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- 1 '? THK S?MTER UAICOBQCAX, Estsb Consolidated Aug. 2,1 IRISH REPUBLIC Sinn Feiners Claim to Have Severed Relations With British Empire. THEY EXPECT RECOG NITION BY AMERICA Dr. McCartin in Speech in New York Says That If There is Trouble and Blooshed All Blame will Rest Uuon Eng land. New York, Jan. 5.?A republic now exists in Ireland and every force of the Irish people will be used to up hold it, Dr. Patrick McCartan, known as the "envoy of the provisional gov ernment of Ireland." declared in an address at a meeting here tonight to congratulate him, Diadmuid Lynch and; "General" Liam Mellows, all prominent Sinn Feiners, upon their election to the British parliament, "You have seen the statement of the new English secretary for Ireland that the Irish question will be settled Within the next six months either neaceably or bloodily," said Dr. Mc Cartan. "We in Ireland are hot afra:d of > shedding blood in our righteour. cause and if England attempts to in terfere with the establishment of our republic, it will be a declaration of war on her part and the blood that Will be spilled will be on her hands." Dr. McCartan declared that before -the recent election the people of Ire . land had been asked to vote tor sepa ? ration from England. This, he said, accounts for the sweeping victory of fixe Sinn Fein. "Ireland," he continued, "tonight is a free nation," and likened that coun try's, condition to that of Poland, but said the "Irish republic as yet had not been recognized by any other nation. He asserted that the Irish here had raised a fund of $8,000,000 to carry ont their program! . "Self-determination should be ap plied to the Irish people as cominer within President Wilson's meaning." declared Mr. McCartan. "I believe that President Wilson has the power to insist upon a republic in Ireland and that he can get the peoples of world to recognize the republic without further bloodshed. "General Mellows, who gained his title as one of the leaders of the Easter rebellion in 1916. declared that 78 Sinn Feiners elected to the British parliament would not take their seats in the house of commons, "but will T?main in Ireland and try to shape the destinies of Ireland in Ireland." He asserted that the Sinn Feiners would convene a national assembly in Ireland from which the Irish question would be presented to the peace con ference. "There is no more recognition of British law in Ireland and no more recognition of British courts of injus tice." he declared. "We are with holding as far as possible every cent from the British imperial treasury. ^English law is abreaJy.a farce in Ire land. England may hold the coun try, but she does not rule it." "We in Ireland are prepared to make every sacrifice that comes now in upholding* what we have won. There can be no turning back. Ire land stands for this in the face of England, if necessary in the face of the world. Tho invincible Irish na tion has once more demonstrated to the world that it can not be crush ed." "A resolution was adopted urging ?the passing by congress of a joint res olution now before the foreign rela tions committee, which provides that America's delegates to the peace con ference be requested to work for Ire land's plea for self-determination. Another resolution urged the presi dent to cary out in the case of Ire land his assertion that "all peoples are entitled to self-government and self-determination." THE POLES ATTACK HUNS STRONG FORCE THREATEN BENTZCHEN AND DE MAND SURRENDER. German Commander To Whom Ultimatum Was Sent Declar ed He Would Defend Town at All Costs. Berlin, Sunday, Jan. 5.?Polish troops have occupied the railway sta tion at Vhroschnik. four miles from 'Bentzchen, and have sent an ultimat um for the surrender ->f Bentzchen The German commander repiled that he would defend the town at all costs. The capture of Bentzchen by Poles would be most serious for Ber lin and all northern Germany. The Berger Trial Lawyers Begin Arguments Be fore Jury This Morning. Chicago, Jan. 6.?Arguments were begun today in the trial of Victor Borger, congressman-elect from Mil waukee and four other Socialists on the charge of violtaion of the es pionage act. The case has been on trial four weeks. *&ed April, 1850. i4Be iron i 881. SI Schedule of. Peace Conference Outlined by Paris Newspaper. FOUR BIG POWERS WILL MEET TOGETHER FIRST .Other Allies Will Be Then Be { Called in to Present Their Views on Peace Terms. Paris, Jan. 4.?The peace confer ence, according to the Le Petit Journ I al, will proceed as follows: lirst a conference of the four great powers; j second, the representtaives of Serbia, jand Belgium will be admitted for a j study of the genera;, situation; third, fthe admission of other allies for con 'ference on questions interesting them; [ fourth, the presentation of the peace ! conditions successively to Germany, j Bulgaria, Turkey, German-Austria Hungary and then the signing of the . peace preliminaries. ! A Great Wheat Crop I _? Kansas Has More Than Eleven Million Acres Planted. j Kansas City, Mo., Jan. 4.?A report by Edward C. Paxton, field agent for the federal department of Agricul ture, declares that Kansas with 11, 184.000 acres, has 22.8 per cent, of all the winter wheat area of the Unit ed States. A full crop on this enormous acre age, which is 13 per cent, larger than the record acreage of last year, .would total 200,000,000' bushels, or more than one-third of the 509,304.. 000 bushels for the average annual consumption in the United States, the report says. Such a production, with a guaran teed price of $2.00 a bushel, would bring Kansas $400,000,000. The De cember report states that the average condition is 98 per cent. "Not only is this the largest acre age of wheat ever sown in a single state, but it is probably the 'arg^st acreage ever dvoted to a single grain crop by any state," says the report. "The Texas cotton crop is probably the only state crop that ever ox celled it in area. "The largest acreage is reported in Eastern and Central counties Many counties have more than doubled their acreage. Bourbon county leading with an increase of 232 per cent." The winter wheat acreage in Mis souri is 4,243.000; Oklahoma 3,590, 000 and Nebraska 5.511.000. The condition in these states for December is given as 100 per cent. A campa:gn for mobilizing a groat army to harvest te 1015 crop is being worked out by the Kansas City ofSce of A. L. Barkman assistant to the di rector general of the federal em ployment service, in charge of west ern farm labor. Last year the federal employment offices supplied full half of the 40,000 men used in Kansas and Oklahoma harvest fields. It is expect ed many thousand more hands will be needed for the 1919 yield. Women, children and business and profes sional men responded to the "Wheat Won't Wait" call and helped gather the big war crop. A. A. Chalker. of the Kansas City office of the employment service, trjid labor prospects were encouraging. , Release of soldiers and sailors is ex pected to greatly relieve the situa tion. A plan of properly distributing the army of workers has been map ped out. After the Kansas City Oklahoma crop has been garnered, the men will move to northern states and later seme of them will go into Canada Wages in Kansas and Okla homa last year ranged from $4 to $6.50 a day with board. Silver at Premium Small Coins Have Almost Disap pared from Circulation. Mexico City. Jan. 3.?Infinite an j noyance to every resident and an ap I preciable loss to business houses has resulted from the virtual disappear ance from circulation of silver coins. [These comprise half peso pieces and those of twenty and ten centavos. The constantly increasing price of silver has given speculators a chance to make enormous profits by cornering the silver coins for sale as bullion. When the shortage became notice able, the capital press printed stories on the disappearance of the coins. An immediate rush to hoard what coins remained then began. Persons without change are unable to make small purchases a~ m*nv merchants will decline to sell if they are forced to give silver change for a ten or twenty peso gold piece. The government, to relieve the situation is rushing preparations to mint r> new prold coin worth two and a ha'r pesos. When buying fruit trees, do overlook the figs. "rapes. scur>por noners. pears, etc. Make the ho:nf orchard a real orchard by growing a; least a limited quantity of all the fruits that do well in the South, in clude a few Japanese persimmons, mulberries, cherries, plums, quinces, etc.?L. A. Niven, in The Progressive Farmer. xid Fe?;* not?Let all the end* Thou Ai JMTE.R, S. C., WEDNEJ Former President Passe I Home After Only I END WAS SUDDEN AND UN CONFINED TO ROOM SI INFLAMMATORY RHEU ????? [--;""? ; New York, Jan. G.?Theodore : Roosevelt died at 4 o'clock this morn ! ing at his home at Oyster Bay. j The news was received here by Miss ! Josephine Striker, his secretary, in a I telephone message from Mrs. Roose i velt Miss Striker said that the former i president suffered an attack of in j flammatory rheumatism on New i Years day and since had been more j or less confined to his room. The at ; tack settled mainly in his right hand j and his wife sent at once for a nurse, j His condition did not seem alarm j :'ng at :.irsi and the turn for the j worse is believed not to have come j until last night. It is understood that only his wife and the nurse were present at his death. The other members of his family are in ether parts of this county or abroad. ? The immediate cause of his cieath was pulmonary embolism, or the lodgment in the *ung of a clot from a broken vein. Death, it is said, canie painlessly as he slept FUNERAL WEDNESDAY. former ]?rosid'*nt Will Be Laid to Rest at Christ Episcopal Church. Oyster Bay. Jan. 6.?The hour for CoL Roosevelt's funeral was officiary announced today as 12.45 Wednesday at Christ Episcopal Church. CONGRESS ADJOURNS. Both Branches Pay Respect? to CoL Roosevelt. ' Washington, Jan. 6.?Both houses of congress adjourned today as a mark of respect, after adopting reso lutions of regret at the death ol ! Col. Roosevelt, providing committees to attend funeral. News in Washington Flags at Half Mast on All PuWit Buildings. Washington, Jan. ?The flag was half masted at the White House, cap j itol and all public buildings today on j the announcement of the death ol j Former President Roosevelt. Secre tary Daniels and General March also ordered the same action on all ships and at shore stations of the navy, and at every arnr- post and camp at home and abroad. I Funeral Will Be Private j Services to Be Held at Sagamore i , Hill and Christ's Church. j Oyster Bay, Jan. 6.?The date of Col. Rooseve-t's funeral has not yet been set, but it will be he^d here, and. at Mrs. Roosevelt's request, it will be private. Two services will be held, one at home at Sagamore Hill, the other at Christ's Church here, which the Roosevelt's attended for years. The burial will be at Young's Memorial cemetery here. - Him Cabinet Disrupted _ j ixty Thousand People in Berlin j Hold Demonstration Against Independent Socialist Members. - j Berlin, Jan. 5.?(By the Associated ? Press, Germany).?Independent So cialist members of the Prussian cab inet have decided to resign, it has j been learned. Among them will be I Adolf Hoffman, whose course toward ? churches and schools has resulted in ; bitter opposition, even from some of i his colleagues. Amsterdam, Jan. 5.?Sixty thousand ' Roman Catholics and Protestants of Berlin, after a mass meeting on Thursday, marched to the ministry of public worship where there was a demonstration against Adolf Hofr . man. Independent Socialist, who holds that portfolio, say advices from the German cap:ital. Dr. Karl Liebknech and Rose Luxembourg, the radical leaders, were also targets of the ; crowd's anger. As the throng march ed along the streets it sang "Deutsch land Ueber Alles." After reaching the building, entry was gained and a large number of peo nie entered, searching for Hoffman but hr- was not found. The crowd then dispersed. Pais. Jan. 5 (Hayas).?The ind< pendent Socialists in the German stale of Brunswick have resigned, it is an nounced in German advices reaching here. Thos. St. John Lockwood Dead. Boston. Jan. <>.?Thos. St. John Lockwood, fai:hor-in-la\v of Caput Archibald Roosevelt died Saturdav n:ght. but the fact did not boeon-.'1 generally known until th>s mornin?r when the homa was communicated with in connection with the death of Col. Rosevclt. ?DAY, JANUARY 8, 19: i d Away at Oyster Bay Pew Days Illness EXPECTED?HE HAD BEEN NCE NEW YEAR'S DAY WITH MATISM. * INFLUENZA Hundred Thousand Deaths in ; Forty Six of Our Large Cities. j DEATH RATE IS MUCH HIGHER THAN BEFORE Census Bureau Announces Par tial Statistics of Epidemic Which Swept Country Last Fall. Washington, Jan.c/5.?The influenza epidemic which swept the country during the latter part of last year 1 caused 111,688 deaths in the 46 largest cities and increased the combined death rate for those communities in lSi.S^io 19.6 per 1.000, according to statistics made public today by the census bureau. Total figures for the country were not available. Baltimore, with 26.8 per thousand, and Nashville, with 25.4, had the high est rates of the registration cities, while St. Paul, with 13.9, arid Minne apolis and Grand Rapids, with 1 i each, had the lowest. Grand Rapids ' showed the smallest increase, the de^th rate for 1917 having been 13.1. ; There were 442,374 deaths in the ;4fi cities, the estimated population of ; 42 of which aggregated 20,514,520. I There was no estimate of population i for the other four. Deaths from in fluenza totaled 69,439 with 42,149 deaths from pneumonia. The year's total detah rate in New York City was 18.8 per thousand, compared with 18.8 per thousand 7890$.. N. .666N 15.2 for 1917. In Chicago it was 17.1 against 14.9 for the year before, and in Philadelphia, where the influenza epidemic wr.s very severe, it was 24.2 compared with 17.1 in 1917. Cotton Rates to Europe Director of Operations Announ ces Saving of One Dollar Per Hundred on Ex ports washington. Jan. 4.?Senator E. D Smith of South Carolina was today informed by J. "I. Rossiter, director of operations, United States shipping board, that effective nmediately, the ] following rates per hundred pounds would apply on cotton exported from South Atlantic ports: To Liverpool, $4.50; to Havre. $4.75; to Italy. $5.25. From gulf ports the rate will be 25 ' cent3 a hundred pounds additional to each place. These rates are $1 a hundred less than the rates they dis place. It. was planned to inaugurate the new rtaes on February 1, but in view ' of the confusion and uncertainty tend ing to further demoralize the cotton i markets. Senator Smith urged upon ;Mr. Basiter the importance of mak | ing effective immediately these rates, to govern during January and Feb ruary, after which he expects further reductions. Many Vessels Built - American Shipyards Turned j Out Nearly Two Thousand in Year. Washington, Jan. 4.?American shipyards built 1,882 vessels of 2,721, 281 gross tons during 1918. Reports of the bureau of navigation of the commerce department madej public today show this total of which all but 124.000 tons represented seagoing ships, the seagoing tonnage alone ag gregating 1,861,321 gross tons. The bureau's figures for 1917 construction show that 1,034,400 gross tons were constructed by American shipyards. The armistice brought about a de cided check in the yards' output. No vember was the month of greatest construction in the history of Ameri can ship building. 171 vessels of 357 - 660 gross tons of seagoing -ships being nroduced. In December only j 153 ships were completed and the tonnage amounted to 2S3.35S. HOUSE BACKS WILSON. Approves Relief Measure for Needy People of Europe. Washington, Jan. G.?President Wilson's request that congres provide one hundred million for relief work j in Europe, outside of Germeny. was approved today by the house appro y r'otioris oo^""':^i^T?',?'^ The bill wil1 be reported by the committee tomorrow, i it was announced. I 0R& i'jfS,?Jfe'?C*r THE r?C5 L9. Allied Naval Commission Re-: ports on Conditions in North Germany. THE PEOPLE ARE WELL FED AND CLOTHED Evidence in All Sections Visited of An Abundant Harvest and Large Stock of Food. London, Jan. 3.?A long article written by a member of the allied na val commission in German waters on the subject of food conditions in north Germany is published by The Times today. The writer is careful to point out that he deals only with what va rious members of the commission saw with their own eyes in a very consid erable area and that he ignores hear - y evidence regarding other parts of ormany. "But if food conditions in the rest >f Germany," he goes on, "are not cry much worse than in Oldenburg, Mecklenburg and Schleswig-Holstein there is certainly no need for haste on the part of the a'Hes in going to their relief. 7 am confident that none of the score or more members of the va rious sub-commissions which covered many hundreds of miles of country and saw tens of thousands of the peo ple at close range noticed any vidence of palpable underfeeding among anv of the inhabitants. Indeed, they are the unanimous opinion that the whole populations, both urban and rural, in these regions have been and are being fed near enough to normal requirements to keep them at full physical vigor. A member of the in telligence staff who had spent many years in the country before the war, said: " *You den't see so many people with rolls of fat on them as you did five years ago but you do see a health ier, hardier and generally more fit coking population.' "The men in the dock yards and on the first ships searched at Wilhelms haven, although slovenly and filthy, betrayed none of the traces of under feeding so .readily recognized by one who has been in India or China in . famine time or in Siberia or Greece ! since the war. This party prepared us for the well nurtured look of thc people of the town itself. In no place of the same character in England, say Portsmouth. Plymouth or Harwich, would the people have been in better flesh or better color. ' As to clothes, the Germans would certainly have, had the best of the comparison." After describing the evidence of i good cultivation of the land seen by ( carious mergers of the commission I on their journeys of from 50 to 100 j mdes. the writer says: I "The results of a really bountiful harvest wore to be seen in r.he bulging I barns and sheds, the swollen hay j stacks and the fodder piles. The surest j evidence that there had been an over supply of vegetables was the careless way in which such thing's as cabbage* and Swedish beets were being handled in transport. A starving people does not leave food of this kind to rot along the road or in station yards.'" The writer saw. he says, endless evidence of intensive cultivation and careful, scientific fertilization. With i the prisoners available and the unre mitting labor of the women and chil dren, Germany, the writer declares, has done remarkable things in the way of production. "In no part of the world." he re ports, "have I ever seen fairer farm steads than those through which the subcommissions inspecting the great belt of forts around Kiel drove for many miles one day. Personally, I did not visit either Hamburg or Bremen, but the head of one of the subcom mission who spent several days in specting the interned ships between the two ports assured me he saw no material difference between the peo ple in the streets of Bremen and Ham j burg and those of Wilhelmshaven and I Kiel." Represents Irish Nation Patrick McCartan of Philadel phia Claims to Be Envoy to j ' America. j Washington. Jan. 3.?Patrick Mc j Cartan of Philadelphia, signing him i self "envoy of the provisional gov : ernment of Ireland," announced here : today that he had sent a statement to ? all embassies and legations in Wash- j j ington in%>rming them that the peo : pie of Ireland on December 2S. last, j severed political relations with Great j Britain. December 2S was the date : of the parliamentary elections in which the Sinn Fein element won an overwhelming victory in Ireland. State j department officials said they knew; nothing of Patrick McCartan. New Warship Surrendered The Baden, Germany's Newest BattieshiD, En Route to England. London. Jan. 4.?Germany's newest battleship, the Baden, will be surren dered at a British port within a few Uiiya, it is announce^, here. 2 SOUTHRON. F?ta?>?s5i3? 3tma. * Vol. XLVIL No. 42. Appointed Director of Interna-? tional Organization in Europe. ! _ [HELP TO BE GIVEN BOTH NEUTRALS AND ENEMIES He is Named for This Work at The Request of the Entente Nations. / .'. Paris, Jan. 3 (By -the Associated Press).?President Wilson has named Herbert C. Hoover director general of the international organization for. the relief of liberated countries, both, neutral and enemy. Norman Davis, formerly on the staff of Oscar. T. Crosby, special commissioner of fin ance for the United States in Europe, will act as Mr. Hoover's assistant. This announcement was made today. I by the American peace commission in a statement which says that the desig nation of Mr. Hoover to take charge of the relief work is in conformity with the request of the allied gov ernments that the United States take predominating part in the orgahiza : ion and direction of relief measures. Vhe statement follows: ' Upon President Wilson's arrival he results of the investigations ,of the ? nited States and allied government officials into the food situation of the liberated countries, neutral and ene my, were laid before him. Since his arrival, in addition to his discussion with the representatives of Great Britain and Italy, respecting the-gen eral peace settlement, he had been ndvised with regard to the confer ences held between the governments concerning the methods of organiza tion for the relief of these peoples. "The allies and the United States rre in agreement.that relief must be. furnished and that the working out of relief of this character on a large i scale necessitates unity of direction similar in,character - to that of the methods successful in the French and the British commands in the opera tes of the allies on land and sear re spectively. "The allied governments had ad vised the president hat they desired > that the United- States shouldr-teke the lead in the organization and admih ? istvation of relief. Under this ar rangement between the United States ? and the allied countries there are be ing appointed two representatives of each government to secure the coop eration of food, finances and shipping: h~ the solution of the problems con nected w-th^the relief. ? The president has appointed- Mr. Herbert Hoover and Mr. Norman Da vis as the two American represehta I fires in the council, and Mr. Hoover I will act as director general of the un j dertaking. The French government has appointed M. Clementel minister of commerce, and M. Vilgrain minis ter of food as their representatives. The British and Italian representatives . have not yet been announced. The president has asked Mr. Hoover to call the first meeting of the council as quickly as the delegates axe named." Our Soldiers Are Coming Home ????_ Thirtieth Division Heroes of Hindenburg Line to Be Dis charged. Washington, Jan. 4.?Three combat divisions, the 30th, 37th and 91st have been desgnated by Gen. Pershing for early convoy home from France, Gen. March announced today. The 30th includes Tennessee and North and South Carolina troops. These divisions with the Second Corps Headquarters comprise about* 83,000 men. Gen. March said that the troops at home and abroad, which have been designated for demobiliza tion total 1,379,000. I The demobilization of the army at home has now reached the last class, the combat divisions. Orders for breaking up these units have already been sent out, and this task is pro ceeding gradually. Famine Fund Needed I President Wilson Asks Congress j to Appropriate One Hundred i Million. j Washington, Jan. 4.?Congress was asked by President Wilson today in a :nessa~e transmitted through the State department to appropriate ^one hun dred million do?Jars for the relief of .famine sufferers in Europe. It is un derstood the money is wanted chiefly to send food into sections of western Russia. Poland and Austria-Hungary. All Soldiers Saved Vwo Hundred Wounded Are Re moved From Stranded Ship. Fire Island. Jan. 4.-;-The removal of two hundred wounded, the last of the soldiers aboard the stranded troop ship Northern Pacific, began to A~y- under clearing skies, and calmer