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? / ' * _ ~ '.".-.s. ;:$* >;<v *:'^:;> ( Abbeville Press and Bari|il | I :-; ?-50 ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JULY 28, 1915. ' ' ^ ^estabushed I A YEAR. i o <* <* UNITED SMS SEN ! ' OF WARNING TO G 'V CALLS HALT ON GERMAN EQUIT, VOCATION?LAW OF MIGHT MUST GIVE WAY TO LAW OF RIGHT. Tne<?(o 1 Trtnn X I CSlUCill uioioio v/pvi> Nation's Rights tissue With Germany Only?No Rea^ son for Offer.?e at Both Powers Would Uphold Freedom of the Seas. N ,r The following is the text of the note delivered by Ambassador Gerr*t f ard to the German Government on * Friday in reply to the latest German ?: K note: The Secretary of State to Ambassador Gerard?(Telegram:) Department of State, Washington, j July 21, 1915.?You are instructed - to deliver textually the following .note to the minister for foreign af/ fairs: ; The note of the Imperial German ^ Government dated the 8th of July, U 1915, has received the careful con8ideration of the Government of the t United States and it regrets; to be tn eav that it. h?<? found it ?*: VU"6W vv very unsatisfactory, because it fails Aj to meet the real differences between y & the two Governments and indicates $ no way in which the accepted principies of law and humanity may be ap:V plied in the grave matter in contro_ Vt versy, but proposes, on the contrary, >, arrangements for a partial suspen/. sion of those principles which virtur^ally set them aside. , , The Government of the United .States'notes with satisfaciton that '? the Imperial German Government re:"l cognizes without reservation the val{ idity of the principles insisted on in ' the several communications, which , this Government had addressed to the Imperial German Government / with regard to its announcement Qf ' xi ? -?i : . a war zone ana cue use suuiiiaimcav ? against merchantmen on the high i ; seas?the principle that the high seas ' are free, that the character and cat t, go of a merchantman must first be ascertained before she can lawfully , -be seized or destroyed, and that the . jk. lives non-combatants may in no Hfe ease be put in jeopardy unless the * vessel resists or seeks to escape after J j being summoned to submit to examination; for a belligerent act of re' taliation is per se an act beyond the law, and the defence of an act as > retaliatory is an admission that it is ' illegal. Issue Only With Germany. The Government of the United States is, however, keenly disappointed to find that the Imperial Ger. man Government regards itself as in large degree exempt from the obligation to observe these principles even where neutral vessels are concerned, by what it believes the policy and practice of the Government of Great Britain to be in the present war with Regard to neutral commerce. The Imperial German Government will readily understand that the Government of the United States cannot discuss the policy of Great Britain with ref a nnnfvol Av/>anf wiflt ^suu w uguuai tyavu that Government itself, and that it must regard the conduct of other '-V belligerent Governments as irrelevan't to any discussion with the Imperial German Government of what this Government regards as grave and unjustifiable violation of the rights of American citizens by German naval commanders. Illegal and inhuman acts, however justifiable they may be thought to be against an enemy who is believed to have acted in contravention of law and humanity, e manifestly indefensible * hen they deprive neutrals of the^r ackonwledged rights, particularly when they violate the right to life itself. If a belligerent cannot retaliate against an enemy without injuring the lives of neutrals, as well as their property, humanity, as well as justice and a due regard for the dignity of neutral Powers, should dictate that the practice be discontinued. If persisted in it would in such circumstances constitute an unpardonable offence against the sovereignty of the neutral nation affected. The Government of the United States is not ' unmindful of the extraordinary conp' (Continued from page five.) OS FINAL NOTE ERIN GOVERNMENT GEM ARMIES DRIVE EOR WARSAW GERMANS CLAIM ADVANCE IN EAST?BRITISH REPORT SUCCESS AGAINST TURKS. t / There is a comparative lull in the fighting in Southeastern Poland measured by last week's vicious combats, but there has been no diminution in German attacks northwest oi Warsaw and northward of this regior over the Polish border in the Governments of Kovno and Courtland. Along the Narew River, despite ob1 * *" ~ ?1. ~ n awtvi nwo VtOTTf Stinate resistance, uic uumuiu > ?>? forced a crossing, above and below the fortress of Ostrelenka. The Russians are being pushed back slowly toward the Bug Rivei and the Germans are advancing towards the fortifications of Novogeorgievsk and Warsaw. -vA German air raid on the Vistula bridge at Warsaw was without material result, but several civilians were killed. In Southeastern Poland the Germans claim capture of a large number of Russians and minor gains in the Chelm-Lublin region. i The advance of Germans southward from Courtland through Kovno, evidently aiming to capture railway lines leading to Petrograd, thus cutting off direct rail communications between the Russian and Polish capi tals, is making fair headway. Fighting in the west still consists mainly of artillery engagements and sapping operations, in which neither side has made material gains... Fierce fighting continues on the eastern sectors of the Austro-Italian front, especially on the Doberdo plateau, where the Italians have attacked relentlessly,; but, according to Vienna, have obtained only temporary local successes, which the Austrian! afterward counterbalanced by recapturing their original positions. In the region of Kron the Italians are declared to have suffered heavy losses from the Austrian artillery, after having been repulsed in hand to hand fighting, in which the Austrians rolled" boulders down the mountain side on their foes. An Austrian aviator has dropped bombs on Verona. London announces fresh successes P *>! fioU aivomaf fkn TlirlrC 1U1 tuc ill i blOll U^UillOV bUV along the Euphrates River and the capture of the town of Nasiriyeh, Five hundred Turks were slain irl front of- the main position and several hundred captured. The British, however, did not gain the victory unscathed. ' Their casualties numbered between 300 and 400. The American steamer, Leelanaw, laden with flax, has been sunk by a German submarine off the Orkneji Islands. The steamer was bound from Archangel for Belfast. The submarine commanded stopped the Leelanaw, and finding that she was carrying contraband, ordered hei crew off and sent the vessel to the bottom.? News and Courier. "FIRST AID MEETING tnnir.ht at rmiPT hoiisf The Abbeville Class of the "Firs! Aid to the Injured and Accident Prevention" of the American Red Cross invite you to their meting this evening, Wednesday, July 28th, at 8:3C at the court house. Dr. Joseph M. Burke, Chief Surgeon of the S. A. L. Ry., will lectur< t othe class on First Aid Work, Hygiene and Conservation of Health Everyone is invited an da special invitation to the ladies is extended. STUNG! Col. A. M. Stone was bitten bj Dr. S. G. Thomson's fine pointer doj yesterday morning. The doctoi had warned the colonel that the do* would bite, but the colonel claimet the dog would not bite him becaus< he and it were "buddies." The doj evidently did not like the taste 01 the colonel's leg as it only took on< bite. ... ri; AMERICAN VESSEL I ; SUNK BY GERMANS GERMANY DEFIES AMERICA BY I SINKING ANOTHER AMERICAN VESSEL. ^ In 48 Hours After I Receipt of U. S. Note ' Ship Carried Freight Cargo for Eng- ] land?All Members of the Crew are Safe. > London, July 26.?Within 48 hours after the German Foreign Office had received President Wilson's 1 . latest note on submarine warfare a < f German "U" boat torpedoed and ] l sank the American steamer Leela- < . naw, off the coast of Scotland. Her 1 crew was landed at Kirkwall, Scot- 1 . land, to-day. > , The Leelanaw was torpedoed on I f Sunday morning while bound from Archangel, Russia, to Belfast Ireland ^ [ with a cargo of flax. Before she 1 . went to the bottom the crew took to ! . the boats under direction of Captain ^ . Delk. J The identity of the submarine that ^ sank the Leelanaw has not yet been < [ ascertained.1 Reports from Kirkwall say that \ the Leelanaw was approached Sun- 1 day morning by the German submarine off the northwest coast of Scotland. The submarine ordered the 1 1 ship to stop, and the commander then ] brought a crew aboard. The com- ] mander inquired after the Leela- 1 ' naw's cargo, and, being told it was ( flax, immediately declared it contra- 1 band, and then ordered the entire * J crew to the boats. After they put off from the ship f she was torpedoed and went to the 1 1 bottom. 1 i Washington, July 26.?The sink- * ing of the American ship Leelanaw, ! was -by a German submarine off the 5 1 CAA4>1 on/1 TITOa vannrforl in ^ tUOOl Vi UWWOHUj n uu A wyv* WW ' a State Department dispatch from the American Consul at Dundee late ' to-dfiy. ' The news came as a shock to 1 Washington and added to the anxiety ' shown in the State Department because of the hostile tone of the Gert man press toward the latest Ameri' can note to Germany. > In its legal aspects the cause of 1 the Leelanaw appeared to be on all fours with that of the William P. i Frye, for the sinking of which the German Government has agreed to 1 make full payment to the owners. The cargo of the Leelanaw was flax, i which is contraband under the Geri man declaration. The fact that the > crew all escaped and the ship was , boarded and ner cargo exammea re- i moves the case from within the field . of the recent American note to Ger, many. The fact, however, that the United [ States Government declined to admit the right of the Germans to sink the William P. Frye, because of the t treaty obligations between Germany r and the United States applies as well [ to the case of the Leelanaw. , "FIRST AID TO | INJURED" MEETING. The lectures given at the last i meeting of the "First Aid to Injured" Class were enjoyed by quite a num- ( ber of visitors in addition to the ^ members of the class. After the 1 meeting a large number handed in ' their names to join the class and gave i their order for instruction books. < ' < Many ladies having expressed a 1 desire to know somthing of the-work, 1 i it has been decided to hold the next 1 meeting in the Court House, Wednes- 1 > day, July 28tfr, &t $.:$0 p. m. Dr. Joseph M. Burke, Chief Sur- 1 geon of S. A. L. Ry., will lecture to J i the class on First Aid Work, Hygiene < and Conservation of Health. Ev- < . ery one is invited and a special invi- i tation to the ladies is extended. i PICNIC AT COLD SPRINGS 1 The people of Cove Springs and < vicinity announce a public picnic to ] r be hel dat Cold Springs Thursday, i , August 12. Everybody is cordially 1 I invited to come and bring a basket. < [ APPOINTED MAIL CARRIER. ; Ulysses Bauknight has received an , appointment as mail carrier in con- 1 f riection with the Columbia postoffice. i ? He was graduated last June from the i I Abbeville high school.?Columbia State. ! moot WARDS TO BE PROVIDE! HARKED IMPROVEMENT AT THI STATE HOSPITAL FOR THE INSANE Superintendent Is Reducing Expense; Daily Staff Meeting?Negro Patient Are Removed to State ParkFarm Furniuhes Much Food. I (The State) Clean, well ventilated, sanitary ireproof wards are to take the plac )f the stuffy rooms at the State Hos sital for the Insane, when the plan ;ontemplated by the new administra :ion are carried out. Saturday th vliifo molno uriivn Avn/i c-rtti KI11WV tltHJVW II Vi V A Willy JL i VUt <Jt V jral of the wards and the construc ;ion wofk is to begin tomorrow. The wards are to be made as com fortable as possible by the regents Mew plumbing fixtures are being in stalled. Concrete porches will tak ;he place of the wooden structurej Fire escapes are to be installed Plans have been submitted for show ;r baths for each of the wards. Whit ron beds are to take the place o ;he old wooden beds which have beei n use for many years. Will Reduce Expense*. Great improvements are unde vay in the white female wards. i lew central kitchen and-dining roon s being constructed. This build ng will take the place of the numer >us kitchens about the various ward ind will cut down the expenses o sach department. Eventually every ward at the in >titution is to be remodeled. The leg slature gave $150,000 for the worl Jiis year. As time goes by the re jents hope to remodel every ward a ;he old asylum. C. Fred Williams, M. D., the ne\ luperintendeni, is giving his persona ittention to these improvements SVhen they are completed this Stat vill have one of the-most modem in ititutions for the care of unforta iates in the South. He has selected in. able medical staff . and each* pa dent is given careful attention When a patient is entered a histor; s made of his case and filed in th< :er tral office. Daily staff conferences are held, a vhich the condition of the variou >atients is discussed. All of the as listant physicians reside on thi isylum grounds. In the past the as listants gave only part of their timi ;o the patients. Negront at State Park. For years the asylum has beei :rowded, to the detriment of the pa ;ients. However, during the last sev jral weeks more than 200 negro fe nale patients have been removed to State Park, where they are house* n the large building (Constructed b; ;he asylum commission. . In a fe\ lays :L00 negro male patients will bi emoved to the paTk, where quarter vill be provided for them in th< juilding that was intended for use a i laundry. The nejrro women are be ng well cared for at State Park. Th* >uilding is well kept and abtmdanc< >f plain, wholesome food is pro rided. The State owns about 2,500 acre >f lard at State Park. 'The farm i 'urnishing much food for the pa ;ients there and at the old asylum rhe water supply has given the re jents a great deal of trouble. Re :ently six wells were bored on th< jlace and now 50,000 gallons of wa :er are being pumped daily to th< ;ank. This is an ample supply fo ;he needs of the various buildings. Forty acres have been planted ii ;omatoes at State Park and the man igement will this year, can abou 5,000 pounds for winter use. Th< lanmng work is being done Dy in< legro women patients. The new adminiatration is findinj vork for as many patients as possi )le. The occupational treatment i :onsidered one of the best by ex jerts. Patients given light worl lave shown much improvement an< ;his policy will be continued. HERMANS TORPEDO ANOTHER BRITISH BOA1 Aberdeen, July 24.?The Britisl ;rawler Star of Peace has been sun! n the North Sea by a German sub narine. The crew was landed to-day a Stroimiess. .? - ONE THOUSAND LIV I IN CHICAGO ' COOPER TO RUN FOR GOVE* INI 91 f 5 , LAURENS MAN MAY BE IN RACI "IF CERTAIN CONDITIONS EXIST." Hon. Robert A. Cooper of Lauren: r, practically declared Saturday morn e ing that he will be a candidate fo; i- governor of South Carolina nex s summer. He and Mr. J. S. Meach am arrived in their automobile fron e Laurens Friday night and remairte* - in Anderson until this morning whei they departed for Iva. Mr. Coope: addressed the Iva Chautauqua thi i- morning on the subject of education. ? PAAnav nri 11 trmi Ka Q > ixju. vuupci niu juu uv a i- date for governor next summer?^ e asked a representative of The Dail; i. Mail. L . "I .will be a candidate for gover - nor if certain conditions exist," hi e replied quickly. And the smile tha f followed this remark strongly indi a cated that he had received assuran ces that those "conditions exist no? and will continue to exist." ... r Mr. Cooper has received many as ^ surances of support from people wh< n never suported him in the last elec - tion if he will enter the race nex - summer. While the representativi s of this newspaper was talking wit! f him several Anderson men came u] and grasped his hand and said the: did not vote for or support him las - summer, but they, would certainly d< k boht in the coming election. !- A Cooper sentiment seems to hav< t developed in all sections of the stato during the past few weeks. By man: v he is considered the strongest * o: 1 all the candidates who may be in thi l race. ...... e Everybody Jcnows what Mr. Coope: - meant when he said he would be i - candidate "if certain conditions ex i ist'\ and now since the public wil - be informed that he is available n< i. doubht strong pressure ^ willl bi y. brought to bear on him from all sec a tions of the state to have announci his candidacy. And the general op t inion is that he will announce hhn a self in due time.?Anderson Daill; Mail. .. . e . - - ?. . THE FINEST TOMATO, e Mr. Chalmers Hughts, the efficien engineer on the Aiken-Edgefielt branch of the Southern, is entitled t< - tViA Vicf/iria nr Trnn f!ro? or Uncle Sam's Cross or some othe . badge of distinction for growing th< ? largest tomato of the season for thii 5 part of the country. He brough j one to The Advertiser Wednesday Y that weighed one pound and a half v resembling a pumpkin more than i e tomato. If anybody has grown i 3 larger tomato this year than Chal e mers Hughes we have not heard o: 3 it.? Edgefield Advertiser. , Mr. Hughes is from Abbeville. I e is no trouble for an Abbeville mai e man to raise tomatoes the size o: . pumpkins; and thfe Canning Clul girls beat even that. 3 BIG DITCH IS NOW ON PAYING BASIS Washington, July 23.? Countinf " only the cost of operation, of civi government, sanitary work and ad ministration and the handling 03 * ships, the Panama canal is now on 1 paying basis, according to official re ports. r 0 \ Receipts for May not only wipet out the deficit of $39,480, which hac 1 grown up since the opening up of th< " canal trade, but left a balance oJ $177,799, which works out a profii B of 4.79 per cent on the expenditure ? Tliio hnwavar rlntc nftf mnlfP am allowance for interest on the vas ? sum of money expended in the con 3truction of the canal and from thai g point of view the receipts have no * yet equaled the expenses. 1 COLLECTOR MALONE SEES PRESIDEN1 New York, July 23.?Dudley Fielc T Malone, collector of customs at th< ii New York port, who had in charg< lc the investigations regarding the at - tack upon the Orduna, saw Presidem Wilson today. It believed thai t he gave the president a confidentia report of the investigation. ^ ^ ^ # i f ES ARE LOST EXCURSION STEAMER TURNS OVER AS SHE IS LEAVING HER PIER ON EXCURSION I TRIP ACROSS LAKE I ' . % ' President Orders A ' Sweeping Inquiry Latest Report* Say 14,00 Lost Lives When Steamer Went DownExceeds Titanic Disaster. Chicago, July 26.? More than 1,r 000 persons, possibly 1,800, most of t them women and children, were v - drowned witnm a lew teet 01 land oy i the capsizing of the steel steamer, i Eastland, as it was about 4to leave its7 i wharf in tlie Chicago River with 2,r 600 relatives and friends of employs *ees of the Western Electric Company for an excursion across Lake Michi gan. The ship rolled over on its " side in twenty-five . feet. of? water f within five minutes afjjer it began to list. .. - 1 The cause of the capsizing had not e been determined tonight, but federal t and 'State officers were conducting in vestig&tions ' to determine whether - the stiip was top-heavy from faulty v designing, wis improperly ballasted ~ or was poorly handled in leaving the . wharf. ) Design Declared Faulty. Marine architects asserted that the t Eastland was faulty in design, that ? the top deck had" been removed , bei cause of the tendency of the ship'to p list and also pointed to the possibility 1 tnat tne snip naa oeen unevenly or t insufficiently ballasted. /'v. j The Eastland used, water ballast, so tha it could pump, out some on s entering shallow lake harbors; so B some investigators are working on y a theofy that the ballast' tanks Were f not billed and. the rushing of passena. vers to one side of the decks tatrs^d it to roll over. w \ . r Under misty skies 7,000 men, wo\ men and .children went to the Clark - Street dock early today to fill five 1 large lake steamers with holiday > mirth in a trip to Michigan . City, e The steamer Eastland was the first - to be loaded. i Sain began to fall' as the wharf su perintendents lifted the gang planks - from the Eastland, declaring that the j government limit .of 2,500 passengers had been, reached-. . V; . V PuMn|?ri On Oaf Side. The passengers swarmed to the t left side of the ship as the pother 1 steamers drew up the river towards J the wharf.. A tug was hitched T to s the Eastland, ropes were ordered r cast off and the steamer engines be2 gan to hum.. The Eastland had not b budged, however. , t Instead, the heavily laden ship waf vered sidewise, leaning first towards ? the river bank. The lurch was so * startling that many passengers jbini ed the large concourse already on the - river side of the decks. f The ship never heeled back. It turn ed slowly, but steadily, towards its t left side. Children clutched the ? skirts of mothers and sisters -to keep ? from falling. Water began to enter > lower port holes and the hawsers tore out the spiles to which the vessel was . a? J?_ nea. ocretuus irvui attracted the attention'of fellow excur* sionists on the dock awaiting-the next ' steamer. Wharfmen and picnickers ' soon lined the edge of the embank* ifaent, reaching out helplessly to' wards the wavering steamer. 1 StMmr Turns Ovmr For nearly five minutes the ship turned before it finally dived under 1 the swift current of the river. During the listing of the vessel lifeboats, * chains and other loose appurtenances on the decks slipped down, the sloping ^ floors crushing the passengers to' wards the rising waters. Then there was a plunge with a sigh of air escaping from the hold, minglon/1 Q)ii*1AVQ CU W A 111 VI Jlllg VJ. wutviA vu unvi w?m k of women and the ship was on the ^ bottom of the river, casting hundreds of living creatures to the water. Many sank, entangled with cloth. ing and bundles, and did not rise, 1 but hundreds came to the surface 1 and seized floating chairs and other > objects. Persons on shore threw out ? ropes and dragged in those who could . hold these lifelines. Employes of comt mission firms along the river threw t crates, chicken coops and other floatI ing objects into the water, but most j ~ (Continued on Page Eight), ^ t f