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VOLUME II NUMBER 8i: Weekly, Established 18C0; DcUy Aa. 18, 1914. ANDERSON, S. C. FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 16, 1915. PRICE FIVE CENTS AND CARGO WAS FOR HOLLAND RUSSIA CLAIMS GAINS IN EAST French Report Says They Have Added Materially to Terri tory in Woe vre. IXJNDOX. April I-*.-Although not yet certain that a German submarine waj responsible for the slnklnjg'of thc Dutch steamer Katwyk off North Hinder Lightship last night tho ves sel's destruction aroused indignation of thc Dutch people, as evidenced by editorials in Holland newspapers. Thc Katwyk, loaded with grain from baltimore, consigned to the Dutch government, is reported to have been at anchor and flying the Dutch flag when thc explosion sent her to the bottom. Dutch napers innis* that no mistake could have been made, and "if a Ger man submarine actually torpedoed the steamer, we must expect that tho Germar government, will, without loss of time, be made responsible for the severe violation* of Hie rights Of neu trals." The fact that the sinking of the Katwyk came close on theGeruiau seizure of four Dutch trawlers has heightened the feeling of the Hol landers. The Russians are said to be con tinuing their efforts to force the Aua tro-Gcrman armlos out of the Car path laos and having taken the western passes, are bonding their efforts on an uttcmpt to t?ttfitt?r? Uzsok Pass and the heights in thc northeast. Petrograd claim i steady progress, despite the Austro-German efforts to outflank them, but the Austro-Ger mans insls tthat recent fighting has been in their favor and they captured another tinportaut height northwest cf Uzsck. The french have apparently reviv ed their offensive in Woevre. and .claim to have added materially to thc ground previously gained, which would bring them a step nearer the main objectiv?, the removal of tVe German wedge which bends their linc at- St. .Mlhlel. Tlie French claim progress In Al sace and,the region of Somme, which is contradicted by Berlin, who si'.yn all French attacks have been repuls ed. Stock Excitan, > Sent? Selling High. NSW YOB* April 15.- Fifty-nine thousand dollars wore bid today for-a scat In thc New. York stock exchange an advame over Oio l-i.u actual sale of nine dollars. A few weeks ago memberships wore offered at $36.000. Daniels Appoint* Personal Aide. WASHINGION, April 15 -Secre tary Daniels designated Commander 1). W. Wortsbaugh yesterday as hi? personal side to relieve Lieut. Com mander Needham L. Jones, who has been 111 for several months.' INVESII6?16 f UN FOB JILL AT PE? Governor Urges Committee To Confer With Board ot Health. COLUMBIA, April 16.-At the meet ing yesterday Gov. Manning suggest ed to tho hoard of directors of thc State penitentiary that a careful in vestigation be made as to the best plan of operation before a contract be awarded for he construction of a mill to manufacture cloth for convict clothes.. The governor also suggest ed that. the board confer with the State board of health to insure a mill that is sanitary and not detrimental to the health of the . prisoners em ployed. The directors held a long session at the penitentiary yesterday, when the question of opening the mill aa pro vided by an act o? the last general assembly was discussed.. Nothing de finite was decided upon at the meet ing. An ettlr?*:?e on the cost of the mill ls to be msde. Zeppelin* St'll Active. lyONDON. April 15.-Two Zeppelins drooped bombs on several east coast towns ?hr;-My after midnight Con siderable property wee. damaged. TRAIN BOBBERS GET $00,000 WORTH OF SILK NEW YORK CENTRAL FAST FREIGHT HELD UP NEAR BUFFALO TEN MEN IN PARTY Corned Away Coot in Auto Trucks-Made Clean Get away. BUFFALO. April 1.'?.- Tel? or more mon li dd un' the New York Central's fast freight at Sanborn.-IF? mlle3 from hcre today and robbed several cars of bolts of silk to thc value of $:>0,000. Thc robbers loaded the silk in four and five ton automobile trucks and made their escape. Thc bandits wer? armed with repeating rifles and auto matic pistol:;. Several shots were fired at tho train crew, but no one wai injured. Detect ves. patrolmen an?1 moented police from Buffalo, Niagara Falls and Tonawanda reached the scene shortly after tbe holdup, but severa, hours searching resulted In nr. angsts. When last seen the robbers wer? head ed toward Buffalo. After forcing tho engine crew to uncouple the locomotive and run it n short distance, the robbers lined up the eugineman and three other mem bers of the train crew against a box car and placed them under thc guard n! a single bandit while the others looted thf merchandise cars. Engineer ?o3sle escaped the guard and running through a fusllade of shots, reached the engine, made a re cord run into the suspension bridge, eight miles away, and gave the alarm. The robbery was tho most daring one of ita kind in this section. The value cf the stolrn goods exceeds that of any other freight robbery in the history of eastern .-ai! rot di n g. RESERVOIR BREAKS; EIGHT DROWNED Propery Damage to Amount of $400,000 Caused by Flood. HOLEBROOK. Ariz.. April IT.. Eight persons wcro drowned last mid' night when the Lyman. reservoir, which impounds the waters of the Little Colorado ' river, . broke and flooded valley below. The accident happened twelve miles .-outh of St. Johns. No damago done St. Johns. PHOENIX, Ariz.. April 15.-Dis patches received here today say the brcakiug of the Lyman reservoir re sulted tn property , damage in flood ed area amounting to $400.000. St. John? is 50 miles from the railroad In northeastern part of, State. T>1AT0-MIN6 CLUB WORK INJ?LL SWING TOMATO PLANTS ARE NOW k BEING SET OUT BY THE MEMBERS With 16 clubs and 175 junior mem bers o? the Giris Tomato and Canning Club Work in this county is now well organised and going on smoothly. ' Club members are now engaged In putting out their tomato plants, abd according to reports many of them hara grown splendid plants from Ute seed? that wer? furnished the first bf the season, As generally known, the members, were furnished tomato eseds several weeks ago. which they planted In hot bed's, constructed ac cording to directions furnished them by the director in charge of the itara., As yet no effort has -been made to ward getting up prises to be offered Ik the various contests, but three prises have bean voluntarily contri buted by various persons tn the coun ty who are deeply interested in th?* work. ' '- 1 ' German Liner As SI After sinking thirteen British and French merchant vessels since she slipped from N cw York harbor In a I -ea-gruv coat of pain*, eight months ago. the North German Lloyd liner. Kronprinz Wilhelm, which was turned into an auxiliary cruiser, has run back tc another American port for protection against thc allies' battleships. She suddenly rsn into JAPANESE NOT AFTER NAVAL BASE IN MEXICO REPORTS OF j ESTABLISH MENT OF ONE ARE PRE POSTEROUS SALVAGE STEAMER Claim That Is Only Object of Warships Gathering in Turtle . Bay. WASHINGTON.? April 15.-An of ficial statement winch was authorized by the Japanese embassy today char acterized os "preposterous" thc re ports that a naval base had been es tablished at the Turtle Bay in low er California in Mexico end de clared "There never had been any Intention on the part of the Japanese government to lohate a naval base or occupy any territory on the west coast of Mexico." The operations ot the Japanese warships !n Turtle Bay, the embassy ofilclalo said, were solely for sal* vaglng the stranded cruiser Asama. It was stated that detailed reports from the scene had not been re ceived. As the consul general -at San Francisco is handling the mat ter. The official? added that a land ing on the shore of the bay had pro bably been found, necessary in con nection with the' salvage work. SUBMARINE f 4 IS NOT CRUSHED BY PRESSURE Divers Examine 111 Fated Craft at Depth of 288 Feat-New Diving Record. HONOLULU. ?j-f? KL-The sub marine F-4 was not crushed r.y the water'? pressure according to ? re port ot Chief Gunner's Mate George D. Stiilson. who descended to the wreck late yesterday afternoon. The vessel wai located by Dlvfcr Frank Grllley. Stiilson reported . that the sub marine's superstructure was caved,in and t/.e hull filled with water. He could not find .any ether boles. The top plate? are intact and, th?-, vessel ls lying on a smooth sandy bottom oa ber side.. He found one of thc lines that Were used by the sean hera fouled in the superstructure:' Wert waa begun today in freeing this' line and making others fast 'to the ship. Two are already fa3t. ('rlltey was down ?wo hours and Stiilson aa nour and. a half at a depth of 28* feet. Neither suffered say iii ec ec ts. Aa investigation board of naval officers had been appointed to thor oughly Inspect the other submarines of th? Left New York to Raid Newport News Sunday, there to keep company with the? interned Prinz Eitel Friedrich, which appeared there some weeks ago. It is expected she will Intern, and this mean? that her earcer as a com merce destroyer is at an end. l'aintcd in war gray, the Kron: prinz Wilhelm steamed out of New York harhor on the night of Aug. 3, before American neutrality had been proclaimed. She was. then armed with three six-Inch guns, several GOVERNMENT EXPECTS HARD LEGAL BATTLE COUNSEL FOR M'ADOO AND WlLLt?MS -t? ASK POST Pt>NEMENT ANSWER COMLAINT Expected Most Bank Officials and Many Public Men to Oc cupy Witness Chair. WASHINGTON. April 13.- Furthei cvldonce that the government expects a hard fight in tho injunction pro ceedings brought by the Riggs Na tional Bank against Secretary McAdoo abd Comptroller Williams was given today when government' counsel an nounced that a postponement will be south when the case comes u\> tomor row in the District Sf <. reino 'Court. trouts D. Brandel.;, special assistant attorney general In, charge of the case, was not prepared . to tell to night Just how much time he woulu aek from-the court. It Is expected, however, thal '. a continuance, for ai least a week*wiil bc sought. While Brandeis wa? unwilling to discuss the case, it was believed to bc a rael that thc postponement be asked shows the government does not ex pect to make its main plea agalust the jurisdiction of the court, but will seek tr. answer the allegations set forth in the bank's hill' of < ^mplalnt. These charge McAdoo sri .Williams with conspiracy to wreck '' , and with lon.fr. persecution. If that proves to be thc case it is possible that the court wi<l ask for ir>frrmulon outside of that furnished in the bill, thc answer and the arguments of lawyers. Should such course deve'op the" witness chair will urobably be occupied by most of the bank's officials and some promi nent mon in official life. Williams har expressed a willing ness to test if* if asked to do to, and his counsel advises. 'Sscretr.ry Mc Adoo ls still confined to his home re covering from an operation, '.ut no one in official life doubts his -billing' nota to appear If lils testimony ls to taken. MAY SK SD 1,1 BK TV BfeLL TO KxiN?s?fio:< vr utinro i \ PHILADELPHIA. April l."?,-A re solution for sending the old liberty bell to the Panama-Pacific Exposition at San^ Francisco, passed tho select council toity. 42 to 0. The measure now goes tr. the common '.-nundi r.bcte lt it ?aid it will pass. CY.mmon council concurred 'In re solution which now goes - to mayor, who Is known to favor lt. Decisi?n in !aaa?dm CSA? IN Ht versed COLUMBIA, April IR.-The su preme court decisi?n In the case of John McHardy Mauldtn. et. al appel lant, ago?att Oscar K, Mauldtn. et al respondent, was re veined. Opinion by T. H. Fraxer, assocate Justce.. The care involve? the b^wkiusr of the will ot the late Senator Mauldln. Al lies' Commerce. smaller cannon and a number of niuchlne guns. Mer operations have I been confined mainly to the South I Atlantic. Besides destroying enemy merchant VessclB, the Kronprinz ls reported to have acted as a r-elay station for wireless telegram* between Ger many and the German war ships In the South Atlantic which w?re sunk hy the British Squadron commanded by Bear Admiral Sturdee in the bat tle off the Falkland Islauds. WITH MANSLAUGHTER CATASTROPE AT DETROIT BLAMED ON STUDENT MOTORMAN CONFUSED SIGNALS Horribly Mangled Bodies o? Vic? tims Strewn Along Right ol Way. DETROIT. April i:..-Fourteen ?HT.oas. ten of whom were women, were killed here last night when a street ?rar collided with a freight train in the western part of the city. The police bla~.,i the Inexperience of i student motorman and say that the Inefficiency of the Instructor aiso contributed to tho disaster. Twenty eight were injured, four probably fatally. Only ue>*en of thc .dead havr been identified. The bodies were ter ribly mutilated, identification of the Hhers may be* impossible. Tlic car was heavily loaded with people, homeward bound. Tuc Uudent motorman. J. C. Westover, ?topped '.bc car when crossing the Detroit. Toledo And Iron Mountain Railroad. Die conductor ran ahead. He saw Trelght cars, pushed by a switch en gine coming. He signaled the motor man to wait. The notice was misun derstood and Westover turned the power br* . The car started down the incline toward the tralks. Westover applied the brakes and turned off the too late. Tho car stopped in the ap proaching train's path. The train struck tho car squarely. The street car. was swept from the crossing- it smaahed Into the butldl-gs lining the narrow -trect. The train mo'ed nearly 200 feet before it stopped. The mangled bodies of the killed .md injured were Strewn along the way. Many were imprisoned for cev oral houre'ln the wreckage. The street* car was demolished and-splin tered. Some of the bodies were "torn in pieces. One woman was hurled over the station'? roof. A hand, wa? round an a freight car roof 40 feet a*va/. Au investigation was held. Wejt aver and Pilchard Vnllade, the rega lar motorman, were detained, chain ed with manslaughter. The majority sf the .victims were foreigners. LOM Angeles IM-palch. ! WASHINGTON. April A i.os Migelpr, dispatch, telling of the gath ering ot foreign warships In a seclu ied Mexican haven, ot a large camp i sh ure and of mine? laid in harbor created no sensation among the Washington officials as " Secretary Roo*e<elt sahl that the navy d?pan nent was without advices as to Just shat had happened, but that, if any thing extraordlnsry was aolng* on lt certainly would have been re ported by u Fatted States warship lb the vicinity. He added that lt would not i have been unusual If the Japans* < bsd landed in connection sith the.r efforts to"save the Asama ENGLAND MAKES APOLOGY TO CHILE For Sinking German Cruisre Dres den After She Was Ordered Interned. LONDON. April 16. Great Urltain has offered " a full ami ample"' apology to the Chilean govern meut tor the sinking on March 14th In Chilean territorial waters, of the German cruiser Dresden. Hie Intern ment of which already had been or dered by the Maritime governor ot Cumberland Day. when the British squadron uttueked the German. This fact was made publie tonight in u White paper giving the text* of Mle Chilean note of protest ami Ctr brit ish reply. HUERTA?NMAME MADERO EXECUTION i_ SAYS REAL INSTIGATOR'S , IDENTITY IS "PROFES SIONAL SECRET." U. S. ACTED UNFAIR Mexico Will Be Savfd But By Mexican Who Is Yet Un known. '.NEW YOKK. April 15-Asserting that he had nothing to do with the death of Francisco Madero, General Y?ctornnlo Huerta, former1 provisional president of Mexico Issued u state* ment tonight setting forth what -he termed his side of thc Mexican ques tion. He (U-.-larc<i he knew who was responsible for Madero's death, but was keeping lt a "professional secret." Huerta said sixteen million men. women and children would hove to be killed before tnexlco .would submit to an Invader. He said "the Washington administration ha.i not boen fair to Mexico.' They have been, misIpd by lal ... statements, and If they had been in Mexico . thirty - days they would change their theoretical erroneous Ideas." He pointed Out that In eight months since he' left the situation had be come "tt.o sad to analyze." Mexico will eventually be saved. Int y a Mexican who it would, but .tl . not yet know. RICHLAND BOND ISSUE LAW CONSTITUTIONAL County May Issue Bonds To the Amount of $1,250,00 For Good Roads. Vj.I-I DI! lu Tim lutclliireiiocr. COLUMBIA. April 15.-Judge John S. Wilson has declared constitutional the measure of legislature authorizing the issuance of $l.25d.0tX) In bonds for good roads lu Richland county ' and creating a commission to direct the paying ont ot. money and supervise tho work of constructing the road, which are designated tn the bill. The decision of Judge Wilson which is very imporltnt to Richland county came stier Judge Wilson had heard the argumenta of the attorneys for th? commission, Shawl. Benet Sha.il and McGowan. Harry ti. Edmunds appearing for thc plaintiff, John W. Lillard, cashier of (he Union National Bank. . The proceedings were based upon an order of Judge Wilson Usued March 2? at the Instance o' Mr. Lil lard's legal representative, in which the commission was clteJ to appear and ?how cause why a permanent In tunction should not bu-'.?sued against thc defendant on thc ground, princi pally that tba ac* authorizing the bonds was une<.nstUut'.on??l. The con stitutionality of the act was the prin cipal issuo in the proceedings. CATHOLICS GATHER AT CELEBRATION First Letter From Pope to Amer ica Read at Gather mg. WASHINGTON. April 15.-Three American cardinals. Oibbons. of Bal timore; Farley, of New York; O'Con nell, of Boston, and the largest at tendance of Catholic Hierarchy ever gathered In this country today re ceived Ute dist. leUer from Pope Benedict to the United States at the celebration of the twenty-ftfih anni versary of the Csthollc University of America. The celebration concluded at a din ner of the Catholic University Alumni tonight..' FRIDAY HIGHT IN COUNTY COURT HOUSE APROPOS OF CLEAN UP CAMPAIGN PUBLIC URGED TO COME OUT State Health Officer Heyne And Dr. E. A. Hines Are the Speaker?. Thc in;1.UK meeting of citizen? lu thc county court house' tonight at 8 o'clock apropos of thc "clean-up sud PHlnt-up" campaign which ls to hr carried out hore next Week promises to he largely attended. Men and women of Anderson In terested In the health and Sanitation of the city are urged td come out for this meeting and hear the address oh thiB importunt matter-which witt lr' delivered hy Dr. J. Adam Hayns, of Columbia, secretary, of the statu board of health and state health of ficer, and Dr. E. A. Hines, secretary and treasurer of the- South Carolina Medical Association and. superinten dent of the Andereon County Hospi tal. Dr. Mayne wilt speak on thc subject of "Sanitation." while Df. Hine:? will talk on "The Duty ot the Citizen in the Modern Crusade Against Disease." The meeting will be a brief one. lt is important that citizen's generally turn out for this moss meeting, If they would learn that which would bc of benefit to them in making Ander son a cleauer, healthier abd mo' * sanitary'city in which to live. >V h speakers are expert tn knowledge of the subjects on which they will .?peak. During the past -two wteks com mittees have been busy perfect UM plans for .Clean, up und pitha up week. Thc six aldermen of thc city ?natu been appointed chairen Of sub^cont III lt tees for the their respective words who will work up enthusiasm in tte movement and strive to bring about an Improvement in sanitary condi tion*. The work of the several sub committees is being directed by a general committee of which Dr. VV. Prank Ashmore, chairman of the board of health, ls chairman. SAY ANARCHY EXISTS TuRO?MI ?0 INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE IN MEXICO CITY CITES CASES WASHINGTON. April 15.- Embas sies and legations in Washiugton have received from the tut- ; national coin m lt tee In Mexico City, it was learned, today, affidavits charging conditions ot anarchy In Mexico and reciting speci fic cases of abuse of foreign residents. Examination at some embassies als closed that many of the allegation have been confirmed by advice.? from Mexico City, and the diplomats deem ed the aflldavits worthy of Immediate transmittal to their governments. The Carranca agency announced that General Herrdrra hod telegraph- * ed a denial of tho reports that lie had executed a number ot prisoners and women camp followers uftor a recent battle a<- Muisachito. Only one man was* executed, the statement said, for havtr.g set fire to tho town of Candela. NATION OBSERVED LINCOLN BIRTHDAY American Flags' Were At Half Mast Throughout the Wo* id. WASHINGTON. Anrll Ii.-The na tional capitol observed today the fif tieth anniversary of the death of President Lincoln. Wherever public business permitted, tba government departmen..closed, On all government buildings, post offices. military postfl and naval vessels, throughout. tho United State? and possessions and on American embassies legations, con sulates every port In. tbs world, the (lag was half masted.' As a apecttl tribute flags were at halt mast over the foreign embassies, and legations here. Kala interfered, BTOWNSVIU.K, Texas. April ir.. A heaw ram I ate rf erred today with the operations in the Vitia ?legs r.f Metamers?, There was. occasional light firing by the bentfta*.