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Wan ANDERSON, S. C SATURDAY MORNING, JULY 1 Or 1915. NUMBER 155. _ Im irr?' IS EXPECTED HERE TODAY IS NOW BEING PUT INTO CODE FOR TRANSMIS SION TO U. S. TO 'TEACH HERE TODAY OR SUNDAY Proposals Will Be Discussed et Cabinet Meeting Tuesday-Wil son Refuses to Comment. Berlin, July 9.-Gerraanys offer, embodied in the reply to the Ameri can note regarding the sinking of tho Lusitania ar.J. submarine warfare wliich was delivered to Ambassador Gerard last night ts: First: Reiterated assurance that American ships engaged in legitimate trade won't be interfered with nor tho lives of Americana on neutral ship:; endangered. Second: German submarines will be instructed to allow American pas * sanger ships to pass freely and safe ly, Germany entertaining in return thc confident hope that (ne American government will see that these shipB don't carry contraband: such ships i?. l!lJ?r"vM.?l^?J?^'nglHRl,l^P marks .and their arrival announced nt a reasonable time in advance. The same privilege is extended to a reasonable number of neutral pas senger ships udder the America;, flag and should the number ot ships thus available for passenger service prove inadequate, Germany is willing to permit America to piece four hostile passenger steamers under the Ameri can flag to ply between Nortb Ameri ca and Europe under the same con ditions . ? Th<. text of the note was made pub lic here tonight. Washington, July 9.-The text of the German roply to thc American note on submarine warfare ls expect ed here tomorrow or Sunday. Am bassador Gerard cabled that today it was delivered tr- bim last night and was putting it in code. President Wilson is duo in Wash ington to discuss th? note Tuesday at a cabinet meeting. No comment will be made until the official text arrives. Washington, July 9.-Germany's reply to the Amorican note was de liberad to Ambassador Gerard, last night and should reach Washington probably tomorrow and undoubtedly by Sunday. President Wilson is ex pected to ? return from Cornish and lay a reply before the cabinet Tues day. Officials realizo that there is probably no , essential change from the form in which the reply was outlined recently. On the basis ot that outline the United C .tea de clined to comment on the negotia tions, because lt was felt the propas?is could net be accepted by the United States without a sacrifice o fneutral rights. Meanwhile there is renewal of tension over tho next atep if the German r*>ply is the esme aa the unsatisfactory unofficial out line. Clearly nnother critical stage in the relations between Germany taud the United States has been reached. Some officials considered that the United States might reject thc Gorman propas?is and notify Germany that the United States in tended to insist on the principle of 'visit and search tor all unarmed Ves sels ot any nation rnrryin' Ameri cans and a specific violation of those rights woulu'dotennine the next stop of the American policy. LONE BANDIT ROBS SHRINERS Oven* Hundred Tourists Held up By Highwayman fat Yellow stone Park. yu ? m ?H.r? Livingston, Montana, July 9.-A party ot twenty ^ve tourists, includ ing Senator Brady of Idaho, was held up in Yellowstone Park today by three highwaymen. Livingston, 'Montana, July Over a hundred tourists, traveling in twelve stage coaches, wC*b robbed in "yellowstone Park today by one highwayman. Theft estent of their losses and the identity of ?he victims is not known t?ujrtgS?*i;?? Thc robber ?ed. Many ot the victim? w riUiLKl A IS) MULL) FOR GRAND JURY Removed to Fort Bliss to Await Trial-Bond Fixed at $15,000.00. E! Paso, July.9.-General Huerta today waived a preliminary hearing in the federal court ou the charge of violating Ihe neutrality laws and was held for the grand jury at San An tonio. His bond was fixed nt fifteen thousand dollurs. Huerta was remov ed to Fort Bliss. Five other Mexicans, facjiiR similar chnrges, waived pre liminary henrtriir and were released on bond. THAW'S LAWYER CHARGES TRICK Stanchfield Says State Had Lip Reader in Court Translating Conversations Between Thaw and Counsel for Alienists. New York, July 9!-The charge by John B. Stanchfield, chief counsel for Harry K. Thaw, thai the Btato had an expert lip reader in court translating for the benefit of alien ists the whispered conversations of Thaw with his attorneys, precipitat ed a request by Deputy State Attor ney General Becker that a mistrial be declared. Justice Hendrick refused and in structed the Jury that the remarks by most counsel not be considered. Thaw was a witness at the time, but was excused without cross ex amination. He told the story of the shooting of Stanford White and gave hjm n^\ninry ^tj oH.nlotu-TUaW. WAS allowed to answer questions fully. With orie or two exceptions he an swerod directly and with emphasis. Spectators remarked he seemed sure himself. Justice Hendrick announced he had been informed that Evelyn Nesbit Ttaw waB too ill to appear. Becker rea l to the jury her testimony at the habeas corpus proceedings in White Plains. The reading was in progress when adjournment was taken until Monday. ADEQUATE FACILITIES FOR HANDLING CHOP . ..??"*??." Federal Reserve Board Receives Preliminary Reports on Ware house Facilities. Washington, July 9.-W. P. O. Hard ing, of Uio federal reserve board, has received preliminary reports of ware house facilities in the south for hand ling the cotton crop, which are said to be adequate. Officiais aro anxiously awaiting warehouse legislation In Georgia and Alabama. They pointed out that since South Carolina, Texas and Louisana had laws making warehouse receipts paramount letns against cotton on which loans are made, bankers dont fear to lend monoy. Georgia and Alabama have not yet enacted, such laws. FRANK HOLT'S BRAIN IN NORMAL mm Physician Gives Opinion After Examination -To Bury Holt ai Dallas. Aline?la, N. Y., July 9.-The brain of Krank Holt, assailant of J. P. Mor gan who committed suicide in tba Nassau county joli and who has since been identified aa Erich Muentor, long missing wife slayer, was Re moved today and examined by Dr. Buy Cleghorn, who pronounced rt not mal. t Be Buried at Dallas. Dallas, Texas, July 9.-Frank, Holt will ba buried in Dallas, arrangc .11 en ts having been made for bringing the body bore immediately, according Lo an announcement today by an mi ler taking firm. Holt's wife and hev father, the Rev. O. F, Sensabaugh, previously had planned to bury Holt nt Ithaca, N. Y. "My daughter first yielded to our wishes that the funeral be tn Ithaca, N. Y., se she might be spared the ordeal of tho funeral," said Mrs. Holt's father, "but later rho insisted on Famk being burled here, where ?ho expects to.make ber borne. The body ia expected to arrive here Sunday. . Fugitive From J p ERICH MCENTER, *r Former Instructor in German New York detectives are trying to develop the theory that Frank Holt, the former Cornell instructor in Gor man, who shot J. P. Morgan and tried to blow up tho capitol ?u Wash ington, was none other than Erich MuentSr, the Harvard Instructor in German who disappeared from Har vard In 1906 following the death of his wife from poisoning. Erich MIK n ter was of German birth; Prank Holt admitted that ho was of German des cent, although claiming birth in this country. Where,-he did not tell. The handwriting of HUt shown In the pictnre is from tho long letter ho wrote Sunday. July 4, to his father in-law, tho Rev. Mr. Scnsabaugh, In Dallas, Tex. lt shows a peculiar mix ture of various styles, and maye have FIRE ON LINER I CAUSEOBY BOMB Officers of Minnehaha Don't Doubt Bomb Placed by Holt ie Responsible. Halifax, July 9.-A bomb placed on tba Atlantic transport liner Minne haha, probably while in New York, caused the explosion and flro^at sea which forced the vessel to put'in here tor. an examination today, in the ophir on of the vessels officers. There was a terrific explosion in lold three, the crew forward were itunned, and flames followed. ?The; : re w. battled with the fire two days md nights. The officers don't doubt that Erich Muon ter, alias Frank Holt, or a con federate is responsible. Muenter's ilan wan frustrated by the fact that ho weapon waa among tbs mlscellah jouB cargo and was not near .the am nnnitlon cargo. The explosion was 'ol lowed by suffocating fumes. Halifax, July 9.-The transport Iner, Minnehaha, which caught fire Wednesday, enroute from New York o London, with war munitions aboard, irrlved here today. The fire waa ap >arently extinguished and tho danger tone passed. YEW JERSEY 7JXC CO INCREASE CAPITAL STOCK Newark* N. J , July 9.-A stock lividrnd of 260 per cent was declar ed today by ttie New Jersey Zinc ?ompany. which by Its action incrcae td Its capital from $10.000.000 to ?35, ?00,000. Sopperts Rate en Pisa. Columbia, July 9.-Judge Rico, in .bo Richland county court, has re fused to cd }oin th? railroad commis - n from putting into effect the new at Harvard. Former In Mt been dis. isc ; to prevent comparison . with the. handwriting of Muenter. -Pictures cf Muenter, sent to Glen Cove from Cambridge, show a close i resemblance between the former Har vard professor and Holt, attendants who looked at Holt, with a picture of the man wanted for the murder or his.wife in 1906 in. their hands, de clared that with his beard shaven on' I Muenter might easily be Holt. P. W. Hiller of l'JV Oxford street. Cambridge, tho house in which Mrs. Muenter* died, who 'lived under the Muenters while they were in Cam bridge, said that Holt and Muenter were the same, judging from the pic ture of Holt BboTT? to him. A. E. Long, '.no undertaker who I prepared Mrs. Muenter's body for tho funeral, when shown a pictiir? of Holt i PLANS TO HELP BUSINESS MEN Federal Trade Commission Has Plans for Building up Ameri can Business. Washington. July fl -Vice Chair man Edward N. Hurley of the Fed eral Trade Commission, in a state-1 ment today suggest inc plans by which the commission may give con structive help to American business, emphasized ' two methods which be considered of-part?cula - importance. "One of theso "said Mr. Hurley, in Ills statement, "la to aid the busi ness men pf tho country in obtain ing the additional- credits- to which their business operations may en title them. Tho second ia to aid in establishing a standard system ot. bookkeeping and cost account. Thc two aro interdependent." , Tho commission has ia'.mind, Mr. Hurley announced, dividing the country into zones and maintaining In each, experts in accounting, costs tad manufacturing upon Whom mnn 'acturers, merchants and business nen may call for advice and assis tance in establishing economies. Big Cotton Deal. Atlanta. Ga., July fl.-Traveling nen from South Georgia brought the iowa to Atlanta today ?f a big cot ton deal in Tifton, in which'.'MS bales >f cotton were sold to George W. ?ranch for f30,000, o- about 8 1-8 Bents middling. J. is. Paul's, or j oar Fltxgerald, was thc seller . Two American* Killed Washington. July 9.-Two Ameri cans, Richard Martin, of Massachu setts, and John Mahoney;, ot New Ifork, wei^e kille* by tho shell fire ur ho German submarine which attack ho Shot Morganj FRANK HOLT, ructor In Orman at Cornell. said that it was a striking rosem- ' blance to Muenter. A dispatch from Chicago sahl that two University of (?i?4cago professors j identified a photograph of Holt as a likeness of Muenter A reporter showell a picture of Holt I to Miss Hertha Muenter, a' sister of ! the missing Uuruird professor. "I un utiahlo to say whether this is r ! picture of mv brother," she said. "He ' tall like that ut. the features :tou t seem to ho those of thc boy I knew." Dr. ll. B. Mc?Inlyre of Boston, tho physician who was called to attend Mrs. Muenter in 190?. and who re fused to have anything to do with tho case, said when a picture of Holt was shown him that it bore a strong resemblance to Erich Muenter. PROHIBITION AND MIEN Effect of Prohibition on Working Class Discussed Before Anti* Saloon League. Atlantic City. N. J., Jnly 9.-:,Wlll he Workingman Lose His Job and ills Personal Liberty If tho Saloons ire Closed?" waa. thc subject dis .ussed by diaries Stelslo socologlst ind author of New York, before the :onventlon of th,. Anti-Saloon League >f America today. "The workingman fuars being out >f work more than he doea goiug to .ell," he said. "He knows that lt neans to walk the streets looking for L Job. Thc liquor Interests have capitalised upon this fear, and by ?resenting a staggering array of fig tree which seem to prove that calam ty will follow Ute abolition or the Iquor traffic, they have pursosded argo numbers of workingmen who lever enter a saloon to veto for Its retention J "Rut the argument that the \?ork ngman will lose his Job if the liquor raffle is abolished is based opon the ibsurd proposition that if the liquor lealer falls to get the money nov, pent for beer and whiskey'nobody .Iso will get it. WRKIT REPORT ON LIOFORS SEIZED IN CHARLESTON RAIDS Columbia, July 9.-The Charleston lispensary board reported to Oovor" tor Manning this afternoon that lt tad received about 3.BO0. wort ot leerNand ' whiskey which hal been >eized. by the state constables and be cRy police. The constable* iclsed stuff tallied at ?3.410 and Ute >ollco seized stuff valued $117. Tho riaures Include 1K.O0Q bottles of >eer . and stout ?00 gallons of whts BRITISH CAPTURE GERMAN TRENCHES Field Marshall French Reports Capture of Two Hundred Yarda of Trenches North of Yprea landon. July 9.-.Field Marshall . renell, in a communication tonight, reports further I'ntish gains north of Ypres, where on July sixth he cap tured tow hundred yards of Cern?an trenches. lie states that after n. boiub duel of two days nnd nights the dOrmans fell back, enabling the British to extend their gulns. All :V'j;orts, French says, indicate the normans lost heavily. VILLA CLAIMS DEFEAT OF HILL Says Carranza Forces Walked Into Trap Near Aguas Calientes Carranza Agency Claims Vic tory?-Officials in Doubt Washington, July 9.-Villa tele graphed the American consular agent nt Chihuahua today that he had led Hill's Carranza forces Into z. li^'.r and decisively dr teated them ?"?ut Aguas ('alientes. , The consular re port, which reached the sta!o depart ment tonight, contradicted a meuBage from liie Americnn consulate at Aguas ('alientes earlier in the day saying Villa had been defeated and waa retreating northward. State deparuncnt ofttclals woro un able to clear up the discrepancy. Somo officials thought the retiring movement to which Villa referred as preceding his victory had been prema turely described as defeat. On the other hand Hie Carranza agency here (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE.) POWERS TO DEGIOE FUTURE OF ALBANIA Government D?cid?e to Submit to Decision, of World Powers. London, July 9.-Renter's Cettlnje correspondent says that the govern ment announced officially that it will submit Alanla's future to a decision of the powers. / Talking Over Anas.. London, July 9.-A dispatch from Cettinje,.-Montenegro, to Reuter's Tel egram, company yesterday says: "The Montenegrin authorities who recently took possession of Scutarla, Alubnia, Im ve ordered the population to give up all arms and ammunition. AH a re suit n. large amount of rifles and cart ridges of Austrian origin were banded over abd they will be used to arm sev eral thousand Montenegrins now re turning from America." Expelled Frost Albania. London. July 8.-Reuter's Scutarla correspondent slates that the Austri an consul and his staff have been ex pelled from Albania, being escorted lo tho Austrian frontier. HABEAS CORPUS WRIT FOR EARNESIiSENHO WEB Attorney General and Solicitor Henry Served With Notice of Application for Bond. Columbia, July 9.-Attorney Gen eral Peoples and Solicitor J. K. Henry of Chester bare been served with no tices that a writ of habeas corpus' and application for bond will be made for Ernest isenhower, how incarcerated In the nenitentiary befo?e Assoclato Jus-, tico R. 8. Werts at Laurens on July 15. Isenhower ls alleged to have been implicated in the tragedy at Winns boro on June 14 when a brother of I i a bower, Clyde Isenhower, Sheriff A. n Hood, Jule Smith, a, negro, and l/.'Puty Sheriff J. Rawloye Boulware wore fatally shot. Cole. L. Blesse,, former governor, is attorney for Ernest Isenhower. It ts not known if bond will be asked for James Rawis and Will Morrison, also In tim penitentiary, aa alleged partici pants In the Wiansboro affray. THIRTY-ONE LIVES WERE LOST IN CINCINNATI STORM Clncannita, July 9,-The death toll of uie storm here Wednesday night reached thrity ono today. BOTHA WINS COMPLETE VIC TORY IN SOUTH AFRICAN CONQUEST, FRENCH CAPTURE MANY PRISONERS Ruuian?' Firm Stand in South em Poland Adds to En couragement. ~i London, July 9.-Tho complete surrender of the German forces In German Southwest Africa to General Botha, commander of the forces of the Union of South Africa, the French ad vance In VosgeB of Beven hundred yards on a front of six hundred yards and the capture there of up wards of eight hundred unwounded Germans and the stand of .tin? Rus sians in Southern Poland give Brit ish military critics a subject for comment on what they tenn "the. turn of the tide" in the war. Botha's victory was a foregone conclusion, but the fact that be won. after five months, despite the rebel lion In his own country sad under many natural disadvantages ls con sidered by military observers as rs? mar kable ; It ia expected that this territory, throe hundred thousand -sonars attisa * will be annexed to the Dominion of South Africa. , There ls little newB from the Rus sian front today. Amsterdam and German announcements Bay there la no change in the sltuatlor. Submarines sunk the Btlttah steam er Guide, coal laden, for Rossis, and the Russian bark Anna, archangel for Hull. The Germans claim a repulse ot the French attacks at Souchea itna As sert they made further progresa in Woavre. The Turks continued their attacks in the Dardanelles and according to German correspondent?, regained some trenches from the British. They also appeared in the vicinity Of the British free port Aden on tai sotitti coast of Arabia. London, July 9.-German military actlvltlies while lessening in Galicia and Southern Poland, apparently are in full swing again atong the front west and northwest of Warsaw. Petrograd reports attacks against tile Russians at several poluta tn the . letter section, claiming that heavy losses were inflicted on the Germans near Jednorojets; but nosr Bollmow the German attack resulted ld storm ing the Russian i ir st tine of trenches, in some ot which the Germans retain ed a foothold. Petrograd declares the blow dealt the Austrians south ot Lublin, is being followed up. the Russians pursuing the retreating Teutons. The correspondent says the . Aus trian check resulted because of a tactical blunder by Archduke Joseph Ferdinand, whose swift advance left the left wing uncovered. Hs says lt cost the Austrians 15,000 man. Pretoria reports that Botha bas completed the conquest of German ?out ii west of Africa, accepting tba sum-r.Oer ot ail German forces there. Rome reports no important changes al Inp tho Austro I tallan front. The Victory Ia Africa. London, July 9.-The surrender of the Germans southwest of Africa clos ed what ls regarded here as one of the most important campaigns ot the great war, and the release tor ser vice elsewhere of the South African ' contingent. The campaign against (CONTINUED Wi PAGE FIVE.) AUSTRIA MAKES APOLOGY TO US. Vienna Paper Had Published Ar tiela Attacking Wilson-Cen sor ts Reprimanded. Vienna, July 9.-A formal apology nae been made'by Ute Austro-Hun garlan government to Cu Ked States Ambassador Penfield, because of an article in the Neues .Wiener Tagblatt, attacking President' Wilson and the Americans In connection with Ute second not? to Germany. A? a rigid censorship ls exercised over Ute Austrian paper?. Penfield Informally, asked the foreign office If ?us article represented the opinion of Ute Austrian government. The reenlt was an apology and a sharp