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-FOR GOD, FOR COUNTRY AND FOR TRUTH." Slagte Cepf. ' M' $1jC0 a Year, In Advance. VOL XXIV. ' PLYMOUTH, N. C.t FRIDAY, AUGUST 1, 1913. NO. 5. II. 9. ORDERS BO TO WE REDRESS DEMAND MOST DRASTIC THAT HAS BEEN MADE BY WILSON ADMINISTRATION. WANT SOLDIERS PUNISHED Release Is Also Demanded of Bissell and McDonald, Held by Huerta's Soldiers. y Washington. Strong representa tion's, the most drastic In phraseology that have been made since the pres ent American administration came In to power, were made to the Huerta government in Mexico. The United States government de manded not only the prompt arrest, courtmartial and punishment of the Mexican federal soldiers who shot Charles B. Dixon, an American im migration official at Juarez, Mexico, but the immediate release of Charles Bissell and Bernard ' McDonald, min ing managers, imprisoned by federal soldiers at Chihuahua City, and said to be threatened with execution. So serious were these Incidents re garded In officials circles that they overshadowed largely the theoretical considerations of policy which the visit of Ambassador Henry Lane Wil son has brought to a climax. The ambassador himself was so exercised over the developments in Mexico that he dictated two strong telegrams, one to the embassy at Mexico City and the other to the American consul at Juarez, and while Secretary Bryan slightly modified their tone, they were approved and promptly dispatched. El Paso, Texas. Charles B. Dixon, Jr., the United States immigration in spector, who was shot in Juarez by Mexican soldiers, was - released from the Juarez hospital and brought to El Paso after American Consul T. D. Edwards had made a demand for his release and for the arrest of the men -who shot him. Mexican Consul Miranda and Guil lermo Porars, former secretary of the state of Chihuahua, also interceded for the release, of Dixon, after confer ence with the United States officials, who represented to the Mexicans the grave Impressions that had been pro duced, in Washington by the news of the shooting of the inspector. HEAVY FIGHTING IN BALKANS On Eve of Peace Conference Greeks Continue to Press Bulgars. London. The Balkan peace confer ence is expected to open at Bucharest, but meantime serious fighting contin ues. . . The Greeks refused Bulgaria's re quest for even a thre edays truce and after heavy : fighting, - have ' gotten through Krefina" pass, defeating the Bulgarians at Simekle, capturing three siege guns and driving the Bulgarians back on Djuma. The Greeks claim they annihilated the whole left of the Bulgarian army and that they have forced the Bul garians back along the Struma valley, to Djuma on the Bulgarian frontier. Unless peace speedily is negotiated another great battle is likely to oc cur at Struma. No news was received of fighting on the Servian frontier, but the large numbers of wounded men arriving in Bulgaria indicate severe engagements. The concert of the powers seems as powerless as before to adopt any united action against Turky. The porte, how ever, has disavowed the action of its troops in penetrating old Bulgaria, and no further advance of Turkish troops has been reported. The Turks claim their spoils at Adrianople con sisted of . 150 guns, 50,000 rifles and 1,000,006 sacks of corn. Farm Commission Back From Europe. Washington. After six weeks spent in investigating agricultural conditions in Europe, with particular reference to farm Credits and farm co-operation, the commission appointed by President Taft, with another from the Southern Commercial congress, returned to the city of Washington. Unknown Fire Victims Interred. Binghampton, N. Y. Attended by thousands of mourners, many of them relatives or close friends of the vic tims, the funeral of the twenty-one unidentified dead, who lost their lives in the Binghampton Clothing compa ny fire, was held. ' Services were held in the opera house, clergymen of all religious dnomienations taking part in the exercises. A special trolley funeral car bore the twenty-one cas kets to Spring Forest cemetery. Fire men and policemen bore the coffins to the graves. DR. PABLO GALD0S ,v Dr. Pablo Desverlno y Galdos, the newly arrived minister from Cuba, Is a lawyer and a close personal friend of President Menocal. He is president of the National university of Cuba. . REBELLION GHG IN CHINA MARTIAL LAW IS DECLARED THROUGHOUT THE CHINESE V REPUBLIC. Great Explosion Is Indicated Sun Yat Sen Heads the Southern Revolt. " London. The Pekin correspondent of The Daily Telegraph sends the fol lowing dispatch: "The declaration of martial law here shows that the northern govern ment admits its desperate position. : This synchronizes with the creation of ! a complete confederate - government ; at Nanking. Parliament has not yet been dissolved, but it is unlikely that l it will survive. "The war news is baffling, but for eign military experts now believe the southerners are in far greater strength than has been supposed. "A private dispatch says the south erners have not been repulsed from i the Pukow railway. Reinforcements are coming daily and Kwangtung pro mises 60,000 troops, half of which are due this week. "All indications point to a great explosion in Hu-Peh province. There is a general reluctance among the merchantile classes to hazard their lives and fortunes and the iron will of the southern leaders must shortly bring all into light. "Dr. Sun Yat Sen, former provision al president, issued a manifesto ir revocably backing the rebellion. He makes three appeals, the " first to Yuan Shi Kal, recounting the south ern grievance and declaring that just resistance to intolerable tyranny is no rebellion. He concludes: 'I am determined to oppose you as firmly as I did the Manchus. Retirement is ab solutely your only course.' GUARDS DEFY THE VATICAN The Residence of Pope Pius in a Veritable State of Siege. Rome. The Vatican is in a vertable state of siege. This was the outcome of the mutiny of Swiss guards, whose demands, in form of a memorial relat ing their grievances and setting forth the' conditions on which they would remain In the service, were rejected. Three leaders r in the movement were expelled from the Vatican. Four others left and twelve have request ed leave to depart for their homes in October. Those who left were accompanied to the gates of the Vatican by their comrades. At the separation they cried: "Viva Garlibald!" Serious trouble was expected when the guards were notified that all their claims had been rejected and it had been arranged that any of the guards attempting a demonstration should, be arrested by the papal gendarmes and turned over to the Italian police for transportation to the Swiss frontier. When the reply to their memorial was read the commander and other offi cers, armed with revolvers, stood ready to suuupress any show of force. Weekly Information for Farmers. Washington. Secretary Houston announced that hereafter the depart ment of agriculture would send a weekly letter to its 35,000 townships :tad 2,800 county correspondents of the department, giving the latest ag ricultural information of value to the farmer. The letters will treat of crop conditions and prices, the dis covery of new plant or animal pests, pure food decisions and those which affect users of irrigated lands and the national forests and any other work which can benefit the fanner. CHANGES IDE IK PARCEL POST PARCEL POST CHANGES WILL TAKE EFFECT AUGUST FIFTEENTH. RATES ARE TO BE LOWER Postmaster Burlesons' Proposition Is Sanctioned by the Commerce Commission. A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A Parcel Post Regulations as L A Proposed. A A A A Maximum weight of mailable A A packages increased to 20 pounds. A A Cost of delivery of 20-pound A A package in cities and on rural A A routes, 15. cents. - A A Maximum cost, 20-pound pack- A A age carried 150 miles, 24 cents. A A Express charges for same serv- A A ice, 40 cents. A A Cost to department of hand- A A ling 20-pound package transport- A A ed 75 miles, 14 cents. Postoffice A A profit, 10 cents. Fifty-four per A A cent, of parcel post packages A A weigh under four, ounces. Thir- A A ty-four per cent, are transported A A less than 150 miles. A A A AAAAAAAAAAAA A A A Washington. Postmaster General Burleson appeared before the senate committee on postoffice and post roads to explain new regulations in the par cel post service to become effective August 15. He indicated that the serv ice will ultimately be extended to handle ioO-pound packages as demand ed by various parcel post experts in congress. The promised development .of .the parcel post service will mean the practically complete absorption of the express companies. .... Senator Hoke Smith, a' member of the committee, heartily approved the changes, and, said . Mr. Burleson, was entirely within the law in making them. Because of the great Increase in work put upon the rural letter car rier by the parcel powt service, Sena tor Smith has introduced a bill in creasing their compensation to $1,200 a year. Senator Hoke Smith, a member of the postoffice committee, has from the first sided with-the postmaster gen eral in his parcel post reform. After the hearing the senator said: "I think the order is entirely with in the authority given him by the act adopted by the last congress, and that it will greatly facilitate the use of the parcel post and lessen the cost on the people from one-third to one half." REAFFIRM MONROE DOCTRINE Resolution Aimed at Those With Whom Caucasian Will Not Assimilate. Washington. Representative Clark of Florida introduced a concurrent res olution reaffirming the Monroe doc trine. It was directed particularly' against "people with whom the Cau casian cannot and will not assimi late." "We hereby reaffirm what is known as the Monroe doctrine in each and every essential," the resolution read, "and declare our unfaltering al legiance thereto." "In reaffirming the Monroe doc trine," concludes the resolution, "we do so with the earnest desire to main tain peace and friendly relations with every nation upon earth, but we can not permit the further extension of any colonization systems of Europe an nations upon any territory of this hemisphere, and particularly shall we object to such colonization by peoples with whom the Caucasian cannot and will not assimilate." 60 Barrels of Liquor In Jail. Decatur, Ala. Sixty barrels of whis key, shiped from Chattanooga, Tenn., to various persons here, were attach ed by Sheriff R. N. McCulIough and locked in thee ounty jail here. " The sheriff met the steamer carrying the shipment before it had reached the boundaries of Morgan county. As goon as the line was crossed the sher iff made the attachment. Move Convicts Because of Riots. Ossining, N. Y. Sixty convicts the dregs of the New York criminal class were taken one by one from their cells in Sing Sing prison and placed aboard a train for the state prison at Auburn. Recent roits in Sing Sing caused the warden to take no ciiances. Each convict was heav ily handcuffed and shackled and then chained to his place in the railroad car which had been brought inside the prison enclosure. A hundred pris on guards did this work while in the state armory them ilitia waited. R0BERTH. GITTINS . i,- k- J V In (t A ll III U -Y if I Ll Mr. Glttlns, who now represents the Fortieth New York district In con gress, Is a Democrat and Uvea In Niagara Falls. : 50 GIRLS AK CREMATED THE FIRE SPREAD SO RAPIDLY THAT IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE FOR GIRLS TO ESCAPE At First It Was Thought the Alarm Was for Fire Drill and the Girls Continued at Work. , Binghampton, N. Y. Fifty persons were killed, and as many injured, a dozen or more fatally, in a fire which swept the four-story factory building of the Binijamtgn Clothing company. The vicfitoiSJvvere chiefly women and girls. Tw5ty-two bodiel have been recovered. " In the city hospital and In private institutions are thirty injured. Some two s,ore persons are known to have escaped', as if by a miracle, from the building, which burst into flame like a tinderbox and became a roaring furnace almost in no time after the first alarm was souuded. Around the scene of the catastro phe, the greatest this city has ever known, thousands watched the res cuers work in the glare of three big searchlights, many in the great throng being restrained only by the closely drawn police line from rushing into the ruins to seek the bodies of rela stive or friends. As the ' ruins were cooled slightly, from time to time in a spot upon which the streams were centered, men went forward to dig as long as human endurance would allow; them to work. Occasionally a body was t found MAY INVOLVE THE POWERS Action of Turkey in Reoccupying Ter ritory Threatens War. London. The European concert is faced by a most delicate and difficult suitation, requiring the exercise of the utmost diplomatic tact, if Europe is not to be plunged Into a general war by the Turkish reoccupation of Adrianople and Kirk Kilisseh. Burgaria, helpless, sees the fruits of her dearly won victories snatched from her hand, and, while negotia tions for an armistice are proceeding in a leisurely manner at Nlsh, the Greeks and Servians continue to push their advantage. The official announcement made at Constantinople that- the Turkish troops had reoccupied Adrianople created the worst possible Impression in diplomatic circles, and the powers immediately began an exchange of views to find the best means of check mating Turkey's action. South Carolina Detached. Washington. President Wilson has issued an executive order that the state of South Carolina, now a part of the"fourth internal revenue district of North Carolina, be detached and here after constitute one collection district to be known as the district of South Carolina. Carnegie's Bomb Just Juicy Cheese. Nek York. The mystery of the bomb sent to Andrew Carnegie in care of the seecretary of the Carnegie corporation was solved. It was a juicy cheese inclosed an smell-proof case of zinc, a Scotch cheese, according to an expert called Into conference after the bureau hadvefe finitely determined that the bomb contained neither nitro glycerin, dynamite or other deadly ex plosives. On a vacant lot officials of the bureau of combustibles fired four bullets from a safe distance through the box before they opened it. ADVISES WILSUII TO TAKE A REST . I i POLITE WAY TELLING MEXICAN , AMBASSADOR SERVICES NO LONGER NEEDED. i 1 i 5 IS TOO CLOSE TO HUERTA President and Ambassador biffer on the Mexican Situation. Holds Con ference With Secretary Bryan. May Spare Necessity of Mediation. Washlngtn. Ambassador Henry Lane Wilson, summoned from Mex ico City to inform the Washington ad ministration of conditions in the rebellion-torn republic, talk for an hour with President Wilson and Secre tary Bryan, submitting chiefly a rec ommendation that the United States use its influence to stabilize the Huer ta regime. .." "No policy was evolved at least none was announced, but it became known that the President's ideas and those of Ambassador Wilson's as to the course to be pursued are 30 rad ically different -'that Administration officials interpreted the day's "devel opments as forecasting the accep tance of Ambassador Wilson's resig nation. . President Wilson and the Ambas sador regard the future of the Mexi can situation, it was learned from op posite viewpoints. The President is concerned over the morality of any. policy adopted by the United States and its effect on other Latin-American countries and Is disciplined to strengthen a Government that came into power through the questionable events incident to Madero's assassina tion. Ambassador Wilson, on the other hand, is dispbsed to look at the sit uation, not from past events, but with the practical idea of the future. He believes it is the business of the Government to look to the future and his suggestions have been in the di rection of extending things to con serve American interests. The inad visability from a diplomatic stand point of maintaining In Mexico City a representative who would not be sympathetic with the purpose of the Wilson Administration In Washington is said to have practically convinced the President that the Embassy ; in Mexico City had better be conducted for the present by Nelson O'Shaugh nessy, its first secretary, reputed here as efficient and experienced. Popular Election of Senator. Washington. The senate receiveo. its first notification of the election of a senator by vote of tfte'people since the adoption of the 17th amendment to the constitution. Governor Slaton of Georgia certified to the election of Augustus Octavius Bacon, now a member of the senate. Later Senator Hoke Smith of Georgia escorted Sena tor Bacon to the. rostrum where he took the oath as , the first United States senator elected by direct vote of the people ... Potato Tuber Moth A Menace. Wastington. Warnings against a pest that threatens every dinner table in the land was issued by the depart ment of agriculture against the potato- tuber moth which is working havoc with the potato crop in numerous parts of the country and whose rav ages threaten to prevent the planting of the vegetable in many places for the winter supply. The pest Is espe cially prevalant in California and Tex as, the department reports. Raise Funds For Chinese Revolution. New York. Nine Chinese business men of New York are on their way to. Boston, Chicago and other cities to raise money for the support of the revolutionary party in China. It was said thaat similar action had been taken among the Chinese in San Francisco, who were sending out men to raise money among the Chinese residents of Western cities. Off For Arctic Region. ! Teller, Port Clarence, Alaska. Vilhjalmar Stefanson's Canadian Po lar exploration expedition which will spend three years in 'scientifc re search work in the Arctic, set out for its destination when the old whaler Karluk sailed from Port Clarence Bay. The Karluk was accompanied by the gasoline schooner Mary Sacha. The powerboat Alaska, which will be used by Dr. R. MAnderson's south ern party, remained at Port Clarence to complete repairs and probably will not leave for several days. NEWS Or NORTH CAROLINA r Short Paragraphs of State News That Has Been Condensed For Busy People of State. Scotland Neck. T. W. Russell ha Jeen awarded the contract to. build the new postoffice building on Main jtreet and will begin work as soon as ae can get the material on the ground. Mr. Russell says he expects to have" it sompleted by the first of October. Burlington. F. L. Williamson, the recently appointed postmaster of this sity, has received his commission and has entered upon the duties of his of fice. C. H. Gates will be the assistant postmaster and Robert .Riddle has been added to the clerical force. Charlotte. The report of Dr. F. O. Hawley, superintendent of the city and Mrs. W. O. Bibble,. city biologist, of water taken from the city water supply, the samples being taken from the pipes July 22, 23 and 24, shows that the water was well purified me chanically and biologlcaliy,being free from the colon group of bacteria and containing a very small count of total bacteria per jubic centimeter. High Point. Gertrude Johnson, the colored woman who stabbed Hattie Hearn through the heart -with a pair of scissors has been eent to jail to await tne action or tne uunrora coun ty grand jury. The altercation , took place on a back street and there was much conflicting testimony and about the only thing certain was that ' the dead woman came to" her death by the scissors in the hand, of -he pris oner. ' j "Salisbury. R. O. Kizer, superinten dent of public instruction for Rowan county, is now . visiting the. various school committees, advising with them as to .-the election of teachers for the approaching school term, of the 14 townships four have chosen teachers and 10 others will do so as soon as the details can be arranged and meetings 4e held with the , coun ty superintendent. Charlotte. In speaking" of the pro posed co-operative creamery which la being planned at Cornelius, Mr. R. W. Graeber, county demonstration agent for Mecklenburg stated that fine pre press was being made and that some 200 cows were on the list as producers of the raw material with about 150 more needed.: He was of the opinion that the others would be' secured in the near future. , Monroe. The Union county branch of the State Just Freight Rate Asso ciation was formed here recently with S. 0. Blair, president; T. P. Dil lon, vice president and V. G. Herndon, secretary and treasurer. This action was taken following strong speeches by E. R. Preston and W. S. Crelghton of Charlotte, who, before a large audi ence, summed up the losses to the state from discrminatory rates. vRaleigh. The constitutional com mission, which completed its work July 17 and made its report July 18 to Governor Locke Craig, has been issued. It is in pamphlet form and will be sent to people over .the state with a viewj.to acquainting them with the work pf-'the 'commission and giv ing them an opportunity to vote in telligently upon such matters as are treated If the-get by. the genera! assembly. The printing Is done by Uazell & Company, of ,: Raleigh. Washington. George W. Waters was recently recommended for post master by Representative Small, as a result of a .Democratic preferential primary held" Itfiere recently. Mr, Small has- returned afer a week's visit to hi, home. The nominations of the followjtfg postmasters were con firmed by jthe. senate: -A. C. Link Hickory; lTT." Sumner, Ahoskie; - D." Earl Best, Warsa'w; John F. Saun ders, Troy;. Daniel -Lv WIndley, Bel haven. ' - " Durham. The board of health met in adjourned session and elected Dr S, Spaulding Stirrett meat and mllS inspector. He will take charge of hii new duties in Durham on or before August 1. He is now located in Char lotte and comes1 to Durham highly recommended. He has had practical experience in the management ol dairies and has also been connected with some of the best markets of the country. Greensboro. R. T. Amos, of High Point, has brought suit against the Southern Railway Company for $l,00fl damage sto his automobile and $1,000 additional as punitive damages on ac count of the collision of a frieght en gine with his car in High Point a few weeks ago. Greensboro. "I want to see the teachers of North Carolina become Afffictivft leaders in the communities In which they live," remarked Presf dent Foust of the Normal College, it announcing the close of the sunaxnei , session and the Home Makers an! Rural School Conference.