ILL SEEK SAFETY I FORMERS ■" ■ J ' * ' "" THE ADMINISTRATION REALIZES 8 THAT STEPS OF 80ME SORT .. ARE WANTING. :> _ „ * . I f SOON BEFORE THE SENATE , The Mexlcin Situation Continues ■ Perplexing Tangle With Extrpme Teneion.—Uncle Sam le Consider- ( 8 ing the Situation Gravely. j ° Washington —Regardless of wheth- «r or not the execution of William S. Benton by General Villa wan Justi- fled, developments emphasized clearly ( that protection of foreigners in Mex- ( lco had become a commanding prob- j lem of Increased international im- j portance, appreciated no less by I'res- Ident Wilson than by lenders in Con- gress. Briefly these were the day's f developments: B * H After a conference with President Wilson. Acting Chairman Shlvely of the Senate Foreign Relations Com nilttee and members of the committee reached an understanding that the Mexican nue»tion, if taken up in the Senate should be discussed behind f closed doors. f Pending resolutions looking to bet- ; ter protection for foreigners soon will J be taken up the senate. A Discussion in the British Parlla- f ment of the Denton incident was read t with much interest by officials who j observed particularly that the United States was not held responsible by f Sir Edward Ilrey for the death of j Benton. I The British Embassy announced f Hhat the British Consul at Galveston, ' Texas, has been ordered to El l'nso f to assist in the inquiry concerning Benton, but in no way to interfere t with the American Investigation. Intimations were received through r semi-official channels that marines j would be landed by, Japan and France , to act as "Legation guards in Mexico , City along with those of Great Britain j and Germany. * f The Huerta government is not f averse to the sending of Foreign Let nation guards to Mexico City is known t here officially but the United States f for the present at least will not fol- low the course of other Nations. t The whole tenor of the Mexican c situation, while revealing no unusual activity, reflected the . same anxiety 1 and perplexing tangles which have caracterized it dur'ng days of ex- | treme tension. Attention was chiefly focused on | the Investigation as to the mnnnor in which William S. Benton met death at Juarez but details of the affair still are lacking. The report which has been mailed by American Consul ar representatives has not reached here yet. Its contents have been an ticipated by telegraphic dispatches giving Villa's version of the affair and additional details are being sought from Uen. Villa at Chihuahua by Con- BUI Letcher. The attempt to exhume Benton's body, as'yet though unavail ing Is expected to bring further evi dence. Reserve System Starts Business. Washington.—Then ew Federal re serve system will begin business with a membership of at least 7,500 hanks. This was apparent when at the close of the last day on which national hnaks could signify their intention of accepting terms of the currency law, less hun 50 of the 7,493 national - hanks of the country had failed to re spond favorably. More than enough state institutions have applied for membership to bring the total to 7,500. Troop Train Blown Up. Vera Cruz, Mexico. —A government troop train carrying a company of In fantry for Jalapa was blown up by rebels. The wreck ocurred on the Inter-Oceanic Railway, 140 miles from Vera Cruz. All on board, including 65 officers and men, and the English engineer,, were killed. A passenger train was flredon by the rebels, bute escaped by tacking rapidly. Conlsy Placed on Trial. Atlanta, Ga. —Interest in the murder ef Mary Phagan. fourten-year-old fac tory girl for which Leo M. Frank is under death sentence was revived by the prospect that James Conley wuold be placed on trial here on charge of being an accessory to the erlme, Con ley, a negro sweeper at the factory where the girl was murdered, and of which Frank was superintendent, tes tified at the latter's trial that he had help dispose of Mary Phagan's body after Frank had kiled her. Conley de . * «®les the charge. # . i, .... ii Japs Charged With Bribery. t Tokio. —Thr e prominent Japanese contractors, ufenishing supplies to the navy were areited on charges of brib ery. The arre«ts indicate that the na val scandals brought to light through relations of a naval atache in Berlin with a German contracting firm will prove more extensive than first sus pected. ' . . Discussion of the subject led to a serious comtnotion In the house of rep resentatives. Korehlro Kurehara, a deputy well known in the United flutes and Europe, read a letter. p»—■' GOLD WAVE OVER TRE UNITED STATES S v; STORM SWEEPB ACROSS 'CONTI NENT, CAUSING MUCH OAM AGE AND SUFFERING NUMBER OF STATES SUFFER Rain in South and a Blizzard for the Valleys of Ohio and ( Mistissippi. Washington. A violent storm swept across the continent from Col orado, causing rain in the Southern states and snow In the Mississippi and Ohio valleys, the lake regions and the north Atlantic states. St. Ix)uls. Hall began to fall throughout Missouri and by night had coated the ground in many places with more than an inch of ice. The storm was accompanied by a 30-degree drop In temperature. Sioux City, lowa. —Northwest lowa, eastern South Dakota and northeast ern Nebraska are In the grip of a ( storm. In Sioux City and vicinity the heaviest snow of the season fell, ham* ( pering street# and railroad traffic. Re- . ports from South Dakota indicate a 6-inch Jail. J Chicago.—A 36-mile an hour wind , piled snow in great drifts delayed traf fic in Illlnois| Several inches of snow fell. The thermometer ranged from 22 to 16 degrees above zero. Frank Kachelhoffer. 75 years old, and his j wife, aged 70, were found dead by neighbors in a two-room shack near the river. Death was said to have been caused by lack of food and coal. Kansas City.—A storm of sleet and snow swept over western Missouri and most of Kansas. Telegraph and tele phone service was badly demoralised, few wires working out of Kunsas City. The wire situation was worse to west and north and but meager reports are coming in as to the extent of the , storm. , Los Angeles, Cal. —So far as rail road communication was concerned, IJOH Angeles and southern California- J remained cut off from the world as a ' result of the record-breaking storm of 1 rain and wind, which swept, this re- 1 glon for three days. Reports from the ' six counties most affected did not ma- 1 terlaly change the estimate of the to- I tal damage amounting to about four 1 and a half million dollars. The great- 1 est anxiety concerns the situation of the three hundred passengers maroon- 1 ed aboard the California limited and the' Phoenix express of the Santa Fe train. DAMAGE BY FIRE IN ATLANTA McKenzie Building, One of City Land marks, Gutted by Flames. Atlanta.—Fully twenty-five thou sand spectators In the vicinity of the Candler building throughout Sunday afternoon watched nearly every fire man in the city battle with one of the most dangerous downtown fires In years, which almost completely wrecked the McKenzie building at James and Peachtroe streets, a city landmark. Damage Is estimated at being be tween one hundred thousand and oae hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Five flrenjen were injured. A hum ber were suffocated by smoke and fumes. One ladderman, E. A. Davis, of engine house, No. 1, fell from the top of a 32-foot ladder In front of the Johnson-lie winner firm, when ,it slip ped and crashed to the sidewalk. Ho was carried In a semi-conscious condi- j tlon to the Ansley hotel, where ho re-1 ceived medical attention. ! The other injured firemen were hurt by flying glass and falling timbers. None of them were wounded seriously. They wore Hosemau BUI Gilbert of headquarters; James Dooley, engine house No. 2; J. G. Medlln, an engineer, engine house No. 4, and Bill Cody of headquarters. The firms that suffered from the flames were the 'Johnson-Gewinnor company, the Stoddard company, the Stephen A. Ryan real estate office, tho Plckard-Dcans Drug company, the John Chalmau Tailoring shop, the Georgia Realty and Trust company, ' the Woodmen of the World lodge, the John D. Babbage real estate offices and the W. R. Jeter contracting con cern. Father of Nation Honored. Washington.—President Wilson was Che central figure at a mass meeting in a downtown theater here under the auspices of the Sons of the Revolu tion in commemoration of Washing ton's birthday. Joseph W, Folk, solic itor of the state department, in an address, paid tribute to the founder of the. republic as a man "imperfect enough to be intensely human and near enough perfect to be an inspira tion to all who honor justice and wor ship liberty." President did not speak. 4 Joseph Fels Passes to Unknown. Philadelphia.—Joseph Fels, million -1 nlre soao manufacturer, sinele tax *•*- vucute and philanthropist, died at his • home here from pneumonia. He was i 61 years old. Mr. Fels spent most of i hi# time advocating the doctrine of L the single tax in both this country and - Great Britain. He recently returned from England, where he had given a i large part of his fortune to the crea • tlon andmalntenance of a' single tax i co-operative colony near London. Em- I ployees of Mr. Fels firm. In this city benefit by a profit-sharing system. A . THE ENTERPRISK. WILLIAMSTON, WORTH CAROLINA."' CONGRESSMAN MANAHAN ■ I Congressional inquiry Into tho or- t ganization and operations of tho Chi- c cago and Duluth boards of trads and « the Minneapolla chamber of commerce to c'etermlne their Influence over , wheat and flour prices In the country ( was proposed In n resolution Intro duced by Representative Manahan of t Minnesota. t _ t ARE WAUChING DIAZ MIRON FIRE-EATING EDITOR 18 BEING I CLOSELY WATCHED BY 1 POLICE. , ————— Ha Threatened American Charge ( O'Shaughncao, Which Has Been ( Reported to Washington. I Mexico City.—Hnlviidor Dla« Mlron. ( editor of lil Impartial, has been placed | under police surveillance because of i the report "that lie had threatened to • ... I kill Mr. O'ShauKh newsy. , who recent ly protested to President Huerta con- . corning the character of anti-Wilson editorials appearing In El Imparcial. 1 It appears, however, that the most se riouH throat made by Mlron was that repeat to Mr. O'Shaughnes- 1 sy's face what he hud written la edi torials. The charge ha* reported the Incident 1 to Washington. The stato department j lias assured him that It approves of his protest and that the American gov- 1 nrnment luteals to give him and Ills family proteqr.lon. Indicative of the slightly increased antl-Amerlcaii spirit, there appeared the first iss,lo of a weekly magazine, the purpose of which, It is announced, is to attack Washington's Mexican pol icy. Most of the cartoons are direct ed again John Lind. HacliiU, N. M. —Maximo Castillo, ' the bandit, has been brought here by American troops. With lilni were his 1 brother, his trumpeter and the lat tor's w:t'e and two Indian women. Th« bandit apparently was not at all averse to placing himself under the protection of the United States. 11 In band, which for months lias liar- AHtied settlers, held prisoners for ran nr.ni, burned, sacked and stolen in a career which culminated in the Cum bre tunnel disaster, Is scattered and believed to be broken. Since the Cumbre tragedy Castillo has known no rest and seemed on the verge of a breakdown when brought here. Villa's rebels have been hot on his trail Ball of Fire Near Lapland. New Y\rk. —Among the remarkable storm stories told by the passenger of the sUtamship Columbia, of the An chor line and the Red Star liner Lap land, boli of which catne into port in New Yfc>rk three days late, was the account of a large and brilliant me teor wl»lch burned Its way through the snow and hail and plunged hissing into the sou within a short distance of the Laplaj.d. Passengers said that at night they were startled by the ap pearance in the northern sky of a bril liant ball of fire. Shooting in a para bola toward the liner, It seemed to theia almost certain to fall on the LaUan's deck. Instead it burst into pieces with the report of a cannon and sank Into the sea. Sherman Got Columbia 40 Years Ago. Columbia, S. C.—The forty-ninth an niversary of the entrance o(the North ern soldiers into Columbia under Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman.was mark ed by the unveiling of a granite boul der erected by the Wade Hampton chapter, United Daughters of the Con federacy, upon the spot where T. J. Goodwyn, the mayor of Columbia, un der a flag of truce, m&t General Sher man and surrendered to him the city. The occasion was given a peculiar In terest by the only living witness to thp event, Norton W. Brooker. Municipal Clock Used as Target. Cor'dehi. Ga. —Some unknown sou litis oeen A utrgei CUt'til" ow of the faces of the Cordele city clock in the court house steeple for practice with a rifle and within the past few days seventeen long-range steel bullets have completely shatter ed the plate glass face of the pon derous time keeper. It Is estimated ' that the bullets were fired from a distance of possibly half a mile and ' that an army rifle was used in this target practice, and which has dam aged tho clock. PEOPLE AROUSED . ON MEXIG BOBBER MEETING IN EL PABO CHARGES GOVERNMENT 18 CONCEAL ING THE FACTS. WASHINGTON INVESTIGATES v- 1 / Resolutions Dselaro Mexicans Have 'Killed Americana Because They Were Americans. Washington.—A slumbering Mexi can situation was brought quickly to a point of intense international Inter est by the flash of a message saying William S. Benton, a British subject, had been killed in Juarez by prder of Gen' Francisco Villa, the Constitution- i allst commander. Sir Cocll Spring Rice, British am- « bassador, conferred with Secretary ■ Bryan about It; President Wilson and * his cabinet discussed it briefly and J the state department ordered a thor ough investigation by consular repre- - sentatlves on the bordeiv El Paso Texas. —Two more English- I men are reported as having "disappear- ( ed" in Juarez. The report came from Samuel Stew- c art, who says the ni«n, John Lawrence and a companion named Curtis, went to Juarez to search for William 8. Benton. , Stewart expressed the fear that they, like Benton, had been shot. Qustav Baucli, who wns on trial for being h spy; also disappeared in Jua rez. Thomas D. Edwards, American consul at Juarfez, said that when the _ friends of Ilauch went to visit him with bedding and food lie was not in the evil where he had been held In- " communicado while Ills trial was be- J ing held A storm of Indignation broke out along the border whe.n it became known that William S. Benton, a Brit- r ish subject and wealthy landholder In j Mexico, had been executed, by jebels in Juarez, after he had made a pro rtewt~tO'Qen. Francisco Villa about al- h leged depredations of the Constitution alists. A mass meeting was held, and reso- lutlons were adopted censuring the state department at Washington for its alleged suppression of the consular re port of the Benton case and calling on congress to demand from the de partment of state a'-full record of al leged crimes and outrages against for eigners In Mexico. SUPERVISION FOR STATES i i Administration Contemplates No Sur- J render of Power, However. Washington.—Conservation partic- ( ularly as it affects tl»e building of wa- , ter power projects In the navigable f streams of the country—was added to , the chief administration policies un- , der discussion. Conservationists have i learned in a preliminary way the an- , swer which the Wilson administration j has prepared to the question of wheth- ( er the federal government of the states , shall be supreme In the matter of wa ter rights of navigable rivers. . Secretary Garirson lias addressed a I letter on the subject to Chairman Ad amson of the house committee on in- | terstate nnd foreign commerce which ho will submit when the latter returns to Washington. ! The general principles of the ad ministration's plan contemplate no surrender of the constitutional power of the federal government to regulate , what shall or shall not be done In the navigable streams of the country, but to the states Is given entire supervis ion of the actual operation of the plan. Briefly the plan's gejieral outline is as follows; Federal permits for water power projects would be given only to indi viduals or concerns duly Incorporat ed as public utilities. Public utility commlmssions of the various states would be expected to regulate operation of the plan by such Supervision as would prevent practices of discrimination or monopoly. Water power rights would be given only 4o those states which had good public utility laws so that an incen tive for careful supervision through new laws would be provided in states having Inadequate laws. Robbers Get 140,000. Birmingham, Ala. —Queen and Cres cent passenger train No. 1, New York to New Orleans, running forty minutes , late, about twelve miles north of Bir mingham, *vas held up by three mask ed robbers, who secured four sacks of registered mail, said to have contained over $40,000. At Attalla three men . boarded engine and one and a . half miles south of Attalla held up the engine crew at the point of revolvers. . They then ran the train to within j five* miles of irpndale. where they it. »*. 1 —' " Says Canal Wilt6pen by July 1. „ ' — W. C' - fi tha«s said tnu; barring unioreseen ac r cidents, the Panama canal will be r open for merchant ships July 1. The 3 colonel added that he had always been 3 opposed to the exemption of American . coastwise shipping from the payment . of tolls, because that would decrease j the revenues of the canal, and, in his I opinion, would not accrue to the bene j fit of Consumers, but merely increase 8 profits of the »hip owners. The colo 1. nel declined to discusß Its legal aspect ' or lis bearing on treaty relations. GOVERNOR E. F. DUNNE % _ » I i i i Governor Dunns, It Is rtmored, may j enter the Illinois senatorshlp fight by announcing himself as a candidate for the Democratic nomination In oppoai- , ' yon to Roger Bullivan. This, It Is be lleved, would pleaae Secretary Bryan. 1 i 1 IS. IS HOST PROSPEROUS: ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE HAS ; FOUND PROSPERITY ALL OVER COUNTRY. - Federal Reserve Bank Organizers Jubi- j lant About Business Conditions i Disclosed on the Trip. Washington.—The federal reserve i bank organization committee, back in i Washington after a five weeks' trip through the country, in a statement, announce that its selection of federal j reserve cities nnd definition of reserve I districts would not be made until it j had caretytfy considered information ' acccumulated on the trip The state- | nient said the committee found the j country prosperous-and learned that | bankers and business men are confi dent of the success of the banking system. In, a supplemental statement, B"ec- ' , retary McAdoo declared he hoped the I new system would be established in j time to take care of crop-moving con tingencies next year, but that if it j were not the treasury department I would stand ready to place Its funds i again at the disposal of business men. Tho committee's statement, in part, j is as follows: "We have spent practically from the | 4th of January to th™ preseut time in j hearing the views of business men and j bankers on the problems of dividing the country into not less than eight nor more than twelve districts and of locating in each district the main office of a federal reserve bank. Of the two questions, the division of the country into districts is the more Important and difficult. The committee asked those who apepared before it to direct their attention to these two problems. A great many able and Impartial busi ness men and bankers have submitted their best information and opinions and always in a spirit of great fair ness. LAST TRIBUTE PAID BACON Funeral Services Conducted at Christ Church in Macon. Macon, Ga. —The body of United States-Senator A. O. Bacon reached Macon on a special funeral train from Atlanta. Hundreds of Macon people were in waiting at the station and stood with bared heads casket i was taken from the car and placed in the hearse and transported to the city hall. The line of carriages on the trip to the city hall was headed by the Macon drum and bugle corps, with muffled drum, and the three local military companies. . ' With a sergeant of one of the local military companies and a Confederate Veteran in gray uniform at either end of the casket, thousands filed by to view the body.. It was a tribute such as Macon never paid to any other man. The body lay In state»at the city hall until 10:45 o'clock Thursday, when it was taken to Christ Episcopal church, where the funeral services were conducted at eleven ►o'clock by Rev. John H. Bunting, the rector. Food Fish Opposed for Fertilizer. Washington.— -B tate fisheries offi cials, Eastern fish dealers and repre-1 1 sentatlves of fish and game organ lxa-! ' tlons were before the house Inter-, ' state commerce committee to discuss ■ the Linthlcum bill the use I of fodd fish in the manufacture of fer -1 tlliser for interstate commerce. Sec -1 retary Redfleld of the department of ' commerce called back to his office be • fore he could testify telephoned his 1 approval of the measure. Most of the r witnesses favored the passage of the bill. - • • . Moltr~ Lead Rains on Sixty Persons. New York.—With molten lead and " red hot pieces of cornice falling about 3 them, sixty men and twenty women 8 made their way out of a factory build -1 tng in Green street when three floors 1 were a raging furnace, but every one 1 escaped unhurt. When the -fire first B was detected on the sixth floor, police -8 men r-jshed into the building and qul »" eted the excited factory workers, who 6 were on the third and fourthfloors. h The- ' cornice of the structure be -1 gan to melt and fall before on* could gain the street PHYSICIANS MEET TRI-BTATE DOCTORS HAVE IN TERESTING MEETING AT WILMINGTON. MEET NEXT IN GREEENVILLE * Delegates Vote to Go to Greenville, C., Despite Rumors of Local DivW •lons.. New Officers are Elected and New Members Enrolled. Wilmington.—The sixteenth annual convention of the Tri-state Medical As sociation adjourned recently after s» lectins Greenville, S. C., as the next place of meeting and electing ofTlsers for next year. A large number ot valuable papers were read at the ses sions.. Officers elected for the ensu ing year wer: President, Dr. E. C. Register, Cha*> lotte; vice president for Virginia, Dr. J. Allison Hodges, Richmond; North Carolina, Dr. Chas. T. Harper. Wll liston; South Carolina, Dr. F. H. McLeod, Florence; secretary-treasu rer, I)r. Rolee Hughes, Laurens, 8. C (re-elected); Dr. Southgate Leigh, of Norfolk, the retiring president, was elected a member of executive council in place of Dr. J. Shelton Horsley, tit Richmond. I)r D. T. Tayloe, of Wash ington, was elected a member In place of Dr. Chas. T. Harper, of thl» city, who was elected vice-president, and Dr. W. W. Fennell, of Rock Hill. S. C., was elected to succeed himßelf. There were only three vacancies oo curring on the council. Columbia also extended invitations through the exec utive council for. convention to meet in that city next year, but owing to ths fact that the last meeting held In South Carolina was in Columbia It was decided to meet in Greenville. Ths recommendation of the council yt aa unanimously adopted by the conven tion. After Greenville had been chosen there was a report that the selection was not pleasing to South Carolina physicians, particularly those of Greenville. It was said that ther© was friction among Greenville physi j clans/ For this reason, it,, was rumor* | ed Grenville did not want the conven | tion. The executive council was called | into special session three hours after I Greenville had been chosen and th» question was discussed. It was de cided not to take the matter to tho floor of the convention, but to let It I rest for the time being, in hope that j some settlement will be affected. It was reported that South (Carolina had threatened to withdraw from the as sociation, but this was denied by members of the executive council. Wake Forest Trustees Meet. Wake Forest. —The board of trus tees of Wake Forest College met hem during the anlvers*ry season and dis cussed many matters of importance t» the college. The proposition of the town of Sylva to move the summer law'schoof there was declined by the board. This town, situated On the Southern Rail way, 40 miles from Asheville, made the college an attractive ofTer some time ago if the law school would hold forth In their town. The was referred to a committee and this committee made their repprt at this meeting. Pastor Ellington', of the Sylva Baptist church, was present and ) urged the board to move the school to i Sylva. The board, after a statement front President Poteat of the financial needs of the college felt that a campaign to Increase the present endowment can not be deferred more than a year or two. The present endowment Is worth, more than $600,000. Road About Completed. Newton. The Hickory-to-Maiden sand-clay road has been completed to the city limits of Maiden. Only two tenths of a mile still remains to be built to the Lincoln county line. This now gives a stretch of 25 miles of as good as is to be found anywhere ln> this section of the state. The Llncolp commissioners hare agreed to build a road to intersect with the Catawba, rpad at the oounty line. "Trash Farm." Asheville.—Ashevllle's municipal in cinerator, which has been in the course of erection for the past several weeks, has been finished and was ' tested recently in the presence of tli« members of the board of aldermen and heads of the various city departmental The plant was found to be in fine con | dittos, and doubtless wll be accepted ! by the city at an early date. With a modern crematory at her t disposal Asheville will abandon the 1 nse of the old that *»»- > been used by the city. V. V , ' - 1 — Contract to. Build New Town. • Salisbury.—Contracts have been* j closed with a local concern for the • finished material for 240 dwellings to.' i be erected at the new town of Baden, Stanly county. With a force of several » hundred workmen, including all > clases of labor, fi*e contractors are t busily engaged in building the hun • dreds of houses for the Southern - Aluminum Company, of Whitney, > whieh concern is devloping an enor • mous electric power plant at - place. The Salisbury concern will d» U* er the material rapidly as