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\ VOLUME IL ANDERSON, S. C TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 6, 1915. NUMBER 151. REVEAL MYS1 IS IN SEI MYSTERIOUS CRANK PROM ISES TO TELL ALL WHEN ARRAIGNED DENIES HIS NAME IS ERICH MUENTER Says He Hat Never Been To Cam brid*? -May Not Be Able to Testify Wednesday. Glencove, July 5.-Frank Holt who shot J. P. Horgan, declared today would tell the whole story ot his lite when arraigned Wednesday. His nar ative will rotate particularly to his movements leading up to the placing of the bomb in the United States cap itol and tho attempted assassination of Morgan. He will tell also where he bought the dynamite found on him. He made thlB declaration to Dr. Guy Cleghorn, the jail physician. Dr. Cleghorn said, however, thai Holt ls so weak, unless he showed de cided improvement by Wednesday he might report its inadvisable to remove him from the Mine?la Jail to court here. Ills condition is so grave that all but his counsel, and physician are barred from the cell. Morgan continued to improve today. Specialists announced he is out of danger. Holt helped today to dis count the theory that he might bs Erich Muenter, the Harvard professor who disappeared in 1906 after bis wife died, it was charged, of poison ing. He declared emphatically ? he had never been in Cambridge, and waa in Germany that year. Glen Cove. Nr. Y., July 5.-Frank Holt. J. P. Morgan's assailant, was BO weak today he could not sit up in the Jail cell. The jail physician said Holt's Injuries arc graver than at first thought. The weakness Is due to loss of blood from wounds over the eye. His shoulder was badly wrenched and he bad a powerful blow in the stom ach. The physician said Holt is very Bick, mentally and physically." Tho authorities are trying to clear up whether Holt was involved In the alleged murder M Mrs. Erlen Muenter in 1006: Sheriff Griefenhagen asked Holt where he was in 1906 and after a long and pause Holt said he did not remember. Holt dented thai he is Erich Muenter.. New York, Jury 5.-Efforts are ben lng made here, at Glen Cove, Long Is land, and in several other cities to day to clear up the mystery said to surround the identity of Frank Holt who on Friday 'set the bomb that ex ploded in the Uuited States capitol at Washington and on Saturday at tempted to assassinate J. P. Morgan at Glencove. Federal detectives throughout the country are following clues which are hoped to reveal the chief events in Holt's life. . One of the Important questions to solve was raised by Cambridge, Mass., police regarding tba possible identifi cation of Holt as Brich Muenter, a former Harvard -instructor, who dis appeared after the death ot his wife, from alleged poisoning in 1906. Statements from Muenter's relatives and men who know him in Chicago, comparing the descriptions of Holt with their recollections of Muenter, Interested the detectives working on the case. Photographs of Muenter al so compared with those of Holt. During Holt's .examination by police officials last night, he dtsclosed tba' he had planned to hold Mrs. Morge.i and the Morgan children as hostagss in cbeir own home and kill them if Morgan refused to nae hts Influence tc stop the exportation of war muni tions. Morgan's condition 'oday was re ported aa most favorable. ENGLISH SHIP AFTER THRIL? WITH GERM/ Queenstown, July 5.-With nine sailors dead, ctgfct wounded and her v sides riddled with ?hot ?nd shell, the BrlMsh steamship, Anglo Californian, v arrived here today. Sh? withstood the attack of a German submarine for four* hours. According to the ute ry told by her survivors, Captain #*riow tried td ?team away from the submarine, but tue submarine "eas taster thea the RIOTS FOLLOWS SHOOTING OF FARMER IN GA. SILAS TURNER KILLED WHILE TRYING TO COLLECT MONEY FROM NEGRO TWO LYNCHED FOR REVENGE Sheriff and Deputies Hunting Tur ner's Slayers-Riot* Have Subsided. Gray, Ga., July 5".--Sheriff Ethridge and his deputies are hunting through out Gray county today for negroes alleged to "have figured In the murder nf Silas Turnor, a farmer, Sunday near Hound Oak. Three persons in jail at Macon are the only ones arrested. The sheriff said bo saw. two dead bodies of negroes killed in tba trouble, and said be had been told others we^e killed. - The dead had nothing to do with the Turnor murder. Enraged cRI sens started out Sunday to avenge Turner. All was quiet today however. - Macon, July 5.-An armed posse of a hundred farmers is searching today for John Richey and Thomas Brooks, negroes, accused of killing Silas Tur nor Sunday at Grays in Jones county. Information this morning said that Will Green and his son were the only negroes lynched by the mob last night itt the race riot following Tur ner's murder. Will Gordon, one of 'the three negroes brought to jail here, according to the authorities, de clared that he saw Brooks fire the ?bet ?hat killed Turner. Gordon said that Turner went to Brook's home to coll?e*, a bill and was trying to enter the house when thc fatal shot was fired. There are no reports of fur ther troubles between the whites and negoes. Earlier Report. Macon, July 5.-Three negroes were shot to death by a mob last night near Round Oak and Wayside, vil lages thirty miles from here and the authorities today are searching for others Te ported to be missing. News of the lynchings was not known here until this morning, owing to the wires being out of order last night. This morning the sheriff's deputies arrived with; three negroes, who were being held In connection with the killing of Silas Turner, a farmer, whose death precipitated an outbreak of race feeling. Turner yesterday weit to t;?e home of W. H. King, a negro, near Found oak to collect a bili troro one of sevl eral negroes there. A dispute arose and Turner was shot ana'killed. The negroes fled. Turner's body wea! found later hy friends and plans were made to avenge the death. Accord- ! lng to tho deputies five hundred men composed the mob. -li ? 0. ? ... TROOP OP 17. 8. CAVALRY PURSUING ?RTlfAX BAND Hartington, Texas, July ?.-Eighty United States Cavalrymen left here late today in pursuit of iorty Mexi cans, who crossed the border Sunday night and looted a ranch near I ?? ford. Texas, thirty miles from here. killing two men. UNG BATTLE IN SUBMARINE I steamer. Then wireless calls for help were sect out. The cantala maneu ver red the ship to avoid the torpedo ing and kept this up until a shell struck the bridge, killing bim. His son took the captain's place, and continued dodging until British, de stroyers appeared. The submarine then submerged sod fled. The Anglo Californian sailed from ?Montreal ?one 24, for the British Isles. Threaten Lim Slr Robert Borden. Germans In the United -States have Greatened that the White- Star liner Adriatic (owned by a British corpora tion) carrying Sir Robert. Borden, premier of Canada, to a war con ference in London, will be sunk by i sobmarine. , Tho vessel left tho jther day, end though the name of Lhe premier did not show on Ute pas senger list it was well understood he nae on board. He had refused when ie arrived- it?-J?bw York to name the rossel on which he would sail. She KILLED BY A NEGRO Relative of Slain Man and Un known Nefro Wounded in Melee. Augusta; Ga., July 5.-Heilery Edenfield, a Swainsboro planter, was killed and his kinsman, Dottle Eklen-. field, mortally wounded in a shoot ing "affray and an unidentified negro seriously wounded in one of Eden field'e tenant houses last night. Wil liam Miller, a negro, is being sought by the authorities on the charge of shooting the Bdenfields. The wound ed negro is said' to have been shot by the whlto men as- he ran from tho place, after a controversy with Heil ery, which'led to the shooting. CORONER'S JURY FAILS IQ OirWElMYSIERY No Arrests in Case of Three Bootes Found in Chattahoo chee River. West Point, Ga.? July 5.-Max and J. Epps Melton and John Leake, came to their death "at the bands of per-' sons unknown" the cooners Jury de cided today. The bodies, fouu-1 In Chattahoochee rire:-, near Blanton's Ferry, bore tnrrks of violence. There were no arrests. No evidence .was heard because state attorneys ano r? tives of the dead failed, to appear. EIGHT KILLED CELEBRATING 4TH Total Fire Loss Caused by Ac cidents Amounted to * $86,550. Chicago, July 5.-Eight per. mia were killed and 177 ?vjurod aa a re sult of Fourth of July celebrations throughout the nation yesterday, kc-1 Cording to figures complied by the Chicago Tribune. Infiel4 the total number of vic tims waa 9 killed and 601 Injured. Fire lose yesterday, due to accidents, combin?e; with the ase of explosives, was I66/HJ0. as compared with $76, 0S5 last year. ? tr Carrying Cane '''' ' \ Guy Nkknlls. carried also Guy Nickalls, tho Eng lish' coach of' tho-' Yale.crew, which has just beaten Harvard in their annual varaltv r?-e, und a small number o? Am?ricain'; Ju ali 420 pas sengers. Tho sinking of tho Armenian by a new and enormous German sub marine has added ta the fear'over the fate of the. Adriatic. And there would be more roa sot? to sink the Adriatic thau the Lusttfeula; she car ries a largo can^ vtVjCon^raband O? war, wfclle the Lusitania's cargo was insignificant. There were nearly. 300 FATAL AFFRAY F. L. SMALL VOOD CHARGED WITH MURDER OF LEE REDMOND SHOOTING DENIED BY SMALLWOOD Two Men Were Thought to be Good Friends-Shooting Still . Mystery. Gainesville, Ga., July G.-L?o Rod-, mond dll?s dead in an undetaker's chapel*-?with a pistol ball though his abdomen and his friend, P. L. Small wood, < is In Jail chargea with the killing as the result of a fatal shoot ing-mystery hero last night which tho police have so far been unablo to unravel. A coroner's inquest .was held, hut adjourned without a verdict at a late hour after examining a number of witnesses. Both Rodmrr.d and Smallwood were known au . n ,stantial citizens of Gainesville, both members of the Can dler Horse Guards and supposedly good friends. Redmond was fonnd dying lu tho rear of Bric0 ft Co.'s store a little be fore 7 o'clock. Smallwood denies the shooting, saying that Redmond came into the store .and staggered up Against him. saying that he had been shot Smallwood gave tho alarm and sent clerks in tho store for physicians but the wounded man was ues-iy dead when medical assistance arriv ?e, and breathed his last soon after. A . pistol, said to have been Small wood's w^th one exploded cartridge In lt, was found in a safe ta the store. On the dead man were found an au tomatic p'istol and n pair of.medal knucks. Tho pistol was loaded, the magasine full of. cartridge*v and one cartridge in the barrel of tue gun. ????????????i ? *+ * ? * ATTEKF1 T? BLOW ri? , * ? IIETKC ?1VK BUREAU * ? ?LL + * :;"w York. July 5.-A dy- ? ? namlto bomb exploded tonight ? ? In on areaw?y, of tho. deter.- ? ? tire bureau ai police her.d- ? ? .Hurlera hare. A heavy, door ? ? WM-, blown off but no one waa ? ? hurt... * * r' : *-:?; + idian Premier The Adriatic. auto engines and tractors lashed to tlie deck of tho vessel, but although tjio manifest has not yet been made public it was understood she carried more implcu-ents of war In lier hold. The Adriatic, under ordinary cir- | cumstancoB, would enter the danger zono on Tuesday evening, July C. ?t may l>e. however, that 'her owners, warned by the fate which overtook the Lusitania, may order tho skipper tu gd out ot hts regular course, per haps to the north ol Ireland, in order to eliminate as much as possible'the ettr-proiicat danger of . German sun- I merinos in th* war son? around thtrf Biitish Isles. BRITISH ANO TURKISH LOSSES IN GALLIPOLI i ? Each Side Given Report of Ene mies Losses in Dardanelles Fighting. Berlin, July 5.-The British lost teu thousand men bi the last twelve days around SIM ld ul Bahr on Gallipoli Peninsula, says Uro Constantiuople correspondent of the Zeitung Un Mil tag. He states he saw thousands of wounded transported to hospital ships. The dead wero loft unburied. Turkish Losses. London, July 5.-'ino total Tur kish casualties lu tho Dardanelles from June twenty eighth to July sec ond is live thousand ono hundred fifty killed, and fifteen thousand woundod. n'ccordng to the British oillci.il presa bureau. DELAYS ACTION ON HUERTA'S EXTRADITION -, Gov. Ferguson Awaiting Advice From State Deparment Officials. Austin, Texas, July 5.-Governor Ferguson announced definitely today he would take no action on Ibo re quest for extradition of Genera; Huerta until nd ba? oeen officially ad vised from Washington that the Vil la governor of Chfhuahau State, in Mexico, is tho proper person to re quest ab extradition. LEAVE TO ARGUE FOR EXTRADITION Attorney General Peoples and So licitor Timmerman go to Philadelphia. Columbia. Jn?y B.-Attorney Gen feral Pseplen and George Timmerman. s*. lei tor of the eleventh circuit are leaving late today for Harrisburg, ?'??o'v'vania. for a hearing Wednes day before Governor Brumbaugh" ob the extradiction to ?louth Carolina ot Kred Brown a negro charged with murdering J. F. Durst - ot Bdzfield county in 190?. GERIN REPLY IS EXPECTED WI HIM WEEK GERARD UNABLE TO LEARN ETACT DATE OF DE E$?EHY GERMANY TO MAKE COUNTER PROPOSAL I b Said to be of Conciliatory Tone j and Opens Way for Set tlement. Berlin, July 5.-A preliminary ex change^views ls preceding between the United States and Germ.ny re gard lng th o nature of the forthcoming German reply to Ute United States Koto on submarine warfare. It is learned. This itt responsible for tho I delay ia the dollv^yry of tho German I note. this last American note on larine warfare probably won't be received for a week. Ambassador Gerard's reports set no specific date. He predicted, though a Week will be required, (?ersd has been unable to learn definitelly just what the Ger man reply will outline. He knows, however, t hut Germany will make a counter proposal, the nature of which ls now being discussed. Windsor, Vt., July, 3.-Germany's second note iu response to thia gov-, ernment's protest against her subma rino warfare operations, culminating in thc Rinking of the Lusitania will reach Washington about July 8. It will bo given to Ambassador Gerard at Berlin, a asy or two earlier and is now practically completed. This information was received by President Wilson from official sources late yesterday afternoon. As a re sult, it was announced from llariak enden house, that the president, will loavu lier?, for Washington about July 9 br IO. It will bc taken up In a cabi net meeting for tho first timo July 13. Ambassador Gerard it is under stood, has already transmitted to the state department and the president complete and frequent reports of the progress of Germany's noto. WJiile thc president maintained his attitude of refusing to make any comment, it is known that Ambassador Gerard's reports have given the presi dent ground for confident belief that Germany will make material conces sions and possibly propose a solution which can bc accepted by this gov ernment. The con f iden tal reports reaching thc president, including that regard ing the date the German note would be received, are all to the effect that the German reply will be conciliatory, if not actually orbring a final basis for satisfactory settlement. No Trouble Over Armenian. . The president has also been ad vised, it was learned* upon excellent authority that officials in Washington believe the sinking of the Armenian will not complicate the German ne gotiation!). With Incomplete reports and Investigations in progress lt was said that the president has not ar rived at any conclusion regarding the Armenian. He ls not precluding ac tion by this government If any rights of the . United States were violated in , {CONTINUED ON PAGE PIVE.l FRENCH OFFICI AMERICAN Pi TO TOMB < . Paris, July B.-The French govern ment officially participated in the an nual Independence Day Pllgrlms^e or Americans in Paris to the tomb of Lafayette today for the first time. President Poincar*, War Minister Millorand, the porfrct of police, the perfect of Seine were represent'4. The ministers of Argentina, Brasil and Collo wer0 also prosent. MET TON ADVANCE; JNING IN WEST CONTRADICTORY REPORTS RECEIVED FROM EVERY . THEATRE GERMANS TAKE FRENCH TRENCHES Are Maslin* Troops for Effort to Drive French From Alsace. London, July, ti.--Much activity was apparent today in all three theatres <?t war. Reports are generally con tradictory. ? i Berlin uses, "reliable sources" for a denial that German battleship of th0 predreadnaught type was sunk by a Russian submarino oft the mouth of Danzig Bay. Petrograd'* version ls accepted here. It is not difficult to (Deduce, by reading between lines, that the Russians are making % desperat* stand between the. rivers Pruth ana Dniester. ..." Grand1 Duke Nicholas reports dca-\ perate fighting In Southern Poland. Vienna admits the 'Fusilaos are at tacking wirb, strong toce. Teutonic sources, though, declare this effort is a forlorn hopo. Linsinfcen's army ls reported by Vienna and Perlln to hav* reached the whole front ci ZIota Lipa river In eastern Galicia. . Berlin claims important successes lu the weat. In tho forest of Lepre tre tho Germans ero reported to have wade tho French.ovacuate trench at t-jT trench evep a fifteen .hundred .'yard front and to- have taken a thousand prisoners. The Paris version ?? that Ute Germans, after an extremely heavy bombardment along a front of one kll lmter, regained a foothold ot the old llneswhlch had been taken by the French. CMltizens of Switzerland report the. frontier closed es * result ot the mass ing of Goman troops preparatory to an effort to drive tba French from Alsace. London. July 5.-German assaults I nforce on the French linea are con tinuing and the Germans liave re gained the ground lost on a front two .thirds of a mile long near Fey-En Raye and Moselle. The French of ficial statement today admits this, while recording the '-reaklng of at tacks along other parta of the front. In Southern Poland, the Rtisslan's are fighting determinedly to check the Teutonic thrust at Warsaw. Tho latest Austrian official state ments admit that the Russians have been strongly attacking? several sec 'tors, Petrograd describes desperate en gagements between the Vistula and Bug rivers, and claims to have check" ed tho Teutons at different points, but concedes ? retirement In east Galicia from Gnllalipa to Zlotaltpa. Vienna declares the heights north of Krasnlk bave been taken by the Teutons. ' A Turkish statement declares the entehto allies lost heavily In an at tempt to land reinforcements on Gallipoli Peninsula'and that the ef fort was frustrated. Petrograd reiterates the claim that a Russian submarine sank a German battleship of the Deutchtand class In the Baltic on Friday. Berlin semi officially denies Chis. The latest Berlin advices confirm recent Intimations that the Gannan reply to UH American note may not be delivered for several days; during which time an agreement nay be af fected between the naval extremnts and those favoring a compromise oa Germany's submarine policy. London, July 5.-At a rate estimat ed at five miles n day. General. von Mackensen's Genuan forces are still swinging northward In Galicia and Poland? In a colossal, and daring en deavor to drive a wedge Into the Rus sian center and dislodge'the Russians -^-w-v--. (CONTINUED QN PAGE FTVST.) ?ALS JOIN ?LGRIMAGE )F LAFAYETTE The tomb was draped with the?ers and stripes. Ambassador Sharp spoke, and alluded briefly to Atnert can sympathies fdr France. Frederick Masson of the Ffenctfcaat? demy, delivered ac oration acknowl edging the sympathy ot the Ameri cans. He compared Ute present ef forts ol tho French to the American revolution.