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THE NEWS AN HE This Newspaper is Published in the Best Town in the Best County in 'uth Carolina. Twice a Week at $1.50 a Year. Vol. LXX- No 13 WINNSBORO. S. C.. FRIDAY, AUGUST W1914. Established 1844 Who's Who In Photo by American Press Association. KING PETER of Servia, the countr, came king by the murder of King was so much mystery attached to ceived at any of the courts In Europe. CHILD FLAGS TRAIN I AND SAVES LIVES Four Injured in Auto Accident. Were Lying on Track and Train Stops .ust in Time. Spartanburg special to Charles- 1 ton News and Courier, Aug. 9. Flagged by a little girl 4 years I old. Southern train No. 13 was I stopped above Landrum station c this evening just in time to pre- i vent the lives being crushed out t of four pers6ns who lay upon tne t 3::-R wlire theylT had been thrown fro~m tfreir au- r tomobile, which had skidded and fallen over the thirty-foot em- t bankment. The injured parties were placed aboard the train and L taken to Tryon, where they were ,given first aid treatment. Later they were put aboard train No. 10 and brought to Spartanburg and placed in the"hospital. The little girl who flagged the train is the daughter of Mr. and and Mrs. J. G. Caldwell _of Campobello, and the parties whose lives were saved through her brave effort was that of her uncle, Thomas Caldwell, Miss Noette Reid of Greenville, Mrs. A. C. Miller of Enterprisa, Ore gon, and Mrs. Jerry M. Cald- t well, all of whom were more or less seriously injured as a result of the accident, ini which their automobile ran over the embank ment and dumped them upon the railroad tracks in a deep cut. Villa May Start Revolution. Washington, Aug. 12. -Gen. Carranza has ordered held at Tampico a large shipment of ammunition consigned to Gen. VillIa, according to ofnecial, advis es today to the Washington gov ernent. For many weeks Villa has been recruiting and buying amnmunm tion and Carranza has not object ed to shipments of munitions' via Tampico. Today, however, he called a halt. Reports;of increasing friction between the two constitutional ist leaders reached here today from various sources. Gen. Villa sent to persons here a synopsis of the reasons why he is dis olea'sed with Carranza's attitude. He sets forth that he will, insist on carrying out the agreement recently reached at Torreon when the breach tentatively was adjustable. Officials, ineidentally, have been advised, that while the federal army is evacuating Mex ico City to allow a peaceful en try of the constitutionalists with out subjecting non-combatants in the capital to the dlangers of a battle, the federal forces, es timated at 40.000 have not final ly determined what to do. The federals want guarantees: and Gen. Valasco, minister of war to Carbajal, has intimated in an' official communieation to Car ranza,that if guarantees are not o-iven and amnesty declared, a counter revolution undou btedly will be made to join forces with Villa. Subscribe for the News and Herald. Europe's War] t tld 1l I s f I%I V t a f( a e rwhich is at war with Austria, be Alexanider and Queen'Draga. There this murder that he has,n-:; been re is s'fi (NOWLTON HOSPIAL IS BOUGHT BY -BAPTISTS iei i fi w ale of Property Announced by L Committee Wednesday--- 1 Continue Colonia *Hote. 'he State. The South Carolina Baptists ave bought the Knowlton hos; tj >ital in Columbia and will take i,C( harg-:,. at an~early, date ', accord- E a to announcement made yes- f erday, by a.member of the Bap- 1L ist hospitl W tee. The sy b >urchase price was ert an.- is, It 'has been known for some ei ime that negotiations . wereei >ending between the Baptistit] rustees and Mrs. Augustus B. 1ir nowlton, widow of the lateb tugustus B. Knowlton, M.-D., h t iander of the hosital. A defi ite announement was not made s mntil Wednesday, however. The c< ransfer of the Knowlton prop rty wl ben khe binninr sof e: liositat negkofteiaptiss. weeo eningedtwee the Baptist te i adouht wido Cofoi tholtel c1 >roupery. the holoia wil de ontianud as waot,it mae ern ednyeseday, howeter. The c nfeonof the trustees nototo b leeoi ospitalf ther attis o ;rpet. The Colonia will operae otinua ams hotelo abot twas rearndstdait sit isa the:e ntentibe of thentrustoestnotptos Teeo Knwa hospital,' at thsp md. Theylorets hs opeputed o a se n fl tel est instiutn tof tas, ind ith uadtha t isthee >nl e o h anges*thpitas- inr nthi seto f h cuty n poTssn he Knowlton pial. nd olonia opeis the ojecitt is f tsl kindiner Soay . I -i te purposae ofthYouth Caredbyina Allen thetlargest;hospitas ild, youngesction ofh co nt r, and Aoleni Proertie, the aproject s ted uner ay. yetrayatr noon while-aouwhk allnedibythas Alocleactlen Agapn. ThPere yunt sn the Dr.anagment .1i AnPatterson,bu 53a was ai hincoon hi a waeno theb plant io rnehagthe ma amn. In lifting off the covering to the t gas tank, it is thought, he was overcome by the sudden cutflow of gas. His head fell over the' opening, and he inhaled the gas~ and was asphyxiated.' He was found in this position by two little boys an hour later. They. gave the alarm, and he was imn mediatly removed but aid reached ' him too late. He was a bright and promising lad with energy and ambition unusual for his age, a favorite with everybody here and his death has east a gloom over this community. He is survived by his father, mother, one brother. Joe Allen Patterson, and three sisters. Mrs. Arnold Searson, Miss Isabelle Patterson, and. M1i.sTJnette Patterson, 0 HAVE COVERNMENI AI: DII 3 Stackhouse Plan for'Holding Stat Cotton Crop. A he State. T. B. Stackhouse, president of Stat bie Standard Warehouse con- wer any, whO returned to Columbia Duk -*om Washington Vesterday, said Ani iat in his opinion the federal larg ovornment was determined to PoV o everything in its power to as- ers ist the farmers of the South to of L old their cotton. Mr. Stack- Am( ouse attended various confer- app( nces between cotton growers Tay] nd congressmen in Washington. Chai [e said that besides the cotton of ti rowers the representatives of T1 arious interests, among them I aftel ie copper mining industry and Pag< ie wheat growers, were impor- Duk ining the government for fin- donE icial aid in the present emer- abou ency brought about by the gen- He I -al war in Europe. quai Mr. Stackhouse gave out the is ur )llowing detailed statement on Gres ie result of the conferences he' M: -tended: his f "Last Thursday night a con- now rence attended by United try I tates Senator E. D. Smith and war :hers was held in the office of busii ommissioier E. J. Watson at Mi olumbia. As a result of this mes. )nference, a meeting was held was st Tuesday in Senator Smith's Perbi )mmittee room in 'the national attoi wital at Washington. This Mori teeting was attended by Senator Iwas mnith'and six other United States mators from cotton growing SoL1 tates, two members of the fed-I al reserve board and represen- I ttives of the cotton interests Cc -om South'Carolina, Mississippi, beca ouisiana and Tennessee and Sout sted from 10 o'clock in the toda torning until 6 o'clock in the of G ternoon. -ning SERIOUS SITUATION. 1 Gov< "The serious situation con fron- J. B ng the South in marketing its, Blea >tton crop on account of the A uropean war was freely and ing illy discussed, and both the Chie nited States senators and mem- the I ers of the federal reserve board; M med~- not only willing but Gov ixious to have the federal gov- the nment assist the cotton g-vow--e s in getting a fair price for denc 1s crop and assured the meet- dow: g that they would use their Carc ast efforts to have this assis- but mee rendered. Man "On account of the funeral of said [rs. Wilson congress did -not effe( )nvene on Monday, but Col. men Tatson and others held confer- and oces on that day with members I ho F the house and senate and your 'ere invited by Congressman ther ever to appear before the agri- F ltural committee. squa THREE AMENDMENTS. mm "As a result of these confer- bt rces, three amendmnents to the rese anking law were introduced in and >ngress yester day (Tuesday) nd will probably be adopted.d 'he amendment to the Aldrich- da reeland emergency act will put ma otes secured by cotton and other his taple agricultural crops when roperly warehoused on the same tha asis as government and State er onds by increasing the limit Bl rom 30 per cent. to 75 per cent.hi f currency to be issued on such* aper- "in "Another amendment to the ame act more fully defines the tatus of State banks and em- GodE owers them, if they join the G ederal system, to secure this ti xtra currency.Se "The amendment to the fed-Se ral reserveact removes, in times h f emergency, or under the sup-se ~rvision of the federal reserve m oard, the limitations as to the tmount which banks may borrow md lend. me "The fedleral r'eserv'e board will va robably issue this week a"state- i nent in which it will request the Stal tock and cotton exchanges to* eiain e.losed unti[-the situationn npro',es, urge the farmers not o rush their prod1uet4on -th narket and pledge the ibard toSp ender every possible assistance' o enable the farmers to get a; air price for their crops.' W rec Ellis Reunion. tan1 Mr. Preston Ellis of .Jonesboro, a.ateddteEllis annual re in nion, which took place at Beth- did ehem last Thursday-August 6. didn .ev. Jas. P. Pressly made the v ddress. A large crowd was Ble >resent. Mr. Marshall Haddon w ame up from A bbeville and some him ersons from Greenwood. This he .eunion is a great gathering, that s looked forward to with much r nterest by a large family circle. inst -- Associate Reformed Presby- acct eran- prir Mrs. *T. M. Cathcart is a mem- Ble: , of this family from Due West. this (E WANTS 10 GET HOME e and War Department are sked to Come to His Aid. 'ashington, Aug. 11. -The e and War Departments I asked today to aid J. B. h e. former president of the rican Tobacco Company andA e owner in the Southern , er Company with headquart it Charlotte, in getting :uth ondon and back to Ameria; mg those who presented:* the al for Mr. Duke were Z -V. or and Cameron: Morrison of clotte and Secretary Daniels ie Navy. ie State Department this! moon cabled' Ambassador K ?, at London to look into the j e case and see wh'at can be! There is some mystery t the request of Mr. Duke. ias millions and is well ac- < nted with Mr. Page, yet he iable to leave the capital of i t Britain. r. Duke, it was argued, by 'riends today, is needed he, "to save the tobacco indtis 'rom ruin."' The Europea has helped to demoralize the,,,. ess. t r. Taylor was armed with I.j age from Mr. Duke. H accompanied.by Mr. W. R. :ins of New York, personal -ney of Mr.- Duke. Mr.' -ison's presence in the party merely incidental. :h Carolina Politics far Past the Boiling Point. ilumbia, Aug. 12.-The lines me tightly. drawn in the t h Carolina political situat!*& y. At Newberry, the home overnor Blease, R. I. Man of Sumter, candidate for rnor, came near blows with i 0 . Adger Mullally. an avowed se candidate for Governor.. : Dillon one of those attack Governor Blease said the f Executive's speech "show.'I Republicanism of the man.", - e. Manning had criticized the'-n rnor's record severely 0 tate campaign meeting ,rrv today when Mulh' unced odne wfi u w -2 a the fair name of South' . lina." He had proceed..io a short while when Mf.* ning stepped forward and something to the followirgiz :t. "I declare all your stat ts as to me maliciously false,, but for a New York dispatch P Id in my possession as to n e,ondition I would go for- I r a while things lookedlr 11y and cheers for Manning a led with cheers for Blease. b crowas surged to the stand I ~oon quieted. Mullally did noti nt the challenge with a blow things passed off. the Senatorial meeting to- t at Dillon L. D. Jenning, 1. or of Sumter, was severe in ~riticism of the Governci, as W. P. Pollock. r. Jennings said "I believe if the devil walked on this V h and was charged with t use' s record he would'7hang ead in shame." Ir. Pollock said Blease was Columbia mixed up with the track gamblers and blind rs and getting moneT from knows where." overnor Blease si oneN g he was sorry about in the ate was that he could grant 1 >ardons there. He char ged H local moi-ning paper with1 ling its issues free for ai th to every Bleas-eite andli he would ask the Govern it to investigate this' as it ;done to injure him political The storms are gathering he political horiza in this be, and two years ago showed ing to. the tense feeling that: prevail this.time. -rtaniburg B!easites Will Sup port W. (C. lrby. partanburg, S. C.tAug. 11 - C. Irby, Jr., of L'aurens will ~ive the votes of most Spar >urg County Bleaseites in the ernatorial campaign, accord to Magistrate Robert J. ,tt, who was the Blease can t for chairman. of county: vention. John G. Richards,, >was the favorite of the iseites until Saturday night~ m, it is said, he "eliminated". self by refusingKto tell how oted two years ago, is no per considered a factor here. he Bleaseites thave decided ead, to concentrate on Irby, rding to Governor Blease's icipal lieutenants. The iseites polled 5,564 votes in. county two years ago. 1M10 CENERAL NEWS9 of Interest Gathered From Our Exchanqes. - . N. A. McCully, United 4navy, formerly of Ander or;7, t been assigned to duty i Ta' attache at the United t Ys Embassy at St Peters-! , ,sia. In this connection probable that he will L rable fighting going aiowsdT1m during the war. As a result of -the war. King -eorge has ordered release of I militant sufferagettes in jail ' eaches of the peace. o far the state department i been able to throw absolute nIuo light on the where abouts r,ewis W. Haskel, consul ati ?erade Servia, and Mrs. Has I, who left London for Belgrade inething like three weeks ago. A c -Dillon on Sunday night rgeon Hamilton, a young man 419 years shot and killed J. D, rws of Rock Fish N. C. io was calling. on Hamilton's ter. On August 11th the German )sses around Leige were esti ted to be nearly 32000, Otis Hilton, who was paroled I om the State penitentiary by, e Governor some months ago as shot and seriously wounded - ..a'drug store in Fort Mill on sesday night by his cousin, VII-Johnson. Canada has purchased two owerfui submarines which ere built at Seattle Wash., for he Chilean government. On Tuesday the clearing house L t Mexico City decided to re pen the banks which had been rdered closed in view of the act that congress failed to dis- E olve and President Carbajal has ot decided to resign. A house in Chester owned by I c red Lander and occupied by A. . Stegall was burned last Wed esday night. The loss was c - $1200, with an insurance I It Chester county's new ii is ,at'a sfUst -n r.,nt f a lank of material. t The amount of Chester's com- a iutation tax for 1914 ist 267.50 Mining the North Sea as a art of the plan of the war may s ot only close most of the North a ~uropean ports to navigation, ut the gold laden crusier Ten- e essee, and the North Carolina. 1 nd neutral passenger vessels e ringing Americans home from ~urope will face new dangers. a The St Louis Republic quotes no. WV. Craddock, president of a he Craddock-Terry Sho.e com-a any as declaring that he is ery optimistic over the future f business conditions in the Jnited States, and that in a ~eneral wvay a big European war nay have the eff'ect of making his country the recognized vord leader in finance. St Matthews is to have a new 120,000 Methodist church, on vhich work has already been 1 >egun. At the meeting of the candi lates for state offices at~ Union1 m Tuesday, Win. C. Irby Jr. ok Jno. G. Richards sharply to ask for refusing to tell how he voted in the gubernatorial race n 1912. and now daily explain ng how he is going to vote in :he 1914 senatorial race. Sheriff Miller of Lexington! ~ounty is waging war on vag ants. He says he is determined o break up vagrancy in that ~ounty as far as it is in his. power. _______ __ Wins U. D. C. Scholarship. olumbia Record. Jlohn Hnugh BonM'iare has been1 awarded the Daiughters~ of the Confederacy scholarship in the University of South Carolina. This scholarship is given for four years and brings the holder $125 annually. It has been held for the last four years by A. Burnett Stoney, of Camden, who gradu ated from the University with the class of 1914. Mr. Boulware has just gradu ated at the Mt: Zion Institute of Winnsboro. He was a star on the football team of that institu tion, and is expected to be a prominent contender for the: Garnet and Black eleven this~ fall. He is a brother of M. B. Bouvare, fullback on the team f ~1913, and a member of the gaduatng clas of this year, Who's Who In Photo b A.. .. ........ MPEROR FRANCIS JOSEPH of now in his declining years he Is i bilities of which stagger the ent eath of his only son, and the recent 10 rom which the aged emperor never re VAR WILL CAUSE A SCARCITY OF HORSES Inited States and Canada May Be Called upon to Supply Demand. 'hiladelphia Ledger. The war in Europe~ will caus scarexty of horses in this . an ther Eastern cities, in the op >n of local horse dealers. According to the reports eived of the fighting ar iege, the mortality am orses has been very great. W be age for spectacular dash onsiderepast, -still the e eds horseq ?f flier puri ae light artillery, heavy a m. nd the pack trains, also moun ai batteries. Should England and France et cont101 of the seas the prob m of their horse supply will till be difficult, but not so much* s that of Germany. The Euro ean supply will soon be exhaust d if the present war continues ng. Naturally all the warring~ ountries will turn their eyes to lard the United States and Can da.s England could supply herself nd her ally, France, from Can da. It is reported that, one rder was placed there last week or 800,000 horses. While the British war in South Lfrica witnessed the exportation f something like 200,000 horses o that country, it is extremely [oubtful if anything like this can. >e done in the present war in iew of this country's proclam ttion of neutrality, sipce horses tire onsidered by many authori ies as absolute contraband. .John M. Burroughs. a local lealer said yesterday that if any: ~ffort is made to obtain horses iin ;he United States the buying will e done in the Western States. ['his, in his opinion, will cause. a ;arcity of horses in the Eastern narket and consequently a rise ni the prices of those animals. $30,922 South Carolina's Share Washington, Aug. 11.-An nouncement was made by. che war department today that. out of the total of $2,000,000 annu ally appropriated by congress for apportionment among- the states for the purchase of supplies and ammunition under the militia law, $1,599,362 has beer' set aside by the secretary of war for that purchase during the 'fiscail year 1915. The remia4uder, amoun ting to S400,63', has been reserved for special allotment from time to time, at lie dis cretion of the secretary.. The amounts allotted #0 the South Atlantic states for the fiscal year 1915 are as follows: Florida, $13,781.50; -Georgia, $35,517.69; North Carolinm, $30, 344.94; South Carolina. $20,922. 24; Virginia, $37,004.81. Winnsboro and Fairfield w well represented at the Me ants Jubilee in Columbia on day, and they all report a fine time at this the first a the kind in the state. Europe"s War ustria has had a calamitous rule, and e prindpal figure in a war the povi re worifi There was mystery in the s of tIz' r-to the throne was a b!g%v -ov ered. HARVESTER COMPANY ORDERED TO DSISOLVE C er With $140,09000 Ordered to Di ' Three Pa nn., ug 12.-The -ester com-pany ed to be a tate irof intersat in,t d1( was ord ade, andajoritY de jnited States 40 00.00 cotPo plan for the o mbination t epenuana eon ys, or1 p; with suance of an from the United States -'supreme court,. the decision announces that the court will entetain an application for the appointmient of'a receiver for all the proper tis of the corporationl. The deciaion of the court was gren by Cli-cuit Judge Walter I. Siith o~f Iowa, with which Judge Willim C. .Hook of Kansas areed, and from which Judge Walter A.'Sanborn of Mignesota ;disented. I'he majority opinion held that e International Harvester cmpany was from its organmza tion,in 1902 in violation of .the STerman law. The original, eoporation,. formed of five con-. Serns, violated the first sectiory 9fthe Sherman act by restraim, n competition among them seves. The combined orgamza tin also tended to monopolke rd in contravention of #1e setion of this law. 'he decision declares that ~ile the International. Harvest rcompany and its sellhng o n iztion, the 'International Ear estor Company of America, con tl from 80|to 85 per cent. of the., tade in agricultural implements manufaured. by them, their teatment of smaller competitors ingeneral being fair and just. ~'Drowns in Bucket of Water. Gaffney, S. C., Aug. 11-Spec ia. News has just reached Gaff neyof the death by drowning of aittle daughter of 'Mr and Mrs. Elhert Kellar. The little girl, aout 10 months old, was play ig around in the kitchen alone, and fell into a bucket filled with Another child of *and Mrs. e dter was 5 of water bo'