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THE CHATHAM RECORD H. A. LONDON, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR Terms of Subscription $1.50 Per Year Strictly in Advance THE CHATHAM RECORD Rates of Advertising On Squart, on msWtie On Square, two mTtkxm ; CLO OnSquare, one montk x C SO For Larger Advertisements Liberal Contracts v&i bamsdc VOL. XXXV. PITTSBORCX CHATHAM COUNTY; N -C. AUGUST 6. 1913. NO. 52. BRIEF NEWS NOTES FOR THE BUSY MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS OP THE PAST WEEK TOLD IN CONDENSED FORM. WORLD'S NEWS EPITOMIZED Complete Review of Happenings of Greatest Interest From All . Parts of World. Southern. Federal Judge Grubb at Birmingham, Ala., fined the Southern -' Wholesale Grocers' Association $2,500 for con tempt of court in violating a decree issued in 1911, commanding the or ganization to abide by federal auti trust laws. President J. H. McLaurin of Jacksonville, Fla., was fined $1,000. H. Lacey Hunt of Wilmington, N. C, and L. A. Melchers of Charleston, S. C, were fined $1,000 each and the costs were assessed against the cor poration and the three individual de fendants according to costs of their respective witnesses. Various freaks were played by light ning during a thunder storm in Phoe nix City, Ala. A horse was standing hitched in the street and lightning struck the cross bar of the shafts and reduced it to splinters, the ani mal not being injured in" the slightest. Mrs. G. H. Clardy was lifting the lid from a rice boiler when lightning came along and rendered assistance, by (knocking it from her hand. Her arm was numb for some time, but her in jury was not serious. Various peo ple were shocked, but no seriously in jured. S. U. G. Rhodes, member of the llower branch of the West Virginia leg islature, accused of accepting a bribe in connection with the recent contest for United States senator from West Virginia, was found guilty. He is the lourth of seven legislators to be tried for bribery growing out of the senar torial campaign. State Senator Ben A. Smith and Delegates Rath l)uff and Dr. H. F. Asbury have been convicted and are now awaiting sentence. General Stroud sburg, ' Pa.',' and the Delaware Gap were the center of a storm which is said to be unprecedented in this section of the state. Seven and one half inches of rain fell. No lives have been reported lost. Five men were fatally burned and eighteen others dangerously hurt in a dust explosion at Jackson Hill No. 2 mine, 3 miles east of Hymera, Ind. It is believed the dust was fired by a "windy" shot. The mine property was heavily damaged. Rescuers brought out all the injured miners. The allies in demands presented to the Bucharest peace conference proposing the establishment of fron tier, standing east from the Struma river, running midway through Rou mania and reaching the Aegean sea 15 miles west of Dedeagatch. This would leave Bulgaria a coast line on the Aegean sea of less than thirty miles. Bulgaria will issue from the two wars in a little larger than when she entered into them, but she will have to abandon 1 a large amount of terirtory to "Roumania. During a severe electrical -storm at Winnipeg, Manitoba, a herd of eighty elephants with a circus showing there, broke loose, wrecked half of the cir cus tents and thousands of seats, damaged a number of small buildings and caused a panic in the neighbor hood. The elephants were captured several times, only to break their bonds again. Trainers with iron bars and pitchforks at length subdued them. No other animals escaped. Oneman was killed and 146 passen gers and trainmen were injured, only one dangerously, when a fast express crashed into the rear-end of a passen ger train on the "'Pennsylvania rail road at Tyrone, 15 miles east of the city. All of ' the injured., ..excepting eleven, who were being cared for in the Altoona hospitals, were able to continue their journey. Both trains were of steel construction, and this is believed to explain the fact that there were not more casualties. Two are dead, six will die, according to attending physicians, one other is prorbably fatally burned and eleven others are seriously injured, as the result of a motorcycle accident at the Lagoon motordrome, across the river from Cincinnati. Odin Johnson of Salt Lake City, captain of the Cincinnati team, who was contesting at the motordrome, for some reason that will probably remain 'unknown, drove his cycle to the extreme top of the cir cular track, crashed into an electric light pole, broke it off and the con tact of the live wire with his machine exploded the gasoline tank, throwing the burning fluid over a score of spec tators. The first bale of cotton from the crop of the year 1913 was taken to Albany, Georgia, by Frank Thomas, one of the negro farmers in Dougherty county of that state. The cotton had not been ginned, but was hurried to one of the Albany public ginneries, which immediately made ready to gin and press it. The bale was carried to A. W. Muse & Go's warehouse, where a score or more of cotton men and .many merchants went to see it sam pled. It will be sold and shipped. Dougherty county is the home of I)eal Jackson, another negro, 1 who has a rat-bale reDutation nation-wide. MM Mid-summer heat, bringing to many cities temperatures as high as 106 and making the 100 degree mark common over wide areas, extended throughout the central states. General described the heat wave extended from the Rocky mountains to the Atlantic coast, but the mxaimum temperatures were reported from points between Kansas and Ohio. Former Speaker Joseph G. Cannon's automobile plunged down a steep bank and alighted right side up in a small lake in Spring Hill cemetery near Dan ville, 111. At a sharp bend in the roadway along the lake bank his chauf feur missed the brake with his foot, and the car leaped off the ten foot bank. The water was shallow, and the passengers easily waded to the shore. Neither Mr. Cannon nor his daughter were hurt. " Gems valued' at $70,000 including a rope of pearls worth $60,000 were stol en from the home of C. C. Rumsey at Narragansett Pier. Mrs. Rumsey was a daughter of the late E. H. Harriman. The rope of pearls was given to Mrs. Rumsey by her mother and had a sentimental value far in excess of its intrinsic worth. Other jewels stolen included the following: Ruby and pearl pendant, gold pin set with mag nificent ruby solitaire, diamond brooch and gold metal bag. Didier Massen, from his big biplane, dropped bombs around the gunboat Tampico, lying in Guymas. harbor, in Mexico. Four bombs were dropped, one striking within a few feet of the fed eral gunboat. , This probably gave rise to the report that the boat had been struck. The French aviator op erated under heavy fire as he circled over the town and bay, but returned unharmed. The Southern Pacific of Mexico railway is being operated by the insurgents as far as San Bias. Washington News of the apearance in Venezuela, of ex-President Cipriano Castro, after his five years' exile, caused something of a sensation at the state depart ment at Washington. For the past five years the department has been keeping Castro under surveillance to prevent his returning to Venezuela, which country has been enjoying . a period of unwonted prosperity and quiet since his retirement. The United States government lsxonly represented in Venezuela at present by a legation clerk. Secretary McAdoo prepared to dis tribute twenty-five to fifty millions of dollar of government funds m the ag ricultural regions of the South and West. The secretary is collecting in formation as to the relative needs ot each section where harvesting is now under way or soon to begin, and ex pects to have the money in the banks in ample time for the movement of the crops. Treasury officials were confi dent that the secretarys' plan would be a powerful factor in averting or re lieving the prospective tightness of money. Consideration of the American cur rency bill was practically concluded by the Democrats of the house bank ing and currency committee after more than five weeks of constant and stormy discussion. The bill has been ordered closed and reported. It will go to the caucus with only the dis approval of three members of the com mittee. Ambassador Henry Lane Wilson's conference with members of the sen ate committee on foreign relations re sulted in stronger support for hi3 plan to recognize the Huerta govern ment in Mexieo than he has received at any time since he reached Wash ington. After three hours' question ing of the ambassador, many members of the senate committee expressed the opinion that serious consideration should be given to his recommenda tions. Like a giant flail, a cyclonic storm of wind, rain and hail whipped back and forth across the nation's capital, leaving death and ruin in its wake. Three dead, scores injured and hun dreds of thousands of dollars' worth of property destroyed, was the toll re corded in the hurried canvass made when the city aroused itself from half an hour of helplessness in the grasp of the elements. Out of a blazing sky, under which the city was swelter ing with the temperature at 100 de grees, came the storm, roaring from the north, driving a mass of clouds that cast a mantle of darkness over the city. Prof. Charles F. Marvin Nhas been selected for chief of the weather bu reau to succeed Willis L. Moore, re cently removed. Professor Marvin Is now chief of the instrument division. He was appointed to the old signal service in 1884 from Ohio. President- Wilson sent his nomination to the sen ate. Professor Marvin was born at Columbus, Ohio, and was educated in the public schools there and at the Ohio State university. He became the head of the instrument division of the bureau in 1888. He was recommend ed by the National Academy of Sciences. Secretary McAdoo issued a state ment flatly charging that the decline of government 2 per cent, bonds to 95 1-2 a new low record was due "al most wholly to what appears to be a campaign waged with every indication of concerted action on the part of a number of influential New York City banks to cause apprehension and un easiness about these bonds in order to help them in their efforts to de feat the currency bill." Banks through out the country own almost entirely $730,882,130 of the 2 per cents. Their market value was less than when the banks bouehtthem. DEADLY CA AGAINST NORTH CAROLINA HEALTH AUTH ORITIES PROFIT BY RANKIN'S PANAMA VISIT. PROPOSED LINE OF WORK The 60,000 Cases of Malarial Fever Annually In State to Be Reduced. Dr Rankin Tells of Clever Method of Eradication. " Raleigh. With 60,000 cases of mal arial fever annually ' and with 600 deaths as the consequence . in North Carolina, Dr. W. S. Rankin's, Secre tary of the State Board of Health, visit to Panama notes observations or the deadly methods or eradication or the disease breeder, the mosquito, in the Panama zone. He talks of his ob servations with definiteness in ascer taining pointers to make war in North Carolina on the five hundred va: Vieties of mosquitoes that inhabit the state as disease breeders. Of his ob servations the Secretary ot the Board of 'Health gave out the following inter view.: ' . -"The principal difference in public health work in the temperate zones and in the tropics has to do with the mosquito, as it is now a thoroughly established fact that the mosquito is responsible for two very important diseases malaria ud yellow fever. These two diseases are distinctly tropical diseases, and, excepting sleeps ing sickness, which is limited practi cally . to Africa, constitute the prob lem of purely tropical medicine. Ma laria, however, is not limited to the tropics, there being about 15,000v deaths a year in the Southern States from the disease; in North Carolina there are about 600 deaths a year and about 60,000 cases of the disease. This last fact makes the work in erad icating the mosquito from the tropics of interest to those concerned in im proving health conditions in North Carolina. x ' - Can Davidson -County Be Bought. Lee Ford was arraigned In superior court for the killing of Policeman Garland in Lexington April 4 of this year. ' Solicitor Bowen created a sen sation by moving that a iury - bf drawn from another county produc ing affidavits from prominent citizens" of Davidson stating that twenty-five or thirty per cent of the citizens whose names are in the jury box may be bought and sold and they did not believe that the state could get a fair deal.. Not admitting the truth of the allegations contained in the affidav its the defense offered no serious ob jection and Judge Shaw ordered that the venire of thirty-five be dra"wn from Forsyth county. Finish Grading Examination Papers. The state board of examiners has just completed the grading oft the ex amination papers of he teachers who recently stood the examinations in the various counties for the high school teacher's certificate and five-year state certificate. The teachers -who were JsucceisSul will be announced very soon now. It is a notable fact that pi the 70-odd persons who undertook the examination for the five-year certifi cate only 18 were successful. There were 125 teachers who took the exam ination for the high school teachers' certificate. A much larger per cent of these passed than passed the exami nation for five-year certificates. The Election Date Has Been Fixed. September 9 has been the date set aside by Governor wCraig for the hold ing of special elections throughout the state to fill vacancies in the Gen eral Assembly. Mecklenburg county at this time will be called upon to elect a successor to William G. Mc Laughlin .deceased. There are var ious vacancies over the state that will also have to be filled at this time. This is for the special session of the General Assembly that has been call ed to meet September 26. Vote Bonds For Good Roads. Greenville township voted between eighty and one hundred majority in favor of a bond issue Tor $50,000 good road bonds for the improvement of roads in this township of Pitt coun ty. Out of a registration of 893, a few less than 675 voters were polled in the election. The only danger of the bond issue failing -was in the difficulty in getting out the county : voter All of the total registration names 'who did not vote at all coup ted against the issue, but the advocates of " the issue overcame all of this. v Hookworm Campaign in Rowan. The hookworm campaign is now in progress in Rowan and the work is well under way. The representa tives of the state board of health ,Dr, G. F. Leonard and Mr. W. C. "Jenkins were atWoodleaf for the second time. The specialists state that a remark ably low percentage of infected cases have been found Tin Rowan as . com pared with other counties. Out of 281"examinations only - 28 persons were found to-be infected. A Jarge per cent of these were giv.n free treatment. MOSQUITO THE FARM-LIFE SCHOOLS Representatives From Several Wake County Schools Discuss Proposi - tion With Education Board. Raleigh. Representatives from the several competing sections - of " the country met with the board of educa tion to discuss the larm-life school prposition. Two such schools are tc be located . in the county, and. the more progressive sections of the coun ty are competing for them in a lively fashion. ' - -: - ''. ' .-' . .-. Chief among the bidders are Apex, Cary, Wendell and Kakelon. Others are expected to enter the race. At - the meeting the . minimum re quirements were diseussed.'-As stated by the boards these requirements ,are generally as follows:. . V To be eligible a school must be a public high school, or a school doing the prescribed amount of high school work. The school must offer suitable recitation rooms for the purposes of domestic science and agriculture. . For laboratories, tljere must be, for the agricultural department, a mini mum floor space of 6u0 square feet, and the domestic science work requir ed two rooms, with au aggregate floor space of not less than 500 square feet. Each competing district must in sure sufficient dormitory space and reasonable boarding i-ates to make the farm life school economical as well as comfortable. The minimum land requirement la fifteen acres. The law calls for arable land, and that means land that can really be used for farming purposes. If a school already has over four acre3 of land, it may include all over that amount in the fifteen acres. Suf ficient stock and barn room must be provided by the district. Bids must be. submitted in writing on Monday, August 25 and no bid will be received later than that date. The board will consider Qe bids and , in spect the sites and the final decision as to the two locations will be giveo on Monday. September 1. Washington Must Pay Full Taxes. The corporation commission issued a peremptory order for the commis sioners of Washington county to re store the real estate tax assessment valuations that were assessed in 1911 and which were arbitrarily reduced 20 per cent or more by the commission ers in 1912 on the ground that the assessments in Washington county were on a higher basis than " the as sessment in the surrounding counties. The corporation commission insists that the Washington commissioners had no right to make the reduction except through appeal to the state commission of the corporation com mission. The reductions made by the Washington commissioners - re duced the state taxes from Washing ton in the sum of $1,000. and the state is demanding that this amount be included in the settlement for the 1912 taxes. Sheriff Captures Desperate Negro. Following upon a series of crimes- and adventures, among the most not table that of beating unmercifully the high sheriff of Orange county,, who was attempting to jail him on the charge of highway robbery. Arthur Hall, a desperate negro of . Hilisboro township, Orange' county, was put in the clutches of the law by Deputy Sheriff J. J. Harward, of Wake county. The negro was wanted in Orange county under indictment for robbery and the Durham authorities lodged a charge against him on a similar of fense ,and Sheriff John F. Harward, of Durham county was at Raleigh and carried the desperate character back with him to Durham. North Carolina v New Enterprises. Two certificates ; of incorporation were filed at the secretary of state's office. Lewis . D .Giddens Company of Wilson was chartered to manufacture and sell the Lewis D. Giddens pro gramme clock, watches and jewelry; authorized capital, . $100,000, with $5, 000 subscribed by Frank M. Miller, B. E. Haward, J. B. Barnes, L. T. Dildy, S. W. Richardson and Lewis D. Gid dens of Wilson. , The Carolina Coast Products Company' of Southport, to engage in fish products; capital stock $200,000, with $5000 subscribed by J. T. Bussells, Irving B. Bussells, W. H. Pyke of Southport, George F. Meares and Iredell Meares of Wilmington. Ask Leniency for W. E. Breese. Senator Overman and . Representa tives Gudger and Doughton called on the president to ask again for leni ency toward W. E. Breese. Sr., the Asheville banker who is awaiting sen tence for irregularities in bank trans actions in that city. The North Caro linians found that the President has nov Intention of interfering with the carrying out of the law in the case, but that he may allow Breese to serve his sentence in a county jail instead of the federal penitentiary, if that will be any convenience to him. - v . - Rush Work on Catawba Warehouse. At the quarterly meeting of the Ca tawba county Farniers'. Union it was decided to go to' work on the union warehouse to be built in North New ton by the. unions of the county. The building will-be of brick and will be a handsome structure. It is hoped to have the building ready for use when the fall crop of cotton comes on. Messrs. J. Y. Killian, G..A. Arndt and J. A. . Propst were- elected delegates and Messrs. W. L. Cline and L. H. Fisher, alternates to the state union meeting.' LI THIS IS WHAT THE RAILROADS RUNNING IN THIS STATE CLAIM. WILL SOON MAKE REPORT Some Surprise That. Corporation Com mission Does Not Accept the Propo sition as It Now Stands. Railroads Have Made 20 Per. Cent Reduction. Charlotte. The next 'few days will see the report of the corporation com mission on its final conference with the railroad traffic managers as to concessions to North . Carolina ship pers in interstate freight rates com pleted and filed , with Governor Craig to the end that he and the members of the legislative freight rate commis sion may determine as to whether they will recommend the adoption of the reductions proposed by the rail road officials or carry the fight into the special session of the legislature inthe hope oi iorclng the railroads to grant the full demands of the state In view of the fact that the' conces sions made by the railroad officials are very close to the demands made ' by the corporation commission and ,other state authorities there is some sur orise being expressed that the corpor ation commission does not come out squarely with a recommendation that the proposition be accepted. The state's demand w.as for 25 per cent reduction and the railroad companies propose as much as 28 per cent reduc tion on some of the most handled classes of freight and the average is said to be very close to the 25 per cent. In fact It is learned that the only classes of freight In iwhich the rail roads have not come to or very close to the demands of the state authorities are those on shipments of liquors and flour in wooden barrels. The railrad authorities assert that they have made all the concessions that , can be made without upsetting the whole Southern scheme of freight rates and the reductions proposed will entail reductions in Tennessee, South Carolina and Georgia, and reductions to some Virginia points close to the North Carolina line. : Fell From Train and Is Injured. Fayetteville. Troy Guy a young man of Hope Mills fell from a moving freight train on the Atlantic Coast Line near the trestle this side if De Mills sustaining serious, if noi ,tal injuries. Guy had come to Fayette ville in the morning, and had missed both passenger trains" by which he might have returned home in the af ternoon. Catching a freight he climb ed to the roof of a box car. As the train neared Hope Mills the young man started down the side ladder but a brakeman waved himback and he reascended to the top of the car. 'a 'few moments later a number of his townspeople saw him roll from the roof of the car. 1 Disastrous Fire At Statesvilte. Statesville. Fire of unknown origin gutted the plant qf the Steele Hosiery 'Mill here entailing a loss of several thousand dollars and throwing about 60 people put of employment. The plant shut down for one week .to give the employes their annual week's va cation, and there was no one in the building when the fire started. Per- .sons passing along the street iwere at tracted by smoke coming from around the closed doors and windows and', looking inside, saw that there was much fire on the first floor of the building. To Wtihhold Payment on Court House Salisbury. The Ro-wan county com missioners have deciaed to withhold August payments on the new courj house, now in course of erection, un til discolored -stone and othw mate rial in the structure is removed. The contractors have received about half of the price" for the erection of the building, which is to cost $111,000. Work on the buildinj will be con tinued ,until it is completed. To Have Home Seekers' Convention. Asheville. The movement which was started by the Greater West ern North . Carolina Association, several months ago, looking to the se curing of colonists' rates from the Western' states into this section of North Carolina after the Southern States have for years sent people to the West, promises to bear fruit soon; according to a . statement made by Manager Sandford Cohen. Col. Cohen stated that the Southern Railway had agreed to run homeseekers excur sions into western "Carolina. Recent Rains Have Helped Crops. . Klnston. Reports from various sec tions of Wayne Duplin, Onslow and Jones counties concerning crop condi tions are that there is a general im provement as a result of the heavy rains of the past two weeks. Corn is in excellent shape' throughout : the section. Between the rains there has been sufficient hot dry weather to im prove the stand of cotton, although the staple has not fully recovered from the backsets encountered early in the growing season. Tobacco is im proving In quality. 1 ' LAND OF THE LONG LEAF PINE Latest News of General Interest. That . Has, Been Collected From Many ' Town 8 and Counties. Spencer. Effective recently, Mr. J. D. Carroll, a well-known employe of the : Southern- Railway nere, is em ployed as field agent of the Spencer Labor Day "commltttrts. - Benson. At an election here re cently the" citizens of Benson voted a bond issue of $25,000 for electric lights and street improvements. The bonds will be issued in the near fu ture. - . . ,' Raleigh. The corporation commis sion heard a petition for a Union sta tion for Lumberton. The railroads, that enW Lumberton yare the Raleigh and Charleston, the Virginia, Carolina and Southern and the Seaboard. . Troutman. The c&tton warehouse at the Monbo Mills, just across the Catawba river from herer was struck by lightning and together with its contents was burned. 'Just how much cotton was stored in the building could not be learned at present. Columbus. The Polk county board of education has selected E. W. S. Cobb as county superintendent of pub lic Instruction. Mr. Cobb Is a gradu ate, of the UniveVsity of North Caro lina,' and has for the past three years been principal of the state high school here. Newbern. Reports have just reach ed here of a sensation created at Morehead City when E. H. Gorham, mayor of the town, in company with several officers made a raid on the Atlantic City hotel and confiscated a quantity of whiskey which was stored therein. - Raleigh. A requisition was Issued by Governor Craig for Charles Aus tin, ' a negro' from Franklin county, who was sentenced In 1904 to 30 years In the penitentiary and escaped after serving only five months. He has been located at Newark, N. J., and Warden Sales of the state prison has gone to New Jersey for him. Greensboro. In municipal court recently,- Isaac Jeffries a negro who had gained some notoriety as a "blind tiger" detective was found guil ty of the larceny c-a toy pistol and sentenced to seven months on the county roads. The trial was held a week or more ago, but the court had reserved its judgment. Goldsboro.-r-Officers "In this city are searching for Herbert Boyett, a negro man who shot and" instantly killed, so it Is alleged, another negro in this city several days ago. The killing oc curred in the southern part of the pity while the murdered negro James Bell, in company with several other negroes, were attending to the burn ing of a kiln. Washington, D. C. Two presiden tial postoffices in North Carolina will for the first time become savings de positories on September 2, when all presidential offices will be made de positories by. order. oi the postmaster general. In the whole, country 174 of fices are affected. Those in North Carolina are Mount Airy and East Durham. Durham. A fire in one of the mill houses at -Pearl MiU completely de stroyed the property. No one was liv ing in the house at the time, and the owners have offered the opinion that the fire was the work of an . incendi ary. This makes the fourth fire that has occurred In this section during the past year, and all of them have had the ear-marks of a firebug's work. Asheville. In accordance with the act providing for the registration oi vital statistics, which vas passed at the last general assembly, Chairman N. A. Reynolds, of the board of coun ty commissioners of Buncombe, is naming, men in each township of the county tq register and report births and deaths in the county lists of which will be forwarded each month to the bureau of .vital statistics at Raleigh. Scotland Neck. Those having the matter in hand say an inspection of the records of the various express of fices here shows that the people In this region are keeping ' within the limits of the law In the shipments of liquor since the raid on the "blind tigers" a few weeks ago. It is said the law will be rigidly enforced and those found receiving more than the law prescribes will be promptly dealt with. Y Kinston. The absence of all from home was fortunate for the family of Fred Isley a negro farm tenant of this county, when during a w.Ind, rain and electric storm a large oak tree was uprooted and crashed down upon their two-room cabin, totally demolish ing it. . . ' I ' High Point. Arrangements are about completed for beginning work on the, new fifty thousand dollar church for the congregation of the Washington Street M. E. church. Bids will be opened soon and it is expect ed that work will begin within a month. ' Raleigh. .Electric pump3 have been selected by the Raleigh city commis sioners ''for pumping the water from the intake of the water plant on Wal nut creek to the settling basin'' and filtering plant what the water works management calls the crude water. .. , Monroe. A 'heavy wind and elec tric storm, accompanied by a heavy downpour of rain passed ovef s small area of Union county. The cloud was dangerous-looking and ap peared as , though it would bring . a general rain, but traversed a harrow strip across the county after the na ture of a cyclone. ' . PEACEFUL PROGRAM TOWARD MEXICANS BELIEVED WILSON IS EVOLVING ' POLICY OF FRIENDLY NON- . v . INTERFERENCE. - TO HEAR BOTH SIDES FIRST President in Conference With Mem bers of the House Military Affairs 'Committee ' Discouraged Idea. Vf. Making Plans For Volunteer Army. Washington. While President Wil son has not yet announced the policy which he thinks the American govern ment ought to pursue toward Mexico there is every reason to believe he is evolving a plan of n'on-interference in the internal affairs of the Southern republic. . Two incidents emphasized the trend of affairs toward an attitude of friend-" ly non-interference. It became known that, the President in conferencewith members of the house military affairs committee had discouraged the idea of making preparations for a - volunteer army; Likewise Secretary Bryan's re quest ,for an appropriation of $100,000 with which to transport destitute Americans from Mexico in emergen cies developed a feeling in official cir cles that the American government would ' endeavor in any crisis to re move Americans expeditiously from the trouble zones. This procedure. It is felt, would minimize the chances for international difficulty as any destruction of prop erty would' be cared for through in demnification and there is every indi cation incidentally that the Wilson ad ministration will pursue a vigorous policy toward - recovering damages to foreign property, in Mexico.' With Americans out of. Mexico, or at - least out of those parts where chaos may develop, the Unite'd States government would feel less respon siblity for the progress . of events there and would ' assume the role of an observer rather than a participant, the latter position being one Which, despite strong efforts from- many quarters, it is fairly well determined President Wilson will not counte nance. - .,, . Eighteen Killed in Mine Explosion. ' Tower City, Pa. Eighteen men were killed and two seriously injured in a double explosion in the East Brookside mine of tne Philadelphia Reading Coal & Iron Company, near here, by a double explosion of what is believed to have been dynamite and gas. Thirteen men died in the first explosion and five met death in the second blast after an heroic attempt to rescue the first ricitims. One of the rescuers escaped. It is not known exactly what ' caused the explosions, but the' miners at the colliery are In clined to the belief that the first ex plosion was that of dynamite.' Anxiety Over Castro Uprising. Washington. Cipriano Castro's re turn to Venezuela, followed by dis-' patches of his seizure of officials of the Gomez government at Coro, pre- ' sents to the state department another . Latin-American . puzzle anything but -a welcome addition to those already Y pending. While Secretary Bryan de- -cllned absolutely to outline the atti tude of the United States toward Cas tro, -the day's developments made It evident that the United States was getting in touch "with the situation. ' Wagner Confesses to Robbery. Denver, Colo. Postoffice inspectors here announced that Charles I. Wag ner, a mail carrier at Hachita, N. M., had confessed that he was the man who robbed the mail carried by him self, thus solving a mystery that has' puzzled federal authorities for weeks. Wagner also confessed that he shot himself through the arm to give color to-his story that he was held up by two Mexicans. The government had sent a squad of soldiers on the trail of the supposed highwaymen. Wants One Cent Postage. Washington. One cent postage ra ther than reduced parcel post rates was the plea of Senator Bryan In a speech in defense of his opposition to Postmaster Genera Burleson's or ders reducing parcel post rates in the first and second zones on August 15. "If. we lose over seven . cents a pound In the transportation of magazines and newspapers how can we expect to make a profit in transportation of merchandise which is liable to be much more bulky and expensive?" he asked.. - . Currency Fight Is On. Washington. Representative Rags dale, of South Carolina, one of the so-called insurgent Democratic lead ers of the house banking committee, opposed to. the administration- cur rency bill, declared that "no rushing: tactics" would be tolerated when the bill comes .up in the caucus August 11. "They had better not try any rushing 'tactics " unless they wish to precipitate an open division ' among the Democrats." The commitee will meet to take a formal vote on refer ring the bill to the party caucus i -1
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