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VOL XVIII MZANNING, S. C.. WPEDNESDAY. MARCH 251U4O3 WIPES OUTI FAMILY INESiI 6E1611i IlLS VIE AL TIS BAIT CRUIEN FENDISH ACT INHUMAN With Ax, Blade and Bullet Farmer Slaughters Wife and Two Children -Burns Outhouses - Goe to Neighbors, TeDs Story of Marder, and Suicides. Diabolical in its Inception, fiendish In execution and horrifying in detail, a goulish crime, through which an entire family was exterminated, was eemmitted near Oak Park, in Eman uel county Ga., Thursday night. With blade, bullet and ax James A. Eu banks, a farmer, murdered his young wife, Mrs. Mattis Eubanks, slaugh tered his two children, both girls, as they slept, then, after calmly survey Iag his bloody work, set are to the outhouses on his place and, going to the home of a neighbor, related what he had done and then shot himself through the head. Only an abandoned brain could have planned so maniacal a deed as was executed In the little farmhouse, and which has shocked and terrifed the half of two counties. It is believ ed that Eubanks was insane when he set about to exterminate his own flesh and blood. A brother, G. W. Eubanks, says that J. A. Eubanks' mind has been unbalanced for years. Except that he did not burn his home, thus providing a funeral pyre for the bo.1es of his slain wife and children, Eubanks evidently deliber ately planned the crime which was carried out to its minutest detail. That he intended that the flames should destroy the bodies after he had destroyed life was apparent, for when the bodies of Mrs. Eubanks and her two children were found in the home Friday they lay in the middle of the floor of the bedroom covered with bed clothing, cardboard, pine splinters and rubbish. Several of the splinters had been ignited, but failed to burn. Mrs. Eubanks was killed with an ax, and the throat of the older child, a girl of three and a half years of age, was slashed with a rasor. The younger child, six months old, was stabbed through the forehead with a pocket knife. Enbanks had been to Oak 'Park Thursday afternoon. He left the town about 9 o'clock to return to his home. It is supposed that he went to bed, sleeping with his older child. Mrs. Eubanks and the young r child secupied an adjoining room. Sometime after midnight Eubanks entered his wife's room, opened hor trunk, and, piece by piece, burned all _ her clothing. Mrs. Eubanks awoke and remonstrated with him. He struck her in the forehead with his closed pocket knife, knocking her senseless. The woman fell back upon the bed, and while she lay uncon scious he man went into the back yard, returning with a elu~b ax. Fulling his wife's senseless form to the floor, Eubanks swung the ax, sev ering her head almost from her body, and another blow crushed her skull. Probably maddened at the ulgt of his wife's blood, the little adr1 asleep in the bed was dragged by its hair from the bed to the floor and the father slashed the little throat with his razor, which was afterwards found in his pocket wrapped in a handkerchief. Eubanks went again into the yard and leaned the .blood-stained ax against a tree, where It was found Friday. With savage instinct he then re-etered the house and, going into his own room, plunged the blade of his pocket knife up to the hilt through the head of the sleeping six months-old baby. Intending to burn the bodies of his victIms, the husband and. father then dragged the bodies of his wife and older child to his own bedroom r~d placed them In the middle of the floor. Upon them he pileA everything within reach, bed clothing, pine splin ters, cordwood, light pieces of furni ture, discarded paper boxes and rub bish. This he ignited. To complete his work of extermina tion Eubanks then fired his barn, stable and cotton house, all near the dwelling, and left the premIses after filling up the mouth of the well and destrnying the bucket to prevent any one drawing water to flght the fire. The household of the Pare fa~mily. living nearby, were alarmed about 3 o'clock Friday morning when thev beard Euban'ks calling for without. Young Mr. Pare went out into the yavd. meeting Bobanks. They went to the cotton house and sat unon the door sill. There Embanks detailed his horrible deed, detaining the young man until he had told his bloody story, saylng that he has lived In torment and trouble for five years and wanted to die and take his fam ily to destruction with him, but giv ine no other indication of what he in ten~i~d to do further to comnlete his work of extermination. At length he told ynong Page to go Into the house and bring his father out, adding that he wanted to tell him the story. Young Page started toward the house. but he had proceeded only a few stenk before behind him he heard the report of a revolver and. turninr, saw that Eubanks had shot himself through the head with a 44-caliber revolver. The man who had taken three lives and then his own fell in a heap upon the cotton shed, but he 'was still alive, and everything pos sible was done to save his life. He died about 11 o'clock. The bullet entered over his right ear, coming eut directly over his left ear. He was never censcious after shooting himself. Mrs. Eubanks 'was only' 21 years FOUR WHITE BOYS OF BLACKS BURG ARE IN TROUBLE. Officers Seach Auto Preparing t< Leave and Find Pistol of Same Calibre as the One Used. Jamie Whisnant, Hugh Davis, Zel Bell, Fulton Whisnant, of Blacks burg, S. C., are held without bail in connection with the murder of Sol Williams, an 18-year-old ne gro who was shot through the heat and killed Tuesday night at an over head bridge near King's Mountain N. C. These four young men, together with Deck Fulton, formed an auto mobile party which came fron Blacksburg to attend a carnival Williams when shot was on the eas1 side of the road over which is the bridge, while the carnival is exhibit ing on the west side. Two shots were heard, but Williams could nol be seen or the persons firing, owing to darkness which was intensified b: the light behind the large crowd as sembled at the carnival. The chief of police and the mayor heard the shooting and came to the carnival grounds. They found the negro Williams lying on the groun dead. A bullet had entered the back of the negro's neck, severing a jugu ar vein and large artery, causing death by bleeding. On the same side of the road were four men gatherer about an automobile, preparing tc crank it up for leaving. Thinking 11 possible that there was some connec tion between their proximity to the negro and his death, the officers stop ped the party and searched them. No pistol was found on the men but a quantity of beer and whiske was found in the machine, while it the rear of the car was a 32-calibel Smith & Wesson revolver, covered b] a laprobe. Two chambers werE empty, the other three having loades cartridges. According to the officers the empty shells had been fired with in a few minutes of the time the pis tol was examined. A coroner's jury composed of somE of the most prominent men of tows was empaneled and a post-morten examination revealed the fact that the bullet which had passed througl the neck and lodged back of the ne gro's eye was of 32-calibre. Chie of Police Lindsay in the meantimE had gone to Blacksburg and was tole on inquiry that Deck Fulton had bor rowed a 3?-caliber Smith & Wesson pistol which appears to have been i duplicate of the one found in the car Fulton before the jury swore tha he gave the pistol to Zeb Bell, an other of the party, before reachini King's Mountain and that he saw I no more. Fulton's brother was wit1 him at some distance from the auto mobile when the shooting occurred He was not with the crowd when thi car was searched. THOUSANDS DROWNED. Great Wave Clashes Over Two Rus sian Cities, Pealing Death. More than 1,000 persons perishel Saturday in 'the inundation of thi towns of Stanita and Achtyrskaja b; a tidal wave from the Sea of Azo, The wave struck the towns during violent hurricane, which swept th province of Kuban. More than 15 persons also were drowned in flood in Yasenkaja. A dam collapsed in the town c Temryuck on the Taman peinsula looding part of the city and drownin greater part of the city and drownin many persons. The sea washed awa 380 buildings in Achtyrskaja. Ten ryuek is a historic town with a pop ulation of 6,000. It once was the sea of the Turkish fortress Adass. INDORSE PRESID)ENT. Southern Newspaper Publishers Telt graph Wilson Appreciation. Indorsement of the administratio of President Wilson was given at A1 lanta Tuesday in a resolution adopi ed by the Southern Newspaper Pul lishers' association at the closin day's meeting of the organization annual convention. A telegram was sent to Presidex Wilson informing him of the a: proval of his administration by th convention. The message follow! At a meeting of the Southern News paper Publishers' association repr< senting 60 daily newspapers of th South, now in session here, a resuli tion unqualifiely indorsing your ai ministration was enthusiastically an unanimously adopted." Tw Miners tDie in Explosion. Two men were killed and muc property damage done in an expiC sion in a Buxton, Iowa, mine Wet nesday. Negro Woman Killed. da Keller, colored, was killed I Cliff Washington, also a negro. in ehoating scrape near Honea Path Sa1 urday. Farmers Ihave Fatal Fight. . C. Keene and F. R. Crawfor< farmers of Fulford, Fla., quarrele Thursday over the division of the! crops. The former was killed. Shot by Posse. Samuel Godwin. an insane inhab tant of Bellfontaine. Ohio. was oh< and killed Tuesday by a posse afte he had run amuck. tal de angemnent is said to have ri suited from ill-healthr, and his broti er declares it has been apparent fc several years. A note, left by Et banks near th'e nlace his wife an children were killed, said their d< mestic life had been unhappy, .bi iLY oyE ACROSS SE NEW 1011 COTTON EXCHANGE WILL ADOPT GOff Vi EM'S - Ida COTTON CLASSIFICATION - Senator Smith Calls It a "Signal Vie- me tory" for the South-Will Push Se - His Bill Towards the Achievement th pr of Complete Reform of Cotton me Classification in Exchanges. ti " ~ thf "This is the most signal victory wo won by advocates of fair dealing for ed 1 the cotton farmers of the South yet Ste - achieved," said Senator Smith of me South Carolina Wednesday when hay shown the statement from New York net that the cotton exchange of that tio metropolis had adopted resolutions pr< t making the government standard ret type of cotton the basis for trading tio after April, 1915. But Senator sai - Smith declared that the adoption of the this resolution will not in any way affect him in rushing through con- am gress his bill which would force the rig New York brokers to begin this new fir method of dealing at a much earier noi date. "Np to the present, New York has voi had 27 or more grades," said Mr. am Smith. "All of these represent an me arbitrary and fictitious d:iference In ads values, which, of course, was detri- wh mental to the farmers. The adop- lat tion of these grades as being the only ed. ones deliverable upon contract will rac go far towards making the qu.tations for from the New York exchange in line to - with the real value of spot cotton, it they strictly adhere t: the real values atc of the grades. in "This means that if the nine sul grades are adopted, and these alone isf are tenderable upon contracts for the the future delivery of :ntton, and the fix- am ed difference between the grades is rig - eliminated and the real spinning for - values of the grade :s iound by the rig department of agric ultur under the sc provisions of my anendment to the or last agricultural appropriation bill. 1 that the farmers wi! be gu:aranteeJ ser t a fair and just price for cotton. , the "I feel that this is an achievement si Sbrought about by the fact that the er7 New York exchange saw the inevi- qu table and bowed to it. I am _ perfectly confident that my bill Tb now pending will pass and l in am glad that the New York an exchange has made it easier for it to be pass in that they have at least recog- Td nized one feature of the bill, viz: of That the government standardization th * shall be recognized by the exchanges 1 of this country. Now the othe: - pronosition that the exchanges shall not have a fixed difference or a de ceptive commercial difference, but shall have a difference based entirely upon the real ascertained spinning values of the different grades is car ed for also in the bill which I have int -pending. .W "I am certain that the finding of ta the department of agriculture as to & the spinning values of the govern- e meat standard grades has been large- to -ly if not entirely responsible for the ca action of the New York exchange, be-H - cause, in the light of the startling m facts which that test proves as to thec esmall difference in the values of tihe fo different grades, no exchange could be shope to exist which had the absurd Ith difference now obtaining. "The New York exchange makes to -this new grade delivery effective o~ April 1, 1915. This shall not deter ed me from forcing with all of the vigor ti at my command the passage of my tr bill at the earliest possible moment th and the puttng of it into effect im- of tmediately upon its passage. I want He to save to the farmers the balance of cr this crop at a better price, and guar. se: antee to them, if it be possible, a bet- tb ten price for the crop soon to be planted. "There is no reason why the New York cotton exchange should recom- t mend the adoption of the nine gov- da -ernent standards a year hence: un- hi less it be that they have already comn-p mitted themselves to the delivery of g such a quantity of cotton at such s prices that they may never hope to escape without a tremendous loss un t less they keep in vogue the present old robbery system to enable them to W e escape. I shall call up my bill at the at earliest possible moment, now that it Pr is upon the calendar, and press it to a finish.' Bandit in New England. 0 d While running slowly near Bos- i ton, Mass., an engineer of a No af Haven road. Tuesday saw a masked nan with two guns signalling ths, h train to stop. He put on full speed and the bandit sidestepped for hisa life, a Rope Broke Too Soon. t After seven municipal prisoners of. y Kansas City, Mo., had escaped by a sliding down a 30-foot rope made of blankets Wednesday it parted under w the weight of an eighth fugitive. pre- t' venting the escape of 30 other men. Si i i pc Auto Turns Somersault. d Striking a hole near Kinston. N. C., ir whil' raveling rapidly an auto with t. isengers, turned completelyM over, in Wednesday, landing in a ti, ditch. Neither the car or its in- lii mates were hurt. c tr Eight Prisoners Break Jail. Eight negro prisoners of Green .. ville. N. C., broke .iail Mon day night. b< e- by using saws and other tools which jin Shad been smuggled into the prison. fe 1- Open Private Sanitarium. d Dr. 3. W. Babcock and Dr. Eles Snora B. Saunders have opened a san- ca Lt j itarium in Columbia for the treat- di OULD HELP REPEAL ACT NATOR WARNS SUFFRAGISTS OF 15TH AMENDMENT. ihoan Shocks Auditors by Assert. Ing That it Was a Blunder In the First Place and Now a Dead Letter. After a vigorous defense of wo Ln suffrage in the Senate Tuesday cator Borah of Idaho shocked suf ge advocates on the floor and in ) galleries by declaring it was im icticable and impossible for wo n to obtain the vote by constitu nal amendment. He predicted it after 15 years of vain endeavor, men would renew their abandon request before the people of the .te, because in seeking an amend nt to the Federal constitution they d loaded themselves down with the rro question, the Japanese ques n and a do!en other State's rights >blems. "You will never carry the iuired 36 States for a constitu nal woman suffrage amendment," d the Senator, "until you repeal fifteenth amendment." Asserting that the fifteenth endment, giving the negro the ht to vote, was a blunder in the 3t place, and now a dead letter, t being enforced in a single state. senator Borah asked whether ad ates of the women suffrage endment now pending, for a mo nt supposed Southern states would 1 2,000,000 to the list of those om they must disfranchise. "Vio Ion of law is a bad thing," he add "It is demoralizing to the negro !e to place in the constitution the m of rights that we do not mean see they shall enjoy." The fifteenth amendment, the sen or said, was a blunder, engendered a spirit of retaliation, with the re t that after the first blush of sat action the North had connived at South's violations of it. The endment infringed upon State's hts, and might furnish a precedent an amendment declaring the ht to hold real estate or attend tool should not be denied of rage color. "I have no desire," explained'the ator, "to bestow the franchise on 10,000 Japanese on the Pacific pe, or yield up to the Federal gov irent the control of the school estions of the Pacific coast." Answering a question .by ..Senator omas, Senator .Borah said : he was favor of repealing - the fifteenth tendment If woman suffrage could obtained in no other way. The aho senator and Senator Vardaman Mississippi engaged in a tilt over a progress of the negro race. TIED HIM IN SACK. press Messenger Sees Bandit Es cape With Thousands. After Messenger Martin was put :o a gunny sack, a masked man desday robbed the express car at. hed to north.bound Gulf, Colorado Santa Fe passenger train of sev il packages of currency, estimated amount to about $14,000 and es ped from the train at the village of lbig, twelve miles north of Beau nt, Texas. Posses in automobiles p.sed the robber but have not uind trace of the bandit, believed to hiding in the dense forest about a village. Martin says the man ordered him turn over his keys and that he eyed and then was bound and fore into the sack. That was all Mar says he saw or heard until the sn crew forced an entrance intO e car and released him at the tewn Sisbee, several miles north of lbig. The suspicions of the train aw were aroused when the mes ~ger did not come from the car at e next stop. Find Them 'Dead in Nouse. When Chicago police broke into e home of John Lindstrom Thurs y they found two girls dead and >h parents and a baby brother obably fatally asphyxiated. Guests Make Their Escape. Forty guests escaped from the 'inisor hotel. Milwaukee. Thursday hen liar es destroyed that hostelry id damaged other buildings, the loss obably reaching $200,000. Woman Burned to Death. With her body completely envel ed in flames, Mrs. R. L. Edwards Albany, Ga., rushed screaming out the yard of her home Thursday ternoon and fell dead. Two Killed on Boat. In an exchange of shots on board river steamer near Friar Point, iss. Wednesday, a sheriff and one three negroes he was attempting arrest, were killed. Negro Cuts Spouse. Mame Hays, a Barnwell negres as stabbed In the face and head enty-eight times by her husband turday. The weapon used was a ackt knife. Robber Dressed as Woman. A man dressed In female garl: onday night attempted to hold u; iree vning men of Greenville. P0 e offieers gave chase but failed tc Ltch him. Saw Cuts Man In Two. Zere Wilson, an employee In a lum rton. N. C.. lumber company. was stantly killed Wednesday when hi 1l across a cut saw. Killed in Trying to Escape. As he attempted to make his es te out of a Philadelphia .jail Fri iy nght Joh H.Davs wa sht - TEST YOUR SEED CORN 'FARMER CAN MAKE HIS OWN GERMINATION TEST. More Bushels to the Acre Can be Produced by Making Quick Tests at No Expense. Every farmer in South Carolina who plants corn should begin select- I fig his seed for planting at once, is the advice of Prof. W. L. Hutchinson, of Clemson college. Prof. Hutchin son urges every farmer to make a ger mination test of his seed, which nu merous experiments have. proved be yond a doubt will result in a large increase in yield. An ear-to-row test with. seed that has been tested for n germinating powers will be sure to ia pay a farmer handsomely in future r crops, but even if he makes only the j germination test this year, he is like ly to have his yield increased from t five to ten bushels an acre, -at least. r The test is so simple and requires so d little time in proportion to results that there is no farmer in the State who can not make it. r The average farmer In this State selects his planting ears by sight c alone, picking out the ears which ap pear sound. Unless he is an expert d and has had training in corn judging, j this method is not of great value to him. What he should do is to select his best looking ears and then put these through a germination test. After Selecting the best . looking1. ears, arrange -them side by side ond planks, driving a tenpenny nail after each tenth ear. The ears should then be numbered consecutively, which can be done by marking the number of each ear on the. plan with lead pencil. They should then be left until after the germination test is completed, except when they are taken out one by one for the purpose of getting ker nels from them. One of the simplest and best meth ods of testing is the use of a saw dust box. Use a box about two feet square and four inches deep. Fill the box to within an inch and a half of the top with sawdust, well packed. e Select a piece of white cloth a little larger than the box and mark this to tell the number of any of them with out trouble. By leaving outside rows vacant all around the box, there will be about one hundred squares. Tack j the cloth inside the box so that it a rests. firmly and smoothly over the sawdust. With the box near at hand, take the ears from the plank one by one. Se lent from each ear six kernels, taking them from different parts of the ear and no two from the same row. Place the six kernels from near No. 1 in square No. 1 on the cloth, and so on with all the ears. Kernels should be laid with the germ side up. Put each ear back in its place on the plank. When each square in the box, ex cept those In the outside rows, con tains its six kernels, sprinkle water into the box until the corn and saw dust are thoroughly moistened, tak ing care not to disturb the kernels. Then place a dry white cloth carefully I over the kernels and another cloth on top of this on0 Finally, cover the top cloth w',.h sa..st until the box is level full. Keep the box in a fairly warma room, leaving it undisturbed for t Iseven days. Then catch the ends of the top cloth and raise the cloth care-e fully from the box. This will take off the top layer of sawdust without disturbing the corn. Raise the sec-e ond cloth, still using great care, and I it is then possible to read the tests. See which kernels have germinatedC well and which have germinated poo-ly. If square No. 16 shows poor gerination, go to your plank and .take out ear No. 16, throwing It Into C the feed pile. Do this with each ear< whose kernels show poor germinating powers. The ears left on your plank will then be good ones and you are I ready for your planting. If you dor not secur-e a good crop you can feel certain that it was not the fault of< the seed. Use one box for every one hundred ears. If desired, however, a larger box may be used. But that described above is the most convenient size to handle and should satisfy the needs of the average farmer. The time to make this test Is really in winter, when the ears which turn out well are stored for planting in spring. However, if it was not done In winter, there is still ample time toI make the test now and the farmer who makes It has the unanimous opinion 't all the experts that it will Ibring him rich profits. Caught by liloodhounlds. William Shaffer, a negro of Guth rie, Okla.. was run down and captur ed by bloodhounds Tuesday In a five mile chase. He confessed to firing wo gins. Killed by Ammonia Fumes. The blowing off of a compressor head, allowing deadly ammonia fumes to escape, caused the death. Thursday of two employees of a Cleveland, Ohio, brewery. Two Union Negroes Fight. Wallace Howell, a negro of Lock hart .Mills, near Union. was killed Sunday night by Dave Adams. anoth-! er negro. In a fight over a woman. Routed by the Wind.' A strong north wind Monday night reduced "General'' Kelley's army, which is penned up at Sa':ramento, Cal., to 300 men. Auto Kills Child. Ronald Mazo, five years old, of, Jacksonville, Fla., was hit by an au-' tomobile Sunday and fatally injured. Hoicid- a Frequent in New York. During: 1913 480 homicides took place in 'ew York. The arrests nnmband only 245. TO CON[[R AAIN IUERTA READY TO BEIPEN NEO TIATIONS WITH LIND NISON LONSIDERS PLAN ojas, Huerta's Minister, Confers With Lind-Efforts Are Made for Secrecy But Mexican Capital Thinks Financial Blockade Has Brought Huerta to His Knees. Forced by the increasing serious Less of the financial situation in Mex ca, President Huerta at last appears t eady to resume negotiations with ohn Lind, President Wilson's per onal representative, which were 1 roken off last August, if reports cur- t ent in the Mexican capital Wednes ay night are true. Jose Lopez Portillo y Rojas, min- t ster of foreign affairs, has been di- l ected to reopen the unofficial diplo- t atic exchanges with Mr. Lind, ac- f ording to the report and for that I purpose went to Vera Cruz Wednes- I ay. Where he will meet Mr. Lind I s not known. Every effort has been s ade to keep the meeting a secret, 2 nd should it fail to take place, the t overnment could repeat the explana- t [on already given that the minister s taking the trip to celebrate Saints' i 'ay. President Huerta Wednesday sum.. coned to the national palace sixty of he wealthiest Mexicans residing in he capital and intimated that indi ect financial support would be high y agreeable. He reminded them hat a decree Issued several months go, calling on owners of haciendas o equip and maintain ten men for urposes of self-defense, never has een complied with. Such compliance rould mean, according to the official gures, the maintenance of about 00,000 men, as It is estimated that here are 52,000 haciendas and small- 1 r ranches within Federal jurisdic [on. President Huerta also requested hese men to furnish him with horses or 120 cannon expected to arrive oon from Japan and Europe. He sked their moral support, suggest ig that they form a sort of military ociety, not for actual fighting, but hat insignia be worn by the mem ers to identify them as being loyal o the government. The United States government ays a Washington dispatch, will wel ome a reopening of negotiations E ith the Huerta government or the onstitutionalists and will be glad to onsider any proposal that will tend o draw the various factions together nto a plan for the restoration of eace in Mexico. This is the attitude f President Wilson revealed Thurs. ay, after reports received at Wash ngton saying Senor Portillo y Rojas, nnister for foreign affairs in the uerta cabinet, had gone to meet ohn Lind, Mr. Wilson's personal rep esentative, to seek a resumption of he peace parleys. Senor Rojas has been mentioned .s the man who would succeed Huer-t a f he retired, and the object of the 'isit to Mr. Lind, It has been report d, was to acquaInt the president's mnvoy with his personality. Inci lentally the president In talking with 'allers, while remarking that he had iad no official report of any new par eys, spoke in complimentary terms if the Mexican minister of foreign Iffairs as a man of high character. What the president emphasizes Is ~is Informal discussion on the Mexi tan situation Is that he, as president if the United States, has never sought to approve or disapprove of ndviduals who may aspire to the residency of Mexico, and that he has to list of men whom he holds under so-called ban because of alleged omplcity in the assassination of Ma His refusal to recognize Huerta, It nay be stated on the highest author ty, was not based on any personal ttagonism to Huerta, but on the round that the constitutionalists vould never be reconciled to the man who had overthrown Madero and suarez and that governments set up by arbitrary force and not reflecting :e popular will should not be dealt with by the United States. Likewise, in the consideration of Individuals who might seek recogni tion by the Unted States, the princi ple President Wilson has been work ing on is that recognition extended to a~ny one set up in the presidency without some popular expression or without the indorsement of all fac tions could not lead to peace. In considering peace proposals from the H-uerta government the nited States, it is known now, will do all that it can to forward a peace fl settlement, but the conviction is as strong with the president Thurs day as It was when he sent his in structions to John Lind last summer that peace in Mexico in the last anal ysis is dependent upon terms that will be acceptable alike to the con e itutionalists and the Huerta admin Istration. One of the suggestions made to President Wilson lately contemplates the sending of a commission of Americans of prominence to investi gate conditions in Mexico. Unoilicial reports have had it that both Car ranza and H-uerta would receive such a commission.I President Wilson is carefully con sidering the suggestion, said to havec been made originally by Oscar S.I Straus former ambassador to Turkey. prominent in the cause of world pace. The president. It is known. would be glad to send such a com mission, if it could assist the Mexi can factions In arriving at an agree ment, but It Is believed he feels that actua.1peace proposals must neces. CALLS HIM DOWN V'ILSON RESENTS INTIMATION OF SENATOR JONES. ;ays He Was "Skating on Thin Ice" in Asserting British Minister In fluenced Free Tolls Message. President Wilson told Senator 'ones, Republican, of Washington, hursday that he was "skating on hin ice" in his speech Wednesday, vhich broadly intimated that the iresident had not decided to read a message to congress on the Panama anal tolls question until after Sir ,nonel Carden, British minister to lexico, visited the White House. The senator went to discuss with he president certain regulations of a )ending fisheries bill affecting the I almon industry in the northwest ut Mr. Wilson turned the conversa ion to the senator's speech. The president told callers after. card that he could not get a sugges ion on the Mexican question out of 1 ;ir Lionel "with a corkscrew", and ] hat the conference was purely for in ormation on the general situation in [exico. The president had written is tolls message and decided to read 1 t before he saw Sir Lionel. Officials aid neither the tolls questions nor ny suggestions for future policy in he Mexican situation came up in the alk with Sir Lionel. Senator Jones returned to the cap tol and gave the senate the presi- ] Lent's unqualified denial. "The pres dent assures me,' said Mr. Jones, that there was no basis of fact in the rticles I referred to, - warrant the onclusions with regard to this gov. rnment and its relations with Great ;ritain in the matter. I think I was isunderstood in that I did not draw i he conclusions myself but took them rom newspaper reports." 1 Senator Jones declared the inci ent served to illustrate the neces ity for more information on the toll xemptlon and again urged his reso. ution calling upon the president for I aformation as to what governments ad protested against exemptions for Lmerican ships. Senator Jones contended it was im erative that the Senate, before It undertook to act upon President Wil on's request, should be informed as the Interests of the foreign nations a the matter. He pointed out that he resolution only requested infor ation which the president deemed dvisable to give. Senators who agree with the presi ent's views on the repeal issue hold 1 hat the chief executive commuunicat- I d to congress in his recent message, 11 he desired to say regarding the l natter and for this reason oppose the 1 esolution as unnecessary. DOG BIT TWO CHILDREN. lorence Animal Was Suffering From Rabies at the Time. Several days ago a pet dog belong i to Mr. L. K. Blackmon, of the lhenezer section of Florence county ecame vicious and bit two of his hiildren, Leon and Edward. Noth ng was thought of the matter at the ime but two or three days later the Log died. Fearing that the dog may have een mad, Mr. Blackmon cut tile Log's head off and sent it to the Pas eur Hospital at Columbia tO have it ested. Saturday Mr. Blackmon re :eived a letter from the hospital, say ng that the dog had a genuine case f rabies, and Mr. Blackmon at once ook the necessary precaution and ent both children to Columbia, in harge of Mrs. Blackmon, where they 'ill be treated. I. I Two Burned to Death. When the home of A. M. Dulaney vas destroyed Thursday at Ardmore, kla., Mrs. Dulaney and Infant laughter were burned to death, but he father managed to save four oth rr children. Call for Water Saves Life. Thirty-seven hours after he had een burled under the walls of the t. Louis Seed company's builriing1 homas Burke was rescued Thursdoy ~hen his calls for water were heard. Rob Clerk of $3.-0. After securing $Z50 from a Dle roti, Mich., hotel clerk Wednesday at the point of his pistol a robber Leaped into an auto and found the hauffer to drive him to safety. Spartanburg Gets Hospitail. It was announlced W\ednesday that! he U. S. government had appropriat $.7,000 for a pellagra hospital to be established in Spartanburg. Fire Horse lDrops lDead. "Jerry," the best horse owned by the Sumter Fire department. dropped; ead Wednesday while making a' long run to answer an alarm. Recue 100 Bales of Cotton. Wreckers have raised 100 bales of cotton fronm the sunken Monroe wich went down when hit by the anatucket. Child Disaippeaxrs. The two-.year-old daughter of Frnk 1Prag2. ot Vie'lnna. Ga., disap pered Tuesday. It is supposed to he been kidnapped. Three Negroes Killed. t aboo, Fla., a saw mill town three negroes were killed in a general fiht Saturday night. saril originate with the Mexican fac tis and that unless the cammission were invited to go to Mexico. its er rnd would be fruitless, mediation of the same sort having previously been rejecte by both Me-ican factions. WOI[S ON IUiIIAL SENATE WILL NOT SUBMIT MAT TER.TO THE STATES FAVORED BY MAJORITY oman Suffrage Amendment Voted for by Thirty-five Senators and Op posed by Thirty-four-Suffragists Jubilant Over What They Consider a Great Victory. Woman suffrage advocates Thurs lay lost their fight in the United tates Senate for a resolution pro osing an amendment to the Federal :onstitution giving women the bal ot. The vote was 35 for the meas. ire to 34 against it, a two-thirds af irmative vote being required for pas ;age, and when it was over suffragist eaders jubilantly pointed to the ma ority of one as conclusive proof that heir cause had scored a triumph in lefeat, and was immeasurably tronger than its opponents ever had )een willing to concede. , Thursday's action, following weeks >f debate on the floor of the Senate, luring which time leaders in the suf !rage movement pleaded for post )onement of the final vote, marked he climax of a spirited campaign aunched the day before the inaugu ation of President Wilson. The resolution defeated Thursday ras the first introduced in the pres mnt congress. It was presented by senator Chamberlain of Oregon, and :he woman suffrage committee later uthorized Senator Ashurst to report t favorably. Though otherwise thie vote virtual y was non-partisan, the Southern enators. all Democrats. lined up al nost solidly against the amendment. Phey contended it would complicate he negro question in the states. Of he Southerners only Senator Rans iell of Louisiana, Sheppard of Texas ind Lea of Tennessee voted for the -esolution. Senator Vardaman led a movement tmong the friends of woman suffrage n the South to repeal the fifteenth mendment to the constitution, by rhich the states are prohibited-from !enying negroes the right to, vote. 7Vlth the negro questcn remoyed, he aid, he favored the granting-of suf 'rage to women. His proposal was efeated, 49 to 19, and a proposition )y Senator Williams to give the bal ot to white women only was defeat, -d, 44 to 21. The vote was preceded by a three iours' kaleidoscopic debate on the rrieus phases of suffrage. Senator artine of New Jersey was the only nember who said he was opposed to oman suffrage on principle. He de dared the particination of women in )olitles had failed to purify the bal ot, and that it would be a sad and orry day for both women and men vhn they were given the ballot uni rersally. The speeches of suffrage ienators, he added, had excited in his nind the wonder if they found objiec :ion to the "Saviour for not choosing ;x of the apostles from among the w'omen" Senator Newinnds declared he fav 3red making this a white man's :ountry, so as to shut out the Japa. iese. as well as the nerro, but ques :oned the propriety of doing that on , woman suffrage pronositlon. Mrs. ,fedll McCormick; chairman of the ~ongressonal committee of the -Na :onal American Woman Suffraa'e as ;ociaton. Issued a statement Thurs :la nht claimngn the maiority vote s a victory. "For the first time In Rfty years." she said.-"the women of Amerca demonstrated their imnres inn upon the Trnitedl States Senate. rt Is a sian of the times and it por tends that all womenhood In this nontry will be emancipated within this enerationi." Sonators who voted for the Varda man eenintioni pronneinea repeal of he fiftoonth n'on'ment were: P.van. WiiThmms. Vardon. Rnns-. de1l. Lea of Tenn*e*P- TLee of Mary Ined. Shi1iell. Orno.-,an. Smith of 5n~th ('o'rnlina, Smith of G'enraia, West. Tiflman. ShannCed. tseartin, swnson. yers. CGe and Reed. The senators votina' for the in e rerin---,n. tw-taan, W'eeks, Ws, wei~ Ano st-- 4. y.Ths Thn fom h~ee e'o-T on d his body wasba r enhod."'t ho"" t'e'4~ .nWo ofrt p~'eln who'ived WestWirs. . 4 03.was 19r nonr OnhhFn. . T.. i e no an it wgn