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* *' 1 . " VOL. 10, NO.%. SKM 1-WEKKLY. LANCASTER, S. C.. TUESDAY. DECEMBER 2!>. 1!)14. $1.50 A YEAR. GRANTS APPEAL IN FRANK CASE I .iirm'.i t* Ovwino Wuv Uinrkno^ attua pv no ?f UJ IV Tribunal. WRIT MAY I5E SOUGHT. Attorneys for Condemned Man Will Carry Habeas Corpus Fight to Supreme Court. W&Hhington, Dec. L'8.?Justice Lamar of the United States Supreme court today grunted an appeal from the refusal of the federal drstrlct court for northern Georgia to release on habeas corpus proceedings Leo M. Frank, under death sentence for the murder of Maj-y Phagan at Atlanta. Frank has been sentenced to be hanged January 22, but Justice Lamar's action causes a stay of execution. Thirty days are given for the record of the proceedings in the lower court to be filed in the supreme court here. The State of Georgia then may ask that the hearing of the case he advanced. Such suggestions generally are granted. As a result of Justice Lamar's action today the entire court now will pass upon Frank's right to seek release from custody on a writ of habeas corpus on the ground that the trial court in Fulton county, Georgia, lost jurisdiction over him by its failure to have him present when the jury returned its verdict. Should the supreme court deqlde Frank was not entitled to the benefit of the habeas corpus writ, the State of Georgia would no longer be barred from carrying out the death sentence. If the court decides he > was entitled to ask for the writ, the case probably would remanded to the federal district court for the taking of evidence on the writ, and j in opposition thereto. Should the supreme court eventually decide that Frank must be released, it was said, a further question would arise as to the power j of the State to indict and try him a second time. Authorities are said to differ as to whether the first trial would be regarded as having placed Frank in "Jeopardy." llitllard-< autheii. Special to The News. Heath Springs. Dec. 28.?Mr. Wlliam Morris Cauthen and Miss I Blla HI/.abet h Dullard were united n marriage in the study of the Baptist pas tort um at 6:30 o'clock Thursday evening, the 241li inst. , The ceremony was performed byRev. J. W. H. Dyches, Th. D., in the j presence of a number of friends of | the contracting parties. The bride is a pretty and attractive young woman, daughter of Mr. James Ballard, and the groom is a prosperous young farmer, son of Mr. J. M. Cauthen, all of the Heath Springs comA J munity. New Trial For Frank Possible. Sioux City, Iowa, Dee. 26.?At-! torneys for Leo M. Frank, the Atlanta man sentenced to die for mur- j der, obtained information hero today which may make it pos.siblo to get a new trial. They obtained a transcript of the case of Harry II. Murphy, who was convicted of white i slavery. He was found guilty when not In court, ns in the case of Frank. Federal Judge Elliott o Sioux Falls set the verdict aside as unconstitutional. Sheriff Hector May Not Survive Injury. Greenville Special to Charleston News and Courier, Dec. 28.?SherifT I Hendrix Rector, who was Injurel when his automobile turned over Sunday afternoon, is reported in a ; serloas condition tonight and there la said to be little chance for his re- , eorery. Rural Policeman Plumley : who waa alao Injured, is reported resting well, but is still in a serious i condition. Gulf Storm Warnings. New Orleans, Dec. 28.?Southeast storm warnings were ordered displayed between Galveaton and Peneaoola at 4:20 p. m. today, according to the local forecaster of the weather bureau. ' Alililti!) ASSAU1/T ON NEVPOKT. Tin* (Icrpian Uepurt Hays It Was Unsuccessful. Berlin, by wireless to London, Leo. 28.?The German army heardquarters stall' today issued the following statement: "In the western theatre the enemy unsuccessfully renewed his attacks j on Nleuport supported by warships which did no damage to us, but kill <?r nuui>u?a a iew mnamtants or Wostende. An attack on the hamlet of St. Uoorjre also fa:led. "South of Yprer. we captured one of the enemey's trenches and some dozens of prisoners fell Into our hands on this occasion. "To the southeast of Verdun the enemy repeated his attacks, but they also were without success. A similar assault occurred when he attempted to recapture a height to the west of Senhelm, for which we fought yesterday. "There Is no news from East Prussia or from Poland. North of the Vistula and on the left bank of the Vistula our attacks are developing, notwithstanding the very unfavorable weather." CANADIAN SOLDIERS ATTACK HUNTERS One American Killed anil Another Woiyidcr on the Niagara ltiver. Buffalo, N. Y., Dec. 28.?The killing of Walter Smith and the wounding of Charles Dorsch. American luwiters, by Canadian soldiers on the Niagara river near Fort Erie today was unintentional, according to information gathered by the military authorities and forwarded to Otto' wa tonight. The soldiers were aiding a provincial officer to arrest the men for alleged game law violation. Several volleys were fired over their heads to force them to coine ashore with their rowboat. A final shit, said to have been fired for the same purpose, killed Smith and wounded Dorsch. Whjle deep regret over the incident was expressed by Fort Erie village officials, it was pointed out that the men were not only technically under arrest and attempting to escape, but that they had violated a militarv order which forbade unauthorized persons to approach the international boundary line while armed. 1' mas N. Delaney, the provinc'al officer, taid the men were shooting at ducks. He decided to arrest them a.-d Captain Fite of the border patr? I tent, three soldiers to help Delanry called out to the men that hey w.re under arrest and ordered them ashore. The soldiers fired a volley. One bullet splashed the water near tne boat. "Don't hi: them," cauthened Delaney. "We'll come ashore as soon as we pick up the decoys," shouted one of the hunters. They rowed up stream toward the decoys. Suddenly the boat headed for the American shore. "They've got away; let them go." Delaney told the soldiers. "I'll give them another scare," suid one soldier. He raised his rifle and fired. Doth hunters toppled over In the boat, wiiicr. amiru to tne rerry landing. Smith was dead. Porsch was brought to a> Buffalo hospital. I Us condition is not serious. J. B. Curtis, acting United States consul a* ''art Krie, made a preliminary rtpor: to the state department tonight. An inquest will bo held Wednesday MISS CI,ARK TO WRD. S|waker's Daughter Will Marry New OrleanH Editor. Washington, Dec. 27.?Speaker Champ Clark and Mrs. Clark tonight announced the engagement of their daughter, Miss Genevieve, to james M Thompson, editor of The New Orleans Item. The wedding will take place in the spring or early summer at the Clark home In Bowling Green, Mo. Miss Clark met Mr. Thompson in Baltimore during the 1912 Democratic convention in which he was one of the leaders of the tight to nominate the speaker for President. Since leaving school about two years ago, Miss Clark has been a leader amen* the you nicer members of official society. GOV. MAYTORENA HAS L1FTED SIEGE i Withdraws From Before Town of Naco. UNITED STATES SCORES. Situation in Regard to Firing Over Border Relieved for Time nt. I/east. Naco, Ariz., Dec. 26.?Governor Maria Maytorcna of Sonoro, lifted the siege of Naco, Sonora today and retired to the southwest with his troops. He destroyed his works, burned his camp and removed all his artillery. During the night Maytorena's forces west and south of Naco left thei rpositions. At daybreak they concentrated four miles to the southwest. where they boarded a trala which had been there since the siege began, nearly three months ago. General Benjamin Hill, commanding the Naco garrison, sent out skirmishers, who had a bloodless en counter with the Maytorcna rear ! guard. Hill's men took three wo men prisoners and picked up a | shrapnel shell left in the Maytorcna {camp. It was brought into the gari rison and exploded while being examined. killing three and wounding thirteen, two of whom died. ARMY DISAPPEARS Hill's scouts reported to-night mat Maytorena's ariuy had disappeared. The railroad leads to Nogales and Cananea, hut the scouts did not learu Maytorena's objective. Detachments of Hill's men visited Maytorena's vacated trenches and returned tonight with considerable ammunition and a few rifles. Twenty-one cases of cartrdges are said to have been found at one outpost. Dead were reported lying all along the line that had been occupied by Maytorena. In one spot Hill said his men found 100 bodies; at another 78. The total loss of the Carranza garrison during the siege was placed at 183 by General Hill tonight. Maytorena's total loss was figured at 800. 0~ the American side stray bullets from the Mexican fighting lines | killed five and wounded 47. Bullets by thousands flew over the boundary into American territory during fhe siege. The retirement of Maytorena's be| sieging army fulfill an announce; ment made by Maytorena after his | ronierence rnursday with General Hugh L. Scott, chief of staff of the United States army, who came here in an effort to stop permanently fighting at border points, where bul| lets endangeed Amertcar lives and J property. I'KKSIDEXT TO SPKAK. | Wilson Will Deliver Several Addresses In Spring. Washington, Dec. :'7.? President I Wilson, it became known today, ' plans to make several addresses on his return from the San Francisco Exposition next spring and his 1 friends expect him to reply to attacks on his Mexican policy and other administration policies. It I will be Mr. Wilson's first trip across the continent since becoming President. %ojt|?cliii Flies Over Nancy and Drops f t Domhs. Paris, Dec. 26.?A dispatch received here front Nancy says that a Zeppelin airship flew'over that city early today and dropped 14 bombs. Two persons were killed und two others wounded. Several houses in Nancy were ulitrhflv /lomoffttd K??* ? m * *? j ? ()>*? / U?UI(V()CU| UUl IlUIIf OI I t 1 public buildings were Injured. This is the first report of any hos| tile activity by a Zeppelin airship ; against a French city. The last i notable exploit of a Zeppelin was 1 over Antwerp when such a ship flew over the Belgian seaport in the early part of the war and dropped bombs. The Berlin official announcement today said German airmen had thrown medium sixed ^ bombs Into the outskirts of Nancy (n retaliation I for the throwing of bomba by a {French airman Into an unnamed ' German village THE EMS ARE NOT UP IN ARMS Governor Harrison Says Uprising Was Small. I FORTY MEN ARRESTED. HUnrts Iteing Made to Catch tin* Leader, Snitl to l>e Filipino I'nder Sentence. Washington, Dec. 27.?Details of I ?.1? - I uiu native uprising m tlie rililfp! pines last week were given in a : cablegram received by the war department tonight from Governor General Harrison. The report minimized the incident. Filipinos assembled in Manila and Navostus Christmas eve, it stated, and at Daguna de Bay last night and attempted to make trouble. Forty men were arrested and one shot by a policeman. Governor Harrison reported that the disorders had been suppressed | and that everything was quiet, and I efforts were being made to arrest ; the leaders, the cliTef of whom, he said, was believed to be a man unj der sentence of imprisonment for j homicide. Ho added that nobody I of any influence or standing was concerned and described the inovemer* 1 as "small and unsuccessful." Ii i was connected, lie said, with the | campaign of Kicarte, who lias conducted a revolutionary propogandn from Hong Kong- for several years, "appealing to the most ignorant classes of Filipinos." A WORI) OF WARNING. With Governor Harrison's dispatch the department tonight gave out a message sent him December 21, telling of newspaper reports of a threatened Filipino revolt. To this on December 2 2 Governor Harrison replied: I "No foundation whatever known \ hero for reports." The report received from Gov*-r| nor Harrison today was In response I to a later inquiry as to the Irutli of newspaper stories that military j preparations were being made to ideal with a revolutionary plot. That 1 riot guns had been distributed to ] American civilians on Carabao and I Praile Islands and in Manila, and J that two native scout officers h t<\ been arrested at Corregidor Island j The governor general's dispatch dated this morning, follows: "Referring to telegrams from J your office of 24th instant, army i headquarters state there is absolute| i> no truth in the report about CV.rI regidor, Carabao and Praile alleged occurrences. UNSUCCESSFUL. MOVEMENT "On Christmas eve there was a small and unsuccessful movent' nt in Manila connected with the j Ricarte campaign. Ricarte has i"e several years conducted front Hour, i Kong revolutionary propaganda appealing to the most ignorant claasox ' of Filipinos and selling through his ; agents in the islilnds commissions in hir so-called army for sums from p peseta to ten pesos, (10 cents to |5.) During the last three months rive of th(> Uicarte leaders have beer, arrested atid sentenced to from four to six years, including Hiearte's I right-hand man. It has been regarded as a grafting scheme under ) a revolutionary guise, but from I time to time arouses excitemrrt j among uneducated classes. "Christmas eve about seventy-five : men. e\tr< moly ignorant, without fire arms, met at the Hotanica! Gar: den in Manila and were dispersed by the municipal police without dis' order, except that three shots were j fired Into the air by police, and ! twenty men arrested. Flight of the j latter were held upon the charge of | carrying concealed weapons? knives and bolos. Nobody wan injured except one man. who wan sho; by a policeman later in the night, lb another part of the cltr. when i he attacked the policeman with a bolo. SIMILAR MOVEMETNS. I Movements similar In character ! oceurrod at Novotas, ten miles from I Manila, where about forty men assembled and endeavored unnurcessI fully to loot the municipal safe, takI lng the provisional governor prlsj oner ,who afterwards escaped unin| 1 1 1 11 ( Continued on Page Eight.) IMIKSIDKNT'S IIIKTIIDAY. | riVsnU'iil Wilson Was ."H Years ' ij ohl Ycstcnlny. I Washington. Dec. 28.?President' Wilson was .ri8 years old today. There | was 110 special celebration marking [ ttie occasion, the President spending! tho day quietly surrounded by his family. It was the first time Mr. , W ilson had celebrated his birthdav ! at the White House. Last year the ' j event was observed in tlie quiet at-| J mosphnrc of the cottage which t he ' ( i President and liis family occupied I during their vacation spent at Pass! I Christian, Miss. President Wilson received nunier- j j mis letters and telegrams of congrnt- s illations today. Some of them were , from personal friends in all parts of the country, while others were from the rulers of the world's nations. All brought a feeling of happiness to the President as he read them. i In continuation of his plans to get i as much rest as possible during the 1 holidays, President Wilson content- i plates seeing few callers during the i week. His plans call for a confer- i ence with Representative Underwood < of Alabama, the majority leader in < the house, on the administration's j ? legislative program and a reception i s to a delegation of Sunday school s pupils from New Jersey. ' i MAY PRECIPITATE L DEFINITE RESULT The Went Iter Factor, Always Im- ' I""4mil, lla- Heroine Paramount in Poland, l'etrograd. via London. Dec. 28.-! The belated cold spell reported 'n i Poland is expected to precipitate a j l delinite result in the German Polish y campaign, now practically at a t standstill. The weather fnctor. al- ( j ways Important, has become para- * mount there, since the whole Ger- ( man invasion ot l'oluud is predicted ( on the freezing of the soft ground, t which impedes transport of heavy < guns and favors Russia trench digging. The ground usually freezes ( by September lf?. , Thwarted by mild weather, the \ activities around Mlawa have reach- i ed a complete lull and after unsuc- c cessful attempts to cross the lizura t river, the Germans still are resting t on its left bank near Sochaczew. ( They have, in the meantime, shifted | j their attack southward toward the1] river Pilica near Itawa, where the I t ground* is not marshy. t Austrian activity in the Kielce re- F gion and along the rivers Nida, Do- i I najec and both s'des of the upper | Vistula continues. If the cold continues, freezing the , \ Vistula. It7.lira and Pil'ra rivers. the ; attacks about Soiheczew. Ilow and ?, l Itolimow will, Ru sian military an-| thorities think, immediately reconi- t mence and the Arstrinns again will s attempt to cross the upper Vi tula , | where the river narrows. 1 ' The new year, it is expected here ^ will thus usher in the Song awaited s definite clash between the Russian i : and German urntieH. , In contridiction to a report that Germany has 7!) army corps, of t | which about 20 are operating j ! against Russia, it is stated here that > | German's total army consists of 5b i j corps. : { The Russias expect that the Ger- | | mans will bring heavy guns front t j Thorn and Kniisz as soon as the , i ground is . hard, but they doubt '.i t whether that will materially ijnprovc | f the German chances of taking War | I Zero Weather in .Cold Wave's 1| Wake. Washington, Dec. 26.?From ' Omaha. Neb., to the Atlantic coast j zero weather prevailed today in the j ( wake of a cold wave which orlgi-i nated in Manitoba, Canada, and '' j southward and eastward. Cold J i weather reeerrta mom ? v,., * ? ~ .1 -* i . www. 14 W frviv ouatiCI CU ill ; | j many points where official weather v j reports are maintained. Barre, Vt., with a report of 32 deKrees below zero, waB the most ( frigid spot on the map. Other cold ' h places were:Charles City, Iowa, 24 ( below; LaCrosse, Wis., 24 below; L Peoria, 111., 18 below; Davenport and Green Bay, Wis., 14 below; Devil's I^ake, Neb., 18 below; 9t. Paul, 22 below; Chicago, 4 below. ^ Gangs of linemen were busy re- . pairing wires in four states, Indl- ,, ana, Illinois, Wisconsin and Iowa. ( I RfttlrnoH ("l"" J - * * - i w,tiD utjmyea oy . the extreme cold. > SOCIAL REFORMS TO BE PRESSED Large Concerns Await Lawmakers' Attention. TLJEY MEET JANUARY 12. t'<MH',?nlsor,\ Schoot Attendance and Primary Mlcclion Regulation Will Have Consideration. The Columbia State of Monday ?uys problem;-- oi magnitude, many of which might be classed as reforms, will confront the general assembly when it convenes on January 12. The chief issue In the campaign last summer, aside from that of removing conditions that male- for lawlessness in the state, was that of compulsory school attendance. It is confidently expected that the legislature will pass in 1915 a law reluiring the attendance of children in the public schools. The overshadowing importance of a compulsory s< hool attendance law can be seen when South Carolina's place in he literacy list of states is taken nto consideration. North Carolina done prevents South Carolina from handing last in literacy. Richard I. Manning, governordect, will he inaugurated on Jantary 19, one week after the general 1 a ntbly convenes. It is expected iiat an overwhelming majority of loth the house and senate will be in ... ..qmtn. ?ini mc policies lie outiiies in liis inaugural message to the general assembly. Mr. Manning 011 he stump last summer championed compulsory school attendance, advocating the passage or a law which vould permit the electors in each ounty to vote on the question of ompelling all children between cerain ages to attend the school nearest their homes. Another matter that will probably ie undertaken by the general assemily is the enactment into law of the ules of the Democratic party under vhich the last primary was held. It s possible that the rules may be 'hanged in certain particulars before hey are introduced in the general issembly as a bill. Medical inspection of children in he public schools, an Important tygienic measure, which sessions of he general assembly have passed in he last two or three years only to ieo it vetoed will be taken up by the text general assembly. Its enaetnent into lav is predicted. It is possible that a rural credit till intended to permit landless tentuts to acquire farms may be ore icnted. The matter of the adjustment of nxation on a more equitable basis, a subject which has been discussed via more or less diffidence by the a. t half do7.ea general assemblies. 1 probably be taken up by the next session. Mr. Manning in his pubisl'.ed p'atform said: "1 shall advo ate such changes in assessment ind taxation as shall more fairly disribute the burdens of taxation and nake more equal a sessments, and vith the exempt "ous of small homes n towns and small farms of limited n reage." The general assembly will have to settle other matters of importance, nany of them growing out of the conomic conditions brought on the it.ate in common with the South at urge by the war in Europe. The advocates of prohibition of he sale of intoxicants have been nrrying oi an active campaign durng the last few months They will isk the general assembly to pass a >il! ordering an election next fall >n the question of the adoption of i state-wide prohibition law. The irohibition question when broached litherto in the general assembly has teen nrndnciiuo ?" "? * - . v?. ^Iitunn nrglimetlt vhich consumed much time. There ire those who feax that the introluction of this question, which has >een fought over time and time iftain, will block remedial legislaion of which the state stands badly n need. Carryilift Jap's Ashes. lloston, Dec. 28.?The parcel post cas called on todav to convex t*?*? mhos of Teljlro Hasegawa, a Japuie80 artist, to Tokio, Japau. The >a<kage was accepted and started in lis way after $1.10 in stamps had attached.