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VOLUME ll. ANDERSON. S. C. TUESDAY MORNING. JULY 27. 1915. NUMBER 169. AMERICAN WAS TOR NOLOS HAD CARGO OF FLAX FROM ARCHANGEL TO BEL * FAST CREW LANDED AT KgCiiWARD Flax U on Germany's Contraband List-No Details of Attack Received. London; .7uly 26.-Tho American steamship Leelanaw, which left Aroh angel July 8 for Heifast with a cargo of ilax, was sunk by a German subma rine off the northwest coast of Scot land yesterday. The crew was saved and brought to Kirwall in their own boats. No details of thc torpedoclng were received except a brief message stat ing that the crew bad been landed safely at Kirkwaid, from which placo ?bey notified the morlcan consul at Dundee. The Leeland had discharged a cargo of cotton at Archangel and was loaded with flax for Belfast. An official statement of the German government Issued April 18, 1915, de clared flax a contraband of war. The Leeland waa commanded by Capt. D. B. Belk and bad a crew of seven officers and 32 men. .Tho Leeland was owned by tho Harby -Steamship company of New York, was 281 feet long and of 1,024 gross tona. loft Galveston May n end New York May 47 with a car go of cotton for Archangel. Eurly In Jabe shu" was detained by the British at Kirk wald because the carRo was consigned Vi? Goethonburg, Sweden, which country forwarded exports of cotton. Washington, July 26.-United States officials tonight held that by the Gerara submarine's destruction of the American ship Leoianaw, Germany .once more hos disregarded the PruB 8lan-Amorlcan treaty of 1828, and al so the two American noies sent re cently on this subject. This treaty provided that Prussia and the United States would not harm each other's strips even though carrying contra band. Germany has already destroyed three American ships which the Unit ed sirtes holds were immune under this treaty. They were the Gulf Uglit. the Nobraskan, and thc William P. Frye, In thc latter case Germany took the position that she had not dis regarded the treaty, but had exercised the right given by Inference from the language of the pact. The fact that the Leelanaw crew was saved croate! a feeling of re lief, but among officials there were many apprehension that if Germany continued to ipromise payment but de stroyed more American ships further warning would be required. Nev York, July 26.-Tho Leelanaw was owned by the Harby steamship company of New York. She was 280 feet lo ag; and of 1024 gross tons. Tho vessel left Galveston May 15th and New York May 17 with a cargo oX cotton for Archangel. Early in June sho was detained by the British at Kfrkwall because her cargo was con signed via Gothonburg, Sweden, which country forbids the .rx ports of cotton. GONZALES GOING BACK TO CAPITAL Advance Guards in Outskirt? Zapatista* Said to Have Evacuated. Gal reston, Tex., July 26.-General Gonzales' advance guards are again ?weeping into Mexico City. Zapatis tas hatte evacuated tho capital, stat ed ri Mexico Ctty cablegram relayed from Vera Crus to the Carranza con sulate. Villistas are reported to bo fleeing northward from Pachuca with IMoguex pursuing. GOVERNORS IS VITE? TO ?lfAS&??TON MEET1N? Col un? bi s, S, C.. duly 26.-Gover nor Msnnltt?g. today sent letters to the govtornors ot fifteen Southern states inviting them to participate in tlie "House of Governor*" to be held at Charleston during the Southern com mercial oonarratts December 18 tn 17, ir?i5. VESSEL PEDOED; iSJFLIFE OIL STRIKERS REFUSE CHANGE TO EJDSTBIKE PLANT SUPERINTENDENT PROMISED KfcCOMMLND INCREASES OF WAGES BOGUS LEADER UNDER ARREST Former Employe of Sewing Ma chine Company Had Been Acting Strike Leader. New York, July 26.-There were two developments ia the oil strikers two developments in tho oil workers' strike at Bayonne, N. J., today. One waa tho strikers refusal of the propos ition of Supt. 'Hennessey of tho Stan dard Oil plant to recommend increas ed, wages if they would return to work, and the other was tho unmask ing and arrest of Jeremiah J. Baly, strike leader and chairman of tho Btrtkcrs "committee. ? - itJ was shown Baly never worked for the Standard Oil Company, al though when the strike began he re presented himself as a striker and t*? ? men accepted his leadership. l c worked for a sewing machino com pany and was horn in Bohemia. Ile was arrested on suspicion that he had been influenced by outsldo in terests to incite trouble at Bayonne. Ho admitted he falsely represented himself, but denied any forolgn gov ernment had anything to do with it. Tho Shrriff, after the' strikers' re fusal of tho company's proposition, said b0 had a thousand men and would retain order. . Some Will Return lo Work. Some fifteen hundred English speaking strikers at Bayonne tonight Agreed to return to work and it was indicated that all English spoaking strikers would return. Those num ber about hal f tho five thousand strik ers. What the foreign speaking ele ment will do 1B uncertain. . Bayonne, N. J., July/.28.-Quiet prevailed about tb0 plant of ? thc Standard Oil company today. None ot [ho strikers approached tho .works, rho men wore paid off without any sign of disorder. They seemed de icrmln?d not to return to work, how* iver. They was almost a total ab sence of sniping during tho night. 3n!y one or two shots were heard. hectares Orders k. Council Aro Within International Law Al though New Application May Be Involved. Washington, July 26.-Tho British .eply to tho'American note of March [3 pretesting against tho enforce ment of th? orders in council which -?strict neutral commerco has been .ecolved. It holds that the orders are vKhln international law although ney may involve a new application >f principles, and argues thu! lt is >roper to await a judicial interpreta* km. The new note lc courteous langnage tolde' that Great Britain's action ls nstlfled by derisions ot the United States sunreme court in cases arising lining the civil war. Any differences vith the United States over what la ermed a new application of prin gles are held to be proper for sub* nission tc judicial settlement. Secretary Lansing announce J the fceipt of the note. It wilt be for warded to President Wilson at Corn-' ah and will be given out here for publ ication in the morning pacers of Wednesday. Electric Chair at Sing Sing Which Has Been Prepared For ?he Execution of Chas. Becker CHA/f? These photographs show the electric chair In watch the four gangsters who Wiled Herman Rosenthal, the New York gambler, were put to ileath a year ago, at Stogj Sing, lt is the same chair in whtci Charles Becker, former police lieutenant of New York, twice convicted of having directed the { crime, will be executed unless the su preme court interferes: COMPLETE PLAN TO INVESTIGATE EASTLAND CASE SECRETARY REDFIELD WILL HEAD INVESTIGATION BY FEDERAL OFFICERS MEN COMPELLED TO BUY TICKETS Feared Discrimination Against Them By Union Officials if They Refused to Purchase. Chicago, July 26.-Fedoral, ! state and city authorities tonight complet ed plans for an investigation of the Eastland disaster. Secretary of Com merce Redfield is due to arrive to morrow, to head the federal investir gatton. A total of 828 bodies have been found. Detec'ives estimated then, wore twenty-eight hundred aboard the Eastland, Osteal of twenty-five hun dred, tho limit alloved by federal law. The c-aployes of th** Western Elec tric Coupeny complained they wore almost compelled to purchase tickets for the annual excursion because oth erwise tbe officers ' of tho employes' organisation which sold the tickets would, discriminate against them. Only twelvfa bodies were recovered today and to the confusion was added much wrangling of officials. LEEM?CINT HURTS COTTON PRICES New York Dropped Nearly Dollar and a Half But Later Recov ered-Ned Orleans Drops. JUSTICE FORD OF SUPREME COURT RtSEKVED DE CISION ARGUMENTS WERE HEARD YESTERDAY Justice Announced He Will De cide Case as Quickly as Possible. BRITISH PRESS IN DOUBT NOTE'S ME DONT UNDERSTAND REFER ENCE TO LAWFUL SUB MARINE WARFARE SAY THRERE HAS BEEN NO CHANGE Germany's Methods of Sea Fight ing Are Same as Before Amer ican Warnings Were Sent. Nev York, Ti^r Thc news of the Sinking of thc Leelanaw affected cotton today, prices breaking nearly a dollar and a half per bale herc, but recovering and closing very steady tt only ten to thirteen aolnta decline when it was known the Leelanaw car ri?! contraband. . New York, July 26.-Supreme Court Justice Ford, today, Uftei hear ing arguments on the application of Charles Becker, sentenced to die Wed nesday for the murder of Herman Rosenthal, for a new trial, reserved his decision arri gava the counsel) until tomorrow to file briefs. Tho Justice requested more time to consider Becker's application and Becker's execution was postponed until Fri day. Now York, July 2?.-T:;c fina? fight to save Charles Beckor-froi.i the electric chair was be^un today when WBourke Cochran'v. argued before Justice Foi'd of the supreme cour: a motion .or a nev; trial. Ho attacked the' district attorney, now Governor Whitman's methods in dealing with T?ose,, Webber, Vallon and Schopps. Mrs. Decker was present. GREENVILLF MAN IS KILLEDJUIVE WIRE Came in Confect With Feed Wire Wh3e at Work on Top of Pole. Greenville, S. C., inly 26.'-Jesse R. Robinson, a young-white man, was electrocuted thia afternoon while working on wires Just, off Hain street robinson was formerly ot Chester but for the past few months had been employed with the Southern Publie (Utilities company In Greenville: He I ta about ?went:- ?Ix years old and unmarried. landon, July 26.-Scvoral moaning papors doclaro they annot, under stand Wilson's refeTcnco In his latent note to Germany ?in regar .V to thc events "of the last two mon th is which has proven lt is possible to conduct submarine operations in accordance with the accepted principles' of war fare. The paper; urge. : that there has been no change In the German sea-war methods. The Times naval correspondent asserts that the past two months blockade does not Dear out Wilson's view and pointe out that tho few intervals ot decreased activ ity baa always been followod by' ri-d newed activity of sinking without warning both British and neutral ves sels. It says there Is no indication that Germany'^ methods ha\to changed* and Wilson's words taken In thoir ordinary acceptance "cannot be justified." Th* Times says lt. is pr* BRYAN TAKES RAP AT COL ROOSEVELT ^ * Also Says tor U. S. to Go to War, J With Germans Would be Like Fighting Lunatics. / San Francisco, July 26.-William Jennings Bryan sneaking al tho First Congregational church here last night said those looking for thc "big stick in scriptures wo nd think the writers ot Holly Wrti. r are raollyeod dlors," and declared tito United States had- no warrant to go to war with Germany or any other European power. To go to var with Germany now, he said, would be like challeng ing an insane asylum. U I ELI U 1U UUII1U PRESIDENT WILSON CON5ID ERING SEVERAL SUGGEST ED COURSES OF ACTION URGE CARRANZA . TO TALK PEACE j If This Plan Fails Conference of j Other Leaders May Be Held in V. S. to Work for Peace. Washington. July 25.-Tho United Stales will Uiko definite steps soon towards settling tho Mexican prob lem, the ?into department announced authorHively today, but did not dis close the nature of the contemplated action. President Wilson in under stood to be considering several, sug gested courses, plnco tho Mexican fac tions failed to heed bis suggestion of nomo months agq and ettie their dif ference, td restore pcaco Officials ia CICB0 touch with Wilson said tonight that thoug hbo has not determined finally what will bo done it fs believed the most probable course will bo to urge Carran ?e.:. once moro to'confer with other factions in ah effort to restore peace-. Should Car ranza refuse, it is said Wilson con templates effo: ts to assemblo other Mc;.:-an leaders who will represent tho ..i a Jori ty of tho people. Such a conference might be held in. northern Mexico nf In tho United States. The conference would arrange for a con stitutional convention which would plan for an election and establish ment of a government which the Unit ed States would recognize and help maintain. Washington, July 26.-Gen. K?n sten reported today that despite tho warnings to Carranza and his as surances that there would, be no fight ing in border towns endangering Americano. General Calles with 2,000 Carranza troops was at Santa Bar bara, 20 miles from Nogales, apparent ly preparing to attack the border town. Gen. Punston has orders to repel with force any firing into-Amer ican territ' ry. Claim Many Prisoners. > j Frankfort, Germany, July 26.-The Frankfurter Zeitung's V'.enna corre spondent says thi Austro-Gcrman forces captured 131,2110 I tu ss lan pris oners since July 14 beides 44 cannon. 141 machine runs and other supplies. ATIMIEF IS Police Commissioners) Vote to Suspend Beavers Pending In vestigation of Charges of In subordination ?nd Ine;ciency. Atlamta, July 26.-James I?. Beav ers, chief of the Atlanta police de partment was suspended tonight by the board, of police commissioners, pendlug an Investigation of the Insubordination and inefficiency. Wight of the twelve members of tho board voted for suspension: Beavers !s tho chief- who abolished the Mn*, rated vice district here in 1012. KU OS KV F LT HOLDS Ul* THAIN IX ARGUMENT Baa Diego, Cal., July 2b.-Roo se re lt arriver hore- today after holding i Los Angeles train eight minutes lu ia argument over occommodation*. He won. German Air Raid Fall?. London/ July 26.-A Renters dis patch from Petrograd says s German ?Ir raid on the Vistula Bridge .naur Warsaw has failed. Bombe causad ?everal civilian casualties, however. RUGGLE ITAL OF ) GOES ON LULL IN SOUTHEAST PO LAND BUT NO SIGN OF LET-UP IN NORTH NO MATERIAL GAINS IN WEST Austrian and Italian Reports Dif fer as to Situation Along Isonxo. London, July 26.-There is a com parative hill in fighting in southeas tern Poland, measured by last week's vicious combats, but no diminution in tho German attacks northwest of War sa -wand northw-ird of this region over th0 Polish bonder In the provinces of Kovr.o and Courland. Along tho Nsrow river, despite ob stinate resistance, the Germans have effected a crossing. Above and be low tho fortress of Ostrelenka, tbs Russians. are being pushed back to ward the <Bug river. ?Fighting on tho French front cou iotB mainly of artillery engagements and sapping opens with no material gains. Floreo fighting continues on tho . oaeicrn section ot tho Austro-Itallan front, especially over Deberdo Plateau wfoere the Anstrians claim that although tho Italians attacked . relont|SBsly they soon lost the ground they gained. In tho region ot K?ln the Italiana aro declared to have lost heavily in hand to hand, fighting. Rome on the contrary announces appreciable pro gress ot? the Isooso.: A^Jladagest'dis patch says that by Octets* . Austria will have seven thouand more men by calling out those between forty-three and fifty. Germany h s fined the etty of Ant werp fifty thousand dollars for a pop ular demonstration there on tho Bel gian national holiday, according to Ian Amsterdam dispatch. The British announce fresh, suc cesses against the Turk along the Eu ph ra te river and the capture of tho town of Nasiriych. ) A Petrograd dispatch says there has been s clean sweep from the Russian Iwar office of all responsible for the shortage of ammunition. London, July 28.-Tho fighting for Warsaw has shifted from South Po land, where Mackensen has been un?-, obie to advance to the north where the Germans have crossed the Narew a;ong a wide front. Petrograd has not admitted this German success. IOstroIenka fortress, from which three strategic railroads radiate, still is controlled by the Russians, al though the attack ftrom. Pultusk northwards has brought tho Germans south of Ostrolenka. This latest Germ?n success brings them 25 miles north ot Warsaw... Southward the Germans are attacking th0 defenses near Pissecxno. 20 miles from Warsaw. The Russians aro stilt holding tho Lublln-Chsltn -railroad. ?Tho Russians assert that th/; Germans Buffering from fierce counter attacks. With the exception of the conr solidation of French successes tn the Vosges, where 800 Germans were captured. Paris reports only artillery and mine warfare on the western front. There ls soui? uneasiness In en tente allies diplomatic circles by an unofficial report that -Turkey bas the itodeagetch milrea ' ports that this- Will have no effe t on bulgarian, neutrality but tho belief ex pressed hore that Turkey 1? unlikely vo give valuable territory without sub stantial aid. Rome, July 26.-Tho Italian official statement last night' says two Halfan aeroplanes on tho afternoon of July 23 flew over Rive, on Lake.Gardr. in the Austrian Tyrol and dropped . 18 bombs on tho railroad station with excellent resulta. The tnacMnen ar? safe. The Austrian attacks ?a the Montenegro region were repulsed with heavy losses. Toulon, France, Jiiply M.T-The new French destroyer Leblmo? bas de molished an Austrian submarine and tho aeroplane depot a* Lagosta Is lands In the Adriatic, wi'h a loss te the Fren?te of only ons man killed BRITISH KUftfattft* AtilM FOtTB TffBKlfiK VESSELS Athens. July 26.-For the second time since the beginning ?rt the Dar danelles operation a British entuna rme has penetrated the harbor ot Constantinople. A Turkish trans port, ?wo gun boats anu a munitions steamer were ?tink.