The Manning times. (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, June 03, 1914, Image 1

Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page. It is also available as plain text as well as XML.

VOL. xxVIII MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY. JUNE 6, STEAMER R THOUS) BOAT RESTS ON BOTTON OF ST. LAWRENCE TERRIBLE TRAGEDY AMID DENSE FOG Empress of Ireland Bound for Idver pool From Quebec is Cut Wide Open by the Collier Storstad and Passengmr Are Caught Like Bats in a Trp-Vessel Carried 1,437 Persons and Few Over 400 Have Been Accounted for-Dead Esti - ated Between 678 and 1,100 Wireless Messages Tel of Disaster. The twin screw Canadian liner Em press of Ireland, carrying 1,437 per sons, passengers and crew, sank in the darkness before dawn Friday in the St. Lawrence liver, near Rimou ski, Quebec, with- a loss of perhaps 1,000 lives. Estimates. of the dead vary from 678 to more than 1,100. The vessel, bound from Quebec for Liverpool, with 77 first, 206 second and .504 third class passengers, was cut wide open by the collier Storstad and sank within 20 minutes in 19 fathoms of water.. Of those saved the majority appeared- to be mem bers of the crew or from the steerage. Many were badly injured and p2 died after being plcked up. The crash occurred about 2 o'clock in the morning off Father Point, Qebec. The collier, bound for Que bec, struck the Empress of Ireland on the port side about the middle of the ship. She literally tore her way pack almost to the liner's screws, leaving a rent through which the water poured in in such a deluge that the sank before many of the passen gers were aware of what had hap pened.-& Brief wireless calls ifr help sent out by the Marconi operator were ieard by the pilot boat Eureka at Rimouski, 10 miles from the scene, ;and the Eureka, followed by the Lady Evelyn, a mail tender, made all speed for the spot. It was these two boats that found afloat the few lifeboats that were launched from the stricken ship . and. picked .up the survivors -they contained. Three hundred and - thirty-nine were saved by the Lady Evelyn and 60 by the Eureka. Among those saved was Capt. H. G. Kendall, of the Empress. Most of the first class passengers -apparently perished. Among those in -the first cabin were Sir Henry Seton -Karr, a noted English lawyer and big game hunter, and Laurence Irving, son of the late Sir Henry Irving, and his wife, Mabel Hackney. Of a party of 140 Salvation Army members on *board only 20 were rescued. They had left for the conference in Lon 7don. * First News of Disaster. *Montreal. May 29.-First official word of the Empress of Ireland dis -aster came from Capt. Kendall, 'who sent this wireless message to Capt. Walsh, marine superintendent of the -Canadian Pacific at Montreal, Can ada: "Empress of Ireland stopped by dense fog. Struck amidships in vital spot by cller Storstad." Later Capt. Kendall, in conveying the intelligence to Capt. Walsh that the Empress had gone down, said: "Ship gone.". A special train was dispatched at 8:30 to Father Point to ,bring back the survivors. Capt. Kendall won renown as the man who first detected Crippen, the murderer, on the steam ship Montford. Another Wireless Account. The Marcon~i Co.'s operator at RI mouski, Quebec, Friday gave the fol lowing account of the sinking of the Empress of Ireland: "The Empress of Ireland was ram med this morning at 1:45 by the Storstad, twenty miles out fromr Father Point. The Empress sank within ten minutes. The S. 0. S. signal sent out was received at Fath er Point and the government steam ers Eureka and Lady Evelyn were dispatched to the distressed vessel's assistance. The Empress of Ireland listed and was unable to get many of the boats out. "Capt. Kendall was saved, bei picked up on some wreckage bya lifeboat 30 minutes after his ship had foundered- Both wireless operators, assistant pursers, chief engineers and chief steward were saved. Chief of fieer and purser are among the miss ing." Faint Glimmer of Hope. A message received at Montreal b: the Canadian Pacific offices from RI mouski said that "all the passengers have been picked up by the boats o0 the Lady Evelyn and Eureka." A similar message was received b: LaPatrle, a French newspaper, fron a Rimouski correspondent. He sait that 400 survivors had been lande. and that the Lady Evelyn and Eure ka were going back to pick up the remainder of the passengers, whC were In boats. From the wording of the Canadial Pacific message It could not be de termined whether "all the ,passen gers" meant all those on board the Empress of Ireland or simply al those who were able to make the Iif! boats. 677 Unaccounted For. The collier Storstad has 3 60 sur 'rivors from the Empress of Irelan< aboard. acording to announIen AMMED; ND DROW HAVE PLAN READY MAIN ISSUES Of PEACE PROBLEE LAID BEFORE PRESIDENT WAIT FOR THEIR ASSEN1 All the Larger Questions Have Beer Solved and the Presidents of the Two Countries Must Now Approve Them Before Smaller Questions Will be Entered Into. Plans for the pacification of Mex ico through mediation virtually have been completed. The major issues are before President Wilson and Gen. Huerta for approval and when this is obtained secondary questions will be taken up. A protocol covering the basic principles will be signed, the mediation conference will close, dele gates will return to their homes and the mediators ,.11 complete details of the undertaking in conjunction with the authorities at Washington and Mexico City. This work may require several months. It is expected that the re sponsibility for dealing with the Con stitutionalist clement will be thrown upon the United States. Among the points still to be disposed of are be lieved to be the selection of persons to comprise the new provisional gov ernment and the exact manner by which it will take office in succes sion to the Huerta regime. Mediators and delegates said a pro tocol probably would be signed with in, a week. Just how the transition from the present administration to a new provisional government can be effected is being given close atten tion. The intent of the American dele gates is understood to be that the new provisional executive shall not appear to have been chosen by Huer ta. If the Mexican constitution be followed literally it is necessary that the office of minister of foreign af fairs, now vacant, shall be filled by the individual whom the mediation conference expects Gen. Huerta to turn over the reins of government. The constitution provides that in case of a vacancy' in the office of presi dent, the. minister of foreign. affairs shall succeed to the position. The American delegates recognize that an irregular method of choosing a pro visional president might evoke oppo sition. The American government wishes the Huerta government to give way to a commission of five, or possibly three. The Mexican delegates hold a commission would be unpopular, be cause the people might resent It as of foreign suggestion. They urge that a minister of foreign affairs automati cally succeed Gen. Huerta. This successor then could name as cabinet members those persons who already had been agreed upon. Such an arrangement might .be construed as permitting Gen. Huerta to choose his successor, but the fact that those who will comprise the list fron which the provisional president would be elected will be named in advance and approved by the United States, In the opinion of some would prevent this impression from being widely credited. Neither the American nor Mexican delegates consider this point a stum bling block. That there should be a governing body of five individuals Is virtually settled. On this group would devolve the responsibility 01 making arrangements for a general elcinand carrying out other de tal fthe program arranged. Though one of the group probably will be called provisional president and the other members of his cobi net, there will be tacit understanding that these men will have an equal voice in the government's operation, Questions of personnel are absorb ing the attention of all. SCAN1)AL CASE. New Law Has Been Invoked for Firs1 Time by Aiken Damsel. ofFor the first time the new statutE of1912 fixing a severe penalty foi the circulation of scandalous repor1 detrimental to the character of an other has been evoked in Aiken coun ty in the prosecution of Dr. Samsor Williams, a young dentist of Wag ener, by Miss Emma Garvin, the as sistant postmistress at that place. Miss Garvin, who is an attracti young woman, appeared with a larg4 number of witnesses who gave som4 sensational testimony in suppcrt of her contention that Dr. Williams hac circulated reports concerning he: which are untrue and detrimental t< her character. by the government signal service With approximately 400 landed a Rimouski, this accounts for 760 soul: aboard the Empress, leaving 677 un accounted for at 10 o'clock Frida: morning. The text of the message received by LaPatrie from Rimouski reads: -"Lady Evelyn and Eureka docket at Rimouski with 400 passengers Captains both reported that all the passengers were saved in the lif boats of the Lady Evelyn, Eurekt and Empress of Ireland,, As soon at passengers are disembarked boti - steaerB will leave for the scene o Ithe wreck to pick up otber passen CANDIDATES ROUTE EXECUTIVE COMITTEE ANHOUN CES CAMPAIGN ITINERARIES WILL BEGIN ON JUNE 17 Two Parties Are to Tour the State Candidates for Senate Begin Meet ings at St. Matthews, While State Office Candidates Will Open in Sumter. The itineraries for the senatorial and State campaign parties in their canvas of South Carolina have been announced by Gen. Wilie Jones, chairman of the sub-committee of the State executive committee, which pre pared the itineraries. The canvass for United States sen ator opens at St. Matthews on June 17 and closes at Sumter on August 20. The canvass of the candidates for governor and other State officers opens at Sumter on June 17 and winds up at Greenville on August 20. The first primary election takes place August 25, and the second primary September 8, two weeks later. The itinerary for the senatorial campaign follows: St. Matthews-Wednesday, June 17. Orangeburg-Thursday, June 18. St. George, Friday, June 19. Charleston-Saturday, June 20. Walterboro-Monday, June 22. Beaufort-Tuesday, June 23. Ridgeland-Wednesday, June 24. Hampton-Thursday, June 25. Barnwell-Friday, June 26. Bamberg-Saturday, June 17. Winnsboro-Monday, June 29. Chester-Tuesday, June 30. Lancaster-Wednesday, July 1. Yorkville-Thursday, July 2. Gaffney-Friday, July 3. Spartanburg-Saturday, July 4. Union-Wednesday, July 8. Newberry-Friday, July 10. Greenwood-Saturday, July 11. Abbeville-Tuesday, July 14. Anderson-Wednesday, July 15. Walhalla-Thursday, July 16. Pickens-Friday. July 17. Greenville-Saturday, July 18. Laurens-Wednesday, July 22. Columbia-Thursday, July 23. Lexington-Friday, July 24. Saluda-Saturday, July 25. Edgefield-Wednesday, July 29. Aiken-Thursday, July 30. Camden-Tuesday, August 4. Chesterfield-Wednesday, August 5. 'Bennettsville-Friday, August 7. Darlington-Saturday, August 8. Bdshopville-Monday, August 10. Florence-Tuesday, August 11. Dillon-Wednesday, August 12. Marion-Thursday, August 13. Conway-Friday, August 14. Kingstree-,Saturday, August 15. Georgetown-Monday, August 17. Monck's Corner-Tuesday, August 18. Manning-Wednesday, August 19. Sumter-Thursday, August 20. The itinerary for governor and other State officials in their canvass follows: Sumter-Wednesday, June 17. Manning-Thursday, June 18. Monck's Corner-Friday, June 19. Georgetown-Saturday, J~une 20. Kingstree-Tuesday, June 23. Florence-Wednesday, June 24. Marion-Thursday, June 25. Conway-Friday, June 26. Dillon-Saturday, June 27. Darlington--Monday, June 29. Bishopville-Tuesday, June 30. Bennettsville-Wednesday, July 1. Chesterfield-Thursday, July 2. Camden-Friday, July 3. Columbia-Saturday, July 4. Lerington-Thursday, July 9. Saluda-Friday, July 10. Edgefield-Saturday', July 11. Aiken-Tuesday, July 14. Bamberg-Wednesday, July 15. Barnwell-Thursday, July 16. Barnwell-Thursday, July 16. Hampton-Friday, July 17. Beaufort-Saturday, July 18. Ridgeland-Wednesday, July 22. Walterboro-Thursday,. July 23. Charleston-Friday, July 24. St. George-Tuesday, July 28. Orangeburg-Wednlesday, July 29. St. Matthews-Thursday, July 30. Winnsboro-Monday, August 3. Chester-Tuesday, August 4. Lancaster-Wednesday, August 5. Yorleville-Thursday, August 63. Gaffney-Friday, August 7. Spartanburg-Saturday, August 8. Union-Tuesda.y, August 11. Newberry-Wednesday, August 12. Laurens-Thursday, August 13. Greenwood--Friday, August 14. Abbeville-Satuirday, August 15. Anderson-Monday, August 17. Walhalla-Tuesday', August 18. Pckens-Wednesday, August 19. Greenville-Thursday. August 20. SENT UP FOR LIFE. Prisoner Laughs at Way He "Put One Over" on Alienists. J. E. Baxter, charged with the murder of the father, mother and bro ther of his wife, and who since his arrest in Kentucky several months ago has been feigning insanity, Thur sday was convicted at Memphis, and -sentenced to life imprisonment. The jury reached the verdict without leav ing the box. Immediately after the verdict was announced, Baxter dropped his role of insanity and laughed over the -way he "put one over." as he express ed it, on the commission which pass ed on his sanity. Two Are Killed in Storm. In a storm which did thousands of dollars damage at Towanda, Pa., tw nersnn were fatally injured. COTTON CROP CONDITION NEW YORK JOURNAL OF 0OM MERCE'S ESTIMATE. Crop for This Year Seems to be Slightly OR Conditions of the Past -Drought Hurts East. The condition of cotton on an aver age date of May 23 -was 78.2 per cent., as compared with 80.5 per cent. a year ago, 76.9 in 1912 and 83.8 in 1911. Owing to continued drought in several of the states cot ton is very late in germinating, and estimates of condition are incom plete. This is particularly true of the Carolinas and Georgia, and to a les ser degree In Alabama and Arkansas. The comparatively low condition in Texas and Oklahoma Is largely attributable to excessive rains, which have rendered conditions in large sec tions very bad. The season in Texas is unusually late, averaging 24 days, while in Oklahoma it averages 18 days. The whole belt -is about two weeks late. Conditions by States, as compiled from over 2,000 replies of special cor respondents of the New York Journal of Commerce, ,bearing an average date of May 23, follows: 1914 1913 1912 1911 1910 N. C. . . .79.4 78.0 84. 82.3 74.7 S. C. . . .77.9 69.9 79.0 74.0 77.3 Georgia . .82.0 75.3 74.0 89.3 79.3 Florida . .88.0- 79.9 72.4 97.6 76.7 Alabama .80.7 79.6 71.8 St O 81.2 Miss. . . .80.0 80.5 70:6 81.'t 75.7 La. . . .81.5 81.6 71.0 83.5' 71.5 Texas . .75.0 82.7 81.8'83.1 82.7 Arkansas .78.0 85.3 72.3 82.4 78.6 Tennesse .82.1 83.3 73.5 81.3 79.6 Missouri. .84.5 83.0 73.3 79.5 81.6 Oklahoma 77.0 .89.6 78.7 87.2 85.1 Averages. 78.2. 80.5 76.9 83.8 80.2 Continued rains in Texas and Ok lahoma have rendered the season so backward that a great niany corre spondents refrain from making defi nite estimates on acreage.. The same feeling exists among our correspond ents in the Carolinas and Georgia and to a lesser extent in some other states owing to continued drought causing retarded germination of seed. Estimates on acreage, therefore, will be subject to revision next month, and the present estimate can only be regarded as tentative and incomplete. The results thus far obtained sug gest an increase of 1 per cent., made up as follows: North Carolina, 98 per cent.; South Carolina, 101.1 per cent.; Georgia, 100.5 per cent.; Florida, 103.2 per cent.; Alabama, 100.8 per cent.; Mis sissippi, 102.4 per cent.; Louisiana, 108 per cent.; Texas, 100.2'per cent.; Arkansas, 102.4 per cent.; Tennessee, 103 per cent.; Missouri, 105.5 per cent.; Oklahoma, 100 per cent. Aver age for United States, 101 per, cent. SENATORS PLEASED. Smith and Tillman Comment on Pri mary Regulations. When asked what impression had been made on him by the new rules adopted for the Democratic primary by the recent State convention, Sena tor Tillman said: "I was very much pleased at the action of the convention. It went farther in the direction of safeguards than I had, even hoped it would go. It is all right to screw the cap down tight, provided It is not screwed so tight as to snap the threads; and it has not been screwed that tight in this case. I wish the convention had adopted my suggestion of having each ballot stamped. On the whole, how ever, I can say that I am delighted." Senator E. D. Smith, when the same question ,was put to him, re sponded as follows: "I am gratified to see that the con vention was so unanimous and har monious and that their action In mod ifying the primary rules was bhy such a tremendous majority of the conven tion. This would indicate an over whelming sentiment in the State for modification of the existing rules gov erning the primary. Every effort should be made to acquaint every vot er with the new rules in order that he may enroll himself and be prepared for the primary."~ FAKE FUNERAL New York Police Officers Work Trick on Slick Gamblers. A hearse, conveying an empty cas ket, followed by automobiles decked in mournin~g, stopped in front of Wil liam McGun's road house near Forest Park, New York, Wednesday. A tristy bunch of mourners entered. Within ten minutes the mourners .be came deputy sheriffs, and the house was raided. For a year complaints had come to Sheriff Zimmer of book making and other forms of gambling at McGurn's. More than a dozen pickets were continually on duty about the place. They had pushbuttons in fence posts. by which the house was notified when any person who looked like a deputy sheriff appeared. Chief Deputy >Pet ers organized the funeral. The pick ets were deceived. Once in the place. doors to gambling rooms were brok en down and racing charts, poker chips and dice were found. Seventy five men were captured. Forest Fires Raging. A fire sweeping through the forests around Cypress, a village of Minne sota, threatens to destroy the entire settlement. Forest rangers say rain alone can save the town. Messenger Steals $4,900. 0. S. Williams, express messenger at Macon, Ga., was arrested Wednes day, charged with stealing $4,900. In a cigar box burled undpr hzis home man fommd 1.. ARMS ARE LANDED GERMAN STEAMERS DELIVER AM MUNITION TO MEXICANS B II. S. KEEPS ARMISTICE - To Stop Landing Would Have Neces sitated Seizure of Customs at a Puerto, Mexico, Which Would Have ' Violated Agreement Pending Nego tiations. 3 Ammunition consigned to the Huerta government in Mexico, which had been kept in the hold of the Ger . man steamship Ypiranga since the a American occupation of Vera Cruz, was reported to have been landed Wednesday at Puerto Mexico. Con sul Canada, at Vera Cruz, cabled this information to the state department. - It was reported from other sources that arms consigned to Huerta had been landed at Puerto Mexico from the German steamer Bavaria.' Both steamers belong to the Hamburg American line. A press dispatch Wednesday night from Vera Cruz stated that the Ba varia had arrived at that port with out a manifest, and that Brig. Gen. Funston had ordered her held. Ac cording to this dispatch the captain of the Bavaria admitted landing am munition and a large quantity of barber wire at Puerto Mexico for Huerta. United States officials made no ef fort to prevent the delivery of the ammunition, as Puerto Mexico is an open -port, and the United States has agreed to a suspension of hostilities during the Niagara mediations. The state department made it plain that the only way for the United States to have prevented the delivery would have been to seize the c iutoms house at Puerto Mexico, as- was done at Vera Cruz. This would have violated the armistice. Robert Lansing, counsc!lor of the state department, made public the reports corrcerning the delivery of the ammunition, Secretary Bryan be ing absent. When Mr. Bryan return ed to the state department later in the day he was informed of the mes sages. "What," he said, evincing some surprise. "Already landed the arms?" Mr. Bryan then read the dis patches and declined to make further comment. A dispatch from Vera Cruz says that the German steamer Bavaria has been held upon her arrival without manifest at Brig. Gen. Funston's or der. The Bavaria recently landed a large quantity of ammunition on Mexican soil. It is estimated that the Bavaria put ashore 1,800,000 rounds of am munition. The cargo was destined for Vera Cruz, but was diverted to Puerto Mexico. The steamer reached there Sunday. The captain could not produce a manifest, declaring It had been taken away from him by the American authorities. Later he ad mitted landing the cargo, which In cluded also 3,000 rolls of barbed wire. Gen. Funston understands the am munition and wire reached Cordcbba by way of Tierra Blanca. The Ham burg-American steamship Bavaria on May & was reported to be on her way to Mexico with a shipment of arms. Later It was understood that the war supplies were to be returned to Ger . many. The Bavaria arrived at Havana Son May 1'7 and sailed two days later Sfor Progresso. -The Bavaria's captain Is liable to a fine under the American laws, and .these are the laws that are being ad ministered by the collector of the port. The landing at :Puerto Mexico of arms consigned for Vera Cruz vio lates the laws, and the absence of a manifest is a second violation. The Bavaria is held only .because clear ance will be refused until the mat ter of fines Is adjusted. 3The customs officials assert that so far as they know the arms shipment on the Yparanga, of the same line, which precipitated the seizure of Vera Cruz by the American forces, still were aboard when that vessel left fer Puerto Mexico two days ago. I They assume that there Is no pos sibility that the 250 machine guns, 15,000,000 rounds of ammunition -and other war material aboard the iYparanga would be landed, as the - liner Is under charter of the German Sgovernment and was ordered to Puer to Mexico by the German minister to - pick up German refugees. I Rumors have been current, that - some of the materials for which Huer ta had contracted in Germany had t been filtering through to the Fed 3 erals by way of Puerto Mexico. The 1 Bavaria Incident is the first positive )information of the landing of sup plies received, although there have .been intimations that the army and Enavy have knowledge of other land .ings or attempted landings. 1Gen. Funston admitted that he had no information as to what became o' the shipment after It reached Cor doba, and it Is assumed It already i on the way to Mexico City. The bart ed wire will be of Immense value t small garrisons protecting Feder: lines of communication. Garrisor north of San Luis Potosi have bet repeatedly attacked by roving ban .of Constitutionalists. President Huerta's defence play as announced prior to the Amerie landing at Vera Cruz, contempla - the construction of a series of bl< houses along the railways in the cinity of smaller towns, each to protected by barbed wire entan r ments. There is no evidence to i cate that the Federals around ' >Cruz are making any elaborate maentionn. EXPLAINS PARTY STAND WILSON TELLS BIG BUSINESS 0] COUNTRIES ATTITUDE. Is Anxious to Serve but Not to Injur Business-There Must be Reform and Those Real Soon.! Representatives of big busines Thursday heard from President Wil son the administration's view of an( attitude toward the business of the country. While expressing a desir to "serve and not to hinder or in jure," the president said the polic the Democratic party is pursuing i necessary to satisfy.the conscience o the country and its perception of th prevailing conditions of business. "The president said in reply to th Illinois delegation," says a Whit House statement, "that, in his judg ment, nothing was more dangerous for business than uncertainty; tha it had become evident through a lonj series of years that a policy such a the Democratic party was now pur suing was absolutely necessary to sat isfy the conscience of the country and its perception of the prevailing con ditions of business, and that it was 2 great deal better to do the thing mod erately and soberly now than to waii until more radical forces had accu mulated and It was necessary to gc much further. "The president also said that while he was aware of the present depres sion of-business, there was abundan1 evidence that it was merely psycho logical, that there is no material con dition or substantial reason why the business of the country should not bE is the most prosperous and expanding condition. He urged upon his visi tors the necessity of patriotic co-op eration on the part of the 'businesE men of the country in order to sup port rather than to oppose the mod erate processes of reform and to hell guide them by their own intimatE knowledge of business conditions and processes. "He told his visitors that it waE his earnest desire to serve and not tc hinder or injure the business of the country in any way and that he -be. lieved that upon reflecting they would see that the course he was urging would in the long run not only, but in the short run also, be the wise and serviceable course." The manufacturers were in Wash ington attending the first National Foreign Trade convention. Before the convention held its closing session more than 100 of its delegates werE received by the president. AUTO TURNED TURTLE Three Calhoun County Citizens in Narrow Escape. While returning from a fish fr3 and picnic at Etheredge's Mill, nea North, Messrs. Ed Mann, Walter Buyck and Russell D. Zimmermar met with a very dangerous accident The automobile in which they were going towards Orangeburg skidded along the road and hit a tree, ther from the impact was turned corn pletely around and fell over upon thi men who were riding in it. One after another the occupants crawlei from under the car, marveling ai their narrow escape. The car was badly damaged, and oj those in it two at least were bad13 and painfully hurt, although it it hoped, not serious. Mr. Ed Manz was injured worse than the others having his left arm crushed badly al the wrist, where it bled profusely Mr. Walter VEuyck suffered bruises 1] the side and back, and Mr. Zimmer man escaped with only a badly huri knee. The escape of the three wit] no further disaster was indeed for tunate under the circumstances. The three are all of Calhoun coun ty, the first two being members of the St. Matthews .bar, while the latter is a well known farmer of his county They were going to Orangeburg and were going fromn there to theil homes. The accident occurred in the Limestone section of the county ani was about ten or eleven miles fron Orangeburg. The injured men were immediately taken to Orangeburi for medical treatment. MINISTER KIDNAPPED. Claims He Was Carried Around 11 Auto for Thirty Days. The Rtev. -Louis R. Palmont, prohi bition advocate, who disappeared from Westville, Ill., March 31, reitt erated at St. Louis Saturday hi: claim that he was kidnapped and say: that he knows the persons respons ible for his detention. A 'big red automobile owned, he says, in Dan yille, will play an important part it the minister's story to the jury. I was this machine in which he allege he was carried half conscious fron one hiding place to another for 5( days. Mr. Palmont was brought to SI Louis by the Rev. John L. Brandt a the First Christian church of SI Louis, who went to Columbia as soo: as he heard that iPalmont had beer found. Palmont's irlentification wat made complete by Mr. Brandt, wh< has known him for years. Before be ing .brought to St. Louis he had beer identified by half a dozen residents a: Vermillion county. Hazer is Shot Down. W. R. Bowens, a cadet of the SI Johns Military college at Anapolis Md., was shot and killed Monda: night when upper classmen attempted to haze five freshmen. The fresh men have been arrested. Two Die From Heat. Two men were killed Wednesda: in New York by falling timbers wher a gale struck part of 'the city. Tw< othr 4eaths are attributed to heat, CARRANZA MAY OPPOSE REPORT SAYS CONSTITUTIONAL IST CHIEF IS MAD. Doesn't Think Huerta Proper Party to Negotiate New Election as Rebels Almost Control Country. A sudden and determined opposi tion on the part of the Constitution alists to the mediation program as thus far outlined at Niagara Falls has developed, according to officials of the Constitutionalist organization. It is believed, says the New York dispatch, to foreshadow a definite re fusal by Gen. Carranza, on the advice of his cabinet, to concur in any plan of settlement thus far brought for ward, or any plan which the parties to the mediation mnay evolve. The Constitutionalist supreme chief is said to have instructed his agent Tuesday to lay before the American government in plain terms a statement that the Constitution alists will not consider the Huerta party in Mexico as fit participants -in the formation of a government ad in terim pending national elections; that not only Huerta, but all his ad herents must be wholly eliminated, and that any suggestions by the Huer ta delegates as to a succes'sor to the Mexican presidency can not be enter tained. This, it is claimed; would be equiv alent to the selection by Huerta of a successor to himself.. A further ob jection to the Huerta delegates is said to be based on the assertion that two of the mediators are counsel in Mexico for Lord Cowdray's oil Inter ests. The Agrarian problem also came in for objection, Carranza's claim being that the Huerta envoys in choosing to refer the problem to the Mexican congress were. seeking to evade con sideration of the problem on which the entire revolutionary movement is based. It is also declared that the rebel armies are ready to oppose what the Constitutionalists consider unwar ranted interference on the part of outside nations to prevent them from enjoying the fruits of victory nearly won, and from promoting the re forms long contemplated. WAITED SIXTY YEARS. Story of an immigrant Girl Whose Sweetheart Never Returned. Mary Walsh, who has been selling apples in Battery Park, New York, so long that the oldest policeman can not remember when she first came there, has gone out of business. Mary is eighty-four years old. Wednesday with her apple basket on her arm, she walked up to Patrolman Wrison and asked to be locked up. She said business was bad, she was weak from lack of nourishment and she thought two months in the workhouse would enable her to get back.some of her old selling ability. Her story, as told by the police, goes back to the time, about sixty years ago, when she came to this country from Ireland. She fell in love with a young sailor on the way over. They became engaged to be married. Soon he sailed on an Amer ican .bark, expecting to return within a year. He never came back. Mary learned the bark had sunk. She gave up her position as a servant and be gan to sell apples and candy about the water front. At first she fre quented the piers where incoming ships were arriving, hoping that one of them would bring her sweetheart. Gradually the feeling that some time the waves would deliver up -her lover became a mania with her. She would spend hours by the Battery wall, alternately crying her apples for sale and standing silent, with eyes on the bay. The police came to know her well and did all they could to help along her trade. Recently she became so feeble that folk won dered how she was able to lift the apple basket. It came to court with her. In it were twelve red apples. VETERANS PARADE. Close Annual Reunion at Anderson With Monster Pageant. After selecting the city of Colum bia as the next meeting place and re electing all officers for another year, the business session of the State re union of Confederate Veterans at An derson camne to a close early Thursday amnoon. 'The officers re-elected 2 ~---.- - Aiken. HUERTA 13 UPHELD MEDIATORS THINK BE COUP RUN AFTER RESIGNING LAND PROBLEM DWIES The South American Envoys Are Said to Sympathize With Mexican Dele gates Opinion That no Specific Land Reforms Should be Formulated by ' Conference. Two questions before the mediators were especially vexatious, but it is thought they have been settled in the reports which were submitted t President.Wilson and Huerta Thurs day. These two-problems were: After Huerta has withdrawn ~ in favor of 'a provisional government which the Unit d States would agree. to recognize shall he be allowed to be a candidate at the presidential election to be held by such--govern ment? Shall the delegates offer a concrete . plan of agrarian reform-or shall they content themselves with enunciating. a policy, leaving the details to 'be ue tied .by the Mexican congress? As to Huerta's right to be.a candi date again there is no doubt than the three mediators are in complete sym pathy with the Mexican deldgates onA this qnestion. They hold that the very essence of. democratic government is that the people may elect whom they ieease, and that dictation from -a foreign' country as to who should or should not be a candidate -.at an election would be a gross infringement of i Mexican sovereignty, and that in: the: present' case such a declaratio against Huerta would be tantamount to political proscription. Huerta's temporary elimination is : already conditionally conceded. But. his total eclipse is what President Wilson is striving for, and. every ef fort is being made to find a way -to permit the American delegates to re cede gracefully from the position which they are known to have taken, but which has never been formally - announced. The fact that the mediators are en tirely in accord with the Mexican. delegates is believed to have pro foundly impressed Justice Lamar and Mr. Lehmann, and if this point is conceded no mention of its ever hav ing been discussed will be allowed to appear on the minutes of the con ference. It will be ignored entirely when the delegates of the two coun tries meet in full conference. After Huerta steps down from the presidency he may do one of two. things. He may either get out of the country, as Porfirlo Diaz did (and in that. case it is believed he would cease to .be a factor in Mexican pol Itics) or he may take command of the army and start out to pacify the coun try. If he succeeded in this It would undoubtedly add to his popularityL and even now a large proportion of Mexicans look upon his rule as the embodiment of Latin-Americanism as they understand It, and it Is believed that the very fact that the United States did not want him to be a can didate would materially assist his chances of election. The second point Is also one of which the mediators are thought to sympathize with the Mexican dele gates. They do not believe It practi- - cal to attempt to bring about .land reforms at this conference, and they: believe that the delegates, after .in cluding in the platform for .the set tlement of the difficulty a plank strongly pledging the new govern ment to a policy of agrarian amelior! ation can well leave the working .out of the details to the congress. On the other hand the American delegates want something more spe cific than a mere declaration, and the mediators have been hard at work for two days trying to reconcile thms conflicting views. NURSE POISONS CHILD. Four Months Old Baby of Cllo Is Given Deadly Poison. Rivaling the Joe Malloy case In the murder of two innocent boys, comes the confession Wednesday afternoon oi~ Mary Edwards, nurse for W. C. Smith of Clio, that she on Monday administered to the four-months-old son of Mr. Smith a quantity of poi son with murderous intent, from the effects of which It died Wednesday a-N the heroic efforts.