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TAKE A NEW STEP » "" "• NZ.V REFUSFH TO DISCUSS. internal affairs. HOPE THEY MAY AGREE - United Slates to Go >a s Fir as Fob. / sible and Then Place Burden of Breaking Negotiations Directly Upon the Representatives of the Mexican Faction. Plans were completed Tuesday at Niagara Falls by the Squth American mediators for the sinning within day or two of all protocols in the peace plan wfilch relate to interna tional differences between the United States and Mexico, except the plank gi\ing the composition and personnel of the new provisional government. The mediators intend to have^the en tire peace plan ready so that at in formal conferences the Huerta' and Constitutional delegates may select a provisional president and 'cabinet officers. Uefore these i conferences are held the work of the mediators and the American delegates virtually will be finished. Representatives of the two Mexican factions then will assume the rsponsibility of making or breaking the peace program. Reports from New Orleans quot ing Carranzats private secretary as saying the eoimtiission en route to Washington would not participate in informal negotiations with the Huer ta delegates did not disturb the me diation colony. The expressions cred ited to men who recently left Gen. Carranza's headquarters were con strued to be a part of the desire not to disclose the purposes of their mis* sion prior to their arrival. Whether the delegates now com ing represent the personal interests of Carranza is not known, but the mediators have good reason to be lieve Gen. Villa 1s in sympathy with efforts of the United States to settle the Mexican embroglio through dip lomatic channels and that the dele gates en route will have Villa’s ap proval. The signing of protocals setting the international dispute on condi tion that a provisional government be established which th& United States can recognize is expected to serve as an incenttVe to the two Mex ican factions to agree on personnel. These protocols will be published, perhaps, Thursday of this week. One will set forth that within a fixed period after the United States recog nizes the new government, American forces shall be withdrawn from Vera Cruz and hostilities shall be declared suspended between the United States and Mexico. LIONS DEVOUR MAN ENTERED CAR IN WHICH WERE SIX KINGLY BEASTS.’- Five Leap at Him and Find Sixth on the Side of the' Man—Defender Pushed Aside and Man Slain. Another will Include a declaration by the United States that it desires that no indemnity for expenditures resulting from the seizure of Vera Cruz, but asks only the establish ment of a provisional government that can guarantee international as well as national obligations. The South American envoys dis cussed It briefly with the American delegates and conferred with the Huerta delegates, who were asked formally if they would meet Consti tutionalist representatives. The Huerta delegates replied they ^ele willing to enter any conference with their countrymen which had for its object the prevention of bloodshed and the destrurtfon of property and sought to establish a national gov ernment on a firm basis. The plan the mediators have work ed out is to confine the formal me diation conferences to a considera tion of internationtl questions, treat ing with the Huerta and American delegates on these points. On inter nal questions the Huerta and Consti tutionalist delegates would be exi t ed to confer alone. They would dis cuss names for the provisional presi dency while the mediators and Amer ican delegates w’ould await the out come of. their efforts before signing a final protocol. It is virtually certain that no armtistice would be declared by the Constitutionalists until an agree ment Of a definite character is reach ed in the informal conferences as to the established of the provisional government. On arriving kt^such on understanding It would be expected that a general suspension of hostili ties would be proclaimed and the Constitutionalist delegates then might be formally 'admitted to the mediation proceedings for the sign ing of the final protocol; recording the solution of the differences be tween Mexico and the United .States. Three Lose Lives. ■ Responding to the calls of Harold Jordan, who had dropped into anjJ abandoned well, Rodney Ives and John Jordan of Driftw-ood, Pa., fell in the well and all three lost their Emerson D. Dei^rich, manage/- of 8 theatrical production presenting a troupe of trained lions, was killed and partly devoured Sunday night at Chicago by six Hons when he entered the car in. which they were Caged. While keepers wer« recovering Dei- trich’s body, a lion escaped from an | adjoining cage and terrorized the res idents of the. thickly populated quar ter in which the car stood. The escaped lion w-as finally driven ba'-k to its car, having harmed no or-e. A pike pole from the fire de partment was used to withdraw Dei- trich’s body from the lions, after it had been sprinkled with formalde hyde to drive the animals away. Geaorge McCl.ord, keeper of the ']lions, was unable to help Deitrich. ‘‘When he went into the den,” Mc.- Chord said, “Teddy, the leader of the attack against Deitrich, began to play with him and he told the beast to get down. 'Four of the lions were facing him. Finally, Teddy slung around behind him and, in a minute, was on his back. Four others then leaped for him, and I think his neck was broken. Trilby, the oldest of the lions, tried to save him, but the others pushed her away and she quit and watched them without joining in the attack.” The lions were owned by Madame Adgie Castillo, to whom Deitrich was engaged to be rnwrieo farm^rly had taken care of the ani mals herself and that they never Yle- fore had given indications of being vicious. She attributed the attack to the fact that the car .was dark when Deitrich entered. Policemen armed with rifles guarded the>ar all night. The lions, while attacking Del trich, kept up an incessant roaring which attracted a great crowd. The car in which they were kept was an ordinary box car, in the ends of which steel cages had been built, reaching within a few feet of the top of the car, leaving a passageway about two feet wide between them. In one cage were the six older lions, and In the dlher four younger ones A score of policemen and members of a fire company were needed to withdraw Deitrlch’s body from the cage. After the disinfectant bad been thrown in the den, the animals made repeated plunges at the bars just outside of which the rescuers were working. With the aid of a pike pole, a rope was dropped around the body but Abe interference of the lions prevented the rescuers from lifting it over the bars. Finally the pike pole caught a belt worn by Deitrich and the body was recovered. The Hons have been used in hundreds of performances, according to Madame Castillo, five or six of them being liberated on the stage together to perform under his direction. She always has controlled them with a whip. A YEGG’S ESCAPE. Pollock Boldly Intimates How “Port land Ned” Escaped. The feature of the meeting at Deaufort Tuesday was Mr. Pollock’s attack bn what he termed the chief executive's ^encouragement of law lessness. This was characterized by the sharpest* utterance of the cam paign so far, when he referred to “Portland Ned”, the yeggman, who disappeared from the,governor’s pri vate office while a United States mar^lFriday. filial was waiting outside -with a wSr- rapt. “Who knows,” Mr. Pollock said “.but that tills outlaw might have gone out in a suit of clothes similar to the governor’s, with one of the famous slouch hats on his head and his face graced wifh a drooping moustache?” Railroads Lose Case. The supreme court Monday decid ed that the long and short clause of the interstate commer law wap valid and also sustained the commission’s inter-mountain rate or der*. NEGRO KILLS WIFE. ; '< ■ ' —— Then Commits Suicide—Overturned Lamp Fires House. - Thursday night about 11 o’clock on the farm of Mr. J. A. Barber of Rock Hill, located in the River Bend section, Ernest Shealy, a negro ten ant,, and his wife got into a row and in thefight in the house it is sup posed turned over a lamp and set the house on fire, burning it to the pound. Shealy shot his wife with a single barrel shot gun, killing her, a*d ,jt.hen with the same giih^blew part of his head off. When parties, who heard reports of the gun, reach ed there they found both of them lying in the yard dead, and the gun laying across the man’s body. Railroads Win Impoftant Decislonj I X‘ decision of the supreme court gives transcontinental railways title to $700,000^00 worth of California oil lands. - haul !, ierc* / B v T « ovbr Death Toll In Minnesota. Two. men were kiHad at Mlnne- Us, Minn., when a tornado swept the State Wednesday night. - PAOTOCOn DELEGATES TO NIAGARA REACH PRELIMINARY AGREEMENT 5 PEACE UNE STEP OFF Agreement 1 Between Confreeres Pledges United States to Allow Mexican Factions to Name Provi sional President, With Assurance of Recognition. Terms for composing all Interna tional differences between the United States and Mexico have been conclud ed. The conditions under which dip lomatic relations wNl be resumed were’ embodied in a protocol signed Wednesday night by the ambassador from Brazil, the ministers of Chile and Argentina and the American and Huerta delegates. The character of the ‘settlement is not expected to arouse opposition from the Constitutionalists, who would participate in it, and to a large decree, it jvbuld mould the adjust ment of all internal disputes. When a new provisional government is es tablished to succeed that headed by Gen. Huerta the result of mediation —recognized as a triumph for Pan- American diplomacy—will become effective. Coincidentally with the action tak en Wednesday night it was announc ed that the actual selection of a pro visional president, and the organi zation of the new government will be left to an informal conference of rep- resentattves of the *Constitutional- ists—Luis Cabrera, Rafael Zubaran and Jose Vasconcelos—and the Huerta delegates to the mediation conference' No formal adjournment of media tion will be taken, but there will be 'no sessions while ^representatives of Ybetwo Mexican factions endeavor to agree'on the personnel of the new government, agrarian and education al reforms and--pther internal prob lems. . Wednesday night's formal session of mediators and delegates prepared the way for the complete settl^m^nt of differences between the Unltell' States and Mexico growing out of the failure of a Huerjta officer at Tampico to salute the Stars and 1 Stripes. The single outstanding proviso in the pro tocol is that the international prob lem shall be declared adjusted on the establishment of a new provi sional government. The protocol sets forth: ‘"That the United States and Ar gentina, Brazil and Chile—the me diating countries—shall recognize the new provisional government and that thenceforth diplomatic relations between the United States and Mex ico shall be resumed. ‘That the United States demands no indemnity^ and does not further exact satisfaction for any of the in cidents connected with the patrol of Mexican waters and invasion of the country, “That a commission shall be ap pointed to adjust private claims growing out of ^he revolution and internal incidents.” The protocol was drafted early Wednesday and its phraseology tel egraphed -to Washington for ap proval. At 9 o’clock Wednesday night word came from President Wilson and Secretary Bryan author izing American delegates to sign it. The effort ta finish work on inter national points in peace plan 7 so that all might be complete before the con vening of informal meetings of Con stitutionalists and Huerta represen tatives- has been in prbgreds since Then Presidqnt Wilson in formed Minister Naon in Washjng- tt>n that the American government desired to have the Constitutional 1st and Huerta government compose their differences as a previous con dition to the settling of the interna tional problem. The results of the mediators’ work Wednesday night places the issue squarely before the representatives of the two warring factions. On them will rest the responsibility for failure or success of the peace plans as a whole. Luis Cabrera, Rafael Zubaran and Jose Vasconcelos, the Constitutionalist delegates, are in Washington and should arrive at Niagara Falls in another day or two. The sending to Washington of Fer nando Inglesias Calderon, whom it had been expected would head the Constitutionalist delegation, caused some confusion in plans, but it was believed Wednesday night that Ca!- dbfion’s mission to the capital mere ly was to substitute ■for'Zubaran dur ing his absence from Washington. Cabrera and Vasconcelos originally were designated by Gen. Carranza to atteni the mediation conferences. There was little said Wednesday night about Gen. Villa's attitude to ward the sending of delegates, but it was believed he w^s in thorough ac cord ^Rf^the proposition. Reliable Information has come that he ia Wednesday night. He announced that three articles of the peace plan bad been protocollzed, and that these related only to the International side of the Mexican problem. i “We deemed' it advisable,” he said, “to Invite the Constitutionalist party to send delegates lo discuss with the Mexican delegates the in ternal aspects of the problem.” The protocols signed are as fol lows: Article 1. The provisional gov ernment referred to in the protocol, No. 3 shall be constituted by agree ment of the delegates representing the parties between which the Inter nal struggle in Mexico is taking place. Article 2. (a) Upon the constitu tion of the provisional government in the City of Mexico, the govern ment of the United States of Amer ica will recognize It immediately, and thereupon diplomatic relations be tween the two countries will be re stored. (b) The government of the United States of America will not In any form whatsoever claim a war indem nity or other international satlsfac- tion. A (c) The provisional government will proclaim an absolute amnesty to all foreigners for any and all polit ical offences lommitted during’the period of civil war in Mexico. (d) The provisional government will negotiate for the constitution of international committees for the set tlement of the claims of foreigners on account of damages sustained during the period of civil war as a consequence of military acts or the acts of national authorities. Article 3. The three mediating governments agree on their j»art to recognize the provisional govern ment organized as provided by Sec tion 1 of the protocol. “Protocal No. 3” referred to was signed two weeks .ago and set forth merely that a prvlsional government to be constituted later as provided shall be recognized on a certain date to be agreed on subsequently, and from that time forward shall exer cise governmental powers until the Inauguration of a constitutional president. . At the opening of the conference Wednesday night a formal state ment. the same that was'shown to President Wilson by Dr. Naon last Friday, was read and incorporated in the minutes: “The internal question of Mexico 'constitutes an essential difficulty in the way of full solution of the con flict pending with the United States of America. We so understand when we extended-to all the parties inter ested the tender of oitr^aood offices toward the peaceful seUl»ment of this conflict.” \ BRYAN ANSWERS CRITICISM OF NEW COLUMBIAN PACT HOKE GIVES ED TELLS WHOT INTRODUCED TON FUTURE BILL. ■' 1: * » ready to accepFthe result of the con ferences, and Jt Is not unlikely that he will be kept Informed of its pro gress. \ A 7 \ At the close of the conference Am bassador Da Gama gave out a state ment embracing the protocol signed INVESTIGATE TRUCK SELLING. Agricultural Department to Send Ex pert to Assist Carolinians. Representative Byrnes Wednesday secured from the chief of the buregu of markets a promise to investigate the present system of marketing can taloupes, melons and truck grown in South Carolina. The bureau will en deavor to send an agent to Blackville in Barnwell county who will trace the cantaloupes from the farm to the retailer for the purpose of ascertain ing the condition in which the can taloupes arrive at the Northern mar kets, the prices obtained by the’ wholesaler and by the retailer, com paring them with the price paid to the producer. The bureau has prom ised to give careful attention to this subject with the hope of devising some plan by which the producer can receive a greater proportion of the price which is finally paid by the consumer. * RAILROADS NOT LIABLE. Free Passes With Stipulations Used at Passenger's Risk. Railroads are not liable for in jury to employees of interstate car riers, or members of their families, while riding on free passes, contain ing stipulations that the passenger assumes all risks while being 'so transported. The Supreme^Court of the United States so held Tuesday In reversing a judgment procured by Lizzie Thompson, wife of a track hand at Augusta, Ga., for $1,300 for injuries sustained in a railroad col lision near McCormick, S. C., in 1910. The court held a pass is not to be re garded as part of the compensation for which the employee works, but is in reality “free” and subject to any conditions the irailroad may Im pose. . ^ Husband is Killed by* Wife. Found standing over the dead body of her husband Saturday with a smoking pistol, Mrs. Jdary Folsom* persists in declaring that he whs a good man and that she does not know when or why she killed him. SINCERE REfrlET CLAUSE Opposition to Such an Expression De velops in Senate Bat State Depart ment Head is Still Hopeful That It Will Secure Favorable Report and be Passed Promptly. Criticism of the proposed treaty to settle the differences between the United States and Colombia over the separation of Panama brought a for mal • statement Monday night from Secretary Bryan defending the clause expressing “sincere regret” on the part of the United States that any thing should have occurred to mar friendly relations between the two countries. The expression, “honest regret," Mr. Brydn said, was used in the memorandum, on which the pres ent negotiations as well as those which previously had failed were based. Despite opposition in the Senate, Mr. Bryan was hopeful that the trea ty would be favorably reported and ratified. Members of the foreign re lations committee expressed hope that correspondents in the archives of the State department bearing on the treaty would reach the commit tee Wednesday. It will be referred to a sub-committee and probably will be made public. *It Is said this cor respondence will show that at one stage of the negotiations with Ctffom- bia during the Taft administration the United States proposed to sub mit the dispute to arbitration with the knowledge that a verdict In favor of Colombia would mean a judgment for at least $40,000,000. Secretary Bryan’s statement fol lows: k “Article I of the treaty, now be fore the Senate, reads: ‘The gov ernment of the United States of America, wishing to put at rest all controversies and differences with the republic of Colombia arising oat of the events from which the present situation on the Isthmus of Panama resulted, expresses, in its own name and in the name of the people of the United States, sincere regret that anything should have occurred to in terrupt or to mar the relatiopa of cordial friendship that have so long subsisted between the two nations ” ‘The governoment of "the repub lic of Colombia, in its own name, and in the name of the Colombian people, accepts this declaration In the full assurance that every obstacle 16 the restoration of complete harmony be tween the two countries will thus dis appear.’ “In what is known as the J>ubols .memorandum, made during the Ta: administration, which presented the basis upon which he was authorlxed to negotiate a treaty, the following language is used: “ ‘The government and the people of the United States honestly regret anything should have ever occurred to mar, In any way, the long and sincere friendship that existed for nearly a century betweem Colombia and the United States, and the latter country has for years earnestly de sired to rempve the ill-feeling arous ed in Colombia by the separation of Panama.’ “It will be seen from a comparison of the two paragraphs that they dh-e Identical In language. In the Dubois memorandum the United States ‘hon estly regrets’ and in the pending treaty ‘the government of the United States of America expressed in its own name, in the name of the peo ple of the United States ‘sincere re gret’. The pending treaty uses the phrgse, ‘to interrupt or to mar*; the Dubois memorandum uses the words ‘to mar’. The Dubois memorandum describes the friendship formerly ex- istly as ‘sincere’, while the pending treaty describes it as ‘cordial’. Both refer to the 'events of 1903’. The Dubois memorandum speaks of ‘the ill-felling aroused in Colombia by the separation of Panama’; the pending treaty refers to ‘the events from which the present situation on the Isthmus of Panama resulted.’ -A ?‘In the pending treaty the govern ment of Colombia accepts this decla ration in the full assurance that every obstacle to the restoration of the complete harmony between the two countries will thus disappear, while the Dubois memorandum (de clares that the Vnited States earnest ly desires to remove the ill-felling aroused in Colombia by the separa tion of Panama. The comparison is made to show.ihat. the two ‘expres sions of regret’ are in all essential particulars the same.” Georgia Senator Contradicts menu of Qoverao* Matthews and The Greenville Piedmont publishes the following:, Blease In his speech at St. Matthews seid that Hoke Smith introduced a bill In congress that B. D. Smith is being given credit for. Hoke Smith in a letter to the Pied mont says that E. D. Smith introduced the bill. Several’days ago the Piedmont contaihed an editorial calling atten tion to what is considered unwar ranted action by the publicity agent of Senator Hoke Smith <of Georgia, in giving him practically all credit for passage by the United States Sen ate of a bill designed to curb the aril power of the New York Cotton Ex change, whose form of future con tracts operates against a higher level of prices Joy the South’s great staple cotton. That editorial came in part to the attention of Senator Hoke Smith and he promptly disavowed any responsibility for the excessive credit given him and accords praise where praise is due. In a letter to the editor of The Piedmont he saya: My attention has been called to a portion of an editorial printed In your paper recently with reference to a bill which has passed the Sen ate curbing the cotton exchanges. “I wish to say to you that I give the full credit to Senator E. D. Smith for his splendid work in behalf of this measure. The original 1)111 was Introduced by him. I had been study ing the question with a great deal of care, and I aided him In perfecting certain amendmenU to the bill, and I supported him on the floor of tho Senate In the passage of the measure. “II any one has given me tho lion’s share of the credit for the pan nage of this bill through the Senate, I regret It. Too much credit can not be given your own Senator for this work. If we can break up the gam bling on the New York cotton «x- change and the use by that exchange of the system which has tnabled thorn to bear the price of cotton, I believe it will be worth five dollars a bale to the cotton growers of the Sooth In the sale of their spot cotton. ‘T have regarded It a great priv ilege to help serve our people la se splendid a work, a work which to, simply Intended to break op the in famous system that has robbed them of part of the frulU of their labora, but 1 would regret that any friends of mine shonld detract from Ike credit In any way of Senator E. D. Smith, In thia matter.” * That U the letter of a magnani mous man and it is worth attention, for those who have given study to this question aro satisfied that the. methods of the New York Cottoni change do have an evil effect ln> depressing the price ef cotton. Sena tor E. D^mith has fought hard for- the cotton farmers of the South and should be given full credit for hie work In their behalL'\^ DAGO ON 8^mV. Won’t Run for Governor. Solicitor Hu^h Dorsey of Atlanta has refused to enter the ipce for gov ernor of Georgia on the strength of his prosecuttpa^nl.-Fraiik,,. which...he hays was only his duty, nex’more than Reiving fatal Injuries, many other officials have done. Prern Association to Meet. The Sooth Carolina State Penas a$- 4, 7, and S. Fatal Attempt to Catch Fly. In a game of baseball at Charles ton Monday Erneit Howard, a color ed lad, attempted to scale a fence fn order to catch a fly, with -the result that he-fell into a pile of brick, .re- Goes to Relieve Men. The battleship Kansas sailed for _ Vera Crux Monday with 300 men who I Baltimore, Md., Tuesday Pollock Refers to Governor’s Ap pointment of “Blind Tiger Jim”. W. P. Pollock of Cheraw, at tho Walterboro meeting, tackled the gov ernor’s pardoning record and “cough ed up” other points in the career of the chief executive. He aald that the governor tells the people if they don’t like what he does, they can’t help it; so if the governor does not like tho new primary rules, said Mr. Pollock, he can’t help It. The speaker said the governor had appointed on his staff an “Italian dago, blind-tiger Jim Sottlle, who would stand by the governor's sido when the Walterboro company pass ed in review. Mr. Pollock said he had nothing personal against Gov. Blease but would hate to have his record. FIRED HER HUSBAND. Act of Tennessee Woman Causes Ter rible Doable, Tragedy. J. L. Carter, a wealthy farmer and lumberman of McEven, Tenn., Sun day was burned to death and hla wife fatally injured, when the for mer saturated his clothes with oil and set them on fire. Mrs. Carter’s dress caught fire when she attempted to put ou the flames and she sustain ed burns from which she died early that night. • The charred bodies were found by George Nesbitt, a neighboring farm er, who was attracted by the wo man's screams. The woman still was conscious, although her clothing had been burned from her body. She de scribed the tragedy to physicians who were summoned in a vain ef fort to save her life. ' i sedation will meet In Greenville July are to relieve that number whoae en-(killed blip* eg listment has expired. feared Kills Her Hnshaad. After making frantic efforts to prevent her husband from entering* their house Mrs. Edgar MeCaaley of