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LANSING Hl'CTKKDS HUYAN. Former Counsellor KIM'S t?? Position Next to Preeideut. Washington, Juno 23. Robert Lansing, who as counsellor of the State Department, lias advised Presi dent Wilson in law and precedent in the |iollcy pursued by the United stairs towards belligerent govern ments since the outbreak of the Eu ropean war. was named to-day to suc ceed William Jennings Bryan as Sec retary of Stale. Pew appointments in recent years have given such widespread satisfac tion in the national capital. Mr. Lan sing is a life-long Democrat, but he bas devoted ?<is time to international law and di, ..i.-icy and is as popillai with former Republican officials as with his colleagues. Members of the cabinet and close personal friends of the President advised the selection, and Mr. Brynn himself, although not consulted, is understood lo have hoped for thc promotion of Mr. Lan sing. Official announcement of the selec tion of Mr. Lansing, who has boen ><-i-\ ing as Secretary ad interim since the resignation of Mr. Bryan on June s. was iiiade in the following state ment : "Before leaving this evening for a brief rest in New Hampshire thc President announced that he had of fered the post of Secretary of State to Robert Lansing, the present counsel lor of the Department of State, and that Mr. Lansing has accepted the ap point ment." Commission Made Out. A commission was prepared which President Wilson signed to-night, giving Mr. Lansing a recess appoint ment. When Congress reconvenes, the nom i nat ion will go lo the Senate. No opposition is anticipated. One of the peculiar circumstance? in connection with Mr. Lansing's ap ; ointment is the fact that he person ally b.is no political backing or In iluence. Succeeding Wm. J. Bryan, foremost among leaders of the Dem ocratic party, a comparatively un known quantity In the political world, he has been ushered into the pre miership of t he cabinet. This very fact commended itself to Hie President's advisers a- a reason for the appointment of a man of Mr. Lansing's experience and ability, the argument being advanced that at. so crit?cala time in the nation'?! history . HOI .?nu i> i tja iti/.ii i iou 01 tue Depart ment of State and is conversant with confidential details of all important negotiations conducted by the United Slates since the Wilsen administra tion began. Of Prominent family. Mr. Lansing is ."il years old. a na tive of Watertown. N. Y.. and a de scendant of the family of John Lan sing, who represented New York in tile ('uns t it u t iona I Convention o', I 7 s7 at Philadelphia and later was Chancellor ol the Slate of New York. After graduation from Amherst Col lege in Issi'. Mr. Lansing those the profession of his father and ances tors Hie law and continued in p?d ate practice except when retained by Hu1 American government or foreign nat'ons in important cases. He has represented the United Statis iii more international arbitra tions than any living American, and a Preuch authority recently wrote (hat Mr. Lansing probably has had a longer and broader experience in In ternational arbitration ami had ap peared more frequently before inter national tribunals than any living la wyer. In 1802 .Mr. Lansing was appointed associate counsel for the United States in the fur seal arbitration ami attended the sessions of the interna tional tribunal at Paris in 1803. In I S '. i 1 - '. .lie was counsel for the Mexi can ami Chinese legations in Wash ington. In 1896 be was appointed by Secretary Richard Olney counsel tor the government before the Behring Sea claims commission. In IS98-99 he was counsel for private parties before the Canadian joint high commission ami counsellor for the Mexican and Chinese' legations once more. Ile became solicitor ami counsel for the United States go ve ri.ml be fore the Alaskan boundary tribunal II London, was counsel ?n i lie Vene zuelan asphalt dispute in do.",; coun sel for the United States in the At lantic fisheries arbitration at Tho Hague in ID08; testimonial del?gale m tin- fur seal conference at Wash ington in IPI I and special counsel tor the Department of State in vari ous pending diplomatie questions. In 1911 he became counsel for the Uni ted states in the American ami Brit ish claims arbitration, and from IPI:: until April 1, 1914, when he becalm counsellor of the State Department to succeed John H. Moore, ?ie re pre Rented (h.- Inited stales before thi. com mission. Mr. Lansing was ono of tho found- | ors of the American Society of Inter- i national Law and has written a book on constitutional law. For many years Mr. Lansing, who is a man of considerable means, has lived herc with his father-in-law, John W. Foster, Secretary of state under President Harrison. Mrs. I .ansi n i; is one nt the popclar mem bers uf the official and diplomatic set. The) have no children. The appointment of Mr. Lansing creates a vacancy in the Office of counsellor of the state Department. lt is aol expected that any immedi ate selection will be made, lt is con sidered likely that President Wilson will leave to Mr. Lansing the task of selecting his counsellor. An Easy, Pleasant laxative. One or two of Dr. King's New Life Pills with a tumbler of water at night. No bad, nauseating taste; no belching gas. (lo right to bed. Wake up in the morning, enjoy a free, easy bowel movement, and feel line all day. Dr. King's New Life Pills tue sold hy all druggists. :'?'> in original package, for 25c. Cet a bottle to day. Enjoy this easy, pleasant laxa tive. Adv. 2 Hubert Muller Shot as Spy. London, June J::. E. Robert Mul ler, who on June I was found guilty at the Old Hailey police court ol' be ing a Cern?an spy. was executed in the Tower of London to-day by shoot ing. Another alleged Herman spy. Hoh eit ltosenth.il. who is said by the po lice to have confessed that he was sent lo England hy I-he Cern?an ad miralty to obtain information on naval matters, is to be court mart ial ed. The official announcement concern ing Muller and Rosenthal was ex tremely brief, stating merely that Muller had been put to death in the tower to-day and that the "summary ot the evidence in the case of the alleged spy Rosenthal will be iakon at the Wellington barracks to-day. Iii will he tried hy cou rt mar! ial. " lt is presumed that Muller faced a firing squad in the yard of thc 'I'ower ot London al dawn, as did Carl Hms Loily, executed Inst No vember after lie had been convicted of spying. Cuni of Thanks. Editor Ken vee Courier: We desire to nyprrsn r.r.i thank? tbromrh ? .???? - . the sickness ann u< .?<n m oui utan | husband and father J. T. \loore, who died ..n the loth oi .lune. To each and every one we extend our warm est thanks, and also invoke heaven's richest blessings lo rest in the hearts ami lives of these good people, our neighbors and friends. Kind words are not lost or forgotten, bul live to bless and servi to heal our broken and bleeding heart.-. Oh, how lonely wc feel since our loved one has left us. Our home Is no more as it once was. There is a vacancy that can never be filled. Rut we submit ii all to Him who duet h all things well, and we can only say, " Thy will. Oh Cod, be done." Mrs. .1. T. Moore and Children. Seneca. J une 11 :i 1 .". Seidel Regius Sentence. (ionesco, N. Y.. June 1'I. Henry Siegid, former New York banker and depa rt ment store o wner, to-day waived stay ol' execution of tin- sen tence passed last November and left bj automobile tor Rochester to serve io months in Monroe county peni tentiary. Siegel was a former owner of de partment stores and banker of New York. He was convicted last No vember of a misdemeanor ami sen tenced to lu months' Imprisonment and to pay a line of $1.000, unless he made restitution to his creditors, CA LOM EL SALIVATES AND MAKES YOI' SICK. Acts Like Dynamite on a Sluggish Liver and You Lose a Day's Work. There's no reason why a person should take sickening, salivating cal omel when ?O cen I s buys a large bot tle of Dodson's Liver Tone a perfect substitute for calomel. lt is a pleasant, vegetable liquid which will start your liver just ns surely as calomel, hut it doesn't make yon sick and cannot salivate. Children and grown folks can take Dodson's Liver Tone, because it is perfect ly ha rm less. Calomel In a dangerous drug, it is mercury and attacks your bones, take a dose of nasty calomel to-day and you will feel weak, sick and nauseated to-morrow. Don't lose a dav's work. Take a spoonful of Dodson's Liver Tone Instead and you will wake up feeling great. No more biliousness, constipation, sluggish no B, headache, coated tongue or sour stomach. Your druggist says if you don'i find Dodson's Liver Tone acts Ind tor than horrible calo mel your money is walting for you. . Adv. The European V 1 AMII berg's Second Fall. London, June 23.-The statement from Austrian headquarters that Lemberg had fallon before the ad vance of the forces of Austria and (?orman.v was received in London without surprise. lt was known that the Germanic allies were within ar tillery range of the Galician capital, and capitulation was regarded as a question only of days. Nothing has been heard as yet from Petrograd. Petrograd does, however, claim a vic tory on the river Dniester, result ing in heavy losses to the Austro German forces, and partial confirma tion is given this claim by the Aus trian official accounts of the stand made in that neighborhood by the Russians, which enabled them to withdrew In good order. Other evi dence of the orderly retirement of the Russians is the Austrian report that thu armies of the central em pires captured very few guns, the Russians having withdrawn their ar tillery previous to the stubbornly tonght rear guard actions. In the western arena t have taken "The Labyrinth (?orinan work forming a Hil tho (?orinan lines between Ni \ Vaast and Henrie, which ll the object of almost cont II tack sime May 30. Taken After Hard I Berlin, June L':t. Lei been conquered after a \ battle, according to an official repon received bme from headquarters of the Austro-Hungarlan army. The Galician capital fell before the ad vance of the second army. Lemberg (capital of (?alicia) was occupied by the Russians September 2, lill 1. a month after the war be gan and in Hie course of the early Russian drive into Austria. Since then it has been In continuous Rus sian control. For the past 2ll days, since tho Austro - Germans recaptured Prze mysl, Lemberg has boen the object ive of a series of tierce and concen trated attacks. Their successes will have a far-reaching political effect, as the driving out of the Russians from Galicia is counted on in Berlin to help maintain the status quo in the Balkans. The capture of Lemberg was one of the earliest Important successes of the Russians Following !*.! they] il i tl '. ..0 .i. w. V^l .1? 11 W, ill the western end of the province, (dose to the German frontier; stormed the heights and passes of the Carpathian mountains, which separate (?alicia from Hungary, and to the east swept through tho crown land of Bukowina to the Roumanian frontier. All this has been (hanged by tho steady succession of A list i o ? ?orman victories of tho last few weeks. The change began with the launching of the great drive from Cracow east ward. Croat numbers of German troops and a vast amount of field ar tillery were sent lo assist the Aus trians. The use of artillery hy the 'I eut on ic allies has been described by correspondents as on a scale never before undertaken. Hs effectiveness was relatively increased by the Rus sian shortage of shells. The Austro-German armies pushed eastward through (?alicia, recaptur ing Przemysl Juno :!, and then, with out pause, struck at Lemberg from the south and west. At no point were the Russians able to withstand the terrible bombardment against their positions, and even the line of defense near Grodek, 16 miles west of Lemberg, which is of great natu ral strength, proved untenable. With Lemberg now in her hands. Austria has reclaimed, virtually, the whole province of (?alicia. The fight ing in this campaign has been of un usual intensity, with heavy losses. The ligures of killed, wounded and captured, as given in Austrian, Ger man and Russian official statements, run into the hundreds of thousands. Russia had made plans for perma nent occupation of Galicia, bringing in officials to set up civil administra tion in the territory as fast as it was taken. Lemberg was rechristened Lvov, the old Russian-Poland name. The city has a population of about 200,000 and svas an Important Aus trian military station. Although founded in tho thirteenth century, it is ol' modem appearance and ix known for its imposing buildings. The (div is protected by outlying forts although lt? defenses much Inferior to those of Przemysl. Germana Take Proper Action. Newcastle, ling.. June L':i.-The Norwegian mail steamer Venns ar rived hero to-day minus most of her i a: go, which was thrown overboard, the captain asserted, under a threat ol a (Jerniaii submarino commander that otherwise the Venus would bo sunk. Tho captain says thal the Venus /ar Day by Day. was hailed by the submarino and given the alternativo of Jettisoning all butter and tinned tish on board, or being sent to the bottom. Tho re mainder of the (airo, consisting of wood, was porm it ted to remain. This is tho first time a (?orinan submarine boat is reported to have permitted a vessel to escape under snell terms. 1,000,000 Teutons in Bast. London, .lune 23--A dispatch from Petrograd says it is estimated there are 2,OOO,OOP Austrians and (lennans on the 100-mile front from the Lower Tanow to Mlkolaiow, and 450,000 along the Dniester front. The num ber of Germans and Austrians from the Baltic to Bukowina is put at four million. One at Lust Escapes. London, .lune ??3 -An official com munication issued u" admirall> to-night says: "The British cruiser Roxburgh waj struck by a torpedo in the North Se;i Sunday night. The damage sustain od was not serious and the crulsei was able to proceed under her owr steam. There were no casualties. Austro-Gertnans Cross Dniester. Berlin, June 24.-A further vic tory for the Austro-German forces it Galicia was announced to-day at arni] headquarters. Gen. von Linsingen': army, which has been stubbornly op posed by the Russians along th? Dniester front, has succeeded it crossing the river. The statemen follows: "Western theater: We drove th< enemy out of a section of a trench 01 the eastern slope of the Loretti Hills, which they captured recently South of Souchez fighting continuer with good results for our side. On position in the Lorette Hills, south 0 Neuville, was maintained after stub born hand-to-hand lighting in tin face of a strong attack begun durinj the night. "In the Meitze Hills there were fur thor hitter engagements. We tool 150 French prisoners. The enem; suffered heavy losses in two unsuc j cessful attacks. "Operations against the hill a Rando-Sapt, which we captured yes terday, were repulsed. The numbe of prisoners was Increased by ">o. "Eastern theater: Northwest 0 Kurszany (province of Kovno) th : which we repulsed. On lu Oniulc I lidvt>ucl* e-.i M ' M til i 111 V 1 the village of Kopa.-zyska. Southe the Vistula, in Poland, several enem attacks were frustrated. "Southeastern theater: The arin under Gen. von Linsingen crossed th Dniester between Halicsz, which sti is being held by our enemies, an Zu ra wno. This army engaged in fierce battle on the northern bank. "In the neighborhood of Lember and Zolklew the pursuit continue: Between Kawa Rusk a and the Sat as far as Ulanow, nothing of impor ance has occurred. In the angle b< tween the San and the Vistula til Russians have retreated behind branch of the San, also on the lei bank of the Vistula, south of Uzi bhey are retreating towards tli non h." Germans in Vosges Repulsed. Paris, June 24.-To-night's w; office communication said: "In the region north of Arras the) have been no infantry actions to-da Our troops have organized themselvi In the conquered positions. A live] cannonade occurred in the sector < Angros-Ecurie. "Thc enemy last night and to-di violently bombarded Berry-Au-B; and the neighborhood of Sapigneu The bombardment caused us only ii significant losses. "In the Argonne and on the heigh of the Meuse there is nothing to r port except artillery actions. "In the Vosges, at Fontenelle, Cern?an attack was repulsed. Tl Germans have bombarded the OU skirts of Met/oral and the ridges the east of the village, where 01 progress has continued to a slight d grce." Success Claimed by Turks. Constantinople, Jinn - ( v Wireless to Berlin and London, Jin 24.) Another success for the furl in the Caucasus is reported in ? official statement issued to-night tile war office, which says: "On the afternoon of the 2:'.d < the Caucasian front, in On* directh Of ORI, after bitter lighting, tl Turks captured 2,000 metres (abo 1% miles) on the Karaagh height in the district Of Kaleboghazi. Tl enemy led eastward. The Tur took several hundred enses of mm Hons and a quantity of war mal rial." Tho Karabagh district of Trai Caucasia lies between the Kur ai Aras rivers in the government Velizavetpol. The chief town is Sh sha. Seven Sunk i>y Submarine. London. Juno 24.-Seven fishing vessels known as drifters have been sunk by a German submarine off the coast of Scotland. Most of the crews of the lishing boats were saved. The crews of the boats wore taken aboard the American steamship Llama, which reported that tho drift ers were sunk last night at a point east of tho Skerries. Nurses Killed in Hospital. Paris, June 24. The Kreuch war office statement this afternoon says:: "North of Arras last night passed relatively calmly, if we except the territory north of Souche/., where the cannonading never ceased. The en emy bombarded Arras, the hospital of the Holy Sacrament being particu larly damaged. Some sisters and some of the nurses lost their lives. "In front of Dompierre, west of Peronne, the explosion ol' a German mine was followed by a violent bom bardment of our trenches. An attack on the part of the enemy, executed by a not numerous fore?, was easily ( hocked by tis. "The number of prisoners made since .lune 14 in the region of the Kecht river now numbers 2"> officers, 53 under-officers, and t;:'.s mon." Germans U> Attack Warsaw. London, .lune 24. An Amsterdam dispatch says that the Hermans, fol lowing their victory in Galicia, have ! made preparations for another at ' tempt to capture Warsaw. Herman I troops from Galicia already have I been transferred to the Hzura front, wost of Warsaw, says tho dispatch. American Steamer Seized. London, .lune 24. The American ; steamer Noches was .seized to-day in the Downs and ordered to proceed to London to discharge her general j cargo, which ls to be thrown into the ! prize court: The contention of the British government that the cargo 'came from a country hostile to (Heat i Britain is denied by the shippers. (?nins Claimed for Germans. Berlin. June 2.">.-Army headquar ters to-day gave out the following: "l"he village of Kopaczyska has been evacuated by tin? Hermans. , "West ol' Stegua, Cern?an troops have taken possession of a part of the enemy's line. "The .situation of Pield Marshal von Mackensen's army remains un changed. "That portion of Cen. von Linsing en's army which was northwest of Halles has bee?) t ..*????forrod in I b<> out,, k o' i m . . Further ut the river the G<-i ?? n iittarkf? arc . r I e. . i v .. utli About War Now ixmianded. London, June 25. A demand that the nation he "told the truth about I the war" is voiced by the Times. The paper declares there is no immedi ate prospect of compelling the Cer n?; ns to withdraw within their own .frontiers: that it will take months to provide the British forces with the big guns, high explosives and ; machine guns necessary. I 'The country." says the Times, "hits got to face the probability of a prolonged and unprogressive cam paign in the west. "To put it brief, the allies on both fronts are being held wah no pros pect of an early change. Moreover, the outlook in tho Dardanelles, of which the less said the better, long ago ceased to offer prospects of a swift and easy diversion in the mid dle east." (The London Times is one of Lord Northcliffe's papers which have wag ed an energetic campaign for greater publicity in connection with the war. Northcliffe's attacks upon tho British government are credited with being largely responsible for tho formation of the now coalition ministry and tho appointment of David Lloyd George as minister of munitions.) Killed in Auto Smash. Jackson, Tenn., June 2.",. /. N. Williams, of Humboldt, Tenn., 70 years old. and prominent, was killed this morning near hore when an au tomobile in which he .and four oth ers were driving to the West Tennes see Experiment Station capsized. Wm. Hudson, another of the parly, sustained a broken rill and other in juries. lt was Gibson county day at the station and many from tho coun ty made the trip. Receivers May Get Nashville. Nashville, Tenn., June 25.-City Treasurer Charles Myers was arrest ed to-night on a warrant sworn out by City Comptroller Burns, who charges the treasurer with fraudu lent breach of trust, in that he has collected large sums of interest from banks on city deposits which have never been properly credited to the city. Suit to throw the city Into the hands of a rece Iver was filed lalo this afternoon. The business of tho New York po lice department last year required 5, 890,000 telephone calls. TEXTILE WORKERS' CONDITION'S SIiow Gratifying Changes-Cominis stoner Watson Giv?S Figures. Columbia, .luno 24.-"Tho results of tho mid-year cousus are very grat ifying to me," says Col. E. J. Watson. "They show that the total number of people employed in the textiles at this time is greater than at any time in the last four years with the exception of the year 1913, there being 34!) more peo,.'.:- at work now titan at the same time last year. lt is exceed ingly gratifyii thal the principal in crease has been in the number of white males, the actual increase be ing 7.>7 white men. While there has been this increase in the number of while men there has been a decrease of 218 in the number of negro ?ten employed and .">2 in tim number of negro women. More gratifying than all. perhaps though, is the fact that there are t is less white women em ployed now than one year ago. The large increase in the number of white males is no doubt duo to two facts: War conditions failed to attract them back to the farm, and war conditions have made recently many of the mills begin to work with night and day forces. 'The child labor situation still continues to lead away from the em ployment of tin; young child, even though those between the ages of 12 and l l years of age are allowed un der the law to work. At present as compared to last year there are 519 more white boys and 263 more white giris between the ages of l l and HI years in the mills than there wen a year ago. Between the same ages the negro males decreased by 23 and the negro girls by ti. There are 223 less white boys between the ages of 12 to l l in the mills this year than last year, and 1 16 less white girls be tween the same ages than last year, and there arc 2 0 less negro boys and "? less negro girls bel ween the ages of 12 to 14 than at the same time last year. Child Labor Situation. "Summarizing the child labor sit uation, the Increase in children have all been white children between the ages of 14 to Ul. totalling 482 in number. The decreases have been in children between the ages of 12 and 14. Of these were white chil dren and 2"> colored, anti then there were 2M colored childi cn less between the ages of 14 to 10. The total de ' 'e:' -e. thi . ore, :?l chihl li bOT amounted .. ??93 -339 of whom were nhihli . ?' bi ' v. eeu the .. .. of ''tai..' IC '.' h. ?. rue al present, Iv i'.l'j the age of 10 employed In the tex tiles of the State of South Carolina, and of these 4,f?82 are above the age of 14 years, leaving only 2,SCI be tween 12 and ll who work under permits granted by tho State under the law. Most of these latter num ber are rapidly approaching the age of 14. .lust tine year ago there were 4,100 white children bet ween n the age of 14 to 16, and ::.1S2 between 1 - and I 4. "It is easy to see from the figures given above that there has been dur ing the first six months of 1915 a rapid drift away from the employ ment of the child that is under the age of 14 years. Considering the In dustrial situation in the State as a whole, nothing could be more gratify ing than this very fact." "IN GOB WM TRUST; OTHERS Pay Cash"-So Say Munition Manu facturera to Russia. Seattle. Wash., .lune 211.-That large shipments of war material for Kassia have been cancelled by Amer ican ina nu fact urers who are said to be unable to obtain cash payments for their products became known to day when the Great Northern Steam ship Company announced that the liner Minnesota probably will not include Vladivostok as n port of call on her next voyage. Tho Minnesota was scheduled to sail direct from Seattle to Vladivostok .lune 27 with practically a full cargo for the Rus sian government. Seventy-five per cent of these shipments have leen cancelled by manufacturers. -The Courier is requested to an nounce that Hon. E. IO. Vernor will lecture in Ibo Townville Methodist, (bundi on Sunday, July 4th, at 4 o'clock i>. m. Everybody cordially in vited. CHICHESTER S PILL! DIAMOND BRAND 00 AT lr LADIES I *?r A?k your ?rar*!** for CmCHHS-TKR S DIAMOND UK AND PILLS in RRI> and Goi o metallic ImiM, flealed with Blue Rttition. TAKR NO ?.i nun. 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