Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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. i r $ r ) OUTLOOK PEACEFUL . ♦ mediators about to secure AMIABLE SETTLEMENT. I ‘ ' DELEGATES OPTIMISTIC Finding Themselves Substantially Agreed on Many Points the Discus sion is Transferred to J Actual Terms “Belief is General That They Will Center on Scheme for Peace Substantial agreement In many of the main points involved in the med iation conference has been reached by the American and Mexican dele gates. The discussion Tuesday cov ered actual terms and details of many of the things deemed necessary to the pacification of Mexico. The mediators and opposing delegates were decided ly optimistic. An early agreement Is looked for. The turn in. the proceedings from a point where it seemed as if the land problem might cause serious embarrassment to an understanding as to the treatment of some of the delicate issues involved, came after a conference between the mediators and the American delegates. The situation was summed up in the fol lowing .announcement by Justice La mar upon the authority of the media tors: “We have begun to discuss the ac tual terms and details of plan of paci fication. On a number of them we find (Airselves in substantial agree ment. Others are still under dis cussion and as to them there has been no disagreement. It would, of course, be improper for us to specify the particular points we have discussed or those upon which we have agreed, or those we will consider further. Desiring to avoid the appearance of having had their provisional presi dent chosen at the international con ference the Mexican delegates have eydlved the plan of suggesting to the mediators a list of names from which might be selected a number on whom the United States would look with favor if from it were chosen all ad Interim executive. The, actual choice of an Individual for the list of eligibles would be sanctioned, it is suggested, by the Mexican congress. There is reason to believe, however, that before any list Is approved by the American govern ment some tacit indorsement from the Constitutionalists must come. It is assumed that the Washington gov ernment .will be willing to assume the responsibility of trying to bring the Constitutionalists into harmony .with a provisional government thus created. The plan of pacification, so far as developed, is known to be simple. Its object is the establishment of a new provisional government. There will be a declaration of principles on agrarian and other reforms, and on the conduct of a fair election. . A satisfactory method of consider ing the land question has about been reached. While the Mexicans have not yet yielded their original convic tions that the land problem is purely internal, the American view that some expression is desirable to point the way for its eventual settlement by Mexico herself has been sustained. Other aspects of the Mexican ques- Lon, however, have not been ignored. The relative importance which should Be attached in the parleys to the Tampica. incident, the personnel of the new provisional government and kindred questions incident to the transition to ■airother administratTon have been talked over in detail. No points have been decided but enough of the viewpoint of .the American and Mexican delegates has been re vealed to the mediators to warrant them in expressing distinct encour agement over the outlook. The Mexican delegates are observ ing with keen interest the military campaign of the Constitutionalists, but they do not think it possibly can result in the capture of the City of Mexico for months. In the meantime it is their hope that a new provisional government will be set up in the Mexican capital which the United States would promptly recognize. This, they expect, would be followed by. recognition from the powers gen erally. TREAT NEGRO ROUGHLY MOB ATTACKS ABBEVILLE JAIL AND TAKES PRISONER. ARMS ARE UNDED GERMAN STEAMERS DELIVER AMMUNITION TO MEXICANS. SHOOT AT AEROPLANE. Mexican Federals Fire at American Aviator Over Their Lines. The Official report of the shooting from Mexican outposts at a hydro aeroplane In which' Lieut. Patrick Bellinger, of the naval aviation corps, was making his dally practice flight Sunday, indicates that a score l-shots were fire'd. Brig. Gen. Fun- >n is not IncHned to take the mat- lerTousIy. He blames it on irre- nstbile or drunken rurales. .“Nothing but a serious attempt to drive in our outposts, started by or- some high official, would lead us to return the fire,” said Brig, Gen. Funston. sault upon the young woman, but was frightened off when her screams at tracted an old negro man from a nearby field. It is said that the|mob cut off .an ear and otherwise mutilat ed the body of the negro. Sheriff Lyon, who lives two miles from Jail, was advised of the attack. The doors gave way quickly before the mob and the negro was spirited away and severely handled before the sheriff could catch up. When the of ficer arrived on the scene the. negro was quickly turned over by the mob and was take- back to Abbeville for treatment and to be locked up. After the alleged attempt at as sault Thomas hastened to Ninety-Six that night. Next day he bought a ticket to Jacksonville, after being told by station agent he could not buy a ticket straight through to Gainesville, Fla. Sheriff Ashley of Anderson was notified by a friend* and because Sheriff Lyon was out of the county he telegraphed the author ities in Florida cities and had Thomas arrested. The arrest occurred in Gainesville three days after the inci dent. WAITED SIXTY YEARS. 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 aa 'faebld' that folk won- aered how she was able to lift the apple basket. It came to court with her In it were twelve red apples. SENT TO CHAIR. Greenville Man Convicted by Rela tives’ Testimony of Crime. Judge Mauldin Saturday afternoon sentenced H. T. Thompson, a white farmer of the lower section of Green ville county, to death in the electric chair on Friday, July 31. Thompson was accused and convicted of crimi nally assaulting his seventeen-year- old daughter. This girl, a son of the condemned man ahd a brother were the chief witnesses for the State. The defense had little to base its plea upon except the denials made by the accused. ,» >.. When sentence was passed the girl victim threw her arms about her father’s neck and wept bitterly. It was her testimony which had gone far toward convicting him. Until re cent years Thompson was a man of good standing in his community. The warrant for his arrest was sworn out by his own brother at the instigation of his own sop. ~ U. S. KEEPS ARMISTICE Negro Had Confessed to an Intent to Crqm^pally Assault a White Girl Ten Days Before. _ . i ~ .i-., .—.—•..• —•— A mob of 250 determined men at tacked the Abbeville county Jail at 2 o’clock Tuesday morning, battering 'down two doors and securing a negro. Jno. Thomas, who is alleged to have made Improper advanced on Satur day, May 15, to the daughter of a prominent farmer in the Donalds sec tion. The negro was taken two miles from Jhil to Long Cane grave yard, Huerta government in Mexico, which and is said to have confessed that he had been kept in the hold of the Ger- had intended to make criminal' as- To Stop Landing Would Have Neces sitated Seizure of Customs at Puerto, Mexico, Which Would Have ' - ■ C , Violated Agreement Pending Nego- r ’ tiatlons. Ammunition consigned to the 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 policemap 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 qver. 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 piera where incoming ships were arriving, hoping that one of them would bring her sweetheart. — —— Gradually the feeling that some Gen ' Funston understands the am- timB the waves would deliver up her munit * on an ^ wire reached Cordoba lover became a mania with her. She ^ ^ erra Blanca. The Ham- would spend hours by the Battery ^ urg ' Amer l can steamship Bavaria on wall, alternately crying her apples May 8 ! vas re P° rted to he on her way for sale ahd standing silent, with t0 ^ ex * co with a Shipment of arms. man steamship Ypiranga since the 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 ffom the German steamer Bavaria. Both steamers belong to the Hamburg- Ameriqan 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 (Jigp^tch the' captain of the Bavaria'admitted landing am munition and a large quantity of barber wire at Puerto Mexico for Huerta. I'nited 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 th e United States to have prevented the delivery would have been to seize the c istpms house at Puerto Mexico, as was done at Vera Cruz. This would have violated the arpiistice. Robert Lansing, counsellor* of the state department, made public the reports conperning the delivery ot the ammunition, Secretary Rryan be ing absent. When Mr. Bryan return ed to the state department later in Hre 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 th e BavarU 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. WOODROW * MEETS TEDDY Death From Amputation. J Several days ago the mulps at tached to the Edgefield county road s? r .aper ran. away, throwing George Broadnar, the negro driver, from his amputation,; from, the which he died. results of Twenty Fined for Speeding. At Gaffney Teesdny twenty auto- billsts were fined for exceeding the ' Halt Coin Commemorates Canal. ^ A bill has been In trod need In the Home to iseue during 1815 a special twenty-flve-cent coin to celebrate the opening.of the Panama cenaL Later it was understood that the war supplies were to be returned" tp Ger many. The Bavaria arrived at Havana on May 1 7 and sailed two days later for 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. Th® 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 for Puerto Mexico two days ago. They assume Chat there Is no pos sibility that the 250 machine guns, 15,000,000 rounds of ammunition and other war material aboard the Yparanga would be landed, as the liner is under charter of the German government and was ordered to Puer to Mexico- by the German minister to pick up German refugees. Rumors have been current that some of the materials for which Huer ta had contracted in Germainy had been filtering through to the Fed eral by way of Puerto Mexico. The Bavaria incident is the first positive information of the landing of sup plies received, although there have been intimations that the army and navy have knowledge of other land- ings or attempted landlpga. POPULAR EXECUTIVES TALK AT THE WHITE HOUSE. Funston admitted thatheTaS no Information as to what became of the shipment after U reached Cor- dob*, and it is assumed it already is on the way to Mexico City. The barb ed wire will be of Immense raln« to •autll garrisons protecting Federal Unas of communication, dan •orth pf flu Lois Petoal here IP™ LINE FENCE QUARRELS Sensible Farmers Should Not Fall Out Over Little Things. A writer in Farm and Fireside gives some good advice to farmers about avoiding friction over bound ary lines. Almost any neighbor hood has its farmers who have had their bitter quarrels over fenceq and the location of a boundary. This writer says: “Hardly one farm owner knows the real beginning or location of his rightfull boundary, and yet he will get into a swearing rage and nurse hatred and bitterness for years H his neighbor’s fence Juts over a foot on bis land;i or jf tho. hungry cattle 'break over the flimsy barrier to the green fields of Jordan. How much better to combine and say, ‘Here I’ll furnish half the wire and posts, and help make the fence, if you will fur nish the other half, and so well strike a line as near as we can get, and let it go at that. If part is too much on me, neveu mind: if too far to you, call it square rather than quarreil about it/ Wouldn’t be an noyed "by other people’s cattle for the cost of the fence, nor let mine dis turb anyone else.” DUII1TA IS UPHELD MEDIATORS THINK HE OOULD RUN AFTER RESIGNING. Ex-President Pays Social Call on His Political Opponent and They Spend an Hour Together. — Former President Theodore Roose velt Tuesday came back to the na tional capital, whore he spent seven years as chief executive. Into nine hours he crowded a speech on his South American expedition, a call on President Wilson, a political confer ence with the Progressives in con gress, a visit to the Smithsonian In stitution to see the trophies from his African hunt of four years ago, a meeting with a few members of the diplomatic corps, and a dinner with his old friends. Col. Roosevelt’s visit to President Wilson was perhaps of greater inter est to the public than any other event of the day. The president and his predecessor spent more than an hour together and talked of most every thing except politics. A 4*00d deal of th e time was put in at telling stories. When the colonel arrived at the executive mansion he leaped out of his automobile with his old time vigor and walked quickly into tho White House. “I am very glad to see you," said the president as he shook hands with Mr. Roosevelt. They had met before and therefore no introductions were necessary. After the exchange of greetings, the president led the way to the south portico of the White House where breezes from the Poto- mhc made more bearable the extreme heat. There lemonade was served and the two men sat down for-a long talk. ' Speaking of travel, books and tell ing stories, the two men seemed to enjoy their meeting greatly. All con troversial subjects were avoided, but the colonel himself mentioned the "river of doubt” which he discovered in Brazil and Joked over the con troversy about it. As he rose to leave Mr. Roosevelt inquired about the health of Mrs. Wilson, who is confined to her room, and the president asked particularly that the colonel convey congratula tions to Kermit Roosevelt, who will be married next month in Madrid. Then they shook hands warmly and Col. Roosevelt walked quickly to his waiting nntchine. A crowd of several hundred people had gathered inside the White House grounds and as Col. Roosevelt and the president appeared there was a burst of handclapping. "It was a very pleasant social visit,” said Col. Roosevelt after it was over. CARRANZA MAY REPORT 8AY8 <X)N8TITUTfONAJp 1ST CHIEF IS MAD. 1 Suicided Because I^e Killed Her. Leaving a^ note declaring that his slaying of hfs sweetheart last Satur day night was an accident, Aeginald A. Bair of Lisle, 111., Jumped under a moving train. The dead girl was Miss Florence Bentley of Dower’s Grove, III. already conditionally conceded. But his total eclipse is what President armies are ready to oppose what tMa U llson is striving for, and every ef- Constitutionalists consider nnwar* fort is being made to find a way to ranted interference on the part af permit the American delegates to re- outside nations to prevent them fi p.pHa ernpof nllv fs****** ♦ a 1 • ■ .« ~ _ cede gracefully from the position enjoying the fruits of victory nearly Buys Vanderbilt Lands. ' The U; S. government Monday pur chased 8,700 acres of forestry land from the estate of the late G. W. Vanderbyt of- North Carolina. His widow sold tlje Jand for $5 an acre. Becomes Effective July I. The -law placing a prohibitive thx on the manufacture and sale in the United States of matches containing white phosphorous becomek effective July 1. . . •. repeatedly attacked by roving bands of Constitutionalists. President Huerta’s defenc-. ■a* a'amnniWd 'tfiTiSf'T<T%e American landing at Vera Cruz, hontemplated the construction of a series of block houses along the railways In the vi cinity of amaner towns, each to be protected toy barbed wire entangle ments. There is no evidence to indi- eate that the Federal* around Vera Cm* are mahfrtfl any elaborate, pra- which they are known to have taken, but which ha* never been formally announced. The fact that the mediator* 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 Porflrio 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 h e succeeded in this It would undoubtedly add to his popularity and even now a large proportion of Mexicans look upon his rule as the embodiment of Latin-Amerlcanism as they understand It, and it is believed that the very fact that the United States did E[ot 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 wording 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 these conflicting views. NURSE POISONS CHILD. Four Months Old Baby of Clio la Given Deadly Poison. ' _ —■» • Rivaling the Joe Malloy case in the other has be « n evoked in Aiken murder of two innocent boys, comes ty ln the P r os«cution of Dr. 8 the confession Wednesday afternonn Williams, a young dentist o< the confession Wednesday afternoon of Mary Edwards, nurse for W. C of the physicians She attempted some two months ago the same deed by placing some poison in medicine the child was tak ing but n6 suspicion attached to her at tjie' t’ime, as it was thought that it was placed therein by toifitoke, but Doesn’t Think Haerta Propar Part? to Negotiate New Election m Rebel* Almost Control flnnniij. A sudd a and determined oppoeh- tion on the part of the Constitution* alist* to the mediation progrtun an thus far outlined at Niagara’ FnUn has developed, according to offidaln of the Constitutionalist organisation. It Is believed, say* the New Yolk dispatch, to foreshadow a definite m» (usal by Gen. Carranza, on the advlan Vt.hls cabinet, to concur in any plan of Settlement thus far brought for ward, or any plan which the partiaa to the mediation may evolve. The Constitutionalist supreme chief is said to have instructed hM agent Tuesday to lay before tka American government In plain terzN a statement that the Constitution* allsts will not consider the Huerta party in Mexico as fit participant* ta the formation of a government ad In* terlm pending national electioaa; 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 successor to tko Mexican presidency can not be enter tained. This, It 1* claimed, would be equtw. alent to the selertion*by Huerta of a successor to himself. A further tfk* Jectlon to the Huerta delegates la LAND PKODLEM WORRIES 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 to President Wilson and Huerta Thurs day. These two problems were: After Huerta hasJ withdrawn In favor of a provisional government which the United States would agree to recognize shall he be allowed "to b e a candidate at Jhe presidential election to he 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 set tled by the Mexican congress? As to Huerta’s right to be a candi date again there is no doubt that the three mediators are in complete sym pathy with the Mexican delegates on this question. They hold that tho very essence of said to be based on the assertion thaA democratic government is that the two of the mediators are counsel people may elect whom they please, Mexico for Lord Cowdray’s oil late and that dictation frhm a foreign ests. country as to who should or should not* be a candidate at an election for objection, Carranza’s claim would be & gross infringement of that the Huerta envoys In cbooeta* Mexican sovereignty, and that In the to refer the problem to the Mexima present ease such a declaration congress were seeking to evade cob* against Huerta would be tantamount sideratloir of the problem on which to political proscription. the entire revolutionary movement la Huerta’s temporary elimination is based. It is,also declared that the rebel won, and from promoting the re forms long contemplated. —■■■ , ewe _ _i | AUTO TURNED TURTLE A Three Calhoun County Olttaeu Narrow Escape. While returning from a fish fr* and picnic at Etheredge’* Mill, near North, Messrs. Ed Mann,- Walter Buyck and Russell D. Zimmerman met with a very dangerous accident. The automobile in which they werw going towards Orangeburg ehlddefl along the road and hit a tree, them from the impact was turned com* pletely around and fell over upon tto men who were riding In It. Oft* after another the occupants crawle# from under, the ■ car, marveling ag their narrow escape. The car was badly damaged, and ot those In it two at least were badly and painfully hurt, although It Ms hoped, not serious. Mr. Ed Maam ' was injured worse than the others^, having Jil* left arm crushed Madly ah the wrist, where it bled profusely. Mr. Walter Buyck suffered brulsen tn the side and back, and Mr. Ztmmar- man escaped with only a badly hurt knee. The escape of the three with no further disaster was indeed tor-' tunate under the circumstances. The three are all of Calhoun coun ty, the first two being members of tho St. Matthews bar, while the latter Is a well known farmer of his county. They were going to Orangeburg, and were going from there to their homes. The accident occurred in tho Limestone section of the county an<I was about ten or eleven miles from Orangeburg. The injured men wero immediately Jaken to Orangeburg for medical treatment. SCANDAL. CASE. New Law Has Been Invoked for First * l ./ Time by Aiken Damsel. For the first time the new statoto of 1912 fixing a severe penalty for the circulation of scandalous report detrimental to the character of so ener, by Miss Emma Garvin, tftp at- jr vA »<* III o, IluiBO I Ol W* v/, * " * ** - a~saa*xa*<* VJttlvlIij, Ulf) ] Smith ot Clio, that she oir Monday 8lstan ^ postmistress at that plsca. administered to the four-months-old Miss Garvin, who is ao attractTvw son of Mr. Smith a quantity of pol- young woman, appeared with a large* son with murderous intent, from the number of witnesses who gave soma effects of which it. died Wednesday sonsatibpal testimony in support af afternoon, despite the heroic efforts her contention ttiat Dr. WilllamsIVafl circulated reports^ concerning her which are udtrue and detrimental ta hqf character. Tef her confession to Mr. and Mrs. Smith shs was taken in an automobile to the county Jail at Bennettsville. Rerommend Cooper River Chan—1 A favorable report baa been ra- reived upon the project to deeped the Cooper River to a depth of 2« feet tad to vrldca Electrocuted Day After Marriage. Sentenced to eAactrocution Tuesday . . • ; , ' ——? *'*“ Rafaclo Lango, at Trenton, N. J_ ylftWRd Aha^aEsstpryi wns mafTO^T Monday by reaching hie hands out.of his cell and joining with those of - Carmancia Lango so that she would Inherit hip property Hi IJaly. • • " . " - - . Dog Dleeovers Bodftei The peculiar actions of a col Be