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y. \ T Established in 1891. STATE NEWS ARRANGED FOR QUIOK REAOING. T Rev. A. O. Allison has resigned the pastorate of the Northside Baptist church of Spartanburg, and accepted a pastorate at Index, Ky. E. B. Crane, a graduate of the class of 1914 of Furman University, Greenville, has announced his candidacy for clerk of court of Greenville. The Wood Concentrator com pany of Chester, has been chartered with a capital of" . $300,000. The company will do a general machinery business. The Jitney Motor company of Charleston, has been commissioned with a capital of $10,000. The company will do a jitney business in that city. According to a statement is-' sued by the comptroller of the currency, there was $231,727 Aldrich-Vreeland currency outstanding in South Carolina at the close of .business on May 21. Governor Manning has granted a reprieve to Tommy Grice, a Florence county negro, who was to have been electrocuted June 1, to August 4. This is the s^ond reprieve granted the negro. Greenville county authorities a few days ago poured out eleven gallons of whiskey and 1,100 bottles of beer, the accumulation of seizures of several months by the police of the county. The United States supreme court has annulled, so far as it applies to interstate commerce, the South Carolina statute penalizing railroad companies $50 for failure to pay within forty days, claims for loss of shipments. Governor Manning has commuted the sentence of Grover Beeks, recently convicted in Laurens county of violation of f orvnr*r?n*?tr lm<r T m/vvm ? vftivs uiop^noai y law iiuiu a line of $100 or three months on the chaingang to a fine of $66.66 or one month on the chaingang. Insurance companies doing business under license in South Carolina have invested $12,562,943 in this State during the last six years, according to a statement by the insurance commissioner. The State department of education has finished the payment of State building aid to districts * erecting new school houses during the scholastic year 1914-15. * Seventy-five buildings in 31 counties were aided from the appropriation of $20,000. Governor Manning has returned from Washington, where he appeared before the Secretary of War in behalf of the National Guard of South Carolina. He expressed himself as being very much gratified with the result of his mission and said he believed if nrno ^ iv vvao kiic uvKlllIllliK Ui it IieW activity and efficiency on the part of the State troops. The Spartanburg court of common pleas was the scene Friday of a lively personal encounter between former Gov. John Gary Evans and H. E. DePass, another member of the bar. The fight followed Mr. DePass' remark that the former governor was a r liar and for some minutes the combatants were allowed to engage each other in a rough and * tumble encounter. HE F One Negro Mills Another. Police officers of Fort Mill and the surrounding to\vns are on the lookout for one James Steele, a mulatto negro who up until i Sunday, last, made his home in this township. Steele is wanted for murder, it being alleged that about 9 o'clock Sunday morning he firecl three shots from a single-barrel gun into th$ body of Ceph Stafford, another negro, ! causing the latter's instant death. The shooting took place ;about two miles west of% Fort Mill, near the county bridgeover | the Catawba. From reports it [seems that the two negroes had I engaged in a card game during I Saturday night in which Stafford won Steele's money and even his hat. Steele* became 1 infuriated over his losses and later secured a gun and fired from- a clump of bushes at the roadside with the results as stated. ? A warrant has been sworn out for Steele, who left Immediately ; after he had fired the fatal shots, I but up to this time nothing is i known of his whereabouts. lest liallon-a-Nonth Law. The testing of the constitu; tionality of the "Gallon-a-month . Act" will he watched with interest throughout the State. FroI ceedings to test the act have been instituted through a mandamus injunction brought by the law firm of Logan & Graydon. of Columbia, fjr Thos. F. Brennen, against the Southern Express company, who asks that the defendant ,4be perpetually enjoined from refusing to accept | outside points whiskey for South Carolina, and from declining to deliver such liquors so offered for the personal use of the plaintiff." The case will eventually find its way to the supreme court of the United States. This act has attracted much attention owing to the vigor with which it has been enforced. Columbia Will Get Chicora. The campaign agitated several days ago to raise $20,000 to permanently establish Chicora College in Greenville and on its present site, has been abandoned in view of the recently reaffirmed recommendation of the Chicora board of trustees that Chicora be combined with the College for Women, at Columbia, says the Greenville Piedmont. The announcement that the campaign which had its origin at a mass meeting of the Greenville chamber of commerce a few weeks ago, had been abandoned, was officially made known yesterday. This is taken to mean that Columbia is assured of securing Chicora, which is to be merged with the College for Women and the name changed, according to the trustees' recommendation to "Chicora College for Women." Licensed to Teach. County Superintendent of Education Carroll has just comnlcted the eradincr nf narwara O- ? ? O F?pvi o VI | the York county boys and girls who stood the examination for teachers, held several weeks ago. Applicants making a grade of from 80 to 100 are given a first grade certificate; those making a mark of from 70 to 80 are given a second grade certificate , and those making between 00 ! and 70 are entitled to the third : grade. Of the twenty-seven papers examined, three merited first grade certificates, nine the second grade and eight the third grade, while the average of seven was below the required mark for admission to teach in the public schools.?Yorkville j Enquirer. % ORT FORT MILL, S. C., THl WILLIAM J. BRYAN RESIGNS FROM CABINET William Jennings Bryan, three ! times Democratic candidate for [ the presidency of the United I States and author of nearly thirty p?ace treaties with the principal Nations of the world, resigned Tuesday as Secretary of State as a dramatic sequel to his disagreement with President Wilson over the Government's policy toward Germany. The resignation was accepted by the President. The Cabinet then * approved the response which had been prepared to the German reply to the Lusitania note. Acting Secretary Robert Lansing, it was expected would sign the document and that it would be cabled to Berlin yesterday. Rather than sign the document which he believed might possibly draw the United Stated into war, Mr. Bryan submitted his resignation in a letter declaring that "issue involved is of such moment that to remain a member of the Cabinet would be as unfair to you as it would be to the cause which is nearest my heart, namely, the prevention of war." The President accepted the resignation in a letter of regret, j tinged with deep personal feeli ing of affection. The letters, | constituting the official announce; ment of Mr. .Bryan's departure | from the Cabinet to private life, i were made public at the White i House at 6 o'clock Tuesday afternoon. Austrians Recapture Przemysl. Przemysl has been recaptured by the Austro-German army under General Mackensen. an cording to official dispatches received from the Austrian head| quarters at the front. | The Vienna official statement Friday says, "We have recaptured Przemysl." This import tant Galician fortress was captured by the Russians on March 1 22, after a siege lasting for five months, the garrison being literaliy starved out. The official dispatches said the Russians allowed the enemy to take charge Friday morning at 3:30 a. m. German Population is 2,000,000. It is estimated by the Census ! Bureau and the Bureau of Immigration that there are 2,603,776 ! persons of German birth in this ,! country. This estimate is based on the fact that the census re| port of 1910 showed 2,501,833 I persons of German birth in the | United States and the annual I reports of the Bureau of Immigration that 24,781 German imi migrants were admitted in 1911, ;20,031 in 1912, 29,145 in 1913, i! and 27,486 in 1914. Since August i 1914, very few persons of German birth have come to America to locate. It is estimated that there are in the United States 8,282,618 persons whose ancestors were ? ui vjcimaii uii^iu. One-Year Men Finish. Thirty-eight young men have received certificates certifying that they have successfully completed the one-year agricultural course at Clemson College for the session of 1914-15. This year's class is smaller by a few i men than the classes of last , year and the year before, but in quality it is among the best ever to go through the course. The one-year agricultural J course is specially designed to meet the needs of farmers' sons who are unable to devote four j years to a college course. An effort is made in the one-year course to instruct the students i in all the essentials of agriculture. Mill IRSDAY, JUNE 10. 1915. STATE NATIONAL GUARD WILL SOON BE RESTORED The National Guard of South i Carolina will be put on a sound ; and safe basis at an early date as the result of a conference in , Washington Friday by Governor Manning. Adjt. Gen. Moore and Secretary of War Garrison. ApI proximately $45,000 will be given the National Guard immediately in addition to about $32,000 which | will be available at the beginning : of the fiscal year July 1. next. I Senator Tillman introduced Gov. Manning and Gen. Moore. "We j came here." said the Governor, I "to ask you to foiget what hap j pened to our National Guard as I the result of previous State ad| ministrations, and give us an op1 portunity to place the South CarI olina troops on an efficient basis" i The South Carolinians explained that they wanted to be relieved of the charge against the Stato of some forty-odd thousand lars as the result of loss an? damage to equipment. "We only want to be given the privilege as has been extended to other States," said General Moore, in making his appeal to General Mills. Many Merchantmen Lost. An admiralty statement, giving the number of British merchant and fishing vessels sunk or captured since the beginning of the war, shows that fifty-six merchant ships have been sent to the bottom by cruisers of the enemy, twelve by mines and sixty-two by submarines, a total of gone hundred?and thirty. Eighty-three fishing craft have been lost, and of these twentyfour were sunk by mines. IA Time :? Now is the 1 SHOES. W ^ a big lot of M I SI . i r g pers in the rai @ celsior" make !g must be sold ^ we don't wan ig Come and I your size. A few Lad and 3 1 -2 to 1 0 If you can i g give you a bai 1 Mills & 1 . "Buy. TIM! THINKS WaR WOULD END WITH HOLLaND'S aDVENT In the opinion of the highest practical experts of the war department. says a Washington despatch, an early and decisive end to the European con diet can he brought about only in one way. This is by the entrance into the struggle of Holland, which country they regard as the key of the whole situation. According to renorts vppoivoH here continually through of- J ficial channels, .'.he entrance of Holland on the side of the allies j is not an unlikely contingency. Holland is described in these re-' ports as being in an angry mood toward Germany on accouut of the loss of vessels and other I property which she has experienced. It is understood | every effort is being made by the j British diplomacy to bring her *>ver to w'ey side of the allies. The A)od ojan military view is juhat-ii- tt 8SLnd enters the war her army of 400,000 men will j occupy the attention of the Ger; man forces on her borders. In j the meantime Lord Kitchener <(ill land on Holland's shores the army of nearly 1.000,000 men 1 : which he has in England. This army would invade Germany with all possible speed, to j cut olt the other lines of communication with the great Ger; man army now in the trenches in Belgium and France. The effect would be to deprive the German army at once of food supplies. George Gulp, a well known young man of this city, has been seriously ill for some days in ! Sprattville. >00? ?0 0? 000000 s For All time to buy you e are ottering at ; en's, Boys and C mous ''Star Brar s. These must i during the Summ t to carry over a i buy yours while * ies' Slippers in s 3e sold at from 51 use any of these i rgain. mammmmmmmmmmm : Young ( and Sell Everytl ?0000 00000000 A ES. \ $1.25 Per Year. MILITIA IS NOT LIABLE TO FOREIGN SERVICE "Could the National Guard be called by the Federal government for foreign service in the event of war?" This question has been asked, rartnt, * U-. -Ill 1 nun.* HUH.-M uy Lindens ctnu militiamen in South Carolina since the beginning of the strained relations between the United States and Germany. Military experts have figured that in the event President Wilson called for a volunteer army of 400,000 men, South Carolina's allotment would be approximately 0,000. The military strength of the State now is about 2.000 men and officers of all rank. .1. Shapter Caldwell, assistant adjutant general, has been studying the question of the right of the president to call the National Guard for service in a foreign country. Mai. Caldwell said yesterday that the president's authority over the National Guard was derived from the constitution and from the legislation of congress in the furtherance of its provisions. Congress has the power under the constitution of the United States "to provide for the calling forth of the militia to execute,the laws of the Union, suppress insurrections and repel invasion." A former attorney gpneral of the United States and the judge advocate general of the United States army have already decided that under the constitution the militia can not he sent out of the territorial limits of the United States. The State, Tuesday. Things 1 r I OW-C.l JT I a big sacrifice ? hildrens' Slip- j|j id" and "E,x- || ^o--every pair ? er months, as ? single pair. ? you can get g sizes 2 I -2, 3 ? Oc to $ 1.23. g sizes, we will g ^omp'y I hing." I |00?00000@0800