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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 GETTIN6 USED TO SHELL FIRE CORRESPONDENT AT THE FRONTIN FRANCE PRAIS ES INDIAN TROOPS FIGHTING FOR , GREAT BRITAIN They Form a Separate World of Never-Ceasing Wonder to French Inhabitants (By Ariocinted Rr?tsJ Frederick Palmer a*, the front in France for the Associated Press, sends the following: BRITISH HEADQUARTERS IN FRANCE, via London, March 5. (3:30 p. m.).-The picturesqueness of the Indian troops of the British empire breaks th? monotony of the grim, col orless business of modern war at the British front. The little mule- carts of those soldiers move about among the powerful motor trucks from Eng land: It was first feared that the Indians might not stand shell Are well, but they became used lt to and sow they are even contemptuous of it. Ac customed to a hot and dry climate, the chill and rainy weather and the miry mud of northern France has been their worst enemy. When the sun shines a smile spreads over- the whole Indian force. Thanks to many layers of warm clothing and careful attention, the siok report of the Indian troops 1B normal. AH the food of these men has to be brought from India. Speaking no word of English, these dusky strangers have come from the other aide ot the world to fight ia France for Great Britain. Billeted in barns, with thick layers of straw for th dr beds, each raco cook lng Ita[Jpod; to tts taste and a?*ordi??~To^II?^ "they form a separate wovld nf never-ceas ing w-ondoy to the '/french Inhabitants. This morning there were Been 3,000 cavalrymen riding by on a muddy road .with a background of flat and misty landscape with all the precision they would sh\w at royal review. Occasionally'among the dusky faces un-.ier the turbans there were the vchlte countenances of the Eirgllsh of ficers who had trained these varied tribes and who have stc,cd with them in tho trenches in icy wa> ra up to their waists against the enemy. Sir Pertab Singh. 72 yeara Old, rode at the head of his regiment. "They told me I wa8 too old," he said, "but I replied, 'if you will not let me tight in France I will j go to. Afghanistan and fight there. I dont mean to di? in bed and I can't live much longer.' So they let me come." Although all the cavalry is fight ing as infantry in the trenches, caval ry officers keep up their cavalry dxills and the horses are in condition arrhls is because there may be a chance for the cavalry when the ?xpected German break comes. Everybody on the line speaks of the Germana going back aa if this waa as certain as the coming of spring. One meets hore Englishmen, Irish men and Scotchmen from every pftr* of the world, ready to serve in "any menial capacity in order to help. "Now, you take thia message to all my Irish friends in America for me," said a^ri^^^ytoWh^medical officer CONTINUED PBOM PAO^F??RBET ANOTHER GERMAN SUBMARINE SUNK French Cruiser Destroys Subma rine of U-2 Type m English Channel (ny Atso?Uted Press.) PARI8. March 6.-The ministry of murine today gave out a statement to fbi-effect that a German submarine of the U-2 type had been fired on by n French cruiser in the English Chan nel'yesterday. .The submarine plung ed, and no further trace of her was found: The announcement follows: "During the day ot March 4, a French warship belonging to the sec ond light sq jodron cannonaded a. German submarine of the U-2 type in the Ehg'*??. ; iianhei. Threo shots struck the undersea boat, which then plunged and disappeared. No trace ot her has been found." Seventy-Eight Bodies Have Been Recovered (By Aatorifttad rr**.) H?NTON. W. Va., March fi. Seventy-eight bodies had been reent ered late tonight from the Dayladd minea where an explosion Tuesday entombed more than ITO miners of whom only ten escaped alive. Varions estimates of tho number of victims agree that the total will .-?ach 150. St. Patrick's Cathedral and Two Anarchists Who Tried to Blow It Up During Mass ^^^^ ^wrJSWM't-fBANKi ABA?NO - lower Jnsert'X OtMeLCS " This is a photograph of St. Pat rick's Cathedral, tho greatest and moat costly church edifice in the United States, which a band of an. .arclilat?. tried lo JUiowuup during early. nlass Tuesday morning, March 2. The photographs of Frank Abarno, an an archist, twenty-four yearg bid. and Charles Carbone, another? only eigh teen years old, are also shown. Tho motivo for the attack on' thc church ls not known, other than"the fact that the Catholic church lias al ways been a bitter opponent of an archists herc and abroad." The men entered thc church with bomba con cealed beneath their coats and when they got. a . chance -. they-Ugh ted - one with'a elgar. The fuse began to sput ter when a detective put his foot on lt. Abarno went toward the altar to light another bomb, but a detective caught him. Both men were rushed from the church so quietly that thc worshippers hardly knew there had j been trouble. | French Capture Two Companies of Germans Victories for the Allies Are Claimed in Both the Eastern and Western Theatres-Captare of Over 18,000 Germans, Together With Gan?. Horses and Transport Trains Reported From Pe trograd--French Ammunition Steamer Sunk Hard fighting continues between the Russians and Germans in North Poland all aldng the front between tho Niemen and Vistula riviera- and also between the British, French and Belgian atv! Germana in tho wost at various places .from the sand dunes in Belgium-to the crests of the Vosges mountains. Victories for tho allies are claimed in both the eastern and western theatres in the latest reporta made by the Russian and French war-chan cellories. Progress for the Musco vites in the recapture of grouud at different placea on the Nlemon-Vls tula line and also the taking a.i pris oners of numerous German ofneera and men and the capture of guns and war atores aro recorded by Petrograd, Two entire companies of Germans \ -one of thc machine gun^ arm of the service and the other o? the Prussian London Newspaper Discusses Reprisals I Asks by What Right England Can Refuse America Leave to Import Dyes (By AcxiaUri RM.) V LONDON, March 5.-(?:10 p. m.)) -Tho Weekly Nation today discusses In 1U leadlos article the propo*** reprisals the Allies against ship ping-to and from Germany and asks hy what right inginna can refuse America leavo t-> import dyes from Germany when England herself has Issued licenses to her truders to buy dyes from that'source. "It seems cleear to us that if the navy receives a general order to ar rest sil neutral shipping on suspicion ? of German Origin or destination of their cargoes, our prize court and our foreign office will not lead unevent ful ?veJ,** The Nation says. It con I aiders that the Allies can tighten the existing siege ot German coast with j out setting &a a siege against, neutral nations or stopping trade "which wo do not declare to be illegal, or against which we do not tuke measures that international law requires neutrsls to respect." guard-have fallen into the hands of the French during fierce engagement:; to tho north of Arras and in the Champagne, districts, ' according to Paris. Hi addition the French state ment says some 650 yards ot trenches In the region of Mesnll and trenches and ravines .northwest of Beausejour were Captured by the French during j lighting iu which the uermnas losses are described as having been extreme ly'blzh. Twelve attempts by the Germans to sap allied advanced trenches in the Band dunes of Belgium were repulsed. The -fightiptf which has boen in progress in the Carpathians passes for several, weeks seemingly has lessened In violence Vienna reports engage ments in tome ttoctiona but says that on the whole the situation remained unchanged. The tabing of Stanislau, Galicia, and thc capture during thc campaigns in that territory of 163 German officers and 18.522 men to gether with guns, horses and trans port t/alna is recorded: by Petrograd. A newspaper dispatch from Buchar est, Rumania, assorl d that, the Aus trians evacuated. Czernowlts, capital of Bukowina. Nothing new concerning thc allied fleet's attempt to force the Dardanel les is at Mind. Constantinople dis patches reiterate that damage thus far done to the Turk'sh fortifications la not as great as al Vd reports have indicated. It is declared also that eye witnesses have reported that sev eral allied waratana have Men badly damaged by the Turkish fire. Still another German submarine is declared to have met with disaster at the hands of an allied .ship. Tho French admiralty asserts that a -sub marine of thc P 2 .class waa itruck in the English Channel by tb/co sheila from A French cruiser a**? disappear ed. French reserves are being sent' by tho Germans from Wuerttemberg and Bavaria Into Alsace, according to Swlas advices. Berlin reports by wireless that a French ammunition steamer bound for Nleuport went by mistake into Ostend and waa sunk br the Germans. The -?-/,?> in moV<ri<r Ostend Instead of Nieupo.i, the German army beadonar ters says,'waa due io the-erow Of the steamer being* Intoxicated. On the submission of new evidence (CONTI Nt'Eb^k'PAoi''raEa?r~w>* y 1 CHOICE OF PRESIDENT FOR NEW JUDGESHIP IN SOUTH CAROLINA S ALFRED BAMPTON CLIMBS HIGHER -^ Appointed aa Assistant Commis sioner-General of Immigra tion by S^c. Wilson -4 O';. .\K<MMMI?I1 Prc?.) WASHINGTON*. March C.. -Repres entative Joseph T. Johnson, of Spar tanhurg, has been selected by Presi dent Wilson for the new federal Judgeship in South. Carolina, created hy- congress shortly before adjourn ment. He was endorsed by members of the South Carolina congressional delegation. Former Governor John G. Evans also has been suggested. Endorsements of all candldntes*Yor thc new federal judgeship In Georgia and South Carolina were laid out to public view at the depa:laient of Ju s tice today as required oy the aots creating these positions, passed dur ing thc closing hours of congress. It was the first time such a thing had been done in the history of thc Amer ican Judiciary. More than 2.000 persons endorsed W. W. Latnbdin, appointed district Judge in Georgia, nud many Individual endorsements were posted lor candi dates for the 'judgeship in South Carolina. Alfred Hampton Promoted. WASHINGTON.. March 5.-Alfred Hampton, youngest son of General Wade Hampton, of South. Carolina, was appointed assistant commission er-general of immigration hy Secre tary, WJlson^pd?f, to^sueceed F. H. learned, wno wit? bo 'transferred fur duty at Ellin island. Hampton now lu inspector in charge of the immi gration service nt Galveston, ile has teen tn the government service since 1849. During thc Spanish-American -war Hampton wus a second lieutenant in the Third United States engineers and aide-de-camp to Major General M. C. Butler. He was educated at the University of Virginia, Washington and Lee and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. GEORGE EVANS DIED YESTERDAY Head of "Honey Boy" Evans! Minstrels-Death Will Not Affect Performance Here. (Bj* Associated Prw.) BALTIMORE, March 5.-George (Honey Boy) Evans, the minstrel, died at a hospital here today. He cam? here for an operation several i daya ago. v.vnna had been suffering from stomach trouble for some time. Late ly he had boen touring the south with his company and about three weeks ago was compelled io lea\'p lt at Birmingham, Air,. Evans wss bora In Cardiff, Wales, 42 yearg ago.. He -came to America, when ?-eeven years , old. In turn he was a printer, n reporter and an actor. Will Show Herc Tuesday. Manager C. H, Bleich, of The An derson theatre, where tho Honey Boy Evans minstrels ls? to appear next Tuesday night, stated last night that he had received a message announc ing Mr. Evan's death. He declared that this would not . effect the show, and the performance here next Tues day evaning will bs given as schedul ed. Mr. Bleich stated that ''Lasses" White bad been taking Mr. Evan's part since the .'ctU'r was forced to retire from tho stage, / and that, ac cordtag to newspaper criticisms. White has carried the part equally as good ns the late lamented min strel. American Flag Painted on Si?e* CBjr AsmcUted Trew ) CHARLESTON. 8. C., March '>. With tlie American .lag painted on each side and her name, and nationali ty painted in large letters astern, the Vr-orican steamer Georgiana sailed from this port late yesterday for rot terdam with a cargo of 18,0?0 bale? of colton for Germany. Colton Steamer Held Vp. B03TO?I, March 6.~Tne steamer Pacific, carrying cotton from Calves ton for Rotterdam, has been bela up by a British warship and taken to Deal, according to a message receive i today b> tho Emery Steamship Com pany, owners of tho vesosL Detectives Disguised to Catch Anarchists; Bombs Placed by Them in St. Patrick's Cathedral This photograph o' iws two of the*] detectives, of tho . f iv York- police force who helped I catch two anar chists who pince,! bombs in St. Pat rick's Cathedral. New York, the great est church edifice in the knited States, at early ninan Tuesday morn ing. Murch 2. In following this cane the detective!* had worked through one ol iii'.-ir number, Sinllio I'ollgnunl, who had associated with the an archists and had learned their pur poseu. They made up their minds to go so far aa to let tho men place the bombs and then catch thom before the explosion. To do that the detectives had to. he Very near the anarchists. In accomplishing this Walsh and Starrott disguised themselves as scrub women. They were mopping down the aisles of the church near the pew oc cupied by thc anarchists and at the* same timn watvhing them closely. Mexico City Is On The Verge Of Starvation Carranza Commander Refuse? 'to Permit International Relief Com mittee to Succor to Needy--Population is in Terror Since Ob regon Announced He Will Not Prevent Looting or Pil laging For Food or Money (By A*.Mnrint?I Pre?? > WASHINGTON, March .'..-Presi dent Wilson tonight faced ono of the most'serious and perplexing develop ments that has arisen tn. the Mexican situation. Mexico City is on thc v?rgo of starvation. Oen?rat Ohregnn. tho Carranza commander, refuses to per mit an international relief commit tee, comnosscd of wealthy members of tho foreign colony, to succor tho needy. "Mexico needs no foreign aid," the general is reported to have said. All merchants who cloned their stores have been ordered lo reopen. Thi'ac hundred) ot them, Moxtcans, ha"e been Imprisoned. The pomil.ithm is in ! error since Obregon nae *n nouncea ho will not nraveot tooting or pillaging for food or money. The Rraziilzr Hrltish. Planish and, Italian ambassadors today gave the' state department pessimistic reports of tho situation, which correspond to'roportg already received. The for eign diplomats suggested nd solu tion. Secretary Bryan announced that ht* bad telegraphed American Consul B? mpan to lay the situation earnestly before General Carranga, so that Gen eral Obregon might be directed to accept aid proferred by foreign resi dents. Freight service ls suspended between Mexico City and 'Vera Cruz, and transportation* facilities for re lief purposes are being withheld by General Obrcgou on tho ground ot military necessity. President Wilson was advised of" nil the facts late today. Tonight he waa reported studying tho question close ly. Should Genrral Obregon continue to refuse nut sido aid. drastic measures may be necessary. Talk of au allied expedition similar to the one that went to tho relief of foreign legations' at Pekitig during the Boxer uprising was heard again in officiai quarters. All sorts of wild rumors/ore afloat In Mexico City duo to Oregon's In cendiary, utterance?, In newspaper'In terviews' virtually sanctioning plun der for food. General '('ai-ranza has been asked hy the American go? ??rn-, mont to Instruct General' Obregon to take somo -measures ?o -protect \{Yet and propertylof foreigners. The peo ple fear the water supply may be shut off und tho electric light cables cut. The ::00 merchants imprisoned were reported to have appealed to Obre gon for relief from a heavy tax be had Imposed. Secretary Bryan said that so far as thc. state department had been advised, alt the ?.exleon priests nrrested for failure to con tributo funds demanded by Obregon still were In prison. Tho International relief committee, which raised about 250,000 peso6, was not permitted to aid tho poor, accord ing to offlclai dispatches, because General Obregon ' declined *o accept funds restricted to any definite use. Obregon's ' latest decree provides that all merchants not only must open their places of business under threat cf pviii-shniont, hui that any person refusing to accept Carranza flat mon ey will be Imprisoned. Enrique C. Ll?rente. Villa's Wash? (qajKriMKU ON PAGE FIVE.) Stu Form a ree Speech Society Committee Empowered to Draw Resolutions Denouncing Au thorities cf University " (By Ajworiuifvl Pr***.) I PHILADBl.PHIA. March ."..-More than 500 University of Pennsylvania st intents today formed a free speech society sod empowered a commiten to deaw resolutions denouncing the authorities o? the institution and those in charge or che " PensyIvanlan,1" a dolly student publication, because of their alleged attitude toward Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor. The action wa? taken at a' meeting of the ntndonts bold In Knights ot Colum bus hall, which was addressed by Mr. Gompers*- - The resolutions, which were adopt ed without discussion, also protest against any attempt to prevent tho discussion of public Issues at thc University and demand recognition ot thc nowly ferme;! crguslsatlss. ESTIGATING CORONER BEGINS INQUIRY INTO SUICIDE OF LILLIAN MAY COOK STATE ATTORNEY CLEARS MAYO Says He is Satisfied Mayo is Not Criminally Responsible'for Girl's Death (By Associated FiMS.) NEW MAVEN. Conn., March G. Coroner Eli Mix today begsu an In quiry into the circumstances sur rounding the suicido of Lillian May L'lnrk. whoso body was found In a lonely spot , in a mountainous park of this city yesterday after the police of three states had been searching tor Uer for a week. Tho coroner spent the entire day in secretly examining several witnesses and hearing the re ports of physicians he bad assigned to perform an autopsy upon tho body of the young woman. A detective who has been engaged on ihe case, announced tonight that virgin lus J. Mayo, possessor ot a dual personality and employer of Miss i Cook, had been served with a sub poena requiring him to appear before the coroner on Monday and assist, if he could, Inj determining what prompt ed the young woman to take her life. Later Coroner Mix otated emphatical ly that no subpoena had been issued for Mayo. * "We ?ant to determine what caus ed Miss Cook to commit suicide," he declared, Neither tho coroner nor the pbyoi- . clans ' would divulge what bad been discovered during the course of the autopsy. Witnesses exsruined by the coroner today included. Frank Cook, of Brooklyn, N. Y.. father of the girl, and Miss Helen Wilson, her room mate here. After the examination the coroner Bald: "At this time I have found nothing to warrant me- detaining anyone or asking the police to see to. lt that hoy person did not leave my jurisdic tion." . Mayo's attorney said today that hts client had talked too* much and that ho had advised him tb keep silent. In a statement yesterday Mayo ad mitted thst while he was residing in this city with bis res! wire he main tained in Brooklyn an establishment for Loll Waterbury. Mayo admitted also that wi lie he and his legal wife were childless, Lois Waterbury, who. was known "for convenience" aa he put lt, as "Mrs. James Dudley," was the mother of two of his children. At the st?to's attorney's office here the following statement was Issued late tonight: "The state's attorney'* office ls sat isfied that Mr. Mayo is not criminally ?esponslble for the death of Miss Cook. This of course ends ar,- further investigation on the part ot ibe coro ner." / Lois Waterbury Received Letter.' NEW YORK, March C.-Lots Water bury, head of the home Virginias J. Mayo maintained In Brooklyn under tho name of James Dudley, said today she hadjecolyed. a letter1 from Millan 'CONTINUED FROM PAGE FIVE.) GROWINGM?RE INTENSE HOURLY --?- ? 'Russians Have Been Toread to Assume Defensive in the ' Carpathians (IV Associated Press.) BERLIN, via London, March 5 (10:50 p. m.).-the fighting in the Car. path ians ia grpwing more Intense hourly and the Russians have keen forced to assume the defensive de spite thtdr energetic exertions, ac cording to the Mittag Eeltung's cor respondent at Austrian headquarters. His message says: "They (the Russians) show great skill in utilising topographical advan tages to ward off enveloping move ment?, but their offensive power evi dently ts waning. The Russian losses have been heavy. I "The dormans and Aust?lana within a few days have, wrested from the Russians all tue positions previously gained on the Ussok-Lupkow line. All the Russian efforts to re--over the lost positions have been repulsed." Sanaerfed Safe Blower? Arrested. CHICAGO. March 6.-Two men the police believe ' air? members of the gang of safe blowers who dug their way into th? branch banks of Mon treal at New Westminister. B. C.. ?eptomber 15? 1911, and escaped with $317,000, In Canadian money. were arrested here today. They ere George Webster and John Bingham..