The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1914-05-11
AND MEDIATORS GO
OYER MEXICAN SITUATION
NONE OF PARTIES WOULD
TALK OF MATTERS UNDER
SCUSSION.
Four Newspaper Men Under Arrest
Are Released-Mexico City's
Greatest Peril.

WASHINGTON. ID. &. Nav 10
PRESIDENT Wilson received today al
me Nhlte House Ambassador IA
lama. OF Brazil. the ranking member
OF the south American mediators who
are trying To compose the Mexican
tIoubie: Neither the White House nor
the ambassador would make any state
ment as TO the conference. but the re-
Ceipt later of dispatch from Mexico
1ity stating that Foreign Minister
nul. had protested 90 the mediators
S. several United States torpedo
Sosts with transport and tender.
-ssd landed parry on Lobos leland
eikhi miles OF the coast. and taken fha
ishthouse. was believed 90 have been
me purpose Of the ambassador's nm.
day. '''' "n sun
The mediators had held an e,rlv
SSonierehGe previous to the ambassa.
40. uoI can at the White House. and
mis- meeting. on Sunday. indicated a.,
,.tiopments OF more than ordinar,.
.Iipof lance. No information was Oh.
,aIhable from the media;ors or tbs
w nlte House concerning Minister
isulz telegram. but IL was believed
'nat reply had been made.
Nothing Made Public.
ne navy department has not mad.
puollc anything about the operaficp
vi vessels about LObos island Al
,iliIaI n howard cabled yesterday TO the
navy department that Huerta had or.
dered the lighthouses on The psctg,
coast eNtinguished so as 10 impede
navigation by American ships Tbs
same order by Huerta Is reborted a.
nave Deen made as to lighthouses ON
me Atlantic side. so that the report
. 20 SEIZURE OF the lighthouse of I.obos
isiand might be held 10 be a precau
D InNHEnuFn Nn a.
! burning and thus protect ali shippine
along the east coast where mans
britlsh. French, Spanish and ofbe,
( foreign vessels ply
AS such precautionary measure
the taking Of the lighthouse. IL is con
tended would be without signifcancs
as an occupation or territorial acoui
/ sition Of the island and therefor
would not justify any charge of VIC
I latiOn of armistice.
! The call OF two OF the mediators on
the secretary OF state last night FOL
/ lowed by their assembling for "a meet.
ing on sunday morning. led 70 the
! Denet that developments Of the past
I - hours involved somthing more than
mere discussion of prellminaries f0r
/ the coming conference At Niagar1
I Fails II was made plain. however
after the White House conference. that
nothing had occurred which would act
as an obstacle to the continued pro.
gress Of the negotiations
Associate Justice Joseph +. Lamar
| or the United States Supreme Court
and Frederick W. Lehman. Of 81
: Louis. former solicitor general. viii DO
Z the representative Of the United
/ states 20 confer with the mediators.
] This became known from an authorita
I tive source tonight Duriuu the dsv
, Justice Lamar had "a long talk with
B the President. and later he and Mr.
Z Lehman conferred.
Correspondents Released.
4 development of tho day that sery
I cd 20 relieve anxiety was news oi
I the release Of the four newspaper cor
respondent arrested AZ Mexico City
Walter Whihen. Of the Associated
(conunusd on Page EightD