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tnctt Local Cotton.8 7-8c VOLUME II. ANDERSON, S. C. SATURDAY MORNING, MAY 29, 1915. NUMBER 118. INCREASING ACTIVITIES AROUND BRITISH ISLES SOURCE OF WORRY THREE STEAMERS SUNK YESTERDAY Ge/many Also Threatens to Ex tend Submarine Warfare to Suez Canal. London, May 28.-The success of the submarines in the Dardanelles and their ever increasing activity arounu the British Isles is causing officials to realize the danger threat ening Oreat Britain if Germany large-1 ly increases her submarine fleet. The danger ls augmented by the ' berman threat to carry the war to the I Suez Canal to attack trade passing through tho canal. It was reponed today that subma- ? r'nos had sunk Ihe British steameis i Cadeby and Spennimore. tbe Swedish i bark Koosvoll. and had chasen and i fired on the big liner Argyllshire. > The latter escaped to Havre. Trade to ?->d from British ports goes on re- | gardleBS of the submarine menace. There will be no interruption in thc Dardanelles operations. The fleet ! must assist the army on Gallipoli Peninsula, regardless of submarines, raines nnd shell Are. The Turks will probably have an other invasion to meet soon. It is unofficially reported . ?hat " Keliana have landed on the island of Rhode?, on* the Asia Minor cop st. The situation on the eastern and western fronts is unchanged. The Austrians and Germans claim ad vances toward Przemysl, although j although the Russians resist stub- J bomly. The French offensive to the north J of Arras progresses. Tbe 'British j are engaged north of abause. and are continuously resisting German at tacks around Ypres. The German at tempts to capture Ypres are reported to have cost an enormous number of lives. Toe Italians claim they, haye ad vanced further Into Austrian terrt I ory. No important hallies have bsen fought in the southwestern theatre. London. Moy 28.-Przemysl, now garrisoned by the Russians, is once more threatened by Investment. Just as tho Russians, after surrounding the great fortress ami starving out Its Austrian defenders, forced the sur render, so the Austro-Qerman troops who have driven a wedge through cen tral Galicia, are seeking to encircle Przemysl from the north and south east, Vienna declares that progress is be ing made in both directions, and if the advance is not checked Prlzemys will either be isolated from the rest of the Russian army or. tho Russian troops which fell back from the San river will be forced Into a further retreat. The situation in Galicia ls unques tionably Of great strategic Importance. Even the British press concedes that the position of PrzemyBl is serious. It is described aa the key to the whole Russian position In Galicia and its fall would mean that the railroad running eastward to Lemberg would fall into the. Austrian banda. The reports that the railroad Hoes has al ready been Severed are still without confirmation today. The fighting along the AUB tro-1 tal lan frontier is still lo the development stages. ' Ortho western battle front Lhere ls vtrlSally no change. The British and french admit that the .Turks are so strongly entrenched on the Qallopll peninsular that only siege warfare catt be waged there. SWIFT & COMPANY ARE INDICATED Are Charged With Violation of Laws Regarding Meat Ship mente. Chicago. May 28.--Swift and Com pany were indicted this afternoon hy tho federal grand Jury, charged with violating the law regulating Inter state shipments ot meat and packing .house products. The company ls al leged to have received concessions whereby property was transport ed atristes lower tnac those publish ed. SUMMON FRANK AS WITNESS IN DAMAGE SUIT MARY PHAGAN'S MOTHER SUING NATIONAL PENCIL FACTORY ASKS DAMAGES IN SUM OF $10,000.00 Jim Conley Abo Summoned Testimony Will be Taken in Writing Wednesday. Atlanta, May 28.-Leo. M. Frank and Janies Conley, tbe negro, have been subpoenaed as the principal witnesses In the ten thousand dollar damage suit of Mrs. J. W. Coleman, Mary Phagan's motlier, against the National Pencil Co., here, where the girl's budy was found. Conk y vas sentenced to a year im prisonment as an acessory to the girl's murder. The tr?o! wont begin for two months, but Frank's and Conley's testimony will be taken ' Wednesday ac Frank ls sentenced to die next monti'. Conley will be released Wed nesday. It ls sought to establish by their evidence that the Phagan girl was killed in the factory. United States Senator Kern of In diana has celegraphed Governor Sla ton, asking clemency fer Frank. KITCHIN DENIMS STATEMENT HE WANTED EXTRA SESSION Washington,- May 28,- Representa tive Kitchin of North Carolina today denied the reports that he" hnd 'urged un extra "congressional sesslou to. con sider the revenue situation. NEBRASKAN MATTER IS STILL IN DOUBT Nothing Definite Yet to Indicate Whether Mine or Torpedo Caused Explosion. Berlin, May 28.-The foreign office ?nd admiralty is still without news of the reported torpedoing of the Amerl cau steamer Nebraskan. Liverpool, May 28.-While none of the crew of the American steamship Nebraskan, which was disabled Tuesday night by an explosion off the coast of ' Ireland, saw a subma rine, the chief engineer believes that he aaw the wake of a torpedo, accord ing to Captain Greene of the steam ship. , The captain said that there was a hole about twenty feet square in the ship's forecastle below the water line. Thc damage to the ship's superstruc ture waa so severe that it is evident that the ahock must have been ter rific. The United States consul there and representatives of the United States' jmbasay In London boarded the ship yesterday afternoon off the bar and came with her to dock. Testimony of Men. Crookhaven, Ireland, May 28.-The captains of Crookhaven schooners and fishing boats, who were In the vicinity of thc American steamship Nebraskan when she was damaged by the explosion Tuesday, claim to have witnessed the torpedoing of three smaller fishing boats. Soon afterward they say that they saw a steamship flying the Ameri can flag going west. Then they heard-a loud report followed quick ly by a second, after which the steamship began blowing her whistle Cor help. . CRUISER NORTH CAROLINA RUNS AGROUND HEAR EGYPT Washington. May 28.-The United States cruiser North Carolina ls aground within the outer harbor of, Alevandria, Egypt, according' to re port to the navy department today by her commander, Captain Oman, who said the ship was undamaged; that dredging operations will be undertak en to release her. Efforts to release her yesterday fail ed. As soon as floated tho North Car olina will return to act aa naval avia tion ship at Pensacola, Florida. Engineer* Farer Peaee. ClortsIauH, May 28.-The Brother hood of Locomotive Engineers went oa record today as favoring International peace sad armament reduction. GARY SPEAKS ON AFTERMATH OFM WAR PREDICTS RACE FOR SU PREMANCY WHEN WAR IS ENDED U. S. WiLL BECOME LEADING NATION Advocate? Strong American Navy in Speech Before Iron and Steel Institute. New York. May 28.- Elbert H. Gary, chairman of the knited States Jteel corporation, and president of the American Iron and Steel Institute, in an address today at the institute'* annual meeting, declared that.after the European war there would be such, a race for supremacy as the world never had seen. He declared that, when the conflict had ended the uutions engaged In' war "will begin Immediately to build on n better basis for success," ana that "from adversity will come a greater prosperity than eve/ before.". In the course of his address he said: 'It is uot too much to believe that after the close of tho war there will be a feeling, almost universal, that there must ho established and muli fained a court of arbitration that will secure the adjustment of all future differences without anv protracted or. general test by an armed force." However, he -advocates a strong navy for the United States, saying that the United States "must not be again in a position 'which permits any country to dominate-the seas." The proper conservation of the na tion'*-resources made it seen; per taa*, twa added,'that the United S tat ea already occupied thal position. U. S. TO STRENGTHEN SUBMARINE SERVICE Secretary Daniels Details Captain Grant, of the Texas, for This Service. Washington, May 28.-Following the announcement of his intention to develop the submarine arm or the United States navy and eliminate the faults, Secretary Daniels today desig nated ('aumin A. W. Grant, one of the highest ranking captains commander of the Atlantic submarine flotilla with general supervision over this branch. Capt. Grant now commands the bat tleship Texas. Forty Miners Trapped. Nanamio, B. C., May 28.-About 40 minors were trapped by a gos ex-' plosion in tho resero mine of the Western Fuel company here today. Sixteen have been rescued and two bodies rescued. COTTON VARIES WITH WEATHER New York, May 28.-Detailed we?tner reporta, snowing heavy rums in a number of districts, followed by ratber active demand from-shorts and local bulla in tho cotton market here today resulted in prices being about 4 to 7 points net higher late in the morning. Private estimates publish ed just before midday were followed by reactions ti to 7 poluta. Reruse Halse of Salary. New York, May 28.-The ladles of the Maccabees of the World chang-, ed their name in convention here to day to the Woman's Benefit associa tion of the Maccabees, received tito refusal of their supreme commander. Miss Bisa M. Weft, to accept sn in crease . in salary to $10,000 a- year, considered a resolution recommend ing the espousal of woman suffrage by their 187,000 members and voted to procee dwith tho construction or a new home office building in Port Haven, Mich. To Built Loc?te ti ve?. . Richmond, May 28.-The . Cheasa peake & Ohio railway has closed a contract with the American Locomo tive company for 24 Mallet type locomotives, the total cost of which was approximately $720,000, accord lng to announcement at th% company's ?enerai offices here today. The loco motives will be built at Schenectady, N. Y., the Richmond plant recently having been converted into a shrapnel factory. Frbhman's Body Being Landed mis photograph fchowa a sre.ac on i was docked in New York elly. Three i board the American Ibier Now York survivors and nim> bodies of victims when the body of Charles Frohman, i came on this liner. The pier was ?the well-known theatrical producer, a; crowded with relatives and friends of I victim of the sinking of the Lusitania. I the deceased, and there were many wa? being carried off when the vesseL I affecting scenes. {CLOSER RELATIONS I Bi EEN AMERICAS DELEGATION FROM COMMERCIAL INTERESTS OF UNITED ? STATES WILL VISIT VARIOUS COUNTRIES OF SOUTH AMERICA. Washington, May 28.-The Pa,n Aroerican financial conference this af ternoon took another step toward the improvement of business and finan cial relations between thc Americas. The delegates from the Southern republics unanimously approved a resolution calling upon United States business and commercial interests to unite during the next pix months in selecting a delegation to visit all South and Central American coun tries. . The resolution proposes thnt the delegation shall bo the guests of ?the various nations and be received by various governments chamborss com merce and industrial organizations. Tho southern republics accredit ed diplomatie representatives to Unit er. States will be asked to help ar runge the trip. The adoption of this resolution and tho report from the committee on uniform laws for Amor-! can relatons wer-? the chief features ! today. The uniform laws committee sug-| posted a high commission of nine ! members from each country to con sider uniform statutes relating to j comercial and business intercourse between the republics. Repr?sentative Flood and Secretary Garrison were two of tho days speak ers. The conference holds Its final jSeit'ou tomorrow when lt closes wRh I a banquet. BIG FRENCH LINER LA CHAMPAGNE ASHORE j Nine Hundred Passengers Were Removed From Boat in Safety. Nantes, Franco, May 28.-Thc steamship I.a Champagne oT the French trans-Atlantic Une is ashore near St. Nasal re.. She ht. badly dam aged. Nine hundred persons, who were aboard, wero taken off. Paris, May 28.-Tho officials of tho French ilno hero say that all the passengers of . La Champagne " had been landed at St. Nazaire and that there ls no need of anxiety aa to the 1 safety of the vessel. They state that she was not torpedoed J A plot to blow up Lo Champagne was reported last February In a dis patch from Madrid to a Paris news paper. The officers of the -?-essel ac* cording to the story, stated on her ar rival at Corunna from Mexico, that ?the Plot had been frustrated by a wireless - message, conveying the In formation that, a mao on board,-be lieved to bo a German, intend**! to destroy thc ship. According to the dispatch, a .man was arrested and five dynamlto bombs were found bi I his trunk. Will Not Attend. Richmond, Va.. May 2?^-President 1 Wilson yesterday notified Lieut. Gov. Ellyson that he would be unable (o attend the OSited Confederate Veter an?' reunion, here June 1, 2 3. be cause of the pressure of public bus iness. GREENVILLE VETERAN HAS MSSEO AWAY Capt. Geo. W. Charlotte Held Important Post Undei Gen. ?. E. Ue. Greenville, May 28.-Cnpt. George William Charlotte, of this city, who held nn important post with Gen. Robert E. Lee's nrmy of Northern Virginia, lins crossed ovnr tho river to a land of rest. He answered the death summons in the T.'ith year of his age. Had ho lived six r .onths longer he and his wife, nee Miss Maggie Whitehearst Man ion, whom he married nt Heaufort, N. C., in 1865, would have celebrated their golden wedding In November of this year. Plans were being made by members of thc family to glorify the event. Capt. Charlotte was born at New Hern. N. C.. where his forbears Bot tled in the carly days of Carolina's colonial hlstoty. When a young.man he pursued his higher education at Princeton university, but when the wat between the States broke out he Immediately left his classes for Rich mond, where he enlisted. BB W ISH STEAMER SPENIMORE VICTIM OP SUBMARINES Falmouth. England, May 28.-The new British steamer Spennlmore has been suhle by a German submarine off Orkney Islands. The captain and fivo of the crew wero drowned. The engineer was badly injured by a burst ing-?bell. Twenty-three survtvors landed here. PLEAD GUILTY OF ATTEMPT TO DEFRAUD U. S. ISSUED FALSE MANIFESTS IN EFFORT TO SHIPS CON TRABAND TO WAR RUBBER HIDDEN IN COTf ON WASTE Are Said to Have Been Working in Interest of Germany Three Fined. Now York. May 28.-Franz Rosen berg, Sigmind Karman and Albert B. Newman pied guilty to Indictments tliiH afternoon charging them with defrauding the United state:, by filing false manifests in connertion with an < offort to get contraband of war to i hi lllgorents by conccalnig rubber In i reain and cotton wasto. Tho lirst two were fined five hun- | died, dollars each and Newman two i hundred. Harry Solomon and Albert Solof i mon. indicted with tho three others i pied not guilty. They were placed i under n thirty five hundred dollur ; bond and given until Monday to i change their pleas if they desired. i New York, May 28.-Jacob L. Sa!as, : wtiB convicted this afternoon of con- i splracy in . onnection with the Pana- i ina canal zone frauds before the federal court here. Sias was paroled ] pending sentence. ? GEORGIA SHIPS FIRST GAR 1915 PEACHES Arrangements Made Facilitate 1 Handling Crop of Five Thousand Cars. Atlanta, Ga., May 28.-The Geor 'gla peach will be on the New York market Friday morning, May 28, one day earlier than last year, the first car of thc fruit having been rushed to the eastern market in a special train over the Southern Raliway leav infl Atlanta at midnight Wednesday. All arrangements for handling the bulk of the crop with equal dispatch have been completed and as In the past years peaches will be handled from Atlanta to the markets of the ea?;t by tho Southern Railway on spec ial trains operated on fast passenger schedules. Peaches from South Georgia points are concentrated in Atlanta, received at the Southern's Inman Yards and there made into trains for the fast movement to the enBt. As in 1914, the first car of peaches came from Byron, Ga. Antic'patlng a crop of 5,000 cars, ifilcials of Southern Railway and con necting lines held a meeting in At lanta Thursday with representatives ot the Fruit Growers Express and Hie Georgia Fruit Exchange, and com pleted details of the movement. Spec ial refrigerator cars used in this ser vice are being placed in largo num bers in proximity to the orchards. At thc height of the season Southern t ' iii way will be sending from fiftc? n to twenty special peach trains out f Atlunta every night. ITALIANS M A Kl! KURS IN HYDROAEROPLANES Rome, May 28.-A successful raid on thc Trlest Naberesina railroad by a squadron of Italian hydroaero planes and the occupation of addl . Ional Austrian territory along the Tyrol frontier and in the Friuli front were reported in the official state ment .which was Issued last night by the Italian war office. It is stated that an artillery battle is raging be tween the Italian and Austrian forti fied positions along the Trentino front. PRESIDENT RECOVERED FROM SLIGHT ILLNESS Washington, May 28.-The presi dent hos virtually recovered from his slight indisposition which, with the absence of pressing business, caus ed bim to cancel the regular Friday cabinet making. The president remained abed this morning. Later he took an automo bile ride and attended some impor tant matters. Peace Ornoo rn Meet. Cincinnati, May 28.-A new or ganization, the federation of North American Peace Officers met. here to day. -Major Richard Sylvester of Washington was elected president. PRESIDENT HAS DECIDED TO SEND FINAL WARNING TO LEADING '/'ACTIONS MUST COMPOSE SITUATION SOON Wilton Tired of Prolonged Delay in Establishment of Peace Issue Statement Tuesday. Washington. May 28.- "ne presi dent han decided to notify the wari ring Mexican factions that conditions there have become Intolerable and tliiit unie H they compose the situa tion roon some other means will be employed to accomplish that result. The Wu lt? House h?u issued a statement saying that when the presi dent's appeal for aid for the Mexi cans was issued :t was also stated at the executive ofhues that a state ment from the president on the pres ent Mexican situation might be az pected soon. This statement will be Issued after next Tuesday's cabinet meeting, then sent to the leaders of ill Mexican factions. Officials tonight denied that the president contemplates recognition of any faction. ' _ g.^ REPLY TO LUSITANA NOTE M?YG?ME TODAY It is Understood Germany Will Deliver Answer to U. S. Ambassador Today. .> ? * (J HUMAN Y REPLY TODAY ? * - + *> . Berlin. May 28.- It is under- ? * stood Germany's reply to the ? + United States note concerning * * submarine warfare will be de- * + livered to the United Statea * * ambassador tomorrow, and ? * will be furnished the German # <. press on Sunday for publics- ? * tion. * ? ? B-+++++++++**++*+*** <t> + * Washington, May 28.-Much spec ulation is occasioned among the Unit ed States officials because Germany has allowed two weeks to pass with out replying to the note concerning violations of American rights In the war zone. Tension was Increased to lay by insistent reports from London that the Nebraskan was torpedoed and published intimations that Germany would ?end a'series of notes, delaying discussion of questions of merits un til there ls an agreement on facts. PIRE LOSSEH TOTALED miWWm LAST YEAR New York, May 88.-Pire tosses in the United States last year total? :d $221,000,000. a sum exceeded oaly '.wicn in the country's history, ac cording to reporta submitted today to the National tioard'of Underwrit ers Ia convention here. The lo&s&s were well distributed throughout*3$$^ jountry. William M. Kramer, president or tho board, presented statistics p?r" porting to show that thc fire insurance justness in 1914 resulted in an i.uder * riling loss to the companies of 4.2-1 ?er cent. The tout premiums paid 191 leading companies during the year ivr..? 1:^3,647.000, he asid. . i ..1.1 i. MEXICANS GET RESPITE RUT NO CONSOLATION Phoenix, Arizona. May .28.--The joard of pardons and paroles today -esplted the five Mexicans'sentenced io hang for murder. With ail legal" >b?tacles to th? hanging re ?oard granted the Mpxloouanine weeks, respite so the men might be mnged separately. Storm at Charleston. Charleston, May 28.-Nine negro fishermen are known to have been Irowntd and it i? thought several ?there aluo perished in a storm ear' Thursday oft Charleatoa light. R .urning fishermen report that c :i wind attained a velocity n? m hour and that many ot the v tels ot the fishing fleet were ?yam .J.