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W-' ,.L 1 c K>V< " * - ■ l . x.*?:- j •:. TO CONFER AGAIN TIATION8 WITH LIND. W1S0N CONSIDERS PLAN CALLS HIM DOWN WILSON RESENTS INTIMATION OF SENATOR JONES. INSANE GEORGIAN KILLS WIFE ' ... V AND two children. Etojaii, Huerta's Minister, Confers With Und—Efforts Are Made for Socrecjr But Mexican Capital Thinks Financial Blockade Has Brought Huerta to His Knees. Forced by the increasing serious ness of Lhe financial situation in Mex- ica, President Huerta at-Hwt appears ready to resume, negotiations with John Lind, President Wilson’s per. ■onal representative, which were broken off last August, if reports cur rent in the Mexican capital Wednes day night are true.^ Jose Lopes Portillo 'j KdJasT^min- - later of foreign affairs, has been di rected to reopen the unofficial diplo matic exchangee with Mr. Lind, ae- cerdlng to tho report and for that purpose went to Vera Crus Wednes day. .Where he will meet Mr. Lind Is not known. Every effort has been mads to keep the meeting a secret, aud should it fall to taka place, the government could repeat the explana tion already given that the minister is taking the trip to celebrate Saintai day. President Huerta Wednesday sum. ned to the national palace sixty 3; wealthiest Mexicans residing in capital and Intimated that indi rect financial aupport would be high ly agreeable. He reminded them that a decree Issued several months ago, calling on owners of haciendas to equip and maintain ten men for purposes of . self-defense, never has been complied with. Such compliance would mean, according to the official figuree, the maintenance .of about SPO.OOO men, as it is estimated that 1 there are 52,000 haciendas and small er ranches within Federal Jurisdic tion. President Huerta also requested these men to furnish him with horses fer 120 cannon expected te arrive aoon from Japan and Europe. He naked their moral support, suggest ing that they form a port of military aociety. not .for actual feinting, but that insignia be won by the mem hers to identify them as being loyal to the government. - The United States government ■ays a Washington dispatch, will wel come a reopening of negotiations with the Huerta government or the oenstltutlonallsta and will be glad to consider any proposal that will tend to draw the various factious together Into a plan for the restoration of peese in Mexico. This is the attitude of Preeident , Wilton revealed Thura. day, after reports received at Wash ington saying SenOr Portillo y Rojas, minister for foreign affairs in the Huerta cabinet, had gone te meet John Lind, Mr. Wilson's personal rep resentative, to seek th resumption of the peace parleys. Senor Rojas has been mentioned as the man -who would succeed Huer ta if he retired, and the object of the visit to Mr. Lind, it has been report ed ,w^s to acquaint the pcaaidant'a ninvoy with his personality. Inci- ly the president in talking with 'em while remarking that he had o official report of any new par- 'eys, spoke in complimentary terms of the Mexican minister of foreign > affairs as a man of high character. What the president emphasizes- is his Informal discussion on the Mexi can situation ia that he, as president of the United States, has never ■ought to approve or disapprove of individuals who may aspire to the presidency of Mexico, and that he haa no list of men whom he holds under • so-called ban because of alleged eempliclty la the assassination of Ma_ dero. Hia refusal te recognise Huerta, it may be stated on the highest author ity, was not based on any personal antagonism$tq Huerta, but on the ground that, the constitutionalists would never be reconciled to the man. who had overthrown Madero and flunres and that governments set up by arbitrary force end not reflecting the popular will should not he dealt with by the United States. Likewise, in the ceeeiderntien of Individuals who might seek recogni tion by the Unted Statee, the priael- ple President Wilson has been watkr. ing on is that reeegaltiou extended to any one set up in the presidency without some popplar expression or 1 without the indorsement of ail fac tions could not lead to peace. ~In considering peaoe propoeals from the Huerta governraont tho United Statee. It is known new, will do $11 that it can te forward a peace ful settlement, hut the oenviettoe Mmpong with Ihe ^reiH ^Bka It was when he sent his la- ^Hgtlons *• J«hn Und last aummer that peace In Meglee In the last naal* ytft le dependent upoa MEma. that trill he aopeptaMc alike te the eon- ttltntionaiiete and the flnortn ndode- Says He Was “Skating on Thin Ice” in Asserting British Minister In fluenced Free Tolls Message. ,• President Wilson told Senator Jones, Republican,' of Washington, Thursday that he was ''skating on thin ice" in his speech Wednesday, which broadly intimated that the esident had not decided to read a message to congress on the Panama canal tolls question until after Sir Rinonel Carden, British minister to Mexico, visited the White House. The senator weat to discuss, with the president certain regulations of a pending fisheries bill affecting the salmon industry in the northwest but Mr. Wilson turned the conversa tion to the senator’s speech. The president told- callers after, ward that he could not get a sugges tioa oh the Mexican question out 0(1 Sir Lionel "with a corkscrew’’, .and that the conference was purely for in formatloa oa the general situation ia Mexice. The president had written his tolls message and decided te read it before he saw Sir Lionel. Officials said neither the telle questions nor any suggestions for future policy iu the Mexican situatlou came up la the talk with Sir Lionel. ” Senator Jones returned to the cap Itol and gave the senate the presi dent's unqualified denial. "The pres ident assures me,' said Mr/Jones, "that there was no basis of fact iu the articles l referred to, to warrant the conclusions with regard to this gov. ernment and Its relations with Great Britain in the matter. I think 1 was misunderstood in that I did not draw the conclusions myself but took them from newspaper repoj-ta.” Senator Jones declared the Inci dent served to illustrate the neces sity for more information on the toll exemption and again urged his reso. lution calling upon the president fer information as te what feveramsuts had protested against exemptions fer American ships. Senator Jones contended it wee im perative that the Senate, before it undertook te net upon Presideat Wil son’s request, should be Informed as to the interests of the foreign nations In the matter. He pointed but that the resolution only requested Infor mation which the president deemed advisable to give. Senators who agree with'the preei dent’s views 01 the repeal Issue kelg that the chief executive eommuaicaU ed to •ongrecs In bit recent message all he dashed to say regarding the matter and for this reason oppose the resolution as naneeeesary. FIENDISH ACT INHUMAN I , ' * *1 ■ . . ■ ; ''/• : 1 ; ... •• , With Ax, Blade and Bullet Farmei Slaughters Wife und Two Children —- Burns Outbousee — Goes tc Neighbors, Tells Story of Murder, and Suicides. ' . P0S1 is killed rilREE MEXICANS CROSS BOR- DER TO ROB AND SLAY. Feeling Runs High as Martial Law is SENAE WILL NOT SUBMIT MAT- r 1 ■ - , TER TO THE STATES. ^ Won’t Heed. Presidemt's Advise. Independent Democrats of Tennes see Tuesday passed the fellewleg rose olutlon: “We endorse the adminis tration of President Wilson, bat we regret that he listened te the Impor tunities of certain representatives of the national government with refer ence to purely local and State af fain." Sponsor for Veterans. Miss Corlnne Hampton, grand daughter of Gen. Wade Hampton, has oeen appointed and accepted the sponsorship for the South of the United Confederate veterans, the ap pointment having been made by Geo. B. H. Young. Plans Motorcycle Campaign. — Representative Hobson of Alaba ma, who Is running against Oscar Wn Underwood for senator, will make a ten day’s motorcycle tour of the State on the last days of the campaign. He plans 20 speeches a.day. 1 Woman Brutally Slain. Because ehe sagged him about hia habits Frank Bticka, aged 22, of Cleveland, Ohio, tied Mrs. Anna Pad- ogll, aged 40, to a bed poet aad cut her to pieces oa Tkursdag, The po lice think him ineaab. Another White House Welding. Formal r enaounoement was made at th« White Heuae Saturday ef the engagemeet ef Mias Eleauer Wilson the president’s youngest daughter, to Wrn. G. McAdoo, a .membor of the president’s cabinet. Color LJue la Delaware. Demoerate of Kent County. Dela ware. bare decided that none but white persons eheH be allowed 1 to vote at feture prlmsrlee of the party reports have had It that both Car ranza end Huerta vreald receive inch a commission. President Wilson le carefully con sidering the enggeotlon. said to hove been made -origin ally by Oscar fl. Diabolical In Its Inception, flend^h in execution and horrifying in deUilr a goulish crime, through which an entire family was exterminated, was committed 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. Mattie Eubanks, slaugh tered his two children, both glrld, as they slept, then, after calmly survey ing bis bloody workf-eet-ftrsr outhouses on his place and, gojng 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 terrified the half of two cbiinllei- It is believ ed that Eubanks was Insane when he set about to ^terminate his own flesh and blood. A brother, O. 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 tor.the holies 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, fof when the bodies of Mrs. Eubanks and her tw# children were found ia the heme Friday they lay la the middle of the floor ef the bedroom covered with bed elething, cardboard, pine splinters and rubbish. Several of the splinters had been ignited, but failed to burn. Mrs. Eubanka was killed with an aX, and the threat of the elder child, a girl ef three aad a half years ef age, was slashed with a rasor. The yonnger child, six months old, was stabbed through the forehead with a packet knife. Eubanks had been to Oak Park Thursday afternoon. He left the tewa about I o’clock to return to his home. It ia supposed that-he went to b$4, sleeping with - hia older child Mrs. Eubanks and the younger child occupied an adjoining room Sometime after midnight Eubanks entered his wife’s room, opened her truak, and, piece by piece, burned all her clothing. Mrs. Eubanks awoke and remonstrated with him. He struck her in the forehead with his closed pocket knife, knocking her senseless. The woman fell back upon the bed, and while she lay uncon scious he man went into the back yard, returning with a club ax Pulling his wife’s senseless form to the floor, Eubanks swung the ax, sev ering her head almost from her body, and another blow crushed her skull Probably maddened at the slgt of his wife’s blood, the little girl asleep In the bed was dragged by ltd half from the bed to the floor and the fathet slashed the little throat with bis razor, which was afterwards found in Ms pocket wrapped in a handkerchief. Eubanks went again into the yard And leaned the blood-stained ax «gainst a tree, where it'”Was found Friday. With savage Instinct he then re-< ntered the house and, going into hit own room, plunged the blade of his pocket knife ip to the hilt through the heaiTof the sleeping six- months-old haby. Intending te burn the bodies of hia victims, the husband end lather then dragged the bodies ef hie wife an^ older child to hie owa bedroom and plaopd them in the middle ef tb* fide.r. Upon them ho ptlec everything within reach, bed clothing, pine eplla tore.,cord wood, light pieces of furni ture, discarded paper hexes end rub bish. This be Ignited. To eomplete hie work ef extermina tion Eubanks then fired hie hern, ■table end cottoe house, all near the dwelling, and Vqft the premises after filling up the mouth ef the well aad destroying the backet to prevent a$j one drawing water te fight the fire. The household of the Pago family, living nearby, were alarmed abent 8 o’clock Friday morning when they heard Eqbanke celling for without. Young Mr. Page went eat fate the yard, meeting Enbanks. They went to the cotton boose and eat upon the door Mil. There Embanks detailed hie horrible deed, detaining the Practically Declared in Vicinity of California Town. Although no proclamation was is- ,ued martial law existed in effect tonday along the border for miles ach side of Tecate, Cal., following he destruction by fire of the general store containing the United States :>ost office and customs office ami tin: murder of Postmaster Frimk V. John ston Saturday by threq men, declared 0 be Mexicans. 1* , All Sunday night the bordm 1 was aatrolled by American troops frop Fort Rosecrans. Across the line, not many hundred feet away, Mexican urales performed guard duty. Every nan within a radius of ten miles of Hecate is fully armed and rifles and ammunition have been ordered. Gov. Johasoa was adked Monday to make formal demand on Gov. Pran- Pasques, of Lower Calif orals, for the delivery of the Mexicans sus pected of having killed Johnston. Major W. C. Davis, commander at Fort Rosecraae, received instructions from Washington to lend any assist ance to the Immigration and customs officials and keep the department In formed of conditions. The cause of the excitement was outlined In a report to'Washington, which said: "Three or more Mexi cans srmed with revolvers crossed the national line at Tecate, killing one civilian and - wounding another seri ously, and burning a store. Including the body of the civilian. The Mexi cans escaped, but one was recognized &a a member of a railroad construe tion gang working a few mllea south of Tecate.” A dispatch from San Diego, Cal., saya extradition of the Mexican ban dits Saturday night who killed Frank V. Johnston and assaulted Werner Wiedenbeck la an attempted robbery of the Mountain Commercial com pany's store at Teeate Saturday night was urged on Gov. Johnson by the distriet attorney’s office at flaa Diego Wiedenbeck is positive as to his iden tification of one ef the outlaws, but the aame wee withheld. He escaped back into Mexico. Thoope sent from Fort Rosecrans to the scene hy Mij: W. C. Davis commander of the fort, remained there Moadey te prevent disorders. Davis has Informed the. department at Washington and Major General Artbar Murray, commander of the Western Department at San ^Fran cisco, of the circumstances and has Instructions to maintain vigilance and keep the war department informed of developments. Feeling along the bor der ia the vicinity is bitter. - FAVORED BY MAJORITY Womaa Suffrage Amendment Voted for by Thirty-five Senators and Op posed by Thirty-four—Suffragists Jubilant Over What They ^. \ I a Great Victory. YOUNG SOUGHT FOR OUTRAGE ON TWO f -ax GIRLS OP CENTRAL. .*is- 844 Should he Made Very Hot fop ]: They Gaa Ever bo BrOaflM CoaJda’t Prevent Hie Death. Coleman Flannlgan of Lumpkin, Ga., was jailed Monday on account of attempted suicide. Uadeunted, be placed hie bead between the foot and springs of hie cot, turned a aomer- •mult and broke hie neck. Charleston Wine., In securing the South Atlantic Lighthouse service depot Charleston won out over Wilmington, Savannah, Brunswick. Fernandina and Jackson ville. Congress appropriated f 16,000 for the depot Friday. Sheriff Feared Lynching. Mack Mims escaped from the Edge field chain gang and shot J. B. W Smith, a farmer Saturday. Ho wn* captured and lodged In the State pen itentiary because of the feellny against him. Maa Shoots Girl and Self. The bodies of Miss Clare Polk, aged 19, and Dr. John Stringer, ager 42 Sunday weft found at Oakvale, Miss The girl bed been killed by Dr Stringer, who had neat a bullet late hie brain. Picked Grave Jam In Time. M. K. Vogea ef Grove Citp, Pa.. Sandgy predicting that he wqaljt jij| la]|ijJU .Jhielde, Overman, !■ 2J-hP*xt..sraBt/te r thc cemetery aud picked out hie grave. Teg miautee later his heart failed. .. Agricultural Mil Passes Hease. \ The agricultural appropriation bill, carrying Ilf.aOA.add, passed the House of Repreeentatlvea late Batur- day. . . \ - - — m, m. | in- ■w.iidiw uceu, aerain:ag Ttegg* H Strpjq, former ambassador to Turkey,! young maa antll he bad told ei Thera- prominent la the eaaae of werld bloody story, saying that be baa 1 llTOi peaee. The pceeideot. It is known, la torment and trouble for flvr yearn *aa never would be glad te seed such a com-!aad wasted to die aad Uko hie fem- himself. the report of a revolver aad. turaiag. saw that Eubanks had shot himself through the bead with a 44-caliber revolver. The maa who had taken throe lives and then his owa fell la a heap upon the oottea shed, bat he was still alive, sad everything poa- ■ible was done to save hie life. He died about 11 o'clock ~~The ballet %i« eatered ever hto oat directly over hie left ear. Ha after sheeting mission, if It eould aaelet the Mexl- ity te deatructlon with him. hut giv- meat. but tt le hoHouod ho feels that tended to do further te oomnlete hie erteal peeea pmpeaale mm* uaeau. • work of ertermlnetlou., At length ba aurtty originate with tho Mexlean flue- told young Page to pe lata the bouse Kona aad that uutaae the eammMon aad bring Me father out, adding that were Invited la lie to Maslra: (ia or-’ ‘ha Panted te toll hip the atery. rand weald ha fraftfaua. perflation af' - Teaag Pu*» parted toward the tha same eort haring prariaaely bean Id hath Mrs. Eubanks was ealy 11 years wTlgw. Kehaaks wee 1*. Hts men tal rfereagement le aild to have re sulted from in-haatfhr. aad ble broth er declares it has beea apparent for ■avaral years. A note, left hy Ba hrain aear the place hia wtfa and children were killed, mid their da- meatie Htr had ham aahappy. hat Me HI health. Woman suffrage advocatee Thurs day lost their fight in the United States Senate for a resdfution pro posing an amendment to the Federal constitution giving women the bal lot. The vote was 35 for the mess, ure to 34 against it, a two-thirds af firmative vote being required for pas sage, and when it was over suffragist leaders jubilantly pointed to the ma- pority of one aa conclusive proof that their cause had scored a triumph in defeat, andi was immeasurably stronger than its opponents ever had been willing to concede. . — Thursday’s action, following weeks of debate on the floor ef the Senate, during which time leaders in the suf frage movement pleaded for post ponement of the final vote, marked the climax of a spirited campaign launched the day before the Inaugu ration of President Wilson. The resolution defeated Thursday was the first introduced In the pres ent congress. It was presented by Senator Chamberlain of Oregon, and the woman'suffrage committee later authorized Senator Aahurst to report it favorably. Though otherwise the vote virtual 1y was non-partisan, the Southern senators, all Democrats, lined up al most solidly against the amendment They contended It would complicate the negro question in the states. Of the Southerners only Senator Rans- dell of Louisiana, Sheppard of Texas and Lea of Tennessee voted for the resolution. Senator Vardanian led a movement among the friends of woman suffrage In the South to repeal the fifteenth amendment to the eonstltution, by which the statee are prohibited from denying negroes the right to vote. With the negro queetoa removed, he «ald, be favored tba fronting of suf frage to women. His proposal was defeated. 49 to If, and a proposition by Senator Williams {to give the bal lot to white women only was defeat ed, 44 to 21. . The vote was preceled by a three- hours’ kaleidoscopic debate on the various phases of suffrage. Senator Martins of New Jersey was the only member who said ho was opposed te woman suffrage on principle. He de clared the participation of women la politics had failed to pnrify the bal lot, and that it would be a sad and sorry day for both women and men when they were given the ballot uni versally. The speeches of suffrage senatora, be adde^ had excited 1q hia mind the wonder If they found objec tion to the “Savionr for not choosing six of the apostles from among the women”. Senator Rowlands declared he fav ored making this a white man's country, so as to shut out the Japa. neae, aa well as the negro, but ques tioned the propriety of doing that on a woman suffrage proposition. Mrs. Medlll McCormick, chairman of the congreeeon&l committee of the Na tional American Woman Suffrage as sociation, Issued a statement Thurs day night claiming the majority vote as a victory. “For the first time In fifty years," she said, “the women of A mere a demonstrated their Impres sion upon the United States Senate. It le a sign of the times and It por tends that all Lhemenhood la this country will be emancipated within this generation.” Senators who voted for the Varda- maa resolution proposing repeal of the fifteenth' amendment were: Rryaa, Williams. Vardeman, Rans- dell, Lee of Tennessee, Lee of Mery- Smitb oC South Carolina, Smith ef Georgia, West, Tillman. Sheppard. Martin. Swansea, Myers, Gage aad Reed. The aeaatera yetlng for the Asburst resol a tioa, which would have required a twe-thirds vote to paea, were: Asharet, Brady, Bris tow, Bartea, Chamberlain, Clapp, Clerk ef Wyemlag, Oelllnger, Oron- ae, Hollis, Haghos. Jonea. Kenyon, LaFollette, 1-aae, Lea, Myera, Nel son. Nowleoda, Norris, Owen. Per- klna. Poindexter, Raasdell, Shafroth, Sberaraa, Smoot,' Stepheh- ■oa. Sterling, Batherland, Thomas. Thompson. Town wend. Works.—36. Senators voting against the amend ment were: Bankhead. Borah. Rrsdley. Brandegoe, Bryan. Catron, Johnson, Lee of Maryland, Lodge, McCumber. MeLeaa. Martta, Martins. Oliver. Overman. Page, Pittman,’ Pomereae, Reed. Shields, flmlth of Georgia, Binith of Maryland. Smith of South Carottaa, Swanson. Thorn toa. Tillman. Vardamaa. Wonka Wori, Wtlltema.—»4. to Justice. According to Information received In Seneca Saturday morning, threO prominent young men of Central are being sought by the police and fath ers of two outraged young girls are following every clue to help locate these perpetrators of an unmention able crime. News of the atrocious, affair reached the fathers of the two girls concerned about two weeks ago, but facta connected with the occur rence have been kept quiet and little Information haa yet been given to the public. It Is alleged that three young men, all about 21 years of age, left Central one Saturday night recently with two ~ young glrla, neither of which la mom than 14 years old, going In the dtreo- tlon of Pendleton. It seems that tha plana for the night were arranged bn- fore they left Central. In Pendleton the party was Joined by a foarth man, who. It Is aaderetood, bed been pay ing court to one of the yoang glrla for some time. Informatloa wblah appear^ to be authentic is to tha ef fect that the foar men and twe glrla spent the night in oae ef the mer chandise stores la the town of Pen dleton. ' - r —■ Whether one of the non carried a ' key to the store or entrance was terr ibly made la not yet known. Before leaving the store tho girls were far* nlshed with ea entire change of cloth ing end given money with,which te leave on the' Brat train from tewa. From Pendleton-they went to Pied mont, where they were found by their parente several days Inter. After the- Saturday night trip tha young men returned to their reepea-. tlve homes In Central. Search was at once started for the missing glrla. Realizing that they wonld be found within n short time and that they would ba Immediately conaected with tha awful affair, the men left thd town and have not bean heard from slnca. After the glrla returned te ’ their homes tt Is said that they told the etory of the raaaway from the minute they left, giving the names at those ln'the party and th# oae wke planned the trip, HAS NOVEL IDEA, Wants Northern Mecriee for Negroes to Colonize. Something in th# nature of a curi osity with reference to the Mexican situation wee introduced la tha Houea Saturday by Reproseatatlva Park of Georgia la the shape af a joint reaolution directing the presi dent to “acquire by purchaea. treaty or conquest all af the territory af Mexico above tba 20tb degree of lati tude, comprising the States of lower California, Sonora, Sinaloa, Chlhan- hfla, Durango, Coahuljo. Zacatecas, Neuvo Leon, Tnmnullpaa, San Lais Potcsi and Tertepig, from the author ities of the republic of Mexico, to ba reaerved and uaed as terrltortee of the United States ter the colonization and the pre-emption of homesteads by the color race* inhabiting tha United States. Convicts Offer Reward. Forty-eight convicts of Smith coun ty. Texas, have offered a reward of 235, to be taken from their wages, for the capture of two prisoners wke broke parole Friday and escaped. Womaa Burned to Death. • With her body completely eaval- oped la flames, Mrs. R. L. Ed wards of Albany, Ga., ruahed screaming eat la the yard ef her home Thursday afternoon aad fell dead. X Ffwa dairy eawa of let., barf to be Mltod Friday flbaa hy a mad dai ■rnrUf Accidentally Shot. Hurrying upstairs la the Salisbury eouoty, N. C„ Jail Monday te quiet g crazy woman, Sheriff McKeazie drop- pad hie pistol, which exploded* woaadlny him la tha las. Dies at Age of ll4. lease Cooley died Sunday at Pea- •acota. Fit., at the age ef H4 yearn, and la survived by over tea children end grandchildren. He was bent ia South Caroline In 180$. Charleston Man Asphyxiated. Frank Rlon. agent of the Phlladel. phis Life Insurance Co., at Chariee- ton wee found in hie room deed Mon day. The gee wee oa pressmaMy through an accident. Wagon gad Car Collida. Twe males were killed end theft seriously injured In Green- rille. Saturday, when eg electric esr hit them. Boy Mined While eg Fley. Using eg “unloaded” pistol h "Indian” game, Robert Aregm Richmond. Va.. V hilled 1 IflM. r«HBgm htow g hnrrts