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WILL NOT ALLOW - MPS 10 PASS GOVERNOR REFUSES TO SIGN ORDER GIVING PERMISSION TO THE MILITIA. DISPATCHES FROM COLUMBIA Doings and Happenings That Mark the Progress of South Carolina Peo ple, Gathered Around the State Capitol. Columbia. ;?% o ra. Tne governor 01 ouulu v^ai unua fused to sign an order granting per mission for such troops of the Na tional Guard of Georgia to enter South Carolina, going to or returning from the camp at Augusta, as may obtain the benefit of a more-direct route thereby. The order was sub mitted to the governor by W. W. Moore, adjutant general, along with other orders. The governor returned all of them, saying he would sign no further orders until the military mat ters had been straightened out be tween this state and the war depart ment, Gen. Moore says. "It is a matter of courtesy, simply," "said Gen. Moore. "I am aware that there is a law that does not permit armed troops from another state to enter without permission. In the gen eral run of things I do not think It is necessary for them to" have pre mission." J. Van Holt Nash, adjutant general of Georgia, wrote Gen. Moore on June 30 as a mere matter of form, request ing permission for troops of the Na tional Guard to enter South Carolina on their way to and from Augusta. Gen. Moore was one the campaign at the time the communication was received at His office. un returning he presented order No. 47, along with other orders, to the governor for his ' signature. In his reply to Gen. Nash on July 6, Gen. Moore said: "The order was returned to this de partment by the governor with the statement that he would sign no fur ther orders until the military situa tion in this state was cleared up with, the war department. "I regret exceedingly that the gov ernor has taken such a position and that this courtesy can not be formally granted you." Differences existing between Gov. Blease of South Carolina and the war flonartTriftnt ?r* resnonsible for the governor's refusal to allow the state troops of Georgia to pass th-rough South Carolina to the proposed joint encampment in Augusta, Ga., next month. Adjt. Gen. Nash of the Geor gia National Guard made public a let ter from Adjt Gen. Moore of the South Carolina National Guard, which said that the ban would not be re moved until the issues between Gov. Blease and Secretary of War Garri son had been settled. Dispensary Sales For Month of July. Dispensary sales during the month of June, according to figures compiled by Mose H. Mobley, state dispensary auditor, amounted to $276,043.17 in 14 counties. The total operating ex penses amounted to but $18,096.75. Richland county led, with sales amounting to $62,112.43. The other counties with their sales are as fol lows: Charleston, $55,855.10; Flor ence, $41493.19; Orangeburg, $22, 164.67; Barnwell, $17,855.26; Aiken, $13,759; Georgetown, $12,524; Union, $11,521.75; Beaufort, $10,963.25; Lex ington, $10,902.05; Bamberg, $7,167, 72; Dorchester, $5,606.75; Calhoun, $3,879.80, and Jasper, $1,538.20. / Increase Salary of Postmasters. nr ui vv abuiug tv/ii.?wuiuai lrncwaiuua tion of presidential postoffices in South Carolina, notice of which was made public recently shows that * 19 offices in the state have shown an in crease in .receipts sufficiently large to warrant an increase in the salary of the postmaster. The report shows that Columbia will be advanced from $3,400 to $3,500; Florence from $2, 500 to $2,600; Gaffney from $2,200 to $2,300 and Spartanburg from $3,100 to $3,200. Health Officer For Florence. C. C. Craft of Columbia, who was graduated from the Citadel in Char leston in 1902 and received his de gree of doctor of medicine from George Washington university in 1909, has been chosen whole time city health officer of Florence and has al ready assumer his duties. Dr. Craft has had hospital experience, was sur geon and magnetic observer on the yacht Carnegie during ith long trip and has lately been a practicing phy sician. The election of Dr. Craft fol lowed close on the recommendation. Hayne Favors Rat Proof Docks. James A. Hayne, M. D., state health officer, has received a telegram from I. L.'McGlasson, quarantine officer at Galveston, Texas, asking his opinion in a proposed plan to form a health alliance with Pan-American couctiles for the purpose of having rat-proof docks and uniform methods of fumi gation. Dr. Hayne replied that he thought the plan an excellent on^ and assuivd co-operation from South Car olina in any such movement. He also suggested that a conference be held in the near future. C?rolina Cotton is Good. Washington.?Tests by the depart ment of agriculture have demonstrat ed that long staple cotton of a spin ning quality equal to the standard Mississippi delta grade may be pro duced by scientific methods on the Carolina uplands. The department, announcing this conclusion recently, declared the general impression that the uplands were unsuited for produc tion of long staple types was due to "lack of understanding of the proper methods to be used with the seed and at the gin." Banker's and Help Says 8. H. Rawla. "The boll weevil has about 250 miles to travel hefore It reaches the South Carolina border and at its average rate of migration this will require about five years," said B. H. Rawl, chief of the dairy division, bureau of animal industry, United States depart ment of agriculture, in an address on the boll weevil delivered before the South Carolina Bankers' association recently in Charleston. On this pre mise Mr. Rawl developed plans for the people of the state by which they* can better cope with the situation when the boll weevil appears and re duces the cotton crop about 50 per cent. He told of the ravages in other states and drew a parallel of similar conditions for this state. His remedy is that the farmers learn to grow other crops or to raise live stock, and that the bankers co-operate with them by lending them money to build up these new ventures. . Mr. Rawl traced the gradual ad vance of <the boll weevil from the time that it llrst appearea in uie Brazos river region of Texas, and showed by statistics the devastation that this little animal has done. In Louisiana, for instance, in 1904, the cotton crop was over 1,000,000 bales but after the boll weevil had fully en tered the state the crop decreased to less than 250,000 bales, and since ttfen it has not exceeded 400,000 bales per annum. But worse are the figures for ten counties in the southern part of Mississippi* In 1906 they produced an aggregate of 262,486 bales, which was reduced in 1912 to 38,133 bales. Speaking of the change in financial conditions due to this astounding de crease in cotton production, Mr. Rawl said: "Since cotton has become unprofit able, why do the farmers not raise live stock? The answer is,' they do --- ? ? ? ? -3 ? UtrA O not Know now iu cuuuuui a ino oi>w? business and they have no money tc get into It. The bankers are unwill ing to lend money for live stock pro duction, because they know that th? farmers are without experience ia this business and therefore loans for that purpose would be unsafe. "You," he continued, "the banker* of South Carolina, have in your con trol the most powerful single factor for dealing with this most perplexing problem. It is the $37,000,000 that you lend annually to the farmers of the state for cotton production. You can require as a condition of these loans that a small amount of them, say 10 per cent, be devoted to the production of money crops other than cotton. You can Increase their loans slightly with the stipulation that the increase and 10 per cent of the loan desired be used for something z>th&; than cotton." Sscretary Issues New Charters. Carolina Grocery ( company o>| Georgetown has been chartered by tha secretary of state, with a capital os $20,00 to do a general wholesale an4 produce business. The officers are: James P. Scurry, president; R. W. McAdams, vice president, and J. M, Layton, secretary and treasurer. Oliver Brothers, Inc., of Cades has been chartered with a capital of $12, 000 to do farming, mercantile and rea! estate business. The officers are: D. H. Oliver, president and E. S. 01iV6r, secretary and treasurer. Edgewood Development company of Columbia has te/?n commissioned with a capital of $2,000. The peti tioners are: B. Waitfes, E. L. Al lison and W. H. Sims, all of Colum< bia. Palmetto corporation of Orange burg has been commissioned by the I secretary of state, with a capital of $4,000, to conduct a manufacturing business, to deal In real estate and personal property, and to act as a general contractor. The petitioners are William C. Wolfe and Joseph A. Berry of Orangeburg. The True Record Check Book com pany of Columbia has been commis sioned by the secretary of state, with a capital of $10,000. The petitioners aTe: H. B. Ayfies, Alan Johnstone, Jr., W. C. McLean and C. F. Appleton. The company will manufacture checl books and do a general commercia' stationery business. South Carolina's Part of Tax. Washington.?Receipts from corpor ations and individuals under the in come tax law for the fiscal year end ed June 30, made public recently by Commissioner Osborn, show that $120,126.32 was collected in South Carolina for corporation excise and tax and $25,816.08 from individual in comes. May Arrange For Payments. Miss Edith Parrott , state demon strator of tomato clubs, spent one day in Camden with the Kershaw county ^ Ar* n no fA nn in T /v? CaI rv?-v*? uruiuiiouaiui, iiiioo nuuxc ucu On account of a flaw in the legislative | act for the payment of the Kershaw county demonstrator there has been no payments made to Miss Setzer and unless the matter is arranged J satisfactorily it is probable that the iwork will have to be abondoned. Six ! public spirited men may arraoge the 'payments in case the money uan not be gotten fprm the county. Unnecessary Pensions Paitf. Charges made at the tecent annual reunion in Anderson of the South Car olina division, UnJtved Confederate veterans, that person's are drawing pensions from :ne state as Confeder ate veteran? who are not entitled to such relio^, were brought to the notice of Camp Hampton, U. C. V., recently by W. A. Clark, when he made a re port in his capacity as delegate from the camp to the Anderson reunion. The camp at the same meeting ar ranged to hold its annual barbecue July 21, at Ridgewood. Red Spider Makes Appearance. 'The red spider season is at hand," said Government Agent E. A. Mc Gregor at Batesburg recently. "Com plaints have begun to come in to the Batesburg office of the federal bureau of entomology. H. W. "Malloy of Columbia, who farms extensively in Scotland county, North Carolina, com plains that 30 or 40 acres of cotton is infested badly with the red spider and tne ^ureau is at present conduct ing a demonstration on his farm at Laurinburg. PARTY IS PLEDGED . TO ANNEX NATION . f ' SENOR QUERIDO MOHENO, A PROMINENT MEXICAN ir^ DICTS PROGRESSIVES. SAYS INVASION IS A CRIME En Route to United States, He Criti cises President Wilson's Policy and Shakes Fist at Flag. Vara Cruz, Mexico.?Querido Mo heno, former Mexican Minister o 1 Commerce and Labor, before depart ing on board the Espagne, virulent ly criticised the policy of the United States towards Mexico. As he sat in the forward saloon of the French liner, Senor Moheno looked through a porthole toward the American flag flying in Vera Cruz and shook his fist in rage. He insisted that he was in a posi tion to produce proofs that there ex ist?d a "secret nlatform" of the Pro gressive party in the United Stated, of which dolonel Theodore Roosevelt was cognizant and in which he con curred, looking to the disruption of Mexico and the acquisition ultimately by the United States of all the terri tory between the Rio Grande and Panama. He said that Francisco Escucisco, who was Minister of Foreign Rela tions in Carranza's Cabinet, has let ters which to him are conclusive evi dence of his allegations, and declar ed he hoped to be able to produce these letters at the proper time. "And not only were the leaders of the Progressive party pledged to this policy," he added," but politicians of both the Republican and Democratic parties had promised their secret sup port. That President Wilson himself had subscribed to this iniquitous cor respondence as evidenced by his atti tude toward Mexico. Not a single American in all the hundred million population of the United State? can give satisfactory answer as to why those troops are on shore in Vera Cruz." "To snow rreeiaeni wnsons cnme against Mexico?the greatest in the history of modern nations," is the an nounced object of Senor Mohena's trip to the United States by way of Cuba. He arrived here on the Es pange from Puerto Mexico and said he wotild not go ashore. Moheno said he hoped, while in the United States, to convince the Ameri can people of the enormity of the "crime committed not only by Presi dent Wilson but by all the political factors in the United States, regard leas of party." SECRETARY NAMES BATTLESHIP The Mississippi and Idaho Will Be New Dreadnaughts. Washington.?Secretary'Daniels an nounced that the latest four new dreadnaughts, beginning with No. 39, would .be named Arizona, California, Missippi and Idaho. The last two Vere so named in order that the states of Miseiss'ppi and Idaho might not lose their ships because of the recent sale of two battleships to Greece. "It isn't every, day," said Secretary Daniels as he announced the names of the new vessels, "that a Secretary of the Navy has the privilege of naming a quartet of battleships. With the newly named battleships, every state In the Union now has a battleship numort fnr it orront TWnrvlnnrt Mnn. tana, . South Dakota, Washington, West Virginia, Colorado, North Car olina, New Mexico and Tennessee. In the future the armoured cruiser California will be known as the San Diego. $200,000 For Salem Sufferers. Washington.?Congress appropriat ed $200,000 for the relief of sufferers from the Salem, Mass., fire. The house in spite of vigorous opposition Appropriation Committee, accepted led by Chairman Fizgerald, of the by a vote of 161 to 66 a Senate amend- , ment to the sundry civil bill to pro vide the money. Acquire More Reserves. WnchirKrfnn Ptirrhoco hv tho cnv eminent of 13,575 acres of forest lands in North Carolina was. approv ed by the National Forest Reserva tion Commission. The acquisition embraces twelve tracts, eleven -of them in Buncombe, Yancy and Mc Dowell counties, with a total area of 12,400 acres, and the other with an area of 1,175 acres in Macon county. All of the tracts adjoin Federal res ervations previously acquired and most of them are wooded with poplar, oak, chestnut and other timber. Age Retired Him. Washington.?One of the very few men who rose to the highest rank in the Navy from his position as an en listed man?Rear Admiral William H. H. Southerland?was placed upon the retired list by reason of having reached the statutory age of 62 years. He was born in New York and ap pointed as a naval apprentice in 186S and because of peculiar aptitude and ! excellent service was transferred to the Naval Academy from which he ( graduated with honors. He was . Roosevelt's naval aide at one time. Winters' Case Dismissed. Newcastle, Ind.?The case against Dr. W. A. Winters and his wife, Mrs. . Byrd Winters, who 'were charged with conspiracy in conection with the disappearance of the doctor's nine year-old daughter, Catherine Winters , was dismissed here by the prosecut- , ing attorney on the ground that there was not sufficient evidence against the defendants. William P. Cooper, who also was charged with the con spiracy, was set free. Affidavits were filed against the three defend j ants May 30, 1914. . ; W;;'. --. x- . v Si . .':.v.1. . ' _ ~ f * ' _ . .' .** Gen. Erasmus M. Weaver is now In command of the United States coast artillery. He was born in Lafayette, Ind.; in 1854 and was graduated from the United States military academy in 1872. SENATE CONFIRMS 3 BOARD MEIERS { , . MR. WARBURG MAY ASK'PRESI DENT TO WITHDRAW^ HIS NAME. ' ?; ' / r* mr iriNcc iq nnpQTinwpn villa #viihiw w He Goes Before the Investigating Com mittee and Tells About Relations to Harvester Company. Washington.?The nominations by President Wilson of three of the five members of the Federal Reserve Board?Charles S. Hamlin, W. P. G. Harding, and A. C. Miller?were con firmed by the senate. The nominations of Paul M. War burg of New York and Thomas D. | Jones of Chicago have not been acted upon by the Banking and Currency Committee and probably will not be for a few days. It was stated that Mr. Warburg would ask the President to withdraw his nomination, but Acting Chairman Hitchcock of the Banking Committee telegraphed an Invitation for him to appear and submit to the committee's questions. It was sug gested, however, that Mr. Warburg probably would decline the invitation and that this would be followed by an announcement from "the White House that the nomination had been withdrawn. Mr. Hamlin, Mr. Miller and Mr. Harding take the oath of office within a few days and the work of setting in motion the new Federal banking sys tem can begin at once. The Secre tary of the Treasury and the Comp troller of the Currency are exofflcio members of the board, Which consists of seven members. The Ave will con stitute a quorum to do practically all preliminary business. Mr. Jones was before the commit tee for nearly four hours to tell about his relations with the International Harvester Company and the New Jer sey Zinc Company, both so-called T T ~ 1or>rr+V> ii uoto. nc was qucauuucu au icugtu by the members. No proposal was made to vote on a report to the Sen ate on his nomination, but it is re garded as probable that if approval is given it will, be by* a close vote. WILL BE 200 CADETSHIPS. To Be Filled at Naval Academy In 1915. Washington.?Upwards of 200 cadet ships at the West Point Military Academy are to be filled in 1915. In response to numerous inquiries on the subject from all over the country, the War Deprtmect announcd the list of cadetships for which cadets are to be appointed to the academy on the nomination of senators and represen tatives in Congress. Entrance exam inations are to begin in March. President Secures Release. Trenton, N. J.?Through the person al efforts of President Wilson, a woman who was employed in his Princeton home as a domestic 10 years ago will be released from the Mercer County jail to which she was committed on a charge of habitual urunKenness. i ne woman s name is being withheld at the request of the President, who desires to give her a new start in life. Her predicament was found by a former Princeton school teacher. Miss Katherine Welsh, who wrote to the President. Successful Flight of ^America. Hammondsport, N. Y.?With a load Df nearly 1,800 pounds, Glenn Curtiss rose from the water in the America the Rodman Wanamaker's trans-At lantic flying boat, in GO seconds after leaving the dock. 'Planing on the surface for another 100 yards he was free and clear in the air one minut9 and fifteen seconds after the start. This is the fastest rising from the water the America has done. Lieu tenant John C. Porte started out with i similar load but contented himself with planing about the surface. May Be Prosecutions. El Paso, Tex.?Other prosecutions may follow'the one already begun at Washington with the issuance of a warrant charging Santiago Winfield with embezzlement in connection with the fight between Carranza and Villa agents for the possession of a great consignment of Constitutionalist fiat paper currency. This was declared by persons here, who also asserted several Mexicans prominent in public affairs had assisted in conveying a small amount of the money to Juarez last week. -Cs -J' WHEAT WILL BEAT ALL PAS! RECORDS * J FORECAST OF PRODUCTION lo FOR 30,000,000 BUSHELS IN .UNITED STATES. LESS TOBACCO IS RAISED Growers Two Hundred. Million Pounds Short.?Corn Prediction Shows Small Increase. Washington.?The first idea of the size this year of the country's great est farm crop, was given when the Department of Agriculture issued its report showing the acreage, condition and estimate of the number of hush els of corn which condition repcrrts indicate will be produced. More def inite figures as to the size of the great wheat crop, the largest ever grown, also were given, as well as the first idea of the size of the potato, tobac co and rice crops. , Details of the acreage, condition-on July 1, indicated acre yield and total production, interpreted from condition report, of tlflB various crops, follow: All wheat: Area planted, 53,377,000 acres, compared with 50,184,000 acres last year. Condition, 92.4 per cent of tAMwtnl nr(<fVt QQ 7 TVAr uuimat v,uiiipaiT7u miu ?<j, yv* cent on June 1. 78.6 per cent on July 1 last year and 81.7 per cent, the 10 year average on July 1. Indicated yfeld, 17.4 bushels last year and 14.7 bushels, the average for the past five years. Estimated total production, 900,000,000 bushels, compared with 900,000,000 bushels, the June forecast, 763,380,000 bushels last year, and 686, 000,000 bushels, the average for the past Ave years. The amount of wheat .remaining on farms July 1 is estimated at about 32, 236,000 bushels, compared with 35,515, 000 bushels on July 1, 1913; and 23, 876,000 bushels on July 1, 1912. Corn: Area planted, 105,067,000 acres; compared with 105,820,000 acres last year. Condition, 85.8 per cent of a normal, compared with 86.9 per cent on July 1 last year and 84.7 per cent, the 10-year average on July 1. Indicated yield 27.3 bushels per acre, compared with 23.1 bushels last year and 25.9 bushels the average for the past five years. Estimated total pro duction 2,868,000,000 bushels, compar ed with 2,446,988,9000 bushels last year, and 2,450,000,000 bushels, the average for the past five years. Tobacco; Area planted, 1,151,000 -1 -J ?lit. 1 Of/? AAA nAWAd acres, compareu wiui i,^iv,vvu last year. Condition, 66 per cent of a normal, compared with 82.8 per cent last year and 84.6 ( per cent the 10 year average on July 1. . Indicated yield 636.3. pounds last year and 815.1 pounds, the average for the past five years. Estimated total production, 733,000,000 pounds, compared with 954,000,000 pounds last year, and 996, 000,000 pounds the, average for the past five years. 9HICAGOANS OFFER ADVICE. ? u/uu BusineM Men V1811 ana vonior ttihi Wilson on Policy. Washington. ? Representatives, of "big business" talked at length with President Wilson at the White House about the Administration's anti-trust, program. Ten leading members of the Chicago Association of Commerce gave Mr. Wilson their ideas of proper trade commission and railroad secur ities bills, and as a result the bills passed by the House and pending in the Senate may be modified. Both the President and the business men gave out statements referring to the cor diality of the meeting. Daniels Receives Check. Washington.?The sale of the bat tleships Mississippi and Idaho for use in the Greek navy, was consummated by the delivery to Secretary Daniels of a check for $12,535,275.96. The (check was signed by Fred J. Gaunt ett, representing the Greek govern ment, which does not figure directly in the transaction. The check was at once endorsed by Secretary Dan iels and sent to the treasury. : Fix Coal Rates. Washington.?Definite relationship of rates on coal from Virginia and Kentucky mines to destinations north i of the Ohio River was established in a decision uy lue juicisluic tummvivv commission, the ^culminations of an inquiry into proposed increases by the report. The roads were required to cancel rates which exceed. From the mines in the St. 'Charles, Va., group to northern destinations the rates must not exceed those from the Middlesboro-Jellico group by more i than 10 cents a ton. Rebels Win Battle. > Saltillo, Mexico?General Obregon, Constitutionalist commander of the Division of the Northwest, reported to General Carranza that he had de cisively defeated an army of 6,000 Federals sent out from Guadalajara to oppose Obregon's advance on that city. Ten of the SO Federal troop' trains containing large quantifies oi I < arms, ammunition and supplies and a number of prisoners were captured : Obregon reported the Federals flee according to the dispatch. General Obregon reported Federals fleeing. i Mining Strike Settled. Charleston, W. Va.?Differences be tween operators and miners of the ( Kanawaha district were settled at a conference of operators and miners 1 here. Neither side would give infor- 1 formation concerning the settlement. ' The present difficulty began June 1 1 when 10,000 miners walked out. ' Through the efforts of a mediation ( board apointed by Secretary of Labor 1 Wilson an agreement on some of the ' points was reached and it is supposed ' the settlement resulted when the in- 1 terested parties agreed. ! Senor Luis Cabrera, one of the Car ranza junta In Washington, is consid ered one of the brainiest men con nected with the constitutionalist cause. He was made< a member of Carranza's provisional "cabinet. PRESIDENT TALKS OF INIPFIIRF UK II1ULI LIlUMlVh. AMERICANS SHOULD MANAGE THEIR OWN AFFAIRS IN WAY TO HONOR FOUNDERS. CRITICIZES THE KNOCKERS Facts, or Alleged Facts, Being Qlven Out Do Not Always Tally, Says President Wilson. Philadelphia, Pa.?Advocating the modernizing of the Declaration of Independence toy applying its princi ples to the business the politics an# the foreign policies of America, Pres ident Wilson thrilled -a huge crowd asembled In < Independence Square within a few, feet of where the origi nal declaration was signed. The president touched on Mexico, the Panama tolls repeal controversy, his anti-trust program, business con ditions and his ideas of modern pa triotism. Pounding his fist on the table on which the Declaration of In dependence was signed, he declared Americans today must manage their affairs in a way to do honor to the founders of the nation. There are men in Washington today, he de clared, whose patriotism is not showy but who accomplish great patriotic things. They are staying in Washing ton, doing their duty, keeping a quo rum in each house of Congress to do business. ;"And I am mighty glad to stay there and stick by them," he added. Touching on business conditions of the country, President Wilson said a great many allegations of facts were being made, but that a great many of these facts do not tally with each other. "Are these men trying to serve their country or something smaller than their country?" the president asked. "If they love America and there is anything wrong it is their business to put their hands to the' task and set It right." t Eighty-five per cent of the Mexi can people, the president said in touching on Mexico, never have had a right to have a "look-in" on their government while the other 15 per cent were running it. "Now, the American pople have a heart that beats for them just as it beats for other millions," Mr. Wilson continued. "I hear a great deal about the property loss in Mexico, and I re gret that with all my heart, but back of it all is a struggling people. Let us not forget that struggle in watching what is going on in front." "I would be ashamed of the flag if we did anything outside this country which we would not do in it," the president declared. Speaking of Panama tolls, the pi COIUCii L aaiu Liac ucai/ tvuu uugiauu might be a mistake, but its meaning cannot be mistaken and he believed in keeping the nation's obligations. He believed in keeping the name of the United States unquestioned and unsullied. 4 Before the president got his speech well under way the crowd surged for ward in such confusion that a panic was threatened. Two companies of marines and sailors stood before the speaker's stand and the president was forced to step several times. Want $10,000 to Fig^t Plague. Atlanta, Ga.?The State Board of Health, is was announced a few days ago, has asked the General Assem bly, through Governor Slaton, for an appropriation of $10,000 with which to fight possible entrance of bubonic | plague llllU ucuifeia ocapuna. 1U re questiong the appropriation the health ; officials announce they wish to mako an investigation, following the recom mendation of Surgeon General Rupert Blue, of the United States Public ' Health and Marine Hospital Service < now at New Orleans. : Killed by Dynamite. Dayton, Penn.?An explosion of dynamite here killed William Clever, J aged 2, and so seriously injured Fred . Clever, age 6, and his sister, Grace. < ige 4, that physicians said they could < not live. John Wargney lost his right < land. A friend had taken four sticks : af dynamite to the Clever home to ' elebrate the Fourth and while he was I preparing the charge, William picked ] ip one of the caps and bit it. The < ;xplosion that followed instantly killed i llm and set off the dynamite. ; SUCCESS CROWNS .: WORK OF PEACE CARRANZA AND VILLA BELIEVED TO HAVE REACHED AMICA ^ BLE AGREEMENT. V * . '?- L MUTINY AMONG FEDERALS Officials See Possibility of Disaffec tion of Troops Blocking General Huerta's Future Exit Washington.?Reports from Top reon that the Vllla-Carranza peaoe conference ended last night and that differences . in the Constitutionalist ranks had been adjusted were encour aging to Washington officials and Constitutionalist agents here, who hope mediation of the Mexican im brolgio soon may be successfully con- \ eluded. ' / While no official dispatches had been received by General Carranza's ?. agents relative to the settlement of the Conatitutionallsts internecine , af fairs, a message from General .Villa, addressed to his American agent, Fe lix Sommerfeld declared the Torreon conference was progressing satisfac torily and that the differences would be settled. Later Information direct from the conference asserting that terms of settlement had bdan reached was credited here generally. It was be lieved a decision by the Constitution alist generals as to the invitation for their representatives to' meet with Huerta's delegates to discuss Mex ico's internal affairs soon would fol low. , Rafael Zubaran, Luis Cabrera, Fernando Iglesias . Calderon and Leopoldo Hurtado Espinosa, Consti tutionalist agents conferred with Charles A. Douglas, legal representa tive of General Carranza in Washing ton, after Douglas had talked with Secretary Bryan regarding future me diation plans. None would discuss-' details of this conference, but Mr. Douglas1 made this statement: "I have every reason to , believe after troubles between Villa and . Carranza are settled, delegates from * the Constitution&liats will be named to meet with Huerta delegates to dis cuss the formation of a provisional government in Mexico:" Mutiny among Mexican .Federal soldiers near American outposts at Vera Cruz was a subject of interest in American official quarters. Sev eral messages from General Funston-^ reported that fighting between the Federals and mutineers' was in progress. The Mexican Federal com mander previously had warned Gen eral Funston that the mutineers had threatened to attack the American, lines. . n v ROOSEVELT TO EMERGE. Out of Enforbed Rest He Enters f '. ' .Political Arena. Oyster Bay, N. Y.?Theodore Roos* velt emerged from the seculsion of ? Sagamore Hill,, where he has been shut up for a week by his doctors' or ders and again took up active political work. Early in the day he went to New-York, for a meeting with state leaders. The discussion of a nominee for governor will be brought up again in the hope of deciding whether Col onel Rooeeveli will run. a V.} Colonel Roosevelt is expected to?, tell his associates the result of his. recent talk on the political situation, with Mayor Mltfchell of New York and to give his views on the feasibility of a coalition with the independent Democrats in the state campaign. Named as Special Delegate. Washington.?Thomas M. Washing ion or wiison nas Deen onerea uib place of special delegate to a confer- ^ ence on statistics between Secretary J Redfleld and tobacco men. Adverse to Suffrage. Atlanta, Ga.?The committee on con stitutional amendments of the Geor gia House of Representatives herft voted five to four, to report adversely a bill giving women the right to vbtft in state and county elections. $250,000 Damage By Storm. Yorkville, S. C.?York county waff visited by another crop-destroying hailstorm recently. It extended over an area, so far as known at this time, from above Dallas, N. C., to Rock Kin, S. C., and was from three to five miles wide, literally wiping out every thing in the way of vegetation in its path. The storm passed down the eastern border of the county for eight o rlO miles and then diverged south ward. While the full extent of the damage has not been learned as yet, but it will amount to $250,000. 1 Coal Mining in Virginia. Washington.?The year 1913 was a record breaker for the Virginia coal raining industry, according to an- * nouncement made by the geological survey. Prices also were good and there were comparatively few mine accidents. During the year 8,828.06* tons of coal were mined m Virginia, which was 12 1-2 per cent more than in 1912. The gain in value was $1, 434,077 or 19 per cent. Only 24 fatal ities occurred in the mines during the year as compared with 75 in 1912. Charged With Embezzlement. Louisville, Ky.?Samuel M. Wilhite, :ity comptroller and prominent in Louisville club and social circles, was arrested charged with embezzlement Df city funds, following a report by ?xpert accountants that they had dis covered a shortage of approximately 514.500 in the comptroller's accounts. SVilhite is alleged to have confessed Lhat since 1911, he has been securing persona' loans on contractors' bonds, leposited in the city treasury as sure y. Bonds to the amount of $14,500 ire reported missing. vJ