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; \ 1 ^ HUERTA'S ENtMltb' I * J PEN PICTURE OF THE MEN WHO LEAD THE REBELS ? VILLA AND CABBANZA Ilopert Kays Villa, (Tiolluf at I)?- 1 lays ami Puffed by Kecent Success. ( May at Any Time Dcclnro Himself Dictator of Northern Mexico, Usurping Carrnn/.a's Leadership. Two inoro complotcly contrasted figures than Gen. Venustiano Carranza and Gen. Francisco Villa, the principal figures in the present revolution against Iluorta in Mexico, would ho difilcult to find. Gen. Carrcinza, who, as governor of the state oi uoanulla, first raised tho flag of revolt against the ITuerta government after President Mndero's assassinatlon, Is, nevertheless, peace loving, a quiet, dignified figure of simple taste#, a solid country gentleman. Oen. Villa, who commands all the revolutionary forces In Northeastern Mexico, with a dozen generals and probably 30,000 soldiers under his authority, Is a dashing bandit typo, picoturesque, not dignified, often full of merriment, sometimes stern and mot. infrequently cruel. Ho has been a fugitive from Justice, compelled to live by his wits and with a heavy price on his head for nearly two d<x>ndps. lie is a quick-witted loader, a past master In guerrilla warfare and an able general, despite his lack of regular military training. Villa maintains on the surface a subordination to Clou. Carranza as tho nominal head of tho revolution. As his victories accumulate, however, there is no telling when he may declare himself dictator of Northern Mexico. uarranza wan nrst to denounce the now President Huerta and raise a revolutionary army after the killing of Madero. He made bo clean a Bwoop of the neighboring state of Durango that evon now there la not a known Federal sympathizer In the state. The State of Sonora having seceded from the Federal government of Moxico and driven the Federal army nader Gen. Pedro OJeda, Col. Emlllo ICoeterlitzky and flen. Jose de la Euz lllanco from town to town until refuge was sought. lr\ the seaport of Quay mas, Gen. Carranza moved his headquarters of the provisional presidency to Hermoslllo, the capital of Sonora. He is there now, surrounded by his rebel cabinet. He and his military aides occupy a suite of rooms in a Hormosillo hotel. There they go through a round of oorresrpondonee, telephone communications with army officers at the front, conferences with stale officials and meetings with the rebel cabinet until lato in the day. There is always an hour for the perusal of reports from rebel agents in New York and Washington, in Europe and along the Texas, New Mexico and Arizona border. The secret agents, working enow) Lo general concentration points in the interior of Mexico, also send in frequent reports. Car ran z a depends largely for his Information upon these secret service men who live in the Federal companies, constantly in tho shadow of death, lie also gains much information from American newspapers. At the Ilermosillo Falaco there is a corps of expert translators who convert into typewritten Spanish all' news items of American origin hearing upon Mexican affairs. Carranza's evenings are lonely, for he cares little for social affairs and his family is not with him. Tho rebel provisional president left his wife and daughters behind in Coahuila, south of Torreon, when ho inaugurated the revolution. -Tn constant danger from tho Federals who infest the country, they have never been ablo to reach tho border and join him. That is his ono source of constant anxiety. Villa is ono of tho most pictiiresquo figures in modern history. At thirty-seven ho is entering his twentieth year of constant warfare. This has equipped him for the part lie is now playing. His success in organizing, equipping, training and disciplining several large armies wjthln a few months and with thorn winning a number of strategically important cnpagements, marks him a8 a general of no ordinary calibre. When Villa was a small boy his parents moved from Durango to Chihuahua city. When "Pancho", as he was called, was about seventeen, a Federal army captain, captivated by the beauty of young Villa's sister, attacked her. Since the Villa family was of the lower class, there was nc redress by law. Young Pancho took lie always was by the poorer classes Villa mado his oscapo. Villa took ? leading part in the Madero revolu tlon, and whon the cause triumphed was glvon command of a volunteei corp? at Parral in Chihuahua. Tib loyalty to Madero was never open t< question. When, in 1912, Oen. Pascua Orozco revolted against Madero, Vilh fuught and defeated hirn near Parral Later, under Cen. Iluorta, who wa sent out to campaign against Orozco Villa Incurred the enmity of Huerti and was scat to prison In Mexic< 1 1TEGGMAN SENT UP AGAIN i HeKlNLEY, PAROLED RECENTLY, GUILTY OF ROBBERY. S ? 1'ittAran a S?l?-(Y?cJtnr, VubU to Break Bow* Cluti* of Circuuueta.ntial KtUWb?? Mast IUtaiu to Pen. William McKlnley, the safe-robber, paroled by Governor Blease J Thanksgiving Day, after he had served six year? of a (en-year term In the Rtate prison ,wnR convicted in the circuit court at Spartanburg Thursday of robbing tho store of Renard Frey, nt Fair Forest on December 10, about two weeks after his release. Judge Shipp sentenced him to serve one year and one month. . The evidence against McKlnley ( was circumstantial, but there was not a weak link in the chain which Sollc- , itor Albert E. Hill wound around ( him. One of the hits of evidence on ; which the solicitor laid emphasis was | a button with a tuft of cloth attached ( found near the scene of the robbery. | The button was of identically tho same kind as tho buttons of McKlnley's suit, and the cloth also corresponded. One of his buttons was missing. A bottlo about half-filled with what the officers alleged to he nitroglycerine was nlso introduced In evidence. It was found in the camp, in tho woods where McKlnley was arrested. Nltro-glcerlno was used, it was claimed. In the attempt to rob the safe in Frey's store. Testimony that McKlnley traded a shirt stolen from Frey's store to Elmore Wright, a fellow prisoner in the county jail, also influenced the jury, Wright, a paroled murderer, will ho tried for shooting Ernest Mcabee, his wife's cousin, some time after Wright left f li n nr i <3 mi McKinley acted as his own counsol. Ho strongly denied his guilt. Ho made frequent objections to the testimony offered by tho State. In addressing the jury McKinley told of tho hardships he endured in tho brief period between his releaso from the prison and his arrest. lie said he had only $1.85 when ho left prison, had no friends to whom ho could appeal and was forced to live tho life of a vagrant. Tie told of his wanderings in South Carolina and Georgia prior to his arrival at Spartanburg. Ilo said that when ho was arrested ho was on Ids way to Vlrgina. Tho man made a pitiful plea for mercy, asking tho jury to dismiss from their minds tho past record and not convict him on circumstantial evidence. city. It was there that he learned to write. All day long ho scribbled on the walls of tho coll. Then one night the news was flashed on the wires that Villa had escaped and was on his way to tho United States. It has always been supposed that President Madoro, who saved him from death by execution by Iluerta, caused the escape. Villa came to El Paso, arriving thoro in March, 1913, shortly after tho time of Madero's assasination. With eight men ho at onco made arrangements to cross tho lino and fierht Nino nmnth? Intnr Villn Imrl 1 8,000 well equipped men in tho field. Practically all tho arms, ammunition and money were taken from tho law into his own hands one afternoon when he met the captain promenading near the governor's palace. One bullet evened tho score and the boy disappeared. With a price on his head, ho struck out for tho mountains where tho chances of his capture by the ruralcs on his trail would ho lessened. Tho full story of the years of constant peril that followed would fill many a page. It is said that Villa never robbed tho poor, but confined his operations wholly to tho rich and powerful. Theso were years of wild midnight rides, fights against heavy odds, narrow escapes from capture, and tho burial of dead comrades. Villa often visited tho capital, taking his life in his hands. On ono occasion, when a Federal officer sent word that he was going out to "get" Villa, tho latter sent back a courier, saying he himself would eomo to the officer and spare him tho needless trouble of a journey. He rode into the capital one night and mot tho officer coming out of tlio police station. A duel followed and tho officer was killed. Protected, as the Federals after battles. Villa captured Torroon, besieged Chihuahua city, then by a quick stroke dashed to tho border and captured Juarez. Then ho returned southward, defeated Gen. Meroado's Federals wlio had marched north from Chihuahua city. Tho entire Federal army, panic stricken, fled to Ojinaga, and Villa occupied Chihuahua city. > Villa likes Americans and his : friendliness lias always been consplc? uoua. That accounts for tho measure 1 of popularity which ho enjoys among * Americans. TTo has often liolpod clt' lzens of the United States in Mexico r and is quick to rectify any wrongs ' dono them. ITo Is a friend of the > poor, now as in h\s bandit days. One of his first acts after reaching Chi1 huahua cit ywas to order the native x merchants to reduce their goods to . cost in order that tho starving popus laeo might better afford to buy. i, ITo Is anxious for success and while a acknowledging tho authority of Caro ranza, is known to bo chafing at the > * (< , , . , . . , , I ILLLS III HIS Wllliti ItNATOi SMITH TALKS OF THE NLW CUKHIKLY LAW BIG HELP TO FARMERS liuiior Senator K|*\aks to Hen Island Cotton Growers* Association at Charleston?Says lie Is Very Glad That Fanners Interests Are Well Safe-Guarded by Currency Law. "I have certainly enjoyed this opportunity of meeting the planters of Charleston county and of seeing what Intelligent efforts they ure making to improve agricultural conditions in this section," said United States Senator Ellison Durant Smith to a rooorter for The News and Courier while on a visit to Charleston Wednesday. Senator Smith wan in attendance on the annual meeting of the Sea Island Cotton Growers' association, at which ho delivered an address. lie was interviewed at the Commercial Club, where ho was the centre of a largo group of planters, all of whom were interestedly making inquiries of the Senator cnocerning the various measures ho introduced in Congress recently for tho improvement of agricultural conditions in tho country, and especially for tho improvement of cotton conditions. Senator Smith did not discuss politics. He remarked that he had not cotne for tho purpose. ITo discussed tho currency hill light interestingly and said that tho thing which had probably given him most pleasure during tho last few months was tho adoption of his resolution by tho Demoeratic caucus to endorse tho amendment to tho currency hill making farmers' notes running as long as six months basis of tho now currency, and also tho amendment to five years tho life of loans on farm lands. South Carolina, represented by Representative T,ever In the Ilouso and by Senator Smith in the upper body, in this way was instrumental In performing what is considered a great service to the farmers of the wholo South. Respecting embodiment of these items in tho currency bill, Senator Smith said: "They recognize tho man engaged in agriculture as a busi-j noss man an well an a farmer. Their effect la to give the farmer six months' time on his loans Instead of ninety days. Tho nature of the farmer's business la such that he ban no marketable return before six months after negotiating his loans." Tie said that his aim had been to put Into the currency system of the United States what has never been In It before, tho recognition of real estate and the products of real estate as collateral In national hank loans. Senator Smith Is so pleased with tho result of his efforts in this matter that, exhibiting the original draft of hia resolution, containing the signaturea of twenty-seven Democratic Senators, ho said ho intended having It framed and keeping it permanently. Tie said that though he has devoted the major portion of his efforts while in Congress toward tho betterment of agricultural conditions, especially In the South, and has had several important measures toward this end adopted, he was perhaps as highly pleased over this piece of work as over anything else ho had ever done. ? ? TWO BROTHERS KILLED. ? . Anderson County Negroes Ilave Fatal Shooting Melee. O. D. Ellington and Jay V. Ellington, negroes and brothers, were killed, and another brother, Press Ellington, was seriously injured by a "skyrocket" party Saturday night on tho John McCluro plantation five miles west of Anderson. Tho row was begun when Rothor Henderson escorted Janio Moore home from the party. Jay V. Ellington, it is said, had boon "going" with the woman and he became jealous. Tho three Ellington hoys followed the couple homo and tho shootlner followed Rotlier Henderson has escaped. Joy T.eo and Charley Henderson have been brought to jail and officers are searching for Henderson. Two Are Electrocuted. Albert Cantey and Harry Thompson, negroes, wero electrocuted Saturday at the State penitentiary. They wore convicted In Charleston county In September of 1913 on the charge of murder and were sentenced to be electrocuted December 4. The governor granted a respite to January 3 ^ Heavy Dispensary Sales. ITarvey W. Mitchum, State dis ?\A?\OAK ft 1-1? * |;choui auvuiui | IIIJ5 lllllllini 1*6' port to be pent to tho general nssem bly will show that the dispensaries or the State had sold about $3,000, 000 worth of whiskey during th( year. i delays In the Sonora campaign, ai contrasted with his own successes Mexlonns rally to a victorious banner ! Should Villa's successes continm there Is no telling but that he ma: s far overshadow his present superior \ SHOOTS MAN AND CHILD t i CAROLINIAN RKI'ORTKI) SLAIN IN CALIFORNIA. I Wm Paying AtUnUoB to Divorced Woman When She Discovered That Urn Warn Married. Effort* to establish a motive for the double murder and suicide, which 1 caused the deaths of W. M. Melton, n Log Angeles, Cal., attorney; Mrs. Mary Graves Cox, of San Francisco, and the latter's daughter, Florence, 12 years old, In a rooming house at I .or Angeles lato Tuesday night, have proved futile. Lodgers in the house where the tragedy occurred said that when last seen together, Melton and Mrs. Cox had appeared to be on the best of terms and there was nothing to indicate a quarrel. The polico, however, believe Mrs. Cox did the shooting. She is u divorcee of about three years. Melton received four wounds, any one of which would haro been fatal, while Mrs. Cox was shot but once. Around the wound in her head were powder marks, Indicating that the revolver had been very close. There was found a photograph of herself and the child, on which Mrs. Cox L ? /I ! t i ?. .. H T.M n 1 A M i(an wriuni r mroiicu V/UX ami iYiury Graves, 2,734 Mission street, San Francisco?report the news at home." The wife of W. M. Melton, the attorney and realty agent, killed Tuesday night In the tragedy which brought death also to Mrs. Mary Graves Cox and her daughter, Florence, has been located at Los Angeles also. A history of the man's life led ofllcers to conclude that tho double murder and suicide were tho outcome of Melton's Inability to meet his engagement to marry Mrs. Cox. Mrs. Melton visited the morgue and Identified tho body of her husband. Police officers said they were told by her that Melton had lived at home and wns regarded by her and her neighbors as a model husband. His frequent absence from home, she snid, she believed was due to business. Tho police theory to account for tho tragedy is that Mrs. Cox learned of the existence of a Mrs. Melton, and that In a paroxysm of anger she shot Melton and her daughter and then killed herself. A dispatch from Spartanburg says that W. M. Melton, the attorney who was mysterlaly killed at T,os Angeles, Cal., Tuesday night, Is believed to have been a Spartanburg man, who has several brothers and slaters there. He was a son of the Into Rev. Newton K. Melton, long a prominent member of the South Carolina Conference of tho Methodist Episcopal church, South. Mr. Melton's relatives have received no word from Los Angeles concerning the tragedy, and hoped that by a strange coincidence the man slain may ho somebody elso of Identically tho same name, profession and place of residence, but news from Los Angeles tends to confirm th esuppositlon that Melton was tho Spartanburg man. * FIND BODY ON BEACH. Girl's Disappearance No Longer a Mystery. The body of Miss Jessie McCann, the young settlement worker of New York who disappeared from her Brooklyn homo just a month ago, wns given up by the sea Sunday. It was found by a watchman shortly after daybreak at Coney Island, hav mg upcn wasnca asnore by the heavy surf during the night. Long immersion had made the features unrecognizable, hut identification of the young woman by her family was mado possible by a signet ring with the initials "J. E. M." and by articles of clothing Miss McCann wore the day she disappeared. Miss McCann was last seen by her family when she left her homo, December 4, supposedly to attend to settlement work duties. A few days later her father, a well-to-do business man, notified tho police of her disappearance and offered $1,000 for information as to her whereabouts. He also had her photograph thrown 011 screens of moving picture theatres through the East. Tho polico gave credence to the story of a woman who assorted that she saw Miss McCann tho day after her disappearance, near a bathing - pavilion at Coney Tsland, where the body was found. There were no signs ' of violence on the body, according to physicians who examined It, and the * police have no clue as to the manner i In which she was drowned. ? Molten Metal Kills Three. Three men were killed and five injurod at Vanderbilt furnace near Rlr mingham, Ala., Thursday night when - a dust cap was blown off and releas ed molten slag and metal which 3 caught the victims before they could - get away. 3 ? Trolley Accident Hurts Fifteen. Fifteen persons, mostly women anc s children, were seriously injured in f . street car collision at Chicago, 111. . Saturday. Nearly all the injurec 3 were removed unconscious from on* y of tlio cars, which was turned on it? . side, ARE NOT [QUIPPED SEN. WOOD SAYS OUR TROOPS UC1 NEEDED GUNS NOT PREPARED FOR WAR + Chief of Army Btaff Hays That to Send our Men into the Field With Their Present Equipment Would Mean Absolute Slaughter?Asks Congress to Buy Some More Guns. Explaining that his judgment was not influenced by the Mexican situation, Maj. Gen. Wood, chief of staff of the army, has advised committees of congress that they should appropriate $3,000,000 for field guns and ammunition for tho regular army, and $3,000,000 for the militia. "If you sent our troops hito war as they are now, without guns or ammunition, it would bo absolute slaughter," the general told the Ilou8c military committee. "If called into tho field suddenly we would have to go with a small allowance of ammunition and wo would have neither guns nor ammunition enough for our field artillery." Gen. Wood in a written statement said: "Wo havo neither guns nor ammunition sufficient to give any general commanding -any army in tho field any assurance of success if attacked by an army of equal size, which was supplied with its proper quota of field artillery. "It is my belief that no modern wnr hotwoon fircf elooa ?\nitTAro i .. v f. > ( UV V .if too nci O Will last for ono year, and unless private manufacturers aro encouraged to manufacture ammunition for our guns, after war is declared*they will not bo in a condition to do so until after the war is finished. "Tho war department believes after extended study that, in case of war with a first class power, an army of 500,000 men will be needed to give this country any chance of success against invasion and that this force will ho needed at once. To make it efficient it must be given its proper quota of field artillery. To do this artillery must be on hand, for It can not be supplied after war is started." The general suggested that the United States regular mobile army should be organized into three infantry and two cavalry divisions with an aggregate war strength of about 75,000, requiring 54 batteries, or 216 guns. With tho co-operation of State governors, the militia, he said, now could be organized into 12 infantry and five auxiliary divisions with an aggregate war strength of 292,000 men, needing 174 batteries, of 696 guns. Tho aggregate of the two forces thus would ho 267,000 men, or approximately two field armies short of tho force of 500,000 men. These two field armies will requiro 22 6 guns. Tho United States garrisons abroad havo 62 guns. Noting that the militia has in its hands ahout 24 pieces, it should havo, tho general added, to summarize for the regular army and volunteers, "wo would need 596 guns, for the militia 696 guns." Oon. Wood said that the total appropriations up to October 1 last by tho TTouse military and appropriation committees provided for only 245,090 rounds of ammunition for tho modern field guns, all of which ammunition will not ho manufactured until Juno HO next. "Of this ammunition," ho Raid, "wo have at present in this country 1 S6.50S rounds and for the 2.95 mountain puns 15,100 rounds, or a total of 201,014 rounds. And this is all wo have. At Mukden, in nine days, the 1,204 "Russian guns expended 250,000 rounds. "The present daily output of the ordnance factories, for three shifts running night and day, is not ahovo 1,000 rounds. Tho war department was obliged last year to equip part of the regular army with obsolete 7-inch howitzers and 5-inch siege gun batteries mainly because of lack of sufficient ammunition fo rthe modern guns." The war department is trying to accumulate 1,292 field guns of various calibres, of which 725 yet have to he appropriated for, and Con, Wood said it was not his idea that the country constantly should he armed to the teeth in preparation foi any war, hut that it should he reasonably prepared for war. TTo said he did not care so much whether congress gave tho war department the money for a reserve of hats, clothe! and shoes, as they could he gotten at any time. "Rut," he continued, "you can nol maae a largo quantity of field gum ' and ammunition without taklnp " months or years to do It. We woulc 1 he absolutely helpless If wo did no have them. No country can go lnt< 1 the field to-day without a liberal sup 1 ply of artillery unless It goes in to b< licked. And wo aro as liable to hav< war as anybody else. "Tf wo are unprepared for war I there would he more temptation fo i a country to strike and if It make: , up Its mind to do so it can strike ui I at any time." 4 Field guns wanted for a force o ? 500,000 men, the general declared would be used for defensive pur CLASSIFIED COLUMN For Kale? Shetland Ponies. W. I. Mclntyre, Thomasvllle, Ga. I For Kale?Poplar und pine tree*. Address James . Clarksou, Hopkins, < B. C. Wanted to liuy?Ten Car I>oadB well berried Holly. Z. M. L. Jeffreys, Goldsboro, N. C. For Kale?Fruit, Shade Ornamental trees and shrubs. Catalogue free. Cureton Nurseries, Austeel, Ga. For Sale?Ideal farm and home In cotton, corn and cattle belt; good automobile. Pen Wolfe, Monroe, N. C. Girls?Take course in Miss Sparkman's Improved Millinery sehuoi, 04?{. Whitehall St., Atlanta, Ga. Write for particulars. W liito Wyandottcs?Yearling stock for sale at sacrifice. Eggs for hatching. W. P. Causey, 1316 Dickens St., Columbia, S. C. 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Complete book sent postpaid on receipt of t $i.r,o. i ? ___ ? Ships Go Through Soon. ' According to a high canal official * the Panama canal will bo In condi5 tion to pass vessels all the way across " the Isthmus within the next 70 davn ^ , ??. poses, as this country would not go abroad with an army of that size. r On tho other hand, ho aald it was 3 hardly likely any nation would send 3 any smaller army than 500,000 or 000,000 men ncrosa tho Atlantic f ocean to t-hla country, after disposing of this country's fleet, if ever 1 such an event happened.