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i anca^TFR w (' FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 1. 1918.
68TH YEAR. NO. 4. SEMI-WEEKLY. LANC AS ILK, .. L.,
iitKlWAN PEOPLE MAY aust.
BRING WAR TO END AN'
President \\ il?on was at work on
depart me
Iiis replv to Austria s renewed plea
. "... ? , examinati
for an armistice and peace and it
..... it did nol
was expected that it would be dis- _ , ,
... . . . . unofficial
patched before night, but later it j ^ j^0
was said that there would be no an- .
when the
nounrement recording the replv. . , .
_ ' would be
liefer Plea to Attics.
t . > Those
It was understood that In the
_ , ... . that diffe
not" the President intended tn touch
. acoorded
upo- the steps that Austria and
than was
H ip. -v have taken in the direction
... , , man gov
<i* r -dug subject peoples from, . ,
dispa tche
political bondage, hut that the Aus-|
. ... ment of
trlan governments pea would lie
11ungary
referred to the allied governments, i '
state of
The a d in1 n'st rat ion was said to he
< zerhosln
well convinced now that Austria allures
an<
rendv is nearlv out of tlie war.
as suggej
The report tint Count Andrassv,
complex l
the new Austrian premier, is about j unir v
to use directlv to Italv for poa"e on j '
, i it each c
the ground that Italy is Austria Si. . .
I that niak
"sole antagonist Is generally re...
tndependi
pnrded as confirmatory of this nn.
ed, it wa
dorstanding of the hopeless situa- . ,
| bea r t liei
lion in the dual empire. It was| rosnnnf,,h
jmuiu'ii out in.iT since ita'v solemnly - '
., ted bv (I
engaged wltli the other entente pow...
i . .. might ha
ims not to make a separate peace, if
poa rft
Austria carries out this plan It naturally
would he referred hv Italv to '
.. ,, American
the supreme war council.
There was no official information
* ... ... object by
here as to the progress of the do...
.. , .. individua
liberations of the supreme war
council ami notice was taken of the
, . , .. ... consisten
reservi'il attitude of the council in
. . dealing w
i-suing anv statements The infer,
. . .... ., treating I
Mice is drawn that a detjnito policy
i . i .. . . .. armistice
1 as been agreed upon to withhold all
information regarding the discus '>UI
the final
(Continued on Page Eight.) Justment
_ cut extate
( . E. STOVER DIES AT ?(1 na,i<
garv.
HEATH SPRINGS HOME if thai
not only
empire iy
Young Druggist Succuiiihs to I'neustill
hold
monia After Illness of Few state of 1
Days. ?nrt ,h?
cept the
the supre
4 'In11< 1 e I. Stover n nonnlnr eriilloa
/ ?
yniir.p drurcist of Heath Springs, rrohnbly
died at h's homo thore at 2:.1t) niont. dot
o < \>ck vesterday tnorninc after an Anstro-H
Illness of only a fow days with In- allies an<
fluon/a and pneumonia. His death of otiipI
was a distlnet shook to his many safety of
friends in his home town and trenrhero
throughout the county. Mr. Stover they adv
was about 28 years f>f ace. He was trom the
the son of Mr and Mrs \V T Sto Vienna
vet and was a votinc man who en- 'nte-pretf
Joyed the confidence of a whl c rele tar.v eireli
r>f friends. He is survived by his tulate as
wlre. who before her marriace was rin. M
Miss U'ill itms. a daughter of .1 C. and \mei
Williams, of Heath Sprlncs. and two plete el'ti
children, also his parents. rnry a? a
Funeral services were conducte< the worlt
yesterday afternoon at .1:30 at Sa- end.
lent cemetery by Rev. Samuel Long. While t
RIA'S PLEA FOR
OFFER TO
Way Request for Armistice is 1
itarv Circles; Germany Would
Austria Out of War?German
is Invasion of German
Kton. Oct. 31.?In the ab- bo pr
any official announcement, from l
h a somewnat widespread entente
i here that Austria's re- believe
jpeal to President Wilson tempt I
Immediate armistice and the wa
uld be transmitted to the nians 1
vernments, before which 0f Geri
i request has been placed. ' believe
e quarters, however, there rather
position to accord different Won
to the Austrian plea be-1
the complex problems aris- ' ss'
the new conditions that
y have developed In the out ''1<
larchy since the President ann',s
> Austria's original request 11 ,SH
nmediate cessation of hos- nf
seem 1
ncial text of the Austrian "
on ro
delivered to Sectary Lan,,
... , . against
he Swedish minister soon
regular Tuesday meeting
ii , ? i i i. ions n<
binet at which it was un
the unotlieiul version its s"!>Plei
*d by Tito Associated Press ?r*
lei, Switzerland, was given ua
tion. If any definite con- One
its reached, the fact was not ''on w
officials stating that they ' 'V 'n
L indicate what disposition ",p 3 0
made of the note in ad- Russia
a careful study of the o !s ^nn
tion. man f
xt received at the Swed'sh r?srard'
was in French and U has *'hon
een translated at the state waa f
nt. After a preliminary R ',nH
on, it was said there that divisk
t differ essentially from the brougf
as received from Switzer- ar,d s<
i indication was given as to Danubi
i translation of the note kaol
made pubi c. the sii
adhering to ti.e opin on there
irent treatment should be -nd of
to the Austrian reeuest tally r
given the plea of the Ger- posed
eminent pointed to cable derma
s reporting the establish- a grea
the independent state of tory t
of (lie recognition by that evacna
the independence of lite mans
vak and Jugoslav prov- result.
I also of German-Austria
mi i|iuir (rnnprn'iy in iniiir?s
horo na nn ofTor fn'napi- Tlio
roinplo'olv iis did Hnlfta- hoon h
ilitary of!l i:i!a. both nlllort In fin on
Iran. Itoliovo that tti?? com- w|shea
nin.it ion r?f Ausfrin-Hun- (|l#.jr |
bolIlKoro f would brine
I war within aieht of nn a wrr
out a u
horo la doubt that it would p'.eaae
ding the introduction of rR\:
factors into the problem of pp
rith the diial empire. Kven
if rho many nationalities.
o up that empire become |?opiil;
>nt before peace is arrane-j ^
s said that they still must,
That is 1
Peace Proposal of German Gov- Mil
ernment Beyond Control of
Military Party.
NEW NOTE FROM GERMANY w.ashin
_____ sence of
_ . __ , . there wa
It is Explanatory of the lmpie8sioi
Changes That Are Proposed newed ai
in the New Constitution of for ,in '
peace wo
New Government. allied go'
______ Germnnv'i
Washington, Oct. 31.?The pen- 'n 8om
eral opinion among the officials and %va8 a ("s
diplomats here is that the German treatment
OA11S6 of
proposal for an armistice and peace,
gain time for strengthening 'nK from
the army and restoring its apparentl
shattered morale, has now (*ua' ,nt>1
gotten beyond the control of r?Plh <1
now gotten beyond the control of for ,an ''
itie military "arty and that the
, . % . The of
German people are the force which
. note was
is driving the German government
, , ,. sing hv t
to make for ending the war.
... , . ,, after the
Another note from the German
. < ..I of the ca
government, explanatory of the
. .. . , . . iderstood
chances that have been made or are i
. > , , ... transmits
projected in tlio German const it u..
, , ! from Has
tfon and form of government, was
, eonsulera
received tlirough the Swiss legation.
elusion w
but the state department did no* , .
revealed,
make it nutilie. This note was nn.
, , . . , . could not
derstood to he supplementary to the
would be
preceding Gorman eomnnwication
van e of
saving to the President that he must ? , .
. , , , . ficial veri
have knowledge of the efforts that
The te
nave been made to democratize Ger-1 .
legation
manv.
i individual sharps of the
ilitv for the arts com in it-!
lie empire. Logically each j
ve to sup for a separate , no
. Tuesds
[>r, it is believed that the ' ,ank
government will not be dl- JOU,lK
urn the pursuit of its main
the consideration of these
1 uprisings in AustriaIt
possibly will follow ('ond,tl
tly the course pursued in '"!N ''
ith Germany, and insist on to Ul"
first the proposition for an ' ''
which it regards as a N'/" '
illtary question, leaving t >
nonce rnnfarnnxn l.r. ...? Al?OUt
of the claims to indcpend- ' ,'1'
nee of the various oppress- u''?>nalities
in Austria-Hun- wa
ham, i
I course is followed, then l,an1, '
the remnant of the dual n:n*ha
irer which Kmperor Charles ^
s sway, but the separist Mr.
Hungary and even Itohemia <>(' ,n
Jugoslav sections must ac- flty ft)
terms to be laid down bv proprii
me military council at Ver-, I'rlnte
This, many observers said, 'he
would involve disarma-' riit-le <
nnhilizatinn, opening of the!('f
ungarian railways to the was a
[1 guarantees in the shape terlan
ed fortresses to ensure th fondue
the entente armies against cemetc
us attacks in the rear If |{,.v |
ance tt? strike (Jermany
south.
's plea for an armistice is i
1CE IS REALLY SOME ACTIVITIES
ELY CAPITULATE. OF THE RED CROS
Interpreted in Washington
Not Fight On With Conditions Here Improve a
iy*s Greatest Fear Attention is Turned to
c^oil Other Places in County.
aeticul to attack Germany HEA I H SPRIN(?S SI 1' 1' El
ho south, the host informed
offlcers on duty here firmly ,, .
thai Germany would n?. at- Trained Nurse IS Badly Need
to tight on with Austria out of There and Lancaster Chap!
r. The greatest fear the Ger- will Render Sister Town ,
tiave, they say, is of invasion
man soil, and In the end they Aid Possible,
i, Germany will capitulate ???than
face that contingency. (,iy >||SS MAIUiAltKT MOOItK
ild Kelen.se Italian Armies. With th?' ever beautiful anil he
ssing the probable results of ful spirit of the Red Cross, havi
in surrender, officers pointed a* its one aim to save life whetl
it it would release the ftalian in war, flood, lire, pestilence or n
for operations elsewhere disaster, the Lancaster chapter
Turkey has also dropped out putting forth all of its energies
fight by that time, it would help the many influenza stiffen
ogical. it was said, to expect Its two emergency hospitals, eipt
iese forces would he turned at ped at a moment's notice, are I
to pressing the campaign! examples of the splendid organi
I Constantinople. With Tut- tion of the chapter and the resour
so out. the two Italian divis- fulness of its leaders. With unl
>w in France could he quickly it>K efforts Red Cross workers h;
men ted and another great ar- given themselves that if possi
Hted on that front to crush lives may he saved and suffering p
vering German lines. I vented.
result of Austrian capRu'a- t,m> (Mub ""U*' "???D<tal with
hich ran not ho gauge,i rolia , ,ms-v an(l '*nt husiastic nurses, tra
advance, is the situation of "rt an<1 volunteer, has now twen
or more German divisions in j 11 ve patents- Tl,p Improvement
. The German general sta<T ,nost of ,honi has b,'**n ???s"a
wn to h.ave reduced the Gor- r?pid since tlieir remo\al there,
orces in Russia to what was ,ho Hn,aU emergency infirmary
od as the minimum of safety upper Main street. there are n
the spring drive in France four patients.
ireparcd. Recently, howeve The Red Cross, having succee.
been learned that some of the 'n thoroughly organizing the re
>i|s left there had been w'nrk at the mill and in the t*? %
it hastily to the western line has now turned its attention to
?veral were hurried to the county. Tuesday in response to
e front. ports of distress at Heath Spring
ting Austrian help in Russia. U?<1 r,OSS representative went
(nation of the German forces with Palmers Willla
. , . , ^ ., chairman of the Heath Springs I
R Ouiii .ippOJir to bo ilOU*
.. ... . Cross. Henth Springs' greatest n<
(leers sav it would become vi......
.. is a trained nurse. This seems
lecessary that fhev lie so dis'
. ' . r, most difficult assistance of all to
as to rest upon the Russo<
.i- mi . i. . ~ tain. If anvthing can lie done
n frontier. That would mean
.. . , ., , . , Lancaster Red Cross lieaduuarter
t curtailment of Russian terri,
iii- i.i. nurse will he immodiatelv sent
hov could police and completo
.. . T. , ,. ,, Heath Springs not onlv throng!
t on of Russia by the Ger- '
. , , . spirit of helping stricken hutnat
was regarded as the logical
but also in appreciation of the n- v
- failing co-operation of Heath Spri
VK CrNMNCIIAM IS iin 11 K 1 ' '
; boon unnortakon.
,.AIJ I KOAI I'NKl'MONI \ Thursday morning ltev. \V.
__ Patterson, together with Mr< I
! tip McI.hi'p, wpnt otit :is rpprpspti
ir Young Man Kxpires at llis .... . >
tives o' thp Lancaster chapter
i?tn?? in This <'ity Tuesday visit a family right miles to
%l?l,t north of Lancaster. Thpy took w
thorn boatttiftil sprrimon ohrysant
mania and delicacies.
utnonia claimed as its vfptim
iy night at 11 : 1 Robert Since their return from Richnn
lin Cunningham, a popular the past week. Misses Kliza :
business man of this eity, Louise Wylie have taken oompl
occurring at his home on Harr charge of one of the stricken fa
after an illness of less than a lies In town, nursing them night ti
The day before his death his day.
Ion was reported as satisfac
ut late in the evening began Miss Ihnnie Ciilp, one of the n
w worse and the end cam<- school teachers, after recivei
efore midnight. He was 2it from an attack of influenza ha?
ilcl and a son of Mr. and Mrs fored her services to the Ued Cr
('unningham, ot this city. .,s volunteer nurse
two years ago he was inai
. Miss Kula Duffy, of Atlanta. Thl. R()<, (<ross xvish,>s to
with one child, survives him. tlinnlc the men's motor corps
s a brother of J. Roy Cunning- whJoli John I> Wylie is captain,
af Lancaster llazel Cunning- WvMo (lai|y transfers the nitr
of Franklin. Pa.; Kelly Cun- uojntr OR anfl ofT <luty an(, he |
tn, of < anton, Ohio, and Mrs. pUj himself and car at the servi
iV'hite, of Itock Hill.
Ill I III* ItCll I MISS.
Cunningham had been engag
the printing business in tbis Tin- following voluntary contri
r the past two years. being fions have boon made to the local
Ptor of the Lancaster Job )|ef fund for which the Hed Cross
ry. He was popular among! most grateful:
siness men and hail a wide \v. T Gregory $10<?
if warm friends who will lea?n \v. S Rtewman 1
death with deep regret. lie Mis E. J llalley 2
member of the First Crosby- Mrs S A. Faulkner 2
church and his funeral was John Green
ted at the grave in Westslde Fete Hrastos, of the Candy Kit
ry Wednesday afternoon by ,-n. a crate of oranges.
lugii It. Murchison, his pas- ^
liifluen/a at Van Wyek.
^ The influenza situation aroi
the section of Van W'yck contin
To Our Correspondents.
to show improvement according
News' correspondents hay mf,irm;?ion brought to i.amaigging
during the epidem'c of t,y residents of that section. Tb
7.a and the management ' have been few severe cases and v
to ask them to hurry along i ''Hie pneumonia. A lew ilea
. ., , . . have occurred among the colo
etters every week, it n?>t twice I
I people. Generally the people
k. Anv regular correspond I , . .
. taking every precaution possible
ho are out of stationery will prevent the epidemic getting <? P
write to the office for more on that section.
|to reach peop
5 OF RURAL DISH
n?l War Work Campaign to It
rietl to Remotest Part?
All Counties.
ItS THOROIOH ORtiANIZ;
ed Seventy-five Per Cent of
:er lation of the State L
\11 Rural Districts Out
nr ?
I U? IIJS.
.) Ovt'r a million South Can
lp- living in the eurak districts
ing state will he given the opp<
ler to support the United Wai
my campaign through the agency
is rural division of the big drlv
to conducted the week of Ni
MS 11-18.
ip- Realizing that persons li
[>ut remote sections have hud 1
za- no chance to contribute to
ce- funds of this kind. nntioi
tir- state campaign leaders have
ive od a compact method for soli
ble which will carry the campaigt
re- door of the man living in e
remotest part of the countr
its making the drive a truly i
in- one in which all Americans w
tv- ticipate.
of "The success of the first
illv War Work campaign will dej
At adequate and far-reaching h
??:i ga n i/.anon. said A. I". ('<
o\v rural executive secretary foi
Carolina, in outlining this |
led phase of the drive to be co
lief in the Palmetto state "The
vn, will not he raised in the nat;
the department, or the state, hut
re- local communities where peo]
s a The cities are accessible and
to tomed to campaigns and will
ms. pared. The rural division w
ted fer its attention on these
eeti districts, where forty-five p
the of the people had no chance
oh- year's campaign,
by Seventv-five per cent of
s a Carolina's population lives i
t i districts. Itv this i-; meant t
i a pie residing in the farming s
litvj small villages and townsh;n>
et ore thousand in1 ahitants T
nrs illation of the state is estini
has |>o around 1 Too ofm peopW
enfv-five percent of this nuni
S I braces over a million Am
\P?' which indicates the import
i'a | the work to lie carried on
to | the campaign hy the rural
the under the direction of
. i
'tin Corcoran.
he- The plan for the rural c.i
(Continued on Page 5
am
tnd RECORD OF CVMPAIfi
1,0 COSTS ARRIVE SI.
miind
Must He In to Hay* Hcfore I
Representative liitcliin lit
ii i 1
Spending * I> S7~.
ofos*
Washington. Oct ' ! 1 Ret
Mm- serr-'tarv of tli senate .1
of the house on campaign c
illv tions and expend it tiros ;i i*??
, f in slowly and in<1 i ;>t** fha
\1 r candidates are failing to
si>?< with the law requiring tl
has cniint t(t be in the ma'ls
<-pS than 1ft (lavs before the
elections.
The records show about
bit- the senatorial accounts and
re rum her of those front eand'd
1 if the house are missing
Wide variations in ct
"" financing are shown in the
"" ual statements already filed.
"" southern states where Dei
"" nomination is equivalent to 1
candidates reported their j
' " expenditures in the piiimirl
nothing spent since in ma
stii nces.
Many candidates for ele<
tad j the house report they h ive n
ti*"Sjn penn> Democratic Leadei
i" tii reports spending
In \rkansas. Florida. I.?
r'" Maryland, South Carolina
1 hp<? and Virginia. no expons
"t* I hi'on incurred 1?v the rail
rod most of whom am unopposo
are largest expendturo mpor
'o Dcniorral'p candidates is ?4
:ri: \y i?. I'pshaw, of Georgia, v
s.x opponents in the primary
LE QUARANTINE WILL f
SICTl NOT BE LIFTED 3RD '{
e Car- State Health Board Recinds Or- j
? of | der of Last Week in Four I
Counties. j
mOVIT IS NOW INDEFINITE
Popu Leastwise, (Quarantine in Lanive
in caster County Will Stay I
From On Until Another Order is
Issued.
alinians Sheriff Hunter is in receipt of :i
of the telegram from State Health Officer
ntunity James A. llayne ordering the quarr
Work antine in Lancaster county to stay
of the on until further advised. The telee
to he gram reads: "In view of reports
iveinber received you are directed to continue
the enforcement of quarantine
ving it order issued by this office October j
ittle or seventh period wired. Order to lift
former quarantine dated October twentytal
and third will not become effective in
evolv- Lancaster county. (Signed) James
citation A. llayne, state health officer,
i to tin* The order referred to as not heron
th" coming effective in this county was
y, thus one ordering the lifting of the quartationa]
antine on November 3, and as tho
ill par- matter now stand^ the quarantine it*
on indefinitely, or until again orderUnited
?'d off hv the state health authoriiend
on ties. The quarantine will be lifted
ical or- November .1 over the state generally
ncoran. except in four counties, Lancaster,
r South Hampton, Colleton and Newberry,
gigantic In these counties the situation has
nducted not sufficiently improved, in the
money opinion of the state health board, to
ion. the justify the lifting of the quarantine.
in the The order to the sheriffs of these
[>le live, four counties means that schools.
I aeons- churches and all places of public
he pre- meeting will remain closed until
ill cen- conditions improve and it is deemed
country safe to permit assemblages. j
cen White conditions in these cottarin
last ties, and in Lancaster particularly,
I have shown improvement recently,
South | the health authorities are of tho
n rural opinion that it would Ijc unsafe t'?
he fen permit schools and ohurcnes and picipetions,
ttt'o sho'As at present.
- un to j Hr. C V. Akin. of the United
lie pep. St tes public health service, in si 1
i:ited to! charge of the influenza control wor'r
S?-v ;in the state, said Wednesday that ho
he>- etn 1 ' stitnafetl there lias been 80,00
erleans | ses of influenza in the sinte dur tr 1
anee o ! '",r the optdentic. 9.000 cases or .11 i
ilurinr j and 3,000 deaths
division | *^ 1
ecretnrv j POMTK S CONTINUES TO
HOLD CENTER OF STAGE I
impaipn ?
7 I
) < iim|)j?:nn Statements Pour Out of
WnshiiiKtoii In One roniln*
' N
imus Stream.
owr.v .
Washington, Oct. 31.?Political y J
Election campaign statements continued to <} I
pour out from Democratic and Ro pints
publican leaders.
Itepresentative Fess, chairman oil
the nation I Republican congressl|n,,
j ( ional coininittee. replying to Seeid
1 rk ro,ar>" Tumulty's letter to the Cuya|1(|
ho'/a county Republican committee
com in" n' <''|,vo'i,n<'? Ohio, said no previous
t nrtnv history had made a recomplv
' ' ol ',H> American elector."to
heir uc- s'n,i'ni to I^at of President Wil- f
not less snn s in h's statement addressed to
irii| his fellow countrymen askinc tha i* 7
return of a Democratic congress. Bf
Representative Ferris, chairman f
half of ((f tjjo national Democratic con- ?
a large j.,.osf,jonai committee, said the po- t
ates for controversy resolves itself IJj
simply into whether the American '
%mpaigi people desire to have the President ||fl
Individ hacked up by a well trained military 1
In the establishment to conduct the war or
mocrati j whether they wish it conducted by
election. I a political committee of unschooled J
trincipnl ( untrained men.
es, and Two statements were issued hy I
iny In- Homer H. Cummings, acting chair- j
man of the Democratic national com- m -
tion to mittce One accused the Repuhli- fl|
ot spent ,;U1S ()| capitalizing the casualty list. n*
r Kitch- for political purposes l>y trying t'i
show that 12 northern ami eastern i
>ulsiana states have lost five times as many
Tennes- soldiers in France as the 12 south- ?
es have 0, n states. The other said that
idldates, president Lincoln had made an apd.
The peal during the Civil war similar t<>
ted hv that by President Wilson and that *
.761 by such an appeal was made on behalf ' .
vho had ,.f President McKinley during the
Spanish-American war.
R!
Jul