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Ill's ill!- iiuw Ill'I'IISI'.l till- ' lit tlu new lui.'nl regulations iiml ij tin liii.ul liiiuni mil- i.s issued iiiiiliT tins :t ii t Ii mi t \. Iluli I i i'|ii'i si'iitiitisi'S 11.1 v i* lll'l'll llisl i iii It'll iii See licit llll111 11. 11 ui.si rsiiii. is given hi hull-Is r< in Muinlii s .1 i|iI \\ i'i||ii'si|;iy .is wli< ill- s; less il.is. Tiiesil:i> :is :i iiii'iiili'ss iliiy; s.i I ii i i|.i v sis ;i |iui kless il.iy ;iml licit there Is ulle \s Ilea I less Hii-itl illlil ? !!? '' llle.'l I ii'ss llll-il i iii i'sel'v d.lv. iI'llill'l till |.|'ese||| il Mil llCell I e|| |-: w tin' I'uri'i siMimli iils .ittiii'lii'il tu the \ ii ii-I m .in .iimy an granted perhaps Ctialel ri. Ilium III .lit lull II. .11' llll '' front th.in new s|.,i|m r men w ith ans tl ther arms hi tins was. There muse- s nienls an- praetiealls limit .-ii nil Is l.y j. their usvu a|i|ietite for Herman shells. 'nrres|>umleiits may iiuss tnutur ?lilei lis In the he,l>h| Hit It els of any i| brigade ;it the front if they first re- ,, l>uit to divisional headquarters en . mute. The brigade headquarters its " tTiwmimi inn inf jiiiiif. i'ltiuttiiibi tu the front from brigade headqttar- ti lers correspondents must go on foot w and m pairs, since they are in easy observation range hv the enemy who ft'eqllelltls shells the trallic illlinedi- si ati ly behind the hallle line The visitors lo III!' tcolli iiiusi Weill lio I ? mots ami carry lins masks in a position when* tlt?>> can net lo tlicin at a moment's notice. i'urrcspondciits ^ may uo without escort to the various , tcKiiuciituI hca<h|uartcrs. hut not cnt? r a trench except hy special per- ii mission. o llritisli ami Turkish ilclcKotcs, ,, who have heen eollfrrriUK tit Iterlle. Swit/erlaml. for some tunc in retard to a pioposcil exchange of prisoners. 1-1 have closed their negotiations after u leachiliK vvhat the Itritish delegates ,, descrihe as "a satisfactory nrrantfclueiit " The negotiations provide not ' on I \ foi the exchange of prisoners, v Icil also for a oomph le inspection id ,i prison camps. Turkey has ahoiit I a.- ^ hi Itritish prisoners, mostly Indians. while itreat Itritain has aii.mui d Turks. It is expected that the ayrce- i' inent will he immediately ratitied and ( within a few Wicks the lirst exchange will he made on Swiss soil t.iniu 1 Itrilish invalid prisoners, hcitit ex<hunted for i.." hi Turks After this p oxchalitc there will he an exatnina- . Hon of all prisoners under a low schedule of disability hy a mixed coin- ' mission of Turkish and Itritish doc- I' tors, this arrangement iloiiif away ,, wnh the delay inch'.etil to the einpfoynicnt of neutral doctors. The negotiations with the Turks proved * far more satisfactory than the Itritish n delegates had expected. The discus- |, simis were conducted in a conciliatory spirit on hoth sides A niitnher of stippleiuciitary atrcciuctits were '' reached rctardint treatment of pris- ii on rs hereafter. In view of the difficulty in lind- oi nit ships to put American tlthtint s| power ill Kraltce. Itcncral Itliss. reprcscntini; tae Tutted States at the military sessions of the supreme war ?' council, is < ousidci itiu with Itritish (.i otlicials the advisability of start nix a . th?w ?>f American hattahons throiifth ' the Itritish tiaitiiliK system to front line trenches in blunders. This pros lo.n o,.<1 has hei n v. la Ike.I o\cr in various forms. line of " llu< concrete proposals l>einu that t."?" l>atl.iltons Pc assumed tor suoli traininn. t'oiiKcstion at tho American do- o| t?a i kit ion |>orts in France lies hack tt of tho suuKcstion. Itv itixortuiK cittain units to liritisli ports, passim: thorn throUKh tho Hritish system ami tc finally transferrinc tlictn t?> tSoimral ;l] IVrshinK's army, it has heon urRiul ttiat a considerable ho?!y of men could * la* trained and put on the tiring lint*. xx ho otherwise could not l>o sent for- ci yxard for months. It is knoxx'n that proffers of Itritwh and Kronoh shipi^ * to carry American troops haw acI'op'.panioil urgent representations ti from tho othor siilo in behalf of tho j,; early iiiovomont of as many mon as possible across thi- Atlantlo. There aro intimations in faot that Great u' Itritain transports already havo l>oon If uso.t to carry American troops to a s., Itmitoii extent Tho question *Sppar- "* ently. hoxvover. largely is one of inaintaiir.nK oontitnions supply linos p< for all troops sent oxer, rather than fo of finding ships to carry tho mon. j, I director 15onor.il MoAdoo has f, al'out eompletoii the central staff f .. ...ill hint m :idlllitlis li-rinc coviM-nnioni operation of rail- r: roads during the war. Although no w official announcement was made, it is n understood the staff probably will be as follows: Heneral assistant. Walker D. Hines. New York, chairman and tv Kencntl counsel of the Santa Fe. x Transportation. Carl H. Gray. Pal- .. titnore. president of the Western Maryland. U?w. John Harton Payne. of Chicago. Labor. W. S. Carter, chief tl of the Itrotherhood of Railway Fire- ^ men and Engineers Public service and accounts. C. A. Prouty. chief of ' the Interstate commerce commis- si sion's bureau of valuation and ac- r< counts. Traffic, Edward Chambers. s( vice president of the Santa Fe. until recently trafllc director of the food " administration. In addition there p will he a board of traffic managers representing different government departments to co-ordinate government shipments. Another division, of pur-JJt chases, maintenance and construction J I' probably will be created, but it is' Fi understood the assistant in charge of.'U this work has not yet been selected, jvi The head of each of these divisions ca v. will organize the work assigned to dt him throughout the country and in bj encral will utilize the agencies al ady organized by railroads unde r:\at" manag'-ment. No tvholtsa'j >m ssal of employs or officers 1 'a: though graduail;. a numhe f oiIi< i.ils now unta < es>ar> Sin'-- th ino\.il of competitive on-Mti'<n . . he ar-silsii'. *1 to oth< ' work Ull'te r? i .-nt nr<!> r <-f Director ?J? r?eru I ,\<!oo. in: on ei-oiion.'. \\h?r v<-r possihl* Fin.ini'iui pinhleiiie o i< -tilroade under cov?-rii;i:?-n Iiofil'lol; .i|i to he lid flllf.lsleri ll h oh n >k' I ton Williams. omptrollei o !? - i i?! :?? > . ami a nieti.le i of In mi on ( iierni M?A?loo'> torn purer; '.iTf. it i< announced Pr llorhvillc (faquir>v ,'ntered at the PostoIBce at York a Ma.I Matter of the Second Class. YORK. S. C.: FRIDAY. FEBRUARY. 8, 1918. l'l< to this time it looks like Mr. Mc <loo is going to be the man to succeei resilient Wilson. He Is plenty bi| [touch for the job. .? aim lilt'iieock might know wh; wants a w ar eabim t am! a ?lirer i of munitions, tint up to this turn . has no! siieeee.i. ) in ilifortuill! t.yh.xly ? is. ,vliv In wants tin in. \e i.nl-ng our way of looking at It tiatoi Ilit'-h<-o.'k is making righ liiait of an ass of himself ami tha . about all there is to it. lint tha . always the way in times of una ress like the present, l'ussy busy milts w||o <|o not themselves klloV nulling, are unable to r.alt/.e tie ossihihty that tlier* an oth. rs win o know, ami liny are forever am ernally trying to argue other peo le into In :I)as ldK fools as they ai In msclves. Sena tor Hitchcock, how vcr. Mams to In- makiiiK very littli I'IKlHal There an- more llian :PiO.<m?u."?< iisIm-Is of wheat in Australia avail |c for export. hot which cannot in mvnl for lack of ships. This is ac ordmu to a statoincnt made b; r.i a ford Yalta till. foriiiff premier o ustralia. in VYasliinatou last Satur a\ Tin sikiplicancc of the nituu oil is appal" nl American wheal i ot ad* *|llate for the Allies, and fo nine consumption. America is al lni I > fee I um inconvenience not t< iv discomfort for lack of wheat. Tin nl> thiliu that stilllds lietweeli Alitor a ami .in ahuinlant supply of when i lack of ships. America knows a ell as anybody how to huild ship." ml she has all the necessary ilia i-rials in iihuiulance. The threi iiiiiks requisite to the hiiildim; o hips are the necessary knowledge lie necessary materials and the tie essary lahor Wc have all three re uisites. hut tin: lahor needs to In lohili/.ed. Cpon the mobilization o In- lahor depends whether thosi iiilio'o.ou^ liesh'-ls of yvhoat in Aiw alia are k'oinK to spoil and ko t< aste. or whether they are Koini he brought to Ameriea to keep ou ildii is and ottr people in health am omfort. Tim Kritisli people are sai<l to b UidyiUK tin history of the Amerieai 'ivil war to iiinl out what kind o i; lit ma men the Americans arc. I cents to us that our good friend f Hie mother country mucht hav otun some lines on this subject b; efereiiee to the records of the Amer an revolution. The Americans pu P some pretty stiff lighting at Sara ga. Hr.indyw inc. Charleston, S.t ami.ill. King's .Mountain. Cowppn ml elsewhere. It is true that tli gliting <1 i<i not amount to a koo< eal at anx of these plaees exeep harleston. Kind's Mountain nit< ow pens, hut it was as good as t hi Iritish. However, the Civil war r? orils show the real thing with a ven -a nee. There was for instance 'raser's Farm. Seven Fines, Seeom lanassas, liains's Mill, Hettyshurg 'eterslwrg. Colli Harbor. Chtca uiitua. Lookout Mountain, nn<l i uinher of other scraps that show th< iiiil of stutT that Americans an i.nle of. We have been keepitiK "I retty closely with this Kuropcan wai itiI we ilo not preteml to deny tha lere has been some most territii ghtmg along with the display o lenty of the right kind of couragi a both sides: liut if either side lull town anything to indicate that i is anything over the established re rd of Americans as lighters, tin l idi nee has not yet come to our at ntion. At a hearing in Washington thi: eek on the i|iiestioii of increasing if want's of railway employe*. W l.cc. president of the Hrotherhooi f U.ulway Trainmen, charged thai le tratlic confusion was due to thi illway management which Is seekint discredit government ownershij ml the eight hour law. Mr. Le< ml that among other things thi ulroad management had displace) kperieiieed men at important terini ils with new men; that boilers hat i<en allowed to freeze and burs trough deliberate intent: that crew: ml been called out and kept waitini ntil the 16-hour period was practie lly up before they were allowed ti ave the yard, that other acts o: ibottnge had been committed b: io management for no otner pur use than to secure delay. If askec r the responsibility for these tactics resident lx>e said he would point tc ur New York banks that have thi naming of most of the railroad ope it ions in America. These bankers ere not opposed to the railroads go ig under government control; bu icy are opposed to the railroads re mining under government control hose bankers understood very wel lat the taking over of the roads bj io government means relief fron le bankrupt condition to which the: ad been reduced by being robbed o leir capital, and they also under :ood that the return of the rail vuls to public ownership will re ore the old status under condition; tat will afford a new crop of fa Irkings. By order of the Department o; is t Ice the cases against Fathei ewls J. O'Hern. of Washington Either E. A. Duff, chaplain in thi nlted States navy, formerly of Greenlie, and Andrew Ward Knlsley, i idet at the United States Naval Aca -my at Annapolis, will be nol pressed District Attorney J. William Thur - jmond at the present session of Federa r court for the Western District whlcl l convened this morning- True bill! s were found against the two priests an< ' the naval academy cadet at the No vember term of court here on th< s charge of conspiracy to defraud th' ' United States and using the mails n ' further this conspiracy. It was allegec j by the government that the priests se' 'cured a place for Knisley as an appli 1 cant for the Naval Academy by mean! of misrepresenting his place of resl dence to Congresman McCorkle, th< " blind representative who served thi 1 uii-xp.red t- nil ->f t? bite "ongr- ss man Finley. Heports of the a!lege< - attempts to defraud were made aftei Congressman Stevenson took his sea t .and the young man's appointment t< Annapolis was revoked. He later waj appointed to the Naval Academy bj Congressman Whaley of the First Dis ? triet. a account of th-- prominence of th< defendants there was general interes in these cases and daily papers had ar ranged to send special representative! here in the event that trial would b< called at the present term of court Father O'Hern is saic. to be one of th? leading Catholics at .he capital and l! r known throughout the country, ant Father Duff was quite well known ix i his section of the country. In stating that he had been orderet to dismiss the cases. District Attorney Thurmond did not sa' on what ground! the Department of Justice had decidet to noi pros.?Greenwood Journal. And this is confirmatory of a storj that we heard not long ago to the effeci that Cardinal Gibbcns went over t< 2 Washington with regard to the matter and efforts were made to get Con givs.sman Stevenson to consent to th< dropping of the whole business. Congressman Stevenson, absolutely sure o: y the justice and righteousness of hii " position r? fused to recede from it am ' it appears that the prosecution hai - been deliberately dropped. Those wh< de-sire to know the why and the wherefore of this strange procedure will not 1 in our opinion, inaxe a very serloui ' mistake iu attributing it to the strangh 1 hold that the Itoman Catholic churcl 1 has on the government at Washington k We do not like to lie ill the po'' siiion oi even appearing to ?iinpl<iii " about any regulation the government ' eonsiders necessary for the success iHI prosecution of the war; but wi are iueliiu-il to think that order witi * reference to the use of Hour ami sub stiiutes for Hour !?* * ii prniuul gated without >1 ut- consideration. Thi Ii**o| !c of the south already use nioli " eorn m their diet than do any othei |icu|i|v hi Ann ri?*a. It must he re iiii-iiiIm red that where the |ieo|dc o " the halaliee of the eoiintry list' tin k" Insli potato as the has.s of their re ' giilar >111-1. the |>eo|?le of the sotltl eat more hoininy or grits. We usi * hominy or grits heeause we prefei s It. ami inosi 01 us who use potatoes a all iis> 1 In-ill as a km.I of side dish * not as a regular standby. Am " throughout tin whole south, in hotl >' town am! eountry. espeeially in thi - < oiintrv. eorn l>rea>l is almost, if no 1 > 1 title, as eointnon as wheat bread. 11 s eaiirse wheat bread is used in ever* ' home: hut nothing like to the ex tent to whieh it is used in the north f east, and in the west. Kastern pen r pie have been using virtually nothinf ' Init wheal bread. They seem to knov * very lijltle of any other kind of bread - And it is more so in the .01 n-rais.m r states of the middle west. They usi f vi In at bread almost entirely, am l* hardly use an> 1 ion of corn hrcai riajj^^^dojH^c^on seed meal, whicl 0 is very little. Xi vv, we submit, tha ? .f this half and I alf order is enforc r ed in the south: this order that seek: ' to make us use only half as mucl wheal bread as we have lieen using the result will h- very inetiuitable e The east ami middle west at inns 11 will be only red iced to where tin --.1- . u..^, .,i| u|ni,|r -mil (111 | S( IU I 111 < I > I II.If . >? I. t southeast will In- allowed only iiboti s lialf us in tit-li wheat Hour as will Im e allowed to the |ieo|de of the east am y middle west. Tin Kimuirer has n< i|Uarrel over this <|Ucstiou. As a! t ready statid. it helioves that the poo - i?h' of the south w ill submit, and sub - mil gladly, to any rei|iiirenient neces s sary to further the great business a e hand, the prosecution of this war 1 but at the same time it thinks tha t all regulations of the nature unddl I consideration should he formulate) e ami enforced with due regard to eon ilitions as they already exist. ? m We Need Ships. I tieiieral Pershing has sent out fron France a message in which he appeal: . to the American people to literati] i bridge the Atlantic with ships. i> The appeal is no idle one: we Itavi ? been told the same thing- by the Hrit ish and French leaders and by oui r own people. t Tin one great need is ships, am .* without ships wi cannot hope to wit f this war. Without ships we cannoi > hope for anything else than defeat. We have close to half a milliot t Americans in France with five thou. sand miles of water between. They ; cannot maintain themselves without - help--niori help and lids of it, and not only must we send more help but we must be able to send a cons tinuous stream of food, munition! : and supplies to ill. Without food and supplies of all I kinds, our soldiers In France wit "I*"'' In ?>1 PIIPI11V OUI I Mill .111 nw, |..v- .... ... t failure to send them fooil, ?u|i|>llci : and munitions wid be equivalent t< i turning them over as prisoners to tin ; enemy. ? We need ships. We need, as Gen 1 l'ersliing says, to literally bridge tin - ocean with ships. 1 America can bridge the ocean wit! t ships if she only will. 3 We have the materials, we have tht ? money and we have the labor. The thing is to co-ordinate thes? > forces and put them all to building f ships. / The most important thing is labor . Every man in America who knows i how to dri\e I rivet needs to l>? , mobilized at the ship yards. If noi j actual!) mobilized, he needs at least ? to be listed and registered so he car . be called to the service at an hour's 3 notice. i-'*"" u,w*? lam of th,. eountrv ha! t men who can be made useful in th< . construction of ships, and every on? . of these nun must he marshalled foi 1 the work. , In this part of the country, when i comparatively few people have anj y acquaintance with maritime matters f it is diiticult to stir up a proper ap . pronation of the one great problem . hut the demand on this section is ai . great as it is upon any other, s Our people must think ships, talk t ships, dream ships and urge all possible workers to go and offer theii services at the shipyards to heir build ships, t With plenty of ships, with half a! r many ships a? we are capable ol , building, we will win. and without j ships we will be lost. We must be stirred up now while it i it is yet time. After our armies . have been reduced to helplessne?s for 1 lack-of help from home, it will be toe . late. ( \ i I LOCAL AFFiUaS. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS I. W. H. Howell. Supervisor?Publishes s statement of disbursements of Kins'! Mountain township road funds, September 1 to December 1. ? 'Jno. T. Matthews, Clover?Offers a Ford road' iter, in i<erfect condition for tale. Sm or write him. . J. A. Marion - Has a good family hone for j sale. In good condition, suitable for general work. % J. A. Marion, Attorney?Has money to loan on real estate security, at 7 per cent inter est. * J. A. Bankhead. Admr.?Requests debtors and 1 creditors of estate of John E. Bankhead, dt? r ceased, to make settlement with him. t Mill People's Store?Located on Charlotte St.. . is now oj*n for business and nolicits a part of the public patronage. Country produce j of all kinds wanted. f J. M. St roup?Talks about clothing, and suggests that you will find it worth while to buy clothing now instead of waiting until next fall and paying higher prices. . Loan and Savings Bank?Wants you to know that you yet have time to join its Christmas Savings club. A class for everybody. Join * now. 5 Kirkpatrick-BeU Co.?Puts you on notice that only two days of its mid-winter sale remain. i Goods are offered today at less than prions \ ruling on today's wholesale markets, i York Supply Co.?Can furnish you with everything needed in house construction. Also urges you to buy your fertilizers now while you can get what you want. ' McConnell Dry- Goods Co.?Aski if you are a t thrifter. and then suggests ways in which i you ran save. Price quotations on seasona1 ble dry goods, etc. Clover Drvg Store?Wants you to see it about ?. rnlunikia tfmnhnnhnnp. an ideal home an. f tertainer ?$18 to $215. t Clinton Bra*.?Have just received ' fresh shipmen!* ol pure pork sausage. breakfast bacon ' anil good cream cheese. ; City Meat Market -Wants to buy eggs, chick,ens and butter. It continues to aupply the l>est of beef. pork, sausage. etc. ? Yorkvillc Cotton Oil Co.?Will pay $2 a bushel for good, sound shelled, York count}' grown corn. f Star Theatre Gives its programme for today. tomorrow and Monday. A good drama for * today, i.long with a comedy, i Keily-Taylor Co.- On page four tells you how good Luiiann" coffee is and gives reasons ? why you should use it. i People are still able to get about on ' I he local trains; but not many of them are trying it ever the highways. That is a mighty strong presentation that Congressman Stevenson has put to Messrs. McAdoo and Hoover with reference to the meal situation. Tuesday it looked as if the cold snap would never pass and Wednesday was almost a typical spring day, suggestive of the time to start a garden. Aftsr all, that Hock Hill to Catawba river concrete road is about the right thing. Even if it does coat ten thousand dollars a mile, it will he worth the money. J. H. Separk and associates have made application for a charter for the Myrtle mills, to be Incorporated wilh $30o.00t capital. The statement is that the mill is to have 10,000 spindles. It will be (iastonia's twenty-sixth mill, u h.i? been officially announced that 1 tin- administration has taken charge of 1 all the fuel oil resources of the nation, and it is suggested also that ' kerosene and gasoline will probably 1 come next. ( There has been less farm work done . within the past two months than in atiy two months of the'same season in the recollection of the oldest inhabitant. and it has been simply because the people could not work. Members of the ten organized and : partly organized farm loan associations of Mecklenburg county, N. C., are agi, tating the question of consolidating all L, the local organizations into one big I county organization. The idea is well ' 1 worth consideration, not only in Meck, lenburg, but in other counties. expense per member than a small <0 s sociation, and the stronger association ' will make things better for all the members. I Mr. J. F. McElwee, food adminlstrat tor for York county, said on his return L. from the Monday meeting of the ad- ' f. ministrators in Columbia, that there t was little to give out, further than had ? already been given. The principal ob1 ject of the meeting was that the food i administrators of the various counties . might arrive at a common understand- | . ing of what was to be expected of them. . There was discussion of the lnequali ties of the order that requires farmers t and others who already have plenty of < : meal to buy more meal in order to obi tain flour, and proposals were made to ' r Mr. Hoover with a view to securing a I better regulation of the matter. Mr. < - McElwee said that Food Administrator Elliott is seeking to secure the conser- I vation of food in South Carolina to the 1 best possible advantage without worki ing unnecessary hardships upon amy 3 body. f When the ambulance driver who met < the train at Chester on Thursday of j ' last week to take Kay Konter to the , hospital, learned that the young soldier r had spinal meningitis, lie K it nis charge in the ambulance to shift for ' himself and (led in fear. That Is a 1 story that was circulated far and wide 1 during Friday and Saturday. As to whether the story is trus we have been 1 unable to learn. Such things are com" inon, however, and there would have been nothing surprising about it But 1 whether that story is true or not, this 1 statement is true: Two young ladies ; of the Chester Sanatorium, Misses " Inez Anderson and Carrie Tennant. 4 measuring up to the demands ol the occasion, in full appreciation of the 1 danger, volunteered their sendees, and 1 gave the young soldier every possible ' care until he died. It was a brave, pa' triotic thing that these young ladies did, and the example tbey set is vrorthy ' of emulation. WITHIN THE TOWN ? Next Monday is to be another one of those flreless days, and if the weather happens to be as pleasant as it has been during the past few days, people can do business as usual without fire. ? A Yorkville officer with the Amer- , lean forces in France has gotten by ( the censors with Information as to , where he is located by telling his folks . that he is stationed between the resit dences of Mr. W. W. Jenkins and Mrs. l J. L. Williams. The name of the resi, dence between is the name of the city f . in which the officer is located. ? Three little white boys, two of i j them aged 12 years, and one aged 9 ; were before Magistrate Comer this i > I week on the charge of housebreaking 1 r .and larceny. They stole cigarettes, chewing gun and other articles, and > > were bound over to court. ' ? The principal reason why th?% Star theatre operates on Mondays is because jthe enforced idleness of heatless iioa- 1 ' days gives so many people nothing; else ' (to do but attend the picture show. The {Monday programme is an especially ; 1 good one and an increasing numbdr of ' patrons are becoming interested I n it ( ? Mrs. M. K. Nichols, the postn aster. observes that the mails are api; preciably heavier on the Tues lays < ' following the tireless Mondays ihan heretofore. "It looks to me." ?>'? t Mrs. Nichols, "that everybody Inot , > having anything else to do. is pulling ( In the day writing letters." * J ! ? There is a considerableipirl^V up ] 1 in the sale ot thrift stamps by the posto.'hce and the- banks, but the sales are nothing like what they should tor such an attractive form of iny. s;m?nt After making an investment ?*f >4.13. the investor gets 4 per nt at'.: rest compounded .,uarttrl? <ii!> Bet l.is investment It;;, k with accumulated interest at any lilite he null's it upon giving tell ?lajs" notice. ? A local Urot-rv collceill a few tlajs .'Bo Bot in a large supplv of suyai. and because of a loavt demand from c v? ry where- froi.. people who were customers and pt-oplt who were not ?ustonieis foi iiotliiitB l?ut suvar. conditioned the sale of sugar on the purchase of a pound of meal with cat h pound of subui. The condition is in keeping with the rules of the food administration. There was no let up in the demand for sugar on jc'OUMt of the rejUirenienr for the pui.'hasc of meal. HERE AND THERE. The- jitneys between I'loVer ami Vnrk^illt' and Yorkvillc ami Koi'k Mill, tt'hu li suspended oil account of tin* condition of tin- roads'. are nettins to wlii'ti tliey cuii make ihtir tri;ana.n Willi reasonable regularity. Mr. frank M. Jackson of "lover, who was in Yorkville yesterday, havin.is conic down in a buKK.v. told of a tr |? In- made to <instoniu on Monday i! - said lie would never have believed it possible for tin roads to net in such fearful condition. Hctwoeii i'Iover and ilnstonia he m? threi autoinobiJcs tint had been stuck in the mini and abandoned. Two were Fords I lit' mill.' w.is .1 rv i Ui uimm tins, thir make nf which tic iliil nut ascertain. All ti:! ? of the machines were frozen in hard. ami couhl have liecii reliascil only with crowhars. hot water or dynamite. Speaking of the tireless Mondays, a local grocer, who is one of the busiest men in tin town, says: "Ucally, I like this .Monday holiday, nevertheless, and I don't care if they keep it up indefinitely. It gives me plenty of tune to attend to Itds of other business on .Monday that I have not yet had time to attend to and besides. I .'.lllliot see but what We Ul*e Selling just as many goods as I have been selling. No. so far as I am concerned. I have no ohjeetion to the tireless Monday. lint of eourse. this tireless .Monday operates heavily against people who are thrown out of work on that day and who lose the day's pay. And this loss, too, linatlv sifts down to the business people."' SIMS LYNCHING AFTERMATH. The widow uinl other relatives of \V. T. Sims, fhe negro preaeher who was lynched by a mob at the home oi Huh Harris, on the roanl between Yorkville and Sharon last August, have instituted proceedings against the county for damages. The proceedings will lie under a statute which provides that the lam-1 :ly and dependents of a victim of inoh violence may recover from tie county in which the violence occurs, damages to the amount of not less than fJ.UO'i. No complaint has been tiled hi the case yet: but not long ago .1. A. Marion, Esq., wrote J, S. Brice, attorney for the county, advising him Of the desire of the widow of Sims and suggesting a settlement of the ease without a suit. t?n Wednesday. Mr. Marion appeared before the county hoard of 'ommissioners, stated his claim and suggested the settlement of the same without litigation. Supervisor Boyd mid Commissioner Kirkpatrick, Mr. Uiinj/ jiiyyt'_ Mr... Marfan to ui."li,'?and that if the claimants vvere" .'ntitlod to damages in the case the amount thereof would have to he assessed by a jury and there the matter stands. j. H. Marion, Esq., of Chester, is associated with .1. A. Marion. Esq.. of Vorkville, as courtsel for the plaintiffs in the case, and the understanding is that their complaint will be tiled within a short time. The statute governing this case provides for ilamaR) s of not less than |2.0nn in the event of a verdiet for the plaintiff: hut there is no limit to the amount the Jury can award. In Its discretion. In excess of that sum. ABOUT PEOPLE. Mr. O. Frank Hart of Columbia, was x visitor in Yorkville this week. Miss Mollie Bludworth of Yorkville, Is visiting friends in Lowryville. Dr. J. D. McDowell of Yorkville is visiting relatives in Waverly Mills, S. n Mr. N. B. Bratton is seriously 111 at the home of Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Bratton, In Yorkville. Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Lawton of Greenville, S. C., visited Mrs. J. J. Hunter in Iforkville this week. Dr. J. J. Glenn of Yorkville, has received a commission in the medical corps of the United States army, and is expecting to receive orders at any time. Miss Effle Thomas who has been vith MeConnell Dry Goods Co., in yorkville for the past several years, left this week for her home in Hamlet, S\ C. Mr. Worth McKnight, formerly with :he Kirkpatrick-Belk Company of yorkville, and since with the BelkKirkpatrick Company of Greenville, ;>aid a short visit to friends In Yorkville this week. He made his home ,vhi!e here with Mr. W. B. Keller, his jrother-ln-law and many friends were ;lad to see him. Mr. W. S. Wilkerson, of Hickory jiovc, returned a few days ago from Drlando, Flo., where he went to visit nis nephew, Tom Bulce, formerly of Hickory Grove, and also to get rid of :he severe winter weather that is prevailing here. He said Wednesday that :he climate and temperature down In Orlando were simply delightful; that people were going about in Palm Beach tuits and straw hats, and when they relt like It, without any coats. "When [ got back home," said Mr. Wllkerson, 'I immediately began to feel like I rt'lshed I had remained in Orlando for a vhile longer." STEVENSON MAKES PROTEST Congressman Stevenson has taken up vigorously by letter with Herbert t Hoover, food administrator, and with! Secretary MoAdoo the question of re-1 quiring purchases of corn meal and commodities in order that wheat !lour may be conserved. His letter to Mr. McAdoo is as follows: i "There has been recently a widely published request from you by the farmers of the south to make all the! breadstulTs they can and save the burden of transportation of shipping such I breadstulTs. "I venture to say that in my district there is more corn than will be needed by the people of that district and "there should be practically no shipping in of corn products, although there will be more or less of It, sonic people having a surplus and some having a deficit. Now comes the food administration and says that you can't buy any Hour although wheat was a failure in my,section last year, unless at the same time you buy an equal amount of corn products. "This is incomprehensible to the farmers and I have written Mr. Hoover a letter, a copy of which 1 enclose.1 and respectfully ask your careful-at-| tention to the same, and If there is j any way in which these conditions j may be ameliorated I will appreciate! very much your good offices In having ! it done." Following is the letter to Mr. Hogv-, er: ' "Some time ago Mr. McAdoo urged . the farmers to make, as nearly as' possible, everything at home. In or- j rter to avoid transportation dlfflcul- ( ties and the overtaxing of the rail-1 roads. The government last year in; every way endeavored to promote the production of foodstuffs on the farm, v especially of the south. The resul was that in the country where I hvi practically ali of our farmers ha\< uu abundance ol com to make then v in nival and gr.is and similar eorr products and the mills are .ibundam in whuli to grind it. so that, notnint oi tiiut kind is necessary tor tin country people to t'c snipped ;nt* tnat country. A re * lit order of > oar> prohildti tin untenants trom s.iune dour ti myooUi w no dovsn t ou.. an e?iua amount 01 torn nic.u, itrits, etc. Wheal w..s a failure in tn> section and or in> own individual tarin last year, si >no tanning popuiat.on nas to buy Hour and the> are confronted witr Hie proposition that the> must bu) an iiiuai amount ot stud which tliej tii> not nled and which lias to b? shipped in and thereby t<ccomis ? nuiiieii on transportation and \\Incl s inter.or to the meal manufacture* 11 mil the corn which they have ir ti.eir nlbs. That ? tin- situation or in> own latin an<i 1 know generally in my country. '1 write to ask it it isn't pussibli to a.old tins l>> providing that wher* tiny have this sunstitute at home ami can satisiy the merchants. 01 the ofncer n need be. that they have it. the) shuli nut be required to buy thai tvlui h tiny ili< nut need in order ti cut some Hour It will have tito very demoralizing effects on our southern farmers', to wit ' Kiryt. 't will meri^y ilounie tli expense of making the crop this year "r'ei'oinl. it will practically dcstroy iVot't to make ;t 101:1 erop 111 thai I'oiniti . t?-r they say 'If we can't list our 1 urn for bread ami if we have ti :niy 1 urn meal from Itiehmoml or tin West in 1'filer to lie ahh to buy llour, wiiat is tin- us.- of rais'nu euro.' anil tl.e i|Uestloi| is a very pertinent one, Tiny will mil everything 1:1 eotton exeunt to iiia IT enough eorn to fe<| ihi mules. "I'leasi lei me hear from >011 as ti your cotistrii' tion of this or.ler. as n whether it re?|iiires a farmer to hoy that vhieh he has in his ow? erib a> a condition precedent to getting: the llour." IN CLASS NO. 1 Iaieal hoard No. 2. has not yet completed the classification of Its 1.903 registrants. I'p to Wednesday It had examined 1,740 questionaires; but many of these have been laid aside because of various omissions in theli nillnjr out. necessitating the recall m ?h- "W*rants. Because of the In mr:, xz *{."? sr-^-srj; > large number of people: Fink*. 'r;lul Croekett^Eii E<"4UC' Ed UcCarter, John t?d ** Andrcw Logan Alooi-e Heurx .Cu"-?nce. C i? tt. Joseph Henrv dohn ^arWithcrspoon. James 1I,hV.> l{obci1 John Franklin \\ootcm aifton?^ an' t la fence Craig BovH Ai-ii. n Logan, l?iac- Woods Ernes! iv?2C0 Tuyior' ClOSWcIl Slaughter Inh l\ I?n' I David Augustus MUMh UUk'1 Smllh. ? "*. 1'almer MaJfon 6 M8' J?hn Ad" White. Hubert l?ver Vm ?rL'' J?hn jl'mttl. JohT'AMy"fc"u?hcs. Moal Hubert Baxter Hart Hon? Eloyd, >un. Edward Jacln f"0" Jack" I King, Handolph Lindsav^vm r.Jamcs Hubert Cartwrieht?? 1 11 Duhlap, I ward Barron jSff. rw?* Paul EdHenry Howell R??h CaGfay' Jr- Jno. Geo. Davis Burris Art? Dickson, Harnett. Sidney Dun^ xo Campbell ence Crawford Strou^H^i" *nC,ar" . George White. Walter vBlack'Hutsotr Watacni > - . ld- Emmet William '.Meek Fa^Ser, "rkonS"^' Lattimorc. Horace Lee pi," r.&vrCurfield Lay Char Ji \f ?. J le*'CO, CM aickaon, \Vo!wi 5ii?m \ ernon Quinn Husseii inJi Albert Howe. Edgar cianri wi Jacka?n' Grover rC"". Tirs ' hurley Wilson i?hr. L An(lrew Tate, law. AIcElwee Mnn?? ??bert Sh'WngliamiSh'wnihawimaSl' r^e0rge Wl'" K^Trandon^MiS"^'1^' Si'S? &? ^ mM,."rowS: M'lilinaK, Robert {????'? pqsrH:iil Can.neeUHni S?mLl A1,'en Tof! Hon Stowe Johk^n^ Jaspcr Ma" iP^i LowfJ j;?8Cer s!a7n8eieyLigehMonAtgomy Mark Fa,ter B McGlnnhs. Thomaa MM? Joby Lowry. Joseph 8. Falles, Hur/i jGordon Jackson. Hamp Rogers. Syl| vester Lowry. Pearl Truman Good, Hugh Boyce Faulkner, Lawson Augusta Love, Walter Eager, Walter Hoyles, Guy Hall Thomas, John Lee Wilson. Raymond Lesslle Barnwell, David Fulton Whlsonant, Hugh Jackson Love, Chas. Henry Ratterree, Frazler Hardin, Anthony Allison, Watson Smith Campbell, Willie Johnson, Isaiah Garrison, William Boyd Hope, Ernest Gwin, Walker Lee Stevenson, Samuel Walter Gordon, Robert McKenzte Costner, Lesslle Good, Frank Erwin Moore. Robert Pearl Nlvens, Bertus Roberts, Marion Lackey, Jesse Elbert Brakefleld, Smart Brown, Wm. Guy Neelands. Pink Smarr, Charlie Wright Jones, Charlie Bankhead, Samuel Feemster. Frank Harley Beard, Lee F. Burrls, W'.illam Lindsay Devinney, Lindsay Gardner, Ed Jenkins, Oscar Edward Ford, Albert Carl Moore, Arthur Ci-aine, David Williams McConnell. Bob Rarnett. Jaines Walter Norman, Emmet Llnwood Rhyne, Wilson Davis. Tom Meeks, William Carl Chambers, George Madison Anderson, Thomas Knlgten, Ernest Davison, James Luther Branch, Springs Reed Irvin, Baynard Brown Wallace, John Archie, Morrice Lacy 8tewart, John Hunion irvtn, jonn Kawunson, Ambrose Lewis, Roy Lee Marley, Joseph Hughes Moorehead. Elam Eli Falls, Oscar Calvin Plaxico. William Baxter Wells. John Tracy Matthews, John Walker, Clarence Curry, Jackson Berry, Walter Alexander Carroll, Robert Howard Burris. Archie A- Barron, John Andrew Winkler. Ed Lesslie. Arthur Rose bo ro, Jerry Williamson, Isaac Edward Harper, Raymond Ouy Jackson, Walter Taylor Barron, William Berry McCleave, Andral Joyner, William Bentley Rudistll, Lawrence Grey. George Green, James Bird. Samuel Lesslie Faulkner, Joe B. Thomasson. Van Ross, Geonre Franklin Ashley, Claud Ross, William Thomas Lockridge. Eddie Ralney, Frances Lewis Beard. Thaddeus B. Clinton, Paul Lea t ,ter Harshaw, William Edward Mitchell. ? Clarence Montgomery, Arthur Burrls, Lindsay Wade. Earle Claln Blackmon. 'John Sylvanius Wallace. Heyward 1 Retd. James Butler Martin. Andrew 1 Jones. Johnathon Forest Boheler. Lu? ther LaFayette Crawford. Gary Good. George Jeter. Joseph Allen. Ross Phll' lips. Thomas H. Allen. Tom Lowry. Robert James Jones. Ernest Emmett > Dickson. Baxter Barnette Robinson. ' Tom Burrls Brandon. Thomas Bailes. 1 John Hershel Hood. Walter Daniel ; Smith. Thomas Dillon Orr. Russell 1 Alexander, Isaiah Adams. Samuel ' Powell, Martin Luther Castles. Buster 1 i Hinds. Charlton Lesslie Good. Ernest 1 Ragsdale, George Lowry, William Craig Sanders. Joe McDaniel. John Hlnes, Lewis Mason Grist. Lee Robinson ' White, Charley Smith. John James 1; Currish. Babe Roseboro. Holmes Wil1!son. Allen Tate, Gus Poole. Claud '.Thompson. I onzo Walker. Sam Brown. ' 'John Krby. Alonzo Connor. Paul ' Sanders. Ed Mitchell, Bratton I>ee. i Moses Worth, Robert Childers. James Sheley, Pat Columbus Robinson. Royal Ernest Comer. Dock Moore, Haskell ' jCurrency. William N'eely Thompson. 1 | Daniel Harlev Gaulden. John Palmer Williams, John Joe Glvens. Joseph .Fred Brown. Ashe Shackelford. Paul 1 | Worcester Caldwell. Eugene Carlisle ,; Hood. Gilbert Hanna. Robert Byers. William Campbell McCleve. Jesse , James Collins, Jake Moore. Edward I/eroy Phillips, John Love, Paul Blake, John Howard McMackin. Harry Stevenson Henry. Arthur Phillips. George Blair. Louis Porter Good. Ernest I.ee. I Charley Saye Warmouth. Maynard C. . Grayson. Robert Jatnes Armstrong. Sol , Moore. George Nance. Otto Smith ArmStrong. Jim Perry. Harlev Dover. Peter Purcell. Bob Davis. Samuel Thompson, j Ernest Carroll Cain. Hazel Moore, j Henry Grady Ferguson, Will Floyd. itov .Martin Mndier. jonn Maxtor .mook. . Xoli S. White, Charles William Starr, Monroe tiilflllon. Charley Ashley. Wal, tor Jackson. J antes Steele. Morgan , Kineaiil Horton. Sam Kskuo. James Moore. I.loy.l Thomas Whlsonant. Henj rv Ranks Hope. LOCAL LACONICS Sharon and Blairsville. Ulairsvillo defeated Sharon. 1 'i to 4. at basketball on the Plsnrsville grounds last Wednesilay afternoon 1 Charged With Forgery. Uoy Taylor, white, aged '.'a. was committed to jail from Itnek Mill on Januart 2". by Magistrate Wing.ite. chained with fnrger> Circuit Court. The equity court was to have convened Wednesday. Members of the bar notified Judge Prince, who is to pre, side, that there was not business t enough for more than two days and ( suggested that he do not come until today. Mrs. Prince telegraphed yesI terday that the judge Is unwell and staked the clerk to adjourn court until Monday. The bar will meet this morning sit 9 o'clock to arrange a schedule of business. ' The Broad River Bridge. Work on the York-Cherokee bridge , hits been practically at a standstill for the past two months, on uccount of 1 the severe weather. Mr. Matthews, su' pervlsor of construction, said Wednesday, that he had completed about 280 feet of approach on the York side of the river* hut had heen held tin ho. ' cause of tin* impossibility of workup: 1 concrete with satisfaction in 1 freezing weather. There is a constd1 eiablr i|unntity of steel ai the bridge ' site, a car at Hickor> Grove, and another car ready for shipment at Hickory Grove; but there is little of ' anything that can be done toward 1 pushing the work until the weather gels in better shape. , Cotton in the Field. I The fact that there is such a large amount of cotton stlil in the fields of i York county, much more than there has ever been before at this season of ' The' year; lias "been previoniHty lie ceo. > Mr. J. T. Crawford of McConnellsvllle, > said yesterday in reply to a Question on i the subject that he estimates that he has ut leust forty bales of unpicked cotton in the fields?a bale to the plow. Hi- is satisfied that there would have been that much in December; but now a lot of it has blown out and gone to waste. "It hus been impossible to get it picked" said Mr. Crawford, "and I do not see much prospect of getting it out before .March; but I am still counting on saving all I can of it " | With the Expeditionary Force*. The Kock Hill ileruld prints the names of the following ltock Hill soldiets with the American expeditionary force: Juntos Itoy liurron, C. A. U. S. U tfon<ih ninrtnr u/>h/WYl* i l'oag, g. M. C. Hq.; Fred Marshall, i quartermasters headquarters; Hazel , Bryant, supply company, 303 Q. M. C.; , Lawrence i'ope, corporal horse section, 1st division. American train; William I W. Carroll, lieutenant Infantry, U. 8. , It., 11 C. M., I'nris; James H. Carroll, Sergt. Co. 11, 2nd engineers; Alex G. I Kewell, M. D., Lieut. M. O. It. (J.; Latta , Law, Lieut, signal corps, aviation; i Wilson Barron, Lieut, signal corps, aviation; Koger L. Young, railway enI gineer, Co. E, So. 10; J. D. Fincher, artillery, Lyle It. Whitner, ambulance corps; T. A. Crawford, ambulance i corps; Thomas S. Iteld, ambulance corps; E. E. White, supply Co., Q. M. C.; E. N. Steed, battleship Delaware, i 1th division, New York; Clarence Kuy> kendal, 107 aero squadron; Frederick i McFadden, corporal, 107 aero squadi ron: Charles E. Holroyd, corporal, 107 aero squadron; Hamby J. Williams, corporal, 107 aero squadron; Paul M. i Sealey, corporal, aero squadron; Thos. Chambers, corporal, 107 aero squadron; William F. Williamson, engineer corps, i Ftalnbow division; T. H. Slmrll, engineer corps, Rainbow division; James Wyatt Nunn, battleship Texas, care > I'. M., New York; L. M. Dozier, battleship Texas, care I1. M., New York. Shelby Makes Hopeless Kick. Cleveland Star. February 1: The ' following committee: Messrs. J. H. Hull. J. J. Luttlmore, Paul Webb, <\ 1. Hord and I)r. S. S. Itoyster. appointed at the mass meeting held last I Friday night to confer with Manager It. B. Babington over the increase in telephone rates of .'>0 cents per phone i pel month, reported Wednesday nlsht I that they could not reach a satisfactory ugr?-ement with Mr. Babington nr/.riAuiHnn th:?t h?> shoitld in stjilI the up-to-date Hash light com, moil battery system at the Inoreaseil I price of $1.50 for residence phones and $2.50 for business phones, the , present price of $1 for residence and $2 for busin'-ss to remain in effect ' until the improved system Is installed, i Thi reupon the phone users in rnass, meeting assembled in the- courthouse Wednesday night voted unanimously for a municipality owned plant and the following committee was appointed to formulate plans by which : the new system will be built: I-. M. Hull, chairman: Paul Webb. T. i Hord, J. Frank Jenkins and J. <1. Itudley. Mr. Rablngton and the Piedmont bookkeeper, Mr. Sadler, were here Wednesday from Gastonia and had a conference with the commlt; tie. but Mr. Rabington stated that he was only an employe of the Piedmont company and had no authority to make any concessions. He said his new rates would become effective today and that if the common battery flashlight system were installed it would cost approximately $13,000 and that a still higher rate would have '.o be charged and the service confined fo the towns of Shelby. Waco. King's Mountain and Grover. where the company owns the exchanges. He "I.I 1-nmm If fee that it would re quire from 1* to 27 months to get the switchboard and other necessary equipment for the common battery fl-ish tight system. ? In an executive proclamation issued Monday, Governor Manning has designated February 8 as "Insurance day" in South Carolina, and he recommends that "all who have rein-1 lives or friends and all who have at j heart the Interest and welfare of the j men in the active military or naval I service communicate with them at I once and that,they take immediate action to procure the maximum of insurance available." The governor thinks that every man In the service should take out the maximum of $10.000. i ANOTHER HEATLE8S MONDAY Fuel Administration Not Yat Ready to Suepand Order. Danger of widespread suffering from lack of coal is still imminent, fuel administration officials declared Wednesday night in announcing officially the continuance of the Monday closing order. State fuel administrators have reported that thousands of homes In New York and other cities of the east and middle west have no coal, and cannot get it in sufficient Quantities to make living conditions bearable. I This situation, coupled with railroad [administration reports that freight und I coal movement was almost at a stand.still both Tuesday and Wednesday In !the cast, prompted Fuel Administrator [Garfield to announce that "the possibility of human suffering is too immiinent to permit any relaxation in the i present efforts to conserx e and increase |the existing supply of coal." I Dr. Garfield expressed the hope, how lever, that after next week railroad 'freight embargoes and preferential coal I delivery orders may be used as substitutes for healless Mondays to effect coal saving. "It is hoped," he said, "that with the I ill -uowu nil .11UIIUU.V, rrurunrj n, anil the closing in many states on the Jdny following Lincoln's birthday, It will be (tossible thenceforth to rely upon embargoes and the preference In movement of food and fuel ordered by I he director general of railroads." The fuel administration is considering issuing a request that all Indusj tries and business houses suspend next Tuesday. Lincoln's birthday. Officials are now convinced that the industrial suspension has been efficacious in actually saving fuel in quantities, and that the consumption at other times has not been increased by the temporary shut-down. Without attempting to measure the result by comprehensive statistics, officials cited the report of the national committee on gas and electric service, that in 29 large cities, gas and electric companies saved from 21 to 35 per cent of their normal coal consumption on the five-day suspension period between January 17 ai d 22, and on the heatless Mondays. These public utilities were said to furnish a fair Index of the general saving. Stnte and local fuel administrators reported Wednesday thnt hundreds of manufacturing plants are using their last day's emergency supply of coal without immediate prospects of obtaining more. In many cities, householders beseiged railroad >ards to get a few ?' ?->i f-ntn rani fhnt entile iniaik'l^ \>l \uiii mvim ? ? trickling in over railroads crippled by Tuesday's bitter blizzard. MERE-MENTION Panada lias followed llle example of llle I'll I ted States iilld ordered three healless days in the eastern half tlie nonunion February ' l? ami II The military rulers ui rin.UI> have si|llclshed llle I>IK Strike by llllprisollillt: the lisidefs, shutting Olf tile food supplies of the strikers and lliri-atciiiiii: to shoot ;< 11 idlers The total liiltisll eilsUillltes for tli< week etidinn last Mondiiv was ri,35l, the smallest for any week during several months past Wllhelm Dittinann, leader of the German strikers, has been Selilelit eil to ti\i years' Iniprisontiiiiit An iiareellient has been reached between the Aiiii-riean and Kreiieh uovcTOnieiils by w hiell America will buy canned fruits and vegetables in France, in tirder to save totuniKe of shipping, Fifty street ears ami a la rue barn were destroyed by lite at Whet-ling. W. Va.. Monday. The loss totaled $L'lio.ouii A dispatch froltt Prague. Itohemia. tieniiiiny, tells a story of the Mowing lip of a large munitions depot at that place. It Is said that the explosion was probably intentional tine man was burned to death, two seriously injured and scores forced out without clothes Into zero weather, when Are destroyed a hotel at Monaco, Pa., Monday TTlitC Tnwn- mi, i i> <- 1 ' aP'1 's hurgh. Pa., Monday, charged with ' hoarding food. They had 2, Oil" pounds of Hour ami Jon pounds of sugar. They will lie lu-ld for court. Thomas Hit? In ock. Jr., a live.n-old boy of luookivii. X. V.. now i hi..ml,,,r of tlie I-i Fat ct tc eseadlille of Frami. is reported to h.a\? InouKht down his .second ? ?*riiiiin liver Hitchcock was rcfusi d ndiirssion lo the American ll> Itlts service licciiiisc ol his arte Mrs. Huttic Driitmii, wife of a lieutenant In the I'nited Stales niariic. corps, is reported to hav< h.cit drowned at I'or-an Prince. Haiti. e few days iik'u. She was a hlhhof two Weeks Fl\e of the thirteen l>tiit-:iims lotnprisiim Ho Indiana state reform.utorj at Jeffersonville. Ind.. was -lestrove.I hy tire Wedltis day. No lives were lost Fran/ von Kintelen and tin other Hermans Were convicted III the Federal eotlrl n New York Thtnsdi.> and sentenced to eiKhti en months in tin Ml.int.i prison and a line of $-'.miO lacli. fur eonsplraey to destroy no relnuit ships The JiiiIki told them he was sorry locouldn't iiivi- tin in more l?r. Win II. Puell. a well known San Fianclseo physician, was sliot to diath in his olliee lit that eitv Tuesday. '?V Fi lice Prate, an Italian, who then killed himself A masked robber held up the cashier of tin- (jiiinado. Kan., stale hank. Tuesday, and ant awav with Ja.miO Wa'es H. Hradhy. in aviation cadet lit Kllinaton Field. I Tovn ^ ti'titi Luenr.il #** do illi Iivuniirn, I w ?? ?-? ui in >i ?*? Monday whin his machine foil I'"' foi l and tho gasoline tank exploded. ? Tho twonty-minute oamioiiatliiiK if iho American front mi Saturday n ght was an exceedingly livoly aolion, wlioriiii many American ami (ii-rnian hattorios wore engaged In throwing sholls of innny calibres. Although tho fact that two American* were killod and sixteen wounded shows that wo ilhl not escape unsoot hod. nil observations indicate that tho (Sermon trenehes woro much damaged. Wo gave thorn severul thousand sholls In i|Uick tiino and smothered whatever project they had planned. Kvt-n their gas shells had no effect, for tho Americans wore fully prepared with their gas masks. Not a single man was gased. The artillery duel extended over a considerable frontage. the American casualties occurring at several points, partly infantry and partly artillery men. the former while traversing the communicating trenches toward the front Pne. As soon as the bombardnii-nt started the sky was lighted by countless rockets, (tares ami signal lights from both ours and the fjer- I man's trenches. while everywhere there were Hashes of cannon and the roar of explosions. Home of the American batteries did unuauallv rapid firing, one making an average of twenty shots a minute, and unoth it KriiuiK iniu arnuil III a mlnulr. The duel started at 5.!>S o'clock i>. in., continuing until 6.^'i. Throughout the whole affair the American* handled their guns quickly an?l efllclently. making a good showing. The Oerman shells had the main effect of furrowing the ground behind the lines and ploughing into ruined houses where nobody was at home. Mexico Friend of Kaiser.?Venustiano Carranza, president of Mexico, sent a fulsom birthday message to Emperor William of Germany, recently, according to Router's Limited. President Carranza in this message used the phrase "your majesty, who celebrates his anniversary today with just cause for rejoicing." Router's Limited, learns that according to a telegram from Copenhagen, President Carranza sent a telegram to the German emperor on the tatter's birthday, reading as follows: "To your majesty, who celebrates his anniversary today with just cause for rejoicing. I have the honor to send your majesty my most cordial congratulations and am pleased to express to you my best wishes for your personal happiness and that of your august family, as well as for the prosperity of this great, friendly nation." f ? The city of Greenville having learned that the general aasembly Is considering adjournment before completing its work, because of the meningitis situation in Columbia, has invited the legislature tb come to Greenville and Complete its work at that place.