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THE CHATHAM RECORD tt A. LONDON, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR Terms of Subscription $1.50 Per Year Strictly in Advance THE CHATffJISI RHCOaD Rates of AdvertiSng One Square, on msertio tLCQ One Square, two insertion SXSO One Square, one moatk S20 For Larger Advertisements Liberal Contracts xflll to crrdc. 4V PITTSBORO, CHATHAM COUNTY, N. Q. SEPTEMBER -11, 1912. NO. 5. - : . VOL. XXXV. BRIEF NEWS NOTES FOR THE BUSY MOST IMPORTANT EVENT3 OF THE PAST WEEK TOLD IN CONDENSED FORM. WORLD'S NEWS EPITOMIZED Complete Review of Happenings Of Greatest Interest From AH Parts of World. Southern. A lone train bandit held up -the northbound express of the Louisville and Nashville railroad near Michaud, twelve miles from New Orleans, loot ed the mail car, robbed the passen gers in five Pullmans and a club car, a,nd then, just as he was about to leave the tender, was struck over the head with a brass torch by Engineer Baer and captured. He was taken to Bay St. Louis and may die. The booty except for one mail bag thrown from the car was recovered and returned. The bandit would give no name. Lightning striking the big barn at the Georgia Experiment Station, at Experiment, near Griffin, Ga., start ed a large fire which destroyed the entire plant, with the exception of the residences. Blown by. a high wind, the flames rapidly spread from the barn to the other buildings, and, when the conflagration was finally checked, about two hours and a half after, it had wiped out the guano house, the carpenter shop, the pack' ing house and the silo. Several head of cattle were burned alive in the barn. Policeman W. O. Roberts was kill ed while searching for cattle thieves, who, in the night, stole twenty head of cattle from the pens of the Iron Mountain railroad at Monroe, La. The cattle " was stolen shortly after t"ey had- been unloaded for delivery to a local packing house. Roberts was phot through the heart, and fell dead with his own smoking revolv er, which he fired as he fell, in his right hand and a searchlight in his left hand. Miss Annfce Dorothy Nixon, 19 years old, the daughter of Richard B. Nixon, financial clerk of the United States senate, was drowned at Colo nial Beach, Va., in a vain attempt to rescue her swimming companion, Mr. Franklin W. Wiseman, aged 20 years. Conditions are quiet in the Kana wha, W. Va., strike zone. Governor Glasscock's declaration of martial law seemed to have a sobering effect. Throughout Pa:nt 2nd Cabin creeks, however, a tense sitfiation exists and state militia, strikers, mine guards and operators all are alert. General. The Dryden trophy match, regard ed as the most important event of the Seagirt shooting tournament, was won by Massachusetts with a score of 1,104 out of a possible 1,200. The winner receives the $4,000 trophy, presented by the late United States Senator Dryden of New Jersey, and $150 in cash. Oscar S. Straus, former secretary of commerce and labor, in the cab inet of President Roosevelt, was unanimously acclaimed the nominee for governor by the Progressive par ty of New York In a stampede con vention under circumstances not only unexpected, but dramatic. Following strong representations from the state department at Wash ington, a new trial has been grant ed W. C. Nichols, the American cit izen recently sentenced to eight years' imprisonment for killing . the desperado, 2evallos, whom he had been employed to arrest. After Nich ols' conviction recently, American Consul Miller, at Tampico, reported to the state department that the trial had been conducted in violation of all the rules of Mexican Justice and that a Mexican had actually publicly confessed the killing of Cevellos and even appeared at the trial of Nichols and testified. Death at the hands of a rebel sol dier was the fate of an American citizen, Joshua Stevens, while he fought to protect his two daughters in Colona, Pacheco, Mexico. News of the tragedy was received at El Paso, Texas, by O. P. Brown, busi ness agent of the Mormon colonies in Mexico. At first it was reported that Stevens was killed by an American, hut this report was, sent, it was said, to avoid trouble with the rebels, who still invest the American settlements southeast of Juarez. The capital stock of the Louisville and Nashville railroad is to be in crtased from $60,000,000 to $72,000, O'lO and the new $12,000,000 in com raon stock will be sold to stockhold ers at . par. Battling Nelson fought Steve Ketch f 1 a 15-round draw at St. Joseph, Missouri. Louis Potter, 39 years old, of New York, a noted American sculptor. C'cd in great agony in an obscure ho li in Seattle, Wash., after undergo mg ten days' treatment at the hands fJt a Chinese physician for a skin disease. James A. White, a private in Bat tery c, First battalion, Virginia field artillery, is in King's Daughters' hos pital at Portsmouth, Va., with a bul let wound in his head, received while in camp with a platoon of artillery. IN Mexican rebels crossed the boun dary and were engaged by United States solddiers on the Lang ranch, 50 miles east of Douglas, according to a report received in Douglas, Ariz. Fourteen American troopers held back 25 rebels, killing five and wound" ing one of the Mexicans, it is report ed. The rebels are believed to be in command of Inez Salazar, whose men also engaged American soldiers below Hachita, N. M., farther to the east. One of the most thorough jobs of wholesale burglary ever accomplish ed in New York City has been dis covered. The police were called to an eleven-story loft building in Uni cUy place by the sounding of a bur glar alarm. It was found that bur glars had been through every one of the first floors, which were occupied by clothing manufacturers ; had gone through -all the stock rooms and of fices and had removed several truck loads of merchandise. Three men were wounded, two women fired upon narrowly escaped death and the entire community of Massey Station, near Memphis, Tenn., was kept in a state of terror for hours by Lon Callis, who ran amuck with a shotgun. Posses are search ing the countryside for the man, who was, some time ago, liberated on a bail of $15,000 on a murder charge. Thirty girls were forced to leap out of second story windows to escape death when an explosion caused by benzine vapor wrecked a building oc cupied by a dyeing and cleaning es" tablishment in Chicago. Rudolph Spinner, foreman of the establish ment, was crushed to death. His body was dug out of the ruins by firemen. One girl who jumped out of a window was picked up uncon scious and with both legs fractured. Others in rushing to reach the stair ways were knocked down and tram pled. The standardization in depth of all canals along the Atlantic seaboard was advocated, amid much enthusi asm on the part of the delegates, b Congressman John H. Small of North Carolina in his address to the Atlan tic Deep Waterways convention at its fifth annual convention at New London, Conn. It is officially announced that the totr.l deaths from the explosion of fire damp in the Clarence pit, near Bruay, numbered sixty. These include sev eral miners who died after being brought to the surface. Most of the bodies were so mangled as to be un recognizable. A further explosion oc curred and the entire pit is on fire. Mining engineers say it must be sealed. Twenty-one bodies had been brought to the surface, before the continued explosion caused the rescu ing parties to abandon their efforts. Returns from the state election in dicate that Ohio voters decided by an overwhelming majority that wom en should not have the ballot and ratified all of forty-one other propos ed constitutional amendments with the possible exception of a $50,000, 000 good road bond issue. The vote was light. Five" companies of Michigan Nation al Guardsmen, with rifles loaded to kill, are camped within and outside the walls of the state penitentiary. The convicts, whom the authorities allege were responsible for an out break probably the worst in the his tory of the institution are locked up in th eheart of the prison, many of them being chained in their cells. . The strength of the new Progres sive party in its line-up against the older parties an dthe disappearance of the Republican majority for the first time in ten years and the first time in the history of the state in a presidential year were oustanding features in the state election of Ver mont. It is apparent that there has been no election by the people, al though a sufficient number of Repub lican representatives seem to have been successful to insure the choice of Allen M. Fletcher As -a result, of torrential rains throughout Pennsylvania and West Virginia, thirty-six 'are dead and oth ers missing. Added to the list of fa talities are the foreigners at Colliers, W. Va., bringing the list there up to eighteen; three at Burgettstown, Pa., bringing the last there up to four and one at Woodlawn, Pa., this city. In addition, others are reported miss ing, but it is believed that the above will probably cover the number who met death. Washington. Treasury figures for August indi cated that the government revenues were jumping over the returns for the same period last year. Customs re ceipts for August and July, the first two months of the present fiscal year, ran $4,000,000 each above the figures for the same two months of 1911. Ordinary internal revenue tax es were an increase of $3,000,000 more for the two-month period of this year than for last year. Aside from the Panama canal and the pub lic ' debt, the excess of ordinary dis bursements over receipts was approx imately $16,000,000 less than last year. The message of explanation and appeal sent by President Gomez of Cuba to President Taft has done very much to clear up the situation grow ing out of the attack on Charge d'Af f aires Hugh S. Gibson of the Amer ican legation in Havana, Cuba, by Enrique Mazai, a Cuban newspaper man. State department officials ex pressed their satisfaction with the evident sincerity of the Cuban presi dent's attitude. It was made plain, however, that the department would by no means relax its demand for complete satisfaction for the affront to the dignity of the United States. DDSERS PUT OUT FULL WICKET ROOSEVELT ADHERENTS FORM ORGANIZATION .OF THEIR OWN AT COURT HOUSE. MR. THOMPSON DECLINES Are Refused Recognition By the Reg ular Republicans, . Progressives Name Candidates For All the Offices Walser is Named For Governor. Prigressive State Ticket. Governor Zeb Vance Walser of Davidson. Lieut. Governor Charles E. Green of Mitchell. Attorney General E. S. W. Dam- eron of Alamance. Supreme Court Judges T. T. Hicks of Henderson; W. S. O'B. , Robinson of Wayne. Secretary of State D. H. Senter of Harnett. : Corporation Commissioners Geo. E. Butler of Sampson, J. N. . Williamson, Jr., of Alamance. Superintendent of Public Instruc- tion Charles L. Coon of Wilson. Auditor J. F. Click of Catawba. Treasurer D. L. Gore of New Hanover. Commissioner of Labor and Print- ing J. Y. Hamrick of Cleveland. Insurance Commissioner Clyde Eby of Craven. Commissioner of Agriculture J. ' M. Mewborne of Lenoir. Presidential Electors Iredell Meares of New Hanover, Jake F. Newell of Mecklenburg. Charlotte. Renewing their pledges of allegance to the Roosevelt-Johnson Progressive cause and declaring to treat further with the Taft Repub licans in session at the Auditorium, the assembly of Roosevelt Republi cans, self-styled, in conference at the county court house went on record in ringing resolutions denouncing the al leged arbitrary methods pursued by the regular Republican state executive committee in unseating six Roose velt members and declining to allow representation to others, and conclude ed by putting forth a separate elector al and state ticket for the coming pri maries to be held in November. The fight was distinctly spectcular and thrilling at times. ; There was no question as to the opposition of the great body of Roose velt followers present to former Sen ator Marion Butler, who in turn was defeated at every point. First he sought to have the conference treat with the so-called regulars with the I view of getting together on a state ticket in order that the ranks might not be severed any wider than ab solutely necessary to preserve the Roosevelt strength. He. sought, in spite of the admittedly unrighteous treatment accorded the Roosevelt fol lowers by the state committee, to hold out the olive branch as a last effort but in this position he was de feated, although supported in this po sition by ' a number of influential leaders. Later, after the resolution had been adopted calling for sepa rate and distinct action on the part of the Roosevelt followers, Senator Butler made a spectacular . fight against pledging the meeting to an endorsement of Dr. Cyrus Thompson, the gubernatorial nominee of the" Greensboro body. He declared that Dr. Thompson was not the strongest candidate available nor was he. the man best suited to calling out the old line Republican ' strength. In this contention, Senator Butler was op posed by . Charles H. Cowles . of Wilkes. Col. Virgil S. Lusk of Asheville act ed as temporary chairman of - the meeting and then by unaimous vote was made permanent chairman. Dr. C. G. Bryant of Yadkin was elected permanent secretary and the repre Citizen Brutally Murdered. Newbern. Several days ago the little town of Dover was thrown into great excitement when the news was spread that Clem Johnson, a promin ent citizen, ha,d been brutally mur dered on the street by two negro men. There were no eye-witnesses to the murder except those actually tak ing part in the affair. Mr. Johnson was stabbed to death, his throat being badly lacerated.' Shortly after the killing took place Charles Moore and Tass Hill, colored, were arrested and charged with the murder: Good Roads Rally a Success. Snow Hill The good roads rally held here was a magnificent 'success. Widespread Interest in the subject was shown bf the large delegation from each of the ten townships in the county and by large numbers from Lenoir, Pitt, Wilson and Wayne. coun ties. Addresses were made by ex Judge W. S. O'B. Robinson, of Golds boro, Mr. H. D. Mosby, of the post office department, Washington, D. C, and by President H. B. Varner, of the North Carolina Good Roads association. sentatives of the Republican press of the state were requested to act as assistant secretaries. There were three sessions held, one in the morning at 10, a second in the afternoon at 3 and a third at night. Eclipsing in Interest was the nomi nation of Mr. Zeb Vance Walser of Lexington for Governor on the Bull Moose ticket Mr. Charles H. Cowles was also nominated but he requested that his name be withdrawn. The other members of the ticket were also filled in and the Progressive party pre sents to the people of the state a ticket just as does the Democratic party and also the Republican party. This marked the parting of the ways in the state. A feature of the evening . session was the reading of a telegram from Dr. Cyrus Thompson, forwarded from Wilmington, stating"that it would be impossible for him to make the race as candidate for Governor. The convention really got down to business, when Richmond Pearson took the floor. He told of an inter view, with Chairman John M. More head, in which Mr. Morehead said, "I know that the general sentiment of the party in the state, probably 90 per cent of Its voters, certainly of 80 per cent, Is favorable to Mr. Roose velt." "Eighty or 90 per cent of the peo ple cuts no figure with the powers that are trying to govern us in North Caro lina," said Mr. Pearson. "It isn't the will of 90 per cent that is sought, but the power to compel us, if we are servile enough, to abandon the rights of free men and yield to the powers that prey. Mr. Pearson read his resignation of the office of national committeeman, saying he recognized no obligation to any one except his hearers, the Roose velt Republicans, who had elected him at the Raleigh convention in May. "I think t will feel freer, when I have given it back to you," he said. Chairman Lusk took the floor and moved that the resignation be de clined. "The convention at Raleigh was a Roosevelt affair. You elected Pearson your committeeman. You represent the power of the Represen tatives of North Carolina. It's his duty to stand by the policies and the principles whose guardianship you entrusted to his care. We need him. They can't-drive him out. They can't get him out by any legal process. They'd like to have no Roosevelt rep resentative on the national committee. If he resigns, before the sun goes down they will elect a Taft man a successor. I move the resignation be declined. This carried unanimously. Following a stirring oratorical duel between Messrs. Zeb Vance Walser of Davidson county and former Congress man Charles H. Cowles of Wilkes. Mr. Walser was declared the nominee of the Roosevelt Republican conven tion for that honor. The vote stood as follows: Walser 441 1-2; Cowles 191 1-2. Mr. WTalser plead with th convention directly after his nomina tion that his name be kept from the voting list and so did Mr. Cowles, but the former fervently declared that it would be impossible for him to engage in a contest for the gubernatorial hon ors and he further emphasized the importance of naming a man from the mountains like Mr. Cowles to carry the standards of the new-born party from the mountains to the coast. Mr. Cowles declined the nomination im mediately after his name was present ed by Hon. Richmond Pearson, but none of those who placed the two men before the convention or who sec onded their nominations would con sent to their withdrawal. After the vote had been taken, Mr. Walser again plead with the convention to allow his name to be dropped for the reason that he could not make the campaign, but his pleadings w.ere ! confronted with cries that almost drowned his own voice in insistent enthusiasm. After the chair declared him the nom inee, Mr. Walser reluctantly arose and made brief remarks in which he said he had always bowed to the will of his party. The special congressional commit tee presented both their names, not being able to agree upon either of the two. The other members of the state ticket were taken up and named be fore the candidates for Governor were reached and the final moments of the Bull Moose meeting was marked by scenes of demonstration of eclipsing character. The convention adjourn ed just a little before 1 o'clock Thurs day morning. County Commissioners Meet. Charlotte. The county commission ers met in monthly session, audited the usual number of bills and discuss ed various matters. The recommen dation of the grand jury in favor of new jail was not mentioned. There was difference of opinoin among resi dents of the upper part of the county as to the course they wished the com missioners to pursue with regard to filling in the gap which now inter venes between the end of the maca dam and the Mecklenburg-Iredell line on the Davidson road. Moonshiners Demolish Automobile. Morganoton. Sheriff Berry and oth er officers went on a raid for illicit stills on the Brown mountain, near Piedmont Springs; 16 miles from here, and while they succeeded in captur ing an outfit the moonshiners got the best of the deaL 'The officers left their automobile at the foot of the mountain and when they returned they found the machine almost de molished. All the tires had been cut to pieces and two new emergency tires carried off. They had also de molished the lights. SETTLE HEADS THE STATE G. B. P. TICKET THE PLATFORM DECLARES FOR LOCAL OPTION ON LIQUOR QUESTION. BULL M00SES WERE OUSTED The Taft Men .in Saddle Re-elect Morehead and Recommend Duncan For the National Committee. Much Interest Shown at Convention. Republican State Ticket. Governor Thomas Settle of Bun- combe. . Lieut. Governor J. R. Gaskill of Edgecombe. Attorney General David H. Biar of Forsyth. Secretary of State W. J. An- drews of Wake. Treasurer Daniel W. Patrick of Greene. Auditor J. Q. A. Wood of Pasquo- tank. Superintendent of Public Instruc- tion Cyrus P. Frazier of Guil- ford. Commissioner of Agriculture A. L. French of Rockingham. Commissioner of Labor and Print- ing-r-J. B. Goslen of Forsyth. Corporation Commissioners W. E. White of Alamance and John Sharp of Iredell. Insurance Commissioner J. H. Cook of Guilford. - Charlotte. The Republican state convention met here and nominated Thomas Settle of Buncombe for Gov ernor, and a full state ticket, and by a vote of 606 to 150 adopted a plat form demanding local option on the liquor question. The convention ad journed at midnight Wednesday, hav ing crowded considerable work into a very short time. It was in actual session only three hours and a quar ter. The rejuvinated steam roller was never In finer shape. It began its deadly work at the morning meeting of the state executive committee, which turned the far-famed engine of destruction upon itself and expelled six members who were avowedly anti Taft. When this resolution, introduc ed by J. J. Mott, declaring that no person except supporters of Presi dent Taft had a right to voice or vote in thp committee had been ' adopted by a vote of 8 to 6 after a prolonged discussion, an inquisition followed of Charles H. Cowles, C. E. Green, George E. Butler, J. J. Jenkins, I. B. Tucker, and J. D. Parker. The big game thus disposed of, Thomas Settle introduced a resolu tion even more sweeping in its na ture. It slammed shut the doors of the convention hall to all delegates who do not purpose casting ballots for the present President. It passed 9 to 5 and the withdrawal of the Roosevelt men became inevitable. With most of the unruly elements safely out of the way the course of true love ran smooth. Unanimous was the re-election of Chairman John M. Morehead. By acclamation was the nomination of Settle. Only two squalls blew up during the night session, and in all ' the actual work not done In committee rooms, was put through! The first was over the question whether ' the convention should proceed to nominate a full state ticket, or should stop for the present with the nomination of a can didate for Governor,' and leave the other positions open for negotiations by a committee. Mr. Harry Skinner favored the postponement , of action and engaged In a sharp verbial tilt with E. C. Dun can, precipitated when Mr. Skinner intimated that Mr. Duncan had got what he was after from the conven-1 Demonstration Work in Gaston. E. S. Millsaps, district manager of the farmers' co-operative demonstra tion work, which is being carried on throughout the country under the su pervision of the United States Depart ment of Agriculture, went before the board of county , commissioners at Gastonia and presented plans and prpositions for the inaugurating of the demonstration work in Gaston county. It is probable that the com missioners will accept a proposition to begin this work, but action was deferred until the October meeting. Wants Dressing For Roads. The report of W. L. xWiggs, super intendent of Wake county roads, for the month of August, was filed with the county commissioners and shows the amount of road work, road con ditions, etc., for the month. In the report attention is called in regard to the work being done on the Hillsboro road from the city limits to the fair grounds. The road has been repaired, but will be useless in its present con dition if some kind of dressing is not applied. Mr. Wiggs asks the board to order the dressing. tion and was not turther concerned for the party's good. This storm blew over. " , . The! second fight was over the lo cal option plank In the platform by the majority of the platform com mittee. - ! The opening session of the conven tion lasted but 20 minutes. About 700 delegates representing 72 of North; Carolina's 1 100 counties occu pied seats on the first floor of the Auditorium and a few hundred spec tators were in the balconies when Chairman John M. Morehead called .the convention to order. . The post ponement from 12 o'clock had been necessitated by fights which develop ed in the executive committee inci dental, to the preparation of' a : tem porary roll, Rev. Gilbert T. Rowe, S. T, D., pas tor of Tryon street Methodist church, opened the convention with prayer. Secretary Gilliam Grisson of Spray, then read the official call cf the con vention published some weeks ago, reminding the delegates of the xa poses which had brought. them hither. The deelgates applauded a number of times while the reading was in pro gress, especially at the endorsement of Taft's administration, and then at the close they applauded once more. "The secretary will announce reso lutions passed by the state executive committee, said Chairman Morehead. The secretary read: "Resolved, That it is the sense and action of this com mittee that no member who proposes to vote for the Democratic or Pro gressive tickets in the nation is enti tled to voice or vote in the sessions of the committee." The reading of the resolutions was followed by applause. By direction of the chairman, Secretary Grisson then read the temporary roll prepared by the executive committee. The fol lowing counties were recorded as represented : Alamance, Alexander, Anson, Beau fort, , Bertie, Brunswick, Buncombe, Burke, Cabarrus, Caldwell, Camdent Carteret, Caswell, Catawba, Chatham, Chowan, Craven, Cumberland, David son, Davie, Durham, Edgecombe, For syth, Franklin, , Gaston, Granville,1 Greene, Guilford, Halifax, Haywood, Henderson, Hertford, Iredell, Jackson, Johnston, Lee, Lenoir, Lincoln, Ma con, Madison, Martin, Mecklenburg, Mitchell, Montgomery, Nash, . New Hanover, Orange, Pamlico, Pasquo tank, Perquimans, Person, Pitt, Ran dolph, Richmond, Robeson) Rocking ham, Rowan, Rutherford, Sampson, Scotland, Stokes, Surry, Tyrrell, Union, Vance, Wake, Warren, Wash ington, Wayne, Wilkes and Yadkin. "There being contests involved in the case of a number of delegations seated by the committee," said Chair man Morehead, "I will now, proceed to appoint a credentials committee which shall investigate these cases and report to the convention. I ap point the members as follows: First district, Wheeler Martin; second dis trict, J. R. Gaswill; third district, H. L. Grant; fourth district, H. McGee; sixth, J. A. Colvin; seventh, J. M. Burres; eighth, T. O. Teague; ninth, J. D. Albright; tenth, T. F. Roland." All the fights with which the cre dentials committee had to deal con cerned factional disagreements among Taft followers. The Roosevelt men had been counted out by the execu tive committee, which had shoulder ed that burden, and the "BulJ .Mice" were not even contestants. Shortly prior to adjournment, the platform committee, of which W. J. Andrews of Raleigh was chairman, announced its readiness to submit its report embodying the party platform. This was read and its adoption was moved. Just before this could be Sone, . Mr. C. E. Taylor of Brunswick offered an amendment, striking out Section 1, which read as follows: "That we favor local 'option and pledge, the party to the enactment of such a law as the wisdom of the party shall dictate." This was sec onded and on the aye and nay vote, the roll-call of counties showed that it was lost by a vote of 606 to 150. The platform was then adopted as a whole. With the endorsement of the plat form, there was a motion made , to leave the filling of any vacancies not supplied by the several districts in the hands of the state committee and also the ratifying of any action of the several districts necessary. It was then almost midnight and the con vention, on motion, adjourned sine die. Want Experimental Post Road. A resolution was passed by the Dur ham county commissioners directing the chairman to take up with the sen ators and representatives from this state the matter of getting the gov ernment to build an experimental post road in this county, carrying out the plans of the recent bill passed by the national house. The chairman was directed to announce to the trustees of this national road building fund that Durham county was willing and ready to pay her part of the expense of building this road. Illicit, Distilleries Destroyed. Deputy United States Marshal L. A. Grant, who in company with Deputy Collector Theodore . Shelton made a successful raid on a number of block ading quarters in the Big Cane Brake section of Transylvania county have returned to Hendersonville.. Mr. Grant and Special Employe J. repres entative that as a result of the raids four illicit distilleries were destroyed, two of which were copper outfits while another was made of sheet iron. The owners of the fourth had taken away I the cap. WILSON CAMPAIGN FUND IDE PUBLIC TWELVE THOUSAND PERSONS HAVE CONTRIBUTED TOTAL ING $175,000. HAVE NOT GOT ENOUGH YET McAcfoo Says That the American Peo pie Must Know Where the Future Presidents Get Their Support The List of Contributors is Given. ' New York. Twelve thousand per Bons have contributed thus far to the Wilson campaign fund. The fund t at present totals $175,000. This was stated at Democratic nat ional headquarters which at the same time made public a list of contributors containing. It was stated, the names of all who had contributed the sum of $100 or more to the find. "The American peaple," Mr. Mc Adoo said, "will never elect another President without knowing the source from which financial support s drawn," Rolla Wells, treasurer of the com mittee, declared that while the sum received was encouraging, it was "totally inadequate" to conduct the' campaign properly, but he believed that contributions would continue. . The largest contributions thus far have been made by Henry Morgen thau, chairman of the national execu tive committee, F. C. Penfield, a wealthy Democrat of Germantown, Pa., and Henry Goldman, a New, York banker. Each gave $10,000. Five $5,0i00 contributions were re ceived. The givers are Charles R. Crane of Chicago, who is vice chair nan of national finance committee; Rolla Wells, former mayor of St. Louis, the national treasurer; Cleve land H. Dodge and Jacob H. Schoff, New York bankers, and. . . Hugh C. Wallace of Tocoma, national com mitteeman from "Washington. Among other, large .contributors are: James B. Regan, D. W. Hyman and Jacob Wertheim, $2,500 each; J. D. Phelan, former ; mayor of San Fran cisco, $2,000; William J Bryan, Nor man E. Mack of Buffalo, N. Y., na tional committeeman; John H. Stanch field of ' New York, former Demo cratic candidate for Governor of New York, and Perry Belmont $1,000 each. The list includes: W. B. Oliver, Baltimore, ' J. S. Arm- .strong, Baltimore, and C. A. Culber son, Washington, $400 each; Senator Leroy Percy,, E, R, McCalmont, W. Boslin, A. Brydowski, . Arthur S. Brown, Senator C A. 'Swa'nson, all of Washington, A; .8.. Miles Baltimore, $100 each; Percy, Jesse, and Herbert Strauss,. Clarksburg, W. Va., $500; William L. ' Cranberry, Nashville, James G. Gray, Atlanta; -$250; Carl Mendel, Savannah, J.. S. Carr, Dur ham, N. C, V. T. Hardie, New Or leans, $100 each. . Dr. Robert ' S. ' Young, Concord, N. C; Josephus Daniels, Raleigh, N. C, each $100. The New Parcels Post Law. Washington. The postoffice appro priation bill passed by the last ses sion of Congress provides: "That hereafter foruth-class mail matter shall embrace all other matter, Includ ing farm and factory products, not now embraced by law in either the first, second or third " class, not ex ceeding eleven pounds in weight, nor greater In size than 72 inches In length and girth combined, nor in form or kind likely to injure the person' of any postal employe or damage the mail equipment or other mail matter and not of a character perishable within a period of reasonably required for transportation and delivery.". New Dreadnaught Immense. Washington. The new battleship Pennsylvania, the only one authorized by Congress at the last session, will be fully as large as the great battle ship which the Britsh government has Just ordered, according to plans to the naval general board. : Edwards Will Never Stand Trial. New Orleans. Unless an unexpect ed change for the better occurs How ard E. Edwards, the lone bandit who robbed the. New York limited of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad will never stand trial for his daring rob bery. The injuries inflicted upon him when he was captured by Engineer Baer, according to the report from the hospital will prove fatal. Rela tives of Edwards, two brothers in Me ridian, Miss., and his father in Jupi ter, Fla., have been expected, but so far none have come. World's Record Broken. New York. A world's record was broken by Bob Burman and there were two 'smash-ups at ' the automo bile races on Brighton Beach race track. Billy Burke, driving an E. M. F. car in the 23rd mile of a 40-mile race sustained a fracture of his right wrist when his car turned turtle. Burman with his new 300-horsepower Benz car drove a mile in 47.85 sec onds from a flying start over the one mile circular dirt track. The former record, also Burman's, was 48.62 seconds.