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COIISUl'S RELEASE DEMANDED ^^mmmmmmmm^mmmmmmma~^mmmma**auu**mmmmmmm f FEDERAL COMMANDER AT SAL 9V_M HAID TO HAVE ROB? BED AMERICAN CON? SULATE. Reer Admiral Mayo Saya Lottos UgluhnoMc Wu Not Seized. But That United States Is Operating light la Interest of Navigation mm Ooassjlar Clerk March?ni says Fed erala Held Him up at Point of Pin? iol and Robbed safe Washington, May 11.?While peace negotiations marked time pending formal atttlnga of the South Ameri? can mediators to begin Monday on Canadian soil, the mediators and offi? cial* of the State department here to? day were occupied with several se? rious phases of the Mexican situation demanding Immediate attention. Secretary Bryan called at the Ar? gentine legation late In the day and a sent two hours In conference with the South American envoys. Mr. Bryan Insisted that the re? lease of Sllllman must be brought about at once. When aaked about the matter later, he would not aay what would happen If the vice conaul were kept In prison, but he was graraijr emphatic in announcing the government's determination to have him freed. First official news of the landing of American sailors on Loboa Ialand reached the Navy Department late to? night in a cablegram from Rear Ad? miral Mayo, stating that the Mexican keepers deserted the great Ughthouee on the Island and that the destroy? er tender Dixie was "maintaining it for the benefit of navigation." Admiral Mayo'a report responded to a request of the Navy Department for Immediate Information concerning the incident complained of by the Hu erta government to the mediators. It amid. "Loboa Island has not been occu? pied. The Dixie and some destroyers anchored there end other vessels have coaled from a collier. The keepers of Loboa Island lighthouse deserted ft and the Dixie is maintaining it foi the benefit of navigation. I understand that the destroyers have had occa? sional landing parties ashore." The report was aent at once to Sec? retory Bryan. It was said that foreignera on board warships off Tampico wanted refuge and not removal. While the official representatives ol Ocn. Huerta were taking leave ol their revolution-torn country at Vera Crux and an American general with armed forces of the United Statea Waited st one of the gatewaya to Mexico City, the United Statea gov? ernment officially announced Ita rep? resentatives In mediation negotia? tions before the South American triumvirate at Niagara Falls, Ont.. next Monday Justice Joseph Bucker I*amar, of the United 8tatec Supreme Court, and Frederick W. Lehman, former aollc Itor general, were chosen by Preal dent Wilson aa the American repre? sentatives. From Huerta are haeton ing forward Auguatlne Rodriguez, Bmlllo Rabaaa and Luis Klguerro. Ambassador Da Oama, of Brasil; Minister Noun, of Argentina, and Minister Suarez. of Chile, the me? diators, tonight expressed satisfac? tion In the selection of the advisers for both governments, and little fur? ther is expected In the preliminary peace negotiations until all huvc met la Canada. 'Ocn. Carranxa and the Mexican rebel* who seek Huertu's overthrow will not be represented in the con? ference, according to later advices. They will continue to make war on Huerta while the truce in the inter? national diapu xtion proceeds. . Disturbing elements continued to arouse interest throughout the day. Oea. Funston. at Vera Cruz, waa up pealed to by the Brazilian minister at Mexico City to release some South Americana including three Brazilians, 'Who had been arrested and arc await? ing trial for "sniping" American sol? diers from the refuge of a trump steamer In Vera Cruz hurbor. An ap? peal was made to Secretary Bryan by the mediating envoys on behulf of Gen. Huerta. because of reports that American forces had seized u Mexicun lighthouse on liObos Island, off Tam? pico, an act which Huerta's agents maintained was aggressive und in vio? lation of the army laws. Late In the day Secretary Bryan hastened to the Argentlno legation, where he consulted for half an hour with the mediators. None would dis? cuss the conference, but it waa lourn ed that dir hing reports from Mexico City, together with disputed points that had arisen over the armis? tice, had been discussed. State department officials were In? dignant when it became known thut Vice Conaul Silllmun and his clerk, Joseph A. Marchanl, as well aa sev? ers! other Americana, had been prls onera of the federul commander at Ssltlllo and that the conaul still is bold despite urgent representations for his release made by the Brazilian minister In Mexico City. Like ?Iis PREPARING FOB WAR. MEXICANS MAKING ENTRENCH? MENTS AT VERA CRUZ. Gen. Nnvnrette. the Foremost Soldier of Mexico In Command at Vorn Crus?He Is Making Aggressive Plans to Block Advance of Amer? icans to Mexico City. Vera Cruz, May 12.?Gen. Navar ette, the foremost military man of Mexico now commands the federals around Vera Cruz and is making ag? gressive plans to block the forward movement of the American army to? ward Mexico City. Gen. Xavarette has planted artillery behind chap parral screens and dug secret trench? es along ridges of the sandhills, but all this has been offset by extensive pi ? p (rations by American engineers. All ihe country west of Vera Cruz has been mapped and much of it cleared of scrub. The aerial corps is mak? ing daily scouts and keeps Gen. Funston posted as to the movements of Gen. Navaretto. Spies coming into the city are giv? en much misinformation to take to the Mexican commanders. Heavy firing at Tampico ceased last night. Later the federal wireless suddenly stopped and it is believ? ed to have been smashed by the constitutionalists. BEEF CATTLE IN THE SOUTH. Results of Marketing at Experiment Station Announced by President of Southern. Washington, May 11.?Referring to the advantages of the South for the live stock industry, President Harrison of the Southern Railway Company today called attention to a communication which he has just received from Mr. R. S. Curtis, ani? mal husbandman In charge of beef cattle and sheop Investigations at the 1 North Carolina Agricultural Experl > ment Station, giving the results of 1 marketing nine hundred and twenty head of cattle shipped from Western North Carolina to points in the I eastern part of the State for feeding. The feeding of these cattle, which was largely In the nature of an ex? periment, was done with the co-oper? ation of the Agricultural Experiment I Station and the live stock agents ot 1 the Southern Railway have been in close touch with it. ' The results are such as clearly to ' establish that, when they are proper 1 ly handled, cattle can be fed in North 1 Carolina and marketed at a substan > tlal profit. I The report made by Mr. Curtis shows that the average margin of profit on all of these nine hundred and twenty cattle was $1.32 per cwt. I which compares very favorably with an average market of $1.00 per cwt. received by cattle feeders in the so called "Corn Belt" States. SILL I MAX TO BE RELEASED. Brazilian Ambassador Makes Strong Representations to Hucrta. Washington, May 12.?A dispatch from the Brazilian ambassador at Mexico City today stated that he h id received assurances that Consul Silll man would be delivered to him. This promise was made only after strong representations that he made to G?n. Huerta. patches were accepted as indicating that the Mexican war minister's as? surances to the French charge last week that neither Consul Sllllman nor member of the embassy staff and no Americans In Saltlllo "had been in danger," was intended only to deceive State department officials, as to the real state of affairs at Saltlllo. Late In the day Consul Canada re? ported the arrival of Consul und Clerk Marchani in Vera Cruz. The clerk informed Mr. Canada that beforo he was released from custody of the Mexicans, he was marched under guard from the Jail to the consulate and compelled at tho point of a re? volver to open the safe and surrend? er to the federal commander all the consular records and all valuables, Including money and a quantity of Jewelry left there for safe keeping. It is not known hero how many Amer? icans were imprisoned, but word was received that alt hud been released except Consul Sllllman. Despito such disquieting elements always attendant upon revolution and threatened international conflict, the Iuitln-American mediators proceeded energetically with their plans for the conference at Niagara Falls. Justice I.aui.u and Mr. Lehman, tbe American representatives, did not confer, awaiting further instructions from State department and President Wilson, who will return tomorrow from tho memorial in New York to tho Vera Cruz dead. The Ameri? can advisers do not know when they will leavo for Canada. Thus far no steps have been taker? to organize their mission. Details and the selec? tion of their assistants will he taken up with tho President and Sei rotary Bryan tomorrow. FORM NEW CONFERENCE. TWO ADDED BY SOUTHERN METHODIST CHURCH. Delegates Talk of Decision That Minority Reports Must Ro Sub? mit teil to Entire Committees. _ Oklahoma City, May 11.?Two an? nual conferences, to be known as the Mexican bonier conference and the J Central Mexican conference, were created; a proposal to establish an Indian conference to have jurisdic? tion over the extreme Western States was rejected, resolutions were received and delegates engaged in a ten min? utes' preliminary debate on rules at today's session of the general confer? ence of the Methodist Episcopal church, South, meeting here in quad? rennial session. A resolution adopted urges the necessity of additional chaplains in tho United States army and navy. A ruling of Bishop E. E. Moss, who presided today, that minority commit? tee reports must be submitted to tho whole committee before presentation to the conference, brought about the discussion on rules. An appeal from the rule of the chair was not sustained by a vote. Considerable of the day's session was taken up in debate and ( disposal of several matters planned for today was deferred until tomor? row. ASSAIL TRUST MEASURES. Railroad Representatives Protest Pro? visions Aimed at Interlocking Di? rectorates and Common Stock Ownership In Administration Bills. Washington, May 11.?Administra? tion trust bills framed by committees of both houses tn congress were sharply criticised today before the senate interstate commerce commit? tee by representatives of some of the leading railroads of the country. There were few features of the bills which were objected to, but the rail? road men protested most vigorously against the provisions aimed at in? terlocking directorates and stock own? ership by one common carrier of an? other and against the proposed dele? gation of supervisory power to the interstate commerce commission ot future issues of securities. The witnesses told the committee they represented about 150,000 miles of railroad. Robert Scott Lovctt, chairman of the Union Pacific board; Samuel Rea, president of tho Penn? sylvania; Frank Trumbull, chairman of the board of the Chesapeake & Ohio and Missouri, Kansas & Texas railroads, and A. P. Thorn, general counsel In Washington of the South? ern, also were present. The argu? ments differed in detail but generally wero much alike. Some of the witnesses thought the regulatory powers of securities issues should be left to a national commis? sion or Stute bodies. OLD DOMINION LINER ACCIDENT. Boiler Explodes on Jefferson, Killing Seven. Norfolk, May 12.?Seven wero killed and several injured by a boiler explosion on the Old Dominion liner Jefferson off Cxpe Henry last night. The liner reached Norfolk today with the victims. The explosion was due to the bursting of tho tubes of the main boiler. The Jefferson was en route from Norfolk to New York. Four firemen, two coal passers, and one oiler were killed. One fireman is missing and he is believed to have been drowned. The injured who were badly scaldcj wero taken to the hospital here. Chief Engineer Port lock, First Assistant Smith and Watertender olfs all fatally injured. The Jefiorson returned here, left tho dead and injured and sailed again for New York. Some of the dead were literally boiled alive. SURINERS PARADE IN ATLANTA. Line of March Over Five Miles Long ?Street Trnftie Stopped. Atlanta, May 11?Two hundred and fifty thousand fun-mad spectators witnessed the Shriners' parade this morning, which formally opened tho annual conclave. Street ears and other traffic were stopped for three hours over tho line of march which tho day cavalcade, over live miles long, marched. Officers will be elected and the city for the next meet? ing will bo selected tomorrow. There wilt bo another parade tonight which Is expected to eclipse anything of the kind ever seen in the South. PERCIVAL DODOE APPOINTED. Former Minister lo Panama Will Act as Secretary in American Mediators. Washlngton( May 13. ? Secretary Bryan today announced the appoint? ment of Perclval Dodge, former min? ister to Panama, to serve as secretary to the representatives of the United states at the mediation conference Which Upeill at Niagara Falls next Mondny, A WIDE TERRITORY. SUMTER FACTORY MAKES SHIP? MENT TO TASMANIA. Tills Far Away Shipment anil the Comparatively Low Freight Rate Suggests Certain Reflections on the Panama ('anal Tolls Issue. Witherspoon Bros & Co., have just made a shipment of twelve hundred and ninety-one pounds (about seventy cubic feet) of knock-down coffins to Hobart, Tasmania, traveling by ship from New York city, cither west by Cape Horn or east by Cape Town, thirteen thousand miles either way. This is very interesting to the company for the reason that it dem? onstrates the fact that its territory is only limited by the whole surface of the earth, where the point is reached by railroads or steamship lines, the company in the past having shipped no goods further than San Francisco, where the freight was even higher. It will be of interest to Sumter peo? ple, throug this transaction, to know tho value of the Panama canal. Ships charge about three and one-half cents a cubic foot for carry? ing a shipment one thousand miles, judging by the rate on this shipment. The canal would save about four thousand miles, or fourteen cents on a cubic foot, whereas the passage of a cubic foot through the canal would be only three cents. In carrying a shipment from the east coast of America to the west coast of America there would be a saving of eight thousand miles, or twenty-eight cents per cubic foot, whereas the passage through the can? al would be only three cents. On a basis of the price the com? pany paid for this shipment to Tasmania, the same goods could be carried from New York by passing around Cape Horn to the western part of the United States for a little over one-half what the railroads charge to carry the same shipment by Lynch burg, Va., across the United States to Vancouver, B. C, which shows that the railroads now get the business wholly for the reason of much quick? er transportation. What connection has this with the bill now before congress, exempting coastwise vessels from tolls through the Panama Canal? If the saving in time by making the distance eight i thousand miles shorter will get the business, they can pay the tolls a great many times, and then be under the charges of the railroads. It is the writer's opinion that the transcon? tinental railroads will be greatly bene i flted by the canal, in the fact that it wdll give them lots more hauling to do from the west to the central part of the United States and from the east to the central part of the United States though they might lose some business that is now hauled from the east to the west, and vice versa. From the foregoing, is It not evi? dent that congress is making a moun? tain out of a mole hill in its legisla? tion upon this issue? Not much smaller item could come before both houses of congress, though In it there is a principle, and President Wilson is right. In it there Is the principle of pro? tection, and is a subsidy, pure and simple. Bringing the matter down to a proposition that any one can under? stand, the toll of a pair of shoes through tho canal would be one-half cent, whereas the railroads would charge over thirteen cents for the same pair of shoes by the way of Lynchburg, Va., across the continc-nt to Vancouver, B. C. FAST WORK ON NAVAL BILL. Tillman and Assistants Received Bill Last Thursday, Measure Has Been Completed by Committee. Washington, May 11.?Record breaking time was made by the sen? ate committee on naval affairs in pre? paring this year's bill. Senator Till? man is chairman of this committee. J. It. Knight of South Carolina, clerk of the committee, received the bill from the house last Thursday and today at noon It was complete and ready for submission to the senate. An item of $150,000 is appropriated for the development of marine bar? racks at Port Royal and Puget Sound and thero is also an item of $4,937 to pay for a refrigerating plant at Port Royal. With a division of the $l.r>0,000 for enlargement of barracks it is assumed that considerable good work may be done at Port Royal with the money to be expended there. FALL OF TAMPICO IMMINENT. Rebels Notify Admiral Mayo That They Will Take City This After? noon. Washington, May 13.?The capitula? tion of Tampico seems imminent to? day, reports Admiral Mayo. The constitutionalists have advised Admir? al Mayo that they expect to capture the rlt> this afternoon. MEDIATORS DECIDE OX PROVIS? IONAL GOVERNMENT WITH COMMISSION IN CHARGE. Would Bring Peace to Mexico in This Manner?Huerta und Carrattsa Rep? resentatives and Non-Partisun to be on Commission?Hope that Rebels and Federals Will Accept Scheme. Washington, May 12.?Elimination of Gen. Huerta and the establishment of a provisional government in Mex? ico in which both the Huerta andj the constitutionalists factions will be represented) is contemplated in a plan which the three South American mediators now are working out to be proposed for the solution of the entire I Mexican problem. This, the first intimation as to the details of the mediation plans, be? came known tonight, though neither the mediators nor state department officials would make any statement as to how nearly complete is the plan . to be submitted to the American and the Mexican delegates when they meet the South American envoys at Niag? ara Falls, next Monday. j It was learned that the proposal might be that the setting up of a temporary government be undertaken by a commission of five persons, two of them to be named by Huerta, two by the constitutionalists and the fifth by tho mediators. While the mediators havo with? drawn their invitation to the consti? tutionalists to send delegates to their conference, it generally is believed that information is being sought as to whether the constitutionalists would consent, in case of the elimina? tion of Huerta, to some form of tem? porary government in which he will be represented. Those t lose to the mediators say, it is believed, that some such arrangement as this is the only possible one under which peace may be restored in Mexico under con? ditions satisfactory to all Mexican factions and to the United States. Expressions of confidence that the mediators would avert war between the United States and Mexico came from several members of the cabinet today, after President Wilson had dis? cussed the whole situation with his official family. The president is decidedly hopeful. He is anxious that no untoward inci? dents or indiscreet acts on the part of any of the forces of Mexico should develop to cloud the situation. Secretary Bryan in a conference late in the day explained at length to the three South American mediators that the light house on Lobos island had not been seized in any military sense; that the keepers were free to come and go, but that the American navy had undertaken to keep the lights burning as a protection to the J world's navigation. Mr. Bryan told the mediators also that the navy and war departments were seeking to in? vestigate the arrest of live South Americans accused of sniping by Americans during the landing at Vera Cruz, and that a report would be made probably tomorrow. The last dispatches from the French charge in Mexico said that all was quiet in Mexico City. From a military point of view the outstanding feature of the day was a report from Gen. Funston of the sit? uation at Vera Cruz. No trouble was apprehended, the general said, the federal forces having given no sign of intention to attack the outlying po? sition at the waterworks. Movements of troops in this direc? tion have not been noticed and even in case of attack the American posi? tion could not be taken by force. Gen. Funston has rearranged his lines and posted sentries along the aqueduct to prevent raiders from cut? ting it. Tampico was under bombardment by tho constitutionalists the entire day. Admiral Mayo, commnading the Ameilan ships lying off that port, re? ported that artillery lire had been in progress sinco 9 o'clock this morning. Whether the federals or constitution? alists were gaining was not stated. The British consul, whoso nationals are heavily interested at Tampico, during the day ordered another war? ship to reinforce the British squadron in Mexican waters, the cruiser Bristol j receiving sailing orders for Tampico. The ship carries a crew of nearly 40U men and her light draft would ncr mlt her to run up the Pannen river to Tampico and if necessary land m?*n to protect British oil wells. STORMS IN MIDDLE WEST. Great Damage Done in Northern Ohio und Western Pennsylvania. Cleveland, May 12.?Two persons were killed and much property dam? age done by severo storms in northern Ohio last night and today. Pittsburgh Peels Storm. Pittsburgh, May 12.?A severe storrn in western Pennsylvania In? flicted severo damage today. Two negroes were killed in a tenement that was blown down. LARGE AUDIENCE BEES PRODUC? TION Ol SHAKESPEARES TWELFTH NIGHT. Wclch-Christcrwri-Baker Company Bender Delightful Selection?Morn? ing lecture is Strong Sermon From The Daily Item, May 13. The attendance at the Chatauqua tent last nigh(, when the Ben Greet Players offend Shakespeare's well known corned' "Twelfth Night" was a record breaking one. The aud? ience was well pleased and hearty applause was riven the avtors all along throughout the performance. The Weleh-Cb: istensen-I\.ker Com? pany was nine good and seemed to please the aud-ence. The Chautau'pua seems to be increas? ing in interest daily, if the the at? tendance is an,* indication of this fact and it should be the chief indication of it. Last night the seating capacity of the tent was taxed and there was a larger audience at the Wednesday j morning session than any time form? erly in the morning. Today with the beginning of 'he two day music fes? tival the mierest and attendance should increase still more. The local committee stib has a few more tic? kets to sell and they should be se? cured at once, if they are wanted. On Tuesday afternoon the program was.opened by a concert by the Welch Christensen-Baker Company. There were quite a number of high class I musical selections and some popular j songs sung by this company at the I afternoon anti night sessions, all of which added greatly to the pleasure of the audience. The singers were en? cored several times both afternoon and evening. Dr. William A. Colledge delivered his lecture in the afternoon "The Heart of Tropical Africa." He told in an interesting way of the mode of life and travel in tropical Africa, of the habits of the natives, of the ani? mals and other incidents connected with a stay of seven years in this country. . The Ben Gn et Players was the first of those classed as the big attraction of the Chautauqua. This attraction drew the crowd" and everyone who at? tended seems to have been delighted I with the performance. There was ! not a weak ac:or in the cast of char? acters, which was extremely well chosen and was in every respect up to the high Standard it had been adver? tised as being and that to which the Ben Greet Players have always been regarded as belonging. The cast was a harmonious whole whose interpre? tation of Shakespeare's comedv was in every respeci efficient and did much to add to the pronounced success of the Chautauqua. The absence of scenery and tbe vast difference be? tween this piny of the sixteenth cen? tury and tho?c of modern times af? forded a contest that in no way de? tracted from the excellence of the act I ing. On Wednesday morning Mr. Kleine again dellverc j one of this forceful lecture-sermon?. His subject "Litera j ture, as a Con structive Force in Reli ! gion." He llluntrnted his talk with selections fro.*; Winston Churchill's novel, "The I ide of the Cup." Mr. Klelne's talk \s in a personal way that was stror ly impressed upon the minds of every one of his hearers. He emphasize the fact that the church of tod; was one of his hear? ers. He empwaaiaed the fact that the church of ' day and the professed Christians of day are not carrying on the religio^ given to it by Christ, and as Christ \ -actised his teachings. J He though tlv: the authors should ! take more cai^ in producing novels, man yof which lid not depict true life. The novel she'- d be a correct inter? pretation of li) '. he intimated. This aftotrn?>n tho concert by Mr. Marcus A. Kel; rman begins the great two day music festival. Mr. Keller man is one of '.he three greatest bar? itones in America and his concert will be a strong an b* ?h class one. STORM Hm CHICAGO. Tidal Wave Sv# -ops Over Breakwater Carrying ltuin. Chicago, Ma> 12.?With a property loss of many t msands, and thrilling rescues along the lako front, while a wall of watei live feet high dashed over the breakwater, wrecking val? uable pleasure craft, the result of a storm, or "tida \\ave," Which struck Chicago late yesterday, continued unabated this morning. No fatalities are reported. ANOTHER SUFFRAGE OUT? RAGE. Mad Militant Destroys Famous Paint? ing. London, May 12.?The famous por? trait of the Drke nf Wellington w the Royal Aea.S my was slashed by luffragette with a hatchet today. Angry spectators seized and badly beat the woman Tbe woman shriek? ing wildly was taken t?i JeU.