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VOL. 11, No. 74, 8F.MT. WEEKLY. LANCASTER, 8. C.,JUNE 27. 1916 *1.50 A YEAR.
EFFORTS TOWARD
MEDIATION FAIL
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? UNITED STATES SIM NOTHINQ
IN MBXICAN BITUTATION TO
WARRANT ARBITRATION.
INFORMS LATIN-AMERICANS
-In Meantime MIIKIa Preparations are
Being Ruehetf and Congreee is Get
ting R*>dy for Iraak Which lo
Momentarily Expected.
Washington.?Effort* toward LatlnAmerfnan
mediation in the Mexican
crisis favored by Carransa officials
collapsed without having reached the
stage of a formal proposal to the United
States.
It was mads plain by Secretary
Lansing to Ignaclo Calderon, Minister
(of Boliva, who called with the intention
of asking whether the United
States would entertain an offer of the
services of its'southern neighbors to
aid in averting war, that the Washington
government sees nothing in
the situatalon that would warrant ar.
Mtratlon proceedings. Mr. Lansing
talked with the minister for half an
hour and is understood to have told
him that the blame for the grave outlook
rented squarely upon General
Carrauz^. The attitude of the United
States was so fully outlined that Mr.
Calderon did not mention directly the
original purpose of his visit.
When the Minister left the state
department he said the time "'seemed
Inopportune" and that for tho present
the diplomatic representatives of six
South and Central American coi*ptries
who had approached the Mexican
Embassy on the subject of mediation
and received assurances that the Carranza
Goverument was favorable1 to
the principle would not tender their
good olees to the United States. He
indicated that tho attempt to arrange
mediation might be renewed if General
Carranza's reply to Secretary
Lansing'B Is at not* furnished any basis
on which the proposal could be
founded.
The United States now Is waiting
tor Carranza's flnal word in reply to
uitj note aem&naing release of the
prisoners taken In Carrlzal and a formal
diplomatic announcement of intentions.
Special Agent Rodgers reported
receipt of the note adding
that he had failed in his drat efforts
to place it in the hauds of the Carransa
Minister of Foreign Relations.
Meanwhile both Congress and the
War Department put new urgency
into their preparations for war. There
were indications that should a formal
break occur during the week, Qeneral
Funs ton will be in a position to defend
the border adequately and reinforce
Qen. Pershing's expedition, although
aggressive action may be delayed
somewhat
War Department activities during
the day covered a wide field. Supplemental
orders to departmental
oommanders called for greater haste
la getting the National Guard to the
border. Authorisation went out to
accept the men under the physical
examinations on which they entered
the state service, postponing final examination
until they are en route or
have reached the border. Those found
unfit will be sent back at once.
Estimates to cover the pay and
maintenance expense of the state
troops, totalling 188,000,000 up to
January 1, were laid before Congress.
With them went figures of 813.000,000
J * for the purchase of horses and mules
for army use. The total estimates
of the Quartermaster General alone
paas the $100,000,000 mark.
The House passed the annual army
appropriation bill after adding $26,000,000
for emergency purposes during
the brief debate that preceded the
vote. An argent deficiency bill carvying
$25,000,000 for National Guard
pay. equipment and transportation
was framed In committee for presentation
to the House.
Dsllsssd "
miuvmi rsyrwvuuiuTM were ciu*
' ed into conference at the War Department
to haaten the shipment of
troopa and supplies to the border.
WANT gHIPMBNT OF ARMS
INTO MBXICO STOPPED
Washington. ? A movement was
mads to prevent the shipment of arms
and ammunition from the United
States into Mexico. A resolution to
ths effect was offered by Represent*
tire Rlcketts of Ohio. !a part the res*
lotions provides:
"That, It Is the sense of Congrese
that the further sale and shipment
of flreaVms, cartridges, dynamite,
gunpowder, and other explosives or
materials used lu the construction of
either of said articles, to ssld do facto
government be, and the esttne is, hereby
declared unlawful and Is hereby
[STATE ITEMS
OF INTCREST TO ALL SOUTH
CAROLINA PEOPLE.
MoOormlck oountj la entitled Co ?m
scholarship dda jrear.
Th? South Carolina Balding and
Loan League will moot at Chick
Springs Juna 27-li
Frank McPharaoa Lander, M. D.,
haa been appointed first lieutenant In
the medical reserve corps.
Representative* o118 aaaocLvtlon* of
the South Carolina Baptist convention
mot in Colombia laat week to dtacum
church problem*.
J. Lyles Glenn. Jr., eon of Mr. and
Mr*. J. Lylee Glenn, of Chester, I*
back at Namur in Belgium to aasiet
with relief work during the summer.
Frank W. Qlenn, formerly colonel.
Second South Carolina Infantry, ha* i
been appointed a colonel In the Infantry
section, officers' reserve corps.
J. A. Hill and W. E. Hill of Abbeville,
have an order for 12,000 tone of
potash bearing clay. The clay is
three miles from Abbeville and- the
supply Is enormous. ,
The need of rigidly enforced compulsory
education laws wae urged by
William Sherard of Willlamston, S. C.,
president of the Southern Textile association
meeting at Asheville, N. C.
Circuit Judge T. J. Mauldin at Spartanburg
dismissed a petition for an injunction
against the sale of the Hampton
Cottou Mills Company properties
by the Parker Cotton Mills Company.
W. M. Waters of Florence. S. C.,
was elected' president and Danville,
Va., was selected as the next meeting
place at the final session at Asheville,
X. C., of the annual convention of the
Southern Retail Furniture Association.
The Columbia machine gun company,
the organization of which has
been in the hands of Capt. E. B. Cantey
and Lieut. W. C. McGowan, is
nearing its war strength of 74 men.
Merchants and business men of MoOormick
made a two-days' booster
trip last week.
Col. E. M. Blythe of Greenville, of
the First regiment ordered all company
commanders In his regiment to
open their armories, re-enlist all their
men unaer me new reaer&i law, brine
their companies up to the required
strength and hold their commands In
readiness for instant mobilisation.
The Governor's Guards, one of the
; Columbia companies to be called into
service, was organized in December,
j 1843, by special act of the legislature
of South Caroline Its first commander
was Capt. James D. Tradewell,
a distinguished member of the
Columbia bar, and afterwards mayor
of that city.
The county-to-county campaign of
candidates for state offices begun
Tuesday in Spartanburg and will
continue five days a week until August
26, with the exception of 10 days jest
in July. The candidates during the
first week also speak in Greenville,
Pickens, Walhalla and Anderson. The
work on the hustings Will come to a
close in Wlnnsboro.
At Hendereoovllle, N. C.. the Sooth
Carolina Bankers' Association in Its
sixtieth annual convention at Kanuga
Club, near Kendereonvllle^ elected Ira
B. Dunlap, Rock Hill, president -to suo^
reed John W. Simpson of Spartan?*
burg. Other officers of the association
sleeted were: Oharlea D. Jonas, Ian
inaier, viw preeiaeni; Julian u. Rogers,
Florence, re-elcied secretary and
treasurer.
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Tfa rolling sand hills of Styx, cotere-!
with scrub oak and pine has
changed Into a tented city of about
toon men; nrd It is thought that the
text few days will gradually Increase
he population until a fair percentage
>t the young men of the state will be
in hand. The last few days have been 1
Aisy ones at the (amp. Tents were
pitched, underbrush was cleared away
uid work was begun on the private
oadway leading from the station to
.he encampment site.
SOUTH CAROLINA NEW* ITEMS.
CapL William F. Robertson of the
Sreenville company of ooast artillery
as been elected major of the South |
Carolina Ooast Artillery corps.
J. J. Bundy. a white farmer living I
bout a mile from Cher&w, was !
struck by lightning ono afternoon recently
during a severe storm, while
attempting, to put down a window
sash. The lightntng nan down hie
right side, burning hit! clothing, arm
and body, and cutting out a large part
of hie right shoe.
Good speeches ham oharactriaed the
first wek's campaign of the state of*
fleers.
Exm*-*-??,??rtMieseei> ti shihi1*
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I Your Flag ai
By WILBUR D.
. Your Flag and my Flag! A
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Rose red
Snov '-white <
Sky-blue an|df^tft|^gw^m^^|
The gloi
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TMe/ drums beat as hearts 1
Yonr Flag and my Flag?i
Your hope and my hopeHome
land and far land and 1
Q|g/Glory hears our glad salut
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HEATH 8PRINQ8 ^ Ml?s Maude MobleyJ
ior Asnevuio where Bh
Mrs. Beulah Hager, wife of Mr. visit her sister. Mrs. L
Claton Hager, and daughter of Mr. Mrs. W. M. Stoger
and Mrs. Lewis Cauthen, ? Pleasant with Mrs. H. E. Will!
Hill, died at her home at Hunteraville, weeks left Wednesday
N. C., Friday the 16th Inst., after an In North Oarotina. Mr
Illness of several mouths. She was companied her as far
about 27 years of age and was for where they spent the n
several years a member of the Bap- sister.
tist church. Besides her husband who
survives her, she leaves a little daugh- Dr. J. Q. Stanley v
to- about one year old. Interment vllle Wednesday aften
took place at Huntersvtlle. the marriage of Miss
wife's sister.
The Rev. J. B. Weldon returned
Wedfriesdajy f} >m Spring Mil Lee Messrs, G a neon and
county, where he went Tuesday after- ley left Thursday morn
noon to officiate at the marriage of his bin where they will Joi
cousin, Laurence Henry WhRe, and corps of the National <
Misc Maude Harris Attaway, The} Messrs. Ira Mackey a
marriage took place in St. John's Hard, and Misses Corii
Methodist church and was an elabor- j Brite Mobley mortorei
ate affair, the contracting parties be-, Tuesday night to atti
ing members o{ well known and high- Marriage which took ]
ly esteemed I.ce county families. v ! that occasion.
The third quarterly conference of{
the Heath Spring charge will be held' Mr. and Mrs'. L. J. Mj
with Hanging Rock church July First dren of Kershaw passe<
and Second, Dr. H. W. Bays, P. E.. in Thursday on their retu
charge. All official members are re- visit to friends In the f
quested to take notice and act accord- munity.
tf*ly.
id My Flag
NEtBIT
jid oh, how much it holds?
ecure within its folds!
seat quicker at the sight;
red and blue and white,
rthe^ FIag for me and you?
fis^^^h|e and blue!
aeat pipe!
a blessing in the sky^-~ ^
-It never hid a lie!
aalf the world around,
e and ripples to the sound!
E AND USE OF RIFLES
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left Wednesday Mrs. A. B. Cauthcn and children wh
e has gone to have been quite sick are on the roa
.. A. Duncan. to complete recovery.
who has been
lams for some; Mrs. W. B. Twittv has been quit
for her home sick for several days but is much be
s. Williams ac- t?r ? thi? ??">?
an Lancaster j ?Ight
with their Messrs. K. M. and O. C. Croxton an
, Waddeli Hinson, and Mrs. Lillian Hii
j son. made the trip to Columbia by at
rent to Harts- tomobile, Thursday.
iood to attend :
Clay burn, his Miss Lola Mackey went to Hoc
i Hill Monday to asaume her duties a
I a student in the summer school e
Harvey Mob-, Wlnthrop College.
ing for Colum-!
n the Hospital' Miss Mattie Mae Mobley is th
Guard. j guest of Miss Bessie Bennett at th
nd Roscoe Hil-, county home.
ane Bruce and
d to Kershow Don't fall to attend the Carnivt
jnd the Mack on the Court House grounds Fr
place there on 'lay, Juue SO. Under auspices ?
the Matcie Frasier Society.
i
sckey and chil- Dr- T- J- pollard will give lessor
1 through town !? in* *nd to ,adie8' <ret
? tlemen and children.
rn trip from a Located at Gregory-Hood L!%
lew Hope, com c^ock Company. Business 'Phon
: 226, Residence 'Phone 334. 71-tl
HUGHES EKDORSED
BY PROGRESSIVE!
NATIONAL COMMITTEE VOTE* ?
TO 6 ON O. K. FOR REPUELt
CAN CANDIDATE.
COLONEL SENDS STATEMENT
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In Declining Theodore Rooeevelt Dm
olaree For Justices? Indorumtitl
Was Led By Perkins of New Yortbj
Chicago.?The ProgreaalTe National!
Committee voted to indorse Charles.
B. Hugheu for Preeident. The vote*
was 32 to 6, with nine declining Cej
vote on the ground that the commit-*
in was exceeding Jta power in taking
such actlou.
By a vote of 31 to 16 the committee;
went on record as opposed to putting
a third ticket in the field. The com-j
mittee voted down a motion to sub>
stitute the name of Victor Murdoch,
' of Kansas, to fill the vacancy caused
by tlie declination of Theodore Roose; :
velt to head the Progressive ticket.
The fight for the Hughes indorse
t -.ent was led by George W. Perkins
of New York; James R. Garfield of
Ohio, and Chester H. Rowell of California.
The radical element in the commfv|
toe. represented by Matthew Hale of
i Masacliusetts. Rainbridge Colby oi
I New York, Henry F. Cochems of WisI
consin, John M. Parker of Louisiana,
vigorously protested against the indorsement.
of any candidate for Presi
dent and fought the majority at every
step of the proceedings. The minority's
first move was to insist on at.
open session of the committee and it
I won this point after a number of comj
mitteemen led by John M. Parker,
bolted the meeting.
After Oscar King Davis, secretary
| of the committee, had rend a letter
from Colonel Roosevelt finally do,
clining the Progressive nomination
for President and urging that Mr.
Hughes he supported by members of .
the Progressive party in order to defeat
President Wilson, the committer
voted to accept Colonel Roosevelt's
c? declination and took a recess for
p luncheon.
I The following states voted for the'
| Indorsement of Hughes on the roll.
? call:
Alabama. Arizona, Arkansas, California,
Colorado, Connecticut, Dl?|
1 trict of Columbia, Georgia, Illinois,
? : Indiana, Iowa. Kansas, Louisiana.
II Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minn?v>
aota, Nebraska, Nevada, New llampi
shire, New Jersey, New York, Nort^
I* Dakota. Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania*
South Dakota, Texas, Vermont, Virginia.
Wyoming and Hawaii.
After indorsing Mr. Hughes th?
| committee, on motion of Dean W. U.
| Lewis oi Pennsylvania, unaulmousl/
decided that the action should not b# x ?
j: binding on any individual.
ITALIANS FORCE AU8TRIANS
TO A GENERAL RETREA1*
Vienna Admits Withdrawal of Troopflb
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p bciwccii orcnm mtiu ciscn nivcn. J i
London.?Turning to the offensive*
5 In Trentino and across the border fcji
t Italy where they were driven secenilji
by tbe Austrian* the Italians hav^(
forced the Auetriane to a general re*
? treat along the entire front. King
^ Victor Emmanuel's men are still o*
I the heels of the Austrian** who am*
j declared to be rapidly falling bactof
before the Italian advance.
Vienna admita a withdrawal of the>
? Austrian fortes between the Brenta
and Hftsch rivers, which it is declared
c was done to safeguard their full tree*
d dom of action.
The Russians in Bukowina have
made further progress again81 the i
e Austro-Hungarians in the region of
Kmopolung, but in the operatons t?
the north of Kuty the Austrians have ?
repulsed the Russian attache, indict*
d ing heavy caeualtiee on the Invaders
v according to Vienna.
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Nomad* of the Desert.
I, | T*1? Tuarega are of the purest Bes
\ ber stock, the noble families unmixed
. | with other hlorv* *><* i. *?.- - ?
in lumr cull
11 language, they call themselves thr
Noble People. Nominally, they are
Mohammedans and some of their
e number compose the most intolerant
e and warlike sect In Islam, the Henuesite
sect. Their hatred for the for.
eigner Is greater even than that bred
1 by their religion, and so they ar?
more exclusive than ever were the
Chinese or Jaranese. Their social
organization divides them into flva *
A, classes, the nobles, the priests, the
j. aerfs. the cross-breeds and the! slarea.
All of these classes have this that
c la democratic?they form together tha
i? Tuareg family, which holds Itself au'r
perlor to all the other peoples of thai
earth. _ ,