Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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SAYS ?EIMii IS INVINCIBLE CANCEM-OR MARKS STATEMENT IN ADDRESS TO PRUSSIAN DIET. -? England, However, 'Will Endeavor to Starve Out Teutons and Thus Illing About Victory ? Scrbs^vot renting from Montenegro. Berlin. Jan. 13.?'Together with our emperor, we are inarching on to victory." aald Chance'Kr Iiethmann Hoilweg, In addressing tho annual Pruaalan diet today. "Germuny Is in? vincible and Is shrwlng the world that ?he cannot bo starved out." 'STARVE Ol T GERMANY. England Will Tighten Rlocknde on Germany ami Neutrals. London, Jan. 13.?An official an? nouncement of a more stringent blookade of Germany by the British fleet la expected In a few days. Re ports, which go undenled, are that Kngland la to tighten the grip In an effort to "starve out Oermany" by cut? ting off contraband shipments to neu? tral European countries. 8c rv In Ii* fjeuve Monte ncgrot Rome, Jan. 13.? The Servian lega? tion announced today that the Ser? vians are evacuating Montenegro. The retreating Serbs heading for the Ir? land of Corfu, where a ncto army will be reorganised. Corfu has been occu? pied bf the Allies desplto the protests froth the Greek/ fovernment. PEACE P.UITY niCVT. r>>rd Delegates II renk up Meeting ut Uiigur In Row. The Hague, Jr.n. 13.?Tho Ford peace meeting brcko up In a near riot when J' hn Rodenberg, Spanish dele- ; gat?\ charged thnt the French com? mitted atrocities on Germans, in n speech. Cried of lies, lies" arose and the meeting abruptly adjourned. ANOTUER POWDER MILL KXPI/O. SION. Third Mill Destroyed Within Two Day. Wilmington, Del., Jan. 13.?A terr j rifle explosion wrecked mill No. 27 of the DuPont Powder works this morn lag. Windows w< re broken for miles around. Officials say that only one man waa Injured In the explosion. It the'third wlth'n forty-eight ftomn gfj I nrchemdors Is felt that plotters nv v. >rking lualde the factory. WOULD P?H1SH DRUNKEHHESS INTOXICATION IN Pl'HLIC PL.U IIS MAD 10 A MISDF.ME ANOR, _ ? i Hill Requiring Sanitary Drinking Fountains in (et ton Mills und Indi? vidual Drinking Cups Passed* Columbia, Jan. IS,?Af^er a flood of oratory that lauded the "ox-tank" and tomUmncd 'the souk," the Beam guard-Bradford bill, jnaking drunk? enness on the highway or in a public place a misdemeanor, was passed by the house this morning; by a vojte of 61 to 51 and ordored ratified. Con? viction carries a penalty of from $5 to $30 or imprisonment of from 5 to N days. There was no opposition to the Ar? nold house measure requiring cotton mills to maintain sanitary .drinking fountains and textile employees to pos? sess Individual drinking c*ups. PHKSIRENT WILSON ENDORSED, Senate Adopt?; Resolution Approving His Administration ami Recom Columbia, Jan. 13.?The adoption by the senate today of a house resolu? tion puts the general assembly of ^onth Carolina on record as a\,proving the administration and poltcies of President Wilson and commending his renomlnation to the Democratic party and his re-election to the peo plo of the United States, the effort of Senator'Kpps to Introduce on amendment cutting out the clause rel? ative to the president's renomlnation and re-election failed. The house to? day killed many bills that came over from last year. mending His He-election. WITH THE GKNHRAL ASSEMPTA*. "Economical l'mgrcs***' Is Retormi na? tion of lawmakers?Will Cut Dtmn Appropriation BUI?Flood < f New Hill* Columbia, J^n. 1??.?"The State must make progress, but It must be an economical progress," appears to be tho determination of the 7 1st gen? eral assembly of South Carolina, which which is now holding its sec? ond annual session In Columbia. The keynote of the session as expressed was made by Oov. Manning in his an? nual message and In carrying out this spirit tho members have gone to work without uny delay. Although the appropriation bill last jrmr reached ne.trly 52,5^0,000 r**rl the requests for appropriations i\\\h year total over $3,100,000 .th?? way* ? ? ?r-r-r??.-?--??; ?: 77 . ,~ " [and means committee of the house, which is charged with fraining the measure nt their initial faceting, dc loldad to limit the appropriation meas? ure this year to $3,000,090 and not to exeoi-d that figure. Ii* they do this, and it. is believed they WlHi the levy for raising the money oatl he reduced j from seven to six mills, .lust how this cut is to be brought away is something which the.ways and means committee of the house und the fin? ance committee of the senate are now tackling. The tWo odmmlttoes hav< begun joint hearings and arc accord? ing the heads of the institutions and departments support* d by tho State an opportunity to present the r want?. Clcmson college was heard Tuesday afternoon, Winthrop collejre yester? day afternoon und the Tniversity of 'South?Carolina this afternoon. Next Week the other Institutions will pre? sent tficir wants and tke two commit - tecs will then begin applying the prun? ing knife. When it is considered that [they must cut 1500,000 out of last 'year's appropriations and trim this' year's reu.nest $1,100,000 it can be re;'(lily seen that they have a hard task ahead. , j The determination as expressed "by the leaders is to get the appropriation bill in and through early in the ses? sion this year and avoid the rush which lias featured the closing day, of every previous legislature. In the first two days o:! the session nearly 100 new bills haw been intro? duced. These range all the way from providing for divorces, a bill put in by RepreMntSjtlye Wolfe of Anderson, to issuing $10,000,000 in State bond- to loan tO farmer;; at h>ng tim* on low rates of Interest which was introduced by Senator Sherard, also of the elec? tric County, This latter measure Is ; looked on as a progressive and for? ward step, as it provides a* system of rural credits and will furnish the means for enabling the tenant class I Of white farmers to -become home owners. There are several, other ru ral credits measures which will he put in during the session. The house of representatives adopt? ed a resolution end >rsing "President Wilson and commendirfg htm to tho Democratic party for re-election, but Senator E. C. Epps of Witilamsburs objected to that part endorsing him for, re-election when the matter came over to the senate and it was held up. The Williamsburg senator said tho general assembly should etil out the political references as they are not sit? ting as a Democratic convention, but tho representatives of r>" th^ people without regard to per.y. Tht> South C ai oli,. . d. legat! >n in _._ ^^^^ f m't ^ | congi >ss la asked to work for the en act mein of an Immediate rural cred* its law through a concurrent resolu? tion Introduced by Senator Hlcklln and adopted by tl.e senate. Q?V. Manning sent in his first veto yesterday when he returned without bis approval the bill by Senator Wil? liams of Alken and which passed last y< ar Imposing a license Vm all non I residents operating motor truck deliv? eries In the counties of Alken. Clar? endon and York. Tho governor said the bill was discriminatory. The veto will bo passed on next Tuesday at 1 o'clock. The general assembly will this af iernoon Inspect the state Hospital for the Insane in Company with Oov. [Manning;. He sent them a message yesterday inviting them to make the trip and they readily accepted. CHILD LAHOR HILL. (Byrnes Fxpccts Interstate Commerce Restriction Will Again Receive Low? er Body's Assent. Washington, Jan. 12.?Congressman Byrnes of South Carolina, who has taken a deep interest in the child la? bor bill now pending here before tho house committee on labor, which i would prevent goods and w?re:? made by children from entering into inter I state CQjnmerce, believes that the bill Will again pass the house. It passed the lower body of congress last Avin jtcr by a large majority, but Mr. Byrnes does not believe the majority will be so large this time. Today scv icral v\jll known cotton mill men from South Carolina were here and at I tended the committee hearing, show? ing why, from their standpoint, the bill sh uld hot become law. _ THE GOVERNOR INVITED. _ Resolution Adopted Asking Him to Deliver SMteesngo to Joint Assembly. Columbia, Jan. 18.?The Bheppard bill allowing municipal judges in towns of over 2,000 inhabitants to Im? pose chalngang sentences or fines for the same offense a second time, pass? ed the senate this afternoon and was Sent to the house. The senate today adopted a concur? rent resolution inviting the governor ito deliver bis message on the State Hospital for the Insane to the joint assembly In person tomorrow morn , ing. State Warehouse Commissioner Jno. L#. McLaiu-in has called a conference ~f !_11 rooTifvfrers of Fitste, cotton warehouses m Columbia next Jugs OSLO WAVE IS COMING. SWEEPING EASTWARD FROM MIDDLE WEST, WHERE ZERO WEATHER HOLDS. Gold Will 1# Severest of Year, if It is Anything Like Thai in West?Storm Warnings Out All Along t oast. Columbia, Jan. 13.?Richard H. Sullivan, section director of the weath? er bureau, issued the following state? ment last night: J "The severe cold wave now preva? lent over the Middle West is expected to reach the east gulf and south At? lantic States by Friday, and cold wave warnings were received at the local office of the weather bureau at 11.09 p. m., Wednesday for temperatures of 20 degrees or lower over northwest Georgia and about 22 degrees over central and northeastern Georgia by Friday morning. This will effect the northwestern counties of South Caro? lina by the time mentioned and by Saturday morning tho temperatures over the central portion of this State Will likely fall to near 21 degrees. "Temperatures tonight range from 2 degrees below zero over Kansas to 84 degrees below over Manitoba. This morning Readings of 40 to 4 8 degree* below zero were recorded over Mon? tana. Washington, Jan. 12.?One of the severest cold waves of recent years, following in the wake of a storm which swept north and eastward from Texas early today, was spreading to? night towards the lake region and Atlantic coast. ? While record low temperatures were being reported during the day from the West the mercury going down to 58 degrees be? low zero in northwest Canada, it was abnormally warm In tho South, the Ohio valley and the lower Lake re? gions. Rains and snows will be general over most of the country tomorrow byt the weather bureau predicts fair weather Friday except in New Eng? land where snow is expected. Storm warnings were ordered dis? played tonight from Eastport, Me., to Jacksonville, Fla., and on the Gulf coast from Rockwell, Fla., to Browns? ville, Texas. The storm tonight was over Georgian bay and was moving northeast. j BIG STORM FOR WEST. Oi^turbancVMoving to North and East Chioaijo, Jap. 12.- ">c greater put, of i?u; Ci ntraJ West s in the tluroofi of a big storm tonight, which, its origin in the Southwest net hours before, had traveled rap northward and eastward tint area from the Rockies to the and from Canada to Kansas a Ar? kansas, was feeling the effects. Falling temperatures in the v rain, sleet and snow were gen( In the area from Williston, N. D., the thermometer registered trees belOW, to North Platte hi re it was 14 below there were onl: points where the thermometei tered above zero. Throughout this section the i the usual interruption of stea ? electric road traffic. St. Paul r< Slew temperatures over the entra] northwest with heavy winds Dakotas and a temperature of V ? low zero at Hannah, N. D. According to local weather casters, the storm was moving ? st> ward and northward. Service to the West was crippled throughon* the day. TRAINS RESUME SCIEEDU Bridge- Over Tngalo River Ha> Dccn Restored. Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 11.?The bri over the Tugalo river betweei Deer court, Ga., and Madison. S. C, on the Atlanta-Charlotte line of the S' tithern Railway was restored this rr and through passenger and freight service has been resumed. Pa **. ? i train no 29, the Birmingham Bl was the first south bound train to , over the restored bridge and ] Ml ger train 12 the first north Through ttaffic was interrupter - rly Sunday morning when a freigh. was derailed at this bridge, kn eking down the south span. It ha be*?n necessary to detour through trai and transfer passengers of local Wrecking and bridge crews were quickly gathered and the work of res? toration was completed in abov. half the time that was at first though; essary. All trains are now beii. op? erated on regular schedule. EARTHQUAKE SHOCKS REPORT? ED. Two Tremors Registered at George*! town University. I Washington, Jan. 13.?The George? town University seismograph register? ed two violent earthquake shocks, each lasting over an hour, between two and six o'clock todav. TYn ? ,ci*\'^ are unable to determine i tho shock occurred. Tw Loads OF HORSES AN ELECT! Twenty-seven Mule '9 %J I*1 9 ived This Morning. Several Pairs of Extra Nice Mated Mules, and Good Siagle Cotton Mules. Several Extra Fine Mules in This Load. Our Seventh Car Load of Mules and Horses will arrive by Express Saturday morning. Several large 1.300 pound Mules. Some Good Combination Work and Brood mares, and several good Driving Horses in this car. We have what you want. OUR PRICES ARE RIGHT. COURTEOUS TREATMENT is our Motto. Come look them over. Booth Vi-' er* IP ompany