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VOLUME 1, NUMBER 342. rTeeUy, E.tabUshed i860; D?fljr, Janis, ?1?. ANDERSON, S. C, SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 1, 1914. $5.00 PER ANNUM PRICE FIVE CENTS WAR DECLARED BETWEEN TURKEY AND RUSSIA PROTEST UNDER CONSIDERATION BRITISH CABINET WILL RE PLY TO DOCUMENT SHORTLY HARD TO DIGEST A Document That Was Two Weeks in Being Drafted Calls For Consideration. LINDON. Dec. 30.-Thc British | cabinet- met in special session. Joduy to consider the American govern ment'? protest against delay to Amer ican shipping caused hy the searching of vessels by the British fleet > i "The note reached the foreign of fice yesterday, but it is not expected a reply will be drafted for several days." It is pointed out th ut a docu- ; .eut, which took weeks to draft, hardly could be digested at one cab inet meeting. Sir Edward Grey scarcely had time to read, much less to consider Gi? note, before Gie meeting bf bis colleagues. The cabinet will seek Information at the admiralty, which . department is responsible for the examination of ships' cargoes. Foreign office officials and the law officers of the crown, too, will be .ailed upon for diploma tic and legal opinions. When this proceedure is adopted American Ambassador Page will be asked to discuss the whole question with Sir Edward Grey and Sir Cecil > Spiing-Rice, the British ambassador . at Washington, probably will be in structed to take up the question with . Gie American State department. Mr. Page has not yet received any inti mation as to thc date for his confer ence with Sir Edward Grey. . The protest continues to monopolize interest herc. While It has como as somewhat of a shock to Gie public that dicerences havo arisen between thc two governments on' a subject that admttediy ls a difficulty ode, the note s generally is calmly discussed, except by those who declare that .Great . Britain should dts^ "ord American wishes abd foll?n a policy be*t cal culated lo asstdt Gio Alites In Gie war.. British ship owners, who are al most as greatly concerned over the situation as Americans, today ex pressed tho oplnton that the matter would be amicably settled. The dlrec S tor of' one large company, admitting ' inconvenience was inevitable in the ' searching of ship, said it was pos sible Borne of this inconvenience might be obviated. CARRANZA FORCES ARE DEFEATED Troops Contesting Villa's Ad ance Are Rooted in AU Day Fight. LAREDO, Texas, Dec 30.-Carranza troops,; contesting the advance north ward of the forces of General Villa, were defeated Monday after an all day battle at Ramon Arlspe,, between Mon terey and Saltillo, according to re fugees who reached here tonight from Monterey. It alto ts rumored that Saltillo has been occupied by Villa troops. The number of troops engaged at Ramon Arlspe Is not known hero, but it in reported that four cars of wound ed havo reached Monterey. Croat anxiety is reported at Monter ey because ot the withdrawal ot tho Carranza garrison from that city to HIpolltl. near Torre?n. It ts under stood that troops'are being hurried to Monterey from several towns In northern Mexico The refugees who arrived tonight Include Gie'widow, of the late Geroni mo Trevino, a general in the federal srmy during thc Plas regimes_ Protest To E Will Get WASHINGTON, tine sn.-While tie Ai nortean note to Great Britain pro testing against interruptions to the coe?mere? of this cous try continued today to absorb official Washington, there was confidence thst difficulties of the last five months eventually would be amicably adjusted. Already the discussion had turned to measures the United States could uko In cooperation with Great Brit ain to reduce the necessity for ex tended search oh the high seas. It became'known that treasury depart ment agents, acting with the state de partment, had inspected one cotton cargo and that Gie inspection had sat isfied the British embassy and facili tated progress of Gie shipment to ns destination. ?The belief was hald in official quar ters that aa understanding might be retched whereby cargoes- could bs citified before their ?apertura and thu made immune Ina dat sutton. FIGHT IS ON FOR? BILL SECRETARY REDFIELD MAKES ' EARNEST APPEAL FOR MERCHANT MARINE LIKE AN OSTRICH America Hes Risked Thousands of Dollars During Present War Uselessly. WASHINGTON, Dec. 30.-Initiat ing the aggressive fight to be waged in Congress for passago of the govern ment ship purchase bill to free Ameri can commerce from European war lirnitpJons, majority members of the senate commerce committee today filed a report recommending the meas ure in vigorous terms and tiansm.lt ting a commendatory letter from Sec retary of Commerce Redfield. The committee report, .filed b/ Act ing Chairman Fletcher, quoted tho report submitted yesterday by Secre tary McAdoo and Redfield showing enormous increases in ocean transpor tation rates since the war began and attendant falling off i nocean tonnage facilities. The cqmmlttee 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 ot the dis tress of producers, business men and banks, not only in the South, but throughout the country, would be re lieved. . Badly Handicapped. Secretary Redfield 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 lt? com petitors, "Tike ? department store without any delivery By-ftcm except such as competitors wev*> willing to supply." The result was easily to be forseen. he figured, when 20 years ago American gooda displaced Germaa products ii; second place among South African sales, snd American iron and steel entered into keen competition 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 sny such scale as to seriously threaten German or Eng lish tnduatrlal market,**," the letter continued/ like aa Ostrich. "Uko an ostrich with ita head tn tho sand we have put our money and merchandise at risk of "ie i?urc/can war. American capital investee in ships under European flags can be and has been destroyed by tho acts of hostile cruisers. Two vessels under foreign flags on their way to bc trana ferred were thus sunk. American capi tal in gooda transported under foreign flags, which were not owned by Amer ican capital, bas been lost or injured when such vessels have been sunk or held up and American goods for which Americans long since paid are today in foreign harbors. "We know now that our commerce, while ocean borne, is subject to war risks not of our making, but by which we suffer. The time has been when war risks shut off the movement of American wheat and delayed; the movement of American cotton and lt ls quite within tho range of probabif ity thnt such a time may reoccur. An American merchant marine ia a neces sity, and cannot be had without enough to relieve us from the jeo pardy In which we have stood and in which tn some measure we now stand A Pressing Need. . "Indeed, so vital ls the present time to America that it seems as . If wfe were in ta? very transition from be I (CONTINUED ON PAGE TH RSX.) ngland Good Results \ ??is?? ?S?C?s?s of the V/aauiagt-jfe government were somewhat surprised the American noto bad been regarded aa "brusque" tn some Dondan quar ters. They said the British cabinet, after a single* reading of Gie docu ment, most be convinced thai the United States had spoke in. the moat friendly spirit, though ncaa the less earnestly and emphatically. Those familiar with the note's con tents say lt ia a matter of fact and frank abatement of the difficulties ex perienced ey American shippers and the ft.'15-.-c tf the British government to raes* tb? ?rotss?: which nave besa maii. in all 20 American vhlpa and car goes, their value totalling millions have been detained. The note points out specifically, however, that reim bursement alone can not cure the sit? nation, aa the British fleet's activtts J (CXH?TO-r?ED ON PAGE PO0B.) This ls the hospital staff of tho hos- : pital established by the Duches* of - Westminlter at Le -Touquet In France. TRAIN HELD UP AND IS BURNED Twenty Men Killed by Bandits . Daring Hold WASHINGTON, Dec. 30.-State de-j part mont dispatches today told of the holding up of a train yesterday by bandits 80 miles northwest ot Vera Cruz an dthe shooting of two Carran za officers and 18 men. The train waa ? burned. Consul Edwards at Tampico inform ed the department that Juan . Jose . Musqu?s, recently executed in Mexi- | co, waa not an American citizen as first reported. Eliseo Arredondo, Carranza . agett here, tonight made public a message from General Carranza announcing that General Arricia had taken Tepo huanes; that General Iturblde's forces , had retaken LaPaz, Lower California,1 ?nd 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. ?HADES CHANGED A. ?sesease of From g to 80 Points ea Premiosas on Grades Above , Middling. NEW , YORK, Dec. 30.-The re vision committee ot Gie cotton, ex change today fixed differences be tween the old New York grades of spot cotton aa they will be applied to deliveries on the old style Jan uary contract. The only changes made were increases of from R t o30 points in the premiums of grades above mid- j diing. INVADING ENGLAND German Airmen'Drop Bombs, KBUng and Wounding Many. LONDON, Dec. 31.-3:88 a. rn-, Four German aeroplanes flew several I times over the city of Dunkirk Wed-| nesday, dripping bombs as they went, according^to the Dunkirk correspond ent of the Daily Mall. Soldiers in Gie streets fired on the machines and one Taube seemed to be hit, but all got safely away. Thc offici?t returns of Gie casualties , shows thst 15 persona were killed and 52 TOUSUT. ice bombs were filled i ?with ehraon*'. DREADNOUGHTS TORPEDOED French Submarine Attach.-; Austrian Battleship, Getting Best of lt, LONDON, Dec 31.-3.3? a. m.-A Dally Mail dispatch from Venice says Gist a - French submarine has torpe doed the Austrian dreadnattght Viri bus Uni tua at Pola. >' lt ia said the hali of tho dread naught waa pierced, but that aha reached the docks. The Viribus Unit? is ot 80,000 tona displacement and has a compliment of 1,000 men. She la one of Gie biggest ships ot the Austrian navy. A Lon doss newspaper dispatch from Venice th Bpetember said one side of the Viribus Uoitts had bees badly damaged tn a fleht in Ute Adriatic but thst Uie ship escaped her p armers. Hospital Staff of the Due! ^^^^^^^ lt has been officially;-pronounced thc 1 best war hospital tho British army ? REGULATIONS FOR NATIONAL BANKS Comptroller of Currency Specifies Amount to Be ?Loaned pa Res! Estate. WASHINGTON, Dec. 30.-Comptrol ler of tho Currency Williams tonight notified national banks that the fed eral reserve board mid drawn a regu lation Interpreting the provision in tho act .governing loans by . he IP on real estate. The regulation reads: "Tho maximum amount of loaus a national bank may make on real es tate under terms of tho federal re serve act shall be limited to, un amount not in excess of one-third bf its time deposits at the. time of mak- 1 lng the loan and -not in excess of one third ot its average time deposits dur lng the preceding eilender veer; pto vided, however, thai if ons-third of such time deposits aa ot the date of making the loan or one-third of tho average time deposits for the preced-, lng calendar year shall have amant- : ed to less than one-fourth of the cap ital and surplus of tho bank, as ot the date of the loan, then, in that event, the bank shall have authority to make lonna on real estate under the terms of the act to the extent of one-fourth i of the bank's capital and eur nins as ot] the date of making the loan-.** "Mere Bombs.** LONDON, Dec 31.-(1:05 a. m.? News reached Dover last night .that a squadron of seven aeroplanes flew over Dunkirk yesterday (Wednesday) and dropped bombs. Capital Ciitj News Special to Tb?. IntdlicMu-rr. j COLUMBIA. Dec 30.-The furniture factory in the penitentiary walls was j attached . by Superintendent Griffith for the board . of directors lo default ' of payment by the Columbia Chair Company, owners of tbs plant, of a claim for $1,650.20 due for work- by convicts, according to inform?* ?on given out ber*. Papers werft serifed, on Eli H. Brown of Frankford, Ky., president of the factory. This factory made a contract to manufacture furniture ead was to pay I the State for the labor of the convicts, this taking the place of the hosiery j mill which was abolished by the leg- . Islature after a hard fight. The claim I made by the penitentiary authorities ' under which the furniture was at tached covers Ute amount due for Mrs of convicts with Interest. i . The State of South Carolina collect- i ed 915,333.31 from the Income taxi this year as aga?nat $17,320.36 last] yeer, according to figures compiled' and mace public today by Comptroller j General Jones. Richland County {st first with 9&?42.63, SpaUanburg third with 91,108.23, Anderson fourth with 31,034.81. Greenville County only paid 951 ?.14. Eleven counties paid no, tacoma (ax. ] less of Westminister. * f^BL ' -B? ni --- ^MHBBMI / Hil j Nlll1(T|?l|?tf?1lVliim ll' ! >?r*y,vn?w mows In Franco. The duchess is showp in the first row, the third fig WILSON WILL MAKE SPEECHES j First Speech Will Be in Indiana polia ot? January . 3th. WASHINGTON, Dec. 30.-President Wilson today virtually decided to go to indianapolis to speak at a Jackson Dey celebration" January 8. He prom ised ti inform Senator Kern tomor row definitely whether he would make the trip. The president was understood to night to be preparing to make an im portant address at Indianapolis, but the subject was not divulged. The trip would be his first visit to the mid dle west since becoming president. Invitations are being received. dally for the president to speak in different cities on his return trip from the nan Francisco exposition next spring, and it was Indicated today Gits trip would be a long one in case no necessity were found for an extra session ot congress. Altbo\gh tho president has made no announcement his friendB. are work ing on the belief that he will be a can didate for the? presidency again in 4916, and therefore particular atten tion is being paid to plans for tao spring trip. TO SPEAK IN HALEIGH. Secretary Bryan WU! be One Speakers at Conference In Jan? uary. et RALEIGH, N. C., Doc. 30.-Fro tary Bryan will be one of the break ers at the North Carolina conference for social service here January 28-30, according to announcement today by Clarence II. Poe,, president o' the con ference. Secretary Daniels also lo expected to speak. Secretary Bryan also. will address Gie State general assembly.' SON KILLS FATHER Reported that Boy Intervened In Pam Hy quarrel. MACON, Ga,. Dec. 30.-T. J. Carr, a merchant of Carr's Station, a smalt town near here, waa shot and killed there today. Georg? Carr, a son of tho dead man, ls sought by the authorities in connection with \h? killing. Reports of Gie affair say the killing followed an attempt of Gae younger Carr to intervene in a quarrel between his faher and bis mother and sisters. HORSES FOB ALLIES Nearly lae Thousand Read of Stock at One Shipment NEWPORT NEWS. Va., Dec. 80. Loaded with nine hundred and six teen horses for use by the Allies in Gie European war aone, Gie British Bfeamer Anglo Californian sailed to night for Avonmontb, England. WILL TRAIN IN AUGUSTA Pittsburg Fed?rala Ge ta Georgia City First Week ta Marra. PITTSBURGH. Dae. 80.-The Pittsburgh Fed?rala League club an nounced tonight Gist Gie team would train tor tko 1915 season at Augusta, Ga. The team will leave here Ute that week in March.. ure from tho left. Mrs. Phillips, thc matron, io at her right. TRAIN ROBBERS SECURE BOOTY ; Bunjils Rob Sleeping Cara on: Sunset Express; Overlooked TrMJBsa?fsfJ?. SAN ANTONIO. Texas, Dec. 30. Approximately $8,000 in money sud Jewelry valued at $3,000 was secured by three bandits who robbed the two sleeping cars of the Sunset Express on the Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio F.uilrosd near Cline, Texas, i early today, according to report re ' calved by railroad oOiclaU here to ? night More than doublo that amount, ? however, wu s overlooked by the men I in their hurried search of the cars, it ls stated., * j The men boarded the train at Cline . sud after rousing the passengers from j their berths and forcing '.?cm to hand over their valuables at the point of 1 , revolvers, jumped from the train near i Spofford and escaped. Several posses i were organized at Spofford hut Up to ? a late hour tonight bad not found any i trace of the men. .' One woman, who did not quickly j hand over her purse, was struck over ! the hesd with a revolver hy one of the men. ' Jose Martines, a wealthy resider*, of Durango", Mexico, had in his stats? . room, which the bandits overlooked, $15,000 and valuable jewels. Martinez distributed suma of from $?r> to $180 ! to his less fortunate fellow ,/asseng-1 ero. KXPEKOK 18 THOUGHTFUL WASHINGTON, Dec. 30.-President ' Wilson tonight received a cablegram from Emperor William of Germany, congratulating h'm on his 58th birth day anniversary. King George of ? Great'Britain is the only other ruler! of a belligerent nation who has con gratulated the President. Cable Mffi joulties. it is believed are delaying ? messages. 1 News From 1 Told ?ti LONDON, Dec- ?A-(!0:20 p. m. Sinpe the Russian defeat ot the Aus trians in Galicia, which, while not ir reparable, is likely to affect the whole I Austro-Gorman campaign ta the east, ?there has been no Important devclop ' ment on either front. Tbs Allies, si though making no dra matic attacks on the German lines, are steadily hammering away with their artillery and when opportunity offers, push their lines a few yards forward. A French 'eye witness de cribing battles from December 16 to 24, gives a good Idea of the fighting and records gains, which, while each is only in yard?? amount in the aggre ' a*te to a considerable advance at many pointa. ' A few hundred yards In Flanders ware taken by primitiva methods. Hav. lng the breeches of their rifle chock ed with mud, the Alitas used them ss .clubs and in many cases fought the, [Germans with their fiat*. t 1D0N MILL GRINDS AGAIN GOVERNOR EXTENDS CLEM. ENCY IN nFTY-FTVE MORE CASES FROM ANDERSON ?our Noted Cases From Thia County Included in Last Batch of Fortunate Oma. llMTiml lu TW lulelligMirrr. COLT MIGA, Dec. , 30.-Filty-flve nore convicts In .be pcnltonUary and waitered on chalngung* throughout ho State were the recipient* of clem ency from the hands ot Governor Lslease lat? this afternoon. Bringing he total number of cases In which Ute governor has exercised the pardoning md paroling power up to 1,644 since ie has been In office. The list tonight ivas made up on 17 murderers. ' IS manslayers, four for violation of the ilepeneary law, two for I reach of truBt, four for larceny, thrtn for as sault and battery and riot, three for .sault and battery, tour tor highway robbery, three for criminal aB',ult~ oho tor car breaking, two for rerxsting ab officer. The three white men convicted ot having attempted to storm the 100?' Bpartanburg when Sheriff J. W, White held at bay a mob who '.ried to lynch - i negro were all perdona!. The three j were convicted In Bpartanburg last November and sentenced to three j years on the chslngang by Judea Moore. They are Horace Finch, Rob ert Wilson and W. R. Belcher. , , Included lp the Hst waa ona Oreek,.. Augustus Corosu?, of Abbeville, who, was serving a ten month's, sentence, for larceny He waa paroled during good behavior. John Masslngale of Plckens Posjqty who was serving a term to?. < men* slaughter was paroled on semd-UB? that he leave the State by January 5 and never return. s The following Anderson esses are in Gie Hst: A ? ? r nether Henderson, convicted of murder in January, 1914, and sentenc ed to life. Commuted to ten years. Parmeliena Banks, serving a life sentence for murder tn 1907 ead whose sentence waa reduced to 20 years, ta January commuted to ten years. Charlie Henderson, convicted ot murder in January of thia year and sentenced to* life, commuted to ten years. Ed Harper .convicted la November, 1913, of assault and battery of a~Eigh * and aggravated nature and sentenced to three years got a full, pardon. CAMPAIGNING IS VERY EXPENSIVE Starting Figures Given of Coats IDuring Recent Cam paign. WASHINGTON, De-.. 30.-Approxi mately half, a minion donara waa spent by candidates of all parties Itt the campaign preceding Uta Brat pop- ' ular election of United States senators last November. Sworn sUtemenbr Of expenditures filed wita tba secretary of state shows a total of $460.777.25 spent by senatorial candidates tn 31 States. Of this grand total. 61864147,?? waa contributed to Gie candidates, who themselves contributed to their campaigns $271,929.56. The Democrats lead with $242.? 895.60. Republican candidates spent $166,884482; Progressives 866,168.94; (CONTINUED ON PAGE TBMaTL) ; , The Front i Paragraphs In one little French vUlage within sound of the guns, Princess Patr?ete*?: light Infantry. Gie first Ot Ute Canad ian contingent to go to the front, ia billeted, waiting its tara to go into Gie trenches. The mea were accord ed a splendid reception ny their com rades in arms and the Fnmch villag ers. Wita tho defeat ot the Austrians tn Galleta and South Poland an? Gie re tirement of Gie Germane aerees the Brura, Petrograd believes the turning point has been reached tu Gie battle ot the Polish rivers. The chief agrbt ing now ta taking place ?a the Pillea, where the Germans still are on Gie of fene Ive and have brought up big guns. Losses tn those battles have reached enormous figures Ia dead, wounded and prisoners and must have been largely increased by disease, for. the men fought Under dreadful climatic (Continued on Page Foi?r>