Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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I OUTLOOK PEACEFUL ? MTKDIATOHS ABOUT TO 9ECUKE AMIABLE SETTLEMENT. ? DELEGATES OPTIMISTIC ? Finding Themselves Substantially Agreed cut Many Points the Discussion is Transferred to Actual Terms . ?Belief is General That They Will Center on Scheme for Peace. Substantial agreement in many of the main points involved in the mediation conference has been reached by the American and Mexican delegates. The discussion Tuesday covered actual terms and details of many of the tilings deemed necessary to the pacification of Mexico. The mediators and opposing delegates were decidedly 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 fol4 lowing announcement by Justice Lamar uoon the authority of the mediators: "We haVe begun to discuss the actual terms and details of plan of pacification. On a number of them we find ourselves in substantial agreement. Others are still under dis/ cussion and as to them there has been no disagreement. It would, of course, bo improper for us to specify the particular points wo have discussed or those upon which we have agreed, or those wo will consider further." Desiring to avoid the appearance of having had their provisional president chosen at the international con^ ff'roure the Mexican delegates hnv? evolved 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 f 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 government some tacit indorsement from L the Constitutionalists must come. It js assumed that the Washington government will be willing to assume the responsibility of tryiiYg to bring the Constitutionalists into harmony with a provisional government thus created. The plan of pacification, so far as developed, is known to be simplo. Its object is the establishment of a new . provisional government. There will j be a declaration of principles on agrarian and other reforms, and on the conduct of a fair election. A satisfactory method of considering the land question has about been reached. While the Mexicans have not yet yielded their original convictions 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 question, however, have not been ignored. The relative importance which should bo attached in the parleys to the Tampico incident, the personnel of *" the new provisional government and kindred questions incident to the transition to another administration 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 4^/ them in expressing distinct encouragement over the outlook. The Mexican delegates are observing 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 fcr months. In th^ meantime it is their hope that a new provisional government will bo set up in the i ( Mexican capital which the United I States would promptly recognize. This, they expect, would be followed ' by recognition from the powers generally. ? 1 SHOOT AT AEllOI'LAXE. \ .. 4t?vaav??u m. v\ivi<na r n o ill. /l. iiU'riCilll ] i Aviator Over Their Lines. , i i I The official report of tlio shooting ' from Mexican outposts at a hydro- I aeroplane in which Lieut. Patrick Bellinger, of the naval aviation 1 ^fcorps, was making his daily practice ( flight Sunday, indicates that a score of shots were flred. Brig. Gen. Pun-" ston is not inclined to take the matter seriously. He blames it on irre- i sponsibile or drunken rurales. s "Nothing but a serious attempt to 1 M drive in our outposts, started by or- f ^ der of somo high ofllcial, would lead i us to return the Are," said Brig. Gen. 1 Funston. ? o? Twenty Fined for Speeding. At Gaffney Tuesday twenty auto- 1 tc bPlsts were fined for exceeding the t speed limit. < TREAT NEGRO ROUGHLY ? MOB ATTACKS ABBEVILLE JAIL AND TAKES PRISONER. * Negro Had Confessed to an Intent to Croniinally Assault a White Girl Ten Days Before. A mob of 2 50 determined men attacked 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 Saturday, May 15, to the daughter of a prominent farmer in the? Donalds section. The negro was taken two miles from jail to Long Cane grave yard, and is said to have confessed that he had intended to make criminal assault 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 mutilated the body of the negro. sneritt Lyon, who lives two miles from jail, was advised of the attack. The doors pave way quickly before the mob and the negro was spirited away and severely handled before the sheriff could catch up. When the officer arrived on the sceno the negro was quickly turned over by the mob and was take- back to Abbeville for treatment and to be locked lip. After the alleged attempt at assault Thomas hastened to Ninety-Six tliat night. Next day ho bought a ticket to Jacksonville, after being told by station agent lie 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 authorities in Florida cities and had Thomas arrested. The arrest occurred in Gainesville three days after the incident. ? WAITED SIXTY YEARS. ? 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 policeman 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. Shevsaid business was bad. sho was wpnk from lack of nourishment and she thought two months in the workhouse would enable her to get back some of her old selling ability. Iler story, as told by the police, goes back to the time, about sixty years a^o, when she came to this country from Ireland. She fell in love with a young sailor on the way over. They became engaged to be married. Soon he sailed on an American 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 began to sell apples and candy about the water front. At first she frequented the piers where incoming ships were arriving, hoping that one of them would bring her sweetheart. Gradually tho feeling that some time the waves would deliver up her lover became a mania with her. She would spend hours by the Battery wall, alternately crying her apples 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 so feeble that folk wondered how she was able to lift the apple basket. It camo to court with her In it were itwelvo red apples. +. SENT TO CIIAIK. ?? Greenville Man Convicted by Relatives* Testimony of Crime. Judge Mauldin Saturday afternoon sentenced H. T. Thompson, a white farmer of the lower section of Greenville county, to death in the electric chair on Friday, July 31. Thompson was accused and convicted of criminally assaulting his seventeen-yearold daughter. This girl, a son of the condemned man and a brother were the chief witnesses for the State. The ' defenso had little to base its plea i upon except the denials made by the accused. ' i When sentence was passed the girl victim threw her arms about her father's neck and wept bitterly. Tt. was her testimony which had gone i far toward convicting him. Until re- ' jent years Thompson was a man of ^ood standing in his community. The ? warrant for his arrest was sworn out by his own brother at the instigation af his own son. ( ? ? Heath From Amputation. j Several days ago tho mules at- ] .ached to the Edgefield county road 1 scraper ran away, throwing George i flroadnar, tho negro driver, from his j ?eat, injurying his legs so as to cause amputation, from tho results of 1 which he died. 1 , Coin Commemorates Canal. < A bill has been Introduced In the < ftouse to Issue during 1915 a special i :wenty-flvc-cent coin to celebrate the 1 apenlng of the Panama canal. i ARMS ARE LANDED GERMAN STEAMERS DELIVER AMMUNITION TO MEXICANS. U. S. KEEPS ARMISTICE ? To Stop Landing Would Have Necessitated Seizure of Customs at Puerto, Mexico, Which Would Have Violated Agreement Pending Negotiations. Ammunition consigned to the Iluerta government in Mexico, which had been kept in the hold of the Ger man steamship Ypiranga since the American occupation of Vera Cruz, was reported to have been landed Wednesday at Puerto Mexico. Consul Canada, at Vera Cruz, cabled this information to the stato department. It was reported from other sources that arms consigned to Huerta had been landed at Puerto Mexico from the German steamer Bavaria. Both steamers belong to the HamburgAmerican line. A press dispatch Wednesday night from Vera Cruz stated that the Bavaria had arrived at that port without a manifest, and that Brig. Gen. Funston had ordered her held. According to this dispatch the captain of the Bavaria admitted landing ammunition and a largo quantity of barber wire at Puerto Mexico for Iluerta. United States ofhcials made no effort 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 the United States to have prevented the delivery would have been to seize the c istoms house at Puerto Mexico, a3 was dono at Vera Cruz. This would have violated the armistice. Robert Lansing, counsellor of the state department, made public the reports concerning the delivery ot the ammunition, Secretary Bryan being absent. When Mr. Bryan returned to the state department later in the day he was informed of the messages. "What," he said, evincing some surprise. "Already landed the arms?" Mr. Bryan then read the dispatches 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 order. The Bavaria recently landed a large quantity of ammunition on Mexican soil. It is estimated that the Bavari i put ashore 1,800,000 rounds of am- 1 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 i American authorities.t Later he admitted landing the cargo, which included also 3,000 rolls of barbed wire. Gen. Funston understands the ammunition and wire reached Cordoba by way of Tierra Blanca. The Hamburg-American steamship Bavaria on j May 8 was reported to bo on her way to Mexico with a shipment of arms. 1 Later it was understood that the war supplies were to be returned to Germany. The Bavaria arrived at Havana I on May 1 7 and sailed two days later 1 for Progresso. The Bavaria's captain is liable to a tine under the American laws, and these 'are the laws that are being a<l- 1 ministered by the collector of the 1 port. The landing at Puerto Mexico 1 of arms consigned for Vera Cruz vio- 1 latos the laws, and the absence of a 1 manifest is a second violation. The 1 Bavaria is held only because clear- 1 ance will be refused until the mat- ' ter of fines is adjusted. Th0 customs officials assert that so far as they know the arms shipment on the Yparanga, of the sarno line, J which precipitated the seizuro of Vera ( Cruz by tho American forces, still ' were aboard when that vessel left 1 for Puerto Mexico two days ago. * They assume that thero 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 tho ( liner is under charter of the German 1 government and was ordered to Puer- 1 to Mexico by tho German minister to i pick up German refugees. Rumors have been current that some of the materials for which Iluerta had contracted in Germany had ( fl 1 f i * > rr 1 - " Mw > uiiui?11fi biii'uugii to ino i' cd- i nrnls by way of Puerto Mexico. The \ Pavaria incident is the first positive J Information of tho landing of sup- plies received, although there have i been intimations that the army and c navy have knowledge of other landings or attempted landings. f den. Funston admitted that heliad 1 no information as to what became of t the shipment after it reached Cor- 1 ioba, and it is assumed it already is c nn the way to Mexico City. Tho barb- r 5d wire will be of Immense ralue to r small garrisons protecting Federal c linos of communication. Harrisons ( north of San Luis Potos! have been i 4 * WOODROW MEETS TEDDY rOPl'TiAR EXECUTIVES lALK AT THE WHITE HOUSE. Ex-President Pays Social Call on His Political Opponent anil They Spend an Hour Together. Former President Theodore Roosevelt Tuesday came back to the national capital, where 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 conference with the Progressives in congress, a visit to the Smithsonian in stitution to seo tho trophies from his African hunt of four years ago, a meeting with a few members of tiie diplomatic corps, ai|d a dinner with his old friends. Col. Roosevelt's visit to President Wilson was perhaps of greater interest 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 everything except politics. A good deal of tho 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 seo you." said the president as he shook hands with Mr. Koosevelt. They had met before and therefore no introductions were necessary, After tho exchange of greetings, the president led the way to the south portico of tho White House where breezes from the Potor mac made more bearable the extreme heat. There lemonade was served and tho two men sat down for a long talk. Speaking of travel, hooks and telling stories, the two men seemed to enjoy their meeting greatly. All controversial subjects were avoided, but tho colonel himself mentioned the "river of doubt'' which he discovered in Rrazil and joked over tho controversy about it. .\s ne 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 congratulations to Kermit Roosevelt, v. no will be married next month in Madrid. Then they shook hands warmly and Col. Roosevelt walked quickly to his waiting machine. A crowd of several hundred people had gathered inside the White House grounds and as Col. Roosevelt and the president appeared there was a bjirst of handclapping. "It was a very pleasant social visit," said Col. Roosevelt after it was over. HI MO FK NCR QLAKRtiLS Sensible Farmers Should Not Fall Out Over Tattle Things. A writer in Farm and Fireside gives some good advice to farmers about avoiding friction over boundary lines. Almost any neighborhood has its farmers who have had their bitter quarrels over fences 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 ho will get into a swearing rage and nurse hatred and bitterness for years if his neighbor's fence juts over a foot on his land; or if 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 furnish tho other half, and so we'll strike a line as near as we can get, find let it go at that. If part is too much on me, never mind; if too far to you, call it square rather than iiinrroll oltnnt ? j uiiuut u. >> uiiiuii i, in; annoyed by other people's cattle for the ?ost of the fence, nor let mine disturb anyone else." ! Suicided Because Ho Killed Her. "Leaving a note declaring that his '-laying of his sweetheart last Saturlay night was an accident, Aeginald \. Bair of Lisle, 111., jumped under \ moving train. The dead girl was Miss Florence Bentley of Lower's ??rove, 111. ? ? ? Buys Vanderbilt Lands. The U. S. government Monday puriliased 8,70 0 acres of forestry land Tom the estate of the late CI. W. Vanderbilt of North Carolina. His vidow sold the land tor $5 an aero. ? Becomes KfTectivo July 1. The law placing: a prohibitive tax >n the manufacture and sale in the Tnited 8tnt.es of matches containing vhito phosphorous becomes effective ruly 1. epeatedly attacked by roving bands >f Constitutionalists. President Tluerta's defonco plans, is announced prior to tho American andlng at. Vera Cruz, contemplated he construction of a series of block muses along the railways in the vldnity of smaller towns, each to be >rotectcd by barbed wire cntanglonents. There is no evidence to lndiate that the Federals around Vera 3rui ."-e making any elaborate preparations. HUERTA IS UPHELD ? MEDIATORS THINK HE (XHLI) Itl'X AFTER RESIGNING. LAND PROBLEM WORRIES The South American Envoys Are Said to Sympathize With Mexican Delegates Opinion That 110 Specific Land Reforms Should In? Formulated by Conference. Two Questions before the mediators were especially vexatious, but it is thought they have been settled in tlie reports which wero submitted to President Wilson and Huerta Thursday. These two problems were: After Huerta has withdrawn in favor of a provisional government which the United States would agree to recognize shall ho bo allowed to bo a candidate at tho presidential election to bo held by such government? Shall the delegates offer a concrete plan of agrarian reform or shall they content themselves with enunciating a policy, leaving the'details to be settled by the Mexican congress? As to Iluerta's right to be a candidate again there is no doubt that the three mediators are in complete sympathy with the Mexican delegates on j this question. They hold that tho very essence of democratic government is that the peoplp may elect whom they please, and that dictation from a foreign country as to who should or should not be a candidate at an election would be a gross infringement of Mexican sovereignty, and that in the present case such a declaration against Iluerta would be tantamount to political proscription. lluerta's temporary elimination is already conditionally conceded. But bis total eclipse is what President Wilson is striving for, and every effort is being made to find a way to permit tho American delegates to recede gracefully from tho position I which they are known to have taken, but which has never been formally a nnounced. The fact that the mediators are entirely in accord with tho Mexican delegates is believed to have profoundly impressed Justice Lamar and Mr. Lehmann, and if this point is conceded no mention of its ever having been discussed will be allowed to appear on tho minutes of tho conference. It will be ignored entirely when the delegates of tho two countries meet in full conference. After Iluerta 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 politics) or he may take command of the army and start out to pacify the conn4 .... UV. If he succeeded in this it would undoubtedly add to his popularity and even now a largo proportion of Mexicans look upon his rule as the embodiment of Latin-Americanism as they understand it, and it is believed that the very fact that the United States did not want him to be a candidate would materially assist his changes of election. Tho second point is also one of which the mediators are thought to sympathize with tho Mexican delegates. They do not believe it practical to attempt to bring about land reforms at this conference, and they believe that the delegates after including in tho platform for tho settlement of tho difliculty a plank strongly pledging the new government to a policy of agrarian amelioration can well leave the working out of the details to the congress. On tho other hand tho American delegates want something more specific 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 llnby of Clio is 01 von Deadly Poison. Rivaling tho Joe Malloy caso In the murder of two innocent boys, comes the confession Wednesday afternoon of Mary Edwards, nurse for W. C. Smith of Clio, that she on Monday administered to the four-months-old son of Mr. Smith a quantity of poison with murderous intent, from the effects of which it died Wednesday afternoon, .despite the heroic efforts) of tho physicians. I1 She attempted some two months ago the same deed by placing some poison in medicine the child was ta"k liik inn no suspicion attached to her at tho time, as it was thought that it was placed therein by mistake, but her confession cleared the mystery. After her confession to Mr. and Mrs. Smith she was taken in an automobile to tho county jail at BennettsvlUe. - 1 1 1 1 Recommend Cooper River Channel. A favorable report has been received upon the project to deepen the Cooper River to a dopth of 20 feet ] and to widen it to 600 as far up as 1 the navy yard. . < i CARRANZA MAY OPPOSE I HEPORT SAYS CONSTITUTION.* I*. I 1ST CHIEF IS MAD. 1 Doesn't Tliink Huerta Proper Party to Negotiate New Election as Rebels Almost Control Countrjr. A sudden and determined opposition on the part of the Constitutionalists to the mediation program as thus far outlined at Niagara Falls has developed, according to officials of the Constitutionalist organization. It is believed, says the New York dispatch, to foreshadow a definito rofncnl U-,, n - - .wom u> vivju. viurunza, on mo advice of his cabinet, to concur in any plan of settlement thus far brought forward. or any plan which the parties to the mediation may evolve. The Constitutionalist supreme chief is said to have instructed bhs agent Tuesday to lay before the American government in plain terms a statement that the Constitutionalists will not consider the Huerta party in Mexico as fit participants in the formation of a government ad interim pending national elections; that not only Iluerta, but all his adherents must he wholly eliminated, and that any suggestions by the Huerta delegates as to a successor to tha Mexican presidency can not be entertained. This, it is claimed, would be equivalent to the selection by Huerta of a successor to himself. A further objection to the Huerta delegates is said to he based on the assertion that two of the mediators are counsel in Mexico for Lord Cowdray's oil Interests. The Agrarian problem also came in for objection, Oarranza's claim being that the Huerta envoys in choosing to refer the problem to the Mexican congress were seeking to evade consideration of the problem on which the entire revolutionary movemeut is based. It. is also doolnrrwl tUnf >>? _ .... x-m viiUb IliC I C' IJ?* armies are ready to oppose what the Constitutionalists consider unwarranted interference on the part of outside nations to prevent them from enjoying the fruits of victory nearly won, and from promoting tho reforms long contemplated. AI TO Tl'ltNKI) Tl'HTLK Tlireo Calhoun County Citizens in Narrow Escape. While returning from a fish fry land picnic at Etheredge's Mill, near North, Messrs. Ed Mann, Walter Buyek and Russell D. Zimmerman met with a very dangerous accident. The automobile in which they were going towards Orangeburg skidded along the road and hit a tree, then from tho impact was turned completely around and fell over upon tho men who were riding in it. Ono after another the occupants crawled from under tho car, marveling at their narrow escape. The car was badly damaged, and of those in it two at least were badly and painfully hurt, although it ishoped, not serious. Mr. Ed Mannwas injured worse than the others, having his left arm crushed badly a*, tho wrist, where it bled profusely Mr. Walter Buyck suffered bruises iin the side and back, and Mr. Zimmerman escaped with only a badly hurt knee. The escape of the three with no further disaster was indeed' fortunate under tho circumstances. The three are all of Calhoun county, 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 coinir frnm tu % t e, - - v.?v? V u; W&1CIT homes. The accident occurred in the* Limestone section of the county am. was about ten or eleven miles front Orangeburg. The injured men were immediately taken to Orangeburg for medical treatment. ? ,? SCAN 1)A!i CASE. * New Law Has Been Invoked for Fiwl Time by Aiken Damsel, For the first time the new statute* of 1012 fixing a severe penalty for the circulation of scandalous repcurfc detrimental to the character of another lias been evoked in Aiken county in the prosecution of Dr. Raaiseoa Williams, a young dentist ? ,? Wagoner, by Miss Emma Garvin? the assistant postmistress at that, plhce.. Miss Garvin, who is an attractive young woman, appeared with a largo* number of witnesses who gave some sensational .testimony in supp:m^. her contention thnt nr* ...... ?... If 1I1UUUD ??\L? circulated reports concerning her which arc untrue and detrimental to? her character. Electrocuted Day After MiuriAjiC> Sentenced to electrocution Tuesday Rafaelo Lango, at Trenton. N\ J.? was married Monday by reaching hi* hands out of his ceil and joining v* ith those of Carmancia Dnngo so that she would inherit his property \n Italy. ? + Dog Discovers Bodies. The peculiar actions of a collie itog led to the discovery Tuesday at North* Ray, Ont., of three drowned bodiesv last up on the be&ch by the sea.