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L1ND DOING WELL ? HE HAKES KNOWN HIS MESSAGE TO MEXICO WAS KINDLY RECEIVED lluertu Undergoes u Change, ami According to Official Statement of the *.??,t * - * - jTuivnaii ruinun fliinisU'r the I'rofiosul Will bo Discussed and lieplied to. Tho Huerta government, through conferences in Mexico City between John Unci, President's Wilson's personal representative, and Foreign Minister Clamboa, now knows tho viewpoint of tho United States and its desires for only a peaceful and friendly solution of Mexico's trouble. The formal communication Mr. Unci bears was handed to Mexico Monday when it also will be transmitted to diplomatic representatives of foreign powers in Washington. What tho result of publishing these views will be, oflicials at Wash ington (lid not venturo to predict. They have 110 assurances that the Iluorta government will accept them, but they believe the spirit thus far shown by tho Iluorta ollicials justities a hopeful feeling for the success of Mr. land's mission. Observers of the situation generally look for a pronouncement of some kind from Iluerta immediately following the presentation of President Wilson's message through Mr. hind. It is expected in diplomatic circles that President Iluerta will formally announce a call for an early election even setting the date. Constitutionalists hitherto have claimed they Aould not engage in any election in which the Iluerta government. exercised control over the election machinery. The possibility of an agreement, however, for the non-partisan committee to conduct tho election is being discussed and should the situation actually progress to that point it may be that informal efforts will be made by Mr. Idnd to secure participation by tho Constitutionalist leader in such a plan. Information, however, of only the vaguest character has been forthcoming from olllcials as to the eventualities that would follow a possible objection of President Wilson's ideas by the Huerta government. There is no intention at present of lifting tho embargo on arms; in fact, the President is said to have taken a strong position against it, at least until all peaceful means of settlement havo been exhausted. There is a confident and conspicuous feeling of otpimism, however, among administration officials that a peaceful settlement is in eight, tho they admit the delicacy of the sltuollnn ,1 ~ ? I 1 ~ ,1 -1 1 ? ?m/ti i\iiuiyia Liny uciUUfU U IHCUBH1U US at this time of the circumstances 011 which their hopes are based. Federico Gamboa, the Mexican minister of foreign affairs, Saturday night gave out the first statement made by any Mexican official regarding the messago sent to Provisional President Huerta to President Wilson, through his personal representative, John Lind. Minister Gamboa said tho Mexican government would givo consideration to the communication presented by Mr. Lind and after fully discussing it would make a reply. This procedure is contrary to tho opinion held generally the past week regarding tho Mexican government's attitude, it being assumed in view of Gen. Huerta's note of August 6, in which he characterized Mr. Lind as being persona non grata unless he brought proper credentials and recognition of the Huerta administration, that any message the ex-governor brought would bo ignored. At Mexico City on Monday it was officially stated that tho United States government has been given until midnight by President Huerta to recocnlrA Morlr?r? The government Is not specific in the public announcement as to what course then will be pursued but it Is understood that it means the severing of all relations .between tlio two countries. Provisional President Huerta replying to President Wilson note which was recently delivered to the Mexican government through ExGovernor John Lind, refuses mediation in the Mexican situation or any similar suggestion made by a foreign government. Mr. Lind has forwarded General Huerta's answer to Washington and is awaiting a reply. President Huerta, in his reply, told the United States that he would tolerate no interference, even though that interference might bo characterized as friendly mediation. The character of the reply of Washington to President Huerta's note will determine the next action in the international drama. All thoso connected with the American embassy Monday refused to admit the receipt of the note and that it had been seat was not admitted officially by the Mexican government. At the embassy there was an evident desire to appear optimistic and one was led to believe that Mr. Lind still hoped for a continuation of the negotiations. Thoso familiar with the workings of the Mexican administrav DYNAMITE AT WINDOW | MAYOR (J AY NOR OF NEW YORK, WAS IN DANGER, 1 Explosion at City Hall Prevented by Strip of Wool Wound Tightly Around Raso of Fuse. A deadly charge of dynamite, three whole ten-inch sticks and two j halves, with a fuse and detonation, was discovered Thursday afternoon near Mayor Gaynor's otlice window in the City Hall at New York. The bureau of combustibles found that the explosive was 10 per cent, dynamite, the regulation blasting proportion, and the amount found would, if exploded, have wrecked the City r Hall. ^ The Mayor was in his ollioo when j the dynamite was discovered by a cit- , izen passing through City Hall Park. t Mr. Gaynor evinced little interest when told of the explosives and re- " mained apparently undisturbed at his desk while police olllcers hurriedly ^ drew a cordon around the dynamite to keep the crowd back. Mr. Gaynor freouent.lv recelviM* threatening letters, but he would 1 inalce no statement regarding tho possible connection between any pre- j vious throat by mail and the dynamite found. It is just three months ago last year that he was shot in the ^ hack by a crank and so badly wound- ^ od that for several days it was feared he would die. Close to tho explosive was a piece of Chinese punk and several partly burned matches. Tho dynamite and fuse were wrapned in a piece of heavy cambric. Tho cloth resembled the fillets worn by Italian women of ^ the working class. . Experts of the bureau of combustibles said the only thing that prevented a disastrous explosion was tho presence of a strip of wool wound so tightly about tho base of the fuse that a spark could not reach the de- J tonator. An edge of one dynamite ^ stick was scorched. Police authorities say laborers sometimes carelessly drop dynamite sticks near their blasting operations. There is an excavation shaft on the Proadway side of City Hall Park leading to the new subway construe- . tion. Detectives are making a close ^ investigation of this location, ni though contractors declare they do * not use 4 0 per cent, dynamite in their ' operations. I tion expressed doubt as to the gov- 1 eminent again opening the subject for discussion. ; again opening the subject for discus- , sion. Senor Urrutica, minister of the interior, who on previous occasions lias been the spokesman for the administration, was tho person chosen to make tho announcement that President Huerta demanded recognition by tlie United States by midnight. Sonor Urratia refused to give out the text of the correspondence between Mr. Idnd and tho Mexican government, but confirmed the fact that an exchange of notes had takpn place. Two notes from Mexico have been sent, to Washington. The llrst was reply to that delivered by Mr. Lind, this note including the demand for recognition of Mexico. The second note was sent direct to Washington and demanded that a reply to the previous note bo made before midnight. This is regarded hero as an ultimatum. One official in discussing this latter note said that Mexico had reached the point whero she either must how her head in humiliation before the United States or adopt an attitude of degance. Tho first contingency, ho added, was regarded as impossible. Senator Lodge and Stone, Monday morning were shown tho following cablegram to Secretary Bryan from Charge O'Shaughnessy, dated Monday night, and received at four a. m. Tuesday: "Tho correspondents hrve cabled that tho Mexican government has stated that its note to Lind demands that the United States recognize the Huerta government before twelve o'clock midnight to-day or a statepractically to that effect. "I brought the matter to tho urgent attention of the minister of foreign affairs at 10 p. m. He immediately saw the president and Minister Oom.bernairon, Senor IJurrutia, who is supposed to have given out the statement, anad ho authorized mo to deny this statement to 77iy government, as having no foundation in fnpt " Charge O'Shaughnessy cabled Secrotary IBryan from Mexico City early Tuesday that President Huerta, thru Foreign Minister Gamboa, emphatically denied there was any "foundation whatever" for the statement that Huerta has issued an ultimatum to the United States demanding recogni tion with the alternative of handing Mr. O'Shaughnessy his passports. A dispatch from John Hind informed President Wilson and Secretary Pryan that he had been in conference with Provisional President Huerta at an early hour Tuesday. He characterized his reception and conference with Huerta as "cordial". Monday night's dispatches attributing the announcement of an ultimatum by Huerta, to Minister Urritia, of the department of the interior, stirred official circles at Washington deeply. MEXICO STILL FIRM ~ * \ JND IS WELL RECEIVED BUT CAN MAKE NO PROGRESS I MESSAGE TO CONGRESS ? s Heing Prepared by President Wil- ' son Who Intends to Answer lluertu's Intimation That His Attitude is a Partisan One, Not Hacked by the People. President Wilson was at work Thursday night on a special message vliich lie probably will read to both louses of Congress Monday, relating n detail to negotiations conducted hrougli his personal representative, lolin hind, with tho Iluerta governnent in Mexico. Tho decision to nake a comprehensive statement on ho situation to Congress was reachMi Thursday after tho President had \bout concluded that negotiations >etween Mr. Hind and Provisional President Iluerta, since tho exchange if notes, had developed no new basis 'or discussion. With his message tho President A'lll present tho two notes, setting 'ortli the American suggestions to he Iluerta government and its re jiy. cmouia mo road (no document limself, which lie is being urged to 1 lo by members of his Cabinet and to f which idea ho is strongly inclined, it ? will ho the first time since the days i if George Washington that a Presi- i lent has communicated a matter of i 'oreign policy in person to the legis- > ative branch of tho government. ? There was a well defined belief in 1 >fi\cial circles that President Wilson ' liinks the reading of an address i which will lay the American viewpoint and the Huerta contentions be- i 'ore tlie Congress and tho people of < his country, and which also will bo t mado public to tho world generally, 1 an not but have an important effect 1 pii the situation in Mexico. 1 Intimations are contained in Pro- 1 visional President Iluerta's reply to i he American note presented by Jno. < Lind that President Wilson is not i backed up by Congress or the Amerl- < can pooplo in his stand against rec- 5 pgnition of tho lluerta government. Referring to attacks on tho Wash- ] ington administration by members of i Congress and pointing to tho official \ recommendations of Ambassador < ITenry Lane Wilson, lluerta declares \ ho is entitled to ho recognized. lie ] holds that tho Democrat party's power is temporary, and argues that rec- i ognition of his government is a parti n n niir,ot?rvr, 1 ? ? ft TT C*-* uuii <|ubciiuu in mu uniiuu ovaiUH, ( He intimates ^hat ho reaches his conclusion on private advices from , Washington. , The Prefiident's message 1b expect- , ed to bo a partial answer to the intimations of Provisional President Huerta in his noto that President Wilson stands out alono in his Mexican policy and unsupported generally In Congress. The first refutation of this Huerta supposition came In the Senate Thursday when prominent Republicans vigorously upheld the hands of the President. The expressions of confidence in the wisdom and good faith of President Wilson were made by several Republican leaders in succession after Senator Penrose, of Pennsylvania, Republican, had introduced a resolution to require the President to place United States troops in Mexico to protect Americans. No action was taken on the resolution. The view at the White House and State department was that such a move in effect would be an act of war. Though negotiations between John TJnd and Provisional President Huerta are continuing on a cordial personal basis neither side is receding from its position. Alternative measures are already under consideration. No definite course lias been formulated, but tho policy which at present is under consideration and is most likely to be adopted is one of absolute non-interference. Tho American government under such a policy would continue to deny arms to both sides, would withdraw Americans from trouble zones, insist on proper protection to property and lives, and, in effect, let the Mexicans continue their controversy on the bat tietleld. Tho administration is determined against intervention or war, and the other alternative, friendly mediation, apparently has failed. Officials at Washington believe the United States through the mission of Mr. TJnd will have satisfied foreign governments generally of Its desire to bring about peace and they do not conceive that there will bo any pressure to bring about intervention. ? Alien l/and Law On. It had been expected that tho Japanese reply to the state department's last note, regarding the protest against the California alien land legMonday, when that legislation becamo effective, there has been no further move in tho matter. Ambassador Chlnda has served notice upon Secretary Bryan, however, that the islation, would be submitted before Japanese answer will be forthcoming in due course. BLEASE AND PARDONS VIIAT A FH1KXHI/Y NKWSIWUKH SAYS A HOLT IT. I nterestiug Story Printed About the Governor In ? Paper That llna Al- ' ways Supported Him. Under the caption "Will Governor llease Ho a Candidate for Any Ofllce ! n Campaign Next Summer?" and vith headlines four columns wide itiil extending nearly half way down ho front page, the Anderson Intelligencer, which has b?on one of the ew newspapers in the State to suptort the Governor through thick and hin, printed on Tuesday a story that vtll, no doubt, be read with interest >y the people of South Carolina, parieularly in view of the oft-repeated leelaration of the Governor that lie vill be in the race for the United Rates S- nnt^. The article seems to lave been based on several paroles ecently issued to Anderson County irisoners, and is as follows: That Governor Cole L. Hlease will lot be a candidate for otlico next luinmer is the opinion of many leadng Anderson County Hlease supporters. Recent actions of the Governor n extending executive clemency, af'ecting Anderson County, is the >auso of this belief, and it is shared >y many of the most prominent lloase men of the county. Actions of the Governor in those nstances were a complete surprise, is much so here as anywhere in the Rate, and bis supporters are lined up low on both sides. Friends of the lien paroled claim that bis action in oloasing them from the RonlteiUiary vill strengthen him, while others are is thoroughly confident that it will noo f/\t* i ??? 5 * .. i .. - 1 ' uo< 1ui iiiiii 111 mir-> CUIIIIiy ill M'ilSI 1,00ft votes, The whole matter has esolved itself into just this: Many of Governor Mease's most ntluential supporters arc openly condemning him for his recent acions, and declaring they will tight lim if he ever again offers for oflice; vhile on the other hand, large ninnjers who have heretofore been lukewarm towards him, because lie had lot taken favorable action in the cases of their imprisoned friends, low declare they will take off their coats and pull for Mease for tlie 3en ate. It is being freely talked hv many Please and Anti-Mease men that the Governor sees the handwriting on the wall and has determined to clean nit the Penitentiary. Some few in Ihe ranks of his strongest supporters ire of the opinion that he will throw wide the gates of the Penitentiary ho fnro hn lonuna " i - u?>vi v ????.-> v??v3 viuvri inn n f 11 UI I. But this extreme view is taken by :>nly a few. The Intelligencer does not care to express Itself on the recent paroles, especially on the more noted one, since It has friends on both sides. Every citizen is familiar with the facts and will express himself as either favoring or condemning this particular act as well as the Governor's whole course during his administration, at the polls in the next election, In case the Governor offers for office. He has that right, and the Governor himself has declared that, God permitting him to live until that time and his health to bo retained, he certainly will be a candidate for a seat in the Senate of the United States. FAMILY KIIiLED. Entire New York Mainily is Found I>eml in Their Homo. The bodies of Mrs. Mary Hake and i her four children, Horace, seventeen; ] WnltO.f t * Qfollo olrrlii Aor? n*?/l I Dorothy, fourteen, wero found stark] nakod in their Brooklyn home Monday, horribly mangled. Beside them dying was the husband and father, Henry Lake, a restaurant chef. Apparently ho had killed all five and then fatally wounded himself. Lake died in a hospistal in the afternoon. Tho tragedy occurred as early as last Thursday, possibly Wednesday. Odors from tho rooms aroused neighbors and at their request tho police broke in. Tho bodies of tho mother and tho two boys lay on tho bed. The girls wero stretched on tho floor. All had been shot and several of the bodies bore evidences of being repeatedly slashed with a knife. In a corner huddled in a pool of blood with a gaping wound in his head Lake was found in a semi-con huiuuh cunuiuon ana couia only mumblo incoherently. The room was ft wreck. Furniture was overturned nnd the walls were streaked with blood. Tiftko was rushed to a hospital, where ho died. According to his neighbors he was a kind father, not given to excessive drinking. The police are at a loss to tlx a motivo for tho crime. Ho was about forty-five I years old ftnd his wife was about forty. Slit Skirt Proved Downfall. Mrs. Fannie Goodman, of Denver, Colo., wearing one of the latest style skirts, of tho sort that must have a slit to afford tho wearer room to walk, tried to board a street car. Unable to step up, sho made a jump for the platform and fell, breaking her right arm, spraining her anklo and receiving many bruises. % 10 PUNISH SAILORS" MUST ANSWER FOR PART TAKEN IN SEATTLE RIOT o 1I< THE POLICE ARE BLAMED Secretary of Navy, While Ordering tli t h Punishment of Men of Fleet \\ ho ^ Participated in Destruction of s') Property, Severely Scores Citizens <( Who Abused Sailors and Flag. Secretary Daniels has directed the %v'< punishment of tlie sailors of the Pa- 0,1 ciflc reserve Hoot, who participated in 1 i( the destruction of the Industrial 1,1 Workers of the World and Socialists' (" property in Seattle July 17-1S, if ('' they can be identified,though he so- 1,1 verely condemned the civilians who 0,1 abused the sailors and the American flag. gr The Secretary's action was based gr on a report by a board of investiga- in tlon headed by Commander Thomas ca Washington. The board found that so for some tlmo before the rioting at co Seattle there had been attacks on the he flag, the government and particular- of ly upon the army and navy in the hi Pacific seaport cities calling them- ag selves members of the Industrial Workers of the World and to some th extent by so-called Socialists. The pi civil authorities, the report said, al- si lowed spectators to harangue crowds 1(5 and engender ill feeling resulting in si the attack upon the soldiers and two ta sailors July 17. This led to the V burning and destruction of property tr on the following night. The board placed direct blame for ()f the action of tin4 crowd, led by civilians and including only a small pro- jj] portion of enlisted men, on the falllire of the police force to prevent the destruction of property because of u, their sympathy with the purposes of jt the crowd. Furthermore, the board llVI\l<AOtia/l 4lw. /,l,l 41. ..4 4 I. /. un!? vooi <t in< ujlllliuil UllU Lll?I llUHUg || was attributable to general sentiment against the Industrial Workers of the m World and the criticism of the press ,n and that the presence of the enlisted w men was made to serve the purpose t) of accomplishing an end which the better element of people desired and si the press encouraged. , v< In passing on this report, transmittod by Hear Admiral Reynolds, ^ Secretary Daniels declared that while the conduct of thoso who denounced (, and assaulted soldiers was most rep- ' rehensiblo and deserving condomnaa tion "their violent language, unprovoked assault 011 soldiers and law- ,, lessness doesn't justify retaliation in ? kind". r The Secretary recalled his statement in a speech in Seattlo that abedience to authorities in respect to ^ the flag must precede any reforms. Ho expressed regret that tho sailors had permitted themselves to forget their duty to uphold tho law which they had sworn to uphold and added that their conduct In Seattlo was t( against tho naval regulations and ^ couldn't bo condoned or allowed to 1 go without punishment. 0 Admiral Reynolds was directed to a have tho Secretary's letter read on 11 the ships of tho fleet and to have tho * | men engaged in tho affair punished j In such a manner as the admiral might Judge adequate for the offence. So far as known none of the sailors participating In the affair have been identified. Rear Admiral Edward F. Reynolds in transmitting Secretary Daniels' letter, appends a direction to com- c manders of all ships of the Pacific ^ reserve fleet, to read the Secretary's 1 statoment at muster, hut adds that as I it has been impossible to obtain ^ proof of the participation of any specified in tho determination it will bo t impracticable to attempt any punish- ( ment. ' 1 Stole flrick House. f Samuel Jefferson and David Price, j two negroes of Washington, have ( confessed to tho theft of a brick > house. They did not carry the structure off in its entirety, but took it by f piecemeal. The building, the prop- ( orty of Silas S. Daish, had been a ^ brick residence, but had been torn { down to make room for a more im- j posing dwelling. I , Waif Suves Parent's Lives ! Frances Gardiner, 11 years old, of ? West Chester, Pa., saved the lives of 1 Mr. and Mrs. William Matson, who ' adopted her some time ago. Tho little 1 girl rushed into the room of the old- ! er people in tho middle of the night, telling them the house was on fire. 1 They had just time to escape, not be- ; ing able to save any of their clothes. Humeri to l>outh. Q. P. Davis, of Elba, Ala., was burned to death under his wrecked automobile near Montgomery, Ala. Davis' companions who were thrown clear of tho wreck woro powerless to aid him. ? lloiler Explosion Kills Five. Five men were almost instantly killed and two more fatally injured > when a boiler exploded at a sawmill, in Clarksville, Tox. Tho owner of the [ mill, a wealthy man, is one of the dead. fOULD DESTROY WOMAN 0 NATO It TILLMAN TALKS ON WOMAN VOTING. o Says I'll imately Politics Will Do- ; wtroy Woman, Which Means Doom of the Kcptihlic. Senator Tillman, showing some of e former vigor that won for him o soubriquet of "Pitchfork Hen", tacked woman suffrage in a Senate r eeeh Monday. "It is a beautiful dream," said ho, hat female suffrage will purify poles. The vital and Important thing r us to consider lb tho effect on y 3mon themselves Wo had better jidure tiie evils of corruption in poll- . s and debauchery in our governcut, rather than bring about a contion which will mar tiio l>eauty and m tho lustre of tho glorious woanhood to which wo have been ac- i? istonied all our lives. "We can better afford to have doaded and corrupt politics than de- ' aded and bad women. To have both '. ever iiu reusing degree, as was tho ^ so in Home, would make the world unspeakably horrible, as well as so y* r ni |u, i iiiii. kooii men anil wo mo a >tli would disappear from tho faco g the earth and civilization would bo ?? otteil out like it was in tho dark jes, after tho fall of Home. "I am so thoroughly a convert to l0 o belief that you can not touch ?(1 toh without being defiled, that I )tudder to think of the consequences ifc tho womanhood of America, ill lould suffrage become universal, Is king in both sexes and all races. 'S et, tile experiment is going to bo 10 led, i fear." >? X.* Senator Tillman said tho demand ' woman for suffrage was growing o fast to he stopped by "old fogies," ke himself and that it was apparent a'_ io men of the country would give tern what they demanded, "even lough it. be to their ultimate in- i iry." "I believe woman will improve polios," be said, "but ultimately polios will destroy her as we know her jk id love her; and when our good woion are no longer to be found an 1 o have lost the breed, the doom of io republic is near." t Senator Tillman Included In his leech a vigorous attack upon the diarce evil and referred to tho Diggsaminetti white slave cases in Call\ni I ? "Wo have bad women in South V| arolina and throughout the South," ' e nald, "but the habits of o ur people tj, nd their customs, inherited from our f jrefathers, make it dangerous to monkey with men's womonkind." omo Northern peoplo call us barba- ( ? ians. If the California men had our lh ustoms, Diggs and Caminetti would j*1 ot be alive now, becauHe they would } 1 avo been shot like dogs, and tho Eithers of tho girls they havo ruined ^ rould bo acquitted almost without ho Jury leaving tho box. th "Tho unwritten law is tho best law|ul o protect women's virtue, that Ipn now of. The more I think abouti?r ho Diggs-Oaminetti case, tho more1lH utraged I grow at tho stato of mor-co Is and society, which not only porilts snch crimes, but encourages*al hem." 70? ? ? ? /ci BEAUTIES OF DIVORCE. tl 5x-Wlfe Kills Former Husband and His New Wife. rt W. S. Clodbee, a prominent citizen h if Millen, Ga., wa? shot to death.101 >1 oh day and Mrs. Florence Godbeo,J'\ ds wife, seriously wounded by Mrs. (u: Cdna Perkins Godbee, from whom he \c vas divorced several years ago. Tho shooting occurred at tho en-, ranee of the Millen post office. The . Ilvorced woman used a large calibre t evolver, which she had concealed iuf^j l handbag. Without warning she fir* ?d three shots at her former huszand,- . ill of them taking effect and killing' w llin Instantly. She then turned up-!^, >n Mrs. /5odbee, Inflicting three ,s vounds, which may prove fatal. jai After tho shooting, during which dio had exhibited rare coolness, Mrs jodbee, the divorced wife, placed hei evolver in her handbag and walked'' 1 ipparently without undue haste, tc'? icr home not more than two blocks 1 from the post office and the scene o hn shnntlnf Unro olin ?'nn ?..W v.. ? vy v. ..n , ? 4 v_/ I U OUU VT UD 1V/UUU 4 few moments later by- Sheriff M. G c 1 Johnston, of Jenkins County, ani placed under arrest on the charge o ^ murder. She Is now In jail withou hall, pending an Investigation of th? ' ^ shooting. Judge Oodbee was married thre? times. Tils first wife died a few year } s nfino I. ' - ' -> *- - - 1 ? Iinui iiicjr n ?:io IlIUl l lUU) 1111(1 lit) [11(31 \N married Miss Perkins, the secontjo Mrs. Oodboe, who was such a promif C nent actor in the tragedy. After liv< ti ing together for some years therO arose differences that cotld not b( " reconciled and Mrs. Oodboe sued he^(> husband for divorce, winning he' 1 case. > >' 1 cr Taunts Drive Man to Suicide. . C Wilson Whalen, of Rochester, > Y., committed suicide when th? taunts of his neighbors became moi^.01 I than he could bear. TTe was a roaT( (_ supervisor, and his delay in getting the roads fixed caused tho ulfavo; " ^ able comments. i