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z Qencef TUESDAY AND FRIDAY .Weekly, Established 1S0O; Deiljr, Jan. 13,1914. ANDERSON, S. C, TUESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 5, 1915. PK ICE $ 1.50 THE YEAR D. E. SEYBT OIES I BY HIS OWN HAND LATE MONDAY DEPLORABLE ACT COMMIT- : TED AT HIS ELEGANT COUNTRY HOME CAUSES SHOCK TO COMMUNITY Funeral Services Will Be Held This Afternoon at. His s Residente. In the presence of his wife and in spite of the efforts of his young son to avert the act, U. E. Seybt, one of Anderson's moBt prominent citizens and a gentleman universally liked, ended his life Instantly at 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon at his elegant country home east of Anderson by shooting himself through tho head with a pistol. He had been discuss ing with his son the inadvisability of* the latter returning to colleg? on ac count of the general financial string- ' ency, and depression over thlB and other affaire is accepted as the cause of the deplorable acb News that Mr. Seybt had ended his lire reached the city quickly and came as . a great shock' to hundreds of friends and acquaintances ,who learned of it. Funeral Services Today. The funerdl services Will be held' this afternoon at 3:30 o'clock at 'the residence, after which interment will be in Silver Brook cemetery. The ob/equies will bo conducted by the Rev. J. w. Speake, pastor of St. John's MabodiBt. church,.of .which Mr. Seybt was a ' member"; The 'Rbv. John - P. Vines,'D. D., pastor of the First Bap tist church, will assist in the ser vices. . The. pallbearers ; Invited to serve . are: j Messrs. 2. B. Hammett. R. I* Robinson. D. S. Gray, H. H. Watklns, John K. Hood and R.-. E. -Burrlss. Coroner's Investigation. No formal lwroeBt was held, but Coroner Hardin Investigated the facts surrounding the tragedy and satisfied himself that it was a case* of self de struction, rendering his statement in these words: "This Is to certify that I was called to the.home of U. E. Seybt to view his dead body. After taking all the testimony I could get I found that he came to his death by ! his own hands and that no living per- I son was responsible. Therefore, I did j not think it necessary to hold an in quest." -i Statements with reference to Mr. Seybt's death were made by Harry B. Seybt, his son; James'R. Anderson. " a neighbor, who. hurried to the house and who was the first person outside . of the family to reach tho scene: and the attending physician, Dr. J. L. Gray. Was Up Town.. ^ Sfr. 8eybt was in'the city through out the forenoon, leaving town around -2 o'clock and arriving at his borne about 2:30. He was in The Intelll , gencer offioe during the morning to took after some matters' in connec tion with his duties as secretary of Masonic organisations of the city. It is reported that h0 collected a con siderable amount of money in duos from members ot the order while dp town and deposited this in bank be* . fore leaving forais home. Numbers of his friends saw him and conversed with him and to none of them did he seem in the Slightest depressed. .". Lour a Besldcnt Here. Ulysses Eugene Saybt came to An derson some 32 years ago to accept a position in the mercantile estab lishment of Mr. W.'x A. chapman. For some six years he worked for . Mir. Chapman and daring that time made bis home with his employer. \ Mr.'Seybt resigned his position with Mr. Chapman and with the late James T^Jonesi the late G. F. Blgby and T. 9, Cray ton, W. F. Cos and others, or ganised a company and bought out the business of Arnstein & Rose. Af ter the establishment h ad been run ning for sdme time all stockholders but Messrs. Sevbt and Jones dlsposf ed ot their Interests. Later on Mr, Seybt ' sold bot his Interests in the business in d. devoted his attention to . his farm. A lew months ago ho sold his home on North Main street .'and ballt a magnificent residence on his . farm east of the eitv. Hla Harried Life. ^ Some 27 veers ago Mr. Seybt was married to Mis* Sua Watson, daugh ter of the lito William and Ann Wat son and Bister of Mr. W. A. Watson of North Anderson. Their two children; Mrs. Thomas F. Hill, who was mar ried but a few weeks aero, and Harry B., together with tho widow, survive. T?romlfient Mason. Mr. Seybt was always prominent in the ?raMnes?, ?oc?at and fraternal life of the city; He wes.for s?verat years ; secretary of Hiram lodge No. ti8, A. F ? TAKEN OFF SHIP Charged With Conspir acy to Defraud U. S. Government By the Use of American Passports. OTHER ARRESTS ARE BEING MADE Two Held in $20 000 Bail?Ar rests Are Culmination of In vestigation in Progress Sines Arrest of Carl Lody. (By Associated Freu.) NEW YORK, Jan. 2.?An alleged conspiracy to furnish German officers and reservistf with fraudulently ob tained American paasportB, to enable them to return to Germany without danger of molestation by French or English authorities, was brought to light today by the department of jus tice. The disclosure came with the ar rest of Carl Ruroede, a former agent of the North German Lloyd Steamship Line, cud with tho removal from the outward bound, steamer Bergen sf Jord of a German army officer and throe German reservists. All were charged -wRh conspiracy to defraud tho United States government through the use of American passports. The four soldierstwere ; taken, .off the ate?m?r J?st as>he7.waa.-passing quarantine and brought back. to New York On n revenue cutter. All four bore photographic passports, issued by the state*- department to Americans and alleged to havo bct.n furnished by Ruroede. Other arrests ar? expected. . - Ruroede said tonight, according to j department of justice agents, that whatever he had done had been on bis j own initiative and was inspired by patriotic motives. He was held in | ' $20,000 bail, which he was unable to j furnish tonight. With him was a. - > rested John Aucher, his alleged asso ' date, who also was hold in $';0,000 I bail, and Ruroede's 17-year-old son j j who wbb released on his own recog- j nlzance.. I The German officer. Lieutenant Ar thur Wilhelm Heinrich Sachse, was paroled on his honor "as, r.n officer and a gentleman" hot to leave New i York city during the pendency of the I ! proceedings. The three reservist*, j Walter Muller, August Meyer and Herman Wegener, -were held in %f>, ooo bail each. Pour others, two with Ameri :an and two with German names, vere detained, under 9500 bail each as,ma terial witnesses. The arrests were the culmination, it was said tonight, of an investiga tion In progress since the arrest hi England of garl Lody, who subao qu'en Oy was executed, as a German: spy1. Lody hod a passport Issued, to J ?n American and the department; tot .| justice learned that other American j ; pasBportB alBO wer? in the hands , of . < German citizens. This discovery was, of great concern to the state depart-11 ment as it was feared Americans V holding passports would. be . open to ! suspicion and possible peril of their (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE.) COMBUSTIBLES FOUND IN HAY British StMUkor.- Caught on Fire After Leaving Baltimore With Hones for Allied Armies. v (By Associated Vztfa.) NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 2.? Combus tibles were found in hay oh the steam-, or Rembrandt, which caught fire re cently atter leaving Baltimore with horses for the allied, armies, accord ing to a statement made hew today by A. Eldin, captain of tho vessel.'The fire forced the ship to put back to Newport News.. Captain Eldff: said that, after the fire bad been extinguished, powder and other combustibles were found, but that ho was not certain they caused the blase. The powder' x*aa not strong* ly encased, he'said, and there was nothing to indicate an;attempt had been made to blow bp the snip. Some of the crew believed it might have been placed there to mid any fire that might .have^ started. M.; end Burning Bush , chapter Nov T. N Rl AML, and ho!?". these positions at h tu? time ?t his death, , Ai Ruins of Whitby Abbey After Bombardment by German Warships. This photograph, just received in ; was among many other buildings of; towers, the United States, shuws part of what i Whitby, Scarborough. Hartelpoot andi The abbey was founded in the sev was left of Whitby Abbe, one of the 1 West Hartelpool damaged by German enth century, but te buildings were famous historic churches of England [sheila, {practically rebuilt in the twelfth and after the bombardment by German - Whitby, which was the smallest of fourteenth centuries. The old church WarBhlpB which raided the east coast I the bombarded towns, was famous , towers formed a conspicuous land ot England!'Dec. 16. Shells from the j chiefly for its beautlfuL old cathedral, mark from the Bee, The town Itself cruisers some miles at sea beat down ' Tradition has it that Robin Hood and never haB been robbed by modern en tha old walls until little was left. It 'Little John practiced archery from its torpri?es of Its Old World charm. ARE UNFITTED FOR SELF GOVERNMENT Filipinos Should First Be Educat ed is Opinion of Former President Toit. . (By, Aetodittd Prow.) WASHINGTON. Jan, 2.? Former President Tait today .told the senate committee .working on jthe adminls traction bin for enlarging Pbilipine Independence that the Filipinos in his opinion would bo unfitted for self governmeut for the next 30 years?j probably for the h&lf century. Demo cratic party promises of independence. < be declared, had resulted in unrest j to which be attributed, in a - measure. | the recent revolutionary disturbances, j Neither President McKinley, Pr?si dent RooBovelt nor himself, he said, bad contemplated turning the Phili ppine .govarnment over to the natives] before they were educated tor self government. He quoted from President; Wtieoh'ft writings that "self govern ment Is not a mere form of Institution, but a form of character." I "We cannot present the Filipino ' with a character," said the former! President. "It must be acquired. You I cannot make Over a people in one generation. The time will be neces-, sary to train the Filipino people fort solf government i? the time that -will be necessary to make them* an Eng- ; Lish-speaking people. / It < you give thesft people independence now or by 1990 either a Diaz would SrlBO in the Philippines of they would get. into a condition that caused the full of Diaz In^lletico.'' : v/jjsjs1 former President, while dis avowing intention of posing as a mili tary expert, said in ancwor to ques tions that American Obligation to de fend the Philippines might be a "source of weakness in time of war." "But," be continued, "I do not be lieve that any of the nations now en gaged In the European war would ; look on the possession of the Phillip-1 pines as a naval base, as a source of j weakness." Mr. Taft declared that in his opta*, Ion Japan bad no. deUro to. take the PhlUipplne? away from this country, ! "1 twice visited Japan end confer red with the authorities cn this very point," be continued, ^tnd..it's my i 'ton." ; .,. ' SIXTEEN PARDONS; EIGHTEEN PAROLES; 36 GOMMUTATIOmS GOV. BLEASE EXERCISES RIGHT OF CLEMENCY IN 70 MORE CASES BRINGS TOTAL "LIST TO 1,614 Last list Includes Thirty-Three Prisoner* Serving life Terms For Murder. Special to The Intelligencer. ' COLUMBIA, Jau. 2.?Only a corpor al's guard of prisoners remain In the penitentiary, following the-action of Governor 131 ease this afternoon in granting clemency to - seventy more convicts, bringing his total list to) 1,614. . Sixteen pardons, eighteen paroles and thirty alz commutations of senten ces made up the latest batch. ' George W. Tidwell, of Greenville, under, sentence of twelve years for manslaughter, as a result of slaying Emmet Walker, received a reduction to a seven year sentence. His appeal was argued before1 the supreme court only a few days ago. Thomas Noland, alias "Chicago No land," and Charles Howard, alias "Texas Dutch," two notorious yegg men from Spartanburg, were paroled on condition.that they be turned over to United States authorities. Federal .officers were waiting for them wit!* warrants, and'they will be tried in the federal court on the charge of safe cracking in post offices/ They were sent up from Spartanburg In 180? for ten years on the chargo of house breaking and larceny,, fend nrfor to that time served a term in the federal prison in Atlanta for blowing a post office safe at Enoree. Clyde May, sent up from Union for Ufo in 1912 for murder, received a re duction in sentence to two years, and John Henry May, sent up at the same time from the same place for life for . (CXiNTlNCEO ON-JPAGB WE.) _ DEVELOPMENTS IN SHIPPING SITUATION Rcarrest of Steamship is Looked on as Likely to Produce Com* . plications. (Djr Associated Preas.) . WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.?While no word came from Ambassador Page to day as to the character of the reply Groat Britain will make to the' Ameri can protest against interference with American trade, there were several developments in the general shipping situation': The United States asked Great Brit ain for information as to how the Brit ish statment in November that naval stores would be regarded as non-con jtraband would be reconciled in actual {practice with the British notification of a week ago that these products now are absolute contraband, information ' is sought as to how cargoes now en route are to be affected. The case of. the.steamship BrJndilla, originally detained at Halifax and re arrested on her return journey from Egypt and taken to a French port,, fa looked on as likely to produce com plications. i Should th? question of change, of registry be rained a precedent may be set for, white Great Britain has recog. nixed transfers when a bona fide na ture, tho attitude of France has never been declared, _ Making Bombs la Shed. PARIS. Jan. 2.?A Ha vas dispatch from Lasbon says an explosion in a shed in the' Betreibt quarter of the Portuguese capital ..today revealed that two men were making bombs there. One Of , them was killed end the other wounded. The police found several bomba in the building, ooonooooooOoooooooo 0 TURKS OCCUPY ARDAHAN o o. LONDON. Jan. 3,?4 a. m.?Tho o o Turks here occupied Ards-Hah, o o penetrating 60 miles into tin Aus o O Stan Caucasus, according to the o o Constantinople correspondent Of O o the Exchange Telegraph company, o o . ' ' o o Ardahan Is a fortified town on o o the Kur. 45 miles northwest of o to Kars, in theTrana-Csucasla, Fight- ~ o tug.between tue Turks and Rns> o o alans ha* been going on in the re- o o glon of Ardahan for several days, o oooo o o a.a.e o o o o o o 9-*? o o LITERACY TEST Measure Passed by Sen- I ate Despite Indications j That President Wil son Would Veto. ! CARRIED BY A .1 BIG MAJORITY! Vote Indicates That the Measure Can Be Repassed by Msr? Than Required Two-Thirds Majority. (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.?Tbe Immi gration bill, containing tho restrictive b literacy test for admission of aliens, t passed the senate late today, GO to 7. ? The overwhelming majority was re- s corded despite indications that Pres- f ident WilBon would veto the measure, a as did former President Taft, if It / should come to him with the educa tional test included. c The vote indicated that the bill G could be repassed by more, than, tho I required two-thirds majority should f th0 president reject the measure, e Senators who voted against the bill t were: Brand eg eo, Mc Cumber, Mar* a tine, O'Gorman, RanBdell, Reed and i Walsh.' The bill passed the house last Feb ruary, 241 to 126. . literacy Test Fnal ter?d? - \i Although 'the senate amended the a house bill In several particulars, the j literacy test was unaltered,.saveI for "i an additional exemption to Belgian c subjects, adopted today after pro-j ;o/jgrd debate. House leaders prob- e ably will ask for a conference on a serin to amendments Monday, but ad- a ministration leaders were confident i senate amendments would be accept* % ed and the bill sent to the president t by the middle of next week. J Among senate amendments which house leaders have saved probably ;? would be accepted Is ono to exclude < from the United States all persons of r the Arricnn race or of negro blood, r Another strengthens the phraseology t of (he prohibition of polygamlsts. I Belgian Farmers Exempt. i Closing hours of the debate were * dbvpt?d to an amendment by Senator t Lodge to exempt Belgian farmers v from the literacy test and from pro visions which prohibit Americans f from soliciting or Inducing Immigra- t *\tti. Already American organisations j ire endeavoring to Induce Belgians to ? settle. In this country. The amend- c meht ,as finally adopted, 34 to 22, a reads: s ? "That tho provisions of this act relating to tho illiteracy test or in- t dneed or assisted immigration shall c not apply to agricultural immigrants ( from Belgium who come to the United c States during the course of the pr?s- { ent European war or within one year t after its termination owing to ctr- | cumBtances or conditions arising ? through the war, U It is shown to the a satisfaction of the commissioner gen- . eral of immigration that the said Bei- c gian immigrants come with the inten- ( (CONTINUED ON PAOE FIVE.) AMERICAN SHIP DETAINED 2 DAYS Captain Refuses to Transport Troops With Their Horses J and Arms. ? '. c ..?r- t (By A*nfla?*d T.rct ) ft SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 2.?The p American steamship, San Juan, of the ti Pacific Mall service, waa detained two days at Sahna Crus by General t> Arrieta, of Carrantn's forces, and at t one time was threatened with de- p at ruction by dynamite, according to the report submitted to the San Juan's j tl owner by her captain when she er- j rieed here today. o On December 19 General Arrieta do-1 c manded that the San Juan, then In * Sallna Crux, transport 60 of his men b and 20 officers, together with their p horses and arms, to Msxatlan, Cap- tl tain Stewart said. He replied that ho n was willing to take the Mexicans as b pasengers, hut not as soldiers. Gcn-,c eral Arrieta, he said, then refused to give tho vessel clearance'and threat ened to dynamite it unless bis wishes were met' S CaptaiQ Stewart remained resolutere and the question was finally settled w on his own, terms. He accepted the a soldiers, unarmed, as nassengers and e landed them at Maxattan December J r. 15. ' THE S T difficulties Have Arisen in General Scott's Ne gotiations With the Two Mexican Generals. fO AVOID FIRING ACROSS THE LINE American Stabbed to Death by Unknown Maaican?Severe Fighting ht Ptcjtj of Pueblo. (Bv AwodttMT FreaO WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.?Difficult!cd iavo arisen In General Scott's nego latiocs with the Mexican Generals ifaytorena and Hill, of the Gutierrez ind Carranxa factions .respectively, or the designation of Naco, Sonors, ? a neutral town to avoid firing into American territory. Acting Secretary of State Lansing lonferred today with President W?1 on and Acting Siorotary of War Ireoklhrldge on the subject and later urther suggestions were sent tq-Gett >ral Scott, Enrique c. Llorcnte, Gu ierrex's Washington :, representative, ils? talked at length w(th Mr. Breck nrldge. Mr. Uorent?. ! sfebjgty Offi liais said tb?y >?re confident pb ad? ustment would . bo reached without ho necessity of ^evi?lve action, by the mtterles-ofVarWe^T?^^ Loross the Ilde from Naco. The following statement was r is uod by Secrotary Tumulty. aSt?r; a " onference with th? president: "There.Is a hitch about tb?.sigo&g ?r the agreement' between Msytorena nid this government fn attempting to id Just the. differences. 'The govern aent has not been, informed exactly vhnt |he differences ere, but is t?y??K o ascertain them." iTntll today it-was generally snp >osed that both Hill and Maytorena vere ready to agree that the former vonid abandon Naco and move his. orces to Agua Prlotn. while Meytore 1a was to transfer his men, to Noga es. While the negotiations still have foty heir object neutralisation of Naco. tr. Llorente said tonight some other, nethods of reaching, the same. result pas being discussed. The state department received word rom its agents In Mexico City today hat the national convention had ad ourned until Monday after a brief esslon y?sterday when tho quoBtion if how many delegates were to rep ent the Zapata army of the south ras debated without result Washington officials are greatly In erestod in the deliberations of the onventlon called to select a provis onal president for a period of seyeral non the until a general election can ie held. It is understood Villa and its adherents favor the continuation n office or Eulallo Gutierrez. The ?apata element l? opposed to this, md the names of General Felipe An gles or General Jose Isabel Bobles, alnlster of war In the Gutlerrex cab net, are being prominently mention* d. The state department also was a&V lsed tbat H. O. C. At wafer, an Amer can. was stabbed to death at Tempi 0 by a Mexican whose identity was in known. The department haa ut> lue to Atwater'B home address or elatlves. Mexico City was reported quiet. No assecger train wont north yesterday n account of scarcity of fuel. G?n?ral J. Can anea, brother of 1 encrai Venuatlaho. Carraflaa." baa ?en taken prisoner at Salin a Crus, fexlco. according tt> en undated dli atch to the department, which also old of a revolt at San Oeroulmo, A Vera Crus dispatch, dated D?cern er 30, erd received at tbo department oday, said "flavor? fighting was In regress southeast of Paebla." Other advices were summarised tn his statement: . "The department is Just - In receipt ; t an undated dispatch from tho efeet cast of Mexico, via-navy wireless, tating that the Cnrranza forces toad een driven from Topic City and Aca oncta after three days flghtlng ; that lie Invasion of Sihaloa was . com tenclng: that villa leaders were at Hunting to preserve order and tbat onditlons were growing worse/# . h. . .i.iniTtt,iW I fort/. A?S?n? 35rp?puiaicd. CHICAGO. Jan. l-Calls!tor United tatee soldi**;: on the Mexican bord r. m Colorado, ArkansM>e^ii^H*e-' mmr mm