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OllKJUHTr V.AIWr -CITY MAN AG EH. Old Charter Win- ??N Nunow Margin la North Carolina City. Charlotte. Mai. h M the nar? row margin of 71 votes, the advocates ef ..ie present alderniMnte charter sjejg over tbe advocate* of the proposed Ifeger *^eltv manager" charter In the municipal election here today, while the tUO.OOu bond luu? to provide for further school facilities for the city was badly defeated. Nine hundred and ninety-one votes were cast for th<* old charter and 119 far the ne*. which was 1.904 out of about 3,400 names on the registration book a The inclement weather derer red many from coming to the polls. The present city charter dates from 1107. It also won two years ago over a commission form charter by about ?00 lv roflKK.N OWNrl>. Frje's (ttncn u freight Not \uicrl . I'ruprrM Wasbiaston. March 31? It has seen established to the satisfaction or the state department that the wheat cargo of tbe American sailing ship Wm. P. Frye. sunk in the South At? lantic by the German cruiser Prinz Rltel Friedrich. ? as not American owned, and the American note which sjSSj go to Germany on the subject presently will ask for payment for the hull Officials, however, are taking the Ition that there was no warrant ra International law for the sinking of the Frye and they expect Germany will readily consent to pay the dam? ages and espreas regret. -I Ml \t y is \l t-lRMM> I < Uvntrr Nrgrov* Will be Klev rrocated shortly. Columbia. April 1.?Heeks Griffin. Thomas < ? riffln and John Crosby, ne gross. must pay tbe death penalty for murder at a date to be assigned by the Cheater county court. They were convicted more than two years ago in Chester county of killing a Confeder? ate veteran by the name of Lewis The decision was written by Associate J isttce Oage. The homicide occurred April 24, I Ml They were convicted In July of that year. The case was appealed to the supreme court and the verdict of the lower court was affirmed in the spring of ltl?. A motion for a new trial on after discovered evidence was saade In July, ?14. This motion was refused and a second appeal was saade to the supreme court, which has been denied. ffJJCNT TO IM.ATll IIOI SK. Jtsa Gosran llrought to Columbia for Kks'trocoGon. Columbia, April 1.?Jim Gowan. a negro, convicted several weeks age In Greenville county and sentenced to be electrocuted April 30, has been brought to the State penitentiary and placed In tbe death bouse. The ne? gro was brought to Columbia by sheriff Rector. III KRTA TO IMltMT Hr.VOLT. ? galas from < add for We*t?Report Is He> Will Head New Revolution. Madrid. Spain. March 31 (via Parte)?Gen Vlctorlano Huerta and his secretary sailed today from Csdls ea the steamer Antonio Lopes, ac? cording to advices from Cadis. Gen. Huerta's family remains in Barcelona. Reports from that place say that a rumor la In circulation that Huerta la on hie way to direct a new revolu? tion In Mexico The steamer Antonio Lopes Is due to touch at Puerto lllco. Cubu. La Oulrm. Vvnesuels. and Colon. Winthrop Girl* iN.lnon.d Letters from Winthrop College stu? dents to tbelr parents in this city tell ef a wholesale poisoning there of the students a few nlf.ht ago. It Is stated la the letters that several hundred of the students suffered from pto? maine poisoning as the result of eat? ing some kind of meal salad. The reports also say that most ot the girls nave recovered and tbe others are on the roan to recovet Ht vcrnt * ?mos m vitkci Corrected Dally by KrorM Held. Cot too Huyrr. Good Middling 3 1 gtrtct Mlddnn? i 1-1. Mtddlln? i. Strict Lo- Middling 8 l Low Middling i. Stapes cotton, nominal. Chicago Produce Y.w listige. Chicago. April 1 ?May wheat Lfl.IT 1-1; corn. 72 1-2: oats. 67: [pork. 17. lard. 10; rlhs. I II < Ha. ?Oes Organisation Perfected. Columbia. April 1 ?The State trd of charities ami corrections or inlsed hare MsssVl ffctj iHtl Ml Met a sect ?od asnssjtaai until der ATTOHNFY GKXKRAb APPKAIiR. Will Ask for Writ or Certlorart In Csse of National Cash Register Of MclaK VfaahtagtOVj, March 31.?Attorney General Gregory announced today that he would apply to the supreme court for a writ of eertiorari in the ctiininal anti-trust case against of liters or the National Cash Reglscter compan\. If granted the writ would bring before the high court the ac? tion of the Ohio federal circuit court reversing conviction of the defendants and ordering a new trial. The appeal will be taken as soon as the writ and the government's brief can be prepared. A Balkan Statesman'* Predictions AlKiut the War. _ To conclude, then, we can say with certainty that the Russians and their allies have the best of it. and that this terrible struggle will end in the eomplete defeat of Germany and Austria-Hungary. And what will be the result? The eutcome of the present war may be conceived thus First: Russia will expand at the expense of Austria-Hungary, will annex Galtcia. and will demand from Turkey the occupation of Constanti? nople and a part of Asia Minor. Second: France will regain her two former provinces of Alsace and terrains. Third: England will be benefited by gaining possession of the Germen colonies, as well as a part of Asia Mi? nor. Fourth: Belgium wP' receive a recompense for her stoic resistance the Duchy of lAixemburg. Fifth: The two kindred kingdoms of Hervia and Montenegro will re? ceive as a reward for a struggle not lsss stoical, the two Austrian prov? inces peopled by the Herb race. Sixth: Italy as a reward for her Dsutrality would receive the prov? inces of Austria-Hungary inhabited by Italians. Seventh: Roumania for the same reason would receive Bukovlna. an Austrian province peopled largely by Roumanians. As to Turkey, which has been drag? ged into the war by German political intrigue, she will be erased from the map as an independent country. It will be the same with Albania; for her inhabitants, who are in a state of perpetual anarchy, cannot long exist as an independent people. This, then, is my view of the condi? tions that will be imposed upon the conquered. Perhaps changes may be even greater: for it is possible that Austria-Hungary, like Turkey, may ceass to exist as an independent em? pire. Nor is it inconceivable that certain provinces might be snatched from Germany, as for example Ger? man Poland. But here you have in a few words my opinion of the actual situation now existing in Europe, and my predictions for the future.? From "Europe?After the War," by Dr. Ivan Yovitchevitch, in the Amer? ican Review of Reviews for March. Prohibition Advance. Six months ago there were nine prohibition States. Todav there are nineteen, provided the governor of Utah signs the bill just passed by the legislature. An increase of more than 100 per cent, in less than h.Mf a year! Arksnsas, Iowa and Idaho were all made dry last month by legislative en? actment, the law to go into effect Januar) 1. 19) b. South Dakota's leg? islature has submitted the question to popular vote at the next election. The lower house of Vermont has passed a prohibition referendum bill. South Carolina, tired of its unsatisfactory dispensary law. has referred the ques? tion of State-wide prohibition to the people, vote to be taken September 14. Montana has submitted a statutory law to be voted upon in 1916. In eight other legislatures State? wide prohibition measures have been introduced, namely. New York, Dela? ware. New Hampshire. New Mexico, Minnesota, Pennsylvania. Indiana. Wisconsin. States planning for cam? paigns next year are California, Flor? ida. Kentucky. Nebraska. Texas, Wyoming. Ohio enters a cainpaiRn this year under the initiative, the question to be voted upon by the peo? ple next November.?W. C. T. U. Bu? reau of Publicity. A Giant Owl. OM diiv last week the veteran fish? erman. John Dillard. brought to The Enterprise office the left foot of what was possibly the largest owl ever killed in this section. The owl got among Mr. Dillard's chickens one night and killed two for his supper. A steel trap was set over the remains of the evening meal, and Mr. Owl readily put his foot In it. He meas? ured seven feet and eight Inches from tip to tip. His talons were fully an no h long. It was a mammoth bird and should have baag sent to some *oo instead of I.ring killed Mulllni Batet prise. FORTH l-:ss A MIGHTY ONE, Pr/cmysl Coaspclsod I'p-to*-l>ute Torts and Mi Field Fortifications. (London Correspondence to the New York Times.) A Russian correspondent of the MornlnfJ Post writes: "The capture of Przemysl is with? out doubt one of the most splendid feats of the Russian army which has been accomplished during the present war. Six months is also a compara? tively short period for it to have taken place, if we take into consider? ation the size and strength of the for? tifications. "Prsemysl lies on the line of rail? way and on the River San, and is sur? rounded by nine large forts, 10 small? er forts and 16 Held fortifications. It was also the centre where were kept all the supplies for the Austro-Ger 1 man armies operating in Gallcia dur? ing the Balkun wars. When Austria seemed likely to be dragged into the war the forts were remodeled and provided with the most modern guns and all the most up-to-date munitions of war. Thirteen and 14-inch guns were mounted in armored towers op? erated by electricity and disappearing automatically after the gun discharg? ed its shot. The smaller forts were I furnished with mortar batteries, I armored machine guns and a great I number of quick tlrers. These forts i were of the strongest concrete, with [special devices.to conceal them from the enemy. "In addition to the 16 permanent field fortifications mentioned above numerous temporary fortifications were added after the war began. These were constructed with trench and wire entanglements and subterranean mines, worked from the forts by ineana of electricity. The German en? gineers who helped in the construc? tion said contemptuously that if Rus? sia were to attempt to take the po? sition she would smash her army against Its wall In vain. "Against all this Russia had the dis? advantage of inferior artillery. The Russian siege guns being of much smaller calibre than those of the fortress, the Russians did not dream of having the smallest chance of over? coming the armored forts, as the Ger? mans did at Liege. They had to re? ly upon tbe dogged perseverance of the troops and the skill and initiative of their officers. "What the excellence of their artil? lery and tbe undaunted courage of their troops could accomplish was done quickly. After a few weeks of siege the outer forta and the field fortifications fell into the hands of Russians, all the skillfully arranged devices giving way before the un? daunted will and selfsacriflce of the besiegers. The Russians were able to push forward with their trenches so near as to bring the churches and roofs of the houses in the main for? tress actually into view; but a fur? ther advance was not practicable. "The Russian commander did not think it advisable to take the risks or run the chance of sacrificing his men. He therefore surrounded the fortress with a ring of iron and took care to cut it off completely from communi? cation with the outer world. He also placed artillery in such a way as to prevent the garrison from scoring any success from whatever side they might attempt a sortie. The Russian trenches were built by special devices perfected by the Russians during the progress of the present war, devices which effectually protected them even from the weighty Austrian projectiles. "Having done all this, nothing re? mained but to wait patiently, and, while waiting, to draw the ring clos? er and closer. Owing to the inferior? ity of the Russian siege artillery these were the only possible tactics. "This is not the first ti/ne Przemysl has been taken by a Russian force. It was captured for the first time by the Russian Duke Oleg the Wise in the year 907 on his way to Constantinople. The town was abandoned later, but was again besieged and retaken in 10.11 by Grand Duke Jaroslau the Wise. "From that date for 300 years on? ward Przemysl was held by the Rus? sians, but in 1349, after a long strug? gle, it came into the hands of the I Polish King Kasimir, and up to the time of the division of Poland it be? longed to the Polish Crown. After the division the town became Aus? trian. ' Governor's Actloa No Surprise. The action of Governor Manning in ordering the sheriff of this county to show cause why he should not be re rr.oved from office may come as a sur? prise to some citizens, but it is known that Mr. Manning has been making n greed deal of quiet inquiry into the conduct of this office In the past from the conservative citizens of the county and it will be no surprise to them. Those who have witnessed the conduct Of the office in the past year also know that Mr. Manning's oharges are well founded, and that In- is only carrying out his announced policy of having the law enforced or know the reason why. Catnden Chronicle. ESTABLISHING PASTURES. ? * Stores of Furniers Making Proper Preparation for Live Stock. Indication! are that there is more activity In making pastures this year than ever before in South Car? olina. This Is a point which the live stock authorities at Clsmton College have been stressing, the view being taken that the farmers of the State must increase their pasturage before they can hope to succeed in the live stock movement which is now taking hold in South Carolina. Reports to the college from county agfents and other sour? ces indicate that the advice is being followed on a gratifying scale. P. H. Calvin, live stock demon I stration expert of the college, is working with County Agent A. A. McKeown, in York county to es? tablish thirty or forty pastures at this time. From all the Piedmont counties have come reports of num? bers of new pastures begun this year, or to be begun this spring. Bermuda grass is the favorite. Any information desired about establishing pastures for cattle or hogs may be obtained by writing to P. H. Calvin or John O. Wil? liams, Clemson College. Another Month's Developments in Europe. Viewed from the military side, Feb? ruary was for Germany the most brilliantly successful month since October, UA'hen she took Antwerp and approached the very walls of War [saw. Eastward her victories over the Russians were as complete in Buko- j vina as in East Prussia, and her armies brought new life to A astro Hungarian efforts in the Carpathians. Only the defeat of a naval raid di? rected at the British coast and the loss of Bleucher gave' Berlin cause of regret. Yet the solid and splendid triumphs of German arms had for the world less than the official declarations which by their very defiance of inter? national practise and neutral rights seemed to emphasize how serious for Germany had become the question of her food supply and how terrible was the advantage of sea power possessed by her most relentless and most hated enemy, England. j Napoleon, having conquered at Austerlitz and Jena and become tem? porarily master of Europe, had sought 'to crush British commerce by his fa? mous Berlin and Milan decrees, the first of which proclaimed that the British Isles were in a state of block? ade; she second declared that any ship which touched a British port was liable to be seized and treated as a prize. Germany, still holding Bel? gium, Northern France, Western Po? land, in February struck at England with the proclamation that the waters about the British Islands were a war zone in which neutral ships would be exposed to attack and destruction by German submarines without the for? mality of search. To her foes such a declaration could only mean that Germany fore? saw the coming of a time when her own food supplies would fail. This view was further confirmed by an earlier official decree which placed all grain supplies in Germany under the control of the government. Taken together these two acts were accepted as confession that Germany feared defeat by starvation unless she could break the iron ring about her. To do this she must compel the British to raise the embargo on food supplies, and her only weapon was the subma? rine, by which sr.*.* might hope to in? tercept food ships bound for Britain and by compelling the English to suf? fer from food shortage force the abol? ition of the food blockade. As to English ships, Admiral von Tirpita had. in January, frankly pro? claimed a policy of submarine aggres? sion which contemplated sinking ships and crews and thus conduct a reign of terror on the high seas. In February the campaign opened, not by sinking crew and ships, but by torpedoing several ships at the very mouth of the Mersey and setting their crews ashore. Such a course must and did provoke unfavorable criti? cism among the neutrals, but to ex? tend this policy to neutral ships was to open new horizons, was a frank confession that the German campaign to win sympathy abroad had given way to a stern necessity to make war as terrible as possible for the foe even at the expense of neutrals.? From "The War's New Alignments," by Frank H. Simonds. in the Ameri? can Review of Reviews for March. As They Do In ChJua. When a Chinese woman calls up the telephone station for a connection, she says: "My beautiful, sweet-voiced sister will please do me the joy-giving honor of ringing 1 24 5 so a dutiful Wife can communicate with her sub? lime husband." A telephone girl says she hopes the Chinese women will send 'steen thousand missionaries for work among American women.?Wil? mington Star. TUM COW AND HER PRODUCT. Clomson College Weekly Notes for Farmer ami Dairy mini. (Those notes are prepared weekly by the Dairy Division of Clemson College, which will be ?lad to an? swer any questions pertaining to dairying.) More feed can be housed in a silo than in any other form of building of equal cost. Keeping records lor each cow is indispensable to the dairyman who would be really successful. To make good butter it is neces? sary to have clean milk and healthy cows. Milk from unhealthy cews is not a safe article of food, even though there is no visible dirt in it. Fiber brushes for washing milk utensils should replace the common dishrag. They do better work and are more easily kept clean. It is a good practice to let the calf suck the cow for about forty eight hours after birth, after which it should be taken from its mother In the case of a weak calf, however, [it is better to let it remain two or three days longer. j Calves should never be fed from a trough and in groups. The Dairy Division of C'^.son College will furnish upon request plans for mak? ing simple little calf stanchions. Use these and feed each calf by itself. The only way to increase the num? ber of pounds of butterfat produced by a cow is to increase the number of gallons of milk she gives. This is best done by feeding some succulent feed such as roots or silage. Fresh spring grass has the same effect. Milk begins to sour within a few minutes after it is taken from the cow if it is not cooled. The bac? teria that cause souring do not thrive in cold milk. Therefore, to keep milk or cream sweet, cool it without delay. If cream has an unpleasant taste or odor before it is churned, it will make butter of poor quality. It is impossible to make good butter with dirty, sour cream. Where you have two or more gal? lons of milk or cream to handle and keep cool, about the best and cheapest vessel for keeping it is what is called the shotgun can. This can is light, strong, cheap and easy to keep clean. Hog and Hominy Vs. Cotton. The outlook for thlB country is not bright at this time, and we have no hesitancy in advising farmers to go slow in their cotton operations this year. If the British authorities insist upon widening their blockade so that no commerce, whether to non-combat? ants or not, can leave or reach Ger? many's shores, and the Germans con? tinue their submarine warfare, and their mine sowing operations, it will be almost useless for this country to attempt to raise cotton in 1915, un? less it be by those who are able to raise it to store away until the termi? nation of hostilities. If America can? not find a foreign market for this product, our domestic mills will take advantage of the situation to buy what Is made for as little as possible; it is therefore we'l to consider this before undergoing tho cost of opera? tions which have such a gloomy prds pect in the future. The only hope, us we see it, lies in raising a plenty of hog and hominy. When this is done Asquith can blockade, and Von Hin denburg can wipe out the Russian legions, and Prince Henry can bom? bard the English towns on the Norch sea, and the Sultan may have to llee from Constantinople with his harem, yet the cotton growing farmer of thp United States will be able to withstand a siege of commercial de? pression, because his cribs and nan tries will be full for the sustenance of man and beast.?Manning Times. Already Identified. Concerning the American Legion, the New York Sun says: Should the American Legion, whose announced object and purpose must enlist the sympathy of all pa? triotic men, allow itself to become identified with any political organiza? tion, its potential influence would be destroyed and its chances of survival reduced to zero with a celerity that would amaze its supporters. The of? ficers of the legion might, with en? tire propriety, devote some of their valuable time to the consideration of this fact. The legion is already identified with a political organization, to wit, Theo? dore Roosevelt.?Charleston Post. Tired of Carnivals. Camden has been afflicted with two weeks of carnival, and from expres? sions of people on all sides it is the general opinion that the citizens are getting sorely tired of these unwel comed visitors to Camden. It would be a good thing for the city and com? munity if council would put a prohib? itive license upon these traveling ag? gregations and keep them out of the community.?I 'amden Chronicle. Imports anil the War. The New York port statistics show that no high protective tarift ^ould so effectually shut out imports and pre? vent foreign competition as the war has done so completely up to this time. Imports of dry goods for the week ended March 11th we-e the lowest in volume for the year to date. The value of foreign goods received for the week was $678,088, compared with $2,544,774, for the correspond? ing week in Mach last year. In oth? er words, imports lacked about 73 per cent, of being as large as they were last year. Now and then you hear people talk? ing about the great injury done to the cotton and woolen industries by the Democratic tariff WTith foreign com | petition cut to the lowest point in the I history of America, it would he a good idea to ask them to explain what a tariff of any kind has to do with man? ufacturing now. New York's port sta? tistics show that imports are less by half than they ever were under the hightest tariff this country ever had. We are not authority for this state? ment, for here are the official figures and statement accompanying a tabula* tion of imports in the New York Jour? nal of Commerce: "The figures of seven months' im? ports of cotton manufactures are at hand and show a steady decline due to war conditions. The yardage of cloths brought in in January declined from 8,035,569 last year to 4,637,822 in Jan? uary of this year. The falling off was greatest in colored cottons, showing I undoubtedly the pinch of the dyestufts difficulty abroad. In January of last year 5,583,r,l yards were brought in, while last January the yardage amounted to only 2,519,538. Some part of this decline is due to the lack of demand for the fine piece dyed cot? tons that were popular last year. The decline in the imports of laces reach? ed a value of over a million dollars in January, being $1,024,494, compar? ed with $2,268,911 last year. Em? broideries dropped about 12 1-2 per cent, compared with last year in the corresponding month. The figures are now beginning to show in a large way the immense damage to trade done to Germany, France, Switzerland and other countries by the war. Under the new tariff the imports should be growing larger, and in a few known cases they are beginning to show a moderate increase, but, generally speaking, the tendency is much be? low what manufacturers would see If war did not interfere." With imports shut out to unprece? dented minimum, a Bedford dispatch j says New England manufacturers complain that the price of cotton goods is so low that they could sell the raw cotton they bought at a low price and make more money than by turning it into cloth. Right alongside of this comes the statement that the New Bedford cotton mills have just charged off depreciation and surplus and then declared an annual dividend of 4.57 per cent, on c capitalist.on of $43,500,300. Why do the manu? facturers want to growl if they can make more net profit by mirufac turing than can be made by loaning money in North Carolina? As the -jame time, it is true that the cotton cloth industry is depressed. That is because business of all kinds is depressed by the war In Europe.? Wilmington Star. Gov. Manning's Doable. That Gov. Richard 1. Manning has a double in this part of the State probably was not known until Fri? day when three people of this city spotted the man. He is Mr. W. I* Verner, cashier of the bank at Wal? halla. A newspaper man saw the Walhalla gentleman approaching at a distnce and at once made a bee line for him, taking him for Gov. Mnning. When the newspaper man discovered his error he remarked to a citizen passing elong that that~man looked like Gov Manning. Strange to say, this visitor remarked, "Well, I thought the same thing this morn? ing. I was talking to a man in town and we saw Mr. Verner approaching, and both us of remarked at the same time that he looked like Gov. Manning." The only marked differ? ence between the hvo gentlemen, in appearance, is that Mr. Verner has not the reddish hair of Gov. Manning. With that exception they are as much alike as two peas in a pod.?Ander? son Intelligencer. Popular Columbia Girl Dies. Columbia, April 1.?Miss Emma Heyward, a popular young lady of Columbia died this morning from pneumonia. The remains will be tak? en to Orangeburg for burial. Farmers who have planted vetch this season and expect to plant again for next year, should save a part of the crop for seed. The bulk of the vetch seed sold in the United States has heretofore come from Germany and Russia and the supply will be cut off this fall. Vetch seed will be scarce and high priced this fall and there may be more profit in saving the vetch crop for seed than in cut ling it for hay.