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CHARGE OFFICIAL WITH CONSPIRACY I ?-? SECRETARY OF TREASURY McAOOO AND COMPTROLLER MADE DEFENDANTS. CONSPIRED TO WRECK BARK Vtiggs National Bank 8eeks In Court to 8top Combined Demanda of Treaaury Officials. Washington. ? Secretary of the rreaaury McAdoo and Comptroller of the Currency Williams were made defendants in proceedings begun in the District of Columbia Supreme Court by the Riggs National Bank of Wash) lngton, D. C., which alleges that these officials have combined and conspired to wreck the bank. Temporary and permanent injunctions to halt the alleged conspiracy, and to n re vent the Comptroller from making what the bank charges are unlawful demknds for special reports of various kinds, are sought from the count. One portion of the prayer seeks to restrain John Burke, treasurer of the United States from payment into the treasury of $5,000 declared to be due the bank as interest on $1,000,000 of United States bonds deposited with the Comptroller against its note circulation. This intereet was withheld to cover penalties of $100 a day for > the bank's, failure to make certain reports. unce paid inuj uie uwuij, umj an act of Congress could get the $5,000, out and Justice McCoy granted a temporary Injunction on this phase of the case. The bank's bill of complaint contains 37 specific allegations designed to show that the Comptroller harf adopted unusual and legally questionable tactics in dealing with the institution. It recites that evidence of an unusual desire for information x concerning the bank was shown by Mr. Williams shortly after he assumed the office of Comptroller more than a year ago, and has continued ever since. Prior to that time, in December, 1913, it says Mr. McAdoo charged , officers of the bank of responsibility 1Clal ANOTHER GERMAK fi RAjDERARRIVES KRONPRINZ WILWELM REACHES I NEWPORT NEWS AFTER LONG SEA RAID DESTROYED MERCHANTMEN >1 Slipped in By British Warships and Tl Captain Says He Can Go Out the Same Way. Newport News, Va.?Steaming her way at full speed, passing four Allied ^ warships off the Virginia capes in the aoi*lir K aiii?o a# Vi z^ rrt r\ rri i n or t V* o Clac* ooii/ uvuio ui iuc iuuiuu.-g| buu vie* . , man converted cruiser Kroiiprinz Wii4elm. another of the remarkable mer- ? chant raiders of the SoutJi Seas, arrived in this port and asked for fuel and supplies. , ?r The Kronprinz Wilhelm,' many times reported destroyed, made this port in almost helpless condition, 8 with less than 25 tons of coal and w QC only scanty provisions for her crew of 500 men and 61 prisoners from British merchant ships Bunk In the J"? South Atlantic. The 15,000-ton cruiser came with a record of 15 mer- ^ chant ships of the enemy captured, * 14 of them sunk^ nine British, four French and one Norwegian. The British ship Chasehlll, captured, was 1 allowed to proceed, taking to shore p( more than 200 prisoners from pre- ?c - 1 .1 il .kln. R vious raias. me vaiue ui me buiiid and cargoes destroyed officers of the Wllhelm estimated at 17,000,000. " Following in the wake or the in- ^ terned Prinz Eitel Friedrich which f* arrived here about a month ago after ( similar thrilling and effective war oporations for the German arms, the Kronprinz Wilhelm came dashing * bravely through a lane of enemy warships and her commander Lieutenant ^ Captain Paul Thierfelder, formerly 8t navigating officer of the German cruis- e' er Karlsruhe, said, "we got tn without being seen by die enemy art ve can go out the same way." ** Most of these were sent to South ? A marlnan nnrti at varlmii (ImAR on 7 auioi AV?u p Ut\u . * m? *wmv wmmmm ? >_ German ships which met the raider < in response to wireless call. The sixtyone one board who were landed here n are British sailors taken from the w steamship Tamar, destroyed March 25 SSfl 'Uv ? " * ftv j - k -1 .; .a rjv'xx1 ICREASING INDICATIONS THJ HUNGARY, ESPECIALLY, M TIRED OF FIQHT. . * ' "vtf fl ?__? rALY ANXIOUSLY WAITI* . ilk of Peace With Hungary Briij increaaing Talk of War In Italy-? Fierce Fighting,, London.?Russian irpathlans, where the. MuflCOVtl e now said to control virtually, e important passes and are prep g for a descent on to ihe plains ungar.v, have revived unofficial,jU separate peace for Ausfro-&uljf4 id seemingly increasing .anxiety e part' of interventions in Italy ; eir country to take uo arme on "I de of the Allies and obtain terrltc ith Austria. Russian ' newspapt iem convinced ithat Hungary, <lf j te whole of the Duel Mottofchy, ;ady to seek peace, and It la iat Emperor Fracls Joseph ha# tested Pope Bendict to intetfre&tij ieA* behalf. \ Except in Italy, the derjtraJ count ost directly intefestd in thl* <jpl an, little credence is givea tW?'i >rt, although the opinion is etpre I in military circles here thht ussia breaks down the joint rid ice of the Austro-German trobpd e Carpathians as she apparently 1 at of the AuatrO'Harigarian ungary at least will be , rea?y * "lng the war to an end as Inr M S concerned. However, the, Russians have sps av to co vet before thev reach t ains of Hungary and the Aw| erman forces are placing eVenJ acle In their way. The whpteJH 7i slopes of the rinnmtataa rongly fortified and troopfi^MH g poured Into the region.. 'It -Ujij lere are now 24 Austrian and J erman army corps facing thftaJj ans, and that more are On th&gj according IMPROVEMENT IN 6 ft HESS GENERAL I S EVERY STATE IN UNION TELL8 C( ^ OF INCREASED ACTIVITY EXCEPT MAINE. MANUFACTURING INCREASES H Reports From Elflht of the Ninety Pl ' Bapk Examiners 8how a Marked iiV , Improvement ft*, . Washington*?'Business conditions W* throughout the country are showing en marked improvement in almost all ^ f lines, according to reports from Nav tional hank examiners made public by pc #t the Treasury Department. Eighty of aE Kj i&80 examiners in the United States m re?K>rted a- permanent improvement Wr, and Maine is said to be the only state a ie irhetre real depression exists. . jmf ,fr'"Prjmounced hopefulness Is pTe- |a M? ucauj vrgx/ uiou4vi>| ??/? ? It J the, ihoancement. "Agricultural con&' ditione are generally excelent and e WJ ^xnmerclal lineB, with compartlvely fell few exceptions, are enlarging their fo j activities, mainly through an lncreasr> i ed demand, but In some cases prepar- * jy atlons, for activity to expected to dels velop with the coming of good weatht lar. Manufacturing Is on the Increase jt-'j and thbse Industries having orders e. fit (tor supplies from foreign countries 01 ife JboiMnue especially active. ^ 'further orders have been placed w! tad rails by the railroads and q P^j"soms large contracts have been made WVfor structural Iron for large buildings aE ub Jn different pdrtlonB of the country." l6( J The statement attributes depression p, ^B'tto unusual conditions abroad, but jf) busines here has been stabilized ^ fe yihrough the application of economy. Wl Hf)1; "The South," it continues, 'Ms show* m lu ting marked improvement. The sale Q.( fc.r of cotton i? active at advancing prices, to K/rith the result that all business Is th V .improving, v Farmers, however, gen* m, P orally pronounced improvement. The ^ P; *.fe??pect8 for larger crops generally are cJi P' .^ifeeUent and there will be greater Ir k '?The Western States and the Pa- tr. iERMAN CRUISER :ITEL HAS INTERNED ? , ] DMMANDER MAX THIERICHEN8 MAKES ANNOUNCEMENT?EX- f PECTED HELP TO ARRIVE. . l AS MADE HER LAST CRUISE ! inz Eitel is Taken to Norfolk Navy Yards Where She Will Remain ^ Until War Is Over. , I Newport News, Va.?Commander lierichens of the German auxiliary ulser Prinz Eitel Frledrich, asked ^ e United States Government through j >rt authorities here to intern his ship t id crew for the war. Up to the last ( oment the German skipper kept up e appearance of being ready for a tsh to sea. / \ The commerce raider has made her j st cruise of the war. She was taken , the Norfolk Navy Yard ' across j ampton Roads from the ship yard t >re where she has been laid up since nplng Into poet on March 10. after e reufarkable commerce-destroying t lyage from the Orient during which j 9 sent the American ship William y fry? to the bottom. t Commander Thierichens notified the j ashlngton Government through Colctor of Customs Hamilton of his desion to intern rather than "deliver j ew and ship to fruitless and certain t rstruction" by British and French t irshlps waiting off the Virginia r ipes to destroy them. ! The German Captain delivered his f inouncement in writing when Col* ctor Hamilton boarded the Eitel iedrich with an imperative notlr.e t Vi rx WooKino^An C/MtornmAfit V at the time for his stay in this port c iul)d expire at midnight and thpt he j list leave American waters by 4 2 :lock next morning. Before the ens- t ms collector had a chance to deliver g e message from Washington Cominder Thierichens handed to him e written announcement of his de- [ lion. 1 After conferences between Rear I lmiral Beatty, .commandant of t^ie ? >rfolk Navy Yard, ..Rear Admiral' ' -V -i L.UU.LU A A?ii1 T fiui ui tat? vaiucBiuy Amufiua wu Ulector Hamilton actual interment 1 STATE ITEMS . OF INTEREST TO ALL SOUTH CAROLINA PEOPLK. \ Clemson college lost the debate at ilock Hill to Davidson. G. R. Hendricks waa recently elect>d mayor of Pickens. \ The railroad commission has been lotlfled of the completton of a new >assenger station at Owlngs on the Charleston & Western Carolina railway. J" The postofflce at Honea Path was risited by professional cracksmen and he safe robbed of about $2,000, of vhich $75 was in cash and the reminder in stamps. Mrs. O. W. Fennel, of Hampton, eho, since April 1 has been in a sanlarium in Charleston, as the result of in accidental pistol shot wound received in her right temple, is dead. Forty-five applicants from Charleson for membership in the American -.egioq have received membership cards and will soon be wearing the nsigna of the legion on the lapels of heir coats. The drum fish season is rapidly Irawlng near in this section, and the ishermen of Beaufort are taking advantage of the warm weather in get- , lng their fishing tackle in readiness 'ftr tha tHito tha> will l?Wa WMW fc* >|/w VUV/ TV ill MMVi , p Prof. W. W. Long and Dr. J. W. T. v Durall, the noted authority on grain narketlng, ware here in the interest >f a movement to prqvlde milling and' narketlng facilties for grain in Green Food. They were eminently succeaeUL April 15 h&e been selected as the lay for the public sale of cattle which tare been fed in Greenwood corinty his winter \inder the direction of Prof, r. 0. Williams of Clemson College, iw, rr uiuuui viKBiuzea acre eariy ill he year the Greenwood County .Lit* Stock Association. * ??? George F. Sargent, M. D., >ert in the care and treatme^^^^^^^^H nsane, has beeh/ appolnU|^^^^^H^^H (fanning as superintc^^^H^^H^^^HH State for of Lancastec^^^^^^^J^^^JH^H