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m WATCH Tour Label H E and Keep H I" Paid Up. A JL VOL. 11, NO. 26, SEMI-V SUBMARINE SINKS ! ' BRITISH LINER ? Over 400 Believed .to .Have PpriuhpH Whpn flip Ppp?ia the island of Crete by h Hiil>itiarine. | I which, according to unofficial British j advices, flew the Austrian flag. No advices have been received in New York as to the date on which the Persia sailed from London. They voyage from London to Malta ordinarily requires nine days. The Persia was built in 1900 at Greenock. She has been In the Bombay service since that time. On account of the danger from sub marines to vessels which pass through the Suez Canal and the Mediterranean this route has been abandoned by the Japanese Mail SteamC/\hin?nip nhli-h la itr>?nal<'lilnr .' a steamship* arowu the Oabe pt Oocd Hope. Itnuran<e.ratea for. vea. tela pasaln? through the 8ne* have been Increaaed by English underwrt* -A tera to three or four timoa the normal |? figure. If Lord Charies Motitago, >vho bookL V ad passage on the Persia, la a L?,n| JL* don stork holdet broker. -He was born I f to KM and served , with the yeo Every errort is being mane oy consul General Robert P. Skinner at London to get some information about Robert N. McNeely and Robert G'ant. The HritiBh admiralty informed Mr. Skinner that it had no information with regard to the fact of individual passengers. A cablegram has been sent to Alexandria request. ing any news avallabale regarding * ^ the survivors. The Persia sailed from London on December 18, for Rombay, with sixty one first class passengers and eighty three cabin passengers including eight children. Some of these, including Edward Rose, a Denver school boy, were landed at Gibraltar. Alarseilles and Malta. At Marseilles 231 passengers including eightyseven women and twenty-five children were taken aboard, but line : officials say that after deducting those leaving the ship at various ports of call approximately 200 pas sengers were on the vessel. Mr. McNeely sailed from Now York for England on November 27, on the steamer Ilyndam, being a fellow passenger of Consul General Skinner, who advised him to sail for the east by the Dutch Line, but the young man already had engaged passage on the Persia. He was appolntt ed consul to Aden in October. The Persia was a steamer of 7,974 tons gross. She was owned by the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, of London. She sailed from Bombay November 14 for London, and was last reported as leaving Gibraltar on December 2. The Persia was one of several vessels recently sunk by submarines in the Eastern Mediterranean, through which her course to the Suez Canal would take her from Malta. On De, t cember 24 the French Liner Vllle De La Ciotat was sent to the bottom off Sank in Mediterranean. ONE NORTH CAROLINIAN Every Effort Being Made to Find Out if the Txvo Americans Are Among Survivors. London. Jan. 1.?Th* British liner | Persia carrying approximately 2<*0 passengers, and a crew of between 250 and 3G0 men was sank by an unidentified submarine at 1 Vclock Thursday afternoon of? the Island :f Crete, in the Eastern Me titerran 'an, j Reports to the Peninsular and ''nonfat Steam Navigation Compang said Robert McNeely, of Monroe, N. O. that nearly all on board were lost. American consul at Aden, Arabia, and Robert Grant, of Boston, were w on the liner. * Four boats are known to have got away from the sinking vessel, each capable of carrying sixty persons, but is is not known if the boats were full. The rescued were picked up by a steamer bound for Alexandria, when they were expected to arrive to-day. Peninsular and Oriental Line officials said they had received no details concerning the disaster, and did not know whether the Persia received warning. They also were unable to give any information concerning Americans on the ship. CONSUL SKINNER BUSY. IE Lj t'EEKLV. HE HAD NO FEAR 1 OF SUBMARINES Consul McNeely Talked Optimistically to Friends at Washington. WAS PLEASED WITH JOB i Young Tar Heel Kageiiy Awaited Chance to See Old l<anda to Which He Was Bound. ! Washington, Jan. 1.?The presence on the torpedoed Persia of Robert McNeely, the young North Carolinian who was en route to Aden to serve as consul, has given an unusual notoriety to this latest sea tragedy which is regarded as frought1 with the most serious possibilities 1 The fate of McNeely is awaited! nnvif?n??lv tint- nnlv hv l.ircp n 11 nihi>r? ! I of friends and relatives in North f Carolina, but by the State Depart- 1 nient, although its action in the mat- ^ ter will be very largely determined 1 by whether or not American lives ( were placed in wanton jeopardy. Suf- ' fieient information upon which to act ? may not be placed before the De-; ' partment under several days. If Mr-; I N'eely has escaped, his testimony will I be regarded as of utmost worth. McNeely was in a most optimistic | frame of mind before leaving Wash- ' ington on the dangers of submarines. , lie remarked that if the ship he in- i ( tended going on should be attacked. | he would not be left in the water if j there was anything around to float on. He told the Observer correspon-i dent ne 11111 not expect any trounie and that he believed the greater dan-! ger of such attacks had passed. He was happy over his appoint-; tuent as consul and looked forward j to seeing the life along the Mediterranean and in the old countries. His appointment had come after a long wait. He passed his examination in the fail of 1904 with an excellent grade. There was no suitable vacancy at that time and he continued in his law practice. Assistance was given him by Senators Overman and Simmons and Representative Page in getting admission to the school and in receiving his appointment which was made j October 18. 1915. McNeely is widely known in North | Carolina, being a student at the IJni-i vriMty ui iiui in v,ai uiui.i iiuiii i .n?,? i until he received his license in 15)07 , to practice law. The next year he was chosen a member of the House of Representatives from Union county, and subsequently he was called upon to become Senator, representing Union, Stanley and Davidson coun-j ties. In college he was recognized for j his love of oratory and for his stu- i , dious habits. He is 32 years of age. . 1 hicngo in Grip of Grip ami Pneumonia. Chicago, Jan.* 3.?The epidemic of ; grip and pneumonia here is held re-' sponsible for a record established at the county hospital yesterday, according to figures made public to-j day. Two thousand and thirty-five persons were treated at the institution, this being the greatest number in one dav since its establishment.! . J New McNeely, United states Consul at Aden, on board the toredoed liner Persia, was accompanied by iiis brother, Dowd McNeely, until recenly editor of the VVaxhaw, N. C. Kntcrprise, it was stated here to-night, j Dowd McNeely was to have been his; brother's secretary. Robert Ncy McNeely was a lawyer, born near VVaxhaw, N. in 1884 He spent two years at the University of North Carolina, was a member of the North Carolina genera! assembly in 1908 and a United States Senator in 1914. The post in Aden was his first consular assignment. fahlo /tAnimiinleoliAn ui 14 h 1 K n oaal \ nuiv < viiiniuaii.aiM/11 n nil v u v? tno? Is so slow that details of the disaster are not expectod for a day or two. but the meagre reports received gives rise to the fear that the sinking of 1 the Persia will prove the most dls- j astrous result of the submarine campaign since the toredolng of the Lusitanla. A majority of the Persia's passengers were British bound for India, Ineluding many women. Her cargo w?. ( email but she carried a heavy con- , signflsaot of mail. Vkd*er* anca: LANCASTER, S. C. LANCASTER COU HOME DEMONSTI ACCOMPLISHED AS RESULT O LANCASTER CHAME \GENT TO BEGIN WORK A Senator Williams and Representat operate in Securing Appropriate Lancaster county will 3oon enj..y is he advantages of home demonsirat- W on work with an agent to teach can- Sti ling, bread-making, etc., through the wi ifforts of the Lancaster Chamber of Dc Commerce which enlisted the enthu- nil siasm of the county legislative dele- wl station. The delegation will have in- ar serted in the supply hill this month ( ? 111 appropriation of 5600.00 for this ric vork. which amount will be supple- E> nented by 5300.00 from Winthrop fit* College and the State's Department wi if Agriculture. The following is a an JJ wi i n?: 1 III nMM'IUiy IlliKIC H II by which this work is to be inau- Cc ?urataed: La Lancaster. S.C. Dec. i, 1915 (S (8 This is io certify that the County (q Legi !: *iv<? Delegation if Lancast -r bounty agrees to have inserted in the supply Dill of January 1916, an appropriation of Six Hundred ($600.00) Dollars, for the Home Demonstration Work of said county. This tuoncv j I SM lia r ' ? . gHH joHfi vf*' .?JM hu ^taMgH^D||^^nH ' tei |^^HHBHKH||H as 3KXATOK l>. RViECK WIl-LIAMS of Lancaste- S. C. Pr Senator I). Iteece Williams is a ?^ inn of Judge and Mrs. 1). A. Williams , of this place and is well1 ,a known and liked throughout this fa fnl ire?ect inn (if Lllfi L?? He was educated at University of. South Carolina. lie also graduated bi from the law department of the Unl-; ra verslty in 1903, and has been an of active and most successful member an of the law firm of Williams & WI1- wi Hams, since. He is member of both th the Masonic and Junior Order Socle- is ties. m Mr. Williams served eight year3 co HON. 8. E BAILE8 Pleasant Valley, S. C. Mr. Bailee is a son of a Confederate soldier, the late J. P. Bailee, M and was born in the Pleasant Valley he ectlon of Lancaster county in 1845. cc Be attended the public schools of the y* community and In 1904 won a1 hi scholarship to Clemsoa College, grad-, H listing from that institution with , th high honors in 1908. While in col- th lege he took an active pan 1n lit- la erary society work and alap in Y. M. sc the r*ra- i ^ 5TER JANTAItV 4, UH(i. NTY TO HAVE! IATI0N WORK ] F THE EFFORTS OF THE IER OF COMMERCE. BOUT FEBRUARY FIRST t ives Bailes and Massey, Co[>n. given with the understanding that inthrop College and the United ates Department of Agriculture 11 give Three Hundnrd ($300.00) < illars, making in all the sum of ] ne Itundard (900.00) dollars, lich shall be used to pay the saly of a local agent at seventy-five 75.00) dollars per month for a po >d of ten months ami furnish an cpense Account of one-hundred fv ($150.00) dollars. This agent 11 be given the franking privilege i d all necessary State supervision, j 1 till nonoeoo . .... nvivooq i j uinir su|ici VISIUII. j >unty Legislative Delegation o! mcaster County. Signed by: iigned) D. Reece Williams, Senator iigned J. C. Massey, Representative ign ?d) S. E. Railes, Representative Winthrop College and the Unite ' ates Department of Agriculture, Signed by: Iigned) Edith L. I'arrott State Agent Monte Demostration ork. Secretary-Treasurer of the Lanster Graded School Hoard, resigng sante on account of his election the Senate in the summer of 1914. i is also a member of Moore & Wilms Insurance Agency. Tie is intensely interested in the neral improvement of conditions roughtout the county. When apoached on the subject of an apopriation to organize the Home unonstratlon Work in Lancaster s tmty he was most active in its be- : If. declaring that if it succeeded in idling better methods of cooking, nning, etc., it would certainly be mey well spent. He has devot1 much time and attention to tin proveraent of public highways and , ads in the county. He has time and ;ain publicly stated that the im-| the public roads reflect the enterise and measure the advancement me cuumy in raouern community ] lilding. He is also just as enthusstlc with reference to the school cilities and agricutural and other nditions throughout the county. Mr. Williams is a most progressive isiness and professional man, a ember of the Lancaster Chamber Commerce, and is always ready id willing to lend a helping hand tosmls the accomplishment of those Ings that will help the town. He a broad-minded, public spirited an and a valuable asset to our city, unty and state. HON. J. COPKL.AND MA88EY Kershaw, 8. C. Mr. Massey la the oldest child ofj r. and Mra. H. B. Massey, and was ?rn at Tuckahoe in Lancaster iunty May 1881. When about one *r old his parents moved to Taxaiw where he grew up to manhood, e attended the common schools of e county, afterwards two years at ie graded schools in Kershaw, and ter one year at the Preparatory hools at Marshvlll^ N. 0. JkAaiter-i New SAYS 69 LYNCHED D BY MOB LAST YEAR I Head of Division of Records at ^ Tuskegee Makes Annual Compliation for 1915. 55 NEGROES AND 14 WHITES S Dndy 15 Per Cent o fThose Put to ' Dentil Were Charged With AsNuult on Women. Tuskegee, Ala., January 1.?An an-1 tiual record of all lynchiugs in the ^ 1 ti United States has been furnished bv | ? I 1 Monroe Work, head of the division 0 sr records and researches of the Tus- 1 kegee Institute, who aided Dr. Wash-1 ^ ington to compile these records fori0' the past several years. ! According to this record there| tl have been during the year fill lynch-I L ings, 55 negroes and 14 whites. Thisjtt is six more negroes and eleven more 1* whites than were put to death by I II mobs in lit 14, when the record was v. forty-nine negroes and three whites, c Included in the record are three wo- c men. In at least four instances it a later developed that the p?rsons put r to death were innocent of the offense '< charged. Eighteen, or more than j one-fourth of the total lynchings, oc- f, curred in the state of Georcia. ' - Only eleven, ten negroes and one n w hite, of those put to death, or fif- a teen per cent of the total, were w charged with rape. Other offenses 1) and numbers lynched for were: Mur- " der 17, five whites and twelve ne- it groes; killing officers of the law si three whites and six negroes; wound ft ing officers of the law, 3; clubbing a officers of the law, a family of four, Ii father, son and two daughters; e poisoning mules 3; stealing hogs, 2,|a white; disregarding warning of j D night raiders 2, white; insulting wo-j si men 3; entering women's rooms, 2; a wounding a man, 2; stealing moat, j tl 1; burglary, 2; robbery, 11; looting, | n 1: stealing cotton, 1: charge ! with ! a stealing a cow, 1; furnishing ammu-! ct nition to a man insisting a tost 2; la beating wife and child, 1, white; |o barged with being accessory to In burning barn, 1. ' ti Lynching* occurred in the follow- b ing states: Alabama 9, Arkansas 5, Mi Florida 5, Georgia 18. Illinois 1, h Kentucky 5, Louisiana 2, Mississip-! s pi 9. Missouri 2, Ohia 1, Oklahoma 3, K South Carolina 1, Tennessee 2, Vir- e ginia 1, Texas 5. ti tl STATKSV1LLE MAX ; KI III.Id) IX WRECK b n II. ('. White in Wreck Near Clinr- 0 lottesvillc?Eleven Oilier Per- n sons Injured. e Charlottesville, Va., Jan. 1.?IL P (.. White, of Stateaville, N. C\, an express messenger on the Southern 0 railway's "Augusta Special," died in 1 a hospital here today from injuries v received last midnight when the pas- * senger train southbound ran into i ^ through freight standing at the June-; v tion of the double track two miles i s north of Shipman. Eleven other per sons were injured, none seriously. 1 1 1 It. KKV. \V. E. WILKIN'S DIES. Well Known liuptist Minister I'nsscs [, Away In Greenville. Greenville, Dec. SI.?The Rev. j ^ Walter E. Wilkins, a prominent Rap- vv tist minister of South Carolina, died j hero this morning after an illness of several weeks, aged 4S vears. He had a for years been a leader In the I.ay- 1 men's Missionary movement in South , a Carolina and had been afiilinted with!0 the home and foreign mission boards of the Southern Baptist convention". i The Rev. Mr. Wilkins was a grad-1 ^ uate of Furman University and at-1 ^ tended the Southern Theological sem-' inary for three years when he wac , the victim of an accident in the j ' gymnasium and retired from his; 1 6 studies. Then he worked for a while ! In the mission field of western North Carolina and later he was assistant J pastor of the First Baptist church of 1 Columbia djuring the pastorate of the c late Dr. W, C. Lindsay. For a time ' he served fhe Baptist church of Mil- ^ lcn, Ga., hut was called back to this State to (take charge of the men's raofement. , , ~ * \ 'A Y WEATHER M Fair Thursday m and probably M Friday. $1.50 A YEAR. mm nirc VI kllVI till UILU AFTER LONG LIFE early 25 Years Ago State Grog Business Was , Opened. 1 YSTEM KEPT UP 7 YEARS. Innl Blow Struck by Vote of the People in September. Dry Now. Columbia, January 1.?The queson of the abolition of the whiskey afllc in South Carolina began to be gitated soon after the redemption f the State under Gen. Hampton in 876, but this early agitation was ji uirsti option in a few scattered ounties. Special acts of the General ssembly were introduced and pass.1 permitting "wet" and "dry" elecions for Anderson, Orangeburg, aurens and other counties. Tlie con^st between the prohibitionists and tense men in some of these counles was heated. In none of them hich succeed in voting out the liI'usod saloons was prohibition snctssfullj enforced In those days 1 nd after a few years most of them eta rued to the liceried saloon sysMll. In the Legislature of 180o a bill ir statewide prohibition, introdued by Into L. 1). Child- , of K;"hland nunty developed great strength ml narrowly tailed of passage. This as the period of inters-' division etween the "Tilliuanites" and the anti-Tillirantics" and .>oth tactions tcluded numbers of men on both ides of the liquor question. Neither ictions, as such, was willing to take stand on either side of the question, it 1892 when the contest for govrnor was between B. R Tillman nd John C. Sheppard, the State lemocratic executive eommitte consider that in each precinct a seprate box shouid be placed in which te people at the primary election tight vote as between prohibition nd licensed saloons. The total vote ist for governor at this election was little less than 88.000, and the vote n the whiskey question totaled a rue more than 70,000. the prohibiionists won in the referendum by aout 10,000, the vote for license belg about ."10,000, and that for proibition about 40,000. When the reult became known it was taken for ranted that the Legislature would naot the Childs bill or one similar [) if. Mr. Childs did not return to Ire Legislature and the new prohlbiion bill was introduced in the house y Mr. Roper, when the Legislature let in November. The T'.llmanites r "Reformers" had overwhelming lajorities in both houses. The leadrs of their faction were afraid of rohibition. They apprehended that might enacted, cause an increase f taxation and in other ways divide he Tillman forces. The Roper bill 2' rag, however, promptly passed by V in- aouse. in ine senate a number of ills bearing on the whiskey traffic rere introduced and at one time it eemed as though the subject would io so confused in that body that no egislation would result. Governor 'iliman already had taken the posiiou that the profits of the saloons, liich hitherto had gone entirely ito the town treasuries, should o divided with the counties po 'ie rural section hight share them, larlboro county at thisi Cute was dry ith the counties, so that the rural notions might share in tuena. Marl.ii'o county at this time was dry s it had been since a day precedng the War Between the Sections, nd there may have been one or two ther dry counties. GOTHENBURG SYSTEM As the end of the session of the lispensary bill was introduced by lenator John Gary Evans, then of tiken. The dispensary system, mod- / led upon the Gothenberg system of ill Jorway, was already in operation in , Jri Vthens, Ga. T. Larry Gantt, then i M *iitor of the Columbia Register, had ately come to South Carolina frojDt? JHp? Vthens and it was said that he sttg- ' tested the Athene plan to Govern- jKri r TiU?an. At any rate Governor Tilman became enamored of the scheme |V;' '\/k >Vhen the bill w?s introduced in the m> jjLlenate no one to4> ft seriously o*. /f\ ept those of the Inner coonoU# o^ / it ?a? ?a\d j