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VOLUME II. ANDERSON, S. C. THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 17, 1915. NUMBER 135. RUSSIANS ACROSS F ATSEVER -* I AUSTRO-GERMAN ADVANCE* STEADILY PUSHING SLAVS OUT OF GALICIA. RUSSIANS ADMIT GERMAN CLAIMS Are Fighting Desperately to Check Teutons-Claim Successes on S try and Tismenitza. Loudon, June 16.-Germans claims ( of new successors on ibe Galiclun front in the European war was par tially confirmed toduy In an ofllciul statement from Petrograd. It ad mits tho withdrawal of Russian troups across the frontier into Russian territory from Czeruowltz and Buko wina and between the Dniester an Pruth rivers, also at the extreme southeast of the long eastern fight ing line. Tile report also says fresh Ger man forces, brought up uear Jaroslau v. J?r cover of heavy artillery fire, compelled the Russians to retire for pome distance on the right bank of San river after three days* desperate fighting. On the 'remainder of the eastern front the Russians are apparently con tenting themselves with repelling at tacks, except on the left banks of the Tiemenltza and Stry rivers, where they claim to hare taken numerous prisoners, machine guns and to have recaptured villages. The British army on the western -treat-bas-resumed the offensive. Offi cial report from Paris today said the British have carried another Une of German trenches west of La Bassee. On the remainder of tho line fighting during the last twenty-four hours lias been Indecisive Paris said activity was confined principal ly to artillery, but the Berlin re port tells of the complete failure of a violent French infantry attack north of Arras. Invasion of the provinces of Trent by the Italians ls proceeding' steadily and Italian military authorities de clare dominating positions are grad ually being occupied. The Austrians, who have despatched 25,000 men from Trent to resist invaders, have not yet accepted battle. On the Isonzo front the Austrians have pre pared elaborate defenses, including several lines ot trenches of mason ry and concrete. Little news comes from Dardan elles, except officiai intimation that Turkish' forces are showing a sensi ble weakening. Paris, June 16.-Using their might ty Howitzers, the Germans have bombarded Compeign,e but it was of ficially announced by (ne Preach war office today that little damage had been done to property and that- no lives had been lost. In the region of Kueenevta'rs farm, German counter attacks, which had been launched in an effort to recap ture trenches taken by the French, were completely repulsed and the German soldiers wore put to rout. Compeignc lies forty miles north ot Paris, at th? Junction of the Elsne and Oise rivera; Great importance is attached here to the New French thrust which is being made in Lorraine, and which ls believed tn be the forerunner of a big attempt by General Joffre, the French commander-in-chief, against Metz: The immediate objective of the French ia supposed to be Parroy forest, northeast of Luneville, which is traversed by a railway Una' run ning to Avricourt. CHlCORACOLht MOVED TO CJ S.C. BIRD RE? Columbia, June 16.-The Chlcora college for women, a consolidation of Chlcora college of Greenville and the College for Women of Columbia, Will be located in Columbia, due to the deciding vote cast yesterday by Harmony Presbytery at Its meeting ta Sumetr. The Presbyteries which ha\?e voted for the change from Greenville. to Columbia are Bethel. South Carolina, Con garee, Piedmont. Pee Dee and Harmony. The Char leston Presbytery will meet Thurs day. The Enoree Presbytery, com prising several counties srouTt Oreen ville, voted against the change/! The rer?oral of Chlcora college to Columbia waa referred to the hoard FORGED RONTIER ALPOINTS CARRANZA NOT IN PEACE PACT (VAXES NO REPLY TO RE PEATED OFFERS LEAD ING TO PEACE. PUSH CAMPAIGN FOR MEXICO CITY Hopes to Drive the Villa-Zapata Forces From Capital-Hopes For Recognition. Washington. June 16.-General Carranga has declined, for the pres ent at least, to accept the overtures for neac?? in Mexico made hy the Villa and Zapata factious. Three peace of fers have been unanswered it became known today. Later was made through the United States a proposal for thirty day armistice during Which arrangements could he made for es tablishing a provisional government communlted to Carranza. Carranza ls understood to have stated there would be no reply. It ls understood it is Carranza's intention to press his campaign with hope of taking. Mexico City, driving the Vllla-Zanata forces northwards. He thinks this will entitle him to United States recognition. Mexico City, June 16.-General Pablo lonzales replied to the con vention government's note asking for an armistice that terms for a reunion might be arranged, by dr'Handing the unconditional surrender ot the capi tal. Gonzales promised immunity to all persons who adhere to . the Car ranza cause. ' The convention government in now holding a secret session to consider an answer to Gonzales. Harvesters For War Victims. Paris, June 16.-Charles and Jamea Deering have cabled giving on behalf of the Deering farm machin ery concern five harvester binders for the use of the farmers of the Meuse department to save the what crop, which was uncut last week. THIRTY MORE GASES BEFORE SUPREME COURT Decisions Expected On or Before Monday-Important Cases Pending. . Washington, June 16.-Only thirty cases remain before the United States supreme court for decision during the present term. They will probably be disposed of .Monday, the final decision day of the court year. This will be a new record for work accomplished. The cases pend- ' lng Include the so-called "grand father clause" cases, the Internation al Harvester dissolution suit, 'the Delaware, Lackawanna aud Western "coal truBt ault." the Oregon mini mum .wat,e case and the Webb-Ken yon liquor case. EGE WILL BE \PITAL CITY; ?AINS AT HEAD of trustees of Chlcora college by the Presbyteries for consideration. The board recommended, thut the change be made and referred tho question back to the eight 'Presbyteries, which created th? board, for final action, a two-thirds vote being necessary to make the change mandatory and as sured. 8. C. Bird, formorly president of Chlcora college, will be the execu tive head ot the combined institu tion . Several of the teachers of the College tor Women have been offered positions on the faculty of Chlcora College for Women and a few have accepted. The majority of the facul ty, however, will consist ot teachers from Chlcora coll?e. HEARING ON APPEAL FOR COMMUTATION OF DEATH SENTENCE CLOSED. EXPECT DECISION LAST OF WEEK Howard Declares Frank, By Any Other Name, Could Be Quickly Freed. Atlanta, Juno 16.- IA-O Frunk's fate was placed finally in Hie hand.? of j Governor Slaton at the close of the hearing late today 0:1 his appeal for the commutation of the death sen tence. The governor took the matter nuder advisement nm] announced that he would render decision at th? ear liest possible time. This is not ex pected before Friday or Saturday. Frank is under sentence to be hange?: June twenty-second. Today'* session was occupied by Attorney Howard's closing argument in behalf of Frank. He attacked the testimony of tho state's witnesses,, again declaring thal Jim Conley's story was an invention t<? save him self. Howard declared "take the name of I^eo Frank out of tills case, forget all that lias passed In the lust two years, give me public mind that is a clean slate, put this case in any Georgia court and I will acquit this defendant in twenty minutes." . The governor asked many ??ues Hons during the course of Howard's argument. Atlanta, June 16.-Governor Slaton today heard further argument on the question of commuting Leo M. Frank'B death sentence for the mur der of Mary Phagan. WV M. Howard continued his plea in ?behalf of Fraak, which waa interrupt ed when the haring recesse?'. on Mon ?day until today. "Taking Solicitor Dorsey's proposi tion in his argument for the' state that the testimony of Jim Conley, a negro, against Frank be eliminated, there ls not single circumstances of sufficient weight influence a verdict against Frank" declared Howard. Governor Slaton interrupted to ask Solicitor Doraey whether Frank was Indicted before or after Conley began making his several affidavits. "Co?iey's first affidavit was made while the grand jury.was in session" replied Dorsey, "but the affidavit was not presented to the grand jury. I told them something about the affi davit, but the indictment against Frank was independent of the negro's statement." Throughout his argument Howard contended that the evidence in the case, pointed toward Conley and not Frank, as the girl's murderer. YOUTH SHOOTS NEGRO DRAYMAN Employe of Transfer Co. Uses Shotgun on Negro al Green ville Passenger Station. ? Greenville, June 16.-B. B. Foster; a young man employed by the FoBter j Dray Co.. shot'and probably fatally wounded Henry Willis, a negro em employe of the same company, yes terday afternoon at the Southern sta tion. The weapon used wan a single barrel shot gun, the load passing through the edge of a trunk before entering the negro's body. The ne gro is In a critical condition at'a loo*.! hospital while Foster la held at tho police station pending the result of the negro's wounds. Foster has made no statement con cerning the affair but his friends de clare tho negro'was armed. BC88JAN fi BA ND DUKE CONSTANTINE lg DEAD Petrograd, June 16.--Grand Duke Constantine ?Constantinovltch, presi dent of the Imperial Academy of Science and head of the department of military schools, died last night of heart disease aged 57. He WA? a member of the reigning family. Lassen Again ta Emption Redding, Cal.. Juno 19. Laasen Peak ' erupted for the hundred and first time today. It belched from the main crater a pillar of smoke report ed to reach a mlle skyward. From left to rights C?ptala A. T. lieut. Uomiuauder William t . Watts. HU? gner ; These are the naval officers who have begun inquiry into the examina tions scandal at the naval academy nt Annapolis. They will huvc. before them many students who graduated thia year and are now in the navy .as officers. In addition members of Ute classes yet to finish must explain. The charge 1B made that there was wholesale fraud in the uso of ex Long, t'uptalii Robert L. itussell, in circle Commander Louis P. Do auiiuntion questions, Some one ob tained many questions In advance and these were scattered around amona nte students; Tho nuperlntendent or the academy, I "ar Admiral Kullani, has added the c^nrgo that an attempt was made to br k open tho desks of four professors to cpt- coj.ies of the questions prepared for the examina tions. LUSITANIA INCIDENT Cunard Official Says First Ship Torpedoed While Making Over Fourteen Knots. London, June 16.-Inquiry into tho { Lusitania was resumed today with I the examination of Alfred A. Booth, chairman of the board of directors \ of the Cunard Steamth'.o comoany, owners of the vessel. The witness 1 said that never before the. Lusitania waa sunk haJ any vessel making more titan fourteen knots per hour been torpedoed. The Lusitania be said had been traveling -eighteen ] knots when the German .submarine attacked. Both addPd that the Cunard com pany was unable to communicate with the vessel by wireless, except through Hie admiralty, therefore they had given no wireless instruc tions to Captain Turner. G?nerai Instructions previously given in cluded the closing o? the watertight compartments and swinging out of boats on entering tho danger zone and an order not to slow down to take on the pilot nor to Ile off Liver pool to wait for the tide. Booth said lt was.loft to Captain Turner's dis cretion to arrange the time of the vessels arrival. Bald all he knew relative to the warnings Issued to prospective passagers on the Lusi tania was v.-h?* I.e read in the English newspapers. NO FURTHER DEVELOPMENT? IN TUE WINNSIMIKO AFFAIR _ v Columbia. June 16.-Governor Man ning, Lieutenant Governor Bethen and , others left Columbia at noon by nu i tomohllo for Winn shorn, where they at 2 o'clock attended thc, funeral ot the late Adam D. Hood of Fairfield coun ty, who was killed In the. battle at th? court' house there Monday. . There were no developments today ta connection with the affair. Baak Robbed or *?.?wf> St. Louis, June li'.-The Grovers bank of St. Louis county, outside tho st. Lou^s city-limits, was robbed of 15,000 today after tho cishier bad been locked in a teller's cage. The robbers put the telephone sendee at the hank out of commission and es caped. BRITISH SHIP SUNK IN IRISH CHANNEL Captain and Twenty-one Men Lott -Submarine Made No Effort to Rescus Drowning. London, Juna 16.- The Hrllish steamship Strathnairn hound tor Car din with coal for Archangel, russia, was torpedoed and sunk todny in the. Irish Channel. Eleven members of the crew lund<)l Ut Milfordhuvon. The captain and the remainder ot t?>e crew ?ere drowned when the boat in which they took refuge capsized. l.al<> advices tonight state that twenty-two members of the Strath naprns < rew, Including the captain were drowned. The torpedo struck the steamer amldshin, Mowing up one of le . bollors. Pour boats wer,, has tily launched but two Capsized and one smashed against the vessel's alus. Survivors nay after the Strathlynn was torpedoed Ihoy say the periscope of a submarine boat. The submarine made no attempt to rescue the drown ing men. PROTEST ANTI-JAP MOVE IN CHINA Boycott Result of Dissatisfaction Over Terms of Recent Ultimatum. Tokio, J ne 16.-According to announcements made today bv a Jap ans S news agency. Japan has sent a protest to china concerning 'the .ntWapnneae movement In China. Discontent 4n China with JJIUHP'S course daring negotiations culmin?t-, lng in ?he acceptance ot th? Japanese ultimatum lo?t month bas been mani fested chiefly by boycotts. A. re cent dispatch said Drltlsh and Rus sian volunteers had disporsel Sn anti-Japanese riot at I (snow for their own protection. Record Breaking Crop. Washington, June 16.-At a cabi net session todny. which lasted only 40 minufs, the shortest the present administration bas bad. Secretary of Agriculture Houston reported that the ISIS crops will ba the greatest in the history of the country, HEAVY Fil ON ?NGU FRONT II UNION MEN RETURN TO WORK AFTER AGREE MENT IS REACHED. TO ARBITRATE ALL QUESTIONS Mayor Thompson Gets Credit For Bringing .Employers .and Employes Together. Chicago, Jun? 16. -Normal service* on Chicago elevate;! and surface car lines was resumed today. This re sulted from au agreement reached af ter an all night session of the rail way and labor representatives with a council committee headed by Mayo-.* Thompson, to arbitrate. Homebound thousands were tonight transported without delay. Mayor Thompson is credited with bringing about the agreement to arbitrate. Every point of difference between tho men and employers will be decided by the ar bitrators. t'hlcago, June 16.-Chicago's street .car ulrike will be settled by arbitra tion, tinton leaders, traction officials and Mayor Thompson's alderman strike committee held a session all night and agreed to urbitrate all ques tions curly this morning. It was an nounced that cars will resume opera tions hy noon today. Announcement of strike settle ment came too late to start the cam for the rush hours early today and g.'cat armies of worker? were oblig ed tn ugaln depend on motors, hues ea, moving trucks, ice wagons and railroad sururban truing for trans portation. Officials of tructlon systems tele graphed eastern labor agencies not to employ any more men as strike breakers. Six thousand men alroady been started here, lt was Bald. Sixteen hundred arrived last night arni weru placed under guard In lodg ing houses and terminals of the com panies. ?AN0MES PLAN FOB LEAM PEACE Saya League Would at Least En. able Nations to Suspend Quar rels Till Passion Is Cooled. Philadelphia, June 16.-Former President Taft, lu an address here tonight, outlined a plan for the pro posed league of peace.' Tuft is firm ly of th? opinion that a league could bc formed which would enable the nations to avoid war by furnishing practical means for nettling interna tional quarrels or "impending Hum until th" blinding heat of passion has cooled." At the conference tomorrow pro posals will bo considered for a league or peace and stens taken to obtain the support of public opinion and gov ernments. Taft's nddresn wns intended an the keynote speech. SIXTEEN PERSt WHEN ZEPPEl NORTH COAS Lon ..)]?. June 16.-Tho official statement regarding the Zeppelin air raid Issued tonight said: '^Further Incluirles show that casualties In con nection with the visit of Zeppeline to the northeast, coast Tuesday night amounted to sixteen killed and forty injured. .**'.' London, June IC.-A Zeppelin drop ped bomba on the northeast coast of England last night. Fifteen dead, and fifteen wounded are reported. Some fires started by bomhbs we. e extin guished. This ls officially announc ed. BRITISH WIN AND LOSE MILE OF FRONT IN BATTLE NEAR FESTUBERT. TO TAKE LEMBERG IN FORTNIGHT Gen. Mackensen Think? He Cen Take Forte in That Time Un less Russians Improve. London. June IC-For the tiret time in weeks there has been ^eavy fight lng ovvr tho comparatively ex tensive or British front in Belgium and France. Berlin describes lt as an , Anglo-French movement, syn chronizing with the Russian revers?e In Galicia. To win a mlle of front, then loee lt after terrific German counter-at tacks was the experience of the Brit ish Tuesday night near Featubert. Field Marshal French, briefly and frankly records the incident without stating ino losses which must have been heavy in both sides. Germany ls also frank in conceding the lose of ground near Ypres. lu tho east the AuBtro-Qerman ad vance continues to swing forward with the e -et ?ition of the section between Dniester Marshes and Zurawna, Whens the Russians holding the bridge heads are making some headway. Gen eral Von Mackensen, according tot dispatchea has given himself a fort night in which to capture Lemberg. At the rate bis and co-ordinate forces arti advancing, it would seem this limit will be ample if Rust?aos are unable to initiate a stiffer resistance than heretofore. Tho latest Zeppelin raid on Eng land hardly created a ripple ot ex citement. Berlin, Ji.ne 16.-Special dispatches from Austrian headquarters report that the Teutonic allies are pushing' th' Russians vigorously front the San river to the frontier. Heavy fighting la proceeding along the whole line In Galicia but the maximum apparently has not been reached. The Russians are bringing all their available forces, consisting of partly fresh recruits, to resist the Germanic allies' advance. Cherbourg, June" 16.-French tor pedo boat 331 sank yesterday after a collision w?*b the British steamer Arleya. Six of the warshlp'e crew were drowned. Othera were res cued. Austrians Well Fortified. Rome, Juue 16.-The Austrians have prepared an elaborate syrtorc- pf entrenchment along the Isonso riv er, says the Italian official statement. There are several Unes of trenches at places, some of masonry or con crete, and are guarded by minas and batteries. The statement declar ed repeated Austrian attudes hi>*l been repulsed. London, juno 16.-Military observ ers at Petrograd express the belief that two million, eight hundred thous and Germans and Autitrlaos are oper ating against the Russians in the east. Each day adds to th? extent of ter ritory the Austro-Germans have re gained from the Russian invading armies. Nineteen Milled at Karlsruhe. Karlsruhe, June IC.-Nineteen were Wiled, . fourteen seriously wounded and many others slightly hurt here yesterday when French aeroplanes attacked. The people re mained calm. Incensed by attack oa an open town. Berlin newspapers.call the attack a nefarious, senseless act nnd demand unscrupulous retaliation. ONS KILLED UN BOMBARD ?T OF ENGLAND Never before has-an air raid oa England taken auch toll in human life. Thia la the third air attack in little more than two Weeks. May 31st was the date of the first at tack on London from the clouds with four persons killel. On Juna Ith the cast coast of Ergland was th? ev?ne of an attack with five fatalities. Reporta of aerial attacks by both sides In last fortnight indicate the determination to force fighting front clouds. Air attack by oas side baa been so closely followed by a count er attack that retaliation ts strongly Indicated.