The Lancaster news. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, July 29, 1913, Image 1

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VOL. 8, NO. 86, SEMI-W THE POLICE SAVE ASQLITH LONDON IN THROES OP RIOT. \ ?? Sylvia Pankhnrst and Twenty Other leaders of Suffrage Cause Are Arrested. London, July 28.?Sylvia Fankhurst, the militant suffragette, who was out on license under tue "cat and mouse law" was the lead " of a suffragette demonstration yesterday which HiirnnnRpri all nrevious Sundav afternoon affairs of the sort. During the rioting which followed, Miss Pankhurst was rearrested and taken to Holloway jail. The meeting held in Trafalgar Square by the Men's Federation for Woman's Suffrage and the East End branch of the Woman's Social and Political Union, had been announced '.n advance and this fact and also a rumor that a charge upon Premier Asqulth's residence was planned, brought enormous crowds into the square. "On to Downing street," was the watchword and but for vigorous work by the mobilized police, who arrested Miss Pankhurst and 20 men and women supporters, there would have been window smashing and perhaps worse damage at the Premier's house. The procession of men and women marched Jrom White Chapel to Trafalgar Square wun constantly growing crowds following. It entered the square with the band playing the Marseillaise and planted banners on the plinth of the Nelson column. Miss Pankhurst made a dramatic appearance from among the crowd and was dragged to the plinth amid great cheering. When the demonstration had subsided she made an impassioned speech. "The time for speaking Is over." she said. "Deeds, not words are wanted. Let us all go to Downing street." Miss Pankhurst with a bundle of papers in her hand was swept off the plinth hv the mob and the square was a mass of excited and struggling people. The huge crowd, Miss Pankhurst leading, moved down Whitehall toward Downing street. A platoon of police which had come at double quick from Scotland Yaid, formed a corden nomas the roaci, wnicn was effectively aided by a blockade of wheeled conveyances. Mounted police road into the crowd, scattering It and driving the people down various streets, while officers In plain clothes got possession of Miss Pankhurst after a fist fight with her bodyguard of East End youths. The mounted men cleared a way for the prisoner to a cab. Miss Pankhurst was driven to Holloway Jail to serve the remainder of her sentence or stay until she is again released through a hunger strike. In the station house she struggled desperately with the officers and smashed a window with a ruler. After Miss Pankhurst haa been taken into custody, two women were arrested for throwing stones at Mr. Asquith's windows. During the rioting several policemen were badly injured. M'LAURIN WILL BE TXT r? A XTPYT vthat? JLi.1 XVX1VXJ XJXX Jk A. XJXXXV According to the Confident Statement. of Hi* Friends, But He Will Make No Statement Now, Hendersonville, N. C., Special to Columbia Record. July 28.?Political rumors have been set afloat here again by reason of the visit to the home of Senator John L. McLaurin of T. B. Stackhouse and Editor A. W. Knight of The Bamberg Herald. Mr. Sta6khouse Is a well known business man of Columbia and Editor Knight is an Influential newspaper man. This visit following closely upon the meeting in Henaersonville of Governor Blease and two members of the newspaper fraternity has caused much interest among the South Carolinians sojourning in the mountain resort. Senator McLaurln, it is believed, will be a candidate for governor in next summer's campaign, but he will 1. ~ ~ ?* lkiM uianr nu uriuiiir ouiwruirii l at tiiin time. After the meeting with Messrs. Stackhouse and Knight, an efTort was made to get a statement from the senator for this newspaper, but Mr. McLaurin would not commit himself any further than to say that he might make the race, but has not decided fully as yet upon his course. In view of the comment in the press throughout South Carolina the meetings up here have started the political tongues and the outcome is being closely watched. Struck in the Face by Pitched RalJ. Washington, July 27.?Catcher Agnew of the St. Louis Americans, ] struck in the face by a pitched ball during yesterday's 15-inning game with Washington, was in a local hospital today doing well, surgeons , said. Some small bones of the face were fractured and concussion of the brain was feared last night. Agnew will be out of the game several weeks. Governor Snlzer Endorses Suffrage. New York, July 29.?The Men's Leaguo for Women's Suffrage has received Governor Sulzer's endorsement to a petition which It Is circulating to present to the United States v senate urging a suffrage amendment ^0 to the constitution. t EEKLY. CLERGYMAN FLAYS SUFFRAGE. | Calls Suffragettes Unmarried Female Fanatics. Washington, July 28.?Headquarters of the National American Woj man Suffrage Association seethed i | with indignation today when officers and members learned that Representative J. Thomas Heflin of Alabama, their most bitter opponent in Congress, had flred another broadside into their camp last night from the pulpit of a local, church. In addition to criticising the "cause in vigorous terms," Mr. Heflin also gave his definition of suffragists and their : made supporters. Here it is: | "SufTragettes?Unmarried female fanatics. j "Suffragettars?Unhappy, discontented married women. "SufTragettoes?The male suffragette. A feeble-minded, suffrotes;cent creature." ! Mr. Heflin explained today that the word "suftrotescent" was his own coinage. After some thought I he said he believed that "wooden headed" could be substituted for it . without any loss in meaning. I I PRESIDENT'S VIEWS MEXICAN SITUATION Docs Not Believe the Public Miml of the ViiKod States is Excited Over Conditions There. Washington, July 28.?President Wilson does not believe the public mind in the United States is excited over the situation in Mexico nor is he convinced that a crisis has been reached in the revolution Itself. This information was obtained in official circles today with an authoritative denial that any proposal lookinp toward a co-operation between American military forces and the Mexican povernment for the restoration of peace had been suppested. Those who approached the President today on the Mexican situation found him disinclined to discuss it, as later he was to confer with Ambassador Henry Lane Wilson. Secretary Bryan arranged to see the President before the conference. The secretary also continued his reticence on the Mexican affairs. It was learned at the White House, however, that reports crediting Ambassador Wilson with having advocated a set of proposals contemplating military co-operation with Mexico or intervention were unfounded. The President has received from Ambassador Wilson a historical account of events in Mexico in the last three years. CHINESE RAISE FUNDS. Have Established Headquarters in New York For Rebel Cause. New York. July 28.?Nine Chinese business men of New York are on their way today to Boston, Chicago and other cities to raise money among their fellow countrymen for the support of the .revolutionary party in China. It was said that similar action had been taken among the Chinese leaders In San Francisco, who were sending out men today to raise money among the Chinese residents of Western cities. A rnrnmitton nf tan frwmnA at a meeting yesterday has established headquarters in New York for the aid of the rebel cause. They declare that the Chinese in this country are overwhelmingly for the rebels and they denounce the provisional president, Yuan Shi Kai, as ambitious to become an emperor. Exploration Party Leaves Alaska Post. Teller, Port Clarence, Alaska, July 28.?Vilhjalmar Stefansson's Canadian polar exploration expedition, which will spend three years In scientific research work in the Artie, set out for its destination early today when the old whaler Karluk sailed from Port Clarence bay. The j Karluk was accompanied by the ( gasoline schooner Mary Sachs. The power boat Alaska, which will be used by Dr. R. M. Anderson's South- , ern party, remained at Port Clar- | ence to complete repairs and prob ably will not leave until Wednesday. i America Is Ready For the Issue. Washington. July 26.?Intlma- 1 tlons were given by Secretary Bryan today to the committee that the administration was prepared for any j development hi Mexican affairs but the nature of the policy being shaped 1 at the Whjte House and state de- I partment Was not disclosed. The proposals for the mediation were < not brought up at the senate confer- 1 ence and no suggestions on the Rub- > ject were volunteered by the secretary of state. ] Carlisle is Given More Clemency. Waclilnfft/Mi Tnlw f> T .1* Wilson has decided to permit Newton ( A. Carlisle, former president of the j National Bank at Newberry, S. C., , convicted of misapplying its funds, i to serve his sentence of one year and ^ a day In the Newberry Jail instead of at the Atlanta penitentiary. The J prisoner is an aged man and in ill 1 health. The President will permit ! the transfer so that Carlisle may be < close to his family and friends. His : five-year sentence was recently com- ( muted by the President to a year , end a day. j LANCASTER, S. C., TUJ ADVISES REST FOR WILSON HE IS TOO CLOSE TO HVERTA. Polite Way of Telling Ambassador to Mexico That His Services is No linger Needed. Washington, July 28.?Ambassador Henry Lane Wilson, summoned from Mexico City to inform the Washington administration of conditions In the rebellion-torn republic, talked for an hour with President Wilson and Secretary Bryan today, submitting chiefly a recommendation that the United States use its influence to stabilize the Huerta 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 so radically different that administration officials interpreted the day's developments as forecasting the acceptance of Ambassador Wilson's resignation. NOT IN ACCORD. President Wilson and the ambassador regard the future of the Mexican situation. It was learned, from opposite viewpoints. The President is concerned over the morality of any policy adopted by the United States and its effect on other UatinAmerican countries and is disciplined to strengthen a government that came into power through the questionable events incident to Madoro's assassination. Ambassador Wilson, on the other hand, is disposed to look at the situation. 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 direction of extending things to conserve American interests. The inadvisability from a diplomatic standpoint of maintaining n 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'Shaughnessy, its first secretary, reputed here as efficient and experienced. The appointmert of a new ambassador would be contingent upon the establishment of a satisfactory government at Mexico Cltv. Meanwhile, the President advised Ambassador Wilson to take a rest for a few days as he has been laboring under a nervous strain. MAY SPARE NECESSITY OF MEDIATION. While the chief officers of the American government were debating the facts of the situation today, it became known that a movement was on foot which might eventually spare them the necessity of offering mediation or any other kind of interference in Mexican affairs, upon which the national pride of Mexico is sensitive. The plan contemplates a repetition of the process by which Diaz abdicated in favor of a provisional president acceptable to both factions i nthe revolt against him. Prominent Mexicans of influence are interested In the idea and have informed Secretary Rryan that if the American government would refrain from any policy of mediation, at least for the present, they felt confident of bringing about an understanding between the warring forces looking toward a peaceful solution of political difficulties. Provisional President Huerta. it is suggested, in the peace plan might he persuaded by his friends that with the desperate financial condition of Mexico, his resignation would be an act of patriotism and self-denial. He would be asked to name a minister of foreign relations, a post now vacant, so that through the constitutional process a successor, the minister would succeed him as provisional President. RIRTH STRIKE FOR PRl'SSIA. This is Threatened Unless Retter Rights of Citizenship are Accorded. Berlin. July 27.?A "birth strike" as a means of bringing about electoral reforms in Prussia is reported to be under discussion by a social gathering which heard the idea recently advanced by a speaker. The father of the idea was Dr. Alfred Bernstein, who declared that most Riiccensfnl nrosanrp wnnlH ho pxerted on the government if mothers would make some such announcement as this: "We will bring no children Into the world to become citizens of this state unless better rights of citizenship are accorded." Rainfall Heavy in Southern States in Last Two Hays. Washington, July 28.?Rainfall during Saturday and Sunday in several localities of the South has been heavy and throughout the South generally there have been good showers. Heaviest precipitations reported this morning to the weather bureau for the 24 hours ending at 8 a. m., were: Chernw, S. C., 1 Inch; Mewbern, N. C., 2.5 inches; Yemas*ee, S. C., 1; Ralnbrldge, Oa., 1.20. Por the 24 hours ending at 8 a. m. Sunday: Aueusta. 1.28 inches: Chattanooga, 1.20; Alapaha, Gu., 2.4; Valdosta, 1.2; Waycroaa, 1.8; [Ireenwood, S. C., 1:6; Gadsden, Ma., 1:1; Galnenvllle, Ala., 1.8, and Amite, La., 1 Inch. V ESDAY, JULY 29,1913. DRASTIC DEMANDS MADE MUST KKI.EASK AMERICANS. Calls For the Arrest, Court Martial and Punishment of Mexican Federal Soldiers. Washington, July 28.?Strong ; representations, the most drastic in ! phraseology that have been made since the present American administration came into power, were made to the Huerta government in Mexico 1 yesterday. | The United States government demanded not only the prompt arrest, court martial and punishment of the Mexican federal soldiers who shot Charles B. Dixon, an American im- , migration official, at Juarez, Mexico, 1 but the immediate release of Charles Bissell and Bernard McDonald, mining managers, imprisoned by federal soldiers at Chihuahua City and said to be threatened with execution. So serious were tnese incidents regarded in official circles that they overshadJ owed largely the theoretical considerations of policy which the visit of Ambassador Henr; Lane Wilson has brought to a climax. The ambassador himself has been so exercised over the developments In Mexico that he dictated two strong tele-t grams, 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. Ambassador Wilson declined to discuss the affair but he will probably explain his views on such happenings when he meets President Wilson at 2: JO o'clock this afternoon for a general examination of conditions in Mexico. The President had Ambassador Wilson's long report in hand yesterday, studied it carefully and after an early conference today with Secretary Bryan will be prepared to inquire of the ambassador what remedies he would suggest. In the meantime the ambassador would give no inkling of the recommendations he has in mind beyond me general statement that Ills plan would conserve the friendly relations between Mexico and the United States and protect likewise the interests of American citizens in the Southern republic. 1 The ambassador's long experience with outbursts against American citizens, such as those against which the American government yesterday lodged a protest, will make him an important factor in whatever policy is adopted toward the Huerta government on account of Saturday's development at Juarez and Chihuahua. The demand that the soldiers at Juarez be court martialed and that the guilty be punished is a much more pointed request than has hitherto been voiced by the American government. Although McDonald, Blssell's fellow prisoner at Chihuahua. is reported to be an English subject, the demands for protection covered both individuals and I the American consul at Chihuahua was ordered to prevent harm from befalling the two mining men. Secretary Bryan was at the state department for a short time yesterday conferring with subordinate officials in the Latin-American division. He stated later that the telegrams ordering an investigation : constituted the only action that would he taken for the present but that the American government intended to pursue its inquiries vigorously. ACCOUNTS CORROBORATED. Telegrams corroborating press accounts of the shooting at Juarez reached the state department yesterA rph/v/v It** I ? I../ * i Mil y, i urn* in iinir 1111 urm?i i ion about the status of McDonald and Bissell. It appeals that they were en route to Parrali in an automobile to bring out refugees when arrested at Santa Rosalia. The machine was , confiscated and the two men taken to the city of Chihuahua. where news of their impending fate was carried to the border by Americans. I While the demands yesterday were directed toward the Huerta government. the Constitutionalists, according to reports here, are making J every effort to gain favor with the \ United States by affording all possi- i hie protection to Americans and their j interests. i DIXON LEAVES .JUAREZ. 3 I 1 Wounded Immigration Inspector 1 Reaches El Paso. . El Paso, Texas, July 28.?Charles 1 B. Dixon, Jr., the United States im- 1 migration Inspector who was shot In ' Juarez Saturday by Mexican soldiers, < was released from the Juarez hos- I pltal and brought to El Paso yesterday after American Consul Edwards ( had made a demand for his release I and for the arrest of the men who 1 shot him. < 1 Mexican Consul Miranda and Gull- t lermo Purras, former secretary of j state of Chihuahua, also interceded t for the release of Dixon, after con- i ference with the United States offl- i clals, who represented to the Mexl- * on n n th A mm trA * t? ?* * Wa J k \ oiio lilt; ftiair i in |?i rnniu u tiiui IJiltl been produced in Washington by the 1 news of the shooting of the inspector. c The demand of Consul Edwards I was in vigorous language. First tell- e ing the Mexican authorities that \ Dixon must be delivered up to his s friends and permitted to be brought t to B1 Paso without delay, the consul c said relative to reparation: t 'I do not merely request the ar- 1 rest of these men, but in the name of f the United States government, which I have the honor to represent, I demand their arrest and their trial and punishment for this crime. My gov- ; eminent will hold the milttarv on. . thorities of Juarez personally respon- j sible for failure to obey this com- , mand." Arthur Walker, the negro whom , Dixon was investigating when he was j arrested, and the soldiers who made I the arrest, immediately were placed ' in jail, according to the report of 1 Colonel Castro, commanding the Juarez garrison, to E. W. Berkshire, supervising inspector of immigration for the United States on the Mexican i border. Dixon was released to Mr. Berk- i shire and taken to El Paso to a hospital where his physicians believe he , will recover. Mr. Berkshire said last night that he made no demands upon the Mex- i cian officials but had reported to his superior the facts concerning the arrest of himself and Inspector Clarence Gatley, when they went to juarez Saturday following the shooting of Dixon. Mr. Berkshire said that from what he had learned the negro Walker, when he learned that Dixon was in Juarez investigating a white slave ease in which Walker had been implicated. informed the Mexican officials that Dixon was there with a bottle of chloroform ready to chloroform and kidnap him. It is said the negro then bought drinks for the soldiers who were to make the arrest. When the Mexican soldiers had apprehended Dixon, they marched him to the suburbs of the city instead of to the military barracks or city hall. This, according to Dixon's statement, reiterated last night, led him to suspect that he was going to he executed. As a matter of self-preservation, he declared, he fled and became the target of many bullets, only one of which took effect, striking him in the back and penetrating the body. Another bullet struck his shoe. Wounded, he was taken to the Juarez hospital by his captors, and there.'under a military guard of three soldiers, he was kept Saturday after noon until late yesterday, when he was removed to El Paso. The Mexicans refused even to allow the bloodsoaked clothing to be removed, although they did permit Dr. Tappan of the immigration office to cut the clothing and treat the wound Saturday afternoon. Indignation at the Mexicans runs high in El Paso and the treatment accorded Dixon has strained relations in this city between Americans and Mexicans as has no other incident attendant upon the present revolution. The Mexican officials at Juarez, both municipal and military, however, refused to make any statement concerning the course of action taken by them after it became known that Dixon had been seriously wounded by federal soldiers. It is persistently rumored here that Constitutionalists under Vili will return to Juarez immediately and force an attack against the city for the incidental purpose of avenging the fate of Dixon and strengthening their claim for recognition by the United States. BIG RAILROAD STRIKE AVERTED Eastern Roads Withdrew Their Demand That Their Crevinnces Against Men He Considered. New York, July 27.?The Eastern railroads yesterday withdrew their demand that their grievances against the employes should he considered by the federal hoard appointed to arbitrate the demand for better wages and working conditions made by conductors and trainmen. This concession apparently removpd the only remaining obstacle to arbitration and avert a strike. With this issue disposed of the railroad managers and the labor leaders expected to reach a speedy agreement upon the text of the questions to be laid before the board of arbitration. In a statement explaining their position the managers said they made this concession because they felt it was their duty to protect the traveling public. Representatives of both sides met ind signed the articles of arbitration yesterday afternoon. Cnder the ^lewlands act the questions at issue will be decided by six arbitrators, sach side to choose two and these 'our arbitrators to select the remainng two members. If the original 'our cannot agree upon the two 'neutral" members they will be ;hosen by the permanent federal >oard of mediation and conciliation. Hearings must begin within SO lays after the completion of the >oard. The hearings will be in New fork city and probably will start arly in September. The award of irhitrators will remain in effect one I rear, at the close of which period he railroads may give thirty days' lotice if they desire a change. iecretary Daniels Is Held Up by a Burned Bridge. Portland. Ore., July 2 8.?Because f a burned bridge. Secretary of the >Javy Daniels, Mrs. Daniels and Gov rnor West of Oregon, groped their vay across a canyon near Isadora, i siding on the Southern Pacific, 22 niles north of Roseherg, about 10 'clock last night. They made the Tossing by the light, of trainmen's anterns. The gulch is about 50 eet. deep and 125 feet wide. I iS. j ?????? J $1.50 PER YEAR. THE MINORITY IS DIVIDED BREAK IN ?. O. P. RANKS. Progressive WinR Cannot Aid Smoot, Probably Will bo Unable to Support His Wool Substitute. Washington, July 28.?A division in the ranks of Republican senators over the tariff revision fight became apparent today, when nearly a dozen. Progressive Republicans began a. series of conferences to perfect substitute schedules that will be offered to the tariff bill under the leadership of Senators LaFollette and Cummins. The Progressive Republican move* has grown out of the belief of leading senators identified with that faction that they would be unable to support Senator Smoot's substitute for the woolen tariff. The Smoot substitute was prepared some time ago and introduced at the time the Democratic bill snmo hnrlr frnm finance committee. FOR WOOL TARIFF. The Progressive Republicans have practically agreed J center their fight about the LaFc tte substitute in the hope that thej oan carry the rest of the Republican party with them and possibly win some Democrats away from President Wilson's "free wool plan." Progress on the tariff bill was slow in the senate today. Prepared speeches were mane by senators. Townsend and Warren (Republicans! and short assaults occurred throughout the afternoon upon specific items which the Republicans held to be the radical reductions from existing laws. The Progressive Republican forces so far have shown no disposition on the floor of the senate to break with their Republican associates, except in a few votes where they joined the Democrats, in spit of lower duties. I'l A V \7?nn CCAT 1TATTV Thp conferences which began today. however, are expected to solidify the Progressive element and bring about a new alignment of the Republican forces. Senator LaFollette's cotton and wool substitutes and Senator Cummins' metal substitute were under consideration in the conference today and probably will be supported by the Progressives. It is expected that a substitute sugar tariff, similar to that which Senator Pristow succeeded in getting through the senate in the last session of Congress, will have the Progressive strength behind it. The senate had completed the consideration of rates on chemicals, drugs, oils and like products today and had gotten started in th earthenware and glassware schedu when adjournment came tonigt . Set speeches are to be made during the week by Senators Gronna and Thornton and others, but it is expected that the detailed consideration of the bill will be before the senate almost continuously from now on. BALKAN CONFERENCE TO OPEN WEDNESDAY Greeks Claim to Have Forced th? Bulgarians Hack Along ,c, Frontier. London, July 27.?The Balkair peace conference is expected to open at Bucharest Wednesday but meantime serious fighting continues. The Greeks refuse Bulgaria's request for even a three days' truce and, after heavy fighting, liave gotten through Krefina Pass, defeating the Bulgarians at Simekle, capturing three* siege guns and driving the Bulgarians hack on Djuma. The Greeks claim they annihilated the whole left., of the Bulgarian army and that they have forced the Bulgarians hack along the Struma Valley to Djuma, on the Bulgarian frontier. Unless peace speedily is negotiated another great battle is likely to occur at. Struma. No news was received today of fighting on the Servian frontier but. the large number of wounded men arriving in Belgrade indicate severe engagements. The concert o fthe powers seems as powerless as before to adopt anyunited action against Turkey. The Porte, however, has disavowed theaction of its troops in penetrating old Bulgaria, and no further advance of Turkish troops has beeir TAflftrtpH Tho Turbo oloS*^ *u-' ? . - f . i.v 1 III rvo VUIIIII LlltJir spoils at Adrianople consisted of 150 puns, 50,000 rifles and 1.000,000 sacks of corn. There are freqaent reports of atrocities and massacres by Bulgarians and Turks. Izzet Pasha, tho Hurkish commander-in-chief, reports that Bulgarians murdered 200 Ottomen soldiers who had been taken prisoners near Kislley Emidje, while an admission of Turkish massacres, of Armenians at Malgara and Rodosto comes from Constantinople In % report that a number of Moslems have been sentenced to death or to long imprisonment for implication in the massacres. Shriners at Norfolk, Va. Norfolk, Va., July 26.?Mystic Shriners from Philadelphia, Washing, Rnltimore, Richmond, Raleigh and Charlotte, N. C., Trenton and Newark, N. J., Joined Khedive Temple, of Norfolk, In a notable ceremonial session and celebration here today. One thousand Shrlnors participated. Rain Interferred somewhat with the festivities of the day.