- If * 5! ^ The Lancaster News VOL. 12, NO. 85, SEMI-WEEKLY. LANCASTKK, S. O.. TUESDAY, SEPT. 18. 1917 ?K>nn a toad * SHIPS HEAR S. 0. S. LEADERS 01 CALLS NEAR COAST TO UNO NAVAL CENSORSHP IS NEW CABI CLAMPED DOWN. SAYS NE Vessel Close to Nantucket No Bitter Fe Lightship Reported to Have For Veng IJeen Shelled. Leader: An Atlantic Port. Sept. 15.?Kvi- Petrograd, Se dence that an enemy submarine has ,ofr> leader of begun depredations in American wa- "gainst the pro ters was brought here today by two and Ge"- Lokon steamships, which yesterday morn- ?' the northern ng picked up wireless "S. O. S." to take com man calls indicating that a ship was be- m,es after Koi ahelled by a U-boat In the vl- have been arres cinity of Nantucket lightship. News of the . One ship receiving the distress ,ofr wa? first co calls was a British freighter and the received by Pre other an American tanker. Both Qen- AlexlefT. t reported the scene of the attack as far only the fc about 60 miles east of Nantucket been received: and the time about 8 o'clock yester- At 10 o'clock ay morning. The identity of the nHof and Gens 8U marine's victim was not learned manovsky and by either vessel, as far as is pub- PHuskhem wer ,,Cly know?- "The men.be. Was Being Shelled. of inquiry are Ac?ord,nK to the commander of midnight and the British vessel the message re. wi" b? given in ,7VeK 1)J b's tireless operator from other officers as e s ip said she was being shelled 1 ects also will 1 and reported her position, but only "All the trc ' P.ut ol her name could be heard tr"c to the pr. the word ?> .*wj, v. u nil IS UIO last ' name of several ships in Atlantic <rlsi trade. Russia's poli The American tanker's captain 8?'ve(' after a confirmed the British skipper's re- enro- il was anl port, but udded no details. Silence ,lU8Rian official was imposed on both captains by A new cab,n naval officers who interviewed them anc' compo as soon as they reported to their I'ublic tomorro> > agents. Exciting 1 Could Xot CJivo llclp. The question The British captain said he un- of tton- Kornilt derstood an American radio station opinion. Indie also had picked up the distress call, government mu Fallowing the new rule of the sea. cultles over th established since the German sub- A feature ol marine warfare, neither vessel went crediatble absei to the assistance of the submarine's anfl clamor for victim. re-established c I Reports of the sighting of sub- tbo front, how* marines or periscopes in American |ir i( sPa,es <br wnters have been frequent since the niust face the i United States entered the war and rmpfl common the fact that messages telling of an r,ous offenses i attack by snelltire were picked up tually impossi two steamships gave today's reports f,oa,b penalty ii the color of truth, in the opinion of th,R aro ,hft fac shipping men. Furthermore. the hrllllant service captain of a third incoming vessel personal charac reported he had been instructed to circumstances t watch out for submarines in West- no bloodshed si ern Atlantic waters. It was reallz- There are i ed. however, that it was possible the government is messages were a hoax. As an instance Ill Steamship Lane. minister of th The place where the attack is re- that the govern ported is in the steamship lane of t? take extreme trans-Atlantic ships calling at New Korniloff. as it York and in the vicinity in which I>oar revengeful last October the German submarine Tung U-53 sank five steamships, sparing "The story." an American ship as the United , so tangled that States was not then in the war. i commission can A British steamer arriving today Meantime, we reported that she had received wlre-jlieve that the i less warning from the Capo Race. N. | misunderstand!! F., station on September 13 of the emissary to presence of a submarine that had Lvoff. who has been reported previously by anoth- being a repsonf er steamer. The exact location The newly whore the submarine was sighted j again is a smell was not given. i papers report t Officers of steamers were of the of the Social D< opinion that the underwater craft clal revolutlonii had been lurking In the steamship Kerensky and a lane between Halifax, St. Lawrence ties would wit! River ports and Europe. They tutlonal democr thought it likely also that the sub_ into the mlnistr merslble reported today as attack-j The story of ing a steamer off Nantucket might but M. Soskice have been the one sighted previously mier Kerensky, in northern waters. It was proba- the Council of ble, they said, that she had been tlonlsts Inform* driven off the northern coast and Press that the d drifted to the northward in the hope arisen. Yesterd of catching unaware vessels from both parties dre American port. | lutlons declarint ^ i Bible to coHaboi Kerensky If f Good Price for l/nng Staple. crnts were madi Jefferaon, Sept.. 14.?T. L. Kirk- 'n* on t*,e rf ley, a farmer who resides near town P?RtPoned until ? sold a bale of Ion* staple cotton ,B every h< here this morning, which together with the seed, netted him $203.12 after paying for the ginning. hag_ Berlin'* F glng and ties. The bale weighed Rome, Sept. 1 510 pounds and the price was 36 Central Powers L cents. C. A. Baker of this place j sals of Pope Bei bought the cotton and seed. . five or six days. F REVOLT SOLICITOR OROER IWFATE SOON INOUESTW NET FORMED, THINKS MRS. KI1 WS AGENCY. VICTIM OF FOUL i eling Nor Clamor Asks Coroner to Recal eance Against Sept. 24 and Condu 5 of Revolt. Thorough Investi pt. 15.?Gen. Komi- Salisbury, N. C., Sept. the recent rebellion it or Huyden Clements < visional government, judicial district court of isky, the commander I Una, in a statement issu i front, who refused day, announced he wot id of the Russian ar- coroner of Cabarrus co rniloff was deposed, open the Inquest on Sc ted. over the death of Mrs irrest of Gen. Korni. King, who was mysteri nveyed in a telegram near Concord, N. C.. Au imier Kerensky from The jury which lnve< he chief of staff. So rase returned a verdict illowlng details have King had been killed 1 dental discharge of a pii last night Gen. Kor- Solicitor Clements . Lokomsky and lto- there have been "conili Col. lMeustchevsky- menta and Important e e arrested. covered since the corom a of the commission vestigated the case, whl due at Nlohilev at reason to believe that the arrested persons niot with foul play a ito their hands. Such death was neither a sui< < the commission se- cident." he arrested. ]>i?i \??t View Pre >ops at Mohilev are solicitor Clements* sti ^visional government ,owg. , >?y authority. ?j hnve fuiiy determii is Solved? pn the jnqU08t over t Ileal crisis has been Mra> Maudp A. King. W n all-night s contet mer investigation was lounced today by the mRre,y a mat1er of forn news agency*- stand that the coroner et has been formed of <he deftth -n the mo sition will be made or g o'eio,.^ and 1 K' quest about it o'clock. Public Opinion. give him an opportunity of the probable fate full investigation. He aff is exciting miblih - - - ? | memoers or the autoi ations are that the present and they were a ist face serious dlffl- the premises were o matter. neither was there an ' the conflict Is the tending to show that t nee of hitter feeling j,a(j no powder burns o vengeance. Having "The coroner and jui apital punishment at fuj] ?}nty with the evld >ver, the government I them at that time. Hu , rebel commander | tliere have been differe reproach that it e\e- fl|cting statements and soldiers for less se- other materials, and im ind it would be vir- donee hun been unco\ hie to impose the pjve8 me reason to belie n the future. Against j<jnR met with foul pi ts of Gen. Kornlloff's death was neither a sui s, his chivalrous and accident. ter and the happy "i know that the coro hat there has been jliry are anxious to di r> far. and to make a careful i ndlcations that the|or an the evidence in seeking a way out. ,hink it but fair to th< M. Klshkin, the new .matter be again reopen ie interior, declares ao (hat they ran have an ment has decided not to correct their former \ ? measures against their opinion the eviden does not wish to ap- it. Hearing Septinebe le<l Story. "With this end in viei M. Klshkin said, "is (h<? coroner of Carbarru only an Inciulry by a reopen the ease and to s elucidate the truth. |np for Monday mornii have reason to be- her 24. 1917, in the con revolt was due to a Concord. N. C. This v lg with Korniloff's opportunity to secure ci Kerensky, Vladimir tnentar.v evidence which not the reputation of troduced at the inquest, dble man." "I am much gratified completed cabinet tlon taken by Distric ting pot. The news_|swann of New York, am hat representatives ne(j that his investigath smocrats and the so- terially aid me to get a its visited Premier ure nf an the facts. He innounced their par- ,ne of his co-operation ai idraw if the const!- ed Rn the facilities of 1 ats were taken back my service." y. Judge p. B. Clino of 1 the visit is not true. J court Issued an order t( , ncnrmry 10 rre- jnR Gaston R- Means to t who Is n member of letters, papers, bank boo the Social Revolu- checks and accounts of ed the Associated together with the purpoi HfTlculty actually has j,er husband, the late Jar lav committees of for the purpose of placing iw up identical reso-| the clerk of the superb t It would be Impos-1 Rowan county for sa rate with Premier Means, after a conferem 'onstltutlonal Hemo- attorneys, refused to tui 9 ministers, but v?t-: papers, basing his refui 'solutions has been ground that to do so mil this evening and incriminate him. >pe of an agreement. Italians (Jain Gro teply to Pope. Rom<i 8ept 16 _ital 6.?The reply of the gained ground yesterday to the peace propo- southeastern edge of th n edict la expected in plateau, it la announced More than 400 men were S jPUTS PRICE ON OPENED HEADS OTAM SG WAS GERMAN SOLDIERS PLAY. REWARD FOR 1 1 His Jury Teuton Military / ct More Make Offers for Fin Ration. can Prisoners Bro 14.?Solic- British Headquarters >f the 15th ?nd Belgium. Sept. 15? North Caro- soeiated Press.)?(terms led here to- authorities on the \V< lid ask the have shown concern ab unty to re- mirtence of the Amerii ptember 24 i entry into the Pghting . Maude A. rewards for the produc ously killed first American prisoners gust 29. eral coninianding the 1 *tigated the serve division recently p t that Mrs. of 400 marks on the fir >y the accl- soldier brought, dead o stol. his lines, said today This information has icting state- closed by the diary of vidence un- sergeant of the Twent *r's jury in- serve infantry regiment, ch gives me at the end of July: Mrs. King "We are supposed to nd that her American troops oppos I'Kic nor ac- some i1nip now, and two Portugese on our right inises. man who brings in the itement fol- ran- ,,oa,, or allve- to 1 has been promised the I led to reop- ,he ,irst Hass- 400 mar1 he death of ,C<>n ,lay'8 ,eavehen the for. Fortified Kuii held it was The diary, which cov i. I under- of nearly two months was notified detail the destruction o rning about tant industrial town b held the in- mans and its transfom rhis did not German army eomman r to make a great mas of fortified had all the teries have been plante< nobile party lars of private houses, 1 11 examined, public buildings, which not viewed, partly demolished to g y testimony field for the (Ire, while he deceased and squares and even t n her head, etarv have been torn u ry did their meshed with wire to pi lence before ions for groups of macl t since then The diary describe; m ?niu run-i iiuunrmi i ri im a mass of their time when not on portant evi- ing machine guns fron ered which caned windows and the ve that Mrs. buildings left standin ay and her searching for hidden t cide nor an in digging among the r I verware. ner and thej Soldiers laxdi o their duty' The sergeant tells nvestigation | friends found gold w r> case and 1 j priceless paintings fron ?m that the seums, statuary and oth t'd by them art which they are hoar< opportunity dugouts. The German rerdict, if in have removed the hulk < ce warrants cipal valuables to Germ German soldiers, it r 24. eager to serve at St. iv I will ask cause of the chances f< s county to hunts" there, et the hear- The diary does not i tig. Septem- marked depreciation of irt house in morale, but emphasizes fill give an t?rt ?f conditions of life *rtain docu- ani' the terrible accui will be in- French gunners who gi mans no rest, with the'ac- the Flanders front t Attorney past tew days the onl rl feel satis- have been slight outpr >n will ma- ments. full disclos has assured KXCITES Ml'CH IX' id has plac lis office at Mexico City, Sept. 14 alation that Heinrich vo he superior German minister to iday direct- i)Pen employing Folke Cr urn over all forem Swedish charge h ks eertJflo<l .. ?, ??? vev information rrom vc Mrs. King to the Berlin foreign of rted will of ojted tremendous interef nes 0. Kini; Government officials * thorn with without official Informa >r court of would give an opinion, a fe keeping, ueved the attitude th ?e with his Government means to ta n over the disclosed until a copy sal on the hardt's letter Is formally ght tend to Ambassador Fletcher he had received no from Washington regard fair and did not conteri und. municating with the for lan troop.-'' here on the subject. along the The foreign office ma e Bainslzza reticence as to what H officially, might he when officially i captured, 'o the Incident. THE 110 YORK PRISO Bond of Fred Peni ' have had | was fixed at $3,500, ite us for! Frank Twittv. colored, divisions of1 G o'clock ttiis niornii To the! men had not obtain* first AmcrL; and John It. Hart, Hs headquarters for the defense, said ron Cross of would not be able to ts and four- Monday, although ther I bility they would be is. I time tonight, ers a period Grand Jury l-oremai describes in John \\ ilkerson, a f an inipor- rltizon of Hickory lire v ^JPr_ man of the York coun nation by a ,hat Presented the m ider into a (lay' R,pned the bo"d ruins Hat- ^?GH1 and Policeman 1 in the eel- "'<*?ry Grove. The actories and were Ri,:nod b>' Parties have been v,cini,y of the tregadj ive a better Tlre ei*ht men ei the streets pIeasure and satisfacti he city cem-j noon at being released p and en- after ,heir Rtav of mor rovide posit-Mn ?f them line guns. , ,hoir homPS this after i how the! Tbc case against si city spent '> n, hers will probably 1 dutv in fir-1 lal1 ,erm of court of ^ the barri-l for Vork county, wh s roofs of November 13. g. and in i J G' Panning, a Si reasure and 1 who has boon ber? sin uins for sil-l ter ,he tragedy occurr work in this vicinity. , . j TltOOP TIMIX FII how his atches and .... ? n the mil-1 lade Near Ohio ier works of j Steuhenvillc. Ohio, iing in their j a troop train on the authorities Hailroad was fired ' }f the muni. near Mingo Junction, any. ing to reports reeeivet seems, were HO](tiers are said to Quentin he- wounded. one ser ->r "treasure wounded remained on Information as to tl Indicate any, troops or the desti the German i trajn was withheld by the discom-j jaj8 because of mil in the field tion8. acv of the ' ii was said the tr< ve the (?er- on while moving at a through Mingo Juncti during the no S(0p was niade unt y activities vvas roached. The infi >st engage- fOUr soldiers were sh< railroad detectives hei in charge of the ti rKRKST shots were fired, acco vices here. .?The rev- Itaiiroad detectives n Eckhardt. police were rushed to Mexico, had the reported attack, t onholm, the able to learn anything iere to con- identity or whereabout ?n Eckhardt sons who fired the shot flee has ex it. ATTKRM'RY TO M still were tion. None >fa?le Director . Geiierr nd it is be- |w?rtatlon in Fi e Mexican Washington. Sept. ke will notI ment of W. W. Att of von Kok I president of the Penns forwarded roao, as direct or-genei said today portatlon of the United instructions ditionary forces in Pi ing the af_ nounced tonight by tl uplate com- pnrtnient. eign office Transportation behli la the greatness of all intalned its the modern army and ta attitude ment proposes to give Informed as shlng the most com that money and brains ?'v I 7'"" ERICANS AIM 5 TO GET DETECTIVE STILL HEM. ON CAS) Authorities Men Charged With *t Amer- j Negro Preacher ugh in. Tried at Novembi 5 in France York, Sept. 15.?Kig (By the As- men who have been in in military! the charge of conip astern front'lynching of the neg out the im-j Watson Sims, in the L( can army's tion ot York county, 01 by offering'of August 24, were reli tion of the this afternoon. Ap The Gen-, bond for the ten accu eleventh re-jmade by T. F. McDow, ut the price sel for the defense, be st American; Justice Watts, at Ch< r alive, into j morning. Bond for J. Kzell Bolin. T. R. I'cni been dis- Carson Lattimore, wh a Prussian Sanders, Bill Sanders, v-third re- ders and Lonnie Fran He wrote! w;is nvnrl :it -r?.vv -AJL X U/lll NERS GERMANS EJtCTED ITED BAIL FROMJRENCH LINE AT WORK OUSTS GERMANS FROM E. VERDUN SECTOR. Murder of Austria Claims Capture of 535 May Be Prisoners in Latest Fighter Court. ing at San Gabriele. ;ht of the ten Paris, Sept. 15.?French forces i jail here on after a battle last night ejected the licity in the j Germans from a greater part of the 10 preacher, j trenches which they had occupied )cust Hill sec-' earlier in the day north of Caurires 1 the morning , wood, in the Verdun sector, the ?ased on bond French was office announced today, plication for Two surprise attacks launched by sed men was the Germans north of Prosnes in Esq., of coun-1 the Champagne region were repulsfore Associate j ed by the French. ssterfield thisj Meek McGiU, Russians Make Gain, linger and \V. Petrograd, Sept. 15.?Russian ite, and Tom forces yesterday defeated the GerLawyer San- '"an troops on the road to Pskoff on iklin, colored, 'he Riga front, and occupied the i. ; small town of Kronberg, the Ruslinger, white,! sian war office announced today, and that of The Russians also occupied the in f.i.iMMi. At iowns 01 isenzen anct SSisseral. which ik those two had boon liold by the Oermans. ?d bondsmen of counsel Buttle of San GaliriPlc. they probably Vienna, Friday. Sept. 14.?"Heavy do so before artillery fire continues against our e was a possi- I positions on Monte San Oabriele and released sonic east of Oorizia." says today's war otflce statement. "While clearing i Bondsman. our trenches on the northwest slope well-known of Monte San Oabriele wa brought >ve, and fore-, in yesterday during desperate enty grand jury, gagements twenty-three officers. 535 en last Mon- men and twelve machine guns, of Postmaster "Id the Tyrol and in the Carnia Lattimore. of district torrential rains are hampother bonds ering the activity." i living in thc-j London. Sept. 15.--British troops cpressed great last nieht made a slight advance on on this after. t'>e Belgian front oast of Welsthoek from custody ; d imj roved their position, accorde than a week >nP 1? the British official statement returned to issued today. The statement reads: noon. "In the course of the night we imthe alleged proved our positions slightly east of be tried at th?! Weisthoek. A strong party of the neral sessions' enem>" yesterday evening attacked ioh convenes 'he ground pained by us during the I day northeast or St. Julion. As they late detective,' advanced to attack the Germans ce stiortly af-j were caught in our artillery barrage ed. is still at an(* w'ere dispersed. "Considerable activity continues to he shown by hostile artillery IKI? UPON north of Langemarck." wl in Fusil- SF.COM> PKACTICK MARCH Town. Sept. 14.? Khnki-Chtd Ranks on Hike in Pennsylvania Georgia, upon tonight Atlanta, Sept. 14.?Khaki-clad Ohio, accord- RO)djers 0f the Eighty-second divisI here. Foui jnn 0f national army from Georhave been;pja> Alabama and Tennessee expeiously. The rj(M1(.P(| their second practice march the train. since their arrival at Camp Gordon (ie identity of wj1Pn Major Gen. Kben Swift, comination of the niander. today rode at the head of railroad oflic- a 0o|umn nf 3 00ft men on a "hike" itary regula through Dekalb county. After a march of about ten miles the col?in was filed ,|tnn reverned mwi ,?>? liril l?> lilt* rapid rate cantonment early this evening, on. but that ^any 0f the select men soon were il this city exhausted on their first march, but armation that to(iay after a week of intensive it was given (),|]]jng few showed the effects f re by officers tllP twentv-mlle tramp, rain. Seven ^ p Keller, of Milan, Kan., forirding to ad- merly a coach at Oberlin College (Ohio), reported to Camp Gordon and the city today. He will assume charg? of the scene of .(he athletics there under the direc>ut were un- tion of the War Department comas to the mj,?,|0n on training camp activities, s of the per + '* SWEDEN PliANS REFORM MFX Will Remedy Conditions in Foreign Ofllre. il of TV *. ranee Stockholm. Thursday, Sent. 13? 14?Appoint-! (Delayed.)?The Swedish Oovernerhury, vice- ment has decided to take steps to ylvanla Rail- reform conditions in the foreign ofral of trans, flee. This follows a series of cablI States expe- net meetings, conferences of offlcaris, was an- iaIn with the King and conversatins le War De- with Ira Nelson Morris, the American minister and the Entente Minid the linus isters. problems for No official statement of the steps the govern- Sweden has taken have been given Gen. Per- out, but the newspapers Intimate plete system that a request for an explanation can provide, has been made to Germany. ?
