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f 2r- -j IVINj% IT;.aTN7 0 Yf v 0-IL IRISI3SEIS NEAR '-OUTLOOK fOR PEACE IN MEXICO APPEARS VERY DARK SITOATIOR As Elections of October 26 Approach Period of Danger Seems to Come Near-Great Britain's Course Causes Dissatisfaction, Presaging Drastic Action by United States. An atmosphere of gravity ani som ber silence at Washington Thursday night enveloped the Mexican situa tion not only with regard to the dis satisfaction of the United States at Great Britain's attitude, but as to the critical state of affairs in Mexico City as the election of October 26 draws near. There were no tagible develop ments but an incident of the day which official Washington interpreted omniously was President Wilson's fiat refusal to discuss Mexico or any phase of the problem when he met the Washington correspondents in their usual semi-weekly conference. The president always had discussed informally and unofficially matters of international consequence, giving the general status of affairs. This time he asked to6 be excused. Secretary Bryan showed equal re ticence. The conclusion drawn gen erally was that a crisis was slowly approaching: that the.a-rvrA of Gen. Felix Diaz appeared to co-n"' ate in ternal affairs in Mexico -1 that stern measures by the W-ihington government would not be -!jr-nrisin. For the first time dur'v, th t-' of recess or adjournment of conere the Mexican situation was iniected a a reason for keeping consr'oo- i" s** sion and in administration i-cles it' was admitted that it wae n-t the cur rency problem alone w -- tde it , advisable for members to stay in Washington. It became apparent that Great Britain's failure to repud iate the action of Sir Lionel Garden. British minister to Mexico, who pre sented his credentials immediately after Wuerta proclaimed his dictator- b shin. bad caused Washington officials t to feel they no longer could deDend on tbe belo of England In solving the Mexican problem' and that henceforth t the United States would go forward c singlehanded. If necessary, in firm abd ageressive policy. Whether this will be revealed in a declaration-by'the United States of Its intention as the "nearest neigh- b bor" of Mexico to take such steps as ,ll compose the situation, has not s vet materialized. but many officials s believe the Washington government c will soon assert Itself in a manner t that will be tantamount to a notice f to.Fornune generally that interference t in Mexlcb by foreign powers Is not . desred by this country. "I'he attitude of some of the admin- * lstfation officia'ls, hitherto advocates of a nolicy of moral suasion, was de cidedly neesimistic and they reluc-C tantly admitted that the United States government mmaht take dras tic' stens. 'I'onth offeials do not dis enes the British attitude in any war. persons close to the administration sa'y the policy, of (reat Britain has created an - embarrassing situation with an over increasing tension. It is not 1li41 tha.t Anmbneedor Pe and d the R'-itlah foreivrn ,vinier will ris enes Mexico n'ntil after the elections of October 26. There is a conmfidlent feeling in of ficial eircles that whatever pro nonneem'ont President Wikon may *r'ake after the elections will be em y'lotic reiteration that th'e Tinited etatee will Cand br its policy of deal ine only with governments founded orn l1. and ordcr ind the-e is a like lino he will en a sten furthor and peco-+ an intention of seeing that e'%e'itutionlal grvewnme~nt Is main tained on this hemisphere 'despite any foreign Infiuence. The Washington administration1 considers .that the Hluerta rovern - ment was topnling, that natural re sentn'ent was being manifestedi t-broughouit Mexico after the arrest of the Mfexican congress. when at the cwliealn moment the nresentnltiOn h' Sir T~ionel (arden of his cedontials mnreonmd.iated hr (orat Britain. h'ad .tae efreet of morally supporting the - Woorta regime. .Secretary Bryan's only comment on the Mexican sItuation was to the efreet that renrece'ntatione~ had been ade to nrename tl-o federel am,+hors. ties in Mexico to eive the canture'i 3Mnderos. a fair trial. While (ion *with favor by the administration. it was annarent at the ctnte dnntent thnt AmerIenn offiniel would 10o' with disnieasure ron aprMe ho'~lbfall ive-him or anyr other candidate in the -oeig eleetion. Par the Teachers Better. T t i~ not creilitahle to us that the majiority-of our teachers are so poor ly paid. In one or two States sal aies may average fairly high but tn - ma'ny othiers they do not. In t(ach-' l.ng, as in other callines. poorly nnii *services mean poor results. That un *der the circumstances tenehers nro -so offeient and so faithful in th"ar duties is to their credit. TEn+ it ie *npt reasonable t'o exnect the hirh'd Seffneiency unless the renmneration is bettered. And it g th'e best n-a -thepl+ seek for our children in th'a way of education, and it is their right. -Criafts Shinbone Tnto Snine. Palnh M. Armstrone. of Now or oa piece o" his chinbono lr' 1'im snipo. A rear aro he 'nn'roi bMe snine by falling into a bathtub at his home.' TORNADO KILLS NLNE STORM CAUSES VAST D.AMAGE IN LOUISIANA. Whiiling Win Leviels Corn Fields and Demolishes House-Wires Torn Down and Negroes Terrified. Nine persons were killed and 39 vere injured, none seriously, in a ornado that swept over southern Louisiana early Thursday. Cane :rops were razed, dwellings and rences demolished and plantations ere otherwise damaged. The hur icane swept over Energy plantation, iear Trihodeaux, La., where -Mlrs. Calize Borne and her two-year-old yaby were killed, together with two iegroes. The negro q'uarters were lemolished on this plantation and 11 iegroes injuried. Cutting a clean path 500 feet wide, he tornado lashed through the El ington plantation at Lula, La.. de nolishing the negro quarters, killing ive negroes and maiming several thers. including a white woman and L white man. The storm came short y before daybreak and the terrified egroes, caught in their shacks, were inable to seek other shelter because >f a terrific downpour of rain before , violent wind. With communication with several ities in southwestern Louisiana cut >ff it was late in the afternoon before he range of the storm and extent of Lamage were known. It Is believed he tornado spent Itself in the gulf fter speewing over southern Missis ippi. The wind at Gulfport blew at he rate of 60 miles an hour. In ;ew Orentis c'nyiderable damage vas de-ne to roofs. fnocens and swin ng sw:ns. One recidence lost its en ire front while the famy was hud !P.1 together in the rear rooms. Tany other dwellings, the greater trrber of which were unoccupied. -ere damaged. BOMB GANG CAUGHT. ,ew York Police Seize Twenty Black Handers. Twenty members - of the "Black land" society, alleged to be the nu leus of the bomb throwing gang that as terrorized the foreign see ion of New York for the past year, re under arrest in New York city. he police believe they have cap ured the leaders of the dreaded so iety in America and that there will e no more bomb outrages, at least o far as this society is concerned. Three of the members of the gang ave confessed to the police. They ve unfolded tales of crime that will :eep the detective force busy for everal weeks and may result in cores of arrests among the criminal lasses of New York. Stories so far old by the men under arrest account or over 100 bomb outrages, the heft of 20 horses, the poisoning of s many more animals, counterfeit ag, blackmail, extortion, arson and en murder. The arrests and confessions of the cused bomb throwers came under onditions that would have delighted dramatist. Alfred Lehman and ohn Rizzo were arrested in Hudson ounty, N. 3., cliarged with blowing p a factory In Lyndhurst. The Hud on county authorities notified the Jew York police, and two detective's rent to Hackensack, secreted them elves in the jail, and there heard the risoners discussing their part in tumerous "Black Hand" operations. The detectives caused the arrest of ntono Levantrino, Pietro Gimbro t. Anthony Sadaitys and Rocco Pici li, nained In the conversation be ween the two prisoners. As soon as ehman spied Levantrino he griaped he bars of his cell and shouted: 'You will try to cheat me, will yoti? 'm the man who blew up your touse." "Then you're the chap who killed n daughter," shrieked Levantrino. izzo reproached Gimbrono for fore ng him into a countetfeiting plan. imbrono accused Rizzo of treachery. )etectives caught every word in the ecusing thrusts of the prisoners and sed them in building up their chain f evidence against the suspected nen. According to detectives, the gana s nows new. One man has belonged 4 years. The membership was con tatly changing. When a member vs killed, sent to jail or went back o Italy with enough money to live for the rest of his life, new mem pers were taken in and the size of he gang was kept about the same. euty Commission1"r of Police augherty believes the clean-up has >een so complete that before every letail of the confessions has been orked out at least 40 men will be mder arrest and the police will have 'vidence to convict every man ar -ested. TRAIN AND AUTO CRASH. )ne illed and Four Injured in Col lision at Jacksonville. One man was killed, one fatally in ired and three seriously hurt at an 'arly hour Thursday morning when in automobile crashed into a freight rain ot a crossing near .lakcksonville. The dea d: Ed Dane. The in iured: em Kay. RI. (. Itronson. ' Walter .-i ehmann. Georce Nicholsonl. Ka) vll die'. The impact caused] thte at omoilo to hntekle and hurdie a flat 'ar. It innded on the ornnosite side i the trrin. It was said that a dc-nse o' hid the train from the driver's Presenlt for1 M iss .1 cs-ie. Conressmen of all political faiths. t the e'zeetionf of Republican ng en Thuredany a enmmitt4o svas nomad to nary out the plan.. liRMS IN LETIE] BLACKMAILER HAS NEW DEVICI fULL Of TERROR THREATENS QUICK DBEAT 'Chicago Authorities Puzzled by "Doc tor" Who Infects Victims by Let, ter, Warns of Death and Offers tc Sell Cure for $2,500-Chemist Find Bacilli. A blackmailer with a new terror I! giving the Po2t Office Secret Service men of Chicago a field in which te exercise their talent. He sends te wealthy families a letter that, he says, if filled with 2,000,000 deadly germs, which he alleges will infect the person opening the letter at once. He says death will occur in nine days, from a mysterious fever which he does not name. But he has a serum to prevent death which he will send his victim on payment of $2,500. One of his prophecies has gone awry. It is more than nine days ago since Mrs. Frederick M. Steele of Highland Park received such a let ter. Though she opened the missive and looked curiously at the contents, she is yet well, but worried. Inspector James E. Stuart says other families have received like messages. The letter contains about 1,SOO words. It read in part: "Hav ing received my diploma of doctor of medicine and bacteriology at Hiedel burg in 19%7, I came to the United I t-te-s to study a serious contagious ierase. which wns mest prevalent iii some of the Southern States last win ter. There were over 13,000 fatali ies of this disease recorded last win ter. 2R4 in Chicago. "After four years of experience and study, I have succeeded in dis covering a prophylactic which wil' destroy the germs of this di'sease in the human body, if used before the ninth day after infection, but I have not yet succeeded in discovering a serum which will act as a remedy in far advanced cases." The following then was typewrit ten in red: "Please read this care fully. By opening this letter you have liberated about 2,000.000 healthy bacilli propagated by myself. Without a doubt you are infected by this time, but do not become excited: my prophylactic will destroy any number of germs of this disease in the body, if used before the ninth day. "Read further afid do not leave the room, as you do not want to infect the whole house. Take off the gar ments that were exposed to the germs and leave them spread out on the floor or over a chair In the room. Next, burn this letter with a match, also in the same room, to avoid spreading of disease. "A copy of this letter and further directions you will find in the germ proof envelope, but do not open It until 1ater. Talge germ proof envel ope and leave the room, which it would be advisable to keep locked for si' days." Then followed a description ot the disease and Its symptoms. "'TTp to the present only about one person in a thousand recovered after going through all stages of this disease," he concluded. The writer gave minute details for the transfer of $2.500 he demands. He dech~res that Mrs. Steele's name (Continued on last pag.a.) MRS. PANKHURST ENTERS. President and Commissioner Revoke Deportation Order. Ar' 'rica's doors Monday were opened to Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst, and during the few weeks covered by her lecture engagements the British militant suffragette leader is free to o where she will in the United States. An order releasing Mrs. Pankhurst from detention at Ellis Island, Newv York, and revoking the deportation order of the special in quiry board, was issued after Presi (lent Wilson had conferred with Sec retary Wilson, of the department of labor. and a formal hearing before Immigrtion Commissioner Caminetti on Mrs. Pankhurst's appeal had been concluded. Secretary Wilson announced that he and the president had agreed that Mrs. Pankhurst should be admitted "on her owvn recognizance." with the understanding that she would depart when she had fulfilled her lecture engagements. Both the president and the Secretary agreed with Commis sinner Caminetti in the opinion that there was an clement of doubt as to whether the acts for which Mrs. Pnnkhurst has been convicted in Enhgland constituted moral turpitude or were political in character. Establishes Himself Dictator. Uuerta, who murdered President adero and usurned his place, has rone the limit and has fetched up logically in the role of dictator of Mexico. .He has assumed all the functionls of the government, having turned out the Congress and jailed many of its members and suspended the constitutional previsions for its in dependence. Called from H!ouie and Shot. A. D. Rnw!inzs was called from his honrdintg home in .\P any. Ga., and ~h d'ed as ho t''nd through the door hy Earl Loneh. wit1h whom he ad trouble. Loachi had been drink I Cets Two Hrmdu'red. T'i homme of Mr. syv WX. Farmer, o TEsr 'aneo str:-et. Florence, un (fnt4"(d a row i inago anda cash al of ni t in end was stolen. IMINERS ENTOMBED NEW MEXICAN MINERS ARE TRAP D BY PLOSION 230 BURIED IN DEBRIS Efforts are Being Continuously Made to Tunnel to Miners, Who Are Im prisoned Below Second Level-Air Supply Considered Abundant and Those Alive May Survive. Two hundred and thirty miners were entombed in shaft No. 2 of the Stage Canon mines at Dawson, New Mexico, when an explosion occurred in the property at 3 o'cl6ck Wednes day afternoon. Two men found on an upper level were taken from the mine Wednesday night. Rescuers were called from all parts of the Southern Colorado coal fields. The day shift working in shaft No. 2, numbered 230. The cause of the-ex plosion is unknown. Immediately after the explosion all shifts were called to the work of rescue and those miners who were employed in other shafts were put to work drilling through the debris, which was said to have blocked the mine below the second level. The United States rescue car, sta tiongd at Trinidad, Col., was sum moned and every available man in Dawson Wednesday night was aiding in the attempt to rescue the entimb ed miners. Representatives from the nine did.not state- at which level the explosion occurred, but said that the mine shaft was blocked from the second level. The cause of the explosion Is un known. Fire has not broken out. though smoke was seen Issuing from the-second level of the shaft. It was believed by rescuers that this came from the explosion. By 10 o'clock Wednesday night the rescuers had penetrated more than 100 feet Into the mouth of the mine arid reached five of the entombed miners, who were alive. they had suffered much from the gas and were In no condi tion to tell what happened at the time of the explosion. Immediately n being brought to the surface the men were given into the care of phy sicians. many of whom have arrived rom nearby towns. In the relief camps situated sev eral yards from the entrance to mine Co. 2. are gathered the women and hildren of the entombed miners' amilies. They are cheered by the rnowledge that Superintendent Mc Dermott Is among the main body of mprisoned miners, as they have con idence. as have mine officials, in the mierintendent's resources in such a plight. . Relief parties from nearby towns :onstantly are working and the num ber of rescuers In Dawson is well into the hundreds, all equipped with the Latest apparatus for combatting gases nd other dangers of mine explosions. rhe rescue work Is continuous. As me group of workers is driven back ror air, another takes its place. That system Is to continue until the last f the men known to have been naught in the explosion shall have been found.,. A large majority of the men en tombed are Italians. There Is every eason to believe practically all the men entombed can be rescued, as several means of escape are offered rom'mine No. 2, which Is connected with mine No. 5, by a tunnel driven through the mountain. and also con nects with an air shaft driven from the top of the mountain down into the mine. This air shaft is equipped with steps and ladders upon which the entombed men, If they are able to reach the shaft, can make their ay to the top. A dispatch from Tinidad, Col., says a special rescue train carrying cores of experienced miners equip ped with rescue apparatus left Trin idad at 3 o'clock for Dawson, N. M., shortly after news of the explosion was received. Dawson Is more than 125 miles from Trinidad, over branch ine railroads, and it will be several hours before the special train reaches the scene. Two automobiles loaded with fi'e oxygen tanks and other apparatus left Trinidad for Dawson, approximately 90 miles distant, over mountain roads. .* SHOOTS IN POCKET. Friend Hits Pal With Stick, Discharg ing Pistol. As Deputy Sheriff Sanders m,.s es o-ing Judge Hayne F. Rice of Aiken, presIding over circuit court at An derson, through the court house to a hot,el for dinner recess Thursday, a friend-struck the officer with a stick, causing the officer's pistol to be dis charged. -The bullet tore the seat of Sanders trousers, struck the tiled floor, glanced and buried itself in a win ow :jam. .The incident caused some .excitement as the corridor of the pourt house was crowded at the time. - hile Deputy Sanders was re monstrating with the man who dealt the blow Judge Rice remarked char actristicaly that the man "had act ed very foblishly''. The bullet harm ed no one. The blow causing the dis charge of the pistol was dealt in a friendly way and the man dealing the blow was as much surprised as any body when the pistol fired. Killed by Belting. Wednesday morning on R. L. Sow ell's place, just out of Kershaw, Jim Pate, a negro, was instantlj' killed. The negro, who was working at Mr. Rowell's ginnery, was replacing a belt whIch had slipped off a pulley, the elt caught him, throwing him .g-:..t some timbers with terrible ALL WERE CRUEL BALKAN ATROCITES imPAiTiAL LY INVESTIGAITED. Niidee *'b ot Prove so M1b Against Belligerents as Against War Itself. Troops of all the warring Balkan States committed gross atrocities, ac cording to the evidence gathered by the international Carnegie commis sion in its searching inquiry just ended. The report has been issued at Paris. One of the noteworthy tasks was the minute examination and verification by the committee of the famous packet of letters from Greek soldiers captured by the Bul garians, zontaining horrible direc tions of how Greek soldiers "avenged themselves" on Bulgarians who fell into iheir hands. Other documents testify that the Greeks occasionally made use of the forbidden dumdum bullet, and show also the misdeeds of Bulgarians and other belligerents. The Inquiry did not extend to the Raumanians. The committee collected from all available sourc'es. After seeing the officials, the committee went to the scenes of alleged atrocities and in terrogated at length every class of witnesses, from soldiers who took part in the battles, to women 'and children who were spectators and victims of the horrors. Some of the most important evidence taken by the commissioners came from children. While It was found that the Bulga- I rians had committed the greatest faults, the soldiers of other nations taking part In the war also were guilty of many hideous acts. Tn Bul garia, where the opinion is that Bul garia has been abominably treated by the foreign press and where the belligerents are scarcely blamed for their misdeeds, the fullest inquiry was Invited and every possible facil ity for investigation was given to the committee. The commissioners were zermitted to examine children and soldiers at will. The Bulgarians in their campaign against the Turks behaved in an ex emplary manner. It would appear that the Bulgarians, who had borne the brunt of the war against the Turks were exhausted at its end and thought only of going to their homes myiedately. They had been nromis ed this. When they were told that their allies had acted in bad faith nd had betrayed them, the Bulga a-in fury burst forth uncontrollably. Turkey -also gave the commission every facility for inquiry. The Greeks. id likewise, though a zcrtain mmount of opposition was encounter ed in that country. Servia did its itmoqt to prevent an unhampered in vestigation, and no inquiries were' permitted except in the presence of a Servian military attache. Baron D'Estournelles de Contant, of the commission, says that "the re port will not dwell at great length on the distressing story of misdeeds in le Bilkans. which. after all, do not rove so much against the belliger ets as against war itself." The re ort will also deal with the won erful possibilities of development which lie before the Balkan people. WORST KIND OF CRIMINALS. Should be Severely Punished for Their Disregard of Life. A little over two years ago a readful disaster occurred in a New ork factory known as the "Trian gle". In that fire one hundred and forty lives were lost, and they were lost mainly because the exits from the building were locked and so the oung women employees were caught uch as a rat is caught In a trap. ne result of the fire was the pass ing by the legislature of a law com pelling all exits to be open. But, as s often the case, the law has not al ays been observed. In fact, in the very same factory the doors have again been locked thus making pos sible another tragedy. To be sure the proprietor has been fned for his act but only to the mis eraily small amount of twenty dol lars. That is a travesty of justice and reflects anything but credit upon the judge who tried the case, or else upon the law itself. In effect the ould not have been in the child's stomach throughout the day. BOY UPSIDE DOWN. akes Letters Wrong End up and Sings Same Way. Russell Baker, eight years old, of untingdon, W. Va., has been at tending school for two years and he makes all his letters and figures up side down. He writes from left to right and sings his low notes high and his high notes low. Dr. C. M. awes, accompanied by Dr. Lindsey Vinson, specialist in children's dis eases, spent hours with the child en deavoring to find exactly what swas wrong, but they confess themselves mystified. The only explanation they attempt is that the boy's mind and sight are as a camera's eyes, in which everything looks upsida diown. The boy Is perfectly normal and has no~ other ,defects. Shoots His Son. Frederick Bysenhart, of Rossville . Md., shot and killed his 19-year-old son while a party was being held at the home. Later as handcuffs were being placed on his wrists, he knelt, clown beside the corpse, kissed it and offered a prayer. Meet and Wed in an Hour. Miss Pearl Isabel Schley, a beauti fl and talented nie'ce of the late Ad miral Schiley, and Henry E. Braczken, a farmer in Bucks County. Pa.. met in Easton, Pa.. courted for an hour nd were married. TO MAKE LONG VOYAGE WARSHIPS SAIL SOON FOR MEDI TERRANEAN CRUISE. United ;States Battleshiga9 to ,ak{ Trip 3,000 Miles from Home Not merely an Affair of Courtesy. The nine battleships of the Atlan tic Fleet, under the command of Rear Admiral Badger, to depart Sat urday for a cruise in the Mediter ranean Sea, are at Norfolk rapidly coaling and taking on ammunition and other stores preparatory for the trip. Assistant Secretary of the Navy Frank D. Roosevelt has been designated to represent the navy de partment when the battleships sail from Hampton Roads Saturday. The nine ships comprising the fleet that will make the tip are the Wyoming, flagship of Admiral Badger; the Utah, Florida, Arkansas, Delaware, Vermont, Connecticut, Kansas and Ohio. These vessels will be preced ed by the auxiliaries Celtic, supply ship; Solace, hospital ship; Cyclops, Orion and Jason, colliers. Seamen from the fleet In Hampton Roads are now being given final shore liberties prior to the departure of the ships. Norfolk is alive with the seamen. Five hundred men brought from the naval training sta tion on the Great Lakes will make the cruise. Supplies put aboard the ships included 40,000 pounds of fresh beef and 12,000 dozen eggs. The battleships Virginia, New Jer sey, Rhode Island and Nebraska of the fleet sail October 29 for Vera Cruz, Mexico. Unusual interest Is manifested in official circles at Washington in the plans for the departure from Hamp ton Roads Saturday of two divisions of the Atlantic fleet for a cruise to the Mediterranean. This is to be a courtesy cruise, but it is pointed out at Washington that it incidentall. will direct the attention of the world to two important facts-that Ameri can battleships In actual service are prepared to hold their own against any navy afloat, except that of Great Britain, and that because of Its geo graphical advantages the United States can dispatch its dreadnoughts 3,000 miles from home without fear. In addition to their crews the bat tleships will carry 1,500 men from the naval training station on the Great Lakes who are now at Nor folk ready to gQ aboard. Naval ex perts comment on the "American .eedom of movement" as compared to the restricted activities of Euro I pean navies. It is recalled that not long ago Great Britain was said to have abandoned a plan for sending a squadron to Australia because it would endanger her position in Eu rope. In volume of fire and number of guns, the experts say, the Atlan tic fleet is superior to the French navy or tg the combined fleets of Austria and Italy and In respect to 12-inch guns, to the German navy. For the Mediterranean trip - the nine battleships will be divided into three -divisions, commanded by Rear Admirals Cameron McR. Winslow, Frank F. Fletcher and Frank E. eatly. Commander Charles F. Hughes will be chief of staff to Rear Admiral Badger.* HELP SEA ISLAND COTTON. Georgia Representative Would Have U. S. Appropriate $100,000 Representative 3. R. Walker, of the 11th Georgia district, in which are situated the'cities of Brunswick, and Valdosta, has introduced and had referred to the committee on agricul ture the following bill designed to lead to the improvement of condi tions in the market for sea island cotton: "Be it enacted by the Senate and the House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled that in order to experi ment with the cultivation of sea is land cotton and to improve the seed, the staple, the production and the cultivation thereof in Georgia, Flor ida and South Carolina, there shall be appropriated the sum of, $100,000 the same to be expended for said purposes by and under the direction of the Secretary of Agriculture." It is Mr. Walker's intention to push his bill energetically at the com ing regular session of Congress and he Is introducing It ahead of that session In order to Improve its *po siton on the calendar. The whole Georgia delegation is backing the measure including the Senatorst I| I MAYGOT MEIO - Rumor ed That Battleships May Not Go to Mediterranean. It was reported in naval circles Thursday that the entire -Atlantic fleet may be ordered to Mexico. A portion of the fleet will leave Hamp ton Roads Saturday ostensibly for the Mediterranean Sea. A ndmber of naval officials, uncertain of the. fleet's ultimate destination, -tele graphed t;heir wivestotto 'take .pas sage to Europe'is plamied-. A .numn ber of officers' wives .hat.,planned to meet their husbands in Europe when ships arrived. It is reported that when the fleet steams out of. H-amp.ton Roads Sat urday. they will proceed .at a speed not faster than eight kn'ots. The de partment, it is said, .wants to keep in Itouch with the ships until late next week, in order to send -them to Mex ico if conditions there become serious enough for their presence.' Party in Airship. The first tea party in the air Is believed to have taken place recent ly in a Zeppelin passenger airship near Berlin. Counting the crew, thie ship carried 30 persons on a trip, whic lsed an han- and n. Quarter. 1WU 1RINS CRASH PASSENGER HITS HEAVY NEAR COLUMBIA. Cw TWELTE ARE "INW Rounding Sharp Curve Seaboard En gines Meet in Head-on Collision Engines Are Telescoped and Other Cars Badly Damaged-Car Loaded With Cotton Serves as Bumper. Five members of train crews and seven passengers were seriously in jured in a head on collision between a local north-bound passenger train and a south-bound freight train, on a sharp curve between Dixiana and Gaston, about seven miles south of Columbia on the Seaboard Air Line Railroad Wednesday morning at 10: 40 o'clock. Seaboard local passenger train No. 20 carrying a mail and express car, a combination baggage and negro coach, and a white coach, was round ing a sharp curve between Dixiana and Gaston when looming on the track before it was second freight No. 87 bearing down on them. Engineer A. S. Bradford, 'of the pas senger and Engineer L. A. Powell, of the freight, both blew the distress signals, reversed their levers, slapped on emergency brakes and followed their firemen, who leaped for their lives. The two engines met head-on, the freight engine telescoping the passenger engine, both being com pletely demolished. The combination express and mail car rode into the passenger engine, breaking the car in two, and throw ing Express Messenger W. A. Knight ly and Mail Clerk J. W. Cottingham through the bottom of the car, they rolling down the embankment and being severely injured. The combi nation baggage and colored coach and the car containing white passen gers were derailed but remained up right. Baggage Master J. E. Ander- 1 son was thrown to the floor and trunks and other baggage piled up around him, cutting his head and ace and bruising him severely. A ne gro brakeman of the ireilit train, A. Hall, who was riding o: the engine jumped before the collisior, and sus tained internal injuries. Right next to the engire of the freight train was a car load of cotton and this car was cornpletdv demol- t ished. The cotton piling up on the track and acting as a bumper broke the impact and kept the balance of the cars of the long freight train up right on the track, this being shown by the fact that just next to the'cot ton car was a carload of merchandise nd right behind that a carload of horses, and none of these cars left the track, or hardly felt the force of the impact. The tenders of both en ines were thrown from the track, orn from their trucks and deposited own the embankment a heap of uins. Aishough badly wounded, Baggage daster Anderson crawled from his1 attered car, and walked back to aston, three miles, and reported the reck, wiring to Columbia for assis ance. Mr. Anderson's head was cut nd blood was flowi- g freely from tis wounds, but he covered the three niles in an. increditably short space f time, and his heroic action ..rought the news to Columbia. As soon as Baggage Master Ander on reached Gaston and the news was wired to Columbia, a relief train with hysicians and carrying Railroad ommissioners Richards and Hamp-t ton, and Secretary Darby, left for the' reck. The train had crossed Conga ee Creek, fiye miles south of Colum bia, when the eccentric strap on the ~ngne reversed the train and started t running back towards Columbia. ngineer L. C. Seldon was pinned to the cab, his jaw being broken. He was lso badly cut about the legs. The train had got back about 100 Fards and was on the trestle when the fireman, who at once saw the danger sprang to the throttle, and brought the train to a stop. The en rineer was given medical attention y physicians and a wrecking train. which was following right behind. arried the relief train on to the wreck, where the injured passengers and trainmen were looked after promptly. All the passengers. those wound d and those unhurt, and the wound d trainmen were brought back to Columbia. The accident at the Con-1 raree trestle delayed the relief train bout an hour in reaching the wreck, but in that time passengers and train men, assisted it Is said, by a physi Man from the country nearby and an ther who happened to be on the train had made the wounded as com rortable as possible. The following Is the list of the In jured: L. C. Seldon. of Columbia. engi-1 eer of relief train, jaw broken, cuts bout legs and face. A. S. Radford. of Savannah. engl-1 neer on passenger train,'internal In uries.1 W. A. Knightly, of Raleigh. N. C.. express messenger, leg cut and1 bruises. J. W.- Cottingham, of Columbia. cuts about hips and legs. . E. Anderson. of Savannah. bag casre master. badly cut in face and bruised about body and head. ('"ontinued on last page.) Body Anloat in a Box. A wooden box, four feet long and two feet wide, containing the crump led body of a nude man, was found floating down the Ohio river at One >nta, Ky. That the mari had met death before his body was crammed Into the box was evident. inasmuch s his skull was crushed and his throt lshehd. EARLY SNOW IN SQJgH LAIES FALL AS FAR SO AS ORGIA AND ATABM~ nnessee, Alabama, Geor aid jinas Experience Snowfall'on Record. Tennessee, North Carolina, North ern Alabama, Georgia and South.Car olina Monday experienced the earli est snowfall in the recollection of oldest citizens. After a week of co. paratively warm weather the temper ature began to drop Sunday and con tinued to fall during the early morn Ing hours Monday. As far south as Atlanta the snow began to fall short ly after -two o'clock Monday morn ing. The precipitation continued In termittently until after daylight, at which time it had been noticed-as far' south as Birmingham- Ala., and Athens, Ga. According to records kept in the central office of the weather bureau onday's snowfall was the second recorded in the month of October. rhe first was experienced eight days later in the year 1910. That the states mentioned above were generally blanketed by the snow clouds is indicated from the re ports from different sections. In South Carolina the snow was noted at Greenville,. Union and Florence. [n Alabama the precipitation, was evident at Huntsville and Birniing ham. Snow felL.in 'several. Georgia ities and towns, including Atlanta, Augusta and Athens. Reports from Nashville and Chattanooga, Tenn., nd Asheville, N. C., Indicate that the snow flurry was heavier in that see ion than in the more southern states.. NO MILLS CLOSE. qew Tariff Appears to Be Having Good Effect No Georgia Industries have *en hut down as the result of the new nderwood-Simmons tariff bill, ac ording to country-wide reports. On he contrary manufacturers every vhere appear to be optimistic as to he outlook. They assert that, with he period of uncertainty over, bust ess appears to be picking up. In he East mills are running-as usual. ugar beet farmers in the 3West are tot pleased with the outlook of free ugari but as this is three years hey are not worrying. Steel- . .re supplying the increasing d~inand. In the South, where it-waseared Y. he new cotton schedule mig1t cause rouble, manufacturers assert that Ee ido better u ' r theL Lew tarif than the -4er' the4_ >ayne-Aldrich . schedules. irice of cotton In the South Ismak g that- section of the country un sually optimistic. In Philadelphia .not one plant has een shut down on account of the . ariff. No Industry in Northern 1111 ois has shut down. The rumor that he Illinois Steel company was laying. ' men' has been denied by the any. There is no evidenet of a: rease in the demand for' stedl in thed$ ittsburg field, and there is no indi-f ation that portends a decrease its he near future. -Boston manufacturing industrIebt .re running along as usual. Manit acturers assert they feel business' b. n as firm a basis as under the 0, ariff and much more certain.:' or lats have suspended In Baltimor4,js~ )n the contrary the mills are run.' ing at full capacity. -E No eorgia industries havebe losed, and manufacturers assem one will be. Managers takes, he~ ul view of the new cotton schedu,~ *nd assert conditions will be bet~ han under the old schedules. tate Labor department of NewY as received no report of an indu uspending in thait state. In Co icut two mills that susuended ng the tariff discussion have re~ d. Other plants are pickin " apidly. - .: the large mills and plants' issouri are sunpiving the 'usu sand. The Ohio Manufacture ~ oiation has learned of no j nwn in that state. .F'urniture facturers report themselves rith the reduction In the tariff9 n veneers, plate glass and lm CJHOKE'S TO DbEATK. feat in Throat CausesDet~ -- Little Gaffney Girl. Emma Hughes, the four erb laughter of Mr. and Mrs 1S~ Tughes of Gaffney, choked--to estb unday night about nine o'cloC~?-~ *umablv on a piece of metTh ittle girl had been sick thro5bt he day, but it was not kno~~a~ e trouble was. When the 'etired she was given a dose cal. I, but at nine o'clockth ras awakened by her c ras found that she was ranid ~ 3 ig to death. A physician nonedl and the meat exr m lt before life was extinct. f the family say that thee e ad no meat since breakfast herefore presumed that - Lad been In her throatsnc|0 rng conclusively that thd neat stated that there i ence of digestion having setlieft3 g conclusivelyy that the btC~ Attend Fair. - Con eressmien Ragsdale rrived at Georgetown neton Tuesday afenop 'clock in the big torn9 ormer. They immediat('~ ;a~ge for the Horry Cou Rats dnvaded the; Prentice Warren, a fv M.sby. of near Evnvif( slee and gnawed hr r-elv that physicians set reecover.