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THE CHATHAM RECORD H A. LONDON, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR Terms of Subscription $1.50 Per Year Strictly in Advance THE CHATHAM RE GO TO Rates of Advertising One Square, one insertion $L00 One Square, two msertiooa $129 One Square, cme month $2Q For Larger Advertisements Liberal Contracts will be made. VOL. XXXIV. PITTSBORO, CHATHAM COUNTY. N. C., MAY 29, 1912. NO. 42. ;RIEF NEWS NOTES FOR THE BUSY MAN MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS OP THE PAST WEEK TOLD IN CONDENSED FORM. WORLD'S NEWS EPITOMIZED Complete Review of Happenings of Greatest Interest From All Parts of World. Southern. Nearly $1,000,000 was contributed to the cause of education by the gen eral education board founded by John D. Rockefeller. Of this sum $700,000 was appropriated for distri bution among five colleges, the larg est contribution, of $250,000, going to the George Peabody college for teach ers of Nashville, Tenn., for the es tablishment of the Seaman A. Knapp school of country life. The sum of $210,000 was set aside for demonstra tion work in agriculture in the South ern states, for professors of second ary education in state universities of the South, and to aid the work of Je gro education in the South. The dem onstration work appropriation is $133, 000. At a meeting of the Tennesee alum ni of the University of the South, it was stated that two memorials would probably perpetuate the memory at Sewanee of the hero of the Titanic dsaster, Maj. Archie Butt. An endow ed scholarship or professor ship will be established by the alumni, while the Delta Tau Delta fraternity, of which Major Butt was a member, is planning to erect a new gymnasium in his memory. With the Mississippi river and its tributaries steadily falling and. no further disastrous crevasses in the levees anticipated, interest in the devastating flood that swept millions of acres of Louisiana's lowlands and stretches of fertil acres in Mis sissippi and southeastern Arkansas, now centers in the gigantic task of caring for the tens of thousands of people who have been made homeless. More than $1,000 in cash and a still larger amount in clothing and supplies have been devoted to the refugees and there is almost $500,000 in sight for their urgent needs. General. Reports received from Oriente province in Cuba and emanating from other than governmental sources leave no room for doubt that the in surrectionary movement in the east ern end of the island, the main thea ter of the insurgents, is growing at alarming rapidity. Those reports ap parently receive confirmation in the extraordinary reticence of the govern ment in its increase of the severity of the telegraph censorship, its activ ity in enrolling volunteers and the determination to dispatch Maj. Gen. Monteagudo to take supreme com mand of the troops operating in Ori .ente. Prospects of a thrilling race, a wide latitude in betting, and promise of the best "field" that has been entered in a "presidential handicap" for many years, have finally awakened New York's betting spirit, and it is re ported that money is being freely of fered in wages ,as to whether Taft or Roosevelt or a dark horse will gain the Republican nomination. An other betting chance is the contest on the Democratic side, with the finals between the two parties as a climax. According to returns in hand. Col. Theodore Roosevelt's delegates to the national Republican convention car ried in the Ohio primary by a plural ity of about 25,000 votes. It is scarce ly possible that final results from the primary poll will change the number of district delegates from either side by more than one or two. The best figures show that Roosevelt has 32 of the 42 district delegates selected and that President Taft has 10. Governor Harmon, however, is assured a com plete delegation of 48 delegates to the Baltimore convention. His lead gives him control of the state Demo cratic convention, which will select six delegates-at-large. son's brain was normal. Rev. Herbert S. Johnson, who was Clarence Richeson's spiritual adviser, has issued a stament explaining that certain questions were asked the condemned man as he was being strapped in the chair for the purpose of taking Richeson's mind off his or deal and to meet Richeson's wish to leave some religious testimony for the witnesses. The African Methodist Episcopal conference of bishops in session in Kansas City, Mo., voted down an at tempt to have the words, "He de scended into hell," left out of the Apostles Creed. A French dirigible balloon beat the world's dirigible balloon record for altitude. It ascended 9,514 feet. The interstate commerce commis sion decided the case of the Xew Orleans board of trade against several railroads, that the present freight rate of $3 a ton on pig iron from Birmingham to New Orleans was not unreasonable. The countess de Beaufort, wife of Count Jacques Alexander de Beaufort, and formerly Miss Irma KUgallen, a daughter of a wealthy Chicago steel manufacturer, has just obtained a di vorce in Chicago. Charles W. Morse and Mrs. Morse, who sailed for Europe February 14, shortly after Morse's sentence in the Atlanta pentitentiarfy was commuted by President Taft, returned to this country. Morse talked freely with the newspaper men. As to whether he intended to return to the busi ness world, he said that would de pend on how his health keeps up. The former banker declared . he gained a great deal by his rest in Europe, and his looks confirmed his statement. The final session of the German reichstag prior to adjournment to November 29 was a stormy one. The Social Democratic leader, George Ledebour, in referring to the emper or's recent threat at a banquet that he would incorporate Alsace-Lorraine into Prussia, declared: "A people like the English would in a parallel case either have smashed the throne to fragments or have confined a mon arch making such remarks in some castle in the same way as had been done to the mad king of Bavaria." Speeches seconding the nomination of Theodoore Roosevelt for president will be made in the Chicago conven tion by Judge Hiram Johnson of Cali fornia; Henry Allen of Kansas, a del egate at large from that state, and Senator Clapp of Minnesota, accord ing to information given out in Wash ington by close friends of Colonel Roosevelt. It is understood that sev eral speakers from the Middle arft Eastern states are also being consid ered for speeches to second the nom ination. Miss Belle Squire, president of the "No Vote, No Tax League," of Chi cago, refused to fill out a personal property tax schedule. Instead, she wrote this letter in a blank space and mailed it to the assessors: "Gentle men: "Just so long as the county of Cook hands me a tax schedule on the ground that I am a citizen of Illinois and must pay my share of the com mon expenses, and then refuses me a ballot on the ground that I am a wom an, just so long will I refuse to be voluntarily on your lists." The body of Clarence V. Richeson, who was executed for the murder of Avis Linnell, lay at the North Grove street morgue in Boston. Doctor Mc Grath, medical examiner of Suffolk county, performed the autopsy requir ed by law, and declared that Riche- Senator W. Murray Crane of Massa chusetts voluntarily announced that he would not again seek re-election to the senate. Thus passes another of the men who were lieutenants of former Senator Aldrich. The latter voluntarily left the senate. Senator Hale of Maine resigned when defeat became apparent and Senator Cullom of Illinois has just been refeated for re-election. Senator Burrows of Mich igan lost at the polls, and Senator De pew of New York has retired to pri vate life. Heroism displayed in the fight against the , Mississippi floods has brought to Harry Mill, a Mississippi 'convict, a pardon from Gov. Brewer, Mills was convicted of murder in Vicksburg six years ago and was sen tenced to twenty years imprisonment. Washington. An effort to organize cotton grow ers in the South to remedy the pres ent wasteful conditions and market ing of cotton has been begun by the bureau of manufacturers, according to a report issued in Washington. Commercial Agent J. M. Carson has been assigned to visit the principal points for the concentration of cotton in the South and confer with the men engaged in authority with a view to ascertaining whether a plan for the market could be devised. The house is holding to its program for adjournment about June 15, al though no understanding , has been reached with the senate leaders, wha are not optimistic. Representative Underwood announced that the pro gram for adjournment on June 15 must be carried out so far as the house is concerned, and said he would insist on sidetracking all legislation there in favor of the approbation bills and a few measures of import ance. Orders issued by the interstate com merce commission suspending ad vances in class freight rates from New Orleans to Mobile, Selma and Prattville, Ala., and Pensacola, Fla., were vacated by the commission. This action' is taken not because the com mission doubts that it had authority to enter the orders, but because it wishes to avoid complicating the ques tions involved in the case of the Lou isville and Nashville Railroad com pany against the commission. In one of the most remarkable speeches of the present session of congress, Representative Dies of Tex as, Democrat, assailed former Presi dent Roosevelt in bitter terms and referred in almost as bitter fashion to the leaders of his own party, in cluding Speaker Clark and Governor Wilson. Mr. Dies foresaw the crumb ying of the republic, the eventual rule of the mob and assigned as the causes the .growth of demagogery and influx of ignorant immigrants from southern Europe. The resolution to make the length of service of the chief executive six years and give to a president but one term, which recently was introduced in the house by Representative Clay ton of Alabama, was suggested, the author explained,' by a declaration made by President Taft in a recent speech when he said that a president ought not to be permitted to succeed himself. -The resolution is now pend ing in committee. It probably will be taken up for consideration when the resolution to change the date of inauguration from March 4 to the last Thursday In April, is considered. STATE PRIMARIES T E IN ONLY A FEW COUNTIES WAS A VOTE TAKEN ON PRESIDEN TIAL CHOICE. THE CONVENTION WILL ACT The Friends of Underwood and Wilson Are Active In All Parts of the Com monwealth Out of Question to Fore cast Sentiments of Delegates. Raleigh. The returns as far as re ceived from the counties of North Carolina which acted, primarily, to nominate county officers under the provisions of an optionary and not compulsory law passed by the last session of the legislature, shows' that only a very small number took even a "straw vote" on presidential pref erence the act not providing for the legal holding of a presidential pref erence primary. It is 'therefore out of the question for any one to accurately forecast what the sentiment of the delegates to the Democratic state convention next month will be. The great majority not being in structed or enlightened in any way ex cept their own local observations will generally be guided by the latter im pulse. The Wilson promoters in the state strongly claim that a decided major ity of the people want Wilson and that, the real power being in the peo ple, the state convention ought and probably will send a delegation that at least will be friendly to Wilson as first choice. From the Underwood promoters there is a loud claim because of strength displayed in some counties where organized fight was made. But the territory covered by all the pri maries was infinitesimal in compari son to the area of the state. Dairymen Refuse To Sell Milk. - The fight of the Buncombe County Dairyman's Association to have the $1 tax on each cow which furnishes milk to the people reduced or rescind ed has been reopened and the asso ciation threw down the gauntlet, de claring to the joint health board, that unless they get the relief which they demand the members of the associa tion, which includes practically all the dairymen of the county, will re fuse to sell milk in Asheville and dis pose of it in other ways. They would do this, it was stated, while the mat ter was being thrashed out in the higher courts, attorneys having been employed already for the purpose. Evi dently the board has decided to let the dairymen take their course for it took no steps to accede to the de mands. Good Roads For Davie County. P. O. Tatum of South River was in Spencer and brought an account of a big good roads meeting held at Jerus alem. A large crowd was present and the meeting was presided over by T. J. Byerly of Mocksville, while E. D. Williams of the same place was made secretary. The , road conditions in Davie was discussed after which it was decided to build a sand-clay road from Jerusalem to Cooleemee. For this purpose the Erwin Cotton Mill Company offered one-half of the $3,000 which it was estimated the road will cost. One of Greatest Events in History. Col. J. Bryan Grimes who presided at the unveiling of the tablet to the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independ ence in Raleigh, in calling the meet ing to order took occasion to declare that he believed, and indeed knew, the Mecklenburg Declaration of Inde pendence to be one of the greatest events in American history. He paid high tribute to the women of. the state for the awakening that he de clared they have brought about large ly in interest in North Carolina his toric matters. Baptist Young People's Union Meet. The state convention of the Bap tist Young People's- Union will be held at Dunn, June 11th and 13th, in clusive. It will be a very interesting meeting, and will attract many young people from all jparts of the state. The officers have been fortunate in secur ing a number of prominent speakers for this convention, among them Dr. Edwin M. Poteat, of Greenville, S. C; Mr. Arthur Flake, of Baldwin, Miss., and Mr. B. W. Spillman, of the Sun day School Board of the Southern Baptist Convention. The Iredell County Politics. Final returns in the precinct meet ings held throughout the county and In Statesville do not alter the results as announced. A heavy vote was cast cast in all' the precincts and the per sonnel of the county board of commis sioners Is not yet determined. R. M. Gray of Statesville will succeed L. O. White as superintendent of county education. It is a mistake that the question of salaries for county officers was declared on as has been stated in dispatches to many papers from Raleigh. I ARE NO DEC SIV WORMS IN COTTON FIELDS An Invasion By the Pest Is Predicted B Government Officer of Depart . ment of Agriculture. Raleigh. A special from Washing ton states that an invasion of the cot ton belt by, the cotton worm or cater pillar, incorrectly called the army worm, may be expected this season in the opinion of W. D. Hunter, in charge of the Southern field crop In vestigations of the Department of Ag riculture expressing himself by way oi warning rather than prediction. He advises planters to make the neces sary preparations for fighting the worm and begin operations at the earliest possible moment. The inva sion last season extended as far North as Canada and did considerable damage not only to cotton but to fruits in the North. Investigation has developed that all the cotton worm moths in the United States were de stroyed by the abnormal cold last winter. "Our conclusion," says Dr. Hunter, "is that the only fear of an outbreak is in a reinvasion from Cen tral and South America. There is one fact which seems to indicate that there may possibly be such a rein vasion. The chronology of the out break down that a distinct tendency towards the recurrence of a series of two or three seasons of abundance. Apparently, the species reaches great numbers in South America and re mains abundant for several years, thus giving rise to the consecutive swarms which have invaded the United States." For the control of the cotton worm Mr. Hunter advises the use of pow dered arsenate of lead, mixed with any other material, at the rate of 2 pounds per acre. Politics in Northampton County. With only one precinct casting about 25 votes to report the result in Northampton county in the Demo cratic primary is: Lieutenant-Governor W. E. Daniel 1,030 no one in opposition. Corporation commission er, long term Pell 642; Maxwell 354. Short term, Daniel 540; Travis 480. The nominees are: House of repre sentatives, J. B. Stephenson; treasu rer, E. J. Ray; register of deeds, Sam uel J. Calvert; sheriff, Hinton J. Joy ner; county commissioners, J. G. Stan cell, J. T. Bolton, J. H. Fitzhugh; road commissioners, C. B. Vick, John E. Moore. Locke Craig for governor and the unencumbered state officers, re ceived a large number of votes. C. G. Peebles was endorsed for the Senate in the Third district by 1,049 votes. Design for Ashley Home Monument. The ten thousand dollar monument to the North Carolina women of the Confederacy that' Col. Ashley Home is to erect and, present to the state is to te designed by Henry A. Lukman, of New York, a native of Richmond. He was selected to perfect the design by the committee named by Mr. Home to have in hand the erection of the monument. A low massive de sign is agreed upon, the details to be worked out within the next two weeks so that it can be finally adopted early in June. The principal feature will be the figure of an idealized South ern woman that will be on suitable pedestal. Extending a semi-circular shape from either side of this pe destal will be extensions of the gran ite extending to the sidewar-. Two Special Terms of Court. Two special terms of court were granted by Governor Kitchin as fol lows: Graham county, one week, be ginning July 1, for civil cases only, with Judge James L. Webb to preside. Alamance county, two weeks, begin ning June 17, for civil and criminal cases. Judge C. C. Lyon has been designated to preside. Union Primary Vote Very Light. Later returns from the Union pri mary show that the vote was the lightest ever cast in the history of the county. In 11 out of 18 precincts-there were only 337 votes cast, this repre senting less than one-fifth the voting strength. The vote for lieutenant gov ernor at these precincts was: Bou shall, 36; Shaw, 208; Daniel, 40; Daughtridge, 24; McRae, 106. For cor poration commissioner, long term, Maxwell, 132; Justice, 107; Pell, 179. For short term corporation commis sioner: Daniel, 132; Travis, 254. Address By Major Hemphill. The graduating exercises of Peace Institute took place with the award of diplomas and the address to the graduates by Major J. C. Hemphill. The theme of Major Hemphill's ad dress was "The Chief End of Educa tion is the Making of a Woman." The speaker made a plea for the rights of women, paying tribute to her intelli gence. "Women should be trained," he said, "to have knowledge of them selves. It must be a systematic train ing, fitting them for the crisis of life, as well as daily duties." Filing of Names in Wake Closed. With an addition to the list of can didates for office in Wake county the filing of names with the register of deeds closed and the winners will be known after the primary closes on the firt of June. The one addition to the list of candidates was the name of Mr. S. Brown Shepherd, who an nounced his candidacy for the state senate. Mr. Shepherd is a prominent and able attorney of Raleigh, a son of the late Chief Justice Shepherd, whose ability is such as to have given him high place at the bar. FRUIT P10SPECTS EVERYTHING IS FAVORABLE FOR A HEAVY CROP OF FRUIT IN NORTH CAROLINA. HAD HESITATED IN REPORT Past Winter Was Unusually Severe in the South and Fruit Trees Were Kept in Dormant Condition Month Later 4n Blooming. Raleigh. Mr. W. N. Hutt, state hor ticulturist, has given out the following concerning fruit prospects in North Carolina: f "I have hesitated in giving a re port of fruit prospects in North Carolina until I was sure hat the mantle of Jack Frost had safely passed beyond the borders of the state. ' At every report of a drop in temperature in the Northwest and Mississippi regions, the Southern fruit growers would wait with bated breath to see if the cold wave would be fierce enough to extend over his pro tecting barrier of mountains. "The past winter was unusually se vere in the South and fruit trees were kept in a perfectly dormant condition until much later in spring than is usual for this part of the country. They were not in bloom this season until nearly a month later than they were last year. This very much shortened the danger period of possible injury from cold. "In a comparison or reports for the last thirty years, the United States Weather Bureau has set April 20th as an average date for the last killing frost in spring for the general fruit region of North Carolina, but occa sionally cold spells have occurred as late as May 10th. This extreme date has now safely been passed at which the fruit can be injured by cold. There has not been a single setback, but everything has been most favor able to a heavy set of fruit. Trees all over the state have bloomed pro fusely and the "set" of all kinds oi fruit has been exceptionally heavy. There has been no untoward weather since to cause much dropping and the fruit has developed so rapidly that in spite of the late spring it is now about as big as in the average sea son. "There will be urgent need this yeai for thinning of peaches and apples all over the state." Wife Murderer Gets Reprieve. Raleigh. The Nash county wife murderer, G. G. Wilkins, who was to die in the electric chair here gets a reprieve from Governor Kitchin to June 7th. There will be presented to the governor in the meantime a peti tion for commutation to life imprison ment. The solicitor of the district has added his request for commuta tion, intimating that he may decide to recommend commutation. The evi dence was that Wilkin's wife had been forced to leave him and that he wenl to her mother's house where she was stopping and shot her, then buried her body under the corn crib. Mistrial Ordered in Brewer Case. Asheville. After deliberating on the case of Wes Brewer, alias John Huff charged with the murder of Patrolmar McConnel last July, the jury carrie in to the court room and informed Judge Long that they were unable to agree, consequently a juror was withdrawn and a mistrial ordered. Llllington Harnett county is three- fourth for Wilson. The reports to the contrary are misleading. 1 Patritoic Sons of America. Concord. At the meeting of the Pa tritotic Sons of America state officers wero elected as follows: M. G. Rav. Raleigh, president; S. R. Swink, High fomt, vice president; Z. P. Smith, Fayetteville, recording secretary; H. H. Koonce, Lexington, master of forms; T. Ivey, Cary, treasurer; J. D. Jimison, Marion, conductor; P. A. Peeler, .Faith, inspector; P. G. Cook, Concord, guard; M. C. Reeves. Win ston-Salem, trustee. James D. Patten secretary of the national camp, made an able address. Two Youths Killed In Wreck. Hendersonville. Otto Edney and Ernest Hill, aged 15 and 13 years, re spectively, Hendersonville boys were killed in a Southern freight wreck at Naples, 4 miles north of here, while hoboing from Asheville. Medical at tention was given them, but both died about the same time while being brought to this city in an auto truck Their bodies were badly bruised. The cause of the wreck is unknown. The track was torn up for some distance and traffic was delayed for a number of hours. Commissions Have Been Issued. Raleigh. The following commis eions have been issued from the Ad jutant General's office: Mr. George L. Lyerly, of Hickory, as Captain of Company "A," First Infantry.. Mr. J. H. Kivitt, of Asheboro, as Captain of Company "A," Third Infantry. Mr. Leo. E. Byrum, of Oxford, as Second Lieutenant of Company "E," Third Infantry. Mr. George L. Pittman, of Goldsboro, Second Lieutenant, Battal ion Commissary and Quartermaster Df Third Infantry. NEWS OF NORTH CAROLINA Short Paragraphs of State News That Have Been Gotten Together With Care by the Editor. Washington. Representatives Page, Pou, Godwin, Stedman and Doughton of the North Carolina delegation voted against the Doremus substitute provid ing for free tolls in the Panama canal to ships flying the American flag. The measure passed. Mr. Small was the only North Carolinian that voted for it. Webb, Gudger and Kitchin were out of the city. Durham. Dr. W. W. Gardner of Washington, of the Agricultural De partment, R. W. Scott of Alamance, member of the North Carolina agricul tural board, and J. L. Burgess of A. and M. College, were in the city lock ing into the matter of locating a test farm for tobacco. From here they went to Oxford, where they will look over the farming land in that section. After making a thorough inspection they will decide on and buy the land offering the best advantages. Louisburg. The regular Democratic convention for Franklin county, held for the purpose of nominating candi dates for the various offices, was very harmonious, and there were no" spirit ed contests, the primaries having set tled the matter in the majority of in stances. The ticket as nominated is: W. H. Allen, sheriff; J. A. Turner, representative to legislature; J. B. Yarborough, register of deeds; P. B. Griffin, treasurer. Durham. At a meeting of the board of education, held in the office 3f Gen. Julian S. Carr, chairman of the board, Mr. E. J. Green was elected superintendent of the city graded schools for the coming year to suc ceed himself. Other officers of the school board that were elected were: Chairman, Gen. J. S. Carr; auditor, W. H. Rogers; secretary, M. H. Jones. The teachers are to be elected at the June meeting. Washington. Of th 25 North Caro lina claims in the omnibus bill as it passed the House only 9 remain in the bill as it was reported by the Senate committee on claims. The House pro posed to pay off an enormous number of claims approved by the court which grew out of damages to private prop erty through its use or destruction by union soiaiers auirng tne civu war. Wilson. W. J. Strickland, an alleg ed blind tiger, who on March 4th ap proached Rev. R. L. Davis, superin tendent of the Anti-Saloon League, said: 'D you, you are the man who reported be," and who was tried by Mayor Dickinson and fined $25 ard costs and who appealed from his de cision, was up before Judge Frank Carter. After hearing the statements of Mr. Strickland and Rev. Mr. Davis, Judge Carter affirmed the decision by Mayor Dickinson and added to the fine and costs imposed by the Mayor the costs in the superior court. Newton. The preferential primary idea failed to work smoothly in Ca tawba county and three days after the primary was held the candidates themselves, together with the primary election officials and the party head quarters men, know no more about who has been nominated for county treasurer than they did three days before the primary. There are no re turns to date about this contest and no information about the whole vote cast. Raleigh. A Wake superior court jury returned a' verdict for $10,000 damages for the plaintiff in the case of George B. Fleming against the Nor folk and Southern Railroad Company. Fleming sued for $50,000 for personal injuries sustained in a wreck in Aug ust, 1910, in the Raleigh yard. He was engineer on an incoming passenger train that collided with yard engine, the engine which was attempting to get out to a siding without orders. The latter was killed. Asheville. James L. Wagner, who has been assistant postmaster at Asheville for the past 14 years, re signed, his resignation to take effect at once, for the purpose of removing to Muskogee, Okla., where he will en gage in business with O. D. Revell, for merly of this city. Raleigh. Locomotive- Engineer R R. Seward secured from the supreme court an order for a new trial in his damage suit against the Seaboard Air Line, in which a non-suit was entered in the trial below, the court holding that there was evidence presented that the jury should pass upon. Rocky Mount. Claiming that John Davis, colored, had taken five dollars and some cents and a quart of liquor from him, J. W. Lyles, a white man, shot and killed the negro. The shoot ing occurred at South Rocky Mount, near the railroad shops. Henderson. Several days ago Eli jah Ball shot R. T. Williams twice. It is said that Bal1 went to spend the night with Williams at whose house the shooting occurred. Ball is at large and Williams is in the hospital in a precarious condition. Whiskey, it is said, was at the bottom of the trou ble. Wilmington. G. C. Campbell, aged 27, of Mecklenburg county, a steward on a camp car, of a force of Western Union Telegraph Company linemen, committed suicide by shooting him self in the head, while alone in the car at Lake Waccamaw, Columbus county. No cause is assigned. Henderson. While taking up the collection at the Second colored Bap tist church, superintendent of the Sunday school, Columbus Foster, be gan to stagger, but was caught before falling to the floor, and survived only a minute after an attack of paralysis of the heart. OF T CONDITIONS IN THE PROVINCE OF ORIENTE CONTINUE TO BE ALARMING. THE CALL FOR PROTECTION The Rebels Have Surrounded Palma Seriana and Inhabitants Are Vainly Appealing to the Government For Help The Situation is Serious. . Santiago, Cuba. Conditions in the province of Oriente continue extreme ly alarming. From all quarters peti tions are pouring in for protection which the government is unable to furnish because of all available troops are being concentrated for the purpose of surrounding the main bodies of the rebels under Generals Estonez and Ivonet. Troops under Colonel Machada had an engagement at Parral with the rebels in which' a number of the reb els are reported to have been killed or wounded, the remainder being dis persed. At Tlyuabos, near Guantana mo, government forces under Captain Percy routed a band of insurgents, killing several. - Great alarm is felt at Baracca. The ' town is without protection and is cut off from communication with the in terior. An urgent appeal has been made to the government to send a gunboat. General Ivonet with a band of 150 negroes, mounted and armed with new rifles, is pillaging the stores at La Car olina and vicinity. The rebels have been again sur rounded Palma Soriano, north of San tiago, the inhabitants of which are vainly appealing for protection. The Atlantic Fruit Steamship .Company has also asked protection, for its prop erty at Sagua de Tanoma on the north coast of Oriente, but no troops are available. Reports from Manzantillo, on the west coast, state that a number of ne groes who were leaving town to join the insurgents in the field, exchanged shots with a police patrol, some of them being wounled. Are After Long Distance Record. San Antonio, Tex. The balloon "St. Louis" ascended here In an effort to lift the Lahm cup for long distance flights. Traveling rapidly and at high altitude, the balloon disappeared in the North. In the basket are Albert Von Hoffman and Capt. John Berry, both widely known aeronauts. The St. Louis is better equipped than any of the balloons that have flown from here i:i the past two years In an en deavor to break the long distance record. Features of the equipment are oxygen tanks, which the aeronauts be lieve will enable them to fly high over Arkansas, where the storm areas are usually encountered. . Atlantic Fleet Ordered To Cuba. Washington. Insurrection and dis orders in Cuba, threatening the lite and property of Americans and be lieved by the United States to be spreading beyond control of the Cu ban government, caused the American government to take active steps in preparation to cope with any situa tion which may arise in the island republic. The third and fourth divi sions of the Atlantic battleship fleet were ordered to take on their full quota of marines. The Aftermath of the Flood. New Orleans. Railroads in the srjb merged territory north and east of Mel ville are organizing repair gangs to be sent out to rush the work of repairing roadbeds and bridges damaged by the waters from the Dogtail, Torfras, Panther Forest and Beaulah breaks. There will be a large demand for labor, but the supply made available by idle farm hands is expected to more than equal the demand. The Texas & Pacific, Southern ' Pacific and the Vicksburg, Shreveport & Pacific sus tained considerable damage by wash outs. Section damage gangs will prob ably be the first tc begin repairs. Oldest Hotel in Baltimore Burned. Baltimore. The Eutaw' House at Baltimore and Eutaw streets, the old est hotel in Baltimore, was badly dam aged by fire which started in the basement from an explosion origin. Much of the damage was caused by the deluge of water poured into the structure, a five-story brick building, from practically the full strength of the fire department. All the guests in the house at the time escaped ia safety, but several were obliged to use the fire escape because of the smoke which filled the corridors. BAND NEGROES PILLAGING OWNS May Take Over C. C. & O. Railroad. Richmond, Va. To further perfect its scheme to get a direct western outlet, as well as a through route from the Great Lakes to South Atlan tic seaboard, preliminary to the com pletion of the Panama canal, it is de- , clared in railway circles here to be the principal motive behind the deal for the sale of 210,000 shares of Seaboard Air Line Stock by the Cumberland Corporation, which owns the Carolina, Clinchfield & Ohio, running from Spartanburg, S. C, to St. Paul, In southewest Virginia.