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.ao M?ltK AMERICANS OO DOWN. Ai UH niau, DHU sh Ship, Loaded Witli Mules, Sent to Bottom. Washington, .lune 30.- The Do minion freight liner Armenian, fly ing Die British flag and carrying mules from Newport News, Va., to England, was torpedoed and sunk Monday night hy the (?crinan subma rine U-38 off Cornwall, longland, and nearly a score of American muleteers aboard are reported lost, according to messages to the Stale Department to-day from .lohn S. Armstrong, Jr., consul at Bristol. Twenty-nine men in all were lost and ten injured. News Created Sensation. The news created a sensation In official quarters, as it was the first case of loss of American lives simo the sinking of the Lusitania. The action of the Washinkton govern ment, however, depends almost en tirely on whether the Armenian wns chartered by the British government and was, in fact, a transport of war, aboard which Americans would sail at their own risk, or whether she was an unarmed merchantman, in the latter case, even though carry ing contraband, the ship should have been subjected to visit and search and those aboard transferred to a place of safety before the destruction of the vessel was attempted, officiais bold. Immediate Inquiry Ordered. In the absence of conclusive infor mation on these points, officials de clined to say what effect the sinking of the Armenian would have on pending negotiations between the United States and Cerinany. Imme diate inquiry was directed, however, lo Ambassador Page at London to obtain more details, and Ambassa dor Gerard will be Instructed to In quire of the Cern?an admiralty as to its report. From the messages received it ap pears that, in addition to the torpe do, at least one shot was lired from a disappearing lille. The consul's re IK) ri said the wireless house was "taken by second shot." lt was not made clear whether the Armenian first was ordered to halt and resisted capture, requiring a second shot, or whether the submarine nttacked without warning. The fact that the number of the .submarine was given indicated that ?he had come lo the surface to make ' S nh M \ro ' ontrabaud. . , to the contraband character of the Armenian's cargo. OHhiats will make an effort to leam, however, whether the vessel was armed and whether she was a part of the British naval forces before the opinion of ibo State Depart nient on the case will be dist dosed. The messages from Consul Arm strong did not show clearly just how many Americans were lost. In his list be named L'n Americans missing 8 whites and 12 negroes but later telegrams spoke of Dr. .1. S. Viso, a Porto Rican, and three ne groes as having been picked up by a submarine and other survivors by a Belgian trawler and transferred to two British destroyers, which brought them into Bristol. List of the .Missing, ?as finally made to night, from Arm strong's reports, follows: 10. Williamson. St. Louis, .1. M. Munroe, New Orleans. B. M. Cranberry, Montgomery. s. H. sutton. Carterville, Va. Harry Stone. Now York city. Brown (cattle carpenter), Harris burg, Ha. Dr. J. S. Viso, Porto Rico. R. II. Brooks, or West, (chief foreman of muleteers, London i ini ! ii ra lized A merican ). Henry, Leroy, Jackson and Speed. Rlchmind, Va.; Wall. Poley and Lil lie. .Newport News. Va.; King. Small, Rickert and Oakes. Norfolk, Va.; Smith. Portsmouth, Va. (All negro muleteers), $100 Reward, $100. The readers of this paper will bo ??leased to learn that lhere is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able lo cure in all its stages, and 'bat is catarrh. Hall s Catarrh Cure is the onlj positive cure now known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional disease, re quires a constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cur,. ,* taken inter nally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, thereby destroying the foundation of tho disease, ami giving the patient strength by building up the constitu tion and assisting nature in doing its work. The proprietors have, so mindi laiih in its curative powers that they offer one hundred dollars for any ease that it fails lo cure. Send tor list of testimonials. Address I'. J. Cheney ?fe Co.. Toledo, o. Sold hy a.'. druggists. 75c. Take Hall's Family Kills foi' con stipation. Adv. In the Bible Old and New Testa ments lhere are 3,586,47 letters, 775,063 words, :', 1,373 verses, 1,180 chapters and inj books. ?KTAIIJK AUMKNIAN SIN KIN?;. I, i'?'2 Muirs Comprised Cargo of Sunken Ship-Attempted Bscape. Washington, July 1.-Latest nows dispatches detailing how the British .sicamor Armenian, sunk hy a subma rine Monday with a lo.ss of several American lives, tried to escape after being ordered to stop, caused offi cials here to believe tho German sub marine officers conformed to Interna tional law and that tho United States might have no reason to take up the subjtct diplomatically. lt was pointed out that the Arme nian, under accepted rules, could bo sunk for refusing to obey a warning to halt and submit to search. Ameri cans aboard such a ship lose protec tion of their government when tho vessel offers resistance. Ambassador Page reported to-day that the Armenian was engaged in "admiralty business." Tito law on the question of charter is not clear, hut officials indicated it would not be a violation of Ameri can neutrality foran unarmed trans port carrying a cargo of munitions or supplies for a belligerent io sail from the United States, and that it never had been definitely determin ed whether belligerent cruisers on encountering stu b a vessel were to lient it as a ship of war or a defense less merchantman. The report that the Connan com mander had megaphoned the Armen ; tan to stop, encouraged officials to believe Cern?an naval officers might ! have been given new orders since ! negotiations with the United States j over submarine warfare hogan. Consul Armstrong, at Bristol, who sent Tust word of tho destruction of , tho steamer yesterday, reported to i Ambassador Cage to-day thal lil of the 2?I lost with the Armenian were A inericans. Question of Charters. Collectors of American ports have had orders to prevent the departure Of foreign military officers on board ships transporting horses or mules I from the United States and similarly ! clearance has been refused to all ; British vessels which were armed. Officials were inclined to believe that j the chartering of the vessel by the ; British government would not affect I vitally the merits Of the case, be cause the character of the ship was M.?. .. . I ... ^.-^l, " ?. t . i ? I Mo ease ol Hie Armenian consti tutes the first sin?' ;h.- sinking of tho Lusitania in which American lives have been lost. The expecta tion here has been that Germany's reply to the last American note would make some concessions that would insure the safety of Ameri cans on the high seas at especially upon passenger vessels. Compara tively little attention bas been given to the case of Americans on board belligerent ships which primarily carried freight and contraband. The new aspects developed by the sinking of the Armenian were the subject of widespread comment since j it was pointed out in various quar ters that the incident was most likely to draw forth some definite ex pression un ibo uti it tide that the ! United States will take concerning the association of American citizens with the carriage of contraband on shiiis chiefly devoted to such trade. When sunk by the Cern?an subma rine the Armenian was carrying a cargo of 1.12:2 mules from Newport News to Avoiunoitth for use hy the French armies. Tho vessel had a crew of 72 men and carried pf, men as mulo tenders. The submarine first was sighted by the man al the wheel and though Mhe ship was pushed to the limit the mosquito craft rapidly overhauled her and commenced shelling. The Armenian's efforts to keep her stern o the submarine were futile. 'fhe faster vessel Circled the freighter and the Cern?an comman der, speakii):; through a megaphone, or le red the Armenian's captain to surrender or lie would sink tho ship. 'fhe skipper of the Leyland liner struggled hard to evade the under sea boat, but the latter dropped a shell through a skylight into the steamer's engine room, putting the engines out of action. The Armen ian then surrendered. Lifeboats were lowered and t he crew and some 7" mille tenders, nearly all Americans, scrambled into them. As one of the boals was be ing lowered a shell from the subma rine cut the falls of the boat. The occupants were spilled into .!.<> water and presumably were drowned. five boals loaded with survivors got away. 'fhe submarino then Iii ed two torpedoes into the Armen ian, .md tn.- vessei sank within 30 minutes. The survivors rowed around in the boats lill Tuesday morning when a Bteam trawler landed them at Avon I mont b. I The European V Scottish Monarch Sunk. London, June 30.-Tho British steamer Scottish Monarch, bound I rom New York to Manchester with a cargo of sugar, was 'orpedoed and sunk yesterday by a tier man subma rine. Tile steamer's crew of 3C men took to tile lifeboats. The captain and 1!) men were picked up near (lie Hook Point lightship, not far from Dunmore harbor, ireland, and were landed at Dunmore. Heavy ^seas were running at the time. " Norwegian Ships to Bottom. Loudon, Juno 30.-The Norwe gian ship Catnbuskenneth, which sailed from Portland, Dre., February !), for Liverpool or Manchester, was sunk to-day by the German subma rine U-39. Thirteen members of the crew were landed. Fight other sailors, being German subjects, were taken aboard the submarine. The Caimbuskenneth was 28 miles south of (Lilley Head, on the Cork coast, when the submarine signaled her to halt. Then it was ascertained that there were a number of Ger mans among the ship's crew, and these men had the novel experience of being rowed to the submarine and later disappearing nuder the sea with her. while their mates were left Moating in the ship's boats. The lat ter were landed at Calley Head this morning. The Norwegian steamship Gjeso. 1,004 tons gross, also was sunk b> German submarine to-day. The crew , was landed, at North Shields. The vessel was sent to the bottom by a torpedo. The Gjeso was 226 feet long. :'..'. feet beam and 15 feet deep. The j Cambuskenneth was a three-master of l,92? gross tonnage. ! Queenstown, .lune 30.-The Nor wegian bark Kot ka was sunk to-day off Fast not by the guns of a Genua? submarine. Twelve men of the TOW were landed at Queenstown afte- be ing six hours in lifeboats. The Kotka sailed from Stockton, Maine, May 5 for an English port. .Munitions Hoard Created. London, .lune 30.--No lpss lr the driving power in tho Teuonic armies, Indore which the Russians are retreating eastward, is indhated by the latest official reports. AU along the line from Eastern Gdicia northward well into Russian Pdand <-.. i rink" Nicholas' forces ai? be j 'is I .,<':...;. T/,he oner; i jfj the . I menin.< in im j ?on ...v,.... losses'' inflicted on tb? enemy. Russia's reply to the brilliant series of Austro-German victories tn Galicia is a law sidling up a board of montions empowered to spend unlimited monej and given virtually ; unrestricted power over all private industries over the whole of the i country, lt is reported from Petro grad that the creation of the board , became law with an alacrity that was astounding and which is taken to In dicate that Russia fully realizes that i the recent disasters to the forces of I Grand Duke Nicholas largely were due to lack of munitions and equip ment. With tho exception of the French ; claim that they have recovered all the trenches the Germans had recap tured in the Vosges, no change In the military situation on the western battle line is reported. Russia Retire from Vistula. Berlin, Juno 30.-The Russians have begun a retreat from the Vis I tula river and the distric t of /.arness, southeast of Lublin, in Russian Po land, according to the official state ment issued to-day by the German tinny headquarters staff, it says: "Between the Hug and the Vistula rivers ino (?orman and Austro-Hun garian troops have reached the dis tricts of Pels, Kemanow and Zainoso and the northern border of the For est plantations in the Tanew section. Also on a line formed by the banks of the Vistula and In tho district of Zawich, 3ast of Zarow, the enemy has commenced a retreat. "An enemy aeroplane was forced to descend behind our lines. The oc cupants of the machine were made prisoners." Germans Continue to Press Russians. Berlin, July 1-The following offi cial statement was issued to-duy: "North of Arias (Western thea ter) fighting around the trenches, und? r continuous artillery lire, ls I proceeding favorably for us. in the Champagne district, southeast ff Rheims, tho French attacked with out success. On the heigh is of the Meuse and in the Vosges there were only lively artillery duels "Enemy airmen dropped bombs on Zeebrugge and Bruges (in Belgium), without doing any damage of a mili tary character, "Our positions in the Eastern thea ter are unchanged. The booty taken during Juno amounts to two flags and 2">,0i<5 prisoners, of whom 120 were officers; 7 cannon, t; mino throwers, 52 mai hine guns and ono /ar Day by Day. ? aeroplane, besides much material ot war. "Un the Southeastern theater, after bitter fighting, the troops under (Jen. von Linslngen yesterday stormed the Russian positions east of the C.nila Lipa river near Kunlc/.e and Lucynce and to the north of Kohatyn. Three officers and 2.1:2s men were made prisoners and live machine guns were raptured. 'The total amount of captures during .lune made by the Teutonic allied troops under Cen. von Linslng en, Field Marshal von Mackensen and Cen. von Woyrirh amounts to 409 officers and 1 10,650 men and SP cannon and 2t>8 machine guns." British Hark Sunk. London, .Inly 1.-The British hark Thitslebank, which sailed from Ba hai Blanca, Argentina, April 20, with a cargo of wheal for Queenstown, was torpedoed by a German subma rine yesterday at a point off Fastnet, Ireland. Some of tho crew were landed at Baltimore, a small sea port, 17 miles southwest of Cork. British Steamship Sunk. London. duly 1.-Tho British steamer Lomas was sunk to-day hy a German submarino off the Scilly Is lands. Tho second officer of the ves sel was killed. 'Idio rest of the crew was saved. Torpedo Boat Destroyer Damaged. London, .Inly 1.-The torpedo, boat destroyer Lightning was dam aged last night off tho coast by r mine or torpedo explosion. She is now in the harbor. Fourteen mern hers of the crew ure reported miss lng. Announcement that the Light tiing had been damaged was con tained in an official admiralty com munication to-night. Germans Still Advance. Berlin, July 2-The Gorman force: have reached the Russian position: at Krasnik, in the southern dlstric of Russian Poland, according to thc official statement issued to-day b; the German army headquarters. Th? statement also says that the Russiat forces in the region west of Zainos have boen driven back. "After storming the heights south east of Bukaszowice, north of Ha liez, the Russians along the whol front from the district of Marya ni pol to just north of Firjilow hav been obliged to retreat. Troops un der Gen. von Linsingen are pursuin ne defeated netny t ;? to yost* ? dajj we had aken 76fi prisoners e I ?'nom eleven xt< officet*' We ? ? i Mackensen has driven back the en erny west of /.a mose after contin?en lighting over the Lnhuilka and Po sector and bas crossed these rivers i part. "Further to the west thc enem position on the line of Turobir Krasnik-.lozefow. Ute latter place o the Vistula, bas been reached. "To the west of the Vistula ii>e the Russians under pressure of on attack evacuated their hridgchon positions near Tar1 nv. Both bank of tho Kaciennn are clear of the et erny. "The troops under Con. von Woj rsch after successful fighting hav driven the Russians out of their pos Hons southeast of Benno and ll/.: wdiore they took 7nu prisoners of th grenadier corps. "In the western portion of the Ai gonnes a part of the army under Hi Crown "crillee stormed a point ( support. Northwest of Le Four tl Paris we advanced by storm over front of five kilometers C., miles long and from 200 to .'500 motet wide. This was carried out hy tl' Wurttemburgian troops. Twenty-ftA officers and 1,7 10 mon wore mai prisoners. Eighteen machine gun 40 mine throwers and ono revelv< cannon were captured. The From losses were important. "In the Vosges on 11 il gen first w took an enemy work. Al tempts 1 tho enemy to recapture it were r pulsed. Three o (fi co rs and 219 mc fell into our hands." French Check German Drive. l'a ris, July 2.-To-night war o flee statement said: "In tho Argonne the enemey, after violent bombardment, attempted new and general attack between tl roads leading to Benarvllle and Bia leuil. After an especially stubbo! fight, which tit certain points dove oped into a hand-to-hand encon?te we bold all our posit ions. "Yesterday evening the Corina: after intense artillery preparatlo attempted tm our position, on inigo first (in the Vosges) a series of a tacks, tho first two of which were r pulsed. In the course of the thl attack the enemy gained a footho in our works. Through a countc attack wt! recaptured, this mornin all our posttions, which the Henna aro continuing to sholl violently. "in tho Dardanelles after the sn cesses gained hy the British trot) tm June 28, the Turks attempted vi lent counter-attacks. They wore i pulsed with heavy hisses. "On .lune .'50 we carried a Turki redoubl In the form of a quadrlh oral, Including six successive lines trenches. The ground is cover with dead Turkish soldiers. We ha not been counter-attacked." The communication issued in t afternoon follows: "Alter a violent anti continu bombardmenl upon our positlo altmg the road from Ablaiit to A gres, north of the Bethune highwi Herman grenadiers delivered an : tack at about 2 o'clock in the mm lng. The result was a complete fa i ure. "Near La Boiselle one of our mil Ill !/I*Y HANKS IS PRESIDENT *)1 South Carolina Press Association. Chick Springs Next Your. Gr? is ile, .lune 30. - Chick Springs v as chosen as thc place for tho 1916 meeting of the South Caro lina Press Association, this being the third successive time that the up State resort has been selected by the newspaper men. Wm. Hanks, of the Columbia Rec ord, was elected president, succeed ing E. ll. DoCamp; C. YV. Rrunson, Jr., of the Greenville News, first vice president; J. E. Minis, of Kdgeflold, second vice president; Joe Sparks, of thc State, secretary; J. L. Situs, of Orangeburg, treasurer; Miss Jau nit:-. Wylie of Lancaster, H. H. Wan namaker of Charleston, and August Kohn of Columbia, compose the ex ecutive committee. Governor .Manning spoke in the af ternoon at some length of the situa tion in Charleston, bespeaking his desire for co-operation on the part of thc press. John L. MeLaurin and Cen. M. L. Bonham, of Anderson, I were other speakers for the day. In j the afternoon the guests came to Creen ville and were given an auto mobile ride about the city. In the levelling a banquet was given in j honor of the newspaper men and j master printers by their associates \ of Greenville. Governor Was Present. Governor .Manning took the news ? paper men into his confidence to-day ; and discussed every act of his ad- | ministration in the freest kind of j manner.' Bs peel all y did he stress his i efforts during the past half year to J the enforcement of all laws. The : Covernor made il plain that there were some bad laws on the books, but that it was not within his prov ince to interpret the laws, hut to en force them. The Governor deplored the Char leston grand jury's action in refus ing to bring indictments against al leged tigers and stated that he had called a meeting of the Charleston jury commissioners to be held in his office in Columbia Thursday morn ing, when an eft'ort will be made to improve the personnel of the jury. "It is not tho small men that I am after, but the big man, in the whis key business," declared the Gover ; nor. He expressed the opinion that law enforcement sentiment is predomi . int;' nm] growing in Charleston He a"keti th- editors (<. la; iside theil I prejudices against Cou nerton a?d os . i told the editors that he in.ended to I make a daily tight for the enforce ment of law in Charleston and other ! sections of the Stale until thc end of his tenn. He said that if the pres ' cut means in Charleston failed, then j another course, the nature of which j was not announced, would be pur ,sued. I Other acts of his administration were discussed, and he assured the editors that he had always been moved by an impulse to help South Carolina rather than his own politi cal record. "Particularly was this true in the matter of making a ti po i n tine nts," he said. The Covernor said he was confi dent thr>t conditions are improving in all sections of the State and he re alized strongly the need of the < o operation of all the people in every effort of his office. CHEER UP! THAT TIRED, GROUCHY PEELING MEANS A LAZY LIVER. LlY-VCR-LA.X will clean you out, and make you feel line and dandy again. lt is just as effective as cal omel, but has none of its well known disagreeable after-effects. l-lV-VER-LAA eliminates poisons, cleanses the system, and relieves con stipation in a thorough, hut pleasant, manner. A little taken regularly means consistent health and no doc tor bills. GUARANTEE: Every bottle beal ing the likeness of L. K. Grigsby, is guaranteed to give satisfaction or your money will be returned. Cor sale hero in .Mle. and $1 size bottles at Norman's Drugstore. Adv. Fish on ti Big "Razee." I Charleston. W. Va., June HO. State prohibition officers are liable j to prosecution for contaminating the streams Of Wesl Virginia, according . to Deputy Came Warden Prank 1 Glenn, who threatens to begin action .against those who poured a quantity of whiskey into the Kanawha river i at Parsons. "We don'i let coal operators pour I refuse into the streams and kui tin; . tish. Why should we permit the prohibition officer?" asked the game warden. * destroyed the advance works of the - Germans. "In the Argonne there was verj - violent lighting all last night. One - of the Gorman al tacks was. supp?t ted - hy the use of asphyxiating bomba as well as large hand bombs. lt was s driven hack. I>EATII IN BATH TUB CASE. English Court Passes Death Sentence on Geo. J. Smith. London, July 1.-A verdict of guilty was brought in to-day by the jury which tried Geo. J. Smith for the murder ol three of bi? wives, lt had been alleged by the crown that Smith had killed his wives while they were in their baths, and had collected insurance money on their lives. Smith was sentenced to death. "You will hang me before you*re done, my lord, was Smith's excited outburst while Justice Sent'.oe was summing up the case. "You cannot hang nie for murder; I've done no murder. This is a dismace to a Christian country." The judge told the jury that while there was no direct evidence con necting Smith with the murder of Heat rice Munday, one of the three wives, there was seldom anything but circumstantial evidence in cases Of cold-blooded, calculated murder. The jury, continued the court, might not be sure whether the deaths were accidental or designed; but if it were found that an apparent acci dent which benefited the prisoner happened a number of times they could draw a strong inference. lt took the jury 22 minutes to find a verdict. Asked if he had anything to say before sentence was passed, the prisoner, who at first seemed dazed, finally said: "I can only say I am not guilty." He stared blankly at the judge as he assumed the black cap, but bore the pronouncement of sentence grimly. He walked firmly to his cell. Addressing the prisoner, the judge remarked that he entirely concurred in the verdict. He did not propose, he said, to follow the practice of some judges of warning the public against the repetition of such crimes i or in exhorting the prisoner to re pentance. "I don't believe then? ,s another man in England," the judge said, "who needs to he warned against the com mission of such a ?rime and to exhort you to repentance would be a waste of time." Alter passing sentence the judge ; remarked that the jury might be in j terested to know that there was evl , dence which had not been presented ! in court that the prisoner had gone through the ceremony of marriage .. it ., i it M i women both of w hom h? had robbed oi ons derabl? sums ' of looney. Ymir t Vuigli Can !*.. Stopped. I'sing care to avoid draughts, ex posure, sudden changes, and taking a treatment of Dr. King's New Dis covery, will positively relieve, and in time will surely rid you of your cough. The first dose soothes the irritation, checks your cough, which stops in a short time. Hr. King's New Discovery bas been used suc cessfully for 45 years and is guaran teed to cure you. Money back if it fails. Hot a bottle from your drug gist; it costs only a little and will help you so much.-Adv. 'A. Needs Cotton for K v plo Heidin. June du. The commandant of the prov Brandenburg, in which Heidi . sit uated, has issued un order effective August l, prohibiting the manufac ture of fabrics wholly or chiefly cot I ton for nearly all ordinary purposes, sucti as articles ol' clothing, bed sheets, pillow slips and table cloths. ( The presumption from this order ; is that Germany needs all the cotton ?available for use in the manufacture I of explosives. ) Ocean Liner Hid During Cog. 1 ?eal, Eng., .lune 30. The Hol land-American lane steamship Nleuw Amsterdam, with many passengers from New York for Rotterdam, was run down in a fog by an unidentified steamer while anchored in the Downs to-day. Hort quarter of the Nleuw Amsterdam was damaged, hut the vessel is still riding safely at anchor. 'I bis is the eighth collision in the Downs within the last three days. 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