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The Lancaster News VOL. 12, NO. 5, SKMI-WEEKLY. LANCASTER, S. C..FRIDAY, OCT. 27, #1.50 A YEAR MEXICAN PROBLEM BECOMING WE VILLA ACTIVE AGAIN His New Ascendancy in Portions of Country Gives Cause for Apprehension. Washington, Oct. 25.?Conditions in northern Mexico, revolting on the new ascendancy of Villa, are commanding more attention than at any time since the border raids which resulted in the dispatch of the American punitive expedition. Administration officials made no effort tonight to disguise their opin iuu mm me American-Mexican commission sitting at Atlantic City can not be expected to arrive at a satisfactory solution of border problems until the Chihuahua situation has been clarified. Any agreement for the early withdrawal of Gen. Pershing's forces apparently is considered out of question. Moreover, the impression stood out clearly that while the present sitftfll'ation exists there is little possibility ^fhat the forces of regulars or National Guardsmen on the border will be reduced. Coupled with ugly reports which disparage the stability of Gen. Carranza's regime and interpret his removal from Mexico City to Queretaro as a sign of the breaking up process which his enemies have repeatedly predicted, the military movements of Villa, now making -a formidable campaign in Chihuahua, are regarded here as menacing the de facto government's control of the whole northern country. t-rominent in me wnole situation are apparently well founded but indefinite reports of the connection of the socalled legalists movements with the whole train of evtnts. The Mexican embassy today declared that - Villa's forces consist only of a few hundred men "claiming Villa as their leader" and branded reports of instability of Gen. Carranza's government as "a flood of misrepresentations that might be expected from enemies," when the Mexican-American began its work. At the same time reports came to the war department that Villa's camp fires were in sight of Chihuahua City and that Gen. Trevino, the Carranza commander there, although plentifully supplied with arms and receiving reinforcements, was short of ammunition and considering evacuation the capital. Department officials said toniglC t!:ey had not heard the report reaching the border that Chihuahua actually had fallen. As a matter of military stategy it was pointed out that Villa, once oc_ ^ cupying Chihuahua, could compel ( the surrender of Juarez and at an other stroke might take Torreon, Monerey and Saltillo, when he would be a military factor somewhat different from the bandit for whose elimination an American military expedition has dispatched. The war department reports on Villa's latest coup come from Brig. Gen. Bell, who transmitted stories he had obtained from refugees arriving in El Paso. It was conceded that no room was left for doubt that the bandit leader was operating openly and in force. Gen. Hell's dispatch gave details of the annihilation of the Carranza column under Gen. Ozuna by Villa forces at Palemas and described how the Villa troops captured or kill.ed more than a thousand Carranza troops and took all the supply trains. The Mexican embassy's explanation of Gen. Carranza's move to Queretaro was that he had gone to prepare for the meeting of the constituent assembly, fof which deputies Just have been elected. The arrival of the families of Gen. Carranza and Obregon in the United States was declared to be without significance. Reports by Gen. Funaton. however, said Gen. Trevlno had privately advised many officials In Chihuahua to leave the city. Trevlno has sent his own family out of the country and he prepared a special train for officials. Reports to persons here in toucn with the legaista movement state unequivocally that Villa has personally given assurances that he will leave Mexico and go to Cuba if Carranza is overthrown. The shortage of am AMERICANS KILLED IN SANTO DOMINGO ! ' BATTLE RAGED 45 MINUTES Batista Slain and Rebel Forces Eventually Defeated, According to Report. Santo Domingo, Oct. 24.?In an engagement between American troops and rebel forces today Gen. Ramon Batista was killed. Several Americans also are rep&rted killed. | including two officers, and one American officer was wounded. The names of the American officers | killed are given as Capts. William Low and Atwood. Lieut. Morrison was wounded. The American commander attempted to arrest Gen. Ratista, who resisted and ordered an attack on the American forces. Fighting continued for a considerable time, but the rebels were eventually defeated. The ensracement took place oppo-! J site Santo Domingo City and caused somewhat of a panic in the capital., ; Reinforcements were sent there to jaid American troops in maintaining (order. The number of killed andj wounded in the fight is at present 'not known. A revolt took place in the Domini-! can army several weeks ago. but | American marfines and bluejackets I soon had control of the situation.! They were reinforced with American, (troops from Port Au Prince, Haiti. | I WAGE U-BOAT WAR UPON NORWEGIANS: ! German Submarine Strike at Their I Shipping. London. Oct. 26.?German subma>rines are waging a persistent war on Norwegian shipping. In the meantime, according to the Exchange | Telegraph company's Copenhagen j I cui responueni, mr ."Norwfpinn rov-i 'ernment ?ti 11 is discussing the form of its reply to Germany's protest! against Norway's stand with regard 11o submarines in Norwegian waters and sensational rumors nre current i concerning the relations between: I Norway and Germany. The Norwegian government organ,1 ireferring to these rumors, according !to the correspondent, savs it may be ;assumed that the German protest is so couched as not to bear the char-; jacter of an ultimatum. The Norwegian Mercantile Ship1 ping Gazette says that five German I submarines have established a regular blockade of the Norwegian south ! coast. Iteuter's Stavanger correspondent |says the Norwegian bark Athenian, which has arrived at Hgersund, re| ports that on Sunday she saw four INorweiginn steamers set on fire by a German submarine. The Athenian jescaped to Kgersund and does not dare put to sea again, says the correspondent. munition among Carranza troops In the North is explained by the same J persons with the statement that the | internal politics among Carranza leaders is such that Gen. Obregon is i><nnuii<iu.T Rt-cpiiik i-uiiirui 01 practically all the available ammunition. Recent news dispatches reported the movement of a train load of ammunition to Queretaro when Gen. Carranza and Gen. Obregon went there from Mexico City. Sources in touch with the legalists movement say Ob-j regon took it with him that he might' .control its disposal. So far as is known. Villa has no leaders of consequence with him except Inez Salazar. whom he liberated from the Chihuahua penitentiary on ;his recent raid. Former Villa leaders now exiled along the American) border are said to be ready to rejolh him at the first sign of a decisive military success. Some of the reports of the alleged disaffection within the Carrnnza administration have gone so far as to, express fears for the safety of th?first chief himself and intimate that his removal was under circumstances controlled by Gen. Obregon. Carranza representatives. however, brand that as absurd. 1 In military circles here It is believed that the presence of Oen.i Pershing's force in Mexico has s'erv-1 ed to keep this outbreak at arm's; length from the border. PRESIDENT GOES TO MIDDLE WEST TO SPEAK FOUR TIMES Will Deliver Quartette of Addresses in Cincinnati?Greeted by Crowds. On Board President Wilson's Special Train, MartinBburg, W. Va., Oct. ! 2 5.?With the election less than two weeks away, President Wilson is ( traveling towards Ohio tonlxht on i ? I his third and final Middle Western | trip of the campaign. He goes most of the way through territory which he had not visited before in the cam-1 paign. The president is due to ar-! rive in Cincinnati at 11:30 tomorrow; morning for three and possibly four ; addresses. The visit to Ohio will mark the opening of the "big, drive" planned by Democratic campaign managers for the last two j weeks of the campaign. Encouraged j by optimistic reports from Ohio, the president plans to see as many people as possible in Cincinnati ami \ during his ride through the State in the morning en route to Cincin- j nati. Mr. Wilson shook hands with I crowds today at Philadelphia an t during two brief stops in Baltimore. He did not speak at either place, many of the men who greeted him were railroad employes and several times they called him "Eight Hour j Wilson." For several hours tonight the president traveled through West Virginia but no long stops were made. In Cincinnati Mr. Wilson will speak at a reception at the Chamber of Commerce, probably at a lunch nt the Women's City club, at a dinner at the Business Men's club and in the evening at a meeting at the Music hall. He leaves at 10 o'clock and will stop Friday at Cumberland. Md., Baltimore and Philadelphia. M1 NITS'(J KNOINEEH WAS ASPHYXIATED Fairmont. W. Va.. Oct. 20.?L,. M. Jones, a mining engineer, was asphyxiated today when engaged in rescue work at the Jamison mine, where more than a dozen men were entombed yesterday by an explosion. Jones was sent to the mine yesterday; in charge of a trained crew from thoj Pittsburg station of the bureau of mines. Seven rescuers had reachod the bottom of the shaft yesterday and canary birds were released to test the air. All the birds were killed, j and Jones, who had advanced farthei than the others, fell. llis companions tried to save him and one was overcome, but recovered. Jones was taken out quickly, but did not revive. The work of exploring the mines continued during the early hours 01 the day and soon after fi o'clock the body of Matthew Allison, the chief electrician, was brought out. Three J other bodies were recovered. These men. the rescue party said, evidently had been killed by gas. F1VB MORE SENT DOWN'. \orwegian Ships Suffer at Hands of (Jet-mans. "London, Oct. 25.?The sinking by German submarines of five more Norwegian steamships is reported in an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Ohristiania. Shipping shares dropped consider ably on the christiania exchange today. The steamers Alix and Rising and the schooner Theodore, together with the Swedish schooners Antinette and Henrietta, are among the latest sub mnrine victims, adds the dispatch. Tidens Tegn of Christiania states that one boat with six men from the Norwegian steamer Uavn. reported suqk by a German submarine in the Arctic on October 2. has been lost, while another boat with 11 men' reached a lonely part of the Russian Murman coast, after drifting 13 hours. MONEY IN PL'RK OIL. Philadelphia, Pa., Oct. 25.?The1 directors of the Pure Oil company today declared the regular quarterly dividend of 6 per cent and an extra dividend of 4 per cent on theI common stock. BLEASE FACTION DECIDES 10 STAY REAFFIRMS ITS STAND ? "Reform Democrats" Hear Address by Their Chief in Richland Court House. Columbia, Oct. 25.?Members of the Blease faction will not go Into! the general election. This course! of action was determined last night in the convention of Bleaseites held in Richland county court house in response to a call Issued by W. A. James of Bishopville late in September. The resolution reaffirming allegiance to the Democratic party, I both State and national, was intro viuci-u uy junn u. mcnarcts of Dib-i erty Hill. It road: "Resolved, By the Reform Democrats of South Carolina, in convention assembled, that we do hereby| reaffirm our allegiance to the Demo-! cratic principles, State and national." Prior to the introduction of this resolution a speech was delivered by Cole l>. Rlease in which he disclaimed any intention of going into the general election. "I am not a candidate for any office now. I do not expect to be a candidate for any office in the general election; and will not be. I am not now a catfdidate for any office in the near or distant future." Again Charges Fraud. In an earlier paragraph of his speech. Mr. Rlease asserted that the nomination of Gov. Manning had, been procured through fraud and, that the oath in the recent primary was no more binding upon the elec-i tor to support the Democratic nominee than it was upon other electors who supported Haskell against the nominee. R. R. Tilltnan. in the earlyj '90s. The Haskellites were not bound, he said, to support the nominee if they thought the nominee's ("election had been obtained by fraud just as I am not bound, unless I I see tit to be. nor is any other man bound to support the nominee of the Democratic party, as declared by the State Democratic executive committee in the primary held September 1? 1 Ml fi hoMii?n V,lo inee, but bis nomination was ob-l tained by the theft of votes, by the purchase of votes with whiskey and money, by irtimidation and coercion, fraud, theft and perjury." Supple menting bis charges of fraud and intimidation numerous letters, telegrams and affidavit* were read.) which wese presented fto the State' Democrat if^ executive? committee.! when Gov. Manning \Jfts declared the nominee, but* whic* alleged evidence was not a<Jr>mpanied by a protest from the?defeated candidate. y Following MyySllease's speech, a resolution wasfintroduced by Chits. Carroll Sitnms of Rarnwell. commending the action of the six committeemen who refused to join in de-, [daring Mr. Manning the nominee, but added: "We would be the last to encourage any division of the white voters of this State, which might tend to lead to an appeal to an alien race. Faction's I'latform. I A third resolution was offered by |Thos. F. Rrantley of Orangeburg, j which outlined in a measure the (platform of the faction which will seek to rehabilitate the defeated is i ins was largely a reiteration (of the platform on which .Mr. Rlease ! went tiofore the voters of South Carolina last summer. Chief among the planks were indorsement of the (warehouse system, fi per cent legal rate of interest, biennial sessions of the legislature and the adoption ol the Australian ballot. Machinery for the readjustment ot the faction was provided in a resolution Introduced hv W. A. Stuckey of Bishopville, In which a central committee is provided. This is composed of two members from the State ati large and one from each congressional district. Those appointed by W. J. Talbert of Parksville, who pressed over the meeting and who yesterday announced his candidacy foT the United States senate, were: | State at Barge?W. A. James of I.ee, O. L. Johnson of Spartanburg. First district, John P. Grace of Charleston: Second, E. R. Buckingham of Aiken: Third. James N. Pear VINCENT CHICCO TRIED IN COURT BIG COMPANY FINED Southern Express Must Pay'( $500 For Delivery of Whiskey Illegally. Charleston. Oct. 25.?In the court! of Keneral sessions today, the trial of jr Vincent Chicco, Sr., was a feature, t and consumed the ereater nnrt of ?h? li proceedings. The defendant, an al-!v derman of this city and widely |a known over the State, was charged 11with storing contraband liqnor. in'd violation of the prohibition laws. Ho b put up a stout defense, declaring he1 o had no connection with the beer n found in a vacant house next to hisl place of business and that he had cone out of the liquor business alto-' gether. At a late hour this after-1 noon the jury was still out. a A fine of $500 was imposed upon1C the Southern 10xpress company byjc Judge Rice today in the court ot <1 general sessions, the defendant co'- 11 poration having heen found guilty jn Monday of delivering liquor illegally. Ij Counsel noted an exception and gave notice of appeal. Bond of $1,000 v was fixed by the court. M. L. Wat- a son pleaded guilty of violating the ii prohibition laws as to storing and t was given a sentence of six months je on the gang or in the penitentiary., four months being suspended. It 1 is understood that the defendant! will seek a new trial. ? U COTTON SOAKS RICHEST s SINCE THE CIVII, WAR v t New York. Oct. 25.?Cotton in the future market sold today above 20 t cents a pound, the May option rising 22 points to 20.01, the highest price it has touched since the civil war. The advance carried prices $7.00 c a bale above the low level of last ' Wednesday. ' The strength in the late tradiipjt yesterday seemed to attract man> j overnight buying orders and the de- ( mand was further stimulated by the census report on ginning to October s 18. Few traders had anticipated r that the outrun would amount to a less than 7.500,000 bales, but the! official figures placing the total at 7.291,000 bales seemed to increase! 'onfidence in bullish estimates of the crop. 1 > In New Orleans, I New Orleans, Oct 25.- Cotton ad- ' vaneed almost $2 a bale on the * strongest months in the future mar- t ket here today, following smallet ' ginning returns than expected from t the census bureau. The July option < was sent to 19.89 cents a pound, the1 highest future quotation ever posted 11 on the local exchange boards. The trade looked for something like 7.500,0.(0 bales ginned to October 18 and when today's report showed slightly under 7..100.000 a * heavy buying wave started. Within a few minutes prices were 12 to 39 points up but the advance was checked by heavy realizing sales. Sensational Break. New Orleans, Oct. 25.?Just after f 1:30 p. m. with cotton prices stand- 1 ing 13 to 15 points above yesterday's. |< closing figures, there occurred one of, the sharpest breaks noted in thiS| market in years. Within three ntln- , utes the December option fell 73 1 points, trading from 19.03 clown to 18.30. The only reason for the de- ' oline appeared to be a bearish eit- < eular from a prominent market 1 writer who estimated the total crop,* at 14,000,000 bales. I1 I man of Anderson: Fourth, Riley J.jt Rowley of Greenville; Fifth. I. J. ' Campbell of York: Sixth. Thomas P Brown of Florence; Seventh, J. R. Addy of Lexington. A resolution calling upon Mr. Rlease for a resume of his speech < before the student body of Allen 1 university for negroes evoked from f he ex-governor a bitter denuncia ji lion of the reporter who heard the < speech and gave th? press report. f Prior to the organization of the f convention W. A. James, who issued t the call, read a preamble of the pur- t poses. W. J. Talbert was then made chairman and John K. Aull secre- s tary. i rURNS ATTENTION TO FAMED REGION SCORES BIG SUCCESS Captures Village and Fort of Douaumont and Occupies Haudremont Quarries. Paris. Oct. 2 4.?In a powerful seies of attacks on the Verdun front he French have captured the vilage and fort of Douaumont, adanced beyond the Thiaumont work nd farm and occupied also the lauremont quarries, north of Verun, according to the bulletin issued v the war office tonight. The pris i-apiurea and counted thus far umber 3.50O. BEATEN ON THE SOMME Berlin. Oct. 24 (via Sayville).?In n attempt to break through the lerman lines on the Sotnme at any ost, the British and French yesterav used great numbers of troops in epeated attacks, the war otlice anion need today. Their assaults roke down with heavy losses. The defeat of the allies was so se'ere, the statement says, that all long the front the dead are lying: n one row after another. South of he Sotnme a French attack met with imilar results. VICTORY FOIt TEUTONS. Berlin, Oct. 24 (via Sayville).? lerman and Austro-Hungarian orces, after a violent engagement outh of Kronstadt, Transylvania, esterday captured Predeal, says the lerman official statement issued tolay. Six hundred prisoners were aken. ADVANCE IN DOltKUDJA. Berlin. Oct. 24 by Sayville).? The apture of the Roumanian town of tashova in Dobrudja on the Danube >elo\v Tchernavoda was announced oday by the war office. Medjidie on the Tchemavoda'onstanza railroad also has been aptured. The army of Field Marital von Mackensen has taken prismer more than 6.700 Roumanians nd Russians. rktktat to hkkihts Petrograd, Oct. 2-1 (via London). ?The occupation of Constanza ami .Tedjidie in Dobrudja l)>* forces or he central powers is announced in oday's war office report. Under lostile pressure, says the statement, he Russians and Roumanian roops retired to the heights north of hese places. No notably important operations along the Roumanian >ortheastern frontier are reported in he official announcement. littlk booty lost. London. Oct. 24.?According to reports from Bucharist received at [tome and relayed here, the forces ?f the central powers took little sooty at Constanza, as the evacuation n the Dobrudja seaport had been decided upon some time ago. Kmperor William, the advices mid. has sent congratulations to King Ferdinand of Rulgaria on the apture of Constanza. ti'hks help friends. Constantinople. Monday. Oct. 2.'t (via London Oct. 24 1.?Turkish roops which, with their allies, rossed the Constanza-Medjidie railway line in Dobrudja are pursuing he retreating nnooi??? ?j *?? - .lUDoiaiia una nou nanians, says an official statement ssued today by the Turkish war ofIce. The sinking oh the Roumanian oast of a 3,000 ton transport by Turkish submarines also is reported. SI'CVKSS I'PON CKRNA. Paris, Oct. 24.?Servian troops operating in the Cerna region on theMacedonian front have won a new uiccess, according to today's anlouncement by the war office. A ounter attack launched by German ind Rulgarian troops was stopped by he Servian artillery. The Servians hen attacked the opposing lines and apturtd several trenches. On the Struma front there is inictivity. River floods are interferng with the movement of troops.