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DEATH E TO TUBER.CULOSIS PELLAGRA MORTALITY HEAVY IN SOUTH CAROLINA-REMAINS A MYSTERY. DISPATCHES FROM COLUMBIA Doings and Happenings That Mark the Progress of South Carolina Peo ple, Gathered Around the State Capitol. Columbia. Twelve and seven-tenths per cent. of the total number of deaths ftom pellagra in South Carolina during the first ten months of this year have oc curred In Charleaton county, accord ing to the report filed by the bureau of vital statistics with the exeutive committee of the state board of health. In the state there were 1,306 deaths from pellagra, giving an annual death rate of 81.2, or nearly equaling the rate for tuberculosis, and more than three times the mortality for typhoid fever. The rate for Charleston county alone, where there were 166 deaths, is 186.7 per 100,000 inhabi tants. In compiling the rates for the va rious counties, C. Wilson Miller, chief clerk of the bureau, apportioned the deaths at the State Hospital for the Insance according to the respective county from which the patient was sent, except in 18 cases, where the data were not given. The following table gives the num ber of deaths from pellagra and the annual death rate per 100,000 inhabi tants In the counties of the state: Charleston 166, rate 186.7; Green wood 52. rate 189.3; Sumter 57, rate 137.5; Chester 88, rate 127.2; Green ville 89, rate 116.7; Richland 67, 111.3; Andersou 85. 110.5; Georgetown, 25, 110; York 49, 96.2; Florence 37. 93.7; Marion 20. 88.4; Horry 25, 86.4; nil. lon 21, 84.5; Laurens 37, 84.5; Lee 22, 80.6; Edgefleld 24, 80.6; Union 25, 77.5; Spartanburg 68, 73.1; Cherokee 21, 73.1; Lancaster 18. 64.5; Dorchester 12, 64; Newberry 23, 62.3; Pickens, 17, 59.4; Marlboro 19, 57.4; Calhoun 1. 55.2; Williamsburg 21, 51.5; Dar lington 20. 51.5; Abbeville 18, 50.6; Orangeburg 30. 49.2; Aiken 21, 98.4; Kershaw 14. 47.9; Oconee 14. 47.7; Bamberg 9. 46.8: Berkeley 11, 46.8; Lexington 15, 42.9; Beaufort, lamp ton and Jasper (combined) 23, 49.9; Barnwell 14, 40.9; Fairfield 12, 40.7; Saluda 8, 36.9; Chesterfield 10, 34; Colleton 12, 32.9; Clarendon 9, 26.2. Health Board Frames Budget. The largest item in the proposed budget for 1916 of tMe state board of health is for the state tuberculosis sanatorium at State Park, which is already filled with patients, though it was opened less than six months ago. The board will ask the legisla ture for $25,000 for the erection of a dining room, kitchen, a second ward for men and a ward for women and also for maintenance funds. The aggregate of the proposed budget is $67,863.75. 4:hich, in addi tion to the above request. includes the following: Maintenance of the bureau of vital statistics $6,000, con tingent fund for protection against the spread of contagious diseases and the free distribution of diphtheria anti-toxin $20,000, stamps and print ing $1,000, r-xecutive committee $2,000, salary of the state health of ficer $3,000, traveling expenses $1,000, salaries of the director of the labora tory $2.500. basteriologist $1,500, -lerk $720. janitor $-450.25, assistant state health officer $750, traveling ex penses $337.50, two units for intensive county health work $3,600, three free beds at the state sanatorium $1,000. Want $50,000 For Militia. An appropriation of $5,000 to $60, 000 will be urged by W. W. Moore, adjutant general, in his annual re port to the general assembly, The fund will be used for the maintenance of the National Guard, making up the deficiency in the federal funds and allowing of general improvemnent of the state camp in Lexington county. Ask For Money For Law Building. The budget for the University of South Car-olina has been made out by the trustees. An appropriation of $40,000 for a much needed law build ing, money to extendl the heating plant and an appropriation for repair-s to dormitories will be asked of the leg islature in addition to theo routine ex penses. Several comnittees appear ed before the trustees on matters, o of wvhich wvas the proposedl op~ening of Pickens street on that portion which touches university prop~ery. This was refer-red to Gov. Manning. Praises Laboratory Workc. "The state laboratory, which was established In 1908, continues to jus tify by Its excellent work the wisdomn of the legiclature in establishing such a labrpratory" says James A. Hayne, Mf. D, state health officer, in his an nual report to the coming legislature. lie points out that the growth of public health laboratories is due larga ly to the benefits derived from micro gcopie examinations, whereby the3 e cuses of many of the preventable diseases have been discovered and reedles tested and proved. repot 6MN)stst .bog~r& 4ad h tnd coecions to te eral' asser'bly '1ebounts ,the progre nA6de. in the rehabilitation and i ,organization of the state hospital f the insane and contains six recoi meidations in regard to the instit tion, in which nearly 1,900 mental diseased people are now being tree ed. The board of charities and corre tions recommends to the general a sembly that the improvements und4 way and projected by the board ( regents of the state hospital be cori pleted. "By all means the' white fi male wards should be put into a good condition as the new white mal wards, a central heating plant shoul be installed, and a psychopathic )ioi pital properly fitted up," says. th report. "As rapidly as possible, all negr patients should be removed from th Columbia plant to State Park, leaw ing the former for white patients ei elusively," the report continues. One of the important recomimendE tions of the state board of charitie and corrections in regard to the Stat Hospital for the Insane -is that, a soon as adequate provision can *b made for them elsewhere, 'four classe of patients be removed from the C( lumbia plant and from State Park b cause they "do not properly belon in these institutions as they are a present constituted." The classes O misfit patients named in the repor are: The feebleminded, numberin 87; the epileptic, numbering 11B harmless old people, not insane bu senile, numbering 105, and pellagrinE In regard to the feebleminded pr tients now at the State Hospital fo the Insane, the report says that " special state institution, entirely sepc rate from the State Hospital for th Insane, should ultimately be estal lished. We urge that as soon as I thinks wise the general assembly hav an accurate, comprehensive state-wid survey made of the whole problem c feeblemindedness, in order to edt 'ate our people to its extent and met ace and to enable the state to projec adequate provision for these unfortut ates. At present there is no prov sion in the state for them." The report recommends the crei tion of an epileptic colony at Stat Park. As to the pellagrins brought to th hospital, very few can be classed a not insane, the board says in its r port, but adds that though patieni of this class are at times not norma their condition does not call f< treatment in a hospital for the insan insurance Department Has Success. The state insurance department hi just passed through one of the mo successful years in its history, a cording to a personal letter from : H. McMaster, commissioner, accoi panying his annual report to the go ernor. During the year, the letter sa3 there has been collected from inst ance companies and other conpani licensed by the department a total $179.617.14. This has been turnc into the state treasury as collected Under the act establishing the I surance department, there has bei collected specifically for its maint nance, $16,313.40. Under the act of 1904, providing f< investigation of in('endliary fires at Inspection of buildings, is balance $676.35 was brought forward, at there has been collected $2,749.5 During the year this amount has beE expendecd. On account of the act permittit redluct ions in license fees on accoul of investments in the state, comp nies have received in abatements total of $35,724.25. Against Advertising Frauds, The state board of health wvill re ommond to the legislature the passag of a bill looking to the fulfillment< the slogan, "Truth," in adlvertisin, which is also one of the goals ot th Columbia Advertising club and tI Associated Advertising C'lubs of tI' World, with which it is affiliated. TI bill will be presented by Alan Joh1 stone, Jr., of the Rlichtand delegatio1 The proposed statute will be know as the printers' act. 5fsnilar measurt have already been passed in the fc lowing states: Louisiana, Connecticu Indiana, Iowa, Maryland, Massach1 sette, Minnesota, Michigan, Nobrask: New Jersey, New York, Northt Dakot; Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhod Island, South Dakota, Utah, Washin ton and Wisconsin, New Enterprises Authorized. Hlursey Bros. & Co., of Chesterfiel has been chartered with a capital $10,000. The officers are: W) Perry, presidlent; A. WT. Hlursey, vic presidlent; T. E. Mulloy, secretary at treasurer, and John J. Hlursey, go oral manager. A charter has been issued to tl Ashley Tilde and F~ur Company (Charleston with a capital of $3,00 The officers are: Albert Orth, pret dent; J. F. Powers, vice president, ari A. C. Ilesseman, secretary and trea urer. A certificate of dissolution has bee filed by the Darlington County Fa Association with the secretary 4 state. The Kirby Seed Company of Gai noy htas been commissioned with capital of $10,000. The potitionei are A. B. Kirby, D. C. Ross ant Ma nard Smith. The J. E. Auld Company of Colur bia has been commissioned by tk secretary of state with a capital 4 $5,000 to do a general brokerage bus ness, The petitioners are 3, 10. Au. and B. C. Hatch. ASEERE STORM U RAIN, HAIL, SNOW, SLEET THUND c- ER, LIGHTNING 90-MILE a r GALE. of SEVERAL DEATHS REPORTED d 1. Wires Down, TraffIc Degyed, Windows a Broken and Some Buildings Are Demolished. - New York.-One of the weirdest storms the east has seen' in many yearp-rain, hail and snow accompa nied by thunder and lightning and a F gale that reached a maximum velocity of 90 miles an hour-descendedI from the Northwest as the aftermath of. a E Ohrlitmas' fog. It indireatly. caused seven deaths in this city, carried down telegraph wires, damaged ship ping, crippled railroad traffic and caused considerable property damage. t The phenomenon of thunder and f lightning in the midst of a driving t snow awakened New Yorkers at 7 g o'clock in the morning. The local weather bureau reported a total pre t cipitation of 5.2 inches, of which 2.8 was snow. The wind shifted to the northwest and increased in violenece, r reaching the 90-mile intensity at 9 I o'clock and soon after carrying off - the storm clouds. The gale contin F3 ued, however, throughout the day, blowing in hundreds of plate glass t windows, hurling signs and copinks E to the streets and demolisning several e partly built structures. The storm f had its center in Massachusetts, the telegraph companies said their service - weather bureau reported, and the t telegraph companies said their ser t- vice in New England had been badly crippel, although communication had not been entirely lost with the princi - pal cities. Several land lines of the e cable companies between New York and Nova Scotia were put out of busi e ness. .s Shipping of all kinds scurried to a- shelter and several ocean lines drop .s pod anchor until the gale abated. 1, Twenty-five persons aboard 15 canal or boats driven ashore off Sandy Hook B. were rescued by the coast guard and the crew of the coast guard cutter Seneca. James O'Neill, in command Ls of one of the boats, was knocked into At the sea by a flying board and drowned. C SHELLS FLY AT CHRISTMAS. v Christmas Spirit Observed In Trenches 5, IAfter Shell Fire. r- Arras, on the French Front.-Hun Hundreds of big shells tore the air over Arras all Christmas evening. The echoes of these were the last compliments of the season and they had no sooner died away than the life of Arras began to show itself through re-opened cellar doors and rwindowvs in preparation for usual dChristmas eve festivities. The people of the Artois region rise d above their afflictions due to the wvar 6. and the spirit of Arras survicces namong the heaps of ruins. "It would be really a shame if we ghadn't gotten used to it (luring all it these months," said a woman selling a postal eardls and stationery by a a candle light on the first floor of a building three parts open to the sky. "What we've got to do," the woman continued, "is to hold out for final e- victory and laating peace." After ther usual systematic shelling died dlown, rifle shots and the oc casional rattle of machine guns was 0all that broke the stillness of death Cthat settled over the city. The cath Cedral, where midnight mass was esaid Iast year under the thunder of cannon, stood out against the twilight in ragged ruins like a spectacle with Scrumbling walls of demolished build ings all around giving the aspect of ta gigantic cemetery with decaying The rattle of machine guns struck 1, up. again and a few rifle shots rang ethrough the clear air. Toward 8 g. o'clock the soft strains of an organ were heard fr-om an invisible source. Going through heaps of stone and glass to a chapel entrance', one could dsee a candle light flickering through fthe darkness a short distance away. r. Staff officers, waiting for dinner, led e. the correspondent of the Associated id Press to an adjoining room, which re a. sembled an extinct volcano. "If it continues much longer you eare likely to have your dining room ralso opened to the weather," said the o, correospondent to the officers. i. "That is quite possible," replied d the captain, "but the destination of a s. shell is something over which we have not found any control yet." n Nummber American ShIps Decrease, Washington.--Althlough the number fof merchant ships under the American flag decreased during the fiscal year t. ending with last June, the tonnage of a tlie merchant marine showed a record 'a breaking increase, according to the v- annual report of the Commissioner of navigation just made public. On .June. 30, 1914, 26,943 vessels having 0 a total gross tonnage of 7,928,688 were tf under American registry. A year after i- the number had decreased to 26,701, d but the aggregate tonnage was 8,889, DAE CE. LITal! At44f 1 cfftu',YOU (A (FrHELP - MAIMA 4Ec9pytiglaa. DEMANDS PROMPT ACTIO[ FULL TEXT OF SECOND NOTI TO AUSTRIA ON THE ANCONA CASE. United States Government Flatly R4 fuses to Enter Into Discussion of Ev'dence. Washington.-The United State contends ,in its second note to Au tria on the Ancona case, Just mad public here, that the official admii sion of the Austrian admiralty the the liner was torpedoed after she ha stopped and whild - passengers sti were aboard, alone is sufficient fc the American demand for disavowe reparation and punishment of the sul marine commander. The text of the note which Ambai sador Penfield was instructed to d4 liver is as follows: Department of State, Washington. The government of the Unite States has received the note of You Excellency relative to the sinking the Ancona, which was delivered Vienna on December 15, 1915, an transmitted to Washington, andl h given the note immediate and carefi consideration. On November 15, 1915, Baron Zwi denek, the Charge d'Offairs of tl Imperial and Royal Government i Washington, transmitted to the Depar ment of State a report of the Austr Hungarian admiralty with regard the sinking of the steamship Ancon in which it was admitted that the ve sel was torpedoed after her engini had been stopped and when passenge: were still on board. This admissic alone is, in the view of the gover, ment of the United States, sufficiel to fix upon the commander of the su marine which fired the torpedo ti responsibility for having wilfully vi hated the recognized law of natioi and entirely disregarded those h mane principles which every bellige ent should observe in the conduct war at sea. In view of these admitt( circumstances the government of tl United States feels justified in hol ing that the details of the sinking< the Ancona, the weight and characte of the additional testimony corrobo ating the admiralty's report, and tI number of Americans killed or injurt are in no way essential matters of di cussion. The culpability of the cor mandor is in any case established, at the undisputed fact is that citizens the United States were killed, injure or put in jeopardy by his lawless ac The rules of international law ar the principles of humanity which wei thus wilfully violated by the cor mander of the submarine have been long and so universally recognized ar1 are so manifest from the standpoir of right and justice that the gover) ment of the United States does n< feel called upon to debate thehm ar does not understand that the Imperil and Royal government questions< disputes them. The government of the Unite States therefore finds no other couri open to It but to hold the Imperi. and Royal government responsible ft the act of its naval commander and 1 renew the definite but respectful d, mands made in its communication< the sixth of December, 1915. It sil cerely hopes that the foregoing stat ment of its position will enable t11 Imperial and Royal government to pe ceive the justice of those domain and to colnply with them in the sarn spirit of ifrankness and with the sanr concern for the good relations no existing between the United Stati and Austria-H~ungary which prompte the government of the United Statc to make them. LANSING. England to Increase Army. Londlon.--After an all-night <'bal the house of commons granted an il crease of 1,000,000 men in the Britis army bringing up its strength on papc to 4,000,000. With the increase come changes in higher commands, Liei tent General Robertson, chief of th general staff, having been recalle from France to become chief of th imperial staff in London in place Lieutenant General Murray, who about to receive an important con mand. These changes are accepte hhere as indicatingr closer Co-annrattou IAFEW'DAYSj co QQos OIILP41 you pM YOU WM r I PLEADS FOR MORE MEN E MOVES FOR AN ADDITIONAL MIL LION SOLDMERS FOR SERVICE IN THE WAR. - Ever-Widening Theatre of War Re quires Enlisting of Every Man of Military Age. s London.-Premier Asquith made his s long-expected statement on the Allies' e military position in the house of com I- mons in connection with the introduc t tion of a "supplementary estimate" d providing for the raising of the numer u ical strength of the army from 3,000, 000 men to 4,000,000 men. The house was crowded and the pre mier's speech was listened to earnest ly and silently. In the Peers' gallery, Lord Fisher, the former first sea lord and Earl Derby, director of recruit ing, occupied the most prominent po sition. The prime minister, as usual, got to the heart of his subject in his open d ing sentences and declared that al r though the British fighting forces in Of the various theaters now amount to Lt more than 1,250,000 men the war's d demands were such as necessitated s calling out the empire's "recruitable il maximum." Although the premier did not put E. himself on record as either for or LO against conscription, John Redmond, Lt leader of the l'riah NI'ionalists, at the t. close of Mr. Asquith's speech, flung a o. bombshell by declaring that the Na Lo tionalists would oppose conscription a, by every means in their power. And s. John Dillon followed with a severe ar Is raignment of the British war leader rs ship, inquring: in "What is the use of sending out more troops to be led like men re it sponsible for the Suvla Bay and Anzac b- failures?" Le o- VAST SUPPLIES FOR GERMANY. is u- Turkey Holds Abundance of Food r. and -SupplIes. af Berlin-"Turkey has an abundance d of foods and other material of all te kinds which she can supply to Ger d. many if Germany -needs them," said >f Dr. Nazim Boy, secretary of the 3r Young Turk's Committee, in a state r. ment to the Associated Press on his Le arrival in Berlin. "It is only a ques id tion of transportation, which seems to s. be in a fair way of solution. a- "There is no lack of anything in .d Turkey. For example, we have 30, >f 000,000 kilograms of cotton which [1, Germany can have the moment she t. solves the transportation problem, 4d not to speak of 10,000,000 kilograms 'e of reserve supply in the shape of ma a. tresses and other articles in Turkish o homes. d "The same is true of copper. Of it this we have at least 40,000,000 kilo ri- grams which Germany can have at >t any time." .Moton Heads Tuskegee. r New York.-Robert R. Moton, of dthe Hampton Normal Agricultural In stitute, Hampton, Va., was selected to succeed Booker T. Washington, presi Udent of Tuskegee Institute, Tuske r gee Alabama, at a meeting of o~ the special committee of the trus tees of the institute here. The choice was unanimous. The committee mak ing the selection -was composed of Seth Low, chairman of the Tuskegee rtrustees; Frank Trumbull of the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad; Edgar A. Blancroft, W. W. Campbeln Not Dangerously Ill, S London.-The report that Sarah d Blernhardt is dangerously ill is char s acterized in a Hlavas dispatch from Paris as unfounded. Horse Meat For Food, e~ New York-Sale of horse meat for 1. food will 1be permitted in New York h after January 1, the board of health ir anhounced. Commenting upon the ,s revocation of the section of the sani 1. tary code which prohibited the tise of e horse flesh, Commissioner Emerson d said that while the health department e (does not exactly recommend it no >f harm can be seen in its use, s "The horse never has tuberculosis 1. and almost never communicates a d malignant disease to human beings," a. ha aid. VRGE8 BUILDiNG P QGAAM AR IN EXCESS O fDM STRA TiON PLAN. TO EQUAL ANY IN THE WORLD Board Urges a Building Program Thet Would Mak Navy Equal to Any BY. 125. Waihtngtsn.-d7rLie. tul repdrt oqthe u@y general ing that t$e Uited" Matesinavy be' plaeed on- An equality stith the strong; est afloat by .1925 probably will be made public by .Scretary Daniels be. fore congressiolaj compnittee hearings on the administration's nil pan . Mr. Daniels said he was giving the matter serious thought as a -result. of statements made by various mem bers of congress that they would seek. its publication and also because this report was mentioned in the letter of resignation received from Henry A. Wise Wood of New York, severing his connection with the recently or ganized civilian advisory board. Mr. Wood said he resigned to be free to advocate substituting the general board's policy for what he described as the wholly inadequate five-year $500,000,000 new construction pr gram recommended to congress by th administration. Secretary Daniel will acknowledge Mr. Wood's resign tion and ask the American Societ Aerenautical Engineers which selecte him for membership on the adviso board to name his successor. The general board report referred to by Mr. Wood was made last July in response to an oral order of the sec retary that the board "express its opinion at the earliest practical date as to a policy which should goveri! the development of a navy yard and a building program. In a subsequent report, already made public prepared in reply to a request that it formula a continuing five-year building pr gram during which time $500,000,0 r was to be expended for new shi the board summarized the policyp, viously presented as follows: "The navy of the United should ultimately be equal to powerful maintained by a nation of the world. It gradually increased to such a rate of developt year, as may be pernt cilities of the count n above defined ' - - later than 19 FA n V BIG JAPANESE LINER SU A6.. 4 Torpedoed Without Warning and) Sunk-Crew Saved.-Cargo Lost. London.--The new Japanese liner Yasaka Maru, which was sunk in the eastern Mediterranean by a sub marine while the steamer was on her j way from London to Japan with 120 passengers and a crew of 160 aboard, was sent to the bottom without warn ing, according to a report received from Port Said from the agents of the owners. All on board the ship including one American passenger, W. J. Leigh, were saved. The nationality of the submarine is not mentioned by the agents and previous reports referred to the sinking of the ship as done by either an Austrian or a German sub marine. A French gunboat picked up this passengers and crew at midnight and landed them at Pert Said Wednesday morning. The company provided hotel accommodations for them and in arranging to forward them to their( destinations. On the pa'ssenger list were 51 men, 54 women and 15 child ron, most of whom were British sub. jects. The agents in their report fur ther say: "The passengers express great ad. miration for the skill of the captain and officers and for the dicipline of the crew. Perfect order was main. tained during the embarkation which was carried out with the greatest promptitude." Paul Koenig Indicted. New York.-Indictments were re. turned charging Paul Koneig, chief detective of the Hamburg-American line, and Richard Emil Leydendecker, an antique dealer, with conspiring to dynamite the Welland canal. Edmund Justice, was also indicted with Koenig on charges of conspiring to secure military information for the German government. The indictments against Konoig and Loydendeckey charge them with conspiring .to "set on foot in the United States a military en teirprise against Canada." Foreign Affairs Engag's Wilson. Hlot Springs, Va.-President Wilson received a communication from Secre. tary Lansing relative to- foreign af. fairs. It is understood that the'slet ter told of recent conversations the Secretary of State had with Baron Swiedenek, the Charge d'Affairs of the A~ustrian Embassy at Washington, re. garding the demands of the Ulnited .. States growing out of the sinking of *2 the Ancona. No Intimation as to the letails of Mr. Lansing's advices ct de obtained.