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ft ; VOL. 10. NO. 74, SKM1-WEEKLY.***-V "* " LANCASTER. S. C'.. TUESDAY. .H'NK 22. 1H1.">. ~ = r,o \ vi.;ai? SLATON COMMUTES FRANK'S SENTENCE iMary rtiagan's Mayer will Serve Life Term. GOV. DEFENDS HIS ACTION. Deceision Was Received With Unfavorable Comment?Trouble Htop|?ed by Extra Police. Atlanta, Ga., June 21.?Leo M. Frank's death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment today by Governor Slaton. Announcement of the governor's decision came several hours after Frank had been secretly taken from the jail here and hurried to the state prison farm at Milledgecllle. Frank was sentenced to be hanged here tomorrow for the murder of Mary Phagan, in April, 1913. Governor Slaton still was at his country home when he announced his decision on the case over the telephone to The Associated Press. In making this announcement the governor dictated the following brief statement: "All that I ask is that the people of Georgia read my statement of the reasons why I commuted Leo M. Frank's death sentence to life imprisonment, before they pass judgment. "Feeling as I do about this case I would be a murderer if I allowed this man to hang. It may mean tnat ! must live in obscurity the rest of my days, but I would .rather be plowing in a field than to feel for the rest of I my life that I had that man's blood on my hands." Governor Slaton was completing a ilong statement giving his reasons for his action, and this he said would be made public later. Early extra editions stated de finitely that Frank's sentence had been commuted and early in the ^ morning crowds began to gather on ' the principal downtown street corners. The arrest of a man who attempted to dismount a policeman by grabbing the horse's reins, stirred the crowd at Forsythe and Walton streets to excitement and they followed the officers to the city hall, a block r.way, where they took the prisoner pending arrival of a patrol wagon. Speakers started to harangue the crowd front the city hall steps but were stopped by an extra force of police. It was stated that a delegation was coming here from Marietta, the former home of Mary Phagan. Two hearings were held here on Frank's application for executive clemency, one.before the state prison commission May 31 and the other before the governor. The latter hearing extended through several days and ended June 16. Before the prison commission oral argument on Frank's behalf was made by his counsel and hy jurists, lawyers and prominent citizens of Qeorgia, Illinois and Massachusetts. Petitions bearing hundreds of thousands of names from various state legislatures, societies and committees end thousands of letters urging clemency for Frank were presented to the commission. In opposition to the application there were filed a letter from Solicitor Dorsey, who prosecuted Frank Iand a protest from citizens of Cobb county, Ga., where Mary I'hagan formerly resided. Frank's counsel, prior to the appeal for executive clemency had made seven unsuccessful attempts before the county superior and state supreme courts to obtain a new trial or the setting aside of the verdict. The federal district court refused to grant him a writ of habeas corpus and the United States supreme court declined to grant a writ of error for review of the case and also denied Frank's appeal in habeas carpus pro ceedings. Four times the sentence of death was passed upon him. The first official announcement of the Georgian's decision was made at 8:4^5 o'clock this morning. Kxtra editions of the local newspapers containing the unofficial announcement, caused considerable excltemdnt among a number of crowds of men, who began gathering on various street corners and around.city hail, and who discussed the governor's I grant of cieineney to Frank. Mounted (Continued on Page Eight.) CATHEDRAL. SUFFERS. ' French Exert Fftlort* t?? Save Klirim Structure. Parjs. June 20.?Albert Dalitniei under secretary of fine arts, has rt I turned from itheims. where he wen to see what further damage had bee I done the cathedral by recent Get man bombardments. "Five shells fell in the cathedra Thursday, causing additional dt I struction," he said. "Measures c | protection naturally are restrictec Sand bags have been piled aroun the base of the exterior and the mos important parts of the interior hav been walled around with plank which save them from damage fror shell fragments but afTord no pre tectlon against the explosion of ec I tire shells. Everything movable ha i been removed." KING OF GREECE SHOULD RECOVEI 1 lterlin S|>ecialist Declares Tha ltulcr Was Neither Poisoned Nor Wounded. Amsterdam, June 20.?Pro Krais. the Berlin soecialist. who r< ! turned Saturday from the sick be of the King of Greece, in an iiftei view in the Vossisehe Zeitung, snvs "King Constantine neither \va poisoned nor wounded but was sul fering from a natural illness. Th first symptoms were those of inflv enzu, but the Greed doctors soo diagnosed the rase as one of pleurisy "Owing to the general weaknes of the patient the Greek surgeon i , attendance could not perform an of oration of rib resection, but mad only an incision in the chest. Aft* , this operation the King had a serion attack of weakness." Drs. Kraus and Eiselberg c Vienna remained with the King 1 days. They found his heart was dk placed. As the patient's conditio , improved the surgeons recomment ' ed resection of the rib. The Kin bore the operation well, according t i)r. Kraus, and later smoked soni cigarettes. I The King's condition did not in prove rapidly and he was not out ( cuiiKt'i x\ mimi m. IMUUH leil, as n heart. owing to its displacement, ws still weak and irregular. I)r. Krai said, however, that both he and 1) Kiselberg were of the opinion tin with careful tieatment and nursin the King would recover. ('(tl llTOK IN'VllltV r.VII,KI> TO OKI \K.\lt REAL I'OIN Annapolis, Md., June 20.?Tli court of inquiry tomorrow will In gin its third week of the investigi tion to get to the bottom of th | "cribbing" scandal at the Navi Academy. Two weeks of inquiry a] parently has failed to get near tli i real point in ti.e case?the mania in which advanced copies of the a< tual examination in Spanish were ol 11 ained. Who procured these copies an then mailed ihem to Midshipman . E. Moss, is as much .a mystery t AV?P .Tllflao VcluA/.nto \\7 5* .1 .r. c. pected, will (ontinue his efforts t determine whether a fund was star ed by midshipmen for the purpose < i bribing someone to procure the e: aminations. , NEW SHERIFF FOR KERSHAW. Isaac Hough of t'auidcn Appointc by Governor. Columbia Special to Charlesto News and Courier, June 21.?(lovei nor Manning this aftrenoon appoin* ed Isaac C. Hough of Camden sheri of lyershaw county to fill out the ur expired term of W. W. Huekabet who was suspended by the governc some time ago, as provided for und? Section 1,137 of the Code. The got ernor took the position that the sut pension created a vacancy, which h had authority to fill. Seven Hat hers Drowned in Surf n Aliunde City. Atlantie C'ity. N. J., June 20.Seven bathers. including prominei members of the Philadelphia summe j colony, were drowned here today i a heavy sea. Scores of others wer dragged to the bencW > an uncor scious condition after life guard and other bathers had battled des perntely to save their lives. One other man was drowned whe six fishing smacks capsized simul raucously, throwing a score of ttshei men into the water. 0 . GOV. SLATON CALLS !MA :| MILITIATOPROTEQTHIM it 11 Com mil ting Sentences Not Pop (ieri ular Amontr Certain (Masses. ii ' THEY EXPRESS RECRETS. ML > (j (iovci nor l>?'flnps llistrict Around His Ituss Home Within Which Force With si e Bayonets Dis|M>rses Crowd. s| Atlanta, Ga., June 21.?With I Be 11 several hundred men and boys clam- i Gen. ; oring to enter his front gates, which I conti i- ' had been barricaded and threaten- j berg, s . Ing to overpower 40 county police- have ; men, Governor Slat on called upon | after the militia late tonight to protect j mopt his home. Upon arrival of lour j wher > companies of militia who had been | desp< held under arms and rushed to the Gern governor's country home in auto- j Th mobiles, he proclaimed martial law < < ^ i in a district extending half a mile an<j back and for a distance of about repu f- I a quarter of a mile on either side. | sanK j When the soldiers lined up with ( "i <1 fixed bayonets to disperse the whic crowd, stones, bricks and bottles trern I were thrown at them. A brick Fren *> ; struck Lieut. Arnold Parker and p,>st? f- rendered liini unconscious for n fight e j short while. The commanding ofli- Uppe i-j cer, Major Catron, was struck by a ?j n stone, as were several of the men. .. . t lie l > The governor proclaimed martial ^ (1 is I law at exactly 11 o'clock mid by 1 noun h ,-midnight the crowd had practically >- been dispersed. There was 110 fir e ing" 7 r A telephone message front Mills 1 ledgeville, where the state prison is , ,""u< located and where Frank was taken )' after '(lie, governor eotnmuted his '' 7 sentence, said that trouble was fear-|traI| s- ed there tonight and asked that the 111 ' n | governor order out the Milledge- ' 1-1 ville company of militia. The gov- m,r g ernor told his informant that such | an(' o , a request would have to come from ( ic , the sheriff of Iluldwiu county. resu At midnight the sheriff had not posll i- i requested troops. hraz >f The governor was surrounded ii 'Tza is his nome by about a dozen friends. is nearly every one of whom was arm- *!(,?l is | ed with a rill" or pistol. The unex- take r. | pected arrival of a member of the tiont it i mob at a dark corner of the front "1 g porch caused the governor himself Mac! i to hastily pick up a large pistol. j posit In front of the governor's house troo| were more than 100 automobiles shal |' tilled with persons evidently there 1 on s to ?ee what the crowd would do. Afte ... . .... i.-au uiiiicuny in irein 3-[ clearing the road of these machines most i- j and many of their orders were met ing < le ] with the-retort of "shoot!" j of J il A crowd estimated at 700 men 1 Lent | and hoys reached Governor Slaton's and ie country home on I'eachtree road j mile ' . about 10:45 o'clock tonight. A force been c- ! of county police was on the large ; "I j- . estate and the crowd made no ef- thro fort to get into the grounds, stand- to '/ d ing outside and shouting. ' Haw j. this l3 "Hanging" at Xewnan. ened t_ Xewnan, Ga., June 21.?Governor Grot! 0 Slaton and Leo M. Frank were hang- men ; ed in etligv here tonight. Later the (j?>rn )t- ' images were cut down and set on tire {_ and attached by ropes to antomo- antj ' biles, were dragged blazing through eneil the streets. bank Guards Increased at "Pen." 11 Milledgevil.e, Ga., June 21.? A1i though otticers at the state farm 1 here would not discuss the matter, it '*rin I was learned from reliable sources ( I here tonight that the number of guards on duty there had been in-1 ,>ost i creased since Leo M. Frank's arrival. It also was ascertained that there has ,erio ' been no request made for state ,>rln' ^ troops. , ^Ie !r i Cher ATTEM1T TO KOH BANK. 5 I tive e ' mars Kflily Morning Try at Federal llank J)roVj at Itichinond. it Richmond, June 21.?An attempt ^ was made at 2:20 o'clock this morn-| ? ing to rob the federal bank of Kichit moifd. A watchman making his ,,r r i rounds surprised two men at work n and fired two shots at them. A squad t " e of police now have the building sur- J" j i- rounded. The robbers are believed Is j to have taken refuge on the roof. i- At 3:1?> a. m., th police gave it t,aK'a las their belief that the i?on hoa Itass n crped going over the roofs of a<l- war I- joining buildings. The robbers had "T - not succeeded in reaching tho vaults ' ioual of the bank when discovered. near (men's men continue march News i viftio nans Move on Toward ()f w _ , ' presldt Lemberg. merc.,a called iCOVITES IN THE PATH. 1','1<1 This is life in inns I'ul l"p Desperate He- <t<>ut?t 1 istance Twenty-Four Miles profit Northwest of City. home Tlin, via London, June 20.? I The von Mackenzen's armies are to giv? nuing their advance on Lent- and to after capturing Grodek, and and pi taken Russian trenehes nne i ~ , _ I I v another, along a front of al- tion o 24 miles northweBt of the city, the ltc e the Muscovites are making a j era4e stand, according to the I ? , tan army staff statement today. [ * ie communication reads: Vest?North of La llassee canal on the front north of Arras we i Ised several partial attacks with ' uinary losses for the enemy, n Champagne a French division l'011 h attacked after blowing up a 1 ^'osco h was shot down by our fires. 1 an,?ur ch operations against our outi in the I'arroy forest led to local Nvl1 ing, in which we maintained tin <ories r hand. lodgin n tlie Vosges, we were shelled bv 1 'reneh. Renewed enemy attacks ' e Fecht valley and south of that "V'-wi I failed. pianos in enemv aircraft, one of a ' " 1 fleiiti In, 1. .I ? ... 1 > i pib'S " -""I'l" >"11111.-. "I lem in Flanders without doing i",vvl ige of military importance, was ' ',0 down. Several others were oh- '"""d I to return. Another enemy air- ,K>,':>ni was shot down near Veuziers hurnii ahmpagne. 'I10 ?y Cast ? Russian atta<ks against " lines in the vicinity of Szawie Augustowo were heuten off. )ur advance in small divisions Tht lted in the capture of advanced ' ir'v [ions of the enemy near Iludt-. 'tours vsieki and Zalesie, east of the' ,n' snysz-Myszyniee road, loutheast South of the l'ili<:i ou' 11 ps under (Sen. von Woyrieh have l>?>ssili II several advanced enemy posi- ' i during the last few days. June The armies under (Jen. von ,lisonl ienzen have taken the Grodek , "M> ion. Karly yesterday German 1 "" ()s and the corps of Field Marvon Arz commenced an attack ' trongly entrenched enemy lines. r stubborn lighting enemy rhes, one behind the other, alalong tlu entire front extend- ')<",aI ... ...... . come >ver a distance ol 2-1 miles north Georg anow (11 mtiiles northwest of ^ ^ bergi, Bisputa and Obedynski ... ..." . also \ southwest ot Rawa Kuska ( !'. ... . ernor* s northwest ot l.embergi have , eeedin stormed. i ? J une n the evening the enemy was ^ wn back behind the high road J hdkiew north of Lemberg and ... ... wonia a Ituska. I nder pressure oi defeat the enemy also is weakin his communication. Between 'j'] lek and the Dniester marshes the j jy is hard pressed by Austro punisl nan troops. tion n letween the Dniester marshes ajonaj the mouth of the river Stry, the ,)u> ly has evacuated the southern nun,fo, . TV- 1- * - ?fi in*- lMiiesier. ^I1( con aid M. M\K\ltOKK KKTIItKI). the \\ a proj re CherhntotT Succeeds Mini in ItusNian Cabinet. JKM indon, June 21.?The Morning a Petrograd correspondent says I " M. Makaroff, minister of the inr, lias been retired and that New pe Cherbatoff has succeeded him. ; f a" correspondent adds that Prince 'n batoff is not well known in pub- nPXt ' life, although he has been an ac ,'lt' member of the Zemstvo and a hal of the nobility in Poltaval Ince. Ameri which I.WY IUSSIWS KIIJ.KI). confer not m a Score Success in Hattle Near j^wisf the < ?> natantinople, via London, June -Turkish war office statement ' Lore n the battle near Olti tTranscau- privy , 5o miles west of Kara) 200 rector ians were killed. Prisoners and Compa materiel were taken. Iteutei 'urkish artillery Thursday ser- | Kathei v damr.ged a hostile destroyer power Avi Burnvi." t-lal wi ft .1. MKKT AT WINTIlllOl*. Hril lloostci-s of siitic lo i till her ULIl. I Ne\t Thursday. HI I Hill .special to Charleston ilfflyl mid Courier, June l!?.? On in11 of President I). 1$. Johnson intlirop. Porter A. Whaley. WU|?or put of the South Carolina Com 1 Secretaries' Association, has Him <l a meting of secretaries to he ii Winth.rop College June 24. i the time of discussion of rural the state and the metine will ess be of great interest and '' 's to the seeretaries and their '"K ' organizations. ^ college is making preparations Wash ? the visitors a hearty welcome Felipe J i see that they have a pleasant j (Jeneral rofitable day. In this the col- ,j,e jjni -ill have the hearty co-opera- , ton ^la f Secretary W. R. Timmons of cording ?ck Hill Chamber of Commerce. ^ from iti 'I GERMAN MOBS ?.n< ? WRECK 500 STORES America day nigl x, Heated With Liquor Found Officii iemolished Stores, Does Jfiio,- much li >0.000 Damage in Moscow. Angeles rograd, via London, June 20.? j his ser\ w suffered damage to the campaig it of $20,000,000 during the needed. anti-German demonstrations ( was tha ich nearly 500 stores and fac- I'nited and more than 2<'?i private j nent M< gs wero wrecked. :n exile, infuriated mobs turned the ltttionar ito wild disorder, according to itave be tnessos. From niusie stores. some of i and otli' r musical instrument, tide th? turled into the streets unit 1 tli support of vrccluure made t"a!li<- itn- touneed le. i Fnited rioters, heated with liquor 1 in the demolished wine stores. " e reckless in their pillaging. ik many stores and apartments. "1!,t (,<> Miers of which were Russians. " ^ ;,s' ? total number of buildings de- ,;iry ant d only 11:5 belonged to Austroin subjects. border Wash in demoi rt rat ions negimihiK .. , . . tionalis on June it lasted more than 2 1 . peace p Ititll lings were burned and -.. . .. - Fori' << XXI J.nurp, <11111 1 I!?? n C|*outs although notivo through-, : ' i>! lie disturbances found it im- "?v,Mm do to cope with the flames, t Moscow council at a meeting ' 11 Iia"'1 1", took measures to <|iiell tic :n< n? lors and prevent a repetition of al v >ting. Die number of fataliti - Man,'a* known. nient a ' feat at KolttilA liEdlSLATl'RK !".? Wll.l. MKKT \VKI>\K*l>.n ' Many inta. Ca.. June :M.?Much itn- vv aI it legislation is expected to 1 before the annual s< ssion of the ' ^a" ia leg"slaturo which begins ' l',a-xa' Vednevday next. The assembl;. 'n,Poi''; vill witness a change of gov- ' ' Nat E. Harris of Macon, suc-l ^n?e'e* g John M. Slaton of Atlanta,;1' 1,1 al 26 Iagreenn isures which it is announce.I tleiie ie introduced will provide for n sullrage, compulsory eduea-,'',a' ' r secret ballot in all elections. hid on warehouse system and will rials w? h locker clubs, prohibit the out ' if near-beer, abolish capital ;,''gnnif lment and eliminate conven- moots < leetings for state and congres- tions, f< offices by declaring nominees j oiight. .nim.ur.t ICCCIV1IIg 1110 11 IK Host l:"' s,n >r of county unit votes. "on ?>>' >ther important matter to bo j ered will be the re-leasing of MAI 'estern and Atlantic Railroad, >erty owned by the state. \,.w |{, I'S TO H(l|,l)(0\| KIU:\( K. Wash divider Itclicl' Measures for bil6 rut Jews in War Countries. ne estal ; York, June 20.?An Ameri- ountry swish conference will be held 'v;'s anl ishington about Nevember 1 ?las 'M>e 0 consider measures for relief '*ra' "u condition of the Jews in the f'on rent countries, it was decided Cnde: jday at a special meeting of the anted a can Jewish committee, at j onger t Louis Marshall presided. hide rc committee decided that the more, ence should be composed of ore than 150 delegates from |j. 1 national societies throughout \\ ash untrv. Jenning ; v* I'rivv < otiiicillni- IHos. don. June Jl. RathenauJ irst acl rotarv ( councillor and managing dt- ' of tlie Merlin General Kleetrlc j ; my. i? dead, according to a ,?n " dispatch from Merlin, llerr "!k* nan was 77 years old and a VIr- 1 in the fiuamial and commer-1 ;ir>'an * arid. to Wn? ANGELES OF VILLA IY IN UNITED STATES of Disagreement Between nd His Chief is Current. JOIN NEW GROUP. 'Kcstcd That Angeles is Como This Country to Confer Villi hxiled Mexicans. ington, June 20.?General Vngeles, artillery expert and Villa's righthaud man, is in ted States en route to Bosss., to visit his family, acto word that reached the States government tonight 5 border agents. These relid Angeles had cross into n territory secretly last Frltit. ?ls here were unable to throw ght on the reasons for the ' departure at a time when ices to Villa in the military ;n would seem to be vitallv One explanation advanced t Angeles was coming to the States to confer with promi'\ieniis who have been living , taking no part in the revoy activity, but who lately en planning a coalition with the foices in the Held to coin to get the "active moral " !ilc!i President Wilson anI in '.lis recent statement the P'ates soon would gi\e soim inless the warring factions gree among thenisolve-. VS (1 t fli t'i'oni Ul !> ??** neral Angeles was on his way lington to represent the tnili1 that Miguel Diaz Loin barrio, minister, would reach the in a tew days, en route to gton to represent the convents eivil government in a newIan. I?m? Llorente. Washington ntativ > of the Villa-Zapata nent, s-s?i?' he had heard nothAntreies' movements The a agency gave out a statednting out that Angelas probver would return to Villa's d and said the At les eledinitted that the recent riel.eoti was :t virtual annihilathe Villista forces and tliat days were numbered, official*-' - ? ?v * 111\ u i11 rr so that Angeles had left beif personal <1 iif?*i*? 11 -s which short I ,* before t!n battle of in vhlth Villa Jo--* the lirr.c lit n:? n ilitnry tali .-as ? .:'.i . .t ?' service* or t then and rumors were ourtlie time of tlie p<>-sonal <1 i spnt ral Alleles' move nming oik Is of tlie split between Genirranza and nis otr.n.nnder. (J.-tmr-ii Obiegon. some .'lire elleo i.'iceu in believe thai the tang.e might come a new lit comprising the best ele>f the Uarranza and Villa fac rming an organization which, if successful in dominating l at ion. he accorded recognithe United States. U N m U TOMOlill.KS. mil's to Begin Operation in August. ington, June 20. ? Automo al mail delivery routes will dished in many parts of the beginning in August. It nounced tonight that orders n signed by Postmaster Genrleson authorizing the opera105 machines on that date, r the new plan loutes desigs automobile routes will bs ban the old horse drawn veoites and the pay will be cyan Goes to \sheville. ington, June 20.? William s Bryan, who returned today ew York alter delivering his dress since resigning as se< - 'i niniu, ju>.n^ 10 sp''Hk again iy night at a pea' > demnnstrnMadison Square (Jarden, Ncv Flrynn left tonignt with Mrs. or Asheville, hut will return hington Weilursday.