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WEATHER FORECAST Fair fl>?lnesdaj ; Thursday, show, ersf rooter tn thc interior. Tl?? Intelligencer COTTON Loral Cotton.9c VOLUME II. ANDERSON, S. C. WEDNESDAY MORNING. MAY 19, 1915. NUMBER ?09. ITALY'S IS EXPl GERI GERMANS AND AUSTRIANS HAVE DEMANDED PASS PORTS CONSULS ORDERED TO LEAVE TODAY Germany avid Austria Abandon Hope of Inducing Italy to Remain Neutral. +++v****+***+***++++++ + ? + A .URANNA DORS LEAVING * ? -r- + + London, May IS. A Central + + dispatch from Rome says: ? + Glor?alo Diitalta Newspaper + ? announces that Gorman Am- ? + bassador Von lindow and + 4* Special Austrian Ambassador ? + Macchio. have demanded their ? .> passports. ? ? Tho newspaper added that ? ? thc staffs of th?? German and ? ? Austrian oonFulatos would ? ? leave Tome Tuesdny night. <. + + ? ++++*++** ***+**+++**<!. Koine. May 18. - Several cases and trunks belonging to German Ambas sador Von Huelow and tho special Austrian Ambassador. Von Mpcchio, Which are believed to contain embassy documents have already been sent out of the country. Tho German and Austrian consul* generals and thels staffs have receiv ed instructions to be ready to leave Rome today or tomorrow. Rome. ??foy 18.- (fnlesn Austria mnkes tno first move, which is not thought probable, final action by Italy regarding war ia not expeoted until after Thursdny. Parliament will be asked then to vote a bill confer ring: plenary powers In the govern ment. Alarmist rumors of all kinds are circulated. Thc situation ls so tense manv believe all reports. Un founded reports said the German am bassador Prince Von Buelow, had already left Rome. It is true a special lr.?1n stands ready, with steam up to take him to St. Ootcard If a break comes. Another train is ready In r.peed for tho Austria nfrontinr with the Austrian ambaauador and his Btaff. Thc Tribune says of the situation: "The dio ls cast, tho Rublen cross ed, the trlnlo alliance has been de nn need." Yesterday's cabinet meeting was the longest on record. Members said briefly that they discussed a message to parliament. The Italian general staff continued in feverish activity preparation for /war. Public demonstrations] through out Italy continue. Columbia, Missouri. May IR.-Dr. M. Rorsa, an' Italian editor, who was to havo addressed the International Press congress at San Francisco, has cabled his inability to attend. He said "before congress meets ray coun try will bo at war." ?Romo. May 18.-Despatches from Trieste confirm previous reporta that a revolutionary -. movement is In progress thero. Tho town is in a state of siege. The presence of mil itary, however, has failed to prevent attempts at popular uprisings, ana demonstrations of hostilltv to Em peror Francis Joseph of Austria. P.rjme, May 18.-Automobiles of every member of cabinet, with ex ception of Premier Salandra, were commandeered today by the army authorities. TRANSYLVANIA FOLLOWED BY HOSTILE SUBMARINE Glasgow, Scotland, May 18.-A pas senger on the Cunard liner Transyl vania,' which reached hero yesterday from New York, declares that a Ger man submarine Was sighted s imlay night while tho steamship was vro ceedlng for Glasgow from Greenrock. The Transylvania ?leo red a sigxag course and raced clear ot danger. While the submarine vras In sight thc liner's small boats were swung out tn readiness for any emergency. Australian Submarine Sark. Loudon, May 18.-An admiralty an nouncement tonight confirmed the re port that the Australian submarino AE-2 waa sunk in tho Dardanelles. The statement say* the crew were made prisoners bv the Turks. A Turkish communication dated May 11th, said a Turkish warship sunk the submarine. 5 DECIS i SCTED T< HANS Ll SITUATION MAY DE IMPORTANT FACTORS MAKE DESIRABLE-INTERVEN CHANGE TONE OF Washington, May 18.-It benama known tonight that two important factors arc working to delay Tor another week Germany's reply to tho American note. First, tho next few days aro expected tn show whet lier Germany will be confronted with a new military situation by Italy's en trance into wa'. Second, diplomats here believe tho interim of delay will reveal whether the United States, on it's own initia tive, will sen da general protest to tile allier, against the alleged violation of international law hv interfering with commerce betweiin American ports and neutral European points. Officials think the Austro-Italian situation may absorb the attention of thc German government delaying the final preparation of its reply. It is realized that if Italy becomes belli gerent. Germany's dilHi/.ltios in ob taining foodstuff will be Increased. In andi circumstances, it was explained in diplomatic quarters, Germany would find the submarine even more Inval uable as a weapon for reducing the enemy's supplies and commerce. Paris, May 18.-Thc Matin's Ams terdam, correspondent say? that Ger many's reply-lo - the.'.-United States' note on the Lusitania tragedy will be cent Thursday. Ho sava that it will A?iT?li?ii" 10 DISMISS SUIT Justice Remarks no Evidence Yet Submitted Shows Con spiracy. Washington. May 18.-Argument on the motion of counsel for Secretary McAdoo, Comptroller of Currency Williams and United States Treasur er Burke, to dismiss the temnerory Injunction aguinat the treasury offi cials secured by thc Riggs National Bp/ik. was continued today in thc District Supreme Court. While Attorney Hogan for the bank, was speaking, Presiding Justice Mc Ci?y remarked that he. hadn't seen In thc case, as prcsonted, any evi dence of conspiracy between McAdoo uni Williams against the bank. Hogan replied the record showed tho two officials "worked together all down the lino," bu?, suggested that point wasn't material to the present question at issue. Afliilavits supplemental to the one filed by Williams as to thc alleged shortages In tho reserves of thc Riggs hank was filed today. They were made by statisticians and accountants of tho treasury department and dealt largely with bookkeeping differences between tho accounts of the depart ment and the bank. Washington, May 18.-The argu ments on tho legal questions. Involved tn the injunction suit which ls brought by the Riggs National bank . here against Secretary McAdoo, Comp troller W.I Hams and Treasurer Burke of OJ s United States, who are charged by the bank with conspir ing to wreck lt. were continued today in the supreme court of the district of Columbia. PEACE CONFERENCE BENDS DELEGATION TO BERLIN The ff aguo. May 18.-The delega tion from the International Congress of Women, headod by Miss Jane Ad dams of Chicago, left here today for Berlin to intercede with' Germany in favor of peace. GO VF, KN OR OF; MICHIGAN INTERESTED IN FRANK CASE Lansing. Mich., May 18,-Governor Ferris of Michigan, it was announced today, bad made a personal appeal to Governor Biston of Georgia, for the commutation of death sentence of I^o M. Frank. IN ITALY LAY REPLY DELAY OF ANOTHER WEEK TION BY ITALY MIGHT ANSWER TC U. S. justify tlw attack "ii th" Lusitania on tin? ground that the submarine's com mander has reported that only one torpedo was fired, convincing him that tiio second explosion was due lo the fact that thc vessel carried war munitions. lt is said thal tho report alleges that Hie torpedo was so fired that tho Lusitania would liol have sunk If she had not carried explosives. The despatch says that it is re ported in Amsterdam t?nt Germany will throw the responsibility for tne disaster on England and also on the United Slates authorities who al lowed passengers on a ship, carrying explosives. It is believed that Ger many will not mndify her methods of submarino warfare. Washington, May I4*.-Ambassador Gerard at Rnrliu. has transmitted to the state department no indication as to when tho German reply to th? American note may be expected. Sec retary nryan raid today no informa* tion "of nay importance" bad been received from the ambassador. A? to United Slates seeking safe conduct for nr. Bernhard Dornburg when ho loaves tho United States. . Secretary Bryan sntil "Tf have no onToial knowl edge of Dr. Dernburg." and refused to discuss thc question further. REPORT OF SUMTER APPOINTMENT ERROR Governor's Secretary Denies Sumter Man Appointed Chief Constable. Columbia. May 18.-That John it. Sumter,. chief of police of Sumter has not been appointed the chief .-dato constable nnd furthermore that Mr. Sumter does not hold any ofll '.ial position under the state of South Carolina, is thc substance of a state ment issued by Herbert C. Moses, the executive secretary today. Tho statement of Mr. Moses fol lows:, "The report is an error, that was mnt out from Sumter, that John R. Sumter, the chief of police there, had been appointed by Governor Man ning thc chief constable of the state. "Thro ls no such position nor is there and state constabulary, Gov ernor Manning announced in thc be ginning of his term that he would look to the local officers to enforce thc laws In their territory. Any con stable he may find it ?coessary to ap point will be merely as an assistant to the already constituted authorities. Mr. Sumter is not in the service of the State." HOPES FOR PARDON Pi FOR J. BJIMARA i Clarence Darrow Saya Convicted Man Believed Himself a Martyr. Washington, May 18.-Clarence Darrow, who defended the McNamara brothers in the Los Angeles dynamit ing case, dlscusod Industrial and so cial conditions before the Industrial Relations Commission today. He ex fjresed the hope that J. B. McNamara who is serving life imprisonment, will be pardoned and said the pardon ought to come soon. Darrow said: "McNamara thought he waa doing something tor the com mon good when he- blew' up . the Los Angeles Times, tte risked bis lifo because he believed in the cause. Looking at it from- his standpoint, be was marytr" "Can Sail in Two Hours" Admiral Flctche. MtMiH'nant Withers. %nir afIIB ", ".;"?-'---<?-??>--- ??> '? ? Submarine F.-l, "Thc fleet ic those watera (New York Harbor) cnn Ret under way in two hours, and tho skips arc now prepared for action." Those wero tho>ords of Admiral Fletcher, commanwFof lh<* great fleet of American bat?l?snfps now in New York harbor, when ho wns asked about their condition. He probably had in mind the brilliant exploit or Lieutenant Thomns Withers and thc submarine 10-1. To join the naval dis play in the Hudson river, the 10-1 had to go nil thc way from Key West. She made the trip under ber own power without stopping once. Tho officers think she broke a submarine record for long distance travel, for thc distance from Key West to New York is 1,230 miles. The Journey from Key West began Friday. April an. nt lb a. m. With the B-l were the K-"2,- the Tonopah and the MacDonough.' Tho K*l was fl-gboat. Site set thc pace, which waa ten knots an hour. Ibo E-? did her best to koop lt, but on several occa sions had engine trouble, und hau to be taken in tow by thc monitor. The destroyer ran short of coal, sheered In to Charleston to renew her supply, and rejoined the others off thc Chesapeake Capes. "I'm blame glad to g?t ont of that." raid a sailo:* of the submarine with a weary nod toward the B-l. "I'm doad tired. ir I could only get a bath and a bcd for about twenty-Tour -no. forty-eight hours. "Look al nie, look at any of us! Kvory stitch of clothing soggy. That's the way we've been oVer since we put out from Key West. There isn't any dry place in a submarine: The Inside metal sweats and drips all the time. And traveling with decks awash there's no way of getting things dried out." FIVE MILES OF REVIEWED ET AT NEW YOI New York. May 18.-Tho bip fleet of American warships which had boca at anchor In tho Hudson for ten days Bteamed. out to ara today nt 11 o'clock. President WllBon, on board the yacht Mayflower, reviewed thc fi^e mile linc as it passed off thc Btatue of Liberty. Headed by tho supcrdroadnought Wyoming, Admiral Fletcher's Hag ship, six tc ii battleships and their train of lesser fighting craft Bteamed past, thc presidential yacht nt ll knots, each ship with its sailors and marines standing at attention. AH 3ach craft neared the Mayflower, her six pounders boomed out tho presi dential salute of 2t guns. Tens of thousands of persons flock ed to vantage points to view the sn'at n roc ess ion. The pierson both sides of the Hudson were black with spectators. At tho windows down town thc spectators thronged. Hun dreds wore on Hie house tops. The traffic on a portion of thc Hudson was suspended for an half hour bofore the fleet left. .Thc day wa*? overcast, bul through thc cloud*! tho sun shone at intervals. Tho air was chilly and there was k stilT brccao along tho waterfront. Close by the Mayflower lav the Dol phin, Isis and Yankton, with (ho YAQUI DECLARE WAR ON MEXICO Have Captured Railroad Shops Valued at Ton MiUian Dollars. Aboard Cruiser Colorado via wire less, May 18.-The Yaqui Indians, who have been besieging whit** set Hera nt Sonora. Mexico, issued a pro clamation today declaring the Yaqui nation at war with Mexico, according lo reports reaching this vfessel. The Indians are said tn have cap lured the pumping station near En pa lino, where railroad shops valued ten million dollars are located. WARSHIPS Y PRESIDENT *K YESTERDAY government o?lieials, members of the Citizens' committee, newspaper mon md invited guests aboard. Swinging at anchor, the little reviewing squad ron teased out streamers pennants? and bunting in contrast to the gray ?teaming line. As each battleship passed the May flower its band played the national anthem. There waa little cheering in respon&c. In bidding goodbye to tho fleet the crowds seemed to be In a '.houcbtful mood. Leaving New York the fleet made for Newport, the rendezvous from which will be dlrccvted thc maneuvers in thc war game along the Atlantic coast. The president and most of bis party had nrranged to return to Washington aboard the .Mayflower. Pr?ftMe*t Returning to Capital. Washington, May 18.-No word reached the navy department tonight from Yacht Mayflower, on which President Wilson is returning from No wYork. This is accepted as mean ing that all ia well. No attempt was ma.de to speak to thc yacht hy the Arlington wireless station. Tho Mayflower ls duo herc Thursday morning. _ CHAGAS TO LOSE SIGHT OF ONE EYE President ol Portuguese Cabinet Recovering From Bullet Woonda. Lisbon. May 1?.-Improvement la shown in condition of Joao Chagas, new president of the Portuguese cabi net, who was shot and dangerously wounded hy a would-oe-assasin. The bullet entered his forehead, and lt ls feared Chagas may lose the sight of his right eye. CHANGES K IN BRITISH CHURCHIL CHAMBER COMMERCE GET3_81 OF $400 fcS ITS SHARE OF THE RE CEIPTS FROM THE CHAUTAUQUA GOT $37 LAST YEAR 3?g Increase Due to Fact That Season Tickets Were Purchased. Four hundred dollars ls tho amount -callzed by tho loral chamber of com norco from the chautauqua. This I? m exceedingly large amount to bo derived from such a source. Tho ?mount secured by the chamber of .ommerce last year amounted to only 137. The reason for this creal Increase i? thnt the people bought season tlck 2ts this year while last year a lar^c lier centago of the rccc-pts wore taken in at the gate, and tho local organiza tion does not share in MICHO receipts. The reserved Beat sale this year help ed some ?ind moro than tho total amount of laat year's '-ommiasion for the chamber of commerce waa made this year from the seat sale alone. Thc local uharo of thc monoy noxt year will be somewhat larger than this. The season flehet.? arc selling more rapidly this year than they did last year, and thc price is somewhat higher at that. Tho chautauqua waa a brilliant .sucrosa in Anderson, not from a fi nancial standpoint alone, but from every standpoint. Tho Anderson people, tunned out to attend tho per formances and enjoyed every bit of lt. The news that tho chautauqua is sure to come to Andcrnon ls just what, tho people expected, and to have the chautauqua not come back would certainly provo a great disap pointment to the city. There is one slight chango in tho manner of operation nexo year from tho past chautauqua season herc. Those persons signing for tlckota now are to get them at a price o' $3.50 euch, and persons buying sea son tickets next year will bo forced to pay $"..00 for their ticket?. This still will bo cheap. The very high t:lass of entertainment afforded by the chautauqua comes to the people ridi culously cheap when all thing? aro considered. Attending the chautau qua at each performance th!? year, noHt thc hold .of a Bcason ticket Just i little over io.cents a show. BANKERS INDICTED RY FEDERAL JURY Seven Georgiana Charged With Misapplication of Macon Bank Funds. Macon, May 18.-Soven ofheer? and directors of thc Commercial National flank of Macon, were indicted by thu f?deral grand Jury today on o ?argos of misapplication of fnds In connec tion with alleged excessive loans and false entries In their reports to tho comptroller ot currency. Those Indicted arc E. Y. Mallary, I. J. Cobb, Thud C. Parker, E. E. I?lk?. Frank L, Mallary, E. Nat Lewis and Leon S. Dure. Tho Commercial National Rank wa? ab jorbed by other linn ks a year ago. EVIDENCE COMPLETE IN BARNES LIBEL SUIT Roosevelt Emphatically Declares Statement of New York Lawyer ia Fake. Syracuse. May 18.-The pres?nta lo nof evidence In William Barnes mit for alleged libel against Tbeo lore Roosevelt waa completed In su preme court late today, after both >rlnclpala had given additional testi mony. The cass will undoubtedly -be n the banda, ot the Jury before Thurs lay afternoon. Regarding the-teati nony of John Hutchinson, a New York awyer, that Roosevelt told htm the Republican party was not big enough o hold him sud Barnes, the former ?resident shouted that lt waa false. XPECTED I CABINET; L MAY QUIT LEADERS OF ALL PARTIES MAY BE ADMITTED IN IN TEREST OF HARMONY PUBLIC WARNED OF SACRIFICES Kitchener Also Urges Need for Three Hundred Thousand More Men. London. Muy 18.-Tho next few day?, if not honro, it is believed will find Italy renunclating her old allies of thc tripple alliance and Joining the triple entonte powers as a belligerent. At the same time some chango is ex pected in tiie government ot Great Hritian. Tho German imperial chancellor. In the Reichstag today outlined the offers made to Italy as a prlco for her con tinued neutrality. While he said he had- not entirely aband>ned the hope that peace will be maintained among tho triple alliance powers, he left no Impression on the minds of his hearers that tho end of the alliance, so far as Italy in concerned ls far off. It is anticipated that the expected changes In tho government of Great Britain will be aimed at a closer con solidation of all parties for tho pur pose of carrying the war to a success ful issue. Whether leaders ct the Unionists, IriBh, and Labor parties will be taken into the cabinet or admitted into committees on Imperial defense is unknown. Whatever the changes, they have not Interfered with the operations in which the British forces are engag ed. Outlining these operations In the house of lords today. Lord Kitchen* er, while expressing greatest Confi dol ce in their-- ult?male geste?me, again warned the public that 'great sacrifices bnv0 already been made* and that greater ones are expeotedT He appealed tor three hundred thous? and moro recruits. Kitchener seemed to attach considerable Importance to tho German's use of asphyxiation gases. He declared the British troons must bc adequately protected by the employment of similar methods! Meanwhile the British first army north of Labassee, and Ute French forces to tho south continue their offensive against German line. They claim progress, while the Gorman version say they were repulsed. The Germans, in conjunction with Aus trians, continue their big efforts In the oast. . . ' (?FUMAN CHANCELLOR THINKS WAR WITH ITALY IN?VITABLE Amsterdam, May 18.-Berlin dis patches Bay the Impression was ro celvcd by a majority of the persona who heard the speech of German Chancellor Von Rothmann Hollweg at' at the opening of the Reichstag to day, was that war with Italy ls in evitable, i Rome, May 18.-Dispatches report a revolt in tho Austrian arsonal at i'da, on the Adriatic. It ls asserted ten thousand Italiana employed there came In conflict with troops and fifty persons killed and one hundred In jured. London, May 18.-A far-reaching victory in Bukowina, Austrian down land, on the eastern extremity of the Russian front, is olaimed in an onie ia I announcement at Petrograd. The Russians are said to have awept Bukowina, - taking back much terri tory which they held earlier lu war until they were driven out by the Aus trians. Their successes are described ra of so much importance that they mora than offset the Auatro-German victory In western Galicia in the drive from Cracow. Jt ls reported .the Russians taken Czermewiu, the capital ot Bukowina, having broken *own Aus trian resistance ov|3r . a ninety-mile front and captured 20,000 prisoners. Turkish general staff at Dardanelles reports that tho alli?e on Saturday made, several, attacks on the Turkish right wing. It ls said they were re pulsed with loss of 1,500 men. A Brit ish press representative at Dardan elles telegraphs that the allies now havo advanced five mites np the Gallipoli peninsula. A plot to assassinate the Sultan ot Turkey. Field Marshall Von Der Ooult. Field Marshal Sanders and Bnver Paaha. ia said to have been dis covered at Constantinople. Turks ead Armenians are credited with instigat ing lt. Pour hundred Arabians have been arrested. Reports from the western battle I front disclose no Important ebangea subsequent to the victory over a two mile front announced yestvrt?ay by the arttiBh^commander. Heavy fighting (CONTINUED FROM TAO* IOC.)