The Lancaster news. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, February 29, 1916, Image 1
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fc VOL. 11, No. 41, 8KM
( AVOID WAR, SAYS
PRESIDENT WILSO
Speaks of Nation's Affairs Wi
Gravity
AT GRIDIRON CLUB
President Says He Would
Just as Much Ashamed to
be Rash as He Would to
wc <l vuntuu.
Washington, Feb. 27.?Pre:
dent Wilson told members a:
guests at a Gridiron Club dinn
last night that America oug
to keep out of the European wj
"at the sacrifice of everythii
except this single thing up
which her character and her h
tory are founded, her sense
humanity and justice."
The address was confident
since the speeches at the di
ners of the Gridiron Club, co
^ posed of newspaper correspor
ents, are not reported. It w
made public tonight, howew
with the consent of the preside
and the club, because many
those who heard it urged tl
it should go to the country.
The President spoke of the r
tion's affairs with unusual gr;
ity. His hearers, including s<
eral hundred members of c<
gress, government officials, bu
ness men and corresponaen
were brought, to their feet che
ing when he concluded with th<
words:
True Valor.
"I would be just as much a:
amed to be rash as I would
be a coward. Valor is selfspecting.
Valor is circumspe
Valor strikes only when it
right to strike. Valor withho
itself from all small impli
tions and entanglements a
waits for the gi^eet onnortun
when the sword will flash as
it carried the light of hea>
upon its blade."
In his address he said:
"T have very little to say
night, except to express 1
warm appreciation of the iiv
riable courtesy of tin's club a
W- of the reception you have
generously accorded me. 1 fi
that T am seldom tempted to *
anything nowadays unless son
body starts something and
night nobody has started ai
thing.
"Your talk, Mr. Toastmast
has been a great deal about 1
candidacy for the Presidency,
is not a new feeling on my pa
but one which 1 entertain w
a trreater intensity than form
jy, that a man who seeks 1
Presidency of the United Sta
for anything thatit will brine
him is an audacious fool. T
responisiblities of the off
ought to sober a man even 1
fore he approaches it. One
the difficulties of the office s=
dom appreciated. T dare say.
that it is very difficult to thi
while so many people are ta
ing, and particularly while
many people are talking in a w
that obscures counsel and is <
tirely off the point.
National Affairss.
"The point in national affai
gentlemen, never lies along t
lines of expediency. It alwa
rests in the field of princif
The United States was r
founded upon any principle
expediency, it was founded up
a profound principle of hum
liberty and of humanity, a
whenever it basis its policy up
any other foundations than the
it builds upon the sands and r
upon the solid rock. It seei
me that the most enlighteni
thing a man can do is suggest
by something which the Vi<
President said to-night. ]
complained that he fdUnd m
who, when their attention w
called to the signs of spring, d
not see the blue heaven, did n
see the movement of free clouc
did "ot think of the great spac
of the quiet continent, b
thought only of some immedia
and pressing piece of businei
It seems to me that if you i
not think of the things that
beyond and away from and d
connected from this scene
which we attempt to think hi
conclude you will inevitably 1
led astray. I would a great dc
a (Continued on Page Eight.)
HE L
f-WEEKLY.
STATE TEACHERS TO MEET.
Interesting Program for Gatherl|
ing in Columbia March 1G-IS.
Spartanburg, Feb. 20.?The
lh program for the annual meiitinor
of the State Teachers' Association
in Columbia March 16-18 is
regarded as one of the most attractive
in a number of years,
he The chief address of the con
vent ion will be delivered on the
night of the opening session.
:March 16, at 8:30 o'clock, by
Dr. Bruce R. Payne, President of
d- Peabody College flor Teachers,
nd Nashville, Tenn. The teachers
er are expecting a treat in this adht
dress. The annual address*" sbv
*r, |Dr. Henry Nelson Snyder, the
ng [president of the Association, will
on I also be delivered on Thursday
is- evening. The report of the specof
ial committee on the reorganization
of the Association will be
ial delivered Thursday evening by
in- Mr. R. S. Rogers, chairman- of
m- Dillon county.
id- The first session Friday will
as be given over to a discussion of
er. the next steps in Educational
>nt Progress from various view
of points. Among those who will
lat take part in this discussion will
ibe R. T. Hallum, Pickens; T. C.
n\- Easterling, Marion; Miss Elizaiv
beth Dickson, Miss Madeline
iv- Spigener. Lueco Gunter, VV. H
>n- Hand and Dr. D. M. Douglas
si- president of the Presbyterian
ts, College.
er-1 Frida> afternoon a receptior
ise.will be tendered the visitinjj
teachers at the University ol
South Carolina gymnasium,
sh- Friday evening an address wil
to be delivered by Rev. Arthur W
re-iDunn. of the United States Bu
set. jreau of Education. Superintend
is ent Swearingen and Dr. D. M
Ids j Ramsey will also deliver address,
ca- es.
tnd Saturday will be given over t<
itv reports of committees.
if Attractive programs have al
fen so been arranged for by all ol
the departments.
[ ..
to- Averts Trouble For Coast lane
JJJj Wilmington. N. C., Feb. 25.md
An amicable settlement of th<
so differences between the Atlantic
im> Coast Line railroad and its trai?
conductors because of the adop
ne^()_
tion by the road of the Whiti
ny- audit system has been reached
it was announced yesterday b\
er? Judge Chambers of the federa
board of mediation and concilia
tion, who was sent here to in
ith vestigate the trouble,
or-1 Under the terms of the agree
the ment Judge Chambers said, tin
tes railroad company agreed to ab
to olish the White audit system oi
'he i March 15, but reserved the righi
ice to inaugurate at any time aftei
be- that date a system of train audit
of ing upon any plan it may elect
;el. provided the auditors are env
| nl/MfAO f *-V?/x XV rx ? 1
iM ui tue company and art
nk in no way connected with an out
Ik - shlo individual or corporation
so The conductors agreed to with
ay'draw the declaration that the>
jn-lwould not submit to any audit
iing system that had not beer
mutually agreed upon and ac
rs, icented by their adjustment com
he ,mittee.
iys' ?le.;
L ynching in Georgia Town.
rot i
of i Cartersville, Ga., Feb. 25.?
,OT5 Jesse McCorkle. a negro, aged
an about thirty, was taken from jail
ml here this morning and hanged tc
on a tree in fron1 of city hall. The
)fW> body was riddled with bullets,
iot There were forty or fifty in the
Yi^j crowd. McCorkle was captured
ogisoon after an alleged attack on
e(] Mrs. A. T. Heath. She shot him
;e_ in the wrist.
ke!
en Mrs. Mary A. Clingan Dead.
lid Mrs. Mary A. Clingan, wife of
1Qt John D. Clingan, 553 Church St.,
'died at 11:45 last night of paralysis
of the nerves, aged 54
ut years. She had been confined to
j her bed two vphi^ woo >
member of St. Mary's Catholic
rjo church. Surviving her are her
jje husband, daughter. Mamie, and
js. one son, Harry, both at home.
jn Funeral Saturday at 0 o-clock.
rui .Services at St. Mary's Catholic
ho church by Father Hurlbut. In>a]
terment in Rose Hill.?Haprers?
town, (Md.) Daily Mail, Feb.
24th.
4.NCA
LANCASTER, S. C
VERDUN BATTLE'S FURY f
SHOWS NO JENS LETUP
French Have With?!? ??>?* \ ?i
(late, March 1, will he adhered r
! tO. .1
I There has been considerable 1,
i activity alonj? the Russian front |a
i around Riga, Friedricihstadt and e
Iloukst. In the Causasus region r
jdespite the heavy snow, which ji
;at places is breast deep, the Rus.jfi
sians are continuing vigorously je
their pursuit of the Turks. ;c
Chaplin Gets $10,000 A Week
With Mutual.
I New York, Feb. 25.?Charlie F
IChaplin hereafter will be ex-.ii
jclusively shown on Mutual films, jf
jSuch an announcement was made ,d
itoday. The contracts, it is as-!s
Istrted, provide a bonus of $100,- t
000 for Chaplin, $10,000 a week i;
salary and a percentage of the it
business. The money to bind theju
contract is to be paid today. t
......... I'
vanceci Posts in Woevre Region.
ASSAILING FIERCELY.
Joffre's Troops Deal Blow After '
Blow on Germans Who Hold
Ground With Difficulty. *
The great battle ranging
around Verdun in which a half-J
million men are engaged is still ^
being fought at some points with ^
the same fury as characterized L
it several days ago.
Champneuville, to the west,
and fortified works of Bardau- j
mont, to the east of Fort Douau- t
mont, have been captured by the
Germans. Berlin also claims to (
have captured the Cote de Talou, j
to the west of Douaumont, but T
according the French official |(
istatement, the artillery fire
coming from both sides has ren_
dered this position untenable for |
either French or Germans.
The French are hurling attack
I after attack upon the Douau- ^
, mont positions held by 1he Germans,
who are declared to be
^maintaining themselves there j
. with difficulty, but in the Woe- ,
,"vre region, to the east of Ver
i dun, the French advance posts/
have been withdrawn. !
i Larjre reinforcements are be-',
: ing brought up probably by '
F both forces, and it is reported '
that the British lines are being '
I extended in Belgium and France
.tin order that French troops may
- be released for the Verdun bat
tie.
,| Tn the Vosges mountains the
- Germans also started a heavy
offensive southeast of Celles.
> but it was completely checked
by the French. On the other
- extreme end of the line around
F Ypres a British attack was re 1
pulsed by the Germans.
Between Soissons and Rheiifis
a vigorous bombardment has
been carried out against the !
Gorman positions. Marine dis
asters are again a feature of the
news. Several steamers have'
, blown up by the mines and it is ;
believed that the recent great
storm along the coast of England
and the North Sea has set!(
. many powerful mines adrift,
r The Peninsular & Oriental.
1 steamer Maloja, the mail steamer
Mecklenburg, the steamc (
Empress of Fort William, and
the steamer Birgit have been 1
sunk, three of them by mines
- The French steamer Trignac has
^ been lost in the North Sea. two
-explosions splitting the vessel t
i apart. The Maloja went down i
t off Dover and more than 40 per- t
r sons lost their lives. The loss on j
- the Trignac is estimated at 26. <
. In addition, it is confirmed that t
- the British steamer Fastnet has ,
1 been sunk in the Mediterranean ]
- by a submarine. <
I Germany has instructed the >
- German Ambassador at Wash- i
r ington to inform the American (
- Government that the assurances i
> regarding the future conduct of \
- submarine warfare will apply i
only to merchantmen of a peace, j
ful character. From Berlin no \
(authoritative statement can be f
obtained regarding the date on
which Germany's announced in- 1
-)tention to sink armed merchant-;
I men without warning will beII
come operative, although it is
reported by German newspapers c
! I that the previouslv nnnnnnrwl f
STER N
!. MlflU'AU Y 29, 1<)1(>
I
RENCHMEN FORCE !NEW
I ormer Congn
THE TEUTONS BACK
; Montgomery,
'oris Says German Attacks Information fi
Have Been Repulsed at Se-; - Ala. tonight sa
oral Important Points. gressman Kiel
Hobson will be
5ATTLE RAGES TO NORTH congress from
district, opposii
teport Claims Germans Could head, son of Ui
Not Retain Footing at Fort ator J. H. Bar
Douaumont. announced cand
_ . ? , son was defeate
Paris, l<eb. 28.?Attacks by States senate ii
he Germans to the north of Underwood.
Ierdun, where the battle for the
ortress still is raging fiercely. C. C. VVYCHE
vere driven back by the French , ?
ire and counter attacks, accord- Spartanburg I.
ng to the official communica- Eieutenan
ion issued by the war office to- ?
light. Hand to hand encounters Spartanburg,
>ccurred to the west of Fori ial to The New
Douaumont, and the Germans C. C. Wyche,
kvere driven from a small re- bas announced
loubt, which they had taken. I/.eutenant Gov
German attacks on Fresnes, Carolina. Mr. \
n the Woevre, the communica- been a support*
don adds, completely failed. The ernor Blease.
:ext reads:
In the Argonne our heavy bat- Mexican-Germa
Series and field guns shelled the
roads of access to the enemy, ?
particularly in the region of the New York, 1
Choppy wood. This morning atijco Staliforth, i
Hill 285 we exploded a mine, the .banker, was or
;rater of which we occupied. mitted to the
In the region to the north of United States 1
Verdun artillery activity on both Dayton for re
sides is still violently spirited, questions bef
except in the sector to the west jrrand jury in\
of the Meuse, where an abate- efForts of Gern
ment of the enemy bombardment nient trouble b
is reported. itry and Mexico
The Germans during the day strikes in mu
attempted several partial attacks Staliforth w
which were driven back by our ated. it is said
fire and counter-attacks. To the Rintelen, the :
west of Fort Douaumont parti- the German pr
cularly. our troops have engaged United States,
in hand to hand encounters with rphe federal
the adversary, who was reject- been anxious t
ed from a small redoubt, where what relations
he had succeeded in installing staliforth and
himself. the banker ha<
In the Woevre two attacks COuld not be
whiusi rresnes completely 0 the ground
failed. citizen of this c
Tn Lorraine our artillery has is the head of a
lisplayed marked activity in the h.ink with hea<
ectors of Reillon, Domevre and ra| Mexico.
IBadonville. '
The Belgian official commum- Doc. Frcelv
;ation says: '
A bombardment rather weak.
)n both sides, took place along , Anderson, ft
he Belgian front. -HP i?e
April <th. Gen
RE AT AREA UNDER WATER member of tin
condemned ma
Hundreds Said to Be Living on day that notio<
Improvised Flats. the supreme i
? , __ ?served on the !
Natchez, Miss., Feb. 26?h ur- tice aut0matici
ther reports received here to-ecution.
light from the Black River sec Gen. Bonhan
ion of Louisiana told of increas- the recent g
ng seriousness in the condition changed the ti
if the flood victims in that dis- sions of the su
;rict. From a point just below der the old rul<
lonesville to the junction of the,of this court \
Black and Red rivers, a distance i Under the new
if forty-five miles, the country in April,
vas said to be covered with wa-i The court st?
ter from four to fifteen feet transcribing tl
leep. In this section, according,the Freely cas<
o the reports, 1,500 persons, he furnishes cc
,vith a large number of farm an. soner a transc
mals, were living on improvised mony the appe
afts, in flooded houses and on i court will be i
ligh spots in the land, with little
ood for refugees or live stock. HOME DEM
deilner Held for L>.
j Miss t reisrhtor
Widows Murder. New r,tlhs
New York, Feb. 25.?An inlictmcnt
charging murder in the Meetings of
irst degree, growing out of the '?y. Ri<*h Mill, (
obbery and murder of Mrs. t'och Canning
fulia Ileilner, a wealthy Brook- ,ast week. Af
yn widow, was returne'1 today structions in t
igainst Joseph E. Hanel, arrest- P'?t. preparatio
id recently in Baltimore. Hanel planting of
nade a full confession, accord- ,nK officers we
ng to the district attorney's of- Pleasant Val
ice, in which he declared he kill-1 Mary Bailes d
Mrs. Heilner by striking her Loma Norman?ver
the head with a bottle and nie BeH? McMa
hen strangling her with a rope.1 Hill:
Reeves?Vice :
Mrs. A. H. Twichell Injured. iHinson ?Secre
Black mon.
Spartanburg, Feb. 26?Mrs. A. Oaklnirst: V
I, Twichell was perhaps fatally'Belle Heglernjured
and her colored chauf- Annie Hinson?
eur seriouslv immwl hou,> ,v,a
ay when her limousine was Antioch: Pr
truck by a Southern Railway Barton?Vice I
rain at the Union street cross-1 McNanus?Seei
ng. Mrs. Twichell's condition: Heglar.
o-night is unchanged. She is These are ev
nconscious and has been since ithere is promis<
he accident. work from thei
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Irws
Ifl- W W
$1.50 A YEAR.
TRAGIC DEATH OF
?ssman ( nooses
? 0. P. HEATH
Ala., reb. 27.?
om Tuscaloosa. n<>.ul of ri|>m of () j> Hea(h &
ys former Con- ( o shoots Himself.
imond Pearson
a candidate for WAS IN HAD HEALTH
the new Tenth!
ug W. I?. Hank Financial Reverses. Added (o
lited States Sen. Physical Ailments, Assigned
ikhead. the only as Caftse. Had Spectaidate.
Mr. Hob- cular Career.
for the United
n 1914 by Oscar The tidings of the deatft of
Mr. O. .P lleath, of Charlotte,
a r.?vmn aTf who was a native of this county
A CANDIDA IE an(j a former resident of the
T^er Out For town, were received with sorrow
iin Lancaster, for Mr. Heath had
ja number of relatives as well jis
many warm personal friends
I<eb. 24.- Spec-J^ere. ne was an uncie of Mrs.
s and Courier: |Charles d. Jones and Mrs. John
of the local bar (Crawford of this place. For a
his candidacy tor number of years Mr. Heath was
ernor of South one Qf Lancaster's leading busi.
/yche has always ness men being a member of the
;r of former Gov-jfirm of Heath. Springs & Co.,
and later of the Heath-Jones Co.
Tie was a progressive citizen, ac.
n tively identified with every inBanker
Arrested terest that made for the upbuild
ing of Lancaster. From the
"eh. 25.?Feder Charlotte Observer of to-day we
i MexicanGerman take the following sketch of Mr.
dered today com- Heath:
custody of the "Mr. O. P. Heath, one of Ch<\rnarshal
by Judgejlotte's oldest, best known and in
fusing to answer his day one of the Smith's most
ore the federal prominent cotton merchants,
resigating alleged committed suicide yesterday
nan agents to fo- morning at 11 o'clock in his ofetween
this coun- fice at No. 21 1-2 South College
>, and to instigate street by shooting himself thru
nition factories, the head with a 32-ealiher Colt
_i - i ' '
as cioseiy associ- oiue-steel revolver. Death was
, with Franz von instantaneous. Ill health with
reputed head of the added tribulations brought
opaganda in the on by financial reverses, are as
signed to account for the act.
authorities have Two notes, sealed and addressed
0 find out just to his wife, were found by those
existed between who reached the scene first,
von Rintelen, but Their contents w>re not divulged
* insisted that he but it js stated that they relate
forced to answer to intimate nersonal matters
that he is no* a such as might be anticipated
onntry. Ftaliforth under the circumstances. The
1 German-Mexican 1 ody x\*: 1! be carried to Monroe
rlquarters at Par- on the 10:10 o'clock Seaboard
train I his morning and the fun
eral will take place at the CVilIs
Not To Die. tr.-d Methodist Church immedi
atcly on arrival. Rev. Dr. J. C.
>1, >.-> I)oo Free- Rowe, of Salisbury assisted by
electrocuted of of Hickory
M L Ronham ()ve nn(^ Pev- J- E. Abemathy,
i counsel for th ?,f Monroe. win havo charge of
n, announced to. 1 1(> . . ,
? of an appeal to m,. ,s 1 Innned.
ourt has been lhme nus no doubt but thai
solicitor. This no- 'V' ^?cide was caret ully planntlly
stays the ex- Mr/ IIe?th came to his oft'ce
early and opened his mail as
n said today that He-inquired about the
eneral assembly [".arket and appeared to be in
me for the ses- hl.s. customary state of health,
prenie court, tin ""'itch however has not been
i the next session f'","1 for several years. Shortly
vonld be in May. !'!' " " c|ock he asked his
ride it will lie held I,!!" Heorge and Ins book-keeper.
Iheodore Harris, a nephew, to
, . map oui on small errands and
mographer is now |ha't was ,he ,.(st
seen of him
ie testimony m a,ive Mr Georf,e Heath hur_
i. Just as soon as rjC(^ ou^ anf| just as he was in
unsel foj the pn- ,u.^ ()J- afarHng Up the stairs,
'i ' ()i 0 tosti- |ea(jjjnpr t() the office on his real
of the supieme tllrn heard a pistol sho4 from
neceeded. above. He hurried up and found
his father sitting in his office
ONSTRATION. chair, in front of his desk, with
. his feet resting in a chair oppoi
Organized I our sjtCi evidencing careful prepara
i Last Week. tion, his right hand still clutch.
ing a revolver and his head lean- %
the Pleasant Val. ing over on liis chest, with the
)akluirst and An- blood streaming from a hole in ?
Clubs were held the skull, just above and behind
ter receiving in- his right ear. Mr. Heath turned
he selection of a instantly and rushed out for a
n of hot lied, and physician but before Dr. J. A.
seen, tne follow- Austin could arrive, he was dead,
re elected: Doctor Austin stated that Mr.
ley: President: Heath's body was still quite
? Vice-President;-warm but that his heart had
?Secretary; An- stopped beating when he arrivinus.
ed. He expressed the belief that
President; Ruth death had been almost instantaPresident;
Sarah neous. Drs. C. S. McLaughlin
tary; Jewel Hand C. M. Strong were also on
hand in a few minutes but nothresident;
Minnie ing could be done. Lying on the
Vice President; desk where Mr. Heath had just
-Secretary; Thel-jfinished writing them were two
notes, addressed to his wife, in
esident: Ataxic which ho voiced his *ast appeal
'resident; Ruby md told why he had been im
etary; Wilma polled to the act which ended
it all.
cellent clubs and In the meantime officer* had
^ of a tfood year** ?? ?>
n. (Continued on Pagre Four.) """*