obtained vir tually "all of the present available sup ply, Is graphically told in the annual report of Joseph A. Holmes, director of the federal bureau of mines, made public. The report tells in detail of the bureau's unsuccessful efforts to obtain a quantity of radium sufficient to supply the twenty or more hospi tals of the public health service and "serve in part to meet the needs of the various cancer hospitals of the country." Director Holmes estimates that "in the United States 75,000 persons die each year from cancer. Explaining that radium is considered the most promising cure for certain typeß of cancer, the director says the most serious barrier to progress in demon strating this is the scarcity of radium. "There probably is not more than thirty grains of radium now available for use in such treatment in all coun tries," the report says. "Of this amount there probably Is not more than two grams of radium bromide In the Unit ed States, In the hands of a few sur geons. Probably fifteen grams of ra dium bromide was produced during 1912, and of the fifteen grams nearly 11.5 grams were extracted in various European countries from ores shipped to them from the United States, main ly from Colorado and Utah. Man's Blays Four Persons. Oak Park, Ga.—J. A. Eubanks, a farmer of this place, killed his wife and two young daughters aB they Blept, and after setting fire to his home, barn and several tenants' hous es, fired a bftllet through hlB own fore bead, killing himself. Two Badly Hurt on Trsstie. Atlanta. —Edward L. Hule, senior at Tech, and Miss Mabel Bixbie, a milli ner, were seriously Injured when the Seaboard Express No. 6 from New York City to New Orleans ran them down as they were walking over a trestle near this city. As the fast train swept around the curve, thirty minutes late, the engineer saw the couple crossing the steel structure. Too late, he blew a warning blast. The couple attempted to escape, but before they ran ten feet the pilot of the engine had tossed them into a dry gulley. U. 8. Wool Not Well Handled. Washington.—American wool grow - era could add aa much as 3 cents a pound to the value of their product if sent to market? graded and pot up aa attractively as Australian wools, ac cording to estimates of the department of agriculture expert It is admitted b 7 the growers themselves and by dealers and manufacturers, said a de partment statement, that the American system of grading and patting up wool la poor. Three cents a pound on wool •allteg at from IS to 80 cents a pound la a very high percentage of loss. GUSTAV BAUCH w ' I v>, *»* J / /j^ 1 r Qusav Bauch is an American rail road man who dlaappeared In Mexico and la believed to hava been killed by the constitutionalists. Carranza has ordersd an Inquiry Into his death, but Villa says he waa slain by fed erals. DOG SAVES FORTY LIVES QUEBTB OF. WINDSOR HOTEL, IN MILWAUKEE, SCURRY DOWN FIRE ESCAPE. Yelping of Vagabond Pup Awakens Hotel Proprietor, Who Rouses Quests In Time. Milwaukee, Wis. —Guests of the Windsor hotel, numbering nearly two score, were compelled to flee for their lives when a fire, which deatroy ed the hotel and the Western News paper Union plant, In the southern portion of the building, and burned oTit the four-Btory structure. The barking of a dog sounded the alarm Iti time for escape. Chartea Sandberg, lessee of the ho tel, declared that every guest of the hotel got out safely. The property damage Is (200,000. The barking of a vagabond dog aroused Mr. Sandberg, the hotel keep er, and he and policemen went through the halls smashing In doors where the guests failed to answer knocks. Guests were soon scurrying for safety clad In night attire. Patrolman Wilke was the last to emerge from the mission of awakening the guests. He said the guests had all been awakened and managed to get out. BANDIT MAKES RICH HAUL Bandit Robs Express Messenger on „ Santa Fe Railway. Beaumont, Texas.—After bundling the messenger, "Reb" Martin, in a gunnysack, a masked man robbed the express car attached to northbound Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe passen ger train No. 202 Of several packages of currency, estimated to aggregate about $14,000, and escaped from the train at the village of Helblg, 12 miles north of Beaumont. Posses, which went to Helblg from this city in auto mobiles. have not found trace of the bandit, who is believed to be hiding in the dense forest about the village. G. A. Taft, general superintendent of the Wells-Fargo Express company, es timated the amount stolen at 114,000. The money was part of a shipment made by a Houston lumber concern to be used in paying their employes at camps along the road. Tuscaloosa Swept by Fire. Tuscaloosa, Ala. —Fire in the busi ness section of Tuscaloosa early did damage estimated at a quarter of a million dollars. Three business hous es and their stocks were destroyed. The cause of the fire has not been de termined. Ilosenau company, depart ment store ownera, were the heaviest losers, their building and its contents being valued at $160,000. Wants $2,000,000 for Atlanta P. O. Waahtngton.—Among the things rec ommended by the efficiency commis sion In its report on the Atlanta post office ia the erection of a new build ing to accommodate the increasing volume of business handled by the At lanta postoffice. In lieu of this, Con gressman W. S. Howard has introduc ed a bill recommending a $2,000,000 appropriation 4o erect a public build ing for the postal department. Mr. Howard says that in the event a re gional bank is located in Atlanta the present postoffice can be used for iL Homes and ScHool Work Together. New Orleans. —Schools in general were dlacussed and suggestions offer ed as to how they might be improved, at the concluding session of the tenth annual National Child Labor confer ence here. On several occasions dur ing the conference references to what was termed inefficiency of schools syß tem or inadequacy of school laws have met with applause., of delegates. Dr. E. N. Clopper of New York, secretary of tke Northern child labor commit tee, said children were leaving school as soon as the Jaw allowed. THE KNTSKPBin, wnrTAMHTOW. KOETH CABOUHA. BUREAU REPORT ON COTTON CROP CROP 13 ONE OF THE LARGEST EVER GROWN IN THE UNIT" , ED STATES. » NEW METHOD IN REPORTINC Over Thirteen Million Running Produced by Southern Farmers, It the Report. Washington—One of the largest cotton crops ever grown, amounting to 14,127,356 equivalent 500-pound balej of linters, was produced by the farmers of the United States during 1913, the census bureau announo«d In its prellmlnaray report of cotton gin ned as reported by ginners and de leters to February 28. These figures compare with 13,703,- 421 equivalent 600-pound bale* of lint and 609,594 bales of (Inters laat year, and 15,692,701 bales of lint and 667,- 575 bales of (Interest in 1911. The department of agrlculture'c es timate, anhounced December 12, plac ed the 1913 crop at 13,677,000 equlva lent 500-pound bales. The total value of the crop, Includ ing tho value of cotton seed, it unoffi cially estimated roundly at more than $1,000,000,000, compared with last year's $920,000,000, and $963,000,- 000 for the previous most valuable crop, that of 1910. With this report the bureau of cen sus departed from Its previous Method of reporting the cotton crop by not including the quantity of llnters In the total production. Director William J. Harris announced this was done be cause with the installation of modern machinery closer delinting of seed had Increased the quantity of llnters and at the same time lowered the aver age quality of the fiber so that now only a, small part, If any, wat used as a substitute for lint cotton. ,The number of running bare of lint cotton, counting round as half bales, was 13,964,981, and of llnter cotton. 629,019 running bales, compared with 13,488,539 running bales of lint and 602,324 running baiett of llntera last year, and 15,553,073 running bales of llnters In 1911. Included In the production for 1913 are 29,267 bales, which ginnert esti mated would be turned out after the time of the March canvass. Round hales included numbered 99,- 916 compared with 81,528 last year and 101,654 In 1911. Sea Island.bales Included 77,490 com pared with 73,777 last year and 1ff, 293 In 19fl. The average gross weight of bales for the crop, counting round as half bales and excluding linters, was 505.8 pounds, compared with 508.0 last year and 604.5 In 1911. VILLA REACHES TORREON Federal Stronghold Shelters 9,000 Troops Under General Velasco. Constitutionalist Headquarters, Yer mo, Durango, Mexico. —Qeneral Villa and his army of 12,000 rebels Invested the federal Btronghold of Torreon. The khaki-clad columns occupied thb environs of tho city without opposi tion, and in wheeling and dragging field pieces into place to shell the federal trenches, dug at every point where the federal commander, Oen. Refugio Velasco, expects attack. VelaßCo's army is estimated to num ber 9,000 men. South and southwest of this city his position is regarded as almost Impregnable by reason of the mountains, through which only three passes run, and these have been rendered almost Impassable by fortifi cations and barbed-wire entangle ments. In other directions the city is reached through the desert and high hills. Lansing Named to Bucceed Moore. Washington. President Wilson nominated Robert Lansing of Water town, N. Y., to be counselor for the department of state, succeeding John Bassett Moore, and Cone Johnson of Texas to be solicitor for the depart ment, succeeding Joseph W. Folk. Mr. T-end"g it an associate editor of the American Journal of International Law and the author of several works on international subjects. Identifies Train Robber. Atlanta, Ga. —Harry B. Mellville, the postal clerk on the Queen and Cree cent BOtuhbound train No. 1, running from Cincinnati to New Orleans, which was robbed near Birmingham of $40,- 000 on the night of February 19, ar rived in Atlanta and identified A. O. Perry, one of the three alleged yegg men, who were arrested at No. 89 Btookllne street, as the train bandit who stabbed him in the back with a knife when he refused to tell the gang of robbers where all the money in the small car was hidden. . How It Feela to Be President. Washington.—Wood row Wilson un bosomed himself to members of the National Press Club of Washington, telling them, In a frank, conversational way, how he felt as president of the United States, how difficult it was for him to Imagine hlipself as the chief executive with the formal amenities of the position, and how he had strag gled to be as free- as the ordinary individual without the restraints of hit office. It wat an intimate picture of Wood row Wilton, the man, drawn by himself. MARGARET ALLEN TRIMBLE ——— 0 Mlsa Trimble Is the pretty daughter ef South Trimble, former congrese man from Kentucky a.l now elerk ef the heiiee of repreaentatlvea. ..list Trimble Is popular with the younger set In Washington. MANY BURIED UNDER WALLS BUILDING FALLS IN HIGH WIN*, CAUSING DEATH AND * DESTRUCTION. Tragedy In SL Loit Dus to Collapse of a Wall of Burned Building. SL Louis, Mo. —At least two persons were killed, fifteen buried under de briß and ten injured when the west wall of the Missouri Athletic club building, which was destroyed by Ore, in which thirty persons lost their lives a week ago, collapsed under a high wind here, and craahed through a four-story building occupied by the St. Louis Seed company. The wall of the Missouri Athletic club building, which stood woven sto rles high, crumbled when a 35-mile wind veered to tho northweaL A few mlnutet before the collapse. Building CommlHsloner McKelvey, who was di recting 170 men in the work of ex ploring the ruins of the Missouri Ath letic club, feared the wall would fall and ordered hia men out of the de brta. This action probably prevent ed a heavy loss of life. The four-story building occupied by the St. Louis Seed company had weak-' ened, apparently during the burning of the MlHHourl Athletic club building, which adjoined it on the eaßt, and when the brick wall crashed on the rpof of the four-story building, the walls of the latter gave way and all above tne second floor crumbled. COTTON EXCHANGE REFORMS New York Organisation Adopts the Nirt-Grade Syttem. New York. —Submission to the nine type system of cotton grading favor ed by the United States government was acknowledged by the board of managers of the New York cotton ex change in the adoption of a resolution making the government standard types of cotton the basis for trading on and after April 1, 1915. The resolution reads: "Resolved, That the government standard types of the fololwlng grades of cotton, I. e., middling fair, strict good middling, good middling, strict middling, middling, strict low mid dling, low middling, strict good ordi nary and good ordinary shall be the basis for determining the grade of all cotton for delivery upon contracts ma turing on and after April 1, 1915." The nine-grade system has been ap plied by the New Orleans exchange for years, and Is said to simplify the marketing of the producL Concilia tory action wat taken last fall by the New York exchange, but the conces ■lon did not completely appeate dis aatiafactlon in the South, which has Intiated on a complete surrender, tt to said. Girls Flee for Their L'vea. Wellesley, Matt. —Perfect discipline, opoinets and bravery on the part of students and faculty members pre vented lost of life or Injury, when college ball, oldest of the Wellesley college buildings, was burned here. Two hundred and fifty joung women itudentt, fifty Instructors and fifty maids, were in bed when the fire waa discovered. Every one was saved, and not one of the scores who marched .n an orderly procession through the smoke-filled hallways, suffered to much as a scratch. Nolan Given Twenty Y«ars. Marietta, Oa. —John Nolan', accused of the daring robbery, pf a Nashville, Chattanooga and SL Louis passenger train on the- outskirts of Atlanta on January 17 and of after wards engaging In a pistol battle with the porter and a county policeman, was found guilty in the CoUh county superior court here and sentenced to twenty years in the penitentiary. . F. W. Hadley of Atlanta positively iden tified Nolan aa the bandit who reliev ed him of sl7 on the train. Two ne gro porters alee Identified him. U.S.SOLOIERS FIRE SHOTS AT MEXICANS FIFTEEN TROOPERS ON RIC ORANDE OPEN FUSILADE ON MEXICAN FEDERALS. THREE U. 8. HORSES KILLED Skirmish Began When Federate Started Acroea River in Fight with Rebels.—Another Bklrmieh Expect ed Soon.—No Americana Hart. Kagle Pas a, Texaa. —Mexican Fed eral soldiers who attempted to pur ine with rifle bullets a defeated Con stitutionalist force escaping to the United States and safety met sharp, reals tan ce from United States cat airy on border patrol at McKee'a Crossing above Del Rio, Texaa. When three horaes held by the American troopers bad been shot down the Americans returned the fire erott the Rio Orande and after the exchange of, ahott, Che Mexicani withdrew bearing with them teveral dead and wounded. No American waa hurt. How many of the Mexican toldlert were killed or wounded It not known. Official reports of the occurrence to Colonel Sibley, commanding at Fort Clarke here caused orders for ay available cavalry of the border pa trol to proceed to Del Rio. One troop and a machine gun platoon left Eagle Pass. Another engagement between Mex ican Federals and Constitutionalists it expected in the same territory. The clash across the international line was precipitated according to of ficial reports by persistent firing of the Federals at the fleeing Consti tutionalists who had gained Ameri can territory and surrendered to United States troops. Three horses, held by American cavalrymen, were killed. For 10 minutes Captain Win terburn of Troop E., Fourteenth Cav alry, signalled to the Federals to cease firing, but reported that hie signals were disregarded and his own men were in danger. He then order the Americans, a detachment of 15 troopers to fire and a sharp fusllade followed, last ing for about five minutes. ROOSEVELT EQUIPMENT LOST While Trying to Explore "River of Doubt" All Equipment Wea/Swept Away In Rapids. New York. —Col. Theodore Roose velt's family and friends were anx iously awaiting further advices about the accident by which bis party lost its entire equipment in the rapids of a Brazilian river. While no concern it was stated, was felt for the colon el's safety, yet his family wanted to learn details of the accident and whether the expedition would be abandoned, eapecially at the party wat so far from an equipment base. News of the mishap came In a brief message from Anthony Fials, a member of the party. H was dated at Santarem, Braill, and read: "We have lost everything in the rapids. Telephone my wife of my safety." Durham Hat Million Dollar Firs. Durham.—The worst fire In the hiß :ory of Durham, discovered r.bout 11 o'clock at night, at 2 o'clock next 'hiornlng had deatroyed the five-story Brodle L Duke office building on Main street, and several stores and though partly under control was raging with a fury that menaced the entire block. The lots waa estimated at over million dollars. The following business houses suf fered complete lost: Wool worth damage, $20,000; R. A. Baldwin, $30,- 000; Rawls department store, 440,000; Prßchard-Brlght Clothing Company, $35,000; Lloyd Hardware, $50,0*0; Herring ft Blliott, 960,000; Holland Brothert, $50,000; Blacknall's drag store, $40,000; Bellamy's Shoe Store, $16,000; T. M. Stephens Grocery, damage, $16,000; Durham Book ft Stationery Co., $40,000; Royal Tail- Art, $10,000; Chatham Funritore Co., s|s t oso; Durham Reformer, slf,oM. Great Dreadnawght Launched. Philadelphia. The superd read nought Oklahoma, one of the largept aad most powerful battleships afloat, waa launched from the yards of the New York Shipbuilding Company at Camden. N. J. The giant sea fighter was christened by Miss Lorena Jane Cruce, daughter of the Governor of Oklahoma, who crashed a bottle of champagne against the ship's great prow at the hull began to glide into the Delaware fiver. Miss Cruce was surrounded by a dozen girl friends from Oklahoma. Lingering Snow, Better Crops. Washington. Prospects for big crops in 1914 are particularly bright at this time as the result of the al most continuous succession of snow storms over the country, in the opinion of officials of the department of agri culture. The longer the snow blanket lingers, the more brows the assurance of big crops. "If this snow blanket will only take Ha time In 'departing," said Dr. J. A. Bonesteel of the bureau of soils, "we will have a better crop start thla year than for teveral season*. CONVENTION CLOSES BAPTIST LAYMEN PLEASED WITH. MEETING JUST ENDED AT / DURHAM. ' ""V" V - > 0 ■ OR. E. M. POTEST SPEAKS Preeident of Furman University Deliv ers Masterful Addrm on "Christ's Challenge," Bringing Greatest North Carolina Mooting to • Clooo. Durham. Undor the spell ef "Christ's Challenge," presented in a masterful maimer by President C. M. Potest of furman University, the Baptist laymen brought to a close on*\ of the greatest Baptist meetings ever held in North Carols, n convention great in its accomplishments, grant in attendance, great in the addresses, and one that will hare n vast effect on the missionary work of the Baptist* in North Carolina, according to the loaders. President J. D. Bruner of Chowan - College presided; and. following a praise servloe, Dr. William Smith de livered n stereopticon lecture on mis sions. He was followed by Doctor Bruner in s few remarks. Dr. William Louis Potent of Wake Forest then presented 14 student vol unteers for mission work. These were conducted to the platform and presented in person to the audience. There won eight young women, two of whom came from the State Normal and six from Meredith. The six men presented came from Wake Forest College. The committee on resolutions up pointed the executive committee of the convention to mnke a repprt, t» the next Baptist Stete Convention. The usual resolutions about such meetings were passed. The Baptists of this city were thanked for their hospitality and the work of the pub licity committee recognized. Not including tSe Durham dele gates, of whom there were several hundred, there were 361 delegates from the various associations In the State. The Mount Zion Association leads wltb 45. and the Central Asso ciation with 38. Tbe delegates come from all parts of the state, from Wil mington to the mountains. Classified,, the farmers had the largest delega tion, indicating that the missionery appeal has reached the rural dis tricts. The preachers were next and. the merchants third.. The question of a fleeting next year will be left to the State Conven tion. The laat day of the convention was attended by the usual large crowds which characterized every meeting of the first two days. Judge Jeter C. Prltchard was in the chair in the* morning, and made a few remarks; but the big address was that of Pres ident E. M. Potest of Furman Univer sity. a - J Western N. C. for "Movie" Scenery. Ashevllle. —Bsfry O'Neil, familiar* on motion picture screens in every city of any in the country, accom panted by a cast of 12 plsyers, was an. Ashevllle visitor recently, en route to Bat Cave where the players of the Lu* bin Company will enact "The Wolf* for the benefit of the lovers of the "movies" throughout the country. The Lubln players were sent to western North Carolina for the picture because of the rugged scenery of this section of the state, the scenic effects of the picture to be produced demanding . mountainous land. This is the second company to rec ognize the advantages of the Land of the Sky for producing motion pic tures, the Vltagraph Company havlng sent a company to Bat Cave for thfr past three summers. Publishers at Aahsvllls Nsxt Atlanta, Ga.—The Southern New* paper Publishers' Aseocistion unani mously endorsed and commended th*- admlnistratlon of President Wilson at the annual .meeting here. Ashevllle was selected as the place for 191 • con vention. Officers elected are: i. W. R. Hinman, Florida Times-Union, Jacksonville, president; W. L. Hal stead, Atlanta Constitution, vice-presi dent; William Clements, Birmingham News, secretary. Davidson Publishes a Paper. Davidson.—At a meeting held tm Hhoarer Hall recently the studeskt body voted In favor of a college news paper. which will begin very shortly and will give a detailed account of all the happenings of the college and the surrounding community. Tbe paper will not only be of great inter est to the college students, but to the people of the town and the alumni " of the college, ss it .will keep them in touch with the college and the items of interest after they have left the school. * Appoints Official Decorator. Charlotte. —The Mecklenburg Deo- - laratlon Society a few days sgo gave the contract for the decoration of Trade and Tryon . street during the 20th of May celebration to Harry W. a Lewis, official decorator for the Con- ~ federate reunion at Jacksonville and Atlanta. Mr. Lewis comes to Char lotte shout the raidlle of April. The contract calls for the decoration of Trade * and Trynn streets for a dis tance of 14 blocks. Mr. Lewis Is alao to decorat* store*, hotels and other place*.
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