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VOL. 11, NO. 26, SEMI-V
SUBMARINE SINKS
! ' BRITISH LINER
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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
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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. , ,
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'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