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VOL. 8, NO. 42, SEMI-W madero and shot m v ft m* i Deposed President and Vice President of Mexico Slain Er Route to Penitentiary? Huerta Demands Instant In? vestigation. Mexico City, Feb. 23.?Francisco I. Madero and Jose Pine Suarez are dead. In a midnight ride under guard from the national palace to the penitentiary they were killed. The circumstances surrounding the death o the deposed President and Vice President of the republic are unknown, except as given in official accounts, which do not in all cases conform. The only witnesses were those actually concerned in the killing. The provisional President, Gen. VictorianoHuerta, says the killing of the two men was incidental to a fight between their guard and a party attempting to liberate them. The minister of foreign relations, Francisco _ de la Barra, adds that the oris oners attempted to escape, Neither makes a definite statement as to which side fired the fatal shots. It is not impossible that neither knows. .ORDERS INVESTIGATION.. An official investigation has been ordered to determine the responsibility and solemn promises have been made that the guilty will be punished. Not unnaturally a great part of the public regards the official version with doubt, having in mind, the use for countless centuries of the notorious "ley fuga," the unwritten law which is invoked when the death of a prisoner is desired. After its application there is written on g *" the records "prisoner shot tryV ing to escape." Senora Madero, widow of the ex-President, received the first definite information of his death from Senor Cologan y Cologan, the Spanish minister. She already had heard reports that something unusual and serious had happened but friends had endeavored up to that time to prevent her from learning the whole truth. Soon afterward, accompanied by her brother, Jose Perez and Merecedes Madero, a sister of Francisco, Senora Madero drove to the penitentiary but was refused permission to see the body of her husband. Senora Suarez also was denied admittance to the mortuary, where physicians, in accordance with the law, were performing an autopsy. WOMEN AT PRISON. In contrast to the widow, whose grief was of a pitiably silent character, expressed in sobs, Mercedes Madero, a beau ~ " uiui young woman, educated in Paris, who has been a brilliant leader of society since the revolution of 1910, was dry-eyed and tigerish in her emotions. By the side of the two women whose husbands had been killed, the girl hurled accusations at the oflicers who barred the f entrance. "Cowards!" "Assassins!" she called them, her voice pitched high. The officers stared impassively. "You! The men who fired on a defenseless man! You and your superior officers are traitors !" r REBELS ARE AROUSED OVER MA HERO'S DEATH Even Federal Volunteer Troops Threaten to Quit Service Hut Retain Their Arms Over Killin?r of Thnir I .onrler El Paso, Texas, Feb. 23.?The killing of Francisco Madero and Pino Suarez, respectively the deposed President and Vice Vice President of Mexico, has caused as much excitement along the border as did the Mex-1 ico City revolt. The federal volunteer troops already stirred by the downfall i . ^11 EEKLY. PIT A nrr? aUAKM EAD IN STRI 5 of their leader, threatei { mediately to quit service retain their arms. Their tion with the rebels ha . feared since the revolut the national capital. Ev rebels appear aroused b; . death of the man they : , I so long to destroy. I o: ? ii i-iin ^ ouice tne Killing oi lj ' Madero the rebels have b< r clined toward leniency ex-President. They as . that Madero's worst sel I with Gustavo Madero. President Suarez, howeve . never popular in the Nor I is admitted generally th ' Huerta government has ,1 much by the incident wl J hailed as a return to the ods of 50 years ago. , | Col. Juan Vasquez, gs > commander at Juarez, d< . to express an opinion o deaths of the two forme ; ers, except to say that lieved the affair would h; i material effect on the siti . The volunteer troops rei , closely in the barracks . Their leaders never have ; > ed the Huerta governmen . was quiet rtt Juarez. "It was for the health country," declared Mani i Lajunn, the chief rebel ! here and former revolut pmtuC3QVi/ 4- rv A ! injar newspapers denounce killing of Francisco Madei Pino Suarez as senseless barbarous. i The Standard, in an edi stigmatizes it as "an inde ble crime imposing a load famy on President Iluerta ministration." The Sta declares that American ' vention in Mexico can i longer be delayed and Britislf opinion will be \ sympathetic to any acti? ( j cw Y> i garding Madero's death. "It is similar to the kil Maximilian, the French < 1 or, of Mexico. It is depl j but necessary." "The effect on Washinj vieW of the Taft note d< terast us," added Senor I 1 "Matlero could not hav 1 exiled as he would have another revolution." \ WILSON SHOCKE1 ?? Hut President-Elect is Sil Killing of Madero. Princeton, '-N. J., Feb, President-elect Wilson | shocked to hear the new former President Madei ' former Vice President had been killed in Mexit* "It is too bad," he i i when he first learned o shooting through Ass< Press dispatches. He rel from .comment, saying he maintain his policy of until he had taken office While notching has com Mr. Wilson to indicate wl attitude will be Jie has himself constantly Irrfon developments by a < scrutiny of the news dispj displaying at all times i interest in the progre events in the troublecountry. Mr. Wilson, it is know hoped from the first that ico's problems would find able settlement withou least interference from th ted States. Me realize: gravity of developments ever, and is studying the tion most earnestly. It i: declared among some of friends that he may hast announcement of his cabi that he could avail him: once of their counsel on a tion that will require tl mediate attention of th administration. WOULD HAVE UNITEE STATES INTER1 Views of British Newspap Tragedy in Mexico Ci London, Feb. 24.?The \ ~ LANCASTER. S. C. 1 which the Washington cat will likely decide. The Daily Graphic says shooting of Madero and Su ITirp shows that nothing has ch I M I ed in Mexico and that not! JKJ JL will be changed until ei Diaz arises or the "Big St from the North realizes its ( n im- these anarchistic wilds, but to The Daily Express, in an junc- torial referring to what s been terms President Taft's he: ion nt. tion to act in Mexirn snva v en the lution and anarchy do not s y the on presidential etiquette sought that the security of life property in Mexico will not ustavo while President-elect Wilsor een in- stalls himself, to the The Express describes iserted expeditionary force of 9 If died American troops as "a pill Vice an earthquake," and decl x, was such a venture will need 100 th. It men. The newspaper urges lat the British government to press i lost immediate action on the W hich is ington government, meth- The Daily Chronicle decl that Madero was done to d< irrison by President Huerta, and : eclined what the United States will n the It thinks that any middle co r lead- such as financial or mili he be- propping up of one or the o ave no among the Mexican leaden uation. the United States, and the c nained tion of a sort of Mexican C today, could only be achieved bj accept- combination of luck and ac t. All diplomacy, while an enorn army will be needed to corn of the Mefckq. The editorial i r eludes:" ."Nobody can envy agent United States her task, in irtnnrv proaching whkh she dese i re- from Eur?Pe bo ungrud; ' measure of moral sppport." ling of The Daily News says: " emper- hero has been murdered, and orable United States government is pressing the world's indigna i . at the treachery which broi ^ 01 . the Huerta administration . * ' office and the ruthlessness ' ,a.iuan. they are exercising t ?begun Probably brief tenure of ] The Daily Mail says the .j ted States has commanded Madero should not be exec lent on without trial, and that a g neighboring state is not li 23 to be mocked. was s that Woman's Exchange to Rec ro and All those who are intere Suarez in the Woman's Exchange 3 City, be glad to know that the la sighed, having this work in charge f the keep open the exchange ^ciated other year. All the mem 'rained j are requested to have sarr would! of their work oh exhibitioi silence next Saturday as the exch; 1 will I've* /\r>nr>n-l -*1 ' 1' I .. > IUV irj/tlicu IU Hie pUDlll e from this day. lat his i Every one is cordially in\ kept to drop In and examine aed of; splendid display of fancy w iareful' cakes, candies, hot rolls, et( itches, Don't forget the day, S?i i keen day, March 1. Visitors wil iss of served hot coffee and wa ridden free of charge. n* Death of Mr. J. E. Swesi amic ^r' Sweat, a > t the known farmer of this cou e Uni- died suddenly last Friday n * the at his home in the mill vill , how- ije had always enjoyed * situa- health and when the sumn s even (.arne was apparently well h|S strong. After eating a he; en the supper, he sat talking \ net so members of his family, w lelf at without warning, he fell f situa- his chair to the floor, death le 1m- lowing immediately. Hi e new failure is supposed to have V I the cause. Mr. Sweat j about 58 years of age. He la member of the Metho yENE church. Besides his wife h j survived by an aged mot ers on arKj seven sons and daught The interment took place f morn- urdav afternoon at tho ri i the Creek graveyard. *o and I and Advertised Letters for \V torial, Ending February 22. 191.' fensi- Cloken Robson, Ellar R< of in- Rubin Malwain. Luler MeW; i's ad- N. J. Rodgers, K. II. McM; ndard Laiess Thundeybirk, Sa inter- Wade, Carrie Wright, Ha mrdlv Kanadv. I) M K nicrhf I that Funderburk, Lilian Willivholly Amelia Reid, John Kvana, J. on on Jeckson. ? I , TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1913. tinet Walter I ?. COUNTY NEWS ~p arez Mr. W. ang- day with i hing TIRZAH. Miss Id< ther ? . , , TT" some time ick" Special to The News Sadie Dun lutv Tirzah, heb. 24.?Mr. G. K Miss CY ? Steele of Camp Creek spent ca^er ha Pfi:_ I Sunday in this section. hrother IN vU A , t , n r n r i MX \J vllvl XI . Misses Ida McMurray and m;?? r> ...... . . . , . XfXIOO U' _Sfo marina iseil ot Unity visited in oni 3p " this section last Sunday. * tand , MI J- " McMurray spent a ' Mrs. "E( and day in Waxhaw last week on her moth< i business. 'Mr H 'it Mrs. A. J. Hudson of Ebe- t visitec neezer visited in this section Monday last week. j^r' ?0i Messrs. Jud Steele and Toy cntlfi?v ;n y11. Hinson of Unity section spent 11 'v ',000 Week-end in this section. M1STRIA lor Mr. Clnurl Run cnn orvA^f I 1>uuuvu ItlOl/ Friday in Waxhaw. Jury Coul ?,000 Huntley Neil of Unity y*e Spent Sunday with Mr. Miller Union ! Simpson in this section. State, Fel ash- Frank Nesbit of Jackson- minger se ham visited at Rev. W. W. case of th ares Ratchford's Sunday. Coleman, eath Mrs. R. M. Steele and little the murd< asks daughter, Mae, of Unity spent before mil t do. Sunday at Mrs. M. J. Steele's. on being urse * that no v< tary CEDAR CREEK. ed, order ther case. Th< 5 by Special to The News. entered in xea- Cedar Creek, Feb. 22.?The tion not uba, health of our section is very that occu t a good. There is some disease liberations Iroit among the cows. James Rob- as to how nous inson, colored, had four to die based enti quer right lately. It can b con- The latest social event was a however, thb Valentine supper given by Mr. they did n ap- and Mrs. T. D. Caskey in honor jn faVor < rves of their daughter, Mrs. 0. T. The case ging Backham of Columbia, and Miss shortly af Nnnip r ool/mr T x ,. vw-Tvcjf ui uuiicasicr. following 'Ma-1 The occasion was much enjoy- which w I the , e(* hy all. ceedingly > ex- ' Mr. and Mrs. James Baker of heart ition ^he New Hope section visited a few mil jght Mr. and Mrs. John Baker last jng 0f gul into week. announcec with Misses Alice and Myrtle During th hejr Beckham of Elgin spent the trial the dow- week-end with Miss Dillie Cas- strict gua key. tion with Messrs. Ernest Caskev and that Le?ter Crenshaw of Heath R ? (>f v ntpri 1 Springs visited at the home of + Mr. Tom Hendrix last week. tpu Mrs. G. T. Becqham and chil- - ?W1! y dren left Sunday for their home ot * entral in Columbia, after spending a m(aith ol couple of weeks very pleasantly Seventh >peh- with relatives. ^or? , *eac sted Leighton will HEATH SPRINGS. (leQ;^we tdies Slxth will Special to The News. teacher < an-1 Heath Springs, Feb. 21.? "an Era! bers , Mrs. D. M. Jones entertained at , ' ' p.. ipies | her home here Friday night in ' T lI i by honor of Miss Mattie Mae Mob- ?! inge ley on her 16th birthday. Sev- . r c on eral games were indulged in by p' ' u T the guests with the result that htmi; ' c dted ; one prize was awarded to Miss 1 Is?' the MnhW n^.,1 t t ? i Fnnrtu . ??..v* upcu nortoTi and j T VV '?rk, the other to Miss Ivor Brown ' | and Mr. Jones. The latter was i ? itur- gracefully presented by the i ' Vl II be winners to Miss Mobley, the S? r t ifers guest of honor. Delightful re- w?' , fre;lhments were served as a!111 8 fitting climax to an evening of' rrVinu^\ , Lt. rare pleasure of those present. r ?as^? vpII. Mr. H. P. Mobley entertained fu' . his Sunday school class consist- i ^autnen, v' ing of about twelve boys, aged .. ?n ij?ht j about 12 yars, at his home Fri- , age. day night. Each boy had the ej, rood privilege of inviting a girl! p J11 ions friend, and it is needless to say |,orTe1' " a and that they availed themselves of vanLandn irty the opportunity offered. A f. ls 'n^ri vith number of games were played .i7nIV hen and dainty refreshments were crburk. rom served, after which the little Margaret foJ. guests departed to their homes. Aa. 'nm' eart eacn one declaring that he had ^'"hakoff, >een spent one of the best evenings Newman, was ?f his life. Bowling, was Misses Ella and Bennie Gard- First gr (list ?' Kershaw have been visit- teacher?I e is i"P Misses Anna and Rosa Bne- ?Jennie I her nett. Mae Lan< ers. Mrs. Nannie Mobley and Colin Muri ^at- daughter. Annie, spent Sunday ton, Thurl imfi with Mrs. H. F. Clyburn at Ker- ' son, Will shaw. Davis. Lexie Stover returned Mon- Distingu day to the University of South Black mon, eek (Carolina after a pleasant visit Mildred Fi b to his parents here. Martin Eh ?ad. Misses Lucy Bowers and ,, ine, Ruth Rollings, of Winthrop Col- Taft's L irv, lege, spent the holidays at Washing mie home. dent Taft ttie Miss Elizabeth VanT.nndirxr- dinner of K. ham of Cokor College is with the White ton. her parents for a few days. quests beii C. Misses Clara Hendrix and pondents ii May me Caskey and Messrs. fifty were gpt t *r "? " rrf. ^ V lendrix and James : T ent Sunday with their 1 J. Vaughn spent Sun- I relatives in Lancaster, j ell Mobley is spending i with her cousin, Miss i ican, at Dixie. W larlotte Jones of Lans been visiting her Ir. D. M. Jones, essie Mobley of Ker- Pi ent Sunday at Heat ed of irle of Boykin visited or ;r here last week. er H. Horton of Lancas- at I his son at this place lei re umbus Horton spent Kershaw. W st L WAS ORDERED. w, d Not Agree in Cole- be man Case. U, Special to Columbia ar 3. 23: Judge Mem- ^h nt for the jury in the e state against Harry jn on trial charged with ^ er of his father, just ca dnight last night, and told by the foreman p., jrdict had been reach- e{, ed a mistrial in the na ; members of the jury ea ito a solemn obliga- cu to disclose anything rred during their dei, so that all rumors th the jury stood are f0 irely on guesses. e stated on authority, and positively that PI tot stand eight to four . >f a verdict of guilty. was given to the jury ter 1 p. m., Saturday, the judge's charge, as impartial and ex- Pr brief. Nothing more th 1 from the jury until w< lutes before the com- $1 iday morning, when it tr 1 it had not agreed. Sl1 e three days of the Pl jury was kept under re rd and no commnnica- re them was allowed. T1 th lonor Central (iraded ,v. School, lg is the roll of honor graded school for the jj( January: in i grade, Miss Patter- _r 'her?Helen Derrick Horton, Walter Beaty, * j 11, Ruth Carnes. o-vur>o "S T P( JEy * ItVIV) liJJS ^lUUI Cj Caroline Porter, Lon- t , Mary Ellen Blackest Moore, Claude Jorer Baker, Clyde Wil- Hi sia Murchison. rade, Miss Pearle Gall, Nellie Dixon, Frederic sc da McDow, Wardlaw f0 Aubrey Cauthen. grade, Mrs, VV. E. Li >acher?Mildred King, Moore, Lewis Murchi- fl el Penny, Malvena er iward Sistare, Mary \I ura Williams. so rade, Miss Pearl Mc- Va teacher ? Margaret n, Jewel Hinson, Wal- m, Sadie Parks, Sarah Sybil Lingle. er grade, Miss Eva Oi teacher?Highly disI?Katherine Carnes, g0 "underburk, Dorothy Mi rah Williams, Martha I Bt igham. i El lished?Janette Hug-: s Evans, Mary Fund- st lizabeth Witherspoon, i Garret, Ruth Threat, or JMstare, Gertrude j0 Eva Cook, Walter i Marion Long, J. c. ha ado. Miss Joe Foster, p(, lighly distinguished wc ^.ee Sherrard, Beulah Qr ?.v, Eugenia Hughes, Mj rhison, Edward Croxow Carter ThomasUim T-fminrh U7-.U ..vu6ii, vy illltt ; lished ? Annabel.^Juanita Wilson, ' ?rguson, Roy Gurley, nai lekmon. tin Ma ast Formal Dinner. > wil ton, Feb. 23.?Presi- tio gave the last formal poi his administration at cui House tonight, his cia ig newspaper corres- Na a Washington. About ed present. Fri of.'W#fX"V(WMt** S. $1.50 PER YEAR. i 0 CONVENE EXTRA" SESSION APRIL 1ST v.t..^icuL in recording rths and deaths. A well-founded estimate iows that 630,000 of the mil>n and a half deaths each year this country are caused by eventable diseases. Proper >plication of scientific knowlIge would make prevention ssible if every state aided in leping records of disease, rths and deaths, it is declared. unor Roll of Camp Creek School. The honor roll of Camp Creek hool for the past month is as llows: First grade?Dwight Plyler, llian Roberts. Second grade?Ona Lee lompson, Pauline Montgomy, Freeman Roberts, Yancey othershed, Theodore Thomp? ?1 c. " - ~ ? nimut-i omau, r loride Sulli,n, Juanita McDaniel. Third grade?Amsey Orand. Fourth grade?Bryan Mothshed, Josie Montgomery, Lee *mand, Norma Roberts. Fifth grade?Ruth Mont mery, Bessie Thompson, Eula ae Steele, Ona Mahaffey,, ;ssie Shute, Sallie Steele, len Mahaffey. Sixth grade?Maggie Lou eele, Jozie Mahaffey. Seventh grade?Rettie Robts, Lee I). Montgomery, zie Roberts. Eighth grade?Maynie Grain, Furman Roberts. Highly distinguished in dertment and eighth grade >rk?Effie Morris, Anabel aham, Bryce J > ie Small. MISS LILLIE USHER. Teacher. F. Ansel For Federal Judge. Clreenville, Feb. 22.?The rre of South Carolina's disguished citizen, Ex-Governor rt in F. Ansel, of Greenville, 1 be presented to the nan's next President for apntment as United States cirt judge of the fourth judiI district, succeeding Judge than B. GofF, who was electto the United States senate day from West Virginia. ill Find Number of Bills Ready For Consideration. Trenton, N. J., Feb. 24.? esident-elect Wilson announctoday that the extra session Congress would be convened i Tuesday, April 1. The govnor declared he had arrived this decision as a result of a tter received today from Repsentative Underwood. "I have waited," said Mr. ilson, "to learn just what the ate of preparedness Congress is in for the new session." The governor said he . had en corresponding with Mr. nderwood in this connection id had come to the conclusion at April 1 was the most feasie date. He intimated that the terval between Mareh A - ? pril 1 might be devoted to ucuses and conferences. Two itors of a Wall street newsiper called on the Presidentset today and urged that fiincial questions receive his rliest consideration. On disssing his talk with them af rward, Mr. Wilson said: "Everybody is agreed that ere should be currency rerm as soon as possible." 1EVENTABLE DISEASES. fe Insurance Presidents Making Fight for Elimination New York, Feb. 23.?In its mpaign for the elmination of eventable diseases which auorities are quoted as saying auld mean economic gain of ,500,000 a year to this couny, the Association of Life Inirance Presidents today made lblic a brief appeal in which quest is made for the proper gistration of vital statistics, lis brief will be presented to le legislatures of the states hich 9f<> ?