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i The Lancaster News , \ VOL. 12, NO. 87. SHM 1-WEEKLY. LANCASTER. S. C.. TI'KSDAY, SEPT. 25, 1917 $2.00 A YEAR TRAGEDY ON BUSY FLORENCE CORNEf BOTH WERE COAST LINE FLAGMEN. Domestic Trouble Alleged as Cause?Dead Man Single, Accused Married. Florence, Sept. 21.?J. It. Gul ledge, of Wadesboro, N. C., was sho to death on the streets of Florenci this afternoon by S. Jess Kennedy of this place. Kennedy was imme diately arrested and Is now In pris on. The shooting took place at o near the corner of East Evans am Harlee streets, one of the mail thoroughfares of the city, about ' o'clock, and was witnessed by i number of pedestrians and others From what can be gathered othe than what was stated by wltnesse before the coroner's jury it seem that bad blood existed between th two men for some time because o an alleged domestic trouble, am f bnf n abnoHni* onwn ?>? ~ **' ti.uL ? niiuwiius l ?l|'U UttD Will averted some days ago by coole heads and friends. However, th - two men met this afternoon and th shooting resulted. Kennedy lire five shots from a .12-caliber Smit & Wesson pistol, earh ball takin effect in Gulledge's body. Xo Chambers Empty. When Chief of Police Hrunson at rived he found in Gulledge's ham a 32-caliber Smith & Wesson "side wheeler," but it had never bee i fired. * Guiledge was a flagman on th Atlantic Coast lane, running be tween Florence and Wadesboro. N C.. and was about twenty-five year old. He was a Mason and a Shrinei Kennedy is a flagman on the nam system, running on passenger train between Florence, Charleston am Savannah. The coroner's jury rendered verdict about 9 o'clock tonight t the effect that Guiledge "came t his death from a gunshot wound ii the hands of S. J. Kennedy." Gulledge's body was taken i charge of by Vaughn's undertakin establishment and is awaiting din " position instructions from his fain ily. Guiledge was unmarried. I,aFOI,hETTE BITTER. Wisconsin Senator Denounces \Va and Deniocrntlr Party. Toledo, Sept. 23 .?Denouncin war In general and the Democrat! government in particular Senato La Follette of Wisconsin addresse a large gathering in the Coliseur this afternoon under the auspices o "The Peoples Church" made up o Socialists headed by Prof. Scot Nearing. Mr La Follette attacked th American newspapers are for th most part controlled by the "wa party," the financial interests of th* country. He declared that his remarks ii St. Paul last week had been deliber ately misquoted throughout the na tlon. "i am one citizen of the Unlte< , States who Is ready to go agains the wall to preserve democracy,' said Senator La Follette. Mr. La Follette declared that th< president of the United States away ed congress to such an extent tha the declaration of war was not th? representative opinion of a demo cratlc government. He advocate< war In defense only and In case o agression to submit the question t< the people of the nation in the forn of a referendum. In discussing the tax feature ii connection with the prosecution o the war the senator aaerted tha "wealth has won and the peoph have lost." Senator I>aFollette stated that h< hoped to be able to aerve the peoph of this country from 25 to 30 yean ' longer. OVKIt aoo BAIJ38 SOLD AT BOWMA> Bowman, Sept. 21.?Upwarda ol 200 bales of cotton were marketed here today at prices ranging from 22 to 22.37 1-2 with prices indicating still higher before closing th( day's business. About 800 bale* - "KWMr *, ifjjftj FERGUSON IS OUSTED PROMINENT CITIZEN 1 FROMHIGH OFFICE OF LANCASTER I 2 GOVERNOR IMPEACHED BY A GREAT LOSS TO SENATE COURT. AND COUNTY. ? I Ten Out of Twenty-one Charges Died Very Suddenly S Against State's Chief Execu- Afternoon While Oi I ' tive Are Sustained. Motoring. -i Austin, Tex., Sept. 22.?James E. .Mr. L. C. I.azenby one c t Ferguson was tonight completely caster's most highly esteem* e severad from his ottice as governor zens died suddenly Sunday , of Texas, to which position he was noon about 4 o'clock. lie w - twice elected by the people of the to ride with his wife and his - State, the senate high court of ini- in-law. Miss Pearl Miller, and r peachment this afternoon having two other ladies. He went * ;1 sustained ten of the 21 charges in t harlotte road, and when a the bill returned against him by the; four miles from town, as he 6 house committee of the whole !? * ' <?> l ??i icveising nis car s ajing Gov. William P. Hobby, an edi- head towards home, on acc< 1.1 tor of Beaumont, assumes the full | feeling bad, his hands were r power of office, his tenure extend-j fall from the steering wheel, s ing to January. 1919. I was dead in a few seconds. s Next Tuesday at noon the Renate plexy is thought to have b? R as a high court will formally pro-; cause of his death, f nounce its judgment. Conviction Gazenby came here '1 carries disbarment from future of- twenty years ago to accept a t y flee, but it is understood this con R | iw,ol?,..l I? ?.- t> - "* * - " ^ me '1 the senate voted to convict, 24 to 7. THE 1,ATK L. (3. LAZE] Article 7, charging that the gov-1 u ernor assisted in depositing $250,- as stenographer for the o 000 of State funds in the Temple Heath Springs Co. His abil " State Dank for profit, was sustained, soon recognized, and he was ii 26 to 5. promoted. For several years Article 8. that the governor been secretary and manager e sought to have the State highway Lancaster Mercantile Compai v fund deposited in the Temple State ( was at the time of his den i- Hank for profit, was not sustained, president of the Lancaster i- 0 to 22, ' Oil Mill, and was connecte The ninth article, that the govern- j several other businesses li or deposited funds in the Temple Kershaw and other parts Hank that could have been placed in county. the treasury, was not sustained, 15 Mr, Lazenby married Mis r to 22, four present and not voting. Miller of Lancaster, the Article 10. that ho was indebted daughter of the late Major M g to the Temple Hank above the legal this place. Resides his wif< c limit at a time when he testified he survived by several sistei r was not so indebted, was not sus-| brothers in Virginia. a cainea, 13 to 18. Mr. Lazenby was burie ri Official Misconduct. morning with Masonic honor? f Article 11, that the refusal of the o'clock, amid a large concoi f governor to tell who loaned him relatives and friends. Funei t $156,500 currency constituted offl? ( vices were conducted at his li . clal misconduct, was sustained, 27, Dr. Kellar. e to 4. | The active pallbearers wet e Article 12. that the governor in posed of all the employees r 1916 diverted the adjutant general's Lancaster Mercantile Compa b fund to pay for the Canyon City Those acting as honorar Normal building, was sustained. 27 bearers were: Judge Ira B. ii to 4. Leroy Springs. Mayor C. 1). J< Article 12, that the governor fail- i H. Witherspoon, John T. Ste - ed to refund to the State money mis- Kershaw, J. H. Carnes. J. M. applied for the purchase of grocer- w. T. Gregory, A. B. Fergusi 1 lea. meats, vegetables, etc., was not John M. Madra. John T. Ore t sustained, 15 to .16. I\ Bennett, Dr. W. F. Lam Article 14, that the governor in- Major J. M. Kiddle. duced the Temple State Bank to e loan him an over-line, although he fluence his action, was sustaii - was sworn to enforce the law, was to 10. i sustained, 26 to 5. | Article 20. that the gc e Article 16, that the governor by sought to Influence the co - vetoing the university appropriation, ( matters in which he had a pi 1 attempted in effect to set aside the Interest, was not sustained, f constitution, was not sustained, six, 14. > ayes and 24 noes, one prosent and; Article 21, that the goverm i not voting. i mltted C. W. Woodman to c< Article 16. that the governor as labor commissioner afte l sought to coerce the board of re-1 senate had refused to conflrr f gents into following his autocratic was not sustaine, 29 to 2. i will, was sustained, 22 to 9. Mr. Fei^iuson took his ; Article 17, that the governor cheerfully. He said tonight violated the law by seeking to re-; not yet know his future plan ) move regents without good cause, probably will go to his Bi , ~?r. numainw, e.i. io .o, one present ranon for a rest and will lat * .and not voting. cide if he will return to hia Remitted Ball for Influence. home In Temple. Article 18. that the governor call- , ed members of the faculty of the Conference on Killing. IjUniversitv of Texas liars and Kraft- Concord, N. C., Sept. 2* f ers but did not prosecute them, was (announced tonight that New I . not sustained, 20 to 9, two present Illinois and federal officials wl i and not voting. fer here tomorrow with loci Article 19. that the governor re- state authorities In crnnectioi l mltted $5,000 ball bond of Wilbur the death of Mrs. Maude A. I P. Allen, chairman of the University shot and killed near here ^>ijMP?EniM9onrt^ BRITISH HOLD LINE DEAD, DESPITE HEAVY BLOWS CITY'GERMANS MAKING FIERCE COUNTER ATTACKS. ??unday: German Naval Works Shelled it *by Warships with Results Pronounced Satisfactory. tf Lan-1 In the midst of Russia's internal ad citi-' troubles has cotne another German after-1 stoke on the Russian northern front ent out resulting in the capture of the sister-1 bridgehead and the town of Jacobone or stadt. on the Dvina, and enforced urn me inurement or ttio Russians to the about eastern bank of the river, was in . The fall of the bridgehead gave o as to the Germans possession of new termnt of'ritory on a front of approximately seen to j twenty-five miles and six miles in and he I depth. The Germans took only 4?>o Apo- prisoners, but gathered in fifty en the gun8. This suddenly developed operaabout t(on Soems unlikely to develop anvmsition ttiin^ of importanee in its effect upon the general military situation with the desperate battle still in progress on the Flanders front. kltespernte t'ounter.Atliicks. The Germans continue to launch desperate counter-attacks from i their battered Flanders line and to combat every effort of Field Marshal llaig's for e; to improve th' ii positions. This fighting has been * very costly to the Germans. The ; i 'i < it.'HK'ni i;iys stress |A. on the severe character of the Ger Bf ni;in ; ; The German command seems reluctant to surrender the slight eley \ntion west of Gheluvelt. Fierce W J fighting developed there Saturday. I Press dispatches indicate that up to midafternoon there had been no there had been no cessation of th< >?? struggle. ? , Berlin's Statement firm of: . ; Berlin s official statement makes ity was ... rapidly n? C a ? any -Kround recovered ' . " Trom the British. It records the he has of the so ^ar as niarked by the iv and ront'nuat'on British attacks al ' *. along the Langemarcke-Ilollc bekc it h vice ' . ,, | Iront. which were repulsed, and de Cotton scribes Saturday's fighting as ond with 4 , 1 , . lere in KaKomen,s ?f a local character of the resulted in German successes Regarding the air fighting ol M rv Thursday and Friday, the customarj *, ' ' comparison is given by Berlin ol oldest ? ,, .... . German and Kntente losses in ma [ i 11 e r of . , , . I Cliines. Tnirtv_nmp nn?tiu S Il(* IS I s and WOr<" Rhot down bV ,he Germans il Is declared, while only three Ger d this man mach,nes were lost. This va. ( at n j ries notably Trom the British of urse of firinl acoount which mentions ter ral ser-! <*erman airP,anes destroyed and siome bv Il1r,ven out of contro1- proba, hie loss of ten British machines e com-!r,assefl aK missing, is admitted b\ - .. ; London, of thej ny. Osteml Bombnnled. y pall- British warships ofT the Belgian Jones,, coa9t patrol have bomba- ded t lv tnes, J. town of Ostend. where German nayens of'val works were shelled with results Hood, j Pronounced satisfactory. British an. Sr., | avlators continued their extensive en. W. ' bombarding operations behind the By and j German lines, Ostc-d beine one of (the points succesr fully attacked, ns i well as the fleet. led, 21 | The complete text of the German and Austrian renlies to the papnl vernor; peace note shows that neither lavs arts in; down any definite terms ns a basis ersonal for peace. There was no officially 15 to| expressed comment in Washington, I but it v as unofficially Indicatd that or per-!such e- -?to 'nation as had been made intinue of the document revealed no reason T the, for alteration of the position of the n him, | Un'fed states. An unofficial expression from the defeat Ttrftish foreign office pointed to the he did lack of anv mention of "reparation" s. lie or "restoration" In the German reellevue piy. :er de fO' mer British Hold Tlieir Ground With the Rritish Armies in v -|-cp and Belgium. Sept. 22.? (By the Associated Press).?Hard flght ?i wa? jr.r levemneti during the night at York, /ario'i" oofnts alone; the front of II ron-,?he new BHtieh offensive epgt of il and Yprea an a result of several heavy n with *nunf er-nttacks bv the Germans. King BUt while loeal battles are still conAugust tinulng the enemy was thrown back in moat places with severe losses. ! BLISS MADE CHIEF OF STAFF OF ARM1 BAKER REFUSES TO CON FIRM REPORT. I ? Scott to He Assigned to Dut in Connection With Training of Troops. Washington, Sept. 21.?Ma jo Gen. Tasker H. Bliss today wa named chief of staff of the array, t succeed Major Gen. Hugh L. Scot who retires from office tomorrow. (Jen. Scott, who Is sixty-four yeat i old, has reached the age of retir< meat, but he immediately will be r< called to active service. Secretar Haker said for the present the get eral would be assigned to duty i connection with the training r troops in the United States. To Hot ire December 21. Gen. Bliss has been acting chief c stall since Gen. Scott left for Ku: , sia several months ago as a membe of the American mission. He als ! will reach the age of retirement o | December 21, next, but there wer intimations today that he would r< main as chief of staff for at lea* those three months. When th American forces begin to reac France in large numbers, howevet | the strain on the chief of staff wi I become so great that a younger off cer lllav lie palled nmin t<? tionv 1 I burdens of the office. I When jisked today concerning rc | ports that Major (Jen. Kuhn, coir manding the national artny cantor ment at Annapolis Junction, Md would succeed Gen. IMiss, Secretr r Iiaker said that the question was nr under consideration. May Take the Field. I Gen. Scott's assignment to dul i In connection with training < j troops, it is believed, will be follov . | ed later by the appo'ntment to I field command, possibly a division i [the front. . j Gen. Scott, who is a native of Kei I tucky and who graduated from We , j Point in 1872, has had an unusu 'career. Much of his active servit . has been spen' in the Indian con 'try, but he also won fame in tl | Philippine insurrection and sever f times he has achieved rcmarkab r | results a? a peacemaker. In 191 r I he entered an agreement with tl . battling factions in Mexico, whit , protected the American border tow ? of Nogales from the fall of shel . and bullets. The appointment of Gen. Hliss head the staff does not forecast at i change in that body or its oper : tions so far as known. Student of Military History. 't The new chief has been a det student of military history". He w: : appointed to West Point from Peni sylvanla, graduating in 1871 an was an honor graduate of the arti < ry school in the class of 1884. I! first assignment to the general sta VI i?n III i WhMe the appointment of Gei Bliss as chief of staff comes as climax to his military career undf ordinary circumstances, there is 1i I tie possibility that he will retir from active service when he reachf the age limit in December. I>1k Gen. Pcf?tt. it is almost certain tha if he is succeeded by a younger ma as chief of staff, he will go to a ! actUe field command. Generally speaking, the situatlo remained unchanged, althoug there has been some slight givin end taking of more or less unimpor tant posts along the line. One of the heaviest counter-at tacks made by the Germans durlni the night was west of the Graven stafel ridge, about a mile and i half north of the Ypres.Rouler riaiiwny. rne Pitsmy surped tor ward from an elevation In mass for mation and hurled themselve ayaipst the Rritish along; a fron of nearly a mile. It Is reportet that the Germans advanced under white flag prior to the attack am if this was done, they were awful ly rewarded for their treachery for they were repulsed with heav; 1oases. 1 . ,.|f DRAFT REMITS fj PAID BY GERMANS I - AGENTS FURNISHED THEM WITH ARMS. y Agent Who Joined Organization Tells Court All Its Secret Ooerations in West 'r| Enid, Okla., Sept. 21.?Money 3 procured from agents of the vler? man government and disbursed through headquarters of the Industrial Workers of the World at Chi's cago was used to purchase arms, 5- ammunition and supplies for the 5- Working Class Union, "Jones Famy' ilyand kindred organizations said i-1 to number 40 or more, with a meinn bership of approximately 2,000,000, ?f according to testimony in federal court here today in the trial of 11 alleged draft resisters from Pottai(. watomie and Cleveland counties. J. C. Holmes, who said he was a government agi nt, testified that he 0 had joined the Working Class Union ,,1 in Pottawatomie county last May on c, the advico or a recruiting ollicer. Officers high in the councils of the j Working Cl.iss Union. Holmes said, e told memh'M'i of the organization h that, thrc :gh the 1. W. W. and atlllr 1 lated bod c . draft resisters would 11! be plentifully supplied with arms :J and ammunition purchased with i e : Cerr a i money. Ilad Plenty of Money. , ! He? ruiting activity of the Work( | 'tig Class Union, he testified, dated from the passage of the selective draft act and leaders seemed well sunrlied with money and presented y t Vomnrehensive plans for resisting tlie draft. "Itube" Munson, who is in federal ja!' r.t Muskogee, was the State ory ; patiizor of the Working Class Union if with headquarters at Salllsbury v- 1' In.-= '"stifled. The arrest of Muna son on May 31 severed the oonnec. it tion with Chicago headquarters. Holmes said, hut recruiting of the organization was continued on the st promise of new German connections ftj The organization was said to have he< n effectually broken up in Aun_ gust with the arrest of approximatele ly 500 alleged draft resisters in al Central Oklahoma, 300 of whom are le still confined in jails and penitenI - tiaries. 1P Stricken Willi Fear. After the attempted suicide early n today of J. C. Herrod, an elderly ls man, summoned as a government witness, some of the other witnesses seemed stricken with fear. Scott Mitchell, a witness, in evident fear of the oath of the organiration, repudiated testimony he had given before a United States commissioner in Oklahoma City. He >p was arrested on a bench warrant is charging him with perjury. Under a- the oath of the organization revelad lions of its operations are said to be 1- punishable by death. is n \FOKOFS KIM.F1> AT C.\M1? JACKSON 1* Four Meet Death From liightning. a Seven Others Hurt. >r Columbia, Sept. 22,?Four neproes were killed and seven stunned 'e during a terrific electric storm at "* Camp ackson yesterday afternoon. e Coroner Scott said last night no in_ lt quest would be necessary. The n dead are: George C. Kltt of Branchn vllle, M. Churcher, of Fort Motte, J. M. Green of Eastover, W. J. McCotte of Georgetown. All were carpenters. They were n working close to the camp quart erh master corps and an electric storm K came up and they went in a one room house, with the front entirely iout. There was a tin roof on It. In - all there Is said to have been 20 men K In the room seeking shelter from the - storm. How the lightning did Its ? work no one appears to have any ? l.lau Pau. n.i../. bill/./) 1 -1 4 lur^n. iuui weir niuru uuta ifin, - while seven who were stunned were - taken to a hospital for treatment. * The others were not hurt. t Those killed were knocked flat d upon their backs with no indication * of having been burned or scorched. d| The seven that were stunned were - taken to one of the ramp's hospitals and given treatment, to which they y rapidly responded. The dead ne! groes were brought to Columbia. /