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CHITON MAUkKT Local ?tyotB .. . . ..9 l-4c VOLUME ll. ANDERSON, S. C. SATURDAY MORNING, MAY 8 , 1915. NUMBER 100 MORE THAN TWO THOUS AND PERSONS ABOARD WHEN SUNK NUMBER RESCUED STILL UNKNOWN Steward Says Steamer Waa Given No Warning-Believes 900 or More Are Lost. h\ noon, May . 7.-The Cunard steamer Lusitania which left New York Saturday with more than two thousand aboard was siiuk this afternoon off the Irish coast by German submarines, which Hred two torpedoes. The number rescued ls unknown. Not more than live to six hundred Were unaccounted for ut mid night. The ship's ' steward, who landed at Queenstown, said he' believed nine hundred an dead. Seme dead and wounded were landed and some died since lund In?.. No mimes of rescued, dead and Injured are known. The Cunard office closed at eleven - o'clock and remains closed until morning. Nothing is expected to Ight from Ll ver j Aol. Up to eleven thirty tonight no of ficial news regarding the passengers and crew of the Lusitania has been published. A dispatch to the Ex change Telegraph from Liverpool -said- the Lusitania was sunk without warning. - - - The Cunard offices are tonight be seiged by a crowd, mostly women. Many wept as trie hours passed with out definite news of those aboard. The eagerly read bulletins saying boats were arriving at Queenstown and Kinsale. The bulletins didn't give name and therefore did not al lay the anxiety. The admiralty says five to six hun dred survivors from the Lusitania have been landed. There are many hospital cases. Several aro dead. Some also landed at Kinsale. The number ot survivors is still unknown. Ko names were given. ISO Landed at Queenstown. Queenstown, May 7.-The tug Stormcock arrived here with about 150 Lusitania survivors, mostly pas sengers, many women, several of crew and one. steward. The steward said the passengers were lunching when the submarine appeared and fired two torpedoes. They struck the vessel on the starboard forward and aft of englneroom. The explosions Were tdrrlfflc. Captain Turner or dered the boats out. The ship began to list badly. Two boats put over the side With four -to Ave hundred pas sengers in them. A tug picked hlu .boat.up. He thinks a few officers were saved. It was fifteen minutes between the time the ship was tor pedoed rind the time she foundered, bow first. He declared it wrs' a dreadful sight. The steward ot the first boat land ing here said he feared nine hundred lives were lost.. _____ . CUNARD OFFICE IN NEW YORK HAS LITTLE INFORMATION New, York. May 7.-It was report ed that-Cunard officials here had re ceived a. cabio saying Lusitania's pas sengers were all saved. This was de nied. Tho Cunard Comnky tonight re ceived a message from Liverpool say ing Queenstown wires the Lusitania's first officer thinks five to als hundred were saved. That number includes passengers and crow. This is the only estimate possible, at present. Bfsemtwad by Havel Officers.' .Washington, Ma7 7.-Naval officials here think moro than one torpedo struck Lusitania if she dido': (lost longer than thirty minutes. They say the ship was so constructed that a single torpedo would not sink her except 'under extraordinary circum stances. It waa said that Inside* ex plosion^ might have aided in her de struction. The Lusitania is reported to h?ve beeb carrying extensive war ' stores for the allies. The officials aald if all passengers and the crew were removed In boats after the ves . sel waa torpedoed they accomplished an almost impossible task. The ship carried all boats and rafts required under United .States laws. The Lusi tania waa double skinned with many watertight compartments. Washington Shacked. Washington, May 7.-The Lusitan ia*!! destruction shocked United States JAPAN PRE? ENFORCE WAITING ULTIMATUM WAS DELIVERED DEMANDS SLIGHTLY MOI TO AVOID Washington, ' ..;-.jr 7.-Official ntl vires reached herc tonight say ing the Oriental crisis han been averted.. Jana has inoditied her demands on China who ?ill ac I them. Tokio. May 7.-Japan is awaiting j China's reply to the Japanese ultima i tum. Naval and military prepara I Hons are being rushed. Plvc trans-, ports loaded with troops and many warships loft in tin* direction o? Chitin, lt ls stuted the government ia desirous to avoid a rupture, lt is ad mitted it would prove embarrassing. Peking. May 7.-EkI Hioki, Jap anese minister to China, presented the Japanese ultimatum to the China foreign office this afternon. It in sists that China accede to the de mands presented by the Tokio gov ernment. The secretary of the Japanese le gation previously bad vlsltedi.the for eign office and informed the Chinese officials that Japan's ultimatum con tained certain modifications of the twenty-four demands presented by Tokio. Tokio. May fi?-a .dispatch-to-ta* Niehl N'lchi from its Peking corre spondent says that China last night informed the Japanese minister, Hicki, that it desired to arrange a settle ment of the demands In such a way as to avoid a rupture beetween the two nations. The press generally deprecates tito DANGEROUS FIRE IS NARROWLY AVERTED Mesara. Frank Farmer and T. S. . Crayton Discovered Blaze and Sent in Alarm. What threatened to prove a danger ous fire was narrowly averted last night at 8 o'clock by reason of thc fact that Messrs. Prank Farmer and T. S. brayton were in Mr. Farmer n ofTi?o over the Farmers and Mer chants bank and discovered a blaze in a hallway over Parker & Bolt's more before the flames had gained much headway and sent in an alarm in stantly. Had these gentlemen not been there at the time the fire un doubtly would have reached danger ous proportions before anyone would have discovered lt, foi* it was in such an out or the way place. The fire department made a quick response to the alarm and with the aid of chemi cal apparatus soon extinguished the flames. The fire originated in a pilo of rubbish , that had been thrown up ts the dead epd of a hallway that serves as an inlet to the offices over Parker ft Lott's store formerly occupied by Magistrate W. C. Broadwell and Su perintendent of City Schools E. 'C. McCanta. The wainscoting of thu hallway was ignited when the fire men arrived and burning merrily. The flreraen probably would not havo had auch an easy time extin guishing the tire as they did hud not Mesara. Farmer and Cray ton thrown water on lt before tho department ar rived. The scene of the fife is reach ed by ascending the flight ot stairs between' tro. Farmers ft -Merchants Dang and Parker ft BOU'B store. Af ter reaching the landing ono has to turn tb the right and go through a door in a brick wall, then go south along a hallway and turu at right an gles and proceed east along anoth/ er hallway before getting to the dead end ot tho ball where the fire cc-( cured. It can be easily seen-that the setting was good for a rather nasty fire. K Just how the fire originated had not been determined laat night. It started tn a great pile of rubbish, con stating pf dumpings from the waste basket, old jute baga, pasteboard boxea, bottles, etc. It appeared that ashes bad been dumped In the-corner also. Whether hot ashes had been dumped on the rubbish pile daring the day. the firemen could not tell; but tt is hardly probable that such waa SIT ANIA JBMARINE PARES TO DEMANDS; FOR REPLY . YESTERDAY AFTERNOON-I MFIED-CHINA ANXIOUS CONFLICT necessity of further concession to China. Some of the newspapers ex press a fear that tin- impression will KO ubroml that the elder statesmen^ still are a power behind the throne* -More than 40 warships, including thc battleship Hlzen and buttle cruiser Kengo, are preparing at Sa sedo for possible operations against China. A second squadron uuder Ad miral N'awn has arrived a:.d is hastily embarking supplies. Hear Admiral Kamitnura'a licet, including the bat tleships Sagami and Suewo. hus bein ordered to the gulf of Pechili to be in readiness to take aboard Minister Ilioki in case of necessity. Tlie police are protecting Poof. Ari ga, the Japanese adviser to President. Yuan ,Shi Kai. whom speakers have denounced as a Chinese spy. Ample protection ls also being arranged for Chinese residents'in Japan. Baron Kato, the Japanese foreign minister, ls understood to have in formed the eambasador of other pow ers that the ultimatum to China, which expires (J o'clock Sunday afternoon, was accompanied by additional mod ifications of Japan's demands, notab ly on the. questions relating to mu nitions and advisors, which interested the United States. The. impression prevails, that the influence of the el der statesmen resulted in further con cessions being made to China, in the belief that the lasting interests ot Japan would best be served by con vincing the powers that Japan is guid ed by a spirit of justice and a desire for the preservation of peace in the Orient. UNITED STATES IS WATCHING ORIENT! No Abatement of Interest in Wel fare and Progress of China. Washington, May 7.-The Japanese and <'iiine.se negotiations held an in terest here today second only to the European war. The position of the United State3 government regarding the negotia tions between two Oriental govern ments was set forth in a statement which was issued by Sccertary Bry an last night, after a consultation with President Wilson. Tho statement explains that there j ls no abatement of the American gov ernment's Interest in the welfare and nroyress of . China and declares that Us Sole interest in the negotiations Is that they, may result in an agree ment satisfactory to both the Chinese and Japan' and thereby contribute to world peace. The pronouncement BS; a that Japan has proa.Ss??d t??? United States that ..he would not violate the American treaty rights nor interfere with the "open door" policy* to which the United States and the other powers are committed. lb soute quarters tho statement today waa interpreted to mean that, although. the United States will not tender its good offices to bringing spout a settlement of the questions at '.?sue between China and lapan, Ita services are'at their disposal, if they are wanted. UARRV. 8!ri?Elt!*iTE*!>B*iT OF EfftJCA'lT&K OF SFWBERRY Columbia, May 7.-The state board of education, at a special meeting this afternoon, elected C. P. Barre county NUperlntondent of education for New berry county, succeeding George D. Brown, resigned; and Donald Huggins county superintendent for Cherokee county, to succeed E. S. McCown? deceased. . ? . Unie Interest le Libel Suit Syracuse. May 7.-There was Ut ile of interest In developments today it the trial of William Barnes' libel mit against Theodore Roosevelt. Tho l?y waa occupied by attorneys wrong ing regarding the . admlsalb?lty of ivtoonce.^ _.^....^-"-^_ dons. ' aa one would not hare been likely to hare had a fire on such a lay aa yesterday. IN LOUISIANA AND MISSISSIPPI HEAVY LOSS OF LIFE AND PROPERTY^ REPORTED IN MISS. VALLEY $500,000 DAMAGE IN LOUISIANA Thirty Persons Dead as Result of Storm-Houses and Other Property Destroyed. I T' n I New Orlcansi May 7. . Thirty per sons are known |o he ?lead today us .1 result of the storms which devested j Acadia parish in southwestern Louis iana und Coahoma county in north- | western Mississippi, yesterday. All ! except one are uogrocr.. Fifteen persons were killed at Egan j and Meruientau iii Louisiana, while ! M were killed near <'larkr.dale and Jonestown In Mississippi. At least 4T> persons were injured in the Louis iana storm district some perhaps fa tally. The estimates of tho property damage in tills State are placed nt $500.000. Numerous structures are demolished in the'Bath of the storm. At Mer.mentau, an iron sufi", weighing '-'.OOO pounds was carried a distance of 200 feet. One house and a pump ing plant .lust outside the town we--e lifted by wind and were deposited in Mermentau bayou. . A heavy rain accompanied the gale lu Mississippi. The railway tracks in severai sections of the state were in undated, wire communication!, in many sections were Interrupted. Tho report todak said, that one per son had been klHetf Tn Saint Helena parish and several were injured. They are also negroes. All Negroes. Clarksdalo. Mis?., May 7.-Fourteen I persons were killed In a wind storm j which swept Coahoma and the ad- j joining counties ot Mississippi late j yesterday, according to the reports| here today. All are negroes. Manyi negro cabins were demolished by Hie | storm. The property damage on Hie ? plantations will be large. HEAVY?ING GOES fIN EAST VIENNA CLAIMS AUSTRO GERMANS PURSUING RE TREATING RUSSIANS EXPECT ITALY TO INTERVENE SOON Situation There Tense-Press Thinks Only Miracle Can Keep Italy Neutral. Hard fighting continues in thc Car pathians and tn Galicia. A vienna statement says the Russians are atill ertreatlng, pursued across the He skids'by the Austro Cern?an army. It declares the Austro-?erman? huye re pulsed the desperate Russian attacks lu the Fast ern Carpathians. Petrograd says thc fighting in C?ll ela hss assumed the nature of a great battle. Had weather prevails in the went. Little fighting is lu progress there. In addition to the Lusitania, German submarinen have sunk the British steamers Candidate and Cen turion off the Irish coast. The Ital ian situation ls growng more tense. Newspapers think only a miracle can keep Italy from war. Japan has waived points in her demands to Chin?t . China has an nounced she will accept the other Japanese proposals. It is believed this will prevent a rupture.. l.-pilon, May 7.-Turkish official announcement at Constantinople, re ceived here today, says severe losses have beep Inflicted on ' French and British troops landed ou Gal'.ipoli pen insula. It is declared one entire battalion haa been annihilated. Reports direct from Dardanelles, while containing no details of land fighting, say sea, bombardment of Turkish forts ia proceeding success fully. Some forts at Chanak - and Kllld Bahr, and probably others on yoth sides of the _ straits r up to the (CONTINUED ON PAGE THKKE.) Two Victims of % ( harlie Murray. One tenement house section of Wsw York City contain!" ts hundreds of thousands of foreigners ls ii a furor over Hie murder of two children by a "Jack the Ripper." More thun 100 detectives of the police force are on the hunt for the murdered, who they believe ls a maniac lucky enough' so far to escape. leonore Anna Cohen, five years old, was attacked In the second floor hall way of her home, in the tenement of I No. :i"i2 Third Avenue, March li?. Her abdomen was slashed. No sound was heard by tenants. The murderer I made a clean escape. < Charlie Murray, four years old. was attacked In the ground flo^r hallway of the tenement in which ito lived, i No. 270 First avenue. His abdomen i was ripped open with two long knife I slashes in precisely the same manner i as that of the little girl The crime i ???lLL?8r CLARENDON $2,000 Supreme Court Affirms Verdict Rendered Under Lynching Statutes. Columbia, May 7.- Governor Man nings, this morning, reprieved Green wood I ogers, a negro under sentence of death, who was to have been electrocuted at ll o'clock on Augus 4th. Rogers waa convicted in Lau rens, for murder. Clarendon county must pay $2,u(>o for the death of Marlon Cantev tin der what is known a? tho lynching statutes. The judgment below was affirmed today by the suprema court in a decision by Anoociato Justifie Hydrick and concurred in by all of the Justices of. the court. The action against the county was brought jast July by .Madison Can ley, a relative. Marion Canley waa being carried to Jail, having boen ar rested op a warrant charging assault and -battery with intent to kill, wheu he was seized by a mob of 8 or 9 I men and shot to death, according tn the statement of Ute case which wu>; filed with the court/ The action waa brought by Madison Cattley io secure "exemplary damages for the lynchs lng bf the interstate" Marion Canley." Italian Senate Opens May 20. M?me. May 7--The date for con vening the senate and chambo :> of de puties hus been postponed from May 12th to May 20th, by a royal decree. Frosts in Nebraska. Kaasas City, Mo- May 7 - All Ne braska except the extreme eastern j portion. Colorado and most of Kan- j sa* and the Texas Pan Handle expe- I rlcnced killing frosts last night. 00 SWEl )EE SEC VEN LIVl Jack the Ripper" Eieonore Anno Cohen. was committed swiftly and tu ab solute silence, at the dinner hour, with tenant? m ?heir rc^nm or. all ?ides. Tho nturderor escaped without leaving the sligntest clue. The utter recklessness displayed by the criminal of this type ls shown in the fact that both crimes were com mitted about the dinner hour in the r.pcn hallways of crow'ded tenement buildings, with a polyglot, excitable population teeming *n all sides. The cleverness dismayed by both r rder ers ls evldcn'. from tho mai.?er tn which they made theL* appearance on the scene of the crime and their es cape afterward. Despite the pools of blond, found beside the bodies of both little victims, and Ute certainty that their assailants must have carried away long bladed, blood stained knives, no person was found Iii either case who had seen the murderers de part. MRS. CARMAN TESTIFIES IN HER OWN BEHALF Denies nil Testimony Given by Negro Maid-Never Used Revolver. Mine?la, May 7.-MTB. Florence C. Cannan testified in her own de 'enso today. She ls accused of kill ing Mrs. Louise I). Bailey In Free port on June 30th lust. The shooting x cured In the office of Dr. Edwin 'atman her husband. She dented all hat her former maid bad 'testified. 3he ?aid she had neve/ used a re /olver. but admitted there was one In ter room at the time of the shooi ng. ENGLAND ACTS ON LIQUOR QUESTION :urtailment Saje of Cheap Spirits is Object of Legisla tion. landon. May 7.-An official state aent Issued tonight says as most of he mischief ls done hy raw,, cheap pirlta ot a fiery quality, the gov rnment proposed to substitute for heir taxing a complete prohibition f the sale of spirits tess than three ears old. Time ia to be given to Tovldo Btoraga. Beer duties are withdrawn unmodified. Wine duties1 re also withdtnwn. PATH MARKED BY DEATH AND DESTRUCTION IN FOUR COUNTIES MANNING SUFFERS HEAVIEST LOSS Portion of Business Section Wrecked-Three Killed in Marlboro. - Columbia, May 7.-Seven person* were Hill.MI. many seriously Injured and much property destroyed by a tornado in the Pee Dee section of South Carolina this afternoon. Clarendon. Orangoburg, Darlington and Marlboro counties suffered. Houses wore wrecked, trees uprooted and crops budly damaged. In Man nine,. Clarendon county, a portion ot tho business section waa practically destroyed. Three died there. A girl and her little brother wero killed'toil a plantation In Marlboro county. The Marlboro county almshouse was wrecked, resulting in two deaths end eleven Injured. Dotatls are delayed by crippled wire service In the af fected s?riions. Columbia, May 7.-Clarendon conn ty was struck by a tornado this af ternoon, causing doath ano destruc- .< lion of property, according to a re port reaching Columbia tonight. Tho town of Manning caught the brunt ot tho storm and a telegram from Sumter says that eaveral people wave killed tn Clarendon county and much property ruined. Telafftoaati t and telegrapli wires to Manning are down and lt ts-hard to get any details. Marlboro county also, suffered heavily from a terrific atorm today, reports reaching here tonight aaylhg that it is believed several lives were lost In the county, and much proper ly damaged. Telephone w?r?? io the .nunty am out of commission "and It is impossible to get the names of par ions thought to hare been killed or the property damage. Calhoun coun ty reporta some damage from the storm, a barn at St. Matthews hav ing been set on fire by lightning and mrned. A heavy rainfall ls reported hroughout the State, and it ? feared hat the heavy wind did damage at )titer places than those indicated. It will be another day before full re ports of the damage eau be obtain ed. ?_ .URGE NUMBER STOOD I THE TEACHERS EXAM. Examination Began at 9 O'clock and at 5 AU Applicants Had . Nc: Finish. Sixty-four white - persons and 20 olored stood the regular annual i achers examination conducted yes erday by tho county board of educa lon. The examination for white ap llcanta was held hi thc county court, ouse, wh|lo thu colored applicants vere quartered at the Reed, Street cbool. Thia ls .tho largest humber f applicants for teachers certificates 0 undergo an examination 'of this Ind in years. The examination was conducted long the usual lines, that is, quea lons In algebra, arithmetic, grammar, cdagogy. geography, physiology and yglene, "hiatory, civics and current venta and agriculture. The following requirements for (truncates were published by t)f> ounty board of education with thc st of questions propounded: Eighty per cent average with not ;ss than 50 per cont on any one ranch will entitle the applicant to first grade certificate. Seventy per cent average with not .ss than 45 per cent on any one ranch will entitle the applicant to a' ?cond grade certificat-;. Sixty per cent average with not less ian 40 per cent en any one branch ill cut lt'.- the applicant to a third rade certificate. The examination began at 9 o'clock 1 .'day morning, and was to have sen completed at r. In the afternoon, ut at that hour there wera se*?n?l pplicanta who had not completed ie answering ot the questions pro-', minded. The examination papers will bc, one ovar .carefully l? tba near fu-, ire by the county board .of ednca on, and the resulta of the same mude sown.