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VOL. XXVIII MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY. AUGU TILIJAN'S SPEEH DELIVERED IN UNITED STATES SENATE MONDAY SEES NATIONS DECAY Senior Senator Scores Woman Suf frage-Says Country Needs Good Mothers More Than Purifiers of Politics-Touches on Divorce Evil -and Camnetti-Diggs Case. For the first time since the illness which almost caused his death, Sena tor Tillman Monday delivered a real speech in the Senate in open session. There was a good attendance on the floor and in the galleries. The sub ject of the speech and vigorous man ner in its delivery (although the Sen ator read from the manuscript which he had previously dictated) interest ed the audience greatly and consti tuted a welcome diversion from the tedium of the tariff debate. Com ment In Washington was that the speech sounded exactly like the Till man of old. While Senator Tilman was ex plaining South Carolina's attitude towards divorce in contrast with that of her neighbors, Senator Overman, of North Caroline, interrupted to ex plain that the previous looseness of the divorce law in his State has been corrected. Senator Bacon undertook to make a statement with reference to Georgia, whereupon Senator Till man down, remarking that he would let Mr. Bacon make the speech. This sarcasm had its effect in checking in terruption and Senator Tillman re sumed the thread of his fiery dis course, which was in full as follows: Mr. President: A few days ago I asked permission of the Senate to in sert in the Record and to have print ed as a public document an article - entitled "The Mission of Woman," by Dr. Alfred Taylor Bledsoe. When the Record appeared the -next morn ing it was found- that the article in question contained what many Sena tor thought was an unkind and un just reference to Northern womnen. I had not read the entire article before submitting it to the Senate. I had read only the rst part, and was struck by the force of the historical references quoted in it as to the cause of the decay and fall of Rome. I felt that the article was very op portune just at this time, and that was why I wanted It given circula tion in the Record and printed as a public document. On discovering the attitude of my brother Senators to ward it, which I can readily see was natural, if not justifiable, I promptly joined them in requesting that it be expunged from the Record. I wish ed to avoid even the appearance of harboring mean thought or unchari table sentiments 'toward the women of the North. Some of the very fin est women I have ever known were Northern women and good women, thank God, are not confined to any section of our great country. They are to be found everywhere in the United States, and they will be the greatest factors in saving our civili zation from degeneration and de struction. The expunging of the article from the Record did not prevent its reach ing every part of the United States, for the copies containing it had been mailed before the action of tly Sen afe ordering it to be expunged and countermanding the order for It to be printe&as a public document had been taken. Comments m are or less vitriolic, and some of them wholly unjust and unfair, have'come to me through the mal. I halve .been astounded to see how much iignorance has been shown. Some of the most scholarly Northern magazines and periodicals, like the Independent, whose editors ought to .be ashamed of their ignor ance, discuss "The Mission of Wo man" as though It had just appeared, instead of having been published for ty odd years ago. I have received a number of requests for copies of "The Mission of)Woman"; and I am sorry that the Senate refused to have It printed as a public document, be cause the action of the Senate ex punging it from the permanent Re cord only attracted attention to it more and caused people to be curious to see what had stirred up all the row in Washington. Further Explanation. I have investigated the matter ful ly, and feel that In justice both to ' Dr. Bledsoe and to myself I ought to make a further statement. He was a profound scholar, a courteous gen tleman and a Godly man; and I feel that it is due his memory to explain fully how the article came to be writ ten, and under what circumstances it was given publicity. Dr. Bledsoe died in 1877. So nothing that has bec". or will be, said about "The Mission of Woman" here or - else where, will affect him in the slight est. He has gone, "somewhere past the sunset and the night," to a land where wordly praises can not please nor worldly censures wound or crush. But I want to clear his memory and his name from any suspicion of sec tional narrowness of any kind, and above all of narrowness and bigotry towards the women of any part of our common country. A chief tenet of the school in which he was reared was chivalrous respect and reverence for women: and to him a good wo man, wherever and under whatever circumstances she might live, was a -superior being, a sort of divinity whose high and holy purpose on earth was to bear, to rear and to mould man into the image of his Maker. In sadness, not in anger, he qaw, or thought he saw. Northern women surrendering their divinity and high privileges for mere human DYNAMITE AT WINDOW MAYOR GAYNOR OF NEW YORK, WAS IN DANGER. Explosion at City Hall Prevented by Strip of Wool Wound Tightly Around Base of Fuse. A deadly charge of dynamite, three whole ten-inch sticks and two I halves, with a fuse and detonation, was discovered Thursday afternoon near Mayor Gaynor's office window In the City Hall at New York. The bureau of combustibles found that the explosive was 40 per cent. dyna mite, the regulation blasting propor tion, and the amount found would, if exploded, have wrecked the City a Hall. The Mayor was in his office when h the dynamite was discovered by a cit Izen passing through City Hall Park. t Mr. Gaynor evinced little interest j when told of the explosives and re- u mained apparently undisturbed at his - desk while police officers hurriedly t drew a cordon around the dynamite e to keep the crowd back. a Mr. Gaynor frequently receives b threatening letters, but he would r make no statement regarding the 0 possible connection between any pre- f vious threat by mail and the dyna mite found. It is just three months , ago last year that he was shot in the f, back by a crank and so badly wound- ti ed that for several days it was feared he would die. h Close to the explosive was a piece d of Chinese punk and several partly , burned matches. The dynamite and fuse were wrapped in a piece of 0 heavy cambric. The cloth resembled d the fillets worn by Italian women of fl the working class. 1, Experts of the bureau of combusti bles said the only thing that prevent- 0 ed a disastrous explosion was the t, presence of a strip of wool wound so y tightly about the base of the fuse that a spark could not reach the de- f( tonator. An edge of one dynamite tl stick was scorched. . Police authorities say laborers e sometimes carelessly drop dynamite o sticks near their blasting operations. There is an excavation shaft on the v Broadway side of City Hall Park tl leading to the new subway construc- L tion. Detectives e-rg making a close b investigation of this location, al- I c though contractors declare they do o not use 40 per cent. dynamite in their operations. h C to the training he had received from r his own mother and to the ideals E which that training had engendered, h he kindly, but firmly, spoke his senti- h ments. e e article first appeared in print in 871, in the October number of s the Southern Review, one of the F the broadest and most scholarly pe- c riodicals of its day. It was the lineal 'V descendant of the once famous De Bow's Review. From 184$ until the e close of the civil war this later maga- ~ azine was a leading exponent of the ~ hopes and aspirations of the South; ~ and when it, mortally wounded, as it F were, by the collapse and fall of the a Southern Confederacy, suspended publication shortly after the end of s the war, the Southern Review was founded to take Its place. Dr. Bled- c se was chosen editor of the new pa- t riodical, and it was his review of the c then new published "History of I Morals," by Lecky, which led him to ~ write "The Mission of Woman". The c last chapter of Lecky's history is a very brilliant and profound exposi- ~ tion of the condition,' social rights ~ and political privileges of wo-t men in all ages. The criticism c as It appeared in the Southern Review had been reprinted in pam- I phet form .by some admirer of Dr. t Bledsoe; and Senator Johnson, of a Alabama, (now, alas! gone from us 'to his long resting place,) and had I come into possesion of a copy. He t showed it to me and asked me toj5 have it printed as a public document. I I glanced through it hurriedly and ~ was so forcibly Impressed by the au thor's apt application of Lecky's e facts to the question of woman suf- ~ frage, divorce, and materialism, now I so apparent everywhere, that I asked 1 to have It printed in the Record as well as a public document; for I ~ thought it could not be given too a wide publicity because the country needs educating along these lines c more than any other just at this Day of the Carpetbagger. t But Lecky's History was only the occasion of "The Mission of Wo- a man", The real reason for its being C written was undoubtedly the deplor able condition of Southern politics at that time. As Senators will rememn-t ber, the reconstruction of the South was completed in 1868. Universal suffrage had been decreed by Con gress, and men with Federal uni forms on their backs and rifles in their hands marshalled the newly freed blacks to the polls, and direct ed how they should cast their bal lots. Thus, undc- 'e leadership oft Thad Stevens and others, the North ern faratics sowed the seed, and byt 1871 the harvest of evils began to ripen. The South, 'prostrate and bleeding at every pore, her past a hopeless memory of better times, hert present a slough of despond, and her future a hideous nightmare-the South, I say, was literally wallowing in violence. corruption, honesty and political debauchery. It was pitiful. The great South, "than which no fairer land hath fired a poet's lay,"f was become a loathsome region, full of hideous sights and sounds and( things unholy. Negroes. very few of'( whom could real or write, and some of them not three generations re moved from the jungles of Africa. controlled our Legislatures, whilet white scoundrels and thieves from( the North .ruled the negroes and rob-;r bed our people through them. Many , of the magistrates and judges were (Cninued on last page.) I WEXICO STILL FIRM JND IS WELL RECEIVED BUT CAN MAKE NO PROGRESS MESSAGE TO CONGRESS s Being Prepared by President Wil son Who Intends to Answer Huer ta's Intimation That His Attitude is a Partisan One, Not Backed by the People. President Wilson was at work 'hursday night on a special message hich he probably will read to both ouses of Congress Monday, relating a detail to negotiations conducted [rough his personal representative, ohn Lind, with the Huerta govern ient in Mexico. The decision to iake a comprehensive statement on e situation to Congress was reach d Thursday after the President had bout concluded that negotiations etween Mr. Lind and Provisional resident Huerta, since the exchange f notes, had developed no new basis Dr discussion. With his message the President ill present the two notes, setting )rth the American suggestions to le Huerta government and its re ly. Should he read, the document imself, which he is being urged to o by members of his Cabinet and to -hich idea he is strongly inclined, it -ill be -the first time since the days f George Washington that a Presi ent has communicated a matter of >reign policy in person to the legis- 1 ttive branch of the government. There- was a well defined belief in Ificial circles that President Wilson iinks the reading of an address -hich will lay the American view int and the Huerta contentions be >re the Congress and the people of lis country, and which also will be ade public to the world generally, mn not but have an important effect n the situation in Mexico.. Intimations are contained in Pro isional President Huerta's reply to le American note presented by Jno. ind that President Wilson is not acked up by -Congress or the Ameri in people In his stand against ree gnition of the Huerta government. Referring to attacks on the Wash igton administration by members of ongress and pointing to the official commendations of Ambassador [enry Lane Wilson, Huerta declares e is entitled to be recognized. He olds that the Democrat party's pow r Is temporary, and argues that rec gnition of his government is a parti in question In the United States. [e intimates that he i'eaches his con usion on private advices from iasbington. The President's message is expect I to be a partial answer to the Inti -ations of Provisional President uerta in his note that President ilson stands out alone In his 3Mex can policy and unsupported general in Congress.' The first refutation of this Huerta apposition came in the Senate 'hursday when prominent Republi uns vigorously upheld the hands of ae President. The expressions of nfidence In the wisdom and good iith of President Wilson were made y several Republican leaders in suc ession after Senator Penrose, of ennsylvania, Republican, had intro uced a resolution to require the resident to place United States oops in MIexico to protect Ameri ans. No action was taken on the esolution. The view at the White [ouse and State department was at such a move in effect would be n act of war. Though negotiations between John ,d and Provisional President Huer are continuing on a cordial per nal basis neither side is receding rom its position. Alternative meas r~es are already under consideration. o definite course has been formulat d, but the policy which at present Is nder consideration and is most kely to be adopted is one of abso ito non-interference. The American government under' uch a policy would continue to deny~ rns to both sides, would withdraw mericans from trouble zones, insist n proper protection to property and s-es, and, in effect, let the Miexicans antinue their controversy on the bat lefield. The administration Is determined gainst intervention or war, and the thr alternative, friendly mediation, pparently has failed. Officials at Cashington believe the United States brough the mission of Mir. Lind will ave satisfied foreign governments 'enerally of its desire to bring a-bout oce and they do not conceive that here will be any pressure to bring bout intervention: Carried Off by an Eagle. An enormous eagle carried off he four-year-old child of a woodcut er while it was playing near him in le forest in the vicinity of Andeer, witzrland. A large body of hun ers accompanied by dogs searched he roads fixed caused the unfavor race of the eagle or its prey. Death R~ept Secret. The will of MIrs. Jocelyn-Clagett, of ;t. Louis, contained the clause that one of the relatives should he noti ied of her death until after the fun ml. Thea their shares of the $12, 00 estate was to be sent them. Mirs. lagett did not want a big funeral. White MIan Klled. John F. Hall. a prominent turpen in operator living noar Hazelhurst. sa., was shot in the leg Wednesday light by a negro woman dressed in nen's clothing. After shooting Mr. -Tall the woman took poison, ending BLEASE AND PARDONS WHAT A FRIENDLY NEWSPAPE SAYS ABOUT IT. Interesting Story Printed About tl Governor in a Paper That Has A ways Supported Him. Under the caption "Will Govern :Blease Be a Candidate for Any Offic in Campaign Next Summer?" an with headlines four columns vie and extending nearly half way dow the front page, the Anderson Intell gencer, which has been one of tl few newspapers in the State to sul port the Governor through thick an thin, printed on Tuesday a story thi will, no doubt, be read with interei by the people of South Carolina, pa ticularly in view of the oft-repeate declaration of the Governor that b will be In the race for the Unite States Senate. The article seems t have been based on several parole recently Issued to Anderson Count prisoners, and is as follows: That Governor Cole L. Blease wi not be a candidate for office ne3 summer is the opinion of many lea ing Anderson County Blease suppor ers. Recent actions of the Governc in extending executive clemency, a: fecting Anderson County, Is th cause of this belief, and it is share by many of the most prominer Blease men of the county. Actions of the Governor in thee instances were a complete surpris4 as much so here as anywhere in th State, and his supporters are lined u now on both sides. Friends of tb men paroled claim that his action I releasing them from the Penitentiar wfill strengthen him, while others ar as thoroughly confident that It wi lose for him in this county at leau 2,000 votes. The whole matter ha resolved itself into just this: Many of Governor 'Blease's moi influential supporters are open1 condemning him for his recent a4 tions, and declaring they will fig1 him if he ever again offers for office while on the other hand, large nun bers who have heretofore .been luk warm towards him, because be ha not taken favorable action in th cases of their imprisoned friendi now declare they will take off thei coats and pull for Blease for th Senate. It is being freely talked by man Blease and Anti-Baease men that tb Governor sees the handwriting o the wall and has determined to clea out the Penitentiary. Some few i the ranks of his strongest supportei are of the opinion that he will thro wide the gates of the Penitentiar before he leaves the Governor's chal But this extreme view is taken b only a few. The Intelligencer does not care t express itself on the recent parolei especially on the more noted onf since it has friends on both side, Every citizen is familiar with tb facts and will express himself a either favoring or condemning thi particular act as well as the Go, ernor's whole course during his ac ministration, at the polls .in the nem election, in case the Governor offe2 for office. He has that right, and th Governor himself has declared tha God permitting hIm to live until the time and his health to be retained, h certainly will 'be a candidate for seat in the Senate of the Unite States. CHARLESTON BOYS DROWN. Three Go Down 'When Sail Beat Capsized by Wind. When their frail sail -bateau cai sized Thursday morning about 1 o'clock, off the point of Folly Island Toby Hernandez, of Coles Island William Walker, of Charleston, as Burmain Grimball, of James Islan< were drowned. The young men, wh were about nineteen years of ag. were out for a lark in the bateal They had not long left Coes Islana The overturning of the bateau we witnessed by Mr. George W. Walte father of one of the boys: Dr. J. Wa ter Burn and others, and immediat< y efforts were made to go to tU rescue of the young men. Mr. A: thur Lynah's gasoline yacht, with cruising party, was passing soon a ter and this was hailed by Capt. He: nandez. A rescue party hurried I the scene, but on arriving there coul find no trace of the young men or < their bateau. It was thought thi their bodies had been carried out i sea by the powerful tide. Negro Kills Georgia Man. .. *C. Marchmon, a farmer, wt shot and killed at Greenville, Ge Wednesday by Falter Brewster, a ni gro, whom Marchman was bringir to Greenville for trial on a trivi; charge. Brewster jumped fro: Marchmcn's buggy, rushed into negro's honise by the roadside ar procured a shotgun. He chase Marchmon around the house for se eral minutes finally killing him. After Mob Leaders. Foreman Query, of the Sparta burg grand jury, said Thursday th; he would do all in his poweri bring the leaders of the mob 'whic stormed the jail Monday night justice. Negro Kills Girl. Goldie Winkfiebd, a negro, attac1 ed and murdered Estill Potter, tI -year old daughter Newton Potte his employer, on a farm near Le ington, Mo. The negro fled, pursue by armed citizens. Diggs Found Guilty. In eloping with Marsha Warrin, ton from Sacramento, Cal., to Ren Nevada, Maury I. Diggs, who w~ guilty of violating the Mann act, a cording to the verdict of the jul WOULD DESTROY WOMAN SENATOR TILLMAN TALS ON WOAN VOTING. He Says Ultimately Politics Will De stroy Woman, Which Means Doom of the Republic. Senator Tillman, showing some of r the former vigor that won for him e the soubriquet of "Pitchfork Ben", d attacked woman suffrage in a Senate e speech Monday. n "It is a beautiful dream," said he, . "that female suffrage will purify pol e itics. The vital and Important thing I- for us to consider Is the effect on d women themselves. We had better t endure the evils of corruption In poli t tics and debauchery In our govern . ment, rather than bring about a con a qition which will mar the beauty and e dim the lustre of the glorious wo d manhood to which we have been ac y customed all our lives. 9 "We can better afford to have de y graded and corrupt politics than de graded and bad women. To have .both 1 in ever increasing degree, as was the t case in Rome, would make the world L so unspeakably horrible, as well as so corrupt, that good men and women r both would disappear from the face . of the earth and civilization would be e blotted out like it was in the dark d -ages, after the fall of Rome. t "I am so thoroughly a convert to the belief that you can not touch e pitch without being defiled, that I shudder to think of the consequences to the womanhood of America, should suffrage become universal, e taking in both sexes and all races. C Yet, ,the experiment is going to be tried, I fear." Senator Tillman said the demand of woman for suffrage was growing t too fast to be stopped .by "old fogies," s like himself and that it was apparent the men of the country would give them what they demanded, "even though it be to their ultimate in jury." . "I believe woman will improve pol itics," he said, "but ultimately poli ties will destroy her as we know her and love her; and when our good wo men are no longer to be found and I we have lost the breed, the doom of e te the republic is near." Senator Tillman Included In his r speech a vigorous attack upon the di vorce evil and referred to the Diggs Caminetti white slave casesin Call fornia. e "We have bad women in South Carolina and throughout the South," he said, "-but the habits of our people and their customs, inherited from our forefathers, make it dangerous to r "monkey with men's womenkind." r Some Northern people call us barba rians. If the California men had our r customs, Diggs and Caminetti would not .be alive now, because they would have been shot like dogs, and the - fathers of the girls they have ruined - would be acquitted almost without - the jury leaving the box. e "The unwritten law is the best law to protect women's virtue, that I Sknow of. The more I think about -the Diggs-Caminetti case, the more outraged I grow at the state of mor t als and society, which not only per ~mits such crimes, but encourages them." , t BRUTE KILLS WIFE. Wh Was on Her Kees Pleadingfor Mercy. While on her knees pleading piti fully for her life. Mrs. Ethel Denson, s of Key West, 'was shot to death on the streets of Tampa, Fla., on Thurs day by her husband, Bennie Denson. Two negroes, who claim to abe eye witnesses to the tragedy, were afraid to Interfere. Denson, who followed his wife from Key West several weeks ago, discovered her working in a restau rant on Franklin street. It Is said that he threatened to kill her If she did not return with him. When Mrs. Denson started home her husband was waiting just outside the door, and started after her. She outran him three blocks, but fell on her knees exhausted. Denson rushed up, and without a werd, fired two shots, eeither of which would have been fa tal, physicians say. Denson has not been capture. STEAMER WRECKED. f Ship "State of California" Strikes Alaskan Rock. The steamer "State of California", of the Pacific Coast Company, is a total loss in Gambier Bay, Stephen's s Passage, Alexander Archipelago, Al ,aska. Mrs. E. C. Ward, wife of the - assistant manager of the company, and her daughter perished. The yes . sel was bound from Seattle for Skag a way. a Seven members of the crew also d lost their lives. Miss Lillie B. Ward, d daughter of the assistant general -manager, was alive when picked up on a raft, but she died from exposure. The tragedy resulted from the ves sel's striking an uncharted rock. 1- Twenty-five passengers of the "State t of California" are -dead, It is report o ed in a message from Juneau. o0 Seven Are Drowned. Seven persons were killed when the government steamer Henry Bosse was overturned In a heavy wind - storm in the middle of a narrow Le channel of the Mississippi River. r, Seven other persons escaped by cling - ing to parts of the boat until res d cued. Negro Kills Rival. John Hemphill, a well known ne - gro bricklayer of Greenwood, was , shot and killed Tuesday night .by Perry Williams, a negro. Williams, SIt is said, upon returning home un y expectedly and finding Hemphill In LIND DOINOi WELL E MAIES KNOWN HIS MESSAIGE TO MEXICO WAS KINDLY RECEIVED Huerta Undergoes a Change, and Ac cording to Official Statement of the Mexican Foreign Minister the Pro posal Will be Discussed and Re plied to. The Huerta government, through conferences in Mexico City between John Lind, President's Wilson's per sonal representative, and Foreign Minister Gamboa, now knows the viewpoint of the United States and its desires for only a peaceful and friendly solution of Mexico's trouble. The formal communication Mr. Lind bears was handed to Mexico Monday when it also will be transmitted to diplomatic representatives of foreign powers in Washington. What the result of publishing these views will be, officials at Wash ington did not venture to predict. They have no assurances that the uerta government will accept them, but they 'believe the spirit thus far phown by the Huerta officials justi ties a hopeful feeling for the success of Mr. Lind's mission. Observers of the situation general ly look for a pronouncement of some kind from Huerta immediately fol lowing the presentation of President Wilson's message through Mr. Lind. It Is- expected in diplomatic circles that President Huerta will formally announce a-call for an early election even setting the date. Constitutionalists hitherto have claimed they vould not engage in any election in which the Huerta gov ernment exercised control over the election machinery. The possibility of an agreement, however, for the non-partisan committee to conduct the election is -being discussed and should the situation actually progress to that point it may be that informal efforts will be made by Mr. Lind to secure participation by the Constitu tionalist leader in such a plan. Information, however, of only the vaguest character has -been forth coming from officials as to the even tualities that would follow a possible bjection of President Wilson's ideas by the Huerta government. There is no intention at present of lifting the embargo on arms; in fact, the Presi dent is said to have taken a strong position against it, at least until all peaceful means of settlement have been exhausted. There is a confident and conspicu ous feeling of otpimism, however, among administration officials that a peaceful settlement is in sight, tho they admit the delicacy of the situ ation forbids any detailed discussions at this time of the circumstances on which their hopes are based. Federico Gamnboa, the Mexican minister of foreign affairs, Saturday night gave out the first statement made 'by any Mexican official regard ing the message sent to Provisional President THuerta to President Wil son, through his-personal representa tive, John Lind. Minister Gamboa said the Mexican government would give consideration to the communication presented by Mr. Lind and after fu ly discussing it would make a reply. This procedure is contrary to the opinion held generally the past week regarding the Mexican government's attitude, it .being assumed in view of Gen. -Huerta's note of August 6, in which he characterized Mr. Lind as being persona non grata unless he -brought proper credentials and rec ognition of the Huerta administra tion, that any message the ex-gov ernor brought would be ignored. At Mexico City on -Monday it was officially stated that the United States government has been given until midnight by President Huerta to recognize Mexico. The government is not specifie in the public announcement as to what course then will be pursued but it is understood that it means the sever ing of all relations ,between the two, countries. Provisional President Huerta re plying to President Wilson note which was recently delivered to the Mexican governmat :hrough Ex Governor John LInd, rez'ses media tion in the Mexican situation or any similar suggestion made by a foreign government. Mr. Lind has forward ed General Huerta's answer to Wash ington and is awaiting a reply. President Huerta, in his reply, told the United States that he would to! crate no interference, even though that interference might be character ized as friendly mediation. The char acter of the reply of Washington to President Huerta's note will deter mine the next action in the interna tional drama. All those connected with the Amer ican embassy Monday refused to ad mit the receipt of the note and that it had been seat was not admitted officially by the Mexican government. At the embassy there was an evident desire to appear optimistic and one was led to believe that Mr. Lind still hoped for a continuation of the nego tiations. Those familiar with the workings of the Mexican administra tion expressed doubt as to the gov ernment again opening the subject for discussion. again opening the subject for discus Senor Urrutica, minister of the in terior, who on previous occasions has been the spokesmian for the adminis tration. was the person chosen to make the announcement that Presi dent -Huerta demanded recognition by the United States by midnight. Senor Urratia refused to give out the text of the correspondence be ween Mr. Tind and the MexiCan SEVEN WET. FOUR DRY RESULTS OF ELECTIONS ON DIS PENSARY QUESTION. Vote in Most Counties Was Very Close Showing Sentiment Evenly Divided Among Voters. The dispensary elections are over, in at least eleven counties of the State, as a result of Tuesday's voting and seven of this number gain the legalized state or county dispensary system. In two cases the vote was so close that official tabulation will be neces sary to establish the result. In near ly all others the margin was small. Florence and Jasper have retained the dispensary system while Bam berg, Barnwell, Dorchester, Calhoun and Orangeburg have voted to return to the sale of liquor by the county. Abbeville, Lexington, Williamsburg and Sumter voted to remain dry, thongh Sumter may win out on ap peal and recount. Of the counties which went dry Abbeville was the only one giving a decided majority, the anti-dispensary forces In that county piling up a ma lority of 558 against the sale of li uor. In the other counties which went dry the vote was very close. Lexington leading in this respect with a majority of four against the Bale of liquor, but which may be an error,, as a mistake is claimed at one box; Williamsburg iwith fourteen and Sumter with twelve also seemed al most evenly divided, -but the close ness of the vote in Sumter makes the result still doubtful. Of the wet counties 'Barnwell, with 604 majority, and Dorchester, with 337, were the most decided, and Or angeburg with a majority of three for the dispensary was the most ev enly divided. The majorities for the dispensary in other counties were: Bamberg 180, Calhoun 82, Florence 61, and Jasper 38. Should the official returns bear out the unofficial figures, South Carolina will rave eleven dispensary counties, as follows: Charleston, Richland, Florence, Georgetown, Beaufort, Aiken, Dorchester, Calhoun, Jasper, Barnwell and Orangeburg. The vote: For Against Abbeville ......... 440 998 Barnwell ..........901 297 Florence .......... 673 612 Dorchester ........661 324 Lexington....... 939 543 Calhoun .......... 363 281 Orangeburg ... .1,152 1,135 Williamsburg. .....192 2f-6 Jasper.. ..'...... 87 49 Sumter ......... 473 '485 Bamberg .... 400 220 government, but confirmed the 'fact that an exchange of notes had taken place. Two notes from Mexico have been sent to Washington. The first was reply to that delivered by Mr. Lind, this note Including the demand for recognition of Mexico. The second note was sent direct to Washington and demanded that a re ply to the previous note be made be fore midnight. This is regarded here as an ultimatum. One official in dis cussing this latter note said that Mex ico had reached the point where she either must bow her head in humilia tion before the United States or adopt an attitude of degance. The first con tingency, he added, was regarded as impossible. Senator Lodge and Stone, Monday morning were shown the following ca-blegram to Secretary -Bryan from Charge O'Shaughnessy, dated Mon day night, and received at four a. m. Tuesday: "The correspondents have cabled that the Mexican government has stated that its note to Lind demands that the United States recognize the Huerta government before twelve o'clock midnight to-day or a state practically to that effect. "I brought the matter to the ur gent attention of the minister of for eign affairs at 10 p. m. He Imme diately saw the president and Minis ter Gombernairon, Senor Uurrutia, who is supposed to have given out the statement, anad he authorized me' to deny this statement .to my govern ment, as having no foundation in fact." Charge O'Shaughnessy cabled Sec retary IBryan from Mexico City early Tuesday that President Huerta, thru Foreign Minister Gamboa, emphati cally denied there was any "founda tion whatever" for the statement that Huerta has issued an ultimatum to the United States demanding recogni tion with the alternative of handing Mr. O'Shaughnessy his passports. A dispatch from John Lind inform ed President Wilson and Secretary Bryan that he had -been in conference with Provisional President Huerta at an early hour Tuesday. He charac terized his reception and conference with Huerta as "coidial". Monday night's dispatches attri buting the announcement of an ulti matum by Huerta, to Minister Urri tia, of the department of the Interior, stirred official circles a' Washington deeply. Meets Double Death. Charles McGoogan, a naval stores operator, age twenty-five, was shot aid killed by Will Bowman, colored, said to be an ex-convict, Sunday at Redlight, Fla., the negro dying from a bullet from McGoogan's revolver. The negro's body was covered with rosin and burned by the white man's incensed friends. McC'oogan was to have been married in three weeks. Pours Hot Oil on Victims. Amelia Diloher, a cook, rendered temporarily insane by the Intense heat of the kitchen In which she was working Wednesday, poured boiling fat over three women and a baby of the Staten Island, N. Y., household where she was employed, frightfully bunn11 allfou victims. rO PUNISH SAILORS oUST ANSER FOR PART TAIEN 1N SEATLE RIOT THE POLICE ARE BLAMED' Secretary of Navy, While Ordering Punishment of Men of Fleet Who Participated in Destruction of Property, Severely Scores CiMUM Who Abused Sailors and 1ag. Secretary Daniels has directed the punishment of the sailors of the Pa. cifne reserve fleet, who participated in the destruction of the Industrial Workers of the World and Socialists' property in Seattle July 1748, If they can be identified, though he se verely condemned the civilians who abused the sailors and the American Bag. The Secretary's acdon was based on a report by a board of investiga tion headed by Commander Thomas Washington. The board found tbt for some time before the rioting at,. Seattle there had been attacks on the fag, the government and particular ly upon the army and navy in the . Pacific seaport cities calling them elves members of the Industrial Workers of the World and to some extent by so-called Socialists. The eivil authorities, the report said, al lowed spectators to harangue crowds and engender ill feeling resulting in' the attack upon the soldiers and two sailors July 17. This led to the burning and destruction of property on the following night. The board placed direct blame for.. the action of the crowd, Iedby civil - lans and Including only a small pro portion of enlisted men, on the fail ure of the police force to prevent the. destruction of property because of their sympathy with the purposes of 7 the crowd. Furthermore the board expressed the opinion that the rioting was attributable to general sentiment against the Industrial Workers of the World andble criticism of the press and that the presence of the enlisted. men was made to serve the purpose of accomplishing an end which the better element of people desired and the press encouraged. In passing on this report, trans mitted by Rear Admiral -Reynolds, Secretary DanieIs declared that while the conduct of those who denounced and assaulted soldiers was most rep rehensible and deserving condemna tion "their violent language, unpro voked assault on soldiers and law lessness doesn't justify retaliation in kind". The Secretary recalled his state ment in a speech in Seattle that abedlence to authorities in respect to the flag must -precede any reforms. He expressed regret that the sailors had permitted themselves to forget their duty to uphold the law which they had sworn to uphold and added that their conduct in Seattle was against the naval regulations and couldn't 'be condoned or allowed to go without punishment. Admiral Reynolds was directed to have the Secretary's letter read on the ships of the fleet and to have the men engaged in th6 affair punished in such a manner as the admiral might judge adequate for the offence. So far as known none of the sailors participating in the affai' have.been Identified. Rear Admiral Edward F. Reynolds In transmitting -Secretary Daniels' letter, appends a direction to com manders of all ships of the Pacific reserve fleet, to read the Secretary's - statement at muster, 'but adds that as it has been impossible to obtain proof of the participation of any spe cied In the determination It will be Impracticable to attempt any punish ment Train Hits Auto. Krl F. Taylor was killed, near Newton, N. C., Wednesday when a train hit his automobile, in which he - had attempted to get across the ack. Mr. Taylor was coming home rom Blowing Rock in a sall1 car. Witnesses say that he was not racing, but had curtains and windshield up. He was struck and hurled thirty feet upon a pile of crossties and had his skull crushed. Money Being Placed. The Southern States were selected - for the first deposits of the govern ment crop fund on account of the early movement of the cotton crop, which has already begun. The first deposits of the government's $50, 000,000 fund to aid crop movements will be made I.. the Southern States in August and September. Have Narrow Escape. Thirty-five workmen, caught 440 feet under ground in a section of the Catskill acqueduct, in course of con struction under Washington Heights, near New York, when fire broke out in the shaft house overhead Thurs day night, were found unharmed two' hours later when the fire was con trolled. lills Wife at Breakfast. Frantic because he had heard un founded reports reflecting on his wife's character, John Mafshall Wed nesday morning fired five bullets into her body as they sat at the breakfast table In their home 'at Martin's Ferry, across the Ohio River from Wheel ing W. Va. Escape From Prison. Usin a ladder they had made in the carpenter shop of the institution, two prisoners. cellmates, scaled the high -wall of the eastern Pennsyl vania state penitentiary at Philadel phia Wed&aesday, dropped 35 feet to