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.Weekly, Established 1S0O; Deiljr, Jan. 13,1914.
ANDERSON, S. C, TUESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 5, 1915.
PK ICE $ 1.50 THE YEAR
D. E. SEYBT OIES I
BY HIS OWN HAND
LATE MONDAY
DEPLORABLE ACT COMMIT- :
TED AT HIS ELEGANT
COUNTRY HOME
CAUSES SHOCK
TO COMMUNITY
Funeral Services Will Be Held
This Afternoon at. His s
Residente.
In the presence of his wife and in
spite of the efforts of his young son
to avert the act, U. E. Seybt, one of
Anderson's moBt prominent citizens
and a gentleman universally liked,
ended his life Instantly at 3 o'clock
yesterday afternoon at his elegant
country home east of Anderson by
shooting himself through tho head
with a pistol. He had been discuss
ing with his son the inadvisability of*
the latter returning to colleg? on ac
count of the general financial string- '
ency, and depression over thlB and
other affaire is accepted as the
cause of the deplorable acb News
that Mr. Seybt had ended his lire
reached the city quickly and came as
. a great shock' to hundreds of friends
and acquaintances ,who learned of it.
Funeral Services Today.
The funerdl services Will be held'
this afternoon at 3:30 o'clock at 'the
residence, after which interment will
be in Silver Brook cemetery. The
ob/equies will bo conducted by the
Rev. J. w. Speake, pastor of St. John's
MabodiBt. church,.of .which Mr. Seybt
was a ' member"; The 'Rbv. John - P.
Vines,'D. D., pastor of the First Bap
tist church, will assist in the ser
vices. .
The. pallbearers ; Invited to serve
. are: j Messrs. 2. B. Hammett. R. I*
Robinson. D. S. Gray, H. H. Watklns,
John K. Hood and R.-. E. -Burrlss.
Coroner's Investigation.
No formal lwroeBt was held, but
Coroner Hardin Investigated the facts
surrounding the tragedy and satisfied
himself that it was a case* of self de
struction, rendering his statement in
these words: "This Is to certify that
I was called to the.home of U. E.
Seybt to view his dead body. After
taking all the testimony I could get
I found that he came to his death by !
his own hands and that no living per- I
son was responsible. Therefore, I did j
not think it necessary to hold an in
quest." -i
Statements with reference to Mr.
Seybt's death were made by Harry
B. Seybt, his son; James'R. Anderson. "
a neighbor, who. hurried to the house
and who was the first person outside .
of the family to reach tho scene: and
the attending physician, Dr. J. L.
Gray.
Was Up Town..
^ Sfr. 8eybt was in'the city through
out the forenoon, leaving town around
-2 o'clock and arriving at his borne
about 2:30. He was in The Intelll
, gencer offioe during the morning to
took after some matters' in connec
tion with his duties as secretary of
Masonic organisations of the city. It
is reported that h0 collected a con
siderable amount of money in duos
from members ot the order while dp
town and deposited this in bank be*
. fore leaving forais home. Numbers
of his friends saw him and conversed
with him and to none of them did he
seem in the Slightest depressed.
.". Lour a Besldcnt Here.
Ulysses Eugene Saybt came to An
derson some 32 years ago to accept
a position in the mercantile estab
lishment of Mr. W.'x A. chapman. For
some six years he worked for . Mir.
Chapman and daring that time made
bis home with his employer.
\ Mr.'Seybt resigned his position with
Mr. Chapman and with the late James
T^Jonesi the late G. F. Blgby and T.
9, Cray ton, W. F. Cos and others, or
ganised a company and bought out
the business of Arnstein & Rose. Af
ter the establishment h ad been run
ning for sdme time all stockholders
but Messrs. Sevbt and Jones dlsposf
ed ot their Interests. Later on Mr,
Seybt ' sold bot his Interests in the
business in d. devoted his attention to
. his farm. A lew months ago ho sold
his home on North Main street .'and
ballt a magnificent residence on his
. farm east of the eitv.
Hla Harried Life. ^
Some 27 veers ago Mr. Seybt was
married to Mis* Sua Watson, daugh
ter of the lito William and Ann Wat
son and Bister of Mr. W. A. Watson of
North Anderson. Their two children;
Mrs. Thomas F. Hill, who was mar
ried but a few weeks aero, and Harry
B., together with tho widow, survive.
T?romlfient Mason.
Mr. Seybt was always prominent in
the ?raMnes?, ?oc?at and fraternal life
of the city; He wes.for s?verat years
; secretary of Hiram lodge No. ti8, A. F
?
TAKEN OFF SHIP
Charged With Conspir
acy to Defraud U. S.
Government By the
Use of American
Passports.
OTHER ARRESTS
ARE BEING MADE
Two Held in $20 000 Bail?Ar
rests Are Culmination of In
vestigation in Progress Sines
Arrest of Carl Lody.
(By Associated Freu.)
NEW YORK, Jan. 2.?An alleged
conspiracy to furnish German officers
and reservistf with fraudulently ob
tained American paasportB, to enable
them to return to Germany without
danger of molestation by French or
English authorities, was brought to
light today by the department of jus
tice.
The disclosure came with the ar
rest of Carl Ruroede, a former agent
of the North German Lloyd Steamship
Line, cud with tho removal from the
outward bound, steamer Bergen sf
Jord of a German army officer and
throe German reservists. All were
charged -wRh conspiracy to defraud
tho United States government through
the use of American passports.
The four soldierstwere ; taken, .off
the ate?m?r J?st as>he7.waa.-passing
quarantine and brought back. to New
York On n revenue cutter. All four
bore photographic passports, issued by
the state*- department to Americans
and alleged to havo bct.n furnished by
Ruroede. Other arrests ar? expected. .
- Ruroede said tonight, according to j
department of justice agents, that
whatever he had done had been on bis j
own initiative and was inspired by
patriotic motives. He was held in | '
$20,000 bail, which he was unable to j
furnish tonight. With him was a. - >
rested John Aucher, his alleged asso '
date, who also was hold in $';0,000 I
bail, and Ruroede's 17-year-old son j j
who wbb released on his own recog- j
nlzance.. I
The German officer. Lieutenant Ar
thur Wilhelm Heinrich Sachse, was
paroled on his honor "as, r.n officer
and a gentleman" hot to leave New i
York city during the pendency of the I !
proceedings. The three reservist*, j
Walter Muller, August Meyer and
Herman Wegener, -were held in %f>,
ooo bail each.
Pour others, two with Ameri :an
and two with German names, vere
detained, under 9500 bail each as,ma
terial witnesses.
The arrests were the culmination,
it was said tonight, of an investiga
tion In progress since the arrest hi
England of garl Lody, who subao
qu'en Oy was executed, as a German:
spy1. Lody hod a passport Issued, to J
?n American and the department; tot .|
justice learned that other American j ;
pasBportB alBO wer? in the hands , of . <
German citizens. This discovery was,
of great concern to the state depart-11
ment as it was feared Americans V
holding passports would. be . open to !
suspicion and possible peril of their
(CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE.)
COMBUSTIBLES
FOUND IN HAY
British StMUkor.- Caught on Fire
After Leaving Baltimore With
Hones for Allied Armies. v
(By Associated Vztfa.)
NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 2.? Combus
tibles were found in hay oh the steam-,
or Rembrandt, which caught fire re
cently atter leaving Baltimore with
horses for the allied, armies, accord
ing to a statement made hew today
by A. Eldin, captain of tho vessel.'The
fire forced the ship to put back to
Newport News..
Captain Eldff: said that, after the
fire bad been extinguished, powder and
other combustibles were found, but
that ho was not certain they caused
the blase. The powder' x*aa not strong*
ly encased, he'said, and there was
nothing to indicate an;attempt had
been made to blow bp the snip. Some
of the crew believed it might have
been placed there to mid any fire that
might .have^ started.
M.; end Burning Bush , chapter Nov T. N
Rl AML, and ho!?". these positions at h
tu? time ?t his death, , Ai
Ruins of Whitby Abbey After Bombardment by German Warships.
This photograph, just received in ; was among many other buildings of; towers,
the United States, shuws part of what i Whitby, Scarborough. Hartelpoot andi The abbey was founded in the sev
was left of Whitby Abbe, one of the 1 West Hartelpool damaged by German enth century, but te buildings were
famous historic churches of England [sheila, {practically rebuilt in the twelfth and
after the bombardment by German - Whitby, which was the smallest of fourteenth centuries. The old church
WarBhlpB which raided the east coast I the bombarded towns, was famous , towers formed a conspicuous land
ot England!'Dec. 16. Shells from the j chiefly for its beautlfuL old cathedral, mark from the Bee, The town Itself
cruisers some miles at sea beat down ' Tradition has it that Robin Hood and never haB been robbed by modern en
tha old walls until little was left. It 'Little John practiced archery from its torpri?es of Its Old World charm.
ARE UNFITTED FOR
SELF GOVERNMENT
Filipinos Should First Be Educat
ed is Opinion of Former
President Toit.
. (By, Aetodittd Prow.)
WASHINGTON. Jan, 2.? Former
President Tait today .told the senate
committee .working on jthe adminls
traction bin for enlarging Pbilipine
Independence that the Filipinos in his
opinion would bo unfitted for self
governmeut for the next 30 years?j
probably for the h&lf century. Demo
cratic party promises of independence. <
be declared, had resulted in unrest j
to which be attributed, in a - measure. |
the recent revolutionary disturbances, j
Neither President McKinley, Pr?si
dent RooBovelt nor himself, he said,
bad contemplated turning the Phili
ppine .govarnment over to the natives]
before they were educated tor self
government. He quoted from President;
Wtieoh'ft writings that "self govern
ment Is not a mere form of Institution,
but a form of character." I
"We cannot present the Filipino '
with a character," said the former!
President. "It must be acquired. You I
cannot make Over a people in one
generation. The time will be neces-,
sary to train the Filipino people fort
solf government i? the time that -will
be necessary to make them* an Eng- ;
Lish-speaking people. / It < you give
thesft people independence now or by
1990 either a Diaz would SrlBO in the
Philippines of they would get. into a
condition that caused the full of Diaz
In^lletico.''
: v/jjsjs1 former President, while dis
avowing intention of posing as a mili
tary expert, said in ancwor to ques
tions that American Obligation to de
fend the Philippines might be a
"source of weakness in time of war."
"But," be continued, "I do not be
lieve that any of the nations now en
gaged In the European war would ;
look on the possession of the Phillip-1
pines as a naval base, as a source of j
weakness."
Mr. Taft declared that in his opta*,
Ion Japan bad no. deUro to. take the
PhlUipplne? away from this country, !
"1 twice visited Japan end confer
red with the authorities cn this very
point," be continued, ^tnd..it's my i
'ton." ; .,. '
SIXTEEN PARDONS;
EIGHTEEN PAROLES;
36 GOMMUTATIOmS
GOV. BLEASE EXERCISES
RIGHT OF CLEMENCY IN
70 MORE CASES
BRINGS TOTAL
"LIST TO 1,614
Last list Includes Thirty-Three
Prisoner* Serving life Terms
For Murder.
Special to The Intelligencer. '
COLUMBIA, Jau. 2.?Only a corpor
al's guard of prisoners remain In the
penitentiary, following the-action of
Governor 131 ease this afternoon in
granting clemency to - seventy more
convicts, bringing his total list to)
1,614. .
Sixteen pardons, eighteen paroles
and thirty alz commutations of senten
ces made up the latest batch. '
George W. Tidwell, of Greenville,
under, sentence of twelve years for
manslaughter, as a result of slaying
Emmet Walker, received a reduction
to a seven year sentence. His appeal
was argued before1 the supreme court
only a few days ago.
Thomas Noland, alias "Chicago No
land," and Charles Howard, alias
"Texas Dutch," two notorious yegg
men from Spartanburg, were paroled
on condition.that they be turned over
to United States authorities. Federal
.officers were waiting for them wit!*
warrants, and'they will be tried in
the federal court on the charge of safe
cracking in post offices/ They were
sent up from Spartanburg In 180? for
ten years on the chargo of house
breaking and larceny,, fend nrfor to
that time served a term in the federal
prison in Atlanta for blowing a post
office safe at Enoree.
Clyde May, sent up from Union for
Ufo in 1912 for murder, received a re
duction in sentence to two years, and
John Henry May, sent up at the same
time from the same place for life for
. (CXiNTlNCEO ON-JPAGB WE.) _
DEVELOPMENTS IN
SHIPPING SITUATION
Rcarrest of Steamship is Looked
on as Likely to Produce Com*
. plications.
(Djr Associated Preas.)
. WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.?While no
word came from Ambassador Page to
day as to the character of the reply
Groat Britain will make to the' Ameri
can protest against interference with
American trade, there were several
developments in the general shipping
situation':
The United States asked Great Brit
ain for information as to how the Brit
ish statment in November that naval
stores would be regarded as non-con
jtraband would be reconciled in actual
{practice with the British notification
of a week ago that these products now
are absolute contraband, information
' is sought as to how cargoes now en
route are to be affected.
The case of. the.steamship BrJndilla,
originally detained at Halifax and re
arrested on her return journey from
Egypt and taken to a French port,, fa
looked on as likely to produce com
plications.
i Should th? question of change, of
registry be rained a precedent may be
set for, white Great Britain has recog.
nixed transfers when a bona fide na
ture, tho attitude of France has never
been declared, _
Making Bombs la Shed.
PARIS. Jan. 2.?A Ha vas dispatch
from Lasbon says an explosion in a
shed in the' Betreibt quarter of the
Portuguese capital ..today revealed
that two men were making bombs
there. One Of , them was killed end
the other wounded. The police found
several bomba in the building,
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0 TURKS OCCUPY ARDAHAN o
o. LONDON. Jan. 3,?4 a. m.?Tho o
o Turks here occupied Ards-Hah, o
o penetrating 60 miles into tin Aus o
O Stan Caucasus, according to the o
o Constantinople correspondent Of O
o the Exchange Telegraph company, o
o . ' ' o
o Ardahan Is a fortified town on o
o the Kur. 45 miles northwest of o
to Kars, in theTrana-Csucasla, Fight- ~
o tug.between tue Turks and Rns> o
o alans ha* been going on in the re- o
o glon of Ardahan for several days, o
oooo o o a.a.e o o o o o o 9-*? o o
LITERACY TEST
Measure Passed by Sen- I
ate Despite Indications j
That President Wil
son Would
Veto. !
CARRIED BY A .1
BIG MAJORITY!
Vote Indicates That the Measure
Can Be Repassed by Msr?
Than Required Two-Thirds
Majority.
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.?Tbe Immi
gration bill, containing tho restrictive b
literacy test for admission of aliens, t
passed the senate late today, GO to 7. ?
The overwhelming majority was re- s
corded despite indications that Pres- f
ident WilBon would veto the measure, a
as did former President Taft, if It /
should come to him with the educa
tional test included. c
The vote indicated that the bill G
could be repassed by more, than, tho I
required two-thirds majority should f
th0 president reject the measure, e
Senators who voted against the bill t
were: Brand eg eo, Mc Cumber, Mar* a
tine, O'Gorman, RanBdell, Reed and i
Walsh.'
The bill passed the house last Feb
ruary, 241 to 126.
. literacy Test Fnal ter?d? - \i
Although 'the senate amended the a
house bill In several particulars, the j
literacy test was unaltered,.saveI for "i
an additional exemption to Belgian c
subjects, adopted today after pro-j
;o/jgrd debate. House leaders prob- e
ably will ask for a conference on a
serin to amendments Monday, but ad- a
ministration leaders were confident i
senate amendments would be accept* %
ed and the bill sent to the president t
by the middle of next week. J
Among senate amendments which
house leaders have saved probably ;?
would be accepted Is ono to exclude <
from the United States all persons of r
the Arricnn race or of negro blood, r
Another strengthens the phraseology t
of (he prohibition of polygamlsts. I
Belgian Farmers Exempt. i
Closing hours of the debate were *
dbvpt?d to an amendment by Senator t
Lodge to exempt Belgian farmers v
from the literacy test and from pro
visions which prohibit Americans f
from soliciting or Inducing Immigra- t
*\tti. Already American organisations j
ire endeavoring to Induce Belgians to ?
settle. In this country. The amend- c
meht ,as finally adopted, 34 to 22, a
reads: s ?
"That tho provisions of this act
relating to tho illiteracy test or in- t
dneed or assisted immigration shall c
not apply to agricultural immigrants (
from Belgium who come to the United c
States during the course of the pr?s- {
ent European war or within one year t
after its termination owing to ctr- |
cumBtances or conditions arising ?
through the war, U It is shown to the a
satisfaction of the commissioner gen- .
eral of immigration that the said Bei- c
gian immigrants come with the inten- (
(CONTINUED ON PAOE FIVE.)
AMERICAN SHIP
DETAINED 2 DAYS
Captain Refuses to Transport
Troops With Their Horses J
and Arms.
? '. c
..?r- t
(By A*nfla?*d T.rct ) ft
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 2.?The p
American steamship, San Juan, of the ti
Pacific Mall service, waa detained
two days at Sahna Crus by General t>
Arrieta, of Carrantn's forces, and at t
one time was threatened with de- p
at ruction by dynamite, according to
the report submitted to the San Juan's j tl
owner by her captain when she er- j
rieed here today. o
On December 19 General Arrieta do-1 c
manded that the San Juan, then In *
Sallna Crux, transport 60 of his men b
and 20 officers, together with their p
horses and arms, to Msxatlan, Cap- tl
tain Stewart said. He replied that ho n
was willing to take the Mexicans as b
pasengers, hut not as soldiers. Gcn-,c
eral Arrieta, he said, then refused to
give tho vessel clearance'and threat
ened to dynamite it unless bis wishes
were met'
S
CaptaiQ Stewart remained resolutere
and the question was finally settled w
on his own, terms. He accepted the a
soldiers, unarmed, as nassengers and e
landed them at Maxattan December J r.
15. '
THE S
T
difficulties Have Arisen
in General Scott's Ne
gotiations With the
Two Mexican
Generals.
fO AVOID FIRING
ACROSS THE LINE
American Stabbed to Death by
Unknown Maaican?Severe
Fighting ht Ptcjtj
of Pueblo.
(Bv AwodttMT FreaO
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.?Difficult!cd
iavo arisen In General Scott's nego
latiocs with the Mexican Generals
ifaytorena and Hill, of the Gutierrez
ind Carranxa factions .respectively,
or the designation of Naco, Sonors,
? a neutral town to avoid firing into
American territory.
Acting Secretary of State Lansing
lonferred today with President W?1
on and Acting Siorotary of War
Ireoklhrldge on the subject and later
urther suggestions were sent tq-Gett
>ral Scott, Enrique c. Llorcnte, Gu
ierrex's Washington :, representative,
ils? talked at length w(th Mr. Breck
nrldge. Mr. Uorent?. ! sfebjgty Offi
liais said tb?y >?re confident pb ad?
ustment would . bo reached without
ho necessity of ^evi?lve action, by the
mtterles-ofVarWe^T?^^
Loross the Ilde from Naco.
The following statement was r is
uod by Secrotary Tumulty. aSt?r; a "
onference with th? president:
"There.Is a hitch about tb?.sigo&g
?r the agreement' between Msytorena
nid this government fn attempting to
id Just the. differences. 'The govern
aent has not been, informed exactly
vhnt |he differences ere, but is t?y??K
o ascertain them."
iTntll today it-was generally snp
>osed that both Hill and Maytorena
vere ready to agree that the former
vonid abandon Naco and move his.
orces to Agua Prlotn. while Meytore
1a was to transfer his men, to Noga
es.
While the negotiations still have foty
heir object neutralisation of Naco.
tr. Llorente said tonight some other,
nethods of reaching, the same. result
pas being discussed.
The state department received word
rom its agents In Mexico City today
hat the national convention had ad
ourned until Monday after a brief
esslon y?sterday when tho quoBtion
if how many delegates were to rep
ent the Zapata army of the south
ras debated without result
Washington officials are greatly In
erestod in the deliberations of the
onventlon called to select a provis
onal president for a period of seyeral
non the until a general election can
ie held. It is understood Villa and
its adherents favor the continuation
n office or Eulallo Gutierrez. The
?apata element l? opposed to this,
md the names of General Felipe An
gles or General Jose Isabel Bobles,
alnlster of war In the Gutlerrex cab
net, are being prominently mention*
d.
The state department also was a&V
lsed tbat H. O. C. At wafer, an Amer
can. was stabbed to death at Tempi
0 by a Mexican whose identity was
in known. The department haa ut>
lue to Atwater'B home address or
elatlves.
Mexico City was reported quiet. No
assecger train wont north yesterday
n account of scarcity of fuel.
G?n?ral J. Can anea, brother of
1 encrai Venuatlaho. Carraflaa." baa
?en taken prisoner at Salin a Crus,
fexlco. according tt> en undated dli
atch to the department, which also
old of a revolt at San Oeroulmo,
A Vera Crus dispatch, dated D?cern
er 30, erd received at tbo department
oday, said "flavor? fighting was In
regress southeast of Paebla."
Other advices were summarised tn
his statement: .
"The department is Just - In receipt ;
t an undated dispatch from tho efeet
cast of Mexico, via-navy wireless,
tating that the Cnrranza forces toad
een driven from Topic City and Aca
oncta after three days flghtlng ; that
lie Invasion of Sihaloa was . com
tenclng: that villa leaders were at
Hunting to preserve order and tbat
onditlons were growing worse/#
. h. . .i.iniTtt,iW I
fort/. A?S?n? 35rp?puiaicd.
CHICAGO. Jan. l-Calls!tor United
tatee soldi**;: on the Mexican bord
r. m Colorado, ArkansM>e^ii^H*e-'
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