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AUSTRIA CJt'll/rV UV OWN WOHI). United States Stressen Admission of Submarino < oinmiiiKlci. Washington, m-c. 22. Thc Culled States contends, in Its second note to Austria on the Ancona case, made publie here to-day, that the ofllcial admission of the Austrian admiralty that Hu- linet was torpedoed after she had stopped and while passengers still wei. aboard, alone is sulllcienl ?or the American demand for dis avowal, reparation ami punishment o? the submarine commander. The note renews the demands of the t'nited StntOii and says the details t<> which Austria referred m its reply to the Mist !iou> are in no way essen tial to thc discussion, lt emphasizes Hie continuance of good relations de pends upon the action of the Austrian govern nient. Cable dispatches indicate that the nott' already has been deli.? red io the Austrian foreign office. Text of tho Note. The text of the note which Ambas sador Penfield was instructed lo de liver to the A ust ro-11 ungarian minis ter of foreign affairs read- as follows: Department of State. Washington, per. al, The gov "rn ment of the t'nited Slates ha.- received the note of your excello'icv relative to thc sinking of the Ancona, with ii was de livered al Vienna on December 1 I Ula. and transmitted to Washington, \ .md has given the note immediate and careful consideration. "Oil November 1.1. 1''1 .'. liaron Kwiediiick, the charge d'affaires ol tile imperial and royal government at Washington, transmitted io the Department ol State a report of the A ust ro-l 1 u n ga ria n admirait} with re gard io the sink'ng of thc steamship Ancona, in which i* " as admitted that the vessel was torpedoed after her engines had been stopped and when passengers wa re still on bouid. This admission alone is. in the view of the government of the Cn i ted States, suf ficient to fix upon the commander of the submarine w hich bred the torpedo the responsibility for having wilfully violated the recognized law of na tions and entirely disregarded those humane principles which every bel ligerent should observe in the con duct of war at sea. Tinted States Justified. "In view ol these admitted circum stances the government of the Culled States feels hmtlHod ?>> moa:?- .?-... b'T ot Americans Kineo ?.?j....... .... in no way esseniia 1 matters of dismis sion. The culpability of the comman der is in any ?ase established, and the undisputed fad is thal citizens of the t'nited States were killed, injur ed or put i:: jeopardy by his lawless a< t. 'The rules of international law and I iie principl' s of humanity which were thus wilfully violated by the commander of tim submarine have leen so long and so universally rec ognized and are so manifest from the standpoint of right and justice 'hat the government of the t'nited States does not feel caib-d upon to debate them ar.d does not understand that tho tniix-rial and royal government quest iocs or disputes I hem. "The government of the t'nited States, therefore, linds no other course open to it but to hold thc im perial and royal government respon sible for the act of its naval comman der and to renew the definite, but re spectful, dei ands made in its com munication ol' tho "'.'h of December. ll? l'?. li sincerely hopes that the foregoing statement ol' its position will enabh i h<- imperial and royal -mv< rnmont to perceive the justice oi (hose demands and lo comply with . them in the sann- -pint ol' frankness and with tho same concern for lin good relations now existing between Ute I'nlted Stales and Austria-Hun gary which prompted the government of the I'nlted Slate-, to make I hem. 'Lansing." Commerce (<, Have Overall Plant. Commerce, Ca., Dec. 2 I. The . dy will receive as a Christmas gift au overall pl.int. ihe capital stock he nig $2"?.(?00, ail of w hieh has i... suns.ni.ed. and will be paid on de mand. A temporary organization has already been penciled. and it is thought the plant will be ready for work by the middle of .lanna ry. The new plant is in Ihe hands of hankers and leading business men. who have the moans and the brains lo push it to a success. --- - -* . Ag. Dept). Doctor Killed. Athens. Ca.. Dee. 21. Dr. Emmett K. Uutfs, of Newark, X. J., at work in Oglethorpe county in the tick erad ication work prosecuted by the Lu - reau Of animal industry, Dopa rt nient of Agriculture, was killed late Sun day night in an automobile accident near Lexington. WILSON NEGRO SCHOOL BURNED 1,150 Negro Pupils March Oui in Per fect Order Wliilo Structure Hums, Florence, S. C.. Dec _ 1. -The "Wilson School," for negro children, of thc Florence citj graded schools, vas binned to tin- ground about 1 o'clock Ibis afternoon. The building was. ono of the largest and bes! in ibo State, lt was a iwo-stor> frame -imclure with 18 large class rooms and additional ?doak rooms and au ditorinin. lt was erected about two years ago. and cost the city upwards of ?l?.OOO. lt could not he dupli cated today, it was -tated for $18, ?. lt made i tremendous blaze. lt is stated that this building was thc next bigges) ano bes! school building in the State for negro chil dren, rl e Charleston building coming di st. I uv Hii il Styles, who recently visited He- -i hool, pronounced its lighting perfect in every de tail A most remarkable "get away" was performe,1 by the pupils of thc school. When Prof. Singleton the principal in 'har-', discovered the flames, which .v<:e then eating their way between the ceiling and roof on the lop floor. Ix sounded the 'ire alarm, and the 1.1"" pupils left the building in actuall\ one minute and thirty second and me a child was shoved about or au injury sustained. The "Wilson School." named in honor ol the late Kev. Joshua IC. Wil son, a presiding elder of -lie Metho dist Episcopal Church, wa burned some two years ago. having been the victim of ?rap shooters. To-day's tit. was caused from a defect in one ol the chimneys from which the 1 woodwork became ignited The school board carried insurance on the build ing and furniture amounting to about In,nun. The building will be inuno di it.dy replaced. The school was dismissed until after the holidays. AMERICAN KIDDED IN RIOTING At .I nate/-Several Mexicans Also Lost Their Lives. El Paso. Texas. Dec. J L--Three hundred former soldiers of Francisco Villa rioted in Juarez, opposite here, this afternoon, and before order was rest?te,1 one American had been kill ed, and, according to reports, a num ber of Mexicans lost their lives. The Viii soldiers reallied Juarez to-day from the interior in a desper ...... ....... .......... nan ie.MI restored. Heavily armed .Mexican and Amer ican troops lined opposite banks of tbe Rio Grande to-night. One shot from sonia of the bonier, believed hy the Fnited States military authorities lo have been fired on \merican troops, toppled Geo. A. Die pert, of El Paso a brakeman, from an El Pnso and Southwestern railroad freight car. He .-as dead with a bul let in his heart when a corporal's guard icu heil him. Shortly afterwards two Mexicans were shot ::l tile Mcxhuil end of the Santa Fe bridge by Mexican customs guards. Reports of fatalities in Juarez va ried to-night from two lo len. "Plugs" in Furnish X. V. Meat. Ne? York. Dec 23.- Sale of horse meal for food will be permitted in New Yolk after January I. the bond ol health announced to-day. Com menting upon the revocation of the section of ihe Sanitary ("ode which prohibited the use of horse flesh. Commissioner Emerson s,>ii| thar, while the department did not exact I) recommend it. no harm can ho- s<<>:> in its US". "The horse never has tuberculo sis, ami almost never communicates a malignant disease to human be ings." he said. "Hereafter old i horses. Instead ol heme sob', for tb? ir bones, which are worth little or noth ing, will be fattened and disposed nf for meat." Dr. Emerson announced thal spe cial precautions would be taken to prevent Hie sah ol' horse flesh in the .-.ni e of veal or beef. Lighthouse Keeper Takes Own Life. Charleston, Dec. 22. ("barbs F. Johnson, lighthouse keeper ai South Island, near Georgetown, committed suicide Saturday night l>\ shooting himself with a revolver, neoord'ng to information received at district lighthouse headquarters here to-day. For some tune Johnson bad been suffering from tuberculosis of tho throat and recently had been unable to -wallow food. Ho is said to have made several threats to take his life and a few days ago selected his own casket. The largest two direct-current dy namos ever built have been com pleted in Germany, each with a ca pacity of about 50,000 IG-candle power lamps. A ( ; KKAT NAVY IS I Dewe) Says U. s. \. shouh to Most Powerful In Ute Washington. Doc. 24.-'I . an navy should he "'eg .st powerful malhtaine< other nation ol the world' than I ? ~>, in the opinion ? general board, headed b l te wey. The annual report ol' ju^t made publie, disclosi naval policy was formula body in .Inly last in answe low in.g proposition proj Secretan Daniela when t trallon reached its decisi upon a campaign ot nath eil ness: W hat the nav y must turo III order to stand up it v with t he most ? fflcie (Tactically serv iceable." The board's conclusioi " The navy of the .' should ultimately be ?. most powerful maintai oilier nai ion of the worl be gradually increased bj such a rate of devel hv yeal-, as may be lien fa' ilitles ol the country, ?ihove delined should be later than l 925. ' Al the same lime ll seated a building prog: in compliance w iib th request for "a program the most definite terms, consistent and progr?s ment of this great dolt the nation." I letalis of the board's revealed, as subsequent of this year, the Secret hoard to prepare "a buil tor the navy that will a period of live years w diture of about $100,0 year r?>r live years on t ? ?on only." The admin for the tonst ruction of s ships within live years the hoard's answer. Mob Victims Left Han; I ? East m m. Ga., Dec. ?. late this afternoon we of Sam Uland anti yYll-'h groes lynched last i igt They were buried by There wen* no indicatio at? -v...<i h . relieved tnat .o.*, thci negro. Stevens, was implicated. The two negroes hefon being hung, however, confessed, r is said, that they alone were guilty. The hunt for Stevens then was given up. Several lin idred persons. Including many wo men, v iewed the bodies of thc negroes before they were cut down. This -.. lion was quiet to-night. Whenever You Need a General Tonic Take Grove's The Old Standard Grove's Tasteless .hill Tonic is equally valuable as a General Tonic because it contains the well known tonic propcrtiesof QUININE mid IRON. It acts on the Liver, Drives out Malaria, Kn riche?; the Blood and Budda up the Whole System. 50 cents. Honker Washington's Successor. N. w York, Pee. 21.- .Major Robert lt. Moton. of the Hampton N'ormal and Agricultural Institute. Hampton, Va., was side ted to succeed BooKer T. Washington as president of Tus kegee Institute, Tuskegee, Ala., at a meeting of the special committee of the trustees (); the inst it ut inn here yesterday. The choice was unani mous. Major Moton wil' liol be installed ?is he td of the famous negro institute until the commencement exercises in May. 1'.'1 .'.. tiltil thai lime he will gin- his services to thc campaign for the Hooker T. Washington memorial fund. . , -? . ? ( ashier Arrested for stealing. Nashville. Tenn.. Dec 21. W. H. Houser, cashier of the Pirsi National Hank ol Wart race, Tenn., was arrest ed late yesterday on a charge of em bezzling ninds ol' the bank lo tho amount m >. M, in... according to a Wart race dispati h. The Comptroller ot t'a Currency closed Hie bank last week. I looser was released on $20, 0(1(1 bond The dispatch Bays that at his preliminary hearing h< plead ed guilty. The bank's deposits amounted to $ 1 30,000. 18,000,000 Kranes Saved hy Serbs. Marseilles, I-'rance, Dec. 23. Eighteen million francs, constituting the Serbian treasury, have arrived her? m the way to Paris Tin- money M ll !)G deposite;', in the 1 rn "ICO Serb ian hank at the capital. Piles Cured In 6 to 14 Days Your drtiuKist will refund monty If PAZO OINTMENT (nits lo cure tiny msr of lt. lime, niintl. Bleeding or Protruding f?rs inMo )4<lnyn. 'flit first application gives Sase sud Kcst. soc 100 GF.RM.W WO.MKX M I .I .I I) .. Explosion-lu W ?stern Arena the Kreuch ' ?ptuiv 1,200 Germans. London, Dec. 22.- According to vices to tho A mst o td am Telegraaf, rwarded bj Reutei s correspond t. a powder factory ami several a ni lli it ion depots at Muenster, West alia. have been blown up. Urea! mage was done to the town, the wspaper adds. Later advices from Amsterdam ate that, according to accounts re ived there. 300 of the t'.im women nployed in th?' Muenster powder 'll were killed. Kreuch Capture 1,200 Germans. Tans, Dee. 22.-Announcement as made by the war ellice to-day hat 1.200 (lennans hail been cap ured Sn the operations at Hart nauns-Weilerkopf, which have en arged the Kreuch positions to an ippreciable extent. The statement o Hows: . There were few events of import ance lasi night. Li the Vosues the attack delivered yesterday 1>\ our troops made it possible for us to en large appreciably our positions on the east slope of Hart; ?aiins-Weiler kopf. 'The number of Germans made prisoner is now 1,200, ol whom 2! nie olin eis. They belong to six dif ferent regiments." The successful action of the French at llartmanns-Weilerkopf was made for t!ie purpose of bringing to an end a situation which the French regard ed as intolerable. On the summit of this mountain there has been inces sant tiring hy both sides. The tremdies were separated by only .? very small distance The result ol tbi: fighting was an appreciable loss of men each day. 'The French success resulted from careful artillery preparation and the dashing onslaught of the troops. The Germans have been forced back some distance on the eastern slopes of the mountain. Hie British Report. London. Dec. 2 2.-Along the west ern lim-, according to British official reports, the Germans suffered heavy losses while exposing their forces in an attempt to occupy craters which their mines bad opened along the front near Arnientieres. French op erations at most places are hampered greatly by bad weather. The Russians are reported to have '"d Kum which indicates they i . . a-H.eiiiptt;u .... (i ttoicot .>. to destroy the stores which the Brit ish left behind them in their evacu ation of the Slllva and Anzac zones "I the Gallipoli Peninsula. Berlin luis Constantinople advices reiterating that the withdrawal from Gallipoli was disorderly, instead of systematic and virtually without losses, as the British official state ments declare. British Quit Aegean Isles. From German sources come state ments that nearly all the British troops have been withdrawn from the Vegean Islands of Imbros, Lemnos and Tenedos, their destination being Saloniki. British bases for opera tions in the Dardanelles have been maintained on these Aegean islands. Reports of Gie troop withdrawal are in line with the impression that the abandonment of important sections of i he Gallipoli Peninsula front marked the virtual end of the Dar danelles campaign, even though a footing on the peninsula bas been re tained liv t!ie allies. l,0OO,000 More .Mon. Alter an all-night d?bale the House m Commons early to-day granted an increase of 1,000,000 men in tin- British army, bringing up its strength on paper to 1,000,000, Although 'ho question of conscrip tion figured largely in the anny de bate, it was only an incidental par! ol' the discussion. The country awaits wit!) keen interest the debate which is certain to follow presenta tion to the I louse of the Far! ol' Derby's figures on the attestation plan. Heavy Losses lor British. London, Dec. \>->, -Comparatively heavy losses have been inflicted on the British aiiii\' in Mesopotamia in the severe fighting near Kut-Fl-Ani ara, following the retreat of the British af thai point. The secretary for India, J. Austen Chamberlain, announced in the House of Commons to-day that the total casualties of Gen. Townsend's forces was 1,127, including 200 deaths. Ixuie Austrian Captures Town. Berlin. 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VU : < < 'winv. poul i '.: i ?;>tiona nt ?nc? tc. Vi v,-' 1 HE KEOWEE COURIER WALHALLA, S. C. cession. The captain demanded stir render ot the town, fixed the hour at which its anns must be handed over, and carrying two hostages willi bim returned safely to his regiment. "On the following day the victo rious Austio-llungari.tn troops en tered Plevlje, greeted by lim cheers of Hie Mohammedan population. At a ilxed hour all the arms were hand ed over in the municipal building and the hostages release;!." Two Rl'idish Ships Roportetl Sunk. London, Dec. L'J. The I'.ritish st* amer Huntly, of 1,153 tons for merly the German hospital ship ephelia, which was condemned by a British prize court: and the i'.ritish .steamer Belford, of Glasgow, of 48? lons, luise hoon sunk. The crew of the Belford was saved. No report has been received regarding the crew of the Huntly. British India's lall imports were valued al $508 nun,uno. TC R li EY HAS SUPPLIES PLENTY. l'or Teutons-!t is \o\\ Only a Ques tion ol' Transportation. Stomach Catarrh Is Very Prevalent In this climate catarrh ls a prevalent disease. Catarrh af fects the stomach ns often ns any other organ. Perhaps every third person is more or less troubled with stomach catarrh. Ponina ls extensively used in these cases. PERLINA THE RELIABLE FAMILY RErViEDY Berlin, Dec. -"Turkey has an abundance ol foods and other mate rial of all kinds which she can supply lo fjcrmany if Germany needs them." Dr. Nazi in Hey. secretary of the Young Turks' committee, said In a statement to lh Associated Press oil hi. arrival in Berlin yesterday, "ll is only a question of transportation, which seems to he in a fair way of solu lion. "There is no lack of anything in Turkey. 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