Fort Mill times. (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, June 10, 1915, Image 1
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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
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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 $20,000.
Governor Manning has returned
from Washington, where
he appeared before the Secretary
of War in behalf of the National
Guard of South Carolina. He
expressed himself as being very
much gratified with the result of
his mission and said he believed
if nrno ^
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activity and efficiency on the
part of the State troops.
The Spartanburg court of common
pleas was the scene Friday
of a lively personal encounter
between former Gov. John Gary
Evans and H. E. DePass, another
member of the bar. The fight
followed Mr. DePass' remark
that the former governor was a
r liar and for some minutes the
combatants were allowed to engage
each other in a rough and
* tumble encounter.
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One Negro Mills Another.
Police officers of Fort Mill and
the surrounding to\vns are on
the lookout for one James Steele,
a mulatto negro who up until
i Sunday, last, made his home in
this township. Steele is wanted
for murder, it being alleged that
about 9 o'clock Sunday morning
he firecl three shots from a
single-barrel gun into th$ 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
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| 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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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