Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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I.ilniia tolloVM-il tin- L lilli-u ... . ..< iumiii.il oi war uaiinni ? iiiiuii>, ami .sin* ** im-n has n<- ii m- , oniing ?j?:iiiian citizens guilty 01 mi- ( neutral uitii. Hens art to *.njo> immunity from the tiiupiiiiiti bloc-K only a week longer, as the looU administration has ' announced that restrictions against their sale uouiu he JilteU April -V. it is estimated that at least three anil a iuarler million hens capable of proiiuemg eggs have been saved in .New Vork, Chicago and iioston markets alone since the regulation was put in force February 33. Weather conditions brought about an earlier hatching and l aying period than anticipated, enabling the bun to be raised 10 days earlier than the time set. After another night of terrific artillery lire and a bombardment with gas shells, tin* Hermans continued Saturday their efforts to drive through to the third line of the American |?>silions near Apremout foi?st north- " west of Tool. The> made tv\o attacks. both ot which failed. The era*. ( niy's casualties in the four days' fighting ure estimated at between 3o'? and ' 400. fif this number more than ion weie killed. Although the enemy wasted fully a half of his s|?eciall\ , trained shock troop battalions of sou men. lie was unable to |M*nelrate the 1 \iuetiron lines, which remained tin- t changed. Tin* lighting continued dtir- , ing Sumhiy and at last accounts it was still in progress, with more Her- ! man casualties to the credit of the 1 Americans, ami but few losses to j I hemselves Charlie Chaplin, the famous movie actor. sIimmI on bis bead in the Tabernacle at Salisbury, N. (*.. last Satur- 1 tlay. Charlie is touring southern cities < in the interest of the third Liberty loan. At Ihlleigh lit- told the neophilia! if the capital of the state would raise lluu.uiiu in- would stand on bis < head. While talking to an audience < of thousands of people iii Salisbury, , there came a wire that Italcigh hail until* over the top Mr. Chaplin prompt- ' ly nIihiiI on his hetnl to the frenzied delight of hit< htu audience. Charlie goes to different towns, wnlkinu from ? his hotel to the speaking hall in the unit that mnile him famous ami then ' after making a splemlitl talk offers to t emlorse all checks made imyalde to > him for Liberty homls. The purchaser of the lioml uets the ch?s*k lijick with Charlie's nutnuraph. He 1 is sellinu thonsamls of ilollars worth of homls. I Field Marshal von Hindenburu t promises now that a Herman peace will he enforced late this summer. Archibald Httra, the naval expert of the Isimlon Dully Telegraiph, says he . learns, on indisputable authority, that j von Hindenburu has tacitly admitted ' that the intensified submarine cam- I paiua has fiiiled and that no hope can | be lonuer entertained that It will el- . liter starve Kngland or seriously Interfere with the Allies' military ef- ' fort in time to save Germany from t fatal constriction. Von Hindenburu i was in licrlln several weeks auo. when he wits moved to make a statement on his war policy to a deleuatlon of So- 1 clulists. Confronted with their threats t to vote no further supplies if the war did not end this summer, von Hindenburu gave the assurance that his affanalva tfau w est,, was. csrtalPi success. It would cost the lives of I 400,000 Germans but peace would < come in Auuust. , ? Ireland has taken a step neurer to home rule, says a London cable. The Irish convention, which met at Dub- 1 lin for eiuht months considering the \ problems besotlng the island, has ( submitted to the British parliament a plan which, while not the unanl- ' iiioum decision of the convention, represents a basis for agreement on some > of the questions that in the past . have prevented all the parties of Ireland from acting in harmony. The ' plan calls for an Irish parliament ' modeled after that of the empire, the | authority of which would not he diminished. An executive responsible to it and with full powers over internal legislation, ministrations and direct > taxation, ulso is provided. To meet i with objections from unionists, it is ( agreed that a 40 per cent representation in the proposed parliament will 1 he guaranteed them by the dominant i nationalists. Provision also is made , for extra representation rrom uisier. Minority reports were submitted by ttie I'lster unionists and the minority 1 faction of the nationalists. I "The detention and employment i by the Herman armies behind their , tiring line in Belgium and France of Hritish noncommissioned officers und 1 men captured on the Western front < have brought on these prisoners an | amount of unjustifiable suffering for which a 'xirallel would be hard to find in history, tragic in so many of its incidents as that history has been of the treatment by the enemy of their | prisoners during this war. This is the , opening sentence of the report of a government committee of Inquiry into 1 the treatment of Hritish prisoners of < war by the tier mans. It is shown that , they were systematically forced to work close behind the firing line. ' where they were deliberately exposed 1 to the tire of the guns of their own i and the Allied armies. Many were , killed and more were wounded. Deaths from starvation and overwork were ' constant. The men were half starved, t Such was their hunger that they pick- ( ed up for food potato peelings that , had been trampled under foot. An Australian private who was starving ' had fallen out to pick up a piece of s bread, left on the roadside by a Bel- i gian woman for the prisoners, was > shot and killed by a guard. The sergeant in charge at Krvillers used a dog whip mostly on men who were slow in starting work owing to weak- ' n ess. * ? lleeent reports from revenue col- ' lectors indicate that the government I may receive from income and excess t profits taxes in June much more than the $-.500,000,000 estimated. Some estimates, based on preliminary ex- 1 animation of returns filed ten days ; ago. run as high as $4,000,000,000. If , these calculations of big collections are borne out by further examination 1 of returns within tne next iwu www, the treasury may recommend legisln- | tion to provide for Installment payments of taxes, probably on June 15. August 15 and October 15. A delega- 1 Hon of the national conference of * State Manufacturers' Associations, nc- , compatiied by members of congress, a i few days ago appealed to Internal . Revenue Commissioner Roper for the , establishment of installment payments to ease the financial burden on business in June. The callers came away with Mr. Roper's promise that the t treasury would study the situation , carefully. The Liberty loan would be stimulated by making it possible for ' business concerns to pay their taxes | in Installments, the manufacturers de- ( clared. Under the present rule, many feel that they are financially unable ' to buy Liberty bonds for resale to em- t plo.vees, and at the same time make t arrangements for big tax outlays in t June. The delegation was headed by R. H. Rice of Lynn, Mass., president ' of the national conference. i ? Dispatches from the American * army in Prance, give a most encourag- r ing account of the manner in which t the American troops broke up a strong . Herman raid northwest of Toul last Wednesday. The Americans had in- ^ formation of the approaching attack t from the French in an advancing sec- s tor. The French had secured their In- c formation of the Intended attack from i1 prisoners and the Americans secured additional information afterward from a prisoner who was taken during the attack. It appeared that the Germans t \ . * " ?ad been rehearsing behind their own ines for three weeks. They had ar-anged to use 800 picked troops and t was their purpose to go through the Americans and including the third ine of trenches. The attack was nade after three days of artillery barage The Americans opened up first <n the Cirmans, started forward, and >nly 200 of the 800 were able to get >ut into No Man's Land through the terrific hail of shells that was sent trnong them. Machine apd rifle fire a as opened against the oncoming Oernans. As the tJernians approached the \merican wire the Americans met Lhem with grenades, and killed or I rove thern all back but two. These two were captured within the American wire entanglements and one of hem afterward died. The survivor told how 8oo men had started and ?:ily six hundred had continued. The Americans had no casualties. (The (fnquirrr. Intered at the Postofflce at York as Mail Matter of the Second Class. YORK. 8. C.: TUESDAY. APRIL 16. 1918. It is a privilege, a pleasure and a distinction to own a Liberty bond, and ilso it Ih an honor. The hardest case of all is the fellow who wants to wait and see how things .re going before he buys a bond. He Ihinks more of his dollar than he does of his country and he has not tense enough to realise that if his ountry falls his dollar will be worthless. <iei'tnan newspapers are talking of ash indemnity to the amount of 100,ino.oue.ooO marks, of cdurse they will never get any such sum, or any part of it from the United States of hut it mieht be well for those Lvhn think more of their dollars than I hey do of their country to dwell upon lie trend of (ieriuun calculations. The people of (Srimmes county, Texas, have agreed to consume no nore flour during the continuance oi he present stress and turn over to the government all the supplies they huve >n hand for the use of the American roops and the troops of the Allies. The government is now agreeing to ?U> and pay for all the hoarded flour hat may lie turned over to it. I'r inter Olemonceau has given out tn autograph letter that Kmperor 'liarles of Austria wrote last year offering to make seiiarate peace with h'ranee and the basis of giving up the i?rovinees of Alsace and Lorraine to h'rauce. Kmperor t'harles has tclerraphed Kaiser William that the letter s a forgery. There is little reason to louht that Kmperor Charles really vrotc the letter, as Austria u year ago ,vas in a most desperate condition. Why not every section of York ounty get one of those flags of honor 'or ovVraubscrlf)Ing~their a H ot rmTS ts? A'hile of course the hanking towns nust do their full part, it is not exliected that they do it all. The burlen and responsibility rests upon the vhole community surrounding the >aliking centers and the honor goes to ill the subscribers who help the loan 'over the top." Let every man get town to it. and go to his bank with in application for a loan. Let each one ,?f the towns earn a flag, and then let the county as a whole rejoice in the flags. The success of the war depends nore upon the people at home than ipon the soldiers sit the front. Cnless [he people at home back up the sol Iters at the front with a part of their neans. they will have to support <!er11:10 domination of the world with sill :heir means. It is not for themselves [hat those soldiers at the front are fighting: but for the people at home, or their loved ones?"their altars and heir fires"?and if the people sit home ?hall prove unworthy of these solliers at the front! Only think of it, :he misery and servility that will lie >urs. The strongest point that was made ?y Private I'earson in his talk in Winthrop auditorium last Wednesday ,Viis comprehended in this: "We solliers do not mind hardship, we don't nind lighting and if need lie do not nind dying. The principal concern ,vc have ahout dying is to send as nany of the enemy as |>os.sihlv before is. Hut the hardest thing of it all is o face the enemy out there in the tenches with a feeling that the people back home are doing nothing to help. If the people at home show by heir actions that they are concerned ibout the cause and trying to back us ip with their means we are glad to rive up all that we have." We believe in laws that will faeiliate the arrest and punishment of ull lisloyal citizens; but we do not brieve in any mob law. From such 'acts as have develo|?ed it appears hat that poor German ITager, who vas lynched out in Illinois not long igo. was a loyal American citizen, ind a hundred times better man than he men who lynched him. Mobs that ynch alleged disloyal people do more lartn to the country than all the disoyal |>eople in the country. Mobs hemselves arc disloyal. Yes. there tre spies in the country, and they thouid lie hanged; but only according o law by the law. If the law cannot onvict them, let them go. Mobs are ilways dangerous, as dangerous as nad dogs, and as cowardly as hounds. There was a break of 95 points on .he speculative cotton market last rhursday. The break was attributed nainly to bad war news; but the probability is that the agitation in avor of the fixing of the price of coton goods was a more important facor. Notwithstanding vehement dis* lainis of any purpose on the part of (IV nv* rriaiiivut ?v iia vuv pi ivv w? w?on. it is very well understood that the Ixing of the price of cotton goods vlll amount to the same thing. As a natter of fact we would rather see a ixlnc of the price of cotton than the ixing of the price of cotton goods. A'ith the fixing of the price of cotton, he producer would still know hisitatus: hut with the fixing of the price if cotton goods the status of the prolucer would be still more doubtful. There is a growing belief that the Germans are contemplating another great naval dash from Kiel and other porta on the North Sea. Among the circumstances that lend color to this belief are the information from neutral sources that certain naval guns that have been in use over the Flanders front have been withdrawn with their crews, while Austrian guns have been substituted and also the fact of so few sinkings by submarines recently seems to suggest that the submarines may have been withdrawn to co-operate in a big fleet movement. It is given out from Washington that the navy department has still more deflnate information than is embodied in the reports from neutral sources and is taking the situation seriously. Just ..vriwiwi <hish will Drobably take place is not known, of course; l?ut the Allied " eta are on the lookout. and they are really anxious for something to happen. ?ien. la-onard Wood is a Uoosevelt Ki pui'iican; hut nevertheless he is one of the greatest living American soldiers, and he is a truthful man. What he says ahout the war may he taken us straight goods. Here is what he told the people of America in a recent speech: "This is a war against efficiency, a degree of efficiency which the world has never before witnessed. Do not underestimate the strength of the enemy you are sending your tnen against. He is skilled in war. trained in arms, wonderfully well led. and also brave and daring. We may damn his methods and condemn his morals and denounce the object of the war. but do not let us uutkc the mistake of underestimating his value as a fighting machine. "It is not going to be an easy war. The man who tells you that th? enemy is exhausted and there Is going to be an easy victory tells you what Is not true. It is going to be a hard war. and it is wicked to mislead our people into believing that it is going to he an easy war. It is going to he a war that is going to try your very souis. that will make you realize what war is. as those of our allies who have been preparing for a long time have learned to realize. "It is a war of the American people, a war in which everything we Iiave is engaged, in wntcn evcryining we lisive is nt stake." Your Fifty-Dollar Bond. It will protect 1,000 soldiers from smallpox and 666 from typhoid. It will assure the safety of 139 wounded soldiers from lockjaw, the germs of which swarm in Belgian soil. It will render |>ainless too operations, supply two miles of bandage? enough to bandage 555 wounds. It will care for 160 injuries in the way of "first aid packets." It will furnish adhesive plaster and surgical gauze enough to benefit thousands of wounded soldiers. Kver.v purchaser of a l.bert.v loan bond |>erforms a distinct individual service to his country and lif our hoys fighting in France.?Hreenville News. Ami suppose you do not buy that fifty dollar Liberty bond, which you can easily buy to your financial profit. Do you want to expose l.tflfO soldiers to smallpox and 666 soldiers to typhoid? l>o you want soldiers who are ( wounded while fighting for you to submit to painful operations for need of anaesthetics you could have supplied. or do you want them to bleed to death because you would not buy the bandages?" Of course if these soldiers were here on American soil you would do anything in your power for them; but they are not .here. They are in France AtnS' your- gocCTTtwiwiV weetan- taJWcare of them: but it cannot take care of them without your help ALL LINES HOLD Germans Have Not Yet Been Able to Smash British Army. The entire ullicd line in Belgium and France is holding firm. Nowhere have the Hermans been able, notwithstanding the great numbers of men hurled against it. espe dally that portion in Manners wnere the British are holding forth, to gain an inch of ground. Kit-Id Marshal liaig's order that no more ground he ceded is rigidly being complied .with as is attested by the thousands of German dead now lying before the Brltish positions southwest of Ypres, where it is the ambition of the high German command to break through and envelope Field Marshal llaig's forces and gain an open highway toward the English channel. .Northwest of St. Mihiel the American troops have been compelled to withstand a series of persistent assaults, second in intensity only to those delivered by the Germans against the British in Flanders. And the honors at the end rested with the Americans, who met the foe at every style of fighting he offered and decisively defeated him. Along the front held by the French Sunday saw nothing of greater importance than reciprocal bombardments on various sectors, the troops of both sides remaining in their trenches. Likewise, in Italy the big guns were doing most of the work, although at several points enemy patrols attempted to carry out divisions but met with no success. Heaviest Fighting. At Neueve Kglise, northwest of Armentieres, where the Germans are endeavoring to drive their wedge in further in order to outflank Ypres, the heaviest fighting has taken place. Throughout Saturday night and Sunday battles of a most obstinate character took place, the Germans throwing thousands of men into the attack. notwithstanding their wastage In killed or wounded. Several times the village changed hands, but at last relets the British were still in possession of it and holding tenaciously under repeated German onslaughts. Nowhere along the eight-mile front where the Germans are trying to drive through between Wulverghem and Meteren have the Germans met with anything but repulses, nnd the price they have paid for their attempts to breach the British line has been enormous. On no sector have they been able to surmount the stone wall of the defense and, for the moment at least, there seems to be justification for the hope that the turn in the tide of the battle is at hand. "Every Position Must Be Held to Last Man."?Field Marshal Douglas Haig. in a special order of the day on last Friday addressed to "all ranks of the British army in France and in Flanders" said: '"T,v-f?ol? turn trwlnv the enemy begun his terrific attacks against us on a fifty mile front. His objects are to Separate us from the French, to take the channel ports and to destroy the British army. "In spite of throwing already, one hundred and six divisions into the battle and enduring the most reckless sacrifice of human life, he has yet made little progress toward his goals "We owe this to the determined fighting and self-sacrifice ' of our troops. Words fall me to express the admiration which I feel for the splendid resistance offered by all ranks of our army under the most trying circumstances. "Many amongst us now are tired. To those I would say that victory will belong to the side which holds out the longest The French army is moving rapidly and in great force to our support There is no other course open to us, but to fight it out "Every position must be held to the last man. There must be no retirement With our backs to Uie wall and believing in the Justice of our cause, each of us must fight to the end. The safety of our homes and freedom of mankind depend alike upon the conduct of each one of us at this critical moment" v . . Jf-v LOCA.U AFFAIRS. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS Clinton Broe.--Have Nancy Hall sweet poult** for seed end for table use. Fresh Florida cabbage. Rice meal for bogs. Star Theatre?Gives lu programme today, including two comedies and two dramas. Two new serials coming soon. Mia* Nelle Moore?Invites the public to witness a play for benefit oof Red Cross at Bullock's Creek schoolhouae next Saturday. J. Frank McElwce. Food Administrator?Issues warning to dealers in regard to selling Hour to customers. Clover Drug Store?Has a big lot of the famous Waterman "Ideal" fountain pens. I2.&0 to $6.00. Sutionery. etc. Ycytk Supply Co.?Can supply you with fertilisers from stock and advise using a high grade fertiliser as side application. Geo. W. Williams, Real Estate?Offers the H. L. Summitt home for tale. Also a farm and two town lots. York Furniture Co.?Invites attention to new spring goods that it is now showing and invites attention to iu qualities. Ferguson A Youngblood- Suggest that you sow ( considerable cane. They have the seed. A word as to feedstuffs. ' J. M. Stroup?Urges you to buy your clothng ; now. Later prices will probably be higher and qualities not so good. Straw hats. ' Winthrop College- Announces the coming of I the Clifford Devereaux company to Winthrop April 26th for two performances. Loan and Savings Bank?Asks you to make it ^ your hank. It is untiring in iu effort to make it "The Bank for the people." 1 G. W. Whitesides A Co.. Sharon?Pr'esent an ( appeal to you to buy Liberty bonds and buy, them now. ' J. M. Stroup?Uses space to quote a conver- I sation in which the Third Liberty loan bonds are under discussion. See page four. York Furniture Co.?On page four gives a I space in which you are urged to buy Liberty bonds as a duty to yourself and country. Wrigley?Tells you that Wrigley's chewing ?' gum is the great war favorite. The flavor lasts. See page four. It would probably cost one hundred thousand dollars to concrete the road between Yorkvllle and Clover, and It would be worth about half a million dollars to the country on both sides of the road and throughout the northern part of the county generally. n.m/Mntralinn Anent McKeown , wants a correction of a recently pub- t lished statement to the effect that the f "estimated cost of James \V. Dratfln's ( corn was 251-2 cents a bushel." "There was no estimate about it." ] says Mr. McKeown. "Every element of ( labor and expense that went into the < production of that corn was calculat- , ed down to the closeness of a gnat's . heel and the figures were exact." I Unexpected demands for shipping. ' says a Washington dispatch, has pre- ' vented the department of agriculture 1 from carrying out its original sehed- ' tile of importations of nitrate from ' Chile lor distribution to American 1 farmers. The dei>artment has an- ' nounced, however, that to date more ' than 17.000 tons have been shipped to ' farmers and an additional 3,500 tons is 1 at southern ports, while transportation ' arrangements have been made for more than 72,000 tons in all. The heaviest work .should he done on the roads in the spring: instead of ' in the late summer and fall. I^ntc summer and fall work loosens the road bed so as to facilitate its cutting up in the winter. Spring work puts J the toad in good shape for Immediate use and admits of a thorough parking down of the loose surface before | wlnt< r. We continue to do the heaviest work in the fall, however, because we have always been doing it that way. The mortality of spinal meningitis > is now less than pneumonia, l'hysl- j clans who have had experience with both maladies so declare. As a matter t of fftCii JJUiPOi .meningitis is no mngfri J a serious matter, provided the disease is taken In time and the necessary | l.aboratory facilities are available. , There is a serum which, if Injected promptly, will cure 95 per cent of the < cases: but if a case is allowed to go i three or four days before Injection of the serum there is very little hope, i In a community that is isolated from i laboratory facilities, of course, men- | ingitis is a very serious proposition. Another draft call has been issued, this time for 49.843 registrants. This ' call increases to more than 300.000 the number pf men ordered to camp since late in March, and this figure is ' far in advance of the monthly aver- 1 age that sought to mobilize 800.000 men during n nine months period of this year. Only a week ago General ' Crowder ordered the mobilization of J 150.000 men by April 26. The additional call raises the number to prae- , tically 200.000. These 49.843 are to i come front every state in the I'nion > and from the District of Columbia; but not even proportion. Nearly half , of them nre to conte from seven < states. Over 8,000 are to come from ! Illinois, North Carolina is to furnish 1 481 and South Caroliua is to furnish 289. < ( Sydney Rhyne, a prominent fainter ' of Ithyne's station. al>out half a ' mile from Camp (Irwnc, near C'harlotte, was perhaps fatally wounded Inst Saturday night by a bullet which came whistling through the window of his home and struck him just below the right eye. Mr. Rhyne was reading at the time of the accident. At first it was thought that the bullet was the outgrowth of foul play and then there developed a theory that it was probably the result of the accidental discharge of a military rifle in the camp. The wounded man was taken to a hospital in Charlotte for treatment and the doctors, who seemed to think the bullet was imbedded near the base of the brain, were unable to give much encouragement to hope for the best. Mr. Rhyne has a wife nnd five children. So far a* The Enquirer has been able to gather, the only sweet potatoes that were saved in this county last winter were saved by means of potato houses. We do not say that no potatoes were saved in hacks: but scores of farmers have told the writer that they lost their jiotatoes in hacks nnjl not one hns told him of saving no tatoes l>y that means. One hundred | and seventy-five bushels of potatoes j to the acre Is but a poor crop. It is 1 about the average. Potatoes are worth ' about 50 cents a bushel at digging j time and on till cold weather. Last i year they sold at one dollar from the 1 fields. Before mid-winter they were 1 two dollars a bushel and were difficult to obtain at that. Good potato houses , would have saved the entire crop, r We hear of a Mr. Dickson near Bowl- 8 ing Green, who has a potato house J and who saved practically all the po- c tatoes he had in it. Why will we not c Insure the saving of our potatoes J when it can be done with such a ri- t diculously small Investment? \ I YORK COUNTY'S QUOTA York county's Quota of the Third } Liberty Loan has been apportioned at ] 1449.300. ? r This is what York county rnist in- J vest to hold up her end in proportion ( to other communities. 1 By towns the apportionment is .as * follows: - Jj Hickory* Grove $9,400 ji "i f* T'1 " x% ^ ''.'j * t \TorkvilIe 86,100 Sharon - - 21,000 , Rook Hill - 277,000 <*]over 29,100 Hi Kort Mill 24.700 of It is not to be understood that these foi iowns are expected to raise the ro imounts within themselves. an The apportionment has been made nu >n a basis of population immediately da unrounding and upon banking resources centered in the different Us towns. . fn It is expected that the subscriptions ws onic front the people in proportion to ro the:r ability to subscribe, and in pro- nc liortion to their patriotism?their wil- Cr lingness to help do their duty, * ? mi WITHIN THE TOWN th PC ? The B. C. K. Literary (girls') so- th .iety of the Yorkville Uraded school, th ta\i- invested their funds in thrift itaiiu<s and have given evyry girl in m| he High school a card with the first ? t Q ? h c, I th nnii pr ? About fifty of the Church Home hi >rphanuge people went on a picnic nc >ver the C. & N.-W. to Orowder's jjj last Saturday, and were un- vi ible to get back because of a serious sti rain wreck up the road. A number jf automobiles, however, were prompty gathered up in Yorkville and the tw hildren were brought home promptly w? ind without Inconvenience. ? There was disappointment last fri 'riday to the. farmers who came pretared to take their quotas of the ni- pe rate they were expecting to get from he government. The understanding |?a vo.s that euch farmer was to get onehlrd of the amount that had been rei illottcd to him and this third was to co orne in two cars. It turned out. how- ^tj >ver. that only one car actually ar- nn ivcd. the other having been side- 1st racked somewhere and many of the aimers went back home empty-hand- h(( 'd. T1 ? There was considerable interest riere last Thursday evening on account a? jf a strange waterfowl sent in by Paul th Veil, of Kbenezer, who had killed it l'r luring the day on a nearby creek. ^ rhr bird was nearly three feet in rit ength. Its breast was speckled like t guinea and its front was white. The 'J1] Head was black with a white ring iround its neck, and its web feet, ha built for paddling were set so far be iown as to appear to be of but little jse for paddling purposes. Prom a ai. nit in Webster's new international the -1 - ' ? ?" I.lanllflo.1 i,e .1 Innn n fpprlpr be run over uy a uiuyuu Dcvnai ncvaa ago. is able to be out again. He Is ho walking on crutches. Ch Mr. John J. Jones of Yorkville No. an 3, fell from the roof of a small house a Saturday afternoon and broke his right shoulder blade. He is painfully, though Hi not seriously injured. th Lieutenant G. C. McCelvey of Camp Jreene, Sergeant A. Knox Quinn of 0f Tamp Sevier, anil J. R. Logan, Ft. O. P0 T. school. Camp Jackson, spent Sun- -pj ln> In Yorkville. th Mr. J. Ernest Stroup of Yorkville, ho left yesterday afternoon for Charles- m ton. to attend a convocation of Scot- m( tish Rite Masons, which is to be held in that city today and extending to th Friday afternoon. 8t< sti Mr. and Mrs. Robert Wttherspoon >f Yorkville, have announced the en- j0 ragement of their daughter, Julia co Hamilton, to Mr. Malcolm Johnston, be |r.. of New York city, the wedding to pr ake place at the Waldorf-Astor hotel ch n New York, on Saturday evening, (jit Vprll 20. m, J. C. McClure. Es<i.. appeared for the co itate yesterday In place of Solicitor gr Henry, who had to go to White Oak o attencl the funeral of his niece, Mrs. ro Helen Matthews, who died in Char- ea otte Saturday, following a surgical . jperatlon. Mrs. Matthews was a laughter of Mr. T. O. Patrick. co Mr. \V. T. Slaughter of Hickory ft J rove, was called to Camp Sevier, an Jreenville, last week on account of th he serious illness of W. T. Slaughter, ha |r.. who is confined to the base hos- hli ijtal with a severe attack of pneu- bo nonia. At last reports young Slaugh- ha er's condition was thought to be idi ilightl> improved. th - _ .... th L>r. J. J. tiienn or xoravuie, wno . Lai commissioned First Lieutenant n th?- Medical Reserve corps. Nation- P? il army in January last, and who om pie ted training will not be sent ihroari because of disqualification on iccount of a heart affection to which he P" lias been subject'for many years. Unier present rulings he will accept a , surgeon's certificate of disability and , Hold himself subject to future orders p ,vhich may or may not take him Into ictive military service. In the meanlime the doctor has resumed his practice. gQ Dr. J. D. McDowell of Yorkvllle, idi t\ho has been confined to his home for nore than three weeks with a serious Hs ittack of Illness, is getting along very tic licely. and hopes to be at work again po toon. There was a rumor that the w? loctor had suffered a renewed attack CI >f his former trouble, "bugs," as he ye lometimes smilingly described It to his riends (meaning, of course. the d hreatened attack of tuberculosi.' vhich he staved off at Lake Saranac) R. )Ut this is a mistake. He has simply w< iad a very severe attack of grip that go leld on longer than it ought to have frt teld on l>ecaitse he had previously w< iroken himself down with overwork, tnj iut the doctor is getting along nicely po low. Within the next few days or a th i-eek he expects to go with Mrs. Mc- td< Howell for a two weeks' visit to New Hrleans with the idea of building limself up, and when he returns he iopcs to get down to his work again n accordance with the old schedule ,r as much of It as he might feel that v? >r is able to stand up to. C. in lisli tn north temperate latitudes ind ?iuite rommon in his native 8h inbitat. tii * jU: ABOUT PEOPLE Pr. \V. G. White of Yorkville. is pending a few <lays in Florida. pu Airs. N. J. V. Bowen of Yorkville, eh vas a visitor In Rock Hill this week. (|o Mr. J. O. Comer of Yorkville, visited lis son, J. Boyce Comer at Greens- p,. ?oro, N. C? last week. to .Mrs. J. M. Mclver of tJulf. N. C\, is ini isiting Rev. and Mrs. K. K. Gillespie m) n Yorkville. vt? Mrs. S. M. Jones and Miss Mary he 3rown of Chester, are visiting Mrs. s? I. C. WllbOTU, in Yorkville. th J. K. Benfleld of Camp Jackson, lai pent several days Inst week at his JJJj lome on Yorkville No. 3. an Mr. and Mrs. James Glenn of Chesjr, visited the family of Mr. Robt. T. jyifin 1 ri YnrV-illr tM~ titrI* ... . Mrs. M. L. Carroll and Miss Rose Lindsay of Yorkville. spent several an lays last week In Columbia. Uobt Turner Allison of Davidson ar college Bpent the week-end with Mr. ,e and Mrs. R. T. Allison in Yorkville. w Miss Annie McCarter who haa been T teaching near Crouse. N. C., has returned to her home near Clover for "j1 the summer. Privates Harvey Mullis and John Warren of Camp Jacksdfi, Columbia, au ipent the week-end with relatives in ar forkvtlle. in Mr. Arthur Neely, has returned to ro lis home in Yorkville, after a stay of wi leveral weeks at an avintion camp in ?f Pexas. a ar Mrs. ltobert witnerspoon ana de laughter, Miss Hita, of Yorkvllle, left ast night for New York; to attend the IVitherspoon-Johnston wedding. Master George Ferguson of York- mi ville. who had his leg broken by being ,ja i j iuciuiucu no iin>iii5 vuiuc nui s store and from nowhere else,' th ys came across. They confesse ving stolen the articles actuall ?ntlfled, and also they admitted ?tha ey had entere<l Mr. Pratt's store o ree different occasions by the use c eleton keys which they said ha en made by their brother-in-law llx Chllders. One of the Hawkins boys, accom nied by Deputy Sheriff Quinn. wen t to the house with Mr. Pratt las turday morning and identified ahou ty dollars' worth of goods that be iged to Mr. Pratt in addition t out two hundred dollars' worth Mi att had already recovered. Also h inted out four sacks of fertilize at had been stolen from R. H. C ildwell; but he would not identif ods which had not already, bee ?ntif)ed by the owners. About Sharon it is said that th iwkins's had skeleton keys to prac ally every store In town except sslbly. Hill's. It is alleged that key tre made by Felix Chllders: bu iIMam ha/1 alrlnnnrl on/1 hn hau n n t been arrested. Messrs. Shannon & (Mexico recover goods that had been stolen froz m to the amount of about $200 an D. Hope .recovered perhaps $5 >rth. Mr. J. M. Russell of Blairsvilh t back a saddle that had been stolei >m him some months ago. and ther re other commodities about, includ f a pile of cotton seed that are sup sed to have been stolen, but whicl e owners have not yet been able t mtlfy. CIRCUIT COURT rhe court of general sessions con ned yesterday morning with Hon H. Prince presiding, and J. C. Mc \ THE ARTILLERY RANGE . The artillery range over agalns tig's Mountain, has become a sourc unfailing interest and attractio r visitors from all the country sur unding for a distance of many mile id automobile parties increase t imber with each succeeding Sun y. The range is to the southwest c istonia, and York county visitor am the south and east reach it b ly of Bowling Green, following th ad that branches ofT there to th irthwest over in the direction c owder's mountain. The targets are about seven or eigli iles northwest of Bowling Green, an e I latteries are located at differer >ints to the northeast of the target! e three-inch batteries something lea an two miles and the larger battel ?. consisting of guns of slightly un r live-inch calibre are close to thre Iles away. Thn a rirot a arp nnt tv it hill vi??U' f e guns at all. They could be see ubahly except for the intervenin lis and woods; but a direct view i it desirable. The firing is directe jm an observation tower betwee e targets and the gunners, and i ew of both; also from a wireles ition on top of King's mountain. The targets consist mainly of a roi boards about two' feet wide wit tervals of ten or twenty yards be ffn, uiiu uit'sr iiuvc utrc 11 prru ?ll riddled with shrapnel, while a e wheat held surrounding has bee etty well torn up with shell hole 3m a foot deep to two or three fee ep, very suggestive of the condition ang the front lines In France, ea daily in No Man's Land. Along in front of the targets ar rbed wire entanglements, and thes ,ve been pretty well cut up by shelli so Included among the targets is gulatlon machine gun emplacemen nsistlng of a deep hole In the groun lilt up with logs and covered ove th dirt. It was built as a targe d it has been pretty well demol ted by a five-inch shell. Just behind the row of targets ther a growth of timber. Including pirn L-kory, oak, dogwood and the liki lis timber has been riddled. Pine elve or fifteen Inches In dtamote ive been cut down by a single she d other pines have been bore rough as by a three-Inch augu actically all of the trees have bee Idled by shrapnel bullets and som ve been barked and broken b ocheting sheila. There are a number of houses in th le of fire, some of them more or lea lapidated and some of them in ver o?l shape?one or two of thex ndsome homes in fact. All hav en abandoned. Several of thes uses have been completely riddle th shells and shrapnel: but som e still untouched. The ground around and espeeiall hind the targets is littered wit ree-inch shrapnel shells and als th pieces or 4.7 explosive shells. 111 rapnel is made to explode from ne fuse. It is supposed to explod st before it reaches the target an ikI forward a shower of leaden bul s. The case in which the bullet >re inclosed is supposed to con lue forward from a hundred to lliuri'u iinu mij yaiua unci uic uia nrge of the missels; hut the cas pa not break. The 4.7 shells ar pposed to explode on rontact an irst into many pieces. A certai r cent of both kinds of shells fa explode and many of them are 1> c about where they have fallen. There are points on Crowder' mntain from which spectators ma ?w the practice with safety. Fror Te they may see the firing of th tterles and the explosion of th ells about the target. From behin e batteries the shells, especially th rger ones, may be watched in thel cht until they drop down under th lis that lie between the batterie id the targets. STOLE BY WHOLESALE ATtogeFheF"oTJ ffiSjTt? Rathe HawK.lt id his two sons got about $500 wort goods from merchants of Sharo id maybe more than that. It I asonubly certain that the amour is no less than five hundred dollar The Hawkins family lived on the . Suminerford place, about two mil* rtnweni of Mnaron. rney were 01 nary poor people, so far as the ighbors were concerned, and al ough they were under more or let splcion as petty thieves, nobody ha ly Idea that they had ever operate a wholesale way. Some of the wary merchants of Sha n watched them closely when the .>nt Into the stores, which was n< ten?not in daytime?but that wa iout all. Their final detection an rest was purely a matter of uecl nt. Horace Whitesldes missed some cor am the mill. It n&d rained the da fore, the ground was still wet, an e track of a buggy that no one re embered to have seen at the mill th y before, was easy to follow. Thl ick was followed to the Hawkir iuse about three miles away and th rcumstances were sufficient to Justif i application to Magistrate^Smith fc warrant. As the result of the search of th a.wklns home under the warran ere was disclosed a miscellaneou sortment of goods of such an amas g quantity as to strike the searchei the improbability that the stu uld have been honestly acquirei le assortment included articles tha e Hawkins's would hardly hav night anyway, and there was to ch of It?whole bolts of cloth, nu [ rous new suits of clothes, hat oes and the like?a little of every ing in fact to be found in a genen sre or in an assortment of genera Dres. Charlie Hawkins, and Avery an e, his two sons, were arrested an mmitted to jail were they have sine en held. At first no one of th isoners would tell anything* The limed they had bought the goods a Terent times with their own goo oney, mostly from negroes; but the uld not give the names of the ne oes or explain why they wante ch an extensive assortment of stui r which they appeared to have n rthly use. When Mr. Sam B. Pratt of Sharoi ilted the prisoners In jail last Sat day morning he was able to get nsiderable amount of infonnatloi te prisoners would not voluntee ythlng; but when Mr. Pratt pinne em down to certain goods that h Clure of Chester, representing the se< t ?tate. J* e The grand jury was organized by un n the selection of U. M. Bratton of to . Yorkville, as foreman, and most of the ge s morning session was taken up with th n the court's instructions to tne grand w.j jury. wa Judge I'rtnce's charge, the charge ^ he delivered yesteruaj, is based upon if the experience and observation of wJ ? years of public service and it has been caretully thought out in every ln * detail. It deals with the tremendouse |y solemn and sacred duty of the (r| e grand juror, as comprehended in his )f oath ot olhce, the very greut importance of the oitice of county supervisor JJU and the still greater importance of the rJ"" it office of superintendent of education. d Also it emphasizes the necessity of ^j1 it suppressing: the crime of adultery. s. more especially among the white |>eo- , w pie. His honor said that the supervisor i- shou'd be a good business man, a e man vho understands road and bridge "1 building and a man who knows how >f to get the best values for the money n expended. He said that supervisors j**' K should l?e letter paid than they com- "r 18 monly are; that if they were worth ',u d nnetbino of ull th*?v W??rp WOI*th n enough to jusfify their giving all of P?1 n their time to their duties. and even at 18 that, could not give as much tune as bt' is necessary. As a general thing, he ed *' said, supervisors are not efficient. "? h The office of superintendent of edu- th cation, he declared, is the most im- "I y ixirtaru in the county, ami hi- should it " be the best paid officer. This officer th n should be a professional educator, mi 18 thoroughly imbued with the import- a i 'l ance of genera) enlightenment and fUi 8 with an energy and enthusiasm that f0 ' would keep him everlastingly at his ra work. His honor deplored the small th e salaries that make It impossible to se- (jP ie cure first-class male teuchers. Female oc 3- teachers, he said, do not meet require- w, a ments. Sweet girl graduutes teach W{ * only as a means of support until they Wt " can get married, and old maids are not |it, desirable as school teachers. Also he to ' Invelghted against a system that virtu" ally allows parents to select the teach- HtJ ers. holding that no parent is tit to w( select a teacher for his or her chil- |)r dren, because so long as the parent sjr L'- has a stiy as to the teachers's job, the 18 teacher cannot enforce discipline. He , stated that no boy can be developed ' Into a good man without more or less ' d whipping, and as things stand now we r- are engaged In raising a race of insu- .p,. n hnnliivitva ' , ie Hi.s honor impressed ti|K)n the grand y jury the importance of enforcing the laws against adultery. The existence ^ e of our civilization is involved, he 18 said. He wanted the grand jury to >' give its attention mainly to the whites. n to white men living with negro worn0 en. and white women living with nee gro men. He did not want any special 11 pressure brought to hear upon the ne- Ca e groes?not until the whites had been | made clean. As to the negroes, so |j(, y shortly removed from slavery, with ' the example they are getting from the i,n ? whites, they are not greatly to blame. Ku 0 Hut If our civilization is to endure, (0( a adulter) must be suppressed among . the whites. And there is no use in d our pretending that we cannot break en " this thing up for lack of evidence. It ..p 8 is easy enough to know what is going * on in this regard and upon proper ef- ' a fort it can be stopped. sei l" The following petit jurors were ex- n? e cased from further attendance: ,. ? Mr. Karris, I.. T. Dowdle*l\ K. Hell. * a ? S. M. Neely and Hoy Neil, and the th following sisK-ial venire was drawn pn " to supply the places of the excused " and those who hail failed to answer: J. J. McSwain, E. V. Templeton, It. S. 8 McDonnell, S. Ci. Hank head. John Low- Ra y ry, T. J. Hopper, It. I'. Jackson. T. C. n Dunlap, W. J. Gordon. Jr., ! '. C. lilack, e E. A. Dickson, J. It. Barnwell. * Nathaniel Henry, colored, plead |>o d guilty to stealing a bicycle and was tw e sentenced to twelve months and $1. the sn ir ? ? f" nrmriivr i u uc auajnuuru ?nri HIA JJK c months of service. Kn s Klliott Lock, colored, plead guilty to {n) stealing four bicycles and was sen- ow tenced to four years on the public works and tp pay a fine of $5. Yesterday afternoon was taken up iff wftTTtTr casefagainst' IMutHlff h and Joe Hawkins, charged with house- de breaking and larceny. All three plead- to ed not guilty to breaking into Horace vii 13 Whitesides's mill. Avery and Joe th it Hawkins pleud guilty to breaking into ins S- the store of S. R I'nitt, and Charlie Di . Hawkins plead not guilty. The White- th sides case was tried at length. Avery otl and Joe Hawkins would not go on the no - stand. Charlie Hawkins, the father, rei lr went on the stand, and while he did rei not know much about anything, bo claimed that he supposed all the goods Cc In his house had been paid for by his to i son. Avery Hawkins, with money oh- se< " tallied by working in a cotton mill at G King's Mountain. The cases could not l" be concluded yesterday afternoon: but * from the testimony adduced on the ed " charge of breaking into Whitesides's so "j mill. The Jury in the first case return- K< " ed a verdict of guilty after a few mln- tu utcs' consideration. to The grand jury has another case to B1 inquire into this morning, after which an K it will be discharged. th d __ Pt !* ~ ar |e HERE AND THERE th 18 (ju 18 The state food administration has "c e been advised that the rule with refer- j?1 y ence to selling and killing hens by li- { " ir censed dealers has been amended so "" that the prohibition will end at mldie night on April 19th. Private Pearson told a good Joke in . Is explanation of the manner in which |a, '' some people want to "leave George to Ha J2 do it." In a certain time of stress, a un l party of rich men held a meeting to C(j * consider ways and means for relieving o{ the poor. The central feature of the stJ ^ meeting was a banquet thut cost ten an dollars a -plate and after the partici- aj( pants had wined and dined until a ^ ? ' late hour in the morning, somebody , * called attention to the fact that no lJ tangible action had been taken in J* furtherance of the real object of the j . meeting. By now the guests were in . - a generous numor ana me suggestion p met with a generous response. "Three Jv ? cheers for the poor!" the toastmaster , ? proposed and the cheers were given 1,51 \ with a will. ? it Al d A fanner of the Delphos neighbor- tj, ?. hood, Will Clinton, said in the presence .)r L of Here and There last Saturday that ?e <1 any man who is able to buy a Liberty ch ff loan bond and who fails to do so is th 0 "almost" a slacker. That Is the way be he put it. Mr. Clinton was not talkL hig for publication, and he had no idea ., that he would be quoted. Here and th) a There, however, amended his remark y,f . with the declaration that the man , ,f described Is a slacker. Mr. Clinton is 1 j not a rich man. He Is well-to-do, ; e as the result of hard work and careful . n saving, and Here and There knows .J e through information obtained from (j sources that he knows not of that he ' .. has invested liberally In the bonds? ' In the second loan and also in the" ** n 'hird. g if Automobllists and others are com- thi d menting on the fact that the section of Cei ir, the Kock Hill road between Yorkvllle and Tlrzah is In better condition than mi - any other portion of the road. In- thi it qulry by Here and There a few days as< it ago developed the reason. Since Janu- of it ary this section of the road has been to in charge of I. P. Boyd, superintend- agi o ent of the county home. Mr. Boyd iy r. took charge at the request of the Ko e county supervisor and without pay, ix> r and has been going over the road from we >. time to time with scrapers, drags and wo y a disc harrow. Where the sides of the wa n roadbed are too hard to be pulled to sh< the center, he has used his harrow, Fr e and as the result the road has been bu - kept in fine condition. With such pr< 1. watching up as Mr. Boyd has been Bl< S rlvlnv nil th* rnadn could be keDt in del it flne shape. He '* Many people are complaining of the of damage being done by rate and mice a * in their homes and corncribs and na1 ? many are the schemes being tried to An 5 get rid of the rodents The depart- dr< , ment of agriculture thinks so much of _ the flght on rats and Its Importance P that It has Issued a special bulletin on 121 how to flght the pest Among other tic suggestions in the way of traps Is P3' I this one: Take a barrel, with one au< head removed. Over the open end tie nc< a piece of heavy paper and on this paper lay the bait for the rats. After ? two or three days the rats will become di< familiar with the barrel top and bait an and loose their wariness. Then take a pli sharp knife and slit the paper for Ta ' about ten Inches in the center at right set - angles Lay the bait near the inter- th< :tlon of the ourba and when the t comes again for the bait its weight 11 cause the paper to give away der it and drop him into the t?arrrl be disposed of later. Another suestion is a deep lard can in which \ ere is Ave or six inches of water. er the water sprinkle corn meal, leat bran or rice meal until the iter is covered over. Place the can the rodents can easily get* to its ge. and seeing the meal or brain it jump down on it and be drowned, lis is said to be quite effective as a *p. Poisons are also among the ggestions in the tight on the desjctlve pests. Mrs. W. F. Marshall of Torkville. s received another interesting letter ?m her son. Joseph Wallace Marall. who is with the American Knneers in France. The letter is dated arch 17. and it was received in irkville last Saturday morning. It bright, cheerful and interesting roughout. Wallace managed to tell s mother exactly where he was and - 1 * n?iuA lai ne nuu own uuiiib. ?c, v ujuc axico and others have been eon uctlng trenches and entanglements thin forty yards of the German tea. They would spend the days in igouts and do their work in the latr part of the night When the Germs would send up rockets and flares ey would stand still and could not seen, and when the Germans openwith machine guns they would lie >wn where they were and listen to e bullets whistling over their heads. I is not near as bad as I thought would be." sa>s Wallace. He says e boys would work on the entanglernts for eight hours and then take rest in dugouts back behind the lines r 24 hours. About the only discomrt in the rest dugouts was numerous ts "as big as oats." but things like is did not disturb the boys a great al. The front line experience had cured some time previous to the iting of the letter. When the letter is written Wallace and his chums re engaged In constructing other les of trenches nhd dugouts in a wn far to the rear of the front line sitlon. While it may not be proper to ite exactly where the young men >rked on the front line, there Is ohably no objection to saying that ice the letter was written the Ger ins have undertaken to rata ine nericnns over the very trenches that p referred to tn the letter. Wallace knowledges the receipt of packages sweets. cigarettes. letters, copies of le Rnqulrer and other papers, and lis how he enjoys sitting In diiKouts tone the big nits and other things adlng the news from home, though would have It understood that It Is e news he enjoys and not the Wg ts and other things. LOCAL LAC0NIC8 lied to Virginia. Itev. It. K. Tlinmons. formerly of thel; but for the past two years stor of the- Presbyterian church of rt Mill, has been called to the pas-ate of the First Presbyterian iirch of Covington, Va. He has the II under advisement, rivate Tutor" a Success. Bvery sent was taken for the prestation of "The Private Tutor" at (> Shady <Jrove school house last turday night, and the play was ironghly enjoyed by everybody. The ooecds. which are to Is- devoted for t benefit of the Red Cross, amountto *3(1.10. tiding Still. It. 1.. A. Smith, magistrate in Itroud ver township, accompnnied by a use, raided a blockade still about o miles south of Hickory (Jrove. nday night, and destroyed the plant. ;luding a quantity of beer. Two noses were arrested, and from them "urination was secured as to the net-ship of the still and the parties 10 were operating the plant. veloped among negroes In Bethel wnshlp, three of them In the pronce of Dr. Dulln and the other on c Ormand place. One negro wornin died of the disease Sunday, and > Dulln was reasonably certain of b correctness of his diagnosis in the her two cases. The fourth case has t been definitely established. At the quest of Dr. Dulin. Dr. M. J. Walker ported the situation to the state aid of health, and an exfiert from ilumbla went up to Bethel last night inject serum In all the patients that emed to require such injection. >od Example of Delphos. More than a hundred people gatherat Delphos school house four miles uth of Yorkvllle last Friday to hear 8v. J. L. Gates and Mr. B. N. Moore Ik ubout bonds and considerable inrest was developed in the subject > ank applications were distributed id many of them were filled out on e spot and others since. The Delios people are becoming thoroughly ouscd to their responsibility, and eir duty, and their spirit shows evince of having the element of conSlon. So far more than twenty of em have become purchasers of nun. MERE-MENTION The Romanoff family, including the te czar, his wife and children, are id to be in want The French d British government have furnishGeneral I'yrshing with 750,000 tons steel to be replaced by the United ates France has been called upto furnish a number of officers to 1 the Americans in sending men to e front In a raid lasting 45 inutes over Paris, Friday night, 29 rsons were killed and 62 persons inred A bill has been introduced the French chamber of deputies ilch provides that any enemy alien io has not declared his nationallty the police within one week after the ssage of the bill, will be treated as spy and shot Reports reaching nercia from Cuba are to the effect .. * /.nn/v RnMs In Hninntn ill, 1(11 kc oufsai wwic iiviu* 111 viioiiic ovlnce, are being destroyed by inndlary fires. The destruction Is urged to German spies and sympoize rs. A number of arrests have en made British airmen dropped tons of bombs and fired more,than 0,000 rounds from machine guns on a German massed troops on the estern front Friday.. During the Sht the airmen dropped 22 tons of plosives on Doual, an important ilroad station, and the roads leadf to German front lines. Gen. onard Wood Buys that the army wis 40,000 more reserve officers and presses himself as favoring tturning of additional officers' training inps and making the training period ; instead of three months, and also it the age limit 'be raised for offl s from 35 to 40 years Thirtyfen lives were lost In a Are at Nortn, Okla.. early Saturday, when ee buildings of the Oklahoma state >-lum were destroyed. The victims the fire were boys and men from 16 36 years of age. The property dame was $40,000. The Are was probahdue to defective electric wiring ur German airships made a raid on ndon Friday night. Five persons re killed, including two men, two men and one child. One of the men s an American soldier who died of jck Fire In Hulphur. Okla., last iHov nmrninv Houtrnvivl tho main 8ln?HH nectlon of the town with h >perty Iom of $150,000 Rudolph inkenburg, former mayor of Phllaphla. died In that city laat Friday, i was known ah the "Old war home reform," and wan elected mayor on platform of anti-graft. He wan a live of Germany, but waa intensely lerlcan Jn a Liberty loan ad sa at New Orleans Saturday, Senary McAdoo declared that in the sent situation "there cannot he any k of peace, except the peace of jus-* e, rammed down the throats of the lltary autocrats of Europe with the >erlatlve steel of American bayo:s." - An army truck, carrying 10 solts from Camp Wadsworth, 8 partburg, to Retdsville. Friday night, inged over a 60-foot embankment, ro men were killed and several lously injured. Just what caused t accident is not known.