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THE CHATHAM RECORD It A. LONDON, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR Terms of Subscription $1.50 Per Year Strictly in Advance THE CHATHAM RECORD Rates of Advertising One Square, one insertion L00 One Square, two insertions ShEO One Square, one month S2S0 For Larger Advertisements Liberal Contracts wil be is&de. VOL. XXXV. PITTSBORO, CHATHAM COUNTY, N. a, SEPTEMBER 25, 1912. NO. 7. mm IF NEWS NOTES FOB 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. Two persons were fatally injured nd eighteen others more or less se riously injured when Louisville and Nashville passenger train No. 37, bound from Cincinnati to the south plunged through an open switch a quarter of a mile north of Kiserton, Ky., throwing the engine from the track to another and wrecking eight freight cars on a siding. The fatally injured are Fireman Joseph Faulkoner of Covington, Ky., and Engineer Rusk of Paris, Ky. A package containing $55,000 mys teriously disappeared in transit from the First National hank of Pensacola, Fla., to officials of the Louisville and Nashville railroad at Flomaton, Ala. The money was part of a shipment of $75,000 intended as a pay roll, and was in bills of small denominations. Reports were current that the west bound Louisville and Nashville train had been held up and robbed, but this was emphatically denied by railroad officials. Private detectives and spec ial agents of the railroad and South ern Express company are investiga ting the affair. Gen. Charles D. Elliott, command ing the West Virginia troops in the field, arranged to carry out a possible order from Governor Glasscock ex tending the martial law district in the Kanawha coal country. One cause for alarm is the testimony being given before the commission investigating conditions in and around the coal mines, miners declaring that they have been arrested and fined and their fines collected through the companies by which they were employed. The pardon of Lieut. Charles M. Pendleton, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Pendleton of Atlanta, Ga., from a pris on in the Philippines, has been an nonuced. Lieutenant Pendleton was convicted eight years ago on the charge of killing a Filipino. Ameri can intervention was impossible, but a number of influential Filipinos put up a cash bond of $10,000 in gold, and he was engaged in railroad work for six years before he was sent to prison. General. The taking of testimony in the gov ernment's suit for the dissolution of the International Harvester company has been postponed until October 2. A wild elephant in the northern province of India attacked the Mullait-tion-Vilankulum of Ceylon, killed the driver with one blow of its trunk and then proceeded to smash the coach against a telegraph pole, according to advices received at Calcutta. Severe fighting between American naval forces and Nicaraguan revolu tionists has occurred in the country near Barrancas, Nicaragua, although reports ironi the scene are so meager officials here have no definite idea of what ha shappened. Rear Admiral Southerland is in the field, with up wards of 2,000 men, and if plans have not miscarried by this time he has cleared the route of the National rail way of opposing rebels and relieved the famine-threatened city ot Gra nada. The double funeral of Gen. Count Maresuke Nogi, supreme military councillor of Japan, and his wife, the Countess Nogi, was held at the Ooya ina cemetery in the presence of enor mous crowds. Representatives of the special foreign envoys and the resi dent ambassadors and ministers par ticipated in the procession, which al together numbered upward of 50,000 persons. The ritualistic ceremony at the great funeral hall was extremely impressive. Taking of testimony In the govern ment suit to dissolve the International Harvester company, a $140,000 corpo ration, charging it with a violation of the Sherman anti-trust law, was be gun in Chicago before Special Exam iner Robert S. Taylor. The defend ants include George W. Perkins, Cy rus T. McCormick, Elbert H. Gary, President of the steel corporation; George F. Baker, Norman B. Ream, Charles Deering and Harold F. Mc Cormick. Robbers blew the safe in the Ex change bank at Leroy, Mich., with ni-' tro-glycerin and escaped with $5,000. The yojrgg cut the telephone wires on ljoth sides of the town, and pursuit was thus handicapped. At Chillicothe, O., seven prisoners niade their escape from jail by saw ing the bars open. At dawn when deer invade, his or f hard of 400 young apple trees on the Co'ebrook road, George A. Howe, f V;iristed, Conn., who has slept in ttie orchard all summer to protect the fruit trees from the ravages of the an imals, plays a cornet; the deers run. The terms for peace between Italy &na Turkey have practically been ar ranged with the exception of a pro Posed loan to Turkey of between 500, fM,O0o and 600,000,000 francs. This Will be settled soon. Aviator Russell Blair v of Kansas" City, while making an exhibition flight was .killed in a fall from a height of 30 feet. Blair had Just made a successful flighty and had landed some distance from the crowd. When he attempted to rise from the ground again his machine struck an air current and turned over. Blair was .pinned underneath the wreckage, and, when aid reached him, was dead. The accident happened at Shenan doah, Iowa. In a report on the Panama canal and pan-American trade, John Bar rett, director general of the Pan American union, who recently made a trip through Europe to study what European governments and commer cial interests are doing to get ready for the opening of the canal, declares that every important port of Great Britain, France, Germany, Spain, Ita ly, Austria, Holland and Belgium "is being improved to the highest degree of efficiency for over-sea commerce.' Gen. Emiliano Zapata, the Mexican rebel chief who is threatening to at tack Mexico City, gives his reasons for his uprising against President Madero in a statement forwarded from his camp at Yautepec Morelos. He says he has 18,000 men under arms in eighteen states of Mexico, and that if intervention comes he will kill every American in Mexico. Then he will enter the City of Mexico, but it will be to join the Federal army to fight the Northern invaders. The most sanguinary engagement of the war in Tripoli was fought near Derne, a town on the Mediterranean coast, 140. miles northeast of Bengazi. The Italians lost 61 men and 113 wounded. The Turks and Arabs left more than 800 dead on the field. Forty-one prisoners, including an Arab chief, fell into the hands of the Ital ians. The battle opened at daybreak when a force of Turks and Arabs sur prised and attacked the Italian lines. The fight raged for four hours, and the Italians won signally. Bullets greeted 35 deputy sheriffs who attempted to draw the fires un der boilers at the Great Western cop per mines at Bingham, Utah. From behind breastworks they had thrown up, striking miners who quit work be cause the Utah Copper company and several other concerns refused them an increase in wages, fired upon the officers and drove them from the mine works. None was injured. Only one of the great copper mines contin ued operations. Two masked men held up the Mem phis Special on the Southern railroad near Stevenson, Ala. The men board ed the train at Stevenson and imme diately entered the mail car and cov ered the four clerks with pistols. The clerks were forced to lie down on the floor of the car and the hands of three were tied behind them, after which they were covered with mail sacks. The fourth clerk ws made to open all sacks of registered and val uable mail, while the robbers calmly filled a bag with what they believed to be of value. Charles N. Kirkbride, an attorney of San Mateo, Cal., and a lieutenant in the Eleventh company coast artil lery reserves, known as the "Million aire Company," was shot and fatally wounded by a young highwayman who robbed two cars of the electric line between this place and San Francisco. There was one woman aboard the first car and the robber forced her to col lect the passengers' valuables. If Adam Ruff had retained his pres ence of mind when he discovered his brother, Frederick, trying to commit suicide, by hanging, the latter would now be alive, it is believed. As it was, Adam became panic-stricken, and allowed his brother, who had jnst hanged himself, to remain suspended for two hours while he went to call the country physician to the scene, in Newark, N. ' J. By that time Fred erick had long been dead. Washington. A telegram from the executive of fice at Beverly, Mass., to the -National League of Postmasters, in session at Richmond, Va., advised the conven tion that President Taft will meet committees in Washington to receive its petition asking that all fourth class postmasters be put on the clas sified list of the civil service. This list has heretofore applied to only four teen states, in the territory north of the Ohio and east of the Mississippi river. Officers of the league said that the document contains more than 20,000 signatures. Somebody has been fooling the boys of Texas. Postmaster General Hitch cock's mail has been overloaded with packages mailed from Texas towns, each bundle containing 1,000 cancell ed postage stamps neatly done up in hundreds. Accompany each was a let ter requesting Mr. Hitchcock to for ward to the writer a bicycle in re turn for the cancelled stamps. Nicaraguan dispatches to the state department indicate that the Ameri can first named as Phillips, who was murdered by the rebels, with another American named Dodd at the battle of Leon, or: August 16, really was an American named Craven, although no more is known of him. Postmaster General Hitchcock has Issued instructions for. carrying into effect the new newspaper and periodi cal law, first returns under which must be made by October 1. The law requires that publishers shall file on the first days of April and October of each year, both with the postmaster general and with the local postmas ter, under penalty of denial of the use of mails, a sworn statement of the names and addresses of the owner, publisher, editor, managing editor and business manager of their newspapers and periodicals. Religious and scien tific publications are exempted. T LIFE SUPERINTENDENT JOYNER AND A COMMITTEE LEAVE ON IN SPECTION TOUR. TO BE ESTABLISHED SOON Craven County School First Under Act of the 1311 Legislature To Get Information in Regard to Planning Farm Life School. Raleigh. The members of the board of trustees of the Farm Life School of Craven county, Dr. J. Y. Joyner and Dr. D. H. Hill, left for Baltimore to inspect the agricultural high school of Baltimore county at Sparks, and to visit other noted farm life schools of the country with a view to getting ideas, information and suggestions for the planning of the farm life school for Craven coun ty, which is to be established now as speedily as possible. This Craven school is to be the first under the general act of the 1911 legislature. After the $15,000 bonds were voted by the county, there was litigation as to the constitution ality of the act instituted by the pur chasers of the bonds to test their validity. The supreme court has sus tained the act and the validity of the bond issue. So there is to be no further delay in establishing the school. It is the determination of the Crav en county and the state educational authorities to make it an effective demonstration of the possibilities there are in the farm life school act, whereby the counties can establish schools and provide a portion of the maintenance fund, and receive from the state an annual appropriation of $2,500. Hazers Injure A Student. In the light of recent college haz ing developments in this state and the determined movement likely to result for ending for all time this practice in North Carolina, there is special interest in the fact just deevloped at Raleigh that Russell Ferrall, a freshman at Wake Forest College, is recovering in the infirm ary there from the effects of hazing. He is a son of Prof. W. J. Ferrall of Meredith College, Raleigh. Nothing heard from him here for several days there was special inquiry made of the college authorities about him and the information came that he, was laid up in the infirmary as the result of hazing. To Ask Pardon Fop Old Negro. Governor Kitchin when he comes to Fayetteville to make a campaign speech will hold a hearing of the petitioners who are requesting the pardon of John Dunn, a respectable Fayetteville negro, who was con demned to the roads for 12 months on the charge of retailing after his case had been fought from the mag istrate's court to the doors of the highest tribunal in the land, the United States supreme court. The petition for the pardon of Dunn, who is sixty years old and is said to be in bad health, is signed by some two score business and professional men. To Work Roads by Taxation. Under Iredell county's new road law, ratified by the voters when the $400,000 in bonds was voted for road improvement, all roads of the county will hereafter be worked by taxation the new law becoming effective this month, when the old system was abandoned. A network of fine roads is being built throughout the county un der the bond issue and the county commissioners held a special meeting and made provision for the upkeep of all the public roads by appointing paid overseers for each township, whose business it will be to look after the roads of their respective townships. Extend Scope of Animal Husbandry. A joint committee from the state board of agrciulture and the A and M. Colege has elected Prof. D. T. Gray director of animal husbandry for the college and the department of ag riculture. For seven years he has been professor of animal husbandry in the Alabama Agricultural College. The A. and M. College and depart ment of agriculture are planning to greatly extend the scope of animal husbandry, both in college course, and in an effort to advance practical stock raising. Caldwell Democrats Meet. The Democrats of Caldwell coun ty assembled in the court house to hold their county convention. Practi cally every precinct in the county was represented by a full delegation and the court room was taxed to its capacity. The convention was call ed to order by Mark Squires, chair man of the county executive com mittee and in a short address out lined the order of the day. Mr. J. L. Nelson was named chairman and Messrs. C. D. Rabb, W. M. Moore and A. M. Mast temporary secretaries. , NS El SCHOOLS HAND-BOOK OF D0M0CRATS' Chairman Webb Has Received Copies of Complete Volume For Distri bution Contents of Book Pithy. Raleigh. Democratic State Chair man Charles A. Webb has just re ceived, ready for immediate distribu tion throughout the state, the 1912 edition of the North Carolina Demo cratic hand-book, which is pronounc ed a compact and complete volume, particularly notable in the lengthy introduction as these paragraphs will show: - "Inside the x state the Democrats proclaim that they have continued to so conduct public affairs that jus tice has been administered, quiet has reigned, economy has been practiced, education has been advanced, en lightenment has been diffused, mor ality has been increased, good roads have been built, agriculture has made great progress and the people have been contented and happy in their homes. "Our promises have been kept, and we have had a government by the people, well-administered by the pub lic servants chosen by the people to conduct their affairs of state. Our candidates for state offices were nom inated by the convention, almost without contest, public sentiment se lected the candidates and the con vention only registered the popular will that proved patriotic. Locke Craig being the leader, and every as sociate on the ticket being worthy, w.e go forward confident of victory. "The Republican party in the state is divided into two factions; one un der the leadership of Morehead, Dun can, Settle, et al, the other under the leadership of Marion Butler and Rich mond Pearson; each denouncing the other in the most disgraceful terms. They have nominated two full tick ets. Hopelessly divided in the na tion, and hopelessly divided in the state, each side telling the truth about the other, Democratic success is assured beyond the shadow of a doubt." Tar Heel Bull Moo-?e Bolts. Roosevelt supporters bolted at Greensboro from the 5th district Re publican congressional convention and held a second convention. Reso lutions were adopted denouncing the action of a "few Federal postmas ters" and it was decided to sever all connection with the Republican par ty. A call for a general mass con vention to nominate a progressive candidate for congress was issued. C. D. Turner, of Orange, was named by the Republican convention and the executive committee was authorized to name a congressional candidate. The split was precipitated when Chairman John T. Benbow ruled that delegates present from any county had a right to cast the full vote "of that county. Improve Farm Conditions in Catawba. Monday, October 2 there will be a meeting of the farmers, merchants, bankers, land-owners and business men who are interested in the im provement of farm conditions in Ca tawba county, in the court house at Newton. The purpose of the meet ing is to organize a crop improve ment association. Several months ago, Mr. J. W. Shuford of Hickory, got into communication with the crop improvement committee of Chicago, 111., and got the promise of $1,000 for the employment of a county com missioner of agriculture. There are no strings to this money, except that an experienced man is to be em ployed, who has a complete agricul tural education. Reports Are Most Gratifying. At Democratic state headquarters at Raleigh the statement was made that from every county reports are coming in that are most gratifying as to the united condition of the party, there being every indication that not only will the old-time Democratic strength be polled for the national, state and county tickets, but that greater inroads than ever will be made on the Republican strength in both the eastern and the western sections. The campaign work as di rected from state headquarters is just now getting in full swing and the progress from now. on will be general. Boom in Sandhill Farm Lands, v The boom in sandhill farm lands seems to strengthen as the crops are giving the farmers time , to look around. Several deals are reported of late, about the biggest one being the sale of a 1,200-acre tract near the Bluff by J. W. Graham of Aberdeen to Marlboro county people, who ex pect to begin at once to make a big cotton plantation of it. The price is reported as $12.50 an acre. Several Union county strangers have been Southern Pines and Aberdeen looking over land. Domestic Science Course. A complete domestic science course and instruction in canning, etc., will be added to the Mecklenburg county public school course for the coming season if plans now under way shall succeed. The Chicago Loan and Improvement Company, said to be somewhat of a benevolent concern, has offered to give the sum of $1,000 provided the county will raise a simi lar sum. The. county board of edu cation is requested to contribute $300 of the sum wanted and the com missioners will be asked for $700., OPPOSED TO HAZING IT IS FORBIDDEN BY THE RULES OF THE VARIOUS COLLEGES OF THE STATE. GET REPLIES TO INQUIRES The Condemnation is in No Way Meant to Prejudice the Case of the Young Men Now on Trial In This State. Raleigh. The people of North Car olina are opposed to hazing in the colleges of North Carolina, for from it "evils have resulted in the past and there is a fear of evils in the future. While this is true there i3 no pur pose on . their part to prejudice the case of the young men who are un der bond for trial in the matter of the death of young Rand. That death was a deplorable one, and from it there has come a sharp attention to the matter of hazing. It is that which the people desire to have ended, so that from it there can come no bru tality or tragedy. That hazing is an evil is shown by the rules of colleges against it, and the people demand an enforcement. In reply to an inquiry as to their views on hazing sent to a number of gentlemen replies have been received. Among these is the following from Mr. George Roundtree, a prominent attorney of Wilmington. His letter in part reads: To the Editor: I received your let ter, but I was so pressed with mat ters of immediate business that it was impossible for me to answer it as re quested. Of course all right minded people deeply regret the shocking tragedy at Chapel Hill, but it must be appar ent to everyone that there was no element of viciousness and that it was a most unfortunate accident. It is true that the accident would not have occurred had not these young men engaged in "hazing"; and it seems to me to be also true that whatever may be said upon the advantages of "hazing" as a means of correcting a certain "freshness" or bumptiousness on the part of some young men, as an abstract proposition, public opin ion in North Carolina reprobates the practice, and it is, I understand, ex pressly forbidden by the regulations of the university. While this is true, I depreciate the excited discussions of this question pending the trial of these young men. It seems to me that, while the matter is 'sub judice, there should be nothing said or done that could prejudice the decision of the cause. Authorize Issuance of Bonds. Greensboro. By a majoritry of 82 the voters of Morehead and Gilmer townships, embracing Greensboro au thorized the issuance of 200,0i00 in bonds as the first movement in ad vancing a projected line of railway to run from Lynchburg, Va., through this state and to the South Atlantic coast. The survey for the road has been made from Lynchburg to a point in Chatham county, North Car olina. The bonds voted carry a pro vision that in the event the road is not built or Greensboro is not given a connnection with the Seaboard Air Line or the Norfolk Southern rail road within three years they shall be turned back to the respective town ships. Fail to Nominate Candidate.. Greensboro. The Republican con gressional convention of the fifth dis trict in session here failed to nomi nate a candidate for congress but re ferred the selection of a candidate to the district executive committee named at the meeting. Chester D. Turner of Orange was named as dis trict elector. Of the 11 counties of the district, Durham, Forsyth, Person, Granville and Rockingham had no delegate and Caswell, Stokes, Surrey and Orange had only one delegate each. The Guilford solid delegation of 28 marched out of the convention bolting because Chairman Benbow ruled that the counties having only one delegate were entitled to have the full strength cast on all ques :ions. Members of Tenth District Meet. Asheville. Seven members of the Republican executive committee of the tenth district met here and elec ted Dr. J. T. Sevier to succeed' T. F. Roland as chairman and R. H. Sta ton's campaign manager. The com mittee decided that Mr. Staton should not accept Mr. Gudger's chal lenge to joint debate. Dr. Sevier is generally considered a Taft sympa thizer. The counties represented were Buncombe, Henderson, Hay wood, Swann, Polk, Cherokee and Mc Dowell. Fire Does Much Damage. Maxton. A fire alarm was turned In on account of a, small blaze in the rear of J. C. Wiggins' grocery store and shoe shop, but before the hose could be gotten to the scene the flames had reached a tank of coal oil. The smoke was so dense it was almost impossible to1 get near the fire, and the only thing to do was to prevent the flames spreading to the adjoining wooden buildings. This was done, and while the three brick stores in the block were destroyed nothing beyond those and their contents were burned. NEWS OF NORTH CAROLINA Short Paragraphs of State News That Have Been Gotten Together With Care by the Editor. Morganton. Joe Grady, a well known carpenter, was struck by a freight train on the Southern Rail way near Drexel and fatally injured. Raleigh. A large posse of enrag ed citizens are hunting a negro, who is hiding in a large thicket near Zebulon, situated 24 miles from here and who is wanted for beating into insensibility a white man. Greenville. A large and apprecia tive crowd heard Chief Justice Clark speak here in advocacy of his can didacy for the United States senate, there being present representative persons from all precincts. Morganton. The campaign address" here in the court house by Hon. Fran cis D. Winston, nominee for elector-at-large, was heard by a large audi ence. He gave our people a real study on the tariff, and they were deeply interested in It. Raleigh. Raleigh is threatened by another water famine, owing to continued drought and steady de crease in the flow of Walnut creek, the source of the supply. Tempo rary Receiver W. B. Grimes, makes a special appeal to consumers to use as little water as possible. Dunn. Broken-hearted and de spondent because she had been jilted by her sweetheart. Miss Ella Hud son, the pretty daughter of Y. B. Hud son, who lives about two miles from here, committed suicide by swallow ing carbolic acid. She was cold in death when found in her room. Salisbury. A prominent cotton mill man who was here recently has made a proposition to Salisbury peo ple to raise half million dollars for a new cotton mill here if Salisbury will raise half that amount. The propo sition met with favor and will be worked to successful issue if possible. Spencer. The Rowan county So cialist convention has been called to meet in Salisbury in the near future. A full county and legislative ticket is to be named. Spencer furnished congressional candidates in the last two campaigns, but it is not known whether a congressional ticket will be put out this year. Raleigh A fourth reprieve is grant ed for John Ross by Governor Kitch in, the date fixed this time for the electrocution being October 11. This reprieve is for the reason that the so licitor desires to present further facts bearing on the effort that is pend ing for the commutation of the sen tence to life . imprisonment. Raleigh. There is on foot in Ral eigh a house to house canvass among the Methodists of the city for sub scriptions to the $1,000,000 endow ment fund for Trinity College. The movement was launched at Edenton Street church and the indications are that an especially creditable sum will be raised. Kings Mountain. Nearly all ar rangements have been made for the celebration here on Monday, October 7, of the 132d anniversary of the bat tle of Kings Mountain. The exer cises will begin at 10 a, m. with a parade, in which two bands, carriages containing the principal speakers, the children of the graded schools, floats of various kinds and the Red Men of this section will participate. Gastonia. The improvements in the city jail, which have been going on for the - past two weeks, are al most completed, and make this jail one of the most modern in the state. Durham. The senatorial ponven vention for .this district was held at Hillsboro and formally declared Victor S. Bryant of Durham and J. L. Long, Jr., of Alamance, the Dem ocratic nominees for the state sen ate. Raleigh. There is much gratifica tion here over the announcement by C. P. Frazier of Greensboro that he will not, accept the Taft Republican nomination for state superintendent of public instruction against J. Y. Joyner. Mr. Frazier's card puts his declination on the high plane that he believes the office of state superin tendent of public instruction ought to be placed above politics, and should not be included in the political scram ble for office. Rocky Mount. One young man Is dead, and there are several others in a most serious condition, little hope being held out for two who are ex tremely ill, as the result of ptomaine poisoning from ice cream, served at a party near Red Oak in Nash coun ty. Hendersonville. The probabilities are that there will be no point de bate in -the tenth congressional dis trict by Congressman J. M. Gudger, Jr., of Asheville, and Mayor R. H. Staton of Hendersonville, candidates for congress on the Democratic and Republican tickets. Gastonia. Attorney General T. W. Bickett delivered a masterful po litical address at McBradley's hall at West Gastonia, speaking for more than two hours. He cqnfined his re marks to a discussion of the . tariff question, and other issues of national importance. Gastonia. United States Senator F. M. Simmons will address the Dem ocracy of Gaston county at the court house in Gastonia Friday night, September 27, at 8 o'clock. This an nouncement is made by Thomas L. Craig, chairman of the county ex ecutive committee. SERIOUS CRISIS CONFRONTS CUBA WITH EMPTY TREASURY GOMEr AT WITS END TO MEET VAST 1 EXPENSES. THE PERILS OF DEFAULT Press Is Filled With Pessimistic Art icles Bewailing the Financial and Political Conditions. May Have to Stop Paving Work in Havana. Havana, It Is felt generally here that Cuba is approaching a crisis in its history as a republic. Two serious questions occupy the public, mind: Can Cuba survive the present state of her finances? Can she hold an hon est and orderly election for the pres idency with a loyal submission of the defeated party to the will of the ma jority. That the treasury is empty; that the last dollar of the $16,500,000 Speyer loan has been spent while the work: of sewering and paving Havana, the principal purpose for which the plaa was authorized by the United States, is not only not half finished but in danger of interruption if not of aban donment; that the government is at its wits end to find money to meet its. vast expenditures while receipts from customs and the lottery have reached their lowest point all this is asserted by the enemies of the government and most of it frankly admitted by all. Everywhere it is asked, how long can, this state of affairs continue? Last month the government default ed for the first time on the account, due to the sewering and paving con tractors for work done in July amount ing to about $420,000. The govern ment declared that it had no more money. The contractors appealed to the American legation and sufficient pressure was brought to bear to con vince the government that payment was imperative. The following day the money was forthcoming. There has been much speculation as to whether the government will be able to satisfy the claims of the con tractors due tow,ards the end of this month, but there are indications that President Gomez, realizing fully the perils of another default, has made aa extraordinary effort and will be pre pared" to meet the obligation and thusi tide over the crisis for another month. More Arrests in Dynamite Case. Boston. The fourth arrest to result from the Suffolk county grand jury in vestigation of the alleged dynamite "planting" in Lawrence, during the textile 'strike last January, occurred when William H. Rice, an East Milton quarry owner, was taken into custody. He was arrested on an indictment charging illegal transportation of dyna mite and furnished $2,000 bail. Wil liam M. Wood, president of the Amer ican Woolen Company; Frederick E. Atteaux, president of a mill supply concern, and Dennis J. Collins, a Com bridge dog fancier, are awaiting trial charged with conspiracy in the alleged illegal distribution of the evplosive. Demand Withdrawal of Forces. Washington. Immediate withdraw al of the armed forces of the United States now in Nicaragua is demanded in a circular drawn by residents of San Jose, Costa Rica, copies of which, reached this city recently. A copy of the circular has been handed the American Minister to Costa Rica but as yet he has made no report to the State Department. Officials at the department said that no Importance is to be attached to the circular. Trial of Hillsville Outlaws. Hillsville, Va. Sidna Allen and Wesley Edwards arrested a week ago in Des Moines, Iowa, after having eluded detectives for many months, found a great crowd, many from dis tant parts of the country, waiting to get a glimpse of them when they ar rived here from Roanoke under de-' tective guard. They will be arraign ed before Judge Staples in the Car roll court the scene of the shooting. Murray to Save Country Banks. New York. A ruling of great lnter et to country banks was laid down by Lawrence O. Murray, Comptroller of the Currency, in an address delivered to a gathering of national bank exam iners. On and after October 1 he de clares that in the examination of all country banks the board of directors shall be convened and that the exam ination of assets made in their pres ence. He has notified banks of this by letter and in cases where there are out-of-town directors he has been assured that steps will be taken. Agreement Signed By Trainmen. Norfolk, Va. An agreement waa signed by both sides settling the wage and other questions which have been in dispute for some weeks as between the Norfolk & Western, Chesapeake & Ohio and Virginian Railways and the trainmen of those roads, and there will be no strike. An official state ment was given out announcing the agreement but Jhe terms of the same were not made public. The trainmen were fighting for a 15 and 16 per cent wage Increase.