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* VOLUME XXX. . VERY EARLY REPLY EXPECTED BY WILSON fT' _______ From Germany in Relation to Positive Note on Lusitania ?. i Affair T KIND OF ANSWER IS OF COURSE UNCERTAIN President Went to Review * Fleet at War Maneuver? Interest Shown. ^ The government and people of the v United States turned expectantly toV ward Berlin, where Ambassador Gersird hud Vippm i nst rnrtprl to ni'PSPnt to V v~ 1 the German foreign oflice a note calling the attention of the imperial government to the "unlawful and inhumane" destruction of the Lusitania, and other violations of American rights on the high seas. Germany is asked in the note to disavow the acts of her submarine com. manders in the torpedoing without warning of the Lusitania, a British ship, with a loss of more than 100 American lives, and the American steamer Gulflight, "as a result of which two or more American citizens met their death." Reparation "so far as reparation is possible," is asked and the United States declares it "confidently expects that the impe^ rial government will take immediate ? steps to prevent the recurrence" of such acts and practices. Prompt Reply Expected. >r 1.1 : 1 c, i' u... i>(> tiinu is it'll iwr u repiy, uui the cbmmuiiv.wv t says "the government and people of the United States look to the Imperial German government for just, prompt and enlightened action in this matter. The course to be pursued by the United States in the event of a noncompliance with its requests and expectations is not stated, but high officials pointed out that the conclusion of the note was intended to impress upon Germany that there should be no misapprehension in Berlin of the firm purpose of the United States to ^ safeguard its rights by any means necessary. This is expressed in the final sentence which says: "2"he Imperial German government will not expect the government of the United States to omit any word or act I necessary to the performance to its K sacred duty of maintaining the rights of the United States and of its citiI ' f zens and of safeguarding the free ex ercise and enjoyment." I ^ Other Neutrals May Follow. The Lusitania was struck by a GerBt. man torpedo and sunk with the loss of BE vVmany neutral, lives besides the scores Ki V Americanl. The United States B *vernment is the first to act . The j ec. i 41 VF neuti'al nations, most of whom *' 'A been waiting for the policy of .JffTnited States to be revealed, are \ expected to decide what represen Jfttions they will make. '/ Jt* As the note was read by diplA' matists and officials generally one feature that attracted wide comment was N the stand taken by the United Staes against the use of submarines as a \nnmerce destroyer, the attention of I the German government being called to the "practical impossibility of employing these under sea craft to destroy merchantmen "without disre Igarding those rules of fairness, reason, justice and humanity which all modern opinion regards as imperaThis was taken by naval officers * versed in international law and diplomatists to mean that not only during the present war, but in future international conference to amend the rules of martitime warfare, the Amer ican government would be found align ed against the use of submarine against merchantmen. Measures of Reparation. Another feature of the note which caused comment among diplomatists was the statement in it replying to the German circular to neutrals and agrees to express regret and give reparation for any mistaken attacks on neutral vessels by submarine. The ^ORMnunication points out that while Wm * r* # >? \ "HC RUNAWAY OF ANIMAL FXfilTFS THF PFflPIF hiftut I kV I Ilk I ! ?! IUIm Going Down Main Street at Breakneck Speed Saturday Morning NEAL HENDRICKS WAS FORTUNATE IN ESCAPING Several Thought the Driver of Spirited Horse Would be Killed. The people on Main street here were excited last Saturday morning: by a runaway horse, the property of of Mr. Neul Hendricks, a son of Mr. W. J. Hendricks of the Pee Dee section. The horse was being driven to a Mnr? - - -- -1 - I- 1 1 11 vni. itvtsc ?Ytigwii ;iimi ci uoy ien inc horse to a watering trough in the rear of Spivey Mercantile Company and slipped ofF the bridle to let the animal drink. During this time Mr. Hendricks was seated on the front part of the wagon body. As the animal started to drink, without any apparent cause, it became frightened and dashed round the corner of the avenue and then down Main street toward the depot, going as fast as a horse ever went except perhaps in a racing event. This animal had formerly been used in hauling about the city market and at that time had been stabled in rear of the stores of the L. H. Burroughs Company. When the horse dashed | down Main street and arrived oppo- j site the narrow avenue leading down to the stalls by the side wall of the Masonic Hall, the animal turned with out abatement of speed. At this point Mr. Hendricks was thrown out of the wagon falling against the corner of the Masonic Hall building. Many who were looking on at the occurrence felt sure he was killed owing to the apparent violence with which fie was thrown from the vehicle. But after about a minute he got up and went on after the horse. Examination showed that his clothes had been torn in several places and he was suffering from the shock and many bruises, but no bones were broken. The horse ran in contact with an obstruction a few feet further down the avenue and here the wagon parted in two. The animal ran on and went into the stall with fragments of the | wagon attached to the gear. The horse is a spirited animal and appeared to be very nervous after the occurrence. "expressions of regret and offers of reparation in case of destruction or neutral ships sunk by mistake" may satisfy "international obligations if not loss of life results," they can not justify or "excuse a practice the natural necessary effect of which is to subject neutral nations and neutral persons to new and immeasurable risks." In another portion emphasis is laid on the inability of submarines to exercise the right of visit and search atj sea because of practical difficnHiosI making it impossible for them toj make a prize of merchantmen since a prize crew could not be aboard of it taken as a prize the ship could not be sunk without leaving the neutral vessel's crew "to the mercy of the sea in her small boats." It was this feature?the application of the rules of naval prize law to the cases of neutral vessels carrying contraband encountered by submarines?which attracted attention when the German circular note to neutrals was first examined. The argument made in the American note of today is designed to point out the inadmissibility of what had been regarded in some quarters as concessions by Germany in the treatment of neutral merchantmen. Old Treaty Rights. The citation in the note of "the explicit stipulations of the treaty of 1828 between the United States and Prussia was regarded as important from a legal point of view. Under that Continued oft-Page Bight*) - # >RRY COUNTY AND HER PEOPLE, n ATkTltr A xr e /t mTTTTn n r> * tt VV11 WAX, O. Vj., lilUXVOI/AX, BREAKING INTO f\j *&h y v%jgj| CONWAY THE GUEST OF ppurrMTu Lt ?* yii g ii Opening Session Tuesday After Church?League Visit way Chapter With Waccam ? The Marion District Epworth League Conference opened its fifth annual session here Tuesday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock with devotional exercises. Enrollment of delegates was next in order and those who had already arrived were consigned to homes. The regular afternoon program was not carried out as published owing to the fact that the Conway Chapter had arranged to entertain the visitors on . Pi Vpl. ! ? 1 mm aiternoou. i ne nunougus, unu of the Waccamaw Line Steamer boats, was chartered and at 5 o'clock she left the wharf with her decks crowded with visitors and entertainers As the Burroughs was piloted through the water of the beautiful Waccamaw river, the evening's zephyr fresh and laden with the perfume of honeysuckle and wild flowers, blew in and blended with the song and laughter of the merry makers, and all worked in harmony for a pleasant outing. Although a little late in getting started, the evening's program was opened with song service at about 8:45. Mr Stokes King, in behalf of the Conway chapter and the citizens of v_,oiiwuy in geiieitw, weicuiueu me visitors to our city in a few very ably, chosen words. Mr S. J. Bland responded to the address of welcome. Voicing the feelings of the visitors, Mr Bland assured us that welcome was not not only evident in the language of our mother tongue, but was written in the faces Cases on Docket. The following is a list of the cases in the criminal court laid over from last term in February: W. W. Dawsey and J. W. Dawsey Disposing of Property under lien. Fate Grainger, Malicious Injury to trees. Norman Mosely, Disposing of Property Under Lien. Jno. G. Allen and Ella Hardee, Adultery. Calvin Strickland, Murder. James Todd, Violation of the Dispensary Law. There will be about the usual number of cases to be tried for minor ofP n nOOfi OAllf i va P MA oil /v P 4- Vwx iciiaco ociii> lit ii*_mii till |iili IB ui Uli-' county by the various magistrates. These will no doubt take up several days of the time of the court, but it is WEATHER For Week Beginning Wedi Issued by the U. S. Weatl FOR SOUTH ATLANTIC AND I Fair Wednesday, followed by East Gulf States and probably Atlantic States, followed by gener erate temperatures. M If V FIRST, LAST, NOW AND FORE VER" MAY 20, 1915. THE BIG LEAGUE. gg^ lite fiiwr 'f/Mtr ?e ^ tlTPGD MiS MAT <0 1EACHEIU ^ , ?Chapin in 3i. _ouis Ropublio. MARION DISTRICT LtAliUt UUNFERENGE noori at Conway Methodist ors Entertained by ConBoat Ride Down the aw River. of every individual and fdled the atmosphere on our streets and in our homes. ' In concluding the program, Miss Sallie Belle Watt, Field Secreary of the South Carolina Ep worth League, entertained with an illustrated lecture on Africa. The conference will adjourn Thursday at 12 o'clock. The following although not complete. is a list of dolecates and churches represented at this conference ! AY NOR?Misses Eloisc Roberts, Carrie Roberts, Emma Small, and Mr. Ervin Johnson, Misses Maude Dawsoy Lizzie Johnson, and Minnie Shelly EULONIA?Misses Ethel and Belle Richardson. GALIVANTS FERRY?Misses Green and Broadway, Estelle Best, Jessie Gore, and Messrs. Harvey Floyd and Horris Cribb. GALIVANTS FERRY JUNIOR LEAGUE?Misses Minnie Lee Floyd, Esther Gerrald, Nan Best and Mr. Auhrv Pjip-p COOL SPRING?Misses Anna Jones, Lula Doyle. FLOY DALE?Miss Clara Everett, Mr. Foster Rogers, and Rev. D. H. Everett SANDY PLAIN?Misses Lila Bass, Burnie Floyd, and Messrs. Eu( gone Shealy, Jeff Lewis, and Rev. Shealy. SALEM?Misses Ruby Cox, Edna Hardee, Ruth McNeill and Mr. Everett Watts. REHOBOTH?Misses Claudie McLaughan, Julian Johnson, and A. T. Johnson, W. C. Pittman. not expected that the court will last longer than about Thursday of next week. L. M. Gasque will be the solicitor. It will be recalled that in a contest before the supreme court between Mr Gasque and Mr. Singleton, the former was declared entitled to the office. Some one in speaking about the matte}' the other day stated that in a recent conversation with Mr. Gasque j he said that he expected to clear the docket while here. o Damage hy Lightning. On May 7th lightning struck the barn of Mr. P. V. Dunn, near Conway, i S. C., and totally destroyed his barn and contents. The damage was about, $300. The rest of the property, dwelling and stables were protected by lightning rods and no damage was( done to them. I FORECAST lesday, May 19tb, 1915. tier Bureau, Washington. D. 0. 2 A ST GULF STATES: showers Thursday and Friday in from Friday to Sunday in the South ally fair weather thereafter. Mod era hi. EXACT FACTS ABOUT JIM VEREEN KILLING Testimony Taken at the Coroner's Inquest Last Week is Published TWO TOMPKINS MEN HELD BY CORONER Accused Men Recommitted Under a Warrant. Tscnipd hv Coroner Johnson. In order to give exact information about the killing of Jim Vereen in the fight which took place in Dogwood Neck last week The Herald here publishes the testimony taken at the inquest, or at least such portions of this testimony as are important to the case: STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County of Horry. JENNIE VEREEN, being duly sworn says: that she saw and was present at the killing of Jim Vereen at Sara Gerald's. He (Jim Vereen) walked up and spoke to Mrs Gerald, then he spoke to his daughter, and says, Jennie, I think you should of been at home helping your aunt Jen nie get dinner instead of being associating with such trash as you are. Putty Thompkins spoke and says, I am no trash, no more than you arc. Jim spoke and says, you are. Hen Thompkins walked behind then and went to whittling on a stick with his knife. Putty Thompkins spoke iind says you are a d?n liar. Jim says you arc another. Thompkins stooped down and picked up a board. Jim stooped down and picked up a piece when Jim straightened up. Putty struck him in the face. Jim returned the lick and knocked him down, lien Thompkins ran to him and threw his arms around him and stabbed him with a knife three times he stabbed him in both sides and looked like tried for his throat or heart, and Jim threw up his hand to defend the lick, when he threw up his hand to defend the lick he said, Ben Thompkins, don't cut me any more. They ran in tne yarn each one picked up an axe, then the man of the house came out and told them to stop and they stopped. I was coming; from my place up there. I was in 15 or 20 feet of the killing. JENNIE VEREEN. BEN THOMPKINS' statement: Me and my brother was at Charlie Gerald's. I told him to let's walk about some. Me and Putty got to the gate. Jennie come up there and began talking, who was Jim Vereen's daughter. Jim come up and spoke to Mrs. Gerald. He ask Jennie who told her to come over here. She told him nobody. Did I raise you up to talk with any such boys as these was. She said no, I think I raised my self. Putty said to him don't you think I am good as you. He said no, d?n you?you ain't. Jim and his daughter give one another the lie a little bit. They both picked up a stick and both hit. Then 1 run in and cut him. I don't know how many times I cut him. I had my left hand around his nock. 1 turned him loose and walked off from him. He got out his knife and took it in his right hand and club in his left hand, lie said to me after he got his knife out if you want cutting, you can get it. his 7)1? XT - TlinMnt.'Txrci Llliil A illVnUl I\inO. mark | PUTTIE THOMPKINS, boing examined last Sunday about 11 or 11:30 o'clock: Me and my brother was at Charlie Gerald's. Me and him was sitting down in the house. He said to me less take a walk. We went to the gate and met Mr. Jim Vereen's daughter. When we was there a few minutes we saw him coming on down the road. He come up and spoke to Mrs. Gerald. He asked his daughter who sent her up there. She told him I come my self. He ask her if he raised her up to be with such people as was with; She told him she didn't I I VJ . . I |r 1 1 . .. / I V/- I NO. 6. ] BAPTISTS PRAISE ' WILSON'S COURSE . Approve President's Efforts for Peace With National Honor WOMAN'S MISSION WORK DISCUSSED Home Mission Board Was Also Up for Adoption by Meeting. The Southern Baptist convention at its second day session in Houston, Texas, last week had before it for discussion the report of the committee on efficiency which recommended that no changes be made in the home and foreign mission boards as now constituted, that the number and salaries of the secretaries of these boards be left to the boards themselves, and that the convention consider and prepare to act upon at its next annual meeting the suggested consolidation of The Home Field and The Foreign Mission Journal, two Baptist publications. The report of the homo mission board also was expected to be considered for adoption, or for such changes as the convention might recommend. Both reports were placed before the convention late yesterday. Other reports already presented to the convention were expected to come up later during the session. Detailed reports of the work done during the past year were before the I Woman's Missionary Union for discus sion including a report of the committee on the Margaret fund. This fund has been set aside to provide scholarships for children of Baptist missionaries. The report stated that by May, 1916, it was believed the interest from the fund would be sufficient to allow the first scholarship to be awarded. After opening exercises, the convention unanimously adopted resolutions approving the stand taken by President Wilson in the relations of the United States since the European war. Prayer was then offered for divine guidance for the president. The resolutions which were ordered telegraphed to President Wilson were as follows: "The Southern Baptist convention, representing 2,500,000 Baptists, desires to place on record its high appreciation of the great service to the nation and the world now being rendered by the President of the United States, Woodrow Wilson, in the firm stand he has taken for the ideals of peace and at the same time in his vigorous assertion of the principles of justice and the requirements of international law. "We rejoice in the restraint, the discrimination, the judicial fairness and the courage with which he is steering the ship of state in a time of extraordinary difficult and danger. "We desire to express our unwavering confidence in him, as the exponent of our national ideals and of the ideals of higher civilization of the world, and also to assure him of our profound sympathy and prayers in the solution of the dielicate problems and the performance of the arduous tasks in which he now is engaged." The treasurer's report was read and the treasurer and auditor re-elected. Rev T. J. Searcey, of Memphis, Tenn., a fraternal delocnto from tb#> National Baptist convention (negro) addressed the convention, thanking the white Baptist for their aid to his race. He also paid a tribute to President Wilson for keeping America at peace. think that he raised, she come pretty near raising herself. Then I ask Mr Vereen if I wasn't good as he was, and he said no. I struck him first and he struck me. I didn't stay there any longer, went to my sister's. . puttie; thompkins. . .>