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Scraps and .facts.
? Hoke Smith has been overwhelmingly
nominated to succeed himself as
United States senator. Joseph M.
Brown was his opponent. The probability
is that there will be a second
race between Congressman Hardwick
and Governor John M. Slaton for the
unexpired term of Senator Bacon.
? There has been no information yet
of Germany's reply to the Japanese demand
for the evacuation of Kiao Chow.
If Germany makes reply it is expected
that the reply may go through the state
department at Washington; but it is
probable that there will be no reply. It
is frequently the rule in such matters
to let events take their course.
? Attorney General James McReynolds
of Tennessee was nominated by
President Wilson on Wednesday to
succeed the late H. H. Lurton as associate
justice on the United States supreme
court bench, and Thomas Watt
Gregory of Texas, was nominated to
succeed him as attorney general. Mr.
Gregory is now the assistant attorney
general.
? Pope Pius X died at 1.20 o'clock
yesterday morning. He had been ill
for several days, but alarming symptoms
did not develop until Wednesday
morning. Throughout the day
Dr. Marchiatava and Dr. Amici devoted
their utmost energies to stimulating
their patient and keeping him
alive. The cardinals were notified of
the pope's grave condition and some
of them who entered the sick room describe
the scene as heartrending, especially
when the pontiff, rousing
himself from time to time, spoke.
Once he said: "In ancient times the
pope by a word might have stayed
the slaughter, but now he is impotent."
Prayers were said by thousands
and church bells sounded when the
sacrament was exposed upon all the
altars. When the court learned of the
pope's condition there was tfu deepest
concern. King Victor Emmanuel personally
informed Queen Helena and
the news was communicated to the
queen mother. Extreme unction was
administered by Mgr. Zampini, sacristan
to his holiness, amid a touching
scene. The pope's sisters and his niece
were overcome with grief. Cardinal
Merry del Val knelt by the side of his
bed, where other cardinals joined
him, members of the household intoning
prayers. The dying pope, in a
moment of lucidity, said: "Now I bec?ir.
think ms prw] is aDDroach
ing, that the Almighty in his inexhaustible
goodness, wishes to spare
me the horrors Europe is undergoing."
? Just how close the United States
came to being involved in a war with
Mexico as recently as a fortnight ago,
was revealed last Tuesday by high
officials of the administration. When
General Carranza abruptly rejected
overtures of the peace envoys sent by
Provisional President Carbajal and
at the same time ignored diplomatic
efforts of the American government
to bring about a peaceful entry to the
Constitutionalists into Mexico City,
drastic measures were urged upon
President Wilson. A majority of the
cabinet, it is said, urged sending
American troops from Vera Cruz to
the Mexican capital to prevent anarchy
then expected to follow from
the failure of the Carbajal government
and the Constitutionalists to
reach an agreement. President Wilson,
however, firmly resisted all pressure,
urguing that sending American
troops to Mexico City probably would
mean war with the Constitutionalists.
A few days later overtures came from
the Curbajal government to the effect
that if American troops would come
to preserve order they would be assisted.
The president rejected all approaches
believing the Constitutionalists
themselves would maintain order.
He gave his attention instead to the
possible split between Villa and Carranza
and renewed efforts to harmonize
the leaders. To carry out this purpose,
the president sent a personal
friend, Paul Fuller, a New York lawyer,
to see both Villa and Carranza.
Mr. Fuller saw the president and Mr.
Bryan secretly in Washington and has
Just arrived in Villa's headquarters,
where he is co-operating with George
C. Carothers. American consular
agent, in urging Villa to join with
Carranza in maintaining peace in
Mexico. Announcement of the fact
that Mr. Fuller had gone to see Villa,
was made by Secretary Bryan yesterday.
White House officials said Mr.
Fuller went to Mexico merely to
gather information for the Adminis
irauon. n was reported in some quu?ters
that Mr. Fuller was sent to familiarize
himself with conditions and
that he eventually might be named as
ambassador to Mexico.
? The following extracts from a
private letter received in London from
an English correspondent with the
Belgian forces, gives an idea of the
difficulties of war correspondents under
modern conditions: "I am having
a dash of a time with these military
blighters. Most of my afternoons and
evenings are spent in jail. I have a
pass from the Belgian war office, with
my photo attached, and countersigned
by the general staff, but the trouble
is that no one apparently will recognize
it. It's a pure bluff and not
worth the paper it is written on. Also
the peasants who are too infirm to go
to the front, and the youngsters of
every village throughout Belgium
have turned themselves into a police
force. If you try to go anywhere, outside
of Brussels in an automobile, you
are held up and searched and asked
to show your papers. Yesterday, two
Belgian journalists and myself went
to Numur and Dinant, a journey of
about eighty miles, hoping to discover
the whereabouts of friends. I kept
a record and found that we were stopped
fifty-two times. On reaching Namur,
on our way back, despite our official
papers, we were arrested as
spies, dragged off by a band of ferocious
soldiers to military headquarters
and followed by a savage mob
anxious to lynch us. \Ve were kept
there some time before being released.
When we got to the commandant we
found a London Times man already
there, a prisoner. The most dangerous
part of the game is that the average
peasant is armed with a rusty
blunderbuss, and carries one along
?he roads in the country. They cannot
even read and official papers mean
nothing to them. For them everything
not wearing a Belgian uniform
is a German spy. Some Belgian officers
are little better than these ignorant
peasants. Let me give you an
example: yesterday on leaving Naniur
on our way to Brussels three officers
asked for a lift as far as the aerodrome.
Anxious to oblige, we consented
and drove them right inside
the ground where the aeroplanes are
kept. Once there, thy rewarded our
kindness by denouncing us as spies,
and ordering our arrest by soldiers.
This will give you some idea of the
difficulties encountered in attempting
to get near where things are happening."
? The administration at Washing
ton, according to a dispatch of Wednesday.
has mapped out comprehensive
plans for building up the American
merchant marine with government
money for the immediate purpose
of transporting products of the
I'nited States to warring European
nations and to South and Central
America. President Wilson, in consultation
with Democratic congressional
leaders, approved a project
contemplating the expenditure of approximately
J2a.OOU.OUO to purchase
ocean going vessels to be operated
under the direction of a government
shipping board. (Jovernment insurance
of American shipping and cargoes
against war risks would be provided
for in a bill submitted to congress
today after it had been approved
by the president. It would create
a temporary bureau of war risk insurance
in London and would appropriate
$r?,000.uuu for payment of losses
and $10u.Ouu to operate the bureau.
Plans agreed on for the purchase by
the government of ships include the
creating of a shipping board to comprise
the president, tin- secretary
the treasury, the secretary of commerce
and the postmaster general. It
is proposed to use the ships principally
in foreign trade and the administration
hopes that great impetus will
be given to trade with South and Central
America. The present plan is to
obtain money to carry out the project
by the sale of Panama canal bonds.
It was decided it might take some
time for sutlicieiit ships to take advantage
of the recent amended canal
act allowing foreign built ships to register
under the American flag and the
necessity for moving the crops of the
United States is so pressing that extraordinary
steps were decided upon.
; it is planned to organize a company
similar to the Panama Railway company.
controlled by the government
for the actual operation of the ships
after they have been purchased. The
president conferred with Secretary
McAdoo. Senators Clarke and Simmons
and Representatives Underwood
and Alexander on the entire
shipping question The war risk insurance
bill was approved at the ineet|
ing. The president was told that
it would be impossible to move exports
until the government stepped in and
t he finally consented to the scheme.
No offers to sell ships to the government
have been received, but it was
the general understanding that owners
of many vessels now tied up in American
ports will be glad to dispose of
them.
She aioouultf (Enquirer.
Entered at the Postofllce in Yorkville
as Mall Matter of the Second Class.
YORKVILLE, S. C.:
FRIDAY, AUGUST 21. 1914.
One great drawback in the case of
so-called emergency legislation is that
generally there are slick, unscrupulous
people who are ready to step in and
secure the incorporation of provisions
intended to line their own pockets.
Some of the best informed military
authorities of Europe express themselves
as being of opinion that the
present war will probably last for two
years. If these authorities are sound,
then we are of opinion that after
gathering this year's crop the farmers
'will have enough cotton to last until .
the close of the war. In the meantime
food crops of all kinds will yield
Uinn Viiiu OVBP been known
before.
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We want the public to begin taking J
note of lawyers and officials who use
the legal and official advertising of
which they have the direction for the
purpose of helping or hurting newspapers.
Some of this has been going on
more or less all the time, and especially
during the past few years. It is a ,
dangerous and insidious way of exert- ,
ing improper influence, and is inimical ,
of the welfare of the public. Such advertising
as is referred to should be pub- ,
lished in the newspaper best calculated
to reach the people for whom it is
intended. A newspaper cannot meet ,
the conditions of men who would use (
the legal and official advertising at ,
their disposal as a reward or as a club
without disloyalty not to say deliberate
betrayal of the people who look to it i
for honest treatment. A newspaper <
should not be allowed to suffer because .
of faithfulness to the people who look
to it for honest service. The act of
lawyers or officials in using official or i
legal advertisements in the promo- <
tion of personal ends is reprehensible, I
and should be frowned down. It will
be frowned down by all honest people '
who understand the situation.
"In ancient times the pope might by
a word have stayed the slaughter; but ,
now he is impotent," the dying pope of
Rome is reported to have said yesterday.
That is correct and well it is so.
In ancient times there was as much
vicious corruption in the Romish j
church as there is elsewhere now, and J
the probability is that the pope would
have not stayed the slaughter. It is i
certain that the popes were responsible
for much unnecessary bloodshed in the
old days. The pope could by a word I
have stayed the fanatical loss of life
involved in the crusades if he had
wanted to, but he did not. It was prob- |
ably very well that he did not because <
the crusades undoubtedly resulted in 1
the advanc ment of civilization and j
contributed remotely to the decline of
the temporal power of the pope. We
are not at all inclined to prejudice the \
1 " nr. w.1
pope in mis mauer. >> c uchcvc ? ?uo
X was as good a man as ever sat on 1
the pontifieial throne; but like all the i
others he had a wrong and mistaken I
view of his relation if not to the church 1
to the real Head of the church. That he 1
was honest in his view, we have no i
doubt; but that he was mistaken we <
are firmly convinced. 1
. , 1
We have seen it stated that France
is doomed to destruction in the pros- i
ent war among other things because 1
she has banished God from the state J
and from the church. This is an im- j
pression expressed by John P. Grace in i
an exceedingly interesting editorial on 1
the great war in Europe. The purpose j
of the editorial seems to be to cheer >.
and sustain the Germans. We do not 1
much like to see men try to say what j
God is going to do, because they have j
no way of knowing. If it is a fact that
France has banished God from the
state and army then it is no doubt a
fact that France will be punished; but <
is it a fact. Can France or any other
country banish God from anywhere?
We do not see how. Although France
has succeeded in separating church and i
state and abolishing the governmental
support of a priesthood, we cannot
conceive that this means the banishment
of God, the ignoring of God. or
even the offending of God. Although 1
there are those who are pleased to re- ,
fer to "atheistic France,'* we are dis- i
posed to feel that there is as much real
Christianity in France today as when
that country was known as the "Defender
of the Faith." We dare say
there is more. There are God fearing
Christians also in Germany. Fngland, :
Russia, Austria ana tne otner countries
engaged in this great war; but
we are unable to reason out just how
this war could have possibly been
brought about by or through the sanction
of Christian teachings. However,
while there is much in the whole thing
that none of us are able to understand,
no one need fear that find will not
overrule it all to his own glory and the
betterment of humanity.
There is one idea in Senator Tillman's
recent address to the people of
the state that strikes us with very
great force, and to which we would call
especial and particular attention. And
that is that people who are forever expressing
impatience and contempt for
the illiterate and so-called vicious elements
will do well to cease their abuse
and get rid of the "holier than thou
idiocy," which seems to assure them.
There is very little difference between
white men of the Caucasian race, regardless
i.f wealth, position, ancestry,
culture and the like. It is well enough
to remember that in this country of
ours the pauper of today may very
easily be the millionaire of tomorrow,
and the millionaire of today may he
the pauper of tomorrow. There arc
men with college diplomas and university
degrees who have not attained the
intellectual development of men whose
school opportunities were limited to the
primary grades, and there are men and
women of wealth and proud ancestry,
who do not measure up from any
standpoint to certain others who have
no prouder claim as to birth than that
their parents were honorably married.
Thousands and hundreds of thousands
of people all over this great land of
ours have realized that if all men are
not absolutely equal at the ballot box
the fault is theirs and theirs alone, and
the one strongest sentiment in the
hearts and souls of these is contemptuous
resentment against snobbish
would be superiority on the part of
others. Men who desire to rule must
tirst learn how to serve, and they must
li arn after that the attitude of a ruler
in this country must be that of a sympathizing
brother rather than of an irresponsible
despot.
We have but one objection in the
world to compulsory education and that
objection arises out of a belief that it
is absurd to think of attempting to establish
additional school facilities that
will cost hundreds of thousands of
dollars, until arrangements have been
moHo to secure the hundreds of thous
ands of dollars aforesaid. Believing
this as iirmly as we do, we are not seriously
impressed with any of the arguments
we have heard on this subject as
being based upon other than political
demagogy or dense ignorance or elementary
business principles. We do not
hesitate to say that we want to see
universal education, and we want to see
the state of South Carolina prepare
herself along these lines. But people
who most need education are the people
least able to pay for it. The people who
need to be compelled to go to school
for the good of themselves and the
good of the state cannot pay their way,
and the expenses must be derived from
other sources. Every reasonable man
ought to know that there can be no
compulsory education until after there
has been a revision of the tax system,
and talk of that kind in the meantime
is more or less foolish. When political
leaders begin to argue for a thorough
overhauling of the tax laws along lines
that will make every individual contribute
to the burdens of state in proportion
to the income he has derived
under the protection of the government
and the property he possesses?when
..... liooi. loo-lolnturs serinnslv discussing
the justice of levying properly graduated
income taxes and inheritance
taxes that will make the strong help
carry the burdens of the weak, then we
may know that compulsory education
is coming. But until we do begin to
note signs of the nature described, it
may be assumed that compulsory education
talk is little more than the
merest clap trap.
Well, if The Enquirer has done
anything to prejudice anybody in this
race we are not aware of it. We have
not been trying to help or hurt any of
the candidates so much as we have
been trying to correctly inform our
readers. We have not allowed any personal
feelings or prejudices to enter
into what we have had to say, so far
is we were able to prevent. That the
writer hereof has his own notion of
men and issues in this campaign the
same as other people have, goes withaut
saying. There are men in the race
that he considers fit for the various orfices
for which they are running, and
men who are unfit; but he does not
consider that it is proper for him to
undertake to communicate his individual
view to any save personal friends
tnd acquaintances who may especially :
desire it. The reason for this position j
is good. The writer's individual view is (
no better than the individual view of
uiher men, and where he desires to im- '
press that individual view, it is proper
for him to rely on the same means that
other people use. Whatever may be
the reason for one individual's support
of one man, other individuals have i
reasons which are to them as good for ,
the support of other men, and that
pretty nearly covers the case. Where 1
we have printed anything that was not i
true, if we have done so at all, it has
been unintentional, and where we have .
failed to print things that other people
thought ought to have been printed, it '
was merely because we thought the |
matter was not proper or material. (
There was involved a difference of
judgment. That is all. And however
i majority of the voters decide as between
the various candidates next
Tuesday, whether it be in accordance .
with our judgment or not, we expect to
do as we think all others should do, 1
take the verdict of the people as re- ,
corded and abide by the same until ,
such time as it may be changed to
something more in keeping of our own 1
lUt*HS Ol Wllill UUKUl IU uc.
? Columbia special of August 19, to
the Greenville News: The national
banks of South Carolina, at a meeting
belt! in Columbia this afternoon, unanimously
organized a state association
in order that they might comply 1
ivith and accept the advantages of the i
t'reeland-Aldrich currency law which, ,
in the main, provides for emergency
currency, issued through Federal supervision.
The Federal law requires '
that every bank that joins must em- j
power its president or vice president
with a certain fixed resolution and so
anxious were the assembled bankers
today to follow the exact law in every
detail to avoid delay and correspond- <
?nce that only such banks as sent the i
formal resolutions and the proper i
representative were accepted into the '
fold today. There are fifty-three na- 1
tional banks in the state, thirty-nine I
banks at today's meeting actually subscribed
and organized the state associ- i
ition and many others were represent- (
ed but their formal signature will be
delayed until papers are prepared. It
Is thought that every national bank in I
the state will join the association and i
have the right to use emergency cur- |
rency if deemed best. The meeting
neiu ai ine jeiieisuii nuin w<ia (jicoiued
over by W. A. Clark of Columbia. I
The banks joining the association today
liave a capital and surplus of $8,- i
SOS,000 and the remaining banks will
run the capitalization up to close ten
millions. This will be the primary i
backing of the emergency currency
that will lie issued in this state. At the I
meeting today, the following officers
were unanimously elected: President,
It. Goodwyn Rhett, Charleston: vice
president, J. Pope Matthews, Columbia:
treasurer, W. A. Clark, Columbia, The
executive officers are members of the
executive committee together with <
Gilbert M. Merry of Columbia, J. W.
Norwood of Greenville, and Chas. D.
Jones of Lancaster. It was the indicated
sense of the meeting that a majority
of the executive committee
should live in Columbia so that there
would be the least possible delay in
having any matter attended to and in
this way J. P. Matthews, W. A. Clark,
John T. Melton and Gilbert M. Merry, as
members of the executive commitlee,
will be a <|iiorum of the committee.
C. J. Shannon, president of the State
Hankers' association, will become a
member of the executive committee,
vice Jones, as soon as his bank <|tialifies
and joins the association. It will
be noted that every national bank in
the cities of Charleston, Columbia.
Spartanburg and Greenville, with the
exception of the First National bank
of Greenville, has joined the association
and this particular bank is expected
to join later as soon as its president
returns to Greenville. The committee
worked all the afternoon and
this evening to get all necessary papers
in shape in be immediately forwarded
tu the department at Washington, and
as soon as they have been passed by
the treasury department, the South
Carolina association will be given authority
to get to work and take the necessary
steps toward the issuance of
"emergency currency" needed to move i
and hold the cotton crop.
At Wnlbnlln Tuesday, Mr. Irby
answered the proposition made by Mr.
Itiehards at Anderson on .Monday, to
the effect that he would retire from the
race if anybody would get a certificate
from Coventor Hlcase stating that he,
Itiehards, is not a loyal Measeite. by
sating for himself: "No one has to get
a certificate from Coventor Mease or
anybody else as to my loyalty. My
loyalty is known of all men, ami it hits
been known for all these years." <
LOCAL AFFAXR8.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
John I. Barron, Sec.?Gives notice
that all children must be vaccinated
or must have been vaccinated, before
entering the Graded school.
Kirkpatrick-Belk Co.?Suggests that
you get ready for school, and has
everything needful for proper equipment,
coat suits to shoes.
Lyric Theatre?Gives its programme
of pictures for next week. A war
picture in three parts, Tuesday.
Thomson Co.?Says for you to pay for
a suit of clothes tomorrow at half
price. Made-to-measure clothes, in
all styles, ranging in price from
$13.50 to $45, guaranteed to fit.
Sam M. Grist?Asks you about insuring
your mules and horses against
loss from any cause. He sells policies
of Standard Live Stock Ins. Co.
J. T. Crawford Ginning Co., McConnellsville,
wants a first-class engineer.
J. G. Sassl, Sachem?Gives notice of
postponement of meeting of Big
Chief Tribe, No. 61, I. O. R. M.
Hugh G. Brown, Sheriff?Gives notice
of sale under tax executions, of certain
personal property, on salesday
in September, during legal hours of
sale.
Yorkville Motor Car Co.?Announces
that the price of Michelin automobile
tires has not been raised on ac
count of the war, and solicits your
orders by letter, wire, phone, and
will give you prompt service.
J. J. Keller & Co.?Want you to knowthat
they are prepared to furnish
you with lumber and lumber products,
hardware, paints, oils, varnishes,
etc. Red cedar shingles.
Wllkerson Merc. Co., and McGill Hros.
?On page four give you further information
about the good qualities
of Genasco ready rooting.
Following the lead of The Enquirer,
quite a number of newspapers through
out the state have published copies of
the club rolls. This information has
been of especial value to candidates
who desired to send literature to the
voters.
There are 4,570 dogs in York county
according to the figures of Auditor
r Dnthno/ln fnurnqhln with
7r? 1 and Fort Mill has fewer dogs than
any other township, only 336. The figures
run like this: Bethel, 417; Bethesda,
7f> 1: Broad River, 36C; Bullock's
Creek, 460; Catawba, 60.1; Ebenezer,
3.10; Fort Mill, 336; King's
Mountain, 6:15; vork, 630,
Mr. Max G. Bryant, a member of the
enrollment committee of Rock Hill
club No. 1, prints a card in the Rock
Hill Record in which he says he is
willing to make affidavit that at least
60 per cent of the people whose names
were signed on the club roll by him at
their request, could have signed their
own names had it been absolutely necessary
for them to do so. He says
that he signed the names of the parties
:tt their request, generally because they
were nervous, or not accustomed to
writing with a pen.
With today's installment, the publication
of the York county club rolls is
completed. Because this list would
make a most excellent directory, we
have had in mind the idea of publishing
it in more convenient pamphlet
form; but we are hesitating because of
uncertainty as to whether there will be
sufficient demand to pay for the labor.
If we can get orders for 100 copies at
25 cents each, the publication will be
a go. Otherwise we will consider the
matter further. Correspondence and
orders are solicited from those who are
Interested.
TUESDAY'S ELECTION
The primary election takes place as
next Tuesday, and The Enquirer will,
as usual, endeavor to publish the result
as soon after the polls are closed
as possible.
Because of the length of the ticket,
the count promises to be rather slow,
and it will probably be a late hour before
the results are known at the larg?r
boxes?more especially those of
Kock Hill aos. i ana z.
Arrangements are being perfected
with friends at the different precincts
to telephone or otherwise send in the
results of the voting as soon as they
are able to do so, and those of our subscribers
who have been accustomed to
receiving their papers on Tuesday
afternoon may take this to mean a
postponement until the next morning.
YORK'S PERSONALTY
The total value of all the taxable
personal property in York county is
53,190,950, plus the bank assessments
>fet to be added.
This is according to the returns
made to County Auditor B. M. Love
for the year commencing January 1,
1914, as equalized by the county board.
The items are made up as follows:
2,205 horses valued at $115,155; 8,435
rattle valued at $89,340; 5,624 mules
tnd asses valued at $332,315; 225 sheep
ind goats valued at $225; 3,857 hogs
valued ut $11,795; 476 gold and silver
watches valued at $7,230; 761 piano
fortes valued at $31,160; 5,594 carriages
valued at $108,725; 4,570 dogs, valued
it $22,850; $341,755 worth of merchanJise;
$1,155,670 worth of proper appertaining
to manufactures; $455,140
worth of manufactured articles on
hand; $19,830 cash in bank; $109,800
in credits; $358,705 worth of all other
property.
It is not practicable to make a comparison
of the returns of personalty
this year by townships with similar return
last year for the reason that bank
returns have not yet been added in this
year's abstract. Without the bank returns
however, that are to be added in
the townships of liroad liiver, Catawba,
Port .Mill, King's Mountain and York,
the total difference is $395,395, and the
figures are as follows:
Township 1913 1914
liethel $ 104,495 $ 105,575
Hethesda 165,490 162,495
liroad River . .. 138,385 116,970
I hillock's Creek . 101,525 100.680
Catawba 1,156,120 904.552
Kbenezer 664.065 683,882
Port Mill 290,320 251,040
King's Mt 360,025 343,475
York 606,011 522,281
Total $3,586,345 $3,190,950
Last year the banks were assessed
on a basis of 50 per cent of actual values
ami this year the assessment is on
a basis of 35 per cent, and when the
bank assessments are added there will
still be a very material decrease in the
aggregate assessed value of the county's
personalty as compared with last
year.
The lotiil number of assessable noils
in tin1 county In 8,289, distributed
among tlie townships its follows: Bethel,
491: Bethesda, 895; Broad River,
faiti: Bullock's Creek, 576; Catawba,
2.216; Kbene/.er, 898; Fort Mill, tiOT;
King's Mountain, 945; York, 1,1."f>.
THE COUNTY CAMPAIGN
Since Tuesday's issue of The Eniiuirer,
there have been two meetings
of the county campaign, "tie at Hickory
drove and the other itt Blairsville,
and both largely attended, because of
the efforts of the good people of the
respective communities to add extra
attractions. At Hickory drove there
was a barbecue and at Blairsville a
picnic.
The speaking routine was very much
the same at Hickory drove as it had
been at Clover, Bethany, and Smyrna,
except that I>r. J. H. Saye devoted his
lime mainly to Mr. Hutchison, and Mr.
Hutchison was more vigorous and severe
against the alleged bossisrn of
Messrs. Mellow and Brice. Dr. Saye
enllod Mr. Hutchison a fence strad
dler, and Mr. Hutchison told the audience
that if it believed he would not
say at Yorkville what he had been saying
at other places, to come and see.
There were no feathers on his legs, he
claimed?they had all been picked off
and at Yorkville he expected to prove
the fact. Hoth Dr. Saye and Mr.
Hutchison were applauded. Mr. Cherry
read a letter from Dr. J. L. Spratt,
stating clearly that Dr. Spratt stood
by the Brice-McDow caucus, and that
he had withdrawn only because of the
demands of business, etc.
At Blairsville, yesterday, Mr. Hutchison
was cheered enthusiastically, and
when Mr. Cherry started to read Dr.
Spratt's letter, the people told him
that they did not care what Dr. Spratt
said, what they wanted was to hear
the letter that Mr. Brice had sent his
nominees for the legislature.
ABOUT PEOPLE
Miss Kate Williford of Yorkville, is
visiting relatives at Lesslie.
Mr. Ernest Allen of Clover, visited
friends in Yorkville, yesterday.
Miss Lucie Johnson of Yorkville,
visited friends in Hock Hill this week.
Miss May Youngblood visited Miss
Edna Ferguson near Filbert, this week.
n v,.?b .
*uuairi v_71uuj .utrdi laiiu ui iuiivville
No. 7, is visiting relatives in Charlotte.
Miss Carrie Xeal of Lancaster, is
visiting Miss Lucie Johnson in Yorkville.
Miss Jennie Pegram of Gastonia, is
the guest of Mr. J. B. Pegram's family
in Yorkville.
Miss Margaret Percival of Rock Hill,
visited Miss Macie Hagans in Clover,
this week.
Miss Kate Williford of Yorkville, is
the guest of Miss Viola Clinton at
Edgmoor.
Miss lrma Ferguson of Yorkville, is
visiting her father, Mr. T. M. Ferguson,
in Columbia.
Mr. Wade Euart of Arkansas, is visiting
his sister, Mrs. D. T. Woods, in
Yorkville.
Dr. Otis L. Johnson'of Athens, Ga.,
is visiting his mother, Mrs. M. J. Johnson,
in Yorkville.
Mrs. Jennie Craig Duff of Gastonia,
is the guest of Mr. R. R. McCorkle's
family on Yorkville No. 6.
Miss Jennie Lynn Whitesides of
Hickorv Grove, is vlsitine relatives and
friends in Sharon.
Miss Lutie Jenkins of Yorkville, is
visiting relatives and friends in Gastonia
and Concord, N. C.
Miss Mary Fant Herndon has returned
to Yorkville, after visiting
friends in Lenoir, N. C.
Mrs. A. C. Mustard of Charleston, is
visiting the family of Mrs. J. J. Hunter,
in Yorkville. i
Mrs. J. E. Thomas and children, of
Jefferson, are visiting friends and rel- 1
atlves at Tirzah and Clover.
Miss Mabel Flanagan of Clover, has i
returned home after visiting Miss Annie
Clinton on Yorkville No. 7.
Mr. Harold James of Union, is visiting
relatives and friends in Yorkville,
the guest of Mr. Carroll (Srist.
Miss Ada D. McElwee has returned !
to her home in Yorkville, after spending
some time in Asheville, N. C.
Miss Sophie Ewart has returned to (
Columbia, after a visit to the family
of Mrs. Alice K. Ewart in Yorkville. (
Misses May Youngblood, Edna Ferguson
and Hattie Lilley of Filbert, are ,
the guests of Mrs. H. G. Brdwn in :
Yorkville.
Mrs. R. M. Cross of Chester, and
Mrs. D. M. Stead man of Caroleen, N.
C.. are guests of Mrs. W. H. McConnell
in Yorkville. (
Mr. H. C. White of the South Carolina
inspecting and rating bureau is in '
Yorkville. re-rating the town for insurance
purposes.
Prof. B. C. Riddle, who has been
nbinrr n oun/il <1 1 O/Utroo t\f uht/lv in
Baltimore, Aid., returned to Yorkville, (
this week.
Misses Maude and A fines Young- 1
blood have returned to (Mover, after <
spending two weeks with relatives at
Tirzah.
Miss Mary and Master Robert Coop- '
er, of Winston-Salem, X. C? are the ,
guests of Mr. H. B. Laws' family in
Yorkville. ^
Misses Mamie and Willie Parish have
returned to their home in Yorkville,
after visiting Misses Hattie and Lula <
Beard in Gastonia.
Mrs. I^acy L. Little, who has been <
spending sometime with her sister,
Mrs. W. H. Herndon, in Yorkville,
left Wednesday for Mangrum, X. C.
Master Tom and Miss Roclna
Woods have returned to their home in
Yorkville, after a visit of several
weeks to relatives at Huntersville, N. C. 1
Messrs. Ed. Shillinglaw, J. C. Burge
and Wm. J. Fewell were among the t
Yorkville people who attended the 1
Farmers' meeting in Rock Hill, yes- 1
terday. t
Misses Johnsie Jamison and Rebec- J
ea Walters of Charlotte, Ruth Braw- j
ley of Mooresville, X. C., and Maud (
Brown of Rook Hill, are the guests of |
Misses Fannie and Maud Stroup in
Yorkville.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles B. Blackwel- ^
der of Greenville, have announced the ,
engagement of their daughter, Mary ,
Elizabeth, to Rev. W. W. Lipscomb. (
Rev. Lipscomb is the pastor of Clover (
and Union Baptist churches.
I
THE EVE OF ELECTION i
1
me county canvass which nus ucm
stretched over rather more time this
year than usual comes to a close at
Yorkville tomorrow, and the balance of
the time between the close of the canvass
and the opening of the polls next
Tuesday will he utilized by the various
candidates as their respective interests
seem to demand.
On the part of the public there is a
K<?od deal of speculation as to the probable
result of Tuesday's elections, especially
as to the senatorial and gubernatorial
races. The speculation is
more marked in these particular races
because of the element of partisanship
that is more conspicuously involved.
Two years ago there was a great
deal of even betting as to whether
Jones or Blease would carry the county;
but so far as The Knqulrer has information,
there are no such bets this
year. It seems to be generally conceded
among the politically wise that
Kleasc will have a majority over Smith, .
Jennings and Pollock, and the principal
subject of difference is the amount
of that majority. Some judges put it
as high as 650, and some as low as
;tU0; but the most common estimate is
500. Most people on both sides of the
question will be less surprised to see
Ill*- k?'V?tiiiwi niajuiii.^ h" w?w www ^
than they will he to see Senator Smith
carry the county at all. It is generally t
believed that Jennings and l'ollock will i
receive several hundred votes in this )
county that would otherwise go to ^
Smith; hut it is not expected that they t
will interfere seriously with results. ,
The party leaders on the Conserva- t
live side generally are for Manning
for governor; and the probability is r
that Manning will receive more votes v
than any other anti-Rlease candidate s
in this county: but strictly on the prop- ,
osition of personal worth Cooper seems .,
to he a general favorite, and after him ,,
comes ("has. A. Smith with Clinkscales .,
next. M. Is. Smith will get some votes
and so will Browning: hut the four
leaders on that side will probably he
Manning, Cooper, ('has. A. Smith and ;i
Clinkscales. On the Blease side there i
is also much division of sentiment. <i
Mullally is not expected to get anything.
The leaders of the faction seem l
to favor Richards; hut some of them
do not admire him. Many are disposed (
to vote for Irby, and it is understood (that
in Rock Hill Simms will get a
good Vote. As to which of the Blease
candidates in the county will receive a s
plurality, it appears to he a toss up as (
between Richards and Irby, with the chances
slightly in favor of Richards. ''
The race between 1-1 nley and Ste- 1
fonoiiit iu ?i f t tv? r*t i nmiwh i titori>St It ^
is conceded by everybody that Hinley s
will carry tin* county as usual; but very 1
few think he will carry it by the usual I
majority. There will be more votes '
against I'inley in Yorkville than there 1
has been since his first election to conKress,
and a common opinion is that
the vote for Stevenson in Hock Hill
will be larger than for any other opposition
candidate since the race of W. B.
Wilson, Sr. Some observers say that
Stevenson will receive as many as fifteen
hundred votes in the county and
others say that the opposition will not
exceed 750. There is more talk of opposition
to Finley than usual; but
where the matter is discussed, there is
generally some one to call attention to
the fact that previous talk of opposition
has not materialized at the elections.
The legislative race is something of
a puzzle. The anti-Bleaseites have out
four men on whom the leaders are trying
to concentrate all their power and
influence, and the Blease leaders are
trying to concentrate on four of the
eight others. The factional lines seem
to be drawn more tightly than heretofore;
but it is pretty generally conceded
that neither side can successfully direct
more than 30 per cent of the vote,
and as the Bleaseites have the larger
number of men to handle, they are at
a disadvantage even though they may
have the actual majority that most of
the leaders claim, from 300 to 600. It
is reasonably certain that it is going to
take at least two races to elect four
representatives, and the probability is
that the delegation will be mixed.
Factional lines have been drawn to
a greater or less extent in the case of
tho nthor (ifflono holntr rnntMt
ed for and many voters are hewing
squarely to those lines; but in each
case also the personality, records and
experience of the different candidates
are being considered to a greater or less
extent, and the opinions of the politically
wise as to the outcome is more
or less confused. With it all, however,
there is plenty to center the interest of
the public on next Tuesday's election.
FOR THE HAIL SUFFERERS.
The following contributions have
been made in response to the proclamation
of Governor Ble; se, asking for
voluntary assistance to the people in
loss as the result of the hail storm on
the night of July 6, last:
Gov. Cole L. Blease, Columbia, $25 00
L. M. Grist's Sons, Yorkvllle... 25 00
T. D. Lashley, Kollock, S. C.... 2 00
W. A. Clark, Columbia 5 00
Jno. M. Williford. Yorkville... 5 00
Geo. L. Baker, Columbia 25 00
Colin McK. Grant, Charleston . 50 00
B. H. Willis. Cottageville 5 00
Cash, Leesvllle, S. C 5 00
J. H. Coltharp, Fort Mill 5 00
Jas. L. Quinby, Granltevllle ... 5 00
M. H. Blair, Sharon 10 00
Rev. Henry Stokes, Yorkville . 5 00
H. L. Spencer, Cheraw, S. C. .. 1 00
W. E. Ferguson, foreman 1 00
J. C. Blair, Sharon No. 1 5 00
W. T. Beamguard, Clover 5 00
Lancaster Council, No. 38, Jr.
O. U. A. M., John A. Cook,
R. S 20 00
W. F. Stevenson. Cheraw .... 25 00
Contributed at state campaign
meeting at St. George 12 15
Clover Leaf Couneil, No. 23.
Jr. O. U. A. M.. Clover. S. C. 10 00
A. C. Kauffman, Charleston... 10 00
S. V. Aycock, No. 2, Sharon .. 3 00
E. B. Marion, Plnevllle, S. C... 3 00
K. I. Burnham, Charleston ... 1 00
People of Sharon through J. S.
Hartness, Cashier First National
Bank 84 75
S. L. Garrison, foreman 2 00
A. J. Harvey, Macbeth, S. C... 1 00
Contributed at state campaign
meeting at St. Matthews... 31 35
Contributed through Columbia
State 60 00
Contributed at state campaign
meeting at Yorkville 18 55
Judge C. A. Wood, Columbia.. 10 00
1). M. Nixon, Greenwood 5 00
Richard Hopkins, Rowesville.. 5 00
F M. Livingston, Livingston,
S. C " 1 00
W. P. McManus, Taxahaw. S.C. 5 00
Chester county campaign meeting,
through J. H. Glenn 38 97
J. B. Swann, Bullock's Creek,
through J. S Hartness 5 00
Annie J. L. Knsor, through the
Columbia State 5 00
P. A. Amater, St. Matthews,
through Columbia State .... 100
Colin McK. Grant. Charleston,
second contribution 50 00
Dr. W. S. Boyd, Salters Depot 4 00
Contributed through Columbia
State 20 00
r. Nicholas Lamb, Charleston 2 00
Contributions at Campaign
meeting at OafTney 3 25
t. B. Faries, R. F. D. No. 12
Charlotte, N. C 10 00
Contributions at state campaign
meeting at Greenwood
28 04
D. Stanbury.Timmonsville,
through the State Cocpany.. 7 50
C. M. Inman, Yorkville, 50 bushels
of cotton seed and 10 00
Total $606 56
LOCAL LACONICS
/orkville Takes Tw,o.
The Yorkville baseball team won
wo of the three games played with the
Winnsboro team in Winnsboro on
Puesday, Wednesday and yesterday of
his week. Winnsboro won Tuesday's
fame, 5 to 1; Yorkville took the other
wo games, the score being 2 to 0, and
> to 1.
runeral of Mr. L. G. Grist.
The funeral of Mr. Lewis G. Grist,
vho died Tuesday afternoon at his
tome on the southern outskirts of
iforkville, took place at the First Bap
ist church of Yorkville, of which Mr.
Irist was an active member and a dea on,
on Wednesday afternoon at 5
>'clock. The services were conducted
jy the pastor, Rev. J. H. Machen, and
vere largely attended by friends from
>oth the town and country surroundng.
The interment was in Rose Hill.
-armers' Day in Rock Hill.
Yesterday was "Farmers' Day" in
*ock Hill, and there were something <
ike twelve or fifteen hundred farmers,
heir wives and their children in the
;ity to hear the addresses of Dr. (
tradford Knapp, Dr. C. G. Hopkins, ,
Jrof. W. W. Long, A. G. Smith, R. E. (
Irabel, C. H. Fennelle and other farm ,
?xperts. The meeting was held at
he fair grounds just outside the city, '
md lasted all day. The Tirzah band |
urnished music. A barbecue and
tasket dinner was an enjoyable fea- j
ure. Many of those present together j
vith the experts, visited some of the !
ilfalfa farms near the city in the at- j
3ut of the Canvass.
Mr. J. S. Glasscock of Catawba town- 1
ihip, will probably not tile the reurn
of campaign expenses tliat is re- j
luired by law and if lie fails to do so.
le will be debarred as a party candilate
even if he should receive a ma- '
ority vote. Mr. Glasscock was in !
forkville Wednesday, and on being j
isked why he had not been following
he county campaign, stated that alhough
he had gone into the race and '
>aid his assessment in good faith, he !
lid so only because of the insistence of
riends who at that time were unable '
o see how they could get up a ticket 1
hut suited them; but since then de- !
vlopments have changed the situation 1
uul although these friends wanted him '
o continue, it positively does not suit J
iltn to do so. He said his name would '
?e on the ticket and his friends could <
rote for him if he wanted to; but if
hey did not he would certainly have 1
io hard feeling, especially in view of
he fact that he could not be regarded '
is the party nominee even if he should I
eceive a majority of the votes. "I ^
vouhl have withdrawn from the race,"
aid Mr. Glasscock, "except for that I
ule under which withdrawal would <
nitomatically operate to postpone the ;
lection, for 1 am sure nobody wants
mything like that." 1
t
(
? Mr. Chas. T. Connors of I^ancaster, t
mil for many years in the newspaper *
msiness in that town, died on Wednes- |
lay. He was 59 years of age. t
? The Greenville News of Wednesday t
ncluded a number of extra pages tilled >
vith political advertising made up for i
he most part of photographs and plutorms
of the various candidates.
? Governor Mease stuted in his
peech at Monck's Corner on Tuesday
hat at a conference in his office on
doiiday, made up of friends from evry
county in the state, careful estinates
were made as to the probable
rote in all the counties, and as the re11
It the governor will be nominated for
he I'nited States senate in the first
irimnry by not less than 6,000 votes.
Die estimates of the representatives of
he various counties gave the figures
t notless than 12,000; but in order to
ie conservative the governor cut the
igures in two.
WINDUP AT SUMTER
Senatorial Candidates Had Lively
Time Yesterday.
The last regular meeting of the senatorial
campaign schedule was held at
Sumter, yesterday, with a large crowd
in attendance, and the proceedings
were quite lively. At one time it looked
as if there might be something of
a row.
Before the opening of the meeting,
friends of Governor Blease gathered
in considerable force and drove him to
the public square in a handsome iloat.
Senator Smith was received with
much applause on his rising to speak,
and was applauded quite freqeuntly
as he proceeded. He emphasized the
fact that he had devoted himself to
issues throughout the whole campaign
and had not allowed himself to be
drawn into personalities. He made his
usual speech, telling of his connection
with anti-option and currency legislation
in behalf of the farmers, and
pledged himself to continue his efforts
in this line. He denounced the banking
and currency system as it stood
previous to its recent overhauling,
and stated that it was because of the
inadequacy of the old system that there
was not enough money available to
buy the necessities of life, despite the
existance of bumper crops and a pie
mora 01 overyiumg imuiut.
At the conclusion of Senator Smith's
speech, Chairman Clifton presented
him with a silver pitcher from his
"Lynchburg friends who knew he had
kept the faith."
Applause greeted Governor Blease
when he commenced his speech. He
said he was gratified at the reception
he had received throughout the state.
"As this will be the last official
meeting," said the speaker, "I want
to warn my friends to stay at the ballot
boxes, not only to cast your vote,
but to see them counted."
He claimed that from 11,000 to 14,000
white votes had been stolen from
him two years ago.
The governor said a train had been
run into Sumter from Orangeburg
filled with supporters of his political
enemies.
The chief executive then read a letter
from Aiken whicn stated word had
gone out from the Blease political machine
for the administration voters to
concentrate on Richards. The speaker
said he had not interferred in the governor's
race and the man who wrote it
"wrote a lie."
Anotner letter was reaa Dy mm
which said that Manning is the strongest
anti-administration man in the
race, that Manning is being strongly
attacked, that "you never heard of a
weak man being attacked."
The governor said that possibly
"that's the reason why they hired two
men to help Smith."
Jennings Called Blease "Liar."
Mr. Jennings then advanced to the
front of the stand, shook his finger at
the governor and exclaimed:
"The man who says that I am hired
to help Smith tells a damn lie."
Pandemonium broke loose with the
words of Mr. Jennings and it looked
squally for a while.
However the governor only smiled
and said:
"Ain't it funny how a cock will crow
on his own dunghill?"
"I was told by a Sumter man," said
Governor Blease, "that I may be attacked,
but, thank God, I have enough
men here to protect me."
The governor said it is no use starting
a fuss on the stand where some Innocent
man might get hurt; that "if
any man doesn't like what I say he can
see me when the innocent people are
gone."
He said that he has not noticed Jennings
on or off the stand, and "that's
what's hurting him." The governor
claimed that Smith money is being
sent out of a certain office in Columbia
which he had detectives watching.
He claimed that a man was going to
the office mentioned Saturday to get
$1,000, but that the money would not
be delivered, for he had the office under
surveillance.
He said if he can catch the man he
will prosecute him.
Senator Smith faced the governor
and announced that not one cent had
been or would be illegally spent on his
campaign, that if Blease would furnish
the name of the man he (Smith) would
have him indicted.
The governor replied that, if the
senator kept his word, he would have
to prosecute one who claims to be the
senator's best friend.
Governor Blease took up the balance
of his time in excoriating the record of
Senator Smith and with paying his respects
to hecklers who he called
"dogs," "cowards," etc.
At the conclusion of his speech he
was given loud applause and was the
recipient of a big black hat, a basket
of peaches and a bunch of flowers. He
immediately left the stand and a large
number of his supporters followed him.
Mr. L. D. Jennings was the next
speaker. He made practically the same
speech he has been making all over the
state, and was frequently applauded by
his friends. At the conclusion of his
speech, Mr. Jennings got a large basket
of cut flowers and a number of bouquets.
Mr. W. P. Pollock was the last
speaker and his speech was the same
as heretofore.
MERE-MENTION
A race riot at Wilmington, Del.,
Monday night assumed such proportions
that it was necessary to call out
the militia to quell the rioters. The
iroume started wnen a negro on a
street car fired into a crowd of white
men A fire in a livery stable at
Jenkinstown, Pa., Monday, destroyed
twenty-one horses....A decree granting
civil and political rights to all
Jews in Russia, is to be issued by the
czar without delay, according to information
from St. Petersburg
British and French army officials have
called all permits for newspaper correspondents
to accompany the armies.
\n official dispatch from Brus- ,
sels, gives the German loss at the battle
of Halen, last week, as 3,000 killed
and more than that many prison- <
ers. The Belgian loss was 150 killed
md 400 wounded The British
cruiser Essex fired a shot across the
bow of the Holland-American liner
N'ieuw Amsterdam, Monday, 200 miles
3outh of Halifax. The liner arrived
it New York. Tuesday morning
Twelve hundred German soldiers were :
buried in one grave on the battlefield
i?f I>iest and Halen, in Belgium, last
week The steamship Laconia
irrived in New York. Monday, from
Liverpool. with 1,600 passengers i
aboard; mostly European tourists,
hurrying home oji account of the war. I
... .The British cruiser Glasgow is re- I
ported to have captured the German
steamship Cunta Catharina. which i
sailed from New York on July 25, for ]
south American ports A num- 1
ber of American cowboys in Paris,
bave enlisted in the French army for '
service in a rough rider squadron. <
....Five cargoes of sugar from Hilo. '
Hawaiian Islands, are on the way to
Philadelphia. The total tonnage of '
sugar is 4 2.500 tons According '
to a New York dispatch, the North
lerman Lloyd steamship line has of- 1
fared to sell to American buyers all
ts steamships in the Atlantic a..d Pa ific,
for $25,000,000. The Hamberg\merlcan
is offering $20,000,000
worth of its ships to American buyers...
.Custom receipts at New York
ist week, totaled $2,773,408 as compared
with $4.>547.068 for the same
veek last year An official comnunication
made public in Paris, is
:o the effect that the crown prince of
Sermany has been seriously wounded
ind is now at Aix-la-Chappelle
More than a million bushels of oats
lave been sold for export to France
hrough the port of Baltimore
)rders from American Importers for
dlks, textiles, dressmaking, etc., agtregating
$60,000,000. will enable
French Industries employing women,
o operate as usual Traffic through
he Suez canal has been practically
(topped as a result of the war A
-eport from Xlsh. Servia. is to the ef"ect
that 15,000 Austrlans were killed
tear Sabac, 27 miles from Belgrade,
ast week Russia has notified the
furkish government that it will send
ts Black sea fleet through the Dardanelles.
regardless of Turkey's wishes
o the matter. The Dardanelles have
teen cloned t<> foreign warships since
1833 Six hundred glove makers of
Boversvllle. X. Y.. are threatening to
strike unless granted an increase of
>ay The first warship to pass
hrough the Panama canal was the
'eruvian destroyer Tenlente Rodriguez.
Tuesday morning President
A'ilson has decided to appoint Attor- r
ley (leneral MeReynolds to be asso- <j
ciate Justice of the United States supreme
court to succeed Justice Lurton,
deceased. It Is expected that Thos.
Watt Gregory of Texas, will succeed ^
Mr. McReynolds as attorney general.
The steamer Prince Albert was jSj
wrecked on Butterworth Rock, B. C., fl
Wednesday. The passengers and crew 'l
were rescued Representatives of !i
the Christian Brothers, a Catholic organization,
have appealed to President
Wilson to use his influence with the
Mexican government to allow Catho
lies to resume their school work in W
Mexico this fall Armstrong Drex- 1
el, the American amateur aviator, has
enlisted in the British infantry, and
will go to the front... Avery Blalock,
a Georgia school teacher, was
shot and seriously wounded, Wednesday,
by Roy Williams, one of his pupils,
whom he had whipped Mississippi's
six congressmen have been
renominated to succeed themselves,
according to the returns from the
Democratic primary, held in that state
last Tuesday Col. Henry Waterson,
editor of the Louisville CourierJournal,
in an interview in New York,
Wednesday, gave it or his opinion that
Germany would be defeated in the
present war Dr. O. S. Harper, a
young Atlanta physician, has been ar- +
rested, charged with stealing a $350
diamond ring from the hand of a dead
man The senate on Wednesday
by a vote of 38 to 15, struck from the
Clayton anti-trust bill, the section exempting
consumer's organizations
from the operations of the anti-trust A
law Three members of a New- w
castle, Pa., automobile party were
killed and one was fatally wounaea,
Wednesday, when the machine was
struck by a traction car ...Gen.
Vlctorianno Huerta and his family are
marooned in London. The party expects
to go to Spain, August 24
Victor Innes. wanted In connection
with the disappearance of Mrs. Eloise
Nelms Dennis and Miss Beatrice ^
Nelms of Atlanta, Ga, was arrested
at his home near Leaburg, Ore., last
Tuesday The twentieth case of
bubonic plague was discovered In New
Orleans, on Tuesday.
THE WAR IN EUROPE *
News Paragraphs Gleaned from Dispatches
from the Front.
Four German girls were arrested In
Brussels, Belgium, Wednesday, charged
with spying. A large number of
supposed spies have been shot this .. .
week, several of them being women. "
Dr. Enrich Zoeffel Quellenstein, German
consul In Atlanta, Ga., on Wednesday
gave out what he said was an
"uncensured" cablegram forwarded to
him from the German ambassador at 4
Washington. The communication said
that all the forts at Liege had surrendered
to the Germans and that the
Germans fought a successful battle at
Dinant.
The German bark Matabor worth
$400,000 eluded all warships and dockin
Mpw York harbor Wednesday
night. The Matabor did not know war
had been declared untfl a week after
hostilities began.
Three persons were driven insane in
Brussels, Belgium, Wednesday because
of over-excitement at the war news.
A dispatch received In London Wednesday
from Berlin says that a divl- 4
sion of the first German army corps
has defeated a Russian force near
Slattupohnen, Prussia, capturing six
machine guns and taking 1,000 prisoners.
The United States cruiser North
Carolina, carrying gold for Americans stranded
In Europe, is now at Cher- m
bourg, France.
Although there are 2,000,000 German
troops in the held, mobilization continues.
Railroads in the western part
of the empire are carrying nothing but
soldiers.
The Cologne Gazette, a German
newspaper, gives the total German
losses up to Aug. 18, at 1,500 killed and m
7,000 wounded. The German ships ^
which are not blockading Russian ports
are at Kiel and Heligoland, Germany.
A French dispatch says that a
French hussar recently made prisoner
by Germans, was dragged into an Alsatian
village and executed before the
villagers. , P
Eighty Japanese students have arrived
in London from various parts of
Germany. The Japs said that when the
Germans learned that Japan would
probably ally itself with England, Germany's
attitude toward Japanese became
hostile and a number of them
were arrested charged with espionage.
According to a dispatch from Copenhagen,
the Japanese minister is pre- ^
paring to leave Berlin. "
French war ships captured two
large Austrian steamers on Wednesday.
Advance lines of the German army
are row in the vicinity of Brussels, the
capital of Belgium: The French and ^
Belgian troops have had several sharp *
guard.
The status of the forts at Liege is
not definitely known. Germans say the
fortresses have fallen, but the Belgians
say they are still holding out
bravely.
The Vossiche Zeitung, a Berlin newspaper,
commenting on Japan's attitude,
Wednesday, said: "One more declaration
of war can not frighten Germany,
and Japan's action is without
importance." ^
According to a newspaper man who
recently reached The Hague from Berlin,
everything foreign has been removed
from Berlin. French and English
restaurants have been closed. No
French, English or Russian words are
allowed to appear anywhere?not even
on bills of fare. No tongue save the A
German is allowed to be spoken on the
streets.
Several minor engagements have
taken place between Austrians and
Russians on the frontier this week.
All Japanese students In German
universities have left.
The British, French and Russian
ambassadors at Brussels have fled to
Antwerp.
A German monoplane was brought
down by a Belgian rifleman near Brussels
on Wednesday. The aviator had %
both of his legs broken by the fall.
Signs have been posted in London
that Earl Kitchiner, secretary of war,
needs 100,000 men for three years, or
until the close of the war.
R. Neale Smith, an aviator of Baltimore
and A. Helweg, a civil engineer of ^
New York, have volunteered their services
to the French government.
More than sixty British vessels
which have been seized by the Germans,
are docked at Hamburg.
German troops have taken Brussels,
the capital of Belgium, and the Belgian
troops have fallen back on Antwerp.
Emperor William has ordered that
resistance be made to the last to Japan's
efforts to oust Germany from
Kiao-Chow, China,
The French troops on yesterday recaptured
Muelhausen in Alsace from #
the Germans. There are now no Gernan
troops In French territory.
No news has been received of any
laval movements, either in the North
*ea or in the Mediterranean.
Montenegrin troops continue to advance
in Bosnia, Austria, Several Aus- ^
rian aviators on yesterday sueoeeaea w
n throwing bombs among the Montelegrin
troops. Little damage resulted,
inwever.
In addressing the first regiment of
Aiot Guards before they left Berlin for
he front, yesterday, Emperor William
laid: "We will fight until the last drop
if German blood is sacrificed. My
iword shall not be sheathed again with
>ut victory and honor. We will trust
n Almighty God and remember the
lays of old."
The burgomaster of Brussels ordered
the civic guards of the city to disirm
before the Germans entered.
The Russian troops claimed to have
net with success against the German
roops in skirmishes along the Austriin
border yesterday.
? Winnsboro Herald and News, Aurust
18: Hon. D. E. Flnley, congressman
from the Fifth district, and
andidate for re-election, spoke to a
rowd of Winnsboro and Fairfield
nen at the court house here last Sat- ^
irday morning. Mr. Finley was not *
ible to be here when the other candilates
for United States and state ofices
spoke, so he took the opportunly
offered him on Saturday of giving
lis platform to the people of Winnsloro
and Fairfield, and pointing out
o them the things he has done and ^
issisted in doing during the time he
ias served as our congressman. There
vere a goodly number of voters in
he crowd which heard his speech,
luietly. and followed It with every Indention
of interest.