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, Thi vol.. 12, NO. 29. SKMI-WEEH NO NOTABLE CHANGE QOVERI IN SUBMARINE STAND ONI OFFICIALS SEE NOTHING NEW BUT WAR PROSPECT. SOI The President Apparently is Un- Act Wil moved by Tactics Adopted Sixty by the Republicans. Washington, Feb. 24.?President 'Columb Wilson's plan for meeting the crisis signed yes with Germany gave no outward evi- ijf)Uor bn dence of change today but there were 1 . ... . . . . ... ision of th several developments which ap-l peared to be hastening eventualities. b?come ef Another apparent violation of inter- chief exe< national law was added to the list fixed his accumulating from Germany's subma- hlbiting i rlne campaign which officials believe ^jgementa sooner or later is virtually certain to make necessary, further stops by the anc* Pe,'? United States. The onslaught on or sold w T>utch shipping reported during the tisements day had its effect here, strengthen- or po8ter lng the conviction in official quarters come efTr that neutral interests are to be ruth- pr0visl lessly disregarded under the new ^ month' German policy. may bp In the senate discussion of inter- must be r national crisis broke afresh and **11liat the Republican attack on the adniinis-1po!K,8 an( tration's failure to take more ag-'shipment gressive measures was followed by a nj. . the introduction of a resolution by ronfljrt v Senator Fall, a Republican, author izing the president to use the armed iment? jnf forces of the nution to protect Amer-jrot man? lean rights against the German Rations ma> menace. Administration senators.!each mo] taken by surprise at the action, pro-' women tested against it hut sent the resolu- students tion to committee without extended shipment! debate. punishabl It generally has been understood Jmorc tha: that the president would ask some:more tha ouch authority of congress before the'gies. wai session ends next Saturday but II vehicles, was believed tonight that the Fall tion, wltl resolution would not he the basis of of the t W such action but would be laid aside Violation for a substitute drafted by adtolnis- vertising tratlon leaders. of not le Attack by Republicans. $500, to The Republican attack came in the d'scretior midst of a determined flllibiistcr frying th which many Democrats believe is in.rol|nty J" itself an efTort to fbrce an extra ses-; county sion of congress so that the senatejuionths." will be sitting at the capitol and can ? demand a part in whatever action MORE President Wilson may decide to take after March 4. The Republican >lan Ola senators are saiu to feel that the! president is anxious to have con- Paris, gress off his hands. dfnee in Although three submarine disas- a pro-Gei ters in which American seamen were(arrest ?f Involved were roported to the state,Wood, cl department today, only one seemed who on first information to constitute an wireless invasion of American rights. Amert- A. Pari can consuls reported that the Nor- Wood ha wegian steamer Skrlm and the Nor- Kpna. nn< wegian bark Blenheim, each with an ,ion of t American seaman aboard, had been announce destroyed but that In each ' instance a numbe provision had been made for the tached b safety of the crew. A dispatch from proof clo consul usoorne at Havre saiu, now- ??"-?? ever, that the Norwegian steamer jsubmarin Alice had been attacked and shelled without warning and that Theodore been no Joseph, an American negro, was partment among the survivors. absence Complete information on the Alice than a d case had not been received tonight Germa and for the present it takes its place was giv< with several others about which the cause it state department is preparing evi- ships vlr donee. President Wilson is under- the Dutc stood to be particularly anxious that crisis is any request he may make for more it is real authority have behind it lncontosti- loath to ble proof that, such authority is actual h needed to protect American rights. cause nv So far as could be learned the ing her i president did not discuss the inter- ported fr national situation with any of his flood tti callers today and at the state de- large bo< partment the arrival of Consul Os- understoi home's dispatch regarding the Alice frontier, was the only development of note. | Official In most quarters It Is believed there closely tl will be no important announcement neutrals, before Tuesday at least when Secre- garded r tary Ianslng returns from a short with food vacation In West Virginia. ter of h? Preparing Big Note? contempl ^ ' The possibility that Secretary In throei Lansing, who left last night for a the sendl three day visit to White Sulphur face the Springs, may in reality he preparing way and an important document for the prenl- ed as he dent was given some credence to- to have day, especially in diplomatic quar- her relai ters. It was recalled that on several Swltzerla occasions previously the secretary adopt a ' had taken advantage of such trips to two meal oomplle data on subjects. There has restrtctlo FMt 4 I mJt JS ZLY. NOR SIGNS ! QUART Ml LIQUOR LA JTH CAROL! II Become EfF Days?No W1 For a Beverag >ia, Feb. 25.?Go> iterday the "quarl 1, passed at the a general assemb fTeetive within 60 lutive simultanc signature to tb )ublication of liq in newspapers, dicals published, ithin the State of intoxicants b; The latter ac ctive within 20 ons in chief of ' act are that r.. n ported for bever nade before a pro order is for med 1 a permit to p is issued upon j 10 cents. The a( vith the provisk rndment which fo o States where 1 factured or sold. r obtain one call atb for religious not the heads o nnd minors may s of liquor. 1 e "by imprisonm n one year, or a ,n $1,000, or bo ;ons, automobile used for illegal i the knowledge iwner, may be s of the act rela are punishable ss than $50 nor which may be al 1 of the court or e case, imprisonri lil or at hard lal for not more OF PIUMiKHM lining to He All arrested in Spai Feb. 26.?Add li reference to the r1 rman plot has lor a man giving tl aiming to be an been set at libe dispatch from Mi s dispatch Febru d been arrested 1 has been given he German cons' ?H thn t f hft nnHr<o r of buoys to whl oxes covered w th and containing ts and gasoline, le parts. intimatidn at th , however, that is due to any < esire to rest, ny's raid on Rut pn particular at is understood he tually were in th< h government, expected to resi Ized that Hollam risk the const ostilities with Oi ost of her canal nain line of defei ozen and in no c le necessary die ly of German trc 3d to be concentr la nere ure wai le attitude of th< Holland's situc tow as the most Istuffs so scarce t ?r Immense catth ated. Sweden i of bitter disuer In* out of Swedli German sea' tei Denmark have b avy losers. Spain reached a serlou Hons with Germ nd has been war rations pro .leas days a week na. " 1 l<ANC LANCA THE DUTCH SEMEI EASURE BY GERMAN I W FOR SUBMARINES GAr INA. HEAVY TC ective in Fleet of Seven Ships hiskey Bottom?Indian: e. Holland. r. Manning Widespread indignat t a month" ed to have been cause recent ses-jby the torpedoing of ... steamers in the westei ly. It will . to the English channel. days. The vessels with a total ol ously af- were sunk and the ol le bill pro- though badly damage llflnof Thn rteou-a ?' uor adver-,?* ?> t od to have been saved, magazines I , . I dam bourse was weak circulated nouncement. or adver- The Dutch foreign off y billboard the seven steamers had t will be- 8e,ve8 ?f a German ofi days gether from a British .. . to be Falmouth, on Fet the "quart ... ' , ., , tal tonnage, sinking c j whiskeys . _ , announced Saturday, ages. OathL. ^ , . . . . , three Dutch and four ] ibate judge ? ? , era. was 24,139. icinal pur- ? .. German naval and rocure the , ? . ers in Berlin estimated my men t of . , . , ? . . ? tonnage sunk during F< t does not! . .. I not exceed 500,000 a >ns of thei ' ... .. satisfaction with tlie a irblds ship- m. The announcement liquors ar?i . ? ? 'the German adtniralt Congrege-. . . | troops bound for Salt on of wine| . .. T4 ,. iwhen the Italian transn i purposes.1 ? . v , . ?. | sunk February 17. if famil'es . An armed merchantr not receive .. . ., . commerce in the Indi Violation is,. . . . has sunk two British ent for not _ . cording to announcem* fine of not ? , . . th " Bug ' British army es ? ,... Saturday provide for a s or other i ? ? 000,000 men exclusive u idor consent f?r R naVy Per8onnel confiscated. Except ,n the An< tin.; to ad- northern France, wl "by a fine have made a(lditi?nal K more than been v,rtua?y ded. in th*jt,e front8- While l the judge'w,thdrawing 8?me tro' nent in the|fl,led tren(>hes. Londoi . f rir n..!*aln8 were made on bo than six Ancre- ?n th? ao?t' : village of Petit Mirau tered during an advan \X phOT of a m"e aou,h and iMiraumont. On the itbe statement savs, the lericnn He- , . iforward on a front of n. 'mile and ? half south tional evi- Qf Serre< nor,h of Bea llscovery of 1 to the re-1 WIXI> ('||.\NfiKS <)'. ie name of American, tJas clouds Turned o rty, says a. Hack A?ai adrid. j pctrograd. Feb. 2 5, ary 22 said (Rr|tlsta Admiralty at Carta-1 pregs^; An official st the Protec-|says; ill. It was "Western Front?In had found Legchjcheniaty sector. Ich they at- nevakoie Bake, the enc 1th water- KRg *cloU(jt which aftei diplomatic , renches wras driven as well aa trenches by a change ! j "Rumanian Front? ?? ing is taking place. e state de- "Caucasian Fron his present;strength of about a ither cause'tempted to attack on posts south of I'etra K eh shipping 0f Elleu. but the atte tention be- trated by our fire, re that thei "Aviation?In the e service of oaat of Baranovichi ai A serious plane, which was sub. alt. though an,i machine gun fin rl would be 8everal times and fell iquences of niy's line. srmany be-j s. compris-J VOTK ON HOAD nse. are re- Cherokee to Have ondition to1 M???> itricts. A | Gaffney, Feb. 25.?7 ops also is sernbly which has just ated on the made it jiossihle for jCherokee county to c ching very good roads. An eiecti a European issue of $250,000 wi] itlon is re- March 6, and if the boi desperate, be voted a 3 mill addi hat slaugh- be levied on all taxab a droves is be used for road purpoi is reported is to be placed in the 1 islon as to commissioners named i sh ships to will use the money for *ror. Nor- tion and maintenance een report i is known i NEW WKATHEK is stage in I San Antonio. Tex., F? any, while was the hottest Febi forced to San Antonio in 33 ye: gram with mum temperature, 91 and other ceeding the previous ti half * degree. twin .1 i :aster STER, S. C.. TUESDAY, FEB. 27, 1917. is SUNK BRITISH MAKE GAINS |M U- BOATS ALONG ANCRE SECTION THERED A MERELY PREPARING FOR CJ ILL. THE BIG OFFENSIVE. Sent to the Reported to Have Taken Addi- R? ation in tional Ground, Including Village of Serre. ion is report- The British troops in the Anere re(1 in Holland gion of France are reported by the Wi seven Dutch1 London war ottice to have taken ad- an< u approaches ditional ground from the Germans, use Three of the | Including the village of Serre and'P't ' 14.976 tons several important points farther east, ugi her four, al-|In these operations, although they ace d, remained were carried on over a wide front, jarr ill are believ- only small bodies of troops were en-1 ' The Anister- gaged and only slight opposition was'int after the an-'met, but they are indicative of the apj plan of the British to continue their der ice stated thai steady raiding in preparation for thejarn availed them- j more extensive movement in the j me 'er to sail to-|sprtng. jme port, believed j Another raid was carried out by cor >ruary 2 2. To- the British east of Vierstraat, Bel- |n >f which waB glum. Here on a front of 500 yards in including the the British entered German trenches. en< British steam- inflicted heavy casualties on the oc- kni cupants. destroyed dugouts and oth- nia military lead- er works and took 55 prisoners. nio that the total The Germans near Ypres invaded me jbruary would British trenches under cover of tjbil ind expressed heavy bombardment but later were the onstruct some m''eB waH one hour 25 minutes, 22fwf on for a bond aeconds, supplanting the mark estab- fai I) be held on "?*?ed by John C. Karlsen at Minn*nds should not apolis February 6, 1M6. Ropers''a tional tax will fastest mile was the 24th, which he toi le property to covered in 2:62. inrtf Bes. The fund hands of three RAID IN NORFOLK n the bill, who NETS MUCH WHISKEY thi the construe- Norfolk, Feb. 24.?One hundred no of roads. persons, including a score of women. were caught in the police dragnet toRECORD. night when eight houses in different th< ?b. 26.?Today parts of the city were raided slmul- hu ruary day In, taneously. The police claimed to (.jV ars, the maxi-|have seized large quantities of whis- fU] . degrees, ez- key at some of the places. Some of nr ilgh record by tbe women arrested were charged, _ with operating Illegal houses. j V...VIS...OUI, ejeciuu. uomuaramenis continued ]tee was made by on the remainder of the front held | y that 1,00(1 by the French. J , >nlki perislieu Isolated battles have taken i?lao?- t j0 ort Minas was on the Eastern front from northv.es- i tern Russia to the Capathiuns l>ut|for nan is raiding neither of the belligerents has obtain* an ocean and ed any marked advantages. Small steamers, ao- engagements also have been fought] ent at Tokyo, in Roumania, but the situation there j tlmates issued remains unchanged. ^ n army of 5,-, On the Austro-Italian theatre the ff>1 of India and Austrians essayed infantry attacks at of 4 50,000. several points but everywhere were s(( ere region in repulsed, according to Rome. Art 11 vv-) lere British lery duels continue all along this ains, there has front. pj( ity on the bat- A belated Rritish official communl- pr lerlin admits cation dealing with the fighting along ops from mud the Tigris river shows that in addli says British tlon to having occupied Turkish th sides of the trenches over a front of nearly 2,000 L.j liern side the yards in the Sannaiyat region lastly mont was ep- week, the British troops also were ^ ice on a front able t > cross to the left bank of the m( southeast of Tigris in the Shumran bend, west of i northern side, Kut-el-Amara. jtj1( British moved Three British steamers of an ag-'j|(1 more than a gregate gross tonnage of 8,020 are pv and southeast the latest victims of German sub- (^ Lumont-IIamel. marines, according to oflioial reports ! Issued in I?ondon and Paris. L.. S TEUTONS Al MOXTflOMMilV BIDS p, ii Slavs Brit 11 iwivi/Ln.L.i. ., I* i Kirnn.i ? | ?iu ~i Alabama Capital Would Kntertain per Wireless I Veterans "Without Assistance of 'vis atement today j Any <>t!??*? Community." Ito Montgomery, Ala., Feb. 25.? cd the Semenkie- ^jayor -p Robertson tonight wir-isp south of \ ieh-j (;,.n George P. Harrison, com- So my liberated a nian(j(.r jn , hief. Cnlted Confederate de reaching our|veterans, the following official invi- t()( back to his tntion to transfer the Confederate rein the wind. 'union from Washington to Mont- nii Reciprocal fit-joinery; gr "Montgomery saw the birth of the sa * Turks in y0unK Confederacy. Without assist pi| company at- ance 0f any other community, the wj e of our out-'cjjy 0f Montgomery extends to the co .ale, southwest j-?jted Confederate Veterans an earn- th mpt was frus->ost invitation to hold their reunion a 11 here, so that the people may show the th region south- ] gratRude and affection in which the it enemy aero-! pradle of the Confederacy holds it* ro jected to rifle j noble heroes." nf e turned over ,nto the ene- XKW WORM) RKCORI). lin Archie Rogers Does Fastest Mile in w, ~ BONDS. lco th Flection on Troy> N Y - Feb- 25.?Archie Rog pa ers of Poughkeepsie won the annual co 'he general as-i mile skating marathon at Cohoesi adjourned haslto<,ay' breaking all world's records co the people of jfrom 2tith mile. His time for 2?; op Ne1 I WILSON ASKS F( AUTHORITY TO , ILLS ON CONGRESS ARMED NEUTRALITY 'cognizes Gravity of A But Will Prepare to Met German Menace. Washington, Feb. 28.?1'res lson today took the inevitable 1 asked congress for author! s the forces of the United Stat itect American ships and linst the German submarine )?to put the nation in a sta ned neutrality. The immediate response was ro luction in the house of e proved in advance by the ] it empowering him to furnish 1 gunners to American mere n; to "employ such other ir mantles and methods" as ma ne necessary and providing 30,000,000 bond issue to be his discretion for war insurar ourage American comraerc ive the submarine peril. Thi y be brought up in the horn rrow with special rules for it diate consideration. A si I will be considered tomorro ' senate foreign relation cot Some Trouble Ahead. The president's long expecte n, while received in the main iressions of support, threate ce an extra session of congrt Republicans, disinclined to nket authority while congress ess, gave evidence of opposin islation the president asks, m 5 purpose of withholding it b ce him to have congress in s] ision to take a hand in the >p which they feel will le ir. The Republicans are reci ssive support from the Demo ?ment classed as pacifists, esident's advisers deplore th tion for its effect in tier lere they are convinced it wil e official impression that coi 11 not support the president ds it necessary to go to wa at he is not speaking the ?nts of a united country. The president's request fc ority to use "other instrumc s" is the principal sticking en the Republicans and soi t' Democrats who hesitate tt 111 what hp asks say they woi lling to pive him authority t( nerioan ships or act on n d< oposal, but are reluctant to blank check." Division in 1 tanks. The administration faces th don in its own ranks in its convince the kaiser that the States is preparing to enfor ect for its riphts on the hiph me Democrats point to the nt's own statement in his at lay that he considered he al d implied authority to ac ipht do so without sanction o ess. Mr. Wilson himself, ho\ id he preferred not to act o Ipn t inn one! *1 wl ?? * - 1 ...... .n.i uwi uemrc 10 I thout specific authority ai ngress to which to turn. All ings point toward an extra se though a way out may (level e last moment. Although President Wilson ngress he was not acting b? the long feared "overt act," the destruction of the C icr Laconia with Americans a is received here as he was en e doors of the capitol an< ssed from mouth to mouth th ngress while he was speaking Lacking details, its serioi uld not be estimated, hut i parent everywhere that it sight to the president's words lling upon a body of grave, rislators assembled before h solemn moment of Amerlcai *y weighing the declarations ty lead the United States to Not Seeking War. But the president made it ?t America was asking to ex ne but the rights of peace, tt IC Tint nrnnnoint. ? .wv a i?/1 * ? mh rr I ? war. he was thinking he si 9 right of life itself, the rigl manlty, "without which there ilizationrights deeper and ndamental than merely the Americans. (Continued on Pace ) ws $1.50 A YEAR. IR LANCASTER CASHIER~~ ACT CHARGEDJTH CRIME FOR SHORTAGE DISCOVERED IN MACKEY'S ACCOUNTS. ction; Official of First National Rank, ?t Popular Young Man, Has Been Arrested. irient <f + + + + + + + + + + + + + +4. ! step + NO CAI'SK FOIt AljAltM. * ty to + The directors of the First Na .v-i iu t uonai nank of Lancaster have Hvps + voluntarily executed a bond men- + guaranteeing the bank against * te of + any impairment of capital + + stork or surplus and in addi- + 3 the + t,on. J- William Pole. National i bill fank examiner, says that there presi- + iR not the slightest reason for guns + any depositor to feel any alarm hant- * aH to hank's condition. * istru- "* These statements were made 4? y be- * following discovery of the fact for a'* ,hat there was a shortage in the used ** accounts of the cashier. ?# iceto,,, + + + + ,,, + + + + + + ,,, + ** e to! Ar a result of investigations cone hill ducted into the affairs of the First >e to- National flank of Lancaster for the , s im-'last 10 days by an examiner, u shortmilar age in the accounts of the cashier w by has been discovered and E. Furtls nmit- Markov, who has boon cashier of the institution, has boon arrested chargod with embezzlement. Mr. Mackey d ac- was carried before John T. Green, with United States Commissioner, and ns to Placed under bond of $r>.oon for his tss. appearance at the next term of Fedgrant Pral court for the Western District. ? : is in ?f South Carolina. g the When first charged with the defalat for cation. Mr. Mackey stoutly denied ut to that there was anything wrong with pecial his accounts and when arraigned benext fore the commissioner he was released to ed on a nominal hond, since thos? living concerned ail thought that he was in- i cratic nocent. Later it became clear that The the matter was more serious than was is sit- at first thought and a demand for many, additional hond was made, which de1 feed mand the defendant complied with, lpress J. William Pole. National Hank if h< jOxaminer, arrived in Lancaster on r and February' 16 to make the customary sonti- examination of the hooks. He soon discovered that something was. ir au- wrong and he summoned Assistant ntali-*Examiner G. M. Trammel and tho point, two examiners have been hard at lie of work on the case ever since. They i Kivr* finally charged Mr. Mac-key with the? ild be embezzlement and the examiners say arm that he admitted his truilf. finite The exact amount of money gone? sign froni bank has not been determined. nor. has it been possible to establish just how loner the funds have/ is dt- been disappearing. As is pointed out effort in Mr. Pole's statement, the work of ' nit a National bank auditor will be netv ee re essary to determine this, seas. jn taking to a reporter this mornpresi jnp ^|r p0je declared that there is ldiess no r?.ion on the bank officials beI ready cause 0f tbis incident, lie says that ' an<l no matter how carefully the affairs t con- a banking house are conducted, vever, tt,ore jS tt]ways a possibility that n im some trusted employe will abuse his >?' lelt D|jvile2rpg and that a trained evarn 110 iner is necessary to discover the de? these in books. The examiner told si-ion reporter that the First National (,|> Bank of I-ancaster is as well managed by as capable men and officers as any told iank iti the St,ate and that the pub>caus? ]jc should not in any way eensur^ news those in charge of tlie institution's unarn affairs because of this one happening, boa ret Mr. Mackey came to Lancaster lering when the National Hank of Lancaster J was was organized in 1905; he was a colrough lector for the institution at that time ! but managed to rise rapidly by reaisness son 0f personality and business t was ability until he became cashier a lit*avp tie over one month ago. No young i then man of the city enjoyed the conflsilent donee and trust of the people more im in t>,an (jjd Mr. Mackey and every op? i his- considered that his character wat which above reproach. His conduct bat war. never called for one word of criticism and the present revelation hat clear!therefore been much more severe of ercise his friends than would usually be th< tat he case. nplat- Mr. Mackey has been interested it tui m a L.ancasier orug concern and also li tits of a mercantile establishment at Heatl is no Springs. which * town is the yonnj more man's homo. rights a meeting of the directors of thi bank was held last night at whiel i ? I (Continued on ) ^