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. \ Abbeville FfttaKlifthed 1844. $2.00 the Year, Tri-Weekly. Abbeville, S. C., ONE WOMAN DIES FROM AM. BUSCADE. DAUGHTER OF FORMER HIGH SHERIFF KILL ED ON HIGHWAY?LIVES OF V NINE POLICEMEN AND TWO SOLDIERS TAKEN. Belfast, May 15.?Miss Barring ton, only daughter of Sir Charles Barrington * of Glennstal Castle, I county Limerick, and head of the Masonic order in North Munster, and Police Inspection Biggs were shot dead from ambush Saturday by while motorine. from Killos cully to Newport, County'Tipperary. The father of the dead woman is a former high sheriff of County Limerick. Nine policemen, two soldiers and . a number of other persons were kill ed Saturday and today in attacks and counter attacks at various places. Numerous persons were wounded. More lives may have been lost in the Macroom ambuscade, when 17 auxiliaries were killed on Red Sun day, but for general and organized , volence Saturday and today prob ably were the worst since shooting on a large scale was inaugurated in January, 1919. All the casualties e^cepc one were in the area covered by the Southern parliament. The exception was at Droomore. Tvron. wher? a Sinn The Kosslarepier barracks, county Wexford; the BriCigeton barracks, Wexford; he Shidal barracks in Galway, and the Holy Cross bar racks, County Tipperary, were un successfully attacked Saturday night. There was a brisk fight last ing half an hour at the Rathmore barracks Saturday. The police re sisted the attack with bombs and rifles. There were no casualties. Mr. P. E. Bell spent Sunday with his home folks in the Antreville sec tion. Feiner was shot dead. ?Miss' Barrington was traveling with two other women and Inspector Major Biggs, a military officer, when she was killed. The military i officer was wounded. Constable Bridges was shot dead and two other constables were wounded while purchasing groceries Saturday at Drumcollagher. A par ty of police going to their relief was fired upon and two of the policemen were wounded slightly. Fierce fighting followed an at tack on the Bandon police barracks. The military and police swept' the streets with machine gun fire and ck uroro t.llTViW wiv ?? w*v vv44^vm themselves upon the ground for safety. About the same time, armed civilians marched through Dunman way, County Cork. Being followed by auxiliaries in motor lorries, they shot and killed several horses in the street so as to obstruct the path of Lheir pursuers. All the roads south and west of Cork have been trenched at many points. The belief prevails that rebels intend to carry out a general attack on military and police bar racks. One hundred civilians attacked the Clonakility barracks -with rifles and machine guns Saturday after noon. The .attack w*?s. repulsed. Four members of the ., attacking party were seea to fall. The police suffer ed no casualties. Two gunners of Royal Marine Ar tillery stationed at , East Ferry, near Middleton, county Cork, were shot dead Saturday night.. This was the first attack that has been made on naval forces. At Castl^don and Berehaven, county Cork, today, two sbldiers were killed by armed civili ans. Bombs were thrown at military lorries on three occasions in the Dublin district today. Some of the occupants of the lorries were I wounded. , Shooting Kept Up From Mountain Top Truce Agreement Being Observed in Zone of Previous Battles-?; Vol leys Poured Into Merrimac After Day of Quiet. State Militia Being Deployed Williamston, W. Va., May 15.? A half hour of shooting at Merrimac W. Va., was the extent of hostilities in the West Virginia-Kentucky bor der battle tonight according to ^apx. J. R. Brockus of the state police, who returned from the zone of op erations shortly before midnight. After examining reports from the Mingo region, the captain said that at that hour the situation was quiet. Captain Brockus and a squad of state troopers left Williamson for Merrimac early tonight when it was reported that shooting from the Kentucky side opposite that village had been resumed. Before they reached Merrimac, however, they were advised the firing had ceased and returned to this city. Sheriff E. C. Penson said his re ports indicated that the shots from the Kentucky side had keen answer ed by riflemen on the*West Virginia side. While the West Virginia troop ers returned to headquarters here, six deputies continued their trip into the mountains in an endeavor to cap ture those firing into Merrimac. Chillcothe, Ohio, May 15.?Sixty freight, baggage and passenger cars were set in the ^ railroad yards at Camp Sherman today for instant use in case the 19th Infantry is order ed into Miniro county, W. Va. Food and provender has been packed for quick handling. Officials said they were still awaiting orders tonight.. \ ?? Williamson, W. Va., May 15.? Heavy liring on Merrimac, W. Va., from the Kentucky mountains oppo site that village, broke out tonight, according to a report received here by Capt. J. R. Brockus, of the state police. All other places in the trouble zone along the Tug river were reported quiet. ' A squad of troopers, headed by Captain Brockus, left immediately for the scene of action by automo bile. Six Kentucky deputy sheriffs, who were in Williamson when the report was received, crossed the river and started over the mountain in an effort to reach the attackers i from the rear. Before leaving, Captain Brockus communicated with the Kentucky national guardsmen on duty at Sprigg and requested that they move on the attackers. He was in formed, the captain said, that the soldiers could not leave Sprigg, as wicy wac wai^-uuig a. uvmy vi men in the mountains at that point. A PROGRESSIVE FARMER Mrs. Lena Dickson, who is ohe. of the best business women, -in . the county, lias already sold ixv Abbeville several barrels of Irish ' potatoes grown on her farm near Brownlee's. The potato crop is unusually early this year and many families in town are enjoying potatoes of their own growing. Mrs. Dickson sold her crop to W. D Barksdale and received eight dol lars a barrel. AFTER SIXTEEN YEARS Mr Ted Konesko, of St. Louis, Mo., was in Abbeville Saturday vis iting his friend, M T. Coleman. Mr Konesko spent a winter ?in Abbeville sixteen years ago and old friends were glad to see him and hear the many good things he had to say about the big improvements in Abbeville. FIND DOCTOR'S BODY. Darlington, May 15.?The body of | Dr. J. M Earle was found on the railroad track near the city this morning. His throat was cut, and a note found with the body indicated suicide. The funeral was held today. He was near 60 years of age. Anger of Georgians Aroused By Dorsey Steps May Be Taken at Meeting Next Saturday Looking to Im peachment for Publication oif Bulletin on Alleged Mistreatment Of Negroes. Atlanta, May 15.?Publication of the booklet, 'The Negro in Georgia,' by Gov. Hugh M. Dorsey, charging 135 cases of mistreatment of ne groes, was assailed in' three state ments published here Joday by prominent men of the state. Advices received from Macon were to the ef fect that a mass meeting had been called for next Sunday to take steps toward impeaching the governor, J. Gordon Jones, mayor of Cordele, <2a., was announced 4s onfe of the speakers. The replies were in the- form of public statements issued by Samuel L. Olive, president of the^ state sen ate, and ranking state official next to the governor, and by Judge E. R. iSearcy of the Flint, circuit superior court, and an address at McDonough by Thomas W. Hardwick, former United States senator and governor elect. 1 Mr. Hardwick, who declared he would issue a detailed reply as soon as he takes office in June, made a general answer to the charges con tained in the booklet branding them as untrue and as a "slander on the state.'* Judge Searcy went into charges that Ed White, a ne;jro ol Upson county, had been sent to. the chaingang on trumped up charges. He said the evidence Droved the ne gro's guilt, and added that n> negro ever has been lynched in Upson County. "Such attitude on the part of your investigator and you, as governor, beggar contenmt," said Judge Sear cy in his statement. Mr. Olive denounced the charges in general and taking up a particu lar case, that of a negro burned at the stage, declared at referred to a happening in Oglethorpe county Mr. Olive declared the governor's book let referred to the negro as "a negro suspected of the murder of a white woman" and then proceeded lo de scribe what he said were the facts, The negro, "he declared, attempted to attack the wife of a young farm er and, falling, murdered her with a hoe. The negroes and white joined in the search and negroes aided :in applying the torch, Mr. Olive added. There was ample evidence of the negro's guilt in addition to his con fession, he declared. \A TONSIL EXPERT. * Dr. Thos. L Davis paid a visit to Lethe last Friday. He. went down to make a tonsil inventory in that in stitution. He paid the visit at the in vitation of Mr. Branch, the Super intendent of the Lethe School and farm. As a result, the pupils in the school, or most of them, are to be brought- to Abbeville iiv detachments of" seven,"arid they are to hi ve the pleasure of saying good-bye to old tonsilitis. If there is any more of that disease the tonsils will suffer from it alone, while the Lethe boys and girls will be happily separated from all of it. Dr. Davis has recently taken a spe cial course of two years in diseases of the ear and throat and is an expert in the tonsil line of surgery. While he is in Abbeville, he decided that he would do a little, humanitarian service and when he was asked to help out at Lethe he gladly consent ed. In the fall Dr. Davis will likely set tle in Augusta for the practice of his proiession. He was at one time a successful practitioner there but gave up his practice in order to specialize in diseases of the ear and throat. His friends would like to see him settle in Abbeville and in order to thus per suade him would be willing to give him the Hospital, mortgage and all or build him a new one on Quebec ffoi' crVi f c Dr. Davis is best known by the fact that he is the husband of (for merly) Miss Mary Stark. Northern Lights Will Soon Pass May Be Caused By Spots on Sun?j Naval Observatory Official Mafces Photographs and Discusses Phen omena.?Spots Move in Eleven Year Cycle Washington, May 15?Interruption of telegraphic communication by electrical interference, if due to the presence of spots on the sun, as set forth in the Brashear theory will pass away within 48 hours is the belief of officials at the naval observatory here. 2Hie present spot or group of spots on the face of the sun estimated by naval observatory officials as 94,000 1 miles long and 21,000 wide was near est the earth last night, and today, through rotation of. the sun, was moving away from the solar meridian Naval observatory officials said to day that leaving out of considera ; tion the decreasing effect of the spots on electrical currents on the earth through the usual breaking up of the , spots, the reguhir rotation of the 1 sun on its axis would within a few days carry the spots so far from the earth as to make their influence neg lible. The theory that the aurora boreal is of northern lights, which send . "earth current" through telegraphic circles, interrupting communication, result from sun 3pots, was advanced i by Dr. John A. Brashear, the ' late ' Pittsburgh astronomer. The theory has never been definitely accepted, | naval observatory officials a3serted, but the fact that spots on the sun i usually are accompanied by electri cal disturbances has resulted in al most general acceptance of the , theory Naval observatory offidials said . that presence of such a large group of spots at this time was most un usual, inasmuch as the presence of . the spots moves in an 11 year cycle . and the apex of prevalence occurred abeut four years ago. ? EDGAR EAKIN'S BODY ' SHIPPED FROM FRANCE Will Arrive Here This Week and Be Re-interred at Long Cane ' Cemetery. i .Relatives here were advised Sat 1 urday, by the T\*ar Department, that the body of the late Edgar Ea.kin, who died of pneumonia in France in iSf?ntemher 1918. while a member of the A. E. F., would arrive in New York the latter part of this vreek and would be shipped to his foimer home here immediately upon its ar rival in that port. His father and moter, have, since his death, moved 1 to Monroe, N. C. The re-enteraient of his remains |upon arrival here will be made at Long Cane burying ground where his wife is buried and where already a monument has been erected to his memory. It will be recalled that at the time of his death in France the family was bereaved "by two sons dying of the same disease, pneumonia, in this country. One brother dying in Alabama, the other in Abbeville, both being buried on the same day that the telegram was received here from the War Department announc France. VISITING AT ANNAPOLIS Mrs. Frank B Gary leaves today for Annapolis where she will visit her son, Frank Gary for a few days. Frank is leaving soon for a cruise in ?I . * V _ old world waters ana win De away for three months. CALHOUN FALLS WINS TWO Calhoun Falls won a double head er Saturday when that fast base ball nine defeated the second team of Abbeville by a score of 9 to 7 Af ter this victory they immediately en tered into a game with the Iva team and won this victory by a score of 8 to 1. Cotton Exports Alreadv Aided The corporation announced in ad dition it has advanced $1,600,000 against cotton actually exported. The distributing points to which the cotton has been consigned, the corporation said are Liverpool, Havre, Trieste, Genoa, Venice and Bremen. Cotton consigned to Havre, the corporation explained is distribu ted to the nearby mills and also to mills in the interior of France and Alsace-Lorraine as well as in Swit zerland. Cotton to the Italian port will be distributed to Italian mills' and also to Austrian mills. Cotton warehoused in Bremen will be dis tributed to Czecho-Slovakia, Austria i Poland and Sweden. The corporation also announced that it has issued a circular outlin ing the requirements of the corpora tion in connection with applcations for advances to American exporters and American banks, bankers and trust companies for the purpose of assisting in the exportation of do mestic products. MEETING TUESDAY The May meeting of tne parern- . teacher association will be held Tues- i day afternoon in the graded school ( building at half past four o'clock. ( The pi*ogram will be very entertain- , ing the two high school literary soci- , eties having1 seelcted representatives ( who will debate on the query. It is , better to have loved and lost than j never to have loved at all. The de baters will be Miss Ada Faulkner, ( Jack Bradley and Fred Minshall against Miss Annie Wilson, Louis Bristow, Jr. and Robert Link, Jr. ^ | Of course the whole debate is a farce and the humor is fresh and delight- , ful. In addition to the debate Supt. ( j Fulp has a rranged to exhibit seme ] siereoptican slides of scenes visited by him m London and the - country ( 'round about which should be of in-: j terest to the parents and teachers, } A short description of these pictures j] I will be eiven as they are shown. The grades which win the prize pictures Tuesday will hold them un til the first meeting in September. GRADUATES AT WINTHROP. < The graduating class at Winthrop * has issued invitations to the com- ' mencement exercises to be held May 1 29th. Among the graduates this year * is Miss Pauline Clinkscales, of * Lowndesville' I Among the other graduates in J i whom Abbeville is interested are 11 Miss Phoebe Featherstone, of Green-!1" wood, a daughter of Judge and Mrs * C C. Featherstone, of Greenwood;! Miss Annie Arnette Holloway, daugh-j ter of Mrs. Edith Riggs Holloway, of] Orangeburg, and Miss Virginia Dick, j daughter of Prof. L. W Dick, of Hartsville. .Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Link, of Rock Hill, are in the city visiting Mr. and Mrs. Paul Link and Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Link. a 1 Money Advanced by War Finance Corporation?One Approval for One Million Dollars For Shipment to Foreign Ports j . \ Washington, May 15?Approval of advances of $2,000,000 to assist in financing cotton exports was an- , nounced todiiv bv the war finance corporation. Advancement of $1, 600,000 against cotton actually ex ported has already been made, the announcement said. One approval was for an advance of $1,000,000 in connection with the shipment of cotton to foreign ports for warehousing and distribution. The cotton will go forward, to Liver pool, Havre, Genoa, Bremen and Kobe, Japan. The other application approved was also for an advance of $1,000, 000 to finance the exportation, of cot ton from American interior points and American ports under contracts calling for shipments from October to December. INAL ACTION LIKELY ON EM ERGENCY TARIFF, ALSO THE KNOX MEASURE?PEACE IJES . OLUTION MAY MEET OPPOSI ' TION IN HOUSE SINCE GER MANY ACCEPTS Washington, May 15?Final action >n two important pieces of domestic egislation, the emergency tariff and judget system bill?, and possible dis >osal of a measure international in icope, the Knox peace resolution, is he goal set for congress, this week >y leaders. . . Agreement on the tariff and budget )ills, both of which are in conference vas regarded as assured by the end >f the week, but progress in the louse with peace measures was some vhat in doubt. Republican leaders, lowever, said it was probable that Germany having accepted the allied eparations terms, the "senate peace >lan would be taken up in a few lays. Sentiment has developed in he house against the Knox plan for epeal of the war resolutions and for 11 V? p^1 n m awa ai* A^ >eace. Phases of the reparations question >romise to come up in the senate this veek through discussion of the reso utlons of Senator La Follette, Re >ublican, Wisconsin, to condemn and nquire into President Harding's des gnation of a personal representative >n the allied councils. Senator La rollette has in preparation an ad Iress on his resolution but the ex ;ent of general debate is in doubt. Several Republican senators, said to riew President Harding's action with iisfavor, were reported today to be ncreasingly disinclined to "break" vith the White House by open criti lism of the administration policy. The half billion dollar naval appro priation bill has right of way this ft-eek in the senate. The disarma ment fight hinging on the measure is jxpected to be resumed but a vote on the disarmament conference amend ment of Senator Borah, Republican, [daho, and also on the bill itself, is expected by leaders before the week end. The army appropriation bill, also involving disarmament as re gards the size of the regular army, is * to be reported this week by the sen- N ate military committee and will fol low the'naval bill on the floor. The senate committee is expected to rec ammend a standing army of 175,000 men, as against tne i&u,uuu ngure voted by the house. The fight against ihe increase is expected to be waged by the same group contending for laval armanment reductions. / The house will consider miscellane ous bills tomorrow and receive the large deficiency appropriation bill ... Tuesday. The house ways and means y cbmmittee is busy on the permanent tariff bill with, prospects that a fort night's more work will be required before presentation to the house. HIGH SCHOOL MONEY Saturday the Department of Edu cation made the awards to the ap >roved High Schools of the state 'rom the appropriation made by the egislature for this pfurpose. j The Abbeville High School received $2, 531, while the Dae West High school received $1059. The total ap >ropriation was $275,000. After giv ng each school the amount to which t is entitled under the law, there re named a balance of the appropria ion of $24,292. i PAINFULLY HURT The many friends of Mr. Trumen teames will be sorry to learn that he ell Saturday -while playing ball and iroke his ankle. While the break is cry painful it is in no way serious nd his host of friends will be glad o know he is getting on nicely this fternoon.