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_m VOL. 9. NO. 60, SEMI-WEEK VINCENTASTORANDMISS HUNTINGTON MARRIED Mexi day Less Than 50 Persons Witness term the Ceremony. i)rln< CHUMS SINCE CHILDHOOD. t^e\ Tl All the (Tui'Nto living Relative* and gerr( Close Friends of the P(j j, Family. voys Stnatsburg, N.Y. April 30.?wll- Carr 11am Vincent Astor, son of the late caus< Col. John Jacob Astor and Miss Helen the Dinsmore Huntington, whom he has comj known since childhood, were married It is here shortly after noon today in the an a big oak panolled libary of llopeland subn House, home of the bride's parents Gene Mr. and Mrs. Robert P. Huntington. sentc Less than 5U persons witnessed the ceremony and of these three were the p superintendents from the Astor, the i ^ Huntington and the Dinsmore estates, i The Other gueBts were realatives and close friends of tlie families. Plans Tak( had been made for an elaborate church wedding, but Mr. Astor's re- ! cent illness, which threatened pneu- 1 W monia, made necessary the abondon- VVilsi ment of these plans. Eighteen hun- the 1 reds weeding announcements were ciath sent out after today's cermoney, bvit orgai the small company that witnessed it immi had been invited by informal notes, the v penned by Mrs. Huntington's secre- tion tray. It A flno rain was falling when the on r? few guests from New York city ar- depa rived at the 400-acre Huntington repr* estate. Guards had been posted at ploy* credentials were unquestioned were J were admitted. 'that Mr. Astor himself is a deputy sheriff of Dutchess county and some of ' ( his fellow deputies acted as sentinels Tli at the gates. morn Green foliage and spring dowers ask I from the Huntington conservatories str k and from New York, hung every- ( si: where throughout the rooms r ate c Hopeland House. Buried in blossoms ance with here and there a touch of green, H3 / 1 was the marble mantleplece in the Kent library before which the couple tlon stood. Miss Huntington entered the bami room on the arm of her father. At Worl her throat gleamed a magnificent gest? necklace of pearls, the gift of the of L bridegroom. chos< Her bridal gown was of white tulle nltloi with a train of white satin. Her lace and ell had been worn by her grand- woul mother, Mrs. Dlnsmore, and by her parti mother before her. T1 Herman Oelrlchs of New York, ao had old friend of Vincent Astor, was best the man. Miss Alice Huntington, sister but of the bride, was maid of honor and selec the little Misses Muriel Astor and go tt Margaret Dows, were flower girls. | The two children were pretty, garbed \\'ll in corn-colored chiffon and dotted net with the blue sashes. Small Gen. flowers wreathed their hats and each carried an old-fashioned bouqet. Nt Mrs. Robert Huntington, the jRobe bride's mother, wore blue tafTeta and parti chiffon. Statf A screened orchestra of 20 pieces tome played the Lohengrin "Wedding parti I March" and the Hev. Charles H. train Duncan, rector of St. Margaret's Tent church, Staatsburg, read the Kpisco- in th pal marriage service. In When the pair had risen man and al Gi wife, the wedding party assembled Caro in the "long room" adjoining the li- of A brary^ where a wedding breakfast and e' was served. Mrs. Ava Willing Astor, mother of the bridegroom, was among the wed- ; A ding guests. The young widow of frton Colonel Astor, although Invited, was t,lftt not present. She is in the South. Mr j Picnic and Home Coming Day at ' ' Heaver Creek Church. On Saturday, May 9th, there will he a picnic and home coming and ^ Sunday school educational and ^,>u( church rklly day at Beaver Creek Dentist p.hiir/?h mtlA? ^ tr" Heath Springs. The following speakers will be present: Rev. W. r*s,)(1 J. Nelson of Rock Hill, Prof. Car- ( ?tt0 berry of Wlnthrop, Dr. Chapman of Oreenville, J. M. Ferguson of Rock Hill, Dr. J? W. 11. Dyches of Heath Wi Springs. Rev. P. T. Co* ?f Rock Hill, I trove W. O. A. Porter of I,ancaster. The fh? t I public is cordially invited to come I and bring well filled baskets. with {along Nearly 4,000 acres were reforested ment in Montana and northern Idaho dur- been ing 1913, at an average cost of and i 0 $7.50 an acre. cemb S b TV . ,M A JL HANZA ACCEPTS PIxAN linn >V MEDIATION OF TltOl libKS |Y|M asKJngton, April 29.?Gen. istiano Carranza, head of the2 can Constitutionalists, late tonotifled the Latin-American 1 neriaries of his acceptance of the Battle :iplc of mediation in the dilfl' between tlie United States and co. He expressed a willingness infer on the subject. MINE lis announcement was made by etary Hryan upon being Inform- unUm y the three South American en- gx( The introduction of General anza and the Constitutionalists jjonv b into the negotiations broadens (|UStrja peace program to an effort to ,it j >ose the tentlre Mexican situation. understood that a proposal for rmistice, which already has lieen lltted to the Unitod States and (tnp St.1 >ral Huerta, now will be pre;d to General Carranza. strkers At V militia ESIDENT WILSON ' fleer ar WOULD END STRIKE The olation, N Steps Toward Further Mecll- navlllK at ion in Colorado's llloody l.alxir War. force a ? .. men an ashington, April 29.?President jetj j on has asked the president of ^ Kentucky Mine Operators' Assoin and the Alabama Operatives' _ , . CBTlipS nizatton to come to Washington ... , , mysteri ediately for a conference with , _, wards lew to further attempt at media- jn of the Colorado mine strike. Tabasc< was understood that, acting up- strikert iquest of Secretary Wilson of the ,|)e rtment of labor, these two men Flgh >sentlng the owners and the em- strj^er5 ?s of coal mine interests already , , , , lasted I on the way to Washington and f t they probably .would select a s ^ party and go to the Bcene of (lrog<jin lisorders in Colorado. within ie Italian ambassador called this sition. ling on the secretary of state to 3 o'cloi for protection for the. Italians in with e riots in Colorado. The murder (,avalar x little children was the immediause of the request for the assur- guar(j of further protection. cials tc rwell Devies is president of the out^res ucky Coal Operators' Assoela- fano C( and William R. Fairly of Ala- wer<j n 1, the officer of the United Mine tomorp Iters of America, who were sug- detachj id as the concilators. Secretary (llpri| abor Wilson said they were Ulg vu sn because he believed their po- tance ? ns as representative operator Mem representative mine worker d give the confidence of both conferc es to the Colorado controversy. venjng te secretary said that no plans ^ but been made as to procedure in proposed conciliation schemes, iTndt that a third member might be Htoppe{. ted to complete a committee to |,urg j > the scene of the strike. striken * their a Mi MKIjKCT MIlilTIA CAMPS. |proVed ? .. 'striken Kvans Will Pick Out Places lor ) URtod> Ninth and Tenth Divisions. ration (w York. April 29.?Brig. Gen. ,, p , rt J. Kvans, commanding the delient of the east of the United ,?onferc s army, will go to Washington |)0rK ft| irrow to Uike up with the war de- ;lrrangi nent the question of sites for the vjres r ing camps of the Ninth and rrnl's c h divisions of the state militia The e event of a general mobilization, (jmera the Ninth division is the Nation- expla.nr< lard of Florida, neorcia ana ih iruntia Unas, and in the Tenth, those weHj 0) labama, Mississippi, Tennessee narf?n.i Kentucky. cease f lleckhain-lteall. nity fo n\urriage which took their truce a ds completely by surprise, was arms \< of Miss Margaret Beckham and Verdecl Li. H. Beall, which took place at Sugg R. P. manse last Tuesday transml ng at 8:30 o'cloc*. The bride's sanctloi ir, Rev. W. 8. Patterson, per- by Oovi ed the ceremony. The bride, of the is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Qenerul en Beckham, has for several berg ar i held a position with Phillips & '"K the uney, while the groom holds a tnalhlo nlAA? ? * - * * v, nun m U1K IJB II easier >n Oil Mill. jBftllo t Mlldre May Still Olve Ok>u|?oi?M. Miss ;shlngton, April 29.?The con- of the F ray before Conferees regarding won. S tropoaed prohibitive, tax to atop largest >racttce of issuing gift coupon' whose cigarettes, cigars and tobacco, coveted ; with gifts and tobacco attach- come o s. it was announced today, han 20 vott postponed by the house wnvs Ix>uise means committee until next De- Miss I) er. 1.3 ft? i \ * \ ANCASTER, S. C., FRIDAY. MAY 1. 1914 E LIVES LOST IN NAVY WITHDRAWS COLORADO STRIKE AS ARMY I s Take Toll of at Least General Funston Now Nine in One Day. mand at Vera Cr ATTACK REPULSED. CHEERED BY ME? Men Driven OIT After Spirited Impressive Ceremony Marl hangc of Shots With De- fer of Authority From fenders of Forbes. to Army, er, April 29.?Colorado b In- Vera Cruz, April .? TIi 1 conflict today claimed a toll guarding the city of Ver east nine human lives. environs whs taken over was the verified record to- naVy to-day by Big Con. divided as follows: I Funston and the 5th infi orbes seven mine guards and gade of tluj United States u Iker dead, with two other While martial law still believed to have been killed, in force, the actual munlcip; Valsenburg one officer of the ment is being conducted bj hospital corps killed, one of- Keer, the American Civil id two enlisted men wounded, who has enlisted the aid o Forbes camp is a scone of des- offices to act under his s\ , nearly all the mine buildings dence and in accordance \\ Knot. .1.... t * ,....wl V... fi.n Tl.? ? - uwm viuoviujcu 13j mi*' i i'UII lilWH. j wsr opened by the strikers in After a morning enliven* bout 5.3 0 a. m. With the wo- marching to and fo of large id children of the camp barri- American soldiers, sailors in the mine store the guards inos, the cit* resumed its n led spiritedly. About 10 somewhat sleepy daily life, the firing ceased and the ing, howverl was made ge assailants disappeared as door dinner' parties at the ously as they came, some to- restaurants,! accompanied Trinidad and others over the and sometime by dancing, the direction of Bcrwind and The American troops be ). A mine official said three disembarkation from th i were seen to tumble down ports at an leurly hour in i side. ing. Before ,noor. all had ting at Walsenburg between their post in various parts c i, militia and mine guards an(* outlying suburbs, five hours. Maj. P. P. Lester NATIVES AMAZED hospital corps met his death. As the various detachmeu irough the loft breast, while into the street , their flags g the wounds of a omrade with bands playing martial 150 yards of the strikers' po- ing them, the natives api Firing ceased shortly after their balconies or came out ?k. sidewalks and gazed witti two troops of Putted States wonder at the solid y in the Fremont county field browclothed men. The peop izen volunteers and miltia on to naarvel at the precisi In Boulder county, state ofii- American soldier's move might prepared for sudden their sturdy appearance, iks in Las Animas and Huer- Shortly after the last of aunties, where federal troops had passed through the cer ,0t expected to arrive before treets of the city Brig. Gen ow morning. The militia wiht several aids drove by neut relieved by federal sol- riage and was greeted wit l Fremont county was hasten- ^ burst of applause. Colonel Verdeckberg's assls- Whon thc men hatl it Walsenburc. _ 914LL1UUM aim me reports ha bers of the legislature contin- ceived by the Brig Gen. P reach the capital for Informal clal calls were exchangee! mces preparatory to the con- Hear Admiral Badger, Go of the special session on May Robert J. Keer and Brig tonight no tangible program Bton. en decided on. Later in the day an ordei >r a truce agreement which e(J by Rear Admiral Plot I the fighting at Walaen- bad been in command of ate today approximately 650ja?hore since the landin ? tonight were to surrender mriean naval forces, co' rms to military officers ap- v0ift Qf events since l by Colonel Verdeckberg. The 0f |ju. city. 8 are not to be taken into wi" "* """'t:,'0 TT SLOW PROGRESS in the courts for killing Maj^ester of the hospital corps. IN RESCUE o'clock strike leaders were In . ... , lint lilttle Chance That \ >noo with Colonel Verdeck ....... . , Men still Kiitombcd < I the Welsenburg court hou^ Ing details, according to ad- Saved, ecelved at the adjutant gen Kccles, \N. \a.. April >fPce. '? penetrate mine No. 5 o announcement of the truce by ^'ver Colleries ( otnpany, 1 Chase tonight furnished ;?i with mine No. t? by an expl ition of the withdrawal of the terday, progressed slowl from the battlefield north and There was little chance <; ' Walsenburg today when np- alive any of the 17s miners y they had the strikers hsrd ,n mine No 5. Rescures A sugestloij that firing elearing debris from the ru or one hour to give opportu- an(' expected to know the f r negotiations looking to a men by to Sir row noon, nd possible surrender o'f fhe'r The shaft guides of mine ras communicated to Colonel which the cage is contro kberg. been badly damaged and m ested terms of surrender were paired before the cage cai Itted to General Chase and ered to the bottom. Tonlgh a for their acceptance g'ven cures reached a point wtthi ...auiiuuur. vjonnrmatlon 01 ine oouom. arrangement was Riven by Thou sand ft vlsted the see I Chase to Colonel Verdock- disaster today. The eight id John McGregor, command- th" m,n who In"f death in strikers. 6 were prepared for burl; the 67 men Injured in mi MAY QUKEN. are expected to recover. Gov. Hatfield returned to inj; ( iosed Last Nlirht?Miss fon tonight. leavinr Chief S ?l Green Elected May Queen. Inspe< tor Karl llen~v and Mildred Green. will be ' Queen tics |n charge of rose ire wo day" at the festival this after- . !he received 2.590 votes, the fl!e?>.e Suspinils Howies and number of any of the gtr'v. John >1. Kinhcfi names were entered for th'a Columbia Special to ( honor. Miss Mr telle MW'nr -Xod's pnf!" Courier, April 28 ut a close ne on1', s'ffh'VftfJ;'H r Hlhi.se has appo'nted is less than the Queen. MHts Kinloh magistrate for < Wylle next with 1,790 and vice James If. Howies, who orothy Moore fourth with pendod. The suspension hi rotes. 1 the senate meets In 1915. v't i , .. ' SAN .MAN OK I'IX)A TO IIK III a \ ACATKI) NOW AS A POISON fl II | M1TDQ Vera Cruz, April 29.?The fortress M I LllO ?" ^an Juan ''' I'loa. known for centuries as perhaps the foulest prison in tiie American Continent, has been in Com- ordered by Hear Admiral Fletcher to ('ju-nm to I'oinolotnlv vo/ui # r?/l U?. When the American sailors and Cli" imc marines occupied Vera Cruz there V v Ai ?. were jn tjlis pr|Bon which is ron- THE I structed in the form of a little island ks Trans- jn harbor, some 4 00 prisoners, N'?vy most of them confined for political 1 ni,e<' ' offenses. Three hundred of these 441 1 e task of men already have been released or a and its transferred to other prisons, but Wash from the there remain 116 and now these men medii Fredrick are to he released or sent elsewhere. ?r the M in try bri- broaden rmy ATLANTA PREACHER w a'lol continues al govern- SWORE TOO FREELY the 1 ait r Hobt. J. R,me- b Governor, Kev. C. II. Ilngsdule, Affiant in Frank 1' '* 11 f Mexican Case, designs After Visit jperinten- From Connnlttee. publii i ith Moxi- Atlanta, (la., April 29.?The Rev. Thls 1 C. 11. Ragsdale, pastor of the Plum nu*(liatic od by the Street Baptist church here, who re- ''''l'1 'at bodies ot cently made aflidavit that he lieahd < and m.ir- James Conley, a negro, confess the o1 ,lu"* ( lornal and murder of Mary Phagan, a 1 4-year-;< nf The even- old factory girl, and then repudiated t,,e auil) y by out- his sworn declaration, has resigned minister cafes and his charge. Alreat , . era i iiu by music The action of the minister followed , he good a visit from a committee of the (,m igan thiei church, it was announced tonight. A ((iJ) ^ e trans- meeting of the church's membership |,,-UIUr|,t die mora- bas been called for tomorrow night ((> ,|riw march to t0 take action on the resignation. vithin t >f the city Arguments on th? pending extra- iii<-li m ordinary- motion for ? new trial for . . Karlie .... ueo M. Frank, the factory superini . . , made an it s swung tendeut, under sentence of death for ^ living and the murder, will be resumed in the " K ? ,i i- . Huerta i airs, lead- superior court here I- riday. , .. which a reared on < onley. the negro, w as a sw< eper : onto the in the plant of the National Pencil the outci i undisug Company, of which Frank was su... ,, , , , , , ; mediatoi ranks of perintendent. He was the chief wit r .1 a a. . sides to le seemed ness for the state at F rank s trial, t on of the saying that he aided in the disposal 1,0 ,1 ... i ,, a*. . a . armistici tnent and ?> the body in the factory basement. , ( arrange ( onley was sentenced to one year s . the troops Imprisonment as an accessory. ^ents U itril sstre- Sult waR fi,ed her<> to<1a>' a na" the Funston llonal detective agency againRt the { ^ In n nar 'National Pencil Company for $1,200 * " ') ill a C*ir- j 1 A mpripfi h aii out-jror in investigating the ease. i This agency's services preceded the y ? n tin tr^ir work of anot^er agency. A partial st palat0 ?' "" u?ton oB- :tr*"1' ?? "* ""'O "' The Sou I between ~ * ___ session vernmonts "MILKMAIDS' CONVENTION." adjourni Qen Fun- .steadily Flay least Night a Success anil Was a definit was issu- (treat Iy Kn joyed. few day cher, who The home talent play, presented tio,K "I) operations |ast niK|lt at the opera house before ,,1(,ivldn g of the an audience which filled comfortably tollf,aK? k ring the the large auditorium, was very good, 1 rom ( '' I he taking indeed. Two dozen maids ami lav ^efo matrons, in p?nk. green, re dand vol au<1 ,lis( low costumes, with uui.int and tie- Tll,s coming Dutch caps, made a prett\ tors ,l: WORK ,,,,ur'' as l?^y <ame down the long Nm,>ri,,il aisle. ea< h carrying a pail and milk- :ilft'Pts 1 II y of 17H -"K -tool, filed upon the stage and an lie after a prettj drill proceeded to """> of fmsine,". The deliberations and al ^tneriea Efforts tccations which then ensued were l,al ''' I the New most ;,m?sil,K- Music was rurnislied ",1 par wrecked ',y Mr" U' M McDermid's violin class. il"' Am< loslon yes- of Misses Mildred (Ireen l!,<" ,r:!'1 ly todav ! 0,:is<* poap- MarV I'Ocke llarron and Jpllon' M-irv ..i?_ Word .. . ...... ...Iitnlh. null II I.I ml 11Cif reciting .... t, i. the tend , <-otnp;iniiiieiit by Mrs. (.. It. Hnrron. entombed ward mi . rir.8 was the first time this interest continued.. , . , . . ,. , in a tel . . . 1 .ng class has played together In ined shaft ... , .. . . . .. America . . public and their debute was quite ute of the . , .. . . . . Secretar successful, the sweet music being # ... ... . being fo quite a feature of the entertainment ! No 5, by . . ? . partmen .... The whole affair was verv creditable lied have . ..... . . supposec nd a neat little sum was raised bv ust be re- .. ,,, . ... . .. would c? the oung Women s Association of the i be low- . . . i Dement First Baptist church, under whose t the res- t ween t auspices it was given. In 60 feet i lluerta the arre >ne of the Dixie School Close* Next Friday. Tampico J^odles of The Dixie school, taught by Miss Cruz. I mine No. He?ple Flynn, will close next Friday they ve al. All of evening. May ft, with appropriate ex their att ne No. 6 orclses. which will begin promptly between at 8 o' lock. A picnic will be held United Charles- next day, Saturday, May 9, at which quietly e tate Mine the speakers will be Messrs. M J. scope of 60 depu- 'Iroeii and It. K. Wylle. tutionali rk. might hi ...... . H pacific Appoints 4 nines School House Democratic j j r|,,h- !'.k ' that the harlestoi. Carries School House Democratic f0 u e (, Cover- .b met April 25 -uid elected dele- f^i* ^j^,, John M. g itos to the county convention. "This Columbia, i Executive committeeman. R. M<ie&mestl) was bus- Walters. Delegates, S. R. Hegler, R. 'vvho ape Mds until Arant, J. S. Clifton, T. P. McManua. ij. A. Carnes. D. E. WalterH. (Con V 0 $1.50 PER YEAR /lFYinn mm I ILJ\IUU UMULIi PLAN OF MEDIATION za Accedes to Itequest of Intermediaries. "IGHTING WILL STOP. antes and lluertu Will A^ree Vrmist ic ami ( arn?n/a is K\|HM'te<l to I)o So. ington, April 29.?The scope ition plans for the settlement lexican crisis was suddenly ed tonight so as to include re range of Mexican affairs, ie the critical issue between ,ed States and the Iluerta reut also the conflict between lents of Northern and South;ico which have rent the re signal enlargement of the m program, followed the ree in the day of a formal achy General Carranza, chief onstitutionalists, of the priniucdiation, as proposed by assador from Brazil and the s from Argentina and Chile, ly the United States and Generta had formally accepted offices of those South Amoroys and now rs a further leneral Carranza has been into the deliberations so as every element and faction he range of any settlement ay be attained, r in the day the mediators other decisive move, in askUnited States and General Lo agree to an armistice by II aggressive military moveould be suspended pending mm* 01 nits negotiations. ine s confidently expect both accept the armistice pro\ separate proposal for an a as between Huerta and i also will be made, and with dance all of the warring elelrougliout Mexico as well as erican forces, would mainmilitary status quo. The n government in its formal the armistice proposal will expressly that any untoward rd Americans will be regardi infraction of the armistice, th American envoys were in throughout the day. Up to nent they had progressed on their plans and foresaw e statement within the next s of their contemplated ac- , uring the evening the envoys ally conferred with their es in the diplomatic corps ntral and South America to re them what had been done uss the gcnet-rr situation, emphasized what the mediive been seeking?a purely n settlement of a crisis which lie political Integrity of all America. The patriotic all Mexico and all Spanishwas expected to give a sigeine to the world at large licularly to Kuiope of what rican republics could do ,nr rjuility of the Western hemnt n time of supreme crisis, of Carranza's acceptance of er of pood offices lookikng to'diatiou came late in the day 'gram to the three South n envoys, who informed y Bryan, the announcement rmally made at the state det. It generally had been I that the intermediaries inline their efforts to a setof the differences arising behe United States and the government as a result of ist of American marines at and the seizure of Vera tut is developed that while re prepared to concentrate ent'.on to averting hostilities General Huerta and the States, the envoys were ndeavoring to include in the their mediation the Oonstists, so that all elements p brought into harmony for settlement. s connection, it was recalled American overnment's reply slider of good offices made ificant statement: government hopes most ' that you may find those ak for the several elements tinned on Page Bight.)