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?>y?rf. Week!jr, Established I860- Oafljr, Jan. 13, 1914. TUESDAY A ND FRIDAY ANDERSON, S. C., TVBSp?YMORNING, NOVEMBER 17, 1914. PRICE $1.50 THE YEAR, LESS THAN FIFTY. PRISONERS PENITENTIARY-CLEMEN? 1,430 CONVICTS BY THE 1911 -INCLUDED IN LIST TENCES-FIFTY-FOUR A PAROLES CONDITIONED FROM USE OF INTOXICATE (By Associated PrO?s.l COLUMBIA, S--C, K?fYf H^.-Co ver nor Blease Ute today granted par dons, .parolee, or commutations to .? Ol prisoners .now' serving Sentences in the South Carolina penitentiary or in the county cenyict nqnadB. ..jTJbere will be fewer than no prisoners left in the Sta?te prison here tomorrow. ' Clemency' now1 nab been extended to I 1,430 prisoners by tho governor since he assumed!.brace.in January, 1911. His second term as the State's chief executive will expire January 12,1915. Included in th? list of prisoners re - leased by today's action were 16 serv ing life* sentences for murder, 31 sen tenced to from. two ta '30 years im prisonment for manslaughter, and 64 serving terms for minor offenses. One man convicted of-murder and sentenc ed to be electrocuted was given , a . ' .commutation to five: years . imprison ment. . , .". -, FJity?four,. of, the nuniber given clemency are white men.. Forty-six. are negroes and one. aa Indian. All. : will be released tomorrow, with the . exception of :.the, prisoner who was liJJj given a ' commutation, '. Several Ot the1 , U p^roles,are:conditioned on the-reefpri* ??nt'n abstaining from the use pf in I 'toxicants.' ?' .- | . ? I I ? 1 convicted bf, pWreating bis. .?ire, j he serve out illsit?im.?, ,..,! ^ [ I HTO'?^r ??T?partanburg. S. C, j who was among-the lifo termers, es- j caped from the penitentiary seven j years lago.: ?^r^Weanesdag, he re* ? . appeared at the priabn with, ixls broth-, j . er^ and'.wa? put'to Work again. He .. yras convicted ?ot' murder -L. in ,1904, , . when he was about 18 years old. Absolute' pardons were given , to i only five of the 101 men. In four of these eases the pardon was granted to restore cltlr?fts?iii), tho recipients already hiving been released on .pa role; .. - ' : ' Governor Blease has made holidays, especially. ? Thnnkj^rtang, Christmas and New Tej>r'?i:,.W occasion for ex tending clemency , to prisoners, since he Waa fl ret elect/! tL ^ DULY ORGANISED ..S?^^:--. of '^IV->Sa^ j< .i*:!*/* f?i iTiV i fi*l.? ,r?if."o?Li-l f 4t?-?" * ... -V^? ; - v,:', Wwi ' ?pKi?\ to Tho IiU?)li?en?Br ' 3 ?-\ v SUMTER, Nov. *6.~The' ^eib??iii . conference weelduly organise* thia < morning tn SttmtSr, Bishop P^nny in , tho chair. . The usual obfsrvonce ot | tba s^?rsmeut^?t'^.Xtii^-iSnpper. < wait the ?pti ^?t W m W. B. O. j Watson wac w?lecttd seevtery with , ?? W. I^:;Tt<?Ad A. ,|B, Holier; a*sl& ' ants,. W. E. TurfllpBoed waa reelected , sUtisUcal,\kk&t*rV with thi' usual i number ot asj?stant?. t The two matters that promise tho i fT^fM^^tt^'cam^ < nary wey ?arly ianthe session. i tfej^alrs^ j faorrqw ai ? s*: as the t?ne'for the f eettlement of t^te line of-division Bug- < aberr?,:*\^^w^-^|slli?t^^l>y.>a' ? ^er requastl^g ? niling o? tho blah- \ op on point of law concerning author!- f bo ?'diS*-^jg^***>?0?WlU ? ' ; '^Mti&erM-'*?omot??*iir. when *ue matter I : c??ine?.before.m^iml^^:tt?i?j& \ dicates1:the^there v/111 'be VIL effort \ . ^&##i3$5^ .. ; ; Tb? itoariV Afc ?3?e . V.;vl^&ern''?^?U?A ?drocaTe pr?sent -' ed Ha resignation which was accopt- < ed Without dissent j Forest Fires Spreading. Forefct Ares continued tb spread in ?Ito timber lands of Arkauaa* tonight, ac cordlng to dUpatches ; received here . rrpm au scerioca or tue sute. Dense smoke clouds-hang over practfcaliy the entire Dtai^r. Fire! in the; cane ; brakes o? Woodruff and White Coun ties has drivftn' ?!thousands of deer and i > othfer gamea ' i?t,o the open to olausbl er. r.:i?: '?vr ' NOW LEFT IN THE STATE :Y HAS BEEN EXTENDED to GOVERNOR SINCE JANUARY, ARE 16 SERVING LIFE SEN RE WHITE MEN-SEVERAL ON RECIPIENTS ABSTAINING ITS Special to The 1 Mci ll gm rr r. . COLUMBIA, Nov. 25.-The governor j of So ii th Carolina (oday granted pur oona and paroles in 101 cases. Following ls a list of the most not able cases: ,, W, ;T. Jones, white, who was con victed'at Union in February, 1909, ot the. murder of hi a wife and sentenced to lire imprisonment in the State pen itentiary, received a parole. George Nichols, white, who was convicted dn Lexington county in No vember, 1910, of the murder ot Paul Williams, the young Columbian, and sentenced to Ute imprisonment in the State penitentiary, received a parole on the condition that he leave the 8te.te within 24 hours after leaving the penitentiary. John E. Hough, white, who was convicted in Kershaw county 'In March,. 1913,. for the.,murder of his father-in-law and 'sentenced io ' be electrocuted; his sentence later being commuted to life imprisonment, had his sentence reduced, to five years in the State penitentiary. ? -::+< J. Allen Emerson, .who was convict ed, at tho February term of ??urt tor 1907 fh Anderson county of the tour-: der of a Mr. Drake, and gonion.-.ed to lite imprisonment in the; State peni tentiary, and who was patroled August, 1913,. on the condition that he leave foe!!; Biete, ?{pta granted h fu? pardon. m A, R^b>y>^wliue,-^h? waSj-con ^I^nr^lrltSc^whlte, ^convicted1 ? murder-jat, th> November, 1903, tenn Df court for Marlboro . County 1 ?nd' sentenced tb Ufo imprisonment in the State penitentiary and paroled Decem ber, 1013,: waa given a full pardon; -:. ' Ernest F. G rims ley, white, convicted it the June, 1911, term'of r'aurt for Richland County tar murder and sen-' leiiced to lifo imprisonment in the State penitentiary, ''was paratea. Srimsley killed a woman and a man in a 'Columbia restaurant t 1 Harry Dean, white, convicted at the September, 1904, term of court for Spartanburg o? murder with recom mendation to mercy and sentenced to lifo imprisonment in the State.peni tentiary paroled upon the condition bathe leave ths State and never re urn, except on the permission of the ?oy?mer to visit relativos. oi^? ,-fmk by f.. f? . ?V'-lfBy.':Aj???i^l^).\^ Y''j \ I PETROGRAD, Novi, ?5.-.(via Lon lon, 11:17 p." ni.)-On the entire front )f tho Vistula ?cS Warta rivers the 3ermans have begun a. retreat,. ac :ording to moagr? reporta from the ?roht.. At some pointe, it. ts said/ the novemeht resembles ? rout* .One detachment of Germans In the .occnt fighting before Lodi, < which, reports: arriving here assert was cut ? pieces by the RuaBiana, ia said to lave beeb on the point of executing a ?up, disguised as Russtejie. Vit is (aid that thty wore , caps which form )?rt of the Caucasian regiments' uni orm. . They wer'? dete^?f ituss^w .meera who coted thxou;^'their field (lasses slight differences Mn tho tint ern and equipment o^ the Germans' iccetding-tto; ?he story. The formans; vere >i\at-ready to mm tho Russian janie . ,.,:;,\r.J\\\J<:;:: n >. ??' Members of ?M$fc'i'??: " ?;]:". 'Were Found Guilty ?PARTA^BTJRof?. ^k>r. 26. t; W. Belcher',Hdbert Wilson and ?orace Finch, charged with ,rioting ip.? assault upon the Spartannm* Munty Jill on the night of August 18, fig, wpre foj jjd . gullly' here .tonight. tObert W-?rv and Jease Wolfe, tried m tho wm? charige, were, acquitted, lentence will be naaaed cn the cati. icteA men Friday. Tfco men we're al eged to neve"bean members oil* abb" that attempted to take from the ifflcera a negro, .charged with crim nal oeaault upon A nrhlte woman in he'eyjunty. The.negro waa' afterwards ri^ :ott tne;^ THjfNKS THOU Mighty' {Lord* from out whose hands the nations blessings flow, we praise Thee tioiwith crashing bands* but humbly bovjing^low; $hus would we our poor voices lift : .? | "We thank Thee fo+^fty love, for every good and p?r imai ft that cometh ffo^a^wez ^Por^harve filled our bins, for rains which \:-^i^d}dst give,' fot'^h^-^is^^^ our sins, arid teach ing us to ?ive; /..;, . ' : . 1 V,:'!:"'' "For that our counirphh^ Europe bleeds, and we, Thy?c%Hdren of the West, may yet relieve the needs of all th??? billions through whose gore the j royal butchers wade, the tt$}!? they drown in cannon's roar the law which Thou hast kindly hand and help t&:t?^g pea?e tq^ev^ tyat-crazed . . .'. i- *.'.. .. . \. . .- ? .' r.\\ v* " i r \r^tana^ . -t . -r< . ... .j.j - ...,.;r:i. . - ^itr?^ -Thy- pe^?^^^fth??. j . ] , j ?I?I?IP^ face, f m^^Si gospel, mac^;:^ m \ l??mM^. ? M ?l? -CHAS.. B, DRISCOLL, Jj ls Pktced Assassination of Poetry Dealer Ti Coroner aa the Cidminat?on < Shs >*- ??!_ - ???fi? ??My? VS >1? iii xn v^ ? ./?>;., , fi ?' ' (By Associated Press ^ . " j N?W *fcffil???l?s4;i^^ naV?n. ?f Qu^y^llr, characterised by Coroner Weinberg aa' the culmina tion ot the greatest conspiracy staci ,WW.?PM|? tZQW-. . jr .-soiotiorr. Clues pointed many ways. The authorities declared that tho mystery , bad ed many ramifications thatilt took'on- tho aspect ot a Chinese putale. ? The victim, ? well-to-do independ ent-poultry dealer, was lurql ' to h Iff death by a docoy m?seege given him at 6 o'clock Isst night by ? young man! Who, entered his place of- business In Washt?gtoa Market. Two p?ots, tired in th? street, killed him. Two: met? darted away to n automobile, waiting nearby, and made away1. The car had not boen located?, nor the men identic fled. ' ; ' ? . ,. ; .' . ' 1-^iF*?**F V**1^tit?lnaqneat for elnea, detectives learned that h? had boen threatened many times with flr?Mttftfe I? * trial that sent num ^ii-L^l^il-ljj :-.v--'-.r--.-':i*,-iV^j":?:?vr:.. ^OFCOWANYISTOFV ?V5UCH OF THE smP? OF COTTON . . (By i Associated < Pres?.) >>?wRi; ORLEANS, . Nov. 25M Plans, for the formaUon of a $100,000,0001 corporation to bb known as tte Cot-1 lon Producta Company wer^^MK&S? cunve committaa of the Southern Cci : The corporation, it will begin, bualnesa aa % tlAQQ.M ot U~\~2>pl? a,8ttbseri^^wuv^ For Solution a?sday Night Characterized by sf Greatest Conspiracy Since ^'wjj?'-wiQji?iiitnaL ."-ly bors of,Now York city's, poultry trust to prt?oh , several years ago. in the fei op tiesa campaign waged by his ener mies. Aroa .had been lighted, bombs exploded, his horses poisoned, his'1 soo attacked, and his ohaiii of stored rob ?bed, Clio of tia neighbors was killed fx:~i&g&&Pftmr ~" mist?kr, 'Ii was' net ifo?*%?.1Ml?am.\ Baff,; himself. ' W?? peen scarred tor; life by an 'assault made oa bim by a thug armed with a bottle;-' . Inspector Faurot announced today that detectives were- working on the theory that gar: mern had been hired to Murder Batt, a? in the Rosenthal case. District Attprhoy Whitman's office assigned detectives to the COBC Mr. Whitman., declared h?: considered the crime as much sn attack on the law as on Raff. A r?vc?vlsr was found today near the spot where Baff was killed. De tectives sought to| trace the murderer by" thhv weapon-1 Three separate s?ts of, license numbera to the c?r in which tho htt?e?lriB sped away h?ve been given the .polite' by aa many cit ?ompai?y Fe?d ET?RE FROM THE MARKET AS JS OF PRESENT CROP ss its o?jjtct the atabilUIng of cot ton values, tn? securing \)f statistics ceW?arttttf thar cotton industry . MiA fae ..pnbllcaUon af ? aUt*ao?niB from time .tc hmo ss to .Ute-condition ot t??mrfa;??*?*n, president or thc Southern Cotton Association, toalght issued a s^anynt conching the ^"X??^^'tnSO .. ON r PAO? P?VE.). >> . IN BATTLE BETWEEN Tilt xi -? WARTA AND VISTULA ; ?v ?r&d? RIVERS v ,?-......; :, fliest, zvxuxto'i --P-Xty, Unofficial Report* Assert Entire German Army Corp? Hat Bee? Broken Vp. (8y Aaod?M Fiw) The military party tn Petrdgrad continues to claim a Russian victory on tho battle field between tho Wartr. ai.d Vistula rivers in Poland . This is based on unofficial reports, which even assert that ah entire German army corps has been broken up and that 48 trains, . which will accommodate CO. OOO wounded and prisoners,, have been ordered out from Warsaw, -.'v. The German'official report, -oin the other hand, declares tho Ruealun of fonaivo in this region baa been check ed. rThe latest comfaunJ?rtioP ?t^w the Russian: general staff says il ghi* lug near Lodz continue?, bat that tho German forces are pressed ou every ?lde and aro matting <? suprema effort to cat their waythrough to the ?Orth. The Germana also claim to have brought the E/usaUn advance to ft step in East Prussia, and before Cracow, Gal leia. A Russian statement saya tho Rnssians. manifestly* have the upper hand near Cracow. A significant statement regarding Russian operations comes from Buda, pest. It is admitted in the Hungar ian capital that the Russian troops again have invaded Hangar* have.roached tba county pf 'Ut -JJ* miles south Af the Carpathian^ and the county of Zcmplln, 50 miles wot th ot these mountains. .'. ' Accordinc ' to this report ! the troops which Invaded Ung have been driven back to tho t (cxatoNfla? ow PAO*'?'?VE.) ! COSTLY COUNTRY RESIDENC1 STROYED BY FIRE WITH I CEALING THE CRIME-Tl NENTLY IDENTIFIED WIT LIGIOUS DEVELOPMENT TIES BELIEVE THE CRIME BLOODSTAINED AXE FO' (Dy. Associated Pro**.) ! j MIAMI, Fin., NOT. 25.-Two persons were killed with an use lu a costly country residence near here early to? day and the It ouse then destroyed by j fire with the evident Intention Of C01H eealing the crime. The dead ure: Adam- A. Hogg?, a [widely known Florida lawyer, and Mhrjor?e Bogga, 'his daughter. The I attorney waa forty-ilvc and the young, I woman eighteen years old. Neighbors found the charred bodies l in a search of .the ruins of the r?si dence. The skulls of both had been I ern ulled. While a. motive for the donble mur der, has not yet been established ;o the full satisfaction of the authorities, they-ore >worklng on the theory that the crime was . committed by burglars who were discovered in the house by the lawyer and his daughter. ' The blood-stained axe used In the crime was found late todny hidden nnd^r. shru?>ery hear the 'site of : the barned residence. Au empty parse al so was found. An investigation-of thc I , . Struggles of 'Y<ears.'' r >?>') ^'f^.-.:<Bv^Jt?toa?t?tf',p^^?i.)'^. ' ATLANTA/; ai.V,r?pV.; ?^.~tWb elev ens 'uhdefeated by any Southern foot bnii team this season-Virginia and North Carolina-will meet at Rich be one of the beBt gridiron, struggles ot th? year in tho South. North Carolina has won all . its games thus far, while Virginia's only defeat was at the bands ot Yale; Both have defeated Vanderbilt, Virginia making' the better showing. Few crit ics, however, haye cared to hazard a guess as to the.outcome of tomor row's clash. . Other games u?trn?ting njubh'^t'ten tlon ore tt?bs,?v?betwee^,"Wasmo?tonJ ?and HS*' raftlMffi Cat9?0? A. and1 'AL'St Norfolk; Tennessee and Ken tucky Stato at Knoxville; Vanderbilt and SQwanee. at Jifegttlta anil G*?ry .gta T?W?hd'd?mso? st Atlanta. All of .tho opponents' -are*/traditional' riv " Texas, will, meet wahk?ff-at Austin in the chief in ter section al game ot the day. Texas is favored to win. Other Southern games tomorrow in clude: ' ; ' Mississippi vs. Texas A and M. at Beaumont, Texas. , . . ;.. ? Virginia Polytechnic Institute vs, Virginia Military Institute at Roa noke, Va. ? { . Louis lan a State VB. Tulane at New Orleans. Alabama vs. Mississippi A. and M. at Birmingham. "Chattanooga vs. Cumberland at Chattanooga. Wo ff o rd vs. Newberry at Spartan burg, 8/C. , PMhltr? Schooner Ashore. JACKSONVILLE, Fla,)? Nov. 25 - Tba.. American fishing schooner Alert is. ashore oft Nassau Inlet, near Fer nandina,. according to advices from Mayport received here tonight.' Two;, wrecking tugs have been'sent from Itayport to the scene. The Alert w<js bound from Gloucester, Masa.,,ta Sh Andrews Bay; Florida. She carried a The Rucian Forces . : - (Br Aatocteto! frm? PETROGRAD, NOV. <Via Lon don, 11:05 p. m.)-The Army Messen ger says tho Gormans aro making at tack'after atwick in an . attempt td break they Russian forces north cf Lodz, but without succeos. Tho AUB tro-Oermau army IS staking.all on thia battle, it: adds. ',. > ; ' 5 ' V The newspaper saya 'bat on tho Qalician front the RUSi's v offenso is beeorair.g more eaergetM-'-^Wwi' Cueing, thei eaemy to ? state of Im potence. '_\ _> ? OF ADAM A. HOGGS DE? EVIDENT INTENTION OF CON JE BOGGS FAMILY IS PROWL H EDUCATIONAL AND RE OF THE SOUTH-AUTHORI WAS COMMITED BY ROBBERS, UND NEAR SCENE coins hus revealed-?oveval B niall sr (ides of Jewelry, hut nothing'of vain? has been located, tiras fonding to sop? - ' r">r port the robbery; theory.. \ vMr. Hoggs was clono te?^^'iW^ii?S; dorice dorthy th? early! part of last . ! night. pis'daughter!-was attending a social function nearby dud Mrs. Bogga : ls visiting at Lr i o Placid, New, York. ' Miss Boggo retorced home shortly | after midnight.. \ < ? The Hoggs family hus befa prom in en tl y Identified with tho educational an'j religious' development' !'of? the South. Dr. Willam E. BoggB, former chancellor of the Uuivcrtifty of Geer fri Qi and a Presbyterian > minister, who' now Uves' In Atlanta^ Is tKe^.^ of the dead lawyer, ailbert ?L Beggs, s brother, Is a member of the faculty of the Georgia Behool of T^p.ology in Atlanta* ej< ',, Br. Thomas Bogga, of BrJtimore, and Lucian' BoggiS, Of 'JafebBoaVlUe,,. ? Kg Fla., nrn two other brothers. The dead attorney waa a' graduate- of the liol ^erslty 'of .Geonr^,,?-?^ > .'.(?yA?ocUtoJ.Pi?*rx| i"<M : LONDON, Nov. 2&rtrA? *il*nt fenn ls the latest, weapon 'to ;M^jpiMhli^fbr< ward by the German army1 itt Franco; decor dinfj. to a narrative by Colone i B. D. Swinton. BrlU?n^?y^wite?'sB at the front. Tho x?ar?^^Ss?id -<n& vembor 23 was iB??fed. toflay by of ficial press bureau.; ' : 'It says: " v . . .Tn our center the ; enemy employed s silent gun which may be pneumatic or ,worked by somer mechanical con trlvance. There ia no: report of the discharge, the prolecWe travels through the air wlmohtpnny of-the warning by an ordinary; Shel!, and;' the :. first notice ot ita a"frival ls the de no^g^^^ffIfW^ y??s apart The^ English and Ger mans talk^ack ^d^foH^h^^fsb^t?v' . .^? weath'?r lisSW^nJ W slush. Improving lu one ,selise. ?Qhdltloas in the trenches; the naVrallve says, but the drop In the temperatures make? tho men BO otitT thal many have to be lifted oat of the trenches when re-' lleved and others are sent frozen ta hospitals "Beyond the hardship Inflicted on individuals," Colonel Swinton : says/ "the change In tho Weather chiefly haa affected ?erial reconnaissance and transport The freekl&ftmalees .the roads better and tho clear, crisp at mosphero aids the aviators to seo the landscape mere freely." .The Germans in ono place aro us- . lng a 42-centimeter htWiteer agaipBt tho British left, lt ls sa^d, and the re port tells of .the capture on Novenv, ber 21 of a German abroplane boar nlg circulars calling on tho Hindua'td . ? \ ? y v ''Wy f>?v;? . ' v*.r (Cy AnooUt^:lhCK.'>'. - ?'. . . BVHALIA,' MISS^ '?t?it?mi Sullivan, a negro, and hi? wife, aeons? ed of.having. s^?flc?M;?lia^ibm?rn' plantation near l^Sjj^fj^j/^: ' .go, wars l??M?tf*ett;-?*?4?^^^ which forced a deputy shforiff and his posse, who arrested the couple, to stand idly by while the lynchlct? was in progress. , , . This toforma?OTi .w^ ??T- - . Byhalia tonight by-.aie&hfr? of th?,; * ; : poise. Sullivan, it is etat ed, was first hinged from the timh .of e/j tree, and within a few minutes the womau met *\IIae-fatev:- .' s v-;!'?'?'??';4^fflBaO ; It is alleged that the < negro. con - fessed that ho burred the borh In re-. tahA^on?!to*rtheaqiiou.-.fc*. the plant-/ era in forcing him to surrender a plate ? which - be ?r?d purchased : bu$. luid hol paid ?or, . ' ??'. ' ;... .y