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THE CHATHAM RECORD THE CHATHAM RECORD Rates of Advertising One Square, one insertion $1.00 One Square, two insertions $L3 One Square, one month S2JSQ For Larger Advertisements Liberal Contracts will be m&de. tl A LONDON, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR Terms of Subscription $1.50 Per Year Strictly in Advance vol. xxxv. PITTSBORO, CHATHAM COyNTY, N. O. AUGUST 21. 1912. NO. 2. II 111 M J H Cbll 11111 lEF NEWS NOTES FOR THE BUSY IN MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK TOLD IN CONDENSED FORM. WORLD'S NEWS EPITOMIZED Complete Review of Happenings of Greatest Interest From All Parts of World. Southern. A thirty-minute demonstration for United States Senator Joseph Weldon Bailey was the feature of the final session of the state Democratic con vention of Texas. The demonstration arose over the adoption of a resolu tion commending Bailey for his course in congress. Gov. O. B. Col quitt was renominated and his plat form adopted. Prominent in the plat form is a declaration for closing the saloons at 9:30 o'clock every week day night. Nineteen negro miners were in stantly killed by an explosion at the Abernant (Ala.) Coal company's mine. Seventeen bodies have been taken out. Forty white men and eighteen negroes were in the mine when the explosion occurred got out alive. State Mine Inspector Nesbitt is on the scene, but is unable to give the ex act cause of the explosion, but think3 a windy shot was fired in the pressure of gas and dust. Holding up officials in the court house at pistol points, a mob of about forty men took T. E. Cotton, alias T. Z. McElhenny, a 16-year-old negro, and lynched him just beyond the city limits. The negro was accused of killing young Cedron Land, a white boy, near town, two months ago. Land was found in a field, his face riddled with bird shot. He had had trouble with the negro, whose arrest soon fol lowed, and it is said Cotton partially confessed. A total of 1,571,361 bales of cotton were ginned and 1,279,833 bales were received by warehouses in Alabama during the fiscal year which closed August 1, according to the annual report of E. H. Ragland, director of tie Alabama bureau of statistics. The Cornell university entomologi cal expedition, which has been at work in the Okefenokee swamp in Georgia, has returned to Ithaca with a wagon-load of specimens, including snakes, lizzards, fish, birds and small animals and 10,000 insects and spi ders. The party included Prof. C. R. Crosby, Dr. H. A. Wright, four other local scientists and E. L. Worsham, state entomologist of Georgia. General. Terrible reports have gained cir culation in Cettinje, Montenegro, of another masacre of Chris tians by Mohammedans in Albania, Montenegro. A band of Mohammedan arnauts, supported by Turkish troops, attacked a section of the Christian population in the Berana district of Albania. A fierce fight ensued and women and children are reported to have been murdered by wholesale. How to transport the immense small grain crop now being gathered in South Dakota is the problem that railway freight men are trying to solve. The United States submarine "G-i," the first of its type to be built in this country-, has been launched at the Cramp shipyard. Her armament con sists of four torpedo tubes and eight 18-inch torpedoes. The bombardment of the Nicara guan capital by the revolutionary forces under the command of Gene rals Mena and Zeledon continues. Some of the shells from the rebel guns struck inside the city in the vicinity of the United States legation and the president's residence. Sev eral attempts by the rebels to cap ture the city have been repulsed by the government troops. Thev resolute determination of the citizens of New York City to rid their police force of its system of graft and blackmail was given forcible expres sion at a mass meeting at Cooper Union, when they appointed a vigi lance committee of prominent men and women to see that public officers now engaged in exposing "the trea sonable alliance of the police with- or ganized crime" do their full duty., The mass meeting, which typified the pub lic indignation aroused by the reve lations of police corruption growing out of the murder of Herman Rosen thal, was attended by a crowd that overflowed the hall. Earl Pritchard, aged 19, of Bedford, Ind. Jumped out of the window of a Monon train at Chalmers and was killed. The train was running sixty Miles an hour. Pritchard, it is be lieved, became suddenly insane. Pour persons are dead as a result of a cyclone that struck Neola, Iowa. All wires are down. Congressman Henry A. Barnhart is confined to his home as the result ol eing run over by his OWn autoin( "lie in Rochester, Ind. When he cranked his, machine it plunged for ward so quickly that it was impossi ble to get out of the way. With 460 passengers on board, the -North German Lloyd liner Frankfurt, which collided with tha cit; earner Barmen ntr tho tt tt , and lightship, was towed into port ty four tugs at Rotterdam, Holland. ire destroyed the plant of the Se sura Sugar company at New Iberia Rebels raided a hacienda belong ing to Frank A. Dickinson at. San Luis. Potosi, Mexico. A number of employees on the property were beat en, and the manager fled. New York police are searching for a crook whom they say is one of the most brutal in all history. The burglar in one case picked up an innocent in fant and dashed it against the wall to torture the mother into revealing the hiding place of her money.. Tige, the dog that saved several lives in a hotel fire at Columbus, Ohio, three years ago, Is dead. Tige leaves an estate, having had a bank account since his exploit of rousing Leslie Hatton's hotel guests when fire broke out. He .got 10 cents for every rat he killed besides a regular allowance provided by his master and other admirers. Checks paid for the dog's board, Hatton says, and there is a balance of $800 to Tige's account in a bank. Records showing that within the last eight months Police Liteutenant Charles Becker, charged wfith the murder of Herman Rosenthal and ac cused of gambling graft, has made bank deposits of $58,845 in his own name or that of his wife, were placed in the hands of the public prosecutor. These deposits, the records show, were first made in November, 1911, shortly after Becker became head of the "strong-arm squad" of gambling raiders, and continued all during the time that Jack Rose says he was col lecting graft for Becker and until af ter his arrest. What to do with the cub bear pre sented to Robert Taft, son of the pres ident, by a Blackfoot chief on his ar rival In Glacier National park, has been solved. An old bear, hearing the wails of the oub, made her way into the Taft camp on Red Eagle mountain and gnawed through the rope that tethered the cub to a tree. Then she retreated up the mountain side. Guides started in pursuit, but young Taft shouted: "It's probably her cub and there is no room in the white house for a bear anyway. Seven murderers were electrocuted in Sing Sing, N. Y., prison. This is the largest number of criminals to suffer death penalty by electricity on any one day since the electric chair was adopted as a method of capital punishment. The six Italians and one negro executed went to their deaths quietly. The warden's work was ac complished within an hour and six teen minutes. One fainted as the straps were being adjusted to his body. All except one protested Inno cence. One prayed on his knees at the chair for a minute before he was executed. - Thirty-six soldiers and more than twenty passengers were slaughtered by Zapatistas in a canyon, one kilo meter north of Ticumao, 110 miles southeast of Mexico City, when a pas senger train, southbound from that city, was attacked from ambush. Mea ger details indicate that the savagery displayed was not less, and perhaps greater, than that which characterized the massacre of troops and passen gers on a train between Cuernavaca and Mexico City on July 20. So far as known only a part of the train crew escaped. The bodies of many women were mutilated. Washington. President Taft sent a number of diplomatic and consular nominations to the senate. A majority are pro motions, but there are many new ap pointments, all based on examina tions. . The senate passed the army appro priation bill carrying $94,000,000, a bill replacing that originally passed which was vetoed by President Taft. The new bill did not carry the provision of the original which would have leg islated out of official life Gen. Leon ard Wood, the chief of staff of the army. An unsuccessful attempt was made by Senator Bacon to amend the appropriations so that not a dollar could be used to support the army if sent into foreign territory. By the narrow margin of five votes the house passed the wool tariff re vision bill over President Taft's veto. The vote, 174 to 80, was made possi ble only by the defection of twenty one Republicans who voted with the Democrats. The announcement of Democratic success created a wild scene in the house, and, amid great confusion, the Republican leaders pro tested that Speaker dlark must count as voting ten members who answered "present" to their names, a ruling which would have defeated the meas ure. Universal parcels post system in the United States is assured by the action of the senate in formally rati fying its action in adopting the Bourne plan, based on a zone system which provides for a maximum charge of $1.32 for transporting an eleven-pound package over eighteen hundred miles. The Bourne provis ion is a fair, workable, economically sound, long-desiredscheme for a gen eral parcels post. This ends a long fifht in which the express companies of the country have exerted their ut most effort to prevent! the adoption, of a parcels post system As an object lesson to congress to demonstrate his belief in the ad vantages of the budget system for making estimates and appropriations for the, Federal government, President Taft will send next year's estimates to congress in budget form to accom pany the regular book of estimates which the secretary of the treasury is required, by law to submit. The proposed American budget will be de signed to present to congress and the people a detailed understandable pro gram of business for the ensuing year. The cabinet is. instructed to prepare estimates of both plans. IA1NTYRE ALLEGED SENDER OE MACHINE POLICE OF TWO STATE WORKING WITH HIGH POINT OFFICERS ON THE CASE. WAS TRACED TO ASHEV1LLE The 'Developments Came With Rapid ity and Grave Charges Startled Work of Authorities. People Are Wrought Up Over The Affair. Raleigh. A special from Greens - boro states that Police of two states November, 1897, he was made regi wprking under the direction of Chief mental quartermaster; sergeant ma of Police Ridge of High Point, joined Jor of the first infantry in April, .1898; in an effort to locate Ed R. Mc-f captain of Co. E. First Infantry in Intyre, a well-to-do young man oS High 1 1901; regimental adjutant, April Point, who is wanted by Guilford j 1903 ; major and- assistant adjutant cunty authorities upon a warrant general February, 1905. charging tng sending of an infernal I He was detailed for duty as assist machine to Miss Ollie Hoover, a pret- ant adjutant general by Governor ty and prominently connected young . Glenn and Kitchin and commission woman of High Point. J ed as successor to the lamented Gen. The development in the case came Sr. F. Armfield aB adjutant general with a rapidity which ied in startling- Nov., 15, 1910. He served in the Span ness with the grave charges. Epito- ish-American war. He was married to mized, the work developed the j Miss Lucy Hall, who with three chil fact that the package while shipped ' dren survive. through the Thomasville office, was j sent by a High Point man rather North Carolina Enterprises. than a Thomasville man that It was addressed to "Ollie Hoover" rather than to "Charlie Hoover", as w.aybill ed by the Thomasville express clerk. Then the admission of Chief Ridge that his men were seeking Ed R. Mclntyre as the sender of the pack- age. In rapid order came the informa tion that during last fall Mclntyre's attention to Miss Hoover had been rejected, that he had been warned not to further annoy her, that in turn he had warned her that he "would blow her up with a machine which he had," that secret service men had been successful in an effort to estab- lish authorship by Mclntyre of an anonymous and threatening letter di rected to Miss Hoover. Want Both Townships into Durham. There is a movement on foot among the people of Dutchville township of Granville county, to have that sec tion of Granville take into Durham county by the next Legislature. A number of the Creedmoor people, who were in Durham, said that sosfar as they knew every man In the whole township was in favor of coming into Durham county. They not only want the educational advantages offered by this county, and some of the benefits of a pretty good sized road fund, but they also claim that their tax rate is so high in Granville that they wish to get into Durham. They say that the people of the city of Durham do not pay a higher tax rate than they are charged by the county authorities of Granville. To Go Among Unsolved Mysteries. Numbering among the unsolved mysteries of Hendersonville is the rail road accident which occurred at Hen dersonville when under most unusual circumstances W. W. Lasever, of Con nelly Springs, and Ed, McLean, of Asheville, flagman and breakman of the Southern Railway Company, re spectively, were seriously, if not fa tally injured. The accident occurred just north of the passenger depot, Lasever suffering the loss of his leg and McLean suffering injuries in vari ous way. The peculiar curve in the tracks a few. yards from the depot, it is believed, is responsible for the ac cident. Politics In Wake County. Declaring allegiance to the Repub lican platform, and the Republican candidates named by the convention held at Chicago, and naming Thurs day, August 29, as the date of the county convention of the Wake County Republican executive committee, of which W. J. Andrews is chairman, which met recently in the chamber of commerce rooms. The county con vention is called to meet at noon on August 29 in the auditorium. Investigating Disease of Cattle. Dr. W. G. Chrisman, of Raleigh, state veterinarian, spent a part of a day recently iri Caldwell county inves tigating the disease among cattle known as stomatic or sore mouth. He found the disease quite prevalent here and Dr. Wilson, the local veterinarian, says that more than half of the cattle in the county are suffering . from it. Many people are being greatly incon venienced because of the existance of the disease among the milk cattle. There is a scarcity of milk and but tre here now. Sunday School Association. Under the auspices of the North Carolina Sunday School Association, which held its annual meeting In Asheville, a party composed of fifteen Sabath School workers from various parts of the state is visiting seven of the counties of western North Car olina for the purpose of holding meet ings in the interest of the work in this state. The party includes speak ers, musicians and stenograhpher. The associations are interdenominational and the meetings are open to the pub lie. ' GENERAL R. L. LEINSTER DEAD Head of North Carolina National Guard Passed Away at Wilming ton. Brief Outline of Career. Raleigh. Shocking news of the death of General R. L. Leinster, adju tant general of the North Carolina National Guard, died in Washington. He was stricken with paralysis sev eral days ago in Wilmington en route to Fort Caswell to visit the coast ar tillery in practice camp. The remains were carried to Stat esville for interment. New.s of the death was a great shock to state officers and others, i He was born in Statesville in 1877. His military career dates from early youth when he was made drummer 1 boy for the Statesville company. In . The following charters for new coi- poratiohs were granted recently: The North Carolina Optical Society (Inc.), of Raleigh, incorporators, Frank M. Jolly, Nathan Rosenstein, J. W. Tay- lor, and others, for bringing about higher standard of education and training for practitioners of optome try and general improvement of the profession. The Southern Christian Publishing Company, Elon College, capital $100,000 authorized and $,500 subcribed by J. O. Atkinson, Elon College, and Charles A. Hines, Greens Tooro. The Norlina Warehouse and Gin Company, Norlina, capital $5,000, by , Brinkley Mercantile Co., Henderson, capital $15,000, by T. B. Bullock and others. The E. A. Smith Manufactur ing Company, Charlotte, changes home office to Rhodhiss. The State Fair Premium List. The 1912 premium list of the great state Fair at Raleigh has just been completed. The book contains 164 pages, outside of the handsome cov ers printed in tw.o colors and showing the dates of the fair this year to be the week of October 14-15. The book Is well printed, as usual, on good paper, and shows among its illustra tions a fine cut of the new poultry building, erected in 1911, 60 by 150 feet, which harmonizes so well with the concrete argicultur. 1 building, put up in 1910. There is alsO a picture of the solid silver $100.00 pitcher, offered for sweepstakes in horticulture. This handsome trophy has to be won two consecutive years by the same exhibi tor before it becomes the property of the winner. Farmers' Institute in Rowan. A farmers' institute held at Wood leaf, Rowan county, by the state de partment of agriculture was largely attended by farmers from Rowan, Da vie and Iredell counties. Improving land was discussed by A. L. Burgess, of the state department; raising stock by R. W. Scott, of Alamance county; poultry raising, by Prof. J. P. Kerr, of the A. and M. College at Raleigh; fireless cooker, by Miss Lucy Webb; education on the farm, by Miss Mary DeVant. About 400 farmers listened with great interest to the addresses. To Have Good Roads Meeting. Interest in the good roads move ment in Rowan county hast apparent ly lagged since the Charlotte conven tion, but in a few days all of the township chairmen will be asked by the president to call township meet ings and arrangements will be made for the convention to be held in Salisbury some time soon. The con vention will be well advertised some leading good road speakers will be present and it is hoped to have one of the strongest organizations in the state. Robeson County Primary. In the Robeson county Democratic primary the following nominations were made: Senate, G. B. McLebd; for one of the representatives in the lower house of the legislature, H. C. McNair; treasurer, M. G. McKenzie; register of deeds, Thomas N. Hig ley; sheriff, R. E. Lewis; coroner. G. E. Rancke, Sr.; county commission ers, C. B. Townsend, Roy McNair, and A. J..-Floyd; road commissioners, W. P. McAllister, Dr. J. P. Brown, A. L. Bullock, M. L. Alford, Paisley McMil lan and J. A. Johnson. Govan Step Killed by Brother. After threatening to kill his mother Govan Stepp turned upon his brother, Kimsey Stepp, with arazor and as a result died instantly from a gunshot wound, in his breast, received at the hands of his brother. Kimsey Stepp came, to Hendersonville and surren dered to Sheriff Blackwell. He was in such a hysterical condition that he wpuld not talk. It is alleged that Go van Stepp was drinking and threaten ed to kill his mother when Kimsey in terceded to be turned upon by his en raged brother with a razor. A TIM ROBBERY A MASKED ROBBER ENTERS THE EXPRESS CAR ANDHOLDS UP THE MESSENGER. , ' : ' SECURED $3,000 IN CASH Southern Train Was looted at Bi It mo re. Number 13, Spartanburg to Asheville Was Running an Hour Late at Time of Hold Up. Asheville. A lone train robber, masked and armed, boarded Southern Railway train No. 13, Spartanburg to Asheville, as it was leaving Biltmore, 3 miles from this city and covering the express messenger, B. F. Carr, of Marion, with a revolver secured a package containing $3,000 in bills. The robber then commanded Carr to get in the express chest which he had just rifled and locked him in it. It is presumed that the robber left the train as it slowed up for the Ashe ville yards. When the train arrived at the Ashe ville station express employees found Carr locked In the cnest. When re leased, the express messenger was unable to give a description of his as sailant, saying that" the latter was completely masked. The train was an hour late at Bilt more, a fact which the local police department say the robber was aware of. The express messenger says he had just finished arranging his pack ages, preparatory to leaving the train at Asheville, when he was confront ed by a masked stranger with a load ed revolver, who demanded his mon ey. Carr states that the robber then bound his hands and forced him (Carr) to get into the chest, which he locked. The alarm was quickly given at Asheville and several policemen were sent toward Biltmore on a special train. Other members of the force boarded train No. 35, which leaves Asheville at 10:50. It was thought that the robber might have attempt ed to escape on this train. At at last report the police and express officials were still without a clue. Destroy Large Illicit Still. Hendersonville. One of the largest and best equipped stills ever destroy ed in this section was put out of com mission in the Chunn's Grove section of Polk county, where from 7,000 to 8,000 gallons of beer, ten bushels of meal and five bushels of corn malt were destroyed, together with the plant, which was of a 240-gallon capac ity. The copper still was so large that the officers did not take it away with them after cutting several holes in it. Officers making the rail report that the plant was hot from operation, and that the equipment destroyed would represent a loss of about $300. No arrests were made. Eastern Carolina Fair. New Bern. Craven county had a memorable day due to the fact that ground was broken for the erection of the Eastern North Carolina fair. The matter" of reviving the old New; Bern fair was taken up several months ago, and although at times it seemed like the project would be a failure, there were men at its head who refused to be thwarted In their purpose of reviv ing the fair and it is mainly due to their untiring efforts that the present condition exists. The matter was fin ally taken up by a number of local capitalists and a stock company was organized. Of Interest to Dealers in Honey. Asheville. A meeting of unusual importance to dealers in honey, of the western part of the state will be held at Black Mountain in the near fu ture, 'when persons who are interested in this industry will form an organiza tion, the purpose of which will be the betterment of market conditions and the improvement of bee culture. Sub jects in various departments of the work will be discussed by men of ex perience along their lines and the meeting promises to be a very suc cessful one. Campaign In Harnett County. Dunn. The Democrats of Harnett county met in convention at Lilling ton and named the following ticket: E. F. Young ,of Dunn, for the legisla ture; Allen M. Shaw, of Lillington, for register of deeds; I. W. Smith, of Duke, for sheriff; D. B. Stewart, of Broadway township, for treasurer; J. H. Williams, of Linden, B. F. Wil liams of Angier, P. F. Pope of Coats, T. A. Harrington of Harrington, and M. J. Senter of Kipling, for commis sioners. The convention was a large and enthusiastic 'one. Randolph Teachers Institute. Asheboro. The Randolph county teachers' institute is now, in session here under the leadership of Prof. O. V. Woosley and Miss Pearl Cross, in structors, who have had much expe rience. It is stated by some visitors who have atended other institutes that the teachers are taking more interest and doing better work than at any in stitute they had ever seen before. Randolph has good, consecrated teachers and it is a regret that they cannot be paid better salaries. Thera are about 125 enrolled. NEWS OF NORTH CAROLINA Short Paragraphs of State News That Have Bene Gotten Together With Care by The Editor. Raleigh. Only two North Carolina towns reported sales of leaf tobacco during July. These were Fairmont and Fairbluff. The sales at Fairmont were 675,319 first hand and for Fair bluff 468,686 first hand. Washington. - Senator Simmons made a ,speech in behalf of an in creased compensation for the rural letter carriers of the country. He was assisted in his fight by Senator Bris tow of Kansas. Laurinburg. Representative Page and Chairman Webb of Asheville will speak at the Craig campaign meeting here Friday, August 23, when Mr. Craig formally opens his campaign for governor, Salisbury. Belated information reached Salisbury of the accidental death of Frank Sloop, a well known young farmer in western Rowan coun ty several days ago. He was haul ing wood on a wagon, when the wood slipped and he fell under the wheels. He was killed almost instantly. Waxhaw. The farmers' institute was well attended here. Three speak ers from the state department of agri culture spoke in the morning and afternoon Professor Parker and New man and Dr. Roberts. The latter spoke on live stock, treatment of dis eases, etc. Hendersonville. Another Interest ing chapter was written in the Myrtle Hawkins case when the case of Miss Estelle Grant vs. The. Observer Com pany of Charlotte, was finally dis posed of. The court records bear out the simple statement that "the plain tiff takes a retraxit," with the further understanding that she is to pay the costs of the suit. High Point. Breaking both arms, but still living, W. B. Bordeaux fell from the second story of the new Peacock-Sherrod building on which as a contractor he was working. He was taken immediately to the hospital where Drs. Duncan - and Burrus did all was possible for him, and there is slight hope of his recovery at the last account. Hendersonville. Registrar of Deeds S. M. King, of Henderson county, who j has been working on the tax lists for some time announces that there is an increase in taxable property of $52,000 over that of last year. While the lists have not been completed in de tail indications are that there are signs of healthy growth in each town ship of the county. Asheboro. Much damage is being done to the crops of the county on ac-l count of the dry weather. Some sec tions of the county have had scarcely enough rain since harvest time to lay the dust. The corn crop is suffering very much, especially the early corn and unless there is rain in afew days the late corn crop will also be cut short. Wilson. A warrant has been sworn out against Joe Meacomb, of Old Field's township, Wilson county, charging him with attempting to poison the well of Millard Roscoe Boykin. The case came up for a hear ing before 'Squire W. R. Wood and on probable cause Meacomb was bound over in a hundred dollar bond to the September term of Wilson coun ty superior court. Durham Mr. James Green, a brake man on the Southern yard here, was painfully injured here by getting his foot.' caught in a frog on the road. His ankle was badly sprained and it was thought that possibly one of the legs was broken. It was reported that Mr. Green had been run over by the shift er, but this is a mistake, and it is thought that he has not been very se riously injured. Kinston. Chairman G. V. Cowper, of the Democratic county executire committee, has invited Hon. T. W. BIckett, state attorney general, to open the coming campaign in this county with an address in this city, the latter part of this month or the first of September. It is the purpose of Chairman Cowper and Secretary Dawson to have some of the best speakers of the party here during the next ten weeks and the campaign .5n Lenoir is intended to ber- a brilliant one, although a close fight is not an ticipated. Raleigh. Leavister's pharmacy, sit uated at 702 North Person street, was broken into and robbed, the robber or robbers getting, away with about $12 worth of cigarettes, smoking tobacco and cigars and a small amount of cash. Asheboro. Work is being pushed rapidly on the road from Asheboro to the Montgomery county line and when it is completed it will be one of the best roads in the state. There is a squad of hands at both ends of the road. When completed there will be a continuous good road from Ashe boro to Pinehurst. " Forest City. Prof. W. C. Crosby of Mecklenburg county, who is education al secretary of the state farmers' union, delivered an address here to about 100 farmers. An executive ses sion of the union was held when Mr. Crosby again delivered an address. Kinston. The ancient county pris on at Snow Hill is being remodeled, one of a number of improvements be ing made by the Greene county board of commissioners. The antiquated strutcure is being made substantial and safe against the, escape of in mates and fireproof and sanitary as well. .. SAM SCHEPPS HOLDS SECRETS WHITMAN BELIEVES HIS EVI DENCE WILL DO MUCH IN CLEARING UP CASE. HAYES WILL ALSO TELL ALL Mayor Gaynor Is Willing to Substan tiate His Charges of Protection to News Dealers. Will Also Invest! gate Other Graft Charges. New York. Interest in the Rosen thal case is centered in the projected Interview between District Attorney Whitman and Sam Schepps, the man. believed to hold in his keeping Impor tant secrets connected with the mur der and the surrounding graft which will do much toward clearing up the case. One other important development la forecasted. It is stated that Capt. Cornelius G. Hayes, the demoted po lice inspector who is under charges of failure to enforce the law in re spect to certain establishments in his. district will be invited to call upon the district attorney and talk over the situation. Captain Hayes has stated that he acted under orders from su perior officers. One of the charges pending against the former inspector is that he falsely stated that Commis sioner. Waldo directed him not to ob tain evidence against these places ex cept by order of the commissioner. ' That Captain Hayes, -if he sees fit,, can put the district attorney in touch, with invaluable facts connected with the police situation Is generally be lieved. It is also understood that Hayes, disregarding immediate per sonal consequences, is prepared to give all the information at his dis posal. It was stated that Mayor Gaynor who has charged , that $1,000,000 graft an nually has been collected for protec tion to newsdealers, is prepared to substatiate his declaration that alder manic influences were responsible for this alleged grafting at the coming in vestigation into graft matters. It is said the mayor has secured in numerable affdavits which bear him out in his statements. " The proposal of certain aldermen to call a special meeting of the board and order an in vestigation of the mayor's charges ,is understood to be welcomed by tha mayor. Three Killed by B. & O. Train. Cumberland, Md. Three young women were killed and a fourth was probably fatally injured riear Frost burg, when a Baltimore ana Ohio east bound passenger train running over the western Maryland railroad exten sion struck the party just after they stepped off the westbound track to avoid an approaching freight train. The dead: Mrs. Oscar Schneider, Or lando, Fla., 27 years old, who came to Frostburg for "home coming week";. Jennie Schneider, 32 years old; Bes sie Williams, 32 years old. The injur ed: Edna Raley, 27, years old, head crushed and internal injuries,' prob ably will die; Minnie Schneider, 30 years old, bruised and suffering from shock. i Fear For Sun Yat Sen. Shanghai. Dr. Sun Yat Sen, for mer provisional President of China, disregarding the warning of friends who fear for his safety since the exe cution of several Hankow generals, ; left Shanghai for Peking. General Huang-Sing, who commanded the Southern Republican army in tha revolution and was to have accom panied Dr. Sun, has abandoned tha j . Hat Inspectors For Uncle 6am. Washington. Just now Uncle Sara wants a few good hat inspectors They must be men who can take one look at a soldier's hat and tell of what it is made, the quality of its material and a -lot of other things. Examina tion for the positions, which are in the quartermaster's department of tha army, will be held August 21. Heroes of the Titanic. Washington. The women of Bollva, South America, have signified their Intention of contributing in a striking manner to the project being carried forward by women of the United States to perpetuate the heroism of the men who perished in the Titanic disaster. Through American minister Knowles, these women of the far away republic, have offered from the famed Bolivan mines a block of virgin silver, expressing the hope that it may find a place in the arch which is to ba erected. . New Rules For Equity Practice. Washington. With the aid of an. elaborate card index system, three members of the Supreme Court of the United States are laboring this sum mer over a new. set of rules for equity practice in Federal courts which are expected to almost revolutionize the work of these tribunals. The three are Chief Justice White, and Asso ciate Justice Lurton and Van Devan ter. They expect to be able during the next term of court to lay before the full court the result of their labors. .