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. ?y... Intelligencef NEW SERIES, VOL. 1, NO. ?. W??kly. l?tobU??e* 18?; Dal?* Jan. 18, !'./.<. _'_ ?_._ _ ANDERSON, S. C., MORNING, MA\32, 1914. PRICE $1.50 THE YEAR, FIRS. Af. E; IcofT w/ WHILE SEATED Al HOME NEAR L< NEGRO BOY CHARLIE LS STRUCK fm And Admit? Ile Intended Committi ter cf Old Lady-L<rgan S*ve. trate and Rushed (Hy U ?, titainj. i LOWNDESV?LLJ-:, Marclj 17.~Mrs. M. E. Scott, an 80 years old widow who. with her granddaughter of 13. resided on' nor teem one mile north o? here, was brutally attached while 'seated at her fireside Tuesday night atout 11 o'clock, by.,Charlie Logan, a young negro, who ?truck ber in the head with a heavy wrench, inflicting! au injury from; which (he aged wo man ?led thjs afternoon kt 1 o'clock.7 Witnesses testified at the, coroner's ?oqnesi ibis afternoon t; i at Logan ad mitted that he entered tho home willi the intention of putttng the old Indy out of he way, and commUtim; an.'assault, upon . her young grand daughter, b'ut left, vefoio attemptiug to attack thc. girl, pen MUK ;e> colored, . ifr held on suspicion in con nection with the mutter. The Logab negro, if v st^both, was saved from ? lynching at thc hands of ai) infuriated j crowd of citizens by the cool and .Io- < t?rmined fHtand taken by Magistrate J. Q. HudRabec, who let it. be.known Charlie Logan in the custody of Con i . stable J. M. f'-^kabce, who took tho 'prisoner to*' u-*avllie>jair"iff aa^?pP tomobile. '? M?* in the afternoon Magistrate J cfcabee sent tho other negro. Cen MaBsoy, to Abbeville Jail., thi? prl?oner being taken on the train by Constable C. G. ('rant. Crihie Carefully l'ianncd. From testimony adduced at the in- ! Muirwi, lt appeared thai the crime had been carefully planned, and evidence uncovered prior to the time Logan made bis confession pointed unmis takably to his having committed thc deed. Dr. Thomas O. Kirkpatrick and others arriving upon thc scene soon after the attack upon' Mrs. Scott be-, came known began aa investigation . of the premises, with the- view of un earthing some clue tis to who had cornnijtl'-'il the crime. They ha<i * nly the statement of Mrst Scott's, grand daughter, Millie Lee [Scott, that sho was awakened sometime during thc . night by the noise ot something fall ing upon ibo floor i nd looked up from tho bed in time to see someone dart out tho door. It appears, that the little girl retired ?bout 10 o'clock und .lecher agranda Diker seated . by Ibo ATO 'sm?k?ng a, pipe. 'The next Bhe knew was when ho was awaken ed by tl?o noise in tl i room and saw a mar, 'spring throui ? the door into an ndjohaiug . room. Jd her grand mother lying on th floor bleeding from a wound in th< head. Dr. Kirkpatrick an I others began a careful scrutiny nf the premises, and underneath a lindow of > the hov. so they discovert } on the ground a piece of freshly si lt fat pine. The supposition was that the intruder" had brought this piece o pine along to be used as a torch ir teeing his way about the' house, b I that upon ar riving there and se? ig a light burn ing In the house th fv down the fat wood and decided ivork by the light that was bun lg in the dwell ing- On the groun .underneath th<j. window, was foundjfndentatlons Ir '. the ground, aa thoo* they had been made by the emu < a ladder sot up against the house. UtQn looking at the weatherbourdtn of . the house, just underneath th window leu the investigators aa Impressions like - ' those wada ny the % ends' or a lad*, .i^inst i I wall. This lcd hat te ?rtmlnai hftd VnU red tho window ty climbing u* ? hort ladder ??et Up Hm the Outside. .Rpi apon n?Hking ? U *x?minatlon pf thc pince they coulfftid uo ladder". If'rtd Made ; U?Mcr. Alter b, while 'traj?icadlng away from th^'hodk? wer#f?nnd. ' ThcBe tracks wore tr.iced #h?> a.Jlc'd and down to a' house ?o?Wd by unarlio Logan and Ben Mnlf. Thc white woke tho negfc and entered Um house, to find Uk Ben Masse? was absent and thaURll Johnson, a neighbor was ",hM'' *Ith " can Af once thc wlfawi began to Interogute them as i?*at they knew ..bout thc attack <>uB|e old lady. While this wa? gn'??th o? ?n tho party # ? war' the hbuse abd foun?p|ece of fat piti? that had a pioc?u off fi . The ?ieco of tat P^e ?Ph was found . \N VICTIM T ASSASSIN iS FATALLY INJURED ' FIRESIDE OF HER 5WNDESVILLE. ?GAN SAYS HE iL BLOW WITH HAMMER ag Atsnult cn Young GrimcWaugh i From Mob .By Gritty Magis to Abbeville Jail. tmd< meathHbo' window vms compar ea with 4h? piece found In the ne gro house, and it waa shown conclus ively that thu two pieces of pine had I j been one, ard that the piece found | underneath th? window of Mrs. | ? Scott's house har* been split off the piece found in the nogro house. The ; investigators questioned Will .Tn^nuon very cloasly and he stated that when he stopped in - Tuesday njgit ba saw Charlie Logan making a short ladder, but did not ask him What he was going to do with it.- Tho ' while men made another search of .j (he house and presently .pulled from, &?penth ('narho Logan's bed ,ft small' lauder. This ladder was earrh?? *o Mrs. Scott's house and pla??d beneath tho window that had boin entered. The ladder exactly fit thc impressions that lind been noticed on the ground ,*-vd on Ino wall of the house by Dr kirkpatrick when he made his first S'irvcy of the premises. A ugry ' Crowd (latkered. tho timo the investigation had , progressed this far dnyliglit had come ] snd -the nnva of tho brutal assault I spread throughout tho surround-.) ?lng-t?mt(ftftf liraittimg^nnnrirWs nf ainu cd men to gather at the scene of Uv erlme. Dr. Kirkpatrick. Mr. R. Henry yngjl^ley avd Mr., E. W, Harper and. j tither well known citizens of1 Lowndcsvillc were endeavoring in ;he .i'tinio to get Charlie Logan to tell "what ho knew about the crime, a? the evidence pointed conclusively to hts having had something to do, with thc affair. Finally the boy admitted that ho had entered the house and struck the old woman with a hammer. Tho negro would not state to* thc white men what nts motive was In entering the house and attacking the aged wo man. But at tho Inanest held later In the day a negro man testified that | he had spoken to Charlie Logan about the affair and that Logan admitted hitting Mrs. Scott, and gave as bis motive that he wished to "sea that little girl in the house with her." ?Inquest Held. Yesterday afternoon Map.strati- j Huckabee held an inquest i'ato tho j death of Mrs. Scott, swearing tivo witnesses, after which the jury re-1 turned a vordl:t charging Charlie bo- [ gan with having ' struck thc blow which brought about the aged Wo nnui'.s death. The first witness sworn at the in quest,'Mrs. Scott's-little granddaugh ter. Millie Lee Scott, tealfied as fol-1 lows: "On the ni?ht of March 16 I was with my grandmother, Mrs. Scott. Blfe';Wa3 about ll o*clock when I was H^r?ked by a fuss in the room, and when I looked up I saw that grand ma was lying on .the floor. I looked and saw someone run from our room into tho stove room: I went out a side door and to a negro house, near home and let lt be known. I' went to tile negro house and got Reedy Bur ton to go to Uncle Airs home and let hun know. After coming back from 1 Uncle Alf's I saw a hammer lying near , the door where the party ran. out. One window was raised at thc end of the stove room. Th? hammer was not on Uie floor when I went to bed. I did not miss anything- from .the',bJune. I make my home with my grandmother. 1 am 13 years Sold. Grandma was about" 75 years old.' Another witness sworn. Will John son, testified as follows: "On. the night of March-16 I stayed at the house of Ben Massie, on Mrs. Scott's place. Charlie Logan was in tho house whon ? went to bed. 1 came by the houso add Charlie told mr Ben Massie was not at home, and asked me to stay with him. I did. I don't know nt -what time Charlie Loftan, went to bott About 12 or 1 o'clock I was waked by a boll ringing. . I got up and went to thc window. When he (Charlie Logan) called me lu the h?use he was making a ?mall ?????r. attd said he was gotng to put over his bed slats. The ladder ! saw todav ?a the. on? that Charlie Logan had made ? have stayed with Charlie Lo ganand Bun Massie ones before. Ben Massie did "not stay with us last nigh?." A third witness. J. stated ou thc stand the "Jitst ?riere Mr. Huckat stable, lector Abbeville with Charita Logan ? w?r*t into a cabin where he German The North German Lloyd liner. Prinz. Site! Friedrich, which hus been a German auxiliary cruiser and has" raided British commerce In tho ? seven, seas pince" the war began, put into Newport Nowa th? Other doy bearing more than 300 prisoners, taken from British und French ships. Tuesday hight after derk'the Ger man Ship appeared . off Cape Henry, but did not enter until -liter day light, when she passed quarantine and dropped her anche-'4 at Newport News. All her ofljeers preserved the j strictest silence, and her captain at j once dispatched a message telling of j his arrival and the condition of Iiis ship to the German embassy at Washington; THE STATE PUBLIC SIX Of j CunatitHtga piit?i? Cm ic?pu?t?citLfe many With Great Britain and Warfare, Use of Neutral Has, * tion of Food Shipments and ade by th (Hy AfWiciatMl l'rcj-?.) WASHINTON. March 17.-Six dip lomatic notes were made public to night by the state department,- con- I stiiuting tlie entire correspondence of | the last few weeks beween the Unit ed States. Germany and between tho United States and Great Britain and ? Franco, relative to ?he cessation of submarin* attacks on merchant ships, the shipment of conditional contra band and foodstuffs to civilians, the uso of neutral flags by belligerent and j merchantmen, the removal of mines, ind the proclamation of a virtual | blockade by- the Allies against Ger many. , The communications- revealed that I the Unjted States, realising the dif ficulties of the Allic; maintaining an effective blockade of Germany by a | cloie guard of the coast of the newly j developed activity of submarines, ask ed that "a radius of activity" bc de fined. Great Britain nud France re plied with tho announcement, that the ?operations ot blockade would not bo conducted "outside of European wa ters, including thc .Mediterranean." While Germany agreed, It i? dis closed, to abandon her submarine at tacks on "tnorcantilo of any flag," ex cept when they resist visit or search, provided foodstuffs were permitted .to reach her civilian population. Great Britain and her Allies rejected tho proposal originally, made by the Unit ed States ia an effort to bring the belligerents into an arrangement which would safeguard the interests ot neutrals. Furthermore, the documents show that the United States asked Great Britain'and France whether the em bargo on oil commerco between Gor ?many and neutral countries was ito bo carried out under the rules of a shrps and cargoes "as* blockade . or by interference with chips and cargoes"as if no blockade existed," the two together presenting In the view of the American govern ment" a proposed course -of action $'.deviously unknown to international ?w". * Tbe-rnswera from Great Brltalri and 'France reveal for tbe first time that thc Allier ofllc'ally regard their poli cy ss a "blockade" but desire to re frain' from cxercl jing tho rights of belligerents under a blockade'to con fi?bate ships and cargoes ne? a penalty for, breach of blockade, substituting proeeedur,. 'in nrite courts and cohi pensatop through .mle of the detan ::.} marchandise. The oeiirjtion of a "radius rif ac tivity" for the allier, ?5cet in Euro pean wkterH. incied??K the Mediter ranean. ls the first, intimation of the geographical limits of the blockade. The publication of tho correspon dence cleans ni. Uptonmtlc notes and leav-;- th?. United {Stater confronted with the quett?ion of wheth er or not it will acquiesce in the form cf hlevs-Sd? annoua-*'.-d i '.Kies. President Vii indicated that a 5r?v?3to Am eric rUlWwrV Ibis Sunbry and Ger France Relative >'P Submarina rs, Bemorniwoff t?tmWif. ^Qnes S Proclamation of a Block ie Allies. Into an agreement on the usn of sub marihes and mines, the fixing of a definite rule governing.shipment so conditional -contraband"to the civilian population o a belligerent, and the abandonment of neutral flags as a ruse of war. Official? admitted b?jng somewhat puzzled over tho British rejection of tho proposals made- by the United States In this connection. They ob served ? statement in the RritUh re ply to the American note which "ls not bosne out by comparison with the Gorman not?. The Britislt reply says In reference to the American com munication: "Tho reply, of the German govern ment to this noto has been published bnd it is not* understood that, the German government, is prepared, to abandon ho practice of sinking Brit ish marchant vessels by submarinos." What Germany said ofllehilly was ns follows: "Tho German government would undertake not to use their nub marinea to attack mercantile of any except when necessary to enforce the right of visit and search." THE BRITISH CASUALTY j: >w That Largo Number of Offi cers Were Killed, Wounded and Missing (Uy ANUK-?JUN] Rrv?n.) LONDON. March 17 (8:25 p. m.). The British casualty lists for the (ive days from March 10 to March 14 inclusive, during which the battles Of Neuve Chappell o und St. Eloi were to.;nui. show that 113 officers were killed or died from wound.? and that 191.".officers wcro wouhded or ;ir< missing. Thc list of. casualties amoitg * the 1 men has not'been published na yet, nor bas any figures been alvon out; hat aome /comrctent critica estim?t ? them at about tw\vthirds of those rjiitfered by tho Germans which Field \ Marshal Sir John French, tho British j commander-in-chief,- said were bc- 1 ?ween 12,000 and 18.000. Ono Canadian officer was killed in thc flghtiny and.three Canadian of ficers were wounded. I Hear Admiral Overboard. LONDON.'March 18.'- ?2:18 n. m.) -Rear Admiral William j, Grogan' has fallen overboard from bin ahlpj and has been drowned: according to au announcement by the admiralty. The hamn of the ship 1? uot given. ?car ' Admira) Grogan went on die retired Hat seven year? ago, but en terod the active servie* at tha com mencement of tho war. Mr J ?n Port. out on h?r carear as a warship from Taing Tau. she niich?d Tsing-Tau shortly after tho outbreak ot hostili ties, and the German murine authori ties there equipped lier with naval guns and turned her into an auxili ary cruiser. She sailed from Taing-Tau before the Japanese attacked that oort, and early In November she waa'reported oft* th.? western cpakt of South America, were for several months alie has been active in tho pursuit of British and French shipping. One of her exploits was the sinning oariy in December of the British steamer ('har?as off Chill. Juoanosc misers have been described as searching for this Cern?an vessel persistently, but they never could find her. ASSOCIATED PRESS NOT A TRUST Group of Newspaper* May Com bine to Collect and Distrib ute News WASHINGTON. March 17.-Attor ney Genernl Gregory, in a letter ad I dressed to James M. Beck, counsel Tor the Sun Printing and Publishing association of New S'ork holds there is no ground for action by federal au thorities against the Associated Press under Ute antitrust law. The i ttoincy genornl's letter was .nade public today, ile points out that the Associated Press ls a co-ope : at ive organisation and says: "As suming that kind of service In which tho Associated Press is engaged in l i hilt t estatQ commerce (question not free from doubt) I am nevertheless ot the r pinion that is no violation -of toe anti Host act for a group news papers lo lorm an association to col' loot ann tnstribute news for their common buuefll and to that end to agrncj to i ur nish news callected hy theui ol.ly to each other or to as sochttiens, provided, no attempt is made to prevent members from pur chasing or otherwise obtaining nev.:, from rival agencies.. . "Ami IT that be true, the corollur; must be true, namely, that newspapers desiring to form and maintain such an organiza tion may determine who shall not he their associates." Shortage lu Dyestuff. NEW YORK. March 17.-Chemical companies today notified textile mills ut an advance of 25 per cent. In Ger man dyestuffs, to becomo effective to morrow. Two leading, lines of south ern ginghams have boen, withdrawn from sale because of a shortage of color and two large manufacturera of den ?m .; have ceased taking further orders for Indigo shades. Cotton goods were steady, to firm. Worsted yarns were advanced, Kmbroideries were In better demand. WILL BUY COTTON CARGO OF DACIA Disposition of the Ships Must Be Left to ? Prbe Court (Ur /MOrinUd Pr**? 1 PARIR. March 17. - Iv.iO p. m.) The French foreign omeo, lt .ts un derstood, bas decided to buy tnb cot ton cargo of tho steamer Dacia, which was seized by.a Fr.anch cruller and taken into Brest while on a voyage from the United ?tates to Rotter dam. Tho cotton ls valued at about l?r.o.ooo. The owners proposed the purchase, lt is stated. Tho disposition of tho 3hlp must be i a-prize court. The French law, I. H . is pointed out. does - toot., pt Ault i the transfer of a ship belonging ?" hostil. <-oiin?ry to a'neutral'duri ! war. The Dacia changed hsr> reglet ? from German to American Afntr t ! outbreak of hostilities. i f Captain George. McDonald, ino ho Thuda, arrived here today it is Ids intention to remain until t . court proceedings are ended. VICTORIES J HEAVY I AS THE WAR PROGF REALIZED THAT LISTS MUST FOUR NATIONS ARE FIGH BITTTERLY Belgians, French, British and Gem fort to Be Made When the Roi Been Brought Up ai (Uv AMoriatrd Pw*.) -LONDON, March 17.-Slr Edward Qfey'a replica to tho American notes on th(> uso cf neutral flags on British merchant vessels and the prohibition imposed ort foodstuffs destined for _}e:many, In which for the flrjt time Great Britain definite:;, announces her intention to -establish a block ade," again have brought the diplo matic question in thc front in Eng land. v Tho replie*, published here with tho American notes, contained no sur prises, for their terms have been for the most part known. A3surc>iceB thnt neutral shipping will be Interfered wjth aa ltttle SJ possible und that neither sh.ips nor argei s will be confiscated, lt Is felt here should go a long way townrds meeting American objection). How ever, another protest is expected. Even these diplomadle questions, jn which so much depends, only mo mentarily distract attention from bat Mes In the east and the weat, the operations against the Dardanelles and he activity of German submartses, which took additional toll today. ' While Earl Kitchener, secretary for war. and other cabinet minister s are 'lending their energies . towards in* -reasing the output of war material and ate encouraging recruiting, com plete optimism prevails. Victories .of last week entailed heavy sacrifices and that the casualty lists must Increase as the war pro gresses h fully realised, but every body in England believe that when Ihe time comes for, the "big push" there will be no turning back. The armies -of Belgium, Great Bri tain and france are fighting for the pointe which will be of the greatest advantage to the army holding them when the ad''ince begins. According to the French communication, the Belgians continue to improve their positions in Flanders, and the French o the north'of Arras and the Cham pagne have udded eminences to their i guns which are of some importance The French a>id Gorman official ccmmunicuiions. however, are so con tradictory that it ls difficult to de j clde whether any change IB being madq generally in the disposition; of the opposing armies. The optimism which pervades the TWO NATIONS ! WARN JAPAN Russia and Great Britain Oppos ed to Her Pressing Demands Upon China (By AMOcUted Pres?.) PEKING, China. March r .-Offi cial' information reached Peking to day that the Russel and British ambassadors at Tokio dilled upon Baron Takaaki Kato, Japanese for eign minister, on Saturday, and in* formed him that if Japan persisted in pressing upon China demands be yond those contained in her origi nal communication to thd powers lt would- be difficult for Japan's allies to negotiate diplomatically. ft is understood that on the same day. tile United States acting Inde pendently, although possibly after consultation with another power, In formed the Japanese government that certain of tho Japanese demands were not in c-nsonance with treaty agreements between China and thc United States. American and British opinion throughout China arc In concord in this matter, ai voiced privately, semi-officially and by the press. The Japanese demands bava been dis-1 cussed at meetings and protest! have heen sent to their respective gov ernments by both . American , and British association-,. . The opinion ls expressed by both Chinese and foreign diplomats that Japan will withdraw a substantial proportion of her demand) because of the ot lil udo of the powers who have called China's attention to tba fact that she has no right to make a treaty with Japan contravening ex isting trestles with th<t*I* Prominent EpUcopalean Bead. vNASHVILLE, Tenn,, March 17. ?Rev. Jo'm H. Caution, chaplain ot 1 the South, jjewanpe. and a promiaent I figure in the diocese of the Tennes I ?eo Eoiscopat church, died here to* 'day. > - ENTAIL SACRIFICES LESSES IT IS FULLY THE CASUALTY INCREASE ?TING FOR STRATEGIC POINTS _ ' nara Preparing for the Great El ida Are Dry-Munitions Have id Men Are Ready. western n Ules ls shared hy the F.uo slatiH. Petrograd correspondents ot London papers lead the public to believe that big events are impending, it lg ap parent that th? Russians again are n\ the move, particularly at Sniolnik, on the River San, where lt emerges from the-Carpathians, while la Buk owina, according to official dispatches from Bucharest, the Austrian? have been defeated along the entire front. ' In northern Poland Isolated actions are being fought from the Niemen River to Przasnysz. The big hatti* expected there has not been given by Field Marshal von Hindenburg, who ia thought to have attained his ob ject wheu he extricated bb forces rmi the forest of AugustoWn. The Russian Caucasian anny is wnrkl.ng along the Black Sea coast and has taken tho Turkish oort of Archava and repulsed Ute attacks of thc Turks, who still are operating an the fringe of Russian territory. Ry publishing a casualty list to night thc British admiralty confirm ed reports from Athens that lae .miser Amethyst made a' dash lnjto the Dardanelles and was Btruck by-a npmber of shells. It??3 presumed I that Vice Admiral Garden.sent cruiser ou this risky mlssioa to mask. any concealed baitcrtea al the straits and which, the allied flt had not destroyed when they barded the forts. Naval experts say. th? Amethsfb success proves that heavily armorsd mips could at the present, time pene trate tho traits, as gups which could not sink a light protected cruise 1 would make little Impression on bat tleships. Her dash uv compared to Farragut's forcing the passage of the Mississippi. There la considerable speculation as to the negotiations reports to pe taking place at Sofia, Where the klug of Bulgaria today receded the-min isters of the Allies, this Rumanian minister and General '?, Slr Arthur Paget, who ls returning rom a mis sion to F'UBsia. The possibility of Bulgaria and Rumania simultaneous ly Intervening in the war ls sug gested, Bulgaria accepting tho offer which Greece -deollned. _ KILLING FROgTS ^NSOUTHLANO Freeaing Temperature* 4 florida. MissUsipp i, Alabama, Georgia and the Carolina*. CRy * mod at True) WASHINGTON, March 17.-Kill ing frosts with temperatures; around the freezing mark were prevailing tonight in northern and . central Florida., Mississippi. Alabama. Geor gia, Louisiana and the Carolinas, an*, cording to reports to the Weather bureau. One report raid tempera-. lures had been registered Wi low a? 34 degrees at several points in northern. Florida today and probably would go below the freest ngl point In the northern Carolinas before morning. Rain in eastern Texas'was report ed to have been followed today by heavy frosts ld that region. I.n tern or Vet oe? .4 pprcprlflttea. CHARLESTON, W. Va.. Marett 17. The national, guard ot West Virginia will consist of only one.man after June 30. unless steps are-tak en to borrow, for Its support. Gov ernor Hatfield vetoed a WT^WO ap propriation by the last tcgistatuf-e tor maintenance of the. national guard, but signed one providing - for the salary of Adjutant General john C. Bond. > A. o o o Johnson ?eeetves Appointment, o o --o o (Hy Associated Press.) * o O?? WASHINGTON,' Matea lt.- o o President Wilson today gave a/o o reces j appointment to Repre- o o aontatlv? Joseph T? Johnson, ot o 0 Spartanbnrg, S. C., o State? district o tern district o Tha district o the closing days o gross. o no ooo oo o o o o o '