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Intetli TUESDAY AND FRJDAY iWfikljr, Kslabllslifd 1K?0? Rnlly, Jan. IS, 1914. ANDERSON, S. C, TUESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 29, 1914. PRICE $1.50 THE YEAR, PROTEST MtiER IDE BRITISH CABINET WILL RE PLY TO DOCUMENT SHORTLY HARD TO DIGEST A Document That Was Two Weeks in Being Drafted Calls For Consideration. LINTJON, Dec. 30.?The British cabinet met in special session_J.oday to consider the American govern ment's protest against delay to Amer ican shipping caused by the searching of vessels by tho British fleet "The noto reached the foreign of fice yesterday, but it is not expected a reply will be dru ted for several days." It 1b pointed out that a docu ment, which took weeks to draft, hardly could bo digested at one cab inet meeting. Sir Edward Grey scarcely hud time to read, much less to consider the note, before the meeting of his colleagues. The cabinet will seek information at ' tho admiralty, which department is responsible for the examination of ships' cargoes. Foreign office officials and tho law cPloerB of the ci'own, too, will be called upon for diploma tic and legal opinions. When this procedura is adopted American Ambassador Page will be asked to discuss tho whole question with Sir Edward Grey und Sir Cecil Spring-Rice, the British ambassador at Washington, - probably will be in , strueted to take up the question with tho. American' State department. Mr. Page has not yet received any inti mation a? to the date for his confer* once with Sir'Edward Grey. The protest continuer, to monopolize interest hero. While it has come as 'somewhat of a shock to the public that dicerences have arisen between tho two governments on- a subject that udmttedly Is a difficulty one, tho noti generally Is calmly discussed, except by tiio.io who. decJaro that Great Britain should disregard American wishes and follow a policy beat cal culated to assist tho AliSca in thr: wars British ' ship owners, who are al most as greatly concerned > over the situation as Americans, today ex pressed the opinion that the mattet would be amicably settled. Tho.direc tor of one large, company, admitting inconvenience was inevitable in the searching of ship, said it was pos sible some or this inconvenience might bo obviated. CARRANZA FORCES ARE DEFEATED Troops Contesting Villa's Ad ance Are Rooted in All Day , Fight. LAREDO. Texas, Dec. P.O.?Oar ran za troops, contesting the advance north ward of the, forces of General VBla wero'defeated Monday after s'h all dnj battle at Ramon Arlspe, between Mon terey nnd Saltillo, according to re fugees who reached h?re tonight fron Monterey. * It also Is rumored thai Saltillo has beep occupied* by .Villi troops..... J '-:.;. Tho,number of troops engagfd pi' Ramon Arlspe is npt known hero, hu it Is reported that four cars of wound ed have, reached Monterey. Grast anxiety Is reported at Mouler ey because of the withdrawal of tht Carranza. garrison-from - that city U Hipolttl, near Torr?on. It is under .itcod that troops ore being hurried tt Monterey ' fro'nv" several townB Ir northern-Mcxic?. ' The refugees who arrived tonlghl Include the widow of the late Gerenl mo Tre^lnoV a general In the fodera army during thu Diaz regime. 1 .' Protest To B wm?eti . v.v rM?MV(r WASinN'GTOX, Dec. 30.~Whllo th( American note to Great Britain pro testing'.against- interruptions to thi commerce or this country fontinuci today to ;. Absorb ; official ^tbihgton there was .confidence tbat d.'fftculttei ?t the last flv? months4 eventualis would bei amicably adjusted. Already- ; the discussion" had turttci to measuroB the United State? could tako in cooperation with Great Brit aln to reduce< the hocesslty for .ex tended search, on. the' high. seas. It became "known that treasury depart ment agents, acting with th? stapft? pa^tmont, had^JtOT??^ cai-id and t?tat-the inspceUbn-had eat isfl?d tho BriUsfar embassy and i factll tsiM prosrresa 'of tie shlpmont to iU destination. ~\^^htjM'y^$l held In official quar ters that Van n^derstanding might > ; reached .Mrheroby ctk/goes could *b< cortlftM i*fe^rs ihctr... departure ont thus ma*5e imrOune from detention. - FIGHT IS ON FOR SHIP BILL I SECRETARY REDFIELD MAKES EARNEST APPEAL FOR MERCHANT MARINE LIKE AN OSTRICH America Has Risked Thousands of Dollars During Present War Uselessly. WASHINGTON. Doc. 30.?Initiat ing the aggressive fight to ho waged in Congress for passage of the govern ment ship purchase hill to free Ameri can commerce from European war limitaions, majority members of the senate commerce committee today filed a report recommending the meas ure in vigorous terms and transmit ting a commendatory letter from Sec retary of Commerce Hedfleld. Tho committee report, filed by Act ing Chairman Flet?hjer, quoted the report submitted yesterday by Secro tary McAdoo and Redficld showing enormous increases iu ocean transpor tation rates sinco the war began and attendant falling off i noccan tonnage facilities. The committee predicted that enactment of the ship purchase bill would go far to relieve that situ ation. ' Unquestionably," says the report, "if we had additional ships under the American flag, the situation would rapidly improve and much of the dis tress of producers, business men und banks, not only in the South, but throughout the country, would bo re lieved. Had 1 y Handicapped. Secretary Hedfleld in his letter, written to Senator Fletcher to accom pany the report, declared that for years tho .United States ocean- ship ping had been in the hands of its oom i Petitors, "like a-.1 department store i wit hour- any -deli very- system t ?cept t. such as competitors were willing to supply.'' The result was easily to be forseen, he figured,. when 20 years ago American goods displaced German ' products in second place among South j African saios, and American iron and steel entered into 'keen competition i'. abroad with German and English pro ducts. ' . "You cannot imagine Germany or 'England continuing .permantently to : transport on favorable terms to us 'American goods on any such scale as 'to seriously threaten German or Eng i lish industrial markets,", the letter continued. Like an Ostrich. "Like an ostrich with its head . in > the sand we have put our money and merchandise at risk v>f the European war. American capital invested in . ships under European flags can be and has been destroyed by the acts of hostile cruisers. 1 wo vessels under foreign flags on their way to he trans ferred were thus sunk. American capi tal in goods transported under foreign j flags, which.were not owned by Anier . lean capital; has been lost vjr injured .when stich vessels have been sunk' or 'r held .up and American goods for which Americans long since paid are today in forelgn^harbora. " "We know now. that our commerce, . while ocean borne, is subject to- Vor I risks not of our making, but by-which 1 we suffer. The-time has been when ' war risks-shut off the movement of 1 American wheat and delayed) v the c movement of American cotton and it -. is'quite within the range of probabil ity that such a time may reoccur. An - American merchant marine is a neces i slty, and cannot be had lthout > enough to relievo us fron e jeo - pnrdy in which we have stu?i and in > which in some measure we now stand t A Pressing Need. ' "Indeed,' so vital is tho present time t to America that it seems as if w? were In the very transition from hn I i' I -1 i- ' t I* , . (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO.) England Good Results : ? ' ? . : ? -r-?~ ; :\ High, officials'-of the Washington S government were somewhat surprised \ th? American note had been regarded I as ''brusque" in some London quar tars', : They said the British cabinet, I after a slnglo reading of tho docu r meat, must be couvflnced ' that tho United States had apoko in the most I friendly spirit, though hohe the less I earnestly and emphatically. Those familiar with the, note's con I tents say it i3 a matter of fact and t frank statement of U?e diffie?ltlos ox >. perlenced by American shippers and * the fall uro of tho 'BrlUsh government I tc meet the protests Urbich h?vo been i made. ; ';.'' ' In all 30 American ships nn.2 car i; goes, their valuo totalling, milllona, have been actamed. Th? note pointa * out specifically, however, that retm i bur?ement alone can not eure the sit ? nation, as tho British fleets activity r *:iri4ffftf.frt y'MSt * - *n -.- 1_?_ _ ON PiOS FIV7-) Intetli TUESDAY AND FRJDAY iWfikljr, Kslabllslifd 1K?0? Rnlly, Jan. IS, 1914. ANDERSON, S. C, TUESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 29, 1914. PRICE $1.50 THE YEAR, JN HELD UP AND IS BURNED Twenty Men. Killed , by Bandits Up. WASHINGTON. Doe. 30.?-State de partment dispatches today told of the holding up of a.train yesterday by bandits 30 miles northwest ?f Vera Cruz an dthe shooting of two Carran za officers and IS men. The train was burned. .; Consul Edwards at Tampico inform ed the department that Juan Jose Musqu?s, recently executed in Mexi co, was not an American citizen as first reported. Eliseo A.'redondo. Carranra agent here, tonight made public a message from General Car ran za, announcing that General Arrieta had taken Tope huanes; .that General It oroide's forces had retaken LaPaz, Lower Californie, and that General Carranza also gave notice that any convention-chiefs de siring to join him would be accepted only upon "unconditional submis sion'' to his. authority. GBADES CHANGED An Increase of From ft to SO. Points oa Premiums on Grades Above ' M id tl Hug. NEW YORK, Dec. 30. ?The re vision committee of the cotton ex change today fixed differences be tween the old New - York grades of spot cotton as they will be applied to deliveries on the old style Jan uary contract. The only changes made were increases of from 5 t o30 points in tho premiums of grades above mid dling, INVADING ENGLAND German Airmen Drop Bombs, Killing gad Wounding Many. LONDON, Dec. 31.-3:38 a. m.? Four German aeroplanes flew-several times over the city of Dunkirk Wed nesday, dropping bombs as they went, according to the Dunkirk correspond ent of the Dally Mail. Soldiers In the streets fired'on the machines and one Taube Seemed to bo hit. but all got safely away. The official returns of the casualties shows thot 16 persons were killed and 33 wound od. The bombs were filled with shrapnel, i dbeAdnAuobts torpedoed ! French Submarine Attacks Austrian Battleship, Getting Best of It. LONDON, . Dec. 31.?3.32 n. -hj.?A Dally Mail dispatch from Venice says tbat a French submarine has torpe doed tho Austrian dreadnnught Ciri bus Uriitue at P?hv ' i U is said the hull of the dread nought was pierced, bat that she rsached the docke. I The Viribus tJnitls Is of 20,000 tons displacement and hns a compliment of 1.000 men. Sho is one of the biggest ships of the. Austrian navy. ; A London newspaper, dispatch from Venice In Spetember said one side of the Viribus Hnithij had been b?wly I damagedto a fight In the Adriatic, but Jthat the ahip escaped h?t pursuers. REGULATIONS FOR NATIONAL BANKS ? -?mm Comptroller of Cjirrcncy Specifies j Amount to Se Loaned on 1 Rtai Es?aie. J WASHINGTON, Dec. 3?.?Comptrol ler of the Currency Williams tonight notified national banks that the fed eral reserve board had drawn a regu lation interpreting the provision In the act governing loans by < hem on real estate. The regulation reads: "The maximum amount of lonus a national bank may make on real es tate under terms Of the federal re serve act shall be limited to un amount not in excess of one-third of its time deposits at the time of mak I ing the loan and not in excess of one I third- of its n ver eg.- time deposits dur jing the preceding cilendar vear: pro jvided; however, that it one-third of ? such tlmo deposits a?i of the date of I making tho loan or one-third of the average time deposits for the preced ing calendar year shall have amunt ed to less than 'one-fourth of the cap ital and surplus of the bank; as of the date .of -the loan, then, In that event, the bank shall have authority to make loans on real estate under tho . terms of tlie act to the extent of one-fourth I of the bank's capital und surplus as of the date of making the loan." "More Bomb's." ; LONDON, Dec. 31.?(1:05 a. mi News reached DoVer last night that n squadron of seven aeroplanes flew over Dunkirk yesterday (Wednesday) and dropped bombs. Capital City News Special to Tho Intel! Iccncrr. COLUMBIA. Dec. 30.?The furniture factory in the penitentiary Walla was attached by Superintendent. Griffith for the board of directors in default of payment by tho Columbia Chair Company, owners of the plant, of a claim for $1,650.20 due. for Work by convicts, according to information given out here.- Papers were served on Ell H. Brown of Frankford, Ky? president of the factory. This factory made a contract to manufacture furniture and: was to pay the State for the In bor of tho convicts, this taking the .place of the hosiery mill which was abolished by the leg islature after a hard fight. The claim made by the. ponltonfiery authorities under which the furniture , was at tached covers the amount due for hire of convict* with .interest The State of SOuth Carolina collect ed **6,303.:n from the Income . tax this year as against $17,820,25 last '.year, uccordfhg to figures compiled and made public today by Comptroller General Jones. Kdchlane Conhtj* <lk ' ilrst with 15,342.63. Spartanburg third with $1,108.23, Anderson fourth with $1,014:$!. Greenville .. County only paid. ?57.6.H. Eleven count lea paid no jincox^? (us, WILSON WILL poli? on Jouuary 8th. WASHINGTON. Dec. 30.?President' Wlluon today virtually decided to go to Indianapolis to speak at a Jackson Day celebration January 8. He prom ised to. inform Senator Kern tomor row definitely whether he would make the trip. i The president was understood to- ' . night to be preparing to make an irc-1 portant address at Indianapolis, but the Eubject was not divulged. The trip would be his first visit to the mid dle west since becoming president. I Invitations are" bel?g received dally for the president to speak in different cit'cn on hio return, trip from the Ban j Francisco exposition next spring, and It was Indicated today this trip would be a long one in cbbo no necessity were - found for an extra session of 'congress. Aithovgh the president has made no . announcement hin friends are work ing on the belief that he will be a can didate for* the. presidency again in 1916, and therefore particular atten tion 1b being paid to plans for the* spring trip. TO SPEAK IN BALEIGH. Secretary Bryan Will be One of Speakers at Conference In Jan uary. RALEtOH, N. C, Dec. 30.?Secre tary Bryan will be one of the speak ers at the North Carolina conference in;- social service here January 28-80, according-to announcement today by Clarence H. Poe, president of the con ference. Secretary Daniels also is expected-to speak. Secretary Bryan also will address the State general assembly. SON KILLS FATHER Reported that Boy Intervened In Fniu fly Quarrel. MACON, Ga., Deo. 30.?T. J. Carr, a merchant of Carr's Station, a small town near here, was shot and killed there today. George Carr. a son of the dead man, is sought by the authorities in connection with the killing. Reports of the affair say the killing ' followed 'an attempt of the younger Carr to intervene la a quarrel between his faber; end his mother and sisters. nOBSES FOB ALLIES Nearly I no Thon s end Head of Stork I at One Shipment. I NEWPORT NEWS, Va., Dec. 80.? Loaded with nine hundred and six teen horses for uso by tho Allies- in i the European war zone, the British steamer Anglo CallfornInn sailed to night for Avonmoutb, England. J WILL TRAIN; IN AUGUSTA Pittsburg Federals Go to Georgia City First Week In March. PITTSBURGH, Dec. 30.?The Pittsburgh Federals League club an nounced tonight that tho team would troln for tho 1?15 soason at Augusta, Oa..Tho team will leave here the flrat Jwesk ta March > j TRAIN ROBBERS SECURE BOOTY Sunset Express; Overlooked Thousands. 1 SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Doc. 30.? Approximately $8,000 la money and jewolry valued at $3,000 was secured by three bandits who robbed the two sleeping cars ot the Sunset Express ou the Oalveston, Har rlsuurg. and San Antonio Kullroad near Cllno, Texas, early today, according to repor.m re ceived by railroad of?clala hero to night. More than double that amount, ; however, was overlooked by the men In their hurried search of the cars, It Is stated. . : The men boarded tho train at Cllue and after rousing the passengers from their berths and forcing them to hand over their valuables ot the point of revolvers, jumped from the train near Bpofford and escaped. Several posses were organized at Spofford but up to a late hour tonight had not found any , trace of tho men. ' < One woman, who did not., quickly hand over her purse, was struck over the head with a revolver by one of the men. Jos? Martinez,.a wealthy resident ot Durango, Mexico, had in his state room, which the bandits overlooked, M 5,000 and valuable jewels, Martinez distributed sums of from $25 to $150 , to his less fortunate fellow passeng- j ers. , . . KMPEBOIt IS THOUGHTFUL WASHINGTON, Dec 30.?President Wilson tonight received a cablegram : from Emperor William of Germany congratulating him on his G8th birth day anniversary. King George of ' Orcat Britain Is the only other ruler of a belligerent nation who has con- 1 gratulated the President. Cable diffi- I cutties, it la believed. are delaying messages. _ News From 1 Told In LONDON, Dec 30.?(10:20 p. m.? Since the Russian defeat ot the Aus? i trlaris in Galleta,* which, while not ir- ] reparable, is likely to affecMho whole I Austro-German campaign la the east. 1 there has been no imports ot develop- 1 ment on either front. ? The Allies, although making no dm- i matlo attacks on the German lines. < are steadily hammering away with their artillery and. when opportunity 4 offers, push their lines a few yards f forward. A French eye witness de- 1 crlblng battles from December 16 to \ 24, gives a good Idea of the fighting < and records gains, which, while each I Is only in yards, amount in tho aggro- i gate to a - consid?rable- '\advance at t many points. A few hundred yards in Flandcra < were taken by primitive m?thode. Hav- i lag. the breeches of their ri?o chock- 1 ed with mud, the Allies used them aa i clubs.and.in many cases fought the . German? with their ?b ta, " . - it GOVERNOR EXTENDS CLEM* ENCY IN FIFTY-FIVE MORE CASES from anderson Four Noted Cases From Ttut County Included m Lut Batch of Fortunate Ones* Bpeciol to Tho InUUicenoor. COLUMBIA, Dec. 30.?Fifty-five more convicts In the penitentiary and scattered on chainganga throughout the Sluio were the recipients of clem ency from the hands of Governor Blease late this afternoon. Bringing the total number of cases in which the governor has exercised the pardoning und paroling power up to 1,0.44.-since he has been in office; The list tonight was made up on 17 murderers, 12 manslayers, four for violation of the dispensary law, two for breach of trust, four for larcsny, three for as sault and battery aud i-Jot, ?hrow.for as8Ult and battery,'four- .Tor Highway robbery, three, for criminal asoult/oae for car breaking, two for reflating an officer. : i . . The three white men convict 3d of. having attempted to storm tho jail in Spartanburg when Sheriff J. W. White held at bay a mob who tried to lynch a negro were all pardoned. Tho thrco were con^ctod in Spsrtanburg 'last November and sentenced. to. three years on tho Chalngfthg by Judge Moore. They are Horace Finch, Rob ert WilBon and W. It. Belcher.'-. is . Included-in tho list. -wafi-.oUo Greek, Augustus CorbsuB, of Aob'e ville, who. was serving a tea njpetn's sen tehee foMarcent - He was/paroiod. during v' -John'^|#rt(h3^ *. ao. w*u* serving a tertafrr 1 -. -daughter was paroled an candi that he leave, the State by January.' G and never returfa. '"' ?.'? ', Tho following- Anderson' cases ire. In the list: t Rether Henderson, convicted of murder in January, 10.14, and sentenc ed to lifo. Commuted to,ten years. Parmelleas Banks, serving a life sentence for murder in 1907 and whose sentence was reduced to 20 years, in January commuted to ten year a. Charlie Hendorson, convicted Of murder in January Of this year and' sentenced to life, commuted to ten years. Ed Harper .convicted in November. 1913, of assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature ami sentenced to three years got a full pardon. camp?iWing?s very expensive Starting Figures GiveA of Costa During Recent Cam WABHINGTON, Dec 30,?Aporoxl mateiy half a million dollars was spent by candidates Of all parties la the campaign preceding the flrat pop ular election of United States senators last November. Sworn statements o? ^ expenditures filed with the secretary of state shows a total < t 1460,777.25 spent by senatorial canctdatee in 31 8tntob. Of this grand total, 1138.84^-9 was contributed to the candidates, who themselves contributed to their campaigns $271,929.56. ;. - The Democrats . lead with $242, }95.r?o. Republican candidatea spent >1C6,884433; Progressives $55458.94; (OONT1NDED ON PAOB TWO.) . . lt? Front In one little French fj sound of the guna, light infantry, the first of an contingent to go to the front, la illleted, waiting its . tara to go Into ' ho trenches. The men ware accord* ida splendid reception by their com ade? in arms and the fcrenca villag >ro. With the defeat ot-tJi?^Aitafjrlar^-iii lalicla and South Poland s?* iho r* Iremont of tho GertnAn*aore?? tho 3xura, Petrograd believe* ihe.turniag >o!nt has been reached ? ' >f the Polish rivera. Tfc* ng now is taking piac?ron vhcro tho Germans ?till a>** snslve and havo brought x\\ Losses In t$es? battf mormons figures in dK.1, \_ ind prisoners and must: have hen fonght nudcr <H" "